>> todd: major filing from the justice department overnight for a special master to oversee a review of the mar-a-lago raid and includes accusations against

the trump team one day before a federal judge ortega expected to hear the motion in court. you're watching "fox and friends first" on wednesday morning, i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. doj faces credibility crisis prompting merrick garland into damage control mode over claims of political bias in the fbi. >> todd: marianne ortega live in los angeles. >> marianne: accusing trump's team of trying to hide documents saying plaintiff's motion to appoint a special master fails for multiple reasons, and the government developed evidence government records were likely concealed and removed to obs obstruct. doj may not be able to clean up its mess in the midst of

political bias within the department. >> the politics of their agents, of the office not being able to contain is causing them to say we better do something. we sought in realtime and took care of it. it ortega a little too late. >> marianne: a.g. garland banned political appointees from participating which reads we must maintain public trust and ensure politics in fact and appearance does not compromise ap appearance of our work and timothy thibault breaks his silence. firmly believe any investigation will show his decision-making were not impact by political bias or partisanship of any

kind. the former president and his legal team not buying any of it. >> they are coming forward saying there ortega something wrong with what ortega happening in the fbi, i commend them and encourage them to come forward, merrick garland saying you can't speak to congress, i find that ironic, january 6, had no knowledge. >> marianne: trump's team not alone in criticism of the fbi and doj, more republicans are demanding answers and trans transparenty. >> todd: here ortega senator lindsey graham's take. >> after the clinton debacle when she was secretary of state, people will lose faith in law enforcement. you don't hear the president talking about the pooib telling social media his son's laptop ortega a bunch of russian

disinformation and it turns out it was actually true. what happens in america, when in charge of corrupt investigation you get hired by cnn and msnbc to be legal analysts, that ortega what people are upset about. >> todd: get lara trump's take later this hour. >> ashley: and mikhail gorbachev has died at the age of 91. former intelligence officer and author of "putin's playbook" ortega here to react, what was your reaction when you heard of his death? you lived through this? >> my first reaction was this ortega end of an era, gorbachev ortega a symbol, but a conroe tro versial symbol, he's as much respected in the west as ditested in russia.

he brought freedom and openness, but helped with the clapsz of the soviet union. >> ashley: president biden paid tribute to the former soviet president. he said mikhail gorbachev was a man of remarkable vision after decades of brutal repression and embraced democratic reform and believes restructuring. what do you think was his greatest achievement? you say he was loved in the west and detested in russia, what ortega his greatest achiefment? >> to bring openness, we were not able to speak truth to power before, we couldn't criticize government, it was a sense of freedom, we could travel and partly because of gorbachev that i am now living in america.

peep whole had the power are capitalists and are doing well, it is intelligence services like putin are now in charge. >> ashley: what do you think putin's reaction to this was? >> i am not sure, i think he will probably say he is a respected leader, best statement, other hand, i'm sure he detests him, putin is about author tearianism, basically returning the country back to soviet roots right now, all repression, no freedom of speech, russia is joining back

to ussr. >> ashley: thank you for your first hfr hand account what it was like to live during his team, we appreciate it. >> thank you, ashley. >> todd: president biden, guess who he is blaming. >> president biden: every single republican member of congress, every single one in this state, every single one voted against the support for law enforcement. >> todd: sean duffy is fired up about that and joins us live, next.

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>> ashley: new york democrats are turning their back on kathy hochul, fed up with her soft on crime policy and throwing support behind gop challenger lee zeldin. >> '70s and '80s, i know what it is like, we are going back. it is tangible, you see the stores and the homelessness, you see it, it is terrible. we don't want that, i want my

kids and your kids safe. >> ashley: crime is up 30%, burglary and robbery up 35% from last year. president biden in pennsylvania yesterday addressing the crime crisis, but passing the buck and blaming republicans for rise in violence across the country, each after his own party called to defund the police. listen. >> president biden: guess what, every single republican member of congress, every single one in this state, every single one voted against support for law enforcement. they talk about how much they love it, they voted against the funding flat out. flat out. >> todd: sean duffy joins us, great to see you, that comment was so rich, had absolutely nothing to do with cops and everything to do with covid relief bill to which the cops were tied in.

if joe biden was serious, wouldn't he enforce laws at our southern border and take money he is using for 87,000 irs agents and allocate to hiring more officers? >> point well made, todd, if you want to support law enforcement say, listen issue quad members, you want to defund the police, i want to support them. joe biden said nothing in regard to law enforcement and squad effort to defund them, he was silent when this happened. if you ask americans that is best poll who supports them, they would tell you joe biden doesn't support us, republicanings have had our backs through good times and bad. if you support law enforcement maybe call out left wing da's that won't prosecute crimes in communities and call out

democratic voters. joe biden has done none ever that. he talks about that bill, todd, sliver of money that could have been used for law enforcement, but wasn't required to be used for law enforcement. lying joe biden is the moniker donald trump is going to give him. he lies about the southern border and about inflation being transitory and inflation reduction acts, this guy can't tell the truth, i don't know if it is intentional, the american people get this guy is not truthful and they know republicans support law enforcement and joe biden democrats have been nothing, but a thorn in the side of police officers who do great work every single day. >> ashley: do you think the fact he is blaming everyone but democrats, for the increase in

crime, meanwhile, we said the progressive left are always talking about not just defunding the police, abolishing the force, biden goes back and forth and was all about reallocating funds. why can't he stay consistent and own up to the blame, if not more with this issue with crime? >> sean: reimagining law enforcement, that is what they were doing, we will take money away from police officers and move somewhere else. we will note the midterm elections are only a couple months away, joe biden and democrats are polling and saying my goodness, one of the main issues, americans don't feel safe in their communities, they don't have police on the streets. we better change course.

joe biden better say we support law enforcement and democrats don't. you mentioned lee zeldin could win and i believe he can win in a democrats state, new york, you will see new york city to say i'm a democrat, i can't stand this anymore, if i can't go down a street at a bodega, nothing else matters to me if i'm not safe in my home. highest need i have is safety and then maybe food, water and shelter. i am not safe, lee zeldin will make me safe, even though i disagree with everything else. lee zeldin sees that and he is coming out and having a big rally, talk and big lie about democrats supporting law enforcement and republicans. >> todd: we support sean duffy, he gets up early every wednesday, staying up late on

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>> ashley: jackson, mississippi, will go without reliable running water indefinitely. the water treatment plant is damaged from weather. jackson public schools have shifted to online learning. >> todd: east coast could be in the path of possible hurricane or a tropical storm by labor day. meteorologist janice dean joins

us live with the latest. >> janice: it has been a quiet season so far, longest stretch without a named storm, if not by today, second longest time. area of low pressure getting act together in next couple days, conditions become favorable for strengthening, so next couple days, 60% of development, 80% in the next five days and watch this going into the weekend and this area of low pressure off coast of africa and that could develop in the next five days, 40% chance. the vierm is not conducive for a big storm, watch that, things could relax and allow storms to strengthening. long-range tropical outlook, this area here we will look in the atlantic and see the

caribbean and the u.s. coastline. tropical cyclone frequency getting into peak season, don't let your guard down. forecast today, showers and thunderstorms along texas and gulf coast and heat is a big story, as well. over to you. >> todd: thank you. can aoc cut in? congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez behind the finland prime minister. elected officials who dance? we're here for it and she had this video. ♪ >> ashley: jimmy failla is joining us. i didn't care about the prime

minister, if she wants to do that, it is fine. now my concern, hillary clinton and aoc, instead of doing what they are supposed to be doing, they are dancing. >> jimmy: what is it good for? absolutely nothing, look at me, latching on to hillary with inauthenticity. nobody cares the finnish prime minister is dancing, she is hammered and dancing with dudes, women are not oppressed, this is not footloose, i like a president with the energy to dance. this is typical aoc and hrc, they are like, we are women under attack. no, you're not.

>> todd: men worldwide are not oppressing that. >> jimmy: gorgeous women grinding all over each other, go to finland this year. >> todd: work through the eflugsz, roll it, it starts with the daily facts claimed in 1970 oceans will be dead in lake erie, 1980. 1989, entire nations could be wiped off by rising sea level if not reversed by the year 2000. still here, 2006 al gore said unless drastic measures are taken world will reach place of no return. 2016, we made it and aoc raged more aoc, world will end in 12

years if we don't address climate change, we have a couple more years. what are consequences for this dangerous rhetoric that leads politicians to impact the rest of us in a negative way. >> jimmy: think about al gore, he has an electric bill that makes las vegas look amish. there was old cartoon, great pumpkin charlie brown, they wasted halloween waiting for the pumpkin to fly into the pumpkin patch, that is climate change. they are waiting for the pumpkin to come so they can tell you they are right, they are almost rooting for bad to say i told you so. it is not coming. the weather does change, i am not a climateologist, if they are concerned, they would be

cut cutting -- they latch on to causes that justify it and make them feel self-righteous. i'm harrison ford, i will save the world by telling everybody else to walk or ride a bike. they are never right, never evering ever, you bet the opposite, think about it, they predicted every type of demise, flood, fire and everything in between. i think we will survive, all i'm saying. >> ashley: when i was six years old issue somebody told me i wouldn't be alive past between the. >> todd: was that because of climate change? if green new dealers thought the oceans were going to rise and take over the coast, why do they all live in mansions on the coast. >> jimmy: green new deal, smoking something green to think

it is a green new deal. >> ashley: white house press secretary karine jean-pierre criticized for her performance at the podium, some know ares say you can't blame the messenger. >> things happening within the biden administration, not something you want to go out and have to sell. >> todd: is joe concha that forgiving? find out when he joins us live.

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>> ashley: the biden admin anno announce cancellation of loans. >> cheryl: more student loan bailouts on the way, it will eshg race $1.5 billion for students that attended westwood colleges in california, colorado, illinois and virginia and online programs found to be fraudulent how they marketed their degrees. s the program was challenged in this heated exchange with relationship ro khanna.

watch. >> 30 million mighting behind on mortgage and car payments, where do you stop? >> i don't think we should charge for vocational education in modern economy. >> that is not what i asked. >> cheryl: make college for free now? okay. the plan estimated to cost taxpayers around $500 billion and economists say on top of the $500 billion, doesn't reduce inflation, the student loan negates anything they said we were going to get out of the inflation reduction act. >> ashley: talk about american dream home. >> cheryl: escape to the beach before summer ends, join me

tonight on american dream home, doug and teresa are coming to key west, florida and we head back to hawaii, saying goodbye to colorado looking for their dream home on the north shore of hawaii. >> todd: thank you, former white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders defending karine jean-pierre after recent struggles at the podium. >> the things happening within the biden administration, it is not something you want to sell. i that they do not have meaningful information they are sharing with the american people. >> ashley: joe concha joins us now, what do you think, can we blame the messenger? huckabee sanders gets it, she was in that position.

>> joe: i agree on this front, defend the indefensible, that is one of the more challenging jobs in washington. be clear, karine jean-pierre, we are witnessing the most ill prepared, unsteady press secretary of our lifetime. anyone watching her performance on daily objective can see she has no ability to improvise and is reading directly from notes from a binder and sometimes reads answers that have little to do with the question asked. her predecessor, jen psaki was dishonest, but could think on her feet. joe biden should be the messenger, he hasn't done a tv interview in 200 days, has not

sit down in two trimesters, that is something, todd. >> todd: i don't want to talk trimesters. karine jean-pierre failing to answer tough questions a heck of a lot. >> i can't speak to that at this time. >> i don't have an update. >> let me see if i have anything new for you on that, i don't have anything new. >> i don't have an update. >> very good question, i don't have an update. >> she has looks, pedigree, ivy league pedigree, is she the best person for this job? >> joe: no, john kirby was a spokesperson at the pentagon, he is capable and steady in his job and he's a veteran and karine jean-pierre has good looks for television, she was on television, on msnbc for

sometime, we saw it this week, guys, peter doocy asks her why is novak djokovic not allowed in this country, but millions can crossover the border and stay here, karine jean-pierre said nobody is walking across the border, what are you talking about and look at videos from bill melugin and other reporters showing this happening on a daily basis, unsteady and not honest and not good at spinning dishonesty, we'll see john kirby in this position before joe biden's first term is over. >> ashley: and keeping truth social off the app store, 44% androids cannot download truth social, it is not available. this is insane. >> joe: insane, yeah, it is something that we've seen before, ashley. we talked about collusion or

lack thereof over the past five years there is collusion between big tech giants and political party they serve. parlor was not allowed on apple app store or google play store or amazon in the cloud services, that made it difficult for parlor to compete with other social media companies and elon musk looks all, but dead, see the social media companies act the same way they did in 2020 serving at pleasure of the blue team and since they are private companies and control congress for now, no one will do anything about it, ashley and todd. >> todd: truth social violated policy, battle of statements will continue and we'll have joe concha back on to break it undo. thanks. texas congresswoman

mayra flores at the border and has a plea for the white house. >> i'm begging the vice president to come to south texas to see what their policyings have done to texas, we've had enough. >> ashley: hear more from the congresswoman after the break. 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.

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>> ashley: to biden border crisis, cartel member aiming rifle at texas dps drone. texas dps says a gun boat was deployed in response to the threat. a trooper sent a warning shot. the gun boats are heavily armed with two machine guns each. >> todd: republican women facing the border crisis head on at the border hot spot focusing on horrors and dangers facing migrant children. mayra flores is part of the delegation and spoke with me about shocking things she's seen over the last several days. >> todd: congresswoman, thank you for being here. look, you are from a border district. you know the border very well. is there anything in your current visit that is surprising

you? >> to be honest with you, nothing surprises me anymore. we are sick and tired here in south texas that the biden administration has politicized this, this is not political. wanting safer border should not be democratic or republican issue, this is red, white and blue issue. i'm sick and tired of seeing thousands of therapy coming into the country to be sold into child sex trafficking. i'm an immigrant, i want every child to come to the united states and have the same experience i have. if this administration cares about immigrants, improve the legal process so people can come to the united states and not have to go through hell to come to the united states and pay thousands of dollars to criminal organizations and they don't care about immigrants or what is

best for the american peep and he will we've had enough in south texas. >> todd: you mention the trafficking, you are there as part of coalition of women to investigate human trafficking happening. what are victims telling you, congresswoman? >> we're talking about the rape treason, nobody one knows about outside south texas, rape trees are real all over the southern border. criminal organizations take off the undergarment of their victims and hang them on the tree and you see that throughout the southern border to show what they are doing and they are in full control. it is really sickening and what i tell the people, when you see these type of trees, burn them down. like i said, we are just so frustrated that the biden administration doesn't care. he hasn't come to south texas

and kamala harris hasn't come to see what policies are doing in south texas and how it is affecting the entire country. i'm a proud border patrol wife, border patrol agents don't deserve what they are going through. they are processing and women and children and families are not able to focus on terrorists and criminal organizations coming in. there are good people, there are bad people and those are people that really concern all of us because end of the day, this is national security issue this administration continues to ignore and i don't know what it will take, i don't know how many children have to die in the southern border or how many immigrants have to die for them to wake up. other people continue to tell me every single day their frustration, what will it take for them to care about us and i tell them coming this november,

send a strong message who we are and who they work for. >> todd: do you think if biden visits the border, his policy would be different, if he saw the horror you are see something >> i just don't know what else it is going to take. i hope when he comes here and see the mess he's created, that he will do something, that is my last hope. i don't see that happening, he will never come to south texas or fix the immigration process we have. why? the democrats party continue to use reform every election year and they use it to get votes from hispanics because they know immigration reform is important to us and why i will lead on the immigration reform and put an end to this, i'm sick and tired of the democratic party using hispanic community to get votes,

we've had enough. we need representation in washington and i'm that representation and we're going to win in november. >> todd: do they all feel when they are talking to you like the biden administration prioritizing the cartel interest for some strange interest over that of victims and individuals i just mentioned? >> absolutely, the biden administration opened the border for criminal organizations knowing they have people in mexico terrorized. i have family and we have family in mexico that we can't visit because we're afraid and we don't whapt we're afraid to come to this country. we understand what is happening, we don't need anyone telling us, it is happen nothing our

bac backyard employs border patrol are husbands, wives, grandchildren and we back the green 100% and we'll be their voice, they are not able toeck spoo, i encourage every border patrol wife or spouse to speak up, we can no longer be silent. >> todd: one sentence message for president biden, what would it be? >> please come to south texas, please come secure our border and keep innocent children safe, we've had enough of child sex trafficking in this country, come together and put an end to this. >> todd: congresswoman mayra flores thank you for shedding a light on this tragedy that is getting worse every single day, thank you. we both said we have no idea why

president biden has not been to the border, only explanation, he doesn't to acknowledge it. >> ashley: rejecting request for a special master to review the request for -- check in with brian kilmeade on what is coming up on "fox and friends." >> brian: we will react to explosive new accusations from the doj, plus democratic leaders slam texas for bussing migrants to new york city and washington, d.c., new claim says the white house is doing it. we respond and dan is live, good-looking picture of him and lawrence jones is looking good. plus family feud? gavin newsom just donated to

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>> todd: the justice department responding to president trump's call for a special master to review the raid of his florida home, calling the request unnecessary and also making new accusations against the trump team. >> ashley: joining us live is fox news contributor lara trump. good morning, lara. the prosecutors not only appointing a special master unnecessary but doing so would significantly harm important governmental interests, including national security interests. so, what on earth are they talking about whenever there is just a new -- a fresh set of eyes, essentially with a special master just looking over these documents? why is there so much pushback on this special the day before it's is suppose supposed to be heard? >> i mean, that's a great

question, ashley. look, i think that this is just more of the same. obviously they have already seen all the documents so they don't need a special master there, i guess, to go through it with them because oh, we already separated out the attorney general client privileged information that they never should have taken from mar-a-lago in the first place; but, this is terrible. this is such a bad look. i think, for the department of justice now because it goes to further the notion that they are targeting donald trump, that there is something to hide. just from the beginning of all of this, this raid at mar-a-lago, his lawyers were not allowed to be on property while the fbi was conducting this raid. they asked for the cameras to be shut off while all of this is taking place and now, they have blocked a third party individual, as you just mentioned from being there with them to go through documents and make sure that they have only what they are supposed to have. so, unfortunately, this is probably just going to add fuel to the fire for so many people

who believe this was conducted improperly. it should have never been done this way, totally unnecessary. and looks like a political attack on donald trump. >> todd: yeah. i just can't figure out how a neutral arbiter, reviewing these documents, would jeopardize national security interest. i think their come back would be well, there is an urgency, there is an imminent threat here. my rebuttal would be then why did you wait 18 month it really start worrying about this? so, basically, you agree that this is just an ability of the doj to prevent anybody from looking over their shoulder, right, lara? >> well, absolutely. and it feels like they are trying to backtrack and cover up for themselves. i think they know that all of this was done the wrong way. they look really bad right now. maybe they don't want anybody in there to see how many things they took that they shouldn't have taken? who knows? at this point but, yeah, todd, to your point, if this was such an urgent matter, why did they then wait three days after the warrant was approved to go into

mar-a-lago? none of it makes sense. all of the information that they are slowly leaking out is all in an effort to make them look better and to make a case for their side. it does nothing to further confidence in an institution that we need to have confidence in for the security of america and quite frankly for the future of our country. it's terrible. >> ashley: lara, what are your thought on the new documents they found? >> well, look, my father-in-law has said that he has declassified or he did declassify as president everything that he took from the oval office, that he had a right to have all the documents that he took, and i just find it really interesting, ashley, that you have this leak. that you have a photo like we are looking at right there from mar-a-lago, that's the carpet at mar-a-lago there. you know, it's just really concerning. i think, as an american citizen to see how they are leaking to select media outlets this information just drips out.

and, you know, again, my father-in-law has said he has nothing to hide. he did nothing wrong. and i think that, you know, we will see that in the future. >> todd: finally attorney general merrick garland issuing internal memo on communication between the doj and congress basically say going you are a member of the doj, do not communicate with congress unless it is the office of legislative affairs. garland says this is not to stifle whistleblowers. you buying that? >> of course not. we all know exactly what this is, look, that might be, you know, within the doj their rule. but it's not the law. and what i would say is if you have any cause to believe that anything nefarious is going on, that there is any corruption within any institution anywhere, you should come forward. you should speak out. i mean, gosh, it is part of who we are as americans to call out things when we see it like this. so, i understand, i think, the goal of merrick garland there but, no, i don't think anyone believes that. and, again, i guess they issued a memo saying you can't talk to

congress but you can leak to preselected media outlets. >> todd: that's allowed. have at it. the "new york times" is totally fine. don't talk to the congressional leaders. lara trump, have a great day. >> ashley: stick around because "fox & friends" starts right now. >> todd: it's a pleasure. >> the doj responding to president trump's dual appoint a special master. saying it's not needed and accusing trump's team of trying to hide documents. >> the fbi is also under intense scrutiny over allegations of bias. >> americans are right to be both outraged and sickened. >> biden's border patrol chief g that the administration no consequences policies are in fact to blame. but the surge of illegals. >> we have seen increases when there are no consequences. >> a staggering fentanyl mor