need. take care of animals and the fish and make the world a better place. take care of our forests. they go up in flames every summer. >> ashley: a lot to unpack here congressman bruce westerman, thank you so much for your time this morning. we appreciate you. >> thank you. >> todd: the joke they want to bring dei to the wildlife itself it. could happen. "fox & friends" starts now. >> lack of cooperation is unprecedented. >> the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan is under new scrutiny. >> special inspector general accusing the biden administration of obstructing his investigation. >> i cannot assure this committee we are not currently funding the taliban. >> the walls are closing in. >> a potential breakthrough in the hunter biden investigation. irs whistleblower says he has evidence that the biden administration interfered with the criminal investigation into the president's son. >> he has the receipts. it's not going to be in doubt. >> will you turn around and offer them your condolences and

offer them an apology? [inaudible] >> will alejandro mayorkas coming face to face with the grandmother and child killed by smuggler. >> an estimated 15 tornadoes ripped through oklahoma overnight killing at least two people and leaving a trail of destruction. >> some of these storms just exploded in the oklahoma city area. >> strikes. it's a high fly ball to center. aaron judge all the way back to the wall. that ball caught. caught by john. he robs atone of a home run. >> ainsley: straight to a fox news alert. look at that annual estimated 15 tornadoes ripping through oklahoma overnight, killing at least two people and leaving a trail of destruction. >> steve: look at that. a number of other people have been hurt. at least right now 20,000 people are without power.

officials issued warnings for 70 counties as the 70 mile-per-hour wind tore the roofs of of buildings and downed power lines. people are waking this up morning with no juice. >> brian: folks are stranded right now in a parking lot in shawnee taking shelter inside a pizza shop. meantime residents are sharing photos like this of golf ball size hail. that would hurt. more on this story download the fox weather app. or stream fox weather on favorite tv connected device. and i'm not going to repeat that you got what i meant the first time. now to the latest on the hunter biden probe and this story is moving. an irs whistleblower says he has evidence that the administration medalled with a criminal investigation into the president's son and his overseas business dealings. >> ainsley: and now that whistleblower is seeking protections so that or she can share his story with congress. >> steve: lucas tomlinson joins us from d.c. with more. we don't know much about the

agent other than they have been on the job at the irs for 10 years. we know a lot more about his attorney. >> that's right, steve. the whistleblower has not been identified. he or she is a career irs special agent who has been investigating hunter biden for three years. he claims in a new letter to congress federal prosecutors are preventing tax charges from being brought up against the president's son. here is more from the letter, quote: detailed preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subject were not politically connected. now, here's the whistleblower's attorney. >> to him, the truth is one truth. and he wants to come forward with it. he is ready to be questioned about what he knows and what he experienced under the proper legal protections. >> we know the sex it is a he. the chairman spoke to sean hannity last night.

>> this was a family enterprise. what were they doing? why were they getting this much money? it all points back to joe biden and we're going to continue until we get the truth to the american people but i can say this, sean, the walls are closing in on the biden family. >> hunter biden last seen traveling with the president to ireland wasn't named in the letter but officials say the complaint is about him. hunter has been under federal investigation since 2018. our colleagues at fox digital first reported a current biden political appointee and crisis communications expert with close ties to hunter biden visited the white house more than 30 times when biden was vice president. including two visits with biden aides a month after hunter hired him to help rebrand his chinese investment firm, guys. >> steve: all right, lucas. thank you very much. so this guy has got a blockbuster story to tell you about because he currently works at the irs. the irs has strict rules where

yoe particular taxpayer. what he ask asking for is protection so he is not retaliated against by sobody in the government. >> ainsley: yeah. this letter, his attorney sent the letter to nine recipients in the -- sorry, nine lawmakers. >> steve: in congress. >> brian: bipartisan, democrats and republicans. he wants that protection. my client will talk if you protect him. he said my client is prepared to provide information that would contradict sworn testimony to congress by a senior political appointee according to "the new york post." they say congressional sources are claiming that that is the a.i. g., merrick garland. the whistleblower is prepared to reveal flarls to handle clear conflicts of interest in the case and detail preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols. >> brian: he also believes the senior appointee lied in front of congress, gave false testimony to congress about this case. the "wall street journal"

expands on that, and they have said in the past the "wall street journal" that investigators believe they have more than enough evidence to indict president biden's son. but the case has not moved forward. john solomon breaking this story picked up by the "wall street journal" and us said this last night. >> the interesting thing about this whistleblower is he doesn't want to just hang out with republicans. he wants to face the music. he wants to look democrats and republicans and independents in the eye so he sent this letter to the democratic side. he sent it to the republican side. he is not afraid to confront the adam schiffs and the eric swalwells and all the jokesters who gave us all the bogus stories the last four years. the reason he is so confident, he has the receipts. he has contemporaneous documents. it's not going in doubt what he provides to congress. >> steve: so he is bringing evidence. now, keep in mind, it was back in october "the washington post" had that blockbuster story about how they were learning from fbi

agents and investigators that they had accrued enough information to indict hunter biden on tax charges. so what they did is they presented the information with the prosecutors. and the prosecutors, as we have famously told you a million times, are at the u.s. attorney's office in delaware. that's a man by the name of david weiss. so, if you connect the dots of what we have learned yesterday from the whistleblower's attorney, and what we learned back then, you have to figure somebody has given mr. weiss, the u.s. attorney in delaware, some information that is not accurate about the situation of mr. biden. >> brian: there is also speculation that the attorney general merrick garland who vouched for the independence of david weiss, who is a trump holdover, that he might -- he said he has been advised that he is not being denied anything that he needs but the fact that he, merrick garland, vouched for his independence could be called into question is david weiss'

hands tied? or was he able to keep his job if he possibly guaranteed and they wouldn't move forward on the gun charge or the irs charge. and there is still that mystery of why someone would write a $2 million check for somebody else because they had an irs debt. that's pretty good. that sugar daddy that he has out on the west coast also lets him live with him. >> ainsley: james comer on oversight, he said that letter is very concerning. he said we have been wondering where the heck the doj is on this. where the heck is the irs on this? he says now it appears the biden administration might have been working overtime to prevent the biden administration from facing any consequences. >> steve: because of what this whistleblower, just to make it simple for you, the whistleblower essentially is saying that he has information that will contradict sworn testimony to congress by a senior political appointee. so the question is, who is that appointee that told congress something that apparently, according to this irs agent with

the receipts is not true. >> ainsley: "new york post" says it's merrick garland. we'll see. coming up apartment oc says funding the police is actually defunding safety. >> are paid more than a teacher with a master's degree serving these same kids. we are defunding safety. >> ainsley: the woman who lost her eye in this brutal subway attack calls out the congresswoman, next. >> brian: and going, going, robbed? he is 6'9" for a reason to believe. he was that tall to be a yankee rob atawney from a home run, that's why the yankees went on to win by a score of 3-2. that homer didn't hurt either. yankees beat the angels. you will hear more and see more.

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>> ashley: wild video showing a suspect nearly run over an officer while trying to flee a traffic stop. >[shouting] somebody hurt. >> ashley: the driver went on to smash into several cars, narrowly missing other pedestrians, police say the officer is going to make a full recovery but the suspect managed to get away and no arrests have been made. robert f. kennedy jr. officially throwing his hat into the ring for the white house. r.f.k. jr. joined tucker carlson last night to explain the anticorporate platform he is running on. watch. >> the general theme of my

speech was this corrupt merger of state and corporate power which is turning our country into corporate knoll system of socialism for the rich and cushy socialism for the rich and this kind of brutal merciless capitalism for the poor. >> ashley: early polling from "u.s.a. today" shows r.f.k. jr. already gaining a sizeable chunk of biden voters. 1% of those polled say they would now choose him as the democrat nominee. r.f.k. jr. appears to have the support of star nfl quarterback aaron rodgers new democratic candidate give me a sword rogers respond with a sword emoji. spacex is getting ready to launch the world's biggest rocket later this morning. starship is a fully usable rocket humans and supplies to earth's orbit. this will be second launch attempt after postponing monday's launch.

over an wish a frozen pressure valve. the rocket is set to blast off 9:28 a.m. eastern standard time from star base in texas. aaron judge had a wild first inning begins the los angeles angels. stealing a home run away from shohei ohtani before hitting. >> aaron judge tattoos one to left and now judge is on the board. a two-run homer. >> ashley: judge is living up to the $360 million contract he signed this off season. so far he is leading the yankees with six home runs so far this year. and new york beat the angels 3-2 last night. those are your headlines, guys. >> brian: six homers in 18 games. he might be on pace to hit 60 again. >> ainsley: going to do well. >> steve: terrific. sports report. thank you. >> ashley: far left congresswoman aoc ripping into new york city's mayor, mayor adams for approval raises for

the nypd after they went seven years without a raise. >> we are now at a point where officially, most officers, are paid more than a teacher with a master's degree. when we are taking all of those resources and demanding that every single department, sex september the militarized one, be cut. we are sending a message about who and what we care about. >> steve: okay. this is what we care about, this story right here. our next guest disagrees with a.o.c. elizabeth gomez is that woman. she lost an eye when she was attacked by a career criminal on a subway in september here in new york city. >> brian: she joins us right now. elizabeth, first off i'm so sorry you had to go through that can you, if it's okay, bring us back to the incident as it happened and then we will bring you to what aoc thinks is the problem in this city? >> sure.

well, i was on my way to work. september 20th about 5:20 in the morning when i got attacked by foster who was released from the -- from jail and i got attacked. and from the attack, i lost vision in my right eye. and from lack of police officers being in the subway station at the time of them being defunded at that time. it was no one there to help. my gosh, elizabeth, when you watch that video. i don't know if you have even been able to watch it, but you stand back up it. looks like you are trying to get back up kind of on your fees and he comes back for more. you lost your eye as a result. we have been playing this video for a long time. it's really hard to watch and had to warn our viewers. what was going through your mind? stomping on your head? what did he say? what did you find out about him? was he on drugs? >> actually he was a convicted felon. he was in jail multiple times,

you know, he killed his foster grandmother 14. he shouldn't have been walking the street at all. all the felonies and cases he has behind him. the only thing i was really thinking about honestly was just somebody helping me. >> steve: as you mentioned a moment ago, if there had been police in that station. had there been funding rather than defunding, you would not have lost your eye. had there been somebody to step in and had that guy actually been in jail, rather than been released after his conviction for whatever. i don't know the exact circumstances of it. but tell us, elizabeth, if you would, give the message to a.o.c. who says she would rather the money go teachers rather than police? i think we can have both, but give the argument for why we need more police. >> i mean, you see, yes. we need both but safety do come first. if you don't make these children

safe at school, how would you make them want to go to school. once anybody feelings endangered any kind of way you wouldn't want to go. fix all these communities, places like pools and parks. how would people want to go if there is no safety. i believe safety comes with police officers. and once police officers then people would feel more realistic to go places. they wouldn't feel scared to go to school. they wouldn't be scared to go to a public school. they wouldn't be scared going to a train station just going to work. you know? there is times and place for everything. and once you put safety first, everything else will go right after it. i cannot call a teacher if i need help, if a man is running me down, i cannot call a teacher. i'm going to have to call the police. i'm going to be praying for police. not a teacher. you know, i understand you need a masters for all of these things but to own a business, you don't need a master degree. let's safety is first. the people out there need safety. we're not going to be running behind teachers. like, come on, guys.

>> brian: first off, on your condition, how are you? i understand your eye is still giving you a problem. >> i mean it's forever going to be a problem now because i can't see out of it. so that's going to forever be a problem in my life now. and it's because lack of safety. lack of not having the right people around us to take care of us when we need them. at that moment when i was running up the train station i wasn't thinking about calling a teacher or calling a lifeguard for a pool. i was thinking about calling the police. >> ainsley: elizabeth, what happened after that? did he run away? how did you get help? how did you get to the hospital? >> the police came and helped me. they was the one that recognized him downstairs and yes, that's the guy that attacked me. and they locked him up right away. and the ambulance came and took me to the hospital. >> steve: thank you very much for joining us. we have been trying to get you on to tell us your story for a very long time. >> ainsley: so glad you survived that attack. it looked so brutal.

do you ride the subway anymore. >> no. i haven't road the subway yet and i don't plan on it yet. >> steve: yeah, i wouldn't either. >> ainsley: i don't either. >> steve: elizabeth, thank you. >> thank you so much. >> steve: you bet. 6:22 now here in the east. we have got a fox weather alert from the central states. at least 15 tornadoes touched down and ripped through oklahoma overnight killing at least two people and leaving behind a trail of destruction. janice dean is tracking it all. >> brian: first, a startling admission during the hearing on afghanistan yesterday. >> as i sit here today, i cannot assure this committee or the american taxpayer we are not currently funding the taliban. >> brian: that is sinful. why a former green beret who led missions to save our allies still doing it right now says our national security is at risk. ♪ next on behind the series... let me tell you about the greatest roster ever assembled. the monster, the outlaw...

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really loud and really crazy. >> residents are sharing photos of like this of golf ball sized hail, for more on this story. of course. download the fox weather app. or stream it on fox weather on your favorite tv connected device. a texas all star cheerleader after being shot in houston before last championship. peyton washington and three teammates were met with gunfire after mistakingly trying to get into the wrong heather speaking out from her release from the hospital say nothing one deserves. this washington remains in icu but her family hesitate she is awake and talking. the shooter is now facing deadly charges. are supreme court delaying decision on access to widely most used abortion pill. comes two weeks after samuel alito limiting access to the drug. conservatives are access to the pill due to concerns about the

drug's safety. the high court is expected to announce its decision on friday. tiger woods announces he underwent successful surgery to address post-traumatic arthritis in ankle. stems from 2021 car crash in which the star golfer nearly lost his leg. woods withdrew from the 2023 masters after three rounds. he was seen noticeably limping around augusta national. his agent says there is no timetable for his return. and those are your headlines, ainsley, send it over to you. >> ainsley: thank you, ashley. a shocking revelation for inspector general. >> it is critical that our assistance not be diverted by the taliban. unfortunately, as i sit here today i cannot assure this committee that we are not currently funding the taliban. nor can i assure you that the

taliban are not diverting the money we are sending from intended recipients which are the poor afghan people. >> ainsley: this after the white house blamed their withdrawal on the trump administration. led efforts in afghanistan with task force pineapple, you all know him. he has been on our show a lot. he joins us now. good morning. >> good morning, ainsley, thanks for having me on. >> ainsley: so many take aways from yesterday's hearing, one is just jaw-dropping, is that the taliban could be sending american aid that we are sending over there to help the afghan people. what was your reaction? >> it really is concerning. i think even more concerning is if they are doing that and i think they are whereby that money going i have talked to the national resistance front of afghanistan he said there are are as many as 27 violent extremist groups reemerging in

afghanistan including eye sis k and al-qaeda with the centcom commander saying isis being within six months of striking in the united states. if you think about a diversification of those funds, if it is going to terror groups we could literally be funding the next strike on the united states or the west. >> ainsley: what was your reaction to the administration thinking there are 300,000 afghan soldiers and police paying their salaries but he says they don't exist. we are paying ghost soldiers? >> absolutely. there is always -- there have always been major systemic pay problems in afghanistan and how money goes from point a to point b. but even more concerning right now is how the money is being basically handed over to the taliban and there is no local oversight whatsoever. and we're still -- you know, the veterans groups are still talking to the command dose and the afghan special forces who were left behind and they are verifying that no humanitarian aid is getting to these people who are in this crisis and there are others who are saying that there are camps operating all

over afghanistan right now with impunity at pre-9/11 level. >> ainsley: what about jamie raskin saying this a all trump's faults? >> the way this thing has been politic sized and frankly pushed from one party to another as a veteran and part of the veteran population watching this, it's just incorrigible. when i see politicians shifting blame like this and not teaching response thability we teach our kids when something happens. tells me nothing is going to get done about addressing the mental health issue. the virus veterans going through. nothing done about the national security threat that is emanating now. when you don't take responsibility for your actions, it means you are not going to take any action to fix them. that's a major concern. >> ainsley: top official says the administration wasn't prepared for the afghanistan collapse but we have the administration saying they didn't see any chaos. it wasn't chaotic you should

talk to the operation refuge up and coming nonprofit at kabul international airfield. special agent gunderson was part of. he sure wish he would have been where he was sitting. more than enough chaos at abby gate when that bomb went off and triaged all those wounded. that was a statement that reflected the gap between the senior leaders and the led. it is vast. >> ainsley: afghan women can't go anywhere without an escort. sending equipment over there that they don't know how to fix or repair if they have to do that or even operate because we used to send them soviet equipment and now we are sending them american equipment and they don't know how to use it. >> oh, i think that's absolutely true. again, there is no oversight down at the local level. and, you know, that is a major problem the issue with how women and girls are being treated over there. it's astounding to me a country

like ours that is supposed to stand for and advocate for the poweempowerment of women subhumn treatment of women in broad daylight after 20 years of standing up for them. it's, again, it's such a moral injury on the veteran population and other volunteers who have advocated for women for years. it's hard to believe our country is participatory in that. >> ainsley: hard to believe those women were free for so long and now they are back to being prisoners. >> i wouldn't count them out yet. >> ainsley: i hope you are right, scott. thank you. thanks so much for all your efforts and what have you done to rescue some americans. all right. still ahead, even liberal mayor eric adams is laying into president biden's border crisis. >> the president and the white house has failed new york city on this issue. enough is enough. >> ainsley: we break down $4 billion. the cost of open borders on just one city

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>> national government has turned its back on new york city. this is one of the largest humanitarian crises that this city has ever experienced. the president and the white house has failed new york city on this issue. enough is enough. new yorkers deserve better from our national government. >> steve: did you hear that new york city mayor eric adams: housing alone new york spends as much as $55,000 per migrant. that's a deal they struck between the hotel management and the city. that comes to -- that's about $300 million for the 55,000 in the city. and that tent encampment in randle island cost $16 million

and it's not even up anymore. total, about $5 million per day for all of the migrants from fiscal year new york city is going to pay $5 billion on the crisis. here to react is imgranted peter la image. good morning to you. >> good morning. thank you for having me. >> steve: he is those numbers are off the wall that's why we call the numbers off the wall. close to $5 million per day in new york city to handle the migrants. where is that money coming from? >> look, the failed liberal policies implemented in the united states are promoting chaos and lawlessness. i'm an attorney and i go to the immigration board at least once a week or couple of days a week. it's interesting when you go up to manhattan, you will see at least 2,000 to 3,000 immigrants being resisted with ice.

reporting to court, and it just breaks my heart when i see that where is the money coming from? look, we have a sanctuary city and, you know, it's coming back to haunt us because we promoted these kinds of policies. we are spending $5 million a day on illegal immigrants. the procedure is that when you come to the united states, come legally released you have to have someone whom you will be going. that individual is the one who assures the government that they will take care of the illegal when they come to the united states for the time being and provide for them, otherwise you wouldn't be released from custody. you have to have someone who is waiting for the illegal once they come to new york or whatever state they are going. to say $9.9 billion were spent last year in new york state to house and feed illegals in our state. that is a tremendous amount of money. you look at the housing crisis that we have. that is being caused by the demand that we right now in new

york city. did you go to the hospital. public hospitals, you would have to wait there for hours to be seen by a doctor at the emergency room. the educational, you know, public schools are going to collapse with the demand of the illegals that, you know, are going tao tend our schools. so, i don't blame actually mayor adams for raising his voice if you will and bringing this issue to a national -- to national attention. >> steve: sure. you know, peter, when we have shown video of the migrants crossing the rio grande river into the united states, sometimes there are hundreds on hand there. we nobody everybody has a story and want to have a better life in the united states. if the old days they used to sign a guest book and there is a process now they crosses river and they are here. never saw a number. on will the big wall. the deal between the hotel association and the city it's going to cost $55,000 per migrant on average. i'm sure some are less but some

are more we are not talking about chicago, l.a., d.c. filly. that's just this town. so, once again, i go back to the fundamental question, where is joe biden going to get this money to pay for these people he is letting into the country? >> i don't think he wants to resolve that issue for the time being. actually, we are enticing illegals to come to the united states. this government, this federal government is enticing them to come to the united states because of the benefits we provide to them. now, when it comes to money, he is going to have to raise taxes you and i working is six, seven days a week. spending $57,000 per migrant per year to house them and keep them in the united states, that is someone's yearly salary and i don't think the biden administration is concerned with the middle class at this point or for our hard-working americans. couldn't care less about the money. eventually is he going to get the money. but i think the goal here is to bring as many illegals as

possible to the united states for the time being. we don't see anyone actually trying to enforce the law. ice has become an agency that is just processing people who are coming to the united states instead of enforcing immigration law. >> steve: and do you know what? yesterday, peter, we were talking about how the estimates are that two thirds of the children that come across the river into the united states wind up in a situation where it's against their will. children, child labor. something-like two thirds, which means, you know, stuff that we buy, we figure it's made by an adult somewhere. it could be made by a sweat -- in a sweat shop by a kid in another country. >> none of the immigration laws are being enforced properly. that would be the purpose of having enforcement of these laws, because, once you come to the united states, whether they come here legally, i think that we should have a process that we make sure that we drag down and we make sure that thieves kids

are not being, you know, exploited by groups out there who wouldn't have any problems to exploit them for. other reasons instead of for more reasons than just, you know, employ them. actually. you have sexual trafficking. you have all these horrible things that happen to these kids and we don't have this administration enforcing the law. >> steve: right. all because the people, the sponsors who are taking the children are not being vetted properly. it has been. >> absolutely. >> steve: peter, always a pleasure talking to you and your unique point of view. thank you, sir. >> thank you. have a great day. >> steve: 16 minutes before the the top of the hour and a fox news alert. two people are dead. look at that swirling cloud. two are dead in oklahoma after estimated 15 tornadoes rip through the state. check out this wild video of hail cracked a windshield and made a big mess out there on the road. just imagine the damage. look at the size of that. that is bigger than a golf ball. that's about the size of a baseball. let's check in with senior

meteorologist janice dean for our fox weather forecast. i know, janice, we always say it's that time of year when there is severe weather. when you see how big that piece of hail was, can you understand how it goes through windshields. >> janice: severe weather outbreak oklahoma, kansas kansas, down toward texas. and unfortunately we are going to see complete devastation in and around the oklahoma city area. at love these tornadoes and the damage was reported after around 10:00 last night. so, i'm really, really worried about what we're going to see this morning as the sun comes up. not only for oklahoma, but up towards des moines. so, this is going to be the situation throughout the day today as these storms continue to move eastward. look at the radar. a lot of the damage coming around 10:00 p.m., 11:00 p.m., the midnight hour and when you see radar like that with that hook echo, it's just going to be devastating this morning. i can't stress it enough. we need prayers out there. looking at the line of

thunderstorms right now that is moving through kansas, missouri, up towards iowa. we have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect for kansas city and then as we go through the day today across the mississippi and ohio and tennessee river valley, the severe storm threat will exist. fox weather.com will be covering this story and, again, steve, the devastation is just going to be horrific when the sun comes up so that's what i'm really concerned with. >> steve: going to get a live report from oklahoma. j.d., thank you very much. >> janice: you got it. >> steve: straight ahead on this thursday. native american name change hundreds of schools now banned from calling their teams warriors, chiefs, or braves. why alumni say this is actually erasing american history. plus, a real life goodwill hunting. >> steve: remember that story?

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>> ashley: we are back with sports headlines starting with the nba. the bucs set a new playoff record draining 3 pointers. milwaukee evens up the series despite being without super star. beating the lakers despite the absence of their super star john more rants and memphis guard

dillon brooks exchanging words with lebron james after the game. brooks calling james, quote, old. the nuggets jump out to 2-0 series lead. after jamal's 30 point performance. and in the stanley cup playoff the california hurricanes take a two-game lead on the new york islanders after the kaines score the game-winning goal in overtime. now, meanwhile in the west, the edmonton oilers even their series with the los angeles kings thanks to a 4-2 win on home ice. and ryu pay hens hat trick help the dallas stars blow out the minnesota wild tie their series at 1-1. all right ashley, here we go. new york state has voted to ban public schools calling their schools, warriors, chiefs, braves or using any native american moss scott.

this is huge. those who don't comply will not receive any state aid immediately and the supervisors could be fired. a long island high school is pushing back saying, quote: we will not sit idly by while unelected group of officials tries to remove our history. here to react is president and founder chris makaro. this is huge news. this is happening in 21 other states. you are talking about a lot of districts. 60 school districts. 55 have american indian names. 133 schools are affected. this is going to cost millions of dollars. is it wrong-headed? >> it depends on the district. it depends on the logo. it's subjective based on community by community. there are some things that could be in question. but there's a lot of things like the flaming arrow which means so much. >> brian: chuff. >> i wear on my heart i wear proudly today. it's the identity of our community that we have to honor native americans and their culture. >> brian: one of the native american groups says this. i think it's long overdue.

says we have a lot of children involved in sports. when they go to schools and have native american moss scotts it's insulting for them and their heritage it's dehumanizing. i'm always open to different points of view. but an arrow is a arrow. red devil could be an actual devil. the chief showing leadership. in massapequa they have massapequa chiefs been around since 1960 is it wrong-headed to think negatively about that? >> it's not. and we have to respect diversity of opinions. we need to hear all voices in this. we haven't. we have heard from the new york state board of regents. we have heard from some tribal leaders. you are not hearing from the communities and what logos marks and what this history means for us. >> brian: warriors, braves, as i mentioned chiefs, arrows, red devils which i don't think has anything to do with the american indians. these are going to be changing and rip up turf fields change the fronts of buildings and take

out logos. is this the best thing to do with millions of dollars of school funds. >> aren't there educational issues. safety and security? isn't the economy not performing as well as it should be? that's a lot of taxpayer dollars spent for ripping up history and tradition. >> brian: could there be a compromise where maybe logos is taken down and name changed because braves to me has nothing but positive. warriors, chiefs, arrows, that brings back the heritage of the land. >> it has to be a compromise. and there has to be a dialogue so we can bring education about native american history into the classroom. we need a day of dialogue. we need native americans coming into school districts to talk about what these stories are. but we don't have to do this where it's one sided saying hey, take this out or we are going to hold back your money and we're going to fire your school officials? let's have a conversation first. >> brian: by 2025 get it done. do you know what they thought was a big concession? you don't have to destroy old trophies and old plaques.

oh, isn't that nice? don't destroy 50, 60 years of accomplishments. >> listen, you look the entire school district and community is built on native american names and culture. formed with honoring and respecting them. so we are going to erase all of that? no, let's not erase history. let's embrace history. >> brian: i thought so too. the names of the tribes who lived there thanks for joining us, keep up the fight. massapequa chiefs. i would love it to same exactly the same name. let's talk about it. don't mandate it. haven't we learned enough from covid? appreciate it. robert f. kennedy jr. officially launching his democratic bid for president. the 2024 race heating up top of the hour. don't move ♪ ♪ my most important kitchen tool? my brain. so i choose neuriva plus. unlike some others, neuriva plus is a multitasker supporting 6 key indicators of brain health.

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