washington tonight. it's been months since a trans gunman shot up that covenant school and months since we have been demanding to see that manifesto released. well, tonight, we have new details about what was going through audrey hale's head as she stalked the school hallway. but, first, the old man hangs on. that he was the focus of tonight's angle. now, the other cable networks were going wall-to-wall with war coverage today but the focus wasn't israel's war against hamas it was a hacked prosecutor's war against trump and the courts. >> this case has made him angrier than almost any other case. i'm really flabbergasted right now. i have never seen anything like this in all of my time of being a lawyer. >> let trump hang himself, essentially in this trial. >> laura: now, more on the legal angle later. but the reason they devoted what, 8, 9 hours of coverage to the trial has less to do with its merits than when the recent polls that show trump trouncing biden. in five key battleground states, arizona, georgia, michigan, nevada and pennsylvania, according to the "new york times," trump has eaten significantly into biden's advantages among younger, black and hispanic voters, many of whom retain positive views of the policies trump enacted. wow. well, it turns out that biden is getting america tangled up in more wars while driving down real median income isn't so popular after all. and even with his significant lead in key states, mr. trump appears to have room to grow. as voters say they are open to supporting the former president than they tore backing mr. biden, which, with large shares of voters saying they trust mr. trump on the economy and national security. now, no wonder the democrat dam of support for biden seemed a bit to be buckling over the weekend. if they weren't pushing biden to step aside, it was a gentle nudge and not so subtle warnings. >> just a lot of concern about the age issue and that is something that i think he needs to ponder. just do a check and say is this the right thing to do? time is fleeting here. and this is probably the last moment for him to do that check. and it's probably good if he does. >> laura: okay. yeah because we know he has always put country first never ahead of his family's official duties. never happened. political statistician nate silver's treat saying you have the whole electorate basically screaming biden is too old. does a year's worth of campaign to go. very likely some reversion to the fundamentals. trump's legal issues probably larger liability than seen now but still, democrats can't say they weren't warned. they desperately want biden to become someone he never was and at 80 never can be. >> somehow biden has to find a way to animate the excitement and enthusiasm that i think he happened as a man of the center and put the country back quickly. he has got to do it soon and reverse these perceptions. otherwise, we are really heading toward, what i fear will be a cataclysmic election next year. >> laura: yeah, for the typical d.c. and manhattan elites who never bother considering what life really is like for middle class voters. they are confounded that people don't love persistent inflation, sky high food and gas prices and mortgage interest payments that crush first time home buyers. they are shocked that that's unpopular. the once reasonable jonathan karl is worried. when you hear the word anybody, remember, is he actually referring to the regime media types like himself. >> look, this is a wake-up call. this is frightening for not just the biden white house, not just for democrats, but for anybody who fears what a return to a trump presidency would mean. he can win. >> laura: listen to the language, fears and frightening. he would never cover, you know, a poll favorable to biden from the republican perspective. because you can bet that a lot of regular folks are terrified of the prospect of biden staggering through another four more years. including african-americans. such as karen wright, a business consultant in mcdonough, georgia who immigrated to the united states from jamaica in 1982. and she told the "new york times" that she had always voted for democrats, seeing them as the best option for younger immigrants. particularly those from predominant live black countries like hers. now though she believes biden hasn't followed through on his campaign promises, on immigration, and worries that democrats have gone too far in their embrace of lgbtq issues. next year ms. wright said that she planned to support republicans up and down the ballot and that she was not alone. that's devastating. no wonder bill crystal's panties are in a bunch posting on x it's time president biden has served our country well. i'm confident he'll do so for the next year but it's time for an act of personal sacrifice and public spirit. it's time to pass the torch to the next generation. it's time for biden to announce he won't run in 2024. pass the torch? kentucky carry a torch what planet does bill kristol live. biden may not understand what is happening around the world not well at least. is he with it enough to know that all things considered being president helps hunter and the gang more than if he were not president. and enriching his family and protecting them are all that ever mattered to biden. now, there is no denying that democrats and the press want him out. but, if that's what they want, they have to do a heck of a lot more than hint and nudge. they are going to have to use leverage on the only thing that joe biden really cares about, his family. hard to see them doing that. look, anything can happen. but, democrats are in a jam of their own making. they failed across the board and they deserve to lose across the board. they failed in their pledges, even to strengthen democracy. remember that pledge? since now fewer americans trust our system of government with biden at the helm. 76%, i almost fell over saying, this of those polls now say that we're heading in the wrong direction. only in the liberal mind would that democrat track record actually be called a success. definitely reelect that and why would anyone miss right mind think gavin newsom with his horrid track record in california can do any better than biden? what on earth does he have to offer? we gold from president sniffy to president smarmy, no thank you. and that's the angle. all right, joining me now mollie hemingway fox news contributor byron york, washington examiner mark levin, former democrat member of the virginia house of delegates. mark, joe biden, i don't think, is going anywhere. but, can you deny that there is momentum building to push him out because they see the numbers that the "new york times" is reporting, abc news is reporting. siena, pretty much every poll out there. and it is a nightmare for biden. >> democrats often get worried about all kinds of things. but, every democrat i know from firmly supports joe biden. i think they understand that he has the integrity to be president. >> he has the integrity? >> he does. >> donald trump testifying about how all. >> laura: again we are talking about biden. >> but the election is a choice. >> the guy you say has the integrity to be president. where has he ever demonstrated integrity? >> look on the international stage. >> family's tragedy to actually like empathize with someone from a huge natural disaster? >> laura, look on the international stage, harry truman, ronald reagan and joe biden no. one has stood up to democracy and ukraine more than joe biden. >> laura: everyone knows ukraine is lost, mollie. the foreign policy angle here not to be under stated. even the "new york times," they are reporting on ukraine. even the head of the defense ministry of ukraine basically said we are at a stalemate. >> it's worth remembering that when trump was president the mediaened before he was president the media said if he were elected president we would have nuclear war breakout. there would be a destabilization across the world. instead what you had was a very strong national interest based foreign policy. we went after our enemies. but we didn't get embroiled in various conflicts. when president biden took office, he said america is back, baby. and he said he would assert this very. >> laura: the norms? what happened to the norms. >> very mature foreign policy. we have had nothing but disaster globally. the world is on fire. we had a stable situation in the middle east. he decided to prioritize palestinian interests to help iran become a dominant -- become dominant again in the region and we see how that is going. you have the ukraine war devolved into a stalemate. you have china continuing to rise. that has actually been one of the worst problems for his presidency and that's just one of the problems for the biden presidency. >> laura: byron, what is wild biden is doing a put a good face on something that isn't resonating, watch. >> i truly believe this country is about to take off. because for the first time in a long time, we bringing pride back to cities and towns all across america who have been left behind. can i honestly say i have never been more optimistic about america's future. >> laura: 76% of americans saying america is going in the wrong direction. >> you know, i think biden's age is a huge problem. and it's not going to get any better. but i do think if things were going well in the country and the world, a lot of voters would say, you know,er is really old and he is daughterring and things are going really well. going well with me voter in pennsylvania who said the world is falling apart under president biden people's standard of living has gone down. their purchasing power has gone down. you look at the disaster on the border spreading to blue cities up north. you see crime in many places like here in washington. and then you add to it a huge war in ukraine, a new war in israel. and that guy who said the world is falling apart under president biden, that was a reasonable way to look at things. >> laura: my mother would say nell a hand basket that was one of those saying. stacey abrams polls at 3 points higher right now, which is mind-blowing to me than joe biden. but, stacey abrams thinks kamala harris is getting too much criticism. watch. >> do you think she would be receiving these same critiques if she was a white man. >> no. we cannot ignore the misogyny and racism remain very prevalent in our politics. there is also just a difference. our expectations are set for the traditional white male vice president. >> laura: mark, obviously talking about kamala poll 3 points higher. what are your thoughts on that. racism is really at the heart of people's criticism of kamala harris? >> i think kamala harris is an asset that the democrats should use more. absolutely. people need to show she is there. she is a steady leader. and i think she can do the job. when we talk about biden's age, biden and trump are four years apart. i would be willing to bet that donald trump, given his health habits is going to die a lot sooner than joe biden who is a very healthy person. >> laura: hoping trump dies before biden? >> no. the point is that his age is not an issue. only two people running and election is a choice. and of the two. donald trump more danger than joe biden. >> laura: why are black voters moving to trump? >> well, you are talking about whether it goes from 10% to 20% or something like that. >> laura: double? are you saying that's not relevant? >> the vast majority of black voters will support joe biden and i do believe kamala harris needs to get out there and help support black votes. >> laura: mark, i'm not trying to pick on you, honestly, if i were in your position i would probably say the same thing. the "new york times" describes this as a potentially epical shift on what democrats wanted to do on progressivism and more working class populism. that's in the "new york times." that's not a conservative rag, correct? >> i do think popular. donald trump a classic populist. that's why we want a steady hand. >> laura: what is steady? 5.6% decline in real median wages? is that. >> real wages are higher they have ever been. >> laura: real income actually looked at with inflation is down. that's not my number that's the feds. >> trump dominating here he has multiple bases of support. he has enthusiastic maga supporters. people who remember how nice life was under his presidency. he also has people extremely worried that democrats are using law enforcement to go after political opponents and try to imprison political opponents. people worried about that kind of authoritarianism. this gives him degree bases of support. you see if in the numbers reflected. you're welcome voters are more likely to vote for him and black voters. >> laura: byron, what do you think about that. democrats are quietly moving to succeed biden. they are mentioning newsom, whitmer, pritzker. they all have launched big pacs and all kind of interesting characters. i'm not sure it would make a big difference but they are looking at it? >> well, first of all, black are moving away from biden because they go to the grocery store. that's clear. and they go to the gas station, too. you know, as far as any replacement for biden, it's extremely hard to blast an incumbent president out of his seat for the party. and, if he did, i don't think there is any way in the world democrats could pass over vice president lewis-harris. >> can't leapfrog her. >> she is the vice president of the united states. >> laura: okay. i agree with you. >> democratic nominee. >> laura: i agree with you that's probably what is going to happen. if it wasn't how do they leapfrog. >> they can't. >> can they? >> she is the vice president of the united states. she is the constitutional successor. >> people are running for 2028. all the things you mentioned are looking at 2028. >> laura: is there any way to get over kamala harris. >> she is politically toxic but they can't get over here. >> laura: panel, great to see you all. mark, don't be mad at you. >> i'm used to three against one. >> laura: good to have you with us. d.c. was taken over by tens of thousands of pro-palestinian protesters over the weekend. i'm sure you saw some of it. damaged statues held up swastikas but even damaged the white house. what is joe biden's take on all of this. the answer may surprise you, that's next. 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[shouting] griff. >> laura: well as joe biden enjoyed the beach time as he usually does over the weekend in rehoboth. those are the scenes outside of the white house. and along with the calls for intifada chants of allahu akbar and signage that featured swastikas. i thought biden was horrified by such gatherings. >> when i saw those folks in charlottesville coming out of the field carrying nazi swastikas and torches and literally chanting the same anti-semitic wile that was head in the germans. >> i could not remain silent after charlottesville. >> laura: suddenly cat has got his tongue here? all right, his outrage is dependent on whether he gets some political benefit out of it. now, by comparison only hundreds of people or so at charlottesville event. his campaign wanted us to believe that that was the reason he ran for president. joining me now richard davis hanson senior fellow at the hoover institution. victor, here is some of the damage that the peace and love crowd left behind. we're showing it on the screen white house gates. i might have forgotten it but did the january 6th people spray paint inside the capitol or damage statues in statuary hall? i'm not remembering that? >> i don't think they did. but they redefined insurrection for us. >> they said any time that mass groups of people get near government installations and they did or they deface government problem that's iconic like the white house gate, for example, or wall, or statuary, or they disrupt congressional proceedings, which we saw a week before, or they go into the rotunda where it's prohibited to have a demonstration, then all of that constitutes an insurrection, especially when you have an elected official go out and try to rev everybody up and not quell the excitement. that's what representative tlaib did when she promulgated that lie about the hospital parking lot bombing that it was a result of israeli idf action. and that revved up the crowd. by their own definition all of these people now should be objects of fbi teams that are going over these videos and calling them up, visiting their homes and soon we should expect the doj to file felony charges. if they are going to be consistent. >> laura: protests are obviously hurting biden politically, i think. did democrats have anyone to blame, victor, but themselves and all that anti-american bile that has been sold in our schools and our universities, in fact, embraced by the biden administration? >> >> yeah. i think they got mesmerized by this institutional support for the ceo, the corporate board room. foreseeable sports, the media, academia. they didn't realize there was no public or popular support. biden seems captivated by these palestinian radical crowds. but, you know, michigan has the largest number of arab american voters and there are only 2% of the electorate in michigan and much less in other states like new jersey it's 1%, nevada, et cetera. there is no support on the poll for open borders, for sanctuary cities, for the trans advocacy. they get so caught up in echo chamber they think it resonates with the american people. and they are completely unaware. can you see that with barack obama. he thinks there is an opening for him to come out of retirement and weigh in on the palestinian question. last week it was, you know, material consumption is bad. more inclusive capital. this is a guy with four estates. but he doesn't realize that most-that people really blame his policies that biden followed religiously for biden's own problems. he said that we were all somehow complicit and we should feel complicit with the middle east in the middle east is a mess because barack obama brought back robert malley, put him in positions of authority and influence. he gave us the iran deal. he had this crazy idea of an iran access shia crescent and he distanced himself from israel and championed the palestinians in gaza and the west bank. the results of all of that chickens are coming home to use a metaphor that he uses to roost. >> laura: when he called it the occupation, what did that mean? >> >> into m that means is he histy illiterate. gaza was free of israelis since 2005. election typical in the middle east. one election, one time. they got what they wanted. and barack obama knows it. so he has to use this empty tired word "occupation" that has n