at larry elder a couple days back , venice is blue as it gets, orange county is only bastion of red there is. >> i am sorry. adam we're out of time, adam we're out of time, it's an egg agree overreach of federal authority. >> the president president's actions in a mandate hardens the resistance. todd: it's monday, september 13th. red states launching a legal offensive against president biden's vaccine mandate as republican governors warn the constitutional rights of law abiding americans are being violated. >> it will be a long day on capitol hill for secretary of state antony blinken as they

demand answers. todd: and there's this. >> definitely no great pleasure to call out democrats, i was a democrat. todd: did you see this, a hollywood actress and former democrat throwing her support behind republican gubernatorial candidate larry elder, the stunning allegations that is made as voters prepare to head to the polls in california's recall election. >> good morning, you're watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning. i'm jillian mele. todd: i'm todd piro. the fight against the president's vaccine mandate heating up as republican governors vow to challenge the order. jillian: lauren blanchard is live with the backlash as new york city begins enforcing its own mandate. >> reporter: the list continues to grow by the day, the governors say the vaccine mandates are unconstitutional and an attack on personal freedoms. >> we have had people that have been working hard for months and years, throughout the whole

time, and now he wants to cast them aside. he's got no authority to do what he's doing. when biden is violating the constitution, we are going to be on the front line with the full spectrum response. >> reporter: businesses with 100 or more workers must require vaccination or weekly tests. employees at medicare or medicaid funded nursing homes must be vaccinated. almost all federal employees and contractors must get the vaccine with no option of testing. the surgeon general says the administration believes the mandates will hold up legally and they'll only allow for religious or medical exemptions. >> we've got to be vigilant there and make sure people are using them in the spirit that they're intended and not abusing them or asking for exemptions when they don't apply. that's one of the areas we continue to monitor in the days and weeks ahead. >> reporter: and today if you want to eat, work out or attend an event inside in new york city, be prepared to show your

vaccine card or face fines, although mayor de blasio said they won't begin collecting immediately. vaccine requirements apply to kids over 12 who want to play sports and teachers in the classroom. ken paxton announced his office will sue at least six school districts for mask mandates. the state supreme court sided with the governor's ban in texas on mask requirements by schools. next hour, we'll hear from attorney general paxton on the future of the lawsuits, plus i know you'll be talking to him about the vaccine mandates by the biden administration and what his state plans to do to fight them. todd: you bet. lauren, thank you very much. jillian: mark levin says the mandate is the marxist movement succeeding in our nation. >> this is tyranny. it's getting more aggressive. joe biden gave a speech the other day and he always walks off, he doesn't take questions, like he's some kind of dictator. and he is the closest thing we've got to a dictator yet.

he doesn't treat you as a citizen. he is basically yelling at you, lecturing you, he's filled with scorn. he's not doing what he told you to you do 80 million of you are unvaccinated. you're the reason people are dying, you're the reason there's a spread, you're the reason that we have these variants, not him. jillian: well, he's also calling out president biden for allowing unvaccinated migrants to cross into the u.s. practically unsupervised while shaming americans for not getting the shot. todd: secretary of state antony blinken bracing for a grilling on capitol hill over the botched withdrawal in afghanistan. house republicans expected to press the secretary on how many people are stranded in the country and how evacuees are being vetted. congressman michael mccall says he has a lot of explaining to do. >> why did this go so bad? how did he get it so wrong? why didn't he listen to the intelligence community warnings that the taliban would take

over, this rosy dream they would somehow negotiate a last minute deal with the taliban was absolutely fantasy world. todd: his testimony comes as the taliban cements its power in kabul, raising its flag above the presidential palace. you see it there in the center of your screen. jillian: on 9/11. todd: on 9/11. congressman called three questions that we want answers to. a fourth question i've been wondering, where's the transparency. remember, we have americans still stuck in afghanistan. we haven't heard updates on those individuals, say for one from antony blinken over the weekend. what about the six planes we've been reporting on that have been allegedly on the tarmac for so long? we haven't heard about them in a while. and do we yet have the number of americans that are still there? still don't know the answer to that. this has been going on for over a month. jillian: as we know, last week there was a plane, some were allowed to leave, which is amazing. any number is certainly better

than none. but you brought up the six planes that have been sitting on the tarmac. we still don't have a full number on how many people are there. people want answers to all of these questions. let's take a look at what the wall street journal editorial board writes and this says, quote, americans, u.s. residents and endangered afghans are still scattered throughout the country, the special immigrant visa program offers a path to u.s. citizenship for afghans who worked with the american government for at least a year during the war. the process can take years and hundreds of applicants and family members have been killed over time. a state department official acknowledged the majority of siv applicants remained after u.s. forces departed, this is one of the worst war time betrayals in u.s. history. to that point, take a listen to what michael watts has to. waltz has to say.>> blinken kee going to judge by their actions.

let's look at their actions, let's look at the beatings and killings of journalists who are covering protests of women that have been told you can't go to work, you can't go to university, that taliban spokesman when asked why aren't we seeing any women as ministers, he basically said they can't handle it. and need to stay at home and have babies. so here we have the democrats that are the defenders of minorities and women's rights and yet they're silent and they're engaging with a terrorist regime. todd: for the party claiming to be the party of women, the democrats are sort of basically sanctioning the subjew gas subj. n ofwomen. it's a bad sign when the head of police right now in afghanistan is on the fbi's most wanted list. that is not good at all. all this leading to a chilling prediction by the former dni

john ratcliffe on the safety of our country the next three plus years. listen. >> i wrote an article as the director of national intelligence, saying that china was our number one national security threat. i did that as i was walking out the door based on the fact that i'm the person that saw more intelligence than anyone else in the country over the past year. if i had to write that op-ed today i would tell you that i think our greatest national security threat at least in the short term is joe biden and our national security apparatus. one of the challenges here that we are facing for the next three years is a president who is not listening to the intelligence. our intelligence was crystal clear about what was going to happen in afghanistan if we withdrew without conditions based terms that we had negotiated. todd: so when the dust settles on this afghanistan debacle, i think the fact that joe biden apparently did not listen to his

intel is going to be the main thing to come out of this. you've heard people on both sides of the aisle say they cannot explain why joe biden did not listen to the intelligence and going forward, like john ratcliffe said, what does this mean for the next three years. jillian: be curious to hear what blinken has to say about this today. i'm hoping people press him on what was known, who knew what, when, about what would happen when we pulled out. jillian: we need answers. jillian: we'll see. let's talk about this for a second. governor gavin newsom making the final case to keep his job as voters gear up to hit the polls in the recall election tomorrow. todd: larry elder slamming newsom's performance as new allegations emerge surrounding newsom's wife. ashley strohmier joins us. >> reporter: things are heating up as the golden state nears the end of the recall election and gavin newsom seems to be feeling the pressure.

he held a rally over the weekend slamming the recall effort as an extension of trumpism. >> this recall is an extension of the big lie, this recall is an extension of the january 26th insurrection, it's an extension of what's going on in states all across this country that want to suppress your right to vote or women's rights to their own reproductive healthcare. it's all part of an extended narrative. >> reporter: recall candidate larry elder is firing back, telling mark levin trumpism does not explain why an historic number of people are leaving california. take a listen. >> if i had a d at the end of my name, they would talk about this being a hate crime, an example of systemic racism because the person wearing the gorilla mask was a white female. it's got very little coverage in the left wing media, it's the double standard i'm facing. >> reporter: rose mcgowan is joining he elder in the battle to flip the state red.

>> do i agree with him on all points? no. so what? he is the better candidate. is the berman. they -- better man. they want to hear the more we micro label each other, the better we'll be. today i challenge the state, i challenge these voters, i challenge the media, back up. be human first. vote for humanity. >> reporter: mcgowan is accusing newsom's wife of colluding with harvey weinstein's attorney to silence her from speaking out. newsome denied the claim. president biden is flying to california today to rally support for newsom. jillian: ashley, thank you. todd: et let's go to capitol hill where president biden's $3.5 trillion vision is in peril. senate majority leader chuck schumer going full throttle in hopes of getting the bill on the president's desk by the end of

the month yet it's still a no go for west virginia senator joe manchin, calling for a pause over biden's hefty price tag. >> he will not have my vote on 3.5 and chuck knows that. we talked about this. we put out 5.4 trillions, we tried to help americans in every way we could. a lot of the help is out there and will run until next year, 2022. what's the urgency? todd: the democrats need every senator in the party the to vote yes for that bill to pass. time now, 12 minutes after the hour. the campaign trail heated as the top candidates in the aforementioned california recall make their final push. >> this recall is an extension of the big lie. >> he shut down the state and the more severe way than did any of the other 49 states. jillian: but as newsom pulls away in polls, our next guest says republicans still have a chance. we're coming right back. ♪ we put our hands up like the

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todd: in about 24 hours voters in california will decide the fate of governor gavin newsom who has a lead in the polls over his top republican challenger larry elder and the democrat

hopes a campaign stop with president biden will push him over the top. joining me to discuss the final day of the race, elizabeth hang. you are from the very conservative valley, any chance that enough of the valley turns out to prove these polls wrong? >> i sure hope so. but win or lose, newsom has a major problem on his hands. i don't know what the results of this recall will be, but i do know that republican party needs to find candidates that identify with california and lead through this crisis because simply what gavin newsom has been doing has devastated the valley, california and has been a bad example for the united states. todd: heres' what gavin newsom had to say at a rally last week. >> it's profoundly significant what happens in this state to a broader agenda, i think it will have an impact on the 2022 election, the economy changing

hands in the midst of a pandemic is profound and consequential. todd: as someone planning to run in 2022, do you think the results tomorrow will be a bellwether for the midterm as newsom predicts? >> look, tomorrow is going to be -- it's going to be a huge issue for us in 2022 and i think it's incredibly important to go back and see why we have this recall in general, because gavin newsom has failed to handle this economy well. he's shut down business, shut down schools. he's poorly managed our forest fires, and he purposely changed our legislation so that the recall would be earlier rather than later to not provide any potential candidate the ability to campaign longer, because he

felt that it would be better. todd: there's also the hypocrisy of the media and the democratic party as seen with thing throwing incident against larry elder. here's the republican frontrunner on that. take a listen. >> if i had a d at the end of my name they would talk about this being a hate crime, talking about this being an example of systemic racism because the person wearing the gorilla mask was apparently a white female. it's gotten very little coverage in the left wing media. it's the double standard i'm facing. todd: have you faced a similar double standard as an asian american woman? >> absolutely. when i ran actually for congress back in 2018, i saw the double standard. when i was simply trying to talk about my family's refugee story of coming to the united states as legal refugees, after living through the cam bodan genocide -- cambodian genocide, facebook

and twitter banned me from talk about the story, if i had been on the left it would have been highlighted on the news and we didn't see that happen and we see the exact same thing that's happening with larry elder, with the coming election. todd: finally, many say running in california as a republican is a lost cause, obviously senate is a state-wide office. why are you choosing to do so? >> i'm choosing to do so because i believe that every day californians and americans are just looking for elected officials with common sense. we have seen a mandate after mandate that have come out of not only governor gavin newsom, but president joe biden at this point in time that are simply not american values. they're these social is particular policies that continue to dictate how we live

our lives, how we run our businesses, that whether or not our children can go to school and this is simply not the direction in which our country goes and the key reason in which why it's important to fight for california is because anything in which california does tends to become national policies and we simply can't have more of the same bad california policies that have been dictated by individuals such as governor gavin newsom that are basically taken to washington, d.c. todd: thank you very much for joining us here on a monday morning. enjoy the rest of your week. >> thank you. todd: jillian, over to you. jillian: okay. the first sunday of the 2021nfl regular season is in the books. the saints pouncing on the packers, 38-3 thanks to five touchdowns from james winston. meantime, the packers benching g aaron rodgers after throwing two

interception, leading to a blowout loss, all eyes on him after the offseason. patrick mahomes leading the chiefs to a huge come from behind victory against the browns, first overall pick trevor lawrence throwing for three touchdowns in his debut, not enough to help the jaguars, falling to the texans a, 37-21. my philadelphia eagles shutting out the falcons in a big second half leading to a 32-6 victory. what happened to the giants, todd? i think they lost, right? they did. todd: video music awards. jillian: all right. mtv video music awards returns with a show stopping and surprising open by a pop music legend. take a look. >> and they said we wouldn't last. jillian: madonna saluting mtv's origin as the music network turns 40. she performed at the first

vmas in 1984. just continue bieber also -- justin bieber also making a return to the stage. jillian: he won artist of the world, he had seven nominations, the most of any artist. another big winner, lil nazx. olivia rodrigo making best new artist. >> ♪ if you ever cared to ask. ♪ good for you. jillian: doja cat serving as the show's host. todd, i think i live under a rock, i had no idea this was happening. todd: lucky for you and the show, i had a choice between wearing what i'm wearing today and madonna's outfit, i chose this. jillian: you're welcome, america. todd: 23 minutes after the hour. caught red handed disrespecting the red, white and blue, a viral

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todd: one washington state high school's patriotic tribute to lives lost on 9/11 was reportedly canceled this weekend. student body was invited to wear red, white and blue in honor of the victims of 9/11 at a football game on friday. the staff stopped the plan, saying they, quote, did not want to unintentionally cause offense to some who see it differently. school did not say who could be offended by that patriotic tribute. jillian. jillian: caught red handed, a student senator from washington university appearing to dismantle a 9/11 memorial,

removing american flags meant to represent the nearly 3,000 lives lost 20 years ago. >> what's up? who are you? okay. kind of weird when some random person walks up and photographs me. jillian: i'm joined by the young man behind the camera who confronted the student, nathaniel hope. thanks for being here. >> good morning, jillian. thanks for having me. jillian: tell me what was happening here. it appear as if he's removing these american flags that are supposed to represent the nearly 3,000 lost on 9/11 and putting them in trash bags. >> very unfortunate. it was this past 9/11 and i was taking a morning walk and i noticed as classmate was -- noticed a classmate was disturbing the monument to those

who died in the 9/11 attack. it was placed by the school's republican organization. i contacted group members and the police. the police came soon after. another student began confronting the individual. so i walked up to him, calmly, and began recording. i didn't want to say much to him, i didn't want to escalate the situation and i wanted the police to handle it and they did. jillian: here's what that student says, quote, i had no intention of removing the flags from the mudfield area. my planned protest was the to place the bags of flags on mud field along with various statistics explaining the human cost of 9/11 in the past 20 years. i did not deface, destroy, damage, nor steal any flags, nor did i interfere with any registered event time. what is your response to that? >> i think that his action was inappropriate and thankfully the school agrees with me. the fact is that each and every one of those flags was for

somebody who died in those terrorist attacks. disturbing them for any sort of protest on that day was inappropriate. jillian: and what's the school doing now? what did they say? >> right. so after the police collected the flags from the individual, they gave them back to the conservative group and every single one of those flags were planted by the end of the day but not just that, the school sent an e-mail to the students and the chancellor said what happened a was inappropriate. i appreciate that. jillian: and washington university of st. louis says, quote, we were disappointed to learn about the disruption to the 9/11 display. we condemn the interference with the expression of support by the college republicans for the victims of the national tragedy that took place 20 years ago today. what is the take-away from this situation? because obviously you posted this online. it got a lot of attention, a lot of people responding to it. so what's your take-away now? >> my take-away is always stand for what's right.

it was wrong what happened on 9/11, the individual disturbed the flags and i believe if we speak up, if we show the world in justice that the right thing will happen and in this case he will be disciplined appropriately. jillian: were you surprised when you saw this? i bet it was one of those things where you couldn't believe what you were seeing. >> as an american, i was speechless. the only thing i could do was just record and watch and just be so disappointed and let the police handle the situation. jillian: yeah. absolutely. nathaniel hope, thank you so much for waking up early, for joining us this morning and sharing your story. appreciate your time. todd: unbelievable. time now, 32 minutes after the hour. shocking numbers revealing the dangerous state of chicago's crime crisis as more kids have been shot in the city this year than have died from covid across the u.s. two chicago dads join us after

the break.

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the number on your screen. coventry direct, redefining insurance. jillian: good morning. welcome back. chicago mayor lori lightfoot vowing to fight crime as violence rises to new highs, shootings in the city spiking from 2,781 by this point last year to as you can see over 3,000 already. the democratic mayor even taking heat from her own party, two

democrat officials saying, quote, by every measure our city is in crisis and our efforts to keep our communities and our police safe are simply falling short. fox news host trey gowdy is slamming progressives if san francisco and new york city for offering to pay criminals to not break the law amid the push to defund the police. listen. >> i never thought government or any noncriminal enterprise would encourage this kind of shakedown or extortion. some progressives are add vo t g cutting funding for cops but paying criminals so they will stop. money has become the new morality. what about not shooting people because it's wrong. jillian: there are similar misguided programs, providing financial incentives to curb violence throughout the u.s. todd: a shocking stat out of chicago, shows children are at far greater risk of being shot

than contracting a deadly case of coronavirus. in 2021, 214 children have died of covid-19 across the u.s. while 286 minors have been shot in chicago alone. joining me to discuss father of three, anthony napolitano and father of six willie preston. thanks to the both of you for being here. willie, those numbers were ridiculously telling. why isn't the epidemic of kids getting shot receiving the same attention as covid? >> well, it's very simple. because covid is a political winner. covid is something that folks can politicize in a way that benefits, killing children has become normalized and we have to stop it in chicago and it starts with the politics. we have to look at and value the children in chicago lives and stop politicizing their lives. we know the answer. we have to do better with supporting our police. we have to do better with making

certain that people have access to jobs, not guns. we have to do better with making certain that we stop poverty and start to make certain that we start to build people up so they can have a future to look forward to instead of just the ghettos in chicago. todd: same question to you, anthony. these are both basically epidemics, why are we focused on solving one while we let one continue to fester year after year, decade after decade, it seems. >> yeah, i couldn't agree with my panel mate any more. he hit it on the head. unfortunately for chicago we hit the trifecta, we've been part of a criminal pandemic, political pandemic and viral pandemic. for the last five years we've seen an uptick in crime and there's nothing been done about it. our state's attorney does nothing about it. our political aspect in our city is looking to pull funds away from our police department and supporting them to get ahold of

this criminal enterprise. it's unfortunate. you can see it every day in city council. you have a faction of socialist members that are looking to pull money away, allocate it somewhere else and they want to see people weak. they want to see crime he's late because then you -- escalate because then you need more government. and that's the problem. we are in an absolute political pandemic here as well. todd: look at these numbers, chicago shootings of kids year to year up 8%. more children have been fatally shot in chicago than have died of covid in the entire state of illinois. willie, how much blame does the media have for allowing the chicago politicians and elite there shift the focus to covid, away from the epidemic of violence? >> well, i think they play a large part. we know that the media has really turned a blind eye to communities like mine in englewood and focused everything on co-i have. i mean, everything -- covid.

i meaning everything. that's allowed people to not even realize the issues happening here in chicago. i mean, we have children that are not just being murdered but we have children that are committing these crimes. we allow our kids to stay home for over a year and decided that the only thing that was important was keeping kids in a quarantine state. but meanwhile, there were many children who were just running the streets, all types of hours during the daytime hours. that's why i was large proponent for returning to the schools because i recognize in my community there were kids that needed to be in an organized setting such as schools. the media has turned their eyes to what the true issues are in chicago. everything isn't covid. we have focus on making sure we have strong communities, strong families and we are serious about crime in the city and right now you we're not serious about anything it appears except for covid, covid and covid. todd: we're not discounting

covid but you can do two things at once especially when the lives of kids are on the line. anthony, how frustrating is it to know as a parent, we know who is committing these crimes, yet there's no appetite in the da's office among the mayor's office, the da, to put the bad guys away. how frustrating is that? >> it's frustrating. as a parent of three, and one of my children is 50 years old that wants to explore the city and i -- 15 years old and i won't let her out of the house right now. you want to think your state's attorney is the attorney for the people, not for the criminal. in chicago, that's what's going on. our state's attorney is a defense attorney. they're back on the streets within hours, they're committing the same crimes. people on home monitoring system are out on the streets killing people and nothing is being done about it. you have to start voting people out, start voting for people, start voting for communities and start voting for life instead of

voting for party. if we don't get ahead of this in chicago, we're going to lose this city. people need to step up immediately. my panel mate hit it on the head once again. we're hiding everything under the covid pandemic which is a serious problem but we're losing lives from the bullet pandemic and the criminal pandemic and that's what we need to get ahead of right now. todd: if these individuals are not voted out, is there a tipping point where even those individuals in chicago that are in office will say enough is enough or are we just really don't hold your breath on that one? >> no, i would sadly say don't hold your breath had on that one. because to be honest as voters we failed. we have rewarded people by either voting for them repeatedly despite the fact that they failed so miserably or a lot of people just check out and don't participate at all in the politics because it just seems these folks will never, ever be

taken out or held to account politically. i'm concerned about it. i think there's going to be a political revolution. people are scared to death in chicago. they just need folks that are going to step up and be brave enough and say enough is enough, we're going to take our city back and we're not going to sit down and simply just give our communities away to criminals. and to be frank, there's no safe place in chicago. my wife and i won't go downtown to enjoy a dinner downtown because unfortunately our mayor has allowed the kids to go down there in droves and they're beating people up. they're engaged in all type of criminal activity. we have to put a lockdown on the city, not from the coronavirus, have to put a lockdown on the criminal virus that spread all throughout the city. todd: it's a shame that you can't just enjoy your lives anymore. chicago's a beautiful city, it's a great place. i certainly hope that something improves soon because you guys are losing out and you could say the same thing for cities across the country but obviously we're

talking about chicago right now. anthony and willie, thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having us. >> thank you for having me. todd: jillian. jillian: okay. turning to biden's border crisis, a migrant girl is found with a group of men on a train car in the texas city of del-rio. the discovery made as part of operation lone star. it's a texas state led effort to secure the border and a stop the flow of human and drug trafficking. officials say the men claimed they found the girl along their journey but her mother was in another train car. the men are facing charges. north korea claims it successfully tested new long range cruise missiles over the weekend, saying in a statement it is monitoring the development. north korea state media reporting the weapons can hit targets more than 900 miles away. still ahead, we are learning that the same scientists that

dismissed the covid lab leak theory reportedly have ties to the very lab in wuhan, china. plus -- >> the bottom line is, do we have the urgency to spend another 3.5 trillion right now? jillian: progressives sounding off on democrat senator joe manchin after he delivered a swift blow to the party's $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. the latest in-fighting from the left and what it means for president biden's agenda. ohio congressman warren davison joins us, next. ♪

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♪ and the rocket's red glare. ♪ the bombs bursting in air. ♪ gave proof -- todd: that was beautiful. but this is not. the nfl canceling a national anthem performance by that singer because she would not get a covid-19 vaccine for religious reasons. the nfl says her choice does not meet the terms of league policy. she says the nfl decision, quote, made me feel alarmed because what it implies for not only myself but millions of others.

she will join "fox & friends" later this morning to react. jillian: there are players who are not vaccinated. todd: correct. jillian: just making sure. todd: a bombshell new report revealing a truth about a group of scientists who refuted the wuhan lab leak theory, some are ties to the institute of virology. jillian: here to react, warren davison, who sponsored a bill to give dr. anthony fauci the boot. thanks for being here this morning. let's pull up a portion of the letter from march 7th of 2020. and this reads, quote, the rapid open and transparent sharing of data on this outbreak is being threatened by rumors and misinformation about the origins. we stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that covid-19 does not have a natural origin. if this letter was not written back in march, where do you think we would be in this investigation because this squashed a lot of those theories that this started from a lab leak. >> yeah, look, i think senator

tom cotton was on this in january of 2020, very early. he laid out for hypothesis and scientists normally would follow those hypothesis. instead you saw a coordinated effort i think led by dr. fauci to try to obfuscate this and it was sadly almost an accomplice over whatever china has ties to. all the effort to make china open of up in a trans paint way as close to the discovery as possible came off with the coordinated effort that fauci organized. todd: is it fair to say the early dismissal of the lab leak theory of cost lives? >> i don't see how it couldn't have cost lives. even though this day, the coordinated effort to shape information instead of study it with intellectual curiosity and scientific reason, how do you keep these people in in place like dr. fauci and you'll see

people who are leaving cdc and the fda because the culture is toxic. i think we have to reduce the toxic environment. jillian: when you look at the details of the investigation, revealing of the 27 scientists that we mentioned, 26 of them have some kind of ties, some kind of link to chinese researchers, their colleagues or ben factors. there's one person who does not have any proven ties, it's unbelievable. does this change anything now? >> i hope it changes the public perception of this. i mean, you know, people have to ask why is it -- you know, why is it that we can't look into the origins, why is it we can't question how this was developed, why is it that we can't question the fact that dr. fauci was deceptive before the united states senate when asked, hey, did you fund gain of function research. it those be equivocation as

best. why do we have person that's been in the job since 1984, does the entire fate of the national approach to immunology depend on one doctor? i hope not. that's a strategic problem for our country if we're only one doctor deep and the reality is there's been a coordinated effort not just to silence this theory but any theory that would question this group individuals who now seem to be conflicted at least. todd: meantime, congressman joe manchin delivering a severe blow to joe biden's agenda by rejecting a $3.5 trillion spending package. who do you think blinks first, democratic leadership, progressives or joe manchin? >> look, i'm encouraged by joe manchin's reasoning in his wall street journal op-ed. i think he laid out a very good case for the fiscal path our country's on and it needs to take -- we need as a country to take a different approach to spending. that's just a math problem. you can have a healthy debate about what do we spend the money

on. but, you know, he highlighted really how the country's gone from we should be able to raise enough tax revenue to pay for the spending, that's how george h w. bush broke his no new taxes pledge, to now there's not a lender to fund this spending. shouldn't with check up. i think joe manchin is onto something. in the house, i think there were 10 or more house democrats who blocked nancy pelosi's approach to this. jillian: congressman, thank you for joining us this morning. appreciate your time. >> thank you all. have a great day. jillian: we have a big show coming up in the next hour of "fox & friends first." todd: joe concha, texas attorney general ken paxton and dr. marc siegel, all joining us live on a monday morning. kicking off your week. do not go anywhere. ♪ have a nice day. ♪ have a nice day. ♪

it's an egregious overreach of federal authority. >> i'm trying to overcome resistance but the president's actions in a mandate hardens the resistance. jillian: it is monday, september 13th. the red states launching their legal offensive against president biden's vaccine mandate as republican governors warn the constitutional rights of law abiding americans are being violated. todd: plus, it's going to be a long day on capitol hill for secretary of state antony blinken as lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle are set to demand answers on the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan that led to the rise of the taliban there and the deaths of 13 american service members. jillian: then there's this. >> it gives me no great pleasure to call out democrats. i was a democrat. jillian: a hollywood actress and disillusioned former democrat throws her support behind republican gubernatorial candidate larry elder, the stunning allegation rose