that end we are announcing today that we will assist jamaica in covid recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in jamaica that have been essential. >> what? get your freedom matters gear, all american made. new hoody, cammo for america. gutfeld next. >> todd: russian bombs reigning down on outskirts of kyiv and city viv. putin's advisors are afraid to tell him how bad his own war is going. you are watching "fox and friends first." i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. china and russia saying -- build

a new world order. >> todd: griff jenkins live on the ground in lviv. griff. >> griff: russia promise of pulling back all-out assault on capital of kyiv were nothing more than empty words. take a look at these images coming out of the area around kyiv north of the capital city, devastation, destruction. if you go northeast of the city, chernihiv, bombs dropping. nothing but smoldering parts of buildings barely standing. this comes as an hour ago president zelenskyy addressed the australian parliament and had this to say. >> we can say that russia destroyed our dream, no, they just been down a plain hardware shell, not the essence, not

freedom, not dignity nor our independence. >> griff: this as pentagon says russian force are said to be redeploying and john kirby saying there are indications that putin himself may be being misled by his troops to accomplish their objectives. >> we concur with the conclusion that mr. putin has not been fully informed by his ministry of defense at every turn over the last month. >> griff: fears that china would side with russia may be coming true, russian foreign minister lavrov visiting china for the first time since the start of the war refusing to condemn the invasion as china praises what they call a tenacious development momentum. >> we are going through a

serious stage in the history of international relations, together with you and other like-minded people, we will move toward a fair and democratic world order. >> griff: and overnight uk intelligence officials saying that russian troops short on weapons and moral are actually sabotaging their equipment, refusing to follow through with orders and reportedly in one case shot down one of their own airplanes. >> todd: so many major developments, griff, focus on the fact russian said we will relax and stop bombing and they do the opposite. what does that mean for peace negotiations? >> griff: peace negotiations really stand no chance of making progress, todd because as ukrainians learned yesterday, they are lying when they make statements like they withdraw from the siege on the capital in

kyiv and given ukrainians little reason to believe the russian when they talk again. next round of peace negotiations happen friday, already coming out of the meeting yesterday, dmitry peskov saying more fighting will keep going on. >> ashley: thanks, griff. u.s. planning to send more money -- >> todd: mark meridith is in dc, top general admits president biden's strategy to deter putin failed. good morning. >> biden administration says it is ready to send ukraine $500 million to keep the government afloat. president biden spoke with president zelenskyy yesterday and the ukraine president tweeted about the call. just finished hour-long conversation with the president,

shared assessment on the negotiating table, talked about specific defensive support, enhanced sanctions, financial aid and humanitarian aid. the u.s. and nato allies are sending millions of military equipment including body armor to bullets and u.s. working on sending switch-blade drones. these are fascinating, they are equiped with cameras, navigation system, can strike targets from miles away. they are thought to be cost-effective. some are asking if the u.s. could be doing more to show support. >> any reason why no one from this administration has said we think ukraine can win this war? >> in our action and support we've provided, we've been clear we are doing everything we can to stand with ukraine and ensure they are able to push back against russian aggression. >> senior military official told congress despite efforts to

deter russia that simply did not work and nato remains united. we are expecting to hear today from president biden on ukraine, 1:30 p.m. eastern today. todd and ashley. >> todd: bring in anthony pate, he's doing yeoman's work over in ukraine. we have checked in and you have been emotional about what you saw on the ground in ukraine. any moments stand out to you from the current trip? >> this current trip is less emotion and more logistics with shiping and so forth. we have grown from -- garage to merge together with organizations and now we're focusing as we have been on medical supplies and field medic

kits for the military, as well as civilians. i was hoping to put together around 50 field medic packs and turns out we put together nearly 1500 and shipped over 50 tons of medical supplies for six hospitals and field hospitals and it grows exponentially daily. less emotion this time. >> ashley: right. have you seen any evident that aid that needs to get to places, any evidence there is trouble or difficulty getting the aid to the places that really need it? any issues getting it there? >> i believe there is for many organizations, it is not an easy task. my first trip here, i knew that if the war progressed that it

would be increasingly difficult. the first thing we set up, we set up a network of methods, numerous methods of getting items directly to places needed to the front. we have many different avenues and if one begins to fail, we have other avenues to take. it is not an easy task and i'm not seeing widespread corruption or anything like that, that people are concerned about. the whole country has strongly unified for this cause that all that type of corruption and type of things are at the waste side in my opinion. >> todd: got it. along those lines, at this point, are there any supplies that are not coming in from outside the country? in the ukrainian stores, is there anything left? >> in the city of lviv, it's

bustling city and things are fairly normal toward the front lines, yes, obviously the stores are completely empty near the front lines and it is difficult to get items. so across the country for the most part, as far as food goes, that is not the big issue. one thing we struggled with dealing with bureaucracy from the united states and so forth is body armor, we've tried many different avenues to help and provide body armor. we're in the process of working with a group that actually provides body armor and is fully licensed to export and people of ukraine are making products themselves now. this is very good progress. >> todd: this is no time for

bureaucracy. thank you for what you are doing for the people of ukraine. other news. one solder dead and two hurt after a u.s. navy aircraft crashes into the atlantic ocean off the virginia coast overnight. the hawkeye, similar to this one, was conducting a routine exercise, the two surviving soldiers are expected to -- >> ashley: multiple tornados touching down across the south as line of severe storms push, this is new video out of mississippi. the storm turning over trees, damaging building and downing power lines, 50,000 people are in the dark. heavy rain and wind up to 80 miles per hour sparking fears of coastal flooding and learning of serious injuries after a tornado touched down in arkansas. crews will tour the damage

today. >> todd: the biden administration plans to scrap title 42 in may despite warnings from lawmakers and border agents and now the white house is bracing americans the border crisis will get worse. >> title 42 is a public health directive not immigration or migration enforcement measure. we are planning for multiple contingencies and have every expectation when the cdc decides it is appropriate to lift title 42, there will be influx of people to the border. >> ashley: former ice director joins us now, the white house said it is ending the title 42, insinuated it. it is going to cause influx of migrants to cross the border, how will border agents deal with this? they are dreading it, look at january and february numbers, the border encounters, it is

154,000 up to almost 165,000. what are these border agents going to do with even more of a problem with migrants crossing the border? >> yeah, it is incredible, the title 42 is last break, last check, if you will, on uncontrolled border on millions of people, tens of thousands of people, thousands of people, every 24 hours coming to the southwest border. if you take title 42 away, allowing border patrol to expel people under terms of the pab pandemic back into mexico, that is going away. there are intelligence reports that say thousands are waiting on the south side of the border for this authority to be rescinded and will not allow them to expel people back into mexico. this will cause more chaos at

the border and increase what we've seen for the last over a year where thousands of people coming into the united states every 24 hours, families, children, people in the pipeline being exploited for human trafficking, drug smugglers, cartels controlling the border versus us, you have sectors along yuma and del rio, they go hours and hours and days they don't have enough people to control the border, there are so many people coming in. the border is inunidated with border, had a brief stay and released into the country. it is a terrible situation when title 42 goes away, this gets much, much worse. >> ron, it is clear, the white house is presiding over humanitarian crisis, but this point through this action by may, they will be encouraging a

humanitarian crisis. beyond the border, ron, what does this mean for the nation? how much of a catastrophe is this for the homeland beyond the border? >> good point, the people crossing the border and thousands coming in, almost all of them are not staying to the border, they are coming to communities near you. we encourage everyone to come now, this administration removed tools that stop the last major surge at the border that started in 2019 and ended late in 2020. they took the tools away. they come to the border now, it is not likely they will be encountered, not enough patrol on the border, they come to the border, if they get caught with a family, with children, many will be released, when you remove title 42, they won't be sent back, that encouraging more peep toll come. they don't stay at the border they distribute along the entire

united states, it is not a good scenario to be in. we sent a signal now is time to enter the united states illegally. this administration is not protecting the board sxer this homeland. >> ashley: you did mention a little bit earlier that thousands of people are waiting on the other side of the border for this title 42 to drop. so senator big haggerty, republican from tennessee said 100,000 young people died this year alone from drug overdoses. you touched briefly on opioids, i assume some of the people waiting to cross are cartel, how big of an issue is this? >> exactly. when you have chaos, the cartels take advantage of that. that leaves the border unattending and cartels have free reign, it is not

coincidence many people are dying of poisoning by opioids because cartels know the border patrol is distracted, allowing them to smuggle freely in many parts of the southwest border. >> todd: it is a crisis man-made and preventable and the white house is doing the opposite. thank you for your insight, sir, we appreciate it. president biden reportedly preparing to order release of one million barrels of oil per day from the naegsz's petroleum reserves, that according to people close to the decision as administration attempts to control spiking energy prices nationwide. it could last several months and total 180 million barrels, that announcement from biden could come today as crude oil trades at nearly $50 more than it did this time last year 6789 federal election commission is fining hillary clinton and democratic national committee over the way

it paid a firm to produce the steele dossier. clinton campaign fined $8000, dnc slapped with a penalty after 2016 letter revealed they violated campaign finance rules, both parties failed to properly report payment and production of dossier instead labeling payments as legal services. >> ashley: actor bruce willis' family says he is suffering from a -- the 67 year old daughter making the announcement on instagram writing with much consideration, bruce is stepping away from the career that has meant so much to him. the family's announcement comes after years of speculation about his mental condition. he needed an earpiece on movie sets in the past. >> todd: that is a bummer. produce arians stepping down to

transition into a role in the front office, responsible for bringing tom brady to tampa before winning a super bowl. jason had something to do with that. the goat writing, you are incredible man and coach and it was a privilege to play for you. bucs tapping todd bowleshgs to serve as new head coach, no disrespect for anthony working hard today, my guess tells me todd bowles will be more successful in tampa bay than with your new york jets. congresswoman watters lands herself in hot water for saying this to homeless people at the event. >> i want everybody to go home. >> we don't got no home, that is why we're here. >> reading the room, maxine. >> and chris rock breaking his

silence. checking with lawrence jones live from boston, he spoke with fans at rock's show last night. jimmy failla will react.

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>> todd: comedian chris rock

speaking out for the first time since being smacked on stage will smith. marianne rafferty has the latest. >> marianne: good morning, the world waited to hear for chris rock for the first time since the infamous slap. hundreds waited in line to hear his show or get reaction. rock not exactly ready to talk about it yet saying "i'm still processing what happened, some point i'll talk about that and it will be serious and funny." academy award cohost wanda sikes says will smith apologized to her. >> i saw chris and i walked up to him and he said, i'm so sorry, i said, why are you apologizing? it is supposed to be your night,

you and amy and regina were doing a great job, it will now be about this. >> the academy is revealing new details about what happened after the slap saying "the board of governors against mr. smith for violation of the standard of conduct, we would like to clarify mr. smith was asked to leave the ceremony and refused. many feel the academy's response two days later was too little, too late. >> the academy is claiming they told will smith to leave. will smith is not bigger than the industry, they could have escorted or forced him out. now clean up on aisle 15 sdmrchlt smith could be suspended from the academy, he will be given 15 days of the vote. >> bring in jimmy failla, he

joins fox nation live. jimmy, as a comedian, does this concern you that people and i'm sure the comic world people are concerned that people will walk up on stage and slap them if they don't like what they say. what is the notion around that right now? i would be concerned. >> jimmy: everybody is talking about chris rock. chris rock -- must be getting, i can't imagine from the academy, biggest concern is for people like me who are going to be -- can you imagine how big the swag

bag is for getting beat up at the oscars, chris rock must be getting, i can't imagine from the academy. biggest concern is people like me who are going to be, the tampa improv may 5th. it is not sea world, you are not allowed to touch the animals. this is absolutely going to set a precedent that people in comedy clubs who feel like someone at their table has been wronged has the right to go up there and avenge what happened. this is the academy, they told will smith to leave, he didn't leave, you let him stay? that is the world they have created, the most pampered people in the world, they live a life free of consequence, it makes sense he can smack chris rock. >> two things, one issue not serious, it is ashley today, carley is out. two, the serious

part of this, jimmy, comedy has been under assault. comedians are under threat of being cancelled in our current world, now under threat of being physically punched, what is next? can the industry survive? >> it can if we defund the joke police. what happened, people start conflating jokes as hate crimes and reacting like this was a serious front to be made fun of and that drove this process. will smith took this as like a physical attack when it was supposed to be a joke, that is the problem with hollywood, everybody takes themselves too serious. hollywood, get over yourself, you are doing halloween, you pretend for a living, don't take yourself so seriously. >> ashley: another entanglement has to do with republican senatorss promising to keep the investigation with the biden

family entanglement and senator grassley and johnson are blasting the media for hiding the hunter biden laptop story. why is this considered a real story with this hunter biden laptop story when we've been reporting on it since it happened in 2020? why should we have to believe it because "washington post" says this is true? >> jimmy: i think this is exactly what is going on, they are trying to put distance between themselves and what we all know to have been election interference in the 2020 election. look at polling, 15% of biden voters would have changed their vote had they known about the scandal, that number swings an election, that is millions of votes in an election decided by thousands of votes. "washington post" deserve zero credit for reporting what we knew to be true.

dnetwork i confirmed it was legit in 2020. i say this with empathy for hunter biden and people who lose laptop. if my laptop disappears right now, i am chugging it, not looking for the laptop, taking the win and going down. in this instance, it is a loss for the american people, we know biden lied and he's aware of hunter's business dealings, he met with some of them, the media i say, demonstrate intellectual curiosity, this account be our chance to find out who is compromised and maybe get rid of him and get the country back on track. crime is spiking at the oscars under this guy. >> todd: jimmy failla, good luck and i hope everything goes okay in tampa. >> jimmy: i got to work on my jab, thanks.

>> todd: parents shaking up the woke world of disney, highly political issues, next guest is a florida mom who fought back in classrooms and now taking on the house. >> ashley: and dr. janette nesheiwat will explain more about bruce willis' shocking diagnosis, lawrence jones, ashley moody and mark green on "fox and friends first."

>> if you look at the statistics on what is already happening in our country, you would find this is reasonable. i'm pro life and will sign pro life legislation. >> arizona joined states with limit on transgender athletes and president biden calling legislation like that as political attacks that are damaging to transgender children. the president saying efforts to criminalize support of medical care for transgender kids to ban transgender children from playing sports undermine humanity and corrode our

nation's values and claim bills have been proposed by states in the past two years. >> todd: disney woke agenda does not stop at the parental rights bill. take a listen at disney eextinguishing -- execs. >> i was just wherever i could just basically adding queer like, if you see anything queer in the show, like i was like no one would stop me and no one was trying to stop me. >> we brought the fireworks back to the magic kingdom, no longer ladies and gentlemen, dreamers of all ages. >> todd: executive director of moms for america join me. taking the two issues together, the florida bill and completely unhinged video, the first part we just saw, why do people want to sexualize our innocent

children? >> you know, todd, thanks for having me on, i wish i knew issue that is a question we have to ask. why are these people so aggressive at wanting to teach sexuality to young children. you have to wonder, will she said the quiet part, not secret gay agenda. she said it, it is a gay agenda. we know, we can stop pretending it is parents being hyperbolic. parents are not stand are for teaching sexuality to kids. plain is simple, we known this since time began, why are they making a deal about it now. >> todd: it is gross with a capital g. why do certain people continuing is one, teacher and school's job and disney's job to teach my

kids? >> i am not sure, i think, you know, maybe parents need to take back their stance in society and say, no, continue to push back. many parents have been standing up across the nation and at moms for america, we are teaching liberty starts in the home and parents are teaching kids about values and our country and what we stand for, this gay agenda and being against parents is not what we stand for. >> todd: do you think people that are fighting the florida law have read it? >> no, most of them have not, they don't realize the word homosexual or gay is nowhere in the bill, it is stating we don't want any time of sexuality to be taught to children. i think that the bill could have gone further than third grade. you don't want, third grade is

too much? ridiculous. >> todd: third graders should be focused on playing sports, refining reading, maybe learning a musical instrument in third grade. you are still innocent , you should have those moments. here is florida governor ron desantis slamming disney's response to the bill. take a listen. >> this bill empowers parents, protects kids and for company like disney to say this bill should have never passed, they started doing this because the woke mob came after them. why is the hill to die on to have transgenderism injected into kindergarten classroom. >> todd: i like to follow the money, i can't wrap my head around why disney is willing to risk that family from middle america that saved to take a trip, to be shoved down woke

mountain as oshg oshg posed to magic mountain. >> it is an agenda to sexual ize there is a lot of money to be made. the drugs that go into the pharmaceutical companies, the clinics, counselors, dei folks, a ton of money to be mad but they are forgetting the children, next generation are the ones who will suffer. are we ready to deal with generation of kids that are hyper and overly sexualized? i don't think we've thought that far. >> todd: you have kids, will you take them to disney any time soon? >> i have not. with gas prices being super high and inflation, disney is high already, that is easy mark crossed out on my list of places

to go. >> todd: nice. you tied in inflation and disney, well played. this is a very serious topic, like you said, the future of our kids is in doubt. let kids be kids. time enough to deal with this stuff, not at third grade. thank you very much. >> thank you so much. >> todd: another tone deaf comment from our friend congresswoman maxine watters. >> i want everybody to go home. >> we don't got no home, that is why we here. >> todd: she has special zingers, we have the story behind that tense exchange at one of her events. >> ashley: and legendary actor bruce willis stepping away from acting after being diagnosed with alph asia.

dr. janette nesheiwat will have more on the disease that ended the actor's career. asia. dr. janette nesheiwat will have more on the disease that ended the actor's career. alphasia. dr. janette nesheiwat will have more on the disease that ended the actor's career.

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>> todd: dr. anthony fauci defending china despite evidence

that the party covered up covid-19. >> they were prevented from seeing key details. >> they were concerned and maybe embarrassed that the virus evolved from the country, they tend to have natural reflex of not covering things up, not being open. >> todd: he's moved on from confusing us and brits as new documents show u.s. officials were aware china was withholding important information before the outbreak. stop what you are doing and listen, democratic congresswoman maxine watters puts her foot in her mouth again telling hundreds of homeless people to go home after a housing event spiralled out of control. watch. >> there are no more applications, i want everybody to go home.

>> we don't got no home, that is why we here. >> there is nobody in washington who works for their people. i don't want to hear -- >> todd: wow, you think that is it? no, there is more. "new york post" reporting watters tried to stop l.a. times reportser from publishing the story about what happened telling him, you will hurt yourself and the community trying to put this together. your modern left and censure ship, folks. >> ashley: actor bruce willis is stepping away from his acting career after being diagnosed with a brain condition. we wanted to share our beloved bruce has been diagnosed with aphasia, impacting his cognitive abilities. bruce is stepping away from the career that has meant so much to him. here to tell us more fox news

contributor dr. janette nesheiwat. tell us about what aphasia is. we know it ims language and multitude of things. what is it from your medical standpoint? >> it affects the language center of the brain, the left side of the brain. patients have difficulty understanding and expressing themselves, have problems reading and writing and speech and it can be debilitating. as we see with bruce willis, he has been diagnosed with this. we see this with other people, sharon stone, dick clark, gabby gifford, it is not rare, but not common. million people in the united states suffer from it. one common cause of aphasia is a stroke, it can be caused by traumatic brain injury, severe blow to the head, an infection,

brain tumor, it is important, if you notice your loved one, parent, neighbor having difficulty with speech, language, with understanding and expressing themselves, seek help to figure out what is the cause of their underlying problems. >> ashley: it comes after having a stroke a lot of times, there has not been information released that he had a stroke or any type of other issue. you say it is not as common perhaps if you don't have that. that brings me to my next question, two part here, what are the warning signs? if you don't have a stroke or any type of other issue, your family member starts slurring or be it something else, how quickly can this happen? is it just something that comes out of nowhere? >> that's a great question. it can come on gradually, we don't

know bruce willis's cause, his past medical reasons. is he an actor, stunt man, maybe he became injured and had repetitive injuries. it can come over time, they can become frustrated struggle withing words or they can't seem to understand or speaking and suddenly stop because they can't find the word. if you have had injury or you had a stroke, it could be immediate. you can see these symptoms immediately. the good thing, there is no cure, you can undergo therapy that could potentially help, not worsen your symptoms and take precaution to try to prevent this sort of thing if it was caused by a blow to the head or dementia or tumor. smoking can be a risk factor for developing aphasia, also, make

sure your bread pressure is under control, you are getting plenty of rest and exercise and making sure you do everything to minimize the transgression into this sort of disease. >> ashley: last question i have time for today, it usually affects seniors from what i've read. he is 67 years old, 67 doesn't seem that old to me. could it affect younger people or do we know? >> good question, yes, we tend to see it in the older population, it is affect anyone. an aneurysm can cause damage to the part of the brain that affects this disorder. we commonly see it in the age over 65. >> ashley: myself and i'm sure you and other people are super sad to hear this news, praying for his family and the best for him and thanks for getting up

early for your insight. we appreciate it. >> thank you, ashley. >> todd: this is john mclane, you don't think this will happen to john mclane. >> ashley: russian bombs and missiles in ukraine's capital city, casting doubt on scaled back invasion. it is suggested putin's own -- live report from lviv next. >> todd: huge show on tap, congressman mark green on the house foreign affairs committee and attended closed briefing on ukraine, he shares the latest and lawrence jones and ashley moody here live, do not go anywhere.

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>> todd: russian bombs reigning down on areas where the kremlin said they would scale back their attack. and putin is being lied to by his own advisors. with that, watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning, i'm todd piro. great to be with you. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. biden will send new funding to aid ukraine's war. the president's strategy has been a complete failure. >> todd: mark meridith has more on that, but we begin with griff jenkins live on the ground in lviv. >> griff: talk to any ukrainian and they will tell you, don't trust russians, they won't tell the truth. that has proven to be the case of russian forces pulling back from the assault on the capital in