>> sean: a >> longest-serving prisoner from bay of pigs invasion. i know you have a great show as usual tonight. >> was that sarah carter? she was interviewed. >> she's fluent in spanish and i do know her. >> those are people who are truly appreciative of freedom, understand the cost of liberty and this should be recognized by every american throughout the country. >> many people last night told

me to tell you hello and others and i was so inspired by the people, it was incredible, great experience and how hard they are fighting for their cause, family and friends and neighbors is inspiring. laura: thank you. i'm laura ingraham, from new york city tonight we begin with fox news alert. this is the scene in washington dc a few hours ago, 20 to 30 shots were fired on a popular street filled with very well fueled washingtonians eating a popular outdoor restaurants. two males have been shot with non-life-threatening injuries, the shooting comes less then a week after gunshots rang out outside national park at sent and swing, the 101 homicides should it a wake-up call on their own but maybe it will take

good for this of the elite getting ruffled for mayor memorial bowser to realize she has a real problem on her hands. we will monitor this story and bring you all the details as we get them. but we begin tonight with president biden's very small town hall, that is the focus of tonight's angle. the cnn townhall is such a pathetic exercise of fawning, i was almost going to skip the full dissection but changed my mind. during the 90 minute event we saw a sitting president embarrass himself the combination of lies, abuse creations and purposeful ignorance and we saw television host mod along as the spectacle unfolded. >> the question is whether or not we should be in a position where you are -- why can't the

experts say we know that this virus is in fact -- we know while the drugs approved are not temporary but permanently approved. that is underway too. i expected to occur. >> you mean for the fda. >> for the fda. >> at a time of immense economic health and national security challenges facing the united states, he could've done a public service by asking tough, fair questions throughout but instead most of the time he came off more like an assisted-living aid. president biden is rarely capable of starting and

finishing a complete thought without wandering off on some meaningless tangents like when he was asked how the administration can promote vaccines in the african-american community. >> we have taken mobile fans and people to the communities, to the hardest hit communities and is beginning to have some impact but we have to talk about it more. for example i was just -- i get in trouble because my wife is a silly girl, a phillies fan, i just hosted the tampa bay buccaneers, there's a guy, a quarterback, what is his name? >> meanwhile the media standing on. >> of the presidency were the this is his event. >>'s best traits were on display tonight and reminded me of why he beat donald trump. >> biden comes across in a way that is difficult to demonize. laura: difficult to interpret figure out the contrast those reactions with how they poured

over trump's every syllable. >> the starting point is the trump demand, his psychological state, many people i speak with, experts think he's evidenceing dementia. >> he keeps obsessing over taking a test that is given to alzheimer's patients. it is a bizarre bazaar thing. >> >> the president am so own supporters might be very unnerving. any effort to reassert people that the commander-in-chief is mentally stable? >> that now we are all supposed to think president biden's verbal crutches, he leans in every time he loses his train of thought are somehow really cute. >> i'm not being a wise guy now. it is good. i think that is happening. think about this. i'm a big dog person.

i sincerely means is. i'm not being facetious. i'm not being facetious, i'm not joking. on autocracy, democracy has to stand up -- no, no, i really mean it. all kidding aside, i'm not joking. >> i wish you were joking. it is really just said at this point for president biden, for the country, and cnn, courses, journalistic practice to ignore it whenever your interviewee routinely fails to answer the question posed to >> what do you say to people worried about a new round of restrictions and mask mandates? >> it is a little bike when i got elected, the pandemic was out of control. we lost more people in the united states over 630 some

thousand people in every major war we ever thought in the united states of america and that has come to a screeching halt for those who have been vaccinated. it really has, not a joke. >> there was a question, but real questions with real follow-up is asking too much. don't want to put pressure on president biden and drumroll please. for my favorite spooning moment of the night. >> one of the things we are doing is what i have done -- we've done, my team has done. >> i don't know if you heard you got applause when you corrected the eye for a week only are talking about we -- >> it is we. >> a commendable attribute to have. >> you know what else is commendable? telling the truth. which president biden repeatedly struggled with last night.

first on that minor issue of our current inflationary trends threaten the recovery. >> inflation is temporarily pumping all of this money into the economy, couldn't that -- >> it relates to what in fact is now needed because we are growing. i don't know anybody including larry summers, who is a friend of mine, who is worried about inflation. >> did he mean this larry summers? >> i was on the worried side about inflation, it is all moved much faster, much sooner than i had predicted and i think that has to make us nervous going forward. >> it is worse than i thought by the way. on the big issue of vaccines

president biden was a contagion of contradictions. >> we have a pandemic for those who haven't gotten the vaccination. you are not going to get covid if you have these vaccinations. >> may want to buy a little bubble on that one. >> 3 of those democratic lawmakers have tested positive for covid despite all being fully vaccinated. we've also learned a white house official and an aide to speaker pelosi have tested positive for the virus despite being fully vaccinated. laura: in the span of a few minutes president biden amended his earlier claim that vaccinated people will never get tested. >> this is simple basic proposition. if you are vaccinated you are not going to be hospitalized, you're not going to be in an icu unit and you're not going to die. >> there is a very small chance which is what he should have said that would of course undermine his very important message. then the claim that like trump,

he has the world the eye eating out of his hand. >> those of you travel abroad, not a joke, you ask, when i went to this g7, all the major democracies, i walked in, i know a lot of them because of my role in the past, and i said america is back, heads of state, i give you my word is a biden, are you really back? >> reality, president biden said america is back, with the stumbler in charge america is on her back, russia, china china, germany, they are laughing at us, they went from being on their toes and held accountable trump in the white house to rolling right over the us with biden in the white house. this week we learned the china

packed tens of thousands of public and private internet accounts worldwide but as the wall street journal properly noted the allied powers and ask no sanctions or other repercussions. a collision against chinese cyberattacks is nice but not if the result is nothing, that is american leadership under biden and that's not all. also this week biden caved on the nordstrom pipeline the multibillion-dollar and you will give to none other than flattery putin. in foreign affairs every country is out there right now fighting for its own national interests except hours. biden epstein is undermining america, inviting un monitors into investigate and berate us on racism. it is not clear the president is even aware of any of this, not sure. when president biden can think of some accomplishments you got to hand it to him because he's good at playing it is greatest hits. >> i have a lot of experience

internationally and not good or bad, just i have. the foreign relations committee, i've been deeply involved, i did national security for the administration with barack. laura: that one thing he got right. like the old college are at the elk lodge, biden slips back into the past but has trouble responding to the present and the media slavishly covering up for him unwilling to hold him to the same brutal standards they help trump to. cnn has lost their credibility and last night despite all the buildup and production and fanfare biden and lemon lost their timeclock and they lost it to this show by half 1 million viewers even though we air two hours later. and that is the angle.

joining me now is arkansas >> it is really shocking. nancy pelosi said she will not push forward on infrastructure until the senate agrees to the $3.5 trillion spending so why should republicans who marched to capitol hill essentially give them a huge win on this bill

when we have massive spending that will be crammed through in a reconciliation leading to all these other economic problems and a massive change to the way we live our lives, why would republicans give them that? >> when nancy pelosi -- the budget framework, we expect chuck schumer to permit budget forward in the next month or so but what nancy pelosi is saying is the house wouldn't pass infrastructure bill into the actual implementing spending bill is passed, $3 trillion of spending, months of work, nancy pelosi didn't do any of the senator's work when she said any bill that passes the senate into the senate agrees to pass a bill that includes $3 trillion, we know they will try to sneak amnesty for millions of illegal aliens into the bill as well. that is another example of soft infrastructure which is far left liberal priorities.

laura: good to see you. there was this other moment from last night's debate that was quite telling that had to do with something the senator and i just talked about. >> portman is a good man, a congressman from this area. i talked to him, he is a decent honorable man. he and i are working on trying to get this infrastructure bill passed. >> senator ron portman of ohio. >> i'm not being facetious. you had 20 republicans signed a letter saying we think we need this deal. laura: the republican insists president biden and chuck schumer are allies in this push for infrastructure, has given biden the opportunity to use this bipartisan gloss right before the road to

reconciliation and that literally will change our country forever. is that the thinking of the "national review" to write the following? for months a seriously misguided group of republicans keeping up the charade that there is a bipartisan infrastructure process going on, but democrats keep making them look like idiots. the editor of "national review" joins us. why do you think this is happening with this particular group? portman is retiring. others have missteps like this but explain to our viewers. >> is completely perplexing and almost trying to be too clever by half. they convinced themselves if they get into this bipartisan negotiation that somehow it maybe would kill the bigger bill

or convince them, the so-called moderate senators, democratic senators, senator manchin and cinema to oppose the bigger bill, strengthen opposition to this but there is no evidence at all. if anything this is making it more likely democrats get the whole $4 trillion because now manchin and cinema say they worked for this great bipartisan bill and democrats have a small lift in their overall bill if they try on their own to pass a $4 trillion bill to begin with, then maybe it would be a lot harder so i think they are greasing the wheels for this and it makes no sense because normally in a negotiation when

there's compromise both sides give up something but in this case republicans are going through this whole charade of a negotiation then in the end democrats regardless of what happens with the deal democrats are going to pass whatever they want anyway so what are democrats giving up? >> republicans get no leverage. what are they going to go to the voters with next year, i worked with them on the infrastructure and then they roll on the $3.5 trillion making these new permanent entitlements. they look like complete morons. >> to that point i didn't just pull the word idiots out of nowhere. if you recall a few weeks ago they had that big announcements in front of the white house and president biden said i'm a man of my word and i will stand by and a few hours later he said i am not going to sign these bills unless they both come to my desk

so the bipartisan bill -- mindy graham comes out and says you've got to be kidding me. i'm never going to support this, makes us look like idiots and then biden reaches clarification, sorry i said that part out loud and lindsey graham is suddenly back on board. mitt romney going on saying we can trust president biden, the guy who went on national tv during an election and said mitt romney was going to put black americans in chains and this is the guy -- suddenly saying he is a man of his word. laura: they have no ability to strategize, no leverage, they are outflanked by the democrats step-by-step, every american should see what is going on here. raymond arroyo took his talents to the sidewalk outside a new york city gallery poised to sell

hunter biden's art. plus a chicago-area teacher was fired for criticizing black lives matter on facebook during the peak of last summer's riots. she is suing the school district and is here to tell us about it next.

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her former school district that fired her after she criticized black lives matter next july. jean taught for 20 years at a chicago-area school, was so incensed by the violence she saw unfolding in history after the death of floyd that she took to facebook during vacation and typed the following. i don't want to go home tomorrow now the civil war has begun. i want to move. another post said she felt her white privilege racist as the end word. according to the washington times when she returned from vacation she found out the school board was holding a meeting considering her termination and a 5-them to vote they moved to fire her. jeannie hegseth and her attorney joined me now. do you say you suffered substantial damages, explain what happened. >> i worked for the district for

20 years. i took pride in my work. i loved my job. my students, everybody. i was a supporter of my daughter. on vacation i was upset about the rioting. protesting, we need more of it but rioting, none and people were supporting it and it was freaking me out and i made a few comments. i was having a conversation with a young lady told me to shut up with my white privilege and i wrote my longer post which bothered everybody. i might have more conservative views but there's nothing racist about what i had to say and i'm being accused of being a racist which i have no history of whatsoever. >> we reached out to the school district and they had a statement that said we are aware of the lawsuit. at this point it is a legal

issue, the district is not commenting on details, the board approved resolution at our meeting regarding suspension and dismissal of miss hedgepath. you say the dismissal was behind your quiet's back. >> it was. thanks for having us. for the record i am here as local counsel working with judicial watch and what jeannie did was basically first amendment protected speech in a public square, as american as apple pie and baseball and her dismissal. she came back from florida, was told she was under investigation and within 6 weeks of coming back they had a closed-door hearing and she was terminated. it is highly unusual to be terminated in illinois as a tenured teacher within 6 weeks of an investigation beginning. >> a tenured teacher who posted

a different message perhaps supportive of the protests and mentioning things like white privilege, you probably would have gotten a better parking spot. that is my theory on this but have you heard from any of your colleagues in the school district? or are they terrified of speaking out? >> i think they are terrified. i have only heard -- three people are my friends, i stayed in touch with them but only heard from two people. that was heartbreaking because they are scared i guess. everyone is scared. it took a whole year to get to this point because i called many lawyers, people don't want to touch it. even trump's lawyers got demonized, it is okay if you're a murderer but can't defend a teacher.

laura: the loss of income and loss of future income after being summarily dismissed for what ultimately is personal political speech, that has to be substantial amount of income and if you can prove punitive damages that goes to a whole new level. >> that is right and we are seeking punitive damages against many defendants as individuals but people have to realize my client was accused of, quote, harming students. that is what they decided. that she was harming students because she discussed matters, keep in mind the context. in chicago, memorial 2020, it was mayhem, there were riots, the mob, the looting, she was terrified as an american citizen and she teaches diversity of opinion in her classes and

somehow the board found she was harming students in talking about, quote, racial issues. i can guarantee i wonder about this. are they looking at social media posts of all the other teachers in the district? what about the capital riots in january? laura: i hope all those school board members, all those faculty members kept their text messages preserved the records because you are going to have some wild depositions in this case, great to see both of you. on the subject of troubled midwestern cities we go to st. louis where the radical out of control attorney kim gardner is putting her citizens at even greater risk than they are already in. prosecutors failed to even show up to multiple hearings on a murder case ordering the judge dismissed. fox's matt finn has been following this story, has all the details for us tonight. >> police are looking for a man

was in custody, first-degree murder charges but that was at large. st. louis prosecutor failed to show up at the hearing, judge jason saying he dropped murder charges against campbell, local reporting says prosecutor was assigned to the case when she was on maternity leave and missed a hearing last thursday, she was resigned, police issued a new warrant for campbell after rest. slammed the prosecutor's boss kim gardner writing in part, quote, the signatory's office is responsible for protecting public safety by charging and prosecuting those it believes commits crimes. the attorney's office has abandoned its duty to prosecute those it charges with crimes. kim gardner's office responded to a statement upon review of our policies and procedures regarding medical leave we have

determined corrective measures are needed to prevent a repeat occurrence of the incident in question but two other cases were also recently dropped against murder suspect as the case fell apart or the prosecutor was a no-show but in a statement kim gardner's office is the claim that those cases are dropped from a no-show prosecutor has not been substantiated. today the mother of a man killed in st. louis last year told fox news that st. louis we prosecutors are negligent and she was kept in the dark about a plea deal struck with her son's alleged killer. >> your office has a new prosecutor which your office did not make me aware of, the prosecutor was in and of himself not prepared to handle my son's case. >> the head of the st. louis police officers association says people on the street will see

murder suspects walking free because of gardner's handling of these cases. we will keep you updated on that murder suspect on the loose. laura: in new york city which happens to be where the art gallery hunter biden hopes to sell his art for a small fortune. we sent raymond arroyo to find out what is going on. that can't misreported next.

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hunter biden's first premier collection anywhere from 75,$000, and half $1 million. the question is will people pay that much and are they worth it? we asked new yorkers. nursing hours on the block selling this work of art. for 75,000 to have $1 million. do you think it is worth it? >> i could make that with some sand, some ink. >> doesn't seem they put in a lot of time. >> question the artistic merits. what does it make you think of? >> artwork with flowers. >> mom not baby droppings or bird droppings. >> i can't tell. is that worth 80,000? >> hunter biden, the president's son.

>> 200,000, 300,000, 400,000, 500,000. >> 200,000? >> it could go to something much more useful. >> this is another piece, same artist by the way, what you pay -- >> my mom could make that. >> look like something my daughter used to paint in elementary school. >> tough crowd. what if i told you hunter biden painted this with his own blowpipe? that doesn't change the price at all for you? >> maybe the just because of me. >> 75? >> maybe an asset to sell it but i don't think -- will: 10,000. >> i don't think so. >> what if i told you it was

created by hunter biden? president biden's son. >> what what i get for the donation? >> there is an interesting question. what would you get? >> i don't know. >> what do you think it is worth? >> not much, depends who is paying for it. >> the fact that hunter biden painted? >> devalues it. >> you don't care about under biden being the artist? >> absolutely not. >> i could care less about hunter biden. >> no matter how much people are willing to pay for this, there are concerns. the white house said they were avoiding influence peddling by keeping the buyers of hunter@anonymous. now we learn hunter biden is scheduled to speak no one spreader two prospective buyer events at galleries. the white house spokesman responded this way.

goal of keeping them in the dark about buyers of his art as a means to prevent even the appearance of influence? >> is not don't have any conversations related to the selling of art. that will be left the gala rest as was outlined in the agreement we announced a few weeks ago. laura: wait a second. it is not about what the gala rest -- all hunter biden needs to do is this guy, 150,$000, the guy lives in long island, has an interesting stuff, might give them a little tool. come on. >> is he going blindfolded into these events with prospective buyers.

if we didn't have this influence peddling with president biden and his son hunter sharing bank accounts where hunter was paying some of his bills, they met with billionaires on air force 2 in 2014. all of this is a pattern of corruption that the white house needs to dispel because right now this are christ scheme is as messy and blotted and checkered as one of hunter's paintings which -- >> look like the coronavirus. >> this looks like a cd under glass i think. i've ever seen one but i imagine -- >> do that with toilet paper. >> in your guest's bathroom and i will expect a check for $1 million or 2 million. >> how many of the paintings will be bought by the chinese. i see a better case of that. >> you can afford it. >> eric trump couldn't even raise money for saint jude hospital and they went after him for that. >> they got to put this down. it looks bad.

laura: we've got to go but hunter, go into another line of work, old-fashioned corruption will do. one tv dock is not just more alarmist for most but once your freedom totally snuffed out:closer next and for the biden administration be considering taking -- going backward on covid? we predicted, stay there.

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>> laura: cnn a medical expert >> cnn's medical expert doctor liana win, the former planned parenthood president has been on cnn and was disappointed that president biden wasn't alarmist enough last night. >> i think president biden lead people astray when he said of your vaccinated you can take off your mask. we don't know that. he has let go (opportunity. >> he was back at offering the biden administration some free advice. >> one thing the biden administration could be doing that would change the equation it comes to incentives and that is to use proof of vaccination, vaccine mandates are something that will have to come. >> what an authoritarian

nightmare she is and then came the victory lap. >> i'm relieved the white house is considering revising the guidance because the circumstances on the ground changed, the science have changed, you expect the policy changes accordingly. >> nothing going to be enough, 100% of the country vaccinated and there would be another reason to mask everyone. what started as 14 days to slow the spread is turned into masking, lockdowns, vaccine mandates, take precautions you are comfortable with but is time to turn out doctor liana and the rest of the expert. speaking of masks there's no sustained push from the biden administration and the cdc for little kids, 2 years old up to wear them in schools this fall. let me understand they now i do the kids need to wear masks to

protect themselves, but for a year we've been told masks only protect you from spreading covid so which is it. doctor peter mccullough, epidemiologist and professor of medicine at texas a&m. every loss is tragic but just the last number is 300 children of tragically died with covid and of those we don't even know how many died of covid because the cdc will not tell us, far fewer than have died most years from the flu. your reaction. >> things and dramatically changed, very quickly. last time i was on we were at 30% delta varying, as of july 17th, we are at 83% of the variance, completely different viral syndrome, much more mild. i expect we managed right through. we are 10% of our peak in december, having a mild outbreak at this time as we will be able to treat away from it.

no need for drastic measures. >> the biden administration last night still no talk of natural or adaptive immunity from those who have been previously exposed to the virus. >> natural communities are backstop and we know 25% of people who took the vaccine and natural immunity, they were needlessly vaccinated but it is still the backstop. if anybody wants to take an inventory in terms of their employees especially small businesses they should know who has natural immunity, who has the virus, those individuals are fully protected. >> a voice of reason and calm. when we come back. final thoughts about those other alarmists out there. committee ns

kenneling committee ns laura: nancy pelosi was channeling the clarity and cogency of president biden. a change it is bipartisan and we

have a quorum. staff is being hired to do the job. we are there to seek the truth. we are not there to get trump. but truth, trump, that seems to be with the other side is a test with. >> you spell it with your hands. gutfeld is next. >> friday july 2, '03, another shocking shooting has people looking for cover and running for their lives on a busy night near popular restaurants in washington dc and it is just days after baseball fans did the same during the shooting near the national game. the terrifying scene every day, americans are sadly getting used to. >> don't throw away your masks yet. more suitable bring back mask mandate with your vaccinated or

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