>> we will do it again. >> laura: your cameraman shot that and you and david edit it. david cast is a good job editing. >> great job. >> laura: it made me smile.this this is the best package on the show. i love for that. >> i loved it capture theio nsfamiliarity, the traditions, what people don't get to see. that is the backbone of mardi gras. a happy mardi gras. i have a surprise for you but you gave us as a with trump. tomorrow. >> laura: i am wearing mardi gras purple which i werepl to one of those luncheons. >> so am ie. . i have a medallion for you. >> laura: i'm waiting for that. happy mardi gras appear >> todd: a fox news alert, dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas has been impeached over the border crisis, the first time a cabinet secretary has been impeached in

148 years. it is likely a trial will begin to determine if he should be removed from office. thank you for joining us, i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'll carley shimkus. working to convince senators mayorkas is guilty of charges against him. brooke singman has the details. good morning. >> brooke: historic day on capitol hill. 214-213, how impeachment managers are preparing their case for the senate. >> i'd be real surprised if they didn't try to rush it. everyday we talk about the border is bad for their guy and he's in reelection this year. i will be shocked if it is not moved quickly. my message to the senate, look

at our polling and border security is the number one issue in our city and community. >> when you look at the breach of public trust and he's refused to comply with the law, i hope the case will be heard in something other than a schumer partisan lens. >> brooke: josh hawley posting, now it is time for mayorkas to stand trial and biden's open border policies with them and mike lee saying we have a trial. president biden is slamming the indictment saying history will not look kindly for this unconstitutional partisanship that has targeted an honorable man.

they will decide if mayorkas is removed from office and white house will appoint a lawyer to defend mayorkas during the trial. >> carley: breakdown was 214 to 213, impeached by just one vote. senator chuck schumer says the trial will begin in late february, very unlikely to kick him out of congress, the senate is democratic majority. >> todd: in case there was any doubt, we know who the big guy is. tony bobulinski leaving 0.0% doubt. >> brooke: yeah, tony bobulinski testified for hours behind closed doors from 10:00 a.m. to 6:30. saying his family's foreign influence pedalling to china and ukraine sold out to foreign actors seeking to gain access to

joe biden and the united states government. top democratic on the oversight committee jamie raskin says bobulinski offers no testimony that indicates any criminal activity by president biden and offers no suggestion or evidence that president biden was involved in hunter's businesses. house republicans say they learned a lot. >> he talked about joe's involvement and numerous times he talked to joe biden. he mentioned joe biden thanked him for what he was doing with his brother and his son. >> when joe biden shows up at four seasons restaurant for lunch with eight chinese officials at cefc. joe biden comes in and gives a short presentation and leaves and three weeks later 3 million

wired to accounts. >> they are selling the brand to foreign entities like china. >> brooke: bobulinski said joe biden is the big guy. >> carley: we know that joe biden is the big guy, got the 10% from the chinese energy company. is it corrupt or criminal? we don't know where this is going to lead. >> brooke: apparently the deal did not go through, we are waiting to find out answers. i think that transcript james comer said he will release will probably provide some answers that we've been looking for for years, we've been covering this bobulinski storyline since 2020, interesting to see what really under oath he has to say and

we'll keep following it. >> todd: amazed by jamie raskin's statements. today is not wednesday, even though full evidence says today is wednesday, he lives in a different universe. >> carley: big news out of new york, tom suozzi heading back to congress to take over george santos seat, he defeated pilip flipping from red to blue after securing 54% of the vote, bringing balance of power to 219 republicans and 213 democrats with three vacancies remaining. victory party did not go off without a few interruptions for tom suozzi. >> you can't hide, you're supporting genocide. [screaming] >> you support genocide. >> okay.

ceasefire now. you support genocide. >> carley: that was quite the scene last night, the seat was vacated after congress voted to expel santos, who pleaded not guilty to money laundering charges. the seat is back to blue, todd. >> todd: switch gear to white, senior meteorologist janice dean has the fox weather forecast. we got some snow. >> janice: we did. 15 inches here in connecticut. new jersey, 15 inches, pennsylvania 15, again, parts of new jersey 15. over a foot of snow, very good forecast even though we had to rejigger the map 24 to 36 hours to include big cities like new york city. we'll get more as we get into friday and saturday for the northeast. keep that in mind, snowy

pattern. this is next system pushing across northern plains and toward northeast and parts of i-95 will get a shot of snow on friday. keep that in mind as we go through the rest of work week. the west, this is something we'll be talking about for the next couple days as parade of pacific storms impact this area, including california, especially with storm number three as we go through southern california and that means potential for heavy rain along the coast and mountain snow. three storms we're watching over next several days into the weekend. we are talking about the atmospheric river and this just means more rain to already saturated forecast, especially for southern california. that is in the headlines going through the weekend. valentine's day forecast, there is your reminder.

i love going to cvs to get russell stover chocolates. >> todd: who doesn't love them. >> janice: not a bad-looking forecast for a lot of snugly viewers out there. >> todd: russell stover and whitman. >> carley: this show does not take sides. >> todd: i will not take sides. >> janice: i will take it all. >> carley: happy valentine's day. >> todd: we want to see more of you guys, send a quick video of you saying your name, where you are from, why you are up early and what you love about the show, e-mail videos to friends first at fox.com, we look forward to hearing from you. to absolute chaos after a car comes crashing through austin, texas emergency room. >> carley: wow.

>> todd: we'll tell you everything we know right now. >> carley: look at that video, must have been so scary and a boston democrat want people to shelter migrants in their own homes, that is our solution to sanctuary city mismanagement. grace curleshg y, we love her, she lives in boston and she's here to call out this crazy proposal next. ♪ ♪

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>> todd: one dead and five hurt after a car plows into a hospital in austin, texas. the driver later died in the er. one child is in critical condition. austin police department is investigating this crash. it does not look intentional. >> carley: out of massachusetts, boston is running out of room to house migrants and one city council member wants residents to start taking them in. she says cities and towns have more resources than the city of boston and people who have more financial support, we need to set them up for success or whatever success looks like. i think everyone should be opening up their doors because this is a shared responsibility. >> todd: grace curley is host of the grace curley show and joins

us now, if i'm a resident of the area, when does your horrible sanctuary city create a responsibility for me. what say you, grace? >> i agree. we saw this happening in martha's vineyard in 2022. martha's vineyard, home to john kerry and barack obama, when they received 50 migrants from ron desantis, they brought in the national guard. this is not a kumbaya moment. this will create issues and a lot of unhappy people out there. >> carley: this is genius of governor greg abbott he made this an issue for blue cities who called for open borders and now a lot of black residents are angry and because of this and the economy, those solid blue voters some say are up for grabs and joe biden cannot afford that. >> yeah, i'm glad you brought up

cass, the recreation center that was used for young kids to practice track and hang out, an important area in the community and people are not happy about it. people were holding signs, why us, why not welsley. they are panicking a little bit and doing things like calling on suburbs and a lot of people who have signs that say hate has no home here, they have to put their money where their mouth is. >> carley: do you think people will house the migrants? >> there has been a couple of local news stories about people in brookline and other places taking in migrants. some are not hypocrites. this is what i stand for and i

will take people in, they say. it is not enough to handle the influx, but there are some people who haved, i am open to sanctuary city or town and my door is open. >> todd: my concern with that, you're basically opening your doors to an unvetted stranger and normalizing illegality. you think you are doing something magnanimous, it is bad for our country. get your thoughts on the san diego border sector arresting 269 chinese migrants on monday. take a look at this, 450 chinese nationals encountered in fiscal year 2021, more than 20,000 so far this year temperature is unlikely these are ccp agents. are you buying that issue grace?

>> i'm not and of course not everyone coming in has nefarious intention, we would be naive to think people are not taking advantage of it. it is incentivizing people to come here and making it obvious we can get through the border and there will not be a lot of punishment or vetting. if you are a chinese national or anyone in any part of the world and this is what you want to do, now seems to be the time, especially heading into election, people realize if they don't make this decision now and take advantage now, they might not have the opportunity come the election in november and hopefully if there is somebody else in charge. >> carley: many chinese migrants say they are here because of strict covid lockdown and they are coming here for a better life and they are military age

men raising a lot of concern. >> todd: you saw the video. >> carley: them scampering in from the open section in california. they know where to go, it says it on tiktok, another big issue. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. there is this. new report accusing barack obama's cia of spying on two dozen trump associates before the russia collusion narrative dominated headlines. >> todd: and last week's disastrous press conversation. >> i will not take questions. i will take questions later. >> todd: joe concha will take questions, he will be here next. >> getting the latest from "fox and friends first" i'm up here early in austin, texas.

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people to bump or make contact with or manipulate, targets of our own ic and targets for collection and information. here is one reporter michael shellenberger who spoke to jesse watters last night. >> if this binder contains raw intelligence, information showing the u.s. government and cia initiated the russia collusion hoax and did not occur the way the durham investigation portrayed it, that is serious information. lucas tomlinson the report released same time house conservatives are preparing a bill for the surveillance act. today the house rules committee will meet over the fisa reform.

>> todd: quite a bombshell. bring in joe concha, you are a media guy, when trump said this was happening, the media attacked him mercilessly. >> joe: they did. saying he was throwing out conspiracy theories and as a result, we should not take anything he's saying seriously. let's be clear first. this report has not been confirmed by major news outlets, for sake of conversation, it wouldn't be surprising if this did happen and matt taibi and michael shellenberger. -- his sole job is to bash trump at every turn. when you listen to john brennan

on tv now and see the reporting and reporters behind it, it is not hard to believe that barack obama and therefore his cia would spy on donald trump in an attempt to stop him from becoming president and after he became president to make his job as difficult as possible, guys. >> todd: don't take joe concha's words, here is john brennan in 2018. >> donald trump has soiled the reputation of the office of the presidency, he is most divisive president, he is fuelling hatred and animosity and misunderstanding among americans. i and other officials are speaking out because of abnormal and abhorrent behavior of mr. trump. >> large and painful national kidney stone.

relief we feel afterward will be exhilarating. >> todd: before the 2016 election. as you saw there, john brennan, one of obama's intel department heads targeted a presidential campaign ran by donald j trump, two campaigns. how is that not textbook election interference, joe? >> joe: it completely is and took independent journalists like taibi and shellenberg. think about former national intelligence officials who have gone from doing their job and supposed to be apolitical to going on tv and talking about how bad he is for america. we just saw clapper on the screen with john brennan and

cla clapper cnn, andy andrew mccabe was under james comy and he has written two books and a showtime series, about donald trump. officials are doing jobs like i do in terms of analyzing things on television and they are supposed to be apolitical. after they leave office, they should do other things besides going on tv and sounds like rachel maddow or keith olberman. people at the top have become vastly political and american people know that. >> todd: good to see the media complex holding them to account for undemocratic acts. there is alleged 10-inch binder

shell shellenberger referenced, but whereabouts are unknown. whoever placed cocaine in the white house, but i digress. joe biden delivering white house address to attack trump but did not want to take questions. watch. >> president biden: i will make this statement and let it stand on its own. i will take questions later. thank you. >> what did putin say? >> what -- >> sir, [indiscernible] -- >> todd: joe, will joe answer more questions between now and november after quite frankly a train wreck last week? >> joe: todd, did you see his schedule yesterday? nothing on it outside of lunch with kamala harris. he had nowhere to go.

no pressing issue where he had to lead and not take questions. this president is a absolute coward, he should be telling his advisers, i want to answer questions and show i have mental acuity to do this job. instead he wanders off evera making a statement and he had nowhere to go. this is as surprising as sunrising in east and birds flying south for winter. he is controlled and driven by others in terms of when he can and cannot speak to reporters and american people. he had three solo press conferences in 2023. will he take questions between now and november? we'll see him in east palestine ohio where he promised to go two weeks ago. that never happened. it is the same thing. never take anything this

president says seriously, judge him by his actions. >> todd: his handlers had him primed, no questions. joe concha thank you for your time, we appreciate it. what do you think about this? federal government will use your taxpayer dollars to pay rent for homeless people in two states, cheryl casone will explain. >> carley: and candy prices are not sweet this holiday. not just a box of chocolate you are 35iing more for. we'll talk to two business owners about that coming up next. ♪ ♪

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>> todd: a fox business alert. i thought joe said it was going down. stocks went down yesterday following news inflation held staubornly high in january. >> carley: it was ugly. cheryl casone is here with the latest. good morning. >> cheryl: inflation coming in hotter than expected yesterday. that is not what president biden

wants to see and not what the market wanted to see, it was worst day since march of 2023, we lost half the gains. 3.1% was annualized number. insurance and eggs are up. sticky piece of this report were food, food away from home, grocery store, restaurant and energy prices are high. all indexes combined led to a market sell-off and this is what people are paying at the pump, at the store and to an election year. >> todd: speaking of food, people on the show know i love a good mcdonald's breakfast and i have time from when i leave this show and go home. there is mcdonald's across the

street. if this proposal in california come to pass, i may get a side job at mcdonald's, i will get free food and $50 an hour. >> cheryl: lucky you don't live in california, if minimum wage goes to $50 an hour, that is what one candidate democratic candidate we all know barbara lee who is running for california seat vacated by dianne feinstein. here is what she says about minimum wage. >> $127,000 for a family of four is just barely enough to get by. do the math. we have national minimum wage we need to raise to a living wage talking $20 to $25, fine, i need fo focus on california. >> cheryl: you saw four people on the stage, adam schiff is

there, he says 20 to 25, they are at 16. federal minimum wage is $7.25. she says $50. big mac is $9, that would go up to $15 if we saw something like this. again, it is the bay area. here is what you do if you are going to become the new senator in california. here is what you do. focus on less taxes, les regulation and getting business back to the bay area of san francisco, which has been destroyed by homelessness and crime and progressive policies. >> carley: even $25 sounds insane for minimum wage, those are starting jobs, not supposed to be the goal, you want to work up the ladder. homeless people, federal government has proposal to pay for rent in certain states. >> cheryl: we will see this in

arizona and oregon. they will spend and this is because they are being allowed by federal government 550 million on medicaid budget on funding a program and oregon will spend a billion, housing assistance to pay up people's rent in this state to treat hom homelessness. there is a healthcare problem. like a valley girl, totally. i think homelessness and mental health are connected and drug use and mental health. i understand the reasoning. paying off the rent mice be misdirected, i think they need healthcare services, not sit in a rent-free apartment and continue to do drugs and not do

anything. there is a hand out and a hand up, give them a hand up. >> carley: there is nuance to this, thinking is if you get people off the street, they will not tap money into emergency rooms which takes funding from medicaid and medicare. you can see where they are going with it. wait and see if this is a solution. >> cheryl: i'm sure we have toun are, really quick in arizona, they are taking page from new york city. hotels are being filled with homeless individuals in arizona, is that the way you in arizona folks, want to spend your medicaid budget? just a thought. >> carley: thank you. it is valentine's day, not sweet for some business owners. as cheryl was talking about, including chocolate, price of coca hit a high today and prices

are up on other sweet treats and here to explain is the owner of just baked deli and bakery. good morning to you both. sounds like owning a bakery would be fun, with every job there are headaches and inflation is one of them. tell us what you are going through, are prices more expensive than they were last year? >> absolutely. last year we were paying $25 for a five-pound bag of cocoa, this year upward of $50. we can't charge more for baked goods because people are not willing to pay it. our cream has increased double, last year $4 to $5 for a two-quarter container and this year $8 to $9.

our strawberries increased almost double this year. last year paying $25 to 30 and this year almost $55 for a case. people do not want to pay over $40 for a dozen chocolate covered strawberries. >> carley: are you just taking the hit? >> right now, yeah, that is what we're doing. we've increased marginally, not nearly enough to cover the cost. >> carley: joe biden keeps saying inflation is going down, which makes people think prices are going back down that is not true. prices are going up, they are going up at a slightly slower rate than they were a couple years ago. is hawhat you are seeing when you go to buy ingredients you need? >> absolutely, everything we buy right now is up.

last year we increased prices because we had to because of inflation. we have not done so this year. we have taken the approach of taking our product and making smaller packages of it, we're finding our customers want to buy and be able to acknowledge friends and family with sweet treats and fabulous things. they want to buy less. we've had to make a big shift how we present our products and package them so we can give them good value. we have not taken price increase this year and just try to be more accomodating to our clients. >> carley: thank you for doing such a great job feeding us delicious things. thank you for joining us. back to breaking news. dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas

making history as first cabinet member to be impeached in almost 150 years. texas congressman lance gooden voted to impeach mayorkas, he will tell us what to expect in the senate trial. >> todd: not history you want to make. first steve doocy with what is coming up on "fox and friends." >> steve: coming up on jam-packed wednesday morning, take a look at capitol hill where house republicans find themselves with a thinner majority this morning. tom suozzi, democrat here in new york state flipped new york seat once held by george santos, now it is democrat. this as house republicans vote to impeach alejandro mayorkas, as we just heard, majority leader steve scalise will react to all of that, he was well enough to go vote yesterday. lawrence jones is on the ground

covering the crime crisis, he is in st. louis, businesses are turning to private security companies. that is too bad. today is ash wednesday, beginning of lent season for millions of people. actors mark wahlberg will join us how the hallow app is bringing americans closer to faith and dr. dr. nicole saphier on potentially groundbreaking cancer that costs $5. and charles payne on what investors need to know after yesterday's dismal day. we have a very busy three hours starting 10 minutes from now on the channel you trust for morning news. it is ash wednesday and valentine's day. wear red.

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>> todd: a fox news alert. dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas has been impeached over the border crisis. the first type a cabinet secretary has been imeechingd in 148 years.

>> the ball moves over to the senate where a trial will likely begin later this month to ultimately determine whether he should be removed from office. texas congressman labs gooden voted to impeach mayorkas and he joins us now. congressman, good morning to you. democrats control the senate and it's very unlikely that he they're going to vote to kick him out of office. what wars the goal here? >> the gool was to show the american people that republicans are on the side of border security. we are on the side of the american people. and, frankly, we got to the point where we were seeing this executive administration, in this case dhs, not enforcing laws that congress has passed. that's the purpose of the executive branch of government is to carry out congress' wishes and enforce the laws. secretary mayorkas was not doing that an impeachment is a final tool a last ditch effort, if you will, to hold the administration accountable and unfortunately we have come to this point because our border is not secured. secretary mayorkas has ignored the will of the people. he has not followed the laws.

he has instructed his department to not follow the laws that are already on the books. and we have come to this point where we are having to impeach an official for the first time in 150 years. >> todd: president biden says, quote, history will not look kindly on house republicans for their blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship targeted an honorable public servant in order to play petty political games. your response to that, congressman? >> well, frankly, i have spoken with secretary mayorkas, i have seen him thumb his nose up at the judiciary committee of which i'm a member. is he not interested in any accountability, he has lied to the american people. and, frankly his performance in this administration is the most disgraceful of all members of the cabinet. i'm disappointed in this president for defending him. i'm disappointed in him for lying to the american people. forever lying to congress. i think impeachment is, in fact, overdue. i'm happy that we finally got our votes in line last night and that we have taken this next step. and we have got to get to the

point where we are securing our border. secretary mayorkas has abdicated his duty to the american people and i think this is very good move by congress last night. >> carley: but, congressman, are you concerned that if he does stay in office, and the senate doesn't vote to kick him out, then the biden administration is going to do a victory lap and say he is exonerated. how would you respond to that. >> i don't believe that the senate will take this seriously. if you recall, though, after nancy pelosi led all the witch-hunt impeachments against president trump, she lectured the american people, especially republicans how b. how serious impeachment was. so i would expect democrats to hold the seriousness of this impeachment that they did for prior impeachments that they pursued. i don't suspect that will be the case. i think the biden administration is so accustomed to lying to the measure people, they declare victory every day. they tell the american people what a great job they are doing. they tell the american people that the border is secure. the american people don't believe that and i believe that history will be judged on this

administration in the form of an election rebuke come november. >> todd: meantime you are demanding transparency from the biden administration on this alleged fani willis meeting. basically, you wrote a letter to the white house saying you have to come clean as to why a state prosecution in a random county in georgia needed to meet with the white house counsel. that's the overarching demand in your letter. what specific questions do you want answered, congressman? >> well, i would like to know why the state prosecutor and the one i'm referring to is the gentleman who has had the inappropriate relationship with someone who is paying his bills. that's fani willis, the prosecutor. frankly, let me correct myself that's the taxpayers of fulton county and the federal taxpayers across this nation because they have received quite a bit of federal funds to that office there in fulton county, georgia. i would like to know what kind of coordination the white house had with this prosecutor who went to work for fani willis who has continued overseeing this

prosecution of donald trump. i would also like to know to what extent her office as a whole continues to work with the justice department because this comes down to the weapons of government, election interference at the white house is working with a prosecutor in georgia, a state prosecutor to prosecute a now opponent to this president in a presidential year. that's the definition of election interference and that's what the american people are sick of. that's what we have been accused of on the republican side for many years. and, frankly, it's disgraceful that we have gone to this point that this white house and joe biden are doing everything they can to stop president trump from running and winning the white house. >> carley: a case that took a turn that nobody anticipated and lot of questions remain. congressman gooden, thanks so much for joining us. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> good to see you. >> steve: thank you, carley and todd. yep, it's 6:00 here in new york city. it is february 14th it's valentine's day. it's also aswe