sean duffy who is a lumber jack, world champion, he chops his own he tree down every. will: is was shocked that 74% opts for fake. joey: it s a plastic world. will: brand-new video from china shows protests erupting in shanghai. these are over harsh covid lockdowns. they seem to be happening across much of china and the he protests are calling for president xi to step down. rachel: protests breaking of out at college campuses in the communist country. this after 10 people were killed in an apartment fire last week. joey: alexandria hoff is following the developments and she s got more. reporter: good morning to you. people have just had enough there. they ve reached a breaking point to a shocking he degree and are now showcasing extraordinary acts of defiance. the deaths of the 10 of people
suppression which seems to be backfiring if that s the case and it shows no matter where you live, no matter the conditions, no matter the government, at some point people do have a breaking point of. we will find out, to your point, how resilient this protest is in the face of that type of authoritarianism. but it is as you say remarkable to see this in china. rachel: totally. joey: i m not so y puzzled by y they have the zero covid lockdown. because they can, that s why. there s a lot of government officials in this country that would have done the same if they could have. rachel: that s a great point, joe. joey: you can t do that here, for a lot of reasons, one of them is the resilience in the american spirit. i think they re doing it because they can do it. we had a lot of little mini wish we could be a tyrant people in our own government that would have loved to do something like that. will: it doesn t come without a cost. it comes at the cost of their economy. it may come at the
tree, and of course, it died. will: greg, if you don t put the gel in, the tree sucks up that water pretty quickly. yes. the real key is it drinks a lot of water early. it might drink a gallon in one day, you put it in again and again. two or three days it s going to be to, drank most of the wart. rachel: i thought this was really special. this is from colorado oregon. [laughter] rachel: it s gorgeous. it s a gorgeous tree. we re one of the few places that have it. and, of course, we have noble back here which is, again, just a tremendous tree. the number one tree in the country is that beautiful tree right there, the frazier fir from my great friends in fcc mc. in north carolina. and we go right to the farms to buy the trees. we know how they re taken care of, we look for green farmers. we don t like a lot of chemicals. rachel: of course not. re rick is there any way to tell
protesters who have every right under canadian constitution and their rules and their laws to protest their government. they do. you re right, the u.s. government was putting a lot of pressure on the canadian government to actually stop the protests and to that point, rachel, there s a lot of things you can do peacefully to stop a protest. but to take these measures to call them violent and criminal and also to the freeze their bank accounts, those steps have not been taken but for terrorists and when the rest of the world looks to canada, some pay think that looks well, maybe we should look at freezing bank accounts of our citizens who we don t agree with or protest our policies. joey: i love what you re pointing out here. i think americans need to understand you re from a part of the dthe country where you havee exposure to people in canada than maybe i do in georgia. there s an understanding of freedom. we almost have a shared culture
have come to symbolize the choke hold the chinese government has forced through isolation. they say the covid restrictions caused a delay in putting out the fire. they have lived with lockdowns for more than 100 days. protests have erupted at clenche campuses are held throughout the country. blank white paper is being held up to show how people are censored. they re calls for an end to movement he restrictions and repeated covid tests. charvelings. tests.chants are reported that e asking that president xi but brought town. the strategy has been tested and critics point to social and economic toll of lockdown as being more costly than the benefit of trying to contain a virus that can not be contained.