>> scary stuff, guys. please say two 17-year-old boys were shot outside the long island home of lee zeldin. he said his $260 are home alone at the time just doing their homework when they heard gunfire outside their room front door. the girls locked themselves in the bathroom and called 911. >> it hits close to home and it shows up on your front doorstep. i'm standing in front of crime scene tape in front of your own house. you can't get m any more outrage than right now. >> authority say three teenagers were walking on the street and some of the open fire. two of them were shot before taking cover under zeldin's front porch. the congressman has been very vocal on new york soft-on-crime policies contributing to the spiraling crime crisis but he said it's past the point of politics when seemingly nowhere is safe. police say the incident outside his home is gang-related and "unrelated to the residents of

the house." zeldin says he doesn't know the identity of those shot but that they are being treated for their wounds. the search for the shooters is ongoing. back to you. see three let's bring in lee zeldin now, new york gubernatorial candidate and congressman from county. what another 12 hours you have had. put us come if you can, congressman, with you and your wife. you're in the bronx at a columbus day parade, and how do you find out about a shooting half a block from your house? >> we got a phone call from our daughter, mikayla. we hear other daughter, arianna, in the background crying. she speaking to 911. they were the 911 colors. mikayla is freaking out that we are not able to hear everything because of the wi-fi connection. they were locked inside of a bathroom. they were at the kitchen table doing homework, and all of the sudden they are hearing multiple gunshots. they then hear screaming. they run upstairs and lock themselves in the bathroom. one of my daughters called 911, the other one calls us.

at first they were thinking the people they heard screaming, the individuals who are on our porch, around our porch, they don't know whether or not those are the people who are shooting or the people who are getting shot. so we just told them to stay locked down until we got the clear from the suffolk county police department, which did take a while. they responded, they secured the scene, and then we told them to get out of the bathroom. but it really freaked them out. this is something where you have two people who got shot who are essentially laying down about 1e doing homework. one of the bullets landed about 30 feet from where the girls were doing homework. this hits extremely close to home. it showed up at our front doorstep yesterday. when we were getting back to the house, we had to go through crime scene tape, we were getting advise where to walk so that we weren't stepping on blood. this is not something we are planning to return home to when we left for a columbus day.

in the bronx. >> we are so glad you guys are okay and we are glad they had each other. that is such a scary situation for them to be an end for you as a parent, to get that phone call. every parent's worst nightmare. have police told you any motive for the shooting or information about who is responsible? >> they haven't yet. when we came home, we opened up a security camera footage and four of our security cameras picked up these three individuals who were on our property. one was laying down underneath our porch and another one was laying down under a bush in front of our porch, just a couple feet away. the third person who wasn't shot was moving all around the property come up and down the porch a couple times, through the front yard, so he was coming across all four of the cameras. those are the only three people he picked up on our security camera footage. we do have vehicles passing by on the street, but we haven't been notified as far as who did the shooting and what the motive

was. >> steve: absolutely. although there are stories out there, it could be gang-related, but that doesn't make you feel any better. that's the problem with chicago right now. it's a complete disaster. i think a lot of people think of that, because you're a member of congress, you probably have security for you and your family. that's not the case. how did your daughters know to go to an interior room and knocked on mike lock themselves in a closet or bathroom? that was brilliant on their p part. >> am grateful for how swift and smartly the girls responded. they just went straight up into the upstairs bathroom, locked themselves in, and called 911. this shooting took place at 2:18. by 2:19, arianna was on the phone with 911. they responded very smartly. unfortunately for new yorkers, this wasn't the only story yesterday. we were also reading about someone else who got stabbed on the new york city subway, someone else who got slashed in

the east village. this is day after day after day and there are a lot of families dealing with this reality of rising crime in new york. for us, fortunately my daughters knew exactly how to respond. but listen, they were just sitting there at the kitchen table doing homework, and bullets started going off all around them. and we don't live in some huge house, this isn't a gated community. this was something that happened really just feet from where they were sitting. >> brian: it's amazing how different media cover this. your hometown newspaper puts it on page 11. "the new york post" has it on the cover. they see it as a huge problem, because it's the second major incident around your candidacy. you could say that they weren't targeting you, congressman, but they weren't targeting that parent at the parent stay in the marriott in poughkeepsie, either. that was the cross fire from two homeless criminals that were sitting there.

it's all the randomness of this crime that hits you. one of the questions yesterday in a press conference, one of the press member said, "why are you politicizing this so soon after major incident like this?" which i thought was an outrageous incident. you aren't politicizing it, you're bringing up crime in the city that you want to be governor in. >> i was answering her questions in front of crime scene tape in front of my own house. by the way, i was standing outside of my home answering their questions because they asked me to come outside to speak to them. i said okay, you're asking for me to come out to address what happened, happy to do it, rather than doing a whole bunch of one-on-one interviews while we spend this time with our daughters. we would just come out and enter everyone's questions of the same time. the first question is then the coming after me for standing front of the crime scene tape speaking to you. you mentioned news day, here's the problem, there is an election coming up in 29 days, and they want to do everything

in their power to prop up kathy hochul. >> brian: they do. >> the problem is, if they were going to give any fuller coverage to what happened, they don't want to incidentally end up helping my candidacy. so i don't know if newsday has said anything negative about kathy hochul ever. i'm not sure. maybe they have. but the reality right now in this state is that new yorkers don't feel safe, even the former democratic governor, david patterson. the democratic governor was making statements in an interview over the weekend about, even in the '80s '90s, he didn't feel as unsafe as he does now. people aren't riding the subway because they're afraid of being pushed in front of an oncoming subway car. you have people walking the streets with their head on a swivel, and if they have to go two blocks, their calling an uber when these to be willing to walk 20 blocks. we have people who were murdered, from the marist dad from long island, a woman in the buffalo area who was murdered

last wednesday, her husband was released. the shooter, the murderer, it was released day earlier. on cash-list bail. she was wearing a bulletproof vest when he shot her the next day in front of their three kids. this is the reality we should be confronting head on. the idea that you're not going to confront it because you don't want to hurt kathy hochul, who you're trying to prop up? that's the disgrace. don't come after me for answering your questions. >> steve: it's the new new york, and it's terrifying. congressman, if you'd sit still, we want to ask you about the next item, our next story, then we'll ask couple questions on the other side. stay tuned right there. meantime, we have another fox alert. if you just waking up, explosions have rocked kyiv overnight with officials reporting a number of people killed and dozens injured. >> there are also reports this morning of widespread electricity and water outages

nationwide in ukraine as russia targets energy infrastructure. >> brian: the u.s. embassy warning americans in ukraine to shelter in place. peter doocy is monitoring the situation. >> good morning. president putin is firing at civilian targets and energy facilities responding to what he calls a terrorist attack, carried out by ukraine. he's referring to the destruction of a bridge that connects the contested crimea to mainland russia. so now the u.s. embassy in ukraine is warning that continued strikes pose a direct threat to civilians and civilian infrastructure. the embassy urges u.s. citizens to shelter in place and depart ukraine now using privately available ground transportation options when it is safe to do so. here's some video of a crater on a playground. it's an escalation that may not be as bad as it gets because president biden is warning of a nuclear armageddon possibly

lying ahead. >> i think the president was accurately reflecting the fact that the stakes are very high right now. his comments are not based on new or fresh intelligence or new indications that mr. putin has made a decision to use nuclear weapons. quite frankly, we don't have any indication that he has. >> that's kind of different then what president biden said, though. he told donors thursday that putin is not joking about using nukes. so critics say they can't believe the president said that if there's really no evidence backing it up. >> first off, those comments were reckless. i think more importantly they demonstrate maybe one of the greatest foreign policy failures over the last decades. when you hear president talk about armageddon as a random thought, just musing at a fund-raiser, that's a terrible risk to the american people. >> so putin says he's not the aggressor here, and according to a reuters wire that just

crossed, he is saying that if attacks continue against russia the response will be harsh. back to you. >> steve: thank you very much. let's bring in again congressman lee zeldin, running for governor here. you've heard what peter reported. the good news is that putin isn't using nukes at this point. the bad news is the rhetoric from the white house is troubling. >> no doubt, and words do matter. unfortunately whether it's president biden or vice president harris, oftentimes they have flubbed their words in a very significant way where the white house then has to walk it back. oftentimes president biden would then say something else that results in the white house having to walk these words back again. and i'm really concerned right now that one of our vulnerabilities as a nation is the rhetoric that is coming out of this white house. it's not resulting in a situation where adversaries abroad are seeing it and

standing down. they are listening to the words coming out of the white house and it's actually emboldening them to go further. whether it's north korea, iran, russia, china, they are all escalating their activities because they do not see a strong, consistent, effective response and policy coming out of this president in the white house. >> brian: remember, three days, that ukraine would be overrun in three days. that was according to their intelligence experts. one of the great acquisitions is the abandoned tents that the russians are leaving behind. would you, congressman, give the ukrainians the atacm missiles they want? that's what president zelenskyy is asking for and so far the pentagon has been unwilling to give them. it's a 1980s-era bracket. would you do that? >> quite frankly, with the amount of aid that's been

provided to ukraine, i'm surprised that hasn't happened yet. i mean, this is the type of support you and i are talking about that would have been much more helpful had it happened many months ago. this is something where, at this point, many billions of dollars have been sent from the united states to ukraine. ukraine should be able to access the weaponry that needs to defend itself, and in many respects ukraine has been able to defend itself. they could just utilize assets to be able to defend themselves even more. it doesn't even have to be direct from the united states, some of the support being provided to ukraine in weaponry. it's been coming through other nations and sometimes those other nations are trying to get the united states involved in some of the transactions that, quite frankly, should be provided to ukraine directly if you want to provide that assistance. there is more that can be done. credit to the ukrainians for how strong they are individually. they have shown a particular spirit, nationalism, pride, and

patriotism that has allowed them to defend their country. unfortunately their country has been getting beaten down into the rubble right now. their country is not what it once was just a year ago. but they had been putting up the good fight and they've been putting up a good fight with a tremendous amount of support from the united states government and the united states taxpayers. >> they certainly have. thank you so much for joining us this morning after a really scary day yesterday. we so appreciate you coming on and we are so glad your family is okay, as well. >> thank you all. >> turning now to ashley strohmier who has headlines for us. >> good morning. at 55-year-old was stabbed to death on a new york city bus last night after a verbal dispute. police say no arrests have been made and the deadly attack comes as a grieving mother of another man killed in this random new york city subway stabbing is speaking out. france is blaming mayor eric adams and the city's lawlessness for her son's death, telling "the new york post," "they failed us. you're not going to come tell me

about my baby. he has no criminal record. this is why mayor adams needs to get his --" expletive -- "waived." after she was accused of making racist remarks about a colleague's son, they're demanding she resigned after i delete where she called the child a racial slur. protesters blasting audio of the recordings back in 2021. martinez helped pass a law forbidding protesters from coming the residences. fort myers beach reopens to residents and business owners less than two weeks after being devastated by hurricane ian. most residents have been away from the town since being evacuated ahead of the impact. many areas are still without power, water, and trash pickup. anyone returning must bring an idea or proof of residency to be allowed access, and a 7:00 p.m. curfew does remain in effect. after years of doing stunt work including flying his own planes in "top gun: maverick,"

tom cruise is sitting his eyes on the stars to be the first actor to do a spacewalk. he's reportedly in talks with universal studios to take his next film to the international space station. those are your headlines. i would never go to space. i can barely get in the plane without freaking outcome of the good for him. >> steve: he does his own stunts. >> he so good at it, so why not? >> that's going to take a long time! >> steve: he'll be a star in the stars. >> brian: why not just use a green screen? save some money. >> steve: he wants to make it real. >> he's a thrill seeker. >> brian: aren't actors great at making things really aren't real? if anyone shouldn't, it's bad actors. bad actors should be allowed to go to space. he's a good actor. you can stick in here and pretend to be in space. >> steve: do you have a list of bad actors? >> brian: meghan markle, very bad. she needs to be in space. who else is a bad actor? >> piers morgan is coming up, i'm sure he would second that opinion paid will have to ask him. >> brian: that would be great. face to face with the taliban,

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but with officials staying silent on the details, what can we expect will be discussed? especially after the way we l left. he negotiated for the trump administration and joins us now. adam, would you be having these meetings? what would our objective be and what do you think there is is? >> there's nothing wrong with talking. they did release one of our hostages, which i'm very happy about it, mark. but we have to have very serious conditions if we're going to talk. let me give some examples. we can't have al qaeda sitting there attacking and preparing to attack u.s. cities if we are also talking to them about humanitarian aid. there needs to be a tit for tat here, brian. >> brian: right, but it was the al qaeda arm that was doing that. the taliban weren't really a threat to us, where they? >> the taliban want us out of afghanistan if you leave them alone, mostly. but you see here, they still need us.

they want $3.5 billion in humanitarian aid. it's a part of the deal here is they can't just wipe their hands clean because you've got al qaeda sitting there, and have isis-k. we need to work together to get rid of those folks. if they don't want to work together, they're not going to get their money. >> brian: right. we both don't like isis-k, that's correct. so that is some commonality. number two is we have allies in that area. and they will say, "give us a list of those allies and will dl look after them." we are not going to do that, hopefully. >> we have a hostage still in afghanistan, held hostage by the taliban. that's another great example. we don't make deals with people and we still have u.s. hostages, let alone all the american allies that are there. >> brian: people listening right now are outraged, even thinking that we are going to give them more money. $3.5 billion. so what do you say to those people? why do we just break off and

wash her hands of this entire region? >> i'm synthetic to those people because, at the end of the day, we have run out of town with their tail between her legs and we did need to do that. i don't like how accident afghanistan. now we have to do with the facts on the ground and no one is saying to release all this money. i want them to lean in on a number of things, because they care about our hostage and american allies that are there. i care about isis-k, which they care about, you are correct in that. we can collaborate on that. and i don't want al qaeda standing at the base. those are important to us, and we look at a situation where we have an al qaeda operative that is there for months that we have to strike, they can give us that intelligence, but i will say one of the thing. when they are over, and at a u.s. military base, you go to the qatar side and a windowless room you negotiating with the taliban. when you negotiate, you have to make it clear that we are not

going to stop making unilateral moves. we are still going to attack people because we need to do that. >> brian: just real quick, 10-15 seconds, what is a third country that if we give them humanitarian aid they would be there to make sure it got to the people so they don't starve to death? children, so they get some baby formula? >> they are notoriously good at that. they do it in israel all the time, and in the palestinian territories. they have been very helpful to us in releasing our hostages, so i would go with qatar. >> brian: okay, good. if you provide the money, make sure it gets to the people and other governments so they can fbymore of our weapons. coming up straight ahead, trick or did they treat? the rolling stone claims that republicans are fearmongering for warning parents against rainbow fentanyl. former drug czar bill bennett response. ♪ ♪ now, there's skyrizi. ♪things are getting clearer♪

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sacramento city unified school saying, "we really just want to make sure we are taking every step possible." so is this threat real? let's talk to bill bennett, fox news contributor and former education secretary, and former drug czar, who joins us from the d.c. area. good morning to you. >> hey, steve. >> steve: we have shown these pictures of the rainbow fentanyl, and some of them are in candy packages labeled "nerds," which my kids grew up on. so who are they marketing these things for? and isn't it a real threat for kids if they see something that looks like candy in a candy package? they might actually eat it. >> sure it is. look, maybe rolling stone's right and maybe rolling stone is wrong. i think they are wrong. who's going to take the chance? do you want your child to be the person who experiments to find out whether it's fentanyl or not? remember the old kings taster's theme, the guy who tasted food

for the king? how about the rolling stone writers try one of those fentanyl candies or those can be said to be fentanyl and see whether the dea and the border patrol or telling the truth? it's a hell of a thing. where are we here in 2022, where we are worried about halloween and fentanyl and our kids' candy? this is why the american people are fed up. we are being pushed to the limit and we have to push back. i hope that happens in november. >> steve: no kidding. speaking of drugs, you wrote a great op-ed for "the wall street journal" about how joe biden's marijuana pardon last week is going to drive crime higher. what do you tell the folks? >> first of all, he is tipping his hat to the potheads trying to get the pothead vote. this might be one of the few group votes he gets. nobody is in federal prison -- i will underscore this -- nobody is in federal prison because they were smoking marijuana.

the 6500 people who joe biden wants to pardon are in there because they pled down from a more serious case. very typical case, steve. domestic violence, a woman gets beat up really badly, she won't testify in the trial, so they find marijuana and put the guy in for that. it's kind of like the al capone thing. but nobody is in there for just smoking pot. the other thing i would say is, as a former drug czar, not everybody who smokes pot ends up with fentanyl, but almost nobody who gets to fentanyl didn't start with marijuana. this marijuana around today's very serious. 20-30 times more powerful than what we had a knee '60s. >> steve: bill, things have changed. now a number of states are okaying recreational pot. medical marijuana is legal across much of this land. things are different now.

>> yes, things are different, and they are not better. we had 108,000 deaths last year from fentanyl, and in this city we have a very solemn memorial, 55,000 dead over 16 years. last year, 108,000 dead from a drug poisoning. by the way, it's not an overdose of fentanyl, it is a dose of fentanyl. some drugs lead to other drugs. we know that. we have turned away from this and we need to push back. tell me who the drug czar is in this administration. do you have any idea? i don't know who it is. i've talked to a couple former drug czars and they don't know who it is. we need to push back on this. we don't want a buzzed population. with my former secretary of education hat, if i can for a second, steve, if you use marijuana regularly as a teenager, it destroys your focus and attention. do we need to focus and attention when they are doing homework and studying? we sure do. by the way, if i could just say,

congressman zeldin, the metaphor of crime striking close to home, it's no longer a metaphor. it was real in his case, and too real for too many of the people. the american people are being pushed and it's time for them to push back in november. >> steve: absolutely. his family was certainly lucky that it didn't get worse. it could have been so much worse. bill, thank you very much for joining us today. >> thank you, steve, as always. appreciate it. >> steve: have a great week. coming up on monday, fox news alert, the u.s. embassy in ukraine issuing a dire warning after russia has unleashed a new barrage of attacks. piers morgan says ukraine must and will win, and he's next. , your first treatment could be a chemo-free combination of two immunotherapies that works differently. it could mean a chance to live longer. opdivo plus yervoy is for adults newly diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer that has spread, tests positive for pd-l1, and does not have an abnormal egfr or alk gene.

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following months of calm. >> here to act, piers morgan, host of "piers morgan uncensored" on fox nation. what is your reaction to this latest round of attacks in not only kyiv, but we are also hearing about explosions in lviv all the way in the west. what is your reaction and what should the president do about it? >> well, my reaction is horror, but i'm not surprised. vladimir putin has been on the back foot now in this war. he's been losing this war. the american people, they fall back because we. they would always be a moment when a wounded beast, putin, was going to show us his real colors. i think that started today, it's a mass terror attack. it's a series of missiles launched all over ukraine, targeting multiple cities. i was in kyiv several months ago, very near to or several of these missiles were today. these are residential areas.

these are innocent women, children, going about their business, who are now living in absolute terror again, some of them being killed today and some wounded. as to what should be done, i just think the united states has a call to make it, as does my own country of the u.k. what do you do when you have a psychopathic dictator like putin who is now flawlessly attacking an entire sovereign democratic country, who reacts to ukraine trying to defend its own bridge, which originally was put there by the russians, but defending its own previous territory, crimea. they are trying to reclaim their territory, and by doing that, puts and calls them terrorists and launches a series of terror attacks. i think the west has west has humanitarian duty to ukrainian people, and military duty to them, and a moral duty. frankly, if we are not prepared to stand up for the ukrainian people, what democracy and

freedom are you prepared to stand up for? >> brian: think about the humiliation of a man who prides himself on being a strongman, takes his shirt off and hops on a horse, has this badass army, and he's getting his butt kicked everywhere. his generals are being fired, his people don't want to be drafted. they are leaving the country rather than put on a uniform, and the soldiers are so confused and untrained with weapons that were basically from the 1980s. he has been exposed. >> he has been exposed, but never underestimate a wounded animal. putin remains in charge of a massive military force. he has 6,000 nuclear weapons. we don't know about his mental stability. but i've always felt from the start of this war -- not a country, just the war -- that there are some ways we will have to engage with this guy. he forgets what he wants from ukraine, if he ceases any land and territory he wants and declares it with fake referenda as russian territory, if he does this and gets away with it, he

won't stop. he will try to expand back with the original soviet union. at what point do we say enough? i think president biden is being very supportive of zelenskyy and his efforts in terms of providing military hardware. i think he has redoubled. not just from america. we should be the lone helpers. the u.k. can be helpful. other european countries have to step up. this is a war in europe in our lifetime, and the previous time a dictator tried to do this was 1939, adolf hitler. he rose up as a world and we repelled him. we need to have the same determent and resilience now. >> steve: indeed, because the people of ukraine need that. watch piers morgan every day on fox nation, weeknights at 4:30 p.m. he's very busy guy. piers, thank you for joining his life from the u.k. >> next week i'm going to be alive in your studio. you'll be delighted to hear that. >> steve: we will save you a spot on the couch. >> it's a new couch, too.

>> you don't mind, brian. >> brian: not at all. but you have to sublet from us. you just can't come waltzing in here and take over a studio. there is nothing free. we are going to take your currency. >> it's going to be mayhem. you brace yourselves. [laughter] >> steve: hurricane piers morgan heading our way. thank you very much. >> we are handing it over to ashley for some headlines. >> good morning. starting with this, the fbi and police in georgia are frantically searching for a missing toddler. 20-month-old quentin simon was reported missing last week after his mom said he vanished from his playpen at home. officials are working 18 hour days and using k-9 teams, drone helicopters, and heat detecting technology to find him. police say they have not yet found anything to suggest he was kidnapped. a15-year-old in florida is now facing a battery charge after he body slammed a school resource officer. police calling the attack despicable after the officer was slain been trying to break up a

fight between two other students. officers say the officer is okay and the team who attacked them is not injured. there are two students are now facing charges related to the incidents. a california school district has now banned the thin blue line from its games after community complains that it carries a divisive message. the team is starting to carry the flag on the field to honor the police to help the students during a 2019 school shooting. a parent joined "fox & friends first" early. listen. >> i'm not sure how the district came up with a decision, or the sagas administration came up with the decision, without talking to parents. there was no discussion with the parents. >> she added that her son never would have felt that this could have offended anyone. could the cape pop group bts beheaded for the armed services? they are considering being made

to take part in military services. they are divided on whether the group should be given exemptions, but the administration commissioner said that they want to see bandmembers and list. if they get their way, the oldest member of the group could enlist as early as next year. those are your headlines. back to you. >> steve: the rules apply to everybody. thank you very much. as a court or before the top of the hour, and j.d. is on the streets. >> are you waiting for anybody else? >> my son and my brother-in-law. >> let's look at the forecast and maybe we will take a look at the maps. in chicago, it's 48, and 54 here in new york, 40 in fargo. that's warming up from what it was this time a couple days ago. the warm temperatures are on the return this week, tuesday and wednesday. we have a cold front that's going to march across the

northern plains, and it'll be very nice for pumpkin picking. is that snow? i think it might be. a taste of what to come. some severe storms on tuesday over the midwest. we'll keep you posted on that. otherwise, the rest of the country, you look at the northeast as the front moves in, we could see showers and thunderstorms and maybe flooding. just a look ahead there. the rest of the forecast looks pretty good. the southwest, could see some showers and thunderstorms as well as parts of the big bend of texas. otherwise a good look. what are you doing last night? billy joel. >> how was it? >> it was awesome. >> very nice. safe trip. you should have clear skies. i'll make sure of it. back inside, steve and brian and carley today. say hi! >> hey, steve, brian, and carley pray love you guys. >> steve: thank you! they are still in the new york

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>> carley: we are back with some quick headlines. this week's new york comicon had fans screaming great scott in honor of this travel flick.

>> doc! that's from the future. i came here in a time machine that you invented. now i need your help to get back to the year 1985. >> carley: "back to the future" co-stars michael j. fox and christopher lloyd appearing on stage together to discuss making of the franchise and the bond they developed while filming. lloyd closed the panel with a line from his character doc brown saying "your future is what you make of it so make it a good one." paramount's creepy thriller "smile" raking in over $17 million in its second weekend in theaters trailing behind was "lyle, lyle crocodile" voiced by singer shawn mendez. it fell short of projected earnings. "amsterdam" came in way below expectations earning just under $7 million. i like christian bale.

carley? >> carley: thank you. listen to this. at least nine army bases will be renamed as defense secretary lloyd austin pushes to cut any ties to the confederacy. but critics slam the military's focus on the names after the army fell short of its recruiting goal by 15,000 soldiers with other branches also missing the mark. here to react is army veteran and u.s. congressional candidate john james. john, good morning to you. this is new. so we have fort lee in virginia. it's going to be fort greg adams, fort bragg in north carolina renamed to fort liberty. what do you think about this? >> i'm a republican, let's not forget it erased slavery in the first time. i have no problem to renaming posts to get rid of that legacy. at the same time, we shouldn't forget our history and we should learn from it. what i'm concerned about is in the past four years, there has

been over 14 fentanyl overdoses. that's what i'm concerned with. i'm concerned with this administration's lacks agenda that's leaving our borders open and letting this chinese made fentanyl come into our communities and poison our communities. i'm actually so focused on doing what it takes to keep our nation safe, our community safe, our soldiers safe. we need to focus on our combat power and it looks like this administration is more concerned with renaming posts than taking care of the folks on it. i applaud the army's efforts on substance abuse and suicide efforts and i'm looking forward to getting washington support in those efforts. >> carley: you think the military should be focused on other things. one of the things that's a big concern among many is the army missed its recruiting goal by 15,000 soldiers. that's not all. national guard just lost 7,500 service members. the navy only met 10% of its goal. marine corps only met 30% of its goal. air force also only met 10% of its recruiting goal.

why are we falling so far behind, john, what needs to change here? >> yeah, couple of big reasons and i used to work at the lansing military entrance processing station, an institution that the front door of freedom that processes young men and women into the military. i saw this first hand. i saw that we're not preparing our young men and women physically, mentally and emotionally. and the pandemic has had an even more dire effect. you know, falling short of physical goals like the army, i applaud their ingenuity for 90-day pre-boot camp training but when i was growing up, we called that gym class. we need to focus on the basics, reading, writing and arrharithm, skilled trades and patriotism but the root of this, you have the left teaching our young children, young kids that this country is a country of racist colonizers and the number one threat is voting for donald trump and we're surprised, we're surprised that when the left tells you that you shouldn't stand for the flag and now we're

surprised when our young people won't stand up to defend freedom? i think that we have to address the root cause. we have to be proud of our nation. that's why i went to serve my country. we live in an amazing nation and we need to stand up to defend her. >> carley: we still have the greatest military in the world. you have to wonder what the future of our military will look like if losing recruits and that trend line there continues. john, thank you so much for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> carley: absolutely. coming up, crime hits home for congressman lee zelden when two teens are shot steps from his front door. his twin daughters were inside at the time and he recalls the terrifying experience coming up. it's beautiful. ♪ you ready babe? “everywhere” by fleetwood mac ♪ ♪ ♪can you hear me calling... out your name?♪

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