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multiple magazines in the vest and had a scanner and an ar-style rifle and handgun underneath his body. >> julie: mike tobin joins us live following the latest. >> so far the best description is a male in his 40s. no indication for what motivated this mass killing. plenty of indication the killer spent time preparing for it. police say the man was wearing a bullet proof vest, ar-style rifle. multiple magazines, sidearm and police scanner to listen to police traffic. bullet casings stretched over an eight block area. four people killed in the street. five fatality when police were called into the house where one of the victims fled. >> went inside and found the son laying on the living room floor unresponsive. immediately went outside where he saw the police officer, notified that officer. the officer notified medics.

medics pronounced the 31-year-old victim dead on the scene. >> four dead are male between 21 and 59 years old. one male hasn't been identified. two kids were injured. the gunman was cornered and picked up. it is 100 miles away from a mass shooting in baltimore. the middle of a block party killing two and injuring 28. today is the anniversary of another mass killing. one year ago today the man took a position above the fourth of july in high land park, illinois during the parade. philadelphia marks the 29th mass shooting of this year according to records kept by the associated press. usa today and northeastern university. sadly, it's a record. >> julie: wow. awful stats.

mike tobin, thank you. rich. >> rich: record breaking air travel this fourth of july holiday but at airports across the country they report thousands of delays and cancellations creating chaos for travelers. charles watson live at the international airport in atlanta. the busiest on the planet. >> good morning, rich. you can bet folks flying today are hoping to avoid the chaos and travel nightmares that folks have been experiencing for over a week at this point. so far so good here in atlanta. you can see the fourth of july traffic is not as heavy as you would expect it to be at the world's most busiest airport and the folks at hartsfield jackson atlanta international tell me operations have and continue to run smoothly here. this has largely been the case for the record number of folks flying during the fourth of july travel period. aaa estimating more than

4.1 million holiday flyers. that seems to be in line with the massive tsa checkpoint numbers we see. the agency averaging around 2.6 million screenings every day over the last few days. as for the airlines, they do seem to be keeping up with demand after severe weather in the northeast last week led to delays and cancellations that left people concerned for how holiday travel would pan out for. for most successful. for others not so much. >> we've been to four different airports in two days due to canceled flights. it has been hectic. left out with no answers. our baggage is lost right now so we've been wearing the same clothes for 2 to 3 days. had to buy new dee odd rant, stuff like that just to be able to smell fresh. >> so the good news for folks is flights are at least making it off the ground.

bad news is folks may run into delays, spirit airlines, frontier and jetblue led the pack monday with the most delays. each of those airlines delaying more than 20% of the flights. the big question now is what will tomorrow look like, wednesday? what will it look like as folks begin their travel home? rich. >> rich: charles watson live in atlanta. he points it out. it's the holiday. this is the slow day. the leading up to and coming home part you have to worry about. >> julie: i have firsthand photographic evidence what to expect. throw it on the screen. i will give you a heads-up. this was my 7-hour delay. got my kids up at two in the morning and we departed at 11:00. my child let me use her head as a pillow. >> rich: that's usually when you

get on the airplane. >> julie: i used it in the terminal. that's just a little, you know, ray into what you can expect to travel. be prepared, bring your neck pillow and child to lay on. moving on. transportation secretary trying to explain away all the travel chaos while taking no blame for any of it. >> if you look at the overall picture we've seen a lot of improvements. we had a hard few days with severe weather at the beginning of the week and that definitely put enormous pressure on the system. >> julie: a new op-ed pointing the finger of blame right back at him. mr. buttigieg is literally passing the buck to airlines by ordering them to compensate flyers for controllable cancellations and delays. how about the government take responsibility and compensate flyers and airlines for its controllable dysfunction? joey jones is a fox news contributor and retired u.s.

marine bomb tech. it would be nice for people to take accountable. it is not our fault we didn't get on our plane or slept on my kid for seven hours. secretary buttigieg is blaming the weather. that's like someone arriving late to work because of traffic. it is called planning ahead. when does buttigieg start blaming others and start problem solving. >> maybe when it stops working for him. i don't know that it will stop. when it comes to this specific problems. a lot of problems with the faa and air traffic controllers but a lot of problems in the airlines themselves. i don't think the government needs to compensate the airlines for anything. we gave them money and we shouldn't have had a financial crisis to begin with. a lot of things happened with that money that didn't make flying easier and better when they got back in the air.

the airlines have quite a bit of responsibility. it is always a different problem. southwest it was their scheduling. united this past time it was staffing. with delta i believe it was ground staffing for luggage. then with the faa, they have their staffing problems, tsa has staffing problems. seems like there could be one person in a position in the government who could coordinate these things. see the problems coming so when the real life stress for things like weather. pete buttigieg plays a role and he is not filling it. >> julie: in my case it was frontier and we were told to stand by we're waiting for the crew and waiting for the crew. hours later the crew never appeared so we didn't have a crew. i was wishing i had my pilot's license. the "wall street journal" titled flying the faa's unfriendly skies that americans may be sitting on the tarmac for the next few summers, bring

refreshments. it's a tongue in cheek joke. it is saying there isn't any end in sight. that's not good for the airline industry. >> not at all. people are going to fly more for one reason, because working here, there are people that live out of state. you can work remotely. sometimes you have to be in state. the reason why people are flying is changing as occupations change and your geo la indication to your job changes. you go online and people date from coast to coast. flying is a big part of american life. we had a two-year disruption but back to normal on hyper speed. maybe some of the tech giants should be involved. if you have an antiquated scheduling system. these five pilots in these five locations but need to be on a tarmac here maybe the tech industry can step in. maybe pete buttigieg can be a part of. just blaming the weather or this and that is not leadership. you need to know leadership to

be in a position of leadership and that's where he is. >> julie: troubling new polling out of independence day shows americans are less proud of our country than they used to be. americans have the lowest confidence in our government than any other country in the g7. if you look deeper, that same poll shows a little more than 30% of americans say they are confident in the united states while nearly 70% say they are not. that number has gone up since president biden took office. what does that say to you about the confidence that our american public has in our president? >> you know, i was able to persuade my co-hosts on fox and friends on this issue. maybe it's not a bad thing if americans aren't fully confident in our government. i think it's very libertarian and personal liberty to be skeptical of our government at all times. if you look at the history of it, which i have had a chance to do since we discussed it this

morning, it seems that certain presidents do substantially worse and it's usually those on the democrat side like joe biden who are trying to expand the government's role in your life. so maybe this dramatic drop, which is what we've seen recently and why it's news has been trending. there is a dramatic drop with joe biden at the helm and i think it's coming from all angles. conservatives and republicans have big issues but even on the democrat side they see a lot of things joe biden is doing and it is hard to have faith in that to be the right way. >> julie: it is hard to look for the silver lining like i try to do. 48% now say according to a fox news poll that our best days are behind us. that's not reassuring. if you compare it to 2021 when 52% of voters thought the best days were ahead. the hope diminishes during the years. in 2012, 57% in 2009.

it is going down, down, down. >> we're a victim of what have you done for me lately? in 2021 we were still in the throes of what the pandemic did to us. we sit in 2023 that's behind us and things should be getting better. domestic policies are stopping that from happening. people are going to be subject to everything should be better, why is it? i guess things can never get better. i'm more of an optimist. people understand we can work hard, love each other and keep this country a great place and let it prosper. >> julie: you can only go up from here, right? all right. joey jones. you and other favorite fox personalities host the big independence day special. the celebration of our nation's freedom complete with live fireworks, performances, interviews and much more. it all begins at 8:00 p.m. tonight. joey jones, we love you and

can't wait to watch. you, too, are an american here as much as you don't like to admit it. >> it's a day of favorite. >> julie: thank you so much. >> rich: a top ally of ron desantis is delivering a blunt -- they say donald trump is the runaway frontrunner. one of biden's presidential challengers, our panel is next.

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>> rich: the prominent supporter of ron desantis concedes the former president donald trump is the runaway frontrunner in the republican primary field. he makes the candid admission during a twitter event. he says he has faith desantis

will be the nominee. >> right now in national polling we are way behind, i'll be the first to admit that. being really blunt and honest. it is an uphill battle. donald trump is the runaway frontrunner. >> rich: the latest poll shows trump commands a huge lead over desantis. the closest challenger, by more than 30 points. let's bring in our panel, a -- matt, want to start with you. what is your take on where governor desantis is right now? what it would take for him to knock president trump off that perch? >> one of the things i would say is secretary shouldn't have been talking like that on a national tv program or twitter. it is like going to a barbecue later today with your wife and talking about how attractive the

woman across the pool is. so that was a tactical error on his part. everyone knows it's true. trump is way ahead right now. a pretty fluid race as you saw in the polling. desantis is the only other person in double digits in the 20s. he has to figure out how to get the rest of the field to get behind him. donald trump is likely to be the republican nominee. >> rich: i want to get to more polling here, jonathan. if you look at what gop presidential primary voters are telling us, how important is it to vote for a candidate who shares your views or can beat president biden? if you look at extremely, republican voters say 70% beating the current president is mostly extremely important to them. you have go to how that factors between the former president and the governor of florida right now and they say 57% give trump

the electability nod. 63% give trump the nod on issues. the argument that most of the former president's challengers are making is that trump lost in 2020. he was at the head of the ticket in 2018 at least even though he wasn't on the ticket. he was the leader of the party in 2018 and 2022 when he was getting involved in the mid-term elections, and that they can't win with him. what is it? can the republican party win with donald trump at the helm again? >> i think history has said no. he won one election and has been proven to be a loser every other time. i don't understand why republicans who think their most important issues is electability still back him. he was beaten soundly by joe biden there 2020 and as a democrat, i hope he is the

nominee in 2024 because there is no better match-up for president biden than president trump because everything trump talked about on the campaign trail and even during his presidency, president biden actually has done. he is not making stuff up like trump did. he is actually signing bills into law not fake executive orders that don't mean anything with a giant sharpie. if republicans want to talk about winning an election they have to get away from donald trump and ron desantis. his biggest problem since getting in the race people have gotten to know him and don't actually like him. he spends every speech using woke as a noun verb and adjective how he is -- he can be seen as more maga that donald trump and it is turning off voters. >> rich: mary anne williamson is ripping the dnc throwing its

full support behind biden and refusing to hold debates. she is making her second run for the oval office as it goes against the notion of democracy. here is that. >> i don't think it's good for democracy. i think it is very important that the democratic electorate get a chance to weigh in. i look at the campaign season as a long job interview process and the voters should have a chance to interview all of the candidates for the job. and that does include the president. what's outrageous how overt they are about absolutely admitting they are doing what they can in the primary season to support the president. >> rich: she stands at ten percent support in the fox news polls and robert f. kennedy junior at 17%. president biden at 64%. when you look at that landscape, matt, should the president be debating and engaging in the primary contest, or is he smart

to just sit this out and look towards whomever the republicans are going to run? >> williamson has a great point. the dnc is in the tank for joe biden. joe biden does not want to be on the campaign trail. he does not want to engage these primary opponents because if he were to debate either one of them the tiger king, it would be a disaster for him in his campaign. to his point earlier the democrats are hoping to play hide and seek with joe biden, keep him in the white house, keep him in a fixed audience and hope they get to run against who they want to run against. at the end of the day the american people will judge joe biden on his four years in office and by every polling measure on an issue, he has been a disaster. >> rich: if you look at the landscape, is it wise for the president to not be fully out there, fully testing and challenging himself here? he is playing it too safe? >> i don't think he is playing it too safe.

the best campaign strategy for president biden is to continue to be president because he has been so successful at being president. he should be going out there to ribbon cuttings, shovels in the ground, all of these projects that are going to be happening in the next 2, 3, 4 years because of legislation he has passed, the infrastructure act. all of those bills are helping people's lives and he should campaign on that but campaigning as a successful president. as far as williamson and kennedy. these are not serious candidates. he should not debate them or give them air time. i would say it's the fourth of july, joey chest nut is better equipped to talk about the issues than those two. there is no reason for the president to engage these two people. >> rich: joey chestnut a serious third party challenger.

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friends. >> to me it means freedom. >> we should remember the meaning of liberty, what it means to be an american. the sacrifices that have been made for us, for our freedom in this country. >> rich: fourth of july means something different to millions of americans who celebrate every year. around the country those celebrate with parades, barbecues, fireworks. in the south and out west they will deal with heat. christina coleman is live from santa monica, california. christina. >> families all across this great nation are celebrating america's birthday today. it is awesome. a big party everywhere. some patriotic and so many people grateful for the freedoms we have in this country. thousands grabbed a picnic blanket or lawn chair to enjoy fireworks along the hudson river and listen to great music performed by soldier musicians of the west point band in new york over the weekend. take a look at this.

in d.c. the douglas memorial bridge was lit up in red, white and blue for the fourth. even more beautiful in person. such a cool sight. this video right here, this is my favorite. the army's golden knights honor the nation's birthday in hawaii by wowing the crowd with a freefall parachute demonstration. captured from the helmet shows them in the sky after jumping from a blackhawk helicopter. so many cool ways to celebrate. also fox news digital caught up with folks why the fourth is so special to them. >> it is the day you celebrate american values, you know, things like that. always a big celebration on what it means to be american. >> honoring the veterans and just the country, just how people have freedom. >> for me it's about family and celebrating independence day with parades.

>> and there are some dry, hot conditions for parts of the south and west. it is definitely not stopping folks from getting together with family and friends today and enjoying the holiday at water parks, pools, beaches and santa monica at the pier. it is cool but it will warm up and the beach will be packed full of people out here celebrating this great country. back to you. >> rich: christina coleman live in santa monica. thank you. >> julie: one way to celebrate freedom on the fourth of july is honoring the brave men and women who protect it. the whole purpose of a parade underway now in provo, utah, which is where we find abby hornacek. you go to incredible locations. i saw video of you skydiving. we need to talk about that

later. you're crazy but amazing. tell us about this amazing parade you are attending today. >> by the way, that was for our proud american coverage as well. we're at the parade, the grand parade. this thing, julie, is so big that people really did have to have a contingency plan. i talked to someone telling me the different elements of the parade start from various locations and converge here. we're in a great spot. you can hear the marching band behind me right now. we've seen military processions going down university avenue and so many people. it sets the parade apart. they expect to have 350,000 people in the crowd today. everyone is dressed in red, white and blue. i asked the organizer of the event what is it that draws people to the parade? he said patriotism, people's love for god, family country. i have just been the theme of this weekend, everyone just

loves this country so much. take a listen. >> you have an amazing outfit. what inspired this this morning? >> i love this country. i am a first immigrant generation and i just love the u.s. and i love the flag. if you come to my house you see the u.s. flag all over and go to my office the u.s. flag everywhere. >> as you talk to people who didn't necessarily grow up here but appreciate all the freedoms they have here. speaking of this wonderful day, one of the main reasons we celebrate this is, of course, for the people who dedicated their lives to saving our freedom and protecting us overseas and in our own soil. it's where we thank our military veterans as well. i had the opportunity to talk to a world war ii veteran, jack and one of the grand marshalls of this parade. >> it is most exciting fourth of july i've ever had in my life. the patriotism i sent among all these people is so wonderful. i will never forget that week in

my life and if i die when i'm 100 i'll be happy. because of being with nice people like you. it has been so wonderful. >> it really is nice. people like jack and the other veterans and people all across utah, we owe them so much. such a blessing to hear him say that this is his favorite fourth of july in all his years. we are having a great time here and looking forward to the rest of the day as well. >> julie: thank you so much and keep up the great work. i love watching you out there. thank you. speaking of our brave men and women of the military, we will be speaking to marine corps veteran billy richards. he carries the american flag when he runs in marathons. he will explain the symbolism behind that and talk about his efforts to help fellow veterans. that interview is coming up a little later in this hour. stay tuned to that. >> rich: harvard stands accused

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>> rich: three minority groups are filing a lawsuit against harvard over legacy and donor preferences in its admission process saying the policy violates the civil rights act and benefits white students. this comes on the heels of the supreme court decision striking down affirmative action. fox news justice correspondent david spunt is here with more. >> this lawsuit comes not even a week after the high court voted to gut affirmative action at universities across the country. the message is clear to harvard leadership. three minority advocacy groups filed this lawsuit aimed at the ivy league school's leadership

accusing harvard of rewarding the children of wealthy donors and alumni with admission. friday the justices voted to overturn year's worth of affirmative action with the majority righting harvard university was unfairly taking in applicants of color. the justices ruled race can't be a specific basis for accepting a potential future student. harvard university at that time put out a statement in the weeks and months ahead drawing on the talent and expertise of our harvard community we'll determine how to preserve consistent our central values. harvard and the university of north carolina were the two schools in the supreme court case. though the implications will expand across the country to hundreds of schools. in this specific lawsuit the fangs -- lawyers for civil rights said even worse, this preferential treatment has

nothing to do with an applicant's merit. instead it is an unfair and unearned benefit conferred solely based on the family that the applicant is born into. this custom, pattern and practice is exclusionary and discriminatory and severely harms applicants of color. we reached out to harvard for a comment. a spokesperson says the official statement on the lawsuit. the university reconfirmed its commitment that research and learning depend on a community with many backgrounds and experiences. we'll see where it goes in the court. >> rich: david, thank you. >> julie: an attorney with more who joins me. thank you very much for talking to us. first i want your take on this as a lawyer. do you agree that harvard legacy preferences violate the civil rights act? >> no, not at all.

it is a frivolous lawsuit that will be dismissed. there is no question about that. the reason is because the civil rights act of 1963 bans discrimination based off race, color or national origin. the issue that is at issue in this lawsuit has nothing to do with race, color or national origin. i get it. it is unseemly. no one wants to think a little rich kid who dad contributed $1 hundred million to harvard will get in but it has nothing to do with race, national origin or anything related to discrimination. >> julie: the argument would be that college student would have preferential treatment if their parent is a huge donor and where minorities argue they don't have that leverage when they don't come from that privilege. >> no different than if harvard was discriminating against dumb

students with low sat or act scores. nothing to do with race or national origin. they have the ability to select who they want to come into the school. they just can't base it off of discriminatory practices related to race. i don't think they can make that logical step to convince the court that this is race based. >> julie: the 31 page complaint says harvard's consideration of legacy preferences violates federal law. they admits predominantly white students using donor and legacy preferences and excludes non-white applicants. as a recipient of federal funds harvard is required to follow title vi that prohibits discrimination of race and national origin. does that help that the funds are received by harvard, federal funds? >> no, i still don't think they have a leg to stand on. they are missing the boat.

i don't think it is a judicial solution but a legislative one. the state of colorado banned these sorts of practices completely. now you can do in a state level, do it at a national level but it is not discriminatory based. it is repugnant to think of kids getting preferential treatment but they are barking up the wrong place. pressure harvard to eliminate it. harvard loves it because they have an endowment fund and now donors and want their kids to go to school. ken griffin donated millions to the school. it is unseemly and bad but not illegal. >> julie: there is a recent abc poll shows a slim majority of americans 52% approve of the decision to overturn affirmative

action. 32% disapproving. is this -- i don't believe this should be much of a surprise, but the dissenters, those who think that this is going to hurt the minority communities, i mean, the bottom line is this. it is fair play, you know, you should be admitted into a college based on a merit system, not based on your skin color and there have been times in the past under the affirmative action ruling back 19 years ago that excluded asians, for example. a minority community, from entering schools with excellent act and sat scores. the same argument could be said about affirmative action that that exclude minority groups. >> absolutely, julie. $64,000 question is do you think discrimination against qualified asians is as bad as discrimination against african-americans or hispanic

students? i don't have the answer to that. everybody has their own opinion on it. from a legal perspective the supreme court was right with respect to their decision. i know a lot of people don't like it. some do. but that's the law. we have equal protection under the constitution for a reason. this is precisely that reason. >> julie: andrew, great to have you on. well said. appreciate it and happy fourth. >> thank you, same. >> rich: mark zuckerberg is taking on elon musk in another arena as instagram gets ready to drop a competitor to twitter called threads expected to launch thursday and already available in the ios app store. it is closely connected with instagram but its own stand alone app. for the information that's available it seems users can like, comment, repost, share posts. they can also control who replies to their posts. >> julie: here is some news you may want to return to thunder.

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>> julie: it's about to cost you more to mail that letter. the price of stamps is jumping from 63 to $0.66. the second price hike this year and the fifth since 2019. postal service blames it on inflation. email is free. >> rich: billy richards recently completed his 500th endurance event horroring the military and first responders and carried the american flag for many of those rugs symbolizing the hardships of service members. after several years of service he is adjusting to civilian life and helping others do the same.

billy richards joins us now. thank you for joining us this morning here. i ran boston a few months ago. i had a couple of energy bars. you carried the american flag. what is it like and why do you do it? >> i do it to -- i started out as a patriotic gesture and wanted to commemorate my friends and everything that i have lost overseas and also wanted to raise awareness towards the struggle that we go through as veterans and also on active duty by carrying the extra weight and also carrying the flag. and i've also done a lot of events with the flag to push the limits. so i've done races up to and over 100 miles. i've done 45 of them carrying the flag. attempted a world record a few

years back where i ran 100 miles 35 times in ten months. world record was most 100 miles in a year. during that world record attempt i injured my hip so i have no cartilage left in my right hip but still keep pushing through and just pushing the limits to show the struggles that we go through as veterans. >> rich: veterans face ptsd and higher rates of homelessness and all sorts of challenges when they come back into civilian life. there is something about running and endurance sports that a lot of people experience whether it's the camaraderie with running with friends or runner's high and inner peace. it is hard to explain to people. how have you helped your fellow veterans through running. >> i've given them motivation and everything to press forward.

with me it's helped me out a lot. it has given me a mission in life and a purpose. it has given me a reason. it has given me a goal to push towards and also to -- i've seen many veterans out there as well. there has been veterans that have missing limbs, that have gone through many other struggles and everything and seeing them out there, it provides a lot of motivation and everything. so, you know -- basically in a nutshell what i do is i motivate people to bring out the best in themselves. >> rich: billy richards, thank you, keep inspiring, keep running, and thank you for all you've done. much appreciated.

>> i will. thank you so much for having me on. >> rich: fox news celebrates independence day from inspiring stories from american heroes. you can catch exclusive interviews with all of them tonight during our home of the brave special. that airs right here on the fox news channel at 10:00 p.m. eastern time. >> julie: is that it? the three hours are up? it flew by, right? what will we do now? >> rich: i little early for fireworks. >> julie: it will be a great fourth for everybody and everybody stays safe at home and awesome spending another holiday would you with you always. >> rich: that does it for us. thank you for joining us, everyone. "outnumbered" is after the break.

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