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    How the Defense Production Act will address baby formula shortage: Pentagon press secretary

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    Pentagon press secretary John Kirby explained how the Defense Production Act will combat the baby formula shortage Thursday on “Your World.”

    JOHN KIRBY: Right now, the principal job for the military will be to work with HHS, the Department of Agriculture, the FDA, to help provide contract commercial air to move formula from overseas – particularly Europe – to the United States. So we’re working in close consultation with those agencies right now to better determine what the requirement is. And then we’ll work with our contract, commercial air carriers to actually go pick up the baby formula wherever it is in Europe particularly, and get it to the appropriate place here in the United States. And we think that using contract air right now, that’s probably the best approach, the most cost-efficient, and quite frankly, probably the quickest. 

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    That’s one of the things the Defense Production Act can give you. Not only can it help get suppliers and manufacturers of baby formula the kinds of ingredients that they need faster to make that formula, but it can also help boost production by helping create industry to create the actual machinery that is used to make baby formula. It can spur actual fabricators to get the equipment that’s needed to, again in this one case, get the Abbott plant back up and running again. They might need equipment. DPA can help provide that equipment a little bit faster, get it fabricated and into the factory a little bit faster. So it actually can cover a lot of ground here. 

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    Gas prices have not peaked yet: Former energy secretary Rick Perry

    Why food costs more

    Former energy secretary Rick Perry traces a root cause of inflated food prices on ‘Your World.’

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    Former energy secretary Rick Perry warned that the United States has “not seen the top [of gas prices] by any sense of the imagination” Friday on “Your World.”

    RICK PERRY: Diesel is what runs this country. When you think about the trucks that move the groceries, all the other produce around in this country – diesel is right at the heart of it. That’s one of the things that’s really driving up the cost of food. And that comes from heavy crude [oil]. Heavy crude was accessed through two countries, interestingly, Russia and Venezuela. I will suggest to you the Biden administration knew and know[s] what’s going on today, that their policies are going to drive up the cost of inflation, particularly energy cost, which in turn multiplies into the inflation factor.

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    I don’t think there is a scenario where you could hurt the American people more than what this administration is doing and is about to do. We’re fixing to go into one of the high traveling seasons of the year and gasoline prices – I think we have not seen the top by any sense of the imagination. … The message that it sends to producers, for the spokesperson in the White House to stand up and say, “Well, we have all these permits and … nobody’s interested.” Well, Ms. Psaki, the reason they’re not interested is because they know that you all will play the old peanuts game and jerk the football away from the player. Nobody trusts this White House to leave regulations in place. They harum-scarum, stop leasing. It’s just crazy. 

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    Youngkin, Hogan send letter to Garland urging him to prosecute demonstrators outside Supreme justices’ homes

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    Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin revealed on “Your World” Wednesday that he and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland urging him to prosecute those demonstrating outside the homes of Supreme Court justices over an anticipated ruling that could overturn Roe v. Wade.

    According to a copy of the letter obtained by Fox News, Youngkin and Hogan called on Garland to “provide appropriate resources to safeguard the justices and enforce the law as it is written.” Both Republican governors offered their respective states’ assistance to secure the justices’ homes, but said they need Garland and the Department of Justice to “to take the lead.”

     “There is simply too much at stake,” the last line of the two-page letter reads.

    REPUBLICANS SAY GARLAND IS ALLOWING ‘MOB RULE’ IN US BY NOT PROSECUTING PROTESTERS OUTSIDE JUSTICES’ HOMES

    During an appearance on Fox News, Youngkin pointed to federal U.S. code 1507, which states that any individual who “pickets or parades” with the “intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer” near a U.S. court or “near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer” will be fined, or “imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”

    Protesters at the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito (Fox News Digital)

    “The statute is incredibly clear,” Youngin told host Neil Cavuto. “It basically says if you are parading or picketing in order to try to influence a judge, it’s punishable with up to a year in prison. That sounds illegal to me. Of course, this leak was done in order to influence and intimidate our justices. And that’s exactly what these parades and picket lines are trying to do.”

    Over the weekend, protesters picketed outside the homes of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts. Large crowds protested outside of Justice Samuel Alito’s Virginia home on Monday. 

    Youngkin denounced the demonstrations as “fundamentally wrong,” outlining his state’s “two-pronged approach” to secure the safety of the justices and their families.

     Youngkin, former co-CEO of the Carlyle Group Inc., is the first Republican elected to the office since 2009. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

    “The state police are at the ready to support local resources and federal resources. We have substantial resources ready to go. Local police, I have asked them to create a perimeter around each of the justices’ homes with support from state police as needed,” Youngkin said.

    “And then, we asked Attorney General Garland to enforce the law, and to make sure that these demonstrators are not allowed to try to intimidate justices like they’re trying to do,” he continued.

    BONGINO CALLS ON VIRGINIA OFFICIALS TO PROSECUTE ALITO PROTESTERS UNDER FEDERAL LAW

    The newly -elected leader came under fire earlier in the week for not taking fervent enough action against the demonstrators after he said that he was  “monitoring” the situation at the homes of justices who reside in his state, but stopped short of outlining anything actionable to protect their neighborhoods. Youngkin appeared to embrace a far more aggressive response on Wednesday, telling Cavuto that his state has dedicated “substantial resources…to support all cases to make sure there’s no violence and to support the Fairfax County Police when they ask us to come in.”

    Protestors gather outside the Supreme Court to protest abortion rights (Fox News Digital) (Fox News Digital)

    “This is wrong,” Youngkin said. “We have justices that have children, they have neighbors and families. This is wrong based on federal statute, and it should be stopped.”

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    “This is a moment where local resources, state resources, and federal resources should be working in collaboration in order to keep our justices and their families safe.”

    Why the Supreme Court’s abortion opinion was leaked: Tom Dupree

    Why was the SCOTUS abortion opinion leaked?

    Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Tom Dupree explains the possible political motivation behind the leak of the Supreme Court’s abortion draft opinion on ‘Your World.’

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    Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Tom Dupree explained why the Supreme Court’s draft opinion on the abortion case suggesting the overturn of Roe v. Wade was leaked Tuesday on “Your World.”

    TOM DUPREE: It seems to me that whoever leaked this did so with a political purpose in mind. That they knew this was the way the court was trending. They wanted to see if they could somehow influence the deliberative process by putting this thing out in the public sphere. It’s obviously already whipped up a huge public frenzy, and I suspect the leaker’s goal was to bring public pressure and political pressure to bear on the five justices who formed at least this tentative majority, in the hopes that maybe one of them bows to public pressure and changes his or her vote. 

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    [D]uring the argument in this case, it seemed – reading the tea leaves – that Chief Justice Roberts might be trying to see if there was any appetite for a compromise, a middle ground, a way that they could uphold the law, the anti-abortion law, but at the same time not overrule Roe and Casey. Alito’s draft opinion says, “No way, we’re going all the way. We’re going to overrule Roe, we’re going to overrule Casey. Roe was wrong from the minute it decided.” Five tentative votes for that, but of course, we’re not going to know whether there are five actual votes for it until that opinion actually comes out. 

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    ‘Dramatic increases’ in immigration, fentanyl ‘affecting every state’: Sen. Portman

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    Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, explained the consequences of the migrant surge at the southern border Tuesday on “Your World.”

    SEN. PORTMAN: The problem is that although about half the people are being sent back under Title 42, the other half are being let into our country. And that’s roughly a million people last year. It looks like this year we’re on track to have about 2 million people. People will come to the border unlawfully, apply for asylum, are allowed to go in, spend somewhere between six and eight years waiting for their court case – by that time, embedded in the community. Very few are ever sent home. In fact, during the first eight months of the Biden administration – the first eight months – there were only 26,000 people sent back by expedited removal, and about 800,000 people had come in unlawfully. So that’s the problem we’ve got to solve. 

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    Nobody can look at this [immigration] system and say it’s working. My own view, for what it’s worth, Neil, is we should have legal immigration and even increase that with regard to the skills we need in this country. So open the front door a little more, but let’s close the backdoor. It’s not only about illegal immigration, it’s about the drug issue, because, as you know, the most dangerous of the drugs, particularly the synthetic opioid called fentanyl, is now coming in through our southern border. Dramatic increases in those numbers along with the dramatic increases in immigration. And that’s what’s affecting every state, including mine, with record numbers of overdose deaths. And most of them are occurring because of fentanyl. So it’s all related. 

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    Criminal organizations will exploit ‘wide open’ borders post-Title 42: Rep. Henry Cuellar

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    Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, warned how criminal organizations will use “wide open” borders after the end of Title 42 Friday on “Your World.”

    REP. HENRY CUELLAR: I certainly have talked to folks at the White House and at … Homeland Security, and I think the career people – that is the men and women in green and blue – understand what the problem is. They understand what the problem is. But unfortunately, some folks only look at the stakeholders … the activists, the immigration activists. But I don’t think they’re paying attention to the men and women in green and blue, and they’re certainly not listening to the border communities: the sheriffs, the judges, the mayors, and people down at the border or the landowners themselves. So you got to listen to the communities at the border, and you certainly have to listen to our men and women from Homeland. 

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    [A]fter the May 23rd [end date of Title 42], borders are going to be wide open and the more people [criminal organizations] bring in – let’s say the average is $8,000 per individual – the more money they make. So they’re going to market, they’re going to go ahead and promote this and use this policy and a lack of a plan at the border to send more people over here. In six months, we had over one million encounters, and that doesn’t even include the getaways. This last month, we had 221,000 individuals. So the numbers are going to continue getting larger and larger. 

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    Karl Rove explains the causes of historic inflation under the Biden administration

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    Fox News contributor Karl Rove revealed how inflation has skyrocketed under President Biden Thursday on “Your World.” 

    ROVE: Ordinary Americans go to the grocery store, maybe a couple of times a week. They go to the gas station every week or two. … There are things that they do virtually every day that bring them into contact … with a real awareness that prices are rising and prices are rising faster than most of them are seeing their paychecks increase. So … to me, … it is mind-boggling that the administration and some Democrats are so out of touch with what’s going on in ordinary households all across the country when it comes to paying for the bills of everyday expenditures. 

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    [O]rdinary Americans understand … the principal driver of inflation is loose monetary policy from the Federal Reserve and more spending by the government creating more debt, devaluing the currency. Think about this. [Sen. Elizabeth Warren] said, … “In order to have a big Democratic victory this fall, let’s take the Build Back Better plan and bring it back and pass it through Congress.” [These] were the numbers in the Politico Harris poll in January: 41% favored the big Build Back Better; 21% of them strongly. 40% opposed it; 29% strongly. She thinks somehow or another being in favor of something that’s got 41% support is going to somehow vault the Democrats into an historic victory in a midterm election?

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    Texas mayor requests federal help while urging Biden to keep Title 42 border policy

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    Mayor Javier Villalobos of McAllen, Texas called on President Biden for assistance on Tuesday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” saying that “we shouldn’t be spending a single cent” for a federal issue.

    JAVIER VILLALOBOS: We know what’s going on over there, and we know what’s going to happen. The last time in Hidalgo County here in McAllen was we were pretty much at the center of it. And we know what we’re expecting. Of course, that’s why I wrote a letter to the president asking them, look, we need the funding. We need help. It’s not our responsibility, but we’ll do what we need to do. And so we’re ready to do what we can, even though it’s not our responsibility. 

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    You have issues, first of all, immigration and then that’s even setting aside the COVID issues – having COVID increase in different states. There’s a lot of issues, and we keep on telling you, look, it’s do what you got to do, and we don’t place blame or want to on either side of the aisle. But what we need them to do is start working and start thinking about the American people and not about partisan politics. It’s affecting us. We shouldn’t be spending a single cent here in the city, McAllen, for a federal issue. We keep on asking them. We’re asking them work for the American people. 

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    I think when Governor Abbott mentioned what he was going to do last week, it was initially well, how is he going to do it? It was a voluntary deal. The faster we move them, the better it is for our community here in the Rio Grande Valley and McAllen. Logistically, it’s going to be a nightmare. We have people that are willing to go elsewhere immediately, like the Governor Abbott plan. We’re all for it. We are all for moving people because we don’t take a position where they’re entitled to asylum or not. What we want is to move them out as soon as possible because we shouldn’t be even playing a part of this. 

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    Brooklyn subway shooting a ‘domestic terrorist attack’: Former NYPD commissioner Safir

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    Former NYPD commissioner Howard Safir dubbed the Brooklyn subway shooting “a domestic terrorist attack” Thursday on “Your World.”

    HOWARD SAFIR: … [I]t is a domestic terrorist attack. And I think it’s great because based on the bail reform law in New York, if he had been taken to the district attorney’s office in Manhattan, he’d probably be back out on the street. So I think prosecuting him separately is a terrific move. 

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    Crime is up in just about every category in New York. Shootings are up. And what really disturbs me is the collateral damage that’s happening from these criminals with guns – killing teenagers, innocent women, people just walking on the street. We really have to do something about taking back this city. We did it in the late ’90s and 2000s. We can do it again. But Mayor Adams has got to get a real strong backbone and not listen to the loudest voices. We need to go back to broken windows. We need to go back to stop, question and frisk. And we need to send a message which is not being sent now to criminals that if you commit a crime, you’re going to get arrested, and you’re going to stay in jail. 

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    Retired NYPD lieutenant reveals whether the NYC subway shooter could be classified as a terrorist

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    Retired New York Police Department Lieutenant Joe Cardinale explained why accused Brooklyn subway shooter Frank James will be officially classified as a terrorist Wednesday on “Your World.” 

    JOE CARDINALE: … [T]he fact that social media today can condemn somebody in one posting and yet let a man like this go on, rant and rave and never bring it to the attention of the authorities – that’s bizarre to me. … That’s the most bizarre thing that they can let these rantings go on – these hate rantings – and let them go on. … [T]his is what happens. And then you wait for him to do something before you say, “Oops, got to pull it back.” So … politics aside, these companies need to … really do a better job at … bringing these people to the surface and stopping their rantings and bringing it to the attention of whoever. The FBI, local police, whatever it is, just get them notified – somebody – about this because he fell through the cracks that way. I don’t think he fell through the cracks being a past criminal for the crimes that he had.

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    He will be [officially defined as a terrorist] because, as the federal prosecutor indicated earlier, ever since 9/11, they made the spectrum a little broader for prosecuting terrorism … -related crimes, and he falls into that category. Because remember, Neil, the subway system was always threatened, whether it be through nerve gas, whatever they had … and they wanted to try it out in the subway. It’s already been documented that they said they wanted to try the subways at one time prior to the 9/11 attacks.

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