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policing. is the lampley cleary one of them? >> another anthem controversy for the nfl but this time it is not what you think. we made it, "fox and friends first" on friday morning starts right now. ♪♪ laura: a patriotic start on friday morning. i don't know. >> nike is very patriotic. jillian: we made it. todd: another massive march in support of cubans. carley: americans are taking action but the white house slow to react despite the president calling cuba a failed state and condemning communism. laura: lauren blanchard joins us with more. >> reporter: protesters calling for us action in cuba, speaking

up for cubans (demonstrating historic numbers against their government over food shortages, and unstable economy, cuba's handle of the coronavirus vaccine and against the long-running regime, president biden acknowledged communism and socialism cannot work calling cuba a failed state. >> communism is a failed system, universally failed system. i don't see socialism as a useful substitute. >> reporter: the government censoring the protesters, but now back on it is unreliable before the governor onto santos called press conference to pressure the biden administration to step in and provide internet for cubans. >> we have to stand with the people of cuba against the communist dictatorship and one of the most effective things we can do is a country, we need president biden to step up and be helpful to getting internet back onto the island.

>> the cuban government shutdown social media apps to crackdown on dissent and slow the spread of photos and videos out of the massive protests. senator marco rubio asked the white house to provide reliable internet to the island nation using high-altitude communication system out of the government's control. desantis wants to let technology like that used after hurricane maria. president biden said they are looking into if the us has the capability. >> the lack of internet access is a huge issue in cuba that is very challenging for the people of cuba who are looking at that to see what can be done to address. >> reporter: president biden said his administration is considering sending vaccines to cuba but only if they can be assured the distribution would be fair. carley: thank you. todd: flight or flight.

a flight to bring democrat coworkers home after the group fled to dc to avoid voting on election integrity bill. writing, quote, i'm demanding all our colleagues in dc to contact my staff immediately to secure their seat on the plane and return to austin to do the state's business. the state of texas is waiting, democrats met with kirsten gillibrand and richard blumenthal yesterday. the lawmakers writing on twitter we refuse to go back. >> a democratic congressman arrested her protest at a senate office building, you can see congressional black caucus chairwoman being taken away with her hands tied behind her back, she led the protest demanding passage of the for the people act. the group chanted fight for justice and end the filibuster. capital police confirmed 9 people were arrested for demonstrating in a prohibited area, compared her protest to those of civil rights icons. >> we were in our moment, we

felt like john lewis and martin luther king. >> women's rights cofounders joined beatty at the protest. >> the white house facing backlash after jen psaki revealed it is misinformation for facebook. >> serious concerns being in the government's hand in social media censorship. ashley strohmeyer joins us as some ask what could go wrong. >> reporter: these comments from the white house press secretary sparking controversy, take a listen. >> we are in regular touch with social media platforms, we increase disinformation and tracking in the surgeon general's office with problematic posts for facebook the spread disinformation. carley: some call it infringement on the first amendment. media research center at stan

gaynor tweeting the anti-vaccine -- against freedom. take a listen to what glenn greenwald had to say about the government and big tech teaming up. >> four times in the last year the democrats and the ceos of twitter, google and facebook to appear before them and threatened them saying if you don't start censoring what we regard as hate speech and disinformation you will suffer legal and regulatory punishment, it is a merger of state and corporate power which is the classic definition of fascism. >> josh howie who is no stranger to pushing it back sent letters to mark zuckerberg and jack dorsey demanding answers saying casual admission of collusion between the state and corporations that monopolize the flow of information is shocking. he then requested a full account of social media content flagged

by the biden administration, and what was removed, this follows a trail of contradictory comments from doctor anthony fauci throughout the pandemic, he went back and forth on masks and herd immunity as well as working with facebook to downplay the. the covid 19 was linked from the wuhan lab. carley: we will have more on this later in the show. as the administration's big brother tactic spark outrage the wall street journal editorial board member kimberly stross offices this may come back to bite the white house. >> kind of remarkable, only this week we had the former president of the united states sued big tech arguing they violated first amendment standards because they were acting as arms of the government and here we have the white house and jen psaki giving talking points that seem -- a

novel legal theory that this is presented in court. first amendment usually normally applies to the government but if you can prove these companies are taking dictations from government out of fear political retribution or anything else you can claim they are state actors. >> straws are not alone in her criticism, article in the "national review" argues jen psaki escalated the conservative war on big tech. four police officers hurt in texas, all five shot by a man barricaded inside a home. the suspect was arrested after an hours long standoff. three of those offices were released from the hospital can one fighting for his life in critical condition. swat commander sergeant josh bartlett died at the hospital. the sheriff's office holding a procession in his honor, he leaves behind a wife and three sons. >> section work schedules and infrastructure deal for next wednesday. the senate democrat leader

calling for agreement on the $3 trillion budget deal. >> the time has come to make progress and we will. we must. >> the deal is still being finalized and need 60 votes to move forward, 10 republicans must be on board. >> can spend the age of 12 might be approved to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. emergency approval for the age group could come in early to mid winter. the agency hopes to work toward getting full approval after that. moderna and pfizer undergoing vaccine trials with these children, results are expected sometime this fall. jillian: put your masks back on, los angeles county restoring its indoor mask mandate even for people who are fully vaccinated against covid. it goes into effect just before midnight saturday. the revival of the order comes as the region sees a spike in cases and hospitalizations, local health officials blame rising cases on those who have not been vaccinated.

you are vaccinated in la you have to wear your mask. how do you feel about that? . i feel that by monday morning we will have somebody from los angeles on to talk about how they have to wear a mask. carley: people who want to get the vaccine because they didn't have to wear a mask. >> it won't be sweating or anything, wait, it is. >> run disinterested you can't drink a beer with mask on. >> delay by new defense, judge reviewing brand-new evidence in the case against the illegal immigrant convicted of killing i student molly tibbetts. what his sentencing was stopped at least for now. >> i'm not going to minimize how insane and damaging and dangerous these ideas are. carley: the seattle mom calling out cultural indoctrination. she joins us with her message coming up next.

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>> thanks for getting up with us on friday morning. of seattle other and activist proposing a method to fight critical race.. she's urging parents to educate their kids about controversial topics before teachers can indoctrinate them. thanks for getting up with us. you say it is crucial to get in the first shot. how do parents do that. >> exactly right. i don't want to minimize the threat to the kids, the ideas that are out there in social media in the classroom.

they are dangerous ideas and is it is war of ideas, we are not fighting against other people, we are fighting against bad ideas and bad ideas have victims. we want to make sure we are equipping our kids with good ideas. we need to get to them first. >> your vision is called them before us. let me read your mission statement, them before us exists to advance social policies that encourage adults to actively respect the rights of children rather than expecting children to sacrifice fundamental rights for the sake of adult desires, we equip all adults for the rights of all children. what do we give kids in modern-day america? >> we make them sacrifice for adults, that's one of the problems we are having, it is about children's rights in the family but the threat to children are not just from voices that want to redefine the family. it is happening everywhere. we are making kids sacrifice for adults and a lot of the time that is happening in the

classroom where we want kids to affirm and believe the most distorted and damaging ideas we've seen in this country, maybe ever and it is important for parents to get to the kids first and saturate them in truth and beauty but make sure they are experts in all these difficult cultural topics. >> using the goal of parenting is not keeping your kids safe and happy, it is training. do you get pushback on that? >> yes especially after we just had a whole year where it felt the national mantra was stay safe. that is not the goal of life and that's not the goal of parenting. the goal of parenting is training your kids and equipping your kids. you want to train them in self-management, trains them in this ideological war to be able to spot bad ideas and combat them with good ideas and no one is going to do that if you don't do that. >> what are some things parents should be on the lookout for?

>> i break this up into two sessions, the first is through the on a he school year. they take everything in, to memorize huge chunks like the declaration of independence, wired for that download information, they are not wired for critical thinking so they get to middle school you will notice they start asking more questions. how do we know that is true, what if we are wrong and that is when you know they are ready for more? that is when you the parent need to get to them first about difficult topics, whether abortion or socialism or transgender is a more critical race. or whatever it is, you need to be the first to talk to your kids about those subjects because the person who gets to the kid first will automatically

consider the expert and not -- you want your kids to know they can come back to you anytime they have questions in the future. >> you call this a war. is it or you can win? >> absolutely because we have reality on our side, truth on our side and the truth and to your kids you can win it and so will they. todd: we appreciate your time. >> 18 after the hour, new york business owners are fed up with bill deblasio, the city sees a surge in violence but the mayor is blowing off criticism. one frustrated restaurant owner joins us next. plus. ♪♪ we sell dreams ♪♪ carley: calling out coca-cola for caring more about woke politics than the consumer.

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>> the nfl will play the black national anthem, lives every voice, but front-office sport reports it will become a, quote, prominent part of games including the playoffs, draft and kickoff games. also making a return will be social justice messages on helmets and sizes, 2020 saw the league's lowest ratings in 3 years. doctor carol swing will join us to react. consumers research is an organization launching a

campaign targeting coca-cola's woke hypocrisy. ♪♪ the day we woke ♪♪ china is our labor supplier ♪♪ todd: catchy jingle. that poor little kid hurt. the director says the woke call our ad is a satirical reminder to focus on consumers, not woke politicians. double be at 6:00 from consumers research. jillian: business owners angry over surging violence as times square sees its third shooting since may, mayor bill deblasio's office giving critics the brushoff with you to discuss a new york city restaurant owner who is opening a second brooklyn house in times square this fall. why do you think times square

has become so dangerous. >> to governor cuomo condo deblasio, they don't follow the science. when they shutdown the economy, business up and running. people keeping stores clean, no abandonments, they invite not just fill, we invite crime. that started when you shut down on the most celebratory month of the year where the science was leading the restaurant being the safest place. they decided to shut it down on new year's eve and that set the tone what is going on.

>> crime is part of the lockdown. it is usually a gray area with families and tourism and broadway but all the crime happening in the area, what are we going to do? >> we know the mayor is on his way out. we plan to open a restaurant this fall, trying to time it with the opening of broadway. we have faith in new york city, faith on politicians, most never ran a lemonade stand so we are very excited about the upcoming administration and we feel, when i asked eric adams what he's going to do because none of us trust politicians he said i'm a small business owner, landlord

and cop and i'm going to look out for those industries. he said that to me personally a couple weeks ago. carley: tom harris is a times square business owner who recently said we cannot wait for a new mayor. the deblasio administration needs to stop making excuses and develop a second strategy and take immediate action and then a deblasio spokesperson responded saying everyone wants to fight back against gun violence and stop these shootings. was not productive is tom harris insulting the police officers who have come across the city to times square in a good faith effort. do you think tom harris was insulting the police officers? >> know. i believe we should be adding and funding the police for more training. when you chop down your police officers that is not a good formula. it is unbelievable some of the

words out of our mayor, there such a disconnect and it doesn't help us getting back to where we are supposed to be and what makes new york city so resilience, we are coming back strong. carley: congratulations before the opening happens in the fall. appreciate it. todd: we are going to that chophouse, 27 after the hour. gained members in chicago outnumber police officers tend to one but instead of hiring more cops the city will dispatch mental health professionals on 9/11 calls. chicago alderman anthony napolitano joins us next, the head of the second-largest teachers union walking that comments after saying anti-fauci

merchandise would cause millions to die. her apology coming up. ♪♪

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todd: bombshell twist in the molly tibbetts case, appeared iowa court after two witnesses came forward. christian of their's lawyers told the judge he should get a new trial because he was framed by the real killers, his attorneys say witnesses said gavin jones admitted to killing tibbetts after kidnapping her for sex trafficking wing. jones confessed to a next girlfriend and fellow inmate when he was behind bars. the judge will decide whether the confessions can be used in court, and the connecticut man accused of killing his estranged wife banned from discussing the case for 40 years.

he paid them before the financial settlement. after dropping 5 kids, her body has never been found despite searches. >> facing questions over the sexual, they will meet with cuomo saturday. signaling the probe is in its final stages. continued leaks are more evidence of the transparent political motivation of the attorney general's review. cuomo is accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women, a public report will be released when the investigation is complete. a bus passenger attacked in new york city.

dumping soda and punching him in the face several times, the passenger was treated for multiple face fractures. police are searching for the suspects, the brutal acts for felony assaults with 11,000 this year. richard sherman is released from bail after he was arrested for trying to break into his in-laws house, shouting and using his body to partially break his father-in-law's door. sherman's wife said he was drunk and threatened to kill himself, faces charges including resisting arrest and criminal trespassing. they are threatening to get rid of us olympic if they do not

punish for anti-american protest. the new york post reports congressman wrote a letter to the us lpc board saying they are concerned by athletes including dmx writer chelsea walsh. todd: gang members in chicago outweigh police officer sends one. the windy city will be dispatching mental health professionals on 911 calls instead of police officers was the murder rate soar as a local vietnam war vet died after carjackers beat him in broad daylight. chicago alderman and anthony napolitano. let's go to the gang war. how is a mental health officer equipped to deal with the gang war? >> we are in a war and you have to be open to new ideas but this is not a good idea. chicago police officer and firefighter, called to these day

in and day out, and mental health experts on vaccine is another person hurts. of the concept of the idea is going to work, on the street it is not going to happen. todd: somebody else getting hurt, how dangerous will this be for the mental health professionals? >> it is the most volatile situation into mental health issue. firefighter paramedic is going to get hurt. todd: police retirements are skyrocketing, officers have retired so far this year, 470 in

219, we eclipsed that in 2021, a vietnam veteran dying after he was carjacked and all these retirements how much worse could chicago get? >> the rate of attrition we are not actively going out making more police officers take the job and city councilmembers pushing to defund the police department taking more money allocated to other departments. i always say the same thing, we are pushing a boulder up the hill and we are not all working the same direction we will lose our cities. >> brought in this out, how worried are you the violence we are seeing in chicago and other cities across our country is going to spread to the suburbs if it hasn't already? >> it is everywhere and it is based on the crime and punishment factor.

there is the roads and no punishment and it is opening the floodgates, it is already happening. there's crime being committed around us. i am surrounded by the suburbs and they are feeling this as well. todd: moved to north carolina, anthony napolitano, appreciate your time. jillian: black lives matter cozying up to cuba's communist regime. what the group said that even has democrats concerned. todd: go out to drink or dinner or this, download the fox bit super 6 apps and play for a chance to win 10,$000.

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todd: barry meyer slamming the media's from critical coverage of the steel dossier saying it was a travesty. it is our job and has always been our job to scrutinize information and it didn't happen here. i see the public has a bigger victim. journalists manipulated by the document at the center of the russia probe, they made unfounded claims about ties between donald trump and the kremlin. meyer noting many left-leaning journalists refuse to admit they got it wrong. >> the union backpedaling after saying governor rhonda santos would cause millions to die because of covid 19 ignorance.

randi weingarten tweeting you are all probably right. i shouldn't have said millions. i should have just said desantis was wrong to do this was the apology comes 24 hours after she slammed desantis's anti-fauci merchandise. president biden finally came out and condemned communism and socialism saying it wasn't a good idea. black lives matter has some thoughts on the cuba situation. black lives matter condemns the us federal government's inhumane treatment of cubans and urges it to immediately lift the economic embargo, the cruel and inhumane policy institute with the intention of destabilizing and undermining cuba's right to choose their own government is at the heart of cuba's current crisis. this is america's fault and cuba, a country that hasn't had

a legitimate election years but black lives matter says we is america crisis. todd: dan bonngino not happy. >> they use propaganda. communists are terrorists. you don't like it, are we of sending your delicate sensibilities, i don't care. i don't give a damn. i can't stand you. you are not fighting for black lives, the conservative movement for school choice and empowerment initiatives and freedom and liberty around the world, you are fighting for terrorism and communism. with malfeasance on the far end of malfeasance.

the movement is grotesque, disgusting at the body bag movement. the only thing this has ever led to is body bags, that is it. todd: the blm statement should go back to bed and then went on to praise a black revolutionary, an individual but in 1973 executed a new jersey state trooper, asada shackor, this is journalistic malpractice nobody, not enough people have gone through was black lives matter is and has taken the creative name that implies they care about black lives has taken it that far, no one researching it and it is unfortunate because there's work that needs to be

done advancing the cause of black people. black lives matter isn't doing it. steve: carley: how many have donated with good intentions? they are not examples of what the leadership of the organization which are marxist, the practice marxism, one of the most anti-american organizations we haven't questions is black lives matter helps the black community when you defund police department it will affect inner-city communities the most and make them less safe and also breonna taylor's mom said something on facebook, nobody from black lives matter has ever come to me and helped me out at all. they say they support me but i've never seen a time from them. also on this subject, aoc breaking her silence on the cuba situation, she has a long statement.

todd: she started pretty well, rising up and protests for her rights, stand in solidarity and condemn the anti-democratic actions led -- then continues. the name the us contribution to cuban suffering, 60-year-old embargo, and lift its embargo in cuba. like many us policies targeting latin americans, cruelty is the point. she goes on to attack the biden administration. the embargo, has no concept of how international pressure works and a sitting congressman, that is concerning because we use our economic and military might to observe pressure. carley: the black lives matter statement, a portion for the

communist cuban government, when blaming the united states for their own woes, they reason they haven't had an election years isn't because of the united states the communist country. the time is 46 after the hour. the surge of migrants making their way to the southern border not -- debunking biden's excuse this is mass migration that is seasonal. the staggering projection of how many illegal immigrants could cross coming up. todd: the ultimatum to call country, cleanup or shutdown. hard-hit names on the book before the cleanup can begin. we are looking at that. ♪♪

todd: shocking numbers in the border, 1 million migrants apprehended since january. that's more than the population of san francisco, washington examiner reports 188,000 migrants, the official number has not been released but it would be a 450% increase in june of last year, 2 billion migrants are projected across the southern border by the end of the year. >> thousands of jobs to ask call minors for operations, a new report, that they even begin.

the abandoned coal mines, the goal is to turn them into these beautiful brassy areas in a process called reclamation but if the coal companies are bankrupt to foot the bill to turn them into these beautiful grassy areas? >> unfortunately it is going to follow the state. the problem with the reclamation ideas reclamation happens after production is done so there is no money coming in when you do reclamation. when you have fattening your policies and pulling the strings of the companies that are doing the work if they are filing for bankruptcy and leaving the area, for the state to do that.

carley: the estimated cost is $7.5 billion to $10 billion in coal mines in alabama, ohio, pennsylvania, tennessee, virginia, west virginia and kentucky. you are saying taxpayers are on the hook for the cleanup effort. if it is so expensive why not leave the coal mines the way they are? >> no matter what happens, i worked for a larger company and this was one of our top priorities, we took pride in what we did in restoring the land and doing things with reclamation crews and that helped us the favorable with the epa, you have companies that are

feeling the pinch because they work for smaller companies and are not able to continue like the larger coal companies are so the money is gone at the point you are doing the reclamation and when they file bankruptcy they will not continue on. carley: if you leave these abandoned coal mines it could be a hazard to the community, to keep them there or people in these communities because the coal mining industry is dying. they pay a bunch of money to clean them up. you worked for a company that did reclamation cleaning of these coal mines, cut a lot of people get jobs doing this? president biden seems to think so. >> there may be a few jobs and we could have some companies we reached out to. when i say i work for a company that has information i mean a company that took pride in the reclamation they did and it is part of the mining process, the

actual mine does reclamation. there are some companies that come in and restore to a certain point but not to the nature of what most coal companies would do on their own as far as restoring the land. carley: thank you, appreciate it. todd: a big hour of "fox and friends first," indiana's attorney general, rachel campos stuff he and doctor carol swain. do not go anywhere. ♪♪

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take. how the far left is blaming cuban suffering on america. todd: flagging facebook post, the white house admits teaming up with big tech to center social media. problematic posts the biden administration is policing and could the lab leak theory be one of them? carley: the major cities going back to masks. "fox and friends first" continues right now. ♪♪ never going to let you down ♪♪ never going to run around and hurt you ♪♪ never going to make you cry ♪♪ say goodbye ♪♪ todd: every now and again -- carley: you click on a website and the song randomly plays was wise anything? todd: so many times you can play apples and bananas and -- carley: and mix it up. todd: yo