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♪ >> ainsley: good morning, 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. tuesday, november 18th. this is "fox & friends." president-elect donald trump named his nominee for fcc chair who could take on big tech. while the battle for treasury secretary heats up. >> listen, i like howard lutnick, i like all the players in this. at the end of the day, it's going to be the president's decision. but, sometimes it's very difficult to be in the position of recommending someone when you are try fog for that very same question. >> brian: what are you doing? plus, biden bids farewell on the

global stage but not before a stunning reversal. now allowing ukraine to strike russia with the missiles we gave them anywhere, any time. finally, trump's pick to lead the nsa -- lead the nsa, congressman michael waltz national security adviser he will react live. >> steve: greatest living film maker scorsese main reason why he wasn't so great at being an altar boy when he was just a kid. stick around for the second hour of "fox & friends," it begins right now. >> brian: he was no sa saint. >> we have new trump. >> ainsley: speaking of the saints glorious. >> brian: took an offer book that. >> steve: president-elect donald trump is expected to focus on filling out his economic team

after making another key appointment yesterday. >> ainsley: bill melugin is live in west palm beach, folder. good morning, bill. >> bill: ainsley, good morning. obviously the economy was a huge pillar of donald trump's campaign this time around. a lot of eagerness to find out who is he going to select as his treasury secretary? that's still up in the air right now. a handful of names are being tossed out there for consideration. take a look. according to the "wall street journal" and "new york times." these are four of the guys they're looking at. a couple of which reportedly met with trump in mar-a-lago. kekevin warsh, loud lutnick and scott bessent. he named brendan carr as his chairman of the fcc. carr currently serves arrests the senior republican commissioner on the fcc and in naming him, trump said in part,

quote: he will end the regulatory onslaught crippling america's job creators and innovators and make sure that the fcc delivers for rural america. trump made a few picks on saturday as well. take a look. the biggest of them is chris wright. going to serve as trump's energy secretary. that's a big position. it oversees the stockpiles of u.s. military nuclear weapons. william sharp is tapped to be a white house staff secretary. and then you g karoline leavitt sparring to be trump's press secretary. 27 years old. makes her the youngest press secretary ever. as for other picks democrats have been throwing cold cold wan some of that, take a listen. >> is this the very best that america has to offer for a moment like this, with so many challenges that we confront? of course not. america deserves better. >> republican senator who votes to confirm matt gaetz or robert

kennedy or tulsi gabbard will be remembered by history as somebody who completely gave up their responsibility to donald trump. >> guys, it was interesting. just a short time ago this morning, the hosts of msnbc's morning joe program announced that they privately met face to face with donald trump at mar-a-lago on friday. they said it was their first meeting with them in seven years and that while they disagree with him on a variety of topics they agreed to reopen lines of communication saying they don't want to just talk about donald trump, they want to start talking to him again. we will send it back to you. >> brian: i was hearing that, too bill. that is probably the most magnanimous thing any individual in america has done. >> ainsley: after calling him every name. >> brian: called him fascist, hitler. ever since harold ford left that building, there was not one

person saying anything nice about trump. for him to that i can that the brooft r. is breakfast. >> ainsley: maybe he is going to united our country. everyone is doing the dances out. >> steve: bill, when rachel maddow shows up at mar-a-lago, can we make that a fox news alert? >> bill: if we can get a camera down there, we will show it to you guys, live. [laughter] >> steve: so that's interesting. >> brian: the president continues to fill out his cabinet. a lot of high profile like secretary of state, national security adviser coming up a little bit later. keep your eye on this. it's the fcc chair. and senior republican on the fcc. he has got a great resume. first nominated back in 2017. going to focus on not censoring but censorship, especially on the social media platforms. and what i think is so significant about this, we already have the exposure, thanks to elon musk buying

twitter. now, there is going to be a focus and all the focus is going to be on google, on facebook, and the other behemoths and snapchat, all the behemoths rising so dominant. wells their status as a journalistic entity. are they going to have to give a fair and balanced perspective. are they going to have when they defame people. >> ainsley: sent a letter to all ceos and what he believes is censorship in the past. americans have lived through the unprecedented surge in censor. your companies played significant roles in this improper conduct. >> steve: keep in i understand moo, only over the last couple of years where the fcc has had some purview over social media. in addition to essentially doing battle with social media companies to try to make sure that it is a free and open place for people of all political

voices to express themselves, keep in mind, he is also going to be involved in television, which is between radio and television, two of the core jobs ever the fcc and essentially there have been a number of republicans who over the last number of years have said that the tv networks have gotten way too liberal. they have got to be back more. >> ainsley: maybe that's why mika and joe. >> brian: self-preservation? >> ainsley: maybe so. >> brian: also interesting, too, to see that when it comes to what happened at snl. when snl put kamala harris on and didn't put trump on, what they did is they put so much heat on nbc, they said what can we do for you? and trump said and they said we are going to offer you a spot on nascar and he said yes. >> steve: this is the guy who put the heat on. >> brian: that's what i'm saying, yeah it. shows you they reacted and now he has more power. >> in the meantime, let's talk a little bit and bill melugin touched on this. we thought by now we would know

who the new treasury secretary is, who is going to sign the dollar bill. we thought it was going to be either howard lutnick or scott bessent. both of them have been on this program. but then, now there are two new names. kevin warsh who has been on the -- has been on the federal reserve and, in fact, trump wanted him to be the new powell but powell wound up with the job and he was regretful. mark rowan apollo global. howard lutnick, screen left, who is co-chairing the transition, apparently he is getting on trump's nerves. he is hanging around too much. and the people who talk to the "times" said is he manipulating the transition to help himself. it's like a knife fight between those two screens left with howard being the aggressive. so now, rather than pick one of

those two, they are adding two more candidates. >> ainsley: scott was on with brian. he came on the show last week and brian interviewed him. what is interesting is that screen right, howard lutnick, who is ceo he lost his brother 9/11. is he the one in charge of the transition team he and linda mcmahon. they have been working on the transition team i think it was august or september. we reported that after the day trump won. for a while, they have been working on this transition team. he was interviewing scott bessent answered said you know what? i might want the job. >> brian: went right to the president. scott felt as though a little bit double-crossed. obviously it was. interviewing me, screening me. pluses and minuses i'm better. trump is in the middle of it and going to expand it. i also heard robert lighthizer could be somebody else a dark horse. robert lighthizer. he was saluted by chuck schumer,

nancy pelosi and donald trump. trade deals. he did a ton of them. including redoing usmca. he will be named shortly. also, interestingly ben carson's name coming up. is he going to be grum again? >> ainsley: i think he said he wasn't going to be part are of the cabinet. didn't he say that? >> steve: put out on the twitter he will not be surgeon general. he will be speaking to the former and future president shortly about how he can help. the interesting thing about howard lutnick. >> ainsley: i like him. >> steve: this is one of the core things that trump ran on, tariffs. howard is 100 percent behind some sort of tariff movement. >> ainsley: both of them are. >> brian: you think howard -- i thought he was late to that party. i thought he was more traditional. >> steve: when he was here about three weeks ago, we talked a lot about tariffs. and he is completely behind it.

>> ainsley: i was reading both of them are for trump's trade tariff policies, and bessent even said tariffs are a means to finally stand up. >> brian: unless you come to the table, 100 percent tariffs on this. all going to focus on china, which if they could get democrats and republicans both together on that. >> ainsley: lutnick said to my whole life. fiscal conservative. the democratic party moved away from me. i think a lot of people can relate to that. >> steve: trump is going to talk to the two new candidates this week maybe by friday. know who the guy is who is going to sign the money. fox news alert at 7:11 in new york city. president biden is in brazil right now where he will attend his final summit just under an hour. >> ainsley: this after u.s. signed off on ukraine's use of weapons inside russia. >> brian: lucas tomlinson live in rio de janeiro over in

brazil. >> good morning, guys. russia has been firing short range missiles into ukraine three years now. president biden has been forbidding ukraine to do the same thing in return. of course, this is something ukraine's president has been begging biden to overturn for years now. those short range ballistic missiles are in ukraine but until today, have been forbidden for ukraine to use them. of course, recently ukraine's president said that only 10% of the weapons congress approved for ukraine to use have been approved for ukraine to use. let's take a look at president biden's arrival in rio. he arrived last night. as you can see or you are about to see. there was no red carpet rolled out for him. there was a red carpet rolled out for chinese president xi when he arrived. biden attend an economic sim mitt where china was given the rare honor biden was not. brazil was also extending the honor to chinese president xi here in rio, not biden. china is brazil's largest

trading partner like most of south america. today biden will attend a meeting in rio. he will make take part in the reception with other world leaders. three years since russia launched against ukraine. counter strike allowing ukraine to use american missiles with a range of 190 miles. the goal is to hit north korean and russian soldiers in the kursk region and only inside where russia launched in august. ukraine is forbid ton use them elsewhere. they have deployed this area 10,000 ultimately according to the latest intelligence. biden's decision to use longer range missiles comes one day after russia launched one of its largest attacks ukraine since the start of the war. firing 200 missiles and drones targeting ukraine's infrastructure. biden became the first sitting american president to tour the amazon. of course, fdr had ill fated trip there a long time ago. >> i'm proud to be here.

the first sitting president visit the rain forest. history is literally watching us now. let's preserve this sacred place for our time and forever for the benefit of all humanity. >> bob woodward's new book a friend of president biden said the president told him that former president obama never took putin seriously and that's one of the reasons we are we are today. back in 2014 and russia taking crimea in parts of the donbas luhansk and donbas as well. >> brian: that didn't get a lot of publicity. way to call it back. lucas, a big question was with north korean troops just put in 12,000, okay. but if they keep on putting 10,000 in consistently, then it's a huge issue. do you know have they brought in more troops initial deployment? >> well, brian, there is reporting out of south korea that north korea's ultimately going to send up to 100,000

troops to russia. certainly what the biden administration is looking at matching that escalation. we just had a backgrounder here with the deputy national security adviser john finer who said that because north korea is escalating, that's why the biden administration -- while he didn't confirm, this clearly members of the administration permission has been granted. it is notable that this is a limited permission to use these longer range missiles. army a tack couples go up to 19. some missiles, single war head, others cluster munition, limited area just inside cink, trying to match that deployment north korean forces to russia. >> brian: lucas, i had no heard that is that is unbelievable. a thousand troops. thanks. >> steve: are you the only one in rio wearing a sport coat? >> lucas: there has been a couple of other reporters wearing sport coats i'm told fox news standard in the tropics is no tie, steve. >> steve: no tie indeed.

it's a my tie. >> ainsley: where is he again? >> steve: rio. >> de janeiro. thanks, lucas. >> steve: if did you go to the "new york post" website, the lead story is all about nancy pelosi, miranda devine has written a great op-ed. nancy pelosi has finished -- no one deserves more blame for the dem's $1 billion electoral collapse than her. keep in mind, she is the one who stabbed joe biden in the chest. and essentially he had to walk the plank. so she is the reason kamala harris was the nominee and she is the reason, according to some people, that they really stunk up the place this election. >> ainsley: pelosi told the "new york times" that president biden should have dropped his re-election bid earlier. and that if he had, democrats might have had the opportunity to run an open primary.

and that led to this headline. axios headline says scoop, house dems sick of pelosi. and one senior house democrat in this interview says, quote: she needs take a seat. >> brian: how disrespectful it is for the sitting speaker. hakeem jeffries. he is the one who should be front and center. he should be giving explanations, excuses and setting up a mission. and he said -- a member of the congressional black caucus said this, i don't think she, pelosi, is being respectful of him, jeffries. now, jeffries was asked that specifically on sunday on meet the press. listen. >> very quickly though, do you think undermining leadership with public pronouncements? >> no. >> okay. that was quick. one of the arguments that nancy pelosi made is that president biden should have gotten out of the race sooner. do you believe he should have dropped out sooner? >> i think that president biden

will go down in history as one of the most consequential presidents of all time and i was thankful for all the work that we were age to do together. he did make the decision. it was a selfless decision to pass the torch to vice president kamala harris. i think she ran with it. and did the best job that she could under incredibly challenging circumstances. in a little over 100 days. she came close but we fell short. >> brian: telling the truth. because joe biden said it would take god almighty to pull him out of race and then he wanted of a two week rally binge wells doing four network interviews. if biden wanted to finish this out and was maybe not told the truth, or lying about his own polls, but nancy pelosi said when the guys didn't step up, meaning obama and clinton, i had to go out and do it. and then they finished the job. maybe it started with george clooney. he something honest. i know he? a hard spot and they get along. but that -- i think the one

thing that she did not figure outer. she is the most overrate the politician of our generation. this is the woman who classlessly tore up the state of the union address that the whole world watches as if that was -- she couldn't do it she did one at a time. that's when she lost it. she was asked in her own daughter's documentary she said i should have put more national guard troops there on january 6th. she doesn't even bring that up again. >> steve: ultimately joe biden hasn't been in good shape for a year and a half or two years. he should have stepped aside for the country. and now for the party. and she and other top democrats saw him with their own two eyes and let this happen. and then eventually, she stabbed him in the chest. as i said a moment ago. but it was too late. >> ainsley: she wanted an open primary. she knew in her heart of hearts kamala harris wasn't the right one for the job. >> steve: joe would have had to back out long before to have an

open primary. >> brian: where they put everyone's names in a hat and lost all the money that joe biden had had. the only person who could keep that money was the vice president. >> steve: because her name was on the ticket. >> brian: what i think has come out is her goal was to make an open primary. she had everything right until joe biden says i'm endorsing the vice president, that stopped her plan in its tracks. and they were stuck with somebody with 32% approval rating who can't retain a staff and doesn't understand policy, too lazy to read it. >> ainsley: i think he said fine, nancy, you are pushing me out, george clean i couldn't are pushing me out. barack obama you are pushing me out. i get to choose the candidate it's going to be my vice president. >> brian: that's why everyone believes that he voted for trump, joe biden. >> steve: never know. >> ainsley: speculating wife wore the red pants suit. >> brian: and he wore a trump hat. >> steve: or left it blank. another fox news alert. busy monday. danny penny is going to be back

in a manhattan courtroom this morning as his criminal trial for the death of jordan neely continues, the new york medical examiner who conducted neeley's autopsy expected to be on the stand today that neeley had synthetic drugs in his system at the time that he died. she said neily died as a result of the check hold we found in the blood a cabin mid to a relatively new drug in the scheme of drugs. i base my decision on the autopsy findings coupled with that video. i don't wait for toxicology because no toxicology report would change my opinion. >> brian: prosecutor is expected to rest as the defense presents its case when it resumes at 10:00 in the morning describing

what was happening and seeing those witness does we even have to go on. this should be ending and apologize to this guy who actually took in his own hand. when you have drugs, that effects how you fight. and how you struggle. so maybe if he wasn't on these synthetic drugs, he would have realized i'm totally subdued. i should stop fighting back until i cause my own death. >> ainsley: also, earlier in the trial didn't they say that he did have a heart beat after the chokehold. >> steve: absolutely. so, that's one of the disconnects. >> ainsley: he didn't die in that moment. >> steve: so danny penny stops with the hold, right? the guy still was alive for a while. they could detect that. the other problem is and this kind of speaks to what you were referring to, brian, is the fact that some of the prosecution's star witnesses have had trouble with keeping their stories straight, and it's like okay, i said let go. okay. yeah i said let go. but then i said hold him

tighter. and they go around and around. and that's why when you look at penny's defense, that he was simply trying to protect those people and the people in the car say yeah, he got, in neely got, in we were freaked out. we were terrified. it speaks to his case. so far, if you had to make a bet, it would look like he probably will be acquitted. >> brian: the fact that he is on trial, steve is so crazy. >> steve: it's new york. >> brian: unrelated though privileged to have with us michael waltz. he is the national security adviser for the incoming president donald trump he is going to talk about his job andh focus inat a moment. it's lying dormant, waiting... and could reactivate. shingles strikes as a painful, blistering rash that can last for weeks. and it could wake at any time. think you're not at risk for shingles?

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>> ainsley: this is a fox news alert. the illegal migrant accused of killing georgia nursing student laken riley is inside the courtroom entering a couple minutes ago as his trial continues at 8:30 this morning. carley shimkus joins us now to tell us more. >> carley: hey, ainsley, we expect to hear more from the state's witnesses this morning. emotions running high in that georgia courtroom on friday at prosecution laid out their case against 26-year-old jose ibarra. they say ibarra went hunting for females at the university of georgia campus before encountering laken riley on her morning run. they added riley struggled and

her watch showed her heart stopped about 18 minutes after she encountered ibarra. riley's parents and over 20 family members were in the gallery visibly emotional as officers played body camera video of the day she was killed. prosecutors also showing scratches on ibarra that appeared to be defensive wounds. surveillance of him allegedly disposing a jacket containing riley's d.n.a. and her final 911 call. the defense says evidence is lacking. >> evidence will show that laken fought. she fought for her life. she fought for her dignity. >> the evidence that jose ibarra killed laken riley is circumstantial. you'll hear no evidence that a sexual assault was committed. >> carley: the defense questioning the strength of the state's evidence against ibarra.

especially the reliability of the d.n.a. samples. ibarra is facing a slew of charges, including malice murder, kidnapping and more. and faces life in prison if convicted. the trial resumes this morning at 8:30 a.m. eastern time. brian? >> brian: thanks so much, carley. we will be carrying a lot of that. obviously. meanwhile this, a fox news alert. right now fbi investigation underway as we learn the library of congress email system was hacked by a foreign adversary earlier this year. the growing cyber attack. key issue over our next guest will be tackling when he takes office as president-elect trump's national security adviser could not have a better person. congressman michael waltz joins us now. congressman, i know how much you have on your plate. your thoughts from what you know about this hack. why would someone want to hack that? >> well, brian, you know, often when you hack into one part of the government, that then gives you access to other parts of the government. but i think from a broader

standpoint, we cannot just keep playing 100 percent defense on the cyber front. we need to start imposing consequences, clearly our adversaries are not getting the message that this has to stop. and the one that has me most concerned is earlier this year, the cyber threat called volt typhoon, coming-that was exposed from china, which is not just taking data or spying. it's actually cyber time bombs in our critical infrastructure. i think we need a broader shift in strategy that will be working with president trump's excellent team that he is assembling, to put in place. >> brian: elon musk i imagine when it comes to ai and things like that will be of value, right? >> ai is going to be critical, quantum computing is going to be critical. and having brilliant minds from the tech world that president trump is putting around him like elon, amongst others, will be -- i mean, that is the race. in terms of the technology race

for who stays on top around the world. >> brian: so with two months left in office. joe biden has done something he has been called on to do since this war started. allow ukraine to strike russia with everything that we give them. the atacms, which are long range missiles. hit russia where they are trying to hit them from. your reaction to that and were you briefed ahead of time? >> i was not, brian. and it's -- you know, it's another step up the escalation ladder, and nobody knows where this is going. north korea is unleashing ballistic missiles, artillery, now tens of thousands of soldiers. the administration responds by lifting this restriction, north korea sends more soldiers, south korea is now saying it may get engaged. china is buying oil from iran for pennies on the dollar. iran is using that to send missiles and drones to russia. that is then hitting ukrainian critical infrastructure. so this is a development, but it's a tactical one. president trump is talking grand

strategy here. how do we get both sides to the table, to end this war? what's the framework for a deal? and who is sitting at that table? those are the things that i and president trump, of course, will be working with, again, this is an all-star team, brian. that president trump is assembling that will think through these broader strategic issues and how do we drive this war to an end as president trump promised on the campaign trail? >> brian: congressman, soon-to-be national security adviser, john bolton didn't work. robert o'brien did work. have you talked to them? what is your approach to having this position with the 47th president of the united states, who you know very well? >> i think some of the fundamental flaws, to be candid, brian, was that a number of people tried to conform president trump and his style and his way of thinking to the system, to kind of the established, you know, policy-making process system. i think that's a completely

wrong approach. his instincts are phenomenal as i have talked about publicly and even in my book. and then you conform the inner agency to execute on those instincts and on his broader strategic intent. everything from the border to reemphasizing the western memo miss fear. the competition with china, burden sharing from our allies. focusing more on iran as the driver of stability in the middle east and pressuring them, rather than our great ally israel. those are the broader contours of his foreign policy. and i can tell you with this team, you don't have anybody on the team thinking they know better than him or want to undermine or obfuscate. we are all on board going in the same direction for this america first agenda. i have got to tell you, brian, the excitement amongst the team is palpable. everybody is fired up and ready to get to work. >> brian: all right. we're glad, you know, i think everybody on both sides is

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storms. >> continue to watch that have a way to get those watches and warnings today. then there is that major pattern shift. snow possible for the northern plains and upper west the ohio river valley. this will happen monday through friday. accumulating snow certainly in the mountains and going to get some heavy rainfall across the northeast, which is actually a good news situation because we have been lacking in the rain department. so, it's beginning to look and feel a lot like christmas. steve doocy, over to you, finally. >> steve: thanksgiving is next week. >> janice: yes, sir. >> steve: thanks valentine's j.. bob casey refusing to concede despite the race already being called for dave emergency core mic. democratic officials are openly admitting that they are breaking state law by counting illegal ballots. >> i think we all know that precedent by a court doesn't matter anymore in this country, and people violate laws any time

they want. so, for me, if i violate this law, it's because i want a court to pay attention to it. >> steve: oh, we're paying attention and so is fox news legal editor kerri urbahn. kerri, so they are breaking the rules and everybody knows they are breaking the rules. it's like so what? we can do what we want, right? >> and saying they are breaking the rules. this is so brazen, steve, it's unbelievable. my question over the last few days has been where is governor josh shapiro in this? where is the secretary of state, the commonwealth of pennsylvania? why are they not directing their officials to follow the law? the pennsylvania supreme court literally just addressed this issue two weeks ago. and, again, there are three simple rules or you would think they are simple when it comes -- what govern mail-in ballots, they have to be placed in a specific kind of envelope. they have to be signed and dated.

handwritten. what is happening in counties some counties are following those rules and some aren't. the clip you just played showed a county official saying court precedent doesn't matter. and it's quite shocking to me. politically it's very foolish for josh shapiro for somebody who has presidential aspirations in 2028 and based on everything we know doesn't sound like the recount is going to change things. why would he not put out even a statement and saying hey, i meant when i said a couple weeks ago when i said pennsylvania is committed to a free and fair election. yet we haven't heard anything from him on that. >> steve: what is so maddening about this is when you do your mail-in ballot it's got all the rules on the outside of the ballot you know on the envelope. did you sign it? did you date it? did you do this? did you put it in the mailbox? so essentially, there were a bunch of -- and i don't even know how many, but i know right now mccormick is ahead by 31,000, i think. there were a number of ballots where somebody did something wrong. >> correct.

>> steve: state law says you get a certain period of time when you can fix that. but these haven't been fixed. they are just counting them anyway. >> they are still counting them. and what the secretary of state there would say what happens with those. put aside and then the board votes on whether to count them or not. and i heard this. he just said this in an interview yesterday in a local pennsylvania interview. i thought to myself you mean the board votes? what about the pennsylvania supreme court? what about the legislature? that has passed the law and what is so so ironic, steve, and this is very ironic this individual who is the secretary of state his name is al schmitd, he was so frustrated by donald trump in 2020 when donald trump was claiming that there was fraud happening in philadelphia at the time schmitd was a commissioner on the election board there in fact, he was so frustrated with president trump for his claims of possible fraud in pennsylvania, he passed for the january #th committee. now he is saying this is just part. process. nothing to see here.

despite the fact these officials are saying we are defying the law. >> steve: it is something. >> crazy. >> steve: that's why we are bringing it up. here's the thing. this is not even an official recount this is just still. >> correct. >> mopping up after election day. >> still counting. >> steve: they could actually have now a $1 million recount and that would be in addition to this even though it looks like mccormick is still ahead by 31,000. >> i think the recount is happening no matter what. that's what is crazy about this. they are still counting the votes from election day. and, again, i don't understand what the issue is with pennsylvania, steve. i keep saying this on air. you have virginia, you have florida, you have states who do it and do it well and smoothly. why are they still counting votes at all? >> steve: good question. gives us something to talk about. kerri, thank you for joining us live. >> thank you. >> steve: meanwhile trump's hhs nominee planning to cut down on ultra processed foods. the specifics on how r.f.k. jr. plans to make america healthy

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>> trump's secretary nominee rfk jr. plans to take on ultra processed foods and pledged to make america healthy again. >> we have a generation of kids swimming around toxic soup right now. leading these industries crept ever industries ms poisoning them. >> ainsley: it will be no small task a study from the university shows these foods make up 73% of our country's food supply. here to discuss senior medical analyst, dr. marc siegel. at that is gary 73% of our food supply ultra processed. >> let me break it down this way let's start with food dyes, red coloring red dye number 3 been in europe, associated with cancer in animals but all of the food dyes have been associated with hyperactivity in children. >> ainsley: why is it legal in

america? why don't we just say band? >> traditionally the democrats have said ban and rfk jr. is saying this but the food industry fights back. the food lobbyists fight back. traditionally president trump has not been regulator. if there is a concern for sins up with more regulations that will drive prices up and food grocery store prices are a problem. let's look at ultra processed foods, ainsley, when he says swimming in toxic soup he is not getting. yesterday when should eat more and high fructose corn soup are you kidding me because as direct obesity and ultra processed foods are loaded with fat, nitrates, nitrates with ultra food process again cancer in animals, food, sold, people get drawn into en en me and they get high blood pressure, diabetes, d risk for cancer so we found the right track and whether we can accomplish this

is a different story. >> ainsley: how hard is this when he has to fight big pharma and the food industry? i like how vocal he has being about it and putting a spotlight on it but the question is the fda. the fda as part of the problem with cronyism but he already said it, the pressure being put on the fda by the food industry and pharmaceutical industry and by the lobbyist groups and congress have so much power they were the dfa. >> provide the budget at the fda. 75% of their budgets come from the pharmaceutical companies. >> exactly and i want to say pharmaceutical companies are doing great things. we come up with biotechnology soaring and artificial intelligence impersonally solutions. we don't want to squash big pharma and also start up companies look to big pharma and bring them to the finish line. this is really important.

>> ainsley: where they make most of the money you get second have to rely on their medicines? whatever they put these carcinogens or chemicals in our food, they are making a lot of money there question might speak of this is why i love coming on with you, they should get tax incentives for going on the treadmill or taking a walk in the morning or evening farm to table food or having more produce. i want to see more producing the schools and rfk jr. says that also so. we have to go back to healthy lifestyle and less money on being ultra sick. >> ainsley: i don't mind if people have choices and you talk about mandating this here too but whatever is in my coca-cola, i just want it to be safe and i want that choice to have a diet coke or cherry coke or whatever. but it is what is in it that worries to americans. >> that leads to transparency in the future president come january is drinking diet codes and i will tell you president trump stop the

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