future. ashley: and cheeseburgers. on my list and fireworks everyone will be shooting off. if you are not going to a parade, look out the window and see the fireworks in the sky. carley: america spends $9.4 billion on food, 150 million hot dogs, will spend 3 billion on fire and wine. 74% of firework injuries happen today, be safe. 6.5 million spent on american flags imported annually. buy american when you buy an american flag. aoc i m a dog lover, today is not a good day for a lot of dogs, they get sore scared. what can you do? love on them more today. carley: get the thunder vest. ashley: they work. they feel like hugs for the dog. carley: fireworks and freedom today as we celebrate our nation s birthday all day throughout fox news, we ll be celebrating. 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. later to do the big independence day show. next hour, you and me together. ashley: yes, ma am. carley: serious news, violence erupting overnight after a gunman dressed in ballistic vest oech
of our fallen members and our hearts go out to their families and we ll talk to a few people today that military families. we ll talk to veterans, i cant wait to see their take on memorial day and what this day means to this. to me personally, this is the day to remember those who lost their lives so we can sit up here and feel safe everyday. to them and their families, thank you so very much. todd: it is sacrifice and we note the sacrifice. when you stop to break it undo, i have typically 18, 19, 20-year-old kid, basically a child, deciding that the virtues of our nation and our founding are so important to them, they are willing to put the rest of their life on the line for those values. it really hits home. there is a parent, two parents, entire family that is worried about that decision, worried about that individual. for some of these individuals we ll interview today, their children did not come home, they are proud of their sons, ares proud of daughters, because they
how alvin bragg s policies are empowering criminals. bill: democrats dismiss it. ] s indictment of donald trump is the reason they re here. the victims of crime tell a very different story. dana: one of the people we re hearing from today is jose alba. last year a repeat offender attacked him last year in the deli where he worked. he fatally stabbed the attacker in self-defense. bragg s office initially charged him with murder. bill: that prompted a massive public outcry. bragg dropped the case under great pressure. republicans say that this points to a larger problem with progressive prosecutors. it s driven by these left wing d.a.s who come in with a political agenda. instead of focusing on protecting people, families, communities an small business owners they are about politics and it s almost like every night you see some senseless act of violence on our screens that happen on the subway or city street and it is just wrong. dana: we have reaction from john levi
we ve got lawson uso cover, and lots of questions to answer. so let s get started. that ceiling showdown, house speaker kevin mccarthy not just a win in the house, but his victory lap may run out of gas in the senate. or live on capitol hill with the latest as the nation inches closer to a debt default. plus, telling their side, the same moment a woman suing former president trump for an alleged rape it is giving tearful over price jerry six insurrection in d.c.. we re going in-depth on all those trump troubles ahead. later, desantis drama, florida governor ron desantis arrives at the white house, while the house memos hits him with the federal lawsuit. we go inside the drama and how it will impact his presidential aspirations. all of this and more is coming up. and a good saturday morning to you, i am katie phang. we start today s show with the standoff over the debt ceiling. speaker kevin mccarthy is taking a premature victory lap after house republicans narrowly lashed
we begin with our top story. memphis, tennessee, now on edge as officials brace for potential unrest over the release this evening of video capturing the traffic stop and con tronation that left a 29-year-old black man dead. he died in the hospital three days after his encounter with police in which five officers are accused of beating him. his family shared this photo of him in the hospital. the attorney for nichols family says the video shows police treating nichols like a pinata. the family has urged the public to demonstrate peace think. his mother spoke to cnn about her son s death. i just feel like my son was sitting here on assignment from god. his assignment was over. it s over. he was sent back home. god is not going to let any of his children s names go in vain. all five officers associated with this incident have now been fired and charged with second-degree murder. as of this morning, four of them have been released after posting bail. one remains in custody.