ainsley: wow.s dream help you in your life growing up? >> just from seeing with a lot of this evil stems from, you know? this idea that one person should be able to control the very freedom of one person, that the government is going to keep -- give you insurance for free and take care of all your bills, and for you to rely on the bills -- [inaudible] don't be with lazy. go out there and work, buy the best insurance possible, go out there and work -- ainsley: work hard. >> don't rely on the government for any checks, for anything like that. that's something that i've always heard from a kid and still to this day. it's a tool that i think the government used to hold people down and eventually taking more and more of your freedom if the bread crumbs -- for the bread crumbs that they're give requesting. that's why when mr. trump was running the campaign, i saw what the opposition had to offer, i had to speak my mind as well. ainsley: socialism, that message doesn't resonate well with trump supports. j

ainsley: i agree.me 5 nba final. chris paul, jay crowder, bridges, chris middleton drew holiday or tie. ainsley: i'm going with whoever lawrence chooses. lawrence: chris paul a. >> tom: there is your six questions. these are tough ones this week. if you win you get $10,000. ainsley: did you track your answers last week? how did we do? steve: well, ainsley, i think last week the problem is -- i'm tracking you and right now ainsley, you are down by one. behind the guys. ainsley: i'm coming back. lawrence: great come back story. ainsley: don't under estimate me. steve: thank you very much mr. happy hour. our happy hour is the next hour the last hour of the week as you can see jack brewer, geraldo, and the general. ♪ ♪ the stronger, lasts-longer energizer max. liberty mutual customizes car insurance the stronger, lasts-longer so you only pay for what you need. how much money can liberty mutual save you? one! two! three! four! five! 72,807! 72,808... dollars. yep... everything hurts. only pay for what you n

ainsley: right.that's why you have in washington this continuous message, misinformation, misinformation. and the surgeon general, i didn't know this. he said that he lost 10 people in his family from covid-19 and he says facebook is not doing enough. but then when you ask facebook, they say we have followed all the 8 plans. all the 8 recommendations that they gave us. we have listened to them and we have done our jobs. 58% of the folks that are getting -- that are getting -- that have covid now, that are not vaccinated, 58% of them have the delta variant. that's the one that's so condition teenage just and spreading throughout the country. brian: not more dangerous. said if you had covid last year. not protected from this evidence year the flu changes? brian: who said that? steve: the cdc. brian: have not proven that the antibodies disappear when they get in t cells that people who have the natural immunity not even better protected than those with the vaccine. steve: still have the natural immunity

ainsley: well, dr.rt of the nih and they gave $600,000 to ecohealth alliance which paid the wuhan lab, according to rand paul, which paid the wuhan lab to study coronavirus, bat coronavirus and how they would affect humans. and they argued about it. watch this. steve: man, did they. >> dr. richard ebright, a molecular biologist from rutgers described this we search in wuhan as: the wuhan lab used nih funding to con be structure novel sars related coronavirus the definition of gain of function research. done entirely in wuhan. for which there was supposed to be a federal pause. dr. fauci, knowing that it is a crime to lie to congress, do you wish to retract your statement of may 11th where you claimed that the nih never funded gain of function research in woo wuhan. >> senator paul, i have never lied before the congress and i do not retract that statement. i totally resent the lie that you are now propagating, senator. you are implying that what we did was responsible for the deaths of individuals. i tot

ainsley: yeah.. can't afford to pay them more. brian: restaurants pay them more. thanks. steve: something the democrats didn't want to hear in the town hall as well. of the president said that if the filibuster was eliminated you are going to throw the entire congress into chaos and nothing will get done. so, he is essentially tell graphed they can talk about getting rid of it but he, the president, thinks that would be a dumb idea. brian: go ahead. ainsley: i was going to say to the man about the restaurant, the 39 restaurants. if you pay them more, that's more money out of your pocket and you have to run the restaurant. you going to. steve: pay it $4 for a hamburger? brian: steve you pointed out the most important thing to come out. institution far too long give up everything he stood for 50 years came out any other way. make talk filibuster i'm fine with that do you know who else feels good about that joe manchin he is no longer alone in saying this. he can say to these people hocking around the

ainsley: dr. siegel, thank you so much. >> thanks, ainsley. ainsley: you are welcome.more headlines. carley: we are going to start with a fox news alert as tropical storm elsa barrels towards florida. the coast guard is searching for nine people who went missing in waters south of key west. now, these pictures show the coast guard rescuing people from the rough sea earlier. at the time they were working against heavy rain and 70 mile-per-hour winds. in total, 15 people were rescued. we will keep you updated on all the latest search efforts as the coast guard releases more information. to another fox news alert now, breaking right now the president of haiti has been assassinated jovenel moyes shot and killed overnight in his home by unidentified group. few details have been released but the haitian prime minister says the assailants were spanish-speaking the first lady was also hurt. the attack comes ahead political and economic instability in haiti and rise in gang violence. meanwhile the attorney for britney spears wants to quit following her bombshell hearing. the co

ainsley? ainsley: very exciting, thanks, brian.trics issues new guidance returning to the classroom with universal masking for any child over the age of 2 even if they're vaccinated. here to react is fox news medical contributor dr. marc siegel. good morning, dr. siegel. >> hi, ainsley how are you? ainsley: hi. doing well. these are just recommendations. who do the schools listen to? what do you think is going to happen in the fall? >> well, recommendations, but then local ordnances may take them up and make them mandates, right? what's really disturbing about it is, first of all again sending the message you got the vaccine is it working? because it is working why would you then need a mask mandate. secondly, what about natural immunity? kids that have gotten over covid are not spreading it. thirdly, this less than a 1% chance of a child spreading covid. the younger they are, if they have it, spreading it in the school is less than 1%. if they -- the idea is that kids are not super spreaders. i recommend masks for kids but big dow

back to you, ainsley. ainsley: all right, thanks, ashley.outside in the 98-degree heat for three hours. now the mom is calling out the camp's policies that she says is making children victims of the covid political theater here with more mother of four ashley maguire. hey, ashley. >> hey, good morning. ainsley: tell us what happened. >> well, i went to pick up my daughter from camp. and it was the hottest day of the year, 98 degrees, when i went to pick her up, she looked sick. and i asked her when she got in the car if she had to keep her mask on outside for three hours of tennis and she said yes. and then i couldn't believe it when the camp actually called me to complain that she kept pull down her mask. i thought to myself you know who of us have ever had to do that play tennis outside for three hours wearing a mask. i think it's absurd, unfair and unhealthy. it's not based in science. what we're asking kids to do. ainsley: what are you going to da about this? are you going to send her back to the camp? >> no that camp was a one-time deal

ainsley: 12.ates have sent some type of state police or national guard to the border. you would think that would set a fire alarm to the white house. instead, there is pushback against the help that texas and arizona is receiving. ainsley: there is this major hispanic group called the league of the united latin american citizens. they have sent a letter to the white house and they asked joe biden to stop these states from doing that please block these red state governors they are saying, they are calling it insurrection because they say that governor abbott is fomenting dangerous racial hatred targeting latinos. pete: okay, so the federal government won't secure theward. so the texas governor and others say hey can someone help us out. other law-abiding citizen states say we will send you national guard our nation's military. this is how that immigration group responded in part to the "washington times." they said we're being invaded by not migrants governors of the defeated confederacy. brian: of

ainsley: dr.s right. that's a really good point, ainsley. that's why i'm happy that the cdc is saying across the board open scooby-doo schools, open schools. i get nervous when the teachers union gets in there and starts talking about children. i'm worried that the recommendations will lead to guidelines becoming mandates in state and local authorities. they look to the cdc and, if the cdc recommends masks a local ordnance may mandate it that's what i'm concerned about. ainsley: john, did you ever feel like there was a barrier between he or your teacher he or she didn't goat know you because your face was covered up? >> yes. ainsley: i saw that in my daughter's school too. we had to do dropout outside of the school. you don't get to see what the teachers look like or get to know them like the year before. so glad they are back in school. what's your biggest concern? >> i think dr. siegel hit the nail on the head. these school boards are going to abdicate responsibility and follow the cdc guidance

ainsley: they're crying.pete: that's better. i'll do that one. ainsley: let someone who doesn't care cook them for you. pete: that's true well thanks for being with us on thursday morning i'm in for steve, grateful to be here, and you know, we transition from topic to topic and this one is a tough one and joe biden was in chicago yesterday, saw mayor lori lightfoot when she greeted him at the tarmac, ultimately he was there to talk about infrastructure, and gave a self- appointed boring speech as he said from the podium. pete: he said that himself. i'm sorry this speech is boring but the mayor deblasio bring up to him what's on the top of everyone's minds who actually paying attention, that chicago violence is out of control. what do you need? here is basic stats and over the 4th of july weekend, 100 people shot, including 11 children, 18 people killed, yesterday or the day before biden's visit you had two atf officers shot as well as a chicago police officer and then yesterday at 7:30, after joe biden left,

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ainsley: definitely.. brian: we'll find out won't we? >> which of the states will have the most expensive gallon of regular gas on saturday? florida, massachusetts, maryland , delaware, minnesota, virginia? brian: i'm going to stay with the people. ainsley: the people are down at the bottom you're right virginia all right >> everyone goes with the majority. how about this? ufc 264. mcgregor versus pourrier, mcgregor in 1, or decision or draw? brian: if they say mcgregor burns out so it's not going to go distance, it won't be him, he lost the last time, so let's go with mcgregor and 2. will: that's where i'm going. ainsley: whatever brian said because he follows it. >> one more question here. which of these books is going to be the highest on amazon's best seller list on saturday? american marxism, speechless, body keeps the score, last thing he told me, it ends with us or magic treehouse? brian: where is jesse watters book? what's going on? ainsley: tom? will: going to be a problem tom. >> i'm going to be

ainsley -- >> ainsley: i'm said, glad he's okay once they knew he was okay they said check out our newd be more terrified of my dad then i would be in that water. >> richard: greg? >> greg: the only thing worse than driving a car into a pool is beginning a segment with "don't try this at home." ." whoever wrote that, see me after the show! i'm totally against swimming while driving. it's idiotic. but you know what he was doing, he was texting. >> lawrence: exactly. >> greg: if you kill anybody when you are texting, you should be charged with murder. >> richard: dagen? >> greg: so you hit the gas instead of the brake. >> greg: he was texting. >> dagen: but when you're running out of the road, he hit the accelerator. and you wind up in a pool. i know from personal experience, six weeks after i got my driver's license i had a full sized bronco, i had a boombox between the seats, and i was looking down. stephen there you go. >> dagen: adjusting it. i hit the gas, and i uprooted the 12-foot diameter juniper bush, and my father is texting me about it today because he won't let me forget it.

ainsley: good morning.t. it was actually one of diana's very favorite places. the sunken garden is where she would go to spend quiet time and go to relax and as we know, she had a very tumultuous few years towards the end of her marriage, and it really was a place that she sought solace, so to place the statue there is really a kind of tribute to the fact that it was one of the places that she loved the most and one of the places where she found comfort during a very tricky time, so harry and william will want to go to the statue and hopefully find that kind of so lace themselves while obviously remembering their mother and her legacy. ainsley: what about william and harry are they getting along now >> i'm hearing that they are not getting along. they have been in communication since prince harry returned to the uk, however, communication has been solely based around this event, and i mean, i think that royalty is all about pomp and ceremony. we're going to see two men that are civil but i don't think that

ainsley: dr.hington cobb says if he kills somebody else i hope that kim gardner knows she is responsible. her sons eyes were gowpgd out by the guy's hands and his jaw was broken. he was in the hospital and he died there. brian: 8 years he will be out. 10 minutes now after the hour. ainsley: coming up border officials say they are being set up to fail as buses leaving a texas border town are crammed with illegal immigrant. steve: talk about a bird's eye view. we will meet who came face to wing with a seagull on a roller coaster. no wonder she is screaming ♪ i just want to fly ♪ ♪ put your arms around me baby ♪ put your arms and me baby. ♪ i just want to fly ♪ s pain gel my husband's got his moves back. an alternative to pain pills voltaren is the first full prescription strength gel for powerful arthritis pain relief... voltaren the joy of movement it's an important time to save. with priceline, you can get up to 60% off amazing hotels. and when you get a big deal... you feel like a big deal. ♪♪ pr

will: that's ainsley talking to me will cain along with brian kilmeade and ainsley earhardt.

julia ainsley, great reporting. thank you, very much. that is "all in" for tonight.arts right now with ali velshi in for rachel. >> good evening, chris. have yourself a great weekend and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. rachel is enjoying a well-earned vacation. it was the biggest story in the world and what's not an exaggeration. in the middle of july

ainsley: look at this, president biden hits the road to address voting rights and white house claimsublicans for election reform. >> the battle of the ballot intensifies. >> reporter: we expect president biden to lay out how he will fight the republican-led state election laws. the white house gop efforts, the worse challenge to our democracy since the civil war. >> to layout the moral case for how this is a form of suppression and silencing. >> fighting the gop bills went up hill battle for congress and the department of justice. already republicans have been able to stop federal funding reform bills and the doj has already announced it will sue georgia over its new laws voting reform will be a mostly state-level issue. last night texas dems the state capital to dc on a private jet to break the legislature's special session core meaning they can't hold votes without more members present. democrats say the republican voting. voter suppression but lawmakers are prepared to remain outside state lines for the duration of the special session which could ago for weeks because texas law al

let's bring in reporter julie julia ainsley. >> thanks for having me.cials who have expressed concern about lifting these covid restrictions. known as title 42. it started with the trump administration to block immigration across the southern border. president biden has been allowing some adults and children in. they started july 1st to allow families to come in. this is so they can come in and make their asylum claim and go to court. sometimes that can be a two-year process. since they started this, there have beenover a million blocked from even coming into the united states to make these claims. now they think because of the rise at the border, they might not be ready to lift the covid-19 restrictions, but advocates say it's not a reason to keep this in place, that title 42 is a public health order and you can't use a public health order in order to force immigration law. there are those who think the system, processing people, putting them through court could come to a standstill and be your wemed if they lift this right now. >> julia, you just touc

ainsley: what a beautiful interview. i love nancy reagan. she did have quite such style, and remember just say no when we were growing up? that really influenced my life. brian: a republican in hollywood mix? do you believe that now? pete: with some positive coverage. brian: we have seven seconds left. ainsley: you're going to head to radio? we'll listen. brian: i'll be on fox nation. ainsley: have a great day. >> bill: good morning, everybody. america trading one crisis for another this weekend, about 260 reportedly shot and killed across the country over the fourth of july holiday weekend. the bloodshed setting to overshadow a moment that was supposed to mark our independence from covid. >> dana: great to have you back. fun and family. >> bill: a great time to be away. i highly recommend it. everybody at home, make sure you take the time to get away. speeeighteen i feel like i'm as relaxed as a wet noodle. but we have major cities struggling to stop the bloodshed. chicago sods must violently get of the year, nearly 100 people shot and amon

. >>> now to disturbing interview, two whistle-blowers speak out to nbc's julia ainsley. >> reporter:ight, nbc news obtaining these recent images of crowded conditions inside a facility for migrant children at fort bliss. >> there were these tents just crowded with kids. >> reporter: arthur perlstein worked there until just last month. he told us covid spread among hundreds of children. >> covid spread very, very rapidly amongst the kids and ultimately amongst many of the staff as well. >> reporter: another employee, lauren staff were told to hide what was happening. >> we were told to not be on social media, to limit our conversations with the site about close friends and family, and to definitely not talk to the media. both now about what they said were health care failures and overall mismanagement by health and human services. in audio obtained by nbc news, a public health service doctor told staff he would not disclose daily covid rates. >> i can't give you daily numbers and breakouts and things like that. >> reporter: another tape captures a manager telling employees in may some

they say that the they were reluctant to get help for medical children in need jewel yay is -- julia ainsleyon the report. >> we were the first to obtain this report. some of the things these two whistle-blowers were saying is that they could not get clean clothes or underware. they didn't have anything to change into. they talked about children and stress. a child that was pleading profusely, and another had a panic attack. when they went to these contractors to try to get help they were told maybe that child doesn't need to be taken to the medical tent. it was a franchise of serve pro. they are the people who are often called in after disasters. they come in and they clean up. and we went there them. they said as soon as they found out they asked them to stop performing these services. this is not something they had experience to do. so the question remains how did this franchise get this contract in the first place. >> serve pro cleans up messes. i had to call them up before. really quickly, where do we stand with the reunification. >> we know they stilt more than 2,000 families remain se

i did an appearance once and i said to ainsley when she asked me about what was like to be a police officeraid you know, one of the worst parts is you get a text three or four times a year about a friend or a friend of a friend in law enforcement attacked or assaulted or god forbid, shot. imagine if that was your job, imagine if you are an engineer or private, three or four times a year he got a text from a friend saint your buddy joe? he was shot last night working. how do you think that would feel next i gave a speech once there was a spouse of a police officer, a powerful intro she gave. she said you know, the most powerful sound in my life right now if that changes me the most is the sound of velcro at night. every cop in the room knew what that meant. your body armor when you are a police officer it has strong velcro when you take it off and the spouse new the body armor came off, her husband was home safe at night. they deserve better than this is out of the citizens of the liberal cities. here to discuss this growing chaos, donald trump junior. welcome to the show. >> how are you? da

ainsley: 10:00 pm eastern, one of the best shows we have so great job.. he was linked to attacks after being arrested on a separate charge of public lewdness. demonstrators taking to miami streets and supportive cubans as a fight for freedom against the communist regime. on the coast activists for the freedom flotilla and took off towards international waters, trying to get close to cuba as possible. they plan to stop 15 miles from havana display dhs warning against the trip because travel to cuba is illegal without a permit. rachel's territory prince harry could be getting a royal payday with his new book, the daily mail reports the deal starts at $25 million and will include four books but a spokesman for the print said no, it will be one book and that book will be released next year. rachel: the ugly part of this whole thing is if it wasn't ugly enough, the fourth book in his contract can only come out after his grandmother the queen is dead. how ugly is that? would you sign a contract that says i'm going to write four books for $25 million, i think t

ainsley: the governor ron desantis revealed they are headed to his state. >> the onslaught migrants aths, 700 migrants in 3 different groups on saturday alone, the largest encounter so far this year was astonishing video captured by fox news showing hundreds flooding in from all over the world. >> you are from god a. you are from brazil, you are from haiti. >> reporter: this shatters records reaching 100 million this year, 188,000 in june. texas governor greg abbott saying time for the texas dental fled to dc to come back and deal with the crisis. over 1 million migrants at the border since they took office, democrats must come back to ensure law enforcement has the funding they need to face this record-breaking challenge hashtag get back to work, state troopers pulled over a semi-crammed with 105 migrants and they caught a dangerous cartel member who admitted to being a paid human smugglers. the border states are not the only ones affected by the surge. florida's governor says many are headed there. >> they have made over 2000 apprehensions, over 100 felony arrests and they say 70% of

ainsley: here is what the u.s.es, there is no reason it should ever come to someone being arrested. anyone who does not follow the rule will be asked to leave the premises. the department's requirement for officers who wear masks is for their health and safety. that, again, from the united states capitol police. you know, i guess it's just -- we were told from the very beginning, you know, if you get vaccinated, then you are going to be able to take off your mask. i know that things change and viruses change as we have seen with the delta variant but this just doesn't seem to make even the smallest bit of common sense when you have one complex connected by a hallway, two sides totally different, where do we go from here? >> follow the science. in washington, d.c. we're averaging four murders per week and zero covid deaths. nationwide, we have half as many on average covid deaths as we did when we dropped the mask mandate. my state in indiana, we have less covid cases and covid deaths than when we dropped all of the

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for more on this i'm joined by nbc correspondent julia ainsley who has done extensive reporting on immigrations more details about what protocols were allegedly ignored by managers of this facility in ft. bliss, texas. >> reporter: so ayman, these whistle-blowers were federal employees who were detailed to these facilities. there was a large call for volunteers when we saw that surge of unaccompanied migrant children starting around march of this year. they volunteered. they went down and what they saw there they are now detailing and putting their names on a whistle-blower complaint to congress saying that as covid started to surge there were children, hundreds of them, packed in to bunk beds, sleeping very close together in these overcrowded tents, that they tried to get more masks, for example. they said that children who were taken to the covid positive tent needed to get n-95 masks. they were denied that. they said that even among the regular population it was very hard to see that all those children had masks and if they did have them, that they were wearing them so they said that contri

. >> ainsley: he loved you and you loved him.omething about muhammed ali, george foreman, few of us, even joe frazier, it was the police who started the pal, police athletic league. they taught us how to box. they would travel from one state to the other to see that we won this golden gloves tournament. sent us off to the olympics. i have this fond memory and love for this country and the people in this country. nobody will ever be able to talk me out of that. that's love. love. >> brian: the tweet on july 4th proved it to me. a picture of you, the one we just showed holding the flag after winning the gold while, you know, tomi smith and john carlos helped put up the fist black power. and you put up the tweet out you said 54 years, 50 plus years people are trying to get me to stop with praising america. who are these people trying to get you to stop? >> just people in yen. every year there is a fashion that comes up. every few years another fashion. it's all fashionable to be anti-america. it's fashionable. people ask me what are

nbc's julia ainsley has the exclusive reporting and joins us now.s so much for bringing this to us. tell me about one of the whistle blowers whom you interviewed talking about how the children were treated. tell us more about the conditions that we're living in. >> that's right. i sat down with arthur pearl stein and he told me about the frustration he experienced when he got to fort bliss in april and he was there until late june. over that time he never got answers to basic things he thought needed to be done when it came to the children's health care and well-being. he said that it was incredibly chaotic, and the tents were overcrowded and children stacked and cots went on top of the other so close together it was hard to move through the tents. he also talked about what happened when he tried to raise his concerns with management. let's hear what he had to say. >> the main kinds of complaints that i was hearing from the kids were in general the feeling like they were in prison. there were so many of them that complained that they had no underwea

this is exclusive reporting and i want to bring in julia ainsley who sat down with one of the whistlee snau this report. he spent two months there. he was incredibly frustrated to see what he saw. he said it was chaos, people were not caring for the children medically, and when he tried to raise concerns he was met with obstinence. the children felt lie they were in prison. so many complained they had no underwear, or one pair. and it discouraged them from taking showers. >> what did you do with that information? >> i began to ask some of the management officials why can't a federal employee that has a purchase card just go go to walmart or you know, some costco or some discount store, there was plenty of underwear there in el paso, and they said the contractor needs to wait for it. >> you can see there how frustrated he was as he tried to bring forward what he thought would be a simple fix to get clean clothes and underwear for these children. >> i want to hear more about this on some of the covid precautions as well at fort bliss. >> yeah, one thing that told me a big picture for th

julia ainsley, great reporting. thank you, very much. that is "all in" for tonight. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now with ali velshi in for rachel. >> good evening, chris. have yourself a great weekend and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. rachel is enjoying a well-earned vacation. it was the biggest story in the world and what's not an exaggeration. in the middle of july 2018, president trump met with the russian president, vladimir putin. this was in helsinki, finland. and as i'm sure you remember, it did not go well. he said putin did not really attack our election, in 2016. he said the u.s. showed stupidity for investigating it, in the first place. trump made international headlines for how poorly he represented american democracy when he shared a stage with a notorious dictator. the one in german is my favorite. it says -- [ speaking foreign language ] -- that means summit of the autocrats. it was bad. so bad, that the "new york times" was throwing around the word treason on the front page. there were stories about how this was the final s

with us now in washington is nbc news justice and national security correspondent julia ainsley.western yesterday. arthur pearlstein. he was a federal employee to be a volunteer at the border when the surge began earlier this spring. went because he had a heart for migrants and children. instead, what he found there was that there was chaos. completely overcrowded. he saw children 500 to a tent. he said the beds were so close together you couldn't even walk between them. it was his job though did he not have a background in child psychology to interview hundreds of children and decide whether or not they needed a psychological assessment. here's what they told me that they said. >> the main kind of complaints that i was hearing from the kids were, i mean in general the feeling like they were in prison. there were so many of them that complained they had no underwear or one pair with nothing to change into. and often lack changes of clothes which discourage them from taking showers. >> and what happened? what did you do with that information? >> i began to ask some of the manageme

ainsley: doesn't he have covid? steve: they can only meet with people via zoom. vice president. maybe that's why. but yesterday they were suppose to meet in the morning with hillary and bill clinton via zoom. but later in the afternoon they did meet stacey abrams from the great state of georgia. brian: this is going to be unbelievable. they are going to try to use some of this momentum to jam infrastructure -- voting infrastructure into that reconciliation bill. and to try to federalize this election again because the for the people act fell on its face. rachel: will it be effective? steve: no. the. brian: the parliamentarian will have to step up this has nothing to do with finances can't put this in reconciliation package. they will try to do that and make 8 million illegal immigrants citizens through that same reconciliation bill, which is a magnet for central and south america. come one, come all. rachel: or the wall at this -- d at this point. steve: they can try but that won't fly. brian: i hope you are right. steve: well, we will see. exactly 7:15 here in t

always an honor to fill in for ainsley. steve: it's great to have you. we come with the news. get ready, here come the masks. the masks are back. the cdc now has changed its guidelines again because of worries regarding the delta variant. rachel: the agency says fully vaccinated americans should cover their nose and mouth in certain parts of the u.s. brian: certain parts in certain situations, still don't know what the heck they're talking about. griff jenkins joins us live from washington with the president's insulting messages to unvaccinated americans. griff, you don't even know, i guess you are supposed to wear a mask at the white house when you go to cover it? do you even know what you are doing? are you going to the gym with a mask? are you going to go to the restaurant with a mask what city? griff: good morning, brian, rachel and steve. i have to go to the white house after this hit. i have to have a mask to get in there and really a lot of people across the country have to get those masks out. cdc's director rochelle wolenski says this wasn't som

rachel: happy to fill in for ainsley. put you on the radio show. brian: it's not over.want to be on the radio show? we usually have to beg people. steve: that's how we beg people. brian: ainsley said i'm sorry i can't hear you i'm in a issue are. then we have no signal. steve: thank you for joining us, it's a very busy thursday. and we start with breaking news at the border. texas governor greg abbott has now banned certain transportation of migrants who could be infected with covid. rachel: he said it's to protect americans after covid-positive illegal immigrant were actually released into border communities. brian: we are dancing on the edges when we need to attack this thing head on. griff jenkins joins us from washington with more. whistleblowers claim president's officials ordering them to down play a covid outbreak on military businesses. griff? about. griff: brian, rachel, good morning. a lot of works asacol tier details it where hhs houses migrant children. they are alleging that hhs officials instructed them to minimize a covid outbreak at the facility earlier

ainsley: we will tell you what is good.u, right, pete? pete: he pops the third one on you. >> i popped a video, you'll catch it, scene breaks the golden rule of broadcasting nearly every weekend, find out what it is on the show. >> someone else broke the golden rule by asking a tough question nobody else does. he asked jen psaki how long the administration has been spying on us. >> how long has the administration been spying on people, profiles looking for vaccine disinformation? >> our biggest concern is the number of people who are dying around the country because they are getting misinformation leading people to not get the vaccine. >> for a lot of people on facebook this is big brother watching you. >> they are more concerned about that and people dying across the country because of the pandemic misinformation is traveling on social media platforms? if you have the data to back that up i will be happy to discuss it. >> what is more dangerous? losing our first amendment rights or big brother as doocy said or after? >> i

ainsley: you're going to be 7:00 tonight, right? if. brian: yes, on on the you'll be on -- you'll be on the five, i'll be on at seven all week. steve: and go to foxnation.com, promo cold sas and -- code, sas and get a month free. >> bill: for more on the intrigue let's go to chad pergram on the hill who begins a new week for us. good morning. >> good morning, bill. this is an optics nightmare for texas democrats. they came to d.c. to block the texas legislature from passing a voting bill. five have tested positive for covid here in washington they tweeted a photo of themselves flying maskless with a case of beer to washington met with democratic lawmakers all week. the offices of senate majority leader chuck schumer and joe manchin said those members were not exposed. they met with vice president harris and she went to walter reed medical center sunday as a routine doctor's appointment. concerns about where the nation stands with covid. >> this pandemic isn't over. we have to be cautious and we have to do everything we can to get people

ainsley: we'll be watching it. brian: i'm going to simulcast for the next show talking about what made america great brand new season. steve: you'll be unveiling that. brian: that'll be exciting. >> the attention of the state, of the country, and in some respects the world and rightfully so. this is a team mission. one of the most important in the state's history. >> trace: our detectives have been working around the clock to reach every single person who we have been told may be missing. >> we're exhausting every avenue. it is a very dangerous situation. >> it is an extraordinary lifesaving emergency effort unlike anything we've ever seen in the state of florida. >> this will go on until we pull everybody out of there. our number one effort. >> dana: charles watson is live in surfside with the latest. >> good morning. there is still a lot of questions in terms of what caused the partial building collapse. there are competing theories as the focus remains on the building's pool and parking garage below. an engineer

brian: the johnson theme is still on there rachel is in for ainsley, steve. rachel: i am.you didn't work enough this weekend? rachel: i did. got to do more. steve: so is america regarding crime. take a lack. in the city of detroit. 7 people shot over the weekend. and this on the heels of the fact there is a brand new "u.s.a. today" poll out that shows so many people are more worried about crime than defunding police. in fact, 9 to 1 they want more cops on the street and 3 to 1 they reject the defund the police slogan. in detroit, according to the residents who responded, look at that 90% want more cops on the street. in detroit. the biggest problem is education and then crime and, according to this poll. police reform or defunding the police rated dead last. rachel: the numbers are astounding. it didn't just show that they're out of touch with americans. this shows that this whole movement is out of touch with their own black voters who are the most loyal democrat voters. says here that 70% of black democrats want more cops in new york city. and so, you know, these numbers