administration and to the democrats. and, yet, they went to them to get their bias on their report. it's wrong. >> todd: follow the money. >> follow the money. >> todd: congressman mark green. we appreciate your time. thank you, sir. >> thanks guys. >> ashley: okay. and "fox & friends" starts right now. thanks for joining us. ♪ have a nice day. >> ainsley: that is a beautiful shot philadelphia city of love liberty bell. >> brian: close new jersey. >> ainsley: you can see the philly cheese steak there.

>> steve: city center not far from the main line where villanova is where a couple of my kids went and they are routing for villanova to win in the final four. >> ainsley: they are playing your team. >> steve: this happens every couple of years dad vs. the kids. >> ainsley: 6:00 saturday. >> steve: earlier. >> brian: first time ever duke plays north carolina in the final four. >> ainsley: it's huge. >> brian: it's coach k.'s last season it's incredible. the drama. this is what america needed. they needed escape. good old fashioned sports. i think this has been incredible tournament. >> steve: we love the st. peters story. it was great while it lasted but ran into a brick wall iron. >> brian: in philadelphia. >> steve: bon jovi coming up before the conclusion. >> ainsley: former guy dashist

for bon jovi i have. nice guy. he was with us can he kersh a few years ago we had a hot of fun. ran into him "fox & friends." aberrantly impactful interview for you. >> brian: we did a post tape with bon joviy. they were have a lot of fun john is not speaking? steve: we'll have to ask. >> ainsley: remember the shots from odesa the port city in ukraine and packing the sandbags trying to fortify their cities and a lot of young guys out there and they were playing bon jovi and one guy was on the drums and they were singing it. >> steve: they were doing "it's my life." given appropriate given what's going on in ukraine and that's where we start right now. >> brian: russia intensifying attacks around kyiv. hours after pledging to scale back. >> steve: what's that about. ukrainian zelenskyy calling it a turning point in the war against russia.

>> ainsley: griff jenkins is live on the ground in lviv following the latest information. griff? >> good morning, ainsley, steve and brian. what's going on russian claims about pulling their assault back on that capital of kyiv turns out to be a flat out lie. they are doing just the opposite and the pictures show that look at these images of the aerial strikes and bombardment north of the capital in the suburbs around kyiv. and you had also overnight an attack northeast of the capital in chernihiv more bombardments. nothing left but the smoldering buildings remaining this after zelenskyy addressed the australian department earlier this morning warning how far putin's fury might go. >> there hasn't been this nuclear attacks as we have now. russians they are openly discussing the possibility of using nuclear weapons against those who don't want to subdue.

>> this as the pentagon says russian forces are we deploying for a new defensive and press secretary john kirby says putin is being mislead about the failures of his troops. >> we would concur with the conclusion that mr. putin has not been fully informed by his ministry of defense every turn last month. >> this comes as general todd walters admitted to u.s. lawmakers efforts to deter putin and biden's ultimate return strategy has not been successful. >> would it be fair to say that deterrence nailed ukraine? >> number one, i would say that nato's solidarity remained and nato's ability to effectively

deter. >> not the question. >> i can't argue with your conclusion. gears that china would join russia may be true. refusing to condemn the invasion and talking of a new world order. now, here in ukraine, guys, they are very happy to learn that president biden is offering that additional 500 million in aid, bringing the total nearly 2.5 billion so far. ainsley, brian, steve? >> steve: that's right, griff. the president had a phone call again last night for about an hour. griff, so the pentagon says when russia said yeah, we are going to pull people out from around kyiv, turns out they repositioned about 20%. they went north into belarus where it looks like, it sounds like, according to the pentagon people. it sounds like what they are doing is they are essentially

the russian troops and send them back into ukraine. >> griff: right, general moore bullets grease the threads and come back for another attack. one thing that you learn when you talk, steve, to the ukrainians here, they will tell you you can't trust russians to ever tell you the truth when we heard they were going to deescalate assault on the capital after initial attempt to do so they didn't buy it for a minute. now the pentagon obviously indicating that they indeed already begun as they attacks. in that northwestern suburb in irpin forces fought so hard to take that ground yet. that was one of the areas overnight that the russian strikes have hammered trying to soften that back up, why?

because you would expect another offensive from russians will come. >> ainsley: thank you, griff. the russian forces started bombing or bombarding or shelling the areas around the capital city two hours after they said they wouldn't do that so can you trust putin? absolutely not. but mariupol, that city, they are trying to invade that they have been pummeling that with shelling. people don't have food or water there. that's where the little girl died because she needed water and they didn't have any water to give her. people say that bodies are just all over the streets. that so many people have died. and putin is saying i will stop shelling for a little while so that you can leave the city. but do you trust him? all of these people could be leaving the city and shelling could continue. >> brian: they are asking for red cross export out and the french are trying to broker this deal along with the greeks. "new york times" reporting that russia suffering from extremely low morale. weapon shortages. they shot down their own aircraft. in some cases they -- the soldiers have refused to carry

out orders. and the u.k. says the russians have struggled with food, weapons, and fuel and, of course, those -- if you have been looking at the "new york times" online. they have been playing these excerpts of their utter confusion and lack of resources among the russians. they have because they came in without their own coded communication system. the u.k., excuse me, the ukrainians have been able to hack it and they are listening to what the russians are doing so they are able to thwart it in many cases and certainly observe it. and that's giving them cause of optimism. in the south they are having success. pure brutality in trying to destroy mariupol. but they are not having success moving past mykolaiv and into odesa mykolaiv i should say. get past there a shot of odesa. not able to do it. only city they were able to take cleanly was kherson and ukrainians are starting to take that back. they are fighting hard. the question is after an hour meeting with the president, why

didn't we get any specifics about what we're going to get, all we hear about more money that's pledged. the defense department is going are you taking that from my budget we are running out of money for the end of the year. another 500 million. the thing is about the switchblade drones supposed to be a game changer. we can't get 100 drones into that country. what is going on. >> ainsley: total that we have given them 2.5 billion after that pledge yesterday from joe biden 5 billion. u.s. intel is saying that the advisers to vladimir putin are too scared to tell him and poor military performance in ukraine and how ukrainians are fighting back and killing thousands of russians. >> steve: yeah. i can understand why they are not talking to the boss. hey, boss, mr. putin this was a brilliant idea. so from putin to the pruitt price hike. you have heard about it it's the #that the white house rolled out to try to explain why given what's happening over there, our price of gas is at historic high

levels right now. this afternoon, it sounds like the president is going to make an announcement beare going to open up because of the i sky high prices. we are going to open up the strategic petroleum reserve is he going to release a million barrels a day for 180 days. which takes you right up to the neighborhood around the midterms. end of sent it would run through. >> ainsley: what a coincidence. >> steve: how convenient is that. we are all hurting when you look at these prices, $45, $6, $7 a gallon. did you see that fox news poll a couple days ago? people aren't buying that it's putin's fault. they are saying that it was on joe biden's watch. >> ainsley: of course. >> steve: that's why he is going to release it today the united states uses 20 million barrels a day and world market sets the

price. >> ainsley: dipping into the reserves when we don't have to. we used to be energy independent. on day one he signs the bill. is he listening to the green progressives in his party and it's hurting all of us hurting every single american paying more at the pump and food prices going up everywhere for what we are paying, the biggest mistake of joe biden was taking us away from being energy independent. the biggest mistake of germany was shutting down their nuclear plants. we need to produce more oil asap. we need to give our oil also to our allies and nato so they don't have to rely on putin. is he making millions of dollars on all of these countries relying on russia to get their oil. we are the reason for that because we could be energy independent and help our allies. >> brian: oil and gas allies coming up to chill berated and blame them for this. i hope ceos come loaded with

facts and talk about what this administration has done to get us in this position right now instead of going into the fetal position. ron capito from black rock success -- looks at the inflation looks at gas prices and says this for the first time this generation is going to go into a store around not be able to get what they want. we have a very entitled generation that has never had to sacrifice. all true but there is sacrifice and there is unnecessary sacrifice if the president would just let us do the things that would allow our allies who are making big sacrifices to get our natural gas, and to get our oil. we could move in a direction the promise would drop the price like the promise of releasing a million gallons of gas a day did drop the gas a bit. in terms of everyday items people can definitely feel it. >> steve: sure, bloomberg hished a couple of economists to take a look at what it is going to cost your family. it's not just any family. it's the average family. and the economists, an driewb huz buy and anna wong, they say that the average american family

will pay $433 more a month because of inflation. that totals up to your -- if you have an average family, additional $5,200 this year. so, in other words, unless you got at the beginning of this year, a $5,200 a year raise from your job, you are going to be finishing the year in the wholee and it hits you every time particularly when you go to the grocery store. >> ainsley: we are all paying our taxes right now. they are due soon. can you afford an extra $5,200 a year. chicken 70%. beef 20%. pork 20%. you have to feed your family. >> steve: yeah. the good news is that they are suggesting that the cuts of steak are actually going to level off and go down because people aren't buying steak. they are buying the cheaper stuff. that 20% price for beef is actually the price of ground beef has gone up 20%. that's why joe biden was so amazed when he was sitting in

the sunroom up in delaware talking to his neighbor mr. president did you know hamburger is 6 bucks a pound? what i have no idea. >> ainsley: restaurant owner said don't buy my brisket. it will drive the cost down. where was it? >> steve: arthur bryant from kansas city. >> brian: if you have a chance, and you have a backyard, time to grow your own food. buy your own chickens. >> ainsley: a lot of people are actually doing that. >> brian: buy cattle. steve: we did. >> ainsley: chicken keeps are popular. >> steve: when we lived in the country my dad once brought home 100 live chicks we raised them and wound up as lunch. >> brian: rocky two one chicken pin wear a great set suit and try to catch the chicken. slow start she was in a coma too long but ended great. >> ainsley: what was name?

>> brian: adrian. in a coma half the show and she wakes up and inspires him to win. >> steve: and he did. meanwhile, severe weather to report today. lightning. along at, this lightning up the night sky. look at the damage next and a lot of the south is currently under a tornado watch on this thursday morning. >> brian: chris rock breaks silence after getting slapped on he can biggest night speaking out to show in boston. some fans are upset. lawrence talked to some of his fans. lawrence? >> lawrence: chris rock had a packed house here in boston. and he final live addressed the controversy. what he had to say to will smith that's next on "fox & friends." e a chemo-free combination of two immunotherapies that works differently. it could mean a chance to live longer. opdivo plus yervoy is for adults newly diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer that has spread,

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thunder] >> steve: oh, man, right next door it seems. back with a fox news weather alert lightning striking a residential area in alabama as powerful storms rock parts of the south bringing multiple, possible tornadoes. >> ainsley: at least one tornado has been confirmed in arkansas. multiple people now injured. >> brian: fox weather correspondent nicole valdez live in tuscaloosa, alabama. hey, nicole. >> hi, good morning. guys. we are waking up to reports of damage all across the south. we are in tuscaloosa, alabama this morning. an area that was spared from some of the strong tornadoes we know may have happened overnight. and this is a state that saw several warnings yesterday. not to mention 8 confirmed tornadoes last week alone when

they were under that similar tornado threat. and really this morning it's going to be a matter of when the sun comes up, taking a look at how bad the damage is in some of those areas. i want to point out to you, really, the entire deep south has faced some really terrifying moments overnight here. we know that there were areas near jackson, mississippi, that saw potential damage of possible tornado in those areas. even more north in tennessee there was lots of heavy rain, strong thunderstorms in those areas. reports of some damage from likely strong winds, if not more than that. and, of course, you talk about, you know, really a day after unfortunate injuries and damage in springdale, arkansas. really alabama has also been, you know, at the center of a lot and really a majority of the threats here. the state was under several tornado warnings last night. this morning more than 38,000 are still without power across

the state as national weather service officials prepare to get out this morning and survey damage in areas including just southwest of birmingham. they may have seen one of the strongest tornadoes that we know may have formed overnight. and damage including trees that may have caught on fire due to lightning. of course, those winds may have knocked down trees, power lines. we know of at least one minor injury near the university of montovalo near that birmingham area. a lot of unknown as we remain in the dark. as the sun comes up we will have more answers as to how intense these storms may have been across the south overnight. >> steve: nicole, thank you very much for that live report. i think alabama still under a tornado watch at this hour. meantime, 6:22 here in the east. >> ainsley: yes. and ashley is here right before her wedding. when are you getting married? >> ashley: 24 days. getting close. >> ainsley: everything is probably finished by now. >> ashley: no, it's not.

we are getting there we are going to start with this. we are going to start with a fox news alert, guys. one soldier dead and two others hurt crashed into the atlantic ocean off the virginia coast overnight. the navy says the e 2 d hawkeye similar to this one conducting a routine exercise. the two surviving soldiers are expected to recover. the crew member whoing died has not been identified. the cause of the crash is still under investigation. and sad news on this front. bruce willis is stepping back from acting after being diagnosed with a degenerative brain condition known as afascia impairs his ability to comprehend language. the daughter making announcement on instagram writing in part quote with much consideration bruce is stepping away from the career that has meant so much to him. the announcement comes after years of speculation about the die hard star's mental condition. reportedly needed an ear piece to feed him lines on movie sets in the past. overnight, legendary nfl coach bruce aryan stepping down.

tampa bay bucs revealing is he going to transition into a role in its front office. is he responsible for bringing tom brady to tampa before winning a super bowl. the goat writing in part, quote you are incredible man and coach and it was a privilege to play for you. the bucs tapping todd bowls to serve as new head coach. guys, those are your headlines, back to you. >> brian: shocking. bruce aryan retires or goes upstairs instead of -- i don't know, tom brady have something to do with that. >> ainsley: coach of the underdog team in the sweet 16? >> brian: shaheen now gone to seton hall the assistant coach gets the job at st. peters. much better job now e took a pay cut after the covid-19 because the budget got cut. is he like all right i will take less money and now is he making more money. >> steve: march madness. sunday more fallout from the slap heard around the world sunday night as the academy awards launches disciplinary

proceedings against will smith for violating their code of conduct. the academy admitting, quote: mr. smith was asked to leave the sara money and refused we also recognize we could have handled the situation differently. >> brian: fellow will wanda sykes. >> i just was like what? is this really happening? and someone showed me on a video he smacked chris. and i just felt so awful for my friend, you chris it was sickening. i physically felt ill. and i'm still a little traumatized by it. >> ainsley: last night i critical care chris rock addressed the attack for the first time in front of a sold out audience in boston. what did fans think there. "fox & friends" enterprise reporter lawrence jones was

there and at the show. he joins us live from boston. hey, lawrence. >> lawrence: good morning, family. it was a packed house at the wilbur theater last night. everybody was anticipating what was chris rock going to say about the matter? so this is what he had to say, guys. he said i'm still kind of processing what happened, so at some point i will talk about it. and it will be serious. it will be funny but right now, i'm going to tell some jokes. he also said that he has not made any private statements or public statements about the matter that he is going to address it in his own timing. but what did the audience members think about that? i had the opportunity to talk to them yesterday after we attended the show and this is what they to say. >> it was tight, man. that was chris rock. >> it was great, man. i enjoyed it great show, man. went out to see a legend toned tonight. it was amazing. >> it was so out of touch in

terms of gender norms. you know, look, i came here here to hear chris rock. it was just way outside of that. >> >> lawrence: what did you think of it. >> we love chris rock. he was hysterical. didn't get into the whole thing with will smith. >> i was a little disappointed he didn't bring up the whole smith like scenario. >> lawrence: do you wish he would have talked about it more. >> he is doing a stand up special he wants to work through it but it was great. >> i expected that he would write something nice for it he would lay something out. >> lawrence: do you think that was the right route to go not even addressing it really? he said he wanted more time to address it? >> yeah. i mean i can't get in his head. i had to respect his decision. >> it was a nonresponse. he didn't entertain the b.s. he did his set that he had been planning for months. and he was a class act. >> i think all the hype that was built up around him made it even a better show. regardless of the fact that he

didn't talk about it i think he had a better energy. i think he had a great interaction with the audience. it was awesome. >> he took some time off to understand his thoughts. he wasn't going to be ignorant and will smith this, will smith escalate the situation by bringing violence. chris rock wants to settle it with words. >> lawrence: guys, i don't know if you knows this, it takes a while to put together these specials. eventually this is going to be on net flings. so he spends months coming up with these jokes for this particular special that was going to air after the tour is done. he would have had to create an entire new set of jokes specifically about that event. and i don't think he wanted to do it. i think he wanted to be thoughtful about it. >> steve: i read that he had said i wrote this show before the weekend so he had a little exposition about what happened and then moved on. lawrence, i read that the base

tickets for the show you went to last night were $50 before the slap. and, acourtedding to tmz, some of the tickets last night sold for $8,000. >> ainsley: whoa. >> lawrence: it would not surprise me. we were one of those last-minute ticket people trying to rush here to see what chris rock was going to say and the tickets were pricy. >> brian: you went as a customer. did you have the two drink will minimum and did you pay a cover and can you write that off? >> steve: like the coat. >> lawrence: i requested that management take it out of your salary, brian, since you host three shows. >> brian: listen, hey, by the way, i loved that comment from that woman. it wasn't through the gender norms. you go to chris rock for gender norms? i think you went in the wrong door? >> steve: it's boston. >> lawrence: that's right. i think she chose the wrong performer. >> ainsley: if you had a ticket before the oscars event, i bet they were so excited we're not

only going to get to see chris rock we will be the first to hear his response. i understand why he doesn't want to respond because that's going to take a long time to write a new set and joke about what happened. did he give any indication of when he might say that serious and funny response? >> lawrence: you know, he didn't give any indication. i have got to tell you initially it seemed like he was emotional as if this had hit him. it also seemed that the response from the audience -- i mean the standing ovation as he hit the stage, that it almost moved him. it seemed like it was like a vintage chris rock. the old school chris rock. he was really empowered on the stage i can't get in his head. but it seemed like he was impacted by this more than people think. >> brian: lawrence, thanks. i thought bad for everything that happened. bad for the richard sisters.

he bought the story for years. held it. put out a great script and unbelievable job and now no one is talking about the williams sisters. ricky gervais trending on twitter. walked out of the comedy club why am i trending he went and saw the tape everyone wants to know what i would have done if it happened to me. it wouldn't have happened to me. i wouldn't have talked about her hair. i would have brought up her boyfriend. because she is dating a 20-year-old in this open marriage. he thought that is where the comedy was. that's holiday. >> steve: lawrence is going to be up in boston all morning long. >> ainsley: definitely store the show. poor wanda sykes no. one is talking how great she did. they are talking about the slap. >> steve: people are talking about hunter biden. the walls around hunter biden closing in as investigations carry on. the mainstream media starting to take notice. yesterday "the washington post." but are they reporting the full story?

why "new york post" columnist miranda devine says they missed crucial details which she has coming up next. ♪ ♪

brian brian our next guest predicted the dam is about to burst on hunter biden. as the mainstream media is starting to catch up on the scandal the "new york post" first reported in october 2020 and got their social media accounts frozen because they did.

yesterday, "the washington post" published a look inside hunter's multimillion dollars deals with a chinese energy company. miranda devine says they have left out crucial details. they are intentionally trying to shield joe biden when the links are clearly there right, miranda? >> well, look, i think if you are going to actually finally be late with a story 18 months late and you have had the laptop in your possession since june of 2021, it really behooves you to give your readers the entire truth and i feel as if the "the washington post" spent 7,000 words yesterday in their paper on two stories, which really left out some crucial details. they went into great lengths to talk about one particular chinese deal but they left out a $6 million payment and they made a point of saying joe biden has nothing to do, we have no evidence that he has done

anything wrong. >> brian: i was struck by this. and so much to go over. and must be driving you crazy. because they told you in your newspaper you are nuts to think this is authentic and 51 intel agents including five cia directors came out and said this is typical russian disinformation. but they said we are authenticated the laptop because we went through crypto graphic signatures from google and other technology companies saying two security experts who examined the data at the request of "the washington post" verified the emails through the fraction of 217 gig bites of data. excuse me, if you have the technology to verify it and you have a presidential election about to come up, maybe before you decided it was disinformation you ran through this complicated program, why wasn't this necessary to go through in 2020? did that strike you? >> well, yes. they didn't have the laptop in 2020. but, what they did have was tony bobulinski who was hunter biden's former business partner. now, his material that he handed over to the fbi and that he gave

a press conference about his testimony was very valuable in october 2020. it's as good as what is on the laptop. so, he was saying that he had met with joe biden twice. that joe biden was the big guy who was supposed to be cutting 10% in one deal. so he had a good chunk of the story. it was enough to validate and croosht the material that we had been publishing. and, yet, the media completely ignored tony bobulinski and, in fact, treated him with sort of sneering contempt, the same way they treated our story and our newspaper. >> brian: so they want to make hunter biden billy carter, a crazy brother. is he a crazy son, drug alleged, loves hookers just an embarrassment but nothing to do with government in fact "the washington post" says the post did not find the evidence that joe biden personally benefited from or knew details. and you come out and say really? i interviewed tony bobulinski gave a press conference go find it on c-span where he talked

about meeting joe biden twice regards a seen know hawkeye. and it was an organization that got millions of dollars deposited into it from rob walker. you could have called rob walker. his wife was the former assistant to jill biden. they are all around this. but it seems as they they are scared to death of linking something with the president. where on the other side they linked everything with donald trump. >> exactly. these are the same newspapers that one pulitzers are for their coverage of the russian collusion hoax with the most flimsy evidence, you know, the steele dossier? what a joke. they took the lies that they were fed by deep state operatives and they treated them as if they were gospel. here you have actual evidence, documents that you can corroborate with other people who were on emails. every which way these things can be corroborated.

we did, before we published, we did our due diligence. but they -- they just can't do basic journalism. >> brian: by the way, miranda, we need two hours. i still couldn't get through all of it. but it's important to read your column. the reason why this investigation didn't go forward when the republicans had the majority in the senate was senator portman and senator mitt romney stopped ron johnson and chuck grassley and it's inexcusable and fbi put together some phony briefings to try to throw ron johnson off. these are important elements. miranda, thanks so much. >> thanks, brian. >> brian: you got it republicans hoping for a red wave in november. if you ask aoc democrats need to go further to the left to keep that wish from reality. is that a winning strategy? hear from former democrats who left the party. that story next. ♪ ♪

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steve congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez issuing a major warning to democrats ahead of the midterms saying, quote: if the president does pursue and start to govern decisively using executive action and other tools at his disposal, i think we are in the game. if we just decide to just kind of sit back for the rest of the year and not change people's lives, yeah, i do think we're in trouble. our next guest all left the democratic party and are now all running for office as republicans. joining us right now north las vegas mayor and nevada gubernatorial candidate john lee along with west virginia state delegate running for state senate nic bates and south carolina dorchester county council member maria holman seeking re-election. good morning to all of you. >> good morning. >> thanks for having us. >> steve: what aoc is saying, mr. president, we still have time with executive order, do this crazy stuff that you

promised like forgive student debt, big climate change stuff. and then we will all get reelected. do you think she is right about that? >> no, i don't. i think that aoc, she is the most radical. her policies whether or not defunding the police. whether it's about radical climate agenda. all this has led to higher gas prices. she has the support her support for full socialism is not going to work for the american people. she is actually hurting the democratic party. i think americans are starving for hope right now. the cost of living is going up. it's soaring very high. i think we should be focusing on we, the democrats, the republicans are focusing on individuals and what their issues are. and we are concerned about people sitting at the kitchen table talking about concerns and we want to make life better for

individuals. >> steve: absolutely. john, you know, a moment ago we cited a couple of economists who did a study for bloomberg and they said to later's point that the average american family is going to have to spend an extra $5,200 in this year because of inflation, those are the reasons the republicans actually have a better message than the democrats do right now. >> i agree with that i think aoc just wants to get people prepared to start suffering even more for the values that she espouses. i think this country is going in exactly the wrong direction. i think anyone who looks at her as a spokesman for the democratic party should really consider what party they belong to. and maybe think about exiting it right now. >> steve: you know, nic, it does seem like voices and not just aoc but other voices from the political fringe do get a lot of air play because it's something

new. but, at the same time, if people start to think well, is that point of view mainstream democrat point of view? i think joe biden is trying to figure that out right now. >> well, democrats around here. and you know, the further the democratic party goes to the left, the more it drives monarch democrats to become independence or republicans. so trouble reasons. and it's this extremism that driving people away from the democratic party a and is what led to me and others just saying enough is enough. so you know. i think they got big problems. aocsol not for the wrong reasons. reasons. >> steve: i hadn't heard that expression before.

mick, you mentioned why you were driven away from the democratic party. why did you become a republican. >> i was republican democrat used to stand for working people and helping people. now it's for hurting people and, you know, helping people that don't want to work. i mean, so, you t. gets harder and harder to explain that away. my job as an elected official. my job as a representative is to try to make things better for much more comfortable at home and most of the people i speak to around here directly with the democratic values, i'm sorry, republican values. >> steve: heart, why did you become a republican. >> i became a republican because i believe in pro-life. i support the police. i feel that we should be not defunded but funding the police department. i believe in a strong military. and because of those reasons, i decided to become a republican. and which i say i have enjoyed being a republican for the last 30 days or 60 days or so.

and my pointed has came across to other democrats. and i have other friends that i have discussed this with. i have talked to. and they are seeing the light. they see that the republican party is the party to be in right now. >> steve: okay, john. you are the final contestant today. why did you become a republican? >> actually, the democratic party i used to know be a party of the big 10. now pro-god, pro-america, pro-life. pro-gun, pro-business. you have no business being in that party. it is destroying the vision of newark and it is destroying our future and our children need to understand what made america great. we need to have them understand the democratic party is exactly opposite of what we should be doing in this nation right now. >> steve: all right. john and mick and harriet. we thank you all for joining us live today from all across the country. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> steve: you bet. meanwhile, it's woke world after all. hear lara trump says disney had

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morning, that's not the big weather story across the country. we are tracking severe weather that sweeped across the portion of the southeast still early this morning. that is an area right across bay county in florida. the florida panhandle where that red polygon is a tornado warn storm on the ground. the entire line is severe thunderstorm. >> we have frequent lightning. active weather patterns throughout the day. tornado watches are in places we see the conditions for tornadoes all the way over to the florida big bend up to southern georgia. this entire system as the day progress on moves over to the east coast, the carolinas, stretching up towards d.c. and new york. a little weaker up there but still a lot of very heavy rain. it's an active weather day we will be apaying attention to it. those are your weather headlines now. toss it back inside. >> ainsley: thanks, adam. more fallout over the woke world of disney and fight to parental rights bill as one employee reveals the, quote.

silent majority actually agrees with the bill. >> i think they are making a terrible miscalculation maybe it will be bad for business. the left talk about democracy after this election. so what about our democracy right now you? know, the people of florida, a lot of disney castmers voted for state legislature. duly elected florida house and senate passed a bill. a small minority in the walt disney community part of the lgbtq community are screaming the loudest. >> ainsley: fox news contributor lara trump joins us now. he works for disney. running for congress down in your state in florida. is he speaking out against disney backing this small minority he says of people that are not for this parental rights bill what's your reaction. >> turn to disney fir wholesome family entertainment and not political agenda. not auto political narrative and it could have been very easy.

it should have been very easy for disney to just say a blanket statement we remain apolitical. we will not get involved in this. of course that's not what they did. it's pretty clear based on the statements that disney put out. is they didn't bother to actually read what is in this bill. neither did the mainstream media who has been pushing the don't say gay bill. i mean, we will talk about that in a second. neither did the folks that were protesting disney to do something about this. for anyone interested, ainsley, you just said it, it's the parental rights bill. it's not the don't say gay bill. gay isn't even in there. all this bill says is disney is interested in listening to it because i think they may want to hear this is that in the state of florida, you are not allowed in public schools to talk about sex or sexual orientation with kindergartens, first graders, second great graders and third graders, basic stuff. that is common sense, i don't know why would be discussing

that in general but no different than other major corporations than that have jumped in the fray and had to get involved in anything woke like we saw the mlb all-star game last year moved from atlanta to colorado over a voting rights bill. a bill that would have made voting more secure. they can't help themselves but to get involved. and it is always the wrong move when major corporations opine on these things as you just heard from that gentleman there. they are alien nation half of their audience. half of the people that pay to go to disney pay for subscriptions they don't agree what you are doing. i guess until they feel it in the bottom line and in their pocketbooks and at the end of the year when he they're not making as much money, disney will continue to do nonsensical things like this. i was to tell you, ainsley, as a parent i'm very curious as to why we are encouraging our kids to grow up faster. you get such a short window of time to be a kid. to not have to deal with these

sort of things. the fact that we are trying to axle already rate our kids in direction is incredibly concerning for me as a parent, disney should have stayed out of it like all the other woke corporation got there i guess they couldn't help themselves. >> ainsley: do you think people will start boycotting disney. >> i think we have seen a lot of people -- >> ainsley: lara, thanks so much for coming on with us. the next hour of "fox & friends. ♪ ♪ oh, half way there ♪ oh living on a prayer ♪ take my hand ♪ we'll make it i swear. >> brian: city of jacksonville such great bridges beautiful city. they have to rebuild that city. right over to the right is the

jacksonville jaguar stadium. seven new agents. might be a great year with their coach where they probably get on the winning side of things. >> ainsley: what do you mean rebuild their city? >> brian: it's macy. the city needs to be revitalized. it has all this potential overlooking the water. but, we are playing this song for a very good reason with this band for a very good reason. >> steve: it is a little -- remember last week we played you how in odesa in ukraine along the shore people filling up the sandbag, they were singing along. there it is there to bon jovi's it's my life. well, during that era. who was the lead guitarist richard gambora. we have all sorts of things to talk to him about including that inspiring vision right there. >> brian: he was married to cher for a while.

>> ainsley: wasn't he married to rachel -- she was on melrose place heather locklear. >> brian: cher? he dated cher. >> steve: are you thinking greg almond. >> brian: he married cher. >> ainsley: you are thinking of sony. >> brian: sony married cher. >> ainsley: we are being told he did date. >> brian: it was a firm nod it was a joel nod. >> ainsley: ask him about ukraine and his dating life. >> brian: right. >> steve: who is your news source? >> brian: i just hear things. some things stick and some things don't. >> steve: heard from an uber guy. i think he knew what he was talking about. >> brian: they didn't tie the not. they were inseparable for a short period. >> ainsley: russian bombs raining down on the outskirts of

kyiv the city and the city of chernihiv. >> brian: cream line striking again after promising to scale back two days ago. >> steve: griff jenkins is live on the ground in lviv following the very latest. griff, our president talked to their president because, among other things, they need more stuff and the russians said one thing a couple of days ago and that turned out to be a big fat lie. griff griff after hours saying they were going to deescalate around the capital of kyiv take a look at images overnight bombardments happening in the suburbs north of the city of irpin. go a little northeast of the capital also in concern n.i.v. more bombardment. nothing left but smoldering buildings. now, overnight, president zelenskyy addressed the australian parliament and he had this to say. listen. >> we can -- destroyed our

dream. no they are just bent on a plane hardware. shells. but not the essence. not the freedom. not the dignity. nor our independence. >> griff: now the pentagon says russian forces are redeploying for a new offensive and they say that putin is being mislead about the failures of his troops. >> he would 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: now, in washington, the head of the u.s. european commanded to walters admitted to u.s. lawmakers that president biden's strategy to deter putin is simply not working. >> failed in ukraine.

>> number one, i would say that nato's solidarity remained and. >> remained. >> i can't argue with your conclusion. >> griff: meanwhile fears that china would side with russia may be coming true. russian foreign minister sergey lavrov visited china for the first time since the start of the war. there he refused to condemn the invasion and was talking of a new world order. clearly that relationship getting stronger and somewhat concerning to see that now, we will hear from president biden later today. he is going to talk about rising gas prices and what he calls the putin price hike as his administration is reportedly eyeing, looking at releasing up to 1 million barrels of oil a day from the strategic petroleum reserve. brian, ainsley, steve? >> steve: yeah, he is hoping to tamp the prices down. real quickly, griff. they had peace talks a couple of days ago.

they were it both going to report back to their home capitals. they are going to meet again tomorrow, right? >> that's right. they will meet virtually tomorrow, but there is very little expectation that any progress will be made because the kremlin spokesman, dmitry peskov said no significant advancements were on the table and we heard from one of the ukrainian negotiators that was in the meetings, saying that it's really time now for putin and zelenskyy to meet. and we know so far there is no announcements of that happening as well. steve? >> brian: i guess lviv behind you seems like a normal city. everywhere else seems basically under siege. thanks so much, griff. i think when you look what's happening there. i'm just very curious what the conversation was like with the president of the united states because there was no great warm readout from either side. and even though we are giving them, i guess, a few billion more dollars. they don't have an economy right now. i know that's valuable and they

can't say anything negative. but they have to be frustrated. they asked for tanks and planes. they asked for harpoons some way to protect themselves from the russian version of the tomahawk missiles coming from the sea and he is not getting them. and then we heard so much about the 100 switchblade cronies that have not gotten there yet. there is no good explanation of why they haven't. evidently, it is a stock problem. >> brian: we don't have 100 laying around a country this side with a defense budget this big. well, we have given them a total of 2.5 billion. they are asking for more countries. russia did say we are going to deescalate. all the people in ukraine saying that turned out to be a complete lie. they are still shelling homes and stores and libraries and civilian areas and people are

dying half of them have been children. thousands have died on both sides russians and ukrainians. but you just can't trust putin because putin says i'm going to do escalate and then two hours later. after he pledged to scale back is he shell and bombarding all around the kyiv area. >> steve: that's right. meanwhile, there have been polls taken since the election in 2020 where i think one of the polls said that 10% of the people would not have voted for joe biden if they would have known the hunter biden story. and that, many have suggested on the political right. mainstream media and social media giants for the most part had a complete blockade of information. we're not going to talk about hunter biden because it simply is russian disinformation. >> ainsley: remember if you tried to tweet it out. the post story out. >> steve: they would shut you down. you are talking about the "new york post." they were one of the first outfits to get it along with the daily mail.

fox news we all reported it. yesterday, late in the afternoon there was an alert that the "the washington post" did an investigation, nine months ago they got ahold of a copy of the laptop hard drive and the headline was inside hunter biden's multimillion dollars deals with the chinese energy company. as it turns out "the washington post" hired a couple of people who are really good at this kind of thing and they realized that these emails on the hard drive were authentic. and so, some of them were about hunter's deal with cefc, which is a chinese energy company that paid him $5 million and others verified the email with burisma where he was paid a million dollars. and jake williams, former nsa operative and forensic expert and both concluded that the emails have crypto graphic

signatures that are so hard to fake, even for the best computer hackers they say. they got the hard drive in june. they spent months reviewing the data and they made two copies of the hard drive. now they are saying these emails are ethic. remember was it last. >> steve: welcome to the club. >> ainsley: the "new york times" finally admitted these emails are authentic. you always said why are they now saying it and looking into it. >> steve: he is either going to be indicted or. >> ainsley: it's a big story. you can't not cover it. >> steve: hunter is either going to be indicted and they need to make their history right with the story we came out eventually or time to squeeze joe biden out and this would help disqualify him. >> brian: so the "the washington post" goes out of their way to say -- how the biden family has profited off joe's relationships but the most did not find evidence that joe biden personally benefited from or are knew any details. and i'm watching john harwood on cnn breathlessly trying to say this has nothing to do with the

president. kind of indicated that hunter has been a problem his whole life. and the poor president has had to deal with it one has nothing to do with the other. there is proof and there is a phone call away from tony bobulinski to say how the president met twice with joe biden. he references the big guy in emails. people have said it's the big guy in emails. is he referenced in talking to his daughter about the big guy in emails being his father that he has had to do all this work and supply money to his father and kind of exasperated because of it all you have to do is go to c-span. don't go to fox. probably don't want to go to fox news we carried it live. go to c-span. they covered tony bobulinski talking about links the times he met. all the information he had he would turn over to ron johnson's committee in the senate that talked about the links with joe biden they met at the hotel behind the pool not to be seen.

they talked generally about these projects saying please take care of my son. look out for me. that was job screening for tony bobulinski because they didn't have a lot of his knowledge as a penn state guy with great international business. he didn't need the money. he thought he would take on the challenge when he was recruited to do it. >> ainsley: the question is was their quid pro quo. >> brian: perceived vice president son you do this energy company. >> steve: influence. >> ainsley: couldn't get beached for the quid pro quo what he did for monica in exchange for. that is that happening in this case, too. we will pay you large amounts of money if we have influence with your dad who is the vice president at the time. >> steve: yeah. it's hard to put that in the contract but that is kind of what is felt to have been the deal. miranda devine who wrote laptop from hell, which suddenly "the washington post" said okay, it was actually from hell, she

talked to brian about it a half an hour ago. >> you're going to be 18 months late with the story and had the laptop in your possession since june 2021, it really behooves you to give your readers the entire truth. i feel as if "the washington post" spent 7,000 words yesterday in their paper on two stories which left out crucial details. these are the same newspapers that won pulitzers for their coverage of the russian collusion hoax with the most flimsy evidence. here you have actual evidence documents that you can corroborate with other people on emails. every which way these things can be corroborated. we did, before we published, we did our due diligence. they just can't do basic journalism. >> steve: remember we meaning "the new york post." in the "new york post" following

the expose, "the washington post" fact checker features said that the paper has not been able to verify or authenticate these emails and said there were fears that emails could have been part of a broader disinformation campaign by russia. we heard that from a lot of people. but the disinformation campaign was actually from democrats and from a lot of members of the mainstream media. but now it's being revealed. >> brian: matt gaetz came out yesterday or the day before all 51 of those intelligence experts including five correct, of the cia should have their top secret clearance revolt because they put their credibility on the line saying this is at this point russian disinformation. the patterns. a little bit of wiggle room there the other thing to keep in mind ron johnson was moving fast on this investigation. do you know who stopped him? two republicans from moving forward. mitt romney and rob portman. so that's inexcusable, too. then of course they lose control of the senate because of the georgia situation.

and the investigation stops on a dime. >> ainsley: 22,000 emails from 2009 to 2019 that are on that laptop that was left at the repair shop in delaware. >> steve: they are real. >> ainsley: 13 minutes after the top of the hour more fallout after the slap seen around the world as the academy launches disciplinary proceedings against will smith for violating their code of conduct. the academy admitting, quote: mr. smith was scott leave the ceremony and refused. we also recognize we could have handle the situation differently. >> steve: fellow comedians are still reeling from the incident including the oscar's co-host wanda sykes here she is yesterday with ellen. >> for them to let him stay in that room and enjoy the rest of the show and accept his award i thought how gross is this? this is the wrong message, you know. you assaulted somebody, you get escorted out the building and that's it, you know. but for them to let him continue, i thought it was

gross. >> brian: it's just interesting. everyone is weighing in. things look worse for will smith every day. last night chris rock addressing a sold out crowd yesterday. what did fans think? lawrence jones on the road in boston got ticket to the 10:00 show. what happened, lawrence? >> lawrence: hey, good morning, family. a packed house at the wilbur theater. the line was wrapped around the building. many of the folks paying thousands of dollars for those tickets after the incident. one thing to keep in mind at these award shows and these comedy shows, there are no cameras. there are no phones. they put your phone in a locked container so they can save the contents for netflix. this is what chris had to say in response to the coach. if the producers can put up full screen this what he is said. he said i'm still kind of processing what happened. and at some point i will talk

about it and it will be serious. it will be funny. right now i'm going to tell some jokes. so after the show last night i talked with the folks as they were leaving it. this is what they though say. watch. >> what did you think about the performance? it was excellent i have been a fan for a lot of years and he did as good as i could have ever mond. >> this my first time going to a comedy show and seeing chris rock my childhood hero it was beautiful. >> best of the best. >> lawrence: what do you think about his response to will smith. >> you know, he didn't want to talk about it which is fair. >> do you think that was the right route to go not even addressing it really? he said he wanted more time to process it? >> i can't get in his head. i thought that i had to respect his decision. >> do you think he should have took some time to address it more or do you think him sticking to his regular routine was the best way? >> i mean, that's what we came here for to hear if he was going to say anything. but, at the end of the day, we really just came for a show at

the end and that's what he said i just want to do a show. it was understandable. >> to think all the hype built up around him made it even a better show. regardless of the fact that he didn't talk about it i think he had a better energy. he had had great interaction with the audience. it was awesome. >> how did you think he performed. >> i think he did a really good job. >> he took some time off to understand his thoughts and he wasn't going to add ignorantly like this man will smith does do you know what i mean? will smith escalated the situation by bringing violence. chris rock wants to settles it with words. >> lawrence: guys, it seemed to me by listening to the performance last night that chris was almost saying that all these comments about that there was a private get together where they scwawched this and moving forward not necessarily true. is he going to address this. is he just going to address it in his own timing. but i don't think all this is peaches and cream, guys. i still think that chris is waiting for the right time, the

right platform, which is creativity and comedy to address this. >> ainsley: lawrence, what was the vibe like inside? >> lawrence: you were there. >> steve: you there were. you don't need to interview anybody. >> lawrence: people loved it this was a vintage chris rock it seemed to me that he went after wokeness. he went offer all the social justice warriors. he went after all the political class. this was him swinging at everyone. when he started it, it seemed like he had tears in his eyes, guys. it seemed like it really affected him. it was kind of somber. but then he said guys, y'all not going to make me cry. you are not going to make me mist up. and he started his performance. and ains that was after a standing ovation right when he walked on stage? >> steve: 2 minute standing ovation. >> lawrence: exactly right. >> steve: we will see what happened because it will all be

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>> we have got your headlines with a fox weather alert. multiple tornadoes touching down across the south as a line of severe storms pushes east. the storms turning over trees damaging buildings and leaving thousands of people without power. heavy rain and winds up to 80 miles per hour also sparking fears of coastal flooding and multiple people are hurt after tornado touched down in arkansas. and democratic congresswoman maxine waters tells hundreds of homeless people to go home after a housing event in los angeles spiraled out of control. listen to this. >> there are no more applications. i want everybody to go home. and i want. >> we ain't got home. that's why we are here. >> there is nobody in washington who works for their people [bleep] harder than i do. i don't want to hear this. >> i believe you. >> actually unbelievable. the "new york post" reporting that waters tried to stop an "l.a. times" reporter from publishing the story about what really happened telling him,

quote: you will hurt yourself and the community trying to put this together and violence erupts in the middle of a florida high school track meet and it's all caught on camera. witnesses telling tmz, an athlete who was not actually involved in the race sucker punched the runner in first place. police were called but not clear if any charges were filed. >> steve: cdc director rochelle walensky is defending the cdc after a new report from a group of house republicans exposes, a, quote, what they referred to as cozy relationship with the teacher's union. listen. >> we need to get our schools open. we in that context engaged as we often do with organizations and groups that are impacted by our guidance and our recommendations at the agency brian look how nervous she is again. according to the report the cdc allowed the unions to make

line-by-line edits to school opening guidance. >> ainsley: congresswomen city on the committee that released this report and they join us now. good morning, ladies. >> good morning. >> ainsley: congresswoman mall malliotakis what did you find. >> what we are finding the biden administration is continuing to erode the public's trust. in this case they are allowing the dog to wag the dog verbatim. if you compare what the union recommended for the guidance and what the cdc ultimately used it is literally plagiarism. this is not an issue of following the science. this is an issue of following the influence and the money of the largest union in the country. $43 million donated to president biden and democrats and liberal groups throughout the country. and they have this amount of influence where the cdc is supposed to use medical science to determine their guidance and recommendations to the american public. this is exactly why the people in this country do not trust

this administration or the cdc with the mandates and the recommendation was that have come out. >> steve: sure. congresswoman meeks, you know, what she just said essentially validates the fact that the administration was bowing to one of their largest donors. they had the donors actually writing the law and ultimately they didn't -- the teachers didn't want to have to go back to school and the administration helped them out. >> well, i can tell you as a physician and a former director of the department of public health that it's not usual to bring people together and to convene individuals as you develop policy but to have emails prior to the release of this document, prior to the release of the guidance as representative malliotakis said, that are almost verbatim as a physician, if i did this in a medical review article, i would have to disclose financial disclosure and conflicts of interest. at least they should

have footnoted the teachers union. >> brian: right. too bad anthony fauci didn't step in and realize how wrong that was and step up and try to embarrass the administration like he did the previous one. cdc said this to fox. cdc traditionally engage in organizations and groups that are impacted by guidance and recommendations issued by the agency. the strength of this guidance resulted in 99% of schools being open and children being in the own riching environment of a classroom during the delta surge in the fall of 2021. okay, that explains it those kids stayed out of school with the faulty information between d them from going to 3 feet apart. and the teachers who were too scared to go to school for a while. little did we know congresswoman when one was actually on vacation on the islands while she was doing her remote teaching. so this is a train wreck. but we kind of knew about this already. didn't we? >> well, remember that billions of dollars went to the schools in order to prepare them.

we put teachers at the top of the line for vaccinations. so we could get kids back in school. and iowa was a great example. did they contact the department of education or governor reynolds in iowa in because we reopened schools? august of 2020. so they could have gotten information from iowa about how safe it was to open schools. because we did have -- we didn't have super spreader events. but they didn't contact iowa this was, you know, a teachers union who, as you said, the unions gave 43 million to the democrats to biden to their causes. and then you have a document that is almost verbatim with what the teachers unions wanted to do so that schools would not reopen. it did immeasurable harm to our children both in learning, their mental health, their anxiety and suicide as young as 9 years in age. >> the bottom line is we trust the cdc, centers for disease control. we look to them for our help and to find out how we are supposed to react to certain diseases and illnesses and things like this.

so, for them to listen to the teachers union and not the doctors and not the science, what else are they telling us that is false information? >> >> my concern is that what is somewhat the american people are concerned about. look, the reality is they are following the political science, not the medical science, and if they want to, you know, have the american people trust in their advice and their guidance and their recommendation and their ultimately their mandates, then we must make sure that this organization is run by somebody who is not going to be influenced by political outsiders. here in washington, d.c. we are the opposite of iowa. and, you know, our children suffered greatly over the course of the last two years because mayor de blasio was also somebody who was influenced by political outsiders. by those who contributed to his campaign instead of the medical science. i think the president needs to reevaluate who is running his agencies across the board because they have eroded the public trust. whether it's the border. whether it's the cdc. whether it's those who

oversought botched withdrawal of afghanistan. >> steve: sure. and, yesterday, last night, the administration fired dr. oz who sat on an advisory board. >> brian: finally. >> steve: because he. >> brian: he was the problem. >> ainsley: herschel walker was fired. >> steve: thank you for joining us live. >> thank you. >> steve: critics are saying joe biden's defense budget increases aren't close to what the military needs right now. the president claimed it will make us stronger. pete hegseth reacts to that as you can see right there. he is coming up next on "fox & friends." ♪ ♪ it's a new dawn, it's a new day,... ♪ ...it's time to make a stand. start a new day with trelegy. ♪...and i'm feelin' good. ♪ no once-daily copd medicine... has the power to treat copd in as many ways as trelegy.

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and that's what sent me down the path, was i--i wanted to make sure and live for my kid. plain and simple. brian critics are budget increases. commander-in-chief claims it makes america stronger? >> this budget provides the resources we need to keep americans safe. ensuring that our military remains the best prepared, best trained, best equipped military in the world. >> brian: really? does it? it's just 1.5% increase when considering inflation falling far lower than recommended 5%. the republicans think and they would prefer so because the military needs preparedness and we need take on the china threat. bring it down with "fox & friends weekend" co-host and

army vet pete hegseth still in the national guard. pete, first off, do you think of the president recognized the threat by the budget he submitted? >> pete: it doesn't look like it. you know, future conflict with china would require up to 500 ships in our navy and we will go over this, brian. yet, we are not only are we not increasing we are reducing. if anything, ukraine has shown us the importance of the infantry, the queen of the battlefield. and, yet, the end strength of our army is reducing. there is good stuff in there for missile defense. there is good stuff in there for research and development. but if you are going to pace ahead of china with the technology needed because they are building a military that is meant to defeat us, brian. and in many context because ever the defense military industrial complex, we are building a military that reflects the last war with trying to have an understanding of the next one. so you need to increase that spending more robustly and this budget doesn't do it. basically a talking point budget, brian.

it wants to make it look like we are doing more but we are not. >> brian: haven't had a complex since 1969 in vaughn didn't do too well. we spent in 2022 a lot of people on the left are upset about this $173 billion for the army. we are going to get up to 177.3. but, keep in mind, too. as you know with inflation at 8.9%. that's barely an increase. as we look here what we are are looking at for the navy. got 298 man ships. you are adding about 9. >> retiring 24. you wonder if that could be reversed to maybe re-purpose. so that the number here is $230 billion. and then as we go here and take a look at the air force budget, 220 billion, the request is for 234 billion. so they are going to have to make due. >> right. >> brian: no doubt about it be more efficient across the board. they did studies and never actually implement the studies. that doesn't send a good message to our allies and our enemy. >> pete: not at all. the end strength of the army is going to fall from 458,000

troops to 473. the end strength of the navy is going to be reduced. when you commission nine new ships but retire 24, the math is pretty simple it goes down from almost 300 ships to 280 ships by 2027. the airs association. again, i know the air force association is invested in the air force and they're always going to want more. they are accurate when they point out it's the smallest, oldest and least ready air force in our 75 year history. we are going to reduce the number of f 35s we are buying? look at the skies over ukraine. better have the most sophisticated considering the advances to shoot down aircraft and not enough investment in drones. pilots. we could be doing a lot more there, also. brian, you have to decide whether you want to invest in a hard power military prepared to defeat peers in the future. if we have learned anything in ukraine it's that type of

conventional war can happen again. tanks which we thought were the future may be more vulnerable than ever with one simple man pad. and a shoulder fired missile. adapt to that and recognize you have to spend on defense to deter your enemies like we didn't do in ukraine. >> brian: right, got to be ready for the south china sea. be ready for a european war. and middle east war. >> pete: we don't have enough ships can't do anything about it. >> brian: got to be vigilant war on terror islamic extremism. r and d going continue to vest in weapons we haven't invented yet. >> pete: that's what they are counting on. so there is 130 billion for research and development on artificial intelligence as well as 5g. yes, can you never quite imagine what is next. and you better have darpa in other places think of futuristic weapons. ultimately, the ability to find the enemy, target them and kill them is critically important. by the way the cia got huge

problems as far as their ability to infiltrate foreign countries, learning language. that's the big thing too. not just technology it's people. >> brian: got to be human intelligence. thanks so much, pete. appreciate it. >> pete: thanks, brian. >> brian: age of the peace over. world of woke disney expose dollars as look to reshape guest earns examines. a panel of parents sound off next or should i say people or they or them? some people are coming up. did i insult anybody? ♪ unbelievable ♪ ♪ >> tech: cracked windshield? make it easy and schedule with safelite, because you can track us and see exactly when we'll be there. >> woman: i have a few more minutes. let's go! >> tech vo: that's service that fits your schedule. go to safelite.com. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪

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we no longer say ladies and gentlemen and boys and girls we say dreamers of all ages. >> steve: now the woke world of disney. how do parents feel about disney's new agenda? it is now public. mom panel here to react executive director of building education for students together laura and bethany mandel and "new york post" columnist karol markowicz who recently moved to florida. karol, start with you, good morning to you. once upon a time people would take their kids to a disney movie or a disney theme park and it would be for entertainment. but now you have got to wonder am i being entertained or is there an agenda in this that i have got to figure out? >> yeah, disney is making a huge mistake. they are opposing parents who are their core consumers with the opposition to the florida law. and it's ironic that the law is pejoratively don't say gay when

the reality of our current moment is don't say girl. the video of their internal meetings were so creepy. showed people committed to remaking our society in a leftist image. this isn't difficult. leave the kids alone. they shouldn't be indoctrinated by mickey mouse, let them be kids. disney used to understand that. laura you were up in orlando last week, did you go to disney or did you take your business elsewhere? >> well, for spring break this year we opted out of not buying the water park passes to disney and we ended up buying a four park pass with sea world because i refuse to give disney my money any longer based on their resistance against the parental rights bill hb 1557 and their reaction. not only did i do that, but last night my husband and i, we actually deleted the disney plus off our account. that was another direction that we went.

in that, as parents, that's how we can stand up against this woke agenda that disney has against -- for our families. >> steve: yeah. ladies, i want to play for you a soundbite of somebody on the channel earlier. his name is jose kaseo. he works for disney running for congress in florida. and he said that disney is making a big mistake. watch this. >> the people of florida disney cast members voted for the state legislature who passed this bill and sent it to the governor and thank god our governor has the backbone to stand up to companies like mine, disney and pass this bill. there is a say squeaky wheel gets the grease. the small minority within the walt disney community part of the lgbtq community are screaming the loudest. they are being the loudest and most vocal. >> steve: and bethany, so he -- you know, one of the other things he said the misconception

is that everybody at disney is a raging liberal and that can't be further from the truth. >> yeah, no, absolutely. i heard from a disney employee who asked me sort of off the record what can i do? how can i speak out? i'm afraid to talk on our company's slack. i'm afraid to talk to people in my office. because i never know what is okay to say anymore. i mean, if you can't say a woman is a woman and a man is a man you can't greet someone. it's a really terrifying environment for him to work in 8 hours a day. >> steve: yeah. karol, you know, what a lot of people don't realize is this house bill 1557, all it does is it says between the ages of kindergarten and 3rd grade, teachers can't talk about different sexual things and gender identity and stuff like that. in florida, they don't even start sex ed until sixth grade. so, you know, what's the big deal? >> i mean, it is a big deal. i have a kindergartner and 3rd

grader i don't want them learning in school gender is nullable and they can be whatever they want to be day to day. children are suggestion especially from people like teachers. i absolutely see a trend of kids thinking that they could just change their gender, you know, as they want to. it's not about transgender adults. that's the other thing. it's about not letting kids get indoctrinated to insane ideas at a very outcome age. we need to really accept that kids are not little grown ups. they are not just short adults. they really do have a completely different sense of understanding. >> steve: can i see that show of hands which of you ladies are going to continue to patronize disney whether it's the channels or the theme parks or the movies or the tv shows? can i see the hands? okay. thought so. laura, bethany and karol, we thank you very much for joining us live. by the way we did reach out to disney for a statement but they declined to comment.

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speed to begin with the fox news alert. the desperate search for missing nevada woman is over. police say the 18-year-old's body was found in a remote part of the state at foul after she was found to mexico. driver was arrested and charged with first-degree kidnapping and connection to the disappearance for the driver was sentenced to 15 years in prison back in 1997 for his role in covering up murder a string of robberies. hillary clinton and the democratic national committee getting slapped with fines by the federal election commission. the agency says the flesh compass reported the money russian dossier. look at a campaign is $90,000. the dnc this lap with an over $100,000 penalty. for more president trump say

again and he thinks to his campaign in russia were a hoax. and the late drummer taylor hawkins will be honored during saturday's grammy awards. the rest of the band were booked to perform in a show before his unexpected death last friday. they have since canceled all concert dates worldwide. an official cause of death has not been released. a former bon jovi guitarist and friend of taylor hawkins will be joining us next hour. stay tuned for that. those ear lines. >> good morning. a little bit noisy out here. you see it passing me by here on fox square. cool, kind of damp. the big story across the country weatherwise is what we're seeing across the southeast. the tornado watch is currently in place from panama city, florida, stretching over to florida big ben. i'll buy the parts of southern georgia. the ingredients are there. using a history of tornadoes with a particular system that we

are currently tracking as it makes his move across the southeast. eventually today's severe storms are going to be likely up across the carolinas stretching up to d.c. to new york. populated areas where we get season big thunderstorms. this is your future track of that line of storms. mostly clearing off the coast around 3:00 or 4:00 p.m. just after lunch, he will want to pay attention. those ear whether headlines for now. back to you. >> ainsley: in alabama police department taking to tiktok to connect with their community. watch this. >> hey, this is the cheap at the police department. we decided to get on the tiktok and do some -- >> "the tiktok?" you don't say that. it is tiktok. >> i was around when the internet was invented. were you there, jay? put out some videos. the department works from the inside.

videos. >> don't use a filter. >> i like it. >> you look like an idiot. >> ainsley: little do they know that the first post would be seen far beyond the city limits anywhere 325,000 views. alabama police and officer jacob join us now. good to see you. >> good morning. >> ainsley: when i'm watching this this morning, his it is not in the frame. and i heard you say "the tiktok." then i realized, it's all a joke. it is very cute. you ended up, you played along because this is so relatable. most of us -- i mean, i am a period. when my daughters a teenager, i imagine i'm not gonna know all the things that she knows about social media. what made you want to go along with his children to be such a good sport? >> we want our first post to be something relatable. like you said, everyone's got that parent or child know that a relationship that you need to be corrected on on all of these new

internet things that are coming out. it was fun. we thought it was funny. it's got a lot more attention than we thought it would. >> ainsley: who wrote the script? how did you come with the idea? >> i think it was both of us. his idea was i'm gonna play that boomer guy who doesn't really know what to do with the phone. i want you to correct me constantly. okay, we can do that. we actually did it all in one take. >> ainsley: is so good to see that. you are bringing the community together. what's the reaction? you are on national television now. >> yeah, this is ridiculous. we didn't expect this reaction at all. we just did this to kind of show there is no secret that law enforcement has been kind of, you know, run over the past couple of years. we wanted to show everybody in the community and especially young folks that we are human just like everybody else and we have a sense of humor and we can take a joke and we can make a joke. >> ainsley: how many people work at your department? is it small?

>> relatively, yes. we have around 90 officers. >> ainsley: are they laughing? do they want to be part of this now? >> yes, we have nothing but love inside of the department. at first they were hesitant. now they are all about it. >> ainsley: how about the community reaction? what are you hearing from the folks that you represent? >> it has been great. i'm getting tax. i get emails, smoke signals, however they can get in touch with me. my watch is blowing up this morning with people watching you show right now. it's going to be great. it can be bad. we just cannot take it as far as we can and hope not to get fired. >> ainsley: you're not going to get fired. how realistic was it? do you know anything about tiktok? >> jake's personal page was pretty big when he was doing a lot. i saw that. i will get jake in here with me to help this page gonna blow up a little bit. i do love filters.

the soldier boy thing was pretty cool. >> you don't need one. thank you all for being on without us. without alabama and we >> caller: we love the folks down there >> ainsley: 8:00 a.m. our "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i can't go home. i live in new jersey. >> ainsley: that's not about you. >> steve: we've got both. in new jersey as you listen to bon jovi, you know, coming to the conclusion of this hour, we

will have bon jovi joining us. and so, we thought we would discard this hour as we started all three on this thursday, march 31st. it is the last day of march. >> brian: it must've been so cool to know that in ukraine they are inspired by his music. one of the creative geniuses and childhood friends of john bon jovi. >> ainsley: this is odessa down on the seaport. in ukraine against the black sea. these and other people in ukraine. you probably heard us talking about this filling those sandbags as they are trying to fortify the city. you've got the guy on the drums and you can hear people singing and playing this music. bon jovi being played thousands of miles away over in ukraine as they are fortifying the city saying -- >> steve: exactly. it's all about their life over there. we'll have the very latest from ukraine as we look at who was just drumming along with bon jovi in odessa. or on ukraine and a couple of

minutes here on fox. >> brian: president biden is tearing into what he calls political attacks on transgender children. spiezio slamming florida's parental rights bill for damaging mental health he says. >> steve: we know the president's going to talk a little bit about oil today. he's also going to talk about transgender rights. >> we don't know we're going to hear mike cameron talking about that. some maids put out a statement in his name. the president is finally taking a position about transgender youth. part of this proclamation says efforts to criminalize supportive medical care for transgender kids want to ban transgender killer from playing sports, and to outlaw discussing lgbtq plus corrode our nation's values. white house officials very rarely sing about lawmakers by name but they make an exception

for ron desantis in florida, because he has been public schools from teaching about sexual orientation or gender identity before third grade. >> the president also put out a statement pretty said by signing this bill, the governor has chosen to target some of florida's most vulnerable students and families under the guise of parents rights. >> is the florida has sided with the white house here. there are no rumblings from inside the mouse house that many of the workers supportive of ron desantis and feel pressure to tow the company line. here's one disney worker who is also running for congress as a republican. >> the people of florida voted for a state legislature. these are duly elected members of the florida house of representatives in florida senate who passed this bill appears in each governor. i governor has the backbone to stand up to companies like mine,

disney. and pass this bill. >> the number one issue that voters are concerned about in every recent poll is inflation. in these remarks, the president is going to give today about gas prices and he is reportedly going to say that they will release a million barrels a day from the strategic petroleum reserve to try to bring prices down. they are once again advertising these remarks as a way to reduce the impact of putin's price hike. >> steve: because that is their hashtag, right? >> prices were going up for a long time, and now it's putin's fault. >> steve: you called him on it. you asked whether or not they were going to blame putin for everything before the midterms, and they did not directly answer your question. >> that was two weeks ago, and they are still doing it. >> brian: they did a study about that. only 6% of the public blames vladimir putin's war for the

reason why inflation is so high. gas prices are so high as well. talking to you about what we were just referring to in the president getting involved in the lord culture war. i'm sure he has not read the billowing been briefed correctly about what's in the bill. the president's got to stand behind the podium today paid whatever he decides and say, i think it's really important for kindergartners first second and third graders to talk about their sexuality. my goodness, it is cruel not to. please, tell me, what group appearances for those six education for kindergartners to identify their gender. is there a big clamor for that? >> she said at that age -- she has young children. they need to be focused on playing add creativity and art projects and if they are in school to learn about what's important in school, math, learning to read, all those things, the basics. not be talking about sexual orientation. >> i thought that was a given. >> steve: remember the olden

days when you watch the wonderful world of disney and it would be an hour of family entertainment. now from these leaked videos that were posted on twitter, we know that they've got a hidden agenda and part of the agenda hidden no longer, part of their public woke agenda is the fact that one out -- i think the ceo of the company or president said that going forward, they would like to have half of all the characters be lgbt or racial minorities. all of them. at least 50%. >> are they going to parental notice on the outside of their new movies so that the people who don't want their children to see that all know that this is not an appropriate movie if you are -- if you don't want to your kids that? >> i don't need to go at their agenda. he also said the president -- he says that the republicans are targeting transgender children to stop them from playing sports. is that the idiot's guide to understand what's actually going

on? transgender or transitioning athletes competing against other women obviously, there is a fairness that has women -- dare i say even democratic women upset/girls. >> you got to wonder politically what the research says where the president would be doing this. obviously, it is of interest to part of his base. i know we were talking to 3 miles from a couple of them live down in florida about 20 minutes ago. and they are shocked -- >> they are going to see world now and not disney world. >> they are voting with their feet. >> here is a little bit of their comments regarding disney's criticism of florida's house bill 1557. >> huge mistake. there opposing parents who are their core consumers. the video of their internal meetings were so creepy. they showed people committed to remaking our society and a leftist image. this isn't difficult.

leave the kids alone. they should be indoctrinated by mickey mouse. let there be kids. >> if you can't say that a woman is a man is a man. it you can't greet someone. >> i refuse to give disney my money any longer. we actually deleted the disney plots off our account. that was another direction that we went in. >> she got rid of the streaming service and the extra cable thing and she went to -- >> why is disney getting political? why even saying anything? why don't they say come here to our magical world? watch our beautiful movies that are so creative and wonderful. why do they have to -- >> steve: if their stock price thanks -- >> ainsley: don't they realize 50% of the country are republicans and they love disney, too? >> brian: they transition from boys to girls to jamie's. can we use that in our lives? dreamer, do you know of directions? can we use they were dreaming?

we have to use the word they/them, hey/view? do people have to put their pronouns lapel? >> ainsley: is not the people in florida saying we don't like -- we love -- many of them believe we love everybody. it's just me know want our kindergarten first second and third graders to learn about this. >> steve: disney did not come out in public opposition until -- now they want to undo it. >> brian: a bad walk out in march. more on that perhaps the president with a statement later today from the white house. meanwhile, we've been telling you about fallout over will smith's oscar slap as the academy has now launched disciplinary proceedings against mr. smith from violating their oscar code of conduct. "mr. smith was asked to leave the ceremony, and he refused. the school we also recognize we could have handled the situation differently. >> ainsley: chris rock address

in the attack for the first time to a sold-out audience in boston in the video obtained by "the new york post." >> a bunch of [bleep] about what happened. that became -- i had to, like, a whole show on road. [laughter] this weekend. and i'm still kind of processing what happened. at some point -- [bleep]. >> brian: what do the fans think? lawrence jones was they approach joins is not from boston. hey, lawrence? >> a packed house here at the wilbur theatre here in boston. a lot of labs. the crowd was on fire. they stood in lines wrapped around the building to get into

these sold-out shows. we had the opportunity. what is the reaction to chris rock's performance as well as the will smith will smith controversy? this is what they had to say. >> it was tight. that was chris rock. >> it was great. i enjoyed it. great show. went on to see a legend tonight. it was amazing. >> this show was out of touch in terms of gender norms. and you know, look, i came here for chris rock. it was just way outside of that. >> what did you think about it? >> chris rock was hysterical. didn't get into the whole thing with will smith. >> i was a little bit disappointing didn't bring up the will smith scenario. >> i wish you would've talk about it more. >> doing a stand-up special. >> i would expect it that he would write something nice for it. he would just lay something out.

>> do you think there was the right route to go? he said he was more time to process. >> i can't get in his head. i had to respect his decision. >> to think all the hype that was built up around him made it a better show regardless of the fact that it didn't talk about it. i think he had a better energy. a great interaction with the audience. it was awesome. >> he took some time off to understand his thoughts and he wasn't going to act ignorantly. >> will smith escalated the situation by bringing violence into it. >> guys, it's clear that chris rock was impacted by this. as he was going by the open, it seem like he was emotional. even said you guys are going to make me mist up. referring to him crying. he was back in his element. he felt the energy of the crowd. it's clear that obviously, they wanted him to address the controversy. they wanted to laugh.

he went after the political class. there was no target that was off limits. a true comedian. >> brother didn't answer and said the apology was not good enough. he said some things backstage attributive to them. there was no meeting that he talk about that actually took place at the party. by laying out, i think he's telling his story. he had nothing. and still did -- -- will smith refuses to leave. he goes ahead and tosses to the best documentary category and got on stage. i think every year that goes by, people realize is wrong is right. >> i'm so glad that you mention that. there has been all of these sources talking about there was meetings. there was some statement -- they had buried the hatchet. he essentially said that's not true. he did say that he's going to address this at some time. he wants to do it -- when he has his material together and it's going to be serious.

it's going to be funny. but he didn't want to distract this show that he's been working on for weeks with the content on the controversy of the will smith. but it's clear that he's impacted by this. >> absolutely. also, we won't know for sure for two weeks what happens to will smith when it may take us oscar where they ban him or whatever. so maybe chris rock is working on new material because ultimately this tour will eventually be a new netflix special and the great promotion would be a tune into the netflix special to hear chris rock talk about will smith. >> hollywood is going to be in a difficult position. will smith wields a lot of power in hollywood, especially after this oscar even. so now you have will smith against the comedy community. there is a lot of people in the colony communities saying you are putting us at risk.

is there no joke? this is what we've been telling people on the college campuses for a while. this is why dave chappelle left the stage for ten years and then decided to come back. a lot of comedians have been warning about this. this is boston, guys, for a while. >> that a driver you out of her way. >> they want to get the cause out of the way. >> steve: reporting from the wilbur theatre. >> ainsley: thank you, lawrence. not very good at that. >> brian: i think they want us to do the news. >> tornadoes touching down across the south of the line of severe storms push disease. the storms damaging buildings and leaving thousands of people without power. multiple people are heard after a tornado touched down in arkansas. in tennessee dealing with strong storms as well is a fast spreading wildfire has grown to over 1,000 acres.

bruce willis announcing the career ending diagnosis. the actors suffering from a degenerative brain condition. it appears his ability to comprehend language. the 67-year-old making the announcement on instagram running apart, "with much consideration, bruce is stepping away from a career that is meant so much to him." joe rogan is attacking spot a fight with another watch this. >> if i become something different because it grew bigger, i'll quit. if you get to the point where i can't do it anymore, we have to do it in some sort of weird way where i walk on eggshells, mine my ps and qs, this requires sincerity. without it, they show doesn't have any success. >> ainsley: if rogan does quit this streaming service giant, he will leave the $200 million deal on the table. i guess if that is the case, he just doesn't want to deal with it. that's a lot of money for that.

>> steve: those would have to be significant eggshells. >> brian: we have all walked away from the first $100 million deal. the first one is the hardest. we understand. you have to stand up to your principal and leave 90 million bind. we have straight ahead, lawmakers are still waiting to be briefed on president biden's call with the chinese president. mike turner joins us next with his call for answers. >> ainsley: former bon jovi guitarist will join us with a tribute to the ones who stood their ground as ukrainian defenders rock out to "it's my life." ♪ ♪ at adp, we use data-driven insights to design solutions to help you manage payroll, benefits, and hr today, so you can have more success tomorrow. ♪ one thing leads to another, yeah, yeah ♪

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>> ainsley: back to the fox news alert. the fighting raging on. probably ukrainian cities just two hours after vowing to scale back come back. alex hogan is live on the ground. >> have a chalet on the highly contested area which is on the eastern side of the country. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy said he expects to send his military is ready. >> interpreter: there hasn't been this attack since we have now because russian represents officials. official propagandists. they are openly discussing the possibility of using nuclear weapons against those who don't want to subdue. >> russia promising to pull back from the north near the capital. we have seen attacks in continuing shelling in kiev.

the pentagon says it's only seen about 20% of russian troops repositioning near the north. of 5,000 european officials are announcing that they believe russian president vladimir boudin is misinformed by his advisors about how his military is performing. following the invasion a strategic error as well as an economic catastrophe given the global sanction. much of the world quickly condemned the invasion. china officially has not. russian foreign minister made his first trip there to china since the start of the war. speaking about russians view of the future. >> interpreter: we are going through a serious stage in the history of international relations. together with you and with other like-minded people, we will move towards multipolar, fair and democratic world order. >> the u.s. will send you gain another $500 million in direct budgetary aid. before the house armed services

committee yesterday, republican wisconsin representative present u.s. general todd walters on the effectiveness of the white house's strategy so far in preventing russia's invasion. take a listen. >> would it be fair to say that the tyrants failed in ukraine? >> number one, i would say that nato's solidarity remained remained. nato -- effectively remained. i can't argue with your conclusion. >> president zelenskyy has talked with u.s. president joe biden thanking him again for that new $500 million in support. zelenskyy speaking with world leaders really day after day today alone. he's already thawed with the parliament of australia and the netherlands. >> thank you so much, alex. a top house republican demanding a briefing on phones between president biden and then the president after the call. >> i had a very straightforward

conversation with xi. i made it clear to him that make sure he understood the consequences of him helping russia. >> the house committee ranking member joins us now. good morning, congressman. that call was on march 18th. it was two members. the president said he was clear. there will be consequences if you align with russia. he said that to president xi. why do you want to breathing now? you want a classified briefing. >> the only thing that is clear that whenever this president speaks, he isn't clear as to what he means or what he says. the white house always having to clean up after his recent trip meeting with then nato leaders. i had so many times where they had to clarify his statements, statements that made it more difficult to come to a resolution. as the work continues to rage in russia continues to attack civilians in ukraine for mother's great concern as to what russia and china will be

doing as they continue to move closer together. as you just reported being in china making the statement of a new democratic world order. they are certainly not democratic. this is an authoritarian state meeting with an authoritarian state. we are watching them attack validly elected democratic country. >> are you concerned that something with that on that call? >> we don't know but when president trump had conversations with world leaders, adam schiff and company would go crazy wanting to know. thinking something that nefarious had happened. it's not that we think something nefarious had occurred. we worry about what was said and whether there was additional damage to the relationships with a message. if the president continue to muddle his message when he speaks to world leaders? >> russia is saying is building this democratic world order with china. what exactly does that mean? will they be consequences? >> it certainly is not good for the united states or nato. it is not good for our other

allies. the president needs to stand firm and be strong. that's what we've been concerned about watching his statements and watching his statements concerning russia's actions. they are murderers actions in ukraine. what are his statements that he's been making to china? we want to make certain that this conflict comes to an end, that nato in the united states remain secure. it certainly that russia and china do not continue to threaten their neighbors. >> congressman turner from the great state of ohio. great to see you. still ahead, a gang member with a lengthy criminal record including dragging an nypd detective via a stolen car is back on the streets once again. why our next guest is urging leaders to support the victims of crime with harsher sentencing. s. but she didn't know what was right for her. no. nope. no way. but then helen went from no to know. with freestyle libre 2, now she knows what activity helps lower her glucose.

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>> listen to this, a gang member with a long criminal history including dragging a new york city police department living in paralyzed is free once again after another similar arrest. justin was in court this week after leading cops on a chaise in a stolen car while being out on bail for a separate car

chaise. president paul joins us right now. good morning to you. >> good morning, sir. >> steve: what happened to the officer? >> he had stopped this individual, justin, and a stolen car. while he had the car stopped, he turned the wheel towards the direction of the detective and took off and the detectives clothes hooked onto the car and he dragged this poor detective for numerous blocks causing him to have permanent brain damage. he is now confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. >> steve: what kind of a sentence to justin get? >> a very small sentence, a couple of years because he was a juvenile at the time. this individual continues to commit crimes, has no regard for the law, for alive, or for a property of people. >> steve: unbelievable.

it's hard for people to get their head around, here's a guy that essentially ended the functional life of the detective. here is his wife just a couple of months ago talking about how even though he is so permanently disabled, he is a fighter. >> he is a fighter. he is still fighting. when your husband is a police officer, you always know that something bad can happen. so it is at that point it was more -- >> steve: he is paralyzed. his daughter will only know because she was three when this happened. it will only know her father for the rest of your life in a wheelchair. >> that's correct. the detective and his beautiful wife, they came here from haiti and live the american dream. he became a detective. she became a very highly regarded nurse. had a child in their lives were

shattered by one individual, i should spend the rest of his life in jail for the action that he did on that day. >> steve: you know here in new york, it's really hard to keep somebody in jail unless they kill somebody. he just about killed him but didn't. >> eventually, this individual will. he doesn't learn his lesson. >> steve: unbelievable. >> he continues to commit crimes. he has no regard for life for people's property. and he needs to be behind bars. >> steve: a couple of years ago, how many detectives that you have? >> we had 72 detectives. now we are down to 5200 detectives. and now we are doing much more investigative duties. we are doing counterterrorism duties. we are doing emergency service duties. we have detectives all over the world doing counterterrorism duties as well. >> steve: it would be so much easier if you guys kept somebody who does something this awful, a

judge keeps him in jail. i know it's frustrating for you guys. because you do your job and then it is like a revolving door. >> the people in albany that enacted these bail reforming laws know that the laws aren't working. as a direct correlation to the uptick in crime shooting violence. people will be safer in the city. >> steve: we thank you very much for joining us. all right, 25 minutes before that's out of the opiate lightning lighting up last night sky. severe weather. adam is tracking the storm. let's hear from him but first, tom brady speaks out after bruce areas move to the front office. everybody's saying and what clay travis thinks coming up next. >> tech: does your windshield have a crack? trust safelite. >> tech vo: this customer had auto glass damage, but he was busy working from home... ...so he scheduled with safelite in just a few clicks.

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>> steve: bruce areas are stepping down. he is no longer the coach of the tampa bay buccaneers two years after winning the super bowl revealing he will move into a front office position. it was responsible for bringing tom brando to tamp up avoid super bowl win last year. and while responding saying this. you are an incredible man and coach and it was a privilege to play for you. is that really the story? that's bring in clay travis to react. what's really going on here? bob bowles takes over. he's got a lot of respect in the league but i did terrible with the jets in terms of win-loss record. i think there is a subplot here that he was not getting along with the coach? >> it feels like there has to be something more going on here. i understand that everybody's trying to play nice as we speak. contemplate where we've been so far in the past couple of months with tampa bay. brady sort of unexpectedly announces his retirement. then almost immediately starts talking about how he didn't really want to retire.

he comes back out of retirement. they just had a lead coach meeting back in florida. bruce areas poses for the photo with all the other 31 nfl coaches and then, boom, he suddenly announces that he is retiring. it toppled gets elevated. none of it adds up. there has to be some sort of behind-the-scenes friction going on. i understand everybody's trying to put a good public face going forward. but this feels in some level that there has to be an element of discord. even though todd bowles elevation doesn't make a lot of sense as you mentioned. he hasn't been widely successful. he just god of 5-year head coaching extension now. he had two years left on his defensive coordinator deal. byron left which is still out there and has a good relationship. it was that he wasn't elevated. so all of this it seems a little bit strange, the drama and

tampa bay. they brought back a lot of their free agents. the nmc as you know is a total mess right now. why aren't many accomplished quarterbacks. most of the talent has moved on to the afc. it feels like they're still in other shoe to drop of some form or fashion here before we get the full story. >> yesterday, we found out that every team has to add a minority or woman as an offensive coach. they want -- does the league want a minority head coach? could not have forced the hand here? >> i think that certainly is a goal of the nfl to have a more diverse head coaching ranks and coaching ranks in general. it doesn't make sense that bruce arians who won a super bowl is going to be the guy who gets forced out in that respect. there is way fewer, way more guys who are less accomplished right now in the nfl then bruce arians. he was aging. i think he likes the idea of his staff being elevated underneath him. again, combining it with the

awkwardness surrounding brady's retirement and how quickly he came back and how soon after brady comes back bruce arians steps down. it feels like there's certainly some behind-the-scenes machination no matter what is being said publicly that went into this in general. >> steve: do you want to give this exclusive report on that? >> i don't know if you saw this yet. and look like a story you guys get beyond. colin kaepernick is the honorary spring captain for the university of michigan this year. jim harbaugh was his goat at the san francisco 49ers. he actually criticized his protest. this is going to i think be a point of contention for many michigan wolverine fans, particularly because he looked like he wanted to go to the nfl last year. now he's back. this feels like a fairly noticeable off-season story line for the university of michigan. >> it looks like he's making

some waves. always great to talk to you. good luck today on the radio show. >> i appreciate it. you too. >> here is actually right over there to tell us the news. >> even the transportation security administration is going well. the agency announcing plans to implement gender-neutral screening at its airport checkpoints. american travelers will soon be able to have gender-neutral passports. the state department says people will be able to mark the gender section with an x starting next month. a crowd of more than 100 people show up for the funeral of an 83-year-old vietnam war veteran who died without any family to lay them to rest. a well deregulated soldier longtime phoenix -- died last year. he didn't leave a family of his own behind. his community did not leave him behind. most of the people who turned out for the service did not even know him. he was laid to rest with full military honors.

those are your headlines. >> brian: i would like to check in with adam. he's going to tell us the weather. >> good morning. you will enjoy it when you step outside here and another 45 minutes or so because it is gorgeous out here on the east coast. what are we waiting for? a big line of storms. it's going to be warmer in front of the line of storms back behind it feeling a little bit more wintery. severe weather sweeping across portions of the florida panhandle in front of this entire line there's going to be potential for severe weather today perch and watch is in place in the southern georgia where the ingredients are there. severe weather possible, specifically in the afternoon when you get into the carolinas running north here in washington, d.c., and eventually new york goes. does he or whether headlines for now. >> meanwhile, the story straight ahead. the ukrainians blasting the bon jovi head, "it's my life" as they defend their livelihoods and their nation.

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>> the grammy awards are said to pay tribute to taylor hawkins this sunday after the drummers death at age 50 in columbia. it shocked the world last week. >> joining us now to remember the legendary drummer is former bon jovi guitarist and friend of ours so richie sambora. good morning, richie. we're so sorry for your loss. you are really good friends with him. >> you know, they are just the legendary band. it is such a shame obviously, because sometimes the perils of being a rock 'n' roll business can kill you. i was a lucky guy that i just didn't like any of that.

he was a great guy. an amazingly talented man. they were one of the most successful bands in the world for a very long time. and, you know, we find ourselves on vacation together just crossing paths or stuff like that. you know, they were just a bunch of guys, man. and it's going to be a loss. you don't even know. it's kind of beyond words really. >> steve: they will have a tribute to him. >> and the talent. >> there will be attributed at at the grammys. scheduled to perform before this happened and now it's going to be all about him. as in, richie, all about you. two weeks ago -- >> all about me. >> this booking today. >> that's the amazing thing about in my position sometimes. it is very uncomfortable because it's all about me sometimes. that's part of being successful.

>> ainsley know that feeling. a couple of weeks ago, the video came out where these people in ukraine where backing up sandbags to protect their city from the russians. over there listening to? they were listening to a song that you and jon bon jovi wrote. "it's my life." >> also max martin, a good friend of mine. >> steve: how did that make you feel? >> here's the thing. it's a song that when he wrote two years ago that was a massive head because it just made everybody feel good. and when it becomes a theme of, like, a country, that is, like, fighting and basically my country. there's a border right here. i am full on. right away here is ukraine.

i could take a step that way. i'm ukraine. it saddened me, you know, now that their lifestyle is not good to begin with. you know. it's just -- i mean, it's inhumane. >> steve: what's been going on. what's been going on. >> brian: to see that you are in poland, one generation to a second generation here in america. you see poland taken about a million people from the ukrainians. that really hits over you. >> ainsley: they took the mill. i think it is 4.5 million refugees right now. 6.5 billion people in the country displaced because they are annihilating it. i don't know. i'm not -- i don't want to see anybody get killed. it's a bit excessive. >> ainsley: i know a lady. i was talking to her. her grandparents were polish. they lived with you and your

childhood home growing up. she said if you go to the train station in poland, family there have signed found out that said i will take three. i will take 4. she says she doesn't know anyone that is not taken in the family. >> you know what? because in that area of the world when the slavic area of the world, i don't know exactly what you called it, southern russia, slavic. everybody looks the same. you know what i was watching the tv, the russian guys don't know who it issued because they look like them. they were young guys. i don't think they knew why they were actually fighting. in their hearts -- they didn't want to kill people. especially innocent people, children. grandmother's spirit hospitals. are sick. it's kind of -- are we ready for a transition in this world right now, for god's sakes?

people said -- it has to be stopped somehow. i mean, how? it could result in, you know, world war iii. we don't want that. >> ainsley: we were on "fox & friends" years together at the kentucky derby. here we are. it was so cold out there. i know i was grabbing on to you the entire time. i'm so sorry. so cold. i was wearing a coat after i was off the air. >> don't worry, i enjoyed it. no offense to whoever you are going out with them in america. i enjoyed it very much. >> ainsley: here is your friend, thank you, richie. you are smart and i admire you and love your music. i was here friend, terry. i know you are going back this year. you're going to take back in the barn and stable of the brown derby party gala and all the money goes for diabetes research which is wonderful. tell us about that.

>> we are going to blow it up this year because we weren't able to do it for the last few years. i did it for about seven years before that. getting it ready. it's going to be really, really good. you know, obviously -- for sure, you know. >> ainsley: tom brady is going to be there. >> steve: thank you very much. >> ainsley: come out of retirement like tom brady did. >> steve: richie sambora joining us. he's not retired. centrum multigummies aren't just great tasting... they're power-packed vitamins... that help unleash your energy. loaded with b vitamins... ...and other key essential nutrients... ...it's a tasty way to conquer your day. try centrum multi gummies. now with a new look. ♪

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>> well, three hours all done. going to do it again tomorrow. >> see you on radio. >> bill: thank you, good morning. russia as invasion of ukraine entering six weeks today. reports putin is changing strategy. what would it become if that's true? i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: you didn't tell people who you are. bill hemmer. maybe you don't need an introduction. >> bill: what is your middle name? >> dana: marie. if i want to get in trouble later today. >> bill: you're dmp and i'm wgh. george is the g.