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♪ ♪ [national anthem] ♪ ♪ ♪ [national anthem] ♪ ♪ ♪ pete: good sunday morning. welcome to this patriotic edition, as always, of "fox & friends." look at that. yeah. i mean, the photos this morning were -- rachel: i feel like they were

all, like, either taken on the hegseth farm, or he wants to make -- pete: or i want. do you have the picture of that backyard with the american flag? i don't know if we could pull it up, maybe not. i don't know how the playback machine works with this anthem. you guys continue to deliver out there across america, sending us your patriotic photos. probably a nice bump out of the fourth of july too. rachel: yes, exactly. pete: a tock of fourth of july photos. rachel: no doubt. and lots of good kids and veterans. keep 'em coming, everybody. pete: we love them. we'll get that photo -- rachel: look at that. oh, my goodness. pete: amazing. joey jones is here yet again this morning, great to have you. joey: yeah, thanks for having me. pete: in a dashing suit. joey: anything i can do to cool the temperature down a little bit, that way we can make it warm for rachel -- rachel: no, i feel like you're

going to the hamptons. joey: i don't know where the hampton it is are. [laughter] rachel: i would actually love to see joey at a a hamptons party. joey: howdy, y'all what can's going on? rachel: exactly, i love it. pete: and, of course, rachel. rachel: good morning, everybody. pete: yesterday was national day of the cowboy, so we with did some lassoing at the end of the show. joey: some of us did. [laughter] rachel: i almost did mine closing my eyes. i felt like i was going to hit myself in the head -- pete: i don't know what you're talking about, because you nailed it. rachel: yeah. pete: and joey went for a hundred times around his head, nailed it. [laughter] joey: he actually got the rope going for me, he grabbed my hand, a little bit of cheating. pete: and i tried six times, and i didn't get it. do we have to show them all? rachel: yeah, they're going to show all of them.

[laughter] it is interesting because pete is highly competitive. he wins almost all of the competitions we do, so it is a little pun to, you know -- fun to see when this happens. his little daughter was on the sidelines, and she said, did daddy win, and jen -- pete: no. she goes, but, dad, we live on a farm. i said, that's generous. [laughter] no to roping of animals. rachel: you're going to get there. pete: i've got to up my game. joey: did the trophy go away? rachel: that's interesting, pete loses -- [laughter] joey: i think we need to fix that. pete: the it's in my office. rachel: sounds like he's turning into a democrat. [laughter] joey: it's not real if i didn't win. pete: speaking of who's going to win, who did win, we've got, by

the way, later on in the morning stick with us because we've got new fox business polling on the state of the 2024 election cycle that is exclusive to the fox news channel. brand with new that we will be sharing with you. "the new york post" has a big headline this morning based on a a harvard-harris poll. trump beats biden in general election, dominates gop field. polls show, the poll from july 19th-july 20th, trump, 45, biden, 40. undecided at 16%. so for those or that are making an argument a against trump saying he can't win the general, polls like this say otherwise. rachel: yeah. imagine, by the way, what those poll numbers would be without the years of unrelenting, like, 90% negative press, the, you know, witch hunts, the, you know, everyone telling you that he's a racist, he's this, he's that, and yet these numbers are strong and show that he's the

clear front-runner. and really, i mean, has to be pretty demoralizing for everybody else not just in the republican field if, but obviously it's making the democrats extremely nervous seeing these numbers. in fact, david axlerod, he's a former obama adviser if you remember, he said that there's a third party challenge that should be really scary to joe biden. listen. >> oh, i'm sorry, it's a quote, i'm sorry. he says this is going to sneak up, the candidacy of cornel west, this candidacy's going to sneak up on people. i don't know why alarm bells aren't going off now, and they should be at a steady drone beat from now until election. joey, i hear that, he says, you know, alarm bells should be going off, but what can you to do? if cornel west decides to run, he decides to run. joey: president trump is

indicted, been arrested, he's got pending cases against him, and and he's a healthy the amount ahead of joe biden who's a sitting president. that means anyone, anyone who can mount a campaign at all could hurt biden. i mean, when it comes to third party, i think their biggest concern should have been rfk jr. because if they don't allow a debate and a primary, he's probably got enough steam to mount a third party -- pete: yeah. if you look at that undecided number of 16%, that's going to make the difference from that harvard-harris poll. you've got cornel west, rfk jr., you've got a potential no labels candidacy whether to be joe manchin or others, democrats feel like that that possibly pulls from them. if there's such low enthusiasm for biden, most democrats don't want their own sitting president to run again, anyone else entering the race sucks away from that candidate. and when you've got between impeachments, investigations and indictments, donald trump has only gotten stronger.

people see through that. st the last weapon the democrats are throwing at him yet again, and it's not working. rachel: yeah. the threat of jailing your opponent for life. it's interesting, it also says something, first of all, it says that the democrat party machine is not as in control as they would like. normally they would tamp down this kind of stuff. it also shows that the electorate is really smart, that they're getting the joke. they're seeing that, you know, all these things against donald trump are, indeed, a witch hunt, are, as you said is, you know, indictment after indictment, it just doesn't add up, and it's not impacting it. it shows that the left is getting smart. they're looking at their -- the electorate's getting smart. they're looking at their pocketbooks. we've had trouble abroad like we've never seen before, and they're still saying we want donald trump. joey: there's a term we use in politics, it's one of those greg gutfeld words, gal van i --

galvanize. in this respect it means when you put another indictment out for donald trump the, the base is galvanized. those poll numbers go up consistently with whatever is attacking donald trump. and not to move on from this, but when we talk about being galvanized, another thing that's happening right now is our culture and people in it and being attacked for something you didn't do or didn't say. jason aldean's fans have absolutely galvanized around him after cmt removed his video for no good reason claiming he was racist and undertones of white supremacy. he says, you know what? he's still proud of this country and his fans. >> i feel like everybody's entitled to their opinion. you can hi -- [cheers and applause] you can think manager you want to, it doesn't mean it's true, right? so -- [cheers and applause] what i am is a a proud american. i love our country. i want to see it restored to what it once was before all this

[bleep] started happening to us. [cheers and applause] i love my country, i love my family, and i will do anything to protect that, i can tell you that right now. [cheers and applause] [laughter] >>! usa! usa! usa! usa! >> i saw country music fans rally like i've never seen before, and it was pretty bad breathe, i gotta say. thank you guys so much. [cheers and applause] pete: went on to play the song. that was friday in cincinnati. we just now got the video. he played a show last night as well, if we get any sound from that, but based on the reaction of the fans, joey, to your point, they're not backing down and neither is he. joey: he was kind of teasing the crowd, they wanted to know if i'd play the song, and the fans want to hear the song. they believe in what the song is saying. rachel: yeah. and i think the song has been

misinterpreted in so many ways. it's not just an payment on, you know, liberal cities and the so-called summer of love riots, the blm protests, it's also a celebration of small town values. and people are being told you're not allowed to be proud of that, and they're pushing back on that. they're saying i am proud of that, i'm proud of, you know, the way we trach care of each other, i'm proud that i love our country, i'm not ashame that i own guns, in fact, i'm going to buy moreover of them. that's sort of the mentality. meanwhile, our own lawrence jones interview a former blm activist, somebody who had a change of heart. here's what he had to say about the song. >> i'm actually very happy to see a mainstream artist actually discussing, defending our communities and pushing back against this destructive culture that we have. i'm very happy to see him discussing this in the manner that he is, and if there's any type of music that is destructive towards people of color or inciting violence

towards people of color, it's rap music. hi of how many rap songs are inciting violence, are talking about shooting up buildings and attacking people for senseless reasons. so i don't see anything wrong with what jason aldean is discussing in his song. rachel: what a great point he made. my daughter was doing some reporting in chicago and spoke to a police officer about some of the violence that was happening in the cities, and he said you know what would really help? somebody to push back on rap music and drill music which celebrates the deaths and the violence in the inner cities. pete: drill music? rachel: yeah. pete: what's that? rachel: it's a variation of rap music, and it kind of, like, it'll celebrate the killing of another rival gang member in these cities, and then they'll put it on youtube, and then a record label will go, or well, that's gotten a lot of hits, let's sign this young guy up. and what does that do to incentivize other people. you talk about the puppy mill

yesterday in country music, this is a different kind of puppy mill, and it's far more dangerous than anything you see in country music. pete: yeah. we're talking about violence, jason aldean was talking about it as well, and we've got another example of that, of people caught in the middle of it trying to do something about it, and then they take the blame for it. so in georgia there was a lowe's employee, works at lowe's, fired after getting a black eye while trying to stop shoplifters. someone's trying to steal from lowe 's -- rachel: it's a woman, i believe. she was 68. pete: there she is. rachel: can you imagine hitting that woman? i mean, it's unbelievable. joey: i couldn't imagine stealing, so, no, i couldn't imagine being one of the person in the position to hit her to get away with the stuff you stole. i think thieves are right up there with the worst of us. that's what a social contract is all about, to have some security. and people that are willing to steal from their neighbors, you can't trust them. rachel: more shameful is the tact that lowe's fired her.

pete: well, yeah. here's the georgia police department, they put out a at the same time on facebook. they said the police department is seeking the public's assistance locating two people who stole the over $2,000 worth of merchandise and assaulted a 68-year-old worker who made contact with them as they exited the store. probably just trying to grab them saying -- rachel: no, no, she didn't even grab them. they're taking a cart, they're so bold, they're taking a cart, they filled it with stuff, they're rolling it out. and she sort of puts her hand on the cart, and they clock her. and then she gets fired because the policy is you can't engage at all. you just have to let them walk out. joey: yeah. and they talked to her, he gave a quote to the paper. she says they say that if you see somebody stealing something out the door, not to pursue, not to go out. i lost it. i basically lost all training, everything they tell you to do, i just lost it.

i didn't expect to get terminated. maybe reprimand or suspension. and this is something that we keep reporting on where these retail stores is have such a no, a zero tolerance policy, i think it goes back to the possibility of lawsuits -- pete: liability. rachel: is that what it is? joey: but what it does is it breeds a culture of giving up, of being passive, it breeds a culture of not doing everything in your being tells you, if you see something wrong, take action. and i understand the liability part, but the punishment part really boths me. bothers me. it's one thing to say, hey, that's not what we do and we don't want you to do it, it's another thing to say how dare you do what any normal human being would do in that situation, so much that they fire a nearly 70-year-old woman that works for them? i hope home depot calls her up and hires her.

in georgia we have the small towns jason aldean's talking about. i hope our companies reflect that. i said, hey, why don't one of these georgia companies call them up and hire them. rachel: right. when people came in to lululemo- joey: maybe home depot will give her a job. shame on you, lee's. pete: a statement from lowe's, the safety of our customers and employees are our primary concern. our teams work collaboratively with law enforcement and retail peers across the industry to monitor, investigate, prosecute theft. you heard her say it in her statement, i rejected my training. joey: yeah. pete: well, the training has her rejecting her instincts. joey: that's exactly right. rachel: her morality. pete: her instincts kicked in, and she tried to do something on behalf of the company, and the company fire her. rachel: maybe the bigger question is, you know, the big sort of 30,000-feet question, the heart of the matter is what

happens when we, you know, allow crime to run rampant and then we sort of deprogram the morality -- president lock up the 2x4s behind a plastic case. joey: we already need to do that because they're worth their weight in gold. pete: her is so expensive. jee joe but on top of all this, what you said, it's her morality that made her step in front of those people, same thing is what would make her respond if somebody were many danger, if somebody were having a heart attack, she would try to help them out. you want people like that working in your store. you know, for lowe's to react by firing her unless there's more to the story is almost shameful. rachel: yeah. pete: for sure. did you also know, first of all, 2x4s are very expensive, did you also know they're not 2x4? i think they're 1.5x3.5. rachel: why? pete: because a long time ago they shortened them up to give you less for more cost. i was building a chicken coop, and i was assuming it was 2x4,

and then i actually measured it. [laughter] did you know that? rachel: i think pete should write a book -- joey: i'm glad you're doing things that have brought you to the point to know that. i take for granted that the everyone just doesn't already know it. pete: didn't know it, joey. i'm just admitting it. rachel: you knew that? joey: i grew up building houses. most of them are still standing. [laughter] pete: all right. we've got a few additional headlines this morning as well starting with this, a man accused of hurting four people in apparently random stabbing attacks outside washington, d.c. was killed by police after a standoff yesterday. montgomery county officers say he stabbed three women and one man before they confronted him, asking him to drop the knife. he was killed after refusing to comply and lunged at one of the officers. all four victims, thankfully, are expected to survive. and the boyfriend of the alabama woman who mysteriously

went missing for more than two days is asking her critics to, quote, stop bullying her. [laughter] he says his girlfriend, carly russell, has been harassed about her mysterious disappearance after police raised several questions about the evidence not matching up to her story. her boyfriend bravely telling "the new york post" -- [laughter] think about her mental health. she doesn't deserve that. nobody deserves to be cyber-bullied for faking their own kidnapping. [laughter] joey: how dare you give me the attention i ask for. pete: amazing. and rapper ll cool j telling country singer miranda lambert to, quote, get over it, baby, after she stopped her show last week over fans taking selfies. >> i'm going to stop right here for a second, i'm sorry. [cheers and applause] these girls are worried about their selfie without listening to the song, it's pissing me off

a little bit. [cheers and applause] pete: asked if he would do the same the rapper responded, quote, miranda, your job as an artist is to create art. the way fans react, interact with it or appreciate it is up to them. rachel: i agree with ll cool j. joey: i do too. i mean, i love miranda, she's our crazy country queen, but that was a bad look. pete: yeah. rachel: all right. well, still ahead, ups workers could soon go on the biggest u.s. strike in 60 years, and it's not just your packages that could be delayed. why you could also have trouble buying products in stores. joey: and a lifelong democrat is switching parties. a former new york state lawmaker explains why he's voting red in the next election. ♪ ♪ -- everybody singing every word to every song -- ♪ to the girl they're taking home tonight ♪

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>> i have been a lifelong democrat. my family, my parents, but that's over. that's finished. the democratic party turns its back on its friends like israel. it took a long, long time, but i

am delighted the join the republican party. pete: doug hiken served as a lawmaker in new york for decades as a democrat, but now that prominent members of his former party are ramping up criticism of israel and even boycotting the israeli president's address to congress, he says democrats have abandoned him and so many others, so he's joining the republican party. doug joins us now. thanks for being here. we've had you on the program many times as a democrat, today for the first time as a i britain. what was the moment -- as a republican. what was the moment where you said i can't do this anymore? >> i think it's happened the last couple of weeks. it's president biden becoming a replica of obama and jimmy carter and treating the state of us israel and the people of israel the way he has. this is one of the great democracies, i'm wail in jerusalem. i'm watching the demonstrations in the streets all the time, all

over the country. but the biden administration, for the president to get involved in criticizing israel in terms of its democracy, i mean, that is, i mean, honestly, he's out of his mind. it's really insane, what is going on. and it's everything else in the democratic party. it's defund the police, it's the democratic party that is more concerned about the criminal, treating the criminal right than the victims of crime. but the radicalization, the legitimization of anti-semitism by the radicals in the democrat party who play such a role, enough is enough. i have watched this, i'm sick and tired of it, and i'm tired of good people mt. democratic -- in the democratic party who are afraid to do the right thing. when you are an anti-semite, it doesn't matter if you're a member of congress or whatever, you are to be condemned, you are to be ostracized. that's not the way the democratic party behaves.

so enough is enough. look, no party is perfect. we know that. okay? if i always joke, you know, only god is perfect. but the bottom line is, and i urge people, i urge people, in particular the jewish community who are so blinded by the democratic party and supporting the democratic party, take a look at what a's happening. what the biden administration is doing is undermining the security of the state of israel. when it behaves the way it does, it gives a green light to the aocs and so on and so forth, and i'm just sick and tired of it. and, you know, president biden, i mean, really, worse than obama, jimmy carter. pete: do you think there are other, because there's long been a strong pool of support amongst jews in america for the democrat party. i mean, is there -- are you alone, or are there a lot of other people seeing that the bipartisan support of israel has

sort of erodes and -- eroded and there's only one party standing this? >> i can tell you the reaction to what i've done has actually shocked me. because it's not a secret that as a democrat for 36 years, as a member of the new york sate assembly, i supported republicans. but just on twitter almost 1.6 million people have responded, have watched the videos, and so much is positive reaction. look, that's why i'm saying to people it's not about which party is perfect. the democratic party has gone off the cliff. this is not the democratic party that my parents were part of. my whole family has changed. enough is enough. pete: it takes a lot of courage to reverse course at any point many your life and say, hey, i'm going in a new direction, but you're looking at the evidence before you. i hope you'll coming back. thank you very much. >> thanks, pete. good to be with you. pete: good to be with you. still ahead, ron desantis calling out vice president kamala harris for lying about florida's new education

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agreement isn't reached with the shipping giant. talks between the teamsters and ups broke down earlier this month over wages for part-time employees. among other complaints. around 40% of ups shipments go to businesses, and a strike could mean serious issues for the supply chain. yahoo! and a drone capturing a shark hunting fish just 30 feet away from the beach in the hamptons. the shark spotting follows a sharp increases in shark incidents in the new york area this year with officials warning swimmers and beach-goers to remain vigilant. park officials launching 60 shark-monitoring drones this year to help keep an eye on the predators. and those are your headlines. ray them -- rachel, that's why you wanted me to go to the hamptons, i guess. [laughter] now i know. i think i'm going to stay over here. rachel: you just keep your hamptons suit on right here in the studio. well, florida governor ron desantis calling out vice president kamala harris for comments like this about his

state's to new education policy. listen. >> they want to replace history with lies. middle school students in florida to be told that enslaved people benefited from slavery. they insult us in an attempt to a gaslight us, and we are not have it. [applause] rachel: desantis writing, quote: democrats like kamala harris have to lie about florida's educational standards to cover for their agenda of indoctrinating studentses and pushing sexual topics on children. florida stands in their way, and we will continue to expose their agenda and their lies. here to react is host of the keisha king show, keisha king. so great to have you on this morning. or what are your thoughts on how kamala harris is interpreting, if you will, this curriculum about slavery and the civil war

aftermath in florida schools? >> you know, booker t. washington in his book, who was a former slave, in his autobiography, she said -- he said that he was more prepared because of the skills he had learned, him and the other black slaves, because of the skills that they had learned to take advantage of the freedom that was before them when freedom came. they were more prepared than the white slave masters and their children because those slave masters ask their children had no skill. so it is quite disrespectful, and kamala is quite -- she is lying about the history of america. and what these former slaves were able to do, it is brilliant for them to use their skills to advance their lives and give them, provide an opportunity for themselves and their families. rachel: yeah. do you believe booker t. washington or kamala harris on this one? very good. let me tell you what it actually

says. it says examine various duties -- this is what the florida curriculum says -- performed by slaves, carpentry, tailoring, domesticking service, blacksmithing, transportation, instruction how slaves developed skills which in some instances could be applied for their personal benefit. so what do you think -- i mean, it's is so obvious what the curriculum is trying to say. they're saying, look, if you worked in the fields, you had all these different skill sets and now you're free, you get to improve your own life. duh, obvious. also great point you made that those slave masters who didn't do those jobs when there was, you know, hard times didn't know how to provide for themselves without slaves. so, okay, so we know that that's silly. why is she doing this? >> i believe that this is still an outworking of critical race theory. this idea that they want to sell to little black children and

white children that their skin color somehow determines their future. they are trying to indoctrinate them into a mindset that if you are born looking a certain way, then your future automatically is already defined, don't even worry about it, don't try, don't think, don't try to achieve everything that you can achieve. it is a way to oppress them by their own words so they can keep them dependent on the system. they are trying to galvanize their future voters. that is my honest opinion. rachel: yeah. well, it sure looks like that. also interesting, keisha, that she reserves her outrage for that but not some of the very explicit sexual material that parents like you and i are seeing in so many of these public school sex ed curriculums. so thank you for joining us this morning and bringing your

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rachel: welcome back. an explosive fbi document revealing shocking details from an informant who ties joe biden to a $10 million bribery scheme involving hunter who then sat on the board of burisma. joey: the informant claims he was, quote, coerced into making the payoff, detailing the hefty cost, quote, $5 million to one biden and $5 million to the other. pete: here with more insight, former fbi special agent nicole parker is here to explain. nicole, thanks for being here. you've had a chance to take a

look at this 1023. this is what you did, i mean, you understand these documents way different than a layperson would read them. what did you see that we might missesome. >> first of all if, thank you so much for having me. full disclaimer, i have never worked this investigation. i reviewed the document just like everybody else did on open source, and an fd-1023 is a confidential human source reporting document. at the fbi our work is very important to rely on human sources. they provide information that we may not get otherwise. i was surprised that the 1023 ever came out. i know that it was because congress was persistent. they are really holding the fbi director's feet to the fire on this matter. the 1023, if you look at it as a normal individual, you read lu it, there is some very explosive information on there. it's important to note that that information is unverified. you know, the left-wing media continues to say, oh, it's unverified, but i didn't hear that during the steele dossier.

i didn't hear a disclaimer then, but when it comes to something that is in relation to hunter biden, it's unverified. the other important piece is this is unclassified information, it was never classified. but as you look through the form, you know, you see at the top the date of the contact. that's the date that the agent had contact with the confidential human source, then you see the date of the report. if you notice the date of the contact and the date of the report, they match. as an agent, you're extremely busy. for an agent to say this is very important, i need to get this report done immediately, to me, that's very indicative that this information came across as credible to the agent that was taking it in, obviously. also something that i noticed on it, serials. the serial number is basically the document number to the file, and i noticed that the serial number is referenced serial 7, you know? the bottom, i believe, of the second page. you go through the document, and you see now another reference to serial, you know, i believe it was 212. less than one year later. that means there have been over

205, you know, documents put to that file in between that -- joey: back to this, back to thie process a little bit, and i want to go back with, you brought up the steele dossier. that's kind of the juxtaposition if here. these are two documents that are unverified allegations and with the steele dossier it looks like the fbi didn't go far enough to find its origins, or if they did, they ignored it. and on this document, it looks like they didn't want to research anything under the concern that it may be real or at least that's the allegation. does that show a consistent problem with getting this information and not taking it seriously or taking it seriously without verifying it? >> you know, it is. this is probably why the whistleblower came forward, right? the whistleblower knows information, and they are obviously coming forward because they probably do not believe that it's being handled appropriately based on the information that they know. they know everything about this case, they're coming forward, and to me, it indicates maybe they're slow-walking this case or the investigation. rachel: yeah. no question about that.

[laughter] pete: real quick on those document numbers, you're saying document 7, document 215, that means -- the numbers are assigned to cases, you're saying there would be a lot more there. >> no, i'm saying, you know, for one case file, each case has serials. between, in less than a year over 205 serials were put to that case. i can't say that every single document is in relation to this case, but it does indicate this source is very active, and that shows a lot. president okay. interesting. nicole parker, you know what you're talking about. we appreciate your time, sharing it with us this morning. rachel: thank you, nicole. pete: all right. still ahead, chinese-linked hackers successfully targeting u.s. government e-mail attacks including the u.s. ambassador to beijing. kurt the cyber guy on how to protect your personal information online. rachel: and grab your popcorn, it's the blockbuster double feature bringing in millions at the box office. why movie-goers are rushing to see barbenheimer in theaters.

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rebranding twitter as soon as today. musk teasing the overhaul late last night with this video saying if a good enough ex-logo is posted tonight, we'll make it go live worldwide tomorrow. musk later tweeting, and soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and gradually all the birds. twitter changing its business name to x corp. back in april. wasn't the tweet about that's the sound that birds make and that's why there was a bird? ♪ bye, bye, birdie. ♪ you don't know thening song. [laughter] pete: maybe, hey, he's the billionaire, not me. experts are now warning people that a new tiktok trend encouraging people to add cleaning agent borax the their food and drink -- >> i love it. pete: -- could be deadly. >> people going viral for literally poisoning themselves, and tons of people just blindly

following along because someone made a viral video about all the benefits. the benefits don't exist. the only benefit is perishing. pete: the trend started when some so-called influencers claimed borax had health benefits. [laughter] could aid in weight loss. the expertses say eating it could cause stomach irritation, convulsions and even death. it's made for your laundry, not for you, and that's a headline i can't believe i read. joey in. joey: wow. i've got a 14-year-old. i'm worried. okay. if so chinese-based hackers reaching the e-mail accounts of hundreds of thousands of u.s. government e-mails including u.s. board to china nicholas burns and other high ranking tate department officials. but could you be next? here with how to protect your own personal information is kurt the cyber guy. kurt, explain to us what's happening here. >> hey, joey, good morning to you. you know, far worse than the

china spy balloon debacle, this chinese-based attack is a major cybersecurity breach of one of the most sensitive posts of any u.s. ambassadors. and it's the tip of the iceberg. it appears not only did we let our guard down for china to get the ambassador, nicholas burns, but with additional senior diplomats in china too. china hackers also got the commerce secretary, gina rah mondeaux, the u.s. strategy in detail ahead of secretary blinken's trip to china. this has sent alarms started off at the cyber curt and infrastructure security agencies, and that started back in may and june. china's breach of microsoft cloud e-mails may expose deeper problems is what we're looking at. microsoft acknowledged a breach july 1 11th, and even though they're taking steps to block this abuse, a lot of questions remain about how and when microsoft cloud services were compromised. this though, joey, should serve

as an enormous wake-up call to every american to lock up your tech whether you are a government agency, a corporation, a mom and pop business, an individual, on your computer, tablet, smartphone, threats are at the highest in history and getting more dangerous. one in three homes with computers are infected with malicious software. 47% of american adults have had their personal information exposed by cyber criminals. period. you cannot count on uncle sam or big tech companies to protect your privacy and security, so, i mean, this is something -- i have been ringing this bell i don't know how long. every american should be using antivirus protection and other tools that keep their privacy and security safe, and that's it, period. joey: where can americans go to learn about antivirus and to ge- >> well, funny you should ask. [laughter] you know, there's a variety of sources. obviously, i have cyber guy.com. we've done our 2023 expert reviews of all the top antivirus or protection tools that are there, and then you can also

learn about, or you know, people are using bpns, people are using end to enencryption so that they can stay private, and there's a good reason they're doing that, because it's simply not safe anymore. joey: i'll tell ya, people need to be secure. it's crazy that we have all these tech companies, and we can't figure this out. >> and they can't do much for us. joey: we've got a big show ahead, stay with us this morning. ♪inspiring music♪ ♪ start your day with nature made. the #1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand. this isn't just freight. these aren't just shipments. they're promises. big promises. small promises. cuddly shaped promises.

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