Idea, freedom. That would be nice. President ial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is speaking out against tyranny of minority and new oppression that seeks to punish people for having a different opinion. Vivek made his case with an exchange with an lgbtq activist at Iowa State Fair and its gone viral. I am personally pansexual, i was wondering your view on samesex couples is . I dont have a negative view in name of protecting tyranny of majority, we have in the name of majority created new tyranny of the mind and i think that is wrong. I dont think somebody religious should be forced to officiate a wedding they disagree with. I dont think a woman should be forced to compete against a biological man, i dont think anyone who is a woman should be forced to change clothes in a locker room with a man, that is not freedom, that is oppression. Free adults should be able to dress how they want, that is fine. You dont become oppressive by hoisting that on others. It comes from the new culture of oppr
Correspondent Alexis Mcadams starts us off live tonight from des moines, iowa. Good evening, alexis. Bret, good evening from des moines. We talked to lot of voters state fairgrounds fox power rankings. Amongst all the fried food and all the fun here in iowa. The main course still politics. Tim scott, i think he has got a very positive message i like donald trump. I voted for him. This time around its iffy. Trump is the only one that can get us out of this mess we gotten into. Iowa voters not surprised that former President Donald Trump came outer on top on the new latest power rankings. Maybe desantis but im Still Standing with trump. Florida Governor Ron Desantis remains in second place, though recent polls show that gap between him and trump is widening. And in most national polls, South Carolina senator tim scott is a distant third. I just dont think he is as wellknown unless you have really been following the senate. Right now scott the only other candidate to poll double dignity s
Approval he may have his work cut out for him. This is the faulkner focus, im Dagen Mcdowell in for harris. Bidenomics is on the ballot. The president taking another victory lap yesterday in milwaukee. President biden in case you havent noticed inflation is down and going lower. One reason weve seen inflation fall by 2 3 without losing drops were seeing corporate profits come down to earth. A stark contrast to the conservative maga view which is focused on corporate profit. Republican lawmakers tore into the president s policies. Even if inflation goes to 0 tomorrow, were still going to be stuck with these higher prices, which are directly the result of President Bidens economic policies. And do the people around the white house get it . For those of us that live in real america, in middle america, bidenomics means excessive inflation, excessive costs at the gas pump, at the Grocery Store. Americans also seem to have a pretty negative view on the current state of our economy. One recen
On this just moments ago. Listen here. And the president has said he wished he didnt call this the Inflation Reduction Act. What should you call it . Well, he said following that sentiment because i think its a complicated bill that it also has reduced costs and i think its very important to note that both on healthcare and as i noted on the energy side we have already seen costs coming down. John are they . I mean, gas is nearly four bucks a gallon again. Gillian home prices are up. John are americans really feeling any relief as john suggests they are . Im john roberts. Good to spend another hour with you. Gillian you as well, john. Gillian turner in for sandra. Trying to narrow Donald Trumps polling lead. John only one clear frontrunner and that is the former president. Florida Governor Ron Desantis and tim scott are the two main contenders for the top spot. Gillian the majority of Republican Voters agree trump is in the best position to beat trump in the general, 28 are arguing for
stoplighting fireworks on the beach when they were not supposed to do it. then they were attacked. john: any arrests made yet, jeff? yeah, sandra and john, no arrests as of yet, but since the marines, not in uniform were on the ground and kicked by a large group, consider it a case of assault with a deadly weapon. and the video, we should warn, extremely violent, were not more seriously hurt. as many as 40 people were said to be involved in the beating. marines say they were just enjoying san clemente beach friday night. we don t know what happened prior to the video being taken, the victims say the teens were lighting off fireworks. when debris hit one of them in the face from the fireworks, the men say they asked the group to stop, appears some shoving and then jumped and stomped on. some bystanders eventually stepped in to stop the beating. the mayor says the marines are always welcome in his city and celebrated and that s why he feels this attack was tragic and unusu