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going to go very far. these monsters took that opportunity from her. >> lawrence: unbelievable. plus after being held for months in turks and caicos. american tourist finally reunited with his family in oklahoma. he and his wife share their story with us this hour. >> steve: take a look at this. a minnesota saddam at its breaking point. residents downstream on high alert as floods cause major damage, we have got a live report coming up. because the second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ >> lawrence: so that second illegal immigrant accused of abducting and strangling the 12-year-old jocelyn nungaray will appear in a texas court this morning after the judge set a $10 million bond for the first
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suspect. >> ainsley: how do you have the strength. todd piro has the story for us. recommendation good morning to all three of you. jose set to appear in court 10:00 a.m. eastern time to review his bond status. his suspected accomplice ramos appearing in court. the judge setting his bond $10 million after ruling him a flight risk. the two are facing capital murder charges for the death of 12-year-old jocelyn nungaray. the d.a. says the death penalty is not off the table. watch. >> at this time, the current charge does not carry death penalty eligibility. however, it is important for the public and the press to know that the investigation is ongoing. our immigration system is broken. and if there was ever a case that reflected that, it's this one. >> todd: now, prosecutors could seek the death penalty in the medical examiner determines that nungaray was sexually assaulted.
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her body was found by bystander on the shallow creek june 17th after police say she snuck out of her nearby home the night before. the medical examiner says she was strangled to death. her mom calling out the two illegal migrants accused of taking away her precious child. >> she had such bright future ahead of her. and i knew she was going to go very far. and you know, these monsters took that opportunity from her, from our family of watching her. >> todd: mean time mother of rachel morin who police say was also murdered by illegal migrant calling out biden's border policy quote it's like they are pretending immigration problems don't exist and people aren't being harmed and killed by their policies. jocelyn nungaray's funeral will be held this thursday in north houston. back over to you. >> steve: thanks, todd.
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>> lawrence: just waiting for rape kit to come back. according to the d.a. she was either assaulted or tortured for two hours before they decided to be done. >> steve: right. >> lawrence: they will get the death penalty if that rape kit comes back what we think happened. can't do that stuff in texas and think you are going to get away with it. you shouldn't be doing it anywhere. we don't have weak prosecutors. something has to be done. >> steve: ultimately, as you look at heart breaking images of her. thinking about what happened to her under that bridge. the guy who was arraigned yesterday, because he is an astronomical flight risk, they set the bail at 10 billion bucks, that's double what the prosecutors were asking for and it's 10 times the amount that the defender had asked for. and during the -- you know what we heard in court yesterday, it was revealed that one of the people did have that ankle
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bracelet apparently on when the assault happened and took it off a couple of days after her body was found. >> ainsley: right. >> steve: that same guy apparently he went to his boss at a construction company and said "hey, i got leave town for a while. can i get extra money?" he wanted to skip down it sounds like. >> ainsley: other suspect had ankle monitor when he came. one came over in march the other came over less than a month ago. and that guy had his ankle monitor removed because they found out he did not have a past criminal record. does that mean the other guy did have a past criminal snrord. >> steve: sounds like it. >> ainsley: what's the point of these ankle monitors. >> lawrence: that's what i was getting ready to say. if these other countries telling us these people have criminal pasts, then why would we ever let them. in the countries have toll it us if they have criminal records. >> lawrence: such a good point. and as it relates to the ankle monitors, done a ton of stories for "fox & friends" on these ankle monitors.
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they don't work. they don't work here. >> ainsley: one guy cut them off. >> they cut them off. there is a private company that manages these ankle monitors, so then they have to alert the police. and then most of the time it's two weeks. we have had people that threaten to kill people. the judge orders ankle monitor and they still kill the person. >> ainsley: guy under the bridge with the girl with an ankle monitor. >> >> lawrence: exactly right. >> steve: got to figure donald trump is going to bring some of that up on thursday night. that is one of the terrible side effects of the open border policy that this administration. >> ainsley: so hard to report on these stories because it's just pure evil if anyone can -- we have the 13-year-old girl that was raped in the park in queens. this 12-year-old girl, no telling what happened to her underneath that bridge. no telling the fear that she felt, the last moments of her life. we interviewed chris cabrera. he is the vice president of the national border patrol council. we asked him why aren't we
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vetting these people? with why are we letting them into and have lists of whether or not they have criminal pasts. >> it's heart breaking from young jocelyn from laken riley and ruby gathers, it's becoming all too common. we are letting people come into the country unchecked. unvetted or poorly vetted at best. what did they expect was going to happen? you know, we're becoming lawless and we're doing it on purpose. and i don't understand what this administration is thinking by opening the border wide open and letting people nun checked. we're treating criminals with, you know, giving them big boy rules and telling them they better tell the truth. obviously they are not telling us the truth. and we are releasing people. the parole system is being abused. it's being misused by the government. it's not designed to let people in pending asylum. >> lawrence: so glad we had the national border patrol on. biden's crisis at the border is two pronged.
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of course he tries to undo and did undo most of donald trump's policies at the border. he also has not been a friend to border patrol. we know remember the whipping gate. i hope that comes up in the debate by the way. why did you lie on those agents that were just doing their job trying to secure the border? and you guys made up a whole story that they were whipping the migrants when they were actually going after someone that had stolen one of the other migrant's purse. the border issue is two-pronged. the border agents aren't able to do their job. they are doing a lot of processing stuff. i know the administration is saying the numbers are down in texas. that's because texas is doing it by themselves. it's not because joe biden has changed his policy at the border. and now we have innocent americans that are dying as a result of it. >> steve: their families are collateral damage to this policy. and extraordinarily, the "new york times" has got this item talking a little bit about the debate prep with joe biden at that theater up in camp david and also an airplane hanger.
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and apparently joe is going to go on the offensive, regarding immigration and what he is going to say is hey, look what i did to allow the spouses of people who are in this country illegally, to have a foosball citizenship. >> lawrence: what a tone deaf message. >> ainsley: i hope donald trump says what a stupid policy you have down on the border when you allow people to come in and you put an ankle monitor on them. and then we checked to see if they have a criminal history. then we will go and try to find them in the u.s. and arrest them. that's the dumbest policy. >> lawrence: joe, have you talked to the families? that should be asked to him by the former president. have you called any of these families and apologized to them? issue condolences because of your failed border policy. we got another fox news alert for you. wikileaks founder julian assange is leaving the u.k. after accepting a plea deal agreement with u.s. authorities.
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>> ainsley: he is heading to a u.s. federal court in the northern mariana islands where he will plead guilty to espionage charges. >> steve: david spunt joins us live from washington at the white house. david, we didn't see this coming. >> no. we really didn't. this ends a nearly 15-year legal saga with julian assange of wikileaks. as ainsley mentioned. he is heading right now to see you upon, the northern mariana islands which is a u.s. territory in about 12 hours, guys. he will enter or i should say expected to enter that go ahead plea. according to court documents released late last night assange will plead guilty to a charge conspiring to unlawfully obtain disseminate classified information to the national defense of the united states. which is part of the espionage act. he was behind the wikileaks release of thousands of documents from u.s. chelsea manning in 2010. note that as part of the deal the united states government is allowing him to plead in sigh upon, northern mariana islands u.s. territory he will be in a u.s. federal courtroom.
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technically he will set foot on u.s. soil not the continental. it is the closest federal courtroom to his home country of australia. now, once is he done pleading guilty legal issues began about 14 years ago. head back to home country of australia where his wife says he will be a free man, listen. >> it will be the first time that i -- that i get to see him as a fully free man and i was just when i was speaking to him we can go for a walk and there will be no restrictions, no curfew, no, you know, all this is so alien to the way we've it's been until now for the past 14 years. >> and to be precise with my language, he is expected to plead guilty and a judge still
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has to sign off on this. we saw what happened last year with hunter biden in delaware. federal judges can always at the last minute throw a wrench in and ask questions. that is the deal as of now. the expected plea deal, they don't expect to be any hiccups, but you have to add that caveat in there as well. this will happen in about 12 hours from now, guys. >> lawrence: pretty cushy deal. we will see what happens. thanks, david. >> david: thanks. >> steve: keep in mind, it was wikileaks, which famously in 2016 published the email that russian government hackers -- remember when they haxd into the dnc servers and got all that embarrassing stuff and then spilled it out. and, obviously, that was leaked by the russians, the federal government feels, to disrupt the 2016 election. >> ainsley: so what is the motivation here? why would joe biden give him this cushy deal? >> lawrence: there is a lot of young people on the side of julian assange, especially the
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civil libertarians. and so i think this is a olive branch to them to say hey, i'm still that progressive. let's let it all be forgiven. >> steve: let's see what that judge does. you know, you did a lot of damage, and i don't think time served is enough. but apparently they got the deal. it's on paper. >> lawrence: hunter had the deal too until he didn't. we will see. >> steve: he wanted more. >> ainsley: carley has more headlines for us. >> carley: i do. evan gershkovich's trial will begin in russia tomorrow. the kremlin accusing gershkovich of poje. he has spent around 50 months n russian prison. could face 20 months if convicted. the state department says gershkovich is being wrongfully detained. two 19-year-olds were arrested in california accused of posing as ice agents and robbing hispanic victims.
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police say victims were told to hand over cash to the suspects after they presented badges. they allegedly robbed several people and used different vehicles during the robberies. the two are facing robbery and other charges and are in custody without bail. new york city police are searching for a suspect who allegedly assaulted a woman in central park yesterday. >> around 1:30 she is sunbathing on a nice day in central park. a male, she sees a male coming towards her exposing himself. she gets up screams run, he tackled her and she fights him. >> carley: after the woman fought off her attacker, she was taken to a nearby hospital. according to the nypd, a heavy police presence will remain at the park as they search for the suspect. demonstrators in new york city swarming manhattan d.a.'s alvin bragg's office yesterday after he dismissed charges against 31 anti-israel protesters who took over a building at columbia university in april.
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a harvard university graduate and jewish american student tells us earlier democrats will lose votes because of this. >> i have been a lifelong democrat but as i said i think the party has abandoned me and i want joe biden to understand that whoever is advising him, wherever is he getting his policies from, it's not working. it's disastrous. and november will be very difficult for me and many, many constituents who are jewish as well. >> carley: calling on the justice department to prosecute if bragg refuses. to say those are your headlines, guys. >> >> steve: all right, carley, thank you very much. >> carley: you are very welcome. turns out in the mountains where camp david, it essentially is debate camp, day five. >> lawrence: it's a war room, too. >> steve: it sounds like it. according to the "new york times." what they have done is taken movie theater and airport hanger
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and outfitted it with lights, camera, lectern. >> ainsley: production equipment. >> steve: to make it look exactly like the cnn debate is going to look. here's the thing. they have got people, bob bauer who is biden's long-time attorney, is playing donald trump. and he is trying to throw everything at him that donald trump might say on thursday. because, let's face it. he is rusty. he hasn't debated anybody in public for four years. and david axelrod said yesterday, keep in mind, barack obama in 2012 when he was running for re-election. his first debate was terrible. he flailed. and so yesterday, david axelrod said the rust factor is real. neither of these guys are accustomed a few feet away grilling them. >> ainsley: he was talking about how donald trump didn't participate in in the. is he out there doing all these rallies. they are trying to throw him off. reading all these articles and watching all this video of
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everything that donald trump has said over the years because they want to try to trigger donald trump and get under his skin. >> lawrence: so, the bar is already set low for the current president. i found this quote to just be astonishing. this is from the former vice president dan quayle, he said if i were advising biden i will try to make fun of trump. try to ridicule him that would get him mad. and i just find it, i don't know, is there some irony there of joe biden who has been stumbling all over the place. trying to poke fun at donald trump. i just don't think that's the right strategy. maybe he needs to just stand and be present and complete sentences without the gaffes. >> steve: that would make it a win. i get where dan quayle is coming from. you go back to 2020 where they had that debate and donald trump was angry. and there was a lot of back and forth and it was very snappy and snippy. and, you know, that was not trump's finest hour. i think the biden people would
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love to see that again; however, donald trump and his campaign realize how challenging that was and he is not going to do that again. >> lawrence: one thing that the former president has said in comments and everything, that he is aware of the difference that although they are close to the same age, how much different he looks. and, ainsley, i think you may remember when sean was -- sean hannity was doing the impersonations of biden early on, donald trump actually called him and asked him to stop. they had an interview. yeah, i just didn't think it was a good idea at the time. so i don't think we're going to get into this match of him making fun of joe biden on the stage and all that like you may have seen in the past. i think this is a guy that's just going to talk about policy. and that's why the former president is doing more of the policy conversations and joe
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biden is talking about his mechanics. >> ainsley: there are several articles what barack obama is doing when he learned that donald trump was probably going to be the nominee back in december, i believe, he said i want to start working with the campaign more and helping out joe biden. there is one headline, new york intelligencer says what obama is whispering to biden. and this is what the article says, though his anxiety about the election is real, and the words of one obama friend, the expresident's concerns sounded like other democrats according to others who have spoken with him. those in regular touch with obama say these nerves are not a reflection of any particular angst about biden or his team but of the broader reality the country is closely divided. the media landscape is fractured and donald trump may very well win. >> lawrence: that's such dishonest statement. >> ainsley: i'm not worried about biden. >> lawrence: did you see him grab his arm. as a grown man if another man
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had grabbed my arm like that to usher me off the stage, i would have yanked my arm away. i don't care who it would have been. it's such a immass could you laghtd thing to do. >> ainsley: former president does it to the current president. >> lawrence: he didn't shake away. >> ainsley: it's not about biden it's because our country is closely divided. why do you think the country is closely divided people are fed up with these policies like what is happening on the border. >> steve: they have got barack obama and joe biden have a complicated, you know. >> lawrence: relationship. >> steve: indeed. it's a big f'ing deal joe said at one point about healthcare. i get why obama grabbed his hand at that l.a. fundraiser because just like where he is talking to friends where it's like, you know, i'm trying to help him. i'm trying to help him. if obama could do the debate on thursday night, he would, to drag joe across the finish line, but, ultimately, if he is having
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anxiety, the former president, it's because he probably has a really good idea that joe can't do it. >> lawrence: i will say this, steve. it's only him and the former president. the only people that have the ability to grab his hand are the people moderating the debate. >> steve: or the easter bunny. brian. >> lawrence: there is no easter bunny there. no audience. i just hope that the moderators allow the candidates to have the conversation and not them become a part of the debate. just ask the questions. a. >> ainsley: there is a lot of questions. >> lawrence: some of them have nasty past comments about them. hope they put the comments to the side. guess what we will be talking about. >> steve: let's hope if there is fact-checking and there probably will be some. let's hope it's accurate. i remember a cnn correspondent who did it back in the day. >> ainsley: make sure your facts are correct. >> steve: oopsy dazey.
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more on this later. meantime 7:22 here in new york city. a michigan sheriff's deputy killed after the driver of a stolen car opened fire without warning. his bid co-dough is going to speak with us ahead of his service at the top of this hour. >> ainsley: first, president biden is' student loan bailout suffering a big blow as two federal judges block the illegal handout they say. jonathan turley on the impact for biden and students and he is going to talk about his new book. >> steve: come on down, jonathan. >> lawrence: congratulations, professor. ♪
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head, in the chest, the torso area. at 22:50 the officer down call went out. >> police say three men were taken into custody for that shooting. reckling was only 30 years old. leaves behind his pregnant wife jacqueline and their three young children. jacqueline will join us later this morning to tell us his story and her story and how you can help. lawrence over to you. >> lawrence: i'm glad we are having on on, ainsley, thank you. >> ainsley: you are welcome. >> lawrence: fox news alert. a plan to pay off million in student loans has two federal judges blocked part of the plan that would have cost taxpayers $160 billion. fox news contributor and law professor jonathan turley is here to react. so, jonathan, to have two courts come out swinging against this, what does it mean? >> this is a big blow. both of these judges said that the president had just lost in front of the supreme court 6-3
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on student loans. and he said this doesn't improve it much. they decided to switch courses, essentially and they're arguing under the higher education act. this is different from when they were using the hero's act. and these courts saying it's not that different that is you are still trying to do something that i don't see any evidence that congress gave you authority to do. and this is a massive cancellation of debt for the country. and these judges said that's a major question. the fact that they used those words is important. because the supreme court has said that when you have a major question or an issue that has to be decided by an agency, and they just suddenly come up with a new answer like this one rather conveniently, they impose a higher burden on you. and so this is likely going to the supreme court. but he could follow up the early laws, and it also counter acts the sort of narrative when he says, look, if you want to protect the constitution, then i'm the guy. the president has been repeatedly found to have acted
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unconstitutionally. >> this brings me to the next topic, the court has made it very clear where they stand on this and continues to push it. now we are on day 3 of the special counsel going to judge cannon, asking for another gag order. the judge has been pretty clear about gag orders and where she stands on it. what are they doing here? >> you know, this is the problem i personally believe that jack smith has grappled with his whole career. that is he has a serious problem of restraint. and, you know, he follows oscar wild's rule that nothing succeeds like excess. he goes to the limit. he was reversed by the supreme court unanimously one case. and this is another example. is he asking to gag the leading presidential candidate in an election year from criticizing his own department. now, that is so far afield from what the purpose of a gag order is, it's so outside the navigational beacon. it's really disturbing.
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i don't blame smith. i blame attorney general garland. >> lawrence: he picked him. >> this is when you pick up the phone and say listen, jack, we don't do that we don't gag people to keep them from criticizing us. that's not the point here. lawrence and it's against the policy as well. real quickly because we have got to get to your book. do you think they are trying to get something in the record judge cannon has been clear but they keep going back to him. what is the play because she was appointed by trump? >> well, cannon has been hit with vicious attacks she has ruled for and against both sides. very fair here. is he trying to poison the well. it won't work. >> lawrence: talk about your new book "incompensable right free speech of" tell us about the book. >> the book 30 years in the making. i have written for 30 years as a
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law professor and litigated in this area. i really wanted to wait to put together a book that talked about not only the anti-free speech movement we are experiencing and how we can get out of this. there is a movement sweeping the country in higher education. law professors saying we need to rewrite the first amendment that free speech is harmful. we are raising a generation of speech phobics and returning to a debate we had at the beginning of our republic. i say in this book that joe biden may be the most anti-free speech president since john adams. and there are many similarities here. and they are disturbing. >> lawrence: you have been very clear on where you stand on this free speech debate. get the book jonathan turley's. "the indispensable right it's out now. >> thank you. >> tourist reunited with his family after being held in the turks and caicos since february. all for having spare ammunition in his luggage. he and his wife shared their story with us.
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an all-time record river crest here. you know, and forecast records to be broken as this continues down the des moines river. all of this moving downstream. so this is a story not only we're going to be covering today but through the week and into next week. there's the live radar. i want to point out that we have heavy rain in the forecast for some of these areas and severe weather weather include chicago, severe thunderstorms warnings. we could see heavy rainfall cause flooding severe thunderstorm watches in effect until 8:00 and 11:00 a.m. local time for parts of local indiana. there is the forecast today. more rain in the forecast across regions that have gotten over a foot of rainfall. and where we are seeing that incredible flooding and then the severe weather threat throughout the day today for parts of the ohio valley and the heat is another huge story, we will be following across the central u.s. steve, over to you. >> steve: so much going on. j.d., thank you. meanwhile, after months of being
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detained in the island nation of turks and caicos. over spare bullets in his carry-on. an oklahoma father of two. ryan watson made an emotional return to his family. avoiding what could have been 12 years in prison, he praises his faith as well as the u.s. lawmakers who pushed for him and several others to be released. ryan watson joins us right now from his home in luther, oklahoma, along with his wife. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having us. >> steve: ryan, why were there bullets in your bag? >> man, the million dollars question. i had taken that bag on a hunting trip last fall to texas. i don't recall ever putting the bullets in that bag, but somehow they managed in the lining in the back. i didn't realize it but that duffle bag has a lining that zips out. and they somehow managed to get underneath that lining. >> steve: you know, you didn't
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have a gun, just some bullets in the lining. i blame the united states tsa. why didn't they find it when you were going there? >> you know, it was a miss. and they have since admitted that they missed it. when they went back and reviewed that extra footage, all four bullets were in that bag. and so it's hard to know. >> steve: you know, before this happened, i'm sure you guys didn't know much about turks and caicos. it looks, the familiar threats it looks great. you had no idea they had this rule on the books. and israeli, when he is stopped at the airport and they go hey, you got bullets in your bag. he is going what are you talking about? how helpless did you feel? >> at that moment we felt pretty helpless, honestly. there was nothing we could do. they had what they had. and we were just kind of at the mercy of the airport security at that moment. and then they let us know that it wasn't actually even within their jurisdiction. they had to involve the police.
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so they were just waiting to see what the police had to say. so it was kind of a moment of helplessness in the very beginning. >> steve: ryan, you have seen news stories from other people around the world, particularly like the "wall street journal" reporter, who is being held by russia. in the back of your head, you must have thought, you know what? i wonder if they are going to try to keep me forever? >> i was, you know, look, none of it made sense, and whenever the police officers tried tell both of us that we were both going to prison for the next 12 years and there were no questions to be asked, it got real concerning real quick. >> steve: i can understand. valerie, ultimately pressure on the part of bipartisan group of lawmakers actually got them to change their rule, how did you get these lawmakers involved? >> honestly, you know, where i teach, my principal made a phone
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call, senator mullins. he has got family at our school. and she instantly made that phone call, that connection was made right off the bat. governor stith, senator lankford they worked around the dlook very first weekend. they didn't stop until we -- well until ryan back in oklahoma. so they worked really hard for us. >> and, you know, senator mullin the congressional delegation and it was really effective. i think it put a lot of pressure on t c.i. to kind of rethink. so ways they were handling things down there on the island. >> steve: it all worked out. ryan, i see the way you got your arm around your wife. >> not taking off. >> steve: i don't blame you. valerie, when he got home what was the first thing you had him do on the honey do list. i have been gone for months i have got have you kill a big bug in the addict or something.
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>> i yard does need to be mowed. that's probably going to happen first. we have been trying to just kind of hang out this weekend. we had movie night with the kids. we just have been kind of being a family. so, although honey dos will surely come very soon. >> steve: i bet. and, ryan, when are you and valerie going back to turks and caicos? >> there's a lot of blue water around the world. i don't know if that's where we will be going next. >> steve: ryan, what is the moral of this story? >> i will tell you what i took away from it. you know, i had this idea if i were ever in trouble abroad that i would run as fast as i could to the embassy and they would come to my aid. i have since learned that's not the case. they did nothing. you know, and not did they not do anything, they were caught in many lies, whenever the codel showed up.
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it really revealed to me that there are probably many other families that are affected abroad, that are not receiving any aid or care from the state department as we speak. >> steve: you were on your own. but you knew she was with you. >> yeah. >> and our faith, our faith is so strong. i don't know if we would have made it through any other way. i mean, the lord definitely carried us through. and we saw him working and every single aspect from the very beginning of this entire thing. >> absolutely. >> steve: ryan and valerie, thank you very much for joining us. ryan, i know she has a busy day for you after you mow the yard, you probably have to trim the hedges and stuff like that. so, welcome home! we so glad you are back. >> thank you. >> thank you for having us, too. >> steve: good luck to both of you. all right. by the way, we preached -- you heard him. he just said he was raced to the embassy but he was on his own. we did reach out to the u.s.
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don't mess with your melon. if you hit it, get it checked. ♪ >> ainsley: tech this out your instagram and facebook post could be training ai tools. european regulators causing meta to pause its plan. here at home the tech giant has been tapping into posts since september. so is it possible for you to opt out. here with more the cyberguy kurt knutsson. good morning.
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how dangerous is this? is this a big deal that they can tap into this and can we opt out? >> ainsley, good morning to you. well, let me just ask you the simple question. when were you asked whether or not they could use all your personal data on either instagram or facebook to train ai? do you remember that day? no. >> ainsley: probably when we signed into all that mumbo jumbo and it takes you forever to get through it and you just agree to it. >> kurt: exactly. in the fine print none of us looked at. if you knew what they were doing it would turn your stomach this morning. i don't mean to get you upset this morning. it got me riled up on this one as we remember again how meta, the parent company really makes their money by taking from us. they just take, take, take. i have got some news from you. if you are lucky enough to live in europe, which none of us do. well, you are all good. they have great regulation there but in the good old u.s.a. meta is not stopping from using to their benefit all the little aspects of your life that get posted. so if you want to stop being an
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ai training guinea pig on facebook or instagram. i have got the solution for you. if you miss all these instructions. i got it online later. so, if you got a facebook app. make your account private, not public. and that's going to give you the most protection. can you go menu settings and private settings. tap post within audience of visibility section. and then change to friends or only me and never have it on public. and that will help with you that very similar instructions for instagram that i will have online as well. just one of those things where you go wait a minute, they are using me for what now? and they are. so, when you make your profile private or just for your friends, they will not use it for ai training according to the company. >> ainsley: cyberguy.com if you want information on that. go the to next story, grandmother, terrifying information. she driving tesla. battery dies and grandchild stuck inside and she can't unlock the door.
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listen. >> the phone app. didn't work. my car key didn't work. here is my grand daughter i just is put her in a hot car it is arizona. 9:30 in the morning already over 90 degrees in the outside. how about you sell me a car that does what you say it's going to do. and that's really all i'm asking is that i don't want this to happen to somebody else. you know, it only takes minutes and it could have been a very different ending. >> ainsley: kurt, this is so scary what if do you if you have an electric vehicle. >> this is really horrific. it's not the first time this has happened. if you are on the outside of this electric tesla, well, you are going to have to call for help. but, if you are on the inside of the car where a lot of people get stuck, the battery may die, and the automatic little button that normally opens the doors won't work. so what a lot of tesla owners don't understand is that on each door of the front seat on the driver's side and the passenger
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