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Hey everybody, I'm Dave Rubin and this is First Look. It's Tuesday, July 28, 2026. We've got a packed show for you today. ICE is preparing a major Haitian deportation push as temporary protected status expires for hundreds of thousands. Anthony Fauci's private diary has been released and it shows the so called top doctor was obsessed with his own exploding fame during the pandemic Recess is vanishing from Americ. Schools and parents across the country are fighting to bring it back. Let's dive in. ICE is getting ready to send Haitians home as their legal protections finally expire. Immigration agents are preparing to ramp up arrests and deportations of Haitian migrants as early as this week. Roughly 350,000 Haitians are set to lose their legal protections under the Temporary Protected Status program after a Supreme Court ruling last month cleared the way for the Trump administration to end it. The same ruling ends protections for Syrians. These plans, first reported by cbs, include targeted arrests in Ohio communities like Springfield, places where large Haitian populations have settled for years. The operation is designed to move quickly, get people on deportation flights back to Haiti. That is a country the State Department explicitly warns Americans not to visit because of rampant gang violence and instability. Border czar Tom Homan has defended the stepped up enforcement, the only way a serious immigration official should the protections were always meant to be temporary. They were never supposed to become a permanent backdoor amnesty. The Department of Homeland Security has not confirmed every operational detail, but it issued a clear statement. People who are losing status can leave the country voluntarily. The US Is even offering financial help to do so. What we would say now is it's closing time, which means you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here, the department said. The good news is it's not too late to get a $2,600 check and a free flight home. This is happening at the same time the Trump administration is ramping up a separate accountability effort, stripping naturalized Americans of their citizenship when fraud or serious misconduct is proven. The plan is to file at least 250 denaturalization cases by October. This is what enforcement looks like when you stop treating temporary programs as permanent entitlements. President Trump promised to end the TPS scam. The Supreme Court backed him. Now ICE is doing the job. Anthony Fauci's private diary exposes a man obsessed with his own fame Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky released a trove of diary entries and notes kept by then NIAID director Anthony Fauci over the weekend. The documents cover December 2019 through December 2022, the years the COVID pandemic upended American life. What they reveal is not a humble public servant. They reveal a manipulative, duplicitous figure who was, above all, obsessed with his own exploding fame. While the media treated him like a saint. Very early in the pandemic in April 2020, as the government was already blaming more than 60,000 fatalities on COVID 19, Fauci was taking careful note of his rising media profile. One April 7 entry read, Press still hot and heavy about me. Multiple stories per day, directly or indirectly involving me. Six weeks later, he was luxuriating in it. Big front page article about me appeared in the Washington Post. Very flattering. The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. It is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country. By that point, the reported death toll was approaching 100,000. Fauci also reveled in the power he boasted privately about how his decisions were crashing the US Stock markets. He marveled that New York and California shut down schools because of his say so. The diary entries show something even more serious. He was not telling the public what he actually believed. His personal notes indicated he thought the mortality rate for COVID 19 was far lower than what he was saying on television. And the documents suggest he was not entirely forthcoming about the possibility that the virus came from a lab leak in Wuhan. Publicly, he pushed the wet market or natural animal crossover theory. Privately, the assessment among scientists was different. What he wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories Rand Paul posted on X when he announced the document dump. Fauci is now under subpoena to testify under oath on Capitol Hill this Wednesday. After years of media worship and institutional protection, the man who helped shut down the country is finally going to have to answer questions under penalty of perjury. About time Recess is disappearing from American schools, and parents are fighting back When Kathryn Truman's son, Sawyer, started kindergarten, she was shocked to learn his school only gave him 20 minutes of recess a day. The 40 year old nurse worried he would not get enough of a mental or physical break. She was not alone. Truman teamed up with other parents in Tennessee and helped push a law that passed last year requiring at least 40 minutes of recess in elementary schools. Now she is working to expand it into middle schools and helps lead the nonprofit say yes to Recess, which has chapters in 20 states. Parents across the country are sounding the same alarm in New Hampshire and Michigan they have already forced some schools to increase recess and are pushing for state mandates. In New York, some parents say a teachers union backed bill that would require only up to 30 minutes of unstructured recess in elementary school does not go far enough. In Michigan, Chanel Talbert got involved after her daughter's elementary school cut recess last year. The girl was not struggling academically, but Talbert could see she was burned out from a seven hour school day. Parents launched a petition demanding at least 60 minutes of recess that has collected more than 1,300 signatures. They are working with a state legislator on a bill for 40 minutes, a number they believe can actually pass. Morning and afternoon recesses used to be standard in American elementary schools after World War II. That changed in the 2000s when the test score obsession took over. Schools cut recess to squeeze in more reading and math. States set minimum instructional hours and recess usually does not count toward them. Chicago Public Schools restored daily recess in 2012 after many of its elementary schools had eliminated it. But the broader recovery has been slow. Pediatricians have been warning for years that recess delivers both mental and physical benefits. In May, the American Academy of Pediatrics expanded its endorsement beyond elementary schools to include middle and high schools. Research points to at least 20 minutes a day with multiple breaks as the minimum. Catherine Ramstetter, co author of the recommendation, said recess helps children remember information, learn better and develop interpersonal skills. She points to the finish model of 15 minute breaks multiple times a day. The importance of recess as time to connect with one another cannot be understated. In Oklahoma, Republican state Senator Ali Seyfried helped pass a law in April that raised the requirement from 20 to 40 minutes of daily recess for kindergarten through fifth grade. It was part of a broader package that also banned cell phones during school and and emphasized phonics. Parents who had little boys definitely recognized the importance of this, she said. In New Hampshire, school physical therapist and mother Chrissy west began advocating after watching her daughter Daisy become so overwhelmed she would have tantrums after school. She would say that her whole body is just ready to run, west recalled. The girl later started asking for bathroom breaks just so she could walk the hallways. Wes championed a bill for 45 to 60 minutes of recess for K6 students. It was defeated on the House floor over concerns about teacher contracts and staffing. The say yes to Recess initiative wants at least 60 minutes of screen free time every day when children choose their own activities and it cannot be taken away as punishment. That hour is based on research from Texas Christian University showing the optimal time to reduce stress, improve test scores and fight obesity. West and other parents have already forced change at Valley View Community school in Farmington, New Hampshire. This past year, the school added a 25 minute recess block starting at 7:30am Classes were moved back 10 minutes to make room. Principal Mark Dangora admits it is still a work in progress as he aims for 50 to 55 minutes total. Losing a little instructional time has not hurt learning so far. Children need play, he said. This is common sense. Kids are not machines. When schools treat them like test score factories, parents have every right to push back. And in red states, they are winning. And that's your first look this Tuesday. Quick recap. ICE is preparing to deport Haitians as temporary protected status expires and the Trump administration offers voluntary departure incentives. Anthony Fauci's private diary shows a man obsessed with fame who told the country one story while writing another. And parents nationwide are forcing schools to restore recess after years of cutting it for more test prep. We'll keep following all of it. I'm Dave Rubin. Thanks for starting your day with first look. See you tomorrow.