think are not going to be a way to dissuade him. is he resolute in saying that he is going to take ukraine. he has been saying that for years. >> carley: president biden accepting conditioned based meeting with vladimir putin as early as this week. >> joe biden becoming president is the best thing that ever happened for vladimir putin. >> justin drew dough being slammed as a caucus dictator as police clear out the last of the freedom convoy. >> we were peaceful for three and a half weeks and, yet, he treated us like we were terrorists and dangerous to society. >> a crowd of people, that's it? >> with no mask on. >>

girl scouts facing a cookie crisis. some fundraising for their troops. >> people only bought certain cookies and when i say i don't have them then they would leave. >> cindric won it by half a car length. a packed house at the daytona 500. ♪ this is going to be the best day of my life ♪ this is going to be the best day of my life ♪ lawrence cindric would argue it was the best day of his life. he just won the daytona 500 aired on fox yesterday. i'm lawrence jones in for brian kilmeade. rachel campos duffy, steve is

also owe -- he is also here. this is his show. we are in his world today. >> steve: it's president's day. it's a federal holiday. congress made it the third monday in february so if you have got the day off, fantastic. if not, we are going to get you started. congratulations. did you realize that the winner last night and you were down there. i'm sure you probably know this, is only 23 years old. >> lawrence: young blood. final fin nincht him and bubba wallace were neck and neck. >> rachel: what i learned the race is just part of the experience. it's like a whole nascar family. steve excuse for a party. >> lawrence: how was the food. >> rachel: do nascar with the mclemore boys they had rv stocked with food. we weren't just eating during the show. we gold there at other times.

>> steve: what is this we're looking at? >> rachel: we had competition -- we got trained by the people who do the pit stop there. and we had to put on, you know. >> steve: you gassed up a car. >> rachel: gassed up a car. 70 pounds. but i think they took some gas out of there for me. me and pete won. it was pretty awesome. and i think rick and will were pretty upset about it but there i am. >> steve: is that richard petty. >> rachel: got present wide this legend if you were in basketball. michael jordan giving you the trophy. it was pretty awesome. >> rachel: took pete off he was so in the control room. he was my partner. >> steve: you know that trophy is on tv about once a week. it's the same trophy week after week. one week for the daytona.

>> lawrence: when you get get it you get to put it in your office and next week it could be gone. steve: just like that it's like the stanley cup. >> lawrence: audit citizen cindric state of the unioning in with us 8:30 eastern time. stay tuned for him. >> steve: president biden has apparently real estate agreed to conditions based meeting with russian president vladimir putin. >> rachel: only if the quem lynn holds off on what the u.s. believes is imminent invasion of ukraine. >> lawrence: trey yingst joins us live with the latest. hey, trey. >> steve, rachel, lawrence, good morning. it appears french president emmanuel macron has gotten president biden and russian president putin to agree to a meeting. already though today the kremlin is pushing back about those reports saying it's too early to talk about any specifics adding there are no concrete plans. this morning president putin is meeting with his security council just as president biden

did yesterday. it comes as the russian defense ministry claims that ukrainian shell was fired into their territory this morning. these statements should be viewed with skepticism as the russians and russian backed separatist provided very little today show proof of ukrainian attack. amid fears of a invasion. the united states wrote a letter to the united nations saying quote we have credible information russian forces are creating lists of ukrainians to be killed and sent to camps following military operation. the biden administration is hoping to deter russia with the invading sanctions as press secretary john kirby reiterated yesterday. >> we said all along these are going to be crippling sanctions. sanctions of which we have not put in place before. unprecedented. means that a very strong mess stooge mr. putin and deterrent. if you have pull the trigger on that deterrent it, doesn't exist anymore as a deterrent. >> in the past, sanctions have not worked to deter the behavior

of russian president putin and as fighting continues in the eastern part of this country. analysts fear this could be the beginning of a much larger conflict. back to you. >> steve: hey, trey, we understand that apparently moscow has not agreed to this meetings on thursday. who knows. maybe because they can't make it until thursday before they invade. you are on the streets there in kyiv. are the people like hey, americans, can't you help us out with this? >> well, look, already we see people in kyiv basically bracing for the possibility of conflict. but, behind us, life continues as normal. one interesting thing though we found out last night. some of these organizations actually working to get americans out of afghanistan over the summer are back now trying to plan to get americans out of ukraine if they need to. so this is all going to be part of an ongoing concern for americans still here. this morning we have yet another alert from the state department

telling measures to get out of the country immediately because they may not be able to get out by commercial means in the coming days. >> steve: what a mess. >> rachel: thank you, trey. >> lawrence: he has been doing excellent reporting. >> rachel: artillery going off as he was on the ground. all of that happening live as we were carrying his report. it's interesting, the biden administration says we will meet with putin but only if he agrees not to invade ukraine. they are standing by their policy, despite the president of ukraine saying, please, issue the sanctions now. a lot of other people saying the same thing. they are saying, no, we are going to wait until russia actually invades before we put in sanctions. a lot of critics caughtable saying listen, it's a lot easier to roll back sanctions than it is to roll back war. senator cruz talking just recently about the urgency for those sanctions.

take a look. >> real insurance that ukraine had against invasion is that putin has to take his energy, his natural gas in pipelines that go through ukraine. once he builds nord stream 2. he no longer has to worry about those pipelines. in 2019 i authored sanctions, bipartisan sanctions in congress they passed with overwhelming bipartisan majorities. president trump signed my sanctions legislation into law. and putin stopped building the pipe line the day president trump signed those sanctions. that pipeline was dead for over a year until joe biden became president and putin began building that pipeline again on january 24th, 2021. four days after biden was sworn into office. joe biden becoming president is the best thing that ever happened, tragically, for vladimir putin. >> rachel: we're going to talk a little bit about that later. energy policy is national security policy.

and this is a huge mistake on the part of. we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for that totally self-inflicted. >> steve: go to the gas station. the price is ticking up. wait until the invasion. here's the thing about invasion. it's going to happen. putin doesn't care what the united states does. he believes this is his time to restore russia to its original splendor. is he going to grab that and it's a whole lot to your point about sanctions. do it before. it's a whole lot easier if you look at some of these aerial bombs during the exercises over the weekend. so much easier to do sanctions before there are thousand russians in your country. and unfortunately it, looks like that is the direction we are going go. >> rachel: our climate obsession. germany's climate obsession as well will be responsible for why this happened. energy policy matters. we have got to stop indulging climate addicts and get back to

being energy independent and leader in energy in the world. we have empowered russia by not doing that. >> lawrence: debate ongoing conversation we are going to be having this this morning what should be america's reaction and interest. should would he be having folks on the ground and how many should it be. a lot of parents are watching this morning wondering what their sons and daughters are going to be cooking in poland. we will be keeping an eye on that. >> steve: we will, indeed. meantime, on this wanted no, presidents' day, a frustrated mother in virginia, tearing into her child's school board over mask mandates for kids but not them. >> our family has been suffocated. >> i'm gone! >> steve: how she called out the board for their own mask hypocrisy. coming up, she had the proof on her phone. >> rachel: yeah. that was awesome. great moment. there is no sugar coating the latest supply chain crisis. how girl scout cookies are a being contacted.

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>> carley: back with headlines beginning with america's crime crisis. new york city subway system still plagued by violence despite adams promise to make it safe again. five people stabbed in the subway system this weekend alone. no arrests have been made so far. all five stabbing victims are expected to recover and in chicago at least 19 people were hurt and five were killed in shootings over the weekend; it isn't just children being

exposed to crt a new report from critical race.org says at least 23 of the top 25 medical schools have some form of mandatory training or class material based around critical race theory. the study also finding 16 of those schools will embed crt into their general curriculum. and a rookie takes home the victory at this year's daytona 500. >> cindric is going to bring them to the line way up high to block ryan blaney and at the line cindric beats bubba wallace half a car length and crash going into turn one. >> first nascar cup great american race and too far 500 debut the fox nation car driven by lincoln castle finished 15th. lachlan murdock getting things started by waving the green flag. later this morning this year's winner will join to us discuss the race. looking forward to that for

sure. a great one. right? >> rachel: it was amazing weekend. >> carley: you won the trophy for being the best pit crew member. >> lawrence: yes. >> rachel: we were presented that trophy by richard petty who is like an icon in nascar world. >> steve: the biggest at the end of the interview with him as i said is rubbing race thunder. he said whatever it takes. [laughter] >> rachel: great, great weekend. i will tell you we had so much fun. we ate well. we were eating steaks at like 8:00 a.m. >> lawrence: grits and eggs. thank you, carley. >> rachel: thanks, carley. >> steve: the guys from masterbuilt are great. >> rachel: those guys are so amazing. they know food. they are such good kind christian people and they took good care of us and we love

them. >> steve: excellent. let's talk a little bit about some of the things in the news. and something that caught our eye. remember, it was last wednesday that down in the commonwealth of virginia. governor glenn youngkin signed that bill that makes masks optional in schools. parents get to actually decide whether your kid wear as mask. >> rachel: imagine that. >> steve: giving families control over the children. here's the thing. in the commonwealth of virginia. about as far west as can you go is montgomery county, virginia. that's around blacksburg, virginia. there was a mom by the name of alicia vawt and she wanted to make a point and she had seen that the school board president was out and about on her facebook posting pictures of her and the school board president of her in groups of people with no mask, which is essentially what the school board was telling the kids had to do. she, the woman pictured right

there. alicia saw the hypocrisy in it and wanted to talk to them about it. and she did. and this was epic. watch this. rear taking the power out of your hands and putting it back with the parents the way it should be. we sat here last year and listen to you guys preach to us about governor in order thad matta's executive orders and how we must follow them. do you remember that? we do. here is the governor that comes into office but, yet, you don't want to follow his orders. why is that? that makes no sense it makes all of you a bunch of hypocrites. shear a picture of you right here on facebook with a crowd of people. >> that's it. >> with no mask on. >> this is my time and i don't want. >> you here is another picture of you with no mask on. >> i'm sorry, ms. vowt. you are done. can we have a police officer, please. >> she should be able to say her peace. >> i have had to people come and criticize me. >> that doesn't make it right. >> that's my family.

that is -- i'm done. >> we are done. all of us. >> steve: is the school board president called the police. >> lawrence: elected official. by the way, she is not following decorum. she interrupted her as she was speaking because she didn't like that she was exposing. if it was good enough for you to put on facebook. it's good if you have for this parent to bring it up in this meeting. not just hypocrisy we have been witnessing across the country in liberal cities. the fact the science is out to prove that it does not protect children. that the mask doesn't frequent them. but the science is also out about the isolation and what this masks do to their learning ability to their cognitive ability and they still don't care about it. >> rachel: they are not following the law. you hear people on the left talking about we need to save democracy. democracy. that was democracy in action. there was one governor who was

masking kids. the parents got together. elected another one. he said make it optional and what these schools are not doing is following the executive order or in other cases they are shaming. i know some kids who go to that school district and i know their parents and the parents say they are separating them. putting them in separate rooms. there is a lot of shaming going on. they are politicizing something that shouldn't be politicized. i look at that mom and say she is the queen. good for her. that is exactly what needs to happen and that woman walked out, the school board member because she was shamed. meanwhile randy wine garden who is responsible for creating some of these rules and working with the cdc to keep our kids masked up. she tweeted in response to this we all want to get back to a sense of normalcy that's why aft union asked the administration months ago for a science-based off ramp for masks. sure she did. steve: the thing about, and she is the president of, i think the second largest teachers union.

she the reason that tweet came out because of the recall of the board members. seven in san francisco. only three available to be recalled. this was a landslide. they were all swept out. super woke. they are the ones renaming schools rather than talking about of course mass. they were talking about masks when the kids didn't even come back to school until august of last year. the reason randy weingarten is trying to spin that now her union kept the kids out of the classrooms for north of a year. and now she is trying to make it seem like we were always following the science. >> rachel: trying to rewrite history. >> steve: the mother we saw in the first clip she was going viral. a podcaster put her up on their website. a local tv station out in the blacksburg area apparently talked to her about why she did

it she said, look, i'm not right wing. i am trying to do the right thing. i am doing the right thing for our kids and i'm standing up and calling out the hypocrisy when there is hypocrisy because we're all tired of it. rules for thee and not for me. >> rachel: meanwhile on steve hilton's show last night. he h speaking of another mom, a lifelong democrat. she has decided to run for congress, based on -- by the way. this is a new trend. moms and dads deciding to getting involved and they're saying i will vote for whoever, excuse me, whoever is for my kid. and this is a democrat running in new york city here is what she had to say is this a video or is this -- okay. take a listen. >> we're going on to year three of this pandemic and our children don't have near the same rights that the permanent political class in washington has given themselves. here in new york state. i live in new york city and new york state we just had our democratic nominee for governor

nominated at the new york state convention and she was holding hands with hillary clinton on stage. my kids can't hold hands. my 5-year-olds can't hold hands with their kids in school becausenot allowed because of covid restriction thes. it's infuriating to see our leaders give themselves permission to do things to do things our kids are still not allowed to do. >> lawrence: last thing i would say on this because as the climate changes and polls start sway. as you see democrat moms and independent moms start to get involved there will be a chance right here for the democrats to rewrite history. as you talked, to rachel. >> rachel: if they want to. >> lawrence: skip by the last two years and a half. >> steve: amnesia. >> lawrence: you can't forget about it the next crisis they will take advantage as well. remember, they wanted ventilation systems. first people to get the vaccine. they were provided all of this stuff, still right now they don't want kids back in school and they wanted kids to have the

mask on. and want to flip because the pollings have changed. not because the science has changed. the science has been consistent. they chose not to abide by the science. >> steve: number one issue of concern to you and to all of us according to the latest polls. speaking of polls, is inflation. we heard from joe biden last summer. you know, yep, it's going up. but it's going to be temporary. now we know it's not temporary. and now we know not only are you paying more every time you go to the grocery store it seems like everything is $1 more than it used to be. like a little while ago. now, ladies and gentlemen, things are getting personal. because now they are coming for the girl scout cookies from samoas. >> lawrence: my favorite. >> steve: to s'mores. girl scout cookies are feeling supply chain issues. aside from price increases which can be 4 or 5 or $6 a box now. one company that supplies, let's see 75 of 111 councils.

little brownie bakers in louisville, kentucky. announced to the scouts that they were having greenetrack delay problems. so they may be delayed? getting the cookies to the kids. they are trying to will. this is how they fund their activities throughout the scout year. >> rachel: shear clip from the girl scout leader and cassette a senior girl scout. >> we have lost sales. my daughter has lost sales towards her goal. >> it's been a little challenging just because people only want certain cookies. and they specifically ask for samoas, and cooks and when i say i don't have them. then they leave. so, it's a little disappointing when i lose customers.

>> rachel: so you see the impact of inflation. and biden's response to fix this is just -- literally the policy is we are just going to have them show more empathy and yeah pretend like he knows how much cost. when i was born in scranton, he is doing nothing to fundamentally change what's affecting inflation he could cut federal spending. he could deal with energy. energy prices full circle here what we were talking about in ukraine. effect everything buying in the grocery store. certainly affects the gas you are paying at the pump. is he dog nothing to change any of that. so he can show empathy and show i feel your pain, but in the end, he is not going to fix this problem. >> lawrence: it's one things for empathy another thing to understand what it takes to actually run a business. >> rachel: that's right. >> lawrence: talk about a guy been in office since he was 29 years old. he has no clue how a business operates. a lot of americans having buyer's remorse we miss the business guy in the white house or round tables where we would

see the business leaders collaborate celebrating from the american people on how things actually work. the president of the united states currently does not know how things work. >> rachel: i miss the businessman in the office. >> steve: you know when it comes to girl scout cookies. it's not just the girl scouts impacted. it's their parents. let's be truthful it's parents who sell the cookie. it's the parents who lean on your neighbors and your friends. about -- i would say 15 years ago, i brought in my daughter mary's girl scout cookie form. passed it around. it went through the newsom for two days. she sold 310 boxes to this building. >> lawrence: unbelievable. >> steve: unfortunately, there were a lot of people whose names i have never seen because they work the night shift or worked during "primetime" i had no idea. it took me three weeks to deliver all of those. and do you know what mary got for selling 310 boxes of girl scout cookies?

>> rachel: a opatch? >> steve: a towel. a towel with a polar bear. you are welcome. >> rachel: girl scout cookies were always overpriced. i'm curious what they cost now. >> lawrence: i just bought a couple boxes. >> rachel: not too expensive for lawrence. >> steve: i remember when my sister was selling them they were a buck. >> rachel: oh boy, that was a long time ago. >> steve: those were the 70s. >> rachel: the good old 70s. there is chaos right now in canada as nearly 300 convoy protesters were arrested this weekend. in a trucker who witnessed it firsthand joins us live next. stay with us.

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>> rachel: can a made yiannopoulos cracking down on the freedom convoy's rally. nearly 200 arrest as horseback officers appeared to trample protesters. canadian trucker witnessed the chaos firsthand. he joins us now. robert, thank you for joining us this morning. what have you seen? are the police being brutal with the protesters that have been pretty peaceful. >> yeah. i would like to start off. i'm not a trucker. i'm a civil engineering technician. a senior engineering technician. >> rachel: thank you for that clarification. >> i'm following what was going on on the ground to get a good clear vision of what is truly happenings here in canada and our capital aened unfortunately i, yeah the police officers were extremely i couldn't have in certain measures, and in certain cases. we saw -- we saw from all around the country and we did also see police officers that weren't wearing any badges or any

identification whatsoever and weren't dressed like the rest of the police officers these police officers greed in green truly looked like military but i know for a fact they were not. they were the ones roughing people up the most, you know, what i would like to point out is that images can be [inaudible] in different ways but we were never violent. and nothing thrown at them there was nothing police officers were never hit by any of us, standing in line. all people were doing is trying to protect truckers that were behind us. and. >> rachel: report a lot of people believe what justin trudeau is trying to provoke violence to justify this crackdown on his opposition essentially. i want to move to another subject that has me really

concerned and that is the economics, the financial warfare that they're raging on the opposition to his government and to his policies. and this is freezing of assets. this is a whole new level. something that is very similar to what the chinese do. it's sort of the social credit score system. where they can literally cut off your livelihood and your ability to function financially in a society. what are your thoughts on that and how are canadian responding to what appears to be this new development? >> this is an off set from what we originally came here to do. the truckers only came here to do. we only wanted the mandates to be lifted because they go against our constitutional rights. and this evolved into something way different. the government seems to have already planned the rating our fuel. rating our food. that was there for the truckers. while we were peaceful.

and i would like to point out that we were peaceful up to the time where they pushed us downtown. they provoked us down at one of our storage facilities where we had fuel and everything. and we refused to get violent. and at that point, that's where the -- everything stopped and they had have to invoke this emergency measure act to be able to get because we would not get on board. that's why it lasted for 23 days because they didn't know what to do with us because we didn't play their game. with that can said, when it comes to the financial aspect of it, i'm not a specialist in this at all what i do see here any government if you are not doing things the way they in the my opinion is far from being democratic. and is not what canada stands for. and this is my opinion very dangerous. and the opposition to our government is stating clearly in the house of commons. there is a big problem. >> rachel: it is a new dangerous

level that this has gone in. and it's actually very concerning beyond the borders of canada. i think americans are looking at that and saying that we have already started to see the beginning of that here as he will with we want to thank you for joining us. thanks for having eyes on the ground. this movement is being followed by the world. thank you for joining us, robert. >> thank you for the opportunity to be here thank you very much and keep up the good work. >> rachel: all right. you keep it up as well, too. >> we will. >> rachel: president biden calling a rare sunday meeting with the national security council as the threat in ukraine escalates. retired attorney general anthony at a time that assesses the threat next a strategic and sustainable asset... the path is gilded with the potential for rich returns. liz, you nerd, cough if you're in here! shh! i took mucinex dm for my phlegmy cough.

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>> steve: we have seen this movie before. president biden calling a rare sunday meeting with the national security security council in the operation room as russia is ready to invade ukraine right now it comes after the president stayed silent this weekend when reporters pressed him on the escalation crisis. is he not answering questions. here to assess the threat is former deputy commanding general in afghanistan and retired brigadier general anthony tata. gentlemen, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. >> steve: sounds likes potus and putin may meet on thursday provided russia has not invaded yet. although russia says nothing is concrete yet. that's quite a caveat. if they haven't invaded yet. >> it's obvious, steve, russia is calling the play here. i think that strategic decision has been made. and now it's up to the tackle and operational commanders, the colonels and sergeants and

captains and miracles on the ground when conditions are right they will begin to inch into the areas that putin wants. in eastern ukraine in particular. >> steve: right. >> we have been down this road before with obama, biden. we had the crimea in 2014. then trump came in and it was peace through strength and really fortifying nato. and then, you know, recently, we have had the afghanistan debacle where we abandoned nato and i think putin saw and this saw how fractured we are. and in november he said let's go. if we are going to go, now is the time to go. he made that strategic decision. you don't move 150,000 troops and then not use them in some way. >> steve: right. absolutely. this is the largest build up in europe since world war ii. and i heard senator cotton yesterday say that they are moving hospitals and blood stockpiles to the front lines. you don't have blood at the front lines for exercises. so they mean business. and "the washington post,"

general yesterday, had a story that apparently the us ambassadors to united nations wrote a note to the u.n. human rights chief saying that russia has drawn up a list, once they invade ukraine they have a kill list. a list of ukrainians to be killed or sent to camps following military occupation. so it sounds like mr. putin just doesn't wanted to grab the land. he wants to settle some scores. >> well, that and if he is going to do it, he figures he might as well do it right. you know, the biden administration has been utterly feckless on this entire issue and so he might as well a to z go through everything that he wants to do and not have to worry about any more untangle ukraine from the european union. and continue to press ahead with what he wants. and, you know, what the biden administration could do here is signal in a very clear way what

the economic sanctions would be. because at the end of the day, you have diplomatic information, military and economic, elements of national power. and we have not been good at diplomatic efforts, you know, blinkson a frat boy that really is unconcerned. and then information, what have you got basically there is russia being masters at it. then the military piece, we did goodbye sending a couple brigade combat teams to poland. economically, you know, trump understood this well. and now what we're doing is we have shut down our keystone xl and not doing anything about the nord stream. and we need to demonstrate that we get that economic security is wrapped into energy security. and so, right now, you know, he could lay out all the economic sanctions that are going to happen. and this is our last hope. >> steve: yeah. but it's tough when they are 200,000 russian guys already in the country. then it seems a little late. general, thank you very much for joining us today from florida.

>> thank you, steve. >> steve: all right. it is 13 and and a half minutes before the top of the hour. let's check in for your presidents' day "foxcast," adam klotz has the weather forecast. right now it's not that bad outside. >> you are absolutely right, steve. good morning. and it's not that bad i hear on presidents' day on fox square. there are parts of the country we are tracking some real winter weather that's coming together. dive right in and look at that forecast where you are seeing temperatures particularly in the you were tiers of the country. zero degrees in montana. that's where there is real cold wintry like air settling in. snow falling across the northern plains, upper midwest. that's going to continue here over the next couple of days. we have got winter weather alerts stretching across the entire region. at times see very heavy snowfall especially heading over are towards colorado. still to come a couple of feet. i have will leave you with this because you know what? not everyone is going to land there here is your presidents' day forecast.

the eastern half of the country fairly mild weather. those are your weather headlines here on this presidents' day. steve, tossing it back in to you. all right. thank you very much. adam. coming up congress woman alexandria ocasio-cortez now pushing abolish ice merchandise. what? a man hoping to unseat the progressive democrat reacts as border encounters hit a new high. plus, have mask mandates impacted early childhood development in the new questions being raised as the cdc quietly changes its standards toddler speech development. this is something you are going to want to hear coming up on "fox & friends." ♪ ♪ (vo) what makes my heart beat? having everything i want in the place i love. jamaica. heartbeat of the world.

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>> carley: welcome back. time for quick headlines, san diego hitting gas price. san diego county reached a record high of $4.74 per gallon. the average price increase a total of 18 times in the last 20 days. the national average price of a gallon of gas remains far behind san diego at $3.52 per gallon. and walt disney world reportedly raising prices on some tickets as the park announces an end to their mask mandate.

the price hike mainly affect multi-day pickets and park hopper tickets. the park has not raised prices on multi-day tickets since just before the pandemic in early 2019 things are getting expensive over to you. >> lawrence: parents are going to be feeling that alexandria ocasio-cortez spark outrage with new abolish ice merchandise for sale on her website. this as illegal immigrant encounters at the border and drug seizures hit a record high. january border encounters nearly double since this time last year. army national guardsman deputy cuellar challenging aoc for congressional seat and he joins us now. thank you so much and thank you for your service. let me go straight to it abolish ice merchandise putting this out there. what does this do for the morale of the men and women from ice?

>> thank you for the kind words. what it does is makes everyone's job a lot more difficult. saying something like abolish ice would be have the same effect on the immigrant community as what tee funding also a had on the country as a whole. border patrol agents and ice agents among the bravest people in the united states going out there be cooking doing the job nobody would want to do and so dangerous and much on the line. i can't -- there is not enough to be said about the job they are doing and what they're trying to do. all they are trying to do is keep everything safe and get rid of the hardened criminals getting into this country. and by aoc saying she wants to abolish ice. it's more irresponsible rhetoric coming forward. god forbid if it were to actually happen. the next day they turn around and say i didn't mean that i didn't say that when in reality that's their intention the whole

time. '. >> lawrence: i want to get your reaction to this topic. 12 shoplifters in aoc district she publicly defended after stole diapers and formula are revealed to be repeat offenders for arrest, assault, robbery, arson and strangulation. i also want to get you comment on this according to the daily mail, there are at least 199 combined prior arrests for 11 of the 12 shoplifters that aoc defended. what's your reaction to that i have said it before and say it again the democratic party doesn't care about you unless you are a criminal no. surprise aoc go out and stand up for these criminals that the majority of whom, like you said, they have almost 200 combined prior arrests. when in reality she should be standing up for the people that those criminals' actions affect the victims. and for her to call -- she called the nypd animals for what they had said about going after the people were the -- you know,

with the prior the toll shoplifters. the animals are the people willing to break into your home and business to rob from you when all you are trying to do is make an honest living. the animals are the people who will, you know, villainize the police or ice agents. they are not animals. they are heroes. i think it's unfortunate where you see the rise in crime and impact law enforcement is making to try to get a hand on this and they absolutely have zero regard of that. desi, good luck in yourrace. >> thank you, brother have. a good day. >> lawrence: you too. san francisco's mayor warn elected officials after parents in her city were called three far left school board members. hear what she is saying after a quick break. that's next on "fox & friends." exam and x-rays free to new patients without insurance - everyday.

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voter his, from is a mows a s'mores supply chain issues. >> people only want certain cookies. >> cindric win bias half a car length. ♪ and the home of the brave [cheers and applause] ♪ this is god's country ♪ dirt and work until the week's done ♪ take a break and break bread on sunday. >> steve: if you go into the 65th floor of this building and look out that way you get the shot of the statue of liberty.

by the way on presidents' day federal holiday according to google is going to open up 8:30 this morning. >> rachel: trace adkins with the star-spangled banner at nascar was amazing. that flyover the sound of freedom right after. we had trace adkins by the way on the weekend show and pretty awesome. lawrence every time i stay tuned in with you guys this weekend you were eating. >> rachel: there was a lot of country music and eating. >> lawrence: i support that. >> rachel: it was great show. the only thing that was missing you is lawrence and steve next time do it together. >> steve: i got a call from guyy fee yet says you have too much food on your show. >> rachel: it is turning into the food channel. >> steve: honor 46 presidents through history. the postman is not going to drop by and drop off mail. a lot of the neighbor's stuff winds up in our box. the banks are closed but a lot of businesses are open.

so, on this monday, and make it great day. >> lawrence: we have a lot of business to get. to say president biden agreeing to a conditions based meeting with russian president vladimir putin. >> steve: although putin hasn't exactly agreed to it they will only meet, according to the united states, if the kremlin does not invade ukraine. that's the key. >> rachel: trey yingst joins us live with the latest. trey? what's going on over there? >> steve, rachel, lawrence, good morning. it appears we have some good news. overnight french president emmanuel macron saying he got both president biden and russian president putin to agree to ad moo. though today the kremlin is pushing back from those statements. basically saying it's too early to talk specifics and there are no concrete plans. this morning, president putin is meeting with his national security council just as president biden did yesterday. it comes as the russian defense ministry claims that a ukrainian shell was fired into their

territory this morning. these statements should be viewed with skepticism as the russians and russian-backed sprittists have provided very little evidence to show proof of ukraineible attack. amid fears of a larger russian invasion "the washington post" reports the united states wrote a letter to the united nations saying, quote: we have credible information that indicates russian forces are creating lists of identified ukrainians to be killed or sent to camps following a military occupation. the biden administration is honing to deter russia from invading with the threat of sanctions as pentagon press secretary john kirby reiterated yesterday. >> we have said all along that these are going to be crippling sanctions, sanctions the likes of which we have not put in place before. they are going to be unprecedented and we mean this as a very strong mess stooge mr. if you pull the trigger on that deterrent, well then it doesn't exist anymore as a deterrent. >> in the past sanctions have not worked to deter the behavior of russian president putin but the region hoping that this last-ditch effort will work to

avoid a larger conflict. back to you. >> steve: tray, going to ask you about the weather there the tanks have got to have frozen ground for the most part they can advance on ukraine how cold is it there i was talking to general tata during the break he heard that the ground was not completely frozen yet. >> it's not completely frozen. we were on the frontlines this weekend and it was very muddy and wet muddy when chelsey were landed it into the ground. made it the shrapnel didn't go as far. as for the tanks it may be a problem. we have seen in past conflicts tanks getting stuck in the mud and videos online showing russian tanks along the border have had some trouble. >> steve: maybe that would be a reason putin would put it off for a week or two waiting for things to freeze. thank you for joining us live from ukraine.

>> rachel: he may be waiting on the weather to get better. >> steve: colder. >> rachel: colder. there is no question and you spoke with general tata and he says that the russians are calling the shots. here he is obvious russians are calling the play here. strategic decision to be made. up to the tactical and operational commanders cecials and sergeants captains and measures on the ground and when conditions are right they will begin to inch into the areas. that putin wants. in eastern ukraine in particular. the biden administration has been utterly feckless on this entire issue are. >> lawrence: empower russia. i don't understand why france is brokering the conversations

between u.s. and russia. if you are going to be involved in this conflict at least lead on it i still have questions on america's interest what are we going to do with our troops there. a lot of families watching today are concerned about their kids in poland and what does that mean if this conflict really if putin does invade. the president of the united states has not made it clear what america is going to do in response to that france seems to be taking the lead on this. >> steve: lawrence, it was about four or five weeks ago when the president did make it clear exactly what the united states would do. if it's a minor incursion i don't know what we are going to do. he grave them the green light. well, if it's little, we are not going to really do anything. and he has since said there will be no u.s. troops involved in this instead, after they invade a bunch of sanctions okay. putin has already got what he's. ukraine, what sanction, you know, he will give any sanction

to. >> lawrence: all reactionary. >> rachel: easier to roll back sanctions that than it is to -- a war. essentially that's president say do the sanctions now. a lot of republicans are upset that, you know, germany is getting, you know, oil from and gas from russia and says, you know, this needs to stop. no matter how this conflict ends, this energy issue in our country that we have self-inflicted wound, you know, letting ourselves go from being energy producers and creating enough energy to maybe supply europe all of that infrastructure is stopped because of joe biden. and now, you know, the germans really want their gas and oil from russia. and so this is a huge problem, energy policy is national security policy and we're going to have to come back to that. >> steve: think about it joe biden wants to sun and wind more instead of russian oil. is it all connected? don't know. >> rachel: getting into the climate fanatic. >> steve: in some spots gas is 7

bucks a gallon. >> lawrence: seeing that all across the country. something has been happening a across the country the reaction to these covid mandates and all of that we have saw what has been happening in canada. over this weekend there was a heavy show of force. from the police to get rid of those folks that were a part of that convoy. you know, something interesting even happened during the press conference. one of the reporters asked the police chief about all the surveillance that they had of the folks involved. just because allow some folk to go away. police say they will be reviewings that surveillance and still going after those folks. we had a canadian injured who attended that program earlier today. this is what he had to say about that brutal treatment. watch. >> unfortunately, yeah. we saw extremely rough certain measures. images can be [inaudible] if it

waits. we were never violent. this is offset from what we originally came here to do. the truckers came here to do. we only wanted the mandates to be lifted because they go against our constitutional rights. any government being age seize assets as they wish if you are not doing things the way they want in my opinion is as far as from being democratic and is not what canada stands for. >> rachel: i interviewed robert earlier. really interesting conversation. a couple things. he believes that justin trudeau taking a playbook out of the communists who he really admires a way. is he a tyrant justin true do you is he provoking according to this witness. provoking the truckers using force on people who trying to peacefully protest in order to justify a crackdown on this opposition. in addition, he mentioned this economic warfare that they are engaging in. against these protesters and anyone who tries to support

them. so, instead of crushing opposition with bullets and tanks chinese, there is this new system being developed and the chinese have gotten good at this too. that is called the social credit score system. that is what we are seeing here in canada. see are seen bits of it here in the united states. and if you talk to the truckers, they will tell you, this is not about the code mandates. this is not even about the vaccine. this is about using and weaponizing government to crush the opposition chinese style and they are use offing finance to do it. they are using -- they are freezing people's assets. even going after crypto. this is the most important issue facing the world right now. >> steve: well, you know, the 24-day occupation of the area just outside of justin trudeau's window ended yesterday. on saturday you saw some of it the police did use pepper spray and stun yen nadz to get people out. the government now is worried though that apparently the truckers are going to come back

and mass outside of the capital and come back. on saturday. 191 protestersy arrested. 57 vehicles were toe towed. the ottawa police responded we told you to leave. you were assaultive and aggressive with officers and horses that's how they justified that. >> rachel: they even broke into rvs where little old people who were giving coffee and donuts to the truckers were and arrested them. the stated can do all sorts of stuff when there is a state of emergency. in our country word is in washington this fervour that the truckers created is going to extend to the state of the union address. march 1st. they are putting essentially that steel wall that they had around the capitol after januar. they are bringing it back.

but there are apparently three convoy organizations who are trying to get people to washington, d.c. on state of the union day. but, much different here than there because the white house says we will allow any peaceful protest. it was peaceful in canada but they shut them down. >> lawrence: i think it's pretty disgusting that you had a prime minister that labeled these people are white supremacists. >> rachel: that's right. >> lawrence: went after their character. the moment that you make that argument beings it immediately was to shut down the debate. he said it with such smug look and members he called them anti-semitic, name after name after name. to say really demonize these people. it wasn't just him it was the media as well. raymond arroyo have thoughts about that as well recommendation people have a right to protest they have a right to gather and have their voices heard. already the capital, nancy pelosi are girding and trying to set the narrative. they have already said we are going to put the fences back up

around the perimeter of the capitol because march 1st, mardi gras day is joe biden's state of the union address. they don't want those truckers in any way impeding on the capitol or getting too close. that's fine. you are bringing the cops in? that's fine. let's not depict these people. part of these people's convoy moving from the west to washington, d.c. as racists or terrorists. we all have to be very careful and watchful of the media narratives because media narratives lead to federal prosecutions. and that is a dangerous precedent in the united states. we have constitutional rights and they have to be protected. >> rachel: such a great point what raymond is bringing up. if you ever wondered if there was coordination between the globalists and the elites, look at the similar language in canada they were calling them -- they were actually calling the canadian trump supporters inis suburb rexzists. white supremacist. anything of they can do to label, shame, use, whether it's

health concerns, emergency powers, safety. whatever they can do to oea accumulate power and crush opposition. this is chinese style stuff. it is spreading and that is why the canada story is not just about canada. it's about all of us again economic warfare we talked about earlier. so important. i think freedom is really under assault this idea that on the state of the union, they're not going to allow people to peacefully protest is so fundamentally unamerican we cannot allow them to put fences around our capitol the people's house as preemptive move. wrong. >> steve: listen, they can do what they want to do. as long as they allow the protest and as long as they are peaceful. that's the key. let's see what happens on mardi gras day. last week there was an earthquake in san francisco.

not talking about an actual shaker where there goes the chandelier. only seven members sit on the school board in san francisco. three up for recall. by a landslide. >> lawrence: over 70%. >> steve: they were swept out there. they are right there. >> we have woke board members who said hey, we were just doing what we thought they were wanting us to do. the mayor of san francisco said, you know what? our school, and this was an extraordinary confession. she is in charge of the town. she is in charge of the schools. she said we blew it on meet the press. watch. this we failed our children. parents were upset. the city as a whole was upset. and the decision to recall school board members was a result of that this is not a democratic-republican issue. this is an issue about the education of our children ultimately, it's important that anyone who serveness any capacity, whether it's school board or congress or as mayor

it's important to respond to what your priority is as a mayor or school board member. put ins to do. in this particular case, the board complelgted their primary responsibility to focus on other things other things that are important but not as significant what they were do there to do and that said indicate children. >> lawrence: i'm glad that the san francisco mayor has finally awakened from her coma. >> steve: only after the election. >> only after the elections. it is a republican and a democrat issue. because it was the democrats decided to take the sides of the teachers union and keep schools closed. and mask kids. and do distance learning. to say that they wanted to reimagine. it was only when those democrat parents decided, you know what? i don't think i want to be a democrat no more. if this is the way it's going to be. maybe we have been asleep at the wheel. maybe we need to give the other side a different look. it has become a political issue. and the democrats were not on the side of kids.

>> rachel: political revisionism there on the part of the behavior san francisco. she is definitely feeling the spirit of some polls. >> steve: when the election is 70% landslide she looks at the numbers and thinks i don't want that to be me. >> rachel: don't let them rewrite history. they were the ones masking muzzling our kids. >> lawrence: you can't let them say. >> rachel: the media will help them. >> lawrence: the response from those board members, one of them saying it was because of racism why they were unseated. and san francisco. that's what we are dealing with. >> steve: that's some of the news. carley has got more. >> rachel: i certainly do. situation unfolding in chicago guys. new overnight at least one person injured in a massive fire in chicago. the fire started just after 4:00 this morning. quickly spread to several businesses. nearby apartment buildings. a 60-year-old man was taken to the hospital in serious condition. firefighters evacuating several residents from the building. it's unclear how the fire

started of. but officials are investigating reports of some sort of explosion before the fire broke out. we will keep you updated on this. embattled black lives matter co-founder patrisse cullors will give the keynote address this week for a student group pushing to defund the police. the student led group in l.a. wants to further strip funding for campus police suggesting the effort will make life better for black students in the district. cut a third of its officers. cullors stepped down last year after reports surfaced she bought four homes totaling more than $3 million. a massive brawl breaks out at the michigan-wisconsin men's basketball game. incident erupting after michigan coach threw a hand at the wisconsin assistant. howard was reportedly upset with wisconsin calling a time-out with only 15 seconds remaining in the game. despite them having a double digital lead. there is no word on what

disciplinary action will be taken howard says he will respect whatever decision the big 10 makes. wild situation unfolding, guys. college basketball there. >> i think i read this morning that no apologies have been issued? >> yeah. you know, when you are the coach, your team is down, obviously frustrated but you are also -- you are a teacher for kids, so you can't be. >> lawrence: you always got to set a good example. don't put your hands on me. do not put your hands on me. >> carley: that's a good role. that's a good one. >> rachel: i agree. thank you, carley. >> steve: lowering the bar the cdc has quietly created a new standard for measuring a child's speech development. dr. nicole saphier on why mask mandates could be to blame. and look who else is coming up in the next, let's see, 70 minutes on "fox & friends." ♪

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♪ >> rachel: the cdc is lowering seat standards for toddlers for the first time in nearly two decades. the agency pushing their milestone guidance for children to know 50 words from 2-year-olds to now to two and a half. could mask mandates be to blame for the shift here to react is fox news medical contributor dr. nicole saphier. doctor, so great to have you here this morning. it cdc come out and just be honest and transparent? it's so obvious to me as a parent. i know you are a doctor but you are also a mom. it just makes sense. i had kids who had speech delay. i have one down syndrome speech issues. it's clear that masking kids would obviously inel peed their speech development. >> well, good morning, rachel

and, yes, the cdc lowered their standards when it came to milestones when it dime young children. certainly about 70% of those milestones have been pushed back a little bit. the reason being the cdc says that it's citing data from the journal of pediatrics in a way to try and make sure that children can get the intervention they need if they're having speech deficits. the bottom line, rachel, we have studies in the united states, the u.k., netherlands all of these places demonstrating infants and children during the pandemic are poorly on gross motor skills. fine motor skills and communication. why is that? face masks may be a part of it also limited human interaction. we know that the facial recognition is violates for childhood development, what's happening right now with the cdc quietly doing this, feels eerily similar to last summer when the american academy of pediatrics started deleting stuff off of their website about childhood

development and the importance ever facial recognition because at the same time they were pushing face masks in young children. you can't have the same -- you can't have them both. you can't say it's important to see people's face when you are then saying put a mask on it. it doesn't make sense. we know the face mask is negatively impacting children. this is, again, a lack of trans (as to what is going on. >> rachel: they refuse to build up the trust they lost in public health. i don't know why they're doing it but they are. the atlantic magazine had an article i believe it was their senior associate editor wrote an article about mask mandates. he wrote well, mask mandates are illogical. that was the title of the article. he quotes epidemiologist at johns hopkins university who says anyone been in public location at any time during the pandemic recognizes that mask mandates are not allowed followed consistently from my perspective. the main benefit is not so of the masking itself but the message to society that the wave

is not yet over. so, essentially, they are admitting that there is no science behind the masking, but it's just a way to keep up the fear and essentially they are using our children to make this political point. it's -- what are we supposed -- i mean, what do we make of this? >> well, bottom line, rachel, any sort of public health intervention has to make sense. to say it doesn't need to make sense is absolutely wrong. instead of trying to manipulate human behavior with certain actions that have nominal or negligible benefit in the pandemic, we need to be focusing on increased ventilation, making sure people who are vulnerable to this virus and/or viruses have what they need in terms of vaccines, boosters, treatment and so forth. but when it comes to the generalized population, these public health interventions that make no sense, it is time for them to be removed so we can gain back public health trust that we have lost immensely throughout this pandemic. >> rachel: give our kids their child hoods back. pretty simple. thank you, doctor. always great having you on.

>> thanks, rachel. >> rachel: coming up, president biden says is he open to meeting with putin if russia doesn't invade ukraine as harris still deterrence. will these tactics sway the russian president. we are going to ask congressman michael waltz up next. stay with us. entresto is the number one heart failure brand prescribed by cardiologists and has helped over one million people. it was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto.

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♪ >> we are talking about the real possibility of war in europe. the purpose of the sanctions has always been and continues to be deterrence. >> steve: they are not going to happen now. only after. vice president harris insisting sanctions on russia would absolutely deter putin despite the white house saying he already made up his mind, mr. putin did, to invade ukraine. >> lawrence: comes as president biden says he is open to meeting with putin providing russia does not invade. >> rachel: g.o.p. congressman michael waltz sits on the armed services committee and he joins us now. congressman, welcome to "fox & friends." we are so glad to have you this morning. a lot of stuff happening in news. especially over in ukraine. the president saying sanctions after invasion, a lot of republicans saying why aren't you doing it now including the president of ukraine. what do you say?

>> well, i think the sanctions should have already been in place. you know, what do you do? you put those sanctions in place even in limited fashion and saw this during the conversations putin we'll pull these back when you pull your troops back. those should have been in place already. and the other piece from a military standpoint is to say, you know what? , putin, in we are going to turn ukraine into the next afghanistan. this is going to turn into a military quagmire for you and we will continue to fund and resource with lethal equipment any type of ukrainian. [broken audio] only when putin -- a total quagmire bogged down domestically from a military standpoint not just economically. may be deterred.

>> steve: do you know what, colonel, right now we are having a problem with your broadband so we are going to have to cut it short today. we will try to reestablish that and bring you back another time. representative michael waltz rethank you very much for joining us. >> lawrence: sorry about that. it was. >> rachel: i wanted to talk to him about energy and germany but we will get to that later. >> lawrence: always someone is on top of things in washington. dan bongino gives us his unfiltered take on american leadership. >> rachel: first, top executives are sounding off on inflation and supply chain crisis. campaigning to represent georgia as america's economy takes a hit under biden. >> are you ready to start a great career? >> safelite is now hiring.

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♪ ♪ steve all right. top executives from major u.s. brands sounding off on the economy, inflation under president biden warning it impacts families at every income level and predicting it is only going to get worse. of course one of the issues our next guest along with a long time georgia businessman is running on as he joins a crowded republican field aiming to flip the newly redrawn second congressional district red down in georgia. georgia rubbing congressional candidate wade johnson joins us now. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> you know, when we go to the grocery stores, every day we see the grocery stores are going higher and higher. same thing the biden administration has said you know, it's going to be temporary. it's not temporary as a member of congress, what could congress do to help get us out of the ditch? >> well, the first thing we have got to do is make sure that we understand why prices are going

up. but, most importantly, we have got to understand that it's hurting people. and, you know, i'm deeply concerned about we're about $7 a gallon for diesel fuel because diesel is a world fuel. you know, we talked about the issues of what we can and get can't at the grocery store. kind of interesting you can't find saltine crackers. at the end of the day, everything moves by trucks. we are having difficulty getting to the truck drivers. the good that do arrive at the shelves they are expensive because ever the transport cost what we have got to do at the national level is be aware and we have got to remove the barriers causing the goods to flow and we have got to make sure that, you know, that the basic ingredients to make things exist. >> steve: right. you have got some federal experience. for a while, you worked during the trump administration, i think you headed up the student

loan program. right? >> i did. i was the chief operating officer for $1.7 trillion of the american taxpayers money. and i was responsible for providing services to 43 million customers. i discovered that we have a fundamentally broken and flawed system. that basically continues to put a tremendous level of debt on students' backs and is destroying their credit files and quite frankly is handicapping the fabric of america in terms of development so, yes, i ran that program. found that it has got problems and we have got to fix it i'm deeply concerned all biden is doing is kicking that can down a road and we have a $2 trillion time bomb that's ticking away. supposed to be addressed a month or so ago. biden said he would, you know, we will restart that come may. there is no way that that program is going to get restarted because it would just -- everything would come off the rails if 40 something

million people had to start paying several hundred to a thousand back to not about to allow that to happen in midterms. they are letting it become more operationally flawed every day so that the democrats can just throw up their hands and say it's so broken it can't be fixed. so, you know, we are almost at $30 trillion in national debt right now. we're about to see another 2 trillion piled up on top of that. and i can also comment that i was an n. argentina with when that country i was running a bank in argentine into what it defaulted on its national debt. i saw up close and first hand when a country defaults on its debt. i don't think we are too terribly far away from being at a point where we can't service our national debt. i'm concerned on a lot of levels about that. >> steve: no kidding. you were they at the student loan program you are right. maybe this is the way the administration is able to say

it's so broken, let's just forgive all that debt. they don't have to pay it back. which, you know, ultimately somebody has got to pay it back. wayne johnson running for congress down in georgia. wayne, thank you very much joining us. good luck to you. >> thank you so. >> steve: carley joins us with news from the west. >> carley: the seattle police department is struggling to recruit new officers as the rate of violent crime surges. south carolina senator tim scott had this to say about how liberal policies tank police morale. >> officers feel less representative. less respected. we should sit at a table and finish police reform as long as police reform means we're protecting the qualified immunity and we are giving them more money for body cameras. more money for training. more money for resources and more equipment. >> carley: seattle's mayor says the staffing crisis is slowing police's response to emergencies and now allocating money to hire

125 new police officers. a horrified mother finds her 2-year-old daughter alone, locked inside a day care after arriving to take her up a few minutes late. >> this poor kid. i'm coming, okay? >> carley: the day care blaming staffing shortages for the shocking choice to leave the toddler locked in the building. the day care says those responsible are now on administrative leave. emergency responders pried open the locked door to reunite the mother and child. and on this presidents' day, the "new york post" is reminding us why george washington remains a role model for all. the editorial board writing, quote: he carefully cultivated virtues, self-control, adoration strength physical and morals to become the most wildly admired president. first in the 13 colonies and then in the new nation. and trey gowdy wants americans to ask one uncomfortable question: >> we struggle to find

presidents we like and respect. does that say more about us or them? there's a difference between being a president and being a leader. and maybe the process, the political environment and the media have made it such that the real leaders do not want this job. so we're left with those who covet the title while we as a nation are left covet real leaders. >> carley: tomorrow marks washington 290th birthday. happy birthday to you, steve and everybody at home. >> steve: that's right. big federal holiday. check in with adam, i believe he is out on the street. good morning to you. >> enjoying this presidents' day in new york city. skies are clear a little on the cool side. i am tracking winter aweather along some of the northern tier straits. temperatures negative 4 degrees. get up into the dakotas zero in

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>> carley: we are back with quick headlines, transgender swimmer lia thomas dominating another race over the weekend.

earning third league in three days and setting records. world master track athlete joined "fox & friends" earlier to tell us why she feels like it's pointless for her daughter to compete. >> women and girls deserve a fair playing field. and these swimmers are not getting that. we predicted this would happen. this is the end of female sports. and it's not an exaggeration. we are witnessing it right now. >> her daughter says she is now worried about whether she will be able to keep competing and receiving scholarships scholarships. seth curry lebron james in the hometown of cleveland. the two mega stars both playing for team lebron taking 163 to 160 win over team durant. curry made 16 three pointers and named the game vp. fade away that clinched the victory for his team. what a game, lawrence. over to you. >> lawrence: thanks some, carley. so this presidents' day, fox

nation takes in-depth look at one of the most shocking moments in u.s. history in who really shot president abraham lincoln because everything we have been taught so far could all be wrong. >> shot the president. screams] >> what you are telling me for the past 156 years that's been a false narrative. >> that's the most egregious fake news cover-up in american history. and the plot that stretches from washington, d.c. to the vatican. >> lawrence: got my attention. u.s. marshal investigating new evidence in the century old murder and he joins me now. thank you for joining the program today. >> good morning, lawrence. thanks for having me. >> lawrence: so i want to get to this. you say that you have some letters from pope pies, the 9th

what was in the letter? a lot of things were in the letter. dug up pope pias the 9th. the vatican, the catholic church was involved in this conspiracy and the assassination of president lincoln. so i jimped in with it w. two feet with paul, what he dug up for several years. rather interesting stuff. i mean, his theory was that john wilkes booth did not pull the trigger on a single shot dering jerry that killed the president. it was somebody else and a different weapon that was used. so as a former u.s. marshal and tracking down violent predators for three decades, this is right in my swim lane, lawrence. i decided to jump on board to see what was paul was-what was legitimate and what wasn't. it was an interesting story. fascinating, actually. part of that story is the murder weapon being passed off. here is a short clip of it, watch. >> and you know about custody of evidence. tell me what you think a murder

weapon being handed over to a reporter who kept it, later handed it over to the chief of police. why didn't when he found the pistol hand it to a soldier, someone from, you know, lincoln's cabinet and why is it handed to -- the reason is because the cover-up is now in play. >> lawrence: lenny, where is the murder weapon right now? >> well, right now it's on display in washington. but, think about that. william kent is a patron, he comes back two hours later. he assisted helping president lincoln to go a bordering house succumbed to his injuries 1865. however he comes back two hours later. in the balcony contaminated crime scene. i don't know why they didn't find the weapon before that if he finds it and hands to an a.p. reporter lawrence go bright. makes no sings. sing multiple nargts ball can

only. grant was supposed to be attending that play at the last minute he backed out. major was there with his fiancee, multiple targets, single shot weapon left me scratching my head. >> lawrence: yeah, i'm scratching my head, brother. this is definitely shady business. i look forward to watching this documentary on fox nation. lenny depaul, this presidents' day you can watch who really shot abraham lincoln and more specials like this only on fox nation.com. also do it on the app. thanks so much, lenny. rookie driver austin cindric joins us live after winning the great american race. that's next. ♪ nt heartburn waking her up. now, that dream... . ...is her reality. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts, for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn?

>> president biden a greeting today -- they were only made if the kremlin does not invade ukraine. >> russia is calling the play here. the biden administration has been utterly feckless on this entire issue. >> canadian police cracking down on the freedom convoy. >> it's not what canada stands for. >> a crowd of people with no masks on. [indistinct]

>> on the day we set aside to honor presidents, perhaps this was for us to ask what expectations we have for presidents reasonable? at those great leaders aren't running, we should ask why not? >> by half a car length. you know what makes it all better? the daytona 500. ♪ ♪ >> welcome back to "fox & friends" a good morning to all of you. it's 8:00 in the morning eastern time. those were images from this weekend in daytona. i'm here with lawrence jones. we've been laughing this all time. and welcome, good morning.

>> steve: good morning to you. we will see the big winner who is at 23 years old, yesterday, he went to make security to celebrity in 500 miles purity won by a whisker beating up bubba watson. mr. austin, he's going to be with us coming up. >> lawrence: loved the packed crowd. i did too. >> rachel: there's a lot of energy. [laughs] there was a lot of energy there. i think a lot of people were happy to see -- i did not see a mask when i was out there by the way. >> steve: it's outside. >> rachel: people are having fun outside and enjoying it. >> lawrence: we love to see it. >> rachel: a lot of patriotism and that. >> steve: wait, wait, wait, wait, and i look like will cain. >> rachel: he doesn't like what we do royal news. he really was looking like he is royal in that car.

he was loving that moment. >> steve: he was just interviewing the king. >> rachel: he actually handed to us the trophy to pete and i after we won that competition right there. a pit crew competition. we had to change a tire. a legend. it was amazing. >> lawrence: it went straight to you. then a hoop with the team on their back. >> rachel: the production crew took pete out of the entire competition which was really unfair. they were messing with him. we had a great time. >> lawrence: i enjoyed it. i love the on location. being with the people. >> steve: hats off to the crew, because that's a lot of extra work on a. essentially build a tv studio in the middle of -- >> rachel: outside. >> lawrence: his team are some of the best in the business. >> rachel: absolutely. shout out to the to the michael

moore boys and mama, tonya, who provided amazing food for us all weekend long. that's right. all right, we've got -- there is breaking news even right now but we are going to get to that. president biden agreeing to a condition-based meeting with russian president vladimir putin. >> lawrence: only if the kremlin hold off on what the u.s. believe is in imminent invasion of ukraine. >> steve: joining us live from key level at the very latest. i understand now russia is saying that ukraine has attacked them, right? >> good morning. we do start with some breaking news. the russians are claiming that two ukrainian military vehicles cross into their territory and were ultimately destroyed. they have provided no evidence to support these claims. immediately, analysts are worried that this could be that pretext president vladimir putin

is looking for to launch a larger invasion. we do get some promising news. it appears that french president got both president biden and russian president putin to agree on a meeting. already, the kremlin is pushing back against those reports basically saying there are no specifics being discussed and that there are no concrete plans. this morning, president putin's meeting with the security council just as president biden did yesterday. it comes as the russian defense ministry claims that he ukrainian show is fired into their territory this morning. these statements should be viewed with skepticism says the russians have provided very little evidence to show any proof of ukrainian attack. amid fears of a larger russian invasion of "the washington post" reports the united states wrote a letter to the united nations saying "we have credible information that indicates russian forces are creating lists of identified ukrainians to be killed or sent to camps following a military occupation. there by the administration is hoping to deter russia from invading with the threat of

sanctions as pentagon press secretary john kirby reiterated yesterday. >> we have said all along that these are going to be crippling sanctions the likes of which we have not put in place before. they're going to be unprecedented. i mean this is a very strong message to mr. putin and as a deterrent. it doesn't exist anymore as a deterrent. >> in the past, sanctions have not worked against president putin. the region fears a larger conflict is on the horizon amid renewed fighting in the east. >> excellent reporting. thank you for what you doing on the ground but let's bring in lieutenant. you know, general, what is your reaction to their breaking news? is this so predictable of the russians to say that ukraine attacked them, not providing any evidence, having the international community even ask them for evidence of this?

>> lawrence, thanks for having me this morning. we are heading towards into game right now. they are using this as an excuse to take some type of offensive action inside ukraine. we get a little bit frustrated. this is a solution. we could've come to a solution months ago. this administration gives walking past the graveyard be it immigration or be it afghanistan or ukraine but i tell the president if i was advising the president, we are done with talking. you tell putin, you play your cards, working to play our cards and play hard. putin appreciate strength. we are not portraying strength at all. it's all -- he's got his game plan in mind and we should go forward with ours. i appreciate what president has done. he has done that before. he did that with us during the trump administration when he tried to reach out. to reach a point where you just have to stop talking and let actions take over. that's what we need to do.

this game is started. >> rachel: what is the sanction that the russians most fear? if you are advising president biden right now, issue this sanction and this will cause them to back down from this imminent war. >> he's not going to back down. one thing about putin, he doesn't blow off. he's going to go forward. i think we should stop talking. i think the worst thing we are doing now is continuing to talk. stay silent and say this is what we are going to do and go forward. here is the concern i've got. they have historically not worked well at all for they take a long time to bite. here's what really should be done. he should go back to nato here at here's the frustration i've had with nato. he tells all the nato allies, in 2014 during the whale's declaration, all of you were going to put 2% of your gdp into the 20% modernization. only one part of nato is doing that and the biggest laggard is

germany. one-third of energy comes out of russia. stop depending on russian energy. cut it off. that's what you should be doing. the thing about bank sections and other sanctions, historically, they just don't work. >> that's the sanction they were talking about. that was the sanction i was hoping you would talk about forgetting the germans on board with energy, not being so dependent on russian energy. why aren't we pushing the germans in that direction? why have we left this up until a final moment and why is russia allowed -- can we even stop nor stream to train? >> rachel, you hit it. this is something we should have been doing earlier. you look at all of europe, and you say stop depending on russian energy. one-third as i said, one-third of the energy in new york comes out of russia. just stop it. those are the pressures you put on them. they knew build of nato to a strength level that they'd never seen. i say repeatedly, russia is sort

of like belgium with nuclear weapons. they are not a very strong economy. understanding they do have a lot of nuclear weapons. we should push back on them really hard. let's go talk again. talk is not going to do anything. putin's not going to listen then putin only respect strength. i don't think we're showing a lot of strength right now. >> steve: the problem for germany is when the shooting starts. next thing you know, their gas is $10 a liter. the people of germany are yelling at their leaders and it's a vicious cycle. we know you are busy today. we have been reporting this morning, "the washington post" at it as but apparently as soon as russia's shock and all campaign starts on the capital city, and it sounds like it's going to be devastating where they are expecting thousands of casualties. as soon as that happened, when they move in, they've got a list, they've got a kill list of ukrainians who they are going to

go after. and they are going to try to track them down and either kill them worsen them to camps. that sounds like payback. it sounds like putin, you know, he's been paying attention to who and ukraine has been badmouthing him. >> steve, if i was advising him, which i'm not, thank god. you are making a huge mistake if you think you are going to take all ukraine. ukraine is the second largest country in europe after european russia. it's massive. the eastern one-third of ukraine is russia. the western two-thirds is not. you start to take on that task, it's going to be a huge task. if he does that, i would make him pay a huge price. i would say remember afghanistan going against russia, you're going to have the same payback

coming forward. i would tell him that upfront. again, we have reached the point where i don't think he can deter him. he's made his mind up on what is going to do. play your cards. we are going to play ours. >> steve: we thank you very much for joining us today. >> rachel: thank you, general. we are going to move to another story because, you know, the news does not stop. and america's parents are very angry. a video of a virginia mom whose in a school board. a specific school board member. >> lawrence: i love this. >> rachel: you see parents pushing back. governor said masks are optional but we're going to let parents decide. many of the school board you said you have to follow the governor's rules are now flouting the rules. here is one mom saying, i saw you without your mask. so take a look.

>> we are taking the power out of your hands and putting it back with her parents the way it should be. we sat here last year listen to you guys preach to us about governor's executive orders and how we must follow them. you guys remember that? we do. here's the governor that comes at the office, but yes, you don't want to follow his own doctors. why is that? that makes no sense. it makes all of you a bunch of hypocrites. here's a picture of you right here on facebook with a crowd of people. that's it with no mask on. >> excuse me, no. i'm sorry, you are done. can we have a police officer, please? >> she should be able to say your piece. listen to people criticize me. >> that doesn't make it right. >> that's my family. >> what about our family? >> i am not. >> i'm done. >> we are coming for them. all of them.

>> steve: what's extraordinary about that aside from the fact that the school board president called the cops. we need an officer here -- who it is simply expressing her opinion. there was another board member sitting next to the school board president said wait a minute, let our talk. she's attacking my family. my family's been been attacked. it's good. there is a dialogue going on between the school board members. let the person talk. what you have just seen there is we know now that the days of school boards dismissing parents is over. you know, there is a sea change with the election of glenn youngkin back in november. parents all across the country, including san francisco realized, you know what? if i don't like what's going on at the schools, i can band together with other parents. we can express our first amendment protected viewpoints. we can change stuff.

we don't have to sit here and take it. >> lawrence: this mama reminds me of mamma jones. she's not going to take any from elected officials. it was on facebook for the whole world to see. but he didn't like is the accountability of her and her family being able to going public cannot wear masks by forcing the kids to wear masks. by the way, i don't think it is because the parents were just letting them get away with stuff. the parents just weren't involved. they were working, they were supporting their families. in the pandemic happened, they got a little dose of what's happening in their classrooms not only with the stuff they are teaching to the kids, but what they are doing to the kids by impeding their learning by making them mask up even though that science doesn't support supported purity of these parents that are aware of it and they are fighting back. they are protecting their cubs. >> steve: when you see something, say something. >> rachel: after 1.5 or two years after what has happened to our children, parents are also

seeing the effects. they are seeing speech delays, psychological problems. a lot of kids are having not just isolation but, you know, fits of anxiety and eroticism. it is not normal to mask children to impact their childhood in the way that they have. not just a masking, a lot of people have their sports cut off. there's a lot of trips, graduations they didn't get. milestones, exactly. i think parents have had enough. the fact of this woman has to still go to the school board to fight it shows there still is a fight. parents are speaking up, but there's not enough action. i think these children have been used to create a lot of fear and parents are very rightfully angry. of those are american children. they were born free. take those masks off of them. stop banning smiles, interaction, and humanity. >> steve: there has been a global pandemic. the good news is now we are coming out of it. the omicron hospitalizations --

the deaths are still high. i think -- >> rachel: i'm not sure about those numbers. there is a lot of funny business going on with numbers. >> steve: i'm sure the people who lost loved ones would, you know -- >> rachel: someone may have died of omicron and some died with omicron. >> steve: the official government numbers over 3,000. the government -- the good news, rachel vasco [laughs] >> rachel: they have lost my trust especially on this topic. >> steve: the good news is that the infection rate is going down. >> rachel: that is the good news. that means the number of people who will die is going down. that's the important part. >> rachel: you're right. >> parents from san francisco to virginia, all the states in between speaking out on this issue. we are learning about a tragic situation unfolding in new york, university in upstate new york canceling classes today after a

student is murdered near campus. 21-year-old elizabeth howell was found shot on the side of the road near the campus friday night. police are arresting michael snow who has no affiliation with the school charging it second-degree murder. in chicago, an 18-year-old dragged to the police station by his mother when she saw surveillance footage of him as a robbery suspect. zion brown is accused of robbing a train conductor read at gunpoint. he allegedly got around $100 in cash. at the judge approved the request to hold him without bail. australia opening up to international travelers lifting restrictions for people who are fully vaccinated. cynthia moss flew down on there from kentucky hugging her daughter for the first time in a long time. >> it was such a big deal to get over here.

>> sydney's airport greeting passengers with toy colas. australia has some of the world's toughest travel restrictions at the height of the pandemic. what happened in australia is crazy. even they are opening up a bit now, though. good news there. >> steve: still ahead as nearly 200 freedom convoy of protesters are arrested in ottawa. a u.s. congresswoman is proposing a bill that would grant asylum to canadians protesting covert mandates. representative is going to join us with our plan coming up next. look who else in the final hour of "fox & friends" including the daytona winner. real cowboys get customized car insurance with liberty mutual, so we only pay for what we need. -hey tex, -wooo. can someone else get a turn?

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>> introducing a bill that would offer temporary asylum to canadians protesting vaccine mandates as the freedom convoy clears out. this weekend, ottawa police towed nearly 100 vehicles and arrested close to 200 activists. congresswoman says the country's reaction is similar to that of authoritarian regime like venezuela. she joins us now. congresswoman, welcome. i couldn't agree with you more. i had to be at somebody who was an eyewitness on -- at the convoy protested and said he believes that they are using police brutality to incite and provoke the truckers in order to justify this crack down on their rights to protest and oppose the government. speak out right, absolutely.

you couldn't be more correct. to see trudeau introducing the emergencies act is way out of line. it's heavy-handed. it's a crackdown on issues like this do not deserve or warrant what he's trying to do. they have an invoke something this syrians since world war i or world war ii. truly, this is an attack on those who want to peacefully protest and at the end of the day our freedom. >> rachel: what does that look like? >> their language in the bill is offering temporary asylum just as we do political asylum from those from venezuela. let's give them asylum. let's protect them from their heavy-handed government. this is ridiculous to see their bank accounts being frozen, there as being frozen. it makes no sense. let's provide temporary asylum until their government will stop using this emergency act and threaten these people

protesters. >> rachel: it is so similar to what you see in cuba, and russia. especially in china, not just the truckers, but anybody wants to send a donation being threatened with their livelihood. using these emergency powers that they say are temporary. we never know how temporary they are. are you wary that some of these tactics being used by canada with the exception of a few people like you who are calling out the authoritarians that this is going to lead into the way america operates. you seem some of those same words like they are insurrectionist, white supremacist, trump supporter's. that is what they are calling some of the truckers as well. >> i do. that's why it is so important that we stand for freedom. you now and i know that freedom isn't free. it's so precious and we need to stand for a bird we need to send a message that we are not going to accept this regime type

government. not and cannot, not in america. it doesn't matter what side they issue you are on. the fact that we have always been a nation of a country that can peaceful protest, that we can gather. if we let the government get away with this, the system might to a country near you. we have to stand for freedom at this point. >> rachel: congresswoman, thank you so much for bringing this issue to light and introducing this bill that hopefully will help the truckers and bring more attention to the really authoritarian and cuba, venezuela-like tactics of the government. thank you, congresswoman baird always a pleasure to have you. still ahead, new data shows millions of americans use guns to defend themselves every year. those numbers are seriously underreported. gun rights activists break down wideband media only focuses on the negative when it comes to firearms. plus --

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>> new data shows that millions of americans have successfully used legal guns to defend themselves each year. about the reports often fly under the radar. according to the crime prevention research center, there are roughly 2 million defensive gun uses per year

where people use guns to protect themselves. the media only reports about 2,000. instead, outlets choose to run more attention grabbing stories about gun crimes. attorney and gun rights activists joins us right now. while the disconnect? 2 million americans use guns in some fashion to protect themselves, whether you grab your gun because you hear somebody in the basement or you actually present the gun or fire it at 2 million times a year but only 2,000 no reported. what's going on? >> i think at this point it's no secret. the vast majority of the mainstream media is allied with the antigun lobby. the antigun lobby is trying to push gun control. you can't push gun control to a population to understand the truth about guns in this country. showing the actual truth that people are defending themselves with firearms ands.

you can't sell the narrative anymore. they need population ignorant in order to push their narrative of gun control. >> steve: as we have seen in public opinion polls, one of the top issues concerning americans obviously prices and things like that. what's going on outside the window where i'm sitting in new york city. crime is rampant. that means more people are buying guns to protect themselves. i saw a stat. 4.5 million first time gun owners in the last year. 2021. i can imagine how many people are buying them this year. >> absolutely. what you are seeing is basically reality outpacing the narrative. on a guttural level which is instinctive the idea that i have a firearm to protect myself purely about propaganda and the narrative being pushed that guns are more dangerous in the home and so forth and so on. when you have those studies that those laws are predicated on, people are starting to actually

see the truth. people are starting to realize, maybe i can actually use a firearm to protect myself than i can depending on calling someone on the phone and waiting 5-7 minutes for someone to get you. >> steve: how many times have we heard from police departments particularly out along the pacific coast where it is, like, the response time is around 7 minutes. a lot can happen in 7 minutes between the time i find that guy carting off, you know, my wallet from the dining room when the time when the cop actually shows up. in some cases, worried about his own personal safety. >> absolutely. i have experienced it myself. there was a situation where i had someone banging and kicking my door to get into my house. it was a mistake but let's take into account that i was probably someone trying to get into my house. it took police officers ten or 15 minutes to get there. that was with them really trying to get there. at some point, reality is going

to outpace the narrative. that's what you are saying right now. >> steve: our law enforcement does everything they can to keep us safe. they are under certain restrictions and they are stretched thinly. that's why so many people are arming up themselves just to protect themselves. thank you very much for joining us today from dallas. still ahead, it's presidents' day. we are going to break down what it takes to be a leader in america. where is the next president going to come from? he gives us is unfiltered take after their break live from florida. (johnny cash) ♪ i've traveled every road in this here land! ♪ ♪ i've been everywhere, man. ♪ ♪ i've been everywhere, man. ♪ ♪ crossed the desert's bare, man. ♪

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>> perhaps it's wise for us to ask, are the expectations we have four presidents reasonable? there's a difference between being a president and being a leader. maybe the political environment, the media have made it such that the real leaders do not want this job. i don't even know what george washington and thomas jefferson, abraham lincoln, ronald reagan would seek the job today. great people should have great leaders. if those great leaders aren't even running, then we should ask why not. >> steve: something i think about. reflected on america's great leaders and how they are chosen. "the new york post" reminds us why george washington remains a role model for all. he's carefully cultivated his virtues, self-control, moderation, civility, his strengths physical and moral. in the 13 colonies then in the new nation. joining is now on this

presidents' day, in the og prime time on the weekend. what are your thoughts on this? >> i thought a lot about this leadership question. i was very excited when they sent this over as a topic this morning. a lot of times people get flowery answers. honesty, courage, strength. those are all great virtues to have obviously. i've thought a lot about this in my own family as a leader early on in my time when i was a secret service agent. i was given a class to coordinate. i really could've done better. you can narrow it down a three things that i think that are paramount. number one is a social iq. social intelligence not necessarily intelligence quotient about your intellectual achievements. are you good at seeing yourself as other people see you in a group? everyone knows the guy that talks too much. he doesn't see himself as other people see him. good social iq.

number two, grant. you've got to have great. you have to have the ability to persevere through tough times and not hold under pressure and go take your toys and go home crying to mommy all the time. you got to have some sense of grit and perseverance. you have to have some compass. you have to have something that guides you. you can't waver all the time back and forth based on the political winds. for all the failings of bill clinton and believe me, they were legion. talk about dishonesty and all that stuff pretty least understood he had a problem at the time with the republican caucus and newt gingrich in that they were posting solutions and he went and speech and said the era of the government is over against the will of a lot of his party purity left at five to 5% approval. joe biden has none of that. no social iq. sadly, he has zero of those capabilities we look for in a leader. >> no swagger. after you have all that, you've got to have swagger as well.

apparently, the girl scout cookies are falling victim to inflation and the supply chain crisis. at some of their whammy on the biden administration. now it's hitting the girl scout cookies. >> as milton friedman said, inflation is everywhere a monetary phenomenon. it's not hard to understand. intellectual types who want you to believe that they have a credential that has them with some special box of truth and you don't have access to will insist it's something different. more money chasing the same or fewer objects. that's what inflation is. the irony of inflation when we print trillions of dollars we don't have, the tax is regressive. in other words, it hits people on the lower the lower end of the income scale. people who have assets and money, real estate, gold, comic books, whatever, the price of the objects they own goes up.

they are hedged whether they intended to hedge or not. they own all doubt. people who are earning 15 or $20 an hour in their job don't have access to any of this stuff. they are renting. they don't own phones and real estate. this is regressive. that is the biggest scam of inflation at all. democrats spent a lot of money and destroyed the currency and wind up hurting the people they claim to be helping by spending the money, middle and low income earners. it's a big slap in the face of america. >> is so typical. they don't own anything before they get under congress. they turn into millionaires once they leave. they never ran a business. they don't understand how the economy works. new episodes of canceled and the usa is available on fox nation. also check on saturday nights at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. >> your show right afterwards is

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>> good morning everybody. i'm bill hemmer. >> here with the latest on ukraine. >> john kirby joins us with the latest from the pentagon. >> we have a new study. >> unbelievable story. >> i'm glad we have it. >> does the cdc tell us everything we know about covid or is it and close to that? he will tell us about that coming up. >> it was a big day at our house yesterday. back to you, steve, rachel, and lawrence. >> steve: all right, thank you. >> rachel: thank you. it was a photo finish at this weekends daytona 500. take a look. >> he's going to bring the land way up high to block ryan on the line. he beats bella wallace by half a car length and they crash going into turn 1.

>> rachel: lawrence saying on the side here, holy cow. winning his first nascar cup series with a dramatic grace all the way to the finish line. >> he joins us right now fresh from victory lane. 2022 daytona 500 champion. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> congratulations. i've got a question for you. you won this race yesterday on roger penske's 85th birthday. but who is more proud? roger penske or your father, tim, who actually runs the team? >> yeah, that's it a great question for them. for the captain. i would say that is the one you can re-gift any time. >> lawrence: it was a photo finish at the end. you were going back and forth. to tell me about that moment. what did it feel like inside of

the car? did you see him on the side of you or were you looking straight ahead? >> certainly a pretty intense moment there for the win of the daytona 500 of the one that everybody wants to win. he's been able to put himself in position for a lot of years in a row now. i've tried to position myself where i can be close enough to take those blocks and moves and start the finish line. we did have a red flag for cleanup for one of the crashes. definitely a good time to reflect on what i'm going to have to do if i find myself in that position restarting on that front row of the biggest of the season. you have to keep your head in the game. what an incredible opportunity to be able to do it in front of a sellout crowd. >> rachel: i don't want to bring out bad stuff. you lost your last championship race. did this -- do the win at the daytona which is, you know, the

one everyone wants to win -- was it sweeter because you lost in the championship race? >> yeah, about the last three months to reflect on being a loser. >> rachel: you are a winner today. >> i'm a winner today so i will take it. it doesn't change that. it certainly love the fact that able to rebound like that. that is what this board is all about. that's what racing is all about. that's how you can rebound. for me, it's everything i dream of is to be able to win the daytona 500. it is hard to believe in hard to put into words. with a great team around me and great supporters, i certainly know that it's possible. looking forward to the rest of the season. >> steve: you where they young guy on the track. second youngest winner ever of the daytona. i've got three questions for

you. why are they running around the track right now? they are really loud. >> they've got a racing experience. they don't hold up for when they do it. most of these cars are quiet. they released the two loudest cards i think they have. great timing for sure. >> steve: is that the ring you win for winning daytona? that saying god. that said right there. the other thing is, in the image we been showing all morning where there is confetti and there is champagne going flying everywhere, what does that feel like and what did that taste like? >> yeah, what an incredible experience. the fanfare of it all. i don't think i've ever had -- i'm not sure i've had the confetti in victory lane when i stood up on my car and got completely blasted with a bunch of confetti.

definitely a cool experience to turn around and see all my guys just loving life really enjoying being in the moment. i'm definitely going to have to take a few days to let this was said and to really think about what we have accomplished over the last 24 hours. it is a dream come true. >> that leads me to my next question. how long are you really just going to take this in before you go back at it? i think that it shows a real competitor. you get right back into the game. >> without a doubt, our second race of the season next weekend. we had one off week throughout our entire season which ends in november. certainly going to take the next couple of days to smell the roses. i have a full media schedule all day tomorrow. back to competition stuff on wednesday and thursday and just like that, california on friday. it is looking to try and enjoy

the ride. it certainly this is the start of the season. we are in the playoffs now. >> enjoy you, brother. you earned it. congratulations once again. >> i'm proud of you. awesome stuff. >> steve: we are stepping aside. more "fox & friends" in a couple of minutes. >> woman: what's my safelite story? i see inspiration right through my glass. so when my windshield cracked, i chose safelite. they replaced the glass and recalibrated my safety system. that's service i can trust. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪

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>> that was a quick show. rachel and larry, have a great president's day. >> see you all. >> see you tomorrow, everybody. >> bill: thanks, guys, good morning. europe on the brink of war. u.s. intel revealing russia has ordered its commanders to invade ukraine. if true it is the point of no return? hope you had a great weekend. two thumbs up? >> dana: yeah. are you bill hemmer. >> dana: i'm dana perino. some russian forces are 10 miles from the ukraine border. >> bill: you have russian backed separatists in