the senate. both of those guys are the final kind of push. >> laura: they never have to be held accountable because they are out. so that is kind of an interesting deal. it is so great here to be with you, sit here at the anchor desk. greg gutfeld and the gain is next by chris gallagher with the latest from georgia. ♪ ♪ speed to a fox news alert elon musk firing twitters deputy general counsel jenny baker over concerns he helped suppress the hunter biden laptop story for the 2020 presidential election. baker present lee worked at the fbi where he had a my dell mike rowe investigating trump for russia collusion in 2016. that collusion turned into being false. "fox & friends first" i'm carley shimkus. i'm todd piro and forced out of that role at the justice

department and came under criminal investigation for leaking information but able to find himself a new job at twitter and he carried out another inside job that may include censorship with intent to influence an election. brooke singman more but the story, brooke. >> a lot happening at twitter tuesday starting with this appearance ceo elon musk firing a key player in the hunter biden laptop censorship scandal. in light of concerns james baker's possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue, he was exited from twitter today. a user replying to that wheat was he asked to explain himself first to which musk said "yes" and unconvincing. james comer interested in the explanation and called on baker and two former twitter heads suppressing the hunter biden laptop story to appear the

american people >> leading senate call l as a coordinated cover, listen. >> they were setting the stage because they knew that hunter biden computer was out there appear they were laying the groundwork case the computer surface to sabotage it. by labeling it disinformation. >> it doesn't end there. met the first reporters to publish the twitter fires dimmick file say baker had his hands on it before i went public without musk knowledge. involve delivery to two journalist and a lawyer close to

new management after the initial batch, things became complicated. over the weekend while we both dealt with obstacles to new searches discover the person in charge of releasing the files was someone named jim. which he called to ask jim's last name and the answer came back jim baker. this raises concerns baker may have omitted certain files that could have shown the federal government involvement in the hunter biden story. guys, back to you. >> todd: brooke singman kicking us off, let's bring in janelle king, the host of "let's talk about it with janelle king "the name of the podcast. this begs the question why was the fox guarding the hen house even after elon musk? >> well, it is clear that was happening because of the fact there were so many people involved. at this point, i think everybody is trying to cover themselves. i will say it like that because they know what is coming down the pipeline. there a reason why i think it is interesting elon musk is leaking

this information slowly is because it is kind of keeping particularly the left media but also those of part of it on their heels. they don't know what will come out next, how involved, how deep and as long as they stay quiet, it will show exactly how deep this run spirit and i think that is what is happening. i want to see more democrats outraged about this. the democrats supported the biden administration that should be shocked by this. i think the republicans knew all along this was happening or something along the lines was happening. i do want to see more of an outreach for the democrats. >> carley: there is a wild turn of events and chase baker, fbi director james comey, a key figure in the fake, false allegations of trump russia collusion and close with peter strzok, lisa page at twitter there during the original suppression of the hunter biden laptop story.

then you have this new news that apparently looking over the documents that elon musk wanted kind of holding them back without elon musk approval. so double censorship apparently on his part. that appears to be the allegation. where do you see all of this going. where now that he is gone, what is next? >> i think this is going further, deeper into the government. this is why i do think this is treason if you think about it. this is treason behavior if you were colluding with twitter or any other social media platform. i don't think it was just twitter in order to suppress information that benefits the candidate you are supporting. that right there, you try to undermine the government political process and election process, that is a problem for me. i think this goes much, much deeper. i am hoping everyone begins to see and start to have hearings, particularly our congressmen and

elect mccormick i am calling on congressman mccormick to call this out and shows us what really happened and go as deep as we need to go. but also, how late away the american people can follow and we don't have too suppress our own lives in order to stay abreast of what is happening. i think communication messaging is extremely important here. >> todd: baker is not the first want to be involved with big tech and big government. it is going on a while and does explain conservatives get censored in an unreasonable clip. before this topic, you know how worried should elon musk b there or even more people he doesn't know about inside his company that can sabotage his mission of free speech? >> you know what, i think he is well aware of that. i know that is obviously a concern, but i think he is well aware of it. i think he has so far ahead of this at this point, that we are the ones catching up to it. i trust the process that he is

enacting at this point. >> carley: speaking of social media, republicans in wisconsin penn state employees from having tiktok downloaded on their phones due to concerns over chinese influence on the apps. several lawmakers wrote a letter to governor tony to delete it from his own phone. that letter reads, "tiktok nefarious chinese communist spyware that promotes propaganda and allows the ccp to censor and control americans." your reaction to that. >> i agree 100%. i am a member 2020 and my husband was in my wyoming. we turn on fox news and bill barr doing an interview and tucking how china such a threat, particularly when it comes to tiktok. that was in 2020. as we keep progressing, they continue to grow. there are more and more downloads. i do believe the chinese government to infiltrate this

government is something my husband always says, they want to take down america without firing a single shot pier that is what you are saying when you see tiktok beer that is a concern of mine. i do not have the apps will never download the app but the moment you download it, even to create your own login information, you are handing over a little bit of information to the ccp. they are not working in our favor appear they were working against us. they are our adversary. so, i absolutely agree with this decision. >> todd: finally senator raphael warnock defeating republican herschel walker in the georgia senate runoff by less than 100,000 votes. we are in georgia but your reaction to the results and the republicans need to do to make georgia read again. >> you know what am i actually think is still red and the reason why say this strategy worked for raphael warnock he was able to increase support and republican counties. just about every single county

he was able to do either equal or better than what he did in november. what that did is those small little nudges, even though he didn't win those counties, it kept him in the game and walked into the metro counties where he had a lot of vote spirits with a strategy is there, however, he can't do it with just metro atlanta. i think the republican party will have to take a long and hard look at the candidates we select to make sure that they are able to create the momentum needed to turn out votes and rule georgia. >> carley: big news in georgia and so many other areas of america this morning. janelle, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> absolutely. thank you for having me. >> carley: turning to this they were exclusive interview with moscow police chief getting emotional over the murders of the four university idaho students. >> my da i am a dad with daught.

it is tough. we are human. we don't go and just turn it off. it affects us. but we have a job to do. and we will continue to do that job. we will continue to push forward. >> carley: it comes as the police say they are planning to remove the personal victims belongings from the crime of the scene. kaylee goncalves, her father is hiring a lawyer and a lack of transparency in this investigation. steve tells fox, there are things that we can request and things that we can do to get to the truth faster. you have to fill out forms and get this evidence released to you. i don't know how to do that. it has been four weeks since the gruesome murders and the police still do not have a suspect. >> todd: a blow to the white house by repealing the pentagon's covid-19 vaccine mandate. the defense policy bill goes

against the biden administration stance on enforcing the jab for service members. although the covid vaccine will no longer be enforced, service members kicked out for not complying will be reinstated. this comes as senator james lankford announced nominees due to their support for the military vaccine mandate. the hold on twitter writing, "a partial concession for national defense authorization act won't be enough. we need the truth." joe manchin's pipeline deal will be excluded from the national defense bill thanks to unlikely joint effort from senate republicans and house democrats. his deal will fast-track the approval process for energy process under the national impairment policy act. it would not have spurred enough oil and gas production while progressives like michigan congressman issued to the leap would make it easy to blow past the regulations. some democrats wanted to approve senator manchin's provision for

not a lot of senate republicans for rashida tlaib. >> carley: a unique situation. at a restaurant doubling talent to serve christian conservative group over views on abortion and traditional marriage pure the family foundation scheduled in the event at the bar and butchery but it was canceled by the restaurant an hour and a half before the restaurant insist always prided itself on being an inclusive environment for people to dine in. this outrage in president of the pro-life organization, listen here. >> it is amazing a restaurant can put out a statement closed and all these words with intolerance and actions be intolerance and indicative of people. disturbing. and exploring options but in the meantime it says americans should dine at restaurants where they don't have a political or religious litmus test.

this sort of reminds me restaurants kicking out the trump administration officials. it ended up being bad for business. >> todd: very bad for business woke equals broke. we highlighted that. >> carley: would like the ranks. >> todd: family foundation claims the restaurant is progressive but discriminating against people based on their views. that doesn't seem progressive to me. factor note, family foundation said yelp shutting down to post a review of the restaurant. again, they like to help out the left. google has no problem allowing negative reviews. >> carley: their whole basis on this decision was being inclusive. so kicking out of church over their views. if it was a muslim church, where they do the same thing? >> todd: nope. >> carley: exactly. if you kick out every christian from your restaurant, you will be left with not a lot of eaters. >> todd: this is in virginia if i'm not mistaken? >> carley: to mike >> carley: yes. >> todd: a bad decision in

virginia particularly. >> carley: turning to meghan markle being honored at a ritzy new york city charity hosted by disgraced actor alec baldwin last night. >> i don't know enough to genuinely accusations of racism and the comment about that my really don't. in my lifetime i'm 64 years old and racism is everywhere. >> carley: robert f. kennedy organization giving the couple a ripple of hope award by former president barack obama and the royals were joint on the red carpet by carrie kennedy, the daughter of bobby kennedy, former wife of disgraced andrew cuomo. just days before netflix is set to talk about the highly anticipated documentary. harry and meghan on thursday. have you seen in a trailer for

this documentary? it is getting criticized because the whole thing is about a woe is me story. pictures of megan crying. we don't feel bad for you. you are living a life of luxury there. >> todd: renamed the people broiled in controversy galley mike gallagher and not successful in terms of raising money and giving money to the government. two questions, by the way it is great to be back. they are people still fawning over harry and meghan after they entered the royal family? why is alec baldwin living in his best life months after he killed somebody? i'm not saying he needs to live in a room and never come out again, but i don't know, maybe lay low for a little bit. a little bit of respect to the family. >> carley: two very separate issues with harry and meghan angle with this documentary, by the way, this gala is $1 million. but when it comes to the documentary, there is one scene in it where they are talking

about how the paparazzi was counting meghan markle. it turns out the video they were using was from a red carpet event. it had nothing to do with her. >> todd: jesse water said it best on "the five." whenever a review were getting ready for the jokes i know all sorts of things about headache and there harry and meghan. if you want to take onto harry and meghan, i literally could not care less. >> carley: a lot of viewers would agree with you on that. somewhat fascinating. >> todd: do care about it was a gala nonetheless. the absolute honor and privilege speaking at the fifth annual jupiter, florida, area. concerns of police survivors brings together survivors of those who lost loved ones in the line of duty. i also, activities national police week two kids camps to support for spouses, parents, cops. absolutely amazing that makes the unthinkable, the lost of a

live there loved one a little bit easier. and no one can bring that officer back. that is not what we can do but we can help these families and their grief journey. that is what cops does. my guess is we raised over $1 million. >> carley: wow! >> todd: especially the families when i say new, people who lost lives 12 months. go to these events where they are overwhelmed by the grief they are experiencing. he survivors, they have been there for decades helping you through this journey. it is so important here that young lady on the screen, ashley, she lost her death they decade ago. she is now singing the national anthem at this event and a beautiful young lady. beautiful to watch her grow up. she talked about the influence the cans have had on her development. this is why we do it so individuals like ashley can try to move on. but you get to a little bit of sense of normalcy and you get a community that surrounds you and loves you. >> carley: i know you are looking forward to this event

for some time now. it is great that you spend your vacation during this period and i think when you do lose a loved one, father, husband, you feel so lonely. and to have an outlet like this, something for them to look forward to as well. it means so much. so kudos to the organization and todd, for you being a part of it as well. >> todd: that is the positive stuff. negative come i am the worst golfer. going back to those pictures come if you notice the outfit i am wearing makes me look like i walked out of 2012 golf catalog. i'm pudgy, i'm pale, i am a disgusting human being. it is crazing, this is what golfers used to look like back in the day. now golfers all look like the villain in like a bond movie. 6'5", ripped to the core with muscles bulging out. they knocked the ball 400 yards. i did not do that. >> carley: so you are still rocking the cargo pockets?

it is fine. nothing against it, but you are right, little dated. >> todd: i was told if this group is to golf with me next year i need to get shorts there shorts. not a joke, bob -- -- >> carley: you are welcome, manda. >> todd: pop up the full screen and we will get out of this for a second. if you would like to be on the mailing list for this event, mcdavid group charities.com. two things you can do, get on the email list for next year's and in beautiful jupiter, florida. and if you want cops merchandise, help people out, think you guys for giving me time to go through that. appreciate it, except my golf. >> carley: that's okay we will forgive you for that one. take a look at this racked a tennessee jewelry story and this time the cops are caught in the act. >> get on the ground? >> oh, my god, oh, my god.

>> carley: on the west coast, the chain has become a major target for crime with four robberies in four days at several of its locations. we will speak with one of thosec owners after this. ev eryone, eve. chevrolet. when we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless. pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box,

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♪ ♪ speak to the combat to send officers on citywide manhunt after allegedly killing two people including a teenager has reportedly been on the police radar since he was a child. "the new york post" reporting oliver has been on a one man cried to my crime wave since 12 years old. he has 30 convictions on his rap sheet spending five years in prison for robbery. that crime is continuing these past two weeks. that includes several shootings, including one where he killed a 20-year-old man inside of a manhattan apartment. he is accused of shooting a 96-year-old man who was sitting in his wheelchair earlier that day. this spree ended with all of her killing a 17 year old girl and an apparent apartment and hit with a slew of charges including murder and attempted murder.

and a video shows franklin police officer stopping a robbery in process. a nashville shopping mall saturday and one store clerk phoning the police after mass robbers ransacked the store stealing diamonds and escaping into a van but not before being spotted by undercover cop. >> get on the ground! >> oh, my god, oh, my god. >> carley: well existing arrest one pepper sprayed an employee and another fought an officer and attempted to grab his gun. four suspects arrested and charged with aggravated robbery, vandalism and evading arrest. the police are searching for the fifth remaining suspect. >> todd: take a look at this, caught on camera breaking into a california restaurant smashing tables and getting away with cash and a laptop. get this, the owner said just 1 of 4 restaurants. smash and grab restaurants in as

many days in the california area with three additional robberies in chains in arizona. three locations there in the past three months. here with us now, jason jansen and for those members of the audience who don't know what that is, it is a fish, rock, throw a little sesame seeds and soy sauce and may be seaweed. it is delectable. are you being targeted for some wild reason? you know, we don't know what the motive is behind it and certainly the last run of break-ins last week has been more than three days certainly can be connected and i would say in general a real spike in crime activity both markets for the last couple of years but this last one is particularly frustrating. it is quite a disruption of business. >> todd: let's talk about the recovery when one of your stores gets hit like this. >> it is really jarring for the

person to walk in with smashed glass everywhere we are not opening on time or serving our customers that happens often enough that people stop comping and lucky to open at all so lost revenue and employees don't get to work and they are not earning money. so not a simple smash and grab and everything with no consequence. there is a lot of people involved and it affects the local business. >> todd: who were what do you blame for the increase in crime? when i was living in california i ate food like yours all the time and not once do i go into a restaurant with glass on the ground and cash registers stolen. >> this arizona and california states we have a massive fentanyl crisis. we see hundreds of thousands of pills across the border with no consequence and no one is doing anything about it. fentanyl is a massive problem in arizona and a massive problem in arizona. it is killing kids and grading these kinds of addictions and we

have to feed that addiction so low-level crimes to do that. >> todd: have a caught any of the people who have done any of these? >> no. obviously a still ongoing investigation and here in arizona and last week, the videos out there hopefully they get these people. it is holiday season, but we also know that plenty of jobs out there and money is tight but don't steal from the workforce. >> todd: literally, we have record job openings especially the type of job you are discussing but they want to take the easy way out focusing on los angeles county for a moment, jason, if they catch the bad guys in l.a. county, will george gascon coddled them or do what he does to every single criminal? >> a lot of counties, municipalities out there, they have their own where criminals can't commit a certain threshold

and they don't even be allowed to arrest them. who knows what will happen and we certainly want justice to be served because this kind of thing is happening too often. and we have other colleagues in the restaurant industry that this happens to we have a friend and l.a. county but this guy has been shut down for days. and lucky enough a process in place where we can get this rectified quickly and be open for business. but it certainly hurts employees and especially this time of year. >> todd: it does beg the rhetorical question, how much more can restaurant food providers take? they shut you down beginning in march of 2020, and then following the riots lawlessness pervading our country, another thing you need to worry about coming you can't find workers and the cost of the product has gone through the roof and then sold to the people. i don't know how restaurant survives and i hope you do because you have a great product. if i get out to california or arizona, i'm going to eat some

ahipoki. >> i appreciate that. thank you very much. >> todd: in the meantime's president w president biden a porter visit to the border state arizona and here is why. >> there is nothing going on. >> todd: , the crisis is really important and here to respond to it, joe biden said this. >> carley: the results are going broke. the company published a new book about gender identity. you won't believe what is said. we will give you the details on that coming up next. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> todd: los angeles d.a. george gascon ordering prosecutors to avoid filing criminal charges to the deportation of illegal immigrants.

his new policy will require part of circular's two charges on a suspect's immigration status. the deputy is telling fox "all determination shall be undertaken with the goal of avoiding or mitigating adverse immigration consequences." that is basically saying, we will give you a pass because you used a gun. think about that for a moment. the atf set to destroy firearms associated with the obama era "fast & furious" scandal for top republicans on house judiciary and claims the guns were stored improperly. ohio congressman jim jordan swimming the move as improper saying the scandal is still a matter of public concern. the potential for ongoing civil actions. back in 2011 the obama administration conducted they'll sting operation with 2,000 firearms to be sold illegally to buy guns for those who cannot pass a background check to carry. the dimmick brian terry was

killed by one of the illegal of distributed guns, carley. >> carley: president biden visiting border of arizona but he said not the border he has more important things to do. >> mr. president, why go to the border state and not visit the border? >> there are more important things going on. >> carley: meanwhile, record drug trafficking and drug smuggling operations taking place across arizona border sector. jesse watters said president biden's excuse just isn't cutting it. >> more important things. a photo up at a construction site is more important than meeting with border agents? more important than showing the cartels who is boss? more important to see the holes in the southern border firsthand question ricky could have sent kamala harris to the factory or hopped on his helicopter. phoenix is only 100 miles from the border. he could be there in less than an hour. >> carley: sheriff's as the

chairman of the border security committee in arizona a member of the national chair association joins me now. sheriff, the national border patrol council reacted to the president saying it is more important things to do and visiting an ice cream shop very important but visiting a reporter where illegal immigration escapes and fentanyl smuggling set new records nonstop with thousands dying as a result. not important. that is their reaction. what went through your head when you heard the president say t that? >> saying it is disappointing is an understatement, carley. thank you for having me on. the president of the united states morally, ethically, has a new responsibility to secure the border and protect america. that statement alone is reflective of the last two years in office where he's failed to engage in border. failed to recognize the border and ignore public safety and national security and human

life. we have seen the stats, nonpolitical stats. it is a complete disappointment and insult to every law enforcement federal to protect this border. pretty sad. >> carley: sheriff, you are right. they should be a nonpolitical issue. and even when the president was a senator, he voted in favor of 600 miles of border fencing. so i am sure this is a question you ask yourself a lot. but why do you think he wants to avoid this issue and not talk to anybody on the southern border because this is an issue of the administration has completely avoided. >> well, somebody drink the kool-aid. when senator biden is in office, he supported reasonable comprehensive border security and immigration. both president biden totally taking a different approach on this. this is the political side of this. it upsets me and upsets my

fellow law enforcement that why won't they engage? we know it is politics. it truly is. and the reality, and i will say this to you, carley, we feel abandoned down here because we are doing everything but i can't get this president to engage with the sheriff's nationally, western, locally or even the top border. he is the first president not to meet with the national sheriffs association. >> carley: that is interesting but not only not engaging but the trump administration policies are being reversed that were effective. and you get to the issued title 42 that will be repealed later this month. and secretary karine jean-pierre said in a reporting the administration is going to be implementing a new policy to replace title 42 is an accurate. with that said, what will the border look like next year? >> well, we are already in crisis mode. we know that. this border is not effectively

secure. and coming out of the vice dimmick white house, you look at 1400 border related to risk since january. 500 victims of crime since march connected to the border. we are seeing a slippery slope here in the county. and once again i can't get him to engage, can't get him, the government can't get him. all the locals gather to try to figure out how to get it done. this is truly a neglect. >> carley: it is a neglect and a tragedy. on that note at 10:00 this morning congressman cuellar console is holding this bipartisan press conference on the increase of the border patrol officer suicides. there have been about 12 so far this year, which is a record. what do you make of why that is going on? >> well, like any organization, when you are a leader,

president biden leading the border and you don't show mental health support, moral support that we need to come at is not getting easier for local, state or federal and you have the impact on the border that the agents are dealing with. i see them every day. i have not had an agent come to me and tell us what is going on on the border. i know they were going through a lot. and come support and visit them, anywhere texas, new mexico or arizona, that is a erosion too. i feel bad for the agents on the border who are doing such a a great job. >> carley: sheriff mark dannels, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you, carley, thank you for having me. >> carley: governor ron desantis stepping up for his state after fema rejects to help hurricane ian survivors. >> we are not just going to sit there and take no for an answer. we want to cut through bureaucracy and bring relief to impacted floridians regardless whether fame is a part of that.

>> carley: we will speak live with floridians impacted by the storm after this. >> todd: plus discovery shark week facing a new predator, wokeness. "the washington post" consulted with actual scientists at that series that it is racist and sexist. i'm still not convinced this is not a joke. joe concha will take a bite out of this one to explain and will join us live coming up. don't miss that. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> carley: listen to this new this morning, superintendent from loudoun county, virginia, schools getting fired by the school board after a grand jury report said the district totally mishandled to cosexual assaults committed on school property by biological school dimmick male student who is a female. his daughters rape was covered up to cover the transgender policy. >> my family has lived through this for 18 months now. there is nobody held accountable by name here that report laid out a bunch of, you know, misdeeds, criminal, you know, situations perhaps. at the end of the report, we get six recommendations of things

they should do better next time. i hope that the grand jury is not done with their duty at. >> carley: smith's wife acting there reacting to the decision, "we hope this is many firings who failed women and who have to deal with what happened to them for the rest of their lives." unbelievable that that is going on. >> todd: governor ron desantis stepping in after denies florida's request for emergency aid after hurricane ian. >> unfortunately we got word last week that pima denied a request for funding our state led helsing initiative citing that, "limited authority." we will not just sit there and take no for an answer. we will figure out what we can do peer that is what we are doing today. we want to cut through your accuracy and bring impact to floridians regardless of whether fema wants to be a part of that. >> todd: tom, the owner of

potter homes in maples and key west, they both joined me now. great to have you, victoria, as someone who has lost everything in a hurricane before, course talking about hurricane irma, how disappointing is this denial by fema? >> very disappointing. thank you for having me back. as a floridian, this is a disappointed this much needed aid. i do have first-hand experience losing all my possessions in hurricane irma and being displaced with pets and relying on friends and family and dealing with insurance companies. it is an overwhelming situation and overwhelming is an understatement. so, from what i understand fema official statement regarding the issue is they were not sure what was being proposed and do what was needed to help the victims. but one might be able to accept that but, you know at the end of the day with the government getting billions of dollars and

billions of dollars to other countries, without knowing the outcome of what is going to happen, it makes people feel very disheartening that, you know, their own people are not being taken care of in the way that they need to to be able to restore their homes and get their lives back appearance boom in such a great point, 25 million designed to help with the nonprofit. fema says it has limited authority and cannot confirm this would actually achieve its desired outcome. tom, does this feel like politics is at play here? >> i think fema has their hands full with this one here they are a government agency put here for a purpose and the purpose is to provide assistance before, during, and after events. obviously fort myers beach, the coastal communities, southwest florida suffered devastating flow from hurricane ian and victoria's right understanding what you went through five years ago and experience the last ten

weeks. i think governor d santos has done a great job with his support of floridians and the florida community. and fort myers beach i have been on a couple of times post hurricane the end and good to know he is on the ground and seems to be first-hand. he understands what we are up against and i appreciate him fighting for us to get resources into the community. >> todd: victoria what does that say about desantis' leadership and he was prepared for it in mild to potentially happen when he set up a fund of his own to help floridians. >> of course, very prepared. not only allocating $25 million to these victims, but his wife, casey desantis put together the disaster relief fund days prior to it even hitting landfall. they raised $500 million that will go to these people. so with that we are confident there is a bright spot that they will stop at nothing to help

florida to get back on track and to be able to restore our homes and get our lives back as soon as possible. >> todd: quickly put up on the screen some of the things eligible for desantis' program. cleaning and sanitizing because that muck is bad. woodwork, framing and the list goes on and on. tom, you see a lot of people on the ground to rebuild their homes. it is a desperate time. people need help and i am thankful you are doing it. thankful for victoria to let us know about the situation. tom and victoria, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> todd: for republican lawmakers calling for controversial nonbinary bite and official after caught stealing someone else's suitcase from ama soda that are poor at. >> carley: nancy mace as a lawmaker that will join us live. congressman, it joe concha, all here for jam-packed 5:00 hour on "fox & friends first." don't miss it. ♪ ♪

>> todd: authorities in moscow idaho are working through 6500 tips in connection to the killing of four university of idaho students. parents are starting to lawyer up to get answers. you are watching "fox and friends first" on wednesday morning, i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus. the father of kaylee goncalves telling fox digital there are things we can request and do to get to the truth faster. you have to fill out forms to get this evidence released to you. i don't know how to do that. moscow mreesz chief sitting down for a raw, emotional exclusive interview with fox news. he says he wants justice for the