>> todd: a fox news alert, british inteleshows russian troops are on the suburbs of kyiv in the days ahead as the kremlin appears to be ramping up the propaganda campaign. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier. president biden is sharing new details on current state of the kremlin. listen. >> president biden: problem we're face withing gas prices has two roots. first the pandemic. when covid struck demand for oil plummeted. second is vladamir putin. the price hike is hitting americans at the pump. >> todd: griff jenkins live on the ground in lviv with more.

griff. >> griff: todd and ashley, good morning. it is noon in lviv and ukraine is bracing for renewed attacks as they head into the weekend with russia showing no signs of pulling back, pounding kyiv with air assaults. russian jets have flown over the last 24 hours. nato secretary general stoltenberg had this assessment of the battle. >> russia has repeatedly lied about intention, can only judge russia on action, not on its words. russia maintains pressure on kyiv and other cities. we can expect additional offensive actions bringing even more suffering. >> griff: fierce battling in the kyiv suburb of irpin is raging, territory liberated just days

ago. most intense fighting continues in the city of mariupol, cut off from the rest of the world without food, water or electricity. this morning, ukrainian officials say russian forces mroked 45 red cross buses trying to go in to evacuate civilians. the pentagon confirms russian forces fled the chernobyl nuclear plant, cannot confirm if it is due to poisoning. >> it is a piece of larger effort to refit and resupply and not necessarily done because of health hazards or some sort of emergency or crisis at chernobyl. >> griff: meanwhile, there are indications there may be fractures inside putin's inner circle over the war, the international crisis group saying, "some think russia should be realistic about goals and resources, they would never

say this in public, if you read carefully statements and talk to people, you can see it." this as the state department warning officials in ukraine and russia singling out u.s. citizens and urging them to leave both countries immediately. todd and ashley, the peace talks are set to resume today virtually, although there are low expectations of any significant progress being made. todd and ashley. >> todd: griff, there is a report, be clear this is report coming from russians that ukraine struck a fuel depot there on russian soil. is there concern that as the russian say they are dialing back and doing opposite in practice russians could use events to continue horrific acts in ukraine? >> griff: it is worth noting, todd, experts have been warning

of false flag operation out of russia from the beginning. you are right, you see the video of the helicopter attacks, the reports are coming from russia state media citing the governor. russia officials are not confirming this, they are concerned this is pretext or provocation russia could use to escalate the assault on ukraine. we are treating this obviously carefully, digging hard into it, so far there is no confirmation from anyone other than russian sources as to this attack showing helicopter gun ships attack whatting is fuel depot with the building burning at night. todd. >> ashley: thanks, griff. fox news alert. release of one million barrels of oil per day from america's strategic reserves.

>> todd: alexandria hoff is live with the details. >> one key measure rose 5.4% last month accounting for food and energy, personal consumption price index jumped to the highest in four decades. president biden feels "our economic strategy has worked," and in a tweet pointed to employment gains and deficit reduction. soaring gas prices, white house branded the issue putin's price hike, administration pointing at the war in ukraine and covid-19. way to reduce prices president biden did announce largely unprecedented release of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve, but spoke with little confidence on if it will help. >> president biden: my guess is, we will see it continue to come down, but how far down, i don't think anyone can tell and i'm talking matter of days and

weeks. it is hard to tell. >> petroleum reserve release will take place over next six months, one billion barrels per day. president biden called it a war-time bridge to increase domestic oil production. senator lindsey graham weighed in with this. >> make democrats vote on energy independence for our economy, reduce reliance on foreign oil, that is wa we need to do, go on offense if we hit house and senate with an agenda that makes sense. >> march jobs report will be released later today. >> todd: alexandria hoff, thank you. last hour we spoke to laid off worker neil crabtree who says the president's oil strategy is short-sighted and bad for america. >> reserve was meant to fight off things like disruption and supply from the war, if we go to taking out of that for next six

months could get the reserve down to level it doesn't mean anything. it is hard administration taking no blame for what is going on, i would like to congratulate the president, he is now the first president to have to tap this reserve, not once, but twice in less than a year's time. >> todd: national gas price average is $4.22 per gallon according to triple a. >> ashley: homes destroyed after a tornado ravages the south, in mississippi, louisiana, tennessee, alabama and florida. >> todd: 150,000 homes and businesses from gulf coast to great lakes lost power. that storm marking all-time high for tornados in the month of march. meteorologist adam has more. >> i know you heard the storm system is moving through last night. i can stick my neck out, no snout out, whatever, i can say that is behind us. that line of

storms off the coast. thunderstorms heavy rain and lightning, even as farum to the northeast here. backside, there is rain lingering, initial line of storms is cleared out. this was a true cold front. if you are on the backside of this, further back, temperatures are drop nothing a big way down to freezing in chicago and real cold air in the upper midwest. it's still warm in the northeast, 12 degrees warmer than it was yesterday in new york city. but pittsburgh, 26 degrees colder issue 28 degrees colder in west virginia and as far back to detroit, 30 degrees colder this morning. cold air back behind this, you start to see winter warnings again, frost and freeze warnings far south toward arkansas and portions of mississippi, really throughout the ohio river valley. cold air funnel nothing behind this. if you are an area that lost power and it is cold, that

obviously isn't fun for you early this morning. >> ashley: it will not be fun when people are used to 60 degrees and you are 27 or 30 degrees colder. >> todd: nose over snout, it is a nose, we have a whole new set of issues we have to talk about. thank you. to the crisis at the southern border, democrats sounding alarm over president biden ending 42. democrat senator kyrsten sinema, manchin have broken with biden saying he has no alternative plan in place to stop the flow of migrants. several mayors, texas border towns expressing frustration with total lack of coordination admitting there would be influx of border crossers. >> ashley: oscar producer says

lapd was on site ready to arrest will smith after he slapped chris rock on stage. >> they said, we gallon get him, we are prepared, cupress charges, we can arrest him. chris was, he was very dismissive of those options. he was like, no, i'm fine. no, no, no. >> ashley: you heard that, new reports accuse the academy of lying about asking smith to leave, tmz says producer told smith, we don't want you to leave. oops. family of a missing florida mom desperate for answers, the father of her four year old little girl was last to see her. >> todd: the family says the story he gave them is not adding, they join us next. of listerine. he's feeling it. yep, them too. it's an invigorating rush... ...zapping millions of germs in seconds.

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sam, thanks for being with us this morning. what is the search like now? are you seeing light at the end of the tunnel with it? >> we are. this is something that most of us have never done before and pray that we will never have to do again. we've been very, very fortunate with the influx of volunteers that have showed up to help find cassie carli and bring her home. we have prior military, prior law enforcement and so many people represented that have amazing training and experience in ark cysting and locating a person. >> ashley: what was the last communication like between you and cassie? >> the last messages exchanged between cassie and i were -- okay.

>> ashley: sam, can you hear me? >> yes. >> ashley: what were your last communications with cassie like before she disappeared? >> yes, my last communications with cassie were on friday. we were texting as usual just general day-to-day things and the -- she had, she was excited about starting a new job. she had shared a photo with me of her with her new employment badge and just really excited about the changes that were happen nothing her life. she had finally gotten order where marcus was going to be ordered to pay child support that was in arrears for nearly a year. this made her very nervous and one of the last text message she sent to me, that i have submitted to santa rosa county

sheriff department was, i think i need to buy a gun. i said, cassie are you afraid? cassie always said if anything ever happens to me, it was marcusshe was truly afraid. >> ashley: is the relationship with marcus, her daughter's father and ex-boyfriend, what was the relationship like, was it ever cordial? >> never. marcus, never been cordial. >> ashley: sam, we have carli sister. so just to get back up on speed here, what is the search going like with for your sister right now? >> so far we have all the parties, sam, i'm grateful for

her, our family for organizing that. we do know that saylor is well, but she's still in his custody and she's not safe until she is back home with us, we are working on that and filing all the paperwork we need to do and trying to bring cassie home. >> ashley: what do you think happened to cassie? >> i just know that he has something to do with this, she would never disappear on her own. i believe he has some coerced her in some way using possibly saylor as a ploy or something. she would never just disappear on her own ever. >> ashley: what was the last thing she said to you, what was the last communication? >> last communication was saturday around 8 p.m. she was excited, she got an amazon package she had been

waiting on. i told her, it looks good, has good reviews, i hope it works. she had a great day, looking forward to getting saylor the next day. >> ashley: if you have information on cassie carli's whereabouts, please call santa rosa sheriff's office at 983-1190. sam porter and reann, thank you, good luck with the search, we're praying for you. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> ashley: the white house is -- president biden's claim that his son hunter's business dealings are by the book. brett tolman thinks hunter should be indicted. he will explain why next. my a1c stayed here, it needed to be here. ruby's a1c is down with rybelsus®. my a1c wasn't at goal, now i'm down with rybelsus®.

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encouraging gender reassignment surgery for minors. the president release thanksgiving video message. >> to parents of transgender children, keep them safe and healthy. for any transgender american struggling, please know, you are not alone. to parents and children alike, please ask for help and know this, you are sobrave, you belong and we have your back. >> todd: biden administration signalling they would fight republican laws which limit transgender athletes from compete nothing sports. did you hear this, vice president kamala harris stumbling through yet another speech. >> vice president harris: we will -- jamaica in covid recovery by assist nothing terms of recovery effort in jamaica that have been essential to i believe what is necessary. [laughter]

>> ashley: joe concha is here to help us make sense of it. none of this makes sense and makes me wonder if she is competent enough if she can't put a sentence together. what is going on, joe, this is concerning? >> joe: guys, that is what is so odd and crap-testic to watch about this, you got to think about where we were with kamala harris three or four years ago. she only became a presidential candidate because of the way she performed during the brett kavanaugh hearings in terms of her ability to articulate an argument. i'm not defending the way she treated brett kavanaugh, it was without class and deplorable. many in the media loved it, for obvious reasons, as did twitter and she is off and running. to see a former prosecutor, attorney general not to be able to put together coherent sentences and i went back and read that thing four times and

can't get my head around it. the porch light is on, no one is home or she is not preparing, prep is key, you do it everyday. if you are in front of an audience, you can't wing it if you are her, she doesn't have the talent to do it. and if joe biden gets wiped out in the midterm, it is impossible to see how kamala harris will be chosen to go ahead as the nominee against whoever runs, donald trump or ron desantis. >> todd: i thought this was a case of the yips, it seems like a character trait. whoopi goldberg going off on her cohost for calling out the hollywood elite. listen. >> it was an assault. >> they gave him a standing ovation, some people feel hollywood elite are hypocrites. >> the good stuff everybody tries to do and it pisses me off when people start to talk about

people who work in hollywood. >> todd: joe, isn't she so defensive because she knows it's true? >> joe: yeah, right. more passionate you get in that regard, that means you are on the losing side of an argument. it is amazing that the person who said holocaust wasn't a race thing and got to keep her job doesn't believe there is elitism. you can hit a guy on national television without warning and not get removed or arrested as will smith should have been from the event it happened at and win an award at the event not long after. hollywood has certain rules, had leo flies to paris to collect an award and flies back, people have certain perception these folks are elite, guys. >> ashley: he got an award and standing ovation, what does that

tell you about how out of touch hollywood is. >> joe: that is the thing, no one knew how to handle this when it happened. i would think hollywood, when they say they don't condone violence, i imagine that is how everyone feels. to give a standing ovation to the guy who hit another guy, incredible. chris rock hasn't said anything, isn't that something? >> ashley: nicole kidman's reaction is almost as shocking as chris rock's. >> todd: rock is playing this perfectly, getting the world on his side. joe concha has the world on his side everyday. we love him. joe, thanks. here is something we don't tell you everyday, liberal media calling out aoc. former msnbc host tells the congresswoman to practice what she preaches, we will show you the twitter that followed. >> ashley: and disney repealing the rights bill.

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be exactly what president biden wants, a very liberal supreme court justice. >> ashley: senator lindsey graham supported jackson in the past, approving her a year ago, but says things have changed. >> my decision is based upon her record of judicial activism, methodology and i believe judge jackson will not be deterred by the plain meaning of the law when it comes to liberal causes. i know why judge jackson was the favorite of radical left and i will vote now. >> ashley: final confirmation vote for jackson is expected monday. >> todd: federal investigation into hunter biden, demanding white house turn over documents regarding overseas business dealings. "if russian government is attempting to exploit hunter biden's connection with his

father, the american people deserve to know it," and brett tolman is executive director of right on crime. he joins us now. based upon what you have seen, why do you say hunter biden should be indicted? >> brett: if it were anybody else, they would already be indicted. can you imagine if content of this laptop applied to donald trump jr. or somebody else on the mrit -- political right as opposed to hunter biden at the time. the testimony of boblinsky outlines multiple individuals hiding income they were receiveing from ukraine and possibly china and distribute that money without the government knowing it and avoid taxes on it. all that is justifying search warrants, justifying criminal charges and could have been brought months ago. >> todd: who else should be indicted in this? >> brett: from boblinsky's

testimony, a business partner of hunter biden, along with contents of several e-mails you have possibility jill biden, joe biden, the uncle, hunter biden and various others that facilitated their ability to take money from countries, millions of dollars, todd, and be able to hide that from the government and hide what they were buy withing that money, which we're afraid to see maybe access given to the vice president at the time. >> todd: to follow-up, would you go after president biden? >> brett: i would be issuing upon months ago, have issued search warrants, i would have requested fisa warrants to uncover what was happen withing china. i would have put together a team of people. i know u.s. attorneys are well meaning and u.s. attorney of delaware, for example, had this case for a long time. anybody else in this country, we

would have seen the indictments probably before the election. >> todd: the white house denying all this, listen to what they said yesterday. >> during the last presidential debate, then vice president biden was asked if there was anything inappropriate or unethical about his son's relationship, business dealings with china and/or ukraine. the president said nothing was unethical. >> we stand by the president's comment and i point you to reporting on, that referenced statements we gave to the "washington post," who worked on this story. i don't speak for hunter biden, not more i can say on that. >> todd: fast-forward to a jury, you are in charge, you are delivering your opening statement, what is thesis of your case, brett? president biden the jury needs to know the full context of what hunter biden was doing and who he was doing it for and i would be articulating it is not about one individual, it is about an

individual that has ability to put a power sxfl influential person in this country, his father, next to and with other foreign nationals that want something from the government. that is a classic pay to play scheme giving them access to the highest level of our government. we should be outraged, but a jury should be motivated and returning indictments against at least hunter biden and perhaps his father and others. >> todd: the white house is standing firm in denial of this, setting up clash for the entire country and world to see. brett tolman, your organization is right on crime, i believe it is right on crime, that would be awkward. it is right on crime. >> todd: last week president biden said his economic --

40-year high which means it will cost you even more to put dinner on the table. cheryl casone is next. >> ashley: and lawrence jones talks to nypd police officer who will explain why he feels like the city has turned on him.

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>> ashley: key inflation gauge hitting a 40-year high, soaring, put president biden refuses to accept blame after declaring his economy is working. >> todd: if he could blame cheryl casone, he would. who know fist he has, he may have. >> cheryl: my brother still plames me for things wrong in her house and i've been out for a long time. good morning. inflation rearing its ugly head. federal reserve says a key number hit a 40-year high. when you strip out food and energy, core pce, what the fed likes to focus on, the number was 5.4%. president biden says the economy is strong. look at predictions for prices of chicken, beef and pork.

evercore issuing protein inflation note. they say chicken will be 70% more expensive in first half of 2022 than in 2021. these are same meat administrators biden is going after saying they are price gougers. >> todd: we will call this the ashley strohmier inflation, i have never seen anybody eat more protein, that will kill you. >> cheryl: protein can be good. >> ashley: not at those prices, they are not. and governor desantis is pushing back against disney. >> cheryl: weigh nothing on this idea to remove disney self-governing status in the wake of the company's opposition to a new parent's right law. look. >> what has happened, a lot of special privileges are not justifiable, but because disney held so much sway, they were able to sustain a lot of special treatment over the years.

>> cheryl: he's reporting about a state law that allows walt diz nie world to govern itself, one employee says many at disney support this new law. >> i don't speak for walt disney company and walt disney company doesn't speak for me. we are lucky to have someone like governor desantis that is speaking for us. >> cheryl: this is interesting, disney is, i believe, the largest employer in the state of florida, we'll see if the battle heats up. >> todd: fascinating to watch. a phrase i've never said on this show, aoc not progressive enough. >> cheryl: i'm surprised, as well. this is crazy. this progressive journalist calling aoc out for going to the met gala last summer but not amazon ruinion rally. crystal ball said this, you left them high and dry. these are your constituents and

you couldn't be bothered to show up until they are on the cusp of victory. aoc saying, security was an issue, as well. 2021 included high level threats on my life. ball said this, hysterical, no security concerns at the met gal? wow. punch, punch. really quick here, as local new yorker, as well, manhattan, shootings and crimes are happen nothing bronx and you never hear her talk about it, like ever. >> todd: ever. >> cheryl: she's focusod her dc career, she doesn't care about new york anymore. >> todd: like lightfoot has 65 private security in addition to her private security detail. unbelievable. cheryl casone, thank you. >> cheryl: have a great weekend, you are probably working. >> todd: every weekend, on a wheel. pennsylvania judge moving five out of nine school board members

from office after they ignored a petition filed that said they had no right to force masks on their kids. the mom who filed that petition joined us earlier. >> we are looking for people that live in our community that are going to put students, parents and even teachers first and not the political agenda of groups like teachers union. >> todd: group of parents are vetting people for the positions. crime is up, but in new york numbers are worse. crime reports are up 40% compared to sampson time as lasts year n. february, 60% and based on early march reports, manch is following that trend. >> ashley: lawrence jones spent the day with a police officer who blames crime on anti-police sentiment. take a look. >> at the 44th precinct, this is

where it all started. >> this is where it started in 1991. this was pretty violent back then. first year precinct covered 1.6 square miles and 85 homicides, robberies was common place and we would routinely hear gunshots all night long. >> how did you clean it up? what was it about that moment from leadership perspective and policing perspective that changed the community? >> the public got sick of the crime. the media was outraged, the public was outraged. the mayor pushed through the safe streets, safe city program, which brought money to hire 6000 cops in like four years. >> how many cops were in your precinct back then compared to now? >> staff suggest definitely not close to what it used to be. >> overall crime, just in this

precinct alone, is up 92%? >> yes. >> what happened? >> just a lack of will on the part of leadership of the city. they don't want police to do their job anymore. >> talk about anti-police sentiment going on. now you have cops actually being shot at, targeted. you experienced this when you were on the force, as well. >> yes, unfortunately, i did. tragically, during a three-year period, 1994 to 1997, work thanksgiving area, i had misfortune to respond to three police officers being shot and killed in line of duty. gilles, carrington and shawn mcdonald was a friend of mine. >> is there similarity from how cops were starting to being treated during the high-crime area in time to how it is right now? >> i have to be honest, as far as the way the public treats

police officers, it's worse now. if you think social media and media itself, anti-police rhetoric, over and over again, calling us murderers and racists and everything else, if you don't think that doesn't lead to violence, you're in denial. look at this neighborhood. rent probably paying $7000. >> you have guy, pulls gun on his girlfriend, police do their job, try to get a search warrant. the da denies it. same guy, same gun and kills someone. >> yes. it seems the district attorneys want to do nevering their power to not enforce the law. >> i know you are tired of these laws, especially the ones from the new da. we are not safe anymore. >> i can't do this interview in harlem and not talk about the two officers who were killed for

what some say was routine domestic violence, there is no routine domestic violence. >> no, probably the most dangerous calls we go on, they are unpredictable. i ran a street narcotics enforcement unit. >> now enforcement unit is back. what changed? >> what changed is violence in the city. it is going back to where people are afraid to walk down the street. gunfire is common again. >> the seventh police officer shot this year. >> snot our city. >> man steps forward and starts firing. >> how bad tell get? >> unless we have shift of attitude by the district attorney's office and by the people of new york, it is not going to change, it will take the will of the people of new york. it will take the city council to back the police commissioner's

ideas. it will take the people of the city to back the cops. >> ashley: we reached out to manhattan d bragg, this is his number one priorities, we'll work closely with law enforcement partners and use every tool at our disposal to deliver true public safety? every neighborhood. hear more from lawrence's interview on "fox and friends first." >> colin: cnn gas expert says gas prices aren't the problem, we're the problem. >> the key to reducing economic exposure to high gasoline and diesel prices, simply use less gasoline and diesel. attack this problem, not from supply side, from demand side. >> todd: you can't drive a tesla, use less gas, right? lara trump reacts to that sound

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our prices are rising because of putin's actions. it the bottom line is we need to have more oil supply right now. we can take advantage of the next jerks of electric vehicles the typical driver will save $80 a month from not having to pay gas from the pump. >> president biden taking zero blame for america's energy crisis as he is set to release 1 million barrels of oil per day from our strategic reserves. >> todd: joining us now fox news contributor lara trump. was this a move to bring down gas price its as the biden administration said or a move to bring down the chances that democrats just get walloped in the midterms? >> >> i'm going with the latter on. that was the strategic petroleum reserve is mepght to be used if there is a natural disaster. if god forbid it finds usself in

a war. is not supposed to be used as a political tool. you just said it. that's what can it feels like joe biden is doing right now. we have plenty of oil that we could be using here in america. he has just got to go back on some really bad decisions that he initially made as president and we know he doesn't want to do it. what's his solution in the meantime? isn't it convenient that it six months from now that this plan to release a million barrels a day runs out. well, what happens about seven months from now? it's the mid term elections. every democrat out there knows they are in a horrible position. they have failed the american people every single day since joe biden took the oath of office and americans feel it they feel it especially when they go to the gas pump so, yes, the goal here is to try to bring down the prices and not to trick americans into saying maybe this isn't that bad after all. but i wonder what people like china are saying, russia? iran? what are our adversaries saying

when they look how dumb a decision this is. what if we actually needed this what if we found ourselves in a position where we needed to use this for war or natural disasters now it will be at least lessened because of joe biden's decision. but, of course, we can only rely on joe biden to make political decisions for optics for himself. >> ashley: segway into this a cnn expert has this advice for americans. listen. >> the key to reducing our economic exposure to high gasoline and diesel prices is to simply use less gasoline and diesel. attack this problem not from the supply side but rather from the demand side. >> ashley: even the cnn host was like hmmm i don't know. it doesn't make much sense. does it make sense to you, laura? >> why didn't we just think of that in the first place? of course. figure it out we just use less. >> we have easy, right? of course this is ridiculous. by the way, i'm going to throw

this out there maybe every democrat running in the midterms should hitch themselves to this idea. i would love to see how that plays out for you. look. we use gas and oil for every aspect of our lives as americans. we use it every single day to heat our homes, cook our food, obviously for our cars. this is something that could be fixed. that could be a solution. i just said we have got plenty of it here in america that we could produce ourselves and we can bring down these prices but our president has made horrible decisions and now we have found ourselves in this place. obviously, we're not just going to stop using oil and gas. we can't just lessen our use of it. but, you know, leave it up to the cnn commentators. bless their hearts is all i'll say. >> todd: same city diverls who think it is the real world. unfortunately it is not. unfortunately we don't have time to get into the florida ron desantis kids any controversy. my guess is we will get to do

that lisa is a booth and tyrus on the big saturday and big sunday shows. looking forward to being with you on that 5:30 eastern. we'll have a good time my friend. >> we will. looking forward to it myself. see you then. >> todd: see you in a few days or a few hours. >> ashley: and "fox & friends" starts right now. thanks for joining us. have a good weekend. >> todd: bye-bye. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> brian: is that real? it looks like a painting that i would pay a lot of money for until i see some movement, if you are in charlotte, north carolina blink the l