FIRST ON FOX – Over two dozen Republican attorneys general warned insurance companies Tuesday that pushing customers ‘to rapidly reduce their emissions’ and other efforts to ‘advance an activist climate agenda’ could be a violation of antitrust law.

Attorneys general Sean Reyes of Utah and Jeff Landry of Louisiana, along with 23 other Republican AGs, sent that warning in a letter to more than a dozen insurance companies on Tuesday that called out their effort to push environmental, social, governance (ESG) priorities.

Companies who got the letter have agreements to push these priorities with the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA) and Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA), which the AGs say could violate both state and federal antitrust laws.

‘The ESG movement has spread to every corner of the world’s financial and energy sectors, and unsuspecting Americans are paying the price,’ Reyes said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

‘Insurers have an obligation to protect the interests of their clients, not advance a radical environmental agenda. Utah is taking a stand against these efforts to stop the increased prices and other harms these horizontal agreements will cause,’ he said.

Under antitrust laws, agreements not to do business with disfavored sectors – such as those that do not meet certain carbon emissions standards – could be an illegal boycott. Likewise, collective agreements to fix prices or restrict production are also illegal. NZIA members wield enormous market power, and their actions threaten to dramatically raise prices for consumers, according to the AGs.

NZIA and NZAOA are both ‘UN-convened groups working to implement the Paris Agreement’s climate change goals through the financial system, including the insurance industry,’ the AGs wrote.

‘NZIA brings together ‘leading insurers and reinsurers representing a significant percentage of the world premium volume globally,’’ the letter said. ‘NZAOA is a coalition of 85 insurance companies and pension funds with $11 trillion under management whose intent is to ‘utilize state-of-the-art tools and align with various initiatives led by asset owners who have demonstrated leadership on the topic of decarbonization,’ including through ‘[j]oint engagement, and monitoring of engagements, based on the most authoritative, credible scientific input, to ensure consistency of messaging and necessary ambition.’’

‘By joining one or both of these organizations, you have committed to using your global influence to ‘transition [your] insurance and reinsurance underwriting portfolios to net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050,’’ it added.

‘Indeed, the ‘central purpose’ of the NZIA is to reduce emissions in the real economy. This means getting your clients to reduce their emissions, ‘especially in the most GHG-intensive sectors such as energy, transportation, industry and agriculture.’’

The AGs explained that the alliances have ‘climate targets’ that their members are required to meet – including pressuring clients who work in an environmentally ‘dirty’ industry to progressively decarbonize their business practices, and progressively increasing the proportion of their business that insures ‘climate solutions,’ such as ‘mitigation or adaption activities.’

The NZAOA protocol includes requiring members to set targets to reduce emissions either of sectors of the economy in which they invest or subsections of their investment portfolio, at a reduction between 22% and 32% by 2025, and 40% to 60% by 2030.

The AGs said they have ‘serious concerns about whether these numerous requirements square with federal law, as well as the laws of our states, as they apply to private actors.’

‘Under our nation’s antitrust laws and their state equivalents, it is well-established that certain arrangements among business competitors are strictly forbidden because they are unfair or unreasonably harmful to competition,’ they wrote.

‘For example, ‘an agreement among competitors not to do business with targeted individuals or businesses may be an illegal boycott, especially if the group of competitors working together has market power,” they said, adding that collective agreements to fix prices or ‘restrict production, sales, or output’ are illegal.

‘To the extent that you directly insure activities in the United States, or exercise control over an entity that does so, refusal to insure based only on the insured’s carbon emissions or compliance with the Paris Agreement’s environmental aspirations could violate state laws that expressly limit reasons for refusal to provide insurance,’ they added.

The letter said two insurance companies have already ended their partnership with NZAOA and NZIA citing antitrust concerns, and asked that the recipients of the letter turn over all communication with the alliance groups and details about how their companies have complied with the ‘climate targets.’

The letter is signed by attorneys general from Utah, Louisiana, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling on his top financial backers to huddle with him in Miami next week, another signal that the popular two-term conservative governor is moving closer to launching a White House campaign and jumping into an increasingly crowded GOP nomination race.

The meeting will take place May 24-25 and potentially extend another day, a source who received an invitation told Fox News on Monday. The source added that he was told by DeSantis officials to ‘block off’ those dates ‘on your calendar.’

The DeSantis political team confirmed to Fox News that the gathering in Miami is ‘a pre-briefing for our top supporters.’

By law, DeSantis cannot receive or ask for contributions for a presidential campaign unless he has formally declared his candidacy. However, the governor can meet with prospective donors to brief them on his 2024 plans if he does not solicit contributions.

Next week’s meeting with donors appears to be the latest in a series of moves in recent days that indicate the launch of DeSantis’ 2024 presidential campaign is nearing. Among them was the move Monday by DeSantis’ political team from the Republican Party of Florida headquarters – where it has been housed following last November’s gubernatorial election – to new offices. 

Another sign was the news – first reported by Fox News on Monday – that Bryan Griffin would be stepping down from his role as press secretary in the governor’s office in order to join the DeSantis political operation.

Additionally, a further signal was the move by the governor last Tuesday to sever ties with Friends of Ron DeSantis, his longtime political state committee, in order to comply with federal campaign finance regulations.

Dan Eberhart, an oil drilling chief executive officer and a prominent Republican donor and bundler who contributed $100,000 and raised half a million dollars for former President Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign but who is now a DeSantis supporter, told Fox News that ‘the DeSantis march to an announcement gets excruciatingly close with the check in with his donors.’

DeSantis set a gubernatorial fundraising record last cycle, and had $110 million cash on hand in his fundraising committees at the start of the spring. Much of that money could likely be transferred to Never Back Down, a super PAC backing the expected DeSantis presidential campaign.

While the popular two-term conservative governor remains on the 2024 sidelines, he said last week that he will decide ‘relatively soon’ whether he will launch a 2024 GOP presidential campaign. When asked over the weekend – during stops in Iowa, the state whose caucuses lead off the GOP presidential nominating calendar – whether a 2024 announcement was near, DeSantis said ‘no news yet.’

However, the governor’s multiple stops in the early voting presidential primary and caucus states since March, along with his expanding of his political team in Tallahassee, were clear signs that DeSantis was moving toward a 2024 presidential campaign launch.

Republican primary polling indicates DeSantis is the top rival to Trump – who is making his third straight White House run. The governor is firmly in second place in the surveys behind Trump, but well ahead of the rest of the pack of actual and likely GOP White House contenders.

The Republican candidate who lost last year’s election for Arizona attorney general returns to court Tuesday to request a new trial in his efforts to overturn the results of the November contest.

Attorneys for candidate Abraham Hamadeh were set to appear at an afternoon Superior Court hearing in Mohave County in Arizona’s northwestern corner to claim they have fresh evidence some votes were not tallied in the election won by Democrat Kris Mayes, who was sworn in early this year.

Hamadeh wants Judge Lee Jantzen to allow a thorough inspection of all ballots in the election.

The case is among several still alive in Arizona courts six months after an election that saw Democrats win the top races in the former Republican stronghold.

Former TV anchor Kari Lake, the 2022 Republican candidate for Arizona governor, also continues to challenge her defeat to Democrat Katie Hobbs, who took office in January, even though courts have dismissed most of her lawsuit.

Lake made former President Donald Trump’s election lies the centerpiece of her campaign. While most other election deniers around the country conceded after losing their races in November, Lake persisted.

Republicans had nominated a slate of candidates backed by Trump who focused on supporting his false claims about the 2020 election. In addition to Hobbs and Mayes, Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly was reelected and Democrat Adrian Fontes won the race for secretary of state.

The Arizona Supreme Court sanctioned Lake’s lawyers $2,000 earlier this month in their unsuccessful challenge of Hobbs’ win.

The state’s highest court said Lake’s attorney made ‘false factual statements’ that more than 35,000 ballots had been improperly added to the total ballot count.

Nebraska lawmakers are set to take up debate late Tuesday on a plan that would tack on a proposed 12-week abortion ban to a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

The combination of the two highly contentious measures sets up what could be one of the most volatile debates of the session.

Technically, lawmakers are slated to take up the final round of debate on the trans health bill, which has already advanced from the first two of three rounds it must survive to pass and go to Gov. Jim Pillen’s desk. But because legislative rules don’t allow amendments to be attached to bills in the final round, lawmakers will debate whether to send the bill back for a second round of debate in order to add the abortion amendment to it.

Opponents of the move plan to filibuster for the entire two hours of debate allowed in the final reading of a bill. Conservatives in the unique single-chamber, officially nonpartisan legislature will need 33 of the body’s 49 senators to vote to end debate before the plan to merge the two issues can move forward. If they fail, both the abortion and trans health measures will be shelved for the year.

Conservatives were stung last month when their bill to ban abortion after cardiac activity can be detected — which happens around six weeks of pregnancy, before most women even know they’re pregnant — failed to break a filibuster by a single vote.

Normally, the issue would be considered tabled for the remainder of the session. But last week, anti-abortion lawmakers sought to resurrect it by crafting a proposal to ban abortion at 12 weeks and attaching it to the trans bill.

Conservatives see the 12-week amendment as a compromise they believe could get the 33 votes they need to see it to the finish line. Opposing lawmakers say the amendment is an unprecedented attempt to take another bite at the apple of a measure they were promised by the Legislature’s speaker would not be revived this year.

Adding to the tumult is the underlying trans health bill, which has been the most contentious of the session. Introduced by freshman Sen. Kathleen Kauth, the bill would ban hormone treatments, puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgery for anyone 18 and younger.

An amended version would make exceptions for minors who were already on hormone treatments before the ban takes effect, but it also would give the state’s chief medical officer wide-ranging authority to set rules for use of hormone treatments for transgender minors. Opponents say that would give a political appointee of a Republican governor the power to block such treatments, even for those minors grandfathered in.

Both restrictions on abortion and transgender people have been consistent targets amid a national push by conservatives in state legislatures this year.

The introduction of the trans health ban led Omaha Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh in late February to vow she would ‘burn the session to the ground’ if it advanced. When the conservative Health and Human Services Committee advanced it anyway, Cavanaugh began an epic filibuster of every single bill before the body — even ones she supports — until the trans health ban was pulled or killed.

She and a supporting cast of lawmakers have done just that for nearly 12 weeks, even as the bill survived by a single vote through the first and second rounds of debate. The filibuster effort has greatly slowed the work of the Legislature this year, forcing lawmakers to package bills together and endure grueling 12-hour and sometimes 15-hour days to pass legislation.

If the plan to merge the abortion and trans health measures gets a go-ahead vote, lawmakers will turn right around Tuesday night and debate again whether to send the merged bill to a final round of debate. If they do, that final round is expected to happen Thursday, when it would likely pass.

Pillen, a Republican elected in November, has said he will sign the amended bill into law if it passes. The bill would include an emergency clause, meaning it will go into effect as soon as the governor signs it.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is calling for a Senate hearing on Special Counsel John Durham’s report and findings that the FBI ‘failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law’ when it launched the Trump-Russia investigation.

Durham’s more than 300-page report was released Monday afternoon after his years-long investigation into the FBI probe, known as ‘Crossfire Hurricane.’ The report said senior FBI personnel used ‘raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence’ as justification to investigate former President Donald Trump and that the investigation relied on leads ‘provided or funded (directly or indirectly) by Trump’s opponents.’ 

The special counsel did not recommend any new charges against individuals or ‘wholesale changes’ to current FBI guidance and polices. However, Durham did say there is a ‘continuing need for the FBI and the Department to recognize that lack of analytical rigor, apparent confirmation bias, and an over-willingness to rely on information from individuals connected to political opponents caused investigators to fail to adequately consider alternative hypotheses and to act without appropriate objectivity or restraint.’ 

In a statement, Graham said the Durham Report is a ‘damning indictment’ of the FBI’s conduct under former Director James Comey. 

‘Their behavior during the Crossfire Hurricane investigation reads like a page out of the Nixon playbook,’ Graham said.

Graham, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Durham’s findings were consistent with his own determination in 2020 that Crossfire Hurricane was motivated by a ‘political agenda.’ He called on Judiciary Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illl., to ‘quickly’ hold a hearing on the Durham report. 

‘Not only could the FBI not verify the Steele Dossier – the essential foundation for surveillance warrants – they ignored exculpatory evidence and illegally altered evidence to continue the investigation.  The facts confirm that the investigation was launched and continued as part of a political agenda,’ Graham said. 

‘Sadly, this report – that shines a bright light on problems at the FBI and DOJ – reinforces the narrative that the Rule of Law in America is subservient to political outcomes.  It is a very dangerous development and moment in American history,’ he continued. 

‘Unfortunately, when it comes to the American Left you will not hear about the Durham Report.  The American Left celebrates bad actors like these because they had a ‘noble cause’ – taking down a political opponent.  It is a case of the ends justifying the means.  I hope they will prove me wrong and come out and make clear that the FBI and DOJ violated the constitutional protections of many, including Donald Trump, but I am not holding my breath.

 ‘Finally, my advice to those unfairly maligned by the bogus Crossfire Hurricane investigation would be to hire a good lawyer and sue the hell out of them. Those responsible for Crossfire Hurricane destroyed reputations and lives, all in the name of politics.  Someone needs to be held accountable for using the law as a political weapon and ruining innocent peoples’ lives.’

At least six public elementary schools in New York City will use their gymnasiums to temporarily house migrants who flooded into the city from the southern border, according to a report.

The six schools set to host migrants are all in Brooklyn, the New York Post reported Monday. Adult migrants began to arrive on Sunday at the PS 188 gym in Coney Island, the report said, and at least five more are preparing to do the same: PS 17, PS 18, PS 132, PS 172 and PS 189.

MS 577, a middle prep school, will also host migrants in the gym it shares with PS 17. The two schools placed cots in the gym Monday in preparation to host busloads of migrants as early as Tuesday, according to the report. Parents claimed the school will be locked down with no recess or physical education because the gym is adjacent to the outdoor playground.

‘These kids just came through COVID, and now they’re being locked inside the classroom,’ Virginia Vu, a PTA member and parent at MS 577, told The Post. ‘To bus people to our school and expect the community to absorb them is just insane.’

The wave of migrants hosted by schools in the city comes less than one week after the expiration of the Title 42 policy that allowed border agents to turn away migrants at the border in order to prevent the spread of COVID.

Damaris Fernandez, a parent of students at MS 577 and PS 17, said the housing for migrants is a security issue.

‘Parents have to sign in and provide ID when they go into school — now there’s migrants in the playground,’ Fernandez told The Post. ‘My phone has been going crazy with angry parents. Nobody agrees with what’s happened.’

Gabriela Vizhnay, a parent of a student at PS 172, said she ‘almost cried’ when she heard the gym would host migrants.

‘These elementary kids are being sacrificed over something that can be done somewhere else,’ Vizhnay told The Post. ‘You’re sacrificing kids. The future of this county.’

The New York City Education Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

FIRST ON FOX: The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) has made their ‘top political priority’ fighting Democrat-affiliated groups targeting state legislatures’ GOP majorities.

An RSLC memo exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital revealed the committee is making their ‘top political priority’ for the 2023-2024 election cycle defending ‘our majorities against an overwhelming amount of outside spending from Democrat affiliated groups.’

‘A mere 33 seats are standing in the way of Democrats taking back eight legislative chambers across five states, to take control of a majority of state legislatures in the country,’ the memo reads.

‘National Democrats are targeting all of them and have already asked for an additional $10 million while they continue to rapidly outpace Republicans with financial resources and investment,’ the memo continued.

The memo noted that in 2022, ‘state Republicans defied the odds by facing down an onslaught in national liberal spending and an incredibly challenging political environment to still preserve their hold on an overwhelming majority of state legislatures throughout the country.’

Additionally, the RSLC pointed out the 35 seat net gain in state legislatures and the expansion of GOP power ‘power in numerous states, gaining supermajorities in both chambers of the Florida Legislature, the Iowa Senate, the North Carolina Senate, the Wisconsin Senate, the South Carolina House, and the Montana Senate.’

‘We also broke out of the superminority in both chambers in Oregon as well as making gains in the New York Assembly,’ the memo read. ‘Additionally, we picked up seats in liberal strongholds like Maine, New Mexico, and Hawaii.’

‘In 2023, we have already seen state Democrats switch parties and join Republican-led legislatures in Louisiana and North Carolina, giving Republicans a veto-proof supermajority in the Louisiana House and North Carolina House, bringing our total number of Republican supermajorities up to 25 nationwide,’ it continued.

The RSLC wrote that the 2022 cycle taught them Republicans need ‘an abundance of resources to catch up to the spending levels by Democrats’ and organizations like ‘the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the States Project, and Majority Forward’ that are spending hundreds of millions of dollars.

The RSLC also noted the ‘need to target low propensity voters early and often by implementing an effective absentee ballot/early voting (AB/EV) political program’ and that the maintaining of GOP-controlled legislatures is ‘becoming increasingly harder,’ necessitating the defense of the state chambers outside of election years.

‘While the U.S House, U.S. Senate, and the White House have changed hands a total of seven times since 2010, the one constant for the conservative movement has been state legislative power. We have gotten used to having a strong backstop in the states, but our complacency has us trending in the wrong direction and is putting Republicans at risk of no longer controlling a majority of state legislative chambers for the first time since 2010.’

In 2023, the RSLC will focus on maintaining the Virginia state House majority while trying to flip the state Senate, as well as defend the seats gained in New Jersey in the last election alongside the supermajorities in Louisiana and the Mississippi.

The RSLC is also looking to nab a supermajority in the Mississippi state House.

For 2024, the RSLC has put six states on their list of preliminary defense: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, New Hampshire, Texas, and the Pennsylvania Senate.

The RSLC is looking to use increased outreach to low-propensity GOP voters to flip three states’ legislatures, as well, Michigan, Minnesota and Pennsylvania.

Additionally, the RSLC has put seven liberal stronghold states in their sights to make meaningful gains in after the party’s performance in the areas in 2022: Illinois, Maine, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Washington.

‘Heading into a pivotal election cycle with Joe Biden on the top of the ticket, Democrats will be taking nothing for granted up-and-down the ballot,’ the memo reads. ‘This list remains a preliminary target list and is subject to change throughout the course of the election cycle because we are not taking anything for granted as a 50-state organization.’

‘The Democrats have already proven that they’re willing to implement an earlier strategy and invest larger sums of money at the state level than ever before, so we must be prepared to take action anywhere, anytime,’ the memo continues. ‘While Republicans will be focused on retaking control of the White House, it is our duty to stop the Democrats from taking a majority of legislative chambers across the country.’

‘We are the cornerstone of the conservative movement, and with your continued partnership and support we will be able to defend our majorities and expand the map for state Republicans,’ it concludes.

United States Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz on Monday disclosed approximate figures for apprehensions and ‘gotaways’ at the southern border following last week’s expiration of Title 42. 

Tweeting early Monday morning, Ortiz said that in the past 72 hours, three agents had been assaulted, 14,752 people had been apprehended, and approximately 4,316 ‘gotaways’ had been reported. 

Ortiz also disclosed that agents had seized 4 lbs. of marijuana, one pound of cocaine, nearly $60,000, in addition to encountering five sex offenders and one wanted felon. 

Immigration restrictions linked to the coronavirus pandemic — referred to as Title 42 — expired at midnight Thursday and new U.S. enforcement measures went into effect Friday.

In the days since, the number of migrants encountered at the southern border has fallen 50% compared with the 10,000-plus encountered each day for the three days leading up to the end of Title 42. 

Still U.S. officials are cautioning that it’s too early to draw firm conclusions. 

‘We are closely watching what’s happening,’ Blas Nunez-Neto, assistant secretary for border and immigration policy at the Department of Homeland Security, said. ‘We are confident that the plan that we have developed across the U.S. government to address these flows will work over time.’ 

Nunez-Neto credited the U.S. planning as well as enforcement measures Mexico and Guatemala have carried out in recent days along their own southern borders. He said the number of migrants in U.S. custody also has fallen ‘significantly’ since last week but is still high.

Title 42 allowed U.S. officials to quickly expel migrants without letting them seek asylum, but it also carried no consequences for those who entered the country and were expelled. In the leadup to the end of Title 42, the U.S. introduced tough enforcement measures to discourage people from arriving at the border, encouraging them instead to use one of the pathways the U.S. has created to facilitate migration.

Many migrants, worried about these tough enforcement measures, came before Title 42 expired.

The U.S., meanwhile, is in litigation about whether it can release migrants without what’s called a ‘notice to appear.’ Usually, migrants who are released into the United States — as opposed to those held in custody or immediately expelled — get a ‘notice to appear,’ which includes a court date and some type of monitoring with immigration officials. But it can take up to two hours to process a single person for this, potentially choking Border Patrol holding facilities when they’re at capacity.

Since 2021 the U.S. has often released migrants from custody with instructions to report to an immigration office in 60 days. It’s a process that takes only 20 minutes, but it’s come under attack by those who say it doesn’t offer enough oversight. On Friday, a Florida court temporarily put an end to the process. The administration is appealing that decision. 

On Monday, the judge, in a preliminary injunction, narrowed the order so it only applies to migrants who say they plan to stay in Florida until their court hearings.

In court filings last week, U.S. authorities said they cannot confidently estimate how many people will cross the border. Matthew Hudak, deputy Border Patrol chief, said authorities predict arrests will spike to between 12,000 and 14,000 a day. 

Fox News’ Bill Melugin on Monday challeneged White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for denying that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was ‘encouraging or allowing mass release of migrants.’ 

He noted that on Thursday alone, more than 6,000 migrants were released without a court date and the Biden administration was arguing in federal court that it needs these releases. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

The FBI and Justice Department jumped to investigate former President Trump’s campaign despite a lack of sound evidence, a ‘notable departure’ from the way it resisted efforts to investigate claims against Hillary Clinton’s campaign, according to Special Counsel John Durham’s final report on the probe into alleged election collusion between Trump and Russia.

Durham’s long awaited report from his investigation into FBI’s ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ probe was delivered to Congress on Monday and revealed that FBI and DOJ ‘failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law’ when it launched the Trump-Russia investigation.

Durham’s report also highlighted that the Trump investigation was ‘markedly different’ from the government’s level of interest in Clinton’s campaign.

Durham’s report said the FBI briefed Clinton staffers on information of possible threats aimed at the Clinton campaign, but ignored intelligence it received from ‘a trusted foreign source pointing to a Clinton campaign plan to vilify Trump by tying him to Vladimir Putin so as to divert attention from her own concerns relating to her use of a private email server.’

‘The speed and manner in which the FBI opened and investigated Crossfire Hurricane during the presidential election season based on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence also reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached prior matters involving possible attempted foreign election interference plans aimed at the Clinton campaign,’ the report said.

‘[I]n the eighteen months leading up to the 2016 election, the FBI was required to deal with a number of proposed investigations that had the potential of affecting the election,’ the report said. In each of those instances – including those related to Clinton – the FBI moved with ‘considerable caution.’

‘In one such matter… FBI Headquarters and Department officials required defensive briefings to be provided to Clinton and other officials or candidates who appeared to be the targets of foreign interference,’ the report said.

‘In another, the FBI elected to end an investigation after one of its longtime and valuable CHSs [confidential human sources] went beyond what was authorized and made an improper and possibly illegal financial contribution to the Clinton campaign on behalf of a foreign entity as a precursor to a much larger donation being contemplated,’ it said.

‘And in a third, the Clinton Foundation matter, both senior FBI and Department officials placed restrictions on how those matters were to be handled such that essentially no investigative activities occurred for months leading up to the election,’ the report said.

‘Unlike the FBI’s opening of a full investigation of unknown members of the Trump campaign based on raw, uncorroborated information, in this separate matter involving a purported Clinton campaign plan, the FBI never opened any type of inquiry, issued any taskings, employed any analytical personnel, or produced any analytical products in connection with the information,’ it found.

‘This lack of action was despite the fact that the significance of the Clinton plan intelligence was such as to have prompted the Director of the CIA to brief the President, Vice President, Attorney General, Director of the FBI, and other senior government officials about its content within days of its receipt,’ the report said.

The FBI reacted to the report Monday in a statement: ‘The conduct in 2016 and 2017 that Special Counsel Durham examined was the reason that current FBI leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time. Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented. This report reinforces the importance of ensuring the FBI continues to do its work with the rigor, objectivity, and professionalism the American people deserve and rightly expect.’

A Hernando County, Florida, fifth grade teacher is under investigation by the school district and state Department of Education after showing a Disney movie with an openly gay character.

Jenna Barbee is a first-year teacher at Winding Waters K-8 who is being investigated by the Hernando County School District and Florida Department of Education for showing the Disney movie ‘Strange World’ to her fifth-grade students.

The movie features a character named Ethan Clade who happens to be gay and is played by an openly gay comedian named Jaboukie Young-White.

But Barbee did not show the students the movie because it had a gay character. In fact, she claimed on a TikTok video, and during a school board meeting on May 9 that she showed the movie to her students because they were learning about earth and ecosystems.

Barbee said in her TikTok video that school board member Shannon Rodriguez’s daughter is in her class. The daughter told her mother about the movie she and her peers watched in class, which resulted in the school board member reporting Barbee to the Florida Department of Education, Barbee claimed.

The issue is controversial because Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education Act into law in 2022, which restricts discussions on topics like sexual and gender identity in classrooms. The act has been inaccurately referred to as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law.

Barbee said it was her understanding she needed to have signed permission slips to show PG movies in her class, which she claimed to have required.

Rodriguez spoke about the issue during a school board meeting, saying the principal did not approve the movie, nor did any of the administrators, which she claims must approve all movies that are shown.

Barbee, though, took Rodriguez’s actions as an attack.

On May 9, Barbee spoke during the public portion of the school board meeting, oftentimes taking shots at Rodriguez for not addressing the issue as a parent of a student in her classroom, but instead as a school board member.

‘The word indoctrination is thrown around a lot right now, but it seems that those who are using it are using it as a defense tactic for their own fear-based belief without understanding the true meaning of the word,’ Barbee said. ‘The craziest thing about this is the abuse of power she is allowed to use and that nothing is being done about it.’

Rodriguez did not immediately respond to inquiries about the matter.

During the school board meeting, she said it was her job, as a parent, to teach her child about the ‘birds and the bees’ in relationships, and to determine at what age to teach those lessons.

‘I want to embark on those conversations by not following policy and procedure,’ Rodriguez said. ‘Ms. Barbee stripped me of my right as a parent to have those conversations prematurely.’