Fox host suggests focus on campus protests is an intentional distraction from the border

Rachel Campos-Duffy: “I've often wondered as I've been watching this unfold, maybe they want us focusing on this protest because we are not paying attention as much ... to what is coming across the border”

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From the May 3, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (CO-HOST): I think your question is such a good one, Lawrence. Why -- you see these images, the American people don't like it, they don't like seeing George Washington looking defaced or looking like a Hamas terrorist. This doesn't look good, so then why aren't they doing more to stop it. Part of it, of course, is there is conflict within their own party, they're fighting, you have these young people, there's civil war in the middle of this and he doesn't want to get involved. But I've often wondered as I've been watching this unfold, maybe they want us focusing on this protest because we are not paying attention as much, because of these protests, to what is coming across the border. The border is still wide open, the real terrorists are coming through. The numbers of people they want to come through to change our elections and our electorate are coming through. So there is that question as well in my mind. Are we --

BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): Right, I don't think they could have scripted something as bad as the border, this is almost as bad as the border collapse.