>> carley: happening right now house speaker pelosi is getting ready to leave taiwan after ignoring china's threats and meeting with taiwan president overnight. china staging military drills sending jets into taiwan's air space in apparent display of its military might. you're watching "fox and friends first" on wednesday morning, i'm carley shimkus. >> todd: i'm todd piro. nikki haley saying, as china ups aggression america needs to show

we won't let beijing temper tantrum dictate. kevin court has the latest. >> good to be with you, america's solidarity with taiwan is more important today as the world faces choice says between democracy. nancy pelosi is just about to depart after a brief stop in tapei taiwan. she said this trip is about america's unwaivering commitment to the country. >> in terms of governance we commend taiwan for being one of the freest societies in the world. we come in friendship and leadership and want the world to recognize that. >> china condemning this highest

level u.s. visit in 25 years as threat to peace and stability in the taiwan strait with the ambassador issues threat, the u.s. must pay the price for its own mistake and we mean what we say. despite its position it doesn't support taiwan independence, the white house says the speaker is entitled to travel as she sees fit and threats from beijing would be met measure for measure. >> there is nothing like the american military and spirit. our people will be ready to go, we have the seven fleet ready to roll. it will be a very measured response. >> on capitol hill, there has been bipartisan support for the visit with gop leaders like senator lindsey graham saying we

can't let china tell us what to do. we'll k50e7 an eye on the pending departure of the house speaker. >> todd: kevin, thank you. let us bring in senior fellow at hudson institute. rebecca, a lot has transpired, your reaction to all of it. >> i think this is great for speaker pelosi, defied president biden and xi jinping who did not want to see the speaker of the house go to taiwan. it is nancy pelosi here maintaining the status qu, there is continuity here and precedent here. china is moving the goal post and saying, you can't come here, she can and china does is not dictate the travel plans for the speaker of the house.

the biden administration could take her moxie and courage here. >> carley: newt gingrich went 25 years ago, why the severe reaction from china this time? >> well, china was really mad when speaker gingrich did this in the '70s and the ccp have been working hard to push the united states out of the region. china wants to dictate economic terms in the region and replace the u.s. in banking and trade. they have been working on the military to say, i will threaten you and you are going to listen to me and stay out and here we are and pelosi is saying, no, after all these years we have a stronger military and the resolve and you can't do it. it is upsetting to the communist party, kudo says to pelosi

claiming she is closer to u.s. policy than joe biden is. >> todd: how much do you blame joe biden's leadership for putting nancy pelosi in this position, position where china would think of threatening the speaker of the house of the united states of america? president biden has been weak on every front and foreign policy, every time a country says don't do this, he has agreed. nancy pelosi is saying, did we not learn anything from russia and ukraine, the time to defend democracy is before there is invasion to communicate there is american resolve. i blame president biden for putting nancy pelosi in this hard spot. now is time to defend the speaker, commend her and own this policy so there is not

perception of divide with the more than people. >> carley: this trip was supposed to be a secret, but it was leaked to the media and according to tom cotton the leak came from the white house in an effort to dissuade her, which put her in danger. what do you think about that? should the white house be held accountable for that? it's true. >> yeah, it is an egregious mistake, if true, we don't know, the military was said to be opposed to it cht the american military will defend the speaker so i think that was a major mistake and it really kind of gives comfort to the enemy to think they might be right or might have a point if they

oppose and react to the speaker's visit. it is important president biden says no, he commends the speaker and defends the trip and the united states does not cow down to our adversaries and we can demonstrate we have free indo-pacific. >> todd: we need to be rowing in the same direction on china. thank you. the fentanyl crisis overwhelming wisconsin and the county is now declaring it a death crisis. >> carley: this morning, paul pelosi faces a judge today on dui charges and you won't believe what we learned about the night of the crash coming up. psoriatic arthritis, made my joints stiff, swollen, painful. emerge tremfyant®. tremfya® is approved to help reduce joint symptoms in adults

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>> todd: we're back with a fox weather alert. death toll in the largest wildfire of the year stands at four. 5500 acres have burned. the cause of the fire is unknown and remains under investigation. >> carley: in kentucky, hundreds reported missing have been accounted for issue the death

toll is at 37 issue but could go higher. wolf counties the devastation is nothing like he's seen before. here is the fox weather forecast, good morning. >> janice: tragic. we're watching kentucky. today we have period of dryness, that will help out, but we have more rain in the forecast. we have a front across the upper midwest great lakes, bringing stronger storms and flash flood threat today will stretch from the midwest toward the great lakes, kentucky, you are not in this today, tomorrow we'll see rain in the forecast. active wildfires, we have 45 of them incredible acreage is on fire from california through texas.

we showed this map yesterday, we are by far toward what we were at 2017 and the wildfire season continues to burn. fire weather alert toward northern plains, we don't have moisture, it is dry and warm. on the flip side, area typically dry, getting monsoon season and it has delivered for areas into extreme to exceptional drought and that is moving into parts of nevada, not the areas we need right now in california, but we will take it where the next seven days we get several inches of rainfall, the problem is flash flooding and the desert area, it is run off, flash flood watches and warnings posted for this area and the heat is another big story and an ongoing story for parts of the southern plains toward northwest.

the tropics, this time of year we are following things in the atlantic, next five days we don't have anything to report, but it takes just one bad hurricane to make it a terrible year. flooding in kentucky is not tropical, it doesn't take tropical entity to cause massive amounts of destruction. foxweather.com. -- fentanyl declared a community health crisis. innocent people continue to lose their life to the drug including 19-year-old logan rockwall who died last years. logan's mother -- both join me now. paul, i'll start with you, fentanyl is a huge issue in cities and towns across the country, why did you decide to

declare this a health crisis in waukesha? >> it came to a point where we said enough is enough. we've been working with the state and trying to get the federal government to realize how important this is. we need to step up to explain to people in waukesha what it is and how devastating it can be and from the law enforcement side, how to stop the trek of drugs coming through to the county. we decided to look at this community health crisis to inn gauge our county and counties around the state to say enough is enough, step up and do something. >> carley: erin, you lost your son logan to fentanyl poisoning on valentine's day, can you tell us what happened? >> yeah, thank you, carley,

appreciate that. we got a phone call on the evening of valentine's day. he had just started the university of wisconsin in milwaukee, he was a kid who struggles with anxiety, depression, we received a call on 8:37 valentine's night telling us to go down to the university. we drove down there and found out at the university that he had died in his dorm room about 12 hours earlier that morning. not the message we wanted on valentine's day. >> carley: absolutely not, and 19 years old, he had his life ahead of him. when i was a kid, i think parent's biggest fear was drunk driving and when you went to parties, parents take your keys

and everybody was fine. now kids, if they take one pill, they don't stand a chance. what would you like parents to know, something you wish you had known before your son tragically died? >> a couple things issue the keys, that is one thing we've talked about, a lot of parents still do that, take keys, they don't know the kids walking in the door and the mental health issues these kids have. we don't have control if we're offering kids to come into our home, that happened with logan, other people allowed him to do things in their home and that wasn't helping. we were struggling as a family and trying to get him help. you can never say not my child,

we were that family, that family, not perfect, but normal family, we did everything we possibly could do with our kids, crafts and arts and vacation and birthdays. if someone would have told us logan was going to die from taking a pill, i would say, you are crazy, not my child. never not my child, it is too important. >> carley: it takes courage and strength to come tell your story, we thank you for that and paul, what you are doing in waukesha is critical. this is a national issue, paul farrow, erin rockwall, thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. turning to this, florida governor ron desantis turning down invitation to "the view" over past statements like this

one. >> what we're seeing in florida, i can't comprehend. this is insurance and climate crisis and ron desantis is focusing on drag queens. >> todd: joe concha joins us next. ♪ ing i'd like to thank our sponsor liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. contestants ready? go! only pay for what you need. jingle: liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.

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contributor, joins us now. some people say this post was dangerous, others say it is plain weird. where do you stand on this? >> joe: if i owned vox i would have this senior correspondent suspended and would consider firing him. earlier this summer when a man was charged with the attempted murder of brett kavanaugh and this guy puts this rhetoric in the public domain, it has no place whatsoever. quit pretending to be a journalist and go work for aoc, if you look at his twitter feed, that is that toxic and partisan. vox will not do anything, they agree with this rhetoric. we've gotten to the point where

we're putting up obituariess of supreme court justices that are alive and it is okay? >> todd: it is sick and not funny and ron desantis declining invite from "the view" to appear on the show. "the view" emailed the office on friday asking to arrange appearance for governor ron desantis, we would be honored. here are lovely things "the view's" host said about ron desantis, called him a death fantis. his policies are anti-black, anti-gay and anti-lgbtq and ron desantis is negligent homicidal socio path, all joking aside, did ron desantis make the right

call or should he have confronted them? >> joe: i think he's a trail blazer, no republican should go anywhere near "the view," it is not the show it was even six years ago and not what barbara walters had led for all the years when she launched it 25 years ago. strong opinions is one thing, unhinged, reckless, persona attacks the other. when you're a conservative on the show, and your name is anna, youure not conservative, she voted for joe biden and ron desantis, you can't call yourself conservative. unless being ambushed and debate not based in fact are reality, but based on personal fears, go

on the show. if you are sane and sober, stay away from it, there is zero upside except giving them ratings. >> carley: i understand ron desantis is coming from. joe, you are always welcome here, we would never talk ill of you, thank you for joining us. >> joe: carley, you are like my best friend, if we were on an island and there was only one way to get off, after i got off, i would speak warmly of you and say how fond i was of you. >> todd: joe concha not a sociopath until that. paul pelosi set to be arained against his dui arrest, criminal complaint revealing unsteady on feet, flashing police courtesy card the night he crashed. pelosi blew 0.08% on breath

allieser. that is not easy issue he slurred his speech. driver of the jeep sustaining injury, which could make this offense a felony. >> when you and i spoke about this case, we thought it was a fender bender, there were serious injuries, ongoing headaches, can't lift with his arm, dui with physical injury it needs to be charged as a felony. >> todd: pelosi's attorney may enter a plea on his behalf. -- few thousand votes, sean duffy here to react to that and other major races of the night. >> carley: joe rock rogan calling out the white house to redefine a recession, you will hear about that next. >> people think it is trivial

talking about the economic downturn, it is not trivial, we've always used that term, recession.

>> todd: primary season in full swing with the races for governor heating up in arizona and michigan. >> lake holding a narrow lead and taking on whitmer in the

gubernatorial election this november. brooke singman live to break down the details, it was an exciting night for us. >> brooke: it was, guys issue good morning. s we are waiting on results from the arizona republican race for governor issue race yet to be called. lake has a slight lead over robeshg eson. blake masters is expected to win against jim layman and attorney general mark bernovic. tudor dixon, dixoshg n warning gretchen carlson the people want her out. >> we are at the bottom in education, have a problem with cities, my message to gretchen whitmer, your record stands

strong and it is bad and people of michigan want to get rid of it, we're going to bring michigan back. >> brooke: congressman meyer voted to impeach the former president conceding to gibbs. meyer called out the democrats party to give his opponent a boost. in missouri, eric schmidt won out to win the gop senate primary there. >> now is the time to unify in the fight against radical progressives, they want to change this country forever. and right now, right now we need proven conservative fighters to stop them in their tracks. >> in washington state

republican incum bnt butler voted to impeach former president trump is lagging behind democrat pereshg z in the primary. and dan newhouse is holding on to slim lead over the democrat in his washington race. congresswoman bush defeating challenger in rashida tlaib advanced after winning in detroit. in kansas voters rejected amendment, the kansas senate vote is first referendum since supreme court overturned roe v. wade. >> carley: bring in sean duffy, former congressman, good morning, great to see you. interesting night, several trump candidates won or are in the lead, good night for the squad

with bush and rashida tlaib advancing, what are your takeaways? >> sean: i didn't know you and todd were going to be stuck on an island. >> todd: that was joe concha, not me. >> sean: it was weird, we'll leave it alone for a second. look at the endorse ments for trump and it is golden. moderate states will have to navigate, there are moderates who don't like donald trump and it will be interesting to see how they play it and how it pans out. it is interesting in arizona, lake is up by a little bit. this was rally you saw against trump and pence going head-to-head.

lake is ahead, i'm surprised how close it is in arizona and talk about the voting down of the abortion ban in kansas, i think you are seeing pro-life women and a lot of pro-life women who don't want to see abortion fully gone, they want exemptions in the law. this is still new and early and indication of how abortion bans may play across the state, one i disagree with the kansas voters. we want the voters to decide themselves. >> todd: department of justice suing idaho over near total abortion ban, first legal action from the biden administration in response to overturning roe v. wade. biden expected to sign a bill

today -- people traveling out of state. i thought the supreme court said abortion is for states and voters to decide, why is biden doj and biden himself through executive action trying to undo the will of the people of the stateless? >> this is a fascinating lawsuit, you have states that take medicaid money or hospitals that take medicaid money, the lawsuit says you have the ability to provide abortion for the life of the mother, when you take medicaid money, you have to provide stabilizing care for mothers, they have a baby and in that life-threatening, you shouldn't have to wait until they lose their life to stabilize a patient in the hospital. this is semantics, the biden administration is going to sue over. the supreme court is clear states have the right to choose

and to force hospitals to provide abortion, taking it away from the voters, which is not what the supreme court side. the biden administration will lose, they will show voters they are fighting, it is about politics, not winning in court. >> carley: i agree, see how much more fighting they will do, if it is idaho thing or more states to come. thank you for joining us, we appreciate seeing you. >> sean: great to see you guys. cups of coffee all over the map. >> carley: todd said you could come to the island. too. >> sean: you and joe can go to the island yourself. >> carley: is this a candidate you would like to see in the

white house? >> the world will end in 12 years if we don't address climate change, your biggest issue is how to pay for it? talk about reduction of budget and defunding $6 million nypd budget. >> todd: inevitable, inevitable, i can't when she says inevitable. aoc against donald trump in 2024, we're unpacking this know wo next. my mod you

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>> carley: one democratic strategist says squad leader alexandria ocasio-cortez is the party's best option in 2024, fewer democrats are willing to back joe biden. democratic voters want the party to nam nat somebody other than joe biden in 2024. democrats need aoc to meet this historic moment. aoc known for attracting media attention is one of many names floated as possible alternative

to the president for the 2024 election. polls show 70% of voters want another candidate for 2024. we don't know if kyrsten sinema will support the manchin bill, she will make a decision after parliament review, manchester and kyrsten sinema were seen talking yesterday, he called it a nice talk, kyrsten sinema vote could decide if the bill will pass since democrats have razor-thin majority. the bill is a scaled back version of build back better, it calling for climate spending $64 million in obama-care subsidy and minimum corporate tax. >> todd: and joe rogan tearing into president biden and his administration for trying to redefine what recession is.

people think it is trivial talking about economic downturn, it is not trivial, we've use the term recession, they are changing the definition, which is terrible, it should be something people get angry about, you are -- with definition in order to pretend you are doing a good job, what a bunch of weasels. >> todd: rogan says wikipediaallowed 115 edities of recessions. hope the people will stop altering the definition. 45% of people are seeing increase in food banks as americans try to avoid breaking the bank at the grocery store. we can talk numbers, you are on

the ground and see reality each and everyday, how bad is it right now? >> it is a tough place with donations shrinking, many feeding america food banks find themselves 20 to 30% less inventory. lines have gotten longer back to what we experienced during covid and families who have gotten a raise are now because of inflated cost, not able to pay rents, child care, ushg tillity and struggling to put food on the table for children. >> todd: you explained how difficult it is for you as a food bank to cover increased cost due to inflation, focus on the clients. describe typical client and how that client is different from three, four, five years ago? >> many families are working,

parents are doing all they can to keep up, but just not doing it, when families tell you they need food and can't afford gas to come get it, we spoke with an 80 year old on fixed income taking care of their 102-year-old parent, high healthcare cost, inability to get food, desperate situations and when someone is trying to cope, they are invoking strategy, eating on the cheap, more carbs and starchs in their diet. they need nutritious food to be healthy and that is being sacrificed, causes families to leave the grocery store with less food in grocery cart and leaning on food banks toic maup the conference. >> todd: joe rogan has a plan to

end hunger, it is abomination any person is hungry in the free world. a fox news alert, house speaker nancy pelosi met with leaders in taiwan overnight. live in tapei, china threatening consequences over this visit, congresswoman claudia tenney here next. >> carley: will, good morning. >> will: this morning on "fox and friends" expert analysis on speaker pelosi's trip to steins including mike pompeo and for defense secretary mark espert, here on "fox and friends" after winning republican nom nagsz for

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>> a fox news alert. house speaker nancy pelosi about to be wheeled up from taiwan after defying chinese warnings and landing on the island yesterday. we just saw the plane about to taxi if you lose the plane live in taipei, taiwan. china staging military drills near the island sending jets into taiwan's airspace and display of its military might. the white house with this

response. >> as we said that i had yesterday, no reason for try not to take what is a perfectly legitimate and consistent travel by the speaker of the house and turn it in to some pretext for aping up the tensions or creating some crisis or conflict with is no reason for that. >> cooks ruben biber at the house to exist. as we just showed the house speaker is about to leave taiwan as we speak. this trip received bipartisan support between is also threatening consequences. sing the u.s. must pay the price for its own mistakes. we mean what we say. what do you think now that she's about to leave the fallout will be? >> first of all it should have been a bipartisan trip.

they should have been high-profile republicans in the unified effort to show that we support taiwan and taiwanese interest. it's critically important and things have changed in china. we've always had this policy of strategic ambiguity. with the taiwan relations act was signed it was 1979. china was one-tenth of the economic power that it is. economic power is the essence of political power. china is dominating all over the south china sea. their growth and dominance is wide taiwan is so important. because they can dominate japan, the philippines, south korea are all in that region. they're going to continue to move into asia and south america and africa and other regions where they're going to be dominating the gross domestic product which is good to put us

at a disadvantage. i think it's time to change the strategy and the biden administration has been very weak and very unclear. clarity is what can i change the situation. adult support forever wars had coag exteriors we don't need to go. it's about where the united states strategic interests are in the world and our economic interest as well. >> as we look live at the airstrip. you mentioned joe biden's administration and you mentioned the lack of clarity. congresswoman as you noted nancy pelosi of joe biden are in the same party. they were diversely a post on this issue. many are speculating that's because joe biden is compromised when it comes to china, do you agree? >> absolutely.

joe biden is the most compromised president on china. when it was vice president he flew on air force to with his son hunter and weeks later produced a huge contract with hunter's company. right now china is critically important. joe biden is compromised. he puts out mixed signals. joe biden says one thing about supporting taiwan and that his staff walks it back. you've seen representative or spokesman kirby talk about being in support of 1 about what organa do about taiwan? i once economic interest with the world in the united states is critically important. if it's time for strategic clarity. we need to support taiwan. but this is a tough issue when

we have a feckless and weak president who is not standing up to america's enemies like china and adversaries around the world where they are dominating and using their economic power was just putting the american power in down like to party. because i think it would be nice to see. it's interesting because so many republicans i spoke to said they would gladly go on the trip of the house speaker. it does: the question the future of the united states. you think you're doing enough to take our supply chain out of china in the event we could be entering cold war down the road of this destination? >> of course not because first of all we have just to bring our supply chain back. bring our supply chain back and also as the democrats move us to

fast to do this green energy departments we don't have the ability to produce the lithium batteries to run our economy and our society the way it is not with the modern technology. this is a problem and we need to start bringing those supply chains back. >> we appreciate your time on this fizzing news morning. thank you very much. fox and fred's continues our life coverage. enjoy your day. >> the president of taiwan declaring solidarity. >> in michigan peter dixon's meanwhile in attorney general eric smith leads a packed field of republicans. >> now is the time to unify. a new set of my current arriving in washington, d.c., overnight. still not sitting well