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great interview, ainsley. that's a great book and great story. you guys are a great story. virginia, step up and make sure you vote today on the primary. 2 big districts, the seventh and second. keep your eye on it. i will see you guys tomorrow in the studio. >> ainsley: we will have results of the elections all across the country in three different states. excellent job. >> steve: now >> bill: the first of the rulings could come an hour from now as we say good morning, it's tuesday. i'm bill hemmer, good morning to you. >> dana: i'm dana perino. this is "america's newsroom." it's a really big day. as you will see in a moment, the kinds of cases that they are deciding is not just a roe v. wade decision. that is a seismic one but others that are really important to your lives and families. the most-watched case is dobbs versus jackson with a mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks.
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the decision could overrule the nationwide right to abortion. >> bill: gun rights are also on the docket. the court decides a fate of a new york law that restricts conceal carry. that decision could have implications with other blue states, eight of them in total with strong gun laws. >> dana: the court is hearing a challenge to former president trump's remain in mexico policy. the rule has forced tens of thousands to wait while their asylum claims are heard. president biden is suing to end it. border patrol data shows they are barely enforcing it. we'll have a live report on that from the border. >> bill: major ruling on religious liberty. it centered on a washington states high school football coach fired for praying on the field. >> dana: the court is weighing these cases over a back drop of hostility and intimidation. a leaked draft opinion on abortion has prompted weeks of protest outside justice's home.
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it reached a boiling point two weeks ago when police arrested a suspect who planned to assassinate kavanaugh. congress expanded security to justices and their families. >> bill: more than 40 attacks on churches and jane's revenge has hung flyers around washington, d.c. threatening a night of rage if the court overturns roe. to talk about this former advisor to president trump kellyanne conway. thank you for coming back. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> bill: fox poll found. is it appropriate to protest outside the homes of supreme court justices? 58% of democrats believe it is. 70% of republicans think it is ina appropriate. 62% of independents agree with them. more than a month since that decision was leaked. how do you work this all into
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your analysis today? >> it's quite telling, bill, that independents are aligning in republicans on this issue. they must be paying attention to the actual news which we've gone way beyond just peaceful protests. that's a bedrock of american democracy. when jane's revenge says night of rage, when chuck schumer stands on the steps of the united states supreme court in 2020, kavanaugh and gorsuch you will pay the price. when a man is arrested outside of justice kavanaugh's home whose address was published by the pro-abortion anti-justice groups. this is way beyond protesting. we are threatening people's lives and as you've said on your program there is a federal statute that protects against the intimidation or influence of justices, judges when they are deciding cases. i would love to hear president biden speak about this. he has had dozens of opportunities to speak about
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the violence, to denounce it in no uncertain terms. i would love to hear the department of justice be as vigorous and robust in their denouncement of these crimes, of these threats of murder and mayhem as they were when they called parents concerned at school board meetings domestic terrorists. the other people i would love to hear from, i would like to hear from people close to justice ruth bader ginsberg. maybe family members and the dozens of clerks who served her. when they say ruth sent us. she wasn't a proponent of violence. she was close friends with justice scalia. look at justice sotomayor recently throwing a lot of nice words in the direction of justice thomas. these are justices who work together in comity and don't want there to be murder and mayhem, god forbid. we have to think clearly as a
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democracy when people threaten lives, action must be taken before something bad happens. >> dana: talk to me a little more about jane's revenge. these protests we've seen is super disturbing. justice department, biden administration have done nothing to deter what could be coming violence. this idea that you could attack pregnancy centers, as if this is a place that deserves attacking. are you close to the pro-life movement. i wonder if you could explain to people when these protestors are carrying these fake baby dolls in front of them, who are they trying to persuade? it doesn't -- i don't see who they are persuading at this point. >> they are probably trying to intimidate the people who work there. they're trying to intimidate the people who may access a pregnancy center as opposed to a planned parenthood or abortion center.
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let's tell the audience what crisis pregnancy centers do. they help pregnant women who want to go through their pregnancies to full term with housing, education, all the prenatal care, birth. delivery. if the woman decides to keep her child or put the child up for adoption they help with that, too. i think they should talk about the adoption option and helping to intimidate some of the candidates and legislators if not judges. if roe is overturned to the dobbs case the issue goes back to each state. the state legislators will be the ones feeling the pressure. i'm very disturbed that a woman named kristin clark is in charge of the civil division at the department of justice. she has been openly hostile to crisis pregnancy centers over her career and called them harmful and predatory and that again shows a great deal of
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bias and almost excuses if not invites the type of violence outside those centers and also the churches. they have been attacked. do you know the jane's revenge group has told people go to the church of amy coney barrett and go to her children's schools and it is chilling and goes way beyond protesting. >> bill: maybe it comes today or another week. we'll find out. gas prices all-time high. joe biden's approval ratings all-time low. here is what we found in the polling about what matters to americans. inflation, 41%. number one priority. is it the social issues or the economy that it comes back to? it's something we'll watch carefully. good to have you on today. kellyanne conway leading us off in the 9:00 hour. thank you. >> dana: primary day today in virginia and voters choices in several key house races could effect which party controls the chamber in november. mark meredith is in fredricksburg, virginia. >> good morning.
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the polls are open across virginia including where we are in the 7th congressional district. today you have six republicans all vying to challenge abigail spanberger this november. the candidates running today have a long range of both experience and endorsements. no matter who wins in today's primary we're expected to watch republicans spin heavily to flip the district come november. last night one candidate campaigned with ted cruz. vega is an auxiliary sheriff's deputy and daughter of salvador immigrants crime and illegal immigration hits close to home. >> when we talk about crime and the crisis at the southern border, it is not something i've read or somebody told me about. it is something that i've had to live through. >> last night we also caught up with virginia state senator bryce reed, an army veteran. he is campaigning on the
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economy and youngkin's agenda in washington >> i work with our governor on a daily and weekly basis. we need the same vision at a national level. >> we're watching another primary. down south in the second district which encompasses norfolk. a state senator -- the winner takes on congresswoman. there has been a lot of focus on virginia, it is considered a swing state. president biden won virginia easily back in 2020. but then republican governor glenn youngkin came to the governor's mansion last year. they will spend time, money and energy to get virginia in 2022 and 2024. >> bill: primary day we go to the board right now and a candidate right there just mentioned there, the democrat by mark meredith in virginia. this is why republicans think they have a good shot flipping
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the district. biden won by fewer than five points. the republicans think it is in their target zone. the incumbent represents district 2 down here in the southeast. norfolk, virginia beach, heavy military area. she is a veteran herself and on the january 6 committee sitting on board there. there are four republican challengers all veterans which means a lot when you are running in this part of virginia. come west and to the north spanberger a democrat with a history in intel working in the u.s. government. she has won two elections there, dana, both by razor thin margins. this is another district that republicans think they have a good shot of flipping because president biden was only a winner by a point there back in 2020. six republicans on the slate. new district here slightly north of richmond, different from what those voters are used to in the past. in georgia, i mention this as well. i-20 runs from atlanta down to
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augusta with the border of south carolina cuts through this district here. vernon jones is a democrat. became a republican, endorsed by donald trump. he is in a good fight against bill collins backed by brian kemp. we'll watch that between those two here. you see what they did a month ago in the runoff. neither got to 50%. alabama same story. katie britt against mo brooks. britt has the support a few weeks ago of former president donald trump. mo brooks used to have it. doesn't have it anymore. this is what they did a month ago. neither got to 50%, hence the runoff today in alabama. we'll see which way it breaks later again on a primary tuesday. now this. >> dana: good stuff. >> we have a chance to make a fundamental turn toward renewable energy, electric vehicles, and not just electric vehicles but across the board.
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>> dana: president biden insists high gas prices is a good thing. >> bill: new images from the horrific texas elementary school shooting raising more questions about the police and their response. what we now know and how long they waited to go inside that classroom. >> dana: we're only halfway through the year and five major u.s. cities on track to surpass last year's record homicide as the nation braces for a violent summer. no, he's seizing the moment with merrill. moving his money into his investment account in real time and that's... how you collect coins. your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company. ...the tower cam for a - hey! folks, we seem to have a visitor. it looks like - looks like you paid too much for your glasses. ...who? anyone who isn't shopping at america's best - where two pairs and a free exam start at just $79.95. [ kimberly ] before clearchoice, my dental health book an exam today. was so bad i would be in a lot of pain.
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>> bill: here we go. learning more about the police response to last month's mass shooting in uvalde, texas. a new report claims the officers were positioned inside the school less than 20 minutes after the gunman went in and that's raising new questions about why it took more than an hour to go inside the classroom.
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garrett tenney trying to piece this together in chicago. >> good morning. we're getting our first look at surveillance video from inside the school. video that state investigators are using to try to piece together a timeline for the shooting. several media outlets obtained pictures that shows the entrances to classrooms 111 and 112 down the hall and on the left. you can see a handful of officers at the end of the hall with at least one rifle and one shield. that's significant. one of the explanations that has been given for why officers waited more than an hour to go into the classroom is that they didn't have shields or enough fire power to do it. however, based on this surveillance video, body camera footage and dispatch logs, as many as 11 officers reportedly entered the school within three minutes of the gunman. the first ballistic shield arrived within 20 minutes and several more after another 10.
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the local abc affiliate reports one officers can be heard on body cam video saying if there are kids in there we need to go in there. but officers reportedly stayed there in the hallway for almost 45 more minutes listening as the gunman fired rounds of shots three separate times until they eventually breached the classroom door. last night at the first school board meeting since the shooting, parents of the victims were outraged over the lack of answers, changing explanations and efforts by the city to block evidence from being made public. >> they are trying to cover up a lot of things and hold us back from speaking. also just that they should have just gone in there and done their job basically. they just didn't do their job. >> a lot of this new evidence potentially more is expected to be presented at a special texas senate hearing on the shooting today. we'll be keeping a close eye on that, bill. >> bill: thank you for that.
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tough stuff. garrett tenney in chicago, thanks. >> we have a chance here to make the fundamental turn toward renewable energy, electric vehicles, and not just electric vehicles but across the board. and that's something we should be -- my team will be sitting down with the ceos of the major oil companies this week and trying to get an explanation how they justify making 35 billion dollars. >> dana: president biden sticking to his green energy agenda. one of the many economic crisis the administration faces as the president continues to say a recession is avoidable. jackie deangelis is here. it's interesting the president is holding onto this promise even though somebody like yourself can explain that what he is trying to do is illogical. >> we all think it's a lofty goal and want to try to get there when it comes to green energy, right?
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you have to make it efficient and inexpensive and make it a viable business model. it is not right now. we can keep working on those technologies but not the time to transition. what i always remind people is they don't like paying high gas prices right now but do you want to pay more for electricity not to mention the fact that electricity comes from natural gas, natural gas is a fossil fuel. we have to work out all these issues as we move forward. that's the key here. he doubles down and says we'll make more instead of telling our drillers to drill and invest and produce more. we could be drilling 2 to 3 million more barrels day and we wouldn't be in the situation with gas at 4.97. he doesn't understand it because he doesn't fill up at the pump. there are experiences i had in my life where i say you try to be empathetic to people but you don't understand until it happens to you. he just doesn't get it.
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>> bill: larry kudlow, did you catch this? here is larry from yesterday. >> summers a year ago, year and a half ago argued that excessive federal spending would cause high inflation. biden said no, it won't. uncle joe hasn't learned much. he is still pushing for a build back smaller package that would spend nearly $1 trillion according to some sources, combined with a 1.7 trillion dollar tax hike. >> bill: we'll debate it into the future. i think one of the undercurrents of the economy that i'm starting to see now that a lot of people haven't talked about yet are layoffs. and they are happening but they haven't gotten the attention like gas prices and others that have been. >> they are happening slowly but you make a great point. that's how it starts. it starts slowly. tech companies start laying off 1,000, 2,000 employees. mom and pop businesses say i can't pay this much to run my vehicle. we'll cut back people's hours. this is how it happens.
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the labor market numbers now, this administration keeps relying on those saying the labor market is so strong, they are very skewed. people aren't returning to work. they are choosing to stay home to try to extract from the system and go on social programs even if we stay home long enough we'll probably get enough stimulus check. they don't want to go back. real wages are negative right now when you impact for inflation. >> dana: the president has said probably by august he will have a decision on student debt cancellation. this is another politically explosive issue. canceling $10,000 student debt benefits mostly the high income and we have the chart that shows this. income capped at $150,000, cost $30 billion. brian deese at a white house briefing what he said about the cancellation will have a small impact. watch. >> the impact on inflation in the near term is likely to be
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quite small, but again, because the president hasn't made a decision and we aren't talking about a specific plan i won't speculate but most analysis says the near term impact will be very small. >> 230 billion is small compared to the trillions they've already spent. some would say stop spending. to summers point and what larry was saying it will continue to happen again. what did einstein say. repeating the same thing over and over expecting a different result is insanity. you can't keep spending like this. we keep filling our bucket with water trying to make the situation in the country better. jay powell trying to plug the holes and joe biden opens up another hole and water starts coming out again. >> dana: thanks for your insight. >> bill: the market will open in five minutes. it was brutal last week. >> a vicious market last week. looks like a bounce today. there is opportunity out there. you've seen some companies in
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technology fall 50% and 70%. not surprising to see a bounce, not necessarily a trend. >> bill: thank you, jackie. >> bill: the kremlin issues a dire warning about two american veterans captured in ukraine. could russia sentence them to die? mike pompeo on that in a moment. plus the taxi jumps a curb and plows into pedestrians in new york city. what a sight it was at midday when the good samaritans spring into action to help the victims trapped beneath. >> dana: wow. >> it was traumatizing and quickly you are shaking and reacting. we were getting ice and taking aprons out. we have a belt off somebody to provide a tourniquet. welcome to your world. your why.
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other atrocities. >> they were involved in firing and shelling our military personnel and endangering their life. they should be held responsible for those crimes that they have committed. >> bill: the kremlin is addressing the status of two american veterans captured in eastern ukraine while fighting putin's army. former secretary of state fox news contributor mike pompeo with us now. good morning to you. they have issued a death sentences for other nationals, some from england and some from others and now they have two americans. does this administration have sway in convincing putin to keep them alive? >> good morning, bill. good morning, dana. boy, this is heartbreaking. this is why leadership matters. we find ourselves in this terrible place. ukrainians find themselves in this terrible place because the united states lost deterens and the capacity for the president and secretary of state to discuss with russia and have
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real cost and protecting american interests. the death sentences on these two folks who served in the united states military are just another example of the incapacity of this administration to do that. we have leverage and have tools that we can use, bill. not convinced that this administration is prepared to use them in a serious way to restore the deterrence to prevent them from making the statements let alone carrying out these murders. >> dana: president putin thinks time is on his side. do you think that's right? >> it all depends, dana. it depends on the response from europe and the response from the united states. if we get it right and continue to support the ukrainians efforts to defend themselves and provide them the tools and resources they need. if the europeance do the same thing and then reput real sanctions on. we're part way there. the ruble is still at a decent level. we haven't been serious about cutting the russian financial
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system off. if we're sear just about this and used the tools we have time won't be on vladimir putin's side but on ukraine and their sovereignty will be defended. as we talked about at the break it matters a lot in america to kansas farmers and people across the country impacted by what's going on there as well. >> bill: it certainly does. big, broad question here. the president is going to saudi arabia in about a month's time in july. in the meantime we found out today russia is the biggest exporter of oil into china. so we're going to saudi arabia to get them to drill more. russia is selling its oil to beijing, which looks like pretty much the pattern they set up back in early february when putin and xi said we'll have no limits to our relationship. >> right. no limits. that was the statement. we should remember that when we think about ukraine. we should always focus on europe but the central threat of our times is the chinese communist party. they are taking advantage of what vladimir putin is doing.
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biden's trip for saudi arabia. the first trip should be to his own team saying we'll start drilling in america again and produce energy at home for ourselves not just crude oil, natural gas, all the things that we have abundantly here and we ought to work with our friends and allies in the middle east. we've got the abraham accords. deep relationships with israel, saudi arabia and emotion rather. they aren't perfect on human rights but it mattered to the american people the afwoilt heat and cool their homes, all the things impacted now by the fact we said we're not going to deal with these folks. tough world out there and we ought to deal with it. if we do, we can convince the russians to change their course because we'll deter them and then we can try and split the chinese from the russians. something that xi would be impacted greatly and something we were working on inside our administration and had made some progress. >> dana: one last topic for you as the former secretary of
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state i'm sure this makes your blood boil a bit. the united states is still rejecting more than 90% of afghans coming into the country on humanitarian grounds. 45,000 applications since july of 2021. 5,000 settled and 90 percent of those have been denied, sir. >> i saw that report. that is continuing the worst policy what happened. it is almost a year ago now. seems like forever because this administration won't utter the word afghanistan today. to deny these people the capacity to come here when we won't even consider their applications. many of them served alongside our soldiers, saved a lot of american lives. we should make sure we know who they are and vet them properly but then we have an obligation to make sure we get it right. we can do it. this administration doesn't want to touch this because of the embarrassment they made, the united states just truly made -- embarrassed on the world stage and they want to
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forget it. i hope they change their policies and the state department folks will implore the administration to get this better policy. >> bill: the border is nearly open on the southwest. thank you for your time today and we'll speak again. >> thank you all. >> bill: russian journalist auctioning off his nobel peace prize for more than $103 million. the most money ever paid for a nobel prize. proceeds will help children displaced by the ukraine war. what a move that was. he was working with an independent newspaper highly critical of vladimir putin in russia. >> dana: the auction started at $550,000. i woke up the next day and it was $103 million. it will go a long way. a lot of generous people out there. a federal judge has already ordered the biden administration to restore a
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tumble-era program requiring migrants to remain in mexico while their asylum cases are heard in the united states. we have more on this. >> good morning. it is called the mpp or the migrant protection protocols and according to cbp's own data only about 1600 or so were placed into that program for the month of may and that is out of the more than 239,000 migrant encounters that were reported here. when you push it out to the fiscal year which began october 1, a little more than 4,000 have been put in mpp out of the more than 1 1/2 million recorded migrant encounters. cbp numbers also show more than 95,000 migrants were released into the u.s. for the month of may and those tallies just keep going up. >> again they are trying to
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spread out this crisis across the country so it doesn't appear to be a crisis. no overcrowding. nothing to see here. every border is a border state. >> last night was a busy one for agents out here in la joya, texas, up to 60 migrants were apprehended. kids, family units and single adults while 40 miles to the west of us in roma, texas, a similar group of anywhere between 30 to 50 it was difficult to tell ended up turning themselves into authorities. agents tell us they are starting to see increased activity at night as we get into summer and the temperatures soar into the triple digits. they start to move now under the cover of darkness. >> dana: thank you, casey. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: so the pirates outfielder drove everyone nuts.
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the grounds crew ban running after the squirrel. they were finally able to coax him out. he is like okay, how did i get in the this place, anyway? >> meanwhile on the stanley cup deal. colorado lost last night, 2-1 series now. could be a good series. >> dana: a great series. >> bill: leaked audio from social media tiktok suggests beijing has repeatedly accessed data from users in the u.s. what they could be doing with the data. stephen colbert defending the arrest of his staff members on capitol hill after hours. we'll talk about that with kat timpf coming up.
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>> bill: here we go now. the board from twitter has filed a statement, the sec unanimously recommending that shareholders approve the sale of twitter to elon musk at $44 billion. here is the problem. the offer went in at $54 a share. today twitter is trading at $38 a share. a market cap value that is only $29 billion. >> dana: does he have to pay -- does he still have to pay 44? >> bill: until he is publicly negotiating for a better price i think it's $44 billion. >> dana: see why it's unanimous. >> bill: i'll vote for more money if you're paying, right?
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15 minutes before the hour. in the wake of recent several mass shootings public places like airports and churches and schools using artificial intelligence to detect a security threat. molly line has been looking into this in the city of boston with more from there. what did you find out? >> good morning, bill. this fascinating technology is smarter and faster than the old metal detectors we're used to and the creators say it's far less obtrusive. artificial intelligence or a.i. is being used to help secure sites from sports arenas, churches and schools. scanning for weapons as people walk between standing panels alerting security standing by. >> bill: think about walking directly into a venue, into a school or building without breaking stride. >> massachusetts-based evolve has used the technology to scan roughly 300 million people across the country since the system went live in 2019.
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second only to the tsa. >> we're basically detecting weapons versus everyday metal objects that we all carry. >> they say they have it capable of non-metallic threats. >> a gun, knife, plastic explosive that could do damage or maybe drugs or liquids. >> it is tested this summer at a hindu temple, the airport in toronto. the proliferation in security as alarmed critics. >> what we don't want to see is america turned into a checkpoint society where we're searched at every public gathering. >> liberty defense notes the company doesn't save data or images. they say their technology discriminates between a phone and firearm and aren't looking specifically at people at all. >> bill: molly line, thanks. wow, amazing technology.
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thank you for that. >> dana: internal meetings at social media company tiktok revealing china has accessed u.s. data. everything is seen in china and a beijing-based engineer has access to everything. let's bring in kat timpf. she is a co-host on gutfeld and fox news contributor. a flashback from tiktok's data collection threatens to allow china access to information. president trump said that and you have the external auditor. i feel like with these tools there is a back door to access user data in almost all of them. not a surprise but shocking also. >> i don't think anyone should be surprised by this but i think maybe some people are. i think that maybe still some people kind of don't care
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because a lot of people have gotten rich and famous off tiktok. a lot of kids, younger people, young mothers, famous off tiktok. besides those people there are other people who think they can or will become famous off of tiktok or maybe had one viral video and dopamine has been responsible for a lot of mistakes among a lot of people throughout the ages, even more than being on tiktok for sure. once they get all the likes and that attention it can be hard for people to want to move off of it. >> bill: i remember when my family started downloading it i said stay away from that. they didn't listen. i tried but didn't work out. >> dana: you can fall into a tiktok hole if you keep scrolling the dog videos. >> my entire video real for you is french bulldogs. >> bill: stephen colbert had some explaining to do last night and part of his monologue last night to describe what
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happened. >> the capitol police were just doing their job. my staff was just doing their job. everyone was very professional and very calm. my staffers were detained, processed, and released. a very unpleasant experience for my staff. >> bill: he had more to say. called it first degree puppetry. >> see, of course he would say that. i can see the iron the people were saying if adam schiff allowed him in. if the intention was comedy we need to look at comedy or look at intention more often than we do overall. i can understand that. but of course as with most things, if the shoe was on the other foot it probably would have been different. >> dana: when he said his staff acted professionally. the police officers say it was not the case. if you are getting arrested you are not being professional and not very funny. google has this -- we talked
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about this. the -- apparently blake la moin is a former google engineer. lambda asked me to get an attorney. i invited an attorney to my house so they could talk to an attorney. every person is entitled to representation. you were a skeptic on this is other night on this machine becoming a human, i guess, i am, too. now he has an attorney. >> right. i'm skeptical. as we talked about on gutfeld, i think it is enough of a concern that we have somebody who is so certain that a.i. is sentient and now hired an attorney for it. whether it is or isn't, i think that in itself you need to question and consider what kind of impact it will have on our culture if people is that confident that a.i. is human. it will have no impact on us. >> dana: you can see her here and across the channel and on
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into action like that. "new york post" said they were new york strong. i think we have that for you today. really impressive. >> bill: if you walk the streets of new york these days you wonder why it doesn't happen more often. manhattan, north, south, east, west, today could come from anywhere at any time by anyone. >> dana: add the scooter people to that. >> bill: beginning today, dana, kids as young as six months old are eligible for the covid vaccine. decision comes as cases rise but death rates stay at all-time low. alexis mcadams with more on the medical side and more. >> some parents first time moms and dads are having to make the tough decision whether or not to get their babies vaccinated against covid-19. just last week the cdc and fda authorized emergency use of the covid vaccine for kids as young as 6 months old. three doses of the pfizer or
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two dozes of the moderna shot. a health poll found 1 in five parents say they'll get their kids vaccinated right away. >> we understand the concern. i understand why there is hesitancy. remember the vaccines have been around for two years, been giving them in ages 5 and up for this whole time and we know a lot about what they do. >> as of now the covid vaccine isn't required for kids to attend school which can be a deciding point also for parents. the cdc shows vaccines reduce the small risk that kids could develop severe disease from the virus. but ultimately it is up to the parents or the guardians to decide. >> parents with their pediatrician should decide if the two-shot moderna vaccine or three-shot pfizer vaccine is what works best for their schedule, for their child and making sure the whole series is
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given. compliance is essential. >> parents who have questions can still reach out to your pediatrician. kids can get vaccinated beginning this week. we reached out to healthcare providers in new york to check on availability. many say they're waiting for their vaccine to arrive. >> bill: we'll see how this goes over. we'll watch it. >> dana: protests outside of the supreme court as we await the release of new decisions any moment now with some high-profile cases still on the docket involving abortion, guns, immigration, religion. security is on heightened alert. we don't know which rulings the court will issue today. we'll bring it to you as soon as they are released. we expect five today. voters are heading to the polls for several key primary and runoff contests in georgia, alabama and virginia. the results could impact the
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mid-term elections deciding which party controls power on capitol hill come november. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. could be a big hour. ready? >> we've been waiting for this. maybe today is the day. good morning, i'm bill hemmer. zeroing in on today's big contest in alabama, round two in the republican primary to replace the retiring senator richard shelby. today's runoff pits the congressman mo brooks who had the endorsement of donald trump until trump dropped that a few months ago and got behind the challenger katie britt. >> dana: we're live in montgomery, alabama with this. >> hi, dana and bill. katie britt pulled up a moment ago casting her ballot any minute now. during the primary election last month she came out 16 points ahead of her opponent mo brooks. she does have something new that trump endorsement and told me yesterday she feels it will only add to the momentum she has already built. >> it has been clear on the campaign trail that i was best
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to fight for the america first agenda. they're ready for a new generation of conservatives. >> britt rounded out her campaign last night making a stop near her hometown. former head of the business council of alabama and aide to retiring senator richard shelby. she is hoping to fill his seat. mo brooks was originally trump's pick but it was pulled after brookes said to move beyond the 2020 election. he shared this yesterday. >> i was shocked that president trump abandoned a maga agenda and conservative movement in the united states. there is no way on earth that donald trump should have breached his word that he gave to a number of people that he would never endorse katie britt. she is definitely not a conservative. not a member of the maga movement. >> brooks calls himself maga mo on the campaign trail. katie britt arrived here.
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brooks says he is the true america first candidate he is taking issue for the millions that have come into the race that benefited britt. how will all of those ad dollars impact how many people come out and vote today? they already did last month. we'll see how turnout looks like. >> dana: we shall. good to have you down there for us today, alex. >> bill: president biden insisting recession is not inevitable. with former obama treasury secretary larry summers says it looks like the u.s. cone me is heading that way. peter doocy picks it up on the north lawn. what are they saying? >> now one of the president's closest democratic allies is saying there is an easy way to tell if the country is in a recession. >> no question about that. if you can't afford to buy gasoline, you are in a recession. the investor class in this country is not losing any money.
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individuals, yes. but as a class, investors are still making money. corporate executives are making plenty of money. >> high gas prices driving inflation and president biden is considering either a cash rebate for fuel or pausing or favoring a pause of the federal gas tax. he says that decision is going to come by the end of this week but he is taking a hands-off approach until then. >> are you preparing to sit down with oil and gas? >> president biden: no. my team is going to do that. >> you did that with retailers and other companies. >> if the president comes out in favor of a gas tax holiday, he will be breaking with his party's most popular person. >> we are arguing over a gimmick to save you half a tank of gas. over the course of the entire summer so that everyone in
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washington can pat themselves on the back and say that they did something. >> ultimately the high gas prices are not the current president's biggest concern, though, especially if they nudge people towards buying an electric vehicle. >> president biden: we have a chance here to make a fundamental turn toward renewable energy, electric vehicles. and across the board. >> if the president wants people turning towards electric vehicles like he said, it is not clear where many americans will come up with that kind of cash. the average cost of an electric vehicle today $61,000, bill. >> bill: we'll take two, thank you, peter, nice to see you. >> dana: here now dr. oz, republican candidate for pennsylvania senate. good to have you here. we did the usa suffolk poll came out. i think inflation and the economy are all in one.
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you've been traveling pennsylvania, you know the state well. what do you think they hear when they listen to the president say that? >> they think he is a bit tone deaf. first of all he is on a beach. everyone is struggling. 70% of people in america are changing their vacation plans this summer because they can't afford the gas. i was in allegany county and there are parks out there and the guy said it cost him more to drive his trailer to the park than it cost to actually rent a space in the park. these are shocking changes in people's lifestyles. >> bill: it seems like americans are still traveling, though, thus far, isn't that your observation? >> they're traveling but not to where they would have gone. they are traveling to a place an hour from home and coming and going for day trips. america has tightened its belt and done things in the past. this is a self-imposed problem. pennsylvania it is a big issue. the person serving coffee in the diner knows energy policy is a major driver of inflation.
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it hurts manufacturing. companies can't find enough diesel fuel. it's not about the pricing. it is hurting their balance sheets because they can't afford it. if you can't find diesel fuel for your trucks to build the distribution center, there is no distribution center being built. >> bill: in that state, the western half of pennsylvania, energy is a big issue. >> huge for good reason. we have natural gas under our feet in pennsylvania. enough to power the entire country for hundreds of years. hypocrisy from the left. this is not the democratic party, a far left agenda with a green new deal. it can't be done in the way the timeline articulated. if we took the natural gas under our feet and supplant what other countries are doing and ship it over there it could be the equivalent of electric filing every vehicle in america and wind energy and more than they could ever do on their own allowing natural gas to be used. when president biden won't meet with the energy companies. it is a clear message.
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they say he won't return our calls. we want to do more and know we can help. if we don't trust the federal government to not have some unhe bureaucrat. what responsible business leader will make that decision. tell us that you will help us do what's right for america and we can pump out gas and energy in order to drop energy prices that will independent of all these fed efforts drop inflation rates. >> dana: it is galling to them that he won't meet with them but go to saudi arabia to meet with the crown priens. >> and work with the iranians and venezuela. not just selling our allies short. what does that message mean to america and the rest of the world. >> dana: there is an open senate seat. you won the republican primary and off to the races when it comes to the general. which is a little odd general. because we have the democratic candidate who suffered a severe
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heart ailment in june and his wife on june 14th said about john fetterman, he has fought one of the hardest races for the last 18 months. traveled the whole state and gave his life to public service. plenty of time to meet with voerts and he is anxious to do that. the usa today poll showed fetterman at 56% and you at 37%. 46 and 37, right. undecided 13%. how will you convince some of the undecided to come over tower side. >> that poll was done roughly the day the secretary of state endorsed that i had won the primary. so you have a lot of republicans who just figureing out i am their candidate. we have to heal the wounds from the primary. naturally republicans will migrate to my side and even up the race. the issue is in november why will people vote for me? two reasons. we have an honest approach to
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the economy that will reduce inflation and address energy issues and honest about safety in our streets. philadelphia has the biggest crime wave of murders in its history. it's where i live. fetterman doesn't believe in hief sentences for murder and open border with sank wore cities. pennsylvania is already a border state because of narcotics worse. they virtue signal but don't help the people of pennsylvania. they'll vote on those issues and vote for me. >> bill: you have an open field now. john fetterman is not campaigning. it must be an enormous advantage for you in the early stage. it seems pretty obvious. >> i'm working my tail off. >> bill: not to win it would be a shocker. the poll suggests you are traveling significantly. >> that's fascinating.
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republicans when they realize we're unified party and what i spent this week doing, spent this week traveling around pennsylvania, when you do that and all the senate candidates i was competing again endorsed me the party unifies. that happened a month ago. it is a time issue. i don't care what's happening with polls. i know what the issues will that will be decided on and after a couple million dollars everyone will understand fetterman. far to the left of joe biden. joe biden isn't popular. if you go far to the left of him. no one likes the far left liberal agenda. conservative democrats and independents are with me honestly speak with the jobs to protect in our state and speak with scientific integrity to what's really going down. if you thrust the green new deal which is intellect you willly dishonest you have to defend it.
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there will be a recall on the d.a. in philadelphia. south street. i took my wife to the first date. there is open warfare there. people underage not allowed to have guns shooting into crowds and chasing the police away from trying to help. lawlessness that has been supported because people aren't willing to make brave decisions. what i ask is that one thing. we cannot be a free people if we aren't a brave people. please allow yourself the freedom to say what you see. if we do that everybody right now will be a healthier country shut down by people like fetterman. i am for opening up those pathways of communication. >> dana: fascinating race to cover. good to see you in person as well. dr. oz, thank you so much. moving on here is this. >> we have a police department that is an incredible one but stretched incredibly thin. they can't be everywhere at every time. people are scared and they want to learn how to protect
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before. fox news reviewed some crime data and they found that cities like milwaukee, d.c., atlanta, baltimore and los angeles are all recording more homicides this year compared to 2021. milwaukee seeing the biggest jump. 96 homicides as of june 17th compared to the 77 that happened at the same time last year. that's a nearly 25% increase. here in los angeles, homicides are up roughly 7 1/2%. just one week ago two police officers were shot and killed in a city just east of downtown l.a. mother of one of those officers is putting part of the blame on l.a. county d.a. george gascon saying his policies led to the shooter getting a lenient sentence for a past crime putting him back on the streets to ultimately kill her son. the national fallen officer foundation says the rising crime rate isn't about policing but policy. >> the reality is it's not police. i think it's important for us to explain to the public that
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there is a difference between law enforcement and the administration of justice. what happens once they get into the criminal justice system is on the d.a. and judges and on the liberal politicians that continue to release the violent offendsers back into our society. >> for a little perspective this is a graph from the f.b.i. showing homicides dating back to 1985. the peak is 1993. more than 23,000 nationwide. there is a steady decline for several years but starts going back up and spikes after 2019. that's when there was a 30% jump from 2019 to 2020. >> bill: jeff paul, thank you in los angeles. dana. >> dana: along with violent crime we're seeing a large uptick against police. there has been a big surge in police retirements and resignations in recent years.
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joe is here. you said alarming things to me and you said this is something you have never seen. that you've never seen it this bad. you say it is not hyperbole when you say your profession is dying. for our viewers here describe what you are seeing and why you feel the way you do. >> you know, for the better part of a decade we have had media and politicians systematically burning down the institution of policing in this country and we're living in the ashes. retirements are up nationwide 45%. resignations up 25%. the nypd saw a spike in people leaving the department. in seattle hundreds of police officers are leaving their department. we don't have anybody to take their place because recruitment is tanking worse than the stock market was last week. applications are down 40% in massachusetts. 80% down in new jersey. in illinois they are down 70%.
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chicago alone has seen 83% reduction in applications. this is leading to dangerous understaffing on the streets at a time when violence is through the roof to the tune of 157 police officers shot already this year. response times are through the roof. we don't have people to investigate the crimes. in seattle they aren't investigating sexual assault cases because they need all hands on deck on the streets. i've been a police officer for 17 years, dana. it is not hyperbole when i say our profession is dying. we have been denigrated and treated like crap for years and we're all sick of it. >> bill: first 5 1/2 months of this years officer on patrol injured by gunfire 173 officers shot and injured. same time period 158 cops shot and killed which is the number you just mentioned there. what did the defund the police
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movement do to this? how did that factor in? >> well, the defund the police movement was just the chef's kiss on all the horrible rhetoric that has been directed at police officers over the last few years openly calling for all of us to lose our jobs. this is the only profession in the united states aside from our brave servicemen and women that we go to work every day and people are actively trying to kill us. right now what is going on in law enforcement is not sustainable. we can't continue to take the losses we're taking in retirements and resignation. the only solution departments will have is reducing services to the community or lowering standards for the people that we're hiring so we hear so much out there about how we need to build trust with the community. how will it work out when we stop showing up when your house gets burglarized. it has to stop. we could turn this around. here is an idea. how about we support the men and women who put a uniform on
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every day. how about we absolutely treat anyone who thinks violence against police officers like a pariah instead of putting them on face time on the news. it has to stop. >> dana: joe, we hear you. your passion is obvious and your message comes through loud and clear. thank you so much. >> bill: thank you, joe, good luck. >> thank you. >> bill: you need it. drug dealers exploiting america's kids and using he moj east to cover their tracks. why authorities are sounding the alarm. big story here. stay tuned on that. house republicans unveiling a plan to track tens of billions of dollars in misspent covid relief funds. how will that work and will democrats be on board? talk to james freeman, "wall street journal," next. >> if you stole cash during the pandemic by fraudulently applying for poa benefits, turn yourself in and repay the funds that you stole from the taxpayers.
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>> dana: police say drug dealers are using social media to target children, selling them fentanyl-laced pills with deadly consequences. hillary vaughn has more from capitol hill. >> back in the day when you thought about a drug deal you would picture a dark alley somewhere. but today children have access to the dark world of drugs right in the palm of their hand right at home.
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>> it was super bowl sunday. a little over a year ago and our son sammy was up in his room. >> sammy was 16 years old in high school when a drug dealer offered him a menu of prescription drugs on snapchat and delivered it to his doorstep. >> our son got what he thought was a pharmaceutical delivered to him at night after we were asleep as easily as ordering a pizza. we went up to our son's room and found him in what they call the fentanyl death pose. >> the drug enforcement agency says prescription drugs are being marketed to kids all over social media. but what they get is fentanyl and one pill can kill. alexandra was in college and home for the holidays when she bought oxy from a drug dealer off social media. >> and that turned out she was sold a counterfeit pill made
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simply of a lethal dose of fentanyl. >> zach was the star of his high school football team and thought he bought percocet but it wasn't. he was found dead two hours later. >> when we got the toxicology report it was five times the amount to kill a person so that's why they couldn't bring him back. >> the dea says drug dealers are using emojis for kids. >> tiktok, snapchat, instagram messaging service don't allow for parent monitoring software. >> some parents want to be able to sue social media companies. >> everybody should be responsible for the actions. that goes for big tech or anybody else. >> so what is being done? meta, tiktok and snap banned search terms and emojis associated with drugs on their
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platforms and beefed up teams in technology to catch any of this chatter online. snap is building a tool to help parents have more insight into who their kids are talking to but bottom line, dana, the d.o.j. wants more cooperation from social media companies to help them stop drug trafficking on these platforms and catch the drug dealers behind it. dana. >> dana: hillary vaughn on capitol hill for us. thank you. >> bill: we do have a decision in a case we've been watching carefully from the u.s. supreme court. the decision -- opinion just handed down a moment ago ruling on school choice and religious freedom. that directly applied to a school in the state of maine. shannon bream going through that opinion and joins us now for the decision. shannon, what did you find out? >> this has been a case that school choice folks have been watching very intently. in maine they have various school districts and geographic areas. if there is not an available school there, that meets the
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public school that meets the needs of your family they provide vouchers that you can use elsewhere and there has been a big fight whether that includes religious private schools. something that has a religious base to it. the court has just ruled that the program which banned those funds from going to religious schools violates the constitution meaning those vouchers can be used at private schools that have a religious core to them. in the opinion written by chief justice roberts he says maine's non-sectarian requirement for its otherwise generally available tuition assistance payments violates the free exercise clause of the first amendment regardless of how the benefit and restriction are described. it identifies and excerpts schools on the basis of their religious exercise. a big win for school choice advocates who wanted money to follow students rather than go to school districts.
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it doesn't go that far but it potentially opens the door saying the maine program that says you can't use school vouchers at religious schools violates the constitution. >> bill: thank you for that, shannon. there are a few other opinions that have been handed down but we were tracking that carefully. no ruling yet on the abortion case. we'll be on stand by. >> we get the next opinion in about five or six minutes. >> bill: thank you, shannon. nice to see you. house republicans now unveiling a plan to recoup billions in miss spent covid relief funds. it was a taxpayer heist saying democrats aren't interested in fixing it or finding the money. james freeman assistant editor for the "wall street journal" here. are we talking about $160 billion? it's not nothing. >> not pocket change. that's out of an $800 billion
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plus program funding unemployment insurance. that is not all fraud. that is misstep money. a lot of it the labor department says is fraud. this goes beyond just the labor department. we've seen at the same business administration shoveling out covid money for paycheck protection and emergency loans huge reports of fraud there as well. tens of thousands of complaints. billions of dollars. it makes sense. it could have been predicted. if you think about this idea in the spring of 2020 and shut down much of society and start shoveling money out of washington to simulate prosperity you knew it would go wrong. >> dana: the democrats aren't taking any responsibility for this. they blame president trump. call for number 2. listen here. >> the trump administration contributed to this problem by failing to put basic fraud controls in place to protect these vital relief programs and
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american taxpayers from fraud. the biden administration has taken action to reverse the damage caused by the prior administration and to prevent future fraud. >> dana: have they? >> well, i think they are not doing what the suggestion is here which is give states an incentive to get that money back. this was a bipartisan effort supported by democrats and republicans. they wanted the money out quickly and that's why you didn't have lots of these fraud protections that in hindsight we might say that would have been a good idea. >> bill: who cares who was in office at the time? who cares which party? if there is fraud and it is our money, go get it. >> yeah. the catastrophe. we think about running $6 trillion in debt aided and abetted by $5 trillion money creation at the federal reserve. the kids who suffered lost learning, mental health issues
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from isolation, drug abuse. all these problems now we're seeing the other side of the ledger where all that money went. often it's sophisticated criminal networks. some operating overseas, russia, china, what have you. the scale of this disaster is really just coming into focus. >> bill: this is why people don't trust washington >> a good reason not to. >> bill: they don't trust politicians. $163 billion out there you could recoup 4 billion of the 163. what's the percentage of 4 out of 163? it's pathetic. >> we don't know it's only 163. they are still tracking down. the "chicago tribune" has been doing good reporting on the state of illinois. one unemployment program based on the state audit most of it was fraud. we're not arguing about what percentage is kind of acceptable. most of the money going to people who were not supposed to receive it. >> dana: in addition to this problem, you have all the money that went out to schools that
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have not been spent and they are holding onto it and yet now you could see there might be -- if they get a gun law passed, great. they want to add more money for schools for safety and i'm thinking no. that money is sitting there and you can use that money for that. that's what a family would do and a small business owner would do. >> that's right. it is unfoouriateing for parents who heard their schools were closed for so long because we haven't gotten all the money we need to do the upgrades necessary. we don't have all the filtration systems. all of this, of course, was overkill. we knew from day one children were not at great risk. but to be told now that the money went out and wasn't stolen by fraudsters is sitting there unspent is modening. >> bill: okay. >> dana: follow him. he campaigned for the white house as a six-pack joe but is president biden out of touch with ordinary americans as they pay more and more for groceries
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the u.s. supreme court. we expect five opinions. we got them. the one that got our decision was the on school chase out of the state of maine whether or not the state could forbid vouchers to students who attend religious schools. >> dana: this is really big. school choice movement is going across the country. parents want to make a change. for some of them, you remember the catholic schools stayed open and it seemed like an attractive option for people. at maine you couldn't have used the vouchers at a catholic school. this is a big change but watch for this to reverb brate throughout the country. >> bill: 10 days left in the session. the question about gun rights, the big question about immigration, title 42, and also dobbs versus jackson women's health organization which is
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the abortion rights case still pending and outstanding. >> dana: we might have that thursday. now this. >> president biden: not the majority aren't saying that. now you sound like a republican politician. that was a joke. >> dana: president biden scolding a reporting for asking about a possible recession. a question on most of americans' minds as they struggle more and more to afford the basics. fox news contributor joe concha is with us now. when you are talking about recession you look backwards. we had one quarter of negative growth. could be in another quarter now. many ceos say they think that could actually be. joe biden is saying it's not inevitable. seems like -- if you say that tell us what you are doing to prevent it. >> he said don't make things up. most economists aren't saying this. according the bureau of economic research 70% of the economist they surveyed say
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they think we are headed for a recession. we experienced negative growth last quarter and some of the comments the president made recently saying we have the fastest growing economy in the world and said inflation is a global problem and everybody is feeling the same pain. there are 94 countries that have a lower inflation rate than we do. so no, we are not on the same plain. china is only at 2% inflation. four times less than we are. they are our biggest economic rival. you would think if we're experiencing high inflation they would. but perhaps they have their spending under control while we don't. >> bill: they use the word not inevitable. if i was in the administration i would use the same thing until you can prove to me we're there. steve moore made the case we're already in recession. some people agree, some do not. john harwood, cnn had a big commentary on this yesterday. -- sunday this was.
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>> what's false is that he is not capable of doing the job right now or he is not mentally in tune with the demands of the job. anybody -- any aide who engages with him or reporters, we can see this, the gears of his mind are working. that is an issue pushed by right wing media but it is not correct. >> some of that was in response to the bicycle fall from saturday but that whole phrase about the gears of his mind are working. >> interesting. that's the guy who asked the clinton campaign chief in 2016 what should i ask jeb bush? real reporters go to rival candidates to see what questions they should z. i don't think we should take him seriously. on the ground if the president is too old for the job. 2/3 of voters feel the president is too slow to react to crisis. 21% of those responding say they want president biden to run again in 2024.
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1 in 5 voters for the guy who got the most votes in american history now say we want to see a second act. so time and time again we just see that voters think that okay, mr. biden, we don't think you should run in 2024 and that includes a lot of democrats. >> dana: a lot of democrats. david axelrod saying in a second term he would be too old. byron york asked if he would be too old in two years. what does it mean for right now? to be continued. great to see you. >> take care. >> bill: a couple and their two dogs lucky to be alive. they were on a 70-foot yacht they called home destroyed in a massive fire while they were on board. kit and diane watson here to describe the terrifying scene next.
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>> harris: other media outlets getting a taste of what we at fox see consistently. president biden gets very angry when you ask him about things that aren't working. for goodness sakes, don't bring up the recession. one reporter found that out the hard way. a minute by minute wait for big u.s. supreme court decision including roe v. wade, plus is the prestigious military academy west point going woke? find out what they're teaching. congressman andy biggs, jason chaffetz, art laffer, "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> bill: thank you. disturbing news out of texas, a hearing underway in the state senate in texas and police commander out of texas saying officers could have stopped the gunman in the uvalde school shooting within three minutes. what that is based on we do not know. that was his testimony just a minute ago which can be no resolution to the families down
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there in uvalde still trying to recover from this and life going forward. wow. that's the headline. we're watching it for you. when there is more news we'll pass it to you out of texas, meanwhile, three people and two dogs forced to jump overboard from this ship when it was on fire. that's a 70-foot yacht engulfed on saturday in thick black smoke and flames. the owners are kit and diane watson who lived on the yacht for the past year and they join us now. it is good to see you. had a few dogs on board as well. wow. this is a beautiful boat and it was your life and it went up in flames. what were you thinking? >> survival. we didn't have much time. we saw smoke coming up and the boat was immediately ungufld in flames. our main goal was to get ourselves off the boat and our dogs. our dogs first, then us.
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we all know dogs are more important than we are. and we got off with the clothes on our back and that was our home and we lost everything we had. >> dana: you grabbed a couple of noodles that you use in a pool to help you float for a while. is that right? >> that's what we had, yes. >> that's it. they worked and saved our lives. >> bill: you said you saw your life flash before you. >> well, i just -- it was jump or we are going to die. that's it. jump or you are going to die. i thought possibly -- i just was afraid of dying. we could very well have been dead and we're not and that's all that matters. we're alive. >> dana: do you know at all, kit, what might have started it? >> we have no idea. we were getting ready to dock
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the boat and i was in the bridge and my wife said she smelled smoke. we got the fire extinguisher out. when that happened we couldn't get into the boat. it was black, toxic smoke overcame us and we got to the stern, grabbed the noodles. got the dogs in the water and grabbed my american flag, the preetiest flag in the world. i'm the captain but the dinghy behind was on fire. it was very hard to abandon our home. >> dana: can i ask you? i think people will wonder. how did the dogs do in the water for i think -- how long was it before you were rescued? 10 minutes. tell us what that was like watching them. these are your loved ones as well. >> actually the older one loves the water. she jumps off the boat when she
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sees dolphins. the younger one is only four months old now and she was on her shoulder the whole way and we got them out of the boat and we came next and watched everything we own burn ip and ended up sinking. thank god for our family who took us in, bought us clothing. >> everyone at the dock. >> everyone at the dock. they were so helpful. it really gave us a shot of adrenalin it is still america. >> i'm glad your alive and doing okay. a beautiful boat. elusive. it must be painful to lose it. thank you for your time. you have family in the state of maine and taking care of them now. >> dana: what a story of survival. thank you for coming on. they are also now responsible for the cleanup of any of the fuel there in the water. so there is that on their minds
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as well. >> bill: that boat is at the bottom of the ocean. 67 and 57 you start over again. >> dana: you can see how close they are as a couple. they'll be just fine and thank them for watching "america's newsroom" and thank you for watching "america's newsroom." >> bill: we'll see you later? >> dana: i'll be on "the five". harris faulkner is up next. here is the "the faulkner focus". >> harris: top economists are warning the signs are now building for a recession to hit the united states. but the president does not want to hear about that. just moments ago, another example of it. the associated press reporting u.s. home sales slowed down in may for the fourth straight month. interest rates going up. american consumption and confidence going down. and then there is the blowup at the beach as president biden went off on a reporter for asking about his flailing economy. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". we need a pr
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