the statement reads, "we are always considering options available to us that would allow us to support human people and to support their humanitarian need which are indeed profound." we are left wondering what is the next move to help these people. >> i hope that some form of humanitarian aid or military intervention, i think we are willing to do that. we heard also that it is possible to intervene in terms of reactivating their intranet. the cuban government has shut down communication in their country obviously to support their cause we need to make sure that we help however we can. we learned in the middle east that with these freedom fighters, they need our help. need to do that. it would been great if we did something more for the hong kong protesters a couple years ago. there people in the rate that agree with that as well including people like rick scott the president that would not pass congress in terms of supporting the hong kong protesters. >> sandra: ted cruz action the question how is this possible responding to a tweet from the biden state department saying that they prot

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looking at us? that makes no sense at all. >> john: you probably heard rich edson in his report where he quoted anthony blinken said responsible nations must not shrink from scrutiny of human rights but rather should acc knowledge it with intent to improve. he says you can't play the moral high ground on human rights unless you're a transparent nation. what nation is more transparent than what the united states already is? >> mr. blinken, let me tell him this. we are the most transparent nation. because our history and the issues we've had on race relations have been under the microscope. what do you think the civil rights movement was? what do you think reconstruction was? what do you think the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment were? what do you think the civil war was? we've had this progression in our country going back 100 years and especially through the u.s. i'll have rights movement till today. we've done that. we've had our reckoning in the united states. put us on the same par of what is going

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thanks for joining us today. appreciate it. >> sandra: millions of job openings across the country still going unfilled. yet there is a push by some to extend once again the federal unemployment benefits. our panel will debate what is next for the unemployed. >> john: plus, is the commission looking to cut down on the court's power? jonathan turley is coming up on that. ♪ ♪ thbest time in history to turn your home equity into cash. because home values have climbed to all time highs. and so has your equity. turn it into cash now, while mortgage rates are near all time lows. the newday 100 va cash out loan lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value. you could take out more than $50,000. use it to improve your home. pay off high rate debt. pay for big expenses. or put it in the bank for real peace of mind. now's the time to use your va home loan benefit to get cash before mortgage rates begin to rise. call now. - i'm norm. - i'm szasz. [norm] and we live in columbia, missouri. we do consulting, but we also

that does it for us. live from d.c., john. >> john: didn't i tell you how great it has been to be in the studio with you? you should move to washington. >> sandra: i'll pack my bags. headed this way. great to connect. we'll do it time to time. >> john: i love it. been great. hope you and your family have a happy fourth of july. hope you get storms. there's storms. >> sandra: yeah. happy fourth of july. that does it for us. i'm sandra smith live from d.c. this time. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" with martha starts now. >> martha: thanks, john and sandra. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. so of course, preparations are underway nationwide for the fourth of july. for most, they're happy post look-down plans and we're going to get to the miracle of that today. first, it's ever more clear that our greatest american cities are in deep trouble. here's a stark sampling of what is happening out there. here's a few looks at some of these horrific incidences. this sexual attack in broad daylight in broo

what have you got for us? >> well, this whole debate over whether masks should or should not be worn in schools has really turned into a complicated and confusing situation for people all over the country, particularly for parents who are left to make the decision in cities and towns. it seeing a spike in new covid infections us kids get ready to head back to school for in person learning. listen. >> that is a medical decision that should be placed back into the hands of the parents and out of the hands of a school board. >> it is asking a lot, i think, of children. and i think it's probably a little bit overkill. >> i would not want him to be exposed to catching covid because kids could die from this also. even though they say the chances of kids are low, but i still feel like you never know. >> now, john, at least six states say they will require students and teachers to mask up, regardless of vaccination status, but some hands are tied in states like arizona, arkansas, and texas where laws or executive orde

>> we come they ignored us unti we went to the air with all of this and then they got back to us. >> it often works that way. >> we will talk more about this and the next hour. covid 19 restrictions at the border have blocked hundreds of thousands of migrants from entering the united states during the pandemic, but now th white house is weighing a plan to phase out the policy. good the massive speak how dangerous will this move be for millions of americans? >> progressive pushing to pack the supreme court, white critic are saying it could didn't know it could destroy our nation system of justice. we will break it down next. was the same old story for years. trying this. doing that. spending countless days right here. still came the belly pain, discomfort, and bloating. awful feelings she kept sugar-coating. finally, with the help of her doctor, it came to be. that her symptoms were all signs of ibs-c. and that's why she said yess to adding linzess. linzess is not a laxative. it helps you have more frequent and complete bowel movements. and is proven to help relieve overall abdominal

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thanks for being with us. white house secretary jen psaki said the reference to the abolitionist teaching network was more than 1,000 citations, essentially making the case that it accidentally slipped through. assuming that is true, should they be more vigilant if that is the case? >> they should be more vigilant, but this is not an isolated incident. it's a broader pattern of the biden administration department of promoting critical royce theory. we know that months ago, secretary miguel cardona who has been a huge supporter of crt, try to create national incentives for an local school districts, and after 30,000 comments trashing their proposal, they backed down. one time they give them the benefit of the doubt, but they have an established pattern of trying to push the radical ideology, thankfully we are watching and rallying the people of the country against it and in these two instances, they backed down. >> jacqui: you are referring to a grant proposal that referenced the 16-19 project, somewhat controv

he joins us now thank you for joining us we still have live photos up on capitol hill after the hearing has concluded for the day but can you first react to how you saw your republican colleagues handle their roles o this committee? let me say these are tragic stories and a tragic day in january 6th. the stories these officers had to tell our stories and experiences that never should have happened. i heard an officer say somethin that is most notable in this entire hearing in that thought they were not prepared for what happened that they. if what had been allowed to be in that room and do my duty as ranking member of the committee i would've asked a question tha neither of my constituents asked. would've asked him to impact statement. last week i demanded the capito police union chief represent 90 percent of the rank-and-file members and the men and ladies that serve to protect us protec my staff and family everyday wh would we not allow another voic in the voice of the capital police union to be on hand to give his testimony he was rejected from being in the room to testify. he would'

rather than just some of the evidence that we have seen has led us to make this decision or lead us to change this guidance showing people that data, showing them in a way that will understand it could be such a big deal for people. >> my dearly departed mom once said you get more bees with honey than vinegar. >> there you go. we will see how that all goes down commit meanwhile to the border and the crisis at our southern border, people in town along the rio grande valley, migrants who have tested positive for covid are reportedly being released to a catholic charity and put into local hotels where they are mixing with the public at restaurants and other places. it is a story you will only see right here on fox. live on the ground in la jolla, texas. hi, rach. >> good afternoon, sandra. we've had about 30 or 40 migrants coming up the road here , a few hundred on this spot passed through every day prayer that's because customs and border protection, which is a mile away from the border here will bring migrants here and start the processing procedure and that is happening right her almos

thanks for joining us. i'm john roberts. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith in with trace in for martha. >> good afternoon. i'm trace gallagher. a short time from now, president biden will take to the east room of the white house where he's expected to announce that if you work for the federal government, you must be vaccinated or face strict protocols like regular testing and masking. this comes as a growing list of

none of us want that. let's keep the schools open with layered protection. >> sandra: we've got to get our kids in the classroom. there are risks of us not doing that also. i appreciate your time. thank you. eric, it feels like -- you talk to parents now and this is a big question. not just in your kit going to wear a mask, but is there the possibility -- you hear that some schools might not even open fully in the fall. >> eric: it is alarming from dr. friedman. they say that the delta is 1,000 times stronger than the original. if you're not vaccinated, you should get vaccinated. talk to your doctor. clearly there are other concerns about covid spreading across the country and the border crisis combining, creating a problem big enough to bring members of both parties together. >> sandra: lindsey graham is teaming up with henry cuellar. they say it is time for someone new to lead us through this crisis. it is a person you may remember from the obama years. we are going to talk to the senator live next. best

jason joining us now thank you so much for joining us today. i take personal offense to this because my family was rescued and world war ii from a japanese prison of war camp. my father remembers running towards flag in the philippines before moving to the u.s., getting a great education, and serving the flag in korea. we are seeing that flag denigrated by so many people on the left. this would not had happened ten or 20 years ago. what has changed? >> george doherty is like millions of other americans and shame on "the new york times" fg into this anti-american socialist and far left wing propaganda. the left wing of the united states of america is the best in the nation and it does bring us together. then rick times suck at it. the democratic party today which was made up of the men and women who actually made up of working men and women come of those people have been disenfranchised because they have been co-opted now by the socialist part of the wing that does not believe in america as a symbol like the flag. they do not believe in what uni

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the private sector used to be one of those places that brought us together. we live in a divided colony politically divided. it depends on spaces that can still bring us back together. major league baseball and nfl stadiums. as each of the companies go woke we lose the ability to come together in the apolitical spaces that used to bring us together as one people. i think that's the real loss, bill. >> bill: pretend to care about something other than profit or power precisely to gain more of each. these are your ideas, in woke, inc. get it very soon. great to see you. we'll talk again very soon. thanks. >> julie: federal agents on the border are not only protecting our country but also saving the lives of dozens of migrants who end up lost, tired, or close to death. we have got an exclusive look at some of the rescue operations. stay tuned to that. plus pandemic travel restrictions are set to end next week. could this open the floodgates and make the crisis even worse? texas governor greg abbott joins us next. ♪ on the road again, just can't wait to get on t

kennedy used to get us to the moon before the decade was out. we weren't doing that very well at the time j.f.k. made the ro,. he said we do it because it is there. the challenge is there. it is in our nature as a species to pursue these things. all together for all of us. and i think that summed up where we stand today 60 plus years later that this is in our human d.n.a. to do something like this and to realize for the chosen few. if you think about it, guys, about 500 have gone into space right now and this is all about -- the goal is to democratize it so thousands more can get the chance to appreciate the essence of this system and space itself. all is good in that respect. if jeff bezos will lead the charge or richard branson or elon musk, so be it. all in and all at it. >> bill: yeah. this is more of a shall we say conventional flight today. blue origin uses a rocket and space capsule what we're more akin to seeing but not fully automated with four humans on board. it can hold six. one of the selling points for this type of mission was spac

it's going to take us to save us throughout our city. no one wants to drop anything down and say, hey, we need the community to come together and speak out on these issues. if we can come together as a whole and help one another, it's all about speaking out. like i said, i know everybody around wants to see people have support, we have the support, so where is it? we can talk about it every day, but if we are not out here physically boots on the ground, talking to these neighbors every single day, nothing's going to be done. and our englewood community, they're working hard, our commander, are deputy, so much. and i know that getting tired. some days i want to give up but i have to fight to change and make a difference in my community. >> bill: stay at it, charles. let's take in a couple weeks, maybe at some point your sister moves back and hopefully soon your niece will be out of any type of danger there, as well. charles mckenzie in chicago. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> bill: a new hour begins now, president biden talking in a tele

>> well, these are people that fought with us, bled with us, died with us, bill. we talk a lot about merit-based immigration in this country. i can't think of any group that is more deserving, that has earned it, that was literally willing to die alongside american soldiers. when you can track that with what's happening along our southern border, where hundreds of thousands are coming for months that we know of, i think it is completely reasonable, the right thing to do. it's not just the right thing to do morally, but from a national security standpoint, if we have to go back, we have to send our soldiers back, which biden's own intelligence community is saying al qaeda and isis can come roaring back in the wake of the taliban takeover, we will need local allies on the ground and everybody is watching right now whether we are going to keep our promises. so this is the right thing to do morally but also from a national security standpoint. if you want to temporarily relocate many of these in kuwait and qatar could take weeks to process. there has been this concern

tell us what you read into it, marc. there is a lot going on here. >> certainly people are looking at their lives and what they are seeing especially people who live in major cities is this outbreak of violent crime. no one wants to live in the middle of this. of course they'll report they are less optimistic one 1-month-old children are getting shot in a local place. "new york times" reports that last year was the worst year for violence crime since the 1990s. it went up 30% and killings and up 24% this year. what is driving that? two things are driving it. one is in all those major cities they've defunded the police. minneapolis cut police funding, portland, phil, new york city cut it by one billion on. police retirement. national public radio reports there is a startling 45% increase in the retirement rate of police officers last year and 20% increase in resignations. fewer police on the streets. crime will go up. this is not rocket science. if you call for defunding the police and you don't have the police officers b

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maybe it is good news for us. did you know and have you been following the red state/blue state battle, the suggestion that trump voters don't want to get the vaccine? >> i've been following it. >> bill: i missed the five yesterday. did you know in new york they say 7-1 democrats to republicans? did you know that 45% of new yorkers have not been vaccinated? does that sound like blue state/red state? >> cave men according to people on our show. if you look at the map of the united states and show the hot spots, all of the hot spots are in huge democrat cities. new york city, atlanta, los angeles. not a lot of trump voters in those cities. we have to do away with all the politics and just try to get people vaxed. at a certain point you have to stop. you can't push people that hard. >> dana: do you like the idea president biden suggested many of the governors have done this to incentivize by giving people $100 to get a shot? >> i love bribes. i think they work. >> dana: do you think you could get a retro active bride

joining us now is david maltz. i want to put if we can that picture back up with part of the 758 pounds of liquid meth which was found, brought in by a male driver who is applying for entry into the united states which i'm assuming is a good indicator that the cartels are using that as a crush of migrants at the border to get drugs into the country. >> traits, thank you very much. first of all, the mexican cartels have made a business decision to make as much money as i cannot only for the drug smuggling but the migrant smuggling from migrants around the world, not just central america. but let's make it clear. they have made a billions of dollars from flooding our country, there is a tsunami of drugs hitting the streets. methamphetamine, fentanyl, but the end result is what i'm concerned about. these are the kids that are dying from the poisonous drugs coming from the cartels and they are working with the chinese transnational criminals, and that's another thing that no one is really talking about. we have a natio

the bond market is telling us that. neil: that is a popular trading instrument, that means for those looking to grab them or refinance the home they are already in, i will ask you as a former dallas fed advisor how long that is, do you think these low interest rates continue now as some seem to think through the end of the year into next year? the same crowd was surprised when they spiked and the fed hinted of hiking rates sooner rather later so things can change. >> things can change, 3 weeks from today we've got a debt limit showdown no one is talking about, that was very total to us for markets, bond yields fall much further, a decade ago in 2011. the individual in the house of representatives said conservatives need to take a stand and show that the debt limit, the debt ceiling as of july 30 first is an opportunity to show republicans willing to cut costs and cut spending and on the other side of the aisle in the trillion dollar direction, there's something to be said this summer where bond yields continue to slow e

soil. >> overall we categorically condemn iran's dangerous plot to kidnap a us citizen on us soil. >> reporter: what impact will this have on a rainy leadership? >> still remains, we never assist iran to be a good actor in the world. we will continue to pursue those talks. >> the woman who almost became a victim of the iranian plot is:on the president to act. >> i the biden administration to take action because it is acting like isis which took hostages, beheaded people. . >> four iranian's facing federal charges and that plot. carley: the author of the newly released book and inconvenient minorities is the success of asian americans debunks critical race theory. joining me to discuss, the president of the advocacy group, live united. good morning to you, you had such an interesting perspective on critical race. let's start there. when you hear people say america is systemically racist against people of color what goes through your mind? >> i look at the experience of asian americans, asian americans have historically not needed politics or to present themselves as a victim group to

>> thanks for having us. parents are just fed up there are substantial risks with wearing these masks. it is causing fear and isolation in our kids, learning difficulties and there aren't enough benefits to outweigh the risks in the population, there is much less affected by this virus. >> you have a 7-year-old and uranium t from the medical perspective why have you join this fight? >> there is still not enough data for that age group and the covid cases are not primarily affecting that age group. you are not seeing kids daily becoming ill from covid. todd: the connecticut department of education, this came out yesterday. we are working with our partners at the connecticut to permit of public health. we will be assessing connecticut's current and future guidance for schools including mask wearing light of those ccc recommendations. any worry about rising cases from the delta variant and if so would that change your position on masks for kids? >> i'm not worried about it. rising cases is not the same as discou

he joins us now. thank you for joining us early. why does this upset you? >> the reason that it upsets me is because wagner used to be a great school and i know that because i have an older son who graduated from the school three years ago. and it was a great school because it's the biggest middle school in new york city department of education and so with all the resources that it had, it could tailor to all kinds of students. it would take care of the average student but it had a lot of programs for people with special educational needs, both in the top and at the bottom. and basically what they're doing right now, they are taking away the extra classes that actually were serving the kids that were accelerating, they were in the top of class. griff: do they they tell you why they're doing that? >> yes. we had a meeting with the principal a couple weeks ago and the reason they told us was that it was -- they basically had too much of a good thing. basically, they had too many kids qualifying for the honors program, the sixth and seventh grade honors progra

up and corral us up and bring us back and i just don't want some rural cop or some take fanatic that license to governor abbott that says they need to bring us back because we're fugitives. griff: rural cop, what is he talking about, joe? >> how that got on national television and wasn't challenged in any way i have no idea. there was a poll done last year that found that 83% of the american people feel that the media bears blame for division in this country. when you do interviews like that, that leads to that sentiment. this trip by texas democrats, find me a more poorly planned trip. they continue to play victims for their own actions. they fled their jobs in texas, they did so in a private plane without masks. they declared democracy was under attack like we've never seen since the civil war. this what is we have here at this point, optically horrible and then six texas democrats test positive for he covid, it spreads to a pelosi staffer and white house staffer. you tell me what has changed as a result of them going on this trip. they're going to get corralled up when they come b

thank you for joining us. todd: texas and oklahoma take their first step toward leaving the big 12, they say they will not renew grants after they expire in 2025. this is basically somebody tell you we are getting a divorce, they did not say what congress they plan to join but they are eyeing the ftc. both schools have been big 12 members since it started in 1996. >> didn't surprise people when this news came down? aaron rogers landed in green bay at a training camp. there's been a lot of discussion. he told the team he wanted out, now is being reported he might play this season so we will keep you updated that rogers has been cited multiple issues with the team, skipped mandatory minicamps, unclear if he will show up for the start of camp tomorrow even though he's in wisconsin but we will see if he's going to see a packer this season. neil: this contract he will get a trade at the end of the year if daniel joan struggles new york giants -- next hour of "fox and friends first" new jersey parents and students t

todd: why federal intentions turn us out? >> we see those in power, the elected officials doing what they want and so we need a higher authority, we need feds to charge criminals using guns with federal crimes, gun crimes, district attorneys not doing that, letting criminals off almost immediately. jillian: you wonder how this will work out. la is considering guaranteed income as more cities offer no strings attached, we can pull up the information, $1,200 in guaranteed taxpayer-funded income for low-income adults under the new plan with guaranteed income programs listed on your screen. how will this work out? >> we have to laugh at this because it is so ridiculous. to keep these people on guaranteed income they are not going to have the incentive to want to work anymore. we need to get people off government assistance so they can flourish and they are not going to do this especially if there is no accountability of what these people do with those funds that could be used for illicit drugs or anything. takes away any incentiv

matt larkin joins us next. heather: impact alone cannot beat tom brady at the super bowl but shattered one of the legendary's qb's records. weight for that. ♪♪ ♪ put a little love in your heart - david ruffin ♪ my bad, my bad... good race! -you too! you were tough out there... thank you, i'm getting you next time though. oh i got you, i got you. hamblin goes down. d'agostino helps hamblin back up. are you okay? -yeah. jillian: fox news alert parts of alaska under tsunami warnings following a powerful 8.2 earthquake off the coast of the peninsula, police advising residents to move to higher ground, there have been two strong aftershocks. todd: washington dc mayor muriel bowser refunding in hopes of adding more officers amid rising crime. >> i will send an additional $11 million supplemental budget request to the council this week to allow for the hiring of 20 new officers in fiscal year 21, 120 new officers in fiscal year 2022. todd: a break in the case in one of dc's most high profile shootings, for all

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they might, it would be welcome to us. todd: happy thursday. it has been discussed that if you listen to pentagon briefings they said it is not all going to be fun and games. jillian: you are watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning. todd: i am todd piro, 30 or veteran of the police force & killed outside in fbi building hours after another officer and two federal agents were shot in chicago. jillian: president biden touched down in the windy city. here is more on the meeting between the president and chicago's mayor. >> reporter: terre haute police say a member of the police department and fbi task force was ambushed and killed in broad daylight wednesday afternoon outside in fbi building, the suspect later shot by another agent and is in custody in the hospital. police have not said what the motive was an are expected to release more details today. >> it is not a good time to be a police officer in america. this is an example of who they are. we are not bad people. >> his death, three undercover officers riding in an unmarked car

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rachel used of the -- play with will, pete and rachel. filling in, helping us out this morning. it is on the ipod. x oh. carley: it is quite the earworm. 24 hours a day. you are watching "fox and friends first" on friday morning. carley: let's get straight to it. h h the secretary xavier becerra backing off of earlier comments in which he stated is the government's right to know of americans have been vaccinated. >> a new study shows vaccinations for kids and teens may not be necessary. >> the study suggests kids are likely to survive a covid 19 infection with or without a vaccine. the health and human services secretary is facing backlash after he said it was absolutely the government's right to know if your household has been vaccinated. >> the federal government has spent trillions of dollars to keep americans alive during this pandemic so it is absolutely the government's business. knocking on the door has never been against the law. >> reporter: the government has no database tracking who is vaccinated. we are encouraging people to step up to protect themselves and others b

they promised us the world. so if this is all they can find, a mercedes that was improperly filed in a tax return, this is usually dealt with, from my understanding, may be fine, maybe just refile the tax, never had they charged anybody criminally like this before. >> correct. "the new york times" could not find a single case in the history of the irs, 230 years, not one case prosecuted criminally for fringe benefits. not one. but they make sure to save stefan when a political. it has nothing to do with political. they didn't charge the bankers that took down the global economy. they haven't done this prior into hundred 30 years but jesse, it's definitely not political, right? let's take the numbers even further, right? they are saying $1.7 million over 15 years. but it's not 1.7 million. that's income. the taxable portion of that to new york state is 8%. that's $136,000 over 16 years. that's ten grand a year. half of that, because my father is a good guy, he paid for this guy's grandchildren's education. our ta

it's bad enough that they use social media to censor us to spy on us, to shut down speech. but now private text messages. i mean, what's going to happen next? are they going to take away our phones? are they going to tell verizon or at&t or whomever to shut down people's cell service if they text things that the government doesn't like? this is insane. it is unamerican. it's probably unconstitutional. >> pete: that's what i wanted to ask you. how is it not unconstitutional considering any number of the amendments and the bill of rights that the government could do this? there has got to be an avenue to challenge this or is this something that will happen without most of us knowing? >> well, i can't imagine the that the government has the power to look at our text messages without warrant. under our current law they don't. here is what worries me though, pete. it's pressuring the phone companies, pressuring verizon and at&t and whoever else to voluntarily comply and tell them the government what we're texting, what we are saying on our private messages. that's the real dange

thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for "special report" fair balanced and fill unafraid. "fox news primetime" hosted by brian kilmeade. >> brian: gillian turns it over to him once again second best. i probably would have had the exclusive had you called in sick. and a little bit later did you ever review how you did in the celebrity golf tournament? >> bret: no. we will talk about that some other time. >> brian: i guess. so that means you didn't win. bret, thanks so much, man. thank you, bret, good evening and welcome to "fox news primetime." ♪ ♪ >> brian: all right, i'm brian kilmeade. here we go again. mask up, america. as the usual california kicks off the chaos and crashes the market by prematurely and unscientifically mandating masks indoors for vaccinated and unvaccinated people. how does that make sense? we were just told get vaccinated, lose the mask. we were just told businesses to rehire their staff and get back to work. and they did. and we went to their workplace. enough to that vaccines are o

they taught us how to box. they would travel from one state to the other to see that we won this golden gloves tournament. sent us off to the olympics. i have this fond memory and love for this country and the people in this country. nobody will ever be able to talk me out of that. that's love. love. >> brian: the tweet on july 4th proved it to me. a picture of you, the one we just showed holding the flag after winning the gold while, you know, tomi smith and john carlos helped put up the fist black power. and you put up the tweet out you said 54 years, 50 plus years people are trying to get me to stop with praising america. who are these people trying to get you to stop? >> just people in yen. every year there is a fashion that comes up. every few years another fashion. it's all fashionable to be anti-america. it's fashionable. people ask me what are you talking about? can't you see what was done then and what was done now? can't you see? and i tell them swiftly, you can't talk me out of my love. maybe you sho

people in this country are rooting for us. they are not holding us back. they want us to do well. and that's what george foreman's message is the one i think that endures because of that. >> brian: shelby, real quick. >> america lived up to it. >> brian: you thought in 168 we are coming apart. are you concerned we are coming apart again? >> it's a very -- this is a very tense moment. we -- my own personal opinion, we are coming to the end of many bad ideas that started in the 1960s that took away responsibility for our development from us and that hurt us more than anything and so now now here we are having to face a mountain that's very high. we have to take responsibility for the development of our -- of ourselves. of our people. >> brian: right. if we are ever going to see equality. we'll have to do that. >> brian: gotcha. >> that's difficult. we will resist. we will protest and act as though that will do it but it never will. >> brian: we should be americans first and reverse the hyphen and work our way from back there. >> absolutely. >> brian: shelby steele you are making a l

and, for us, in south dakota, that impacts us, also the drugs that come across this border and end up in south dakota, filter a lot through my indian reservations and end up throughout the midwest. and then we also have a huge human trafficking issue in this country that this open border is facilitating. so, for us, we have many reasons to respond to governor abbottens request for help, and the reason i sent my national guard is because this is exactly what they do with excellence. that's one of the great things that was good to hear on the ground here today from border patrol was how grateful they were that i sent national guard. they perform missions like this. it's clearly defined. they know their training level when they get here. they can work as a team and a unit as they complete the task and then when it's completed south dakota is known for doing it with excellence. so our folks are in observation posts. they are watching and identifying those that are crossing and then notifying border patrol to come and pick them up. but, you said it, tammy. 20,000 last week just in this zon

you can't keep up with the so-called science that they are using as justification to put us back in masks. and my wife and i were sitting on the porch just 30 minutes ago talking about the reality that our kids could be walking back into school next year wearing masks. four our decision is we are not going to tolerate that and a lot of the americans won't tolerate that the science isn't there for kids. the teachers are vaccinated. they are protected but status can't resist. vaccine passports like europe is doing. we will never do that or punish everyone. and that's what we are seeing right now. everyone mask back up. >> tammy: what you said though first, which was true, which is the vaccinations will stop this. it is doing so. in addition to the people who have the natural antibodies. that's happening. >> pete: yes. >> tammy: this is actually working. the president, what do you make of him saying that it's a personal attack? if you are unvaccinated you are not as smart as i thought you were. is this what we have declined into? >> pete: of course it is. did they think shaming people is wha

they're putting us in decline and they're leading us to human denigration on every single issue. consider this a major developing story from fox's own bill melugin as authorities in texas say immigrants who test positive for covid are being released from federal custody to a local catholic charity and placed in hotels. if the biden administration really cared about covid, would they allow this? would they allow for open borders during health crisis? and would they allow for unrestricted access into the country? tom cotton is on board this evening with more details on this issue as well as the remarkable hypocrisy infecting the woke corporate world. meanwhile, our woke crisis exploiting veterans continue to signal that they don't believe any of the life and death drama they berate us with. it's as though establishment enforcers feel like they are training dogs. follow the science has now morphed into follow whatever we say. the and don't you dare ask them questions, of course, even worse, don't you even think about asking for actual data. with no expectation that they themselves w

it's also not okay to shoot us down and censor us on our big tech platforms every time we want to complain about it. both of those things are happening. the economic war against the middle class. the wonderful turley war against traditional american values and i think they are very related. >> mark: what does the right get by just kind of going along? because we have a left that openly wants to get there to floor it, pedal to the melts and go all the way with this stuff. and we have got the right that too often gives the impression that it's happy to follow after them as long as they are just in second gear, third gear and dialing it back a bit. >> yeah, that's exactly right. i think the big reason is that the right is really terrified of power. i think the left is enthusiastic about using power. the right is terrified of power. just take one example, right? the big tech companies which effectively control the flow of information in our society. now, you cannot speak your mind as a conservative without fear of getting censored by facebook, twitter, apple, whoever else. well, if you try to

otherwise they would let us all discuss it. they would let us have it out. today would let former presidents and sitting presidents be allowed to have their say. they don't have the belief, and without that belief everything they say and do is just pure propaganda on their part. >> mark: to go back to where we came in at the top of the hour, if they don't like people wandering into the united states capital and putting their and pertinent feet up on nancy pelosi's desk, the best solution to that is a culture of free speech. if you tell people you can't have a twitter account and a facebook account, what else is there to do but actually walk into the capital and go all insurrection all? if you can't talk about it, you can only act. >> you and i know that this has always been the history of suppressing free speech, you push speech underground and it becomes sated and nastier and it pulses with all sorts of other ugliness. that's what happens when you push it down. we should not have that in america. we should be able to have a discussion about public including

and is going to use it against you. they do have my email. so i knew they were spying on me, and, again, to be totally blunt with you, as a defensive move, i thought i better say this out loud. >> yeah, and that was a good move. congress shall make no law abridging freedom of the press says the first amendment. but you don't need to make a law if you have got a security state the powers the nsa has. it seems pretty obvious their plan was to leak emails and telephone transcripts select tialy to suggest that tucker was merely the latest kremlin asset. the threat to america is not primarily from foreign government agencies but from domestic agencies with unlimited budgets and unaccountable in any meaningful way to the american people and their elected representatives. with me now is glenn greenwald, author of the book "securing democracy" and, glen, you said something rather extraordinary to me to tucker last night. you were talking about the way dianne feinstein and other powerful politicians who are supposed to be in charge of democratic overs

(combative yelling) he used to have bad breath. now, he uses a capful of therabreath fresh breath oral rinse to keep his breath smelling great, all day long. (combative yelling) therabreath, it's a better mouthwash. at walmart, target and other fine stores. >> mark: is the party of trump trumpism or reach across the hands attempt to follow the democrats third gear with the occasional tax cut or is it headed some place entirely different? this weekend is the annual cpac jamboree. this year it's in dallas. and we have a general wine texan keeping an eye on things l.b.j., no, not that linden bains johnson l.b.j., he just spent six decades warming up the acronym for the real l.b.j. lawrence b. jones iii take it away, lawrence. >> i like that brother. it has a nice ring. speculation on what this conference is going to be about. big man former president trump is going to be here on sunday. going to probably give a speech. he probably won't announce he is going to run for re-election. the crowd is fired up. so many people is focusing on t

so tell us where police reform stands. you worked on this with sense s tores booker and -- senators booker and representative karen bass. is there any hope for this bill? >> i think there is hope for the bill without any question. we worked on it yesterday. we'll have another conversation today. we'll be meeting tomorrow. i'll be talking with law enforcement leaders tomorrow as well. the one thing you cannot do in police reform is leave the impression that somehow we're going to demonize police officers. that is dead-stop not going to happen. can't happen. we can see today in baltimore, almost 400 officers vacant. in other words, they need 400 more officers, so much so that they're asking for 100 federal officers to come in and to fill the void. when you demonize police officers, when you defund the police, and you start talking about this war on police and prosecution and not on crime, you're going to have a reduction in forces and if you tell officers that their personal liability is on the line, it is a bad decision. th