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going pro. lsu gymnast olivia dunn at the forefront of the name image likeness movement and launching her own fund to bring other athletes along with her. >> sandra: the money panel, who is getting the big bucks and how. welcome back as "america reports" kicks off hour two. i'm sandra smith in new york. great to be back together and lsu making its way into hour two, so much winning. >> john: you are going to get tired so much winning. too bad they did not have the program when you are running track there. >> sandra: no kidding. olivia dunn, we'll try to get her on the show. >> john: also tracking the fallout from recent supreme court rulings including a pair of "new york times" pieces that paint two justices in very different lights. >> sandra: it's really something. jonathan turley will take that up just ahead but begin with the growing crime crisis. violent crime numbers staggering
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in the city of los angeles and critics are warning it is about to get even worse. now that the city is bringing back its 0 bail policy. >> john: among those calling it a mistake, the rapper 50 cent talking. >> sandra: and a suspect accused of going on a deadly rampage on a sunny saturday morning. >> john: and chilling footage shows the 25-year-old suspect roaming around on a scooter while randomly firing a gun at people, killing one and injuring three others. warnings out of los angeles just ahead. >> sandra: alexis mcadams, what do we know about the victims so far? >> sandra, a horrible situation
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in new york city with more violence. 86-year-old husband and father shot and killed while he was just walking to work in new york city. and most of it was caught on camera. take a look at the screen, the new surveillance video throughout the day, how it all unfolded. that's the 25-year-old gunman there, shows this elderly father walking down the street, the scooter does a u-turn and pulls out his gun and killing him. drive by shootings across new york city. the 25-year-old seen here smiling as he got out of the back seat of a cop car in handcuffs here. sources telling me the gunman was emotionally disturbed and ranting when he was arrested. police are trying to figure out a motive. >> if you look at the demographics and pedigree of the victims, all different. at this time video shows he's not targeting anybody, he's not
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following anybody, as he's driving on his scooter he's randomly shooting. >> this comes as police investigate the third vigilante killing in the city in three months. a cvs employee arrested after he reportedly stabbed a shoplifter to death. facing murder and other charges, claiming he pulled out in self-defense after he was punched in the face. the man who died was a known thief with quite the rap sheet. when she was asked about the violent weekend, the governor said let's look at bail reform changes reminding judges to look at the power returned to them and ask each judge whether the perp is a repeat offender, we have been talking about it for months. but governor kathy hochul reminding everyone new york city is one of the safest big cities in america. but people who live here, it does not mean much to them when you hear about the violence on a daily basis. >> john: over to the crisis in
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los angeles now, the big name rapper 50 cent is now speaking out about the city's crime problem after reinstated a 0 bail policy for misdemeanor offenders. william is in the city of angels. what did 50 say? >> well, 50 is a former drug and gun offender so he comes with the perspective you often do not hear. he says "l.a. is finished. watch how bad it gets out there" referring to the city's 0 bail policy. talking about the few days after the arrest before the suspect makes their first court appearance. in l.a. police can no longer hold a nonviolent offender and he says that's a big miss i can at that. attaching this segment from fox la to prove his point. >> starting at midnight tonight, the sheriff's department will no longer detain people for theft,
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shoplifting, drug use, vandalism, battery, and whole host of other nonserious, nonviolent crimes that affect the quality of life of people here in los angeles county. >> besides reducing a suspect's appearance rate in court, 0 bail deters enforcement, since police know the defenders will not be held. this guy multiple times residents in the l.a. neighborhood witnessed this homeless man vandalize water pipe and cut utility lines without penalty. >> when you call the police, what do they say to you? >> they say that there's nothing they can really do. >> i have five streetlights out on two streets and my house sits in complete darkness and the taxes i pay are outrageous. >> crime jumped 12% last year, burglaries, robberies, stolen cars, many did not see a courtroom. >> i'm angry with gascon, each
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and every one of the city councilmembers, angry with the mayor, if it was up to me we would replace them all. >> so the judge hearing this case says "money bail schedules against poor people detained in jail solely for reason of poverty is a clear, pervasive and serious constitutional violation." but crime groups argue it's about public safety. >> we believe in bail, we want bail. victims of crime want it, deserve it, to be able to balance the scales of justice to hold those individuals accountable. >> it's notable, john, another the l.a. police chief, county sheriff, nor the d.a. george gascon did not show up for victims so it was a one-sided argument in court against bail. >> john: he said nonviolent crimes like battery, defined as when you touch another person in
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a violent manner intentionally and without justification. i don't quite know how to square that circle. >> well, they say it is for misdemeanors and some felonies, and of course that one that you are referring to could be a felony, so frankly it's a wobbler. back to you. >> william, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: chicago, new mayor brandon johnson finally has rolled out his new blueprint for the windy city and full of progressive ambitions, but light on details on all the new taxes to help curb the violence. bring in raymond lopez, chicago alderman and former mayoral candidate, a democrat, i might add. you have always given it to us straight, a city i know you love. does this blueprint address the issues, is it going to help solve the crime crisis in the city?
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>> sandra, that 230-page document is like a socialist buffet the great programs and initiatives the mayor wants to bring that community advocates have long talked about but two things it does not discuss are taxes and public safety and those are woefully missing in it and that's what you need to address. we can't just paper over the fact we have seen spikes in crime and violence over the city under the lightfoot administration and cannot ignore it as public policy. we have to address it and clearly individuals leading the transition team, the mayor's administration do not want to talk about the issue. very inconvenient truths, especially when you look at how deadly the summer has been. the fact we have had numerous mass shootings every week since summer has begun and the fact nothing in this document talks about how to stem that other than by talking about the usual terms of investing in our youth
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and more programming. >> sandra: sadly every weekend, every monday morning it's another deadly weekend in the city of chicago. to see nothing recommended as far as what to do about that growing crime crisis happening is disturbing for residents, but many of those residents have fleed, many of the businesses have already left that city. why? not just because of the crime but the sky high taxes and here you have recommendations for more taxes to address the crime crisis with no recommendations how to spend the money, so that is the reaction we are hearing from today. here are some of the ideas included in this blueprint, if you will, raymond. free childcare for all, guaranteed college funds for babies born in the city of chicago, creating a public blank, reparations task force, it also calls for, to convene current reparations committees. how does this address the city's biggest problems, crime and high taxes? >> you know, it truly doesn't and the fact that the mayor's team wants to say they have been able to invest a quarter of a
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billion dollars in new programming on top of the $13 billion that we already set aside for programs in government is just astronomical numbers, especially when we are not using the violence in the communities, holding criminals accountable, and the middle of the country is no better. chicago has some of the most assnine criminal policies, nonpursuit on foot or vehicle and yet criminals know it, emboldened by it and people would not mind the taxes if they felt safe but clearly chicago is failing to meet the moment, addressing the issue of safety and only the steady decline in the downtown and neighborhoods because what we are offering is not matched by reality in the neighborhoods. >> difficult to hear from you, raymond lopez. the mayor in his own words on
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the transition report and what it represents. >> unprecedented diversity of voices based on race and gender and generation. representatives from the business community, civic, social justice, community-based organization. we are going to make sure this city lives up to its promises. >> sandra: the same question i asked lady gaga's father, business owner, lifelong new york city resident addressing the crime crisis spiralling out of control here in new york city. what is the solution, you know, knowing the city of chicago like you do, what would work, what could you start doing today that would put that city on a different course? >> i think the clear consistent application and enforcement of the law on all levels would address the immediate meet -- the immediate change in public safety in the city of chicago. not overlooking things or bypassing but enforcing the law in all its forms would change
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the climate in the city of chicago. no longer would people feel emboldened, and the mayor says he's fighting for the soul of chicago. there's a stain on the soul of chicago, the unmitigated violence that impacts communities of color -- he has to address the stain. >> sandra: do you believe there are more democrats out there like you willing to speak up about this and vote based on that belief? >> we saw in the last election it was very close, it was not lopsided victory for brandon johnson, so i know there are many democrats and many voters as a whole who feel as we do. they don't feel they have the avenue to speak up but hopefully i'll continue to be their voice and more will come join us in this chorus. >> sandra: got it. thank you so much for joining us. john, you know, we have been reporting very closely on the city of chicago and what they are dealing with there, and
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sadly, when you have more and more residents fleeing and more and more businesses fleeing, the taxes go up for a certain few and if the streets are not safe and they cannot walk down the treat to go to a store or a show and it's not a livable city they will leave, too. >> john: the way raymond articulated, a simple concept. enforcing the law would change the climate. duh. that's all they have to do is enforce the law and likely change things. that's what giuliani did in new york in the early 1990s. >> sandra: it's possible, yeah. >> john: turned that place around. >> this isn't losing your glasses in the kitchen, this is the most heavily surveilled building on the face of the earth. >> probably dusted for fingerprints the first three minutes of having the bag, tell us whose fingerprints are on the
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bag. >> john: the investigation of the cocaine at the white house may be nearing its end. are lawmakers getting the explanation they are asking for. >> sandra: the media going after a supreme court after a summer full of landmark rulings. "new york times" accused of running a hit piece against justice clarence thomas while raving about the court's newest member. jonathan turley is here. he will give us his reaction next.
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republicans are demanding answers over the secret service of what they call an embarrassing security breach at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. chad pergram is on this from capitol hill. what are you hearing from oversight committee chair comer? >> good afternoon, sandra. james comer wanted a briefing on the cocaine by friday, but fox is told it will not happen until later this month. lawmakers have questions. >> the white house is supposed to be the most secure building on earth, supposed to have cameras everywhere, even if it's a well trafficked area you can narrow that down quite a bit. it's just, look at the tapes, and they know whose drugs those were. >> fox is told a crime lab in maryland is still investigating the scene. it's hoped more information is available later this week but the white house has been defensive. >> the biden family was not here, they were not here.
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they were at camp david. they were not here friday, they were not here saturday, they were not here saturday, they were not even here monday, they came back on tuesday. so to ask that question is incredibly irresponsible. >> however, a white house media pool report contradicts that. it says the first family left the white house around 6:30 on friday, june 30th. the drugs were discovered two days later. members of the administration have questions themselves. >> so we'll let the investigation unfold if it involves someone from the white house, the appropriate consequences will ensue. if it involves some visitor who came in and left it, it's a different matter. >> fox is also told the administration is being cooperative. expect lawmakers to grill fbi director christopher wray about the drugs at a hearing on wednesday, sandra. >> sandra: chad pergram, thank
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you. john. >> john: big rulings on affirmative action, student loans and liberty, and some democrats in the media taking aim at the justices themselves. "new york times" on hit pieces of clarence thomas, writing he opened the door to the court to his rich and powerful friends. the same paper has a glowing profile of the newest supreme court justice, ketanji brown jackson. joining us is jonathan turley. put the articles up side-by-side. article on justice clarence thomas, his membership in the horatio, and brown jackson in her first term, she came to play. how are you treated seems to depend which side of the political aisle your ideology lands. >> well, john, there's never been any evidence of
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self-awareness of the bias in this coverage. it is endless. the coverage of liberals on the court, they tend to condemn conservatives, and this is an endless loop. what is really remarkable, clarence thomas is one of the most inspiring stories of anyone on government. he grew up speaking gulla, he grew up in a home with dirt floor and no plumbing, and made it from the humble origins to the supreme court and the smithsonian would not include him among the famous black americans. they included anita hill, but only him after an outcry. that shows the sort of bias that is really baked in in washington against clarence thomas. >> john: one of the biggest digs in the "new york times" piece about his membership in the
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horacio algiers association, brought them into the court to present medals, and people said it was quite amazing. what the "new york times" wrote about. said justice thomas's use of the courtroom for the association while hardly unprecedented is quite rare. i mean, that has all the hallmarks of lazy journalism. you try to have it both ways, secondly, who else did it, what did they do and how many times, they don't mention any of that, just put out it's hardly unprecedented, it's very rare. >> well, the piece is really indicative of with the coverage he has faced since he first put -- first put on the court. the media has followed him bumper to bumper since he got on the court. they read every move he makes, sinister or wrong, and then give wide berth to any liberal justices and it's real
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extraordinary when you read these two columns. you get the impression justice jackson could have read from the boston telephone book and they would have called it a bold new voice. it gets to the point come on, you have to have some semblance of neutrality in this, and it's missing in the coverage. >> john: what the "new york times" did say, they did not say she could read from the phone book but from her first week in the supreme court bench in october to the final day of the term that just ended last week, justice ketanji brown jackson did something remarkable for a junior justice, established herself as a distinctive voice on the court. but you claim in a column she also engaged in some pretty fuzzy math when it came to her dissention on the affirmative action ruling, said for high risk black newborns, having a black physician more than doubles the likelihood the baby will live and not die. you say that that's not exactly the case.
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>> no, it's untrue, and it came from a brief and the attorneys responsible for that have issued a correction. they said ok, maybe we were wrong with this underlying study. look, i think that justice jackson is really, has her voice on the court and it is an important addition to the court from those from the left. president biden has a right to bring those voices to the court. it's not true that it is rare. justice scalia did not go through a period of time of contrite silence before he went on the court, neither did gorsuch, neither did kagan or any of the colleagues. they all had rather strong voices from the outset, and so this -- they sort of make this up as they go along to lionize liberals condemning conservatives. >> john: one other thing that caught my eye flying back from
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my vacation yesterday, an op-ed by the former "new york times" supreme court reporter linda greenhouse, the headline was titled "look at what john roberts and his court have wrought over the past 18 years" and accompanied by an illustration of a desolate landscape of the court building and the front steps almost post apocalyptic trope, but this is how they are treated. john, we have lots to talk about. >> it is. >> john: a lot to talk about between now and the election. a lot will be riding on that. thanks so much, professor. good to see you. >> thank you, john. >> sandra: good to have him here. dramatic rescue caught on camera after flooding and downpours left drivers stranded on streets where more severe weather may be heading next. >> john: lsu star gymnast olivia dunn is making millions of dollars by landing deals with big name brands and now she wants more female athletes to follow in her footsteps.
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>> sandra: convicted sex offender lar ry nasser has been stabbed multiple times in a federal prison. the former gymnastics team doctor sexual assaulted dozens of young women in his care and is serving up to 175 years behind bars. bryan llenas, what are do we know about nasser's condition right now? >> good afternoon. convicted child molestor larry nasser is live and in stable condition where he is undergoing treatment. confirmed that he was stabbed on sunday at 2:35 p.m. in florida.
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he was stabbed multiple times in the chest and back during an altercation with another inmate. officially the bureau of prisons is not commenting on the identity of the person attacked, but they did release a statement reading in part "the federal bureau of investigation was notified no staff or other inmates were injured and at no time was the public in danger. an internal investigation is ongoing". the federal pen is a highest staff to inmate ratio and there is close control of all inmate movements. but the a.p. reports the prison was experiencing staffing shortages and the two officers assigned to the unit where nasser was being held were working mandated overtime s shifts. nasser, the disgraced doctor is serving 40 to 175 years of month
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lefting women and girls as young as six years old, including some of the nation's top olympic gymnasts. secondly, 60 years for child porn and one of his sexual assault survivors, a former gym nat tweeted none of the women i have spoken with are rejoicing. we are grieving the destruction across so much, grieving the reality protecting others from him came with the near certainty we would wake up to this some day. she was the first woman, sandra, to publicly accuse nasser of sexual assault. sandra. >> sandra: we'll keep following that very closely. bryan, thank you. >> john: after the bad weather yesterday, new york state police rescued stranded drivers. it was historic rainfall north of new york city and washed out roads and left cars completely underwater. it has killed at least one person, sadly. one of the hardest hit towns is west point, home to the u.s. military academy and now the
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powerful storms are headed to new england and could bring the most powerful since a decade ago. >> a lot more rain is on the way. what we are looking at, over the last 24 hours, back through sunday, every one of these green, that is a flash flood warning that's been in place and yes, still areas the rain is coming down. totals across new york since yesterday, as high as eight inches, but spots over a half foot of total precipitation. that's why you talk about so much flooding, still in a set-up in portions of new england, and heaviest showers as we speak, no surprise that line was stretching across most of vermont there, pretty much the entire state has seen some warnings in place over the last couple of hours, seeing incredibly heavy rain in areas like burlington, but much of the
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state seeing the heavier showers as we speak. they are going to linger for a little while. total rainfall, the numbers will get higher but spots from 4 up to 6 inches of rain. river flooding, any one of these purple areas you will be talking about major river flooding. that can do a whole lot of damage and you will see it across portions of northern vermont. so some will see historic levels, at least up to very high levels, up to 20 feet anyways. so extreme flooding concerns across vermont throughout the rest of today into tomorrow and if you are thinking when does it dry off, when will we get a break, through tomorrow maybe a couple areas there getting another few inches, as much as 3 to 5 in a limited area but plenty of rain on the way. and then a bit of a break.
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flooding, maybe a little lower tomorrow but if i take you into the weekend, there is going to be another round of rain that's going to move through the area. the ground already saturated so we could see perhaps a smaller chance but another chance of flooding towards the weekend. so, certainly soggy across new england. >> john: folks need to watch out, the water can come up very quickly. adam, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: superstar gymnast from lsu olivia dunn is one of the high paid in the country and she wants to lead by example. the livi fund to help other female athletes deals. and taylor and brian. this has a lot of people talking. these are athletes who work really, really hard, she's an amazing gymnast. wildly popular, successful for
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that university, brings in tons of money and fans and you know, they are able to -- they are racking up big wins with her talent. should they be able to make money? should these college athletes be able to rake it in? she certainly is paving the way. >> what i like about it is it's teaching you sort of your value and worth, how to brand, market, how to sort of business yourself. if you are in school and you have a lot of talent, i love that maybe you can reap some of those rewards of your hard effort. no offense my wonderful colleague to my right but i also love she talks about how men in general make more in sports and that she's really working on that equality segment of it and plus if you can teach business in college that once you graduate when you are out you have a lot of those business skills and know how to market and brand yourself i like it. >> i don't see how you get a better business education in college than trying to build your own brand. >> said the business professor.
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>> it's a huge case study. and she's sharing what she's learned. she's obviously learned a ton. she's had a lot of success and what she's saying, i want to pass those on. >> sandra: learned a ton and made a ton. the biggest endorsement deal is over $500,000, a lot of endorsements. she says yeah, i'm fortunate, 12 million social media followers, but just to give you an idea of how things are changing and by the way, we can put up some of the most valuable athletes as far as name, image and likeness is concerned and where people stand on this. but the rules in ncaa have been so strict on this forever. and i will just share one tiny personal story. when i was running track and field and cross country at lsu, i remember like we had an off weekend, i would run a 10k in new orleans and i would win the 10k and sometimes the winnings were 100 bucks, or $500, give
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you a check. i had to turn that down, i could not accept a dollar. >> did that feel fair to you? >> it didn't. i could have used the cash. >> why can't i keep 100 bucks, i won the race. >> sandra: that's the question. >> i'm a human being, i did the job. >> sandra: what is the harm in this, the athletes, other than going pro, at the collegiate level. >> tying in education as well, to my professor colleague to my right again, let's take basketball or football or something. and if you are trying to make the decision about staying in school or like you said, sandra, if you are in your peek condition, go pro to make the money, maybe you don't have to make that choice. maybe you could stay in school, finish your education, still feel like you are earning the money so you don't have to sacrifice an education for the sake of going pro for the money. >> seem to me if you are in a
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team sport, the one down side, a teammate is making a million bucks and acting like it on the field. i don't know if that's the case, but that would be a hard thing to deal with. >> sandra: she says once she learned that women's sports were not receiving the same nil opportunities as men's programs that my success in the space could help raise awareness and funds, and note to the viewers we have calls in, we hope she will join us on the program. we are working on that. but based on what she just said there and the "new york times" writing this, your reaction taylor, they say the new endorsements, sex sells, women are more than holding their own as urging, thanks to social media popularity but the new flood of money and the way many female athletes are attaining it troubles some who have fought for equitable treatment in women's sports and it supports
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traditional feminine desirability over excellence. she's an all american, solid in academics, you have to be to continue on in sports at that university. so what is the "new york times" saying there? >> i could see both sides of that. i do understand if there are some, how do you say, suggestive posts maybe in a bathing suit, but i think at the end of the day we reward hard work, reward being a business woman, reward knowing how to brand yourself, what skills you are good at. there's a great athlete that i follow, not related in college, but a big runner and promoter of a nonathletic beer company because she is an athlete and does not want to drink alcohol. so knowing your lane and your brand i think if you are doing a business i think in general i would applaud that. >> one of the lessons is how to build a brand and choose a brand that can last over the
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long-term, the thing that works for you at 21 might not work for you at a different stage in life. i imagine some hard lessons learned in that process because it's all so new. >> seems to have handled it well so far. they have had some issues with the fans showing up at the gymnastics meets and they have to perform and cannot be interrupted. this is really interesting stuff. it's been a debate for a long time how to handle this and the university is making money off their name, shouldn't they be entitled to some of that. we'll continue the conversation. john. >> john: the left wing media working overtime to discredit the parental rights group moms for liberty. why do they appear so threatened by parents getting involved in their child's education. tiffany justice just ahead. >> sandra: plus, with the first debate just six weeks away, gop presidential hopefuls are making their pitch to voters to qualify
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>> john: moms for liberty has quickly become a powerful political force in america and now launching a nationwide effort to elect its preferred members to school board posts in an effort to defend parents' rights in the classroom. joining us now is tiffany justice, the co-founder of moms for liberty. clearly you are doing something that is rattling folks on the left because you are getting coverage like this from the associated press "moms for liberty, a "parental rights group" sought to take over school boards in multiple states is looking to expand efforts across the country and other education posts in 2024 and beyond. the effort is setting up a clash with teachers' unions and others on the left who view the group as a toxic presence in public schools." what do you say about coverage like that? >> i can't think of anything more toxic in public schools than children being indoctrinated and not taught how
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to read. the only thing a.p. got wrong, they put quotations around parental rights, we are, and you are seeing 120,000 moms and dads to put students first in schools, something not happening to this point, john. nearly two-thirds of american kids with not read on grade level but we spend $800 billion this year on public education. >> john: you take a look at the reaction on the left you think maybe you are frightening people. listen here. >> not since the daughters of the confederacy a conservative women's organization as influential as moms for liberty. >> people on the wrong side of history and probably a present danger to their fellow americans, right. >> what is moms for liberty, vehicle for many right wing school board victories they launched last year in florida, so many conservative bad ideas do. >> john: so here is the
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interesting thing to me, at least. is that education has long been sort of the playground of the left, but now conservative organizations are coming in saying you know what, what you are doing isn't working for us, we need to do it differently this. is the reaction. they don't just try to compete against you with ideas, they try to tarnish you as being the devil's spawn. >> yes, we have been called everything, racist, trans foeb, bigot, nazi for quoting hitler and sound out a warning cry about the fact the other regimes in other parts of the world and history have used schools to indoctrinate kids. american parents are watching this happen in american classrooms. all of america is watching this happen. i think the fact really is, john, we are disrupting the balance of power in public education. teachers' unions, 99% of donations from teachers' unions go to democrats and we are calling out the failure in america's public schools and looking to the people that have been controlling the schools and
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those are the teachers' unions so they don't want to own the harm and the failure but covid woke american parents up, we are not going back to sleep and we will continue to redo the school boards across the country. >> john: as virginia election was big in 2020, it will be big in 2024. i expect the slings and arrows will continue to come your way. >> yes, sir, and we can take it. >> john: thank you, tiffany. sandra. >> sandra: 44 days to go to the republican primary field heads to milwaukee for the first presidential debate of the campaign. it will be right here on fox. the 12 declared candidates crossing the early primary states in recent dates to pick up voters and meet the necessary requirements to qualify for that debate. joining us now is gop presidential candidate tim scott live here in the new york studio. >> thank you, good to be with you. >> sandra: are you going to make
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the debate stage? >> absolutely. >> sandra: who do you see as the biggest threat to yourself in the polls? >> ourselves, i have to show up in new hampshire and iowa, and town halls across the country, specifically those two states, and my home state of south carolina so the more work we do, the more time we spend in the states, the more money to be on tv the ads, go to votetimscott.com. >> sandra: you think it's a make or break the debate stage? >> it's make or break for the american people. we have ideas that bring our country together around conservative principles that have awfuls -- always governed american principles, we should be celebrating that as a party. >> john: good to see you in new york out of washington. folks are remarking you are spending as much time as
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possible away from this place. you mentioned putting more money into the races, and you just put up a seven-figure ad buy in the state of iowa, part of a $6 million ad buy. i want to play a little from one of those ads here. let's listen. >> playing football taught me it's good to fight but it's better to win. but in joe biden's america, everybody gets a participation trophy and everybody is a victim. >> john: one of the hallmarks of your campaign taking on the democrat's victim mentality head on but a lot of people on the left say this idea of up from the boot straps which you promote that everybody could do it if they work hard enough is ignoring the basic racial history of the country. what do you say to those criticisms? >> one word, hog wash. it's just hog wash. the truth of my life disproves the lies of the radical left. they hate a candidate like me
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who actually disrupts their narrative. i grew up in a single parent household, mired in poverty and because of american exceptionallism, good people, teachers, chick-fil-a owners came together to help me understand that if i took individual responsibility for myself, amazing things could happen. but here is the good news. it's not just my life. there are millions upon millions of americans who started on one side of the tracks and they are now on the other side of the tracks. the great news of america's future is that it's not the color of your skin, it's the quality of your education and one of the reasons why as president of the united states i will encourage every state to embrace and adopt school choice programs and the two major buckets of money from the federal government, title i and title ii dollars and send them with the kid wherever the kid goes, the dollars should follow. we can change the future of this country and it starts with our education system.
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it's time for the gop, the great opportunity party, to be serious. >> sandra: interesting stuff, and part of the education is to prosper in the great american economy and you've been hot on the campaign trail is taking on bidenomics, a term the white house is using to tout their economic
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-- experiencing hard times in the poorest of crisis. >> sandra: how do you get people back to work? >> create jobs of the energy sector, i would resign the xl keystone pipeline until the folks who can create energy in the country, framework would allow you to create 3 million new jobs. now tech jobs and high-tech manufacturing coming back to america. >> john: senator, every time you ask a candidate if they would agree to be a running mate, you are met with the answer i'm going to be the candidate. let's just say for example, donald trump becomes the candidate. and he reaches out to you and says i want you to be my running mate. would you do it? >> i am going to be the nominee of our party. it's the only answer because i know that what america has done for me she can do for anyone.
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stick with restoring hope, creating opportunities, and protecting the america we love. you get in the race for president to win, only to win. >> sandra: and part of the criteria, obviously is to agree whoever the gop nominee does become and your answer to that is what, you will support? >> of course, any republican is better than every democrat in 2024. >> john: great to see you, senator. >> sandra: good to have you here. >> thank you, ma'am. >> sandra: set your dvr. never miss "america reports." i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. >> martha: thanks. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. right now on "the story," president biden just landed in lithuania where he will face big questions from our allies about where this is all going in ukraine. he goes there after a brief stop in london. the president just

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