A Call To Confront The Rise Of Antisemitism
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I'm Charles Payne. I'm Martha McCallum. I'm Ashley Webster, and this is the Fox News Rundown. Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025. I'm Dave Anthony. It's being called terrorism and a hate crime.

The attack in Boulder, Colorado, targeting a peaceful protest against Hamas continuing to hold hostages in Gaza. That's all they wanted was to free hostages. And the reward for that is you get set on fire. There is no fixing that. You either imprison it, you put it to death, or you send them back to wherever the hell they came from. We speak with Fox's Trey Gowdy.

And Lisa Brady. A new test could help get answers earlier as the long fight against Alzheimer's continues. We can potentially get to a place where we can not just slow the disease, but actually halt or even cure the disease. And I'm Tomi Lahren. I've got the final word on the Fox News Rundown.

It's being investigated as an act of terrorism. The suspect was heard to yell, free Palestine, during the attack. FBI Special Agent in Charge Mark McCulloch on what happened Sunday in Boulder, Colorado. The subject used a makeshift flamethrower and threw an incendiary device into the crowd. A crowd that was gathering in a quiet protest.

Calling for the release of hostages, Hamas still holds captive in Gaza after the October 2023 terror attack that triggered Israel's war. The most difficult one to see was the lady laying on the ground who was burning from head to toe. Eight people were injured. Another witness, Ed Victor, who was part of the demonstration attacked, tells Fox. Suddenly I felt a lot of heat. I turned red.

And I saw a person on fire. And my immediate goal, as well as two or three other people, was to get the fire out. That's what we had to do. And we grabbed some flags. We grabbed some banners. Did what we could. President Trump calls it horrific, pledging to prosecute acts of terrorism.

The suspect, Mohamed Salomon, an Egyptian national in the U.S. illegally, is facing numerous charges, including a federal hate crime. We've had a long history of attacks on people of the Jewish race, Jewish faith, however you want to phrase it. Trey Gowdy is a former congressman, a Republican from South Carolina, where he was also a state and federal prosecutor.

He hosts Sunday Night in America, 9 p.m. Eastern Time on the Fox News Channel, and you can hear him on the Trey Gowdy podcast. Think about what happened in Boulder, Colorado. So one of the victims, first of all, don't overlook the fact that if you were to ask people, what is the way you least want to be hurt or die?

Being burned would be number one on most people's list. It is an excruciating thing to go through, even if you survive. So this perpetrator, this person who overstayed his visa, this Egyptian national, did what even the Holocaust could not do. One of these victims survived Adolf Hitler and World War II and a genocide.

but he can't walk down a street in Boulder, Colorado without being set on fire? Yeah, he's 88 years old. That's where we are. Yeah, he's 88 and one of the eight people burned in this attack. Now, again, like what happened in Washington, D.C., the attacker was saying free Palestine. So that leads again to the possibility of hate crimes and violence

terror charges on top of everything else. Is that the right approach when you're going after this kind of a case? I never saw a crime that involved burning someone or stabbing someone or shooting someone that was motivated by anything other than hate.

So when I hear hate crime, I hear you are adding an extra element to make a prosecutor's job even more difficult than it ordinarily would be. You already have arson. You have attempted murder. You have assault and battery with intent to kill. Why would you want to add extra elements to make a prosecutor's job even more difficult than it is? Of course.

Or since I hate crime, as a prosecutor, I need to know what do I have to prove to put this person in prison for the longest period of time that I can put this person in prison. And what other people, including people like me in the media, call it is secondary. A lot of these times, right, you have...

State prosecution and federal, right? The federal could be related to hate crime. The federal could be related to terror charges separate, correct? What crime isn't motivated by hate? Now, when it comes to terror, it's interesting that you can see these free Palestine signs being held up on the floor of the House.

You can see T-shirts that say Free Palestine. You can hear these ridiculous chants on college campuses from the river to the sea, which is just another fancier way of saying wipe Israel from the face of the map.

That doesn't impact people who are of sound mind. But clearly, there's a reason the people who killed that beautiful couple in Washington, that guy said free Palestine. There's a reason this Egyptian national, who, by the way, was invited to this country and then allowed to overstay his visa.

and then given forgiveness for doing so, what's the first two words out of his mouth? Free Palestine. So the people who are protesting on college campuses and holding up those ridiculous signs on the floor of the house, they need to be mindful that everybody watching and listening is not lucid and of sound mind. Some people are going to actually act that out. But what do you do about that? I mean, can you...

I know the Trump administration has been trying to get some of those protesters, some foreign students to leave, not allow more foreign students in, crack down on the universities.

What do you think is the right approach? All of that, all of the above. You do not have a right to study in this country. You don't have a right to come over here. First of all, Mahmoud Khalil lied about why he was coming here. So get them out. Don't let them in. Look, unfortunately, a homicide prosecutor, I couldn't help my victims. They were dead by the time they got to me. The objective should be to keep people alive.

So we got to watch the rhetoric. But we also got to look. This guy overstayed a visa. So he was invited here. I'd go back and figure out why he was invited here. He says he was in fear for his life in Egypt. In Egypt? Really? We're not talking about Somalia. We're not talking about Yemen. We're talking about Egypt. Egypt.

And by the way, if there's a country that's been worse to the Palestinian people than Egypt, I would struggle to think Israel treats Palestinians better than some other Arab countries do. And I know that for a fact because I've been to Israel and I've watched it. It is a democracy. You go try doing some of this stuff in one of the countries that the left loves so much and see what happens to you.

I really find it interesting when people who are gay want to chant "Free Palestine" or support these Arab countries where they would literally be put to death

for being gay in that country, not in Israel, but in the country that you are standing up for. Now, let's talk more about the status of the suspect. You mentioned Solomon. He's from Egypt. He did come in 2022 under a tourist visa. Then he applied for asylum. In 2023, the visa expired. The Biden administration gave him a work authorization. That expired March of this year. This is Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons. This is what he told Fox. We have millions that have come in.

you know, all across the last administration that have overstayed their visas and overstayed their welcome. And one of the main missions of ICE is to go ahead and arrest anyone that we can take an enforcement action on that has violated immigration law. Now, there are some on the left who don't like that we're not, we're going after everyone or that ICE is going after more than just people who have committed crimes or who are accused of committing crimes. These are people who have

just overstayed their welcome and they're being removed. And there's some protest on that. Well, they've done more than overstay their welcome. They've broken a commitment. They have broken a commitment to this country, which is some evidence that you wouldn't be a very good citizen. So we got to start clamping down. But this is such an important point. We focus so much on the border crossers.

When I was in Congress, the majority of the people not lawfully present in the country weren't border crossers. They actually had permission to come. They just stayed longer and broke the commitment to leave.

So if the left wants to defend how someone who breaks a commitment to either leave on time or show up for court would be a really good neighbor and a really good fellow citizen, more power to you. Go ahead and try to make that argument to the American people.

Now, when it comes to the anti-Semitism and the hate crime aspect of what happened in Boulder, Colorado, the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism has said since January of 2020, 16 terror plots or attacks targeting Jews or Jewish institutions took place, including what happened in Boulder. And nine of those incidents occurred in the last 11 months. What do you think of that?

I think we have had anti-Semitism throughout most of history. You know, it was within my parents' lifetime that someone rose to power in a European country on the promise that he was going to exterminate that race. So this is not new. It has been around. Now, it ebbs and flows, and right now it's on the uptick. So why is it on the uptick?

I mean, I just got through talking to a friend of mine named Tom Cotton, who's the chair of the Senate Intel Committee. So after someone is murdered on a street in New York, Elizabeth Warren says, well, people can only take so much.

This is the killing, the execution of a health care CEO, and she minimizes it by saying, well, you know what? People can only take so much. There is no justification for violence against people based on an immutable characteristic. None. Period. New paragraph.

And until the left starts saying that and quit chanting these ridiculous—first of all, they have no idea which river or which sea they're talking about. They're completely uneducated. So when they chant from the river to the sea, ask them which river and which sea.

What they're saying is do away with the nation of Israel. So if you're willing to do away with the nation of Israel, is it that big of a leap to then do away with Jewish people who are not in the nation of Israel? Rhetoric matters. It doesn't impact people of sound mind. I could not give a damn what Elizabeth Warren says. Could not care less.

But some people actually are motivated by the squad. Now, speaking of anti-Semitism, I can't think of a group that has sometimes overtly and sometimes covertly expressed more anti-Semitism than the so-called squad in the House. What's the political consequence for that?

Nothing. One of them is a thought leader of the party. But what do you do or how would you suggest you talk about the students on college campuses who do the protesting and the chants? How do you say they're uneducated? How do we change minds and get to that point where they can think about it twice? I don't know that you can get racism, xenophobia. I don't know that you can get that out of someone. It's a learned trait.

how you unlearn it, you can go figure that out back in whatever country you came from. But you're not going to figure it out here. That's my point. You can go back to your home country, the one that, by the way, you're seeking asylum from because you're afraid of.

and you come to the U.S. and you want to set Jewish people on fire who are doing nothing except advocating for the release of hostages? Have people forgotten how they became hostages in the first place? Because Hamas beheaded children, raped women under the cover of darkness, including taking Americans hostage. That's all they wanted was to free hostages. And the reward for that is you get set on fire? There is no fixing that.

You either imprison it, you put it to death, or you send them back to wherever the hell they came from. Former Congressman Trey Gowdy from South Carolina, also a former state and federal prosecutor, host of Sunday Night in America, 9 p.m. Eastern on Fox News Channel. You can listen to him on the Trey Gowdy podcast as well. Great to talk to you. Thanks, Trey. Likewise. Thank you for having me.

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It's a devastating disease with no cure, hitting a new high in the U.S. An estimated 7.2 million Americans age 65 and older now living with Alzheimer's. And it kills more people than breast or prostate cancer combined, with millions of loved ones facing difficult challenges along the way.

Melissa Malone left her nursing job to care for her mom, who was only 74 when she died last year. And I felt so alone and so isolated because my mom...

was declining so quickly. Telling Fox 13 in Tampa Bay, that changed with help from the Alzheimer's Association, which says one in three older adults dies with some form of dementia. So the search continues, not only for a cure, but for earlier detection and treatment, often focusing on one of the disease hallmarks, plaque in the brain, though there's been an ongoing debate on whether plaque is a cause or a symptom. The

The Food and Drug Administration recently cleared the first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer's. With this new blood test, what it'll allow for people to do is to kind of have a blood draw and get it sent off for this special testing that'll give us a read about two different molecules or two different levels. Dr. Joel Salinas is a neurologist, chief medical officer for Isaac Health,

and Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology at NYU Langone Health. One is something called plasma p tau 217, and the other is beta amyloid 142. And they're specifically looking for a ratio of these. But what really is helping us to understand is how likely is it that the person has a high amount of amyloid plaque built up in the brain, which is what we typically see in Alzheimer's disease.

The test itself, it's really innovative in that it gives us an easier access to really understanding how likely it is that somebody has Alzheimer's disease. But it is a test that should not be used by itself. And it's actually part of the FDA indication is that it should be done with a specialist who knows how to interpret the results and then can know what next steps to take. What are the ways that doctors...

doctors test for Alzheimer's now, before this blood test came along? They're more invasive, right? Yeah, it's a combination of clinical testing and

an evaluation, and then there's the diagnostic studies. The clinical piece is always important to really understand what is the pattern of your symptoms, to do a neurologic exam, to really understand, you know, is Alzheimer's disease very likely here? From there, we can make recommendations for usually imaging studies. So that usually involves at least an MRI of the brain, which gives us a nice picture of the brain to understand the shape and structure to see if there's other

other conditions or injury going on in the brain. The other type of tests that are getting a lot of traction recently are what's called PET scans. So these PET scans, they usually involve injecting a special kind of molecule into the bloodstream and those molecules attach themselves to something where we could have watched where they go and we take a picture with the PET scan.

The other way that we've traditionally evaluated for this in the highest level of certainty possible has been what's called with the lumbar puncture. And the lumbar puncture, otherwise known as a spinal tap, is where we bring a needle into the spaces of the lower spine to get to the fluid around the spinal cord and nerves. It's generally a very kind of safe and kind of routine procedure. It's kind of like an epidural, but what we're doing is taking some of that cerebral spinal fluid, also called CSF,

And we send that all out for a special testing to look at levels of a protein called tau and another one called amyloid. And what we're looking to see is whether there's kind of clues that suggest that somebody likely has Alzheimer's disease or whether they're less likely to have Alzheimer's disease.

But the key thing that I'll say is, you know, with all these tests, they never give us really 100 percent certainty of the diagnosis. Even though this new blood test is a lot easier than the other methods currently used, as you say, it's not definitive, especially on its own. So while it could be a game changer, it doesn't sound like it's, you know, going to be incorporated anytime soon as something, you know, in a regular form.

annual checkup, let's say. You get your cholesterol checked and you get a blood test to check for, you know, possible plaque in the brain. There are some researchers who aren't convinced about amyloid plaque in particular being the primary cause of Alzheimer's. There's a professor of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh who's argued that

This has gotten too much focus and it might be holding back the search for a cure. Is it possible that a broader focus is needed?

Many people in the field hold different views about kind of what really leads up to Alzheimer's disease, partly because it is really hard to know kind of what are the biological processes that are going on when everybody is so different. So it's likely multiple things that are coming together to lead to what we call Alzheimer's disease. And where I think the field is really heading is similar to where things are.

We're at with cancer treatments earlier on with chemotherapies. It's very rare if you have any kind of cancer that you only get one chemotherapy, but instead you get a protocol or a combination of different treatments that are meant to attack different parts of the disease process. What do we know right now about lifestyle choices we can make that can help to prevent Alzheimer's or that may be causing it?

There's lots of different factors that have been looked at for many years. And before I go into some specific ones, there is actually a really interesting study that will be reporting out results this summer called the US Pointer Trial. And this is a US-based study looking at many different factors that were all applied at once.

to see what the impact was because there have been some studies that have seen when you bring in many different lifestyle factors, that it does seem to slow decline in some specific areas of functioning. I think the most important one out of all of them is physical activity. That's one that I'll always advocate for because it can work through so many different ways, not just blood vessel health, but also kind of measures of inflammation and just health of the cells themselves.

Then there's diet, so something like a Mediterranean diet. There's one specific diet called the MIND diet that is an adaptation of the Mediterranean diet that seems to be really helpful at reducing risk and has been pretty well studied.

So those would be, just to interject on diet, so those would be things I'm guessing that are minimal ultra-processed foods, for instance, maybe low carbs, focusing on fruits, veggies, lean proteins. I think adhering to that healthy diet, even moderately, can be quite beneficial and then includes...

kind of reducing the amount of like very sugary beverages, for example, that someone might take or ultra processed foods, which has gained a lot more evidence around and how it might impact risk in various conditions. Everyone gets forgetful sometimes. When should someone really start to worry that their forgetfulness is not normal? And what's the first step if there is enough concern to see a doctor? Is it a cognitive test?

Yeah, we all go through a process of what's called cognitive aging or typical kind of aging that really begins in our early 20s where we start to have decline in areas like memory and executive functioning with help with judgment planning and organization.

Some areas improve as we get older, things like your vocabulary and even perspective taking or what some people would call wisdom. But even those areas after 80 starts to have some decline. But one thing that's really important to note is that it never declines so much that it interferes with your ability to live your life or to do your day-to-day.

So if you are starting to notice lapses or forgetfulness or repeating yourself or forgetting why you walked into a room every once in a while, I think that can be okay. Definitely keep an eye on it. But if it's happening more and more, especially if it's becoming more frequent over the course of months to years, that could suggest that there's something neurodegenerative. The drugs we have right now that can slow the progression of the disease.

How much more time do patients typically get with a better quality of life from these medications? Or does it vary very widely depending on the patient? Yeah, I would say it varies widely. I think the earlier you are able to start, the higher the likelihood you'll be able to sustain medication.

you know, the higher level of functioning for longer, your ability to make decisions on your own, take care of yourself, manage your own errands, manage your finances, take your medications, do your appointments, really be the best version of yourself for longer. And what we do know from these studies is that after about a year, year and a half, those that are started on these early treatments are much more likely to kind of

still be that more independent, best version of themselves compared to the version of them if they had not been on the treatment. As a neurologist, I know you deal with this disease probably on a regular basis. Where are we overall compared to even 20 years ago? Yeah. You know, I think Alzheimer's disease and other conditions that affect memory and thinking are

Compared to how we've made pretty remarkable advances in other medical conditions, I would say we still have a ways to go. And I think that is kind of there's a bit of a wild west right now as we're all learning with new options for kind of diagnosis and treatment. And I expect that there'll be more options. We've got a pretty robust community.

pipeline of treatments that are kind of in the works right now with over 100 different treatments across many different mechanisms that they're really targeting. And so I would say in the next five, 10 years, I'm really hopeful to see the multiple types of treatments, treatments that are indicated for different stages of disease, for different types of diseases, and eventually

I think we'll see things to look more and more like we see with oncology, certain types of cancer treatment where there's a very clear protocol that we start and we can potentially get to a place where we can not just slow the disease, but actually halt or even cure the disease and reverse some of the injury that it's made. That's certainly a hopeful outlook, especially for

you know, so many families who, who deal with this awful, awful disease. Neurologist, Dr. Joel Salinas, thank you very much for your time.

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That's not going to cut it, though. I'll add that rule change also punctuates the reality of male advantage in sports.

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