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wrong because if putin-- i'm sorry, if president xi successfully invades taiwan that would have a huge impact on the global economy, whether it's on semiconductors, closing off shipping routes. it would have a massive impact and what it would show is it would show that china and its authoritarian allies are on the march and that's what we cannot allow to happen. neil: all right, former and brief british prime minister liz truss saying she's concerned about a comment made by emmanuel macron is a u.s. fixation. and the leaks keep coming out how china, taiwan, and china and russia, and all of these things are sort of joined at the intelligence hip and the revelations that we've heard. and alexandria hoff is looking
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at what we're continuing to get. >> the young man accused in all of this, he may have been accessing classified intelligence networks right down to the wire how close they were to finding the breach. jack teixeira was searching leak on the government issued computer one week before armed fbi agents showed up at his family's massachusetts home on thursday taking him into custody there for allegedly being the source behind spreading some of the country's top secrets online, involving adversaries and allies alike. the 21-year-old's father and other family members were at the boston courthouse where teixeira faced a judge yesterday. the u.s. attorney's office charged teixeira with unauthorized transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal of classified material and that teixeira began sharing what appeared to be transcriptions of classified information relating mostly to the war in ukraine back in december and
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amplified to sharing actual documents including troop movements. he did so in a private group on the gaming site discord. and they're looking at others who may have been potentially been involved in the breach and it may come down to how teixeira could access sensitive intel or others who spread the documents. but that second route could proof challenging. >> the problem is, some of those exposed were minors and to hold them to the standards they should have known they were dealing with classified information is difficult in some cases. >> well, teixeira, once again, is held in custody and that's pending a hearing that's going to take place on wednesday. neil: thank you, we appreciate that. and now we're going to mike tobin in ukraine, how are
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ukrainians responding to the revelations that the counter offensive may not go well, that they're running out of juice and ammo, all the stuff coming up and they've been trying to fight that impression, what's the latest? >> well, a top advisor said the leak would not have a direct impact on the war in ukraine and however, he says it's serious because the russians prowl the chat rooms where the documents were released. one of the revelations is that ukraine is looking at a shortage of air defense munitions and that puts added pressure on the people who defend ukraine's skies. almost nightly an alarm warns that russian drones or missiles have launched mobile air defense teams like the first engaged with weapons, they do it with old weapons like a soviet made weapon. >> it does not fly very fast
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and quickly reacts to the drones. >> the gun was made in 1960, it holds 100 rounds and they can unload all 100 rounds in five seconds, but when you have incoming attack drones, every shot counts. for the cruise missiles they use manned portable air systems. and he carries one and he took an x101 cruise missile out of the sky. at first i didn't understand anything and i realized this is my first rocket and i was very happy. >> despite the vigilance documents leaked from the pentagon shows that ukraine would run out of air defense ammunition by mid may, giving russia an advantage in the skies. >> if you lose control of the sky, then a huge armada from russia what they do, they'll drop free float bombs.
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>> the missile defense teams shoot down most inbound missiles and drones, but they repeatedly terrorize the civilian population here. neil: thank you for that. let's get to this with general perkins, a fox contributor, we appreciate both. general, first off, on all of these revelations the president has been clear saying they're not concurrent, he's not too worried about because the revelations are dated. they don't all seem very dated now and reaction in real world response from countries like ukraine the response in the war and china, what it's saying about its role in this war, you have to wonder. your thoughts? >> yeah, so the problem with these intel leaks and i know last hour you had mr. radcliff, former dni on, really is
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insight into the u.s.'s what we call sources and methods. it's not necessarily the information that gets leaked out, but it's the fact that our adversaries know that we know that information and it gives them some insight into how we found out about that information and it gives them insight into how to shut off that information. that's really the long-term challenge with these intel leaks. neil: i'm wondering, particularly, china's reaction, general, when it said, we're not funding either side. i'm paraphrasing here, not doing with the russians, not doing so with the ukrainians, but came out with a blanket statement like that. do you believe that? >> i believe that china is the most opportunistic country in the world right now and china is looking out for what is in china's interest. and what is in their interest is for their peer competitors, which russia is at times and clearly the u.s., anything that distracts russia in the u.s.
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and anything that reduces both of our capabilities, makes them relatively stronger. so from china's point of view, the longer this can go on in some aspect, yet, you know, be contained, but drain the resources of the u.s. and russia, is good for china. neil: i'm wondering what come of these revelations and what more we'll learn and the fact that this happens fairly frequently in this country, almost nowhere in any other country. maybe it could have something to do with the hundreds of thousands who have access to documents and information maybe they shouldn't. what do you think? >> yeah, neil, that's a great point. unfortunately, as you said, recently we've had many levels of mishandling of classified information and that's not good both in the short-term and the long-term. in the short-term, again, you divulge sources and methods. in the long-term our allies
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will be hesitant to share information because they don't know how well it will be guarded. in this case with the young airman, it looks like he was trying to impress buddies in various game rooms and he had a security clearance which means he had access to it. the thing that would concern me if i was in that organization is how did he get that information out of that secure facility because it's been reported he had pictures, he had some digital information and the fact that he was able to get it out of that facility would be my major concern. neil: you know what worries me, general, this happens a lot. we're talking about classified documents and former president's hands, whether the donald trump mar-a-lago or joe biden in his garage in delaware, or you know, an office elsewhere, the former vice-president, you know, itinerary plans of president biden in ireland that somehow dropped on the street in
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dublin. it's happening so frequently you've got to wonder is anyone keeping track of this stuff? >> well, and i think the level of awareness needs to be raised in one of the ways you do that is that people have to deal with the penalty for mishandling classified information and i think a lot of times people look at a piece of paper or information and go, well, everybody knows that. or it's not that big a secret. like i said, it's not just the information, but it's the way that information was gathered and how we protect it if that information gets out that's very valuable information for our adversaries. neil: do you think, general, i'm getting kind of into the weeds here how this all came to light, but in the case of jack teixeira sharing this with a small group of people, gamers on this discord site, it might have been shared with his family members or might have told them about it as well, but
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there's some culpability on their part if they shared it. >> and how far, who shared it and who saw it, and the minors really had no idea what they were looking at, but this kind of gets back to the point, if people understand when you have information like this, that if you mishandle it, there are consequences to be paid and for 40 years i've had a security clearance, in fact, i still have one now and when there are reports of classified information on the internet, i don't look at it because i don't want it on my computer. neil: is that right? >> i'm not allowed to look at it even if it's open source. neil: well, that's wild. you are a four-star general who is policing yourself. that's not a bad idea. >> i don't look at any of this stuff that's been out there.
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neil: wow. do you worry when a 21-year-old has it and he first started getting the clearance to have this type of material when he was 19 and he is sharing it, we're told, with a group of gamers, some as young as 16. what do you think of that? >> yeah, clearly the fact that he's young and has a security clearance is actually not that unusual because the military is a young person's game and i've had plenty of young soldiers security clearances in combat or whatever and never had a security leak, but this does get back to them understanding that there are consequences for this and examples like this need to sort of being case studies as they bring on new people and say, these are the things you cannot do because see the second and third order ramifications. neil: all right. general, i always learn a lot. thank you very, very much. general david perkins, u.s. army, four-star general, fox news contributor, self-policer when it comes to intelligence.
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>> all right. they're lining up' border again on the mexican side 40,000 o get a firm number, but ahead of fight 42 expiring in a mere matter of weeks, a little over three weeks. casey stegall in el paso, texas with the latest. casey. >> neil, good to see you. border agents on the ground here in el paso, frankly, have been on pins and needles lately with the buildup to title 42 ending on may the 11th, as you've said not very far off. all the while the other side of the border in juarez, mexico up to 40,000 migrants have gathered, as you've said, numbers difficult to weigh
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down, but they're waiting to enter the united states. we're told with unsanitary conditions there, with little help, the frustrations have been mounting. so this past week, our cameras have captured more large groups, 70 to 1200 people illegally crossing and surrendering on the el paso side of the fence. agents say much of this recent frenzy is driven by cartels social media posts, in other words, false rumors that quickly spread online, all designated to push people further north and illegally cross into the u.s. >> i know there is some misinformation going from the smugglers and their home countries in mexico, false information about our immigration policies. >> over in eagle pass, meantime, part of the del rio sector, migrant encounters up
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26% for the first half of fiscal year 2023 compared to the same time year before however, a bulk of activity has shifted further west. right here to the el paso sector now reporting a 157% jump, almost 225,000 migrant encounters since october the 1st, that's not even including the march figures whereas the year before for the same period, neil, you had some 87,000. 87,000 versus 225,000. it's a big, big difference, back to you. neil: to put is mildly, my friend. casey stegall in el paso, texas. you know by now that the democrats are going to be having their big convention in chicago. what could possibly go wrong? my retirement funds allow me to
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>> all right. attention chicago shoppers, you'll have four fewer wal-marts at which to shop pretty soon. the big retailer is pulling out stores in the chicago area. lydia is following that closely in chicago. >> hi there, neil. right behind me is one of the four walmart locations the retailer will close permanently in chicago after this weekend. walmart releasing a statement, saying, quote, our chicago stores have not been profitable since we opened the first one nearly 17 years ago. these stores lose tens of millions of dollars a year and their annual losses nearly doubled in just the last five years. now, some, like democratic chicago mayor elect brandon johnson say the closures in the wendy city are part of a larger trend.
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you can see on the map, there are 12 stores in which walmart will close locations this year and 20 stores in total, take a listen. >> it could be that walmart has been doing around the country, it's certainly some reflection of the way that business is shifting and changing throughout the country. >> but we spoke with local business analysts who say the closures here in chicago reflect the local economic environment, which includes rising crime and high taxes. watch. >> property taxes can be tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars for businesses and we also have one of the most cumbersome regulatory environments in the city of chicago. >> we're seeing mixed reaction from residents that are walking by. some say they're happy to see the major retailer close up half of the stores they have here in chicago. for other residents in the lakeview community here, it means one less option. one less source for affordable necessities and food, something many desperately need.
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back to you. neil: thank you for that, lydia. to what you're thinking about this, it's not fair to say they're all crime related, but they're all in the chicago area. what do you make of it. >> it's pretty obvious for businesses in the city of chicago moving out left and right and cited crime. you'd think that citadel was one of-- griffin's company was one of the first to do so and you have a number of other major corporations that are leaving and even with the election of brandon johnson, knowing the policies he's advocated for, the policies are progressive and we've seen where lori lightfoot has taken that approach and to me it's doubling down, and we're waiting to see what his policies are going to look like. who knows how many stores and companies are going to leave ill joy and how many tax
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dollars are going to leave the city of chicago. the policies, ramifications of them do have impacts on the citizens and clearly what they're supporting by way of who they vote for and how it impacts their lives. this isn't just the most popular. neil: and not nearly to the degree that you would think it would. that being said the democrats have chosen chicago to be the site of their 2024 convention. now the last time they had it in chicago was back in 1996 when bill clinton-- >> 1968. neil: no, the last time, but '68 we remember, but that, you know, convention, hey, it was 1996, also a democrat seeking reelection, but the crime was a lot lower then and i'm just wondering, they obviously want something like 1996, but you
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mentioned it. are they going to get something more akin to 1968? >> i mean, it's very possible, neil. you've got to think about this, too, the safety act which is arguments last month in march, they were assigning oral arguments for i believe this month the illinois supreme court. this changes the game. a lot of laws are going to provide no cash bail so you'll be able to go in and out and in a situation like chicago convention where you're going to have people from all around the world that's going to go in for the democratic national convention, we're going to obviously be there, but there's going to be a lot of agitators, a lot of folks within the city of chicago who will take advantage, full advantage of this situation. in 1968 you saw about 11,000 chicago police officers there and i think 8,000 national guardsmen so i'm sure they're going to try to lock the city down and the fact that we'll have secret service and law enforcement agencies there, but
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i'm sure there are still going to be people who take advantage of that moment and that's what people do in the city of chicago and especially when you've got people like ken fox and mayor brandon johnson at that point. who knows what can happen, i tell you it's a recipe for disaster, a powder keg potentially. neil: you know, they're going to officially say that chicago has a lot of great things going for it, it's a very endearing city, good food, the lake front and i think one of them said it's a foxx fox fixation what's going on. what do you think? you lost your brother in that. >> june 4th, 2022, i lost my baby brother christian, he was only a teenager. "the washington post" did a hit piece on me, neil, i think you remember that when i went to capitol hill and talking with democrats and republicans, asking what their solutions were on violent crime. to say that this is a fox
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fixation is a complete lie. this is something that people within the city of chicago think about on a daily basis, so, those who want to write and lie on fox news and think this is something we're making up. they can go to hell. i know this is a family program, saturday morning, people are losing loved ones day in and day out. they're shedding blood. they can't afford to move and they're stuck in a hellhole. those who want to make up the acquisitions go live in englewood within the city of chicago and see how those people deal with life on a day-to-day basis and you don't know anything and that's the problem with these folks who want to armchair quarterback on something they know nothing of. neil: and i remember that post piece and have them walk a day in your shoes, my friend. thank you, gianno. >> thank you, neil. neil: we'll have more after this. lowe's knows you never e in for just one thing.
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>> all right. americans still dealing with inflation and some pretty iffy economic numbers this week that helped the stock market a little bit, but aren't helping folks at home. in fact, a lot of parents across this country are increasingly paying for their adult kids' expenses because the adult kids are saying, we can't handle this. in fact, it's gotten a little out of control. gerri willis on that. >> neil, between the high cost of housing and food, the bank of mom and dad is struggling to help adult children while funding parents' goals. in the new bank rate survey, seven in 10 parents of adult children report sacrificing their own needs to help their kids financially by raiding emergency savings, tapping retirement dollars, or delaying paying off their own debt. listen to single mothers talking about the financial squeeze that they face. >> i have three generations in
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the home so it kind of makes things difficult to go without eating or i'll eat one meal a day. >> i would go grocery shopping online with walmart, check her account and also just deposit money when i see her account is low. >> and how much assistance young adults is a debate. boomers say 18 and gen z as 21 as maturation. all of this is threatening the solvency of parents, especially when it comes to retirement. >> what i worry about, one, the parents might be putting their own financial well-being at risk and then, two, there's a fine line between helping and enabling. >> especially concerning is the impact on retirement savings. according to the center for retirement savings at boston college, market volatility
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costs 401(k)'s and ira's, 3.4 trillion dollars in the first half of 2022. neil. back to you. neil: all right. gerri, thank you for that. i want 0 to go to martin and aaron, and passionate souls, i'm sure they would help out family members if they were in duress. scott, one thing that's happening, parents are doing it at their own expense and retirement security. what do you make of that? >> well, it's tough. it's a tough decision, neil, i'm not sure which way, my kids are 12 and nine and don't have to worry about it too much, but they're expensive. in the days of crazy inflation nicely flattening out finally you have to be careful about your retirement savings and what you spend on items, luxury goods and discretionary items, too. going forward, i think we're going to see a more deflationary environment and the market is going to continue to rebound and therefore, folks concerned about retirement as
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far as inflation eating away at it, have less of a concern going forward. neil: and when you talk about, you know, there's expiration you can help your kids into adulthood, but the reality that times of tough, inflation has been tough and it's not as tough, but it's still pretty tough. so i'm wondering where this goes. >> you know, that's interesting and then whether it could even get worse if we do hit some type of soft recession. i know, obviously, that could, you know, pull into those savings even farther. we've seen savings and cash accounts on the decline as the cash supply and money supply has been going down. the good thing as some of the cash supply is coming down not necessarily out of retirement, but just your access, that's helping the inflation go down. so, if people are spending less that ultimately is also helping with, you know, the rocket and
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inflation that we've seen and the decline down to 5%. so, i think this is something that we'll probably see for the next couple of quarters, but i don't see it being persistent where this is something that's is going to last years and years and years, but something that parents might have to do for the next few months. neil: i'm wondering, guys, when we took a look at economic data coming out. retail sales are, in fact, slowing and we're seeing signs right now that some of those inflationary pressures are easing a little bit. retail inflation, year over year at about 5%, the prior month 6% clip. so you're seeing more signs that maybe all of these rate hikes are having the desired effects. i'm wondering if we'll see too desired effects, in other words, that it leads to more trouble down the road. we whip inflation, but we tank the economy. what do you think? >> i agree with you 100, neil. i think that's what the market is telling the fed.
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if you cut interest rates on the open market, and they'll tell they've overtightened. it's critical what happens with the markets and the treasury note rate. and the fed can retrace and keep tightening and come in with big rate cuts as the market is predicting toward the end of this year. i don't think there's a disaster on the doorstep. the fed needs to listen to open market interest rates and cater to what the future is telling them. they need to chill out on rate hikes. >> when you look at the rate hike situation, the federal reserve meets again, i guess, in may. and expectations are that maybe nell' raise rates one more time. that might be it for a while. i don't know. but what are your thoughts? >> yeah, i think that's a likely scenario. so, basically they've been raising rates for essentially they started 12 months ago. neil: right. >> and we hit that spike at sort of 9% inflation and now
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we're down to 5 over the past months so say maybe we'll hit the target or maybe 3% rather than 2%, but let's say in six months. so, they want to back off ideally three months before we hit that target. and so, that having one more hike and again, having maybe another month or two pause like they did in the past, you know, or quarter of a percent, could be that last break so as long as the trend continues, i think it could be very likely that we might only see one more 50 basis point hike and then a pause to make sure that the trend continues on down, trying to avoid just as we were talking about, avoiding a recession or avoid taking the economy too far. neil: i know even the federal reserve is mentioning the r-word, recession, guys, and i know it's out there, scott. i find that hard to sort of
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grasp in the face of jobs that are still steady and growing. obviously, companies are laying off, i'm not naive to that about 236,000 jobs in the latest period and we talk about the restaurants still jam packed and theaters that are packed, you know, travel plans that are the busiest we've seen since pre-covid, airlines to an airline reporting some dicey first quarter numbers, but almost to an airline hinting of robust travel season. with a backdrop like that, how could you have a recession? >> it's not your typical recession, as we know over the years when everybody is predicting it and my mom calls and asks if we're having a recession yet, that means it's not going to happen boys and girls, this could be the most telegraphed recession in history that never comes. and the fed, despite what erin said, i don't think recession, but 1% or 2% growth
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environment. neil: what do you think, erin? >> i think if it does come, if a recession came, it would come from something like we saw with svp and some of the banks, there's one precarious events that spills over and sort of creates this contagion and that's something that-- so that's sort of risk with these fast hikes and coming down, and really more of a shock event rather than it coming from the u.s. consumer. and so, i think that's what we're all trying to avoid and aware that there's a risk of it doesn't mean it has to happen, but aware that the risk is a possibility and just to be very careful around the federal reserve actions. neil: we shall see what the fed does next month and thank you for coming in on a saturday, no less, we appreciate that. in the meantime we're getting startling numbers from the trump campaign. they hauled in a combined 18.8 million in the first quarter. 15.4 million has come in in the
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this company, our brands and our partners. i spend much of my time travelling across america, listening to and learning from our customers, distributors and others. moving forward i'll work-- i'll work tirelessly to bring great beers. the statement follows the backlash on social media for marketing campaign featuring transgender activist dylan mulvaney. who has millions of followers, saying that anheuser-busch sent her a pack of bud light with her face on it as a contest and a year of girlhood for mulvaney. the partnership has dangered a lot including musician kid rock, releasing video of himself shooting cases with an assault rifle. and john rich who owns a bar in nashville say sales have
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dropped dramatically. >> the sales on bud light are almost at zero percent. we're sitting on cases and cases of that beer in the back, and you know, you can't reorder it if nobody's going to buy it. >> now, prior to bud light's partnership with mulvaney, the company's vice-president of marketing said she wanted to make the brand more inclusive in an attempt to appeal to a larger audience. take a listen. >> bud light had been kind of a brand of fratty kind of out of touch humor and it was really important that we had another approach. >> yeah, now, a lot of people are questioning whether that was such a good idea, considering that anheuser-busch has lost billions of dollars in terms of market cap after the release of that video. to be clear, the company says that the cans that they sent to mulvaney were a gift and that they are not available for the public to buy, so, they're saying it's just a gift, neil.
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neil: well, seems to have worked like a charm. charles, thank you very much for that. in the meantime, you've heard by now the coronation is on. harry is coming and his wife is not. and all is not right with the world. ♪ ♪ with scotts turf builder triple action! gets three jobs done at once - kills weeds. prevents crabgrass. and keeps it growing strong. get a bag of scotts triple action today, it's guaranteed. feed your lawn. feed it. veteran homeowners, want to lower your monthly payments and get cash? with a home loan from newday, take out an average of $70,000, pay off debts and high rate credit cards, and save hundreds every month. i'm not a doctor. i'm not even in a doctor's office. i'm standing on the street, talking to real people about their heart. how's your heart? my heart's pretty good.
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this is about us celebrating the new monarch and that's what the focus should be on. i'm afraid, i think, the issues around harry and meghan are a bit of a side show to that. neil: oh, no she didn't. yes, she did. liz truss, the former prime minister referring to harry and meghan as a bit of a side show. happy to see that harry is going to his father's coronation next month in london. i don't know how she feels to this day that meghan is not, harry's wife, i don't know how charles is responding to that stunning development, but when something of this international magnitude comes there's only one man to address it nial gardner, working with margaret thatcher, the british press is having a field day with this. most welcoming harry, glad to
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see meghan back home. what do you think? >> neil, it's great to be on the show today. and without a doubt, i think the harry-meghan issue, this is big news in london, in fact, dominate add lot of the headlines over the last few days, the fact that harry is attending the coronation and meghan is staying at home. my sense here is that because of meghan's huge unpopularity in the united kingdom, the decision was made by harry and meghan for her to stay at home. there was a strong possibility, i think, that meghan would have been booed on the streets of london and i think that that would have been extremely damaging for the meghan brand so i think that was a critically important factor in the decision for meghan to stay at home. also, of course, i think undoubtedly harry wants some kind of reconciliation with his father, king charles has a very big heart and is embracing his son, even though harry and meghan have basically attacked the royal family relentlessly
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over the past couple of years. and "spare", harry's memoir, a brutal assault on the royal family and even amidst this king charles is extending the hand of friendship and the differences between harry and meghan and royal household are at an incredibly low point. i think it's going to be very difficult to repair this relationship and my understanding is that harry and william are not talking at all. so the two brothers are s certainly at great odds no chance of reconciliation and i think also for the king after all of harry's attacks on camilla, it's going to be very, very difficult, i think, for mar harry to come back into the full royal fold here. a lot of tensions here. neil: and they're leary of them.
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whether it's harry and meghan or harry alone. >> there are reports indicating that many members of the royal household do not want to have anything to do anything more to do with harry and meghan. that's the reality of the situation here. and also, it should be noted that harry and meghan are deeply unpopular figures in the united kingdom and increasingly in the united states and plummeted since the release of the netflix documentary and also since the release of "spare". neil: do we know, where harry is going to stay in britain? you can't put him up in the days inn. will he stay with the royal family? where will he go? >> i think that's being decided although i think he will be staying very close to the rest of his family, but that doesn't mean that it's going to be some kind of reconciliation here. and i do think that, you know, harry has burnt bridges very
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significantly near and there is tremendous, i think, unhappiness, resentment among some members of the royal family over how he's behaved and a lot of the blame is placed at the foot of the door of meghan markle, really. neil: doesn't she have a book coming out? >> well, i believe she's working on a memoir and i think that harry and meghan signed a $20 million book deal for a series of books so i think that meghan will certainly have their say, but i would describe meghan markle as incredibly unpopular in the united kingdom and i think the reception on the streets of london before extremely negative and i think that's ultimately the decision for her to stay at home because i think that had she traveled to london, i think that the british response would have been very, very hostile towards her. and also, i think, it will be quite hostile towards harry after everything he has said as well. neil: wow. >> so they have immensely damaged their own standing,
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>> new details emerging about the 21-year-old massachusetts air national guardsman who is now facing charges for retaining and distributing classified national defense information. jack teixeira is accused of leaking hundreds of u.s. classified documents on a social media platform. welcome to fox news live, i'm alicia acuna, hi, griff. griff: hi, alicia. i'm griff jenkins. and teixeira is being held in boston ahead of his next court appearance.
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