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about biden. it's about the frustration of the american people. >> jason, were out of time. i can't get you one. i'm so sorry. will have to have you back soon. thanks for joining us and see you all next sunday when "the you all next sunday when "the jillian: it is monday, january 25th. a fox news alert. more riots rocking washington state overnight. reports of fire and damage to business as more unrest erupts in liberal cities. todd: a live look at the white house as president biden kicks off his first full week in office by undoing president trump's policies. we take a look. >> he's got the first down. this game's over. up in the air to kelsey, no one
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near him. jillian: the big game is set. one of the nfl's most seasoned champions will take on one of the newest superstars. "fox & friends first" starts right now. ♪ i love it when you go crazy. ♪ you take all of my inhibitions. ♪ baby, there's nothing holding me back. todd: you could have thrown that to kelsey there. he was so open. jillian: you how do you feel about the super bowl matchup. todd: i'm a big chiefs fan all of a sudden. it's easy to hop on that bandwagon. little shocked how well tampa bay played yesterday. jillian: i love it. i love tom brady and patrick mahomes. it's amazing tom brady was able to pull off another championship as a buccaneer, not as a patriot. patriot. todd: it's going to be a fun game. any time you have patrick mahomes, it's going to be a fun
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game. we'll see. hope you enjoy the next one hour and 58 minutes. you're watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning. i'm todd piro. carley: i'm carley shimkus. todd: lawmakers are digging in on another round of coronavirus relief. it's political football time, david spunt live in d.c. with a busy week ahead. >> reporter: good morning. this is the first full week for the 46th president, joe biden many he has a busy week ahead. each day this week is going to be a different theme day. today's going to specifically be buy american, the white house saying this is especially important during the pandemic as millions of americans continue to get vaccinated. the goal of the biden white house is to have at least 100 million shots in the first 100 days. this as democrats now in control of the senate, house and white house are moving forward with a covid relief package. still, the president wants to
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work with republicans according to his chief of staff. listen here. >> well, we were going to move fast and bipartisan. the need is urgent. americans, democrats and republicans are dying. kids' schools that take care of democratic and republican kids are closed. people are on unemployment. people are in food lines. that's not a party issue. >> reporter: this is what we're looking at this week. buy american today, racial equality tuesday, climate crisis wednesday, health care thursday, immigration on friday. immigration is a big deal for this administration, they will focus on those priorities. the immigration is a serious point of contention between republicans and democrats. listen. >> joe biden basically announced to the entire world that it's ali ali, oxen free at the border. we'll see another surge at the border. you already see some caravans
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coming through. >> reporter: tonight the house will deliver the sole impeachment article against former president trump to the senate. democrats are unified to convict. republicans are split. >> no he question but that the article of impeachment that was sent over by the house suggests impeachable conduct. >> i think the trial is stupid. i think it's counter-productive. we already have a flaming fire in the country. it's like taking gasoline and pouring it on top of the fire. >> reporter: the trial will begin the week of february 8th. meanwhile, president biden set to meet with his new defense secretary, lloyd austin today, in the oval office. one of the topics expected, biden's repeal of the ban of transgender people from serving in the military. carley: thank you, david. todd: president biden is gearing up to sign new executive actions. mark levine says the president
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preached unity on inauguration day but hasn't shown it. >> joe biden made much of the word unity. nothing that he has done since his inauguration speech demonstrates any form of unity. it's conformity. he's there, proudly signing one executive order after another. these executive orders do what? taxpayer paid for abortion on demand even one minute before birth. the paris climate accords which ought to be a treaty which ties our hands, plus his war on american energy. who benefits from that? communist china, of course. the only plan in that regard is to trash trump, to dumb down all those achievements and make some absurd claim that he's done some great job. todd: tammy bruce says biden's far left take and quick push to undo trump policies will not erase what the former president showed the american people. listen. >> president trump showed us
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that we weren't finished, that there was not a new normal, that americans weren't hopeless, that coal miners didn't need to go learn to code, that we could live lives that best suited us, we could make the decisions that were best for our families, we could do the job that we wanted to do if government would get off our back. todd: as for the former president's political few churr, he told the washington examiner he will do something but not just yet. carley: an unlawful assembly declared in tacoma, washington, after protests turned violent. [crowds chanting] carley: reported antifa protesters demanding inmates be freed from a local jail. more than 100 people marching through the streets, lighting an american flag on fire and shattering windows, the protests
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starting after a police officer drove you through a crowd saturday, injuring at least one person. seconds before the crowd was seen shouting at the officer and pounding on his car windows, an independent investigation is underway and a meeting is expected to be held today to discuss use of force. the u.s. reaching a grim milestone, one year after the first case was he detected. coronavirus cases topping 25 million, with 419,000 deaths. the cdc warns the government remains in the dark on how many vaccines are available. >> i would say one of the biggest problems right now is i can't tell you how much vaccine we have and if i can't tell it to you then i can't tell it to the governors and i can't tell it to the state health officials. if they don't know how much vaccine they're getting, not just this week but next week and the week after, they can't plan. carley: more than 20 million doses of vaccines have been administered. todd: sources telling fox news that sarah sanders is expected
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to announce her run for governor of arkansas today. no democrats have yet you announced a bid to run but president trump's former press secretary faces a pretty competitive republican primary against lieutenant governor tim griffin and you may recognize that face on the right, she's been on our of show before, attorney general leslie rutledge. all right. football talk, tom brady returning to the super bowl for a tenth time. >> brady goes for the deep shot, he got it! touchdown! scotty miller. >> oh, my god. carley: oh, my god is right. bringing the buccaneers to a 31-26 win over the green bay packers, got to give green pay the points they deserve there. this year's super bowl is in tampa, making the bucs the first
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team to play the home game. todd: who are they going to play? i have the answer. i'm the only one who has the answer. they take on the defending champ patrick mahomes as the kc chiefs, they stopped the buffalo bills. >> we worked really hard to get to this point. we had two tough games in a row. the next will be really tough too. >> being able to go up one of the greatest, if not the greatest quarterback of all time, it's going to be a great experience for me. carley: comments are pouring in on social media. one instagram user writing the past versus the future, couldn't ask for a better matchup. todd: brandon joking, what's weird, it looks like brady is playing his son. carley: ryan posting on twitter, looks like tom brady took the job this year to have a
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shorter commute. .>> it's absolutely amazing wht tom has been able to do. it shows you the importance of the position and it shows you the dedication of one man. i mean, people have written him off a long time ago and said he's too old, he's too old. he looks like he can keep on going to 50 and i wouldn't be surprised another four, five years from now we're still talking about tom brady throwing the ball around. todd: i know he has a lot of haters out there, but it's an amazing accomplishment. carley: brady has haters? todd: yes, he does. tampa bay has a pretty well stocked team. i look at kansas city, i don't see any weaknesses. carley: your money is on kansas city? todd: i'm not allowed to bet anymore, i have a newborn, so all the money goes there. what do you sunshine. think?carley: i can't believe a
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bay is playing the first home game super bowl. president biden facing back lash over the border as a new caravan plans to leave for the u.s. today. arizona sheriff mark lamb warns pie den's policies -- biden's policies will fuel more caravans to come. todd: gavin newsom caught breaking his own coronavirus restriction. the lockdown backlash coming up. ♪ baby, i'm sorry. ♪ i'm not sorry. u can start inv, wherever you are — even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood. want to sell the best burger in every zip code? add an employee. or ten... then easily and automatically pay your team and file payroll taxes. that means... world domination!
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todd: welcome back. we are less than a week into joe biden's presidency and already a second migrant caravan set to leave for the border today. carley: jackie ibanez joins us live. >> reporter: reports say the caravans is leaving from honduras, despite calls from the biden administration to
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reconsider. guatemalan tv reports at least 3,000 migrants will meet before crossing into guatemala, entering mexico and heading towards the southern u.s. this follows a caravan being broken up by guatemalan security forces last week. asylum seekers breaking through a human barricade. as many as 5300 migrants have been sent down to honduras. the rest are spread throughout guatemala. senate republicans are calling on the biden administration to act. >> we can only do something after you've got in place immigration reforms that allow you to secure the border and stop illegal immigration. otherwise, doing something is going to encourage more feel to come. we saw a brief example of that, just the fact that he was elected and incentivized some of the trafficking networks to try to push people to the united states. carley: the president's immigration plans include
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pausing border wall construction, he creating a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens in the u.s., ending family separation and giving $4 billion to central america. former acting dhs secretary chad wolf is worried about the policy changes. listen. >> i'm afraid that some of the actions that president biden and the administration have taken will cause immigration and border security crisis on the southwest border. that's something we don't need right now. it's really what i'm watching through these executive actions and through legislation. >> reporter: a new poll says 60% of americans want this caravan stopped at the border. guatemalan media reports a caravan of migrants has been scheduled to leave el salvador for our border on february 14th. carley, todd. todd: jackie, thank you. carley: thanks, jackie. joining us live with why he says law enforcement is very concerned by the biden administration's immigration
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policy, sheriff mark lamb. good morning, sheriff. >> good morning, how you doing today? carley: very good. president biden has already done a lot when it comes to illegal immigration, ending construction of the border wall, 100 day pause on deportations. what are some of your biggest concerns here? >> oh, we've got a lot of concerns. this is going to open it up for more caravans as you mentioned. director wolf is exactly right. this is going to cause a lot of, problems, not just for us in law enforcement, but it causes problems for our partners in mexico and guatemala, they'll have to deal with the caravan as well. it's because we're p presenting to them that we have weak immigration policies and that we're not going to enforce this rule of law which is immigration here in this country. that is dangerous. it's dangerous for us in our communities. it brings drugs and human trafficking. it's something that we try hard to stop and this isn't going to help. todd: to that end, president biden pledging $4 billion to
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help development in honduras, el salvador, guatemala. he says this money will address the root problem. you say it fails to address the real problem. ex practice late a little more on -- extrapolate a little more on that. >> he acts like this is the first time we've given money to these countries. we've given them money for a long time. they haven't done the job to this point. they've got a lot of corruption. the money will go to other places. we have people in this country that are struggling, business that's are struggling. let's give that $4 billion to them. the other issue is, is that the root -- he wants to address the root problem. i get that. and there are problems down there. but i would contend that the root problem is our weak immigration laws and inability to enforce those laws. and when you say you're not going to enforce that law for 100 days, that's going to create those caravans, going to make people want to come here. it's only going to increase the amount of drug trafficking and human trafficking into the country. so i would say that your root
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problem here is fixing the immigration problem and staying strong on border security, just like president trump has done for four years. it's the only way we're going to be able to combat this. carley: president biden sent a bill to congress that includes a pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal i'm grants the country. support -- immigrants in the country. supporters say that's a good thing. in order to get citizenship they would have to pay taxes and get background checks. what do you say to those folks. >> i'm all about creating a better path to citizenship in the country. our immigration laws stink. they should stop this impeachment stuff and get to work on fixing some of the problems if they truly want to get to the root of the problem. that's where we need to fix it. so unless we fix those immigration laws, it's going to continue to be tough for people to come here and make a better life. what we can't do is just say we give up and allow 8,000 people, 3,000 people to just cross our bore of deer unchecked -- border
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unchecked. it brings so many problems into our of communities. in law enforcement, we hear the people's voice. we'll continue to stand up as sheriffs and law enforcement, continue to protect our borders and communities and regardless of whether we have the support of the president or not. carley: sheriff lamb, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you v a great day. todd: straight ahead, a great white shark -- carley: i hate the sharks. todd: the chosen counter doesn't end there. carley: i didn't know we were doing a shark store rim i hate sharks so much. lawmakers are calling an audible on governor cuomo, his push to open bars for the big game, coming up next. ♪
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carley: all right. the stage is set, the buccaneers will face off against the chiefs in super bowl lv. tom brady punching his ticket for the big game for a record tenth time an the chiefs fighting for their second consecutive win. one freshman lawmaker is asking governor cuomo to call an audible on his curfew for bars and restaurants during the big game. good morning, sir. there's a 10:00 p.m. curfew on bars and restaurants in new york. you want the governor to change that. >> good morning, carley. thanks for asking me on to talk about this. about a week ago i was reached out to by a few restaurant owners that i represent in the seventh assembly district and they just straight up said, look, this 10:00 curfew is slowing killing our businesses. we're barely hanging on. if we could have this rescinded before the super bowl it would
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be a huge lifeline for them right now and they need it. carley: people are still going to socialize during the super bowl. if there's the risk that the game is going to end after bars close, they might not go to these bars and restaurants and they're going to stay at home and we know that's really where the virus spreads. so it sounds like you're trying to do something from a health standpoint and economic standpoint as well. >> well, that's exactly right. so governor cuomo's contract tracing data has shown that bars and restaurants have only accounted for 1.4% of the virus spread, where private gatherings at home have actually accounted for almost he three quarters, 74, 75%. so by shutting these bars down at 10:00 which is an arbitrary time, you're going to push people to stay home and potentially spread the virus even more. carley: that's so true. has the governor said anything to you about extending the curfew past 10:00 p.m. on super bowl sunday? >> i haven't heard anything yet.
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i am hoping he'll do the right thing by our small businesses. we hear a lot about just protecting our small businesses, our main street businesses. if we don't take action, they're just empty words. carley: let's talk about the vaccine rollout really quickly. i know there's a lot of issues in new york state, a lot of vaccination appointments have been canceled. do you know what's happening on that front? and if there's anything that's coming down the pipeline to fix it? >> i've been told that they're continuing to work on improving the website. it really has not been a smooth rollout. my office has received calls and i have great staff working to help get seniors these appointments. there was a phone number that was leaked which was a total disaster where people thought they made an appointment and a few hours later, a day later, they were told it was canceled. there's been a lot of confusion. i'm hoping they can get it together really soon. carley: yeah, confusion on the vaccine front. you've got to get those businesses open and running because, boy oh, boy, do those
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restaurant owners really need the support right now. assemblyman, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. carley: todd. todd: still ahead, after antifa rioters wreak havoc in seattle, the police chief vowing a crackdown. is it too lill too late? president biden set to roll out a covid travel ban today, what fliers need to know, next.
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todd: a fox news alert now, reports of an antifa led riot in tacoma, washington, forcing police to declare an unlawful assembly overnight. carley: king county washington republican party chair, dr. freed, joins us now. good morning, sir. what's your reaction to the situation in tacoma? you have a police officer running into a crowd of people, apparently he was concerned. they were banging on his windows, that they were going to break into his car. it was a tough situation.
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it led to another night of rioting. what's your reaction? >> we have clearly seen over the last year that the rioters have no care for human life around them. we've seen 600 people around arrested, over the last few months and none of them are prosecuted. the police chief has come out saying he will take a tougher stance on crime. he is saying he will do that if you've been arrested four or five times for vandalism, they'll consider prosecuting you. they're saying continue your lawlessness for four or five times, maybe we'll start bringing prosecution against you. this is clearly not working as evidenced by a 48% increase in murder in seattle alone this year. todd: let's listen to some more from that police chief. take a listen. >> it doesn't matter who was in the presidential office, it really is a matter of understanding that people are
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out there for disruption. what we don't have any level of accountability and many of them that are coming from outside of the city, they will continue to do that destruction. todd: joshua, this doesn't come as a shock to anybody whose been watching news, the fox news channel, for the last seven, eight months. we saw this stuff in may, june, july, august. we saw it all that time. why now? why are we acting now. >> it's a weak approach, pete holmes, the seattle city attorney reversed his position in less than 24 hours. he says that he doesn't want to prosecute these peaceful protesters, and clearly we know with the evidence that these folks tonight in tacoma they're breaking windows, shaking fences down, and these rioters are going unabated and it's time that we take a tough stance and enforce the laws in washington statement otherwise, we're going to see what we see already, rape is up by 65%, burglary up by 35% and this year alone, murder is up by 48%.
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you know what's sad is seattle used to be known as the place of airplanes, coffee and software and now we're known as the place of chaz and lawlessness and violent riots. we need to do something. we need to take back our city. carley: we're looking at footage of the riots that occurred on wednesday, there were more in tacoma last night. this should be headline news. this should be on the cover of every major newspaper. the press secretary, jen psaki, says she hasn't spoken to president biden about the violence. why do you think it's important for the president to address what we're seeing unfolding right now. >> this is a guy that benefited from the chaos of the last year. they established chaz which they said was for racial reconciliation. clearly it was not. those folks broke into 67
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different asian businesses. when biden is calling for june , it's falling on deaf ears. people are being violated. what we've seen this year is a result of the socialist democrats not condemning the violence. we're seeing defunding of the police. seattle city council moved to defund the police by 20% and right now the seattle police chief took a tough stance, they moved to the 50% that they set as a goal last year. we need to he resolve to address the lawlessness that we see as people are being victimized and seeing the their own constitutional rights stole n away in the city of seattle and beyond. the president that calls for unity and wants to lead our nation, it's time to stand up and show that he has the content of character to do so and so far i think he's letting the american people down. todd: we've been doing this segment for eight months, nine months, doesn't seem like things are getting better. hopefully something change there's in the beautiful city of
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seattle. joshua, we appreciate your time this morning. >> have a great day. carley: police in indianapolis are hunting for a gunman in a mass murder. at least five people were killed in their home, including a pregnant woman. the mayor is calling for justice in the targeted attack. >> one or more individuals perpetrated an act of evil. the full might of local, state and federal law enforcement are coming for them. carley: a young man is in critical condition. the incident marks the city's largest mass casualty shooting in more than a decade. todd: the manhunt is intensifying overnight. officials say david harman and josh sharpieo used tools to escape to get into the prison tool room. a $70,000 reward is being
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offered for their arrest. carley: on to the pandemic, president biden is set to reinstate a travel ban on 30 countries to stop the spread of a new variant of the coronavirus. todd: trey yingst is live overseas on who is on the list. trey. >> reporter: todd, carley, good morning. with multiple variants of covid-19 spreading around the world, the united states is taking new measures to restrict travel from certain areas. fox news did confirm over the weekend that president biden plans to reinstate a covid travel ban for most non-u.s. citizens in brazil, the u.k. and a number of other european countries. south africa is also expected to be added to the list later this week. the director of the cdc is set to sign a separate order today requiring that masks be worn on airplanes. she had this to say on fox news sunday. >> the more virus that is of out there, the more virus that is he replicating, the more likely we're going to have mutations and variants. not only do we need to vaccinate but we need for people to wear
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masks, we need all of these other mitigation strategies so we can decrease the amount of virus that is circulating and, therefore, decrease the amount of variants that are out there. >> reporter: this comes as a new cdc rule goes into effect tuesday, requiring all inbound international passengers to present a negative pcr test, valid 72 hours from their time of arrival. overseas similar measures are being taken. israel will close their airport for all flights over the next week. israel's prime minister over the weekend saying, quote, we are closing the skies dramatically, except for rare exceptions to prevent the entry of virus mutations and ensure we progress quickly with the vaccination campaign. israel vaccinated over 40% of their population as their campaign continues. todd, carley. carley: trey yingst live for us in jerusalem. thank you, trey. todd: the recall campaign to get rid of california governor
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gavin newsom close to getting enough supporters to place it on the ballot. organizers say they have 1.2 million signatures. they need 300,000 more by mid-march. the governor has faced intense criticism over his covid-19 lockdown orders while as the famous french laundry photo shows, not following his own restrictions. chicago's teacher union voting to defy a plan to partially return to in-person learning today. they are pushing the return date to wednesday. remote learning in the nation's third largest school district will continue in the meantime. they previously said they would treat the move as a strike. the union argues it's a strike if they can't log in to teach online. carley: oh, boy. a group of florida boaters got an up close and personal experience with a great white shark. watch. >> no way. >> put it in my belly. put it in my belly.
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>> there's your chance. carley: put it in my belly is a unique reaction to a shark sighting. it took a chunk of the motor. the group thinks the shark was between 14 to 16 feet long. that is not the shark. todd: the shark did not bite bernie. we want to make that clear. carley: that is of course bernie sanders. here's your chance to own a pair of his mittens. the teacher who made the toasty accessory he wore on inauguration day has made 3 more pairs. she posted them on ebay with one pair fetching $2,000. can you believe that? money raised for two listing will go to charity. proceeds for the third will help fund her daughter's college education, of course. the mittens are getting some buzz online. bob on facebook writing great idea, all for charity. tess tweeting i would pay over $100 for the red ones in the middle or donate to a charity of your choosing. i would buy any of them for over
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$100, or put them in a museum. and laurie saying on twitter, love this, can't afford but donate to outright vt, vermont, my home state. there you go. the mittens coming in next week. it's like the biggest news item of all time. todd: as somebody who focuses on trends, isn't it crazy how one little thing can skyrocket as a trend? carley: totally agree. this week it's mittens. who knows what it will be next week. todd: sharks. still ahead, senator josh hawley urging americans to fight for free speech, the latest form of cancel culture that he says must be stopped. carley: a little boy stands with the seattle police department in its time of need, his unique way of honoring a fallen police officer, coming up next. ♪ this is our country. ♪
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carley: senator josh hawley says it's time to stand up to
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the, quote, muzzling of america. in a new op-ed hawley breaks down cancel culture and its effects on conservatives including the big tech's shutdown of parler. he's encouraging republicans to fight back because, quote, the cancel culture agenda will only succeed if he let it. he faced black. backlash forchallenging the rese 2020 election. todd: critics point out two former presidents who have been outspoken about their faith, one says george w. bush said jesus christ was his favorite philosopher. jimmy carter taught sunday school. another says i think it's fair to say that biden is not even the most religiously observant. biden is facing criticism from
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catholic leaders over some of his policies. the new york times story comes as a new poll these trust in the media is at an all-time low. carley: a new poll shows 46% of americans say they trust the media. glen gruenwald says this is no surprise. >> they are losing faith and trust. this is not a new sudden development. if you look at the bar graph of how many people trust the corporate media, the established media in the united states, it's been dropping precipitously over the course of many years. when they do talk about it. they do one of three things. either they complain about it and say it's unjust, that they've lost trust as though they are divinely entitled to have it, or number two, they blame others who criticize their reporting, their bad reporting, as though they're unfairly villified. the third response is trying to
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censor their critics and those who are inspiring trust by saying kick these people off the internet, their audience is too big, censor these people. carley: only 18% of republicans reported trusting the media. can you believe that number? 18%. .todd: diana congressly and coy bush leading the cause to commute the sentence of all death row inmates. a total of 13 death had row executions were carried out during president trump's time in office. in the next hour we'll speak to the family of donna major who was murdered by a man now awaiting capital punishment. carley: listen to this. a young boy sells hot chocolate to raise money for a fallen officer's family. max spending the day braving the cold to help out officer brandon stockard's fiance and two kids.
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he was shot and killed in the line of duty last week. the suspect was also killed. a funeral is being held tomorrow. but it's only open to friends, family and fellow officers. what a good initiative, selling hot chocolate. todd: isn't it fascinating ho through spirit of love comes out of a child. as adults, we often forget about something like that time now, 47 minutes after the hour. a gym closed for months on end given and ultimatum, pay 20,000 bucks in back rent or get out. carley: the husband and wife struggling to keep their business afloat say the lack of government support is a total gut-punch. they join us live, coming up next.
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>> what's going to be left is amazon, walmart, target, we're going to be forced to file for bankruptcy. we're going to have nothing left. >> every day, i continue to choose not to be a victim. i continue to fight. todd: you can see right there, it's not just numbers. these are people, real people with rent and operational costs piling up, one california gym may have to close its doors for good as the landlord threatens to kick them out. the co-owners of the gym join us now with their story. we saw a clip from another tv station there. you can see the emotion there in adam's face, understandable. it seems like you guys had somewhat of a good relationship, if i read the notes correctly, with your landlord. do you have any sense as to why they're issuing this demand now you? ?>> good morning, todd. thank you for having us. i guess they're also just as desperate as we are, probably.
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they're out of their resources. todd: that makes sense. seems like it's a trickle down effect. jenny, describe your efforts to get government help up to this point. >> well, i mean, it's been a frustrating experience to say the least. we applied for the first round of ppp. we received enough funds to cover one month of operational costs. since then, we've received no aid, nothing. we have applied for grants. we've applied for the new round of ppp. we're still waiting to hear back. and we've been closed 11 months, where we are in california. so we're doing the best we can but it's becoming increasingly difficult. todd: i would imagine your customers, if they're experiencing difficulties in their own life, one of the first things to go is a gym membership for a gym you quite frankly can't use right now.
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>> that's right. we've lost about 70% of our membership. but the members we do have have kept us afloat. we're very thankful for them. a lot of them have been incredibly supportive and, yes, it's what's getting us through right now. todd: one of the things that has stood out to me, and i feel like i say this in every segment when i interview a struggling small business, is why hasn't the money been more targeted. i'm sitting here frustrated. quite frankly, guys, i don't have skin in this game. you do. how frustrating is it when you see some businesses getting all this money and small businesses like yourself that were told you can't open or you must open with strict, strict limitations, the fact that you're not getting the money, how frustrating is that? >> well, let me answer that. words can actually no longer describe how we feel. words are simple. how we do feel at this point is
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-- it's bigger, a lot bigger than that. you know, it's like 11 months in. we have received no support. there's no aid. there's no relief. we received nothing. it's 11 months. the ppp loan, which is a loan, hopefully to be forgiven, covered our expenses worth one month. this is month 11. so beyond frustrated. we're sad. we're upset. todd: last question, really quickly. how much longer can you guys on? >> we'll see. we don't know when we're going to be allowed to reopen. we have outdoor operations right now in all three of our clubs. so we're thankful for that. it's something. but we don't know. it's the unknown. i think probably a lot of small business owners feel the same way. it's really not knowing when we're going to be allowed to
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open. i mean, we can go a few more months, maybe. we just really don't know. every month we remain closed we lose memberships. so right now we're kind of appealing to our community to help keep us going. we've been reaching out to all of our government officials, locally and state-wide, to try and get some recognition, to get some help and we're just hoping something changes in the next few weeks to a month and we'll be able to keep going. but yeah, i mean, it's getting down to the wire at this point. todd: i have run out of words other than to say we're praying for you and hoping for the best. i wish i had answers. i don't, the nation doesn't. they've got to come up with some soon. carley: coming up in the next hour, another issue in california, taxpayers could end up footing the bill for san
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more riots rocking washington state overnight after a police car hit a pedestrian. reports of fires and damaged business as more unrester results in liberal -- erupts in liberal cities. >> i would contend that the root problem is our weak immigration laws. when you say you're not going to enforce that law for 100 days, that's going to create caravans, going to make people want to come here. carley: and it's president biden's first full week in office. he's already facing serious pushback on his border policies as a migrant caravan reportedly begins a march towards the u.s. >> to godwin, he's got the first down and this game is over. >> lobs it up in the air to kelsey. todd: and the big game is set, one of the nfl's most seasoned champions, i like the word seasoned, will take on one of its newest superstars. "fox & friends first" on a monday morning continues right

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