do and that is to censor and silence certain accounts and posts and tweets. it went on and on. we know this and we will unfurl that today for the american people to see. >> ashley: it's concerning i'm not sure why a federal government thinks they have any business sticking their nose into that congressman mike johnson, thank you so much for your time. with that, "fox & friends" starts right now. have a good day. ♪ ♪ >> very deadly situation. >> three police officers in los angeles have been shot. >> following an hours' long standoff. >> we are grateful residents were not injured as part of this and grateful the officers are going to be okay. >> designating ftos would not grant us additional authority. >> manhunt underway for a cartel boss known as la ken that accused of abducting four americans. >> the consequences of allowingg mexico to turn over own internal governance to cartels. >> veterans testifying about the devastating impact of the biden administration's withdrawal from afghanistan. >> there was inexcusable lack of

accountability. the 11 marines that were murdered that day have not been answered for. >> anyone who doesn't agree with it is going to be sun lined. >> emails showed the lab leak theory was suppressed by fauci. >> i don't think very many people in knew what gain of function research is but that's mad science. >> the author of "good bumps" accusing the author his books. >> i have never changed a word in goose pumps. >> maybe should be offended and challenged. ♪ we're beautiful like diamonds in the sky ♪ shine bright like a diamond ♪ shine bright like a diamond. >> steve: how pretty is that down the jersey shore you are looking at atlantic city right now. they say that sunrise will be in 18 minutes. it's 6:18 right now. if you go out to walk along the shore it's freezing, 32 degrees. later today -- hope the wind stops.

right now it is 50 degrees the daytime high for there. and here in new york city we're looking for a high of exactly the same. currently in new york it's 32. and it's breezy. >> ainsley: cold. >> steve: feels like it's about 10 outside. >> ainsley: it's the wind that gets you but it's the end of the week. it's thursday, y'all. >> brian: let's not acknowledge winter anymore and think spring. >> ainsley: it's close. >> brian: we are indoors can. >> steve: live in denial. >> brian: march all i see is the sun. >> steve: i have had this conversation with people. the reason people oare so disappointed in march so cold. oh it's march it's going to be warm and it's cold people are disappointed. >> ainsley: if you live up north you know it's going to be cold in march. everyone gets anxious. tell yourself it really doesn't get warm here until june, maybe july. >> brian: got very hot in washington yesterday finally. i can't believe it was two years and no sense among democrats when they controlled the house to bring these hearings forward because this was a failure of

epic proportions that both sides agreed on. one of the worst military disasters in our history and nothing ever come down the pike that's worse. yesterday for the first time up close and personal view of what it was like on the ground trying to get as many people out as possible from afghanistan because the president decided he had been there long enough. he took out our troops first and left all our allies and americans behind without a master list or exit plan to leave. that's why so many people had to -- who had retired sprung into action, formed groups, put their own units together and tried to rescue as many people as possible. this scene should have been enough to destroy any presidency but for some reason the president got a pass. but not yesterday. >> steve: no. we showed you these pictures when they first came in and kabul's fall turned, obviously, -- turned the withdrawal into an absolute rout for al allies and everybody else with the airport arrests the center of the air evacuation by

the u.s. forces. and there were people who had been there that day. there were people who observed what happened. there were people whose lives were impacted profoundly. they were very disappointed on how nobody has been held accountable for what happened. >> ainsley: we kept hearing how catastrophic it was. and the emotional testimonies. there is one marine that we're going to play his soundbite for you this morning that it was so hard to watch because he walked you through every step and how he identified the snipers up in the tower. >> steve: bomber. >> ainsley: they identified the bomber and they never had permission for rules of engagement they weren't able to shoot him. he eventually goes down to the abby gate area, airport looking for interpreter and that's when his body was shredded to pieces. thankfully he is alive today. but he has lost an arm. he has lost a leg. it was very emotional and our lawmakers were completely silent. normally when we see these testimonies you hear everyone arguing.

they were all listening to him. but, first, let's start with these soundbites. this is one of the soldiers who talks about how it affected him, how it's affected our troops that were there on the ground and what their interpretation of the withdrawal was, basically saying it's a catastrophe. and then also one of the gentlemen who was the chairman of allied airlift 21 who went in to rescue people to get them into the airport and get them out of afghanistan safely. he said only 9 out of the 10 that they tried -- one out of the 10 that they tried to rescue they were able to bring home. listen. >> every day i think about my brothers and sisters that died in average and the family and friends missing them. mostly i think about the 13 americans killed at abby gate. their death should not have happened. they should be alive today and i, like many others, should not be forced to carry this burden for the rest of our lives. those of us who serve in afghanistan and our nation as a whole made a solemn promise to stand by them. for over 160,000 afghans, our nation has failed, failed to

live up to this promise. >> steve: right. the testimony not focused on the decision to withdrawal but how they tried to rescue as many people as they possibly could and the allies and so many people of the there on the american side are just tortured by the fact that we left so many behind. ainsley, to your point. here is sergeant tyler vargas andrews. he asked for permission -- they knew who to look for. they spotted through a rifle range -- a rifle barrel, one of the snipers. spotted one of the bombers, asked permission to take him out, never got it. and his life was shattered. here he is. >> then a flash and a massive wave of pressure, i'm thrown 12 feet onto the ground but instantly knew what had happened. i opened my eyes to marines dead or unconscious lying around me.

a crowd of hundreds vanished in front of me. abdomen ripped open. every inch of my exposed body except for my face took ball bearings and shrapnel. i tried to get up but could not, laying there for a few minutes i started to lose consciousness. when i heard chaz, my team leader, screaming my name as he ran to me. his voice -- his voice calling to me kept me awake. the withdrawal was a catastrophe in my opinion. and there was inexcusable lack of accountability. >> brian: think about this. the people sitting next to him gave money out of their own pockets after already serving our country and not getting rich doing it because they watched as this pentagon led by this president decided to pull out with no plan to get them out. so they had to give their money, cashing in their own 401(k)s, put up a website and use their

military training to get some of their afghan allies and americans out of there we don't even know all the details that some books have been written. in his case he detailed how the military leaders ignored the warnings about a would be terrorist. they get the guy in the sights. they see him. they try to engage him. they don't get permission. so instead of this guy being stopped and blown up, he blows up killing 13. what we don't hear about all those catastrophically wounded. we don't know the afghans. hundreds of them died. then you have 13 americans died and two dozen americans end up in long-term care because they tried to recover. knowing this a all preventable. knowing this was one man's idea and we watched the testimony weeks later from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the secretary of defense said yeah, we recommended he stay. we told him if you give up bagram we will have really no alternative. these people won't have any protection. the president wanted to go so we

went. really? now you decide to go with presidential advice as opposed to the previous president that you would lead to the pets press with a so inaccurate make military decisions work behind his back. this president you had to listen to and therefore, you felt helpless and you told him basically i told you so. but i think yesterday was so important because you see real life accounts of what took place because of some idiotic ill thought decisions back in washington. and the president gets to go to delaware and these men and women have to live with these visions or without their loved ones. >> ainsley: some of the parents were interviewed by fox and they said, you know, there were 11 marines, one sailor and one soldier who were murdered and he said that the retired marine said that they have not been answered for. and so here they are. here are their faces. some of the parents were on fox. and they said we held pictures of our children when we were listening to this testimony. and we hope that someone is held accountable. two of them were on "fox & friends first" and they said that they definitely think that

this administration needs to leave because they are not doing anything. no one is being held accountable in the way this withdrawal happened. their children might have been alive. when you listen to the marines' testimony being in that tower what they go through. he said we identified the suicide bomber. we had pictures of him. we identified him. the sniper was ready to go. they were ready to take him out. they had to get -- he said we got our response team involved. they said they don't have the engagement activity ready. authority ready so then they said we will get our battalion commander in here into the tower. he came, in forensics experts came in. and he said we showed them the evidence, the battalion commanders said he didn't know if he could give them the authority to engage. and they all said then who does know? we need them to give us the authority to engage. we know this is the suicide bomber. and then minutes later, what 10, 15 minutes later he said he was standing next out there at the airport for about 10 minutes and that's when his body was on the

ground. he heard this huge crash. he knew what had happened. the stench of human flesh. the screams of the children. the women, the men around the kabul airport. >> brian: unbelievable. that's the last flight as they left afghanistan. and you see what happened after. there was just no -- there was no plan to get out. you could also play this out. if we didn't show such weakness there. there probably wouldn't have been russian invasion of ukraine. they said this is our opportunity. america is on the retreat. and this is what happened. >> ainsley: did you see the lady that was standing behind him. if you watched the testimony. i don't think you saw it in the clip. blonde lady she would have to stand up and flip his pages for him because he doesn't have use of his right side. he has a prosthetic arm and he lost his arm and leg. >> brian: why did it take two years to have this? >> ainsley: because republicans just took the house. >> brian: it's a democratic problem, too. >> steve: it's great there is oversight and maybe we will get some answers and maybe, just as that marine right there wanted, maybe somebody will be held accountable. we are going to talk this morning with dan crenshaw,

congressman, of course. and tim kennedy regarding all of this. >> brian: he was on the ground helping get people out. >> ainsley: still ahead american federation of teachers president randy weingarten says kids do better in schools under teacher's unions but her claims don't quite add up. we did the math. >> steve: we did do the math. plus a tech author shares his awkward encounter after press nothing tip on a supermarket's ipad screen. >> ainsley: supermarket? >> steve: have you experienced a tip guilt trip? we are going to experience that coming up. and look who else is here on this thursday. ♪ come on over ♪ come on in ♪ oh there's a different way to treat hiv. it's every-other-month, injectable cabenuva.

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three officers shot after a lengthy standoff. >> this incident started about 3:50 this afternoon so it shows the level of patience and more importantly the officers taking their time to try to de-escalate this and more importantly resolve this peacefully and unfortunately behavior of this individual did not result in that. >> all three officers are stable. the suspect who barricaded himself inside a garage before firing at officers is dead. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is hospitalized after a fall at a washington, d.c. hotel last night. his office says leader mcconnell tripped at a local hotel during a private dinner. he has been admitted to the hospital where he is receiving treatment. senator mcconnell has had a number of medical issues throughout his life including polio at 2. 20 years ago he had triple bypass heart surgery. we are still waiting to learn more about how he is doing. hollywood icon goldie hawn is speaking out against cancel

culture saying it's ruining comedy. the tv legend tells variety, quote: the level of sensitivity is so high that comedians are afraid to tell certain jokes the way they used to and it's a bit of a quandary for medians. there are certain areas that i agree with you about the level of sensitivity is unforgiving. that's not a good feeling when you are a creative mode. hawaiihahn acriticized the for g too political and praised for how he handled the slap from will smith. >> ashley: villanova advancing to face three seed creighton in today's a quarterfinal. depaul stunned s seton hall. free throw and last second block. depaul eyeing nt bid after taking down the pirate. and with march madness right around the corner. pizza hunt is celebrating by

bringing back mini basketballs. you can get yours for $7 when the madness tips off next tuesday. those are your headlines, guys. back to you. >> steve: go wildcats. >> brian: jim boeheim is out. the sir could you see coach is gone. >> ainsley: wow since 1976. >> brian: gerald ford was president he has had the job 47 years. >> ainsley: that was the year i was born. thanks, brian. you had to say the number. >> ainsley: not quite. september birthday. not quite there. >> steve: let's talk a little bit about a dilemma. that you have probably faced. there is an article in the "new york times" of all places written by one of their tech writers, a fellow by the name of brian chen. he was at a grocery store and now there is a lot of self-checkout things. he is there and there is an i pad thing and after he swipes everything. it says how much of a tip do you want to leave the grocery store? and the choice was -- there is somebody standing right there.

10%? 20%, or 30%? and he thought to him hey, i'm at a grocery store. he hit zero. and then the clerk glared at him. and what he wrote about is how apps and touch screens have made it easy former chants across the spectrum to ask for preset tips and many are businesses that don't normally ask for tips and that's the thing. do you tip a grocery store. >> brian: self-checkout that's the key. you say to yourself what do they do? if you go to pick up -- go to pick up your food they want to know if you have a tip or a lot of times they leave that column open in the old fashioned way you go to -- you will see a tip there. i didn't get a waiter. >> ainsley: you are like oh my gosh. >> brian: i'm picking it up. you didn't bring it by. >> ainsley: i always give a 5. i give $5. my meal was like 10. i feel bad giving a dollar. >> steve: you know, historically, the idea of a tip is you tip somebody from a

service classification who doesn't make as much as the. >> ainsley: is that. >> steve: less than the minimum wage. >> ainsley: the guy at the register is his boss getting away with it by saying waiter and paying him $2 an hour. >> brian: they are doing self-checkout and they got the person there playing defense that person runs around okay, no bag. no one really knows how to ring in bananas because you have got to look at the item. >> ainsley: do it to be quick and that lady has to come over because it's flashing do you need assistance? >> brian: no. okay. i will just grab it in a big bear hug and walk out with my milk and my eggs go well in my salami. >> ainsley: talking and went off. >> steve: zero tip. we are talking about in this building 300 feet where we are there is a place that sells salads and you can buy a salad and they ring it up and then it's like okay, it's a premade salad. and they ask for a tip.

the three boxes. >> ainsley: what do you do? >> steve: that's the big question. i always go for if the person is standing right there i will go for the smallest tip. but, once a week i will be at the airport somewhere and on sandwich just a sandwich out of the cold case and then are on the kiosk and to ho would this money go to? there is nobody here. it's just me and an empty store? am i tipping who? or is it just a tax on the sandwich? sandwich is 15 bucks am i going to give them another 3 bucks. >> brian: 7% at the max. >> steve: 7? >> brian: it's fresh you are talking about. it says 2, 5, and 7. and custom tip. >> steve: you mean like $2? >> brian: 2%. 2%, 5%, or 7%. >> steve: i have never seen that. >> brian: guy there. i hit 7%. especially because i order on the app. i know how hard these guys men and women work behind there.

i am so glad to see people working because they weren't working for the lockest time. people are were closed i always try to do it but, for the most part. they wing the thing around and they let you hit it in and they do kind of stare at you which made him to say this, he said i felt the pain and awkwardness of awkward tip request. i was recently taken aback when a grocery store ipad suggested between 10 and 30 and situation made more unpleasant when i hit the no tip button on the cashier shot me a glare. >> ainsley: like in the taxicabs sometimes they have a cross hanging from rear view mirror i will say are you christian and we will talk and i like to give those guys an extra tip. >> brian: really? >> ainsley: i'm happy for them being bold about their faith. >> brian: i look at that and say are you a met fan? >> ainsley: we were in that position though. we were all way teres or waitresses and worked in the service industry. you do appreciate those tips.

>> ainsley: i remember i got one big tip when i was a waitress. i was almost in tears. it really helped me out. i think about that situation. >> steve: this particular writer what he suggests and he is all about technology and he knows people are having this -- they refer to it as the tipflation. suddenly there is a tip on everything. if you feel uncomfortable about a tip, just -- you know, being demanded by technology, only leave it in cash. and it's like, think about it. >> ainsley: that makes sense. >> steve: the person, whoever the money goes, to they would probably rather have cash anyway. >> ainsley: one more small tip when you go to the register big box drug storms do you want to give a dollar to the american heart association. great organization. say you go to the drugstore 25 times that year. have you given $25. a friend of mine said write a check to the american heart association for $25. you get the write off, they get the $25. you are not giving it to the store. the store is doing that across the country. they get millions of dollars in that pot and then they donate it

so they get the tax write off. it's a lot of extra work but. >> steve: cash is king. >> brian: all right. so we will see. it's something you live with every day. going to have to make the decision next time you get a smoothie ask yourself how much should you tip? what do you think? write us friends@foxnews.com; scholastic taking words like crazy and fat out of goose bumps books without telling the author. that story, still ahead. >> ainsley: shocking video shows the moment a group of teens trashes a new york city area restaurant leaving thousands of dollars in damage. the owner says customers are now too afraid to come in. he's next

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like me that need help. this time next year, we hope to have another dozen houses done with another dozen families in. every inch of this community has meaning. >> steve: shocking video shows the moment -- look at this a group of teenagers trash a chirgez restaurant in queens, new york. the vandals flipping tables, breaking dishes inside fish village causing more than $20,000 in damages. there have have been no arrests so far. the owner of the restaurant, tony hugh joins us right now along with his attorney tim wong. good morning to both of you. >> good morning, steve. how are you. >> steve: i'm doing okay. tim is going to translate a bit for tony. tony, they were only there for a

minute. did you have any idea that they were coming in to trash the joint? [translating] >> he watched him come in but he did not expect anything like this at all. >> steve: while they were destroying your business, did you have time to do anything? were you able to call the police? were you able to yell at the kids? do anything? [translating] >> he was actually very scared and happened within less than minutes so they didn't have any time to react until after the fact. when they left and then -- >> steve: tony, you were behind the register. you were probably in shock. it's like wait, what are they doing? and then it's done in a minute and all you have got left is

rubble. right? [translating] >> yeah. that's correct. he didn't have any time to react at all. >> steve: it's just crazy. we look at these images, we can't tell who any of those people are right there. $20,000 in damages. do you have the money to rebuild that stuff, tony? >.in . [translating] >> they are actually working on getting the funds together. they set up the -- one of the clients, one of the constituents did set up a go fund me page they are working on getting reopened. the greater loss also actually is the loss of the business. they are hoping with all this

publicity hopefully the patrons will come back, too, and patronize the establishment. >> steve: absolutely. obviously, you have had business interruption. but, talking about the patrons. i understand, tony, you are worried that people won't want to come back because of what happened there. [translating] >> yes. he feels that -- is he worried that it will effect future business. >> steve: no kidding. as we look at this, we know how heart broken you must be. and blu best of luck to you. keep us posted. thank you very much for joining us live. >> thank you very much, steve. you have a great day. >> steve: all right. good luck picking up the pieces. that's just awful. all right. coming up on this thursday, despite school shutdowns and keeping class masked, ra randi weingarten, the union chief says

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>> ainsley: we are back with big developments on the education front. teacher's union leader randy weingarten is making bold new claims in an op-ed saying unions actually helped our children during the pandemic. >> steve: oh, you have got hear this. and school reform comes to arkansas after governor sarah huckabee sanders sign as sweeping new bill that includes universal school choice. so we have two stories right there. >> brian: my curiosity is really piqued. todd piro is live in the stewio with more. >> student scores plummet and demand change across the nation. teachers union boss randi weingarten claims kids do better with the failing union. weingarten writing kids do better in schools with teachers unions. she specifically slams criticism of unions as empty right wing

rhetoric. she goes on to say the unions have helped students recover academically, socially and emotionally following the pandemic. but the national report card telling a different story showing students forced into remote learning produced the nation's largest decrease in reading scores in three decades. but states like arkansas yesterday for reform. governor sarah huckabee sanders signing a sweeping education reform bill there yesterday. giving school choice to families and banning radical gender theory from the classroom for kids below fifth grade. sanders telling fox, quote: it's bigger than just tackling school choice. it's about taking a comprehensive approach to our education system here in arkansas. i frankly am tired of seeing our state at the bottom when it comes to our performance. end quote. and in florida, a third story in fact, steve, governor ron desantis making a dramatic point about sexual content in schools after local media cuts away from a press conference when he showed images from several explicit books is he fighting to ban from schools.

watch. >> parents to be involved in the education of their children. so that the parents know what books are being used in the classroom. and then they have procedures where they can say, wait a minute, you know, some of the stuff you saw there, that is pornographic. why would woe have that in a media center with 10-year-old students? it's just wrong. >> todd: desantis holding that event to debunk accusations of a supposed book ban saying it's time to stop the indoctrination of kids at schools. i think we would all agree with that, steve, ainsley and brian back to you. >> steve: of course, the local stations down there proved his point. he said this is inappropriate and what did the local stations do? they pulled the plug on the feed until he was done showing that particular material. >> ainsley: were they live at the time? >> brian: yeah, they were rolling it. >> steve: if you cannot show it on tv is it appropriate for your kids to have in the library. >> ainsley: absolutely not. and sarah huckabee sanders, good for her. because, if you are in a school district and you don't approve of what is happening in the school, if they are teaching crt

or if they are woke or if the scores are not good, this gives you chance to pull your children, if you can't afford a private school or don't want to pay for a private school, you get to chaz where your child goes to school. >> brian: called arkansas learned. sarah huckabee sanders says she is sorry of seeing at the bottom of every calculus when it comes to education and achievement. bigger than tackling school choice comprehensive approach to education system. so you will get 90% of that money to go anywhere you want in school and hopefully force the public schools to perform better because that's what happened in florida in particular. i did speak to governor ron desantis about that yesterday. and he did say, he goes, it happened before i got here for the most part with school choice. it resulted in even the public schools got better and they were able to up salaries to compete. >> ainsley: what would happen is you are going to pull your child from the school not doing well, put them in the school that's doing the best that's in your area. those schools get more kids because more families catch on to this and then the schools

that's not doing well has to increase their. >> steve: they got to get better. >> ainsley: exactly. they have to get better. >> steve: what has happened in arkansas. remember, we had governor kim reynolds on just about two months ago. they did it -- they passed it through iowa, the legislator there, and, you know, wouldn't you like to live in a state where if you pay thousands of dollars in and spent all that money on the education, if you don't like the school that the governor says you have to send your kid too. take that money a big part of at least go down the street to another school, go down to the parochial school or charter school if you are lucky enough to get in. it's just one of those things. the most important thing in our lives are our children. and why don't we have more choice when it comes to the school? because usually it's like okay, you moved into a neighborhood where's the school? boy, i hope it's a good one and too often it is not.

>> brian: also, the last story about the unions, better for kids. is there anybody who thinks the unions are looking out for kids during the pandemic? >> steve: randi weingarten does. >> brian: saw how she worked behind the scenes to work -- sadly work with the cdc in order to keep schools closed and actually mess with the language in order to say -- to keep schools closed because it wasn't safe and remember the 6 feet apart we can't open up schools have to be 6 feet apart. remember the 6 feet apart because you have to separate the desks something from the first pandemic in 1918. there was no science behind it. she made no effort to get these schools open. >> steve: she was following instructions from anthony fauci. we will be talking about him in 18 minutes. >> brian: yeah, but she wasn't. she was setting a policy. >> steve: right, exactly. let's talk a little bit now about the weather. it is still cold. >> janice: it's cold. you know what? we might have a big storm next week. you got the cold air in place? what's going to happen? that's a tease. a lot of things going on across the map. feels like temperatures in the

20's here in new york and across the northern plains and the west where that cold air remains in place. we have a winter storm moving across the northern plains, the great lakes, and then the warmer side of the system is going to be bring flooding rainfall. first storm. that comes towards the northeast on friday afternoon for the rush hour. we could get a little bit of snow just north and west of new york city. that's your snow forecast through sunday and then on monday, we are going to watch the potential for a nor'easter, that means a coastal event. we could see rain and interior snow depending on how cold the air is that's pulled sought ward. monday night see the jackpot snow. along the i-95 corridor. again, too early to really say the forecast of how much snow we're going to get. bottom line is stay tuned. the west, epic rain and mountain snow for you. it's been quite a year, season so far for the west. it's great that we're filling up the reservoirs and putting a dent to the drought but for the

short-term flash flooding and keep you up to date on that. fox weather.com is working overtime with all of these systems and we will keep you up to date as well. >> brian: this drought has got to be over in california they are getting so much rain. >> janice: it's incredible. not over yet. this next few systems is really going to help. >> brian: i'm declaring it over. >> ainsley: you said we might get something next week. are you talking snow? >> janice: it's too early to tell. that cold air has to be pulled southward but stay tuned. >> steve: all right. we will. >> ainsley: a little in town. come on, come south. >> steve: now stay tuned for news and ashley joins us. >> ashley: jp morgan is suing an embattled former executive over his alleged ties to exaccused sex trafficker jeffrey epstein. filing a complaint against stally in manhattan federal court. jp morgan says stally should be held liable for lawsuits accused the bank much epstein's crimes. he has denied any wrongdoing. a former san francisco police

officer who was fired for refusing to get the covid vaccine is now advocating free come of choice. joel he will worth says i'm proud that i aligned with my truth and that dale and moving forward. the after the on set of covid i worked until october of 2021 around one and a half years without any vaccine and i was deemed essential denied his exemption and said he was a direct threat because he was unvaccinated. be all you can be slogan as the branch struggles to hit recruiting goals. >> the will to make the best it can be. the army has a place for you. >> ainsley: so the two new ads are narrated by cede 3 stars jonathan majors the campaign was scheduled to roll out over the summer moved up to help achieve

this year's reincluding goals. today marks 161 years battle between the monitor and the merrimack. it was the first in u.s. history to fit ironclad ships against each other it. ended in a stalemate after two days of fierce fire fighting when both sides realized the iron holes of the ships could not be penetrated. the battle ships engineering marvel of the day marking a new era in naval warfare. those are your headlines, guys. back to you. >> steve: i remember when we talked about the monitor and merrimack, that is so cool they could do that. of course, this was 100 years later. >> brian: thanks, ashley. >> ainsley: thank you. >> brian: 14 minutes before the top of the hour scholastic books editing goose bumps series to move words like race and fat and crazy and the worst farther is author r.l. stein didn't even know about it. our next guest is a publisher

who doesn't believe in cancel culture. he will react.

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company that proudly creates non-woke children's books brave books ceo trey talmadge joins js now. >> thanks for having me. >> steve: sounds like scholastic changed r.l. stine's books because they said -- why are going to read a statement. scholastic takes responsibility seriously to continue to bring classic adolescent brand goose bumps to each generation. review the text to keep the language current and avoid imagery particular focus on mental health. what do you make of them, not l.l. stein changing r.l. stine's books. >> for a publisher to change the words of an author without their blessing is outrageous in the publishing industry. but it's becoming a little bit of a trend and that we're seeing, recently with the rolle abdulah books done in the name

of political correctness who is doing the changing. scholastic largest children's book publisher in the world. largest children's book distributer in the world. it's the company that gets book into schools libraries and book stores. we have been seeing stories in the news recently about kids coming across books in their own libraries that are woke, awful books and the question is how did this -- and class stick going woke is playing a huge role in that. the question is how did this happen to an iconic and trusted brand like classic is and the black rock, vanguard major stakes in the company fill the board with woke lackeys and pretty soon our kids are strewn across the libraries picking up books like binary and anti-racist baby. >> >> ainsley: author is 79 years old. a lot has changed over the course of his lifetime. so words might be words we don't use anymore. we don't try to avoid when we are talking to our children

about body image. the publisher took the word fat out. took the word crazy out. some other things that maybe we don't agree with anymore. but, my biggest issue was they didn't contact the author. and the author, he wrote these words. it's his literature. are they allowed to do this legally? >> probably so, yeah. i mean, the publishers typically have the rights to the work. but ethical, it's -- it's not thing to do. virtually unheard of until recently. book ross a work of art. and are art in order for to be compelling n.i.e. needs to be raw and truth and beauty in it. whenever we try to white wash everything these days it's taking away that art and it's a real shame. >> steve: scholastic we should point out makes a lot of textbooks so if they have gone woke with r.l. stine have you got to wonder what exactly they

are presenting, what sort of vision of the world they are presenting to the kids who read it. real quick, your comment? trey? >> i don't want to just come up here and dump on slow also a stick we started brave books to be part of the solution. at brave books we make great children's books that help instill strong morality in children. morality is instilled by the age of 10. while we may laugh off or ignore stories like this it's super important. what we are doing today, we have got an awesome deal, you go to brave books.com for every book that you buy we will donate two extra copies to a local school library to help push back against what scholastic is doing. >> ainsley: thank you so much, trent. great maim my brother's name. trump's cdc director says dr. fauci sidelined him because he supported the lab leak theory. so what happened to following the science?

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