>> they were fighting over corn. i was told it wasn't about a lady but food. >> dana: must be good corn. i made good corn over the weekend. "the faulkner focus" is up next, here she is. >> epic showdown raging over whether americans should be forced to wear masks again as covid cases are on "the faulkner focus". growing backlash after the cdc reversed course urging fully vaccinated americans to mask up indoors. the agency pointing to the delta variant being more easily spread. many americans say with vaccines available mask wearing should be a personal choice. white house advisor dr. anthony fauci disagrees as the cdc director defends her decision.

>> the fact is there are things that are individual responsibilities that one has which also impact others. and the spread of infection that we're seeing now, the surge in cases, is impacting everyone in the country. >> this was not news that i expected the american people to welcome. this weighed heavily on me to have to do this. i have no interest in continuing mask guidance and the best way to stop a new variant from spreading is to have less virus out there. >> john barrasso is tearing into the biden administration over this. >> now for the chaos coming out of the cdc and joe biden. they ought to be sued and found guilty of medical malpractice. they've flip-flopped, may 13th if you've been vaccinated you don't need to wear a mask anymore. now saying no, you need to go

back to the mask. how will you encourage people to get vaccinated if you say even if you get vaccinated you still have to wear a mask? and a lot of the anger i hear is the fear that this administration, since they flip-flopped and masks will they flip-flop on a lockdown and shut down schools? >> dr. siegel. thank you for being here. another weekend of a lot more confusion, a lot more questions people do have. to that republican senator tearing into the administration over the changes, is that fair to say that not just the administration but dr. anthony fauci and the cdc and others are flip-flopping on this guidance? >> i don't think the word flip-flopping is right. they are basing it on what they think is an evolution of the science and i agree with one part of dr. fauci's statement which is there is an individual responsibility issue here if you think you are spreading a virus or could be. let tell you what's wrong.

if you aren't vaccinated a mask plays a role in a public place because you could be infected and spread it. the reason they jumped the gun on the mask guidance for the vaccinated is they don't have information that if you are vaccinated, that you can carry covid and spread it asymptomatically. i talked to dr. walensky about that last week and that information isn't there. if you look at the provincetown outbreak, really interesting. 70% of those who got covid were vaccinated, right? you would think that's a nod towards wearing masks but it was 60,000 people that descended on provincetown. 95% of the people in provincetown are vaccinated. so of course most of the cases are going to be vaccinated. it was only 1,000 cases out of 60,000 people and only seven ended up in the hospital. they were extremely mild. in other words, if all you have is vaccinated people in an

area, then the cases you see are going to be vaccinated but much, much less because the vaccine is working. there is no evidence that if you are vaccinated that you are spreading this asymptomatically. if you are not, then you really don't need to wear the mask other than to protect the unvaccinated. >> you do here in the debate out there the word flip-flop. there are comparisons made to things that the medical professionals advised the americans people months ago about mask wearing and vaccines dr. siegel. this is a long twitter thread that has gone viral. he lists what he is calling fauci's flip-flops. he originally said masks weren't affected now vaccinated people are urged to wear masks. less than a month ago fauci said the cdc wouldn't change

its masking given the delta variant. this tweet points out it did. the writer calls out fauci for confusion on how many masks are suggested claiming it depends on when you ask fauci what that answer would be. he also highlights some other contradictory messages. fair to say there is a reasonable amount of confusion out there, dr. siegel? and to some extent isn't it the cdc's own fault for that? >> yes, it is because of poor messaging and mixed messaging and changing messages. but i also think that there is no taking into account something i would call mask fatigue. people were told okay, get back to normal. we're over this and we're reopening and bam, suddenly to go in the other direction without a, an idea what it would do to the psyche of the country, b, people aren't going to comply with the masks anyway

if you told them not to and c, again, the issue of whether the effectivesness is there and most important the word mandate keeps creeping in here. that's like saying we can't have a personal responsibility. i am wearing my mask more than i was before and i was vaccinated. i'm making that choice. people can make that choice. to be clear. >> many are. >> constantly being told what to do as well as the school principal. what are you going to do, send the police out to arrest the unmasked? i mean, it has gotten to the point of ridiculousness in that way. >> it's a matter of how people are feeling about this virus. recent polling is showing there is a massive shift in american's attitudes about the pandemic. in june 89% felt like things were getting better. a lot of us were in that crowd. only 3% were saying it was getting worse. now only 40% say things are improving and 45% say it is

getting worse. it is no doubt, dr. siegel, when i go through my daily print-out of the covid daily data that our brain room provides us every morning a 44% increase in the seven day rolling average of new cases in this country. 72,000 per day now. you look at hospitalization rate up 46% week over week. death rate up. what is so important to clue in all that is that vaccinated versus the unvaccinated. who is getting sick and ending up in the hospital? >> that's extremely well put out by you. all of those facts are correct and it is the people that are not vaccinated or by the way that didn't get immunity from having gotten over infection. we have also shown that natural immunity offers a layer of protection here. those neither vaccinated or gotten over infection are the ones getting sickest here. if you are vaccinated, at worst you will have a breakthrough of a mild case in the vast

majority of cases. this is a very simple equation. instead of masking up people that are vaccinated, which sends the wrong message. how about just focus on vaccinating those who haven't been vaccinated and those who haven't ever had covid. i believe in giving a shot to those who have had covid but let's get everybody vaccinated. >> the spread of the delta variant is sending people out to get jabs. promising news over the weekend was just that. we were seeing a double digit percent increase in some areas of the country are people are rushing to get the vaccine. admiral giroir saying if you've not been vaccinated you will get the delta variant made headlines. i want to play this four, governor desantis. big questions about what will happen with schools in the fall. he issued this executive order in florida blocking mask mandates in the schools there. some including the nih director collins are concerned about this move. listen.

>> i'll be signing an executive order which directs the florida department of education and department of health to issue emergency rules protecting the rights of parents to make this decision about wearing masks for their children. we think that's the most fair way to do it. >> i don't understand the ban. certainly it seems like something local officials ought to be able to decide based on their community's circumstance. we know that kids are capable of getting pretty sick. this is not to be just dismissed as a zero risk. >> all right. nih director doesn't understand desantis mask order and he is responding to the residents of the states who are concerned about the lost learning in the schools and putting masks back on kids when they return in the fall, what it will do for learning, for the socialization process and kids just in general getting back together and getting back the normal, dr. siegel. what do you think? >> well, i think the key word is mandate. i think that once you put the

word mandate on this you are not allowing for the fact that some kids very young kids especially just can't tolerate the mask or they have problems breathing with a mask or they get very anxious or problems interacting. studies have shown that this very low risk in spread in schools especially among the very, very young children. the wild card here is the delta variant again. over the summer we've seen more spread in schools than before. so i recommend trying the masking in schools but the mandate is the problem here. that's what governor desantis is reacting against. this should be more of a way to look at this from a public health point of view than constantly the stick rather than the carrot. >> along with the mandates comes a lot of hypocrisy that we saw over the weekend in places like chicago and d.c. and others. that's coming up later in the show. great to see you, thank you. >> thank you. >> new information in the investigation of the origins of this pandemic.

it could even more weight to the lab leak theory. a new report by house republicans showing officials from that lab in wuhan requested major safety renovations just months ahead of this outbreak. house foreign affairs ranking member michael mccaul on that. >> they were involved in a cover-up. it's the greatest cover-up in human history. i think the chinese communist party are very concerned about this report coming out telling the truth and the fact of the matter is they were playing with fire. >> rich edson is live at the state department on that for us. >> good morning. the most comprehensive public report arguing that the pandemic began at a research lab in wuhan. part of that case is the chinese government procurement site requesting bids for major renovations for air safety and waste treatment systems at research facilities that were operational for only a couple of years.

such a significant renovation so soon after the facility the began opation appears unusual in the months prior to the outbreak of covid-19. unclear why the chinese government requested the projects and unclear if the work was ever submitted and done. another circumstantial element they're building the case to show it may have escaped from the wuhan lab in 2019. republican researchers said there is evidence that the virus was spreading throughout central wuhan earlier in 2019 than originally thought just as the city hosted the world military games that year. the report says the games with thousands of international athletes helped spread the virus around the world. athletes reported illnesses and competitions with no fans and four countries that sent athletes to the games confirmed the presence of covid-19 in november and december of 2019.

now, the administration has tasked the intelligence community to come up with a covid origins report. one that is due at some point later this month to either look into whether this escaped from a labor the disease occurred naturally. democrats have refused to join in the capitol investigations. >> democrats flouting their own covid guidance. two big city mayors appeared at events without face coverings as they call for everyone else to mask up. plus this. >> we are losing a grip on public safety and we have to respond immediately and treat this like the crisis that it is. >> another bloody weekend in democrat-led cities.

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>> sandra: shocking video of a brazen mass shooting happening here in new york city. two gunmen open fire outside a laundromat saturday night and fleeing on mopeds driven by two other men. at least 10 people wounded. one of several shootings across new york city this weekend. sliwa weighing in on the surge in violence. >> the defunding of the police by a billion dollars by mayor deblasio who should be here instead of what he was doing last week. instead of talking about gang violence, which is a plague to the bronx and brooklyn and

queens, to manhattan, the plague to staten island. where is he? not even available. he is missing in action on this. >> sandra: violent crime in new york city spiking 19% over last year and 102% over 2019. bryan llenas is live in new york city with more. >> a manhunt is underway for the four men responsible for that moped mass shooting on saturday night. look at this video. at least 40 bullets were fired by two men that were wearing hoodies and facemasks in queens by a laundromat and picked up by mop eds. 10 people suffered gunshot wounds. police believe three were the targets of a brazen and coordinated gang-related shooting. friday night in the bronx a

gang member who was reportedly arrested at least 25 prior times and was out free on bail for a gun arrest in november shot an nypd lieutenant in the ankle during a violent struggle with four police officers. >> he is reaching for it. stop reaching for it. stop reaching for it. stop reaching for it, dude. >> you got it? >> stop him. >> the officer will make a full recovery. nypd releasing this video showing a man being robbed at gun point in downtown manhattan early sunday morning. the victim was shot but is reportedly expected to survive. yesterday both candidates for new york city mayor republican curtis sliwa and the frontrunner democrat eric adams visited the site of the mass

shooting and advocating for more funding for police and boots on the ground. the mayor deblasio had a press conference this morning. sliwa criticized the mayor for not going to any of those incidents. the mayor did say they're trying to concentrate on making more gun arrests and going after gang members. sandra. >> sandra: bryan llenas in new york city for us. also a bloody weekend in chicago yet again. at least eight people killed there and more than 50 wounded across the city. for more let's bring in former utah congressman jason chaffetz. great to see you. it is heartbreaking to see what's happening. the numbers in chicago to new york absolutely stunning. what is happening? what is being done about this? you go to sliwa and talking about the defund the police movement. mayor deblasio's actions here and the fact that led to a spike in crime but it does not

seem to be going away. what can be done? >> well, it is getting worse. these democrats and progressives have more power than they've ever had and able to institute more of that power. so their policies are clearly -- they aren't working. you have to have boots on the street. they did defund the police and they did take nearly 500 under cover police officers off the street in new york. there is a consequence. more crime and less ability to apprehend people. the other thing that is happening i think behind the scenes is you have these prosecutors who don't prosecute these people. they are let back on the street. part of the intro here is arrested 25 times and back on the street? there is nothing more frustrating and out of control with a police officer when they arrest somebody and detain them and the prosecutor just lets them out. joe biden and kamala harris can talk about zero tolerance with

federal firearms licenses and all this but they aren't doing it on the street. like rudy giuliani and bernie care yak and those did. if you broke a window you got detained and there was a consequence. you can't take a 16-year-old apprehended twice for a gun and then hand it back over to mom and think everything will be okay. >> sandra: stunning is the headline in the chicago sun times this morning. over 1,000 victims, 126 dead, just two convictions. six years of mass shootings in chicago. what does that tell you? >> allows the criminal element and the gangs. if you are a young person and you don't feel secure on the streets of chicago, guess who will offer you protection, a gang member. you will gravitate to that. you don't believe the police will take care of the problem or the prosecutors will incarcerate somebody. if you see somebody shoplifting

or murder will be detained and a consequence to that. this is just lawlessness. it doesn't have to be this way. it's a conscious choice by these democrats. you have aoc on the streets of new york if you want less people incarcerated don't build any prisons. it won't take a few more social workers that will suddenly turn this around. >> sandra: one city i love, chicago to another i know very well, new orleans, there is this horrifying video emerging from new orleans. crowds are seen fleeing gunfire on bourbon street at 3:00 a.m. this happened sunday morning. at least five people were injured in this. one person taken into custody. this is an area we know as celebrations and fun and it turned into this, jason. >> americans want to go out and enjoy their time. it is absolutely stunning. but this doesn't have to be this way. they have to incarcerate these

people. they have to have prosecutions. it is not a complicated formula. people want to see unformed officers on the street. i want to know there are undercover police officers out there preventing that crime. too many of these cities have taken the undercover elements off of the streets and consequently you get things like this. i don't know the origins in new orleans but fear in a place that should be fun. >> sandra: you see those people. you know this intersection so well. police coming in on horses and people having a good time nrao*eg for their lives, fearing for safety and grabbing their loved ones. it reminds you of what we went through in d.c. with the nationals game and the shots fired outside the stadium and people running from the stadium. brutal to see what is happening in these great american cities. great to see you. >> it is silence from joe biden

and kamala harris. they are absolutely nowhere in this. look, kamala harris last year was out there bailing people out of jail from these riots as fast as she could. she has advocated in the past for making sure there is cashless bail and we get the people out as soon as possible. >> sandra: good to see you. thank you. no end in sight for the flood of migrants pouring across our southern border. agents there so overwhelmed they are now releasing covid-positive migrants to fan out around the country. look at this shocking video. pete hegseth will join us coming up on that. plus this. >> call it what it is. sometimes they use the word cult. the only difference between jim jones and donald trump is the fact that we now have social media. >> sandra: cnn host and california congresswoman comparing trump supporters to members of a cult with one

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>> yes, sandra. tell you what, it has been a wild morning out there. dhs contacts are saying the border patrol stations in mcallen are 585% over capacity and that there are quote mass releases underway. we've been watching the mass releases all morning long. at the catholic charity in downtown mcallen now. another border patrol bus is full of migrants and released to the charity. bus load after bus load basically every 20 minutes being dropped off, hundreds of people here so far and we'll show you why this is happening. look at this remarkable drone footage we shot yesterday afternoon in mission, texas, the largest group of migrants we've seen being processed at one time. at least 1,000 people under there near a popular crossing area at the rio grande. look at the video. masses of people waiting in the heat to be processed by border patrol. a live look at our drone. we shot that yesterday at 4:00. this morning now they are

starting to try to get people out from underneath the bridge. a lot of buses are showing up where we are now here in downtown mcallen putting them on buses and releasing them to the catholic charity. we'll show you more. look at the video we shot last night in la jolla. another massive group of migrants. 200 in size mostly family units. something we see in la joya, texas every day and night. border agents there completely overrun. we talk about the bus drop-outs. look at the video we shot an hour ago. one of many buses we watched dropping off dozens, hundreds of migrants at a time. multiple buses pulling up every 10 minutes. dropped off to catholic charities, processed, shower, food and taken to the airport or taken to the bus station across the street where they are free to travel all over the united states essentially wherever they want to go. this as we're learning of a second hotel here in the rio grande valley where covid-positive migrants are

placed by the charity. city officials reporting they found out on thursday. the city is not happy about that. if we can take the live image. the charity is releasing more migrants. a lot of them in the public and they will be able to walk in, get a bus ticket. some taken to the airport. every 10 minutes or so we're watching hundreds of migrants being released into the public. these folks are no longer in federal custody. they get to go wherever they want. you can see they walked past us and border patrol trying to get as many of them out of custody as possible. what we're being told is over the weekend according to dhs sorcerers -- sources they took in more than 8,000 migrants. they're completely overwhelmed down here and see what is happening as a result. send it back to you. >> sandra: we're seeing it

happen live in mcallen. bipartisan call for president biden the name a border czar to get a handle on the chaos. henry cuellar and lindsey graham sent a letter late last week in the white house suggesting former dhs secretary jay johnson or someone with his credentials go for this position. here they are on friday making the case. >> i've been very respectful and supportive of the administration but something has to change when it comes to border immigration issues. >> we are urging president biden to create a special position to bring order to chaos, put somebody in charge whose focus is just on the border and all the problems associated with it that would have credibility in the eyes of congress and that's jeh johnson. >> sandra: johnson responded saying there is zero chance he will take that position on.

listen. >> mayorkas unstands the problem and addressing the issue. we can enhance enforcement on the southern border to deter illegal crossings but it will have only a short-term effect on the numbers so long as the underlying conditions in central america persist. >> sandra: of course the person president biden tapped to work on those underlying conditions is vice president kamala harris. we don't see her much. where is she? >> she is not at the border and she is not interested. frankly, the people that are pestering her the most are the

yeoman's work of the reporting you saw from bill and griff jenkins. the questions you see from peter doocy and the white house press briefing room. these are the inconvenient reporting the white house wants ignored. you see, they count on a problem like this not being covered and without the fox news channel, without those drone shots and without those live shots in mission and mcallen, texas, this is supposed to be something that is happening in the shadows. that is happening on page a-17 in the "new york times" with barely a mention. which is an invasion of our border, an invasion of our sovereignty and a total disregard for the rule of law. the numbers of people -- it is stunning. it is staggering. we cannot get numb or become numb to this reality. what the administration wanted to tell us a couple of months ago is summer is coming. this is a seasonal flow. you will see the numbers reduce as they always do in the summer. instead the numbers are bigger than ever. it is a wide open sign on our border and ultimately our

agents are doing the best they can but they are being pulled off the line to deal with patients coming in with covid and facilitating criminal cartels who are human trafficking putting them on buses, putting them in hotels and putting them on airplanes, landing them in airports in the middle of the night pushing them out to other charities and letting them go wherever they want when americans are being told to mask up across the country. this is a problem this administration doesn't want to address and why they gave it to kamala harris who hasn't seemed to be able to address anything. >> sandra: bipartisan call now. henry cuellar and i spoke with senator lindsey graham on friday. they wrote the letter to president biden at the white house and said okay, kamala harris is not the right person for the job. that was a bipartisan suggestion. henry cuellar the texas democrat was involved. kamala harris if she doesn't have a solution let's put jeh

johnson in charge. obama era dhs secretary. lindsey graham secretary saying things have gotten so bad he was willing to write the letter to the white house. jeh johnson isn't up for it and mayorkas is sensitive to the issues happening there. how are we to have any confidence there will be somebody in charge who is going the tackle this? >> we shouldn't. the one who is supposed to be in charge is joe biden and he is listening to left wing open bortders activists who will crack down on him. the trump white house through policies of build the wall, third party agreements and remain in mexico had stemmed the ties. it was whether or not america would enforce its own laws and deport people who come here illegally. they shifted all those policies on day one. i realize the call is technically bipartisan. we have to recognize henry cuellar is a voice in the

wilderness of the democrat party willing to call out the open border policy. i don't have any hope unfortunately. god bless the border patrol agents. the cartels are running the show there and using human beings to exploit our border and feels very political. it is. cuba. they didn't want cuban migrants they might be republicans. they think is a future voting base and it is scaring. >> bill: cuellar has to answer to the residents of the communities and they are running out of resources to handle the problem at a local level. pete, good to see you. house minority leader kevin mccarthy facing calls to resign over what he reportedly said about speaker nancy pelosi. aren't democrats guilty of saying the same sort of thing? democratic governors and mayors raising alarms over new covid cases but their actions aren't matching their words. critics blasting the blatant hypocrisy. >> this is part of a pattern.

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>> sandra: hypocrisy on full display as top democrats defy their own covid guidance.

lori lightfoot giving lollapalooza the go ahead despite a surge in cases. will mayor lightfoot be blamed for having a super spreader event this weekend and mayor bowser was caught without a mask. a statement from her office reads this. if mayor bowser was photographed indoors without a mask, it was during the indoor dinner when she was eating or drinking. even former president obama set to host his 60th birthday bash in martha's vineyard despite an outbreak of cases in provincetown. our panel is here. great to have you here. i don't know, sean. it sounds like a broken record at this point. rules for thee, not for me? what are these politicians thinking? case in point the mayor of d.c. at the wedding is sitting in this photograph and she knows

anybody can see her there indoors, even somebody at her table wearing a mask, she is not and doesn't appear to be eating. >> americans get hypocrisy really well and see it all over the place. the message it sends to america is you don't believe covid or the delta variant is that serious because you want us all to mask up and get vaccinated but you can go out and live your life mask-free. obama can throw a party with 500 guests, 200 servants will be there. he does have a covid consultant. people are gathering. lori lightfoot. i'm happy to have lollapalooza. a great event. i won't criticize her for that. to tell us all to mask up is ridiculous and why none of us trust and believe them and don't follow their advice and guidance. >> sandra: i don't see a lot of mask wearing. mayor lightfoot urged it to wear it on public

transportations. it was not just the crowds but her, right? she is warning more restrictions may be coming if we see caseloads go up but she stood there with other celebrities with her mask down. what kind of example is this for these politicians to ask so much of everyone else and not follow the rules themselves? >> lori light foot followed her rules to the letter. critics of these individual politicians are seeking to win the argument and not solve the problem. the delta variant doesn't discriminate against republicans and democrats and cases are surging in florida and massachusetts. looking at the problem is getting vaccination rates up. lollapalooza, 90% of the attendees were vaccinated. other 10% had testing. there is evidence to suggest a lot of people got vaccinated so they could go to the concert. leaders have a strike a balance here. nobody wants to wear a mask. it is not fun but the science

suggests when you wear them indoors in public spaces which are the regulations in d.c. and chicago the case rates go down. it is just science and it is smart. we need to solve the problem. >> sandra: i wonder what you are suggesting we'll see with a 500 person party right near a major outbreak happened. >> will they be outdoors and people tested. >> sandra: does it matter, sean? >> i think it does, matter. i think it does. >> the covid variant doesn't discriminate. a mayor or maid shouldn't the rules be the same? you have to wear a mask if you are a maid and not if you're a mayor. obama, the massive party, 700 people getting together. it will be mask-free. i don't blame him. i don't want to wear a mask. stop with the rules that you don't follow.

>> sandra: we'll take a break from that. democrats demanding house minority leader kevin mccarthy resign after a reported joke at a fundraiser. "washington post" reporter tweeting this saying he wants everyone to see pelosi hand him the gavel. it will be hard not to hit her with it but i will bang it down. democrats lashed out. swalwell saying a would be assailant of speaker pelosi. he needs to resign. you should never encourage or joke about causing violence to anyone including the speaker of the house. not long ago that maxine waters said this about trump administration officials, listen. >> and if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you tell them they are not welcome. >> sandra: seeing sean where

mccarthy has publicly responded to the current backlash against him but are these calls for his resignation warranted? >> sandra, did you say eric swalwell is calling for kevin mccarthy's resignation. the guy that had a sexual relationship with a chinese spy and sits on the intel committee? you have to kid me. we'll have a speech police say kevin mccarthy can't tell a joke and be facetious. i don't want to live in a democrat world where they are bed wetting liberals and clutch pearls over any infraction. give me a break, eric swalwell. kevin mccarthy is fine and he will be the next speaker. >> it's not a joke, it's a strategy. let's face it threatening violence against women crosses the line. this is also consistent. we see that republicans

directing their ier to energize their base. >> sandra: what about what you heard from maxine waters? >> i don't condone that, either. let's talk about what republicans do. aoc on the steps of the capitol gets called truly offensive dehumanizing names. we know the squad is demonized regularly. hillary clinton demonized. >> sandra: you took it literally from mccarthy. >> a strategy to energyize his base. absolutely. it was on purpose. >> sandra: sean. >> you tell a joke. this is a non-issue. funny that democrats get so excited about it as you mentioned the vile language they've used towards trump and republicans is horrific. >> sandra: i appreciate both of you coming on. it depends on how you heard it and what you think you saw. we'll see what mccarthy has to say about it and he will speak

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