And finally the ugly. Have you ever seen that big . No, never. I think thats two guys in an alligator suit. Thats a reallife alligator suit. Fox friends starts now. Good morning to you and your family. It is tuesday, may 31st. Im ainsley earhardt. Outrage mounting over the cincinnati zoos decision to shoot and kill a gorilla to save a little boys life. The zoo is now doubling down on its decisions as celebrities are expressing outrage and a memorial day vigil is held in the gorilla as honor. They say his life mattered. Here we go again. A stunning new report set to be released today exposes another coverup inside the va. They were covering up the coverup, seriously. This as donald trump gets ready to detail his donations to veterans. Zbln it was a game for the ages. And he fires yes unbelievable comeback complete. The warriors make history. Down two games in the conference finals, coming back to win the series. Only the tenth team ever to do so and they did it in recordsetting fashion and they still have another series to go. Amazing. Mornings are better with friends. Im winning that guy winning is a rookie. He was a rookie, on saturday he was. And he won the indy 500 and guess what, alex rossen will join us for his first tv interview. Can you imagine as a rookie . He became a millionaire on sunday. Lets talk about this gorilla story because outrage is growing. Pressure is mounting this morning to charge the parents of that little boy who fell into the gorilla exhibit, forcing zoo officials to shoot and kill that animal. Protesters are picketing outside the zoo for shooting the gorilla who was 17 years old as the zoo doubles down on its decision that was the right decision. This story is really blowing up over the last 24 hours. The anger among Animal Rights activists is growing. Theres a petition out with almost 100,000 signatures calling for a new state law to hold the parents criminally responsible. Activists claim he was neglectful. Harambe drag the child through the moet. It sparked outrage among Animal Rights activists. The zoo stands by its decision. Were talking by an individual with one hand that ive seen a coconut and crunch it. He was disoriented. He never had anything like that going on, and that also led to the decision, of course, not to dart the animal. In the aftermath, the parents of the child have faced a firestorm of criticism. The mother on facebook thanking
the zoo staff saying accidents happened and including the daily mail, the father has a long rap sheet including drugs and kidnapping charges. Protesters and animal lovers have been standing outside of the zoo calling for the parents to be prosecuted. No charges are being considered at this moment. The whole incident is bringing back memories from 1996 you remember in illinois where a threeyearold gorilla carried a threeyearold boy to safety after falling into an enclosure. The spokeperson said in the real world you make difficult decisions and the safety of the child is paramount. I know youve been talking about it all morning. Well continue to expand on it. Thanks. What would you do in that situation . If it was a random cop who came
in there and started shooting and said hey, i just saw a kid in trouble, i could see the outrage, the people who had to take down the gorilla would be the last ones to take it down. You had jack hanna coming on our show over the weekend, however, a child is in danger and he knew right off the get go when he saw that video, something had to be done, you had to kill the gorilla. A tranquilizer would take ten minutes. It could be possibly the gorilla get mad. People are screaming. There were calls. He ignored that. The zoo keepers have the most knowledge. Have cared for the gorilla all these years, the last thing want to do is take the gorillas
life. Thanklyfully, celebrities felt the need to chime in. Joseph kahn said if your kid purposefully falls into a gorilla cage, you should tell your kid goodbye. Thats called darwinism. Pierce morgan, a magnificent gorilla dies because a does foiled to make its barriers safe. And rob lowe, between this guy and the mom, you have societys problems in a nut shell, everything is everybody elses fault. Good point. While you were talking, brian, they were showing pictures of protesters. This is memorial day and you got americans out there protesting no one wants to lose this gorilla but youve got a child in there whose life was saved and were talking about his life matters and protesting
rest in peace gorilla. Such a misplaced sense of priorities. And ellen tweeted out something his life matters too. Parents are concerned, everyone makes mistakes. Everyone that i know as a parent put your child in there. With a gorilla, what would you want them to do . Ripped around. Theres no doubt. Those is it zoo keepers, they have rules of engagement. They try to escalate slowly and other things. Ultimatelily there was no decision. People are saying charge the parents now. What if kids run out in front a car, thats an accident. Would you want to charge the parent for that . Were moving on to a stunning new report today that exposes yet another coverup, you guessed it, inside the va. Candy land investigators, that facility that was notorious for
giving out opiates to veterans in large amounts unnecessarily, now investigators are finding out that and this is a Senate Investigative committee that the ig that was supposed to watchdog the va covered up as well. Youve got a coverup of the cover up. They find some damning evidence, but rather than releasing it publicly, talks about it quietly and closes the report. Now the Senate Homeland security and Governmental Affairs committee is going to release a report. They had to investigate the investigators and in that investigation found a massive cover up of wait times, again, opiates and other scandals. Good for this committee for releasing that information to you the taxpayer who pays for the salaries of people running va hospitals across the country. Im glad theres some transparency. They game the system to maximize their money and get
their aid. Now you have an Inspector General overlooking their shoulder and he becomes corrupt. You get more money to pay somebody else to go in there. You have to have the quality of the individual somewhere, somebody has to have some integrity within that organization. A person who has said he will reform the va. Today hes going to announce where the 6 million in donations that he got after he did not go to our debate that we hosted, where they will go. He had to screen out the organizations involved. Were probably going to get some details. Were going to get some detail today in a press conference. Hes going to clarify where that money went, where its going. I dont feel like he would be holding a press conference unless there was some sort of a resolution to this. Its been an ongoing problem. Saying hey those were staged in many ways by the clinton camp but there were legitimate concerns, wheres the 6 million going . They have been working hard. Maybe va hospitals. They clearly need it. Nl its not money they need. They need accountability and choice but there are some Great Charities that hes giving to and as long as that money is accounted for, i think thats a good thing. Heather nauert, youll find out how our weekend was at this point and what is in the news. Good morning, heather. Welcome back. A lot going on today. Great to have you here with us. We start with some extreme weather this morning. Watersoaked texas bracing for the worst as more dangerous storms and flooding set to wreak havoc from the south up through the plains today. Tens of thousands of people forced to flee submerged suburbs. This happening overnight as more mandatory evacuations putting in place. Death toll climbed to 7. The river in the southeastern part of that state cresting any
moment now, possibly breaking a 60year record high. Wind, hail, tornadoes, set to hit texas today. Three twisters already hit colorado near the state line. Jumping into action when Animal Rights activists rush a stage at a Bernie Sanders rally in california. The group direct action everywhere saying responsibility saying its hoping to ber said persuade Bernie Sanders to take a stuff stands against factory farms. And the Golden State Warriors complete a comeback for the ages. Watch this. And he fires yes nice, right . The warriors winning the western conference finals against the thunder after being down three games to one, steph curry
leading the way with 36 points. They will face the Cleveland Cavaliers in a rematch of last years nba finals. Game one is on thursday. Check out this cute moment after the game. Curry tried giving his daughter riley a kiss, but as any parent who has been there, she wanted no part of that. Riley has got the best personality on both teams. Shes amazing. We watched the game until 11 30 last night. Not together. We decided not to watch it over. Then he rolls over and went to sleep. Good point. Steph curry, ive never seen better shooting in my life. Game seven, game six. For basketball fans this is one cht most fun playoffs to watch. You were a division i player coming out of princeton, unbelievable. Just to watch these guys at this level do that. Game six was amazing, game seven
and this is after the greatest regular season in nba history. They were on the brink of elimination and now they have a rematch against cleveland who is actually happy. Lebron is playing well. Its going to be great. A shocking case of road rage caught on camera. [ bleep ]. The man who just got hit by that car, a veteran on a memorial day bike ride. The story behind the road rage straight ahead. Wow. And donald trump has got the delegates to secure the nomination ahead of the convention, so why is bill kristol he has a Third Party Candidate to stop him. Is that doing more harm than good or good than arm . In a world held back by compromise,
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from things that happened in the past . That was ben carson on the prospects of a Third Party Candidate. There is a chance one will play the spoiler in november. Bill kristol sweetd this out. There will be an independent candidate, an impressive one, with a strong team and a real chance. Would a third Party Conservative candidate do more harm than good to donald trump or the party . Joining us right now to discuss is carrie picket. How real is bill kristols tweet, do you think . I think it is perfectly real, but the problem here is people around too sure what exactly bill kristols intentions are. If we throw an independent candidate in there and we already have a libertarian candidate in there, it throws
the entire election into a plurality. And it heads to congress. That hasnt happened since 1885. Maybe hes so upset that donald trump won that hes taking it out maybe on the party. Some of the names that have been brought up, general stanley mccrystal, senator tom coburn and mike bloomberg. Which name is practical to you . The problem is the majority of them, almost all of them have pretty much said they are not interested. They dont want to do an independent run. They get on 50 ballots because they will go on a smaller ticket, like the reform ballot ticket. A lot of these deadlines have
passed to get your name on the ballot. S heres what donald trump did. Remember what ralph nader did to al gore, take 2 . They take 1 or 2 , the libertarian takes 1 or 2 , Hillary Clinton is the next president of the United States. It sure looks that way. Nader and perot were effective spoilers from the party that they took votes from. If you think about this going forward, it could cause an interesting situation with the debates going into the general. How many people are going to get in the stage where they actually qualify to do so . Thanks so much. Ten minutes before the bottom of the hour, coming up, the outrage growing after a zoo kills a gorilla after a child falls into the cage. Well talk to a wildlife expert
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decision . Unfortunately, if you want to save this child, its the only decision you can go with. As the gorilla is pulling him around that moat very violently at times, if that child would be knocked unconscious, the child would drown almost instantly before anyone could get to it. Some said the gorilla was protecting the child. Do you buy that . No, not really. When he grabbed that child and ran with him, that was his new fun play toy so to speak. He wasnt ready to give it up and it was interesting, with all the commotion that could have come about from trying to chemically immobilize the animal, it could have gotten
worse. Whats protocol . Every time, theres going to be different variables that come into play. With the best information they had, that is the choice that they made. When i see the drop and i heard about the barrier, i was surprised that it was that accessible. I didnt even think it was possible to do that unless you wanted to commit suicide especially as a child. Heres a zoo director thats talking about that barrier thats been effective for 36 years. The barrier is adequate and we all need to work to make sure that our families and our kids are safe, whether you are visiting the zoo or a shopping mall. You back it up thats adequate. Clearly it wasnt. The zoo is in a tough situation. The public wants an intimate situation. If somebody wants to get there, they can get in there. A fouryearold getting in there
unassisted t whats your mess parents . People are blaming the parents. Some saying the parents need to be charged. Bringing up the dads past criminal history who wasnt there at the zoo. The mom was there in the background saying mama is up here, mama is here and someone else is yelling for you, were praying for you, god be with this child. Whats your message to the parent . Its a wakeup call to a sense. You could take your child in a Home Improvement store and leave them with the power tools. Youve got to watch your children, theres a million different ways that you are not watching your child, the child can get in trouble. An eyewitness, kim oconnor said the boy said he wanted to get in the water with the gorillas. That would be kind of a big wakeup call thats something a fouryearold might say as a father of kids that, hey, a gorilla, wow, amazing. Ultima