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things are too obvious to be a coincidence [Music] india is reintroducing cheetahs to the wild 70 years after the last of the country's big cats died out indian officials say eight south african cheetahs arrived in their new home in kuno national park yesterday the world's fastest land animal part of a plan to increase ecotourism cool and that's how fox reports this sunday september 18th of 2022 i'm john scott thanks for watching remember to tune in to fox in the wee hours of tomorrow morning about nine hours from now for complete coverage of the funeral of queen elizabeth sunday night in america with trey gowdy is next i'll see you next weekend [Music] good evening and thank you for joining us i'm trey gowdy and it's sunday night in america queen elizabeth ii reigned for 70 years she will be laid to rest tomorrow at st george's chapel at windsor castle beside prince philip her husband of 73 years mourners from around the world waited in lines that stretched for miles as a show of respect and to say goodbye to a woman born elizabeth alexandra mary windsor but who became and will forever be recorded as queen elizabeth joining us now is someone familiar with the british monarchy and the author of a book on prince harry fox news contributor duncan laircombe duncan thank you for joining us how do you think history will remember queen elizabeth ii well what a question that is to start um it's nearly midnight here so i better concentrate on the answer yeah i think um we're surprised i think everyone's surprised by the scenes that we've seen really since she died now sort of 10 11 days ago i mean how will she be remembered people are talking about her being remembered and called queen elizabeth the great or queen elizabeth um you name it queen elizabeth the kind i think has been suggested so her legacy is one i think tomorrow world leaders from all over the place will be here in london to take part in the funeral and for them you know i think this is probably a leader that has the respect of leaders and has had or did have throughout her 70-year reign so i think there's a sense that everyone's going to be taking part in a moment of history tomorrow here in london speaking of history doc duncan i think you're the perfect person to help us you know americans are fascinated by the monarchy although i'm pretty sure we fought a war to get away from it we're still fascinated by it what is the difference between someone who rules and someone who reigns so she reigned but she did not rule so so how can americans understand the difference and what her role was right well this is where i did a degree in american politics at university so let me try and explain effectively the queen based on hundreds of years of tradition has all power absolute power under the british constitution but unlike the american constitution that power the president if you like is the closest to a queen or a king but the queen is not a political role she's a figurehead she doesn't express power she doesn't get involved with politics back in in her reign that's a challenge for king charles now um so so they they occupy a space above but they don't actually they have all the power but if the queen had exercised power by sacking presidents and private prime ministers or or doing things on a global stage that were controversial the truth is we probably wouldn't have a royal family anymore perhaps one of her greatest achievements now is this level of enthusiasm that seems to have been reignited in the british public and to some extent globally for the royal the british royal family i mean it honestly i think people's jaws are hitting the floor here in britain at the level of the response and the magnitude of what we're going to see in london history being made frankly so um yes people are sad that the queen's not here anymore but the overwhelming atmosphere here in london is one of um sort of dignified respect it's not the city that it normally is at the moment and um i think a few people will come back to london once tomorrow's over and wish that we could go back to this feeling of everyone in together everyone united in their respect admiration um and and really wanting to do something just to honor someone that's been a part of the british way of life now for nearly all of our lifetimes i mean very few people are old enough to remember i think joe biden will be there tomorrow of course he was nine years old when queen elizabeth came to the throne and so that perhaps gives you some sort of perspective of the longevity of queen elizabeth and the respect that everybody had for her thank you we've got about a minute left i don't know if you can do this in a minute but i'm going to let you try king charles what should we expect from the new leader uh king charles yeah king charles i think has had a very good first week um for years there was a discussion about how would he live up how would he possibly fill the shoes left by his mother when that day came obviously with diana and the controversies in charles's life over the years all eyes were on him he is doing a fantastic job so far his speech for example about harry and megan and his love for them um and and the way that he's conducted himself going out meeting people in the queues uh touching the flesh i think is what what the perhaps many people in america might know for the sort of presidential campaigns because he's not trying to win votes so charles is a there's a huge challenge on him but trey don't forget he is the longest serving apprentice in the world 70 years waiting for now that's a great point it's late there go get some rest uh duncan lyrical thank you for sharing your insight with us take care up next last week some pundits and military experts were predicting an imminent russian victory in the end of the ukrainian resistance it seems those experts forgot to tell ukraine jennifer griffin and ukrainian prosecutor andrea coston are next on sunday night in america investments of russian reinforcements coming across the river uh the ukrainians are being very strategic in the way they're moving the russians still have a lot of fire fire power but certainly by no means are they winning that's not the evidence does not support that jennifer griffin congratulations uh rarely can i say this in life but well-deserved uh gold medal i don't think i know anybody that's won a gold medal but i know you so congratulations well deserved thank you trey as ukraine advances in retakes territory there have been some grisly discoveries including mass graves we are joined now by the prosecutor general of ukraine andre kostia mr prosecutor thank you for joining us i want to let the american people know what what is a war crime and what is your evidence that russia has committed war crimes starting from the deliberation of kharkiv region we found a lot of evidences of potential war crimes committed by the aggressor on the occupied territory and some of them are dated the beginning of march so the beginning of occupation so we have found more than 450 graves and every day the exclamation is ongoing we have created [Music] joint investigation teams together with investigators experts and prosecutors and every day we find new cases of war crimes committed by russian aggressor some of them were already mentioned in your comments and in comments of jennifer and i would just want to mention the family which was killed the three generations of one family parents children and grandparents who were killed in a residential building destroyed by russian bombs and when we found this we understand that russian aggressor should not be unpunished so that is why our main goal now is to fix all of the evidences and to make russian officers russian soldiers committed war crimes and russian high-level politicians accountable for them so in this respect we are dealing also with the international criminal court and we are also calling on for tribunal for the crime of aggression because we understand that the crime of aggression is the mother of all of the other war crimes committed by russia and that is why our position is to call on the international community to to support the our initiative to have this ad hoc tribunal now as for now we have finished the more than 90 graves and exhumed more than 90 graves and every each other day we see that new cases appear it's not only about izum so the territory which deliberated by ukrainian army starting from september is like 8 000 square kilometers it's just like a territory of state of connecticut just for you to compare and in all of these cities when we we deliberated we find the cases of war crimes committed by russians most of them is killing of civilians some of them are torture of civilians and you have already mentioned the torture by electricity and we have found already more than 10 places of this torture four of them as of today are already identified and and uh overviewed it's also important to to talk with the people and to collect evidences from the witnesses of war crimes well mr prosecutor sounds like you have evidence you have a tribunal we risen plus have we become a nation of victims we will explore next on sunday night in america welcome back to sunday night in america the primaries are over now for the main event control of the house and senate is literally up for grabs months ago it looked like november would be good for republicans with soaring gas prices and images of a feckless withdrawal from afghanistan and presidential poll numbers that were among the worst ever recorded but that was then what about now has the great red wave turned into a ripple or are the polls wrong again joining us now is wall street journal columnist bill mcgreer bill thank you very much for joining us do americans change their minds as easily or something happened in the last weeks and months that reversed potentially the fortunes for the democrats and republicans well i think it comes from putting too much stress on polls before labor day i mean the races are really just heating up now i think the vast majority of people don't pay attention until now and i think there's a lot of wishful thinking the democrats did pass some bills and they did have the abortion ruling which is energizing parts of their party but i i think it's a long way to go from there to a triumphant democratic midterm um that would require you know two months from now people still in the afterglow of these legislative achievements you know i think the american people don't think a legislative achievement is a legislative achievement it is if it does its purpose for example if the inflation reduction act were to bring inflation down that would be an achievement not just passing it um so i think it's still early days all right i want to ask you about the dobs decision the supreme court decision and dobbs i mean there some pundits say that provided a reset for the democrats but i mean to me dobbs just sent it to the states so if there's been a reset it has been the state's reaction to dobbs and there have been states kansas leaps to mind where maybe the voters in an otherwise conservative state said don't go that far do you think dobbs is part of this or is again that being overstated i think it's part but it's overstated look dobbs completely changed the landscape of abortion in the united states and if you go back to scalia's descent in planned parenthood just magnificent it gave us dobs is giving us a politics of abortion which we never had we had a judicial fight over abortion and so forth which infected nominations and so forth now the american people have to decide themselves where to draw the lines and what lines to draw and i think it's going to take years for this to work out and and the beauty of it is the people in louisiana don't have to live by the new york values and the people in new york don't have to live by their values it's going to reflect what the ordinary citizen thinks and it's going to force people that haven't had to make a decision or defend their stance do so all right i want to ask you about the president's ongoing legal saga he's been in the news a lot the former president is ongoing liga legal saga is that is that hurting one side or helping one side i mean it it seems to get a lot of coverage um for something where there hadn't been an indictment yet yeah i i would say two things i think it does i don't know if it hurts republicans but democrats would clearly like to talk about donald trump instead of inflation instead of afghanistan instead of lackluster economy they would they would love the issue to still be uh donald trump so to the extent it it muffles out some of the republican message i think that's a plus for democrats but again i think a lot of this is overstated you know trey i mean you would know this better than i would i look back whenever republicans won a big win you know like in congress with gin rich and so forth all the big wins none of them were ever predicted by the press they they're always suppressing good republican news and giving democrats cover so i wouldn't be surprised if there's a pent-up vote um going on now because what i see i like hispanics leaving the democratic party i think joe biden got 750 000 fewer hispanics to vote for him than hillary clinton did this is a huge change and i think we're seeing a lot of those changes asian americans are coming on board because of the affirmative action so i i think it's not you can't put into neat categories yet we shall see and it will not be the first time the polls have been wrong bill mcgiren thank you so much for joining us on a sunday night and loaning us your expertise thanks trey yes sir what would you think if right before a tennis match roger federer said the only way i can lose is if the umpire or my opponent cheats what would you think if nick saban told his football team that they really won the national championship last year you know jack nicklaus lost golf tournaments and so did tiger woods abraham lincoln lost political races and so did ronald reagan when did it become fashionable to say there's no way i can lose whatever happened to being a graceful loser and then pledging to do better next time joining us now is vivek ramaswamy author of a nation of victims and executive chairman of strive asset management welcome to the show you know abraham lincoln lost ronald reagan lost jesus lost a voice vote to a criminal named barabbas when did politicians start claiming they could not lose so look i think that we have a victimhood culture that is infecting the heart of the national soul that is what my most recent book is about i spend a lot of the book critiquing left wing woke victimhood culture victimhood narratives of black victimhood gay victimhood transgender victimhood female victimhood but i think that story would be incomplete without recognizing that the way the woke left wins is not with a bang but with a whimper by getting the other side to copy their methods conservative victimhood culture white victimhood culture in this country and i think this idea of not admitting that you lose an election when you lose it whether you're a democrat stacey abrams in georgia or whether you're a republican i think is the beginning of a national decline not so much that it's just a threat to democracy and other people talk about that aspect of it but for me it is a symptom of a deeper victimhood culture that fails to recognize that hardship is not the same thing as victimhood hardship is something that defines who you are and the great leaders of any sport to any political movement ultimately overcome hardship rather than just complaining about it as a grievance and it's a shame to me that the republican party has copied the methods of its opponents rather than rising to the occasion and becoming the one party that can stand for excellence in american greatness that's part of why i wrote the book to light a fire under their feet to see if they can't rise to that occasion all right um we'll quote your book you write there are only two ways to win a culture war defeat the other side or infect it with your own values what did you mean by that yeah so look i think that i drew an analogy both in both of my books to take the war on terror okay part of what distinguishes you from the other side is that you are not willing to adopt the method of a terrorist killing women killing children killing innocent civilians once you start adopting the methods of the other side to fight them you lose the very thing that you're fighting for well i worry about that in the culture war in the united states well i think there's two ways for the conservative movement to defeat the victimhood narratives one is by embodying alternative values that embrace free speech open debate the unapologetic pursuit of excellence and distinguish ourselves on principle what i worry about is instead of overcoming the victim narratives by actually pursuing excellence what we're seeing from many in the conservative movement is instead to say you know what i have an even bigger grievance than you do you think you're a victim well i'm an even bigger victim we end up in a victimhood olympics an oppression olympics where there is no gold medalist and america is the loser in the end and i say this as somebody who cares less about whether liberals are conservatives when i care about a country that's defined on the pursuit of excellence rather than victimhood i think the conservative party the republican party has a better chance of embracing that vision of american identity i'm worried that that party is failing to rise to the occasion to do that right now it's a big part of why i wrote the book to spur a call for action that i think is missing on the right and too many are afraid to say it out loud not me i want to give you an i want to give you an idea for another book you've actually written more books than i've read but i will give you an idea for another one this this notion of fairness that when someone views themselves as having been treated unfairly it also it actually causes you to recalibrate fairness as a virtue in your mind and and sometimes when i look at the republican party i think okay they they have concluded that because the media has been unfair and because other people have become been unfair to them that they're going to adopt that unfairness and i think that's destructive for our country absolutely and i think i am sick and tired of grievance culture on the left after all my last book was woke inc very few people have taken a more critical view of those woke victimhood narratives than i have but i'm also starting to get a little sick and tired of grievance culture on the right part of what it means to be american is to pursue excellence unapologetically yes we all encounter hardships abraham lincoln did ronald reagan did the great tradition of conservatives in this country and the republican party over our 250 year history even over the last 40 year history have all encountered hardships at the end of the day you lead the way by overcoming those hardships rather than capitulating to them because otherwise you're no different than the neo-progressive woke left that claims that the world is governed by these invisible power structures out to get you i don't think that the republican party does itself any favors by falling prey to those narratives and claiming to be the bigger victim instead vivek ramaswamy of i hope more books to come thank you for joining us on a sunday night thank you for loaning us your expertise on this important issue thank you coming up inflation is up your retirement account is down what's going on with the u.s economy senator tim scott discusses all of that next on sunday night in america [Music] hi susan honey yeah i respect that but that cough looks pretty bad try this robitussin honey natural it's very conflicting and that gives i'm sure the fed poise uh poise about what they will do but the bottom line is that they've allowed flation to get out of control they've not focused on price stability which should be the core mission of the fed and the biden administration has spent money like drunken sailors including this recent announcement that they would forgive student loan debt which could have us see a budget deficit without an inflation next year almost of a trillion and a half dollars the inflation reduction act uh just just passed i think without any republican support what do you make of the prospects for that helping the situation well i don't i think it's a very uh uh euphemistic name that's misleading to the american people there's really nothing in that bill that would actually cause inflation to be reduced i can see pharmaceutical prices going up as they shift pricing to 73 percent of americans that have a private health insurance away from medicare over the next few years and reduce the number of pharmaceutical solutions for our families you're going to miss allocate resources in electric vehicles made by union companies which counts out tesla counts out foreign manufacturers of electric vehicles which i think is a violation of the world trade organization that's inflationary and then more subsidies for health care through obamacare some 300 billion dollars of new spending there that's clearly inflationary so it's really the inflation production act is what joe biden signed into law you heard the president famously say that uh inflation was at zero percent in july he seemed to think we're out of the woods well once again uh he i don't know who briefs him and i don't know who writes his talking points but he's way off the mark he's out of touch americans in my state are seeing eight percent plus inflation every month for the past 15 months a typical family here in arkansas makes about forty four thousand dollars and inflation is costing a typical family in american since joe biden was elected six thousand nine hundred dollars more this year for paying for that same basket of goods gas groceries rent and so the president's out of touch on this just as he's out of touch on a number of other issues including border security and public safety in our communities yes congressman french hill will see what the federal reserve decides to do on wednesday congressman thank you john great to be with you thanks [Music] today was the last full day queen elizabeth ii lay in state in westminster hall in london officials there say the line for people to view their queen has reached final capacity and is now closed foreign dignitaries including president biden and the first lady have been arriving all day ahead of tomorrow's funeral service chief correspondent jonathan hunt reporting now from london good evening from london john where the united kingdom the commonwealth and indeed the whole world is preparing to say a final goodbye to queen elizabeth ii president biden is among hundreds of leaders and dignitaries who have come to london the president was at buckingham palace earlier this evening for a reception hosted there by king charles iii and camilla the queen consort earlier president biden and the first lady visited westminster hall bowing their heads as they stood looking at the queen's coffin as she lies in state the president then traveled to nearby lancaster house where he signed the book of condolences and paid tribute to the queen she was the same uh in person as she as her image decent honorable and all about service and our hearts go out to the royal family king charles and all the family it's a loss that leaves a giant hole thousands are still waiting in line in these last few hours that they will be allowed to file in to westminster hall and to bow their heads in front of the queen's coffin at 6 30 a.m local time that's 1 30 a.m eastern westminster hall will be closed to the public and preparations will be made the final preparations for what will be an extraordinary and extraordinarily moving funeral john jonathan hunt from london jonathan thank you and be sure to stay with fox news for complete coverage our one hour special queen elizabeth for love and country airs tonight 10 pm eastern time it's also available to stream at any time on fox nation up to
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