♪ ♪ >> carley: a fox news alert, the secret service now refuting claims that president trump lunged at an agent and said he wasn't consulted before the claims were put on television. we are watching "fox & friends first" on this thursday morning. i am carley shimkus. >> joey: and i'm joey jensen for todd piro. they've been criticized as partisan and biased, as republicans jim jordan and jim banks were not commissioned by nancy pelosi to serve. live with the latest on this. >> good morning. that's right, the january 6th committee secret service said that they did not reach out before moving forward with tuesday's testimony by former

trump white house aide kassidy hutchinson. she is alleging that then president trump lunged at an agent and try to grab the steering wheel of the presidential vehicle in order to steer it to the capitol on january 6th. the secret service spokesperson telling politico "we were not asked to reappear before the committee in response to yesterday's new information and we plan on formally responding on the record. we have and will continue to make any member of the secret service available." the agents mentioned in the testimony has spoken to the committee and want to do so again in public to refute the steering wheel allegation, but hutchinson's attorney says she stands by her testimony despite criticism, saying, "because of this courageous woman and others like her, the attempt to hide the truth from the american people will fail." this after she admitted most of what she told the committee was second and third hand accounts and in some cases drawn from conversations she just overheard. house minority leader kevin mccarthy says the left is

hell-bent to take trump down at any cost. listen. >> remember who they hired to put this on: abc producer. they are obsessed with trump and this is all they want to do. but this hearsay would never be allowed in a court of law. >> former president trump also responded to the claims on his true social saying he has no memory of ever even working with her. >> carley: thank you. and fox news legal analysts say that the testimony seems sketchy. >> if the story sounds fantastic or outrageous, it usually isn't true. that is especially the case when information such as hutchinson's has been wandered through several individuals. at bare minimum, this is triple hearsay and probably quadruple hearsay. a guide told a guy who told me and now i'm telling you, the committee. hearsay is inadmissible. double hearsay is a joke. triple hearsay is a farce. anything beyond that, you need

to get your head examined. ♪ ♪ >> federal prosecutors are moving forward with third takes against a man they say was behind the 18-wheeler sound in san antonio with bodies of migrants. he is charged with smuggling resulting in the death of 53 migrants. the texas native is scheduled to have his first court appearance later today. at 28-year-old man has also been charged with conspiracy in connection with human smuggling operation. the charges come as vice president harris and texas governor greg abbott trade blame for the horrific tragedy. >> the memorial service for two california police officers killed in the line of duty is set for later today. it comes as a new report reveals their alleged killer's probation officer hadn't seen him at least six months. the suspect was free thanks to l.a. county d.a. george gascon's policies despite a gun charge that could have sent him to jail for three years.

rachel hart, and ellie mother hit by a car with her baby last year, joined us early with this take. >> it's going to continue to happen. the guy that hit me and my child was on probation at the time. how it not been for gascon soft-on-crime policies, this guy would be behind bars right now. everyone is being impacted by this and it's hard to wrap around the fact that one person can be responsible for so much disaster. >> carley: 37 los angeles cities have issued a vote of no confidence and the recall effort against him is set for next week. >> joey: and a solemn salute this morning to the last surviving medal of honor recipient from world war ii, who died wednesday at 98 at the va center bearing his name in west virginia. marine corporal herschel "woody" williams earned the highest decoration for his bravery under fire in the battle of iwo jima. he was awarded the medal by

president harry truman. after using a flame care and explosives to clear seven concrete bunkers known as pillboxes, while under heavy machine gun fire in february of 1945. he kept pushing forward after all the men in his company laid their lives down. listen to what see if i had to say to fox and fox & friends' own pete hegseth back in 2018 about that day. >> we had a great cause to save our freedom and our country, so i was certainly inspired by that. i wear the medal, by the way, in honor of two marines who sacrificed their life that day for mine. i perhaps wouldn't even be here had it not been for those two marines. >> joey: williams will lie in state in the west virginia capitol rotunda on saturday. he'll be laid to rest on sunday. >> carley: a life well lived. another major company is leaving california to set up shop in texas. a tech ceo who also left the

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>> good morning, everyone. it's thursday, almost friday paid let's look at temperatures. the upper midwest is still warm with temperatures above average later today. it is summer time, though. we have the potential for showers and thunderstorms in the forecast for the upper midwest as a friend and an area of low pressure moves and as well as the southwest and the gulf coast, because we are watching an area of low pressure. i don't know if you get the name, and regardless of whether we name it or not it's going to bring the same results and that is heavy rainfall along the texas coast toward louisiana and the southeast as we head into the weekend. so there is your future track. you can see portions of southeast texas towards louisiana and the gulf coast states getting rained on, especially tomorrow into sunday. there is the forecast. some areas could get 3-6 isolated amounts of 5-8 inches for parts of louisiana. that's not good news. we look for those storms percolating this afternoon towards friday, large hail damage and isolated tornadoes possible for some of these

areas. and there is your forecast today. hot across the south and the southwest, 87 in atlanta, 87 in new york, and there is the forecast for the gulf coast, as well. that's the area of concern as we go through the next couple of days. of course it's a long weekend and we perhaps will see some travel delays, and tomorrow i will bring you guys some t-shirts because i'm an official judge for the nathan's hot dog eating contest in coney island. it's been happening for over 100 years. my husband doesn't get impressed with a lot of things but when i told him in an official judge he said that's one of the greatest honors of new york. >> carley: this is a huge honor. this is a moment in history! >> i got the official referee shirt yesterday and hat and i am so excited. >> carley: you have to meticulously look at the bites and who is eating what? >> joey chestnut will be there to defend his title.

74 hot dogs in 10 minutes. >> carley: you have to have a strong stomach to do the job and you're the perfect person for it. this is very exciting. >> i have to watch those joeys. you can't trust them. [laughter] 's ptc later >> joey: chevron energy joining the long list of goodbye to california relocating from san francisco and even paying employees to make the move to texas. moving companies to the lone star state, he joins me now. good morning. >> good morning, joey. >> joey: you moved your company to austin. austin has its own problem with things like crime and homelessness i would imagine it's more about the tax burden and regulation then anything that has these businesses moving to texas. even their cities have trouble. >> well, joey, i think for everybody there's a number of factors. for my company we boil it down to what i call faith, family, and freedom. it's almost a cultural thing for

us, as well, and these are things a whole deeply in my heart and so do a lot of our leadership team. we've all got families but the place where you build your company, you take on some of that spirit, as well. we want to be in a place that stood up for what we stand up for it i think chevron is going through something similar. i think they're moving out just regulation and tax reasons but also for reasons i'm expressing, as well. cultural reasons. >> joey: let's take a look at some of these metrics that talk about what it looks like to have a business move from one state to the other. you look at local tax burdens, texas to california, 6%, 13.5%. that's state taxes. a total 7% swing between state and federal. and you look at things like the median cost of a home in texas versus california. they say it's 107,000. i don't know if that going, it is going to stay put that is a huge swing. the real estate market in texas

is high, but is still much lower than california. i don't know if we'll stay that way. do you think a lot more companies are coming to texas? >> i think definitely they are going to be coming, and you talk about the housing, that was definitely a driving pragmatic concern i had. like any good ceo, i know that were my bread is buttered is from our employees. they are the ones you get it done. i have a deep care for them. so many of them wouldn't be able to buy a home on the west coast, and they been able to buy a home in texas. they can get a big home here, in fact. to see the joy on their faces, and their families, and be able to own a home, that's big for them. we have been able to do that here in texas and they been able to take advantage of that. i think they'll continue where people can buy a home much easier relative to california. currently it is the case and yes, prices are going up everywhere. the regulations in texas are much more friendly to developers. that means you create new supply

which keeps costs down for housing which in the long run will benefit the working class. >> joey: good luck in texas. i lived there for a few years. i bought my home, sold it for profit, and the people who bought it from me made $500,000 off of it. i appreciate you and thanks for joining us. thank you. >> carley: listen to this, nancy pelosi is banned over her support for abortion. so she asked the pope and brought the husband with her. jimmy is here to share his thoughts on that. ♪ ♪ fishing helps ease my mind. it's kinda like having liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. woah! look out! [submarine rising out of water] [minions making noise] minions are bitin' today.

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♪ ♪ >> carley: house speaker nancy pelosi meeting with the pope and taking communion yesterday in the vatican even though she was banned from doing so in her hometown. san francisco's archbishop guard pelosi from taking communion just over a month ago due to her

support for abortion rights. >> joey: fox news' own jimmy filho, host of fox across america on fox nation, joins us. what do you make of this? >> i mean, i would have been more concerned if he let paul pelosi drove the pope mobile. now the best judgment. he's a bit of an activist pope but we are in a tough position here because at the same time nancy pelosi is old. she was a waitress at the last supper. a lot of people don't know that. [laughter] "you can come on down and get some communion." it's very hard for me to agree with this. this goes back to the archbishop of san francisco not appreciating her stance on abortion. i don't see how as a practicing catholic the pope could condone the push she is making for abortion, which is something that directly contradicts the canons we've been taught. to me this looks like people activism >> carley: and i think about the rules of catholicism i think of you, jimmy.

>> [laughter] i'm sure you've heard about the situation of california. at 29-year-old trans skateboarder is defending her win against the teenage girl, in women skateboarding competition last week. she says she was not going to go easy on them just because they are kids. she also had this to say. "i don't think i have a physical advantage. it's kind of like a race car driver, it doesn't matter what you look like. you can drive the car regardless of your physique." i believe the little girl she beat was 13 years old. >> yeah, the little kid. i've been up front about the fact that i would be fine with men competing against women if i could bet on it. [laughter] the fact that i can't go to vegas and make money off of what it's clearly a rigged game, this is embarrassing! you should be embarrassed to beat up a 13-year-old girl. anybody wants to argue there isn't an advantage, we have yet to find a story where them women transitions to a man and breaks every record and wins every match. why? because when they transition

they are now at a disadvantage. >> joey: a career in the navy, father of two children, and the experience alone over 13-year-old even if your bodies and better, you've got more years in this world to learn. it's because she could beat him and things like snapchat. she could probably make it better to contact video. but he's going to out skater. so i think it's ridiculous. >> carley: this is both gender and age. 29, and the little girl is 13. why were they even allowed in the same competition? >> half the people running it or hide. i don't think they pay attention during the little tricks in the park. steel and we couldn't get tony hawk to comment, so thank you, jimmy. >> we got a guy that looks like tony soprano instead, a little chubby! >> carley: in cornell university they removed a bus to president lincoln and a plaque of the gettysburg address after someone allegedly complained about the display. a teacher in the schools had someone complained and it was gone. the school now says that the

display was temporarily there. so we have a mr. on her hand. >> this is so infuriating. i named my son lincoln. could you ever imagine a world where we thought my son's name would become controversial? another kid has to go by his middle name, o.j. [laughter] i call these people cultural arsonists. they will go set a fire somewhere where it didn't exist, and claim some type of valor and virtue for axing wishing it. "we got rid of the lincoln bust!" didn't help anybody. ct did you name him after -- >> the card. >> carley: i don't know, it's a nice name! stealing that little college town in nebraska? >> he really just liked the name lincoln and his name is lincoln. it should never have been controversial. >> carley: but cornell university is an ivy league school. why do people who are supposed to be smart hate america? >> we are placating grievance politics now. the way it works, "i'm offended,

give me something." which is not the american way and what we are supposed to be doing. i think this is the biggest profusion of college tuition costing so much. you are teaching people to be stupid. how can you justifiably say pay the hundred thousand dollars or whatever it is to go to cornell? this is why you should save your money and go to nassau community college like me. i had to give a guy named spider a bag of weed to get in. >> joey: the point is to join the marine corps not expecting to go to college. >> carley: if you go to an ivy league school i think you have to give up your "i hate america, we are oppressed" card. unbelievable. thank you for waking up early. you look great in your suit. >> hey, girl. i might still be out from the night before. but it's nice to be here. >> carley: good to see you. >> joey: the one and only. moving on, away from jimmy. vice president harris breaks her silence on a recent migrant tragedy to take a cheap shot at

governor abbott. >> straight to politics. instead of dealing with the realities of the issue. >> i forgot that kamala harris was the border czar. >> carley: and while she watches from the distance, the boots on the ground are dealing with the crisis head-on. this texas sheriff will tell us about his no-nonsense approach to this issue coming up. ♪ ♪ swollen, painful. emerge tremfyant®. tremfya® is approved to help reduce... joint symptoms in adults with active psoriatic arthritis. some patients even felt less fatigued. serious allergic reactions may occur. tremfya® may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms or if you had a vaccine or plan to. emerge tremfyant® with tremfya®... ask you doctor about tremfya® today.

>> carley: a fox news alert, a manhunt is underway after a 20-year-old mother is shot and killed on the sidewalk in new york while pushing her 3-month-old baby in a stroller. >> joey: the point blank shooting happened right across the street from a playground and school. the children heard the shots ring out. live in the studio with the gripping details. >> the 20-year-old mom was pushing her 3-month-old baby in a stroller when she was shot point-blank in the head by a suspect to came up behind her. this happened in the upper eastside wouldn't say just before 8:30 at night. fortunately the baby wasn't hurt but when first responders got there the mother was unconscious. she was pronounced dead just an hour later at the hospital. mary eric adams blaming that gun violence epidemic for taking so many innocent lives. listen. >> when a mother is pushing a baby carriage down the block, or an individual, a woman, is pushing a baby carriage down the block and is shot point-blank

range, it shows just how this national problem has impacted families. we are going to find this person who is guilty of this horrific crime. we are going to find him and bring him to justice. >> and the young girl playing at a nearby playground says she thought those gunshots were just fireworks. >> i realized, no, this is serious, and that there was a gunshot. it really frightened me because i was right there at the park playing and i would never have thought ever that this would've happened. >> and total crime has surged 38% since this time last year. can lessen is up 50% and robberies up 40%. just to name a few, according to the nypd. the manhattan borough president tweeting about the incident, "i am devastated by this loss. we cannot allow this epidemic of

gun violence to continue." as a last checked, the shooter is still on the loose. back to you. >> carley: thank you so much. here's something you don't hear about every day. a texas sheriff taking the border crisis into his own hands, detaining undocumented individuals and sending them back to mexico while the white house uses taxpayer dollars to fly them across the country. brad cho is serious of the county and he joins us now. good morning to you. what led you to do this, take matters into your own hands? >> yesterday morning we had a pursuit, which is typical these days, and once we got everything straightened out on the scene, the ems crew arrived. we went to the hospital in del rio. they check the individual out, at that point we will turn the individual over to the u.s. border patrol. under their policy, they couldn't take them until he had

been medically cleared from the emergency room at one of the area hospitals. well, there is not a hospital, so we'd have to transport to a facility approximately 35 miles away, and have to have two deputies there, until they were medically cleared. i don't have the resources right now to tie up two deputies. only have six full-time deputies. if i've two in the emergency room, for people not complain of any type of injury, tying up medical staff and having to wait 2-3 hours for them to be medically cleared -- >> carley: so when you see an illegal immigrant in keening county are you as a rule going to take them back to mexico yourself, or was this an isolated incident? >> this wasn't an isolated incident. 9% of the time, a snuggly endeavor, we turn them over to

border patrol. but because the biden administration and policies being put into place by the administration, i didn't have any recourse but to take them back myself. >> carley: no other options paid what do you say to people who criticize and say you don't have the authority to do this? >> i will also place the safety of the residents above the comfort of any illegal entering this country. my job as an elected official is to protect these people. that's my job. that's what i'll continue to do until further notice. >> carley: that's at to get sheriff does. there was this horrific smuggling incident that took place in san antonio about two hours away from you for over 50 people died in the back of a truck in the truck driver was reportedly high on meth at the time. this incident really shocked the conscience of a lot of people who haven't been paying attention to the situation unfolding at the southern border. did it surprise you? >> it was a shock.

he hadn't seen something like that since 2003, 2004, the situation in victoria where there was something similar. but not this extreme. but it's part of this administration. they are not enforcing the border laws, the immigration laws, things like this will continue to happen. the kidnapping, pursuits, the general population in danger, and it hit extremely hard in my part of the country. the groups were carrying watermelon. some of these watermelon areas, the dust kicked up by the people walking through. >> carley: so this is affecting people financially in your area? >> oh, yes. the torn offenses, the broken water lines, the windows that have been damaged. one of the local ranchers has spent expenses to keep his

cattle and livestock in. >> carley: last question before we let you go, president biden said he reversed the policies because he has a more compassionate approach. when you hear the president say something like that, what goes through your head? >> he's not being in fashion at all. because of this open border, this month alone they have recovered three deceased individuals in the brush. the past 20-25 years we are seeing one or two deaths in the brush due to the weather, the heat, the cold, whatever the case may be. but so far we've had five and last year we had 17, and that's the way up from the normal 1-2. it's not being very compassionate. i have on camera people carrying their kids across the country and not being apprehended at all. so there's no compassion. people are dying in the brush. >> carley: oh, my goodness, quite situation in her hands. thank you for telling your story this morning. >> god bless y'all.

>> joey: gun rights groups want the california attorney general to resign after his office published the personal information of thousands of gun owners with concealed permits including the names and addresses of judges and police officers. the executive director of the group, "gun of the news of california," saying this is so egregious that he should resign. he's placed tens of thousands of law-abiding citizens in california in harm's way. that is not excusable with an "i'm sorry." the attorney general has responded saying that the unauthorized release of personal information is unacceptable and falls far short of my expectations of the department. the date it was published in a new portal attempting to improve transparency and information sharing for firearms-related data and it's still under known whether the leak was intentional or by accident. and public safety is one of the top issues for candidates

running for governor in georgia. incumbent brian kemp and repeat democrat now battling over how to reduce crime. ♪ ♪ >> she said she wants to reallocate. that's code word for defunding the police and send the money elsewhere. if you want to do something like that, if its priority, you can find the money elsewhere besides defunding the police. stew in an uphill battle in the midterms particularly the senate race. raphael warnock is a leading republican challenger herschel walker. >> carley: kevin mccarthy making this promise to kick adam schiff and eric swalwell off the powerful house intelligence committee if he finds himself back in charge of the house after the elections. >> a promise you this, when i'm speaker, he will not be on the intel committee anymore. and you know what else? eric swalwell outcome either. i don't know if this is a high bar but if you have relations with a chinese spy you shouldn't

be allowed to be on the intel committee. they are going to raise the bar. >> carley: you may remember congressman eric swalwell sent shock waves throughout when it was reported he had a relationship. they removed him from his committee assignments and also going after adam schiff after one of the democrats' former staffers allowed late-night comedian stephen colbert's crew to trespass on capitol hill. of course also playing a role in the impeachment trial. oh, boy. hundreds of flights already canceled just in time for the holiday weekend. what fun! washington the stepping on to find out what's going on with the airline. >> joey: and how about this for the fourth of july? 40,000 national guard troops could lose their jobs over the vaccine mandate. congressman wants to stop that from happening, next. ♪ ♪

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almost 90% say the country is headed in the wrong direction. >> carley: cheryl casone here with a look at the numbers and they are not good. >> they are not. good morning to both of you. a staggering 85% of americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction and in addition to that you got 79% describing the american economy as poor. digging deeper into these numbers, eight in ten democrats say the country is going in the wrong direction as we head toward the november midterms. with inflation sitting at 8.6%, gas prices hovering around $5 a gallon, mortgage rates have been rising, pessimism is growing. >> joey: listen, i think that crime is pushing up business in chicago. is that right? >> it's actually plenty of cities, but really in the windy city in chicago business owners say enough is enough. they cannot continue to operate .burglary is up 31%, brought

preop 21%. darren bailey running for governor's hope and change that. it's because chicago is the century city and illinois the sanctuary state. there is absolutely no check on gang activity coming up from the border. human trafficking, drug trafficking, they are rampant problems in the city of chicago and they are simply going unchecked. >> and last week the company citadel announced moving out of chicago because of crime. >> carley: and a big mess of the airlines and now washington is getting involved. is that making it better or worse? >> at this point, who knows? it can't get much worse but watch, it will. two senators coming on airlines to adjust the chaos in the skies. "flight cancellations and significant delays have real-world consequences for the travelers he may miss vacation."

yesterday there were over 5500 delays, just over 600 cancellations. while the airlines acknowledge the storages, a group of the largest airlines responding to that letter saying it should be noted that airlines have no incentive to delay or cancel flights and only do so in circumstances where it's dictated. although media reports that narrative usually does not consider systemwide challenges are the larger context. just to be clear this weekend -- i'm going to prepare you for this now because i won't be around tomorrow. an estimated 48 million americans are expected to travel this weekend. 3.5 million are planning to fly. emphasize the word "planning." be prepared. ctu may be here tomorrow. >> this is true. >> carley: best of luck will that. >> i'll be filing a report for

the airport. >> carley: don't put out there, you might have to! thanks. >> joey: 40,000 army national guard troops could be fired due to the covid-19 vaccine mandate. virginia governor glenn youngkin in a group of virginia lawmakers are pushing to postpone the order. virginia g.o.p. sent a letter to the defense secretary and joins me now. good morning. listen, is covid a greater threat to our military than not having men and women in the ranks? >> it's unbelievable that this administration doesn't seem to even understand with the military exists for. instead of having the most efficient fighting machine they are forcing this ridiculous policy on the military at a time where we can least afford it and recruitment numbers are down. but this administration has said that climate is the grace that the country. that's what they've told the military, that they are a bunch of racist white supremacists that need to be rooted out. instead of the emphasis on

military readiness, it is covid compliance. we have these people vulnerable to be discharged affected tomorrow if they don't get a vaccine they don't want and don't need. steel and we've got a graphic year, 3,464 have already been sent out of the military, they been reprimanded. to the point is that his thousands. out of a service that we have reported all week long, not one of our branches are meeting their recruitment goals. we are having trouble finding americans who want to serve and are qualified and i we are going to disqualify them over a vaccine mandate. in your letter you talked about natural herd immunity, exemptions of that nature. where do you think the secretary of defense is on this? >> this is where the administration's. you have this unconstitutional vaccine mandate that no american should be forced to comply with, let alone these healthy young military personnel. everyone has a level of natural

immunity or vaccine immunity by now. to force 10% of our force to be discharged because of this is unconscionable. two and half years into this pandemic it's becoming endemic and it's unbelievably administration would do this to our military personnel. we played with the federal government to rescind this mandate indefinitely because it shouldn't be forced upon our troops. >> joey: do you have bipartisan support on this? any democratic leaders support you on this? >> of course no democrat has joined us in criticizing this policy or to stand up for the constitutional rights of americans or, for that matter, our first responders, front-line workers, medical personnel who have been forced to comply, and the most courageous among us, those who serve in a military. >> joey: do you think they will change direction on this and allow these 40,000 service members to stay in the national guard? >> i think they are probably -- they probably just can't believe how can the russians invaded ukraine with

that whatever percentage of the military is vaccinated. or how they could invade the country that wearing their covid masks. they want or how they can pull them away from the client or to invade ukraine and if the force is savers enough to achieve victory. this is how the administration looks at the military. they think it's a social experiment and they are trying to force the radical views about our military and it's hurting them at a time when their only meeting about 40% of our berkman standards and roughly about 40% of american males age 18-24 are vaccinated. so we are writing them off and saying that they are not qualified to serve in a military because they haven't gotten a vaccine even though they have natural immunity by this time. >> joey: we need good men and women guarding and defending our country and hopefully they have an opportunity to do so. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for your service and sacrifice. >> joey: yes, sir. all right, vice president kamala harris is backtracking on these comments. >> have you talked to president biden about reelection?

>> joe biden is running for reelection and i will be his ticket mate, so stopped. >> carley: so are they running or not? mike huckabee is here next, but first let's check in on what's coming up on "fox & friends." good morning. >> good morning, carley and joey and everybody watching. coming up on "fox & friends" about 10 minutes from now, and a rare move, president biden is set to take questions from reporters. our own correspondent, peter doocy, is live in the room. we will have his remarks live from madrid. meanwhile, back at home, a member of the california school district is calling for people to boycott the fourth of july. huh? we will tell you why. end key inflation reports at about 8:30 this morning. how bad could it be for wall street and main street? the federal reserve chairman assessment on the u.s. economy

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♪ ♪ >> the biden administration is not enforcing the immigration laws. it is enticing people to make this very dangerous trek, causing them to lose lives. the one that's texas governor greg abbott demanding action and accountability from the white house after 53 migrants were found dead inside a tractor trailer. >> carley: former arkansas governor mike huckabee joins us now. this is such a tragedy and it's not just the people migrating to the united states who are dying.

it's also the americans who are dying because of sentinel fentanylpoisoning taking place s country. i think it's a game of messaging and the democrat messages that their open border policies are compassionate. are republicans doing enough to counter that? >> i don't think anybody can look at this horrific scene that unfolded down in texas this week. 53 people died a miserable, painful, excruciating, and totally avoidable death because of the human trafficking. that's happening largely because the policies of the biden administration, what i call the minnie pearl philosophy. "y'all come." they ignore the law and that is what is significant. if you don't like the border like you have the right to get a change. don't have the right to ignore

it and pretend it doesn't exist, and the result is 53 people died in that truck. several of these are still in critical condition and may yet die. as you mentioned, and this is so important, when people think the border crisis stops at the border, it doesn't. it goes all over the country with every death from fentanyl, every type of human trafficking where a 9-year-old is turned into a sex slave. it's horrible and unacceptable and like it or not they own this. >> joey: speaking of the administration, here's what border czar harris had to say is today. >> how the governor of that state responded really highlights part of the problem, because his response, whether it's 50 dead bodies in the state, is to go straight to politics instead of dealing with the realities of the issue.

>> joey: kind of makes you wonder, what are the realities of the sheet? this seems like the biggest unforced error of the administration. >> i don't know that kamala harris has made sense of anything she has said in the past six months. it's hard to understand if she is just speaking words randomly from the dictionary or if she's trying to make a point. the point she was trying to make their was lost on me because she was talking about the realities. the reality, miss vice president, is 53 dead people in the back of the truck, because of your policies, and you are in charge of it. jill biden said you are going to be the czar, as you mentioned, joey. what kind of policies end up letting people just cross the border at will to be turned into? this is horrible. and why we don't understand that this is not about the politics of who gets to come, this welcomes people to migrate. we are a great country because of immigrants. thank god for them. but i don't thank god for the kind of exploitation of human beings that we are seeing where people are making millions

of dollars exploiting the most vulnerable and the poorest people from third world countries and pretending they are going to be escorted to a better life when they are often escorted to slavery or their deaths. >> carley: maybe you can translate something she said earlier about 2024. >> joe biden is running for reelection and i will be his ticket mate. full stop. that's it. >> carley: she issued a clarification saying the president intends to run and, if he does, i'll be his ticket mate. we'll run to get a pay what you make of this strange clarification? >> i think she's trying desperately to hang onto the job, full stop. this is so funny to watch her on one hand trying to say "absolutely, we're going to be dead." the next day, "well , we intend to, but we are not sure. they asked her to back down a

little bit and she did. the only thing you can be assured of with her statement is the next day she'll make some type of clarification to it, because it didn't make sense the first day. this bt with the passage of time, sometimes you need those clarifications. thank you for joining us this morning. we appreciate having you on. >> you bet. thank you so much. >> carley: you, too. fox & friends starts now. ♪ ♪ >> in new york city a woman was killed after she was shot in the head while walking with a baby stroller. the gun violence epidemic. >> at the national problem impacting families. >> how the governor of that state responded was to go straight to politics. >> vice president kamala harris attacked texas governor greg abbott on the horrific deaths of 53 migrants. >> i forgot that kamala harris was the borders czar. they do absolutely nothing.