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"fox & friends" weekend on saturday, february 3rd, and we start this hour with a fox news alert. the u.s. launches retaliatory airstrikes in sir ya and iraq while president biden says it is just the beginning. rachel: biden continuing to take heat over the crisis at our southern border, and the numbers don't lie. a new poll showing that, get this, 70% of americans disapprove of the president's handling of immigration. big numbers. pete: they say hips don't lie either. plus, mark cuban's dei push getting shot done by the equal employment commissioner herself. that commissioner joins us coming up. if the final hour of "fox & friends" weekend starts right now. ♪ ♪ will: fox news alert, u.s. forces hitting dozens of iranian-linked terror targets,

iraqi and syrian with officials claim more than 30 people were killed. pete: who those people are though, we don't know. the first round are of retaliatory strike thes coming just hours after the remains of three u.s. soldiers killed in jordan returned to u.s. soil. rachel: trey yingst is live in tel aviv with the latest. good morning, trey. >> reporter: hey, guys, good morning. overnight, the united states struck 85 different targets in iraq and syria in response to that drone attack last weekend that killed three american soldiers. now according to central command, control centers and weapons storage a facility ifs were hit. some affiliated directly with iran's a revolutionary guard concern cans' quds force ifs, others with iran-backed militias. national security council spokesman john kirby saying this overnight: >> i want to repeat again what i said in my opening comments. these responses began tonight, they're not going to end

tonight. so there will be additional responses. there will be additional action that we will take. >> reporter: the biden administration is looking to send a message to iran and its proxies that attacks on american forces won't be accepted. remember, this was a direct response to the drone attack last sunday that killed three americans and injured dozens more. ahead of the american strikes that included 125 precision-guided munitions, iranian president ibrahim ryey s sis said this -- >> translator: before whenever they wanted to talk to iran like other countries, they said military option is on the table. now now you do not hear these words anymore. they even say we have no intention of any conflict with iran. >> reporter: overnight u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin released a statement saying president biden has approved additional actions and that the united states will act where and when it chooses. guys, back to you.

rachel: thank you, ray. pete: trey, thank you. all right, let's bring in morgan ortagus, former state department spokesperson. help us out. what was the goal of these attacks, did they accomplish it, and where do we go next? they say there's more to come. >> well, good morning, pete. i don't think we know the full answer to that yet. what we do know is a large amount of munitions were used, about 125, in order to attack 85 targets, so we're talking about a lot of volume this morning. but what we don't know is have we hit anything that is of emotional and strategic importance to the regime in tehran that will send a message to them. you know, we often talk about during the trump administration the sa chem soleimani strike which i was a part of -- sasse semi, and how much that -- qassem soleimani. that strike was probably three years in the making, right? that started, and you can read it in former secretary of state

mike pompeo's book, started back whenever he was cia director, whenever he had to revive the ability of the intelligence community to go after qassem soleimani because with president bush and president obama would not have considered even taking him out because of the potential ramifications. so whenever we talk about how the biden administration needs to do something that's actually going to deter iran, this stuff -- and you know this, pete, from your long experience in the military -- these type of targets, it's the high value targets especially, it takes years to develop these plans, to know what is their pat person of life. this is not -- pattern of life. this is not just something we can pull out of our arsenal. so what are we doing in a week's a time? well, we'll see what happens, but unfortunately we have signaled to the iranian regime and their terrorist proxies that we're going to hit them so, listen, we've given everybody a chance to hide, makes no sense. the administration is saying these strikes are going to continue, we'll see.

we shouldn't necessarily equate volume with efficacy, and i think that's a valuable point this morning. rachel: you know, morgan, it wasn't very long ago that the houthis were not even named as terrorists or considered or categorized as terrorists by this administration, but they were by the trump administration. i just think it's so interesting that donald trump, you know, came in kind of green with. i mean, this was his first foray into foreign policy, and his instincts were so good. and here's swoa biden who's been here forever, and one of the first things he did was take away that designation and say, no, they're really not terrorists, and now here we are. >> yeah. you bring up such a good point, rachel. i think essentialingingly what the biden administration has done is pretended that the four years of the trump administration if didn't happen, and they just tried to puck up and continue where the obama administration was as it relates to iran, as it relates to the jcpoa. and we see the disastrous consequences including the consequences of9 loss of

american -- of the loss of american life. and here we are yet again losing american service members where no one is held accountable, nobody is fired, no one is asked to step down or resign is, and as a pete was talking earlier with, about an hour ago in the show, pete, you made such a good point that i had been thinking about. when president trump came in in 2017, isis is had a physical caliphate in iraq and syria that president trump and his team had to destroy. if so now when we look in january 2025, hopefully when president trump comes back in, he has even more of a mess to clean up in the middle east. and i'm just holding my breath, pete, hoping -- and ray chel and will, hoping that we can get through the next year because when you juxtapose if the middle east versus what's happening at our border and who's a being let into our country, you guys were talking about it with michael pillsbury earlier as well, you have done an excellent job of

showing what happens in the middle east, what happens in chai e ma is now happening in our border. and so what i worry, it's not only about what president trump is going to have to clean up in january 25 even worse than what he had to lean -- clean up in the middle east in january of '17, i worry about what can happen internally in our country over next year. will: it's great to hear from you this morning. thank you, morgan ortegus. rachel: thank you, morgan. pete: yeah. the subtext of what what you saying, the deeper you are in the foreign policy establishment, the more rooted you get to these old ideas that don't serve our interest and don't work. like the two-state solution in israel. their still peddling that because that's what they've been invested in for so long. will: to be honest, that's what i started to talk about last night on "the five." pete: correct. will: you know -- rachel: this is a clip that's gone viral, what he's talking about. will: we all have our different ways in which we approach politics, and i don't really jump into personality-based

politics or even partisan-based politics. donald trump represented a disturbance to the general course of business, and the general course of business in foreign policy has been bipartisan. pete: no doubt. will: it's been driven by what you just described, pete, the foreign policy establishment. and there's a reason that donald trump was so bipartisan-reviled. he was a disruption to that system. he was a disruption to that general course of business. and i, for one, appreciated disruption to the machine whose general course of business is war. pete: and not just war, wars that don't work. will: this does not come from, yes, a peacemaker perspective of there's the no utilitarian value to war. i'm a real u.s. e. you apply a weapon in pursuit of a worthy objective, and the worthy objective is the american interest. it is america first. that's a proper moral world view. i care about my family, then my

neighbors, then my city, then my state, then my country and then the world. and ukraine is somewhere out there -- [laughter] on the outskirts of the things i care about. rachel: way out there. will: if you don't care about your school board more than ukraine, my humble suggestion id it up, is i want us to have that conversation before we fire up the war machine. serve america first. rachel: absolutely. and you used the word disruption are. and disruption, just for the sake of disruption, would be ridiculous, right? we all want order. but when that disruption that you talk about from donald trump resulted in an outbreak of peace in the in the middle east -- in the middle east, doing things differently as you describe from what the establishment is tied to. i don't know why they're tied to that. i don't understand it. but maybe it was just the way we did it. but once you saw what donald trump did and how things got better and how we had, again,

peace breaking out in the middle east, we were more prosperous, we were able to focus on domestic e things like our own energy production which i think is so porn to maintaining that -- so important to maintaining that pass peace and also our own prosperity, the stronger you are economically, that's a deterrence to other countries, you know? if we look so weak not just because our military's suffering, but also our people are suffering. they're weary. they're try -- tired of all of this stuff that's been happening, and they are cynical and and very distrustful of this establishment -- pete: there's a lot of money to be made in that, and the longer you spend in the international context amongst your fellow globalists, you start to see that outside world as what you should affect and you push down the instinct of your own nation-state and putting america first. which i think nato is the perfect example of that. donald trump came in and said what is the every efficacy of this alliance that rides on our back, so we're going to challenge that sedges. which actually ended up making the alliance stronger because they should be able to back

themselves, and there was no invasion of vladimir if putin -- vladimir putin under donald trump. that's what this administration doesn't understand. will: meanwhile, another disruption this time not as quite beneficial has been over the last three years the stability of our southern border. but everybody seems to notice. take look at this cnn p.o. it shows a 70% -- poll. it shows a 70% disapproval rating of joe biden's handling of the southern border. i want to get to this conversation you just had a moment ago, pete -- pete: with the 30% approval? if. rachel: hay work for ngos. will: but don't care. that's what i want to know. 70%, that's bad news. but in order to win an election, people have to understand how big a deal it is. there's a lot of people out there who disapprove, but if it's number five on their list after abortion or something like that, it's not going to change anything. pete: we've seen it in republican primaries be the

number one issue, we saw it in new hampshire, iowa a, you'll probably see it in south carolina, but you're right, among the general, how significant is it? rachel: when you have $53 million, for example here in new york city, going in prepaid credit cards to those illegal immigrants, you're going to start to see -- it sounds unbelievable, right? it sounds like i'm making this up -- pete: it feels like it should be unbelievable. rachel: $53 million in prepaid credit cards to give to the immigrants as american citizens are struggling to put food on the table. and i think what's going to result, back to your point about the polling here, i, i believe donald trump will be the candidate, that's my prediction, and i think he is going to garner the largest, like, the largest percentage of minority vote that any gop candidate ever has many part because i think he had good policies that poem are remembering from before, but in part because of things like this,sing $53 million here, free

flights for illegals in the country -- will: that's what we need to watch, how much does this matter, to the point i'm make. it matters to republicans. 41% said it was the top issue in new hampshire. pete: that's right. and in iowa. will: but how much does it matter to independents and democrats, these issues like credit cards and this awe tack on nypd, you would think, would push this issue up among their puritieses. pete: and how much does it move the needle. and, by the way, homeless vets, you can't -- the whole comparison is insane sane. let's stay on this topic of constituencies like black americans and where would that support go. joe biden, remember, the democrats reshuffled their e entire primary calendar. their primary is this morning, right, in south carolina -- is it south carolina? if. will: yeah. correct. pete: they intentionally skipped new hampshire and iowa because they want south carolina to be first because joe biden,up you know, he basically says he's in the white house because of jim clyburn and black voters in south carolina who put him

there. so they're going to double down on that strategy. well, here's jim clyburn yesterday, friday, on pbs "newshour", your government-funded news, talking about turning out black voters. watch. >> i guarantee you, you will ses tomorrow night. i'll guarantee you see great approval of joe biden. pete: so he's guaranteeing great approval of joe biden. but as we've seen in some of the numbers, will, there are people saying different things. and this is it is not the fox news channel, by the withdraw. watch this. this is msnbc talking to black male voters recently on the potential for appeal for trump. watch. >> there's some people in your orbit who are either voting for donald trump or can cuing -- or consider it? >> for sure. we've only voted once, you know, actually for a president. and and trump is kind of all we

know, and they're kind of -- trump and biden. and they're like, well, we will vote for bind, we weren't with trump, and that's kind of the only thing that i'm hearing over and if over and again. with trump, we had money. rachel: so -- will: interesting. rachel: -- we were broke with biden, with trump we had money. will: those are all males, black males. i'd be curious under black females, you'd probably hear something different. rachel: it might be different. but you know what's interesting, sean has his show on "the bottom line," there was some polling that he came home and talked to me about a on his show. he was surprised at the number. he thought, okay, i knew that black men were trending towards donald trump. by the way, you see this in the hispanic numbers as well. hispanic men much more enthusiastic for donald trump. but in, i thought it was going to be and he thought it was going to be older black men. but, in fact, it's young black men who are trending towards donald trump in numbers. this is an astonishing thing,

but as interesting as this is with the black vote, the hispanic vote is really where it's going to be at come election time, because no demographic is more dissatisfie- will: i think there's a deep -- rachel: well, think among the working class, but fascinating that with this border issue and you think it might, you know, the traditional establishment view was, you know, opening the border was going to help get his passengers. oh, no. more -- hispanics. oh, no. will: i think there's a deeper demographic undercurrent than these racial dynamics, and you're going to be on the will talking about show this week. we had will and pete this past wednesday. you know what we talked about? have you seen the polling? and this is globally, not just america. south korea, europe, men and women going in opposite directions. rachel: yeah. will: women more right -- men more right, women more left. rachel: how will they get together? [laughter] how will we have babies if that

happens? pete: and hat tip to "fox & friends" weekday because lawrence has been talking to residents in inner cities who are saying, where are the cards, where's the support for us? and it's democrats in power who are betraying them. they're going to end up looking somewhere else. it's very interesting. rachel: fascinating stuff. pete: let's turn now to a few additional headlines. a florida state trooper killed in a a crash while you are pursuing a felony suspect yet in st. lucie county. zachary fink was chasing a kia on interstate 95 when his vehicle was hit by a semi truck. the suspect was later arrested after crashing the kia with. law enforcement officers leading a procession escorting fink's body to the medical examiner 's office. trooper fink was gist 26 years -- just 26 years old and doing his job for the rest of us. pro-palestinian protesters swarming -- pro-hamas, swarming

the streets of new york city yesterday spewing anti-police rhetoric. the new york post reports demonstrators could be heard yelling at police to, quote, burn in hell and chanting, quote, nypd, kkk. idf, they're all the same. at least nine people were arrested. they love our country. sure glad. they're out there. tributes pouring in for rocky star carl weathers, the actor beth known for his role as apollo creed died thursday night. sylvester stallone says he is torn up. >> carl weathers was such an integral part of my life and my success, everything about him. he was absolutely brilliant. his voice is, his size, his power, his at at lettic ability -- athletic ability but more importantly, his heart, his soul. it's, it's a horrible --

presidentth and if adam sandler saying, quote, the true man, great dad, great actor, great athlete, so much fun to be around. always. everyone loved him. weathers' most recent he starred in the mandalorian. carl weathers was 76 years old. may he rest in peace. those are your headlines. rachel: interesting. will: by the way, i said congressman if doe, he was tail in predator the along with action jackson, of course, apollo creed. he's a big loss. rachel: he is a big loss. by the way, we were speaking of that polling you saw, men and women getting more -- this is a really big opportunity for conservative women. i mean, you know, happy hunting. i mean, like -- will: oh, you mean romantically. [laughter] rachel: i keep thinking about that. you know what? there's, you know, right?

pete: there you go. rachel: just trying to look at the bright if side here. the upside. all right. will: with coming up, a young police officer and father of five shot and killed in the line of duty while trying to stop three teens from committing a carjacking in florida. rachel: we're going to talk to his family on their search for justice as they go up against a soft on crime district attorney.

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pete: a young police officer, and father of five, sergeant christopher fitzgerald, shot and killed in the line of duty while trying to stop three teens from committing a carjacking in philadelphia. it took nearly a year to bring the accused killer, 19-year-old miles pfeiffer, to court for a preliminary hearing last week. the fallen officer's family blamed the district attorney's opposition to the death penalty and soft on crime policies for the significant delays in the case. joining us now, sergeant christopher fitzgerald's parents, joel and pauline fitzgerald, and his widow, marisa. thank you all for joining us and, again, our condolences for the death of your son and your,

a hero doing his job who deserves justice. first, joel, if you would, why, high has it taken so long simply for a preliminary hearing for a cop killer? >> well, i mean, it's simple. we have regressives, and i use that term purposefully, d.a.s across the nation. it's not unique to pennsylvania, that attempt to change the way they do business and apply the law. they, like in this case, don't want to recommend the death penalty in states where it's lawful for heinous crimes like this and, you know, that's a shame because far too many families across the country like ours don't have the opportunity and the interest of "fox & friends" to sort of help us get the message across that people like larry crasser in, they all have something in common. they have that same funding source we all know about, and they put their philosophies in the place of the law.

their blanket soft on crime policies are causing neighborhoods in our country to become latchkey. pete: no doubt. pauline, here's a statement from d.a. crasser in's office. here's how they describe it. we do not have a policy against seeking any type of sentence, this t.a. administration, rather, we seek individualized justice in ever case we prosecute out of respect for the court's role in sentencing people upon conviction, we generally decline to comment on potential sentencing in active prosecution. so they say they take it on a case by case basis. pauline, wouldn't you think that the case of targeting and killing a police officer should receive maximum penalties? >> absolutely. it is a capital murder offense. it is the highest crime that you can do. this is a male who comes from an affluent from background, who comes from a certain type of privilege. he was coming from the suburbs going into the inner if city targeting temple students, and he was also targeting members of

that community that are already suffering. he was in the commission of a first-degree felony. he was committing robberies, and then he also killed a police officer. so there are multiple aggravating factors. so the punishment for something like that is, is death or life. and so we just want the district attorney to, you know, prosecute this case impartially, not for his discord for police officers, and we just want a fair chance. we want our, you know, we want to receive justice. pete: exactly right. charged with murder, murder of a law enforcement officer, robbery, carjacking, other related charges. marisa and the entire name fam -- family, i can't imagine your grief. if you would, share about your husband and what justice would look like for you for him. >> there are so many things that the i can peek on in regards to my husband. one of the amazing things that

made me fall even more deeply in love with him was how amazing of a father he is to our babies. he is a girl dad, but he is also a boy dad. when it came to his girls, they were his world. the relationship that they had especially with our youngest daughter, that was his princess, is and she could do no wrong in his eyes. it's something that i am blessed that i was able to witness, the bond that they had, because it's something that i never if had growing up. if when it came to our boys, our sons, he is the most extraordinary role model these boys could have. when it came to running as well, he would take them out sometimes and they would run 3 miles, 5 miles. the boys are incredible runners just like them, and so this day sometimes the boys do participate in running with

swaghouse which is the run club that christopher was a part of. he was e a hard worker, goofy, funny. his possessor ifalty is out of this world. he's my best friend. always wanted to make sure that the students were safe, that's there to protect, you know, the citizens of philadelphia and the temple students, and and i've said it before, there were days where he did overtime and it took time from us just to make sure that, you know, he was there and patrolling the city. but there were times that he would make up for that, and he would always want to be with us and have family time. he's a family man. he's a police officer but he's also a family man. making sure we went on vacations to jersey or just going around the city and spending time with the kids. he loved our family, and my kids are heart broken.

pete: i can't imagine. >> [inaudible] every day. >> our son was a husband, a father, i mean, request just the greatest -- and just the greatest. he's more to us than homicide number 61. he deserves better. pennsylvanians deserve better to expect from district attorneys and people across the country that have these, these dangerous personal philosophies about the laws that they swore to uphold. they need to rethink that that and if think about the victims and their families. pete: the best of the best when i hear you describe him, it's exactly the kind of man you would want in your neighborhood with your kids and protecting you. and exactly the kind of man that our law enforcement, our d.a. a. a sow the backs of every single minute and every single moment. instead, they've turned their backses on him. what a phenomenal family. i know your entire family's a

family of service. you've served your communities and our country, i thank you for that. i salute you for your courage for keeping this alive. keep us posted on this program. we want to continue to highlight his legacy. he's an amazing man, pate trot and public servant. god bless his memory. i hope you take it all the way to the mat and this guy gets life or death, whatever consequence ultimately comes. he deserves it. god bless you all a. >> thank you. we certainly will. pete: sergeant christopher fitzgerald was just 31 years old, and may he rest in peace. my dad believed in hard work, and the farm was the perfect place to learn grit, determination and problem solving. we're taking that passion and channeling it through our farm to home bedding bath, and apparel at red land cotton. we grow cotton in the rich red earth of north alabama. and we want our products to be made here in the usa, from the seed in the ground to the final stitch. go to red land cotton dot can peek on in regards to my % of

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is mark dubowitz. mark, great to see you this morning. you know, whether or not iran wants to claim knowledge or involvement in those drone attacks, it seems to be the realist perspective they were at least in some way connected to those attacks, and now america has answered back. but again, by proxy. doesn't seem to have any real damage to anything deeply connected to iran. so what are we doing here? some have said it's just a big fireworks show. >> yeah. i mean,ing i think that it's a fireworks show, and i think the biden administration is playing right into iranian hands. the supreme leader has a proxy strategy, so he's been launching proxies against the united states and our allies for decades decades. he's killed and maimed thousands of americans, and yet we seem to play this kind of fit for at the game where we hit the proxies, but we're not prepared to hit directly iranian assets. and if you don't go after the irgy -- irgc and make the regime

pay a severe price, they'll keep killing americans. pete: mark, what is their goal in all of this? i think will asked the right question earlier. would they deem the october 7th attacks a success in pursuit of that goal? what is their goal? >> yeah. they have three main goals. one is the drive the united states out of the middle east, the second goal is to destroy the state of israel, and the third is to spread the islamic e revolution through the middle east to begin with and then globally. and certainly, the october 7th attacks in their mind initially certainly began to accomplish that goal, that second goal of destroying israel. the israelis have fought back and hit back hard. , and again, the israelis aren't like the biden administration, right? they don't telegraph their punch, they don't give time for the islamic revolutionary guard commanders to get out of dodge. they hit them, they kill them and then they go quiet. unlike the biden administration which spent the past week really telegraphing its pinches, leaking -- punches, leaking to the media and allowing all these

commanders, these terrorists to get out of.com as i said is. so -- out of dodge argument, as i said is. unless we hit them hard, many americans, unfortunately, are going to pay the price. rachel: you know, mark, iran is able to finance proxy terrorist groups because they're not enforcing the sanctions. there's other things that they're doing that if you were trying to contain iran, you wouldn't do that the biden administration isn't doing or reversing policies in place before; namely are, the nuclear deal with iran that obama was so obsessed with. when you look at what the biden administration, what the policies are towards iran, does it tell you that perhaps -- i mean, a lot of people suspect that barack obama, valerie jarrett are still running the foreign policy especially with regards to iran. from, you know, a mansion in d.c. what does this tell you about the influence that barack obama still has on american foreign policy? >> well, it is certainly tell

tells me that joe biden is following the obama iran policy, you know, a policy that has failed miserably. since joe biden came into office, iranian oil sales have spiked. the iranians have now, you know, five times the access they had to foreign exchanges. they've got $20 billion, under trump they only had $4 billion. and it's crazy. i mean, joe biden is essentially not enforcing oil sanctions. he's provided $16 billion to the iranians for access to fund their economy. in fact, you know, it's really interesting, but actually the iranian economy has grown faster under joe biden than the american economy in the past three years. so why are we funding our enemies to kill americans? it's beyond me. it does suggest that barack obama and others have significant influence over joe biden's iran policy. will: hey, mark really quickly, last thing before we go, you've said it several times, you've got to hit iran hard. is there some needle to thread that you could describe for me?

if what is that? hit them hard, where? in iran? hit what in iran? what would back them off without provoking them to a war we want to avoid? >> do what the israelis do. they've been targeting the isis lammic revolutionary if guard commanders all over the middle east. these command pers are outside of iran. so instead of telegraphing your punches, hit the irgc. those are the stormtroopers of the regime. make them pay a severe price. the israelis have killed 17 irgc commanders since december 25th. that's a message to the iranians that if you're going to take isis reilly arrives, you're going to -- israeli lives, you're going to take a disproportionate price. will: i appreciate that. mark dubowitz, thank you so much. let's turn now to rick like huth for our -- rick reichmuth for our weather forecast. rick: take a look at the weather maps, we have some really nice temps for a lot of the country being that it's the february 3rd. here you go, right now you're 43

in kansas city, 32 in chicago. get ready, chicago, you're going to have sunshine. we've had so many cloudy guys -- days, we're going to see some blue skies after a couple of weeks. next three days remaining very warm. all right, this month we're looking to see much more active weather with at pattern across much of the south. take a look at that very likely above average precipitation across parts of california are. we'll take a look at what is about to happen. i was saying earlier about an atmospheric river, also pete, i know you're interested in this, called a pineapple express in this case. see honolulu? that is moisture coming from areas of the deep pacific. warmer waters. that warmer water getting pulled up in across parts of the southwest, and that is bringing major rain. it is going to start today, go for about the next 4-5 days. many areas around the l.a. basis sin, 5-8 inches of rain and higher up in the higher elevations. we're talking about a major flood event across a sr. populated area of the country for the start of this week.

rachel, send it to you inside. rachel: thanks, rick. san diego county is one of the worst human trafficking hot spots in the country. more than 8,000 people are trafficked there every year, and many of the victims are brought to the u.s. through the southern border christina coleman has a the details. crest teen that? >> reporter: hi, rachel. i want to warn our audience, some of the detail it is are graphic. street gangs are contributing to the onslaught of human trafficking in this border state. during this in a high prostitution area, san diego police and other law enforcement agencies worked together to rescue 8 teenagers ranging in age from 13 to 17 years old. the district attorney says most of the victims involved in sex trafficking in san diego county are local, but about 20% of them are brought from across the southern border. >> cartels definitely have an influence on sex trafficking. finish but we're finding that it's more our street gangs which

work for the cartels. >> reporter: sex trafficking survivorkey land washington now works to draw awareness to the pref prevalence of this dehumanizing crime. she says he was a 14-year-old high school freshman in sand yea e go when she was kidnapped, beaten, sold in more than a dozen states. she says she was raped repeatedly and that her trafficker would torture her when she tried to escape. >> he would force me to sit in an ice bath for extended amount of times. he would have me carry heavy objects, and i'd have to stand in the corner e for hours, and anytime i'd want to sit down, he he would beat me with a belt or just punch me. i remember him for the first time physically beating me and as he's kicking me hitting me telling me that i can't leave and that if i tried to leave not only would he kill me, but he'd kill my mother too. >> reporter: during a single week-long operation, rescue victims, law enforcement agencies throughout the california made a total of 539

arrests. rachel? rachel: thank you so much, christina. well, let's bring in our next guest with. it's san diego county supervisor jim desmond. jim, it's great to have you. it's such a terrible topic. it's just heartbreaking, what is happening. we know that since joe biden's policies have come into place, over 855,000 churn -- 85,000 churn have been lost in our system, many of them falling into sex slavery and sec trafficking essentially are. has the biden administration reached out to you where we know a lot of this is happening through san diego? if have hay reached out to you? have they shown any curiosity as to how their policies are driving going girls and some boys into with sex slavery? if. >> not. they have not reached out to us at all. and it's very, you know or, terrifying. this is going on here in san diego county, we're like in the top 13 places in the country for

sex trafficking and human trafficking, and it's primarily because of the proximity to the border. i mean, if we didn't have is open, porous borders and the cartels weren't controlling our gangs here on this side of the border, i think we'd be in a lot better shape. so the only reaching out we've been doing is saying, hey, would you please close our borders or would you please give us the money to manage the number of people that are being dropped off here in san diego county. we've had over 83,000 migrants dropped off in san diego county over the last 4 months. it's, like, 20,000 a month. and a lot of these people are being sex trafficked, being brought across the border. this is their payment to the cartels for being brought across the border. rachel: right. >> and so this has not been, they have not reached out to us, and it's a tragedy. and we do not want this moniker for our, you know, a tourist area here in southern california. lei. rachel: no, we just don't want to have any complicity as a nation in this scourge. i mean, it's just unbelievable.

you know, the government as well as the ngos who, by the way, are getting very rich off of this entire policy, very rich, that's manager we need to talk more about, but they know that many of these girls are, as, you know, young as 10, 11, 12, 13 years old are being loaded up with birth with control pills prior to making this journey because they know they're going to get raped, and once they get here many of them, again, as you said, as a payment their families are letting them fall into this or they're being kidnapped along the way and given to these gangs who are being controlled by the cartels. what kind of responsibility, what can be done to hold not just our federal government and joe biden accountable for what is happening to these children, but also these ngos who are encountering these kids? i've been, by the way, jim, to some of these child facilities, detention facilities. they treat -- it's like a prison. no media, no -- not even congressmen are allowed to go in and see what what's going on.

it just seems like they know what's happening, and if they're hiding it. and it just seems so evil and so unbelievable. >> well, and this is, you know, just like fentanyl, this is the another thing that's coming across our open borders. you know, why are we conning to allow this -- continuing to allow this? biden administration just seems to turn a blind ear to this, and it's just really affecting, you know, not just san diego county anymore, the border communities, but also new york, chicago and oh areas. we've really got to get a handle on this. and you can't blame people for coming across. we've got -- we give them free health care, free education. and in san diego county, we even pay if an immigrant is being deported, we pay for their legal piece. my democratic colleagues voted that in. even if they just beat up a cop or they just murdered somebody or they have somebody in human trafficking, we are paying their legal fees if they're being deported. it's just crazy, what's going on. i really think, you know, it all comes down to our border

policies. let's stop the human trafficking, the sex trafficking, the fentanyl, all of these things can be managed if we just get ahold of and close our border and open it up to legal migrants coming in instead of just letting everybody through. rachel: yeah. i mean, where are the religious organizations? if many of them, many of the churches are part of these ng if os. they're making money knowing that this is happening, and where the heck are the women's movement? it's just obvious right now, they're absent, they don't care. they care about aa abortion rights but not about little girls that are being trafficked and little boys across the border and our government is totally complicit in this. jim, i can't thank you enough for coming on. this is a tom thetic we don't talk enough about. i know it's hard in the morning to hear this for our viewers, but it's important. thank you, jim. >> thanks, rachel. rachel: got it. still ahead, mark cuban's dei push getting shot down by the equal employment commissioner himself. that commissioner will join us next.

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will: billionaire business e investor mark cuban facing backlash over claims on diversity, equity and inclusion hiring saying in a viral x post, i've never hired anyone based

exclusively on race, gender, religion, only the person that will put my business in the best place to succeed and, yes, race and gender can be part of the equation. joining us now, commissioner of the u.s. equal opportunity employment commission, andrea lucas. andrea, thanks for being with us. it was you that responded to mark i cue banger correct? you, on, and, responded to mark cuban and notified him, in's e essence, hey, what you're with describing is a violation of the eeoc. >> that's right. i'm glad i had the opportunity to clear up some really basic with misunderstandings about employment law that i see so many corporate leaders and our cultural elites constantly misunderstand. and those two key points are, one, that race and sex can't be part of the equation. if race or sex is any part of your decision, if it motivates it at all a, you violate the haw. people seem to think as long as it's just a tipple point or soft

factor, that's okay. it's not the law. second, there's a widespread belief that there's some form of good race discrimination as long as a it benefits surgeon protected racial groups or particular minority groups or if it is designed for general interest of diversity or equity. that's also not the law. there's no good race discrimination. diversity discrimination is still unlawful. will: that's wonderful to hear, but here's the problem. not only do people think that, we all live in the real world. we know that those -- mark cuban, honestly, is being guilty of being honest. he is doing or saying what we know that so many corporations are doing. so if that's a violation of the eeoc, how are they getting away with it? >> well, or he's not the only one who's being honest about what he's doing. i do see widespread admissions in many diversity, equity and inclusion reports that numerous companies post broadly for their investors and for the general public to see that contain

indications that they're taking race-preferential decisions or sex-preferential decisions. but, you know, a lot of this is a matter of incentives. if people aren't suing about it or filing a complaint or speaking up, it's difficult to change things. will: this is worthy of a much deeper conversation. to think that these are actually violations going on in plain daylight, not under the surface, but in plain daylight, and yet somehow not only getting away with it, but it's being encouraged is worthy of a much deeper or dive. i hope we can talk in the future, ann a drink ya. thanks so much. >> thanks for having me. will: more fox on friend in a moment.

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