the east coast, wednesday, march 13th, this is "fox and friends." congress taking on tiktok, debate expected soon on the bill cracking down on the chinese-owned app. >> we continue to get more information to the extent they are targeting americans. we know it, we see it. >> brian: do the right thing. curfews forcing a spring break breakup in miami beach. >> lawrence: lawrence is in the hub. >> steve: and nick saban says college football ain't what it used to be. >> all the things i believed in all these years, 50 years of coaching no longer exist. >> ainsley: name, image and likeness. final hour of "fox and friends" starts now and remember, mornings are better with friends. >> brian: long expected rematch

is on. former president donald trump playing role of former president donald trump. presumptive nominees, i thought we would have music. saying quote -- thank you. >> steve: i'm running off my iphone, broad coalition of voters have put me, their faith in me once again in a moment when the threat donald trump poses is greater than ever. trump says he is ready to get to work. watch this. >> republican national committee has just declared us the official nominee. we'll not take time to celebrate. we'll celebrate in eight months when the election is over, november 5th will go down as most important day in history. >> ainsley: busy day in

washington, d.c., vote on tiktok, debate is expected at 9:00 this morning. >> brian: and robert hur defended his report and made it clear he did not exonerate president biden. >> steve: so much going on, screen left live from the white house, first to kelly o'grady. >> the social media ceo has been on capitol hill meeting with folks trying to quell fears. the house will vote on legislation that passed last week allowing president to say the app is national security threat and would be banned

unless it cut ties. rare bipartisan support. the vote today requires two-thirds majority, if everyone votes it would need 288 votes to pass. if it does, it would face senate before moving to the president's desk. from josh hawley to john fetterman are in support but this legislation could face a rocky future. some feel the process has moved too freely. a ban in montana is held up in court for those reasons. take a listen. >> 180 million americans use tiktok to express themselves, you tell them they are not allowed anymore, you destroy the value of the company? you can't take someone's property without due process. >> interesting wrinkle. former president trump is

opposing the bill saying a ban will strengthen facebook, which is an enemy of the people. watch for the house to pull back support. tiktok would face a quick sale process to cut ties with bite dance. expected vote at 10:00 and could have results by 10:30. >> steve: great item in "wall street journal" talks about how people at tiktok thought there would be no vote they are going to have today because joe biden's campaign signed on to tiktok and sounded like they were keeping the people who wanted to dismantle them at bay. they went back to singapore and it hit the fan and they are forcing a vote and it has bipartisan support. republicans and democrats are clear it does pose a national

security threat. however, a number of other lawmakers and we saw rand paul, it is freedom of speech and limits. >> ainsley: but freedom of speech for another country, china. i'm fine to ban tiktok. my daughter does not have a phone yet, it is coming, this is one less thing. they are on phones constantly. i'm trying to get her involved in sports. when they are home and moms cooking, easy to give them a phone or put them in front of a tv. >> brian: chinese, no one denies this. the most powerful heads in our country. no one denies bite dance would have to give in for all personal information. our trends and likes. the newsfeed, 170 million people, more powerful than cable

and broadcast, give china access to america's newsfeed. next generation of americans getting the newsfeed, algorithm set up and okay by chinese government, maybe the same people radicalizing hamas and palestinian protesters, that have fo mented antisemitism in this country. i think it will fly through the house. in the senate, tough sledding and all because of lobbyists. i understand president trump in some ways is right, he does not want to give facebook run by zuckerberg a bigger say, that should not figure interest it. changing owners. >> ainsley: are kids going to go from facebook -- >> brian: instagram. >> ainsley: might do instagram. >> steve: there is possibility

if it sails through the house, it won't even be brought up in the senate, speaks to influence of lobbying efforts bite dance hired to make sure the vote doesn't come. >> ainsley: the president says he will sign it if it gets to his desk. while running on tiktok. >> brian: previous generations had to sacrifice, all we're asking this generation, delete an app. there will be other apps and way for you to pair your business and other opportunities for entrepreneurs. not asking to kill it, just sell 80%. live to peter doocy with fallout from the robert hur report. peter. >> peter: got way harder to swap joe biden out as top of democratic ticket, even though half of americans don't think he will make it to of in, according

to recent monmouth poll, he has delegates to be democratic nominee and he thinks freedom and democracy are at risk here at home in a way they have not been since the civil war, that is donald trump now crosses the threshold delegate wise and saying it is my great honor to represent the party as our presidential nominee. the party is running against worst most corrupt and destructive president in the history of the united states. trump remains unresolved. biden case will not go to trial, that does not mean he is innocent according to the official who spent a year fully immersed in biden world. >> the court represents complete and total exoneration of

president biden. did you reach conclusion this man was out right innocent? >> that conclusion is not reflected in my report. exoneration does not appear in my report. >> you exonerated him. >> that does not appear in the report. >> peter: president biden will go to wisconsin for a campaign event, that is not most interesting political story out of wisconsin today. the r.f.k. jr. campaign is confirming to us their independent candidate is considering one of the most famous people in history of the state of wisconsin as a running mate, former green bay packer quarterback current jets quarterback aaron rodgers. >> ainsley: what do you think about that, brian? >> brian: r.f.k. jr. trying to get credibility by putting running mate that would make people feel better and reaches to a guy rehabbing has achilles

tendon? >> steve: peter, yesterday i turned on the hur hearing, you were the lead sound bite, republicans ran where you asked the president about being an old guy with a bad memory, do you get residuals for that? >> we are recognized as performing oversight here as white house officials. we'll get a staff and investigators moving forward. >> steve: peter doocy unit will have a staff? >> peter: peter doocy oversight. >> brian: a lot of montages yesterday. miami beach, florida enforcing strict spring break rules after years of chaos. >> steve: check in with lawrence jones, who is with nicole parker, who lived nearby.

lawrence, last year, had we done this live, would have seen a lot of people milling about. >> brian: anti-milling. >> lawrence: that is right, family. bring in former special agent for fbi, nicole parker. we were here last year and saw different spring break. what happened? >> it is a full 180 compared to last year. i am a miami beach resident. there was an election in november of last year and this was number one concern for residents and voters and myself, as well. who is the mayor and city commissioners going to make the city safe again. >> lawrence: you are former law enforcement and have a lot of connections today, how are they reacting to support, people in elected office that have their back. >> i talk all the time on fox, who your mayors are make all the

difference in the world. if officials do not allow you to enforce the laws and your hands are tied, expect crime, violence and problems. they back the blue and have zero tolerance. this spring break is the true test. they come in and a lot of people's jobs are on the line. there will be a problem. >> lawrence: consequences. >> everyone stepped up to the line. we love having guests in miami beach and have people enjoy beautiful beaches. trashing the city and forcing residents to have to leave during spring break so they are not here for it is unacceptable. >> lawrence: local businesses, some have been supportive of the measure and some complaining because they get their economy from the spring breakers. >> that is understandable, spring break is a hot time to make money.

as former fbi agent, safety comes first and protecting citizens comes first. it has ruined the brand of miami beach. i think business owners welcome this. they know the clientele will not trash hotels and stores and when people feel safe it will bring a different group of individuals to celebrate spring break. i know again as fbi agent, i saw fbi here vested up, atf and fbi, undercover individuals are swarming the area and breaking up with spring break worked and people are heading north. i hope nothing bad happens, this weekend will be the true test. >> lawrence: nicole parker, thank you, good to see you. back to the couch. >> ainsley: thank you, lawrence. great job. interesting how we always heard that miami is getting dangerous. lawrence goes last year and

trying to get an interview, guy pulls out a gun. now a conservative mayor moved in and not putting up with it anymore. >> brian: who says miami beach has to be anarchy, maybe you want to relax. >> ainsley: if cities don't allow it, you don't have that opportunity. >> brian: hang out with seniors. >> steve: there is a report, one thing our big stack of stuff this morning about how the coastal grandma thing is popular. a lot of spring breakers are essentially partying with retirees who live down there. >> brian: bochy ball. >> ainsley: would you have done that in high school? going to hang out -- >> steve: i was in high school in the '70s, come on. >> ainsley: good thing there was no social media. >> brian: they just had planes

then. lawn darts, they don't make anymore. >> steve: they were outlawed. >> brian: not if you brought them with you. if you had lawn darts, you don't have to give them up, do you? if you have lawn darts and even though they have been banned, let us know. you throw this weapon at other 350e7el. >> steve: they wound up in people's heads. >> ainsley: how big? >> steve: this big with metal end on them and they pierce people. >> ainsley: never seen them. >> steve: they banned lawn darts and then miami beach. >> brian: in that order, we broke news. >> steve: carley, news time. >> carley: got to be a middle ground between lawn darts and anarchy and that is a sweet spot. i have more news starting with russian president vladamir putin said moscow is ready for nuclear

war if threatened. he claims moscow has weapons ready if there is existential threat. police investigating attack on chief of staff to alexei navalny. he was hit with a hammer 15 times outside his home last night. it is likely the attacks organized and executed by russia. greg palkot will have a live report. mexican national sentenced to three years in prison for drug trafficking. he tried to send 22 kilos of cocaine to maryland in 2022. the cocaine was packed into hidden compartments. new mexico state police stopped the vehicle and a canine found the drugs. to fox business alert, dollar tree plans to closen it00 stores

after missing quarterly sales and profit. it will shutter 600 family dollar locations soon and 370 over next few years. 30 dollar tree locations will close as lease terms expire. and boeing stop producing boeing 737 max 10's. southwest and alaska are cutting flights as boeing delivers fewer jets during the ongoing criminal probe and one passenger arngs board that boeing plane that nose dived in midair hurting 50 recounted terrifying moment saying in the exor cyst when the girl flies from the bed and hit the ceiling, it was that scene. what the heck is this, to say the least. japan space one rocket exploding seconds after inaugural launch

overnight leaving behind large cloud of smoke, a fire near launch pad and exact cause of the explosion is under investigation. thankfully no one was hurt in this incident. and cory mills returning to u.s. after helping rescue 10 americans trapped in haiti where violence spireals out of control and joined us earlier. >> total of 10 americans, a night operation departing out of a neighboring country by helicopter. if americans are abroad and in trouble, i exactly to his aid. >> ainsley: state department is telling americans to leave haiti as soon as possible if they are still there, guys. back to you. >> brian: he got out mitch album and his crew, he got them out and they are worried about their

k kids, 40 kids in there. >> steve: anarchy in haiti. >> ainsley: so many church trips go, a lot of evangelicals go there and build orphanages. >> steve: our church has a school there. >> brian: bring in lawrence jones, not at school and some kids are off, not there now. he is in miami. one main thing, ted cruz had a round table and meeting about nil, to brainstorm regulating what is happening with college sports. courts said ncaa cannot regulate name, image and likeness. it is the wild west. i'm glad kids are getting paid, but the game is broken. >> lawrence: yeah, brian, i think there is a balanced view on this. i understand challenges players were facing before. i took route of going into tv,

my other friends went on scholarship to play sports. half of them were not eating, i know because i was venmoing them money. my problem with coach saban, and i respect him. if you can only coach poor kids, he was paid 100 million and living in a 20 million house and you are making money off their name, image and likeness. there has to be a balanced view on this. >> steve: when he announced his retirement out of nowhere, during the discussion on capitol hill in the senate, he revealed a conversation he had just before he decided to retire with his wife terry about him and about college athletes. watch this. >> all the things i believed in

for all the years, 50 years of coaching no longer exist in college athletics. it was about developing players and helping people be more successful in life. my wife said to me, we have all recruits over on sunday with their parents for breakfast and she would meet with the mothers and talk about how she was going to help impact their sons and how they would be well taken care of and she came to me like right before i retired and said, why are we doing this? i said, what do you mean? she said, all they care about is how much you are going to pay them, they don't care about how you are going to develop them. why are we doing this? to me, that was sort of red alert. >> steve: all about the money. >> ainsley: sounds like a really good guy, would have recruits over and wanted to develop sons

and young men whose mom and dads are helping their sons and daughters make decisions. this coach will look out for them. lessons the kids learn. i don't mind if they make that kind of money, i'm sure they are pouring into these lives and paying for a lot of them, paying for dinners on sunday. players need to make money because they might get injured and don't have a chance to move to the n.f.l. or another level. nick saban said, here is the problem, we have 40 million revenue for sports, football and basketball make most amount of money for his school. other sports are funded through what is made on football and basketball. if you want to supply or provide students with olympic athletic sports and want them to survive, keep that in mind. he's just saying we need

regulated framework for athlete compensation. >> lawrence: i'm totally for that, you take a pay cut then if we're all charity and fund the rest of other sports, everyone doesn't make income. we get modest wage and call it a day. he wasn't willing to do that. >> ainsley: did they ask him to do that? what do you mean well, i don't think they asked him. >> brian: no system. kid walked in and said, unless you give me more money, i'm transferring. >> steve: that portal thing. >> ainsley: daughter of coach, coaches lives are spread on the newspaper everyday, my dad did not make a lot of money, this is in the '70s, they are loved or hated constantly, they deserve a little money. >> brian: kellyanne conway is to next, we'll talk about what the speaker said yesterday. -monthly add-on injection for severe eosinophilic asthma.

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>> brian: russian president vladamir putin issues warning to west saying moscow is ready for nuclear war, threatening us. greg palkot live >> london. >> greg: another nuclear threat from u 52, which you have to take seriously. putin says his country is ready for nuclear war if existential

threat to russia. weapons exist. there is fear they could use the weapons in ukraine. he had caveats saying from military and technical point of view, we are ready, there are enough specialists in russian american -- i don't think here everything is russian to it nuclear confrontation, but we are ready for this. we know that russia has moved nukes to belarus on the border with nato countries and that alliance, including the united states is staging biggest ever military exercises since the cold war. be prepared. >> brian: they have two new member, sweden and finland. most americans feel vladamir putin does not care what the

president thinks, saying by 60% biden does not have respect of world leaders. kellyanne conway is here to react. i thought it was joe biden with all the experience on foreign policy that would bring peace and tranquillity to the world? >> kellyanne: that is right, we have not had a lower rating since 1962 of americans feel they are dissatisfied with u.s. standing in the world. 65% dissatisfied. not since we had a different democratic president bringing us to brink of war. in february of 2020, same poll was 53% satisfied, month before covid hit, including independents and that is down to 34% among depends. why does this matter? because joe biden's inaction has

consequences and his inability to do the job has consequences. putin wants biden to continue to be the president. he wants joe biden in there, because bullies love to have weak people in office. here we have in joe biden, commander-in-chief who was eight years vice president, used to be president of foreign affairs committee and saying we are less respected and less safe in the world because he is there. >> brian: now we have victor orbon, saying dictator that hates democracy, he is member of nato and did meet with president trump and summoned the u.s. ambassador to get blistered by the disrespect shown toward hungary, that is not a great tactical move, is it? >> kellyanne: not at all, it is trump derangement syndrome, it

is because president trump met with orbon in president beach joe biden's reaction to co-member of nato is so strong. it is dangerous. when people see whoure on vice president is, heartbeat from presidency if we're looking day-by-day, it is fear. you will have many saying vote for joe biden is a vote for kamala harris and possibly for 12 years, very scary prospect forren mapeople. >> brian: here is what speaker johnson said he assessed from president biden when he met with him one-on-one. >> i spent time with him and i am sad to say i don't think he is. we are projecting weakness on the world stage. our adversaries can follow what we are, we have a weak president and our enemies are acting

provocatively. it is not a game or laughing matter, it is dangerous and this election can't get here soon enough. >> brian: he does not think he is mentally fit, after the state of the union, every emdid accurate thinks he is. where is the truth? >> kellyanne: we know what we see, not what he woo are told. speaker johnson reflects americans. joe biden does not have acuity to do most important job in the world. nbc news poll, 11% of americans said no problem to them with joe biden's ability to do the job. that is physical, mental and emotional, he sounds like an angry old cuss most of the time, yelling at reporters and calling world leaders dictators. this is why people are taking granular look at what president trump said he would do in places

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>> captain of the villanova dance team. >> we're on "fox and friends." >> give me that phone. >> your friends are about to be on "fox and friends," stay tuned. >> janice: the weather now, potential for storms across the u.s. nice and mild across east coast and rain is on the way. who is your -- who is this? >> this is sally, my sister. >> janice: hi, sally, from cincinnati, we love you. do you love ainsley, too? >> we love ainsley. >> ainsley: i heard a double name, knowing she's from the south. hello, sally, thank you for waking up with us. inflation rising higher than expected for second straight month. prices for car insurance, you have seen those tiktok videos or instagram videos.

look the end of trump's presidency, 1.4. joe biden takes office year and a half in, 9.1%. remember those days. it has gone down significantly 3.2%, not as low as when trump left office at 1.4. more than double what it was when trump was in office. bring in edward lawrence. fox business correspondent. >> you nailed it, by the way. this trend for cpi, it is three-month trend of inflation going back up and that is the concern. you nailed it. >> ainsley: i'm reading dollar tree, great example, have to close thousand stores because they are missing earnings.

>> right. exactly. this is what all americans are feeling. when president biden came into office, all inflation and prices up 18 and a half percent when you look from january 2021 to february 2024. look at all food, that is up about 21%. this is what people feel. 28% going up for electricity, the president's transition. who they hear from the president, you will get jobs, unemployment under 4%, which is all true, only half the story and not what people feel. i will ask the treasury secretary about this today and this is first time she's done an interview with fox business, you'll see it on varney 11:30 on fox business, bigger portion 1:00 p.m. on "big money." i will hit her with hard questions. you can't tax to prosperity. >> ainsley: congratulations on

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there was a person person born as a female and got older and started taking them, identified as a man. now she is back to female and she sounded the alarm, right? >> yes, she was treated at gender identity service in u.k. and went on to regret taking puberty blockers and having her breast removed. she realized she was just a lesbian. she brought against the gender identity service and led to ruling that under 16 is unable to consent to puberty blockers. there was a review into puberty blockers, significant legal case that led to this decision to ban

them. >> steve: you think the rest of the world should block them just as england has. >> yes, definitely, definitely. the evidence is very clear, there is huge amounts of side effects. bone disentry and mood and may have links to cancer and we need to think about the term puberty blockers. why blob the puberty of perfectly healthy teenage boys and girls because of this idea around gender? this should never have happened in the first place. >> steve: thank you, good luck for your run for mayor and thank you for joining us from london. >> thank you. >> steve: really something. all right, nine before top of the hour. we're heading outside to alleyoop with tim brando, ahead of big east tournament that kicks off today. let's check in with dana perino.

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>> steve: so much excitement. the tournament starts today on fox and fs 1. they're warming up with us. >> brian: fox sports play-by-play announcer one of the best judges. are you ready for the big east tournament? >> it's the best tournament there is among all the conference tournament.

such history and tradition. being there makes a big difference. all the tournament travel to different locations. big east it will be destination msg. >> ainsley: what teams to look out for? >> they're all good. two teams that have struggled this year. everybody else can win this thing. there are nine teams that can win it. six teams will be go to the ncaa. they might get seven. the only league more depth than the big east is the big 12. >> rick pat in owe said i gave up on these guys. not that good and they have done what in response? >> i've known rick since he coached providence to the final four in 1987. in those days little louie and rollie were not necessarily that fond of rick. now he is working for louie's school and now he is doing for louie what he did at every other stop, just win, baby.

what he did really helped. >> steve: he was the legendary coach at villanova. does villanova -- >> they could get in if we win a couple of games. >> steve: game one butler versus xavier, providence versus georgetown and tonight villanova versus depaul. >> providence/georgetown game is very interesting. he took providence to great places his third trip against the team he thrift take over georgetown to try that build that thing back up. without a question, villanova is saying we're here on day one? we've been the beast of this league for the reconfiguration of it for the last ten years. they have to win not only today against depaul, which they should. they have to win another game tomorrow if they want to be on selection sunday. >> brian: the game is the thing

but for the all these schools. >> it is. listen. the college game is about effort, passion and about history. currency yeah, but the greatest currency in college basketball is the history and tradition and you get it at the big east. >> ainsley: do men say i wish i had your job? >> yeah. i planned it that way, by the way. it has been a decade. the fastest 10 years i've ever experienced. >> brian: big east tournament kicks off at 4:00 today on fox sports one. tim, thank you so much and great to see you. >> let's go. make some noise, there we go clclgo. see you tomorrow, everybody. >> bill: all right, america you asked for it and you got it.