our nation one simple question. what makes you proud to be an american? watch. what is the fourth of july mean to you and why are you proud to be american? fourth of july was founding of the country, and i love this country. proud to be an american, fourth of july just means like bunch of fireworks you know, independence, pretty important. true meaning of independence day is freedom, and equality. i m proud to be american because of the principles of the nation with the freedom of speech. freedom of religion all rights that we have. lawrence: mr. franklin why are you proud to be an american? because i was first president of the united states that was not president of the united states. i was benefit to me was that i was born in 1706 and i was the oldest sign of the dilation of independence and i signed it four documents highly involved and that is now great nation under experiment. why are you proud to be an american? freedom number one. freedom. i appreciat
pictures of gay couples kissing and embracing under the headline equal dignity. the culmination of decades of activism that set off jubilation and airful embraces tearful embraces. many a times follow-up, there was revelry is and soul searching on gay pride day. such cities as new york city and san francisco promised a sort of social catharsis of bicoastal toast to the nation s rapid shift on gay rights and an extended curtain call for the movement that drove it. now, the washington post front page story said the decision rewarded years of legal work by same-sex marriage advocates and pointed to the vexing challenge now facing republican presidential candidates and the gop itself, how to get in step with modern america. we also looked at the coverage of the original 1973 roe v. wade decision, and while it was overshadowed by the death of lbj, it reflects that newspapers mainly took a just the facts approach. the washington post quoted the majority, then the minority
is a clear articulation about the future of the law of order. remember last year when the white house highlighted 16-cent h of july? not this year. gas is up, interest rates are up, food is up. in fact, it s pretty hard to find anything that isn t more expensive than it was one year ago. this as the supreme court caps off a historic session with some of the most consequential rulings we ve ever seen. coming up, senator mike lee from utah who clerked for justice samuel alito on the high court and why the epa decision is as impactful as anything they ve ever ruled on. plus, america s crime crisis with violence this holiday. three police officers and a k-9 shot dead in kentucky. two people fatally shot and three officers wounded in texas. many chicago 22 in chicago 22 people were shot including 4 fatally in the span of just 20 hours. and crime is up 38% in new york city. lee zeldin, who s running for governor in new york, the epicenter of the crime wave, on the movement to d
homeland security secretary is blaming the migrants themselves for being trapped and dying. oh, boy, okay. but first record gas prices putting a damper on 4th of july travel. the president instead of taking responsibility has got a brand-new target, gas stations. biden tweeted, quote, my message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple. this is a time of war and global peril. bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you re paying for the product and do it now. washington post owner and billionaire businessman jeff bezos isn t buying it, though, tweeting, quote, ouch. inflation is far too important a problem for the white house to keep making statements like this. it is either straight up misdirection or deep misunderstanding of the basic market dynamics. the white house is coming to biden s defense. anybody that knows president biden knows he s plain spoken, and he tells exactly what he s thinking, and in
right pause because of the power of this factual evidence. take the republican prosecutor we have cited before, andrew mccarthy. a fox-news favorite, who wrote a whole book defending trump in the mueller probe, and accusing others of pushing the real collusion, which is one reason he is on fox quite a bit and has a huge conservative legal following. he was also appointee in the southern district of york under rudy giuliani himself, so he is a reagan appointee and that doj. but he is also someone who and you see his face on the screen you may recognize him because he is on fox he is someone who says he also tries to deal with legal analysis. perhaps, it is a more confident variety. he clearly was in the reagan revolution but he is respond to the evidence. he says when you look at the evidence, as a criminal-legal matter, it is devastating against trump, and that the new evidence in that hearing makes a big difference. he is saying this in public and this week, he is now e