>> for tickets head to "fox & friends".com to register and you'll see the show and get a free breakfast. >> have a great day, everyone. >> bill: good morning. the president is trying to pump the brakes on gas taxes calling for a three-month holiday. would it make a difference for you and the american people as we say good morning. i'm bill hemmer. quick answer on that in a moment here. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." this was embargoed until 5:00 a.m. and now everybody is picking it apart. president biden is urging congress to suspend the federal gas tax. >> bill: americans are taxed 18 cents a gallon if you are paying regular, 24 cents if you

are paying diesel. the president wants to suspend that through september. he needs congressional approval to get it done, however. members of both parties are a bit skeptical. >> dana: jason chaffetz echoed concerns of republicans who say it won't address the real issue. >> it's a pure gimmick and does not solve the problem at all. it really doesn't. we have a supply problem and the president has no plan other than to go to the saudis, cut some gas tax, tap into the strategic petroleum reserve, all of which are bad ideas. produce the energy at home and they can solve the problem. that's not what he is doing. >> bill: what is he doing? peter doocy joins us from the north lawn leading the coverage today. good morning. >> even if this gas tax holiday gets passed by congress, it is unclear this morning exactly how much help people are going to get. >> markets don't respond to

gimmicks. the administration -- it is an unserious solution to a serious problem and they are just not taking this as it really should. >> members of both parties are skeptical. the republican argument from tom cotton reads like this. the dems tax holiday is a gimmick worth 18 cents a gallon or 6% of the increase in gas since biden took office meant to cover up that stem policies that restricted supply and raised cost. democratic argument from fuhrman is this. >> i don't think it's a good idea. if you do it at the national level there is nothing that says that the companies pass the savings on. they could keep the extra profit for themselves. >> president biden is blaming putin and oil companies. chevron is responding. your administration is largely sought to criticize and at times vilify our industry. these actions are not beneficial to meeting the

challenges we face and are not what the american people deserve. president biden appears unphased. >> president biden: i didn't know they get their feelings hurt that quickly. look, we need more refining capacity. this idea that they don't have oil to drill and to bring up is simply not true. >> these big oil ceos are invited to the white house tomorrow. but president biden says he is not going to see them. he will leave that up to staff. >> bill: thanks for that. we'll track it. what difference would it make? we'll ask larry kudlow bottom of the hour. join larry with his thoughts on the gas tax. >> dana: l.a.'s district attorney george gascon reinforcing his decision to go soft on a gang member who shot police last week. he only got probation instead of jail for a 2020 gun and drug

arrest. >> there has been a lot of public outrage in los angeles and across the country over the shooting deaths of those two el monte police officers last week. l.a. county district attorney george gascon held a press conference in downtown los angeles to explain his office's decision not to fully prosecute their suspected killer justin flores who was out on probation. critics say flores should not have been a free man in the first place but in jail. those two officers should be alive today. they both leave behind a wife and children. alleged killer flores had one strike on his record for a previous burglary and in 2021 as a convicted felon he was given probation for a gun and drug possession when he could have been sent to jail for years. gascon expressed his deepest condolences to the officers' family and community but insisted the probation was

appropriate. his criminal history wasn't violent. he said we have an imperfect system and we can't do the if thing to death. >> i know this is frustrating to hear and it may not help heal the wounds for some. but we do not serve our community when we try to pretend that we can predict 100% of the time when these cases are going to occur. >> here on fox news the mother of one of the killed police officers says she thinks gascon's policies are to blame for her son's death. i did ask him for a direct response at the end of the news conference. >> do you have anything to say to the mother of police officer santana explaining your policies for her son's death? >> he chose not to answer that question. gascon is facing losing his job

here through a recall. organizers say they have enough signatures to get the recall on the november ballot but they will continue collecting more, dana. >> dana: matt finn in l.a. thank you. bill. >> bill: another night is in the books, another june primary behind me on the map. you can see virginia, alabama, georgia were up last night. let's start at the senate. runoff race in the state of alabama and we have a winner, mo brooks was trying to win the seat. he failed 2-1 to katie britt. britt picked up the endorsement of donald trump in the final weeks of that campaign. mo brooks had it and lost it several months ago. britt in all likelihood will be a u.s. senator coming from the deep red state of alabama come november. couple of really good house races, too i want to show you a few in georgia first. and this is a bit of a stunner. mike collins, who wanted trump's endorsement campaigned

like he was all in for trump and beat vernon jones badly almost 75% of the vote. trump got behind jones and tried to pick up the seat to no avail. east of atlanta now as it runs to the south carolina border with augusta, georgia. district 10 in all likelihood mike collins will be your representative in the u.s. house come november. a few other ones on the map. two in virginia. this is virginia congressional district 2 lies in the southeast and virginia beach, a real good candidate, very impressive resume kiggans is an easy winner, a navy helicopter pilot. nurse, mother of four and set up a good race for republicans think they can flip the race come november. also congressional district 7 also an area where republicans think they have a chance of doing this here.

vega, latino. well-known statewide. how does it look now? come back here and i will advance you one time past georgia. this is your match-up in virginia, too. laura on the january 6 committee will face off against higgins and vega will take on spanberger in the newly drawn 7th district north of richmond here and south of washington, d.c. they are in the books ready to go head-to-head in november. >> dana: great update. we want to update you on another race in south texas. democratic congressman cuellar won the recall. a setback for progressives. here is former house speaker newt gingrich. here is what cisnero said last night. i'm grateful for the leap of

faith you took on the race. i fight for a more progressive democratic party and work to turn texas blue next november. she was a challenger but they came close, mr. speaker. they came pretty close. >> i think it tells you a lot about the modern very left wing democratic party that cuellar is the last democrat who is pro-life in the u.s. house. a party which had been historically about 50/50 has over the last 20 years become totally committed to abortion and that's part of why he had so much support against him from around the country. he has very strong local roots and continues to survive but it does tell you a lot about the politics of the democratic party that he is literally the last pro-life democrat in the u.s. house of representatives. >> bill: a lot of republicans thought if cisneros was a candidate they could defeat her in department. we'll see what happens with

cuellar now. in nevada there is a suggestion that democrats in the state by the thousands are dropping their registration with the democratic party and joining republicans. what do you know about that? >> well, i know that people in nevada have a very strong anger about how the governor handled covid, the economy has never fully recovered. we have a very, very strong candidate in laxalt, the former attorney general running for senate. strong candidates at every level including the sheriff running for governor. i think nevada will be one of the states that has a biggest shift towards republicans. and remember, whatever the polling data is like, what matters in the end is who is willing to show up and vote. what we saw in that south texas special elect should be recently is the democrats just collapsed. they wouldn't go out and vote. we had one county that swung 38

percentage points from democrat to republican in the special two weeks ago. so i think that you are seeing this happen. i think nevada will be similar and latinos in particular have really dramatically rejected the kind of woke approach to racist, trans sexual, 37 or 55 different pronouns. all that stuff goes over very bad in the latino community and they're practical. you buy gas and say it ain't working. buy baby food and say it ain't working. go down the list and the number of people now will figure out big government socialism doesn't work grows every single week because they feel the pain personally. >> dana: up on the board call for 3, the balance of power in the house now. democrats at 220, republicans 2010. now that we have a lot of primaries in the books i know we have redrawn districts so we don't precisely know if all of

these will turn out in the republicans' favor obviously but as you read the tea leaves looking to november based on what we've seen in the last few weeks what will happen in november in the mid-terms? >> assuming for a moment that biden sticks with his left wing anti-oil, anti-gas policy and assuming they remain as incompetent as they have been and part of the left. the border is not uncontrolled because they are incompetent. it is uncontrolled because they want it to be. criminals you saw in your report from los angeles, criminals aren't on the street by accident. criminals are on the street because soros has been spending money to elect very left-wing district attorneys who refuse to lock up dangerous people. if all of that continues, then kevin mccarthy will be speaker, mitch mcconnell will be majority leader in the house. the margin will be somewhere between 25 and 70 seat gain depending on exactly what

happens. remember, if you have a county that swings 38 points, you have no idea what is going to happen around the country because you don't know how people are going to feel. i think they'll get madder, not happier. particularly if a recession builds as people keep predicting and if federal reserve keeps raising interest rates. the biggest borrower. interest crowds out everything else and it becomes an enormous problem probably by october. >> bill: drama in november. thank you for your time. we'll speak soon. democrats focusing on crime as the top issue in the election. stacey abrams is making the second amendment making it a focus in her race for governor. >> dana: a plane burst into flames at the miami airport.

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>> dana: traj ickx news out of afghanistan today. 1,000 people have died at least and 1500 others hurt after a powerful 5.9 earthquake that struck a rural area near the

border with pakistan. afghanistan's most deadly earthquake in decades. officials warning the death toll could rise higher. >> bill: back in this country crime shaping up to be a major issue in georgia governor's race. brian kemp five points ahead of stacey abrams in the latest real clear average. both are outlining their plans to try to keep that state safe. governor brian kemp is my guest now. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. >> bill: this is one of the most-watched races in the country. rematch from four years ago. an ad that you just put out hitting stacey abrams on the defund the police message. >> would abrams defund the police? >> we have to reallocate resources, so yes. >> fewer cops, more crime? stacey abrams is wrong and dangerous. >> it goes on from there. she responded in the following statement saying house democratic leader i worked across the aisle with the

former governor to pass criminal justice reform in georgia that the current governor irresponsibly dispanneded as violence continues to rise across the state under his leadership we must recognize in order to achieve public safety we must also invest in criminal justice and can't punish our way to safety. it doesn't work, it never has. reaction is what then? >> look, that's just some good old political spin right there, bill. she didn't want to address her own words that she said she would defund the police. that is not the camp that i'm in. last year well over a year ago we passed legislation to keep local governments from defunding the police. i'm the guy that ran on going after street gangs for years ago. since i've been in office i've had to deal with local elected officials at the democratic level that wouldn't go after violent criminals. the state has stepped in and

started doing that. thankfully we have local leaders now in the fight with us. people in georgia want somebody to keep their community safe and what we've been working toward every day and thankfully now we're pushing others at the local level to join with us to do just that. >> bill: atlanta it's topic number one. back to the poll you are up five. do you believe it? >> i'm not worried about any poll until election day. my thought and process for our team for marti and the girls is we get up every day trying to win that day. we'll do that today and do it tomorrow all the way through november. but we have got to make sure that stacey abrams is not going to be our governor or next president. that would be a threat to really the great things we've been able to do in georgia, the great state that we live in. she says it's not. i believe that it is. and that's why we're in a fight for the soul of our state right now and working so hard to make sure it doesn't happen. >> bill: let me ask you about last night. collins was a winner easily

over vernon jones that we showed viewers 15 minutes ago. trump got behind jones and he got wiped out. why do you think it appears that donald trump is doing really well in a lot of these primaries in different parts of the country. not so much in georgia. how come? >> i think here all politics is local. look, mike collins dad was a good friend of mine and served in congress, his mom, julie, a great georgian. he is a true conservative and been involved in republican politics at the local grassroots level. he is a small business owner. i think that's what people resonated to in the 10th congressional district and he will do a great job in washington for us. >> bill: did you back collins because of that or because donald trump went with the other candidate? >> no, look, president trump had endorsed other candidates around the state and then a lot of other races and it is his right to do that.

i backed mike, i've known his family for a long time and felt he was the true conservative in the race and been involved in the grassroots movement and understands the district. a small business owner like me. that's what we need in washington, d.c. just like what president biden is trying to do right now with gas prices, it's not fixing the underlying problem. we need to send somebody like mike collins who deals with that every day owning a trucking company up there to bring some sanity to washington, d.c. like we have here in this great state. >> bill: collins will likely win that district. it is pretty red. thank you for your time and we'll watch it in the next five months. >> dana: the migrant crisis worsen. an up close look at operation lone star next. president obama called a gas tax holiday a gimmick. now president biden supports it.

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take a live look we aren't just talking about boots on the ground but also important equipment and other assets here in the rio grande river in mission, texas this morning most of the boats you see in the water, they belong to the military and heading out for the day to various points up and down the river. bird's eye view from the fox flight team drone as you know the river serves as the international boundary between mexico and the united states. officials tell us that the guards 50 watercraft proved to be invaluable in reaching remote spots and getting smugglers. as the number of migrant encounters keep going up officials say the states can only do so much and now is the time for the feds to step in and do their jobs. >> let's keep in mind 2.9 million encounters have happened, 800,000 known gotaways since biden took office. it is unacceptable and there is a huge cost to our country.

yes, economic and i can get into that but also national security. >> he mentions economic. right now the price of operation lone star sits at about $4 billion. dana. >> dana: thank you, casey. bill. >> bill: president biden set to call on congress for a three-month gas tax holiday as americans face soaring prices at the pump. ceo of chevron wrote a letter to the president saying your administration has criticized and vilify our industry. these actions are not beneficial to meeting the challenges we face and are not what the american people deserve. larry kudlow is a skeptic on the gas tax. how are you doing? a strong letter emphasizing how clean america energy is when compared to countries and companies around the world. why do you not like this federal gas tax suspension?

>> well, i don't like it because it is a couple of months. i'm all for tax cuts. in fact, to mitigate the fed's tightening and to mitigate the fight against inflation i think they should make the trump tax cuts across the board permanent is my view. they should deregulate the whole economy especially energy as the chevron ceo suggested. the bidens are running a war against fossil fuels and a war against energy and a war against business, okay? and therefore they are running a war against consumers and motorists so the inflation rate is around 10% and they could really help with a permanent tax cut, okay? lower marginal tax rates on the supply side. the gasoline tax you will get 18 cents if it's all passed along. i don't know that it will be. you know, it's about a 3% or 4% cut.

it will defund the highway trust fund which is already shaky, probably cost it $15 or 20 billion and it could damage infrastructure and road safety. i'm just saying, you know, huh, really? is this the best you guys can come up with? >> dana: also when you say it's temporary, they would then i guess have to reinstate it in september just weeks before the mid-term elections. that seems unlikely and seems unlikely to pass congress. the other thing is you worked in the white house in the last presidency. the president is inviting the oil ceos to the white house tomorrow but has pointedly said he won't meet with them. he will leave it to staff. how is that a presidential leadership way to handle a situation when in two weeks he is going to fly halfway around the world to meet with the saudis and ask them to increase oil and gas production? >> yeah, well, it's a good point, dana. you know, this is strictly

junior varsity or freshmen team stuff, an insult to the oil guys. you look at that mike worth letter and the darren woods letter from exxon, too. those guys would like to be partners. trump, for example, in the trump white house whatever you think of donald trump's tweeting and all the rest of it. the fact is he would meet with everybody whether they liked him or not across the board at industry. something like this trump would sit down and try to hammer out some understandings instead of sitting there and vilify the oil people. so you're right. it is a terrible idea. he is choosing the saudis over the u.s. you know, two more things on this. that thing is going to cost some money, dana, 15 or 20 billion all right? i don't know the exact figure. i don't know the exact parameters of this federal gas suspension. but you are going to see lefties in congress and probably the white house call for an excess profits tax on

the oil companies and the refiners. you wait and see. they will say well, we are going to give the consumers this and so we have to cover the highway trust fund, let's take it out of the hides of the fossil fuel industry, which is what they always say. you wait. that's coming. i don't think it will pass. i agree with your assessment. i think i heard you say that. none of this stuff will get through congress nor should it. the bigger issue. rick perry said this to us a month ago on our show. he said instead of having envoys to the middle east or having envoys to venezuela or iran, how about a special envoy to midland, texas, to sit down and conduct diplomacy with the american oil and gas industry, which i might add is by far the best in the world creates millions of jobs, saves people money if the administration

would let them. call off the war against the american energy industry. >> bill: not going to happen, larry. not going to happen with this team. >> you think? you think? i keep waiting for them -- look, we all know the fed is tightening and they are going to keep on tightening. this is just really the beginning of that story. we're either in the front end of a recession or we're in a recession, okay? the outlook for the economy is not good. we know that, too. the stock market is telling you again i think this morning. the point i'm making is why not some pro-growth measures, okay? as i say, go back to the successful trump tax cuts or if they have a better idea. lower marginal tax rates on individuals and small businesses. give consumers a break. deregulate. government controls and all this regulation stuff, modern day socialism is not working.

if it were working it would have already worked. that's their problem. coming up with a temporary 18 cents gas -- national gas -- leave that stuff to the state for heaven sake. >> bill: it will get attention for a day and we'll cover it later today when the president comes out here on fox. >> dana: good to see you, larry, thank you. >> bill: thanks for coming on. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: angels in the outfield last night when a lucky fan caught a home run ball during the game. he tossed it to a kid nearby. what goes around comes around. later that same game the kid's father caught a homer and the boy tossed it back to the good samaritan. lovely, lovely relationship building there in the great sport of baseball. >> bill: how will that happen in the same game? good stuff there. >> dana: are there a lot of home runs being hit? >> bill: i haven't checked. last year they were thinking --

was it last year, right, they thought the ball was juiced. that was last year, thanks, coach. >> dana: something is happening. awesome. >> bill: i favor it. >> dana: fans have good hands. >> bill: we are sending another $1 billion to ukraine to fight the war against putin. ukraine says what it urgently needs to hold off russian advances are fighter jets. there is ukrainian fighter pilot who will join us in "america's newsroom" with his plea coming up in moments. plus the mother of a murder victim in philly calling out the city's soft on crime policies she blames for her son's death and she will join us and make her case coming up. >> how many sons and daughters, mothers and fathers that we have to lose, make it right and stop it.

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>> no one is held accountable for it. they don't mind turning down a plea because they know that they will get off. >> dana: that's the mother of a 21-year-old who was shot and killed in a philadelphia mall last year as he was shopping for clothes to wear to a job interview. the man accused in his murder out on the streets despite a lengthy rap sheet. she joins us now with her fiance and thank you for being here. i think it shows incredible courage and the strength of your character that you are able to proceed in making a public plea despite your grief. when you were asked to join the press conference yesterday what was the message you were most trying to get across to people of philadelphia. >> that the crime has to stop. the violence has to stop.

it is very important that our voices are heard, the victims, the families voices are heard for change to occur for repeat offenders to be held accountable for their actions. we're suffering. we're losing our children left and right here in philadelphia and accountability and change has to happen. >> dana: i think one of the details that is so heartbreaking here is your son was getting ready for a job interview and we all know what that is like and you are nervous and practicing and want to make sure you put your best foot forward and want a new outfit. he had gone to the mall to do that and tell us a little bit about his ambitions, what he wanted to do. >> on march 29th, 2021 my son was preparing to go to the local 420 what is the number of

his birthday april 20th. he was excited to go. just wanted to have everything lined up in order and one of the things that was important to him was to look the part of the position. he had previously worked at jefferson hospital and being in that field it would be totally different than being in the local standard union where the attire and uniform would be totally different and in his mind he wanted to look the part and wanted to go in there to apply for the union and he wanted to represent what he was going for and going after. unfortunately he never made it. >> dana: it must have been a horrible call to get. we reached out to the d.a.'s office asking for a reply to your emotional plea. we did not get a response back.

i wonder if you go listen to john tuomie in harrisburg, yesterday. he is a parent and you are not alone. listen here. >> the d.a. is culpable. it is not his responsibility to act as a defense attorney for those in jail. they already get a defense attorney. that's already taken care of. he is culpable to us. who will bring him back to me? who will bring my boy? they need to impeach this [bleep]. >> dana: the defense does get a court-appointed attorney. what he and you are asking for is justice for the victims and not to be victims in the first place, leroy. let me get your reaction to that. >> yes, his statement to that was the suspects already have defense attorney that's fighting their case. we don't need the d.a. to help

their case and give them plea deals putting them back on the street. you are to represent the victims and the victims' family, not help the suspects look for easier sentence. that's where john tuomie was mad about and was very emotional yesterday for him and me. >> dana: i know that it's been -- you said it has been such a difficult time that sometimes you don't feel like living. i do think that all of our viewers here will be heartened to know that you and leroy are engaged to be married and that you are united in your grief but also in your future. any last words that you would like to say in case larry crassner's office would be hearing this? >> i just ask that the impeachment that is going forward, i want to make it very clear i come from a bipartisan

approach. i want everyone to come together collectively, whatever needs to be done, whatever changes need to take place, we need this. it is not about a democrat party, not about a republican party. it is not about division. this is affecting everyone, all parties. so if it starts with impreachment and to have him out of the office and bring someone else in to effectively protect the people, the citizens of philadelphia, then by all means necessary. because we're tired of losing our children and loved ones on the streets of philadelphia. >> dana: an amazing advocate for all the parents there. thank you. have a good day together. >> thank you. >> bill: tough story. texas now we have the word police could have stopped the uvalde, texas mass shooter win three minutes time. state senate hearings continue

today. what to expect from that testimony. passengers scrambling for safety after the plane crash landed and caught fire in miami. what officials say caused this. >> i'm actually really scared. my heart is like -- when i jumped from the airplane i was running and running.

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survived. be on the lookout. >> bill: streaming on fox nation right now. that's custom made. >> dana: i thought we were headed there. >> all right, let's get to this now. florida plane crash landed in miami. we're live in florida with what happened. >> good morning to you, bill. the plane itself remains exactly where it came to a crashing and screaming, burning stop out there on the runway. in the words of the miami mayor, the fact that nobody died in this was a miracle. flight 203 landed just after 5:00 coming from santo domingo but when it landed, based on the video, all three landing gear systems either did not deploy or all failed. so essentially the plane skidded on its belly, caught fire and finally came to a stop.

the airport fire crews raced out and sprayed foam all over the plane and eventually the very shaken passengers finally got out. >> the belly of the airplane landed and all the windows broke. the first one broke and then everything couldn't get inside like all the windows but then the people start running and running like in the movies when everyone jumps and the people jumped and they ran and a lot of people were crying and injured people that broke arms, legs. some passed out. >> about four people in total were injured. again, no one died. there were 126 people on board that passengers and 11 crew members. the plane itself is a mcdonald

douglas 82, md82 built in 1990. the airline was founded just last year. passengers say the two hour and 20 minute flight was totally normal until the fiery landing. the national transportation safety board investigators are expected on scene this morning. they may actually be there right now to start their investigation. obviously a very scary way to fly and land for anybody flying on an airplane but fortunately for the few that were injured, the injuries are relatively minor. >> bill: phil keating in miami. thanks for that. >> dana: the 146th westminster dog show is in full swing now. the hounding and herding groups this week. percy's friends coming up tonight will take the stage as part of the 14 category. tonight we'll find out which

canine will be crowned the best in show winner. you can catch all the action on fs1 and we'll see if the vizsla gets robbed again. it requires a tremendous amount of commitment on my part for percy for best in show. >> bill: you are a little busy. >> dana: shocking new testimony on the deadly shooting in uvalde, texas, armed officers on the scene could have stopped the gunman just three minutes after he entered the building. instead they waited outside the unlocked classroom door for more than an hour while the gunman carried out his attack. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. the head of texas public safety yesterday offering the clearest picture yet of the sickening slaughter inside that room. calling the police response a, quote, abject failure. his testimony outlining a series of missed opportunities

and communication breakdowns and terrible decisions all while children inside were begging for help. >> three minutes after the subject entered the building there were sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract and neutralize the subject. the only thing stopping the hallway of dedicated officers from entering room 111 and 112 was the on scene commander who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children. >> dana: we've been following the story and we have more. hi, garrett. >> this timeline of the shooting is filled with gut wrenching failures. none of the police radios worked inside the school. the doors of the school, they were not able to be locked from the inside. and two of the doors at the school and in the classroom failed to lock when they were closed which allowed the gunman to walk right in. the most prominent failures, though, according to the head

of the department of public safety were from the on scene commander, the police chief. the gunman could have been stopped within three minutes but instead arredondo ignoreed everything law enforcement learned about how to respond to active shooters and ordered officers not to move in and to wait. >> one error 14 minutes 8 seconds, that's how long the children waited and the teachers waited in rooms 111 to be rescued. while they waited, the on scene commander waited for a radio. he waited for shields. then he waited for swat. lastly, he waited for a key that was never needed. >> last night at the uvalde city council meeting folks in

the community were outraged from changing explanations for what happened at the rob elementary school and many are following for arredondo to be fired. get this man out of our lives, we're begging. >> adding to the conflicting narratives from official the mayor accused the texas department of public statement of lying and misleading the public in trying to scapegoat local police by selectively releasing information about the shooting. >> as we know it, we will share it. we are not going to hold back anymore. we kept quiet at the request because we thought we were doing a formal investigation and doing the right thing. but yes, people in austin have paukd about different things and not shared anything with the city. >> the mayor didn't rule out suing the department of public safety to get more information about its investigation and as for the future of rob

elementary school last night the mayor confirmed the school will be demolished. >> dana: garrett tenney, thank you. >> bill: ukraine's military claiming a significant victory, it says, striking russian forces on snake island. you may recall. here are before and after satellite images revealing damage from the latest attack on the strategic outpost 80 miles off the southern coast of ukraine in the black sea. this as president biden continues to provide billions of dollars in military aid to ukraine. but so far refusing to send over f-16 or mig fighter jets. now president zelenskyy has sent a military delegation straight from the front lines to america seeking the war planes they need. with us here in the u.s. is a ukrainian fighter pilot. he is an aerial defense specialist and we are keeping the identity and location of his name secret for his own

protection. welcome to our program and welcome to the united states. to you, it does not appear you are going to get the mig fighters. what have you heard from the lawmakers and the politicians you have met with? >> first of all i want to thank all american people and american military and government for such great weapons support, assistance and also humanitarian and tech -- your weapons helps against the invaders. about our fighters, they are still using pretty old soviet mig 9s and we are doing our

best to save our peaceful cities and of course to cover our troops from the front lines. but unfortunately we are not capable enough to do it efficiently and that's why now we are discussing the weapons to ask the u.s. government to receive -- [inaudible] air aid for ukraine air force. >> dana: i wonder if you could tell us the situation now. it was amazing what the ukrainian military was able to do to fight back against putin. maybe the last couple of weeks it felt like maybe one, you need more weapons than you have. and that putin continues to make a real steady advance. how do you see the state of the

war at this moment? >> well, i would say that we did a great job and we couldn't do it without the support of our counterparts particularly without support of the united states and for now we have a tough fight in the east and south parts of ukraine but we still can do it well and with your support we definitely will win. our military leaders as well as the united states leaders they are doing a great job. they are discussing and they are -- counter actions they are mutual -- their efforts there always keep the space of supporting our forces and if it will keep this space and we did

it for this moment we'll definitely win and we have no doubt. >> bill: we'll see how this troop goes. to both of you good luck. when you go back to the front lines and also lieutenant colonel. want to bring in dan hoffman, former cia chief of station. what would you tell them as they continue their pursuit for more help? >> listen, you know, they are out there on the front lines and they are fighting for their country. and we've done a lot to keep ukraine in the fight but we are not doing enough. i would just emphasize this. the russian ruble is at a seven year high, russia is exporting massive amounts of oil to india and china. the european sanctions haven't begun yet. we aren't able to get russia to hurt their economy enough for putin to stop this barbaric

onslaught. it will be won on the battlefield and we aren't giving ukraine what they need to win it. they need mig 29ss more rocket systems with the range of 200 miles, not 40 miles. there is a lot more we could be doing. i think this administration should understand the greatest provocation of it all is if we allow ukraine to lose this fight for their survival. >> dana: thank you so much. we thank the gentlemen for joining us. big mission they have and big ask and they showed a lot of gratitude to the americans for what we have done so far. dan, thank you. los angeles district attorney gascon is defending the policies that put a criminal back on the streets that led to the murder of two police officer. >> bill: how chinese-produced fentanyl is finding its way into the hands of american

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>> dana: this just in. we've been waiting for the supreme court announcements. one of the things that happens is they decide that they will give out opinions a couple of days of the week and they are usually just two days of the week. we were waiting for more on thursday. the court announced on its website they'll have additional rulings on friday of this week. they have a few things they need to clear off of the docket so we don't know what those opinions will be but we know that some of the big ones, including the gun rights bill and, of course, the mississippi case on abortion and roe v. wade. those are still to be decided. we'll find out on thursday and friday. we'll have all the coverage for you here. meanwhile, cnn sounding the alarm over the supreme court's ruling yesterday which overturned a maine law that bars religious schools from receiving tuition assistance. let's bring in jason riley, fox news contributor. it's pretty big ruling and i

want to read to you from chief justice roberts and sotomayor. roberts said the state pays tuition for certain students at private schools so long as the schools are not religious. that is discrimination against religion. sotomayor says if a state cannot offer subsidies to its citizens without being required to fund religious exercise any state that values its anti-establishment will have to curtail the support it offers to its citizens. when you heard this news, i know you have said a lot about school choose. what was your reaction? >> i thought it was great news. it is a two-fer. a win for kids and a win for religious liberty in this country. i don't think it was a hard case, dana. you cited chief justice roberts there and he had written in an earlier case two years ago involving a similar program similar type of situation in montana. all he is saying is states

don't have to have these tuition programs but if they do have them, they can't discriminate against religious institutions, which is what was going on here. i think that is a very reasonable decision and i think it is a boon for school choice and it is very timely decision because more parents, of course, these days in the wake of covid, are exercising school choice. and i think this decision will bolster those efforts. >> dana: someone over at cnn had a different take and reaction. let's listen to him. >> historically, the court has said if there is government money going to religious institutions, including schools, that is a violation of the establishment clause. that idea is breaking down under the conservative majority. >> dana: pretty understated but you can imagine this sent shock waves through the nation. we had state representative

races in iowa, for example, that turned on the very issue of school choice and the ability of the governor there who wants to be able to provide more vouchers. on a practical level for a mom and dad who want to get their kids out of their situation, what does this case mean for them going forward? >> it is huge. it's a huge case and it means that more of these programs can be set up without worry of any violation of the establishment clause that they were referring to. there was no violation here. it wasn't state officials directing the money. it's the parents directing the money. there is no violation. by the way, government funding in the form of pell grants is used to higher education to go to religious institutions. so for instance the notre dame, university of notre dame which is a religious institution can except pell grants but not notre dame academy which is a high school can't except them. there is no consistency there and we need more consistency and i think this ruling will

put us toward more were consistency. >> dana: your column today in the "wall street journal" that we read every wednesday was about betsy devos and what she is trying to do to help teachers. she said there is a real tone deafness to the union agenda has for kids. we won't know the full extent for kids. the kids locked out of school were out the longest. this issue on learning loss that is sort of like the long-term -- like long covid. the long learning loss we're continuing to learn about, jason. >> yeah. and she is right. we don't know what the long-term effects will be. but we know what the short-term effects have been and they've been horrible. the kids that need to be in school, the kids that are dealing with achievement gaps, those are the ones who are most hurt by this distance learning, by schools staying shut longer than they needed to. again, i think this is all a

boon for school choice and so does betsy devos to the extent parents are now realizing how little control they have over our school systems, over what is being taught. now they are learning about the racial propaganda that's going on, the sexualization of early childhood learning that is going on. and that's one reason people are leaving more traditional public schools in numbers we haven't seen in a while. they are going to religious institutions, charter schools, non-sectarian private schools. more homeschooling is going on. so i think the unions really have overplayed their hand here and november is a time when we can find out if republicans can take advantage of this. >> dana: all right, jason riley, thank you for explaining the practical impact of the ruling yesterday from the supreme court. thank you. >> bill: wild scene in florida. check it out. teenagers break into a multi-million dollar mansion and throw a party inside and

they took a lot of pictures, by the way, too, which might have been mistake number one. more on that. plus the ballots are set for november's mid-terms in georgia. mike collins wins the primary runoff defeating the trump-backed candidate vernon jones. closer look at trump's sway and what these primary races are telling us about where america is today. >> all politics is local. mike has run in the district before, a true conservative. president trump endorsed other candidates around the state and a lot of other races and that is his right to do that.

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overnight we learned that vega a military wife, law enforcement officer and daughter of salvador immigrants claimed victory challenging democratic abigail spanberger this fall. vega backed by ted cruz is shifting her focus to the general election. we heard last night and vowing to give her democratic challenger a real challenge in november. >> we're going to make history this home and bring it home not just for the seventh district but for america. >> this race could be a real battle because spanberger already has a lot of money in the bank. reportedly more than $4 million. democrats also expect to spend heavily and work hard to try to keep this seat in their control. we got the results overnight of another primary we were watching. this one down south in virginia second congressional district norfolk, virginia beach area.

former navy pilot kiggans winning the primary to challenge luria. the district was recently redrawn and may lean in republicans' favor ahead of the general election. >> we got conservative parts of the state in the second district and we'll push forward and work hard to ensure the victory in november. >> a lot has changed in virginia. we have a republican governor in this state. should mention that both luria and spanberger weren't primary challenged. the real race starts today. >> dana: thank you so much, mark. >> bill: a mixed bag for the former president donald trump. pick in alabama won britt over mo brooks. the congressional candidate he backed in georgia, both came up

short. the columnist for the national journal as of now. broad spectrum now paint with a broad brush. last night told you what. >> trump may not be the 800 pound gorilla, maybe 400 pounds. britt is a pretty traditional republican candidate. shelby's chief of staff, worked for the chamber of commerce in alabama. trump wants to back a winner. she won against a very right wing congressman in mo brooks last night. you have the georgia races where really trump-endorsed candidate he liked but both candidates running were both maga pro-trump republicans. the guys who won. there won't be this huge ideological shift. almost every republican winning

primaries supports trump. will they look backward to 2020 or look forward to fix the challenges that a lot of -- >> dana: is there something happening in georgia that's different? what's going on there? >> governor kemp didn't shy away from challenging trump and not listening to what he was trying to do in 2020. focusing on policy and stacey abrams and crime and on the economy. when you focus on conservative policy and still pro-trump that is a winning formula. when you relitigate the last election it is a losing political formula. >> bill: in all races that trump has gotten involved in he is at 94%. 111 and 7. in races where he has endorsed a non-incumbent, however, he is 19-6 at 76%. which means when he is going out after candidates who do not have a locked-in position in a particular race, he scores

lower. >> trump likes to swoop in at the last minute and he has been endorsing some of these safe members of congress. some races where you don't have a real competition. he is closer to 500 when you look at the closest of primaries, the pennsylvania senate race where dr. oz won, ohio, alabama, georgia. closer to even steven. he still makes a difference. if you are a republican you want a trump endorsement. it is worth 10 or 15 points. when he was president almost everyone who got the trump endorsement won the nomination and now it's not automatic. >> bill: as j.d. vance or dr. oz. >> dana: we'll see what appearance. you saw it in the mid-term elections as well, trump's. go back to virginia with the hispanic woman that won and we had flores that won in texas. what do you hear from democrats about their level of concern that the hispanic vote could be

rapidly going not -- they aren't even calling it purple. they are going straight to red and this could be really seismic. are we paying enough attention to that issue? >> democrats should be really concerned. not only are you seeing young up and coming republican latina candidates in south texas, there are three latinas in addition to flores running in swing districts in november. vega will be a huge candidate. it will be one of the most important races to watch in the house. and you have the polling you are talking about, dana. the biden approval with hispanics in the 20s according to a quinnipiac poll that came out this month. it's on the decline and a big red flag for the democratic party. >> bill: in virginia, the candidates versus the message or maybe both. i think a lot of people will get to know jen kiggans. impressive.

navy pilot. nurse, mother of four. she was in law enforcement, a county supervisors in a big county right near washington, d.c. at this point, is it the message or the candidate that you think is winning? >> the messengers as much as the message. this is one of the most diverse republican house recruiting classes. we pay a lot of attention to the senate candidates and some issues with some of the candidates on the republican side. on the house side you see some of these up-and-comers. folks with very compelling biographies, outsiders, flores is the wife of a border patrol agent in south texas, kiggans a navy veteran. you are seeing a diversity both in work experience in terms of the backgrounds they come from. i think you will see those backgrounds be capitalized when republicans run the races. >> bill: it reminds me of what democrats did four years ago, right? they went out and recruited a lot of strong candidates. >> dana: veterans, for example.

i can't wait that all the women's magazines put the republican women on the cover. young katie britt. look at her. should i hold my breath or not? >> you're right. democrats found outsiders in 2018, a big sweep. republicans doing the same thing in 2022. >> dana: thanks, josh, good to have you here. the u.s. army shifting its focus to critical race theory. outrage in los angeles as the city's far left d.a. backs a decision to set a gang member free on a gun charge before he shot two police officer. pete hegseth is joining us next. >> he needs to get out of office and give this job to somebody that will care and going to do right to the community, do right for the people. how many more lives do we have to lose before something can be done?

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>> the history of the suspect does not contain any evidence of violence. he has been arrested for drug-related offenses and almost a decade ago he was arrested and convicted for

burglarizing his grand parents' home. the outcome in this particular case was appropriate. >> bill: that's the l.a. d.a. gascon defending a decision to release a man who killed two police officers a week ago. released him on probation for a gun charge instead of putting him behind bars a year ago. pete hegseth and author of the new book battle important -- battle for the american mind. gascon said did not contain any evidence of violence. that changed, didn't it? >> it sure did. but he had over a decade's long rap sheet including stealing from his own parents, drug addiction which gascon recognized and if he had actually been sentenced properly as d.a. offices normally do he would have gotten 32 months in prison. 32 months that would have kept

him off the street and unable to confront and kill these -- murder these officers. so this was entirely preventable. it is completely indicative of the public defender justice system that is gascon. if you decide to let people out who have a background or propensity for drug use, violence, criminality, you get more drug use, violence, and criminality. in this case tragically. hopefully the voters of l.a. will get a chance to recall him like they did chesa boudin in san francisco. the tide is turning. ideas have consequences and we're seeing it if front of us. >> bill: looks like his future will be on the ballot. stories like these don't help. in the business they call this bad p.r. for the d.a. meanwhile at west point, something for you, a veteran. fox news digital has got a piece out there judicial watch went in and found 600 pages. they are teaching critical race theory. here is the evidence.

call for one. in order to understand racial inequality and slavery it is first necessary to address whiteness. here is another one. do you think affirmative action creates an environment for reverse discrimination? use crt to support your answer. a clip from a navy video on this and i'll ask you about it after. >> how do we go about creating a safe space for everybody? >> that's a good question. a good way to do that is to inclusive language. instead of saying something like hey, guys, you can say hey, everyone or team. >> another way we can show we're allies and that we accept everybody is to maybe include our pronouns in emails. there it is on tape and writing. west point and the u.s. navy as a veteran, take it away. >> that's a navy video? the united states navy created that video? that could have been a parody

mocking video from the communist chinese. that is beyond embarrassing. anyone who has ever worn the uniform of the united states navy should be writing letters and calling their congressman demanding what in the world is going on? what if we have to defend taiwan? will we throw gender pro nouns at them and be inclusive? this is absolutely lunacy. our military exists to fight and win wars. to kill bad guys and keep our citizens safe. yet this is what we're asking our sailors to do? at west point look at the last part of the statement you used. use crt to support your answer. it's not let's debate crt. it is crt, critical race theory, diversity, equity, and inclusion is the lens through which you should see the world. if you're white one way, black

another way. the platoon leader -- can i say men? infantry men of all socio-economic status. we knew green and bled red together. it was the most inclusive, diverse correctly institution i've ever seen and they are wrecking it. shame on west point for doing this. and the naval academy. it is all over higher education. >> bill: the book is out. tuesday is the official release. "battle for the american mind." what do you want people to learn from this book? the first step recovery is understanding the depth of the problem. in this particular case we saw the lunacy of education and we thought it was contained to college. no, it is in k-12 classrooms and elementary school and it was intentional.

100 years ago progressives targeted the minds of our youngest and been wildly successful. half of the book is the depth of the problem. the second half is what the solutions. don't lie yourself and say it is not your school. it is. this can prepare you for it. >> bill: covid blew that door wide open. good luck on the book and we'll see you soon. "battle for the american mind." >> dana: motorists across the country are dealing with record breaking fuel costs. the owners of one phoenix gas stations are slashing prices. what drove them to lower cost. >> we're trying to help our customers, our neighborhood, our community, so they can save some money. they can spend that money on something else. battery is even more powerful. the stronger, lasts-longer energizer max.

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get suspend the federal gas tax. los angeles d.a. george gascon claims the killer of the two police officer had no violent background. no one could have seen it coming. they have the signatures. when is the recall for this d.a. how america sees the president on the world stage. ambassador nikki haley, senator mike lee and jimmy failla "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> bill: poisoning of america as the deadly fentanyl epidemic surges across the country with teenagers being the latest victims. china remains the primary source of this synthetic opioid. how is it making its way here to america? jennifer griffin from the pentagon has more on that story. jennifer. >> 70,000 americans were killed between december 2020 and december 2021 as a result of a fentanyl overdose. many of them children under 18. experts say this is now a national security issue.

a targeted attack with state sponsors. >> is this a way of china attacking our democracy? i would think so. there is so much fentanyl right now in this country there is enough to kill every man, woman and child in the united states as it is. >> 16-year-old son daniel johnson was killed after ordering a pill online he thought was an oxycodone. crime syndicates in china ship it to mexico where cartels partner with distribution networks in the u.s. chinese businessmen in the u.s. use money laundering networks to put the drugs into the hands of america's youth. >> he was just an innocent kid. made one dumb decision and he died. daniel didn't deserve to die. we're not supposed to bury our

children. >> china remains the primary source of fentanyl using two techniques for delivering fentanyl to the u.s. shipped directly via international mail to mexico and sometimes china sellers label them with spanish language advertisements to help clear customs. peters is the director. >> fentanyl isn't being sold to any other country other than the united states and canada. flooding into these countries and at first i thought it was an exaggeration that this was in some way state-sponsored. now i'm not so sure. >> the chinese communist party is involved in just about everything, economic businesswise coming out of china. you have chinese scientists that have partnered up with the cartels. >> china banned the production

of fentanyl in 2019 pushing the manufacturerers into mexico. now a key part of the supply chain senator marsha blackburn has teamed up with senator blumenthal to have the kids online safety act. the u.s. government needs to view it in terms of national security. >> bill: important story from the pentagon. thanks. >> i drove 95 miles for work yesterday. an opportunity i couldn't pass up. i'm grateful for it. >> dana: one of the many customers of a phoenix gas station slashing fuel by more than half a dollar per gallon than other stations in the city. its owners, the man and his wife join us now with more on their mission to help customers. i have to ask you, how did you come up with this idea? and how are you able to manage when other gas stations are charging much more? >> yeah, when we fill our car

it was over $100, right? and we are thinking people in a hard time right now we need to help. that's how the idea came up. >> bill: you have been operating in phoenix for 20 years. three kids and one in college. it is coming out of your wallet, too, right? >> yes, sir, yes, sir. i have a trucking business and dispatch business and -- >> dana: tell me a little bit about your schedule. i was pretty amazed to just see how little sleep that the two of you get by on to run your business. >> yeah. it is pretty hard right now. i have a family, three kids, taking care of three kids and, you know, cooking, cleaning, all day and then i go -- we both go to work together and we stay until 10:30 over there and it is very pretty right now.

but it is worth it. >> bill: i remember you guys said if you have something you have to share it with other people. what do you mean by that? >> yes, sir. yes. that's what we learned from our parents. that's what our religion teaches us when we were young, when we were little our parents were doing the same thing for the community. so we learned from them. so our religion teaches us the same thing. if you have something, you have to share with others. that's what we're doing. >> dana: what do you hear from customers that come in? >> customers love me a lot. >> dana: i can imagine. >> yes, ma'am. >> dana: you are a lovely couple and we thank you so much for coming on and explaining to us how you have decided to try to tackle this and see how long you can do it. thank you so much. we appreciate you. >> thank you guys, thank you. >> bill: love you a lot. >> dana: lovely.

nfl star robert -- he returned to play with tom brady with another super bowl win that we saw together. gronk walking away from football again knowing i gave it everything i had every time i stepped out on the field. he said he is going back to his retirement home. >> bill: i was at radio city music hall with my father the night he was drafted out of arizona. blast-off of a career and now a conclusion. they love him, too, by the way in tampa. >> dana: good luck to him and thank you for all that you have done. >> bill: there goes gronk. brady is back on the field for now and he is coming to fox. >> dana: he is fixing his hydration, did you know that? he told me that.

thank you very much. >> bill: there is this, dana, especially for you. ♪ summer wind came blowing in ♪ >> bill: the debate rolls on. don't it? . >> dana: do you have data. >> bill: the first day of summer in the books. visit a conversation last year with perino and hemmer. >> dana: what is yours and carley, guess what it is? >> summer song. >> bill: i said frank sinatra summer wind. >> dana: frank sinatra summer wind? >> bill: that was then, this is now. we asked this week on instagram if you think summer wind holds up as a summer anthem and they agreed with hemmer. >> dana: i object. >> bill: i'm not finished. 65% said they agreed with

hemmer. >> dana: well, i'm going to object by the way the question was phrased. because that's not -- let's do another survey and let me write the question. >> bill: come on. this is the song we were singing in the car over the weekend. >> dana: it is. i don't know why i look so scared. you should have been the one scared. i was driving. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. the president of the united states is set to press congress to give americans a gas tax holiday. but who does that really help the most, biden and his politics or the country? i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". a move that even former president barack obama called a gimmick. others say it is a trick. a band-aid. administration officials say president biden wants to temporarily take away the federal gas tax. that's 18 cents per