this white house is focusing on things that divide americans instead of bringing they will together. here s a bit of that ad. a president who promised to bring us together should not be pushing agendas that tear us apart. we re not adversaries. we re family. shannon: what about that, focus on coming together versus division? first of all, if we re talking about the george floyd justice and policing act the house did pass it along bipartisan lines and senator scott is pushing from the right to work with the left in the senate. we know there is definitely a pause and a delay there with regard to that but, it s interesting you brought up senator tim scott because he said america is not racist and actually president biden agrees with him. here s what the president said, i don t think america is racist but i think the overhang from all of the jim crow and before that slavery had a cost.
a year ago that called for up to 10 years behind bars for anyone who vandalized a statue or a monument. six people, shannon, were arrested and charged in connection with trying to take down the statue of president andrew jackson last june 22. it s a famous statue. vandals put a rope around jackson s head. they were close to getting it down before the park was fortified. a few days later trump signed that executive order with strict terms up to 10 years behind bars. fox has told the u.s. attorney s office is planning to offer misdemeanor plea deals but none have been formally issued. we ve still not heard back an official comment from the the u.s. attorney s office. seven other people were identified but never arrested and charged. the department of justice last week asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit from demonstration groups aimed at former president trump and former attorney general bill barr for an appearance at lafayette park. you see the date, june 1, 2020, that was one year ago.
people around america have only said in recent years that they have even had an awareness of what happened in tug tulsa. i think it was a signal event to have the president of the united states in tulsa today for this hundredth anniversary, and to speak so clearly about how important it is that we all know what happened because, as you may be familiar with, shannon, so much of this history was literally erased not only from police books but front pages, state arrests archives, blotted out. it s important, i think, going forward, for us to understand in terms of our history, american history, what an important story this tells. president biden, i think, picked up on this today saying, you look at the system of racism in
of a highway after rolling over during a high-speed police chase. inside 17 migrants being smuggled into the u.s. this is one of 300 vehicle pursuits texas department of public safety officers engaged in since march in the rio grande valley. but smugglers aren t just moving people. check out this particular to be video given to fox news by a law enforcement source who says it appears to show multiple drug smugglers cutting in and out of vehicles. meanwhile, more details are coming out about biden s wide reaching plans to make it easier to enter the u.s. the new york times obtaining a blueprint dated may 3 entitled dhs plan to restore trust in our legal immigration system which lists policy proposals like shorter immigration forms and fewer security checks to help
tonight among many here in washington that biden s budget may not address the growing threat from china. on the high seas. national security correspondent jennifer griffin explains tonight from the pentagon. on any given day the u.s. navy has 100 ships deployed around the world. 1/3 of its current fleet. a navy that shrunk since the reagan build-up in the 1980s when the navy had nearly 600 warships. deployments have grown long and frequent. taxing both crew and equipment. that s why the new $715 billion biden defense budget raised eyebrows among republicans who campaign it s making the u.s. vulnerable in a future war with china. i know our allies and the american public have to be very concerned that this administration believes that our military needs to be scaled down at a time when the threats are scaling up. the deputy defense secretary pushed back. we lessen our reliance on vulnerable systems that are no longer suited for today s