like the samsung galaxy s21 5g for free. bret: baseball s all-star game begins in about an hour. can you see it on the fox broadcast network tonight. the game is being plays in denver, not atlanta where it is supposed to be held. as you have heard, politics got in the way. correspondent bill melugin is live at coors field tonight. good evening, bill. bret, good evening to you. the city of atlanta is expected to lose staggering $100 million of business because game was taken away from them. the republicans are looking to pounce. they will air television ads during the game tonight. those ads go after democrats for what they say is democrats just stole the game from the city of atlanta by lying about what was in georgia s new voting law. here s part of one of those ads, take a look. this was supposed to be a
restaurants to other things that people buy. but again, the threat here is that all of those things move higher in price. that s what we re seeing and been the trend. we re waiting to see whether or not the federal reserve reacts by raising interest rates which will make our borrowing that much more expensive as well. dana: interesting balancing act. thank you. bill: 20 before the hour. taliban making gains in afghanistan. what about the women and girls who have made gains themselves after the taliban was taken down? good life return to the way things were? we re live in kabul on that with greg palkot. politics surrounding the mlb all-star game tonight. republicans have a plan after the league moved the game from atlanta to denver over georgia s election law.
been. a quarter of all government employees are women. many are in the private sector. free to go out and dress in more modern style and pursue their dreams. we were here 20 years ago when the taliban was running things. all you could see on the streets were women in the all shrouding burqa outfit. our guest is a leading politician here in afghanistan saying the advances for women have some of the concrete gains of this 20-year war that the u.s. led with mixed results. it would be a shame to lose it. back to you. dana: she is indeed brave. thank you, greg. bill: later tonight major league baseball all-star game tonight coors field in denver, not atlanta where it was originally scheduled. the conservative group is targeting mlb with an ad campaign because they moved the game after outcry over georgia s new voting law.
night but we were robbed. democrats stole our all-star game to push their divisive political agenda. politicians and corporations lied while black communities got hurt the most. even though a majority of black voters support laws like voter i.d. now major league baseball made the decision back in april to move the game from atlanta to right here in denver. they did it after democrats, corporations and even president biden himself criticized the law with president biden going as far as calling it jim crow on steroids. republicans pushed back said the law was being misconstrued but the damage was done. the game moved here. we talked to some locals about that. take a listen. i have got some friends down in atlanta. a lot of people angry down there about it being i have got friends and co-workers they think, you know, the mlb
clay travis is with us now. good morning. i m thinking about baseball tonight. i don t know what you are thinking about. i guess the intersection of politics and sports will be on display especially during the commercial for the game tonight. i don t think there is any doubt, bill. thanks to you and dana for having me on this morning. ifm owe excited to see major league baseball all-star game. not as excited as if it were in atlanta. remember the braves not only were set to host but honor hank aaron who recently died and they are playing the season in his honor in atlanta. all of the data that has come out since, this crazy ad you will see which is attacking major league baseball and saying crazy. i never would have foreseen in happening. they are based in new york with more restrictive voting laws than georgia. the baseball commissioner blew it with this choice. i think it will potentially play a big role in the 2022