♪ ♪ >> sean: unfortunately that's all the time we have left this evening. thank you for being with us. thank you for making the show possible. please set your dvr so you never miss an episode of "hannity." foxnews.com, hannity.com. in the meantime, let not your heart be troubled and our friend pete hegseth is filling in for laura tonight. i have not publicly have the opportunity to congratulate you on the many weeks at number one on "the new york times" list for your book "battle for the american mind." we are proud of you, happy for your success, sir. >> pete: thanks for all your support. couldn't have done it without you. today 11 weeks on "the new york times" best seller list. thanks for the support. >> sean: have a great show, my friend. >> pete: thank you, brother. i appreciate it. i am pete hegseth and for lauren graham and this is a special edition of "the ingraham angle." have we seen this story before?

russia collusion, ukrainian phone call, alleged hush money payments to stormy daniels. never-trumpers always think they have the former president right where they want him. the aftermath of the mar-a-lago raid, it has been no different. >> let's about trumpers reaction which has been which is to throw any criticism back in the face of the doj. do you get the sense he feels like the walls are closing in? >> i think he is very worried. i don't think he'll admit it. i think for the first time things are really -- i'm going to say the walls are closing in. >> pete: yes, the oft repeated, never realized walls that are closing in. like the knives are out. it isn't just the resistance folks playing into this. but also biden's doj. in last night's close to midnight filing in response to his request for an independent special master to determine what

would actually be applicable, they went out of their way to provide even more fodder for the chattering class and the damning language in leaps of logic only intensify. >> he's got to worry that his own attorneys are going to turn on him. his own attorney, one of his attorney signed this document that you're referring to before saying she has turned over everything the truck has authorized her to say that. the other attorney evidently drafted that document. both are implicated in this and both right now are looking very much actively and jail time. >> pete: everyone is going to turn on him. it's happening at this moment. of course i can only lead to one conclusion, something that they have been pining for over the past seven years. >> what we have seen no, having crossed the rubicon and sent those fbi agents down there to do that search and seizure. the doj, laying it on the floor

and putting these photographs out. they are not just slamming, spiking the ball. they are implicitly or explicitly, tipping their hand too. i understand a world in which no merrick garland could not in the american tightrope. that's where we're headed. >> pete: what is the reality? we don't put anything past the garland justice department. we caught this note in the eighth paragraph of "the new york times" sweeping article about last night's filing. in including this telling line. eighth paragraph. department officials are not expected to file charges eminently. if they ever do at all. joining me now is newt gingrich, former speaker of the house and fox news contributor. newt, the trump legal team responded to the doj contending that they should have known classified document would be on the premises by the very nature of presidential records.

what's your reaction? >> most corrupt justice department and all of american history. you have corruption in the attorney general into the head of the fbi to senior elements of the fbi. you have collusion from a wide range of the intelligence community. you have i think 50 some intelligence senior officials who signed a letter last year that we now know was a total lie, none of whom have recanted. i fully expect the justice department to indict president trump in a d.c. court, district where he got 5.6% of the vote. by 19-1 the jury is likely to be against him. i think this is an all-out effort. zuckerberg, the founder of facebook saying the fbi asked him to suppress the hunter biden laptop for the three or four

weeks before the election in 2020. other time when some 80% of americans say if they had known how corrupt hunter biden and through him his father were, they probably would have voted for joe biden. -- probably wouldn't have voted for joe biden. i am a historian by training and i tell everybody you have to assume that nothing you know tells you anything about how corrupt and how sick this is going to get. because you have fanatics who represent a secular religion who are determined to destroy not just trump but trump's foll followers. they could do almost anything. we have no way of knowing what the next six months or two years are going to carry. >> pete: as a historian, to say the most corrupt, that says a lot. you talked about how they are characterizing their opponents charlie hurt how joe biden

called trump supporter semifascist. here's the white house press secretary doubling down. >> the president thinks there is an extremist threat to our democracy. the president has been clear as he can be on that particular piece we talk about a democracy. only talk about our freedoms. the way that he sees that the maga republicans are the most energized part of the republican party. it's a extreme threat to our democracy, freedom, rights. >> pete: political opponents of the biggest threat to our democracy even though we are a constitutional republic? you say this is the most corrupt justice department you've ever seen. how dangerous is our moment? >> look, i think there's a brief period late in the wilson administration where you had an

attorney general who sort of lost his mind and have always called the red scare. they locked up a lot of people. including the former socialist party candidate for president. it was a very brief period. what you see now is an institutional commitment that runs from places like harvard and princeton and yale to "the new york times" and "washington post" and the major networks to the deep state, to the intelligence community, the fbi, the justice department. all of these systems are now basically at war with the american people. this is the thing biden doesn't understand. if you thought the last election was relatively fair and i think we learned more and more about how rigged it was, even if you thought it was relatively fair, 73 or 74 million americans voted for donald trump. have a president of the united states characterized, half of his country, the way joe biden is, the greatest act of aggression by an american president against his own people that we have ever seen. it's truly an astonishing moment. it doesn't fit any of our prior history. i keep telling my friends, do

not assume anything based on past president because you are not dealing with people who are terrified. if you're the senior fbi oreo the white house and you are looking at the potential of a republican controlled the house and senate your emails, your meetings, everything you've been doing could suddenly become public and your entire career could be destroyed and you might end up in jail, i mean, you're going to do everything you can to try to guarantee that the republicans can't win this fall because you're terrified of what a republican congress would be like. >> pete: and then that feels like a cycle that doesn't stop, as americans needs are never met because they are too busy impugning their political opponents. newt, thanks so much for that insight. >> thank you. >> they are being told, turnover document with classification

markings. that picture speaks a thousand words. >> the picture is the crime. those are top-secret documents. >> this is a crime, anybody, i don't care where these were found. wherever they were, whoever owns that house committed a crime by having them. >> it's all right here on the paper, the whole case. the most glaring example of politics being played by the doj. a shot of folders with classified markings strewn about. is it honestly meant for propaganda purposes. nothing else. today we got confirmation of that fact courtesy of "the new york times." they wrote "the folders were arrayed by agents, not just thrown, arrayed by agents at mar-a-lago after being removed from what the filing indicated was mr. trump's office. they were not discovered scattered on the floor. joining us now is chris bedford, senior editor at "the federalist."

chris, is there any reason why, let's say donald trump's lawyers couldn't be present if the doj was just going to publish the documents all over the internet. what do you make of this charade? >> i think the doj is on his heels. they actually believe after seven years of lying to the american people over and over again, being able to pull the wool over republicans' eyes. getting good republicans like senator jeff sessions to stand back. people like mitt romney to vote for impeachment. people were still going to buy this and buy their secrets. after they raided the president's house. if you are rating a political opponents house, you better have a darn good reason you better be very right with it. after seven years of lying, they tried to say it was secrets and then they said the nuclear word to scare everyone. then they had implying it was russian spying and then they released that complete and fake and empty affidavit. they are coming out with this picture of documents.

they have not made a case to the american people. the onus is on them. they've already become an internet meme and thank goodness finally republican senators and congressmen and pundits are immediately -- no one is sitting on enhancing less wait-and-see. everyone is looking to the doj and fbi say you show the evidence. if you rate your political opponents house the united states, you better have a darn good reason you better privy to us and not say it's too secret for the kids. >> pete: the chairman of the january 6 committee, another effort to attempt to topple donald trump said nothing to see here. the fbi. it's all above board. >> trust the fbi. they're just doing their job. it's not a partisan effort. and so mar-a-lago, it concerns me. i don't know if some of the material he carried to mar-a-lago compromises our national security. >> pete: so it's not a partisan effort because they are

doing our bidding. you mention russia. how much of this comes back to a never-ending obsession with russia gate that they just can't quit, that those secrets are going to sit in those files until donald trump could personally deliver them to vladimir putin. >> that's what they always believe. i would give chairman thompson the benefit of the doubt had this happen seven years ago. if the fbi raided someone as prominent as former president trump, they would say oh, my gosh, what happened? but we know better now because we've seen. the steele dossier has come apart. fbi agents have dishonored themselves, forced to resign. people walked out of the building over the sort of stuff. they don't have our trust anymore. the fbi. that's actually healthy. the american people should not just look at the fbi arresting or raiding political opponents homes. say that's okay. we trust him. we should demand answers. the onus is absolutely on them.

the democratic party has changed from questioning the fbi to doing their bidding. right now the plurality of independence according to polling the majority of republicans are saying hold on, fbi. the ball is in your court. you show us what you have because right now we don't trust you. >> pete: their new favorite. chris, thank you very much. institutional mistrust in america over the past couple years has sadly been earned. we are now just passed the one-year mark of the disastrous afghanistan withdrawal. as the military leaders in charge escape any semblance of accountability about the myriad of feelers, including 13 dead americans, the taliban held celebrations at bagram air force to celebrate the anniversary. we must also never forget how our commander in chief classified the withdrawal. listen. >> the extraordinary success of

this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravery, and selfless courage of the united states military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals. >> pete: incredible success. in the end, truly? only one man, the one man punished in the aftermath was lieutenant colonel stu schaller. eventually discharge for publicly demanding accountability from the leaders over their failure. lieutenant colonel schaller joins us now. congratulations on your new book. the real story of what you went through and what you -- why you spoke out. >> pete, thanks for having me on, brother. i wrote this book for the american people. i think the american people need to see where the military is gonna drift. same problem with the fbi. these government organizations that have drifted off track. right now we need honesty, integrity, courage and we need people they can hold people accountable and so i wrote this

book for the american people. it's not just about afghanistan. it's the last two decades really since vietnam or the military is gone unchecked and we need leaders with courage to take a hard look at what's going on. >> pete: s has been said before, a rifleman who loses a rifle gets more punishment than a general who's a warrior you were the only one that spoke out. the white house was asked why they haven't talked about it if was such a great success. here is a statement from the white house press secretary on monday. listen to this. >> tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of when the president marked the end of the u.s. withdraw from afghanistan at the end of the war there. how does the president's plan to mark medication and speak to the american people? does he plan to honor the lives of the service members? >> as you know last week on friday we did -- the president put out a statement. >> pete: they put out a statement.

they put out a statement. got it. we know they don't care. they don't want to talk about it. they know it's a disaster on their watch. when you point the finger and talk about accountability, is it more a political failure of the white house and what they did or is it a failure of generalship? as someone who spoke out, where do you point the finger? >> this is a great question. i think president biden made a lot of mistakes but i think the whole system failed. i think general mackenzie failed. general milley failed. the generals testify that president biden ordered dropped down from 2500 to 650 troops but never testified that president biden ordered them to evacuate bagram airbase. the key piece of training that we needed. the generals made that decision because the restraint of 650. that's not good enough. we need senior leaders in critical moments to stand up for american values. we have these people pleasing creatures that don't do what we as the american people expect them to do. >> pete: any regrets? i remember talking to you, you

spoke of thinking may be many more will follow behind and then you ended up being basically the only one who had the courage to speak out. your thoughts on what it took for you? >> pete, i wrote a plan when i was in jail and i thought to myself they better leave me in jail or i'm going to make changes to the system. since that time i've gone out and i've accomplished everything i wanted to. i know a lot of people look at books they think here is another guy who wrote a book. congratulations to your success on your book. there are books that can project a player and it's all part of making the american people aware of what's going on and then we are going to move on to the next thing. we are going to make changes because the time is now. >> pete: if there's anybody who wrote a book that deserved to be read because the courage of what you did, it's you. the book is "crisis of command." check it out. it's out right now. lieutenant colonel stu scheller. thank you for everything you've done for the country. in moments, john federman is ducking a debate because of his

health. still has time for a swanky hamptons fund-raiser. why that push in california for all vehicles to become electric by 2035 might just run up against reality. my "fox & friends" weekend cohosts, both of them, rachel campos-duffy and will cain, they have reactions in moments. stay there.

>> pete: when you don't have an agenda to run on, what do you do? you dig debates, just like john fetterman. as "the angle" told you last night, uncle fetterman is digging his head in his hoodie and refusing to come out for the first debate against dr. oz in september, admitting that he's not up to it healthwise. where does that put him as far as serving the people of pennsylvania as a senator? he can't do one debate that he can serve six years in the senate? why should pennsylvanians believe he's up for the challenge until the end physically by the way, he should stop whining about dr. oz being mean for bringing up his health. >> may be yourself. be you have had a big health

challenge in your own life. any of your parents? any of your children maybe? can you even imagine that if you had a doctor that was mocking your illness. ridiculing that? here we are. >> pete: first of all, the health of a politician as we are seeing right now at 1600 pennsylvania avenue is a very important issue. second, fetterman has spent his whole campaign as a glorified twitter troll so apologies from us if we don't buy macbook pro clutching. joining me is the very best we can team and tv. rachel campos-duffy and will cain. they are, just like me, cohosts of "fox & friends" weekend. great to see you both. i wasn't sure how we would be? rachel, you're supposed to be in the middle. will is on the right side. it's a different arrangement.

rachel, in february, fetterman tweeted this about debates during the primary. "we believe voters deserve no fewer than three network televised debates including all candidates who make the ballot before major media markets across pennsylvania. i guess things have changed a little bit? >> by the way, i did not color coordinate my shirt with pete's tie. it looks good. here's the deal. we should learn our lesson from joe biden. i'm glad you brought that up. how much better would our country have been if the media and the voters had forced joe biden out of his basement and put them out on the campaign trail so we can see what we were getting. if i was in pennsylvania right now, that's exactly what i would be thinking about. we need to get him out on the trail so we can see if he's up to the job. it's a serious business and we can see how much our country has declined and how much american citizens are suffering because this president isn't up for the

job. it should be a valuable lesson. >> pete: do you think he can get away with it? >> clearly doesn't want to. sympathy goes a long way. that speech that you played. maybe it was the music. music is manipulative. it certainly will pull at your heartstrings and played your sympathies. politics is not the place for sympathy. it's not unlike a professional athlete in this way. i'm sorry that you're injured but you don't get to be on the field. your candidacy and your potential ability to hold office is key to winning. we need to know the kind of job you will do. if you want to be empathetic and rachel has made this point, if you want to be empathetic, you should step to the side. someone should be encouraging someone with poor health like joe biden or in this case john federman to step to the side and take care of your health. you are not capable of taking care of the rest of us in political office at this moment.

>> to add to that, the role of the political spouse is important. you wonder where these political spouses are in these moments. >> pete: maybe they love the power just as much. i will return to california. governor gavin newsom is sounding the alarm. get this one. impending blackouts and excessive heat. watch. >> between now and next wednesday. we are going to be experiencing a prolonged heat moment. we have to address that tween challenge. we voluntarily ask you to do a little bit more to help us get through the next week or so. to turn interestingly up a little bit. the thermostat at home to 78 degrees. >> pete: what he didn't mention is that the state's grid operator is also warning residents not to charge their electric vehicles just days after announcing they are going to have ban gas powered vehicles

by 2035. >> what percentage of california vehicles today are electric? and that system, that grid is buckling under the weight of the electrical demands. the percentages supposed to be much higher by 2035 because that's all you can buy. in short, this system can't support the current demand or requirement for an electrical car, much less what it would be in ten years into the lesson if you can have an electric car. you just can't plug it in. >> [laughs] it just doesn't work. the green new future is coming. we get to watch california assured and for us. >> do you remember when we wanted to do a segment on the weekend called the be or not the v when we decide what these -- if these headlines were real or from the babylon bee. that's what this seems like. one day they tell you that we are going to mandate and everyone has to buy an electric vehicle and virtually the next day they tell you if you can't charge it.

it's just comical. ideas are stupid. they don't work. these people are going to impoverish us and turn us in the third world if we don't wake up and split the holt on this. it's insanity. >> these are the experts to look really to the camera to worry, we've got it all handled. you're right, it is like the babylon bee. i want to get to this. >> has a lot of cars on blocks where i grew up. >> pete: it's coming everywhere eventually. i want to get to this report. estimates have dropped to the lowest level since 1996, the sharpest two year decline in nearly 100 years. a few months ago, warning that deaths will outpace births by 2043. rachel, you're doing your part, we know that. not a good sign for society as a whole. what do you take from it? >> yeah. this is really about fentanyl.

that's what led to a lot of these life expectancy declines. the democrats, never underestimate their willingness to put the lives of children behind their political ambitions and their ideology. they did it during covid. you see it with the radical trans policies and you're seeing it here. open borders is more important than saving the lives of kids and there's a china component where the chinese are sowing the chemicals for fentanyl to the cartels. the biden administration, joe biden put pressure on the chinese. he's not. control the economy. no more selling chemicals, it would stop. in that relationship, we know who's the boss because joe biden is compromise. >> pete: will, your thoughts. >> i'll just say i don't know exactly how they calculate the life expectancy. it's often an average. to that point, there needs to be

researched. somebody with integrity and honesty needs to look at why excess deaths has been up. beyond covid death. interesting study, why we have excess death today. i will say this and i'm going to credit both of you on this front. your point about births lagging behind deaths, more deaths than births, you have said this. rachel, nine kids. pete, seven kids. having children is a vote for the future. it's optimism. if america doesn't feel good about its future it will stop procreating suggesting america is a good place to have kids. it's an attitude and culture of selfishness and pessimist. >> pete: of the world is going to end and now nine years as we recently discussed, then why have kids at all? the ultimate pessimistic viewpoint. i think cars on blocks in beverly hills. that's the next bumper sticker. i like it. rachel, well, thank you very

much. >> the big orange extension cord to nowhere. >> pete: all the way to texas if you really want to power it. see you both saturday morning 6:00 a.m. up next, the return of raymond's rules for air travel plus which big-city democrat mayors facing a recall effort, one says she says has got to be racist. raymond arroyo has all the details in "seen and unseen," coming up next.

>> pete: it's time for our "seen and unseen" segment or re-explore the cultural stories of the day. for that we turn to fox news contributor raymond arroyo. great to see you. couple travel stories of caught your eye. >> pete, you know from your extensive travel but it's hell out there. i had two trips delayed or canceled by as many as 13 hours in one case. i missed two shows on this network. i developed raymond's rules for

air travel. do not clip your toenails while on board aircraft. armrests are to keep you in your seat so abide the divide. i hate spillage. i'm adding a few new rules. owing to a story that just landed. on a recent southwest flight, passengers started air dropping via their apple phones pictures to the pilot. he took to the intercom. >> here's the deal. if this continues while we are on the ground i'm going to have to pull back to the gate. everybody's going to have to get off. we are going to get security involved. this vacation is going to be ruined. whatever that airdrop thing is, sending naked pictures. >> it brings me to my new rule, do not send porn to the pilot. leave him alone. >> pete: it sounded like dad in the front seat. kids, i will turn this plane around if you do not behave. they are going to cabo.

they are halfway there. raymond, were any of your delays -- lost baggage has been an issue for the people. is that part of it? >> you bet. that was not the reason for my delays but it does bring me to another rule, do not check baggage on certain airlines. according to the department of transportation, the worst airlines for mishandling baggage, losing, damaging, or stealing your bags, since the top of the year. american, mishandled 450,000 bags followed by alaska airlines and jetblue. just stuff the carry-ons. fill them up and don't look back but don't check anything. >> pete: they don't really check them at security purity used taft with them and those things and make sure that they're the right size. they don't really check it. you get to the gate. it stays with you. >> don't tell everybody. >> pete: it's the way to go.

how they not figured out scanning of the bags and putting on a plane quite yet? we will get to it, another topic. appreciate those tips. joe biden gave an angry speech, use light, riddled with flubs yesterday. watch. >> keep guns out -- to know what the mexicans. mexico which has real problems. causing us for problems. you know their biggest complaint is customer can't week top gun traffic across the southern border into mexico. we could solve more gun crimes if we have someone heading up, which we finally do. we the people, that's our constitution, our declaration. we the people. >> he is unsure where he is anymore. today jill biden, dr. biden was holding a white house meeting on strengthening teaching, urging more money for public school teachers which you recently wrote about. we know how much good that does. then the president wandered in.

>> these partnerships will continue to exist. i'm going to stop talking right now. [laughter] speaking of partners. [laughter] >> that's a wrap. >> i don't know if they are all laughing about. he wanders in and wonders whatever she says, i agree with and then left. this is the problem. increasingly we see the president being led around at times literally by the wife and the staff and you just don't get the sense that he's in charge of any of this. >> pete: no and he wouldn't be aware of the factor by saying that he's reinforcing the already preconceived notion that other people are handling things. whatever she says is what we are going to do. how many times a day does he say that in response? >> good thing the easter bunny was in the hall to pull him out. good save, easter bunny.

>> pete: it's true. in your hometown of new orleans, there's an effort to recall mayor latoya cantrell. what's driving it que? >> we have an 83% increase in murders since 2019. now the mayor's office is responding. her keypad manager claims the recall effort to undermine and discredit the black woman mayorf new orleans fits into a long history of taking away our vote and voice. reason to believe a conservative d.c. firm has signed on to lead the effort. many g.o.p. organizations and city are encouraging people to sign the petition. that's why fox news is leading the propaganda charge. pete, fox news merely reported this once. it was announced. secondly the two people who filed this recall effort against cantrell are democrats. one of them, eileen carter, actually worked for cantrell. she tweeted today "why are you lying about your residence to

your residence?" the other fellow who signed the recall effort. we are both black and it's not raised issue. it's her job performance issue. you see this kind of double-talk in the administration trying to cover its tracks. these are black democrats leading this recall effort because of the crime principally the crime. you know. >> pete: you know that city better than anybody i know. is there a real grassroots feeling that it's out of control? >> all over the city. black, white, in between. there is zero motion against what the mayor, the state she has created in the city. >> pete: someone always ends up crying racism and that's not what it's about. that city deserves better. raymond, you are hosting "the angle" the rest of the week and you have some special guest. >> i joined an incredible event for the mark wahlberg youth foundation will bring you highlights.

you can also watch me destroy a fairway. this is not to be missed. tune in tomorrow, friday night at 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on "the angle." we will bring your reactions to biden's big prime time speech. can't wait. >> pete: destroying a fairway, otherwise known as golfing. well done, raymond. see you tomorrow night. we'll be watching. looking forward to that reaction. thank you. remember that story about a black duke volleyball player being the target of racist chants at byu. could this be another race hoax? bill melugin has been report.

>> pete: a duke volleyball player she and -- says she and other black teammates were threatened and racial slurs lobbed at them. the story spread far and wide quickly. but the key question, did it even happened? fox news national correspondent bill melugin is in our west coast newsroom with all the details. >> hey, pete. it's not adding up. claims from a duke women's volleyball player that she was the target of racial slurs yelled at her during a match

against byu are now coming under scrutiny with the police say they have found no evidence whatsoever that any slurs were made. this controversy first started over the weekend when duke volleyball player rachel richardson claimed in a tweet that someone in the crowd was healing the n-word at her while she served in a match. she told espn "even like my teammates who were on the bench like my black teammates were on the bench who don't play, they were being called out, pointed out. it was really confusing as to why that's when the racial slurs and tackling grew more extreme,e intense. richardson said byu didn't act fast enough to address the situation while byu said the fan who was pointed out was not a student but was sitting in the student section and was then banned from all athletic venues on campus. today byu campus police they are still investigating this

incident but that initial review of video footage did not appear to show the person who was banned shouting anything while richard was serving. the police saying apart "when we watch the video, we did not observe that behavior from him." a byu associate athletics director seconded that statement writing part "areas byu athletics employees have been reviewing video from byu tv and other cameras in the facility that the volleyball team had access to for film review. this has been ongoing since right after the match on friday night. the person who was banned was the person identified by duke as using racial slurs. however, we have been unable to find any evidence of that person using slurs in the match. "byu's athletic directors acting students to please come forward with any information they might have on this alleged incident as campus police say they are no longer reviewing the video. see what happens next. back to you. >> pete: thank you. as you said, alleged.

the headlines were already written. joining me now is dr. carol swain, distinguished senior fellow. texas public policy foundation. based on what we knew, true story, racial hoax, things like this when they happen, what's the impact? >> it's usually a racial hoax. there has been a pattern of this. there's always the media headlines. they run with the story, and that goes around the world. a few days later we find out it's a hoax and usually there's no consequences for the people who put out these false narratives. rachel richardson, i saw her interviews. she very much seems to be enjoying the new publicity and its tool what should have been a big night for byu because they were tempering. they beat duke.

instead of celebrating the reviewing film footage because the false allegation. >> pete: yeah, they were. when you make an accusation like this, people take a look. we are going to put on the screen and instagram post. i believe it's a tweet sent by somebody else that rachel hiked. it was in december of 2020. it's a disturbing picture. it's a picture of a black man whipping three white men in a cotton field with martin luther king watching. i can feel the power of ancestors running through my veins. that doesn't feel like the type of photo that someone should be liking. we don't necessarily know what the motivations would be. what does this do to real racism where it exists when you claim that something happened in the b attendant? >> well, for one thing. there is a racial double standard that allows racial and ethnic minorities to engage in blatant racism that would not be tolerated by white people.

that needs to end. we cannot have two racial equality until we hold everyone to the same standard. i think it worsens race relations. the media, they are exploiting the racial divide in america. it really is something that we should all be pushing back against. colleges and universities, i don't know what rachel richardson's major is but we see that from college, she has learned how to play the race card and the only people that we really see using the n-word nowadays are black people. >> pete: you are a wise woman. your craters. you always have been. thanks for sharing your thoughts tonight. final thoughts when we return.

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>> pete: sadly, that's it for

us tonight. i am pete hegseth in for laura ingraham. make sure to get your tickets for the patriot warrants hosted on november 17 by yours truly. tickets go on sale tomorrow. foxnation.com/patriot awards. they're going to go quick. you do not want to miss this show, be most of patriotic shows. thanks for watching. ♪ ♪ >> happy wednesday, america. these people can whistle. i feel so objectified. it's great to be back. i want to thank dana for something fo