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>> white bear lake, minnesota. 10 minutes from where i grew up. they've been in winter storage. they're pulling them out now and getting them ready. >> a little bit of the weekend on the weekday. >> have a wonderful day, everyone. >> bill: thank you, guys, 9:00 in new york. act of pure evil what shorts say about saturday's mass shooting at the grocery store in buffalo as we learn more about the killer and so many of his victims. good morning. tough day to start. tough way to start on a monday. bill hemmer, good morning. >> dana: good to be with you. i'm dana perino. "america's newsroom." police arrested an 18-year-old suspect in connection with the massacre and opened fire at a grocery score. he killed 10 people and
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wounding three others. >> bill: the suspect faced a judge saturday night. the "new york post" cover. eyes of a killer. >> dana: 10 families left to wonder how a teenager could be capable of such evil. >> he shot a woman, a deacon and then he went in the store and started shooting again. >> i think for somebody to do something like that, it's sick. there is no excuse for nothing like that. >> all of them were innocent and did not deserve to die this way. >> i usually come back. thank god i didn't come back. >> dana: we're live in buffalo with the latest this morning. good morning, alexis. >> good morning. horrific day here in buffalo, new york and what a tragic weekend it was. a beautiful saturday afternoon. people in the grocery store in the east area of the city just doing some shopping on the
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weekend when this massacre happened. this morning the tops grocery store is still covered in crime scene tape, active and ongoing investigation by federal, local and state authorities still ongoing. investigators say they found out according to the manifesto that the suspect posted online he wanted to shoot people inside a store but continue to rampage across buffalo if he was able to get out of that grocery store. this morning we're learning more about the people who lost their lives. of the 13 people who were shot, 11 of those people were black community members. look at your screen. the photos we just got in overnight and working to get more information about these peoples and families impacted by the tragedy. they range from 32 to 86 years old out on a saturday afternoon at their local store. now taken away in a senseless shooting. one of the victims is being hailed a hero. retired buffalo police officer who was working security at the grocery store. he was killed while trying to stop this teen gunman.
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also 67-year-old deacon patterson was killed. loading groceries into the parking lot when he was gunned down. he would often drive people to and from the grocery store just to help out. >> he was a man who loved people. he was -- he loved the community and the church and the community just as much as he loved the church. you would see him anywhere he was encouraging people to be the best they can be. >> sources are telling us that this was all planned out. this was a racially-motivated attack. the 18-year-old suspect drove 3 1/2 hours to get to the grocery store. he did research trying to figure out where the largest black population was in buffalo and found it here on the east side and went right into the tops grocery store. first shooting people in the parking lot and continuing inside. he was in town for at least 24
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hours casing it and inside the store. look at your screen some video also from over the weekend of that crime scene. officers say he was dressed with an assault rifle and dressed in tactical gear from head-to-toe and used a helmet camera following a plan he detailed in a document he posted online. he will be back in court on thursday. president joe biden and jill biden and chuck schumer will be in buffalo tomorrow. there is so much that this community has been through and people are saying it's the healing process. so fresh how can you start healing at this point? >> dana: thank you, bill, he will be back in court on thursday. "wall street journal" had this to say. no doubt a racist sub culture exists in america and spread on social media. such notions as white replacement theory about mass shooters have had many
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motivation and mental illness is the most common denominator. different opinions on that for people that study this issue in terms of what makes them take that action. >> bill: with regard to the mental illness 11 months ago he was questioned for a day and a half in his hometown of conklin, new york by police looking at his mental condition. he check out at that pointless than a year ago. the retired cop returned fire inside the grocery store. his bullets were bouncing off the kevlar the gunman carried inside the grocery store. he was killed. the president goes there on tuesday, tomorrow. this in california. one person is dead, four others critically injured after a man allegedly opened fire inside a church. orange county sheriff's department said there were a few casualties because the parishioners like the retired cop in buffalo confronted the shooter there. >> we believe a group of
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churchgoers detained him and hogtied his legs with an extension cord and confiscated two weapons from him. they were heroes in intervening to stop the suspect. they prevented additional injuries and fatalities. >> bill: officials arrested the suspect, 60-year-old man. no discernible ties to that community. they recovered a gun at the scene and police have yet to determine a motive in that situation in california. >> dana: late breaking developments in the pennsylvania senate primary. john federman is recovering after suffering a stroke on the campaign trail. we're on the campaign trail with alex this morning. >> hi. we're great out here today. a lot of these plot twists have come from the republican side of the primary race until yesterday when john federman and his wife released this. >> it was on friday.
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i just wasn't feeling very well so i decided i need to get checked out. i went to the hospital. >> i was right as always. >> after taking that wise advice and heading to the hospital the candidate and current lieutenant governor had a stroke. his doctors removed a clot and suffered no cognitive damage and resting at the hospital for now. he held a strong lead over conor lamb and other candidate. the question among republicans still remains who is best equipped to face off likely against federman in the general? dr. oz and david mccormick and barnette are locked in a three way tie. >> he wrote himself oz will beat federman and win the race in november. let's get the right candidate in place so we don't lose a senate seat in pennsylvania.
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>> the highest profile race, a lot of money and we want to find someone in our nominee who can win this general election. >> the race as turned on its head and barnette has increased. >> i can't provide a lot of context. it is almost 10 years ago that's how far they have to go back to try to find anything on me. >> we are expecting some severe wets in the area today. the final push to get the undecided voters. >> dana: you've been following this race closely. you know it very well. tomorrow we'll see you on the board. >> bill: we -- it will be a close one. our fox polling in ohio came very well in the final numbers
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there, too. we've been polling in pennsylvania also. last week put out the numbers, mccormick 20, barnette 19, oz 22 and the undecided was significant, 18%. it was higher than that in ohio. on the democratic side it looks like john federman will in all likelihood defeat conor lamb depending on the polling we suggest right now. >> dana: it will be a close race in the fall in the general election. >> bill: former president made an endorsement for the governor side over the weekend. a lot of drama to be had tomorrow. >> dana: the commonwealth of pennsylvania. >> bill: you can test me. >> dana: i love that. >> bill: there is this. >> senior leadership on the f.b.i. under james comey and in the obama administration was willing to use false information as a pretext to target the nominee of one of our major political parties.
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one of the biggest scandals in american political history. >> bill: today is the day the year's long investigation into the origins of the russia probe finally before the judge. we'll take you inside the trial that could expose efforts to smear donald trump in the election of 2016. in the ultimate question for andy mccarthy, could the clinton campaign be the culprit? >> dana: also u.s. economy another self-inflicted wound by biden. billionaire jeff bezos is ripping his response to inflation. >> bill: days are numbered for one trump era border policy expiring a week from today. critics fear its end will put us all in jeopardy. you're probably thinking that these two are in some sort of lover's quarrel. no, no, no. they're both invested... in green energy. and also each other. digital tools so impressive, you just can't stop. what would you like the power to do?
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>> bill: on that baby formula
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shortage, many are saying it could have been avoided. scott gottlieb said the issues were flagged years ago and action was not taken then. >> fda didn't exert all the oversight they could have at that facility. they had a 34 page whistleblower in hand and information withheld from inspectors. these should have prompted more aggressive action earlier. >> that did not happen. biden administration puts the blame on the abbott plant in michigan. buttigieg says it's the plant job to maintain supply levels. a lot of finger pointing in different areas. >> dana: i was really surprised this is what he said in a question what they could have done. watch here. >> president biden: if we had been better mind readers i guess we could have. we moved as quickly as the problem became apparent to us.
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>> dana: fda didn't have any mind readers. if you make a plant shut down you should have a consideration that what can we do, import european formula? they have a suggestion the european baby formula will hurt your child. they aren't hurting european children. >> bill: gottlieb's credibility went high through covid. when he said it should have been taken care of years ago. you have issues in michigan in january and february. figure it out. it's almost june. >> dana: abbott factory says they can get going. when they get the approval to go ahead another 6 to 8 weeks to get stuff on the shelves. the angst for parents everywhere is real. the president will go to buffalo and asia on friday. this crisis will follow him wherever he goes this week and
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beyond unfortunately. also jury selection is underway in the criminal case against michael sussman. the first major test for special counsel john durham looking into the ties between the trump campaign and russia. david spunt knows the case inside and out. good morning, david. >> big today, a big couple weeks. the first trial of the durham probe. that is significant because the durham probe into the russia investigation began three years ago this month in may of 2019. to bring everyone up to speed, before he took the oath of office, donald trump insisted there was an effort to ruin his presidency saying he was in cahoots with the kremlin and he always denied it. sussman is charged with one count of making a false statement to the f.b.i. that's him a little while ago.
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sussman two months before the 2016 election called james baker, the lead attorney at the f.b.i. sussman told baker he had information that linked the trump campaign to russia. sussman claimed he had some information that a computer server in trump tower was communicating with a russian bank. he told baker he wanted to bring this information not on behalf of a specific client but on behalf of a concerned citizen. john durham the special counsel claims sussman build the hillary clinton campaign after that meengt. the jury will look at whether sussman lied or whether the information was relevant to how f.b.i. agents handled their investigation. his team will say even if he lie did it change the investigation? the information turned out to be false and trump won the election. in three years durham has charged three people. one person pleaded guilty to changing a government record. another will go on trial in the fall for his alleged contributions to the steele dossier, we'll stay tuned to that in a few months. as far as michael sussman is
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concerned this is about opposition research. some people may say dirty politics. the question, is it illegal is what a jury will decide and this trial is expected to last two weeks. >> dana: we're glad you are guide. >> bill: let's break it down with andy mccarthy, former assistant federal attorney. john durham wants to prove that sussman lied. is that easy or is that difficult? >> that's straight forward, bill. as david spunt just explained that's wrong no matter what happens. you can't lie to the f.b.i. about something that is material to an investigation. the issue here is the context of the lie and how much of that context will durham be allowed to prove by the court here. the context here is what david just described as this big political dirty trick. the idea that the hillary
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clinton campaign concocted this trump/russia political scenario, peddled it to the media, tried to get the f.b.i. enticed into investigating it and obviously wanted to go to the public with the idea that the allegations were so serious that the government was investigating them. so that's the context. but durham hasn't charged a big conspiracy to defraud the government. he charged a very narrow false statement. how much do you allow him to prove about the scheme in order to establish he lied to the f.b.i. about whether he was representing -- >> bill: the question would be how much evidence will the judge allow durham to present in court? >> that's right. >> bill: which may or may not take you to the clinton connection, correct? >> i think the clinton connection is unavoidable. what the judge seems to be saying at the moment at least is that to the extent that sussman directly participated in meetings with other people who were connected to the
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clinton campaign or actively did things himself durham will get leeway to prove that. but he has already kept out things like tweets that hillary clinton and her campaign put out weeks after the meeting with the f.b.i. between sussman and the f.b.i. saying that he is not directly involved in it. how much of a direct participant was sussman in this scheme. >> bill: that's the judge. here are the deciders. you write the biggest challenge may be the jury in trump hostile washington durham may be the government's lawyer but it won't be a home game for him. explain. >> the d.c. jury is very difficult for trump people. i think it's difficult for republicans in general. durham's the government's lawyer. usually the government's lawyer in washington is a home game. it's the government's town.
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but here this is obviously a conspiracy that is directed against trump and there is a lot of people in washington who were quite inclined to believe that trump was a russian operative. so jury selection will be very important and he is going to have a tough time getting over the hump with the jury here even if the evidence is strong. >> bill: we'll use you to get us through it. andy mccarthy from chicago today. thank you for the explanation. >> dana: new details about the 10 victims in the horrific massacre at a buffalo new york supermarket over the weekend. the white house struggling to address runaway inflation, sky high gas prices and widespread shortages. is there time to right the ship ahead of the mid-terms? >> it is a complete disaster as the presidency so far. he is being hammered on the economy and inflation and he seems deluded saying my policies are helping the economy. they're not helping the economy. they are clearly making things worse.
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>> dana: we're learning more about the 10 people killed in saturday's mass shooting at a buffalo grocery store. among the victims is pearl young. she is being remembered as a very loving grandmother and woman of faith. she dedicated her life to helping others running a food pantry for 25 years. her sister-in-law just dropped her off at the grocery store. she was 77 years old. >> in the meantime 9:30 in new york and voters dinging president biden. higher prices at the gas pump and grocery stores. only 39% approve. 56% disapprove. charlie is with us on the monday morning fox business. same poll, nbc, 75% say the country is on the wrong track. "new york post" headline inflation proves biden has done
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everything wrong. is that my story? let me check the by line. >> we're all in the same boat here. if you listen to his speech on tuesday about inflation you know why his numbers are so bad. it was meandering, nasty, divisive. talking about maga republicans. like people really care about maga republicans at this point when they pay for gas. electric vehicles, windmills and renewable energy. he talked around it so much. he was nasty about it. if you questioned him he got in your face and so i think the president on the economy is in huge trouble. it is always the economy that matters in all these elections. the number one issue. we're not obsessing about covid it is the economy. we're not obsessing about covid now. inflation is a tax on working class americans, okay, no matter -- rich people can get around it to a certain extent.
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their incomes go up and speculate in the stock market and even they are getting hit right now. poor, middle class and working people get screwed on this. if the democrats win in -- keep the house and senate in november, it will be divine intervention. there is no precedent for this. >> dana: what do you hear what's going on inside the administration? they can't give him better things to say? he has lots of advisors. it seems like they can't land on anything that gives people confidence. >> i have asked that to wall street ceos who have direct access to him. they tell me it's a mess. the trump administration was kind of a mess in a different way. donald trump is a very sort of -- he says what first comes to his mind and it was hard putting the genie back in the
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bottle. his economic policies were standard and people carrying them out were standard. you knew where they were going and it worked to a large extent. some didn't. but largely it worked because you had the standard. as much as donald could be off the cuff and crazy on twitter his economic policies were standard. in the biden administration no one knows who is calling the shots and it is very chaotic. i don't know ron klain very well. people say he is very smart. i don't know brian deese very well but he worked at black rock and say he is smart and head of the national economic advisors. i think it's biden running the show and he is not very smart when it comes to the economy. i think he is overruling them and he is being pushed by this notion in my view that he is a more transformational president or wants to be a more
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transformational president than obama on progressive issues. if you were using your xhom sense when he first became president you would not spend anymore money. you would embrace the vaccines which worked okay and we were coming out of the pandemic. you would do stuff around the margins for the economy to please your base but you wouldn't go whole hog into spending all this money that even larry summers knew was about to blow up. they went whole hog before that. >> bill: i filled up at $5.09 a gallon. biden is contemplating a trip to saudi arabia to produce more oil. midland texas is closer. it is common sense, charlie. i don't know what you thought about jeff bezos. he doesn't dab in politics, does he? the tweet that came out. you want to bring down
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inflation? make sure the most wealthy corporations pay their fair share from biden. bezos on friday. the newly created disinformation board should review this tweet or maybe form a none sector board instead. raising corporate taxes is good to discuss. mushing them together is misdirection. >> echoes what elon musk said about how far the democratic party has gone to the left. also it does go back to what i said earlier. this is a very economically incompetent president who doesn't understand basic supply and demand issues or else he wouldn't be saying stuff like that. i guess if you raise the corporate taxes to 100%, you might slow down the economy because people will get laid off and inflation might go down. that's a possibility. >> dana: right. >> but it's the weirdest way to go at it. i think that's the problem with
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president biden. i just can't imagine, just so you know, i can't imagine even janet yellen is telling him to say that. >> dana: that's what was on my mind. i think it goes to the top. the commander-in-chief where the buck stops. >> he wanted to get out of afghanistan no matter what. his generals say don't do it like this. he still did it. there is no solution to the border. we want to get rid of inflation but one way to do it is start drilling. no, i can't do that. he will always say there is no permits. another ridiculous -- some of the stuff he says is so easy to fact check it is almost phenomenal. there is no -- there are licenses. >> bill: i'm telling you this is common sense. a year and a half ago it was a buck 98. everybody is seeing this. we have to go. >> i get that. what i'm saying these are the easiest verifiable facts.
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you have a listens, you don't have a permit to use the license. think about that. it's so stupid that he says that stuff. >> bill: charlie. >> we could go on and on. >> dana: a federal judge going to be ruling on title 42. it allows agents to send asylum seekers back to mexico. we're capturing new videos daily of large groups of migrants crossing into the u.s. i think i had to do a double take this morning. this deadline is a week away, bill. >> good morning to you. it is. eagle pass has become the epicenter of the border crisis as the illegal crossings are non-stop and overwhelming for border patrol. the case this morning as well. look at the video we shot an hour ago where we're standing. this is a sizeable group of several dozen migrants crossing
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illegally in eagle pass, texas. they walk into this private property and this is now the sixth day in a row we've seen a sizeable group like this crossing in this particular spot. this group isn't as big as the ones we saw over the weekend. look at this video we shot same spot yesterday. this was a much bigger group as a border patrol boat can watch helplessly in the water as a group of 150 cross in front of them. what we've been seeing at the spot here columbians venezuela answer and cubans and more than 2,000 illegal crossing. one tiny spot of the border and why border patrol is overwhelmed in this location. since october there are more than 100 large groups crossing in del rio sector. look at the video we shot over the weekend. a group of illegal immigrants climbing over a fence here on
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this private property despite barbed wire. they decide to hop it in front of the national guard and right in front of border patrol. there has been razor wire deployed along the river. they can't find where to enter the property so they start climbing the fence. something we saw over the weekend. look at this last piece of video here. this is a new tent city compound that border patrol has started building in eagle pass in anticipation of that surge with title 42. you can see the size of it already with border patrol sources telling us they're asking agents, they're pulling manpower from different sectors and stations across the sector to staff this facility and they have concerns about that given that there is an expected surge with title 42 expected to drop next week. we'll send it back to you guys. >> dana: bill melugin at the border. >> bill: you have a wake-up call at netflix after bosses issued a culture memo to the
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because for him, protecting the second amendment is everything. eric early. too extreme, too conservative for california. >> dana: a health scare for von holl en. he suffered a minor stroke while giving a speech. he immediately sought treatment and admitted to george washington university hospital where he remains under observation. doctors don't believe he will have long term damage and expects to return to work later this week. >> bill: word that sweden will follow finland into nato. vladimir putin earlier today says this is a problem. meanwhile the group of soldiers still holding out in the pee sieged steel mill in mariupol in the south of ukraine. ukraine also says its forces have pushed back russian troops around kharkiv which is in the east. matt finn live in lviv to begin another week from his post
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there. >> hi, bill. russia is still launching missiles all over this country including right where we're standing in the lviv region. yesterday multiple missiles destroyed a military target here. no deaths to report there. to the east on the front lines ukraine is taking back territory from russia near ukraine's second largest city of kharkiv. they say ukraine can win the war. it is not going as moscow planned. russia is losing manpower and failing to achieve strategic objectives like dividing nato. more countries have announced they'll join nato. ukraine president zelenskyy. >> the occupiers still do not want to admit that they are at a dead end and that their so-called special operation has already failed. but the time will surely come when the ukrainian people force the invaders to recognize reality. >> finland and sweden are moving ahead with applying for
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nato membership. russian officials have warned russia might have no choice but to deploy tactical nuclear weapons along russia's border with finland. in mariupol considered one of ukraine's most flourishing cities now nearly leveled to ruins we've shown you satellite images show mass graves and more pictures supporting evidence of mass buher yals. mariupol's mayor posted a video condemning russian state media saying they aren't any graves. the ukraine mayor says when russian state tv airs the websites they are confirming what they are trying to hide. we spoke with the mayor there. he said living there right now is similar to a concentration camp. his words. he said ukrainians are being forced to work for food and he claims that some ukrainians were forced to dig some of those mass graves. >> bill: matt finn thank you live in lviv today on this monday. >> dana: let's bring in general jack keane for analysis on this.
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i saw the institute for the study of war quoted everywhere this weekend and one of the things that people are really curious about for your analysis is what does it mean for a military like russia to lose a third of its troops in this 76 days that we're at or 80 days into this war? how debilitating is that for russia? can they keep this pace up? >> well, it is certainly very debilitating. those kind of casualty rates we haven't seen on a scale like this since world war ii. so it is very impactful what is taking place. certainly where we are is the battle for kharkiv, which is the second largest city in ukraine and close to the russian border is over. and ukraine has won that battle much like they did for the capital city kyiv. the russians have withdrawn their artillery and pushing back towards their border. in the donbas region, their primary offensive the russians
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are conducting they've made some success in the luhansk republic but stopped cold in the -- they have to make success in that region and doesn't seem like it will happen. it's likely the second offensive will not accomplish its objectives. and that leaves in time the issue is can the ukrainians, then, if they can stop the russians, can they mount a counter offensive to drive the russians off their territory. that is a big issue. certainly all the saention and ammunitions and like have to hold here. what putin wants is to drag it out. develop ukraine fatigue so the support of weapons and sanctions wanes over time and
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he believes time is on his hands. so in front of us in the weeks to come will be the issue. can the ukrainians develop a counter offensive. >> dana: in the meantime you have big news out of sweden and finland who are going to apply to join nato. looks like that will be easy for them to do given they meet the requirements. how big a deal is that? just in context russia has always said it would be a problem for them if this happened. now the finland prime minister says basically russia is the one who pushed us into this anyway. >> this is really quite staggering. what a strategic failure for russia. one of the objectives they had in the invasion in ukraine was make certain nato was contained and also weaken it because it wouldn't have the resolve to respond effectively. look what's happened? nato is expanding with finland
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and sweden. overwhelming population polls in the countries are supporting joining nato. in finland, the vote prior to the invasion was in the low 20s. now in the mid 80s in terms of joining nato. obviously we've all seen it, nato is strengthened as a result of it, not just expanding and russia has 40,000 u.s. nato troops in eastern europe in nato countries that were not there prior to the invasion. so yes, a major turnaround for nato for sure. >> dana: thank you for kicking us off on a monday as we watch this war and see what the ukrainians are able to do and our congress if they pass additional aid. thank you, sir. >> bill: shocking new details about the man accused of killing 10, injuring three others at a buffalo grocery store this weekend. there were a lot of clues before this massacre. we'll ask the civil rights attorney leo terrell on that. netflix is cutting the cord on cancel culture telling
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>> bill: netflix is not letting cancel culture influence its content. they issued a memo the end of last week telling employees offended by the platform's content you are free to leave. jimmy failla fox radio here and many other places. hello, jimmie. so is this the death of cancel culture? how do you see it? >> i think it is for two reasons. one, this is netflix reading the tea leaves. the point is, they know there is a massive sea change underway right now. society has overwhelmingly rejected woke pandering content. they don't want it.
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if you notice nobody applauded disney when they tried to watch the kids watch peter pan sexual or any of the netflix grievance programming. subscriber drop. they know it's impossible to run a company this way. when you are totally beholding to the grievance movement within your company which is always a tyranny of the minority and realize they spend a lot more time addressing internal political grievance than focusing on content. they are right. when they say if this isn't the content for you. one note i would give everybody offended by content. it is on demand. in order for you to be offended by this you have to go out and demand to be offended. it is not just there. you aren't randomly coming across it. you are saying i demand this. then it comes on and they are the bad guy? you demanded it. >> dana: they wouldn't do it if it was bnt the bottom line. there is something about the financial angle for people who are sick of woke culture
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nonsense that might be the best signal, the price signal. >> people are done with it. we saw the stock price plummet. >> dana: they have to get rid of a lot of people anyway. >> we're sick of people being offended. we want to be happy. we were locked up for two years. i can't wait for the guy who will get offended shows up. that guy doesn't get invited to parties. we're done with these people. >> bill: you wonder if the disney decision in florida was the canary in the coal mine. they said this. elon musk said the woke virus is making netflix unwatchable. can they please make sci-fi fantasy mostly about sci-fi fantasy? >> it's true. no one is having more fun than
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elon musk right now. he is having the greatest time. he gets it. read the room. the room has spoken, man, we're done being angry. there is a sea change in society. for the first time ever. you see gutfield. society wants to be on the fun side not on the angry we're having a protest size. they are losing their minds. >> dana: goldman sachs will allow senior staff to have unlimited vacation. when you do that for people that work at that level they don't take all that vacation. >> they feel like competitive pressure to not be off because other people stay at work. if people start to honor this it's devastating news for cocaine dealers. we know what goes on downtown. it's definitely groundbreaking. >> dana: i don't know. >> you are better off not knowing. it's true. there is a burn-out factor here. there is a law of diminishing returns. the brain is like the arms.
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major league pitchers have pitch count. if you use it too much you start throwing the ball like fauci at a nets game. >> dana: now this. >> the individuals brought in for mental health evaluation. he was evaluated and released. when we say on the radar, there was nothing picked up on the state police intelligence, nothing that was picked up on the f.b.i. intelligence. nobody called in, nobody called any complaints. >> dana: teenager accused of opening fire in a masker -- massacre. it was a rampage fueled by hate targeting innocent people for the color of their skin. i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. welcome back. we're learning more about the suspect in saturday's mass shooting along with his
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motivation. he posted a lengthy manifesto online inspired by racist conspiracy theories found in fringe areas of the internet. authorities saying the white 18-year-old was held at a hospital for a mental health evaluation less than a year ago after making a violent threat last year at his high school. but he was released and never charged with a crime. >> dana: full fox coverage ahead. leo terrell. >> the initial threat at the high school wasn't even a year ago, 11 months ago. state police say he was given a mental health evaluation and counseling but was released and not charged with a crime. here is what we know about the suspect. police say he lived in conklin, new york with his parents that you see here, a 3 1/2 hour drive from buffalo. based on the manifesto posted online he chose that specific top supermarket because the community is 80% black. the manifesto is full of racial hatred and cites the great
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replacement conspiracy theory. kathy hochul is calling out social media. listen to this. >> this manifesto tells everything to us and what's so bone chilling about it. there is the ability for people to write and subscribe to such philosophy filled with hate. and to know what this one individual did has been shared with the rest of the world. >> the suspect also states he was radicalized online and not by the people in his life. his parents reportedly work for the new york department of transportation. the parents are devastated but cooperating with the investigation. also in the manifesto which was posted before the attack, the suspect states he intends to plead guilty if he survives which, of course, is not what happened. the 18-year-old pleaded not guilty and will appear in court next on thursday facing life in prison without the possibility of parole. send it back to you. >> bill: we're learning more
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details today about some of the victims murdered saturday in buffalo. 86-year-old ruth whittfield was picking up groceries after visiting her husband at a nursing home as she did every day for the past eight years to make sure he was well cared for. she was the mother of retired buffalo fire commissioner. 77-year-old pearl young was a substitute teacher in buffalo public schools and sunday school teacher as well. she also worked in a local soup kitchen helping to feed people. she leaves behind three children. pearl young 77. >> dana: the anguish that those families and that community is feeling today and we feel for you, pray for you as you try to process this, which is extremely difficult to do. but to help us join us for more on it is civil rights attorney leo terrell. great to have you this morning, leo. this is considered a hate crime. he wrote a manifesto that was
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similar to ones we've seen before in new zealand and south carolina. tell me about what you think this community is going through today as they processed what happened to them on saturday. >> i think the community as a whole feels attacked because it was motivated by race. that's undisputed. he hated black people. he wanted to go after black americans and unfortunately he was successful. the pain of that resonates with the entire country. and yet what we have to realize is this type of hate exists on both sides and the application of justice has to be applied equally and fairly. this person will be arrested, he is arrested, charged, he will be charged in new york. they don't have the death penalty. if the federal government takes action on this it will be a hate crime with the possibility of a death penalty. the hardest thing to do is take a prior threat which this
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person had initiated without consequences and then to conclude that a subsequent act of violence with consequences will take place. that's the great mystery. no lead to indicate this would happen. >> bill: we've got that, leo. but you also have the reality he was evaluated for a day and a half less than a year ago. i don't know what kind of friends or family he had. here is the question from a reporter to the f.b.i. agent from this weekend. watch. >> this individual was not on the radar of the f.b.i. and to my knowledge he was not on the radar beyond the incident with the state police. >> bill: where does that leave you? >> exactly where it leaves me. mental health evaluations are done all the time.
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in this particular case, it's important for the viewers to know this matter was never taken to a court and a judicial decision was determined whether or not this person was a viable threat and needed mental assistance. if that was done, he would have never been able to purchase a gun but that judicial he having a waition was not done and for whatever reason we don't know. i will submit to you the following. i find it impossible for his immediate family, friends, not to know what was going on in this man's life day-to-day. i find that impossible. and i think there are a lot of people in mental health issues what i've experienced family members are in denial and they don't want to acknowledge that something is wrong with their son or daughter. and that's the problem. the immediate family and close friends. >> dana: why would somebody like this who has written a manifesto and there and taken into custody, why do people like him plead not guilty?
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>> i'll tell you right now immediately he said prior he was going to plead guilty. remember, he will get counsel, legal advice. the beauty of this system, the american system, he is entitled to a defense. i'm sure he is surrounded by a set of attorneys. i'm sure the mental health issue, dana, is going to be raised. as to the charges that will be filed against him, his attorneys are going to challenge whether or not the evidence meets those charges. this is part of our legal system. everyone is entitled to due process. >> bill: one thing from the "washington post", 3 and 4, guys, printed this morning. hate is not at the root of most mass shootings. here is one of the lines. if they fail to achieve their destiny, reach a crisis point, when they no longer feel connected to the people and places around them it becomes a suicidal crisis except the thought of merely taking their
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own lives leaves them unfulfilled. as the sister of one perpetrator told us her brother went from asking what's wrong with me to asking what's wrong with them? that's internal, that's mental health. there is a lot in that right there, leo. >> and that's a cry for help, bill. that is an exact point what i'm referring to. his sister said. my point is families know that there is a loved one inside their household that needs help. the hardest thing for family members to do is to turn their child, their daughter or son into or request for mental health issues. that is very hard. that's why these things happen. this was a total surprise to the city of buffalo. it was a total surprise, i'm sure, to a lot of people. but the family, we need to know more about that, bill. not only in this case but other cases. >>
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>> dana: as we think about all those people in buffalo who are grieving. >> bill: millions of americans facing inflation. the markets are sliding. gas prices record highs. the border and drug influx at crisis levels. how is the white house dealing with all of this? mark meredith north lawn to begin a new week on monday with answers. good morning. >> the white house is starting off a new week rising prices on just about everything and americans are speaking out saying they're worried about where the u.s. economy is heading. gas prices stand, new record over the weekend, $4.48 for a gallon of gas. compare that to a year ago at 3.04. john thune says he believes the white house may be trying to embrace some of the higher gas prices. >> this is an administration that is bent on an ideological agenda and they seem intent on
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pursuing it no matter what the consequences. gas price is a good example. why shut down energy production in this country unless your goal is to get everybody into electric vehicles? >> a poll over the weekend showing what issues matter to most american. the top two issues, cost of living and jobs and the economy. president biden says he has a solution. he tweeted about this over the weekend. let's make sure the wealthiest corporations pay their fair share. even some democrats think this problem rests with d.c. >> what i think that washington could focus on is fiscal responsibility, monetary policy, in addition to that i would like to see them drop some of the tariffs which add an additional inflation pressure for consumer products across the country. >> looking to see if the president has anything new to say about the economy this afternoon. reporters will go into the oval office when the president welcomes the prime minister of the republican of greece. no economic events on his
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schedule today. >> dana: not stopping elon musk from dishing out criticism about the twitter platform. >> bill: less than 24 hours ago for pennsylvania the republican primary coming down to the wire. why this race is turning out to be so unpredictable. >> been a long time since we've seen a primary where all three of the top people have been so badly battered. i think it is very, very much up in the air. i will watch pennsylvania tomorrow night with real fascination. see him? he's not checkin' the stats. he's finding some investment ideas with merrill. eyes on the ball baby. digital tools so impressive, you just can't stop. what would you like the power to do?
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>> >> bill: she said to kill a mockingbird. riding in texas reading any
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book i choose. no banning of books or thought ever. that tweet comes amid a crime surge on saturday night a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed in millennium park. twitter users urging when her to focus on chicago's crime rate instead. >> three mass shootings in the week lori lightfoot has been enjoying the barbecue in texas. she has never learned how to deal with the situations on our streets. >> dana: interesting how many of these leaders of a big city like chicago just want to play on the national political stage and seem to ignore the things happening at home. >> bill: it's true when you consider it's may 16th and coming into the hot months of chicago and history shows us that that's when a lot more of these shootings take place and a lot more people die. >> dana: 43% increase of
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latinos in pennsylvania from four years ago. bryan llenas is live in allentown, pennsylvania with the details. >> good morning. it's extraordinary when you think about allentown the third largest city in the commonwealth of pennsylvania and now majority latino. look at this map. it will show you about half of the one million hispanics that live in pennsylvania live along route 222. it is called the 222 latino corridor emerged as an increasingly important voting block similar to the i-4 corridor in florida. republicans know this and opened a hispanic community center? allentown and knocking on doors. the city has a largely puerto rican population who historically have voted for democrats. >> safety, security, jobs, education. that's the biggest issues. i have knocked on doors and i'm
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the first candidate they've ever met, even our white voters in places like center city allentown have said i haven't seen a candidate for 23 years. >> republicans are working on appealing to evangelical christian latinos talking in english and spanish. a long shot conservative visited a church yesterday. >> the love of god, love of country, love of strong families, love of our small businesses, love of our constitution and the hispanic community has shared valued with us. >> politicians will tell you the problem is historically low latino voter turnout. community leaders say the problem is lack of community investment by both parties. martinez owns the largest spanish radio station in the state. >> i will say both parties have
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done a horrible job. democrats and republicans. don't take us for granted. don't take us for granted. and that's, i believe, a problem for the democratic party not only in pennsylvania but other states. >> april poll found that president biden had an a very low 26% approval rate. historic low among latino voters. democratic national committee last week launched a seven figure national ad campaign to try to tout the president's successes. >> dana: thank for being there. greg gutfeld used to live in allentown. >> real issues and that's the reason why i'm surging and doing so well is because throughout this entire time i've kept the main thing the main thing and that's pennsylvania. >> bill: that is republican senate candidate kathy barnette on what she believes is driving
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her recent surge. three-way race, 24 hours until the polls open on primary day. barnette battling the frontrunners oz and mccormick for the republican nomination. david mccormick joins us now. thank you for coming back here. i want you to respond to barnette but this is what she says as to why you and oz are upset with her, watch. >> we spent less than $2 million and they are mad. they are mad because i didn't ask for permission to be in that space. i just walked in because this is my country and our country is in trouble. i don't believe we have any more room to elect warm bodies with an r next to their name and say hey, check republicans win. >> bill: that was from sunday. how do you respond to that on monday in what turns out to be a pretty good race right now in pennsylvania? >> well good morning. thanks so much for having me.
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kathy is right that voters are really focused right now on this race. they are angry, they feel like their country is going in a terrible direction and realize the stakes in this race are very high. so they're engaged. there is 20% of the population, voting population that is undecided. and they are asking themselves three questions. who shares my conservative values? what can win the general election? it will be the super bowl. chuck schumer will throw everything he can at this race. it will likely determine whether the republicans or democrats have the majority in the senate. and then who can show up on day one in the senate and deal with the crises we're suffering in america, inflation, energy crisis, ukraine, china, you name it. and so i'm making my way across the state in my pickup truck making that case that i'm uniquely aligned on conservative values, able to win the general election and show up on day one, a combat veteran and job creator and
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knows what to do to get our country back. it's why the voters are engaged in pennsylvania and the nation is so focused on pennsylvania. this race matters. >> dana: listen to one of these voters, rich. saying he is undecided. watch. >> three great candidates and i really supported the president. president trump. i would love to see his agenda go forward but in all honesty dave mccormick and kathy are great candidates, they bring a lot to the table. they support the america first agenda. so it's a real conundrum for me. >> dana: what is your closing argument to somebody like rich? >> my closing argument is the stakes couldn't be higher. so i'm aligned with american first policies and america first from the time i was 18 when i volunteered to go to the military and go to west point. i can win the general election. this is going to be so high profile. we need a proven leader.
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marshall the resources and take it to the democratic agenda here which is extreme and taking us over the cliff. when i show up in the senate i have experience where i can be high impact on day one and trying to create that contrast in how i talk to the voters. i think it's different than any of the other candidates that are my opposition in terms of my ability to do all three of those things. >> dana: all right. >> i think pennsylvanians when i meet them are resonating with those messages. >> dana: don't you'll be with your high school wrestling coach. you have a final rally there. the other candidates will be around pennsylvania as well. you came back to pennsylvania, dedicated yourself to running this race, you've been there for several months and traveling all around. no matter what happens tomorrow, do you plan to spend more time, more full-time in pennsylvania going forward? >> i've spent the majority of my life in pennsylvania, have a family farm we've had for
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decades. i owned it for more than a decade. pennsylvania is my home. i've always even when i left pennsylvania for other jobs have always stayed very closely connected to pennsylvania. and i plan to live in pennsylvania win or lose this election but i plan to win. >> dana: i was going to use a sports metaphor, oz is at one level, barnette is there. what is your game plan in order to shoot the gap if i have my sports metaphor correct? >> my game plan is a continuation of what it has been. i think the good news now is the voters are very focused and i think the more focused they get, the more appealing my candidacy is having and why we feel great momentum and i think we'll see that over the next day and tomorrow in the polls. >> dana: we'll be paying attention. >> yeah, very good. let me finish if i could by saying for those of your voters -- pennsylvania voters who are
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watching i'm asking for their vote. the stakes are so high and it would be a real privilege to serve on behalf of the great commonwealth of pennsylvania in the united states senate. thank you for having me. >> bill: could be a tight night. it will be interesting. good luck, thank you for your time. >> great, see you soon. >> a group of church goers were heroes and bravery. they prevented additional injuries and fatalities. >> dana: worshippers credited with stopping the gunman who opened fire inside a california church killing one person and injuring others. biden placing blame. how it will impact democrats in the mid-term. mike gallagher, republican congressman from wisconsin, joins us next.
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>> i think the community as a whole feels attacked because it was motivated by race, that's
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undisputed. he hated black people and wanted to go after black americans and unfortunately he was successful. what we have to realize is this type of hate exists on both sides and the application of justice has to be applied equally and fairly. >> dana: f.b.i. is investigating saturday's mass shooting in buffalo, new york as a federal hate crime. a gunman shot and killed 10 people in a groshy stror in a predominantly black neighborhood. police arrested an 18-year-old suspect at the scene saying he had more weapons and ammunition in his car and planned to shoot more people in the surrounding area. >> bill: tragedy did not end there. this weekend saw a second mass shooting. this one in southern california. a gunman opening fire at a church lunch killing one person and wounding five others. members of that congregation took down the shooter tying him
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up with an extension cord. jonathan hunt is live in laguna woods in southern california. jonathan. >> bill, good morning to you. this investigation is ongoing. a few moments ago i noticed a crime lab van from the orange county sheriffs' department pulling up into the church parking lot still entirely taped off with crime scene tape. what we know is this. that the gunman opened fire during a lunch reception which had followed a service for a congregation of the taiwanese church that uses this facility. as he began shooting, he was almost immediately tackled by members of the congregation. they hit him with a chair and managed to hog-tie him with an electrical code and took the two handguns police say he was carrying. listen here to the deputy
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undersheriff. >> churchgoers displayed heroism and bravery in intervening to stop the suspect. they prevented additional injuries and fatalities. >> the one person who was killed has not yet been identified. the five who were wounded we do not have their names but police say they were all asian and they were all elderly. they ranged in age, in fact, between 66 years and 92. the shooter is also described by law enforcement as being asian and a man in his 60s. the motive is unknown at this point and is obviously a critical part of this investigation. the orange county sheriff's department, bill, has just told us they will be holding a press conference here at noon local time, that's 3:00 p.m. eastern. we may get more details on what is at the moment an unknown
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motive for this killing which killed -- for the shooting that killed one person. >> dana: inflation is out of control. the average cost for a gallon of regular gas is $4.48. a huge jump from a year ago. wisconsin congressman mike gallagher joins us now. what are you hearing from constituents? >> they're fed up. i filled up at kwik trip yesterday. it is out of control. the thing that strikes me beyond the gas prices, beyond just the general price gut punch is what people are seeing at grocery stores, what they are seeing at convenience stores. you remember, dana, back there was a famous moment in 1989 when yeltsin was amazed at all the shelves overflowing with food and supplies in contrast
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to soviet russia. fast forward to today and you walk into a grocery store or pharmacy in any major american city and not only is there no baby formula but almost everything is locked up. if you want razor blades or ibuprofen you need to get a clerk with a key because theft is so bad. we're watching actual left and the war is prosecuting -- inflation is theft. if you work hard, save money and invests conservatively inflation is stealing money and purchasing power under the name of social justice. this explains why biden approval ratings are low. people aren't stupid. they understand when they're being stolen from. >> bill: nbc. most important issues facing the country. cost of living, jobs and the economy. i don't know if any of that changes in the near term.
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does it? >> i don't think so. thus far the biden administration has shown no willingness to change the highly progressive course that they've charted. they are still talking about reviving build back better. more to the point they seem focused on fighting the narrative on twitter. they have some sort of weird terminal twitter disease. ron klain seems to think if he gets enough blue check marks to retweet something it may be so. that lack of humility suggests we won't change course. they aren't sensitive to concerns of everyday americans and until we do that i fear the situation could get worse. in particular until they change their energy policy which is stifling domestic production and increasing costs across the board. i think we'll be in for a rough ride. >> dana: from that same nbc poll you had 75% of americans agreeing that the country is on the wrong track. now break that down and you might find out that they believe it's on the wrong track for different reasons.
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does this present an opportunity for leaders to come forward to try to turn it around? >> i think it does. and i think for republicans right now we're in a very advantageous position politically but i would say to fellow republicans even if there is a red wave coming in november winning an election means nothing unless you have a plan for the day after the election. we have to listen to americans and we cannot waste the opportunity that they are likely to give us in november. first and foremost we have to stop spending and do our best to unleash the power of american energy. but honestly more than anything else, i think we need to do a better job when we're in the majority of holding the executive branch accountable for its many failures. americans get discouraged because they feel like no one is held accountable for the embarrassing withdrawal of aguilera or the theft of
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hundreds of billions of dollars of unemployment and ppp dollars. when we get the gafsh else we need to do aggressive oversight and investigations of the executive branch to start holding people accountable. >> bill: thank you for your time and the view from wisconsin. thank you, sir. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: amber heard picking up where she left off in the johnny depp trial. what to expect from today's testimony. the u.s. supreme court facing fresh attacks. house speaker nancy pelosi calling the current court dangerous. is she putting the justices at risk in the name of politics? >> judges are not saying that our ruling should not be transparent, that we shouldn't be criticized, absolutely. but what we're saying is when we do our jobs we're asking that we not be at the front line of a firing squad. u put i. u do it all.
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the choice for attorney general is clear. democrat rob bonta has a passion for justice and standing up for our rights. bonta is laser focused on protecting the right to vote and defending obamacare. but what's republican eric early's passion? early wants to bring trump-style investigations on election fraud to california, and early says he'll end obamacare and guard against the growing socialist communist threat. eric early. too extreme, too conservative for california.
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>> dana: now to a virginia courtroom. amber heard is back on the stand this hour after a week long recess describing her relationship with johnny depp as she defends herself. gillian turner will get you back up to speed. hi, gillian. >> so amber heard is on the
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stand now testifying about the timeline of events when she alleges johnny depp first began physically assaulting her and she is included her recollection of the first time he accosted her and getting into some dramatic detail. >> he held me down on the countertop and my arms were cut on the glass and -- and in that attack. these are scars that i obtained while johnny was strangling me. that's me on the red carpet promoting the magic mic. you can see the scars on my body, on my arms. >> heard's team put out a statement arguing her rights and all women's rights constitutional rights are on trial here. quote, the overwhelming evidence, the truth is not on depp's side. the one thing we suspect depp's attorneys will avoid is the central issue of the trial. does amber or any woman have
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freedom of speech in the trial is resuming after a week long break. yesterday a source described as being johnny depp's inner circle. he is humbled by the support he has received so far. also now heard's confusion in her earlier testimony about the timeline of depp's abuse to being in love. >> i would have liked to have believed that the period of time in which i had to fall in love with johnny and we fell in love and he was sober and he wasn't violent to me lasted for a lot longer than it did. i had kind of allowed myself, i guess, to forget. >> right now heard is getting into detail about 2015, a christmas trip she and johnny depp took to the bahamas. she alleges he threatened to kill her and she filed a restraining order.
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a little while she'll get into the details about what resulted from that their very public divorce. >> dana: thank you. >> let's not take our eye off the ball. the ball is this court beware in terms of marriage equality, be ware in terms of other aspects of it. the fact is, this is a dangerous court to families, to freedom, in our country and that is why people have to mobilize. >> bill: that's nancy pelosi on sunday claiming the court is dangerous calls for widespread protests whipping up action ahead of the mid-terms in november. carrie severino, i don't know if you saw that interview or not. she said who would have ever suspected that a creature like donald trump would become president waving a list of judges that he would appoint getting the support of the far right and appointing those
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anti-freedom justices to the court. pretty strong language for several members on the bench today i would argue. >> absolutely. i found it really shocking to me that we aren't seeing more bipartisan opposition not speaking your mind publicly about major issues which everyone has a right to do but to the protests happening at justice's homes. there are laws, federal laws and state laws that protect them from intimidation and people trying to affect the outcomes of the cases and we see from the president to speaker pelosi on down people actually defending and encouraging that type of intimidating behavior. i think it is really discouraging and telling she clearly wants to change the subject from what actually is happening in this draft opinion that alito has which is not saying abortion is illegal throughout the country. certainly not addressing and saying it is not touching on issues like gay marriage and other things as she is citing
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but actually just staying states will be the ones to figure this out and that means you can address your own state legislators how you want those laws to go. she is changing the subject and endorsing violence. >> dana: what about the notion she brought up in the interview that marriage equality could be on the line with this supreme court as well? what do you say to that? >> the opinion is very clear about this. this doesn't -- this is not something that relied on roe or casey to make that decision. and the court was very careful to actually distinguish those cases from the case at hand. i think it's fear mongering and it is trying to distract from the actual decision in the case. yale law professor had an interesting podcast going. liberal, taught many of these people talking about this and he said he is calling b.s., i think he spelled it out, on some of the people claiming that all these other parade of horribles that they're trying to tie in here will follow from
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it. you are my students and friends but we have to actually talk about what the case does and not try to just turn this into political talking points. >> bill: my sense is after the leak of roe v. wade 13 or 14 days ago tomorrow they've tried to maintain a pretty stiff upper lip but clarence thomas over the weekend said the leak, the effect of it was tremendously bad. that was his quote. what is your sense about the effect of this ? >> think of it. you used to be able to trust your clerks and all the clerks to be professional. even if they disagreed with what the court was doing they weren't going to violate that trust of the confidentiality of the court. they can't trust each other in the same way they did before that leak. but it is also causing huge-up heave all. we've heard reports alito has had to relocate from his home
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and other justices are experiencing protestors and security details have had to be ramped up and some of the risks to judges that happen because if you have 100,000 people peacefully protesting by doxxing just iss at their homes the crazy people have a target and address to go to. that's not something we should wish on our public servants. >> dana: thank you for that. we'll see what happens. we know the supreme court is starting to issue opinions. we don't expect the roe v. wade decision today but that's coming. we'll have you back. thank you. elon musk says his plans to buy twitter are temporarily on hold. what's the hold-up? the latest on where the deal stands next. you're probably thinking that these two are
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>> harris: americans staring down crisis after crisis and blaming president biden and democrats. what will he do? and so it begins, the first trial in john durham's russia hoax investigation and new information on the mass shooting at that buffalo supermarket. "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> dana: elon musk twitter bid on hold but not holding back on the giant. kelly o'grady has the details for us. >> the consensus for now is the deal will likely go through but musk may be attempting to renegotiate a lower purchase price with twitter trading well under $40. one of the issues with twitter their algorithms should be made
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public and he reiterated that warning users you are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don't realize and how to set your timeline to be chronologically driven. it is only showing you what it thinks you want to see. the big question is whether the investigation could kill the deal. musk doesn't believe the platform has less than 5% of spam accounts. he says it could be as much as 90% of users, a lot more difficult to exercise the deal. twitter isn't happy with the billionaire's latest tweet. he shared twitter legal called to complain i violated their nda by revealing the sample size is 100. this actually happened. this acquisition is garnering doubt. one is former president trump. musk breaking news saying he would reinstate his account and trump weighed in about the latest twitter developments. >> i believe he is going to buy twitter.
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you have so many fake accounts. i think it will be interesting. he has problems. he bought a lot of stock he shouldn't have bought. you have a lot of problems with twitter. >> if he can prove the company is lying about those 5% bots he will have clout. >> dana: i love following the story. what is he going to say next? >> bill: good entertainment. pretty good at twitter. he is good at launching rockets and having them land on a barge floating in the pacific ocean. who comes up with that idea? he did. well done. before we go, shall we? best part of the show. did you see the super blood moon last night? >> dana: i did not. i woke up this morning and looked at a lot of images. i went to bed early. people are raving about it. >> bill: that's a rare lunar
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eclipse. light that usually reflects off the moon is deflected to the atmosphere that turns the moon red. i did not know that. that's what it looked like in athens as it rose behind the ancient temple. well done. >> dana: wow. thanks for joining us, everybody. "the faulkner focus" is next. here she is. >> harris: president biden is bogged down with the nation's mystery. americans looking to him for solutions to the growing list of problems immediately. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". a sliding stock market, the border, and drug usage in crisis, inflation out of control, gasoline and home prices spiking, shortages in food and baby formula. the list goes on. let's visit some. we'll start with gas prices. the national average hitting another record high today nearly $4.50 per gallon.

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