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2016. and they argued that marijuana legalization would not only keep people out of jail for using small amounts of weed but it would also reduce crime by squeezing out the illegal drug market. well, that didn't work out. far from reducing illegal weed, those efforts, instead, allowed the black market to flourish after legalization with the help of organized crime operations that run massive, unlicensed farms and store front dispensaries in plain view bringing crime and terrorizing nearby residents. and those raided by police are often up and running again within weeks. or even days. now you know what killed the "l.a. times" to publish these stories but the broken promises of legalization with the violence and illegal grows they are impossible to ignore. and what is happening in all the other states that legalized it? well, in maine, where adult use of cannabis is legal and sales are regulated, the chinese have stepped in to undercut prices by

starting their own illegal operations. it's so bad that now state lawmakers in maine's two senators are asking the feds for help. now, of course, most of these politicians still aren't against cannabis legalization. they just want to protect the legal market from being, again, under cut by the criminals. but, again, that's what they promised legalization would do. and, you walk around manhattan lately as i have. that horrid pot smell is everywhere. little kids have to breathe it in. like we are walking around in a big bit much burning manure mixed with skunk smell. no one i know likes it. when the big apple wreaks of dirty diapers. if people aren't going to take out the trash or the trash collections isn't happening? no, no, no. it's not the garbage in the street. it's the legalization that has destigmatized the use of marijuana. even in front of children. >> the number one thing i smell right now is pot. seems like everybody is smoking a joint now.

[laughter] , you know. everybody has a joint. >> laura: what an idiot. yeah, it's hilarious, mayor. just like what actually happens to school-aged kids when the thc infused gummies or snacks or vapes are everywhere post legalization. doctors have been warning about this for years. >> the biggest problem that has happened in every state that has legalized marijuana, a big spike in emergency room visits because of people overdosing on the edibles. some of which our kids because these look like gummy bears. only gotten worse. big money in them there pot fields. this year states like new hampshire, north carolina, ohio, and pennsylvania are all likely to vote to legalize marijuana. and, remember, california wants to experiment even more despite its own experience like this by

just approved a bill to decriminalize so-called magic mushrooms and psychedelics they are all good for you. keep them numb and dumb and hope that he collect more in tax revenue than you lose in human lives and revenue all the cannabis linked overdose deaths, car crashes, education loss, and the added expense of law enforcement. now libertarians think that the problems with can business legalization didn't go far enough. get all the other drugs out there too. they want all the drugs legalized even fentanyl. maybe we should ask oregon about its oits own experience allowing hard drug use in public places. portland went from 413 shooting incidents in 2019 before legalization to 1309 after word. no wonder portland city leaders are trying to reverse course there turn around the legalization of hard drug use in

public. overdoses are multiplying. so are a long list of social pathologies there the fact is it's not just hard drugs. talk to addicts. almost every one of them started on weed. despite the lies we are told how it's never a gateway drug. it's true it's not a gateway drug for everyone or maybe even most people. but it is for most of those sad souls that you see stairing into space, muttering themselves in the streets for all the liberals who love to talk about the science, the science on what regular thc use does to the developing brain it's deficit stating from psychology today highly concentrated marijuana products are causing cannabis induced psychosis, paranoia and confusion. increased marketing on social media may send a message to teens that cannabis is safe and harmless. of course it does. now, parents who have lost

children to marijuana have had enough of the glorification of the drug and relentless lies told about its claimed benefits. >> he very quickly became addicted, five years later he died by suicide saying that the mob was after him. we don't have a mob that unc was an fbi base that everybody knew everything about him. he became completely delusional. >> laura: it's heart breaking and infuriating and all too common. no matter how much money that state governments get from cannabis sales, taxing them is a lot. it's not worth it. it's time for all 50 states to see the cruel lessons of drug legalization, especially for our kids. and that's the angle. joining me now is heather back cass whose son tragically committed suicide after she says he suffered, yes a marijuana induced psychosis and frank rodriguez former drug addict and former drug dealer.

heather if you can believe this biden's hhs, their priority now is to move to reclassify marijuana in a lower risk category, get it out of the, i think the schedule one of drug classification. but, after your experience, with your son, and everything we have learned about the science and young americans, should that happen? >> absolutely not. it's hard to believe that they would take something that is much stronger than what it used to be, and that they would okay a substance that would and say it's safer. it will give an idea that it's a safe drug and it isn't. it's much more potent and it does cause a lot of issues with the developing brain, anxiety, depression, psychosis, suicidal ideation and unfortunately we are going to lose a lot of beautiful souls. are. >> laura: it's not that everyone who does marijuana as a young person is going to be psychotic.

that's not what anyone is saying before people start texting me and saying that. the published confirmed a significant percentage of young people who regularly use high thc marijuana products are much more susceptible to psychotic disorders, schizophrenia, suicidal ideation and obviously violent outburst. that is the science that we already know. and, yet, people act like this is all just fine and dandy. now, frank, i know you were recently in philadelphia and saw what the tranq epidemic. we have seen what fentanyl does now this drug tranq that is everywhere. what can you tell us is so just like you said, it's everywhere. it's literally littering the streets of philadelphia. i go to new york. i see the same thing. guy baltimore. i see the same thing. it's everywhere. it's eating people's skin. the xylazine is actually a horse

trannizer. eats people's skin. walk down the block and smell rotting flesh. it's 100 percent chemical warfare. >> laura: frank, tell us your own background. you were dealing drugs and you ultimately turned your life around. but, you were in that world. and it was all readily available both for purchase from a dealer point of view and then for sales on the street. >> yeah. absolutely. like you said for so long, that was my world. i spent 17 years in prison. i went through a heroin addiction. and everything was, you know, and that was just when heroin was around. not the fentanyl. not the carfentanil, not the xylazine. even the marijuana. the hard drugs, the opiates have graduated and evolved and so has the marijuana. the marijuana isn't the same, you know, joints that kids were smoking back in the day where you had to wake up maybe you get

a headache or something like that. they are finding fentanyl in marijuana. there is little kids that are smoking marijuana and dying. this is a huge problem and it's not just, you know, in the inner cities. it's everywhere in america now. >> laura: frank, i interviewed a number of fentanyl addicts and people who are in between addictions in san francisco. to -- the last person i interviewed, every single person started on marijuana. was that how you started on marijuana or something else? >> no. absolutely. marijuana was the first drug that i ever tried. you know, being young, it's a social thing. it's sort of being cool. the peer pressure. and everybody that i interview, i interview people, every single person that i have interviewed, addict wise, they all have that in common where they started with marijuana. and it doesn't say that -- we're not saying that everybody who smokes marijuana is going to turn into a hard core drug

addict. that's the not it. those of us predisposed to addiction, we smoke marijuana, we're going to graduate into other things. it's just a matter of time. >> laura: and, heather, how did your son become addicted to marijuana? again, a lot of parents watching this tonight, they don't think that's an addiction drug. that's an occasional recreational use drug. but he became addicted and how did it lead to his death? >> well, he started using it the age of 15 for acceptance. and he had older friends that were using it. and he liked it pretty instantly. and it wasn't like he started using it constantly. but, by the time he was 16, he had a marijuana use disorder. and we sought treatment for him when he was 17. it was just -- it had him hooked. he was adamant that it was good for you because the industry led him to believe that it was good for him, and he would tell me all the benefits, health benefits. at the time i didn't have the knowledge of the science and the studies that i have now today. and i so wish that he would have

known how it effects the adolescent brain and the development. but, essentially, it changed the function of his brain, and he became anxious. he became depressed. when he wasn't using, he would get really really low. and, in fact, when he took his life, he had low levels of thc in his system. weighs trying to quit. b -- he wastrying to quit but h. >> laura: frank, the story, and we're blessed to have these stories, as horrific as they are to tell, because you might say both of you might save a life tonight. and i know it maybe sounds dramatic but i don't care if it sounds dramatic. it's true. frank, what can we do to reach out more to kids and parents about this trajectory and where this is going? especially with more states, you know, legalizing even harder drug use? >> so i think the most important thing is we have to educate our children. we have to let them know that marijuana, although, you know, it's put out there to be so

harmless and this calming drug. it's not. it's a gateway. it's going to lead to other things. you know, when people, they will be having a bag of weed, and if they drop it on the floor, they are going to be searching on their hands and knees just like somebody who dropped some heroin or some cocaine. it's the same exact thing. we have to educate our children. we have to let them know what's going on. the danger is out there because the fact of the matter is, if we don't do it, somebody else will. so we have to educate them, the youth and anybody that will listen. we have to start in our own home and speak to our children because, if not, the sad reality is they might not wake up. they might -- you know, might not wake up with a hangover. they might be in a cemetery. >> laura: frank, heather, we are going to keep talking about this. a lot of people don't like to talk about it but i'm going to keep talking about it. and i thank both of you, frank, we are going to go out with you, i think at some point and see more of this ourselves and heather, thank you. the administration's favorite

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temporarily blocked the new mexico governor's emergency ban on open and conceal carry in albuquerque. and it's surrounding area. now, we are going to discuss more in moments. but, first. >> life in biden's america. >> bidenomics just another way of saying restoring the american dream. >> our economy and labor market remains strong. >> not only has inflation come down, it's now growing more slowly than the pay of low and middle wage workers, meaning their buying power has increased. >> laura: whoa, whoa, whoa. their buying power has increased? and inflation is down? a little fact-check here. inflation actually rose this month. the news just came out this morning. its biggest monthly jump since january. now, the white house can try to hit the spin cycle over and over again. is any of this going to convince the voters? >> inflation has been really high the last several years. a lot of the wages are not going up. people just can't afford the things that we used to enjoy every day.

>> i guess i'm kind of insulated from a lot of stuff. but, i don't know, inflation is not great. but, i don't know, mixed bag. >> prices have gone up but that's to to me normal. >> do you have too many choices. i'm actually about to pick up a vehicle right now. got to find another source of income instead of your daily source, for sure. >> have you noticed like utilities going up recently? >> yes, i have. i have noticed the price of gasoline and fuel has gone up, too. >> everything is definitely more expensive these days. >> do you feel like you are better off today than you were two years ago? >> no. >> what's hitting you the hardest? >> groceries and gasoline. i take the train to work because of it. >> laura: joining me now, newt gingrich, former speaker of the house and fox news contributor. newt, groceries, gas prices increasing again. they are the two things everyone seems to go back to, the two things that everyone needs. and here we are bidenomics is working, newt.

>> well, this may be one of the great strategic mistakes for re-election that anybody has made in modern times. bidenomics is going to become an absurdity. the average everyday american knows that the price of gasoline is going up and, by the way, every indication is that the biden administration policies are going to make gasoline even more expensive. so, gasoline is a major factor in the consumer price index as as it keeps going up you will see the inflation going up. at the same time, everybody who goes grocery shopping. calista and i saw this over the weekend. you are startled by some of the prices. you know that joe biden, he has a great chech they white house. he gets to fly air force one. go to wilmington and be surrounded by people. i don't think they have a clue how bad inflation is, high prices are for the average american. and, bidenomics may be one of the reasons that one of the most

important deep state columnist, david ignatius wrote a column this morning saying biden should drop out. i think it's begin to sinks in to democrats biden getting reelected is going to be very, very hard. >> newt, i think what's been amazing about this from the very beginning in this administration is that they think that every problem is just a pr problem. we have to communicate it better. people -- people don't see it the way we are saying it. but, in reality, it's a substance problem. i mean, they are shutting off oil supplies. exploration. cordoning off land that can't be drilled. and so now, well, it turns out our utilities are going to be sky high this winter. new report just came out about that. and all the other things we're seeing. so, it's not a p.r. or messaging problem. this is a policy problem. and it has been across the board. >> if you are a hard line left

winger. you believe in a world that's a fantasy. now, if you really believe in that world, you can't face any facts because the facts would destroy your belief system. so, you make things up. and you get used to lying to each other. and that makes you out of touch with reality. i thought the other day when the secretary of energy couldn't actually take the drive in the electric vehicle because, for example, i think there are only 37 charging stations in all of west virginia. and here she is out on a p.r. stunt and it turns out they staffed it so stupidly, they didn't realize she couldn't possibly do what they were promising. this kind of stuff goes on every day in this administration. >> laura: newt, really quickly on that new mexico conceal carry open carry ban put in place by the new mexico governor because of a quote gun violence emergency it was slapped down temporarily your reaction to that?

>> the governor is crazy. it's another example of the rule of power replacing the rule of law. there is no constitutional provision that allows her to do that. by the way, she has to be personally unilaterally suspending new mexico law to do it. it is an example of the total power that the left believes they have to tell us what to do. >> laura: biden got slapped down with a student loan -- i mean, left and right they are getting hit by all these unconstitutional moves. newt, great to see you don't as always. all right, china has this red tetentacles schools, universiti, research facilities at major college and universities. the real estate market. gob bling up commercial and residential real estate everywhere. but, a new shocking report out of the u.k. shows us how things could get even worse. >> laura: the times is reporting that mi 5 britain's intel agency

has warned leaders of the conservative party there that two of their potential parliamentary candidates could be chinese spies. now, the party blocked them in 2021-2022 from actually becoming candidates due to these security concerns. but has the damage already been done? and given the money on the line with corporate elites here in the united states, and the ccp doing business together, makes a lot of dough, could would he be vulnerable as well? joining me now mike pompeo, former trump secretary of state and fox news contributor. mr. secretary, is it only a matter of time before china gets its talons into u.s. government agencies and a really profound way? >> laura, thanks for continuing to stay at this problem of china being here at home inside the gates. we often think of china as taiwan or far away. but this story out of the united kingdom where their equivalent of our fbi government officials they expected of spying for china is something that can

happen here. look, we saw it with representative swalwell. i can tell you they have been trying to spy on city council men, county commissioners. this is a deep effort by what they call their united front. it's their propaganda campaign here inside the united states. these are real efforts. you talked about them being in our universities. they will certainly come after elected officials, those around them. donors and the like attempting to steer america towards the ideas of the chinese communist party and away from the central understandings of america. >> well, one thing that we have seen is a relentless push and promotion by corporate elites to continue u.s. corporate engagement with china, mr. secretary. you and i have talked about this for years. but is there not more evidence day after day that decoupling, divesting from china and every critical industry is what we should be doing right now? >> well, there is no doubt that the chinese communist party's effort is deep and broad.

it's like nothing that the united states has ever seen, laura. you not remember we grew up in the cold war where russian spies were working. this makes that effort pale in comparison. their efforts at destroying our intellectual property and jobs. we saw what they did with the virus and lied to the world for b. it for years. still haven't been held accountable. they are broad, they are economic, espionage, inside the university, stealing our research. we need to wake up. we can't be naive. if the chinese communist party is funding research at your college or university, it is not because they like your alma mater. it is because they have an intense interest in undermining the united states of america. so, yes, corporate america has got to pick this up, too. got it do their part. >> laura: now, well, i should say what was your reaction to the report of the cia whistleblower who has told members of congress that we were

pressured, we were pressuring people paid off not to actually look more into china's real origin of the virus, namely not in a wet market but in a lab. and that this actually was happening? i mean, your reaction there, mr? >> it seems unimaginable that they would compensate analysts at the cia for committing fraud for undermining their very analytic efforts. so i hope it's not true. i have seen the reporting. but, make no mistake about it. the pressure, the pressure that dr. fauci and others put on the u.s. to avoid what we now to be the almost uncertain truth that the virus came from the institute of virology. >> laura: mr. secretary, we were funding gain of function type research or gain of function research at wuhan through the ecohealth alliance there is a really disturbing tale. >> and hard line to america as

well. >> laura: mr. secretary, it's been too long. great to see you. thank you so much. now, a bill in california could charge you with child abuse and take away your kids if you don't affirm your child's gender transition. my next guest lost custody after questioning her own daughter's gender decision. jeanette cooper speaks out next. ♪ the thought of getting screened ♪ ♪ for colon cancer made me queasy. ♪ ♪ but now i've found a way that's right for me. ♪ ♪ feels more easy. ♪ ♪ my doc and i agreed. ♪ ♪ i pick the time. ♪ ♪ today's a good day. ♪ ♪ i screened with cologuard and did it my way! ♪ cologuard is a one-of-a kind way to screen for colon cancer that's effective and non-invasive. it's for people 45 plus at average risk, not high risk. false positive and negative results may occur. ask your provider for cologuard. ♪ i did it my way! ♪

hi, i'm ryan blaney, a third-generation racecar driver. and we dedicate a lot of our time to going as fast as possible. my grandpa lou is the reason why my dad and i started racing, and i'm really proud to follow in his tracks. but when my grandpa was diagnosed with alzheimer's, it was a very unexpected bump in the road for us. i've learned a lot on this journey with my grandpa lou. and the memories of my grandpa will always be with me. and in our family, we're used to getting involved. and i encourage you to do the same. especially when it comes to caring for your loved ones. when i think about alzheimer's and the impact it had on my family, i recognize that losing a race isn't such a bad day after all. it's important to notice if older family members are acting differently, experiencing problems with their memory, or having trouble with routine tasks. talking about alzheimer's can be really tough,

but if you notice something, have a conversation with your loved one. encourage them to see a doctor or offer to go with them. early detection of alzheimer's can give your family time to explore support services, make a plan for the future, and access available treatments. if you, or your family are noticing changes, it could be alzheimer's. talk about seeing a doctor together. >> did you know if you don't have family that isn't lgbtq affirming can you just go home and not see them. if you need permission to visit. >> parents don't have rights. not parents rights. kids have rights. >> laura: a few months ago we told you about a new law being proposed in california that would allow the state to remove a child from his or her own parents if the parents refuse to affirm the child's new gender

identity. and, worse, the parents could even be charged with a crime, child abuse. now, it's this close to becoming law. it passed in the state senate assembly and now it's just waiting for governor gavin newsom's signature. what are you going to do gav? if you think for a second that this is never going to happen in your state or where you live? well, maybe if you are lucky enough to live in a solidly red state but will it be solidly red forever? well, there is a threat out there and you need to hear from our next guest. joining me now is janette cooper she lost custody of 12-year-old in 2019 because she questioned her daughter's new gender identity. one of the co-founders of partners for ethical care jeanette, that bill wasn't a law. it wasn't a law back then, so how did you lose your parental rights? how was that allowed? >> after two and a half years

coercing you to consent yowrg own destruction, that's how it works. i mean. when the custody evaluator determines that you are a serious endangerment to a child because you don't believe in such a concept of as gender identity, you have nowhere to go. the state has a lot of control. >> laura: right. so these arby terse, they are court appointed arbiters, can just come in and say well, the child feels, you know, not supported by you. and it's a hostile environment for the child for you not to agree with this new identity. is that essentially how it went down? essentially, now the concept of parenting is to say yes to your child for just about everything. if you say no, all of a sudden you are unsafe. and if you don't agree with a child's self-identification, as something other than their biological sex, then somehow you are contributing to the -- their

suicide. >> well, i think if a child says she doesn't want to have an abortion, that would -- and the parent decides no, i'm going to force you, then the state would be fine with that, right? that's one of the things they would be fine with. here is the california bills democrat author last week. watch this. >> parents affirm their children. they have since the dawn of time. because that is our duty as parents to affirm our children. >> laura: she seems like she left off the operative clause where this law is concerned, proposed law or else. quote you either, quote, affirm this transition or else. what do parents across the country need to understand about how serious this is? >> i run a parent group of over 3600 parents that are across the world. and what we know is that you can affirm a child's feelings without telling them that they're true. so somebody might feel

uncomfortable, but what is the source of that discomfort? and are they capable of coping with discomfort? they are. and if we push everything. if we snowplow everything out of their way, then they will never be able to cope with anything. they basically disable children when we continuously say yes to everything that they say. when we don't push back and say i can understand you feel that way, but i'm not going to say that that's true because it's not true that my daughter is a boy. it's not true that my daughter is anything but a girl. >> laura: i don't think -- i don't like the whole affirming language. i think you love your child and you guide your child according to your own family's values. you put guardrails in front of your child so your child doesn't go off the edge. jeanette, before we let you go, what's the latest with you and your daughter? when is the last time you saw her? >> yeah, i saw her for an hour in january of 2022 and before that two years previous. so, i'm planning a petition that should be filed shortly in family court here in cook county, illinois, to request sundays 9:00 to 5:00, which i

used to have six days a week custody time and so i'm requesting that to come out of reserve and for me to actually see my daughter before she turns 18. >> laura: jeanette, where is she now? >> she lives with a mile and a half up the street from me. >> laura: jeanette, thank you for sharing this story tonight. it's really disturbing. all right. real alien corpses found. what? scarcity hits the vmas? raymond arroyo has a lot

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my question is why are we suddenly so worried about aliens from other planets, laura, when we have plenty of aliens right here that we can't keep track of. we just had a manhunt that discovered that guy. >> well, we also lost track of what is it 177,000 illegals who came into the country and then 120,000 children, we don't know where they're, the sponsors, that the address is fake. we can't keep track of much. right and we are worried about aliens. i think everyone is hoping to find an extraterrestrial. while alien life forms are all around us, laura if you look closely enough. >> oh, it's devastating. ha ha ha, oooh. >> so happens i got a pedicure this morning. [laughter] >> look at that. now, you know where i got this from. this is my dad's shirt. >> laura, that's a close

encounter of the worst kind right there. you heard of barbarella. that's smell rella. >> matthew mcconaughey, he will go above and beyond to be a good guest on a show, which. >> that's a real man. but, look, i have to tell you about the latest apple ad to hulk their iphone 15. it looks like it could have been made by aliens. tim cook and staff in skit tried to placate their climate critics by having a sit-down with mother nature. naturally, she is played by oscar winner octavia spencer. >> mother nature, welcome to apple. >> in 2020, you promised to bring apple's entire footprint to zero by 2030. >> at the apple office store and data center runs on clean electricity thanks to your powerful wind and sun. >> seriously explaining carbon neutrality to mother nature? >> right. i'm sorry. >> do you want to tell me how photo sen cyst works, too.

>> our aim is to completely remove carbon from the atmosphere. >> we have innovated and retooled almost every part of our process to reduce our impact on the planet. but, there is still a lot more work to do. [laughter] >> laura: this is the biggest act of virtue signaling, laura. >> what they don't tell you in that ad or anywhere else is, 95% of every iphone, ipod, everything that they create is made in china, 95% of it if they were really worried about the environment, they would get out of china. >> laura: first of all, tim cook could not be a worse actor. okay? he is horrifically bad. and we have seen bad acting. but, raymond, the rare earth materials that are necessary for the i phone and what china does to get those rare earth materials. but we're supposed to be, what, really impressed that they have biodegradable toilet paper in the apple bathrooms? are they kidding me?

oooh. and what does tim's jet run on, sunshine? come on. >> they are bragging they have paper wrappings around their products now. you are sending children into cobalt mines in africa to dig this stuff up with their hands spare me your virtue. delivering planes to deliver the stuff like that doesn't pollute the ocean. big cultural fails before we go. we watched both of the cmt video music awards last night and you were struck by the costuming. >> laura: raymond, inflation must be hitting the music scene pretty hard because the outfits on these ladies, if that's what it is called. i hope you can actually see this well on the screen. doge gentleman cat looks like she was wearing an actual spider's web the spider who stole the costume on the set. >> the fly is not there. and nikki that new jersey, laura, she went for the da muir

look. she wore a vale even over her underwear. that's pretty good. >> laura: one thing i can't figure out though is why was it b.b.rez's outfit, rexha. i don't know how to say it has a back side cut out and a horse tail? what was equine move? >> i can't quite understand what's happening there and i won't even try. but it is bizarre to have a tail hanging off the back of your dress above the cutouts. i don't quite get that. or below. all the audience needs to know. >> laura: ray, what we have to say to everyone. everyone is trying to outdo one another. i get it. this is what they do. at some point when you are in a bra and panties on stage as the emcee of the vmas, what's next? i mean, just show up in an adult diaper and just nothing? i don't know what you show up in after that. you are basically not wearing clothes. >> they have to keep topping each other. the bottom line is, taylor swift won everything and shakira stole

the night. not only do her hips not lie. they don't quit, either. she was pretty good. i have to say at 46 years old. she was working it. that was quite a routine. she stole the evening. >> laura: taylor swift took it all and i agree. the oldies, even the old hip hop artists they did the best job. great to see you. mcconnell is now criticizing, of course, tommy tuberville for blocking military promotions or the abortion policies. simple solution to all o

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senator tommy tuberville has not budged on pentagon promotions. the guy who seems always ready to help biden mitch mcconnell is weighing in.

>> i think holding these non-policy making career military can't be involved in politics at all is a mistake. >> a mistake? well it seems likes senator mcconnell doesn't know what he's talking about. these nominations could be voted on one by one. if this is a threat to military readiness why hasn't anyone suggested holding these votes? they could get through the new joint chiefs of staff before millie retires. what's the real reason? joining me senator ron johnson. are democrats worried about being held accountable for certain individual nominee's votes? >> of course not. i know this will shock you and your audience but democrats are

being complete hypocrites on this f. they wanted to account for the marines they would call them the nomination for a vote and two hours later vote to defer the nomination. it takes no more than four hours but generally two in comeback mode. i think mcconnell is out of step with our conference. i feel a great deep of support for senator tuberville and our base and we're party of life. we are the party that up holds the rule of law and the simple solution is having the administration follow the law have the department of defense not spend taxpayer money for abortions f. they -- if they want a nomination four hours late there individual will be confirmed. >> you've had five weeks off as is customary in august f. this

was a national security or military imperative mcconnell and schumer would have gotten together say we are going to knock out the top 12 people. we are going to make sure these votes are held and do it in the course of a day and a half or less but i think they continue want to do it because some of these nominees are pretty bad like the guy who is tapped the lead the pacific air command you know pacific air force. watch this. >> ultimately that's really what dei is getting after, not identifying the barriers that currently exist getting messaging out to the public as to what opportunities do exist and then just drawing the talent that we need to continue to excel as a force. >> now are senators worried about being held accountable or going on the record for this guy's promotion? >> well first of all this has

been a hallmark of the bind administration they've been nominating and democrats confirming the most radical leftists you could imagine. it is just sad what is happening throughout all these agencies in terms of the people that president biden is pop lating in those agencies but again democrats have no problem confirming these votes and the mainstream media won't hold them accountable for it so this is a political issue. democrats being complete hypocrites. it's a matter of holding votes. by the way can you hold votes over friday saturday sunday. >> right. >> hold the senate n. we can do these things. >> senator, i don't think tester wants to take on some of these nominees like the air force nominee who is a very controversial gem slice said white colonel are largely blind

to institutional racism so i think tester doesn't want to take that vote. i don't think shared brown or mantion. thank you for speaking truth to power on this senato >> a fox news alert. costing the economy over $5 billion in just 10 days. auto workers laying out plans for demonstrations and putting the pressure on blue collar joe. and white house wants to spend on charging stations, our own transportation secretary pete buttigieg admits driving his ev can be stressful.