casualty but americans need to see justice. >> so great to have you here thank you for being with us we will see you next sunday on "the next revolution" >> todd: a fox news alert, president biden speaking alongside world leaders about a new endo specific trade agreement. earlier this morning, the president shrugged off concerns of a u.s. recession as american struggle with the price of gas, food, and of course, the baby food shortage. >> rn gdp will grow faster than china for the first time in 40 years. does that mean we don't have problems? we do. but when it comes to the gas prices, we are going through an

a credible transition taking place that god willing when it is over we will be stronger in the world will be stronger and less reliable on fossil fuels when this is over. this is going to be a hole. this is going to take some time. >> there is a recession in the united states that is inevitable? >> no. >> todd: you are watching "fox & friends first" on monday morning, i'm todd piro. >> carley: and i'm griff jenkins and for carley shimkus. someone who covers the white house, a lot of news being made overseas right now that sound bite and the president saying he does not believe the recession is inevitable and it something that is in stark contrast with almost all economists from both sides of the aisle right now. why? gas prices have never been this high most of the walking adult lives. we said inflation is a 40 year high. when the president took over, the inflation rate was just

under 1.5%. now, it is over 8%. and these gas prices before we head into memorial day weekend absolutely crushing americans. the white house, todd consistently a three-headed bogeyman and they blame covid, putin and greedy corporations. but the american people poll after poll are not buying that so these comments now, the president saying we will come out of this stronger than when we are going into it, i'm not sure anybody agrees with that, todd. >> todd: griff, and this dovetails all weekend long coming out of the white house, representing the white house on the sunday shows over the weekend and this notion joe biden also said it today. this notion of we are doing the best out of everybody in the world. okay, great. does the woman who's trying to put formula in her baby's mouth care about that that we are the best of the worst? does that woman care when she's going to the gas station to try

to fill up her tank? does the average parent care when we go to get food? no, they do not care that we are the best of the worst beer they are upset because they can afford what they could have afford six months to a year ago. that shows how this white house is wildly out of touch. you heard the president mention they also need tax corporation in that statement that you just made a few moments ago on air talking about the climate. the average american isn't focused on that right now. they want to get out of this cycle that we are in where the economy is tanking and the stock market, 401(k)s thinking. that is what they are concerned about. they are not concerned about the issues president biden spoke about. to have the white house come up all weekend long and champion, look, "we are best in the world," that is not good enough. in the meantime, another big take away out of this, griff, the president making headlines with this comment particularly

military action when it comes to taiwan, listen. >> we agree with one china policy. we signed on to it and all of the tenant agreements made from there. but the idea that it could be taken by force, just taken by force is just not appropriate. >> are you willing to get involved militarily taiwan? >> yes. >> you are? >> that is the commitment we made. speed went griff come as we know the last time president biden said something like this, the white house had to walk it back. still unclear if the white house will have to walk this back today, of course, with comments from the white house. i want to press you on this because you understand how this works in practice. does this mean, do you think this could mean boots on the ground in that region in taiwan? or are we talking about a contract being sent and the

white house to justify what it said? >> i think that we can safely say jake sullivan got on his cell phone as fast as possible to talk to his chinese counterpart the moment those words came out of the president's mouth. why? for our viewers up learning about this, the u.s. does not have official diplomatic relations with taiwan. we recognize the government in beijing. we do, however, help supply weapons and have said taiwan should have a right to defend itself. so the suggestion that the u.s. would militarily intervene should china take an aggressive move towards taiwan is something the administration has not done. the cleanup on aisle nine and especially as you point out in the context president biden saying that the burden to protect taiwan is "even stronger" in the presence words

now in the wake of russia's invasion in ukraine. so, this certainly has upped the stakes. we are getting word on the wires, the chinese official starting to respond to it. they are not happy and this is going to be a big walk back, if you will particularly when the president was hoping to make news on this endo specific trade agreement, which was somehow going to try to help at home, the grocery store and gas stations. this is something that will raise a lot of eyebrows as well as red flags in terms of our official position on where we stand with regards to taiwan. >> todd: griff, may be on the minority on this. i'm not to worry about china being upset with the white house showing some semblance of strength but when i'm upset about it has come to this to begin with because you mentioned, the president said we wouldn't be in the situation if not what happened for what happened with russia.

but who allowed russia the way it did, the invasion of ukraine? it was president biden and arming ukraine when ukraine said, "hey, we might be in for something here. could you give us a little help? "they dearly dallied and now they have to come up with, the united states billions of dollars when many days into the war and i don't need to tell you we are covering it at length. so this and disingenuous for the white house to say we are in this problem now. this is a problem come i don't want to say caused but showed a lack of resolve peer they showed a lack of resolve on the war stage when it came to afghanistan. china sees that and they say, oh, my gosh, we can do something with taiwan and puts us in a situation to make a statement where we say, look we will defend taiwan if necessary. >> one more point with that and if you step back, todd if you remember before the election,

president biden then candidate joe biden was being portrayed as the international relations genius. he was the guy who was going to prepare all of the international woes that president trump had created. he had the experience after decades dealing with international relations. so now fast forward to where we are. we heard president biden and the last 24 hours talk about the flights they were making in chinese airspace has been traveling so much troubling and maneuvering and china is intentionally doing to see if they can get a reaction. the fact that joe biden reacted to that is certainly something that you would not expect from a guy that was supposed to have this as numeral uno in his wheelhouse of strengths. >> todd: interesting, interesting perspective. griff, we appreciate having you on this important date thank you to the scheduling gods but's but there is a lot of other news,

scrambling to address the nationwide baby formula crisis. the president with a second shipment of baby formula will be on its way to the u.s. as part of operation fly formula. 78,000 pounds of formula arriving in indianapolis sunday but huge caveat here, the biden administration warning none of it will end up on store shelves but instead hypo allergenic formula will be used for children unable to process the proteins in cow's milk. steve hilton's response to the biden administration over handling of the formula shortage, listen. >> a few months ago when all these people started working diligently, there actually was on a crisis. there was just a closed factory. somehow the geniuses by working diligently managed to turn a closure into a crisis. a massive interruption to the supplies, one of those foot vital unimaginable and getting the factory up, that is still

weeks ago in order to get extra supply that the u.s. produces. it will try to find replacement supplies and they block imports for months with massive tourist and pointless regulations. it was not the defense production that they kept going on about during the pandemic. the biden regime tell us was working diligently for months. now, this is the result, panic and despair for millions of families. you might even say separating babies from their food. what could be more inhumane? >> todd: resident biden and human health services secretary admitted in an interview with the white house and aware of the looming baby formula crisis since last year even though biden said they could not see it coming. 10 minutes after the hour and another crisis, this one at the southern border. white house vowing to fight a judge's decision to fight back the rollback of title 42 set to expire today. press secretary karine jean-pierre singh they disagree

with the ruling and the department of justice has announced it will appeal this decision. the public health policy nationally should rest with the center of disease control and not with a single district court. >> griff: james comer is ranking member of the house oversight committee and joins us now. congressman, thank you for taking time as todd just mentioned california supposed to expire today yet, instead, this court the judge intervening there. the former acting dhs secretary chad wolf weighed in on this, congressman about whether or not the administration ready to handle something like that. here is what he had to say. take a listen. >> the administration continues to say we have a plan to process more and more individuals. you will see these numbers continue because there is no plan, there is no strategy to try to drive the numbers down here that is not what they are after. it is not their goal. >> the numbers he's talking about 234,000 encounters at the

border in april with trent suggesting it will be higher in the month of may. your reaction, sir. >> this is another disappointment in the biden administration. thank you for the court. i think we are seeing the courts have shifted thanks to president trump's diligence in trying to get conservatives on the court. but now we see biden trying to go back to his liberal roots. the biden border policy is simply to have an open border and to allow anyone into the united states who wants to come into the united states. the mexican drug cartel has more influence who is coming into the united states than the biden administration. the title 42 is the only tool in the toolbox at the border patrol agents have two send these illegals back to where they came from. the fact that the administration is trying to now overrule the courts to implement their liberal policy is very telling to the fact that this crisis on the border that has led to

fentanyl overdoses to the tune of 100,000 in tracking numbers like we have never seen before is all because of bad was he by the biden administration. in the fact they are willing to go up against the courts now to try to please their left wing base is not surprising and it is very disappointing. >> griff: congressman, not just on that issue they are bending over backwards to appease their bays. supreme court, as you know official ruling on abortion today and preparing for violent pro choice after the decision don't make decision is sent down. and the violence, hoping to protect us but where is the resounding condemnation of violence like this from the white house? >> it is not appear there isn't any in the biden administration has done irreparable damage to the supreme court. from their rhetoric in the campaign to stack the course to increase the supreme court numbers to ensure there is a

liberal majority on the court to now taking the leak, which was illegal and using it to motivate their bays to the tune of imminent in their minds is another act of incompetence by this administration. we should have the maximum security for a supreme court justice. but the fact that we are even talking about this. the fact the administration is making a call to america we are prepared but they are not trying to do anything to lower the temperature with their liberal base. it is very disappointing. and it is certainly a scare tactic for the court to not reverse roe v. wade. >> griff: congressman you mentioned the leak is illegal. would you like to see that prosecuted? >> absolutely pure the republicans in the house oversight committee that we called on the department of justice to tell us exactly what they are going to do to

determine the leaker and how they will hold the leaker accountable. this is something john roberts has mentioned. but we have seen very little action. this is something we are not going to let up. that leaker needs to be held accountable. that leak has put the lives of our supreme court justices in jeopardy right now. it is terrible that we are even saying that. this is something the biden administration is using. they realize they are polls are terrible. unless something changes with their liberal base, they are not going to turn out to vote here or they could just get swamped in the midterm elections. they were looking for anything to try to motivate the far left to get out and vote in the same numbers they did during the last presidential election. this is an issue that i think joe biden and democrats think can motivate the left wing base. the fact that they are not condoning violence against the supreme court is very disappointing and shows a real lack of leadership by this

administration. >> todd: congressman james: kicking things off on a busy monday morning. congressman thank you very much, sir. >> griff: thank you for having me on. meanwhile former president donald trump outrage after testimony reveals spread the russian collusion host during 2016 campaign brooke singman live with the exclusive details, brooke. >> hey, good morning guys president trump acting from the campaign manager with revealing hillary clinton are self the dissemination of fulsome information to the media alleging trump used a secret back channel to communicate with rush ahead of 2016 election and the former president telling me, this is the greatest political scandals in history and free three years i had to fight her off and those broken people often you will never get your reputation fully back. the former president also warned that law enforcement intelligence community resource devoted to investigating him and

members of 2016 presidential campaign distracted officials from "what could have been a real danger from russia." trump's comments come after friday michael sussmann's trial about clinton's personal involvement related to the allegations. suzman is charged with making a full statement to the fbi when he told fbi general counsel james baker he was not bringing information claiming a covert communications channel between the trump organization and russia's alpha bank to appear on behalf of any client but rather the citizens concerned with national security. special counsel john durham said this evidence showing sussmann build the clinton campaign for private meetings with the fbi september 2016. meanwhile, baker testified the fbi investigated that data alleging that the trump connection to the kremlin linked bank has found there was "nothing there." here is what trump did and expects -- matilda do in the coming weeks.

>> hillary clinton admitted to violating the sec to spend dollars on opposition research instead of politics. our investigation shows she spent more than $50 million pumping money so they could have a cut out just like the fbi had it cut out and christopher steele. >> the truax's beginning its second week today. we expect to hear from a number of fbi officials including former assistant director for former fbi general counsel for national security, chris, todd. >> another busy week with brooke singman covering it, thank you very much. in the meantime, georgia republicans gearing up and to decide who will be their candidate for governor tomorrow as early voting hits the record high. but the high-stakes race between governor brian kemp producing and overshadowed by stunning

remark by stacy edwards. >> griff: a busy news day. jackie ibanez joins us live in the studio but the story, jackie, good morning. >> good morning. it is a busy morning and busy week. voters are heading to the polls tomorrow for georgia's primary election but ahead of the big g.o.p. showdown between brian kemp and challenger david perdue. one of george's top democrats, she represents her own stateless end. >> we have to have a conversation about who we are in this state. and what we want for each other. i am tired about -- -- >> speaking with democrats utopia and atlantic county and the presumptive democratic nominee for governor in her own state, georgia republicans are staying focused on the task at hand. >> with the balance of power, we

see the disaster our country is going to under joe biden. we will rally around, primaries are difficult and we come together afterwards and focus on who we need to defeat which is the democrats. >> early voting in the peach state reaching record levels ahead of the midterms. georgia secretary of state says last thursday 700,000 votes have been cast here this is up 180% from 2018 and 149% from the 2020 primaries and also in georgia trump backs in a debt herschel walker is leading in the polls. the georgia bulldogs football star wins he will face democratic incumbent raphael warnock in november, todd, back to you. >> todd: jackie, thank you for admittedly i've ran a campaign but insulting the entire electric may not be a smart choice but who am i? >> i think you are right. >> todd: jackie thank you. charges dropped against a

16-year-old accused of shooting nypd officer. and the judge who let him off is driving own agenda from the bench. councilman joe borelli joins us next. >> griff: and you need to see, the sheriff's deputy smashing through windows to save a 9-year-old boy minutes before a house fire turns into a massive explosion. >> get up, bud, come here, keep coming! give me your hand! >> no! >> todd: we are talking to to te hero deputies behind that. stay tuned

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it is actually staten island that they are competitive for judge. but this judge was probably come i would air on the side of being appointed by the local democratic party. >> todd: she is not alone. there are a lot of judges. >> in this case, you have exact a box of a case with remarkably lenient loads of criminal defendants an activist woke judges who don't care about crime victims whether they be the public, whether they be the police officers or whether an 11-year-old girl. she only cares about the agenda that lets punks like this make no mistake, this guy was on probation when he was 14 years old for gun possession. and the system lets people like him go. >> todd: let's talk about him. he is a known gang member and he fought with a cop which is how the gun went off. despite the fact there was body cam footage of what was happening. when you look at this on the hole, what kind of message does this sent to either the bad guy or the person who is

contemplating being a bad guy? speak with sends a message they were fundamentally no consequences in new york city. i know the d.a., one of the district attorneys, the fact that the district attorney wanted to bring charges against this person proves this person was no good actor. this was a bad guy. you have this judge is allowed to manipulate the law and such a way they can spring these people through. you mention body cam. the police and the public supports body cam for just the circumstances. this judge, she would release the body cam footage so we could all judge her and how she treated this person who was probably going to make someone else a victim that might. >> todd: they only seem to release the body cam footage when its anti-cup but when pro caught up, we need to keep that close to the vest which is wrong in itself. it needs to be released all the time so we can make our own determination like you said. joe borelli, what chance does new york city have of coming back?

judges like this putting bad guys on the street so nonchalant. >> but is scary because the police officer now has to be afraid of so many things danger basically from suspects. but we have to ask ourselves, what is it worth? this is a cop and you don't have to be dick tracy to figure out who has a gun in the community. you can ask grandma's and grandpa's. and known person on a block with people with guns, he identified the suspect and apprehended him. he did his job and at the end of the day after getting shot, there is no consequences. the scary part for me cup start questioning whether it is worth intervening in situations like this. >> todd: broadened this out to the populace and some of which with you talking about how the new yorker doesn't want to live here anymore or fleeing and getting out of here. we are talking about hard new yorkers, they are scared and we had a guy shot and killed on the subway for no apparent reason. what about tourist because it is

may, would you come here? >> it is tough to say that. things have gotten a little better, no question about that, the city recovering from the pandemic and things are looking at. mayor adams is putting more cops on the street and this particular cop present the unit. but you can't guarantee consequences whether someone with a gun or people picking pockets times square or robbing grocery stores and things like that, no, two or shouldn't be able to come or it probably shouldn't want to come. >> todd: that is sad. joe borelli, great to have you here as always, my friend. massive surge in smuggling and turning to operation lone star for help. the police chief there is next. >> griff: and we will be talking with rachel campos-duffy coming back from the border she said biden's dhs did not want us exposing what a disaster of this situation has come here and speak with a border patrol came

and said "now you are in my custody. you can't talk to the media anymore." this is an example how the federal government doesn't want us to know what's going on. i think the shock of a lack of transparency, and i don't blame border control.

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♪ ♪ >> todd: a fox news alert a colonel in iranian revolutionary guard shot dead in broad daylight in tehran. blaming the u.s. and allies. shot five times outside of his home. two gunmen speeding away on a motorbike. so far, no one has claimed responsibility. a manhunt underway for the gunman right now. and another fox news alert, addressing the global elite at the world economic forum and switzerland today. in the meantime the russian soldier facing a trial issues an apology to loved ones. on the ground in ukraine, live with more from lviv, hi.

>> the first russia to be tried as war criminal will learn his fate in kyiv today. life in prison, 21-year-old sergeant was a tank commander and admitted he shot and killed unarmed ukrainian man outside of kyiv and apologize to the man's widow. the defense was he was ordered to kill the 62-year-old man out of fear of the ukrainian man would report the russians position. mariupol haven't fallen to russian forces, the fight is concentrated in the east of ukraine. russian forces driven north out of the second largest city kharkiv and tried to prevent ukrainian forces from pushing all the way to the border with russia. much of russia's firepower, one ukrainian official called it the new mariupol and home to 100,000 people from about 10,000 people remain and all trapped in bomb shelters. the u.s. officials in the

meantime weighing official troops on the ground in ukraine and not as a fighting force but as security for the newly reopened u.s. embassy in kyiv. the economic form kicks off downtown and one comment is not wintertime, two, the glitzy presence of russians completely champagne and caviar will not be there and it will open with a video address from ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. guys, back to you. >> todd: mike tobin will live in lviv, thank you very much. back to the border, the police department is teeming with operation lone star to address a spike in human smuggling in their small town. operation lone star, what governor abbott down here putting layer after layer and state troopers boats on the river behind me interacting the public safety with national guard and border patrol. the sheriff's office layer after layer just like wartime trying to slow down this enemy.

human trafficking and human smuggling as well. >> todd: daily texas police chief joins us now. chief, thank you for taking time in the 2020 fiscal year and 400's -- howell house cases disrupted with almost 3,680 apprehensions along the border cdp and also disrupting 300 tractor-trailer cases with more than 4800 apprehensions. our viewers understand and the significance of where you are located. if you take highway 35 south on the radio near san antonio, you need highway 85 and you are at the nexus of one of the heaviest traffic areas. how significant is this partnership with operation lone star? how important is it to get it going forward? >> thank you, grip,

good morning. thank you for having us. it is extremely important. we were having a lot of trouble with the traffic coming through with the human smugglers before we were able to partner with governor abbott and operation lone star. it's been a tremendous help, but the main thing we focus on is the safety of our community. the amount of people coming through and running from law enforcement is disrupting everything. our town has been tremendous. >> griff: chief, the operation lone star governor abbott starting last march in 2021, if that were not in place and had not started that, what would be the impact right now today? >> as far as for us, we are a small community of 4,000 people with a small agency in south texas. without that help, we would have

been overrun with having to help other agencies with pursuits coming into our town and will not be able to take care of regular patrol duties in the crime that happens every day in every small town. >> todd: chief, it looks like title 42 for now is not being lifted because of that judge come up 24 states suing to stop it from lifting because of the fears of influx of migrants that it would cause to the state for a small community like dilley, texas if title 42 lives, what would be the impact for you a question mark >> you know i don't think i can fathom what the impact would be but looking at where we are today, if it were to double, we would be inundated with more people than we could handle coming through here. but luckily, we have the county sheriff's office that helps out tremendously. we are all partnering together

and operation lone star to have what we have now. >> chief, we have and do you feel like the administration is doing enough to support operations like euros? >> welcome i will tell you of myself and other law enforcement of south taxes we feel a little abandoned down here. you know, that is what we are hoping to do is bring attention to what is actually going on. you know, our children have to adjust to this. but one of the odd things at the end of the school year and one of the high school seniors taking senior photos while out on one of the butyl south texas ranchers and an abandoned stolen vehicle used in human smuggling. so they used as a backdrop for finger photos. and children are having to adjust. >> todd: chief, we have to leave it there. chief of dilley, texas, appreciate your time. >> thank you so much for having

me. >> todd: sheriff's deputy smashing through windows to save a 9-year-old boy moments before a house fire turns into a massive explosion, watch. >> get up, bud, come here, keep coming. come on, give me your hand! >> todd: we are talking about deputy heroes behind that art rescue coming up. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> todd: florida health officials investigating the nation's third possible case of monkeypox. a person recently traveled abroad in isolation with symptoms. the current case in massachusetts, new york city resident and diagnosed late last week. over the beacon president biden said the monkeypox outbreak is something everybody should be concerned about. here is dr. nicole saphier's response to that. speak with a virus, should we bd about it? i certainly wouldn't be as concerned as the covid-19 key pandemic and the united states has fewer cases then any other years, giving attention and social media with the heels of pandemic. cautiously optimistic that this is going to be contained.

>> todd: dr. janette nesheiwat to answer more questions. check this out security cameras capturing a courageous jewelry store employees turning the tables on a group of smash and grab robbers. now the thieves, it is not long before they are pushed out by workers including one armed with a chair. you will see the police in huntington beach searching for the suspect but unclear if the merchandise was stolen, todd. >> two sheriff's deputies hailed after saving 9-year-old boy from a burning home. look at this. >> get up, bud, come here! keep coming, keep coming! come on.

>> here with me now, the two shift their stomach sheriff deputies, kevin reich, thank you for being here. alexander described the scene when you got to the house? >> yeah, kevin was already on the scene trying to find a way in. it was frantic. people were screaming. and at that point, just trying to figure out how to best help kevin and locate this child and get them out. >> todd: how did you find the boy? >> actually, alexander was the one who located the boy inside of the bedroom and i heard him on the other side of the residence at that time we went to work to make sure we got him out of there deeply. >> todd: how close was that boy to not making it out alive?

>> i couldn't say exactly but that room was completely full of smoke. so every minute counts at that point, every second. >> todd: alexander, what did the parent say to you? >> i haven't gotten an opportunity to speak with mom or dad. mom was extremely -- you could tell she was very happy that we got him out of the house, but we didn't get an opportunity to speak with her or the father yet. >> todd: when you arrived on the scene though, i'm trying to visualize being a parent in that situation, did you see them arriving on the scene? what was the reaction, alexander? >> mom was, you know, she was frantic, she was crying out. she was actually trying to get inside the house. she was trying to get to safety. kevin actually pulled her away from the window so that we could go to work at that point in time. >> todd: sheriff, these are

new deputies you have working under you. they started in march 2020, very curious and interesting time to become a first responder. how amazing are these guys? >> hey, listen, they are quick actions, their bravery and the fact they never gave up on that child trying to give every opportunity to survive committed as they were heroic actions that is the reason this child is alive today. >> todd: obviously mainstream media, we often times the cops are accused of doing the wrong thing but how important is it in a moment like this to celebrate what your officers, what you're deputies did so selflessly to save that young boy? >> this is a perfect time to celebrate and at times the were overcome with smoke and elation. they couldn't get inside but they could stick their head inside to make sure they continue to guide the child and get a breath of fresh air and go back inside. i tell you what, you can talk about all the training, tools

and equipment but it is their big hearts and the fact they never gave up, that is why they are celebrating a win today. >> todd: sheriff, do you know how the boy is doing? >> he is progressing very well. i talked to the mom throughout the weekend. i went to the hospital on friday. we will go back, the three of us so we can meet the parents. he is heavily sedated, but they took him off his paralytic. he is suffering second degree burns. he is on a respirator to help his lungs heal. he has some damage but damage he should be able to fully recover from. so, they are very optimistic. they thought he would get worse before he got better because of the cyanide poisoning antismoke and elation but that is not happening. such a wonderful job and again, and in a few days, we will all be able to talk to him. >> todd: alexander maldonado, kevin reich, and chad chronister, great work we appreciate you. >> have a great day.

>> todd: you too. somebody else who did great work, justin thomas, your 2022 pga champion, thomas a rising star into intense playoff with the second win for pga championship. withdrew from the term after three rounds, congratulating thomas on twitter "he kept himself and his championship and once he got his shots, he didn't look back." fell out of contention after making double bogey on 18. i hate to see that. thomas took down by one stroke of a birdie. this is thomas' second major championship. >> it was quite a finish. i watch that. meanwhile the nascar all-star race literally getting off of the ground at the speedway. watch.

>> noah chastain chasing elliot around the wall. >> and total chase elliott's car. >> hitting the side of his car at 185 miles an hour and chalked it up to bad luck after his car burnt to a tire. thankfully and amazingly, none of the drivers were injured in that violent crash. when blaney went on to win for team penske and he goes home with $1 million prize. in the meantime, break the mic breaking overnight, president biden with major headlines and the u.s. militaryl defend taiwan if china invades. congressman michael waltz is here to respond. rachel campos-duffy and dr. janette nesheiwat joining us on a jam-packed morning edition of "fox & friends first." stay with us.

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>> todd: president biden announcing -- concerns of possible u.s. recession as americans struggle with the price of gas, food and of course, that baby formula shortage. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> griff: i'm griff jenkins, in for carley shimkus. the president says the u.s. will respond militarily if china