rachel: good morning. that s a shot of downtown dallas on this father s day. will: 6:00 a.m. central time zone. pete: have you ever play that had music in the morning coming into the show? will: no, i need doll la doll l. ever heard that song? pete: yes. will: sing it? pete: i can t sing. rachel: happy father s day to both of you. pete: happy father s day to all the fathers out there and that s everyone, reach out to them today and tell them you love them. rachel: it s a special day. happy father s day, sean and my dad, who are both at my house right now. we re going to begin this hour with a fox news alert. secretary of state antony blinken in beijing on a rare trip to china as relation withs the u.s. continue to sour. pete: he ll spend the next two days meeting with top communist party officials and it s unclear if he ll sit down with xi jinping. will: alexandria hoff is live in washington dc with the latest. alexandria. reporter: good morning. senior state department off
president. he happens to be the leading candidate to get the gop nomination and be atop the primaries when it s all said and done, making him joe biden s primary and main opponent. is that the man that s going to be charging the president, the former president of the united states, is that the justice department that he controls? yes, the justice department specifically accusing trump of violating the espionage act. congress passed the espionage act a few years before world war i. the law was meant to target spies who might turn against the united states during wartime. joe biden s justice department is trying to argue that trump is a spy, which is really absurd. now, the president said as much in a rally over the weekend. he addressed the indictment against him in public for the first time. the baseless indictment of me by the biden administration s weaponized department of injustice will go down as among the most horrific abuses of power in the history of our country. i t
the former governor of a big primary state, she s in the presidential race. she s the first one after president trump to throw her hat in the ring. you know what? they came going back to this age topic. they did it again today on the view. whoopi goldberg went after her. she said she s not a new generation. the former ambassador will be here to respond to that. first, the president makes a historic trip to ukraine as russia flexes their nuclear weapons muscle again. at the same time, we re $55 billion in to this war. and the president committed another half billion when he was on the ground today. is delayed timing on all of these weapons keeping the u.s. in this longer than we need to be? russia s aim was to wipe ukraine off of the map. but war conquest is failing. general keith kellogg just returned. he s former national security adviser to mike pence, co-chair for the american securities company and a fox news contributor. great to have you with us. the president sur
powerful message for young people in his new book he says stand up for what you believe in. part of the goal in telling the story is to take pride in your blackness, take pride in your culture. my hope is young people and readers walk away and they cease their power. laura: nothing wrong with that us all, everyone should take pride in their background and who they are, after all, kaepernick himself lived a charmed life, adopted at five weeks old my parents who by his own account to loved and supported him. your dad and i have had so many proud moments since you came into our lives. you have always been very persistent and tenacious in pursuit of anything you desire, but i admire that treat anyone as well, because it is what took you to fulfillment of your dreams. laura: and upward middle-class upbringing in california, nice house, nice community, a top athlete in school, both baseball and football, probably could have played in the major leagues. his parents sacrifice
a movement began it to abolish police departments nationwide, all of this has unfolded in the twin cities peered at the numbers don t lie, assault, burglary, property destruction, motor vehicle theft, spiking, all of them in minneapolis over the past year. and, while homicide may have dipped in the past year, which is good news. the city is now seeing an increase in murders over just the past two years, three years. going right back up again. despite the grim numbers, far left democratic congress woman ilhan omar, controversy at times, who just snuck out a win, her district includes part of minneapolis, and continues to push the defund police a gender. that is coming from her. not only do we need to defund but we need to dismantle and start a new. so we must continue to hold people accountable that want a certain system to fully function for certain people, and completely have at dis- interest in that system functioning for the rest of us. but we do need to completely dis