obviously. but you know, the story goes back to the fact that reportedly william basically told harry to slow down with meghan, he should not rush into this relationship and i think that's what set it on such a difficult course. but yeah -- i'm sure the queen would love it if they could mend fences. >> martha is joining us from across the pond with excellent reporting as always. >> john: john roberts here with sandra smith as we watch what's going on in the scottish parliament, delivering a message of condolence, and hear from the labor leader as well as the conservative leader and then king charles iii will give a response to the message of condolence, not expected to last too long in length, but part of the ceremonies and celebrations

as the nation marks the passing of a person who loomed so large over the u.k. and the commonwealth for so many years. >> sandra: so many emotions as every hour goes by, leading up to the queen's funeral, takes place on september 19th. a lot of anticipation for that, people around the world will be watching, and also watching king charles as he addresses parliament and a short time from now will carry the speech for the audience. but it has been an incredible time to see the reuniting of the family members, the queen's children, and grandchildren grabbing headlines as they reunite and greet the people there and greet the mourners there, john. and many beautiful displays of affection and certainly all eyes on the king himself as he, too, has been filled with emotion during these days since his mother's death. >> john: and the beautiful service a short time ago at st. giles church, which is just up

the royal mile from the palace or castle where the prince was staying, and the beautiful procession as they followed the queen's casket up to the church, just a little bit away from the castle. it's such an amazing, amazing scene in scotland, that's where my family's heritage comes from, and martha's too, and she's able to give us the lay of the land in england. a beautiful ceremony and more to come as the days of mourning carry on here in the u.k. >> sandra: a central theme we have heard from the new king, he is about to speak shortly here, has been his promise to continue his mother's, the queen's selfless duty, words he has used many times since his mother's passing, promised to carry out

his new role mirroring or at least trying to do the best he can to replicate what she was able to do during her incredibly long time serving as the queen for these people. >> john: the first minister there of scotland has finished her message of condolence, we expect we may hear from the conservative leader as well. as he speaks, let's bring in jonathan hunt, live outside buckingham palace in london. and this is the first of many stops that the king, the newly minted king is going to make here as part of the mourning services for his mother, the queen. >> jonathan: yeah, and john, it's worth pointing out as we look at the pictures from the scottish parliament, the person there, leader of the scottish national party, it's a nationalist party, a party that looks to get independence for scotland, so it is a measure of the respect in which queen

elizabeth ii was held that you have these nationalist party members and the leader of the scottish national party paying tribute to her, although a lot of their supporters do not want to be part of the united kingdom, they believe scotland should be an independent nation but it is a real significant sign of just how much the queen was loved and respected, and the people were able in some ways, particularly in scotland, to separate her from the issue of the u.k. monarchy. so i think it was very significant you heard that fullsome condolences and try bought to queen elizabeth ii from nicholas sturgeon. and king charles iii and queen consort camilla will also be travelling to northern ireland and to wales, his kingship is proclaimed there, as well as

here in england and scotland, proclaimed before the queen's coffin arrived there yesterday. so, they will tour all those places and then come back here, of course, they will be part of what is going to be a very emotional procession when the queen's coffin, having arrived here, and then on wednesday will leave the palace, it will be followed by members of the royal family as it goes to westminster hall and the queen will lie in state there for four full days before what is going to be an extraordinary funeral on monday, september 19th, john and sandra. >> sandra: i mentioned the millions around the world tuning in to watch that ceremony happen, jonathan. as we have so far, there's been immense attention on this transfer that is happening. one we have not seen in quite some time. and it will be interesting to see here the new king's words as

he addresses parliament there in scotland. i noted earlier his message seems to be a promise to continue to serve in the queen's form of selfless duty as we do await his words there live from scotland. >> jonathan: yeah, and he said this in his first address, obviously on friday, just 24 hours after the queen's death was announced that, address to the nation was very important. he has repeated similar themes since then in his address, for instance, to what was essentially a joint session of parliament here in london today, the house of commons and the house of lords gathering to hear from king charles iii and keeps committing himself to the constitutional principles which the queen followed so diligently for all seven decades of her reign. i think people here in britain are very happy to hear that,

what they have been looking for, particularly an older generation, i include my own mother among those, where they were looking for continuity, they were looking for promises of stability, they feel they have that in king charles' words so far and they will certainly be looking to him to fulfill those words with actions in the future, sandra and john. >> john: and what we are looking at now is the leader of the labor party there in scotland. you just saw douglas ross, the conservative party leader offering a message of condolence. let me come back to what you were talking about in terms of remember the push for scottish independence, referendum back in 2014. i was in scotland that summer, and all over the countryside either no signs or yes signs, depending which side of the independence referendum you were on. and when you look at the troubled history that scotland has had with england going all the way back to edward i, long

shanks and robert the bruce and william wallace and the storied history of scotland and england, the way the queen so loved scotland and king charles as well, balmoral was her favorite place to be and it was where she spent the last days and hours of her life. it is quite extraordinary the way the queen managed to heal over the old rifts and embrace scotland and keep it as part of the u.k. >> jonathan: the power of her personality, the example of her service were all key in that, i think, john, and you go back to that 2014 referendum. 2 million voted no. 1.6 million, so, pretty close voted yes for independence, and there may yet be another referendum in the future. so it will be interesting how

the king's actions perhaps might influence any future vote. but i think you are absolutely right. the way in which the queen identified herself with scotland and therefore many scots identified with the queen, it may have made a real difference in the 2014 referendum, was a pretty close vote in the end and a great deal of fervor for independence in scotland, a key thing we will look for. king charles's role is not the same as the queen, not as beloved but see if exchange that in the years to come. significant point you make, john. >> sandra: british royal family has close ties to scotland as we have been discussing and the washington post in their piece pointing out just that. the queen sabered her 50,000

acres in the highlands, she shot the occasional red deer stag, her family calls it her happy place and for those of us who have studied her long history there, the new king attended boarding school there,s remote scotland, and the cold showers and the bullying that happened but he has credited his teachings there for his hard work. he has said in many interviews. established the hub for his prince's foundation and sustainability advocacy, so the big question is what happens next, jonathan. could you fast forward to the funeral as so much will, time will have passed by then and the white house confirming the president and the first lady will be there and what we are starting to hear that will look

like, jonathan. >> jonathan: fast forward to the funeral and it will be i think an extraordinary event. we have seen so much of that unmatched british pageantry over the last few days but it will all pale by comparison with what will unfold on monday, september 19th. it is likely to be one of, if not the biggest gathering of heads of state from around the world ever. it will be an extraordinary security operation and they are expecting millions of people on the streets of london. so you can imagine just how difficult an operation it is. and the british government has already said, by the way, that they are asking heads of state not to travel with big delegations, those delegations will not be allowed anywhere near westminster abbey. they are asking only heads of state and their spouses actually attend. they are also asking, interestingly, the heads of state coming here, if it is

remotely feasible, use commercial flights to do so. they say heathrow will not be made available for specific flights to carry the heads of state from whatever countries they are coming. so i can't imagine president biden is about to get on a commercial flight. i think we could be pretty sure air force one will be coming here, that will probably, i imagine, be allowed to land at raf north, where the queen's coffin will land late tomorrow evening here in london. so there are a lot of restrictions the british government to putting on the foreign delegations coming because there will be so many, and obviously, sandra, we will see the unmatched pageantry of the most important funeral i think in the history of the u.k. unfolding, an extraordinary televised event, we will carry every moment live on fox.

we'll be with you throughout the day and i think it's an event that everybody will want to watch every minute of. frankly, sandra and john, as we have seen over the last few days, nobody does pomp and circumstance and pageantry quite like the brits. >> john: we don't know how many members of the parliament are going to speak, we knew the three leaders were, we don't know if they will go through the entire parliament or significant members or not, we'll keep watching this as we anticipate king charles iii response to the motions of condolence for his mother the queen. when we look back on it, i don't know than, we have seen several royal funerals, the funeral of prince philip most recently, the funeral for the queen mother, princess margaret as well. but the one in terms of pageantry and attention that really captivated the attention of the world was back on

september 6, 1997, the funeral for princess diana. and as martha maccallum remarked, it didn't have to be as big as it was but the queen thought let's do the right thing here and afford her a very, very large funeral. but when you take a look at the funeral planned for the queen a week today, how will that compare to what we saw for princess diana, was the largest royal funeral we had seen in some time. >> yeah, i think it will be far bigger, john, than anything we have ever seen before, and that includes the funeral of princess diana which as you say, the queen wanted to be a major event, having been criticized, the queen, in the days before that for not seeming to respect diana enough or show enough affection for her during her life or sorrow for her passing. so the queen was very adamant that should be made into a major event and of course we all will

never forget the sight of princes william and harry following the coffin as it went through the streets of london. then this time around we will see william and harry once again, the prince of wales and the duke of sussex, respectively, along with many other members of the royal family, following the queen's coffin as it goes through the streets of london. and we saw today, just to go back to some of the images we saw today -- >> john: jonathan, i'm sorry, king charles is speaking. let me interrupt here. >> i know the scottish parliament and the people of scotland share with me a profound sense of grief at the death of my beloved mother. through all the years of her reign the queen like so many generations of our family before her found in the hills of this land and in the hearts of its

people a haven and a home. my mother felt as i do the greatest admiration for the scottish people for their magnificent achievements, and their indominable spirit, and the greatest comfort to know the true affection in which she was held. the knowledge of that deep and abiding bond must be to us a solace as we mourn the end of a life of incomparable service. if i might paraphrase the words of the great robert burns, my dear mother was the friend of man, friend of truth, the friend of age, and guide of youth. few hearts like hers with virtue walked. few heads with knowledge so

informed. while still very young the queen pledged herself to serve her country and her people and to maintain the principles of constitutional government. as we now mark with gratitude a promise most faithfully fulfilled, i am determined with god's help and with yours to follow that inspiring example. the title of duke of rothsy and the other scottish titles i've had the honor to carry for so long i now pass to my elder son william, who i know will be as proud as i have been to bear the symbols of this ancient kingdom. i take up my new duties with thankfulness for all that scotland has given me, with

resolve to seek always the welfare of our country and its people, and with whole hearted trust in your good will and good counsel as we take forward that task together. >> thank you, thank you, your majesty. i now close this meeting of the parliament. >> john: and there it is, the message of condolence have been received in the scottish parliament and responded to by king charles iii and sandra, that will pretty much wrap up what goes on today in scotland other than one other event, which will occur in about an hour's time, and that is when the king and his sons will stand watch over the coffin of his

dearly departed mother as it sits in st. giles there, and i'm sorry, let me correct myself. i don't believe it will be his sons, it will be his siblings who will be there attending the queen's casket. >> sandra: duncan larcombe is joining us, fox news contributor and former editor of "the sun," a beautiful display as we hear the bagpipes playing out following the speech of the new king charles, your thoughts, a week after the queen has passed and we work our way to her monday funeral. duncan? >> yeah, hi. thanks for having me back. i think maybe it's worth explaining at this point that in many ways what the new king has had to to by going into the scottish parliament is essentially enters the lion's den. this is a parliament that held a referendum to vote whether the people of scotland should be

independent, only a few years ago, and it was a narrow victory for those that wanted to keep it together. and so i think king charles perhaps in there was likely to have his toughest audience so far, and of course we heard those incredible tributes from others within the parliament. so i think another big test, if you like, of a new king, with many, many more big tests about to come. >> duncan, you mention going into the lion's den and it is true that like quebec in the country i grew up in, canada, the drive for scottish independence runs deep among a large segment of the population. they narrowly voted to remain in the u.k. back there in 2014. as jonathan hunt was suggesting a short time ago, that the drive to stay within the u.k. was in

part potentially fueled by the long love the queen that is had for scotland. king charles does not have the same relationship as the queen but scotland is a very, very important place for him as well. i don't know how many times we saw pictures of him with his sons in the early days of their youth up there at balmoral in the scottish high lands, but does seem to be an important place for him. do you think that he will have as the days, weeks and years progress, a similar relationship with the scottish people that his mother did? >> yes, we should not underestimate the new king charles' relationship with scotland. as he alluded to, he wore with pride the duke of rothsay, was his official title, it goes to prince william now as his heir, whilts in scotland. there will be people right now

in certain places in government that will be watching king charles' performance there thanking their lucky stars the queen after all these years actually passed away whilts in scotland because this is a wonderful opportunity to show for the people of scotland to show just how important the royal family is to them, and of course if scotland leaves the union, then -- yeah, it could be a lot worse and more to come. >> sandra: we continue to see the mourners gather there in scotland. duncan, thank you for joining us. appreciate that. thank you. >> john: and sandra, if you have ever been to edinburgh, it's such a magical, magical place, particularly the royal mile between the castle, so many centuries of history that are contained in that street, and the magnificent st. giles church

as well where the queen's body lays. if you ever get an opportunity, head to edinburgh, it is a fantastic place. >> sandra: and the sun hitting the cathedral just perfectly there. and with the midterms getting closer, president biden is trying to drum up support for many policies. but his approval rating is still underwater. and now polling shows his plans are not resonating with a lot of american voters. we have dan henninger standing by with us to discuss the democrat's controversial midterm strategy. but first up, jacqui heinrich has the latest from the north lawn for us. what is the president doing in boston today? >> jacqui: hey, sandra, good afternoon. president is trying to show the spending specifically from the structure was necessary,

speaking at a terminal that opened in 1974. >> 50 years later, over 5.6 million passengers moving through. four times as many the number that came through initially. for travelers passing through, it means missed connections, lost baggage, long lines. for businesses, it can mean delayed orders, spoiled products and very unhappy customers. >> jacqui: ahead of the midterms, republicans are making the case the democrats spending is contributing to inflation, costing americans. >> every american should ask themselves. could they afford to give up one month salary? most people would say no, but do you realize it's taken from you because of how high inflation is, based on the democratic spending? >> a new poll shows there is some truth to that. 24% of people are saying they have reduced their spending or only buying essentials because of prices still running near 40 year highs.

17% have canceled vacation or travelling less, and 17% are using less gas and driving less. treasury secretary says she trusts the fed to bring inflation down, but admits there is a risk that aggressive rate hikes from the fed could still tip the country into a recession. now, officials here at the white house will not say if inflation has peaked, but tomorrow we are going to see the numbers with the new cpi report could indicate just how aggressively the fed approaches their next set of rate hikes, the next meeting is next week, sandra. >> sandra: jacqui heinrich live at the white house for us, always some commotion from there, thank you. >> john: a lot of time there, it never ends, that's for sure. vice president kamala harris, the latest democrat taking heat for controversial midterm strategy, after claiming far right candidates are a threat to democracy, she refused for calling out her party to prop

them up in republican primaries. dan henninger, fox news contributor, dan, set the table here. president biden has been making speech after speech declaring so-called ultra maga republicans are a threat to this country. a threat to democracy. yet the same time, democrats across the country in primary races have spent millions of dollars trying to get the so-called ultra maga republicans on the road to victory in the primaries. might be a strategy for winning the midterm elections but is it cynical or hypothetical at best? >> dan: well, to say the least, john, and let me simply say it is striking to go from the sublime images out of scotland, england to ascend to the ridiculous hypocrisy of the strategy of the midterm elections. and essentially here, they have been running ads in some midterms supporting

trump-supported candidates, they think they would be easier to defeat them in the general election. so, yeah, we understand that's politics. what's galling about this, you have the president of the united states almost every other day of the week giving a speech attacking maga republicans as a threat to our democracy. idea being that he's concerned about the functioning of our democracy. and yet you have his party running these ads across the country promoting essentially the same people that the president of the united states has been attacking. so, the cynicism and hypocrisy of the democratic party starting from the president of the united states on down is quite a spectacle in this midterm election. >> john: a number of people have noticed what you are talking about here, dan, one of them chuck todd, moderator of "meet the press," had harris on and

confronted her about it. >> there are those who right now are vividly not defending our democracy. the president of the united states will speak up and raise the alarm about what this means to our strength and our future. much less our integrity. >> should you leave the good republicans alone in a primary? is the democratic party making a mistake here? >> listen, i'm not going to tell people how to run their campaigns. >> would you have done this? is this something you would be comfortable with? >> i'm not going to tell people how to run the campaigns, chuck. >> john: he asked it three different ways, every time she ducked it. what do you say? >> i say kamala harris is good if nothing else at ducking hard questions. the fact is, this tactic is dividing the democratic party. there are democrats out there who are very upset at the idea that the party would be supporting pro trump candidates,

many of them denying the results of the last election because they are afraid they might win. so, it has been hugely divisive inside the democratic party, but let's be honest about this, john, they would not adopt it if they didn't think there was a rationale behind it, the idea some of the pro trump candidates have been running not so much on former president trump's policies, the tax reductions, regulation, the strong economy, they have been attaching themselves to his beliefs that the last election was rigged, that's the way they get trump's endorsements. and so the question is whether in the general -- he could win primaries that way as we know, you just turn out angry voters, but the question is in the question election, will some republicans who maybe on the one hand supported trump's policies but could no longer support these theories about the last

election, will they stay home and end up electing the democrats? >> john: a lot to chew over in the next 50 something days, good to have you on to talk politics. appreciate it, see you soon. >> sandra: the biden administration insisting their billion dollar student loan handout will not add to the deficit but the congressional budget office says not so fast on that. warns the deficit could be dig cantly higher as a result of all that spending. let's bring in charles payne, i don't know how it can't be, charles. explain. >> it's like a word salad thing, the white house is saying if you take into fact the deficit will be less and factor in this, minus that, it's -- it's just kind of -- it's so ridiculous and here is what is so crazy about it. this is not something you have to be a rocket scientist. you are going to forgive

"forgive" up to a trillion dollars. i mean, that comes from somewhere. you just don't say it's not inflationary, won't add to the deficit, no, it will to both of these things and people will pay for it in more ways than one, the inflation rate, things they own, the things they want to buy, they are going to notice the prices are going back up again. the main thing we are trying to do is get inflation down, which is an arguous task. while the federal reserve is trying to do that, kind of messed up, the average person is saying why, i don't have a lot of wealth to begin with, why is the fed trying to take that from me. you have the fiscal side, the biden administration keeps trying their best to pump money into the system. it's crazy, sandra. >> sandra: and ask anyone who supports those policies, whenever in the history of this country have we implemented more spending and it actually served

to bring down inflation. there is not one single time. i want to roll the tape on this. the inflation reduction act, we can continue to wonder why it has that name. here is democrats insisting this is going to lower the deficit. >> and if you look at the inflation reduction act, it's going to add another $300 billion is going to bring down the deficit again. >> this bill reduces the deficit by $300 billion. >> reducing costs in medicare is one of the ways this bill actually reduces the federal deficit and when we reduce the deficit, we are helping on the inflation front as well. >> this package, reduce the federal deficit by over $300 billion. >> sandra: it's hard to find any economist who says that will be the case. here is the cbo, saying the student loan, the announced changes to the student loan program adds significant uncertainty, never a good thing, may lead to the recording of

substantial outlays in september. if significant numbers of student loans are modified in september, the 2022 deficit could be considerably larger than the cbo has estimated. >> two things right, the student debt, committee for responsible government came out moments ago saying at least $570 billion is going to cost, probably more than that, we know the penn wharton model is up to a trillion dollars. and the so-called inflation reduction act, the spending is front loading. all the assumed savings, i use assumed, they are assuming a lot here, will happen in the later years. so we are fighting an immediate inflation bill. you are throwing hundreds of billions into the economy as the fed is trying to take it out. and the average person has paid a price for all the free money. another example of the free money, monetary theory, the notion the government can print all the money in the world, it's

an unmitigated disaster. point this out, point this out, people feel it, they know it in their own lives. no mas, don't give me any free money because i can't get as much at the grocery store. yeah, eggs went up 200 bucks. everybody knows that, everybody understands it and this mumbo jumbo they use is an insult to the intelligence of every single american. >> sandra: just got him fired up. >> no, hooked up for the show, ready to go. >> sandra: and he's got his notes and electronic device, his cell phone in front of him with charts, charts, watching the markets while he's sitting here. >> john: he is as charged up as his pickup truck there. turn of events in putin's war in ukraine. russian troops forced to retreat, ukraine reclaiming a significant chunk of territory as other russian advances appear

to have stalled across canadian. dan hoffman, fox news contributor. around kharkiv and they have not quite gotten them to the border but are close, and point out the russian ares not just backing off, they are hoofing it out of here as fast as they possibly can. what's going on? >> and they are leaving behind their tanks, ammunition and their weapons in the process. we already have heard roughly 25,000 russian soldiers have been killed, vladimir putin is relying on north korea for artillery and iran for drones and now the tactical success from ukraine. izyhum is for the russians to launch attacks, an impact tactically and ukrainian soldiers and the inverse on the

russian soldiers. >> john: not the only place the ukrainian military has been pushing back. the south, mykolaiv, and toward kherson and out of there, and also some fighting up here, zaporizhzhia, where the nuclear power plant is in russian hands, this counter attack not as big as this but sdedz and making incremental advancements here. >> it is steady and ukraine has been able to launch separate individual attacks on key installations and facilities on russian bases. they have made it clear there is no place in this disputed territory here, which ukraine continues to believe rightly so that is theirs, and president zelenskyy has said they will not stop n l they get it back, including crimea. no safe haven for the russians. >> john: and the bigger map to show you, counter offensives here in the kharkiv and izyum

area, and south as well, but russia holds a lot of territory. could it turn into a stalemate or could ukraine if it keeps pushing this way and this way, could they kick the russians out? >> kharkiv advance from ukraine, the greatest sense, they would like the war of attrition, to go through the winter where they can pressure europe to maybe halt some military provisions to ukraine because of the energy that russia will halt to the provision of the energy to european customers, but ukraine is on the offensive and i would emphasize part of this is because we finally have given them the weapons they need, the himars. there will be time to question whether we had done it 3, 4, 6 months ago, some tactical successes earlier. >> john: one more question we want to posit to you because you know. you know this guy, you had to get in his head.

what does the thought bubble above his head say right now? >> i think vladimir putin has to be feeling the pressure from his own ultra nationalists. he told his people that ukraine was a threat, full of nazis, threatening russia's territorial integrity and sovereignty as a nation. we were in day 200 of what he would not call a war, a special military operation, and he was to win it in a few days and gorbachev, one of the reasons why the soviet union collapsed, gorbachev would not use violence to keep it together and vladimir putin has tried to use violence, if not to reconstitute the soviet union, then to impose a sphere of influence on the region and he's failing, and over to the intelligence community right now, it's so important to understand his plans and intentions and what will happen if he feels like his own regime security is in

jeopardy, would he resort to weapons of mass destruction, key question. >> john: dan hoffman, always great to see you. >> sandra: more than 90,000 u.s. rail workers are set to go on strike this week. their unions can't reach a deal, a new contract with the rail companies. businesses are now warning that strike could paralyze the nation's already fragile supply chain and cause food prices to soar even higher. jeff flock from the fox business network, latest on this. what are the demands the unions are making? >> usually when they say it's not about the money it's not about the money, but this case, it's not so much about the money. this is the csx rail yard, you can see the activity behind me. can you imagine that coming to a complete halt? that could happen friday morning, stroke of midnight. the problem is with the guys that operate the trains themselves.

you know, the 90,000 plus workers you mentioned, they do all sorts of things to make the freight move. it's these guys that operate the trains. take a look at these numbers, sandra. the railroads have reduced their workforce by about a third. about 29% over the last six years, 45,000 layoffs. the folks that are operating the trains, they say, have to work much harder, longer hours, not a lot of time off, on call all the time, that's the sticking point. the money is actually pretty good. take a look at the contract offer right now with the presidential emergency board put out there, retro pay raises of 24% over the past -- over the next five years, cash bonuses, half of the unions have already approved that, maybe even more than that now. but it's the guys that are working the long hours that are really putting the fly in the ointment on this. stocks today, positive note, may be a little bit up, may be some

optimism that maybe the strike could be, you know, done away with, and maybe not happen, but i'll tell you, if it does happen, it's going to be a mess out here. congress would be the only entity that could do anything about it. president biden can't do any more than he's already done, which is delay it. congress would have to get involved and you know, either implement their own settlement, they can do it because of the railway labor act, it would take bipartisan support. as you might guess in the congress, not a whole lot of bipartisan support out there, sandra. >> sandra: all eyes are on what happens next, you say it would create a mess, on top of a mess that's already happening. it does not grab all the headlines, it's very real and could worsen a situation most americans are dealing with in the form of inflation. >> already bad. >> sandra: and stuff is still hard to get. jeff, thank you, live from philadelphia for us. >> john: anti-defamation league

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cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, and allspice. other new entries, sus, suspicious, or suspect. virtue signalling, plushy, a stuffed toy, and shrinkflation and janky, poor quality. and the same price we are paying for we think the same packaging, more expensive. i make a lot of pumpkin pies in the season. i don't know you add the allspice if you use all the other individual spices. it's up for debate. >> john: my mom used to put allspice in. i don't know why pumpkin spice has to be a new entry in the dictionary. it's two words, pumpkin and spice, and sus, oh, my gosh, our twins, everything is sus. you are an 11-year-old, describe

just about everything in your life as sus, sus. >> sandra: are they questioning you? >> john: yeah, they question me all the time. >> sandra: pumpkin spice, it's a new word. words. >> john: my kids have good reason to suspect me of being sus, no question about that. hey, sandra, moving on now, the anti-defamation league reviewing some educational materials that schools across the country use for anti-bias training, some people finding that sus, if you will. after a fox digital investigation identified some lessons on white privilege and black lives matter. mike emanuel is here with more. any response from the adl yet? >> yeah, taking a closer look at the education content, john. a spokesperson saying we do not teach critical race theory, period, and misaligned with the

strategy. we intend to address the issue immediately and openly. adl was started more than 100 years ago. a large reach. last year reported more than 46,000 educators participated in the anti-bias training, and 4.8 million k-12 students were contacted through the education programs. some parents active in education are concerned. >> it's really absurd that they would say they are not teaching critical race theory, call it what you want, they are trying to protect from bias and discrimination. in this culture and the things they teach in government schools, the people that are being discriminated against are white people. >> experts say american students are struggling after covid lockdowns and remote learning. focus in schools ought to be on the fundamentals of education. >> when you have these distractions that are telling people they are bias and then

asking them to somehow concern themselves with intersectionality, by the way is a core idea in critical race theory, its going away from parents being successful in school and life. >> lesson called power and privilege, to help students identify their white privilege. >> john: these are adl educational materials but they are denouncing. how did they not know they were in there? >> great question. we should have them on as a guest perhaps, john. >> john: i guess we should. thank you for the suggestion. >> sandra: we are now learning more about the long rap sheet of the man accused of kidnapping and killing a memphis teacher. cleotha henderson was back in court on a misdemeanor theft charge but that comes days after fox news digital learned of three more criminal charges added to his lengthy rap sheet.

johna, you look at this, put it on the screen, the lengthy rap sheet we have now learned behind this suspect from 1995 to 2000, arrested 16 times, charges include aggravated assault, burglary, rape, age 14, he raped an unnamed suspect, age 16, abducted a lawyer at gunpoint. served 20 years of a 24 year sentence. he was able to walk freely long enough to carry out the gruesome crime of this amazingly lovely, beloved teacher. why? >> you know, this is a little bit crazy, sandra. because i have represented a lot of bad actors in my day, but he is irredeemable defective. while we were picking teams in gym class, he was committing atrocities against women, kidnapping and rape, while he

was a teenager. a couple of interesting failures in this case, and the one is you are right, he was supposed to serve 24 years, he got out in 20 years. that was actually by design because the judge when he sentenced him originally, he wanted him to serve 100% of his time. but prison math is completely fuzzy. in order to figure out good time credits when you are in prison, you need many things, it's the most fuzzy math we know. he technically did 100% of the time when you calculate good time credits and because of that reason he was not placed on parole, where he would have been baby-sat by the department of corrections and maybe not have been able to commit the prior crime in 2021, which is the second failure. because if that crime had been properly investigated sandra, he probably would have been back behind bars and not able to commit this atrocious crime

against fletcher. >> sandra: for so many reasons the family has to be sitting back and asking themselves, did the system completely fail their family, and fail this poor woman whose life was taken way too short leaving behind her children and husband. it is absolutely horrific. what about the system letting someone like that know that he was out and walking freely, somebody who had carried out this number of crimes and had this lengthy a rap sheet. where was the warning to the residents in the area? >> if somebody is placed on parole you get notices, i still get those notices from many, many years ago. but if they are not, you complete your sentence and you have paid your debt to society, you are done. you are out. nobody is going to know. you know, he probably was a registered sex offender but let's be real. we are not looking up the registry every other day, we are not, we just don't. it's there, we can use it.

so, this was a series of errors that allowed somebody who is just, like i said, he's just not rede redeemable as a human being. he started as a kid, and now here we are -- he was out of prison for a minute that he committed another rape and kidnapping before he killed e eliza fletcher. >> sandra: and these are new charges we are learning of in addition to what carried out, 2021, aggravated rape, kidnapping, convicted felon in possession of a firearm, what's going to happen to him, jonna? >> well, they are going to lock him up and throw away the key. he might be eligible for the death penalty for the killing of

eliza fletcher, probably a good move on the prosecution part because he does not deserve to walk among law abiding citizens. he's proven that. and i would love to examine what good time credits this man got over the last 20 years that he's been in prison because he's not a good guy. he needs to be locked up, throw the key away, sorry, but he can't hurt anybody else that way. >> sandra: the country will be watching this as the family continues to say their good-byes, just awful to watch that family go through what they are. jonna, thank you very much. >> john: new at 2:00, crime spiralling out of control. a candidate for a mayor says guns were stolen from a break-in at her home. and rafael mangual why some

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