children vaccinated and i think the lesson from the last few days from, what we have seen in terms of the renewal of the spread of the virus, is that everyone needs to get vaccinated. this is now about the people s choice. not politics. and the people are going to decide whether or not we get the schools open effectively, whether or not we all get back to the office after labor day. whether or not we can keep this economic recovery roaring. i think that s it. 99% of the people dying are unvaccinated. that s not a matter of politics. that s a matter of fact. and we all have to take that to heart. i mean, i think particularly, we have to say unlike what we saw between dr. fauci and dr. paul and i will take the virus specialist over the ophthalmologist when it comes to covid. we have to say let s forget the politics. this is not a matter of defiance. too much we see right now is red state areas where the virus has a foot hold. we need to get in there and
criminal access. lieutenant chris with texas dps says texas is done waiting for the biden administration to do its job. and the lone star state is taking matters into its own hands. starting with this temporary fence. it s frustrating. it s overwhelming because we know border patrol is not getting the support from the federal government. so the state of texas is stepping. in migrant apprehensions continue to hit 20 year record highs with no signs of slowing down, fox news has confirmed that in the rio grande valley, the number of illegal immigrants testing positive for covid has surged a staggering 900 percent with 135 positive cases in just the first two weeks of july alone. the rio grande valley now accounts for 60% of all covid-19 cases in all of border patrol s custody. and bret, right now you are taking a live look from our fox drone down in the rio grande valley about five hours southeast where we re. the most busy sector along the
was shot and killed while she was riding her scooter. covid has shut down some of our in person activities related to trials in our courts and our recall offender supervision agencies. here at the department of justice, bret, attorney general maker garld hoping to combat violent crime with the power of the federal government behind him local cities and states make their own rules often sometimes creating a tug-of-war between the locals and the feds. bret? bret: david spunt at the justice department. david, thanks. tonight the chair of former president trump s 2017 inaugural committee is facing charges that he and others conspired to influence foreign policy positions to benefit the united arab emirates. thomas joseph barrick was among three men charged in new york federal court with trying to influence foreign policy while mr. trump was a candidate running in 2016 and later while he was president. barrick was due to make an initial appearance in federal court in southern californ
figure out how to counter that negative reality. bret: i guess, juan a lot of people say no matter what happens. no matter whether the politics are democrats and republicans we should as a country figure out what happened in the origin of the coronavirus and try to get to the bottom of it. and it seems like there is reluctance to that ari, i want to get to you weigh in on this interesting thing with the texas democrats in leaving austin, you know, they come here some of them covid-positive, other cases people they talked to on capitol hill or white house covid positive. take a listen to the q and a at the white house. is there any concern that this trip that was intended to advocate for voting rights is now a super spreader event in washington, d.c.? that s not a characterization we are making from here. we certainly understand there will be break through cases. now that covid-19 after contact with those democrats has reached the white house, what is your message for these texa
you can suppress crime by going after those violent offenders, those frequent flyers if you will, by prosecuting them for anything that they do. in l.a. gascon has moved against seeking the death penalty and is charging fewer juveniles as adults. in philadelphia, krasner stopped prosecuting certain low level crimes like drug possession. the same is happening in cook county, illinois where officials plan to drop nonviolent charges citing a swelling backlog of court cases. chicago officials say about 35,000 felony cases are waiting to be heard. over the weekend in chicago, 10 people were killed. another 50 wounded. mayor lori lightfoot blames the spike in recent violence on a court case backlog due to covid-19. open up the courts. people need to get their day in court. but courts in cook county are open. in washington, d.c. over the weekend, shots were fired outside the nationals baseball game and three miles away a little girl named nyiah courtney