remember tomorrow a big interview, the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell will talk about the legislation on capitol hill, what is happening, what potentially will happen in the future of the republican party in his eyes. you don't want to miss that. "fox news primetime" posted by katie pavlich starts right now. >> katie: we will be watching you, thank you very much. ♪ ♪ good evening and welcome to "fox news primetime," i am katie pavlich, this might be hard to believe, but when a politician running for office makes a promise and they win it, there are plenty of people out there who expect them to follow through. >> in the first hundred days of my administration, no one, no one will be deported at all, from that point on the only deportations will take place are commissions of felons in the united states of america. >> katie: so did joe biden really want to end all deportations? we don't even know. did even write that line?

don't know that either. but he would've said anything to close the gap in the race against president trump. but the tens of thousands of migrants dreaming of a new life in the united states is not a throwaway line, it was an invitation to end their suffering. they stood up and took action walking hundreds of miles with their family on foot like this man who made the trek from honduras to the u.s.-mexico border. >> what i want for my people and i just want patients that we can get to the u.s. and giving us legal papers so that we can get a better life for our kids. >> katie: clearly campaign promises have consequences. 17,000 were detained last month, the busiest month for border patrol in more than a decade coming in the pace has not let up since. look at what is happening here tonight. >> we are waiting to see if we

will make it, we have been waiting here for 24 hours. >> we have hope to enter the united states with weber, we have been waiting for a long time. >> i feel very happy and joyful, because i've been here for more than a year. >> katie: emily took a couple of weeks before the system became totally overwhelmed, specifically by thousands unaccompanied minors. 20% last month to 6,000. detention facilities are already approaching peak capacity, they are packed, let's not forget we are still in the throes of a pandemic. in the migrants just keep coming, fueled by hope and the promises they heard from the new president of the united states. >> i would not to retain them behind bars. they show up. they show up and sometimes they have an ankle bracelet, you set a hearing. get rid of all of the cages, everybody out of prison. >> is that for children? adults and children? >> across the board.

totally across the board. >> katie: democrats, joe biden included slammed to the trump administration's response to the migrant crisis accusing trump of putting kids in cages ignoring who built them, they called the dhs facilities concentration camps and held photo shoots at the border, but what they do need to do, because it was not politically expedient was acknowledge how difficult and nuanced the situation at the border truly is. after all when you are not in power, it's easy to take shots at the guy in charge, but now that that she was on the other foot, they are beginning to realize this is not so easy. here is biden's press secretary today coming to grips with the nearly impossible task of keeping the unaccompanied minors that pour into the country each month. >> we have children that are coming into the country without their families. we can transfer them from cdp to the hhs run facilities, that's one option. or we can put them with families

and sponsors without any vetting. there were some problems that that ran into as well. we chose the middle option, and the hhs facility is, this is when you are referring to, we had to expand and open additional facilities. >> katie: so here we are, the biden administration becomes the third consecutive administration struggling to get a grip on this enormous problem. the first thing they did was make it worse by making promises they couldn't keep it to the radical left. children are suffering, you can see it with your own eyes, getting someone's hopes up knowing that you can't deliver on your promises is so much worse than telling them the truth, even if you know the truth will hurt. some people didn't like president trump's rhetoric on immigration, but you know what, he was consistent and firm and send a message that illegal immigration would not be encouraged. biden has done the opposite, faux compassion is no compassion at all.

joining me now is republican senator of south carolina lindsey graham, senator, thank you so much for being here tonight. i know that you were at the border in arizona last week we will talk about that in just a second, but first, your reaction to this crisis we have seen before now under the biden administration. >> well, the worst is yet to come. the biden administration has done everything but put a neon sign flashing come on in. i was just dumbfounded by what i found at the border. the asylum-seekers are coming again. so what happened in the old system? if you could get 1 foot, katie, in the united states and claim asylum, you will be processed in the united states and released to end your court date will be four years in the future, nobody would ever show up, ankle bracelets included. so what did trump do, he said if you come here seeking asylum we will keep you in mexico and you have to wait there till your court hearing, guess what, people will not pay $20,000 to

come from central america to sit in mexico for four years, so it shut the asylum claims off. they are about to do away with the remaining mexico policy, the word is out all over central america that the asylum laws are about to change, deportations or stopping, and they literally have stopped building the wall. there is a section near dallas, arizona on the mexican-u.s. border where they've been able to get tank columns through, the panel sitting there waiting to be put up, but they won't put it up. this is a formula for disaster and a witches brew and the biden administration is clueless when it comes to what they are doing. spin on the american people get very frustrated with this topic because it is a big complex topic that gets solidified for elections and therefore nothing ever gets done and we continue to have these conversations about the crisis, and i want to talk tonight about what we are seeing right now in places like texas with unaccompanied minors getting to the border in january last month, 5800 of them, let's

talk about how they don't just show up at the border. they are not getting dropped off by the parents, they are getting smuggled to the border. their parents are not with them, and then they are often times at least during the obama administration getting sponsors who happen to be sex offenders or exploiting them for labor purposes, so now here we are with the biden white house thing we have to keep these people and these children in these facilities, which they previously called concentration camps because we have this problem. so talk about the issue of unaccompanied minor specifically that we are seeing in that spike. >> number one, word is out in central america that the policies are changing. so during the trump administration, we would take the unaccompanied minor we would send them back to their home country. we actually had an agreement with the northern triangular countries that you could apply for asylum they are regarding the united states and you would never have to come into our country. and we also had an agreement to send the kids back.

it's a what you see is you see thousands of unaccompanied minors come into our border, turning themselves in, we are going to hold them and release them into the country, 98% will stay in america, and here is the untold story, most of them a family in the united states. this is a business in the cartels that are in this business big time and a lot of the girls are getting abused. and what the biden a administration is doing is turning on the faucet again at every level and people are responding and it is a real tragedy in the making. feeling many, many other family members who are here are here illegally. i want to talk about the democrat hypocrisy on this. because they use some incendiary rhetoric, the biden campaign uses rhetoric to be donald trump in a compassionate argument, let's display about what they have said about the facilities and the biden administration now is using. speak of the united states is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is

exactly what they are, they are concentration camps. to speak of these are like concentration camps, and i am not afraid to use that word. >> there are camps and people are being concentrated. this is very simple. >> for 40 years before auschwitz, we had concentration camps, what we are doing now fits very cleanly inside that tradition. >> katie: so senator, they are calling the same exact facility is in flux centers now that it is biden. >> yes, the hypocrisy runs rampant, kamala harris when she was running for president actually protested outside of the miami facility where they were holding unaccompanied minors, that facility is now open, aoc called the facility in texas a concentration camp, at least she is consistent about complaining. but i just got back from the border and spent time with the border patrol, they are just the customs and border agents who secure the border and duty and protect us, it was miserable for them to be compared to

concentration camp guards. these people are great patriotic americans doing the best they can being overwhelmed and to be treated that way is just unbelievable, but where are these critics now? where you now? the biden administration is doing the same damn thing. so look at the trump policies that worked, reimplement them, and make sensible for republicans like me. and checks the thing. >> katie: where they have been, where they are now, where they have been in the past. tweeting about the exact thing with the media is not an exaggeration, i see more news articles in the last 48 hours discussing how complex difficult challenges of vexing with other miners and immigrants at the border than i did in the prior four years combined. i wonder why. this reminds me of 2014 when town hall where i worked, where i write and report on a lot of issues, we publish some of the first photos from the initial crisis when it came to unaccompanied minors. so why is it that it that all of

a sudden the media is changing the narrative? >> because trump is gone. trump found a way to work with mexico to help everybody. mexico said, we will take care of these asylum-seekers so that they don't over run your country. he actually had agreements with northern triangle nations like honduras where you can apply for asylum. he actually improved the company. the criticism of trump was over the top here is what is so sad and dangerous. biden is on doing everything that trump did that worked, there is a disaster in the making of the border if they don't change these policies by the summer, there is going to be a million people overrunning the border and taken down on these trails and raped and abused, and the biden administration is putting a neon sign on the border saying "come on in.

>> katie: this is something that many administrations have struggled with, that congress has struggled with and we will be following in the future, senator graham, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> katie: coming up, they are calling it a model for the country, illinois becomes the first state to abolish cash bail, and giving them the rights they deserve. kim klacik, one of the dash kim klacik has a few thoughts on that coming up next. ♪ ♪ y after-work decompression zone. ♪ music ♪ >> vo: so when my windshield broke... i found the experts at safelite autoglass. they have exclusive technology and service i can trust. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ just over a year ago,

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house bill 36-53, criminal justice reform legislation that police say will only serve to embolden criminals in the state hard-hit by violent crime. now, you be the judge could here's what the new law does, among other things, it says it abolishes the cash bail system meaning everyone arrested and charged with a crime to be released from jail unless a judge of objects, it also sets new standards for police officers when it comes to the use of force, it bans choke holds, mandates the use of body cameras and expands the right for detainees allowing anonymous complaints to be filed against police officers, the governor hopes this will be a model for the nation. >> this legislation marks a substantial step towards dismantling the systemic racism that plagues our communities, our states, and our nation and brings us closer to true safety, true fairness, and true justice. a transformative step.

forward in illinois effort to lead the country in dismantling systemic racism. >> katie: joining me now, renaissance founder kim klacik, thank you for being here. the only thing that i think is good in this legislation is the body cam issue because it makes everything more transparent and there is more accountability for both police and maybe some victims of crime or whatever, but everything else seems pretty bad. >> yeah, absolutely, first of all, katie, thank you so much for having me. this is a real problem. we saw where we eliminated i think 90% of the cash bail in new york city and it was a complete failure as soon as they put it in place. new york city of 2020 saw 846 crimes came from those individuals that should've been behind bars, but they were out to be able to do things like felony assault, rape, robbery.

so what people don't understand is you are putting the witnesses, the family, the friends, those that can come forward and testify on these individuals in court, you are putting them in harm's way because of course if they come to testify against them, there is chances that they will do something to make sure that they don't show up. so for me, you know, this is a terrible idea. as we saw bill de blasio, the mayor of new york tried to come forward, he did not have people showing up to court that were supposed to be there, so he was offering baseball tickets last summer, so no, it's a horrible idea. >> katie: you mention the victims of these crimes, i mean, to think that if you were assaulted or sexually abused and to see that the person you have -- who allegedly did that to you is going to get out without any consequences to thel due to pandering from the far left when it comes to "criminal justice" that is discouraging when it comes to justice for those who are victims of violent crimes that often times change people's lives forever.

>> yes, absolutely. and i think that some people might be confused, you know, obviously there needs to be some kind of criminal justice reform, but the cash bail part of it is not what is broke with the system. i think that the real beef is with the fact that there is so much crime, so much money rather being made in crime. so we have a lot of prosecutors, a lot of judges working together, and that's where you see a lot of black individuals, which is why people are marching in the streets, a lot of black individuals getting longer sentences for petty crime. so the beef is really in the courtroom rather than the cash bail system. doing what is your response to people who say that cash bail systems make it so poor people are targeted more by the criminal justice systems and that minorities don't have a fair shot when it comes to -- if they are arrested for a crime, what is your response that this makes everything more fair to those who are arrested or put in prison? >> i don't think it makes anything more fair. to the first thing you have to do is go through life and not commit any crimes.

where are we giving people a free pass to go commit crimes? i have no idea. but secondly this is not the issue. the fact that we have a lot of people that go to court that aren't able to afford lawyers, that's where the beef is. you have to look at the courtroom and how much money is being made on crime, and i think once we do that and identify the real problem here, we will go forward. >> katie: speaking of money, the black lives matter foundation has opened up books a little bit to show that last year alone they took a $90 million donation, but the local chapters are now saying that they are not getting any of this money and a lot of the people who founded it are not necessarily affiliated anymore, but they are still raking in the money when it comes to using it for speeches and other kinds of deals when it comes to their own publicity. what is your response to the money not going to the activists who are doing the work as they say. >> yeah, no, it is really sad. i guess the silver lining here is the fact that now this is trending all over twitter and there are a lot of young black

people that supported the organization that are now realizing that they were supporting an organization that was basically doing things to self enrich themselves. for me, growing up in knowing what the black panthers did during their time, you know, they would help in the community. here we are going through a pandemic where a lot of people lost their jobs and their livelihoods, could not feed their families, and here blm is ranking in $90 million and did not do anything with it during the pandemic for predominately black communities. i think that there a lot of people who are turned off by blm. i myself was never a supporter, because they have always talked about how they were against the family structure, but i am glad that now everything is coming to fruition and people are singing what kind of organization this is. inner cities across this country as you know i ran in the baltimore area, we see often that many criminals, they leverage their urban struggle for self enrichment, and that's exactly what blm did. >> katie: i wanted to ask you about that, you ran for office

in baltimore, is this a representation of a bigger problem for these communities over the decades where people come in and they say they are going to do all this work for them, that they are involved in the activist movement to make their lives better, and then like al sharpton, for example, he is a good example of that over the years and ultimately enriching himself rather than the community he claimed to be representing. >> absolutely. there is a lot of money being made in race hustling or race baiting, whatever you want to call it, and we learned that from the al sharptons of though world. al sharpton did not burn down any buildings or have people write it, you have billions of dollars in damage, they took a 90 million, and think about it, katie, we are talking about reparations again. meanwhile blm took enough money to help all of those black individuals now living below the poverty line and they did nothing but put it in their own pocket. >> katie: there are a lot of people who would argue that al sharpton did incite a riot back in the day that ended up with one person dead, so very similar

to the black lives matter movement, but you are the best person to have on to talk about it, kim klacik, thank you so much. >> thank you. i appreciate it. do an exabyte and white house is considering gun violence a public health epidemic. why would they want to do that? claire logan is here to explain. ♪ ♪ x: [sounds of everyday life events, seen and heard in reverse] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ sfx: [sounds of fedex planes and vehicles engines] ♪♪ sfx: [sounds of children laughing and running, life moving forward]

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the opinion paul a list and fox news contributor chris hayes also compare republicans to cuban revolutionaries, and gun owners into the irish republican army of terrorists. so you see this a lot, but here's another example. >> yeah, comparing a sitting u.s. congresswoman to a terror leader, katie, that was responsible for the deaths of 3,000 americans is an old strategy, we'll see if it works out. here's why you should never take chris hayes seriously, donald trump is pro covid. a sitting u.s. president is looking for the death of his citizens, who says something like that, if you would like unintentional, he said "just remember when i was a little kid i was forbidden from watching the "dukes of hazzard" for my mom because of the flag on the front." that happened. and "g.o.p. congressional candidate gets in 2022 who will

be some version of storm the capital, because not every g.o.p. lawmaker disowned that horrible riot on january 6. it's ridiculous pretty also declare that he was "once uncomfortable calling fallen soldier soldiers heroes." he pushed the disinformation for many years. you don't need a new year's resolution, katie, just don't take somebody like this seriously, it's bad for your health. >> katie: how they cover gun ownership in america, it is obvious the way that chris hayes categorized the congresswoman, he does not understand american gun culture or respect the second amendment, they don't do anything to make sure that they are accurate when it comes to terminology that they use when they are reporting on gun owners in america, i mean, we always see the stories about how they went out to some town to talk to trump voters, the same thing with gun ownership in america, they are these zoo animals that

they go to explore and learn about, but they actually never reflect that in their work. >> of course, think about where national political media is located, either in washington or new york, primary and look at the way they vote in your average election. so it is certainly a bubble and high mentality. so this is very interesting, i'm old enough to remember 2018. and there was a guy, you probably remember this who is currently in congress right now in his name is conor lamb and he was this democrat running in a red district in pennsylvania, and his first campaign ad showed him shooting and ak 15 with the narrator saying in the background, he still loves to shoot. you will never guess what msnbc prime time host didn't say a word about that, wow, lawmaker featuring a gun, where was the comparison to usama bin laden or any terror leader, it did not happen, because there is a d next to his name. so this is not even outraged by chris hayes, it's phony outrage

in order to serve up red meat to his audience and that's why we should not take it seriously. >> katie: it is dangerous, because they are trying to classify a swath of people they disagree with as terrorists and the media is more than happy to follow along with that narrative when it comes to the right people that they want to target the second amendment supporters or gun owners. >> it's one of a business model when you have 74 million people who voted for a particular candidate anyone to go after that person i guess that's fair game, because that is part of the contract, but to go after his voters and use a broad brush that they are all x, y, and z in terms of horrible people, yeah, that's not going to get you very far and i will leave you with this final stat, 84% of the american people believe that the media bears the blame for the divide in this country, that was a gallup poll just a couple of months ago and it is statements like this from mr. hayes to that underscore that completely and totally. by the way, congrats on this week, you're doing great so far. looking good. >> thank you for coming on and

helping me out. i appreciate it. talk to you soon. >> talk to you later. spin on one of the most alarming changes of the past year is how often they have used the pandemic as a pretext to infringe on our civil liberties. they cut down churches and businesses closed long after science suggested they could reopen, so we would not be surprised if the white house used a similar argument declaring gun violence a public health epidemic which would give a clear path to strip away your rights to keeping their arms, delivering on the promises he made throughout his campaign. >> if i am elected, i'm coming for you and gun manufacturers, i will take you on. >> so took gun owners out there who say, well, a biden administration means they will come for my guns -- >> bingo, you're right if you have an assault weapon. the second amendment does not say that you can restrict the kinds of weapons people can own. >> i will never, never, never, give up this fight. and it will not stop until we

began killer assault weapons. >> katie: and now layer logan, journalists and host of fox agenda, what about this idea that the government has fused public health as a way to infringe on cipro civil liberties over the past year, and now saying second amendment, gun ownership, legal gun ownership seems to be a public health crisis. >> well, it's really interesting, because you know, there are certain parts of the country where life is already pretty much back to normal, people have accepted the level of risk and they know that covid is a real threat, but they look at numbers like the 99% recovery rate and they have made their own decisions, but yet you go to other parts of the country, you are in one of them where it is a very, very different situation where kids are not back in school and people are not able to live their lives and cannot see their families, they separated people and infringe on their right to worship, i mean,

and that is for the mosques and synagogues, it's not just one religion, but it is really quite extraordinary that you can be living in two different worlds in one country at the same time. and look at the rest of the world where people have lost patience with us and are going back to normal regardless, so when you extend that kind of control that the pandemic gave to authorities and you extend it to gun control, it becomes very, very significant. especially when you look at in the context of the domestic terror legislation and the things that you are talking to joe concha about, right? because they are not happening in isolation, any of these things. so now you have to have under the new gun laws if anyone has not read it, i really urge them to read resolution 1.27, because it is staggering. it is not just about owning a gun, it is you have to have a psychological evaluation to own a weapon. and this is -- there is nothing grandfathered in. every single gun owner has to have this.

and you have to be declared psychologically suitable to own a gun. are they going to call you psychologically suitable if you went on qanon website once or how you went to the rally on june 6. and you can see how they are working together or look at the expansion of assault weapons where biden referred to as assault weapons, take a look at that, it does not leave much on the table. a really, really, really doesn't and you need a special license in addition to a regular license to own one of those. and also for ammunition and, i mean, the list goes on and on and the penalties for failing to do this are a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, and finds, i mean, that's where it starts. so it really is worth taking a closer look and seeing the level of control that it gives. and also by the way don't forget the insurance you have to add per weapon which is $800 paid to the attorney general of your state who also approves whether

or not you can have a license and approves your psychologist who is giving you the evaluation. >> katie: the base level of all of that is putting gun owners on the list, right? because if you are signing up for insurance, going for a psychological evaluation, but i want to ask you about the corporate nature of everything happening, it is not just government we are trying to go after, you have a number of corporations with 200 countries now dumping millions of dollars behind this idea that gun violence is a public health crisis and therefore anybody who decides to purchase a firearm and exercise their second amendment right has to make sure that they are not violating anybody else's public health space, right? so it's just looking back at the last year of how far they went in terms of public health and justifying everything under that, i would not be surprised if the partnership between the government and corporations that they would go as far as possible when it comes to gun control.

>> you know, it is really, really, really important what you are pointing out, because there is an agreement that is happening across the spectrum in all of these different areas, it's not just with gun control. look at the banks that are just terminating people's accounts without having to say why. this is another form of censorship, and it is meant to cancel you not just publicly, but take away your ability to function and operate if you believe in these things. and these are not the hallmarks of a free society. >> katie: it is an attack on our civil liberties and our constitutional rights, and it's hard to fight back when they call it a public health crisis. blair logan, thank you so much for your time. appreciate it. coming up, a female high school athlete who says having to compete against biological males is just not fair. how the biden administration is now pulling the plug on a trump administration effort to keep transgendered students out of out of girl sports. up next. ♪ ♪ greg, i'm 68 years old.

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>> katie: file this hundred things you should definitely not say out loud, tonight and needed done, top adviser for president biden in some hot water after coming out and celebrating the coronavirus pandemic as being a good thing for president biden and his political career. chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher has been following this one live for us tonight. what's going on? speak of the covid pandemic was clearly a major theme of the biting campaign but this bombshell comment is getting a lot of attention and with good reason as you note it was reportedly made by anita dunn, a senior white house adviser and former top campaign adviser to joe biden. the comment is included in a new book called lucky, how joe biden barely won the presidency. the authors are veteran journalist jonathan allen and amy burness and they claim anita dunn once told an associate the coronavirus pandemic was "the best thing that ever happened to him" meaning joe biden. the authors go on to write her comment was something "campaign officials believed but would never say in public." anita dunn was previously an adviser to former

president obama and once served as obama's interim white house communications director. current white house press secretary jen psaki has not yet responded to dunn's reported comment. and that she pollster concluded that trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic was a critical factor in his defeat and that several key states where voters considered covid a top issue, biden carried those voters by a 3-1 margin. >> katie: thank you, trace. the >> bret: biden justice department with a major blow to female athletes, and a lawsuit that would block transgender athletes in connecticut from participating in girl sports. bill barr initially back that lawsuit arguing that connecticut laws violated title ix protection, but the agency under new leadership apparently disagrees, the lawsuit will continue without the doj support, joining me now lana smith, one of the athletes who

has filed a suit and her attorney christina holcomb of the alliance defending freedom legal counsel. so for those people watching who don't know your story, why did you file the lawsuit and are you disappointed by the department of justice decision not to back it? >> i got involved after iran against the the biological males at the new england meat, because in the 200-meter i took third place when i should have gotten runner-up, and it is not really about placement, but it is about knowing that i work so many hours a week to be able to get runner-up and as a freshman. and i am really disappointed in the news, because me and the other girls salina and chelsea have worked really hard to get our stories out there to get people to realize that fairness needs to be restored in our sport and in all other women's sports. >> katie: from a political perspective, the left claims that they want the priority of women coming in here we are with policy is that disenfranchised

female athletes. and i have serious questions about what this means in terms of harassment of female athletes, does this mean that biological males are now allowed to go into the locker room as well as compete against them and take away scholarships and placement in state championships? i know that the lawsuit is going to move forward despite doj pulling their support for it to, so where are you going from here? speak of the lawsuit absolutely moves forward. this is clearly a politically motivated decision to side with radical activists over female athletes like alana. what is more concerning is this effort took got legal protection for women is not just isolated to what we see in connecticut. even now the biden administration is pushing for so-called equality act that ignores the differences between men and women and threatens women's privacy in homeless shelters, and yes, even women sports on a national level for female athletes like alana. >> katie: it's not just about athletics but other areas of harassment and putting them into

a place where they feel comfortable. but in terms of athletics, alana, when it comes to the things that you have missed out on, people say that it is only fair to allow biological males to compete against you, what is your response to that? >> that people should realize that a lot of biological females have missed out on making it to meats that really matter like state and regionals and the transgender athletes have taken spots on the podium that belonged to biological females. we trained for so many days a week, so many hours to be able to be the best in our state and region, and these biological males are just taking it away from us and we really deserve it. >> katie: really quickly, i know that the aclu is arguing that this fits into a title ix that transgender athletes are entitled to compete against women as women in their sport. but what about the other side of the argument that title ix is supposed to protect people like alana question marks because that's exactly right, title ix is designed to ensure that girls

like alana have a fair playing field to be champions and earn those college scholarships, so we want to move forward and we went to see it enforced across the country. >> katie: alana smith, and cristiano holcomb, thanks. up next, guy benson with some good news. ♪ ♪ scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! you're good. so you're a small business, or a big one. you were thriving, but then... oh. ah. okay. plan, pivot. how do you bounce back? you don't, you bounce forward, with serious and reliable internet. powered by the largest gig speed network in america. but is it secure? sure it's secure. and even if the power goes down, your connection doesn't. so how do i do this? you don't do this. we do this, together. bounce forward, with comcast business.

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♪ ♪ >> katie: well, there are a lot of things going on in the world right now that may make you feel angry, frustrated, or upset. i understand. so we asked one of the most optimistic people we know, guy benson, to help find some good news buried under all of the negativity. so, guy, i heard hillary clinton has a political thriller coming out. can you give us a preview, please? >> oh, yes, katie, i am very pleased to report that the rumors are true. america's hottest novelist is back. she's fresh off her last fictional work. what happened? and she is bringing us more, which is very exciting.

and the thing i learned to come i'm a big fan of the genre, thrillers, if you want a great thriller, you typically will have multiple plot lines that all come together for an explosive, unexpected ending to the book. this is what brad thor does, for example, and i do not want to give any spoilers, but i have read an advanced copy and i'm going to tell you about the three plot lines. >> katie: how lucky we are. okay. >> this is an exclusive. plot line number one. there are american troops and cia officers trapped under enemy fire in northern africa. it's going to happen? okay? the second plot line top secret intelligence has fallen into the hands of a hostile power. it was pilfered from the illegal, unsecured email server of a high-ranking american officials. oh, scary stuff, really amazing. and finally, a mysterious accused pedophile billion in terms of dead in federal

custody, who done it? you will have to find out in this masterpiece. they tell you in fiction to write what you know, and by god, hillary has done it. so proud of her and i think this is going to be a megahit. >> katie: there is a thing called faction, a mix between fiction and fact, in this political thriller. i look forward to learning more about it from you. thank you for the exclusive on that. moving to new york now, they are trying to fight crime with robot dogs. your take on that? >> well, i have a very long-standing policy, katie, commenting on robots in the most glowing terms possible because when the silence, and take over, i want to be on the record very clearly in favor of robots and our future overlords, so i think these robotic dogs are not creepy, at all, they are not terrifying, or a sign of a coming dystopia. i think it is just wonderful, and i hope they will spare me when they are in charge.

>> katie: what else do you have, guy? one more piece of good news. >> well, i did hear that beto o'rourke is widely reported to be running for governor, or at least considering -- >> katie: oh, lucky texas. >> i am pro-life. i know you are pro-life. that means every life. if that means giving someone something to live for, beto means that right now, which is another political run in that state. the one thing that really sustains him in this world. good luck to him convincing voters in texas that the beto we saw in the presidential campaign who is way the left is not the beto 3.0. he will have a purpose again and that is wonderful and exciting to see. >> katie: guy, how could we forget when he was on the cover of "vanity fair" and they said "born to be in it." another flashback to beto 2.0, or robert francis o'rourke.

guy benson, thank you, we appreciate it. >> you bet. >> katie: thank you for watching. i am katie pavlich and i will be back tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. tucker carlson up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." have you ever noticed how nobody in washington can agree on a number? math is supposed to be objective, except in oregon where it is racist, but in the real world you would think people are functioning calculators could come to similar math-based conclusions once in a while. but not in d.c. try getting a consensus on unemployment projections or consumer confidence levels for members of congress. you can't even get a straight answer on how many troops will be occupying the capital three months from now, and i do something they directly control. even allowing for the fact that most