first day in quite some time that we're back to our normal dance in the studio. it's good to see you up close, my friend. todd: obviously joking about it how close we are, it means something else. it means we are one step closer to really turning the corner on what was a tough time for our country and hopefully this is one step that puts a smile on your faces a well. jillian: absolutely. "fox & friends" starts right now. have a good day. ♪ ♪ >> the vice president harris back in the u.s. >> that you will indeed visit the u.s.-mexico border. >> yes, i will. and i have before. >> vice president's attitude towards this seemed enormously unserious. >> one that the "new york times" got completely got triggered at the sight of the american flag. >> i was really disturbed because essentially the message was clear this is my country. >> hatred for the country because they wish that everybody just shared their group think. bret: negotiations on president biden's massive infrastructure spend having now broken off. >> i'm extremely disappointed because we offered the president basically what he asked us to

do. >> the action in ohio to have google declared a public utility. >> i couldn't agree more. big tech has to be broken up. >> look at any mob action, it always starts with something called twitter trend. jack dorsey eliminated twitter trend today cancel culture would starve today ♪ i'm back ♪ i'm back in the new york pro groove ♪ i'm back ♪ back in the new york groove. steve: today in the new york groove currently we're looking at high in close to 90 degrees and the chance of rain. meanwhile, it is currently 27 which is room temperature and in this room, right now, something exciting. we haven't done it for 15 months, ladies and gentlemen. ainsley: we're back in the new york groove. steve: we're back on the couch and i can touch your hand. ainsley: you are too far away. you need to come over. brian: i was told to stay by my crease. [laughter] they gave me orders.

ainsley: how many creases do you have on there. brian: all i would say first time we have talked to each other without a bull horn. we usually need a microphone to adjust each other. first separate locations. then same location, but not close. then we got on a couch which was distant. steve: are you going through the last 15 months in realtime. brian: now back in realtime where we belong. ainsley: how does it feel to you, to you especially in long island little room for three hours for our show. six hours in that little room. >> i used to go outside because it was in an industrial area. i imagine it still is and kick a soccer ball against a wall to keep my sanity in the break. ainsley: some people go out and smoke a cigarette and you go to kick a soccer ball against the wall. brian: i'm still sane. steve: i was doing the show from the beginning for like four months from my living room and a.j. hall one of the producers was there manning the camera from a safe, socially distanced. ainsley: we did what we had to do. steve: we did. at the end of the show i would

make him breakfast something out of cookbook. brian: can't crunch. steve: no. we had a lot of food. it was delicious. it's great to be back in the new york groove and back on the couch after so long. ainsley: a long time. steve: it's been a long journey. ainsley: 6:02 if you are just waking up if you want to know what time it is if you are in the bathroom or kitchen. 6:02 will time before you have to leave to work. are. brian: big hand on 2. steve: who still has hands on their clock. steve: of course. ainsley: kamala harris is back in the united states after a trip to guatemala and addressing the root causes. brian: the v.p. now faces mounting pressure to visit the border in her own country. >> kamala harris confused the press corps on her trip saying she has already been to the border. and that she will eventually visit. this after bipartisan calls for her to go since march.

>> can you commit right now that you will, indeed, visit the u.s.-mexico border and will you do it soon? >> yes, i will. and i have before. the reality of it is that we need to prioritize what's happening at the border and we have to prioritize why people are going to the border. >> there is no word on an exact date. iowa representative ashley hundredson tweeting fact check v.p. harris has not been to the border. she these stop shirking responsibility and finally address the border crisis. on her trip to the vice president met with the guatemalan and mexican why there was it of. diplomatic solutions and announced aid money. to say deals to enforce immigration to the dismay of progressives. told migrantst do not come. plus, doo take a look at this. heart breaking video from customs and border patrol of a 5-year-old girl running along fencing at the border after

being abandoned. will agents were able to get to her and wring her to safety. the vice president said republicans are being short-sighted and a simple border trip won't fix the issues. brian, ainsley, steve? brian: no one thinks a border trip would fix the issue as everybody knows. but when you go down there and see that and engage, what happens is then all of the sudden the vice president, according to political experts will be seen as somebody who you can attach the border bungle to along with the president. to me i would be looking to solve the problem. you have three and a half years until another election. go down there, hop in a pickup truck with some border patrol agents, buzz around, see the wall you didn't finish. ainsley: let the border patrol agents know you care. brian: go visit that 5-year-old kid. what was missing in the conversation. not everybody is here for battery life. a lot of people are coming here to distribute fentanyl.

to say create havoc. there are criminals looking to get into our country create chaos and leave. steve: listen, the administration sunday water when it comes to immigration and border patrol and border security. somebody at the white house came up with a plan a while back and said you know what? if nobody goes down there we don't have to talk about it. ainsley: if we don't see the problem we don't know there is one. steve: yesterday it all blowed up because she said we have been to the border. lester holt says you haven't been to the bored and she said i haven't been to europe either. looked terrible. before that earlier in the day she said if i went to the border it would just be a grand gesture. do you know what grand gesture boo to be go to the border and see these people with your own two eyes who are risking their lives to come into this country for a variety of reasons. ainsley: another reporter yesterday in mexico said are you going go and are you going to go soon? she said yes, i will. steve: he had to say something. when she was a u.s. senator she went down to the border to see with her own two eyes what is

going on. she is in vice president in charge of the root causes, go to the border. come on, this is pretty easy. ainsley: nikki haley says it's embarrassing you can't fix what you can't see. she hasn't been to the ground and talked to the border patrol she doesn't know what's happening there. brian: i would add a couple other things to this. grand gestures are by the queen of england and prince. one is a renegade prince. he is located in our country we will have more on that later. steve: is he no longer a prince. brian: even the vice president said a month ago if i go down there i create havoc because i have all my security around me. no, it's an open field. don't worry about that. the one place you don't have to worry about that is an open place like texas, arizona, new mexico and california. steve: brian and ainsley, i'm receiving word apparently kamala harris is now at the border. yes, indeed. congresswoman lauren bow better a cut out. so she could look and see what

she has done here they are as you can see right there. a little two dimensional on one down in mcallen, texas, this is what the congresswoman had to say last night on the channel. >> frankly, when i brought a cardboard cut out of her, i brought more substance and more attention to the southern border than she has as border czar. i have seen hundreds of unaccompanied minors at our southern border who do not have their parents. whose parents are self-separating because of the policies that allow them to cross into our nation i have seen the plane tickets that are purchased by united states tax dollars, by united states citizens to ship illegal aliens all our country. this is a crisis from the largers in texas who are regularly having their property damaged and their safety threatened by these aliens. it's a crisis. but for joe biden and calculate cling camla.

steve: there we go right there. ainsley: part of her video. i went to the south southern border to see what's up but i didn't go alone. she took the cardboard cutout. do you know what's up? illegal aliens crossing, sex offenders, drug smuggling, human smuggling, unaccompanied children sent here alone. and cartels going up. she said do you know what's not up? respect for law enforcement. law and order and funding for our border patrol. brian: don't diminish what she did on the national stage how insecure she looked in front of the people and how she didn't note issues. donald trump has supporters in guatemala? i mean, they were actually chanting down with kamala and they were saying trump really won the election. and then she goes to mexico and has an hour meeting and comes out and pledges millions of dollars to both countries. thanks, it's our money. can we at least know what they're doing with it? just here is some money? what about the remain in mexico policy? what about some leverage for our dollars, nothing about a pledge of marines on their southern

border. to me it was a disaster. she is not ready for prime time. and i think that was evidence from anyone who is honestly traveling from her from the idiotic move the handing out cookies with her face on it. steve: she handed out the cookies. brian: i don't know if she made them. ainsley: they were a gift. steve: apparently somebody at the press conference who said i'm from univision and i have a question for you. by the way i voted for you. ainsley: i really like you i voted for you. steve: univision said you know what? that person does not actually work for us. speaking of newspapers and the news media, somebody from the "new york times" was on tv yesterday and got a lot of blow back. ainsley: yeah. this is what she said. >> i was on long island this weekend visiting a really dear friend and i was really disturbed. i saw, you know, dozens and dozens of pickup trucks with, you know, explicatives against

joe biden on the back of them. >> yep. >> trump flags. and some cases just dozens of american flags which, you know, is also just disturbing because essentially the message was clear it was this is my country. this is not your country. i own this. brian: now the "new york times" is pushing back saying how dare you take those words out of context. really? what's out of context? you basically just heard her say things that are extremely naive and offensive. steve: she didn't like the flags? brian: she doesn't like the american flags and doesn't put a bumper sticker on for somebody she obviously didn't vote for and knows vote for. did she ever get off the subway and streets of new york city and chance to go around that's an average suburb in america where maybe 75 million that voted for president trump are unhappy with the outcome of the election. it doesn't mean america is a bad place. but she goes on to say. steve: can you imagine how these images would make her feel all

those flags? brian: as long as they see talking about these people. as long as they see americanness the same as one with whiteness, this is going to continue. yeah, people are going to continue flying flags. it has nothing to do with the color of somebody's skin. can people get off of this obsession with race and gender and ethnicity and just say they don't agree with certain policies you agree with? it's not a matter of what happened 250 years ago? ainsley: i drive out to long island all the time. do you have too, you live out there. you see all types of bumper stickers. i see them for both candidates. i see them for trump and i see them for joe biden. brian: i see a lot of signs how am i driving i'm not complaining about that. ainsley: the american flag taking offense to even democrats. that's the american flag, that represents every single american in our country and some men and women have died for that flag. steve: keep in mind she is editorial board member. she is one of the most influential influencers in the united states and she feels like that -- she also said that the

real concern because you get the trump voters who are not going to get on board with democracy, they are a minority. you can marginalize them long-term but if we don't take the threat seriously, then i think we are really going to be in bad shape. what does that mean, exactly. ainsley: she wants a commission to investigate what happened on january 6th, too. steve: there was a lot of blow back and the "new york times" has tweeted out this from the nyt communications department. the "new york times" editorial board member mara gay's comment on msnbc the comments have been irresponsibly taken out of context. her argument was that trump and many of his supporters have politicized the american flag. is that what you heard? the attacks on her today are ill-informed and grounded in bad-faith. brian: in her view -- steve: i wonder if she wrote that tweet. brian: in their view politicize the american flag? that's totally in the eye of the

beholder. number two how do you take somebody out of context play i believe we still use vcrs in the control room? steve: we don't. brian: i have to get down there more. play the soundbite. how do you take that out of context. i'm sorry we're not going to add the whole hour of msnbc. we wouldn't do that to our viewers. steve: the little happened is on the 6 and the bigger hand is coming up on the 14, brian. brian: exactly, that's how i tell time and how people explain to me to tell time. ainsley: hunter biden new text messages from the daily mail show hunter repeatedly referring to his white lawyer as a racial slur. todd piro is here with more. todd: daily mail releasing messages showing hunter biden using racially charged language not just once but several times. late texts date back to 2018 and 2019. exist between hunter and white attorney in this exchange hunter asks, quote: how much money dio you? he then uses the "n" word saying because n word you better not be

charging me hennessey rates. in another hunter says to his attorney i only love you because you are black which that attorney is not. here hunter's attorney is talking with god and unconditional love but hunter interjects he calls the attorney the "n" word again and goes on some explicative and difficult to understand rant. his lawyer snapping back, quote champions annoying when you interject hunter biden saying true dat. racist hunter was trending on jr. if he was at donald trump jr. we would be enjoying wall-to-wall coverage on every mainly media outlet. isn't that the truth? neither hunter or his attorney have released any comments on this matter. back to you. steve: yeah, i bet you are right. brian: just march jimmizeed it and say i was on drugs during that time that's why i was writing to my lawyer about payments? ainsley: or maybe drinking?

brian: i have problems with drugs and you know that and wants everyone's heart go out to him. steve: anyway, that's in the news today. and we have got somebody with us right here as well with more news and we're talking about jillian. jillian: that's right, good morning. let's begin your headlines with this story a driver in california kills three young girls ages 11, 12, and 13 in a hit and run. fourth girl age 14 remains in the hospital in critical condition. authorities say the driver and passenger got out of their truck, looked at the girls with a flashlight and ran away. they didn't help or call 911. police are looking for the driver. overnight evacuations are ordered for multiple communities in southeast arizona. the wildfire known as the telegraph fire continues to spread burning nearly 80,000 acres and closing several major highways in the area. only 18% of the fire is contained. 178 hospital employees have been suspended for missing a deadline to get fully vaccinated against

covid-19. the houston methodist hospital system confirms the news saying they are hopeful the employees will get the vaccine and return to work in the future. some employees staged a walkout in houston as protests centered on the hospital system's controversial vaccine mandate. and it's hard being the king. a new study revealing lebron james is by far the most hated player in the nba. sports insider.com tracked over 70,000 negative social media posts and hash tags and found james was the most hated player in 24 states. could i ring irving 18 states hating him the most. kevin durant and james harden third. i think it's fair to say unless you are a part of that team the player is a part of you are probably going to hate them. brian: got to be relevant not so much what he does. jillian: he so good people don't like him. brian: also he has been very

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beaten, he says, by men hurling homophobic and racial slurs. >> smollett told the police the attackers also allegedly yelled this is maga country. >> you see a video of a kid who is a american native around the guy jeering and dancing and smug look. everyone sees that smug look wants to nawnch kid. >> mystery surround the institute of virology that handles the world's most dangerous pathogens making it the target of conspiracy theories about the origins of the virus. >> when you were listen to trump era officials lab leak theory. brian: big time stories that were big time wrong. one thing they have in common they were trending on social media sites like twitter. okay, exactly like twitter, what with can he do to stop that to address that should it even be stopped or addressed a wrong story that runs out of control.

ainsley: many people go to their phone and see what's trending and headlines are click bait and click on the story and that's what they believe, they read that they don't take into account and don't take into account there might be another side of the story. >> what's amazing about this it can be one person in their basement they tweet something out and next thing you know it trends and it becomes a thing i got started in the news business when big city newspapers and television editors would figure out okay, what's going to be the big story? what's going to be our lead stories? it's going to be the things that impact the most people these little tiny issues suddenly blow up on twitter. greg gutfeld sews, you know, that is a problem and he has a suggestion. listen, here he is right now. >> remember uncle tim that smear on senator tim scott? without twitter trends no one would have heard of it the covington. edited clip. and trump feeding the fish.

mike pence loading empty boxes, trump wearing his pants backwards? twitter trends created these fake stories. twitter trend does the rest because that's the media's trough. if jack dorsey eliminated twitter trends today cancel culture would starve to death and the world would instantly become a better place. until do you that jack, we shall sit by and watch the endless parade of powerless dressed up as enlightenment cadavers of careers and contrition will all be an act. steve: one thing about having twitter trending issues is and one person can start a trend is then you have got voices to everybody has a voice in twitter land. the question is it helpful? ainsley: all of these sites have them. when i log on to yahoo and i read headlines for all of these sites. all the news stories come up in the right it says what's trending. and you click on that just to find out why janet jackson is trending, so a lot of people get their news that way.

brian: big story that janet jackson is trending again. fox news does it too. don't we have trends on top stories. stories that we run that people click on more than others as opposed to rumors that people follow which means more people click which means trends higher and higher. steve: high to greg's point sometimes these stories get started and these stories are wrong. brian: is greg obligated to run a clip of us on his show as a trend? steve: i think it was last night doing "the five" out of this room and he talked about "fox & friends" and he said, you know, it's like me that one time i hosted "fox & friends" he said i just wasn't -- i just couldn't get my head around being up and being so happy and so perky so early in the morning. brian: because is he not happy by nature. he is not a happy guy. especially in the morning. he is not even up yet. ainsley: if you are awake, greg. steve: he's not. ainsley: wonderful things on

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ii marine medal of honor showed off some of his best skills at a veterans appreciation event. look at this, herschel woody williams is 97. that certainly didn't stop him from firing off a few rounds for his young admirers, williams also got use a flame thrower, the same weapon he heroically used in iwo jim that to fight off the enemy in a solo act of bravery that snagged his medal of honor. that is a look at your headlines, steve, send it back to you. incredible. steve: no kidding. what a guy. thank you very much. american job openings right now have hit a record 9.3 million. that's how many are open right now in april as employers are scrambling to try to find feel work for them. the situation is forcing some businesses to offer more money for a job than they ever done before. because they are using ppp money from the government to essentially overpay employees. but what happens when the money runs out? our next guest is a kansas city

restaurant owner, worried about the impact it's having on history, jasper is the owner of jasper's restaurant down in kansas city. and he has a radio show. and he joins us right now from his kitchen. hey, jasper, good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: okay. so we have been talking for a while on this program about how with this plus-up, this supplemental income from the government with unemployment is keeping a lot of people from coming to work. they have decided i'm going to stay on my couch rather than go to work. have you noticed that? >> well, to be honest with you, we used to have sometimes 25, 30 people apply for job a month. and now we get zero. i mean, maybe two or three the past three months. that is it. steve: okay. so, and the problem for you, because you have got one of kansas city's greatest restaurants, jaspers and marco polo as well. >> thank you. steve: you bet. the problem is you have got to worry about the quality of the

food. because if the food is not good, people are not going to come in and pay your prices. so, jasper and i were talking on the phone yesterday, you have noticed something that you are worried about the future because right now to keep somebody in the kitchen, you suddenly have to pay cooks and chefs how much? >> >> it just depends, if someone was making $20 an hour, now these cooks are demanding 30, $35 an hour. there is no way in the world our industry that we can pay those prices, those wages without raising our prices. steve: absolutely. i understand as we talk about the staff struggles, you know, some restaurants are so desperate, essentially they will try to raid somebody else's kitchen to get the good cooks and they are offering signing bonuses for a cook. >> and that's unbelievable. believe me, i think everyone should make a great living. i am the first one to take care of my employees. we have had employees for 35

oand 40 years still with us. they deserve a great living. but to come in and take one of our employees, that's just not right. not to give them a $2,500 signing bonus some restaurants are offering. unbelievable. steve: you know, if i'm out of work, i would probably take that because that's great deal for that person. but, here's the thing. the way the restaurants are able to do it right now is they have got this vast amount of money that the federal government is giving them, right? >> that's right. here they have given us the phone. here we are trying to stay open. we are trying to create jobs, more jobs. business is good. believe me. we are up almost 22% over 2019. steve: wow. >> so we need the employees right now. we need the people in our kitchens. we need the people at the front desk. we need the greeters, people who work the floors, the bartenders, the bus turner person, the dishwashers and of course our cooks. what are we going to do next year at this time? steve: yeah, exactly. well, you know what? if i'm working in your kitchen and you are paying me $35 this

year i would expect that next year. that would mean with the government money running out, you're going to have to come up with that dough from some other source and the-that other source are the people sitting out in your kitchen or rather out in your dining room who are your customers. you will have to jack up your prices. >> exactly. i mean, you know, the restaurant industry is the second largest industry in the country. and then again we have to worry about prices going up increase in food and the food lines and running out of food and the shortages right now. and then on top of that, unemployment getting people back to work, a lot of factors go into this. and next year i'm worried. i'm not worried as much right now. we are holding on. we are doing very well. what are we going to do at this time next year? i don't know. i'm worried. steve: i don't blame you, you are not the only one. jasper mirabile. thank you for getting up early for us. >> thank you. have a wonderful day. steve: thank you, sir. meanwhile, it is 6:37 here on

the east coast. coming up as parents across the country stand up against critical race theory in schools. many still don't know where to begin. that's why one group created an easy guide for any parent who wants to keep indoctrination out of the classroom. you are going to hear about that coming up next live from new york city and "fox & friends." ♪ ♪

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against critical race theory in schools one think tank created a guide to help them with their fight to keep it out of the classrooms across the country this includes knowing what the theory is, how to spot it, when it's in use. how to talk to other parents about it and how to run for school board positions. joining us right now is the senate for renewing america former omb director under president trump russ vote. russ, what prompted you to take action once you left office? >> sure, you know, this is a state-sanctioned racism that is based on a theory that has been around for a number of decades that says we're going to -- the legal theory we are going to reject the colorblind society and move toward judging and governing people based on the color of their skin instead of content of character. he when we led office of management and budget we had experience being called a racist having articulate legal theory

is how to spot it in the federal government and use expertise to arm and provide a resources to the american people who were out there seeing this in their communities. the movement out there is very organic, people are seeing it i think from zoom calls from watching their teachers as a result of the pandemic and others. and they are needing resources to be able to say okay, how do you spot it? critical race theory doesn't just put a knee on light around itself it has certain buzz words. brian: absolutely. says something too, russ. you were given this assignment by president trump. you were so motivated and moved by what you saw you are continuing it after the trump administration came can to a close. i want you to hear -- before guy through some of the criteria that people can use at home to spot it in your kids' curriculum or grand kids' curriculum. i want you to hear what the president obama told anderson cooper a couple days ago. >> you would think with all of the policy debates taking place right now that the republican party would be engaged in a

significant debate about how are we going to deal with the economy and what are we going to do about climate change and what are we going to do about lo and behold the single most important issue to them p&a libertily right onow is critical race theory. who knew that that was the threat to our republic? brian: he is mocking you. what is really more important than what your kids are learning in school? >> there is nothing more important than what kids are learning in school and society. it's not just in our schools. it's in our employment arrangements and in our government. and so, you know, i thought what was interesting about that and was also his recognition that this is a very important issue right now for many of the country but also, you know, he didn't reject it as a theory that's being taught. a lot of what the critical race theory people are saying is you are misunderstanding it it's not out there. that's not what we teach. kind of classic tactics that folks on the left use when we're on to them. that's not the approach that he took. it was more of a mocking

approach and, unfortunately, you know, it confirms everything we are trying to do and gives us momentum in our education process. brian: just trying to earn money off of it doesn't mean you forget about jim crow and forget about slavery or 1960's and cill unrest. it just means you don't vilify a race, a white race and say they are oppressors. you have a guide. some of the things we will put it up real quick because i'm up against the clock. know what cr. >> it is ant isn't. how to spot when cr. >> it is in use. how to address common arguments, how to connect with other parents which you are doing. how to talk with crt with parent how to run for and find candidates to run office. how do we get your guide, russ? >> we can go to america renewing.com it's right there. we're happy to connect with you and make this the start of how we serve the communities that are fighting this. brian: i don't think i have really think i have seen something spur up with so much passion out of the grassroots

like this has come up. i can't go through a day without reading two or three separate stories around the country about people wanting to take action that never did before. russ, thanks so much. >> thanks, brian. brian: coming up straight ahead, actually, before i take a break, i'm going to commandeer the show. i'm going to check in with senior meteorologist janice dean for fox weather forecast. janice: i can't believe you almost forgot about me. toss to the break and forget janice we just had a nice talk in the hallway. brian: i tried to cover for myself but you wouldn't allow it. janice: buy me coffee and donuts. take a look at the temperatures. it's a little bit better than it was yesterday. it was really humid out here. into the 70s and cooler temperatures on the way this week for the northeast. so a lot of 70s there. 72 in raleigh. cooler temperatures across the northwest. 49 in seattle. showers, thunderstorms, that's going to bring the potential for flash flooding, unfortunately for parts of arkansas in towards mississippi. so we have flash flood warnings in effect. meaning that flooding is

imminent. know what to do if there is a watch or a warning. do not travel over roadways that you can't see the bottom of. because that could be really dangerous. flooding takes more lives than any other weather and see, there is your wildfire danger today because we have extreme drought, gusty winds and very high temperatures across the west. exceptional drought for a lot of folks in already many fires burning so it is going to be a really bad season unfortunately there are your forecast highs today. cooler temperatures across the northeast. am i tossing back to that guy who forgot about me earlier what was his name, brian? brian: yes, and you are tossing back. you could have covered for me instead you outed me. how dare you. january anything, thanks so much. janice: back to good old times, my friend. brian: i know exactly where to find you. too woke to work. one employer says why he stopped hiring ivy league grads that story come up. plus, joints for jabs. new initiative giving pot for

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it's actually known to raise the risk of heart attacks shortly after use. what's one thing we know about these vaccines they are, you know, they have been linked with myocarditis and pericar diets young people you would expect to get this jab. this is wrong on a number of levels. honestly, ainsley, it is not going to work. we know that, you know,st last month the big push was lotteries and basically cash giveaways, that did not slow the, you know, vaccinations have been falling since april. they have fallen first doses are about 20% of what they were back in april. they are headed towards zero. all the money and all the joints and all the marketing in the world can't stop that people, you know, people have not been vaccinated yet don't want to be vaccinated in the united states. that's quite clear. and the government and business and everyone else is just going to have to accept that it's a free country. do you not have to take this vaccine if you want to. i say this as somebody whose

children have been vaccinated against everything. every vaccine that exists. and who is personally vaccinated but the covid vaccine is different. people are aware of that and a lot of people don't want it. and i think that's their right. ainsley: it's just interesting. we are hearing free burgers. we are hearing free donuts for the vaccine. lottery tickets. i understand paying people for it. i actually said i'm for that because it means more people get vaccinated and get back to normal. paying people with marijuana seems outrageous. , it is outrageous. again, i think we sort of disagree on paying in general. everyone should agree that giving people drugs or alcohol. there has been shot programs. none of that is ethical. none of that makes sense. and honestly, again, none of it is working. ainsley: think about the teenagers that have never tried marijuana before. they get vaccinated and then all of a sudden they get a joint? i guess not a teenager, a

21-year-old. you have to be 21. >> i won't worry about that state of washington most 21 people and over have tried cannabis at this point. it's just the truth. the big fight teenagers coming up is going to be 16 and under and college students whether they will be forced to be vaccinated or kids forced or quasi forced of before they go back to school. ainsley: what do you think about that. >> obviously, i think it's a terrible idea. and parents, that's the thing that upsets patients more than anything else. everywhere at this point i think is aware that covid, you know, is almost no risk to people under 18 and so kids should not have to be vaccinated. ainsley: alex berenson if you want to read his book unreported truths about covid-19 and lockdowns find it on google or local bookstore. thank you. more "fox & friends" coming up. ♪

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wall-to-wall coverage on every media outlet. >> a teacher at new jersey prep school was so fed up that she quit. >> we teach students how to think not what to think. steve: american job openings right now have hit a record in april as employers are scrambling to try to find people to work for them. >> we used to have, sometimes, 25, 30 people apply for a job a month. and now we get zero. ♪ ainsley: that is a live look of orlando. that is really orlando. there is no water there. steve: happiest place on earth. ainsley: i just took my daughter there for spring break to disney world. we had the best time. she asked me yesterday she said momma, can we go back for a few more days this summer? steve: that's what happens. ainsley: how much money do you think i make? it was an expensive trip. brian: gets to college do you think she will still want you to

go with her time for spring break in orlando. brian: not yet. they have never asked me to go on spring break with. they what a shocker. yeah, they are usually playing sports in the spring. plus i talk to a lot of people no longer fun. ainsley: it's so fun and everyone was happy and a relief and so nice during covid. nice to be in a place where oh no you go first you go in front of me. steve: as people were getting back to normal. as you are 7:02 eastern time. we are closer than we have been in 15 months. ainsley: we're back. brian: we promise never to be normal. that makes our show a little bit different. steve: when with d. we make that promise. brian: just now. we are hearing more momentum gather about the possibility of this pandemic starting and this covid 2 virus leaking from a wuhan lap. the wuhan lab, more and more people looking at the evidence like scientists and taking it

makes a lot more sense than a bat biting another animal which the virus to human beings killed a million people around the world. ainsley: claimed the lab leak was plausible back in may of 2020 under the trump administration. but it's all of a sudden received some fresh interest because now joe biden has ordered the u.s. intelligence agencies to investigate this and come back with their findings in a few weeks. brian: livermore lab. it's a big but though. steve: because had a year ago 15 months ago we actually have been taking it seriously we might be closer to knowing what happened behind the doors at the wuhan institute of virology but we are not. so, yesterday, at a senate committee hearing, our current secretary of state tony blinken was asked about one of these "wall street journal" articles been a couple whether or not it started with an animal and the federal government it sounds like actually was behind the

idea that possibly it could have been a lab leak which flies in the face of everything that the mainstream media has been trying to tell you over the last year until the election and then with donald trump out, suddenly it's like you know what? there could be something to this. anyway, asked about it yesterday and had this to say about it keep in mind the state department pulled the plug on an investigation into all that stuff. the previous administration asked a contractor to come in to pursue an internal nigeria into inquiry into theorigins of the n particular whether it was the result of a lab leak. that work was done in the trump administration. it's my understanding had real concerns about the methodology of that study the quality of the analysis bending evidence to fit preconceived narratives that was their concern. the work that was contracted for

was completed. and it was made known. this was the work of one office and a few individuals in it. not a whole of government effort to get to the bottom of what happened. brian: a little confusing. steve: because, initially it was unclear of which the "wall street journal" journal articles he was referring. to say people close tony blinken said he was referring to the fact that the biden administration pulled the plug on the investigation into the origin of covid, which was started during the trump administration at the state department. and now it's a whole of government thing as we have just heard him say where they are all trying to figure out what happened because the longest time we were told that if you thought it was a lab leak, you were a crazy right wing in the. ainsley: here is lindsey graham, senator from south carolina on the resistance to the lab leak theory in 2020. >> not only did fauci ignore the warnings, on february the 19th, a couple of weeks after the first case 27 are calling them

conspiratorial, right wing not marginalizing president trump and tom cotton because if trump was right it would have changed the outcome of the 2020 election, i believe. and if we could have proven early on in 2020 it was a lab leak coming from china, not occurring naturally, the public would want revenge against china and who would they turn to? biden or trump? britain brian couple things stand out. he was trying to make a point that he did not end the investigation into the wuhan lab leak theory. he said it came to a close which i think when we have mike pompeo on he will feel differently and push back on that. but now you don't really have that much reluctance from this administration on the lab leak theory. everything has changed so dramatically, makes you want to look back and say how did we get here? what was the problem. lindsey graham told us one other issue. then we find out the livermore

lab results were available at the same time. then we find out anthony fauci went to europe and he has some issues with the bat to other animal to human situation that was signed off by 27 scientists. >> and that is the key. that particular letter that was signed by the 27 scientists that showed unjust a couple of weeks after the first cases here in the united states. and it appeared in the medical journal the lancet. and that pretty much stopped everything in its tracks. that stopped everybody saying, you know, it could have come from a lab. so now, wouldn't it be curious to find out who these 27 people were who signed it because essentially, it wasn't just a scientific thing they essentially said that if you -- you know, you adhere to those ideas that it could be a lab leak, then you are out of your mind, you are being taken in by this spiritual theory. and so essentially, that was a

political document because it stopped all the talk to lindsey graham's point of view. the "new york times" or rather the "new york post" talked a little bit about that lancet statement was organized by a fellow by the name of peter diaz knack. he is the president of echo health, which funneled the money from nih to the wuhan lab and he did not want the gain of function. ainsley: he thanked fauci for not spreading the lab leak theory. steve: he is the one according to the "new york post" who got all those scientists to say yeah, you are out of your mind if you think it's a lab leak. fast forward to today, i think most people think it's a lab leak right there that's the only place in the world they do that kind of studiying, and it just so happens that the coronavirus started in that snown come on. brian: i really encourage you to look back on his portion of the leslie stall feature on "60 minutes" where he those on for a minute that he basically admits

that he did not see any firsthand evidence of any investigation that china handed them everything and then when he wanted to interview chinese scientists the chinese scientists had minders around them. scientists were telling the truth to me. really the guy that blue blew the whistle on it is dead. ainsley: they don't want us to know possibly because it could be nih money that funded the gain of function research if that's what they were doing in the lab souping up this virus animals how it would effect humans if it did spread. the three doctors leave the lab according to the "wall street journal" and they had signs of covid and it starts spreading to beijing and starts spreading to the united states. millions of people are dead. we don't know what happened but all we are asking for is an investigation. brian: woe right. we are never going to get it because the chinese will never cooperate. it's up to the rest of the world to pressure them. and i guess ice hates them. that's what joe biden should be talking about with the g-7 and the u.k. and to russia. isolate them, too.

say, guys, i got your back. let's isolate them trade wise. let's make them come forward with the truth because i'm worried about the next one. really great on spreading these viruses around the world and great at covering them up. can we stop that cycle. i don't want to add any more sections to the couch. steve: because we did that for 15 months and tired of it. brian: thanks, china. steve: one of the microbiologists from signed that letter from the lancet says he is no longer convinced it it's from animals and he would like answers. brian: take your time. steve: particularly, if u.s. funds went to fund the virology lab in wuhan, would the united states -- which perhaps unleashed that, would the united states have any liability regarding the coronavirus? ainsley: i would love to talk to an expert to find out how often do we fund gain of function research research in other countries. steve: we do this here.

ainsley: why are we funding it in other countries. brian: 2014 push back from president obama and refunded it in 2017. steve: that's what they said in public. the reason apparently we were funding that. that's the only person in the world where they were doing that kind of coronavirus testing on bats. and so okay they are doing it in china we should probably have a piece of it. unfortunately, if that's true, we have a piece of it. brian: all right. i quit. that is the story from dana stangle plow, she is accused dwight englewood school of forcing. ainsley: in new jersey. brian: to believe a beliefs choking off free speech in the process this is getting a lot of publicity. ainsley: he says cr. >> it is creating a hostile culture fear causing white male and white students to feel they are oppressors. she has been at that school for seven years. she is very bright. she went to cornell. she is a published poet.

brian: taught english there steve: school not far from where we live always had a great academic reputation. a portion of her quote from resignation letter reads the school's ideology requires students to see themselves not as individuals but as representatives a group forcing them to adopt the status of victimhood as a result students arrive in my classroom accepting this theory as fast people born with less llweleyn anyone in their skin are oppressors and people born with more are oppressed. men are oppressors and women are owe he pressed. this is divisive ideology guiding our adolescent student. she also said in documents that she uploaded to a website that was started by a parent who is trying to combat crt critical race theory in schools. she also said on two occasions the head of that particular school in 2017 and 2018 told the expire faculty that he would

fire everybody so that he could replace them all with people of color. brian: do you know what this seems to be? the big difference between now and the 160s they are not acknowledging culture the gains made and more equal despite our faults than any other country. other thing is they are not only trying to raise up minorities and make sure playing field is even. they are trying to take down the white culture and they are wondering why and this generation of americans wonders why aren't we all americans? why are we being marginalized on daily basis on gender, sex yawlings and the color of our skin? it's not even subtle? it is actually out there. it is written in black and white this is big ditches between other civil rights movements in our past. first one was war. second big one on the streets in the south. this one seeing in the classrooms and we have seen the enemy and it's white people and they wonder why people have a problem with it. ainsley: pretty simple what most

families in america are teaching their kids and that's the golden rule to love others as yourself. don't see people for skin color. we look to the bible in our house. we love everybody, everyone was created by god. we live in this great country can you be anything you want to be. they are not teaching them to be individuals. they are trying to, instead, lump them in as a group based on race. steve: sure. ainsley: i want my daughter to be autonomous. she can stand on her own two feet. be an individual and be exactly who she wants to be and using the desires that god has given her for a bright future. steve: you know, it is curious, because it was just a couple of years ago where the united states of america elected an african-american as president of the united states biggest entertainers. brian: he mocked critical race theory. steve: he did on cnn absolutely. we played that a little while ago. here's the thing. race is now being used by the political left to shut down can anybody who has got a different

poivment. brian: and divide people. steve: for instance, joe marchen who said he is not for that we the people house bill number 1, senate bill number 1 as well. he has been accused of -- and he has given histological reasons for it. he has been accused of being a white supremacist. brian. ainsley: he is not -- steve: there is a gay you will see on "tucker carlson today," later today at 4:00 this afternoon i believe. his name is glen lowery. and he talked a little bit how race is being used against people you do not agree with and it is happening all over the place here in the u.s.a. here is "tucker carlson today." >> how many times can you remind white majority of this country that their numbers are shrinking and they are about to be dominated by a coming nonwhite collision of latino and black and whatnot? how many times can you tell them

that they are intrinsically racist. that their lives are built upon unearned privilege. how many times can you accuse them of failing to see your humanity when in fact you are living in the freest country rischest country i'm talking about black americans. how many times can you do that and not have them get the idea racial identity not yours. that's not the world you want to live in. brian: ivy league professor came from the inner city of chicago and had no privileges at all, self-made success story and concerned about this generation of students although bright, already identifying with the color of their skin, their sexuality and gender not in to learn and understanding how great the country is. he grew up in imperfect country think about chicago in the 1960s. he is not bitter or angry. he is grateful and man is he bright. tucker carlson talks to him extensively on fox nation today. that's professor glen loury.

ainsley: drops at 4:00 today on fox nation. steve: check it out. all right. it is 7:16 now here in the east. jillian joins us she is back over there. jillian: back in normal position. good morning, great to see you. let's begin with this. a suspected baltimore gang leader died during a standoff with authorities. police were trying to arrest gary creek when he barricaded himself inside an apartment in an atlanta suburb when officers got inside, they found creek dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. police say creek is tried to 18 murders and 27 attempted murders in baltimore. he was also wanted for selling drugs including fentanyl, crack, and heroin. a minneapolis couple is suing the city and the mayor for the fallout from defunding the police. don and sandra samuels say city leaders should fail to protect citizens and the police after months of riots following the death the george floyd. the lawsuit says the city is not meeting its requirements to have enough police on the force. it also says city council's pledge to defund the police will

create a quote open season for crime abc bachelorette drop in ratings. roughly 3.7 million people tuned in to watch katie journey to find love. 30 million found last year's premier this as chris harrison stepped away as long time host following a racial controversy no. permanent replacement has yet been announced. and everybody loves their first day back, right? the washington football team releasing these back-to-school photos for the start of training camp. players be major, height and friends. symptom some listed the coach as their teacher. i feel like we should have done that for our first day back to normal. ainsley: funny, we should have. now that's a trend when we send our kids to school every year they stand with a blackboard who do you want to be when you grow up and usually like a paw patrol

character. steve: do that at some point during that first year obviously they have got it all. ainsley: did they tell you want to be multimillion dollars nfl player. brian: get back to the playoffs under 500. steve: agent probably answer those questions. jillian: i would answer my own questions and list you as my friend. steve: it was in the prompter. ainsley: okay. come up. a "new york times" editorial board member under fire for saying that she was disturbed by the sight of american flags flying on pickup trucks out on long island. the "times" says she was taken out of context. we will show you her full remarks and you can decide. too woke to work? find out why one employer says he won't hire ivy league grads. that's next. brian: ainsley uses both teases, wow, i guess she is better than me. ♪ if your dry eye symptoms keep coming back, inflammation in your eye might be to blame.

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♪ ♪ steve: here's something to think about. is college campus wokeness damaging the american workforce? that's the problem our next guest is facing when it comes to finding new employees. he explains in a new op-ed that he won't hire graduates from ivy league universities because even those who aren't woke seem damaged by the experience. rusty is the editor of he and he joins us now. rusty, good morning to you. >> great to be on the show. steve: first of all, why won't you hire from people for instance from harvard. >> i won't say i won't. i would just say that 10 years ago i would have seen that as a big positive on the resume. and now i see it as a negative that they have to overcome in the interview. and because, you know, obviously there is going to be great kids

at all over in higher ed and different schools. but, back in the day, what was a negative of these elite kids sense of entitlement? arrogance? you know, they want to write the lead editorial on day one rather than proofread. but, hey, you can work with that. because it reflects positives which are confidence and ambition. these are good things. but now i'm seeing these young people that they have to be frank, it kind of distorted view of reality. i mean, pronouns, worrying about pronounce, how can you get work done if everybody is tiptoeing around the office worrying about triggering someone? and so i think that that's a big change, i think in the last decade for me to sort of look at meet and interview students and go, wow, i don't really -- they have been damaged. steve: you write in your op-ed that it's kind of an open secret

that firms know that a lot of these kids coming out of these schools are, in your words damaged by this wokeness. they are not going to hair them either. >> i think in the circles i run in this is a conversation that we have had, you know, there is a kind of weird combination of arrogance and conformism in these kids and's the conformism that's new. i mean, they acquiesce to the woke culture and it's what i call a spirit of surrender to the wokeness. even if they don't -- look, the majority of these kids at the schools know there is something wrong but they keep their head down and they get their degree. and which is totally understandable. i don't want to criticize these kids. but, that's not exactly training for leadership and i want to hire someone who is going to stand up and, you know, say bold

things and challenge me for that matter. because i need to be told hey, you know, i don't think you have got that right, reno that's an important thing. steve: when you give somebody an assignment, you want them to do it rather than for them to turn around and tell you why you are wrong. real quickly, you see one of the problems at these elite ivy league schools and elsewhere higher education is a lack of courage from administrators because if they stand up to the woke mob, you know, the student activists are going to try to blow them up. you say the student activist don't represent the majority of the kids on the campus. >> certainly not. and but i think what you get there is a role model of leadership well it's not leadership at all. it's a kind of therapeutic management of student anger. it's cya maneuvers by administrators. i want to also point out that the professors, they there are very few professors at these

elite schools. they have tenure, they're at the top of their game, but they basically hide out hoping that the storm will pass rather than standing up. it's a short list. you guys mentioned glen loury earlier in the show is he a courageous man and role model. he is few anfar between on these campuses. rusty, thank you for joining us live today. >> thanks for having me on the show. steve: all right. have great day. all right. there is something you hadn't heard before. all right. meanwhile, 7:28 here in the east. a new op-ed argues latinos are fleeing the democratic party following a huge victory from republicans in one texas border city. so what's behind the shift to the right? we're going to talk about that. and speaking of the border, vice president harris doesn't seem too concerned. she still hasn't been there, although she said we have been there. but she hasn't. a border sheriff sounds off on that coming up next. you are watching "fox & friends" live from new york city. ♪

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filled with are illegal marijuana plants. the department destroyed with bulldozers, five mexican nationals taken into custody. how about this? american flag outraged. critics calling this mural made for police in michigan a white supremacist mural because of the way officers appear to be bowing and praying to the flag. the artist who created it says she didn't initially have the flag in the in the painting butd it upon request. she now wants the artwork taken down and mural about police reform. stumped back in april. this surveillance video went viral on social media showing a mysterious creature running through a palm coast backyard. some say it looks like a baby dinosaur. others say it may be a large bird. some say a dog attached to a leash. the woman who captured the footage says despite asking neighbors that she is convinced it is a baby dinosaur.

someone told me this morning a fox. someone else told me a peacock. i don't know. steve: looks like a fox. written brian i'm not really good at farm animals i know it doesn't belong there. jillian: could you research it and get back to me? steve: fox news channel. brian: pressure mounting on kamala harris when she will actually visit if ever the border for a firsthand look at the crisis she is supposed to fix. >> you haven't been to the border. >> and i haven't been to europe. i mean, i don't -- i don't understand the point that you are making. >> i have been to the border before. i will go again. but when i'm in guatemala. [laughter] dealing with root causes, i think we should have a conversation about what's going on in guatemala. >> can you commit right now that you will indeed visit the u.s.-mexico border and will you do it soon? >> yes, i will. and i have have before.

brian: why is she laughing? here to react pin nell county sheriff mark lamb. sheriff, do you know why she wouldn't go to the border? >> look, we're as confused as obviously she was after that question. look, this is our vice president who says to lester i don't even know what you are asking here. listen, kamala if you don't know what he is asking you are definitely not the right person for the job. she keeps proving time and time again why she is not the right person for the job. this is an important issue for her. that's why she is not coming down. we are left to believe this is exactly what they want. they want this chaos that is coming into this country. that's why they refuse to address it and her in particular. it's not a laughing matter. shame on her. brian: people focus on texas. it's terrible in arizona. talked to you enough to know that you see the exacerbation of the attorney general as well as the governor they don't seem to care. is the theory, sheriff, if i see it i own it? if i'm actually seen at the

border with these soft facilities which are filled with children and these -- and the chaos of other children being dropped over the wall and the border patrol rounding up thousands if she is seen with this she will actually have to own this. >> right, brian, seen with it have to own it like a little kid if they just ignore it it's not a problem. it is a problem kamala. i'm telling you it's a problem. we all know it and the american people know it they are wise to it. they know this and, yet, they refuse to address it she refused to come down here. you know, and they keep saying that they're addressing the root problems down in places like guatemala. i would contend, heavily contend that the root cause is joe biden and kamala harris and their policies. their failed policies. that's what they need to fix first and foremost. then if you want to go down and fix the rest of the world's problems, do so. we have plenty of our own here. let's start with those. brian: sheriff, what's your response when she says this is

a -- there is no short-term fix? this is a learn problem. every day is a five alarm fire for you and your other officers. don't tell me i got to wait a decade to fix it. got a million people here illegally. >> exactly. but it is a problem that has existed for a long time but we had a president over the last four years who was working hard to fix that president trump was doing what he needed to do. the wall was being built. we were seeing a reduction in illegal immigration. we were seeing a reduction in drug trafficking. although the drugs were increasing in amounts, the amount of busts we had were reducing or at least staying the same. so these are successes we were having. but now these policies they have they are making it even longer gain. and as long as they refuse to secure the border and shut it down, she is right. this is never going to go away and going to take forever to fix it. brian: just keep in mind if you are watching from around the

country and not in a border city or border state. the problem is yours, too. so because they are shipping the illegals out of these border areas and into your town and they are not going to tell you. they will just be there. they might be fine people. that's just not the way a country can exist and thrive. that's not the way the immigration system should be working, it's not just guatemala. got over 100 countries coming through the border. from africa to the caribbean to romaine i can't. so, this is a mess. and i don't think she accomplished one thing except for pledging more of our money to countries that don't deserve it. sheriff, thanks so much. >> thank you, brian. appreciate it. brian: you got it meanwhile, coming up straight ahead out of context, that's how the "new york times" is defending their editorial board member who said she was disturbed by the american flag. but, army veteran rob schmidt says the anti-american sentiment is what is truly disturbing. he will join us next.

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is also just disturbing essentially the message was clear this is my country. this is not your country. i own this. brian: "new york times" editorial board member sparking backlash over those comments saying she was disturbed by the sight of american flags on the back of pickup trucks. steve: yes, that's horrifying. now the newspaper is coming to her defense arguing quote mara gay's comments have been quote irresponsibly taken out of context. her argument was that trump and many of his supporters have politicized the american flag, the attacks on her today are ill-informed and grounded in bad faith even though we just played you exactly what she had to say but she had more. ainsley: here to react is army veteran and host of the rob smith is problematic podcast mr. hey, rob. >> hey, how is it going, guys. ainsley: you are a veteran. you fought for that flag. what's your reaction to what she said? >> so, when i entered the

military and took that oath to serve this country and that flag, i did so with millions of other americans who are black, white, latino, asian, it does not matter because that american flag is for everyone, yes, even democrats. and the reason that we're getting a lot of this pushback and a lot of this anti-american sentiment from people on the left is that they do not respect the american flag anymore. they want the pride flag they want the blm flag. they want all of that stuff. furthermore, i think this message that the american flag is somehow some sort of white supremacist symbol and that this american flag is not for african-americans or anybody that's not white is basically perpetrated by the most wealthy and privileged liberals that you can ever think of. think of lebron james, think of barack and michelle obama mara gay her twitter profile photo is her sailing a boat. so i don't know that she is the most oppressed person in the world. so you have to think about where this anti-american sentiment is

coming from and where this imagery is coming from. steve: she also said i think as long as they, trump people, see americanness as the same as whiteness, this is going to continue and that americanness and whiteness need to be separated. so, is she upset by the red, white and blue or is she upset by the whiteness? >> she is upset by the white and the red, are white and blue. and there is, you know, no substance to what she is saying about the american flag being, you know, for whiteness or anything like that. and this is the culmination of this continuing of trying to paint trump supporters, people that are republicans, people that even support america as racist, white supremacists, nazis, all of this stuff. this goes back to even the conversation that they have about january 6th. so the idea is to portray anybody that has allegiance to this flag, anybody that loves america, anybody that proudly waves this flag domestic

terrorist and extremist and somebody dangerous to this country. it is unreal and dangerous. like i said, that flag is for everyone. and we should all celebrate and appreciate it. brian: i know nothing about her but it sound ignorant. somebodies like somebody who goes from new york to los angeles and los angeles to new york and doesn't understand there are other people around that don't hang out with her and might not even read the "new york times." they must not be worthy of her time and she must be scared by them and they must be racist. it's such a simple -- it's such a simpleton reaction. >> yeah. it's very simple. and you have to understand this is an editorial board nebraska in the "new york times." they live in that bubble like you said between new york and l.a. and d.c. it is not reflective of america. and she got a real shock when she saw americans celebrating the flag. ainsley: we all love the flag on this curvey couch. thank you for your service and being on with us this morning,

rob. >> thanks, guys. ainsley: check in with janice dean for weather forecast. janice: good morning. we have a pretty nice day in new york city. field humid, cooler air moving in this weekend for now a little sticky. take a look at the temperatures across the map. i will show you where we have 74 in new york. 74 in raleigh. with the humidity it feels a little bit more than that here is the heat index that's what it feels like with the humidity. go up to 90's again today northeast to the suite and in to the 100-degree range for parts of texas and heat is going to back off a little bit. the you were midwest is has been very warm all week long and last weekend as well. temperatures are going to be well into the 90's. showers, thunderstorms across portions of the mid south up towards the mid-atlantic and that could cause some flash flooding so just be aware of that all right. back inside, steve, ainsley, brian, it's so good to see you close to each other this morning. i love it. steve: we're almost back to normal. brian: this is legally as close we can get. there will be lawsuits flying. you never know.

steve: well, here in new york, they are looking at restrictiong restrictions that's all great. ainsley: following the rules. steve: if you are in the market to buy or sell a house this summer. you have a pro-to make sure you make sure you are getting your money's worth coming up next. ♪ pointment. bill's all yours... 50 years or older? get vaccinated for shingles today. liberty mutual customizes car insurance so you only pay for what you need. how much money can liberty mutual save you?

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ainsley: it could be a hot summer for the housing market. 99% of metro areas are seeing price increases on homes, and there is a sharp decline on the number of homes available since last year, so if you're in the market to buy yourself, personal finance expert dan roca tto, with credible.com joins us with the tips we need to know. good morning, dan. it's great to have you back. so for starters what can you expect to see in the future as we go into the summer and next fall when it comes to real estate? >> yeah, great question. boom or bust we're not quite sure but here is i think a pretty good omen for the summer is that inventory is historical ly low, we're down 28% for houses for sale versus last year and the rates are still low the fed is keeping this party going and that means that borrow

s can borrow cheap money and that's propping up the market as well and as you reported this morning we've got 9.3 million job openings so people can find work and that helps prop up the market as well , so all in all at least for next couple months, ainsley, this market still looks pretty hot. ainsley: people i know moving out of the high tax states go down to florida or texas they can't find a house and when a house is on the market there's a bidding war for it. some people i know have heard word of mouth my neighbor's selling you should look at it before it goes on the market. what are the biggest hurdles for buyers? >> it's like an mma fight for buyers like rugby when there's a house that goes on the market, inventory is down, prices are up so if you're on the buy side of this , you want to be extra cautious. the first most important rule is make sure you know your budget. make sure you shop around for the best rate you can find, obviously you can do that at credible.com. but perhaps most importantly, ainsley, is you want to make sure you don't overpay. that's in the context of how long you'll be in the home.

if you'll be there forever, over paying really doesn't matter if you'll be there for two, three, four years you may not get that money back so you want to be careful. ainsley: what about for sellers what tips do you have for those folks? >> cut ching, now is the time to hit the bank this is wonderful if you're a seller. maybe you'd decide i'd like to sell but you have no where to go because the prices are so high, so maybe it's time to renovate, maybe do a refinancing and renovate your home and decide to stay there, check out your needs versus your goals. what is it that you absolutely need in a home versus those things, you do you really need that boujee outdoor kitchen maybe not, maybe you can give up on that and don't try to time the market, ainsley, you and i are mere mortals getting it right both ways buy and sell almost impossible. ainsley: interest rates you mentioned they were low. i remember when my parents bought their house when i was raised and interest rates were 11%, dad felt that was such a deal because they had been so

high before that. now, what are we, they are like 3% right? are we expecting to see those go up? >> yeah, we will so here is the deal. when you're big mac starts to cost more and move, as inflation goes up, you and i talked about on the show that's when we see the fed come off the sidelines and start to say last call, let's end the party, rates go up a little bit. ainsley: dan you're great. thank you so much for coming on with us. >> thanks have a good day. ainsley: you too. still ahead waffle house employees banding together to help a co-worker attempt a graduation and we'll talk to the hard working teenager and everyone who made it possible. >> ♪ ♪

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>> was really disturbed because the message was clear. this is my country. >> this is the culmination of the continuing of trying to paint trump supporters as racist >> one employer explains why he stopped hiring ivy league grads. >> how can you get work done if everybody is tip towing arounds office worried about triggering someone. >> ♪ ♪ brian: keith urban, he is singing for us, not live, on tape. that is ocean city, new jersey, where people are slow to get out and about today. there is no excuse. it is not that humid. the sun is up. the waves are crashing. wake up, new jersey. take the day off and head to the boardwalk. ainsley: don't you appreciate when you look at that picture, don't you appreciate the boardwalk even more now? brian: absolutely. ainsley: because we just want to enjoy our lives? we're appreciating our time with our families and our kids.

brian: remember don't go outside at all? remember i think 70% of the country want people even vaccinated to stay inside still. steve: yeah. brian: nobody i know. steve: turns out that being outside is the safest place you could be. oops. brian: right. steve: no known transmissions of people outside. ainsley: it's good to be back on the curvy couch, we don't have to sit so far apart from each other now. steve: new governor cuomo. brian: i would have thanked him if it was eight months ago when we should have been back on the couch but of course mr. i'll be a power man lunatic continues to reign over this city. steve: let's talk a little bit about the news in the next 10 or 15 minutes we'll take you live to the elipse south of the white house. the president of the united states is taking off in marine one for the g 7 sum it and wind ing up next week going to russia, he's going to have a busy time. brian: he's not actually going to russia. ainsley: he's going to sit down

with putin. steve: tuesday is the russian day. ainsley: he and the first lady meet with the queen in the uk. steve: they are going to brussels all sorts of places but what's interesting as he's taking off kamala harris is coming back and as she looks back at her trip down to guatemala and to mexico, and survey how she did, she's got to feel bad, because she had confusing messages. keep in mind, she was named the border czar, it sounded like but then they had to clarify no she's only in charge of root causes of immigration. brian: she clarified i don't think joe biden ever walked that back. steve: the white house, i'm talking about the white house so yesterday there she is doing a press conference because they had to do a clean-up on aisle 5 because earlier in the day she was asked by nbc whether or not she had ever, you know, when's she going to go to the border and she said she had already been, and then she flip flopped later in the day. here is some of it, watch. >> do you have any plans to visit the border?

>> at some point, you know, we are going to the border. we've been to the border, so this whole thing about the border, we've been to the border. we've been to the border. >> you haven't been to the border. >> and i haven't been to europe i mean, i don't understand the point that you're making. i'm not discounting the importance of the border. >> can you commit right now that you will indeed visit the u.s. mexico border and will you do it soon? >> jeremy let me tell you something, but yes, i will and i have before. listen, anybody, especially if you're from california, you know i've spent a lot of time on the border in both going there physically, and aware of the issues. steve: because she went to the border when she was a u.s. senator because she said she had to see the problem with her own two eyes. if she wants to have a grand gesture, go down to the southern border and see it with your own two eyes. ainsley: especially when you're the border czar. nikki haley said this is embarrassing any leader knows you can't fix what you can't see

she hasn't been on the ground. she hasn't talked to the border patrol. she doesn't know what's happening there. how do you think this makes the border patrol people feel? don't you feel like they just, they have to feel neglected. brian: the same way the cops feel. ainsley: exactly because they don't get the support. she's making decisions that do affect their lives and not even going down there to meet and hear their stories and learn about the root causes. brian: and the root cause of the problem is that the white house, the root cause of the problem is at our border. she acts like everyone is coming here because they want a bigger car or a bigger house. a lot of people coming here for ugly criminal reasons. drug, human trafficking that's what's happening. meanwhile she's pledged millions of dollars in u.s. loans in investment for housing and agriculture for southern mexico. right we can't use that here. what has mexico done to deserve that and there's got to be quid pro quo and for guatemala they

get $130 million to improve working conditions there. fantastic. what have they done in terms of their border security to deserve that? that's what president trump put in. he said you get tariffed, mexico unless you put troops on the border. you're not getting aid, guatemala, honduras and el salvador unless i see efforts when it comes to security. here is sheriff mark lamb on why he thinks the vice president will not show. >> it's almost like a little kid where if they just ignore it , it's not a problem, but it is a problem, kamala. i'm telling you it's a problem and we all know it and the american people know it. they are wise to it. they know this and yet, they refuse to address it. she refused to come down here. you know, and they keep saying they are addressing the root problem in places like guatemala i would contend, heavily content , that the root cause is joe biden and kamala harris, and their policies, their failed policies. that's what they need to fix first and foremost. ainsley: it sends a message that

she cares more about what's happening in guatemala and what's happening in mexico and fixing, finding out their root problems, giving them money, fixing their governments, when our government, we're allowing all of these illegal immigrants to come over our border, we're watching kids just yesterday, video released of that 5-year-old little girl wandering around down at the border in the san diego sector, and she said that her parents are here in america. she was by herself. she had been dropped on one side of the wall. said her parents are here but she doesn't have a contact number for them. brian: ainsley, she doesn't. ainsley: that's a different one this is the 5-year-old boy clutching the teddy bear. brian: right so the thing is if you ask the leaders of guatemala and mexico, they blame the biden administration. ainsley: they do, both presidents. brian: prior to them showing up they are saying the same thing in interviews. when you said we're going to bring families back together, the coyotes responded by showing up, grabbing these people saying now is the time to go and they

showed up so remove republicans and politics out of this. there's a report from another network that the white house is perplexed by the kamala harris' two-nation stop. two-nation visit and some of the things that she had said and refusal to do the job she was asked to do by the president. ainsley: remember what griff said monday? he said up 1400% in the del rio area, sexual offenders. steve: that's right. ainsley: 1400%. steve: it's terrible. when we just showed little boy clutching the teddy bear and the little girl yesterday whose parents were already here in the united states. can you imagine how big in the new york times would the headline be if donald trump was the president of the united states and that -- brian: look that picture. ainsley: there is the little girl. thankfully our border patrol agents rescued her, swooped in and grabbed her before she got into more danger. steve: where is the interest, why aren't more people in the press covering that

particular story. ainsley: they don't want you to know that story. steve: well exactly and that's one of the reasons why joe biden is under water when it comes to the polls. meanwhile, you know, we've been talking as well a little bit about how the white house has suggested that the reason there are 9 million open jobs right now, but nobody is applying for them, it has nothing to do with that extra $400 that the federal government is sending out. nope. absolutely not. nothing to do with it. well now we're learning, i was talking to a guy from kansas city, jasper marable, who runs a place called joss per's and he said that right now, the only way they can get people to go to work, for instance in the kitchen, is to pay them $35 or $40 an hour, which in some cases, is double what they've ever paid anybody before, but if they want to stay open, they are going to have to do it. here is jasper, watch. >> you know, we used to have

sometimes 25-30 people apply for a job a month and now, we get zero. i mean maybe two or three the past three months that is it if someone was making $20 an hour now these cooks are demanding 30, $35 an hour, and there's no way in the world our industry that we can pay those prices, those wages, without raising our prices. we're trying to stay open. we're trying to create jobs, more jobs. business is good, believe me. we are up almost 22% over 2019, so we need the employees right now, but what are we going to do next year at this time? brian: about 8 million open jobs right now around the country especially in the hospitality independent that was flat on its back so you look at restaurants about to open they can't get people to come back because of the supplemental if you don't believe that story in kansas, the stories we're sey that knows more about the hospitality industry than anybody in the country is bar rescue founder and host, john tapper, owns a chain of

restaurants himself, tapper's tavern and he said this about the facts on the ground when it comes to staffing. >> we're really coming back, when you speak to every restaurant owner, the people are coming back but we have two problems. both government caused. the enhanced unemployment benefits, think about this. and larry knows this well if it's a two household, two-person household making $800 each, in unemployment benefits that's about $83,000 a year. median household income is only $67,000 a year, so you can stay home and exceed median income. right now government is stopping us from getting our employees back. restaurants are open two days rather than seven days it's killing us. steve: and so in talking to the guy from kansas city, he worries about what's going to happen next year because the way restaurants currently are able to pay people 35 or $40 an hour to work back in the kitchen is they're taking the ppp money

and using it this year, but next year, those people are still going to want the 35 or $40 an hour. and so what are they going to do they have to raise the prices and are you willing to pay more for the same dinner next year that you're paying a certain price for? ainsley: they just went through the pandemic and now there's uncertainty about what their restaurants look like a year from now. have you been to a restaurant lately some of the ones in new york i've been to it's hard to even get your water refilled, because or place your order, because there are only a few waiters when normally we would have dozens of waiters. steve: it's also about the quality. how many times have you been to a restaurant where there's nobody to wait on you, or the food comes out and it's like this is not what i used to have, because they can't find the people to make the stuff. brian: all right, so, there's other stories out there including this. don't let this be buried on your news list. hunter biden back under hot water. new text messages are horrific. on the daily mail now, little by little we're get everything on

that laptop that the fbi is still studying. he repeatedly is referring to his white lawyer as a racial slur, todd piro with more. todd: obviously i'll have to paraphrase, daily mail releasing the messages showing hunter biden using that racially charged language not just once, but several times. these texts date back to late 2018, early 2019 between hunter and his white attorney. in this exchange, hunter asks, " how much money do i owe you" he then uses the n word saying because n, you better not be charging me hennessy rates. in another instance hunter says to his attorney, "i only love you because you're black which of course that attorney is not." here hunter's attorney is talking about god and unconditional love but hunter interjects and calls the lawyer the n word again and goes on explicit and difficult to understand rant. his lawyer snapping back saying, "it's annoying when you interject with frivolity.

hunter replying saying true dat, n word. and racist hunter was tweeting on twitter and if hunter biden was donald trump jr. , we'd be enduring wall to wall coverage on every major media outlet, boy isn't that the truth. neither hunter nor his attorney have released any comments on the matter. back to you. steve: all right, thank you very much, todd, with the very latest now we turn to jillian at 8:14 with the other headlines. jillian: good morning let's begin with this story that we're following. a driver in california kills three young girls ages 11, 12, and 13, in a hit-and-run. a fourth girl age 14 remains in the hospital in critical condition. authorities say the driver and a passenger got out of their truck , looked at the girls with a flashlight and ran away. they didn't help or call 911. police are looking for the driver. >> new york city mayor bill deblasio is calling in the feds to help with the city's crime problem. he's planning to embed atf agents in the nypd to help get guns off the streets. he blames the city's crime on

cops getting sick with covid-19, rather than his massive cuts to the department. around 1,800 officers were cut as a result of the defund the police movement which prompt ed him to strip the nypd 's budget by $1 billion >> overnight evacuations are ordered for multiple communities in southeast arizona, as the telegraph fire continues to spread. firefighters say conditions are so dry that their own equipment has sparked small fires. in all the fire has burned nearly 80,000-acres and closed several major highways in the area. only 18% of the fire is contained. >> let's go to the nba playoffs where things are getting heated between the atlanta hawks and philadelphia 76ers take a look. >> first it was the offensive foul right here, okay? but then afterwards, he walks away and that's the push now.

galinari initiated that. jillian: you saw it, each getting a technical foul for that shoving match there. things cooled off and philly fans won a free wendy's frosty after hawks player missed two free throws. the sixers, i need to throw out, did win the game it's tied at one apiece. i mean, he's a monster. brian: he is and if he didn't play great the atlanta hawks be in the playoffs. all right steve: thank you, jillian. ainsley: so good to have you over there again. jillian: good to be here. ainsley: 8:16 of the east coast still ahead republicans pick-up a mayoral win in the majority latino border town, but the future of the hispanic votes , what it means for the gop , that's next. >> ♪ ♪

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demographics at play right here in mcallen, texas. it is amazing to see what hispanics are doing to flip seats, but guess what, brian that not only happened in mcallen with mayor villos, but also happened in the 2020 elections, even if trump didn't win the national vote, he's still got places as we know like florida and others that are showing a new trend that both parties must pay attention to. brian: so lili, another thing that comes up conventional wisdom the autopsy when mitt romney lost was republicans have ton easier when it comes to illegal immigration because the hispanic community looks at that as a personal afront. that doesn't seem to be the case >> absolutely, again, look at this mayoral race. he was racing on the economy, supporting small businesses, and we have been running data analytics and incites for the two last rounds of election and immigration never

shows up in the top five. job, the economy, education, healthcare, those are the top issues which are american issues that driving the hispanic vote and we saw it in mcallen, texas and it's also what happened president trump win those border towns which surprised the democrats and also secure 48 % of those latino votes in florida and other places. brian: just my humble within opinion is the reason why caesar chavez is bust in the oval office but joe biden has an affinity for him even though he was an impactful american because it's a homage to the hispanic audience which seems to be leaving the democratic party and there's another study that is a cultural study that said in january 2020 positive feelings in the hispanic community towards republicans at 31%. may, one month ago, it's up to 39%. negativity is also shot down 7%. this is a good sign for 2022. >> that's exactly right.

a lot of these elections we're seeing now are a signal of what is to come in 2024. that culture analysis that you mentioned, brian, it's not a poll. that is analyzing 1.7 million digital discussions of what people say when nobody is asking , and that's measuring sentiment in its most organic and bias way and yes, that has shown an 8 point increase in a post-trump era, amongst hispanic s, which is indicative of something bigger that rises above the personality and the tensions of trump and the media and all of that. it's back to the policies that work, and what our community is looking for in progress, business, opportunity, and living that american dream. brian: what about pandering? pandering to the hispanic audience doesn't seem to be resonateing. >> absolutely, go back to the top issues and a lot of things that people don't realize is that for example, during the presidential elections, even president trump was out-spending the biden campaign in spanish

language radio and television, so it's not just saying the right thing but putting the resources, the investment and the experts to lead that messaging and this is something that both parties need to earn, and invest in beyond the pandering or falling into the stereotypical immigration topics or assuming that you got this vote in the bag. you got to earn it and the demographics are way too big not to pay attention either in politics or in business. brian: and the border city as much as you say illegal immigration is not a high mark, it is significant where this mayor race was won. lili, thanks so much i appreciate it. we'll stay in touch. >> thank you, brian. brian: coming up straight ahead , too woke to work? why one employer stopped hiring ivy league grads, douglas murray reacts to that and more next. i'm so glad i didn't go to the ivy league. >> ♪ ♪

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okay, call it too woke to work. one employer telling us earlier why he has stopped hiring ivy league graduates. listen. >> there's a kind of weird combination of arrogance and conformism in these kids, and it's the conformism that's new. they go to the woke culture. the majority of kids at these schools no there's something wrong, but, you know, they keep their head down, and they get their degree, and which is totally understandable. i don't want to criticize these kids, but it's not exactly training for leadership. ainsley: arthur douglas murray is here to, author douglas murray is here to react. good morning to you, douglas. >> good morning. ainsley: so he says he prefers to hire students from state schools. he says they are less self- important, better for mentoring and in turn produces better results. what do you say? >> yeah, i think this is really

interesting. mr. reno is on to something. even the non-woke students who come out of the ivy league these days are damaged by the experience that they've gone through of keeping their heads down having to shut up at-best and i thought it was something very interesting, he said i don't want to hire someone who makes inflammatory accusations in the drop of a hat. many employers across america are going to be feeling this. i'm very pleased that this employer has spoken up. if more did then perhaps the ivy leagues might start to listen and realize they are training young americans to be totally un employable. ainsley: you know for a lot of families they can't afford the ivy league universities even if they do get accepted. a state school is a lot cheaper, you get an education, isn't it all just about hard work? >> well, it be nice if it was all about hard work, of course, the ivy leagues have had extraordinary reputation as the rolls royce of america. the problem is it's the rolls royce engine that has gone kaput

first. it's the top schools, again and again, in america, and other countries, that are pumping out the worst of the basically neo racist propaganda that we see in our days. it's the top schools that are the most woke. it's those ones telling people to become totally in separable so as people work hard get through the state school system they should certainly be in a much better position than any of their ultra-woke ivy league. ainsley: let's go to lowden county that has been in the press a lot for different reasons, today it's because a pe teacher disagreed with the transgender policy in the county. the teacher was put on leave, spoke at a school board meeting and he refuses to use the pronouns that transgender students refer to be called for religious reasons. listen to this. >> 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. ainsley: and then a judge reinstated that teacher, because the judge said by taking him out of the classroom, it violated the teacher's constitutional rights to free speech and religious freedom. do you agree with that judge? >> yes, i mean, this is an extraordinary story. it's a positive story, because of the judgment, but just 10 years ago, nobody had known what you were talking about if you started going on about pronouns, 10 years ago nobody at school knew what a pronoun was. today, everybody is obsessed by them and it started by saying well, if you got conservative views about this , you're not welcome in the editorial new york times. that's how it started. now, we've gone all the way along this , to the extent that you're not allowed even to be a pe teacher in an elementary school in america and holds views that everybody held just a few years ago, so the judgment is very good, but the deeply

treatment of this teacher by a school authority should be something that worries all americans. ainsley: douglas murray thank you for being with us. his book "the madness of crowds " and also another book" the strange death of" thank you, douglas. ainsley: it's 8:34 on the east coast coming up the biden administration now casting doubt on the latest report on the wuhan lab, but world head organization advisory board member jamie metzel says china's massive cover up on covid is still happening. he's going to set the record straight, next. overwhelmed by the ups and downs of frequent mood swings of bipolar i? ask about vraylar. some medicines only treat the lows or highs.

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steve: secretary of state tony blinken casting doubt on the report that the biden administration shutdown that trump era investigation into the origin of, perhaps, a leak at the lab in wuhan. brian: jamie metzel sits on the advisory board for the world health organization and joins us now, worked for the clinton administration and has been leading the charge to have people revisit this whole bat-to -other animal-to-human the way this whole pandemic spread. jamie we're see seeing a big push now for people to look at this wuhan lab, but yet, they talked about an investigation stopping in january. where does politics end, and where does the real investigation start for you? >> so we need to remove all of politics from the process of doing this investigation and that means that wherever there is any kind of problem, we need to overcome it. the first and the biggest problem is china's ongoing cover up, started from day one. it continues to this day and you and i, brian, have talked about

this at length in other context but they've been destroying samples, hiding records, gagging scientists preventing them from speaking or writing anything and then we've seen in multiple, certainly the last administration, and even perhaps in the earliest days of this administration, there was caution about addressing these issues, but now, i hope that we can all coming together certainly in this country, democrats and republicans, and it does feel like a bipartisan issue to say we need a full investigation. obviously we need to look at what happened in china, but we need to look at our own failures and shortcomings whether it's in the state department, under both administrations, at the nih and everywhere. we just need to be fearless in asking the tough questions and getting to the bottom of this. ainsley: jamie can i talk to you about gain of function, and what this actually means? because we learned that in 2019 that november, there were three doctors according to the wall street journal that worked

inside the lab that went to the hospital with covid-like symptoms and then we heard it spread to beijing and then it spreads to america, and i've heard several doctors say and there was that report that we talked about on monday of these researchers that said if you look at the dna of the covid virus, there are some -- steve: a sequence. ainsley: that would have to be manmade. i talked to another doctor who said if you look at the virus, there's an htlv receptor and that has to be added so it looks like it traces back to gain of function. set the record straight for us. >> so the first question is what is the issue with those three people who were allegedly and i think pretty likely sick at the wuhan institute of virology in late 2019. we don't know whether or not they were infected with the sars covid virus, but also, we know that the director of the wuhan institute of virology, she has said on the record that nobody was sick in her lab and

so if it's true that these people were sick, especially if the vanity fair alleged they were actually doing some of this research of concern, if she's not telling the truth, that be a big deal because china has denied access to all of the records so basically the entire argument against the lab leak hypothesis rests on this one woman word of honor that they didn't have this virus or a precursor in their repository. on the second issue that you raised about whether it was or wasn't gently engineered a lot of people raised questions about the cleavage site which is a little snip it of critically- important dna. it's not, it hasn't been conclusively proven one way or another, whether this was gently altered in a minimal way or not but that's exactly the kind of thing that we need to look at and that's why we need a full investigation. steve: and as you say an investigation into a pandemic should never be political, but when you go back in this country

back to february of 2020, you know, when people suggested it could have been a lab leak, they were regarded as a crazy right wing nut because donald trump suggested that, and then, jamie, the lancet published that article signed by 27 scientists who said there's absolutely no chance it's a lab leak, if you say that you're conspiratorial. the question is, going forward, what was the motivation because apparently that statement was organized by peter dazik, the president of echo health that funneled the money from nih to the lab, and he didn't want the gain of function narrative getting legs. >> yeah, so there's a lot there certainly, many people, the small number of people, actually, who were raising this issue in early last year, were labeled conspiracy theorists. i know because i was one of them and yes, there were some people who were called right wing nuts

but i'm not a right wing nut. i'm actually a progressive democrat and so for me, the question is this a right wing or left wing thing. it's just let's look at the data and just be honest, and you're absolutely right. that letter published in february of last year was an outrage, because without sufficient data, the authors of that letter declared that it's very very likely a natural origin, and called anybody, like me, who was raising possible alternatives a conspiracy theorist and one of the reasons why i've called for richard hor ton, the editor in chief to step down, is because i feel that letter, it was not data-driven science. it was scientific propaganda and thuggery, and peter d dazik manipulated that process behind the scenes hiding the fact that a number of signatures were on his payroll, and in many other ways so that's why we need data-

driven science. brian: on 60 minutes real quick , were you ever frozen by the social media? >> oh, absolutely, not by social media but i was blocked by peter dazik who you mentioned , by christian anderson a very prominent genetic virolog ist, and it's unfortunate because it's not like i'm some kind of flame-flow er. i've been trying to ask the most basic essential questions and we need that kind of open dialogue. brian: condoleeza rice was blocked the same way when sars was coming out when she was secretary of state so china will continue this if they get away with it, we're the only ones that can lead the charge to make them, isolate or make them come clean one way or another. steve: he is not a right wing nut, he is jamie metzl, and we appreciate you for coming on today. ainsley: thanks for not making it political. we just want answers. thanks, let's check in with senior meteorologist janice dean for our fox weather for castagno

>> janice: good morning, it's a beautiful day in new york city we had showers move through yesterday, a little humid but cooler air is on the way if you like that kind of thing this weekend is going to be gorgeous. let's take a look at the temperatures across the map a lot of 70s but with the humidity it feels warmer and then you've got a cold front moving in from the rockies, showers and thunderstorms in the forecast for parts of the mid-south, the ohio and tennessee river valley also the mississippi river valley, where we have flash flood warnings in effect. that means flooding is imminent and it is happening, and the potential for , you know, dangerous weather there as well as wildfire danger we have started wildfire season very early this year, so already , many fires burning across the west. that's going to be a big story as we get into the next couple of months. still very warm and sticky, we'll get to 90 here in new york but as i mentioned as we get into the weekend spectacular forecast. spectacular, 70s, low relative humidity, it's going to be just beautiful. all right, steve, ainsley, brian back to you. steve: thanks, jd.

coming up a spectacular story, waffle house employees ban together to help a co-worker attend his high school graduation. he wasn't going to go, but they helped him go we'll talk to that hard working team and his manager who made it happen. ainsley: i love this story but first let's check in with dana perino for what's coming up at the top of the hour. dana: hi, i can't wait to see that story too, ainsley thank you so much. so we've got a lot coming up first of all, the infrastructure deal bill. it fell apart. so senator shelley moore capito will be here to discuss what's next and what she thinks biden is actually willing to do. the vice president gets back from her first foreign trip, biden leaves for his, we'll have martha and bret baier to talk about that and we're going to talk about these companies, giving out incredible incentives to get people to come back to work. we'll see you at the top of the hour. shingles? camera man: yeah, 1 out of 3 people get shingles in their lifetime. well that leaves 2 out of 3 people who don't. i don't know anybody who's had it. your uncle had shingles. you mean that nasty red rash? and donna next door had it for weeks. yeah, but there's nothing you can do about it. camera man: actually, shingles can be prevented.

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steve: when one high schooler was on the verge of missing his graduation, his co-workers stepped up to save the day. the alabama waffle house team rallied together to buy tim harrison new dress clothes, track down a cap and gown and get him 20 miles to the place for graduation just in time. timothy joins us right now along with his waffle house unit manager, cedric hampton and they join us from down in alabama. guys good morning to you.

>> good morning. steve: well, tim, this story has gone viral. it must feel pretty crazy that people all over the world are talking about you. on your graduation day, you were there at the waffle house working. why? >> [inaudible] steve: yeah, so cedric he had to work, he felt, and he didn't have a ride. you saw him and said hey why aren't you at graduation. tell us about that conversation. >> well, you know, he had requested off the week before, so the morning of, [inaudible] -- steve: and we're have a little trouble with the audio.

i think it's probably because it's a noisy there, but it's the waffle house and it's breakfast time, so i understand that. so cedric what you guys did was you decided we're going to have to get him there. you figured out because he had not signed up for the cap and gown you figured out how to get that for him, and you went out and got him clothes as well? >> yes, sir. when i told him to go home and get his paperwork, and called to the school to see what we need to do and while he was gone that's when i put the play in motion. steve: and timothy, how did you feel when, we got a picture right there. how did you feel when you put those clothes on? >> when i put those clothes on i felt like a million bucks. steve: i bet you did and the whole waffle house team gathered together to make sure that you made it and you did make it, and how did you feel

when you got that diploma? >> when i got that diploma, i feel like that was the beginning of something. steve: yup. well, after the story went viral , i understand you heard for lawson state community college, and what did they offer you? >> they offered me a full scholarship [inaudible]. >> well we're actually going to go tomorrow, to look around. steve: right. so, you wound up with a full scholarship, books included. i don't know if there's breakfast included but you got to go to waffle house when you're in school. congratulations to you, thanks to the team at waffle house, you made it to the graduation on time, so timothy harrison and

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