the road to new york and we will bring you report from there. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that is this "special report" tonight. faired and unstill unafraid. unafraid of manny pacquiao, too. "fox news primetime" this week with pete starts right now. >> pete: i'm afraid of manny pacquiao. that's a fact. good evening, america. 7:00 p.m. on the east coast and 6:00 p.m. in god's country which means it's time for "fox news primetime." i'm your host pete hegseth tonight tonight and all week long ♪ >> pete: and we start at the u.s. southern border tonight. america's hottest new destination seems to be del rio, texas or as illegals might cause bidenville. has a nice ring to it population 8, 10, 12,000. who knows? the situation on the border is spiraling out of control as shocking footage showed 12,000

mostly haitian illegal immigrants crammed under a bridge in south texas last week. and they are still there right now. things are so bad it's not just republicans sounding the alarm as obama's dhs secretary jeh johnson, well, he is also crying uncle. >> we have to get control of our borders. 200,000 a month is a lot of people. dhs just released the numbers for august, it's 200,000. august is typically a month where it's very low. and those kinds of numbers and the images you just showed your audience saps the ability. it overwhelms the ability of ths, the border patrol, ice,. >> pete: overwhelmed. unable to ignore the crisis any longer the white house sent current homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas down to texas with a shall we say weak message for these illegal immigrants. >> we are very concerned the haitians who are taking this

irregular migration path are receiving false information that the border is open or the temporary protected status is available. i want to make sure that it is known this is not the way to come to the united states. that is false information. if you come to the united states illegally, you will be returned. >> pete: um-huh. where is this so-called false information coming from? why do tens of thousands of illegals, regardless of where they are coming from, think the border is open? maybe it's because joe biden has spent all this year and last year on the campaign trail, rolling out the borderless welcome mat or suspending deportation flights to haiti earlier this year gave this group of illegals all the encouragement they needed to rush the border. and, of course, the media on top of the situation. pressing jen psaki today on what is clearly the most important

issue. >> we are allowing afghans to come in afghan supporters come in as well as mexicans and then haitians are now allowed. can you speak to that, the issue of equity and fairness? >> pete: can you speak to that? let's play by that left wing game for a second. why are they turning away these black people? are they not the right color to cross the border? why do some black and brown illegals get to claim asylum and be treated with compassion but others get deported? why does bidenville get targeted with draconian measures like deportation? this is the group you get tough on? poor illegals yearning who live free. bidenville is the literal depiction of the huddled masses, yet, joe turns them back? sounds pretty racist to me. surely cam rad alexandria ocasio-cortez will be there to cry for their plight like she

was at the donna facility or maybe mayor joe biden will deport her too. there are no rules. and others are just arbitrary, so who knows? but, no. she wants to tax the rich like really bad. so, she is safe. every other day the border is open but today it's closed for black haitians in bidenville. what is the standard? what is the plan at the border? maybe the plan is no plan? the only thing joe biden is trying to avoid at the border is bad media coverage. and he is even bad at that. meanwhile patriotic law enforcement border agents put in impossible situation baby-sitting at bidenville while the mexican cartels take full advantage. you heard jeh johnson say 200,000 are crossing the border in august? with all the holes being created along the border, i'm sure the number is much higher. and where was mayor joe biden this weekend?

well, he was making sure things are all good up there in delaware. while licking ice cream cones and maskless bike rides. how dare he as crisis after crisis explodes under his leadership. or non-leadership. don't worry, vice president giggle was on the case. you would figure root causes kamala would be posted up in port-au-prince, figuring out the real problems in haiti. but, instead, she was wandering around the 50-yard line at a football game in washington, d.c., flipping coins. heads the citizens of bidenville stay. tails they go. so it's obvious we can't count on the white house to fix this crisis. but, luckily, our democrat led congress is doing something about it. they spent last week building a wall, putting the national guard on stand by and gathering the entire national media so everyone could see what was happening. not on the border. but, instead, outside the u.s.

capitol. as texas is literally overrun with illegal immigrants, ourself centered leaders in the swamp are erecting walls that apparently work and calling in the national guard over a tiny peaceful protest and, of course, predictably the left wing media lapped it all up. see, democrats don't care about protecting you or me or the border or our nation. they only care about protecting themselves, their political position, and their livelihood. and that's why they are ignoring the border. it doesn't affect them except they hope in the future at the ballot box. so they are focused on shoving instead on shoving a $3.5 trillion socialist spending bill down our throat. fundamental ling changing our country and the economy in the process. barack obama talked about fundamental transformation. he never would have dreamed of a bill as rich as the $3.5 trillion bill they are trying to pass. the border, crime, covid,

inflation, all distraction, mayor joe biden vice president giggles and their use useless dhs secretary had bigger plans and they are determined to pass 3.5 trillion of them. your safety and sovereignty just don't matter in comparison. here with me tonight is texas congressman tony gonzales who just got a firsthand look at bidenville, a third world encampment in del rio, texas. congressman, thanks for being here. we make light of it because we know if this was on the other side with former president donald trump it would have a name and they would be all over it what's happening that the a location you have been there. >> yeah. i was just in del rio late last week. and del rio has become a beacon, a magnet, if you will, for these cartel caravans. and it's not going to stop. it's only the beginning of it, and you ask why do these cartel caravans making their way to del rio? it's because the biden

administration has encouraged them, you know, by doing away with some of these trump policies that worked, like the remain in mexico policy, it works. and we need to reinstall that immediately. these patriot -- repatriation flights back to country of origin, that slows traffic down. we have to do that immediately at a larger pace. you know, when you talked about only 8 to 10 nights a week, that's about 1,000 migrants. what's happening to the other 14,000? this encourages even more traffic to come. it's as if there is a bat signal that's gone off in del rio, texas, everyone come here because the border is wide open. >> pete: i like that the bite biden bat signal that makes sense to me. you and i know the biden administration is not going to implement it we are hearing that the haitians under the ridge will be deported but others attempting to make the trek, those that don't get away, well, they are able to apply for

asylum: i'm legitimately utterly confused. does anyone know what the standard is? >> you know, back about six months ago, myself, senator cornyn, senator sinema, a democrat from arizona, congressman cuellar, democrat from laredo area we came together and saw this coming from a mile away. we asked for more ice agents. we asked for more immigration judges. we asked for these resources. sadly it's taken the administration this long. what i would urge is congress needs to continue to put pressure on the administration. this administration will only act unless there is enough political pressure. think back to kamala harris. the only reason she visited el paso was because president trump came down to the border, you know, a week before that we have to continue to hold this administration accountable. in del rio, the people of del rio have had enough. >> pete: of course. >> we can't be a political football. it's as if a category 5 hurricane had hit the small town of del rio, texas and the administration has abandoned us.

>> pete: they have. me may send a few agents now but certainly not a plan. it seems most of the resources have been directed in the direction of washington, d.c. congressman, thank you so much. tony gonzales, appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> pete: also here tonight charlie kirk founder of "u.s.a. today" and miranda devine "new york post" columnist and fox news contributor. charlie, let me start with you. what is the plan? you watch these images, imagine if -- you can play the game too often but sometimes it's very useful. imagine if 10,000 brown and black people were huddled under a bridge in the trump administration and that was the image of a government holding facility. >> yeah. it would be the biggest scandal of this entire political season. but, instead, the media is more focused on what was a rather boring and have a mila protest this last weekend trying to protest for people that are in prison for what happened back on

january 6th. in fact, there were more journalists than there were protesters. there were 27 different federal agencies that were activated for security in washington, d.c. there were 100 national guard members in washington, d.c. that were obviously not needed. why not send those people down to the border? why not send them down to actually enforce our sovereignty? and the answer is tragically that this regime cares more about waging a domestic war against political opponents, than actually securing the southern border and caring about 1.8 million people this year that have crossed into our country illegally. it's tragic. >> pete: it sure is miranda, if you wanted it, if you wanted to address this and fix this you could. in fact, you appointed a border czar who was going to get the root causes, it was always a sham to begin with. they clearly don't want to. why don't they? >> it certainly seems like that. it seems like a deliberate policy. it was, of course, a first thing

that joe biden did when he came into the presidency was to unwind all those very successful trump era border protection. measures painstakingly put together. it's not easy. this has happened elsewhere in the world. it's not as if we don't know what the -- the consequences are of signaling to the world, because it's not just to central america. it's to africa. it's to everywhere in the world that where they are having troubles, afghanistan, there are people from so many different countries coming over the border. 200,000 plus a month, and it's just exponentially getting worse. this has been the experience everywhere in the world. the biden administration cannot pretend naive. only conclusion can you come to is that this is deliberate. what they're doing is allow ushering basically these people into the country. allowing them to -- busing them to and flying them into

unsuspecting communities all over the country. giving them notices to appear, which you know are not worth the paper that they're written on. so, basically, the haitian problem under the bridge at del rio only became a problem because the media were looking at it when bill melugin had his drone beaming those photos out to the world, they became historian. in usual biden administration fashion they tried censor the news. they got the faa to tell that drone that it couldn't fly. but it was too late. by then because you had cnn and the "new york times" and the story is out. so now they are pretending that they are flying everyone back to haiti. they're not. i would say probably 80 to 90% you can see that from the numbers yesterday. 327 were flown back to haiti out of 3300 that they plucked out of the 15,000 strong crowd. the rest of them on buses, dispersed into the rest of

america. >> pete: and we will never see and we will never know. just like the undercover way they used the military and other civilian flights chartered to fly to airports around america. no one ever knows about it no one ever hears about it charlie, real quick. from covid to crime to the border, to inflation, to all the crises facing this administration. what are they actually focused on? what are they actually care about when you get underneath it all? >> they are trying to fulfill barack obama's promise that he said a couple days before election day back in 2008 which was a fundamental transformation of america. they are trying to do that through breaking us economically, keeping our borders open. destroying our sovereignty, implementing critical race theory in the military in our schools. at every front this is a domestic implementation agenda to try to have their world view implemented regardless of what the polls say. no matter what checks and balances might say or the constitution says. they are trying to force a square peg through a round hole to try to change america forever.

that is what under girders all of this radical policy from this regime. >> pete: miranda, real quick, if you were to make a prediction, do they deport more -- do they actually deport more than arrive? we are hearing reports of thousands more heading in that direction. is the number actually grow in bidenville? >> oh, look, it doesn't matter whether it's bidenville they might be able to close off that little spot on the border. the border is wide open. people are coming over. the 200,000 a month plus that we're talking about are just the ones that are apprehended. >> pete: that's right. >> probably another 200,000 coming over anyway. they are not stopping it these are their future voters, they think. they don't care. and it's all about the optics. as long as the media doesn't report it they are fine. >> pete: that's it. that's why they didn't want those drones. that was their focus and should have been focused on anything else. charlie and miranda, thank you very much. appreciate it coming up, the first indictment in the durham probe proves one thing. when it documents screwing donald trump. the media is either dumb or complicit or probably both. and how deep does the deep state

go? we take it up with senator josh hawley, that's next. ♪ ♪

♪ >> pete: welcome back. well, durham's indict of clinton campaign lawyer michael sussmann last week revealed what the swamp doesn't want you to know and, of course, how compromised and dumb the american media really is. the indictment reveals several conversations between hillary's mergeman as they tried to manufacture dirt on donald trump on her behalf. one unnamed clinton researcher in the indictment told another, quote: you do realize that we will have to expose every trick we have in our bag to even make a very weak association between trump and russia, give the base a very useful narrative. it continues.

we cannot technically make any claims that would fly public scrutiny. the only thing that drives us at this point is that we just do not like trump. there you have it in print. well, well, it worked. hillary's crooked lawyer took that to the fbi, the fbi leaked it to the press. and ultimately the press reports were used as justification to launch the never ending trump witch-hunt. i'm telling you, these people are sick. joining me now is missouri senator josh hawley. forgive the impression for a moment there, senator, but when you put it all together, the words in that indictment, the reality of what happened it may just be lying together fbi, but could this be the unrallying of what exactly was done with the clinton campaign fusion gps, this lawyer michael sussmann to create the dust cloud that we have been living under now ever since?

>> i sure hope so. i sure hope that we are finally starting to get to the truth. we know they didn't just lie to the fbi. they also lied to a fisa court. the fbi took this information with which we know now is faked, manufactured. went to the court to get it wiretapped and lied to that court. and they lied over and over and over to that court to the point of even fabricating evidence. oso we have got a big problem here and the idea that democrat leaders in the clinton campaign could pay a lawyer to lie to the fbi to try to internear a presidential election campaign let's be clear what's going on here. they were trying to runs a game presidential campaign. my goodness by getting the fbi weaponized and lying to a fisa court they succeeded in interfering in a presidential campaign. that's pretty serious and we have got to get to the bought of exactly what happened. >> pete: right there in the indictment, they knew what they were claiming would not fly public scrutiny. just public scrutiny and they talk about searching google searches would know it's not true. yet, the fbi certain agents, maybe just at the top, who

knows, fell for it and then there was leaking to the media, i mean, is this a situation where everyone had to be in on it at every step in order for it to happen? i think what it does show you have a group of people in the government, certainly in the clinton campaign who wanted donald trump this president when he was elected they wanted to somehow reverse the outcome of this election and they were willing to do just about anything, including lies to courts, including getting wiretaps that they knew were not justified under the law in order to try and force their will on the american people. here's the thing that scares me though, pete. the same people in the clinton campaign who are out there trying to sell this false story are now the people in charge of policy. people like jake sullivan who is thought national security adviser. he worked for hillary clinton. his fingerprints are all over this. he went on the record and pushed this false narrative and now he is running afghanistan policy. how is that working snout we need to figure out who knew what

when and these same people my goodness they should not be in charge of policy. >> pete: that's the right name to bring up. real kick and we don't have much time. you are on the senate armed services committee. you are going to get a chance to question general milley and what happened in afghanistan. you have got some choice thoughts. >> yeah. you know, listen, when we have the death of 13 service members who were killed, that should never have been put in the situation that they were put. in general milley now is accused of breaking the chain of command as it relates to china of going outside the chain of command. he needs to answer these questions on the record. and if he did, indeed do what was alleged with regard to china, he needs to be fired or he needs to resign. but we also have to be honest what's gone on in afghanistan it has been a total debacle and general milley along with secretary austin, secretary blinken, jake sullivan, they are responsible and there needs to be accountability for what has happened there including for the hundreds of american civilians left to the enemy. >> pete: yeah, we will be watching. you will get a chance to ask questions. a lot of americans would like

to. josh hawley, senator, thank you. all right, coming up, san francisco's mayor said some things are more important than following your own arbitrary covid rules. >> something that was really monumental that occurred and that is tony, tony, tony, who had not performed in public for, i believe, at least over 20 years. ♪ ♪ one, two! one, two, three! only pay for what you need!

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♪ >> pete: san francisco mayor london was arrested for partying without a mask. the point a finger and call her a hypocrite let's hear her out. >> there was something that was really monumental that occurred and that is tony, tony, tony, the original members, the

brothers ralph and duane wiggins who have not performed in public for i believe at least over 20 years. >> do you know who they are? i don't care where you are sitting. you are going to get up and start dancing. my drink was sitting at the table. i got up andtarted dancing because i was feeling the spirit and i wasn't thinking about a mask. >> pete: screw the mask mandate. tony, tony, tony was performing. it's monumental. so leave her alone and quit nitpicking. >> don't feel as though you have to be micromanaged about mask-wearing. like we don't need the fun police to come in and try to micromanage and tell us what we should or shouldn't be doing, we know what we need to do to protect ourselves. >> pete: you are the fun police. suddenly the same mayor to forced a crazy mast mask mandates on her constituents, bright way, regardless of

vaccination status is all now about choice and freedom. i would call it the tony, tony, tony defense. and don't even get her started on eating and drinking. that whole situation. >> no, i'm not gonna sip and put my mask on. sip and put my mask on. sip and put my mask on. eat and put my mask on. while i'm eating and i'm drinking, i'm going to keep my mask off. >> pete: so mayor walter reed says she kentucky possibly eat and drink with a mask on, not with tony, tony, tony saharan serenadingher into uncontrollaby movements. make take a lesson from these people. they certainly seemed to make it work. just a tip. well from mask mandates to the never ending push to get every last american vaccinated. it's no surprise at all that pfizer announced today that its vaccine is safe for children according to them ages 5 to 11. the news coming just days after

the fda pushed back on joe biden's plan to inject us with a covid booster shot. our so-called health experts have used the rise in hospitalizations as their main argument for the vaccine recently reporting that since last january over 58,000 children were in the hospital due to the virus. shows us that those numbers canning vastly overcounted. according to the study between the months of january and march of 2021, 45%. 45 of kids hospitalized for covid were actually admitted for something completely different. and just happened to test positive. yet, they count. joining me now to react former health and human services admiral brett giroir roar. they're using kids. we knew it was coming. now they are coming out with their argument saying that kids will have to be vaccinated.

you know that's where they're going. does the science back that up? >> well, thanks for having me on. we do know that at whatever level we are seeing more cases in children, probably about 250,000 a week probably .05% become hospitalized. the vast majority of children recover without any republicans. we also know that most of the severe cases occur in people are pre-existing conditions. so these are risk factors that we have to look at. and, remember, the study reported today by pfizer sure, it shows that children 5 to 11 had an immune response but the safety was only on about 16 or 1700 children. so a relatively small number. so i think we have a lot of work to do. the fda has a lot of work to do before we automatically rubber stamp this for children. it looks promising but we need to be cautious when the numbers are that low in the study.

>> pete: yeah, if you are saying .05% of children. and even those hospitalized usually thankfully survive and are able to recover and then you have, say, teachers who have full access to the vaccine, so they are protected, when you look at schools, when you look at kids who are still in masks and socially distanced, is -- does any of this make sense to you? i mean it makes me kind of hear you saying that maybe you think vaccines for kids could be a good thing but i know a lot of people watching with kids between 5 and 11, like me, are going to have a lot of problems with anyone justifying putting a needle in the arm of our kids with a 0.05% of kids especially if they're young kids. >> there are a lot of questions there and we have been let down by the cdc throughout the entire course of the pandemic, 110 children between the ages of 5 and 11 have been reported death due to covid. each one of those need to be investigated by the cdc, many of us have asked for that for

months and months and months. >> pete: why aren't they? >> who knows? how many of those children were debilitated or on ventilators before got cody how many of 110 died of something else but just tested positive? this is the kind of information we need in order for you, as a parent. >> bret: that's right. >> and for the fda to make decisions on risks with their children. we also need states to report hospitalizations better. so, look, i think the death data are really important. i'm a pro-vaccine guy. but when you have 5 to 11-year-olds at very low risk, and you do a study, now, it's, you know, 2200 people. but only 1700 in the active arm. >> pete: you think people are up in arms right now wait for the government comes with their kids just wait especially with the way they have handled our trust and public trust at this moment i don't see it happening. admiral brett giroir, thank you very much appreciate it? >> thank you.

>> pete: data analyst for rational ground.com justin hart. thanks for being here. what i love when you do is take the stats and break them down. you actually look into them and help people make informed decisions. when you look at issues related to kids, issues related to vaccines, the delta variant what do you see into the future based on the data you analyze? >> yeah. i believe that the risk for our kids is so very low that we really need to get over our hangups on this thing. over the course of the pandemic, about 469 children under the age of 18 have died after a positive test of covid with it or whatever you have there. but over that same course of time, about 56,000 children in the united states under the age of 18 died. of other causes. so you are 127 times more likely to die of something else other than covid. parents, you have 128 problems and covid is just one of them. that's the kind of rational sort of thinking we put to this thing

which is putting it in relatable terms. if you are over the age of 65, your chances of dying of covid are higher than they're if you are under the age of 65. if you are under the age of 65, the chances of dying of covid are about the same of dying on your commute to work. and if you are over the age of 65, they are about the same as a professional truck driver. we like to make those comparisons so people have some relatable real world understanding as to what the risks truly are. >> pete: when you poll people, especially people who watch other networks wall-to-wall with fear they think those numbers 10, 20, 30%. when they're actually 1 or less than 1%. one thing i'm hung up on, natural immunities. >> we have little studies one out of israel when you factor in natural immunity, how does that change the equation. >> it changes dramatically, when we look at the studies that are there, we find that the robustness of natural immunity that is you have already have covid, carries with you for a

very long time. one study out of israel shows that the vaccine that they have purported there wanes at two month or six months or beyond but somebody who has already had covid faired very well down the road. think that's the case? think about your own experience with chickenpox, for example. if your kid gets chickenpox they don't have to get the vaccine. really unfortunate because millions of americans have already gone through, suffered and made it through just fine with covid and been able to say hey, i'm actually free of this disease. or i have a very good protection from it. and that's something we should absolutely take into account because we can distribute the vaccine more efficiently to other places. >> pete: one thing we don't have in this conversation right now is rationality. so i would encourage people to go to rational ground.com and take a look at, justin, what you are up to breaking the numbers down so people can make their own informed decision alongside their doctor.

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♪ >> pete: well, as they say, everything is bigger in texas and that certainly goes for political controversies, too. the state as you know has become a hot bed for lightning rod issues like abortion, illegal immigration and voting rights. but there is one man sitting on the sidelines who believes that he is the one who can save the state from the evil republican in the governor's mansion a guy not shake off not one but two. a man so unpopular he made kamala harris like being. that man is robert francis o'rourke. you may know him as beto. remember, folks, he was just born to be in it. beto must have the memory of goldfish because he had to drop out of the democrat primary race after polling at less than 1% in

iowa. we didn't forget. we remember his trip to the dentist office. and remember his airport pushups and we remember how he waived his arms around like those weird inflatable men you find outside of car washes. he ran a campaign for the ages. and i for one am shocked that he didn't fair better. but as they say, if at first you don't succeed try, try again. and on behalf of the media, i love to speak for all the media in america, and every republican in texas, i say run beto, please run. jing me now to discuss former white house deputy chief of staff karl rove. karl, what say you? is this beto's moment, 2022? governor's mansion, texas? >> every moment is robert francis o'rourke's moment. every single moment. the news broke this morning and what happened? we got the fundraising appeal. breaking news, help turn texas

red -- excuse me blue. later on in the afternoon 50,000 signatures urgently needed for robert francis o'rourke. send your signature in now. sign up now that you will be supporting him. and then finally at the end of the day we got a hint of what we're likely to see from the campaign. this is not from robert francis o'rourke. it's not from the democratic governor's association. but michelle beckley who is running for congress, a member of the statehouse representatives she has set forward the robert francis o'rourke theme of the campaign: governor greg abbott's time in office has been characterized by misogyny, homophobia and racism. that's just since we launched our campaign for congress. we need someone to take him on in the next election and robert frab sis o'rourke has stepped forward. he will enact common sense gun reform fight for the freedom to vote. stand for reproduction and stand up for the rights of people in texas. abbott's reign of terror must end we have had enough the man

to replace him is abbott's reign of terror. and robert francis o'rourke is going to save us from all of that. >> pete: you know, karl, i sense that you may not be serious in every way. but i didn't ever see george w. bush come on stage on a skateboard. he never did that beto did. i mean, that is something to contend with. >> we encourage governor bush and then president bush to do that at every opportunity and he refused treaties to do so. robert francis o'rourke understood how important it is to demonstrate in order to be a leader you have got to be able to skateboard. >> pete: real quick though, in all seriousness in 2022 does he really think he has a chance in texas? >> sure he does. he has talked himself into it. governor o'rourke is not going to do what did he in the last campaign and that is he was ignored. far out on the left wing. said extraordinarily bizarre

things that place him far out on the progressive left of the democratic party. and governor abbott who has been a strong effective leader for texas is not going to let him get away with that stuff. the guy who said he was coming for everybody's ar-5. the guy who said he is for unlimited right to abortion. all of that stuff is going to be fair game in this election. >> pete: is he going for the hat trick of losses. karl rove, thank you very much. appreciate it. >> third time won't be the charm. >> pete: won't be the charm. well, don't go anywhere. guess who is here? abby hornacek is here and she is going on the clock next. ♪ ♪ got a couple of bogeys on your six, limu. they need customized car insurance from liberty mutual so they only pay for what they need. what do you say we see what this bird can do? woooooooooooooo... we are not getting you a helicopter. looks like we're walking, kid. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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♪ ♪ >> pete: a few minutes left in the show, time to put our friend abby hornacek on the clock. if you know four stories, 60 seconds each, let the emojis vr guide to. here we go. actress julie anderson took home i mean for her portrayal of legendary u.k. prime minister margaret thatcher. one hard-hitting reporter wanted

to know if anderson talked to the former conservative leader for inspiration for getting the key fact that margaret thatcher has been dead. >> continuing with the whole margaret thatcher thing, her question is have you talked to her about the role at all? well, i have not spoken to margaret. >> pete: minor oversight? >> i have not talked to margaret. look, i tried to do some number crunching to make this make sense. i tried to give the report the benefit of the doubt. i'm trying to be a good person, we need a lot more niceness in the world. 2013 margaret thatcher died may be the crown was filled in its fourth season, no, first one was 2016. she didn't play until 2019. he >> pete: i think she didn't know either. that's my guess. if moving on it's a real wake-up call for 911 in evansville,

indiana. a man called the phone line several times to lead to first know that he was tired. if the man was sentenced to six month behind bars by a judge if he promised to stop bothering the emergency services. >> they sentenced him 60 days behind bars. nice long nap. this will be you after hosting "prime time." >> pete: that's what i look like. >> don't call emergency services because you'll go to jail. >> pete: did they say six months for calling? lotto we are crimes that don't get six months. >> they called and complained his female relative was not following the rules. >> pete: maybe she did something very bad.

>> next up, one ohio high school football coach was fed up with a set of bad calls on the field ba ref and so he decided to take matters into his own hands by trapping the referee inside their locker room with a vending machine after the game. if his reason, to give them time to rethink their bad calls. if this is not the head coach, the assistant head coach. >> 700 pounds, i don't know what's more impressive, his creativity or the fact he moved the machine in front of the door. i think it should be done to all referees who make bad calls. >> pete: you do? >> they do. i know being a referee's incredibly tough job and i agree, but as a sports fan who gets annoyed with the referee, i'm sure you would do this too. >> pete: the high school assistant football coach is all about the game and how can he do that i? tell my family about it. in the locker room. >> i agree. >> pete: finally, how many push-ups in a row can you do?

according to one study, if your answer to that is more than five, you're already better shape than one-third of americans. of course not beto o'rourke, robert francis the last time he could do many push-ups. one-third of americans can do five push-ups. it's because that's all live look at you and adam klotz. >> pete: old fox & friends old fox & friends. >> watched that. i wanted to challenge you to a push-up contest because i embarrassingly lost. this is my only way to redeem myself but i watched of those segments and of course you do. get this off the screen. both of us are wearing sweatpants, i didn't wear my sweatpants this time. >> pete: how many can you do? >> i think lie within the the one-third, i'm tall and my arm span can reach from the east river to the hudson river. i say tall people. >> pete: safe to go, less than

less than five. >> you did a clapping between your so i don't know if i want to challenge you. >> pete: i understand of its fox and friends to do push-ups but it's "prime time" we have to behave. >> let's untethered your microphone and we can do that, i'll finish the show. >> pete: were out of time. don't forget to catch them right now on fox nation. tucker carlson is next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy monday. just for fun sometimes, give a little civics test to people in your neighborhood and ask them if you wanted to take over a country, how would you do it? here's the answer you're likely to get from all of them. they'll say first you've got to get the most votes. they are americans, that's what they believe and they believe it because that's how things have worked for hundreds of years. it's called representative