awe and watch barack obama sign with 78 different pens barack obama. >> it is primary day in all four corners of the country we with a crucial special election in texas. republican hopefuling vying to flip blue seats pushing for a red wave in november. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm carley shimkus. >> todd: i'm todd piro. get pumped up every tuesday, republicans facing off in south carolina. arrington looking to unseat

congresswoman nancy mace. >> we want someone who will represent faith, family and freedom, that is why donald trump endorsed me and this district on june 14th will endorse me in the ballot box. >> i have a great record, i never voted to raise taxes. my opponent voted for the gas tax. when you say joe biden did that, arrington helped them. >> todd: you will want to stick around. congresswoman mace will join us and so will reporter lawrence jones who is having breakfast with south carolinans. >> carley: sam brown for the gop senate nomination, the winner of the race will determine who runs against incumbent catherine

cortes-maesto. >> we will beat the senator in november. >> we're not relying on surrogates from dc to rescue you in the primary. i put in sweat equity and that is what we need to flip the state. >> todd: in north dakota, john hogan expecteds to win his third term. democrat governor janet nelwell,s looks to lockup today, will face former governor paul, who came out of retirement for this race. >> carley: and in texas mara flores trying to flip the seat after his resignation in march. she is facing sam sanchez in that race. >> todd: with the economy top issue for voters, this wasn't a

good day yesterday, wall street spiralling. >> carley: all three indexeshg s had major sell offs, griff jenkins is live in washington with more. griff jenkins the s&p has gone into hibernation, what does that mean? falls 20% and this is at 22%. it is falling. president biden maintains there is nothing to worry about, listen. >> president biden: we have the fastest growing economy in the world, the world. america should understand our economy has strengths we can build on. the stock market is about 20% higher than it was when my

predecessor was there, has hit record after record after record on my watc >> griff: the nasdaq closed down yesterday 4.7%, the administration's economic advisor says nothing to see here. >> we don't really pay too much attention to daily wiggles, i don't think the white house missed much at all. we hope the forecast for stable growth come true. >> griff: press secretary defender her boss, watch. >> president biden once bragged about the stock market hitting record after record after record on my watch, how about now? >> as you know, we're watching closely, we know families are concerned about inflation and the stock market. we face global challenges, we are not the only country dealing with what we see at the moment

as relates to inflation. >> griff: tell that to americans paying arm and leg at the pump. latest price holding at record $5. the most pain being felt in california, nevada and illinois, least pain in georgia, mississippi and arkansas. what we're watch suggest what the president will say today when he heads to philly to deliver on the economy to the afl-cio convention. todd and carley. >> carley: thank you, griff. struggling to answer a question from a white house ally about how president biden's policies are fuelling inflation. >> the stimulus package contributed, does the biden administration bear some responsibility for this? >> the american rescue plan met the moment and put us in a place where we can actually put us in

a place where the american people feel can actually take on inflation. what i mean, we've seen growth. >> todd: the ranking member of the house oversight sub-committee joins us now. congressman, there is spin and there is stupidity, what is the white house talking about there? >> the white house is talking about something they have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. unfortunately for the american people, that is the economy. when you create an administration and fill it with nothing but bureaucrats and college professors, this is what you get. the objective of the biden policies in first year in office was to significantly increase the role of government and did that by increasing government spending, they never considered the fact when the government prints money, you get inflation, a tax on everyone, especially the poor and working class.

we have a situation now when you ask the biden administration, what is your plan to fix inflation, they try to tout more government spending, that would only make it worse, we're in a dilemma and i hope we can hold them off in congress and hold them off by not passing build back better. thank goodness for kyrsten sinema and manchin in the senate. hold them off until january and hope we get more conservative members of congress and can correct the spending dilemma we have because of the biden administration. >> carley: karine jean-pierre is saying the american rescue plan may have made things more expensive for people, thankfully we gave americans extra montow pay for expenses. there are gas prices at record highs and over the weekend president biden talking about the greed of energy companies. he's saying there are 9000

unused permits, energy companies are not drilling to keep prices high. is it simple as that or is that misleading argument? >> that is not factual what they are saying, from day one biden declared war on the american energy sector and that is unfortunate, we're seeing how important energy prices are to the economy, not only does it affect everyday americans, it affects cost of every good and service in america. gas prices do nothing, but go higher. when biden blames the energy companies what they are not saying is, their activist bureaucrats in the administration they have given the green light to, they are harassing the energy and coal companies, increasing fines, making life hard on the energy companies, every state joe biden makes is a negative statement on

the energy sector and we've got a situation where it is not getting worse, they are pointing fingers, cancelled things like the keystone pipeline that would have brought the price of gasoline down. it is harder to drill and frac in america. that policy is not true. from day one, even in our house oversight committee, democrats lined up the energy ceos and asked them to decrease production in the united states. their own record calling on the energy companies to decrease production and what happens when you decrease production? the price goes up, that is where we are now. >> todd: big debate yesterday moderated by bret baier, lindsey graham and bernie sanders going head-to-head. they discussed climate change. take a listen. >> what you don't hear him talking about, the most

important issues facing the century. the crisis of climate change. >> i believe climate change is real, that is no reason to destroy the fossil fuel industry in this country. >> the president should bring the major oil companies in and tell them we're going to have a win-fall profit tax on what they are doing to stop them from ripping off the american people. >> we should be producing more oil and gas and when you say it is the oil companies fault, bull. they are in a business. they are not producing more, it is impossible under this administration and if bernie was in charge and people like him, it would get worse issue not better. >> todd: i understand we need to protect the environment, to your earlier point you made before we played that, don't democrats understand in process of prioritizing profit change as one a they are destroying the country in the process? >> i think they are starting to learn that and lindsey graham

did tremendous job there, that is right. democrats came in and tried to enact beginning steps of the green new deal and what happens when you put all the new rules and regulations in on the energy sector? you limit production and i'm not even going to include labor laws they are trying to change, everything they are trying to do has had negative impact on the energy sector. talk about wanting to increase taxes on sector of the economy we desperately need that is holding us back, leading to more inflation, nothing good is happening when you're attacking the energy sector and threatening to attack more, that will limit them from increasing investment to increase production. they are absolutely going in the wrong direction on energy prices, this administration is clueless and you don't have

anyone from the private sector, everyone is bureaucrat or college professor and they believe with their heart right thing to do in america is to try to start and enact policies -- >> carley: you are right and big difference between the biden administration and trump administration. want to get to this because during this debate yesterday they talked about crime and democrats called to defund police and bernie sanders said something we're hearing a lot from democrats right now. that is, don't look at me. watch this. >> democrats of the house, senate and white house, their agenda is not working, crime is rampant, defund the police effort you are leading has taken a toll. it is tough to be a cop now, who wants to go into law enforcement? time to let cops know, you are not the problem. >> i never called for defunding of the police. >> i stand corrected.

>> what i believe in is mayor work well with our police department, we need community-based policeing that reflect people in the communities. we have to fight racism in every way that we can. >> carley: yesterday we learned several defund the police activists were invited to the white house, where do democrats stand on this issue? >> it is clear, in their woke agenda, democrats had an attack on american law enforcement. bernie sanders said this, called them racist, said there is white supreme see in our policing and as a result, they have tried to cut policing and seen increase in crime. what democrats have learned and american people have seen, when you cut law enforcement, you have increase in crime. there is a direct correlation.

throw in efforts to have drastic criminal justice reform to let more and more prisoners out on to the street, we will have more crime. throw in not securing the border and increased drug trafficking and human trafficking in america, that is a disaster. crisis after crisis can be traced back to bad policies by the house democrats and by the biden administration. >> todd: congressman james comer, thank you, appreciate it. chairman of the general, the panel will not make any criminal referrals when it comes to formal president trump. that claim quickly contradicted by liz cheney and schiff who said no decision had yet been made, as long as we are clear on that. prime time on thursday was crushed in rating by rerun of young sheldon, which aired the week before. they decided to bump the popular show for the hearing.

justice department act against protest targeting supreme court yesterdays orphanageturning of roe v. wade. >> carley: pelosi delaying passing of bill expanding protection. jackie ibanez joins us live. jacky. >> jackie: merrick garland facing increased pressure to enforce federal law that prohibits picketing outside supreme court justice's homes for purpose of a decision. protesters returned to samuel alito's home demanding the court uphold roe v. wade and they are blocking roads as part of a shutdown dc demonstration. bill barr slamming defense of the protest at the justice's home, telling fox new demonstration are not legitimate

first amendment activity. only one arrest has been made since protests were sparked. r. the man accused of plotting to kill brett kavanaugh and calling out democrats on delayed vote that would expand security for justices. house leader kevin mccarthy fuming at nancy pelosi telling her delay is jeopardizing lives. listen. >> how many times do they have to be threatened? how many people have to be arrested with a gun outside their home? what would have happened had he not called 911? he didn't just have a gun, he had zip ties. somehow you want to leave. this bill could be on the president's desk right now. >> carley: today house democratic leadership say they will bring that passed bill to the floor, they have not indicated whether it would be modified and sent back to the senate, something majority leader mcconnell has warned

would doom the legislation. back to you. >> carley: thank you for the wrap up. yesterday we told you how sunday shows on every network except this one ignored the kavanaugh murder plot. kayleigh mcenany says the press is following the president's lead. >> kayleigh: the reason the media is ignoring it because oh, wait, the president of the united states is ignoring it. yes, his press secretary put out a statement, where is president biden's voice on this? been almost seven days, his press secretary went out and said the president condemned this, he has not condemned this and he said his decision comes out the way we think it will, there will be a mini-revolution. president trump condemns violence bigotry, this white house is a different standard, joe can just be silent. 13 pro-life facility have been fire bombed or vandalized

alongside this threat. >> todd: mirial bowser ordering 51 star flags to be displayed in the city to mark flag day. bowser saying this will serve as reminder to congress and nation the citizens live nothing washington, d.c. demand to be recognized and mayor pointing to the pending decision from the supreme court saying did sheing c disenfranchisement affect americans in dc and nationwide. >> carley: sports illustrated facing criticism. joe kennedy lost his job coaching in 2015 for praying after games issue the supreme court is expected to rule on his case very soon. the magazine publishing a story saying kennedy's case hurts the separation of church and state and calls the former coach a sledgehammer aimed at a bedrock of democracy.

kennedy made a tradition of praying at the 50-yard line, he did it for eight seasons before he was fired. he will join "fox and friends first" this morning with reaction to the magazine. >> todd: golf legend phil mickelson discussing the liv series, he believes he earned the right to switch between the pga tour and the saudi tour. >> my preference is to be able to choose which path i would like, one, the other or both. i gave as much to the pga throughout 30 years here and through my accomplishments on the course i've learned a lifetime membership. >> todd: lefty ernie, by winning 20 events and spending 15 years on tour, membership suspended by the pga commissioner, that story won't go away, it is big. this story is baffling us, a

career criminal pushes an innocent woman down a flight of stairs yet taxpayers being forced to give him $250 a day? ri hofman will be here. >> carley: and a brand-new ad. >> joe biden has destroyed america's economy, time to be honest with the american people, joe biden is unfit for office and should resign. >> carley: the white house just issued a response and fox news is the only one to have it, we'll share it right here on "fox and friends first." ♪ ♪ make way for the first-ever chevy silverado zr2. with multimatic shocks, rugged 33-inch tires, and front and rear electronic locking differentials. dude, this is awesome... but we should get back to work. ♪ ♪

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>> todd: three men of killing an ohio teen over a watergun fight are being held on million dollars bail. this all happened right outside lebron james' i promise school in akron, ohio. the teen was stomped on the head until he was knocked out. the suspects are accused of taking his car when his friends tried taking him to the hospital and check this out. a parks employee fights off an

employee using spectacular kicks. the assailant took a solar pan and he will that brave employee with ti81 doe belt took a few hits. the victim was treated at the hospital, police are looking for the suspect. >> carley: the suspect in this video seen pushing a 62-year-old woman down the stairs at a light rail station could receive nearly $17,000 from taxpayers because the judge order the state to pay the criminal $250 per day until he receives mental health treatment. host of the ari hofman show joins me to react, this is the first time i ever heard a judge order the criminal dpet paid money, not the victim, how does something like this happen?

>> this is an absolutely insane story and would be comical, if it wasn't so tragic. washington state has western state hospital, which has been defunded thanks to governor ensley's defunding. this homeless 40-year-old career criminal who threw a 62-year-old down the stairs, not once, but twice. the state can't get him into treatment because a judge said he is not fit for trial. they ruled the state has to pay him $17,000 by mid-august when the state estimates they will have space for him inside a mental health treatment facility. >> carley: it is unbelievable, if you are making minimum wage and working eight hours a day, this guy is making more than

double what you are, there is something wrong with that, we have footage of him pushing the woman down the flight of stairs and on this same day, he is accused of stabbing a woman 10 times at a bus stop. the reason that is not the headline is because it wasn't caught on camera. this is a crime story, not about defunding the police or progressive prosecutor issue but a judge who made this ridiculous decision, sounds like there are different reasons why the crime crisis is the way it is today. >> trying to prosecute crime, have to compete with the justice system, justices like this allow more rights to the criminal than the actual person, the victim in this case, it is beyond tragic,

we say all the time we want more funding for mental health treatment and they are not committed to doing it, if they were, western state hospital would never be discredited, assaults are a regular occurrence, there are plenty nonprofits that account be helping out, the state doesn't seem interested in employing services. >> carley: state of washington is in a state of emergency, you summed up on twitter saying jay ensleshg y had emergency power for 333 days now that number is up to 336. that just seems like an abuse of power, doesn't it? >> it is ridiculous. jayi inslee's big thing when he ran for president and got a

huge approval rating of 0.0, he was going to solve climate change in washington state. things have only gotten worse with regard to carbon emission. governor ins lee had dials and metrics on the washington state website, when he never met them, he just removed them from the website. he would do the same thing in every county even though eastern washington is spread out more than seattle, he didn't follow the science and data. >> carley: not giving up your covid emergency power until you solve climate change, new one. thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. the chase of chesa boudin effect reached philadelphia, crime denying da is facing

impeachment, we are talking to republicans looking to oust crouseman. will he be fired as well?

>> carley: welcome back, california police releasing the mug shot of house speaker nancy pelosi's husband weeks after he was arrested for driving while intoxicated. he was booked after a jeep struck his porsche last month. no injuries reported. pelosi was bailed out the following morning for $5000 and two misdemeanor charges. and jesse watters accusing local leaders of protecting the house

speaker. >> political appointees in california spent two weeks trying to keep this photo from going public. why? was it that bad? they claimed it would jeopardize the investigation. did it jeopardize? of course not. they were just trying to protect the most powerful democrat in california, nancy pelosi, and the most powerful woman in america, sorry, kamala. it is worth noting they sent this to all the other media outlets before fox, even though we were the only network that asked for it. they are bitter. the dz is stonewalling on the cam, we will not give up because there are valid questions that have to be answered for the american people, of course. >> carley: mr. pelosi is due back in court in early august to answer to that dushg i charge.

squaring off on the debate stage last night vying to the be governor. every candidate vowed to oust alvin bragg. >> we have a district attorney in manhattan should be fired, he is refusing to prosecute crime. fire da's like alvin bragg. >> i would use my power under article 13 to remove any district attorney who does not enforce the law, including alvin bragg. >> i called for it after his january 3 memo to the district. >> carley: crime in the big apple is up by 30% this month compared to last year, over to you. >> todd: pennsylvania house republicans moving to impeach

philadelphia da larry krasner. larry krasner calls it baseless. >> there are going to be some legislators who are members almost exclusively members of a political party that is close to people we are going after now because of their crimes, what they are doing in terms of impeachment is without a legal basis, it is clearly unconstitutional. >> todd: state representatives are with me now. thanks to the three of you for being here, state rep oshg'neal, how confident you can pull this off? >> impeachment process is not easy, it is extraordinary step, we are confident this will be a bipartisan effort. larry krasner's efforts are well known and very public, the crime

rates are through the roof. this is the first step in the process, i'm confident that we'll see the proceeding move through the house. >> todd: why now? what was the breaking point? >> well, there is three things we're trying to accomplish now, todd. first we're going to gather and garner broad bipartisan support for this measure. second thing, we've seen such a rise in crime in philadelphia, it's been public what the da has stated. we want to gather public information, so started the website stop krasner.com. in the past 24 hours, more information from the public and we want to highlight dereliction of duty we've seen from this district attorney. lives have been lost. property has been destroyd and families have been crushed. enough is enough, we need to do

something and get back to the basics in this commonwealth and naegsz and back to law and order. chaos had too much reign in philadelphia and it's time to stop it. >> krasner says there is nothing to see here, there is no crime crisis. listen. >> basically we don't have a crisis of lawlessness, we don't have a crisis of crime, we don't have a crisis of violence. >> todd: that was december 2021, things weren't good back then either. state rep eckert, how can anybody thing everything is good? >> businesses are deciding to close as deal with petty theft going uncharged in the city. this is the same guy that says prosecuting illegal gun

possession doesn't stop shooting. he's lost his mind. people of the city are not backing him, former and current leaders have called for him to step in and start prosecuting crimes and we can't talk about the different types of gun control measures and crime measures out there, but until you have a da willing to enforce the laws on the books, i don't know why we have that have the conversations. >> todd: how much did the loss by chesa boudin play into your decision to try to impeach krasner now? >> sure. it is certainly a factor as we've seen across the nation and highlighted the district attorney in new york, this is not ushgnique to pennsylvania, this crime spree and violence occurring across the nation is a movement of proaggressivive district attorneys failing to enforce the law.

recall election played factor in us moving forward, in pennsylvania, we don't have recall election, impeachment process is outlined in our state constitution and that is what we intend to do. >> the focus is on philly, what happens in philly spreads to the rest of pennsylvania and we're see thanksgiving spread across the country. high time somebody put a stop to it, you gentleman are trying, state reps, we appreciate it. >> thank you for having us, todd. >> it is electric day in five states including south carolina where nancy mace is on the ballot in one of today's most high profile race. >> carley: that is right. she likes her chances and will be here to tell us why. first we're talking to the voters, that is next.

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>> todd: republican florida senator rick scott just releasing his new tv ad slamming president biden calling for his resignation.

take a look. >> joe biden destroyed america's economy, be honest with the american people, joe biden is unfit for office. biden is forcing america into recession. >> todd: white house responding to fox news saying those are interesting words to choose about president who inherited worst economy and made it the strongest of any in the world. senator scott issuing a quick rebuttal. >> it is simple as this, he doesn't understand it. he doesn't understand the economy and he doesn't care because he's never had to, he doesn't know what it is like to be poor. he's always been taken care of and always gotten a paycheck because you paid for it. nobody around him has done anything in business, it is government people who think big government can run anything.

>> todd: part of seven-figure television campaign to promote rescue america plan, should republicans take that majority in the senate come november. >> carley: voters heading to the poll in four primary elections. in texas to decide who fills a vacant house seat. we have a panel here. owens in south carolina, chris best is in texas and preston grindstead in las vegas, nevada. i want to go around the horn and learn about issues impacting your vote. preston, what is keeping you up at night? >> really the economic outlook. we're talking about mass inflation, supply chain issues, they always say less goods produced and more dollars being printed to buy less goods equals

a problem. we're looking at more and more of that. >> carley: that is the truth. chris, you are in texas oil and gas producing state, price is $5.01 this morning. record highs and that can not be easy. >> no, people like you and me have a hard time paying for gas prices, joe biden promised to protect this and it is decimating americans and making it hard for people. >> carley: sarah, you are a mom and your husband is a police officer, what issues matter the most to you? >> really the gas prices from and getting somebody in office who is going to do what their voters voted them to do and not cower when it is not the popular thing to do. really that and crime are really

the two that stay on my mind the most. >> carley: i'm sure, the nevada senate race is one that republicans can flip from a blue seat to a red seat. who are you voting for? adam laxalt is facing former army veteran sam brown and cortes-masto. >> adam laxalt did a great job, i will be throwing my support behind him. masto has put our state in a huge crisis during covid versus taking florida's lead, who thrives off kregzary

income and tourism and that is big in las vegas. it shut down, i lost a business during covid. poor leadership can affect everyone. that is something we need to put a stop to and not put some rhiny in office. >> carley: interesting that covid is on your mind, that is impacting how you're going to vote. chris, what are your thoughts on the special election in texas? it has long been held by a democrat, mayor flores has a good chance of flipping it red. >> yeah, i think what the situation is, when myra announced her run, the democrat quit the race and decided not to race against myra flores. i think voters see how dynamic she is and will go fight for everyday people and will change that vote and make texas, south

texas start flipping red. >> sarah, i don't believe you are in nancy mace's district, do you have thoughts on that and there is a governor's race you can vote for. >> i am not in the district, i am in tom rice's, that has been pretty hot in my district, district seven. i really haven't had time to look at the nancy mace situation because as i said, i live in tom rice's district, been a pretty big conversation and the issue here, so yes, we have governor -- >> carley: sarah owens, preston grinstead, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> good to be here. >> carley: wonderful stuff. all right. notice anything different about this american flag? it has 51 stars on it. >> todd: you counted that really

quickly. >> carley: i did. they will be lining pennsylvania today as part of push for dc statehood. >> todd: tomi lahren will react and lawrence jones having breakfast with friends checking in with him as we roll along on this election day morning. * *

>> todd: a fox news alert, the white house refusing to condemn protests outside the homes of supreme court justices, despite a plot to assassinate justice brett kavanaugh. this comes as the nation's capitol deploys more officers to the street in anticipation of a ruling in the roe v. wade case tomorrow. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus, nancy pelosi taking heat for delaying bill expanding security for justices, with republicans warning