500 penal. Republicans it bolstering the covid Lab Leak theory. We need to have a serious investigation. Why would democrats not join us in getting answers . Are. Pete good tuesday morning. Im Pete Hegseth in for brian kilmeade. Steve good morning, dallas, texas. Ainsley we thank you for waking up with us yall. We love that state. Steve the metroplex. It is august 3rd, 2021 it is a tuesday and live from the mezzanine level, welcome back to the couch, folks. Ainsley i like that song. Pete it is the metroplex, isnt it . Steve Metroplex Fort worth, dallas. Ainsley you spend a lot of time visiting your daughter she moved back there. Steve she is working there. Her husband is working there. Went to college there. Ainsley dallas is a fun town. Love dallas. Steve were going to start with something you probably have, and that is covid confusion. Today President Biden is going to have to address the nation again, a second time within a week about concerns over the cdcs ever changing guidelines
The book dying of whiteness of a politics of racial resentment telling americas heartland. Thanks are joining us this morning. Im glad to be a. Could you start by talking about your background, particularly what comes to Thet Subject of Gun Violence . Sure. Ive trained across the board. Im an Md Doctor Comtrade in Psychiatry And Neurology and i went back to school i got a T Phd in sociology and politics. I tried to combine those in whats now been a two Decade Study of guns in america, not just beGun Violence but what guns mean. Ive done a lote of work on the social and political meetings of guns in america. I also helped run a group called the safety and see project in tennessee that looks at what might be able to bring together people across the political divide to really talk about how is it we can maybe form even though seems impossible some kinds of common cause across the political spectrum. To really try to keep people and killed is safer and last part is i should mention i had a
Violence, but what guns mean, i have done a lot of work on the social political meetings of guns in america. I help run a group called a project a group in tennessee that brings people across lyrical divides to talk about how we can form, even though it seems impossible sometimes, to try to keep people in community safer and the last part is, as you mentioned, i had a book cannot about a year and a half ago called dying of whiteness, and it has a lot of topics. I was doing research into missouri progun communities and talking to people about guns and looking at that tension between liberty on one Hand And Safety on the other. Host statistics about Gun Violence, particular event this year, 10,000 people related to that in the first half of this year. From your background, what is the best way to understand the rising numbers . Guest i think it is a question, not an answer. In a way, with what we are seeing, it is a spike in certain kinds of Gun Related Injuries and deaths. That comes in
Firefighter and Law Enforcement and manhours it took to respond to the incident. It is a full Burden Cost for everything. Reporter so hundreds and possibly thousands of dollars . Yes. That is about right and i have seen it few models play out to several thousand dollars. To catch these guys, you have to be out there and beef up patrols, right . So they have doubled the number of enforcement officers that they have from 3 to 4 and the Sheriffs Office is adding at least another 10 deputies out there looking for legal fireworks and coming up we will tell you exactly where they will be and here is a hint, they will be in the foothills. Taking a live look at the white house were Today President Biden hosted governors from western states to come up with a plan to combat wildFire Danger. It was all part of a special Cabinet Meeting specifically focused on the extraordinary threat this year. It comes as fires have already burned more than 1. 4 million acres, and the season is just getting star
Border, as you know, temperatures in the southwest have been soaring into the triple digits. It is dangerous and a hazardous preview of what the unfor giving Desert Summer can bring. We have a live report from the border in la jolla, texas. We may see an increasing death toll, sadly. Reporter eric, good morning to you. Thats what Border Agents on the ground are tellings us to expect as we head into the summer months and as the surge continues were really starting to see the length some of these migrants are willing to go, not just to get to the united states but stay in the united states and how ruthless some of the Human Smugglers are. Take a look at this, this was in texas, this tuesday. Horrible images of 15 migrants who had been locked inside of a train by Human Smugglers. They had apparently all been locked inside of grain hoppers. Border patrol and Texas State troopers had to rescue them. They say it was 110 degrees inside the train at the time of their rescue. Five of the migran