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and we've got -- we're celebrating our first responders and heroes this morning too. rachel: absolutely. pete: let's head there right now, head back down to 1 world trade center, the freedom tower, where rick reichmuth is live from the tunnel to towers 104-story tower climb in new york city. rick. [cheers and applause] rick: i'm not doing this to the act like i'm on tv with this, i literally -- it's really how old in here, i can barely here you. you recognize abby hornacek? she was really nice to come on with us morning. >> i was not prepared to go on television this morning. [laughter] rick: we all look like this when we're not prepared to go on television. >> no, no, not at all. rick: talk about this team and how this experience was. >> this experience was unlike anything. this organization is one of my favorite organizations. to be here with our amazing coworkers and also amazing people here, there were three cats catastrophically injured veterans who did the stair climb, so every time you started to feel fired -- tired, you
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looked around, these men and women are so incredible. just to be around these type of people, it's why we live in this country and the people that are true heros, and we want to ohioan them every single day. -- honor them every single day. rick: $12,000, in donations you raised. rebecca put this all together. >> yes. rick: you feeling good? you guys all going to breakfast? >> we are. rebecca has been such a champ. she organized everything and, again, this organization deserves it all, so give it up for rebecca. rick: and breakfast is on pete, he just said that, right, pete? pete: absolutely. i see a lot of friends, mike and rebecca and bud and dan, a bunch of people that we work with. great folks who love the country. and so tell 'em put it on my credit card, i got 'em covered. rick: deal. will: thanks, rick. pete: thanks, rick. will: we'll check back in later this morning. now to this, tomorrow house oversight committee chairman james comer will finally get to reveal the the fbi's file on an
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alleged $5 million scheme involving then-vice president joe biden. pete: fox news digital learns the source is highly credible having been used by the bureau since the obama administration. rachel: alexandria of joins us live from d.c. with these very interesting details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, congressman comer will be revealing a 1023 the form used by the fbi to keep record of allegations that they are provided. this one containses claims from a human source saying that president biden, while vice president, was involved in a lucrative influence-peddling scheme. now, a separate fox news digital source confirms that this person who came forward with the information is highly credible. quote: the confidence, human source who provided the information to the fbi was a pre-existing fbi source who has been used many multiple investigative matters separate from the bind information. the confidential human source was used by the fbi for at least several years before the
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generation of the june 2020 the form detailing the biden allegations. the confidential human source has been consistently reviewed by the fbi and has been found to be highly credible. here's what congressman comer told fox news digital as well. quote: fbi director wray confirmed the existence of the fd-1023 form alleging then-vice president biden engaged in a scheme with a foreign national from a highly credible human informant tracks closely with what we are seeing in our investigation into the biden family's influence-peddling schemes. the committee has been clear in its intent to protect congressional oversight authorities and is prepared to hold the fbi director in contempt of congress if the agency refuses to comply with the lawful subpoena. so while congressman comer's able to review this document tomorrow, what he really wants is for the fbi to physically turn it over. will, rachel, or pete?
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will: thank you, alexandria. it really is stunning. the correct cliche is not the fbi is dragging its heels, but that it ising with bobs anily -. they're saying we'll show it to you in is a skif, not only can you ache fit out -- rachel: unless you're joe biden. [laughter] will: he can't actually share with others -- pete: unless he speaks super generally about it without compromising information that he saw that, as you pointed out, will, isn't classifieded. he'll get a look at it, he's going to continue to push with the subpoena and hold potential director wray in contempt. as he should. we should see this document, we should know what a credible source who has access to the this information believes might have been a prescribe for the then-vice president of the united states. rachel: yeah. two things that i think are very
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interesting. one, why would christopher wray take these steps, i mean, actually put himself in a a position where he could have, you know, contempt of congress parisian opened against him. why would he do that? probably because the fbi, you know, this document shows that the fbi probably should have taken action, that they never took. so he's implicated in one way. the second thing i think is really interesting, what we've been talking about the all morning, which is for the election. so if this source is as credible as we believe that it may be and if this document says what we believe it does say because there's so much other stuff of from bobulinski to everything else we've seen on the laptop the about the big guy, if our sitting president who is now going to be running in the next presidential election is proven to be somebody who took bribes from a foreign government, this is a game-changer situation for an election. now, i believe that he was the big guy since we saw the laptop
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to the. you know, a couple years ago. but there's a lot of people that weren't convinced of that, and this could be -- pete: we deserve of to know, and the other whistleblowers have come out and said this entire investigation of hunter biden has been trite treat very differently, it's been slow-walked. maybe this is the type of evidence that breaks it open, and that's why they're fighting back so hard. will: well, we move to this, the 2024 elections, of course, have kicked off. we want to talk about the role of faith. and i want to share with you this poll, it's something you've become familiar with. this is the role of faith and religion in american life. it's a sharp decline since -- you can see even, i mean, i guess it feels recent to me, but it has been 20 years since 1998, a staggering, as you point out, decline in the role of faith in american life. and, you know, there was a time -- we were talking a moment ago about the age of narcissism, like how we're so centered on self of in modern american life. there was a point in time where this was a very important aspect
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of choosing an american leader. and i recently had presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy on the will cain podcast, and we talked the a bit about faith. and it stuck out, what vivek had to say. listen. >> i am religious. i believe in god. i think it's not -- you know, sometimes when you fall into the trap of believing that it is all being done by us, by me that actually can be constraining. i think when you open up your eyes to the truth, which is that it's not being done by me, it is being done through me. it is not being done by us, it is being done through us. that's liberating. rachel: yeah. so what is vivek's religion? will: rachel, i believe, and i don't know this with certainty and i will admit to you and the audience i had 30 minutes with vivek, i often go longer. the reason i'm telling you this is i did not ask him what is the
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source of his faith, and i wish i would have. it's my mistake that i own. rachel: okay. >> but i believe that he is hindu. i wish that we would have had that conversation. largely open book and would have had that conversation with me, and maybe we will in the future. but i would love to know specifically how that informs him as well. i don't know a lot about hinduism personally, so -- but clearly i think in that answer he does highlight, i think, a fundamental tenet of whatever your religion may be of understanding limit of self. pete: absolutely right. and because it's so easy to characterize faith as constraining ask limiting. but -- and limiting. but when you actually, it is the entirely liberating and creates a sense of freedom that it's not all on you. i can't -- the. rachel: right. pete: -- i'm not perfect, i can't, i don't act perfectly, i can't perfect if other people. rachel: it changes the way you look even at politics. pete: for sure. rachel: it truly does. and sometimes, you know, we look
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at how hard on the left they play. they really play for keeps. they play in a way that's very, you know, a lot of times conservatives why don't we play as hard as them. well, for them where we live right now, this place, everett, is it. earth. so everything's on the line here for them. they think, as you said, they can perfect this earth. those of us who have faith don't believe that, and we believe how we act here determines where we go after. and so we've got to behave. and so even in politics we don't, you know, we act within those moral limits. and, you know, the ends justify the means is sort of the rule for radicals, right? that's not how kris -- christians act. will: if you believe your personal political positions are on par with the highest of the hierarchy, and, you know, equal to faith and religion, hen you will go to some of the lengths that we have seen. rachel: yeah. i mean, we're made for religion.
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so if you don't have, if you don't have a faith whether it's the hindu, israel lam -- islam, christianity, you're going to create one. and it could be climate or yourself, as you mentioned. pete: and as our founders or said, our system was made for religious people. by the way, if i'm correct, will, your podcast will be interviewing presidential candidates over the next several weeks? will: that's correct. this week we have tim scott on the will cain podcast. and speaking of this, can i just take this one moment, i would love to share this. so one of my producers' names is patrick, and he just had a baby this morning. got the text at 5 a.m. her name is genevieve. i believe -- rachel: great name. >> 10 pounds, 6 ounces. will: patrick and his wife teresa are doing well, and he is in the same category as rachel campos duffy and pete hegseth, genevieve is number seven. rachel: wow. good job. i should have known with a name
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like patrick. pete: good point. all right, well, here's another piece of news for you. all these courageous corporations during pride month, you know, mastering it everywhere? -- plastering it everywhere? rachel: speaking of religion -- [laughter] pete: a lot of them are multi-national corporations can mean they have a twitter account or instagram here in the united states, canada, other western countries. but folks did some digging to get a sense of how are they doing pride in other parts of the world? here's a tweet from dr. ellie david, an a. i. investor. breaking, big corporations are running out of uncle in their middle east pages -- ink. what could possibly be the reason? he points out that, you know, bmw has a pride flag on its instagram in the united states but not in the middle east. same with cisco, bethesda, bp and, i'm sure, other companies dish -- rachel: i'm sure there are more
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companies than that. will: brave and virtues in principle when it's easy to be brave and virtuous in principle. rachel: absolutely. a former target vice chair, this is his thought on, you know, this big controversy with target and their relationship with a trans-satanist and the swim suit that's now so famous. he said that swim suit, boy, has made a huge impact on the bottom line for target. listen. >> aye never seen a case of one item, that swim suit, that's really what made the difference versus the competitors. that's where the big mistake was made. you have to show love. i know that sounds funny, forgiveness and love, that's part of america. i had a problem with this at babies r us where we had a concept where the first baby of the year would get $0,000. people were up -- $20,000. people were up in arms. the first baby was born to immigrants. they didn't have a tax id. we gave it to two babies, and we put out a giant press release,
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we las vegas all babies. at the end of the day, you embrace and show that to people. you know, i hear you every morning, you know this too, you have to address it as a real problem and show love for people, and it works. rachel: yes, i think he's suggesting that maybe target should backtrack, apologize. i'm not sure exactly -- pete: i don't know if they can though. rachel: i don't think they can. pete: they've doubled down internally with their employees saying, you know, we're sorry all the harm this has caused lgbtq ia+ employees, and so they're just not built to have that kind of -- just like bud light. they're so invested in it, they can't back out of it. will: so i had a small bit of disagreement in that interview yesterday, and i respect him giving me his perspective and having that back and forth. here's my limitation on the ten sans -- acceptance. i think you can do two things at the same time. you can extend love to
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everyone -- rachel: of course. will: -- at the same time not checking your judgment at the door. and those are not one and the same. all of us have children. if you don't, you know, it's very endemic in having a child. love is not always acceptance, love is not always tolerance, love is sometimes judgment saying that behavior, that's not acceptable. that particular choice is hurting other people even though it makes you feel good. now, i'm not suggesting all of everything we are doing in modern america fits those parameters, but it's just not a guiding light to similar are my say always follow -- simply say always follow tolerance and love. there are some things that should not be toll rated. president it's the difference between judgment and being judgmental. they're different things, but it is an important -- by the way, these corporations have businesses they need to run in these countries, right? so they're not going to -- bmw's not going to run a pride flag in saudi arabia -- rachel: they want to sell there. pete: but you know what's
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different? our state government. guess what our government does? flies that pride flag. we want to have influence in these foreign capitals, yet we push our radical agendas as if, you know, with this moral superiority, and it offends local sensibilities. we saw it in afghanistan with the stuff we pushed there. so it's the our government exports this stuff in a way that they're not accountable to customers. they're not worried about taxpayer. rachel: no, of course. no, absolutely. and i think it's really interesting to to gobbing back to what mike -- go back to what mike gonzalez earlier on the show. you may not have asked for this culture war, but it's here. and it's a revolution. you cannot bonn the fence here. you either, as he said, surrender to this or you fight like hell. and i think that's the decision, the binary choice that americans are going to have to take. it looks like they made that be butted light and target the -- bud light and target, but i think the dodgers' situation was
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particularly offensive to to people of faith as we're talking about faith. this -- will: intended to be so. rachel: intended to be so and with our national pastime, one of the last few places where, you know, you can have a wholesome day with your family. as mike said, this was deliberately chosen to disrupt that. and so i think we have to make -- pete: why we can't have nice things, because the left just ruins them all. rachel: he says if you let them, they will take the over everything, awill sully everything. pete: they're not sullying us. not this morning. still ahead, an idaho teenager told he can't walk at graduation after making scientifically-accurate comments about gender. he'll join us as the community rallies around him. will: plus, a children's choir couldn't finish singing the national anthem at the u.s. capitol, so we're giving them a chance the perform the whole anthem, how about this, live for us this morning on "fox & friends." so stay with us.
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stories to the honor the life and sky of september 11th heros. let's check back in with rick reichmuth live from 1 world trade center along with our friend, ceo of tunnel to towers, frank siller. good morning. rick: good morning, guys. yeah, we've got -- frank, thanks for getting up anding being here with us, but really thanks for putting on in this event here, keeping the memory alive of your brother is really how this all started. tell the us all about that. >> well, you know, we're here today in the freedom tower which represents the harrowism on september 11th, 2001, you know, they run up through stair welshing you know, over 1,000 climbers. and you think of the stories from that day of firefighters in those stairwells saving people, you know, they're going up the stairs and everyone else is going down. and outside the building. it was the greatest rescue effort ever in america, saved over 25 the ,000 lives -- 25,000, but we lost so many great heroes that that day, and we're here to honor those heroes
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and never forget. rick: yeah. including your brother, which is how this started. you and your siblings began this organization to do something to honor your brother. >> well, look, my brother was just finished his night tour in brooklyn, was on his way home to the play golf with me and my other brothers. turned his truck around when he heard the towers were hit, drove back to his firehouse, got his gear, drove to the brooklyn battery tunnel. it was closed, so he strappedded 60 pounds of gear on his back, ran through the tunnels to this tower, to the south tower, and running up those stairs while doing so gave up his life while saving others, and we wanted to honor what our little brother did that day, that act of heroism, so we started the tunnel to towers foundation, and we build houses all over america for catastrophically-injured service members and first responders and pay off mortgages for gold star widows and fallen first responders that leave young kids behind. and we have so many of them here with us tonight --ed today,
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excuse me. and that, we have double amputees that did the climb, one which is blind and lost two limbs besides. it is incredible, the stories. and the widows here, gold star widows, first responder widows. but the love and energy here is palpable. rick: i can certainly feel it. when you started this, did you guys ever imagine that you would end up being able to give back the way you have? >> no, but we didn't, we just wanted to honor, once again, we had very simple goals; honor sacrifice that the steven did and never forget. and why not do good at the same time, and that's -- the do good part is where we count on all the fox viewers. go to t2t.org, we ask everyone to donate $11 a month to take care of all these great heroes and the families left behind, and $11 a month can do that, and they are doing it. over 200 homes a year we're delivering. we're going to have 2,000
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homeless vets in housing this year and getting all the comprehensive services they're going to the need to assimilate back into society. we have a lot of work ahead of us. we're not done, we're just starting, and we count on the goodness of america. rick: keeping all of this memory fresh for us all, it's such important work. thank you for doing that, congratulations on putting on a yeapt event. about a million dollars you guys will raise -- >> just for today. rick: frank, thanks for being here with us. pete: frank's the best with. t2t.org, thank you both. appreciate it. we'll be checking in with rick all morning long. >> my friends in there. pete: tell him we kneel the same way. rick: likewise. they feel the same way. >> love fox. pete: and our fox team is running up those stairs as well, already did. still ahead, presidential hopefuls making their pitch to voters in key states including south carolina. we'll talk to our palmetto state panel on all things 2024. that is next. plus, you don't see this every day, bad news for this
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rachel: we're back with your headlines. the parents of missing louisiana team cameron robbins are speak out. his parents told "the new york post" we are just mourning our son right now. we appreciate everyone's support. the 18-year-old was last seen on a boat in the bahamas when he reportedly jumped overboard on a dare on may 24th. the family plans to hold a memorial service for robbins this afternoon. residents near lake charles, louisiana, are being evacuated or told to shelter in place after a massive fire at an oil refinery erupted yesterday. louisiana state police say a lightning strike ignited the blaze.
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no injuries are reported, but smoke prosecute fire can be seen miles away. residents living within 3 miles of the fire are required to shelter in place as a result. take a look at this wild video out of nevada. south lake tahoe police responding to the a call from residents saying a bear was stuck inside their car. officials were able to tie a rope to the handle and safely free the brown bear from the vehicle. pictures of the aftermath show the car was completely destroyed. the bear was not hurt and, thank friday -- thankfully, neither was anyone else. those are your headlines. will: how did he get into the car? so he could open it from the outside, but he couldn't figure out the handle from the inside? i need a deeper, deeper dive into this story. thank you, rachel. all right, republican presidential candidates are hitting the campaign trail making their pitch to voters in iowa. >> i am running because i believe america can do for anyone what she has done for me.
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we've got to restore hope. >> we've got to start winning elections. we need a candidate that can win a general election. i don't trust anybody else to do it, that's why i'm doing it. it's because we've got to focus on winning a majority of americans. >> we see the problems day after day, but i think american decline is a choice, and i'm running for president because i think if we choose another path, we can restore american greatness. will: that all went down in iowa, but another early voting state is starting to take focus. florida governor ron desantis spent time in south carolina on friday. the home state of senator tim scott and nikki haley. so here to discuss the state of the race are two south carolina voters, sarah owens and dwight decker. good to morning to you both. grad to have you on the program -- glad to have you on the program. >> good morning. will: sarah, how do you feel right now? south carolina is an early voting state, so where are your early inclinations? who do you like? >> i like trump the most. will: what is it about donald trump that stands out for you
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right now? >> he knows what's gown on, he't before and he did a really good job the first time. he has a relationship with other countries whether it's good or bad. he already has that relationship, he's already spoken to these people, and he has an idea of what he's doing and how to get us where we need to be. will: there you go. dwight, which way are you leaning early in south carolina? >> right now i've got to agree with sarah as far as trump goes. he's got the experience, he's got the season behind him. if you looked at what he's done for the country the first time around, he is definitely -- he has definitely proven himself over and and over again. he does what he says and say what is he does. and with desantis the, i like him too. and being a veteran, you know,
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with desantis i believe if he was one of the runs -- ones that was in the finals, i would have to, you know, lean more towards him just back another navy veteran. you know? i just think that right now he lacks the experience in the oval office. will: you know, dwight, your opinion is one i feel like that i've encountered on a couple of occasions, and that it's you like desantis, you'd be happy with desantis, but when pressed or persuade or when making a choice, you do end up book towards trump. i feel like that is an opinion i've heard not once, okay? i don't know how often i can say i've encountered that, but in other words, it's this like of desantis but ultimately, yes, or i probably would lean trump. is that, is that something -- first of all, is that accurate, the way i'm characterizing your opinion -- >> yes. will: and secondarily, is that how a lot of people, you feel like, feel about ron desantis versus donald trump? >> absolutely.
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now, with that being said, i think that desantis would be my ultimate ticket would be trump as president, desantis as vp. once trump's tenure is up, desantis the, you know, gets trump's endorsement and steps in and runs for president again because he would already have the help of experience in the to oval office, the behind the scenes which makes a huge difference. will: yeah -- >> when you're running the country. will: that's another opinion, again, i feel like i hear often, that that these two should team up with desantis the as the vice presidential candidate. we'll see how that all works out. sara, what issues -- i know you talked about foreign policy and donald trump's experience as a leader on the world stage, but what about domestic issues? which ones are guiding you as a voter? >> school safety and gun control. not necessarily more gun control, but not letting them do
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too much gun control or any more gun control. will: i have to ask you both this, i'm curious, not only are you in an early voting state, but you have two entrants from south carolina already in the republican primary, tim scott and nikki haley, your former governor. i'll ask you both quickly, dwight, let's start with you, what opinion do you have of scott and haley? >> i like tim scott a lot. again though, the experience. i mean, dealing with and living in south carolina since i got stationed here in 2007, i hear a lot of tim scott and a lot of good he does. i just at that level of running the country, i think experience speaks volumes. will: right. >> and that's why i'm leaning more towards trump. will: and, sara? >> i agree agree with dwiewght. i haven't heard bad about
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either, but neither have the experience that i feel is needed to run a country, especially a country in the sate that we're in. will: well, let me say this, first of all, dwight, thank you for your service. sara, i know your husband is a police officer, so thank him as well for us. it's an entire family operation, so thank you as well. i departmenter that, or dwight, you weren't a native south carolinian because i didn't hear the same accent that i hear from sara -- [laughter] so i'll direct this last question to czar a rah. clemson or south carolina? [laughter] >> south carolina -- will: oh. i'm a new clemson fan. my nephew's at clemson, so we'll have to part ways there, sara. [laughter] thank you both for being with us this morning on "fox & friends". >> thank you for having me. will: all right. coming up, commencement controversy. an idaho teenager speaking out after being told he couldn't walk at graduation for saying guys are guys and girls are girls. >> still not going to let me
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>> let him walk! let him walk! >> they're still not going to let me walk, but they can't take my diploma from me. i just appreciate all the support from everybody coming together. i won't forget this. thank you. [cheers and applause] rachel: outraged students and parents in idaho protesting their local high school's decision to suspend and ban a student from participating in graduation after he declared boys are boys and girls are girls. there is no in between. those remarks also cost him his job. this morning that former high school student is fighting back. travis lord joins us now. boy, travis, it's so nice to have you on. you're a brave young imagine i'm sure that you expected some social shaming maybe for saying something that was true, but i'm sure you can't expect on the banned from graduation, and explain what's going on with your job is. >> so i went in to finish up my
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final paperwork. i with us supposed to start sunday, and i was inform ifed by my boss after i had finished my paperwork that he was going toly send -- rescind his offer to me -- rachel: what job was this? >> i was supposed to go fight wildland forest fires. rachel: wow. you're getting a lesson at a very young age about what this cultural revolution we're living through is. so my understanding is that the most vocal teacher, the art teacher, is somebody who described herself as a nasty woman, who has put on a production, helped with the production of the vagina monologues which, you know, is sex sexually explicit. explain to the me her relationship with the sheriff who's also now said that the protests are violent and all these other things. >> as far as i know, they're
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married. and our protest, it wasn't violent at all. nobody did anything violent. we were just there to let me walk, basically, that was our message. that's why everybody came together, was in hopes that i could walk at graduation. sadly, that didn't happen. but -- rachel: yeah. travis, do you think this would have happened to to you if you had said something in support of blm or you supported genital i mutilation or if you had said that conservatives were white supremacists? why do you think this in particular led to this punishment? >> i don't believe i would have been punished at all, personally, if i had said black lives matter or any of the other things. rachel: yeah. this has been a tough -- >> for this to the happen --
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rachel: go ahead. >> -- over what i said, it's just controversial. it seems as though if people speak up like i i kid in the way that i did, you just -- it's not right. it seems frowned upon. you can be punish ed for it. obviously, like i'm being punished. if. rachel: yeah. you're not the only one who lost a job, right? i mean, there was a bus driver -- >> the yeah. my best friend as well. rachel: yeah. >> supposed to work with me this summer. rachel: he lost his job fighting fires and then the bus driver did too. >> yeah. rachel: how has the support from your community made you female? -- feel? >> it's reassuring to know that i'm not alone and realize what i did wasn't wrong, basically. rachel: did they ask you to
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apologize at any point? >> no. i wasn't asked to apologize. rachel: you wouldn't have anyway, i'm assuming. >> no, because what i said i believe in, and i stand by it. rachel: yeah. well, you're an american, and you believe in biology. [laughter] and science. and as a woman, i want to thank you for standing up for our gender, which ising being erased and mocked by this really perverse gender ideology theory. i think you're a brave young man, and i think your parents raised you right and thank you for standing up -- >> thank you. rachel: and i'm sorry for all that's happened, and i hope that this gets sorted out. and i'm sorry you missed your moment for your graduation, but last thoughts on -- >> that's okay. rachel: what's the lesson for you? is what have you learned from this? >> i guess i've learned actions have consequences. whether i was in the wrong or
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right, which i believe i was in the right, things will still come of what you do. and, obviously, i've, you know, a lot's happened. wasn't able to walk at graduation. my offer to work for the forest service was rescinded, but that's a part of life as i'm learning, and i'm going to continue to grow from here. i'm not going to dwell on it. rachel: all right. wow. you're a brave young man. thank you for speaking the truth. by the way, we reached out to the school superintendent for a statement, and we didn't hear back. and who knew that working for the forest service required you to say that boy -- you know, you'd be punished for saying boys are boys and girls are girls. unbelievable. brave young guy. still ahead, a children's choir couldn't finish singing the national anthem at the u.s. capitol the, so we're to giving them a chance to to perform the
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♪ if. ♪ ♪ [national anthem] ♪ rachel: that was the moment a south carolina children's choir was cut off from singing the national anthem at our nation's capitol building. pete: now, capitol police have since apologized for the miscommunication saying, quote: although pop-up demonstrations and musical performances are not allowed in the u.s. capitol without the proper approval, due to a miscommunication, the u.s. capitol police were not aware that the speaker's office had approved this performance. we apologize to the choir for this miscommunication that impacted their beautiful remember decision and their visit to capitol hill. it is the not true that the capitol police said it might, quote, offend someone. will: rushing brook children's choir joins us live along with their correcter. great to have you guys on the program. we're excited that in just a few moments you're going to be singing the national anthem for us on "fox & friends."
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david, really quickly, what was the inspiration for the performance on capitol hill? >> the kids. rachel: yeah. >> we were taking a trip to, we were taking a trip to williamsburg which is where we sang on thursday night, and i had asked the kids if they would like to sing in washington, and so we sought permission a couple months before we went to washington. and so we went there to sing and to sing our national anthem because we love are our country. pete: we do not want you to get cut off this time, so if you would, please perform for all of america -- >> thank you. thank you. ♪ o, say can you see by the dawn's early light -- ♪ what so is proudly we hailed
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at the twilight's last gleaming. ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous figh- ♪ o'er the ram a parts we watched -- ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming. ♪ and the rockets ' red glare, the bombs bursting in air -- ♪ gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. ♪ o, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave -- ♪ o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪
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