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>> many walk off the stage with your diploma and your commission you will be officers in the united states navy and united states marine corp. that's an incredible thing. you will be leaders of men and women of our armed forces. >> bill: with the reverb, here, you hear it twice. that continues there. tomorrow a reminder the president has a big speech at west point up the road here. jackui, great to be with you. have a great weekend. we'll talk to you soon. all right? to all our viewers at home. enjoy your memorial weekend with -- family and friends. >> harris: president trump is dismantling illegal immigration with a new move in arizona. ice agents are arresting illegal aliens at court hearings and fast tracking them for deportation. there are millions of illegal aliens who crossed our border under the last administration
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and there is a ramp up now to get them out. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." president trump has faced opposition to his orders at every turn to even the playing field and keep in the people who are here, the american citizens and those immigrants who have done it right, and put everybody else. if you want to self-deport go to the back of the line and try to get back in. if you don't go and hear illegally and in court facing anything else, you have to go. just this week more lawfare against trump. federal judge said the trump administration violated a court order when he put eight convicted criminal illegal immigrants on a flight to south sudan. those people were convicted on charges including murder, sexual assault, robbery, some had deportation orders going back as far as 1999. senior ice and dhs sources reacted to the order. one said quote, we got bleeped. another it's not even in the gray. these people are convicted
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high-threat individuals with final deportation orders and every day there is another attack on what we are trying to do. it is outrageous. here is senator eric schmidt in "focus" yesterday. >> at the end of the day president trump is going to be successful of his goal of deporting the worst of the worst and more. mass migration needs to be met with mass deportations. that's what we should be doing. if you've been convicted of a felony or part of a terrorist organization, part of a gang, guess what? we'll identify you and you are gone. >> harris: despite all of that resistance, president trump is still pushing through his border agenda. since returning to office january 20th this year, trump has signed more than 180 executive actions specifically on illegal immigration. mark meredith at the white house. mark. >> good morning to you. the white house says one of the big reasons that president trump was sent back to washington by voters is because of his repeated pledge to curb illegal
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immigration. the white house says that means they have to get creative and that it also means they are trying ott new different ways they want the make sure they don't conduct business as usual. fox learned there is a new ice initiative underway to arrest migrants at immigration and asylum hearings. we're told the focus will be on people who have been in the u.s. less than two years. to speed up the process instead of letting cases languish in the courts for years. we heard from a dhs spokesperson who said the secretary is reversing biden's catch and release policy that allowed millions of unvetted illegal aliens to be let loose on american streets. this administration is once again implementing the rule of law. but critics say this is all an attempt to save face as multiple federal judges have blocked some of the president's more forceful and public deportation efforts. >> these guys just want to prove they're tough and they think that brings some value. we're not being made safer by this. there are people that want to come out of the shadows and want
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to do the right things. this administration is trying to push them further and further away. >> recently former vice presidential candidate and current minnesota governor tim walz said trump is undermining the rule of law and using a modern-day gestapo to carry out immigration enforcement. the white house says it's democrats who are out of touch. >> president trump promised to get vicious illegal alien murderers rapist and pedestrian piles out of our country and trying to deliver on this promise. bill: the president ha outspoken about his views of some of these efforts that curbed some of these programs to cut back on illegal immigration. we'll see if the president responds. he has one event this afternoon before heading out to new jersey for the weekend. harris. >> harris: mark, thank you very much. jason chaffetz, fox news contributor, former republican congressman of utah, also former chairman. oversight committee. talk to me about this move. legally the president is doing
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everything in his toolkit now and politically liberals are doing everything to stop him. >> president trump has the mandate and he is implementing that mandate. shame on these democrats to go out -- senator knows better. first they are here illegally and committed crimes. they aren't trying to make their lives better and do something productive in society. they are committing crimes. they are heinous crimes. murder, duis, sexual assaults, rapes of children. and he is out there saying just trying to get out of the shadows. then you have supposedly from the democrats the vice presidential nominee, the governor of minnesota, going out there and trying to compare ice to the gestapo? that is such an offense to the millions of jews who were slaughtered and killed. it is outrageous. it is so fundamentally wrong. show me a democrat who will step
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up to the line and say you are here illegally, you commit a crime, you are getting deported. they won't say it because they don't believe it. that's what is so fundamentally wrong. all we are trying to do is protect victims and make our communities safer and better. and they have to fight against that? that's a fight i want to have. that's a fight worth winning. >> harris: when you just said that and of course we've run that videotape on what was said comparing by, you know, the former vice presidential candidate walz, we've run it but when you take what happened now in this country against a jewish couple and you couple that with a man who wanted to be vice president calling ice agents the gestapo, the nazi secret service that was part of pushing forth the holocaust, that's a special kind of stupid and potentially dangerous. >> it is so fundamentally wrong.
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it just to the core of american values. that is -- it is so offensive to the jewish community who have relatives in that category. these people were murdering. literally taking them and putting them in slaughterhouses, using them for medical extermination and medical experiments and gassing them to death and that's what you will say about your local law enforcement that works there in minnesota and across this country? they put their lives on the line every day to protect america. not kill people. >> harris: all right. le let's move to this video. hannah dugan, allegedly helping an illegal immigrant evade ice agents. the judge talks to federal agents reportedly there to arrest and illegal immigrant facing domestic battery charges. now the individual know shows what she says didn't happen. doesn't it look like she is helping that man go? that's a private area from the
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public right off the bench there in the courtroom. and then now they are in the hallway and because he went out into a more public space, federal agents were waiting and able to pick him up. this is unbelievable, jason. she appears to have lied and there are receipts. >> roll the tape. i'm glad they are prosecuting her. i hope she gets a maximum sentence. i think she should be disbarred. i think she should lose her job. all the above if those allegations are true. if what we're seeing before our very eyes. but it certainly looks like it. i'm glad they are prosecuting this. >> harris: how far do you think this goes? you know ice agents now are going to some of these detention hearings for illegal aliens who are here committing further crimes outside of just breaking the initial one at the border. you know that is the new move by president trump. so are more liberal judges going to stand in the way and pick
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illegals over us the american citizens? >> first of all, if they do there is videotapes everywhere. what i like about what president trump and the administration kristi noem is doing with ice and ero is that they are actually going out there and they are doing this and they've got a new tactic. it seems to be working. it was first implemented in california. i still don't understand why we have sanctuary cities, counties and states. but when you do, i do think that there is the federal supremacy and they've got the right to do law enforcement and it doesn't mean you are excluded from going to courthouses and churches. you have to be able to do your job and i think they are doing it responsibly. >> harris: i didn't realize how many sanctuary portlands we have. trump will break that up. a big win for the president on the hill this week. the house passed that big,
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beautiful bill. we know that. now it goes to the senate. the senate will take up the legislation to enact large pieces of the president's domestic agenda. it funds the doubling of ice personnel to 10,000. expands detention capacity and imposes a $1,000 asylum fee. the bill also extends the president's 2017 tax cuts. hugely important for the economy. it raises the cap on state and local tax deductions. salt, not everybody likes that on the right side of the aisle. but some did in these blue states. republicans in the blue states got some movement on that. all raises the debt ceiling. office management and budget director russell vogt was on with me yesterday. >> i think that the storyline with regard to the spending reductions is historic. we think this is a major step forward to get us on the road to balance. why? because it gets us out of fiscal futility where we have been unable to pass anything like
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this for decades. >> harris: your reaction. >> russell vogt is right. there is nobody that has ever put together a presentation or budget that balances in the first year. so a lot of credit to president trump who is using his political c capital with members of congress. it is not exactly the bill i would do but there is so much more positive than negative in this bill. i think it will be different. i think the senate will offer some amendments. i think salt is probably right near the top. why that was expanded to $40,000 personally i think it should be zero. but i understand the need to -- personally. i don't think the people in the inner mountain west need to supplement the irresponsibility of new yorkers in their overspending. i don't want to do that.
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>> harris: i don't want to loose this moment. this gives them negotiating wiggle room. sources told me it might balloon to 20,000. by going to a bigger number the senate knows it was a big objective finding more spending cuts. all this gives people more room. the minute you said it i thought wait, maybe there is a reason for that number. >> well, this is where president donald trump is the best negotiator we have ever seen in this country. and no doubt this is part of the calculus. so hard and difficult to get to 215, which the president did with speaker johnson in the house. but we'll see what the senate dogs. i think there are people like senator lee and rand paul and senator johnson want to see more cutting and more implementation of doge findings codified into the law and those are offended by expanding the salt deductions.
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but again that's what the senate is there for. part of the natural process. they are ahead of schedule and they are moving in a trajectory. again, let's not lose sight of the big thing, which is making sure the tax cuts are permanent and all those other huge benefits. but they are 95% of the way there. somehow i think they will figure out the last 5%. >> president trump: have youers have come up to me in the last 24 hours. tax on tips. president trump meant it. that's in the bill that the senate gets to look at. so many different things. jason, thank you very much for your time. it could be -- it could be another covid cover-up. not the laboratory leak this time, but the actual vaccine. why one gop senator is accusing the biden administration of delaying public warnings about the risks of the covid shots. and what the fda plans to do about it now. plus the chronic health crisis among our children. hhs secretary robert f. kennedy,
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jr. releasing a report on how to make america healthy again. >> we're eating horrible processed foods. we're putting sugar and carbs in our body at ridiculous rates. it is time we stand up and start solving problems in a common sense approach. >> harris: what the president says he wants to do is to help americans live longer with this fda commissioner dr. marty makary in "focus" next. like my coffee...ings pe, ...so when my doctor prescribed vyvgart hytrulo self-injection for my generalized myasthenia gravis... ...we personalized my treatment goals. vyvgart hytrulo can improve daily abilities and reduce muscle weakness. it's my treatment, my way. vyvgart hytrulo for weekend away steve! ♪ it's travel-ready and can go where i go. self-injection fits my plans. do not use vyvgart hytrulo if you're allergic to its ingredients. it may increase infection risk
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>> harris: friends, family and community members morning the killings of two israeli embassy staff members shot outside the capital jewish museum in washington, d.c. wednesday night. 30-year-old joran lischinsky and 28-year-old sarah milgrim. they were about to be engaged. he has already bought a ring. a 31-year-old chicago man is charged with first degree murder. here is the assistant director of the f.b.i. field office. >> there was nothing in criminal records or in our holdings that indicated that this person was previously known to us or would have popped on our radar ompd's raid orr. we are continuing to investigate
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and contact the subject's associates, family members and co-workers. >> harris: anti-semitic incidents at their highest level in 46 years. nearly 10,000 incidents reported last year, up five percent firs from 2023. more than 300% over the last five years and nearly 900% over the past ten years. that's unfathomable. a study found jewish schools are paying an average of -- they are shelling out cash to keep jewish young people on campuses safe. i found the average cost for the 2022, 2023 school year was 184,000. that means it is up 84% in just two years. in "focus" now ari fleischer fox news contributor and former white house press secretary.
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ari, this is not a shocker in the sense we could see this coming like a train down the tracks with a huge light on it. >> oh my gosh. every time i saw those idiots protesting on campus singing from the river to the sea palestine will be free. globalize the intifada. what do you think it means? bring violence to the shores of america to the world. the intifada took place in the west bank and inside of israel purposely killing civilians, blowing people up inside pizza parlors. people strapping bombs to themselves to commit homicide bombings. that's what the intifada was. these people on college campuses in america are chanting for bringing that here, globalize it? that's exactly what happened in washington. every one of those protestors on every campus played a role in making it possible for this
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deprived man to go to washington and kill two innocent jews. >> harris: wow. the complicity comes in part because it is not discouraged. president trump and his administration come in and they are trying to deal with this but it is on fire right now because it is pure hate. i argue, ari, you can't change people's hearts and if you do, it is going to take a lot of time. so the president is attacking it from all angles. >> you can't change people's hearts but you can change their immigration status. this is where i salute to trump administration for taking this seriously from the beginning. recognizing it was anti-semitism. recognizing it could lead to violence and further recognizing most colleges were doing nothing about it. in the spring of dump cam in and
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we have very few encampments in 2025. he is making a difference but the spark got started last year and because college administrations really let it go and let it go, the very fact that the perpetrator of these murders chanted again as if he was in a protest march, free, free, palestine. he had a cadeance to it as if the audience was supposed to rise with them. these people created this environment and i'm glad we have an administration crank down on it. all americans need to crack down on it. it is dangerous to be jewish in america today. i hope people realize that across all faith communities and all lives. >> harris: it is at the heart of this future of the country. targeted on the next generation a lot. i don't miss that as an incidental thing. it sounds like a strategy by people who want to kill.
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i want to get to this. rather than putting more energy some of these ivy league colleges and tamping it down. harvard is going after the trump administration over its ban on enrolling foreign students. this is the next level that the president has taken to. he said yesterday he issued a ban that was prompted by harvard's handling of anti-semitism on campus, or not handling it. the university indicated that it would be filing a request for a temporary restraining order asking a judge to block the ban. earlier this week the department of health and human services announced it is canceling $60 million of grants for harvard. this brings the total of government grants meant for harvard that have been frozen or canceled to nearly $3 billion since president trump took office. look, he is doing what he can. they are not focused on -- have you seen any reports of harvard is realln now and they will fight for the kids on campus? no, the trump
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administration. >> isn't that right? two things jump out at me. number one, why do they have so many foreign students on campus in the first place? the reason is because they pay full tuition. in order for harvard to practice its redistribution of income in order to let people in who don't have to pay, they rely excessively on foreigners to pay a full fare. they are financially dependent on these people even if they are pro hamas people. secondly, harvard has chosen an unusual strategy of fighting the administration on everything. i just think it is their liberal instinct kicked in and say it's trump and we'll fight them and get accolades from "the new york times" and others from the fight. columbia and others see it is a fool hardy mission to take on this administration when you are protecting against anti-semites. this administration is doing the right thing to protect people's lives on campus and their
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ability to across campus without suffering from anti-semitism and hide in the library behind a locked door. harvard is fighting it. an interesting legal strategy. i won't be surprised if they find some district judge who gives them an injunction. i suspect at the end of the day the administration will win on appeals when it goes to the supreme court and harvard needs to change its behavior and be pro-american, pro-freedom for religion as opposed to full pro-hamas paying supporters. >> harris: they have had plenty of time to address it in a wholehearted way. you mentioned that number of foreign students. it is 27%. it is not like we don't want immigrants, it is just why is this happening, co-existing with having a situation where people are screaming they hate america on these campuses?
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it seems like you have to do what trump is doing. last quick thought on this and we'll move forward. >> they are here on a student visa. what is problematic is in order to get that visa, you have to acknowledge you don't belong to a terrorist organization or support terrorism. they come here and chant on behalf of terrorists. that's why they should get the boot and i salute marco rubio being tough for doing that. >> harris: they want to use our free speech against us. house oversight committee chairman james comer is demanding former president biden's physician and white house aides sit for interviews. he is investigating the cover-up of biden's decline health. here comes comer right now. >> these are the unelected bureaucrats that we believe had an overwhelming influence over joe biden and could have possibly been serving as defacto presidents of the united states. the american people want to know
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this. we all know -- what we need to know is who was calling the shots at the white house. >> harris: comer sent letters yesterday to biden's doctor, former director of domestic policy council. deputy director. here are some of the many times white house press secretary karine jean-pierre defended her boss's health. >> does the president have the stamina physically and mentally do you think to continue on even after 2024? >> that is not a question that we should be even asking. >> suggesting the president tells aides he is tired. that's why they are being so few public events. >> that's a ridiculous asumming to make. >> why does white house staff treat him like a baby? >> that's ridiculous. i would put the president's
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stamina, president's wisdom. ability to get things done on behalf of the american people against anyone. >> is anyone in the white house hiding information about the president's health or his ability to do the job day-to-day? >> absolutely not. he is as sharp as ever. >> who ordered white house officials to cover up a declining president? >> there has been no cover-up. >> harris: that was almost a year ago, ari. >> yeah. he still doesn't know the name of his secretary of defense. i wish somebody at the white house had asked president biden can you tell me his name? he has stumbled. when karine jean-pierre is saying all this stuff about stamina. that was about the same time they stopped president biden from going up the big stairs to air force one and go up the lower stairs so he could climb to the same level in the secret stairs inside the interior stairs in air force one.
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this health scare, this health situation and cover-up is frightening. i remember being the young staffer in washington and going to woodrow wilson's house in washington, d.c. for a visit and a tour and that's when i discovered he had a stroke and his wife ran the administration. now we're learning that is basically what was happening inside the biden white house. it is a scandal. the white house press corps didn't dig into it. the biden administration covered it up and it would be entirely appropriate in the national interest for congress now to have hearings into president biden's health when he was sick and what the doctors knew. >> harris: absolutely. by the way, who was pulling the levers of government? who were those five or six people that are being talked about in all the books that are dropping about him now? we need to know who put policy together in this country. ari, i have to let you go but appreciate you on this friday. thank you. >> thank you. >> harris: we'll be right back.
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>> we're doing our job to say that if we're going to approve a covid vaccine for younger, healthy americans, we would like to see some clinical trial data. should we blindly rubber stamp a vaccine that creates a new protein in the body every year for the rest of our lives for the next 100 years? i don't think so. >> i'm trying to get some idea so that when people call our office and ask when i run into people and say how come i can't get the covid booster that we can give them some kind of an answer for what they can expect. >> 85% of healthcare workers said no to the last covid boosters. you aren't suggesting we blindly approve covid boosters each year without clinical data? >> harris: president trump's fda is changing guidance on covid booster shots. only seniors and high-risk
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groups are cleared for annual covid vaccine. covid boosters for healthy americans under the age of 65 will need new clinical trials. vaccine makers pfizer and moderna say they are working to get the needed data to the fda. they also have to expand warnings of potential heart inflammation, particularly in young boys and men. republican wisconsin senator ron johnson just released a disturbing report on biden as administration handling of the risk with the covid shot. u.s. health officials knew of the risk of myo carditis. u.s. health agencies delayed informing the public about the adverse event. dr. marty makary here. we saw you on capitol hill. let's start with the covid booster and your back and forth there. what was the big question about we need clinical -- more information basically, clinical trials for healthy people?
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>> we're bringing back gold standard science and common sense to the entire approval process for vaccines. that means the theory that a young, healthy girl needs 50 or 60 covid boosters every year throughout her entire life span has been a theory that's unproven. so we don't know with any scientific certainty that it's necessary. our job is to tell the public what is safe and effective. so we at the fda have told the companies that make these vaccines if you present to us updated clinical trial data that shows that young healthy americans need and benefit from a safe vaccine, then we will take action on that request. but we aren't going to blindly rubber stamp vaccines for teenagers every year forever. those days are over. >> harris: is there any mitigation? we thought this at first when
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the disease was much more deadly than it is now, by just the numbers reported. is there any mitigation in the virus itself over time due to exposure and previous vaccines? >> we think it is a very different virus today than it was five years ago. remember, when they did the original trials, there was hardly any natural immunity. today population immunity is 99.9% of the public. >> harris: that is a huge part of this. talk to me about the heart inflammation in young boys and young men? it seems reprehensible that the biden administration wouldn't have warned us about that early and often. >> it was part of the biden censorship complex. any information that related to complications of the vaccines or vaccine injuries was considered covid vaccine hesitant content and so it was censored or blocked or slow walked. we now have tragically this
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information that the heart inflammation that occurred in young, healthy men and boys was not disclosed as soon as it should have been and as a result, thousands of kids probably had this myo carditis complication and didn't have to have it. >> harris: wow. you said covid-hesitant content. they don't want us to ask questions is what that means. >> yes. that's exactly right. >> harris: now we are asking questions. what is the response? i know you were on capitol hill. what does the response seem to be for pushing this forward? will we see lawsuits? every time president trump tries to take a move, even if it will help us live longer, it seems like there is pushback. >> the vast majority of americans have said no to the covid booster especially healthy americans. and people from europe and doctors from europe have been calling me and my colleagues saying you've caught up with the rest of the world. in the u.k. they don't recommend a covid booster unless you are
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75 years and have the risk factor. in france it is 80 years of age and up. >> harris: wow. the make america healthy again commission released that report yesterday long awaited on making all of us have a little boost in our life expectancy i understand targeting a chronic health disease crisis among our young people in particular and what is causing it. president trump and hhs secretary robert f. kennedy, jr. announced the findings in the oval office yesterday. >> president trump: there is something wrong and we won't stop until we defeat the chronic disease epidemic in america. >> it is a call to action for common sense. it's come onsense that excessive screen time and isolation lead to anxiety and depression especially in children. it is common sense that exercise and healthy food should come before prescriptions and
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surgery. >> harris: you know, this is holistic about the whole body. and the mind is really concentrated on in this report as i have read it. i think that's new. >> it is new. this is a milestone moment in healthcare. you know, the system that we've been having in healthcare of rushing people through ten and 15 minute visits, burning out the doctors treating patients by measuring them by their through-put and telling them to focus on billing a coding is broken and not working. we can't keep throwing good money after bad into this broken system. it is the largest expense as a united states government. this is a transitional game changing moment resetting the agenda to talk about root causes. to talk about everything. micro plastics. pesticides. 70% of diet of children is ultra processed foods. the things that cause cancer.
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we have to talk about school lunch programs and the micro biome and food as medicine not just ozempic and insulin. we aren't going in a good direction. 40% of our nation's children have a chronic disease. we have to come up with another path beyond drugging our nation's kids at scale. we have been blaming kids substantially it is not right or fair to them. it is not a will power problem. it has to do with the environment and food. >> harris: wow, you said the most important line to we parents and that is there is a way for us to help now and for that child not to feel broken or blamed. commissioner mccarey, thank you for joining me today and breaking it all down. good to see you. this holiday weekend we are remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice. up next gold star sister ryan manion.
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her work continues to honor her brother's legacy. she and i have known each other for some time. i can't wait to dig into all the wonderful new things that ryan is working on. we're honoring those brave men and women all weekend long here on fox. >> for me who has been at the bedside of those we lost, i never forget that sacrifice. i think our country should never forget that sacrifice and because it is what makes us who we are.
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>> harris: as we head into a holiday weekend we remember the true purpose of memorial day to honor an mourn our service members who made the ultimate sacrifice. across the nation memorials and ceremonies will be held all weekend long including a special initiative by one of the largest veteran service organizations in the country, the travis manion foundation named for first lieutenant travis manion killed in action in iraq in 2007. he died while saving wounded fellow warriors. his acts allowed every member of his patrol to survive and for his actions, travis was awarded the silver and bronze star with valor.
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this year the organization in his honor is expanding the memorial day project called the honor project. volunteers will visit with more than 50 cemeteries placing hand-crafted commemorative tokens at the westing places of our fallen heroes. a big job. and it is beautiful. travis's sister ryan is the president of that foundation. i'm glad to have you. great to see you. the last time we saw each other was years ago. george w. bush presidential library and museum in dallas and my dad was there still living then and got to meet you and said she is a great lady and i'm so proud of her family. god bless you. you bring me warm memories on that front and now you bring a growing foundational cause on this memorial weekend. tell me about it. >> i remember that visit very much as well, too. it was wonderful. you know, for us this was a project that started during covid. a woman by the name of emily and
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she went to visit arlington and placing roses at gravestones and put out a tweet that went viral. she came to us the following year and said i think we have something here. we took that initiative and turned it into the honor project and over the course of this weekend we'll have thousands of volunteers at over 50 cemeteries across the country visiting thousands of grave sites. so families of the fallen know that their loved ones are being honored around memorial day. >> harris: this is often the only time that gold star families actually come together from all over. you may find a group in one community together, that sort of thing. what is it like to be part of an entire movement now that matters so much to so many people? >> you know, when we lost my brother, travis, my family and i became part of a club that no one wants to become part of. being a gold star family is something that i take a lot of pride in knowing that my brother served and sacrificed and gave
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his life for the freedoms we protect so much and so i feel that it is our job now to make sure that the rest of this country understands that we have an obligation and responsibility to honor those sacrifices and not take for granted that word freedom and what it means. >> harris: amen to that. you started with this and now a commemorative token. in the military you shake hands with someone and rub back and get that. talk to me about the genesis of that and what it means particularly on this weekend. >> you know, placing that token is symbolic. it lets that family know that we've been there. that through the course of memorial day weekend somebody walk up to that loved one's grave, said their name and honored their service and sacrifice. as a gold star family i can tell you nothing means more than knowing our loved ones' names are said and legacy has continued and that they're honored and remembered. we wanted to make sure we were giving that back to families so
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they understood that we were visiting their loved ones and understood and appreciated their sacrifice. >> when we were first together one of the things we talked about, and it persisted for a little bit, was recruitment. and now we are seeing a rise in that. as a gold star family member, knowing there might be some legacy, maybe not familial but nationally across the country under a new president, it would seem, who has ushered that sort of instigation to rejoin is so important. what are your thoughts on that? >> i think that one of the things that is also important about what we do with the honor project is making sure that our next generation understands what service and sacrifice is all about. i'll be at arlington national cemetery tomorrow joined by hundreds of volunteers. many young children. the idea they're learning about what service means. that's incredibly important. i have a daughter who is just
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