footage from the traffic stop that lead to the death of tyre nichols. i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. five police officers were charged with murder in tyre nichols death. the community is mourning his tragic loss of life. >> our family is grief stricken and this is very hard to swallow. i want each and every one of you to protest in peace. i don't want us burning up our cities, tearing up the streets, that is not what my son stood out. if you are here for me and tyree, you will protest

peacefully. >> justice for tyree. justice for tyree. >> todd: brooke singman live with the latest. brooke. >> brooke: good morning, guys. just hours from now memphis police are expected to release body cam footage from the night of tyre nichols's death. this started january 27 when the 29 year old was pulled over on suspicion of wreckless driving. what we're about to play is reporting of the police scanner. >> we got one male black running. >> eyes on the subject? >> set up perimeter. >>-- running on foot. >> see what the address. >> he is fighting at this time. >> brooke: the nichols family has seen the footage and they

say it shows the officers beating tyre nichols for three minutes. he died in the hospital three days evera the incident. the tape could trigger civil unrest with the police chief giving this warning. >> this is not just a professional failing, this is a failing of basic humanity toward another individual. this individual was heinous, wreckless and inhumane and in the vein of transparency, when the video is released, you will see for yourself. none of this is a calling card for inciting violence or destruction on our community or against our citizens. brooke coming off a wave of riots, atlanta law enforcement is gearing up for a potential second round of riots. governor kemp ordered national guardsmen to keep the streets

safe. georgia does not tolerate acts of violence against person or property. five memphis police officers have been charged in tyre nichols death and two are expected to plead not guilty. they are charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault, kidnapping, official misconduct and oppression. four officers have been released on bond. >> ashley: new york city top cop is blaming the state's criminal justice reform for spike in youth violence. nypd commissioner says there has to be legislative fixes for thing. i understand these were well-meaning reforms, but when you see them in practice, there has to be some remedy. 153 teens were shot in new york city last year, more than 2018 and 2019 combined and mayor eric adams targeting the state's bail reform law in his state of the

city address. >> we all agree, no one should be in jail simply because they cannot afford to post bail. we should also agree that we cannot allow a small number of violent individuals to continue terrorizing our neighborhoods over and over again. >> ashley: adams new crime fighting plan includes neighborhood safety team, neighborhood safety alliance and renewing focus on retail theft and wants to host crime data meetings so public can give police input and feedback. >> todd: the commissioner, good on her for calling out the problem, however, she can call it out all she wants, to your point, you can have billions of police on the street, if you don't prosecute what the criminals are arrested for and they end back on the street, nothing is going to matter. this city and leaders need to

force albany lawmakers and kathy hochul to do something or nothing is going to change. >> ashley: where is kathy hochul? as we mentioned, multiple times, before the governor's election, she said that i'm not going to touch anything with bail reform until january. it is january and now the governor is saying we need to change some things because these officers aren't finishing paperwork before the criminals are back out on the street. youth crime, we spoke to business owner in a different state, but 13 year olds targeted his state. this is not just people in their late 20s and 3 30s, they are in theiren toos, this is not a good sign for the future for everyone. those are youth that will grow up in our world and this is the

precedent that has been set. it is great that adams is saying it needs to be bail reform and they are go coming up with plans, we need to see action. if they would have been proactive, none of this would have happened. >> todd: you mentioned that business owner, his brewery was devastated by series of actses. dirtbag brewing company set to open over the summer is now unable after group of teens, 13 year old teens caused $200,000 in damage to his property. listen. >> i've exhausted everything, my savings and retirement, we planned on moving forward this summer and get a soft opening available for the weekend. it is not even recoverable. we were uninsured due to prior theft and vandalism, the building is uninsured, it is a total loss for me. >> todd: he has a gofund me,

unclear if that will lead to building back of this business. that was this guy's dream and he worked 7-10 years to make it reality. what do 13 year old kids do? go in and pour sand in the machinery, not only vandalism, ensuring nothing in that brewery is in working condition. why is a 13 year old doing that and where are the parents? >> ashley: i wonder, are they going to be charged as adults in this situation? i don't know how that, wos, you might know from a law perspective, or is it different state by state? >> todd: it is different. >> ashley: will we start charging young people as adult to get harder sentence to say, we need a loud message. you can't do this. he told us in that interview, these kids had previous records. they're 13. i don't know what i was doing at

13, studying or playing sports, but i wasn't doing this. in this story, the $200,000 in damage, they went in with the sole purpose of pure destruction, i don't know where the reasoning comes from, you can't rationalize irrational behavior. the parents are just as much to blame as the kids. >> todd: you know what else varies state by state, if you have liberal or conservative governor, this state has a liberal governor. if we learned anything from liberals this week alone, it is not violence when done to property. it is not violence it stuff is destroyed, tell this to the michigan brewery owner who lost his dream. >> ashley: and potential livelihood for he and his family. >> todd: he wanted to retire

doing this. it's sad. -- after leaving category and moving to the sunshine state, she says she feels safer now than in l.a., where she felt like she needed a gun to protect herself and she's praising desantis for policy on social issue. telling the guardian, there are elderly people without walkers who don't have money to get a septic tooth pulled. those situations should take precedence to facial feminism surgery, i think desantis is practical about a lot of things that is why desantis wins democrat votes, they are fed up with what their party is putting out. >> ashley: the numbers he won in november, a lot of people like him. milwaukee bucks are celebrating all things pride, including half-time drag show. >> todd: some fans are not happy about that, we're talking about it with joe concha, don't go

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>> todd: disbarred south carolina attorney alex murdaugh seen crying in court during trial for the murder of his wife and son. you can see him wiping away tears as the 911 call is played by the prosecution. >> todd: murdaugh wiping away tears as jurors watched the graphic body cam footage where his wife maggie and son paul were shot to death. the first deputy respond testifying the double murder suspect was upset, but did not appear to shed tears then. >> as you approached and first saw the male victim and the female victim, what was your assessment? >> my initial assessment there

was not, there appeared to be a large amount of blood and brain matter. >> did you see physical tears? >> i did not. >> todd: murdaugh is accused of murdering his loved ones to of cocover up crimes. >> ashley: raleigh, north carolina saw most violent year since 1995, reporting 49 homicides in 2022, 48% increase from the year before. the shocking stat comes as raleigh police struggle with recruiting, down 100 officers as of december. a former north carolina county sheriff left the democratic party because of his soft on crime policies and joins us now. thank you for getting up with us, i want to go to the number, that 100 of ros short, what do you think the main reason is for

this number, in particular, in raleigh? >> well, since my retirement, i had the opportunity to do consulting and talking with law enforcement agencies across the state, you find we're all in the same boat. we are having tough time recruiting and retaining officers and a lot is due to the environment officers are having to work in now. when we talk about these things, we're certainly not talking about holding officers not holding them responsible for uses of force that are not reasonable and necessary, but this narrative that seems to manifest itself around most uses of force involving law enforcement has made recruiting extremely hard. >> ashley: you said you left the democratic party, were you a democrat when you were in law

enforcement? >> i was. and i find it, i was listening to president biden this morning talking about the republican party, totally different animal. i can tell you the democratic party from when i first became involved, which i was a democrat all of my adult life and the party when i left was completely different thing that i didn't recognize. of course, being ahead of the law enforcement agency, some ideas and rhetoric and some of that narrative unjustly so negativity it put out toward law enforcement, i felt that i had leave the party because i support law enforcement first and that political party comes after that. >> ashley: tough for law enforcement all over the country, just under 470,000 people inul ray and 100 officers short, that is a huge chunk of

officers. i don't know what your da policies are like, are they similar as far as bail reform, to new york or more lenient? >> you know, what i know about the da policy in raleigh comes from reading and research and i think the da appears to do a pretty good job in raleigh in supporting law enforcement and doing what they do. i would say here in asheville, some da policies were more in line with no cash bail, not keeping people innil ja, turning them back out once the paperwork was done and low levels of prosecution and high levels of dismissal and that makes it you have to for law enforcement to work. even with good policies, it is a struggle to keep law enforcement because of the atmosphere.

>> ashley: it's a tough job, dangerous, taxing on your mental state and livelihood and life. 43 homicides happened. there were 27 in 2017. they have gone up since 2020. what do you think is the biggest driver of why the numbers, especially in homicides are going up so much? >> reflects those type numbers. what you see is a shortage of officers who work shift. you see policies that kind of pull back on officers to a certain extent and restrict enforcement action to a certain extent and those things combined also with this mindset that not to really cooperate with law enforcement when especially when it comes to a homicide investigation, that cooperation,

as we solve cases. when you successfully solve cases, you arrest people responsible for those things. when you don't do those things, you see increase in violent crime and i think that is direct contributor, i don't think it is rocket science, it is easy to see how that impacts it. >> ashley: van duncan, thank you for being here today. new report exposing government failure to keep track of experiments at the wuhan lab lab and the experiments were paid for with your tax dollars. >> todd: we will get to the bottom of this next. illion jews and thousands of jewish survivors are still suffering in poverty today. god calls on people who believe in him to act on his word. "comfort ye, comfort my people."

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>> todd: new bombshell findings from the inspector general office revealing nih failed to keep tabs on virus research projectses, including at the wuhan lab lab. based on findings we conclude

nih missed opportunities to monitor research with improved oversight, nih may have been able to take timely corrective action to mitigate risk associated with that type of research. iowa congressman mariannette meeks joins me now. thank you for being here. why? what else better does the nih and bureaucrats there have to do than uncover every single stone to make sure they are protecting the health of every american? this makes no sense. >> precisely and that is exactly what the select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic is going to do, so i'm pleased we're having this select subcommittee. our focus is very different to look at origins of covid-19. this is not a partisan endeavor, but valid reasons, biosafety,

security, where nih funding goes, grants or subgrants. how do we prevent the next pandemic and have timely disclosure so nations can prepare. i'm delighted we'll be getting this underway under the lead ershould have upon brad winstrop. >> todd: they want to install watch dog within the nih, senator blackburn says the nih oversees thousands of researchers and institutes, however, they have been far from transparent and the american people need to know if their tax clz are being spent and funding research. >> todd: how do you not make sure that money is not going to create a deadly pathogen? that makes no sense, as well. >> exactly. we can't prove the money that went to ecohealth. there was $8 million until 2021,

we can't prove that led to or at this time can't prove it led to sars 2, there was oversight lacking and not oversight at ecohealth and where they granted money to and didn't do oversight for wuhan lab lab virology, especially when you know there are lab safety violation. the wuhan institute they were doing biosafety lab at a biosafety lab 2 area. there needs to be research into that, oversight and we're going to hold the agencies accountable. >> todd: why are we still funding our main adversary in this world, china? >> well, that brings up a very larger question, we've passed a bill to prevent research from -- oil from being released from strategic petroleum reserve to be sold to china and i think

this is another area we can look at. the international community has a vested interest in finding out where origin of covid-19 came from for that reason. is there gain of function or unethical research being conducted and what is the international community's response? are their lab breaks, is appropriate research being done at appropriate biosafety lab, so you're not having biosafety lab for research conducted in an inappropriate facility which could lead to leak and virus and another pandemic. this is important that the international community has understanding on and there needs to be immediate disclosure and in the fall of 2019, they knew they had a virus that had leaked. they denied human to human transmission. >> todd: we got to figure out what went wrong so we don't make the same mistakes next time a pandemic hits.

appreciate your time, thank you so much. adam schiff kicked off house intel committee and first thing he does is download the app being banned over concerns. >> i'm adam schiff with troubling news, kevin mccarthy removed me from the house intelligence committee all for doing my job. >> ashley: joe concha is here next.

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>> good morning, take a look at the forecast across the country. waking up to chilly temperatures. we are in for a blast of cold air. that strand of snow blasting the upper midwest is a fast-moving cold front. we are going to open up bitter cold air. look at temperatures across january, it has been relatively mild, even in minneapolis and chicago. we have snow moving through, we'll get one to two inches of snow, it will unlock super cold air. there is big difference between having temperatures in the 30s and what we'll have for the weekend. hiof zero degrees in bismarck, eight in duluth. afternoon temperatures will not get above zero in parts of

dakota. out west, enjoying nice break, but rain back in the forecast this weekend, shouldn't cause a massive flooding concern, but we will watch conditions through sunday. we have concern for flooding across the southeast, rain will be moving through and many across the southeast will be grabbing your umbrellas on is the and sunday. >> ashley: i'm the only person complaining about no snow. >> new york snow is very fun at first, but within five minutes, you're done with it. >> ashley: britta, thank you. top official from the national archive agreeing to an interview with the house oversight committee on the president's handling of classified material found at his wilmington, delaware home. >> todd: alexandria ocasio-cortez has more. >> alexandria: interview with general counsel gary stern, led by james comer, demanding more

information about how classified documents were handled. listen. >> this is a problem and i'm confident that once national archive will come forward and have public testimony, that we can have a bipartisan solution to the problem. this is another example of two-tier justice system, how republicans are treated versus how republicans are treated. >> alexandria: pencil resolution, preventing extreme negligence with classified information licenses. the resolution expresses sense of u.s. house of representatives that congressman adam schiff should be investigated by the house ethices committee and have his comments made regarding russian collusion be struck from the record. this is after schiff and swalwell were dropped from the committee, barring schiff from

classified information at all. >> certainly no one can defend adam schiff and eric swalwell, these people leaked and embroidering lies to very leaks. >> alexandria: this coknowicides with think canman schiff launching bid for senate, running for the seat occupied by dianne feinstein. >> threatening democracy, they are not going to stop, we have to stop them, that is why i'm running for the u.s. senate, the struggle isn't over. >> alexandria: it is unclear if dianne feinstein will seek re-election. >> todd: first the pelosi act perfectly named and now the pencil acts, look up donald trump explanation why it is called pencil. security concerns after posting

on tiktok, the app banned on u.s. government devices in 30. >> i'm adam schiff with troubling news, today kevin mccarthy removed me from the house intelligence committee for holding trump accountable and standing up to maga republicans. >> ashley: joe concha joins us now, going out on a limb here, i will say this is the type of behavior why people think he doesn't need access to sensitive materials. >> joe: the hubris of the defeated and this not coo be any more ill advised by most prolific leaker in the form of adam schiff. tiktok is owned by the chinese communist government, banned from government devices for spyware concern in 30 states. now the fact that matt gaetz is going to introduce the pencil

act, blocking schiff from reviewing information. here is what pencil stands for. preventing extreme negligence with classified information licenses resolution, it stands for something, an acronym. schiff isun aring for california senate in deep blue state like california and given he's a media darling on other cable news networks, he may very well win. >> todd: that would be insane if ro khanna doesn't counter balance him. read the room, brah. associated press issuing guidance on the word "the." this is real. ap tweeting we recommend avoiding dehumanizing "the" label such as the poor, the mentally ill, the french, the disabled, the college educated.

use wording such as people with mental illness. i think, joe, on this show, we joked the word police would eventually come for the word "the" but i thought they were joking, they are coming for "the." >> joe: depending what your definition of the word "is" is. this is not a spoof, everyone watching at home, associated press, as a writer, i use their style guide and now their style guide is supposed to be nonpartisan wire service, now the wokest of the woke. i guess we can't say the free pres anymore, it is just free press. this is one of the many reasons why the media, sorry, media, has a trust issue with the american people. this is impossible to do, how do you not put the in front of something that is an entity. how do you do it? >> todd: the french are like,

why did you drag us into this. >> ashley: jokingly changed twitter bioto eliminate the word "the." fans are blasting the milwaukee bucks for a half-time drag show during pride night. here is what the players are saying about it. listen. >> the power of sports can bring everybody together, doesn't matter gender, ethnicity, political view or your sexual identity. >> very important for the fans and athletes and everyone in this world to make sporting events and any event for the lgbtq community more successful. >> ashley: people on social media had mixed feelings about this situation, what did you think? >> joe: i think that sportses is the ultimate escapism. when you go to a game, in person or watching at home, work a hard

day, you have a family, you do insane amounts of laundry, when you have two kids and all you want to do is relax and watch a game and get away from it all. it seems like over and over again, particularly with the n.b.a., all things injected in. stand up for stuff, that is fine, if you're a player or owner or part of the organization, do that, but to inject it into the game itself, particularly halftime, i think that there is a time and place and that is not for many sportings fans the time and place for this. we want to see the milwaukee bucks play a championship, not the other stuff. >> todd: on the topic of drag, you heard many voices in the gay community say the drag attention is drowning out the message and the gains gay people have made over the course of years.

interesting choice. thank you for your views, now go do laundry. >> joe: i will, i don't know what is clean or dirty, did i wash that already? >> ashley: we all have laundry, kids or no kids. thanks. president biden being sued for draining your funds to pay for his woke agenda. >> todd: cheryl casone has more on that next. ♪ focus on what matters in life... being together. celebrating together. ♪ ...without letting anything keep you apart. walgreens pharmacists are here to help you stay well. and stay...together. ♪

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>> ashley: 25 governors suing the biden administration for draining your retirement funds to pay for the president's agenda. the president claims the maga republicans are destroying the economy. >> todd: cheryl casone has details. >> cheryl: president biden did go after republicans saying it is their fault the economy is in a free for all right now possibly going into another recession. president biden called out the house gop specifically, listen what he said. >> president biden: we're moving in the right direction, protect those gains that our policies have generated, protect them from the maga republicans and house representativeses. it is not your father's

republican party, it is a different breed of cat. >> cheryl: word here considering what is happening with the stock market and what happened in 2022, 25 states just hit the president with this lawsuit over climate change action targeting american retirement savings, going after esg investments, when you make investments based on esg, whole thought process in the market. does it need to be in retirement accounts of americans? department of labor just put this new rule that is going in effect at end of the month january 30. basically you can factor those in to make investment decisions with the accounts. 25 states are saying no, that should not be allowed, this is political climate change. keep things the way you are when you invest based on profits and

let's help people retirement accounts. >> todd: my worry is the government will say 401(k) is a tax advantage vehicle because the government is involved in not making you pay tax on money coming in, we will force you to do esg junk and that is not right. >> cheryl: i hate to use the word force, i will say if you are forced to consider these invest enmoomentes that ep ones you up to onslot of people pounding on your door saying, put this money in this account and i don't like that at all, i think we leave it clean investments, let's make money, we need to retire some day, keep itten clean, folks, not for climate change. >> ashley: congresswoman got

into it yesterday. >> go and learn for yourself about this, educate yourself on how american obtained its low emissions. >> seems opposing side can't seem to be able to debate the issue, so they must come after my character. we should all take it upon ourselves in this body to educate ourselves on the science of the challenge of climate change. >> care about air quality and climate change, natural gas got america there. educate yourself on that. >> cheryl: like to educate aoc, why go after natural gas, natural gas is a clean burning type of fuel, going after that now. what are we supposed to do, go out into the unlight and say we're going to do business during daylight?

she doesn't understand energy production, he is correct. tweet from aoc, in case you are curious why this man is so angry with me, i introduced amendment to prohibit oil and gas companies to engage in stock buy backs from leasing federal land, that hit a nerve. it is a ridiculous idea, that is my opinion. >> todd: focus on the natural glass -- i love glass. >> ashley: what is this? >> todd: i love glass blowing. >> cheryl: i know, i just glass, gas, you know what it is, it is very clear to me -- >> todd: there you go. >> cheryl: natural gas is a clean technology, why are we going after gas stoves, which we were doing earlier this week, not we, they. not us. >> todd: have a great weekend. >> cheryl: i need more sleep. >> todd: love it. thank you, my friend. the new york congresswoman, aoc, leading coa ligsz of democrats

in slamming joe biden border policy for being too strict. >> president biden is reversing his promise to restore access to asylum at our southern border. >> this administration is making it impossible to seek refuge at our border. >> ashley: we have a reality check for democrats coming up next.

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♪ the right to seek asylum is enshrined in domestic and international law and the united states is a shining example. this administration is making it effectively impossible to seek refuge at our border. president biden should listen to the courts and human rights activists and reverse course. >> todd: aoc isn't crying at the border she and 66 over democrats sent a letter to president biden criticize go ahead his so-called strict border policy saying quote instead of issuing a new

asylum transit ban and expanding title 42. we encourage your administration to stand by your commitment to restore and protect the rights of asylum seekers and refugees. >> robert, former u.s. marshal and retired deputy chief of the el paso police department is joining us now. robert, what do you think? because when we first heard this, it was kind of like we had to do a double take that his policies are too strict. your thoughts? >> yeah, the thing here when i read that article, i just -- i find it unbelievable. you know, this tells me a couple of things. number one, the people that signed that letter, they were never serious and nor are they serious about border security. they never were and they never will be serious about border security. it also tells me that they're not serious about a comprehensive solution to the border problem that has been going on for many years. i would like to see them send a letter to the president

requesting more resources to the southwest border. more border patrol agents. more hsi agents. dfbi agents to handle the crisis that's going on right now because we're in a crisis. and this letter is just making a mockery of the situation right now. this is an insult to all those heros that are working the southwest border. and then, their concern about the rights of the asylum seekers. what about the rights and protection for the u.s. citizens throughout not just on the border. but throughout the united states that are being impacted by the mexican cartels flow of drugs into our country which fentanyl killing tens of thousands of americans and then also them committing the violence like what we saw in california a couple of weeks ago. >> todd: hear a lot of people saying the only reason those democrats would want to do this because they want a perpetual beholden democrat voting base of migrants. it certainly is an interesting theory. meantime, i want to get your

thoughts on this. republicans calling for the use of military force to regain control of the southern border because of the cartels. at this point, do we have any other choice than to call in the military? >> no. i think -- i don't think we have any other choice. i think drastic time call for drastic action. and the mexican cartels are impacting the united states so greatly that we need to take drastic action. the mexican government cannot handle the mexican cartel. number one reason because all of the corruption and we see an example of that going on right now with this luna being on trial in new york. so, mostly cloudy skies can cartels understand to stop doing what they are doing getting arrested or getting killed. those are the only solutions. so, when i heard that, i think, you know, it's about time. and there has been talk about doing this for some time.

i think that's how you go after the cartels and dismantle them is by just quite frankly taking them out. cartels are operating in 1100 cities across america. they are here. they have infiltrated the u.s. how difficult is it going to be to get them out of the u.s. or is this going to be the new normal and we have to deal with it from here on out? >> well, you know, 1100 cities, i wouldn't be surprised if that number is low. i have been training law enforcement officers for many years about the mexican cartels that are already here. and there's more of them here and then with the border situation, the influx of all the migrants we have had coming in, not all of them but a lot of them are going to be embedded in the cartels that are throughout the united states right now secure the border and addressing the cartels in mexico.

we also need to step up our game here in the united states and go after these mexican cartels to dismantle them. the federal government -- another good letter these people should have written was a letter to the president requesting more funding. >> todd: got to leave it there because we are up against it. thank you for your time. we appreciate your insight. with that, "fox & friends" begins right now. ♪ ♪ home is wherever i'm with you ♪