♪ >> todd: the battle of the buses continues between texas governor greg abbott and new york mayor eric adams as adams threatens to take on abbott's reelection campaign by sending buses of new yorkers to campaign against abbott and texas vis-a-vis bus. you're watching fox & friends first on a thursday morning i'm todd piro. >> carley: adams and abbott it's tough can one change their name for us. i'm carley shimkus, as the biden administration keeps the boarders wide open, where is democrat outrage over this? a new report from the dhs inspector general reveals the

biden administration is obtaining illegal immigrants for ten times longer than the legal limit with some migrants being held in confined spaces for over a month todd: ashlolight the o struggles of the open border policies and the effect it has we have to, for the good of america, we have to get him out of office. >> ashley: abbott responding with the quote from the clint eastwood classic dirty harry. >> go ahead, mary, make my day. there could hardly be anything better. this is rank hypocrisy by the new york governor, by the new york mayor. >> ashley: mayor adams has alleged migrants are being forced onto the buses but abbott says they are giving these voluntary consent forms on your screen. meanwhile in the last five weeks under operation lone star texas state troopers have returned more than 3800 migrants to the border. this all comes as the biden administration ended the trump era remain in mexico policy. back to you guys todd: all right ashley, thank you. texas rancher lynn allen says we're headed in a scary direction under biden. listen. >> because right now this country is in a crisis. it's in a recession. we've got food shortages in the food bank and guess who's going to be paying for these migrants? the working family. it's just like, this, this biden administration right here, it seems to me, and everybody that i talk to, it seems to me all they're wanting to do is one

thing and that's tearing the united states of america down. cut the heart out of the working person >> todd: in just under a year record setting border encounters topping 1.8 million. >> carley: a fox news alert. victims are injured by a gunman who barricaded himself inside his los angeles county home. officers responded to a fight between two brothers. cops say one brother opened fire injuring the other and hitting the officer. a woman, who was not related to the suspect was injured by sha rap nal. the suspected gun man was taken into custody after a nearly seven hour standoff with swat teams. all three victims are said to be in stable condition. >> progressive la county district attorney george gascón charging the man accused of gunning down an off-duty officer in broad daylight with murder. the 20 year old has been booked half a dozen times in the past year alone. he was arrested for carjacking

in january but authorities said they didn't have the evidence to bring charges. former deputy district attorney kathy kay believes gascón and his woke policies are why the alleged killer was not behind bars. >> any reasonable person looking at these facts, and this particular person's rap sheet, would have recognized the danger there. but the problem is that the policies that he's put in place made it impossible for the prosecutors. >> carley: rookie officer was killed when the suspect fired multiple shots at him during an attempted carjacking at an la fitness parking lot this happened on monday >> trump's legal team is demanding to see the search warrant that allowed fbi agents to raid the former president's mar-a-lago home and republicans want to know how this raid was approved >> todd: plus, remember this? >> dr. fauci, when you're ready, it's your pitch.

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♪ >> todd: hunter biden hopping on air force one alongside his father president biden as the pair departs for a lavish family vacation just days after biden's doj ransacked former president's home. >> carley: brooke singman has been covering this from the start and has all the developments this morning. brooke, good morning. >> brooke: carley, todd, good morning. the biden family vacation to kiawah island comes just two days after the fbi raided former president trump's mar-a-lago residence in florida. critics of the unannounced search are pointing out what they call a double standard given that hunter biden himself is the subject of a federal investigation into his finances and foreign business dealings. and the owner of the delaware repair shop who blew the whistle on hunter's intimate laptop has no doubt that the fbi is partial to the first family. listen. >> it's a blatant double standard. my family and i have witnessed

the bias in the fbi as far as going back to october of 2019 when they refused to touch the hunter biden laptop with a 10-foot pole. >> brooke: meanwhile trump's legal team expected to seek a court order to force the fbi and doj to turn over a physical copy of the search warrant with a list of what was taken from the mar-a-lago property. trump attorney lindsey halligan watched it all go down from afar as lawyers were being forbidden from being in the same rooms as fbi agents during the raid. >> there were about 30-40 fbi agents that i saw, five of which were wearing suits, the rest were in cargo pants, masks and gloves, and they basically had unfettered access to the property. they refused to talk to me. i the albany times union and conservative group judicial watch have also filed requests to unseal the warrant and judge

bruce reinhart who rubber stamped the raid has ordered the doj to respond by monday. the incident also shedding light on some disturbing information into reinhart's background, including his ties to associates of jeffrey epstein, and repeated donations to trump adverse areas. and republican members of the house oversight committee are demanding answers about the role the national archives played in the search saying, quote, the fbi and nara's behavior towards president trump deserves an explanation. the seeming weaponization of the federal government against president biden's political rivals cannot go unchecked. and, guys, the lawmakers are demanding a briefing on the fbi's raid by wednesday. carley, todd. >> carley: all right brooke singman live for us. thank you brooke >> let's bring in jemele jaffer law clerk to score justice neil gorsuch and founder and director of the national security institute. good morning to you. there have been so many accusations that this raid was politically motivated. are you priced that merrick

garland or christopher wray haven't come out and defended themselves? >> i think they're in a tough position. obviously there's an ongoing grand jury proceeding. the justice department and everyone involved in the grand jury proceeding are restricted by the rules of the grand jury that don't allow you to discuss publicly what the grand jury's investing, the details of that investigation, what's the basis for any warrant that might have been granted or what the results of any warrant that was executed might have been. >> carley: yeah, but doesn't merrick garland make those rules? so, you know, he's the top -- he's the head guy in the doj, so he could easily explain why this raid took place. >> carley great point. i think you're right while the federal court restricts what the grand jury is doing no doubt that the fbi and the attorney general knew this would be april controversial thing, the first time in history that the former president's house has been searched in a potential criminal proceeding. they knew they would have to defend it. the question becomes what's the

defense going to be, what's the arguments in favor of investing president trump in this case and conducting a search warrant there at his resist commence mar-a-lago. >> todd: jemele what i don't get the judge in this case that signed off on the warrant bruce reinhart recused himself from a trump case literally weeks ago. shouldn't he have recused himself from this case, too? >> it's a great question, you know, hard to know why judge reinhart made the decision to recuse himself in the prior case whether it was lawyers he knew personally, had been involved with or knew something about the case or the like. there could be a variety of reasons and judges are pretty careful, laws that require them to recuse in certain instances so if he didn't recuse here that is something that can be raised by the parties and can be litigated down the road but at least for now it appears that while he had recused in this case he doesn't have to recuse here for whatever reason. we don't know what the basis was of his prior recusal. >> carley: a piece out today

sights two government officials saying the raid was not politically motivated they were just looking for those classified documents for the national archives. and here's the kicker, they say it was specifically timed for when form president trump wasn't home because they wanted to keep this a low-profile event. >> todd: well done. >> carley: what a spectacular fail on that one. >> well, look, i think that, you know, no matter when they would have done this, this would have been a high profile event. they had to know this had to be decided at the highest levels of the justice department. any time you issue a warrant against a former president's home given it's never been done before, you know, there was no doubt this was going to get a lot of press coverage. so the timing seems hard to believe they wanted to try to lower the profile. that said the justice department does have obligation to investigate potential federal crimes and the question was what was the president doing with these documents at his house, did he declassify them? because the president has declassification authority. did he declassify them before he took them? is that a defense. these are all things that will

come out if and when doj actually decides, the justice department decides to bring charges and then has to subject any of what he's doing to a jury and court of public opinion. >> todd: great insight always great to have somebody who walked to walk so they can talk the talk. appreciate it >> democrats ready to spend billions of your taxpayer dollars on climate initiatives and the irs with the vote on their spending bill set for tomorrow. but a vote to fund the police off the agenda. >> carley: jimmy failla was audited when he was making 20 grand a year. he's ready to

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sneer important freeway. meteorologist here with our fox weather forecast. >> good morning, we continue to see dry weather on the west coast and that means more fires. at least potentially more fires because the winds are high, the air is really dry and they still need some rain. now for your thursday running into thursday evening, northern california up across the pacific northwest still a couple areas there where more fires could break out. obviously it has been so dry for so long. now you look across the country and it continues to be, yes, portions of the west coast where even more monsoonal rains on the interior west dry on the west coast otherwise rainy across the country and actually cooler here on this thursday morning as you're looking at a lot of temperatures in the 60s and 70s. a week ago, couple days ago these would have been up in the 80s. one spot really cooling off after a big heat wave over the weekend and beginning part of this week is new york city. one last day, the entire northeast. one last day where temperatures are going to be hot and sticky

and suddenly the numbers drop back off with daytime highs dropping to the 70sor closer to 80 degrees interior new england even along the coast temperatures topping off into the lower 80s. so much cooler drier air and i know a lot of folks will be enjoying that. guys back over to you. >> carley: adam thank you >> progressive woman congresswoman ilhan omar with a narrow victory in her primary race this week. she was a little more than 2,000 votes away from losing her seat possibly due to her anti-police views at least how the new york times feels. they say to her supporters and critics say the tight race her times of a progressive push to overhaul the minneapolis police department had cost her votes. samuels, a pro police candidate questioned omar's support for the defund the police movement throughout the campaign. the congresswoman won her race by more than 35,000 votes in 2020. >> todd: and failing to read the room, house democrats are shelving plans to vote on several police funding and

public safety bills this week. instead setting their sights on pushing through their massive spending pavement house speaker nancy pelosi saying quote this week our focus must remain on passing the inflation reduction act as conversations continue on finding consensus for a robust public safety package. in terms of public safety house democrats can take immense pride in our work so far. >> carley: jimmy failla of across america on fox news radio and fox nation democrats are all in on electric vehicles and the irs too controversial to fix. >> the only contribution they've made to public safety is taking paul pelosi off the road her mess husband. they are in this money but guys watching at home will get this. every guy has had that one thing on his mind and doesn't read the room. like when the woman comes home. how's your day honey? i twisted my ankle my stomach hurts my boss is a jerk and the guy says i know what you need. and they're like you animals i wasn't thinking of that.

that's the democrats saying with their tax priorities. they're like i know what you need we're going to work on the weather in 50 years and audit you it will be great. >> todd: this new irs fear we have 87,000 agents, are you buying the spin that these irs agents are just going to be to there to help. >> yeah, yeah, that's the thing. they just care about customer service. god love anybody who doesn't think they're going to come after the little guy. i've been audited three times. >> todd: three? >> three times. the first time was when i was a cabbie, 2009, we had just had baby lincoln and i had high fuel expenses so they brought me in to say this doesn't check out who you making it on a low income. i had receipts as a cab driver you drive a lot but the point is they took a time to look at my taxes. i don't mean to show off and pistol whip you with my propers pairity but i was pulling in about 21.8 thatier and that's who they went after? why do they do that because we

won't defend ourselves. you hit jimmy failla with a letter in the mail i was like what do i owe you. i don't want problems. >> carley: and that's the problem. >> the receipts, some of the place persist i hang out you don't want to go back in the morning, you're like i can't believe i did that i need jesus. >> carley: to get the receipt again? >> yes. three times. >> carley: and because your tax returns are easier for them to navigate. >> yeah. the rich, they pay lawyers. the poor, they pay the irs. they're coming after you. they don't bring in 87,000 agents again, you wouldn't get 87,000 red solo cups unless you plan on having a keg party. that's what they did, buying solo cups. >> todd: meantime a north dakota school board voting this week to stop saying the pledge of allegiance at the group's meetings. here's their explanation. listen. >> the text is clearly referring to the judeo-christian god and therefore it does not include any other faith, such as islam, buddhism, hinduism.

the exclusion of these faiths, or lack thereof, within the pledge, automatically makes the pledge of allegiance a non-inclusionary act. >> todd: et tu north dakota. >> you do not expect this. selfishly i'm laughing one of my greatest radio affiliates, the flag, are losing their minds right now because nobody loves america more than them. that's the point. what a miserable existence because what did they do? they basically went through and looked for a way to be like more grievance minded than other people. they go to dinner. well i got rid of the pledge because it says god and that alienates people. and the other person's like salsa isn't that cultural appropriation. >> carley: conservatives love to run on these ideas remember when turn said he was going to restore merry christmas and republicans were like get out of here happy holidays. >> we were fighting battles with

kids. our cool skids think two plus two equals gel 0 let's work on math first. >> carley: speaking of that there's an elite all girl school in nashville now allowing anyone who identifies as females to enroll. it's the diversity, the gender diversity flossity and they say the school culture is unique and distinctly about girls complete with the use of references to students and girls as young women and the collective use of female pronouns. any students who identifies as a girl may apply to our school. >> i really wish i went to school in this error by saying i identify as being on the honor roll. you can't give me that 68 you gave me. this is absurd on a basically pop culture level nobody wants to watch a see equal to mean girls called mean them. that's annoying. but the biggest an all girls schools doing the most anti woman part in the world stripping away their identity.

i think of john candy on splash he used to flip coins in the world to recall look up girls. today it's a no-no. but today they just walk around the women's locker room. an inmate knocked up two women. a biological male inmate was like i'm a woman now. come on snoop jimmy to that point reports are you and i were both teen-age boys at one time. looking up the facts and checking the data. do they not see how ripe for abuse this is. >> oh, yeah. that's the thing, they don't care though. because what's become of the left is they use a lot of identity politics particularly trans politics take it too far for the point if you push back you must hate these people and be transphobic. we're not anti trans we're pro women they're erasing women and that doesn't work for me. i'm not supposed to be the voice of reason but here we are. >> carley: you always are. i have one theory when it comes

to the girls school admitting people who identify as girls. remember when the boy scouts started admitting girl scouts because their numbers were down, it was a money grab. could this be a money grab? >> oh, follow the money carley shimkus. >> carley: follow the money. >> todd: look at you. >> carley: you're the best i hope you don't get audited this year. >> i think after this bit. >> todd: yeah. >> carley: jimmy thank you >> inflation is holding near its highest level in four decades and president biden apparently thinks that's worth celebrating. >> our economy had 0% inflation in the month of july. 0%. >> todd: again, not correct k talk to dr. kevin roberts here to break down the real estate of economy with real numbers. ♪♪ your spirit is stronger than your highs and lows. your creativity can outshine any bad day.

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>> todd: president biden taking a premature victory lap claiming the country hit zero inflation for the month of july but consumers are still paying sky high prices compared to last year. >> carley: from our sister network has all the details sharon. >> good morning to both of you. despite july's consumer price index coming in at 8.5% still sitting at a four decade high president biden claiming the country has zero inflation. watch this. >> while the price of some

things go up, went up last month, the price of other things went down by the same amount. the result, zero inflation last month. >> so he was focusing on the month to month, but, look, republican congressman byron donalds slamming those comments. listen to this. >> i don't know what he's taking a victory lap on. let's be very clear. gas is up 44%, oil up 75%, milk up 15%, eggs up 38%. real wages are actually down 3%. he has actually moved us into a recession as opposed to having our economy being growing, which is where we should have been coming out of covid-19. this is a ridiculous statement by the president. but we shouldn't be surprised because we all know he doesn't know what he's doing. >> i will add to that. there was also rent and mortgages, all of that, shelter, that number was higher month to month folks. the lower number though reflecting lower oil and gas prices but things again, like

rent, your food, new and used vehicle prices all of those things showed increases month to month. other democrats you're repeating that sentiment, pointing to the knack headline inflation month to month was flat. so they're picking up a piece for their argument. former economic advisor larry summers is saying inflation is not easing. >> i still think we have a very serious inflation problem in this country. i don't think that inflation problem is going to go away of its own volition. and so i think we're likely to have some quite turbulent times ahead. >> all of this as the inflation reduction act gives the irs new funding to potentially hire about 87,000 new agents. that prompting janet yellen to direct the agency not to target some americans. here's what she writes in part, i direct that any additional resources including any new personnel or auditors that are hired shall not be used to increase the share of small business or households below the

400,000 threshold. that means contrary to misinformation from opponents small business or households reporting less, will not see an increase in the chance they're audited. we'll see. today we get the ppi producer price index, it's on inflation but the wholesale level. >> todd: i didn't know janet yellen also ran the irs. you learn something more every day. >> well, you can say that now but, look, easy target. i know we have to run. but an easy target for the irs is small businesses. >> carley: right. >> you know, they don't have teams of lawyers. corporations have floors of lawyers. small businesses don't. i've seen this before. >> carley: jimmy was just talking about getting audited at $20,000 per year. cheryl thank you so much. we appreciate you >> let's bring in dr. kevin roberts of the heritage foundation, dr. roberts good morning great to see you again. did you have the same reaction to the inflation number today, that the u.s. is experiencing zero inflation as the president

said? >> it's just outrages, carley. you know, joe biden has never let the truth get in the way of his political opinion and there's more evidence of that yesterday. it's a year over year figure and you know me well. i'm going to look at this from the standpoint of an everyday american family. they know that when they go the grocery store or as most american families are doing right now, when they're shopping for school supplies that everything has gone up. yes, gas prices have come down temporarily but every analysis i've seen including by my colleagues at heritage say that gas prices will be going up. the president is really out of touch with the average american, it's really surprising you might say for scranton joe and it's important therefore for us to emphasize that the only way out of this problem is for government to stop spending our money. that's why we've got to be opposed to this inflation expansion act that will be up in the house tomorrow. >> carley: i was about to ask you that. one way we know for sure to get out of the massive inflation

cycle we're in is to stop spending but the house is going to take up the inflation reduction act on friday, it's probably going to pass. what will that do to inflation? >> well, there is a chance that it could be defeated. there is a handful of vulnerable democrats, and i understand that none of them have pledged that they're going to support it. just assuming to the point of your question that it passes, we're going to be spending several00 billion more dollars we don't have as a country. we know that the greatest factor in inflation right now is the reckless spending that has happened by the federal government. the only way out of that, carley, is to stop it. the best way to reduce inflation is for the house to defeat that bill. if they pass that bill, then you can expect inflation to continue to go up. and i certainly wouldn't want to be joe biden in october, november, or a member of his political party running for reelection in the u.s. house having to explain how a few weeks ago we passed the so-called inflation reduction act, but inflation continues to

pace. this is a miserable nightmare for everyday americans. >> carley: great point. it could back fire politically after, if it does pass. i mean, inflation, the feds target rate at two percent we're at 8.5. not g also not get the situation at the southern border of course record high numbers of illegal immigrants and now three more buses of migrants that arrived in new york city yesterday just one day after mayor eric adams threatened to send bus loads of new yorkers down to texas to campaign against governor abbott. take a listen to the governor's 7 yesterday. he said this on fox news. watch. >> go ahead mayor, make my day. there could hardly be anything better. this is rank hypocrisy by the new york governor and by the new york mayor. >> carley: we were joking yesterday dr. roberts about the image of a bunch of new yorkers to go to texas to tell them how they should vote. how would that work out? >> i would work out terribly. you know, from this guy who's gone with his kids in texas

knocking on a lot of doors, i would love to see the reaction of texas anns to new yorkers. eric adams chooses to go campaign for people. and, look, texans are going to realize this is just a sham as every elected official on the other side only plays politics. the key point is that if you go to border counties, heck if you go to any county in texas and most counties in the united states, you can see the effect of millions of illegal aliens coming to this country. it isn't just that the border's wide open it's that the social and economic consequences of millions of illegal aliens being in our cities is just terrible. mayor adams, mayor bowser here in dc understand this. we know from our oversight project at heritage, by the way, that those guys are in cahoots with nonprofit organizations to send some of those illegals down florida. ultimately what's going to happen is a huge political problem for them and i think that the other side's going to pay consequences. unfortunately, to wrap up here, it means a lot of cities and

counties along the border have a real problem. >> carley: dr. roberts, thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> carley: you're very welcome >> turning now to this, the washington post accuses attorney general merrick garland of politicizing the doj but then oh they quickly delete the tweet. we con der why. and remember this? >>the dr. fauci, when you're ready, it's your pitch. ♪ >> todd: wow. dr. fauci actually got a round of applause from fans when he did that. i can't call it throwing a pitch but it happened during the height of the pandemic. nevertheless a different scene at this he beening would's mariner's game. we have the tape, joe concha here next. ♪♪

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but that was changed to this, quote, fbi's search of mar-a-lago lands merrick garland in a political firestorm. >> todd: joe concha how disingenuous is it to change a headline simply based on the twitter hbo. >> apparently todd democracy dies in deletion. right? the original tweet by the way entirely accurate. many american voters see the raid on mar-a-lago as politicized because of the manner in which it was carried out and the fact that merrick garland, the attorney general of the united states, refuses to address the american people in any forms in terms of why this was done and what was being sought. you don't have to give away the whole investigation, but put out a statement, get in front of a microphone, take some questions perhaps. and the longer merrick garland is silent, the longer this lingers the more suspicion will rise and rightly because we need transparency especially because

of the fact the fbi in recent years has been shown to be weaponized by james comey peter rock, remember them, and others. that may not be the case here but the fbi and doj is doing itself no favors by staying silent, carley. >> carley: yeah, well, there's this as well joe. the associated press is all jacked up over the democrats climate bill in an article headlined we're back baby, new bill boosts u.s. climate credible a quote are the piece, after a moment when hopes dimmed that the united states could become an international leader on climate change legislation that congress is poised to approve, could rejuvenate the country's reputation and bolster its efforts to push other nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions more quickly. >> how naive, right? let's be clear. this is not an opinion piece. this is a straight news story from the associated press. as far as getting other nations on board, i've said this before and i'll say it again f the goal is truly to reduce emissions and

lower the temperature of the planet, until you get india and china and russia on board the three biggest polluters on the planet it's a fools error to spend hundreds of billions of dollars and expecting much to change. it's an insult to our collective intelligence to spend those hundreds of billions in a bill by the way called the inflation reduction act, which apparently is so successful that already we're at zero inflation in this country according to the white house yesterday. it's a laughable claim considering, as you just talked about, it's 8.5% higher than it was last year, and if you go to the store, it's even higher in terms of item by item if you're looking at just food. so, look, i just, as far as climate change is concerned, you see the press cheering on this sort of spending but i don't think they realize that it's not really going to have very much of an impact at all when you don't get the international community on board like india and china and they're not going to do anything anytime soon because they're looking at the bottom sflien speaking of

laughable dr. fauci enjoying a mixed reaction but mostly boo's throwing out the first pitch at the seattle mariners yankees game. watch. >> todd: any truer sign that people are done with covid, joe, than him getting that reaction in one of the most liberal cities in our country, seattle? >> yeah, seattle washington. i don't think washington's gotten a republican forever in a presidential race. couldn't the mariners todd find something better for this honor, ba ba buoy wasn't available? we couldn't put jay or ken phelps or anybody who used to play for the team out there. i understand dr. fauci is well into the back nine at this point but it's as if he's never thrown a ball in his life. and it's an amazing for a guy that has such self importance that he has all this time to fly

across the country and do these things pose for magazine covers and do thousands of interviews that contradict each other. to quote forest gump that's all i have to say about that. >> carley: he threw the pitch straighter though. >> you have to go from the rubber carley, go from the rubber. >> carley: i always say that. >> you may be married to an athlete. >> carley: i always say go for the rubber todd. >> todd: we need to move on now. >> carley: thank you. >> former president trump's legal team is demanding to see the search warrant that a loed fbi agents to ran sack his mar-a-lago home and house republicans want to know how the raid was approved in the first place. >> todd: congressman michael walt is here next but first check in with steve doocy for a look at what's coming up on fox and friends hello steed. >> hello and thank you very much for sitting at my dent in the couch. >> my pleasure. you kept it warm and it felt great. >> it feels kind of warm today and that's weird because nobody sat here for like 18 hours. coming up on fox and friends in

11 minutes and 22 seconds, the president hits the beach for a little summer vacation in south carolina after touting a month of zero inflation. crazy. but with prices of meat and things like that going up, highest items in four decades, should we actually celebrate? another key report on inflation is due out at 8:30. we're going to bring you those numbers as they come in. by the way, it was not zero. and fallout grows after the unprecedented raid of president trump's mar-a-lago estate growing pressure for the department of justice to release the findings of their probe of hunter biden. is there a two-tiered system of justice? that's the question. hello hunter. meanwhile will cane will join us live from the field of dreams field in iowa. the chicago cub are going to take on the cincinnati reds on fox at 7:15 eastern time, and we will have a preview. >> plus speaking of iowa, iowa

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>> house republicans are vowing to ramp up oversight of the biden administration after the doj ransacked former president trump's florida home. >> the justice department being ordered to respond to requests to unseal the warrant that the fbi used for those raids. congressman michael waltz joins us now with more. congressman, people are sick and tired of hearings in congress with no consequences. will there be any consequences, especially in the next five months when, quite frankly, congressman, republicans obviously don't control the white house and they don't

control congress. >> yeah, you know, what's so amazing, guys, i have served all over the world, africa, the middle east, afghanistan, where this is normal. this is actually what people expect that the party in power will put in jail their predecessor and will go after them with the powers of the state. but the thing americans hate is uneven justice. and i'm hearing from people across the spectrum. even from people who don't like president trump, that know at their core that this is wrong. and what the democrats and what the mainstream media just don't get and will never get is that things like this are actually making president trump stronger. so, kevin mccarthy, to answer your question, kevin mccarthy has toldmaker divarld to clear his schedule and preserve all documents. that is actually an official action from the congress in terms of document preservation on who made this decision, how it came down and what exactly

the predicate is to take this outrageous action. and, you bet your rear end, we are going to get to the bottom of it. but you raised the point, we have got win an election first. and i don't expect a peep out of nancy pelosi on be this. so, come november, it's game on. >> carley: in the meantime all we can do is speculate. what else your reaction to congressman scott perry's phone being seized by the fbi? you know, democrats -- this phone seizure took place a day after the trump raid. democrats are interested in what he knows about january 6th. do you think these two events are related? >> well, look, you know, when president trump says, you know, as he often says that it's not me they are after, it's you. you know, i think that is really ringing home and ringing to be true in many americans' ears here. and then you overlay that with the 87,000 new irs agents, 9 size of nine army divisions,

that will be coming after you. there is only 1,000 billionaires. so i don't know why we need 90,000 new irs agents to come after people and so this is whether if you are a small business owner, you didn't keep all your receipts. i think this is all coming together in americans' minds that if it's not a president or member of congress like scott perry and you own a small business, it is going to be you. >> carley: we spoke earlier, congressman, to the computer repairman john paul mac isaac who had hunter biden's laptop and handed it over to the fbi. now he is saying that he is actually shocked that the fbi didn't raid trump's home even sooner because he feels like the institution is just completely politically motivated. he also said that if the fbi were actually doing their jobs, that they would have already raided hunter biden's home because of what was found on the laptop. half the country does feel like the fbi is a wing of the

democratic party and that's not where this country should be. >> no. like i said, that's where countries in africa and the middle east and elsewhere are. that's where it's normal. now it's becoming normal here. so we have to clean house when we take charge. we have to do everything we can to make it clear to the justice department that this is absolutely unacceptable. and then to just sit behind a wall of silence and not at least explain -- i mean, at the core of our republic is transparency. to not even explain what this is all about or even attempt an explanation, i should say, again, it's unamerican, it's wrong. we're not going to let this go. >> todd: quickly, before we have to let you go, do you think that the fact that they raided donald trump's house on monday, influenced the races for primary for congress on tuesday? >> i think you are going to see turnout from republicans and

turnout from even independents who just know that this is wrong on so many levels. i think you are going to see turnout through the roof. it absolutely effects. i talked to several candidates yesterday, and they were on our side pleasantly surprised and fired up. >> todd: congressman, thank you, "fox & friends" now. >> carley: hunter biden hopping on air force one alongside his father. >> days after the fbi raid on former president donald trump. >> what the fbi did was an appalling display of abuse of power. >> i don't believe for a minute that the white house was totally in the dark on this. >> the latest inflation numbers release show prices increase by 8.5% and jobe's math that means zero. >> i want to say a number. zero percent inflation. >> it's beyond orwellian. go ahead, mayor, make my day. >> message to adams now threatening to bus new yorkers to cn