color we are when we coach against each other. we just have a lot of good white friends that coach in this league as well. and i think that the men into you guys stop making a big deal about everybody else, you will notice as well. >> you love to see that. it's about marriage, it's about >> carley: a fox news alert. california battered by crime and an energy crisis and a flat out unaffordable cost of living but do not expect president biden to address any of that as he visits los angeles per day. >> todd: the price of a gallon of gas more than six bucks a gallon. the medium income in the golden state, about $33,000 per year. those numbers for most of the people, that is tough. here on a thursday morning.

>> carley: i'm carley shimkus. it zeroes in on the midterms looking to boost democrat candidates for spending for the entire country. >> todd: after learning about this wholesale inflation notching a painfully high 8.5% in september and we are expecting some other numbers to come out and about four and a half hours. kevin corke live in washington with more. >> i love how excited you get when you get a chance to talk a little business, my friend. good morning to the both of you and sometimes you've got to go to the golden state to pick up a little bit of gold and of course that means a well-timed trip to california with the midterms around the corner, it's pretty much what the doctor ordered. unfortunately for democrats and in particular the biden white house, this trip comes as a party is being blamed for border insecurity. take los angeles for example. homicide rates way up.

robberies come of the same story. violent crime, are you kidding me? up 11.6%. add to that, how about wholesale inflation? we are wondering if things might tend to back off a bit. not so. 8.5% year over year. but the president says he still not convinced that a recession will grip the nation. >> i don't think there will be a recession. if there is it'll be a very slight recession. there is so much that has been accomplished that the idea that there is something that there isn't automatic to the recession, it isn't there. >> he is also the guy who said inflation will be transitory for the white house insists they understand that they have "more work to do," experts say the white house is very late in the game when it comes to admitting the obvious, recession and

inflationary pressures are already here. >> it's a sign that the american public is waking up and he still trying to pull the wool over their eyes and he made a big mistake there. >> another issue they are expected to hammer the white house oncoming infrastructure. he is talking about that in a state that has already struggled with rolling blackouts and limited electric rate capabilities, estate trying to get everybody to use electric vehicles and they are having trouble keeping the ones they already have charged up. guys? >> we both said the same thing about cp's outfit. that should be what biden talks about. but he won't do it. tomorrow, joe biden set to head towards states were soft on crime policies are getting lots of attention but voters could elect the first republican governor in 40 years.

>> carley: listen to this from one democratic strategist who says oregon is going to be a battleground state for a whole host of reasons and it's definitely not a role that oregon is used of billing. joins us now. good morning to you. oregon, the oregon governor's race is neck and neck which is why the president is heading to your state tomorrow and you say that from a perspective, the midterm election could be a turning point when it comes to crime in your state. can you explain that to us? >> the last few years we've had a bunch of bills from the senate that the current governor has signed that has just made law enforcement more difficult in oregon. linn county in particular is a conservative county and we want our criminals to go to jail. we just had senate bill 48 past and get signed by the governor that basically takes away our local control to keep who we want and who our community expects in our jail.

additionally we recently had senate bill 15-10 that we can no longer pull over cars and have a single headlight or taillight out. that takes away our ability to get drunk drivers off the road and make stops where we end up finding people with warrants and other criminal things that they are doing. >> todd: instead of seeing it for the horrific and as it is, we need to copy that per here is senate bill 48 as you mentioned. released without bail for low-level crimes like that come across passing, while people can be granted conditional release with pretrial monitoring for crimes like driving under the influence, assault charges, and certain felonies. what has that done to your ability, sheriff, to actually do your job and protect your pe

people? >> again, it gives us the ability to take criminals that we'd normally keep in our jail and we have to release them. even something as small as a trespass, we had one person who committed several trespasses within a month's time and it wasn't until a probation officer, the person was on probation, put in a probation violation before we could actually take that person off the street to see a judge. we have a male, his 1-year-old baby tested positive for cocaine here that's not somebody we'd normally release back out the public before they see a judge. >> t>> todd: unreal. >> carley: president biden going to oregon like we said tomorrow and he's going to be joining democratic up in the tar heel candidate tina cho attack it's a really tight race. do you expect them on the

campaign trail in oregon to benefit? how do you feel about that? >> i'm sure that's part of his purpose. i think people in oregon, especially rule oregon are tired of the portland mentality. you are hearing a lot, even portland is tired about some other things going going on in portland risking their safety and i think that's why you are seeing the numbers were christine drazen that you are and there are a lot of people in oregon that are hopeful we get some reasonableness back into our government, especially from me, from the public safety aspect. >> todd: fbi data indicating violent crime up year over year, when you look at the state of oregon over all. an increase in violent crime. carley mentioned, is joe biden going to have any impact to bring people out?

we question joe biden's utility to any candidate much less a democrat that struggling against the republican. but our voters in oregon, specifically in portland, finally waking up to the negative impact that far left policies have on crime, on homelessness and the like, and prepared to vote those people out of office in 26 days? >> i think you see the results in the polling. you've never seen a republic in in, what is it, 40 years that has been this close to being able to win that seat, and, you know, we've always been less fortunate here in linn county. we haven't had the ability to have much of a say when it comes to the governor's race. you have to have the people in portland and the bigger cities in the area who are tired of it too. >> todd: we thank you so much for your time. looking forward to seeing what happens in a couple of weeks.

over to pennsylvania where the state says it could be counting undated ballots going against this week supreme court ruling. didn't know you can do that but i guess you can in pennsylvania. top election officials say the commonwealth might not be following new guidance on disregarding mail in ballots for typos or incorrect dates. court of appeals ruled that undated envelopes must be counted. that was reversed by the supreme court on tuesday. every counted is expected to includes ballots for the november election. the order from the supreme court does not affect the prior decision of the commonwealth court of pennsylvania. we'll see if that's challenge. this all comes as pennsylvania senate race kicks up a notch. democrat john fetterman defending his record on crime despite setting at least ten murderers free.

>> resisting growing calls about his health after the life-threatening stroke he suffered before securing his party's nominee. >> good morning, guys. democratic pennsylvania nominee john fetterman shrugging off multiple questions and requests from reporters to produce his medical records during yesterday's interview with the editorial board. >> he was pressed on his desire to give mercy to murderers. >> felony murder, we are only 1 of 2 states in the nation that has that and it simply was that i absolutely support wife for murder in the first degree. if you never took a life or were not involved nor you had any attempt, of course, any need to be held, but i do not think you need to die in life or that. >> during his time as pencil menu within governor shows he successfully supported the

release of at least ten people convicted of first-degree murder. the lack of clarity on one of the race's top issues prompting his republican opponent dr. mehmet oz to accuse fetterman of trying to hide his real stance. listen. >> a lot what's going on in thee street is people hiding the truth. you want your candidates out there asking and answering questions or you want the voters to be able to quiz us and what's happening is money is pouring in to protect john fetterman. >> carley: the that allow felonsto walk free ia lack of gun control. >> if you really claim to back the blue, like i hear a lot of people making that statement and waving that flag, you should be in favor of gun control. because we have people who went to the hospital this morning who had been killed as a result of someone not backing the blue. po that answer

as reveals they may exclude the city of brotherly love from future expansion plans due to concerns about rampant crime. that after a group of 100 unruly teenagers ransacked the philly location last month. >> when you lose walmart in pennsylvania, the city of pennsylvania, you have a major problem. out could hinder his ability to do his job if elected. >> to articulate in a convincing manner and advocate for your state. he cannot do that. he cannot speak. he asked to conduct interviews using a desktop computer screen in order be able to see was being asked. if you watch that nbc interview, he wasn't consistent and being able to answer those questions. and so if you look at these numbers dr. oz is going to win in pennsylvania.

>> regardless how you feel about doctor's, i do not know how it in good conscience you can pull the lever for john fetterman after we saw this week. forget policy. you have to look at the health situation in its entirety. it's unfair to the people of pennsylvania, the citizens of the entire country, this is one of 100 seats and its impacts the entire nation and this is unfair to that guy, the man john fetterman. he's obviously not improper help to do this job. i did not know why the democrats keep dragging him out there. >> carley: obviously pennsylvania is one of the states that could really decide the balance of power in the senate and according to the real clear politics average, oz is closing in on the race. used to be up by double digits. he's only up by 4%. and i was reading that one of the reasons that could be is because oz is solidifying republicans around him after a really contentious primary season. also his outreach to black voters has been successful.

on the other hand, fetterman says he raised a million dollars in the last 24 hours and there is a poll that shows that people in pennsylvania are concerned about fetterman's health but more concerned about claims that dr. oz is not from pennsylvania. it's a really mixed bag and there is some good news for both candidates. >> todd: i think it's okay to break down policy and the strength of the candidates there. i think it makes their earth. even getting in the policy when it gets to john fetterman, we don't need to go that far. you have to ask yourself the question, is this individual healthwise suited to be in the senate? and i think the answer to that based on everything we've seen just this week alone is not. >> carley: policy is always important. in one of the policies sets is crime. you heard that he successfully supported the release of ten people convicted of first-degree

murder and last year fetterman appeared to support the release of all second-degree murderers in pennsylvania. his campaign is walking that back. his campaign recently scrubbed support for your "black lives matter" or defund the police because crime is such an issue in the state. one thing i've found adjusting about john fetterman, an article in "the new york post" about his political career. he was the mayor of a town called roddick pennsylvania. a once booming town of about 20,000 people in the '50s or 60s but that number is down to 1700 people. he won the mayoral race by 149 votes in 2005 which is one more vote than his opponent and the job only paid $150 a month. which i guess is why his parents supported him until he was about 49. how do you go from the mayor of that town to within governor to now possibly the next senator of pennsylvania depending on how

these midterm elections turn out? we are going to be talking to a resident coming up later in the show. >> todd: all eyes are going to be to see how these folks really break down the major issues of crime. the reason they are propping up john fetterman's because they know regardless of his health you'll be a rubber stamp for the stop on crime policies of the biden the administration. this video scary for the kids in it brave. they alert police they've just been kidnapped. >> stepped out of the car. >> todd: you deftly want to stick around for the rest of that story. >> carley: gearing up for a high profile school meeting tonight. the board members have one rule for everybody who shows up. >> we will conduct ourselves as

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toddler who disappeared last week is likely dead leaving his mother as a prime suspect in 22 22-year-old leilani simon has not been arrested or charged. simon told police her son vanished, authorities naming her suspect after bringing search dogs to the savanna home with her parents who share legal custody with the boy. and how about this. of florida, excuse me, man, with a lengthy criminal history charged with kidnapping after allegedly stealing a truck with two young children inside. a deputy chasing down this abstract after the kids father reported the car stolen. body cam but it shows the moment when one of the children blew his cover. watch this. >> what's going on. roll down the window, bro. >> step out of the car. step out of the car, brother.

>> the two children inside the card are eight and four years old. luckily they were not hurt and are now reunited with their family. kevin smith now facing kidnapping and grand theft auto charges things to the deputy and the children's quick thinking, sent directly to jail. do not pass go. >> todd: that is an unreal story. the russian national charge of making false statements to the fbi and fueling the steele dossier at the heart of the 2016 trump-russia collusion pro. hammering counterintelligence asking why unverified information was used to great agency to secure a isa warrant against the trump campaign. testifying "i'm not writing the application to which your him fired back, you didn't have corroboration from other intelligence community agencies or from christopher steele and it still went into a phis application?

awkwardly replying, correctly it went overseas to offer to pay $1 million to christopher steele if you can verify that anti-trump dossier. senator josh hawley calling for republicans to prioritize and anticorruption agenda. >> look at this administration. look what they've done to the fbi. look what they've done to the department of justice. look at the fact they are conducting raids on pro-life catholic demonstrators to make a point. if they go to school board meetings and complained and let's not forget who told fbi whistle-blower is to come forward. it was merrick garland who sent a memo out to all doj employees and say, don't talk to congress, you've got to go through me. that's not the law. talk about double standards, its double standards all around. that's why vulcans have got to

make and anticorruption agenda priority number one. >> suggesting congress passed a ban on stock trading and reevaluate how taxpayer she is accusing cantrell of reassigning her personal head of security, leak the footage of her cushy taxpayer-funded apartment. marino going after cantrell telling fox this message, "come at me directly, come at me, do not come at someone who is a dedicated public servant, who does not deserve to be accused of wrongdoing when he did absolutely nothing wrong. so much controversy in new orleans with the mayor. >> todd: politics are fun. aren't they? >> carley: especially for me. democrats are finally worried about the border in the final

months before election day. nancy pelosi and kathy hochul committing biden needs to do something for our next guest couldn't agree more. just invited the president to come on down to visit the crisis and see what it's like firsthand. >> todd: take a look from this tweet. fine, see anything wrong with that? one liberal journalist has such a problem with that tweet up on your screen right now, he called child protective services on its author. wait until you hear this one.

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>> todd: the body administration to start sending illegal venezuelan migrants back to mexico. the biden administration is democrats panic over the border crisis 36 days out from the midterms. >> carley: that sound a lot like the remain in mexico

program. good morning. >> i had to do a double take when i read that too. this new large-scale border operation with mexico is an effort to combat the crisis at the southern border. it also comes just a month before the midterms. it's a post-increase checkpoints, resources, and crackdowns on human smuggling operations and also send venezuelans back to mexico unless they apply for unlimited parole program as there were more than 25,000 venezuelan migrant encounters in august, up from only 4,000 back in april. not every venezuelan will qualify. those eligible to enter the u.s. safely and lawfully will have to have a supporter in the u.s. who can provide financial support, pass rigorous biometric, biographical national, and public security screenings as well as complete vaccination and public health requirements. however those who have been ordered removed from the u.s. in the last five years, crossed without authorization between ports of entry after the

announcement date and have not completed that vaccinated and health requirement will not be eligible. one venezuelan migrant saying once they get to the u.s., it's not so scary anymore. >> we are ready made it past the most difficult part. that was the jungle but many cities are dangerous in mexico and all that. being here you don't really have fears anymore. you are much more at peace. >> house speaker nancy pelosi says biden needs to secure the border. what we must do in our country's have comprehensive immigration reform. we all know we must secure our border. that's our responsibility as a country. we also must respect those seeking asylum for appropriate reasons. we also must understand the impact on communities. even kathy hochul kathy hochul slammed the biden administration saying this problem is on the feds and they are the one who needs to own up to that crisis. >> there is also a major ox date

on the false allegation that border patrol agents with haitian migrants. >> republicans showing that he was alerted no migrants were whipped. those newly released emails show that he was told border agents didn't whip haitian migrants before he said those immigrants down the images were horrifying as well as tying it's a systemic racism but he went with the whipping story anyway. receive this letter two hours before pushing this narrative. "the photographer behind the images depicting border agents on horseback told kts m, things are not exactly what they seem when it comes to the photos. the photographer say he and his colleagues never saw agents whipping anyone. he was swinging it but it can be mr. rude when you are looking at the picture. however, here's what the president said. >> to see people treated like they did come up with people being strapped, it's outrageous. i promise you those people will pay.

>> of the former d.a. secretary says he anticipates an excuse coming from m saw no evidence tt they had use their reins for anything other than controlling their horses. although they were found to use inappropriate force and language. after those initial reports of the migrants being whipped, it was debunked and clarified that the agents were trying to control the horses, not beating the migrants, guys. >> todd: to be clear, let's understand what our government did in this instance. they got actual verification what was appearing in the picture wasn't actually the truth, they actually had it written down in writing -- let me reiterate that, in writing, goes to the podium that this can't happen -- that's alive for the government literally just lied to you. speed to get the feel for those border patrol agents accused for being racist when they did nothing wrong but no whips, nothing at all. it was the reins of the forests

and they were smeared by the biden administration and after it came out the photographers said, these pictures are being really misconstrued, you have dhs secretary al hunter my arcus despite knowing going to the podium and saying that these image are -- they are going to be investigate it by dhs. an unbelievable situation there that definitely needs to be looked into further. in the meantime, residents of border communities continue to deal with migrant encounters on their property —-dash, continuing to call on president biden to see the crisis firsthand. laura allen is one of those residents inviting biden to visit the border and she joins us now. good morning to you. you are inviting the president to visit your ranch. what would he find? >> is very interesting. our ranch is unique in the river

converge north of us. and that feeds into the reservoir which is to just south of us. so the border is directly across from us. it's a short swim. >> carley: you say border patrol agents have told you to don't confront the migrants coming on your ranch in your property because they are noticing a lot more of them are carrying weapons with them, which is a pretty concerning prospect. >> very concerning. we have several friends in law enforcement and border patrol and what they are telling us is they are finding more and more coming through and carrying weapons. you know, that's a scary prospect. you don't want to confront somebody and put your own life in danger. what you don't really have a choice. we don't know. >> you certainly don't want to do that. the ranch you own has been in your husband's family for over 100 years. and you say that throughout that

course of time illegal immigrants have always crossed through mexico onto your ranch. but things have changed in recent years. how so? >> this changed drastically and this conversation we have locally when we try to explain to people what's going on. we tell them, there's always been people crossing. yes there is always been people crossing but not this magnitude. not the level of criminal element that we see. in the past, someone might be looking for day work. or they might just be wanting a meal or some water. we've had instances recently where they come across lando's earners and as for water and they say that there is a hose. they say, we don't want that beer we want bottled water. >> carley: possible entitlement there. that situation is changing, we

hear nancy pelosi that the border does need to be secured. the biden administration changing their policies when it comes to venezuelan illegal immigrants and all this happening 26 days until the midterm elections. how do you feel about that? >> nicely. i think it's pretty convenient. it's like putting your finger in the dam after the dam has already ruptured. it makes no sense to me. makes no sense to me, makes no sense to anyone locally. the numbers that are coming through are so phenomenal comparison what we've seen historically. and so it's a little too late. >> carley: the only way to know what's going on in the southern border is to visit it which president biden has yet to do. laura. thank you so much for joining us. >> you are very welcome. thank you for having me. heading on up to michigan, the michigan school board shutting down a heated meeting with parents who showed up in droves. >> todd: that meeting, carley,

has been rescheduled for tonight. our next guest is a concerned mom who showed up on monday. plans to call back tonight. you do not want to miss this.

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attempted to report her to child protective services for saying that she was teaching her daughter about columbus day. listen to ramirez's response here. >> for someone like this to have the audacity to attack a single mother who is the sole provider for her child and to literally try to have that child taken away from them because he is so set on his feelings being hurt over me celebrating a holiday with my child is beyond the p pale. speed to the journalists who has written for cbs and yahoo prompted this 300,000 twitter followers to call authorities to report ramirez for teaching her daughter to be "racist. going on to complain about being put on hold due to "high call volumes, joe concha will join us next hour to talk about that. >> todd: warden 88. a school board trying to silence critics who booed officials before shutting down the

meeting, the board members had this advice for anybody who disagreed with them. watch this. >> that is not necessary. we understand that people have differing opinions. we will conduct ourselves as adults. we will not boo, we will not jeer. you can clap if you'd like. and you'll listen listen to the speaker. we are going to be recessing until we can get the situation under control. >> todd: wow. stephanie butler a mother of four who was there joins me now. that roxanne school board president seems like she's lecturing to a bunch of kindergartners, much less trying to deal with adults. that's what she's paid to do in that role. why is a school board so afraid of a robust debate? >> that's a very good question. i would love to know the answer

to that. but i've been hitting brick walls. so. >> todd: you are the parent to came forward about the books and library. what happened when you ultimately raise the issue. >> what i wanted to do is get divinity awareness and i've been trying for at the board meetings for about a year. the problem is in 3 minutes time which is what you are allotted to speak calmly i didn't have enough time to get my message across so i decided one day did go do a video outside of one of the high schools and all of a sudden it went viral and i had... we had set up a book rally, just trying to let the parents know. it would've been happy if there was 50 people that showed up. instead, we got a crowd of over 800 people. if that tells you anything, parents are sick of it. >> todd: the board intimidated by that number use the fire code as an excuse to disperse that meeting.

but we mentioned that there is a board meeting scheduled for tonight. any sense as to what we can expect tonight in light of the fact that as has been reported the ground rules for this meeting tonight keep changing by the minute. >> they keep changing and actually what we had our hands on last night was a leaked email coming from the dearborn federation -- you know, the teachers union. saying that somehow be careful of what you put on social media because project veritas is watching and somebody is recording for them. i thought, wow, is this really happening? what they were doing is they were putting a call to action for all their teachers to show up so they could get there before the parents and fill the room because there were only going to allow a certain amount of people in the room. >> todd: to review, you are the parents. you are entitled to be there. you are the ones who have ultimate say in your children. but these unions and the people

going up against you want to silence your voices even in advance of this meeting. correct? >> that is correct. >> todd: my gosh. have you face any consequences for speaking out? >> of course but i've had my google business taken down. i get prank phone calls calling me white christian nationalist. you know, they share a fake stuff about me on twitter. they've accused me of linking for moms for liberty. so much nonsense. i have people within my own community trying to discredit me and trying to call off what they call this army mob of religious extremist parents who care about their kids and don't want them to be glorified. >> todd: every time we do a segment like this on the show, you are the parents. you brought this child into the world or you adopted this child and providing this child a life. you have the ultimate say, the

state, the government does not. thanks to people like you, stephanie butler, that message is getting across. you had 800 on monday. here is to say how many thousands you have tonight. thank you for your time. >> it'll be triple. people should wake up. because people have always counted on these people in the communities to vote for them. and now, what happens when education and their kids go against the principles of the party of the left? it's something to consider for everybody. >> todd: will leave it there. stephanie, thank you. less than one month until the midterms and all eyes on the vat up. i sent that text. the state's rates for governor all considered toss outs. we are talking to candidates next. >> carley: all on the 5:00

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>> todd: gonzalez using an edited photo of mayra flores in his campaign ad for a key race in texas. >> republican mayra flores'

first vote in congress was voting against keeping children safe in schools. >> todd: that photo appears distorted. mayra flores doesn't look aggressive or angry in the original picture. wow. a spokesman hopes people will see through the scare tactics. carley. >> carley: contentious mid-term season, the hail reports signs are emerging nevada could see a red wave in november, putting democrat control of a critical state at risk and potentially costing the party senate majority. my goodness. mark roberts, republican candidate and april becker running for nevada third congressional district. both join me now. both opponents are incumbents

and they are toss-ups. there has been a shift in the party, why is that? >> a big part of my district are hispanic voters and hispanic voters are been trending republican for sometime and they share the same conservative values that the republican party holds. >> carley: april, the economy is a top issue facing voters in nevada, second on the list is abortion. >> the most important thing in this district is the economy and security. we've had abortion laws on the books since 1990 and they can't be changed by any politician, it is really a nonissue. they're trying to make it really important because they don't want us talking about the

economy and that is why they just continue to hammer on it. >> colonel robertson, you said your district has a heavy hispanic population, what are those voters telling you? >> the top issues for them are the economy, inflation, gas and groceries and wages not keeping up, crime, they don't feel safe in their own neighborhood and crime is contributed by open border, drugs, gangs and guns coming across the open border and finally, education, parents want a voice in their children's edoccasion, a voice and choice in education, the top issues that the people are talking to me about. >> carley: this year, nevada has seen increase in total crime of 3.1% and april, you are seeing democratic candidate scrubbing support of defend the police and black lives matter, distancing

themselves from the issues, is anyone buying it? >> no, no one is buying it. we just had a terrible stabbing on the strip, one of the most wonderful vacation places in the world and people are scared to go there. this is a result of this administration's policy and my opponent votes with biden 100% of the time. >> carley: colonel robertson issue the nevada senate race is hugely important, the hill is predicting it could determine the balance of power. they are gaining ground, he and cortez masto are even, how do you see this playing out? >> democratic party has taken us down the wrong road and the democrat vote is a block, they follow their leaders. there is no independent relationship for them in congress because the current

democratic leaders just follow their party, not the people of ne nevada. >> carley: we'll be watching both your races, they are toss-ups, certainly two races to watch. thank you both for joining us. the next hour of "fox and friends first" starts right now. and we begin with a fox news alert, white house announcing it will send illegal migrants from venezuela back to mexico, as the border crisis continues and becomes a democratic liability in the poll. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm carley shimkus. >> todd: i'm todd piro. one of the four toss-up races will determine when party control the senate. voters say border security is their top issue, so it should come as no surprise, top democrats are calling on president biden to do something fast. >> carley: ashley strohmier has