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reset to resume. they took a 45-minute break. while they do there are some things we want to show you. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." the g.o.p. definitely elevated biden's top democratic challenger and it didn't take much. robert f. kennedy, jr. has been polling in the double digits against the current president. wondering if democrats on that house committee right now were ready for him to call out legacies of america's past jocks to posed with the current time for everyday americans to even ask a question of the government. and there were some games being played on the left. congresswoman stacey plaskett called for a motion to take rfk junior's witness testimony out of the public eye and go into an executive meeting. a short time ago she just wouldn't let kennedy talk. >> you tried to associate me a

moment ago with a replacement theory, which is racist >> no, i did not say you. i said my colleagues do. >> time belongs. >> i have denounce that theory. i created a film that encourages blacks not to get medical care is just completely abhorrent. >> don't misuse my words. >> do not censor the witness. >> i am not censoring the witness. he is still talking. >> it is my time. do not censor him. >> harris: kennedy was calling her out for stuff she said was not true. no one interrupted her but she was not going to let him get that out. former oversight committee chairman jason chaffetz. let's go live to jacque heinrich at the white house. >> good morning. youtube removed a video of robert f. kennedy, jr. last month for what the company said

was vaccine misinformation and instagram also took him off the platform in 2021 for what they said was the same reason. this subcommittee is looking at the weaponization of government. although the biden administration did flag a tweet of his and ask the company to take it down they reportedly never did remove it. after the 2024 presidential hopeful falsely claimed that covid-19 was ethnically targeted for certain groups house democrats are now furious that rfk junior is being called a credible witness at all saying the weaponization of government subcommittee is weaponizing itself against president biden by spotlighting and elevating biden's political opponent and framing him as a credible witness. a number of democrats called to disinvite him from the hearing following the comments that the white house called anti-semitic and quickly condemned. >> so the claims made on that

tape is false. it is vile. and they put our fellow americans in danger. if you think about the racist and anti-semitic conspiracy theories that come out of saying those types of things, it is an attack on our fellow citizens, fellow americans. >> kennedy has aimed to focus his testimony on what he calls unacceptable censorship of views that are inconvenient to the government. something that he calls mal information, not misinformation and claims his first amendment rights have been trampled. >> my campaign and the conversation that we ought to be having with each other as americans, i was shut down. that is why the first amendment is important. debate, congenial, respectful debate is the fertilizer, the water, the sunlight for our democracy. >> rfk junior in his opening

remarks spoke directly to democrats saying toxic pole areization is destroying this country and censoring people only stokes that division. >> harris: thank you very much. fallout today after that explosive testimony from a pair of whistleblowers and we'll get to that in a moment. before we go forward with that, jason, i do want to get your take on what is happening on capitol hill and we'll dip back into that meeting momentarily. >> first of all, i never thought the democrats would go after a kennedy. i never thought i would see that day. unbelievable that they would, in literally a hearing about censorship, they would try to censor this witness. that is unbelievable to me. they interrupted him. wouldn't let him speak. wanted to move to executive session. they did everything they could to censor a guy who is there to testify about censorship. >> harris: i want to understand

when a democratic congresswoman stacey plaskett of the virgin islands says she wants to take a meeting out of the public eye into an executive forum, what does that mean exactly? >> well, she is a delegate but the ranking member. executive session is reserved solely for those things that are classified. if you have something that's highly classified or perhaps pornographic to the point of child pornography or those types of things. it is subject to a vote. she is trying to take his words down. she is trying to censor him before he has even spoken is what she is trying to do. >> harris: look, at the end of the day what people want to know is what these witnesses -- he is on the list of witnesses -- have to say about what this current administration is doing to step on free speech. and then what we see is on full

display, a democratic congresswoman, ranking member of this committee, stepping on free speech. >> yeah. she literally is trying to suppress him before he even speaks. that's what the administration was doing to people like kennedy who had 900,000 people on instagram and they tried to take down his account. they wouldn't allow him to do this. the core coordination between the administration and these social media companies, that needs to be exposed in its fullest. they were using the weight of the department of justice to lean on these social media companies to encourage them to take down not something that was against the law, but because they didn't like the political ramifications of what people like kennedy and others were trying to say. it was mostly on conservatives. here is a case where they are trying to take kennedy down, who is asking questions about vaccines. those were legitimate questions that should have never been

taken down. >> harris: i want to move forward because there were some other free speech going on. and this had to do also at a hearing that got heated. fallout today after yesterday's explosive testimony from a couple of whistleblowers, the two i.r.s. employees, one who says he is identifying as a gay democrat. so he is saying i don't have a political dog in this fight. describing in detail how the biden justice department interfered with the hunter tax investigation at every turn. democrats in full meltdown mode as they tried to discredit the whistleblowers and shift the focus to former president trump. not in the room, not part of the conversation, but they tried anyway. >> we can conclude that this inspector clouseau quest for something that doesn't exist has turned our committee into a theater of the absurd. exercise in futility and embarrassment. >> we're here today because

donald trump is exerting an influence campaign. >> i don't like these attacks on the department of justice, the f.b.i., the i.r.s., as if they are somehow anti-u.s. agencies. this is ludicrous. there is no intelligent life down here, beam me up, scotty. >> harris: the whistleblowers laid out how hunter biden got preferential treatment and slow walked the investigation against him. they also estimated that hunter biden raked in some $17 million in foreign deals that they know about. and that the i.r.s. wanted to slap him with much more serious charges than he ultimately faced. in key testimony they said they were blocked from following up on hunter biden's whatsapp messaging that seemed to tie joe biden to his son's shady deals. >> this is another solicitation

from hunter biden and he refers to the bidens plural and they are best at doing what the chairman wants. that's very concerning to our committee. this is a chinese communist party-owned entity. this is of concern to our national security. >> with respect to the what's appear messages. something we needed to follow up on and one of the major deviations, investigators asked and special agent zeeger asked to take some investigative steps to review that and it simply wasn't support evidence by the prosecutor. so further looking into what that means i simply can't do. >> i can promise you, we aren't going to stop on this committee until we understand what he fully meant by that message to a chinese communist party official. >> harris: jason, what do you say about that, the whatsapp testimony agents not allowed to pursue information on i'm sitting here with my father.

things that would put the two of them in the same room while their business dealings were going on? >> so you have credible i.r.s. employees that are following the money. they are looking at potential crimes in how they dealt with these i.r.s. claims, falsifying records, doing all sorts of things but they are not allowed to pursue the truth. they were impeded by the f.b.i., the department of justice, and that is the core of this. these people were not allowed to do their jobs. it was an incomplete investigation. harris, next week the judge is supposed to consider this plea deal. i don't know how a judge properly rules on a plea deal when you just had congressional testimony from i.r.s. agents saying they were not allowed to complete their investigation. it was purely political, something these people have never seen in their investigative careers and it

directly ties joe biden and the biden family to corruption and money that is flowing from these overseas entities. remember, they were more than 20 entities, no products, no services, millions of dollars flowing to the bidens. these guys couldn't go and pursue it to its fullest. >> harris: you are also pointing to the fact that if we knew all of this before, would that deal even be in place? the judge could reject it. i've been told by legal experts it would be a rare thing to happen. we'll cover it and see what that judge does. how exactly do we know was the biden family protected in the investigation? who was deeply behind it? what was learned? >> i think there were very -- when they talked about they met with the prosecutors, they were unanimous in their decision they were making a recommendation to do it. the very specific testimony that was given previously in transcribed interviews and there

at the witness table today when they said you cannot ask questions about hunter's dad. you can't ask questions about who the big guy is. you can't ask questions about the $10,000. when they can't ask a simple question. and remember, they never got to interview hunter biden because hunter biden was tipped off. when do you ever hear about the i.r.s. getting thwarted in their ability to interview witnesses? they couldn't do that in this case. >> harris: tipped off. biden's transition team was tipped off. that's confounding to me since apparently he didn't know anything about anything. good to see you. thank you. i'm hoping you can stick around. we are going to go back to that hearing now and we'll talk about it. representative chip roy, republican now, with rfk junior on the hill. let's watch. >> ronald reagan at that time, who signed the bill, goliath was

the company pushing it. they were losing. they were going to get out of the business of vaccine if they weren't granted immunity. ronald reagan said to them at that time why don't you make the vaccines safe? why is that because they are unavoidably unsafe? which is true of most medicines. i'm not anti-vaccine but i think we need to be honest and need to have good science. that's all i've ever argued. >> i would say this my father had polio, i understand the ravages of that disease. i'm grateful we have the opportunity to have polio vaccine but i want the truth being sought and know the health impacts of the polio and other vaccine being administered going forward. i ask, i know this is informed by a great deal of conversations you've had with mothers and moms who came up to you. >> i was dragged kicking and screaming into this space

because i was confronted by -- i was touring the country suing companies about mercury in fish. by the way, i spent 30 years trying to get mercury out of the fish in this country and nobody called me anti-fish. at that time we were trying to get mercury out of vaccines. mothers were coming and saying my child was injured by the vaccine. hundreds of mothers. nobody is listening to us. the democrats aren't listening to us. republicans aren't listening to us. and i felt like i should listen to them and actually read the science and that is what got me down into this. by the way, it's the worst career decision i have ever made. >> gentleman lady from california is recognized. >> during the height of covid-19 pandemic, anti-asian hate and violence skyrocketed as some

races blamed a wire use coming out of china. an organization aimed at tracking anti-asian hate. more than 11,000 acts of asian hate and violence, 49% of asian-americans have experienced some form of discrimination. these acts of hate include asian-americans being beaten, spit on, screamed at and even killed. increases in attacks during covid accompanied a slew of anti-chinese sentiments related to the environment. calling it the china virus and disgustingly cunning flu. many americans were told they created the virus. yet one of our republican witnesses encourages this appalling rhetoric and promotes anti-asian hate with dangerous and unfounded claims. just last week mr. kennedy suggested covid-19 was a bioweapon and said it was

targeted to attack caucasians and black people and that, quote, the people who are most immune are jews and chinese, end quote. suggesting that the chinese people didn't suffer like others during the pandemic. despite asserting he should become their president mr. kennedy seems to disregard the correlation between anti-asian rhetoric and violence. ms. wiley, do you frequently work with minority communities including asian communities? >> i do. >> do you think mr. kennedy's theory is racist? >> i think that mr. kennedy's statements fuels the theories that suggest that there is a biology to race and that therefore we can actually identify people and communities as possibly either being benefited by or being -- people who are not sharing the same interests and needs as the rest of us and yes, it has served to

drive hate and bias and sadly, including violent incidents. >> it was said earlier in the hearing that mr. kennedy is a smart man. so far as i know he doesn't have any specific education or training in medicine. not an epidemiologist, never conducted clinical trials in a professional setting. he has never done scientific research in a professional laboratory and published scientific findings in a peer reviewed publication. what kind of harm does someone with no medical training or knowledge do when they espouse unfounded anti-asian vaccine theories during a time like covid? >> one of the things that happened in this historic pandemic was that there was certainly a need to get on top of very quickly what the science said. i'm not a scientist, either. so what social media platforms did was go and speak to government agencies because

their own policies, their own user agreements required them to look and figure out what the facts were so that they could assess what was responsible and what was not responsible to post. i say that because it was incredibly important to insure people were getting realtime information as possible but also ones that really demonstrated what all of us need, rather than where and how we should ascribe blame or where and how we should consider who benefits and who doesn't because we were all harmed. but i say this in part because it was a social media platform themselves that reached out to government agencies including health and human services and cdc to get that information, and under the vacated opinion, really important to understand it has been vacated by the fifth circuit. the preliminary injunction on all the instances we're talking about because -- because one of the things it would do in my

view, just in my legal view, is that it was actually saying that the government could not respond to such requests under this injunction, which is incredibly overbroad, dangerous and doesn't allow government agencies to do what they are chartered to do. >> i'm an attorney by training. one of the things i learned early on in constitutional law is no right given to the people of the united states is absolute and that includes the right to free speech because you do not have the right to shout fire in a crowded theater because it could produce harm and death of people by being false. these social media platforms have user policies to try to prevent that kind of harm, is that not correct? >> that is correct. >> harris: democrats like representative sanchez are trying to lay out a case to discredit the witness of rfk junior. they are doing that with maya wiley, civil rights attorney there, also ran for office here

in new york city and worked for one of the liberal media outlets as well as a contributor. what's interesting there, though, and i'm sure she is a great attorney, sanchez, but you do have the right yell fire in a theater unless there is no fire. it is pretty simple the way the law works. we'll move on. we'll dip back in. when they go back to rfk junior and he gets to defend himself yet again in this attack by democrats, we'll dip in and, of course, this is all about the weaponization of government and stepping ton free speech. so when those topics come back up we'll dip in. for now, let's go to this. >> president biden: that's bidenomics in action. >> kind of flows off the tongue. >> bidenomics is the investments this country is making. >> bidenomics. >> the architect of bidenomics is biden. >> that's the word of the day, week, month, year.

>> harris: the white house is calling it a big bidenomics success. they suddenly love that word. president biden will be in philadelphia in about an hour to continue pushing his economic agenda. not so good news when it comes to voters and how they feel right now. a new poll shows more than 30% saying the economy is the most important election issue to them. nearly 60% of voters disapprove of biden's handling of the economy. don't like what he is doing. the white house down playing those numbers, though. >> the polls don't tell the whole story. they don't tell the full story. we understand that. the data shows the combination of unemployment and inflation is at near historic lows, that's what we have seen. consumer confidence is increasing and also wages are rising. that's what certainly the data is showing. >> harris: power panel now, jason riley, fox news contributor and "wall street journal" columnist.

tamika devine, former campaign advisor and surrogate. jason, your opening thoughts. >> the problem that the biden administration has is that there are some hard facts that it is going up against right now. when biden took office, the economy was growing at more than 6%. now it is growing at less than 2%. when biden took office inflation was 1.4%. it has reached a four-decade highs under president biden. now it has come down somewhat but for things like food and gas and housing, it is still up around 5%. that's a problem. particularly since wages have not grown as fast as inflation. so after considering inflation, americans have had a pay cut under biden. that's the dilemma he has 15 months out from his re-election bid. >> harris: a pay cut, tamika. it is easy to argue what feels like a tax hike when everything

is more expensive. like an extra tax on top. joe biden spent 20 days earlier this political season out on the road talking economics. didn't move the needle. very low approval rating for him, particularly on the economy. how do you turn that around? >> well, thank you for having me, harris. i actually like the term bidenomics. i think that the thing for the biden administration to do now is having press conferences, having rail eels but out on the street talking to people every day. i'm the real estate attorney and we're closing loans left and right. it is getting there. we are -- inflation is going down. not where it needs to be but going down. i think the message needs to be out there on the street showing people the practical things. yes, inflation is going down but it is high. but so is wages. wages are going up. people are getting jobs. we have lots of opportunities for people to make money.

we just need to be talking about it in terms that people can understand and not necessarily at rallies. >> harris: i'm glad real estate is booming for you. i was reading a concerning article last night. mainly for those having success in new builds. people in houses don't want to sell them. it is a complicated mix. democrats with high anxiety over the possibility that a third party candidate could spoil joe biden's re-election hopes. senator joe manchin is mulling a run on the no labels ticket. they have $70 million on hand, by the way. it makes matters worse for democrats. a new poll shows half of voters are open to voting for a third party candidate no matter who it is. karl rove's new op-ed, dems should be afraid. he warns young voters and black voters will traditionally go democrat. lack enthusiasm and turnout

could be low. he adds hispanic, asian-americans and suburban independents have begun moving to the right. we are seeing that shift. biden needs these voters to get back in the white house. what does he do? i'll go in reverse order and start with you, tamika. >> clearly the no labels is the only thing they can do is spoil an election. if they are really, if the goal is unity. >> harris: for whom, mainly your party? >> i have think for the election for the voters. i think when you talk about a no labels candidate and unity ticket, you want to talk about unity, you have to talk about the issues that are causing disunity within this country. going after having a third party candidate run for president is not actually unifying this country. it is actually adding to the division. i think no labels needs to focus on what they really say they are about and that's unity and talking about the issues that are important to bring this country together. i have think the party will be

fine regardless but i do think that having the no labels is really kind of shifting the issue where the administration can do things and taking us away from the issues we need to be talking about. >> harris: it is a rare that a third party would have that kind of cash on hand and get itself on a ballot in all 50 states. >> it is rare, sure. third party candidates aren't rare. what's more rare about this third party is that they don't really stand for an issue or a cause so much as they freely admit say they are an insurance policy and trying to dictate what the two major parties do in terms of who they nominate. that's what's really odd about this. the democrats are right to be concerned. the polling shows that in a three-way race, joe biden would lose to donald trump. where in a two-way race biden has a much better chance against donald trump.

that's why they are concerned. don't be fooled. not that the left is opposed to a third party candidacy per se, they are opposed to this no label candidate running. in other words, if donald trump were to not win the nomination and decide to run as a third party candidate, the left would welcome that development because it would hurt republicans. >> harris: tamika is simply smiling. all right. good to see you both. thank you. >> thank you. >> harris: not for children is what one veteran psycho analyst says about the left's push to talk gender identity for our children. she calls it indoctrine nation. more on the government censorship information and covid-19 and where the virus actually came from. >> it is very explosive findings that shows that these government-funded scientists waged a disinformation campaign, propaganda campaign aimed at misleading the american people and it worked.

>> harris: we have been watching democratic candidate, biden's biggest rival right now in his party. rfk junior all morning long making big waves on capitol hill. more on his stand about the government picking and choosing what information they think is right for the american public to get to see. dr. marc siegel to weigh in.

counter measures. >> i reclaim my time. in discussing covid public health measures you made light of the genocide of jewish people by saying even hitler's germany you could cross over the alps. do you think it was easy for jewish people to get away from the slaughter of nazis. >> absolutely not. >> just as hard to wear a mask during covid to hide under floor boards and false walls so you weren't dragged to a concentration camp. a question. >> i didn't hear your question. >> i said do you think it was just as hard to wear a mask during covid as it was to hide under floor boards or false walls so you weren't murdered or

dragged to a concentration camp. >> of course not. that's ridiculous. i did not make that comparison. >> in any way at all comparable to the murder of 6 million jews, yes or no. >> absolutely not. >> okay. let's be clear here. no legitimate comparison to the holocaust. doesn't matter if you talk about ai, vaccine mandates or anything else, no comparison and if this were a slip of the tongue or one off comment we'd move on. a deeply disturbing pattern. in 2015 you apologized to all those who i offended by the use of -- you said nasse ice did it in the camps in world war ii. tested vaccines on gypsies and jews. a quote. before you apologize for invoking the holocaust to the extent my remarks caused hurt i'm deeply sorry. these aren't real statements of remorse, they are passive

aggressive non-apologies that blame the listener for the lie you just spread. i am sad this is a conversation we have today. i have deep respect for what mr. kennedy's family does and still does. what you are doing now and the forces you aligned yourself are reckless, dangerous and disturbing by echoing dangerous claims that jews don't sufficient as much as we do. your rhetoric creates a climate of mistrust and hatred or violence against jewish people. my own children are the targets of brutal anti-semitism on social media. you jeopardize their safety and marginalized other groups like re and you don't seem to care or brush it off to misquotes and misunderstanding. it is disgusting. thank you, i yield back. >> unanimous consent request. >> to introduce into the record a study that mr. kennedy just referenced new insights into genetic susceptibility of

covid-19. the main body said they investigated genetics susceptibility to covid-19 and a2 and tmprss2. in 81,000. >> harris: we had to let you wash that. we knew it would be heated. democrats are desperate to try to discredit this particular witness. remember what is at stake here. we are talking the weaponization of government. cozy relationships between federal government under the biden watch with media companies trying to quell and quash certain information out there about vaccines and more. those of us who have had things stickered that were facts, you know what i'm talking about. counter to what a narrative would be by the government and so much more here but the discrediting of this particular man, who is the leading rival on the left against joe biden is really remarkable.

we will dip in and out of this. i want to bring in dr. marc siegel, fox news contributor, professor of medicine at langone medical center. you watched that with me here and you wanted to say a few things. >> i want to say a number of things. first of all, i think the congresswoman is right about the idea the holocaust should never be made as a moral equivalent to anything. it is such a horrific event in human history that it shouldn't be referenced or used as metaphor or comparison purposes ever. i don't know that he did that. he has been accused of doing that. if he has done that she is right to bring it out. i need to make that statement. the other thing, though, that he does is the issue of vaccines. i'm very pro-vaccine and i don't think we should assume that this vaccine is a bioweapon or targets certain groups or it lets other groups off the hook. there is no way that the vaccine does that. i want to finish by saying he is entitled to what he has to say.

we are the united states of america, rfk junior can say whatever he wants to say. the government can't try to suppress that, should not. then we become no different from china. we can disagree and make us angry and hostile. we should not suppress it. >> harris: we'll move on. as you saw democratic candidate for president rfk junior has been battling with democratic lawmakers all morning long. a little more of some of their words. >> only thing i've asked for and my views are constantly misrepresented so that the truth of what i believe is not -- a conversation about that with the american people which i believe vaccines should be tested with the same rigor as other medication. >> harris: twitter files journalist michael shellenberger this week still blowing the lid off a campaign to suppress the covid laboratory leak theory,

even more messages between top scientists coming to light. >> the messages show they were engaged in politics, they were responding to what they called higher ups, pressure from their bosses and working to deceive reporters. explosive findings shows the government-funded scientists waged a disinformation and propaganda campaign to mislead the american people. it worked and they demanded censorship of people who told the truth. >> harris: the irony of what you just said rfk junior has a right to say what he had to say. we looked at the laboratory in the beginning on this same set and we said what, we can't ask questions? getting pushed off twitter? what's the problem with this? you had information about the scientists and doctors working on it early in the process getting ill with this mysterious disease. >> why i love coming on the show

with you, that's what we do. we ask questions, you ask questions and why you are a great journalist. wuhan lab, wuhan virus. why would a narrative go out that suppresses that question? they treated the american public like they were stupid and used terms like misinformation and disinformation. china wouldn't let us in to examine and then safety issues with the lab and people are getting sick in the lab and the lab is actually working on bat coronavirus, then we find out the bats are 1,000 miles away. of course there is a question of this lab. of course the virus itself, by the way, robert redfield said this to me. the virus spreads so easily. how did we end up with a virus that spreads so easily. how did that get there? these questions were never answered and should never have been suppressed.

>> harris: you are walking into the zone where there is a narrative coming out at the top levers of government on the cdc side and on the medical side that says you can't talk about what that disease could do. it wasn't messed with in that lab. what you are saying is you have questions how it got to be so powerfully contagious. >> yes. we also know there is an international consortium of scientists that involves a scientist in that lab who was working on manipulating bat coronavirus that precedes the pandemic with a scientist in north carolina. we know a lot about this and investigated it at fox. this narrative should never have been suppressed. it should have been the lead narrative, not suppressed. >> harris: the former president did, too. donald trump. once we got on board with knowing that yes, we're in the middle of a pandemic, the push then was to find out. we were trying to figure out how to stop it. you have to know how it started. if you think it started at the

lab why wouldn't china play ball? what is your best theory? >> they don't want the truth to come out. part of its life was spent in the lab and another part spent in the wet markets. the truth combines both theories. here is the thing. it's president obama that put a moratorium on gain-of-function research and then slowly repealed and research is going on again. if we find out that the worst killer virus in over 100 years came from a lab, that's an argument for more of a moratorium on gain of function researches. >> harris: they can't just stop it down and stop the flow of money to laboratories. then we'll never know the truth. we need a side-by-side. they can stop it but tell us what they're stopping. >> eco health alliance was part of the who commovedy that went

to investigate the lab. how do we get to the real answer that way? >> harris: the controversy over pushing the issue of gender identity onto children is getting bigger. one clinical worker and veteran psycho analyst says it's simply not for children. >> kids are being taught these things as early as pre-school now into kindergarten and first grade and it is too early for them. they aren't really equipped to be thinking about their identity in this way or gender specifically. the way that they are teaching it, they are teaching it in an indoctrinateing kind of way. >> harris: you saw it on "the faulkner focus." a new york dad recently went viral for his tiktok rant on the topic. he have is livid after the family's long time pediatrician was asking questions to his 9-year-old son at a doctor visit about gender identity. it was a routine physical. that dad on the "focus" last

week. >> just the fact that the emotion that went through my body and my brain at that point. i was fehr furious. this has been the only pediatrician my children have ever seen. why there was a question of this is mind blowing. they can only comprehend so much at that age anyway. >> harris: he is right? can they only comprehend so much? is that too early for that conversation? >> absolutely. the doctor who wrote that amazing op-ed in the "wall street journal" is right. of course. i remember fifth grade health class being nervous going in there. i was nervous, what will they teach us? not 9-year-olds. that's already 11-year-olds, that's people approaching puberty. i think the term gender disinformation yeah has been so palm it sized we've lost another term. gender fluidity. i wrote poems as a kid. i could have been made fun of. i won the betty crocker award in

high school. i won the home making prize number one in new york state. my wife says to me how could you have won that? those were considered feminine characteristics. we need to embrace ourselves, except the way the bodies we've been given and start from there and don't sexualize our children or don't teach them at the age of nine. >> harris: that's the issue of parents for young kids that i interview. they aren't ready to tell a 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-year-old the detail it takes to explain gender identity. you go deep. sexual orientation and having sex. >> here is the -- agree. the medical side. along come dress giving puberty blockers that have long-term side effects. drugs impact bones, fertility and we're giving them.

mastectomies. crazy stuff. we're doing it. we should not be interfering with children or super imposing adult ideology on them. >> harris: historic and deadly heat wave affecting more than 100 million people. i say again. we've been talking about this for three weeks. when will they get a break? the heat is on for country star jason aldean, heat of a different kind all because of this. ♪ ♪ see how far you make it down the road ♪ ♪ around here we take care of our own ♪ >> harris: he is pushing back against cancel culture and on what liberal critics are claiming about his video and song. entertainment reporter lauren conlin in "focus" next. i was told my small business wouldn't qualify for an erc tax refund.

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>> harris: fox weather alert now. this number actually got bigger. we did a last-minute check. now more than 120 million

americans are suffering from a dangerous and deadly heat wave that is shattering records. people in phoenix, 21 consecutive days. today is the 21st day of temperatures 110 degrees or hotter. today's high 118. yesterday's high, 118. tomorrow's high 118. correspondent casey stiegel in dallas, texas. they've been dealing with it long term, too. casey. >> so miserable, the heat and humidity. also extremely dangerous, as you point out. ems calls up all around texas for heat-related incidents. down in austin, 234 of those calls for the month of june. it was a new record. by the end of this month, they are on track to hit 280 compared to 174 last july. records broken in arizona. it hasn't been this hot for this

long since the early 70s. unfortunately, no end in sight with that heat dome stalled out. death valley, california recording a 121 degree day this week. nighttime temperatures are only fallen a few degrees. still well within the triple digits, 116 at night. if there is a silver lining with all of this, it is that the power grids are holding despite record demand for electricity as so many crank up their a.c.s to try and stay cool. back to you. >> harris: casey, thank you. ♪ >> harris: jason aldean is pushing back against growing

backlash against the anti-riot lyrics. it is in the number one spot on itunes today. cheryl crowe tweeted this is not american or small town like, it's lame. republican south dakota governor kristi noem coming to aldean's defense. >> i am shocked by what i'm seeing in this country with people attempting to cancel the song, cancel jason, and his beliefs, and him and britney are outspoken about their love for law and order and for their love of this country. i'm just grateful for them. >> harris: lauren conlin, entertainment reporter. lauren interviews podcast host. great to see you today. the song came out in may. it is the video that's now getting all of this heat. why is that? >> right. well, harris, thank you for having me. talk about a twisted narrative.

i am totally with kristi noem on this. essentially the video came out. i don't know if you saw some of the headlines. they are insane and really reaching. they are saying this video is pro-lynching. the reason they're saying that is because it was filmed in front of the morey county courthouse. this courthouse is a site for a lot of films shot. an episode of hannah montana, three hallmark movies shot there. i doubt jason aldean even knew where he was going and where he was shooting. so that to me was pretty crazy. i will say this morning i showed my a-political husband this video who has no agenda. he said what's wrong with it? i don't understand. i said exactly. the left doesn't agree with this so therefore it's wrong. harris, i find myself in entertainment right smack in the middle. i am so sick of the hypocrisy.

if you recall in 2017, snoop dogg, i love him. he released a video where he essentially shoots a clown version of donald trump, silence, okay? >> harris: when you talk about the comparisons and you bringing the maury county courthouse information how other movies have used it and didn't get this response. my whole thing is there are a lot of songs out there with lyrics that are extremely offensive. things that rhyme with trigger, all sorts of things. let the market decide. cmt can do what they want. they have the awards. let them do what they want. when it comes to letting the american public hear the song and see the video, where are we going with that? will we look at other genres of music to see what's offensive? >> well, they should because again this is total hypocrisy. all it took, harris, was a couple people on twitter to get

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