everything points to that. >> todd: so now we have a situation where you are stuck there. has the state department been any help? >> no. they are aware of the situation. they pretty much keep telling my friends and friends that are emailing them. we are keeping tabs on it. but that's not what we need. our lives are at stake here. like the amount of years in prison that these charges can give us, it can be -- this can ruin our lives. we need everybody's help. we need our politicians' help. we need our country's help. >> carley: right. well, the good news is that the u.s. government does have good relations with the uae. so hopefully this attention can k. get you the help that you need. you are facing significant years in prison. >> todd: still unclear why you are facing these charges. >> carley: this was a set up. we wish you both the best of luck. "fox & friends" starts right now.

♪ ♪ >> brian: 6:00 a.m. on the east coast, it is friday, july 26th. this is "fox & friends." jumping on the bandwagon the obamas coming out for kamala harris michelle and i couldn't be proud tore endorse you to get you in this election and into the oval office. >> ainsley: and from the folks that brought you cheap fakes. voters are now expected to believe that kamala harris was never really responsible for securing our border. her record that the mainstream media is not covering. >> steve: but we will. and the news might be a whirlwind but you can always count on us for a little music on your summer fridays. and today country artist cameron marlow is going to take the stage. he has already done a sound check and he sounds great. >> lawrence: "fox & friends" starts right now and, remember, mornings are better with

friends. former president barack obama was on the phone with kamala harris giving her the news they have just officially endorsed her for president. >> ainsley: announcement came in a video released this morning. >> brian: madeleine rivera with the details. >> president obama will probably be a likely surrogate for kamala harris like he was for president biden. here is the campaign video of obama's endorsement. >> i can't have this phone call without saying to my girl kamala, i am proud of you. this is going to be historic. >> we called to say, michelle and i couldn't be prouder to endorse you and do everything we can to get through this election and into the ole office. >> oh my goodness. michelle, barack, this means so much to me. i'm looking forward to doing this with the two of you.

>> harris team narrowed down the list of running mates. one of those potential picks josh shapiro set to campaign for harris at an event in his state on monday. michigan governor gretchen whitmer expected to be with him though she says she has no interested in becoming vp. placing her bets on arizona senator mark kelly. until the democratic ticket is set. the former president hasn't agreed to any debates. the trump campaign saying general election debate details cannot be finalized until democrats formally decide on the nominee, unquote. regardless vice president kamala harris says she is ready. >> so many of you have been asking me about the debate, and i'll tell you i'm ready to debate donald trump. i have agreed to the previously agreed upon september 10th debate. he agreed to that previously. now he appears to be back pedaling but i'm ready and i think the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in

this race on a debate stage. and so i'm ready. let's go. >> trump meantime says he has his record to back him up. >> well, very easily. i have the economy on my side. we had the greatest economy in history. they have a lousy economy. the border is a big deal. i fixed it once. i got it down to a level the best ever. and then they broke it. they broke it. >> a new poll shows a head-to-head matchup a dead heat. 47% of likely voters support harris. 48% support the former president. lawrence, steve, ainsley and brian. >> steve: thank you; >> lawrence: whrst obama back on the stage it hearse the democratic party. the reason why what a competent candidate can be. you can disagree with his policy all day kevin mccarthy message to the people. talk with different groups. go out there, he was vibrant.

could complete sentences. i think contrasting president barack obama vs. kamala harris who can't string things together is not that authentic, it's just a reminder of what the democratic party was. >> ainsley: we shouldn't be surprised that the obamas are endorsing her, because when she was d.a. in san francisco. she's what the co-chair of obama's california campaign when he ran for president. she attended his launch speech in illinois. she campaigned in iowa, nevada, pennsylvania and new hampshire. then she attended his victory speech when he won the general. then she announced she was running for a.g. of california. then obama endorsed her. then he endorsed her when she ran for senate. and her brother-in-law tony west became an associate ag of doj under the obama administration. >> steve: they have been tight for a very lock time. this is the obamas filming that little one minute video that's all part of the first week of the rollout. and the rollout has been very effective of the harris

honeymoon. apparently, keep in mind. go back to 2020. remember when joe -- everybody was running for president on the democratic side. and, remember, barack obama did not endorse joe biden in the beginning. he said he didn't want to put his thumb on the scale. now that joe is out and she is in. they cut this video. and it sounds like they are going to appear together somewhere real soon on the trail and i would like for that event to be gigantic. >> brian: right. they will have the big event within the next two weeks of naming a running mate, which is going to be interesting, too. he is going to be a big help. the reason why i think he waited a while because his fingerprints were all over joe biden's ouster. he was quick to say hey, she is my woman. this is great candidate. look how vibrant and great she is. made me look too obvious. >> ainsley: i let george clooney do that. >> brian: she waited on the sideline. they never expected her to consolidate support this quickly. i think on some level nancy pelosi and company, schumer were a little stunned because they

thought this would be somewhat of an open process. as nikki haley said last night. there were smart democrats to go to a younger candidate. why this candidate? she is strong on the prompter. she understands what she is supposed to do much better than joe biden is where she is going to get in trouble is when she has to cite her policy and back them up with facts. >> lawrence: brian, to that point, the democrats rally. but i don't think they expected an endorsement to come out from joe biden immediately, and, remember, it was a two-page statement. you had the actual withdrawal from the race and then you had the tweet. >> brian: might have been part of the deal though. >> lawrence: the original report which axios did a pretty good job of reporting as well that came out on that friday, originally, and they were reporting it, had said that would be no endorsement of kamala harris. he ended up doing it. >> steve: brian, you mentioned part of a deal. i think you are right. i think when schumer and nancy

talked to joe biden, they said, listen, you got get out, because you are going to destroy the party. we are going to lose. and we are going to start showing people the private polling and you are going to look terrible and go down in history as a loser. but, if you go ahead and pull out, we will -- as a party all rally around you and call you an historic figure and a hero and we love you. and that is what they have done. in the meantime on the republican side, what the republicans know is they know for a fact that one of this administration's biggest problems is the border. and kamala harris is for the most part the co-pilot to the president of the united states. so, yesterday, the republicans sponsored essentially -- they had a vote on whether or not to condemn kamala harris and her work on the border. and it was pretty much unanimous on the republican side. but then you had six democrats join the republicans because, obviously, they're concerned about the border. but then again, they also live

in districts where donald trump won. so it's problematic for them. >> ainsley: they have also released, the democratic party released or the campaign released these talking points. >> steve: somebody did. >> carley: sheet of paper, looks like the talking points joe biden pulls out of his jacket when he is going to pressers. it says these are the talking points. when she is attacked for being the border czar for her role at the border, for trying to dig out the root causes, this is what you should say to the media. >> steve: the top one is the key. >> lawrence: just for the record we weren't supposed to getting a copy of these talking points. this was supposed to be for the legislators and the surrogates. as you can see the very top of the list they are saying that she was never the border czar. >> steve: it was invented by republicans. >> ainsley: her title was to go and figure out the root causes. everyone called her the border czar.

that's what she was assigned to do, remember, when she was assigned she didn't want to talk about it. we assumed she didn't want this job that joe biden was throwing the border on her. >> steve: as soon as those talking points came out we started to hear people say them pretty much verbatim. >> lawrence: amazing how that works. >> steve: watch this. >> but it's a totally legitimate issue. she was put in charge of the border. >> no. root migration. >> now what she is up against is folks lying about her border record. calling her a border czar. >> the biden team didn't declare her the border czar. >> republicans named her the border czar. >> do you think the border would be less of a talking point now if there was less migration to the border, say, if somebody had addressed road causes of migration sooner? >> we are going to debunk the false -- the false, uh, you know, characterization of the vice president. she was not a border czar and it's not just us, independent fact-checkers have set same thing that that did not exist. and that is not true.

>> brian: this is just another area in which they don't want you to believe your ears or your eyes. they told us joe biden was fine. they told us he was going to finish the race. we watched the debate, and it all fell apart. now they want us to say that even though the border hats collapsed it's an absolute mess along with afghanistan, the biggest fight of their administration, we have to remove it from kamala harris' portfolio by telling everyone we never said it. the problem is, you did. listen. >> i asked the vp today because she is the most qualified person to do it, to lead our efforts with mexico and the northern triangle and the countries that -- need help in stemming the movement of so many folks stemming the migration to our southern border. >> well we are going to the border. we have to deal what is happening at the border. there's no question about that. that's not a debatable point.

>> right now the right time to make your first trip to the border? >> it's not my first trip. >> as the vice president. [inaudible] response. >> so, the aspect of this visit is visit after the work we did in guatemala and mexico. >> steve: right, exactly. >> lawrence: keep in mind, so, brian, as you started to talk talk a little bit about clearly this is a big liability for her because she is tied to joe biden, so, let's just -- let's all get on the same page, she was in charge only of the root causes. but, as president, she is going to be in charge of the root causes of inflation and root causes of crime. and root causes of job loss. so if for them to say that she, you know, she was never in charge of the whole border, she was in charge of the fundamental problem on what -- >> lawrence: the white house's

position right now, and you will see this from alejandro mayorkas and all the surrogates right now is that the border is going great right now. the crossings are down. even though it's the summer and texas enforcing and re-routed to california and arizona. why wouldn't -- if it's going so well, why wouldn't you want kamala harris to take credit for it? they know it's not going to well. i don't any whole ridiculous notion that they also pushed out that donald trump is somehow afraid to debate her. she is going to be confronted all of these issues on the debate stage. >> brian: the problem was she was in charge of the border. she rejected it. she didn't want to do it. so they said i will only do do the root causes. cnn, one of their reporters, is he putting vice president kamala harris in charge of this. that was in 2021. you have ashley parker, she is the unofficial border czar. maura gillespie. so much criticism of kamala harris but she was the border

czar. ron, msnbc, kamala harris was appointed as the border czar. she after a while couldn't do the job, she said i'm only going to do the root causes unlike vice president president biden who took the assignment from barack obama and did it. >> ainsley: they said the border is secure. they never acknowledged there was a problem. the president didn't go down there, kamala went maybe once and not even to an area that was seeing the most problems, the most encounters. and then they realized lawrence is doing diners, everyone in the diner is saying my number one issue is either inflation or it's immigration. then the polls showed the number one issue was either inflation or immigration for people. then they say oh, we need to change the policy down at the border. three and a half years in. they just did that a month ago. so, they acknowledged finally there was a problem because they saw the polls. same thing they did with joe biden. he's fine. these are deep fakes. this is the right media. this is fox news. this is all of the

conservatives. they are editing these videos of him. he really is not wandering off when he is visiting other countries. he is not really falling on the stairs. those are just edited videos. then we see the debate. the curtain is pulled back, and then they decide to change the candidate. this is how they operate. >> lawrence: flat out lies, gaslight, gaslight. nothing to see here. then when the american people see it for themselves, it becomes the issue and they pivot to the next issue. >> brian: johnson read those talking points? >> lawrence: i'm so glad said it. >> brian: same thing he told you, steve. oh, she was never in charge of the border. when jeh johnson did a very good job on the border. he was engaged. he was firing people. he was going down there. he said 1,000 a day is a huge problem. now i'm looking at 3,000. then he gets this sheet because kamala harris is responsible. come on. >> steve: he was our guest a day or two before the sheet came out. i don't know who whispered in his ear. >> lawrence: before we got the

sheet. >> brian: yeah, believe me. >> ainsley: aren't you frustrated what is happening behind the scenes? this is all orchestrated. not being honest with us. >> steve: being very effective they got word out. they got the word out. >> brian: i don't think the american people are buying it. >> ainsley: they are smarter than this. >> brian: they are so much smarter than this. >> ainsley: they are sick of what is happening in washington. >> lawrence: we are learning more information. new drone footage shows that the shooter's vantage point during trump's assassination attempt. >> meanwhile a fbi claims get this, the secret service repeatedly turned down an offer from the local police to deploy a drone in the run-ups to the rally. >> ainsley: cb cotton is live in butler, pennsylvania with the latest for us, cb? >> hi, good morning, guys, fbi director christopher wray testified that gunman thomas crooks flew his drone over the rally site three times before he tried to kill former president donald trump. and you guys, after we flew our

drone over the rally site, we can see the upper hand crooks appears to have given himself, take a look at this. you can see here the position crooks took on the roof of the agr building. it likely kept him concealed by the trees. and then if we go to this other video. we know that crooks was killed by a secret service counter sniper with what a federal source described as a, quote, one in a million shot. our drone revealing why. capturing the obstructed view the sniper possibly had allowing him to only see part of the gunman. can you see right there on your screen how crooks likely hid himself behind all that foliage. again, like you mentioned, we know missouri senator josh hawley has written to dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas that he has learned from a whistleblower of an alarming allegation. hawley says the whistleblower tells him local law enforcement repeatedly offered to provide drone conch in the sky above former president trump's july 13 of the campaign rally.

but the secret service turned it down. hawley writing in part mayorkas, quote: the drones the united states secret service was offered has the capability not only to identify active shooters but also to help neutralize them. it seems the more we learn about this story, the more questions we have. back to you. >> lawrence: great job down there, cb. i mean i don't like the drip, drip, drip of this. why we keep learning little pieces of information and everyone in leadership says they don't know anything. >> brian: i love we are learning it. it's too bad the secret service is not telling us. the secret services having daily press conferences i'm sure they wouldn't say that because it makes them look terrible. other information out there thanks to cell phone video. different video we had an opportunity to get him but we didn't. >> ainsley: shooter behind the tree. the sniper couldn't see them. >> steve: sniper one on the far building couldn't see him sniper

2 did. >> lawrence: such an obstructed view right there. none of this makes any sense. only drives the conspiracy. i just wish they would just come out there and let us know what is going on. fbi director didn't provide much information as well. deferred a lot of that? >> such a shame. >> that building was supposedly outside of the security zone. that's why on capitol hill it sounds like there is going to be a task force to look into the assassination attempt but they got to hurry because this congress is going to run out. >> ainsley: the family of the firefighter who died how do you think they field the decisions that made that affected the rest of their lives. >> lawrence: that's right. >> ainsley: all right. today former president trump is set to meet with the israeli prime minister netanyahu down at mar-a-lago after anti-israel protesters burned flags in d.c. >> brian: former access mike pompeo said the 202024 election could not be clearer especially when it comes to foreign policy. when it comes to foreign policy. ♪ introducing new advil targeted relief.

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likely democratic nominee wasted no time israel over the deaths in gaza. >> to everyone who has been calling for a cease-fire and to everyone who yes or nos for peace, i see you and i hear you. what has happened in gaza over the past nine months is devastating. we cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. we cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering, and i will not be silent. >> steve: well, somebody who also is not silent is former secretary of state, fox news contributor mike pompeo, he joins us right now. mike, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. >> steve: okay. so we heard that apparently behind the scenes vice president harris essentially was saying hey, you guys have got to wrap it up in israel you got to protect more of the people in palestine. >> steve, that's crazy. it's crazy in the sense that no

nation can permit terrorists that killed 1200 people set on your border armed and capable of doing that again and making very clear every intention of doing that again. the real dangerous thing about vice president harris is her model, which suggests that there is a moral equivalence between what is happening in gaza today and what happened on october 7th inside of israel. nothing could be further from the truth. finally, this administration created the conditions for this. they footsy with the iran ons tried to get back into the nuclear deal. they unfroze $6 billion to get a few hostages back and frankly now the iranians are holding even more hostages than before they paid that $6 billion. that's the kind of appeasement and policy that leads precisely to someone like hamas thinking they can get away with this. today they are still holding americans and there has been no price paid by the iranians for what they did in israel and the present to us in the homeland as well, steve. >> steve: speaking of the homeland. just a couple dozen miles from where you are situated we are

looking at what happened outside union station on wednesday. and in addition to. you know, the scuffle. there is the flag burning. finally, the vice president came out yesterday and issued this statement. she said yesterday, union station in d.c., we saw despicable act by unpatriotic protesters and dangerous hate fueled rhetoric. i condemn any individuals associated with the brutal terrorist organization hamas. i condemn the burning of the american flag. that flag is a symbol of our highest ideals and a nation represent the promise of america. it should never be desecrated in that way. we hadn't heard anything like that from this administration to the best of my knowledge in the last couple of years. so, obviously, she is running for president. >> ha ha. patently political statement yesterday to protect her rear end for sure. steve, it's not heart felt in the sense it's not just those protesters out there doing despicable act and president

biden's national law enforcement folks not doing the things they could to protect american assets there. national park. national service asset that was defaced. but, importantly, what they have done is they have had a wink and a nod, a wink and a nod to these folks and said no, you can do this, these protests are fine. frankly if you hear vice president harris' statements, she sighed. she is sympathetic to many of the things that they say. she thinks israel is an occupying force. she thinks it was a mistake to move the capital to jerusalem. all of the things that happened in the trump administration. she is against, those protesters are against. so her statement didn't ring very true to me. i'm confident she point it out just to provide air cover for someone somewhere who may be running for senate and can't stand a vice president running for president who has a policy position deeply at odds with american interests. >> steve: you mentioned the trump administration, you were secretary of state, easy for me to say during the trump administration. we have the former president on with us yesterday. and here is what he said he is

going to talk the prime minister about today at mar-a-lago. listen to this. >> i would make sure it gets over with fast. you have to end this fast. it can't continue to go on like this. it's too long. it's too much. you got to get yours who fages back. i think they are going to have a lot of bad news with the hostages. i think some of those hostages, many of them are dead. i watched them as they took the hostages in disbelief. again, it would have never happened if i was president. >> steve: i will give you the final word, mr. secretary. >> well, we could say for sure this, steve. it didn't happen while he was president. while i was secretary of state. we didn't have putin invading ukraine. we didn't have hamas terrorizing israel. that is factually true. and we do need to make sure that we give israel all the tools. all the leash they need to wrap this up and accomplish their security interest as quickly as possible. president trump is absolutely right about that. >> steve: all right. we know you have got a very busy friday. mike, thank you very much for

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information leading to he will myo's arrest. chapo's son turned on he will myoget on a private plane to turn to mexico blaneldz for cap, lawrence? >> lawrence: interesting stuff there, thanks. democrats in the media down playing vice president kamala harris' role in the border crisis. watch legitimate issue was put in charge of the border. >> no. root migration. >> now what she is up against is folks lying about her border record, calling her a border czar. >> biden team didn't declare her the border czar. >> republicans named her the border czar. >> she was never appointed border czar. she was put in charge of diplomatic efforts. >> this, of course, completely at odds with what came out of their own mouths for years.

watch. >> i asked the vp today because she is the most qualified person to do it, to lead our efforts with mexico and the northern triangle and the countries that helped -- we're going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border. >> but we are going to the border. we have to deal with what is happening at the border. there is no question about that. that's not a debatable point. >> peter: right now the make your first trip to the border. >> this is not my first trip. i have been to the border many times. >> as the person charged with the response. >> so, the aspect of this visit is leading this visit after the work we did in guatemala and mexico restored border patrol chief chris clem joins us now.

she was not the border czar? she had no responsibility over, this chris? >> well, you know what? good morning. and she is the vice president of the united states. so she can't shirk the responsibility and accountability of this administration whether it was the president's direction, her direction, the secretary's directions you look at the numbers. the numbers tell the story when you are leading the effort, regardless of what title you have, when you are leading the effort as the vice president of the united states, you own this czar, vice president, task force leader, it doesn't matter, you can't say it's not my responsibility and did we expect anything less from the mainstream media that supports this type of agenda to try to spin things this early on? of course not. but the numbers don't lie. they tell the story of how disastrous this administration and this vice president who has been leading this has done. i mean, there is just no way around it. >> lawrence: chris, it would be typically the media's job to go through the record and see where her stances are on this and where she was at a particular time when she was senator or

when she was attorney general. let's play some of her past distances for our audience. watch. >> abolish ice. >> is that a position that you agree with? >> listen, i think there is no question that we have got critically re-examine ice and it's roll and the way that it is being administered and the work it is doing. we need to probably think about starting from scratch. >> do you support giving universal healthcare, medicare for all to people in this country illegally. >> let me just be very clear about this, i'm opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education or public health, period. >> raise your hand if you think it should be a civil offense rather than a crime to cross the border without documentation. can we keep the hands up so we can see them? [applause] >> lawrence: see her hand, chris. she also bought the fake whip gate story of the haitian

migrants saying those border patrol agents were whipping those migrants. >> you know, look, this is just really unbelievable that we have the vice president that has, you know, allowed this type of behavior to go on. and going back to what she was saying on the campaign trail what she said as senator, she is promoting all the things that we have been seeing. ice was -- i would call him our ghufns dhs. we like it rib each other. they are one of the integral parts of the immigration enforcement. anybody that says we need to defund ice lacking the integrity piece. it's so important that we keep ice together. focus this focus the enforcement efforts at the border and need to call her out on her record. it's about accountability. >> lawrence: chris, it's real simple, if you don't have ice, you don't have deportations of people that don't belong in the country. you would expect the vice president to know that chris, thanks so much for joining the

program. >> you got it. thank you. >> lawrence: you got it, brother. let's check in with our senior meteorologist janice dean for our fox weekend forecast. hey, j.d. >> janice: you got it lj. start off with texa texas, loui. the heavy rain. a couple flood warnings around the houston area. houston has been inundated with rain the last few weeks. here is the set-up. a lot of deep moisture from the tron picks, moving, in nothing named here, it doesn't take anything named to cause some problems and we could see the potential for flooding for all of these southern states up towards the southeast and including florida this weekend. wildfires, we have many of them. so from a lot of rain to not enough rain, active fires, 270 right now. over 2.6 million acres burned. and that smoke, especially across the northwest, is going to move eastward across the midwest and the northern plains over the next few days. so just keep that in mind. people with respiratory issues need to be cautious. all right, outside right now, here in new york.

it's spectacular. low humidity, lots of sunshine. it's time for barbecue with the mclemores. hi, guys. >> hey, janice, thank you so much. so filling in for john. is he on vacation for his birthday. john boy, happy birthday, this is what we're going to be cooking up for everybody this morning. this is our beef ribs, lawrence, there is a story in there for you. we are sending this inside. baby betty, what are we cooking up on the bagels. >> celebrating bagel fest. national bagel fest day. we got all of the cream cheeses that we are jazzing up and making them majestic and adding in lots of topics and stuff. >> if you want to make majestic come out here with the mclemores. lawrence, sending it back in to you. >> lawrence: thank you, appreciate you all. >> thank you. >> lawrence: navy seals score major league win over the military's covid vaccine mandate. next guest part of the court

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>> brian: thousands of navy seals and service members impacted by the covid-19 mandate

scoring a major win this week in court following a year's long legal battle. those who were forced out over the mandate will now have their career records corrected and religious accommodations respected. our next guest is part of that lawsuit. he did not take the vaccine, instead, opting to retire after facing hostility from leadership. here now is retired navy seal warrant officer drew and senior counselor at the first liberty institute danielle runion. for you, dru, how does it feel to be vi vindicated. >> it feels fantastic. this all started for me when 9/11 happened. i was taking a break from college. i walked into ha recruiter's office a week later and told them i wanted to serve my country. i wanted to get as close to the fight as i possibly okay and i wanted to see what i could do to get into the seal teams. i started training, got into boot camp several months later. went into the seal teams, and at the 19-year mark after serving my entire career in san diego took an assignment in hawaii. six months later i'm faced with

this vaccine mandate which i knew was completely unlawful, completely unconstitutional and i had to risk it all at the 19 and a half year mark. thanks to first liberty. we got vindicated. i was able to retire at the 22 year mark with an honorable discharge. >> it's not right. he wanted to go gave so much. you were harassed while in there they were trying to intimidate you to do it, correct? >> correct. there was a lot of coercion and manipulative measures. there was threatening of like dishonorable discharges. they wanted to pull our tridents meaning we are not seals anymore. not allowed in. this all came senior seal officer. that was the most betraying kind of a thing that i could ever go through because i expected this from big n not from our own brotherhood. >> so, danielle, what does it feel like to not only help drew but thousands of others? >> this is a phenomenal win.

consistent with the mission we set out to accomplish at the beginning of this race. we were able to protect the careers of 4300 sailors. this is a tremendous win not only for them, but also for all service members. this sends a message to the department of defense and to military leaders that we need to get back to the bills of being a military. and that we need to stop this ridiculous and unlawful purge of religious service members. people who volunteer, raise their hand. show up every day to put on the uniform and defend and protect the constitution of the united states and our freedoms. >> brian: as good as this feels, a lot of men and women wanted to continue in their careers and were drummed out. now they changed the way they left, obviously. with honors. but it's not going to change the trajectory of their careers, right? >> it's not -- well, it will change the trajectory of their careers in the sense that now they can have their promotions protected and adverse information removed from their files. from those discharged they will have their dt 14s. to show there is no misconduct

that they ever engaged in misconduct for refusing the vaccine. it does provide meaningful protection. out of the dozens of cases that were filed. we're the only ones that got the substantive relief and really a tremendous victory. >> brian: are you going to go civilly to try to reclaim the salary you would have gotten. >> you know, i'm excited about this mission accomplished right here. you know, as seals, we don't win wars. we're accomplish missions. we accomplished the mission of letting guys stay in and finish out their time in the navy and leave on their own terms. >> brian: right. >> i think there is a lot to be done to hold those military officers accountable. i'm happy to join on the next lawsuit to go after those. >> brian: absolutely. by the way. do you get your pension even though you are short of 20 years? >> no, i retired at 22 years thanks to first liberty and this injunction i got 22 years in so i'm good. >> brian: all right, drew, danielle, congratulations. you deserve it. never should have been put through it. fox news reached out to the navy

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