too old to be president. you are one yoe year older, areu worried about his age? >> i'm worried about a lot of things. but i think the media has fixated a little bit too much on age. >> laura: that is convincing. >> i don't know that they have, bernie. age isn' t the concern.ay? it is condition. this is a guy who routinelygn makes the sign language interpreter shrugged. we havggede seen him shake hands with invisiblevisi people. we have seen him quit talking in the middle of the sentence because he's done.th the point is not age but condition. if you saw the carfa x on joe biden, you would not purchase this vehicle. >> laura: okay, mr. carfax. that is really good.ra: jimmy, great to see you as always. don't forget to catch jimmy on the road. he will be in florida this ♪ ♪ >> carley: a pivotal moment in

president biden's reelection campaign and his presidency set to play out tonight when he takes the podium for his state of the union. >> todd: the world is watching, will he put concerns about his age and mental acuity to rest? you're watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus. what voters care about now. 3.4 million migrant encounters at the southern border since start of fiscal year 2023 and government data expects eight million migrants to be living in the u.s. by october. >> todd: inflation is real, beef prices up over 10%, cost of bread up 5%, cost of sugar up 7%. >> carley: before the president delivers his address, lawmakers are asking banks to flag private

transactions using words like trump and maga in stores like bass pro shop. >> todd: lucas tomlinson has more. lucas. >> lucas: three quarters of the nation saying biden is too old, he faces a tough task tonight. he will take swipes at donald trump. memo says trump will make it easier to buy a gun than access birth control. trump would cut medicare and medicaid and increase tax cuts for big corporations, making their tax rate lower than many working families. here is more from karine jean-pierre. >> you will hear the president layout historic delivered on for american people and his vision for the future.

looking at what president biden faced when he came into office, it is clear he's gotten more done in three years than most presidents did in two terms. >> lucas: top issues are economy, 37%. immigration and then abortion 10%. notable guests attending mike johnson inviting the police officers attacked in time square and parents of evan gershkovich who has been in jail in russia for nearly a year and top republican senators previewed biden's speech. >> mark my words, tomorrow night will be joe biden's last state of the union address and that is because the american people will not invite him back to give another one next year. >> we have an open border situation, we have interdicted drugs, fentanyl flooding into communities. we've seen terrorists come

across the border and been interdicted. we have biden flation. >> under joe biden's failed leadership state of the union is chaos, as is state of the world. >> lucas: many lawmakers and americans want to hear a plan from president biden to fix the southern border. >> todd: we all do. i went to the street asking people what they want to hear from the president tonight. >> you going to watch the state of the union tonight? >> yeah, let's go. >> what do you hope biden says? >> what can he say? he doesn't know how to say anything. >> economy, more money. >> what do you hope the president says? >> something good. something good. >> i hope he would be positive. there is not much to be positive about right now. i'm hoping the guy can stay awake for the whole thing. >> going to run in circles. >> you're a trump guy? >> who?

>> you. i'm a trump guy. trump is a new yorker, i'm from new york. he is like that with everybody. >> are you going to watch the state of the union tonight? >> no. >> no. >> why? >> i don't care. >> i'm not interested in the president. i don't feel like he's done a great job last four years, we need to send immigrants back. >> i came here the legal route and i'd like to see something done to legalize people coming across the border. >> todd: you heard a lot of passionate responses and people saying they will not watch tonight and could care less. president biden first state of the union address drew in 21 million viewers less than former president trump's first address and joe biden's address in 2021 and one he gave last year, 2023,

are the two least watched state of the union addresses in last 32 years. it will be one of the biggest o audiences before election day this november. two things stood out, quickly, that individual you heard say he's all in for trump. he is african american, don't discount trump trying to make new york in play. second, the next to last person voted for trump in 2016 and voted for biden in 2020, he thought he wanted change. he said nothing joe biden can say to win me back, he lost me. >> carley: on the state of the union address, parents of georgia nursing student laken riley will not attend tonight. her parents denied an invitation as they are still mourning the loss of their daughter.

congressman collins said he will not replace their seats, he will leave it open to honor laken riley and all victims of illegal alien crime. brother of riley's suspected murderer, an illegal immigrant from venezuela is linked to a crime gang. members of this gang are believed to be responsible for brutally attacking two nypd officers in january. he is due in court it for detention hearing after several run-ins with the law, including showing police a fake passport while they were investigating his brother for riley's murder. and the murder of a texas cheerleader will appear in court today. elizabeth medina was in her apartment before he came in and stabbed her. her mother found her body in the

bathtub when she did not show up to a parade she was supposed to march in. he is accused of stalking her and breaking into her home a month earlier. he is being held on $2 million bond and ice placed's detainer, he faces capital murder charges. >> todd: florida deputies apprehending 24 hatian migrants in a large fishing boat. two are facing smuggling charges. gang violence sweeps the island. prisoners were released. the gangs are threatening civil war if the prime minister does not resign. and kathy hochul calling on national guard to save the city subwaying and make them safer, her plan targets commuters and

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>> todd: when joe biden arrives at the capitol tonight, for his state of the union, he will be met with these billboards. one going up in time square

showing migrants brutally attacking officers. it says if cops aren't safe with your open borders, nobody is. he joins me new. alfredo, what message are you trying to send the president with these billboards tonight? >> good morning, todd. thanks for having me. as we know from exit polls we've been seeing over past few weeks, starting with iowa, immigration is one of the biggest issues and it is the crime coming through the borders. we're trying to send a message we have to secure borders now, close them and deal with issue of crime. it is affecting everybody and that one billboard about the horrific attack on the police officer, if cops are not safe, who is? on the energy policy, we know inflation has been the horrific issue that it has been for

consumers and small business owners and prices up 30% on energy and to keep possibly going up going into the rest of the year. we have to address that, as well. from day one, he really declared war on domestic energy production and we've got to reverse that and do that now to get this inflation under control. >> todd: take a look at numbers, since joe biden took office, electric prices up 27%, strategic petroleum reserve depleted by 43%. white house releasing preview of joe biden's speech expecting to focus on corporate greed when talking about higher cost. how responsible is the white house for higher costs specifically when it comes to energy? they curtail domestic energy production in a major way. >> yeah, that's right, todd.

i saw the press conference where he was talking about the strike force, they are calling it greed flation, blaming corporations for price hikes. this is a joke. the reason we're in the situation we are, because from day one he decided to attack energy production domestically and that is where it started. i'm relieved to know he does have a czar now on the strike force and it is cookie monster. we're excited he's taken it so seriously and put cookie monster in charge of it. >> todd: i don't like you defaming cookie monster, me like cocky monster. all joking aside, this election will come down to three things, energy, border and immigration and obviously the economy. do you expect the president to say anything tonight to assuage

those topics or is this a speech by somebody in the d.c. elite to the d.c. elite? >> they are so out of touch. liberal media is also out of touch. elites on the left are out of touch and don't realize what real people are facing, small businesses are facing. prices are out of control. fact inflation is slowing down, nothing to celebrate. prices are elevated. consumers and average american is hurting and they don't understand and will try to blame the rise in crime on congress. they are going to try to blame on trump, on republicans. he does have power, president has power right now and we took a full pagead out in "new york times" that show he can issue an eo that reverses the revocation

of trump's policies on securing the border. put a turnicate on the border and stop the bleeding and address crime coming through the border. he won't be able to do any of that, liberal left controls it. >> todd: if he talks more about ev's than the border, we're in trouble. we appreciate your time. thank you. meteorologist adam klotz is here with the fox weather forecast. what is going on? >> adam: tracking a system making way to the north and breaking up in places like d.c. and new york. heavy rain in boston and further north. where rainfalls, we have flood watches in place. this has been a heavy rain maker, several inches coming down. clearing out of d.c. today, so for state of the union, beautiful weather. one big weather maker to track

next couple days is potential for weather in texas today, everywhere you look at red, likely you see severe weather moving further east by friday and by time of saturday looking at severe weather across the southeast into georgia and carolina. those are weather headin lines. back to you. >> carley: we feel better knowing you are tracking it. media is losing it after voters approve bolstering police and crack down on drug use. >> todd: why would we want that? public safety upgrades coming to d.c. portland, as well. should be major wake-up call out there. three voters at the forefront of the issues join us next. eumatoi. with my psoriatic arthritis symptoms. but just ok isn't ok.

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reversing soft on crime policies in time for the election. san francisco passed two measures that will strengthen policing against nonviolent criminals and require drug screening for welfare recipients. the legislation includes 100 proposals that increase penalties on gun violence and retail theft. joining us are guests from each of the cities. richie is a former mayoral candidate and diana is a d.c. business owner who organized effort to recall one of her city council members. we're talking about a complete 180 on crime policies. voters in san francisco voted to

strengthen policing in the city and add drug testing for people receiving welfare. did you think you would see the day? >> hi, good morning, carley. we were really, really hoping and praying for this to come. it's a long time coming. progr progressivism, if that means criminals can run rampant on the streets and schools can refuse to teach math and people receiving welfare can do it even if they are addicted to drugs, that is problematic. we're ready and angry. i saw this coming for a while. i am supportive very much and the thing is our mayor london breed is taking credit for those two ballot measures you mentioned. this is trying to save face because as you mentioned at the top, this is an election year

and she's running for reelection. there is politics involved. >> carley: only so much crime and drug use and homelessness people can take and people are using their voice to reverse policies they once voted in. crime skyrocketed. so oregon lawmakers decided to recriminalize them. how has drug use in portland impacted you and your business? >> my gosh, we in our business, our business has been burglarized 10 times in the last couple years. most has been people coming in and smashing windows and coming and running through the place looking for anything to convert into drugs as quickly as they possibly can. you are seeing it all over our area.

our area specifically all buildings around us have been hit multiple times in the last year. we have people moving out of the area because of the crime wave hitting our area. ultimately it's been a pretty big impact. >> carley: this big is with the governor, she just needs to sign it into law, do you think she will? >> good question. it has gotten support from both sides of the aisle. you are seeing support come together for this, which is not surprising considering everybody recognizes this bill is much needed. >> carley: hail mary pass in the fourth quarter. diane, our nation's capital is a catastrophe and they passed package including harsher

punishment for a whole range of crimes. you say this is too little too late, tell us why. >> it is. good morning. thank you for having me temperature is a little too late temperature is a step in the right direction, but does not negate countless lives lost, broken homes, businesses that are shutting down due to theft. it is crime plaguing our city and after 10 years, i'm glad they are listening, it is too late for all that. we need to see results. having this progressive agenda led to progressive results. >> carley: yeah. richie, big picture here, talking about san francisco, portland, oregon, washington, d.c. all cracking down on crime, which is a good thing. but if you think of the number of people who became victims, unnecessary victims because

cities tested soft on crime policies to match liberal ideological view. i'm sure those victims are saying what diana is saying, too little, too late. >> that is right, too little, too late and progressives are regrouping. they have seen, they are licking their wounds from results of elections just two days ago and talking about how they can combat their laws and keep status quo, which is mind-boggling and this november, more ballot measures and they will try to reverse what might have -- that is going to hurt them and that is the problem. they are still around, progressives we suffered for all these years, you can be socially progressive and that is what we, no problem in san francisco. we embrace that. but crime and drugs and the

waste, unbelievable waste of billions of taxpayer dollars is the problem. >> carley: you can tamp down ideology, you can never end it. hope we can end it for a period of time and more people will see the light. thank you all so much for joining us, have a great day. >> todd: congress holding hearing on how diversity, equity and inclusion policy impacted schools. >> carley: cheryl casone is here. >> cheryl: committee on the workforce is holding a hearing 10:15 a.m. eastern time, divicive, ineffective, impact of dei on college campuses. this subcommittee is chaired by owens who wants to look at students and society. he writes we cannot let dei sabotage hard work and meritocracy, teaching our children it is acceptable to

judge based on race or sex. this hearing represents true nature of dei and consequences. we are seeing more college students receiving dei training. according to antidefamation league, 2500 students received training on dei. does dei bring people together or does it create more division and discrimination? especially for kids on campuses and colleges. >> todd: especially doing it in medical school. human body is the human body, no matter characteristics, treat the problem, not create them. calling in national guard to new york city subways. >> cheryl: subways will look different. help is on the way, we think. new york governor kathy hochul is deploying 750 national guard to head to subways to combat

crime. part of a five-point plan to assist the nypd. >> these brazen, heinous attacks will not be tolerated. we're focusing on repeat offenders and protecting people on the subways. i'm redeploying members of the state police, mta police and national guard to conduct bag checks in the city's busiest transit station. >> cheryl: plan includes 20 million banning repeat offenders from trains for three years. again, guard troops are coming in. here is the question. if repeat offenders are not in jail, how do you keep them off the subways? and remember mayor adams announced plans for more cops. it is even higher percentage

wise if you look at just city subway systems and just this morning someone was stabbed in the hand and we had a subway conductor attacked with a bottle yesterday. i lose track because -- i subways and it is frightening down there. these are people trying to get to work and do their job and trying to live their lives. innocent people. bag checks will be interesting. >> carley: a lot of people will be happy to see the national guard unless they are about to miss their train. i think it is better than nothing. thank you. have a great day. happening today before the state of the union address, house lawmakers investigating partnership between federal government and banks to flag private trans actions. >> todd: next guest is testifying in today's hearing and he has a big warning for you.

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holding hearing to investigate federal government working with banks to flag private transakszs by americans. terms include maga, trump and stores like dick's sporting goods, and bass pro. jeremy is testifying, what points do you hope to drive home at that hearing? >> first of all, americans should be terrified that the government is working with big banks to spy on private data to determine if risk of threat or domestic terrorist based on do they buy religious text or shop at dick's sporting goods. they are working with big banks to do that, j.p. morgan, wells fargo, bank of america. this is something that should concern every american. there is nobody, no matter political or religious beliefs safe from this.

>> todd: what are most egregious examples you want to highlight to the committee? >> one thing shocking to us, we are caught up m this dragnet, one of the materials u.s. treasury department and fbi shared with banks to identify domestic terrorist is so-called hate list from activist organization that put black lists organizations they don't like and we are on the list. the right of people to be able to freely exercise faith are being caught up in this dragnet of financial data surveillance, that is concerning. >> todd: treasury department is justifying surveillance. our mission is to combat money laundering and crimes like terrorism and promote national security through use and collection, analysis and

dissemination of financial intelligence and are committed to criminal justice mission in accordance with the law. your response to that statement, specifically how shopping at a spofrting goods store like dick's is someone is engaging in terrorism and money laundering. when i go to buy a football, i don't think i'm engaging in money laundering, but maybe i'm wrong. >> according to the law, they are missteping and steam rolling first amendment rights and part of the problem, there is systemic censorship risk, hate and intolerance policies throughout financial industry and have authority over banks, especially big banks. 50% of bank deposit accounts are

controlled by five banks. the fact federal government can abuse these policies to push people out of the financial market place because of their views is a problem and something congress needs to fix. >> todd: you are speaking with republicans and democrats. what is your strategy when democrats make excuses for this attack on freedom, this attack on your privacy, specifically looking at you, stacey placid from the virgin islands, what are you going to do when they try to attack you? >> democrats in the house and senate sent letters to big banks complaining about muslim americans and others based on i think so things like gifts to religious charities. it is a bipartisan issue. imagine if doj and treasury

department in 2022 said to scan financial transactions for people terms like blm and george floyd to investigate criminal activity, that would be a huge problem, huge story, democrats would be against it and we would, too. that is misuse and abuse of financial system. >> todd: it is a bisan issue, i hope they are bipartisan today. hundreds of special guests will attend tonight's state of the union, including the family of a young man who died from an accidental fentanyl overdose in 2021. >> carley: his parents join us next. for the entire family at a comfort hotel. mom made this. umm, i... added the garnish. stay twice and get a free night when you book direct.

>> lawrence: good morning, it is the state of the union pregame show on "fox and friends." president biden branding his address as big public reset moment as he stares down record low approval rating. steve scalise will be in the audience tonight, we'll ask him what he wants to hear. and a super gang operating within the u.s. and learning chinese migrants are passing the border with help

of gangs known as snake heads. they are working with gang cartels. also on deck, ari fleischer, marc thiessen and bruce blakeman on women's sports. jason riley is talking about trump picking up minority support. all that and more. over to you, carley and todd. >> carley: the world will be watching when president biden steps up to the podium tonight. the economy and the migrant crisis are the issues voters say they care about most. derer and katie kidd will be in the audience tonight. zach nunn invited them to the

address. thank you. i am sure today will be a long day attending this speech later tonight. you are going to honor your son and raise awareness about the fentanyl that is impacting so many families, including your own. can you tell us what happened to your son? derek? for anxiety and depression. and he had, unknowingly, we did not realize that he had replaced his medication with percocet on the advice of a friend. and obtained that through social media site and, unfortunately, passed away after taking half of a pill. >> carley: and he was just 17 years old, right? >> 17, correct. >> carley: kathy, i give you so much credit for being able to speak about this and, also, using your precious son's death

to raise awareness and make sure that this doesn't happen to other families. he was so handsome. we are looking at pictures of your family right now. what would you like to hear the president say tonight? >> address the issue. i would love to hear an action plan. there's kids dying every day and we would love to hear a plan that's going to be put in place to prevent this from happening to other families. >> carley: yeah. and, congressman, i remember when president biden met with the president of mexico and a whole bunch of news was made. there were all these headlines about h how the two countries ae going to work together to combat fentanyl coming into the united states. after that you heard very little. do you think the president has done enough to combat this issue? >> carley, you bring up really important point. and it's one that the kidd family is living out every day. you know, when deric and kathy

talked about this would their son sebastian still be with us had the administration done its job on the important things like securing the border. like stopping chinese-made fentanyl from being mass produced and sent to cartels in mexico and end up in places like iowa, in the heart of the heartland where folks my age down to my teenage daughter's age is the number one cause of death. so we have not only looked to the president to do more as kelly just highlighted, there needs to be an action plan for those big challenges. the reality is if a president can't get the big things right, then getting those hard things right at the local level helping kids who are dealing with, you know, in sebastian's case anxiety and depression and treating the challenges, we are not going to be able to address it until we get our southern border not only secure but stop the influx of the deadly fentanyl coming from china through mexico. >> carley: big issue in iowa and something you have been working to address throughout the time

you have been serving in congress. deric i can imagine that one of the most horrific things about this is that your child is home in their bedroom and you think they are safe and then you open their bedroom door or their bathroom door and you find the thing that is a parent's worst nightmare, the thing that is unimaginable to think happened. and it's happening right before your very eyes. and when something like this happens, you tend to meet other families that are impacted by this crisis as well. is that something that you and kathy have experienced? >> yes. we have spoken to a number of other families. this is happening every day, unfortunately. and as congressman nunn pointed out, you know, we can't help but think that our son may still be here if, you know, policies were enforced, if laws were enforced, if the border was under control. that's one of the things that needs to be focused on. we have to try and stop the

drugs from coming in or at least lessen the flow. that's just part of the problem. we have to focus on the mental health resources, the lack thereof and make sure that they're available and not only make sure they are available but make sure that people realize they are there. we have had some issues with, you know, with people not understanding what is actually available to them. on top of that, it's the education. the education amongst our youth, but also the education amongst the adults. one of the things that we're running into is even though this has been out there for years and years, there are so many people that still don't realize, one, that the fentanyl crisis is real and it's here. and, two, how it ties in with the mental health issues. and we have to get a firm understanding of all of that in order to combat. this. >> carley: you are right. it is a complex problem. it's going to take a lot of different things to save lives and make sure that there are fewer teenagers that die as a result of this.

kathy, before we let you go, we are looking at pictures of your son. we saw the picture of him with his headphones and his dog laying down hanging out here with a baseball hat on. can you tell us about him? what was he like? >> he was a great kid. you can tell from his smile he could light up a room. he was an athlete. he loved soccer. he played the saxophone in band. and, of course, he loved giving his sister a hard time daily. [laughter] >> carley: so he was a teenage boy. >> he was through and through. >> carley: supportive, uplifting and truly a kind hearted soul who loved soccer and played football and liked to go to the skate park as well, i'm reading. kathy, deric, congressman, thank you so much for joining us and shining more light on this issue that desperately needs it. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> carley: god bless. >> absolutely. >> carley: let's bring in ice director and tom homan.

17 years old. his family, although as strong as they may be, will never be the same again? >> well, two things, people need understand that a majority of these fentanyl overdose deaths, they are not drug addicts. these are people who are poisoned by fentanyl. they don't even know what they are taking or what amount they're taking. they think they are taking adderall or something to make them stay up or study for a test, a college state of the union. people need to understand they have been poisoned. it's not a coincidence that we have fentanyl overdose deaths in this country 114,000, the last time i check, the last number i saw. at the same time historic illegal immigration on the border. knowing border agents seize that opportunity and creates gaps. in those gaps is when they smuggle fentanyl into the country. >> todd: see if the president actually addresses the problem tonight, offering real solutions like the mother kathy there asks

for or spends his entire speech blaming republicans? meantime get your thoughts on this. the doj revealed that the illegal migrant brother of laken riley murder suspect could be linked to the venezuelan crime gang tren de aragua. is the about biden administration doing anything to prevent this gang from establishing a foot hold in the united states? it. >> carley: i know the answer. >> if they want to do something about it do on the border. ms-13 and other criminal gangs coming across the border. 9.1 million got-aways. bad guys that don't want to be vetted or fingerprinted. 9.1 million enter this country and don't know where they came from. we need to secure the border. >> carley: gang we heard about it now, we have heard about ms-13 for years. and there is concern that with these dueling gangs now coming into the country it could spark a sort of crime that we haven't

seen before, possibly gang wars. we are hearing the former president talk about it as migrant crime. is that a concern that's on your mind today? >> well, it's both sides, carley. number one, they can be dueling forces because they are fighting for the same dollar, fighting for the same, you know, prospects of criminal activity, where they are going to make a of the pro. but tren de aragua are teaming up with ms-13 in major cities. that's what intelligence shows us now. they are teaming up on not only the drug trades but the human trafficking trade and robbery trade. my fear is more collaborative and create more crime in major cities and getting away with it. >> todd: jones ernst a vote to detain criminals who create violent crimes. dick durbin shot it down worried about the due process of illegals. thank you, tom. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> steve: thank you todd and carley. it is 6:00 on the east coa.