todd: it's monday, june 14th. a murder mystery unfolding in south carolina where investigators say the son of a prominent attorney found murdered alongside his mother may have been targeted. what we know about the high profile case. jillian: president biden preparing for his first summit with russian president vladimir putin this week on the heels of two massive russia cyber attacks on the u.s. and as diplomatic

relations stink a low point -- -sinkto a low point. todd: a pekingese named wasabi takes on the best in show title. all the highlights from this weekend's westminster dog show as "fox & friends first" continues right now. ♪ every boy and every girl. ♪ people of the world. ♪ jillian: i saw ashley dancing a little bit in the studio. todd: you legally are not allowed to not dance when the spice girls come on. jillian: i agree with you, especially this one. todd: you have the take. i'm ready for you to opine more on the spice girls. that's sporty, that's scary. baby. jillian: what else? posh. todd: no better way to celebrate flag day than by listening -- by listing the

spice girls by name. jillian: good morning. you're watching "fox & friends first" on this monday northern. i'm jillian mele. todd: i'm todd piro. let's get to it. in a few hours, president biden set to meet with nato leaders in brush he'll. jillian: the meeting with -- brussels. jillian: the meeting will focus on afghanistan and cyber security. benjamin hall joins us live with more on what to expect. benjamin, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, todd and jillian. there's no doubt that the relationship between the u.s. and nato is going to be incredibly different under president biden. president trump pushed them to reach a 2% minimum spending of gdp on their military and in doing so he got $130 billion a year from the organization. you can see the kind of relationship president biden will have with them will be less confrontational. he has declared his unwavering commitment to nato. one of the key issues on the agenda will be how to repurpose nato to counter not only russia but the growing threat from china. the other topic will be the

withdrawal of troops from afghanistan. other nato members wanted to leave a presence there. president biden is going to have reassure them they'll be able to combat any terrorist threat. they'll be discussing an increasingly aggressive russia, including the buildup of troops in eastern europe and also major cyber attacks. yesterday president biden said he was open to a deal on exchanging cyber criminals and agreed that relations with russia were at a low point. >> let me make it clear, i think he's right, it's a low point. it depends on you how he respond to acting consistent with international norms which in many cases he has not. >> reporter: and covid still very much on the agenda. both the recovery as well as its origins. the final statement from the g-7 yesterday called for china to be more transparent and the world health organization chief also admitted the lab leak theory still cannot be ruled out. so a big series of meetings today for president biden, look ahead to that one with president

erdogan, used to be an ally, he's moved increasingly towards russia. but everyone with their eyes on the putin meeting on wednesday, president biden saying he won't have a press conference side-by-side with him as president trump did, saying he didn't see the benefit. todd and jillian. todd: benjamin hall live for us in brussels. benjamin, thank you. jillian: secretary of state antony blinken is calling for more accountability in the investigation into the origins of covid-19. telling fox news the world health organization's probe was highly deficient. >> the w.h.o., you're right, the first study that they put out was highly deficient. the leaders of the g-7 had come together insisting that china cooperate with the phase 2 study to get to the bottom of what happened. that's not enough. jillian: secretary blinken ebbing koas the g-7 leaders, saying it's important for china to be transparent and work with the international community. florida governor ron de santis says it's about time the world puts pressure on china to hold

the ccp accountable for what he is calling a coronavirus coverup. >> this origins of covid, this is such an astounding coverup, one of the biggest coverups we've ever seen in terms of what they did with the gain of function research, understanding that these researchers had been infected in the fall of 2019 and then to cover it up for months, they caused immense damage throughout the world by allowing this virus to be unleashed on the rest of the world and so to be that differential to china, i don't think that's what the american public is looking for. i think they want to see a policy from the united states that's more assertive against china. they're an economic competitor but there also a threat in terms of what they're trying to achieve militarily. jillian: as you recall, president trump and former secretary of state mike pompeo urged an investigation into covid origins and initially the

mainstream media dismissed the wuhan lab leak as a conspiracy theory. todd: turning to a fox news alert, georgia police fatally shoot a gunman they say shot a cob county police officer. that officer was responding to reports of a domestic dispute yesterday afternoon. the suspect started firing and hit the officer in the chest. the officer was wearing a bulletproof vest. he was taken to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries and is expected to fully recover. police have not identified the suspect. they say no other officers were injured. jillian: an off a duty police officer was killed in seattle while helping people in a car crash. then the personal car of the five year veteran of the force was stolen from the scene. >> out of a sense of duty, the officer who had just finished their shift stopped to assist in a collision. while rendering assistance, the officer was struck by another vehicle. jillian: police say the fallen officer's car was found abandoned later in the day. they are looking for suspects in

the crime. a south carolina community in shock after the mother and son of a prominent family are shot dead. todd: police confirm the deaths are being investigated as a double homicide. ashley strohmier here with what we know. this is one of the more bizarre stories we've heard in a while. >> right now, there are no arrests in the killings of paul and mattie mordaw. according to local media, paul was shot at least twice with a shotgun while his mother mattie was also shot. investigators are reportedly considering the possibility that paul was the target of an attack and mattie was killed by happenstance. the killings came just days after paul attended a court hearing for a 2019 boating accident that left a 19-year-old girl dead. he was facing felony counts for boating under the influence. police have not said whether the killings are related. former homicide detective brian foley says police won't ignore

the revenge angle but warned evidence could be pretty hard to find. take a listen. >> usually, the killer has very little contact with the person he's seeking revenge on. there's not a lot of phone calls, social media exchange. it's usually a type of situation where they study the victim and seek their moments and they attack. >> the girl's family who is webbed in civil lawsuits with the murdaw's released a statement saying having suffered the devastating loss of their own daughter, they pray the family can find some level of peace from this tragic loss and they would like the family and community to know their thoughts and continued prayers are with the murdaws. they were laid to rest on friday. a friend of the family will be on "fox & friends" next hour so be sure to stay tuned for that. back to you guys. jillian: thank you so much. todd: now to the border, where do governors are calling for help. texas governor greg abbott and

arizona governor asking for resources to help fortify the border. they have sued the biden administration for immigration policies. they have encountered nearly 900,000 migrants at the border this fiscal year, the most since 2006. this year is expected to surpass that number. jillian: today merrick garland will meet to discuss leak investigations the doj carried on their recorders. the meeting will include cnn, the new york times and the washington post. this comes after the department vowed to stop secretly collecting reporters' communication logs. the new york times reports the doj subpoenaed don mcgahn's information. todd: let's head to the tracks, the racetrack is back where kyle larson won big bucks at the

texas motor speedway. >> larson right down on the white line, taking the short way around, leaving kozlowski no out and your all-star winner, kyle larson. todd: that's how you do it i'm told, holding up a late run from brad kozlowski, taking the million dollar prize. this is larson's second all-tar race win, the third week in a row he won a cup series event. that's good driving. jillian: novak jokavic making tennis history. watch. todd: number 19 for novak. jillian: he rallied from two sets down to win his second french open. he has won 19 grand slam tournaments and is the first player to win each tournament multiple times. after he handed his racket to a

young boy who obviously freaked out. i mean, best day ever for that kid. look at him go. i could watch that all day long. todd: you should do that what he just did right now. time now, 10 minutes after the hour. another deadly weekend in the u.s. as police departments struggle to fill their ranks. savannah's police chief joins us with his warning about a violent summer, next. jillian: plus, speaker nancy pelosi insists there isn't a divide in the democrat party as she comes to the defense of congresswoman ilhan omar. but another squad member is singing a much different tune about moderates. we'll have a live report from washington. ♪ i've got my mind set on you. ♪ i've got my mind set on you. ♪ i've got my mind set on you. ♪ o cancel. cancel. i haven't left the house in a year. nothing will stop me from vacation. no canceling.

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austin, texas, savannah, georgia, cleveland, ohio, and chicago all saw mass shootings in the span of 24 hours. todd: the shootings left five dead, more than 35 injured. savannah's police chief joins us to react to the spike in gun violence across the u.s. thanks for being here. let's take a look at these numbers, and this is just plain sad. chicago, one dead, nine injured, savannah, one dead, eight injured. dallas, five injured and austin, texas, 14 injured. the experts said it would be bad as the temperature rose. is it worse than expected even before we hit summer? >> well, good morning, todd and jillian. i can tell you, we did not expect what we experienced on friday night. this is a total surprise to us. our numbers are actually one dead and seven injured from our incident. very tragic, very disturbing, very alarming situation that we had here and we're working through this investigation right now. jillian: what do you think is

leading up to this? look, i know there's a lot surrounding the conversation around what happened after the death of george floyd with police officers being called to be defunded all across the country. we're seeing a rise in retirements. we'll get to that in a second. what do you think ultimately is the reason for this violence that we're seeing, the increase in it? >> well, i have to tell you he locally here in savannah we're looking at four things we think are contributing to gun violence, what we saw on friday night the confrontations and altercations between individuals that are ending in gun violence. drug sales and drug purchases, also gang related activity and then with the court system that was shut down for quite some time, we have people who are out and about, who were witnesses, who are being retaliated against and some of them are retaliating against others. todd: more numbers for you. this is shooting incidents, atlanta up 40%, la, 59%, new

york city, 68% and portland, that whopping 120% there. for those of us that don't live in these liberal cities, is the answer quite frankly to not go to these liberal cities, even though this is the summer travel season and a lot of those cities are places where people like to travel. >> well, i can't speak for other cities, i can tell you savannah is wide open. we're a welcoming city. we're a great tourist town. we want people to continue to come and visit us and we want to make sure we maintain a safe environment here. we still have a relatively low crime rate here in savannah. i don't want this one incident to cast the entire city in a negative light and people still continue to come and people still continue to enjoy a great time and a great city. jillian: i referenced this, the rate of retirement in the year since george floyd, it's up 45% compared to the previous year. are you seeing that in the members that work for you, the numbers of your police form that

are people are either retiring early or contemplating retiring early and what do you say to your officers to keep their morale up during a time that is so difficult to be a cop right now? >> well, it's a great question. i mean, we're not seeing a lot of separations from the department. i've got a sworn staff of about 536 officers. right now i'm down just over 40 officers. we've got two academy classes coming up. we anticipate filling all those vacancies before the end of the year. but as far as officers' morale, we just continue to encourage them to continue to go out, continue to go out on a daily basis and continue to do the great job that they continue to do every day in going out and protecting our great community. todd: chief royal minter, we appreciate your time this morning. thank you, sir. >> thank you very much. jillian: it is 18 minutes after the hour. parents are outraged after holiday names are canceled off the school calendar, calling on

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todd: they're on their game right now, four states officially ended unemployment benefits after a year of relief amid the pandemic. jillian: as businesses continue to struggle hiring employees. cheryl casone from our sister network, fox business, here with

more. cheryl, good morning. cheryl: good morning to both of you. alaska, iowa, missouri and mississippi ended the extra $300 on top of regular unemployment money, affecting 340,000 workers, the first of 25 republican-led states that announced plans to end the pandemic era assistance which had led to labor shortage in the country. senator lindsey graham telling tray gowdy this was an obvious result. >> if you pay somebody $23 an hour not to work they'll take you up on it. i don't blame the people not going back to work, i blame government for creating an incentive. you shouldn't get a pay raise in unemployment. cheryl: the next few weeks we'll see other states ending the program. american workers will want to return to work. todd: we think. meantime, a major vaccine ruling. cheryl: a texas judge tossed a lawsuit brought against texas

methodist hospital, employees suing over the mandate that workers should be vaccinated. a judge ruled that in the claim the vaccines were experimental and dangerous, that was the employees side of it, the plaintiffs. the judge said you know what, that's irrelevant in all of this. jillian: i don't know why people would want to watch us ride a roller coaster but if people want to watch us, that we go do it. cheryl: you just wait, jillian. this is the world's tallest roller coaster, it is ready to go at six flags, new jersey. the jersey devil goes up to 58 miles per hour with a 130-foot drop. it sits 13 stories high, takes you over 3,000 meters of track. it was a-- feet. excuse me. it was announced back in 2019. but the opening was delayed due to the pandemic, guys.

jillian, you mentioned that you wouldn't be interested in doing this on live television, is that correct? jillian: i would do it. i would do it. cheryl: yours truly did it at six flags new jersey in 2016. this is the joker and this was opening day. i did this on fox business with maria bartiromo. she was yelling and screaming. it was hysterical. the whole thing was hysterical. i lost my shoes. you flip over and over on the joker and i've got to tell you, doing a roller coaster ride on live tv, you might want to give it a try, jillian. jillian: i wasn't suggesting on live tv. i was suggesting we go out there and film it and then go on display for all to see. todd: i will set up the go pro and you can go ride. jillian: i'm not doing this myself. todd: in the prompter it said 3,000 miles of track. if that were the case, it would take you to california. cheryl: it was a monday. what can i say.

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jillian: good morning r. welcome back. speaker nancy pelosi is dismissing claims of a growing divide among democrats. todd: calling congresswoman ilhan omar a valued member of the congress. jillian: doug luzader joins us live from washington with the details. doug, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. a group of republican lawmakers

want ilhan omar stripped of her committee assignments. omar wrote a tweet that many saw as an effort to equate the u.s. and israel with terrorist groups like hamas and the taliban. now, several gop house members want consequences for house speaker nancy pelosi and this is what they wrote. it is the responsibility of the party's leadership in the house of representatives to hold accountable egregious words and actions made by members of the party. we wholeheartedly request that you love up to your word and swiftly remove congresswoman omar from her committee assignments. eventually she clarified her remarks. this created a riff within the party. house speaker nancy pelosi is defending omar. >> let me just say this. we did not rebuke her. we thanked -- acknowledged that she made a clarification. before we go too far down this path, congresswoman omar is a valued member of our caucus.

what i'm saying is end of subject. she clarified. we thanked her. end of subject. >> reporter: okay. but the democratic divide does not stop there. omar's fellow squad member, representative alexandria ocasio-cortez, has set her sights on fellow democrat, west virginia senator joe manchin. his push for bipartisanship on issues like voting reform and infrastructure and his defense of the filibuster do not sit well with progressives. >> the things that he cites, like this i think romanticism of bipartisanship is about an era of republicans that simply do not exist anymore and i think that that the older school way of accepting the role of lobbyists in washington absolutely has a role in joe manchin's thinking. >> reporter: okay. pelosi for her part holds out hope, she says, that manchin will eventually back down and support what many critics see as

a federal takeover of u.s. elections. todd and jillian. todd: seems like aoc just doesn't understand the pulse of the people. manchin does and manchin understands the pulse of the people in west virginia, the people that vote for him. jillian: more than 30 business owners in baltimore are fed up with crime and are threatening to not pay taxes until the city addresses the chaos there. owner of dog watch tavern joins us live, along with former congressional candidate from baltimore, kim klacik. thank you for being here. appreciate your time. >> good morning. jillian: mark, i'll start with you. i know you've been there for about 15 years and i'm curious you how the city has changed in that time. >> this has been a situation for our south point community and baltimore in general, it's been escalating increasingly over the years. i think it's been at least since 2015, 2016 and when we started to realize there is a real

problem coming and we have been begging and pleading, crying out for help ever since and no one is coming to the rescue and no one is listening. jillian: you feel like you just don't have a voice? >> yeah, it's -- we're trying to play by the rules and do everything the way that we're supposed to, relying on our city and our elected officials, the politicians to come to our aid and nothing is making a difference. it's at least now it seems we've gotten some kind of attention, of people that hopefully can make these changes for us. jillian: here's you among others, the business owners there in baltimore, he demands, picking up trash, enforcing traffic laws and empowering police. the business plan, they would withhold the funds in an escrow account until the city meets the demands. it seems like the demands responsibility asking too much. are they, kim? >> no, not at all. thank you for having me.

it's a basic necessity that you get out of paying taxes. all of those businesses, i think it's 37 total that are putting their money in an escrow account. in baltimore, we have nothing but progressives leading so many areas. we have the mayor who is a progressive and you have the state attorney who is a self proclaimed progressive and up fortunately she's decided not to prosecute crime. all the crimes listed there, it's crimes she basically said are crimes she's not going to prosecute. that's why we have the problems that we see. the important part of this is the fact that the owners are noting 2015 and 2016 when this began. that's when we had the riots in baltimore city and a consent decree took place and we startedville phiing police officers -- started vilifying police officers. they're going to re-fund the police and i hope that brings

relief to business owners. to the businesses across the country that are feeling the heat because of progressives in place, i hope they're taking note. i hope they do the same. i applaud the business owners for what they're doing. jillian: here's what the mayor's office has to say, quote, the mayor shares the frustrations over the violence across the city and ordered the baltimore police department, the department of public works and department of transportation to work collaboratively to address it. we hope that happens. kim, one more question, then i'll end with you, marka. kim, you took the nation by storm when you put out the campaign ad when you were running for office and you were talking about the plight and the struggles and what was going on in the streets of baltimore and you hear business owners like marka who is saying we're asking for help and nobody's listening to us and nobody is helping us. it must be frustrating because this is the fight you've been trying to battle, kim. >> yeah, absolutely. i do, i feel so awful for marka and all the business owners.

right now, the opponent that i had, he could tap federal resources as far as the interim ag right now or even federal resources to come up and do something about the trash pickup or having more patrols or officers patrolling the streets but they don't do that. it's unfortunate. the leaders in baltimore city don't seem to care about the actual constituents. the business owners are saying you know what, we're not going to pay our tax, we put them in the escrow account. now that gets their attention. unfortunately, politicians are all about the money. jillian: i know you say you make yourself a target by speaking out and it gets exhausting. but to that point, why did you decide to speak out now? >> enough is enough. this has gotten completely out-of-hand. we're unable to maintain staff. it's not safe for ourselves, our guests, and our community, our town. how can we expect people to want to frequent us and support us when we can barely keep ourselves safe?

this has gotten out-of-hand. our city has he created a culture of lawlessness. until people are held accountable and there are real and actual consequences that are consistent across the board, there will be no deterrent. this will continue. the city has given this situation just free rein. they have allowed it. they're borderline condoning it. until our officers have some kind of support, backing and some real help here, i don't know what it will take to change this. jillian: we certainly hope you get the change you're looking for. mrka and kim, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. todd: let's go live to ocean city, a beautiful shot as the sun comes up there with the shoreline. meteorologist janice dean here with the fox weather forecast. while it's beautiful there, we have a situation out west that needs to be monitored. >> you are correct, yes. a quiet weather pattern but we

have incredible heat building across the west. temperatures already 91 in phoenix. we have a zonal pattern which means we don't have too much in the way of big storm systems moving in. we'll have scattered showers along the gulf coast, the upper great lakes and towards the northeast we have a weak system moving into the northwest. the problem is the heat. it's building. it's going to last much of the week and it's really dry. i mean, they're into an epic drought here, extreme drought for all of these regions. when you're dealing with temperatures into the 100-degree range, that's going to be dangerous today and through the workweek. the drought monitor, we have many fires burning across the west. it will be an early fire season and it will last for a few months ahead of us. so that's the big deal across the map today. there's the forecast, 71 in new york with scattered showers across the northeast, the gulf coast as well as the northwest. otherwise, it's just hot. i mean, that's the headline.

we are watching the tropics by the way. but nothing too impressive so i'm not going to show you any of that. okay. and you know what happened this weekend. todd: something very impressive happened. are you ready. a champion was named at the westminster kennel club dog show, wasabi, a 3-year-old pekingese nabbed the top prize. jillian: wasabi will celebrate the win with some filet mignon. did you get to meet wasabi? >> i did not get to meet wasabi. i got to meet dozens of amazing dogs. to be in the actual arena here, i've never been able to do that. but with fox sports and brad there who is amazing, he said, yeah, go ahead and try out the tricks. jillian: you were best in show. >> well, in my own mind. jillian: in our show. todd: the shots were beautiful.

just stunning. you, the weather, the dogs, everything was great. >> it was a fantastic time. we're doing it again i think in january at madison square garden. jillian: love it. >> bring it on. todd: still to come, a whale of a tale. have you heard about this. jillian: experts are casting doubt on a lobster diver's claim that he was swallowed whole by a humpback whale. carley shimkus joins us live, next. ♪ (vo) i am living with cll and i am living longer. thanks to imbruvica. imbruvica is a prescription medicine for adults with cll or chronic lymphocytic leukemia. it will not work for everyone. imbruvica is the #1 prescribed oral therapy for cll, and it's proven to help people live longer. imbruvica is not chemotherapy. imbruvica can cause serious side effects, which may lead to death. bleeding problems are common and may increase with blood thinners. serious infections with symptoms like fevers, chills, weakness or confusion and severe decrease in blood counts can happen.

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jillian: an npr writer appears to be the latest media figure engaging in cancel culture as he demands tom hanks become an anti-racist. todd: carley shimkus here with the latest. carley: good morning, guys. it all started when tom hanks wrote an op-ed in the new york times calling for more teaching about the tulsa race massacre. he writes, history was mostly

written by white people about white people like me while the history of black people including the horrors of tulsa was often left out. now, an npr writer believes tom hanks didn't go far enough and wrote a piece titled tom hanks is a non-racist, time for him to be an anti-racist. that writer, eric degan, goes on to say hanks has made a career out of playing righteous white men in films that often leash out black contributions. criticism started piling up on social media for unnecessarily attacking hanks. degan posted a tweet, saying he is proud of his work but doubled down on calls for tom hanks to be anti-racist. i think the definition of non-racist and anti-racist is new to some people. anti-racist means activeism, doing something about it. jillian: did it or didn't it happen, that's the big question. carley: this story, did you hear about it, it's wild, it's

of biblical proportions, it happened in massachusetts. a lobsterman said he was swallowed whole by a humpback whale. watch. >> everything went black. i was like oh, my god, what the heck, where am i? i just got eaten by a whale. carley: michael pack card says he was in the whale's mouth for 30 seconds. he was very bruised but suffered no broken bones. one doctor is speaking out, saying there is something fishy about these claims because, yeah, he thinks he would have suffered more serious injuries if it were true. but then there is an animal specialist that says that because whales open their mouth really widely when they feed, it is possible that this guy was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. but this is definitely a jonah and the whale situation, my friends. jillian: how do we ever really know? carley: i'm taking his word for it. i think it's possible of, not

probable, but possible. todd: the sea was angry that day, my friend, like an old man trying to send soup back at a deli. i had to say that. time to check in with steve doocy to see what's coming up on "fox & friends." steve, save me. >> good morning to you. i really enjoyed that story, although it could be a whopper. when you think about it. 14 minutes before the top of the hour, when "fox & friends" kicks off, you'll meet a new jersey dad who is calling on his school board, you all need to quit after they voted to remove all holiday names from their calendar. not just christmas, thanksgiving, all of them. he's going to join us as a petition he gathered more than 2,000 signatures, is anything going to happen? we'll hear from the dad. former un ambassador nikki haley will join us from israel as she embarks on a solidarity mission. we'll hear from kat cammack on

her plans to defend free speech on college campuses. there's a new dog in town, you just that's right story a moment ago, we'll meet westminster dog show's best in show, wasabi. all right. we'll kick off in exactly 13 minutes, right here on the channel you trust for your morning news. todd and jillian back with for "fox & friends first." you're watching fox news channel. thank you and good morning, everybody. mmm, licorice records. wonka, digital workflows for it tell us this machine needs updating... kids don't really have records anymore... but it tastes better on vinyl...

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jillian: benjamin netanyahu is out as israeli prime minister after 12 years as head of the jewish state. the country's legislature narrowly voting to form a new government on sunday. the he coalition of opposition groups pledged to heal divisions

they say were caused by netanyahu. president biden congratulated israel's new prime minister. todd: congresswoman aoc says she's open to pushing supreme court justice steven briar to retirement to pave the way for a more progressive juror. >> i would probably lean towards yes, i'm inclined to say yes. todd: far left democrats want to pack the support and eliminate the filibuster. jillian: families of unidentified uss arizona crew members aren't happy with plans for their loved one's remains. a defense accounting agency is proposing digging up the crew members who are currently laid to rest at hawaii's punch bowl ceremony and reburying them on the sunken battle ship without identifying them. they say identifying the remains would a monumental undertaking that would be very difficult.

more than 900 men remain entombed on the arizona. todd: outraged parents calling for new jersey school board members to resign after they voted to cancel holiday names from the official school calendar. one father joined me earlier to describe why he's standing up. >> we're in shock. we don't understand it at all. it's a degrading insult to our american traditions, our american moral and core values as a family. you have to stand and defend your core values. it's unfurtherable to do -- uncomfortable to do that. you have to defend your family, defend what's right. todd: the randolph, new jersey school board said in a statement, quote, holidays have not been canceled or taken away. the primary purpose of the school calendar is to inform parents when schools will be open and when schools will be closed. that story is not going anywhere. you don't go anywhere. jillian: it is flag day. joey jones joins us to talk about what it means to him. we'll be right back.

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>> we struggle with human greed, racism, extreme versions of individualism and capitalism, white supremacy, growing wealth gaps, disease, climate crisis, extreme rah mid luxury and waste right next door and the list goes on. >> during a fiery high school commencement speech a fair board county school board offers a

harsh twoorng graduates also encouraging them to remember i jihad. todd: joining us with his take 'joey jones. man, what happened to the traditional grad ceremony where somebody gets up there and reads the places you will go and throw your board up in the air and that's it go over to somebody else's house and party. >> sound like a whiny ninth grader coming into class and upset about all of the things in life unfair up need of a mentor or high school teacher explain to that ninth grader why life isn't fair and how hard work is one of the things will get you through but complaining will never do anything. unfortunately that's not the world we live in anymore. she is up there acclaim, equating things like individualism and capitalism which we have celebrated and built this country and saying those are just white supremacy. what is the opposite of individualism and capitalism? it's just be a part of the collective, not having any type of big impact in the world. just surviving and socialism.

surviving off the backs of the poor and pocket of the government. i don't know where she is going with this. when you talk about remember jihad, there is often narrative multiple types of jihad in the face of. fair enough. you tell me what you are talking about. talking about inner struggle of faith and your own sin or are you talking about, i don't know, a war against the enemies of islam. because if you bring that mentality into this country, jihad, will get you a one-way ticket to either guantanamo bay or the gray. grave. what's what is waiving war in this country is. i hope she is not advising students to do that. jillian: let's talk about this. it is flag day. someone who served our country very admirablably. i can't say that word, can i? admirablely. i'm curious what this means to you. pull it up on the screen. some instances as of late where

people have disturbed boy the american flag. they attempted to clarify that the damage is done. what do you make of the rhetoric around it and what ultimately does it mean to you. >> it scares people to death that are symbol outs there that could still onphi us. making a living by dividing us. the measure flag is an opportunity to do it. believe in this symbol that say marines iwo jim that inspired them win the war. believe in a symbol been around for 100 years and flown over a country make it better. unity can happen. they don't want unity. they want uses to man so they can decide and conquer and take over a social narrative or power in general. politicians are some of the worst. people like this are probably just a little bit worse than that to think that you could

divide us and make us hate our own flag god help you because i can't. todd: i can't imagine when you see what this pushback has all come to all you gave for our great an land how frustrated and angry it makes you. you wear it well. thank you for your service. jillian: thank you for coming to our rescue. "fox & friends" starts right now. bye. >> president biden preparing for his first summit with russian president vladimir putin this week. >> president biden is just coming out of these g-7 meeting doing elbow bombs because, of course, trump is not there. guess what? the russians don't care. >> believe the son of a prominent attorney may have been a target in a shooting that killed he and his mother. >> there is a homicide investigator are not going to turn a blind eye. call a revenge theory. >> school district in new jersey won't name holidays anymore. instead the board has voted to list them all as days off. >> degrading insult to our american