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Protect and defend your legacy here. give you the last word. >> i want to protect my legacy. i train great horses. i have trained the best horses run through there. my record proves it. this is horrible what has happened. we would never, you know, this horse never got that medication. thats -- also owe an injustice to the horse. he ran hard and deserved to win that race and it kills me because these horses are like my children. for something that happens to them like that is horrible. but we hav...

Racing has a problem, bob baffert is not the problem. >> bill: this isnt something you bury in the diet of the horse. this has to be injected into the joints. it is a steroid. anti-inflammatory. it would mask essentially the amount of physical exertion the horse is exhibiting on the track and help the horse to run faster. you have had five forces from the baffert barn in the last year to fail a drug test. what would explain that? >> they were all resolved. they were all contamination. we have to...

Tests are run? >> charles, i think we need to prepare for what are potential explanations. was there a shot given that may be baffert didnt know about. was it given at a time before he thought maybe that the drug would still in the horses system. he has all of these wins. ive been talking to a lot of people in sports and horse racing about this topic. i say bring up people like barry bonds. people say why would baffert need to do this. why did barry bonds need to do what he did? why did lance ar...

Because it touched a nerve that folks are really frightened in whats happening in the school districts. i want to encourage them to overcome your fears and please speak up. >> i reached out to the fairfax county public school system and havent heard back. if we do well pass it along. >> dana: talking about all this last week. debrief out of control chinese rocket came down in the ocean. nasa is still slamming china as reckless. the international community, can they hold china accountable? a kent...

Sometimes you never find out and it is just a tragedy what has happened in this race. >> dana: do you think that the result was maybe a false positive? >> well, were hoping. well do dna testing. sometimes they can be -- they have the wrong test or whatever. but, you know, dana, whats happening is they are testing at these -- pico gram levels. it is like a salt grain in an olympic size pool. she had 25 pike owe grams. its a legal drug. a few years ago this would have never been called. in califor...

Up in the test is injectable anti-inflammatory to tough for me to put in the prompter. bob baffort says he would never give that drug to a horse. do you think he is stupid? >> bob baffort is not stupid. thats not a drug that i would use on a horse. we dont use that horse -- we dont use that drug. the horse never had it in him. and we have the documentation. were going to show everything. >> brian: that was bob baffort saying bob baffort wasnt stupid. he has been doing a full-court press in the m...

Be a pain but were getting there. and the cdc guidance across time will allow vaccinated people more and more privileges to take off that mask. >> why does president biden in a room full of vaccinated journalists with everybody vaccinated, why does he wear a mask? >> the president will continue to follow the cdc guidance. jillian: president biden defended his actions claiming it, quote, its still good policy. todd: bob baffert denies any wrong doing after the kentucky winner tests positive. >> i...

To save that toddlers life. jillian: did you hear about this? kentucky derby disaster. medina spirit failing a post race drug test. how trainer bob baffert is defending the derby winner. "fox & friends first" continues right now. ♪ just another manic monday. ♪ wish it was sunday. ♪ thats my fun day. ♪ my i dont have to run day. todd: youre looking live at the lovely city of jacksonville, fla. as the bangles play their manic monday song. jillian: can i take issue with the lyrics of the so...

Are you adamant that you had nothing to do with it? are you adamant that it did not happen? >> this did not happen. that horse has never been treated with that. its a legal therapeutic medicine. that horse was never treated with that. thats the disturbing part of it. i cannot believe -- i never thought i would have to be fighting for my reputation and this poor horses reputation because of the new regulations the regulators have put and testing these horses at contaminated levels and its been a ...

His full cooperation ahead of this saturdays preakness. >> i got the biggest gut punch in racing for something that i didnt do. and this is really -- itses disturbing. its an injustice to the horse. i dont feel embarrassed. i feel like is was wronged. jillian: this is the second time he has faced cheating allegations and he has had five horses fail drug tests. as of now, the win still stands. gamblers are cash their tickets as betting results are final. im curious to see the outcome of this. tod...