our expertise, our plans and our execution of our plans. here again, just as we did with the challenge of unaccompanied children in march of this year, we have a plan. we are executing our plan, and that takes time. lawrence: so that s what the secretary said in public. but fox news has obtained leaked audio of what the secretary is saying in private. and it paints a drastically different picture. watch. a couple days ago i was down in mexico omexico and i said look, you know, if our border is the first line of defense we are going to lose, this is unsustainable. we can t continue like this. our penal in the field can t continue and our system isn t built for it. lawrence: he said we are going to lose, it s not sustainable. he was talking about the border. those words can be will to the every part of the biden administration. crime is spiking. inflation. officials in afghanistan are central bling to leave as the taliban takes back the country in lightning speed. you can
you re watching fox & friends first on this friday morning. i m carley shimkus. ashley: i m ashley strohmier. todd an jillian are off this morning. now to the border crisis, homeland security secretary new mayorkas announcing border crossings hit a 21 year high. carley: griff jenkins is live with brand-new audio recordings that are telling. reporter: we haven t seen these kind of numbers since the spring of the year 2000, never during a raging pandemic. secretary mayorkas announcing this number here, more than 212,000 encounters in july, a five-fold increase over last july. the situation at the border is one of the toughest challenges we face. it is complicated, changing, and involves vulnerable people at a time of a global pandemic. reporter: but behind closed doors, in this leaked audio, talking to border patrol agents, mayorkas admits the situation is much more dire. these numbers cannot continue. we cannot get to the point we were a couple weeks ago and we re go
in has to be locally decided in the absence of data. i believe that masks are better than having received the vaccine that didn t work new. but that s not to say that i m convinced that we can make the statements that the best way to protect kids in school is as some has advocated universal masking. better ventilation and sanitation and routine testing twice a week. reinforcing in parents they don t send their kids to school if they re sick or if siblings are sick. dana: betsy devos is standing by with her reaction to all of this and casey stiegel is live in dallas this morning. good morning. most dallas schools don t officially start until next monday but starting today anyone visiting or returning to a public school campus now required to wear a facemask. that decision was made by the superintendent here citing the health and well-being of students and staff because of the highly contagious delta variant of covid. it is a move that openly defies governor s ban on scho
for the safe upcoming school year. now, earlier at the white house today, the covid response team released new numbers showing that 83% of all counties in the country are reporting a substantial or high transmission rate. and this is all counties. but there s also a spike in vaccinations. 864,000 over the last 24 hours, the most in more than month. clearly americans are seeing the impact of being unvaccinated and unprotected. and the response is doing their part by rolling up the sleeve and getting vaccinated. and that is where we start with heidi prybylia, and the director of the national preparedness leonard and also our national correspondent on health, and so i apologize ahead of time if i have to cut you off with the speaker who makes it to the podium. what did we learn, heidi? well, he is clearly concerned with the politics of the parents who won t go along with it. the administration is through a number of pediatricians, and the american academy of pediatricians
pro-palestinian caravan targeted jewish people with slurs. i m harris faulkner, here today my co-coast, emily compagno and kayleigh mcenany, we are in studio f again together. fox nation host, tomi lahren is with us and virtual center seat, dave rubin, host of the rubin report. good to see you. police in los angeles are investigating a possible hate crime at the restaurant on tuesday. after witnesses say some pro-palestinian protesters began attacking diners, including a group of jewish men throwing punches and bottles and objects at them. the dramatic confrontation caught on cell phone camera. watch. [yelling] hey, hey. [video playing practical [ ] [horn honking] harris: and in a separate incident in los angeles again on monday, caught on security camera this time, a caravan of two vehicles waving palestinian flags chasing an orthodox jewish man in a parking lot. he escaped unharmed. incidents like these are fanning across europe, last week in london, four people were arre