those assignments to. >> exactly. that's return to normalcy is really returned to the swamp. that's what we have time for. thank you all for watching. see you next sunday on the next revolution. revolution. todd: it is monday, june 21st. a fox news alert, a manhunt in iowa where a deputy was shot multiple times as new numbers show police officers increasingly under attack in the communities they serve, begging for relief. jillian: a life threatening weighs for a chicago suburb overnight after a massive tornado tears through homes, trees and everything else in its path, we're tracking the severe weather. todd: it's like a scene out of happy gilmore, stealing the spotlight at the u.s. open. "fox & friends first" hopefully

will have to streakers, we start right now. jillian: i can pretty much guarantee we will not. good morning, you're watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning. i'm jillian mele. todd: i'm todd piro. a manhunt under way after a deputy was shot multiple times overnight. the deputy was hit when he walkd in on a suspect robbing a general store. jillian: he was air lifted to the hospital where his condition is unknown. residents are asked to lock their doors and report any suspicious behavior. violent crime is soaring as more police officers are being killed in the line of duty. .todd: jackie ibanez joins us now. >> reporter: the number of police officers intentionally rammed by vehicles, shot or stabbed to death has increased more than 40% throughout the first six months of 2021. compared to this time last year, according to the officer down memorial page. this as crime across several

major cities soars, homicides in portland are up a staggering 533% compared to last -- last year at this time. it was a particularly violent weekend nationwide. in new york city a campaign volunteer is recovering after being stabbed in the bronx. >> he was stabbed multiple times by an ice pick. that is one of the most dangerous weapons you could use with a stabbing. we're trying to get more from the police department. we want to thank them. they have been amazing during this time. >> reporter: the attack happened days after two children were caught between a gunman and his target, of knolls the bronx there. fortunately, neither of those children were injured. police are looking for this man right here in connection to the shooting. meanwhile, in chicago, at least five people were killed in shootings with another 40 injured over the weekend. police are investigating the broad daylight murder of a university of maryland graduate student who was found stabbed to

death on a sidewalk in the city's loop. police have no suspects this morning. a father's day attack in detroit that left 11-year-old shot in the chest and his father shot in the leg has police calling for an end to the senseless violence. >> what we're having right now is an issue with people just creating violence for no reason. right now, people should be celebrating father's day. what we have is a father and a child in the hospital with gunshot wounds. >> reporter: in atlanta where the buckhead neighborhood is calling for its own police force, the mayor blames the crime surge on the post-covid reopening. >> in georgia, we were open up before the rest of the country. we have people traveling from the rest of the country to party in our city. >> reporter: georgia's governor did respond to the mayor calling the crime surge a result of the

left anti-police and soft on crime agenda. back to you guys,. jillian: jackie, thank you. todd: a positive update about two kids who narrowly escaped gunfire while shopping for candy, the yankees hosted them in their game against the oakland as. >> this afternoon, the mom and the kids are guests of the yankees who stand with them. todd: they sat alongside their family, saw a triple play to end it as the yankees won, 2-1. these tragic stories of violence in our communities come after a year of antibiotic police protest -- anti-police protest and nonstop rioting. the riot squad in portland resigned from their voluntary positions. here's the executive director of the portland police association. >> shootings are up almost 800% in the city of portland, 65% of the people who are being shot in the city of portland are african a american, over 70%, counting those 65%, are people of color.

so commissioner hardisy is at the forefront of the defunding of police. crime has gone up and now she's criticizing a team that is still going to do their job, they will be ordered to do their job if there's a protest tomorrow, they will be ordered to do the same job, they won't be a voluntary squad to do that. jillian: turner says law enforcement officers will still do their duty when called upon. now extreme weather, overnight a large tornado slamming a chicago suburb. the national weather service calling it a life-threatening situation. [sirens] jillian: at least six people are reportedly injured with more than 35,000 without power. the storm caused flooding issues at o'hare airport. another tornado caused extensive damage in iowa. more severe weather is expected

today as the system moves east. a horrific crash in alabama killed a firefighter, his 9-month-old daughter and eight children on a bus in a home for foster children. standing water on the road from tropical depression claudette likely caused cars to hydroplain causing the collision. the accident happened saturday, 40 miles south of montgomery. the national transportation safety board sent 10 investigators to examine the scene and to determine what safety measures could have been taken to avoid the tragedy. todd: the mayor of fort lauderdale walking back a controversial comment he made after a deadly car crash during a pride parade. >> what we saw was a terrorist attack on the lgbtq community. this is disgusting. we will not stand for this. todd: he is facing backlash after it was revealed the driver was a 77-year-old parade participant who accidentally hit

the crowd after his foot got caught. he said in a statement i regret the fact that i said it was a terrorist attack but i don't regret my feelings. i don't regret that i felt terror. that crash leaving one person dead, another in serious condition. six minutes after the hour now. the biden administration vowing to refrain from issuing threats to china amid the investigation into the origins of covid-19 but will send a beijing warning if they do not cooperate. jillian: lauren blanchard is live as dr. fauci doubles down on claims that attacking him is attacking science. >> reporter: good morning, the national security advisor, jake sullivan, said president biden will not threaten nor give ultimatums, instead will rely on intelligence and diplomatic pressure to get to the bottom of how the pandemic began. >> either they will anow a responsible way investigators in to do the real work of figuring out where this came from or they will face isolation in the international community.

>> reporter: republicans in the house say the administration is being weak with china and there is a bipartisan push on capitol hill to establish a commission to look into the origins of covid-19. >> we cannot get to the origin of this by listening to china or the world health organization. we should declassify the information and find first and foremost where it came from and let the entire world know. >> reporter: how the pandemic began has perplexed scientists. it was revealed in february 2020 just as the world health organization was declaring it a public health emergency, there was a secret meeting of international scientists. dr. anthony fauci recalled it was discussed the virus could be engineered. dr. fauci pushes back on his critics who say he flip-flopped throughout the pandemic. quote, it is essential as a scientist that you evolve your opinion and your recommendations based on the data as it evolves

and that's the reason why i say people who then criticize me about that are actually criticizing science. later this hour, we'll have gordon chang on to talk about more about what we know about that secret meeting and todd, jillian, i'm very much looking forward to that interview. todd: he always gives great insight, great answers when a lot of other people pontificate, he gives you the real stuff. thank you very much. jillian: nascar disqualifies chase elliott from the ali400 in nashville. inspectors found five loose wheel nuts on his car after the race concluded. he said he felt vibrations during the final lap. todd: three weeks after testing positive for covid and being pulling from the memorial, john rom wins the u.s. open. >> another one, that's the

72nd hole. todd: that's a legit putt. that's a 15-footer. he celebrated his first father's day along with his first major title. jillian: what a day. .todd: what a day. earlier in the day, there was this, not as good, a man dropped his clothes and began hitting balls, golf balls, on the 13th fairway. he was taken away by police. i had to clarify. that john rom story was great. he wasn't infecting anybody with covid. he was fine. the rules which are antiquated at this point -- he was up six strokes. he was going to win the memorial. jillian: i bet he would have preferred if he had the option to win this way. todd: it's good. a middle school student singled out by a teacher and bullied for sporting a thin blue line flag at school. the boy's mother and family attorney sound off next. jillian: chase luther forced to

spend 24 hours at a waffle house. carley shimkus break down his stomach-turning journey coming up. ♪ pour your sugar on me. ♪

tag welcome back. 14 minutes after the hour on a monday morning. a new hampshire middle school student singled out an removed from class after wearing a thin blue line article of clothing. joining us now, that student and his mother. >> my son's school was encouraging students to wear flags as a symbol of something they were proud of. he decided to wear his thin blue line flag. he moved throughout the day more or less without any incident

from any staff memberments when he went into one of his classes, he sat down and the teacher approached him, singled him out and told him to remove his flag or leave the room. my son remained calm and simply asked why. and unfortunately that was a question that he never got the answer to. and he was removed from class. and he was sent down to the administration office for doing the same thing that hundreds of other students in the building were doing. todd: we don't have the answer to the why. but i'm going to ask why do you think this happened? >> well, i have some insight into the situation as i have spoken with the teacher. i spoke with that teacher the day the incident unfolded. and after my conversation with him, it was quite clear that his motivation for asking my son to remove the flag was because his own personal beliefs around the flag. it was not causing a disruption to the classroom. he was not disrespectful to the

flag in any way. he was not sitting on it. it was not touching the ground. it was completely motivated by the personal opinions of the teacher. todd: steve, are teachers like this not being trained on how to follow simple law or is there something deeper here? >> well, they're certainly not being properly trained and educated. this was a clear violation of first amendment rights. students do not leave their first amendment rights at the schoolhouse door as we know and this should not have happened. todd: i'm going to read the statement from the district. we are continuing to gather information about this issue. it would appear to be the result of unintentional consequence to my knowledge no flags violated the student dress code. alyssa, ho how confused is your little guy? what's going on? >> i think that -- i can tell you certainly the day that it happened he was very confused. as you could imagine. because there were other

students in this class that had been wearing flags that were not approached and were not singled out and not told to remove them so it definitely caused a source of confusion for him. we received a lot of support from the community that allowed him to realize that he was right in his actions. he remained calm and he simply asked why and he stuck to hisguns that he did nothing wro. he's coming around and he's in better spirits now. todd: lawyers ask for remedies. what are you asking the district for? >> well, in this case certainly an apology is due. there needs to be some education and some training of the teachers. it's a little bit of a teaching moment. the kids should -- the students should know their first amendment rights are being upheld and what those rights are. todd: seems like there's a few teaching moments in the district. this is the same district that marked unvaccinated kids at

prom, so there you go. alyssa, steven, we appreciate you sharing this story with us and thank you so much. best of luck. >> thank you so much. todd: you have enough stuff to worry about as a boy in middle school. to have to worry about this, unbelievable. we appreciate your time. >> thank you. jillian: it is 18 minutes after the hour. fentanyl flooding over the border, nearly 8,000 pounds seized this year alone. our next guest says cartels smuggle the drugs in when border agents are overwhelmed with unaccompanied minors. jessica long joins us next.

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getting plenty of the deadly drug into the country as migrants overwhelm the border agents. joining us now, jessica vaughn. those numbers are alarming. >> they are alarming. there is a direct link between this disaster at the border and the fentanyl problem that is plaguing so many communities in the interior of the united states. it's a tragedy, really. but it's one that could be helped in part by getting back control of our border. jillian: and i know that you say it's organized this way, that when you have these drugs that are being slipped in by the cartels, that they're doing this at a time when at least you can explain why they're doing this at a time when they know border agents are completely occupied right now. >> that's right. this is one thing that hasn't been talked about a lot. it's bad enough that we have

this flood of unaccompanied minors and families coming through, but the way this works is that the smugglers that control the influx of people and illicit goods deliberately use the groups of families and kids, they send them across dozens at a time, because they know that they suck up the resources of the border patrol agents who have to take care of the families and kids and then that opens up another spot along the line where they can send through not only drugs, but also the people who don't want to be caught, so-called got-aways which should be also of great concern because these are people who are often either people who have been removed from the country before, are criminals, prior deportees, gang members, all kinds of people who don't want to be caught by the border patrol or who are carrying loads of high value drugs and that --

those loads are hugely valuable to the smugglers but also the ones that law enforcement agencies ought to be most concerned about that are getting away and that we don't have a great handle on, how much of this is flowing into our community, both people and drugs. jillian: a look at some of the numbers, the synthetic opioid deaths in 2020, more than 53,000, you can see nearing 54,000. for people at home who might not realize that what's going on at the border doesn't just affect the border communities, this affects the entire country, right? >> that's right. and a lot of the people who are doing the trafficking within our communities also are here illegally, are able to slip under the radar of the law enforcement agencies, often because they have stolen or bought the identity of a u.s. citizen or find other ways to embed themselves in the

community and provide these deadly drugs. jillian: with the white house ending title 42 expulsion policy as early as july 31st, can you tell us what this policy did and what it will look like if that is to be ended? >> under title 42, that enabled the department of homeland security to expel a lot of the illegal crossers, mostly applied to single adults. it was applied to others under the trump administration. biden lifted the title 42 restrictions for some kids and families, but when these pandemic restrictions are lifted, then the border patrol cannot just quickly return anybody who tries to get over illegally. they're going to have to process them and under biden's policies, that means a lot of these people are going to be released, a lot more people, perhaps double the

number of people are going to be released once they make it onto u.s. soil illegally and i can tell you that people right now hearing this news, that those restrictions are being lifted, they're packing their bags to come here because this is going to really incentivize even more people to come here and get across illegally because they know they're going to be allowed to stay and they're not going to face interior enforcement from i.c.e. in countries, our entire nation essentially becomes a sanctuary for people here illegally and those arriving newly who are asking for asylum. jillian: then the question is does the administration come up with some other deterrent. they haven't given us reason to say that they will so we will see. thank you for joining us. todd: time now, 26 minutes after the hour. dr. anthony fauci under the microscope again as we learn he attended a secret meeting into the origins of covid-19 in

february of 2020. gordon chang joins us with more on that meeting, next. police officers in illinois responding to those who want the thin blue line removed from their badges. that story coming up. don't go away.

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todd: the u.s. pushing to re-enter the iran deal reportedly before tehran's new hard line president takes office in august. jillian: trey yingst is live in jerusalem with the time crunch. good morning. >> reporter: a sixth round of nuclear talks wrapped up this weekend in vienna, austria. officials say progression is being made though no direct conversations are taking place between the iranians and americans yet. the parties will have the opportunity to return to their home capitals for political discussions about the talks. president biden is indicating economic pressure could be lifted under the right

circumstances. on fox news sunday, national security advisor jake sullivan outlined what the united states is looking for in negotiations. >> what we're intending to do is to reimpose the constraints that put iran's nuclear program in a box, the limits on enrichment, the limits on stockpile, the intensive verification measures, all of which were included in the original iran nuclear deal. once we go back into that deal, chris, the idea is to negotiate a follow-on agreement that will make for a longer and stronger agreement. >> reporter: the nuclear developments do come as iran elected a new president on friday. conservative judge ebrahim raisi received 62% of the vote amid low turnout in the islamic republic. israel's new prime minister spoke this weekend about the iranians, saying the world should reconsider nuclear conversations now that ebrahim raisi has been elected, calling him the hangman of tehran. the new israeli government has pledged to continue strong

offensive actions again iran and its proxies across the region, bennett calls on other world leaders this weekend to wake up and understand who they're dealing with. todd, jillian. jillian: trey, thank you. todd: dr. anthony fauci under the microscope as we learn he attended a secret 2020 meeting to discuss the origins of covid-19. he insists scientists did not deliberately suppress information about a potential coronavirus lab leak. listen. >> we always felt that you've got to keep an a open mind. all of us. we didn't get up and start announcing it but we've always said keep an open mind and continue to look. so i think it's a bit of a distortion to say that we deliberately suppressed that. todd: a new usa op-ed reveals the meeting reportedly, quote, played a key role in shutting down talk of whether a lab leak caused covid. here to react, senior fellow at the gate stone institute, gordon

chang. if this isn't deliberately suppressing the lab leak theory, then what is it. >> we heard dr. christian anderson talk about how there was possible manipulation of the pathogen causing covid-19, before that meeting in february of last year. afterwards, anderson starting talking about oh, no, no, no possibility of manipulation at all so that's extremely suspicious and indeed when fauci tax about what his views were, that's very different from what we were hearing the beginning of last year so i believe that the national institutes of health must release all the documents, not just the e-mails, so we can get to the bottom of what actually happened in february of last year. todd: it's that absolute certainty that raises so many red flags. look, february 2020, i don't think a lot of us knew what covid was going to be. and i think the scientists didn't know what it was. so there's room for differing

viewpoints at that point. but to be so it is this, it can't be this, is so concerning. why do you think that was the case? >> well, i can't speculate as to motives, but you know, there's one thing that is important that i think people are missing and that is fauci as the head of the institute of allergy and infectious diseases was america's top infectious disease official. he had to know what was going on in december of 2019, that it was ripping through wuhan and related cities. he should have been saying to the president of the united states, you've got to close the borders to arrivals from china and people who have been in china since december. he didn't do that. and that's a failure to discharge his most important obligation. and remember, fauci knew that they -- he should have known that they were engaging in gain of function experiments in wuhan. he should have known the

pathogen that was causing the disease, he should have known that this was going to be especially transmissible. todd: gordon, 30 seconds remaining. answer these two questions if you can. you're pretty good at reading the tea leaves. what is the next shoe to drop in this covid saga and does it include china facing any ramifications. >> yes, it is the defector dong jing wae, he has information about this according to reports. that would settle this. we're going to see different relations with china when people realize that beijing took steps to kill more than 602,000 americans. todd: quickly, is that an american change in policy or a world change in policy including many of china's allies against china? >> it's got to be american first and then i think the rest of the world will follow. todd: they better. they've got to get on board. be sure to pick up gordon's book, the coming collapse of china and the great tech war.

thank you, sir. >> thank you, todd. jillian: a suspect is facing murder charges for killing an american graduate student and former marine in russia. alexander popov made his first appearance in court. he is acaused of murdering the woman and dumping her body. her mother received a text, saying she hoped she wasn't abducted. the suspect had a history of committing violent crimes. three people are injured after a hot air balloon crashed in a colorado state park. video shows the balloon crash landing. officials say it was likely caused bay strong gust of wind. three other people in the basket were not hurt. the injured passengers are expected to be okay. lawmakers on capitol hill still sparring over president biden's hefty infrastructure proposal. republicans like south carolina senator lindsey graham say a $1

trillion deal is still on the table. listen. >> we're willing to add more new money to infrastructure in this package and i am hopeful that the white house and joe biden stay involved. jillian: but democrats like bernie sanders still want a bigger price tag. >> now it is time to create good paying jobs, millions of good paying jobs, addressing healthcare, housing, infrastructure. jillian: later today, president biden is expected to discuss an infrastructure proposal put forward earlier this month by a bipartisan group of senators. todd: georgia set to purge invalid voters from the rolls. 67,000 names being removed due to resident address changes, 34,000 had election mail return to sender and 275 were removed for making no contact with an election official or participating in any election

for at least five years. georgia governor brian kemp joins "fox & friends" in the 7:00 a.m. hour to discuss the push for election integrity. sorry. jillian: it's all right. hawkstop the sixers to advance e conference finals. >> two and-a-half to go, long three on its way. trey young, ice cold, delivers the 3. jillian: yeah, yeah, yeah. todd: sounds like a real big basketball fan. trey young is all of a sudden the best player in all of basketball. the hawks had a win with 21 points and 10 assists. jillian: it's the first conference final appearance in six years. they will face the milwaukee bucs, fresh off their win in overtime. the finals tip off on wednesday. i believe, correct me if i'm wrong, one player played with a

torn meniscus. todd: that's impressive. if i'm the nba, no offense to the folks in milwaukee and atlanta, this is a disaster ratings scenario. this will be a great series, i think. they wanted brooklyn, philly, but they're not going to get it. jillian: that would have been so good. it is 39 minutes after the hour right now. parade hypocrisy, juneteenth and pride events are held with no problem but the 4th of july in one city is canceled because of covid. the growing outrage in illinois. todd: and a fantasy football league's biggest loser forced to do something that, i don't know, i think would actually be kind of fun. we'll have more on this when one carley shimkus joins us for some trends, she likes to eat as well. ♪

jillian: we are good people, that's the message from officers in one illinois town after residents claimed their thin blue line patches were divisive. todd: carley shimkus is here with more. carley: good morning, guys. we're talking about mount prospect, illinois, 25 miles outside of chicago. the controversy over the thin blue line flag, patch on officers' uniforms is taking center stage during a village board meeting. one resident expressed concern in this way, saying i'm a nurse and the truth is as a nurse when you walk into a patient's room there is nothing on your uniform that has any political message or anything else. you are here to take care of that patient, regardless of their color, their sex, their age. there is nothing on the uniform that i would wear that would in any way alienate anybody in that bed. but two police officers defended the thin blue line flag, saying

there's nothing political about it. >> it's not white supremacy. it's not neo-naziism. it dust not represent hate. it is not a secret society. >> we are good people. we are here to serve and protect. carley: yes. so the mayor of that town says that he appreciates the discourse has been happening in a very respectful way. every voice needs to be heard. so to be continued on this front. jillian: kind of sad that they have to defend themselves like that. todd: all the time. staying in illinois, some selective celebs from one city, let me read my notes again. some selective celebrations -- carley: yeah. i was like is this about celebrities? what celebrities are we talking about? that's right, we're staying in illinois, a couple miles away, evanston, illinois. the town is holding juneteenth

and gay pride celebrations but they are cancel july 4th festivities. that decision to cancel those events took place in march. the town defended themselves, saying there are deadlines for permits and taking applications for the parade that happened early in the year. we erreed on the side of caution. if things weren't better we would have been criticized for being a super spreader event. there's actually going to be, you'll be talking about this next hour with kathy barnett, u.s. senate candidate in pennsylvania, she's a veteran, i'm sure you'll have a great conversation about that they say they're erring on the side of caution. maybe they can do a 4th of july celebration without the fireworks, he throw something together. i don't know, it's -- i understand why they're saying you have to apply for permits and time is a factor but at the same time, you still do have a little time. todd: you have two weeks. jillian: you know what, let's rally together and let's do

this. juneteenth is something that of course just happened but the gay pride celebrations were on the calendar for a while. so why would you cancel one without canceling the other. todd: you're not planning a space launch. it's fireworks. carley: all right. let's talk about this. a mississippi man's waffle house punishment. how i this punishment? i totally agree. his punishment for losing his fantasy football league made this man so famous on social media over the weekend. his name is lee sanderlin. he had to spend 24 hours in a waffle house. the more waffles he ate, the less time he spent at the a wafe house. it's a social media update that made him go viral. in one post he said two down, already my stomach is rumbling,

going to be a long one. another post, he says the staff doesn't believe me that i'll be here that long. he was determined to finish. so this went all throughout the day, all throughout the night on thursday into friday. he finally posted one tweet, this is the last message. he said the sun is rising, it's a new day and i'm never eating waffles again. that's nine waffles and 15 hours in this restaurant. shout-out to the staff for letting me hang on a slow night. i tipped them well, don't worry. this was horrible and i recommend no one ever do this. todd: how is it horrible? carley: i think that these waffle house waffles in the pictures that he posted, they look really big. so i'm sure this was quite the hefty meal. you're right, not the worst punishment in the world to just be eating waffles all night. todd: we do stories of these fantasy football punishments where you get a tattoo, that's for life.

jillian: i might have waffles today now. todd: let's go. we should get waffles after the show. jillian: i have them in my freezer. todd: will you join me for waffles, carley. jillian: thanks, carley. todd: still ahead, a tennessee mayor who served the nation's military for a quarter century set to be deployed for a fifth tour of duty. jillian: he'll join us next to explain why he's proud to fight for freedom. ♪

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jillian: a tennessee mayor who has proudly served with the u.s.

military for nearly 25 years is now gearing up for one final deployment. the mayor joins me now to discuss his upcoming tour of duty in africa with the army national guard. good morning, thanks for being here. >> well, good early morning to you. it's a pleasure to be on your show today. jillian: it is very early. it is your fifth deployment as a member of the armed forces. i'm curious why you do it. >> well, i've always -- you know, just the spirit of public service and military service, kind of in my dna, i had family members who served in public office and also in the military so it's something that runs deep in my blood and of course i love answering the call of duty any time i can. jillian: you say this is by far the most stressful of your deployments. why? >> well, one thing, because i'm an elected official. i think this might be a first time like a full-time county level official has been he deployed in tennessee.

we're kind of writing the stories on what's happening and how to handle the transition. but any time you have a county where you manage the goodwill and benefits of the citizens and having to leave that and leave things on your desk for someone else to kind of take over, a lot of stress in that. and the preparation of that. and of course you have family life and my wife is losing a best friend and all of a sudden you have to plan on who is going to mow the yard and who is going to do the errands and pay bills and of course there's also prepping up for a military transition, you know, going overseas to an unknown environment that i haven't been to before. i know it gets up to well over 100 degrees and so you have to prep in multiple fashions and this is the first time i've been faced with so many moving parts i guess you could say. jillian: it's going to be a nine month deployment. your family, your community,

everyone must be so proud of you. >> well, i want to say, like i said, it's nothing i haven't done before and i think as far as my family, they've always been prepared. this is part of answering the call of duty. i do know that for my citizenry and our county leaders that this is the first time they've had to embrace something like this and prepare for their county leader to kind of be gone and away anywhere from 10 to 11 months. but i'm only an e-mail away. i tell them i'm there to assist if they want me to. but that will be up to them. jillian: can i ask you, just 20 2030 seconds on this, what does it mean to you to fight for our freedoms with the state of politics right now and divisiveness that's going on in the country. >> well, from a military perspective, it's what we do, we sign up for it and you have to love your service for country and the call to duty, it's something that we'll always do

as soldiers. i think as a citizenry, you know, we enjoy a lot of freedoms here that others across the world do not get to enjoy and i wish that a lot of people in america could actually see how blessed we are as a country and how great our constitution and framework of government is and it's definitely something worth living and fighting for. jillian: mayor brett lashly, you are quite an individual. i'm honored to have been able to talk to you. keep us updated on how everything goes. i know you were the first republican elected to this position in august of 2018. i know you have big shoes -- they have big shoes to fill while you're gone but we would love to talk to you when you're back. thanks for joining us. >> i'll definitely keep in touch. thank you. jillian: thank you. thank you for your service. todd: that was an important segment in the sense that you realize that it's not just one person who serves, it's an entire family. and in this case, a community.

think of all the things that he needs to do before he goes away and think about the impact that he has had on all these different lives. all these people need to step up. we wish all of them and of course brett the very best. jillian: it is. he says things that he's been proud to accomplish while in office, keeping the fiscal structure in balance, lowering taxes, so there's a lot that he's been able to do for the community that he is proud of and i'm sure he would like to be able to continue that on and see that happen. todd: any of you that are watching, mow his lawn. somebody step up. coming up in the next hour, congresswoman lisa mcclain, kathy barnett join us live when "fox & friends first" rolls along. ♪

jillian: it is monday, june 21st. a fox news alert. manhunt in iowa, residents on high alert after a police deputy was shot multiple times during a robly. this just -- robbery, this one of many incidents during a violent weekend across the u.s. we are live with the latest. todd: a tornado reportedly hitting success urban chicago overnight, heavy wind and rain toppling trees, flooding the city's airport. jillian: talk about a sweet punishment, a mississippi man going viral after he spent 15 hours in a