ashley: it is monday, july 1st. president biden will meet with community and law enforcement leaders to address america's crime crisis. guns remain a central focus but what about the criminals using them or the calls to defund america's police departments. we're live in d.c. todd: protesters fill the streets of cuba, demanding an end to the country's dictatorship and with the democrats policies skewing further to threat, comerica -- further to the left, could america become the next failed experiment. ashley: richard branson is back on earth after his trip, the first leap towards space travel. "fox & friends first" starts right now. ♪ everybody get up. ♪ we've got a real thing going now. ♪ welcome to the space jam.

ashley: it's me dancing terribly this time instead of todd. wait, i made fun of todd before. i'm not going to do the same thing. todd: it's a dance party on "fox & friends" first on monday morning. i'm todd piro. ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for jillian mele. today, president biden meets with the attorney general and local leaders to look for solutions to the crime problem. todd: the violence shows no signs of slowing. lauren. >> reporter: good morning. president biden and attorney general merrick garland will focus on reducing gun violence as crime rates are soaring in many u.s. cities. in the bronx, a 13-year-old was killed in broad daylight yesterday. new york city democratic mayoral nominee, eric adams, a former police officer, says his party is wrongly focused on defunding police and banning assault rifles when they should work with the federal government to

track illegal handguns. >> i believe those priorities, they really were misplaced. let's look at all of the feeders of how guns are making their way into our cities. >> reporter: in u.s. cities from last year to this year, an increase in homicides and shootings. in atlanta, homicides are up 45%. in new york, shootings up 38%. in portland, last year a low number of homicides. this year, 533% increase. in texas, the alleged gunman in a deadly shooting at the houston aquarium last week was out on bond. according to an investigation by the houston chron sell, last year almost -- chron sell, last year 19,000 defendants were charged with a new crime while out on bond. now texas governor greg abbott wants to crack down on bail bond laws, making it an emergency item for the state legislature's special session. and in chicago, the mayor's office is facing criticism for letting top aides take time off

for independence days despite warnings of a bloody weekend. more than 100 were shot. local officials say it shows a lack of commitment by mayor lori lightfoot's administration. they say working in the office in a 34/7, 365 day a year is a job where you're always connected. police officers had their holiday time canceled. ashley, todd. ashley: lauren blanchard, thanks so much for that. we appreciate it. . todd: trey gowdy says democrats made a lethal mistake by calling to defund police. listen. >> you were told last year we needed to he defund the police. you were told we needed to eliminate the police many you were told we really needed more social workers and psychologists. you were told that crime would go down if there were fewer cops. you were told there are things

cosh yule gists -- you knew it was a dumb idea when you heard i you knew we really don't want social workers showing up when someone is breaking into our homes or shooting up the neighborhood. unfortunately, there were some who did not understand the idiocy of defunding law enforcement and tragically many of those people serve in city government in some of america's largest cities. they won't ever apologize for this lethal mistake. but even if they did, it's really hard to hear apologies from the grave. todd: a minute ago you heard lauren blanchard mention texas governor greg abbott's crackdown on gun laws. we'll be talking about that with texas attorney general ken paxton, coming up later this hour. ashley: a manhunt us underway in georgia for an extremely dangerous suspect accused of shooting at officers.

the sheriff's office says the man fired multiple shots at police after a car chase. he fled into a wooded area which is now being searched by police dogs and helicopters. he was already wanted in two counties. a new jersey mother is found dead after being kidnapped with her 2-year-old son. police say the body was found in a wooded area in tennessee on saturday. her 2-year-old son was found safe following an amber alert. police say the boy was found in tennessee with his father. tyler ri of os. he is facing a first degree kidnapping charge. todd: now to a fox news alert. hundreds of people taking to the streets of cuba to protest against the country's communist government, this comes as cuba struggles with the worst economic crisis since the fall of the soviet union. the cuban government has accused demonstrators of being paid,

insisting the u.s. trade embargo is to blame for the country's economic problems. ashley: a republicans slam the biden administration for pulling troops out of afghanistan. >> i agree, it's a crushing defeat. the taliban have outlasted the will of the united states. it was not a hot war, really, it was basically a peace keeping operation. we may have to go back now. it's a crushing defeat. ashley: the final british troops returned home over the weekend but as the taliban gains ground, the pentagon is calling on the afghans to defend their country. >> we're certainly watching with deep concern which is why we are, again, working with our afghan partners to encourage them to use the capacity and the capability that we know they have and we know that they know how to he defend their country. this is a time for them to step up and to do exactly that. ashley: the taliban took control of vast amounts of territory last week, putting pressure on the afghan army and strongholds in the capital, kabul.

former secretary of state mike pompeo has this warning for the biden administration. china is already looking to capitalize on the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. take a listen. >> it's all about how you execute it. your point about the chinese is well taken. frankly, we provided security for the chai fees for 20 -- chinese for 20 years. today there's fewer than 200al al-qaida there, that benefits chinese enormously. their interests in afghanistan are commercial. they're loathe to commit their own troops i expect so afghanistan needs to begin to stand up on its own. ashley: late last week, president biden said he expects the u.s. withdrawal to be completed by august 31st. nearly two weeks ahead of the september 11th deadline set in april. todd: 90 people now confirmed dead at the collapsed florida condo. surfside officials say the latest victims include three small children. 31 people still missing. cleanup at the site going faster than expected. could be done in a matter of weeks. more than 14 million pounds of debris has been cleared so far.

meantime, miami-dade fire rescue holding a water salute sendoff for the idf crew that helped with recovery efforts. a small ceremony held the day before p thanked the israeli team for working 12 hour shifts for nearly two weeks. ashley: tennessee governor bill lee describes his eye-opening trip to the southern border. take a listen. >> i think seeing it with my own eyes has a made me realize that we do in fact have a real crisis and americans know that i think intuitively but to see it is a alarming. ashley: governor lee recently met with members of the tennessee national guard who are assisting with border security. lee says there has been a significant surge in attempted and apprehended border crossings as well as a rise in crime. he is now calling on the federal government to increase the priority of border enforcement. todd: we want you to meet the u.s. track star living the american dream. this is tenisha.

her journey has not been easy. she worked at mcdonald's in order to help support the family. she helped the p family, still went to school. she is ranked 11th in the u.s. she will join "fox & friends" in the 8:00 a.m. hour to share more of her story. there's a lot more to her story so stick around. ashley: interested to hear it. todd: dr. anthony fauci hit the sunday show circuit with this message about vaccine hesitancy. >> you know, it is almost inexplicable why people when they see the data in front of them, that they don't get vaccinate. todd: as he pushes vaccines, americans are not changing their mind about not getting the shot. that is a double negative. you know who is a double

positive? one joe concha. he'll be here next. ashley: billionaires in their private jets literally clogged the air space when heading to an annual climate change sum s mitt. that story come -- summit. that story coming up next. ♪

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ashley: welcome back. former president donald trump thinks the biden administration is sending the u.s. economy in the wrong direction. todd: here's what he told lawrence jones before is cpac speech. >> is it fair to say the stock market is booming right now. the economy is booming. what i see, and when i talk to businesses on the street, they say that they're competing with government. >> the stock market is doing well. but that's also habit a little bit. that can change very quickly because inflation is going to become terrible. when i left, its was $1.87 a

gallon for gasoline. now it's $3.50. it's going to go much, much higher. we were energy independent. within another month or so at this rate we won't be energy independent. we'll need russia, saudi arabia, the middle east. we'll need all of this. lumber prices are through the roof. all of the prices, meat prices, food prices, if you have inflation, we saw it during jimmy carter's reign, jimmy carter had inflation, prime rate to 22%. the economy crashed. they'll have to be very careful. the economy is very fragile. todd: you can hear more from lawrence's exclusive interview coming up on "fox & friends." meantime, dozens of billionaires flying their carbon emitting private jets to an annual idaho summit to discuss climate change. sources say the air space was so congested the faa temporarily banned planes on the west coast from taking off. key attendees included jeff bezos, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg and microsoft co-founder bill gates. critics calling the billionaires

hypocrites. i mean, what else could you call it? this is hypocrisy at its grandest level and it continues no matter how many times we show it and no matter how many times we call it out. that's part a. part b, imagine if you were one of those flights along the west coast which, you know, a pretty big coast if you will. that's a lot of flights of there's a lot of people going with travel plans, maybe seeing relatives. i would be livid if some billionaires because they had to fly to a conference to decide how they're going to break up the world ruined my flight. ashley: i mean, not only that, but hypocrisy, obviously, but how many times are they going to talk about, you know, the environment and things like that and doing what's best, but they literally shut it down, air travel down for their own benefit. it doesn't make any sense. it's actually kind of a slap in the face if you ask. todd: i think what you're seeing in the republican climate change world is you're seeing an acknowledgement that, yes, something needs to be done but it can be little steps that

everybody takes. if you and i make sure we turn off our lights and are very, very conscious about the water and the electricity and the gas that we use, that helps. if the billionaires then extrapolate that out to their lives, don't fly as much, don't use private jets, don't use as much electricity throughout the multiple industry, all of that will have assume la testify effect -- a cumulative effect and it won't require us to eliminate the gas industry like they're doing with the keystone xl pipeline. ashley: they're not going to stop. todd: they're not going stop because you and i are yelling at them at 5:16 in the. morning.ashley: i know they're listening. signs of the times, the new york times equates the freedom chance from pro-democracy protesters in cuba to anti-government slogans. todd: he's going to be here, we're going to put up a picture soon, it's joe concha. he'll be next.

>> it's ideological rigidity, i think. there's no reason not to get vaccinated. why are we having red states and places in the south that are very highly ideological in one way, not wanting to get vaccinations. vaccinations have nothing to do with politics. ashley: dr. anthony fauci hitting the sunday news circuit to push all americans to get vaccine. todd: the doctor blaming a political divide for the hesitancy. joining us to react, fox news contributor, joe concha. great to see you as always. fauci went on to say he just doesn't get it. help him out, joe.

>> help him out. okay. dr. fauci is the same dr. fauci who wore not one, but two masks, months after getting vaccinated to actually lead to vaccine hesitancy, right. so if he's wearing two masks in public and dr. rand paul, senator, kentucky, republican, called him out on that so he didn't lead by example in terms of giving confidence in that vaccine. when you look at the flu, the flu vaccine alone, only 48% of americans get the flu vaccine. so some people have hesitancy toward vaccines in general. now, i got the vaccine. i got both shots, moderna. this was months ago. my wife is an er doctor, as you know. i think it is relatively safe in terms of getting it. particularly if you're an older adult, you probably absolutely should get it, given that covid has killed more than 600,000 people in this country. but at the same time, the way they're going about communicating this message is almost like, okay, how dare you

not get this. go get it now. and i'm thinking, wow, anybody who is on the fence in terms of getting this vaccine, maybe they have reservations about it, when they hear dr. fauci speak in this consistent he descending way-condescending way, it's the wrong way to say do something when you say it in a patronizing way. ashley: that brings me to my next question. pull the full screen up. 55.5% of the total u.s. population has at least one dose of the covid-19 p vaccine. you're talking about dr. fauci saying you have to do this, i don't understand why people aren't getting the vaccine. but i mean, this is america. shouldn't people have the option if they're hesitant about something, they don't have to get it? >> you would think, right. and they don't. and that's the whole point. look, i would love to see every person in this country get the vaccine but, again, i wouldn't

go about it the way dr. fauci is going on these sunday he shows and saying in the manner that he is. so i don't think they that we're going to see too much change in terms of the people that are on the fence or the people that say absolutely i'm not going to get this vaccine. go ahead and get the vaccine. we need somebody who is more trustworthy than dr. fauci at this point, who last year was the most trusted man in america in terms of covid. at this point, he really isn't because he's over-exposed himself. he's been on too many interviews, saying too many contradictory things and now when he says something it doesn't have the impact that it would in 2020 jillian. todd: that's ashley. ashley: i'll take it. >> sorry. todd: it's all good. >> i expect jillian this time of the morning. todd: the new york times is rich with equating -- let me read the tweet. hundreds of cubans took to the streets in cities around the country on sunday and it goes on from there. is that an unforced error or

more proof that the old gray lady is trying to force socialism upon america. >> the old gray lady, the same one that found too many flags on long island, american flags, as being disturbing. that was what one of the columnists said. you have the new york times saying freedom is an anti-government slogan. no, freedom is freedom. it was what ashley was talking about, either in terms of you live in a he free country or you don't. the new york times has been pro cuba under castro all those years for many, many years, no surprise that they see that freedom is somehow anti-government. i don't think we can make that connection but here we are, the paper of record doing it. todd: as always, a pleasure to have you on the program. >> ashley, i'm so sorry. >> i especially love ashley.

ashley: time right now, 5:24 on the east coast. an apparent first for the world, israeli defense forces using drones to local targets in direct air strikes. we have a live reaction, next. todd: here's one way to do it, video showing thousands of fish being dropped into their new home until they get caught in utah. ♪ the tide is high but i'm holding on. ♪ i'm going to be your number one. ♪ i'm not the kind of girl who gives up just like -- and thousands of jewish survivors are still suffering in poverty today. god calls on people who believe in him to act on his word. "comfort ye, comfort my people."

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ashley: president biden sending senior officials to haiti after its president was assassinated. the team includes members of the national security council and departments of state, justice and homeland security. pentagon spokesman john kirby

says the u.s. wants to avoid a potential power struggle. take a listen. >> i don't know that we're at a point now where we can say definitively that our national security is being put at risk by what's happening there but clearly we value our haitian partners. we value stability and security in that country. and that's why we want to send a team down there today to help them get their arms around exactly what happened and what's the best way forward. ashley: it comes as police accuse the haitian born florida doctor o being a key figure behind the assassination. todd: that story gets more and more bizarre. as fighting in gaza resumes, the israel defense forces deploying drone swarms to target forces. joining us to tell us how it works, drone expert brett valikovich. why is this so significant? it's a new way of war fare. we're talking about multiple drones flying together in

unison, communicating with each other to support the mission. when you talk about military drone swarms, instead of 10 or 100 distinct drones, we have a swarm guided by artificial intelligence and the israeli defense forces they were used to identify hamas targets, exposed enemy hot spots which relayed information back to an app and the data was processed to form intelligence information that was used to target some of these adversaries and it's just the beginning when you think about it. it's a whole other level of complexity when you start adding swarms of small unmanned aerial systems, operating independently or even augmented with manned systems and i think we'll continue to see more of this on the battlefield. todd: absolutely fascinating. i would assume we have similar capabilities. am i right? >> we do have very sophisticated

technology. this is one of the first time we've seen it used on the battlefield. groan drone swarms -- drone swarms are not new in this technology. this particular case requires a high degree of sophistication and artificial intelligence at work and we have similar capabilities and we haven't really used them on the battlefield, i'll say, and this is one of the first cases we've actually seen it. like i said, i think we're going to see it a lot more and more than likely we'll see other countries start to implement because obviously the israelis felt this was successful enough, a successful enough weapon to use it against some of their adversaries. todd: the taliban making rapid gains in afghanistan, raising fears of a humanitarian crisis. mere's the pentagon press secretary. take a listen. >> we're certainly watching with deep concern the violence which is of course is way too high and the advances and momentum that the taliban seems to have right now which is why we are working with our afghan partners to encourage them to

use the capabilities that we know they have and we know they know how to defend their country. this is the time for them to step up and do exactly that. todd: point blank, knowing the region as you do, are you confident that the afghan forces will be able to prevent a humanitarian crisis? >> absolutely not. fully leaving afghanistan, i said it before, it's a catastrophic mistake that will reverberate for decades and joe biden will go down in history as the president responsible for removing one of our major lines of defense and leaving us vulnerable. the taliban can never be trusted. no one knows that more than u.s. troops that are stationed there. i think it's the biggest mistake of the president's tenure. the peace talks have created the humanitarian crisis. it elevated the taliban's status, it sends a message to terrorist groups all around the world that if you fight long enough, the u.s. will turn tail and walk away. we're starting to see the beginning of the fall of

afghanistan with this crisis. it will continue to get worse. i get the desire for peace and the desire to see our men and women in uniform not put in harm's way. when it comes to afghan, there's a saying that goes the only time the afghans are at peace is when they're at war. we've reduced the intelligence capability and it will leave us vulnerable as a country. todd: we appreciate your time as always, sir. ashley: england failed to bring soccer home against italy in the european cup final after scoring in the second minute and england sat back and let italy equalize and take the momentum into pen a at. >> he's got to score here to keep england alive. and he does it! and italy are champions of europe! ashley: so wild. the italians won the shootout

for the first euro title since 1968. they did it in front of thousands of heart broken brits live in london including 7-year-old prince george who was ecstatic for englanded opening goal but in the end the little guy needed to be consoled. todd: it was a horrible shot. tennis star novak djokovic making history at wimbledon. >> he has done it. major title number 20. todd: man, he's so good. djokovic besting italian mateo betini for the 20th grand slam title of his career. he ties roger federer and rafael nadal. we're in the golden age of tennis, each of these guys, 20 grand slams. it is unreal.

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york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez got into an epic sparring match on social media following bobert's cpac speech. take a listen. >> we're here to tell government we don't want your benefits, we don't want your welfare, leave us the hell alone. carley: to that aoc responded, tweeting tell them loud and proud, girl, they will dismantle any semblance of a public safety net we have left and make working people pay more for everything on low wages while wall street gets a meal ticket, good old conservative values, baby. the congresswoman said no one is talking about taking away safety nets, she is encouraging people to do more for themselves than what the government can offer them. this whole thing got ugly. that was like the highlights. that was an abridged version. it was long, family members were mentioned and i have a feeling it will continue into today. todd: it's like mma on twitter,

right? carley: i know. todd: meantime, a silent san a sanders. carley: thousands of people joined protests in cuba over the weekend demanding a change to the system in the communist country. check out some of this video. many u.s. lawmakers voiced their support for protesters but vermont senator bernie sanders did not issue a statement yet and that is notable because he sort of defended fidel castro during the presidential election, if you remember this. take a look. >> we're very opposed to the authoritarian nature of cuba. but you know, it's unfair to simply saying everything is bad. you know, when fidel castro came into office, you know what he did? he had a massive literacy program. is that a bad thing, even though fidel castro did it? carley: that was his thoughts in 2020. a spokesperson for sanders did not immediately return fox news' consider for comment on the current situation in cuba, guys. ashley: bernie sanders little

salty ovary charred branson's - over richard branson's space exploration. carley: richard branson, he became the first billionaire in space yesterday and he was soaking it all in, 53 miles above the earth's surface. watch this. >> i was a child with a dream, looking up to the stars. now i'm an adult in a spaceship. carley: so pretty big deal, right? well, some on the left not too pleased, including bernie sanders, who posted a tweet saying here on earth in the richest country on the planet, half our people live paycheck to paycheck, people are struggling to feed themselves, struggling to see a doctor, but hey, the richest guys in in the world are off in outer space, yes, it's time to tax the big fairs. so -- billionaires. so a very sandersesque tweet. todd: he's probably mad we went

to the moon too. like why are we up there? thanks, shimkus. ashley: the summer crime surge hit the jersey shore and now one town hopes that closing its boardwalk early will help keep the criminals a. todd: a live report, next.

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ashley: now to a fox news alert, as the beckwith complex fire grows, the largest wildfire of the year, raging at the border with nevada. todd: it was fueled by extreme drought as they force evacuations in central oregon. ashley: meteorologist janice dean is here with the fox

weather forecast. what do you have for us, janice. >> it's been hot across the west for weeks now and you have the drought compounding that. we have monsoonal moisture working its way into the west but some of the dry lightning could spark more wildfire dangers so extreme heat continues for a widespread area of the west. i mean, it has been relentless for weeks. we still have heat warnings up for much of california and towards he nevada and even the southwest, up into the northwest as well where they have been dealing with historic heat and the drought not looking good at all with exceptional drought for much of the southwest, in towards california and even into parts of the northern plains as well, just not getting enough moisture. we have a little bit of it getting into parts of the southwest but because it's so dry, the moisture actually evaporates before it hits the ground and you have the threat for dry lightning. not having that problem across the northeast where we have flooding concerns, the potential for showers and thunderstorms, some producing heavy rainfall

for parts of the great lakes and in towards the northeast including the new york city area, up towards boston, so that's going to be ongoing this afternoon. also, the potential for showers and thunderstorms along the gulf coast and parts of florida. but the big story of course is still the heat for the southwest and record setting temperatures. todd: unbelievable. i think this time every year you expect the wildfire danger but what i heard the crop situation out west, because of the ridiculously high temperatures, the food supply isn't used to those 20-degree differences. >> it's going to be a huge story this year, yeah. unfortunately. todd: not good. jd, thank you. ashley: and a jersey shore town closing its beaches and boardwalk at night to try to cut down on roady crowds, they they say hundreds of teenagers flocked to the beach after dark, damaging property, houses and cars. .todd: we have more on the coastline crack down.

>> this is a result of the restrictions on police powers even in one of the wealthiest communities along the east coast, two and-a-half hours south of manhattan where the average house price is $2.2 million. it even reached communities like this. the sun is rising right now, we can see over the ocean, you see evidence of what the mayor and police chief are talking about, underage drinking on the beautiful sand dunes between the boardwalk and the beach and this is one of the problems. and the other problem is they blame new jersey's democratic governor because they came out with a marijuana legalization law in the wintertime and it was the police that were threatened with arrests, if they arrested any underage people caught drinking alcohol or smoking pot. >> police departments in avalon and elsewhere through the state have been put in an extremely poor position by state leadership, the governor and legislatures on this. they have taken away many police powers resulting in curbside

powers. >> it ties our hands dealing with the juveniles. makes it tough to do our jobs. >> we have fence posts that have been put into stacks, we have windows of public vehicles being broken, trash cans overturned. it makes it much longer to get the beach and boardwalk ready. the kids are aware of how far and how much they can get in trouble and the state of new jersey did us no favors by approving this legislation. >> well, a typical viewer comment already this morning, one i think a lot of your "fox & friends" viewers will agree with. this man writes tired of the he defund and restrict the police crap, people know it and cause more trouble. obey the laws and everything is okay, defund and restrict them, this is what we get. from now on, until further notice, the people who pay a fortune to either rent or live in avalon have to be off the beach right after sunset at 9:00 p.m. and off the boardwalk at

11:00 p.m. it's going to be a long, hot summer, even in the wealthiest communities. todd: steve, i assume when we go to you we'll be in atlantic city but this is avalon. avalon is like you said at the top a ridiculously wealthy community and a like you said at the top it's coming to your town. >> yeah, if it comes here, it's going to go everywhere, right. todd: yes. thank you so much, steve. with that, don't go ahead, texas attorney general ken paxton joins us live to talk about the governor's crackdown on bond laws more, that's coming up next. ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ well, since you asked. it finds discounts and policy recommendations, so you only pay for what you need. limu, you're an animal! who's got the bird legs now?

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todd: texas governor greg abbott vowing actions as criminals released on bond skyrockets in houston. jackie: a report by houston chronicle 643 defendants released on bond have been charged since 2015. ken paxton joins us now to discuss. thanks for joining us this morning. >> glad to be here, thanks. jackie: of course. i want to get to this first it's governor abbott talking. ing criminals out on bond skyrocket in houston. that's why he made bail bond 18796 defendants were charged with new crimes while out on

bond. >> this there is a huge backlog because of the backlog in 2017 some of the courthouses were floodinged. pandemic put us down a year. backlog of people in jail who haven't been convicted and letting violent people back out on parole not on parole but out on the street. we need to put more resources into this and there does need to be some bond reform we cannot have violent people out on the streets. todd: breaking down the expected law or the law that you want, what changes to the law are you going to make? >> yeah. i think you must -- you got to have something deal with the potential violent nature of whoever is being charged. and look at that before you release them on bond. these judges have a lot of discretion. maybe you limit some of this discretion if there is a poo fennel tore violence. you find a way to speed this up for those who are going to be there on these violent crimes so

we get through this process a little faster. todd: we know the bail system here in blue state new york really bad. it is leading to the crime we are seeing on the streets. you also mentioned the hurricane there was in the houston area. but i have to there is another factor at play. how did the situation in a red state ie texas, get this bad? >> with covid it, pretty much shut the court system down for a year. i know that because we do prosecutions on voter fraud. and our voter fraud prosecutions have been waiting well over a year because they're not violent. they are not priority. so we're sitting in this long line waiting to prosecute voter fraud. the same thing has happened with these other charges for violent criminals it creates this huge back put the pandemic on top of the hurricane is a huge problem for the state of texas right now. ashley: and then former president trump, he spoke about the border crisis at cpac. let's listen to that. >> in a matter of mere months, joe biden has brought our

country to the brink of ruin right here in texas. under my administration, we achieved an historic reduction in illegal immigration. now the biden administration has turned the border into the single greatest disaster in american history. ashley: all right, ken, your response to that you know better than most. >> i was there with the president yesterday. i have beenen on the border several times with the president. he is right. we went from a situation president trump worked really hard by creating different policies of stopping the catch and release. allowing border patrol to do their jobs. stay in mexico and building the wall. there were things working well will. the number came way counsel. sure enough worst numbers we have ever seen. more drug, human and sex trafficking it is a disaster. for some reason the cartels are the only ones i think that are benefiting. i don't think the people coming here are benefiting because they are subject to cartel control

and then to pay for this. todd: it is amazing how rich the cartels are getting off this crisis over the last six months. it is the true tragedy of all of this. especially when you see those little kids suffering so much. ashley: awful. todd: when you think texas, one you think -- according to the republicans you will be getting it back. let's focus though on the messaging because i don't think come 2022 it's going to matter what the voting rules are. i think it's going to be about the messaging, who is winning the messaging on voting rights laws? >> look, it's up grabs. certainly the media has been harsh to republican efforts to reform some of the election issues that we saw in the last election. but i think if we keep talking about the truth, which is there is real voter fraud. in my office we have over 500 cases waiting to go trial. we have over 300 investigations. more voter fraud cases we have ever had. that's just a fact. we need to talk president fact

that we are dealing with it this issue and we do need legislation to make sure that voter fraud is not prevalent so people can count on the elections being true and right people are being elected. todd: quickly, is requiring identification to vote racist? >> absolutely not. we are required, everybody is going to be required to have it. it can't be discriminatory just on the fear fact that everybody is required to do it. and we all know that photo sid i.d.is used everywhere. it's not unusual. and we wassed it in texas, voting was not suppressed, it went up because people had confidence in the elections. ashley: okay, ken paxton, the texas a. g rks thank you for being with us this morning we appreciate. >> it thanks have a great day. todd: we leave with you this fish flying out of a plane. going to great heights to restock the statessens rural

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