really matters now is how do you keep your narrative so that people want to hear it? and this is going to be a remarkable election cycle because social media is now the most important. >> todd: kevin o'leary is going to be around for it. before we go it has been a pleasure with you the last four months my friend. >> ashley: it's been so nice with you and with you as well. carley is back tomorrow. "fox & friends" now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> if we make this election a referendum on the failures of joe biden, and if we provide a positive alternative for the american people that we will win the election, not just for president, but for house, for senate, and we will sweep into washington with a chance to do great things, but we get distracted, we allow the election to become about other things other than biden's failures, if is he able to hibernate in his basement for

the whole campaign and not have to answer tough questions, well, then we may be in danger of seeing a democrat sweep in 2024. >> steve: all right. good morning, everybody. it's 6:00 here in new york city and we start this wednesday morning with the race for the white house. the republican presidential primary heating up with former president donald trump expected to arrive in iowa today. >> ainsley: yeah. that's right. his visit to the hawkeye state comes just a day after florida's governor ron desantis kicked off his great american comeback tour. >> brian: right. here we go. lucas tomlinson joins us now to set the table. lucas? >> good morning, steve, ainsley and brian. first visit to iowa as a presidential candidate. florida governor ron desantis vowed to fix the border once and for all. >> i'm frustrated on things like the border because i have been listening to these politicians talk about securing the border for years and years and years. i could tell you if i'm president, this will finally be

the time where we bring this issue to a conclusion. we will reestablish the sovereignty of this nation. we deal clara national emergency about the border. >> desantis also proudly putting up his record dealing with covid and incredulous that trump would say new york governor andrew cuomo did a better job. >> the former president is now attacking me, saying that cuomo did better handling covid than florida did. [laughter] i can tell you this. i could count the number of republicans in this country on my hands that would rather have lived in new york under cuomo than l florida and our freedoms. >> contradicts from the white house. here is our colleague, peter doesy. >> it's been more than months since the re-election announcement. is president biden going to hold

a campaign event ever? >> so, i will say this to you, peter, as you know, we follow the rule of law here. we believe in following the rule of law. as it relates -- as it relates. >> peter: not weigh in on the election just the scheduling will he be campaigning for re-election? >> i'm not going to comment from here on 2024 re-election. >> back to covid, former president trump firing back on truth social, quote: under ron desanctimony useless of governor florida was the third worst state in deaths in covid. new york had fewer deaths. he shut down the state and even its beaches unlike other republican governors. the "wall street journal" reporting, quote: everybody is hoping for a miracle said one senior dealmaker. one of 20 people that the "wall street journal" spoke with to gauge wall street's mood around the nation. nobody wants biden and nobody wants trump. now right now desantis trails trump by more than 30 points nationally and by more than 20

points in iowa. former president trump will appear on fox news tomorrow night on a town hall hosted by sean hannity. guys? >> steve: lucas, is it possible the biden team thinks, you know, in 2020, we won and we never left the house. why do we have to leave the house now? >> it sure seemed to work back then and certainly the president has the white house. he has the rose garden. why son-in-law people calling a rose garden -- also take air force one cruise around in that. >> ainsley: yeah, that's what many people are saying on social media. why aren't they having a debate? there is no dnc debate in the primaries on the democratic party or for the democratic party. that's what james vander bethe actor from dawson's creek put on instagram. watch this. >> i cannot get over the fact that the democratic national committee is saying there will not be a debate to decide the nominee for president.

are you [bleep] kidding me? over an 80-year-old man who if he lives will be the oldest sitting president in the history of the country put him up to the podium who to call on and what the questions are going to be. are you telling us there is no debate. what about the world of people. not what about about the will of the people who voted for the people last time. of those people 27% think there audited to be a debate. the dnc is openly ignoring, bypassing the will of the people. >> this is a democracy of the people, by the people, for the people. if we don't have a debate this is not a democracy by the people. it's a democracy by them. >> is there any living structures around him? >> steve: why is he working backwards. >> ainsley: is he pulling his child in the wagon looked like a duck on the road behind him.

>> brian: no sleeves. >> steve: looked like he was working for the admission departments university walking backwards. >> ainsley: he made excellent points, didn't he? >> steve: he did. with r.k. jr. about 27%. marianne wilson 10. 30% a third of the democrats. >> ainsley: i wonder if they change that everyone needs to speak out we need to have a debate. we are talking about the president of the united states. we need to hear all of their points, what they stand for what their platforms are. >> steve: they want to protect joe. >> brian: argument is too sitting presidents don't usually debate. donald trump didn't debate he didn't have any challengers. r.f.k. is closer to joe biden than most of the presidential candidates are to donald trump. i mine, most of them are in single digits outside ron desantis who got off to a strong start yesterday. >> ainsley: maybe if they don't normally do it is a personal thing. some of his points he makes excellent points bobby kennedy. >> brian: some of this stuff is

to the left. >> ainsley: right but i still want to hear from him. i want to hear from all the candidates. >> brian: right now 90%. >> ainsley: i hope he changes his mind. >> brian: i don't think he is debating. >> steve: big mistake. >> brian: up 30, 40 points. see if ron desantis can close the gap. very interesting the way ron desantis did did it yesterday. here the problem with the president but here is my problem with joe biden. what the president accused me of? i don't think so. here's my problem, where i would bring the country. interesting, i'm not avoiding the punch. i'll address it. but it's not going to be my focus and by the way he is big into eight years. i'm going to need more than four years to fix this. donald trump can only do four. i need eight. i will get you eight. if you get me four i will get another four. if you elect donald trump he can't give you another four. so that's a legitimate tactic without alienating the base. famous thing is whoever beats donald trump you have to beat him and get his voters. if you beat him and lose his voters you can't win.

>> steve: brian, you make the point we were talking about last week, if ron desantis wins, he can serve for two terms. but by the constitution, donald trump, who has already served one term can only do another. so on his first day he would be a lame duck and that is one of the considerations big donors have. and the worry from a lot of big donors is not only does -- if donald trump won the primary, it's a real good chance he would lose the white house. but, also lose the house. and that's one of the problems. but here's the thing about iowa. and i know the polls are way ahead. i heard kim reynolds yesterday, the iowa governor, she was talking about how the field is not set yet. and because it's so early, remember, the first debates aren't until later in the summer. and the first votes in the caucuses aren't going to be until july -- or rather january. she said in may of 2007, romney, mccain, and rudy were all in the top three. and mike huckabee was at zero

percent but mike huckabee went on to win the iowa caucuses. in may of 2015, the top three were walker, aruba and huckabee. and cruise and trump, who finished were not even at 10%. so much can hab in iowa. he is going to visit all 99 counties in iowa. so he kicked things off there yesterday. and to great enthusiasm he had a rousing speech and fox news channel carried it live. a lot of people run familiar with a lot of things he had to say. very forward look speech. >> ainsley: spoke at mega children about 500 people showed up e railroad against covid lockdowns and woke ideology in our schools and he said we must return to normalcy. he has four stops in iowa, sioux city, council, cedar rapids.

tomorrow new hampshire and then south carolina. then he agreed to go back over the weekend. we interviewed joni ernst and she was talking about roast and ride. traditional annual event. and all of the candidates usually go. so far we haven't heard if trump is going to be there or not. at the time when we interviewed her desantis wasn't on the docket now he has decided to go back to iowa over the weekend. shows you how important this state is then you have got trump who going to be there tomorrow for the town hall at 9:00 p.m. even though desantis has got -- his never back down which is his super pac and ted cruz is supporting that. he has hired political operatives in iowa to build up the field operations and he sent out mailers and showcased events and endorsements by the state lawmakers. when trump was asked about this. when his adviser chris loss vida, he said anyone under estimating president trump's willingness to campaign is making a huge mistake. people will see plenty of donald trump. >> brian: yeah. i don't think there is any question. governor christie got a super

pac. probably going to get in the next two weeks. >> ainsley: same thing with mike pence. >> brian: mike pence in a week. governor sununu will decide in a week or two. so the field is not done yet. if you have not seen tim scott speak, you understand that this guy has got a legitimate shot. and the person who has had her sleeves rolled up working every corner of iowa is nikki haley. and she has been really strong. i think you are crazy to sleep on them but so far still in single digit and vivek ramaswamy is turning heads on every network he goes on. >> ainsley: is he so brilliant. he was in iowa and asa hutchinson was on our show said he is going to iowa. perry johnson the businessman and mike pence is going to iowa as well. >> steve: it's very exciting. we have an iowa panel of voters coming up on today's telecast to give you a preview of what to expect in the next month or two. >> brian: got to get used to caucusing. vicious mom off duty marines in

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♪ >> ainsley: nine teenagers arrested in connection with with the beatings of three off duty marines on a southern california pier. >> all caught on tape. officials say the attack was sparked by argument over fireworks on memorial day weekend. >> steve: todd piro joins us with details. >> shocking. not the least of which this is a nice area. brutal attack happening in the beach town of san clementy. broke out mob and teens. we want to warn you, video is graphic. one of the marines struck in the face by debris when a group of teens started setting off fireworks. the service members say when they approached them asking them to stop, the mob started throwing punches. take a look. you can see at least two of the marines in the fetal position as

the teens continue to stomp on them. orange county officials say five suspects now charged with assault with a deadly weapon. the other four with misdemeanor assault and battery. >> assault with a deadly weapon. anybody that kicks another human being in the head, [inaudible] internal injury to that magnitude will be arrested for a felony assault deadly weapon. >> this is wake-up call. it's especially tragic that we have this attack happening over memorial day weekend because we support our troops. >> officials say it is possible more arrests could be made as they learn new information about this attack. as for the marines, all three were treated at the scene for minor to moderate injuries and will make a full recovery. toss back to you. it's unclear whether or not these attackers knew they were marines but nevertheless, this is happening right in the middle of your memorial day weekend. and that's just tough. >> steve: that is tough. i had read one -- todd, thank you very much. >> you are welcome. >> steve: i had read one report

that apparently one of the marines, off duty marines said to the kids, hey, stop shootings off the fireworks. we're marines and you just hit me in the face with some of the debris. and next thing you know, one of those kids sucker punched a marine from behind and then it was just a melee. >> ainsley: bystanders were there and got in between. one lady held her arms out and said stop. stop. >> steve: they were so brave. >> brian: so many retired and active military members. there is going to be a lot of people in that area rally to the marines defense. think about this over the last three weeks marines stepping up to do the right thing guys easy with the fireworks people around you here and both end up in a line of fire. it makes you wonder how many times people are going to step up, even if you are serving, and when the most of the danger is stateside that's scary. >> ainsley: shows you if this can happen to the marines what would happen to any of us because there were so many of those jiewnchs. too many for the marines to fight back.

>> steve: and then just two ordinary civilian grown ups a lady and man said hey, kids, stop it. they stopped the whole thing. but to the sheriff's point, we saw in todd's report, he makes a good point. it's about respect. this happened on memorial day weekend. this is when we salute our troops and the people who have sacrificed so much and what do these kids do? they beat up some marine. that is just lousiy. >> ainsley: let's hand it over to ashley for more headlines. >> ashley: hey, guys, are good morning. start with the border crisis. raúl on or about tees set to retire next month after serving two years in the role. calling him a great agent and true leader. the unprecedented migrant surge isn't letting up. just yesterday or teeps tweetin0 apprehensions. seizing almost 600 pounds of drugs over the memorial day weekend. and tesla ceo elon musk is in china for the first time in over three years. the billionaire is expected to

make a stop at the electricity r company in shanghai. brings the ax i don't mean 2 astronauts back home. to the international space station. spacex dragon capsule splashing down off the coast of florida late last night. nascar suspending driver chase elliott through next week's cup race in illinois. ruling he intentionally slammed denny hamlin into the wall during the coca-cola 600 in charlotte. this will be the seventh race he hit this season. he hit the right rear side of hamlin's car forcing him to collide head first into the wall. hamlin says it was an ability of reef tallation e points out the incident was almost identical to when bubba wallace got a run race suspension for hooking kyle larson in the right rear. and those are your headlines, guys. >> brian: thanks, ashley.

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>> steve: well with the debtdear biden deal heads to the house floor later tonight probably 8:30 is when a vote could be taken. but not everybody is completely on board. the house freedom caucus has railed against the proposal. here's some members yesterday. >vote no and do the right thing and let's go find a better deal. >> there is going to be a rock conning about what just owe kentucky derby don't put me over a barrel because you refused to do your job. let's talk to house freedom caucus member andy biggs. good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. >> steve: there is a lot of members of house freedom caucus who say this thing is a stink bomb. >> yeah. that's right. and i will bring it down to the

most common terms give them the benefit of the doubt 1.3 trillion over 10 years. annual basis of 133 billion with a growth in your national debt of somewhere around 2 billion -- excuse me $2 trillion. it doesn't seem like a great exchange. the problem is not -- has never been a willingness to deficit spend and grow the national debt. the problem has always been bending the spending curve down trying to balance out our spending to our revenue numbers. >> steve: sure. one of the problems for the house freedom caucus and for the republicans in general is you guys only control one half of one branch of government. you know, when the democrats had unified government, where they have the white house, the senate, and the congress, they could just steam roll over you guys. you guys only a little bit of leverage, really. >> yeah, but what i think should have been done here instead of that last bill that they sent over being the floor, from which

no negotiate up which is what happened here is, we should have done the very best product we could have gotten out of the house and that would have been turning the spending curve down, going back to 2019 levels. nobody would say that that was too little government and if you get those 2019 levels, we are excessive of that as far as our revenues we would be able -- i suggest we just try for a year to see if we could live within our means and then you wouldn't even have to raise the debt ceiling. we didn't do that. >> steve: yeah. and we are where we are right now. and it sounds like the house is going to have to pass this and it's got to clear the senate by monday to avert a default. ultimately, that's what a lot of americans are worried about is defaulting on our debt. >> yeah. well, here's the deal. i introduced legislation that would give us rescissions of $90 billion that $90 billion

would have immediately pushed off a debt crisis for at least probably 45 days. we thought it could go as far as 60 to 90 days. but they didn't want to do a short-term rescission. they would prefer to do this big monstrosity and it's a bit of a problem. >> steve: if you had to be a betting man, this thing going to pass tonight? >> yeah. i think it's going to pass. i think you are going to get 100 to 150 democrats and 100 or more republicans. >> what about the speaker, you know, the way that kevin mccarthy made the deal to become speaker is it just takes one member to call a vote and you could start the process to boot him. we heard some people yesterday, at least one person said this guy has got to go. what do you think is going to happen with kevin mccarthy, the speaker? >> well, you know, steve, i can't project what is going to happen with kevin. i know there is a lot of dissatisfaction. i have been focusing on the bill

and trying to get the word out on what i think are the problems with the bill. it's hard to say what will happen with kevin. i'm more concerned what is going to go on with the trajectory of the term. does this represent a new collcoalition and trajectory whe the speaker is going to go to the democrats more and more to try to put forward whatever he thinks his agenda ought to be. and that's really concerns with to me and i think it should be concerning to members of our conference. >> steve: ultimately, you would agree that the republicans got more out of the deal than the democrats. >> no, i don't think i would agree with that at all. not at all. >> steve: the speaker has said things to that effect. stephen moore, on the pages of the "new york post" said the "wall street journal" supports the passage of this bill. so there are some out there who think that the republicans are doing better than the democrats. >> yeah. and i understand that.

but i wonder if they read the bill i'm looking at admin pego $1.5 trillion worth of savings. admin pay go doesn't work. you can't have it traditional review the person the administrative have to use pay go is the director of office and management and budget who is a democrat and that program in itself only goes one year. so, steve, i don't view this as a victory for us. i view this as kind of a very -- as i said yesterday, it's a monstrosity. it it's a real problem and continuing problem for us as it careens us down over the debt cliff sooner rather than later. you got to turn your spending curve down. and this bill does not do that. >> steve: yeah. washington famous for spending a lot of money we don't have. congressman, thank you very much for starting the day and telling us where you stand on this. >> you bet. thank you, steve. >> steve: you bet. thank you, sir. all right.

6:33 here in new york. and ashley joins us with news from, i believe, new jersey. >> yeah, steve. authorities are making an arrest. three months after the murder of republican new jersey council woman eunic ewe taken into custy awaiting extradition to the garden state. he was a contact in the victim's phone and apparently knew her from church. it she was shot and killed in her suv right near her home. officials say suspect was captured on surveillance footage running from the scene. more than 75 a.i. experts, that includes ceo of open a.i. are issuing a warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence saying the technology could lead to human extinction. they partnered with the center for a.i. safety saying mitigating the risk of extinction from ai along with other societal risk such as

pandemics and nuclear war. the warning comes as companies and militaries across the world face -- racing to incorporate a.i. into their operations. on to disney now. they are facing new backlash after video surfaces of an employee with a mustache wearing a dress and makeup while greeting families at disney land. watch for yourself. >> i'm here to shop you around and make all your selections for the day. >> so that scholarship racking up nearly 7 million views. many online calling it another example of disney going woke. conservative commentator dave rubin thinking how many real girls want that job at disney and they gave it to him for a research. and those are just a few of your headlines, steve. >> steve: all right. ashley. a lot going on in the news world. thank you very much. >> steve: meanwhile straight ahead on this wednesday. a north carolina bus driver lost his job for defending himself after a passenger pulled a gun

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good morning, greg. >> good to see you, ainsley. >> ainsley: good to see you too. yesterday we were talking about this. what happened? is this a slap ons wrist or cao, contempt can mean either criminal contempt or civil contempt. neither one of them are terribly good. criminal contempt gets voted out of the committee to the full floor they vote on it and then it gets sent to the u.s. attorney in washington who is appointed by joe biden. and who reports to merrick garland, appointed by joe biden. >> ainsley: we know what will happen there. >> who is the subject of the disputed document. , christopher wray the target of contempt he also reports to both the president and merrick garland. garland is required under law to recuse himself. he won't do it. so your other alternative is civil contempt, which means you file a lawsuit and it goes to a federal judge. if you get an impartial one. the judge could then order mr. wray, you must turn over this document. you have no legitimate basis to withhold it.

>> ainsley: why wouldn't he want to turn it over? it's not -- he could still redact it. it's not classified. >> yeah. excellent point. you know, if he has a confidential informant identified in there. there is that threatening called redaction. can you just black it out. look, there's no basis for resisting this unless he is hiding something. and as i have said many times before, i think christopher wray and merrick garland are both running a protection react for the biden family. >> ainsley: doesn't america deserve answers? >> of course. >> ainsley: is he a sitting president now. he was our vice president at the time. if this is true. there was an exchange for money for policy we need to know. >> yeah. absolutely. that's a crime. it's a violation of the foreign corrupt practices act. it could also be conspiracy. let me read you the statement from the fbi and then we will get to your new book the fbi remains committed to cooperating

with congress' oversight request, releasing confidential source information could potentially jeopardize investigations and put lives at risk. maybe that's the kicker right there. putting lives at risk. all right. >> so we do have comer is coming on. congressman james comer is coming on at 8:30 this morning. stay tuned for that interview. we will get into it with him. let's talk about your book, "trial of the century." we all remember growing up it was controversial if your teachers talked about evolution and goes back to 1925. tell us what the topic. >> the book is called, there you see it "trial of the century" up at the top the famed defense attorney clarence dario and his nemesis the great fundamental its leaderboard. brian helped get a law passed that made it a crime teach evolution in public schools. he was so happy about it he decided to prosecute a young school teacher by the name of john scopes. >> ainsley: a substitute teacher, right? >> and darryl sitting in chicago reading about it in the newspaper is so incensed, he

volunteers to defend john scopes. the climatic. i obtained the original trial transcript in the archives of the courthouse is when darrow who knows is he losing the case stacked jury and prejudiced judge calls his nemesis women's jennings brian the prosecutor to the witness stand. the judge says you can't do that brian stands up and says i have no fear. i'm an expert on the bicycle. i will -- bible. i will answer no questions. in the end darrow destroyed brian so much so that a couple of days later he laid down for a nap and he never woke up. he was a broken man. but the case shifted public opinion in america. they stopped banning books on evolution. they stopped criminalizing the teaching of darwin's corner stone theory.

it's all about free speech, which is at risk once again today in america. but clarence darrow stood up for the right of free speech and academic autonomy cherished rights. >> ainsley: what is so cool about this story we were talking in the green room before you went to your dad's bookcase and you saw a bioon mr. darrow. clarence darrow. and you read it. you read it three times here all you were years later writing a book. >> i was just a teenager and i so admired this liberal icon. it wasn't his politics that defined him. it was his principles and his virtues and values and turned the animated mind it's why i became a lawyer. it changes the contours of my life. >> ainsley: okay. well, we're glad it did. >> thank you. >> ainsley: we became friends through it all. >> we did, indeed. >> ainsley: the trial of the century. everyone pick it up. thank you. >> my pleasure, thanks, ainsley. >> ainsley: let's hand it over to brian. >> brian: i'm looking at my

contours too. get one by the end of the show. good job i talk to gregg jarrett later on on radio. about taking will losing job for defending himself. the driver shooting at a passengers who had pulled out a gun. the attorney representing the fired driver says the shooting is just one example of the violent transit -- the violence the transit workers face every single day. >> 19-year employee, loved his job, was a dedicated employee. all he wanted to do was make sure that he got home from the job every day. and, unfortunately liberation drivers in this system continue to encounter these violent circumstances. >> brian: the driver's name is david fuller, is not facing any charges at this point. buff the passenger facing multiple charges including assault with a deadly weapon. next, a former city of new york professor is speaking out against this law student, quote, horrifying commencement speech. >> israel continues to indiscriminately rain bullets

and bonds at the law of white supremacy that continues to oppress and suppress people in this nation. >> brian: that or admiral mccraven make your bed most inspirational it address. he is baffled that school officials let this happen. >> it the administration is claiming that the final version deferred slightly from the original version but all you have to do, trace, is watcher the video and see these lunatics clapping their handers hands, standing for her, cheering her on. >> brian: she was selected because she was going to make that speech. don't let anyone kid you. pro-israel groups are calling for do cuny to lose federal fung citing anti-semitism. do you think? the zoo claiming name for unbearable cute cubs kelsey and harper named after filly slugger bryce harper and jason kailey

both unbearably cute in real life chris says. beat out the rock duo hall and oaths. oats. the sloth bear cubs born in january and made public debut last week. at least they are not pandas. so tired ever the panda stories i like real bears. check in with adam klotz who is also unbearably cute for a fox weather forecast. hey, adam. >> upset about pandas. no panda stories out here just a little bit of a chill in the air on fox swear as we take in the last day of may. the other thing folks might have noticed eastern half of the country up and down the east the air qualities in place. fires currently burning in nova scotia, you can feel it in the air. certainly can you see it when you look up at the sun. now, otherwise, temperatures lower 50's here in new york city. stretching off back across the west, the midwest, 71 degrees in chicago. 60 degrees in fargo. 64 degrees in kansas city. a lot of warmer air built in the

middle of the country out west. temperatures back down into the 50's. wherever the warm air is, that's where we will see a little bit of shower activity today. seeing it kansas city to denver. all those spots on your map with the thunderbolts could see pop-up showers. # 8 degrees in chicago as there is going to be really warm air. really throughout the entire area of the great lakes. hopes it are the weather headlines today. brian, for now, tossing it back inside to you. >> brian: all right, adam, thank you so much. go woke, go broke. a lesson from the l.a. dodgers they apparently didn't learn the lesson for bud light. they didn't learn a lesson from target. tim bush is here. he owns sports teams in two countries and says you won't find wokeness on his roster. he is here to talk about it ♪ want to rule the world. eight hundred and fifty thou

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reinviting this group? now having a christian evening. i don't think they should do that either. they are opening themselves up to more politics and they need to get into the business of sports and stay out of the business of politics and they wouldn't get themselves in this situation. >> brian: red flags all over it you see what happened with bud light. you see what is going on right now it looks as though target has already lost between 10 and $12 billion off their market cap. anheuser-busch is no longer the king of beers. mandel lows take over. lost $24 billion. what other things do you need to see if you are an organization like the dodgers. >> that's the whole point. it started in business and now it is spreading to sports. and if you are a shareholder of one of these companies, you should be very upset why they are in the business in the first place. this is what has happened to america. this wokeness is kind of a pagan religion itself. people don't have a faith so they create one and this is what

it is one of the other major sports in this league was asked to wear pride colors while in the nhl. a lot of the teams and players said yeah, that's not what i'm going to do. i'm not going to do it. they faced backlash because the league put them in this spot. >> that's correct. this is not what they signed up for. they have their own politics and beliefs. i don't think we should be dividing people in business or in sports teams particularly. they need to be united regardless of their faith and politics. so why force somebody to decide whether they are going to wear it on their jersey or not. >> brian: how many votes do you think ownership would give if they wanted to mock islam or the muslim religion? think about that? i mean, we'll talk about that, too. but here's what trevor williams says. he is on the washington nationals. he said this: to invite an honor group that makes a blatant

and offensive mockery of my religion and religion of over 4 million people in los angeles county alone undermines the values of respect and inclusivity that should be held in any organization. pitchers on her teams lie clayton crenshaw on the dodgers coming out and saying why are we doing this? >> yes. exactly. get out of politics. that's the message to all sports teams and really business, too. and let them do what they are supposed to do and let politics play itself out in the political arena. >> brian: but when you are in these ownership meetings, you don't necessarily pick the other owners. they are investors in this club. so could you bring us inside the boardroom in decisions like this. >> on our teams we do have one guy who makes the decision that's much better than group think. group think can lead to the least common denominator. i suspect in the dodgers although i don't know, i know one of the owners of the dodgers a fine man has done a lot for civil society. particularly immigration, legal

immigration. and i'm sure he's just, you know, caught and anxious about this whole thing. and it's hard. how do you get out of it? i think having a christian night was sort of a repayment but that's just going down a slippery slope. you going to have a jewish night. a muslim night? you just can't appease everybody. >> brian: it's pride month i guess. it>> i'm a devout catholic. this is where i think they drew the line was when they put this group of gay men parade around as religious sisters and it's a very important part of the catholic church. and they mock the sisters in what the catholic church stands for. i think at that time it was my role to get in. >> brian: they are mocking a religion they are not saluting one. thank you so much. best of luck with your franchises in two separate countries. appreciate it. and read his editorial on

foxnews.com. meanwhile, according to my apple watch. the second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ >> ainsley: we begin this hour with a heated debate on government spending in washington. the debt ceiling bill is expected to hit the house floor this evening after clearing the house rules committee last night. >> steve: yeah. it's probably going to be tonight around 8:30. republicans and democrats remain divided even within their own parties. jacqui heinrich joins us live from the white house with the latest and, jacqui, obviously the white house wants this, but there are a number of republicans who say this is, as i said to andy biggs, this is a stink bomb and they don't want to vote for it? >> yeah, you know, steve, this billionairely passed the rules committee overcoming a rebellion from conservatives after republican thomas massie of

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