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>> the crisis rages on at the southern border this weekend with less than 12 days to go until title 42 ends, the migrant surge already is beginning. griff jenkins is in brownsville, texas with the latest on this. i say just beginning, keeps going on, the surge keeps coming and stronger all the time. griff: that's right, david. good morning. this surge is sizing up to be some of the most we've ever seen and the fierce storms that we had in the early morning along with high winds has not slowed things down, david. take a look over the left soldier at the levee in
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brownsville. nearly 2,000 they've encountered. by comparison, david, if you remember back in april of 2021, that del rio bridge with some 20,000 haitians, it took 17 days for them to get to 20,000 haitians in del rio. here in brownsville, in the past 10 days exceeded 20,000 and they're largely venezuelans. you can see it the construction, they're calling it camp monument, the border parole agents are, setting up areas to process, encounter, screen and transfer out these migrants and it's just part of what they're trying to get ready for because it's less than two weeks before title 42 lifts. i wanted to take a look at one more piece of footage that we shot this morning and this is the migrants showing up here. like i side 90% venezuelan and
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cuba, colombia, honduras, el salvador as well. meanwhile, in el paso, take a look at pictures given to fox news by local ngo, they've set up shelters with migrants all over the streets and we heard some 30,000 migrants are waiting in juarez for the crossing, but they're all hands on deck over there and that one organizer saying the crisis is here and here is a sound from the deputy director of that ngo getting ready, take a listen. >> they're basically making themselves at home. the small parking lot direct high behind me and we try to make it as amenable as possible for those individuals to provide shade, to be able to provide water. >> this comes as the administration announcing this week, david, that six-point plan to try and deal with the surge anticipated on may 11th and apparently is already coming part of that plan involves setting up centers in colombia and guatemala as
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migrants make their way here, but my sources told me yesterday that are down near that gap between panama and colombia, we've been on the ground with our cameras telling they're overwhelmed in numbers that quote, they're already on their way, david. david: great reporting as always, griff. thank you very much for that. well, brownsville not the only area feeling the migrant surge, as you heard, it was el paso and a judge there warning the surge is already overwhelming cities like his own in el paso. el paso county, texas judge joins us now, good to see you here. >> nice to see you, thank you for having me. david: of course. i assume you heard griff's report. is the same thing happening in el paso that's happening there? >> well, we've been a lot more successful. we've been working on this for almost four years and we meet almost once a week and we're on top of this and so we've learned a lot from what we need
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to do and we're setting up, our process center can take as many as 1200 a day and we've got schools, several schools that are vacant now open and ready and we've got the convention center ready for that and we've got the diaoces that has been prepared. it's a crisis and i think el paso has done a good job of managing a little better than some of the other border areas. david: good for you, but why is it that you're having more success than the other areas. what would you recommend to them that you're doing that works? >> i think a couple of things. one, we don't wait to see and have the issue in front of us. i think the philosophical approach is very important that we know it's going to happen and we get very creative and we're very humanitarian. i think some of the other areas are reluctant as to whether they should or shouldn't take care of them or the community
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doesn't support it, and so, here in el paso, you know, the name says it all. el paso, you know the path of the north. this has been happening for centuries at a time so i think we're more accommodating and knowing that we have to deal with the situation. i hear a lot of, wish it didn't happen, shouldn't be happening. what we do, we don't manage the flow, but manage the way we handle it. a lot of volunteers, a lot of people behind trying to do the best we can. also great relationship with juarez, mexico. we're constantly talking about their shelters, what's happening at the shelters. i know we have about 35,000 now waiting in juarez and the mayor has actually been going down there. i'm going to try myself to go down there to the shelters to see what's going on. but this idea of sheltering before they get here doesn't work because they're in a desperate mode. david: absolutely. >> and they need to keep the
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process going, anytime they slow down, the cartels hit hard, they prey on them and get raped and-- they're preying, forgive me from interrupting, the cartels are preying on them from the beginning from the time they lure in. >> absolutely. >> i covered el paso for 12 years, a beautiful city and i love that relationship, you do work well together with cuidad juarez, at the same time this flow is much larger. look at the raw numbers. >> absolutely. david: they're huge, particularly what is so painful, judge, is you look at the unaccompanied kids and that number, i just want to put some numbers up on the screen. in 2020, 33,000, that's huge, but look what happened, in 2022, that boomed up to 152,000 and just so far this year, 70,000. that could mean a 210,000 annual number for that and so many of those kids are being put in horrible situations where they're forced into labor, some are forced into sex
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trafficking. i mean, it's -- it really is horrid and of course, the cartels are controlling all of this. >> absolutely. well, here in el paso, we have almost 3,000 beds that are run by actually monitored by the state and we actually have capacity at this time. one of the things that happens, that i think is important to know, is that when title 42 wasn't lifted, the parents feel that it's better for them to go on their own, so they start letting these kids go on their own and get to the border and let them go on their own. when title 42 gets lifted it's more likely that the families will stay intact because they can come together and they are going to be allowed to come through. so, a lot of different moving parts that are happening and yes, it's-- it will be a crisis, there's no doubt. david: it already is. >> you know, they had lifted-- >> when you have hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children put into forced labor, it is a crisis. i mean, it's just--
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that's why it bothers so many people when they hear the head of hhs, secretary mayorkas head of homeland security saying this there's no crisis at the border. it is a crisis when you have that many children in harm's way. >> yeah, anytime that anyone goes to something that's not humanitarian and they're being attacked, it's got-- we've got to deal with it as a crisis and it is a crisis and it's going to be difficult, i think title 42 should have been lifted a lot earlier because the process would have been a little bit more natural, accumulation wouldn't have happened. so now that first three weeks is going to be quite a challenge. they're working very hard with the ngo's, trying to talk to everybody, and law enforcement is extremely valuable to us, so we have great relationships with them. david: and they must feel terribly overwhelmed at the moment, particularly those border agents. >> oh, absolutely. and you know, the shifting of that, customs has to help the
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border patrol and then you have this, you know, with are they're not doing their part of it, so everything has a, you know, everything moves something else and so, that's why we process them properly. one of the things we're trying to do that i think would be better would be just have one place, one location and then do the triage and then move them where they should be. i think there's a lot of opportunity for border patrol to process them slower for us instead of, you know, given thousands-- >> judge, we've got to move on, but you've got the can-do spirit and i love that you're working hard to try to deal with the crisis rather than ignore it or refuse that it exists. judge, thank you for being here. >> thank you. it's a privilege to be on your show. thank you very much. david: please stay in touch. we'd like to hear a follow-up. well, illegal drugs, not just pouring over the border, they're flowing on social media as well. dozens of families are now suing snapchat accusing the company of helping their kids connect to drug dealers and in
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many cases with deadly consequences. fox business' lydia hu has more on that. >> families of more than 60 young people who have died through overdoses are suing snapchat. they say the social media platform connects drug dealers with kids and teens. this is sammy chapman, he was 16 years old when he died of fentanyl poisoning in 2021. his family says he bought a fake prescription pill on snapchat that killed him. >> there was a colorful drug menu on snapchat and he ordered something off that like a pizza. it's turned to the dark web. snap disappeared so they think they can operate with impunity. >> his family is one that's
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suing snap. they say that snapchat's key foo etch that automatically deletes messages between users, helps criminals evade law enforcement. >> the architecture how it's designed facilitates the sale of drugs. and we have people who we represent of children have died from fentanyl poisoning. >> a snapchat spokesperson tells us that the lawsuit is riddled with false claims how the snapchat app works and our ongoing efforts to aggressively combat activity on our platform and shut down drug dealers. we remain deeply committed to do our part to fight the urgent crisis. the family says more needs to be done. their lawsuit, david, is filed in the superior court of california for los angeles county. back to you.
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>> lydia, thank you for that. the supreme court justice samuel alito says he has a pretty good idea, those are his words, who leaked a draft opinion of the high court's roe v. wade draft. and the judge overseeing the case is giving up the case. more on that next.
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>> well, remember the chaos and protests after last year's leak of the draft opinion that overturned roe v. wade? well, now supreme court justice sam alito telling the wall street journal he thinks he knows who leaked it and why. alex alexandria hoff has more inside the beltway. >> hey, david. this week marks one year for the subsequent leak for the source which they were unable to determine as we know. the breakthrough interview with the wall street journal he thinks that the marshal did a
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good job and evidence was lacking to reveal somebody. he said i personally have a pretty good idea who is responsible, but different than the level of proof needed to name somebody. as for motivation, he said, quote, it was part of an effort to prevent the dobbs draft from becoming the decision of the court. and that is how it was used for the six weeks by people on the outside as part of the campaign to try to intimidate the court. well, justice alito's draft opinion on dobbs v jackson's women's health did turn into a final ruling despite protests of advocates including outside of the homes of justices. an armed man who showed up outside of justice kavanaugh's home charged with plotting to murder him. alito added to the wall street journal, those of us thought to be in the majority, thought to have approved my draft opinion were really targets of assassination. former tennessee congressman democrat harold ford, jr. gave his reaction to this interview
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on special report. >> i'm a little disappointed to see justice alito insert himself like this into this conversation, but i think, unlike many americans, i would love to know how, more importantly, love not to see it happening again anything leaking that the justices of thinking about. >> and justice alito addressed the rumor that it was from a conservative justice. he called that infuriating. >> we'll talk about that later with our next guest. to a legal lawsuit, a judge recusing itself in the case against republican governor ron desantis, for trying to cancel the disney's self-governing. apparently he's related to somebody related tom dupree.
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of course, there's a political rice that ron desantis is talking about this, and a lot of people around the country are saying solve the damn thing. could he? is it something he could bring bob iger in or must it go through the comports? >> it doesn't have to go to the courts. and the fact that disney one of florida's largest employer is engaged in open legal warfare against. florida's governor. it's regrettable that it's come to this point. from disney's perspective, they had no choice wanted to defend their legal rights and protect themselves from the governor's attempt to cancel the self-governing status and felt they didn't have a choice, but to go to court and have a federal judge sort it out. david: did the governor at any time try to hash it out in a room with him? >> i'm not aware that it went
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one-to-one. it's my understanding that lobbyists have been engaged with people on the governor's staff and weren't able to work it out and that's why i thought that disney had no recourse, but to go to court. david: it's a strange situation. i've been straining to think of any other example where in a big city like orlando, one company can make up its own rules and have its own governing structure. that's pretty unusual, no? >> it is absolutely unusual. there's no question that disney has been granted either a unique or at least a very unusual status under the law. but keep in mind that up until recently, disney was kind of a favorite child and understandably so. they're obviously a world recognized name and hugely popular and millions visit their packs and attractions so it's understanda the governor in the past would have wanted to cater to disney's needs and times have changed.
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david: indeed. and he may be running for president, a lot of people think he's making a mistake not just working something out. and to the supreme court. one of the justices, samuel alito thinks he knows who leaked the draft of the opinion roe v. wade and he thinks he knows who it is and he thinks was done to intimidate the justices of the supreme court to stop them from ruling as they eventually did. your thoughts on this? >> i think that justice alito's speculation and he says he doesn't have enough information to name the leaker, who he thinks it may be the leaker publicly and good that he showed caution in that respect, but the scenario that he outlined is very possible. if the intent, the leaker's intent was to intimidate and threaten and whip up public anger toward the conservative justices poised to overrule roe versus wade, the strategy seemed to work.
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the attempted assassination of justice kavanaugh and constant threats named at the conservative justices. if that's the leaker's motive, horrible, impermissible, it seems to have had an effect. >> and talk about this larger, as people focus on the politicalization of our legal system in many forms, the supreme court has opinion kind -- the supreme court has been kind of immune until the decision on dobbs. and right or wrong, you mentioned the armed potential assassin of kavanaugh and very harsh, violent rhetoric by people like senator schumer against the justices. >> yeah, it's really unfortunate in my view, david. in the last few years, we've seen people, at least in my view, it does seem dis disproportionally from the left. they doesn't like the opinions, threatening the justices,
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warning them of horrible consequences if they vote in a conservative direction. it's terrible. justices are supposed to be, and to be above politics and not political actors, but many people seem trying to bring them down into the political frey. david: thank you. and why the g.o.p. candidate vivek ramaswamy thinks that taking down the mouse house may take ron desantis from the white house. next. unlike some others, neuriva plus is a multitasker supporting 6 key indicators of brain health. to help keep me sharp. neuriva: think bigger.
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>> president biden and democrats blasting the house g.o.p. debt bill work fair plan and what the g.o.p. wants to do, expand the requirements to receive government aid and you'd have to work for it. in 1996, then senator joe biden
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touted work fair and what he said then. >> i introduced a concept in 1986, i remember being p pilloried by the democrats at the time suggesting that the mandatory work requirement for anyone receiving welfare. part of that is to, in fact, not just take people off welfare and put them on the streets, but put them to work and make them want to go to work and make it reasonable for them to go to work. david: loved it then. hates it now. let's go to the white house for the very latest in the battle over the debt. lucas tomlinson is back. good to see you, luke. >> good to see you, david. it's hard to compete with that sound, but the house passed a debt ceiling bill earlier this week and considered house speaker kevin mccarthy's biggest win to date. he spoke about what's in it. >> we save money by being smart. what we do is that money, and billions of dollars sitting out there that covid never spent,
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just sitting there, claw that back limiting the amount that we spend. we curve inflation that makes people stronger. >> now the big question, will president biden negotiate with mccarthy? here is our colleague jacqui heinrich. >> happy to meet with mccarthy, but not on whether or not the debt limit gets extended. that's not negotiable. >> now let's see what's in the bill. it raises the debt ceiling 1.5 trillion and cuts discretionary spending 3.2 trillion over 10 years, but as the wall street journal editorial page, that's out of 60 trillion in expected spending, hardly austerity measures eliminates nearly 80 billion for the irs and funding for 87,000 agents and democrats say this bill has no chance in the democratic-controlled senate. >> absolutely not. that bill's going to get over to the senate, in fact, it may
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die somewhere around statuary hall before it gets to the senate. so it will be dead on arrival. >> the u.s. government is now over $31 trillion in debt and interest payments alone on that debt each year could soon be higher than the defense budget each year. david: wow, with interest rates going up and that makes it worse. lucas tomlinson thank you very much. my next guest has a plan to fix budget problems. g.o.p. candidate vivek ramaswamy and the author of a book "capitalist punishment", good to see you. i hope the campaign trail is treating you okay. and the work fair that biden hates now. and a five-year recap after '96 how it worked out in 2001. welfare cases came way down, poverty came way down as well,
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and particularly childhood poverty, we can put it up on the screen. millions of people became successfully employed and that's one of the best things, to get people working again and businesses worked with government to do exactly that. why shouldn't we go back to what worked so well? >> we absolutely should and i think, david, it's important that people see the actual facts here. this is a bill that-- it's not something extreme. this would actually just ask adults from the ages of 18 to 55 who are able-bodied and childless to work more than-- at least 20 hours per week. think about that, just part-time work for somebody who is able-bodied and childless, and even still, it says they can get welfare for three months out of a three-year period so this is staggering. if i have one criticism of the bill it does not go far enough requiring more work. that's what i do. david: the point is, we have a surplus of jobs in the nation, that's one of the things that's kept us out of a deep recession is the fact that we do have the jobs for people who are
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able-bodied people without kids that they have to worry about, ready to work. now, i want to talk about the g.o.p. plan. >> yes. >> to cut the budget because there are things in there i think that most americans would agree on. we don't have to super size the irs to the extent that we had and maybe we should retire some of that covid money that hasn't been spent because we're not in a pandemic anymore. >> yes. david: but you have a very interesting plan. you would cut the department of education. now, you know, the department of education claims that they're for educational excellence but with we've seen test scores come way down as we've been spending way more money. explain how you would do it. >> so, so many of these government agencies should have never existed in the first place. the u.s. department of education has no reason for existence. that's why they find toxic things to do like foisting these race and gender ideologies onto local schools, like subsidizing four year
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genders majors in california without vocational training for people who want to be plumbers and mechanics. if i'm going to washington d.c. as president i'll run the executive branch of the government and we'll shut down agencies that should have never existed. fewer than 25% of the federal employees that work for the government today than working for the federal government and i'll also tell you this, if as the u.s. president i can't collect a paycheck from the federal government for more than eight years, i think is a good thing. none of the people reporting to me as bureaucrats will be either. we'll use the civil service protections and throw them in the trash and eight year limits for the bureaucrats instead. that's the reform. take that even with respect to the work fair conversation we were just having of the these are the ingredients to unlock gdp growth in our country again. david: we need that. >> economic growth. it's as though that we've forgotten that, we revive that, fix government, streamline it and unlock the economy as well, david. david: by the way, there's another battle in the democratic side, very quickly.
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and robert kennedy's doing an incredible job with showing a 19% gain on biden in terms of that primary. you say you have challenged him to a debate. robert kennedy. so you'd have that democrat-republican debate before the primaries, has he responded to you? >> yeah, our teams have been in touch. i actually didn't challenge him. scott adam and meghan kelly and others on the internate have been putting us together and i said i would accept that challenge. and robert kennedy, jr., his uncle did something famous in this country he traveled on the same plane with barry goldwater from location to location and they showed how to disagree and advance debate and discourse in this country. i think we can do the same thing so i'm in for debate with democrats and republicans. david: ronald reagan did that, well, worked well with a democratic speaker.
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please stay safe on the campaign trail. >> thank you. david: to the hill now where energy secretary-general i ever granholm doubled down on calls to electrify our military vehicles by 2030, only seven years from now. former secretary perry is here with what he thinks about that coming up next. ♪ it's electric ♪ ♪ 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. how to grow more vibrant flowers: step one: feed them with miracle-gro shake 'n feed.
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>> do you support the military
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adopting that ev fleet by 2030? >> i do, and i think we can get there as well and i do think that reducing our reliance on the volatility of globally traded fossil fuels where we know that global events such as the war in ukraine, can jack up prices for people back home. it does not contribute to energy security. david: well, that was energy secretary jennifer granholm where she called for electrify our entire military fleet by 2030, seven years from now. that using fossil fuels does not contribute to energy security. rick perry former governor of texas joins me now and not surprised you disagree. let's dig into the detail, when our enemies, china, russia, iran, hear that we're planning to electrify our entire fleet in just seven years, i don't think they're very scared about
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that. i think they'd cheer that idea on because it's just an impossible thing to do, don't you think? >> well, there's a lot in that statement that she just made. one is, if you're on the battlefield and literally in a fast-moving situation you're not going to find any charging stations out there. just on its face, this is an idiocy when it comes to young men and women who's lives are being put on the line on a daily basis to keep america free. so, you know, listen. i'm fine with electric cars, electric pickup trucks, we're going to build a lot of them here in the state of texas at tesla, but let the market decide that and the idea that we're going to have an electric fleet for the military is just, that's lunacy. and david, we were energy secure and energy independent a
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short three years ago. david: right. >> it's because of this administration's policies is the reason we find ourselves being held hostage by other countries now. we had gotten out of that, so her statement about, you know, security of our energy can't be with fossil fuels, yes, it can be and it should be. all we have to do is have an administration that respects the fossil fuel industry, allows us to go explore for and develop what we have in this country. so they are so wrong on so many avenues. david: and let me just throw something else in before we leave this topic is that, you know, by the way, she says, they tried to clean it up and say nontactical. just be the fleet of nontactical vehicles, but the fact is, that we have to rely on china for batteries because of the fact that the biden administration has blocked search for the minerals that you need to make batteries so we would be relying on the
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enemy, if we ever go into battle with them, god forbid, for materials we need for our military. >> another good point. in so many ways, this administration is handcuffing not just the general public and the economy with recession looming over the horizon, but our military and national defense. you're spot on about china, we've got to get our minerals, rare earth minerals, in the united states, and keep the supply chain in this country and they're out there. we just need an administration that will allow us to mine for them and to produce them. david: speaking of what we have here. we do have a lot of oil that's not being tapped right now. and in the gulf of mexico, which produces some of the cleanest oil on earth, cleaner than any other basin on the face of the planet, mckenzie and company, which is basically a green company, not a
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conservative company, came out with a plan to get an extra two million barrels a day from the gulf. again, much cleaner oil than what other countries that we're now getting oil from produce. why don't we do that? i mean, doesn't that-- it's so much common sense that is just being tossed out the window here. >> david, and i'll give you another good example is biden stood up in front of the europeans and said, listen, we're going to help you out, we're going to deliver natural gas to you to make sure that you have energy to replace that which the russians are not delivering to you. so, he stood up and told our allies in europe, here comes the energy you're going to need. then the department of energy will not give permits to build the lng export facilities on the gulf compose of the united states. there's major companies that i know of that have been turned
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down literally within the last week or so, to get a permit and permits that they'd already been told you can have and, i mean, the whip-sawing that's going on for the fossil fuel industry and frankly a lot of industries in the country is stunning to watch. this is an administration that does not care about the economics of this country and the recession that's looming out there ought to be scaring americans to death. david: you know, i remember a conversation i had with you over 10 years ago. it was back during the 2009-10 crisis and texas was doing pretty well despite the fact the country was hit by a deep recession and i asked you why you said it's not rocket science. you said you make it easier and cheaper to do business and you'll get more business. aren't we doing exact the opposite right now? >> yeah, what i told you was, there are four things to golf gove governing, don't overtax, don't
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o overlegislate and-- it's that simple and this administration across the board is making it harder, overtaxing us, overregulating us, overlitigating us and doing everything they can to dumb down our schools, so they're going 180 degrees away from a proven formula that will work anywhere in the world, frankly. david: by the way it's not just the federal government. california just approved banning diesel truck sales by 2036 not a lot for business in that state either. i could talk to you for a long time. rick perry, enjoy texas. >> thank you. david: well, ed sheeran's "thinking out loud", as the singer songwriter is accused of copying parts of marvin gaye's "lets get it on", that's next. ♪ i bought the team! kevin...? i put it on my chase freedom unlimited card. and i'm gonna cashback on a few other things too.
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>> singer-songwriter ed sheeran's getting it on in court as the star musician is being accused of ripping off part of marvin gaye's classic "let's get it on" so let's get it all from fox business's madison allworth. >> david, ed sheeran took to the stand this week with his guitar to prove he didn't copy the sheet music of "let's get it on." and he played a portion of his song "thinking out loud", let's take a listen. ♪ darling, i will be loving you till we're 70 ♪ >> now, "let's get it on". ♪ let's get it on, oh, baby, let's get it on ♪ ♪ let's love, baby ♪ >> he's being accused of ed townsend of stealing from the song. the defense said the two songs
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sharing a cord sequence does not equal that. and they showed a video, four basic chord progression is in many songs and they played the entire video, but it's five minutes long so we're going to play around 20 seconds. ♪ if i could, then i would, i'd go wherever you will go ♪ ♪ can you feel the love tonight ♪ ♪ and she will be loved ♪ >> this point that chord progressions are very common is something that forensic musicologists outside the case agree with. >> in my case this is without merit because ed sheeran is using a commonplace chord sequence and the rest of the songs are dissimilar. the melodies are dissimilar, the words are dissimilar and
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mostly dissimilar. >> the trial resumes on monday and sheeran will take the stand again, david. david: very interesting, madison, thank you very much. and to sudan where the u.s. is evacuating more americans as the country is getting more bogged down in a civil war. that's next. if lawn care were easy, everyone would do it... as well as trugreen does it. trugreen's online tools help ensure your custom treatment works to deliver a greener, healthier lawn - guaranteed. it's time to trust your experts at trugreen.
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>> we are getting some more information now on that manhunt for a mass shooter in cleveland, texas. authorities telling fox digital they have a suspect pinned down a mile from the crime scene. allegedly a 39-year-old mexican national named francisco oropesa. say that he had been drinking and firing an ar style rifle and a neighbor asked him to stop and a baby was trying to
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sleep. and he apparently killed five people inside the home, including an 8-year-old child. we're going to continue to keep you posted on these developments as they happen. meanwhile, reports out saying that the u.s. is scrambling to evacuate more americans out of sudan as the fighting there continues, despite the extension of a cease-fire agreement over there and many are questioning how our foreign policy in general could impact the 2024 race for the presidency. let's get the read now from independent women's foreign policy fellow claudia rosette, from the wall street journal at one point and talk about russia coming up. claudia, the question whether this was yet another foreign policy miscalculation by the administration, when this first happened, and we realized a full-blown civil war, cameron hudson, a former chief of staff to the special envoy for sudan said the dissent and violence happened so quickly because at
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the time they were talking to us, they were preparing for war. we were planning, the united states was planning for success and ignored the possibility of a conflict. it really does seem like another major foreign policy miscalculation, no? >> yes, it's a terrible miscalculation and it comes on top of a whole raft in which this administration seems to endlessly plan for success while behaving in ways that almost ensure failure. you know, this is compounding, david. david: and we think of successes that were made in the previous administration like these great accords between israel and various arab nations. now we have saudi arabia making a deal with iran, two of-- one of our allies is now going with one of our enemies in order to form an alliance. >> yes, and that's clear, that's a straight forward failure by president biden and his team. that's where china stepped in and inserted itself as power
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broker in the middle east and brokered that deal. while we looked on, basically. that's really not going well. that's not a world in which things-- in which the united states and our allies are becoming safer or becoming ever more dangerous. david: and our allies are becoming the allies of our enemies. that's really -- and meanwhile, we now have a new axis. during the cold war everybody feared what would happen if the soviet union got together with communist china. and it didn't happen then, but now. >> and the joint exercises and they called it no limits. clearly there are limits, but the limits are not at the moment interfering with their plans to undermine, subvert and supplant the united states in a free world order. they're rolling ahead and coordinating on a lot of things
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and there's really nothing coming from the biden administration in the way of a true strategy or the willpower to counter this. it's something big is going to blow up, david. that's what we're heading for. david: well. >> we've had one crisis after another and they're getting a lot of experience at evacuating americans, but that's not a good foreign policy. david: yeah, speaking of americans, we don't have much time, but there's one american, former colleague of ours, because you and i both used to work at wall street journal, named evan, now in a russian jail been there too long and he's going to be sentenced, soon. they have a 99% rate of sentencing for prosecutions over there. so what is going to happen to him quickly? what can we do to get him out? >> he'll probably be swapped out at the end at a huge price. president biden virtually assured that something like this would that someone like evan ger sshwitz, for
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brittney griner with an arms merchant. and that told that he could get a high price for hostages. david: we've got to run. and we appreciate it. thank you everyone at home for watching and we'll be back next week and until then stick with fox. by getting a va cash out home loan from newday. pay off your high rate credit cards. pay yourself cash.
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>> a major manhunt underway in southeast texas for a 38-year-old mexican national who is the suspect in a shooting that killed five people and left three others injured. welcome to fox news live. i'm molly line. >> i'm rich edson. >> great to be with you. >> and police say he shot his neighbors after they asked him to stop firing rounds in his yard. among the dead, an 8-year-old child. christina coleman has the latest on this horrific shooting. >> authorities now say they've

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