* * >> todd: the white house and the country second largest teacher's union breaking with democratic governors scrapping mask mandates months before the midterm election. this is something to watch. you're watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning. i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus. the government peels back mandates issue the white house and cdc says they are not there. the aft president suggests spread of covid needs to be low enough no transmission before kids and teachers can breathe free. jackie ibanez has the latest.

good morning. >> jackie: good morning. states giving the green light to pull down the masks. the white house is facing scrutiny for falling behind on nationwide return to normalcy. >> why not hearing the same messaging for states making the move that we heard with for instance ron desantis? >> press sect. psaki: there is difference in standing in the way of it and allowing local school districts to make choices, what a number of states are dog. >> the cdc is not letting up on mask mandates either. bluest of states are saying enough is enough. >> hospitalizations are still high, death rates are still high. we work toward that and are encouraged by current trends, we are not there yet. >> sudden backtrack, mandates divided the country.

oklahoma congressman kevin hearn calling out monkey see, monkey do. i would love to see whatever internal polling went around the democratic party, democrat run states are dropping mandates as fast as they can. virginia governor dmreens seeing masking strong holds like new york and washington as they begin dropping mask mandates and opt to give people power of choice. >> we are seeing the country come around us, it is time to get back to normal and empower parents. i'm excited virginia is lead nothing bipartisan way to give parents the power to choose, whether their child wears a mask or not in school. >> power of choice happen nothing new york, take off our masks today, although schools must continue to mask up. carley, todd. >> todd: thanks for starting us off. timing thf rather convenient.

what is different between this time right now when obviously numbers are going down and last year when numbers were going down? wait, that is right, we are closer to mid-term election part a and part b, we saw what they did in virginia, they swept virginia because people regardless of independent, or democrat, you are tired of the mask theater and ready to move on. democratic governor said, wow, we could be in trouble if we keep masks -- >> carley: are you saying it's political? >> todd: shocker of shocker. >> carley: i'm surprised biden administration didn't follow suit yesterday in the press conference, i thought they were going to say they are thinking about dropping federal mask mandate on flights and they could in coming days. right now they are sticking with the mask mandate, they are doing it out of fear. they were wrong in july when

president biden declared victory over the virus, i guess they don't want to be wrong again. how about not declare victory, just give facts. cases are down by 63%. know 70% of american people are vaccinated. there are therapeutics, we're in a different place today than a year ago. we are treating it like we did a year ago. >> todd: declaring victory is so important. we heard rochelle walensky say masks need to stay on until covid is not. not rochelle walensky, randy wein garten, it is end demmic, never going to be done, it is like the common cold. by you saying we need to have masks until it is wiped off the planet, we would have masks forever. highlights something curious. we have been highlight thanksgiving fiszure in the democratic party between the woke left and moderates and that

has been seen from the economy to crime to social issues. now it is front and center when it comes to covid, they have a problem on their hands. you see rank and file democrat in rural america doesn't want masks anymore. they want sanity and this biden administration is focused on the wrong things and alienating democrats. >> carley: speaking of a real problem, did you see this? president biden's approval rating 39% and clear politics average of polls. >> todd: that is problematic for the white house. one warning members of the party to come up with a new strategy or they will be wiped off the map. live from washington with more. griff jenkins. >> griff: good morning, todd and carley. presidents claim they pay no attention to the polls, when you slump into the 30s, they are taking note. the latest average

shows 39% approval, harsh pill to swallow compared to the last three presidents at the same time. trump, obama and bush are all above 40% and comes as biden struggles with ukrainian conflict, pandemic and how to control crime and crisis at the southern border. republican critics are calling for a cognitive test. >> it is on full display for everybody in the country and world to see. president biden does not have cognitive to get the job done. i remind everybody, we did this with president trump. >> griff: another problem plague thanksgiving white house president's stalled agenda is big ticket items like build back better when press secretary jen psaki says needs rebranding. >> press sect. psaki: our objective is working with democrats, republicans if they decide they are for lowering the cost of prescription drugs to

determine how much build back better agenda can be moved forward. >> griff: biden is not the only one feeling the heat, 21 democrats are not seeking re-election. jim cooper saying, as usual, democrats are not alert to future dangers. biggest danger we face after winning the white house is 100-year trend toward the other party. democratic party in tennessee is facing extinction. more bad news on the way, january consumer price index is due out 8:30 in morning, economists say it is expected to show inflation rising to levels not seen since 1982. todd and carley. >> todd: not expected to be good. thank you. "new york post" columnist mirandadevine says democrats may be ignoring questions about the president's mental fitness. >> the democrats will not allow him to do a cognitive test

because republicans are urging them to. they will not do it until they are ready to get rid of him, that may come sooner rather than later. at the moment, he is convenient while useful to them. they will keep him. the other problem is, i think by attributing his incompetence and the disasters in his first year to cognitive unfitness is not correct and really not fair to the american people. >> carley: bob saget's family revealing he died of head trauma, releasing a statement one month after the "full house" star's death. he accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep. no drugs or alcohol was involved. saget was found dead in his orlando hotel room on january 9 just hours about posting about a show he had in jacksonville.

>> todd: super bowl 56 shaping up to the most expensive ever, right now ticket prices are the highest in the history of the the game. the getting price is $4900, average ticket price over $8700. carley, if you like to sit near the sideline, which i know you know, shell out $50,000. >> carley: right in my price range. >> todd: driving majority of ticket sales for sunday's game. >> carley: why is it so expensive? >> todd: in l.a., you have people with silly money. >> carley: no one cares about the rams. >> todd: people care, l.a. like the scene and people are like, i heard about the super bowl, let me drop $400,000 on tickets, that drives the price up. l.a. has silly money. >> carley: another reason to hate hollywood.

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>> todd: welcome back. the pentagon evacuating americans from ukraine if russia invades. wall streets journal reporting 1700 pararktroopers will set up in poland to house americans. trooping will not enter ukraine. jen psaki says the administration will not save americans in ukraine if they are stranded. >> press sect. psaki: people should understand issue the united states does not typically do mass evacuations. we're encouraging american citizens to depart now obviously. >> todd: there are estimated 30,000 americans in ukraine. carley. >> carley: todd, in afghanistan, trying to rescue americans after president biden's botched withdrawal.

high valued taliban targets are speaking out about their involvement. watch this. >> it is task force of willing and task force of volunteers. there are peep nel afghanistan trapd and need out. it came together with that experience at the same time. >> carley: joining us is nick, save our allies, former infantry officer. >> you are in the uae, tell us about your mission and what is motivating you to keep rescuing afghan ally? >> absolutely. we're in the uaeissue getting ready to move forward to an adjoining country to afghanistan and have peep nel safe houses we've been moving for months, these are women and children and men that have been hunted, that

will be killed or arrested if found. we have been able to put them in a safe location, relatively speaking and our mission is to go there, pull people out of safe houses and move them to a safe haven country that we've set up apartments for, food for and work visas so they have the ability to get on with their lives and start having control over their futures again. >> carley: god bless you for doing it. >> motivation for this is simple. you when kabul was falling and the 12 of us that were part of save our allies that were on the ground in afghanistan, when we were loading people on to planes, when you saw the desperation, when you were looking into a sea of humanity and everyone desperately wanted to get on the airstrip to

possibly live and have the chance to live the kind of lives they had for 20 years with america there, you can't turn your back on that. you can't look at these people and think it is acceptable for me to just say, we tried. well, the war is over. they believed in us, they bled for us and we need to make it right. >> carley: nick, you wrote a "washington post" op ed and say suburban dads like me shouldn't be doing this by ourselves. what kind of support do you need from washington? >> any support would be hugely beneficial. obviously financial support, just to give an idea, this one operation to help a few hundred people is costing 500,000 plus. we're not getting that money from the government or from institutions, these are veterans

and patriotic americans donating $5, $10, $1000 and saying i believe in this mission, go do what you can do. and then we're all volunteers. this isn't -- to start, financial help obviously, but also, the ability to bring people to the united states like a clear pathway to the united states, a better process for visas so these siv visas can get approved, we had a guy we've been trying to help for a long period of time to get his visa through. his visa got approved last week, that was two weeks after he was killed. the list of these things goes on and on. >> carley: nick, go ahead real quick, i want to get this in because it is so important and critical to what you are talking about, you wrote about this in

your "washington post" op ed that i mentioned, your safe houses are filled with women, children and men, if found, would be tortured and killed for the crime of fighting alongside america. i know this because every once in a while, one of them is found and the men who find them occasionally enjoy sending images of mutilated corpses on what's app. we are five months removed from this disastrous withdrawal, news cycle moved on, seems like this situation is more dire than ever, the people are running out of time. >> they are. news was a buffer for what was happening. there was period of time where taliban didn't want the world looking at them in a negative light. the lens is no longer on them, i

continuing is more dangerous for folks in afghanistan now and what makes it harder is that during that period of time, we were able to throw people on planes and stuff four or five hundred people out to safety. in the month or so after, we could run a flight a week, two flights a week, there was still a window. that window has closed. we are moving people over land and going through an arduous visa process to move peep toll another country or a different place. this is expense and i have slower. save our allies has rolodex of 22,000 people looking for help, it costs $500,000 to move a few. >> carley: you are doing it, doing the work, you want a clear pathway for people to get to the u.s., it seems like a simple request. leave it there.

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>> todd: if you thought our justice system was messed up, wait until you hear this. a georgia mom facing prison time for letting her 14 year old baby sit her kids. her son left the house under the daughter's watch, but was found safe 15 minutes later. she joins us now with her attorney. thank you for being here. can you believe this is happening to you? >> no, it has been two years and i'm still shocked. >> todd: parents hire baby sitters all the time, baby

sitters mess up, parents don't go to jail over it, why is your case being treated differently? >> i really don't know, that is the problem, it doesn't make sense to anybody that hears it or goes over it. >> todd: david, if you watched our show, you know d.a.s across the country are letting killers walk the streets, why are they going after melissa so hard here? >> it is difficult to say for sure, but my impression is that those in power sometimes just get dug in with i know what is better for you and i will impose it on you. one reason why the georgia supreme court decided this reckless statute is unconstitutionally vague and doesn't tell parents you can't do this. those in law enforcement, who are neighbors and think they know what you should or shouldn't do with kids, they can

impose on you with the power they have. >> todd: the plight of the working parent during covid, situation where the government put parents in horrific positions in the first place. >> it is a two-way street. it was schools shutting down and kids were home and day cares shut down. businesses were struggling to stay hope and that day melissa was called in to work, so she left and ago she wasn't aware at the time because it is good parenting practice, it is fine to leave your 14 year old in charge of your children. georgia department of children services issued guidelines years earlier saying a 12 year old is old enough to take care of younger siblings for up to 12 hours. her daughter was 14. >> todd: right. meliz lisza, describe the

position these lockdowns and lack of school openings put you in? in my perspective, i have a kid, i got to go away tomorrow and we can't get sitters, my life is thrown out of whack and i have a spouse. you are single mother with five kids, describe the insanity this put you through? >> it absolutely is, it puts you in a situation where you can't provide for your family at all. what do you do? do you sit home and have nothing or do the best you can and try to bring in whatever you can. i mean, it is absurd. >> todd: where is the sense in taking a mother, a single mother away from her five kids, putting her in jail for a year and basically leaving them with no parent? that doesn't make any sense to me, melissa, i'm sure it makes no sense to you. >> no, not at all. >> todd: got to ask, how are the

kids doing? >> you know, that day was -- they arrested me, was pretty hard, hito explain to the younger ones, they just knew mommy was leaving. it just didn't feel right. one is crying and the others trying to keep them. it wasn't a good situation in any way for them to just -- especially in front of them, but to not even really explain, i couldn't explain what i did wrong. you can't just say, they are just coming to get me for fun. you can't explain the situation. >> todd: beautiful family. that 14 year old must feel horrible about this, things happen. melissa and david, best of luck. keep us postod this situation. this is horrible. this is wrong and horrible, hope it resolves itself, appreciate

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>> carley: house speaker nancy pelosi pushing a bill to ban stock trading. she has demands to go along with it. >> it has to be government wide. the court system, the third branch of government, the judiciary, has no reporting. >> carley: her husband paul raked in millions of bucks from the stock exchange and pelosi defended the practice days ago issue but claim its is unfair to excludelawmakers from the market. >> todd: always someone else. dan sulvan confronting about retweeting a post that referred to former president trump as white supremacist president. listen. >> that is way out there, right? i mean, you think most republicans are race sxift white supremacist? >> absolutely not. >> that is what -- >> no, i'm not familiar with

that tweet, i'm happy to look at it. >> you remember retweeting that one? >> i do not. i've tweeted over 10,000 times, i don't remember. >> todd: sullivan described us, fox news as state sponsored propaganda. president biden's approvaling dropping to uncharted territory. >> carley: here to react is joe concha. joe, what is your assessment, crime, covid, the press conference, what is going on? >> joe: i think this indelible impression has been established. this is difficult to reverse, too many peep nel this country believe and this includes more than a few democrats that joe biden is not capable and competent in doing this job at this stage in life.

factors on the ground belay that. three steps behind administration, calling it transitory, temporary for months and months. three steps behind on crime, not saying a word about it in most of 2021. three steps behind on the taliban, who took kabul in amount of time it takes to order a pizza. we didn't think they would get there this quickly. three steps behind on the border. someone thought it was a great idea to stop building the wall or invite migrants to come to the country and catastrophe is the result. hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube or hard to put humpty dumpty back together, as todd and i know after telling our kids. it will only get worse, todd.

>> todd: the democratic party has a problem on their hands, especially rural voters not in line with the biden agenda. john cooper from tennessee basically raises this point here. remind me what the strategy is to change the mind of rural voters, the democratic party is basically facing extinction, why aren't democrats trying to appeal to the rural voter and instead focusing on woke liberal city? >> joe: todd, i think they thought they could script this presidency n. the fall of 2021 they pushed build back better. spend og things that have nothing do do as far as inflation, it will make it worse, crime, the boarderce, afghanistan, education, they were tone deaf and in 2022, they could reset and pivot, what do

they do? talk about voting rights and raming that home because democracy is at peril. people are saying, you are not in touch with what we're going through right now and seem we need to change power in washington and that will probably happen in november when republicans most certainly take back the house and probably take back the senate. >> carley: one issue is covid-19. the head of the largest teachers union randi weingarten tsdz to end masking, there needs to be no transmission in schools. unrealistic, i'm sure you have thoughts on this one >> joe: oh, boy. zero transmission? covid is not going away, it will become endemic, the pandemic part is coming to an understand. zero transmission is like saying zero transmission of the flu.

schools are safe, and terry mcauliffe brought weingarten for his last speaker, it is losing argument that parents, even who vote democratic, that is ridiculous and randi wein garten is not the message we should be trusted. >> todd: i refer to him as john cooper, his name is jim cooper, john cooper is a hockey coach. his name is joe concha. >> sports on the mind. >> joe: if you need a baby sitter, me. >> carley: needs extra books. >> $20 an hour, i come cheap. >> carley: is your money being used to buy crack pipe? they will tell you what they are saying and what you might be paying for in safe smoking kits.

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>> coming up on "fox and friends first," another wave of new york city workers will be terminated tomorrow for refusing the vaccine after hundreds rallied to protest the mandate on municipal workers. two firefighters on the front line of the fight and ryan brayou know, and dr. marc siegel and mattress mack back with king size super bowl bet that is breaking records. he joins us live with the stakes. todd, carley, back to you. >> todd: todds as a sports fan, i started talking right when your t started. false start, piro, five-yard penalty. >> will: he threw the flag on himself, nobody knew. >> carley: i saw it, you were talking and he went, the biden administration. >> will: he did tv voice, from

normal to tv voice and only you heard it. >> todd: the biden administration -- >> carley: see you in 15 minutes. >> todd: not for that. the biden administration racing to squash reports of american tax dollars being used to fund pipes for hard drug addicts. >> carley: brooke singman has the details. this is certainly a talker. >> brooke: that is right. the biden administration says it is not planning hand out crack pipes using american tax dollars. department of human searchss says we are focused on using resources to reduce harm. no federal funding will be used to put pipes in safe smoking kits. white house press secretary jen psaki echoing similar message. >> press sect. psaki: may contien lip balm, other material to promote hygiene and reduce transmission of diseases. we don't support federal funding

for pipes. >> brooke: statements doubt political fire storm which started after washington free beacon reported pipes for drugs would be in safe smoking kits as part of harm reduction program. that report igniing out rage for a mother from san francisco sglchlts policies give him everything he needs to stay addicted. the way they are supporting my son and keeping him chained to his addiction, makes me feel hopeless how the city doesn't do anything to mandate treatment or encourage treatment. it is normalizeing and enabling. >> brooke: guys, despite the chaos, justice department says it is considering opening safe injection sites in the name of public safety. carley and todd. >> todd: thank you. makes no sense, you heard the words of the mother whose son is on the

streets and suffering. this administration is enabling drug use is ark bomination, they should be getting people suffering some help, don't get them drugs. >> carley: crack pipe or no crack pipe, we are funding them, $30 million, the kits are going out we are essentially funding decay of our own society. the safe injection sites, that is like a pr spin on giving people a clean need and he will comfortable spot to get high. in new york city, it is filled with homeless peep and he will business has gone down in the area and it's become a huge problem. it is unfortunate, the doj is thinking about expanding safe injection sites to other space in the country, too. >> todd: if you put half resources in the homeless problem to housing individuals

in safe shelter communities and with the drug problem getting to treatment center, you would eliminate the -- wouldn't have to spend people to put them in rental homes or buying them drugs. >> carley: todd, too much sense. the biden administration is planning illegal immigrants under house arrest instead of detaining them in effort to cut detention center funds. a mom joined us to weigh in on the controversial plan. >> it is another step to doing away with immigration laws, sending signal to illegal aliens they can come in at any time, especially those not qualified to come in. this is crazy as giving free crack pipes. >> carley: there you have it, you heard her say that very line. houston and baltimore, home curfew pilot program.

100 to 200 single adults could be held in each location. >> todd:s latest terrorism shows public mistrust of it is government. dhs blaming disinformation. this encourages unrest. the memo warns covid mandates have been used boy domestic extremist to justifiy violence. or they could focus on terrorism, i digress. >> carley: department of homeland security trying to get ahead of trucker convoy in america. similar to what we're see nothing ottawa right now, this as tensioned heighten up north with canadian prime minister justin trudea slamming the ongoing freedom convoy protest calling it unacceptable. upping the stakes, ontario judge

implementing $1000 fine, while police are warning arrest could cost protesters their jobs. canadians are facing and trucker necessary france are following suit. hundreds of french are march being from paris to brussels to demand end to covid mandates. >> amazing amount of dishonesty in the national media that is happening, supporting leaders like trudea and others taking away people's personal freedoms to me is still unbelievable to watch. and it is more know important now more than ever people have fortitude, stand up and demand they fight and the next generation gets a chance to live in a free country.

>> carley: the cnn describes the protest as insurrection. >> todd: biden administration is focusing on another border thousands of miles away in ukraine. >> carley: matt rosendale, addressing the crisis on our door step before we help anyone else, he will join us live to talk about it, coming up next. ♪y he having everything i want in the place i love. jamaica. heartbeat of the world. let's go! it's my 5:52 woke-up-like-this migraine medicine. it's ubrelvy. for anytime, anywhere migraine strikes. without worrying if it's too late or where i am. one dose can quickly stop my migraine in its tracks within 2 hours. unlike older medicines, ubrelvy is a pill that directly blocks cgrp protein,

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>> carley: some democrat states ditching mask mandates and it's convenient. >> todd: polls show tired of covid and midterm elections are right around the corner. veterans affairs committee member congressman rosendale joins us. thank you so much for being on our program. >> good morning. >> todd: why did it take polling and not the plight of the american feel change these democrats' minds. >> because that's the only thing they make their decisions

directed by, todd. unfortunately they check the winds of change. though go out and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on polling. they decide where they want to be. and that's what they base all their decisions on. we have seen that time and time again. meanwhile, we have got parents that are screaming for their children to be able to go to school without these mandates. we have got businesses that are being shut down and forced to try and find additional people to work for them at a time when the labor shortages is terrible. and everyone is tired of all of these mandates. >> carley: congressman, you have introduced a bill that would block military assistance to ukraine until our southern border is secured. tell us about this legislation and the logic behind it. >> it is far past time that american foreign affairs decisions are sorving the people across our nation. right now the southern border is wide open caused by decisions of this

administration. we saw under the trump administration we were able to secure our border. why would we engage ourselves in a border dispute thousands of miles away in eastern europe when we can't control our own southern border. so simply this legislation says that until such time that we have operational control of the southern border, until such time that we have completed the border wall system. including the wall, and the monitoring technology that goes along with it, the roadways to allow our border patrol agents to travel up and down the entire border, then we will not be sending money overseas. we will not spill american blood or spend american treasure overseas until we have operational control of our southern border. >> congressman, when i speak to people over the course of the last few weeks, this point that you are trying to make is top of mind. number one thing people are talking to me at least to me at least, not the economy or inflation or crime but this concept of why are we securing

somebody else's border and not ours? why doesn't this administration get that? >> i think that they are trying to use this as a ploy to change the demographics of our country quite simply. they are doing so at the exact same time. i mean, we are talking about 100,000 russian troops somewhere people can't point to on a map meanwhile we have lost 100,000 people to fentanyl overdoses in our country in the last year. so, we're worried about other place, other borders and our own people are dying. i have gone down to the southern border. as you well know montana shares 600 miles of a border with canada and i have gone up there. and i see the problems that we have with keeping it closed down meanwhile a southern border wide open. people are streaming across. we have problems with human trafficking. we have got problems with drug smuggling coming across there our people are dying and it's causing problems across the

entire nation. >> carley: you are absolutely right about that. congressman, a lot of your republican colleagues think that the biden administration should have done more and acted sooner to help ukraine. so, i think that those people would say that these two issues are both equally important or both important and they shouldn't be linked. what would you say to that? >> i would say that there is decisions that have been made over the last year that have weakened our standing around the globe. and, yet, you can't involve america in a conflict and think that that's going to put china back in a box. we have weakened our policies against iran. we have weakened our policies against north korea. we have allowed china to expand its operations around the world. and you can't take one incident and think it's going to turn all of this around. we have strengthened russia by lifting the sanctions on the nord stream 2. meanwhile, we have all this energy that we can produce right here to help our allies over in europe. and we're not doing it.

>> todd: including your great state of montana. i was up there over the weekend. >> carley: todd tells me it's cold in montana. >> todd: cold but beef. we will have a story on that coming up in the next few days. >> lots of good beef. >> carley: lots of good beef. >> todd: thanks, congressman. >> carley: good to see you again. "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> todd: democrat led states finally lifting mask mandates after nearly two years. >> the white house facing scrutiny nor falling behind. >> they are a bunch of incompetent public health. >> they are not planning to hand out crack pipes to drug addicts. >> stupidity is a lot like pornography. it's very hard to define but you know it when you see it. this is stupidity. >> for the first time ever, real clear politics average. biden's approval rating is below 40. >> i doubt biden know what is day it is but he has made the decision to