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we have florida still reeling from the devastation from hurricane ian. >> we're concerned about the storm. i should have left and shouldn't have stayed. >> listening to the winds, which were horrible for hours. >> the storm now soaking the mid atlantic making its way up north and death toll in florida continues to climb. pete: alexandria hoff is live in fort meyers beach. alexandria. >> well, good morning. we're here on san carlos island, part of fort meyers beach and aside from the utility crews working up the street and the occasional police siren, the scene is quiet, it's still and sad. it's really easy to understand when you look at the wreckage behind me why this rescue and recovery and these operation haves been so challenging, but they've been productive.

according to the lee county sheriff's office, 6 to 700 rescues were made and the sheriff is reporting 35 deaths in the county as well and the numbers may rise as individual counties are reporting. about 30 minutes north of here, coast guard rescuing and evacuated people from pine aland as the national guard is assisting with distribution around the state and in lee county alone, 64% of people without power. as for internet, governor desantis announced the state is working with elon musk to restore service. >> at the same time we are working with spacex and we are expecting 120 additional large star link units to deploy to southwest -- >> now the governor stopped by a waffle house in charlotte county, one of the first businesses to reopen after ian's

devastation in that part of the state and flood waters have been plaguing. this scene out of venice, florida, in sarasota county near where a portion of i-75 was shut down for hours after waters made the roadway unsafe for cars and caused major backups and that's now reopened and historic flooding gripped orlando that ap reports that college students utilized air mattresses to rescue friends and grab items from flooded apartment complexes there. president biden and the fist lady will be traveling to florida on wednesday to assess the damage and offer support. pete: thank you for the latest down there in florida. will: in the midst of something like this, in the midst of a crisis and we should compound that with what's going on between russia and the west, in the midst of this type of critical moment in history, you want to be assured you have strong leadership. unfortunately that is not something we can feel sure about here in the united states of america. it's been a rough week for joe

biden and kamala harris. you have the new york post there, which shows us a little bit of what's going on and what kind of week it's been. take a look at this headline from the new york post, joe biden and kamala harris flopping worldwide. pete: right at the moment and the article lays out from north korea to firing ballistic missiles and while we're there to visiting russia to iran and china, the world is shifting and moves are being made, pipelines being blown up, and instead of a strong resolute clear leadership from the unit of america, well let's play the tape of the argument that michael good win is making. watch. biden and harris. >> i want to thank you all of you here for including bipartisan elected officials like senator brawn, senator booker, representative -- jackie, are you here? i didn't think she was going to be here. >> so the u united states sharea

very important relationship, which is an alliance with the republic of north korea. pete: we've got joe biden calling out for a congresswoman everybody knows is deceased and kamala harris not quite sure which one is the north and the south. rachel: yeah, sometimes pop culture references just really sum things up. the new york post referenced dumb and dumber, which could be an interesting way to look at what's happening here, except that it's so serious. you know, i remember when we were on the air, you guys, when the whole ukraine thing was erupting and we heard russia talking about putting its nukes on alert, that was a shocking moment. we haven't had that kind of nuclear, you know, ideas popping around since the '80s but i tell you what, i felt like in the '80s, our leaders took the idea of -- and their advisers, took the idea of nuclear war much more seriously. i'm very concerned at the fact that that's not front and center

for joe biden's administration. that so many generals that i've seen on television over the last week have said, you know, this is escalating the war here and not finding a resolution that they've said, this is worth the risk of pushing russia. i'm just -- i feel really uneasy because i can't think of anything worse than nuclear war for our own children but also for all these people that claim they care about the environment and this is why we're in this war to begin with, all these energy policies impoverishing countries and throwing them into recession and methane leaks in the baltic seas and europeans chopping down their forests to heat their houses. everything is in chaos. will: the left is pro war. pete: they're pro war against russia for a lot of reasons that come back to our domestic politics. will: why we were going to is

the seemingly driving factor for those on the left is donald trump. they've allowed that to become their defining issue in life, they've found themselves pro war. pro cavalierly shoving us into nuclear conflicts. it's really a stunning turn of events. back to the type of leadership we need in this moment, it's -- look, kamala harris is a completely unqualified individual to be in a leadership position in america. she's in an affirmative action place to unsatisfy quotas and only spoking an issues with gravitas was criminal justice and she's a prosecutor and dis-avoixed herself of all the things -- dis-avowed herself of all the things she did california. the president is a bas-fond. i'm just really honestly trying to roll this ball down the middle of the lane. he has been wrong on almost every single foreign policy issue of our time and let's make

our time encompass half a century and that's according to to his former boss and most of the democratic party he's been wrong. compound with that he's lost his marbles and there's a real problem with a crisis of leadership in a moment where we're looking at potential nuclear conflict. pete: very well said. and when we have an absentee duo in the white house, you get foreign adversaries willing to act and move. that speech putin gave was as dangerous a speech as we've heard in a very long time, because he believes he can do what we needs to do underneath a world, not talking about investing in ukraine, just a world with completely adrift because the threat of america, of a strong america doesn't exist. same with china and taiwan. joe biden spouts off we'll send troops to defend taiwan and they say that's not true. it's about strategic ambiguity and the only hope people have

and it's a thin one is that in 38 days, the midterms will bring in majorities. but republicans haven't shown in the past the capability of providing that check or holding people accountable, maybe they'll change. it's a scary place. rachel: pete, it won't reverse the fact that because we've enticed ukraine with nato membership and basically have this war now in front of us, we have an alliance between china -- we've pushed china and russia together. that influence is elmore up and downing into our hemisphere with venezuela, brazil, all over latin america. we are shifting alliances that are not in our interests over what? you crane being part of nato and they're still talking about it by the way. pete: they're still spending on it too. rachel: yeah, they're spending as we have a crisis in florida and it's probably one of the costliest natural disasters and we're sending billions to ukraine and our foe suspended cusfocus is overthere on a war r

interest. will laid out beautifully, we have baf o, ones leading the could be -- bafoones leading the country. pete: there's more illegals arriving in new york city and will and i will go off the wall talking about there's a rise of conservatism in europe and almost all of that, not all but a populous rise is a rejection of the open boarders policy europe has had. the mass migration from north africa and the middle east into these countries that has totally changed the demographics and landscape of the culture. will: and culture specifically, religion. pete: there are -- let's hope there's a populous streak yet again to emerge in our country that sees images like this and says, we really just want a

country. rachel: i hope that populous streak revolts against the green energy policies throwing the world into a recession. throwing us into war, impoverishing people and enriching russia lowering our energy resources because we've declared war on american energy, that means the price of oil goes up and the people who get rich are the russians so none of this makes any sense and it's scary. will: we bring up culture. i personally, i think all three of us feel, there's no bigger current that drives the current of your country than culture. politics floating on culture and a real concern in the american culture and the new york times said it like this: the crisis of men and boys. it's an op ed by david brooks and it's a new book about the crisis of men and boys. in the op ed brooks write, there's something in modern culture producing an aspiration gap. many men just seem less -- lost

my place here. that's not -- moving on the screen. many men seem less ambitious, ambition doesn't just happen, it has to be fired. the culture is still searching for modern masculine ideal and it's not instilling in many boys nurturing emotional skills that are desperately important today. a system labeling a fifth of all boys as disabled and not instilling competence and the system is going haywire. david brooks is late to the game on an issue that's very, very important. i don't want to give the new york times nor david brooks much attention for seeing reality that's been highlighted. you want to give somebody credit for noticing something, give jordan peterson credit for noticing this and bringing it to the forefront. rachel: the crisis in boys many, many years ago. will: this has been an issue for a long time. it's been at the forefront for at least half a decade if not more. rachel: more than that.

will: meaning it's been known in popular cultures, something men are struggling with. see it on youtube videos and hear it on podcasts. you know, i don't want to focus on the fact that the new york times is now noticing, but this is literally a real crisis. rachel: yeah. i had you both on my podcast and we talked about what were the most important issues that you saw that my husband sean saw and pete saw, you brought up this -- this issue up and this crisis in masculinity. culture matters, and i think at the heart of this is a crisis in fatherhood. we have seen a breakdown of the family, and there is an ideological reason for that. if you break down the family, then the government becomes the baby daddy if you will. if becomes the -- you break down the family and suddenly, you know, the idea of a centralized powerful government that people are dependent on is a more real idea. there's some ideological reasons

but the real-life cry cease way it plays out every day for boys is there's no role models and that's why they seek out people. it's no coincidence that j acc o and jordan petersen and the guy that tucker carlson interviewed, the ex-fighter that now lives in -- >> dan that white. will: andrew tate. rachel: yes, they're looking to the masculine figures to help them understand who they are because we have declared a war on boys and declared masculinity, toxic, which is so bad for society. pete: our elites declared the future is female and if you want to adapt to that, be telling our men to be more like women just like telling our women to be more like men, which is counter to that. this whole op ed is not an original thought and it's hung on a book called of boys and men coming out. david brooks was a conservative and does cultural commentary and it's good that they're

highlighting this but you're exactly right, men need male role models more than anything else and the research in this book points out that it often females are able to adjust in those environments easier for whatever biological reason than boys are so when boys don't have a father or family member that's willing to call them to a counter or teach them to step up or be brave or bold and reinforce the masculine attributes that are important and not fox ick at all and all of those instincts go in some other direction and all are devastating for our society. will: it is not just absentee fatherhood -- pete: poor fatherhood. it's fatherhood where men have taken a backseat and allowed themselves to be passengers in the raising of their children. i was a by-product of that as -- as a by product of that as pointed out, all the characteristics of masculinity are negative and they're not. that's not enough. to say they're not is not

enough. there's extreme positives for the individual, the family, and for our culture. we need men. we don't need boys, we need men. rachel: and men -- boys become men through great parenting. i agree with you about the absentee fatherhood and you cannot deny the lack of family formation and level of divorce and the degradation of men in pop culture and sitcoms and cartoons where men are presented at bafoones. pete: or masculinity is administer toonish and outdated and not helpful. rachel: or pretending like women don't want men to protect them. i tell you what, if i heard a noise at night and if sean sent me down, i would be less attracted to him to check it out. it's a denial of basic biology just like the last story of the transgender girls in the bathroom. there you go. will: huge story, huge current in our culture. rachel: but new york times late to the party. will: at least arrived.

turning now to headlines, colorado springs man and a former nsa employee faces the death penalty after he tried to sell classified documents to an undercover agent. jared sebastian dalkie facing charging tied to espionage act and took sensitive information from u.s. foreign and sensitive information on cyber topics and other topics. interesting. rachel: yeah. let's get a picture. will: so both the nfl and its players association considering changing the nfl's concussion protocol. this comes after miami dolphins tua tongavailoa was rushed to the hospital last week. the neurotrauma consultant that checked him for a concussion during last week's game is fired now for making several mistakes.

they said it was a back injury. he suffered a head injury after a crushing sack against the bengals, wobbly, got up, tried to get back to the huddle. then four days later thrown to the turf against the bills and you see some of the disturbing images that took place after that hit. a cheating scandal rocks a competitive -- this is so fascinating. i meant to watch this this morning. competitive fishing world, two competitors are caught stuffing what would have been their $5,000 prize winning fishing with lead weights and extra fillets. it's bad. i want to see -- there's a longer video they get called out. it's a whole thing. rachel: if they were cheating, why allow themselves to be video taped cheating. will: there's a weigh in so when you do this, you have a weigh in and this must -- they've been suggested to have done it in the past and they're -- tens of

thousands of dollars potentially in prize money over numerous tournaments so i think at the weigh in this time, they were like checking these fish. pete: where's your crown now. will: the commissioner is pulling objects out of the fish including weights. rachel: let me get this straight. the video is of them pulling weights out showing they cheated. will: yes. yes. sorry. pete: and one more thing, save the date, november 17th, we're hosting the annual fox nation patriot awards at hard rock casino in hollywood, florida. in an award show like no other honoring every day american heros. not the celebrities or heros. they're responding a free area of fox nation.com/patriot award and purchase the very few tickets that remain and go down to the pre-parties and join us

beforehand and say hello and shake hands and take pictures and celebrate these amazing heros. rachel: i cannot wait for it. all right, coming up, funeral arrangements are set for the new york pandemic -- or set for the new york paramedic randomly stabbed 19 times in the middle of the day. a union president shares the dangers of the job and his memory of the fallen lieutenant. plus, we're take ago look at the growing shift towards conservatism happening across the world. any common themes emerging? pete and will go off the wall. ♪

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rachel: tomorrow family and friends will gather to remember one of new york's bravest stabbed to death while on the clock. flags across new york city are flying at half staff in honor of rallison russo eling and the new york yankees holding a moment of silence for the fallen lieutenant. the suspect was undergoing a mental health evaluation and was once taken to the hospital by

russo-ellings unit. we're joined by the president of the fdny association. thank you vincent for joining us this morning. you knew allison. tell us a bit about her. >> good morning. yes, thank you. what can i say? she was a wonderful person, caring, loved her family, loved the members she worked with at her station. she was considered the mother of that station. she did an outstanding job, always serving the public, saving lives and right to her last moment of her life. that's exactly what she was doing, she was a 24-year veteran, received numerous comations and responded to the world -- accommodations and responsed to the world trade center on 9/11 and survived the pandemic, and unfortunately this murder ended her life. rachel: yeah, i mean, you talk about that she was the mother of that station. she's also a daughter. i read about how she checked in daily with her elderly parents

who must be so heart broken right now. this is such an enormous tragedy. i want to show you some of the crime statistics that we have for new york city right now. it's just out of control. her parents by the way saying that and when we have the people who are supposed to keep us safe themselves getting killed by the mentally ill, tell us what happened to her. >> so crime is definitely going up. i believe mayor adams inherited this problem and we need to fix it before it gets far worse. but on that day, her vehicle was off service for mechanical reasons and somebody had told her that somebody was having a medical problem down the block. she went to investigate and if you look at that chilling horrendous video -- rachel: yes, i d. >> you can see her looking around and then this man comes up to her and kills her. stabs her multiple times, almost 20 times in the neck and chest.

it was horrifying. but i notice something this that video and everybody is saying he's mentally ill, this man knew what he did. if you look at that video, he stabbed her and then he knew what he did was whereon and he ran away, to run and hide in his apartment. when you do that, you know right from wrong, you knew what you did was wrong, and you ran away to hide from that. if you didn't think you did anything wrong, you wouldn't run. i don't buy this defense he's starting to put up already that he's mentally ill. he knew what he did was wrong and he took a hero, a loving, beautiful person away from us. rachel: yeah. if he was mentally ill, he should have been locked up and your comments about his running away show that he did know what he did. it's a tragedy, we pray for her, her family, and all of you affected fdny. we just don't even know what to say. it's just gotten so out of control in this city. it's literally becoming unlivable. vincent, thanks for joining us this morning.

>> thank you. rachel: all right. up next, the devastating aftermath of ian is nearly 1 million people remain without power in florida alone. how local leaders are trying to help those hit by the destructive hurricane and a member of florida's house of representatives joins us live after being on the front lines. stick around and stay with us.

pete: deaths in florida rising in the wake of hurricane ian's wrath. residents warning about a possible levy break and could make flooding even worse. our next guest includes sarasota state representative fiona mcfarland joining us now. give us the latest if you will on what's going on in your district. >> so i represent sarasota county and right now it feels like we're fighting a two-front

war. the hurricane hit us four days ago now, and we're still dealing with the downed trees, the power outages, the flooding from the rain on the coastal part, but now four days later what we're starting to see is our rivers on the inland side of the district are flooding giving people even more water to deal with from the other side of their home. the story that we're overing today is about the m mayaka rivr and it flow through a valley on the inland or eastern part of my district in sarasota district and flows through manatee county from sarasota down to charlotte county and we're seeing four days of the hurricane has gone through, all of that flood water, all of that rain is depositing in the valley and the pictures you're seeing on the screen right now, you can see we can't absorb all that water. our public works department has done a great job trying to lower the level of the river before

the hurricane hit, but there's just such a huge volume of water dumping in, there's nowhere to go. pete: i think i'm correct on this that most of the deaths have been attributed to drowning to your point now. anything you can clear up for us really quickly, fiona, on the status of the levy? is the water clearing the levy and has it broken and being a important issue on the level of the water, what's the latest on that levy? >> so the level of the water has peaked over the level i have and in some cases water has peaked over the top and if you don't know what a levy is, it's the same as a berm or hill that separates the high point of the water near the community next to it. the water needs to move its way south ward down to open water in char lot harbor. but it's -- it doesn't happen

quickly. i have two small kids and i think of the cartoon of a snake that's just eaten a huge app and will the big chunk needs to work its way down through the snaky winewindy river and it'll floodt each point. we're watching for roads that will be overtaken and for other communities that might be at risk. now it's compounded by the fact that we still don't have power to almost 50% of sarasota county and cell service is intermittent or not available in many places so it's not as simple as just asking people to follow the news on their phones or stand by for alerts and in some cases we've had to send first responders out into these communities and knock on doors and say, hey, we need you to shelter in place because we can't evacuate you. the water is coming. pete: we appreciate you giving

us the latest on that. our thoughts and prayers with everyone down there. thank you, fiona. >> thanks, will. will: people around the world are elected more conservative leaders. what's driving voters to the right all across the globe? we'll go off the wall, next.

pete: conservative dubbed trump of the tropics and he surprised the world when elected president of brazil in 2018 and seeks another term today as brazilian's turnout to vote. but brazil's shift to the right is not, will, an outlier. will: no, many other countries are changing party preference after surge in safety, crime and other concerns. let's go off the wall to see some of this shift across the world. you'll see behind us the wall reads, a world shift to conservatism. it's important, pete, to point out that conservatism doesn't have the same meaning throughout the worship god. what it might mean here in the united states of america is not the same as it might mean in italy. you and i would both agree what we're seeing across the world is a general shift towards populism. people, regardless of what country they come from bruninha, italy, or the united states, feel like their governments have fore saken them and indicate --

forsaken them and catered to the needs of an elite few. will: did the initial guttural scream of populism. pete: listen to most of the rest of the press and certainly the elites calling it far right or anti-democrat ick or -- will: fascism. pete: you hit it. populism, sovereignty, energy, the basics of men and women in gerunder and starts here in italy. gender and it starts here in italy. will: it does. it was italy. georgia meloni elected new leader of italy and the mainstream media dubbed this a return to fascism in italy. her political party does find its roots as you see all the way over here from cnn in the political party of

benito mussolini. pete: it's known as the brotherhood party. will: fascism in italy doesn't mean the same as fascism from 1930s germany. it's complicated. but what is not complicated is the reason the people have chosen this type of leadership. will: it's all how it's characterized and they're looking to a country that's not changing and energy sources that it previously had. illegal immigration, a big one, she's vowed to put n a blade cade in the mediterranean to stop a nonstop flow of migrants or illegals or immigrants from northern africa, which is changing the land scale in italy. that's something voters in italy see and feel every single day, including the crime that has come along with it. then the question is where she stands on russia? she says she stands behind nato at this point on that. skeskeptics think she may wiggln

it. videos were taken down by youtube for a moment and re-instated and the thematic focus for meloni is faith, family and country. move to sweden. they're increasing the number of votes and seats they have to form a government coalition. pete: indeed, in in case, they run the more moderate right center of party and forms a block with more seats than ever and 176 of the 349 as you've seen. ultimately again, a lot of the same basics here in sweden: energy, having the military capabilities combating crime, you talk to people in sweden, the influx of radical islam in sweden is staggering in what it's changed in the demographics and what sweden

could look like in 20, 40 years when birthrates have dropped and are connelling to skyrocket against muslims. will: here is a consist theme. this is starting to roll back the idea that sweden is a refugee status country for anyone in the world. the accompanying changes in culture and safety as you've led with that theory over the last half a century. pete: they're leading the idea of multiculturalism and diversity but what if the group you're letting in isn't interested in assimilating swedish cowelture? culture? will: same thing in france where pence has gained influence and power in the last several years. winning seats, winning more influence in france and all based again, pete, on the same populous themes. pete: basic populations and might say france first is the idea, sweden first is the idea you're seeing in these places.

not a far right idea at all. slashing tacks, energy a huge one for france like everywhere else and they've discovered and want to try and maintain nuclear energy in france in ways that others in europe have not. illegal immigration as well. look at this one right here, state housing or job benefits to citizens before foreigners. it's the same argument we hear all the time with the rampant illegality at our southern border and what about our citizens that are supposed to have access to shelters and more. will: all of the elections dismissed as return to fascism or return to racism. when the operable question to be asked is whether or not you're phrenowhether or not you're italian or american or english. is there a culture worth preservation and should you there protect that culture by considering who it is and legal process through which someone comes into your country. pete: do you believe in yourself

enough to think we should defend ourselves? there's the same strand in domestic politics. if america was sinful from the beginning and why are we perpetuating or defending any of it. put uk up where liz truss has become the prime minister and not a raff id conservative and all of uk politics defined by brexit and they'll maintain it. will: it's an island. it's an island. increase forces at the border. by the way, those are a few of the countries -- pete: oil drilling in the north sea. will: those are a few countries by the way. throw up potential similar movements in spain, finland, belgium, poland as well. pete: majorities in the places again. brexit conceded 2016 and are these indications of what could be coming in 2024 with a big show down. will: populism, focus on the lives of the people over the few. pete: what an idea. all right, rachel, how you

doing? rachel: good, great analysis and by the way, in spain, vox party again a nag nationalist party is the party of the youth and gets called fascist and trying to use right wing rhetoric to shut it down calling it fascist and it hardly is. great stuff, guys. appreciate it. all right. turning now to your headlines, 19 people are killed in iran including four of the re-seems elite revolutionary guard after an attack against a police station. iran's use agency reporting the armed separatist hit among worshipers near a mosque and 32 were wounded in the attack. it's unclear if the attack is linked to the nationwide antigovernment protest in iran over the death of a young woman in police custody. real feminist, real heros in those protests. the british royal family

unveiled their first official family photo since king charles iii took the throne. the picture showing the king alongside the queen consort, prince and princess of whales. that's the slimmed down royal family for you. the uk also revealing the new king charles coin which reads "charles iii by the grace of god, king, defender of the faith". that still in question. all right. a new study helps -- study finds that cuddling can help repair damage caused by heart attacks and michigan state university finding cuddling releases a hormone that stimulates the growth of new heart cells and the hormone is called oxytocin known as the love hormone for its role in helping people build connections and helps people build the cardiovascular system and that must be why my parents are constantly cuddling my kids.

it's good for their heart. coming up, microsoft quietly reveals it expected to have 10,000 employees working in china over the next year. kurt the cyber guy says what happened to growing u.s. jobs. he joins us next. ♪

pete: microsoft is on track to have 10,000 employees in china over the next year with no plans of slowing down. kurt the cyber guy joins us now. kurt, that seems like a lot and they're only increasing more. >> i have a lot of questions here. why? first of all isn't it supposed to be about u.s. jobs at this point? microsoft is now putting jobs over in china. 9,000 right now expected to be 10,000 by the end of the year, and already a promise that they're going to expand their existing campuses there over the next three to five years making them very nice for the chinese people that are working for them. why aren't they doing that here? i don't get it. i don't get what's going on with this but it's one thing where you have a company that's doing this and they make it a big, big

deal in chinese media and say nothing here in the u.s.. pete: they don't want us to talk about it. what kind of deals did they have to make in order to do business there? you do it at the behest of the communist chinese economy. >> you have senator rubio, chuck schumer on the same said saying this ain't cool. got to keep our eye on this one. pete: maybe china soft. >> china soft is exactly the moniker that they earn on this one. that's a good one, pete. jumping to something very important this morning, if you have a phone, that's you and me and every american. there's at least nine rogue fraudulent apps that have been discovered. they were in the app store and also on google play for android. pete: if they make it in the app store and into android, they're supposed to be good to go. >> supposed to be secure but stuff falls through the crack and happens more and more often and the problem here is they don't have time to catch up with this quick enough. pete: there they are right

there. we're not going through all them. >> go to cyberguy.com and i have them all listed. grab your phone and may not have thought you downloaded one and delete them immediately and i'll show you how to do that and keep the protection on your devices. pete: if they're on your phone, what are they doing? >> pushing out ads and popups and gathering information for other advertisers. it's an annoying thing they're doing to us right now. it's not a giant invasionive thing they're doing but i will tell you, it's the beginning of something you never want on your phone and it's going to take up the -- burn the battery at the same time so delete all these. pete: a gateway to gather more information on you when we're already under assault. all of this stuff, cyberguy.com and keep yourself safe. >> good to see you, pete. pete: great to see you, kurt, always. thanks for being here. coming up, midterms five weeks

away and tudor dickson is fighting to lead michigan and she joins us next hour.

♪ ♪ rachel: good morning, everybody. it's 8:00 eastern time. you just saw a shot of the intrepid museum there, and we're so happy to be here this morning, will cain, pete hegseth, good morning. pete: good morning. it's october 2nd. fall is upon us. rachel: yeah, it is. pete: will is wearing his beautiful minnesota vikings purple today because he lost to me in fantasy football last weekend and appropriately ha