all 10% off for valentine's day. all profits in february go to the wonderful women at shady grove pregnancy center in maryland. incredible people. that's it tonight, i'm laura ingraham, it is america now and forever. greg gutfeld is next. maybe i'll send him one of these. >> fox news alert, another departure rocking the white house. top science advisor resigns in disgrace, after an investigation found he bullied and demeaned his subordinates. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm carley shimkus. >> todd: great to be back, we had action. >> carley: we are back together at last. >> todd: and todd piro. the white house facing questions on why the president would not

out right fire someone who treated colleagues disrespectfully, like he pledged to do on his inauguration. griff jenkins is live with details. >> griff: good morning, highest level exit from the biden administration today and raising questions over why the white house did not fire him, but rather allowed him to resign after initially defending him in his post. the president's top science advisor, eric lander, who advised on mask mandates out after the internal internal let showing he mistreated colleagues. the resignation flies in the face of the president's day one pledge of zero tolerance policy toward exactly this sort of behavior lander engaged in. remember this? >> president biden: if you ever

working with me and i hear you treat a colleague with respect, talk down to someone, i promise, i will fire you on the spot. >> griff: growing group of blue state governors including delaware, announcing they have had enough of mask mandates. they are saying they will soon lift them. >> because of the dramatic decline in our covid numbers effective monday, march 7, statewide mask mandate will be lifted. this is huge step back to normalcy. >> we want to end the statewide mask mandate, we've earned it. >> griff: the white house is not ready just yet. >> press sect. psaki: our advice to every school district abide by public health guidelines. the cdc is advising masks can delay, reduce transmission. >> griff: republicans see this

democrat division on mask mandate advantageous and they are quick to cite virginia as blue governors are starting to take note. todd and carley. >> carley: right, griff, appreciate it. stacey abrams and this photo of her not wearing a mask indoors with a group of masked school kids. listen. >> she had read the room, i'm shocked because stacey abrams to me is one of the most ib o -- intelligent women in politics. it was hypocritical she was not wearing a mask, she should have worn a mask. lame excuse. >> unforced error of the worst sort. >> all right, well. >> todd: wow, when you have lost "the view." brams perhaps campaign insisting she wore a mask to school, but took it off for students

watching remotely. tulsi gabbard says her party plays by two sets of rules, listen. >> it was more than mask mandates, we've seen it with trading rules, talk to nancy pelosi about that. you have seen it with public gatherings and criminal justice reform. examples that point to this deeply troubleing and dangerous state of our nation, where we have the power elite who believe they are above the law, that the rules and laws they make don't actually apply to them, they apply to the rest of us. you see how that is eroding, people's semblance of faith and trust in fairness and justice and the laws that are being made in this country. >> todd: let's realize what is going on here, seems every single day democratic politician trying to do a maskless photo in a setting where they shouldn't be maskless. stacey abrams just the latest one we forcussing on.

taken as a whole, you get a sense democratic leaders didn't get into politics to help others, but to feel superior and that shot there is the tesence of feeling it. use this picture in the midterms. >> carley: the difference, i know people on "the view" criticizing stacey abrams, they are criticizing her because they wanted her to wear a mask as opposed to not having the kids wear a mask. over the past two weeks, this has become more than democrats breaking covid rules. these people are trying to control the information that everybody consumes now. don't listen to the award-winning epidemiologist on joe rogan's praud broadcast. what is happening now happens

every time there is expansion of government, ruling class form and stacey abrams, gavin newsom, they are okay with that, they are the ruling class. what makes this country better than when it happened in the past, we can call them out. >> todd: why are government lamar and murphy deciding to lift the mask mandate? uh-oh, we don't want to happen what happened. governor ned lamont is thinking uh-oh, i don't want to get in trouble, i want to vote democrat, but i want mask mandates done, why is governor biden upset at blue state governors? i continuing exposes theater of it all. >> carley: public sentiment has definitely shifted. look at the trucker protest,

supposed to be a couple hundred and ballooned into thousands gets international attention. president biden needs to read the room and he could turn this into a powerful moment for his presidency and say we are shifting from pandemic to endemic thing. covid is seer serious, we've dealt with serious things before. we are in a different place in our understanding of the virus and people are saying enough is enough, go back to normal life. >> todd: through the first year of biden's presidency, has he demonstrated proclivity for reading the room? he is doing the exact opposite day in and day out. when you have to campaign, if you are a mid-term runner, you are like, joe, stay home, we are good, we can do this on our own. he is not reading the room and democrats don't want to be tied

to that. >> carley: beto o'rourke and stacey abrams did not want him in georgia. >> todd: california will end indoor mask mandate next week, only for the vaccinated. those not vaxxed will be required to wear masks. governor gavin newsom was caught maskless at a game and his own guidelines, newsom claiming he took off the mask for a photo. he was caught without a mask sitting in his seat, as well. >> carley: got caught breaking the rules. officials in ottawa call nothing reinforcement as truck drivers protest covid mandates. >> todd: jackie ibanez is here. jacky. >> jackie: canada requesting law enforcement personnel to help end the protest. the city banning honking for 10

days. ottawa police chief is calling for additional measures against the freedom convoy. >> policing is part of the solution, not the only part. requesting that the city utilize convening powers to engage financial institutions, insurance companies and associations, gas companies and associations, trucking companies, local bia's, anything to restrict material and financial support going to the demonstrators. >> jackie: freedom convoy organizers say allegations are a distraction from their broader message. 20 demonstrators have been arrestd and hundreds of traffic tickets have been written and opened criminal investigations into the convoy. many americans are joining the canadian cause, including one on the frontline in ottawa. brian greg saying ", i support

them and will until the end, mandates need to stop, they are hurting canadian families," and 100 truckers drove through alaska to demonstrate. another plan to begin in california and converge on washington, d.c. next month. >> in no way is this a right wing or left wing issue. this is not anti-va x. this is about your rights as a human being and as an american your constitutional rights. >> jackie: supporters raised money for this on gofundme. now they are on give know send go. marchers marching across the brooklyn bridge, 4000 city employees are in danger of being fire federal not fully vaccinated by friday. demonstrator necessary new york city showing their support for the freedom convoy in ottawa by

waving canadian flags as they marched. >> todd: not going away. jackie ibanez. >> carley: 15 million raised. >> todd: tucker carlson says pay attention to what is happening in canada. >> question is how long before protests like this come here, our media are worry body that. trucker necessary this country are worried and you wonder what would happen if american truck drivers think they have had enough of joe scarborough go on strike? what would happen? this country would stop. no deliveries everything. over time, that would mean starvation for people in the city. in the short term, profound suffer nothing this country. is it impossible in it is not. peep nel charge are not thinking this through. >> todd: seriously. know whatting a trucker strike would mean. last week facebook removed a page organizing a convoy from california to dc.

meta says they took it down for violating policy around qanon. >> carley: the truckers say they have no connection to qanon. now 720 migrants arrested each day over the weekend. they stopped 36 smuggling attempts result nothing 145 arrests on top of arresting two sex offenders. agents rescuing eight undocumented migrants from 911 calls. in the rio grand valley, agents rescuing a mother and son who were hidden in the trunk of a vehicle for over an hour. there were arrests of six migrants. >> todd: arizona -- invasion, he writes ", violence and lawlessness at the border satisfies definition of invasion under u.s. constitution," here

is what bernavic told stewart varney. >> the president has obligation to secure the border and that actually begins with enforcing existing law and whether that is continuing to build law or deporting 1.2 million with deportation alerts, he has to begin there. >> todd: wants to repel migrants that hit arizona borders. mark brnovich. >> carley: american athletes protesting human rights invasions in beijing. >> todd: unfit living conditions at the games, did you see this? brooke singman live n. a word, a lot of this is just gross. >> brooke: good morning, guys democrat leaders are at odds over athletes exposing mistreatment at the beijing olympics after nancy pelosi warned american athletes not to rock the boat. the white house is sending a

different message, listen. >> press sect. psaki: we support the athletes, they have the right to freely express themselves, that is case in beijing, at the olympics, anywhere, they will make the choices as individuals, we support right to peaceful protest. >> brooke: republicans are exposing companies profiting from beijing human rights violation and mistreatment of athletes. >> this is them trying to fool everyone. we're not stupid, cutell from the fact that americans are not watching olympics, sponsors will continue to think they can make money and they can't. they are torturing people in front of our face, we promised never again and have to stand by that. >> across the pacific, athletes are sounding the alarm on -- she details to be oppressive isolation. listen. >> we are not even sure i will

ever be -- and not sure i can handle 14 more days in the comp tigsz. competition while be nothing isolation. >> brooke: she was set free from isolation after this video went viral. she is not the only athlete calling for help. they are posting about lack of food and poor nutrition heading into the biggest day of their careers. >> todd: if you are an athlete, you need food to make yourself fit. that ain't good. looked gross. not adequate. big tech doing its part to shut down the freedom convoy. if gofundme thinks it is offensive, why did they celebrate seattle chop zone where people were murdered? >> carley: good question, there. jayson thinks he knows what this

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>> todd: state department offering $10 million reward on the information. the agency says the man responsible for the attack is in charge of isis-k throughout afghanistan and offering $10 million reward for information on any terrorists involved in that attack. 13 u.s. servicemembers were killed in the explosion and 170 were injured. >> carley: president biden is imploring all americans leave kiev as he vows to stop the nord stream 2 if russia invades. president biden making the promise while meeting with the chancellor schultz. >> president biden: we will bring an end to the nord stream 2. >> how will you do that since the project and control is within germany's control? >> president biden: we will, i promise, we will be able to do

that. >> todd: chancellor schultz did not comment, he said the u.s. and germany are united against russian aggression. canadian police arrested people in the freedom convoy as the mandate protest gathers steam from supporters. >> in no way is this a right-wing issue or a left-wing issue, this is not anti-vax, this is about your rights as a human being and an american, your constitutional rights. >> carley: this comes after gofundme blocked donations to the group. the crowd funding platform is under fire for double standard. jason rantz joins us now. jason, wemented to have you on, you lived through this chaz chop protest in 2020, which covid-19 supportd and now are giving refunds back to people who support this trucker protest. it sounds like people calling

out this double standard have a point. >> jason: no, actually chop and chaz was a street protest, summer of love that resulted in the murder of two black teenagers, rape of a woman and vandalism. you have actual protest in canada, they are saying, this is going too far, this is insurrection of sorts, take it down. gofundme supported the chop chaz movement by keeping up the campaign, they tweeted it out actively. they were not hiding support. this is another example of big tech getting involved politically and taking sides. i don't have a problem if any companies want to just be left-wing companies, stop pretending otherwise and telling us this is a site for all and anyone can use it.

be hon sxeft say, we will pick and choose and lean left, if not go far to the left. if you don't like it, go to the other sites, which they it and it has been more successful. >> todd: when you compare the two, striking n. canada, we have excessive honking, every time i say that phrase, i giggle. defective mufflers and no seatbelt. whereas in seattle, you had actual death, destruction and fear dochlt they not see the hypocrisy, jason or do they just not care? >> jason: they just don't care. we've seen for the last couple years and even in the blm move sxment early on, there is a level of dishonesty and they are doing it because they agreed back then with the movement's goal and disagree with the current movement's goal necessary ottawa. that will shade and frame the way they talk about the issues.

it is pretty disturbing and i think a misclagz, when you look at what is going on, the clip you played, i don't think it is right wing or left wing issue. last year, it was. however, now i think there has been significant change of opinion. when you talk to people who are pretty far to the left, they will say, we're going too far, doesn't make sense to do this, doesn't make sense to put vaccine mandates in place, they don't stop the spread of covid. the more the media and politicians lie and big tech tries to sensor, it pushes people more in the direction of the freedom convoy. >> carley: this has been a massive protest, thousands of people involved, $15 million raised so far between the two platforms and now you are seeing

things happen in the united states. there was a protest in alaska and one on the brooklyn bridge and now democratic dpfrns are starting to drop mask mandates, it sounds like people are getting on the same page in terms of move og with life. jason, thank you for joining us. >> todd: whatever you do, jason, upon don't excessively honk. >> carley: how would you like a heroin den in your neighborhood? that is an eye-opening question and it is not a joke, that is being considered by the biden doj. >> todd: i would not like that. house speaker nancy pelosi calling climate change existential threat. based on her jet bill, we will tell you how much she has racked up when "fox and friends first" rolls on. keep it right there. ♪

>> todd: rumble is offering joe rogan -- the company ceo says we stand with you, your guest and your legion of fans in desire of real conversation, we will offer you $1 million reasons to offer the world a better place. multiple artists say they will leave spotify because joe rogan is spreading misinformation. >> carley: nancy pelosi spends on private flights despite her view on climate change. >> we are good stewards, moral obligation for us to hand this planet over to the next generation in a responsible way.

>> carley: house speaker led a delegation to the un conference in scotland in november and said her view come down to her religious beliefs. private flights are far less efficient and more damaging to the environment than commercial flights. >> todd: interesting. americans are -- for republican-run states. florida and texas population booming as people run from sky high taxes and new york and california. joining us now to react is ryan cavanaugh. when will high-tax states realize that bleeding their people dry is not a way to keep the population? >> i mean, i don't know when they are going to learn, it is not working right now. >> todd: it doesn't make any sense, from a business perspective and you run a business and you understand cost benefit analysis and understand

incentive. i guess, why do democrat ran states feel they have a mandate from their voters to keep raising taxes and keep driving away the people that provide so much tax base to allow these big tax states to run their operations, do their liberal wish lists? >> it's a good question, i can't really speak for why people think that way or why people are believing it will drive the state to a better place. i know in california, not just current tax issues that we're facing, the fact we're one of the highest, if not the highest tacked state there is, i think more than that, just proposed legislation that we continuously read about, hear about, whether or not it ends up going through is quite often talked about and

scary for anybody not just super high income earners, it is people who make a fair living all the way up to business owners. it really, it is not a business freendly or income friendly place to live and doesn't bode well for the future. >> todd: never really has been, but over the last few years it has gotten worse. before we go to the next topic, one final question here. you are a ceo and understand how business works. are you talking to fellow ceos and business leaders who say look, i've been threatening to leave california or new york issue but i'm actually doing it? >> yeah, it is -- i don't want to say shocking, prior, people were scared to talk about it. prior to this year, last year, prior to 2020-2021, people were quietly talking about it, people

perceived it to be a political statement. now it is no longer a political statement, no longer republican and democrat thing. end of the day issue not just ceo and business owners, the cost of living in somewhere like in california, upon eventually becomes too much and people are finally saying democrat and republican alike, well, if i have 20or 25% or 30% of my hard-earned income taken away and i also don't feel safe, we have homeless problems and the crime problems and we don't feel like we're welcome either as business owners or as just residents trying to feel kwfrl our families. that extra money is not buying

anything -- people are finally fed up and people are in droves -- >> todd: it is not democratic or republican thing, it is everybody thing. i want your thoughts on senate semitic crimes are up in the big apple, that is just last month. the latest attack on a jewish man from behind. why has there been an uptick in the past few weeks? >> i don't know about the last few weeks, the last few years and the past few months. my grandparents were holocaust survivors. i was raised to look out for anti-semitism. there is a double standard when it comes to us jewish people, the group in general, if type of thing happen to any other group that are happening to jewish people, whether being attacked

from behind because you have a keeper or you are attacking a synagogue or i've seen graffiti and swastika on buses and people have been taken hostage, the public outrage would be 20 fold, 100 fold, would never be stood for. it would lead for everything from protest to outrage in the streets. the group that has single highest per capita, by number of people, verbal and physical assaults right now are jews and yet the -- almost not there. kind of -- stand behind us, but outside of that, you get a discussion here or there, but it doesn't seem like it ever goes away. >> todd: it doesn't make sense. we appreciate your time. thank you, sir. >> thank you so much.

>> todd: carley, over to you. >> carley: several rural town necessary one state are so fed up with big city mandates they are considering options to suseed from the county. our next guest is a top official in one of the towns and will explain what sent him over the edge and what comes next. ♪ ♪

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>> todd: virginia supreme court rejecting challenge to glenn youngkin executive order lifting mask mandate. youngkin lifting the order on his first day in office. youngkin celebrating the win on twitter writing we are pleased by the dismissal and will support parents right to make decisions on their child's upbringing and care. >> carley: multiple town necessary uptown new york considering option to secede and get out from under strict covid mandates. good morning, it is not everyday you hear of a town seceding from its county. why are you thinking about making this move? >> we and some other towns in the rural areas in the county are considering this move because we seem to be overshadowed with the suburban areas of the county not

listening to our needs, not just this issue, but this was the final straw for the town and others to seek options to go to our neighboring counties that are more rural and responsive to our needs and wishes and our beliefs. >> carley: in erie county, there is buffalo, democratic stronghold, you represent a rural conservative area and feel liberal politics are affecting your way of life. how would this work? what are the next steps and are there drawbacks if you choose to secede? >> we are exploring the idea this time to see what the impact are one way or the other. the process is laid out in state constitution, as far as we know, it hasn't been done in this magnitude where you have several towns leaving. start out first with a petition process, where you get 20% of residents to sign on to it and that would force the legal process to start where you would

go out and do a full study on the pros and cons and have a public hearing and there would be public referendum and each county would have to accept the will of the town, example erie county we want to leave from would say, no, we had option to go to court. >> carley: it sounds like you are giving residents the choice here. it feels like this is part of a growing trend, that trend is people leaving liberal areas and moving to conservative spots, why do you think that is happening? crime, covid and are there lessons to be learned here? >> probably combination of a number of things issue the number one thing is our voices heard, unequal representation. i can use the example of covid

mandates, we are in a rural area and they put strict mandates on that, probably in their view is fine in the urban area, in close quarters. we are not, we are outside more, can be stronger because of nature of our ability to exposure to things out in the rural environment. we are -- tend to be healthier because we are more active, etcetera, we don't have problems more urban areas do. >> carley: great point. absolutely, such a good point. in the show, we were talking about the trucker protest, your story is similar in that you are sick of the mandates and thinking about doing something pretty big about it. earl gingerich jr., thank you. >> todd: deal with the devil at the southern border, we are talking to a journalist that spent three days at the border,

you won't believe what she saw, it is unreal. >> carley: and fighting over the beijing olympics our next guest survived a revolution. congressional candidate joins us next. ♪

>> todd: no matter your take on drugs, you have to remember two things, your tax money is going to that and two, shouldn't tax money be going into treatment centers, not safe injection site? >> carley: also we are learning hhs, health and human services

is considering spending $30 million on crack pipes, handing out crack pipes to drug addicts, the goal is to make smoking crack safer and also, advance racial equity, so yeah, you are right, imagine all the tax money that you pay and the fact that a portion of that money could be going to programs, controversial. >> todd: combined with what is going on at the southern border, we are a country of drugs and that is not good. >> carley: and new york city opened up legal drug use centers and the surrounding areas, the businesses say that siproblem with homelessness and a lot of issues and crime around the areas. certainly contlo versial. we'll keep an eye on those stories for sure. the los angeles department is set to move 4000 employees due to covid vaccine noncompliance, of those, 3000 are sworn

deputies, that is a big number. like other major cities, los angeles is dealing with a surge in violent crime. sheriff alex vilanueva, argues the termination of so many sheriff department employees would be a threat to public safety. >> todd: for those of you actually watching the olympics, you will see glitzy coverage of the games. but what aren't they showing snu >> they are trying to fool everyone, we are not stupid, you can tell americans are not watching the olympics, sponsors will continue to think they can make money and they can't. they are torturing people in front of our face, we promised never again, we have to stand by that. >> todd: lily tang williams, who is now a congressional candidate joins us live. i spent four cold winter necessary hanover,ip am familiar

with the district. getting back to the china situation how restrictive is the situation for international reporters trying to cover the games? >> well, i'm not watching the olympics at all and i've been warning people, if you go to china, especially reporters, will be directed what the chinese government wanting them to show. propaganda show opportunity, to show the world how dmroruous china is. the regular people are suffering, who got lockdown, just a few cases, entire city locked down for 21 days. people were hungry for food and begging to go out to buy food, high-level communist party official, you get food delivered as top priority. and factories are shut down,

too. couple months each before the olympics to maintain human air quality in beijing. they do not want you to show or report, now people can see the true color. >> todd: we all had a sense this would be the way the chinese handled media and propaganda going into the games. we expected it there. i don't know if we expected it from our own. nbc refusing to run ad critical of china, here is michael waltz and enes kanter freesom. >> someone has to do it and talk about the human right abuses done by the china communist port. >> we will keep calling them out, preaching social justice at home and turning a blind eye as chinese unleash covid on the world, threaten supply chains and commit gross atrocities to millions of their own people.

enough is enough. >> todd: lily, by not airing the ad the two gentlemen participated in, isn't nbc doing the bidding of the chinese? >> well, unfortunately issue lots of corporations in america put money and deals above human rights, above something they sometimes advocate in this country. -- they are woke and they attack america for some history, but don't call out china, who is -- genocide right now, who have enslaved millions of chinese. i have been saying our woke corporations should stick to their principles, free market become super rich and now also sometimes have -- special deal from the government. here in the united states. but same time, saying to

chinese, good for enes kanter freesom who put his career and money at risk to call out what the china is. >> todd: quickly, you are running for congress in new hampshire. in a word, sum up your platform? >> well, i'm running for u.s. congress in city two in new hampshire, live free. i am saying that the country i love becoming more like the country left. i fled tyranny for america for freedom and prosperity, so many years later, i don't recognize my country. it is happening on american soil. >> todd: that is sad. that is sad when you say that. keep us postod your campaign. lily tang williams, we appreciate your time this morning sglchlts thank you for having me. >> carley: we are so happy to have you. good interview, todd. 55 after the hour. did you hear this? >> capitalism at its core, what

we're talking about when we talk about that is the absolute pursuit of profit at all human environmental and social cost, that is not a redeemable system. >> carley: you'll want to hear what senator marco rubio had to say in response. >> todd: and are here next, don't go anywhere. ♪

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>> todd: fox news alert, another departure rocking the white house. president biden's top science advisor resigns in disgrace after an investigation found he bullyd and demeaned his supporters. "fox and friends first." no demeaning here. >> carley: or bullying. i'm carley shimkus. white house facing wave of questions over why the president wouldn't out right fire someone