he hast great policies. let's hear about the policiesan and move on. >> it s waneet to see how he wl bring inflation down. because it is effective. i can't read as many people as i normally would. >> guys, we are out of time pure nel laura, we will see you tomow and bring the panel back to lood town hall. t wait, raymond, panel, we will see you tomorrowi we will be there in a few hours. remember, tune in tomorrow and if you have questions you want me to ask donald trump, you can't tweet me or x me is what they areow calling it now and i will consider asking thosel be questions. we will be in greenville, south carolina, this will belicy foreign policy, domestic policy, legal policy, the weaponization of government, the borde r >> carley: it is a busy day in south carolina ahead of the

primary this saturday. nikki haley will speak on the state of the race, questions about her future swirl. and donald trump will sit down with laura ingraham for a fox news town hall. you are watching "fox and friends," i'm carley shimkus. >> todd: i'm todd piro. former president has more than campaigning on his schedule. his lawyers are prepared to pay to appeal the judge's decision in his new york city civil trial case. >> you are looking at roughly close to $400 million and he did nothing wrong. they know by looking at his statement of financial condition, this guy is worth billions and billions and billions of dollars. >> carley: a constitutional attorney and former member of president trump's transition team joins us now. the president is facing a massive fine and banned from

firming as ceo of the trump organization for three years. he can't apply for loans in new york. what are chances he does win on appeal? >> one thing we can say, carley, this will take a long time. there is no incentive for new york court system to speed this along. he has a strong argument on the merits, one of which is classic definition of fraud, which first year law students are taught was not applied in this case. the meaning of law under new york state code says things everyone understands fraud to be does not apply under the

constitution. the way this particular new york statute is written, this is a difficult question. if you take fraud out of fraud then you have something different and if it is something looser than fraud, how do you justify dra cokian penalties on any american, not just donald trump. >> todd: everything you said, i agree with, there are a lot of big issues that can be appealed are. are you worried he will push his council to relitigate the trial that was litigated, which you cannot do, instead of focusing on issues that can be appealed which r are ripe to be overturned.

trump has good attorneys, you don't want to leave behind. there is constitutional arguments, todd, along the line is this taking of property, is this violation of law? there has to be conduct on one hand and penalty ones other hand and if they are out of lean, you might have a due process issue. the huge amount awarded against donald trump and there are no victims here, no one complaining. you usually see the attorney general get involved when you have a line of financial victims out the door. you don't have that here. you have the most sophisticated banks on the planet saying we like the trump organization and would do business with them again. >> carley: mark, his lawyers say

he's prepared to pay the $400 million bond. why is the bond so high? >> if you don't pay the bond, they can start to execute the judgement. you want to post the bond. usually you post a percentage of a bond to the bank and if you lose on appeal, the bank will pay it off and you repay the bank. you are trying to stay and attempt to affectuate the judgement by posting the bond. you usually just post a percentage and if you lose you pay the full amount to the bank or other side. >> todd: from new york to d.c., special counsel jack smith pushing to get the federal case

going, what is normal timing for case/issue for supreme court to decide on and what is jack smith trying to do to override that timing? >> this is something i don't think has been focused on enough. jack smiths, about a month ago, was saying only court in america that should consider this is supreme court. now he's saying we don't need your help, let d.c. court of appeals decision stand. if we sought supreme court today, earliest conceivable date would be this fall after october of 2024 and what is interesting here, is that will the supreme court try to expedite this case? any other litigant in the united

states, no chance because docket is full up this term. jack smith goes to supreme court and wants it resolved now. what the special counsel is trial in front of a d.c. judge and d.c. jury. he feels donald trump can't get a fair trial given political makeup of the panel. carol >> carley: thank you for joining us. 37 million people under flood alert in california as second atmosp atmospheric system barrels through the state. winds up to 50 miles per hour. >> todd: land slides prompting closures across the state. adam klotz has the fox weather

forecast. >> adam: californians can't get a break, another round of storms. this is forecast for today, mostly clear and sunny. west coast is seeing all the action, no surprise when you talk about flood watching. 37 million folks, we are looking at rounds and rounds of rain. last 12 or 24 hours have been across portions of southern california. that is where we're seeing the best risk of flash flooding. yellow colors mean flooding is very likely. we've seen these across california in the month of february. it is not an area we can take this much rain and that is why flooding is such an issue. all the water funnels down and we get serious problems. all this moisture across the

west, snowfall for the areas. here is what the rainfall still to come is. a lot of areas is an inch to two inches. we have been seeing round after round of that. i wanted to get to this, this is top rainfall totals in downtown los angeles and we are at number four here. if we add couple more frns, it is possible this could be rainest february in history. it continues to come down. >> todd: i was there during number six, it was horrible. adam, thank you. from weather to the track, william byron taking the checkered flag and won the daytona 500 yesterday in front of alex bowman. things did not get into full daytona 500 fashion until eight

laps to go. >> now joey logano and he is turned by william byron, laney and gilliland and more. >> todd: the winner of the race was in that mess. 40 involved in that. another caution flag in the final two laps. race goes to review and come down to the pair teammates. >> if those two, hendrick motorsport win. >> the 24, the 24 across the finish line. >> william byron, unbelievable. 40 years to the day, one and two. >> todd: william byron's first win. he will join "fox and friends first" to discuss the wild win.

i love they drive hundreds of miles per hour and at caution, they are driving like my grandma, and that is how they win. >> carley: sparks were flying on the race. you win and you get to join "fox and friends." >> todd: send us a video of you saying your name, what you love about the show and e-mail your video to friends first at fox.com. >> carley: we play the videos and go to break, every single time it sounds like,awe, we love you, too. thank you for watching >> todd: we comment on every one of them. >> carley: that is a live reenactment. >> todd: democrats are struggling to relate to the average american. >> a lot of voters look back on the trump year and didn't like a lot about it, they think the

economy was good. >> carley: and blue collar joe is jetting off to california where wealthy donors are spending $250's,000 to see him. not everyone is excited about biden, we'll explain that much. >> todd: common man joe. >> carley: when we return. ♪

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money fundraisers where donors will cough up 250,000 tickets. what? >> todd: madeline rivera live in washington, d.c. with more. we may talk fancy, but we are common folk and cannot attend. >> unless you have thousands of dollars. the president is trying to boost campaign covers. tickets range up to 250,000. if you want a photo with the president, it could cost $25,000. they have 130 million on hand. is that war chest enough to counter voter skepticism about his age? nate silver writes biden is probably below level candidate at this point, there are concerns about prospect of a

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for his wings like nothing is going on. no one cares biden is coming into town except few people that can cough up the money and go to a millionaire's house. he will fly into lax and take marine one over and take a car over to some rich person's house for no reason whatsoever. they should tour him through los angeles, see the scum, see the graffiti and streets and homeless people, not going to a rich guy's dining room to take $25,000 photos temperature is a joke. >> todd: lack of enthusiasm for joe biden and out of touchness with real america and real l.a. violent crime reaching new high with 190's,000 incidents in your

state and leading number of homeless people, 181, 399. you describe yourself as liberal, how has the liberal takeover of california changed your views? >> i really think if you want to take people and move them away from liberalism, have them live in california and try and run a business for a few years, that ought to do it. best solution if you want to turn people off liberalism. that 250,000 dollar price ticket for a meeting with joe biden is not even enough for a down payment on a basic california house for somebody trying to get started in life. that is why you see homeless people. >> todd: if you are not part of the elites, who he is hitting up

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beating donald trump. she can't win her home state, no other state in the nation, if you can't win your home state. she's down by 25 to 30 points in south carolina. best thing she can do is drop out of the race and let us focus on joe biden. >> the latest polling average shows haley 30 points behind former president trump in her home state. she says she has no plans to pull the plug on her campaign. >> this is not about joe biden or donald trump, this is about the american people and we have to keep it about the american people. i voted for donald trump twice. i was proud to serve america in his administration. i have never issues with him. this is not a dislike of him or

anything else. the fact is chaos him wherever he goes. >> super pac does not seem optimistic about the primary result and looking to march 5. south carolina is a rough state, a trump-friendly state, our hope is nikki haley can make it respectable in south carolina and move to super tuesday. donald trump will be joining laura ingraham for a town hall tonight at 7 p.m. eastern, back to you. >> todd: the world is on fire, good to see the secretary of state focus on what is important and asking his staffers to use newel rat gender friendly words and avoid mother and father, son

and daughter and husband and wife. >> carley: stop right now, i will smack you in the face. >> todd: suggest using labor force, folks, partner and spouse. when speaking avoid brave men and women on the front line and use specific lines like brave first responders. >> carley: serious business today, u.s. will call on the u.n. to -- the proposed draft says under current circumstances, major ground offensive into rafah would harm civilians and further displacement including into neighboring countries. former assistant ant to presidet

bush joins us. what do you think this push to call for a ceasefire? this is not a un thing, it does not hold weight, it is more where the united states stand. the united states opinion does matter and i don't think israel will agree with this. we have israel fighting terrorists and i took it as biden administration shooting israel in the back. israel neateds more time to deal with this terrorist force. we have grave concern about the humanitarian situation, so let's continue to press for assistance and aid to get through. we would not have been dictated to after 9/11 if the world was saying, back down against al qaeda. israel ought to be given more time and space to finish the job

in gaza. >> carley: the u.s. is working on a peace deals, reward for killing 1200 israelis? no way republican administration would entertain an idea like this. what would a 50 timeline for a palestinian state look like? >> it would cause a rush to make this work when conditions are not set for that on the ground. it is premature, it would reward palestinians for hamas's dast dastardly actions. which territory is going to be at play? will they control their own border and national security or let more terrorists and iranian proxies into a new palestinian

area? i'm worried about it, we have a long way to go before we get there. let israel finish the job and talk about other issues later. >> carley: there is this other report that says iran is urging proxies not to provoke the united states into wider war and telling all the age groups, hezbollah and houthis to -- it back, what is your read on that? >> i'm skeptical. it sounds great if that is true and president biden was able to reestablish deterrence. i have no doubts and saw news shooting at houthi and cripple one from the u.k. i have doubts, see how it looks in the coming weeks. iran is after us in medium to long-term to kick us out of the

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market hitting record high, new trade agreement, corporate tax rate, just a few examples. this nbc news poll shows 55% of voters prefer trump over biden when dealing with the economy. the inflation story is up 18% under president biden and people feel this. >> todd: warren does not have an answer, she is out of touch and not with what is going on. michigan makes a horrible decision with regard to migrants and say, it is on you the people to upon had us solve the problem. >> cheryl: they want residents to pick up migrants and help give them a job and put their kids in school and give them a place to live and global michigan officers empower more

michiganers to build a welcoming and cluesive michigan for all. all the things i mentioned, they will do these things. end of the day, michigan taxpayers will foot the bill for influx of migrants. every state has become a border state. >> carley: there is more, head to massachusetts, shall we? >> cheryl: there is more fun being had in massachusetts. massachusetts, the boston area is spending when it comes to migrants. $64 a person in some instances to feed the migrants, $64 a day. they have $116 million in a grant but 10 million is for a

contract for a company providing meals. remember, no-bid contracts, there was no competition, a politician picks a company and we've seen that in new york and it makes people mad. the company granted 10 million say we are not the exclusive meal vendor and do not have a contract. here is what is happening in michigan, they displaced low-income kids to house migrants. they are right to shelter city like new york. they are getting crushed like new york is. i say that from a financial perspective. >> todd: i yell at you when you spend $16 for breakfast, that is your own money. >> carley: todd is my money manager. >> todd: thousands of chinese nationals crossing the south

border. griff jenkins spoke with one of them. why did you come? >> money? >> for job? >> carley: and griff jenkins joins us off his trip to california, what did you see? >> griff: i saw next phase of the border crisis in california. it is different than we saw in texas where governor abbott put up razor wire and shipping containers to lock down the border in eagle pass pass. in jacumba, california, it is wide open and california is a sanctuary state. the city officials and local police cannot cooperate to detain migrants. don't forget on january 1, california became first state to offer free health insurance to illegal migrants. i am here to tell you right now, it is 21,000 chinese nationals

crossed southern border. more than twenty,000 in that sector right there. that individual said i'm here for the money and needing a job or better life does not qualify for asylum. >> todd: i want to focus on what you said about the number of people going to san diego, chinese nationals going to the california sector. you and bill melugin reported there is no vetting there. in texas, there is something. >> griff: i talk a lot to border patrol and i was asking them where is it going? they said it is san diego sector, a large number is hitting the terror screening database, i spoke to three syrian men, bill melugin ran into individuals from kazakhstan

and i talked to some from afghanistan. back to the chinese, hold these up. these are four id cards, temporary visa cards chinese nationals have discarded on the ground because they were granted temporary asylum in mexico. they don't want that, their goal is the u.s. to get free health insurance and be released into the country and many of these maybe half or more will be allowed to stay. >> carley: i'm sure those are all over the ground on the border. >> griff: all over the open, rocky area. >> carley: china is king of long-term planning to your honor yoo undermine the united states. people say they are coming here for jobs and i'm sure that is true. think about the covid lockdowns in china.

it would be part of china's play book to disburse people for nefarious rans, whatever it may be, that is the concern here. >> griff: you put your finger on it. i confirmed with a border patrol official that told a house committee we are worried about the number of chinese we are getting. they briefed the lawmakers they were concerned there could be communist party ties to the individuals. the majority of these are single adult males. even if they are not a spy of china, china is number one theft of intellectual property. they are stealing from our country blindly. i asked that individual what kind of job did you want to get?

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>> carley: cnn correspondent is suggesting house republicans have blood on their hands for blocking a foreign aid package that would have sent more money

to ukraine. listen to this question. >> mr. president, would you go as far as to say about alexei navalny blood is on the hands of house republicans right now. >> i wouldn't use that term. they are making a big mistake in not responding. joe concha is a fox news contributor. he joints us now. biden is going whoa, whoa, i'm not going that far. what kind of a question was that? >> that was a question that says wow cnn trails msnbc so let's be more like msnbc and asking insane questions in order to, i guess, go viral is the goal. and this is the cnn now post chris licht as far as being activists instead of journalists. basically the premises, if republicans had spent billions of aid in ukraine that would have changed the decision by vladimir putin to murder his long-time political rival who he had already jailed alexei navalny? i mean, it's insane. it just shows you however how fr

journalists have gone to become activists. we have sent $100 billion to ukraine on no explanation how to negotiate and end this war perpetual stalemate in eastern ukraine. we could be talking about this war five years from now, carley and todd. it could still be in the same exact state. americans want to know why are we sending all this money over there when nothing seems to be happening. ukraine can't push russia out. russia can't push any more in. at some point you have -- we have to think about how do we exit here while we bankrupt our own country. >> carley: joe, there is also this. the biden campaign is reportedly planning to use the state of the union to rebound from robert hur's report on the president's mental state. this is according to axios, quote: everyone around him is well aware, well aware of the need to jack his campaign up. the only way to deal with the negative aftershocks of the special counsel's report slamming biden's age is for the

president to be out there to be visible, to be strong of presence and strong of voice. think about this. the state of the union is on march 7th. >> joe: yeah, we saw the president's schedule last week where he barley had any events on it. he promised to take questions from reporters. that hasn't happened. he hasn't done a television interview with any news outlet since october. think about that a campaign season in election year. there is no reset. the impression of joe biden's record is etched in stone the minds of american voters. they know what he and his administration have done to destroy anything that resembles enforcing the laws and securing a lawless u.s. southern border per griff jenkins' report with you guys earlier. they know about spending that has still led to way too high inflation. they know about violent crime in american cities where democratic das have evolving door policy arresting and releasing criminals. they know about a president who takes more vacation than, you

know, clark griswold and little to no events on his schedule including today where he has nothing until the afternoon where he flies to california and has a campaign reception where he probably won't take any questions from reporters and then flies back tomorrow where he will probably have nothing on his schedule again because the flight is just too darn long. so this is where we are at as far as joe biden. it's a lose-lose proposition. if they put him in front of reporters there is clean-ups in aisle 5 are, 8, 24 and 17 as far as what he says. if they hide him he looks like a ured do. either way, this is not the candidate that most democrats even want running at this point todd and carley. >> todd: clark griswold was busy on vacation putting up trees and lights a lot of things he had to do. ladies on "the view" had a interesting take on the trump have vs. biden debate. >> biden can lose in a debate, trump will not. the people supporting trump will support him whether he is there or not. if biden makes one mistake and people who are undecided are

out. >> if biden filibusters, they will be all over him. if trump filibusters lo cares. >> my caution to biden is i get why he maybe wouldn't but donald trump will lean into the narrative of he is hiding because he is not up to it. and voters will believe that if he doesn't show up. he needs to show up and debate. >> that's a good point. >> todd: joe, they are not wrong. >> they are not wrong. i don't think joe biden will debate donald trump in the end. he will say i will not give a stage or share a stage to main feel is beneath me. in some sort of form they will make an excuse to not do one or two or three of those debates 70 million people watching because there is no teleprompter to save joe biden in those situations. they will find excuse to get out and hope to win by the basement strategy. it's not going to work guys. people will not accept that. >> carley: joe. thanks for joining us. have great day. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> steve: thank you very much, carley and todd. welcome aboard, folks. it