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the totals 500 points on the dow 30. 1.4%, 1.5%. >> shannon: the markets are digesting it. >> bill: janet yellen is in china. they've been having problems the last month or two. >> shannon: good to see you. enter>> bill: we have to roll. "the faulkner focus" follows now and here is julie banderas in today. hi, julie. >> julie: we begin with a fox news alert. more questions than answers over the cocaine found at the white house. the president saying mum appearing even to laugh off reporters' questions. i'm julie banderas in for harris and this is "the faulkner focus." secret service ordering a dna and fingerprint analysis of the small baggy of cocaine found in the west wing over the holiday weekend. white house press secretary karine jean-pierre saying the drug was found in a heavily traveled area. but the secret service telling
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fox that it was found in a cubby used by guests and west wing staffers. reporters absolutely bombarding her with cocaine questions, as they should. she gave essentially no information but the repeatedly state that the president and first family were out of town when this happened. >> where exactly inside the west wing was the substance discovered >> who would have access to the west wing. >> have you done interviews with law enforcement. >> are you doing testing? >> would there be consequences for that individual or if they were a guest of a white house staffer. can you give any more details where the secret service found the cocaine in the west wing and how it got there? >> i would have to refer you to the secret service on all of this. one thing i can share that i will share a little bit more information as you know, the president and the first lady and their family were not here this
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weekend. >> julie: the president yesterday during a meeting with sweden's prime minister. [shouted questions] >> julie: on deck former utah congressman and fox news contributor jason chaffetz. first we'll go to white house correspondent jacque heinrich. you asked a great question of the president about -- about the president and how seriously he takes the investigation and the answers. you got dodged. she dodged your question. you had to ask it a second time? >> i will play it for you right now. the president, though, was silent when he was faced with this question meeting in the oval office with the swedish prime minister about that country's nato bid ahead of the summit next week. evidently the president got a read-out on what happened? >> how determined is the president to get to the bottom of who brought illegal drugs
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into the white house? how determined is the president? >> the president thinks its very important to get to the bottom of this and why secret service is looking into this. >> secret service is conducting fingerprint and dna tests as part of the probe and looking at security footage and white house visitor logs. the incident highlights potential security gaps and concerns a more dangerous substance like anthrax could slip through. house republicans say they have jurisdiction over secret office also and they are demanding a briefing. >> we have concerns about national security risks, obviously. there are a lot of explanations that could be made for what happened there, but at the end of the day with all the money and all the security that we have around the white house, something like this should never happen. >> secret service says the
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cocaine was found in a personal cubby white house used by guest and staffers. they wouldn't say if a guest brought it in but it was made in an area heavily trafficked by visitors and whether the odd ministration would support charging the offender or staffers in the white house will be drug tested, saying the investigation first needs to play out, julie. >> julie: thank you very much. as you just heard there, republicans want answers about the investigation. senator tom cotton is demanding full transparency for the american people. in a letter to the secret service directly he laid out a series of questions he wants answered. they include who can access the west wing with no security or reduced security procedures? circumstances where security chooses not to use sniffer dogs on visitors? how many times in the last five years security found illegal drugs at the white house?
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if they find the person responsible, will there be an arrest? jason chaffetz, former senator, and an author joins me now. i'm so glad we get to talk about this. there are so many questions. what irritates me the most is the demeanor in which the press secretary answers these record reporter's questions. next it could be anthrax. these are serious questions. instead she is more interested in covering the bidens and telling us the bidens were not home or in the white house at the time it was discovered. that's completely irrelevant. they were there before it was discovered and after. hunter biden was, in fact, at camp david two weekends in a row with his father. these are legitimate concerns of the american public. >> absolutely. you are 100% right. my understanding -- i've been in that setting, in that very place
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multiple times. ari fleischer pointed out last night as well, the former press secretary for president bush, that it is not just an open cubby where anybody can walk by and do these types of things. it is actually manned by the uniform division of the secret service. you would hand it to a secret service officers who would put it in the cubby. i do not believe for even one minute that the secret service doesn't already know who had access and that they've narrowed it down to just a few people that are traveling there. there is an outside perimeter of security. they have badges, everybody has a badge. there are multiple cameras going at this. you don't get to walk around the west wing, even if you are staff, without a heavy presence of the secret service and a distinct understanding of who is going where and why. and so i think they already know
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where it is. i think they are trying to wait for the dna evidence. that doesn't happen in a half a day or a day. the secret service, i do believe, knows at this point who this person is. >> julie: if you look at the way they are handling it right off the bat they make it seem suspicious. we're just asking questions, the reporters there in the press pool, right? if you look at all the other networks. the major prod cast networks last night led with the cocaine found at the white house. not one broadcast mentioned the name hunter biden. now, we're not saying it is hunter biden's. we're calling it what it is. the president's son is a former crack cocaine addict and he is supposed to be clean. he was given a slap on the wrist for charges that should have been felony charges. why? because he is the president's son. prefer -- it was found in the
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white house where hunter biden is. other networks making stupid jokes. it is no laughing matter. crack cocaine is a serious drug found in our white house. >> yes. i heard one of those reporters talking about nobody got hurt. what about the development transport and all of the other -- that's just a ridiculous assertion. it is a controlled substance, it's an illegal drug. it is found in the white house in the west wing for goodness sake. it is a very serious matter and they have to be able to show us, the secret service, that they mean business. that they know exactly what's happening and not happening. you are right, what if it was anthrax or some other substance? you know, i hope they get to this at the quickest of times but the clock is ticking, secret service. you are the american people. you work for the american people. you don't just work for the president of the united states.
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>> julie: what's very telling is when the press secretary was asked will they be charges and pursue whoever is responsible, whoever this belongs to? she wouldn't answer that. the answer should have been absolutely you aren't allowed to bring drugs into the white house. anyone who did we'll pursue the investigation, secret service will find you and you will be punished. there was none of that. the president heading to deep red south carolina to talk up his economic record and green jobs, all part of his bidenomics campaign push. he have is facing, though, a tough sell with voters and with republicans in congress. watch. >> what is he going to tout? high interest rates and high inflation, can't hire anybody, no supply chain? i'm a main street america guys and been in business 52 years. this is as bad as i've ever seen it. it is a non-winner but shows how out of touch they are with no business people in this administration and how out of touch they are with people
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trying to make payroll and do business. it is a loser and it's a joke. >> julie: one article says americans particularly working and middle class americans, are poorer today than they were during the trump administration. report in bloomberg said the middle class of economic anxiety will decide the 2024 election. they cited a study saying the president has what middle class problem. bottom line, more than $2 trillion in wealth held by the middle class has been eliminated since the fed started hiking interest rates. you can see how the dow is sliding right now down almost 500 points after fed officials yesterday signaled yet another hike is likely. so we've got inflation and we've got rising interest rates. we've got $3 trillion the middle class suffered in losses in one year. yet the president is still
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touting his bidenomics and democrats, every time i have a democrat on the air tout raising wages, a rise in wages means nothing when inflation is at such an all-time high. why doesn't the white house acknowledge this is a problem? >> well, you know what? the average american aren't just one speech away from them saying oh, gosh, i guess i am better off. that's more joe biden at the microphone doesn't solve any problems. it usually makes them worse. the reality is until this administration reduces the cost of energy, this inflation is here to stay. but that is not part of their agenda. on day one they sought to constrict the energy market. that's what caused so much of this inflation. don't blame it on putin. that's what they try to do. they try to do the -- all these excuses along the way. the reality is the constriction on our ability to fuel our future and be energy independent
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is the reason we're here today. they won't go there. therefore they aren't going to solve the problem. american business understands that. and the consequences they can try to spin it all they want, but that's all it is, a bunch of hot air. >> julie: a bunch of spin. thank you so much. appreciate you coming on. two indictments and possibly more to come. what it means to president trump when it comes to raising campaign cash. big concerns about president biden's age and he won't get younger. >> the american public overwhelmingly it seems to me has decided that joe biden is too old for this job, both democrat, republican and independent. >> julie: his challengers are flexing hard on that. just about everyone showing off their physical prowess. we'll do some verbal sparring next. ♪
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>> julie: the race for the white house turning into a 2024 gun show literally. republican candidates making a point of getting physical as voters worry about biden's age. >> i think he is too old to be president to be honest. >> he technically shouldn't be in there now. >> some people age faster than others. he has aged out. >> is there an age limit? whatever it is should be 65. i think he is a little old to be the president. >> he bumbles everything he says and doesn't want to answer reporters' questions, which is
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number one for us. >> julie: robert f. kennedy junior played up his fitness posting a video doing push-ups shirtless. senator tim scott, a high school football stand out showing he still has it in this video tossing around the pig skin with his campaign manager. a pac backing governor ron desantis highlighting his stint in the little league world series by sending out baseball cards. karl rove says throw out the grumpy old men. voters have the opportunity to force a generational change within the 2024 election. our nation is deeply divided and angry. it faces tremendous challenges at home and dangers abroad. these are best confronted by energetic new leadership. whichever party figures this out will have the upper hand next year.
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our panel joins me now. first of all, the fitness and physical fitness not necessarily crucial in voting in a president. you don't need to do push-ups but your mental fitness, that's what most people are concerned with. david, i'll start with you. >> we've been told an apple a day keeps the doctor away. i want to start seeing ads where candidates are eating apples and fresh fruits. the reality, though, is joe biden could have to your .6-pack at-bats and this country moving in the right direction because his ideas are older than he is. and as much as voters have concerns about age or even mental actmen they have concerns about every candidate. they will pick the candidate who they think most represents their ideas. you think about who these -- both candidates, president trump and president biden, have as their strongest supporters it is
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younger voters. it's the only people they know in their limited time in politics and what frames republicans and democrats for them. >> julie: there is a new op-ed with this headline. cruel summer. biden faces bruising few weeks of setbacks and scandal, the cocaine found at the white house, scathing report on biden not acknowledging his seventh grandchildren and son's criminal charges. the bruising supreme court decisions, frequent gaffes and the president's lowest polling ever. are these not things that concerned the white house and also do they not see that clearly when he dodges reporters' questions like a perfectly average american just pointed out just like we all notice, he doesn't even answer questions. like he doesn't have the wherewithal to process the question in order to give a coherent answer. that's concerning. we aren't putting down people in their 80s. that's not the point here. >> no, i think the thing to
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remember about joe biden and easy to look at a couple of stories headlining and get caught up in a story at the moment. the package at the white house. it will last about 12 hours in the news cycle. the way he operates is slow and steady, long game, long view. that's the point of biden economics in the first place. they've reestablished american manufacturing bit by bit with 300,000 new clean energy manufacturing jobs a loan. almost a million across all sectors. 13 million new jobs. they will continue playing the long game piece by piece building the economy and creating the choice between him and donald trump and that's the choice we know americans will make in favor of joe biden and the democrats. july >> julie: first trump's poll numbers and now fundraising despite two different criminal
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indictments and more to come. the president's campaign and pac raked in more than $35 million over just the last three months. that's nearly double what it brought in during the january to march quarter before any of the charges. governor christie nome on where that money is coming from. >> president trump has millions of small donors that invest in him. they maybe aren't rich people or big donors but they go out there and use their hard-earned money to get a leader elected. i don't think the other candidates have that kind of commitment from the people who invest in them. >> julie: i think donald trump should send joe biden a thank you letter because i honestly think that biden, the more and more he is in office and the more things that get screwed up, he is just handing it over to trump. >> we know two things, julie, from these numbers. president trump will have a number of small donors he need to be on fox debate stage at the end of august should he choose
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to participate, and two, they have the resources to now say every other campaign's fundraising numbers will be matched up against what they put out. they came out first. it is what they are using those dollars for. look at the fact that $70 million in super pac money has already been spent. majority of it by the trump campaign. next desantis and then governor burgum in north dakota. president trump is able to define his opponent. you see ads about desantis in iowa, new hampshire and national cable. he is defining desantis before he gets to define desantis. >> julie: desantis his polls are not as high as trump's but he is very popular and he has a lot of money himself. there are super pacs that put their money behind trump in the last election and they've switched putting their money behind desantis.
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the latest fox news poll shows trump gained ground post indictment. in may he had 53% support and a month later after he pleaded not guilty to 37 federal counts, he actually polled at 56% support. desantis, of course, is the closest competitor in the most recent poll but he trails trump by 34 points. dan, does that surprise you or is it just that people are so desperate for a change and they thought things were so much better when trump was in there? let's go back to the good old times. >> i don't think the electorate at large wants donald trump to be in the final contest. that's been proven in many polls. in the prism of the republican primary electorate trump has a strangle hold and has for a while and continues to. to your point he is making that stronger as we go forward. the whole premise of ron desantis and other republicans running is to be some other lane than donald trump in the republican primary. i don't think that lane exists.
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if it does it hasn't proven yet. the interesting number in the poll you cited from fox news is the folks that would never vote for trump was only 13% in the republican primary and that was the lowest of any of the candidates in the field. 35% said they would never vote for mike pence. 14, 15, 16% for folks like nikki haley, desantis and others. trump has the most fidelity in that party. i think the point about the fundraising is that he is clearly, as i mentioned, he has a grassroots support within that base that is strong and will be there for him. he is locking up the nomination for time. there is still time. nothing to see him knock it off. i wonder what he is using the money for. pac ads would be wise defining his opponents but he is siphoning cash for legal defense and previous campaign buddies.
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how officially they spend it. i don't know if it will help him in the general election. primary contest he is winning big. >> julie: he has the support. thank you, appreciate you both coming on. the white house shutting down questions about hunter's daughter with an ex-stripper. new report on the biden's relationship with her causing all sorts of headaches. plus republicans celebrating a legal smackdown of team biden's social media censorship. >> we will get to the merits of the case and root out this vast censorship enterprise biden has constructed. >> julie: tomi lauren mentions that in that ruling. she is mentioned in it and will join us next.
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>> julie: meta rolling out its new app called threads in a head-on challenge to twitter. the new messaging app is similar to twitter emphasizing public conversation and connects to instagram in a move to roll in that app's 2 billion monthly users. kelly o'grady to explain what's going on here. >> meta is really taking a run at twitter here and threads is already gaining traction. we're learning they've seen 30 million sign-ups as of this morning. that's less than 24 hours. i tried it out for myself. the app is primarily text based. it links to your instagram account. i was able to keep my same name and follow the same users.
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it will be able to leverage meta 's existing customer base. zuckerberg said it is an open and friendly space for conversation. it begs the question who decides what's open and friendly? some users are reporting when they try to follow certain accounts they get a prompt asking if they're sure they want to follow them and a warning that account has repeatedly posted false information. twitter files journalist michael shellenberger is calling it censorship accusing the platform of withholding transparency. mark zuckerberg promised us a better experience than twitter but he is censoring users and offering no avenue to appeal. elon musk is claiming free speech. they have a lot of controversies. a subtle jab at the new app musk tweeted infinitely to be -- this
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really tees up the clash of the billionaires. when the two apps will divide the country even more. >> julie: the biden administration is preparing to push back on a major court ruling. a judge found that officials likely violated the first amendment with social media censorship. the judge said they censored information on covid, elections and hunter biden. several agencies are blocked from discussing censorship with social media firms. the white house with this clapback. >> if you are asking me if we agree or disagree, we certainly disagree with this decision. as i said, the d.o.j. is reviewing this. i won't get ahead of what their evaluations and what options
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they'll take on moving forward. >> julie: republicans say the ruling is a victory for americans. >> i think the language reflects this was a stunning rebuke but also an appropriate one. i will tell you, my take is that this is going to hold up on appeal. americans' ability to engage in honest debate about it was suppressed. you have these agencies with social media working to suppress the truth and amplify lies. >> julie: a new op-ed argues, that this could be a major test place. plaintiffs are doing a public service whether teeing up whether government can use private business to censor views it dislikes. tomi lauren, you were named in the lawsuit. congratulations. that's a tip of the hat to you.
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it is also kind of sad because you were using free speech but conservative speech they hate, right? a journalist found an email from a white house official calling to censor you. how do you feel about that? >> we've known about this for quite some time now and i have to say i'm so happy this lawsuit has been put forward and so happy with this judge's decision. it was 155-page decision. i am on page 16 of this. what the judge did is detailed line by line all the areas of government collusion, big government, big tech working together to suppress information and the judge also noted that the information happened to be you will be shocked, julie, primarily conservative speech made by conservative-leaning individuals. i fell in the category. what was interesting about the way the white house digital director tried to censor me is that he actually wrote to facebook saying that i needed to be reduced on the platform
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simply because my post was getting a lot of traction saying i personally wouldn't be getting the covid vaccine. so if they want to argue all day that they are combating misinformation or disinformation i don't know how me saying i won't get a vaccine could possibly qualify for that in their wildest dreams. facebook was happy to run that down and get that reduction rolling. this decision is fantastic for the first amendment, for americans. we want to wait and see what consequences will be applied and what accountability will be taken. >> julie: the fact that the department of justice will appeal the ruling is telling. it bans certain officials and agencies from contacting social media companies in efforts to suppress speech. we aren't just talking about any speech but conservative speech. that's censorship. i don't care what you want to call it. the white house press secretary karine jean-pierre told reporters when asked about this that the administration disagreed with it but wouldn't
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directly respond to a question about censortive speech. they won't admit if you don't agree with us we'll silence you. that's what they are trying to do with this appeal. >> it absolutely is. and the fact that the government wants this ability to control social media and big tech entities that have a direct line to them and have direct communication telling them what to censor and what to suppress should be concerning to all americans regardless of your political affiliation especially with something like covid. the american people shouldn't be taking a political stance on something like covid. we should be able to have an honest discussion. all our lives were impacted by it an the mandates. the fact they wanted to shut down that speech is dangerous. >> julie: have to switch gears. the white house is refusing to talk about hunter's child with his former assistant and x stripper. "new york times" report says the
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4-year-old has yet to meet her father or grandfather, president biden. the report also saying in strategy meetings aides have been told the bidens have six, not seven grandchildren. the white house really, really doesn't want to talk about it. watch. >> there was a story in the "new york times" over the weekend about hunter biden's daughter in arkansas. does the president acknowledge this little girl as his granddaughter? >> i don't have anything to share from here. >> julie: twitter users not impressed. the bidens hung a christmas stocking with the dog's name on it and the president won't acknowledge his own granddaughter? another dripping with sarcasm. you can just feel the empathy and decency oozing. this is not only shameful for hunter but he has problems. the president of the united states has a seventh grandchild. this girl will grow up knowing that her grandfather didn't want anything to do with her.
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>> going to the question for karine jean-pierre, i wish the reporter would have asked her how many grandchildren does the president have? then she would have been backed into a corner and woofer had to answer. they gave her the easy way to answer that she doesn't discuss family matters. we get that. hunter has his issues, the big guy all about family and restoring morality and decency back to the white house won't acknowledge a 4-year-old little girl? we're told he defends hunter because of a father's love. that doesn't extend to hunter's child and no grandchild? no grandfatherly love he is willing to expand? that's disappointing. the 4-year-old girl is an innocent victim. >> julie: this is a biological child. therefore it is a biological grandchild. the fact the president doesn't have the decency to knowledge here despite his own son's problem, fine.
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you slept with a stripper and got her pregnant. that's my grandchild and i will do the right thing. i can't believe we're having this conversation. half the time talking about this white house this week is jarring. >> it is. a couple weeks ago you had a trans flasher on the white house lawn and then you had cocaine found in the white house and of course you have the big guy who fails to acknowledge his own grandchild. again, like i said, this white house told us that they were going to bring back all this morality, this moral courage that donald trump ruined in his tenure in office. they are doing the opposite and shamelessly and brazenly and it is unfortunate. this president always talks about how kids belong to all of us belong to the collective. he won't acknowledge his own grandchild. i don't know what kind of parental advice we take from him. >> julie: i hope they do the right thing. wake up, seriously. tomi lauren, thank you very
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>> julie: vending machines dispensing some controversy. it's not just snacks, not just sodas anymore. now colleges are using them to make emergency contraceptives like plan b easier to get. according to one agency colleges in 17 states have installed these machines. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel has more. >> more universities are
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expected to install vending machines that sell the morning after contraception. the american society for emergency contraception says at least 39 universities have these machines so far. at least 20 more are considering installing them. the university of washington selling generic plan b for $12.60. one quarter of the store price. 640 boxes have been sold there so far. one advocate at students for life action says young women are taking the drug without considering the impact on their health and without speaking to a doctor. >> the problem in a nutshell is not just the lack of informed consent so women understand what is happening to their bodies. it can be the lack of consent all together. multiple doses of these plan b drugs have an unknown impact on fertility. >> george washington university installed a machine in january. one of the students behind the project at g.w. says after the
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overturning of roe v. wade we were motivated to show students that g.w. supported all their needs. reproductive rights are human rights and we believe having an emergency contraception was the first step to show that. this could be yet another hot topic during the 2024 political season. julie. >> julie: thank you so much. we have actor, producer and author kurt cameron wants communities to have a pro family story hour august 5th. >> we're not a mission to not only take back a few hours at library but we want to spark a genuine faith-filled revival. >> julie: not in the american library association has its way. brave books found a video where
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the ala gives tips to libraries how to block cameron's see you at the library event. here is a snippet. >> right now brave books and kirk cameron are conducting a campaign to take over the libraries on august 5th by encouraging individuals to apply to use library meeting rooms for kirk cameron's story hours. let's look at how you can use that public forum to construct policies and procedures that will help you keep control of the library yourself. >> julie: he will not be deterred and he is no "focus" now. a friend of mine and we're both authors for brave books and have done book readings together as well. keep you out of the library? they're trying to keep your positive conservative message out of the libraries but they invite drag queens to read stories to children.
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that's okay. >> that's exactly right. this is open intolerance for religions beliefs. this isn't just me. they are conspiring to deny access to people of faith across the country to go to their own publicly funded community libraries to read books to their kids. you know, it screams the height of hypocrisy when those who scream the loudest about book banning are themselves the most intent on book banning, that is, books about faith and virtue and what is true and beautiful and right. and what is stunning here, julie, this isn't just a few woke libraries across the country. this is the american library association. the government agency that is funded by $250 million teaching libraries how to break the law and deny access to their own community members. so it is pretty incredible. >> julie: let's talk about it. it is an infringement on our
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laws and you and first liberty institute are sending a letter. it is being sent today as we speak to the institute of library services requesting for an open investigation into whether the american library association has violated federal law protecting religious liberty and failed to comply with assurances of non-discrimination with a federal grant. we have pictures of you and i in march. we tried to get into the new york public library, any. we weren't allowed. what did we do? we did our reading outside and had a large gathering but certainly not nearly as large as we would have had had we had a proper space indoors. what was the excuse they gave us? tell people. >> they said that well, you know, libraries are filled up and then finally at the last minute they said we do have a space for you at this tiny library on the other side of a train track in a part of town where nobody wanted to go. they thought they could put us at the back of the bus and that
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would suffice. this is internal dealings at a higher level looking to openly suppress people of faith. here is the good news. in lord of the rings the message has gotten back to the shire and all the hobbits are gathering for the great battle against the orcs. on august 5th libraries across the nation will be filled with parents who want to read books to their kids, your book, my book, any book of virtue. if you want to join this army of hobbits and battle the orcs go to brave books.com and check on the tab see you at the library. >> julie: my book is about perseverance and yours is about faith. that's really offensive installing morals and values. the parents thanked us for doing this. thank you, kirk, for continuing to push the fight.
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i love we get to work together and have become friends through all of this. you are awesome. brave books is where you can find it out. kirk tells wholesome store eaves across the country and find out which library he will be at next. i love you, thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." "outnumbered" is right after the break. stay right there. less static. less wrinkles. more softness. more freshness. bounce. it's the sheet. so many hotels. ah! ah! ah! trouble booking the family vacay? come on. comfort has free hot breakfast for the whole fam. they have waffles! and splendid pools. cannonball! book direct at choicehotels.com.
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