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>> senator scott is in it to win it, today he will join those eager to lead the party in 2024. the campaign says they will pack 1000 people into this room. the senator is hoping his message will resonate, he is reaching out to primary voters. eager to sell himself as true conservative, relied heavily on his faith and been trying to focus on launch his campaign and bringing the american dream to more people and strengthen national security when it comes to the border. we sat down with the senator in an exclusive video. he is the only black republican in the senate now seeking the presidency. >> i'm proud of my heritage, but we don't need a black president, we don't need a white president, we need a president who celebrates the american dream and has lived the american

dream. >> scott will begin his campaign with help from fellow senators, both offers up endorsements. senators have etch radioed out and say they are supportive of his campaign. where we are here in north charleston is where nikki haley launched her own campaign, i asked the senator, he appointed scott, so there will be focus on this battle for north carolina. he says he respects governor nikki haley. we look forward to what message is received in the next few hours. >> steve: mark, he hits the campaign trail, 22 million in

the bank, the most any candidate has ever had. where does all that dough come from? >> he's been able to fundraise through the explor tory committee and he is spending money on tv ads, like 6 million in iowa and new hampshire. the idea is to get those states locked up early. it is early in the race and we heard from the trump campaign they are ready to go on the attack against senator tim scott. this race will get nasty before you know it. >> ashley: you mentioned nikki haley appointed him when jim demint left. nikki haley went to ask donald trump for permission and said i'm going to get in the race and run against you and he gave his

blessing and appointed her un ambassador. >> yes, ties back to the former president. in terms of what tim scott asked, would you support trump and simply said i will be the nominee and i would -- there is an x-factor what it will be like on the trail and the other thing we haven't talked about this morning, you have governor desantis getting ready to jump in later this week. it will be crowded and fascinating to watch. it begins later this morning. >> brian: good interview, mark, appreciate it. look at the polls according to harvard harris poll, donald trump had 48% of the vote and desantis 28%, everyone else in single digit and now patti labelle % and ron desantis down to 16 and in third vivek ramaswamy at 4% tied with pence

and haley and tim scott 1%. i'm sure that will rise. ron desantis has similar message and nikki haley and tim scott, nikki haley has a well rounded great resume, tim scott is doing the reagan thing, tapping into vision, love of country and tapping into being conservative and his own life story, which is very unique and i think he has a lot of goodwill. i don't know if there will be an attack plan from the trump team on tim scott. the more people get into the race issue the theory is the better donald trump does and i think he likes a lot of people in there. >> steve: that is what kellyanne conway is suggesting. listen to this. >> kellyanne: probably donald trump's anthem right now, he's front-runner beating closest competitor 56-20, donalron desa.

competition is for him. there were seven in 2016. >> interesting. >> steve: seven or eight republicans in by the end of the week and it will be interesting to see what donald trump, if mark meridith is right and he's spoken to the trump campaign and they'll come out blasting at tim scott. interesting to see what they go after him upon. >> brian: what do you have, too nice approximate of a guy? >> ainsley: has amazing story from cotton to think can, everything that he's endured and his -- he wasn't able to play football because of an accident and was going to be a minister and decided to go into insurance business and wanted to be a politician and people like him in south carolina. so far no one has been able to dig up any dirt on him. >> brian: i add this, though, when he first announced explore tory committee, he was all over

the place on abortion and it might be the most important issue in 2024, it was in 2022. i think all the candidates got to think, what is my best policy and what can be better in general should i get the nomination? because donald trump backed off and said that six-week abortion ban, i don't know if i'm for that, that ticks off the pro-lifers which will hurt donald trump in the primary. if he gets nomination, it might help in the general. >> ainsley: if you are pro-life, would you rather look at the party and want a republican to represent the country versus democrat? if you do not vote for someone because they are not pro-life, everyone who ran, they didn't win the election, think about who is going to win, what message is winnable? >> steve: the winning message is

from the democrats, if they kay silook, republicans want to take away your right to an abortion and we saw that last time. >> ainsley: if you say after a certain point, maybe that will -- >> brian: i think 15 weeks, i think desantis. marco rubio said i'm pro-life, 15 weeks and i represent florida and that is where i'm going to be. and florida is at six weeks, that will help with the pro-life group, we'll see what happens. ron desantis last weekend had a great weekend, did appearances, seemed personable. see if that continues. >> ainsley: if it is trump, he has to choose a vice president, could it be tim scott or vivek ramaswamy? >> steve: tim scott may say it

is me, ron desantis may say it is me. naacp issued travel advisory for the state of florida. they wrote, under leadership of governor desantis, state of florida has become hostile to black americans and in conflict with ideals our union was founded upon and issue travel advisory to people of color regarding hostility to african americans in florida. o obviously, they are trying to damage desantis during his big week. they point to legislation he signed on monday hibit colleges from spending on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, as well. we have spoken over the last couple months, ron desantis would get into the race after the legislature for the most part passed all their stuff. they have passed a bunch of

stuff, he'll be on the trail talking about in the coming weeks. >> ainsley: we interviewed congressman byron donalds earlier in the show, he is a republican, african american, from florida. we asked what he thought about this naacp ban on his state. >> i have lived in florida since i graduated high school, went to knowledge which, got married, started a career. i don't know what the naacp is talking about, it is silly, political, we should focus on making sure people have the opportunity to achieve, which florida is doing more than new york or california or washington state. we're doing significantly better job helping black americans succeed. >> brian: he knows this is a political stunt and it is, if you believe where the executives thea the naacp live.

the board of directors lives in tampa, how is he dealing with that hostility as he retweets about the advisory. he is banning books and doesn't like minorities, he just wants make sure age appropriate books are in the elementary school and get rid of critical race theory, which is not considered anti-black. for governor ron desantis, he got good news, hal lambert, founder of point bridge capital, investment fund called make america great began has left trump camp and gone to desantis camp and starting to hit desantis on his flat tax or fair tax. most conservatives are for that.

steve forbes made it famous, trump camp is hitting him saying he wants to add 23% to all taxes, that is not true, he wants to have it 23% no matter how much you make. >> steve: trump will hits him on all areas. >> ainsley: ironic the naacp director is tweeting this, yet lives there. is he going to move? >> steve: he wants it nice and quiet. >> brian: i'm sure there is a for sale sign going up. i'm sure everybody is going to be leaving. more people look at ron desantis as a real threat on the left and from the trump camp, too. >> steve: come out both bexarels blasting. ashley joins us "what you don't

know" is going on in the courtroom in new york federal. >> ashley: start with manhattan grand jury that could daniel penny case today. penny speaking out about the case telling "new york post," this has nothing to do with race, i judge a person based on their character, i'm not a white supremacist. jordan neely's family attorney responding, this is advertisement to soften the public's view of daniel penny who choked jordan neely to death. we want to know why he didn't let go of that choke hold until jordan was dead. warn you, next video is brutal. a group of people were seen beating a man. a group bashed his truck before punching and kicking him. there is no word on what led to the fight or if arrests have been made. lapd received call that a gang of 10 teenagers.

president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy will meet later this morning to resume talks about the debt ceiling. the two speaks over the phone yesterday. here is what he had to say. >> i believe it was a productive phone call, we can solve some problems if he understands what we're looking at. i've been clear, we have to spend less money. >> ashley: treasury secretary janet yellen calling june 1 the hard deadline to settle the debt ceiling. calling all kyles gathering in kyle, texas over the weekend, attempting to break the guinness world record for group of people gathering with the same name. >> if you were kyle, come to break the record. i'm 70 years old, i got a chance to be part of a record. >> you say kyle. >> ashley: fourth year of the giant kyle gathering and

officials estimate 2000 were present yesterday, could take a few months to determine if they broke the record. harder to figure out when you talk to each other if they all have the same name. no idea who you are talking to. >> brian: use last names. >> ainsley: how did that start, social media? >> ashley: i don't know, guinness book of world records. >> ainsley: cute. >> steve: a lot of style if you are a kyle. >> brian: i'm going to have a rival convention. >> ainsley: for ainsley, like five of us. ashley, a lot at yours, too. they are all spelled differently, she is traditional. ashley. more information about bryan kohberger, what we're learning as he faces a judge today. >> brian: he would not be

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>> ainsley: transportation secretary pete buttigieg taking heat over handling of the chaos in our airports and skies this year as more than 42 million americans are expected to travel this holiday weekend and we're seeing signs of turmoil. yesterday staffing shortage forcing full ground stop at

denver airport. here to react is air traffic controller and faa liaison colin scoggins. how does this happen? they don't resume until 9:00. >> someone in a situation like that, obviously they were short-staffed and the short staffing is something that continued on from covid where training was backlogd and trying to get the training in. they are short controllers, if one or two people call in sick, it puts them in a bind and they have to put out a ground stop to major airlines or the ones that are probably closer to it, not so much east coast, in the general area in the midwest,

those aircraft would be put on ground stop. >> ainsley: we're seeing trains derailing, ground stops at airports, cancelled flights and flight costs going up, there was a piece in the wired when reads pete buttigieg loves god, beer and his electric mustang, it was over the top praise, praising his mind and massive intellect and love for burgers and for driving. the piece was mocked as a puff piece, what was your reaction to this? >> i didn't get to see all of that, yeah, there is a lot of that, i think, puff pieces on many different people. it comes down to bipartisan issue and two parties have to get together and solve this. it has always been bipartisan when it comes to air traffic control staffing. it needs to be solved, not

conservative or liberal view, somebody needs to be done to get this done. this will continue to happen at the critically staffed facility throughout the country. >> ainsley: frustrating if you are trying to travel and approaching summer months. what are your predictions for travel? >> i think we will see some of the same as this summer, not the huge delays or computer shutdowns, i think the system with computers is probably a little better, but you will see staffing issues at critical facilities. my recommendation would be try to fly nonstop, don't get your connection. >> ainsley: absolutely, sometimes it is are m cost effective not to. >> correct, it is. >> ainsley: we appreciate you coming on. still ahead supreme court justice neil gorsuch issuing a scathing report about manhattans, some of the most

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>> ashley: back with headlines. bryan kohberger, charged with killing four idaho college students will appear in court today and enter a plea of guilty or not guilty, he is accused of killing the students with a knife back in november. he faces four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary. and new york city mayor eric adams says migrants shoulding sent everywhere, not just to one city, listen. >> we have 108 villages, towns, if everybody takes a small portion, it is not a burden on one place. >> ashley: receiving report from francis suarez.

>> we haven't received support from the government we know of. i'm proud of mayor adams from new york, for standing up and talking about how this is impacting the city of new york. >> ashley: francis suarez miami has taken in 14,000 migrant children, enough for five new public schools and in golf, brooks koepka wins third championship. highlight belongs to golf club pro michael block who made his first career hole-in-one. watch. >> the fairytale story gets better. a hole-in-one for michael block! >> ashley: block was a fan favorite all week, earning $288,000 in prize money and finished in 15th place. earlier i said todd told me he

was a pro at that club, it was in california. sorry, todd, that was me. >> steve: most famous pro in the world now. thanks very much. listen to this story, folks. mounting backlash university of minnesota over paid summer research program that is only accepting applications from non-white students. the program is advertised as an intensive 10-week summer program in which undergraduate students of color work with a mentor on a res research. our next guest is asking to intervene. the president william jakeson joins us along with university of minnesota graduate jack brewer. good morning. bill, this sounds like flat out

discrimination. >> it is. it is open, they are nots hiding it, they limit who can apply to the summer program, based on skin color, it is immoral, the progress we made in this country, it is country productive. it is not what the university of minnesota says it stands for and it should stop. >> it is flat out discrimination, when the discrimination is against white students, it is met with shrug of the shoulders and ignored, bill. >> that is right. if you were to reverse the role and university of minnesota were to have a scholarship open only to whites, we all would condemn that, it would be universally condemned. why not this way? why do they feel they are free to do something like this, have

a program that only excludes whites. what we need is equal treatment of everybody without regard to race, that is the answer. the answer to past racism or current is never more racism. >> steve: jack, what is your alma mater doing? it doesn't sound like they are doing something that is fair. >> not at all, i am the son of a mother and father that both went to segregated schools. i've heard the skrs, i've had to deal with those realities. so to think in 2023, that the university of minnesota would be doing this is unimaginable. when you look at it, down deep inside. the u.s. government, the federal government is paying for this program, this is taxpayer money. for them to go and i'll call it a sin, a sin of division, of racial divide, to think this is

in some way diversity, equity and inclusion and buzz words people are using now, it really is setting us back years and years. when you look at african americans in the united states of america, people of color, we have gotten to a point where we are running companies, ceos, highly educated people. to tell me now, based upon my skin color makes me need a handout is ridiculous. if it was based upon financing, poverty level, that is one thing, based on skin color, get rid of this, man, this is terrible. >> steve: the people awarded this program get paid i think $6000 for the summer. we are almost to summer, labor day is end of this week. is there any chance they will turn this around? >> that is up to the university of minnesota, whether they do

the right thing or not. the burden is on them to make this right and undo the damage they have done. how can they say they stand for inclusiveness when they are excluding. >> steve: jack, final word? >> what is your definition of minority in the united states of america today? look around and you see all shapes, sizes and colors, nation of people together. we are one blood, if we live up to dr. king's promise, put it in action and everybody should be in an uproar, especially those of color who know we are not victims, we live in the greatest nation on earth. >> steve: we'll see what they do. thank you very much. all right, coming up, all hands on deck, national mari-time day, honoring service and sacrifice of all americans at sea. first as justice gorsuch

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>> ainsley: back with headlines, the south carolina woman charged for the drunk driving crash that killed a bride is filing a motion to be released, he is charged with felony dui and reckless homicide, her legal team says she poses no threat to the public and being portrayed as unrepentant level. her blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit. a georgia democrat calling out her own party for putting migrants first as kids in her district suffer without school choice. she joined us earlier.

>> we are doing so much for services at the border, but not in communities, that has to stop. 95 to 97% of black students in my district cannot read or do simple math. what does america look like if 50% of the population can't read and do math? >> ainsley: she says parents are fed up and calling for school choice more and more as democrats do all they can to stop it. to a fox business alert, facebook company meta fined for sending european user data to the united states. fine coming from privacy regulators. meta says it will appeal the decision and fine. those are headlines. let's check in with janice dean for a look at the forecast.

>> janice: gorgeous week for fleet week. temperatures in the 60s, 62 right now with mostly sunny skies. there is your temps across the eastern seaboard toward jacksonville, 74, kansas city 56. warm across the midwest. showers and thunderstorms for the southern plains, monday, tuesday and wednesday, we could see flash flooding and talking about the rain, if you live across florida, thisirria of low pressure will linger over the next several days and come up to the mid-atlantic over the weekend issue getting into memorial day. not fun. we'll be tracking that, there is the fox model for the florida region, we could receive two to three inches in short period of time and that will cause flash flooding concerns, as well. area of low pressure and tropical moisture working in

through wednesday. you can see rainfall totals and potential for flooding and there is your future track over next couple days. if you live across florida, watching area of low pressure and plain states for severe weather over the next couple of days. sending it to brian and pete at the wall. amazing. >> all right, covid-19 pandemic might not be -- you know what, chris, can you come here for a second? you see how much i have to do here? >> i need -- >> pete. >> my assistant, pete, can you help me out? let's talk about covid, supreme court justice gorsuch says you got to be kidding me, we lost civil liberties during this and it better not happen again and did a scathing review. thank you, anthony fauci. >> part of what he wrote about

lawsuit concerning title 42 and covid-19, fear and desire for safety are powerful forces that can lead to clamor for aksz as long as someone does something to address a perceived threat. >> who will step in? governor, mayors and president and how they act will reveal how many rights we have left. he says leader or expert who claims he can fix everything, anthony fauci, can prove irresistible force, we better learn from this. >> other states had different ways of handling this. >> under the guise of health and safety, put yourself back there, march of 2020, 15 days to slow the spread, everyone willing to do their part. growing cascade state by state of enforcement that never seemed to stop. >> everyone shut it down, trump

did it reluctantly and we couldn't get anyone to open back up. look at the red, remember how bad it was for governor whit merin mitch can and the sanctimonuous leader and governor murphy trying to shut down everything he could and -- >> governor murphy said, bill of rights is above my pay grade, i'm not concerned about the bill of rights, shut exemption. churches the on. there was a point you couldn't leave your house. it was unbelievable. the ones that did it better were listed. >> you are watching at home, the other states, illinois, minnesota, other states had draconian measures. >> brian: they are ranked top 50 best to worst. shelly luther was in jail for

opening her salon briefly, what a message. how dare you cut hair, it is dangerous. >> that is state of texas, which did well by most measures. we had carl on, who opened a barber shop, there were protests outside the barber shop. there was loophole for protests. he was fined multiple times. >> can you imagine going to un ed barber and this guy fined for opening a church, a reverend, pastor, who opened his church. look back at all the people that got screwed by terrible leaders much watch. >> this is a political ploy and again, as usual, politicians make mandates because they are not laws and expect us to follow through. we have no choice, there is not

as much if any foot traffic right now. >> trying to keep things in stock and in venter and he meet consumer demands, it's been a challenge. >> i'm closing at two locations and doing this for employees to give them time off. >> hearing from regular people whoun waed to open business and live lives. if you had connections or title, restrictions didn't apply. >> here she apologizes after seeing her 59 a bar violating her own order and her husband taking out a boat saying my wife is the governor, remember that. >> you couldn't get your hair in this bob, but nancy could. >> brian: is that what it is called? >> yes. remember the famous video of her in the salon inside the -- >> brian: what happened to the salon owner afterward, driven

out of business. nancy pelosi without a mask in a salon, video not available right now. this guy is the worst, french laundry, attended birthday dinner that didn't follow guidelines, he said he regretted it. nobody else had the opportunity to do what he was doing. >> brian: he got caught a lot. and london breed, violated the mandate, saw her at the wedding. wedding or birthday party, didn't apply for her, celebrate the birthday party. >> governor gorsuch says it better not happen again, you cannot strip people of their rights because you feel you know better, hope that doesn't happen again. >> hope we learned our lesson that should this come again, don't cede your rights. >> remember, masks don't work.

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should we know about the merchant marine the average person is not familiar with? >> first of all, thank you for the student to speak about the merchant marine and agree with your opening comments, what people should know. we are a vital element of the national economy and vital element of national security, fourth arm of defense, we're responsible for maintaining our troops overseas and keeping economic supply chain open and it's been that way since 1775, in peace and war. >> steve: sure, captain, every morning we would show images out from the port of l.a. and there was like 100 ships they can't pull in, supply chain problem and a big mess. we're in graduation season right now, is this a good business to go into? >> well, that's a very good

question. what we really need for young americans is a national maritime policy to make sure there is a future in this industry. it is critical that young people come into the industry, critical that there be a program in our government, bipartisan to support this critical industry. as we saw in the supply chain issues, 99.9% of those vessels were foreign flag vessels, vessels coming in and out of port, the service was uninterrupted, it is national security at stake and the future of the merchant marine has always been shaky in times of peace. it is almost in times of peace it is quickly forgotten, in times of war, merchant marine becomes primary and flooding in to end immediately after peace

is declared. >> captain, i know this became the day 90 years ago, congress declared it that, savannah, first voyage from the united states to england, first crossing steam propulsion, what does this day mean to you? >> it honors, for me, honors mariners, men and women that came before my generation. and built what we have today, particularly during the '30s and second world war. 250,000 americans sea farers served and 800 never came, 800 ships were sunk and sacrifice and building merchant marine is what i honor and what is most powerful to me. >> brian: and right here in manhattan. thank you,ir sir, appreciate it.

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>> well, you are look being live at palm beach. it will be a beautiful day down there. as we heard from janice, rainy over the next couple days. >> what a shame. stay indoors, out of the sun and listen to the radio or bring your radio outside. >> everybody in palm beach is playing pickel ball right now. stay within yourself. >> dana: republican field is rapidly expanding. two heavy hitters are going to announce. bill is off today, good morning, brett. >> we're awaiting a campaign kickoff from south carolina senator tim scott scheduled for 11:30 eastern time. he will have a major endorsement right out of the gate from number two senate republican john thune. >> dana: senator scott has made his upbringing the centerpiece