bruce and brenda pure their life was a twisted experiment, and then the sexual abuse started ii the name of science and research. the story ended horrifically but dr. money published his findingi for review. are living and the culturaln th wreckage and this untold story of many like it explain how we got year and how you can fight back. you can watch season 2 of the american education. >> carley: a fox news alert, the coroner's office safe madison brooks died of traumatic injuries after hit by a car following a town bar. you are watching "fox & friends first" come i'm carley shimkus. >> todd: i'm todd piro. good samaritans came to madison's aid after struck in the early hours of the morning january 15th. the please continue the investigation into her death as four suspects in custody for allegedly raping in the car and

putting her on the street. ashley. >> lsu officials say the cause of death was referred to by the corner as multiple traumatic injury with motor vehicle collision and pedestrian. this means she was left incapacitated at the scene and later died at the hospital. madison brooks was raped in a car and the suspected attackers lift her out on the side of the highway january 15th. she was struck by a different car shortly after, but the driver who hit her will not be charged as the police say they could contact with the emergency services immediately. madison's friends created a memorial along the highway where she was killed. one of those friends joined "fox & friends" reflecting on the impact she had on life. >> she left me with kindness and love that it is the answer no matter what. i was going through the hardest times where i felt down and everything and she showed me love in the way nobody else

could he. >> her sorority releasing a statement in response to her death, "madison was just a sophomore with a lasting impact on all of us. she was a hero and able to donate her heart and kidneys to save others." spore suspects charge in the case, 18-year-old casen carver, kaivon washington and his uncle everett lee and a 17-year-old charged with the next sexual assault. the judge calling for suspects they callously laughed at brooks shortly before her death. the judge personally reviewed the footage taken inside the car that the alleged rape happened. legal experts at those comments are inappropriate and could jeopardize the case. prosecutors indicated in tuesday's court hearing, they are looking to charge the suspects with first-degree rape, but it was unclear if all four but none of the four suspects are lsu students. currently, tied to.

>> todd: with the murder of microsoft executive, jared, facing charges of second-degree murder with conspiracy to commit murder after the fact capital felony and child abuse in connection with the case. last february in an ambush style of an attack driving home after having dinner with his children when he saw a tire in the middle of the street. when he got out, he move the tire and was gunned down as his young daughter watch from her car seat. the suspect did not act alone in the murder. this comes as "the new york post" reveals henry lived in a house once owned by the ex-wife and her new husband. >> carley: alex myrdal writing in court with a double murder trial. the attorney broke down as the legal team described the murder scene in the south carolina state. the 54-year-old stands accused of killing his wife, maggie and son, paul, june 2021.

the prosecutors revealing maggie was killed with the family weapon and alex bought for paul and the gunshot residue was found on the seat belt of alex's car. the surviving son, buster sat behind his dad even though he may be called to testify against him. 25% of all dollar stores in detroit have been robbed in this month alone because these 20 armed robberies occurring in the first 22 days of the year and some within minutes of each other. >> todd: the police say that is because the stores are soft targets and criminals are taking advantage of that, james joins us now, great to see you as always but from a law enforcement officer, why are these dollar stores soft targets? >> that is a good question and carley and todd thank you for having me on the show this morning. and we struggle with working with management to make them

harder targets. some of them we started in detroit called green light with video cameras and they rejected it. they didn't want anything to do with the target. i'm not surprised we see torrey robinson the start of the year. and the people that are heard from the outcome of the customers and certainly the employees that work there. i remember there was a robbery while i was still chief and one employee and inside the store. why is that? one employee, no video and you put certainly your employees and customers at risk. >> carley: i can imagine if these dollar stores are being hit with crime, it could shut down and they would lose their jobs and the neighborhood loses the store they use. more crime seeps into the community. is that a situation that you see before? >> i've seen it play out but primarily the dollar store. going back to green light

detroit, a lot of the businesses in detroit recognize that crime was high when they first got here and work in partnership with the police department. so we tie high definition video cameras into real time crime center so we c debate the crime. we reduce carjackings, family dollar is one of those stores that didn't want to work with us to harden that target. on top of that, ultra high processed foods when you talk about ruraql and poverty-stricken areas, what does that due to a community? no sense of responsibility for the story. >> todd: that is interesting because the past 15 years there is a 90% increase in the number of americans opting for a dollar store deals over traditional supermarket. so basically chief greg they are using dollar stores to get their

food, their life necessity. so for more people going to the dollar store in order to afford life and high inflation society, are you worried that will exacerbate the problem with more bodies in the store i.e. more potential target of thieves? >> absolutely, it is happening, it is happening right now. and it is unprecedented. when you think of 20 robberies because suspects know one thing, soft target, easy target, let's go to the dollar store. and it just shocks me that they have not done anything. it is also said the exacerbation the defining of food deserts. let's face it, detroit has high poverty. you see these dollar stores everywhere. it is just not good for our community. >> carley: chief craig the dollar stores are responding to all of this and our data does not indicate that our stores are

soft targets. an investment with security we work with law enforcement to identify and apprehend individuals that commit crimes in our stores, which has led to the capture of criminals who have committed violent crimes in our community. they say, they are doing all they can. >> i disagree. we had meetings while it was cheap, certainly, chief white, the current chief has had meetings with dollar store. but they have to take the next step here they have to take the next step. we have a proven use of technology that works effectively in detroit. they are just not interested. >> todd: there is another reason why this problem is in existence and it has to do with how we treat criminals in the year 2023 in the major cities. we treat them like they are the victims and make life as easy as possible for them while continuing to subjugate the victims. here is a headline from the associated press, it reads, "detroit cash mail forms destroy

racial inequality." the latest example weather bail reform or happening at the dollar stores of the love soft osoft-on-crime policies hurting people at the left that the spouses that help. >> you know what is sad and i've spoken on this issue and we are talking about no bail, no bail, bail reform, it absolutely does not work. there is no consequences. and even this administration biden, president biden gets on and talks about getting better training and oh, by the way how about instead of police officers using deadly force, they tried to wound. what does he know about policing? he knows nothing about policing. so it just doesn't make sense. that is not supporting the men and women do the most difficult job in america.

it's not here that is part of the problem. when you put all of this together and look at what happen in a land of the other day. you have a law enforcement officer who was shot. on the response certainly faced with a deadly threat. they took the life of the suspect. what happens, they riot in atlanta because it is ridiculous and it needs to stop. >> carley: even though cupp said he was going to be training officers which is something black lives matter's was calling for, they are protesting against it which is so strange and counterproductive. chief james craig, thank you for joining us this morning. >> i enjoyed it. >> carley: listen to this talk about divine intervention here, a 76-year-old nonstops two robbers trying to steal from the nonprofit building. sister mary jonas was praying

she said she heard a loud thing outside. that is when she saw a letter to the roof and two thieves attempting to steal copper pipes. she kicked the letter down thwarting the robbers plan. they escaped in the opposite directions but listen to what was going through sister mary's mind at the time. >> when i looked up, he was on the roof and i said, "he's got to come down but not on this latter." by the grace of god, i grabbed the ladder, threw it down, looked up and the fellow jumped down, stood beside me, and i said, "this is god's property. this is god's mission. how dare you do this!" i pointed my finger and i told him, "get out!" and he ran away. the building that he ran and is special. it is a dining room, it is a place of safety. people just come together and enjoyed the meal.

and the experience so much joy. why would someone want to hurt that mission? be to sister mary tells a local outlet, she is praying everyday for those two thugs. >> todd: that is the best story. i judge ruling san francisco police officer must release all their body cam footage from the night of the attack on paul pelosi. this decision comes after coalition of news outlets on a basis the public has a right to seal court records and proceedings. the police department will be mandated to release the footage to news outlets as well as 911 call and partisan interview with suspect david who is facing multiple state and federal charges from the october attack including battery, attempted murder and attempting kidnap. many other outlets here at the news channel hop on that trail. listen to this, hundreds of doctors calling for an end to covid mandates because they think the government is getting between them and the patience. we will speak to the two people

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♪ ♪ >> todd: a california judge reportedly issuing preliminary a judgment against covid covid-19. this law would empower the medical board to discipline doctors who give or support opinions that are "not in line with the consensus about covid-19" appear the bail was set to take effect this month and filed a lawsuit against california governor gavin newsom pure their constitutional right to due process to get educational medical advice to their patience but the injunctiw

while the case is tried. >> carley: remember president biden said this last year? >> the pandemic is over and if you notice no one is wearing mask where everybody seems to be in good shape and i think it is changing. i think this is a perfect example of it. >> fast forward to this month as the white house extended covid public health state of emergency. hundreds of medical professionals are fed up signing a letter planning for no more covid mandates sank during the last three years we have experienced unprecedented interference with the doctor/patient relationship by the government. the author of that letter, dr. meryl nass joined me now. good morning to you both. your letter is certainly gaining traction in the medical community. dr. mask make your case for us this morning. >> well, traditionally, what happens in an example in the gnomic examination room is

between the doctor and the patient. the government doesn't have a role. we are educated, we, as doctors are supposed to know what the best treatment is for any particular patient. and we have a response to discuss the possible treatment and the diagnoses and allow the patient the conjunction with the doctor to choose what is best for them individually. but what we have seen with covid is government imposed medicine. one-size-fits-all. everybody who gets to the hospital and has covid gets remdesivir your, ports of an filmic example. no one is allowed to have other treatment. the government is saying the doctors cannot speak freely regarding their opinions about remdesivir or vaccines or hydroxychloroquine and must only told the patient the government narratives. and that is very new and very dangerous and it basically is turned upside down when

traditionally practice. >> carley: it is great to have you both on this one because there is a lot of news about covid today. michael, a judge in california punished doctors for spreading what the law called covid-19 misinformation. but then the judge said the definition of misinformation within that law is nonsense. >> yeah, no, that is absolutely the case. you can't muzzle doctors by what state agencies want them to say. this is absolutely ridiculous. so what our letter that i drafted to dr. nass is put out there for major things. the covid mandates from here further. parental rights must be protected for the health of children. wherever there are exemptions, wherever there are mandates, there must be valid exemptions and of course, the last one you can't censor doctors. in a medical professional out there especially doctors want to sign on, please go to children's

health defense.org ants scroll down and you will see a big link to that letter. we need support and free thinkers ruling to do the jobs correctly. >> carley: hey, dr. nass, where did we get to this point where the government was controlling essentially what doctors can and can't say to their patients or at least trying to and promoting one-size-fits-all approach for everybody? >> that is a good question because we have a first amendment that enshrines in our most basic constitution the fact that government cannot do that. but what we have learned through a lawsuit that the louisiana/missouri attorney general's brought against the federal government is that the federal government itself has been breaking the law. it has been paying and requiring social media companies to censor us. the federal government has been creating a single narrative. but having the nih push out

treatment guidelines and then basically telling doctors that they may not vary from that. let me say again that there is no crime of misinformation. the federal government and state governments have tried to create a new crime that does not exist. because the first amendment protects us. we can say whatever we want as long as we don't cause serious harm like crying fire in a theater. the medical pump for a particular patient is exactly what that patient is paying me to learn. the government cannot legally suppress it. >> carley: absolutely. you know, michael, we introduce you pipelines that sound by saying the pandemic is over. and then last month the biden administration goes ahead and extends the covid-19 state of emergency. why would he do that? >> it is politics.

when biden expenses covid-19 emergency, he expands his ability to authorize and do things that he doesn't need approval from anybody. and that is definitely the case when his party had full control of the federal government. but that is a little bit different now that we have balance of power. what we need is we need everybody else there to get this letter to your elected officials, elected officials of the state in the federal government and to do that, just go to children'sdefense.org and sent it to your lawmakers. they need to know that constituent votes supports free speech of doctor and no more covid mandates. it makes no sense. >> carley: it does feel like it's all about power when it comes to the lockdowns and mandates. it is good to see people in the medical community fighting back. michael k and dr. nass, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you so much. >> carley: absolutely pure dramatic new video and from the

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♪ ♪ >> carley: we are back with a crisis at the southern border from the rio grande valley sector in texas. finding and apprehending human smugglers after a high-speed chase. the suspects hidden underneath houses ambushes after ditching their vehicles. two human smugglers were arrested as a result. all five migrants found were mexico natives who enter the u.s. illegally. and we are getting a look at jaw-dropping new numbers from the department of homeland security revealing, get this

over 1100 migrants with criminal records were released from detention facilities in december alone. how the heck does that make sense? brooke singman has the latest on this, brooke. >> that is right, carley. let's look at a detailed breakdown. according to i.c.e and 641 facing criminal charges. we are learning deportation officers were actually told to stop making arrests and clear space for the impact that was expected when title 42 was supposed to end up back. officials had to make room for some of the worst border violators while simultaneously releasing criminals. arizona congresswoman ashley hinson said the real threat at the southern border is being overlooked from a listen. >> what we need to do is cut off these cartels from being able to function. they are criminal enterprise and we have a lot of threats at the southern border.

250,000 illegal immigrant encounters in the month of december alone. since october the terror watch list have been apprehended at the border but the real threats are the cartels and the people we don't know about who have made their way across the southern border. >> texas governor dan crenshaw sounding the alarm imposing a big threat to the u.s. as isis. it is time we directly target them. he is rolling out legislation that will pu us at war with the cartels by authorizing use of military force again them. deadly cartels to destabilize new mexico and people and drugs to be coming in the united states. we might start treating them like isis because that is who they are. in the meantime the house judiciary committee jim jordan said, "he's ready to get to work as he announces plans of the crisis" appear that hearing is scheduled for next wednesday and will be the first since republicans took the house majority, carley, todd. >> todd: brooke, thank you

very much, discipline for wearing this 2020 patch while on duty. asking the judge to overturn her punishment of 40 days of lost pay claiming a double standard within the department. sergeant dana and joseph douglas murphy. we saw the patch on the street but describe it and what it means. >> honestly it was a gift from a friend and make enforcement great again. i love law enforcement and i love doing my job. it just felt right to put on the vest. >> todd: seems pretty in oculus to me. walk us through the day you wore that patch. >> it was a regular day. i was supposed to go to mobilization. and we get to the drill and i was met by inspector galvin.

and he took a picture, told me he liked them, walked away and that was about the interaction. then he told us this is just a drill but we have to go to this protest and they probably will not need us and then they called us for the protest and told us to get out of the vans and thinned the protesters, everything unraveled after that. >> todd: did. >> todd: did anyone complain that you were wearing it? >> the protesters were yelling at us the whole time. so i don't know where the direct complaints came from that night. >> todd: always complaints and obviously sees this and this tweet goes out there because again the video picture of you wearing this went viral. the police commissioner tweeted the following, "members of the nypd must remain a political" it is perform it for them to perform their jobs. joseph how are rainbow cars which the nypd seems to endorse,

how is that apolitical? >> you know, what this department does is shameful. i just want to point out, the former chief terrence monahan got down on his knees holding hands with other protesters at a black lives matter protest. and that was okay. that was acceptable but there are other chiefs also high ranking officials who really i think this came from to bow down and kneeled down on the floor at the foot of these protests. that is okay, but god forbid somebody would wear something that is even related to donald trump and they crucify you. >> todd: whether pro blm or anti-blm, who cares about blm? you have to acknowledge it is political. for them to do this really is a violation of the first amendment.

so joseph, and liberal cities, do people no longer have absolute first amendment rights? >> no, they don't appear that is the sad thing about this country. we are going down a path that is very dangerous. they get to pick and choose what to enforce and who to enforce it against. >> todd: sergeant, you are placed on performance monitoring. did you ever have performance issues prior to this incident? >> i did not. >> todd: why do you think you are on performance monitoring? >> i can only upper thighs why the performance monitoring came about after the suspension. and i mean, if you have been paying attention i was in the daily news at the end of november, and officially placed on performance monitoring. >> specifically, you had administrative trail but what specifically did they save the administrative trial about your wrongdoing? >> it was funny because the judge had asked me if i thought

my actions were appropriate. i looked at him and i said, i don't think they were inappropriate." he asked me to elaborate. and i said if it was an american flag, a american flag or lgbqt patch, no one would have cared or said anything in regards. and i believe i left him speechless. >> there was no response. this guy was yammering throughout the trial. that silenced him because he knew it was true. >> todd: i want to point out your shift, that you like, by the way but not everybody likes that shift. that was the overnight shift that you were comfortable with and doing a great job but now you are no longer on that shift, correct? >> are no longer on that shift. >> todd: i want to point that most of the crime happens during the overnight hours. so you would think the nypd would want as many officers, good officers like yourself as possible on the overnight shift. on the subways to keep everybody

safe to prevent incidents we have reported on through the course of the week. not smart. who are brave to be here and tell this story. joseph murray and sergeant dana martillo, thank you for being here. best of luck, keep us posted. >> we appreciate it. >> todd: mean time switching gears entirely, did you know it was tax season right around the corner? did you know that, sergeant murray and dana? tax expert here to explain what that means and it's time for you to file. plus, more fallout of biden's classified document scandal and still no transparency from the white house. republicans and democrats left a briefing last night fuming at the white house for lack of washington next. >> in all seriousness, the only person who knows how the documents were moved from a skiff is joe biden. maybe just put them in his

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♪ ♪ >> todd: california congressman adam schiff and eric swalwell say house speaker kevin mccarthy is political vengeance. and he is seeking political payback for the democrat led

house impeachment of former president trump and russian collusion probe. listen to this. >> i think this is an effort by mccarthy from mar-a-lago to excite and in phase. >> they have spoken in favor of the russian side on an intelligence committee where i don't know if these are people who are trustworthy with the national security information. like i said, they can give that information to a donald trump and guess w god knows what else. >> there is a sympathy for or desire to do putin's bidding instead of america's. >> todd: he is still on putin's bidding and that's been four to five years after wildly debunked. unbelievable. mccarthy citing eric swalwell to a chinese spy and claims adam schiff lied about russian collusion making them national security threats. speaking of the intel committee, both republican and democrat members fuming at the

white house, learning the white house blocking access to classified documents found at president biden's wilmington home. >> carley: all the details from washington, lucas tomlinson. >> good morning, carley and todd. a partisan agreement on capitol hill with republican senators accusing the biden administration of dock blocking keeping key details of biden classified documents a secret. >> i'm prepared to review consent or fast-track any nominee from any department or agency and taken every step on any committee i can to impose consequences on the administration until they provide these documents for the congress to make our own informed judgment about the risk of national security. >> every member of the committee regardless of democrat or republican were unanimous in that this position that we are left in limbo until somehow a

special counselor designates it is okay for us to get. it is not going to stand. >> after president biden announced he was sending 31 tanks to ukraine, tanks that would not arrive for many months by biden refused to answer questions on his way out the door. >> was that in response to the pence disclosures? sir? >> white house press sec karine jean-pierre, and biden says he has no regrets. >> i don't have anything to review at this time or any opportunities for the president to addresses. as you will know and i know questions earlier, there are many opportunities you will have with him where he takes all of your questions if he has over the past two weeks. >> colleague peter doocy followed up with the following question.

>> what happens to someone in the chain of command if they do leave with a piece of classified material that they are not supposed to have or is not secured? >> i think if you do it inadvertently or do it and realize, you don't have it secured, used self-report, which is exactly what the president did, self report >> despite those centers to make senators and intel committee, the director of national intelligence is likely concerned. guys. >> carley: luke lucas tomlinson, mark mark levin a jury investigation into president biden's document controversy. >> the only person who knows how the documents were removed from the skiff, i understand like democrats and the possibility is joe biden so in other words, he's a grade of the documents on

his body somewhere maybe he pulled a sandy burke and put it in his jacket, who knows. he's been doing this a long time. there needs to be a federal grand jury with biden, not us before we know what happened with before, it is obvious what happened was before. but the various location they have a jury for trump and we know what the documents are. >> carley: president biden will try to deflect from his ongoing scandal in virginia later today and shift the conversation to the economy by calling out republicans once again. >> we talk about big spending democrats again, guess what, i reduce the deficit last year $350 billion. so what these guys fiscally demented, i think. [laughter] they don't quite get it. >> todd: a certified public accountant and market analyst and joins us now. dan, they don't quite get it.

but really, is it a joke that they don't quite get it? >> i absolutely think that joe doesn't quite get it. how could you possibly say, "look at what the other side is doing" when you are doing the exact same thing? it makes no sense. i think the american people are much smarter than that. >> carley: the president will specifically target republicans as a bill called the "fair tax act." it would get rid of onerous income payroll, estate gift taxes, but then it would impose 23% national sales tax. this bill was sponsored by congressman buddy carter. if you republican supported. what do you think about it? >> i don't really think this is going to have a lot of legs. let me tell you why. everybody may love the idea of getting rid of all of these different taxes. let's get rid of the irs, too. it is not feasible.

the federal government needs some department to make sure the appropriate revenue is being created. as far as putting a national sales tax out, i mean, with people hurting so badly now with inflation. if you are talking about getting that kind of tax for goods and services, it is simply not going to fly. >> todd: okay, that is the tax proposal. obviously we will see how that plays out. let's rewind the focus to biden's economy. he says everything is his fault, everything under his administration 8.3%. 10% and electricity costs have search and if you live in the migrant state of connecticut. obviously biden does not have his facts straight. is this gaslighting all an attempt to deflect from how we began this block the biden document scandal? >> i think so. when you look at what is going

on in the economy, specifically inflation, todd, you have to look at what the root causes here there is a lot of demands still for goods and services. why? people got all that free money from the government. instead of looking at what the true cause of this is, which is the supply-side, the supply chains being able to get goods to the markets, that is really the issue. instead, we seem to be focused through the federal reserve. let's kill demand! so these are the core of the u.s. economic troubles right now. >> carley: yeah, contrary to what the white house is saying on gas prices, they were on the rise again. the national average rate now stands at $3.50. that is up $0.13 from last week. $0.40 over the last month. that is because demand is up and oil prices are also up. so the white house and the president consistently say they want to lower prices for the

american people and american families. but when it comes to gas prices, man, does the president have a bad track record. >> he really does. you know, when you look at the cost of fuel, whether regular gasoline or diesel, that is how everything, including people get from point a to point b, commute to work and so on. but especially when you talk about diesel fuel. every product that we get, how does it get to us? it gets there by a truck. it means it needs diesel fuel. when those costs go up across the board, all of us are paying the price for that. >> todd: in the meantime taxis and around the corner, as you know, being an accountant including force to outsource workers is apparently people fling the profession and no new students taking accounting courses to get into the profession. why is that, dan? >> this is a huge problem.

and there was an article in "the wall street journal" by lindsey allen and outlined this perfectly. you had over the last two years 300,000 accountants leave the profession. that is one side of the equation. on the other side of the equation, you don't have enough accounting majors appearance at the squeeze that the accounting profession is feeling is serious. why? you simply can't get all of the work done. accountants are always under pressure for deadlines, but on top of that, more and more rules and regulations being put out there. so you have to do more work with less people. how do you do that? you are going to have to turn to using more technology as many are doing. they are looking at the international solution to supplement the shortage of u.s. workers!

>> carley: you mentioned "wall street journal" article and we have a little bit of it, the tax season to kick off small and midsize county firms that serve family businesses, individuals and smaller companies saying off shoring jobs as multiple recruiting pipelines dry up and accountants leave the professionals in droves. i don't know if i would be comfortable somebody in india doing my taxes because maybe they will be fine but i don't know how well they know the tax code. so how should people be about this? >> not at all. i think there is a lot of filmic misinformation about this process. first of all, the people internationally participating in this process to help u.s. companies, they are literally just parked of getting the information into the tax returns. the actual review process, the strategic planning, the things that truly matter related to the timeliness and the quality of

your tax returns. that process is still being controlled in the u.s. so, i think a lot of people just need to understand that if firms don't turn to this, the work can't get done. >> todd: dan, if you want dan geltrude, we appreciate it. >> absolutely, todd. >> carley: thank you, dan. paid by numbers, house republicans getting ready for a deep dive into hunter biden's art deals. we have the details on the big picture investigation. >> todd: plus, joe concha and kelly and jimmy feel it all here busy at a 5:00 a.m. hour of "fox & friends first." stay with us.

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