marc thiessen joins me now. the white house not ruling out more lockdowns and closures if the cdc says so. watch this encounter and i want you to react. >> if scientists come to you at some point down the line and say it is our opinion there should be shutdowns and school closures, you would do that? >> like i said we listen to the cdc and the experts and their guidance. the cdc is a body that is very well respected and we follow their guidance. >> the cdc as we know has changed its policies numerous times as we know from don't

elizabeth: let's welcome back to the show fox news contributor marc thiessen. trump is ramping up his rallies as gop potential opponents for 2024, that field is looking even more crowded than ever before. what do you say to this? >> well, i think that first of all, the nomination is donald trump's if he wants it. no one will take it away from him. if i had to make a bet i would make a bet he is running. he was on "hannity" the other day, hannity ask him not asking what the decision was have you made a decision? he said yes. he was talking about why he was needed. why his agenda is needed. sounds like he is gear up to run. a lot of people like me who wanted the president to win re-election in 2020 are hoping that he decides to be a king-maker rather than a king. the reality is, most republicans realize we didn't lose the 2020 election because the american people didn't like donald trump's ideas. there was "gallup poll" right before the election, 56% of americans said they were better off than they were four years ago under barack obama. that is the highest it eve

marc thiessen joins me now. the white house not ruling out more lockdowns and closures if the cdc says so. watch this encounter and i want you to react. >> if scientists come to you at some point down the line and say it is our opinion there should be shutdowns and school closures, you would do that? >> like i said we listen to the cdc and the experts and their guidance. the cdc is a body that is very well respected and we follow their guidance. >> the cdc as we know has changed its policies numerous times as we know from don't wear masks, they don't protect you, to mandating masks, keeping the six feet apart rule that no longer applies. now the question is should the decision really to issue lockdowns or close down schools and lockdowns are probably the last resort, but this decision, does it need to be coming from the white house and not the cdc? >> there is no justification whatsoever for mask mandates, lockdowns or any other things. we should be encouraging people to get vaccinated for their own sake. 99.5%

that's what expert from this area marc thiessen wrote about in the "the washington post" today. utor. marc, this really struck you not many others as something even worse than what donald trump was accused of doing. why? >> well, so if you remember, the democrats impeached donald trump and they accused him of twisting the arm of ukrainian president slen ski and conditioning a white house now you have a situation where the biden administration is really doing a number of on ukraine because they're -- they have acquiesced to this nord stream 2 pipeline which is going to allow russia to strangle ukraine with energy export and they conditioned, painterly according to axios, they conditioned the white house visit swlen ski on his silence about this. zelensky denied trump pressured him but ukrainians saying that the biden administration is pressuring them and what biden is doing is far worse than anything donald trump did to the ukrainians because it really represents an existential threat to the -- to ukraine and poland and other countries in eastern europe. >> brian: at home think ab

let's bring in pete hegseth, a "fox and friends" co-host and marc thiessen, fox news contributor.eets. she said we turned and faced the flag. get your facts straight before you assume anything like the twitter world always does. marc, to you first. maybe they didn't turn their backs on pete. but didn't look good. they were turning everywhere. didn't look respectful. your thoughts. >> yeah, if they say they weren't turning their backs on pete, i'll take them at their word for it. why would people assume that? maybe it's because before there was gwen berry, it was the u.s. women's national soccer team that was pushing nor the right to protest the anthem and the flag? it was megan rapinoe, the captain, that refused to put her hand over her heart in compliance whether the u.s. soccer policy and said i will never sing the anthem again, i will never put my hand over the heart for the anthem again. maybe it's because last year the u.s. women's soccer team demanded that u.s. soccer repeal their regulations requiring players to stand respectfully during the anthem and u.s. soccer gave in a

marc thiessen is joining us, a scholar and fox news contributor. so doctor, one of the big questions that everybody has, there's brand new science and new information about how this delta variant behaves. i keep going back to several months ago when we saw this one going through india with like a fire, right? we kept asking questions on this show, tell me about the delta variant. what can we expect? is it goes to cause a setback in the united states. doctors say no, it won't because the vaccine works against the delta variant. you have said and other doctors are saying that people are fully vaccinated still getting this delta variant. so is that still true? >> martha: yes. yes, martha. this new data that the cdc is putting out matches exactly what i'm seeing with my patients. i'm having a small number of patients as dr. walensky said fully vaccinated have tested positive. very, very few of them have to be hospitalized. but their symptoms were not just mild. some of them had bad headaches, cough, developed pneumonia. very few had to be hospitalized.

fox news contributor marc thiessen joins us now. uly 19th, 2021, a grand total of 4,072 people have been hospitalized with symptomatic breakthrough infections, and 849 have died of covid from breakthrough infection out of 161 million americans who have been fully vaccinated. so dan bongino, my good friend, is overstating the risk. [laughter] the hospitalization rate, the hospitalization rate for covid if you've had the vaccine is 0.003%, and the death rate from those breakthrough infections is 0.0005%. put that in perspective, your chance of getting can killed by a lightning streak is 0.0007%. you are more likely to die from a bee sting, a dog attack, a car crash, drowning, sunstroke or choking on food than you are of dying of covid-199 if you have been fully -- covid-19 if you have been fully vaccinated. brian: and when they came out with these mandates, they didn't cite any study, she just said that's what we're recommending you do, and now we're at the behest of these incompetent mayors and governors around the country. i see more

marc thiessen with us today with analysis. >> dana: a new warning for russia. face the consequences. how biden is handling afghanistan. >> it is one thing to get out. how you do it and how you execute it will make the difference whether it ends up being something president biden can say yep, he did it well. >> dana: the president is defending his decision to withdraw u.s. troops as the taliban is seizing more territory. general jack keane joins us next. there's an old saying in the navy, that the toughest job in the navy is the navy wife. and if you've made the deployments, and you've been the wife at home, or you've been the spouse at home, you understand what i'm talking about. your spouse has earned the right to apply for a va home loan. the newday 100 loan allows you to borrow up to 100% of your home's value. so, if you're in a situation where you need some help financially, give us a call. veteran homeowners, home values are at all-time highs. you could have much more equity than you think! banks can loan you some of it. newday can loan you all of it! the

. >> bill: covering this from all angles marc thiessen on the poll we mentioned. mike tobin, another awful weekend in chicago and bryan llenas the news from new york. >> this video released by the nypd is difficult to watch. it shows the assault of a 68-year-old man in brooklyn. a thief riding on a bicycle stopped to rob the man not before punching a dozen times an kicking him in the face. his body goes limp on the ground. the thief checks his pockets for any valuables and reportedly walked away with the man's cell phone and silver necklace. the 68-year-old man suffered a broken wrist and nose. no arrests, in ypd is asking for the public's house. the detectives, a new york city police union tweeted this. new york city streets. what used to be the safest city, failed laws have no consequences. we need to keep new yorkers safe. the nypd releasing new pictures of three young men who police say beat up an off duty new york city firefighters in queens on friday night. the 44-year-old says he was walking his dog in his neighborhood when he was accosted by a large group

marc thiessen, what do americans need to know about this story?ite police officers can beat and arrest unarmed black protestors and black lives matter supports the police. the cuban regime is mostly white. cuba, a third of the country is afro cuban. they are supporting a white police state. when they call for lifting the embargo are advocating for the right of american companies to use black slave labor in cuba. that's what lifting the embargo would do. the sole employer in cuba is the cuban state and use it as control with exception of a handful of restaurants. when a foreign investors goes into cuba to do business they can't do business with ordinary cubans with u.s. dollars they have to go into business with the cuban state. they pay $10,000 a month per worker. the state pays the worker just about worthless and pockets the $10,000 and how the regime keeps itself afloat. if you advocate using businesses to do that they use slave labor in cuba. that's what black lives matter is calling for. >> harris: the way you are describing the cuban communis

we want to come in here for just a moment with marc thiessen, aei scholar and former chief writer to orge w. bush and fox news contributor. as i said, marc, this bill passed 100 to 0 on the senate side. it's being signed as this president marks his sixth month anniversary just about. you know, your thoughts on -- we've done a lot of stories on the crime in chicago and the situation with prosecutors in st. louis. you know, just your thoughts on where we are right now in this white house. >> yeah, one hand there's some sort of bipartisan movement on capitol hill. politicians can still come together on some things. we're going to need more money for the crime victims compensation act because we're seeing an explosion of crime victims in this country. "the new york times" reports a homicide rates in large cities are up 24% this year. philadelphia homicides are up 28%. tucson, homicides are up 76%. new york city a 70% increase in shootings in may of 2021 compared to last year. portland oregon, 347 shootings between january 1 and april 30th to put that in perspective, 393 shootings in the e

here's marc thiessen, api scholar, a former chief write tore president bush and worked closely underaway yesterday. thanks for being here. leslie, what is going on in the vice president's office you think? >> i honestly think the vice president may not be aware because it would seem her chief of staff is protective of not only her but what kind of decisions get to her, what kind of problems get to her and that is problematic. communication is key in any great relationship. it's unfortunate there's individuals currently and formerly that feel that this environment is like this. i don't put this on the vice president. i put it more so on her chief of staff. >> martha: all right. so mark, you say that you agree with simone sanders, welcome to the club. share with everybody what you shared with us earlier what it was like to work for donald rumsfeld on a fairly average day in those years. >> unbelievable. i mean, i'm not a fan of this administration but i sympathize with simone sanders. these people complain to politco that they don't feel supported. i'm sorry. it's not the vice presiden

. >> let's bring in marc thiessen a fox news contributor and former speech writer for president george w. bush. happy independence day from yesterday, marc. >> happy independence day. >> something that they did not drill down on with fauci on "meet the press" yesterday was whether vaccinated americans who are now being told to wear masks when they go into unvaccinated areas should be wearing these masks in order to protect themselves or in order to protect those vulnerable and unvaccinated around them, a key distinction. >> you don't need it for either one. if you are vaccinated, you are at almost no risk of getting the virus. and you are almost no risk of giving the virus to anybody else. here is the cdc data. there have been a grand total of 4,427 breakthrough infection hospitalizations of people who have been vaccinated, got the virus and were hospitalized. that's out of 154 million. that's a breakthrough hospitalization rate of 0.003% and death rate. 0.003% chance of being hospitalized if you've been vaccinated and 0.0005% chance of dying if you're vaccinated. you have a bigger cha

marc thiessen. what is your take on this now as we try and understand it. >> good morning. there is so much hypocrisy here it is hard to keep track of it. first it's the covid hypocrisy. as miranda said if five republicans -- if these republicans got on a plane, got covid and met with mike pence and went to walter reed would be calling this is super spreader flight. instead there is crickets. then the filibuster hypocrisy. why were texas democrats fleeing texas? they were engaging in a walking filibuster in order to thwart the will of the majority and top the texas legislature from passing an election law. they're being received as conquering heroes in washington who wants to get rid of the filibuster in the senate to pass their election law. talk about situational ethics. no principle democrats will violet political or public health to get their desired outcomes. >> bill: i just told sandra it is like the babylon bee reality. kamala harris tweeted this yesterday july 18th, right? from yesterday she said this delta variant is no joke. get vaccinated. the surgeon general mad

marc thiessen on what joseph biden did in the ukraine, which might be a waste of anything accused donald trump of doing. and a guy named pete hegseth. >> how are you >> thank you very much for joining us all week long on "fox & friends." we'll see you back here on the couch on monday. in the meantime, "america's newsroom." >> bill: good morning on a friday, 7:00 here in new york. american cities in the grip of a crime wave, another chaotic scene in our nation's capital. this time gun fire erupting in a last night when the shooting happened. the area about a mile from the white house. >> bill: here's what it looks like outside the restaurant. two suspects run into a getaway car, speeding away. witnesses said they fired around 20 shots and wounded two people. >> julie: d.c. is no stranger to this. just last saturday, gun fire erupted near a packed baseball stadium, the chaos sending fans scrambling into the dugout. here's what the d.c. police chief said last night. >> this is unacceptable. that's the bottom line. totally unacceptable. we will find the individuals. we will hold them account

there is brilliant piece from my former colleague in the bush white house, marc thiessen we're talking. breakthrough you get vaccinated and get hospitalized, and get sick and die. how big is that risk? the chance of a breakthrough hospitalization is 0.003% for people who have vaccinations. so in other words, 3/100 -- 3/ 1000 covid deaths. breakthrough covid deaths are 0.0005%. your chance of dying from a lightning strike is bigger than this. 0.007. the chance of dying from the seasonal flu is 1/10 of 1%. this is communications failure and hence a leadership failure. where is the president coming out to explain what they're trying to do here? not only that there is indication the cdc director walensky said we're doing this because of information. there is newsletter that follows former "new york times" guy, heads it up, follows the health issues called stat. they have an ad administration source saying we no studies showing this. we're trying to get this done because 2/3 of the counties in america where the rates are going back up. we're trying to do everything we can but we have no stu

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