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This Memorial Day, as America approaches the 25th anniversary of 9-11, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation paid off the mortgages on 26 homes for Gold Star families and families of fallen first responders across 13 states. In tribute to the 343 FDNY firefighters lost on 9-11, Tunnel to Towers has committed to delivering 343 mortgage-free homes this year. Their courage. will never be forgotten. Join us. Donate $11 a month at T2T.org. We are here on the National Mall for the Great American State Fair ahead of America's 250th birthday. I'm Shannon Breen. Overseas, tensions over the straight are flaring again while here at home. Both parties are struggling to find some unity. But they're people that want to destroy our country. They hate our country. They hit our people. Socialism surging with big wins for the left in New York. Now questions about whether it's time for the current leadership to step aside. The old models do not work for people, and that includes in the Democratic Party. We'll talk with Democratic Congressman Jake Ockinclos. On the other side of the aisle, tensions between some top Republicans and the president. I'm not going to be bullied, and I'm trying to get answers for the American people. Public differences on top issues like... the Iran conflict and the Save America Act. We'll ask Senator Rick Scott about the riffs and where the off-ramps are. Then new U.S. strikes on Iran as Tehran continues to use drone attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and neighboring U.S. allies. What did the latest skirmishes mean for hopes for a lasting peace deal? Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations joins us live. Plus. As we head towards Independence Day, new polls show declining patriotism among some Americans, even as visitors here to see the FIFA World Cup celebrate our country. I came here and I absolutely love America. And we'll get a VIP tour of the highlights here at the Great American State Fair. It's about celebrating our exceptional history, honoring our God-given freedoms, and celebrating a love of country. All right now on Fox News Sunday.

Hello from Fox News in Washington live from the Great American State Fair on the National Mall. We are now less than a week away from America's 250th birthday. We will show you all the sights and sounds at the fair a little bit later in the show. But first, a Fox News Alerts. Venezuela's reeling from earthquakes and aftershocks that have devastated the capital of Caracas and other coastal communities. More than 68,000 people have been reported missing as rescuers race against time, finding survivors they hope buried under the rubble. Fox News correspondent Nate Foy is on the ground in Caracas with the latest hello, Nate. Hey, Shannon. The destruction and grief is difficult to put into words here in Venezuela. The death toll now over 1,400, and it is expected to increase. Behind me, you can see the devastation, and also the rescue and relief operations. So you see these workers who have taken over this entire city block, they're in charge of three buildings. And you can see on this whiteboard, Felicidos, 43. That's the number of dead bodies that they have pulled from this block. Again, three buildings, one of them right behind. me, I'll ask my photographer, Martin, to come back this way. You can see that there's an excavator with several workers looking for anybody who still might be alive in this 17-floor condo building that you can see. collapsed. We just spoke with a woman who has a family member who lived on the second floor. She has been here since the twin earthquakes and praying, hoping that some of these workers who you see can find her family member. There is devastation everywhere on the far side of this building. You can see another tower. It's essentially the same architecture design. It is damaged. You can see that it's a little bit slanted. And the rescue workers here tell us they're going to have to take that building down. as well because an aftershock of which there have been many could bring that down, which means that these workers that you see on top of that pile of debris are in a lot of danger as they try to save the people that they can so far more than three days into this disaster. The worst of it, though, Shannon, take a look at this, is in the Port City of La Guida. It's about a 30-minute drive from where we are. Much of the city is without power. Both rescue crews and normal Venezuelans are doing everything they can to find those trapped in the rubble. And as you mentioned, 68,900 people are still missing. Many of them are in this city. Grief is abundant, but some have experienced miracles, including this father who found his son and his family alive under the wreckage. miraculously, despite the collapse, the structure suffered, they remained alive. They could breathe. There was space to breathe. They were there. Well, the way they kept hydrated is truly terrible because they ended up hydrating themselves with their own fluids.

American rescue teams are here from California and Virginia. One of those teams pulled an infant baby from the rubble while work continues today. Now, the U.S. military is assisting the U.S. State Department in these relief operations. The State Department has provided $150 million in humanitarian aid. But as we mentioned, this happened on Wednesday night. So we're well past that 72-hour mark. So there is still hope, but it is dwindling, Shannon, that they can find more survivors trapped. under the rubble. Time is certainly of the essence. We'll send it back to you. It is just absolutely devastating. Nate Foy, thank you very much. And turning now to escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran as Tehran targets U.S. allies Bahrain and Kuwait with drones today. And after U.S. strikes on Iran overnight, in just a minute, we're going to bring in the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz. But first, we go to Fox News correspondent Alex Hogan at the White House. The latest from there. Hello, Alex. Hi, Shannon. The U.S. military carried out another round of strikes on Iran last night, hitting as many as 10 targets at the president's direction after Iran hit an oil tanker. President Trump posting on truth social, quote, earlier... United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites were violating the ceasefire agreement. Again, it was earlier on Saturday that Iran launched missiles and drones on U.S. military sites in Kuwait and Bahrain. Friday exchanges of fire after Tehran had fired drones at a commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz. Nobody saw it coming, and it hit a ship and did some damage. But you can't do that stuff. Senior Iranian official reacting riding the strait of Hormuz is governed by Iran, and if you do not learn the rules, the Iranian armed forces will teach them to you. Vice President JD Vance Online argued if they have disagreements about how the MOU is being applied, they can pick up the phone, but violence will be met with violence. A newly released Reagan Institute's summer survey of Americans taken at the end of May finds 54% approved of the U.S. military actions taken against Iran this year with 45% dissolution. proving. The cost of war putting new strain on the administration here in Washington. Another key priority for the president, the Save America Act, which would require voters to show proof of citizenship when registering. The Senate recessed on Wednesday for two weeks, which means this is once again back in limbo. Shannon. All right, Alex Hogan from the White House. Alex, thank you very much. Joining me now, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz. Ambassador, welcome back to Fox News Sunday. Thanks, Shannon. Okay, so to follow up on what Alex said there, citing that one senior Iranian official who's tweeting out the Strait of Hormuz is governed by Iran, if you do not learn the rules, the Iranian armed forces will teach them to you. We've got Iran's foreign minister saying that Iran is solely in control and responsible for the strait. And then you've got the IRGC saying you're not going to transit without coordination with them. So who is in control of the strait this morning? Well, Shannon, if the Iranian regime thinks for a second that President Trump is going to sit by, stand by, while Iran continues to attack international shipping without a response or our bases without a response, they're sadly mistaken. And they saw that loud and clear over the last few nights where we'll continue to militarily, if needed, take down their infrastructure that they're trying to use to illegally.

Do you have any real hopes that this is going to end any way other than militarily at this point? Well, you know, Shannon, President Trump is a president of peace. He will always give diplomacy a chance. He gave it a chance last year before Operation Midnight Hammer. He gave it a chance this year. Again, before we hit Iran militarily, and he's giving it a chance now. I would say in response to McCarthy's peace, the regime has never been under this level of pressure, and no president before President Trump so credibly put the military option on the table. So Iran, as Marco Rubio just said, Iran has a choice to make. It's going to be a responsible nation or it can continue down this path to absolute ruin. And don't think for a second that President Trump isn't going to leave every option on the table to achieve not just our aim, the entire world's aim that Iran never has a new. Okay. Ambassador Walsh, we appreciate your time. Thank you, sir. Okay. Thank you. Joining us now, GOP, Senator Rick Scott of Florida. He also sits on the Foreign Relations Committee. Senator, welcome back. I want to pick up there where we left off with the ambassador. Also in that National Review piece, Annie McCarthy writes this, the delusion that apocalyptic Iran can be dealt with as if it were governed by a normal regime that will come around any day now, if just given the kind of incentives that move normal regimes, maybe modern history's most predictable abject failure. Do we continue down that path? Is diplomacy worth it at this point? Well, First off, they've been killing us for 47 years. This president is, for the first one, has been stepped up and said this is going to end, and they're not going to have a nuclear weapon. Is it hard? Yeah, it's really hard. Is the president probably frustrated today that they haven't stopped? Yeah, he is. But I think we're doing the right thing. We're going to give them a chance. And if not, we're going to have to continue to bomb him. So this president is, he doesn't want to put troops in harm's way. He doesn't want to kill people. He has no interest in that. He's given them a chance. But if they don't, they're not going to have a nuclear weapon. They're not going to be able to continue to kill Americans. They're not going to continue to be able to support Hamas, the Houthis, and Hezbollah. So the president's on the right path. You don't know what the future is because you don't know what the regime's going to do. Well, and I know you've had some concerns you said about Qatar being part of the negotiating process here. Do you think that in any way that is impeding progress? Well, they're not our friend. I mean, Qatar has always been supportive of Iran. They still host Hamas. I mean, you'd love for the Qatar to be a legitimate partner to try for peace. But when you know somebody that year in and year out has been supporting Iran and host Hamas, I mean, come on, give you, you have to say, is that realistic? I mean, sure, I'd love for Qatar to change and not be a complete supporter of Iran in their regime.

All right, I want to talk about the tensions here back at home because you invited the president over to the Senate GOP lunch this week, which we understand, got a little heated behind closed doors. And there's this constant conversation about whether you can help him achieve his agenda when there are surprises coming sometimes from the White House. We'll put some of these up on the screen. Things that there are, some of your colleagues feel like are impeding their ability to give him what he wants. Things like delaying the Jay Clayton nomination to be DNI. you know, canceling the signing of the housing bill this week. So Punchball has this take on how this is all going down. They said this Friday, Trump's near obsession with the Save America Act has drastically frayed his relationship with Senate Republican leaders while preventing them from focusing on issues that will matter most to voters. Trump isn't helping his own case either. They argue he left the Capitol without having swayed additional GOP votes. So. Do you think the president will get behind what the House passed, that version of Save America Act, which is voter ID, proof of citizenship, or is he only going to insist on what has now been tried in the Senate, not gotten to 50 votes, which includes, you know, restrictions on mail and balloting, and includes things about trans athletes in sports, trans treatment for minors? Is he willing to compromise maybe on that House version? Well, first off, in election 24, Trump ran on securing the elections. I was just at the Republican convention yesterday in Florida. And everybody that came up to me said, when are you guys going to pass the Save America Act? When I gave my speech to the convention, the most biggest applause was Save America Act. So I think what we've got to do is what can we get done? and pass it. Now, the president, first off, the president's right. You know, we need to make sure no voter ID. We need to make sure you have got to be an American citizen. And where's the fraud? The fraud is in mailing ballots. Are there states that do it right? Yeah, Florida does it right. But there's states like California, there's still counting ballots in L.A. Mayors raised from June 2nd. I mean, it's fraud. It's like California has a plan that you'll keep counting until they win. So the president's right on these issues, and we've got to figure out how do we get there? The president is not doing this because it's just his idea. He's listened to what the American public is saying, go to the conventions around this country. They want, and by the way, it's not just Republicans. Democrats want secure elections. It depends on secure elections. I can tell you, my state, it was the biggest issue in my speech yesterday. That's where I got the biggest applause. Pass the Save America Act. So the question becomes then, how do you get it done? We know the legislative filibuster is not going away. The votes aren't there. We discussed this with Senator Lee last week, this idea about the talking filibuster, which could shut down the Senate for months with no guarantee that you get to those votes at the end. Or, you know, get this thing across the finish line. Are you giving the president false hope about what the Senate can actually do?

Well, I invited him to the conservative lunch on Wednesday. And I went before I started, I went through and talked about, here's a guy, President Trump has gone through hell. I mean, they've tried to kill him. They put him in prison, try to bankrupt him. I mean, they've done everything to him and his family you can imagine. And I went through the issues. I went through where are we on the filibuster, where we are on Save America Act, where are we on the fact that the Democrats want to shut down government on October 1? But guess what? We have to figure this out. The public is demanding this. So I'm clear. I met with the president again on Thursday. I went to the White House and met with him again to try to figure out how to get this done. Guess what? The Civil Rights Act was blocked by Democrats back in the 60s. They did the talking filibuster and got it passed. The public wants this. We have got to figure this out. I mean, there's definitely the polling there for things like voter ID. And as you said, I mean, that's something that goes across party lines ideologically. I mean, Americans want that to count. But is there a realistic way to tell them that this gets across the finish line with the additions to the voter ID and proof of citizenship? Is it something you're willing to do to shut down the Senate floor? You know, Senate Majority John Thune says it has enormous risks if you even try that with no guarantee of a win. Well, there's never a guarantee, but you fight every day. I mean, I'm a business guy. I mean, there was never a guarantee that I was going to get a deal done or be able to buy a company or build a company, all these things. You fight every day. You stay up there weekends. You work five days a week. You do all these things to try to get this done. Is it hard? Yeah. But that's what our voters are going to stop there to do. Go fight for what we believe in. I mean, people want a secure election. It is ridiculous what's going on in California. Your vote is clearly being diluted. Right. And you're right. So you're not being governed by the people. You're being governed by fraud. And so we have got to do it. And we also have to fight. We got to keep government open. Democrats are going to shut down government October 1. What are we going to do about it? We need to figure that out now and get started. Yes. Okay, well, listen, we like any point of bipartisanship, and we know that there is agreement on that voter ID portion of this, so we'll see if that can get across the finish line. But, Senator, please keep us updated, and we welcome you to be here with us on weekends in Washington. Thank you, sir. All right. Bye, Shannon. Okay, a challenging week for Democrats, too, as far-left candidates score big wins. We're going to ask Democratic Congressman Jake Ockin-Klaus about whether socialism is the party's future. And when we return, live from the Great American State Fair, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look here in the nation's capital. I think it's fabulous. I've met so many nice people from all over the country. It's a great big birthday party. You know, it's family-friendly. It's wonderful celebration.

Have you ever stopped and thought about what's actually powering your day, the coffee you made this morning, the drive you took to get here, even the device you're listening on it? I'm Tanner Faust, and that's exactly the kind of thing we're going to talk about on the energy tailgate, a podcast from Chevron. I'll be your host inviting guests to discuss big energy topics and what they mean for everyday life, all from the tailgate of our truck. This is the energy tailgate. Now to Democracy 26 and the fallout for Democrats after a sweep by self-described socialists in New York City and some key primaries there on Tuesday. Fox News correspondent Lucas Tomlinson joins us on the National Mall right here at the Great American State Fair. It's a rainy day. Lucas, what have you got for us? Shannon, President Trump says the Democratic Socialists of America want to destroy the American way of life. Some Democrats say they welcome them into their ranks. And in this moment of great extremism, it's an all-hands-on-deck approach. There are nominees. We're going to support them. We're going to welcome them. They're going to be part of our caucus, and we're going to unite behind their Hakeem Jeffries. I think it's important that we focus on who's leading the party, not on a few folks here and there. Last week, all three candidates backed by New York's Democratic Socialist Mayor Zeron Zohran Mamdani won their primary races. Dan Goldman, a Jewish congressman, and aired the Levi Strauss fortune was among those defeated. A group of 10 House Democrats have signed a pledge to promote more moderate policies to rebuke the party's progressive wing. And at least one Democratic senator thinks changes are necessary. I'm a big believer in just new leadership. significant change. The old models do not work for people, and that includes in the Democratic Party. House Speaker Mike Johnson, other Republicans warn of the rising socialist influence within the Democratic Party. There are many Zohran Mamdani's popping up all around the country. It is a dangerous thing. This is not a joke. We're in a fight right now to save the Republic. The Bolsheviks are in charge of his party, and they're stone-cold crazy. Well, I think, Liz, it's not Republicans versus Democrats. This is going to be common sense versus crazy because if anybody knows anything about economics, communism has never worked. Socialism has never worked. The next test for the Democratic Socialists will be in Colorado on Tuesday where Mellat Kiroos is running in a primary in the first district. She supports abolishing ICE, Medicare for All and ending all U.S. aid to Israel. Shannon? And we will have full coverage of that race. Lucas Tomlinson on the National Mall. Lucas, thank you. Joining us now is Democratic Congressman Jake Ockin-Klaas. Welcome back to the show, sir. It's always good to be with you. Okay, I want to talk about, you know, this sweep of what happened in New York City and one of the folks who may become your colleague, a Democratic House colleague for you, Daray Laza of Avala Chivalier, Senator John Fetterman talked about her and said this. She described America as a bleeping disgrace. She posted bleep Kamala Harris and posted that she forgot napkins.

So she just wiped her hands on the American flag. She wants to abolish the border, abolish prisons. That is a deeply disturbed individual. He says the party's becoming a, quote, orgy of socialism. Never mind if it's good for your party. Is that good for America? Should she become a member of Congress? I don't agree with those views, obviously. I served this country in uniform. I grew up standing with the portraits of the founding fathers on my bedroom wall. I love America. And I think there's two big themes at play here. First of all... Republicans, as you played earlier, have been calling Democrats socialists since the 1930s when FDR introduced Social Security. And now Social Security is the most popular program in America. So not a whole lot of credibility on their side as Democrats work to create a strong floor with no ceiling in American economic life. Number two is voters are angry. But you know they're calling themselves now. They're calling themselves socialist. And their definition of that is different. It's abolishing ICE. It's abolishing borders and prisons. I mean... that's their self-description, not a label that a Republican is putting on them. And it's descriptions that I don't agree with, right? Democrats need to be surging resources, for example, to raise clearance rates for law enforcement as they're tackling murder and other capital offenses. We need strong border security measures. But what I think we're seeing here is that voters are fed up with the status quo. And that anger against the status quo is going to manifest differently in different districts. Obviously, in a deep blue set of districts, like in New York City, it's going to look like these candidates. It's also going to look like Kate Conley in the Hudson River Valley, where Kate Connolly, one of the first women to lead special operations into combat. And she is running to seize the patriotic center. Nancy LeCore in South Carolina, who was fired without cause by Pete Hegseth. She's going to win that seat in South Carolina. She's inviting Republicans into the fold for conversations about how to deliver a new American dream.

Okay, I want to point to a little bit of polling that we have here. Our latest on socialism shows that, you know, when you ask, should the U.S. move away from capitalism and more towards socialism? Is that a good thing? Democrats said 55%, a majority of them, we should be moving away from capitalism and towards socialism. Democrats under age 45, which I note is your group, 66% say it is a good thing to abandon capitalism and move towards socialism. Your house colleague, Josh Gottheimer, says, listen, people are describing themselves as this Democrat socialist. They don't belong in our party. He said they're trying to co-opt your party. They should go do their own thing. But what did those polling numbers say to you about where your party's going, especially the younger ones? Yeah. You know, I've been reading biographies of Ben Franklin and other founding fathers to my son for the 250th. And Ben Franklin had this great quotation. He said, words like eyeglasses blur all that they do not make more clear. And I find that these words are blurring. What's actually happening here is that the baby boomers have about $110 trillion of wealth. And the millennials and the Gen Zers got TikTok in exchange. And that was a bad deal. And so I think young people are just mad. They're mad that they can't afford a home. They're mad that they don't think that Social Security is going to be there for them. And so instead of getting all wrestled up with labels, I think Democrats... need to say, we are going to deliver a new American dream for you, an excellent education by the time you're 18 years old, a home of your own by the time you're 30, and a dignified retirement by the time you're 65. And here are the policies that slot into those three promises to help deliver, everything from a cure for Alzheimer's to down payment assistance and housing abundance policies. But we will deliver behind that governing agenda instead of kind of debating the merits of these different ideological labels. Well, one of the ideological problems is something we know as anti-Semitism. And you've talked about actually experiencing that in your own life. So the concern becomes then when you have people within your party who are saying Israel doesn't have an right to exist, that they would vote for Hamas over Israel. I mean, there are issues of aid to Israel. And those continuing conversations are a relationship with them coming up. How do you respond to this vibe of anti-Semitism from within your own party? I reject it. I reject the mushroom ring of anti-Semitism within the Democratic Party, which is a problem. I reject it within the Republican Party, where it is a problem. You saw Thomas Massie run ads with a star of David behind his opponent. You see Brandon Herrera in Texas, wallowing in Nazi iconography. It's a huge issue on both sides. We have to condemn it on both sides, and I've done that clearly and unequivocally for the last five years. We also have to look at the fundamental drivers of anti-Semitism, which I believe is social media. In general, scapegoating of Jews happens in failed societies. It happens when the pathologies of the moment are turned against the other. And right now, we're seeing anti-Semitism mushroom on social media because it's a failed society. There's no norms. There's toxicity. And we have to hold meta and TikTok and Insta and Snap and the rest of them accountable for the corrosion that they are platforming.

Well, I want to ask you quickly about Graham Platner because there's been a lot of conversation about him, the Nazi tattoo. You said that in his conversation around. It was also for you personally disqualifying. You were one of the first Democrats to kind of raise the red flags about him months ago. But he's now won his primary. I know you don't want Susan Collins to return to the U.S. Senate either. But what is your message to main voters? We've got a list of allegations. Some of this that, you know, Graham Platner has admitted to that we're going to put up on the screen. It's deep. It's extensive. I mean, is your message? message to main voters just kind of hold your nose and vote for this guy and he now is, you know, someone welcoming your party? I've been clear where I stand on Graham Platner. I've been clear where I stand on Susan Collins. I'm going to spend my time and resources this cycle behind House and Senate candidates who inspire me. People like Josh Turrick and Iowa, people like James Talarico in Texas, people like Sam Forstag and Montana. These are people who... I think, can seize the patriotic center that is being left open by the horseshoeing of American politics and who can help me deliver this new American dream that I'm so passionate about. And I think will resonate with younger voters who are so disenfranchised with the status quo. Well, Congressman, we thank you for being with us today and more importantly for your service. That covers a lot of this free speech and a lot of these big issues and love to hear that you're reading those stories to your son. So happy 250. It's all of us. Thanks for your time. Happy 250. Coming up, a live update on tensions in the Middle East. We're going to take you there with Trey Yanks. But first, it's not just the Democrats having disagreements. So as we told you, the grand old party's got its share too. So more on that with the panel up next. Right here live from the Great American State Fair on the National Mall.

Cheers to America's 250th birthday. Get 20% off your first purchase at Fox Newswineshop.com with code FN Radio 20. 20% discount excludes wine club offers and cannot be combined with any other promotion. Expires July 31st, 2026. Must be 21 older to order. Please drink responsibly. Hakeem Jeffries, my counterpart, you know, the Democrat leader here in the House, was booed at some of these return parties last night. He has just proven that he cannot even hold the line in his own backyard. How can he possibly defend against the Marxist march around the country in these other districts? House Speaker Mike Johnson on the reality that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is now facing after big wins by far-left candidates who may not even support Mr. Hakeem Jeffries in a bid to become Speaker of Democrats retake the House. It is time now to talk with our Sunday group about it. Francesca Chambers, White House correspondent for USA today. Roger Zakheim, director of the Ronald Reagan Institute. And senior Fox News political analyst Juan Williams, great to have all of you with us this morning. Okay, so, you know, we saw this chanting against your next with the minority leader in the House. And then we get this tweet from him yesterday. Congratulations to our newest members of the NYC congressional delegation. He says, you've all taken different paths, but we have the same work to do. And Francesca, a lot of folks think, you know, he's embracing now. He's got to. These people will probably join his caucus, but they may not even like him or vote for him. Well, and you've seen in the last week, Republicans, as I think you were just referencing there with House Speaker Mike Johnson, but also President Donald Trump, really sees on this message that they're not Democratic socialists, which they say that they are, calling them communists and said. Instead, we saw President Donald Trump actually start to message test on this on Friday when he was at the Faith and Freedom Coalition gathering, saying that, you know, communism is easy to sell, the president said. But then he said two to three years down the line, the problem. is, you know, you'll be living in squalor and in a third world country. So I thought that the comments were really interesting because it was a departure from what we'd heard the president be saying a lot in his speeches and in the Oval Office more recently. So Republicans really rallying around this, Shannon, as they try to find an effective message against Democrats moving forward in the middle. Yeah, and a lot of them think the Democrats are giving them the messaging. If you are out there supporting things like abolishing borders and abolishing ICE and those kinds of things don't play in. Middle America might work in New York City, but we've got this promise to America pledge. Lucas touched on this. You've got a number of Democrat lawmakers and Democrat candidates, and they've signed on to this saying, we are capitalist, not socialist. We want safety, not lawlessness. We are mainstream. We are proud. Not ashamed of America. And you heard, you know, Congressman Ockin-Klaas distancing from this stuff, too. But now there's got to be a messaging fight within the party itself. I don't think there's so much a messaging fight as there is a... coalition of people under Zohran Mamdani at the moment who's had great success, saying, you know what, we think the establishment in this country, including some of the establishment Democrats, have failed us in terms of responding to President Trump, who they see as the extremists. And right now, I think this entire moment is all about the panic inside the Republican Party as we approach the midterms, because midterms are usually determined the outcomes determined by...

It's like a referendum on the president. And right now in Fox polls, the president is at a record high in terms of disapproval, like 61%. And so there's a sense that the Republicans have to find an effective message. They can't go with affordability. They can't go with the war, which is an unpopular war. They can't go with inflation, which rose this week. So they're looking, and this gets back to what Francesco was saying. The president is literally calling. These people, communist animals. These people are cancers on the American society. The truth of it is that you have some very extremist Democrats, much as you have, you know, far-right people in the Republican Party. But do they define the Democrats? I look towards the, you know, Chuck Schumer, Jeffers. I look towards Harris, who ran for president. I look for Gavin Newsom, the governors, Wes Moore in Maryland. I look at J.B. Pritzker in Illinois. I just don't see it. It looks to me like the Democrats are moderates. But are they going to be run out of town? I mean, you've got Senator Slackkin saying it's time for some big changes here. I mean, are these new candidates a gift to the Republicans in this year? I think it would be a huge mistake, Juan, for the lesson of Democrats what happened this past week to say, oh, it's about President Trump. Literally, the Democratic Party is about to be overturned from within. Democratic socialists are saying, hey, we can win and we can take over the party. And to somehow suggest that this is also kind of... equally a problem on the Republican side. The same week the Democratic Socialists had these wins, unprecedented wins in New York City, Tucker Carlson, representative of the part of the nativist, isolationist, Republican element, says he's leaving the Republican Party. So President Trump right now has consolidated his brand of MAGA, which is not Tucker Carlson this week, at the same moment that the Democratic leadership has lost control entirely. And if they don't focus on what's happening within, they're going to lose the party. That is what happened this week. It really has very little to do with President Trump. In fact, I would say it's a result of Democrats focusing everything through the lens of President Trump, everything about the derangement syndrome that they kept their eye off the ball. And Democrats now see them being taken over by people, whether you call them communists, socialist or democratic socialist, it's ruled by anti-Semitism, isolationism, anti-Israel. It's foreign policy issues that have nothing to do with everyday Americans and they're winning. All right, well, we're going to have to leave it there because we're out of time, but we have a lot more to talk about, and we've got this, a special behind-the-scenes tour of this special place. As we stand on the edge of our 250th year of independence, I am thrilled to declare that America is back.

That was President Trump ushering in the Great American State Fair this week. We got a VIP look around the entire 10 blocks here on the National Mall with one of the key organizers. This is it, the Great American State Fair, and one of the women responsible for making this happen, Ambassador Monica Crowley. Welcome to the Great American State Fair. Shannon, we welcome you. We welcome all Americans, international visitors. We've got all 50 states and six territories represented here. And as you can see, a once-in-a-lifetime ferris wheel right in the middle of the National Mall. In addition to that, the fair showcases special areas devoted to the American Heartland, Faith and Family, American Innovation. Live musical performances, synchronized flyovers, and much more. The president's vision was to have a real world's fair environment here so that everybody could come and enjoy great food and traditional blue-rhythm competitions. You may live in one state and never have visited another state. This is your opportunity to get a taste of that state. I do recommend Florida in particular. When you walk in, you will smell oranges. I've heard. I can't wait to go check it out myself. Spoken like somebody who was Miss Florida last century. It's true. I did get to smell the lovely orange. of Florida citrus and even practice my pudding. If you're a big World Cup fan, you can watch the big matches on a giant screen. So you guys are also capturing the craze that's spreading across the country. In addition to 250 is the FIFA World Cup. Such a privilege for us to host. And people can take part in that right here in Washington. Here we've got the FIFA fan zone, which is hugely popular for every single match. We get thousands of people coming out to the National Mall watching each and every match on that giant screen that you see there. And there's a great sense of community that comes. with all of this. Some of America's most advanced and innovative companies have cutting-edge demonstrations, including aerospace giant Northrop Grumman's Sky Tunnel.

While General Electric Aerospace is showing off one of its gigantic airplane engines. So this is a GE-9X engine. It's the world's largest jet engine. You can even see a real-life rodeo in the heart of the nation's capital. Between those wild birds and three nations. This also leads up to some amazing July 4th celebrations. We are going to experience a tremendous gathering of the American people and really the world right here on the National Mall on July 4th for a massive salute to America. And because it is President Trump, he has promised the greatest and biggest fireworks display in the history of the world. So the fair is open to visitors through July 10th. There is much more information at Freedom250.org. That's Freedom 250.org. Next week, we will be back here with a wrap up of the salute to America Bash as we officially celebrate our independence with a massive party here on the National Mall next weekend. When we return, a multi-billion dollar fraud bust and wait until you hear how some of your tax dollars were being spent.

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I think they should embrace this. It's a great moment for the country. People should read Peggy Noon in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend. She was talking about how we could see the greatness of America reflected through the eyes of the eyes of the millions of visitors from around the world. They're like millions of de Tocqueville's who famously wrote about America and democracy back in the 1830s. We're having that moment again. And sometimes it takes a foreigner's eyes to appreciate how good we have it in this country and how great the American people are. We should all embrace it. Yes, this piece in the Washington Post does say sometimes it takes outsiders seeing us with fresh eyes to recognize. remind us of who we are and what we have. And they go on to say, we're still this place where people will get onto a rickety raft and go through shark-infested waters to try to get here, Juan. Well, you know, it's Huck Finn. It's why we love America. You can create yourself, have adventures in America. World Cup has been a tremendous success because I think it's been a unifying event. It's all over the country. You know, you can go to a stadium in Kansas City and watch World Cup, and I think it brings the world home. To me, it's about the fans picking up on Roger's statement. It's about people coming here and reflecting the greatness of America. I will say this. It's not about Trump. And I think people who are suggesting that it's Trump, Trump, no, no, this is about America. And, you know, it doesn't matter who the president is. Well, it seems to be executing well. People seem to be having a good time. So as we're looking at the rest of the world, looking at us and seeing America in a different light, the Reagan Institute has got a summer survey that asked these questions about U.S. leadership. And one of them is about U.S. engagement and taking the lead in international events. 61% said that the U.S. should be more engaged in doing that. 27% said less engaged. What do we take from that question, Roger? Well, it shows that this notion of isolationism, which has pockets within the Republican Party. see on the socialist side or democratic social side, the Democratic Party is a marginal element in our national politics. And if you take one level deeper than that, you look at what kind of engagement they want in the world, it's remarkable. Republicans and Democrats agree that they want peace through strength. They want to advance human rights and democracy in the world. And they want to see us trading with the world. Those are the elements the tune of eight out of ten. So these factions on the far right and far life are not representative where the American people are. That's what the survey shows. Yeah, and it shows, like you said, a lot of coalescing around common goods and common ideas that we as Americans, regardless the party, should be able to support. So, okay, panel, thank you very much. We'll see you next Sunday. Up next, we're going to take you back live to Tray Yinks with some breaking details on those growing tensions in the Middle East. Where things stand with the straight when we return, live from the National Mall.

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