tv FOX and Friends Sunday FOX News February 6, 2022 3:00am-7:00am PST
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fuse.com -- foxnews.com. will cain, rachel campos duffy. rachel: good morning. did you notice the family photo in the patriotic series, they're up in some mountain, got the peak they want to go to, some spot. they thought to bring an american flag with them. that is a family, that is inspirational. good job, guys. will: inspirational. beautiful sunday morning to everyone. pete: looks like a machine gunner off of a black hawk. that is not regulation. rachel: i was going to say. pete: u.s. more american. will: we start with a fox news alert. u.s. giving 72 hours before the russia might inside, we learn
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deadly consequences after war. reporter: 15,000 ukrainian troop deaths, 4,000 russian troop deaths. this new reporting is coming from multiple sources on capitol hill. closed-door briefings late last week. chairman of joint chiefs, general mark milley, essentially that kyiv doesn't stand a chance. russian troops could take over the city three days into the war. brand new satellite images, russian forces are closing in on ukraine's border. 70% of russia's military moving into place, giving putin the option of launching a full-scale invasion. the kremlin demanding nato withdraw from eastern europe. tensions build on both sides as russia's vladmir putin attends the opening ceremony of the winter olympics with xi xinping and potentially engaging in a new world order, where russian
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and chinese interests will grow. joint statement from the leaders read in part, russia and china stand against attempts to undermaine security and stability in their common adjacent regions and tend to combat interferns with outside prices. president biden will not send troops to ukraine to fight a war but will send additional troops in romania. he is due back in in the white house this afternoon. pete: ashley, appreciate it. so chairman milley has the audacity to predict how long it will take for a capital to fall. his prediction in afghanistan it would be a year-and-a-half. it took ten minutes. so we'll see how accurate that actually is. rachel: these assessments there will be 4,000 people killed -- how do they do that? pete: you do war game exercises,
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the pentagon is quite good at it, red teaming, capability of opposing forces being on the offense, being on the defense those type things. i'm sure estimates are experience based on looking at exercises, these types of wars, but that number changes based on how much we're willing to support them or others are willing to support them. that is an eastern europe problem. that is a nato problem. nato has its own relevancy problem. it has for quite some time. talking about the new world order, that is the dangerous part of this. russia and china are teaming up to replace the united states. new world order has a feeling it, after world war ii we set up a order that was served to serve our interests. u.n. is joke. world health organizations are controlled by china. they want to supplant our currency, supplant our influence, supplant our military, and we'll talk about
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the olympics in a moment, that they have a antifreed, antiwestern alternative which makes what happens in the ukraine pretty significant. will: makes the answer to the question which we have not yet answered auld more important. what are we will to sacrifice, what is the line we will not draw? sitting i don't know. i don't know the united states or its sit currency know either. where do we make a stand? what is important enough? what serves our national interest? we said this before in past weeks, the drumbeat of war is almost audible for everyone. you can hear troops amassing in eastern europe on both sides of the line being drawn. we i thought we all knew, by the way, rachel, you and i had a conversation yesterday, i had social engagements, talked about olympic skier, american chosen to participate with china. i had a social conversation, why, that sounds cool. it is not cool. china is not cool.
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cool isn't the analysis. pete: exactly right. will: cool is not the level we should think about this. with i'm getting at is, we are moving to action so quickly without the predicate of answering the question as to why there should be action. rachel: and also not holding europe accountable especially germany. we talked a little bit about this yesterday but germany's decision to have the energy policy that they have is making it impossible are i think for nato to be ignited in this. why are we in a way subsidizing their green dreams in germany, the fact that they need to get natural gas? 40% of europe's natural gas is coming from russia and we could do something to stop that. we could provide our own. we have enough natural gas, that there were projects being built in louisiana to start to get our gas over to europe to counter
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that. that is all gone. who wants to invest long term in energy in america when it is so volatile, we have the green monsters i call them, who are ruining our energy policy. pete: true. rachel: this is complicated but the in end europe should care more than us. pete: will, to your point, that is cool, someone not living in history. that thinks we'll pause right now, america will stay where it is ways of the world will stay where they are. europe stayed in pause 30 years ago. they gut their military, dropped borders, didn't demand any sovereignty. they're defenseless. they couldn't do something about it if they wanted to. not because of the military, because of ethos of the country and leaders don't believe in themselves. what is to defend? we've already been invaded. that sense isn't there, what is really scary, if you're an autocrat like putin or xi xinping, now is the moment.
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absolutely is. rachel: absolutely is. pete: speaking of that, i liking it to the olympics and what we're seeing right now. will, test me on these analogies. there is a party you know it is a bad idea to go. maybe you're in high school or college, you know it will go sideways, right? you go anywhere, when you get there the party is worse than you thought it would be. you're standing in the party going why in the heck am i here? that is feeling a lot of americans were looking at olympics. we were talking about diplomatic boycotts, overall boycotts, now we're there. what are we doing there propping up this ledge game, giving them -- ratings are lower than they have been. astronomically low. i don't plan to watch. one wrinkle, how corporate media are treating the olympics. in. bc is being blasted this morning because they blocked an ad to be
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run by representative michael waltz and cantor freedom takes on the genocide games. here is the ad that they wanted to run nbc is not running, watch. >> the world's greatest athletic showcase. just outside of the show, rape, genocide, slave labor. american companies are drunk on chinese dollars. tangled with communist dictators committing atrocities, propping up these genocide games, staged by the chinese communist party. and what can we do? >> stand for freedom. stand up to dictators. when you say made in china? >> put it down. will: that ad has been rejected by nbc. now why? according to congressman michael waltz, he said this is equivalent of holding olympics in germany in 199 '40s or rwanda in the 1980s.
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companies should be absolutely as shamed. they contribute millions of dollars to social justice causes and turn a blind eye to the genocide going on. nbc, their response, their following. the ad was not rejected. per nbc and universal longstanding guidelines, changes to the ad were requested so it could air. you had some ideas. rachel: took me a while to figure out, what is it they wanted to change, i guess they wanted to change, there is some corporate logos up. these are the whole point of the ad. it is ridiculous. first of all i think the ad is great. if you are from congressman waltz's district you ought to be proud today that he is behind something like this. let's not sugarcoat this. what is happening to the uyghurs are two of them, they are in a concentration camps. their children, by the way are forcibly removed from them, so as not to pass down their traditions on to the next generation. there is forced sterilizations.
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there is forced harvesting of organs. there is torture, there is rape. all of this is happening, so interesting to me, will, your friends said, whoever were talking to on social media, what is the big deal? i bet you $100 person said that to you had a black lives matter thing in front of their house, one of those little signs in front of their house or marched with black lives matter. they don't care about this? the corporations themselves, they're all, we talked about this yesterday as well. this is a strategy by the chinese government, to capture our elites, capture our corporations. these people are willing to do anything for money and they are completely unpatriotic and shame on the ioc. will: i think it is twofold. you're 100% right. marched with black lives matter, what is wrong with this? it is cool. hypocrisy of turning a blind eye to genocide. the other, not being plugged not
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into history but to your point earlier, to the present, to the threats that china represents to us. you're hypocritical in your application of social justice. okay. a lot of people are hypocritical, but what you're not grasping here, those people that, for example, one athlete will compete for, want this country to fall, to fall under their boot heel, to fall under their sub sievians. you're not getting that, once the olympics are over, by the way, talk about these olympics, wait until the olympics are over. pete: you're exactly right. will: i like your analogy. the one i've seen china unleashed a virus on the world can't remember how many killed at this point, but it is in the millions and millions at this point, come over to my house to play some games. that is a good idea. rachel: disrupted global economies and threw tens of thousands of people into extreme poverty. we talked about what happened here.
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what happened in america is bad. what happened in the third world because of these lockdowns is death stating. generational. i mean extreme, extreme poverty is happening in africa and some south pacific asian countries because of this. china is being treated normal is so shameful. they are not a normal country. pete: no. rachel: what scares me most, you guys, so many ways they don't have to overtake us. we're becoming more and more like them. pete: absolutely. rachel: every single day. pete: we had blinders on the longest time. the consensus in washington was if we trade with them, we work with them, they will politically liberalize themselves, welcomed into the community of nations. they enriched themselves, used economic power to enhance their political power to supplant us. talk about history. olympics in germany were not 1940s. they were in 1936. we know more about the communist chinese maybe we did about the
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rise of nazi germany in 1930. our eyes should be wide open but we haven't -- when you have kids don't believe america is a special country. rachel: part of the plot. pete: we're global citizens, what is the difference between the way the chinese communist party want to do things, around way we do things? who am i to judge. will: to rachel's point it is already happening. to your point about europe that is our future. maybe, maybe we don't lose this war through the launching of bombs. we lose this war through our greed, through capital, through corruption of capitalism. rachel: yeah. will: we just slowly, slowly sell our soul, until we like you described a moment ago, have nothing here to defend. rachel: you take away patriotism, divorce capitalism from morals and ethics frankly christianity, and it is over. that's where we're at. will: exactly right. talking about congressman
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michael waltz -- pete: everybody -- will: day two, i'm not on top much my game here, not top on my game, this dude has been the most cheeriest. pete: i'm excited to be back here with you guys. will: michael you michael waltz will be here to talk about the ad with enes kanter freedom. rachel: it will be tomorrow, got this to look to well. turn to your headlines. a deadly shooting at a hike call lounge near flint. he faces 6 felony charges including one count of murder, four others were hurt in the shooting including a virginia tech student remains in the hospital. a man plows through the freedom convoy in kansas. the speeding driver slam into a person before accelerating away. that person was taken to the hospital. three others were also hurt.
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authorities chasing down the driver, arresting him after a short struggle. his motive remains a mystery. country music star blake shelton duet with a six-year-old boy awaiting a heart transplant. watch. ♪♪ will: that little boy, wyatt and his mom will talk about it for a very special moment. those are the headlines. rachel: chaotic footage shows robbers running off after ransacking a high-end store. take a look. >> [bleep]. [bleep] [bleep] [inaudible]. rachel: could a top college be to blame for criminals to be let off the hook? we'll talk about that. ♪.
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pete: new york is still asleep. hope you're not and you're with us this morning, 6:21 on the east coast. glad you're here. we showed the short of new york, because we love new york and want to talk about new york, frankly, if i may speak for the rest of us -- rachel: can speak for me. pete: but because our next story is centers around new york state actually, not new york city. you've seen all the rioting, all the looting, all things that happen in new york, all consequences of policies of soft on crime, letting criminals get away with it, stunning new video out of westchester, new york, not new york city, but new york state, robbers hitting a louis vuitton store in the light of day, in the middle of a mall. check out this video. [shouting] [inaudible]. [shouting]
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the unintelligible ] >> [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] will: answer to the final question was right in front of you, was it? was that not a security guard or police officer, walks up right on the screen, should have he willed his feet, backed away? pete: it was a mall cop. i'm not here to defend thatfy. probably doesn't have a gun. told at this point not to intervene. my man shut the door, do something. try to grab some merchandise. he is backing away as this is happening. rachel: you have to, wonder, also you have to wonder there could be some coordination? this has to be investigated. could be like it is not worth it. seen guards at some of these
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stores get shot. it is not worth the 5000 louis vuitton. pete: they're told -- rachel: that is part of it. this is a very nice mall. this is in westchester. this is sandy cortez's stomping grounds. this is where she is actually from where the nice lou very vuitton store is now. her social justice policies have come back to haunt her neighborhood, her two neighborhoods this is very frightening stuff. this tweets comes from rob, a gubernatorial candidate here in new york. he says the pro-criminal policies of governor kathy hoke kuhl, i.e., no cash bail have made workers, robbery of louis vuitton occurred at my local mall in white plains. this is a very nice area. pete: again, if you look at the clip, the altercation stops, i presume the altercation is not going on for minutes at this
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point. the guys going into the store knew the mall cop security guard was standing outside. there is absolutely zero deterrence whatsoever. brave citizens inside store attempted to fight them taking merchandise. putting their own lives at risk. i put they walked out of the mall. rachel: i would not want to work at place like that. high-end jewelry or handbag place. that is what they're going for. will: to be honest they're going for cvss in san francisco. they're going for everything, nothing is being prosecuted. same which is chester mall, different day, different men. this people burberry was hit. crime just doesn't happen in the city or somewhere else. getting worse everywhere in new york. everyone is affected when criminals are emboldened by soft on crime laws. you have "new york post" who brings up perhaps what is at the core of issue here, partially at the core of issue. spring semester.
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new york city cop college teaches d.a.s to free criminals. john jay college of criminal justice here in new york city. where many of these theories and policies are conducted. rachel: reimagining of law enforcement and -- pete: just when you think you know, you miss another wrinkle. "miseducation of america." we talk a lot about teachers colleges. you talk about that too, columbia university, pumping out a generation of teachers that teach a certain way. john jay college of criminal justice institute for innovation in prosecution. what does innovation in prosecution mean? how about not prosecuting? that sounds like innovation of prosecuting. that is what we're seeing. that is not an accident. they come out with that way of life, that point of view, funded by donors who fund that point of view. the institution perpetuates to tear down -- rachel: these institutions are also being funded by the same rich guys like george soros who
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fund these prosecutor races. i guarranty you this school, this criminal justice school, this law school is not the only one. happening everywhere. pete: no way. no way. rachel: can't talk about biology in medical schools. so this is everywhere. i really like this quote by curtis sliwa, i never say his name right. the founder of the guardian angels he talks about out of touch politicians are that the citizens of this city are being held hostage. listen. >> these progressive liberals are upset if prisoners are put in solitary confinement, in these neighborhoods, elderly people are forced to live in solitary confinement. they cannot go outside. they have no freedom. their liberty has been taken. we live in america. time land of the free, home of the brave. time to take the cities back. elected officials, notice, do as i say, not as i do. they have armed security provided by their police
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departments. suvs paid by sucker taxpayers with police officers driving them from place to place. strip them of their security details. let them feel what average people have to feel like. they will not want to hug the thugs and turn them loose, i guarranty you that. rachel: he is so right. he is so right the elderly are hurt by covid and isolated, and isolated because of this crime wave as well. is he right. why do these prosecutors, politicians, the governors of this state, why do they care more about the incar race of people who are hurting, killing robbing, pushing people in the subways care more about those people, their isolation in jail getting them out, than the old people who pay the taxes, stuck in their apartments, their homes, because they're afraid to go find milk downstairs? pete: good question. we should ask the john jay college of criminal justice that question. rachel: or george soros. pete: for sure. it is, we're one minute over.
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i didn't know my genetic report could tell me i was prone to harmful blood clots. i travel a ton, so this info was kind of life changing. maybe even lifesaving. ♪do you know what the future holds?♪ ♪. rachel: in the name of the mandate? the australia churchgoers were stunned when a police officer interrupted mass to check if parishioners were wearing mask. the facebook user took the photo, the officer allowed
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himself in, strutted up the aisles checking masks. here to react is rebel news chief australian correspondent. avi, so great to have you here this, is so outrageous. i happen to be catholic. i can't imagine this happening during something as sacred as the mass, liturgy. what was the reaction? has there been any reaction, large-scale in australia over this intrusion? >> i think it is -- they have sort of become used to these umbrage. to put in perspective from americans, your audience need to understand in western australia what happened, there were a total of 18 new cases that day in a state that's almost 93% double vaccinated. so to put that in perspective for you, on that same day i believe the united states recorded 310,000 cases and i don't think in any state, even in your most extreme leftist
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state police barged into any place of worship to check if they're wearing masks or their vaccination status. that is pretty outrageous but unfortunately australia has become, the government has really created this climate of fear that the police say, it was actually somebody from the public that tipped them off. so they have created these hotlines to get what we call her do being, encourage australians, what you guys would call snitch, tell on fellow australians, most unaustralian act, i think he is breaking covid restrictions. government pumped in millions of dollars in ad campaigns, social media, tv, to encourage australians to tell on their neighbor who in this case weren't wearing a mask. reportedly five people in the church not wearing a mask.
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they had exemptions or had them around their neck or something. it is disgusting and it is sad. rachel: it's a chinese sure vans culture, what is imported into australia. very scary. any word from the pope? this is clearly intrusion on religious liberty? >> look, no. we have haven't heard anything from anyone. in fact the church even here remains very silent on the issue. the targeting of churches and synagogues for that matter, we've seen that throughout the pandemic, specifically churches and synagogues. we had a pastor hire own couple miles from where i sit, daring to run his services in 2020. on rosh hashanah and yom kippur, surrounded synagogues, orthodox jews, targeting a community on horseback.
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fully armed police patrolling the police to make sure the jews don't pray on their most important day. so something we've seen in australia before but western australia the premier there is our most extreme left-wing premier. he is locked in the state. the borders are very tight. it is like a country within a country. our prime minister which proclaims to be a christian hasn't said a word. in fact he only two days ago come out to support some of the harshest restrictions like the closed borders. and to understand he would be like mark mcgowan who is the premier of western australia, he would be like, for your audience to understand, imagine if the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, and california governor gavin newsom, if they had a child together that would be mark mcgowan.
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i told your viewers are eating breakfast now. that is awful thought. that is what western australia is living under now. what we say to americans, when they keep telling you just get fully vaccinated and life can go back to normal, look at australia because they promised us that and 93% fully vaccinated. you're not going to get much further than that they're coming, they're barging into churches to check who is not wearing a mask. not even waiting until the end of a service. they're coming in the middle. it is so they're all liars. rachel: avi, it is a grim warning, something we should definitely pay attention to what is happening in australia, you're right, they're not going to give up, their promises are broken every single time. avi, you've been fantastic. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you for having me. rachel: all right. coming up, 72 hours, the chilling assessment as russia builds up its military might
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to invade ukraine and it could result in thousands of troop casualties mostly on the ukraine side but both sides. china unveiled on friday a new plan of a new world order, not led by them but the united states. here is former ambassador to israel, david friedman. we'll get to your book in a moment, sledgehammer. that is the important to what we're seeing in ukraine right now. 72 hours, putin is staring down ukraine. where do you see this going? >> a couple weeks ago one of your colleagues asked president biden shouldn't we be doing something now, mr. president? you admit that russia is about to invade ukraine. they have amassed massive troops and biden dismissed the question as stupid that was exactly the right question. at this juncture russia is already committing acts of aggression and provocation and we ought to act now, in order to end this before lives are lost. to me, the obviously move is to
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go back to what president trump did, sanction nord stream 2. shut down the pipeline. end russia's source of revenue and germany's reliance on russia's energy. germany, wealthiest european member of nate nato. we have to act decisively. this is a very dark place. with china, this is back to 1939, when russia made a deal with germany to divide up poland. now russia is making a deal to divide up ukraine. who knows what other countries this, is what happens when america is weak. we're heading as i said, to a very dangerous place. pete: a great point, to the argument you make in your book. the book is called sledgehammer, how breaking with the past brought peace to the middle east? how did you break with the past, understanding the past, breaking with it to create a new opportunity with israel and across the middle east? >> we did exactly what the biden
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administration is not doing here. we acted out of strength. we stood unapologetically with our strongest most important ally in the region, israel, did it with jerusalem, golan heights, peace plan. everyone expected a explosion of violence. what resulted was an explosion of peace. we were strong. we stood on principle. with our allies. foreign policy is not complicated. united states is strongest nation on earth. it is the most moral nation on earth when it stands on principle, our values, especially our judeo-christian values. we bring peace to the world. when we act weak, we are indecisive, allow reg nations to advance, we bring upon the entire world a level of mischief and discord. it can be very dangerous. pete: do what you said you would do, boldly, unapologetically.
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mr. ambassador, you realized a moment this could work? abraham accords, a new relationship with israel? was there a particular moment? >> well there were two moments. number one when we moved our embassy to jerusalem and we stood with the, with the will of the american people and the promise of the president, that we moved our embassy and we were able to accomplish that without violence anywhere in the world other than gaza where there already had been violence. we saw we could achieve that. that was number one. number two we put out a peace plan in early 2020. we had support from saudi arabia, from oman, from bahrain, from the united arab emirates. we saw in those reactions we were on the right track. it was all from a strong stand with our allies. ultimately that is what brings peace. pete: fascinating. friedman and a small team with no prior diplomatic experience revamped american diplomacy in the toughest region of the world. the book is "sledgehammer."
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look at. revisiting what worked. we're looking at a lot of things that didn't. ambassador, thank you for your time, good luck on the book. >> appreciate it. pete: appreciate it. we'll toss it over to rachel for headlines. rachel: fantastic interview pete, awesome. we'll turn now to your headlines a dog coming to the rescue of her wheelchair-bound human who fell into a lake in florida. the nine-year-old beagle named sarah, getting attention of two people nearby, they were able to call for help from port st. lucie police officers. first-responders pulling the man out of the water before it was too late. all right. queen elizabeth is marking her 70th anniversary. wake up, will. this is the royal news, royal british news here. anniversary on the thrown with a tease about the royal family's future. even standing up for it. [laughter]. the queen writing, it is my
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sincere wish when that time comcast mill la will be known as the queen. pete: boom. rachel: boom, drop mic. message resolving long-time skepticism over camilla's role, complicated by charles' doors from princess diana. this, this is big. pete: is this a surprise? rachel: a lot of people weren't sure she would become the queen. this is interesting, pete. prince harry faces calls for being tone deaf after saying he suffers from burnout. [laughter]. twitter users saying quote, prince harry lives in one heck of a privileged bubble. another saying hilarious. go home, harry. in his montecito mansion, gets free money -- pete: burned out from what? rachel: gets free money from corporations. i don't know what he does for them. it is complicated. pete: but he does live with his wife. will: that's fair.
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pete: i have to apologize. a, so excited to see you both. i had a speech yesterday which is why i missed the show. i didn't mean to miss the show. it happened that way. i have to fly back mean this, genuinely excited. it is not work when you enjoy working with people. i was excited. i had only 45 minutes of sleep. i had a diet mountain dew, a caffeine drink, more caffeine in the caffeine drink and a coffee. i'm a little hyped. will: you're very chipper. you will crash. rachel: will is, he tried a new diet. he is little bit queasy. releasing toxins over here. >> i'm not sure that is the case. there was a to mexico. rachel: mexico illnesses don't have the delay. pete: rachel are we're on the same page. rachel: releasing toxins. pete: do something 45 years of
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your life, you will do something different, not have any booze? that is what happens. will: the health thing is killing me. rachel: you will feel better at end of this. will: i'm going through the shrapnel right now. pete: i'm proud to watch you. pete: how many days into the 75? will: four. rachel: you have to sweat it out. sweat it out. will: it's happening. you know who else is sweating it out? rachel: yes, they are. will: gofundme. gofundme under a lot of heat because they raised or helped be the conduit for raising $10 million for the freedom convoy, the truckers in canada. people donated over $10 million through gofundme. now gofundme suspended all of those payments. said they would refund some of them but then said if you don't apply it in timely manner we'll donate that to various charities of our choice. they have updated that policy under great pressure, for example, from the governor of
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florida ron desantis we'll open a fraud investigation into this. rachel: good for him. will: you need to refund people. you don't get to steal their money, put it where you like. rachel: they said, no, we'll let the leaders of the truckers decide where that charity money can go to. pete: only from acceptable liz we decide. rachel: this is fraud. because the people who donated the money didn't want it to go to any charity. they wanted it to go to the truckers. they didn't want it to be refunded. they gave the money because they wanted it to go to the truckers. there is absolutely no reason it shouldn't go to the truckers. there is no violence. there was a lie they're telling. whatever violence, a car crashed in, looks like they were antitrucker people. you had chaz, or chop, i prefer the name chaz to chop. i don't know about you guys. i thought it was chazier in the summer of love. pete: never thought that much about it. rachel: i did.
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those guys took over a police precinct. the cops had to leave it because it was under assault, under attack. they got to keep their gofundme. pete: absolutely. i suggest truckers burn buildings down, take over police precincts then gofundme will be fiber-optic with. amazing corporations will go to, suppress political views their fellow elites reject. they are scared of truckers, speaking of middle class canadians or americans. here is what gofundme is saying as they have updated the refund policy this, is the corporate statement. to simplify the process for our users we'll refund all the freedom convoy 2022 fund-raiser. the update we issued, align ad plan to redistribute remaining funds charities organized by the
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organizers. due to donor feedback, we're automatically refunding donations this, is similar to facebook of american trucker groups, we might do the same thing to express our freedoms. this is preemptive -- rachel: shows a lot of fear on the part of whatever this movement, the whole left because they need those funds, truckers need the funds to continue this convoy. these are working-class people. they need lodging. they need food. if they will continue the protest this, is a way to starve this process. now, good for desantis. this is the only thing these people listen to, get ready, republicans will be in charge in very short order. they will not be able to get away with this type of stuff. pete: get ready for republicans to fight the way you need to fight. rachel: this is interesting to me this, is version of gofundme. this is christian conservative, called gifts and go. we don't know if they have the bandwidth to handle all of this.
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they appear to ramp up to do this, let me tell you why this is really dangerous for gofundme. i started to think about this last night when i saw this. if go sends gifts is able to stand itself up, be a real all ten tough gofundme, which conservatives should start going into a ecosystem, you remember arthur brooks from aei? he is a big thinger. wrote a book, one of his first books was called who really cares? he is an economist who looked at all the data of who actually gives and it turns out republicans by far, by huge margins way more generous, give more to charities. get ready, gofundme, you could have the liberals who don't give money, you need a lot of generous people who tend to be conservative. if go send gifts is able to stand up they may take gofundme with more generous.
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gives end go is 24% of the way to gofundme. gives end go is the new place to go. ashley moody, by the way attorney general of florida. i'm sick and tired of corporations imposing their political will on unsuspecting consumers. as always i will work with the governor to insure floridians are protected. ashley moody comes up on this show at:40 eastern time. i want to say this really quick. i'm under the weather. i don't have enough energy to go in on this, this wake up, i know everyone watching most likely is awake but wake up, america, because i don't know if i'm feeling particularly sensitive about this in this moment but in the last 48 hours it has become increasingly clear, crystal clear there is a concerted movement from the very top down to absolutely destroy, not just silence, but to destroy anyone,
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i'm talking about anyone, any individual, that stands in their way. look at the walls closing in on joe rogan. they are closing in. rachel: i agree. will: they're going for anything they can. we're not talking about joe rogan necessarily this morning. they're saying he is racist with a video of him. they're not worried about whether or not he is racist. pete: not at all. will: not a little bit. no one is offended by anything joe rogan said. he had the temerity i don't think the vaccine is all that effective. saying something outside of the norm like truckers in canada. corporations and companies in collusion with each earth absolutely destroying individuals. wake up. there will be no coming back. there is no coming back. the idea of free speech is dying in front of our eyes right now. rachel: there are glimmers of hope. that is why they're trying to take down the truckers this, might be the boston tea party moment, right? it could be, hate to say it, canadians have the spirit of 1776 but they do. they have the spirit of 176.
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that is why they want to crush this. every morning we get what we call our e packet. the producers break undo the news for us. send us clips, transcripts. i have never read a transcript from the show that made me cry except i did today when i read some of the transcripts from some of the truckers talking about all the people who are sending them food and checking on them. how they want to give them cash. i don't want cash because i'm just doing this for freedom. let's fine a way to fund this movement. this is a true grassroots blue-collar, working class movement. it is so inspirational. dan bongino was on last night talking about courage. i feel your pain. i'm with you will, but these glimmers of hope we can't ignore. listen to what dan bongino had to say. >> what changed since the start of the pandemic when these leftist tyrants started stripping aways of our freedom?
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reminded me of this decades old, old viral video, it takes one person to get up and start dancing before others around him are inspired to get up and start dancing too. eventually, enough people start dancing that the dancers outnumber of people who are watching making fun of the dancer in the first place. that is a truckers right now. there is a lot of dancing right now going on. courage is contagious. your courage is contagious. that is how real change happens. rachel: i love that. pete: beautifully said, exactly right. small handful are seen as outliners and dangerous. when they speak out loudly, boldly, unapologetically, truth everyone is thinking and feeling. rachel: we've been feeling that for two years. pete: we're looking for that moment. turns out -- rachel: canadians. pete: on bingo card i did not have canadian truckers but there they are.
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god bless them. we stand beside them. we're all truckers. hope something similar comes in the united states. they might come with the attempt to suppress it. talking about the virus and free speech which is a huge issue will laid out so well. we have what is going on at the border which of continues to be wide open because of the policies of joe biden and his worder czar kamala harris. you talk about one people, a moment where someone steps up? how about that video that was leaked of the confrontation between the border patrol agents and the border patrol chief, mayorkas was down there, don't tell us to do our job we took an oath, things have changed. what is necessary for evil to succeed for good men to do nothing, right? maybe that has cracked the dam of more agents speaking out, what you're asking us to do is contrary to our oath. there are more border patrol agents coming out saying for now, anonymously but they want to keep their job but they're speaking out. here is a couple of them stationed in texas that spoke to
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"the washington examiner." these are border patrol agents. one said, our job is a joke. we're not doing our jobs. we're releasing people all day. we're going from, we go from arresting people in the woods, pulling over fully loaded vehicles to releasing people on to the streets. the smugglers look at us and they laugh at us. rachel: how demoralizing must that be. i.c.e. agents said we feel like we're travel agents. we're putting people on planes. by the way, with no documentation, nothing at all, taxpayer-funded. meanwhile loose border policies are exposing also the threat to drugs that are crossing into the u.s. a new study that finds that fentanyl poisoning deaths have doubled. listen to that, poisoning fentanyl deaths doubled over 30 states over last two years. will: look what happened. we put a map to it. look which states are dealing with be important to call this
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what it is. not overdose deaths. poisoning deaths. people taking fentanyl don't know they're taking fentanyl. look at deaths where the states have experienced the worst over the last two years. one more graphic, you can see the border seizures of fentanyl over a two year time frame, four year time period from 2019, fiscal year 2022 which we already matched. 2019, since october there. rachel: you can't also, will, it's, these numbers are huge. it is clearly because the border is open. the cartels are so rich, so able to do so much, also, you have very depressed population because of the covid lockdowns. in the middle of a mental health crises and joe biden opens the border and it is not just the cartels. we've had this dea special agent on before, derek, he says that
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the cartels are working with china. that china gets this weakness and is working with the cartels to flood our country with drugs. this is warfare. take a listen. >> every morning you get coffee, right? you get your sweetener, little packs one gram, right? you take one gram, you put it in your hand, this amount of fentanyl can kill 500 people, right? if you take a salt shaker, right, this is a thanksgiving salt shaker, unfortunately many families couldn't enjoy thanksgiving with their kids because we're losing 300 a day, take a salt shaker. i have hundreds of grains. all you need lawrence is four grains to kill an american. the chinese are providing chemicals and doing services through the cartels and our kids are dying. this is work than any terrorist attack. you have 100,000 a year dying. we're sitting here treating it as drug overdoses. no. this is murder. rachel: full circle to our original conversation about
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china. pete: it is murder. there is overt murder happening because of communist chinese regime and targeting of our people specifically. talking about the border, if you're an agent on the border dedicated to securing it there is a process you go through to get the realization you are where you're speaking out. joe biden is here. new policies a little bit different. they can't clearly want to let the cartels control the border. they, there will change a little bit. they will get their footing underneath them. you're getting face two, phase three. i see exactly what this is. they're asking me not to do my job. they're -- rachel: facilitate it. it is worse. pete: frankly to betray my oath. rachel: betray the country. will: three of us haven't talked about this that was so illustrative the grams in his hand. rachel: it was. will: when i was younger, i have boys, i have kids, my biggest fear is drinking and driving, it still is. still is a massive fear when we were growing up, the biggest
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threat to any young person's life. rachel: of course. will: now i worry my kids will take a pill some day they don't know what is in it. i will raise them right, then what happens, four grains of fentanyl, they ever everything -- rachel: lawrence had a dad on his show. lawrence is great, cross-country with lawrence jones. he had a dad on. my daughter didn't know what she was taking. not like she oded, as she mentioned before. at a party, a little drunk. somebody offers them something like that. tiny, no big deal, they're dead. it is devastating. will: absolutely devastating. pete: it is 16 minutes after the top of the hour. we'll turn to a few additional headlines starting with a fox news alert. u.s. generals, consider the source at this point predict kyiv will only last 72 hours should russia invade. the active aggression could
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result they estimate 15,000 ukrainian troop deaths and 4,000 russian troop deaths that coming from multiple sources on capitol hill, following a closed-door briefing late last week. this as ukrainian women and children as young as four years old, look at those young girls, people to defend their home. that is what a country looks like what it is under a existential threat as it is right now. delta's ceo is urging the department of justice to form a national no-fly list. hopes the move will prevent people engaging in unruly behavior while on board. delta has nearly 1900 people on its own no-fly list, bin laden, because he wouldn't put the mask up fast enough for them. the company is submitting 900 names for civil penalties with the tsa. got it. start your engines. i'm legitimately excited for this today.
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nascar gets into gear with a big race at the los angeles memorial coliseum. more than one million dollars spent to construct the temporary track for the season opener. catch all the action starting at 5:00 on fox. the track, it is smallest track they have ever been on. will: so small. pete: like playing nba game on half of a tennis court. will: it is driving by braille. they will be running hitting, turning left. pete: turning left a lot. just expecting wreck after wreck after wreck. will: i don't know. that is why you tune in. pete: why you tune. i can't wait. i will be zoom, zoom in my living room. will: we'll be in daytona three weeks, three of us for daytona 500. meet the somali veteran running to unseat ilhan omar for congress. rachel: how constitution is helping one organization as
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♪. pete: giving power back to the states and the people is the mission of our next guest's organization and they're using the constitution to advance their cause. for the first time in our nation's history 17 of the required 34 states have passed through their state legislatures article five of the constitution, calling for a convention of states that would rein in federal power, impose fiscal restraints on congress, and limit terms of office for federal officials. convention of states action president mark meckler joins us now with mark, with more. mark, so great to see you. to our viewers i'm an enthusiastic supporter of this cause and this effort. it is an amazing opportunity to rein in the scope and power of the federal government. you hit a big benchmark, mark, two additional states to get to
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17. tell us where you are with this. >> excited to be with a old friend pete to do this, we passed the 17 mark. takes 34 states to call a convention of states that convention intended to talk about potential constitutional amendments impose term limits, impose a balanced budget amendment, restrict things federal government is not allowed to do, get them out of education, health care, limiting them to nine supreme court justices so they can't pack the court. a lot of things american people are worried about can be handled in a convention of states. will: this is all detailed in the constitution, article v, the idea was if ever the federal government gets so powerful, so draconian of course we'll give the states and people recourse and that is what this is? >> crazy idea. they knew that central governments get out of control. they understood tyranny and they put a mechanism in, they said they expected the federal
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government would never restrain its own tyranny. expect the states to do that we certainly live in those types. the federal government is in tyranny. 17 states recognize. and we're well on the way to 34 states pass it. pete: it stays on the books, with some exceptions you can add states in the years to come. how does the left feel about this mark? >> pretty much every leftist group in america signed a press release against it. left by common cause, center of budget, soros group, codepink, la raza, planned parenthood, moveon.org, daily koss, unified against the opposition. pete: you're known by your off significance. in that sense you're in a good spot. it takes a lot of work to lobby state legislatures and committees to get this passed. you done it so far, starting in 2014 in 17 states. as you pass more there will be even more scrutiny. i want to congratulate you what you've done so far.
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i want to encourage our viewers, get involved in something a solution as big as the problem, convention of states.com. mark, thanks for everything you're doing. keep at it. two or three states you looking at now what are you looking at? >> right now this week is south dakota, followed by west virginia and south carolina. those guys will line up fairly quick. we'll be past 20 next few weeks. pete: past 20 next few weeks. when you get that, come see us, mark. >> absolutely. pete. pete: coming back the ad, nbc doesn't want you to see. >> american companies are drunk with chinese dollars, entangled with communist dictators committing atrocities tied up in these genocide games. pete: joe concha, why companies would rather stand for china than stand for freedom. ♪.
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♪. >> american companies are drunk on chinese dollars, entangled with communist dictators committing atrocities and propping up these genocide games. what can we do? >> stand for freedom. pete: congressman michael walled says nbc won't let the olympic ad air. they said they didn't reject it but suggested changes so it could air. joe concha, the changes were gut the ad entire message, make sure no corporate logos or corporations are mentioned in the ad. nbc pick ad side, joe. >> i love this. we didn't reject the ad, we want the whole thing changed. that is rejecting it basically. this is the boomerang effect this will have. you played a clip from that ad, right. all over social media people are now watching this ad when maybe if it aired on nbc would have
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came and gone ultimately will make its point. that is disappointing nbc coverage started off with comprehensive critical look at chinese human rights abuses mike tirico led the anchor, but push comes to shove, nbc cowers to ccp. they are so interreliant on the chinese at this point they will bow, we don't want to offend you. we saw this with the nba, right, houston rockets general manager not too long ago, he tweeted his support for protesters in hong kong. the chinese government took action and had sponsors and partners cut ties with the nba. again this is over a tweet, right? i don't think a lot of people are watching right now, will, i saw the numbers come in. nbc sports said 16 million people tuned in to watch the opening ceremony. wow, 16 million, that is pretty good. the problem it is down 50% from the last winter games in 2018.
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if you want to go back to nancy kerrigan, tonya harding, olympics draw viewers, 126 million viewers in 1994. that number is staggering. will: makes you wonder, how many people are protesting the games versus how many people don't care anymore, just are not interested. tied to that joe, i wonder how many people are aware of china's human rights abuses? how many people out there not plugged in on a daily basis, understand what we're dealing with here, a lot of corporations are playing on that ignorance. here are the top sponsors for 2022 winter olympics coca-cola, intel, visa, proctor & gamble, many of these, take coca-cola here, they took a stand against the georgia voter integrity bills. so there coke took a stand n china, no such stand. >> what a great point. we see it with lebron james, steph curry, steve kerr, the
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coach of the golden state warriors, gave it to donald trump when he was in office, when it came to the chinese, we can't criticize them. right? i don't know if you saw what jadonde, on espn, why should we criticize the chinese and uyghurs, as far as the rape and the torture and the slave camps over there when we have voter i.d. issues here. are you kidding me? three in four americans support voter i.d. requirements you're comparing voting right which we all have here in the united states what is going on with the uyghurs and chinese? amazing that made air on espn. i think he made the right move leaving there to come here, will. will: that is absolutely despicable statement. you just can't not accept. joe, always great to talk to you, man. thank you. >> man, see you next weekend. will: bye. coming up congressman michael
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♪. >> come to the office. >> guidelines, i don't need to apologize. >> you're defiant because you don't want to come to the office. rachel: a high school sophomore filming himself standing up to an administrator after being threatened with suspension for refusing to wear a mask while other students across the country are forced in isolation for rejecting their school mask mandates. wilson high school solve floor wyatt mitchell who you saw. bonita high school, turning point usa member, josh land done, chloe scott. start with wyatt. you were in the video. kids your age, students your age are getting tired of watching parents try and stand up but
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getting no results for two years now over these crazy mask mandates and you're saying we'll have to take matters into our own hands? is that what we're seeing happening? >> yes, absolutely. i think a lot of parents think what they have to do but i think it needs to come from the kids in high school right now. rachel: so no more, no more school board meetings, no more asking an begging for help for these mask mandates to be removed. chloe, you think this is maybe, time for resistance, just to stop complying? >> i agree. if we keep complying where does it end? we can't be mad when we are getting walked over and we have no more rights. rachel: yeah. josh, i know kids who are in high school in a state that requires mask mandates and this is a friend of mine's son. he doesn't want to wear a mask but he wears it because he is afraid of being shamed either by the teachers, but even worse by
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his own peers. so i'm very inspired by seeing the three of you. i would like to think that is the majority. somehow i think a lot of people agree with the mask mandates, willing to submit, people from your generation. >> what we've seen actually, after we get out our stance and our view and encourage others to we've seen a lot of students actually agree with us. they have just been nervous and scared to stand up because of the repercussions. it has been a great showing of our first amendment rights, showing up and proving our point, that we're done and we're not going to comply anymore. rachel: i will read you really quick the statement from bonita unified school district. upon the students refusal to comply, students were placed in alternative location on their campus where they were able to compete assignments and class work independently under the supervision of staff. they're being otherrized, sent to different gyms, libraries, not given the work they need to
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complete. not given education for refusing to comply. social media parents, we complain about social media a lot. how can social media, the way your video, other videos like it, young man from washington state who led a protest recently against wearing masks, how does that help to spur this movement on, keep it going, maybe grow it? >> well, gotten a lot of love and i think it has been very important because i think if i just posted it i would have gotten something like 200 people to see it but since i have, since my family and other people on social media very important, i think it has gotten 60,000 views. so that is really good from the long beach parents united i think. they did a lot for me. it is super helpful. rachel: a lot of grown ups are inspired by courage young people like you are expressing. chloe, i will come to you next.
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do you think this whole covid mandate regime we've been under, do you think it will be bring about more conservatives at the end of this, young people deciding they want to be conservative or do you think too many are being normalized into submission and will end up in the end not becoming conservative? >> i think it is hard to tell because there are a lot of people going either way but honestly i've seen a lot of people roll over and just take it as they don't want to stand you, don't want to deal with what happens if they can't handle it, the punishment that comes along with it. rachel: do you feel that way too, josh? >> yeah. the hypocrisy of these mandates are being exposed. people are seeing that. so i think that will create a wave of conservatives and people that are impartial to stand up and fight for the personal freedoms. rachel: i will tell you, you three kids, all of the other students who are following in your suit, are inspiring us, maybe the spirit of 177is still
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alive with our young people. keep fighting. we're supporting you. we're backing you. we think you're courageous, brave, patriots. thanks for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >> thank you. rachel: all right. we also reached out to wilson high school for comment but we didn't hear back from them. all right. will? will: thank you, rachel. great job. turning now to your headlines a five-year-old boy dice after falling 100 feet down a well in morocco. paramedic crews recovered his body saturday. mark as devastating end to the rescue effort that captivated north africa. the boy named ryan had been trapped since tuesday. local media reports say he passed away before rescuers reached him. hundreds of passengers on two cruise ships are left high and dry after u.s. marshals seized the boats, the feds taking over while the ships were docked in the bahamas. the owner underwater by nearly five million dollars in fuel bills. unclear how passengers will get back to america.
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cincinnati bengals will be joined by one of their biggest fans at the super bowl, thanks to a gofundme campaign. >> you have done something that many people would not think of doing. i appreciate it. i love you. god bless you. hodey, hopefully gofundme will distribute the money. they can go to gives end go. james viral fans raised $40,000 to cover his trips cost to l.a. that is travel in style. 40 grand to travel. those are your headlines. let's turn now to meteorologist rick reichmuth. [no audio.
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congresswoman ilhan omar calling to dismantle minneapolis's police department while her city was still reeling, and still is from a drastic increase in violent crime. will: comments like that prompted our next guest, a somali born army veteran, republican to challenge congresswoman omar for her congressional seat. pete: she joins us now. thank you so much for being here. thank you so much for your service to our great country. tell us about the race that you're embarking on. certainly every one knows the name of your opponent. what are you running on? >> yes. hi, thank you so much for having me. my name is shukri, i'm originally from some some. i left because as a result of civil war. before coming to the states i had to stay in a refugee camp for 3 1/2 years so we can be vetted to come here, to the states. and i was granted refugee
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resettlement legally here and after shortly graduating high school i enlisted in the military inspired by the "black hawk down" in somalia. i served with my country 10 1/2 years. went into combat and i have decided, as of late, seeing my country, what's happening, coming from a social history dictatorship country, we are on the brink of that and i couldn't stand on the sidelines to watch my country head that route of a socialist dictatorship. rachel: wow. >> i decided to run against ilhan omar in my district. realizing the divisiveness and the, that she has done in my community and has painted america as a hateful nation
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against minorities and muslims. here i am someone from her background, muslim woman, a refugee, a mother who has experienced a complete different treatment and that is what i want to show the world and unite our country as a result of that. rachel: wow. i mean, i'm a little bit speechless. it is amazing that you have such a similar journey as her and yet you have such a different perspective of america. how are you being received in your congressional district? >> absolutely, i mean, this is what's happening in our country, you know. people in our administration have decided that our country is such a hateful country and they're dividing us based on our color, religion, gender in all the ways they can divide us and my community is seeing what's happening and they're realizing
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that is not the america that is true and has opened their doors to us and, as far as my community receiving me well, all walks of life are welcoming me and realizing what is happening because what is happening is that our country, our leaders, have decided that you know, it is time to wake up and make this country a socialist dictatorship. that is not what you fought for. i'm running against that. this is not the america i came to. this is no not the america i know. this is not the america i see on daily basis, my twitter, all the people backing me, they are true americans from all walks of life and i'm terrified where this nation is headed. i have three young children. i see daily the use youths in my
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community falling into drugs, crime, failed school system. they're just idle. nobody is representing them. they have -- this representative trust in her to represent her needs. half the time she is advocating for other nation's problems, their safety. she has forgotten the very people that voted her to represent their needs. it is a disgrace to her service and she failed her oath, complete negligence in what she is supposed to do for the citizens. will: just to follow up on what rachel asked you, immigrant communities are fascinating communities because he have this the direct first-hand knowledge of other countries they have left. the cuban-american population in the united states of america is a great example of that always on guard against socialism because they came from socialism. you sound similar. but to follow up with what rachel said your community in minnesota, a community of immigrants, do they feel like
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you or do they feel like ilhan omar? >> no, absolutely, that is the thing. they completely feel what i'm feeling. ilhan omar is misrepresenting the minorities, the immigrants and my community and that is what i'm running against to show america we're not all like her. there are people like me and many of us like me. pete: phenomenal. what a message of gratitude. what a message of perspective instead of grievance, it is gratitude, stepping up and doing something about it. if your viewers want to support you do you have a campaign website? >> i do. shu for congress.com. shu for congress.com. if i might add, remind the people of america, 2022 comes and 2024 comes i want you to remember that you have the power to replace these people that you are not happy with that trampled
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your freedoms completely. so your voice matters and remember, to vote for america and for your future. pete: got bless you. couldn't have said it better myself. good luck. god bless. at at halfway mark. they replaced the glass and recalibrated my safety system. that's service i can trust. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪
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one hell of an army man, right is? he served the year before i got there in guantanamo bay. will: i did not know that. rachel: you guys could have hung out. i don't know what people do at guantanamo for fun. pete: oh, not much. dave, did you have a good time at guantanamo bay? can you motion with the camera if you did or did not in. [laughter] there's not a lot to do. it's like a deployment, but you're 90 miles from florida, and you -- rachel: yeah, but you're by the beach. wail wail lay out -- will: lay out. where you been laying out? guantanamo. rachel: when you're in wisconsin and it's 20 below, i think you're jealous. [laughter] pete: here's the crazy part about it, all the navy people are there with their families,
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and us guys are stuck in tin cans on the other side of the base working 12 hour shifts. an at&t phone is like a dollar a minute to call home, right? will: i like when you shake the camera. that was up and down, that was a nod. pete: thank you, brother. will: all right. welcome to "fox & friends." [laughter] pete: the most patriotic television show in america, by the way, keep sending us your shots, friends@foxnews.com, of course our camera guy is a veteran. will: of course. pete: right? did you assume anything else? if just want to let people know that. rachel: even in knight. pete: he's like, stop, i need to move my camera. will: all right. you can take it away, dave. we'll talk to the big cameras. starting with this this morning, what's been called the genocide games, the winter olympics in
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china, is receiving pushback specifically from congressman michael waltz and e necessary freedom of -- enes kanter freedom of the nba. they are blasting the corporate sponsors here in america. let's watch the ad and talk about why you might not have seen it after wards. >> the world's great athletic showcase, but just outside the show rape, genocide, slave labor. american companies are drunk on chinese dollars, entangled with communist dictators committing atrocities and propping up these genocide games staged by the chinese communist party. and what can we do? >> stand for freedom. defund the dictators. when you see made in china -- >> put it down. will: that ad was rejected by nbc. they will not air that ad. here's why nbc is saying they
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will not air it. the ad was not rejected per nbc's longstanding 'tissing guidelines, changes -- 'tissing guidelines, changes with suggested -- pete: you've just got to run the ad we like, and then we'll run are it for you. good on them for standing up. this is not a games -- that's what they're pointing out, what china's doing in their own country and around the world is not a game. they want to dominate, ask we've got companies, billionaires, politicians in very powerful places playing a double game, selling out our country literally and figuratively to a country who seeks our destruction, and now our athletes are over there playing these games. rachel: absolutely. this should have never happened. i get it, they train for all these years, and they want to do what they do best, but they were put in the position by the ioc, the olympics committee, to have the games in china. it should have never happened, and now these athletes are being used as pawns in this propaganda
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game by the committee these -- chinese many community -- communist party. we saw last week, i think it's really important for us to talk about what is actually happening. when we talk about the geopolitical stuff that you talked about a, but let's just talk about the human rights stuff because we hear a lot about human rights from many of the companies called out in that ad. there are 2 million uighurs living in china, basically in a concentration camp. this is slave labor. this is, essentially, slavery. their children are often removed from the parents because what the chinese are trying to do is make sure that the culture, the traditions of the muslim uighurs are not passedded down, so they literally separate -- that also happens in the time of slavery where hay separated children from their parents. there are, you know, their organs are being harvested against their will, there are rapes, there's torture, forced sterilization.
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this is evil, evil stuff. every single one of those companies that were called out in that ad that we know are funding this game and allowing the chinese government to put on this propaganda show should be ashamed of themselves. pete: it's true. you used a great analogy, i used one earlier too, and i think we're all a bit guilty of this. the olympics were coming. everybody appreciates the olympics for what the athletes pour into it and the idea that you're wearing usa on your chest, we love that idea. we had a little bit of this debate, do you boycott the olympics or go beat the commies. and i liken it to a party getting out of hand that you probably shouldn't go to, so i budget here yet -- wasn't here yet. you go to the party and realize it's out of control, i should not be here, and how do i get out of here. and the state department tried to walk back american involvement, we're going to minimize even more than a diplomatic boycott.
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xi jinping is using this as a propaganda moment to lift himself up, a dictator for life, and then they put out a statement that says we're going to create a new world order based on russia a and china? we walked right into this. we gave them the the olympic games, and we let the international olympic committee choose china for the second time in, what, 14 years or something? will: we had a guest on yesterday who told us, you know, they lose money. you really only had a couple of bidders that a wanted to go in on the winter olympics. why would china want to host the winter olympics? it's strictly for the propagandist tool that this will be for that regime. now, look, we can all decide what tools we're going to be, and i think you're right, we were debating this a few weeks back. will i be a tool, will i sell
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out my morality, will i sell out my american citizenry, will i sell out everything for chinese riches? joe concha was on the show earlier. >> all over social media people are now watching this ad. well, maybe if it aired on nbc it would have came and gone, so i think ultimately it's going to make its point, but it's still disappointing considering that nbc's coverage did start off with a comprehensive, critical look at chinese human rights abuses. but when push comes to shove, nbc seemed to cower to the ccp because they're so intertwined and reliability on the chinese that at this point they're just going to bow and say, okay, we don't want to offend you. rachel: that reliance didn't just happen. that's a plot by the chinese government to capture our corporations, our universities, our politicians. so this is -- last night or this past week you saw nancy
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employees if city give this bizarre statement about, like, i don't want any of you athletes to criticize because i'm worried about your safety. that was so crazy. if you're so worried about the safety of our apt recents, why the heck did you let them go? if this place is so unsafe that our people can't say anything or else they're going to be imprisoned or whatever, they shouldn't be there. we shouldn't hold games in a regime like this. this is outrageous. and, by the way, coca-cola willing to criticize our own country over an id card being used to vote so we can identify you, but nothing, radio silence on the genocide and on the country, by the way, who put this entire world into a pandemic. will: i do think it's reached a point of undeniable about. it's probably right after the olympics are over -- pete: absolutely right. will: it will reach a point where we go, wow, i can't believe we did. that -- pete: if i think it's already
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reached there too when you look at the ratings which are not just the lowest, but historically the lowest. i don't want to participate in watching this at all and enabling it at all, and that has nothing to do with disrespecting the athletes who have worked their tails off to get here, it has to do with the overall it factor. and you're exactly right, wait until they extinguish the torch on those games, because that's when they fire up the tanks in russia and the planes and ships on taiwan. rachel: i agree that's what's going to happen. michael waltz this morning with this ad, good on him and to enes kanter, both of them will be on "fox & friends" tomorrow. pete: my kids watch a lot of nba, and now when the celtics are on, they run in the room and tell me when enes is plague. he's in, he's in! pretty cool. because we speculated, is this going to hurt his career -- rachel: i think he should get
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some freedom sneakers, because i think those would sell. will i'll -- will: check out this video, westchester county just above new york city, a nice mall here. the louis vuitton store absolutely ransacked. watch it unfold. [inaudible conversations] [background sounds] [bleep] will: right there on your screen, by the way, they didn't do much. whether or not they can or
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shouldn't or have been advised not to, beside the point. symbolic of everything that's going on. this is not just a new york city story, it's happening all across the nation. brazen theft and robbery. rob astorino said the falling: the pro-criminal policies of governor kathy hochul have made communities all across new york less safe. this brazen robbery occurred at my local mall in white plains. rachel: he's right. this is aoc's district, where she's originally from. these are the policies that she's advocated as well. they call up the governor and the prosecutors that are left leaning and is allow these policies to happen are responsible. but so is the overarching, the left wing of the party, of the democrat party, aoc, you know, really at the forefront of defunding, calling for defunding, you know, years ago
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a. and it all just kind of is catching fire, so all of them are responsible for this. and, you know, this is in the middle of the day. those are $5,000, $10,000 handbags in a very upscale mall and nobody can stop it. pete: this could be your mall. rachel: yes. pete: in fact, the two best buys, the electronics stores in minnesota not 20 minutes from where i group, same thing happened there. and you look at that security guard and you want to shame him. come on, man. you're a mall cop, i get it, but still, intervene. and he's looking around going, what do you mean? if i'm told not to. this guy's probably got a knife, possibly got a gun. i'm putting by life at risk and for what? because i live in a state -- people know this -- where they won't be prosecuted for in anyway. and if anything, i could be on the hook for that. and all you have too old is connect the dots and say, new york state, california state, minnesota, look at the states
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where these are happening, democrat-run states and cities and the criminals can get away with it. rachel: you remember you're from minnesota, when the summer of love happened and there were riots, and target was an apologist for the people who trashed their store there in minneapolis. so corporations, who knows, i don't know what they did there, but they may go, listen, we don't want a racial incident in our store, better leapt the bags go. we'll apply for insurance. i don't know -- will: why was it called the summer of love again? pete: mayor jenny if during can said this was not that big of a deal. the whole c.h.o.p. thing. dancing in the desperate, right? if. will: okay. pete: that was of the idea, and it really didn't turn out. rachel: you both pointed out democratic-run cities and states, "the new york post" is offering up an additional explanation if, and that is the john jay college of criminal
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justice spring semester calling for the d.a. to free criminals. you were laughing at me, laughing with me at some of the lines. pete: it's scary. creating a culture of racial equality suggests a hotline be created so that whistleblowers can turn this internal obstructionists who are not onboard with their bosses' woke policies to spy on those who prosecute if crime. rachel: so marx ifist. pete: so crazy. the institute said, get this, in its 2020 primer -- this goes back year years and years -- that the job of the head prosecutor is not to went cases or impose long sentences or beat the defense. instead it is to promote safe i and accountability and healing. trust. rachel: right. it's not about a -- these are trainingings to not be about protecting citizens' security, safety, law and order, it's
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about being a social justice warrior. it's about, you know, promoting this ideology. it's scary, but you just did a whole series on the miseducation of america, you talk about all the wokeness happening in elementary, high schools, colleges, but people forget our teachers' colleges are affected, our law school ares are affected, even our medical schools have gone woke. you can't even do basic biology and say a girl is a girl and a boy is a boy because, you know, the students will turn the professors in, and they're afraid. so this is an infection, a virus, if you will, the real virus we should be worried abou- will: a struggle. pete: you're right. we talked about the columbia university teachers' college, most influential in america, which was taken over by marxists decades ago, and why wouldn't there be a john jay, you know, college of criminal justice that teaches you not to prosecute crimes. of course. rachel: the problem is people are dying. pete: yeah. rachel: people are dying because
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of this. pete: for sure. all right. it's 16 minutes after the top of the hour, we're going to turn to a few additional headlines. former cal bears basketball star gene ransom dies after being shot over the weekend. a witness calling 911 after seeing his car veering believing the driver was having a medical emergencies police arresting a young man on suspicion of murder. he played for the bears in the 1970s, he was 6 of 5 years old. and country music star travis tritt slamming, quote, stupid artists for pulling their content from spotify, this in light of the joe rogan so-called controversy. writing, quote: i really find it strange that so many musicians from the '60s and '70s are now against the idea of free speech. isn't that one of the big things they were supposedly fighting for 50 or 6 of 0 years ago? -- 60 years ago? they were objecting the man.
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will: rocking in the free world. please. pete: uh-huh. tritt also pointing out that david crosby sold his music category last year despite joining others saying he would remove if his music from the streaming site. i'm going to do it too, guys, but he already did. and some trash talk between buddies now on display for the world to see. take a look. a new billboard this in minnesota reading this is troy. he sucks at fishing. [laughter] pes all -- it's all part of a billboard, the friend who bought the billboard say says has not been so lucky this fishing season. it also shares an e-mail to join in the roasting. the e-mail is troy sucks too. [laughter] that's next level stuff. will: that's got to be about ice
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fishing, right? rachel: i was just going to say -- will: is that fun? pete: i don't person wily -- personally find it fun. you know what it's about? rachel: drinking. pete: absolutely. will: you sit in what amounts to an out over a -- outhouse over a hole with your rod and reel. rachel: a lot of men have decided that's better than doing chores at home. will: right. pete: it was so big in my hometown, sometimes they'd paint the roads and street signs on the way. one of the biggest ice fishing towns. will: actually, i want to do it. rachel: let's do it. we should totally do the show from an ice fishing camp. will: bill maher getting real on overreaching covid restrictions. >> doesn't it make more sense to focus on helping the vulnerable stay safe and let the rest of us go back to living normal lives? [applause] will: dr. marc siegel agrees, and he's next.
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♪ muck. pete: two years into covid-19 with mandates still in effect, has even liberal comedians like bill maher begging for some common sense if. >> contrary to popular lore, covid is not russian roulette. of course any virus, anything can kill anyone if at any time. but we know who covid kills. 75 of covid -- 75% of covid deaths are people 65 and older. 98-99% are unvaccinated. 78% who have died or hospitalized were overweight. doesn't it make more sense to focus on helping the vulnerable stay safe and let the rest of us go back to living normal lives? [cheers and applause] pete: hey, listen to that crowd reaction tells you a lot. here with the science behind getting back to normal, fox news medical contributor dr. mark if siegel. doctor, you've been talking about things like this for quite some time, yet when bill maher
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says it, a liberal, it wakes some people up. do you think people are listening to this and ready to heed some of the science? >> pete, i hope so, and i'm really surprised and happy to see that from bill maher. boy, have we reached a place in science fiction where you're hearing more scientific fact from bill maher than from tony fauci, right? that's where we are. i'm amazed. and i want to say here's what he said that's most important: we have something called cocooning. that's a term we should have used throughout the pandemic. we've thrown that aside. what is cocooning? protecting the most vulnerable. how do you do that? you identify them; those over 65. he made the other point about weight. we have an obesity epidemic in this country even down to childhood. if you're obese, you're at risk. if you are underlying medical conditions, you're at risk. what we immediate from the government, pete, is tools, not punishment, not more rhetoric, not more mandates. the mandates don't work. people who have had the
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advantage -- people have had the vaccine who want the vaccine. novavax is on the horizon, we need that approved. that's not an mrna vaccine, more people will take that because they're not reluctant. where's the paxlovid? i want it all over the place because it cuts down on severity. where are our tools? not our punishment. pete: absolutely. great point, dr. siegel. now here, if i can for a moment, i want to do something a little different than i've done over this entire covid-19 moment. one of the things i believe in heavily and strongly is privacy to include medical privacy, and i don't feel the need to share my medical status, vaccine status with viewers or anybody else other than god and my family. but in this particular case, i took an antibody test recently because, doctor, you know this, i had covid in november of 2020, i also recently had covid just about a month ago, and i was curious to see personally what would that mean for my
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antibodies. you're actually my primary doctor, so now i'm giving more health information than i ever thought i would. you took a look at the results. what do the results of my covid antibody test tell mesome. >> they tell me, pete, that you're protected. when you had covid in 2020, you made antibodies, and you were protected for a while from having had covid, something that the united states refuses to acknowledge, but europe and israel do acknowledge. now in january of 2022, you had a mild case, probably had partial protection from your previous infection as myself and marty makary and ores -- others have suggested. now you have partial protection, and going into 2021 you get another case. coming out of that case, you have antibodies against omicron. and guess what israel does? they recognize that. you have huge antibodies, greater than 2500 of spike
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antibody protein. israel says, you can come in. the united states is not saying that, and i urge the united states government listening to us today, make it, make it possible for natural immunity to count as a way to be safe. because i have to tell you, you could come up to me today and shake my if hand, cough on me, i don't care what you do, i am not going to get omicron from you. pete: no, i appreciate that. and, you know, it's not about being anti-vaccine at any level, it's about being pro-science. so when i got covid before the vaccines came out, i saw moneyed. i had that -- no need. the fact that our government doesn't recognize these results which are literally off the chart is what makes people skeptical, and that's why i wanted to share that this morning. >> and, pete, by the way, i am in favor of if you've had covid in the past considering getting a vaccine on top of it. that's hybrid immunity. you right now do not need that to travel and i'm all for what you're doing. pete: mane -- man, i hope so.
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i hope the government recognizes that and appreciate the insight you've provided. >> you're a healthy guy, pete. [laughter] pete: and now even's seen my personal health records, so that's out the window. all right. l.a. homelessness under review as the city scrambles to clean up before super bowl lvi. get that? ♪ ♪
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ex-california resident -- [inaudible] good morning to both of you. mike if, so describe the problem for us. what will fans traveling from across the nation if, what will, i don't know, corporate sponsors, everyone who goes to l.a. for the super bowl, what will they see? >> yeah. a horrible, horrible, horrible country as gavin newsom said about the train. we're coming up on 24 months of a state of emergency, right? it's still so dangerous, kids have got to wear n if 95 a masks to school, yet we can still have tens of thousands of people party in los angeles. if so that's the first ridiculous point. this problem goes back to the '60s and '70s that we can just drug mentally ill people up and send them back on the streets, and we see the fruit of that now, and it's a horrible situation. we just play whack-a-mole with human souls whenever it suits the elite when they don't want to look like a third world country when began newsom that'y
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what we are. will: we learned this from the nfc championship game. yeah, kids have to mask, but if you hold your breath when you're taking a picture, it's totally safe for even. we learned that from mayor eric garcetti. >> yeah, i hope to use that next time i want to fly on an airline, i'm just going to tell them i'm holding my breath the entire flight. the first time i would ever take a cue from mayor garcetti. i'm glad mike discussed what's going on. i did live in l.a. for several years, and i recently spent some time in venice beach, and it's worse than a third world country. that's the fifth largest economy in the world in california, and this is what you're left with. it's not enough to just clean it up for the super bowl so fans and tourists can believe l.a. and california is this great place, it's not. but i'm also glad that mike borough up the problem that this is. -- brought up the problem that this is. a lot of individuals are not
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just could be on their luck, not simply impoverished, a lot of these folks are not only drug addicts, but they're felons that would likely be behind bars, but because california decides to coddle those felons, they release them back out on the streets where it's warm, and it's become a lifestyle for so many. it can't go on much longer. cleaning it up for a few days for the super bowl not going to cut it for california, and it's not going to be hideable either. >> during covid we took all the homeless people and put them in hotels, and no one got cured, we just put them back out on the streets when it was convenient. and i don't know, maybe we'll do what we do with -- [inaudible] put them on planes and ship them across the country. i know for a fact that these homeless people are not going to be shipped to gavin newsom's winery in napa valley. out of sight, out of mind.
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will: tomi, i described you as an ex-l.a. resident. you're in tennessee now, so you're seeing both sides. you've seen blue, you've seen red, life california and now life in tennessee what's the biggest difference? >> well, listen, tennessee is a great state, and nashville is a great city, but i've got tell you, this problem doesn't just stay in california. anytime you have liberals running a city, and here in nashville, tennessee, you have a liberal mayor, you're starting to see this creep in. that's why it's such a cautionary tale to look at california and all the policies that failed. it's not just the homeless crisis, it's also the culture of lawlessness, it's the taxing, the regulation, the mandates, the infringement. but i'll tell folks this, in california you have an incredible opportunity to change the course of your state through election. i know it's difficult. i know conservatives ask even independents there don't want to speak up and speak out, but you did such a great job almost recalling governor newsom, now is the chance. you don't need your state run by
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one party when that one party is running it into the ground. make better choices next time. pick a moderate democrat or, here's an idea, maybe an america or california first republican for a change. will: no doubt. look at a austin, texas. it's not a california problem making its way from city to city. tomi lahren, mike slater, great to talk to you this morning. the sunshine state putting gofundme on notice after the canadian freedom convoy's fund raising actions were suspend. portfolio's attorney general ashley moody joins us next as she and governor ron desantis vow to investigation. ♪ ♪
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up -- givesendgo already raising more than $2 million. florida governor desantis vowing to investigate go fund maine along with florida attorney general ashley moody. she joins us now. ashley, good for you. ed glad that you guys stepped up so quickly when you saw this happening. do you think it's the threat of this investigation and possible lawsuits that caused gofundme to kind of change their tune and say, no, no, no, we're not going to give the money to the truckers to give to charity, we're going to give the money back? >> good morning, rachel. you know, think about what occurred here. you had a business that essentially makes money off people's -- the goodness of their heart, wanting to contribute to a cause that's important to them. you have a big business that encourages that. they take a percentage, not only a percentage of the donation, but money per donation, so they make money when they -- when folks raise money through their platform p. and then without any notice to anyone and no donor
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notices before they made a contribution, they're going to make some political judgment that they think this isn't a worthy cause anymore and is just shut down after raising millions of dollars? folks wanted to help in this proit's against heavy-handed -- protest against heavy-handed government as people have always done historically when government seeks to overreach and take away freedoms of its people. people push back peacefully, and you have a business here who makes money off people wanting to coe nate to that and then -- donate to that and then just shutting it down. governor desantis was pleatly right in calling out that nonsense sense, possibly illegal behavior. rachel: yeah, it seems to me now their turn around is, okay, we're going to give you your money back, but that's not what the donors wanted. they wanted the money to go to the truckers, and somehow gofundme decided the truckers weren't worthy. go fund maine funded and that if
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sill tated donations to blm who, you know, gets millions of dollars -- did millions of dollars in damage, looting, 34 people dead, why is that okay and this isn't? and isn't this absolutely discriminatory? >> think about this: not only did they support that campaign, c.h.o.p. when they took over a whole area and people were getting hurt, assaulted, there was even a death, they even sent out a separate tweet themselves to encourage folks to donate to that a cause. and that's what i'm saying. how in the world can you now come in and make a political judgment, impose your political will when folks are trying to support those standing up for their freedom, for their rights. and that's why governor desantis is so effective and timely in saying, look, we're not going to put up with this hypocritical nonsense by big business. and what he does effectively is call that out. and, you know, i've stood with him since day one in making sure we're protecting floridians, that they still have their
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individual liberties and freedoms while we're doing everything we can to protect the health and safety and welfare of floridians. but that's why people are taking refuge in florida. rachel: yeah. >> they're coming from all places, new york, california, you name it, because they know we will always be a beacon of freedom, and we will work hard to protect their rights. rachel: yeah. well, you're not alone are. texas and louisiana have joined you. we might see a movement to protect conservatives who are being discriminated by these big tech companies. we appreciate you standing up so quickly to defend conservatives in this cause and the truckers who definitely deserve, deserve what the donors want to give them. thank you so much for joining us this morning, arcly. great -- ashley, great talking to you. >> thanks, rachel. pete: i want to go to florida too. rachel: me too. [laughter] pete: all right. well done. turn to a few additional headlines this morning as well. detectives are working to uncover a motive behind the
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deadly shooting at a wisconsin apartment complex. the gunman killing two people and seriously injuring another before shooting toward responding officers, then turning the gun on himself. the terrifying scene playing out saturday afternoon. investigators suspect it began as a domestic -- and a police officer in australia, get this one, interrupts mass in the middle of the service, walking to the front and declaring he will be checking to make sure people are wearing masks, and if they don't, they better have an exception. authorities responding after receiving reports of violations of the mask -- hopefully not fellow parishioners. chief australian correspondent avi -- it works, joining us earlier. >> what do we say to americans, pete, when they keep telling you, just get fully vaccinated and life can go back to normal. look at australia because they promised us that, and 93% fully
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vaccinated, you're not going to get much further hand that, and they're coming, they're barging into churches. pete: i love that dude. great interview. officials are encouraging people to call police if they see people violating mask mandates. yep. all right, move over, spike lee. these knicks fans really came to play. the season ticketholders going viral for wearing full knickerbocker game uniforms -- [laughter] one even wearing a sweat band on his wrist for added authenticity. reportedly it was to inspire their team to victory against the lakers. sadly, it did not go well and los angeles got the win. now that is commitment. that's fantastic. i'd like to try that. you see that at football games a lot, not basketball. rachel: i like that. all right. pete: take it from here. rachel: coming up, a 6-year-old waiting for a heart transplant
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♪ rachel: welcome back to "fox & friends." this is the moment that country music star blake shelton surprised 6-year-old wyatt mckee to join him in singing god's country. watch. ♪ if. ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] [laughter] will: that's awesome. that amazing little boy, wyatt, and his mom harley join us. harley, wyatt, can't tell you, i just got real excited because i realized you're broadcasting live from from texas, i'm from sherman, we're neighbors. ask and hey, i understand, wyatt, you were bearing your biggest fan shirt on. how did you get on stage? i'll ask is you, wyatt, if you
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want to take it, but how did blake end up saying, come on up here? [laughter] how did it happen, harley? >> we had a sign we were holding up, and it got quiet enough that his aunt holleredded wyatt loves you, and that's when everybody -- he started paying attention to what we had going on over there. pete: amazing. wyatt -- and you know the song god's country, right? absolutely. i can see you, i can see you mouthing the words there on stage. was it fun? and it's an amazing cause, mom. i mean, harley, he's waiting for a heart transplant. i know you've gone through multiple surgeries as well. talk to us about your with son, what he's facing right now. >> we're just kind of waiting. he's been on the list for about a little over a year now. he had two open heart surgeries when he was 6 months old and 5
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days old and, i mean, just kind of waiting patiently -- impatiently. [laughter] ray rhode island -- rachel: i bet you are. he just seems like a hoot. i can't stop looking at that smile. what does it mean to wyatt to have -- and for you even, to have this experience given what you've been through? i can't imagine the surges and waiting for the heart, what did it mean for you to have this moment for your family? >> i can't even explain how it made me feel. i don't think he quite grasps how big it was. he just had a blast and that's what he wanted to do, he wanted blake shelton's phone number. of he asks me all the time, what's blake shelton's phone number? if. [laughter] it just warmed my heart and getting to do something he really wanted to do. will: that is awesome. i take it you were at choctaw watching this concert, and blake's from not very far away
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as well, right in that same area. you guys are all neighbors. you know that, wyatt, right? you and blake are neighbors. you're not just a due wes, you're neighbors. [laughter] rachel: so adorable. pete: keep smiling, man. rachel: we're praying for you guys and praying you get a new heart soon. pete: for sure. god bless you both. more frock and friends in a moment. [laughter] [limu emu squawks] woo! new personal record, limu! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ >> woman: what's my safelite story? only pay for what you need. i see inspiration right through my glass. so when my windshield cracked, i chose safelite. they replaced the glass and recalibrated my safety system. that's service i can trust. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ before nexium 24hr, anna could only imagine a comfortable night's sleep without frequent heartburn waking her up. now, that dream... .
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pete: i have church at 11, and sometimes i don't get there until 11:15, and i said sometimes i miss the announcements. the catholic church as announcements at the end of the service? rachel: yeah. we don't do announcements before mass. pete: who knew? if at the beginning or the end of church? will: protestant. beginning. [laughter] rachel: while they have your attention. pete: because you've got to end with a crescendo, the sermon and the prayer -- will: you've got to get everybody out by noon so they can get the movies in time -- [laughter] it's a very tight schedule. pete: it's true. we're glad you're here, fourth hour on this sunday edition. if you didn't know, it is a national holiday for joe biden today. rachel: rachel: it is? pete: yes. today is national lame duck day. [laughter] rachel: that would work. will: they have a national lame
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duck day? pete: yeah. february 6th. it's also national frozen yogurt day and national chopsticks day. rachel: he does get asked a lot of questions about ice cream from the media. pete: it's true. recognizing the ratification of the 20th amendment, the lame duck amendment, that splatted election day -- separated election day -- rachel: it means joe biden, right? [laughter] pete: and i'm telling you, not only am i hopped up on calf caffeine, but i'm genuinely excited to be here with you guys. will: first time we've been able to do this in person -- rachel: we haven't seen each other since nashville. pete: and we're glad you're here with us. i went to a diner this week, saw so many of you with. i go out, i hear a lot about will ask rachel. yep, i love it. all right, we start with this, a fox news alert.
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u.s. generals predict kiev jeff will only last 72 hours. rachel: the act of aggression could result in tens of thousands of troops and civilian casualties on both sides. will: steve harrigan is joining us live from ukraine's capital. steve, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, will. those really startling numbers are coming out of a biden administration briefing to lawmakers on thursday. they've really talking about a potential worst case scenario. that would be a full scale invasion by rush russia into ukraine. in that event there could be up to 50,000 civilians killedded, 25,000 ukrainian soldiers killed, 10,000 russian soldiers killed and as many as 5 million refugees created. that is the worst scenario of -- full invasion. putin has a number of options including a smaller invasion, cyber attack or no invasion at all. the russian response to, predictable, one of outrage. they said this is just fear
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mongering and madnd. russian officials said it's like saying the u.s. is going to attack london and kill 300,000 people. when you talk to ukrainians here, many are beginning to think about in case of a russian invasion will they hide or fight. here's one. to tell you the truth, i'm not the kind of person who hides, but my wife is worried and nervous about the situation. >> reporter: when you talk to people here out on the street, the word you keep hearing over and over again is pawns, a lot of people feel like they're pawns in something bigger, and they're not sure how they got here. guys, back to you. pete: thank you, steve. will: that's a fascinating point. i think a lot of us feel that way when it comes to the current geopolitical tensions in eastern europe. we feel it beginning, if not spiraling, marching out of control, and we're not sure how we got here. pete if, you had a great interview earlier with david freeman, former ambassador to israel, and he's saying here's at least one contributing factor
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into how we got here. >> at this juncture, russia is already committing acts of aggressioning and provocation, and we ought to act now in order to end this before lives are lost. and to me, the obvious move is to go back to what president trump did and sanction nord stream 2. shut town that pipeline, end russia's source of revenue and germany's reliance on russian energy. germany, the wealthiest european member of nato. and we have to act decisively, because this is heading to a very dark place. russia's making a deal with china to divide up ukraine and who knows what other countries. this is what happens when america is weak. rachel: i'm so glad he brought up nord stream 2. germany has a huge role in and, and they're abdi abdicating and saying, americans, you take care of it. no, it's their problem. they made themselves reliant on russian gas and oil, and we should do something about it. pete: you're exactly right. p europe are also the ones that
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have made themselves militarily effectively irrelevant. they've relied on the u.s. military since world war ii to effectively be their collective defense through nato. donald trump said, wake up, you better be prepared to defend yourselves, except for some states, states like ukraine, poland and others have said we're going to open our borders and defund our militaries to pay for our welfare state, not believe in ourselves anymore. no wonder vladimir putin smells weakness. and you both have touched on this. wait until to olympic games are done in communist china. that's when this will all move. they're readying the troops for the ground to freeze, they believe -- and how rich is this, that now mark milley's going to tell us how long they're going to hold out. mr. don't worry, the afghan's -- arm's got that, it definitely won't be 72 hours. we're not sure, but it is existential for ukraine right
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now. it's on them ask on europe if they really believe in deterring the soviet union and not allowing them to reestablish it, now's the moment. and we're not helping them one bit, as the ambassador pointed out. will: well, on the -- this side of the atlantic, by now you're surely aware of the freedom convoy of truckers in if canada mandates at average, for the return to freedom, on gofundme, but as of yesterday, i believe, when we were on this show, gofundme was saying they weren't going to distribute those funds. acts of violence, vandalism, gofundme had their excuses as to why they would not distribute that $10 million donated to the truckers. in fact, what they said is we'll give refunds, we'll redivert to other place. that got the attention of, for example, florida governor ron desantis who said, well, that's fraud. we're going to be looking into that. quickly now, you have a gofundme policy change.
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here's what they say now. so simplify our process, we will be refunding all donations to the freedom convoy 2022 fund raiser. this refund will happen automatically. the update enabled a plan to distribute remaining funds to verified charities selected from the freedom convoy's organizers, however, due to donor feedback we are simplifying the process and automatically refunding donations. rachel: that's right. i interviewed ashley moody, florida's attorney general, and here's what she said about why they're going to investigate and possibly prosecute if gofundme. >> they take a percentage, not only a percentage of the donation, but money per donation. so so they make money when they, when folks raise money through their platform. and then, without any notice to anyone and no donor notices before they make a contribution, they're going to make some political judgment that they think this isn't a worthy cause anymore and just shut down after
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raising millions of dollars? folks wanted to help in this protest against heavy-handed, cramdowns by government as people have always done historically when government seeks to overreach and take away freedoms of its people. people push back. path president yeah. and -- pete:. yeah. and's even -- it's even more powerful when it's people you didn't expect. i don't know about you, i didn't have canadian trucker on my card. and that's what takes -- makes this even more powerful, truly an authentic reaction. we're going to drive across the country to the capital of ottawa, and it's unacceptable what justin trudeau's doing. it's never really just been about me as a trucker and if that border, it's been about personal freedom and, of course; what do they least do? they try to crush the tax-paying, god-fearing, middle class, hard working citizens of canada because they're afraid of
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them. rachel: i was just going to say, this is a sign of fear. they are so worried because this is sort of like a boston tea party movement. very unexpected that it would come from canadians, but it is. and it has -- it already has signs of becoming a global movement. you see people, truckers or in america starting to organize and in other countries as well. and this is just striking fear right into the hearts of the elites who have been trying to control us. i know it goes without saying, but i do think it's important to point out the hypocrisy in all of this. these are the same people, gofundme if, who allow money to go through their sites to fund blm. blm costs billions of dollars from looting and damage to businesses. 36 people wound up dead, you know, burning buildings. nothing like that has happened with these truckers. i don't care what they say. these are lives. i've seen the videos, the footage. this is really a convoy of love. people from all walks of life
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coming and not just donating money, but bringing food and coffee and doughnuts to these people. and they need these funds because they -- this whole movement was shut to -- will shut down if they don't have the funds for if lodging and gas because, again, this is a blue collar movement. these aren't the rich guys, these are the working class. will: the working class, and we brought this up earlier, and i keep tying, if you've noticed, to what's going if on with joe rogan. i was just here thinking why am i doing that? because this is about free speech. what the truckers are doing is freedom of assembly and speech. it's canada, first amendment doesn't apply, but you know what? the western civil civilization principle of free speech does apply. and we're watching, no doubt in my lifetime, the most con centered, top-down, authoritarian ever to really extinguish that light of free speech that i can't imagine.
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and, by the way, there's signs of hope and you pointed that out, rachel, but it's dimming. like, we're approaching the point of no return. if we accept, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, the white house can ask spotify to do something about misinformation, the we accept that, if we accept justin trudeau, what are we? what's left? pete: yep. will: there was a reason it was the first amendment. will have a laugh -- [laughter] i do think it's pretty foundational for all of us. pete: absolutely. and to tie those two stories together, what's facebook and others doing now? they're shutting down preemptively the group sites of american truckers who are organizing. rachel: yes, they are. pete: facebook is saying, whoa, whoa, we're not going to have that here. so preemptively shutting down forums. will: you're right, they're scared, real quick. rachel: they are scared.
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wail will they're weak. strong people do not do this and good guys, quite honestly, do not do this. not to be too simply policic, but when have the good guys been on the side of let's shut these people up? rachel: i agree. but my worry is china and how we have become normalized to all of this. i know we brought point up yesterday, but you saw the chinese goon, you know, essentially, pushing that danish reporter off the stage, we brought this up yesterday. that is no different than what big tech is doing to conservatives. they are constantly pushing us out, not letting conservative voices be heard, shutting down gofundme, censoring joe rogan, censoring all of us. all of us here have been shadow banned on twitter, on facebook. all of these things are happening, and in a way you're right, it is a sign of weakness. but at this moment they hold these very powerful levers which is our social immediate media and the distribution -- media and the distribution of information, and they're making
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us feel like we're a small majority. -- minority. but the truth is they have the power to silence us. this is like china. we're slowly becoming normalized to all of this censorship. pete: let's talk about more lunacy. at western carolina university, students are speaking out against what they say are racially-segregated r.a. support meetings. what does r.a. stand for again? rachel: resident assistant. they monitor the dorms. pete: yeah. they're supposed to keep everything copesetic. fox news obtained some e-mails to these r.a.s at western carolina university supporting -- it's based on race. here's one anonymous western carolina if university r.a. saying this to fox news: i find the idea of separate r.a. support groups based on race to be abhorrent. segregation was wrong then and it is wrong now. r.a. number two says this. we want to be all about
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diversity and inclusion, but then we have separate meetings? how is that progressive? telling in and of itself, but also telling that these r.a.s feel that they do so anonymously. rachel: yeah. pete: for fear of being accused of being, i don't know, a white supremacist. rachel: remember my old alma mater, arizona state, when these boys were in the multicultural room and these black girls came in and said you have to get out because -- this is the sort of segregation that we're seeing on campus and it's, of course, everything as you guys know starts on campuses and feeds out. but we start to see, you know, separate graduation ceremonies. i remember when i graduated from asu, i didn't go to the he is panic -- the hispanic graduation ceremony. will: they had one then? rachel: yeah. willwell how about that? you sent me an article yesterday about a private school in dallas that has this exact same thing, racial affinity groups within the high school level we're talking about. rachel: yeah. but then the white people have
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a, like, ally, like, racial ally group, supporters of other races. i mean, it's also dumb and so, quite frankly, un-american: we need to get back to the melting pot idea. we need to get back to the idea that we're all americans ask stop all of this racial division and segregation. i don't understand why more minorities aren't offended by this. it's exactly the opposite -- pete: glad rachel -- you said they had it back then? [laughter] rachel: i'll just have you know i graduated in the '90 from college. you little -- [laughter] will: i did too. rachel: no, no, no. pete: you know we meant -- rachel: i'm the old person on the couch. i called you a whippersnapper. i have a bad word for it in spanish. i know you've herald it, because you're from texas. will: we have a statement from
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western carolina. they were created to provide support to a diverse r.a. community, specifically -- do you call this bipoc? rachel: i don't know, they make inup all these names. will that that's persons of colorado, what's the b-i for? this i'm not sure. was created at the request of students. all our support sessions are completely optional, open to all r.a.s regard areless of race or ethnicity to discuss different perspectives and experiences. pete: they say, well, anybody can go to anything even though we call this -- rachel: i don't know the last person is person -- part is person of color. maybe we should get -- will i don't feel the slightest bit of shame. rachel: i don't either. it's fun if we could bring in some sort of translator, some woke translator. of. pete: that would help. will: you look that a up. give it to me at the end of the headline, got it? if. pete: got it.
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will: detectives are working to uncover a mute motive behind a shooting at a wisconsin apartment complex. the gunman killing two people ask seriously injuring another before shooting towards officers, then turning the gun on himself. investigators suspect it began, of course, as a domestic dispute. caught on camera, a crossing guard in maryland is hit by a car while pushing a girl out of the way of the speeding driver. the guard has been identified as a corporal of the northeast police department. she suffered minor injuries, and the little girl was not hurt. that guard now being hailed as a hero. country music star travis tritt slamming, quote, stupid artists for pulling their content from spotify. this in light of the joe rogan controversy we were just discussing, writing, quote: i really find it strange that so many musicians from the '60s and '70s are now against free speech. isn't that what they were
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supposedly fighting for 50 or 60 years ago? also pointing out that david crosby said he would remove his music from the streaming giant, but he can't remove it -- pete: he already sold it, so now he's saying i removed it because he wants all the love -- rachel: by the way, all this free speech, these aging hippies from the '60s and '70s, a lot of them were on the side of the communists back in the '60s, so i'm not that surprised. will: what'd you find out? pete: it is black, indigenous and people of color. will: there you go. pete: just bringing the information. rachel: thank you. you are now officially our show's woke translator. we need to give him a raise. [laughter] coming up, the summer of love might be long over, but the crime crisis is still ranging on in seattle as break-ins force mom and pop stores to hut down
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organized retail theft which has become rampant in seattle causing businesses to close and leave our city, it's as simple as that. we will not tolerate that. rachel: seattle's mayor condemning the city's crime crisis, for many business owners it's too lit and too late. for -- too little and too late. a downtown target being shoplifted every 10 minutes, business ownerses have had enough. our next guest has seen it all, radio host jason rantz joins us now. jason, welcome. has the situation gotten so out of control that these businesses are leaving, but what about the citizens? >> yeah. i mean, so from from both perspectives everyone is losing. you've got about 500 businesses that have permanently closed in the last couple years, and the driving factor is the crime rate. obviously, covid a made things worse, but in the case of the mom and and pop stores, they just couldn't take it anymore. they were having break-ins
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happening all the time, their products being stolen. you've got folks not really understanding that when that happens, when insurance covers the cost of the shoes that are stolen, well, they're not covering the profit. and it's not cheap to do business in in seattle. and then you've got the supply chain crisis at the same time, they can't get the product back in in time to put on their shelves, they decided to just call it quits and move online are. they're one of growing, they're one more on this growing list of businesses that are just, they're just done. and then, of course, as a citizen, you know, it's just not safe walking around. it's not safe going to pike place market or having friends in town. it's just, it's getting to be completely untenable, and i think the city's new mayor is pointing that out. rachel: i have family who live in seattle. i'm here in new york city, what is the threshold? at what point do people say concern these businesses are moving, but the people who live there, they are normalized so i.
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i could never live under these conditions, but they can. we listen to these stories, jason, you bring them all the time, and we feel bad. but these people vote these people in that, you know, people vote people in that don't take care of these problems. >> oh, believe me, i feel it. i live right in the center of seattle. i feel it every single day. i will say the last election there was a little bit of a course correction. so for the first time in some 30 plus years, the voters actually put into place a republican. that doesn't happen very often. the seattle city attorney's office, she was running against -- ann davidson was running against the candidate who was an abolitionist flatly saying, look, i am not going to prosecute most misdemeanor crimes. and, obviously, that was a little bit too far. i mean, anyone who wants to know what the situation is like, you go into any business, you've got now security guards at the front of almost every single retail business. the downtown seattle associate
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and its trade -- association and its trade group, they're out there spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year now on private security just that -- to walk the streets because our seattle police department staff is so depleted. and yet still you go into a target, which i went into yesterday, within just a couple of minutes, there was a shoplifting event. and when you talk to the staff there, they tell you, yeah, it happens about 10 minutes. i kept seeing event after event. it is so surreal. rachel: it's terrible, and it is one of america's most beautiful cities. i love to visit, but i don't see any tourists clamoring to go right now until they clean things up. jason, it's always great to hear from you. thanks for give us dispatches from seattle. appreciate it. [laughter] >> thanks, rachel. rachel: all right. still ahead, a judge in illinois rules for some schools to stop enforcing mask mandates, so why are chicago students still being forced to mask up? we're going to discuss that
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♪ will: welcome back to "fox & friends." pete: looking for some music or something. will with will who is going to introduce this story? this comes to you -- pete: nice shot though. rachel: yeah, it is. will: this comes to us from chicago where chicago public schools are set to defy a judge's ruling which would suspend the governor's mask mandate. chicago public schools are saying we're confident that the masking and vaccination have been key parts of keeping the virus -- for some reason there's no interest in -- [laughter] rachel: the virus transmission low in our classrooms this
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school year and successfully allowed our faculty ask students to teach and learn in person, and we will stay the course. will: will: they're going to defy this judge. rachel: in virginia. pete: exactly right. the judge in southern illinois says we're going to rule on behalf of the parents saying the universal masking is not legal, at least for now, it'll be challenged, but the chicago school district says it doesn't apply to us. we're going to keep on keeping on. and it's exactly what we're seeing in virginia right now with school districts saying forget what the governor's done. ignore it. rachel: again, i think we are reaching a point, i think we reached this point a long time ago, but it's just time to stop. i mean, if 400 kids showed up without a mask, what are they going to do? you starting to see little pockets of this. pete: president absolutely right. rachel: kids protesting in washington state, california, they're talking to each other via social media and saying enough with the masking. and also, by the way, what some
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of the schools are doing is separating the kids, so if they come out a mask, they're shaming them, putting them in a library or gym, often times not providing them with the work, so they're not getting their education. and i think a lot of kids are going new. they're tired of waiting for the grown-ups to figure this out. they're just saying -- pel. pete: well, they realize the grown-ups don't have the power. you can go to school board, i been out ultimately has to be inside the school. and you know what? 10th graders, 11th graders, they're dialed in, they're capable. they've got good parents who taught them something to rally and make a difference. i've got to believe stuff like this does start to make a difference. rachel: in chicago they've been training these kids to be activists for a long time. [laughter] that's kind of their specialty, but i guess the kids have to take up a new cause if they want to be free and breathe free. ask is we're woning -- robbing kids of their child childhood. we're denying them the ability to see each other's faces -- will: 80% of communication is
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nonverbal a. i remember once, i think it was ronald reagan's communication adviser said 80% is how you -- 15% is how you sound and 5% are the actual words that you say. we're basically robbing kids of at least 80% of that equation this learning how to communicate amongst one another. you mentioned these kids across the country who are starting to step up. take a look for yourself at what's happening across country. >> a lot of parents think what they have to do, but i really think it needs to come from the if kids ask high schoolers right now. >> where does it end? we can't be mad when we're getting walked over and we have no more rights. >> the hypocrisy of these pan kate -- mandates are being exposed, so i think that's going to create a wave of conservatives is people that are impartial to stand up ask fight for these personal freedoms. will: and then i think, before we run out of time, i want to mention this. i think all three of us do, but there's a picture going around of it looks about a kindergarten
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class. every single person in the picture is masked except for the it's of honor at particular, what do you call it, rug time convention in the classroom. and the best of honor -- rachel: circle time. will: the guest of honor is stacey abrams, the one-time georgia gubernatorial candidate who -- pete: above in her own -- governor in her own right -- mind right now. will: who, of course, is unmasked. rachel: by the way, she is far more vulnerable. i mean, she has really been the target of somebody who could, you know, succumb to covid. and these children aren't. but this is a perfect illustration of what is happening in america. and, again, i just think at some point we just have to say enough and, again, i was encouraged by this young man that you see right here on the screen. i thought, wow, the spirit of 1776 is alive and still kicking. but i'm telling you, it's not big enough. as much as i want to be
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encouraged by those young people we saw many that montage, i know people whose kids say i don't want to wear a mask, but i'm afraid the i go to school, i'm going to be shamed. and not just by the teachers and the administering, but by their fellow peers who seem to have been also enveloped in this submission and this whole ideology around covid or around so many other things. pete: these kids are doing it, i said it before, their parents have taught them something the school never did. and that's why you see a compliant if nature among so many other sites -- students. that's the go along to get along of the moment. it's hard to get kids to muster that, and they have to have a deep sense of what this country really represents, and that comes down to parents. so i am encouraged. i think if it were to grow because, you know what? kids want to go to prom, they want to go to basketball games and sit in the stands -- rachel: play basketball without a mask. pete: all of these things, let's
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pray that this, it's high schools that are part of our mini trucker moment. rachel: i wish we could have shown the picture of the kindergarteners and stacey abrams. will: still ahead, the ad nbc doesn't want you to see. >> entangled with communist dictators committing atrocities and propping up these genocide games. what can we do? >> stand for freedom. will: maria bartiromo tells us why companies would rather stand for china than for freedom, next. ♪ ♪ can't get you out of my head. ♪ boy, your loving is all i think about. ♪ i just can't get you out of my head. ♪ boy, it's more than i dare to think about ♪♪ go for a run. go for 10 runs! run a marathon. instead, start small. with nicorette. which can lead to something big.
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♪ rachel: we're back with your headlines. s a jury sentencing the gunman who took four lives at a nashville waffle house in 2018. he will spend the rest of his life behind bars without the possibility of parole. attorneys presenting to court with the insanity defense, but jurists didn't buy it. delta's sew owe -- ceo is urging a national no-fly list. he hopes that the move will prevent people from engaging in unruly behavior while onboard. delta has nearly 1900 people on its no-fly list. the company's also submitting 900 of those names for civil
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penalties to the tsa. a 6-year-old boy opening up about the moment he sang god's country on stage with none other than blake shelton. ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] rachel: wyatt mckee is waiting for a new heart, and he joined us alongside his mom to share. >> he's billion on the list for a little over a year now. he had two open heart surgeries when he was six months old and is five days old. it just warmed my heart just to see him up on stage and getting to do something that he really wanted to do. rachel: wyatt got shelton's attention after holding a sign up in the crowd. that was an adorable moment. and those are your headlines. pete, over to you. pete: thank you, rachel. republican congress juan michael waltz and nba star enes kanter
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freedom accusing nbc of refusing to air this ad that's critical of olympics. >> the world's greatest athletic showcase. just outside the show rape, genocide, slave labor. american companies are entangled with communist dictators and propping up these genocide games staged by the chinese commune ifest party. and what can we do? >> stand for freedom. defund the kick today to haves. -- dictators. when yo see made in china -- >> put it down. pete: "sunday morning futures" anchor maria bartiromo is here to react a. does it surprise you at all that nbc would not allow an ad like this? maria: unfortunately not, pete. good morning to you. this is all about money, you know that. i mean, these companies are making so much money on the expectation that they can sell their wing gents or whatever they want to sell to 1.4 billion anemia china. and if you say anything against the the commune chinese party,
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you will have repercussions, and you will get locked out of selling to those people. so it's all about money. but i think we also have to go one step further. companies are going to do whatever they can do under the law. so that raises the question where is congress and where is the president of the so-called free world, okay? we have not had one hearing in congress about the origins of covid-19. can anyone explain this to me? why it is that nancy pelosi has the nerve to come out with this warning for athletes, and yet she has refused to bring any hearings to the floor on the origins of covid covid-19, not to mention the surveillance from the ccp, not to mention the genocide from the ccp, not to mention the intellectual property theft. this has been going on and getting worse in the last several years and no hearings in congress? so, again, yes, companies are drunk on money, and they want to make sure that they have an in with the ccp, so they don't want
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to say anything bad. but it starts with washington and the law. the laws have not been changed. and, by the way, that china bill that was passed last week in the house? it evolved into a climate bill. what a surprise. so we're going to talk about that with gop leader kevin mccarthy, where does that bill stand? it's got to go through the senate right now, and we are expecting it to fail there. but also the bigger question, why haven't we seen any hearing, any pushback on the ccp until 224 of our athletes are already on the ground in communist china? pete: great point, maria. nbc spokesperson did put out a statement about it saying the ad was not rejected per nbc universal's longstanding guidelines, changes were requested so it could air. so they say, well, if you tweak it so we like it, then we'll air it. what a tough stance from the network broadcasting the olympics and devastatingly low ratings, i will note.
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people are waking up. maria: oh, for sure. that's what mike pompeo and and mike gallagher will address this morning because there's a real threat to america in these beijing olympics. pete: yes. maria: i doubt they're going to get anything sizable in terms of ratings, but that hasn't change changed their drunkenness on money and kissing up to the ccp. pete: absolutely. and being propagandists for them. maria bartiromo, we will see you in 13 minutes on this channel. hr. maria: all right, you got it. pete: up next, the iconic los angeles coliseum is now a racetrack. we've got a preview of nascar's busch light clash today on fox. ♪ ♪
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executive vice president and chief racing development officer steve o'donnell. steve, great to see you. i said a bunch of words nascar fans are all going to understand, i hope you have a picture. you're inside a football stadium, it's the coliseum, and you built a really small track, and anybody if's eyes can see it right there. help me understand -- what i'm fascinated is, first of all, tell take me new the day. qualifying races all leading up to a 6 p.m. eastern time 150-lap race. how does this work throughout the day? >> yeah. so we'll have 36 cars, 36 drivers out here, we'll have different heat races. we've got a concert, then we'll have a couple last chance races heading into our finale, we'll have some music in between and then 150-lap for all the mash if 8s -- marblings. and, will, i would say this is really what nascar's all about. we grew up and a lot of people grew up on the short tracks. we just chose to be out in l.a., an iconic facility, as you know.
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super bowls, olympics, place looks awesome, and we're ready to go. will: i believe is it 23 cars in the final race? if 23, 25, something like that? >> 23. will: and i are talking about this, 150 laps on a short track like that, that's got to go fairly quickly. >> it will. but we've worked with our television partners, fox has been terrific the whole time. we'll have a break. we've got a unique concert with a couple songs in between, almost our version of a halftime break. so we'll split it up a little bit, have some fun. we're doing things differently out here from an entertainment standpoint, but this is a huge market for us, our number one market in terms of nascar race fans and younger fans, so we wanted to mix it up and bring something different. will: yeah. sounds like a concert and a race all together in one. even though the final event is a quick race -- in nascar terms -- you've got these stages throughout the day. and you said it, the last chance
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heats as well. so i was taking that guys that don't make the 23 field in the initial qualifying, you have this final dash for the last couple cars to get into the premier race? >> exactly. we're going to be out here racing the for six hours with different variations and entertainment in between. and what's really unique about this event is you've got our best drivers in the world and, you know, 13 of them are going home. nobody wants to go home. somebody always wants to be the first winner, especially here at the coliseum. there's going to be a lot of beating and banging, i'm sure, great racing. but this our minds ask really the industry minds, this is already a huge success with the pro motion we've seen and just a a lot of fun. will we've yeah. it looks really cool, and you guys are doing some innovative things. we're going to be a traditional race, in day tone that this two weekes, why are you guys deciding to do so many new and is unique types of races? from this in l.a. to bringing back the dirt track races, you're clearly innovating,
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honestly, a very -- a sport that's been i don't want to say in a derogatory way, the same or conservative or built upon a certain idea. you're innovating. >> no, that's very fair, ask we had to leave some tracks that have been with us for a long time. but, you know, we wanted to try some new markets, and i think the key for us, will, is to keep those traditional race tracks with those really loyal fans and try some new ones as well. and this is a great example. we had more new tracks in our history last year, really successful, we're looking to do some more next year -- will: i got an idea for you. on the beach in daytona. i'll get credit, i get to wave a flag. you can have it on the beach -- >> grand marshal. will: all right. instead i'll see you in two weeks. >> sounds good. will: nascar's busch light clash at the coliseum begins at 5 p.m. eastern time on fox and don't miss "fox & friends" weekend
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>> clearwater beach florida and that's what we will leave you with this morning. >> that's where we want to be. >> have a great sunday, everybody. go to church? maria: good sunday morning. welcome to sunday morning futures. i'm maria bartiromo. ruthless and dangerous, house speaker nancy pelosi finally addresses the ccp's evil as the beijing olympics are underway, but despite no hearings on the origins of covid-19, going on two years now as 900,000 americans dead, pelosi sends a message it to the more than 200 athletes on the ground in communist china. >> i would say to our athletes, you are there to compete
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