>> can discharge the duty of the office on which i am about to commit. >> so help me god. >> welcome admiral levine. would you like to say a few words? >> yes, sir. thank you very much for entrusting me with this role. laura: the face covering was on and then the admiral took it off. they are all vaccinated. >> why thousands of migrants from the border in the middle of the night? >> earlier than you might like to take a flight. todd: jen psaki with another snarky response about secret midnight migrant flight lawmakers and critics demand real answers. jillian: questions being raised about public safety in our cities as drove the first responders to move their jobs to

get vaccine mandates. >> should have asked better questions. >> melting down just weeks before election day. the weight of his party rest on his campaign. the latest from virginia. "fox and friends first" starts right now. carley: this is "fox and friends first" on wednesday morning. into the biden administration acknowledging and defending flying unaccompanied kids across the country. >> griff jenkins live with how the white house is justifying this operation. >> reporter: the white house has a different view how most americans characterize flights arriving at 2:00, and 4:00 in the morning carrying unaccompanied children. >> not sure it is in the middle of the night. no surprise kids can be seen

traveling, it is something we are working to unite children with family members or sponsors in other parts of the country. >> reporter: a reference to the responsibility in the floor is agreement to release migrants within 20 days but critics are not buying this. >> they don't want to reveal the consequences open border policy. they are having these flights in the middle of the day time. >> reporter: the president's nominee to head customs and border protection chris magnus facing growing in the senate refusing to call the unprecedented surge of migrants a crisis. >> do we have a crisis at the border? >> no one believes there is greater urgency than i do. >> less a crisis.

>> i don't speak to urgent as less serious at all. >> reporter: magnus's confirmation is a topic of discussion when republican senators ron johnson correct scott, rob portman have a roundtable discussion today about the crisis at the border in their words. jillian: chris magnus was speaking before the senate finance committee, the committee votes to approve nomination and then he goes to the full senate, when does that happen? >> reporter: magnus's confirmation can't proceed without republican support as long as all democrats on the senate finance committee, will go to the full vote and is expected to be confirmed down party lines. todd: back to something we were talking about, experts working

in the middle of the night which is what we do on "fox and friends first," 2:30 in the morning is officially the middle of the night. jen psaki doing anything other is a boldfaced lie. as to why they are choosing to do this, ted cruz says it is clear he has a solution. >> at 4:00 in the morning, they are counting on corrupt corporate media to be complicit in covering it up. it's why introduced the bill called the stop the surge act, those 2 million illegal aliens, if it is okay, if you are fine with 2 million illegal immigrants let's send them where you like to hang out.

carley: what ted cruz is talking about is introduced the stop the surge act. in liberal cities, some of them block rhode island, greenwich, connecticut, massachusetts, cambridge, massachusetts but also makes a good political point that border patrol is so overworked with processing people. would he wants to do is after they crossed the border into texas put illegal immigrants on buses and ship them to liberal cities for processing so border patrol can do their actual job. i don't think it is going to pass. todd: you would think the biden white house would like that idea. hhs and the white house are lockstep on this notion. what hhs says it is to care for unaccompanied children until

they can unify with a parent or vetted sponsor as part of the process and our facilities travel for the children, to their sponsors or other care providers to quickly and safely unite with parents and sponsors so what does the white house like the 2 cruise ideas, these locations where you could more easily facilitate this? >> democrats would never go for it because they don't want an influx of illegal immigrants in their cities and the closer you get to this problem which is why they are border town democrat saying a huge problem, resources are strapped. it is unsafe for our community members and the kids are one thing but what about the drug cartels making millions of dollars because of this problem with the fact that 100,000 migrants crossed through panama and are on their way to the united states and 52 were apprehended.

they have ties to al qaeda. we will talk to brandon judd about that. democrats don't seem to care about that and louis goehmert seems to have a sneaking suspicion as to why. listen to what he has to say. >> counting on democrat voters if they can just get it through people that came in 30 minutes ago as illegally they get to vote. that's what they're shooting for. nonetheless they are not looking at the damage that is occurring to this country. it is so outrageous, the drug cartels are the biggest beneficiary of what this administration is doing. laura: that underscores what we were talking about. the reason they don't want the guys in the blue areas is they want them in the red areas, to change vote totals in those red areas to make the entire country blue and the best way to do that

is say we gave it to you and there you have it. they will be. photo silver life. carley: they make over $400 million a month on human smuggling alone. that doesn't even factor into the money they make off of drugs. todd: that is what we know about it. carley: got to get to this. a security secretary alejandro mayorkas testing positive for covid 19 tuesday after an appearance with president biden at the capital. the dhs confirming the diagnosis saying secretary mayorkas is experiencing mild congestion. easily vaccinated and will isolate and work at home per cdc protocol and medical advice. the department as contact tracing is underway. this comes as the white house mandates police and military personnel across the country even mass firings and resignations live. todd: the biden administration's response.

>> reporter: first responders leaving jobs ever make the man is raising concerns about public safety and forcing the white house to answer tough questions. >> any concern that if police forces shrink or if signs of the ready military force shrink, that the united states may not be equipped properly? >> 700,000 people have died of covid, the number one cause of death among police department and police officers and something we should take seriously. departments are trying to save people who work for them, we support that effort and there has been success across the country in that regard. >> reporter: fired officers and firefighters marched to city hall to turn their boots after dedicating their lives to public service. >> our understanding is they will not work in fire stations. it hurts because we love serving these people. >> we celebrate in the community like myself in 20 years to

celebrate our careers as we go out the door. >> reporter: in chicago, 21 offices i paste on no pay status after failing to register with the vaccine portal. mayor lori lightfoot refused pressure from police unions to push back in october 15th deadline and asking local sheriff's department to be on standby in case of officer shortages. one sheriff says mayor lightfoot is creating her own emergency with the decision she is making with a police force. i would help an officer out if they were distressed, she's bringing this upon herself. new york mayor bill deblasio announcing a mandate for all city employees. the nypd has a vaccination rate of 69%, and the fdny, 59%. city workers make the first shot by november 1st.

todd: these leaders have more control than public safety. >> the city of portland, check that's that a few times, seems impossible physics hundred thousand, seattle 30%, sides. you see numbers, lose veteran police officers perhaps 100 of them in seattle alone because.00 one of your police force might not be vaccinated? this is madness. it is absurd and shows you how important control is more so than public safety. >> selfless scrapping a plan to put unvaccinated workers on unpaid leave. any employee would be sent home, with medical religious exemptions. thousands of flights were

canceled earlier this month, it comes after hundreds of southwest employees and customers protest against the mandate outside headquarters in dallas. dive into that little more. covering democracy 2021, two weeks into virginia decide the new governor, republican glenn youngkin calling for an investigation into loud county school board amid accusations of covering up sexual assault. >> that the palms of justice should be investigating those covered by heinous crime in our schools. enabled an offender being prosecuted of sexual assault to attack again. todd: democrat terry mcauliffe the rating local news reporter. >> i will give you extra time. >> mcauliffe becoming upset after being pressed on his support of that mandate.

during my time as a local news reporter no one ever did that. even more cantankerous. that is not something you do. one of two things. either he is a wildly unlikable guy or is trying to hide something. carley: he got slightly frustrated in the moment. i don't necessarily think it is the biggest deal but what he said about parents not having any say over what children learn in school is a massive deal and he said glenn youngkin is taking his comments out of context when he's the one that literally said it. it is anybody's race. todd: not just this election. this could resound down, and -- carley: speaking of this race, lawrence jones talking to voters, joining us live a little later in the show. >> my final sign off serving the

citizens of the state of washington. >> my honor and privilege to work alongside all of you. todd: seattle officers are forced out, business owners, out-of-control crime in seattle. we are talking to one of the next. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424. these folks don't have time to go to the post office they use stamps.com all the services of the post office only cheaper get a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again.

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a victim of portland's car rocket in crime. jacob vasquez was shot in the back by a stray bullet at a bar. his brother-in-law says defunding the police is not the answer. >> to think it will cut law enforcement and that he will have a positive effect is ludicrous and i believe that is a direct cause of my brother-in-law being murdered. they are here to fend for themselves, this travesty happening in portland. travesty what happened to my brother-in-law. todd: nearly 200 portland officers left, as the city has seen a record 67 homicides this year. jillian: after monday's deadline to comply with washington's vaccine mandates or submit an exemption request was small business owners are worried about the community's safety including pluto's organic café which has been broken into 6

times since the beginning of the pandemic and he joins me now. your concerns are so understandable, your business has been broken into six times. what happened. >> and and just vote online. >> reported online. >> that is probably happening because seattle's police department facing massive staffing shortage, 300 police officers left during the defend the police movement. more are being forced out of their jobs because of this covid 19 mandate. what will happen to your business? >> a lot of businesses close down and have to protect myself

by myself and i can't sleep well every night, i wake up and going to check my store. at 4:00, 5:00, don't know what will happen. they don't care. they break into your store. if you don't have anything, take whatever. carley: why has your business been broken into so many times? is it an unsafe area? >> it is close to the space needle, it is a tourist area. more police than usual. they don't care, like anything like food, the guy who was backing an energy drink and water, he broke the glass and cost me 1000. people break-in for anything. they don't care about camera or alarm or anything, just break in. if we had police around that

would be different. carley: the lack of polys and soft on crime laws. you are afraid crime will get so bad that tourists won't show up to frequent your café and you blues money that way as well. >> i hear that, they don't want to come to seattle anymore because they don't feel safe. a lot of people have a problem in the streets or go to a certain café or restaurant and now everywhere a lot of police closed down. carley: it sounds like if you call 911 because a business is getting broken into would you rather have an unvaccinated police officer show up or have no one show up at all.

>> i don't care, the only thing i care about is i find help. and homeless people, broken outside, cracking my window, they grow up 6 hours and meet someone. >> sorry to hear your story, no one deserves what you are going through right now and we wish you the best of luck. thank you for waking up really early and speaking out. appreciate it. todd: colorado parents fighting back against so-called equity plan for making it is to classrooms. two concerned as join us next. the backlog hitting a record high, but the white house is

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being ordered across the country, people have more money, expendable resources. carley: more americans are working now than a year ago even though record 4.3 million people quit their jobs in august and the trucking and warehouse industries among those experiencing dire staffing shortages. democrats scale down a proposal forcing banks to report transactions of 600 to the irs many believing it would open the door to the government having too much knowledge of american spending habits. the treasury department announcing new amounts would be 10,$000. >> reporter: they are mobilizing against woke school board policy specifically education equity policy set to take effect. douglas county parent matt cassidy and will johnson.

thanks for being here. what red flags went up when you heard about this equity policy? >> so many parents, district promoted messages such as the need to dismantle the colorblind framework in education, telling kids and community to judge them by it. it is antithetical to principles of the civil rights movement and will not help any child succeed. this equity policy created the myth of meritocracy or other things that will not prepare any child for success. for people to define themselves by surface level distances, that equal outcomes will be equal opportunity.

we saw the policy get, the consultant group to train our staff and features that look at the world through the lens of power struggles. equity is about outcomes and cultures like the white male christian street call to the pond so many the systems need to be transformed with her parents agree or not. todd: the streets as this pursuit of equitable educational opportunity will guide the board of education and school district staff, selecting educational material, equipment, and regulations. should the focus instead solely beyond preparing your children for their future, whether it is there next grade double, the world of work and using math and english to do that. >> that is what we are looking for and that can be done under

the educational equity policy. as it was introduced it had red flags within, as will mentioned, we would not condone tolerance for the myth of meritocracy and that is antithetical. we want excellence. we want people to thrive based on their own merit. we don't want a regressive policy to have people moving backwards and being categorized, lionized of feminized based on their characteristics. todd: you seem like you don't trust the department, the district saying it won't change its curriculum to include crt. do you believe them? >> i fear they are telling the truth. i am not sure it makes any change to the curriculum to

begin teaching things like race essentialism. i try not to use the term critical race theory because i don't care, critical race there is only a law school topic. what it is or what we perceive it to be his categorizing children by their race or other immutable characteristics like sexual orientation. todd: how worried are you this move by the district will divide students? >> whenever you hyperfocus on service-level differences and move away from focusing on common humanity, personal agency and self-determination or move towards let's look at how we are different, let's look at how systems control our outcomes, that is not going to be a

uniting force for building success for all kids. for parents we have a choice to make. do we own our kids education or does the city? parents have a sphere of influence to make a real impact and i urge everybody to exercise that. if we do that, that will help our community and our country thrive. todd: we reached out to douglas county schools were a statement and have not heard back. you look like you are about my age. we dealt with none of this when we were going to school, i don't think i'm that all. we just graduated a few years ago. wild how things have changed. keep us posted, we will have you back. carley: the time is 35 after the hour. another evacuation flight is set to leave kabul. live from the tarmac next and a frightening terror warning about migrants who are making their

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>> reporter: fox news confirmed the state department inspector general, into the biden administration from withdrawing afghanistan. the internal watchdog look at the situation, what went wrong at the airport in the afghan capital of kabul. this was filled with people trying to get out of the country until the end of august. making sure the withdrawal is completed. this investigation looking at special immigrant visa program in refugee, congress was notified of the plans, and in the senate and house looking into these issues. this does come as american citizens are trying to leave afghanistan.

they will take a qatar evacuation flight from kabul to get out of taliban territory. understand the severity of the situation, and there was a bomb blast, and a series of attacks in afghanistan since they took over but the urgency these americans and national as they tried to get out of afghanistan. back to you. todd: can't get over the shot over the shoulder, tell a man with a gun. carley: tony gonzalez warning of a massive wave of migrants heading from panama, some with potential ties to terrorism. >> i just met with the foreign

minister of panama and she goes there's 100,000 migrants coming through panama and their way to the united states and she goes why you ask that? in panama we do biometrics and we have apprehended 52 people that have been associated with al qaeda. >> brandon judd, president of the national border patrol council, this is the worst possible scenario playing out, 52 people coming into the united states apprehended in panama with ties to terrorism but the big question, how many people weren't apprehended with ties to terrorism? >> this is the worst case scenario, we don't know how many are getting away and when you consider that many people have already been spotted with ties to terrorism and look at the number of people crossing borders like russia, romania,

armenia, is pakistan, senegal, these countries generally tend to have animosity towards the united states and are coming into the united states but look at the number of got aways, people crossing the borders illegally the gun and detective were detected or got away, 500,000 people when you consider the 42,000 who get away the month of september. we just don't know what is coming across the border and that is scary and it needs to be a point of emphasis for this administration to protect the american public but they don't seem to have the will to secure our borders, to make it safe for the citizens of this country. carley: we know there are stretches of border that are not being patrolled because border patrol agents are busy processing people. 52 people with ties to terrorism

that were trying to into the country. would you call this a national security crisis? >> it is. it always has been when you look at what we deal with and what we face on a daily basis and regardless of whether you consider it people from countries of special interest or countries want to do us harm when you look at the drugs on top of that as well this is always the national security% needs to be something that is look that hard for us to get this under control. it is not rocket science. that is frustrating and upsetting to those men and women who put on the uniform and patrol the border. we know that we have gotten the border under control before and we can do it again and it doesn't take a lot as long as we have a policy in place to allow us to take those people and remove them immediately. if we don't do that, if we continue to reward people crossing the border illegally we will see numbers that are astronomical that we can steal with.

carley: congressman gonzalez said when he spoke to the foreign minister in panama he asked her does anybody in the biden administration know that 100,000 people are headed to the united states and ties to terrorism that were apprehended and she said she tried to contact somebody in the biden administration that can't get a hold of anybody. how that an acceptable response from the administration? >> it is not when you consider we had the single largest illegal immigration last month that played out in front of everybody, doesn't matter what media you look at, it was there and when you consider 234 mile stretch of border del rio covers we didn't have anybody out there because they were all under that bridge trying to handle that chaotic situation. it is what we see every day and the fault of this administration. carley: chris magnus's confirmation hearing yesterday, we learned in 2007 there was a

lawsuit by several black police officers and they claim he made some racist jokes, stopped them from getting promotions. the jury found him innocent but what do you make of this situation? >> it is curious the far left as long as you are a conservative, if you have any allegations against you, the far left will condemn you including the base the biden administration relies upon yet if it is an activist, someone who believes in being activist even if you have a uniform on they will forgive you and that is what they have done in the case of magnus which is so hypocritical of the far left when you deal with politics and put that in law enforcement it doesn't belong and again it is something we have to deal with and just can't. carley: magnus was asked about border patrol agents, they were

falsely accused of whipping migrants, those images are called troubling but the investigation needs to play out. you have an update on that? >> we don't and it has gone past what the administration says it was going to go past. there isn't anything wrong so they have to overturn every stone to find something wrong. when president biden said those agents will pay, that is a quote. the investigators obviously have to come up with something. that is white has taken so long. carley: an important topic and great to have your take on it. thanks. todd: coming up country star travis canceling several concerts because he doesn't agree with the covid mandate, he opens up about the sacrifice he is willing to make for freedom and fans next. ♪♪ ♪♪ or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor,

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freedom for all of those people to be able to go out and do what they enjoy doing and enjoy a concert without being harassed. carley: trent believe mandates are designed to divide people. a member of the loudoun county school board in virginia speaking out after the community accused the group is covering up sexual assault in an effort to push its woke policies. >> what happened off late i feel bad for the parents of families that are victims of this and it is important we have a full investigation of everything that happens to get to the bottom of who didn't communicate what and find out where communication breakdowns were so this never happens. carley: the father was arrested at a board meeting this summer, in a locker room by a boy wearing a skirt and transferred the student to another school. todd: republican candidate glenn

youngkin, gaining ground on terry mcauliffe who is trying to put the spotlight on the abortion debate. this is a pressing issue for most voters was the president of the family values of virginia joins me to explain. even though abortion is a major issue to you and your organization you say it shouldn't be the focus in this race. wife? >> reporter: simply put, mcauliffe is doing everything possible on the minds of voters. it is important to many people but he can't talk about failed policies of his president. they are going to the gas pump, in the grocery store, seeing empty shelves. they focus on reading, writing and math and are treated like

domestic terrorists. can't talk about that. todd: leading to these current whole numbers. mcauliffe at 50%, youngkin at 46% according to a recent poll, october 13th. listen to the candidates on the topic of abortion. >> i am pro-life. i believe in exceptions. my opponent is the most extreme abortion candidate in the country. i went every woman in virginia to listen to me closely. i was a brick wall to protect women's rights when i was governor. the businesses i brought to virginia are not coming to the state that discriminates against women. >> a specific reason mcauliffe wants to pivot so hard to abortion. what is it? >> he's not able to focus on what he can't talk about because they are failed policies for so long and talk about crime, talk

about education, these are the top 5 issues even if i think life is the most important thing and some are single issue voters, he has to avoid so many other critical issues. and when he was governor, watering down commons and safety standards so virginians don't agree with him on where he wants to take the abortion issue. >> what can glenn youngkin do to avoid an abortion trap with two weeks to go in this race? >> the goal is to make terry mcauliffe scare voters that there's going to be some drastic extreme twist on the life issue in virginia, there's some progress made and so does governor youngkin but he focused on the things that appear when you meet voters of the door. he needs to stay the course, he

has grilled into this in virginia and when apoplectic about their schools with their children, the recent incident with loudoun county student exacerbates the problem further so he has to stay the course on what voters are focused on but not ignore the life issue which is important to some. todd: keep us posted, thanks for coming on. carley: did you hear about this? green bay packers quarterback aaron rodgers means cancel culture after the pc police come after him for taunting chicago bears fans. take a listen. >> there's this culture that exists that on shrinking people, keeping them small, keeping them in a box, quieting them through cancellation. i'm a part of this woke cancel culture that gets off on trying to silence people. jillian: the laughter in the left corner, reasonable response. roger says he does not regret

telling bears fancy owns them while celebrating a touchdown. the packers beating the bears 24-14. i'm sure you have some thoughts on that. still ahead a big show, we are talking a key issue in the virginia governor's race, to republicans have a chance to flip the state red? todd: talking to jones about that and don't go anywhere. i am a good parent. jared? i'm hearing the most awful things, people shouting at me. it's ok. when you live with schizophrenia like us, it can feel like you're living in a different world. you should definitely talk to your doctor and ask about fanapt. ok. fanapt is approved for the treatment of schizophrenia in adults. in clinical trials, fanapt significantly improved symptoms of schizophrenia compared to placebo.

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