>> fun shot to start your friday, you are watching "fox and friends first" on this friday morning. i'm ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. we'll be talking a lot of super bowl stuff. >> todd: sofi stadium, the scene of the crime, super bowl lvi between the rams and bill hemmer's cincinnati bengals, at this point, he owns team.

we are excited for him. some are pulling for the rams. >> ashley: they are psaltery about it. tell you that. >> todd: going to be a great game. we have news to kickoff friday. >> ashley: we do, americans are demanding president biden put an end to covid-19 mandate and drop mask mandate. >> todd: brooke singman has more. good morning. >> brooke: good morning. news people have been waiting for. starting to roll back covid mandate with nevada being latest to follow suit. president biden says not so fast, changes to federal mask guidance may be premature. >> president biden: i committed i would follow the science issue the science as put forward by the cdc and the federal people. i think it is probably premature, but it is a tough

call. >> brooke: house republicans are urging biden to get onboard with red and blue states alike, calling on him "to accept that covid-19 is endemec and interventions are doing more harm than good and unwind the public health emergency so the country can "get back to normal." many states have lifted indoor mandate and delaware set expiration dates for mask mandate in school. larry hogan writing in a letter to rescind masking inside the classroom f. mask mandates continue, school superintendents seem to be leave nothing droves with up to 2000 expected to depart at the end of this academic year. >> ashley: thanks. greg gutfeld says democrats are trying to take credit for the same thing they have been

trashing republicans for. >> republicans took the risk and decided to start the parade to end this stuff. for him to take credit when he had no skin in the game is wrong. if you didn't help me move out of my apartment, don't show up when the pizza is being served, you will get no slices. joe never shows up for work and he's there at the christmas party. >> todd: gutfeld going full "little red hen issue" the fairy tale story about the hen who does all the work and doesn't get a chance to eat. texas and florida did all the work. freedom-loving parts of the country said, this has to stop. the science is not there, you are abusing our kids. this has to end now. what is interesting, in-fighting within the dems. dems realize mask mandates not

good for business of politics and joe biden is stick withing it. cdc sending confusing messages, we talked about confusing messaging throughout this pandemic. in the last week, it got more confuseing and dems are messing this up royally. >> ashley: feel like we will hear something different from the cdc and the biden administration within a week, we get mixed signalling. when you start talking to new guy or girl and don't know where to go with it, that is what the biden administration is doing to us right now. as far as them taking credit for everything, it was trump vaccine. i don't feel like you can make this a republican or democrat issue. it started with trump, biden got an office, republicans don't want the vaccine, that is not true. as far as masking, i want to come back to new york. we live here. i have such an issue with kathy

hokel taking mask mandates away from businesses, but not kids. i don't understand. in a week it could change. you never know. one side saying one thing and joe biden, the president, gets up and says something different and rochelle walensky confuses it even more. i don't know what to think and this is how the majority of americans feel, republicans and democrats. >> todd: you bring pack a good point. we are focusing on mandates, this goes back to the vac. democrats told you not to take the vaccine when trump made the vaccine. when they got into office, they disavowed any credit to president trump for making the vaccine and then said have you to get it. such confusion and ridiculousness. if you are a republican, you need to drive home the democrats are lying right now trying to

say they end third degree pandemic. they will try to do it, that is what they will run on. republicans have to be laser-focused on the fact that is a bold-faced lie. >> ashley: it will take ron desantis and greg abbott denouncing that. i know people that planned weddings in florida because florida is not getting shut down. florida or texas. >> todd: also, it is sunnier, better wedding day. great point. you got to be laser focused if you're a republican, don't get distracted. >> ashley: liberal drug group is criticizing the biden administration for not handing out free crack pipes in the heech safe smoking kits. hhs says this is a missed opportunity to be preventative

of deaths due to overdose. president biden question on scathing report showing inflation at 40-year high as new poll reveals majority of americans disapprove of the job he's doing and of that group, most say they can't name one single decision of the president's they like. >> todd: op ed out this morning from cnn, has this scathing headline. a grim portrait of biden's unhappy america. doug luzader is always happy. >> 7.5%, we were expecting bad numbers, but january inflation numbers were worse than economists were predicting prompt testers in virginia yesterday where the president was talking about bringing down drug prices. in an interview with nbc he was asked about his prediction months ago that all of this was

temporary. >> in july, you said inflation was temporary, a lot of americans are wondering what your idea of temporary is? >> you are being a wise guy, i understand that is your job. >> doug: he talked about the spending agenda, which is stalled because joe manchin is others are concerned about inn flation. >> this inflation is real, it is harming people. 7.%, that is a tax. feds have to step up and do something. we have to work together to get our financial house in order, if not, it will be horrible what it will do to the american economy. >> joe manchin is doing his share to try to stop inflation. he laid out cost and the president doesn't recognize it, he is still pushing for the

build back better plan to make inflation and the worker shortage even worse. senator manchin keeps blocking that, he is doing his job. >> with rising inflation and falling poll numbers for the president, hillary clinton run to the rescue? she will speak at next year's state democratic convention in new york. todd and ashley, her husband was known as the comeback kid, she may be eyeing something like that, we'll see. >> ashley: she's the saving grace. >> todd: doug luzader, no wise guy, he's a cool guy. how much harder will your bank account be hit? brian brenberg will help you crunch the numbers. >> ashley: and going to the super bowl this year at sofi stadium cost a small fortune and thanks to super-size inflation throwing a party for the big game is no bargain either.

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$250 more per month to keep up. be brian brenberg, executive vp and associate professor at king's college joins us. we see the 7.5 number, we know it is bad, why is it worse than bad? >> brian: it is hard, it is hitting those at the bottom the hardest. there are peep whole care about inequality and never talk about inflation. right now, the price increases are hitting the middle class, hitting people at the bottom and it is all about gasoline and meat, about essentials we need everyday. those are prices rising and people are getting hit. we are not seeing a lot of signs that it is getting better. this is the problem, this was the worst month scombrt not a lot of people besides the president saying it will get a heck of a lot better throughout

2022. >> todd: who are the nobel laureate economists who said inflation is going to be done by march? >> >> brian: i don't know who he is naming, they have been consistently wrong, i hope they didn't get the noble for that fact. there are basic factors, including the fact you want to keep spend whenning that drives inflation. you are listening to the wrong people, using the wrong tools, wake up here, we're getting behind now. you get behind, it is hard to catch up. >> todd: people that are suffering by inflation, 7 bont % latino, millennials, 6 spevent, middle class. those individuals put joe biden into the presidency.

is joe biden's party, the democrats, going to be able to fix this before november of this year and midterm? >> brian: i think the ship has sailed for them. i want it to get better, it has sailed. last year they were talking about mandates and spending and weren't talking about getting people back to work, spend less on goods, more on services, get this problem under control. if we get relaxed on mandates that could help, it will be a tough year, todd, the president got behind, he's a day late and americans are a dollar short. >> todd: thank joe biden for unwanted guests at your super bowl, we're talking about inflation. how much more of this big game will cost you. examples. chicken wings, if you watch the last hour, that ashley is eating

all of america's chicken wings, ashley strohmier. 26% up, ground beef 13% up. snack and chips up 8.2%, beer up 4%. how worried are you about the chilling effect this will have on inflation, obviously, but markets as a whole. markets are not happy. >> brian: markets are not happy, we saw a bad consumer spending number in december, people say, i can't eat the costs anymore, change behavior. then you get stagflattion, stagnation. if you look at the numbers, they keep creeping us back toward the 70s, that is my concern. we need a radical rethink. the president needs to get out of the box he's in and think about getting people back to work and growth. it is time to turn around f. he doesn't, it will be too late

politically. >> todd: rates go up to balance out. >> brian: cost of borrowing will go up, another big price for people. >> todd: brian brenberg, great to see you. ashley, over to you. >> ashley: president biden and democrats are blaming guns for america's crime crisis. former prosecutor has a reality check and is here income and vice president kamala harris gearing up for serious border talks in a few days. it is not at our border, the one she's in charge of, we'll tell you where she is heading now. ♪

>> todd: ms-13, three salva doorian arrested, one of the migrants was removed from the u.s. in the '90s for aggravate

said sexual assault in new jersey. and vice president kamala harris jetting to europe to secure ukraine's border. will have meetings with u.s. allies at munich security conference to bolster ukraine against russian president vladamir putin. it comes as many of you wish she would secure the u.s. southern border first. >> ashley: thanks, todd. former prosecuor says guns don't cause crime. here to discuss is senior legal fellow at heritage foundation and former navy jag, culley simpson. i couldn't agree more on the notion, it is not weapons that commit crimes, it is people behind them. what is your suggestion to the d.a.s and liberal cities who are trying to go after getting the

guns off the streets, what do you say for them and what solution do you have to offer up? >> good morning. it is pretty simple, you don't have the authority as d.a. to ignore huge swaths of laws. just do your job as chief law enforcement officer of your county and we'll have decrease in crime there is no gun that jumps sxup hurts somebody. criminals commit crimes. stemming the flow of guns is a red herring. >> ashley: as far as major increases in homicides, san francisco up, l.a. up 12.1, philly 11.5, portland 49 bont, that is astronomical. president biden came to new york city last week, supposed to talk about solutions to help curb crime and issues that we're

having here, when talking to mayor adams he didn't offer information to help. what do you suggest is go og here? he won't, biden will not push back against this defund the police, he says they don't agree with it, but his actions say something different. >> he is not using the bully pulpit in way that protects victims. this is a toxic trio, as i said on your network yesterday, defund and demoralize the police and add in the george soros backed prosecutors and you have recipe for soaring crime rates. philadelphia, where krasner sits and l.a. george gascon these are george soros backed rogue

prosecutors. they ignore crime. what is the difference between dc and new york city or any of the other cities? a few hundred miles. in dc on january 6, you prosecute people for resisting arrests, the rest of the cities you don't. the only difference is politics. >> ashley: then you have situations where d.a. bragg and george gascon are lowering felonies to misdemeanors, letting people back on the street to commit for crime. do you think if there is more pushback, they are getting pushback and may have to go back to the drawing board, do you thank you might turn the table and we might see a change? >> of course. unfortunately your network is one of the only networks covering the spike in crime and the reason for rising crime

rates. the problem is, before they change, if they do, or get voted out of office hopefully, there will be thousands of crimes commit, hundreds of dead bodies all over the streets. they pretend they are doing this because there is systemic racism in the criminal justice system. there isn't. only way to uproot the criminal justice system is to do this. it is pro-criminal, by the way, not pro-victim. >> ashley: they have a lot to clean up whoever takes their place. cully stimson, thank you, have a good day. >> todd: senior meteorologist janice dean here. happy friday, j.d. >> janice: the cold air is poised to move in next week, we

will take it today, 47 in chicago, 40 in new york city. will warm up considerably across the west, they are breaking records. california, burbank, redding, medford toward the midwest and will continue for the super bowl weekend. highs around 82 or 83 in southern california. next clipper system will move in today, strong winds will bring blizzard conditions for the northern plains and upper midwest. we have winter weather and cold will set in. balmy 35 in minneapolis and then it will get down to six degrees and we'll have to watch this weekend and not be dealing with a big winter storm. could see coastal snow saturday and sunday. we'll keep you up to date. foxweather.com. happy friday, back to you. tobing >> todd: enjoy the super bowl.

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>> todd: a wisconsin state rep feeling the heat after posting a tweet slamming parents for wanting a say in their kid's education. >> ashley: the now deleted tweet reads, if parents want to have a say in their child's education, they should home school or pay for private school tuition out of their family budget. here to react is fox news contributor joe concha. joe, twitter is successful, you know something like that will get deleted. she did delete it. what an inappropriate thing to say to pull out of family budget when you are trying to make ends meet with inflation soaring s. her apology enough for something like this to say to parents going through this right now? >> joe: oh, no. as you said, ashley, pain is temporary, screen shots are forever in these situations.

the apology doesn't remotely erase the original sentiment. representative snodgrass, an appropriate name, like judge snells, may have ended her career with one political tweet. last time a democratic politician declared parents shouldn't have a say in their child's education, they lost issue his name is terry mcauliffe. to use biden-ism, parents pay for public school through taxes, i know, they pay for salaries, like ms. snodgrass. the government should own your children is not the democratic meme her party wanting right now. >> todd: he loves snodgrass, loves the word snodgrass. joe, your thoughts on this best story of the day.

npr ignoring hunter biden, story that could have geopolitical ramifications, sending not one, not two, three reporters to talk about how the thumbs up emoji is racist. how does the woke mind come up with a story so insanely stupid and out of touch? >> joe: three reporters, i'm not mad, i'm impressed, talk about out of touch. you got to go 28 stories down on npr's home page to find a story on inflation being at a 40-year high. inflation hits another 40-year high, it is bad, but older folks have seen worse. fu were born before world war ii broke out, you would know it could be like the great depression. hunter biden was not reporting on that story, we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories.

stories that are pure distractions. your taxpayers are at work. we have myopic media obsessed with race instead of obsessed with news items like inflation, crime, the border and the like. >> ashley: important stuff. cnn says they need to slash the freedom convoy tires and demanded ways to hurt them. trust me, i will not run out of ways to hurt, suspend drivers license and julie t camm, the freedom convoy is economic insecurity issue now issue the ambassador bridge link constitutes slash the tires, empty gas tanks, arrest the drivers and move the trucks. can you imagine if somebody from our network said something like that about the blm protests?

>> joe: the pitch forks would be in the town of manhattan, ashley. it is a bold statement, let's see if it works out. they live in ivy towers and have no connection with working folk. when you slash tires on 18-wheeler, how do you remove the 18-wheeler from the road? congrat populations, cnn. >> todd: joe concha with anchorman, dodgeball and rams tie, that is somebody into pop culture, that is joe concha. have a great weekend, enjoy the big game. >> joe: i'm taking the bengals, this is opposite the jinx. >> todd: enjoy, have a great work. >> ashley: counting down to the big game in los angeles,

lawrence jones is live outside sofi stadium ahead of the super bowl. >> todd: lawrence was on the red carpet at the nfl honors. he is shining, he spoke to the biggest names in the league. "fox and friends first" enterprise reporter. it is early, lawrence. >> it is a big day yesterday leading into the big game against the rams, rams versus the bengals. this was time when players come together for nfl honors to dap each other up and love on each other before the big game happening. a lot of these folks haven't seen each other since they masked up. i was on the red carpet talking to players about predictions and what the moment meant for them. >> we are at the 2022 honors on the red carpet, let's talk about

predictions, who they think will win the big game. >> that is a big question, i haven't figure today out yet. >> i expect the hometown to win, so much l.a. love. >> rams put it all in to win it all, i think they will do it. >> i wouldn't be surprised if joe burrow pull today out. >> i will know saturday night after i call everybody on every team i know. >> tom brady says he is done, who is the next goat? >> let's see -- >> you don't believe him, do you? >> i'm taking time to myself. >> if tom decides not to return, who is next goat? >> think about pat mahomes, mahomes and allen. >> mahomes is 1st person i think of. >> what is your advice for young people here? >> stay true to who you are, keep chasing dreams, believe in yourself. >> the dream is bigger than anything else. >> one more thing, how about them cowboys?

>> how about them cowboys? >> later on, you will see, i have back and forth with those cowboys, my cowboys, i want them to do better next season, nfl honors aaron rodgers with his fourth m.v.p. award. mykah parson, player of the year for the freshman class. joe burrow, comeback player and will be in the super bowl on sunday, guys. it was a big night. i couldn't let those brothers show mu up, i brought style. >> todd: they gave the m.v.p. award for your performance on the football field, congrats to aaron rodgers. quickly, as cowboys fan, how cool was it for you, the boy in you to meet jerry jones, emmettsmaze smaze smith, michael irvin. >> i was overwhelmed.

sam was like, focus on other players, you cant just focus on the cowboys. my quarterback snubbed me for an interview. >> dak? >> he did. >> come on, dak, we know you are watching, hook lawrence up with an interview. >> great job out there. >> ashley: thanks, lawrence. >> todd: food prices soaring ahead of the super bowl. how are restaurants dealing with the chiken wing crunch? not crunching chicken wings, we'll talk to the founder of wing it up. >> ashley: and threatening to arrest anti-mandate protesters what is the word on the ground in ottawa about the convoy? we'll have that next.

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>> todd: canadian police threatening to arrest freedom convoy protesters as they fight against vaccine mandate. >> ashley: jeff is live in ottawa. what are you see something >> therl morning here on wellington street in front of parliament, maybe you will see, they will start arresting these

guys, they will have a big job. if they try to move the trucks, good luck to them, there are awful lot of trucks here. you know, this started as a trucker protest. take a look at all the cans of gas people have brought. they signed a truck. this is a general contractor from -- where you from? >> montreal, quebec. >> you came here to help the truckers, people come to support them. why? >> for many reasons because especially in quebec, we lost our freedom as an example, this week, this monday, i tried some materials at the store, i got blocked and i can't continue my

work. it is really -- >> yes, absolutely. this is one example. there are so many examples i could talk about all day and -- >> that is what they do all day, you trade stories. talking about trying to move these people, pete, come this way one more time. this is parliament back here, perhaps you see. up and down this street, trucks as far as you can see, it is an amazing protest. i had no idea how wide this was. we'll be here and the truckers say they will be here, too. folks. >> todd: those are some amazing visuals, best of which are the gas cans lined up along the road. jeff, thank you. democrats in the senate getting president biden a wake-up call. senator john tester saying the party is doing nothing for middle america, 10 know months, nine months ahead of the midterm election.

>> national democratic brand in rural america in general is toxic and it is because quite frankly we don't show up, we're not willing to go places we are not wantd and answer questions. >> todd: major admission from tester. bernie sanders criticizing lack of action saying we started off with a strong agenda that was popular and people responded to the president's leadership. for five months with exception of infrastructure, we have not been addressing the needs of the american people. >> millions of americans are looking forward to super bowl sunday and food that goes along with it. with inflation and rising food prices, restaurants are struggling to keep up. >> ashley: matt farrow, from wing it. prices increased 50% -- and then

$3.55 per pound in february of 2022. you guys, wing it did well during the pandemic, have you had to increase prices since inflation took off? >> thanks for having me, yes, we did increase prices throughout 2021. i have shocking news, for the first time in 11 years of doing this, chicken wing prices decreased this week leading up to the super bowl, it is chicken tenderloins and breasts that are on fire. >> ashley: something peeked my interest in here, it says some people are struggling to keep up, some are ready to switch to frozen chicken wings. is there something wrong with frozen chicken wing? are they less expensive? >> we're a fresh, never frozen concept. we don't have the luxury of that opgsz. for independent restaurant

owners, frozen wings inventory have doubled as distributors have been weary of this potential shortage leading up to the super bowl. they overstocked on frozen and are offering cheap discounts for anyone willing to take the frozen products. >> ashley: you had to increase prices, whether that was a little or a lot, what have the response been from customer? >> we keep raising the prices as they go up and people keep eating chicken wings. people love their chicken wings and will not stop eating them, especially during super bowl. >> ashley: those wings look good, mild with good blue cheese sounds good. god bless you, thanks for being on with us this morning. >> todd: that shop is about an hour from my house, come by, i will be waiting sunday morning with open arms.

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you are greater than your bipolar i. ask about vraylar. >> i committed i would follow the science, the science put forward by the cdc and the that federal people and i think it's probably premature but it's, you know, it's a tough call. >> president biden digging in his heels as another democratic governor let's mask mandates expire as covid cases plummet in the u.s. >> todd: u.k. completely dropping its restrictions. fox news contributor good to see

you. how is joe biden this tone deaf when so many of his fellow democrats are saying look, it's time to move on. >> i guess it's a tough call as we heard from joe biden there, todd. look, i have two young kids so this is pretty clear to he moo. this is called you don't want to admit defeat. i guess that's the only conclusion some of us can draw at this point. you look at the science. you just talked about the science there. the science has been very clear that there is a negligible effect on covid transmission from masking. we have known that for quite some time. it cass donald trump, don't forget, said the cure cannot be worse than the disease itself. he said that at the very beginning of covid. yet, here we are in this space where the impact of masking is actually so much worse than the current covid situation. you look at the impact on small businesses. so many aspects of our life. you take kids alone who were forced to wear these masks still in school and some places we know they can't concentrate.

they get headaches from wearing masks all day. young kids are having trouble speaking because they can't see the mouth of the teachers and adults socially it's impacted kids negatively. for those reasons alone. you ought to get rid of the mask and then you look, you guys just said it so many democrat governors across the country have gotten rid of the mask mandate. they are letting them lapse at this point. because they got the polling numbers. don't forget that this has nothing to do with what is good for the got the polling. people don't like being masked. only conclusion you can draw either the biden administration doesn't want to admit defeat or they don't want to give up control at this point over people's lives because they have had a lot of controls. either way you can put it in another category where all of joe biden's decisions have gone the wrong decision forward for america. >> speaking of won't accept defeat on this a new fox news poll, 2024 vote and election were today, 36% would reelect

biden. but 60 percent said they would vote for someone else. it brings us to our next topic, the democrats are now someone praising hillary clinton and kind of sneaking in that she might potentially run again. how bad is this for the democratic party that they are trying to make her out to be the golden girl here and how good could this possibly be for the republicans? you know, laura in the same sense, is hillary really going to step in and solve this issue of inflation and the border crisis? >> it's great question, actually. i think we would all like to hear hillary's thoughts on those things. her name keeps coming up. she will not go away. you have to ask yourselves why are we still talking about hillary clinton? she lost to donald trump in 2016. in that absolutely embarrassing defeat yet, she is just around constantly. i think you are right. i think a lot of people are assuming maybe she is the only hope for the democrats at this point as we head to 2024. you have got 60% of the country

who want the current president, joe biden to take a cognitive test. that is really alarming on so many levels. kamala harris' poll numbers are just about as low as can you go. hillary ekes out kamala harris just by a little bit. but hillary clinton is very unlikeable. again, she lost to donald trump in a recent head-to-head matchup against trump who so many people think and i won't break news here today will be the republican nominee in 2024. she performs very poorly. she does not win against donald trump it does say the democrats are in a desperate situation. they have made all the wrong decisions. americans feel the negative impact of their policies right now. life feels a lot harder for people since they have the house, the senate and the white house. and, you know what? they are in a little bit of a pickle as they head to 24. maybe they are banking on hillary again, drag her back up, folks, shake her off. maybe she'll be back again for 24. we will see.

>> todd: cynic says hillary is the source of all this drama and leaks and new press interest. also the fact that democrats have zero bench. this is probably coming from the dnc. lara trump is coming from florida. appreciate seeing you as always. have great weekend. enjoy the big game. >> ashley: thanks, laura. >> todd: you enjoy it too. >> ashley: "fox & friends" starts now. >> will: straight to a fox news alert. police in america under siege. five police officers reportedly shot in the last nine hours. right now phoenix police are on the scene of what they are describing as a critical incident. >> brian: yup, three police officers possible noble a barricade situation. this is a developing story. we will continue to follow it closely, obviously. >> carley: and in washington two deputies shot responding to a dispute between neighbors. police say a man with a shotgun opened fire at authorities. he has been arrested. the two deputies