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hutchison and get the latest numbers from pollster panel. if you can't catch us live set your dvr. you can watch "special report" any time. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. "jesse watters primetime" with guest host kayleigh mcenany starts right now. hey, kayleigh. >> thank you, bret. >> kayleigh: welcome to a special edition of "jesse watters primetime." i'm kayleigh mcenany. we start with a fox news alert. moments ago ron desantis announced he is running for president. >> i am running for president of the united states to lead our great american comeback. look, we know our country is going in the wrong direction. we see it with our eyes. and we feel it in our bones our southern border collapsed. cities hallowed out by spiking
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crime. making it harder to make ends meet and maintain a middle class lifestyle. kay indicate florida governor chose to announce in audio only interview with elon musk. there were some glitches. if you listened live there was about 20 minutes of say lent. that's not on desantis' faulted that's on the tech he made it clear he has a winning record. >> we must end the culture of losing that has affected the republican party in recent years. dogmas of the past inadequate for a vibrant future. we must look forward, not backwards. we need the courage to lead and we must have the strength to win. and so voters who are participating in this primary process my pledge to you is this: if you nominate me, you can set your clock to january 20th, 2025 high noon. on the west side of the u.s. capitol i will be taking the oath of office as the 47th
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president of the united states. no excuses. i will get the job done. >> kayleigh: we also learned something very interesting. desantis is side stepping trump. he went right after biden. >> the president, well he lacks vigor, flounders in the fails of our nation's challenges takes cues from the woke mob. i don't think it has to be this way. american decline is not inevitable and it's a choice. we should choose a new direction. a path to lead to american revitalization. >> kayleigh: the naacp issued travel advisory telling florida black people florida is not safe for them. the governor set the record straight. >> claiming that florida is unsafe is a total as far as. i mean, are you kidding me? you look at cities across this country they are awash in crime. in florida our crime rate is
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50-year low. look at the top 25 cities in america florida does not have a single one amongst the top 25. and if you look at cities like baltimore and chicago, you got kids more likely to get shot than to receive a first class education. yet, i don't see the naacp batting an eye about all the outrage and the carnage that's happening in those areas. so this is a political stunt. these left wing groups have been doing it for many, many years and at the end of the day, what they're doing is colluding with legacy media to try to manufacture a narrative. >> kayleigh: this is going to be a fiery primary. no doubt about it. fox news has the first debate in august. tonight at 8:00 p.m., trey gowdy has the first interview with desantis. let's take a look at some of the polls. trump, he is way ahead in republican primary polling, leading desantis by 3 # 4 points on average. that's enormous. but, could this be a jump ball? pollster robert blizzard points out that primary polls are
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notoriously off. in early 2020 bernie was in the lead. 2016, clinton and bernie were tied. 2015, you may remember ben carson was leading the g.o.p. primary polling. we could go on and on this time would be different a former president in the race who is very popular among his base and his team, they are more organized than ever. i asked a high level political operative last night, is trump more organized this time around than in '16 and '20. >> his response. absolutely. even though trump has a huge lead, a cnn poll shows 85% of republican voters are open to considering desantis. he that's pretty new can he capitalize on this. this is a state by state race. national polling is not necessarily indicative of victory. and they are right about that. having worked on a national presidential campaign myself and for a national political party, i have been to iowa, been to new
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hampshire, south carolina, and beyond. and i can tell you that the work on the ground in the states matters when you zoomen in 00 polling. trump is up 21 points in iowa. 12 points in south carolina. and now that desantis is officially in the race, can he nip away at those numbers? his team tells me, yes. quote: the race is past vs. future, talk vs. action, losing vs. winning. but here are the biggest questions that haven't been answered yet, they very well might determine the race. will desantis' announcement give him a tail wind? booze his poll numbers? will the debate move the needle? 20 million plus will be watching and don't forget ben carson surged after one of those debates. can desantis pick up conservative voters cleaving to the right of trump that's a huge question. he can say i signed the six week abortion bill legislation that
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trump called too harsh. desantis can say i fought disney to keep porn out of elementary schools while trump criticized me for taking the fight to disney's door. and then will the electability argument make a difference? desantis says he knows how to win and polling shows him performing better in swing states than in the general he says. tim scott makes the same argument. he says fighting is good but winning is better. and then there is, perhaps, the biggest question of all. how is desantis going to respond to the endless trump investigations? when you look at the trend lines you can see trump's numbers exploded around the time that alvin bragg hit him with an indictment in new york. republican voters they don't like the bragg indictment and desantis is going to have to figure out how to navigate that. does he condemn the investigations into trump to try to win over his base or does he stay silent and risk losing, looking weak there? which of these factors will make the difference in ultimately, millions of republican voters will make that decision.
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let's bring in congressman chip roy, has officially endorsed ron desantis and florida congressman byron donalds who has endorsed president trump. welcome to you both. >> good to be with you, kayleigh. >> good to you with you, kayleigh. >> kayleigh: congressman roy, i want to start with you, donald trump i imagine watched the announcement and listened to it on twitter and his response would be something like been there, done that, going to do it again, i'm proven, the governor is not. how do you respond to that? >> >> well, first of all, a great problem to have to have almost a million people crashing the internet. i would rather have that problem than have no one show up at an event in iowa and then blame it on the weather. the truth is governor desantis has an extraordinary track record. he won by 1.5 million votes in florida. 62% of hispanic voters. he won about 50% of single female voters. let's see how president trump thinks he can attract single female voters across the country. the fact is governor desantis
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has been attracting people to florida with net migration and strong support for police and stand up to make sure we have safe streets and teaming up to help texas deal with the border crisis that biden has thrust upon the united states. governor desantis has proven that he has got a track record that works and the american people are following, and you saw that with the enthusiasm tonight that temporarily broke twitter but now they are having a great conversation. >> kayleigh: congressman donalds, i respect you and congressman roy both. yyou both have 100 liberty scor that means 100 percent record of conservatism. what would you say to a conservative voter, congressman, who says look, desantis is a more conservative guy. he signed six week heart beat legislation. is he going after disney. is he protecting my little baby kindergarten in the classroom from pornography. how do you answer that conservative voter? >> what i would tell them is something very simple. ron desantis has a great record. i'm a citizen of florida. i represent the state. but at the end of the day, all of his accomplishments, especially if you want to talk
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about the abortion ban are not possible without the presidency of donald trump. you have see, it took somebody to come to washington and have the courage of his convictions to look this machine, this swamp in the face and say no, there's a better way. it took somebody to actually show all republicans how you needed to have a spine strong enough to stand up to the media and to the democrats up here on capitol hill. last, but not least, for those voters who are going to watch this race, donald trump has done this job. he did this job in an exemplary fashion. and to be totally blunt, if it wasn't for collusion that we're now seeing in the fbi, colluding against his own administration, when he was the commander-in-chief, his administration would have been even better for the american people. he has done the job once. we know he can do the job again. and that will be my response to the voters who are going to be watching this race. >> kayleigh: congressman roy, the flip side of this, a critic would say hey, these conservative positions that the governor is steaking out,
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legislatively his signature is on the bills that will hurt him on general election, on abortion, on disney, et cetera. how do you answer that critic. >> first of all to my good friend byron and is he my good friend i was proud to nominate him for speaker of the house. love working with him side by side in the house. we are demonstrating that you can disagree on choosing how are going to support on the primary and come together. we will do that next year to take on the radical leftist agenda. governor desantis, look, is he providing, i think, the leadership of the american people sorely missing. and, you know, to the point that byron just made about what's going on in d.c. and the president, there were never cruisers before there were never trumpers. the freedom caucus existed and was getting created before donald trump got to town. this is a continuim. and governor desantis was here. and he helped start the freedom caucus. the same freedom caucus that byron and i are part of standing up to the establishment. and now in florida, he is doing the hard work of standing up for the people there and disney, he took on disney.
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the 800-pound gorilla in florida when everybody said he shouldn't. by doing that, is he demonstrating that he can stand up for parents, stand up for families, stand up for hardworking americans that are getting run over by the corporate establishment and the corporate establishment are the ones that hate things like twitter spaces because back. governor desantis knows it. he is on the right side of history. he understands the culture war is the key to winning the future of this country. and making sure that we can lead this country forward into a very prosperous future, positive little and optimistically. >> kayleigh: you make a very important point. you said the two of us on this panel. one supports trump, one supports desantis we can come together at the end of this. congressman donalds to you i don't know if it's a forgone conclusion. the never trumpers if you are never trumper pro-biden. at the same time, what do you say to the only trumpers, to the voters out there who say if it's not trump, i'm out? >> well, a couple things, one, this is where chip and i do agree, we are going to do our
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work here on capitol hill. this process is going to continue. and when it is done, it is time for our party to unite and get behind our nominee and go win the white house. for the people out there who are republicans. who have had issues with donald trump in the past, i will give you two words, and that name is john fetterman. you see the democrats do not care about whether you want to support the nominee or not. they are about victory and we need to be about the very same thing. >> kayleigh: victory, winning, we will hear a lot about that. thank you both for being here with me. reminder, everyone tune in tonight at 8:00 p.m. trey gowdy will interview governor desantis. coming up, the left is melting down after target pulled its pride line designed by a satanist off of its shelf.
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♪ >> kayleigh: it doesn't take a p.r. expert to know that if you hire a satanist to design a children's clothing line you stock your swhestles tuck friendly bathing suits people will get upset. very upset. what's exactly what target did and somehow they were surprised at the backlash. they bud lighted themselves. and they know it. so now target is pulling some of the items from the shelves in a last-ditch attempt at damage control. and as you can expect, the left, they are exploding. >> this is just part of this war against guys right now. >> such a manufactured controversy. just like a lot of these manufactured culture wars. very disappointed that a store -- a chain like target couldn't stand their ground and instead put the lgbtq plus community in the back of the bus. >> kayleigh: such a ray of sunshine. doesn't stop there california
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governor gavin newsom melted down saying this. ceo of target, brian cornell selling out the lgbtq plus community do extremists is a real profile in courage. it isn't just a couple store in the south there is a systematic attack on the gay community it's happening across america. wake up it doesn't stop mere, black, asian, jewish, you are a woman? you are next. the only extremist here, let's be klee very clear are the ones putting satan respects pronouns on children's clothing. this is exactly what the lefts did and their tactics work. big companies buckle under their pressure. just look at the l.a. dodgers who thought it was a great idea to honor these people at a pride event next month. >>
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♪ >> absolutely disgusting. those are the sisters of perpetual indulgence. that's what they call themselves. they dress up as nuns clearly make a mockery of christianity and even hold hunky jesus contests at easter. and they are getting an award. obviously the dodgers fans they got upset and the dodgers pulled the invite. but they flip flopped in the fails of leftist pressure. they apologized and reinvited the trans nuns. so are we going to see the same thing from target? we might because if you ask their ceo woke corporatism is target's bread and burt. >> we want to do the right thing to support families across the country and i'm really proud of the work we've done in the d and i space. when you walk in a store you
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feel at home and it represents the community. it makes a huge difference. i think those are just good business decisions right thing for seat and great for our brand. >> kayleigh: don't cry when you become the bud light of retail. tomi lahren is a fox news contributor and she joins us now. tomi, who at target thought had was a good idea and they have since pulled the clothing thought it was a good idea to put a satanist clothing line in their store? i guess they think we are stupid and wouldn't figure it out. i'm here in nashville, tennessee i can confirm my local target has moved all this pride paraphernalia to the back of the store last week prominently displayed in the front of the store. conservatives are making a difference, right? for so long a fraction of a minority of the population has been allowed to run roughshod over the rest of us and conservatives and christians have had to sit back and nod our
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heads and not say anything. but ever since we were able to really tank bud light by about 30%, we have realized the conservative power as consumers. and we are taking that and we are running with it. this isn't about being anti-gay or anti-trans. this is about standing up and making sure that families and children can go into a family shopping place like target once was and not be bombarded with what i call pride pangada. it doesn't belong there junk tucking swim suits do not belong in the front of the store marketed towards children it. just simply does not belong there. and target might have to figure that out the hard way. >> kayleigh: moving over to the dodgers, i just want to know who woke the morning and said we want to be inclusive so we're going to bring in and give an award to the trans nuns who are pole dancing around a cross? who woke up and said great idea?
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you and i know this very well we are married to baseball players. not only are baseball players predominantly conservative leaning and basic fans are also predominantly conservative leaning. what i would say, beyond all the that we are rightfully expressing. i would call on baseball players ha are still actively playing to stand up against. this we know that will are many christians in the baseball community. you know, if blm and black square can have their day or their month or years in the spotlight, why are conservative christians not standing up for their values and their beliefs? so i would call on those baseball players to stand up to do something about this. that's the only way that this activism within sports is going to change for the better. we need people to stand up, have intestinal fortitude and be strong. if the other side can do it we should be able to do it as well. >> kayleigh: amen to that i totally agree. it has to come from pressure bottom up in the league. last question from you again i'm asking you to speculate on this. there is good reporting done that a lot of the climate
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protests happening around the country are actually funded and backed by a central organization of hollywood leftists who are the primary donors. this is just too rampant. it's corporate america. it's in the classroom. it's education. everywhere you look there is a new trans story. do you think there is central organization behind it or group think? >> well, i mean i think this is all a part of massive collusion big tech, big government, big green you name it they are all working together. they feel like they have a lot of power. kayleigh, they do have a lot of power. as i said before, conservatives are realizing what we truly are the silent majority. it's time for us to take some ground back and show that we do matter. we do buy things. we do watch things and activism is not going to goal on. >> kayleigh: 70% oppose teaching gender i.d. to kindergartens.
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we are on the right side of this, tomi. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> kayleigh: hillary clinton says you should be concerned by joe biden's age. why is she throwing her support behind someone who is 10 years older? good question. ♪ weeds... they have you surrounded. you're just gonna stand there? or are ya gonna take your lawn back. we're gonna take it back. we're gonna take it back. with scotts turf builder triple action! it gets three jobs done at once -
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♪ >> kayleigh: dianne feinstein has been back on capitol hill for a couple of weeks now. but getting a look at her is harder than you think. an "l.a. times" photographer is claiming that feinstein staffers and capitol police are, quote: pulling every trick in the book to shield the senator from the watchful eye of reporters. it makes sense because every time senator feinstein talks to the press, something like this happens. >> i haven't made that decision. i haven't released anything. it would be you put out the statement. >> we put out your statement. >> i didn't know they put it out. >> okay. so, it is what it is.
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i think the time has come. i have a whole other year. i have things that are underway i expect to see them, i hope. and so we'll see. >> kayleigh: democrats have seen a lot. they want fresh blood in her seat. they have been lined up for months to send feinstein packing. >> i'm hopeful that people who are close to her can talk to her and just say, look, end your service with dignity. step aside. >> i think this job is a tough one when you are at your best. let alone when you are compromised or infirm. >> it's time for change but we also need people who are new who see the pro problems facing the next generation where younger generation. >> even though her colleagues are trying to tear her down senator feinstein still has one supporter in her corner, that's hillary clinton. and although she is not in washington anymore, she has still got a lot of pull. feinstein is 89 years old and
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just out for months with at shingles. hillary says not only is she still up for the job, she has got a lot left to give. hillary said this at chicago humanity festival, quote: this is the dilemma. for her. she got reelected. the people of california voted for her again, not very long ago, and that was the voters' decision to vote for her and she has been a remarkable and very effective leader. so what are we supposed to do? all these people pushing her to retire? fine, we get no more judges? i don't think that's a good trade-off. so, let me get this straight, dianne feinstein is a remarkable and effective leader and shouldn't retire but americans have every reason to be concerned about joe biden's age, even though he is nine years younger. >> well, i mean, it's a concern for anyone and we have had presidents who have fallen before, who were a lot younger and people didn't go into, you know, heart palpitations. but his age is an issue. and people have every right to
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consider it. >> kayleigh: so what's the real reason forehillary's ageist hypocrisy. welcome, amber. >> thanks for having me. >> what is so alternative mostly cloudy skies. nancy pelosi doesn't want feinstein to retire because she wants to make sure her boy adam schiff gets in that seat and doesn't want newsom appointing anyone who wouldn't be schiff. hillary, i mean maybe she wants to criticize joe biden because she has machiavellian shaking up the party? i don't know, ulterior motives, amber. >> she is expressing the fact that she is jealous she is not the one sitting in the oval office right now and that's probably the crux of her comment about joe biden's age. >> but we really crant overstate how craven the democratic establishment's moves regarding senator feinstein really are they are clearly playing ha long
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game. hillary clinton admitted in her statement that the tradeoff is that if feinstein leaves early then the democrats are able to replace her on the senate judiciary committee and continue to nominate and appoint activist left wing judges. so what she is saying is that she would disregard her friend's physical and mental health in it means democrats can hang on to power for just a little bit longer. >> kayleigh: all about the power. it's interesting. hillary clinton said it's those mean evil republicans that won't let feinstein retire. she basically said they won't let permanent replacement come in should she retire. so i talked to a senior senate aide today and i asked what their thoughts were and this is what they said. they said they think republicans, if she truly retired, there would be a different story in allowing a permanent replacement and she went on to say sounds like hillary is creating a straw man to fit her own agenda because she is mad that democrats couldn't get all the crazy liberal judges in. worth noting, a lot of judges
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have gone through in a bipartisan way. they oppose the ones like judges who don't know what article 2 is for example. your thoughts on that. >> yeah. i think that's right. it would be a different conversation if she were actually retiring and if democrats were negotiating in good faith. but, what they were trying to do was to get a temporary replacement, which is pretty unheard of with no anticipation or expectation of how long feinstein was actually going to be out, which i think was reasonable for republicans to be concerned about that because it turned out that she had much more severe medical problems than anyone realized until just recently. and, by the way, this isn't a new issue. the democrats could have stayed this off if they told her not to run for re-election. according to every report, her mental issues have been going back for years and years. people around her have had concerns for a long time. so there would be no question about replacing her on the judiciary committee if they had put her health first. but unfortunately the democrats do this all the time. they did this with john fetterman in pennsylvania. they did it with joe biden campaigning from his basement. over and over again it becomes
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quite obvious that they care more about playing weekend at bernie's to amass more power than they do trying to take care of their own. >> kayleigh: all they need is an empty suit over there on the left and it's elder abuse. thank you very much, amber. >> thanks. >> kayleigh: up next, our kids are addicted to their screens and it's leading to a mental health crisis. that's next. ♪ find the perfect vacation rental for you booking.com, booking. yeah. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ get 2.9% apr for 36 months
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>> kayleigh: there are few things that the biden administration loves more than electric buses. >> look, the future of the auto industry is electric. there's no turning back. >> and the buses that take children to school and parents to work. imagine that they produced zero emissions. these grants will make public transit more reliable and more affordable. >> so that's why i'm so excited about these electric school buses. >> kayleigh: kamala loves the buses more than the venn diagram? it remains to be seen. we have been hearing this for years. electric bus also create jobs, save the planet and they will be
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more efficient. that's why the administration set aside $5 billion with a b as part of the infrastructure bill to make it happen. now, school districts across the country are transitioning from the traditional diesel fueled busses to electric. how's that going? well, according to the ann arbor school district in michigan not very well. you see, they got four electric school buses through a state grant in 2021 and so far it's been a total disaster. not only are the buses outrageously expensive, they also hardly work. here's the district's environmental sustainability director emile. >> electric buss are approximately five times more expensive than regular buses. and the electrical infrastructure which was originally estimated to be only about $50,000, give or take for those four buses ended up being more like $200,000. so that electrical infrastructure was something that was significant. and we have had a lot of down
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time and performance issues with these buses. >> kayleigh: well, that doesn't sound good. so, with that being said, you would think democrats would hit the brakes on any future plans with electric school buses. nope. the money has been spent. your kids are getting faulty electric school buses whether they like it or not. michigan governor gretchen whitmer is doubling down earmarking another 150 million in the state's 2024 budget to transition to electric buses. what could go wrong? abby mitch is the incoming executive director of michigan rising. abby, a billion dollars biden allocates to buses that don't work. does that make sense to you? >> no it doesn't. ann arbor is 24.6 square miles surrounded by relate. a progressive democrat dream boat. it doesn't really surprise me that this becomes the lab testing ground for more of biden's pie in the sky ev
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strategy. and the issue isn't that electric vehicles won't work or will never work. the issue is jamming a one-size-fits-all strategy down the throats of taxpayers, of families of school districts while we all foot the bill. >> kayleigh: abby, i remember during my time at the white house i stood at the podium and said some times over and over again. open our schools. president trump wants to open our schools. you are harming our kids by keeping the schools closed. the reason i bring that up i keep coming back to the same question with covid shut down the schools. listen to the teacher's union the kids come last with climate lets' give the kids faulty bus us the kids come last. why is it always that the kids come last? >> well, i want do back up to what you said about education here. there was just a report in the detroit free press about what covid did to our preschoolers and how they are lacking any critical social skills. >> wow. >> this issue is a microcosm for what michigan looks like under democrat rule led by gretchen
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whitmer. it's about what is not getting done about our preschoolers failing because of her failed covid policies. it's about our third graders that can barely read because they haven't been in the classroom. it's about our graduation rate which is profoundly average. families are walking out the door in michigan. this is not working. that's the heart of the issue here. >> kayleigh: wow. and, you know, when you say that about preschoolers that hits home. i have a 3-year-old and one of her first word was mask. the society the way they have grown up missing out on the smiles noise those first few years do you think the danger can be undone? >> i couldn't agree more. i'm a mom myself we have to take a deep hard look at what government is supposed to be doing and what it is not doing. we have roads that need to be fixed. we have real need. we have an energy infrastructure that is struggling. you might remember a couple months back when we were five plulsz days in some areas without power because of storm.
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meanwhile energy companies are begging the biden administration to claw back a rule that makes it harder for them to make upgrades to our transformers all while you're heaping these electric vehicles and electric school buses at that on top of us. it is not working. >> kayleigh: imagine if the climate change bus breaks down in an ice storm. i wonder if the left thought about that. thank you very much, abby. social media is one of the biggest mental health threats to our children and our kids are addicted to it. take a look at these numbers. 95% of teenagers are on social media. and they spend an average of 3.5 hours on it every single day. and this constant onslaught of attention is having devastating effects. >> several medical experts say rampant social media use can lead to depression and suicide in our north carolina also found constant social media use at an early age could effect the nervous system.
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this study of sixth and seventh graders suggest constantly checking platforms makes young people hyper sensitive in anticipating social media feedback. ing. >> kayleigh: according to the ideas in 2021, nearly one out of every three teenage girls seriously attempted considered suicide. think about that. you see 30 girls. 10 have thought about suicide. the number is not only staggering but up nearly 60% from just a decade ago before the rise in popularity of these apps. the problem is not going away any time soon. and now the alarms are going off and the highest levels of government, the senate, they have already introduced a bill to stop anyone from the age of 13 and under from using social media, and now the white house is issue, a warning. >> it is urgent that we take action to protect our kids and to make sure that they their experience on social media is safe. we have done that for other products that kids use, for medications, for cars. and we haven't asked parents to go inspect the car themselves
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and make sure they are safe. we have set safety standards and we have required manufacturers to implement and abide by those standards. we have got to do the same thing here. >> kayleigh: we have major health crisis on our hands and our childrens are the ones bearing the brunt of it. they are crying out r help. so what are we going to do to save them? my next guest is dr. thomas kersting psychotherapist and author of raising healthy teens. welcome, doctor. >> thanks. >> >> kayleigh: are you surprised by this data. >> i have been out lecturing on this topic since 2009 all over the country. this is so terrifying where we are at with our kids right now. and it just continues to escalate. it really started in 2012 when smart phones became mainstream. that's when we started to see uptick in depression, anxiety executivdisorders. the suicide rate. i'm glad the attorney general is coming out and saying something about this and potentially implementing some policy to undo this.
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>> kayleigh: yeah. i'm glad to see it, too. one alarming thing that they pointed out is that there have been childhood deaths that are linked to some of the content being viewed. some suicide attempts. think about fentanyl laced drugs people are getting through social media. is this a public health crisis? >> 100 percent. social media you mentioned over three hours a day. you take total screen time the average kid is spending between 8 and 9 hours. ultimately. they are spending more time using electronic devices than any other activity including sleep and school. you have to think about what is happening to their brains as they are sort of marinating in this cyber world and how are we going to be able to get them to function in the real world if they're not living in the real world? >> kayleigh: how do you get your kids off? ration time? go cold turkey what do you do. >> it's a good question when kids are already teenagers, 14, 15, 16, right? it seems like it's hard to undo what has already been done. >> kayleigh: yeah. >> the number one tip parents
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can take from everyone listening right now those phones, almost every teenager we talk to are allowed to have the phones in the bedroom with them at night. they are staying up all hours of night causing sleep deprivation problem. parents have to dig their heals in and establish parameters and rules and that's the first thing they can do is get those things out of their bedroom. >> kayleigh: my daughter is 3 she comes to me and says i want a phone in middle school my kids have it and next thing instagram account what do i del her. >> i tell parents all the time it isn't a conformity type of thing feel our kids are going to feel left out. parents cross their fingers and roll the dice and hope none of this stuff happens to my kids. what has to happen is in each community people -- parents need to bend together and start to create their own way of raising their kids and not let society do it and not let social conformity do it. so we have to say no to our kids. and i think it will be easier if there was some kind of a legislation that will take the pressure off the parents. >> kayleigh: i hope to see it. thank you very much
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dr. kersting. >> thanks for having me. >> kayleigh: all right. up next, would you let your dad break up your boyfriend for you? what if your dad is rocky? ♪ ts three jobs done at once - kills weeds. prevents crabgrass. and keeps it growing strong. get a bag of scotts triple action today, it's guaranteed. feed your lawn. feed it.
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♪ ♪ >> kayleigh: let's talk about some of today's best headlines, kat timpf is a fox news contributor and joins me now. first up, put down your popcorn, the next time you turn on netflix it could be locked out. streaming companies are putting an end to password sharing, limiting each household to a single account. but it does not mean that your friends can to keep using your login, it will just cost you an extra $8 a month. that could add up, so, kat, are you canceling your netflix? >> you mean my mother-in-law's netflix? we actually got busted for that because of this. but i also have not been
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watching anything but "vanderpump rules" i never watched it and then all of the drama happen, so now i'm watching all of it and i'm only through season 7, but i have started watching the new ones too. >> kayleigh: sorry to get you guys in trouble over there, when i was there, i had a roommate, and there was a random amman in iowa who whose netflix account has circulated around the whole campus. so there was a random man in iowa who ended up getting charged probably 800,000 at this point. >> sorry, buddy. >> kayleigh: the hardest part of a relationship is breaking up, but there is a person for that. sylvester stallone is once a bloodthirsty war vet in "rambo" and a boxer and "rocky" and sending break up text for his three daughters, and they are calling him a dating savant. kat, would you let your dad breakup or with your boyfriend for you? >> no, but eight years ago today my boyfriend broke up with me in front of my dad? at coney island.
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we were at the beach at coney island, he broke up with me while my dad was going to get margaritas, and he came back obviously i was still upset. it was like a two and a half year relationship. i was devastating and crying and making a scene, but the guy hung out the rest of the day with us. >> kayleigh: so how many margaritas did you have? >> i had so many margaritas and then he sat next to me on the ferris wheel and the ferris wheel is supposed to be a happy place. i turned it into content, so it is great. i write about it in my book. imagine if it would've been normal, i would been sad and had no content. that happens to people every day. >> kayleigh: it does, sylvester stallone, will this harm his daughter's chances with a suitor? what suitor wants to date you knowing that rocky is going to be texting you? >> that might be true, but they might be like, she is not really breaking up with me, her dad is. i think that's more normal than what i went through, because when my dad was involved, neither i nor my dad made that
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decision. >> kayleigh: i hope you enjoyed those margaritas. last up whenever you are flying you want to sit in first class, right? like this one woman who always get stuck in economy with her kids while her husband, he gets to live in luxury and the comfy seats. he says that it is too costly for everyone to sit in first class and it would be unfair to the kids if the wife came up to first class with him, kat, this is a no. >> this is a note to your marriage, because i actually read that that kids are 12 and 16, they can sit by themselves and i really did not like the way that she was like, is it okay that i am mad? so yeah, dude, it is very okay to be mad. what i don't understand is how you have taken so many flights like this. >> kayleigh: what is this dude's problem? you stick your wife in the back? at mother's day just happen, this is nuts. >> we don't want to leave the kids by yourselves, your 16-year-old probably wants to be by himself, especially may be
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away from you, because you sound like a jerk. >> kayleigh: of your 16-year-old cannot sit in the back of the plane by themselves -- much bigger problems. kat, thank you very much. thank you for watching "two jesse watters prime time" i am kayleigh mcenany, do not miss trey gowdy's interview with governor ron desantis. you do not want to miss it, that's next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> trey: good evening and welcome to "fox news tonight." thank you for watching. ron desantis does not have the biography of recent g.o.p. nominees for president. he was born and grew up in florida, but his family was not famous, not steeped in financial politics, they were decidedly middle-class. his mother was a nurse. his father install television boxes. he attended public schools, played in the little league world series ended well enough in the classroom and on the

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