massacre, plus the united states supreme court enters its final weeks of the session with key cases amid retirement rumors. thank you for watching "special report." i'm mike emanuel in washington, it's been a pleasure. fox news prime time is up next, have a great night. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening and welcome to "fox news primetime." thank you for joining me on this blessed memorial day. when we remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice in defense of this country. we all should honor those men and women who gave all in her defense as ronald reagan said, it is in a way an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country, in defense of us, in wars far away. the imagination pays a trick. we see these soldiers in our minds, we see them as something

like the founding fathers, grave and gray-haired. but most of them were boys when they died and they gave up two lives, the one they were living in the one they would have lived. it when they died they give up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. they gave up their chance to be revered old men. if they gave up everything for country, for us. but what does the country they shed blood for look like today? is in a country that looks like it is worthy of their sacrifice? imagine a country in dire straits. it's a country convulsed by riots, pitting police against protesters, ordinary citizens against activists. it's a country gripped, nearly obsessed with the issues of and ethnicity. it's a country that just exited along and grinding foreign war is the loser. it's a country where divisive republican president is succeeded by a genial democrat who promised healing but proves

too inept to lead. it's a country whose campuses are in the grips of fanatical ideologues. men and women who don't hesitate to stoop to terror and force. it's a country where young people hesitate to marry, hesitate to form families, hesitate to put on the routes that are the stuff and sustenance of society. it's a country afflicted with political violence. it's a country whose great cities are rapidly becoming unlivable thanks to crime overtaking neighborhoods where families used to flourish. it's a country stripped of all trust of political leadership, where people are stricken with a deep cynicism earned by the failure of elites. what country am i talking about? you might sam talk about the united states of america in 2021. but this is the united states of the mid-1970s. we don't like to think about that yesteryear america or if we do, we think of it as an unpleasant interlude between the electricity of the 1960s and the revival of the 1980s.

but that's the exception. mostly we don't think of the 1970s at all. why would we? there aren't a lot of happy memories there. as watergate and there's the fall of saigon, home decor with a lot of muddy brown and sick avocado greens. but we should. we should think of the 1970s quite a lot because we need it's lessons now. as america of today descends into violence, criminal and political alike, it's worth looking back to the last time that happened to understand how we got ourselves out of it. the '70s were violent indeed. it was the first decade of the modern era in which major american city, once the gleaning envy of the world, became by words for crime. watch any movie from the era, 1973's "mean streets" from martin scorsese, there are funny of others, and just see the rundown, corrupt, trash-strewn, menacing new york city it showcases. the city was awash in violence,

averaging over 1900 murders, 4500 rapes a year over the course of the '70s. they run every corner of times square. it wasn't just got them going under, of course, but the greatest american city was the template for the rest. the 1970s were also the decade in which terrorism became an endemic and near constant feature of american life. americans today worry about terrorism from the likes of isis and al qaeda, mostly foreign actors with mostly foreign causes. but back then the terrorist bombers and killers, they were largely our own people, the weather underground, the symbionese liberation army, the armed forces of national liberation and a dizzying array of individual actors with motives known and unknown. the 1970s in the united states saw far more terrorist attacks in the next three decades combined. as the author brian burrell wrote, the single 18 month

period between 1971 and 1972, the fbi counted an amazing 2,500 bombings on american soil, almost five a day. look back on all that and what you see is a mere unpleasant interlude between the apostasy 60s and the '80s. what you see is america in a profound civic crisis, coming apart at the seams and without much reason for optimism. the country that shouldn't survive. but she did. she survived and she thrived, so why is that. the conservative movement answered simply enough, a california cowboy by the name of ronald reagan rode into town. that is certainly what the reagan 1984 reelection campaign would never want to believe. but it's too simple and reagan himself wouldn't have agreed with it. the truth is that battered and tottering as the 1970s america was, the foundations remain strong. the united states in the apostasy 70s was a country

sunken in a historic crime wave, yes, but it was also a country where a high school graduate could get a good union job, live in middle-class dignity, supporting a family of four, even while mom focused on raising the kids. the united states in the 1970s was a country rife with political violence, yes, but it was also a country where majority of americans still ahead, according to gallup, a great deal quite a lot of confidence that organized religion, public schools, health care, the presidency, and the banks. the united states of the 1970s was a country defeated in a foreign war, yes, but it also still possessed the most advanced military in the world. america's foundation in the apostasy 70s, a half-century ago, were strong. but that was then. i said earlier that all the woes of america in the 1970s could be those of america in the 2020s, and that's true, they could, and they are. 50 years after the dark passage of the '70s, we are repeating these errors and dissent of that

sad decade and a more grand and emphatic fashion, but though the critique is the same, this time it's different, because the country is different. that good job and life of dignity for a high school graduate, today count yourself fortunate if you can understand what you read. trust in organized religion in schools, the presidency, the rest, we can even trust our health officials to be honest with us. and about that most advanced military in the world? it's currently busy tearing itself apart at the seams with critical race theory while china is egging its nationally destructive racial animosity on. when we look to the 2020s, we see the foundation is rotted and the seeds are dead, the future always unwritten assumes a darker cast. unless americans wake up. what does it take for americans to wake up? well, you can see it. you see it in a hundred rock while he and moments at school board meetings across the

country where parents are stando the racist mob. you see in the faces of -- that men can race against women just because they feel like it. you see it in the quiet determination of black and hispanic cops screamed out by woke white ladies called out as race traders who still get up every morning, put on the blue, and protect and serve. at the beginning of the pandemic, my wife found out she was pregnant. she had been through a terrible miscarriage before, my job became protecting her. i pulled her out of new york city before the writing. returning now is haunting. i stepped out of penn station yesterday and my foot crunched on a needle. i want new york to be the greatest american city again but under the leadership of the left, there's no way it will and i'll be damned if i pay a a failed pothead like bill de blasio of raising my -- this time around the

ruling class is not on our side. you can't count on democratic mayors to stand up to murderous race mobs in their cities as they once did. you can't count on a lot of republicans to stand up to silicon valley or anthony fauci or even black lives matter. don't fully yourself. the pentagon isn't secretly on your side on while some men and women trading down on the stock market floor might be, the titans at the top certainly aren't. they'd rather sell this country out and try to save it. if you want to fly the flag, don't even count on american baseball to stand with you. this is up to us, but it's always come down to us, the people, and we have the power to answer the call. that's the twist in this ending. every moment is real, every signal is grim, but americans are waking up. 35 years ago in the reverberating aftermath of the 1970s, as a great nation ascended from the edge of its own abyss, the father of

america's worst governor, mario cuomo, used to be a much bigger deal than andrew, exhorted his fellow citizens to see all that was awful about america. they were more poor than ever, more families in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it, he said. there are people who sleep in the city streets, in the gutter where the glitter doesn't show. there is despair in the face is that you don't see in the places that you know visit in your shining city. the left loved it. this was the america they believed in, the america of despair, the america of decline. three decades later, "the new york times" was still running articles were minding its readership just how great it was. in fairness, by then, they'd come a long way towards making it true. but i'm here to tell you, it isn't true yet. because americans are waking up. because in the city streets where the glitter doesn't show, in the faces they not see, in the places they don't visit, you'll find determination,

fortitude, grit. it's time to wake up, it's time to get off the map, it's time to be the americans who are called to be and take back the country you love. i'm ben domenech and this is the american crisis. joining me now, "new york post" columnist miranda devine. thanks so much for taking the time to join me tonight. >> thanks, what a stirring editorial and you know, in some ways it's quite reassuring to know and remember how bad the '70s were and to know that the country came through it and prospered. i think, you know, the radicals of those days where the baby boomers who came to power. they trashed the moral capital that they were bequeathed by previous generations. they tore down the institutions. we are reaping, you know, what they sowed, but i do have faith

in america to regenerate itself as it has done before and it will be up to a new greatest generation, the sort of children and young adults who have sacrificed through the pandemic. it's up to them now, they will be able to -- i have faith in them -- to rebuild the institutions, to replenish the moral capital. these young people who they know adversity, they've suffered through divorce and social dysfunction. they are strong and they, i guess, have their eyes opened. they are not spoiled and pampered and they've known they've -- you know, they've shouldered the burden, really, of the foreign wars that we recklessly went into, so from that generation i think a transformational, inspirational leader will come and it may be somebody who we know, it may be

somebody whose name we don't know. it may be somebody, you know, a child thinking now, one day a week at school with a mask on and marveling at the irrationality of adults but i do think, the crisis, come at the generations. >> ben: you're completely right about that and it's the reason why i still have hope too, because after all that we've been through, there is still that core steel in the spine backbone in america that you will see if you get out of some of these major cities, you will find it there and you can understand this is what has saved this country in the past and can save it again. miranda, i just want to thank you so much for giving that eloquent and inspiring message to us today on memorial day, thank you so much for joining. >> thanks, ben. >> ben: coming up, after a wave of backlash, vice president harris is now pretending she cares with this long weekend is all about. next, we talked a veteran who

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♪ ♪ >> ben: throughout the hour tonight we're going to be bringing you some images today from arlington national cemetery where my sister, who will be joining later, was participating in an activity to help celebrate those who have given up the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our nation.

on this memorial day i want to share with you the passage on a book written by rick atkinson called "the guns at last like." a veteran surgeon who believed [indiscernible] than anything he had experienced in north africa, sicily, or normative quoted kingly air. the worst is not so long as we can say this is the worst. to a soldier named frank who went missing in mid-november, his wife natalie, mother of his two children, broke from new york, "i see you everywhere. in the chair behind me, in the shadows of the room." in another note she added "still no mail for me. i really don't know what to think anymore. the kids are fine and so adorable. right now i put colored handkerchiefs on their beds, they are dancing and singing. when i walk alone i seem to feel you sneaking up on me and putting her arms around me" no, that did not happen, would not, could not. this is the worst. joining me know, army veteran --

thank you so much for taking the time to join me today on this memorial day. >> absolutely, glad to be with you. >> ben: i know that this is a time when summative veterans, including those in my family and my friends, they have this tug-of-war. they want to acknowledge memorial day but they are also surrounded by so many people for whom this is just a day to make hot dogs or get together and have a couple of beers. how do you balance your own measure of honoring those that you know who lost their lives and given up so much in defense of the country and acknowledging that this is also a day that we should celebrate as being one when we are free? >> there's no tug-of-war for me. it's my brothers, my mind constantly on those that i lost. i've heard "taps" enough time that i'm not startled by a name or when it goes off because i've heard it that many times in the

whole day my mind is on it and i weep often, i'm not afraid to say that, i tell people at a certain point i don't have shame for anybody that has tears, especially on days like this, it's a shame for people who don't have tears for people that gave everything, the most personal thing that somebody could do, give their life in defense of you and you think of all the ways that they have done it in combat throughout the years. my mind is on it all day and not just on memorial day. >> ben: congressman, i don't think anyone is going to judge her masculinity for sending a few tears on a day like this but it is one of the things where you see the divide between the people who have lived through it and who know right. , close family, would they've lost over these years in america that seems to be increasingly unaware of the sacrifices so many in our military have experienced either in loss of life or in terms of ptsd or opioid addiction, everything else that happens when they come home, how can we address that divide that seems to exist

between the service class of americans who stand up and heed the call, and those who seem very much divorced from the reality of being at war? >> i would say that memorial day is the perfect place to start and you make it personal. you realize it's not just a name on the highway, it's not just a name on a post office or on a school somewhere. it's not just somebody that you heard about in your town. read their name, learn about what they did. were they in the pacific during world war ii and did they go down on a ship? where they in the north of africa with patton or the forest in the battle of the bulge for the frozen chosen in korea or did they fight the chinese right after that parallel, where they in a jungle or a rice paddy? vietnam or a prisoner of war fighting a different kind of battle where they -- adult a deltaoperator. get to know them personally and

that's where you start, so that there's not a separated class, but it is something that's inside of you that you can feel it as tangibly as those family members of theirs that will never get another hug, another kiss, another chance to throw a ball or have a birthday or anything else, they will just be thinking about them on that day and how badly they wish that their service member was there with him. that's the way -- you've got to touch it and feel it in order to truly understand it or in order to even have a glimpse of it. >> ben: not just a long weekend after all, congressman. thank you for joining me tonight. an elementary gym teacher who was put on leave after speaking out against his school's new woke agenda is now prepared to take legal action. we have more on that straight ahead. ♪ ♪

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under fire for his christian faith after he spoke out against the school's newly proposed policies which would require staff to call transgender students by their preferred pronouns. >> we condemn school policies like 8040 and 8035 because it would damage children to defile the holy image of god. i love all of my students but i would never lie to them regardless of the consequences. i'm a teacher but i serve god first and i will not affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa because it's against my religion, it's lying to a child, it's abuse to a child and it's sinning against our god. >> ben: two days after making that statement he was placed on administered leave. his beliefs didn't matter, his right to free speech didn't matter. all that mattered was what the mom wanted him out. joining me now is republican from virginia gubernatorial candidate running against critical lace theory, glenn youngkin. thanks so much for joining the time -- taking the time to joint and a varied >> a day that we're

celebrating and honoring and remembering 1.2 million americans who gave our lives their lives for our freedom, it's amazing to me that we see the school board ignore and absolutely trample on tanner cross' constitutional rights to express not only his religious beliefs but also his right to free speech at a time when they invited such a discussion and now they are trying to cancel him simply for expressing his views that are in the best interest of the children and expressing his faith. it's absolutely shameful. >> ben: i don't know you well but i do want to say that you come at the moment here in which the republican party is really at odds with itself over how to deal with these culture war issues. you've heard from various voices who really want to back away from them. they feel like things got too hot under the last four years or something like that but then you also hear from voices -- voices like you saw here in loudoun county, a place that i lived for most of my life, where

they understand that if you walk away from this, you leave the field to the left. what kind of confidence can you give to virginia voters that if you're elected as governor of the state of the commonwealth, that you will be someone who stands up on these culture war issues as opposed to being a republican who would rather just talk about businesses and capital gains taxes and all the other things that economic republicans tend to stress? >> well, ben, what we're seeing right here in loudoun county is the liberal left waging a cultural war and the victims are children. and who's standing up for them? not the politicians but in fact parents and teachers. and who's going to stand up for the parents and teachers right now where the school board isn't and politicians aren't either? and as governor i will stand for excellence in education. we will not teach critical race theory and i will stand up for teachers and parents against these kinds of cancel culture initiatives. and oh, by the way, who is standing up for tanner cross?

i will tell you, as governor, i'll have his back. all stand up for the teachers, all stand up for the parents i actually call on school board right now in loudoun county to reinstate tanner cross fully because they have absolutely ignored his constitutional rights and oh, by the way, his best interest as the children right now. they should reinstate him right now and as governor i would call for that. >> ben: thank you, i really appreciate you taking the time to join me tonight. >> thank you, ben. >> ben: women in federal and state prisons could soon be sharing a cell with biological males if the california log is national. under the equality act, any individual who identifies as transgender would be given the opportunity to transfer prisons based on his or her preference. the bill would allow male inmates to move in with female inmates, no hormones or surgery required. he turned me now as an expert on this topic, abigail schreier. it's always a pleasure to talk to you. >> thanks so much, ben. >> ben: tell me a little bit about what's going on here and

really the concerns that we ought to have about women in this prison system where they really it seems like have no real way to appeal or fight back against the situation. >> that's right. i spoke to the women of the central california women's facility. that is the highest security women's prison in california, colloquially known as chowchilla prison and these women are terrified. they are housed eight to a cell. they do not even have -- their guards do not even have guns. they walk around with batons and pepper spray because women are less violent and men are already transferring in. there is no requirement, all that a violent male fella need do is self identify as a woman that he is entitled in a state of california to petition to transfer in. >> ben: it is astounding to me how you can have this kind of delusion about the differences between people, then actually form a policy that can put women at serious risk. what can be done to push back

against this? this seems to be absolutely terrible in terms of what these women could be experiencing in very short order. >> that's right. remember that this would violate the geneva convention if it were done to prisoners of war. this is horrifying and it's about to become federal law. if they federal law passes it will become federal law in all 50 states. joe biden has already indicated he will sign this bill into law. it's right now in the senate and really for the safety and biological integrity of these women it should be stopped. >> ben: and know that you're someone who who has taken on this issue and you've experienced the kind of backlash that happens from big tech and from corporate america in terms of trying to shut down debate about this. is this a debate that we can even have in the public square right now? given the way the left is trying to short-circuit the whole conversation? >> that's part of the reason i wrote the piece. i'm worried that we're running out of time and the reason is

right now in states that allow you to change your birth certificate and we are already seeing this, we are going to lose track of the men who go into women's prisons, they won't need to transfer in for men's prisons anymore, they will go straight in for women, they will be recorded as women and their violence against women will be recorded as woman on woman violence. the thing to remember is over half of men who are transgender are heterosexual. >> ben: it's one of these situations where it astounds you how quickly a nation can shutdown this kind of debate before it even really happens. thank you so much for taking the time to join me tonight. >> thank you. >> ben: up next, how we can rediscover america's values in the face of a radically changing nation. plus, how we can honor the men and women who fought to save our country. next. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> ben: if there was ever a time that the american spirit needed healing and redemption, it's now. in the last year, our nation was on the verge of self-destruction from political operative race riots and a disastrous pandemic, so as we maneuver through this dark time in our history, we turn to lessons of ancient philosophy is our guide. joining me now, author of "lives of the stoics," ryan holliday. >> thanks for having me. >> ben: i was left talking to you because you bring such an amazing perspective on this important aspect of living. what are some of the lessons that we can take away from the history of the stoics that we should apply to today, coming out of this pandemic, facing some new challenges in the nation? it seems like a time we ought to turn back to their lessons. what are some of them? >> that's right. just as we are going through a plague and racial violence and

political unrest, this would be very familiar to the ancients, right? the antenna and plague, cato sees the collapse of the republic, but i think the classical virtues women the same, courage, temperance, justice, wisdom. working for a common cause, and that cause being liberty and equality and, you know, helping the less fortunate. >> ben: i know that you apply a lot of these lessons yourself in your life and it's something that you came to after having gone through sort of a corporate experience and everything like that. there are a lot of people who listen to you on these regards. what are some of the aspects of it that people could apply to their own lives and in their own communities today to try to live a life that's more in keeping with these ancients and the lessons that they learned? >> it's really easy to despair about what you see going on in the world and i love, you know, reading marcus really is in his journal, the most powerful men in the world also despairing

about how some of his fellow humans are behaving and he said if you want to see good, be good. the stoics focus on what they can control. so often we disparate these in norma's often collective problems and the stoics want you to start really small. what can you do at home, what can you do in your neighborhood, what can you do in your community. how can you radiate the change that you want to see in the world from your position of influence as opposed to just sort of railing impotently at these forces that are beyond each and every one of us. >> ben: in a certain sense, what they are telling you is to pay attention to what you can do in your neighborhood. what you can do on that smaller scale as opposed to spending your day ranting on social media or, you know, hash tagging away, start looking at the things you can do that are closer to home. is this something you try to do in your own life? what does that look like? >> every morning i go for a walk

with my two young kids and we pick up the trash that we see by the side of the road. not only is it helping make our little neighborhood better, but instead of looking at something is happening in the climate or happening in our neighborhood or this big thing beyond us, what can we do, the three of us, to make a difference right now? we tend to see injustice as something other people are doing but [indiscernible] said there's also injustice and what we declined to do. how may times am i going to walk by this trash and leave it there until i become culpable for it continuing to exist and i think we can expand this out to so many problems that we face as a society. >> ben: thank you so much for taking the time to join me on this memorial day. up next, my sister, the cofounder of the on a project is insuring our nation's fallen heroes are not forgotten this memorial day. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> ben: memorial day is, for most americans, a start of summer. you get together with family and friends for beers and hot dogs, fathers argue about the right way to make a burger, mothers handicap the craziest real housewives gossip, kids make a mess of their close, but it's about something a lot more important than that, as you well know. today i couldn't be with my family in person, you can blame fox for that, but i wanted to share their perspective on this day with you. happy to be joined by three people who have traded barbs over beers and brought with me over many years tonight, my sister emily -- all three have and continue to serve our country and they've spent a lot more time afghanistan and iraq than i ever have and i know they have opinions about it. we will start with my sister

emily who spent her morning at arlington national cemetery. emily, thanks for joining me today. >> thanks for having me. >> ben: tell us a little bit about what you are doing today at arlington. >> so i was at arlington with the project i founded with the [indiscernible] foundation called the honor project which brought in 300 volunteers to arlington cemetery to visit graves of the fallen where our volunteers would take names in advance, we'd find their grave, we would place a plaque and then we'd take a photograph and share it on social media and it's a really incredible way not just for an american who doesn't serve in the military to really honor them for in the name a fallen service member, but it's also an opportunity for us to share the names of the pollen with the rest of the world. >> ben: i though that this is something that you came upon by accident. tell us a little bit about what happened last year that really started this whole thing. >> so last year i went into the

cemetery to visit our grandfather, who as you know is a veteran of three wars, world war ii, vietnam, and korea, and i knew it would be different because covid restrictions kept everyone except for direct family members from entering the cemetery and i thought of some friends of ours who served overseas who i knew had friends who had been killed in action and i offered to visit graves on their behalf. i expected to get a few responses and then go on about my day and within a matter of minutes i had dozens of replies from people all over the country year in and for the opportunity to see a photograph of their loved ones grave and to see them honored in a public way. i spent six hours in a cemetery, helped to organize the names of the graves and to visit them in a way that made sense and thousands of people followed along in social media and i knew that i had to do this again this year and i had to make sure we took every name that came in and every single grave that was asked forgot a visit. >> ben: i know this is something you want to continue to see increase and grow and

want you to tell people where they can go to participate in this the future. i know there was one story who hadn't been able to visit and actually see the stone that had been put there in the interim. he told me about that incident. >> yes, so last year i connected with a woman whose husband had been buried in march right before covid restrictions and she had been unable to return to arlington to see his headstone. i managed to find it at the back of section 60 and was the first person to visit it and it was one of the most moving experiences of my life. i shared that photograph with her and i've since connected with his wife, his sister, his mother, and it continued to talk to them to this day and it's always one of the graves i will visit every time i go to arlington. i've been so honored to share and support them in their grieving process. >> ben: emily, thank you and just real quick, where can people go to participate in the future? >> click on the link for the

honor project. we hope to expand this nationwide next year. >> ben: excellent, thank you for joining me tonight. also here tonight, my brother, ellis domenech. a major in the army reserves and my brother-in-law jimmy mccain, marine veteran who served in iraq. both are veterans of the afghan war. thanks so much for coming on, thank you. you both have very impressive beards. [laughs] i want to start you, jimmy. you obviously have been someone who's gone through and experienced so much. what does memorial day mean for you? >> memorial day -- first of all, it's great to see you. memorial day is a day about -- like veterans day is when we honor veterans, memorial day is the day we remember those who couldn't make it back not only from our war but other wars as well but i guess the most important thing for memorial day for me that has become over the years, i personally take the time to try and reach out to a bunch of friends may be going through a rough time because

this is a day of remembrance and is a very hard day for a lot of veterans. so the mental health something i focus on this day and it's not a problem to drink a few beers and call a few buddies and catch up, so that's kind of what memorial day has become to me. >> ben: ellis, do you have that experience? do you reach out to folks who may be going through a rough time after thinking about the people who lost -- with a lost? >> i deftly do that but also this year i've been focusing on veterans of the korean war known as the forgotten war. this year i studied a man named lieutenant colonel don faith who was at chosen reservoir and posthumously awarded the matter of honor so i think it's important to remember past veterans as well. >> ben: one of the things that i think we experience is that because we are surrounded by so many people who have served or who know those who have served, we can understand how this can be a difficult day and yet i

wonder, you know, jim, in terms of her perspective on this, what would you tell the people who don't have those kind of relationships, don't come from families with a lot of service members, about what they can do in terms of appreciating this day as it is and not just a day to make hot dogs or the like to >> yeah, of course. a simple phone call, even if your civilian or a veteran or maybe you just know someone who is married to a veteran or used to be, could be the difference between everything. mental health is a very fickle and hard thing to understand, so if someone asked me what i could do, i would say just reach out and if you're going to the store to buy hot dogs, which isn't a big deal, this is a data party, let's not get too somber. stopped by a va, by a guy a drink or say thank you, you know what i mean? that's kind of a thing that i love. it's not about the veterans, it's just making sure that may be somebody who lost somebody,

brothers, sisters, fathers, sons, everyone, that they know that they are remembered and like i said, i think that simple phone call that someone could make even as a civilian, you don't have to be someone who served with someone, could be the difference. and that's something i really try and stress. my mother has been making phone calls all day, my brother and me have been on the phone all day. it's just something nice and it's not like an arduous task, just ask someone how they're doing, say what up. >> ben: ellis, i know you care a lot about the mental health side of things as well. it's a real challenge in this day and age to talk about this because people, frankly, it's something reluctant about it, about bringing up ptsd, about bringing up the challenge of addiction and the like. what can be done in terms of actually reaching out to those that are in communities that are facing these types of challenges in this time but doesn't just come from the top down brass of the military comes through the

community? >> i think people who have not served in the military, the best thing they can do is, like emily and jimmy said, talk to a veteran. this kind of an old stigma where grandpa, may be served in vietnam, he never talks about it. maybe he would talk about it if you reached out to him. maybe you ask them questions, maybe he needs to talk about it and i think that can provide a good experience both for the person talking about their wartime experience and for younger generations who maybe don't understand and maybe they will understand after. >> ben: i want to thank you both for your service, obviously, and for coming on this evening and i hope that you will be firing up that girl, jimmy, just for member to use different tongs for the chicken. i know that's a real challenge out there. >> thinks that on the on. if this one is for you, brother. there you go. >> ben: thank you for watching "fox news primetime." i am ben domenech.

we will be back tomorrow night at 7:00. until then, be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray. happy memorial day, tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." this is a special edition of the show. so much has changed in the united states this past year. it's hard to keep track of it all. a public as experts have been exposed as frauds as incompetent and dishonest. our schools are now openly teaching racism toward children. our military at times does not seem interested in protecting the country. these are big changes that have real ramifications.

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