ashley: it's monday, may third. border patrol says every indication that a deadly boat tragedy is part of the smuggling crisis. a live report coming up. todd: president biden hitting the road to drum up support for his massive spending bill but still big problems, he hasn't won over any republicans. is there hope for bipartisanship? we're live in d.c. ashley: don't look down, the brand-new. todd: i'm good. ashley: that's not for the faint of heart. todd: are you okay? ashley: "fox & friends first" continues right now.

i don't like that. ♪ bad to the bone. ♪ bad to the bone. ♪ b-b-b bad. todd: i didn't know if you would make it. ashley: i used to not have an issue with heights. my dad keeps sending me these videos. it scares me to death. todd: last time we saw a bridge like that, they sent me. don't send me to portugal. ashley: i'm good. todd: good morning. you're watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning. i'm todd piro. ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for jillian mele. we start with an update on a story out of california, rescue crews working overnight after a boat suspected of smuggling illegal immigrants capsizes in california. we have more. >> reporter: multiple agencies

responding to a capsized boat off point loma on sunday morning. there were 25 survivors, including one in critical condition. four others were killed. majority of the survivors were sent to different hospitals in the area. cbp reporting the 40-foot boat was suspected of being used to transport migrants into the u.s. >> the reality is crossing the border illegally is unsafe no matter the method, especially at sea. the smugglers, they don't care about the people they're exploiting. all they care about is profit. to them, these people are just commodities. >> reporter: this morning, the boat captain is in custody. the vessel broke apart due to rough conditions. you can see five to six feet of surf and wind. it was unclear whether the people on-board originated -- where they originated from, that is. >> this was a mass rescue operation that turned into a mass casualty incident, one of the bigger vessel accidents and bigger calls that we've seen here, this is probably the worst

tragedy. >> reporter: as migrants try to enter the u.s. by land or sea, republicans are pressuring the biden administration to address the border crisis. >> the first 100 days of the biden administration, they've been great for the cartels, for the gangs, for the human traffickers who have been exploiting the border. it shows the president's -- president biden's approach to this and that is to abandon the rule of law. >> reporter: but top white house officials insist their policies are not to blame for the migrant surge. >> i don't think that's because of a speech joe biden gave. it's because of horrible conditions in guatemala, el salvador and honduras. >> we inherited a totally broken system. broken intentionally. and it takes time to fix it. >> reporter: meanwhile, hhs officials announced the opening of another emergency intake site to move the increasing numbers of unaccompanied children at a

complex in california. todd: it's fascinating this administration continues to blame the previous one for all border problems. jackie, thanks. ashley: and the former advisor to president trump says every american has a right to be upset about the crisis at the border. listen. >> it should outrage every single person. i don't care if you're a democrat. i don't care if you're a republican. the only thing that joe biden is doing on the border is not trying to stop illegal immigration, he's trying to accelerate it. they're building more facilities for the sole purpose of expediting the release of illegal immigrants into to the interior. he's the first president in our lifetimes, indeed in the history of the country, who has ever attempted such a program. the large scale resettlement of illegal border crossers into our country. ashley: stephen miller says the biden administration is reportedly spending $600 million a year to -- $60 million a year to house migrant children.

todd: president biden and vice president harris hitting the road to promote their $4 trillion spending plan. ashley: david spunt is live in washington with a look at week ahead. >> reporter: this is going to be a busy week for both the president and vice president, senior members of his staff as well, a chance for the president to meet with americans, look at them eye to eye to sell that spending proposal when talking about infrastructure. the president back at the white house now, after spending a weekend with family in wilmington, delaware. in just a few hours, he'll be wheels up again to southeastern virginia to talk about infrastructure. we're looking at $621 billion to modernize transportation infrastructure, as part of his plan, $400 billion for senior and disabled care, $300 billion to boost manufacturing industry, moving d list, $100 billion to expand broad band access and a other technology improvements. the gop is saying we can do

this,let's spend less money. $20 billion for rail systems instead of 100, $65 billion for broad band access. looking at the schedule of the president and vice president, the president and first lady will be in yorktown, virginia today, vice president, wisconsin. tomorrow, then she'll head to rhode island on wednesday. the president will be in new orleans, lake charles in new orleans on thursday. >> the president has been clear that he is willing to negotiate, that he's willing to compromise and that he believes that democrats and republicans should be able to find common ground. the president has set his red line -- said his red line is inaction, that we can't afford not to make the investments. he wants to move the package in order a bipartisan way if possible. >> reporter: republicans say it's possible but they have a different plan and they hope to meet the president in the middle. to some of the republicans, the

middle is too far away. >> this is staggering amount of spending like someone with a new credit card and these are for things that we don't necessarily need. we certainly can't afford. it's almost creating an addiction to spending. >> reporter: you have republican senator shelley moore captio of west virginia, seen as a moderate in the caw sus, who says -- caucus, who says she believes there can be bipartisanship. she will meet with the president in the coming days. he is also set to meet with other republicans on the plan. ashley. ashley: david spunt live in washington. thanks. todd: a fox news alert now, fire crews battling a massive fire at a wisconsin paper mill. flames engulfing the structure as firefighters work to stop it from spreading to neighboring properties. the mill which dates back to the 1880s is no longer in operation. the mayor calls it a, quote, great loss to the town's history. so many of those mills have oil soaked in the wood. no injuries have been reported.

ashley: to oakland california police officers are hurt when a may day protest turned violent over the weekend. there's no word on their condition. police say labor movement demonstrators began throwing bottles and cans at police officers. seven people were arrested by police on assault charges. six people were arrested in portland where a similar may day protest was declared a riot and then in seattle, 14 people were arrested. todd: former fda chief scott got leave predicting 10 million kids could be vaccinated by fall if pfizer's vaccine is approved for 12-15 year olds. >> once that get authorized, i think 5 million kids will get immediately vaccinated, another 5 to 7 million would get vacation late inned over -- vaccinated over the course of the summer, that will be incremental americans getting vaccinated and providing protection in an age group that has been susceptible to the infection. todd: the doctor says he believes the company will need

to make doses available to pediatricians in order to get as many kids vaccinated as possible. ashley: kyle busch taking the checkered flag at kansas speedway. watch. >> for the win, for the first time this year, kyle busch goes to victory lane, he wins the bushy mcbush race 400. ashley: i can't believe that name. he won the aptly named race on his 36th birthday, clearing the field after becoming the leader on the last restart. he never looked back. i feel like todd might not look back after seeing m & p ms on that car. todd: we've got to stop offering to ' people to -- offering people to name things. what if people were offered to name this show? e-mail us. a suspected tornado slamming central mississippi. janice dean joining us live, tracking the storm and the destruction. ashley: and florida's governor set to sign a bill that would

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we have to fight back. this is the strongest piece of legislation anyone has attempted. todd: florida governor poised to sign a bill to punish social media firms. ashley: here with more, representative john schneider. >> great to be with you today. ashley: i want you to give us details in the bill, other than the fact that there is a $250,000 maximum fine for social media sites that deplatform politicians. what else does the bill entail? >> well, senate bill 7072 is a big tech censorship package. basically what the bill requires is that large scale social media platforms must do the following. they need to publish their standards including detailed definition used for determining whether to censor or ban posts or deplatform users, and they have to consistently apply those

standards. they also must inform users about the changes to rules, terms and conditions, and really it prohibits them from changing the standards more than every 30 days. we often see them changing the rules in the middle of the game. it also requires that they provide written notice if they do take any form of censoring or deplatforming action against a user and really in the final days of an election or any time from the time that a candidate qualifies for the ballot, up until the election, it prohibits them from deplatforming a candidate running for office. so each of these violations will now be punishable under the florida deceptive and unfair trades practices a act which will entail some very serious consequences. todd: john, not surprisingly, big tech not happy with that. here is a statement/testimony from their lobbyist/trade group president, quote, the first

amendment makes clear that government may not regulate the speech of private individuals or businesses, this includes government action that compels speech by forcing a private social media platform to carry content that is against its policies or preferences. i see a federal/state thing happening at some point but on the whole are you confident that your bill will withstand being dragged through the courts? >> yeah, great question, todd. this really was an all hands on deck effort. the bill's sponsor, the speaker of the house, and president of the senate willton simpson and the entire body worked tirelessly on this issue. this was done in good faith. we believe wholeheartedly that this will stand up to the courts but in that same breath, we welcome that challenge because that really is what the process is all about. but we feel very confident in the wording that we did get it right and that this will hold up in the courts.

ashley: all right, thank you state representative john schneider for your insight on this bill. >> thank you. todd: thank you, sir. ashley: and still ahead, a decades old memorial day tradition upending at the last minute. todd: the group's executive director joins us to discuss, after the pentagon denies a permit for the roam to remember ride as "fox & friends first" rolls along. ♪ funny how the world keeps turning. ♪ look ma, no hands. ♪ i love this american ride. and because it's a ninja foodi, it can do things no other oven can, like flip away. the ninja foodi air fry oven, the oven that crisps and flips away.

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3,600 new deaths in the last 2 had hours alone, -- 24 hours alone, after they surpassed 400,000 new daily cases for the first time. the biden administration set to restrict travelers from india beginning tomorrow as concerns mount over the deadly surge. overnight, u.s. aid arrived in india, contained more than 100,000 vials of remdesivir. iran foreign minister apologized for comments he made in a tape leaked last month. he criticized qassem soleimani, as well as claiming that john kerry informed him of secret israeli attacks on iranian interests. he said in part, quote, i am so sorry that part of my comments were stolen and published for misuse. the apology comes less than two months before iran's presidential elections but zarif insisted he doesn't want to run. ashley. ashley: a 32 year memorial day

tradition broken, the pentagon denied a request to use a dod parking lot for the m-vets rolling to remember, an annual demonstration raising awareness for service members missing in action, prisoners of war and those fighting for mental health upon return to home. here to discuss is m-vet's executive director, joe snelly. >> thank you for having me. ashley: let's talk about the event and a how this brings awareness. you had three points for that. >> yes. so first and what traditionally this event's been all about is our missing in action, we have more than 80,000 american whose are missing in action since world war ii. we have prisoners of war who are unaccounted for. many veterans do make it home but continue that battle for positive mental health and suicide prevention. ashley: okay. and then i want to get to this response from the pentagon on this event. if covid-19 conditions permit,

the department would gladly consider support for future event requests from m-vets, potentially as soon as labor day. the department looks forward to supporting future events. as always, we appreciate support of veterans and families as well as communities. you said last year there was a small gathering for this and you also held it virtually. >> yes. so we held it nationwide virtually and we had more than 100,000 miles ridden all over the united states by those who wanted to continue to raise awareness. that was very early on in the pandemic, figuring out how to be able to safely gather was still a big mystery to many of us. probably our biggest -- ashley: go on. i'm sorry. >> probably the biggest disappointment with the pentagon's decision was they never gave us an opportunity despite us asking several times for us to be able to present a plan as to how we could meet at the pentagon parking lot outdoors in a safe, responsible

way. ashley: what are you going to do now that it's 30 days before the event is supposed to be held and they knicksed it. how -- nixed it, how are you going to do it, kind of like last year? >> we know tens of thousands of patriotic motorcycle riders are coming to washington, d.c. to be heard and to demonstrate and to honor their loved one as well since it is memorial day weekend. we know they're coming. law enforcement knows they're coming. so we are committed to still having a central staging area that's well coordinated, reasonably run and safe. so we have a plan b and a plan c. we'll find out later this week whether plan b will work which would be staging at rfk stadium's parking lot, the former home to the washington football team. has a large enough parking lot within the district. it would require about eight and-a-half miles of road closure to get dem t straighters -- demonstrators to the national mall and the vietnam veteran's memorial and those areas.

plan c which is much less desirable, we'll be able to shut down some public streets in d.c. with coordination from the police departments and be able to still demonstrate there. ashley: joe, good luck to you with that coming up. and thanks so much for being with us this morning. >> thank you, ashley, appreciate you. todd: all right. check this out. this portuguese bridge not for the faint of heart. the longest suspended pedestrian bill is open to those ages 6 and a up. it is nearly 600 feet high. the new bridge is inspired by the inca bridges that span the andes mountain valley. it takes 10 minutes to cross. you know how long it takes todd patrick pyro to cross? zero. he ain't doing it. the white house pushing a global corporate minimum tax. our next guest says a steep rate

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>> the idea is to ensure that corporations are paying their fair share, to button up some of the loopholes which have meant that corporations were actually putting more money offshore, off of the u.s. soil. and having a global minimum tax so that we're working with our trading partners, working with the rest of the world so that corporations are paying their fair share worldwide. todd: joe biden's top economic advisor pushing for a global corporate tax minimum as critics

claim the president's proposed tax hike would hurt america's economic state. ashley: here to react, fox news contributor and professor of business and economics and business at the king's college, brian brenberg. thanks for being with us. >> good to see you. ashley: raising the tax to 28%, republicans and democrats alike, had they say that this is going to hurt the competitiveness of the u.s. how so and what would be the biggest part that's impacted? >> yeah. well, the problem is that the world has been lowering its corporate tax rates over the past several decades to the point where in europe the average corporate tax rate's about 24%. now, if you look at where we are in the u.s. right now at 21, and you add state corporate taxes on top of that, we're actually just a little bit higher than average right now. so if we raise that corporate

tax rate we're going to be back at the top of the list of the highest corporate tax countries in the world. that makes u.s. businesses less competitive. so the problem that the biden administration has is they know they're heading back to the top of the list and they're trying to get the rest of the world to come along with them so it makes the u.s. more competitive or at least less uncompetitive than we would be otherwise. todd: it's a total tell if we're using poker terms. does a global corporate minimum tax have any chance of being reality and if so, brian, who enforces it? >> i don't think it does. european union has been trying this for many years and they can't do it because every country -- many countries know that if they lower their corporate tax rate it makes them more competitive. there's a huge incentive to want to be lower. that will attract investment. that's good for workers and the government as well when you have a strong business environment, the government collects more tax

revenue. i don't see this happening but i do see it -- to your point -- as a strong tell, the buy done administration know -- biden administration knows if they raise the corporate tax rate they're going to have problems. that's why they want to penalize companies who move offshore, they want to penalize countries that don't go along with the tax rate. they're trying to go around the problem of us having the highest tax rate. it will be tough. businesses and capital are mobile. they'll go to place that's appreciate them. ashley: let's look at the study on corporate tax rate hikes and the impact it has, an increased gdp by 0.8%, eliminates 159,000 jobs and reduces wages by 0.7%. do you think people understand that this is a possibility for this? >> you know, i actually do. the biden administration wants to push the idea that this is about corporations paying their quote, unquote, fair share. any time you hear an economist talking about fair share, you know they've lost the economic

argument because that's not an economic argument. people understand that businesses need good tax rate environment, good regulatory environment to hire people, to invest, and when they do that it's good for the american worker, it puts money in their pockets. they spend that money. all of that gets taxed. the government doesn't miss out on the revenue. but they know that if you raise those taxes, it's going to hurt the economy. so, yes, i do think people get it. i don't think they know the numbers, they haven't modeled it out. they understand, we don't want to be the country with the highest business taxs in the world. that's not going to help anyone except the bureaucrats who put it into place because they need the money to pay for spending that this economy doesn't need right now. let's not go there. todd: and all the comments we've heard out of the white house imply that 28 is not going to be the number, it will be somewhere between 21 and 28. we'll have you back on once we know what the number is. brian brenberg, we appreciate your insights. >> good to see you. ashley: a vandal is released,

reversing a judge's decision to hold him on bail. the man is accused of throwing rocks at five houses of worship. under new york's new bail reform laws, the state cannot hold a suspect with those charges on bail. the move to release him came hours after a separate judge considered the shattering of glass a felony which would have let them hold him. he faces 42 charges. todd: today, a funeral will be held for andrew brown, junior who was shot and killed by deputies last month. reverend al sharpton set to give the eulogy. mourners paying respects during a public viewing at a local museum yesterday as more than 200 protesters peacefully marched through the streets calling for justice and police reform. ashley: to extreme weather, overnight a round of suspected tornadoes sweep across mississippi. todd: the storms downing power lines, damaging homes and

uprooting trees. no injuries have been reported. the threat is not over yet. janice dean tracking the storms, joining us now with the late e6789. good morning, janice. >> we have another threat for severe weather today and tomorrow and some of the same areas that were hit hard this weekend. there are your storm reports again, several reports of tornadoes in mississippi and then also across the rockies. we're going to watch the potential for large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes again today from texas through the ohio river valley and then a secondary area across the southeast and the mid-atlantic, so know what to do if there's a watch or warning in your area because certainly we're going to see those watches and warnings go up later on today. through this evening we're going to see that tornado threat again and then tomorrow some of those same areas across the mississippi and tennessee river valley. know what to do if there's a watch or warning. this is the time of year that we see the most tornadoes in may. so it's going to be pretty active over the next couple

days. we'll keep you posted. ashley, todd, back to you. todd: somebody had a pretty busy weekend. you were there at the kentucky derby, churchill downs all weekend long. medina spirit is a triple crown contenders. reports say the horse's trainer, janice got to hang out with him this weekend, still weighing whether or not to enter medina into the preakness later this month. he did tell you it's looking good. take a listen. >> i said well, as long as he's healthy and he tips us off that he's doing really well, that would be the next, the second leg of the triple crown. ashley: saturday's win was the seventh at the derby, the most ever for a trainer. todd: so awesome. what was it like being down there? ashley: i bet it was amazing. >> a dream come true. we got to meet bob bafford and medina spirit before and after the race. we were there when he got the

call, asking if the horse would race in the preakness which is the next race and then perhaps the triple crown if medina spirit wins the preakness. bob bafford has two triple crowns under his belt and he is now the winningest trainer for the kentucky derby, having won seven. it was incredible. the weather was spectacular. people were excited to be outside. i was just so blessed to be there. ashley: you looked great doing it too, janice. >> thank you, my friend. todd: jd -- >> listen, you did it last year, right? it was amazing. ashley: i did, yes. todd: my mom goes to me, it was so awesome to see jd with such a smile on her face this weekend, looking so happy. it was probably the best part of it all. ashley: it was lovely. >> thank you, my friend. thank you to your mom too. todd: thanks, jd. ashley: coming up in the next hour, a leading republican going after the alliance between big

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ashley: josh hawley is taking on big tech, slamming its woke agenda. todd: cheryl casone in studio from our fox business sister network with more on what he calls the greatest threat to american liberty. great to have you here. >> great to see you guys.

it feels so normal to be in the studio with both of you. the missouri senator is warning one of the gravest threat to liberty is companies like twitter and facebook. he says he believes they want to change the very fabric of american culture. >> the companies don't see themselves any longer as american companies. they don't really believe in america. they're globalists. they believe we should have a global order. they believe in the global economic order that they want to run, whatever that means. they want to be in charge of this global agenda and global world and that's what they're most committed to. .>> this book was originally st to be published by simon & schuster. he says the publisher pulled the book. he said he's grateful there are independent publishers out there. ashley: a college increased a

cannabis course. >> colleges are adding courses about cannabis. the goal is to train students to work in the growing industry, pun intended. excelsior college is offering a master's degree program with courses leading to a cannabis controlled certificate. there's jobs for growers, suppliers and sellers. they say all the jobs will be expanding. courses will be offered in social equity, environmental sustainability, corporate responsibility, and public finance. but we do need to still point out that marijuana is still illegal on a federal level. todd: right. meantime, finally, snow white could now be snow woke. >> yep. cancel culture going after poor little snow white. watch. ♪ cheryl: so critics of this

scene from disney's film, snow white, the fee clur in the new -- feature in the new disneyland ride for snow white. this is what they say. they say a kiss he gives to her without her consent while she is asleep which cannot possibly be true love if only one person knows it's happening, it's hard to understand why the disneyland of 2021 would choose to add a scene of such old fashioned ideas of what a man is allowed to do with a woman. in the past, woke culture criticized the jungle cruise you attraction, splash mountain at disneyland. can we not just celebrate for two seconds that disney lapped disneyland isback open again? it's the happiest place on earth. todd: the kiss saved her life. she was poisoned by the witch. time now, 44 minutes after the hour. let's check in with brian kilmeade to see what's coming up on "fox & friends." i hope you're not as fired up

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todd: welcome back. a bombshell report from the new york post revealing one of the country's top teachers unions lobbied the cdc on school reopening in the days leading up to the agency's key guidance on the issue. here to react, executive director for fight for schools dot-com and former doj official for the trump administration, ian pryor. great to see you. how appalling that a teacher's union could be influencing a medical decision that should be

based 100% on science? >> yeah, every american should be really ticked off at this story. i mean, we have schools that have been not fully opened for over a year, students have been home, we've seen a massive uptick in depression, in suicide of kids from isolation and meanwhile you have a political group like the teachers union laundering their influence through cdc science to try to keep the kids home and keep school closed. this is -- follow the science, follow the science, follow the science, joe biden. i think it's more follow the money and then we'll get the answers. todd: here it part of the statement in question. quote, thank you again for friday's rich discussion about forth coming cdc guidance and for your openness to the suggestions made by our president, randy weingarden and the aft. we were able to review a copy of the draft guidance documents, provide initial feedback to several staff. we believe our experiences on the ground can inform and enrich

thinking about what is prudent in future guidance documents. to your point, from earlier, doesn't this further erode the public's confidence on the science when you hear these sort of things, when you read these sort of things, that these decisions that should be medically based are based on stuff that has nothing to do with medicine and has to do with what your point, money. >> absolutely right. and look, the head of the cdc needs to resign. she absolutely needs to resign today. and if she doesn't resign, joe biden needs to fire her. because there is no way that the american people can have trust in what the cdc says is the science if you have a political group, the teachers union, calling the shots. the credibility of the cdc was already on thin ice. now it's completely shot. todd: i want to read quickly the statement from said cdc director that you just mentioned as part of long-standing best practices, cdc traditionally

engaged with organizations and groups that are impacted by guidance and recommendations issued by the agency. ian, did the cdc also welcome feedback from the thousands of businesses that basically dried up during the pandemic? >> or the millions of parents that are trying to juggle work and being part-time teachers at the same time. look, i mean, joe biden said he was going to -- he was all sun shine and rainbows during the campaign and he becomes president and is the most far left president in the history of the country. democrat versus a real problem here. it's one thing when you start coming after people's money, people that are maybe swing voters. they'll tolerate that. but when you start doing things that impact the health and lives of people's children, there is no tolerance for that. and so it is absolutely shocking that this kind of thing would happen, the white house needs to address it. every democrat out there that's a taking money from unions needs to address this. todd: ian, as always, thank you.

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>> democrats efforts to turn texas blue turn up short again a crowded 23-man race. they will head for a ruboff for texas' open sixth congressional seat. >> but before they face off

candidate jake elzy joins you live with more on the win for the party. these numbers bear this out. g.o.p. candidates receiving drum roll, please, 61.95% what should republicans take away from these result, sir? >> good morning, ashley and todd this. should tell everybody that this race actually is a referendum on what happened in the 2020 election. and the leadership of the president and congress. and what people don't like to see, so, this has our base and our party fired up for going forward. and this is just the first step this taking back the house in 2022. i'm highly encouraged by the numbers that came out the other day. jackie: jacob, when you said we need to not only beat them we must beat them overwhelmingly. explain why you need to beat them overwomenningly? >> because they have been saying for a couple of years now that they are going to flip texas and the fact is that's not true.

i am a city state legislator just won in noe. they thought they were going to flip the house actually what happened was we didn't lose a single seat still 83 to 67. make sure they don't pour any more recoast sources in texas. will solidly red and the district proved that out the other day as well. jackie: jackie sanchez says come a long way in competing in texas you said, jake, we still have a long way to go unfortunately we came up short and two republican also be competing to represent. even though they got close to almost 40% as you keep saying, they keep saying it's going to turn texas blue. what are republicans doing to stop this from happening? >> texans are turning out very, very strongly, because they know what's at risk is our country. when the president is on the glad path to issue 400 executive orders which is the most by far of any type, people are worried

about the direction of our country. and they know that the democrats think that they have two years in which to turn this country into something that it wasn't inintended to be. people in our district. a lot of folks call us flyover country but indeed we are the heart beat of this country. people are tired of what's going on in the government right now. they are yesterday for an open society in which our kids are going to school. my kids have been going to school all year east and west coast years that have been closed counsel by the entire time run by the teachers unions and tired of it a border wide open. we have to shut this down. in aim too far covid you can't leave your house but let's have everybody come over the border this. is a humanitarian crisis at the border. let's be clear. this is a terrible -- atrocities being committed by coyotes and cartels bringing people across the border is just horrific. >> jake ellzey thank you for being here. your opponent in the runoff will be joining "fox & friends" coming up in the next hour.

equal time for the two of you. hear the policy positions and voter in the sixth district of decks vote it out. >> thank you. todd: fun having you here mrs. astronomer. ashley: nice to be here. todd: "fox & friends" starts right now. >> both believed to be smuggling illegal immigrants capsized off the votes of san diego. >> there were 25 survivors and four others killed. >> smugglers don't care about the people they are exploiting all they care about is profits. >> it hitting the road to promote $4 trillion spending plan. >> this is a staggering amount of spending like someone with a new credit card. >> california now offering a path to early release to 76,000 inmates, including some violent and repeat felons. >> almost as if they have a blueprint for it for destruction of the state. >> president biden said schools should probably all be open in the fall. >> he said probably. he didn't say absolutely. we can't look in a