14699 unaccompanied minors at the border in may where are thee on this issue? we are back with our panel,s mollie hemingway, hugh hewitt, and leslie marshall. mollie, it s not going away it s only increasing and the administration is really not talking about it at all. they are not talking about it but some of those previous speakers were right. president biden when he was running for election said that he thought the previous administration s border policy was cruel. he did say that he wanted people to cross the border and they are in record numbers. but it really is cruel to have such a policy. we have a human rights catastrophe. the cartels are managing the process. they are not good people to be dealing with. we have fentanyl crossing the border, which is industrying so many people s lives. and it is also a national security threat. you know, some of the suspected tastes are caught crossing but not all. and it is a complete disaster. it is notable how calm people seem to be about
over 60% of americans feel this was planned and this is the reason it needs to be out there. not for politics or votes in the midterms but for the american people, regardless of their party, to know exactly how close things came and what was done to try and dismiss the vote and will and free and fair election of the people the united states of america and that is not only education it s dangerous. bret: mollie, last word. one of the problems with having a show trial which is what this is you only get one side. i wrote a book on the 2020 election. i interviewed people on both sides of this dispute. and i actually respect people on both sides of this dispute. what you had at the department of justice was driven ideas about how to pursue what was a very problematic election. most people thought there wasn t enough there to go with. but some people really did think there was enough to go there and that s what jeffrey clark was doing. and president trump does have the right to decide
pause. they blew in fact, they blew a lot of the abbott laboratory process. they do not have a great reputation right now and they are shutting down juul. i m not a fan of juul. why in the world would we trust them when the government can t do anything on its job. bret: that s good question. new york times, mollie, while the tobacco industry was one of the most regulated in the country the ecigarette market was like the wild west no rules how it could advertise and to whom it could sell its products. juul quickly swallowed up more than 50% of the market. the fda is saying no more to juul. as we mentioned the administration not speaking very loudly about fentanyl, which enough there is just fentanyl just a little bit about the size of covering the date on a penny could kill you. yeah. this is not an administration that has been making policies based on a genuine reading of science or medicine. we have seen that in how they
that, there is something with the administration right now they are trying to put forth with regard to healthcare that could save over 160,000 lives of so many are lost with fentanyl addiction. there is a senate oversight committee that is looking at that right now. bret: there may be, leslie, hugh, i don t hear anything from the administration about fentanyl and those numbers are through the roof. it s a tomb. and the fentanyl that all of us agree is the number one part of the border crisis is what we have to be focused on. it killed 107,000 americans last year. it is a wide-open border. i know you wanted to talk about the fda and i have to say why are we focusing part of the federal government, the fda on regulating juul when we can t regulate the border? why do we assume the federal government can do anything when it can t do the first thing which is to control the border. as mollie said, the cartels control the border, not the administration. so why would we trust the fda, whic
but, as a candidate, he said no more drilling on federal lands. no more offshore drilling, no new drilling, and so it s more like he is doing everything he thinks he can without betraying progressives. bret? bret: more on this with the panel in just a bit. peter, thank you. stocks were up today. the dow gained 194. the s&p 500 finished ahead 36. the nasdaq rose 179. speaking of our panel let s bring them in early. mollie hemmingway editor and chief of the federalist. syndicated radio host hugh hewitt and leslie marshall democratic strategist. i want to start with the supreme court ruling. hugh, significant. this gun ruling today. the impact nationwide? well, there are six other states, bret, that have the same sort of regime about issuing permits that new york state does, a regime that was struck down as unconstitutional under the plain language of the second amendment today. justice alito, he wrote a concurring opinion. six judges, six justices agreed