area. >> brian: he said that, too. this is going to be detrimental toward the election if this continues. new york will continue to pay the price for this. >> steve: that's a democrat on democrat. here we have got a republican who is in very south florida talking about frap sis suarez. he is the mayor of miami. is he a republican do you know show praising the mayor of new york city, how is he handling it and trying to hold the administration's feet to the fire. here he is yesterday over on cbs. >> we haven't received any support as of yet from the federal government that we are aware of to see if we have gotten any help from fema. turns out of we have not. it is migrant crisis in our city as well. i'm actually quite proud for mayor adams new york standing up and talk about how this is impacting the city of new york. he has to focus on crime reduction. and instead images of people in

the classic roosevelt hotel find housing you would want them to be focused on reducing crime and have to deal with this migrant crisis, which as you have said, should be a federal issue. >> and he very well would run for president. meanwhile, a manhattan grand jury could hear a marine veteran danny penny's case today. >> steve: mr. penny faces manslaughter cases in connection with that death of jordan neely on the subway on may the 1st. >> todd piro joins us now on the latest including penny's first public comments about the case. todd? >> todd: daniel penny tells the "new york post" the case has nothing to do with race fanned someone needed help in the future he would step up again. may 1st tragic chokehold killing of homeless subway driver jordan penny, a former are very different than other

confrontations he had experienced before he said this has go nothing to do with race. i judge a person based on character. i'm not a white supremacist. everybody ha has ever met me can tell you i love all people, i love all cultures, i'm a normal guy. jordan neely's family attorney responded to the "new york post" reporting saying quote: this is an advertisement to so much the public's view of daniel penny who choked jordan neely to death. we didn't call him a white supremacist. we called him a killer. we want to know why he never let go of that chokehold until neely was dead. uncle's admission the idea of a plea deal he needs to be prosecute order he dual it again. i want this to go to trial. he has too much confidence in himself and has to be taught what he did was wrong. steve raiser, penny's attorney, had this to say. >> this was a case of self-defense and the police saw that and the police didn't arrest him and didn't take him down to the station, asked him can you come down to the station. he was very willing to do it.

daniel wants to participate in whatever the investigation was going to be. he sat down with the police because danny has nothing to hide second highest total in the site's history. >> steve: you mentioned a grand jury could hear the case as early as today the ada, mr. bragg has six months essentially to get a grand jury indictment, right? >> todd: i believe that is the case. >> the grand jury will decide and determine if this case goes forward? >> also, let's be realistic here what is ultimately hang. we know that d.a. bragg ultimately brought this in haphazard quick manner did he prior to a grand jury because of political pressure. it will be interesting to see how all those factors converge because what if a grand jury says we don't think there should be x, y, z charges. >> does he charge daniel penny with something just to show the

woke left that he is doing something? so many questions still remain in this case. it's not going away. good news is at least if you are daniel penny $2.7 million to fight whatever comes from d.a. bragg. >> steve: you know the expression about grand juries and getting them continue to indict people. >> todd: can you indict a ham sandwich. that's a good point. that's why all this stuff is going to ultimately come to a head. this is not based upon the law. it's based on politics. that's what sad about what our country and city has become. >> ainsley: if there is one juror that doesn't think he did anything wrongs it's thrown out? >> todd: excellent question. i'm going to go into the legal books and research and it get back to you. dive not know the answer to that. >> steve: i think it could be a majority. report back to us. >> todd: i will. i will get on it. >> steve: we should point out two other guys who helped mr. penny. it is unclear whether or not those two guys are going to wind up getting charged. >> brian: if al sharpton has his way, he does, he will almost

ridiculous to see the eulogy of of jordan neely as if all he wanted to do was entertain. he was threatens. if you read penny's remarks everybody on this subway will agree has let me know we all saw and felt the threat and he would do it again the question is how much of the background of both men enter into it? technically, you know, they say jordan neely schizophrenic checked himself out of the hospital violent in the past and arrested 44 times. including hitting people on the subway. the latest one 67-year-old woman. if penny didn't know that it's not a factor. about penny's background well, if you are trained as a marine, you should know exactly what you're doing to somebody. one is to suppress and one is to kill as if four years in the marines would know the difference judge pirro had a great special last night and broke down what this case is all about. listen.

what happens had when danger arises and there is no one to protect you? when the social contract fails, what happens when someone decides to intervene to help others and takes on the job of the government? it was on a new york city underground moving subway car that this question became a reality. the danger was real. by all accounts the homeless man said he was ready to die and ready to kill. who would protect the riders in that closed under ground subway car? it was a 24-year-old marine veteran who took that risk by taking on the job of a good samaritan. a good samaritan willing to fight, not for himself, but for others. the people on that subway car have thanked him and have called him a hero. the district attorney, however, has charged him with

manslaughter. >> steve: and the medical examiner has ruled the death a homicide because he died of compression of the neck from a chokehold. ultimately, mr. neely's family would like to have mr. penny charged with murder rather than manslaughter. >> brian: one of the things that lawyer for neely said, why don't they just ask him what's wrong? how can i help you? really. there is another woman on sunday that got thrown into a train, into a subway car and is all banged up today. why didn't she do the right thing and turn around and say excuse me, i knew you just through me into a car. i just want to know can i help you? i'm wondering, is there anything wrong? for people to say stuff like that and also the sad thing is people bringing up race. i don't think that race has anything to do with it. penny made that clear. anyone who knows him says it has nothing to do with his background. he did not want to jump. in he did when it became apparent, nobody else was going to and this guy was a threat. if you look at his background,

which evidently is not going to be entered into this case, you knew he was a threat. this guy was about to act. >> ainsley: when you see the images of the funeral it's sad. any time anyone dies he says he didn't mean to kill him. he was trying to protect the innocent passengers on this train. the guy says and several of the other witnesses we interviewed one of them on our show, he said i'm ready to die and i'm ready to kill. >> steve: ultimately, what is going to happen if mr. daniel penny is indicted and convicted of marijuana slaughter or murder, whoever in the future sees something going on and is going to step in and try to stop it. would you do that? >> ainsley: you just. we you have to. how can you not? >> steve: but look at the trouble mr. penny is in. >> i know. >> brian: he was all set to take a trip actually to africa. he was heading to the again with a backpack on. after working that day. actually excuse me, going to school that day for -- he is an architect. he says now i'm going to have to take my family is okay but they

are obviously overwhelmed with this and he has to take all his classes remote now because of the controversy of what is going on in his life. >> steve: right. speaking of the subway. that's where ashley starts with our headlines right now. >> ashley: we are going to start what you were just talking about. two violent attacks on the new york city subway system this weekend. the woman was shoved into the side of a subway car and man slashed in the face with a sharp object on friday. police say each attack was unprovoked and bothson suspects still on the loose. comes as the family of the woman murdered in her chinatown home last february files a lawsuit against the city and the n nt officers who responded to the initial 911 call. the lawsuit claims the officers failed to enter her home and get her medical attention for over an hour. her suspected attacker was homeless and lengthy rap sheet including four pending charges south carolina senator tim scott is launching his campaign for the white house today after filing official paperwork on friday and he has already got a

powerful endorsement lined up from the senate's second highest ranking republican john thune who is set to be at the launch event today. scott has already reserved a $6 million ad blitz in early primary states, iowa and new hampshire. okay. check this out. firefighters in austin, texas, recreating the iconic painting of george washington crossing the delaware. it won the austin fire battalion's competition for most creative photo in the annual competition. the chief says he chose this photo as the winner for its humor and accurate depiction of the heroic nature of their water rescue missions and those are some of your headlines, guys, back to you. >> brian: that is great. lone star state doing it themselves. >> ainsley: thanks, ashley. coming up next, scary new revelations about the idaho quadrupled murder suspect bryan kohberger ahead of his arraignment today in court. we are going to dive inside the mind of the accused killer and you are going to be blown away when you find out something he allegedly did before those four

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colleague's apartment and then offered to install security cameras, which he then used to spy on her. this comes ahead of kohberger's arraignment in court today where he will plead on charges related to the death of those four university of idaho students. here to react is forensics expert joseph scott morgan. good morning to you. >> good morning, ainsley. how are you today? >> ainsley: i'm doing well. but this is really eerie, very freaky. especially as a woman. we have to be so careful. to invite this guy. in she apparently asked for help and was secretly spying on her? it's terrifying behavior. it does happen. just this past week a fellow mauricio geraro known as the attic stalker. taking photos. a model. so it does happen. one of the more chilling issues

here and, you know, if we can kind of reset and think about idaho a little bit and what happened all those months ago. is the fact that is an indication that he had full and total awareness of who was living in that home. open access to the home because it was not very well security. we have heard that but here's a thought. i am really wondering if he had not been nesting in that house at some point in time. i mean, physically going in there perhaps closet. watcherring. from a forensic standpoint that could be key. if they had found any location within that home, say, for instance, a closet where he had been engaged in sexual fantasies, for instance, if they had searched that area for, i don't know, touch d.n.a., perhaps some evidence of biological remnants that was left behind by him to put it politely, that auto o. could be significant and that's a tie back him having been there prior

to that fateful night. >> ainsley: in your experience, joseph scott, do you think maybe -- what if he had put cameras in their closets and then took them out after he allegedly murdered them? in your experience, do you see this kind of thing happen? is there a trail of how they have stocked someone before they actually do the act? >> yeah. and particularly with serial perpetrators, there is kind of this line that goes along with them where these individuals start off as peepers, they will peep in windows and that sort of thing and, you know, that's something that many of us have thought about that. they will also steal clothing as well to hold on to as trophies. this is even prior to per at the trace of say, for instance, you know a gruesome homicide they want to be close to these individuals. forensic perspective that is key. what is really key, did he hide any of these items away in that apartment that he may have, you

know, just sequester sod he could go back and kind of relive these fantasies? >> ainsley: so sick. so today he is set to be arraigned. >> yeah. >> 9:00 a.m., his time. it will be 12:00 our time here on the east coast. what do we expect today? what does this mean? >> well, you know first off many of us didn't see this hang this quickly. this kicks this whole process into high gear at this point. i hope the viewers understand what this means speed at which this going to happen. his defense team is going to have to go into hyper drive here in order to facilitate effective defense for him. let me break this down for you. the state has access to their forensic's lab and not to mention the people at quantico are involved in this. remember, the fbi is vested now

they helped track him. all of their resources, he is going to need everything from a digital analysis forensics expert to expert perhaps a tool mark expert. i don't know if they will use a forensic pathologist. here is another interesting and fascinating aspect toe though case. a lot of folks in the media have made hay over this idea that he studied criminal behavior and, of course, those two things are not -- that's not necessarily associated with forensic science. they may have somebody that could speak to that on the stand that's going to have to counter what was said previously. >> ainsley: joseph scott morgan, thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you, ma'am. >> ainsley: you are welcome. justice gorsuch sounding off on covid era mandates. we will ask business owners how these shut downs are impacting their business today. go for launch, spacex launching falcon # rocket.

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axiom mission 2 blasting off from the kennedy sportscenter on a falcon kennedy space center. the 8-day mission that will focus on research and he had carriage outbreech. prominent civil rights attorney ben crump deleting his viral tweet attacking a pregnant new york city hospital worker after altercation with a black man over a city bike. crump tweeting a video of the altercation saying she weaponized her tears and painted the man as a threat. this comes just hours after the lawyer threatened to file defamation lawsuit. you may now kiss the bride in front of mlb fans. these giants super fans tied the knot. i would say so during the team's game against the miami marlins. both the bride and groom wore

the giant's orange in their wedding day outfits and everybody went home happy as the giants won the game 7-5. and those are your headlines, brian, over to you. >> brian: all right. good. thanks so much, ashley. let's change gears. supreme court justice neil gorsuch issued a fiery review about how the pandemic was handled saying, quote: in part one lesson might be that this fear and desire for safety are powerful forces, they can lead to a clamor for action. almost any action as long as someone does something to address a perceived threats. since march 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusion of civil liberties in the peace time history of this country. let's turn to our panel for impacted business owners who do not need gowch tell them how impactful this was. for reaction we have deck clan morgan the owner of the irish noble man pub in chicago. scott is the owner of crazy autos empire diner in healthcare member, new york.

and then susan kokavar 89 drive-in theaters in traverse city. your reaction, whether they started clamping down, how did it affect your business? well, we were shut down for a few months, fortunately our mayor workted with the governor to get our drive-in movie theater open and we did pretty well because we were the only venue open. but we still, you know, couldn't be at full capacity. we couldn't serve food. so it was very difficult. and we also didn't play any new movies. they were all everything from the movie studios had in the pipeline. this was all older material. >> brian: unbelievable. because you would think drive-in movies are the one thing we were able to do. they were actually doing rallies

there. scott, let's talk about you. how was your diner affected? >> you know, we were told we had to shut down two weeks initially and then another two weeks and then another couple months. we lost all of our product. all our perishables. >> we donated we gave some away. we tried to take care of the 22 co-workers that we had and send them home with all the p the pen irishables. neil gorsuch couldn't have said it any better. it was palpable. people didn't know what they were dealing with unproven science. taking our rights away. you know, the basic rights that we have to supply our family to support them and the community and it was devastating, absolutely devastating. >> brian: deck clan, as we look at your bar, first off the impact. what is still lingering in terms of affecting your business? >> you know, the city closed us down march 14th, 2020.

and told us to close. the city employees went home and left us for months not knowing what to do. we had to figure out for ourselves what to do. then we got the expanded patio, which was great had about three years. a lot of money. we still haven't recuperated the money we invested in it but still people that don't want to go inside and still people wearing masks. denver oppressive. the ranked among the most oppressive in the country. and stop helping us should have been the main thing. let people make their own decision. susan, other major issue plaguing so many people in this country and other major cities, not just border cities is the illegal immigrant situation. how is it affecting your drive-in movies.

how is it in your town in denver? >> denver is taking quite a few illegal immigrants and putting them into homeless housing, which is pushing all of the homeless out into the suburbs and we have had to deal with quite a few of these folks setting up camp and fires under some of my landscaping and coming in and sort of my customers. some of these folks have been on streets for a long time they are not all there mentally so it's been a struggle. >> brian: no kidding. we know what is happening in new york city. against your will, they are going to start shipping people where you guys are in herkimer. how is it been so far. >> i think you meant scott but it's been terrible. >> brian: sorry about that that's all right. it's good to be hire. northern have declared states of

emergency. you know, i personally talked to a lot of the homeless that are on our streets, suffer from severe mental illness. not enough money. not enough manpower to take care of the issue with our own citizenry. and we're bringing in all these people. i'm not against legal immigration. but it's the illegal. had them come into the restaurant and apply for work. don't have social security card. they don't have any paperwork to identify them. you are damned if you do. damned if you don't. and herkimer county is doing the best they can but we have had money taken away from us through the medicare program. passing through the federal government. to our county. and our state, our governor has kept that money. we were to receive 2.7 million. and that's being withheld. so it's just a struggle all around. we're entering our tourist season. the hotels, you know, we don't -- we have limited hotels here. and where are we going to put them? we are pushing out our homeless,

our veterans to make way for the illegal immigration and we can't even take care of our own lynn little citizens. >> brian: i saw the illegal immigrants staying in the police stations right now and their going to be bussed to chicago. that adds to the other situation with crime and this closures that are happening in chicago, right? >> yeah. we have really seen in the last few years we have seen a lot of crime, an uptick in the crime and it just seems like it's getting worse. you know, we were told by the city we were broke into a few weeks ago and the city told us to get riot glass installed in our windows for a small business, it's just too expensive for us to do. >> brian: what did you say wire glass? what's that? >> riot glass. >> brian: oh, riot glass. >> goes over the windows. we priced it out it was over $80,000. that's the city of chicago from the police department to basically patrol ourselves and put up riot glass. >> brian: how does that make you feel?

who is paying that? >> i have to pay for. but a small business, we're a neighborhood community bar. we can't afford it. but it's, you know, it actually makes us feel we want to leave chicago. i'm so worried about this city. i'm from maryland, originally. and someone said to me a few weeks ago you ever want to go back there maryland? i have lived in chicago 30 years but now i'm considering i never thought about moving back. but now might be a time to go. >> brian: you know what is, help is not on the way. this mayor seems awful. has no interest or clueless on what do to help the business owner, especially, and the people of chicago. guys, thanks so much. appreciate it. sorry you went through it but, hopefully we learn from it. we are not going to try to destroy business, next time we should know, they should stop helping us and let us help ourselves. thanks, guys. >> get out and vote. get out and vote. >> brian: absolutely. meanwhile, coming up straight ahead, the ncaa is issuing a travel advisory for black

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environmental activists arrested after they put black die in the water of rome's iconic trevaey fountain video from the scene shows demonstrators out of the water. suspects had to be carried into police cars after they were arrested by roman officials. and that's what is happening going to be nice for much of the weekend. we don't normally get nice weekends for memorial day it looks like it's going to be beautiful. here is the fleet week forecast. conditions for most of the workweek. it starts on wednesday, by the way. then we were talking about this trout monitor for florida. things are going to get wet for the next seven days. we have this tropical disturbance off the coast of florida. that regardless of whether it gets a name or not.

heavy rainfall in the forecast. we also have an area of low pressure off the coast of the carolinas we are going to watch over the next couple of days in the memorial day forecast. let's take -- my maps are having a bit of an issue. so i will just say to that it's a beautiful dave in the neighborhood and i'm singing. steve, ainsley and brian. >> steve: off beautiful voice, just saying. >> ainsley: that is a perfect forecast. >> it is for new york. you know, what happens on memorial day. sometimes we get a very wet forecast this weekend so you are welcome. >> steve: the thing is, the navy is used to water it don't bother them. >> tell them thank you for your service. >> indeed and buy them a drink governor ron desantis per portedly throwing his hat in the ring maybe this week or in connection with week. >> brian: travel warning for florida claiming the state has become hostile to black americans under desantis' leadership. would this impact a potential run. >>

>> steve: let's talk to somebody from florida. here with reaction is house oversight committee a representative byron donalds from the great state of florida. congressman, good morning to y you. >> good morning, guys, how are you. >> steve: read this travel advisory from naacp. they say under the leadership of governor desantis. the safety florida has become hostile to black measures and with the democratic ideals that our union was founded upon the naacp hereby issues travel advisory to black americans and other people of color regarding the hostility towards african-american in florida why are they doing that? >> i have no idea. when i read in this is just really stupid it. doesn't make any sense. look, i have flifd florida since 1996 when i graduated high school. i went to college got married. started a career, lived a normal life. went to church, raised kids. coached sports. you know, yesterday when the

miami heat and congratulations to the heat going up 3-0 on the boston celtics by the way. when the miami heat were beating down the celtics last night in miami. tnt were showing footage of different boats on the washington. bunch of different boats black people having a good time out on the water. i don't know what the naacp is talking about. it's silly and dumb and it's political it makes no sense. we should be focused on making sure people actually have the opportunity to achieve which florida is actually doing and thriving in way better than other states new york or california or washington state. we are doing a significantly better job helping black americans succeed and it's not just about me. it's about all the millions of black people that live in our state. >> ainsley: they say regarding the hostility toward african-americans in florida, do you feel hostility? >> no some dumb. the only thing inflation hitting pocketbook. that inflation hitting everybody, that is hostile.

you know, when the price of food is up price of gas is still up. coming into our community, joe biden. maybe the naacp should be focused on that. i know that's hostile. >> brian: i thought you went into hostile but fair environment in weekend on meet the press. you did great. i have seen you on all different types of channels you and chuck todd over the debt ceiling. debt ceiling and reality. >> there is one more thing house republicans are asking for which is they want fewer irs agents. i have never understood the resistance of extra irs agents unless you knowingly cheat on your taxes. >> first of all, that's salacious the republican party is concerned about. having irs agents going after middle class families and small business owners. when you have that many more agents. >> so if you are paying what you

are supposed to pay, then you should have nothing to fear. >> you would make the assumption that irs audits are up. they are putting out more liens on the american people. that's not true that data is not there all joe biden is doing try to find every possible nickel out of every couch every american to pay for his radical spending. >> brian: he was just astounded that he says that if you pay your taxes there is no problem. has he ever deal with the irs on a regular basis? >> i don't know, maybe the irs is auditing chuck, maybe he is, maybe he isn't. that's his personal business. definitely not mine. i don't want to be involved. at the end of the day, when it comes to the debt ceiling, joe biden doesn't want to cut any spending, he wants to continue his radical out-of-control spending, will be $54 trillion in debt if joe biden has his way. 54 trillion. we are trying to stop that and get back to precovid spending levels. it's common sense stuff. that's where most americans want to be. the last piece i will say on

debt ceiling. it is ridiculous that joe biden still doesn't have a plan or strategy and he has known about this for months. it's outrageous. >> is he finally back from japan and is he going to sit down with the speaker later today. congressman before you go, ask you about the state of the race. it sounds as if ron desantis the governor of your state could file the paperwork on thursday, it has been reported and later today in north charleston tim scott is in how do you look at by the end of the week there may be 8 republicans in the race. how do you look at the state of the race. >> crowded field favors donald trump. let's be very honest. some ways realm nisz sent of 2016 when he has a block of voters that stay with him and everybody else is starting to take chunks of voters and he runs away with the nomination. it's going to be a very difficult race for the other six or seven or 8 people trying to get the nomination one thing

becoming very clear republican voters want to see donald trump back in the house. he did the job once they want him to do it again. >> ainsley: talks about the rise of black republicans, the growing number of black republican candidates. they talk about you and tim scott. they talk about daniel cameron who is kentucky's a.g. who just wons republican primary for governor and larry elder. it says republicans have made small but notable inroads with black men during the trump era. republicans elected five black members of congress all from states and districts with majority white constituencies. what do you think the future looks like when it comes to african-americans voting for for the republicans? >> i think that's going to continue. black men. reason why black men in america number one trying to provide for their family. number two trying to build wealth. something that has not occurred really in a black community in the history of our country. you cannot build wealth if you have a system of government that

overtaxes you and overregulates you. it just doesn't work. and so, you know, to say it this way. when donald trump was president, my pockets were looking good. now that joe biden is president, everybody's pocket is looking lien. lean. black men aren't for that we want to have a thriving economy like everybody else. >> brian: that is interesting. also say only one party stopping school choice and charter schools that would help the minority community. hard to mix the two. senator bill cassidy said over the weekend like governor sununu yeah, i like donald trump but he can't win the general election. you believe differently. he is your guy. why do you believe he can? to bill and sununu, you need to stop. i never heard any democrat say that a severine democrat can't win. they would never do that come on, get in the game and realize what we are doing.

number two, most importantly, a lot of americans not your typical household republicans they remember the country and how it was under donald trump. had the opportunity to see two presidents now, and they realize is he significantly better than the other when you look at foreign policy in my view there is only one person who can get the country in a better place going forward and that is donald trump because he has been on the world stage. other world leaders have dealt with him and they know what time it is when he is in charge of the united states of america. >> brian: congressman byron donalds, thank you so much. >> ainsley: thank you. >> any time, guys. >> brian: a red state has a plan reward high performing teachers. superintendent calling out opposition joins us live next. ♪ ♪

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as a washed up rock star. fast 10 racing to the top of the box office with $67.5 billion opening weekend. >> i look out at this wonderful family, i am filled with so much pride. >> the tenth installment of the fast and furious franchise beating out guardians of the galaxy volume 3. the second part of the movie will be released in 2025. steve, down to you. >> steve: i can't wait. ainsley, down to you. i'm right over here. oklahoma state superintendent of education is taking on the teachers union slamming their, quote: marxist attitudes. this after the union pushed back on a plan that was reward high performing educators. ryan walters is the superintendent of schools down in oklahoma and he joins us right now. ryan, good morning to you. >> good morning. i mean, it's outrageous, what's going on here. we have teacher's unions that don't want the best teachers to make more money. they don't like the fact that we're giving huge signing bonuses to high performing teachers and they actually

prefer to push books like the constitution, the bible out of our schools while injecting books like gender queer and flamer. it's outrageous. they are marxist at their core. that is their fundamental principles which guides them. we are tired of them intaghtd dating teachers and fighting school choice. we are absolutely going to fight back. >> steve: that's why you refer to them as marxist. ryan, it's all about survival for them. the people of oklahoma have got some good news and this is on friday, you actually passed a form of school choice. tell us about that. >> absolutely. there's nothing more fundamental can you do in education than put parents in charge of their kids' education. now in oklahoma we're going to have school choice. this measure is now to the governor's desk. and what's going to happen here is families are going to be able to choose whether they want to go to a private school, whether they want to homeschool their children, but, again, god gave kids to their parents, not to bureaucrats. the unions are always fighting for power, for money.

and what we're going to do here is say these are taxpayer dollars. we are going to put them in hands of taxpayers. not only are we doing that we know that parents will make decisions that benefit their kids and we want to completely have full choice for parents, full education freedom here in oklahoma. parents will be in charge of our education system. not these woke teachers unions. >> steve: ryan, i was reading on foxnews.com. a story about you referring to them as marxist. in that regard. and i saw one part where the unions apparently are asking you to stop talking about them because they are losing membership? >> that's right. i had a union leader pull me asided you keep talking about all of our positions and losing membership. the truth hurts, doesn't it in the reality is in a red state like oklahoma. most of our teachers have conservative values and mortified position you are taking assault on conservative values. on your oea assault on the family unit. and the reality is they like to operate behind closed doors.

they like to bully and intimidate lawmakers. and they like the money from the teacher's paychecks and not being upfront with what they are actually advocating for. they shut down schools. they are pushing this radical jearnsgender theory in schools. fighting patience on school choice. fighting things like trainers in transparency in our schools. they're the ones who have held education back. >> steve: well, i have got a feeling they are going to call you again because you were just talking smack about them. let's see what happens. by the way we did reach out to the oklahoma alliance for a statement have are not yet received a response. ryan walters, stir, thank you very much. all right. still ahead. denver passengers frustrated as a temporary ground stop prompted delays. what caused the issue? that's straight ahead on "fox & friends." ♪ ♪

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