and it's thanks to the men and women in uniform who choose to serve and make sacrifices for all of us. a special thank you to all of our active duty service members, reservists and veterans. have a wonderful weekend. sean will be back on monday. ♪ ♪ i'm rachel campos in for laura ingraham and this is a special edition of the ingraham angle from new york city tonight. we finally got it. the trump raid affidavit. look, it's all black. it's right here. but, of course, it only brought us more questions than answers. and that could be exactly how they wanted it because then it leads to conversations like this. >> let's start with the biggest revelations from this redacted affidavit. >> yeah, so a lot of really intricate and quite frankly

startling details. >> the devil is in the details. >> donald trump had no basis, no reason, no legal basis to retain those documents at mar-a-lago. >> there could be numerous others that are charged, not just donald trump, as well as additional crimes that could be charged. >> is she kidding me? now, she might be getting that idea from one of the small parts of the affidavit that was curiously left unredacted. like on page 30 where it referred to president trump and those around him as, quote, criminal parties. but still didn't provide any evidence to prove it. it also warned that releasing the affidavit would give trump and his team the opportunity to flee or destroy evidence stored electronically or otherwise. flee? really? trump's plane has his name on it. and destroy electronic evidence. do they mean something like doing, i don't know, deleting 33,000 e-mails? we're going to get into that more in moments with our legal panel. but if anyone thinks that the

doj is an impartial actor this whole sorted affair should put that to rest. the affidavit alleges that there was probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction was going to be found at mar-a-lago. all right. then let's see it. do the documents released today support that? well, there's a lot of allegations here. but where's the actual evidence? and we keep asking this, but what the heck took so long to execute this raid? if it was such an urgent matter of national security, why did it take so long? they got a subpoena in june. then a search warrant in august. and then three days after that they finally marched in. think about it. it's actually really concerning that the doj waited so long if there was such an immediate risk to our national security. trump was out of office for over 500 days by the time the raid happened. his team had already been in talks with the national archives. and the fbi for months and months. back in february, the archiveist

even told congressman maloney in a letter they already had gotten 15 boxes from trump. so again, we have a lot of questions and pretty minimal answers. joining me now is wisconsin senator ron johnson who sits on the homeland security and governmental affairs committee. senator, welcome. this looks pretty serious. biden's fbi raided the home of his political opponent. do we not deserve to know why? >> well, rachel, absolutely. you know, to me this just seems to be a dispute regarding presidential power in terms of classifying and declassifying documents. and i thought the most interesting part of the affidavit was the exhibit, a letter written by trump's attorney that points out, helpfully, that the president has absolute power when it comes to declassifying material, and that his actions regarding classification, declassification, are not subject to legal sanction. well, i think this entire

unprecedented raid on his home is a legal sanction. i don't think it's proper whatsoever. >> so the fbi accused you of disseminating russian information when you brought up the hunter laptop and wanted more investigations into that. do they deserve the benefit of the doubt here? >> i think top democrats created a product that a whole i think that accused senator grassley and i of disseminating russian disinformation. they had a scheme in august of 2020 to downplay the derogatory information of hunter and basically deep six the investigation. that was the same month they offered us an unsolicited briefing saying we were targeteded to russian information. to this day we don't know who directed that although we've written several letters. and now rachel we have whistle blowers coming in saying that the fbi told them point blank you will not look at that hunter

biden computer, and the fbi will not engage in changing the outcome of an election again. and then they proceeded to do just that. i would argue that in 2016, they unsuccessfully didn't change the outcome of the election. they tried to by exonerating hillary clinton but in 2020 sad to say they did by expressing information, actively engage in telling people like mark zuckerberg's facebook's mark zuckerberg, probably twitter we don't have evidence of that yet but that was part of the briefing of senator grassley and i to try and get us off of our hunter biden investigation. so i think they were actively engaged in interfeerng in our 2020 election and they succeeded. >> we're going to get more into that by the way and just to reiterate your point, there's polling after the election that indicated that the election would have changed had that information not been suppressed. i want you to listen to this. this is crooked deep state actor andrew wise man's take on the affidavit.

>> when i read this today, my big take away is that the former president is going to be prosecuted. i don't see how you cannot given this information. i don't see how you avoid that conclusion in this case. >> senator, we have 20 seconds here. is he right? >> no, he was involved in the corrupt russian collusion hoax, he's a corrupt individual and hopefully at some point in time etched will come out to prove his corruption. >> i know you're on the campaign trail any last words. >> ron johnson.com, they spent $50 million assassinating my character, i need help saving this senate seat. ronjohnsonforsenate.com. >> all right senator thank you for joining us tonight. >> have a good night. >> i just want to know i've

declassified everything in the world. i'm president. i can do it. come on. declassify everything. i'm not going to comment because i don't know the detail. i don't even want to know let the justice department take care of that. >> well, joe, the ingraham angle has spoken to multiple attorneys who disagree with you on that. and in the affidavit itself, the justice departments acknowledged trump's lawyers and former officials going back to at least may quoting his absolute authority to declassify documents as a president. we've gone through the affidavit and if the doj explains anywhere why they ignored this point or why they think it's not true, their rational is completely redacted. maybe it's under one of those black lines. who knows. joining me now is florida attorney general ashley moody and mark smith constitutional attorney and distinguished fellow at the a way maria school of law. attorney general moody half of the affidavit is redacted. from what you can read, is there anything in it that justifies a raid on the president's home?

>> over half is redacted. and you may remember, i was on the show the day of the raid and i said this is an incredible act by the doj, and one would fully expect transparency. i expected a statement immediately, some sort of communication to the american people. of course, it took three days of us demanding that for there to be a statement, and even then, when they released the search warrant, it told us nothing. and so you, you remarked on a very good point. there was a letter by the trump attorneys that said, this is our basis for saying, you know, there's nothing to see here. we have done nothing wrong. make sure you include this letter if you do anything with the court, by motion or application. they attached that to the affidavit and then they redact any sort of explanation that would explain why they needed to go in. and so i think, again, we have another act, another revelation, another document released, and we still have no answers that would assure the american people that this isn't politically

driven. >> mark, these actions are so extraordinary that even, you know, central american presidents are in shock and questioning how this could nap america. here's a tweet from the el salvador ann president. what would the u.s. government says if our police raided the house of one of our contenders of our 2024 presidential election. so the fbi is willing to make us a laughing stock in the world. they're also willing to tear our country apart because that's exactly what these actions are doing. over what is essentially, it looks like, just a document dispute. >> exactly right. what's very interesting which is i would say burying the lead here is the failure to really get into article 2 of the united states constitution, which is the governing law of the entire country. the department wants to talk about statutes and regulations.

they want to talk about protocols. but, of course, all those are really sub serveian to the u.s. constitution and the reason that's so incredibly important rachel is because article two of the u.s. constitution declares that the president of the united states, which was donald trump, is the commander in chief of the military, and that means he has the ultimate discretion and authority under the law, under the constitution itself, to make decisions about what is top secret, what is classified, what is not. all these laws and regulations that the department of justice is talking about in this probable cause affidavit do not apply to the president of the united states. he is special under the constitution itself. >> yeah, i want you to look at this tweet, abby, ashley, from steven miller. it says here, the idea spelled out in the affidavit that the archives as i could the fbi on president trump on the presence unelected bureaucrats not the president of the inside can only

be construed as an attempt to overthrow our entire democratic constitutional order. it's such an interesting point. here are the bureaucrats of the national archives. by the way, the same people who put trigger warnings on our founding documents on the constitution saying that they, trump, the president of the united states, in terms of these documents. >> well, i think what the revelation was today, you know, this is a document dispute and laid out in detail. what we could see is there was back and forth about whether these documents are classified, whether they're not. trump organization and the lawyers have an argument that they're not and he declassified them. again, the act of raiding a former president's home when this could have been done, the document could have been sought through a motion to compel, through some other means besides a raid, but let's say the raid, they felt, was absolutely necessary and they went in and got the documents. we know from the reveal of the

affidavit that they were only disputing whether they were removed, improperly stored or concealed. they've got them now apparently. so, you know, the secrecy i think is doing more harm to the american public and the american psyche. they should just reveal what the information was that they sought the search warrant on, because they've got the documents. it's a done deal. >> yeah. you're absolutely right. attorney general moody, mark, thanks for joining us tonight. appreciate it. >> great to be with you rachel. >> as laura said earlier this week the blanket reverend that the alphabet organizations have enjoyed over the years is now gone. gwen their actions during the trump president say, the 2020 election, the whitmer kidnapping case and potentially january 6th, the fbi is largely and correctly being seen as out of control. as met a ceo mark suck bur let slip in a podcast with joe rogen

the fbi told facebook a russian disinformation drop was coming, and then be the hunter biden laptop story started coming. >> the fbi i think basically came to us, some folks on our team and was like, hey, just so you know, like, you should be on high alert. we thought that there was a lot of russian propaganda in the 2016 election. we have it on notice that basically there's about to be some kind of dump of -- that's similar to that, so just be vigilant. fewer people saw it than would have otherwise. >> the corrupt action of the fbi is one thing but just as troubling is that all of biden's policies that have followed seem to reinforce what we learn on the laptop. on china the president is completely beholden to them. hunter had contacts to major influencers on china policy. he tagged along when joe went there and met with chinese business men and joe had a 10%

equity state and a china ccp linked china energy company. joining me now is indiana congressman jim banks chair man and the republican study committee and florida congressman mike walsh. congressman bank i'm start with you, the fbi wasn't just interfering in an election and meddling in partisan politics but in suppressing the laptop story, are they also endangering our national security. >> without a doubt. remember, two months before the new york post wrote this story about the hunter biden laptop, nancy pelosi was calling it russian disinformation. they didn't want the contents of that laptop to be public information, because they know it would have swayed the election away from joe biden and donald trump would have been reelected. the contents of the laptop tell us that hunter biden received somewhere around $31 million from companies tied to the chinese communist party, our biggest adversary. he received an $80,000 diamond from one of these figures.

and we know that 10% was being skimmed off the top for the big guy. rachel, i think i know who the big guy is. but why isn't the fbi digging into that? why aren't they raiding the home of the big guy to expose the link between the biden family and our biggest adversaries that we face in america today, that being the chinese communist party. i think we know the answer to that question. >> yeah, it's such a great point congressman. wouldn't be hard to do a forensic audit and see if the money from hunter ends up in joe biden's bank account or paying for some of his bills that has not been done. such an excellent point. congressman, zuckerberg's company meta trying to walk back his comments and tweeting as we said nothing about the laptop story is new the fbi shared general warnings about russian interference nothing specificing about hunter biden. congressman walsh, you call mark zuckerberg before congress to

answer more questions on this? >> we will, rachel. when we get in the majority. and i think the thing that has so many americans so upset is the total lack of accountability for these big tech executives. you've got jack dorsey of twitter, who says, yeah, it was a mistake to block the hunter biden story months before the election, completely block it, ban anybody from sharing it. oops, just shrugs his shoulders. and now you've got zuckerberg just basically saying, yeah, that sucked, it's kind of like a murder trial where we found out they didn't do it. oh, well. seriously? really? to your point, how is this really now compromising our national security? and the thing that has me so alarmed is, we know the chinese communist party doesn't just give someone 1.5 billion as they gave hunter biden to invest in, i don't know, t-shirt factories. they want investments in artificial intelligence, in nano

technology and advanced materials. and so what key technologies did hunter invest in? we know that right now he is an equity holder in a chinese nuclear, a nuclear energy company that has been black listed for trying to steal american nuclear weapons technology. did he influence export controls in some way, given his influence with the big guy? those are the questions we have to, and we absolutely will, and i know jim banks is going to be all over this with a republican study committee when we get the majority back in congress. >> these aren't political questions, into is are absolutely national security questions that must be answered. congressman banks, not only did the fbi -- and i just want to say what you said to congressman also at the beginning of your answer, it is disturbing how casually mark zuckerberg talks about interference with our election. i mean, it's just astounding.

congressman banks, you know, they didn't just interfere with the election, they also put people who protested that interference, you know, in prison. you know, american citizens. what are you going to do about that? >> well, from day one, when we get the majority back come january, we have a moral responsibility to investigate the actions, the very political actions of the biden department of justice. so you look at this hunter biden laptop censorship issue, it's just like the russian collusion hoax, which was cooked up in the obama white house, by the way. it was a combination of democrat politicians working with democrat figures in the department of justice and the fbi, to cook up russian collusion hoax or to sensor the hunter biden laptop. if there's ever going to be the right guy and the right place at the right time, it's going to be jim jordan chairing the house judiciary committee, oversight of the doj who's going to haul

these guys in before the committee and force them to testify and hold them accountable. >> excellent point. i hope that happens. congressman banks, congressman waltz, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> parents listen up we have new details about how much biden's student loan scheme is actually going to cost. i'll give you a hint. it rhymes with a million. but, no, it's not billion. dr. ben carson is here next. stay there.

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♪ >> this is paid for, it is paid for and far more by the amount of deficit reduction that we're already on track for this year. so yes, we consider it fully paid for. >> rachel: fully paid for? no one believes that for a second. because the cost of biden's student loan forgiverness scheme keeps growing. analysis from university of pennsylvania wharton's school of business says it could end up costing up top $1 trillion over a 10-year period. that's a trillion, with a t. and the questions, even from allies, are mounting. >> i'm not sure biden's policy here works. the other big question about this decision, while i don't disagree with the decision he's made about this, is will it

really have the impact they're hoping for with younger voters. >> laura: joining me now is dr. ben carson, neurosurgeon and former trump hud secretary. dr. carr son, you grew up in a single parent household, worked your tail off to get where you are. what kind of message does this send to kids who were in your position at one time? >> well, it's a horrible message rachel. thanks for having me. first of all this is not helping the inflation situation. secondly, it's clearly unfair to others who have worked very hard to pay off their debt. you know, i borrowed a total of $1,150 when i was at yale, they had an option you paid back not according to what you borrowed but how much money you made. so i paid it back multiple multiple times. and once i got on the board, you know, it was one of the first things i worked to get rid of because it was unfair. and that's really the issue

here. this is supposed to be a country where we have liberty and justice for all and yet now we have this plan with the debt cancellation, over $500 billion right there, loan for bairns another 15 billion, income plan another 70 billion, the amount keeps going up and that's assuming everything is static. it's really a bailout for those people who don't need a bailout who are already on the pathway to financial success and you're asking mean can least afford it, the middle class and the poor, to pay for it. how in the world is that fair? and it's sort of the same mentality that says, we don't care that the southern border's open and all these people are flooding across, even though it's unfair to the people who stood in line and waited and did it the right way. we don't care. >> rachel: yeah. >> and they sort of decide -- design and define what is fair, and it's not what's fair.

>> rachel: there's a lot of talk about how it's a way to woo young voters to bribe them but it's also a payoff to the universities who have been doing the work for the democrats indoctrinating students and creating little democrats. >> no question about that. and that's a whole other issue. why should the federal government with federal dollars be sponsoring indoctrination centers. at some point people are going to have enough courage, i hope, to actually deal with that situation. >> laura: yeah, we have on screen a graph here of just how much tuition has increased. it's a travisity because this policy, this debt forgiveness, dr. carr son, is going to do nothing to stove underlying root problem which is the outrages increase in college tuition. >> well, the amount of money in private colleges average $51,000. and when you get not your more

expensive ones, you're pushing 70, $80,000. >> yeah. >> it's ridiculous. >> yeah. >> it's no wonder some people are deciding that they don't want to do it anymore. >> rachel: yeah. well, they're sitting on massive endowments as well but they're asking for money from the middle class and the poor, as you said. dr. carr son, so great to have you tonight. thank you for your insight. >> thank you rachel. >> rachel: now to arizona for tonight's retaking america segment. biden's rubber instant incumbent senator mark kelly leading gop candidate blake masters by eight points in the latest polls so masters is trying a new tactic with his ads going on the offense. >> most people support common sense regulation around abortion. but mark kelly votes for the most extreme abortion laws in the world. we're talking no limits, up until birth. think about how crazy that is. that's more extreme than western europe. i

it's way more extreme than what arizonans want. i support a ban on very late term and partial birth abortion and most americans agree with that. that would just put us on par with other civil lived nations. mark kelly the only countries that support his no limits extreme abortion policies are china and north korea. >> joining me now is blake masters, republican senate candidate in arizona. blake, there's no doubt that abortion has, you know, in the roe vs. wade decision has skrafshgd some races but i think it's interesting and smart that you went on the offense. i think it might be a lesson to other candidates. >> well, thank you rachel and you're exactly right. you know, we have to play offense. look, i'm the underdog in this race, right? we always knew it was going to be tough. we always knew that mark kelly is going to raise tons of money. he has the whole national democratic machine behind him. right? so he's going to outspend us. yeah, that's his advantage. you know what his disadvantage is, though? the democrats have to use that money to lie.

to even have a chance of winning. they have to lie about me, and they're doing a lot of that. but they also have to lie about mark kelly's own record. this guy got elected by promising he was going to be independent and a moderate. two years later look at his voting record and i'm sorry to say, oops, he lied to us. this guy's in the senate just voting in lock step to approve joe biden's failed agenda. rachel, i think he should be ashamed, mark kelly should of his left wing voting record and actually maybe he is ashamed. maybe that's why he hides from voters. nobody ever sees this guy in arizona. but what we do see in arizona of course is the price at the gas pump, the sky rocketing prices at the grocery store, we see the crime rising, we see the consequences of joe biden's open border. people know here that joe biden has failed, and they're learning the truth. which is mark kelly's done more than anyone to drag this country in the wrong direction. that's why we're going to make a change and vote him out. >> rachel: blake i'm from arizona originally, i live in wisconsin but i'm from arizona. i talked to people in the

arizona community and they say that the arizona business community prefers mark kelly. is that true? >> oh, i don't think that's true at all. i don't think that's true at all. i'm on the phone with these guys every day and they're shocked. mark kelly's voting for the inflation reduction act which of course is not going to reduce inflation. it's going to make it worse. everybody i talk to, every business leader in arizona, they're apoplectic about mark kelly's decision to hire 87,000 new border patrol agents. no that's crazy. aim feeling great on the ground, we're going to win this race. mark kelly is out of step with arizona and going down in november. >> rachel: you're a border state i need a quick 22nd answer to this you're on the ground talking to voters. what is animating them the most, the border or inflation? >> both. those are twin, they're so big failures it's crazy. the unchecked immigration ruining this country but so is

joe biden's economy. we need to make a change the red wave is coming and we're leading it in arizona. >> rachel: blake masters good luck. >> thank you rachel. >> rachel: a democratic mayor tries to defend her lavish travel, and another hollywood movie fall toss chinese sensors. raymond arroyo is here with friday follies next. ♪ s toss chinese sensors. raymond arroyo is here with friday follies next. ♪ raymond arroyo is here with friday follies next. ♪

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♪ >> laura: it's friday and that means it's time for friday follies. for that we return to fox news contributor raymond arroyo. raymond, you have a follow-up from last night about the democrat mayor of new orleans. >> that is rich rachel. last night we told everybody

about new orleans mayor latoya cantary appearing in court to support a ra situated visit young car jacker while giving comfort to the perp and his mother she ignored the victim who publicly complained. now she insists she said god bless you to the victim on the way out of the courtroom and that's enough. >> do not discount a god bless you, because for me i'm very spiritual. i walk in faith and i believe when i say, when i say god bless you, i'm actually reciting even a hail mary. you have no idea what's going on in that connection. >> oh, it's a whole mass and a notice vein 0 when she says god bless you. it's called using religion to mask your support of criminal although, that's what's happening. >> rachel: nothing looks like that. as the city of new orleans has become the murder capitol of the country, mayor cattrall took a trip to france. >> she did in june and it cost taxpayer $40,000. now, she says you misunderstand. this was a major diplomatic mission. this is france. >> you're talking about france from which we've come.

meaning a part of the fabric of the city of new orleans. you're talking about france that has an ambassador living in the city of new orleans. you're talking about france that has supported a full-time position on resiliency for the city of new orleans because we're on the front lines of climate change and i do travel business class. absolutely. i need to be protected. i need to be safe as i do business on behalf of the city of new orleans. >> we come from france. only she was born in la. no one's doubting new orleans's connection to france the question is should the mayor be going there during a city wide crisis rachel. by the way her safety was so important so dire, her security was several rows behind her in coach. >> rachel: so for liberals raymond, safety just means you're wearing a mask. so they were in coach wearing a mask, so they were safe. >> by the way, and i have a little news tonight, a recall effort has been launched against mayor cantrell. tonight it was filed with the secretary of state in louisiana

and her trip to singapore sidelined after this practice. >> rachel: well, speaking of bad actors, hollywood has once again pledged its allegiance to china. >> according to reports on the social media site, the chinese version of minions, i'm sure you saw this many times, includes an alternative sanitized version. in the american version the two maineville answer escape at the end, unpunished, thus the rise of gru. but china wanted to convey a different message so they slipped in an especially log saying one villain was caught by police and served 20 years in prison the other one changed his ways and became a good guy. if there was another one he would have been sent to the internment camp. >> rachel: i was going to say did they go to a uyghur concentration camp? >> maybe they were visiting for a little while. but hats off to sony toon paramount who did the spider man movie and top gun movie, they refused to bow to the chinese sensors, they kept their movies intact. that's what they all should do.

>> and made a lot of money doing it. >> biggest movies of the year. finally rachel i know you're a big fan of ai rap. >> rachel: what is that? i know what you mean. >> okay. earlier this month capitol records signed a robot ronner called fn mecca. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> lovely. as riveting as that was, the label has done a 180 on the robot cutting all ties to him h apparently artificial intelligence used to device mecca's wraps perpetuated harmful stereotypes including several instances of the n word. the music group released a statement this week saying, you know, that they were separating ties. they were so sorry, they apologized, deepest apologies to

the black community for the insensitivity of signing this project. my questions are who programmed this thing and secondly, since it was based on popular existing rap, what did they think they were going to get, rodgers and hammerstein? i mean -- >> laura: yeah, it is part of the whole way they do their thing. i was thinking they were saying hiring a robot instead of an actual black rapper was racist and then i was worried because i have a roomba does that make me racist if i have a robot. >> only if it talks and a color of person robot with no person of color on the team. i just like real feeble sing rap or do whatever you're going to do. we can adjust that. ai, meh. we'll leave it there. >> rachel: real people, i'm down with that. raymond thanks. >> forget those nose jobs, parents are getting their kids

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you know, that seems especially rich considering the less complete eraser of the gender indifference to the small sliver of act shrifts bully their way to the front of the line. when the administration puts someone like rachel levine at hhs to promote so called gender affirming care to our kids it shouldn't come as a surprise children's hospitals are providing the sex change surgery. the founder of libs of tik toks was the first to expose children's national hospital in washington, dc for providing gender affirming, again, so-called, hysterectomies. yes, two children. >> how old is your patient? >> 16. >> okay. so they're in the clear. okay. so they would do it for that age? >> yes. >> okay. great. is it a common procedure that you guys do for that age? >> yes.

we have all different type of age groups that comes in for that. >> for the gender -- for the hysterectomy? >> yes, ma'am. >> okay. just out of curiosity like what's the youngest age you would do it on? >> i'm not sure but i have seen younger kids. >> laura: joining me now is prager u personality and host of unpositively jet i can and former left wing activists and chris rue 0 from the manhattan institute a senior fellow there. welcome to both of you. i'll start with you chris. how totally disturbing is it that they're performing hysterectomies on children? >> it's extremely disturbing. and children's hospital now is actually disputing this. but what we know for a fact in the journal of sexual medicine and other academic journals we know for a fact that hospitals are performing other procedures, such as the vagina plasty which

takes a young boy under 18, cas traits him and turns his me nile tissue into an artificial vagina and according to research, more than half of all gender affirming surgeons have performed that procedure on young boys under the age of 18 with the lowest age being 15. so there's a lot of heat. there's a lot of debate. a lot of the hospitals are trying to run away from the facts. we'll see about children's, what actually the truth is in time. but we know without a doubt, years of published data, these kind of procedures, which are extreme, which are taking off sexual organs of kids, are absolutely happening all over this country. >> yeah, chris, i think we should all commit to never calling it gender affirming it is a sex change operation and we as parents need to stop playing this euphemism game from the left p amala here's what a spokesperson from the hospital told fox digital. we do not provide gender affirming surgery for anyone under the age of 18. we do not provide hormone

therapy to children before puberty begins. care is individualized for each patient. but when pressed why the hospital's web site previously said it offers gender-affirming hysterectomies for those between the ages of 0 and 21, the spokesperson said that was a flaw in the design of our web site. so they scrubbed their web site and now they're saying it never happened. >> it's really ridiculous to hear this when we've just listened to the phone call where they say and express exactly what they're willing to do to a minor under the age of 18. so i find it hard to believe that the statement states that they are not performing these hysterectomies and these forms of treatment. and like chris says, we have data on this. this is irreversible damage you would be committing against a minor and the united states should be following states like -- countries like france. like sweden, like finland, who are looking at these forms of treatment and saying absolutely

not. these are not treatment options for minors. they are harmful for them and, in fact, we should seek out other therapeutic and other treatment options for these children. >> rachel: right. i want to move to another topic. it's actually very related. fairfax virginia where teachers are being trained to transition children's genders without parental approval according to the washington examiner district assigned training program asks, quote, parents permission is required for which of the following. a student requests that the teacher call him by his chosen name in classes, a student requests to use the locker room that corresponds wither gender, the use of a private bathroom or none of the above which as you can see is the correct answer. chris, you know, what do you make of this? i mean, if they can do this without telling a parent? >> . >> virtually every major school district in the country has adopted this policy. they've done so without notifying parents really under the radar. they can facilitate your child's sexual transition, provide your child with a new name, a new set of pronouns all without telling you. this is a horrific encroachment on the basic rights of parents to be leading the development of

their own children. and it's already leading to disastrous outcomes including one father in florida who said that the district secretly performed this -- facilitated this sexual transmission of his daughter which contributed to her attempted suicide. the lawsuits are coming, parents are coming. this is a disaster waiting to happen. >> rachel: yeah they're asking kids to basically live, you know, encouraging them to live a double life and really separate them from their parents and their family values. let's go to you, amala. you were a left wing activist at one time. what is behind this? why are they doing this. >> i like to think people are driven by compassion when they fall for these ideologies. think most people are thinking they're upholding their child's beliefs and thoughts and who their child believes to be and they are ushering in a new phase

of equity and equality. however it takes just a moment of looking into the research and studies done on this form of treatment with children to find out it's not the right thing for them, that it in fact is damaging them and by just blindly affirming these children, we are ignoring other psychiatric comorbidities they could be dealing with, things like anxiety and depression that lead to the attempted suicide that wendell perez who chris referenced had to go through with his daughter. >> rachel: i appreciate you both joining us today. i'm a little more cynical than you, i think there's more behind this than misguided compassion. we'll talk about that a little further maybe in another show. okay. thank you both >> you may have noticed at the beginning of the show i introduced myself as rachel campos instead of rachel campos duffy. up next i have an announcement. stay there.

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