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rosea's assessments, moody's analytics can only get 2.7 million, beautiful green new jobs, not 16. by the numbers. that is all-time we have tonight. we will stay on the schools issue. want you parents to get engaged, find out what your tax dollars are funding in public and private schools, gutfeld takes it from here. >> it is friday may 7th, president biden pitching and trillions and spending, and others want a piece of the pie from hiking trail to the museum and yoga, porkbarrel project lawmakers want. >> focus on finding answers. >> almost a full-time job to put these together. ainsley: four months in some of the vanished her california home.
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we did some digging on the case. you hear about it coming up. >> are you serious? >> i move the we adjourned this meeting. todd: the off the rails school board meeting, two of those frustrated parents join us live. "fox and friends first" on a friday starts right now. >> friday is appealing. it is more than appealing. good morning, you are watching "fox and friends first" on friday morning. todd: restart here, president biden on a mission of $4 trillion spending spree as lawmakers tackle extra expenses for their own projects.
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jillian: a look at how your tax dollars are spent. >> reporter: the president is trying to convince congress and voters that his $2.3 trillion jobs plan and $1.8 trillion family plan is bipartisan and called it a choice between helping the rich or working families. >> when i think of the threats of hurricanes and global warming and the poor condition of our economy as it relates particularly to infrastructure i think of one thing. i think of jobs, jobs, jobs. >> reporter: the president says he is open to hear both sides but republicans claim his giant spending plan isn't just about infrastructure, the jeff bezoses of the world paying their share but we can't create the unintended outcome of losing family farms. for energy which s concerned about and so am i and the more reasonable bill that
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would be less than 50% of what they are spending. >> mitch mcconnell says he is hoping for some sort of compromise in the middle. the plan made more expensive, earmarking something nancy pelosi had. >> for the good of the community, we encourage people to have as much community support for the project as possible. i am proud of this. >> some of those controversial earmarks in community project funding requests include 400,$000 for toilets, hiking trails, 6.4 million for a gandhi museum, 400,000 for a cranberry research station and just shy of 1 million for lights and lampposts. they ended earmarks after a string of scandals they brought back in march, the house majority voted to reinstate
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them, 300 lawmakers submitted proposals for those earmarks. >> this must be some very special toilets. jillian: democrats celebrate the return of earmarks, katie have lunch says the move opens the door to corruption. >> if you look at the 2010 ban on earmarks at the height of the tea party movement which came about because they thought the federal government and barack obama were spending too much money, here we are now, the amount of spending going on back then is nothing compared to what we are seeing now in terms of this new earmark process. it turns into politicians using pet projects for campaign donations instead of having to argue for legislation and work together in a caucus for with your own party or across party lines you are simply getting things done back in your district and in return for lobbying or text to your
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campaign and that turns into corruption pretty quickly. jillian: house majority leader steny hoyer and majority whip james clyburn all filed requests for project in the district. 's for meeting republicans minority whip steve scalise requested an earmark. todd: attempted bake robbery turns into 5 hostages being freed from the wells fargo, crowds gathered outside to watch the standoff, they cheered when the suspect was finally arrested after eight hours of negotiations. >> police say he held up the bank because he was mad about the transaction. he had a history was due in court over a violent offense the same day as that attempted robbery. the man seen in this video hijacking a school bus is
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identified, but surveillance video showing him pointing a rifle at the driver before taking over the wheel with 18 elementary students on board. south carolina -- before ditching that bus, he hijacked the bus after running off from fort jackson where he was an army trainee facing several charges. >> alejandro mayorkas will go to the border to tour the migrant facility in donna, texas. todd: more on his visit as they are learning new numbers about how many kids are in hhs custody. >> reporter: this is secretary mayorkas's for the visit to the border and unlike last month's trip we went to el paso during a press conference following that to or in donna and the top priority is family unification. >> we are focused on reuniting the families. that is the justice we are
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focused upon achieving right now. >> reporter: this after that picture of the processing facility was released which some democrats called misleading. if you look at fox thrown footage of that area which consisted of 2 tenths, now has an additional 5 tents housing the surge of migrants, that is what you're looking at, that is part of why dan patrick says we are not getting the whole story. >> the biden administration is concealing all information coming from the border, all information. you cannot get information at the state level. >> daily unaccompanied showed 28,000 in hhs shelters and sources in that sector, telling me they are going to have an
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astonishing number of kids, 400% for the month of april as the cost of housing so many astonishing taxpayers $3 billion, but still the white house not calling a crisis. >> what we have to be focused on is what we are doing and to us that wasn't a crisis, wasn't a huge challenge but a big driver was we understand and know the nature of social media these days and we didn't want to see a end to that. human toll of the crisis, 2 dozen people recovered near san antonio texas after the semitruck was stopped by police on interstate 10, we might hear from vice president harris who is holding a second virtual bilateral with mexico's president today. we will see if she has anything to say.
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>> thanks. >> moderna says it's covid 19 vaccine is 96% effective in teens aged 12 to 17, the drugmaker announced the results there were no serious side effects in teens who received the dose. they contact -- continues elected and pfizer will receive fda approval by next week to administer its vaccine to kids. >> several theme parks relaxing covid measures starting may 16th, disney world in orlando will no longer require temperature checks, the checks of stopped in orlando and busch gardens in tampa bay, both parties reduce social distancing from 6 to 3 feet, masks still required at all 3 parks. jillian: a police officer makes an impassioned plea for why governor newsom should be recalled.
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>> this rise in crime and escalating threat california residents is a result of policies by gavin newsom. jillian: soft on crime policies backfire statewide. plus. >> i'm sick and tired of corporate america not paying their fair share. we can pay for these things. steve: president biden says he will tax the rich to pay for being for structure plan that our next guest says it is cheating the american dream. army veteran graham allen next.
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louisiana with $1 trillion spending proposal but does it really give the working-class a leg up? turning point usa contributor and army veteran graham allen joins us to discuss. always great to see you. why do you say president biden is killing the american dream? >> the biggest thing, pay for it. those are called taxes was america will pay the taxes, is it 200,$000 a year. president biden is killing the american dream because of this, in south carolina we have a workforce shortage. our governor henry mcmasters put in place in south carolina no longer accepting federally related pandemic relief.
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it is incentivizing people to want to stay home as opposed to go outside and work. the american dream is alive and well and it looks like opportunity and opportunity looks a lot like hard work. we have an administration, vice president, who says nobody should have to work two jobs to make their dreams come true. who said that? where is that written in the constitution that you are not going to have to work hard to make things happen. i hate the fact that people have to pay for child care. i have done it. i have 3 children myself, i understand what it is like, baby formula and diapers on the credit card to pay to take care of your children to make things go. money grows on trees, the
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american people, and tax credits, free healthcare, free childcare, these are all things paid for through taxes. todd: the price tag you can see is upwards of $5.7 trillion. to motivate people with army experience, to stop striving for greatness. >> exceptionalism in america makes the ideas that cherish more, as opposed to what they are given. love america, love what they
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have versus working hard. we don't need a stimulus check, don't need more federal spending. todd: it is incumbent on us as individuals to maintain that american dream with our lives and families and communities going the way of the dodo. we appreciate it. jillian: zooming into trouble, ohio lawmaker caught behind the wheel during the meeting as the state cracks down on distracted driving. his defense or what appears to be hypocrisy. an event to bring new orleans police and the community together is called out, unintentionally divisive. but could canceling create more division? we discuss next. ♪♪
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>> the biggest thing is we have to continue to come together and work seal actively, not let a few naysayers dictate our actions, they are more supporters of new orleans police department. >> the new orleans. she surprised after this he canceled an event to show support for the men and women of his department following a wave of anti-police sentiment. thank you for being here. and to anyone wearing blue, to the police department, it will be a 6-day long event and it will promote and foster positive
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interactive experiences with the police department. do you understand the rationale behind canceling something like this, does that make it better or worse? >> i don't think it makes it any better. we typically had a good relationship with the zoo and the aquarium and mister foreman who was ceo of the ottoman institute and to have these events canceled as a result of outside groups cleaning about doing something nice for the police or doing something to encourage the police coming together with the community seems like it is against everything we are working for. jillian: this quote from the
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audubon nature institute on canceling the event, feedback regarding the event, unintentionally divisive rather than inclusive though that was never the intent, audubon nature institute made its decision to cancel the event. the point you were making i have to wonder if we stay so divided how do we make progress in being able to make relationships better. do you see a path without coming together and trying to understand and support each other? >> at some point we have to say we are going to focus on the community we serve and the community we serve and the new orleans police department developed a much better relationship over the last few years. our approval ratings are up, the community worked closely with the police department to make the police department better and
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if it doesn't fit with what these agitators from outside the state of louisiana want to have happen we can't do anything about that. all we can do is focus on the service the and opd provides the citizens of new orleans. jillian: how disappointing is it when something like this happens? >> in the grand scheme of things the police department, trying to make these events come off successfully, this sends the wrong message to people, a lot of police officers, rank and file police officers were insulted by how this was handled. didn't sit well with anybody. i really think it could have been hampered. >> people would agree with you.
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>> erupting in protest over a mask mandate. [crowd chanting] todd: two parents join us next. >> this is our time to dance. it is our way of celebrating life. todd: you've got to fight for your right to dance. how the mayor is defending, when the song comes on you can't re-create the scene when they hop on the chair. it is a violation. i tell you every day. jillian: your coming right back.
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>> a hostile situation as a board meeting erupting protests over covid 19 mandates for students. [crowd chanting] >> i move that we adjourn. todd: joining me is bernadette rothman and sophia anderson. thanks for being here. across the country regardless whether we are and stable. state parents rights are consistently being ignored. why is that? >> the school board could be
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something very simple, end the mask mandate and leave it up to parents to decide whether you want to have your kid in a mask or not. that doesn't seem to be the case with the school board, and time and time again, they could have ended its and given us our parental rights. >> keeping the mask mandate k-12 schools. kids can get sick from covid 19 and have long-term effect and transmit the virus to people at home who are not vaccinated.
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do you agree with that? i am thinking know. >> absolutely not. the risks of all those things that you stated our next to nil. all the data shows this and i personally am so disheartened that utah which has a reputation of caring for kids, review kids as treasures and we are not -- we are masking children that are in no way a risk to the rest of the population. will: here's the response from the school district, believes and encourages diversity of opinions when shared and respectful and civil manner and continue to encourage civil discourse as a model for the children which we have stewardship, in response to the meeting protest. what is your reaction to the statement?
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>> the question i have of ben horsley, if he encourages diversity of opinion, then why does he not have more people, more parents, why does he have the executive, the utah appropriation. why does he have senator reevesy speak instead of giving those thoughts to parents? i don't understand that. if he encourages this diversity of opinion he should allow parents to voice, we should have a voice. todd: you might get parents and not just bureaucrats. a nationwide question, they go
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to the school board meeting. what has changed? >> such an agenda that needs to be filled. i don't want to get political but very much even in this last year, seeing how our rights are being constantly infringed upon and the agenda to be filled and parents cannot advocate for their child and not getting what their children needs. it is this leftist marxist agenda that needs to be filled. it doesn't matter what the parents say or do, they are not going to listen, they haven't
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listened for 14 months i don't see any way accept raising voices, being heard. todd: it is unbelievable. please keep us posted and let us know if everything changes. defense secretary lloyd austin says the withdrawal of contractors from afghanistan is underway. the pentagon deploys airpower to detect forces as they leave the region. >> there has been debate whether contractors stay in afghanistan, 17,000 americans, the afghan security forces, it is also pulling out of the country and that led to major criticism.
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>> a complete pullout of afghanistan, important to remember why we went there. the taliban and allowed our qaeda to operate with impunity. >> the situation is not looking better. 80 and 20 television attacks per day in the country and capturing more territory over the last week. and >> and we expected this to be a challenge. >> they deployed for airpower over the next few days. heavy bombers and fighter jets. there is great fear over the
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days and months, >> there is something interesting here, anthony blinken, it is a warning. >> the us stand in solidarity with the growing russian aggression. and military troops along the border. >> >> partners do as well. a couple weeks ago we looked for russia to cease aggressive actions. >> russia pulled back his troops from the border, but blinken says most of them actually remain meaning 80,000 troops, and the question is where that will take place in the center of attention.
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>> benjamin hall, thank you. the man suspected of stabbing two asian american released early from prison, patrick campos charged with assault with a deadly weapon in 2017 and sent to a mental institution. he was granted a mental health diversion program two years later. he reportedly completed the program in august and elder abuse charges have been filed against the unprovoked attack earlier this week. >> speaking out against governor gavin newsom's soft on crime policy. >> california is a safe haven for criminals, violence is skyrocketing and criminals are aware of that. this rising crime and threat to california residents is a result of failed policies by gavin newsom. gavin newsom failed california. >> demanding newsom be revolved saying this is destroying
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law-enforcement's ability to keep communities safe. >> ahead of the celebration, in milford, massachusetts, paying the best advice they got from their moms. >> regina fields rights always earn your own independence key to a good life. >> sleep when the baby sleeps and always trust your gut instinct. todd: marie rights mine is gone, treasure yours. jillian: kathleen, stay classy. it is 38 after the hour, president biden gives his address for a national day of prayer but there's one problem. he made no mention of god, the glaring omission. todd: we have friends who gave up stuff and this is from them.
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is no dancing at weddings in washington dc so john and jeremy won't be having fun this year. >> dc mayor bowser defending her covid 19 restriction banning dancing, no timetable when the measure will be lifted, telling the washington post she is looking forward to using restrictions after case rate drops very soon.
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todd: jesse waters calling it ridiculous. >> ice before both of us, this is a great excuse for us not to hit the dance floor. got to slow the spread but for the rest of thebust a move and not be humiliated. with friends and family, you're not a club with good dancers so you can really let loose and not be ashamed of yourself because freedom of expression is enshrined in our founding documents. if i want to express myself by doing the hustle, the electric slide is constitutionally protected.
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jillian: people should be able to dance. >> i want to hear about your dancing. is it like elaine from the seinfeld? got to capture that. one of harley's trends in all 3 segments. jillian: let's move on to this. it is called zoom, ohio lawmaker caught driving during a virtual hearing. todd: the internet cannot get enough of it. carley shimkus here with the story. the "fox and friends" trends -- carley: you are athletic, you have athleticism. let's talk about this. this is kind of like only in the era of covid 19 ohio state
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senator andrew brenner facing questions for attending a government meeting while driving. you can see he turned on his virtual background in the car but you see he is wearing a seatbelt, clearly in his car. the same day a bill was introduced to punish distracted driving. it would also ban ohioans from driving or using any electronic wireless communication devices, cell phone, laptop or any device capable of displaying a video, movie, broadcast or visual image. his communications director telling fox news senator brenner was following the law using hands-free audio technology and he said he's been in the car on work phone calls and this is the same thing. what do you think? todd: video is a whole different element that distracts you. carley: if he turned the camera
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off without the virtual background to this wouldn't be a story but at least he is looking both ways. i can't tell if he is doing that. todd: words matter especially when it comes to prayer. carley: president biden issued his proclamation on the national day of prayer and left out one very important word and that word would be god. americans of many religions and belief systems of turns to prayer for strength, hope and guidance, prayer has nourished countless souls and empowered moral movement including essential fight against racial injustice, child labor and infringements on rights of disabled americans but he did not use the word god. here is reverend franklin graham on the subject. >> this is a national day of prayer, we need to call on god and not just some generic gods
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or some power in the air but god himself. carley: his proclamation did not include the word god, biden's remarks on the location, the vaccines were developed by the grace of god. that is how that is shaping up this morning. todd: thank you. jillian: it is 40 second after the hour, four months since the california mother vanished. of next i went to maya millette's so and what led her disappearance, what was said and heard that night as the family pleads for answers. >> heartbroken for the nightmare.
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daphne, let's switch. from live tv to sports on the go. felix at the finish! you can even watch your dvr from anywhere. okay, that's just showing off. you get all of this on x1. so go on, get really into your shows. you need a breath mint. xfinity. it's a way better way to watch. >> today marks four months since
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maya millette was last seen and there are no breaks in the case was earlier i sat down with her family as they and others helping in the search press police for answers. >> so heartbroken, living nightmare. >> the last time maya millette was seen with at her home where she lived with her husband and 3 kids. january 7th the neighbor's surveillance camera captured a series of loud bangs. we can show you the video because the neighbor doesn't want to the home identified but we can play the audio. >> police haven't confirmed the sound in the surveillance video. what you think it is? >> talk about video and audio, the forensic people the federal
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government uses confirm it is gunshots, they were inside gunshots. >> not the only self captured that night. >> there was an argument about divorce, gunshots and children were outside alone playing in gold 42 degrees weather on a school night at 10:30 at night. jillian: what is your understanding of the events leading up to this? >> we were all to gather, out camping which we love to do. during that weekend she didn't -- to file for divorce. is going to be a nasty divorce. >> we know she did contact the divorce attorney and we know from larry's mouth that there was an argument after that, talked about his desperation to keep the marriage together. >> cooperating with the investigation. >> initially he spoke to me and
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the police, at times early on, then he shut down, we had were that he has an attorney. >> one of the less developed in this case, police served a search warrant, in video taken from the property, massive police presence, when you look on the streetcorner you see a lot of missing person signs. >> finding answers to that. >> a full-time job to put this together. >> people from near and far who didn't know the family fire, they come out to remote areas like this to search for any sign of maia. they got to get to rally support for their search efforts.
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>> we have 1700 members. >> we will keep searching until we have justice for her. >> please remains tightlipped to not compromise the ongoing investigation. from the cold case foundation acting as a liaison between police and family. >> 55 kids, 23 search warrants, what does that tell you? >> the case is gone national. with the missing person people are calling from everything and i saw her here at the grand canyon or here in texas or new york. >> it is not larry. no parent at all. >> ask questions looking for mom. something to do with that?
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>> the family has their own suspicions, where they live, did not make contact with larry. at did not happen. it is important to note police say there is no person interest in this case and as of now there are no suspect in this case. that surveillance video was captured by a neighbor surveillance camera. they did not want us to play the video so we respected that. i said are you looking at this video? that video is being analyzed, there hasn't been anything. they can confirm on that video, listen for yourself and you heard the family attorney say we
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independently had this analyzed, i had contact with the person who analyzed the video yesterday. they analyzed a ton of video and it is coming from inside but due to the fact that i was on the ground i can't confirm where inside that came from. it will be interesting to see if and when there are new developments because it has been slow moving. very frustrating. todd: still had violence in chicago on the rise at an alarming pace. >> some of my kids have gotten killed. one of them was one of my eighth graders. he was shot two weeks after he graduated. todd: lawrence don't want to chicago and talk to community members, he joins us live in the next hour.
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>> friday may 7, 100 people dead after semitruck when police stumbleupon a suspected human smuggling operation. live report on the chaos from the border. jillian: 400,$000 for toilets. cranberry research station, two pet projects lawmakers want you to pay for his earmarks return to congress. todd: got to research a cranberry, national prayer day preparationpa
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