to save that toddler's life. jillian: did you hear about this? kentucky derby disaster. medina spirit failing a post race drug test. how trainer bob baffert is defending the derby winner. "fox & friends first" continues right now. ♪ just another manic monday. ♪ wish it was sunday. ♪ that's my fun day. ♪ my i don't have to run day. todd: you're looking live at the lovely city of jacksonville, fla. as the bangles play their manic monday song. jillian: can i take issue with the lyrics of the song? i never wish it were sunday instead of monday. sundays for me are like when you start getting the sunday scaries they call them, i have to be in bed by 6:00 p.m. i have to wake up early tomorrow morning and all day you're thinking about it.

todd: it's the greatest day when you're on vacation, the sunday afternoon, sunday night, because you know i can stay up late, i can go out to a restaurant, there aren't a lot of people at the restaurants and i don't have to get up add midnight to go to work. jillian: exactly. i digress. todd: we're happy to be with you. [laughter] todd: good morning, you're watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning. i'm todd piro. jillian: i'm jillian mele. let's begin with this. president biden expected to meet with republican lawmakers this week in another attempt to sell his multitrillion dollar spending plan. todd: mark meredith joins us live from washington, d.c. as the white house looks to boost the economy after a pretty bad jobs report, mark. >> reporter: good morning. the latest job report shocked economists and lawmakers from both parties. now the white house is trying to convince congress to spend trillions of dollars to jumpstart the economy. in april, employers added 266,000 jobs. experts were thinking this would be closer to a million. the unemployment rate now sits above 6%. the white house insists the

numbers are not as bleak at some people think but they argue it's the virus and the impact on families that's slowing down the recovery. >> the president across the first 100 days created more jobs than any be president in history. people want to work. in fact, labor force participation, those people who are looking for jobs went up last month. >> reporter: a number of business owners tell fox news they can't find workers. they argue the government is getting in the way of employers. now some republicans want congress to cut enhanced federal unemployment benefits early. some states are already doing that, just to get more of their residents back to work. >> there is an opportunity here for us of to turn it around and the biden administration and congressional democrats could be part of that solution. step one is getting those able-bodied adults back into the workforce rather than paying them more stay at home. >> reporter: those concerns will likely come up when the president sits down with congressional leaders from both

parties and a handful of republicans to talk about his infrastructure bill. on thursday, six republican senators will meet with the president to discuss the best way to repair roads, bridges, airports. the president wants of to spend 2 trillion to do this. republicans say they can get the job done closer to $600 billion in spending. both meetings could be t critical to getting any bipartisan support for the president's spending plan. it's a big week here in washington. todd and jillian, back to you on a manic monday. jillian: yes, it is. thank you. todd: jason chaffetz says president biden and vp harris are abusing their power and congress needs to take a stand. listen. >> congress needs to get a backbone and stand up for itself. they'res -- they would just assume to let joe biden and kamala harris roll through things. let's remember, it was barack obama and joe biden that expanded this. their theory was let's throw out all these executive orders and maybe some of them will stick. they'll get tied up in the

courts and maybe we'll win some by accident. in the meantime, we'll get our way and we can force the issue. it's fundamentally wrong and they count on the american public not paying attention. todd: president biden is expected to make a speech on the economy later this afternoon. vice president will also be there. jillian: days after his recent visit to the border, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas will testify to congress over his handling of the border surge. he has touted how the biden administration has emptied border patrol facilities. senator ron johnson says thousands of people are still being apprehended each day. >> this is a crisis he created by president biden himself, by his policies. president trump pretty well had the problem solved and president biden dismantled the entire thing. jillian: as you know, the biden administration has refused to call the surge a crisis, instead calling it a crisis, as well as blaming it on the trump administration's lack of preparedness. todd: colorado police searching for a motive after a gunman

kills six people before turning the gun on himself. it happened at a birthday party. children were at the party but none were injured. >> they were crying. >> it was just like sad, because like somebody lost their mother right before mother's day. i don't want that happening to my family, you know. todd: police believe the gunman was the boyfriend of one of the victims. jillian: police shoot and kill a man after he rammed his car into their massachusetts station. authorities say the suspect pulled out what afeared be a rifle after smashing through the gluer the police have a hard, hard job. you guy in a truck with a rifle pointed at you. their job is so hard. at 6:00 in the morning you're staring at what appears to be a rifle. jillian: the suspect's cars was seen covered with bullet holes. he was supposed to appear in court next month for a traffic violation. a manhunt intensifies for a

person of interest in a times square shooting that injured three people including a little girl. todd: ashley strohmier here with what we know. ashley. >> the nypd thought they found 31-year-old farakan mohammed but it was his brother they spoke to. the man told them mohammed meant to shoot the brother after an argument but instead hit three bystanders. police released surveillance footage following the incident. among those shot, a 4-year-old shopping for toys with her family along with two other women. take a look at this. video captured the moment an nypd officer grabbed the toddler and rushed her to an ambulance. a mother herself, officer vogel praised the young victim as the strongest little girl she has ever seen. she told the new york post, i kept telling her to breathe, that i know what she's going through because i have a baby

myself. it was very difficult for her, very traumatic, she saw her daughter get shot. a 23-year-old rhode island tourist was one of the others shot. she breaks her silence, telling local media, quote, i saw a police officer and i was screaming to him, i have a 2-year-old, i don't want to die. please help me. i'm shot. please help me. the woman said instead of people helping her after she was shot, they began filming her on their phones. the third victim, a new jersey woman, was shot in the foot. everyone though set to make a full recovery. a new york assemblyman joined us earlier and said it's proof the city is losing the war on crime. >> it's very symbolic that this happened in times square in broad daylight because it is a huge weak-up call that -- wake-um call that all the gains that were made at the cost of many police officers' lives with good policies are being lost. >> mayoral candidates are

speaking out against the defund the police movement in the wake of the shooting with wang promising to have the department's back. back to you guys. jillian: ashley, thank you. todd: the white house covid response coordinator pressed on president biden's mask wearing while indoors. watch. >> i think everyone is tired and wearing a mask can be a pain but we're getting there. the cdc guidance across time will allow vaccinated people more and more privileges to take off that mask. >> why does president biden in a room full of vaccinated journalists with everybody in the room vaccinated, why does he continue to wear a mask. >> the president is going to continue to follow the cdc guidance. todd: president biden defended his actions, claiming it's, wrote, still good policy. jillian: how about this, bob baffert is denying any and all wrong-doing after kentucky derby winner medina spirit tests positive for steroids. the horse trainer is promising

his full cooperation ahead of this saturday's preakness. >> i got the biggest gut punch in racing for something that i didn't do. and this is really -- it'ses disturbing. it's an injustice to the horse. i don't feel embarrassed. i feel like is was wronged. jillian: this is the second time he has faced cheating allegations and he has had five horses fail drug tests. as of now, the win still stands. gamblers are cash their tickets as betting results are final. i'm curious to see the outcome of this. todd: i understand the logistics of not being able to refund everybody money. imagine if you had the second place winner. jillian: exactly. congresswoman lisa mcclain is sounding the alarm on the cartels taking advantage of our current border policies. she just came back from a visit and got a firsthand look at how

dangerous the situation is. she joins us live next. todd: the did you see this? a new toy for amazon billionaire jeff bezos. the astronomical course of his new super yacht, it will be one of the largest in the world. you want to stick around for that as "fox & friends first" on a monday morning rolls along. ♪ [sfx: kids laughing] [sfx: bikes passing] [sfx: fire truck siren] onstar, we see them. okay. mother and child in vehicle. mother is unable to exit the vehicle. injuries are unknown. thank you, onstar. ♪ my son, is he okay? your son's fine. thank you. there was something in the road... it's okay. you're safe now.

todd: welcome back. the widen administration's handling of the border prompting backlash from republican lawmakers across the country. jillian: our next guest, a congresswoman from michigan, just returned from a trip to witness the dangers of the migrant surge firsthand and is calling on the president to put americans first. here to break down what she saw is michigan congresswoman lisa mcclain. thank you for being here this morning. appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me. jillian: of course. you said it was actually worse than you expected it to be. can you explain to us what you saw?

>> yeah. as a mother, first and foremost, you want the best for your kids and what's happening to these families is an organized form of illegal immigration that i would argue is modern day slavery. the only people that are making out in this situation are the drug traffickers, the cartels, and the people that traffic these families over. it is the worst -- it's worse than i thought. i would suggest that before you have an opinion, come down from your ivory tower and actually go to the border and see for yourself what is happening. it was horrible. todd: congresswoman, how vital is it that every american realize that, yes, you may not live in a border state, you may not live at that time the border but this crisis is coming to your community in some way, shape or form, whether you like it or not. >> well, it's coming to your community in two-fold.

one, i live in michigan. so they do not have the facilities to house these underage illegal migrant children. what they're doing is they're bussing them and flying them up to my city, here in albion, michigan, number one. number two, where it's coming to a city near you, is because the border patrol agents are spending so much time dealing with all of these families that are crossing illegally, they have no time to protect the border. what do you think is coming in? fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, i can assure you that's coming to a city near you. jillian: approximately $3 billion in government contracts awarded by the biden administration to house my grants. if you -- migrants. if you could have a conversation with the president and vice president on that situation, what would you say to them? >> number one, get down to the border. you can't fix a problem unless you think we have one and a i am

telling you, mr. president, we have a crisis at the border. all you have to do is go down there and you will see firsthand. number two, i'm for legal -- legal immigration. but what's happening at the border, that is nowhere close to legal immigration. and what we're doing to these families, we're recycling the children so the children come over, then the cartels take them, send them back to mexico to let them get abused and raped with another family on the way over. that's horrible. jillian: awful. todd: what we're doing to these kids is unconscionable. >> it is. todd: your colleagues in the house, the republicans in fact demanding answers from the chief of tiktok over cartels using the app to organize, smuggle, all

that stuff. here's part of the letter, it appears that cartel members are glorifying illegal behavior to recruit new members. the proliferation is occurring on such a large scale that it's being referred to as cartel tiktok culture. how come social media is so quick to ban conservative viewpoints, yet it takes a letter from congress to even start the conversation on what amounts to illegal smuggling via an app? >> because we are so worried about the optics that we're not dealing with the issues. we are clearly symbolism over substance from this administration and as a parent, that should enrage you. as an american citizen, that should enrage you. i mean, come on. they are taking our data, selling our data. then they are using tiktok to

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jillian: good morning many. welcome back. a minnesota city considering massive police reforms after the shooting of dante wright. mike elliott presenting a resolution to create new public

safety, including unarmed traffic enforcers. >> it would transform the state and system so police are not the only available response for everything. jillian: a vote was pushed back to give the council time to review. wright was shot dead during a traffic stop. the officer says she confused her gun for a taser. todd: senator bernie sanders showing limb similar pa a this e unions, telling axios, when police or anybody else are fighting for decent wages and working conditions, i'm there. what some of the police unions have done is taken it beyond that and what they have done is tried through a variety of legal means, saying hey, if a police officer does something illegal or worse, i mean kills somebody, we're going to protect that person. sanders says he would support legislation to weaken the union's bargaining rights over criminal justice issues. jillian: reality star turned california gubernatorial

candidate katlyn jenner says she supports a path to citizenship for the state's millions of undocumented workers. >> a lot of bad people are trying to cross the border illegally. i am for legal immigration. the bad ones have to leave. jillian: adding the crisis at the border is one of the reasons she decided to run for governor. todd: house minority leader kevin mccarthy backing elise stefanik to replace liz cheney at the leader. james clyburn is accusing the gop of cancel culture inside their own ranks. listen. >> there is a lot at stake. democrats are destroying this nation. we need to be united and that starts with leadership. that's why we will have a vote next week. >> do you support elise stefanik for that job? >> yes, i do. >> i don't agree with liz on much politically. but you know, that's how we grow as a country. this whole thing that everybody

is marching in lockstep, that is what leads people to destruction. they talk a lot about cancel culture. this is the classic cancel culture. todd: liz cheney could face a leadership vote as soon as wednesday. coming up, supreme court justice steven briar facing pressure to retire so democrats could fine a more liberal replacement. we discuss it next. jillian: a pro-pot rally got a greenlight and even an nypd escort. a member of the group who of blames mayor bill de blasio sounds off. ♪

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palestinians are hospitalized after a clash at a jerusalem holy site. todd: amy kellogg joins us live from jerusalem after days of mounting tension. >> reporter: hi, jillian and a todd. the international community is really alarmed by all of this naturally and they are calling for calm but it is not clear at this moment what could achieve that. the situation is so volatile and unpredictable. we've seen fierce clashes this morning around the mosque and some palestinians have been reporting that israeli police have entered the mosque which is the third holiest shrine in islam. we have new video to show you this morning which shows some of the tensions just spilling out onto the streets. police released this. you can see palestinians attacking the car of an israeli. it is not clear what provoked the attack. the man you apparently lost control of his vehicle and smashed into some of the violent crowd on the outside of the

walls of the old city. this is the third day of intense clashes fueled by a mix of events and provocations on both sides including the planned eviction of some arabs from east jerusalem. what it boils down to is the fate of jerusalem, really and that is a long-standing, intractable issue. the eviction decision has been put off for about a month in an attempt to keep things from spiraling further out of control but people will be watching this afternoon, in a few short ours, what happens during the jerusalem day march when jews march through the city to commemorate the capture of jerusalem after the 1967 war. jillian and todd. todd: amy kellogg live for us in jerusalem. thank you. jillian: republicans are pushing for transparency from china on the origins of covid-19. in a statement, senator joni ernst saying the world deserves answers and that includes determining whether it

originated from the wuhan institute of virology, this comes after reports that china was preparing buy lodge l call we upons -- biological weapons six years ago. gordon chang says the virus falls on chinese leadership. listen. >> xi jinping, the chinese ruler, deliberately took steps to spread the disease beyond china's borders. so even if it wasn't a biological weapon to start out with, the chinese leadership turned it into one. jillian: chang went on to say he believes we will learn the origins of covid-19, not from chai leadership, but from -- chinese leadership, but from citizens. new you data reveals new york nursing homeworkers are not vaccinated. the worst area was brooklyn with only 47% of workers getting a shot. todd: a washington post calling on supreme court justice steven briar to retire in a new op-ed.

this to ensure democrats will choose his replacement and keep republicans from adding another justice to the bench. here to discuss, president of the judicial crisis network, carrie sabarino great to see you as always. not the first time we heard about this. not the first time we've had you on to talk about a get rid of briar op-ed. here's the latest one. but if he doesn't want to risk having his seat go to someone with an opposing judicial philosophy which just happened to the late justice ruth bader ginsburg and if he wants to give president biden the best opportunity to choose a successor who shares this values, briar should step down as soon as possible. carrie, is there any indication that this unseemly pressure is working? >> yes, thanks, todd. you know, this is funny because the professor wrote almost the same op-ed just a few years ago in the obama era to ruth bader

ginsburg making the same arguments, i think she took it as well as briar is going to take it. this is unappropriate pressure to put on a supreme court justice. justice briar should be in charge of his own retirement. i think it's unfortunate and disrespectful to have that public pressure being put on him by the professor. briar said he doesn't want this process to be politicized. i think he probably is rankled by the continuing pressure campaign. todd: do you think any of this militant pressure would be happening if the republicans did not play hard ball with the merck garland supreme court nomination? >> oh, absolutely. as i was saying, this is the kind of thing that is happening with justice ginsburg as as well. they simply want to fill the seat. what's interesting, they're also making the argument that they need to do it because they're anticipating losing the power and the thin control of the

senate they they have in 2022. so it's almost an argument of the public is turning against this radical agenda and we need to move faster on it. and the pressure campaign has stepped up, in even more offensive ways if you ask me. ever since briar spoke out about his views on court packing, they've been running billboards, the dark money groups on the left, around d.c. saying we don't want another white male on the court, they want him to leave because they want a black woman to replace him because he's not towing the line on the radical demands. todd: let's focus on the author. he taught my constitutional law review class. he could be the smartest person i encountered in my life. we're not trying to attack him. he's also the dean of the uc berkley law school. how can folks watching this at home have confidence that the lawyers that are being produced in our law schools across the

country aren't all being indoctrinated by some ideology, this leftist ideology at every single law school in the country? >> unfortunately, what you just described is pretty much the status quo at law schools across the country, if you look at the statistics on donation patterns or any way you try to gauge the political valence, the faculty, it's shocking. it's overwhelming, 97% or something of law school faculty are hard leftists. that's simply the facts on the ground. but i think the good news is that you can find good conservative community there thanks to group like the federalist society who like to bring just a debate, like let's have a debate here. so certainly his position is not the unusual one. that's the bulk of the law school environment. todd: he sat there for 24 hours over three days, literally reciting all the law you need to know and didn't stumble once.

it was one of the most amazing things. yet you see a letter like this to the op-ed situation, i don't get it. carrie, we appreciate your time this morning. thank you. >> thanks. jillian: to extreme weather now with meteorologist adam klotz, the earliest tropical storm on record developed in the eastern pacific, is that right, adam? >> yeah, that's absolutely right, jillian. this is the storm you're talking about, sitting off the coast of mexico. the season starts on the 15th. it's a couple days early. it's the earliest we've seen in the eastern pacific. it's a tropical storm but the track turns off towards the west. it will be weakening over the next day or so. just reminds us that tropical season is really kicking up, it's just around the corner. it looks like it will be another actropical season. -- active tropical season. there's a strong cold front sweeping across the country. these are your early morning temperatures, 42 degrees in chicago. there has been a little bit of

snow across the midwest yesterday. this is a true cold front. with it, we're looking at really cold temperatures. these are frost and freeze advisories now from cleveland, stretching to indianapolis, grand rapids, over towards the chicago area. so really cold air there. and again, right along the frontal boundary, we could see more storms today. we saw plenty of them on our sunday. that's a system we'll continue to watch. back to you guys. todd: i've got to plant my vegetables. could you get rid of the cold? jillian: it's all about todd. >> we're getting close,ed to. we're getting close. todd: it's not about me. it's about the vegetables. jillian: thanks, adam. [laughter] jillian: the vegetables will thank him. up next, one of facebook's oversight board members taking a shot at the tech giant. his sharp criticism of the indefinite ban on former president trump. (vo) jamaica. (woman) best decision ever.

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todd: did you see this, a member of facebook's oversight board criticizing the social media platform in the wake of the indefinite ban on former president trump. jillian: cheryl is there break down what the board member had to say. >> facebook's oversight co-chair had choice words about the company's current rules. >> the rules are a shambles. they are not transparent. they're unclear. they internally are inconsistent. cheryl: despite the criticism, mcconnell and the board voted to uphold facebook's current ban on former president trump. >> mr. trump is the one who issued those inflammatory posts at the very time when rioters were invading the congress. he issued those posts. he put himself in this bed and he can sleep in it. cheryl: the board gave facebook six months to review the ban. several republicans by the way want more regulation of facebook, instagram and other

social media platforms in the wake of all of this. todd: vaccine incentives going next level up here? cheryl: yeah, get your shot, get paid. that is the idea that's being floated in new jersey with governor phil murphy saying the state is considering it. murphy telling our local fox affiliate the state has to get to the objective, which is 70% of the adult population vaccinated by the end of june. the state going to give residents 21 years and older a free beer with their vaccine. that begins this month. in d.c. they've started handing out free beer with vaccinations at one pop of-up site. more than 100 people showed up to get the j&j shot. they got the one shot and got their one beer. jillian: i have a question. if they decide to pay people to get the vaccine, what about the people who already got the vaccine? cheryl: would be called a pay me now. no kidding. exactly. i mean, at this point there's so much vaccine supply and the numbers of those going to get

vaccinated are really dropping. so a lot of people don't want to get it is the problem i think. trying to encourage them to do it. jillian: a lot of us might want this super yacht, definitely can't afford it though. cheryl: this is something. i don't usually get that impressed with this kind of stuff but this is going to be wow. jeff bezos reportedly is building a p triple masted $500 million super yacht. it would be one of the largest ever built. spanning over the size of a football field. it's going to have several decks, a helipa dduh, with a support yacht to go with it. it's being built by a dutch company. the project right now is called y721. but it's all under wraps. they're not -- i mean, the report is out there but the company won't comment. jillian: that's fascinating. cheryl, thank you. maybe brian kilmeade will comment on his super yacht. todd: and the support yacht. you've got to have both. jillian: let's go to brian and

see if he will. >> i should have told you, jillian, i traded my yacht in for a boston whaler. i wanted something i could clam with, by the time i jumped off the ship which be dizzy. i can get it to swampy areas. one of the stories, pretty big, businesses are struggling to staff for fronts. you know that, across the country. monday ton that says it's -- montana said it's done with unemployment benefits that are deincentivizing would-be workers. joe biden's commerce secretary says it's a regional problem. we'll talk with a resort owner about what's going on. we have a veteran taking on the homeowners association after they told him to take down an american flag. we told this story various times. he's been fighting for two decades a. he'll join us live. charles payne, his book, he's probably picking out a suit

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jillian: welcome back. staten island veterans are threatening legal action against new york city after they were denied a permit for their memorial day pa a raid, this comes after mayor bill de blasio allowed a cannabis parade last week. joining us now, lee kavino and attorney brendan landry. thank you for being here. lee, i want to start with you, as a u.s. army veteran, thank a you for your service. second of all, i want to know

what this parade means to you. >> well, it's ironic because we lost many people in over 200 years, military service. the freedom, the march down broadway, we're just hoping we can remember those people with our parade. jillian: absolutely. brendan, tell me what happened here and why you were denied a permit. >> sure. so for 102 years the united staten island veterans organization has held its annual memorial day celebration here in staten island and the veterans just that's do every year, they applied for their permit through the nypd and three months in advance and they were denied. they were denied citing mayor de blasio's executive orders on parades. yet just last week the cannabis parade was held up and down broadway, park avenue, several different blocks of manhattan

were blocked off and nypd personnel was present, police barricades and essentially it was a parade, even if there wasn't a permit, there was a parade. we since learned there was a permit issued by the parks department in new york city. jillian: so what now, brendan? >> so now, lee and some of the folks tacted -- contacted me and we're working pro bono to get them parade permit. we gave them a deadline of today at noon. we hope they provide a permit by then. if not we'll bring action to the supreme court in staten island, new york, new york state, to force them to do so. jillian: i would love for you to keep us updated to see if you hear a he response from them. lee, there's been so much that's gone on with coronavirus in the last year and a couple months with restrictions, with so many people not being able to go to church, kids not being able to go to church, not being able to have parades. one thing i think that never changes is our appreciation as a country for all of our service

members, those who are still here and those who have made the ultimate sacrifice and have passed away after fighting for our rights in this country. why do you think now more than ever it is so important for us to be able to honor all of those lives? >> well, it's important because especially for the kids, that's who the parents usually take to these parades and you know, we want to show the veterans, they're walking history. every veteran has a different piece of history they could tell you, from the pearl harbor guys who are getting very old at this point to people that just got back from iraq and after a began stan. so we -- afghanistan. so we want those kids to see real life history from staten island marching down forest avenue. jillian: thank you very much for joining us and for your service. brandon landry, thank you as always. we reached out to mayor bill de

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colonial pipeline transports more than half of the fuel on the east coast. todd: drivers transporting gas diesel and other petroleum products in 17 states including arkansas as they work to provide assistance. arkansas attorney general leslie rutledge friend of the program, joins us now. a.g. rutledge, thank you so much. >> good morning. todd: is this a wake-up call that we all need especially when it comes to our banks, our utilities, and now our pipelines? >> yes. we are seeing cyber security is an incredible threat to our nauert. it's an incredible to our economy, our lively hoods. we are looking at it colonial pipeline being shut down it could increase the cost of gas for all of us but, also, it could impact the way of life here in america. we have got to shut down these cyberattacks. that's an infrastructure plan that we need to put more money toward. it's being prepared for a cyberattack. jillian: this is what they have to say on the attack quote while

our main line reiss main offline smaller links between our terminal remain operational. we will bring our full system back online only when we believe it is safe to do. so how much high alert should would he be on when you hear about something like this happening not only across the country but across the world? >> all of us in america should be on alert because when we talk about spending and infrastructure, we don't need to talk about these wish lists that the liberal democrats have. we need to talk about actual infrastructure and cyber security. delivering our crude and fuel and gasoline from the gulf coast up to new york and major metropolitan areas up and down the east coast is vitally important to our economy, to the workforce, to, again, our national security. and so that's why we need to spend money, time and resources being prepared for a cyberattack whether it's on a financial side, the energy side, all of it is important to american safety. todd: we have got to plan now otherwise it could get a lot worse. your governor joining other g.o.p. governor flashing jobless

aid to get americans back to, would. this on the heels of this horrible jobs report. look at this, only 2 6,000 added. lack, unemployment rate jumping 6.1% is the new number. but, look, a.g. will you tell ledge that's what republicans think. not a lot of democrats agree with that economic strategy including the secretary of commerce jeanne. >> this unemployment insurance has been a lifeline, a survival, you know, lifeline for so many measures. the number one reason now that people aren't going back to work is what you said, fear. or they can't find child care or schools are still closed. todd: to be perfectly blunt, a.g. rutledge isn't a preventior whether it prevents you from going back to work over? >> it is. job creators in arkansas can't compete with free taxpayer provided fund you from the federal government. that's why i'm proud of our

governor for stating it's the end of june. we are shutting off the unemployment the hundred dollars a week because what happens is our job creators can't compete with that free money. i have talked to so many businesses that are told me we have lost our business to the pandemic and government shut downs now we are losing our employees to the government. they can't hire people to come in if they are getting free money from the government this. is hurting the economy. we still have 4.4 unemployment in arkansas but we can't compete with free money. our job creators can't. they are having to shut their doors because they can't find people to fill the jobs. jillian: look at numbers here 42% of small businesses unable to fill opening. we have had business owner after business owner say look, i'm willing to pay people to come and work for me and i can't find employees to work. and i can't rely on the employees to stay. we are hearing these stories. how frustrating is it when you look at both sides politically here, no one can see eye to eye

on this, yet, you have people begging for employees. >> yes. and we are talking about folks in arkansas cross the country that are needing to go to work. these are able-bodied are a cans sans that need to go to work. unfortunately it's too easy to get that money from the federal government. we have businesses that are struggling. the very businesses that we are fighting to stay open that are the backbone of our economy are fighting to stay open. whether it's a hotel or restaurant or manufacturing company, they are all having problems getting people to come to work and stay at work because they are having to compete with the federal government's free money. that's why i'm proud in arkansas we are saying no more. todd: we will see which plan works. a.g. rutledge, always a pleasure thank you so much. >> thank you. todd: gifted a new harley davison after hard times forced him to say the one that he had. great story right here you love

when americans come together to do good for other americans. that's what you are seeing on your screen. jillian: got to love that veterans passing the keys down the line to him. and we thank you service and we hope he enjoys hisny new ride. thank you for joining us this morning. hope we see you back here tomorrow. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> there are a lot of people who believe keeping unemployment instead of going to look for work. >> number one reason right now that people aren't going back to work is fear. >> pressed on president biden's mask wearing while endorsed. >> cdc will allow vaccinated people more and more privileges. >> a manhunt intensifying for the person of interest times square shooting injured three people. >> among those shots a 4-year-old shopping for toys. >> when is this going to end? >> medina spirit the horse who won the kentucky derby has