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CHAVEZ RODRIGUEZ: “... as a whole family here in this country as a result of — of this executive order. Those are the things that matter most. And those are the ways in which President Biden continues to fight for, you know, communities across this country that, you know, really deserve the opportunity that we know is so important in this election.”

COLBERT: “You’re the former principal here. One of the biggest fights going on, sort of culture fights going on in the United States right now is some school districts, generally controlled by Republican legislatures, have outlawed the teaching of what they call or consider Critical Race Theory, but rarely is, lessons on diversity, equity, inclusion. As somebody who used to head a school, what’s your response to that? What are the values? What is the value of keeping that in the schools?” Bowman: “First of all, the Republicans are bullies, man. They’re trying to — (Cheering and Applause) They’re trying to bully the entire country into one singular a way of thinking. And our strength is our diversity as a nation. (Cheering and Applause) In fact, that we come from different countries, have different backgrounds, have different experiences. We need to learn more about each other because that’s how you bring the country together and people together. And so we have to do everything in our power to push back against banning of books, taking over of school districts, fighting back against DEI. We — (Cheering and Applause) We’re not going to be our most aspirational selves as a nation unless we embrace diversity. So that’s what we have to do.” (Cheering and Applause)

COOPER: “James, I mean, there’s a difference between having something, a book in a library, and something posted in every classroom from the Bible.” CARVILLE: “Well, look, this is book burner talking point. All right? These people want to burn books, take them out of libraries. You can‘t substitute reading, writing, arithmetic, which — you know, like I say, the courts will have to flush this out, but there‘s 1,000 founding documents — “ COOPER: “And Kentucky had a similar law, it got struck down.” CARVILLE: “The problem is, you gotta have kids that can read them.” COOPER: “Right.” CARVILLE: “You know, who knows what this court will do, but they’ll leave it — it’ll go right up through the legal system. What I find fascinating is the book burners really want the 10 Commandments. Give me a break.” COOPER: “Scott, how much of this really is about the quality of public education in Louisiana?” JENNINGS: “Anderson — “ COOPER: “Sorry, go ahead. Scott.” JENNINGS: “I worry about the quality of public education everywhere. I worry especially about it coming out of the pandemic when you have an epidemic of kids who have just disappeared, they can‘t find kids. Jim Carville is right, they can’t read, they can’t — “ COOPER: “Right, but is this really about the quality of public education or is it about election year politics and trying to get another so-called religious freedom case in front of the Supreme Court?” JENNINGS: “But I don‘t — I don‘t necessarily think teaching basic fundamental values of Western civilization is incongruent or in opposition to also having quality education in a school system. And if I might, I do respect the hell out of James Carville, he‘s a legend in our business and for people who do what I do, but you are not going to sit on this television tonight and call me a book burner. I do not believe in burning books. I strongly believe in the First Amendment. I have no interest in restricting any information and I strongly reject the ad hominem attack. We can disagree on this, but you‘re not going to call me a book burner on TV.” CARVILLE: “Well, the correlation between book burners and people that want the 10 Commandments is high. I can’t tell that you’re one of them, but 80% of the book burners want to — you know, there‘s the high correlation there. And if you want to talk about fundamental American values, try the First Amendment. But that‘s me.” COOPER: “For the record, I will say I have not heard Scott Jennings talked about burning any books anytime that I’ve talked to him.” CARVILLE: “Okay. There‘s a lot of book burners that want this — “ COOPER: “I’m just saying, James.” CARVILLE: “There’s a correlation.” COOPER: “James Carville, appreciate your time. Scott Jennings as well.”

BAIER: “Good evening, I’m Bret Baier. We are releasing new Fox polls right now about the presidential race. President Biden gets his best result this election cycle in the head-to-head against former President Donald Trump. He leads 50-48. That is within the margin of error. President Biden hasn’t been ahead of former President Trump in the polls since October of 2023. He trailed Trump by 1 point last month. Again, all within the margin of error, a very tight race. When listing extremely important issues to their vote, registered voters in this survey citing the future of democracy at 68%, the economy at 66, followed by stability and normalcy, then healthcare and immigration, abortion, and guns. This as President Biden is preparing to share a stage with the former president in just over a week, the first presidential debate which we will cover live right here on Fox News channel next Thursday night. Senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich starts us off tonight with a look at some of the other numbers inside our latest survey live from the North Lawn. Good evening, Jacqui.” HEINRICH: “Good evening, Bret. We have already seen the last of President Biden for a while. He is at his Delaware Beach House until tomorrow, when he heads to Camp David to huddle with advisers for debate prep. The campaign says Biden will try to put Trump on his heels for his ‘attacks on democracy,’ but this new Fox poll shows Biden has some vulnerabilities of his own.” [Clip starts] HEINRICH (voice-over): “The president’s campaign is betting big concerns about the future of democracy will bring voters to the ballot box for Biden. But, according to a new Fox survey, he has a lot of work to do elsewhere. While Biden leads on the democracy issue by 6 points, Trump leads on immigration by 9. Republicans slamming yesterday’s executive order shielding half a million undocumented spouses from deportation as mass amnesty.” ABBOTT: “More than half a million illegal immigrants are getting amnesty. The cartels will use that to gin up even more business, enticing more people coming across the border.” HEINRICH (voice-over): “On the economy, Trump has a 5-point lead. A whopping 68% of registered voters feel its condition is only fair or poor. 41% report they are falling behind in their personal finances. And Biden’s approval rating is deep under water on the economy, inflation, immigration and the Israel-Hamas war. But don’t expect a change in strategy. According to a new report, even Biden’s closest longtime allies feel they can’t advocate for a course correction in private meetings or else risk being cast out. One source telling Axios, ‘Even for those close to the center, there is a hesitance to raise skepticism or doubt about current path for fear of being viewed as disloyal. There is not a discussion that a change of course is needed.’ Biden is taking the next week to prepare for his debate with former President Trump at the CNN presidential debate as one potential Republican VP short-lister reveals a possible counter-punch to Biden’s prepared lines on the future of democracy.” BURGUM: “We’re actually living under a dictatorship today, where he is bypassing Congress on immigration policy, he’s bypassing Congress on protecting our border, he’s bypassing Congress on student loan forgiveness and he is defying the Supreme Court.” [Clip ends] HEINRICH: “While Biden edges out Trump in a head-to-head matchup for the first time since last August, his 2-point lead there shrinks to just one in a five-way race. You have Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Grabbing 10% support. That is shy of the 15% needed to qualify for the debate stage, making his participation next week pretty unlikely with that midnight deadline coming up, Bret.”

Wallace: “Anne, how do they view, you know, people that are sort of watching the next election? I mean, how — what is sort of the degree of interest and concern?” APPLEBAUM: “So, if you mean U.S. allies, there is an enormous amount of interest and concern. Actually, right just before I — just before I was speaking to you, I was on the phone with some colleagues in Europe who were asking, they were — it was late at night their time. I’m in Washington now, late at night their time. And they were sort of sitting around talking about what was going to happen next. And they called me to say, who’s going to win? You know, what, — what were the polls looking like? And that’s because the decision about who America chooses next will affect all kinds of political alliances and arrangements. A Trump victory will encourage the Putin, Xi, Kim, you know, Venezuelan, Belarusian alliance. A Biden victory will mean that the United States is still the leader of the democratic world, is still committed to supporting Ukraine and other democracies. It’s an enormous — it has an enormous impact on the entire world. And of course, you know, nobody else has a vote except for Americans. And that’s very frustrating. And that, you know, it’s also the fact that it’s so close, I couldn’t tell them who will win. It’s — as far as I can see, it’s 50-50. It depends on a few thousand people and in a few swing states, and it’s a — it’s a frustrating moment for U.S. allies.”

Harris: “Now that it is a federal holiday, let’s also incorporate into our tradition our new traditions that we will think of Juneteenth of a day for us to have a call to action to register folks to vote. So, let’s think about Juneteenth as a way that reaffirms our commitment to holding on to our freedoms and rights, especially in this environment where there is a full-on intent to attack fundamental freedoms and right.”

Todd: “I don’t mean to simplify this, but you know, Donald Trump’s rhetoric even and even his sort of swagger looks more like 2016 and the campaign you covered so closely, Katy, than he looked in 2020. And in fact, I was just discussing this with somebody we all know on this call, on this — on this program. I’m going to leave his name out of it because he didn’t know I was going to quote him just now, but he even noted, we were talking about this idea that when Trump’s losing, the worst version of Trump shows up. And when Trump’s winning, or he thinks he’s ahead, he’s actually a different person, a different candidate. Maybe just — I think Vaughn could probably speak to this now, the Donald Trump at Detroit and those events he did, he was oddly loose. He was trying to be funny and all of this, where from about 2017 to 2022 we had — and even 2023 through the primaries, it’s been nothing but angry grievance Trump, right? Angry, angry, angry. It’s interesting, if he somehow drops the grievance, he could end up looking more like that 2016 candidate —“ Tur: “Maybe.” Todd: “— where he’s the outside disrupter.” Tur: “But it’s hard to imagine him dropping the grievance, as you know, again, he’s going to be sentenced in a few weeks here in Manhattan. There’s all, you know, presidential immunity decisions coming out with the Supreme Court. There are reasons to continue on the grievance trail. And this whole campaign, it seems to be less for him about policy and more about what they’re doing to me is what they want to do to you. My grievances are your grievances.”

COLBERT: “Half the audience laughed. Of course, a hot June day is a great time for a cookout. Just ask Senate majority leader and raisin in the trail mix insulted that you keep avoiding it, Chuck Schumer. Schumer garnered some controversy this weekend when he was accused of staging a fake Father’s Day photo of himself grilling. Here’s the pic, okay? At first glance, it just looks like any nice grandpa, wearing the shirt he napped in, offering you a delicious bun-less burger. But look closer, and you’ll see, he put cheese on an uncooked patty! (Audience reacts) It’s a little rare for my taste. ‘We’ve got all the fixins: we got ketchup, mustard, E. coli, salmonella.’ (Appaluse) Now, Schumer captioned the photo with ‘Father’s Day Heaven!” Which is where you’re gonna be if you eat one of his burgers.”

ACOSTA: “Do you share the assessment that ISIS could be exploiting vulnerabilities down at the border to attack the United States? What’s your sense of that?” MAYORKAS: “Jim, we in the law enforcement community and the intelligence community have been speaking of a heightened threat environment, certainly exacerbated in the wake of the October 7th terrorist attacks against Israel. We’ve been speaking about the threat of domestic violent extremism, individuals already resident in the United States who are radicalized by foreign terrorist ideologies, false narratives, anti-government sentiments, personal grievances and other phenomenon. We also have seen a growth in the foreign terrorist threat, and we have enhanced our screening and vetting accordingly.”

ACOSTA: “I do want to ask you about the murder of this Maryland mother that has been in the news. It’s gotten a lot of attention. She was killed last year. An undocumented immigrant was just arrested in her death last week. He’s suspected of multiple crimes since he crossed the border illegally in early 2023. Obviously, you know, we know that studies show that undocumented immigrants don’t commit more crimes statistically than native born U.S. citizens. But what do you say to critics who blame the administration for allowing something like this to happen? Obviously, this is something that you hear in right-wing media all the time.” MAYORKAS: “Jim, first and foremost, of course, our hearts break for the children, the family, the loved ones, the friends of the individual who was murdered, the woman, the mother. Jim, a criminal is responsible for the criminal act. The criminal who committed this heinous act should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and forcefully so. That is my response.”

CORDES: “You’ve probably heard of deep fakes. But just last week as President Biden was at the G-7 summit in Italy, cheap fake clips went viral on social media and were picked up by some news outlets. Take a look at this clip for example. It shows Biden and other world leaders watching a skydiving demonstration before the president is seen walking away, and looking in another direction. Outlets claimed that he was sort of just aimlessly wandering away. The clip amassed millions of views within just a few hours, when actually he if you widened out, you can see that he was talking to one of the members of the military that was participating in that demonstration. So how prevalent are cheap fakes and how big of a problem will really be in this election? Well, let’s take a look with executive editor of ‘CBS News Confirmed’ Rhona Tarrant, who joins us now from Studio 57 to explain. Hi, Rhona, it’s great to see you.” TARRANT: “Hi.” CORDES: “So tell us how long cheap fakes have been around. I’m assuming they’ve been around since the beginning of — of the media, because, you know, anybody can — can take an image and manipulate it to make it look like it suggests something that didn’t happen.” TARRANT: “That’s exactly it. It really is a case of all techniques meets new technology. So, as you said, cheap fake videos, not videos that are edited in a really simple way, those have been around as long as political videos have existed. So there’s a few ways for example that people might be familiar with. One is there might be a long video, and you might take a very short clip and you take out key context. Another is maybe you slow something down, and it makes it sound like someone is slurring their words. Or another is you might splice several pieces together and it makes it sound like someone said something that they didn’t. What’s different in this election and the last two elections, in the presidential elections, is, number one, everyone has access to mobile phones where they can edit, and number two, most people have social media accounts where they can publish this stuff. So it’s worth saying these are not anything new. You know, when Trump was president, these targeted him as well. But what we are seeing in the last few weeks is really the steady stream of videos that are targeting President Biden and in particular, taking aim at his age.” CORDES: “Right, and they are being picked up by news outlets that know they’re fakes, and — or know that they are misleading, but post them anyway. Rhona is there any way to measure the impact that these videos could have on the 2024 election in comparison to other forms of misinformation?” TARRANT: “You know, that’s a really great, great question. I think, you know, in terms of what our team has been tracking, we have seen these so called cheap fake videos, they are targeting Biden and they are targeting Trump. However, we have seen particularly in the last few months, the videos targeting Biden are getting a lot more traction online. And in particular, the ones that target Biden’s age. So for example —“ CORDES: “Right.” TARRANT: “— like you had said, claiming that he is wandering off and really was having a conversation with somebody, these videos are effective, because they are — they’re called cheap fakes for a reason. They are quick, they’re easy to publish, and oftentimes they have big impact on people who are just scrolling through their phones, they watch it for five seconds, and they move on. Also, what’s interesting about this is we’ve heard a lot about the fear of deep fakes in this election. And we’ve seen the deep fakes haven’t really shown up in the way that maybe people were worried about them showing up —“ CORDES: “Right.” TARRANT: “— but these videos that are edited in a really basic way with technology that’s been around for a long time, are effective, effective to the extent that the White House is addressing them.” CORDES: “Deep fakes as opposed to cheap fakes, or, you know, videos, or audio that has been completely created by AI, so think the robo-call that was sent around to Rhode Island — not Rhode Island, New Hampshire voters a few months ago, that sounded just like Joe Biden telling them not to vote, but it was a total fake. So Rhona, how can voters best discern between videos that are real and videos that are not?” TARRANT: “So social media platforms sometimes they will attach fact-checks to these videos. So sometimes on X, you might see community notes, or on Facebook, you might see fact-checks. However, the reality is for the vast majority of them, they’re not going to have anything attached. So unfortunately, really is on the viewer. Number one piece of advice I would have is always check your sources. So if you see something on an account, is this a partisan account? Is it pushing for a particular candidate? And does it have a history of posting misinformation? And the second thing, which I think is really important is, always seek another source. So don’t just take it from one account, make sure that you got a second source or even a third source, and most importantly, make sure that’s a credible source.”

COLLINS: “But all of that may not matter because we are about to find out tonight just how strong Donald Trump‘s grip is on the Republican base and if his opinion is the only one that matters. This race pits Good up against the Trump-backed state senator in Virginia, John McGuire. Those polls closed at 7:00 P.M. Eastern and here‘s where the results stand right now. 66% of the vote is in, so we still have more to come, but look how close this race is. You can see John McGuire right now has 50.6% of the vote, Bob Good is at 49.4%? Look how close those margins are. It is incredibly close as we are watching all of this tonight, this test of Donald Trump, who was endorsed the name you see there to the top, John McGuire, against Bob Good, the chairman of the very influential House Freedom Caucus. My source tonight to help put these numbers into context that we are seeing here as we are watching all of this, CNN’s senior data Reporter, Harry Enten. Harry, I mean, obviously, this race is so close right now at this moment.” ENTEN:” Razor, razor-tight. My goodness gracious. You rarely — I get excited on nights like this, where, you know, I watch these old videos and I see how tight the races were in like election 2000, and finally we get a race tonight, as tight as we have it right now.” COLLINS: “Yeah. And so, obviously, the question here is about Trump‘s endorsement and how powerful that‘s ultimately going to be. Because really, there‘s basically no policy differences between these two Republicans on anything substantive, but Donald Trump is backing one of them and not the other.” ENTEN: “Correct. As you mentioned, the incumbent committed the cardinal sin of initially backing Ron DeSantis. How dare he. How dare he. And you looked at primaries so far this season, and Trump‘s endorsement has been as good as good as gold. Before tonight, only one candidate who he backed lost their primary. Look at that, 88 wins to 1. And I went back, I looked at 2022, I looked at 2020, I looked at 2018. More Trump-endorsed candidates are winning this year than in any year prior, at least as a percentage so far. So tonight is an ultimate test of Trump‘s power.” COLLINS: “Yeah, and that‘s really interesting because the other part is, lightening speed after Ron DeSantis got out of the race, Bob Good came out and did endorse Donald Trump, so he did try to make up for it. Clearly, it didn‘t mean a lot to Trump. But the other thing here that matters, if Bob Good goes down, is it‘s an incumbent being defeated.” ENTEN: “It‘s exactly right. I feel like we have a power match-up here, right, between Trump‘s endorsement and the power of incumbency. And so far this year, incumbents have been winning all over the place. Look at this: re-nominated, 228, just one has lost and that was to a fellow incumbent. So, you rarely ever see incumbents lose, so this evening we have this thing where you see incumbents rarely lose and you see Trump-backed candidates rarely lose. One of those two powers is gonna go down tonight. Which one? We‘ll have to wait and see.” COLLINS: “Okay, Harry, I‘ve a question about a few other races for you, but stand by because I know you‘re watching all these numbers.” ENTEN: “You know I am.” COLLINS: “We have a projection, we are going to make it here, but we also have some context here of this big race in Virginia that normally we would not be talking about, but because of the dynamics here that we just laid out, it matters and we‘ll see what the implications of it are, what we can read from the results.”

Ingraham: “Well, senator, House Democrats set up a task force to deal with Trump should he win. Watch.” [Clip starts] CHU: “What we want to do is to make sure that people know what the United States would look like if Donald Trump were, in fact, elected as president. He would seize supreme power, he’d greatly expand and centralize his power. He would reduce the oversight of Congress on the courts. There would be no balance. (...) He’d ensure that Christian nationalism is embedded in every federal agency. And then he would eliminate the wall between him and the Department of Justice.” [Clip ends] Ingraham: “oh my God, so boring. First of all, she is reading. I love how she is on television and she’s reading a screen. So, what will America look like? She has to make sure everyone knows what it will look like. And people say, well, it certainly would feel more like the America that we all know and love than open season on innocent Americans as we see right now.” COTTON: “Yeah, Laura, as I said, we don’t have to imagine what America would look like under Donald Trump. We know. For four years, we had stable prices, we had a growing economy with high-paying jobs, we had a working class, we had a secure border, we had peace and stability around the world. That’s what America looked like under Donald Trump’s presidency and it’s what it will look like again. That’s one of the reasons why the American people want Donald Trump back in the White House and Joe Biden out of the White House. I have to say that so many of the people mentioned this article and who talk about the resistance. They just sound like Trump-deranged lunatics. They are losers who are running a morality play in their own mind in which they are the protagonist. I think a lot of these liberals like to imagine what they would be like in Germany in the 1930s. But we know what they would be like. They are trying to lock up their political opponents. Street militias are marching outside of the homes of Supreme Court justices. And now they are using any tactic to try to win, they are even condemning on campuses all around America, condemning Jews for the crimes of going to class or wearing a yarmulke. I think we know what most of these people would have done in the 1930s, irrespective of whatever crazy morality play is unfolding in their own heads.” Ingraham: “Yeah. Well, they’ve certainly done a number on this country over the last almost four years. America has changed and not for the better.”

Clyburn: “You know, I don’t understand why these platitudes they get thrown out there by Trump and others, especially some of the sycophants, these people who really carry a message that we all know where it emanates from, why they seem to think that that’s Bible, that that is what is going to happen. The fact of the matter is, people know what their conditions are. They watch these candidates. They listen to their rhetoric. And when you say, I’ve done more for African-Americans than any president since Abraham Lincoln, then you have one of your supporters out there saying that all of a sudden things are going good doing Jim Crow and come — and LBJ comes along, Lyndon Johnson. And because of his programs, things got bad for the black family. What were his programs? Number one, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the 1968 Fair Housing law, getting rid of redlining, keeping the black families in slum conditions. That is a problem. And you’re telling me that your guy proposing that we get rid of these kinds of programs. And now, health care. Remember, President Trump’s big problem with John McCain was that he cast the deciding vote that made the Affordable Care Act continue to exist. Now, you telling me that black families are going to reward him for that? I just saw, Mr. Tomasky’s peace. And let me tell you something, I have been saying for weeks, even months now to my friends, that Joe Biden has a quiet constituency that nobody is looking at, nobody is listening to, but it’s showing up in this poll. So I don’t know what the people are saying to the pollsters but I know what they said to me when I walked through airports. I just came in from San Diego. And I spent a lot of time in a Charlotte airport, the Charlotte airport in the last several days, and people are coming up to me very quietly saying, ‘Keep doing what you’re doing. Things are going to be fine come November.’ I tell you, there is a quiet constituency that Joe Biden has, and it will show up big time come November.”

Hannity: “All right, I may be wrong. My best guess, you know, educated guess, is that we’ve only seen Joe Biden kind of jacked up and very energetic during the State of the Union Address, Kellyanne. The only time we’ve ever seen it. We didn’t see it before, and we haven’t seen it since. I expect that Joe Biden to show up at the debate. That means, I guess, a lot of Red Bull, a lot of caffeine pills, whatever. Would you expect the same?” CONWAY: “Probably. They’ll need to goose him and juice him for him to even be able to stand there for 90 minutes without the assistance of President Obama or his wife or getting away with shaking hands with the air, or, frankly, a teleprompter. We haven’t seen him much without a teleprompter. And you know how Donald Trump is preparing for the debate? You just saw it in Racine, Wisconsin, you saw it in the South Bronx, you see it Wildwood, New Jersey, you see it in West Palm Beach. He goes and talks to the people about the record of accomplishments for four years and then the vision for the next four. That’s the best way to prepare. Now, as for Biden’s agility, acuity, ability and energy, that will be in question, but I think that CNN, which probably thinks it’s doing a civic service by muting Donald Trump’s mic, is actually doing him a big favor. Let’s all have Joe Biden speak. I can’t wait, Ari and Sean, to try to watch Biden speak. Let him perform feet away from the very imposing, intimidating Donald Trump. I don’t care what the Democrats say. Let him stumble, mumble, bumble and not be so humble with Trump right there. But I hope Trump will let him speak. And by the way, I’ve been in the room for debate prep for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. He takes this very seriously. But his type of debate prep is just to talk about what you’ve seen him talking about, how he will reduce inflation, what he’ll do at the at the border. You know why Joe Biden’s going on vacation, not to prep — because here are his answers: ‘President Biden, what’s your plan for ensuring 26 million Americans who have no healthcare?’ ‘Abortion.’ ‘What is your plan to fix the border, inflation?’ ‘Donald Trump is bad.’ ‘Do you have a plan in the Middle East or in Ukraine?’ ‘January 6.’ Those are gonna be his three answers for everything, Trump, Trump, Trump, January 6, abortion. Mark my word.”

Biden: “Thanks to all the members of Congress and Homeland Security Secretary uhuhuhuhuhuh — I’m not sure [inaudible].”

Reid: “Let me show you the — this is one of the reasons that people have this sort of thinking. Here’s the three cable networks reporting on this. Our banner said, ‘Soon Biden announces legal protections for undocumented spouses of citizens.’ CNN’s banner said, ‘Biden announces new protections for some undocumented spouses.’ Here’s FOX’s banner: ‘Migrant arrested for raping 13-year-old New York City girl.’” Jayapal: “(Laughs) Yes.” Reid: “So I think that’s part of the problem, right, is that you have a lot of fear-mongering.” Jayapal: “Exactly. And we know that when people have economic insecurity, when they’re facing high childcare costs, when they’re facing high housing costs, they are concerned for themselves. So anybody who comes into a space of that economic insecurity and says, ‘Hey, you know, why are these people getting something that you’re not getting,’ it does turn people against those people, whether they agree or don’t agree that they have — that they’re helping the country. I mean, the economics of immigration are absolutely — you can’t argue with it. You know, we have brought in so much money through immigration, and the surge in immigration has already brought in so much money and will continue to do so.” Reid: “Absolutely. Without migrants, our economy would collapse.” Jayapal: “That’s right.” Reid: “We would have a recession immediately.” Jayapal: “Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, congratulations. The head of the Progressive Caucus getting some progressive stuff done through the White House.”

BAIER: “You know, senator, this is an evolution. And I know you have been asked about this before, about past comments that you have made about Donald Trump. You said, ‘I’m a never Trump guy.’ ‘Never liked him’. ‘Terrible candidate.’ ‘Idiot if you voted for him.’ ‘Might be America’s Hitler.’ ‘Might be a cynical a-hole.’ ‘Cultural heroin.’ ‘Noxious and reprehensible.’ Those are things that the left is going to come after you and they’ll probably put in ads should you be chosen as the VP pick. How do you deal with them now?” Vance: “Yeah, well, I think the simple answer is, you have got to respect the American people enough to just level with them. Look, I was wrong about Donald Trump. I didn’t think he was going to be a good president, Bret. He was a great president. It’s one of the reasons why I’m working so hard to make sure he gets a second term. I think you should, when you are wrong about something, you should change your mind and be honest with people about that fact. And I actually think, again, whether this is running as his running mate or running and supporting him as a United States senator, Bret, I think it actually presents a real opportunity to talk to the American people, because a lot of people didn’t think Trump was going to be a good president and a lot of people were happy to be proven wrong. And I think it presents an opportunity for me to make the case to the American people that, look, we have two very different sets of results: four years of Joe Biden, four years of Donald Trump. We know the Trump record is one of success, the Biden record is one of failure. I came around to Donald Trump and I think that a lot of Americans will do the exact same thing.”

BREED: “I’d like to ask Mark a question. You were at the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club and couldn’t name any LGBT advisers to your campaign. You were at the debate last week and couldn’t name any drag queens on your own. I was wondering if you could — this is an opportunity to redeem yourself, and if you could name three LGBTQ advisors for your campaign and three drag queens in San Francisco.” FARRELL: “So, we’re not gonna — we’re not gonna revise the drag queen question from last week. But what I will say is, I am incredibly of the support that I have from our LGBTQ+ community here in the San Francisco.” MODERATOR: [inaudible] FARRELL: “Thank you. I have a member — a former member of the board of supervisors, Jeff Sheehy, who’s a close friend and supporter of my campaign. I have a member of my staff — two members of my staff from the queer community here in the city of San Francisco that I won’t dignify [inaudible] by actually naming exactly who they are. But what I will do is stand by my record in supporting our queer community here in the city of San Francisco. When I was a member of the board of supervisors, as a straight white male, I was the one who authored legislation to make sure that same sex couples that work for the city of San Francisco, they will be taxed by a federal government for their health care benefits before same sex-marriage was legalized. I was the one who authored the legislation to make sure the city of San Francisco reimbursed the same-sex couples, so they are treated equally in the eyes of San Francisco residents, equally in the eyes of San Francisco City Hall. I will stand by my record of that and I look forward to the continued support from our queer community throughout the city of San Francisco. Thank you for that question.” MODERATOR: “[inaudible]. Mr. Lurie, your turn.” LURIE: “I’ll give you a softball, mayor. Three nonprofits that you have cut because they weren’t performing well.” BREED: “I feel bad about it. I feel bad. I don’t — I don’t know if — I don’t wanna throw some of these organizations under the bus.” LURIE: “No names.” BREED: “I will just say, sadly, one of the organizations was involved in some issues at the Bay View Hunters Point community. Another one tragically had done some inappropriate things with family shelter. And then unfortunately, there was one program that didn’t necessarily spend money appropriately to provide the appropriate tutor programs. It’s more than three, but, you know, I, just — I don’t wanna do that to these organizations. And let me just — matter of fact, let me just say, since I got like 90 seconds, you know, we have a lot of nonprofit organizations doing a lot of important work, and sadly, some of them had made some tremendous mistakes. It wasn’t as easy just to walk away from an organization that was responsible. For example, one of our family shelters. They had staff that was responsible for overseeing this project, but they did some things inappropriately so — and we had to make some adjustments with another nonprofit that was in good standing to make a transition. It’s not as simple as you can stop something from happening and throw these people under the bus. They have employees, there’s work that needs to be done in those transitions. And there’s more than three that we’ve had to cut funding for, and, in fact, right now, many of them are very upset and they’re going to the budget hearings to protest to get their money back. But, you know, I can probably provide you a list of examples. I just don’t wanna do it right here today.” MODERATOR: “Thank you, mayor.”

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Biden: “We can both secure the border and provide a legal pathway to citizenship. But we have to acknowledge that the patience and goodwill of the American people is being tested by their fears at the border. They don’t understand a lot of it.”

LEMIRE: “To follow that question, we now head into a moment where, because of that divisiveness, it’s become a political issue. Like, vaccinations in particular have become a political issue where you have not just Donald Trump but other Republicans saying, ‘No, no, don’t take theCovid vaccine.’ We had other prominent figures saying, no, you should not take other vaccines as well, for other things that have become standard, that everyone has received for decades.’ So with this much of disinformation and anger and just flat out vaccine hesitancy, how nervous are you about our ability to handle the next pandemic, whatever it might be?” Fauci: “I’m very concerned about that, because the misinformation and disinformation about absolutely scientifically proven life-saving interventions, it’s astonishing to me that so many people, by political ideology, will make a decision that would actually endanger their lives. I mean, the facts are — and as a physician and a scientist, this is very painful to me — that if you look at red states versus blue states, because of people getting less vaccinated, because you’re a Republican versus a Democrat, there are more deaths and hospitalizations in red states versus blue states. That’s horrible that that happens, that people suffer and die because of misinformation that’s related to a political ideology.”

HAWLEY: “Dr. Garry, you were part of this propaganda effort. I mean, you are right at the center of it. It’s astounding. You wrote this piece, this ‘Nature’ magazine piece or whatever it was that we’ve heard testimony here today. ‘Nature Medicine,’ March 17th, 2020. We’ve heard testimony here today from other scientists on the panel that it’s basically an opinion piece. You said at the time, that definitively SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct, is not a laboratory construct. Of course, our own government key agencies have concluded otherwise. And on the basis of this, Dr. Fauci and others cited this — this piece and went out to use it to mobilize our own government to censor people who asked questions about it. People lost their jobs because of this. They lost their jobs, they lost their standing, they were kicked off Facebook, they were kicked off Twitter. Do you regret being part of this effort, this propaganda effort?” GARRY: “Sir, I — I was — I was simply just writing a paper about our scientific opinions about where this virus came from.” HAWLEY: “Oh, no, you weren’t. You said in an email that we now have, that you tried to withhold that the we have, February 2nd 2020, you wrote, ‘I really can’t think of a plausible, natural scenario where you can get from the bat virus, or one very similar to it, to this.’ I’m quoting you, ‘I just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature. It’s stunning.’ Of course, in the lab, it would be easy.”“ GARRY: “Of course. And I actually figured it out. That’s the whole point of that.” HAWLEY: “You figured it out. You — you wrote this while you were writing your propaganda piece, while you were writing the paper.” GARRY: “I wrote that somewhere around February 2nd.” HAWLEY: “Yeah, it was exactly February 2nd, and you’ve testified that you were writing your proximal origin paper in early February. So you’re saying that what? Did it come to you overnight?” GARRY: “There was new data that came —” HAWLEY: “Like a — a revelation from God.” GARRY: “No. [crosstalk]” HAWLEY: “Overnight, you concluded, I got it. I got it. I figured it out. I’ve figured it out. And now I can definitively rule out. It’s amazing. Is that what happened?” GARRY: “It’s just the scientific method —” HAWLEY: “Oh it’s just — oh it’s the scientific method that happened at lightning speed, and then was used to propagandize and lie to and shut down. As a scientist who’s supposed to follow facts, do you regret the fact that your work was used to censor your fellow scientists? It was used to censor ordinary Americans who ask questions about the virus. Do you — do you regret that?” GARRY: “Yeah. When — when you write a paper, I mean, you get it in the journal. We can’t control what happens after — [crosstalk]” HAWLEY: “Oh, I see. So you’re not responsible at all. This is — it’s amazing. Nobody who was involved in any of this is responsible. Never. They’re not responsible. People have lost their jobs.” GARRY: “Yeah.” HAWLEY: “People have lost probably their healthcare associated with their jobs. People have been run out of public, available and polite society. You can’t show your face because my gosh, you question —” GARRY: “Yeah.” HAWLEY: “— but you, you don’t have anything to do with it. Why have so many of your papers, your other papers been retracted or subjected to formal expressions of concern?” GARRY: “Yeah. Well —” HAWLEY: “Why is that?” GARRY: “— there — there’s a long story behind that. Those — those —” HAWLEY: “Four of them, right. I mean, you’ve — you’ve had in — in July 26th 2021, Virology retracted a paper of yours. Also in 2021, the Journal of General Virology retracted another of your papers. In March of 2022 an expression of concern was added by an editor of yet another journal to another of your papers. In April 4th of 2024 a third scientific paper of yours was retracted from the Journal of Medical Virology.” GARRY: “Yeah.” HAWLEY: “Is this normal?” GARRY: “Those papers didn’t come from my lab. But you know, I’m certainly helping —” HAWLEY: “They’re not yours?” GARRY: “They’re not mine. Yeah.” HAWLEY: “So — so your — your work is —” GARRY: “I’m on the paper but they did not come from my lab.” HAWLEY: “The work that — that God gave you and a flash of inspiration remains absolutely unimpeachable. Unimpeached.” GARRY: “We stand by that.” HAWLEY: “Do you stand by your — your assertion in your nature piece that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct? Could not be. [crosstalk]” GARRY: “We do. And that’s exactly the same —” HAWLEY: “Couldn’t possibly be.” GARRY: “— conclusion that the intelligence community came to.” HAWLEY: “Oh, no, that is a lie. Let’s stop right there. That is a lie. I have read the intelligence — the intelligence community did not come to that conclusion. Multiple intelligence community agents and components have concluded it was likely a lab leak. And they concluded that at the same time that you and your people were propagandizing the American public and using the channels and influence of the American government to censor ordinary Americans. That is the truth. I’m not going to sit here and allow you to lie any further.” GARRY: “I’m not —” HAWLEY: “Dr. Garry —” GARRY: “— I’m not lying, sir.” HAWLEY: “— you have disgracefully participated in shameful propaganda that has been one of the worst chapters in this country’s history with the government propagandizing its own people. And you know what? You may be right about the lab — I’m not a scientist, I don’t know. But what I do know is — what I do know is, it is wrong, it is wrong to censor and lie to the American public. It is wrong to withhold critical information from them. And it is wrong to countenance that and to say, ‘Oh, I just had nothing to do with it. Gee, I wish we could have done better.’ You should have done better, sir. You should have done better. And because you didn’t people have suffered. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.”

SCARBOROUGH: “Michael Steele, I disagree. They will have a chance. In fact, if you look at Donald Trump’s track record, and Donald Trump’s Republican Party, over the last seven years, they’re 0-7. So, yeah, maybe the Biden team’s gonna have to work harder, maybe the Democrats are gonna have to work harder. Maybe people who actually like American democracy will work harder, but they just have to work harder and get the word out that these people are lying. Not only is the RNC lying, but also mainstream media outlets are now all in on the lies.”

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