feeding frenzy. it is a blind taste test, as i understand. you're going to want to watch because one, i don't know how everyone is going to handle it. >> bill: that could be some cicadas and they are. >> dana: i don't think it is going to be that, but you're going to be surprised by what it is. stay one "defiance" turns turns tan all >> fox news alert, we are waiting for her president trump said to speak soon from his golf course in bedminster, new jersey. axios is reporting he's planning to file a lawsuit against the twitter ceo, jack dorsey. facebook ceo rex zuckerberg. any moment now we expect an update on the deadly condo collapse in surfside florida. the mayor and the miami-dade fire rescue chief are among those who are slated to update. we will monitor both of them and bring you any live updates.

meanwhile president biden is facing pressure to take on the crime surge that is devastating the united states' largest cities. this is "the faulkner focus," i'm gillian turner in for harris today from washington. things were joining us. homicides are surging across the country. as you can see, the stats here. republicans now and critics of the white house say the president is failing to connect the impact the far left, state-level policies and riots have had over the past year. yesterday the white house seemed to blame the crime spike on seasonal changes. listen. >> continues to work to address violent crime, we have seen it go up over the last 18 months around the country, including in the city of chicago. we see spikes in violent crime typically during the summer months, often unfortunately during holiday weekends. he saw that over the last weekend. >> gillian: meanwhile, the president is heading to the chicago area today. he'll be meeting with the

chicago mayor, lori lightfoot. she says she is planning to raise the spike in crime with him directly. just today, meanwhile, a gunman fired on a chicago police officer and two federal agents while they were in their car, near a police department. all three were taken to a hospital. they are thankfully expected to be okay. this shooting comes after chicago saw its deadliest weekend of the year. that was 100 people in the city shot, 18 of them killed, over a 72-hour period during the fourth of july holiday. mike tobin joins us from crystal lake, illinois, by the president is going to be in just a moment. hi, mike. >> hi, there, jillian. the meeting will take place at o'hare airport before he comes to this location. the meeting of course will cover the many troubles that lori lightfoot faces, not the least of which is the violent crime problem. you've mentioned the fact that 100 people were shot over the weekend. well, 11 of the gunshot victims

were children, and they were a couple of federal agents and chicago police, when chicago police officer, shot this morning. the agenda for the meeting will be more money for police and atf agents. >> he has proposed an additional $70 million increase over the last trump budget for atf to ensure that they have the funding and resources they need to crack down on illegal guns. i know gun violence is a huge driver of the crimes in chicago. finally he's going to continue to advocate for supporting evidence-based community violence intervention programs. >> now, when the president makes his way to crystal lake and the northwest suburbs, the goal will be to sell his american families plan, creating subsidies for kids and education. the package involves free preschool and free community college. mchenry county community college was chosen as the backdrop in part because the school offers child care. the subsidies of course will be paid for by attacks on the wealthiest americans.

the next election is always on the agenda. mchenry county here is a rare red county in this deep blue state. democratic representative lauren underwood squeaked out a win here last time around, so the president is going to try to throw some important her corner in advance of the elections. >> gillian: thanks for that, mike. let's bring in jody multi, the fraternal order of police national violence president. thank you for taking time to join us. tell us about your take on what we are seeing first in chicago locally, then i'll ask you to connect it to the violent crime surge we are seeing nationwide. but let's start with chicago. >> yeah, but i think you are seeing is this violent crime wave surging across the country is the greatest crisis we are dealing with right now. i mean, in "the washington post" the other day they had a poll that said 60% of americans are extremely concerned about violent crime in this country, and the right to be concerned. we've had over 25,000 homicides

in this country in 2020 and that's the first time we've seen that number since the mid-'90s. over the weekend we have 554 people shot in this country. as you mentioned, 100 and chicago. we had 189 people murdered, and 30 children shot in this country over the weekend. you add ontoha had 158 police officers, because he had the three shot this morning, and it's a complete disaster right now. i am happy that the administration at least is acknowledging that we have a problem here in this country, but let's get down to it. they need to take their own part of the task, including in chicago, where people are still actively pushing to defund the police. >> gillian: joe, let me jump in real quick. i want to pick up on a thread here. something else he said, you are doing a very good job at laying out the scope of this problem for us here. you say that right now, in your opinion, based on your expertise, it looks like this

epidemic of violence is the number one crisis facing america. and it's eclipsing the national economy, it is eclipsing the impact of the covid pandemic. talk to us more about why and how this is ballooning away from just an issue hitting certain cities and is now really nationwide. >> absolutely. what you are really seeing is that we have rogue prosecutors and activist judges across this country that are essentially turning our urban communities into the wild west. there are not enforcing the laws we have in the books right now. bail reform has been an unmitigated disaster. we have is career criminals getting out over and over and over again, and just in chicago, as you mentioned earlier, the average individual shooting people -- you know, the gang members, the ones actually pulling the trigger -- have been arrested 12 times. if we had thrown the book at them and a number of times prior to that, maybe we wouldn't have the violent crime problem we are

having now paid to pile on top of that the anti-police rhetoric that seems to permeate every single urban community we are seeing, and it's a recipe for disaster and you see it play out in real time every single day. and that's why you see a decent sort crime >> gillian: joe, critics are accusing new york's governor, andrew cuomo, of ignoring the impact of crime policies he's had in place that they say are way too soft. he did declare the statewide gun violence emergency. he said new york needs to do something a kin to building a wall to keep out firearms from other states. take a listen to what he said. >> today, first state in the nation to declare a disaster or emergency gun violence. [applause] we went from one epidemic to another epidemic. we went from covid to the epidemic of gun violence. and the fear and the death that

goes along with it. it has been all over the newspapers, it is undeniable. >> gillian: so no new york states g.o.p. chairman hit back. he said, quote, "what did cuomo think would happen when he let the dangerous criminals back onto the streets?" and a new "new york post" editorialist lemming with a call cuomo's, quote, "utterly pathetic antigun crime push." what do you think, joe, of the new quote from the governor to check the surge in violence in the city with gun owners? to go just a week ago we had the congresswoman cortez saying violence was hysteria and we were massaging the statistics despite murder being up in the city. but now it's a public health crisis that he needs to address. in a hilarious way of serendipity, the same day he made this announcement, we have

the heir apparent to the manhattan d.a. office saying there are no longer going to prosecute resisting arrest crimes when he takes office. so what i really like to have seen is for the governor to address the real issue. how about bail form and has been a disaster in new york? how about these d.a.s letting people out and not even prosecuting the crimes we have on the books right now? so if you're going to declare a public health emergency, governor, maybe you should do some research and figure out what the problem really is. >> gillian: what about his move to kind of blame or partially blamed the neighboring states in the tri-state area? new jersey, connecticut. it is something i notice he did during the covert outbreak when it was hitting new york really hard. he said part of the reason why new york city was reeling from the covid crisis long before other major cities was because people from new jersey and connecticut were essentially importing virus cases into the state despite any evidence to back that up. he now seems to be saying the

same thing about gun control. he is saying it's not a new york problem, it's a problem everybody else has created and are bringing into the state. do you buy that? >> no, i don't. i think what politicians like to do now is gaslight the american public and pass blame to people instead of taking responsibility for their own failed policy, which is exactly was going on in new york right now. you have some of the strictest gun laws imaginable in new york in it we still see crime surging out of control in new york city. i think what you see is he is trying to pass the buck on to legal gun owners when we know well the problem is criminals out there shooting people every single day. we need to hold them accountable. still in jail, we've got to leave it there and go to some breaking news. thank you for joining us. we enjoyed talking to you. we will take you loved president trump, delivering remarks from his golf club at bedminster, new jersey. let's listen in for a moment. >> mark zuckerberg, and jack dorsey. three real nice guys.

[applause] they are asking the u.s. district court for the southern district of florida to order an immediate halt to social media companies, illegal, shameful censorship of the american people. that is exactly what they are doing. we are demanding and end to the shadow beening , the stop to the silencing, and a stop to the blacklisting, banishing, and canceling that you know so well. our case will prove this censorship is unlawful, it's unconstitutional, and it's completely un-american. we all know that. we all know that very, very well. our filing also seeks injunctive relief to allow prompt restitution -- really, restoration. you can name about 20 other things, it has to be prompt.

because it is destroying our country. my accounts, in addition we are asking the court to impose punitive damages on these social media giants. we are going to hold big tech very accountable. this is the first of numerous other lawsuits, i assume, that would follow. but this is the lead, and i think it's going to be a very, very important game changer for our country. it will be a pivotal battle in the defense of the first amendment, and in the end i am confident that we will achieve a historic victory for american freedom. at the same time, freedom of speech. [applause] so i want to thank all of the exceptional legal team behind this effort. in particular, john cole. we have a lot of the tobacco lawyers. i said, "who are the best

lawyers? the tobacco lawyers seem to do a good job." they seem to want to do it, they have great talent. i also want to think brooke rollins, an outstanding person and friend. she's carrying it out to a level that nobody saw, and she's done it very quickly together with linda mcmahon, a tremendously successful woman who did an incredible job in the administration. one of the best. and everyone at the america first policy institute for their support of this vital initiative. from the very beginning of our nation, freedom of speech has always been understood as a bedrock of our liberty. liberty and strength. in america, we recognize that the freedom to speak our minds and express the truth that is our heart -- really, that's a big chunk of our heart. it is our heart. it is not granted to us by

government, it's given to us by god, and no one should have the power to take that right away. [applause] the founding fathers inscribed this right in the very first amendment to our constitution, because they knew that free speech is essential to the prevention and -- look, the prevention of horror and the preservation of our republic. remember the words, "the prevention of horror." we are close to seeing that now in our country. we never been in a position like this, and it's all happened very quickly. in the words of the father of our country, although some would like to take that title viii from him, george washington , he will not be canceled.

in freedom of speech -- [applause] if freedom of speech may be taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter. pretty well-known phrase, and so true. unfortunately today this fun fundamental american right and liberty is under incredible threat and attack by a lot of different sides. but we had the majority side, by a lot. i believe we are the majority side by far more than anybody would understand. you just have to take a look at what happened in recent elections and add up the right numbers. you will see a majority like you wouldn't believe. because nobody can believe some of the things that are being said. nobody believes that. social media has given extraordinary power to a group of big tech giants that are

working with government, the mainstream media, and a large segment of a political party, to silence and suppress the views of the american people. and they have been very, very successful at that. not in all cases, but in many cases, totally successful. while the social media companies are officially private entities, in recent years they have ceased to be private with the enactment and their historical use of section 230, which profoundly protects them from liability. once they got section 230, they are not private companies anymore, in a lot as views. no other companies in our country, and even in our country's history, have had protection like this. it is, in effect, a massive government subsidy. these companies have been

co-opted, coerced, and weaponized by government. by government actors, to become the enforcers of illegal, unconstitutional censorship. that's what it is at the highest level. censorship. and so many other things. perhaps even worse -- and you'll be seeing that in this lawsuit as it winds its way through the courts -- we have seen democrats in congress, the ceos of these companies before their committees, and attempt to threaten them, bully them, and intimidate them like nobody has been intimidated. but they made a deal, they all get along very nicely now. thank you very much. congress has repeatedly told big tech that if they do not silence democrats, political opponents

ban prominent conservative voices. i wonder who that would be. and restrict what the left ominously labels as disinformation. and they are the greatest disinformation a group people ever in the world. as an example, just recently, now they are saying, "we never said defund the police, we want to fund the police." they looked at poll numbers, 85% against them. "no, no, we want to take care of the place. we want to fund the police." and they'll say it thousands and thousands and thousands of times. and by the end of 12 months he will be saying, "they love the police." they don't love the police, they actually hit the police. for whatever reason. and it's just a terrible thing. like so many other things, they are changing their views on so many other things, and they just say the opposite. they don't even go to anything. all in unison, a lot of the people sitting right before me understand exactly what i'm

saying. they say it right before you, "we want to do this, we want to do that." it's the exact opposite of what they've been saying. where the most famous of all, russia, prussia, russia. "trump loves russia, he loves putin, he loves russia." that went on for two years, and some people believed it. but we are going to look so closely, and we are going to make sure that the liability protections that they have under section 230 is, at a very minimum, changed. and maybe at a maximum, taken away. the supreme court has made it exceedingly clear that congress is not allowed to coerce private entities into doing what congress does. and they're not allowed to do it. the lawful authority is just not there. they can't do it. they bully and they coerce. yet, that is exactly what is

taking place every single day. it's a flagrant violation of the constitution going on before our very eyes. and i hate to say this, but they do it with the supreme court, too. they play the reps. they play the reps. they talk about all sorts of things they are going to do two supreme court justices. "we're going to impeach him, we're going to impeach him, we're going to impeach him!" and then, lo and behold, all of the sudden, different decisions come out. or, "we are going to enlarge that court to a level that nobody can believe. we are going to take that court and we are going to enlarge it, we're going to have 16, we are going to have 20." i saw when the other day, "we're going to have 24 justices." i guess things happen, because all of the sudden decisions come out. they play the ref better than

bobby knight has ever played the ref. hopefully the supreme court judges and other justices stand up for our values and they don't let that happen. in addition, in recent years we have also seen increasing coordination between big tech giants and government agencies, such as the centers for disease control. where so much was wrong, so many things could have been different, but big tech happened to choose the wrong side. and they banned the right side. for example, youtube's policy explicitly forbids contradicting, quote, "health authorities." you know the "health authorities." fortunately i overrode the "health authorities" quite a bit. some decisions made. if not, we would be in trouble

like other countries are now. the central government has essentially deputized social media platforms to become the de facto censorship arm of the u.s. government, which is exactly what happened. this was especially clear during the pandemic when social media giants began censoring information according to guidance by the cdc. which, as we now know, it was often incorrect or wrong. this censorship is yet another blatant violation of the constitution. so many violations of our constitution, and you will see this in the suit, which will also be added to, because things are happening on a daily basis that will be added as we go along. consider just some of the information that has been censored in america over the

past year. until recently, facebook had a policy to eliminate all posts sharing evidence that the horrible virus emerged from china. they said, "it didn't emerge from the chinese lab." remember, i said wuhan, it was like a bomb went up. "it came from the lujan lab." of course there are body bags outside the lad, nobody ever mentions that. i wonder why? they said it came a thousand miles away from a bat, or from another country. they tried to blame italy, they tried to blame us. they give that up, that was also misinformation. it was finally revealed that this was most likely the truth, that it came from the lab. and it was a small little story, but when i said it, it was like a weapon went off. a major weapon. i won't use the word "weapon," because i never use the word

"nuclear," because we have to be careful with our leadership. if we don't have the proper leadership, it's a perilous thing. i never use the word "nuclear," i never said it. it's called disinformation. google and youtube have deleted countless videos that dare to question the judgment of the world health organization, that has been wrong so often. it has been a pipe organ for china, as most of you know. calling those videos misinformation, including videos that consists of clear scientific fact. doctors and medical groups have been barred from these platforms for posting about therapeutics such as hydroxychloroquine. huh, that's a familiar name. which now, most recent studies say, is effective in combating the virus.

$0.03 a pill, the drug companies don't like $0.03 a pill. $0.03 a pill is what it costs. but recent studies have come out very strongly in favor. twitter has censored users for simply using the term "illegal alien," which it has labeled as "hateful content." they are just taking it off for whatever reason. you have to see the sentence they took me out for. it's the most loving sentence. it's really amazing. they could have done better, because i've had a lot worse. [laughter] i couldn't believe that was the reason. take a look at it. you know exactly the sentence i'm talking about, it's become famous. people are saying, "really?" even the other side said, "really?" of course there is no better evidence that big tech is out of control than the fact that they banned the sitting president of the united states earlier this year.

a ban that continues to this day. so we get the word out, that it's not a fair situation. very, very bad for this country. very bad for the world. if they can do it to me, they can do it to anyone. in fact, that is exactly what they are doing. they are taking people off the don't even realize they were taken off. they don't realize they were taken off. but what they are doing is incredible, and incredibly dangerous. joining us this morning are just a few of the many americans who have been illegally banned or silenced under the corrupt regime of censorship. these brave patriots are included in the lawsuit, and thousands more are joining as we speak. thousands more. they are all wanting to join. this will be -- i think we'll go down as a biggest class action ever filed. because thousands of people want to join. jen horton is a schoolteacher

from fenton michigan. earlier this year she was kicked off facebook for sharing a post questioning whether young children should be required to wear masks. a question. giving both sides -- and actually not negative, just giving both sides. that was enough. at the same time, as jen was deplatformed, her brother went missing and she was unable to get the word out to all of her followers. she had a lot of followers. could not get the word out. jen, i want to thank you very much for being here. and stepping forward. it takes a lot of courage. would you like to come up and say something, den? [applause] where is jen? again, please. >> i just appreciate the opportunity to be here with all these amazing patriots.

i thank you, president trump, for everything you're doing for us. [applause] >> thank you, jen. dr. kelly victory. i love that name. i would take that name if i had the choice. as a a board-certified trauma and emergency specialist from colorado. great person. he was asked by the pastor of a church to prepare a video about how to mitigate risks of the china virus to allow -- >> gillian: we have been listening to president trump, former president trump, speaking from his golf course in bedminster, new jersey. he has announced he's leaving a class action lawsuit against big tech. in the city has filed, he names twitter ceo jack dorsey, google ceo sundar pichai, and also facebook ceo mark zuckerberg by name. the president saying he is suing them essentially for banning him

in the aftermath of the capitol invasion on january 6. he said it was unlawful and unconstitutional. so far twitter has permanently banned the president no matter what, even if he runs again. they said he's not coming back to the platform. facebook has taken a modified approach, he is banned now through 2023 but they may reconsider that decision if, they say, his account no longer constitutes a threat to public safety. i want to bring in emily compagno, she is an attorney and also cohost of "outnumbered." she's been kindly standing by listening to these remarks so she can break it all down for us. emily, what is your number one take away here so far? >> my number one take away is that this class action is based on the premise that these digital platforms are sort of because i government institutions that, instead of being wholly private, that they've been granted special favors by the government and

therefore do not have that right to ask dominic exclude that a lot of private companies do. now, i'm basing this on justice thomas' defense in the biden v. knights of columbia case that came out in april, and part of my understanding of this complaint, is that it's largely based on that premise that was articulated by justice thomas. that here this team has pounced on two filed a lawsuit with. i want to make sure viewers understand, that this occurs by a judge. meaning you can file a lawsuit as a class action but is technically not certified as such until a judge does it. so the first step, obviously, that this lawsuit has been filed. we are all looking forward to reading it in and dissecting it further. and once it is taken into consideration, the judge will determine whether it does meet the standards for a class action. in which case, he or she will certify it or declined to certify it, in which case then it would just be back to that

sole plaintiff. >> gillian: so one of the things he said just now, emily, he leveled this claim that during the pandemic specifically, big tech and the social media companies became a de facto fourth arm of government. he said they did this -- he accuses them of censoring true, real information about the spread of the coronavirus, and he says that they also promoted falsehoods from other government officials. how does that stack up to what -- because the case we've heard from him in the past. >> it seems to me that's going to be part of their argument. not only was this a disparate application in terms of censorship, but frankly that they were censoring actual true facts and allowing them to be amplified -- this is, again, their obligations dominic allegations -- amplified falsehoods. so not applying their own set of standards correctly and freely to their uses, as well as acting as an arm of government.

he said they had been deputized, essentially. acting as that arm. i go back again to the justice thomas consists dominic concurrence upon which this is based, that when the government has given special favors to because i government entities, he calls them, like common carriers, for example, he says that's when they come out of that private entity space. there dominic they again become that entity, and that's what he's arguing. that they were acting as an arm of the government, and therefore not allowed to exclude. therefore, not allowed to censor. that's where that where that first amendment argument comes into play. justice thomas also, by the way, noted that governments -- the limited private company's right to exclude is even more stark, the larger market share they have. i look forward to seeing fleshed out -- for example, google is

the gate between your search and 90% of the information out there. we will hear from the president aware, although these companies argue that we are not a dominant force, or not the only force in the market, that there's other avenues out there, the argument will be that the lion's share they hold is in part what bolsters the argument that they, in fact, are acting as this because i government entity here. steel and interesting. emily, thanks so much. really appreciate it. always love talking to you and we will see you and if you know minutes for "outnumbered" at noon. thanks. president biden's national team is meeting today, discussing how to respond cyber criminals linked to russia. this comes as the president is weighing the extent of the damage from what is believed to be the biggest ransomware attack on record and issuing a veiled threat to russian leaders. the attack was launched on july 2nd and centered on the miami base, and affected up to 500 businesses across the globe. take a listen.

>> it appears to have caused minimal damage to u.s. businesses, but we are still gathering information. the full extent of the attack, that's what i can tell you now. and i feel good about our ability to... >> gillian: of eight. jason chaffetz joins us now. he is a fox news contributor and former congressman from utah. jason, great to see you on this day. what is your take away from what president biden said just yesterday about this? he seemed reluctant, let's say, to pin the blame squarely on the russian government here. does that surprise you? >> it does surprise me. i don't understand why continually joe biden continues to be so soft and so tepid towards russia. it is a consistent pattern. such as this topic. but i would also add that, if

you are one of the 1500 plus companies on the receiving end of this ransomware, i doubt until you agree with joe biden that it would have minimum impact. had a big impact. and there is a source to this. i believe our government knew instantaneously where it was coming from. they can track these things. >> gillian: i want to drill down to zero click on this point. he done a lot of work on the hill, you know how the stuff works. let's say for the sake of this conversation right now that russia's government wasn't behind this attack. meaning it is not putin's fault somehow. is there a risk for biden in calling out putin and having to backtrack? meaning, is there some kind of calculation involving national security that is causing him to be careful and methodical about this? or do you think it is just, as you say, a generalized soft approach? >> look, i do believe our

government, at this point, given how long it's already been, understands that this is a guy in the van down by the river, or a continued threat that comes in and is perpetrated within the confines of russia. he had vladimir putin, last time when they met, remember, president biden allowed him to have the microphone by himself. denied any possibility, anything that had to do with any kind of cyber attack. but our u.s. government officials, i have been in classified meetings, i have seen how this works. in part, not in totality, but i've seen how it works in part. we can track this stuff almost instantaneously, but joe biden continues to play softy with russia. that's the underlying concern here. why so soft on russia? >> gillian: okay. i want to get your take on this. "the washington post" editorial board is calling for a deeper

u.s.-led investigation into the origins of covid-19. have a new piece out called, "where did covid come from connect we need to get serious about finding out." this would be news if you've been living under a rock the last year and a half. at the paper previously said that the lujan lab leaked theory was a debunked conspiracy theory, so they seems to be quite an about face for. the former dr. david asher spoke out against a group of medical experts who dismiss the possibility of a lab leaked. take a look at this. >> you can't rule out a lab leaked unless you've gone into the lab and look for the leak. they won't give us access to the lab, so they'll never be able to say yea or nay definitively. but the circumstantial evidence is so substantial, and then there are some bizarre factors in the nature of the coronavirus. >> gillian: i mean, this seems to be a question we ask nearly every day on our air here.

but how is it that some media outlets are just now starting to call for a more thorough u.s.-led investigation? we are now over a year and a half into the pandemic. >> you're absolutely right. dr. asher speaks some common sense. where has "the washington post" been for the last year and a half? these were legitimate questions that donald trump and others were asking. yet, to the point of the press conference that donald trump was just having come of that information was also pressed. so how in the world, and july of 2021, did "the washington post" suddenly come up and say, "we ought to look at that. oh, by the way, maybe the w.h.o., the world health organization, is compromised." these people are literally almost two years behind the actual news, and they are supposed to be leading the way? are you kidding me? >> gillian: the other problem, jason, now, by calling for this

now and july 2021, we are ignoring the latest guidance from even public health experts. nonpolitical health experts. he say, look, guys come at the time for a timely and impartial and realistic investigation into this lab passed about a year ago. it's way too late. launching an investigation now is like having the forensic pathologist arrived at a crime scene a year and a half after someone has been murdered. there's not a lot of utility anymore in doing that. >> yeah, we are trying to track a virus, for goodness sake. if there was a body on the street and we said we are going to show up or even asked the question if maybe the person who lived at the house was involved in that, we'll come back a year and half later another newspaper say, "hey, maybe you should look at that," it is absurd. everybody gets it, everybody understand it. it's one of the single most

embarrassing moments in history of "the washington post." what else could be more embarrassing than a year and half later saying, "oh, yeah, maybe we should look at the origin. it might be china. and oh, by the way, the world health organization might be culpable and compromise." come on, "washington post," you're supposed to be so much better than this. it's an embarrassment. >> gillian: meanwhile the bodies have been buried, the family moved out, they sold the house. it's crazy. jason, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> gillian: the white house's covid outreach to get a lot more personal for a lot of americans. considerable pushback after president biden said he is launching a door-to-door vaccination push. but first, take a listen. >> it's more than that. it is civilization ending poison. not only are these people crazy ideologues, they are stupid. your children are being taught by some of the most ignorant people in the country. >> gillian: that's tucker carlson with some words

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the queen's nurse who was the first person in the u.s. to get the covid vaccine will serve as the parade's grand marshal. >> mark my words -- our union will defend any member who gets in trouble for teaching honest history. we have a legal defense fund ready to go, and we are preparing for litigation as we speak. teaching the truth is not radical or wrong. distorting history and threatening educators for teaching the truth is what is truly radical. and wrong. >> gillian: that the american federation of teachers. the president firing a warning shot at the opponents of critical race theory. she says her union is not going to allow members to get deleted over teaching the truth. this comes as a new report suggests over 5,000 educators have signed onto this petition that pledges to break anti-crt

laws that are making their way through over a dozen state legislators. six states have already banned crt in public schools. anita vogel has all the details from washington. hi, anita. go hi, gillian. that's right, some remarks yesterday he vowing to protect teachers with big bucks in attacking critics pushing back on the idea that a critical race theory is anything but the truth. but he was listening to her speech yesterday you might have been a bit confused. in one breath she said the idea that racism is deeply embedded in the american legal system is only taught in college and law schools. but then she went on to say teachers needed to be defended, and students needed to be taught from that point of view. >> these cultural warriors want to deprive students of a robust understanding of our common history. this will put students at a disadvantage in life by knocking a big hole in their understanding of their country

in the world. the argument is, what is considered common history? they said it teaches history through the prism of race. one veteran teacher who taught for decades now runs the teacher's empowerment network out in california and says that the whole notion could end up damaging our kids at a critical age. >> i taught slavery. why? because it was part of the united states. it's not a great moment, but it happened. we also got rid of it. randi weingarten is talking about critical race theory as if it's fact. it's not fact, it's a theory. brandi childress and there is also reporting today suggesting that, while the national education association dominic association adopted something called new business i am 39 calling for teams to publicize and's share critical race theory, that seems to have been removed from the website perhaps after negative reporting. we are not really sure. in any case, at some point today

the first lady, jill biden, herself a longtime teacher, it will to her school with randi weingarten. should be some interesting conversation there, gillian. >> gillian: thinks are breaking it down for us, we appreciate it. that it does kids a grave injustice. let's bring in the power panel. begot gianno caldwell, fox's political analyst, as well as desiree tim, former congressional candidate out of ohio. and president and ceo of innovation ohio. thanks to both of you for joining us. desiree, i will start with you first. let's build on what critical race theory is and isn't off the top of this segment. is it, as randi weingarten says, simply the truth and real american history? or is it a theory open to interpretation and different

opinions? >> critical race theory is a theory, a legal concept, and academic framework to ensure that we are teaching our children and honest and accurate account of history, looking through the lens of how laws are created and shaped. it is beyond slavery, it also includes talking about civil rights laws, the voting act. they are talking about how we got here as a nation, and i still have yet to hear from someone why it is so wrong to teach our children the beginning of history, starting with 1619, and how we got here now. what is so wrong with having an honest and accurate conversation? i am actually so proud and thrilled for our educators for standing up, and our unions for having a strong backbone talking about and saying and leaning into the truth. the truth is what our children need to learn, and we should not rob them of having an accurate account of our history.

>> gillian: gianno, lady republicans have against the truth? >> in june they didn't have anything against the truth, but whether it be the mainstream media, they were saying that republicans are making a big fuss over nothing. critical race theory is being taught her children. and yet we see where the union is saying, hey, we are going to ensure you have the safety and legal resources to teach exactly what you want to teach. this is a theory, it is -- they call it a lens. if you really want to talk about what republicans are pushing back against, you think about a place like oklahoma which has banned the teaching of critical race theory, they are banning an individual, teachers from teaching that it is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive. what's wrong with that? a person isn't born racist. no one is born that way no

matter what color they are. god didn't create this kind of people. people learned that. when we talk about accurate history, i learned accurate history when i was growing up. i learned about slavery, i learned about jim crow, i learned about a number of different things. and who is to say that the knowledge i learned wasn't accurate? why do we have to amplify and provide a partisan lens to add history truly is? what's the point of that? >> gillian: i want to make sure we get you guys in on this before i leave though. president biden and the white house are announcing this door-to-door approach to get americans vaccinated. let's take a listen. >> the president will outline five areas his team is focused on to get more americans vaccinated. one, targeted community-by-community door-to-door outreach to get remaining americans vaccinated by making sure they have the information they need. >> community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, and oftentimes door-to-door. knocking on doors to get help to

the remaining people protected from the virus. >> gillian: do federal government employees and contractors need to go door-to-door across america, or is this conversation americans should have in private with our doctors and health care providers? >> one of the things we learned about the covid-19 virus was that it is something that forces us all to get through it together. we were all in it together, we had it in ohio, talking about how important it was for each of us to play a role. in june, 99% of covered deaths are related to people who were unvaccinated. we have to make sure we take it to the doors and the neighborhoods to make sure people have the information they need to get the covid vaccine. >> gillian: gianno cummaquid glassware team on this. this is the right strategy? >> we shouldn't be harassing people. people watch the news, they understand they have to wear masks. maryland just said that 100% of the death they had due to color people unvaccinated. we don't have to go knocking on peoples doors and asking them if

they are vaccinated. or worse, have the information available where they can badger someone to get vaccinated. it's inappropriate at it's not the role of the government >> emily: we got to leave it there. thanks so much for joining us. thanks to everybody at home for watching "the faulkner focus" today. "outnumbered" is coming up next. stick with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ heartbeat, it's more. it's dignity. the freedom to go where you want, knowing your doctor can watch over your heart. ♪♪ veteran homeowners, this is the best time in history to turn your home equity into cash. because home values have climbed to all time highs. and so has your equity. turn it into cash now, while mortgage rates are near all time lows. the newday 100 va cash out loan lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value. you could take out more than $50,000. use it to improve your home. pay off high rate debt.

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