degraw slipped and face planted on the ice. he was a good sport about it. writing on facebook, quote, someone said break a leg. i listened. that wraps up this hour of "fox & friends first." thank you for joining us to begin your week. "fox & friends first" continues right now. bye-bye. gillian: it is monday, april 22nd. happening right now at 5:00 a.m., a fox news alert, terror on easter sunday. sri lanka in complete lockdown after a coordinated explosions ripped through churches and hotels. rob: the death toll surging as dozens are arrested. the mystery into a search for a missing 5-year-old boy in illinois. gillian: the family no longer cooperating with police. why their home is considered a crime scene. it's not how you start but how you finish. >> going back, he's still going back, he's near the wall and it is -- he caught it! he caught it! rob: what happened next that made this play one of the

craziest ever. "fox & friends first" continues right now. gillian: good morning to you. you are watching "fox & friends" first on this monday morning. i'm jillian mele the 'i' the. back with a fox news alert. sri lanka on lockdown after a series of coordinated bombings on easter sunday. >> nearly 300 people now confirmed dead. we have breaking information on who might be responsible. >> this is developing this morning, sri lanka's health minister has just announced that a local militant group carried out these attacks, at least 24 people have now been arrested. but still, no group has taken credit for the attacks that have killed now at least 290 people

and wounded at least a 500 more. it comes after the prime minister suggested police were aware of possible plans to target churches and hotels but that he and his administration, get this, were not ad yetly adey informed. that is raising new questions about what could have been done to stop these attacks. investigators say the initial wave of attacks was carried about by seven suicide bombers. this unfolded on easter sunday as christians in sri lanka were celebrating one of the holiest days of the year. pope francis addressed the tragedy from the vatican. >> i want to express my loving closeness to the christian community targeted while they were gathered in prayer and all the victims of such cruel violence. >> most of the blasts were near the capital city of columbo, a popular tourist destination. the u.s. state department

confirming that some americans were killed. mike pompeo said in a statement, these vile attacks are a stark reminder of why the united states remains resolved in our fight to defeat terrorism. we stand with the i hav the govd people as they confront violent extremeism. president trump adding this, the united states offers condolence toss the great people of sri lanka, we stand ready to help. the u.s. state department issued a revised warning on travel to sri lanka and said terror groups are still continuing to plot and possibly carry out new attacks in hotels and churches. back to you guys. thank you so much. >> democrats hosting a conference call today to discuss the redacted mueller report. they're also expected to discuss impeaching the president. >> griff jenkins live for us in washington with white house reaction. good morning, griff. >> reporter: good morning, todd and gillian. democrats have a tough call to make.

did mueller find enough for them to make a case for impeachment. that's the question and that's the focus of the conference call today. today the speaker rejected calls for impeachment but writes in a letter a that the next steps forward will be informed by her chairman and gerald nadler isn't ruling it out. >> do you think this is impeachable? >> i do think that -- if proven, if proven, which hasn't been proven yet, some of this -- if proven, some of this would be impeachable, yes. obstruction of justice if proven would be impeachable. >> another chairman, adam schiff, says it's not possible without bipartisan support. >> i think it's certainly the case that impeachment would be unsuccessful if the republican party continues to place party above country, continues essentially to back the president no matter how unethical or dishonest his conduct may be. >> reporter: a growing course of progressives are demanding it,

louder, elizabeth warren, you saw this along with rashida tlaib and alexandria ocasio-cortez, all of this as the president punches back on twitter, writing how do you impeach a republican president for a crime committed by the democrats. make america great again. and his senior advisor, kellyanne conway delivering news the democrats don't want to hear. >> the president is not going to jail. he's staying in the white house for five and-a-half years. they found no crime, no conspiracy. >> reporter: don't expect any resolution after this conference call today. it's probably going to go into may when attorney general barr and special counsel mueller expected to testify on the hill. >> this is far from over. that's for sure. democrats clinging to the mueller report findings, vowing to keep pressure on the president. >> the president's national press secretary said he's winning on two fronts. >> the president's done two

things at once, dealt with a roving special counsel and achieved for the american people the hottest economy we've seen in 50s years. he can do both. it's so crucial to get to the bottom of this. when you have a sitting attorney general who previously was unanimously confirmed, a.g. barr, say spying did occur on a presidential campaign, that should strike fear in the heart of everyone, regardless of party, that a presidential campaign was surveilled via wiretaps, via unmasking, via human sources. we must get to the bottom of that. when the intelligence community is weaponized against one political party out of the motivation of political retribution and stopping a presidential candidate, everyone must care. we will achieve, the president can't be stopped on that front. we will investigate via a.g. barr what said he's going to do this. >> both the house and senate plan to grill attorney general barr about the report early next month and plan to hear from robert mueller himself before

may 23rd. the man accused of posing as an uber driver and murdering a college student due in court today. nathaniel roland accused of killing samantha josephson in south carolina. prosecutors said he lured her into his car and stabbed her and dumped her in the woods. the search for a missing 5-year-old shifts to his own home. investigators say there's no indication andrew friend was abducted after his parents reported him missing on wednesday. their illinois home is considered a crime scene as his mother begs for answers. >> i just want my kids. that's all i -- that's my life, they're my kids. >> andrew's father said he will continue to look for his son on his own. the illinois department of children and family services has been involved with the family since andrew was born.

an army soldier is killed in a noncombat incident on his first deployment to iraq. 22-year-old ryan riley from kentucky was a fire control specialist with several awards and deck rac decorations. this comes as the remains of staff sergeant albert miller are returned to the u.s. he die friday at died friday atn qatar. today, secretary of state mike pompeo is expected to announce all countries importing oil from iran will face u.s. sanctions. the trump administration is ending waivers to eight countries that look to iran for oil. they are ramping up pressure on iran to curb the nuclear program. michael avenatti accused of stealing more than a million dollars from a pro basketball player. he was fired by a miami heat center to settle a lawsuit with an ex-girlfriend but instead of

giving her the money she was entitled to, he took most of it for himself to buy a private jet. avenatti is facing several counts of fraud and extortion. he denies all claims against him. in a few hours, the annual white house easter egg roll gets underway. this is video of the president and first lady at last year's event. 74,000 eggs are being donated this year, more than double years past. there will be competitions, decorating stations and egg pop snacks, those are hard piled eggboiledeggs on a stick. "fox & friends" will be there all morning long starting at 6:00 a.m. that looks like a fun day. >> i have hard boiled eggs, two of them every morning. i don't know that i want them on a stick. >> you could if you wanted to. hundreds of casualties after bombers target churches and hotels in sri lanka. our next guest says this is evidence that a decade-long terror battle is far from over.

counter terrorism expert aaron cowen joins us to talk about what comes next. students protested a class taught by supreme court justice brett kavanaugh, saying he made them feel unsafe. the university got the final word. we'll tell you about it when we return. oh! oh! oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. oh! under seven? and you may lose weight. in the same one-year study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. oh! up to 12 pounds? a two-year study showed that ozempic® does not increase the risk of major cardiovascular events like heart attack, stroke, or death. oh! no increased risk? ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪

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shows recent attacks on religious centers. you can obviously see the latest in sri lanka. of course, recently new zealand and also on that list just last year, here in the united states, the pittsburgh synagogue shooting. why are we seeing a lot of these? are these targets extremely soft? >> i think the targets are soft and i think it also has the highest psychological impact as far as what thesis l these isc extreme organizations are going for. in terrorism, what we learned over the years, is whoever is the most scared is the one losing. if they can go after churches, go after synagogues, when they can go after religious groups, christians and catholics, it's, particularly on easter weekend, it has a very, very significant impact and so psychologically they're very successful. it creates a lot of media, obviously. and what we're seeing in sri lanka here is a very soft

target. the eight that were attacked, including the lack of unpreparedness, obviously, with the authorities. it's a big mess over there. all of this needs to be recalibrated. todd: there were reports that 10 days ago security officials were alerted to the threat of a possible attack or series of attacks. is this a situation where they just didn't pay any attention to those? has our complacency risen to a sad level? what's going on here? >> well it sounds to me like the authorities who reported that there was a potential terror alert from a group, a local militant terror organization that hasn't had a lot of p.r. in the recent years since the ending of the civil war and the fighting about a decade ago in sri lanka. sounds like there was a report that came out about 14 days ago,

that never made it to the prime minister of sri lanka. this is precisely what you don't want to do when it comes to counter terror operations. because at the end of the day, actionable intelligence is what's going to help you prevent attacks from happening. that's the first goal. the second goal obviously is to be able to go after terrorists in a coordinated fashion. once you have that information, to be able to arrest them to prevent the attack from happening and use interrogations to be able to extract new intelligence and information from the terror leaders to be able to prevent future attacks. it's a multilayered attack, done through the use of special operations forces. there's another missing piece here, which is that you had a group of terrorists come together for a specific reason to attack specific targets on a very soft targets on a very religious week, easter weekend and you had a lax response from security forces and i think you have ill prepared forces in sri lanka. there wasn't security at the

hotels. there weren't barriers and checks. there were multi players that failed. you want as many layers in between the terrorists and the soft targets so it would take a multi-failure event for terrorists to be successful. you had a failure on the intelligence and response level. there was high risk raid that was conducted where several police officers were killed after the fact going after the potential suspects where bombs went off. so there seems to be a lot of lack of training in this particular region. i think they need to tighten it up. jillian: to that point, aaron, we would like to think if something like this were planned here in the united states, and officials here got word of it, perhaps 10 days in advance, that's what we're hearing happened in sri lanka, we hope that could be prevented here. >> correct. and i think it can be prevented. but again, actionable intelligence, moving quickly on the intelligence, let me add this, every one of these countries in south asia and in

the middle east, all 160 or 80 partners that we have in the global war on terror, every one of them needs to stand up a national counter terrorist academy so military and police can be trained in tactical first response including suicide bomber prevention as well as active shooter response. that needs to happen a.s.a.p. jillian: thank you so much for your time. todd: time now, 18 minutes after the hour. 10,000 millionaires overnight, no, it's not the lottery. it could be a reality in san francisco. the unbelievable boost to big tech from wall street. jillian: it started out as a crazy pitch to rob a home run. it's what happened after that has the horse world buzzing. you don't want to miss it. ♪ all i have to do is -- - [woman] with shark's duo clean, i don't just clean, i deep clean carpets and floors, so i got this.

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click, call, or visit a store today. this is a big talker, the fliers out of philadelphia remove a statue of late singer kate smith after couldn't veer l songs from 80 years ago come to light. jillian: we are joined live from philadelphia. good morning, hank. >> reporter: good morning, guys. they didn't remove this statue from this mount lightly, but when they did, they did it quickly. look at where the bolts were sawed off. kate smith, singer of god bless america and all it meant to the fliers' legacy, some fans have mixed reactions. some say no, they shouldn't have taken the statue down. others said in this day and age, you can't leave room for error, have to pull it down, and pull it down they did, guys. no question about the nature of

the recordings that have been readiere discovered you, howeve. references to cotton picking, racial slurs in some of the titles. the team put this statement out, the fliers president saying hockey is for everyone and no recovered old material from the old days could get in the way of where the flyers are going. some say judging action from people in the past against today's expectations will rarely turn out favorable. even though the statue is now gone, the discussion remains heated. the yankees having some of the same discussions today as well. the statue, however, that's gone. that's a memory. jillian: thank you very much. it's a big deal. anyone who has been a flyers game, they play the video that you saw a couple seconds ago of

kate smith on the jumbotron as god bless america is sang in the building. todd: for the yankees, it's the seventh inning song that's been played since after 9/11. jillian: there's a gold rush in san francisco. todd: big tech startups going public, creating millionaires overnight. >> reporter: san francisco is bracing for a new tech boom, the kind that makes millionaires overnight. it's a wave of start-ups going public, levis and lyft already have, uber, airbnb, slack and others will soon, with plans to raise hundreds of billions of dollars in their initial public offering. it will mean a big payday for employees who cash in on stock options. the bay area could see up to 10,000 newly minted millionaires with money to spend on cars and real estate. in san francisco, already one of the most expensive cities in the

world, the median home price is $1.4 million. that could soon look like a bargain. >> over the next five years, i expect rent prices and home prices to appreciate at least 50%. 100% is also plausible. and we're looking at a much more expensive city. >> reporter: this comes a few years after the explosive growth of companies like apple, google and facebook saw the gentrification of middle class neighborhoods where long-time tenants were priced out. that coupled with the arrival of private shuttle busses to get tech workers to and from silicon valley he created tensions that could linger and could deepen. don't expect a buying frenzy immediately. it could take a year or more for the money from all of these ipos to make it from wall street to market street. claudia cowen, fox news. todd: check this out. an incredible catch sparks a

more amazing double you play one diamond. >> he's still going back. he's near the wall and it is -- he caught it! he caught it! he fires it back in. now he grabs it and the throw to second base and that may be the greatest double play you've ever seen. jillian: oh, man. oakland a's robbed the home run and overthrows to first base. that's pretty cool. todd: not to be negative. my 2-year-old niece runs faster than justin smolfair. watch how he runs from first to second. clod, clod. jillian: you like the play by play, the color analyst? todd: maybe we should get jared max in here.

jillian: with joe biden's announcement expected in days, is the democratic stage set for a socialist showdown. todd: who has the upper hand between bernie and biden? we debate it, next. ♪ my power's turned up. ♪ starting right now who saved by adding a hotel, which led to new adventures, ♪ that captured their imaginations ♪ and turned moments into memories. with flights, hotels, activities and more for your florida vacation, expedia has everything you need to go.

jillian: good morning. welcome back. a look at our top headlines, starting with a fox news alert. officials announced a local militant group is responsible for a group of attacks ons churches and hotels in sri lanka. 290 people are confirmed dead. hundreds of others are wounded. at least 24 people have been arrested. todd: today secretary of state mike pompeo expected to announce all countries importing oil from iran will face sanctions. they are looking to curb the nuclear program. jillian: today, democrats

hosting a conference call to discuss the redacted mueller report. the call will be led by house speaker nancy pelosi who claims president trump did obstruct justice. democrats are expected to consider the possibility of impeachment. todd: and this breaking news just moments ago, jeff bolton announces he is running for president. the third term democrat has secured campaign office space. he joins the 18 democrats vying for the 2020 nomination. this comes as the atlantic reports former v.p. joe biden will make it official on wednesday. and as those new campaigns take off, beto o'rourke's could be stalling. according to buzzfeed, two top aides are stepping down. both staffers were considered temporary and worked for during his failed texas senate run last year. the former aides will continue to volunteer for beto. jillian: once joe biden

officially enters the race he could potentially lead the field alongside person hey sanders. so does this set the stage for another establishment versus socialist showdown in the democratic party. here to weigh in is former president speech writer ned ryan and jonathan harris. thank you for your time this morning many jonathan, i'll start with you. for argument's sake, let's say these are the only two guys, these are the only two names in the mix right now, obviously they're not but what do you think between biden and bernie? >> i think right now biden looks good. i think we've kind of seen bernie attempt this in 2016 and it kind of petered out as the primaries went on. i think biden looks good. he far out in front with recent polling, that's with the scandal that he recently kind of put behind him. so i think he's got obviously obama in his back pocket, he's got name recognition going for him. i think it looks good. i think it looks good right now. jillian: we had a poll up on the screen. let's take a look at that same

real clear politics poll from may to june of 2016 and that showed hillary clinton actually with 52.8% and bernie with 41.4%. so ned, you just heard jonathan say that biden looks pretty good. bernie's up there in the polls. what do you think? >> i have to agree with jonathan. coming out of the gate, joe biden's name i.d. is pretty strong. i have to think his best day of running for president will be the day he announces. this will be his third presidential run. his first two were mediocre. in 1988 he had to withdraw over plagiarism charges. the next time he got zero votes. right now, the primary voters, i don't see them as being biden voters. in 2016, the super delegates inside the democratic primary

were the last bas bastion for te holding off sanders. i think it paved the way for an outsider and removed one of the establishment's power bases from the primary. i think in many ways joe biden will have more trouble in 2020 than hillary clinton did in 2016. jillian: jonathan, i want to get your opinion on this. a lot of people right now obviously talking about socialism, is this going to be the path that people are going to want to vote. 2020 is going to be a big indicator of where we go in this country. you look at a lot of the candidates who are very socialist, who are left-leaning and then you have the joe bidens of the world who are more moderate than that. >> i think what joe biden did for obama in 2008, biden is going to need someone to do for him in this race. joe biden gave obama the

experience and kind of the washington insider politics that he needed and what biden is going to need now -- biden is locking down the center. biden is locking down what ned ryan was alluding to which is a little bit extra. but hes was staying that the democrats have changed somewhat in recent years, just like the republicans did with the tea party. there was the more extreme arm of the republicans which was the tea party. i think you're seeing the same thing happening now with the democrats. but biden has got that locked down, the center. and what he's going to need is somebody to appeal to those socialist democrats. if he can get someone on board his campaign like that, i think he will be tough to beat. jillian: let's stick with the socialism theme. i want to bring up a number that says 56% of people would be satisfied if a nominee has socialist ideas. that's from likely democratic caucus goers so that's not everybody. but, i mean, we're talking a lot more about socialism now than we have in a while.

>> that's the party base, gillian. these are the people that will likely turn out for a primary vote in 2020. the thing that i'm a little perplexed by is how are people going to pledge feelity to the green new deal, to medicare for all, to universal basic income, free college, to the bds movement which i think they're going to have to do for most part going into the nomination process and whoever wins that nomination in call it august of 2020 will have to pivot in three months and try to claim they're basically center left coming into the general election. i think donald trump will be running on strong job numbers, strong economy, strong foreign policy, all these things. i think the democratic party is in a lot of trouble. the great collusion fairytale is also dead. i think they're in more trouble than people want to admit. i think a lot of this is outside the mainstream of the american. jillian: i know you want to

respond. i'll give you the last word. we had this on a couple minutes ago. seth molten announced. where do you think he falls? >> just in responding to what ned was saying, i mean, if trump does try to run on the economy, i think biden is in a very unique position to say number one, do you really think that a new york millionaire who spent his life as a democrat and changed over in recent years really has your best interest at heart versus joe biden who has been fighting for the middle class all his life. number two, the economy numbers you referenced, biden can easily say those are trends that started under his leadership with president obama. so while trump is sitting on them now, the numbers began under obama and trump called those numbers fake when they were under obama and all of a sudden thought they were real when they were under him. biden has a unique response to that that i don't think any other candidate can make. jillian: we're out of time. i apologize. i want to get your opinion on seth molten at another time.

thank you for joining us. you can always tell by ned's reaction what he's thinking. todd: an isis bride, one of several jihadis causing taxpayers several million dollars in legal bills. there's no doubt cow farts are making climate change. socialism is short for social media. did you know that? jillian: this bind sized impersonator is going viral. we'll introduce you to a little aoc, next. ♪ all she wants to do is dance. ♪ mol toiv molotov cocktail thel drink. ♪ all she wants to do is dance, dance.

jillian: good monday morning. hope you're having a good one so far. frustration growing in mexico as another caravan overwhelms the country on the journey to the united states. mexico reportedly clamping down, offering little aid and

detaining some people. thousands are having a tougher time finding food, rides and temporary visas. the white house is pressuring mexico to handle the influx of mmigrants. taxpayers could be on the hook to pay legal bills for terrorists. experts fear eight apmri cases -- aid application toss skyrocket after a british isis bride was given funds to fight to get her citizenship back. she is expected to get $260,000 for her court battle. other british citizens could follow her lead. todd: a group of liberal students calls out the university of buffalo for hosting condoleezza rice as a distinguished speaker. the young democratic socialist of america chapter at the school called rice a torturer, liar and

war criminal. they say she approved water boarding prisoners. she is scheduled to speak wednesday. the group vows to protest. and george mason university telling its students supreme court justice brett kavanaugh will teach a summer course, despite protests. the school's president he reaffirming the decision during a town hall. more than 10,000 students signed a petition opposing that hire. kavanaugh was accused of sexually assaulting a woman in high school during his confirmation process to the supreme court. jillian: maybe that's a fashion from the '60s but you may want to leave your alarm clock there. look at this. ♪ i'm picking up good vibrations. ♪ she's giving me excitation. todd: get this, jillian mele. jillian: i'm ready. todd: a study finds that waking up to uppete songs is better at waking you up than an alarm.

jillian: researchers say it helps you get going in the morning. todd: they found classical music could help boost morning performance. i did not think the beach boys looked that creepy. jillian: creepy? todd: my mom sees the beach boys all the time. we've had them on the show. they look like it's a creepy movie. jillian: adam, you want to help? >> of all the possible segues. todd: how does the beach look? >> it's going to be a warm week across the country. we're looking at pooling of warmer air, currently in the middle of the country, before the week is over, everyone will see this. the current warm spot in the middle of the country driving rain to the upper midwest. the only big system we're talking about, heavy rain moving into the northern plains, running into the great lakes region, that going to eventually over the next couple days bring a lot of rain with it. we're looking at spots getting up to 2 to 3 inches in northern

wisconsin, as a result, no surprise here, an area that has seen a ton of snow melt, a ton of rain, we're looking at flash flood warnings, watches, stretching all the way down the mississippi. otherwise across the country, the temperatures for the week ahead look really nice. these are highs on monday, a lot of spots in the 70s and close to 80 degrees in louisville, that continues from tuesday, wednesday and thursday. a really nice week in this direction, a good week to be listening to the beach boys. i'm sorry, going to be creeped out a lot this week. todd: it's that video. they look like beatnicks. jillian: thank you, adam. we're not sure this is what republicans meant by saying investigate the investigators. >> will you testify before congress, sir? >> no comment. >> are you sure about that, sir? >> no comment. >> if he were anybody but the president, would mr. trump be indicted.

jillian: major backlash for confronting robert mueller outside of church. todd: first, let's check in with mr.s doocy to see what's coming up. >> coming up on "fox & friends," ainsley earhart is live at the white house for the annual easter egg roll on the south lawn. she's going to talk to press secretary sarah sanders and special counselor to the president, kelley ann conway. plus, tom ho homan and mike huckabee and tommy tuberville is running for senate in alabama officially, we'll talk to him in his first national tv interview since announcing, that comes up in the first hour of "fox & friends," that as i said kicks off in about 13 and-a-half minutes right here on the channel todd and jillian trust for their news. jillian: i do. every day. we're coming right back.

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todd: this is something else. nbc news facing backlash for ambushing robert mueller on easter sunday. >> sir, could i ask you a couple questions. will you testify before congress, sir? >> no comment. >> are you sure about that, sir? >> no comment. >> if he were anybody but the president, would mr. trump be indicted. jillian: outside of church. carlie shimkus, here with a lot of people who are probably pretty upset about this. >> reporter: that's right. absolutely. good morning, guys. so while reporters across the nation's capital are chomping at the bit to get an interview with special counsel sell robert mueller, some people feel approaching him outside of church on easter sunday was not

the best way to do it. that's exactly what congressional correspondent mike bikara did yesterday, leading to backlash online. patricia heaton tweeting this. today is easter sunday, some of the faithful were murdered today while they worshiped but you ambushed robert mueller outside of his church and chuck he'lled about it afterwards. shame on you, she says. another says i'm all for posing questions to mueller but looks like he was headed to easter services, that's out-of-bounds for an am bush interview. another said this, let the man worship in he peace. mueller was leaving church at the time. he did not answer any of the questions, responding, no comment. todd: houses of worship used to be off limits for everything, if you watched the first 51 minutes of our newscast today, you see that's not the case. jillian: i grew up going to the

fly ers games with my dad. >> reporter: picking up right where reporter hank flynn left off on this one, social media buzzing about the philadelphia flyers' decision to remove kate smith's statue from outside the stadium. some supporting the decision, others taking aim at the team. one said you will lose fans and viewership out of this. another said, offended by a song from the '30s this is ridiculous. the fyers said many of the songs include lyrics that are unacceptable. the new york yankees also stopped playing smith's songs in the seventh inning stretch as well. todd: this one everybody is loving, except for maybe one person. jillian: an 8-year-old girl is

leaving her mark on social media by impersonating congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. take a listen to this. >> there's no doubt, cow farts are making the climate change. socialism is actually short for social media. did you know that? jillian: ava martinez's impersonation of the freshman congresswoman has been viewed over a million times on twitter. adam says she's adoreable. another said her timing and delivery were spot on, clear gold and lastly, she wins the internet. she's seeing a lot of support on social media for that impersonation. she's really cute. todd: a really good impersonator. jillian: it's seven minutes until the top of the hour. a national anthem performance turned contact sport for gavin degraw. todd: the wipeout that's going viral this morning. ♪

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♪ ♪ roll with it baby ♪ go on ♪ and just roll with it, baby todd: steve wynsteve steve: winwood. speaking of really new trend sweeping washington state that people are just dying to try. the state is close to legalizing using human remains for composting. a bill is currently awaiting approval from governor jayensly as he makes his case for the 2020 democratic presidential nomination this is the issue that everybody wants to focus on a composting procedure could cost more than 5,000 bucks. jillian: the supreme court set to hear arguments tomorrow over adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census. the trump administration has been fighting for months to get the question included. a group claims it will

square immigrants. it's necessary to get a accurate population count. three federal judges have previously ruled the plan unconstitutional. todd: now for the good, the bad, and the ugly. first the good. the army vet who drank only beer said he is healthier than ever. dale hell claims he lost 44 pounds after drinking two to five beers a day. he feels younger with more energy. jillian: some questions. tesla looking into why one of its cars suddenly exploded. look at that security footage showing the parked car bursting into flames in china there have been at least 14 reporting cases of teslas casing fire. todd: i'm no car expert but i don't think that's good. national anthem going viral for all the wrong reasons after singing before the predator's star game in nashville.

ing. jillian: gosh, that's hurts. he slipped and face planted on the ice. i didn't realize singing the national anthem was a full contact sport. jillian: we got to go. goodbye. ♪ oh, oh ♪ i just want to feel this moment ♪ oh, oh, oh ♪ i just want to feel this moment. steve: you are looking at the truman ball can only of it of the white house south lawn. about 90 minutes from right now kids are going to start streaming through the gates at the white house for the annual easter egg roll. it's so much fun if you are a kid in washington, d.c. you want to be there today. jedediah: even if you are not a kid i you want to be there. pete: i saw it last year it's good stuff. steve: a