so you can... retire better jillian: it is monday, july 26th. dr. anthony fauci setting off another firestorm as he admits mask mandates are, quote, under active consideration. the latest mixed messaging and the backlash, we're live in washington. griff: and a bipartisan infrastructure bill could finally be ready today, but it looks like the deal might already be doomed. progressive plan standing in the way. jillian: team usa off to a strong start in the tokyo olympics, the powerhouse athletes already bringing home gold. "fox & friends first" continues right now. ♪ griff: good morning. you're watching "fox & friends

first" on this gorgeous monday morning. i'm griff jenkins, lucky to be in for todd piro. hey, jillian. jillian: good morning. griff, i argue we always try to bring home gold on "fox & friends first," would you agree. griff: absolutely. no one is better. the olympics, no one's watching according to the ratings. i have been. we're trailing china. they've got seven, we've got six medals. the comeback kid, usa. , is goingto be on a roll here. jillian: opening ceremony, 33 year low, 16.7 million u.s. tv viewers. i know you're in that category of the 16.7. me not so much. but we'll see if they're able to turn things around, griff. griff: i make one last prediction, that is the 1984 olympics, u.s. brought home 84 golds, the most any country ever had in one olympics. i think we're going to beat that record this time. we'll have to find out. two kinds of america, dr.

anthony fauci describing the nation's divided between vaccinated and unvaccinated american as new cases and hospitalizations surge. jillian: lauren blanchard joins us from washington with more. republican governors encouraging vaccinations instead of stricter restrictions. >> reporter: dr. fauci says with less than half of the population fully vaccinated, the u.s. is heading in the wrong direction with covid positive cases. >> it's kind of like we have two kinds of america. we have the very vulnerable unvaccinated part and we have the really relatively protected vaccinated part. >> reporter: according to the director of the cdc, more than 80% of the current cases are the highly infectious delta variant. dr. fauci said to help protect those who refuse to get the shot, it may need even the vaccinated may need a mask and new mask mandates are under active consideration. currently the cdc doesn't recommend them for the fully

vaccinated. >> this is under active consideration, in the trenches, in places like la county. the cdc says you know, you're in a situation where we're having a lot of dynamics of infection, so even if you are vaccinated, you should wear a mask. >> reporter: the white house chief of staff did tweet they've seen an uptick in vaccinations per the cdc, 790,000 in a 24-hour period. dr. fauci also said depending on infection rates, it's up to localities to decide their mask rules. starting today in st. louis, masks will be required in indoor public places and on public transportation. after an emergency meeting in provincetown, massachusetts, they'll have an indoor mask mandate. alabama's governor calling out the unvacation nailed, saying it's -- unvaccinated, saying it's time to start blaming them for the rise in cases. ron de santis in florida has encouraged vaccinations over restrictions. >> we had very low case rates in

arkansas. i think it's important to have the current emphasis on getting a vaccine. >> reporter: dr. fauci did say the virus is in retreat but only for the vaccinated. he hopes that people will see the danger in the delta variant and choose to get the shot as almost all hospitalized cases are unvaccinated. jillian, griff. griff: lauren, thank you. jillian, to stay on what lauren was talking about a little bit here, you also saw dr. jerome adams from the previous administration on the weekend saying that the virus is spiraling out of control because of unvaccinated americans. here's the problem. it's become far too political, whether it is mask mandates or whether it is the shaming of unvaccinated americans. this administration and republican lawmakers i would suggest to you need to find a way to bring them back to the table. one way that isn't going to be effective is speaker nancy pelosi on sunday shows talking

about those masks, enforcing the issue, at least she would like to do that in congress. listen. >> if you're asking me, i think that we should mask. but in terms of officially for the house floor, that's up to the capitol physician. jillian: go ahead, griff. griff: it's important to note, the sound bite you heard, that implies or includes vaccinated members as well. jillian: to that point, just about a half hour ago on the 4:00 a.m. hour of this program we had the mayor of wildwood missouri and st. louis city councilman, st. louis county councilman on, because in that area today the renewed mask mandate is set to take effect in st. louis county and they're fighting it because they're saying, look, for people who are vaccinated, how can you now go and tell them that they need to wear masks indoors and on public trans pour of station. you had the mayor of wildwood saying look, what does our

future look like if you tell people you need to get the vaccine in order to get some of your freedoms back, in order to stop wearing the mask and to get back to your normal life and then all of a sudden you get vaccinated and now you're telling people never mind, it's apparently not enough that you need to also wear a mask. i just think that -- i don't know what the future is going to look like, griff, if this what is we're up against for a long time to come because we don't know how long it's going to be. griff: folks like dr. marty makary saying the virus is going to be with us for years, if not decades. i thought an important op-ed over the weekend, sarah sanders, former white house press secretary, fox news contributor, wrote about urging people to get the vaccine and pointed back to the fact that this administration's not giving credit to president trump for what he did. she said this. i decided to take advantage of president trump's operation warp speed and get vaccinated. president biden, vice president harris and others on the left

truly care about increasing the vaccination rate and saving lives, they should admit they were wrong to cast doubt on operation warp speed and give president trump and his team the credit they they are due for the development of a safe and effective vaccine in record time. i don't know if that includes a psa now to be created with president biden and former president trump standing next to each other but they're going to have to do something to get everybody on-board with only half the country vaccinated. jillian: i said it in the last hour and i maintain, and i don't think it's going to happen, but seeing this administration give credit to the former administration for operation warp speed i think could potentially be something that, you know, pushes people together on this idea of the vaccine. i just -- i don't anticipate it happening, sadly. griff. griff: that's right. we'll have to wait and see what happens. they'll have to get together and do something. kind of like that old when people didn't wear seat belts, everybody came together and said

you've got to buckle up. well, buckle up for the shot. jillian: that is true. we'll continue to follow that. in the meantime, senate lawmakers could finalize their bipartisan infrastructure package today. the roadblocks are spelling doom for the bill. griff: marianne raferty is here with the details. >> reporter: the bipartisan infrastructure deal could be ready to go today. lawmakers have to figure out how they're going to pay for it. it includes $579 billion of new spending, with $110 billion for bridges and roads, $73 billion for power infrastructure, and $66 billion for passenger and freight rail. the plan may have already hit a roadblock. house speaker nancy pelosi says the bill will go nowhere without a reconciliation proposal which would allow dems to pass additional funding without worrying about a filibuster. >> i'm enthusiastic about the fact that they will have a bipartisan bill. i hope it will be soon. but yes, i stand by because the fact is, is that the president

has said that he wants to have a bipartisan bill and we all do. but that is not the limitation of the vision of the president. he wants to build back better. >> reporter: republicans are slamming this as just another ploy for democrats to force through their liberal agenda. >> what she has said is entirely counter to what president biden has committed to and what the senate is doing, which is a two track process, the infrastructure bill has nothing to do with the reckless tax and spend extravaganza that she's talking about in terms of what reconciliation as she called it. >> reporter: the commerce secretary is still optimistic despite pelosi's complications. >> this is unusual and complex. but it's what americans want. it's what americans deserve. i hear from business leaders every day, get this passed. we need everyone to have broadband. we need improvements in roads and bridges. you hear the same thing from

labor and progressives. yes, it's complicated. no, we're not there yet. but it's going the to happen. >> reporter: meanwhile, president biden says it's still up in the air whether a pathway to citizenship would be in this reconciliation bill. jillian, griff. jillian: marianne, thank you. >> thank you. griff: the next revolution host, steve hilton, is bashing president biden's massive spending, saying democrats fooled the country when selling him as a centrist. >> the democrats never stopped telling us how they're all about defending our democracy. how is it defending our democracy to run a candidate as a moderate centrist, corral the party establishment to crush the thelefties practically overnigh, then turn around and implement a bernie sanders and elizabeth warren agenda. it is dishonest. not just a disaster for our economy, for jobs, for opportunity, but our democracy too. griff: on top of a possible

pathway to citizenship, the democrat only infrastructure bill would provide numerous social infrastructure items like money for pre-k and two years of community college and expanded medicare. jillian: a fox news alert now, a deputy is killed and at least one other injured during an hours long standoff in california. the sheriff's deputy, philip campus, was shot as they tried to free hostages a gunman was holding inside a home. the suspect was injured and hospitalized after s.w.a.t. teams arrived. two injured people were found inside the home. so far, no word on their injuries and the investigation is ongoing. campus, a marine veteran, leaves behind two young daughters. griff: and a texas state lawmaker is back if washington after failing to negotiate changes to a controversial voting rights bill. dr. philip cortes tweeting in part after discussions republican leadership didn't yield any substantive results, i have rejoined my democratic

colleagues in washington, d.c. to continue this fight on this front. texas dems fled the state to avoid quorum on the bill which they say unfairly restricts voting access to minorities. they plan to stay in our nation's capital until the legislation churr's special -- legislature's special session ends. jillian: team usa is racking up historic wins, bringing home medals in tae kwon do and fencing. the men's basketball team falling to france in the olympic opener, the first olympic loss since 2004. they look to bounce back against nigeria tomorrow. katie la decky battling her way to a silver. this as usa soft ball stays undefeated with another walk-off win. >> deep fly ball, back it goes.

it's gone! griff: they'll face japan again in the gold medal game tomorrow. here's a look at the medal count. team usa trailing china in total medal as u.s. viewership at a 33 year low. i suspect it's going to increase as the usa continues to bring home more gold medals. jillian: i know you're going to be watching every minute of it, griff. you'll keep us updated. griff: i love the olympics, what can i say. jillian: i always did. i'm just -- i don't know. i haven't seen it yet. i'm going to get into it, griff. you forced me to. griff: off you've got to get into it. jillian: hunter biden has an unlikely critic on the cnn panel. she's not critical of his art, she's being critical of his potential art deals. joe concha joins us live with reaction. griff: plus, san francisco is debating a congestion tax to help clear its streets. but that fee would be based on drivers' incomes which has some

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>> i am not an art critic. i don't know anything about art. obviously, this is a problem, an ethical problem, one of optics,

also from a practical perspective. this is a huge optics problem and ethics problem and making it more challenging is that it is art. griff: hunter biden gaining new critics, cnn panelists agreeing that hunter's art sales are huge optics and ethics problems. jillian: this as the president's son reportedly plans to meet with potential buyers of his new artwork at shows in new york city and los angeles. joe concha is a fox news contributor. it seems like we have bipartisanship, oh, my. >> wow. when you lost cnn you know you have a problem when you're team biden. the white house which has a huge credibility problem lately, given it tried and failed to blame republicans for defunding the police or when the president says facebook is literally killing people, they can try to spin this situation like they did in those situations as much sible with hunter biden, but the left, right, everyone in between knows that a first time

artist would never fetch half a million dollars unless their dad was leader of the free world for their art. again, this is something that the white house has lost control over and when you have liberal networks calling them out, that's going to get their attention, certainly. griff: so joe, how does this rectify itself? who is going to hold hunter biden accountable for an ethics violation if indeed that's apparent? >> the press is supposed to hold the powerful accountable without fear or favor to party, right, griff? so you would hope that if cnn it criticizing, for example, hunter biden, the biden administration in general for allowing this to happen because of the ethics breach then we should see that from the washington post, new york times, abc, nbc, cbs, if they follow suit then i would hope the white house would say this is a huge optics problem. we have to pull this back and we can't allow the president's son to be getting a half a million

dollars for art that if you have seen it, you wonder how it's getting $5, we have to pull it back right away because this is going to lead to more problems. you would hope the press follows suit in addition to us obviously talking about this for the last couple weeks, griff. griff: you've got a point, joe. i'll hold my breath and wait for that front page new york times cover. meanwhile, the story that keeps giving and giving, the texas state representatives of course we've been talking about the run-aways that are here en masse in d.c. but one democrat representatives fears rural retaliation. listen to this sound bite. i want to get your reaction on the other side. >> the governor put out the call and he said he was going to round us up and corral us up and bring us back and i just don't want some rural cop or some take fanatic that license to governor

abbott that says they need to bring us back because we're fugitives. griff: rural cop, what is he talking about, joe? >> how that got on national television and wasn't challenged in any way i have no idea. there was a poll done last year that found that 83% of the american people feel that the media bears blame for division in this country. when you do interviews like that, that leads to that sentiment. this trip by texas democrats, find me a more poorly planned trip. they continue to play victims for their own actions. they fled their jobs in texas, they did so in a private plane without masks. they declared democracy was under attack like we've never seen since the civil war. this what is we have here at this point, optically horrible and then six texas democrats test positive for he covid, it spreads to a pelosi staffer and

white house staffer. you tell me what has changed as a result of them going on this trip. they're going to get corralled up when they come back home. it's legal for them to be arrested. i hope the governor doesn't do that and says just get back in, vote on this, let's move forward with this law. elections have consequences. you're in the minority in this case. this is the way it's going to go. i don't understand how they can say that democracy is under attack, worse since the civil war when they're arguing for, well, we lost the right to vote during 24 hours drive-in. like who needs to vote at 4:00 in the morning while driving in their car through a drive-in. you have weeks and weeks to vote before texas elections and that should be enough, i would think, in addition to all the other ways we are supposed to vote. so it's, again, it's a losing argument, guys. jillian: joe concha, always bringing it. good to see you this morning. griff: thanks, joe. >> great to see you. have good one, guys. jillian: 22 minutes after the

hour now. minneapolis may not just be defunding police, the city may replace the police and that could be up to voters come november. griff: but retired minneapolis police officer mylan mason is wondering who will protect the citizens. she joins us live, next.

jillian: good morning. welcome back. how about this, voters in minneapolis could choose to remove their police department this november, this after the city council approved adding the language to ballots amid a surge in crime. retired minneapolis officer mylan macon join us to weigh in. what do you think this would look like if this were to happen, do you think citizens would vote for this. >> i'm not sure if citizens would vote for this but the city council has no idea what this is going to look like. they have no plan yet. they haven't implemented anything, haven't mentioned anything. jillian: how do you think the

streets would be protected then? what would happen in minneapolis? >> it's very confusing. i don't know. they have not gotten together to advise people what to do, if they do have an idea of what to do, to change it. maybe they should start implementing it slowly right now to show the citizens so they'll have an informed information about what the vote could be. jillian: you're a retired officer there. you spent many years putting on that badge, walking out the door, not knowing if you're coming home that night. i'm curious if you were still active in that department how this would make you feel right now. because recruitment we talk about all over the country is already low. why would you want to do the job? >> well, it's an uncertainty, why would you want to join a department or an area that you may not have a job in a few more months. jillian: yeah. if we go ahead and pull up this full screen here, you'll see what the mayor has to say on this and this reads, quote, the

mayor maintains that giving the minneapolis city council control over public safety work would mark a major setback for accountability and got governance. the mayor will not be signing the measure but appreciates the careful work and thorough analysis done by city staff to prepare fair and accurate language for voters to consider this. it sounds like the mayor's against this. you just wonder how far this is truly going to go. >> i believe it is going to go forward to be on the ballot but once again, the people don't know what's going on. the officers don't know what's going on. what do we do? how do we perform our duties and our job? there are other things too that legally only sworn officers can do, just for an example, you can't arrest unless you're an official. you certainly can do a citizen's arrest but to officially take someone to jail a police officer has to be there, a sworn police

officer. jillian: yeah. a lot of questions. i'm sure there's lots of people who are going to be up in arms about this. i'd be curious to see how this ends up playing out. thank you very much for joining us. appreciate your insight. >> you're welcome. jillian: sure. and some san francisco drivers could face a congestion tax through the busiest parts of the city. griff: cheryl casone from our sister network, fox business, joins us with a look at potential fees. cheryl, really? cheryl: really. good morning. they've been talking about this, actually, since 2010. so san francisco county's transportation authority is again looking to hit the city's drivers with a tax hike. a team has been formed to see how a $6.50 of fee to enter congested zones would of go over, how this would work. the kicker is they base it on income. it would only apply to those making $100,000 or more, discounts go to lower income individuals, drivers with disabilities and people who live in the areas.

those making under $46,000 would be exempt. any plan would have to get approval of the state legislature and board of so sop supervisor. is it wise to levy this against drivers when san francisco is looking like a ghost town right now and office workers don't want to go back because of homelessness and the crime. jillian: i can't believe this is something we're talking about this morning. seems crazy. there's an army combat veteran who wants made in america back. cheryl: he's asking president biden to bring back the made in america showcase to the white house which was created under president trump. collin wayne is the ceo of red line steel in huntsville, alabama. remember that event celebrated businesses around the country. he said if biden wants to, quote, build back better, that starts with recognizing and honoring domestic companies. collin wayne will join "fox & friends" in the next hour. griff: my favorite story of the day, skittles in space. cheryl: i'm assuming you

watched bezos in space. do you remember when they were throwing the skittles and catching them in their mouths. i thought this is going to be a thing. i heard jeff bezos say skittles. duh. anyway. the brand is launching the zero g pack, it resembles astronaut food. the candy will be released this summer. it has, quote, been thoroughly through rigorous testing and space camp. skittles will be he donating to the smithsonian air and space museum as well. it will come out later this summer. i'll bring some in, i promise. jillian: no surprise to anyone. cheryl: the minute i saw that, i thought hello branding opportunity. griff: i may go to the space museum and in washington and see if they're selling it there. you can get the space freeze dried ice cream. maybe not they'll get skittles too. cheryl: i bet they do.

the packaging looks spacey-ish. jillian: it is 32 minutes after the hour. dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas warned cuban migrants not to come to the u.s., so where was that warning for the migrants flooding into thely owe of grand valley? --ly owe of grand valley shall -- rio grande valley. griff: carlos jiminez joins us live, next experience our advance standards safety technology on a full line of vehicles. at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. get 1.9% apr financing on the 2021 rx 350. experience amazing.

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griff: florida lawmakers are blasting dhs for treating cuban migrants differently than illegal migrants crossing the rio grande river. >> you saw the forceful statement from mayorkas almost immediately, where was that forceful statement when joe biden was running for president or when he became president? griff: this as cubans from orlando are heading to washington, d.c. to protest at the white house. here to react, florida congressman, carlos jiminez. thank you for taking time this morning. this is an important story. it seems that there's a double standard here. what is your thought? >> yeah, there is a double standard. you know, president biden has kept the trump era policies towards cuba which i support, by the way, but he didn't do the same thing at the southern border which now allowed us to have this unbelievable crisis where we have over 182,000 people coming in a month at the southern border. he should be consistent in his application of immigration

policy and he's being inconsistent by allowing the southern border to be wide open and using the same trump era policies on the cuban people. that's very inconsistent and it's not right. griff: congressman, do you feel like this issue is really sort of exposing, if you will, the challenges the administration is facing in terms of trying to get the border under control? >> oh, absolutely. look, all he needed to do was keep the trump era policies in place like he's doing in cuba and everything would have been fine. but the president, if it said trump on it, we need to undo whatever had the name trump on it. now he's paying the price. actually, we're paying the price in the united states with the flood of illegal immigration coming through the southern border. it's a failed policy. we don't know what the policy is. it's certainly incentivizing people from south america, the northern triangle countries, to

come through. it's giving money, billions of dollars to the multinational cartels that they charge people to come through the southern border and so this is a crisis of his own making. griff: let me ask you, you're in tune with the pulse of the cuban community in florida. how do they feel about this? >> i think the cuban people here understand that, yes, we need to have legal immigration. look, the cuban government has used this kind of migration and pushing people out towards the united states as an escape valve for them when the pressure starts to mount and the pressure is mounting on the cuban regime right now, this communist brutal regime where the people want freedom. the pressure's mounting so it wouldn't be the first time they would try to do a mass migration towards the united states to kind of relieve that pressure. the people here don't want that. we want the pressure to be maintained on the cuban regime. we want the biden administration to put more pressure on the cuban regime. we want the biden administration also to help us to restore

internet access to the people of cuba so they can communicate amongst themselves and with the outside world. griff: do you see parallels, are there lessons if we look to the early '80s and the boat lift. >> i do. but this is different. what happened there was, again, a release of mass migration in order to relieve pressure inside of cuba. right now, though, the pressure's mounting. we cannot allow that to happen. we need to support the you cuban people in their effort to be free, we need to have the internet restored so they can communicate again, show the brutality of the regime for what it is, garner more world support for a change in this regime and support the cuban people. griff: besides speaking now, as you are doing here with us, which we appreciate your time, particularly this early, are aware of any of your colleagues

in congress that intend to put more pressure on the administration with regards to this issue? >> absolutely. our leader, kevin mccarthy, just put together a group so we can focus on cuba, what are the things we can do to help the cuban people be free, how we can pressure the administration to take those steps that we think are necessary to help this process along. look, it's not going to happen tomorrow, may not happen for a week or a month. it may take a long time. we need to put those things in place that will eventually bring freedom to the people of cuba and also bring stability to our region of the world. cuba is the head of the snake, they're the ones that are incentivizing all kinds of trouble around south america and central america, venezuela, nick nicaragua, things happening in per rieu and other parts of -- peru and other parts of the area. they all start in cuba.

if we can get cuba to be free, we can stabilize a lot of the area. griff: thank you for taking time this morning. >> it's my pleasure. jillian: it is 19 minutes until the top of the hour. trey gowdy calling out congresswoman cori bush for what he says is her being a hypocrite panned what it has to do with your public safety. plus, a navy widow spending her 100th birthday touring a ship honoring her husband. we'll have that story, next.

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♪ ♪ >> sorry the weekend's over but i'm happy you're with us on monday. a minnesota grade school student is sounding the alarmness on the wokeness in classrooms after she said she was forced to take an equity survey with questions about gender identity and told not to tell the parents about it. listen. >> [ indiscernible ] >> we're going to talk to that girl and her mom of about it. plus, louisiana senator john kennedy, he'll have a pun or two. alan west on the biden

administration reportedly spending $2 billion not to build the border wall. and we're going to bring on dan bongino, he'll be fired up about something important and former congresswoman mary bohner will be here. this is all coming your way if you promise to get dressed. jillian: thank you. okay. progressive congresswoman cori bush is facing backlash for recently spending over $70,000 on private security while publicly pushing to defund american police forces. fox news host trey gowdy calls her a hypocrite. take a listen. >> cori bush tells us she is progressive. the better word might be hypocritical. she wants to defund your police while she has a robust personal security detail in washington and st. louis. and that sends the clear message that her safety is more

important than yours. jillian: a recent campaign filing showed that bush's expenses for the detail came between april and june. griff: a live look now at ocean city, new jersey this morning. looks pretty good there. fox news senior meteorologist janice dean is here with our fox weather forecast. hi, janice. >> hello, griff and jillian. good morning. we had thunderstorms in the nor east, woke everybody up. i think nature's alarm, right. we did -- some current temperatures, 74 in new york, 76 in kansas city, 62 in seattle. we'll build the heat up across the central u.s. today. showers and thunderstorms in the forecast for the four corners area. we need it but too much of a good thing can cause flash flooding. that's what we have going on right now with flood watches in effect, parts of california, towards nevada and the four corners as well. is it going to put a dent in the drought? no. but we will take what we can get across portions of the west

along the coast of california, the northwest and interior sections won't get that moisture. there's the drought monitor, extreme to exceptional drought and that's spreading into the northern plains. that's going to be an ongoing situation for the next couple weeks. wildfires, 83 of them, over 100 acres, that's not going to help. some of the thunderstorms could cause dry lightning and the potential for spreading of wildfires. hot, hazy, humid across the u.s., we're starting to get into july and august heat there. 89 in new york, we see the thunderstorms developing across the southwest. heat p. advisories, many postedespecials states, up to the northwest and northern rockies. we have wildfire smoke again getting into the midwest and then traveling towards the northeast tomorrow, so that's pretty incredible. we'll continue to monitor that forecast. also watching a developing system off the coast of the carolinas, we don't think it's going to develop but we will certainly keep an eye on it.

griff, jillian, back to you. jillian: thank you. griff: thank you, janice. jillian: we had the shot of ocean city, new jersey in the intro. i spent my childhood summers, my whole life going there. if anyone is going to be vacationing there, make sure you get the pizza along the board walk, the best pizza in my opinion down the shore. >> can we get it delivered here. jillian: i would love it. griff: looks like there might be surfing needing to be done as well. jillian: there's one beach where you can surf down there, griff. i'll give you the details. it's sixth, seventh street. i worked at the sured shop -- surf shop. griff: i can eat pizza, i'm in. jillian: a navy widow spending her 100th birthday touring a ship honoring her husband, ima black got a sky high look after selling sailors it was her birthday wish to fly in a

helicopter. her husband was a pearl harbor survivor and the navy's first master chief petty officer. they were married for 50 years before his death had in 2000. griff: that is a great story. time now is 50 of minutes after the hour. should unvaccinated americans now be penalized for opting not to get the shot? >> you want to participate in x, y activities, you've got to show you're vaccinated. so it becomes a reward punishment type system. jillian: a reward -- griff: a reward, punishment. jillian: it says jillian in the teleprompter, griff. griff: i know. but i couldn't believe he said that. what? jillian: it also says sean duffy reacts to rahm emanuel, next. ♪ mmm, licorice records. wonka, digital workflows for it tell us this machine needs updating...

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♪ >> no child in school this fall without showing vaccination. i would close the space in. meaning if you want to participate in x, c activities you have got to show you are vaccinate sod it becomes a reward/punishment type system. you make your own calculation. jillian: wow, vaccine passport, isn't it? former chicago mayor rahm emanuel says the way to get more americans vaccinated against covid to punish for not. griff: unbelievable. is that the right idea? here to react former wisconsin congressman and fox news contributor sean duffy. you heard in the last segment i literally stepped on jillian's line about reward/punishment because i can't believe that came out of his mouth is that a good idea? >> no, it's not a good idea, griff. we have seen it before. it actually does work and we see it in china right now where they have a social credit scoring system where if you do what the government says in china, you

are get rewards and go places, use transportation. but if you don't, you can't use those public services and participate in society. what rawment emanuel sees it works in china try it here in america. make sure if you don't do what we say and get vaccinated you are not going to participate in society. don't you think, griff, don't you think it would be great if they sold americans on the facts and science that this would be good for them and go back to the old idea of freedom and let people make choices and decisions for themselves and families. i think play better in american politics and also better with american families. jillian: few fear the rise with the delta variant we are going to be hearing more of this type of messagibling? >> oh, 100 percent, certainly we are are. maybe they should have consistency and say we should shut down the southern border where people are coming up from the south with the delta variant. right? you should have some consistency with your mess sandals. to say shut down our kids from going to school who are at very

low risk at covid is idiotic. talk about people that have the anti-boats that have had covid. be truthful afternoon give them the information if they trust you they will probably go get the vaccine but when you have so many mixed messaging. gavin newsom rules in california but go out to eat with his friends. be consistent and people might trust and listen to you. griff griff new poll about americans optimism about the country plummeting 20 points between president biden's 100 days and his six month park. may 64% optimistic. june 45% optimistic. >> yeah, i think this is just a feeling that americans have. it goes back when our treats were burning. now we have kids getting shot. we have a lack of law and order you are saw in d.c. where a high

flew tant area white liberals gunshots rang out a couple days ago. our borders open. teaching racism in our schools. you add all those things up and people don't feel very confident about the country and that we're going in the right direction. go back to principles of law and order. not on racism. close our border and follow our laws people will feel better about the country. not only that griff, look at the rising covid data, i think it's concerning that, you know, people aren't going back to work, small businesses can't get employees and that all feeds this narrative we are not going in the right direction. jillian: what does a poll like that tell you about 2022. >> it's very simple that democrats are going to have get drurend. and see republicans take over the house and maybe the senate. the senate is not so great for republicans but it's going to be a great year for republicans taking over the house and nancy is going to be back in the minority. griff: we shall find out. sean duffy.

thank you for taking time this morning. a lot of good insights there my friend. jillian: good to see you this morning, griff. griff: take sean's advice and go surf on have a great day. jillian: thanks for joining us from washington, d.c. this morning. "fox & friends" live from new york city starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> a violent weekend alarming americans as crime is spiking. >> safety is priority number one for members of congress. what about you? do you feel safe? >> infrastructure bill could finally be ready today. >> but republicans are slamming this. >> huge new spending increase at a time when we have unprecedented levels of debt. >> dr. anthony fauci setting off another fire storage. >> do you think masks should be brought back. >> this is under active consideration. >> texas now arresting illegal immigrants caught trespassing. >> the biden administration plan is to catch and release. the texas plan is to