>> what does it tell the young people of america that, when they do the right thing, they get attacked? into such a horrible precedent to set and it explains a lot of the problems. lexi, thank you for coming on and letting us know about these issues. hopefully this resolves itself. we appreciate your time. with that, the next hour of "fox & friends first" begins right now. and we begin with the fox news alert. explosions rocking kyiv and other cities across ukraine. officials say eight people have killed, 24 others injured, in the capital city alone. you are watching "fox & friends first." >> putin is set to meet with his security council today, just days after that humiliating explexplosion shut down a bridge linking russia to its annexed territory of crimea. blaming kyiv for the attack and calling it an act of terrorism.

a russian born u.s. defense intel officer says this is just the beginning. >> what putin has done is a diversion. the narrative about the security counsel meeting later in the day is a classic deception. this retaliation should have been expected, including by president biden and president zelenskyy. putin is switching strategies to what is called the new generation warfare, where he's going to target exactly what he's targeting right now, the civilian infrastructure. president biden at this point has no de-escalation strategy, and that is very dangerous. >> ukrainian president zelenskyy saying, "they are trying to destroy us and wipe us off the face of the earth. the air alarm does not stop the threat in ukraine. there are missiles hitting and unfortunately there are dead and wounded.

please do not leave shelters. take care of yourself and your loved ones. let's hold on and be strong." he says russia timed its attack to inflict maximum damage on energy and infrastructure. he said his voice is shot down at least 41 of the 75 missiles fired by russia this morning. meantime, president biden facing backlash for saying the world could face a nuclear armageddon at the hands of a nuclear threat by russian president putin. former secretary of state mike pompeo calling on the president to take the threat more seriously. listen. >> first off, those comments were reckless. even more importantly, they demonstrate maybe one of the greatest foreign policy failures of the last decades, which was the failure to deter vladimir putin in the same way the trump administration did for four years. when you hear a president talking about armageddon as a random thought, just musing at a fund-raiser, that's a terrible risk to the american people, if he truly believes he ought to be out talking to us in a serious way.

>> biden allies are defending the president's right to raise the risk of nuclear conflict, but when pressed on the "frightening comments," nsc coordinator john kirby revealing they were not based on new intel. >> i think the president was accurately reflecting the fact that the stakes are very high right now. his comments were not based on new or fresh intelligence, or new indications that mr. putin has made a decision to use nuclear weapons. quite frankly, we don't have any indication that he has. >> kirby added that the u.s. has not seen anything from the kremlin that would prompt us to change our nuclear posture. congressman lee zeldin says the crime crisis is literally at his doorstep, following a broad daylight shooting outside of his long island home. >> live with more. good morning, broke. >> police say that two men were shot outside the long island home of republican gubernatorial nominee, congressman lee zeldin.

he said his 16-year-old daughters were home alone doing their homework when they heard gunfire outside their front door. the bullets landed just 30 feet away as the girls locked themselves in the bathroom and called 911. >> it hits really close to home when it shows up on your front doorstep. i'm just so grateful that my daughters responded as quickly and as swiftly as they did. >> authority say three teenagers were walking down the street when someone in an suv open fire. two of them were shot before taking cover under zeldin's front porch. the conservative congressman has been vocal on new york's soft-on-crime policies, contributing to the spiraling crime crisis, but he says it's past the point of politics. listen. >> as far as standing here, you're talking about politics, i'm surprised that you or someone else might even look at it that way. at what point are we supposed to talk about the crime on our own

streets? i'm standing in front of the crime scene tape in front of my own house. you can't get me more outraged than right now. >> his opponent, kathy hochul, took to twitter to say, "as we await more details, i'm relieved to hear the zeldin family is safe and grateful for law enforcement's quick response." this is the second high-profile instance of violent crime to impact zeldin. in july he was attacked on stage while giving a speech in upstate new york. authorities believe the incident outside his home to be gang-related and "unrelated to the residents of the house," as they continue to search for the government. >> thanks, broke. i can't imagine that surely new york, in suffolk county, i can't imagine the crime rate is significantly higher than places in the bronx or even in the city, in new york city. we have spoken to them on this show in this network, these lifelong democrats are turning

their backs against people like kathy hochul, who will revisit these soft on crime bail reform laws until after the race, which is not what you new yorkneeds right now. they want to vote for lee zeldin because crime is the number one issue on their mind. it'll be interesting to see how voters vote when it comes to these elections, but kathy hochul is still leading the polls. i just wonder how many people are paying attention to this. i want to point out that zeldin says he wants cops on every new york city street. but let me put it this way, the cops' hands are tied because of leadership in new york. it's going to take leadership changes in new york city, in new york state, to change anything like this. these cops are afraid of doing their jobs. the mayor is a former nypd officer. he might be higher than officer when he left, but you would

think you'd be pushing harder to get criminals off the street, and that's the first step. leave the criminals in jail. don't just let them out, because the paperwork isn't even finished before they are lit back out. and i have things like this happening. it is too little 6-year-old girls, i'm sure they were scared to death, and here he was with his wife trying to go make a difference. talk about making a difference with the city and with the state. his little innocent girls were at home. granted, had nothing to do with it, but i'm sure he feels horrible about it, and is not his fault. >> i think you hit the point right off the bat. this happened in suburbia. i think we've come to the expectation that our cities are problem, and there is no solution anytime soon for them, but suburbia, my original thought is that i live in suburbia just like zeldin. i've got two daughters just like zeldin. i think a lot of us have had this thought. what if this happened in my house? the random violence is not supposed to happen in suburbia. but thanks to soft-on-crime

policies like you were mentioning, bail reform and the like, our country is being more and more overcome by lawlessness, and the crime cancer is now spreading beyond the cities to the suburbs. what does this all boil down to? four weeks, and one day from now, and republicans need to stay laser focus between then and now, or now and then. don't get distracted. two issues: crime and the economy. we have seen, as republicans have gotten more focused on that over the course of the last couple weeks, the poll numbers have risen four republicans, it's working. stay in your lane and you should be happy come november 9th when you wake up and see what the actual election results are. >> we will see. the cost of gas is up $0.12 in just the past week. experts are warning that prices at the pump will only get worse, and many are blaming the price surge on biden and to energy policies. >> that includes wesley hunt, who just met oil workers in

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>> good morning, everyone. happy monday. happy columbus day. let's look at the current apertures. 48 in chicago, 33 in fargo, 50s

in new york. 54 in raleigh and 69 in dallas. a little bit of a warm up across the great lakes, the midwest, and even the northeast over the next couple of days. it was cold over the weekend, or cooler than average, so we will warm things up, and then we are going to get that seesaw temperatures over the next few weeks because we are getting into the seasonal changes. forecast for today, pretty good for much of the country. we do have some tropical moisture making its way into texas and parts of the southwest today and tomorrow. we will worry about the potential of some flash flooding around the big bend of texas, up toward midland, texas, and then through tuesday we could see the potential for some showers for southern california in toward the southwest in texas. again, that's some of the tropical moisture working its way in through the gulf and the pacific. the next round of widespread rain moving in from the northern plains and upper midwest across the great lakes on wednesday, and then into the northeast. if you are planning out what you're going to do this week, if

you're traveling, just know that as we get into thursday and friday in the northeast we will see some of those showers and thunderstorms moved through and the flash flood threat. so a good few days, the next few days, then as we get into wednesday and thursday things get a little bit wet. tracking the tropics, unlikely development in the next five days. that's great news. we had julia who has crossed over in mexico into the pacific and some of that moisture working its way into the southw. otherwise, great news. speak a happy monday, happy week. president biden has not ruled out a ban on new u.s. oil and gas leases, even though the price of gas is inching back up to $4 per gallon by the day. >> texas congressional candidate wesley hunt just visited oil assets in oklahoma, the pipeline cross worlds of the world, to meet with the hardworking men and women. what did you learn? >> what i learned is that literally almost 2% of the world's oil supply flows through

that facility every single day. these brave americans get up and they work to make sure they can power not just our country but the entire world. what i have learned is that we must unleash american oil and gas and american lng. i have also been to mexico, carlsbad new mexico, i've been to arena offshore, visited in pennsylvania. the largest natural gas producer in the entire country. what i have realized is that these brave americans have the ability to not only end the civil unrest across the world, but to power our country in the world. this administration has basically waged war against our industry, and it must stop. i live right here in houston, texas, the energy capital of the world. basically every single major player in the energy industry has some kind of space in my congressional district, congressional district 38. i'm here to tell you the only

thing you have to do is ask us to do our job and we cannot only lower gas prices but also fuel our world and our allies. >> wesley, the people you spoke to you, can they believe what is happening? how the biden administration is, on the one hand, basically trying to destroy their livelihood while simultaneously begging dictators for their oil? can they believe that? >> they cannot. this is an issue, literally, of jobs, jobs, jobs. we are killing jobs, we are killing tax revenue. by the way, they recognize this. they see what's happening every day, and not only that, the entire world is watching. it's a level of weakness that even opec has absolutely no respect for our country and for our president, for this administration, and the remedy is right here. we are hardworking americans willing to solve that problem if we just put in the work. >> let's get to this, all military branches are falling behind on recruitment goals.

the army, they are 15,000 15,000 soldier short. a loss of 7500 service members and the national guard. the navy met only 10% of their goal. the main core, 30% of their goal. air force met 10%. the defense secretary is focusing on renaming at least nine military bases that he claims are tied to the confederacy. do you think these lacking numbers are actually the fact that the military is perhaps going woke? >> wokeness is the problem here and at some point you have to stop blaming covid. they are at the point where we need to start enlisting brave men and women who just want to serve our country like i did. not just me, but my father and my brother and my sister, we all went to west point, and we understand what it takes to fight wars in a foreign land. that's the kind of people that we want in our country. the kind of mentality it takes to do that, it doesn't mean we care about wokeness, that we care about pronouns. we just want to learn how to

fight. i am somebody who spent time in the robert e. lee barracks at west point. i was stationed in alabama, and at fort hood, and at no time in the hundreds of times i entered those buildings and those bases was i concerned about the name of it. look, that their history. that's our past. renaming buildings doesn't change that. what it does do is we forget about our past and we are doomed to repeat it. look, let's get to focusing on mwar-fighting. not the names on buildings. what's happening with the russian and north korean aggression right now, iranian aggression right now, and also, quite frankly, chinese aggression, they are watching what our focus is on, and this is why we are hurting on the national scale. it makes this november so important. you got to take it back to the house and our senate to get our country back on track and focused on american values and being strong again on the world stage. >> our military is winning on wokeness. i don't think that's a word we

want. i appreciate your time as always, sir. thank you. >> god bless you, good morning, and thank you very much. >> likewise, sir. the white house using your tax dollars to deflect the press about hunter biden, and there is so much, they've created a couple new staff positions. with six-figure salaries. >> i'll bet joe concha has a lot to say about this. he's next. ♪ ♪ ♪ icy hot pro. ♪ ice works fast... to freeze your pain and your doubt. ♪

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♪ ♪ >> the national gas average sitting at $3.91 per gallon with no relief in sight, as the energy information administration predicts prices will continue to rise. >> but that didn't stop president biden from taking a weekend getaway. members of his own party are calling for new blood ahead of the midterms. alexandria hoff with more on that live in washington. >> good morning, todd and ashley. last month it looked like democrats were gaining some ground in their uphill midterm battle. the president's approval rating remained low, but not at its

lowest, and gas prices are easing up. now those prices are 60% higher than when the president took office, at $3.91 per gallon. and they are likely to rise again given opec and saudi arabia slashing oil production. that's not what the president wanted to see happen, especially after he went out on the political lamb meeting with the saudi crown prince in july. 28 days out from the midterms and the president's strategy is being questioned. >> i think the economic headwinds are so tough, and biden just doesn't have the oomph as a candidate. people don't really want him around and he can't make his case. i don't think the democrats are in any better a place. >> might they be in a better place with someone else seeking to take the wheel? democratic congresswoman elissa slotkin gave her take. >> while i think inflation is obviously a worldwide phenomenon, i'm open to the fact that we have to make decisions here in the united states. democrats are in power, in the white house and the house and

the senate. i've been very vocal, including with my own leadership in the house, that we need a new generation and we need new blood, period, across the democratic party in the house, senate, and white house. i think the country has been saying that. >> republicans feel that what they are seeing a simple, to focus on issues that matter. >> crime is a huge issue. cost of living remains a huge issue. remember, every voter they are trying to tell to look at this other issue, they would address the issues most important, the economy, crime, and the border. those are the issues that matter. >> on thursday, new consumer price index data will be released, and investors are bracing for another interest rate hike by the federal reserve as a way to beat back inflation. >> alexandra, thank you. let's bring in joe concha, fox news contributor and author of the book that begins with "come on, man!" the rest of the title is long.

joe, would dems do better in the midterms if, i don't know, joe biden said he's dragging down the party and he's out, just going to spend the rest of the presidency beginning today hanging out in delaware? >> that's an interesting scenario. i think that would be a white flag of surrender, todd, so he's not going to do anything that would then make the news cycle all about how joe biden isn't running for president again. it'll look like they are saying they are defeated, don't bother voting for us. but i don't think he runs in 2024. i just think that announcement comes after the midterms, probably sometime in early 2023. but when seven in ten voters believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, when a solid majority of democrats don't want a joe biden sequel and don't want him to seek a second term, the last thing candidates like tim ryan want in swing states like ohio is to create an easy campaign ad, and appear with a president responsible for 40-year high inflation, soaring gas prices

like you've been talking about, and a wide open border, ashley. >> joe, this is a real kicker. that biden administration is paying $265,000 a year to staff members whose job is to deflect enter stories, and republican-led investigations. the deputy counsel to the president is being paid $155,000 to oversee responses to subpoenas and oversight efforts, while the special assistant to the president is paid $110,000 on responding to congressional investigations. it is also important to note that one of these people actually worked on vp harris' presidential campaign, and we all know how that turned out. with everything that happened last week, with all of this imminent chance of hunter biden being potentially charged, they might have their hands full. >> wow. the person who worked on kamala harris' 2020 campaign? it's funny they call it the 2020 campaign when she didn't even get the 2020.

she dropped out in december 2019. and this is someone seen as one of the favorites going in. but in administration but once created the disinformation governance port is now paying people to try to squash a story that isn't remotely going away? i mean, shut the front door, right? we seen this in october 2021 highly placed activists at facebook and twitter suppressed and censored the hunter biden laptop story when it first but devonte broke, courtesy of "the new york post." they will launch investigations and hearings into hunter biden. the contents of that laptop, and most importantly, who is the big guy that tony belinsky, his private business partner, said benefit in terms of getting 10% of pop don't profits from influence peddling in places like china and ukraine?

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candidate katie hobbs even appearing to support abortion right up until birth, refusing to answer with the cut off should be during pregnancy. >> if an arizona voter were to conclude from your previous answer that you do not favor any specific limits on abortion, would they be correct? >> i support leaving the decision between a woman and her doctor and leaving politicians entirely out of it. >> all this after the president announced new measures expanding protections on abortion access, encouraging voters to demand legislation on the issue. >> vice president and border czar kamala harris addressing abortion in austin, texas, while continuing to ignore the border crisis. >> on this issue i say let's take the flag back. this is about freedom and liberty. at its core, this is about freedom and liberty. it's immoral. it's truly immoral. >> matt mckelvey ack is

the cofounder of save austin now. he joins us now. matt, she wasn't asked about the border. she didn't answer, yet she's in texas, a second time in 30 days. a lot of people are saying that maybe this was just a political ploy to try and get votes, especially in that red state of texas. what did the voters think of this visit? >> well, she was in texas for a fund-raiser in austin for the local democratic party. that is what her stated purpose was being here. as far as i know, she didn't do anything else. most texans would have loved to see her take the opportunity tor flight and head down to the actual border, where the border crisis is clearly hitting. it's not hitting in el paso where she went for a couple hours over a year ago. is hitting in mcallen, brownsville, laredo, and between those areas. that's what the administration needs to see to understand what

their policies are doing to communities. >> i think, at a bare minimum, just to show face, this administration would go down there and, at least, like i said, bare minimum, say they are here and see the issue. why do you think they are constantly pushing back on this? >> it's probably two reasons. one, they know that if they go down there it'll get an enormous amount of media attention and focus national and white house reporters to ask questions they haven't had to answer up to this point. and they don't want their mind to be changed by the fact on the ground. when the biden administration and did catch and release, when they took all these other policy decisions that basically said the border is not going to be enforced, they sort of winked at anyone who wanted to come over it, you see absolute flooding across they are, and that's why we are having fentanyl seizures at ten times record levels. when you consider the potency of fentanyl, it's absolutely destroying communities. >> and this is honestly very

heavy question. i don't know that anyone can answer it other than someone in the biden administration, but when border patrol agents have encountered millions of people and you talk about the fentanyl crisis, it's affecting people in the u.s., and you saw that murder on the vegas strip. i'm not saying that's connected to this particular border crisis since biden has been in the administration, but it makes you want to have secure everything is. at what point does this have to be stopped? or does it have to be completely a change of administration? >> you hope that if republicans are able to take that to the house that they can put some tension on this issue to get some action. i think house republicans are talking about impeaching the homeland security secretary, alejandro mayorkas, maybe taking it beyond that. the question is a good one, and that is if it requires the white house to change. the answer is probably yes. if you think about that policies trump had on that issue versus biden, they are very different. i doubt those policies would

probably change considerably without the white house, or at least the house. they can put that issue on the front burner, hold hearings. they haven't held one hearing on the southern border crisis since they've had control of congress. >> it's amazing that they've completely ignored it, and there is such an issue going on down there every single day. matt mackowiak, thanks for getting up early with us. we appreciate it. a fox news alert out of ukraine were multiple explosions target civilian areas in kyiv and other major cities. >> at least eight people confirmed dead. we have the latest from ukraine and president zelenskyy's response. don't go anywhere.

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>> fox news alert, explosions rocking kyiv and other cities across ukraine during rush hour local time this morning. officials say at least eight people have been killed, 24 others injured in the capital city alone. this all comes as putin is said to meet with his security council today just days after the humiliating explosion that shut down a strategic bridge linking russia to its annexed territory of crimea. >> ukrainian president zelenskyy says russia timed its attack to inflict maximum damage on ukraine's energy infrastructure. ukraine's general says his forces shut down at least 41 of the 75 missiles fired by russia this morning. residents are being urged to

shelter in place as a raid sirens ring out across the country. and back here at home, valero is heading back after california's energy commission accused oil ceos of price gouging. >> the fuel giant pointing the finger back at the golden state's pricing regulations as californians pay nearly $3 more for a gallon of gas in the average american. that's wild. cherylcheryl casone here with m. >> that's about double what we pay across the country. but here's the thing, it's because of the regulations in the state of california that california drivers are paying so much. and valero hitting back, to your point. steve got the energy commission in california and governor newsom going after them, saying that you are corrupt, you are thieves, your profits are out of control, you are greedy, just blah, blah, bl. what valero is saying is, wait a minute, it's your regulations in this state causing gas prices to

be so incredibly high. there is a statement from valero, from their vice president of government affairs, he responded and said california is the most expensive operating environment in the country, a very hostile regulatory environment for refining, adding further costs, in the form of taxes and regulatory constraints. it's only going to further strain the fuel market and adversely impact refiners. those costs get passed on to consumers. well, that's what's happening. now governor newsom was a special legislative session to be called in december to talk about new taxes, more taxes put on companies like valero that are refining in the state. here they are saying you're a bunch of greedy oil refineries, but we are going to taxi to the hills and take all your profits. which is it going to be in the state of california? >> if you look at some of the comments from people in california on this article, they say you can't make this stuff up, and they make it extremely difficult to do business in a state with all those regulations. do you think there is maybe a

little bit of price gouging? i don't think a lot of people trust companies like this, either. >> there's absolutely not. the mathematics don't work on that. remember, you have to have a special blend of gasoline in california, completely separate from the rest of the country. that's the summer blend. but also, again, they have been imposing on a state level -- not even the biden administration come up on the state level -- they have been imposing new regulations on refining. labor regulations on top of the high taxes that these companies are already paying. they are also against the plane demand, good old business when it comes to the oil industry. with more demand, which we have had post covid, a state like california where driving is the name of the game, they don't have trains like we do here in the new york city area, so all of that pushes to the environments that they've got to operate in, with its valero or chevron or occidental or whomever. they can't afford -- they have to put these prices up on retail

gasoline stations. there's not a choice here. >> and taxes on california gas have always -- when i was living out there, even before these extra regulations were slapped on, it was already high because of the taxes. it is a tax environment and it's shocking to me that they want to add more taxes. unbelievable. >> and that you should drive an electric car, which is expensive, but you can only charge it at certain hours because the power grid is stress. they need to learn market dynamics. >> the golden state because you need gold to live there! parents across the country are struggling to meet family needs as food and gas prices soar. that includes, a sales manager, and a stay-at-home mom of their 2-year-old daughter. they both joined me now. what sacrifices they make you are and how to get by? >> because things are so tough, i'm doing anything and everything i can to be able to

provide for my family. that includes driving an hour and a half one way to and from work and literally working all day. i get to see my daughter twice a week. >> that's heartbreaking. i also read in the notes you sent that you are surviving right now on two cups of ramen per day. you look like an adult male. you need more than two cups of ramen. but you are sacrificing so your wife and daughter can eat. did you ever imagine that you would ever have to make such sacrifices so your family could survive? >> i had imagined it, but i never thought it would actually happen, i'm going to be honest. >> unbelievable. krista, how are you finding ways to save money? >> i only eat a maximum of one meal and two snacks through the day so i can make sure my daughter has enough food to, as well, to eat at home without

putting us in too much of a financial bind. >> oh, my gosh. the overall cost of food is up 11.4%. groceries are up 13.5%. as a lighthouse doing enough to keep families like yours afloat right now? >> honestly i feel like they could be doing more. >> like what? what do you want to see them do? >> i haven't really put too much thought into it, but i feel like if they try to put in effort to at least help out in a little bit of the day to day, that would be great. >> how is the rest of your community doing? >> pardon? >> the people in your community. are they making similar sacrifices to you? >> i know a lot of them are, especially parents around our

age. they are all having a really difficult time. a lot of them don't have to work as much as my husband, so i can't imagine what they are having to do to make ends meet. there's definitely a lot of people in our community who have some monetary issues. >> final question, how's your daughter doing? >> she is happy. honestly, that's more than what i can ask for right now with how everything is. >> in the media we often talk about what a real man is. going without so your family, and your daughter, specifically, can be happy, that's what it's all about. you are a real man. you are a heck of a mom. thank you for joining us this morning. breaking right now, another migrant bus in new york city where eric adams has declared a state of emergency over the drop-offs, and some of those

migrants say they are being left out in the cold and forced to walk the streets and knock on doors for help. >> david webb will join us to react. first, brian kilmeade has a look at what's coming up on "fox & friends." >> great show, as usual. straight ahead, congressman new york gubernatorial candidate lee zeldin will join us live. you know what happened last night, shooting right outside his house parties in the bronx and his kids are upstairs. what does that mean, as he tries to fight against crime in new york and say what will be different if he becomes governor of that city we happen to be in? and the state, i should be. and mike pompeo is here. we'll talk about the attacks in ukraine, and the former secretary of state react as the biden administration meets face-to-face with the taliban for the first time since the killing. an argument against biden's marijuana pardon. why the former drug czar says the moods can only lead to rising crime. we are looking to brag a little bit. sean hannity promises to shower and be ready for our show, as

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♪ ♪ >> the stories we hear about, that we read about, and it's a family we don't know, a lot of new yorkers want to know what's going on in their community. they want to know what the news is. they are living their lives, and they want to get caught up at the end of a busy day at work. it hits really close to home when it shows up on your front doorstep. >> new york republican gubernatorial nominee congressman lee zeldin speaking out after two teens were shot 3t door. >> his 216-year-old daughters

were home alone at the time of the shooting. david webb is a fox news contributor and host of reality check on fox nation. zeldin since this happened 24 hours to the minute of him giving it in your his front porch where this all happened, about the rising crime crisis in new york. he is campaigning on the promise to help with this crime crisis, but it's not even immune to his own home when he's out doing this. mind you, they have been no arrests, no info on who shot at these two people. so what does that say to the crime crisis and the crime spree's that seem to be sparking up all over new york and now in the suburbs? >> it says that they are the result of policy failures by the democrats, the progressives who are in charge, like governor kathy hochul and the

others who suppress law enforcement's ability to do their job, and the court's ability to do their job. a couple things that people should pay attention to, when this happens about 2:20 in the afternoon, not in the middle of the night or inner city urban, in a rural neighborhood, for lack of a better term, when you have teens who are known to the police, known to law enforcement, apparently, and is more investigation underway, you have a deadly cocktail. 30 feet is not too much room for a bullet, if you will, and when you are hiding upstairs, and they said there was blood on a rock, that's as close as you ever want to get to this in any neighborhood in america. and the fact that its spreading outcome whether it was of post-recorded session, an argument, doesn't matter. these are people who should be dealt with and kept and detained and prosecuted, even as minors, in whatever way possible.

the gun crime is no light crime. governor hochul in the left-wing democrats, the progressives, i don't care what they want to call themselves, they are feeling the people, and people are being beaten, robbed, random crime is a huge problem, and they don't care, or else they would do something about the obvious. >> meantime, migrant buses from texas pulling up in new york city literally as we speak. right now you are looking live at the second migrant bus of the day unloading at port authority. so much for being a sanctuary city, david. mayor adams declaring a state of emergency for what amounts to a handful of migrants compared to what we are seeing at the border. why can't the city handle this if it's declaring itself a sanctuary city? >> because this is part of the lie of a sanctuary city, todd. first of all, biden has been flying and transporting people around the country since he's

been in office, and it points right to him and right to the failed border czar, border sheriff kamala harris. the new york city officials, eric adams and others, don't care. i looked at the staten island story of them walking around the streets, begging. you can't book a room until the end of october, so apparently it's booked up until then. are they going to renew it on november 1st? are they going to then let them out on the streets completely? what about the homeless shelters? the big lie of sanctuary cities is that it eats up the resources needed for those residents most in need in the city, and the city officials don't care, because part of their plan is to bring in the illegal aliens and give them 300,000, 500,000, or a million cell phones. they are not going back and large percentages for their hearings. so the communities are then stuck with them and they pay the price. by the way, crime and this

illegal alien problem go together. desperate people, unfortunately -- and it's a fact -- will do desperate things to survive. >> and mayor adams needs a billion dollars to handle this. i don't know where that money is going, but that's a lot of cash. thank you for being here. we appreciate it. with that, "fox & friends" begins right now. >> have a good day. ♪ ♪ >> explosions rocking kyiv and other cities across ukraine. >> putin set to meet with his security council today. >> putin is switching strategies. he's going to target exactly what he's targeting right now. >> two people wounded in a shooting outside of the home of new york congressman and candidate for governor, lee zeldin. >> it's really close to home when it shows up on your front doorstep. >> new york city mayor eric adams declaring a state of emergency. migrants from texas are reportedly going door-to-doo