shouldn't have. what was at all about? >> laura: i love you, raymond. the best is ♪ happy birthday to you... i can't! >> look at that. i will find the graphics person who did this and hunt you down all night. >> that is it for us greg gutfeld takes off. b2 fox news alert north dakota man accused of killing a teenager but this car after a fight over politics and is out on bail. authorities say 41-year-old shannon grant an argument with 18-year-old taylor and accuse the boy of being part of a republican extremist group. you are watching "fox & friends first" on this thursday morning, i'm carley shimkus. >> todd: i'm todd piro. fled the scene of the incident and was arrested at home. his blood alcohol level above

the legal limit, but the tragedy comes the political divisiveness in our country is high. some say president biden's anti-maga platform is making matters worse. >> 75 million people and that is who the mega people were, what do you do with them? what is the logical consequence and you have to do somebody who lives in the shadows and don't leave in the constitution, so you bring out all these nuts and they do something. >> carley: let's bring in nicole bell with this tragic story, i need. >> good morning carley and todd. it is a war story a north dakota man walking free after admitting he ran down a teacher because of the teens republican politics and now he's complaining about his own job and his own life being in jeopardy. 41-year-old shannon grant released from jail after $50,000 bond and spent days behind bars

after he mowed down 18-year-old kayla with his car killing him and he is charged with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a fatal crash. that did not stop him from objecting to the bailout. i have a job, clive, house and things i don't exactly want to see go by the wayside, family that are very important to me. court document said the suspect told state radio in north dakota, he hit a pedestrian he claimed was part of a republican extremist group. a probable cause affidavit said told investigators he had been drinking alcohol before striking alex in and telling him to harm the suspect after the two argued. some members of congress blame president biden's recent speech calling supporters semifascist to fuel the violence. >> and i don't think it is an accident the term of this terrible guy used 20 kill this

young man was republican extremism, the same term joe biden used in front of independence hall with that crazy speech with his fist clenched saying half of the country was extremist, that is a real concern. speak with the teens mom said her son called her to say he was being chased down and that was the last thing he said to her in his final moments, carley and todd. >> todd: that suspect is upset his way of life could be disturbed. what a sickening statement and a sickening act, anita, thank you. ellie convicted of purposely plowing a stolen car into a mother and her baby will appear in court this morning to ask for early release despite the fact he was only sentenced to 5-7 months in a camp. that young mother says l.a. district attorney george gascon did not contact her ahead of today's hearing telling her "i am surprised i'm being denied my

rights as a victim participate in the judicial process, expletive with the letter will f. back in june 2 detail the shocking experience living under the system of justice. listen. >> we are told by the detective don't expect anything to happen. we were told by the police officers don't expect anything to happen. okay, five years and i felt to me that is really low bar. five months is what he got. >> todd: the teen found already on probation and nearly killed the mother and 8-month-old baby, sickening. overnight president trump getting back at attorney general letitia james after she sues him at the trump family for $250 million. that lawsuit helping james follow through on campaign promise to target trump into anything to take him down. >> i look forward to going into the office of attorney general every day!

showing him that you are right and then going home. that should motivate you. >> will you sue him for us? we will sue him and [bleep] and he will know my name personally. >> carley: brooke singman live with the details, broke. >> good morning guys, the lawsuit from attorney general letitia james accuses the former president and his family financial fraud which includes overhauling his properties. she also claims gave false financial statement and inflating his network. listen. >> donald trump engaged in years claiming you have money that you do not have. there is not an amount to the deal. it is the art of the steel. >> president trump responding taking, they have a responsibility to stakeholders to conduct their own evaluation

before giving hundreds of millions of dollars to a business and the real reason for the lawsuit is the combination of years of political targeting, listen. she said we are going to get him and that whole campaign was based on that. then we have been going over this for years. i was under the impression she wanted to settle but i had a problem. how do you pay something, even a small amount of money if you are not guilty? this is a continuation of a witch hunt that began at trump tower. >> it is not just trump with a lawsuit. legal experts and former attorney general bill barr said there is no legal basis for james' action. >> it is hard for me to not conclude it is of political hit job. this is one who campaign for office egging promising she was going to go after trump. what persuades me this is overreaches she went after the children. she has no evidence that they played a r role in this.

>> james opponent in november accusing her of announcing the probe to turn around turning a blind eye to new york soaring crime, guys back to you. >> carley: i understand you spoke to the president after the lawsuit was filed. what was his reaction? >> i spoke to the former president and he said the lawsuit is ridiculous. he thought that james was going to settle but remember last month, set down for a deposition with and invoked his fifth amendment rights. >> todd: legal experts like bill barr coming out and sagging, "look, there is no basis for this case." you heard what bill barr mention in the piece but coming out and saying, look there is no victim here. if there was a victim, it would be the banks and the banks have no problem here they got their money back and they have lawyers who would have highlighted a problem if there was one. with that in mind, brooke, do you think james is out to politically? >> to use the office of attorney general to take him

down. as you saw from the sound bits we played, she did tell supporters she was going to be a real pain for trump and his family. what trump did tell me she is the office of attorney general to really focus on investigating him and turned a blind eye to crime, which is soaring in the city. he urged her to focus on people who kill people. >> carley: that is right. i think the word is called priorities. brooke, thank you so much. from one lawsuit to another former president donald trump defending his rights to classified records seized by agents from mar-a-lago home last month. listen to what he told sean hannity last night. watches. >> you are the president of the united states. you can declassify by saying... even by thinking about it because you were sending it to mar-a-lago or to wherever you are sending it. and it doesn't have to be a process. but can be a process, but it doesn't have to be pure you are the president and you make that decision.

they took a lot. i think they took my will. i found out yesterday. where is it? i think they took my will. b2 meanwhile three judge panel, appeals court panel, excuse me allowing the justice department to continue its review of classified documents and it remains unclear whether trump will appeal the ruling. turning out to this president zelenskyy vowing to win the war against russia in this video address to the united nations general assembly. zelenskyy urging the united nations to punish moscow for invasion causing to strip the kremlin of u.n. security council veto. the speech was delivered hours after vladimir putin announced his plans to draft up to 300,000 to join his war in ukraine. in responding with an uproar across russia. more than 1300 antiwar protesters have been arrested so far.

prosecutors to face up to 15 years in prison. >> todd: a lot of folks don't want to fight in ukraine. president biden condemning rush around the world stage after putin threatened western allies with nukes. >> permanent united nations council invaded its neighbor and attempted to erase the sovereign state from the map. russia has shamelessly violated the tenets of the charter. just today, president pruden has made nuclear threats over your appearance be a former fbi navy seal, jonathan gilliam, good morning to you. what are your thoughts of the president speech? nikki haley was on yesterday and said one area of improvement could have been let the president could have called up countries propping up russia and the war against ukraine. amazingly, a lot of those countries are members of the

human. iran, belarus, china, syria and venezuela. what do you think? >> you know, when it comes to the u.n. come i will speak to that first. when i was in the fbi one of the things i did for several years, i was engaged to the united nations every year when the general assembly happened. and the things that i got to see from behind the scenes was a tremendous amount of egos, loyalty that we don't truly understand or know about in the general public. the way that these decisions are made. is pretty fascinating. i would have to say from the u.n.'s diplomatic side, i don't think it is any surprise who worked with russia and who doesn't. i think what is a surprise for everyone is the way that this war has gone forward. that is one thing that biden has skipped over. the work could have actually

been prevented had the allies step forward and you will not come further past this line. but we are seeing now is actually the results, i believe, putin playing cards with the rest of the world saying he has a bigger hand than he actually does. i think the president should have figured this out by now, his war cabinet should have figured this out by now with antony blinken. i don't think this is something they are putting out there. they are not telling the american people exactly who russia has turned out to be pure that is very important when it comes to how we look at this war and how we go forward in the war. >> todd: what happens in russia impacts china. anybody who thinks otherwise is full of themselves. so, also yesterday, the president reaffirming the commitment to one china policy after saying multiple times on camera american troops would defend taiwan.

take a listen. >> across the taiwan straits, we remain committed to the one china policy, so prevent conflict for four decades. and we continue to pose unilateral changes in the status quo by either side. >> so are you saying the united states would come to taiwan's defense? >> yes, we have a commitment. >> are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? would u.s. forces depend violent? >> yes. >> if there was an unprecedented attack appearance boo and jonathan yesterday as it asked statement wishy-washy with the bellicose language used against russia. combined with the sound bites at the end where he is throwing confusion out there. nobody knows in reality what the policy is. will he ever treat china as the real adversary that they are, not a competitor, but a real adversary and get the world to follow suit question works >>

will, the only way that we can truly understand what joe biden is going to do is by looking at what is done already. and he a complete failure when it comes to any military operation. you look at afghanistan, you look at ukraine, can you look at the fact when he chooses not to do anything, that is actually in action. remember, the choice to do nothing is actually an action. i think the closer we get to any possible war or any type of conflict with china, the more wishy-washy you will see joe biden become based on the rhetoric that we have seen before because he doesn't want to go into battle. his cabinet doesn't want to go into battle. i think here is the big thing about china. i think china is the real here for the biden administration. i don't think they feared the results with the taliban. i don't think they fear the results of what happened with russia and ukraine. but china to cripple this

country by sanctioning all of the things that they make for us including medications. we talked about this before on the show. that is the real fear the closer we get to any possible conflict with china, biden will start backpedaling on any type of use of force. ultimately my fear for taiwan, if china does something, they will be left to defend without the help of the united states except for the way that biden always does which is throw money and resources over there and let them fight their own work, which i don't know how good china is at fighting now that we have seen what happened with russia, which is a puzzle of leave this great force. i'm at odds as to trying to decide who wins an actual superpower when it comes to conventional were fighting. i don't know if china can do that, but i do know joe biden is not somebody who stepped in and puts the military in any place to stir up the mike stop a conflict from happening before

evans. >> todd: how did that work out for the world? >> carley: the u.s. troops would defend taiwan if china invades. a lot of biden critics say that is a good thing and that the biden administration should be walking it back. we've got to leave but they are. thank you for joining us. >> todd: spending the summer trying to convince us inflation is under control. >> i believe there is a path through this that entails a soft landing with the economy essentially stabilizing. >> todd: the fed hiked interest rates again. how was that a soft landing? we will tell you what this means for the mortgage issue, credit cards and everything else in your life. space to make >> carley: but a record number two florida including nypd lieutenant who left the big apple behind. he will tell us why coming up. >> todd: an amazing song. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> carley: at the federal reserve raising interest rates 5.75% for the third consecutive month in an attempt to combat inflation. this brings a benchmark interest rate up to a new range

of three to 3.25% the highest level since 2008. officials are embracing for that took over 4%. in the meanwhile senator elizabeth warren accusing power of killing jobs saying "i've been warning chairman powell's fed with throw millions of americans out of work and i fear he is already on the path to doing so." and while interest rates are going up, so our gas prices pure them out for domestic national average $3.68 a gallon after steadily falling for nearly 100 days per the lase when they hit a record high of $5.02 per gallon. the bad news continues, the heating bills expected to hit a 10-year high this winter. the national energy assistance directors association anticipate bills will increase by 17%, todd appearance bill were not good. one place we don't need heat is florida.

new yorkers setting their sights on the sunny shores of the sunshine state. an apparent empire state and in august along get this 6,000 new yorkers swap state licenses for a florida version adding two more than 41,000 departures this year alone. former nypd john macari recently moved his family to florida and joints me now. jonathan, we have talked about this exit from new york for years but these numbers are record-breaking. who will be left to turn out the lights? >> nobody. it is amazing anybody is still in new york. this is incompetence and leadership both on the part of mayor adams and kathy hochul. they chased thousands of people out of the state. thousands of people unable to work for a year in new york city. a private employer mandate but the public still stands. in the height of a crime crisis, you have a governor to combat

gun violence has put signs around times square and effort to cut back on violence. nobody believes this is reasonable. people like myself who have common sense understand this does not work. nobody knows what's going on. i'm in florida right now and hang out with tons of new yorkers down here. our kids are better off here, schools are better off here and the leadership is supporting its people instead of turning its back on people. new york city mayor turned its back on the police force. although he will say the right things, all he does is point fingers to governor kathy hochul about bail reform. nypd goes out and does great work of arresting violent repeat offenders and they are let out on the streets. district attorneys, they do not use a pulpit to call out these district attorneys. kathy hochul turned him away from bail reform, but he basically came out and endorsed at the next day. a failure in leadership and people like me are fleeting. thousands of us are unable to

work so we have absolutely no choice to come to a state that supports religious and medical freedom. >> todd: more numbers crime up 24% in new york city. there are 57,000 homeless individuals in shelters and somehow cause for everything else th cost for everything else soaring. to your point, jonathan instead of becoming more like florida, blue states and cities like new york or doubling down on the lunatic policies. what the heck are they thinking? >> i don't know. all we are doing at this point is coming after the taxpayer, right? in order to combat climate change, you will drive new york city and pay more money for congestion pricing. the mta buses will have cameras to make sure you're not in the bustling, speeding. this is all attacks on the taxpayer. the real issues aren't being addressed. you see gangs of motorcycles and atvs. what are the cameras going to do

for the spike in crime and the spike in gun violence and people getting rob daley on the street? more investigations and more stuff for us to sit here and talk about. tourism and business, tourism will never come back here and businesses to flee and people are trying to actually go to work, be left alone, raise a family are seeing this and saying, what am i doing here? i'm not safe here. if average new yorkers walking down the block can't walk down the block without getting robbed, how can i walk down the block with my child and control it? >> todd: we talked to one new yorker who regrets a decision to move to florida? >> absolutely not. the only thing i heard is i should have done this sooner and i should not have waited because of the incompetence of handling of the pandemic, the handling of this crime epidemic that stems from the incompetence of leadership. again, it is a failure. new york city mayor is shaping up the scene and it is awful empathetic. >> todd: you wonder why those

people are going after ron desantis. it is because he could potentially run in 2024 but two, these governors are tired of being shown up by him because he showing them up big time. john macari, thank you. the biden administration ordered not to sign registration numbers to migrant so they can clear out overcrowded order facilities, but we know the suspects and criminals apprehended. what does this mean for the national security? griff jenkins is next. >> carley: james comey is back. wait until you hear the disgraced fbi director is making headlines. ♪ ♪

>> carley: more chaos at the border. a new d.a. reported cpa agents

have been told not to assign registration numbers for migrants to help clear out overcrowded facilities. >> todd: but the biden white house is tackling the border crisis and griff jenkins live in washington with more, rev. >> good morning, todd and carley. the d.a.'s office confirmed what we already knew, broken and it shows the fiscal year 2021-foot patrol agents don't always assign alien registration numbers before releasing migrants into the u.s. border patrol did not issue numbers for 107 of 384 migrants and statistical sample size. most of them were patrolled into the country to report border patrol agents don't assign numbers because they were trying to expedite processing and move migrants out of border patrol facilities that were exceeding capacity. yet, the administration is arguing they are focused on

getting to the root causes. >> numbers matter, but it also matters this is a challenge that has built up over the course of decades. we have never been under any illusions tortured and anyone to address the root causes overnight over the course of a week or a month. >> the administration claims this is a unique situation because of migration from venezuela, cuba and nicaragua. but the secretary of chiefs tell a different story. >> within the last several days agents have arrested migrants from over 30 countries to include egypt, and iraq. >> this as texas governor greg abbott designating the mexican cartels as terrorist organizations. >> fentanyl is a clandestine killer. texans are victimized by mexican cartels that produce and import. so cartels are terrorists. it is time that we started treating them that way. >> meanwhile, we are learning

the activists florida governor rhonda sentence driving 50 migrants on martha's vineyard heavily funded by george soros receiving $4.4 million from his open society foundations as you see here. a desantis spokesperson tells fox news, "this lawsuit is political theater by up to her new theistic activists, todd and carley." they don't have a lot to back it appeared griff jenkins thank you. a major drug bust in florida. the attorney general's office say they seize enough fentanyl to kill 4 million people along with massive amounts of cocaine. and california through the mail receiving bricks of fentanyl in return with decades behind bars. florida governor ron desantis with a surprise endorsement for a run for reelection and the democrat beach county say the stakes are too high to follow party lines. >> it may come as a shock to

many of you, my friends, that as a democratic led officer in the county i am. until endorsing a republican government. i will not remain silent. we are a state on the rise. i give a lot of credit to the governor for the trajectory of our state. >> carley: another reason he backed desantis because charlie crist policies. the politics average has governor desantis ahead of charlie crist by four points. >> todd: the left and right after seeing this about israel. >> i want you all to know that among progressives, it has become clear you cannot hold progressive values yet back israel's apartheid government. we will continue to push back and not accept this idea that you are progressing, progressive

with. the steam any longer. >> todd: democratic debbie was to scholz tweeted "the litmus test by rashida tlaib is nothing short of anti-semitic. and jerry nadler writing "i reject the notion that cannot support israel's right to exist as a jewish and democratic state and the progressive purity but rashida tlaib has long history of anti-israel remarks many critics are skeptical with outrage, why don't you move to get her off committee like you did to a republican for similar reasons? >> carley: surprising dr. anthony fauci with the lockdowns on students, watch. >> we are dealing with a situation where the hospitals would be overrun in new york, you have to do something that is rather draconian. sometimes when you do draconian things, it has collateral,

negative consequences. >> okay the so-called draconian restrictions worth a question mark more on that. >> todd: nearly two and a half years after the fact. if you think schools have lifted pandemic mandate? think again a hawaii school forcing kindergartners to sit outside in the heat for lunch. we will talk to one parent who has had enough. keep it here. what? you want to go higher? okay. i said down, you old goat! i am the g.o.a.t. mahindra - the official tractor of tough and stewart-haas racing. come on, tony. put me down.

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♪ ♪ >> todd: dr. anthony dr. anthony fauci admitted covid-19 lockdown mandates had on your kids education. listen. >> what is the primary goal when you are dealing with a situation with the hospitals being overrun in new york. you have to do something that is rather draconian. sometimes, when you do draconian things, it has collateral, negative consequences. it does have ulterior consequences of the economy, on the school children. >> todd: a recent report from the department of education shows some of the largest test score declines in decades as a consequence of learning loss over the course of the pandemic. carley. >> carley: parents from a school district in hawaii pushing back against the extended covid era mandate but get this force has most of the students to eat lunch outside in

the scorching island heat. one of the parents whose daughter attends first grade at this elementary school, she is six years old and joins us now. christina, good morning to you. i checked the temperatures. it will be netted the grease imported today. what is going on at your daughter school? >> yes. that is what we have been fighting. but is really bad. >> carley: tell us more about the school? tell us more about the school and what is going on at the school and why your daughter and her class are being forced to eat outside. >> yes, so my daughter came home to me and i realized she was not eating her home lunch. i said, "honey, why are you not eating your home lunch?" it is so hot outside. what do you mean outside? yes, we have to eat outside. i emailed the teacher and i said, "what is going on? "and this is what she said quote, and i love the teacher, "yes, it has been unbearably

hot, unfortunately, we have to eat outside." so she told me to email the principle, which i did, and these are guidelines they are following from the department of health and to contact the complex area superintendent, which i did. so, i asked him, "hey, why are you guys doing this? everybody has moved on and there are no mandates. sse has dropped everything and went from yellow zone to green zone. these kids have suffered enough, you know, they need their normalcy back and not in 90 degrees humidity with flies. they should be in the cafeteria, a humongous cafeteria where they have been eating comfortably for 15 years." i have contacted everybody up the chain and no one is listening. >> carley: the hawaii department of education explained, the lunch policy

"started for covid medication but the school realized other benefits to school and staff including the covered outdoor area being cooler and more ventilated than the cafeteria." they say the cafeteria does not have ventilation but the kids can sit and eat comfortably spreading out more comfortable noise levels than the cafeteria with less students in there at once. this is for the benefit of all students, called teachers. there is nothing in there about covid but what is your response to that? >> well, that is not what they told me and if it is cooler outside, why do they have 5-year-old babies in the cafeteria? >> carley: that is a good point. >> i said you just contradicted yourself. if it is cooler out there, then put the little ones out there. that makes no sense. >> carley: christina we played a sound bite of anthony fauci admitting the lockdown policies were draconian. even though they say this policy has to do with keeping the kids

comfortable, you are saying what it really has to do with his covid mandates still being in place and forcing 6-year-old steed outside. >> they don't want to let go of that control, bottom line. i told him, "these children have a normal life outside. they are in crowded restaurants, malls so explain to me how a 15 minute lunch break segregated, discriminated against is benefiting the children? "i heard no response. >> carley: how her other parents responding to this? >> would you believe i just like started getting so many responses? they had no idea what was going on. the parents are so excited. the children no longer need to wear a mask. we are now allowed on campus to greet our children at the children's class. they have no way did this was going on. of all the schools i called in my neighborhood, this is only

school practicing that. >> carley: will, you know president biden said the pandemic was over. how did you feel about that? and maybe tell your school district that. >> i have. and i want them, i am not going anywhere. i told him, i tell you what, if you are going to stick to this guideline, then you and your entire staff eat outside. and we will see how quick they resort back to how things work. >> carley: we know hawaii had some strict lockdown policies in 2020. speak with the worst. >> carley: 2022 and some of those are still in place. christina, we are sorry what is happening to your little daughter. we appreciate you telling your story this morning. thank you, you are very welcome. from hawaii to los angeles the homeless crisis there is reaching critical levels of the business owner in the city who just gave us a firsthand look. it is worse than you might

think. >> sir, why are you throwing at people? >> who? >> you threw at this gentleman. >> it is like one flew over the cuckoo's nest. it is like a psych ward. >> carley: are you kidding me? guess what, we are not getting and we will talk to that guy next. >> todd: we have a great line up in the 5:00 a.m. our eastern time, there it is on your screen. don't go anywhere. ♪ ♪

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crime wave that has seen violence climb 37% from last year. >> todd: look at this, a homeless man seen defecating on the streets of l.a., hurling a bag of feces at a small business owner. the victim of that attack and reporter confronted that homeless man. take a listen. >> sir, why are you throwing feces at people? you threw feces at this man. >> this guy has to understand, i'm half paralyzed, blind, no car for years. >> do you need help, the city is offering help. >> everyday is like another adventure of one flew over the k kvue kuku's nest. >> todd: paul, the owner joins me now. this is the valley, i work down

the street from you, i can't believe this is happening, how often does it happen? >> how about every morning. how about i'm facing four or five extractions per day from my property. my job changed from restaurant owner to the dishwasher and now security guard, it is crazy, just crazy. >> you have to clean up, you have customers coming in. >> yeah, like i said, it is overwhelming, the problem right now. thank you for helping with this, we need so much help and i want to thank fox 11, marla picked this up and gina sila, going out with me, sticking microphones in these people's faces, we really

need help out there. this problem is ridiculous. i was listening to the lieutenant saying there was exodus out of this blue state, we have amazing influx of criminals from around the country. if you go to the greyhound bus station in l.a., steady stream of people are being sent here saying go to l.a., it is gangster paradise. we have prop 47, which decriminalizes lower level crime, assume. these public defecation, there is 57 which decriminalize or lowered the severity of crimes from felony to misdemeanor, it is literally a gangster's paradise. >> todd: we can't have a society like this, as if having to clean

up somebody else's you know what is not worse, you reached out to the l.a. city council and they told you, "in the future we request that you do not send these photos to our staff, we will not be able to respond if they contain inappropriate content such as a person indecently exposed. while it is not right, it is crossing a boundary to send to our staff unsolicited." what does this mean? if you have to deal with it and they are voted into office and paid to deal with it, what are you thinking when you get a reaction like that? >> it's a true feeling of helplessness. it's not the end of civilization if someone goes to the bathroom on the street, the end of

civilization is when the government looks past that and says that is okay. l.a. pd says they are unable to write tickets, citations, arrest for these level of crime, that causes the end of civilization, when you have my council member tell me i'm crossing a boundary, what does that mean? did i commit a crime? what did i do? i didn't send them pictures of myself, these are the conditions on the street they are ignoring and i feel like i'm being retaliate against. i've had city agencies come after this happened, all of us meaning me and a bunch of other business owners in the area feel helpless and unhelped. it's crazy. >> todd: from covid to george floyd to this, how much more can

business owners like yourself deal with? this is crazy town and can't happen anymore. thank you for coming on the program and letting us know about the program, it is ridiculous, something needs to be done. best of luck, sir 6789 with that, the 5 a.m. hour of "fox and friends first" begins right now. a fox news alert, former president trump firing back overnight after new york state attorney general james happeneds down quarter of billion lawsuit against the trump family citing persistents, fraudulent practices. you are watching "fox and friends first" on friday morning. >> the lawsuit follows through on campaign promise to target donald trump and take him down. turns out the media pretty happy about it. >> carley: it is an extraordinary public