bidenitis. >> that is a great, excellent question. laura: americans worry about catching covid white house staffers live in fear of another contagion, bidenit is a is. >> excellent question. i will check with the permit of housing -- had and i'm happy to get word to you if that is available. laura: happens to the best of us. it seemed pretty severe. all the time we have tonight. gutfeld next. todd: wednesday may 2, '06, fox news lead, a riot declared as a day of remembrance for george floyd ends and violence and vandalism, congress forced to find common ground on a police reform bill employed's name. >> a lot of element in the case against lori fowler who faces murder charges for the death of the two children. todd: us a little 9/11 hero who far until his own death. "fox and friends first" starts right now.

todd: speaking of is that individual so much for the 9/11 community, beautiful thing what he did, self-sacrifice is what he did. we bring you that story. >> those who are still with us, never forget them. that is for sure. you are watching "fox and friends first" wednesday morning. todd: fox news alert, protests erupting coast to coast, police declare a riot after people pushed a burning sumter in front of the justice center this happening in portland, rioters started the fire after smashing the building at windows trying to break in and fireworks at

officers as they tried to calm the crowd, several people were arrested. laura: protesters marching through the streets and blocking traffic, demonstrated through trash on roads creating dangerous and hazardous conditions for the public. president biden is hopeful there will be an agreement on police reform, meeting with george forecast family at the white house. todd: the president remained optimistic that congress seems far from. more on the president's meeting of the push toward police reform. >> reporter: day of action for the floyd family meeting with lawmakers and the president pushing for legislation in george's name. >> if you can make federal laws to protect the bird which is the bald eagle you can make federal must protect people. todd: passing police reform it is unclear as the president says they are making progress.

>> i've spoken with the negotiators, hopeful that sometimes there will be an agreement on george floyd at legislation. >> reporter: progressives are demanding more than compromise with representative ilhan omar tweeting on the anniversary of his death remind all of us we are searching for justice for george floyd. convicting his killer isn't enough. true justice can only come from dismantling the system that allowed him to die. this as gunshots rang out in minneapolis during a reporter's coverage of the street festival honoring floyd. >> some gunshots. >> reporter: that comes as homicides are up 113% in minneapolis. house's

position on this, it is mostly because of guns? >> not sure what data you are looking at but most data that is out there shows there is a rising crime over the course of the last year since the start of the pandemic which predates president biden taking office to be totally clear. you are right and that is why we are focused on solutions here. >> will congress pass anything, not sure but both sides at the negotiating table say they want a quality bill so wait and see what we get. >> lieutenant colonel matthew wall marker who was removed from the space was for criticizing diversity training had this to say about the woke awakening we witness this past year. listen. >> what you see in the cultural

revolution in 1966 are a reflection of we saw in this country, people standing in the streets demanding that is bow down and apologize for their privilege, apologize for what race or group they belong to. they shutdown schools allowing people together and peaceful protests and when they do that they claim they are not peaceful and violent because it gets people's blood boiling of course. and so everything you see taking place in this country. >> he kicked the interview on tucker carlson streaming exclusively on fox nation. >> fox news confirms the biden administration shuts down an effort to learn the truth of the coronavirus origins the state department investigation was attempted to seek whether the virus came from the lab in china.

that prevented after president biden took office. >> honest investigators press inquiries and getting it from us government is absolutely essential to finding out what happened in the origin of covid. >> this bombshell comes as we learn 3 researchers from the wuhan lab were hospital is one month before the first cases of covid 19 emerged. after touring for the wall and migrant center in el paso lawmakers say president biden's immigration policy left drug cartels in charge. >> my opinion is they have data they are gathering at the intelligence center which clearly indicates, more than the average american understands right now. >> over 172,000 migrants taken

into custody in march, 170,000 arrested in april. republicans have a crisis is creating an influx of sex trafficking and drug smuggling like they have never seen before. >> the illegal immigrants accused of molly tibbetts trying to convince jurors that his confession was coerced. >> that is what the evidence has shown. they close this case, to arrest instead of continuing the evidence, they commend it here. >> defense attorney's attempting to downplay what prosecutors call overwhelming evidence against rivera, charged with killing the iowa college student after 2018. officers accused of failing to keep watch over jeffrey epstein will not serve jail time. a plea deal the cards admit to mapping and browsing the internet routinely checking on sexual predator. they accept responsibility for falsifying records. they cooperate with a federal

probe into epstein's death the duo will serve 100 hours of community service as punishment. jillian: lori fellow at her husband will appear in court after being indicted on first-degree murder charges in the death of the two children. todd: marianne rafferty has more on this. >> reporter: year after their arrests they are set to appear in court this morning facing charges in the murder of her two children. >> members of the grand jury deliberated and determined there is probable cause to believe they would knowingly conspired to commit several crimes that led to the deaths of three innocent people. >> reporter: they disappeared in september of 2019 and when the couple's story about the kids whereabouts didn't add up police

began an investigation. they took off to hawaii where they were arrested. the children's bodies were found buried on chad dayfelt's property in idaho in june of 2020 near the community where they lived. >> this is not the closure we wanted. we wanted to find them arrive -- alive. >> reporter: they face 9 charges including first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and grand theft by deception. she was charged with collecting federal benefit payments after the disappearance were found dead. series charges carry maximum penalty of life in prison without possibility of parole or even death penalty. prosecutors say they used far-fetched religious beliefs based on tuesday prophecies to justify killing the children. chad is charged with the murder of his first wife tammy, the couple married just weeks after her death.

jillian: we will continue to follow that. the senate confirming kristin carcass assistant attorney general for the civil rights division with no gop support. >> our colleagues on the committee did not give her a favorable recommendation because of a long history of statements that place the nominee on the far left fringe of the political spectrum. >> clark is the first black woman to lead the division, turned for calls for defund the police. todd: a 9/11 hero has a park named after him,. a as memorial park, for family, friends and the finest, he became the face of first responders as he fought for victims compensation fund even after he was dying of cancer. he was here on capitol hill after passing away in july of 2019.

>> on september 11th, worked tirelessly, about the rescue and recovery period that followed. todd: alvarez was a marine and member of the bomb squad, he died at age 53. think of the selfless ways he gave to his country. time is 11 minutes after the hour. animal rights activists bearing down on gavin newsom's republican challenger. the video is -- republican challenger with a new lawsuit, campaign. jillian: san francisco schools reopening funds parents calling it a cash grab. there was next. ♪♪

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like so many parents nothing is more important than having our kids back school especially when san francisco has the highest vaccination rates across the state and country and the lowest covid rates in our state. >> legislators calling out the san francisco school district, officials exploiting a loophole for $12 million in state reopening funds. >> richie greenberg ran in 2018 and joins us live. thanks for being here. break this down and tell us how they are exploiting this loophole. >> reporter: one of the local legislators, our representative in sacramento in the state's capital created a bill that was going to award local school districts around the state with additional funding to bring students back from -- to bring

them to in person learning. unfortunately or should i say for san francisco the scandal now is the school district, the school commissioners have decided to bring in students just for one grade, seniors for one day, the last day to be in compliance with the offer of additional funding. they were supposed to bring the children back but instead they postponed it until the last day which was may 15th and we found yesterday the state commission has now sent a letter to the school districts saying preliminary they will defy the funding because at the end run

around the law that was going to give a little and calling them out. todd: here is what the individual we saw in the opening soundbite has to say, assemblyman phil teague is his name, quote, this money was used to incentivize reopening of the district heard more about getting money than bringing children into the classroom. a strong message that we expect them to be fully open in the fall but you say, they were not as pure as caesar's wife. why do you say that? >> a supermajority, 1-party rule, all democrat, democrat socialist as they call themselves, card-carrying socialists, very little checks and balances. they are from the same cars. they endorsed each other, and they pat each other on the back when they get elected.

todd: united educators of san francisco teachers union says removing the funding would hurt the students. do you see that being the scenario? >> >> they were very powerful, to manipulate there would be no reason they had children still in distance learning, other states and private schools in san francisco, students in person learning next year. todd: we will see if you are at 100% in person learning. >> still to come, texas becoming a constitutional carry state approving the strongest second amendment bills in history.

what can it mean for gun rights nationwide. todd: nba star charged with violating covid protocols the day after lebron james was let off the hook, a double standard, we will tell you about the violation.

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todd: the university of central florida introducing the social justice degree releasing details about the field of study saying it aims equipment develop leaders who can influence policy to create social justice. the city is offered as an undergraduate program and the grad program. critics say it is another way to, quote, get broke to go woke. tennessee banning critical race theory in public schools, bill

we banning the theory from being taught in school saying students should learn about american exceptionalism rather than divisive topics, tennessee is the fourth state to ban the controversial topic joining arkansas, oklahoma and idaho. >> texas is one signature from being able to carry handguns, governor avedon what they, strongest second amendment bill in state history. firearms reporter and founder of the reload human capacity here to react, thanks for being here. this is the largest, is that correct? >> absolutely right. the 21st state to institute the kind of policy. it is extremely recent too, they have that. >> let's take a look at the bill

to bring us up. 21 and over who can legally possess a firearm to carry a handgun in public and permit, the public safety apartment must post a free online course on firearm safety handling if it is signed into law which we expect the governor to do. what do you think this means for the rest of the nation? >> this just continues the momentum across the country. the most popular gun policy in america, or popular than red flag laws and with texas adopting it, if they see spirit certain negative repercussions for that, a number of other states as well. >> critics will always say if they haven't already that this is going to lead to more violence, in states that do this is that the case?

>> haven't seen an uptick in violent crime or murder rate over the past decade where states of adopted policies, not a huge amount of time to look at it but the national murder rate remain near historic lows. until recently with the pandemic we are seeing a spike but there hasn't been anything associated with these policies. >> the notes you sent over for the segment you talk about the difference between what is going on in texas or new york, whether to strike down new york's restrictive gun carry law talk about that. >> a huge contrast between what texas is doing where you don't need a permit to carry a gun and if you are legally able to possess a firearm in the first

place whereas in places like new york or california or new jersey or massachusetts a handful of states especially. states were even if you go through the permit process your back on track and take the required training they can still deny you a permit and a lot of states that most people aren't able to get a permit and now the supreme court is looking at those laws to see whether or not they stand up to scrutiny against the second amendment so abroad contrast between what texas is doing and what new york is being challenged for. >> a huge difference. thank you very much for joining us, appreciate your insight. >> it is official, president

biden will be face-to-face with p for their first official meeting next month. for trump national security 8 breaking down key differences in biden's policy. we want to help you on early american heroes in new york to "fox and friends first" on twitter, instagram or facebook, email america to gather on foxnews.com.

secretary of state anthony lincoln said to arrive in cairo at a meeting with egypt's president after the prime minister and the announcement of $110 million in new funding to rebuild gaza. >> moron blinken's trips. >> that is right. it is diplomatic around the region trying to keep this beef in ways. in a series where officials in

israel and gaza gave assurances of israel's right to defend itself and back the palestinians, supported a concept which is out-of-favor these days, a 2 state solution for israelis and palestinians. here's what he had to say. >> i feel that because any steps that either side takes 30 the risk sparking violence or over time, ultimately undermine the process for returning to to to states. >> the new pledge brings $360 million, the us will spend to help gaza rebuild, he says there are ways to keep the hamas terror group getting its hands on the money, they cut off most of that funding, he says he will reopen the consulate in east

jerusalem that had been shuttered by trump and another change from the trump administration, blinken and several meetings, and questions yesterday reasserted president biden's interest in getting back to the iranian nuclear deal, saying it is the only way to keep tehran from getting the bomb, prime minister netanyahu and others are choosing to disagree. before visiting egypt, you will go on before returning home to the states, those countries played a key role in brokering the cease-fire which by all of our notices is in place. >> let's bring in former trump national security aide john elliott. as you know, blinken promised the international aid would not benefit hamas. are you confident the loss will not get hands on any of that money?

>> that blanket statement is tough to believe because if you look at it, hamas hides behind its own civilians, palestinians when it launches the attacks and in this case hiding behind the same civilians when the money is coming into rebuild them and there's no guarantee they won't be able to go ahead and take -- those funds for use with restocking their rockets and building tunnels that threaten israel so there's no way to have that. that is why is 40 for israel and the us to actually provide that type of money because they can't go through the palestinian authority in the west bank because they have no relations with hamas so hamas for rebuilding is a tough issue. >> let's look at the numbers, $75 million for additional development and economic assistance for palestinians this

year, 1.5 million in immediate disaster assistance for un relief and works for agency, big numbers as well, 316 million in usa to palestinians, under trump and biden so far. in your estimation is there a better way to help the people of gaza without money going to hamas? >> absolutely. the way to do it is to go through international organizations such as the international and others who bring workers on the ground to rebuild and services millions right there rather than providing money that can be fungible and used in other ways that threaten israel so i would go through international organizations and make sure it is not just cash we are sending. >> anthony blinken says a return to the iran deal will keep tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons. benjamin netanyahu doesn't necessarily agree. >> i can tell you i hope the united states will not go back to the old jcp away because we believe that deal paves way for

iran to have an arsenal of nuclear weapons with international legitimacy. >> is that falling on deaf ears? >> it has fallen on deaf ears with the biden administration. donald trump made the right call to pull us out of the disastrous jcp away the president and prime minister was referring to and what happened in the middle east you saw a realignment where arab states and the gulf saw that there was actually movement against iran with a strong country like the us standing with israel and gave them an incentive to come into the abraham accords for the first time in 26 years where arab countries recognize the state of israel. a real shift and for biden to be looking to get back into this disastrous iran nuclear deal what that does is freezes out completely any prospect of

building on those abraham accords and other states to pull back and be wary of us real engagement with iran so it is destabilizing the region and making it less safe. >> president biden and vladimir putin agreeing to a face-to-face it down next month, this is scheduled to happen june 16th in geneva, switzerland. this would be after meeting with g7 allies. let's take a listen to what jen psaki has to say. >> this is how diplomacy works. it is important to meet with leaders when we have a range of disagreements, we don't regard the meetings with the russian president as a reward, it is a vital part of defending america's interests. >> your thoughts on this meeting? >> there got to be talking, donald trump is always talking to anybody who would engage with him in the country so biden should be talking to vladimir putin but look how he's getting into this arrangement, first thing he did is just announced

last week, he allowed vladimir putin to finish the pipeline which goes from russia down to germany so able to bypass all of eastern europe and that is destabilizing for the region in an energy sense and on the second, it rewards putin and his cronies and on the second side by insulting than a reboot and early on in the administration what he did was being undiplomatic, president biden actually allowed the buildup of forces by the russians in the ukraine so although some of those forces were pulled back this is a return to the 70s with jimmy carter where sensing weakness, the soviet union built up forces, let's hope they don't invade the ukraine but that is a threat that has vladimir putin's strength going into those conversations.

>> we are out of time but what should president biden's approach be to this meeting? should he be on a tougher side? >> absolutely. donald trump being tough with vladimir putin and that is what putin understands and what he has got to do is say there's not going to be any more giving away concessions on things like the nordstrom pipeline, he will be tough going forward. >> thank you for joining us, great information. >> the us olympic committee to attend the tokyo olympics, the biden administration warning against travel to japan. jen psaki saying the president supports athletes competing two months from now as long as they follow the strict covid protocols, travel warning for nonathletes remains in effect, japan is in a state of emergency due to a rise in covid cases. we will monitor that closely. the be announcing a 50,$000 fine after he was seen at a club on

sunday, the fine coming days after the week to find lebron james's violation of covid related rules, the fine says no players permitted and social venues regardless of vaccination status, he did not violate the saying he was only outdoors and unlikely to spread the virus. it rains inside. >> california governor gavin newsom ordered to pay $1.35 million to set up a lawsuit with la area church, sued california last summer over covid 19 restrictions imposed by newsom. the case went to the supreme court. newsom being forced to repay the church's attorney, and fees. california animal-rights gubernatorial candidate, stop using the large brown bear on the campaign trail. and a lot of the group alleges the bear has been, quote, drugs

and abuse, the bear has been on display for public appearances and television campaign ads issuing a statement in response saying in part, quote, the establishment is running scared from the bear because they don't like that we are going to make a big change the california needs. todd: i have been pushing the producers. i take the bear of course. after the break, john sina taken to the mat over his apology to china. plus. todd: how are your survival skills? jillian: they think they have what it takes to make it on their own in the wild but carley shimkus is about to tell us it is not as easy as you might think. ♪♪

>> john sina facing back lash for a top calling taiwan the country sending an apology video to china stating his deepest regret. todd: here is the latest. hate to see groveling from a big guy. carley: facing back lash in the united states and china, currently promoting the ninth fast and furious movie and during one interview said the taiwan is the first country that will be able to watch the movie. that did not go over well in china which considers any suggestion that i is a country is crossing their redline, john sina posted this, groveling apology video in mandarin. watch. [speaking to mandarin]

carley: backlash at home conservative commentator and schapiro tweeted taiwan is a country, hong kong should be free. if you say these things because it might hurt your bottom line you are a pathetic coward. senator tom, who coming in hot with one word calling seen a pathetic. this is another example of how important china is to hollywood and big businesses for its franchises in the united states and how sometimes business interests don't match up with the policies. >> opinions coming in fast and furious yesterday. the only thing i saw on twitter. >> that was the greatest of all time. the game is getting political. >> we talk about critical race theory and house people are pushing back against it on the local level.

ship gains, his sister running for school board position a local school board on an anti-critical race theory stands, donating $1,000 to her campaign, shannon braun says i will vote on anything and everything that further promotes critical race theory and the school district and actively work to remove all critical race theory so the district she is running in is not teaching critical race theory according to the hill that she's making her opinion on the subject known. chip gains is a very good brother. todd: the 3 of us wouldn't make it. you get mad at me when you say i can't get you breakfast until 8:00. you won't make it. carley: i have an opinion who would make it the longest but apparently a lot of americans are very confident in their survival skills because a new

survey found that most americans think they could survive 16 days in the wilderness but when you break down the actual skills they are less confident. only 17% are confident they could start fire with a flint, 14% confident they would be able to identify edible plants berries, 35% said they would be able to identify poison ivy. i feel out of all three of us jillian would be able to survive the longest. todd the second had i feel i would do that. todd: just being modest. carley shimkus was the inspiration for bear grow. carley: according to jillian in the tease. i wasn't a girl scouts. i was a campfire girl. 5-year-old skill. jillian: still to come, unmasking children in the classroom. a news report, make your voice heard launching the new campaign. we will tell you about it.

kids should not have to wear masks in these schools. we have to let them go to school and be like normal kids. clearly from an emotional, physical, psychological perspective that is a no-brainer to have them being normal. todd: rhonda santos double down on his call for masks to be optional in the classroom one mom is launching a campaign to unmask kids. joining us to discuss is that mom, melissa sullivan. pretty bold move to come into a district, guns blazing like this. why are you doing it?

>> honestly, thanks for having me. i am doing this for my child and the millions of children that have lost out on almost an entire year, over a year of being masked in the classroom. my son is going to be a senior. we had enrolled him in a new school last year. so terrible for him because everybody was masked, wasn't able to make friendships or see faces so it was a terrible experience for him. we bought a home in florida and decided let's get him down here. governor desantis doing everything right in our opinion and if we make the move now instead of waiting until he graduates our child can become a normal senior year with prom and friends and maybe a girlfriend, normalcy. todd: a statement from the

district, there has not been a decision so we will keep the mask policy until then. the school board will make a decision during its june meeting. what factors do you want the district to consider? >> we know that covid is generally affecting children, we know they are not vectors. doctors and scientists coming out of the woodwork saying this isn't affecting children. we do know this illness is affecting elderly people or people with autoimmune or some type of illness besides covid. some preexisting condition so it makes sense for our children to be children and unmasked at this point and get their lives back,

social and emotional anxiety is insurmountable at this point what is happening to our children. that is potentially more dangerous than covid itself and very few problems with kids. todd: little kids lose in terms of facial expressions and learn from that, these kids never experience people without masks. appreciate it, you seem like you have a lot of support in the district, keep us posted, let us know what happened. >> thank you so much. jillian: flaming hot fire, a woman loses her job after video spreads of her climbing into a spider monkey exhibit and feeding the animals she knows. the law from calling the litigation assistant's behavior reckless but that pink slip could just be the start as they are reviewing possible charges against the woman. we reached out to her but have not heard back.

take a look, trying to parallel park outside a kfc in the uk, the card can be seen inching forward and crashing into the back of the car. the driver swings backward, the car behind the too, the car set off, police searching for a driver. i can honestly say i have never done that. todd: i love chicken so i have. jillian: using your tax dollars to fund illegal immigrants. grossman buddy started taking action to stop it, joins us life. todd: from our friends della the fox but super 6 apps for a chance to win 10,$000. all you need to do is predict 6 outcomes in the super 6 quiz show, topics range from entertainment to sports. it is free to play, download the fox but super 6 apps now. ♪♪

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sixth. rioters in portland setting fires and shattering windows on the 1-year anniversary of george floyd's death, following president biden's meeting with floyd's family on police reform live in washington. todd: a has been charged with murder in the death of the val oh's two children's what we know about that making court today. jillian: the pro golfer making a rare public appearance since his accident. "fox and friends first" continues right now. ♪♪ todd: love this story. jillian: she said i have the tiger over that line, disappointed them playing this song. todd: i spoke too soon. can we rewind that?