breaking partial building collapse in florida. again, this is happening in the overnight hours in surf side. 88 and collins avenue where a condo building has partially collapsed in the middle of the night. crews are out there. they are performing search and rescue right now. "fox & friends" will have the very latest coming up in just minutes. have a good day. ♪ >> joe biden laid out a series of gun control measures. >> no one needs to have a weapon that can fire 30, 40, 50, even up to hundred rounds. >> whoever is advising the president on crime, his secret service name ought to be butt head. >> kamala harris is going to the border. three months after appointed border czar. >> we made an assessment within our government about when it was appropriate time for her to go to the border. >> first responders are working to save people from an collapsed apartment building near miami. >> building, huge building gone. it's gone. >> britney spears says that her

financial situation is toxic. >> she told a judge i just want my life back, it's been 13 years and it's within enough. >> anthony islanders down to tampa for game 7. steve: this is a fox news alert. take a look. a live look right now at surfside it, north miami crews are working to save freedom a condo building that partially collapsed it fell down in the middle of the night. ainsley: we are hearing reports that one person did die and that more people are trapped under the rubble. more than 80 units of firefighters there on the scene. brian: a major search and rescue is underway go. out to todd piro with the latest. todd: steve, ainsley and brian a huge emergency response erupting in surf side after part of that condo collapsed -- part of condo

complex crumbled to the ground. firefighters attempting to rescue people right now. eyewitnesses say it felt like a bomb had gone off. one witness capturing video just moments after it fell. watch. >> the building, huge building gone. it's gone. todd: a resident also recording this footage showing the building crumbling right before the collapse. unclear how many people are hurt. we do know reports of at least one person dying fear though multiple casualties have yet to be confirmed. extent of the damage can you see it on the scene a catastrophic scene this happening reportedly champagne towers south 877 collins avenue. again, 80 miami-dade fire crew once scene. can you see that massive response right there. according to thed miami herald the building is a 12 story condo tower built in 9 will 1.

this is a real concerning part, guys. more than 100 units in that condo complex. we'll continue to monitor the situation bring you details as they come in but definitely something we need to pay attention. to say. steve: just a terrible story this happened about 3 or 4 hours ago in the middle of the night. as many people, you know, there was no real prior warning, hey, get out of the building. ainsley: probably sleeping. steve: so that number could be well right now it's at one known dead so that number could go very high. brian: all right, todd, thank you. ainsley: 130 units to be exact in that building. i'm sure everyone was sleeping or majority of people were sleeping. residents were moved to the surfside community center there was guy that was stay telling hotel across the street he said this used to be a building and it is gone. they evacuated that hotel. brian: i have never heard of something just collapsing on its own that is not a relic or something being preserved for

history. what would cause that to happen and you can't say no one as of now says they heard any type of explosion, just a collapse. ainsley: investigator will find out, i'm sure. steve: terrible story in north miami right now. we will keep you posted throughout the morning. meanwhile, we told you about it yesterday morning and yesterday during the day joe biden took to the microphone and he said that there is a crime problem in america. and the crime problem is not necessarily being caused just by criminals but the number one thing is about guns. and so he is going to do something about inadequate background checks. one of the curious things he said he said he believed that some cities cut funding for police due to the coronavirus and didn't mention fellow democrats who were pushing to defund the police which many observers have said, look, that's the reason we are where we are this did he fund the police thing has got people where they are not afraid of breaking the laws. ainsley: here is joe biden. >> crime is historically rises

during the summer. and as we emerge from this pandemic, it will summer spike may be more pronounced than it usually would be. and there are things we know that work that reduce gun violence and violent crime. background checks or purchasing a firearm are important. ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines. no one needs to have a weapon that can fire over 30, 40, 50, even up to 100 rounds. unless you think deer are wearing kev dollar vests or something. the it are second amendment limited who could own a weapon and what you could. if you need a government to take on a government. f-15s and maybe nuclear weapons. the point is there has always been the ability to limit, rationally limit the type of weapon that can be owned and who can own it. ainsley: critics are saying he

is just playing politics. he says these failures are because of defunding the police and failure to prosecute career criminals. they go to the jail house and then they are out in a few hours and then back on the street. you want to decrease crime, these critics are saying, then you need to support law enforcement and you need to enforce strict laws. brian: think about this, what their internal polls must show. the last thing a democratic leader wants to talk about is crime because they want to blame the cops. police reform has to be done. it's an emergency. let them loot. let's not prosecute because it's about time we have equity in our society. but, wait a second, every major city is overrun. every major city needs more cops. every city city is seeing mass retirement every major city having trouble filling the academies and every major city crime bled into areas it's never been in before. is he focusing blaming on guns and gun sellers. he now is going to use pandemic

money for more cops. good luck do you understand you are not paying them enough and you have defamed them and demoralized them and now you want them to do double time and more of them? impossible. he talks about the power of the guns? i really don't think the aftermath and the after action reports focus on the power of the gun. it's the number of the crimes. and it's not all about shooting crimes. we're about to show you a stat in a little while show you how many other crimes are destroying american lives and those who live in the city. here is -- believe me, we could have picked 20 soundbites from a sleepy joe biden who if he had any good aides would have never put him out to discuss it when you realize your 78-year-old president is having a terrible day. don't put him in front of the national audience with a prompter he has never seen before with copy he doesn't understand. that's one thing i would keep in mind. you come out there and let somebody else make the speech. here is senator john kennedy. >> whoever is advising the

president on crime and i don't know who it is, but whoever it is, his secret service name ought to be butt head. crime is up because many, not all, but many members of the president's own party believe in defunding the police. crime is up because many members of the president's own party want to turn cops into social workers. crime is up because many members of the president's own party think all cops are racist. crime is up because many members of the president's own party think that when a cop shoots a criminal it's always the cop's fault. but when a criminal shoots a cop, it's always the gun's fault. ainsley: he also took aim at the second amendment. he said some people are advocates of the second amendment that you have the right to have fire department firearms in your house to protect yourself from the government. he says if you need to have weapons to take on the government you need f-15s and

maybe some nuclear weapons. you talk to men and women who served our country overseas they want to own certain guns because they feel comfortable with those rifles or those guns. those are the firearms they choose to have in their house. they're not walking around with their finger on the trigger. brian: at a time when the crime is running crazy you want to disarm the public. he knows better. ainsley: that's why gun sales are through the roof. brian: buying more as we speak. ainsley: right. steve: to the point of why is he singling out guns and not the criminals? take a look. these are crimes that are not necessarily involving guns. hate crimes in new york city up 116%. involving guns, do guns involve pickpocketing in austin up 117%? carjackings in oakland up 95%. rape is up 83% in atlanta. and in new orleans, auto theft up, you know, 21%.

and in los angeles county, arson, which does not involve a gun, it involves, you know, an aim a flame or lighter. that's what those are all about. one other interesting thing that the president suggested yesterday the reason people are causing so much crime is because they do not have a summer job. brian: unbelievable. steve: he encouraged local leaders to make sure those kids have summer jobs. and set up programs so that young people pick up a paycheck instead of a pistol. ainsley: a lot of people are choosing to stay at home because of his policies including these checks every week. brian: 9 million open jobs in this country. we could find a job. any fast food place is hiring this summer. any mall you might be around -- yes, and restaurant. any mall that might be in the neighborhood or if you want to hop on a bus and go to one, they are hiring, desperate for people. the summer job thing is when they should have had a laugh track on that speech that never ended. hope to never see anything like

that again. meanwhile, it's not the other major story coming out of washington either. ainsley: the president of the united states, the former president, president trump, he announces he is going to go down to texas. is he going to go with greg abbott. they are going to go down to the border. we haven't heard from kamala harris when she is going to go in more than 100 days i guess. 100 days on average. now all of the sudden it president trump is going next week. she says i'm going to go tomorrow. steve: so this news came out midday. peter doocy asked that curious question of jen psaki and here's what she had to say after he queried her. >> why is the vice president visiting the border this week when earlier this month she dismissed a trip like that? >> she would be open to going to the border if it was an appropriate time. she said that after she said that so that's important context as well. she has made a number of announcements about how to address root causes that she was going to assess with the department of homeland security and with the administration when it was the appropriate time to

go. i will note that we're at this part in point because we have made a great deal of progress. >> what's important for the white house to have her seen at the border before former president trump had a trip there next week? >> we made an assessment within our government about when it was an appropriate time for her to go to the border. steve: we made an assessment in our government. that means it's a political decision. it's like oh, man, you know, that is the one area they are super under water n the polls. is the southern border. and now with donald trump, you know, saying okay, i'm going to go down there and take a look at things with the governor of texas and republican study committee and figure it all out. suddenly out of nowhere yesterday they announced she is going to go down there. what's interesting is she is not going to the real spot where there is so much going on the rio grande valley district. instead, she is going to el paso. could it possibly have to do with the fact that the congress woman from el paso is veronica

escobar who is a strong supporter of what they are doing on the southern border whereas the rio grande valley district, that congressman is henry cuellar a democrat who has been highly critical of how the administration is handling this? ainsley: they say the rio grande valley center is the epicenter of the crisis. steve: so why go to el paso? ainsley: more than 11 hours distance if she drove where she is actually going. brian: it was crazy. and senator cruz it going to washington and they go to chicago. that's the distance between where she goes 800 miles. she is not going to see anything. she says well, if i just go down there it will just be a show stop it. will be basically a cameo. that's your choice. grand gesture. can you choose to go where the problem is and try to fix it or go some place where you know you will be welcomed with great spread and possibly cheese platter. that's great. you will not find i out any answers. that congresswoman is somebody who has a great idea. with the illegals let's vaccinate them when they come.

great enough magnet it is you come you get to stay. now we say you come you get a vaccine? are you kidding me? they will be coming from japan next. ainsley: president trump released a statement after month of ignoring the crisis at the southern border, it's great that we got kamala harris to finally go and see the tremendous destruction and death that they have created. a direct result of biden ending my very tough, but fair border policy. harris and biden were given the strongest border in american history, and now it is by farther worst in american history. if governor abbott and i weren't going there next week, she would have never gone. steve: of course, people in washington are scratching their heads why exactly are they going to el paso? they could go to mcallen. they could go to the rio grande valley area. instead, way out west in will el paso? why is that? here is. so reaction yesterday on capitol hill. >> rio grande valley sector is the epicenter of this human crisis and here she is planning a trip in a way that reflects,

again, she really doesn't really fully comprehend the magnitude of the crisis and where it really exists on steroids which is the rio grande valley. she is nearly 100 days late and 1,000 miles short. >> to give you a sense of just how far they're. chicago, illinois is closer to washington, d.c. than el paso is to mcallen. and so she is going where of the problem isn't. kamala you need to go to mcallen. kamala, you need to go to the donna tent facility. which is the tent city your administration has built that is massively overcapacity that has kids in cages. you need to look at the children in cages that you and joe biden put there in a way that endangering their safety. steve: she is not going to go there those would be bad images. that would be bad pr. brian two things we addressed first. donald trump addressed it now,

people point out well, this happened earlier. president trump never ducked it he sent his best people. he fired people that weren't producing. to everyone's consternation. when crime rose he put troops into portland oregon and into seattle. les everyone's con certain nation. he kept moving and kept moving until fixed it. unaccompanied minors going through psychological trauma instead of tent silt cities on military bases. couple weeks get rid of title 42. it will it allowed us to kick out 650,000 illegal. inviting people back remain in mexico program 70,000. now few believe the pandemic is over in america. you get to stay. i can't express to you enough how bad things will get and how important it is for people to put away politics and understand it's not in america's interest. it puts our security in jeopardy to allow our southern border to

just let people flow in. technically, the border is shut down between mexico and it's shut down with canada. it's the people who sneak in that have getting the great treatment. steve: i think we know the reason they are going to go to el paso and not donna, texas, because the imagery in el paso is better for the administration. ainsley: absolutely. steve: congressman henry cuellar there saying hey, where have you been the last 100 days. ainsley: americans when you talk about we are going to take away your gun. you can't decide what gun you are going to buy even if you are a law-abiding citizen protect your family. yet let criminals come across the border. let fentanyl come across the border. let your guns come across the border and won't stop you. brian: vaccinate you when you come. give them a good gift bag like the academy awards. steve: on the same day announce she is going to the southern border is the same day that the border patrol chief rodney scott sent out word on his social media that he had essentially been fired. they don't want him at the

southern border either. he was told he has three options. relocate, resign or retire. he is going to stay on the job 60 more days to ensure a smooth transition. brian: none of those options were given to jillian mele. she just had one option just come down. jillian: come here and deliver the news which there is a lot of breaking news especially out of florida. talk about that partial building collapse in miami. let's talk about this situation. a massive manhunt underway in daytona beach florida after an officer is shot in the head. body camera shows the officer trying to get the suspect out of car. he had surgery but is he still fighting for his life. volusia county is under lockdown as 500 officers search for the suspect identified as wallace. we will keep you updated on all of the breaking news out of florida as we get it meantime, it is official. a special election will take place in california after efforts to recall gavin newsom garnered nearly 2 million

signatures. state officials confirms the move after validating most of the signatures. the recall petition over the democrats' handling of the pandemic received well above the 1.5 million threshold. the vote must be held within 90 days. britney spears breaks her silence about the conservatorship controlling her life. the pop icon making the plea saying, quote: i want this conservatorship to end. i truly believe that this conservatorship is abusive. the 39-year-old wants to marry her boyfriend and have a child. but she is forbidden according to the conservatorship which is controlled by her father. fans have rallied outside the los angeles courthouse to support spears as part of the free britney movement. i think one of the saddest things that came out of what she said yesterday is the fact that she isn't able to make her own medical decisions when it comes to her body. ainsley: she wants to have a baby and get off of the birth control her family won't allow her to go to the doctor. steve: she want her boyfriend to be able to drive her around in a

car. she is the cover of "the new york post." i'm not a slave for you. that's the message from britney to her father. ainsley: don't forget mom or dad or family that you are working for me. you are making a paycheck because of my talent. steve: now the judge decides. brian: if it wasn't for the documentary i don't think all this stuff happens. of the doctor who created the technology behind the covid-19 vaccine is warning about the risk as the cdc reveals a likely link to heart up flammation to teens and younger who got the shot. ♪ we're an american band ♪ we're coming to your town ♪ it we'll help you party down ♪ we're an american band ♪ you hope the more you give the less they'll miss. but even if your teen was vaccinated against meningitis in the past they may be missing vaccination for meningitis b. although uncommon, up to 1 in 5 survivors of meningitis will have

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buy you make ahead of time so don't worry about money. all those other things. here's a guy that comes up with the mrna technology is concerned about some its effects and the video is taken down off youtube. this is the other story that percolates throughout every pandemic news worthy story in this pandemic. is what is social media doing? who are they taking orders from? who -- what green haired guy with a nose ring decided in silicon valley to creator of the mrna vaccine has too dangerous of a video to leave on youtube? steve: in that video you are talking about it was a podcast dr. malone was in where he addressed his concerns as he pointed out right there, the moderna and pfizer shot which most of us have gotten, those are the two big ones that is still experimental technology. it has not been formally been approved by the federal government. that's why when he says when he

looks at the number of these young adults, who are getting heart inflammation. brian: teens, right? steve: i don't know the risk benefit racialio. is it worth kids risking dying to get the shot? and he doesn't really think that it's worth the risk. ainsley: he says every american gets to make their own decisions. we all decided for various reasons. i wanted to get back to work. i wanted to get back to life. work out without a mask. you had to show your vaccine card in order to do that. that was my choice. every parent has the choice, too, whether or not they want to vaccinate their child. they are telling everyone you have to be vaccinated many of these folks. but listen to this, what if you already had covid? you are not going to get covid again most likely. you are probably immune to it. that's what rand paul said. it was the best soundbite i saw when it comes to the vaccine. do we have time to play that? we have rand paul talking about if you have a 5-year-old who has already had covid. why would you put them at risk to get the vaccine?

>> this is a direct result of dr. fauci's big lie. the big lie is that we have no natural immunity. so 100 million people in america got covid, unfortunately but they survived. 100 million people survived. they have immunity. and if you count natural immunity, really you are well up to 80, 85% of the public probably now has immunity. but you have to count natural immunity. if you discount that then there is this pressure to inoculate children. i asked the head of the ama in a hearing just two days ago i asked her, you know, would it not be appropriate to find out whether the child has already had covid? for goodness sakes you are going to force a 0-year-old that has already got continue to be vaccinated or 5-year-old. why wouldn't we at least test to see who already had the disease versus who hadn't had the disease. brian: small percentage of kids getting inflammation of the heart and they don't have the answer to it yet. if you are 17 and going to college and that college says you can't go or you can't play

sports unless you are inoculated you have no choice. the creator of this technology says i'm a little weary about this. i don't have the answer to this. the and the answer is pull down what he is saying because we have to be pro-vaccine on social media? who is making these decisions? ainsley: i agree with you. if you have already had covid and going to college, then show proof of that that that's the demand of the college. you don't have to have the vaccine necessarily. you know what in listen, i have already had my children or my child. and i'm in a good place in my life. i felt like it was in my best interest to get the vaccine. if we don't know enough about what is happening with children and we haven't had enough time and even our expert are saying that, some are saying get it some are saying don't. this is my choice as a parent. steve: sure, that's his point. the government in their haste america to herd immunity which rand paul said we are at you know what? get the shot. ainsley: you heard fauci.

steve: even the guy who invented technology brought us what could be miracle technology says i don't know if it's safe. ainsley: fauci keeps flip-flopping. he is the guy we are supposed to trust. he says the science keeps changing. what if it changes later on and says a 5-year-old shouldn't get it. brian: make that change and not acknowledge. i don't know who listens to anthony fauci anymore. meanwhile, 30 minutes after the hour. steve: coming up, after almost three months as border czar in charge of root causes, vice president harris will finally see the crisis firsthand tomorrow. but is this more about playing politics than solving problems? we're going to talk to texas congressman tony gonzales who has been waiting for theory show up. tomorrow is his lucky day. ♪ ♪

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rescuers are digging through the rubble to try to save people. happened after 2:00 this morning. investigator have not said what they think happened. this is 88th and collins avenue. we will keep you updated as we get new developments. take you to a live look at the white house where top democrat are set to meet with president biden today to discuss infrastructure. a bipartisan group of negotiators met yesterday and say the framework for a spending plan is set. republicans want to keep the scope of the package on traditional infrastructure with no new taxes. the plan includes $973 billion in spending over five years and 1.2 trillion if continued over 8 years. totally pardon surprises carley pearce were an invitation to join the grand ole opry, watch. >> what are you doing? get in here. [laughter] jillian: country singer kicked off her career as at dolly wood as a teen. she showed up to give pearce her

personal invite. pearce calling the moment a dream come true. that is incredible. steve? steve: that's great, thanks, jillian. the vice president kamala harris is going to finally see the border crisis firsthand tomorrow three months after being tapped to lead the administration's response. harris will head to el paso, texas along with homeland security chief he will alejandro mayorkas. critics are questioning the timing with former president trump already announced is he going to visit the border next week. texas congressman tony gonzales from the el paso area joins us live. good morning to you, sir. >> good morning, steve. steve: good to have you. you are the congressman for that region. also, but you are not going to be there you are not going to be there to show her what she is missing. but, instead, she is probably going to be welcomed by veronica escobar, a democrat unlike henry cuellar who has been very critical of the administration, she has been very supportive. >> yeah, you know, i'm hearing the vice president isn't going to be on the ground very long. only a few hours.

as a matter of fact, the flight to el paso is going to be longer than the time that she is going to be on the ground. and that's really you have the. but, you know, i am excited that she is at least showing up. kevin mccarthy and a bunch of us visited back in march. steve scalise has done the same. you know, leadership is about showing up. but really it's now, what, you know, what they are going to see hopefully is not just a photo op., they are going to hear that fentanyl is coming over at record numbers. you know, unaccompanied children over 80,000 unaccompanied children, over 800,000 migrants. so, and now it's the now what factor. steve: sure. for enough to for the administration to admit okay she is going to go down and see the crisis with her own two eyes. wait a minute there is a crisis? they have tried to pretend this is not a big problem. mayorkas has said the strategy is, woulding that puzzles everybody. why el paso? we heard in a couple of soundbites a little while ago,

if she really wanted to see it go to donna, texas, refer kids in cages instead she is going to el paso. what is she going to see there. >> you really can't be a border security expert if you are on the ground for two hours. you know, have you got to put some effort into this. and the reality is el paso, the el paso sector is very different than rio grand valley or del rio or the big bend sector or the laredo sector, they all are different. in order to understand this crisis, you have to understand that all parts of the border are different. you know, her showing up and taking a photo op., getting back on a plane as fast as she can it's disrespectful as well. but, what i'm really would like to see is this administration has to be held accountable for title 42 if they do away with title 42, as bad as things are now, you are going to see them get worse. steve: sounds like they are going to. title 42 allowed border patrol people at the border stop there is a pandemic, you have got to

go back to mexico. sounds like because the aclu is challenging them in court they are going to go ahead and quietly get rid of it so they do not have to defend the donald trump policies which they did not want to do. speaking of donald trump, congressman, you know, 100 percent is true. the reason she is going tomorrow, is because donald trump announced he was going to go down to the southern border with greg abbott next week. >> that's right. i mean, we have put will political pressure on her for months and months and months to show up. you know, thankfully, former president donald trump is coming down and all of a sudden, you know, you put their head in a political vice and then they start moving. but, you know, like i said, i'm glad she is at least showing up. now what? we need actions. steve: all right. tony gonzales, joining us today from the d.c. area. he has got some votes. that's why he is not going to be down in texas tomorrow. sir, thank you very much. >> thanks, steve. steve: you bet.

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retirement numbers and staffing shortages, does this plan meet the moment? joining us now to discuss this is spokeswoman for the national police association sergeant betsy brantner smith. and ashville police department chief david zac and former detroit police chief james craig. good morning to everyone. >> good morning, ainsley. >> good morning. ainsley: sergeant smith, i will start with you. why do you say he misses the point? >> well, he is talking about gun violence and stopping that by going after gun dealers. that's not the problem that we have. and it's great that he is going to provide more money, covid money to get more community policing programs out there. we have got to hire police to fight crime not to do more community policing. we have been doing community policing since i was in high school since the 1970s. we need officers to be not vilified. we need police officers to be assisted in this fight against

the incredible violence that we see in this country. it's not just gun violence, ainsley. ainsley: what else is it? what are you seeing? >> we have everything from petty crime to rape to carjackings. a lot of gun crime but also a lot of other kinds of crime. and law enforcement support. we don't need to go after gun dealers. we need to go after gun criminals. ainsley: yeah, look at this police staffing shortages in new york city 5300 retired or announced retirement last year. in los angeles 148 resigned last year. chicago 560 lee tired. portland 115 left from july to december of 2020. minneapolis 105 left in 2020. police, when i talk to them they say they don't feel supported. chief zachs is the president realizing the defunding police message dangerous? >> yeah, that was my biggest take away from his statement

yesterday is that defund is not the answer that we do need police in our communities in-to-keep them safe. and i appreciate him acknowledging that. and i think that will help us moving forward. ainsley: chief craig, he's saying he is going to give 350 billion from the covid relief package to all of those different cities and communities. how do we fix the problem? >> you know, i have got to tell you and i continue to say it, his program falls short on a couple fronts. first of all, he did talk very briefly, maybe 10 seconds about having a properly functioning criminal justice system. we know that bail reform is a failure. we have criminals in the streets. that wasn't properly addressed. and then we talk about hiring police. pay overtime. look, i'm advocate of community policing. look at the city of new york they ended proactive programs. crime fighting as the sergeant

indicated? where is that? it falls short. we put a lot of focus on gun dealers. there is laws in place to address those transfers of guns to prohibitive person. so, it really just falls short. and really is a pandering to the progressive side of the party that really wants to defund and dismantle police as we know it there was no discussion about getting off of this whole ending qualified immunity. we know ending qualified immunity is a way to dismantle, disrupt policing. as we know it look at what happened in new york. look at the number of retirements and resignations when their city council voted to end qualified immunity. that if a that plays into will hand. ainsley: police officers don't feel supported as i said before. we saw all these riot, looting. we heard that the community or the city council, bill de blasio

redirecting funds that scared all of us who have little children who were walking our kids to school. what are you seeing in your community? >> well, what we're seeing around the nation is what's happening is depolicing. and the chief is absolutely correct. is our criminal justice system right now is very broken. it's not because it's biased but because people are being let out on bond or bail with no consequences if they don't show up to court. ainsley: why is that? where is the logic in that? >> there is no logic in it, ainsley. what it is like the chief said, it's a pandering to the progressive side of president biden's party. this isn't happening in new york, chicago, l.a., portland, seattle, austin, i can go on and on and on where what they are trying to say is -- poor people can't post cash bond to get out of jail. when people commit these crimes, they need to be in jail.

they need to stay in jail and await crime. look at my native chicago. we have 40, 50, 60 shootings a weekend even when someone is arrested. they are often let out on no cash bond. they don't show up for court. and they reoffend, reoffend, reoffend. ainsley: that's right. >> so we have got it's called -- it's basically deprosecution combined with depolicing and that's why we have these skyrocketing murder rates as well as violent and petty crime rates are on the rise. it's going to be a scary summer in america. ainsley: there has to be a consequence if you commit a crime you belong behind bars. the consequences of defunding and progressive policies now crime is going up. sergeant brantner smith, chief zack and it craig we thank you for patrolling your cities and keeping us all safe. god bless you all. >> thank you. ainsley: you are welcome. still to come with the fight

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brian: welcome back with the power vested in me i would like to check in with senior meteorologist janice dean for the forecast is that possible? janice: you have a lot of power. it is a beautiful day in the northeast not so much though across the midwest. the temperatures here in the northeast are into the 60 and the 70s. and then we are going to look for the potential of showers and thunderstorms for the central u.s. that's where we have kind of a bulls high for large hail damaging winds and isolated tornadoes and heavy rainfall what will coo produce flash flooding. there is the severe threat through this evening. once again the heavy rainfall is going to persist not only today but through friday and into the weekend. just keep that in mind. the other big story it continues to be the big story across the west where heat will build for the next 12 to 24 hours into the weekend. so much of the west under heat advisories for the next couple of days and the drought denies are incredible. that will be a let line as we get into the weekend. all right, brian, my friend. brian: thanks, janice, appreciate it we told you about the heated loudoun county school board meetings.

parents pushing back against the district's woke curriculum. one dad that was arrested is speaking out. >> if you want to redress your grievances about a school board there is no other place can you do it than in a school board meeting. we there were for a public forum that we were invited to and i was signed up to give public comment every did single person there. all 500 parents had their first amendment rights trampled on by the school board and superintendent. brian: you saw the state trooper grab him and arrest him. one state parents who can now monitor their kids they are learning that todd rokita is creating a bill of rights for parents to counter critical race theory and things that surround it attorney general rokita joins you now. thanks for being here. is what happened to loudoun county prompting you to act? >> yeah, that's right, brian. for the first time in a long time we have parents engaged.

that's a good thing. they are solely responsible for raising their children, including education. so, what we wanted to do was make sure that they knew what their rights were, what their responsibilities were, how they could access their school board or their child's curriculum and all of the things whether it's critical race theory or not. and given the confidence to go into school board meetings. you and i might feel okay and how the process works. many parents for the first time this might be the first time they are going. that's what the goal of the bill of rights is even though it's focused on indiana. it's adaptable to just about every state. brian: right. so what happens is. what you want to see is they are setting up the curriculum for next year. doesn't dramatically. you see things like math is racist and other things that are going on where kids have to apologize for being the color that they are. we see some of that. will we see critical race theory in the curriculum headline or do we have to look at the subtext? >> no.

you have got to look at the subtext, brian. the bill of rights talks about that. give a list of names for crt or any kind of marxist ideology and takes kids and divides them into two groups oppressed and oppressor and one group is bad. one group is good. and there is nothing you can do to change that nothing more hateful or bigoted that than indoctrinating kids that wait a minute even though soup dejuror smorgs bored that goes on tactics. now we have parents really awakened and engaged in this issue and we want to keep them there. brian: right. i wanted to show a bill of rights on the parent's bill of rights in indiana thanks to you, the attorney general. the approval of academic standards and the right to review curriculum. and then if you disapprove of that will there be meetings on average, let's say, for example, in indiana in august because it will be too late in september. obviously we're here in june. >> so this is the first installment we will talk about

religious liberties in a later installment and medical rights in school. right now indiana curriculum adopt school board meetings. in the bill of rights show parents how they need to watch out and interact with things off curriculum. a lot of these indoctrination plans are done in activities or things that aren't necessarily adopted at the school board meeting as curriculum. we have to watch out for that show how you can access your child's lesson plans. steve: are you convinced this is happening in indiana or is this a preventative measure? >> well, we certainly know stories and we hear from parents and legislators and they don't make this stuff up. and we see on your own tvs, local school board interactions. >> i don't want us to become loudoun county, virginia. so, that's what we're up to and please take a look at it i think you will find it informative. brian: absolutely. hopefully other attorney attorney general will do the same. attorney general todd rokita thanks for joining us.

i missed checking my watch. the second hour of "fox & friends" starts now. >> the great american crime wave. >> police officers are retiring in record numbers. >> cities are experiencing increase in gun violence use rescue plan dollars to hire officers. >> kamala harris is going to the border. >> three months after being appointed the so-called border czar. >> we made an assessment in our government about when it was appropriate time for her to go to the border. >> britney spears demands an end to her conservatorship. >> she told a judge i just want my life back. it's been 13 years. >> i'm not a slave for you. >> first responders working to save people from a collapsed apartment building near miami. >> the building is a 12-story condo. >> huge building gone. it's gone. ♪ miami news outlets are

reporting that at least one person confirmed dead. brian brian the place is a wreck. look at that earlier firefighters were seen pulling a boy from the rubble. still combing through the scene to save others who are still strapped. sur side in martha maccallum collapsed about 2 clock this morning. here is a side image to show you the bef after. investigators have not said what they think happened. we will bring you new developments as they come in. steve: look at that. ainsley: that whole side of the building collapsed will. steve: just slid right down. according to twitter rescue workers were still hearing scream from the billing. i looked it up. that particular building was built in 1981. 12 stories tall. all 12 stories came down on that one side. what's hard to know right now at

this point is how many people might have been in their bedrooms when it collapsed about four hours ago because we don't know the number of residents who in the summer head knot and we don't know, you know, if people were actually in the units but did i look at the schematics on one of the real estate sites and bedrooms are in the area that pancaked down. ainsley: champlain towers. 130 gliewbs there imagine going to bed you feel safe and everything is fine. all of a sudden your building collapses at 2 o'clock in the morning. steve: how many people are watching our show right now who live in buildings that look a lot like that. ainsley: most new yorkers. brian: when we get more information, we will segue to it two minutes now after the top of the hour. steve: all right. let's go washington where the news yesterday was that vice president kamala harris is going to finally go to texas -- el

paso to see the crisis at our southern border tomorrow. ainsley: the trip comes three months after being tapped after the border czar. why now why that city? david spunt joins us from the white house ahead of her visit which i imagine she is packing now, david. >> good morning. that is tomorrow. a big visit. a lot of anticipation as ainsley mentioned. it's been more than 90 days since president biden tapped his vice president to look at this immigration crisis. she will be heading down with homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas tomorrow. as steve said, el paso, that has some republicans concerned because they believe that is the wrong area. that's the el paso sector in the southwest part of the state whereas many believe she should be going to the southern part of the state near mcallen to see the problem. 21 republicans for president biden over what they are calling failure to enforce border laws. i want to read it right here, expressing disapproval of the failure to uphold the

congressional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed and sue usurpation. the comes just days before governor abbott joins former president trump at the border. he said in a statement he believes vice president harris is going now to maybe one up his visit. white house press secretary jen psaki asked about this yesterday. listen. >> was it important for the white house to have her scene at the border before former president trump had the trip there next week? >> we made an assessment within our government about when it was an appropriate time for her to go to the border. >> the white house obviously believes this is the appropriate timing while this comes as the customs and border patrol chief rodney scott was told to possibly be leaving his job. he hasn't made up a decision yet. but he put in a social media post he was told to resign, retire or relocate. back to you.

steve: all right. david, thank you very much. that's what he said in his social media. he was fired essentially he was told by this administration you're not the guy. we want on the southern border as the border patrol chief. we need somebody who thinks what we're doing is genius and you're not it because you would like to stop people from coming into the country illegally. ainsley: jen psaki said we assess the appropriate time for her to go. for is hundred days she hasn't said when she is going to go. first she didn't say she was going to go. steve: didn't need to. ainsley: now president trump has said is he going to go to the border next week with governor abbott and then all of the sudden kamala harris says i'm going to go this week and she is going tomorrow. huge problem in arizona. she is going to an area not that problematic in texas. congressman tony gonzales is happy to see her go but so disappointed in what she is doing how short her stay is and where she is not going.

>> the flight el paso is going to be longer than the time than she going to be on the ground. the el paso sector is very different than rio grande valley or del rio or big bend sector or lore raid toe sector. in order to understand this crisis you have to understand that all parts of the border are different. you know, her showing up and taking a photo op. pandemic shut it down, you can't come. and basically we have turned around according to the reports, 650,000 people looking for asylum into our country because mexico is overridden with this pandemic as is central and south america. as is most of the rest of the world. but the people that are coming

in as unaccompanied minors get to stay. now you title 42 is done. 10s of thousands are -- hundred threats of thousands will come. already overwhelmed and then add this. you have a group of democratic lawmakers who want to give people free vaccines when they come. who wouldn't come? we will have people from vietnam coming through the southern border. we already got haitians and romanians coming through. can you imagine the chaos at the border which is going to be heading our way as kamala harris pretends to care. as marco rubio pointed out, he said she ran for president. anyone who comes to the border should be able to say when she told the guatemalans don't come, her left in the party was outraged in his words went bonkers. so that's what we're dealing with we are dealing with a portion of the country who does not believe, not rhetoric, who does not believe we should turn anyone away at the southern border. how can you sustain a country that way? steve: the fellow we just heard from congressman gonzalez, he actually represents the district

in the el paso area where kamala harris is going to go. he is not going to be in attendance tomorrow because he has got some votes whereas, you know, we have heard a lot from one democrat congressman down there, and that's henry cuellar, they are not going to his district either. instead, veronica escobar is a congresswoman in that area. she has been very supportive of what the biden administration is doing. i don't know, with key possibly put up that map of texas again because it just shows you why all these republicans who have been talking about, you know, why are they going to el paso? take a look right there. she is going to as far as west in texas you possibly can. not only -- if you are traveling up from mexico or from one of the northern triangle countries. mcallen, that's where the action is. or can you see the rio grande valley up there the arching part, why not go right there. that's the area where we see all

those people wading across the water. ainsley: look at this map 11 hours and 19 minutes to drive from el paso to mcallen, 790 miles. one person that said it is closer for his or her to go to d.c. to chicago than it is to mcallen. brian: people at the border patrol don't care about politics. every single day life is affected. wogging overfull-time and working two or three jobs. ones sitting there organizing doing paperwork are out in pickup trucks picking up illegals and nowhere to put them. reports about these kids, wow, cooking such a great job moving kids out of tent cities. do you know where we're putting especially the teenagers going to have a mental breakdown because we have nowhere to put them and they have nowhere to go. what solves this problem? not looking at it they think not paying attention to it solves the problem. if you drive that white blazer, you can't duck out of that because you live in the

community. your kids see it and are asked to work overtime every single day. ainsley: does america see? they a all allowed to come in. if you talk to statistics, they are bringing in fentanyl and weapons, and trafficking these children. there is sexual assault happening down there on the border in some of these facilities. we have heard those statistics as well. so that's what you are hearing as an american. and now you are hearing the president at the podium yesterday talking about taking away your guns. he wants to control what type of gun you're buying to protect your house. he says we have crime because of guns, listen. >> my administration is providing much needed and historic relief to bring back those law enforcement jobs and social service jobs. much are of this we relief has arrived and more is on the way. they can use the $350 million marshall nationally the american

rescue plan has available to help address crime and the root causes. for example, cities experiencing increase in gun violence are able to use the american rescue plan dollars to hire police officers needed for community policing and pay overtime. steve: isn't that curious? there is he talking about okay, a lot of my democratic friends have been talking about defunding the police. that has nothing to do with the surge in crime. but, we're going to take advantage of what is going on with the spike in crime and we are going to start sucking money out of the code fund to the tune of, as he just said right there. $3,450,000,000,000 to hire more cops. when you look at the number of cop shortages across the board. take a look new york cityve anns or reass that. in chicago, 560 retired in 2020. l.a., 140 resigned in 2020. portland, the number through the roof. same thing with minneapolis

proportional to how big their forces are. clearly a lot of the police officers watching the defund the police thing. they feel the administration in their town doesn't have their back. why would they essentially put a target on their back by going to work every day. doing the job, keeping us safe when if they did one little thing wrong they are worried that somebody with a smart phone is going to take a picture of them -- ainsley: we had a panel on earlier they said a day late and a dollar short. the money is great. no one's to be a cop anymore they are scared and not supported. we had a police officer on on tuesday. we're going to interview her coming up. she got fired from being a school resource officer because she was on our show on tuesday because she was defending the thin blue line on the badge. the badge that she wears. she says she is proud though wear that and feels supported by the community. enough to she is being fired as a school resource officer coming on our show and defending it. brian: here is a look what they

were saying on the panel. >> it's not the answer. we do need police in our communities to keep them safe. and i appreciate him acknowledging that. i think that will help us moving forward. >> our criminal justice system right now is very broken. it's not because it's biased but because people are being let out on bond or bail with no consequences if they don't show up to court. >> we know that bail reform is a failure. we have criminals in the streets. that wasn't properly addressed. so, it really just falls short really have a pandering to the progressive side of the party that really wants to defund and dismantle police as we know it. brian: how rich is it that you spent the last year president biden and almost every democrat defaming and defunding police? yeah, defund. also, reimagining. remember that word? reimagining law enforcement. remember this word? he also used this yesterday we need community violence

interrupter was to show them there is another way. that will be great. jump in between the crypts and bloods you don't have to join a gang learn how it thumb wrestle that will be advantageous. he never brought up gangs yesterday and resignations, lack of law enforcement. he says he is going to provide more money for law enforcement. who wants the job after you've destroyed the prestige it once held in the community? the reason why people are running from the cops are attacking the cops, are twerking on top of cop cars are trying to harass ambulance workers and first responders is because of the rhetoric that has come out of people around his administration and his party. and now he wants them to help him out while blaming guns as the problem? he did not want to give that speech yesterday. there is nothing more foreign for joe biden than that prompter especially yesterday. it is his kryptonite. he not only didn't have his heart in that copy. he knew the text of it made absolutely no sense. you can't vilify gun sellers and

gun owners and say illegal guns are the problem when it's the crime and gangs that are destroying the cities and so many of these things -- some of these crimes don't involve guns. it's aberrant behavior, and the people that usually rein it in, you pushed away. don't even -- don't be surprised if they don't answer the call, even if you want to re-purpose the pandemic money for them. steve: well, it is interesting because is he cracking down on the gun dealers because they are not doing adequate background checks is what he said. the zero tolerance for gun dealers will be enforced by the atf. and what's interesting about that is atf may soon be led by a fellow by the name of david shipman who is an anti gun activist. so the president wants him in charge, gun rights groups are seeking to block his nomination during the senate confirmation but nonetheless the atm alcoholic tobacco and firearms

may be led by anti-gun activists at crime scenes tracked back to 5% of the gun sellers. don't take away a gun or don't tell a dad who is trying to protect his family what type of gun he is can have his in house. >> brian: nothing that president biden proposed yesterday that will help anything. it's the appearance of helping because their internals said defund the police is about to take down the democratic party. and so is crime. it's the number one concern as people come back to work. so he has to quickly scramble and do something he has been running against. and this is ask police to bail him out. forget it while trying to get rid of their immunity so mr. and mrs. johnson can sue him for doing or her for doing his job. steve: well, brian, your point about crime skyrocketing, we have been highlighting it on

this program for over a month. it's through the roof. and that's why liberal pundits are telling the white house unless they get a handle on crime, donald trump could actually win the presidency in 2024. and that's why they -- ainsley: looting and we know who you are, if you looted the store and you looted my store around we know who did it and they get away scot-free, you know, it's just insanity that these criminals are getting away with all of this. you see the girls twerking on the cop cars. is anything happening to them? there is no -- there aren't enough officers, and then et officers that are there are too scared to arrest no one no qualified immunity you are going to take everything i make and rob my family if i make a mistake? there's no support for the law enforcement that's how they all feel. we talk to all the cops on the streets here. they want to retire early. brain brian yeah. you are on your own, mr. president, you have dug this hole, you put us in the middle of the line of fire and picked

out the wrong thing to focus on. by the way, did you even understand half of what he said yesterday? if you are his aide and let him go out knowing how tired he was, you should be fired. >> because that was an embarrassment. ainsley: well, we are going to keep jillian on the job. jillian: it is so busy this morning. let's go ahead and get you caught up on this developing story. new details are emerging in the murder of a south carolina mother and son. paul and maggie murdaugh were found shot to death on their family estate earlier this month. new report reveals cell phone found on nearby road the following day. officials are reopening the 2015 death investigation of teenager stephen smith which could be related. no suspects have been named in the double murder. at least 50 wildfires are raging across 11 states. half a million acres are burning. the blaze come amid a record heat wave which has already strained resources. temperatures in many states remaining over 110 degrees.

it could become the worst drought in 1200 years. buff the dangerous conditions threatening water shortages and blackouts. now to this: sparks flies between democrat senator mazie hirono and republican colleague ted cruz. watch this. >> i would request that my colleague senator cruz not misstate what i'm saying. and, you know what? all this man splaining please stop, thank you. jillian: man splaining. the exchange happening during disagreement on the originalist con the constitution. cruz asked hirono to explain what he mischaracterized and she refused to answer. sports are a passionate. i think i can explain that from filly. this latest stunt lean as bit on the dangerous side. take a listen to this. beers throw beer cans, water bottles and towels onto the ice this after the tina pietrondi team won in overtime game seven against tampa bay will be in

orlando tomorrow night. probably not a good idea to throw the beer cans and water bottles. ainsley: they were elated. jillian: that's dangerous. ainsley: dangerous? jillian, no one cared. everyone was so excited jill i hear you. brian: if they do not win game seven it's the last game. so no one has to clean it up. maybe if billy joel goes he will pick up. ainsley: if they win game seven down in tampa then they come back to new york. we all need to go to that and show up the next morning. steve: i want to meet the person throw a $10 perfectly good beer. ainsley: they do the national anthem and the whole crowd sings here in new york. they didn't do that at tampa last game i hope they do. it's not about they do it in new york we are not going to do it here. please, tampa, y'all do the same thing with the national anthem. it's awesome. steve: we will see. jillian, thank you. coming up, did china know about covid months before they announced their first case? probably. congressman mike gallagher says

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brian: listen to this. you have not heard it before. an american scientist claiming to have recovered early covid positive samples from the wuhan lab dr. jesse bloom insisting the data proves the pandemic did not come from wuhan's wet market so follow this because it would have happened before the wet market was a target. this as g.o.p. lawmakers including our next guest urged

the biden administration to investigate a potential super spreader event in wuhan that took place month before china reported their first case of covid-19 that happened. these military games happened in october. mike gallagher joins us now. congressman, what could you tell us about the wuhan games? were there americans participating in it? >> 284 northwestern athletes and staff total 9,000 athletes from 100 countries that came to wuhan in october so this would have been two month before the chinese government they had outbreak two critical months that could have helped us understand the disease and shut down travel earlier now what we know certain athletes are from countries like germany, italy and france have reported getting sick after the games, have reported flu like or code like symptoms after the games and so

what i'm asking the pentagon to do is talk to our athletes. talk to the americans that were there in wuhan, did they get sick? did they experience symptoms? did we test them? do we know anything about their medical history so we can establish a timeline here? establishing a timeline is critical to understanding where this came from and critical to getting past what i believe to be a systematic cover-up by the chinese communist party aggressive propaganda campaign designed in part to blame our military, the u.s. army for spreading this disease. we can't accept that the communists are lying to us. they are gas lighting us and they are doing it in many cases with the complicity of the mainstream media and some in our own public health community. brian: congressman, one of the quotes from the athletes not an american was when we got to wuhan, it was like a ghost town no one was there. reported 72,000 positive cases what does that tell if you it

was like a ghost town in october. where are the american military men and women that competed there that might be able to tell you exactly what they saw and who might have had some symptoms? >> well, that's the information we need. we need secretary austin and general mele to get to the bottom of it. but i think it's further evidence that indeed we are seeing a chernobyl like cover-up of this pandemic remember we have the "wall street journal" report lab workers at the wuhan institute of virology got sick in november. some that it actually happened more than that we actually have the medical record of the wuhan lab workers that got sick prior to the outbreak. we didn't know until december this was happening. even then we didn't know things about this virus that would have helped us like the fact we had asymptomatic transmission. is there any more important scientific question than getting to the boat of this pandemic so as to prevent another one? brian: no. and did you ask that of

secretary of defense austin about the military games, about what he knows? >> in the hearing we had yesterday. i didn't have time. so i'm submitting as it a question for the record and my hope is the pentagon will get back to us as quickly as possible. brian: my hope is that, too. i don't think there is anything more important. congressman, thanks so much. all right. so, congressman gallagher with an intelligence background in his background. meanwhile, coming up straight ahead. an illinois police officer says she was let go from her job as a school resource officer after coming on "fox & friends" to defend the thin blue line. >> to me, it's about honor. it's about pride. it's about kinship, it's really important to us. brian: that officer joins us with her police chief next. ♪

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surfside in miami there are more than 100 units in the building. earlier a boy was pulled from the rubble by firefighters. look at this incredible video. my goodness. doesn't that give you the chills? look at him. search and rescue efforts are still underway. at least one person was killed in the collapse. this is an ongoing story. we will keep you updated as soon as we get new developments. rochester new york mayor warren losing a primary election amid several scandals. of the democrat is facing felony campaign finance charges and her estranged husband is an alleged drug trafficker. she has been criticized for her handling of the police involved death of daniel prude. she served as the city's head for two terms. and then there is this story. a wild new netflix show is raising eyebrows. sexy beast. that's the name of it. features people going on blind dates wearing various animal costumes and prosthetics. netflix says the idea is to find love based on permanent not

looks. many describe the show as love is blind meets the masked singer it premiers july 21st. it just looks so creepy i might have to watch, ainsley. ainsley: doesn't that say a lot about their personalities if they are going to go on a date in could say tomb. jillian: i think so. ainsley: i think we know who they are, a little strange. all right. thanks so much, jillian. an illinois police officer is facing backlash after joining us on "fox & friends" earlier this week to defend the thin blue line. >> to me it's about honor. it's about pride. it's about kinship, you know, i even said love. i have got children. i have got family. and i think to me when i spoke it was really about all the things that it means not only to myself but to everybody in my family and my circle. so it's all of those things and it's just really important to us. ainsley: officer lisa schaps says she was released from her position as a school resource officer because her comments have become a quote distraction. the school is pushing back they

recommending that she be replaced but do not have the authority to be fired. officer lisa schaps and it were it a guest. >> good morning, ainsley. ainsley: you spoke at the village board meeting. and then on tuesday you came on our show. wednesday we were talking to you, chief, and you said that she was basically fired or they want to replace her. is this a result of you being on "fox & friends" and taking a stand and just saying that you support police, lisa? >> you know, they are saying that it was because of comments i made during that speech and that it wasn't because of "fox & friends." but i really felt that the things that i said were authentic and vulnerable and i hadn't heard from them after june 15th when i gave that speech. ainsley: what did you say that they said was so wrong? >> they had mentioned that i compared being a police officer to being black. when i really didn't say that i

said please don't judge us like you would judge somebody on the color of their skin or their religion or their sexual preference. it was really about the judgment and they just said that that was, you know, inappropriate. ainsley: you are saying tonight judge me. >> yes. ainsley: chief, when the principal called lisa said i needed to go to the school. you decided to go with her. what did the principal say in the meeting? >> you know, lisa got ahold of me and told me she was getting' summoned to a meeting and her police antenna went up because she has never asked me to go to a meeting before. we were both floored at the results. we sat down with him and he explained he and the district had received complaints and probably from these same people that have an objection to our patch, and i was giving him ideas on how to handle those calls. send them to the police department or the village. it really wasn't their fight to fight. and it basically got to the point where he said we are past

all that we want a new sro. we want lisa gone. and you know, this has been a passion for lisa. it's been a job she has always wanted. i know how much she does for those kids. you know, if the woke ever came to the door at that school she is the momma bear you wanted there. it's been devastating for her. here is a very strong, confident woman which we want in all our police officers. and i saw her devastated in that meeting. i mean, we were both blindsided and it's more than unfortunate. it's, i think he really believed in what he was doing. and that's why i got ahold of you, ainsley. i just wanted you to know that this small group of people has somehow got this much power to affect someone's career. someone's livelihood. ainsley: that's right. >> she is going to land on her feet at the police department. i'm going to make sure of that you know if she is not going to be with these kids who she she has been with and she wanted to

finish out with them graduating in the next few years. ainsley: we heard lisa say earlier she has children and she has to put food on the table. to be canceled because she supports law enforcement and defends the job that she does and wants to protect those kids. the statement from the school says we did recommend the consideration of having a different officer assigned to this school in order for our focus to remain on our students. the school does not have the authority to fire or dismiss a school resource officer, so any assertion that the school terminated the school resource officer is not correct or accurate. the police department and their personnel have been and continued to be great partners and we look forward to that partnership continues. lisa, and chief, thank you so much for being on with us. god bless you both. be careful out there. i hope some of the residents do speak out in support of y'all. i am sure you have a lot of fans there. god bless you. thank you. biden unveils new plan to tackle rising crime across the country. will cain says the left is

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>> there are things we know that work that reduce gun violence and violent crime, background checks or purchasing a firearm are important. ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines, no one needs to have a weapon that can fire over 30, 40, 50, even up to 100 rounds, unless you think the deer are wearing kevlar vests or something. >> the second amendment from the day it was passed limited the type of people that could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own. if you want or think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need f-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons. steve: yeah and you hate those deer in the kevlar vests. brian: like the ninth time said that joke which he could barely get out yesterday. let's bring in will cain "fox & friends weekend" co-host hess host of the 7 all week. will, do you think is he going to solve crime in america with this policy? will: no, brian, i don't think he is serious about trying to

solve crime with this policy. if it this was about gun. explain to me why robbery, car theft is up. crimes that have nothing to do with guns are up pause there is a crime wave across this country. the question is why? this gun policy put out is just favorite hobby horse to beat. what can we do to effectuate solving crime? here's what i believe brian, ainsley and steve. i believe you can create a culture of crime. you can do it with anything, really. greece has made a culture of tax evasion. nobody pays taxes they think you are a rube. baseball has a cheating when it comes to pitchers doctoring the baseball. they had they didn't enforce. rioters in portland, the d.a. in l.a. reduces crime, reduces charges. everywhere you turn, we celebrate criminals like jacob blake. we denigrate cops and call them nazis and pigs and you create a culture of crime that culture is directly tied to not just the rhetoric but the policies that

the american left has embraced in a very short time frame. they have embraced it over the last decade or so but really in the past, what 12 to 18 months they have become this trojan horse for a culture of crime. steve: and just the lawlessness on the streets of america. you see that we saw it with the protests that sometimes devolved into rioting and looting as well, but then you look at our southern border, will, you see the law roseness there. a million people trying to break into our country illegally. america is getting whiplash because donald trump, you know, he had put pretty much a great big stop turn around sign on our southern border. he was trying to do something about lawlessness where now it seems to be tolerated. will: that's a great example, steve. illegal immigration just another example where our laws are at best a suggestion and at worse some kind of systemically racist rule. one more point really quick on that thought you played. how offensive is it to say that

the gun ownership isn't a way to preserve patriotism or freedom? tell that to the etaliban interest or the british army? the idea if we took up guns that joe biden is going to nuke us? what is that? steve: i think that's his idea of a joke. ainsley: you saw the school police research officer just supporting the thin blue line. fired from the school. will is hosting tonight at 7:00. "fox news primetime" we can't wait to watch. you are doing a great job, will. will: thank you so much. ainsley: you are welcome. time to check in with johnny's dean for fox weather forecast. take it away. janice: beautiful in the northeast. we have the potential for showers and thunderstorms. potential for large hail, damaging winds, isolated tornadoes and heavy rainfall that's going to bring flash flooding possibilities especially across portions of missouri. so there is a severe threat for tonight. just know what to do if there is a watch or warning. and we have flooding concerns as well that's going to spread across the ohio river valley into this weekend.

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steve: well calls to free britney were amplified yesterday when the pop super star argued via phone for her own freedom asking to end her court- appointed conservatorship. speers telling a judge "i truly believe this conservatorship is abuse ever. i just want my life back. its been 13 years and it's enough." page six senior news reporter

joins us right now, eileen good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: why is she speaking out now, she said, "i've lied and told the whole world that i'm okay and i'm happy. that's a lie i'm not happy i can't sleep i'm so angry it's insane and i'm depressed. i cry every day. i didn't want to say it openly because i honestly don't think anybody would believe me." do people believe her now? >> it sure seems like they do. everybody on social media is talking about this and finally we got to hear from britney herself. i think that 23 minute long testimony was just so can't it vita cocoing you could hear the pain and and detail in the things she experienced how could you not walk away from that feeling for her and wanting this to finally end. steve: the ball got rolling when the new york times did that framing britney spears documentary and people realized i didn't realize that they had lawyers in charge of her money

and stuff like that and then her dad took over, so now she wants her, her dad is the main conservator and she wants control of her own life. part of the rationale is she just wasn't herself. she said the doctor took me off my normal meds i'd been on for years and lithium, apparently is what they gave her , is a very strong and completely different medication to what i was used to, not only did my family not do a thing, my dad was all for it. anything that happened to me had to be approved my dad, so she's saying her dad drugged her. >> well, yeah, that was the allegations that he was obsessed with controlling every aspect of her life, and you know , although this is kind of new information for us, the public, to hear, its been well documented within the courts because the new york times released a report earlier this week that shows that britney has been vocalizing

since back in 2014 that she didn't agree with how her father was overseeing this conservatorship so at least you wonder why has it taken so long for the judge and the courts to do something about this. steve: exactly she also said my team won't let me go to the doctor to take out the iud out because they don't want me to have anymore children and it talks about how these conservatorships can be. thank you very much for joining us live today. >> thank you very much for having me. steve: by the way it is the cover, this morning, of the new york post. i'm not a slave for you, britney said. all right, coming up on 8:00 in the east, lara trump is going to join us in just a couple. you're watching "fox & friends" live from new york city. fewer asthma attacks. nucala is a once-monthly add-on injection for severe eosinophilic asthma.

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>> score! and the islanders to tampa for game seven. ainsley: at least one person is dead and more casualties are feared after a condo building a partial or part of a condo building collapses in surf side, florida. the building fell early this morning around 2:00 in the morning. search and rescue efforts are still underway, although it is unclear what caused that building to collapse. here is the mayor. >> beyond crazy. you know, this doesn't happen in first world countries. buildings just don't fall down like this , so this is a inexpli cable. we don't have answers but we'll get them. steve: search and rescue efforts are still underway for people believed to be trapped in the rubble, although, the mayor also says tracking dogs are not getting hits for survivor

following the building collapse on collins. brian: we're expecting city officials to hold a news conference at any moment. this has been going on since 2:00 in the morning we'll give you an update as the sun comes up. ainsley: saw that little boy being rescued. steve: i know and apparently, 30 condos are impacted. they are trying to extricate one person from the debris, reportedly in an apartment with two other people, and i see via twitter, one of the reporters on the scene says the mayor, we just saw right there. says roofing works have been ongoing for at least 30 days on the building that collapsed on collins avenue, so was it some sort of building issue, were they working on maintenance, sounds like they were working on the roof. ainsley: let's bring in lara trump, fox news contributor to talk about the news of the day. hey, lara. >> good morning, good to be with you guys. ainsley: good to have you on so your father-in-law, president trump, announced he's going to go down to the border next week with governor abbott and then kamala harris announces she's going to trump him and she's

going to go down tomorrow. here is peter doocy questioning jen psaki on the timing. >> why is the vice president visiting the border this week when earlier this month, she dismissed a trip like that? >> she be open to going to the border if it was an appropriate time. she said that after she said that so that's important context as well. she's made a number of announcements about how to address root causes that she was going to assess with the department of homeland security and with the administration when it was the appropriate time to go, and i will note that we're at this point in part because we've made a great deal of progress. >> was it important for the white house to have her seen at the border before former president trump has a trip there next week. >> we made an assessment within our government about when it was an appropriate time for her to go to the border. ainsley: why, lara, is this the appropriate time now? >> well, to use her own words, you do have to put things in context. what changed, ainsley? in the equation, the one thing

that changed is that donald trump is going to the southern border. when you are the border czar, and the acting vice president of the united states and you still haven't gone down after three months, it was a crisis three months ago. it was a crisis two months ago. it was a crisis a month ago. it was a crisis two days ago yet she's now said she's going down for one reason and one reason only and it is very clear that that is because my father-in-law , former president donald trump is going down, and you know, there's another thing that changed. isn't it interesting that now that we know that sr-1, this abhorent voting bill that they like to act like it was the end all be all, it would have been a disaster for america , good for republican s for standing up against it. now, all of these people who are illegally flowing into our country are going to have a harder time voting in a lot of states. they wanted to do away totally with voter id laws. isn't that timing also curious? brian: yeah, and they all believe they might have a deal

going on infrastructure, i don't know if everything will blow up evidently tempers were high yesterday when hr-1 and s-1 failed to blow up the filibuster meanwhile, it's astonishing they would choose el paso and stunning it be 100 days. >> the rio grande valley sector is the epicenter of this human crisis, yet here she is, planning a trip in a way that reflects again, she doesn't really fully comprehend the magnitude of the crisis, and where it really exists on steroids, which is the rio grande valley. she's nearly 100 days late, and 1,000 miles short. >> to give you a sense of just how far they are, chicago, illinois is closer to washington d.c. than el paso is to mcallen, and so she's going where the height of the problem isn't,

kamala, you need to go to mcallen and you need to go to the donna, texas facility, which is the tenth city your administration has built that is massively over-capacity that has kids in cages. you need to look at the children in cages that you and joe biden put there in a way that is endangering their safety. ainsley: lara? >> it's a totally meaningless trip, sadly. i'm glad that donald trump has forced her hand and she is going to the southern border. i think that is really important , but this is like whenever my kids get in trouble and i say please apologize and please say sorry and they are like "sorry" and it means nothing. they are doing it because i told them they have to do it you know what i mean? this trip is simply because she knows if donald trump goes to the southern border and as the border czar, she does not go, she's going to be in big big trouble so she's going to el paso. well, again, it's kind of a meaningless trip that is not

where the vast majority of migrants are flowing over the southern border, gosh, you guys a we have the video from the rio grande where there are people walking across the water. why wouldn't you go there? why wouldn't you go to the problem is the greatest so you can address it? because she doesn't want to address this problem, she's never wanted to own this she's going because she's been forced to go very simply. steve: and their polling numbers had the administration under water on how they are handling our southern border, and so the thinking inside the white house was as long as we don't pay attention to that, as long as we don't go down there we don't draw attention to it and so ultimately, you probably could be right. it could have been your father-in-laws trip next week that forced their hand. meanwhile they are also in a pickle at the white house because crime is skyrocketing all over the country, and it's interesting, joe biden yesterday , when he announced the crackdown on background checks on guns, he said he

believed some cities cut funding for police in the last year, lara, because of coronavirus budget cuts but he didn't mention the fact that a lot of his fellow democrats have been calling to defund the police and that is what got us in many cases to where we are. >> yeah, i mean it is a preposterous idea that guns are the problem. obviously, it is what joe biden and his democrat colleagues have been pushing for the last year which is exactly what you just said, steve. defund the police. you really think that having fewer police, fewer cops on the street is going to have crime go down? obviously, crime is going to sky rocket and that is exactly what we have seen happen. that speech, that press conference yesterday was just another, you know, mumbling embarrassment for america. i mean, joe biden does not look like he can handle doing these things, it's really sort of sad to see but our second amendment rights, it says in the united

states constitution, shall not be infringed yet that is exactly what joe biden is trying to do. our for fathers, our founding fathers put the second amendment in there so that we, as the people, could fight back against the government, so that we could protect ourselves. they are trying to do away with that. they know full well that it is not the legal gun owners, the tens of millions of us out here in america that are commit ting these crimes. these crimes are committed with illegal guns and if we had more police on the street if they hadn't demoralized every cop in america, if they hadn't called for defunding the police, we probably would not see the crime skyrocketing like we do right now under joe biden. brian: how do you explain his approval rating according to fox 's poll is at 54%? >> i mean, i truly don't believe that. i don't think that is a legitimate number. i also think, look he gets totally codelled, guys, by the mainstream media. every time you see him truly

asked a question by so many outlets there are these softball questions about ice cream and it's really, they don't push him on anything. they don't follow-up with in had in the way we know they would with donald trump and he just gets glowing reviews all around from the mainstream media, so very clearly, people who tune into those outlets are not getting the full picture on joe biden but i can not believe that anybody would have his approval rating anywhere over about negative 5% at this point. brian: i'm not sure -- steve: fox news stands by the poll. ainsley: what did you think of joe biden last night saying that or yesterday afternoon he wants to limit the type of weapons that you and eric can own, i know your family, they are big hunters they probably have a lot of guns. what was your opinion about that >> well i just think it's outrageous. again, i will go back to what i just said. it is not legal gun owners who were out on the streets commit ting crimes. these crimes are committed with illegal guns. guess where a lot of those guns

come from? probably flowing over our southern border, guys so if his vice president got a handle on things at the southern border, you probably wouldn't have the number of illegal guns on the streets that we have now. you certainly wouldn't have the drug traffickers bringing in drugs causing crime to go through the roof but it's ridiculous. our second amendment, again, is there for a reason, and we should not be limited on anything if you were a law abiding citizen and following the rules, it is outrageous to see this happening. steve: lara before you go any idea what your father in law is going to say next week when he's down on the southern border with greg abbott? >> i don't know what he's going to say but look i know he had a great relationship with border patrol, with i.c.e. i'm sure they are happy to see some sort of support showing up there. they know that donald trump had their back while he was president. they know that he still has their back, even though he's not actively in the white house, so i think he's going to get a very warm reception and i think he's going to be incredibly critical of this administration. they have absolutely failed at their job.

their job is to protect america, to keep us safe and secure, to protect our borders. they are failing wildly at that and so i'm sure he's going to have a lot of thoughts about that whenever he's down there. ainsley: what will kamala harris ' reception be like? >> well you saw what her reception was like when she went down to guatemala. there were a lot of signs telling her to go back home. they didn't want her there so it'll be interesting to see. i think, you know, its been a bit of a slap in the face to the folks at the border that work there, the border patrol agents, who now, instead of doing their jobs protecting our border, are just processing people as they come into america, it's more of a triage unit than anything, getting them in, so you know, they've been really demoralized. i assume they are probably not too pleased with how she's been doing as the border czar so it'll be interesting to see that reception as well. steve: we'll see it all tomorrow and have highlights here on fox. lara thank you very much for joining us today. time now for some more aside from the building collapse in miami there's other news out of

florida. jillian: serious news so let's get to this fox news alert. a young florida police officer is fighting for his life as authorities search for the suspect who shot him in the head. body camera video shows the daytona beach officer trying to get the suspect out of a car when he turns and opens fire. police say the 26-year-old officer had surgery but is still in critical condition. he has been with the force for only three years. federal agents have been called into help find the suspect, identified. >> the fda says it will add a new warning to the pfizer and moderna vaccines after the cdc found a likely link between the shot and a rare condition in teens. the medical issue known as myocarditis involves inflammation of the muscles around the heart and the heart itself. the cdc says it still recommends getting the vaccine because the benefits out weigh the risk. >> it is official, a special election will take place in california after efforts to recall gavin newsom garnered

nearly 2 million signatures. state officials confirmed the move after validating most of the signatures. the recall petitioned over the democrats handling of the pandemic received well-above the 1.5 million threshold. the vote must be held within 90 days. >> and the head of the catholic church coming face to face with the friendly neighborhood web sl inger. spiderman met the pope yesterday at the vatican during the weekly address. the hero better known by his real name is known for donning super hero costumes and visiting children's hospital wards. spiderman gave the pope his signature mask as a gift. those are your headlines i'll send it back to you. steve: spiderman! ainsley: keep going. steve: that's about all i know. thank you, jillian, great picture. ainsley: really interesting with spiderman shaking hands with the pope. brian: meanwhile -- ainsley: everyone needs a hero, right? brian: right. meanwhile, coming up a man

arrested at the loudoun county school board brawl says parents first amendment rights are being trampled. j. d. vance joins us next. steve: plus a soldiers heartwarming reunion made possible by country singer hardy , and that is going to be the incredible story live this hour at fox & friends and it's great. >> ♪

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>> if you want to address your grievance about a school board there's no other place you can do it than in a school board meeting. we were there for a public forum that we were invited to and i was signed up to give public

comments. every single person there, all 500 parents, had their first amendment rights trampled on by the loudoun county school board and its superintendent. steve: that loudoun county, virginia community members are speaking out after being arrested in that heated school board meeting on tuesday night, where parents pushed back against the district's woke curriculum, in their fight against critical race theory among other things. here to react is author of hillbilly j.d. vance, good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: you know, there were 300 people in attendance. 258 of them asked to speak. ultimately so many people are so frustrated about what is going on in that school district they just want to say their piece and the school board cutoff i think 200 of them and said nope, we don't need to hear from you. you can understand the frustration. >> oh, absolutely, you can, and if you think about some of the most important and fundamental american rights, you know, first is of course the

right to free speech to actually have your voice heard. a second is to control what your kids actually see and hear and listen to, and one of the things that worries me so much about this critical race theory is it's being pushed by all of these powerful institutions in our society. the biden administration is pushing it, google is pushing it , amazon is funding the curriculum, why do these people, why do these institutions want us to believe that white people are oppressors and that american is inherently evil and why can't parents speak up against it and actually pushback against it it's really worrisome. steve: sure and over the last month or so we've been highlighting some of these debates across the country and loud en count essential has become the epicenter of this anti critical race theory debate, and apparently, we detailed on tuesday morning how it seems like the anti crt crew is actually winning the narrative dialogue, because on tuesday morning, the democrat s of loudoun county

announced hey, we'd like to bus in as many people who would like to speak, just speak their minds , at the meeting, and that's why it was an overflow crowd but nonetheless the other side has got to pack the house. >> yeah, that's right, and look , one of the ways you know you're winning a debate is if they try to shutdown discussion, right? we know that so many parents, black, white, democrats even especially republicans of course they don't like to teach their kids that this is fundamentally a terrible racist country they don't want this crap in their schools. they should be allowed to express that viewpoint and i think the fact that people are trying to shut them up suggests we're actually winning. our side is actually winning in this , which means that in loudoun county but also across the country we've got to keep on pressing this case, and keep on making this argument. steve: sure and i think you're right about that and i think a lot of parents across the country have a better idea of the fact that this critical race theory was being taught in their children's schools was during the lockdown, a lot of the parents were looking over

the shoulder of the kids and going wait. what happened when? who told you that? oh, my teacher, oh, really? so that is why we are seeing all of these everyday heros step up at the school board meetings people who have never appeared in public before, but they are somebody's parent and they know that they've only got one chance to get the education of their children right, and that's why they are standing up saying hey, i've got a problem with what we're doing here. >> yeah, one of the silver lines of the lockdowns maybe that parents actually figured out what was going on in their schools and if you really think about this , steve, you don't have a country unless you can feel some sense of respect and some sense of appreciation for where you came from, for where you're going and what this idea that america is inherently racist and evil what it takes from us is a pride of place in our own country, the place that we call home. i think that destroying that sense of pride, destroying that

sense of patriotism makes us easier to control, which is why they are pushing it but the fact we don't want to be controlled or actually be proud of the place our parents and grandparents built should mean that we have to pushback against this stuff. steve: it's very patriotic so many people, both sides of the aisle, are stepping up to say hey, let's talk about this , because that's what america is all about. j. d., thank you very much for joining us from the d.c. area. >> thanks, steve. steve: straight ahead on this thursday, atheists suing the state of mississippi over license plates invoking god, they don't like that, but the governor there, tate reeves, says he will defend in god we trust every day and the governor is coming up and florida now combating woke curriculum by teaching the evils of communism. congresswoman maria salazar's family fled communist cuba and she's got a lot of reaction to that and she's coming up, next.

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jillian: at least one person is

dead and officials fear more casualties after this condo building partially ca collapsed near miami. the building has more than 100 units. it collapsed early this morning, around 2:00 a.m. one resident says he was rescued from his balcony by firefighters search and rescue efforts have been underway for hours. more than 80 units from miami-dade fire and rescue responded with assistance from other local firefighters. take a look at this video earlier. a boy was pulled from the rubble eye witnesses say it felt like a bomb had gone off. this is that video of the boy being pulled miraculously from that rubble and then we'll show you a side by side image to show you the before and after and another image before the collapse. this story is ongoing, we will keep you updated with more information. back to you. brian: all right thanks so much jillian appreciate it. let's continue to talk about that. let's bring in congresswoman maria salazar, our district includes parts of miami.

what could you tell us about this stunning, this stunning collapse? >> incredible. it's incredible. we don't know how these things happen. i'm in touch with the authorities and i will have more information later on today but i do know that one of the best search and rescue missions in the world are there right now, trying to find more victims. i'm so happy that that boy was rescued. i know there was one child that is dead, and you have several people that have been injured, but this really has never happened before in miami beach, so i am very sorry. my prayers are with some of the victims, yeah. brian: absolutely, so we'll continue to follow it and even interrupt the segment if we get more information which we are waiting on a presser and we'll see if it happens, congresswoman salazar let's talk about something else and this is an important time because curriculum is being formulated for next year at which time governor ron desantis has gone out of his way to say critical race theory will not be taught, but he didn't stop there.

listen. >> we have a number of people in florida particularly southern florida who have escaped totalitarian regimes and communist dictatorships to be able to come to america. we want all students to understand the difference, why would somebody flee across shark -infested waters say leaving from cuba to come to southern florida. brian: so he understands that maybe this story, teaching the evils of communism and marxism matters to people like you. why? >> absolutely, and you know, br avo. every single governor in this country should follow suit what desantis is doing because the problem that we have here is that half of our teenagers, according to the latest survey, believe that communism or socialism is good, and most of them don't know what's the difference between the declaration of independence

and the communist manifesto. you see , i am the daughter of political refugees. everyone that i know that surrounds me in my district understands what desantis is saying. it's oppression, it's exile, it's death, and our kids, the american-born kids don't know what that means so it's time for us to teach them, that fidel castro, chavez, those people are murders. brian: what also is important too in most people's background, you do read goals and it doesn't mean that you like hitler or are a nazi. you read about these people because you want to be exposed to them, you don't want to be shut off from it. where do you draw the line between reading about these evil people in history and at the same time, learning what not to do? >> well, you draw the line is that you give them the empirical evidence. you explain what madison and jefferson and washington did and

you also explain with without whitewashing. let me just give you a little example chegavara, when he invaded cuba, they would conduct , they would kill you on the firing squad and then after that, they would conduct a trial so they kill you first and then they did trial after. most people don't know, they think that oh, my gosh he is going to come and liberate us, and it's all a lie, and then that's what very concerning that we are not teaching our children the reality of what they did. brian: but it just shows parent s is getting involves with this board of education. >> all we have to do is jus show, excuse me, i didn't hear you what wu r asking? brian: i'm saying get involved with the board of education too, right? >> get involved, but at the same time, make sure that we are not white washing socialism. unfortunately in this country, socialism and democratic

socialism and i encounter many of my colleagues on the other side of the floor of the united states congress, really believ ing that this is the way to go, that the american philosophy, culture and the american history is evil, that we are a horrible nation, and the other side, you know, st allin and fiddle, those are the good guys and the ones that will bring equality and happiness to everyone. that's a lie. that's not true, so we got to teach it the way it is. brian: right you're not going to have the problem in florida, thanks to your governor. thanks, congresswoman, appreciate it. >> but i want the rest of the united nation and the united states understand that the american exceptionality works for everyone from california to florida. brian: right. >> that's why we're in congress , trying to maintain the american agenda which is the only one that really works. you know what? we in cuba, or in venezuela, we

would have loved to have a madison or a jefferson, not a fiddle, or chavez. brian: absolutely and first thing they did is took their gun s and took the power from the people. congresswoman thanks so much. >> thank you, socialism is what's happening, and they are fleeing like desantis i'm sorry. brian: i know you're pumped up. thanks so much, appreciate it. meanwhile straight ahead on this show mississippi governor tate reeves joins us shortly as most americans worry extra unemployment benefits are hurting the economy, why is his state opting out, next, and the homecoming you don't want to miss. the soldier, surprised his family with the help of a country singer named hardy. he will tell us the whole story coming up. >> ♪

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removing that particular benefit incentivizes people not to work be helpful. ainsley: we keep hearing the same old story let's bring in mississippi governor tate reeves, good morning to you, governor. >> good morning, ainsley. ainsley: good morning i'm sure you've heard these stories in mississippi. businesses can't get back to work fully because they can't find the employees. we asked in a fox news poll what are you extremely or very concerned about? 83% said they are mostly concerned about inflation. 77% said taxes, 74% said unemployment, 69% said federal deficit, 65% said interest rates what's your reaction? >> well, i'm not at all surprised because as i travel around the state of mississippi, i run into that exact thing by small business owners and their employees every single day. it's the reason some six weeks ago i alerted the federal government that we were going to eliminate the unemployment benefits caused by the pandemic unemployment assistance, now as you'll remember, ainsley, i was a big supporter of that a year ago but june of 2020 looks

very differently than june of 2021 looks, and for us to have a full economic recovery in our state and quite frankly across america, we got to get all of our people back to work and so we actually are in week two of not having those additional benefits and what we're seeing is exactly what we thought we would see which is people are going back to work. i was in a manufacturer in north mississippi last monday, the first day that the benefits were no longer in place. they hired 40 individuals that day alone, and they need several hundred more but that's an indication of what happens when you have a good strong leadership at the state level. ainsley: i want your reaction to this as well. we asked them what they think of the federal unemployment benefits today and 53% said that it's hurting our recovery, and only 45% said it's helping our recovery. what's your thoughts? >> again, ainsley, it made sense a year ago. there was so much unknown in may and june of 2020 that it made

perfect sense because in mississippi, we went from approximately 40,000 unemployed individuals to 350,000 unemployed individuals in a very short time, but today, there are jobs everywhere. you go up and down main street across mississippi and across america, and the thing that you see more than anything else are help wanted signs. everything from your local diner to your local restaurant to manufactures, to advance manufacturing, their biggest challenge is finding people to come back to work. we've got to do everything we can to incentivize work, not incentivize not working. ainsley: maybe they will now that you've gotten rid of the federal money they get every week so i want to talk about this as well. your license plates say "in god we trust" and those are the license plates that when you go and get them this is the one you get. it's not a specialized one and now, there's an atheist group suing you saying it violates resident's freedoms by forcing them to display a religious phrase, it's rooted in hostility against non-christians and non-

believers. you're fighting this , aren't you? >> we are fighting this and we're going to fight it all the way to the united states supreme court, should we have to , but i don't think we'll have to. any federal judge should be able to look at the case law that exists the fact that "in god we trust" is actually our nation's motto. you look at the historical significance of that particular phrase, and its been ruled time and time again and as legal precedent that this is not hostile to any one group. i'm a christian, and i pray to a loving god every single morning, but the term "in god we trust" is not specific to any religion and so i really view this as a publicity stunt. these atheist groups threaten to sue me, some two or three years ago, and many of their plaintiffs which it literally took them three years to find, have been driving around with this license plate on. we changed our state seal in mississippi nearly eight years ago and we put our state seal on our tag, and so we're going to fight this.

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brian: we are back with our top story right now and it happened this morning at least one person is dead after a condo building collapses out of nowhere in florida. ainsley: miami-dade emergency just announcing they believe there are no survivors left any more inside the building. steve: that is the part of the building that did not collapse. steve harrigan is live on the scene in north miami with the very latest. that's the part that collapsed last night, steve. reporter: that's right, steve. 1:30 in the morning when many people here were asleep you can see that north east section of this condo tower that did collapse. it looks like just the edge if you're seeing camera picture but actually, an entire front section of that building is gone , and the debris just pancaked up three stories high. the scope of this disaster just

not clear yet, dogs were out according to the mayor of surf side overnight. they didn't get any hits didn't hear any sounds so that's definitely worrisome. this is a condo tower of about 100 different units. it's hard to tell how many people were inside because people come and go especially during these months, search and rescue were at work all night, not just from surfside, miami-dade fire rescue, counties all around florida really trying to pitch in and at tremendous risk with this building potentially toppling down even further. they risk their lives to try to find people, some survivors were pulled out. still a mystery though what could have caused this. this is a 40-year-old building. it was undergoing some roof work and the building next door to it is new. there was some complaints when the building next door was being constructed about potential cracks being caused by that new construction, but still, not clear yet the two main questions , how many dead in this tragedy, and what was the cause of this complete collapse of a major section of this florida condominium tower.

steve, brian, ainsley, back to you. steve: so steve, they say that they think they got everybody out who was alive, so now, it just becomes a recovery effort, right? reporter: it's a horrible quote by the mayor of surfside, who said the dogs didn't get any hits or hear anything, the only thing we can hear is fire rescue , and we're not seeing fire rescue workers on that building itself. it's really a tragic scene if you look in the upper right corner you can see a bunk bed there, just hanging by the edge, so the death toll will probably take days to figure out. right now they are saying at least two dead but we expect that number to rise dramatically when they start to go through the rubble. ainsley: one lady said one of the individuals that died was a child. have you heard that? >> we haven't heard that. we've been seeing stretchers come out but they aren't carrying any people so it looks like they said it's a fluid search and rescue operation but it looks like that has paused

for now. we're seeing fire rescue, with stretchers but we're not seeing active digging going on right now. there's still one man in a hard hat i can see , it's a misleading picture because it's not just the edge of this building but the entire section that extended out into the beach and it's probably about 40 feet high of pure rubble, what was once at 1:30 in the morning condominium stacked on top of each other now on the beach in surfside, florida. steve: steve thank you very much live reports throughout the day. meanwhile, we're going to switch gears to something completely different. we've been talking about this this morning. country singer hardy helping a navy service member returning from deployment to surprise his family with an epic on-stage reunion. >> [applause] >> richard kelly, apparently he's been overseas for like 400 days and we have made his family think they've won like a vip thing where they get to hang outback stage and they are

going to surprise him on stage. >> [applause] ainsley: isn't that great? hardy joins us live, along with that navy verse member richard kelly good morning to both of you. >> hey, good morning. ainsley: such a cool story, hardy. richard i'll start with you how did you feel when all this happened? >> i was actually super nervous i couldn't even stand still, and i had so many emotions i can't even explain it. steve: when you saw your family what went through your mind? what are they doing at the same concert? >> [laughter] it was, yeah, we bought these tickets a while back and once i found out when i was coming home , it was a long shot, i reached out and then it was all from there. brian: hardy how did you find out about all of this and what did it mean to you to be able to execute it the way you did? >> well ricky actually had try to contact me through instagram

and my messages and these days i get a lot so sometimes some of them fall through the cracks so thank god, he actually contacted my girlfriend and she saw this message and that he wanted to do the whole thing, surprise his family and all that, and so she came to me and she said hey, this guy sent me this message and i really think you should do this and there was never any doubt. i called my man ager and said if we can figure out a way to make this work let's do it. steve: sure. >> and we did. steve: hardy, at the end of the song you were singing, your song "give heaven some hell" you gave a speech about the military we don't have it on tape but what essentially was your message? >> we just say every single night when i say we i speak for my band, that we just use that as a moment to say that everybody on stage is a huge supporter of our united states military and we just thank anybody for their service, it's just something that i want to do

and something that i want to make sure my fans know that that's something we stand for and we use that as a moment to do it. ainsley: richard you've been gone for a year and we've experienced a lot in america over the last year and you've been fighting for our country. you're back now, we're so glad you are safely. what do you say, what's your message? why is america important? what did you miss most? why do you love this country so much? >> i mean, that's a hard question. you once you come back you have a whole new appreciation from overseas like i called my mom and i told her, i said i can't believe how much green i'm see ing like the tree, the grass, the clouds it's unbelievable how much you appreciate it once you come back from overseas. brian: and hardy you've got a big crowd that's another thing about america, we're beating the pandemic getting vaccinated. what was it like to be in front of that crowd? >> oh, it's crazy right now, for a lot of different reasons. one, you know, obviously as the

crowds get bigger, it's that feeling gets weird because its been so long since we've seen that, and man, the energy is just super high right now because everybody is dying to get out and go to stuff like this , and just super thankful and taking some getting used to again. steve: i bet. all right, richard kelly, thank you very much for joining us today and thanks for your service and please thank for family for showing up and hardy you're a good man. ainsley: richard thank you for your service. go have a pizza and some beer. brian: special thanks to your girlfriend. ainsley: that's right. steve: we're stepping aside, back in a minute you're watching "fox & friends."

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>> it's been a great day with you guys. see you tomorrow. it's friday. >> same time, same couch. so long. >> bill: good morning. thank you. we're back on the story. search and rescue. a 12 story beach front condo collapsed overnight. one person confirmed dead at least. officials will give an update in moments and we'll take you there live. tough news to wake up to today. >> dana: i'm dana perino, "america's newsroom." a terrible story. we're learning a lot more. crews are combing through the rubble search ing for survivors.

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