♪ ♪ oh, everybody's dreaming big. ♪, everybody's just getting by ♪ will: you know, a few weeks ago i put out a country playlist. rachel: you didn't send it to me. will: i'll send it to you. yeah, i sent it to pete. went over like a lead balloon.

[laughter] it's not, no, it's not, it's all new country, but it sounds like country, not pop music. pete: i'll be honest, i got about three songs -- rachel: he likes pop? pete: if i like the highway. you know the highway on sirius? rachel: i like it too. will: people create criticize me for not enough female singers on my playlist, and i was just thinking i like sugarland -- rachel: i do too. pete: lainny wilson -- did you know my wife and i went to the grand ole opry last week for the first time, and she was performing. will: she's i awesome. pete: unbelievable. will: watermelon moon shine. rachel: she's the one on yellowstone, right? will: yes. pete: really good. going to be a -- she already is a star, but has potential -- rachel: yeah, she has an amazing voice. all right, well, we're going

to -- maybe you'll be kind enough to send me a tweet. will: send you what? rachel: with the list. will: i'm going to do it right now. rachel: all right. the epa ordering norfolk southern to stop cleaning up toxic waste in east palestine. pete: the agency now deciding where that waste will be taken after other sate thes complainedded they were getting the toxic trash. will: alexandria hoff is live in washington with more. >> reporter: good morning. east palestine is stuck with it for now because the issue has become determining where to safely dispose of it. up until that pause, the job fell to norfolk if southern. but officials say they were blindsided to learn their states had become dispose allocations. the epa will resume the removal very soon. it's all been a blur for residents, many who are feeling frustrated, angry, some even ill

with odd symptoms. wade lovett told "the new york post" since the toxic explosion, his voice has sounded like he's been inhaling helium. quote, doctors say i definitely have the chemicals in me, but there's no one in town who can run the tests to find out which ones they are. my voice sounds like mickey mouse. it's hard to breathe especially at night. my chest hurts so much at night, i feel like i'm drowning. and locals say public trust as a whole is plummeting. >> there is no communication. you've got the phone menus and the answering machines, and you didn't get a response. and so, you know, public trust is, it's gone. >> personally, i feel our first responders or did a hell of a job, so a shout-out to all of them. and they came if from far and wide. i'm sorry. >> i've lived here 34 years. i'd like to stay where i live. i raised my family here. i think the concern for businesses whether it's

agricultural or commodity wise here is important. this is what makes america. small town makes america. >> reporter: this piece of small town america has felt dismissed by the biden administration. something that even earned a nod last night on "saturday night live." >> while biden was in ukraine, republicans criticized the delayed response to the ohio train derailment, but biden said he was just waiting to shoot the train down until it was over the ocean. [laughter] >> reporter: well, we know that president biden has said he will not be paying a visit to east palestine as of right now. guys? will: thank you, alexandria. i love the interview on cross country, lawrence jones' show, where the residents of east palestine got emotional and said, look, i've lived here for 34 years, a conversation you and i have had about the ties to your community, and she says this is my small own the, and small towns are america.

rachel: yeah. pete: they are. rachel: that is something that this administration could will learn from, for sure. a lot of people criticizing secretary pete buttigieg, or mayor pete, for the way he handle them, and one was marc thiessen who was on brian kilmeade's show last night. here's what he had to say. >> make sure they can continue -- >> when you know what hits the fan, pete buttigieg is nowhere to be found. last year when we had the rail strike right before the election, he was on vacation in portugal, and new he was nowhere to be found for three weeks when you have a train derailment in east palestine. i mean, you would think -- this is a guy who wants to be president of the united states. how do we know that? he ran for president after serving a few terms as mayor of a small town in indiana. so he thinks he's presidential material. well, this is a great chance to demonstrate it. rachel: yeah, such a great

point. i actually, a serious, sincere question. you are pete buttigieg, it's very clear this guy is over his skis, but he's also super ambitious and really thinks highly of himself. and if you look at his resumé, he's done all the things and checked all the boxes that, you know, he knows the democrat party wants. so why wouldn't he allow so many things, especially this issue because he comes from a small town, why wouldn't he step forward if nothing else for his own political, you know, ambitiouses? -- ambitions? like, why did he not do that? it doesn't make sense. because the he hate these people so much? pete: it's a great question. it's part of what what he was asked on another network. we'll let pothole pete answer for himself, here he is. >> it's so important to the continue to make sure they can get good, accurate information about the things they care about most which isn't national

politics or who looks good or who looks bad, it's continuing to know that their air, water and soil are going to be safe, that their homes are going to be safe. that's what anybody would want to know in this situation. you can feel a sense of fatigue with all of the kind of politics swirling around their community. pete: the point you made, rachel, he came from a small town. like, you can know what it feels like to be forgotten or dismissed because you're not l.a. or new york. but it's an instinct about leadership in any context. do you run to the problem or do you try to obfuscate the problem and stay away from the problem. and good leaders run to it and want to help the situation, and in this case what other indication do we have that pete buttigieg has an instinct for leadership? i said pothole pete as a joke, but the reality is the pothole situation in south bend for the transportation secretary the was well known as a huge problem. he couldn't even address that, why do we expect him to address something else. will: i think once again, as i'm

apt to do, draw some broad-brush, the mat ific takeaway. but as a nation we are taken with form over substance, and i think we can see it in almost every aspect of our society. we have the trappings of a wealthy society that's decaying on the inside when it comes to our economy and our ability to produce for ourselves. we have the pretense of virtue online and none -- not none of us, but many of us don't practice it in our daily lives x. then we have here what i think people thought was going to be the reincarnation of obama, a guy who had the charm and personality on a stage that a thought that was enough to run for president, and none of the substance underneath to actually handle a crisis that, to your point, he should have been perfectly today the houred. he was a mayor. rachel: yeah. one last point on another example of what pete buttigieg does. you remember with the formula situation, that was the supply chain issue and he was involved in getting that going, he shows that same kind of callousness to

rural america. i mean, again, rural americans were much more impacted by the formula situation because if you couldn't find it in your town the, you had to drive 50, 100 miles away to get it. he had two children that obviously needed formula because he can't nurse, and he, you know, showed such callousness. and then at the same time we had representative kat cammack many florida show that there were palates of formula at the border for people -- pallets of formula for people coming over illegally, but he didn't care about those people in rural america who were suffering. he just has -- i don't know, there's something really robotic and unfeeling about him, and that's the impression i get. even the way he handled that last interview you just saw there. it just seems like he's just a consultant. pete: and i think our leaders live in more of a bible than we realize. joe biden -- a bubble. joe biden thinks he's doing a great job. rachel: yes, absolutely. pete: if you're insulated

enough, problems like this seem like not a big deal. rachel: absolutely. turning now to your headlines starting with the crisis at the southern border, agents say they've encountered more than a million migrants so far this year. there's already been 200 -- i'm sorry, 328,000 gotaways. there were about 600,000 all last year. wow. and thousands of criminals are filing into el salvador's new mega-prison. the country's president releasing the video saying 2,000 gang members including some from ms-13 transferred into the prison. just think about how many made it to our southern border before they got caught in this crackdown in el salvador it's really scary stuff. there's a great article on it. you should look it up. and now to a fox weather alert, oregon's governor declaring a state of emergency in multnomah county after a record-breaking snowstorm. officials are expecting more cold weather, this as part of

kansas, oklahoma and texas as they brace for severe thunderstorms with potential for large hail and damaging winds expected later today. pete: who likes hail? rachel: i just didn't have the same motional reaction as will did. will: do you get hail every year? rachel: it happens occasionally. will: every year in texas. every year. rachel: and more than 313,000 are still in power -- without power in michigan after this brutal snowstorm. for more, scan the qr code on your screen right now to download and stream the fox weather app, which is awesome. and now it's time for dessert. the idaho potato commission and van lewin ice cream are teaming up to launch a limited edition malted milk shake and fries ice cream. we've got some here in studio for a taste test. pete: how long before you dipped your fries in your milk shake?

rachel: that's disgusting. will: somebody said you get a trosty and dip can your fries into the trosty? pete: absolutely. i do it anywhere there's a milk shake and fries. rachel: i'm not done with this, and i eat pretty much everythin- pete: are you kidding me? you've never dipped a fry into a milk shake? rachel: no, i've never done that. not into it at all. like, actually -- [laughter] pete: i got coffee coming for us. i will say not bad. can't recreate the crispy, salty fry into the cold ice cream. it's hard to do it in ice cream. rachel: it's not that i don't like the salty sweet thing like kettle corn, i get that. but that, i'm not -- no. you like it? will: i'm just trying to be good. two bites -- pete: oh -- rachel: he eat a banana. pete: i will not allow that to happen. rachel: we have too much good

food on the weekend show. will: i talked about being disciplined the last three days, actually, this is new as of this morning. it i wasn't disciplinedded -- rachel: having mark wahlberg on the show yesterday didn't inspire you? will: absolutely. we want to get to this, georgia. football players are responding to pee a and telling them the, chill, chill out. pee a that's been on georgia for the mascot of the georgia bulldogs, and peta count like that. in fact, they wrote a letter where they say the prominence of your university's mascot is driving up the demand for breeding these cogs and perpetuating their the suffering. they're talking about short-snouted dogs. please be a champion and not just in football, but also for dogs. we hope you'll reconsider placing ugga with human mascot like the ones at other universities. rachel: explain to me what is the suffering. i honestly don't understand it.

pete: because bulldogs -- will: french bulldogs, they have trouble breathing. you see how his snout's super short? rachel: yeah. he's born that way or bred that way? will: that breed is like that. rachel: so what's the problem? will: they snore when they sleep concern. rachel: i know. so pee the that -- pete: they're saying by promoting it, you're making other people want to get dogs like that -- will: and they're bred. pete: so the university of georgia wins the national championship two years in a row, they don't get an invite to the white house, but they get letters from peta about hair mascot. is it humane to stick a 19-year-old in a hot mascot suit for four hours at a football gamesome. will: willing human mascots. pete: oh. will: is that what he's supposed to be, a bulldog dressed up? or they want him to do -- rachel: i think they're trying to, is peta's goal to make it so

bulldogs don't exist? will: peta's goal is to find the next thing. [laughter] okay? then after this there'll be another next thing. rachel: yeah. well, here is one of the players from uga saying, well, pretty darn well, i don't think folks know how good of a life this dog leads. that dog's loved, bro. chill out, peta. pete: the punter. will: a foreman uga running back said you'd be getting rid of a lot of tradition the, i feel like these pets live the best lives. uga's the first seat on the plane. [laughter] rachel: he's in first class and the players are in the back. [laughter] well, that's a cute cog. -- dog. could use a little discipline. pete: that's how dull concern bulldogs are. will: texas plays georgia a few years ago in the sugar bowl

before georgia's rise to dominance, and, you know, texas' mascot9 is the longhorn steer. and they come into contact with each other, and beevo sees uga, and he's having none of it. and beevo, who is heavily she candidated -- pete: has to be, right? will: he dips that horn down and charges at uga, and all the handlers, like, oh, my god! uga, overweight or not, springs into action. [laughter] rachel: i'd love to see. that i wonder if we could pull up that footage. pete: i'm excited about this topic. rachel: well, yeah. sounds like a bullfight. [laughter] oh, carry. that's another thing peta hates, by the way. of course they should. bullfighting's very cruel. pete: bullfighting is great. [laughter] rachel: no, it's not. pete: on the record. rachel: okay. pete: all right -- maybe, i don't know. coming up, china's crackdown the on religious freedom is escalating as they shut down

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rachel: reports indicate that the chinese communist party has escalated their persecution of christians in this past year. the u.s.-based organization china aid says, quote, by using the new measures against religion content online and the infamous zero covid e policies, authorities limited or eliminated christian gatherings. the watchdog group adding the regime is increasingly demanding worship and allegiance to chinese president xi jinping. here to react, the federalist senior contributor helen --. helen, so great to have you on today the. what should in the persecution, this increase in christian persecution in china tell us about what's happening in china right now and specifically what the chinese government is up to?

enter good morning, rachel. this report really saddens me, and my heart goes out to all the christians, brothers and sisters, in china. and this report also shows the true nature of the communist party. communist party has a long history of persecuting all people of faith and especially since xi jinping came into power that he intensified the persecution of all religious believers because he demands absolute and unconditional loyalty. so this new round of persecution is really nothing new, it's just renewed oppression. but i also believe that it relates to the china's economy because xi's zero covid policy has severely damaged china's economy. china reported its economy only grow 3% last year. so as we know, slow growth means less revenue for the government, and xi needs money to finance

his yee yo political ambitions -- his geopolitical ambitions as continuing to support russia economic support as well as military support and prepare invade taiwan. so he's going after the churches not only for ideological reasons, but also he's going after churches' assets which is horrifying and, you know, just despicable. and so we should recognize their true nature and pray and demand protections for our christian brother and sisters in china. rachel: yeah. i mean, there's a lot of people, by the way, don't understand if you're under the age of 18 in china, you are legally not allowed to attend a church, which shows you what their motive is, to not allow kids to you up in a church and have that foundation. but also this covid policy is a lesson to the us. they used covid lockdowns to limit the churches because so many people were meeting in homes because the churches were more likely to be surveilled. so they could use covid policy to crack down, and that was done

here as well. we need to keep an eye on that. i want to bring you to another topic which there was a great op-ed in the new york post by the, i want to get the organization right, the chinese-american citizens alliance, i believe, is the name of it. yeah, citizens alliance. and this, the topic or the title of the article was how because china project power so much above its weight. it says that the answer must be the schools, this is our generation's sputnik moment, it's time to unleash competitive dynamic enter into education and let families choose the future. education, maybe then grade-level proficiency will mean something. again, explain how education is the secret weapon for the chinese and how we are falling behind in that competition. >> yes. so education really have national security implications, and we just start realize this more and more.

in china besides indoctrinating kids with politics, they also focus on educating kids in hard science such as math and science. but here united states we have to understand the great power competition between china and the united states really comes down to the competition of human capital. rachel: yes. >> it basically boils down to which country can build faster, innovate faster. we can teach our kids that two plus two can equal anything and science and math are colonial or racist constructs. we have to educate our kids to prepare our human capital for this competition. rachel: yeah. and we're right now losing in that competition the, and the chinese are well aware of that. helen, thank you for always raising the alarm on these issues. we love having you on. have a happy sunday, and we will pray for all those christians who are being persecuted in

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pete: we're back with some headlines. the st. louis zoo was put on lockdown after a 300-pound bear escaped his enclosure for the second time this month. ben the bear is crafty. managed to escape by poking a hole in the frame near the outside of his enclosure. earlier this month ben broke out

after breaking through the steel mesh forcing the zoo to ramp up security. maybe ben was meant to roam free. we'll see. and fox news digital hitting the streets of new york city to find out what americans would put in their doomsday bag. watch. >> probably some really good scotch. >> i would put water in mine. >> water and food. >> mascara so that my eyes looked pretty. >> a whole bunch of guns. >> i would put lego bricks in my bag so that i would have something to do. >> definitely some hot sauce, because that makes everything taste good. pete: some of those people would survive. [laughter] others probably not. [laughter] because what's more important than coffee, mascara and has sauce -- hot sauce during the end of the world? although hot sauce not bad for

the food you're trying to eat out of boxes. guns, definitely high on the list. you don't need food, you can just take other people's food. the idea coming from a viral trend online right now that's calling for doomsday preparations. and those are your headlines. there's even more we could all do to prepare for doomsday. i'm hearing will chime in, i wish i could hear him. women will oh, i'm not on camera. my dad can said i just need guns. pete: i've got my food and then i've got yours. rachel: i really thought about the guns killing other animals, i never thought about it killing other people. pete: do what you gotta do. adam klotz, what would go in your -- adam: i loved being on camera while you guys had that conversation. that was wonderful. i'm going to be with you guys, i'm going to take everyone else's stuff. i'll help you raid. pete: deal. adam: all right. here's what we're talking about, big storm moving across the western united states. it rained and rained and rained across southern california the

last 36 hours, now beginning to lift up into the four corners region. as it gets more elevation, suddenly talking about snow. how much rain? this was enough to cause flooding, 6 inches fairly widespread, system of the higher ends getting closer to 10 is inches of total precipitation. the upper tiers of the country still climbing up into the upper 40s, a lot of sunshine across most of the country. still some shadows in the middle of the country, 70s stretching across the southern tier. now, will, now we're throeing -- throwing it over to you. will: do you think that the "fox & friends" doomsday raiders would be the most intimidate thing on the street when the apox pock lips coming? -- apocalypse comes? adam: i think so. [laughter] will: disturbing new footage showing students at a top seattle high school forced to walk past drug addicts openly shooting up just to get to class. parents want action. one father from a different area

school says, quote, this is not acceptable to me. it's child endangerment. we want to solve in the, we need to do what is right, do it right now, not next week, not next month, now. seattle radio host jason rantz joins us now. so tell me about this, kids walking to school right past drug abusers. >> we're seeing this all across seattle where you've got encampments that have completely taken over neighborhoods. unfortunately for some of them, they're on the route to school. and so parents are taking their kids, and they're having to answer the question what is that that guy doing? what is that needle in his arm? what is he spoken on that piece of tinfoil? and it's forcing these uncomfortable conversations but also, of course, it's putting them at rusk. you have one encampment that is near a school. it's on state-owned property, so the city is basically doing nothing. state is saying it's not really a threat to the school. there was a murder there a few weeks ago. there have been overcoses, there have been fights -- overdoses, there have been fires being

started. st it's clearly a threat but no one wants to do anything. will: here's the sates, by the way. homeless population up to 13,000 from about 11,700, almost a 14% increase. why is seattle so permissive for homelessnessesome. >> so they take an approach called harm reduction and housing first. together it doesn't make any sense. harm reduction basically says if you're an addict, we're going to help you be a safer add convict which, of course, you can't actually do. they're passing out clean needles, other drug paraphernalia. housing paris model means we're not going to do anything until we get spew concern you into a home, and we're only going to focus on that. you don't have to get treated for whatever it is that is leading to your homelessness, and because there's not enough housing for that, you allow these people to pretty much camp out wherever they want. it is driven by ideology. will: housing privileged. this is also a story to update the audience on, seattle has paid now millions to settle a lawsuit over damages from you

remember c.h.o.p., the autonomous zone after the george floyd protests. businesses were burned down, people died. and so seattle, on the wake of letting all of this destruction take place, now they go back and have to a pay to make people whole? >> yeah, they're paying a little bit over clash 3.5 million to the businesses that sued, but what's lost in all of this, literally, text messages between the city, the police department and the fire county. -- the fire department that probably explained how they were allowing c.h.o.p. to actually exist. there were probably some text messages about how they were getting ready to actually give over the police station to the mob. all of a sudden, the text messages disappeared as part of this lawsuit, and they have not been able to be recovered. the mayor went through a whole bunch of other excuses, i dropped it in a toilet. i get the deleted -- you have that on your phone that automatically deletes all your text messages during a controversy? noing of course not. will: i have friends.

[laughter] >> the judge basically said, yeah, we're going to assume for the sake of this trial that the text messages were going to hurt your case. will: wow. i didn't realize that. so there was obviously more to this story than just the settlement, they were hiding, essentially, what is the rest of that story. seattle, such a failure of leadership. >> it really is. will: and not the only city in america going down that path. jason, always good to see you in person. >> i appreciate it. will: still ahead, first lady jill biden adamant her husband will be at top of the presidential ticket in 204. >> i mean, how many times because he have to say it until you believe it? [laughter] will: mark levin joins us next on what four more years of biden would mean for america. ♪ ♪

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will: president joe biden has so far refused to announce whether he's going to run again in 2024, but his wife has other plans. >> reporter: is in any reason for any of us to think that he is not running again? we've heard him say several times that it is his intention -- >> are you not believing this? [laughter] i mean, how many times because he have to say it until you believe it? he says he's not done. he's not finished what he's started. rachel: this as strategists say ukraine could be the the big test for potential gop presidential candidates. pete: the great one, mark levin,

is the host of high, liberty and levin and joins us now. mark, we always love having you. we'll get to the ukrainian foreign policy side of things, but first, jill biden seems to be driving the train on whether joe biden runs again. what do you make of all of it? >> well, joe's not done destroying the country, is what i make of it. [laughter] i mean, open borders, fentanyl pouring into the country, massive inflation, the labor market's tightening now, the fed is increasing interest rates to try and counter the disasters that he's created. we have potential for war all over the world not because we cotoo much, but because they see a feckless, weak president, and they're right. they claim to support the environment. he hasn't even found time to go to palestine, ohio. they don't support the environment. they've undermined law enforcement. we have crime in this country like we've never seen before. we have a massive, massive debt thanks to him and the rinos in the senate, so joe's not done,

you see? and the nation needs to unite around joe and, of course, joe's propaganda and rhetoric is very uniting too. even during the the height of the civil war, lyndon didn't -- lincoln can't talk about southerners the way joe biden talks about republicans. he doesn't talk about the chinese communists this way or the islamists in tehran this way. no, no, he talks about republicans, and he condemns republicans for jim crow. which is very odd since joe biden was involved in jim crow and segregation and racism and opposed the integration of our public school systems and so forth. he's a very me pair yous man. you can see from his executive the orders he's like benito mussolini on equity. equity means one thing; certain groups of country -- in this country will benefit, certain will be attacked. you want to know the real reason

joe biden is not many palestine, ohio? because it's not part of his election base. these are mostly white people -- i'm just telling you the truth. they're mostly republicans, they're lower middle class, they mean literally nothing to this man. they don't have a civil rights movement or environmental group decan fending them. hollywood's not coming there. most of the shows on msnbc and cnn don't give a cam the about these people. that's -- damn about these people. he's a one-man wrecking ball. he was the dumbest man in the senate, he was the couplest vice president we've ever had, and now he's the dumbest president that we have ever had. so i'm done on that. [laughter] rachel: so a a lot -- so it's interesting. biden's one of those people, as a former political spouse, i looked at what jill biden has done to push her husband to run. i think it's disgusting, frankly. i don't think he is cognitively there, and it keeps getting worse. but my husband has spoken to some pretty well-placed democrats, and they have told

him joe biden is definitely running, and joe biden thinks everything is going really great. he is, he's high ogg on how great things are going for him. which seems so unbelievable. >> he's delusional, he's got several news networks that tell him he is single-handedly saving democracy while he's undermining it. look, the left is ideological, that's their religion are. as my wife says, their ideology is their religion. religion is not their rebigs. and joe biden -- religion. joe biden always has been narcissistic, he's always been on the lower end of the iq level. and so he's persuaded himself that he's the greatest president since fdr. and, look, they have these phony historians that go into the oval office, tell him to keep it up, how great he is. the guy gets up and says we need more inflation to beat inflation. well, now we're going to pay for this. they talk about all these great successes he's had, these bills

he's passed. he's passed for two reasons, one he got favorable rulings from the pardon mementtarian in the senate concern parliamentarian in the senate so they could drive bills through, and number two, they've had mitch mcconnell help them on two huge bills and about 18 other rinos, that's how hay got his great agenda through, not because there's a ground swell for bankrupting america, attack thing capitalism and recontributing wealth. pete: stick with us, more with mark levin in the next hour. we'll discuss the war in ukraine, how it's being considered a major test for some presidential candidates. rachel: plus, a massachusetts democrat is facing calls to resign after suggesting that disabled children should have been aborted. special needs children. parents react to his outrageous comments next. and we know 80% of couples sleep too hot or too cold.

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>> our fear is that if an unqualified she nothinger if misdiagnoses a heart defect, spina bifida or another defect, that becomes a very local issue because our school budget will have to the absorb the cost of a child in special education supplying lots and lots of special services to children who

were born with the defect. pete: a democrat official, the chair of that board, in massachusetts facing calls to resign after complaining publicly about the cost of caring for disabled children. suggesting they should have been aborted instead. our next guests are both proud parents and advocates for children with special needs. students for life president kristin hawkins joins us along with downs syndrome advocate kurt come rick. kristin, your reaction to these commentses and what they reveal. >> sadly, this is democrats saying the quiet part out loud, and this is the result of president joe biden, nancy pelosi, the democratic national committee's platform which states that abortion should be legal for any reason. that there's no reason at all that an abortion should not take place.

i hear comments, these eugenic, discriminatory comments every single time i step onto a college campus in america today. and it is absolutely astounding how the eugenics movement that. >> created planned parenthood, this movement that said that certain people should have the right -- shouldn't have the right to be born still continues today in 2023 america. pete: kurt, it is staggering, viewpoint not just alive and well and able to sort of live somewhere on the margins, but it seems to be quite prominent on our political spectrum. >> it is. it's beyond offensive and evil, what mr. hugo said. and what he doesn't understand is the i.d.e.a., individuals with disabilities education act, guarantees children with special needs a free and appropriate education. identifying, targeting and eliminating a human being because they don't pass a test is the ultimate form of discrimination, bigotry, profiling, hatred. you know, in massachusetts, they

don't have a death penalty which is fine because hay don't want to possibly execute somebody who might be innocent or have those types of executions, but this is prenatal execution of a person who fails a test because they don't meet the criteria of what perfection is. pete: that's a great way to put it, prenatal execution in a state where, as you point out, they don't have the death penalty for fear of being wrong once. kristin, let me get your response to michael hugo's apology. he said, i'm writing to offer my most sincere and humble apologies to members of the committee, but more especially my members of the disability family community for comments that i made at the last city council meeting which were offensive and hurtful. what do you make of it? [laughter] >> well, i mean, he got called out for saying something that most folks, 90% of americans when they heard it said that can't be true. that's not a real apology.

a real apology would say i'm going to reassess the viewpoint that i hold that says that women shouldn't receive free diapers and ultrasounds and baby formula in my community, which is why he was there. he was there speaking out against free pregnancy centers because he didn't want certain babies to be born. so until michael hugo reassesses his view of abortion and drops his eugenic view that some people don't have the right to be born based on their genetic code, based on the perceptions of abilities, then it's not a real apology. pete: kurt, i know there's a protest that's going to be held in front of the next meeting that's happening on february 28th. let's say he were to resign or you heard the quasi-apology. does this become a one-off incidence, or do you think this could lead to some introspection on the other side of the aisle? >> i think it's time that everybody wakes up, you know? this is not a republican or democrat issue, this is a human

being issue, and all of us need to be asking who's next. as prenatal testing advances and they can detect possibly depression and autism the, are we going to eliminate everybody? the what a lot of people don't realize is the first people they came for were the disabled x after that, anybody who didn't agree what their agenda was. chloe and i will actually be speaking at the united nations, i would invite him to come join us and have him meet my daughter. i want him to see that my daughter's not a downs syndrome-affected child, she's a beautiful human being with no mag lis who brings joy, love and many positive things, light to this world that desperately needs that. pete: amen. so well said. thank you both for your advocacy and sister folk speaking out this morning, kristin and kurt. thank you very much. >> thanks for having husband. erik -- for having us. pete: coming up, a spiritual movement from the '60s and

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