>> todd: we are less than a week away from the state of the union address and president biden is expected to tell americans that the economy is strong and the country secure. but the majority of americans disagree. you're watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier, in for carley shimkus. the currents state of the union is not believed to be strong at all, 72% independents and 48% of democrats. the independent and democratic number you have to look at.

independents think in the middle. if you read the article that came with this, it said democrats were almost split on whether they think that the state of the union and the state of the country is in really a good solid ground right now. when you see 60% of people agree that the country is not doing well, that is bad, dangerous. the people that did respond pointed to extremism on both ends, democrat and republican. that is where the independent number is so high and that will be tricky for democrats and republicans, really. >> todd: i take a look from the 30,000 foot view and ask the question, what about our union is strong right now? our enemies don't fear us. our allies don't know if they can can't on us. when it comes to money, we are all worried about inflation and day-to-day paying bills, we are digging ourselves a debt hole on the global future.

on the future of our country. that will take years, if not decades and centuries to get out of and that falls on our kids and grandkids. and democrats say everything is going great, you mention independents and some democrats, many say the state of our union is very strong. 48, excuse me. they see the border crisis as a positive somehow, that these individuals coming into the country will burden the taxpayers in such a way to drive us to socialism that those democrats ultimately want. otherwise, i can't see how you look at what is going on and say it is going strong right now. >> ashley: we like lower taxes, when i see the number for democrats, this is what theyun wa, they want open border and higher taxes. i guess they want to hardly be able to afford groceries and gas, they are thinking there is

no problem. >> todd: i have knowa answer. it is not they don't care, they can afford, these are the rich people now. the democrats have become the party of the uber wealthy. it is just a problem for the middle class, we can deal with it, we are so established in wealth and elitism, this will not impact us. >> ashley: joe biden was elected -- not everyone in america who voted for him is in that elite class. there are people who aren't in that elite frame that are voting for him and think it is doing well. >> todd: they were sold middle-class joe. >> ashley: there is no middle class anymore. >> todd: exactly. two-thirds of all americans say they are living paycheck to paycheck with 5% of those struggling earning $100,000 per year. a dad and a grandmother joined

us last hour to explain how they are getting by. >> i don't see anything getting better. yesterday opening up the cabinet and saying, where is all the chips and all the cookies, that is not something we can do right now. i had to explain, this is what a budget is, this is what inflation is. this is why we're having to make changes in our household. >> we've struggled for a while, many are experiencing the same struggles, i remain optimistic, we don't know what is going to come, hopefully things will get better so we can have relief at some point, americans need relief. >> todd: total cost spiked 6% according to december cpi. josh hawley says president biden green agenda is destroying blue-collar america. >> we don't have any more blue-collar work in this country for working people, those folks

have to depend on the government and we have climate green economy, where you have to have a fancy degree, get a white-collar job in a big city and there are no jobs for you. that is what theyun wa, they don't like blue-collar workers or culture and are trying to wipe it out by changing the economy and laura, they are succeeding and we have to stop them. are we producing energy jobs? not under joe biden. are we producing our own energy? we are the most energy-rich country in the world. are we producing it? no. who is getting rich off that? china is. blue-collar work suffers and the chinese communist party gets rich, that is joe biden's agenda. >> todd: josh hawley is saying what we were saying, democrats have become the party of the rich elite. blue-collar jobs and energy independence, we don't care about. why don't democrats want this?

they worship this climate change god and they are all doubling down and tripling down on this notion of we need to virtue signal to everybody else that climate change is the most pressing thing facing america and we're going to transform our country regardless of who is hurts and that is middle-class americans. >> ashley: i can't remember what report it was, a report said working age men are quitting their jobs they have no reason to go back to work, we're not going to work anymore. that is a problem. it is something i feel like is pushed and made to seem okay. whereas, you think about it, men are -- they go to work and support their families and themselves, it is sad to see that. that soundbite of the woman we talked to last hour trying to make ends meet with her family. her 10 year old is other than welling about inflation because there is no snacks for him in the panty radio and that is sad,

infuriating. it doesn't seem like america. it is not america, that is not how it should be. she said this is the single hardest year for them. she has been on before talking about having a hard time finding baby formula, this is not what we should be seeing in eshg m. they said we have had countless people come on the program and the network saying that inflation is crippling them. like we said, there is no middle-class anymore and it is getting tough and i don't see light at the end of the tunnel. you might. >> todd: i'm all for learning life lessons, not like that. you want to be a kid. the left wants to take away the time being a kid. stop it. >> ashley: and people picking up other jobs is taking away from family time. today house oversight committee will get answers about your tax dollars used during the

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>> janice: we have a lot to get to. look at the temperatures or feels-like temperature from texas up toward the great lakes. really cold temperatures. we have below freezing temperatures or feel-like temperatures in parts of the upper midwest in the minus 20 minus 30 degree range. an ice storm unfolding across texas, oklahoma, arkansas, tennessee river valley. top ice totals in texas and arkansas. on the roads and power lines we have power disruptions here and treacherous travel with a lot of accidents reported yesterday. ice storm warning for millions from texas through arkansas toward tennessee and mississippi and alabama. here are power outages right now in much of texas and then stretching into arkansas. that is going to bump up in the next several hours as we are

expecting the ice storm to continue until tomorrow for these areas. really dangerous on the roads, people are urged to stay off the roads. it will be difficult, if not impossible to travel in some areas. ice still to come, tenth of an inch to quarter of an inch and very dangerous. the other side of this story is cold air across the northern plains, upper midwest. we have winds helping make it feel colder than that, that is what it will feel like for the next 24 hours, again, below zero and look what happens, arctic air sinks southward and east, minus 40 to minus 60 wind chills, coldest wind chills for parts of new england in five years. so february, right, january was mild and february and it is crazy winter. >> ashley: is this saturday and sunday? >> janice: this weekend, saturday and sunday, yes and

snow is falling in new york city. >> ashley: it was 50 a few days ago. >> janice: set a record for most days without snow and might get measurable snow today. >> todd: after the snow we should go do snow angels. >> janice: not enough for that, always up for trying. >> todd: house overrules president biden and votes to end the public health emergency, oversight committee will hold a public hearing today looking into misuse of covid spending. >> past two years, democrats did not conduct a single hearing of oversight of what may turn out to be the greatest theft of american taxpayer dollars in history. after rushing through inflation inducing government spending under pandemic relief, hundreds of billions of dollars have been stolen from taxpayers, lining the pockets of criminals and for

adversaries. >> todd: dr. roberts, a watch dog group found 5.4 billion in covid dollars may have gone to firms using suspect social security numbers. do you worry that the amount of covid money stolen by fraudsters is higher? >> it is probably many multiples of that 5.4, todd. it is always great to be with you and on your show. i will say, there is hope ahead. one reason i'm cautiously optimistic about taking this country back, the chairman and james comer are ready to go to work. what they will find, to the point of your question, the problem or extent of the covid abuse is probably in the tens of billions of dollars, not just five billion. this is a reason a lot of right of center groups when giving away money and know ares were responsible, too, were saying this is going to cause great

fraud. now we have the double whammy of the fraud and inflation that all of that extra spending caused. >> todd: where was curiosity on part of the democrats when in charge of all of government to find out how the money was wasted and where it went and try to get it back. we are now a couple years in, it will be tough to get the money back. >> the democrats had no curiosity about that todd, and frankly, they were happy with that amount of covid spending. covid was opportunity to expand big government socialism. that is not hyperbole, it is true. if the house majority accomplishes one thing in the next two years, it will be stopping that rate of spending and articulating clawing out of that mess. it is really important for americans who are upset, as they should be, about the $5 billion of waste, to connect the dots to

the larger agenda to upend this country away from freedom and self-governance and free enterprise and having the federal government running our lives. >> todd: the government blames haste of needing to get money out quickly during covid. when you talk about those sums, you think there would be better procedure to make sure abuse did not happen. speaking of money, house speaker kevin mccarthy to meet with president biden today over the debt ceiling standoff. here is what both of them had to say, listen. >> negotiate, what are you -- >> show me your budget, i'll show you mine. >> why put the economics of america in jeopardy? why play political games? i'm not. >> todd: white house said it will not negotiate, will joe biden budge, at the end of the day? >> he'll have to, the american people realize you can't continue to take the country's

credit card limit, what is what the debt ceiling is and continue to increase it willy-nilly. if we do that, which is what the president and his party want to do, the american people will have to pay the bill. we are doing that everyday at the grocery store and when we fill up our gas tanks. everyday getting grocery and snacks for kids to go to school, that is the problem. i applaud speaker mccarthy for sticking to his guns, he is right in erm its of policy and right in terms of the everyday american and even joe biden, whose best political days are behind him, to be polite about it, will end up negotiating and partial policy win in stopping rate of spending in washington. >> todd: every american is in for 100 k and you can't get by on yearly salary of 100 k, that is a daunting number and has to be brought down. dr. roberts, appreciate it.

from migrant camps of new york city to overwhelmed southern board president joe biden migrant crisis being felt in every corner of our country and today republicans are ready to hold the president accountable. >> ashley: arizona sheriff mark daniels is testifying today and we'll ask him what he plans to tell lawmakers. if your business kept on employees through the pandemic, getrefunds.com can see if it may qualify for a payroll tax refund of up to $26,000 per employee. all it takes is eight minutes to get started. then work with professionals to assist your business

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>> todd: president biden skipping out on a visit to see the growing migrant crisis in the big apple, despite being one mile away. >> ashley: dozens of migrants are camping on the streets to avoid being taken to shelters. brooke singman is here. >> brooke: the border crisis is infiltrating the big apple and president biden is being slammed for ignoring it. migrants are refusing to relocate from a high-end manhattan hotel. president biden opted out of a

visit, despite being one mile away. he touted his infrastructure structure while the migrants are sleeping on the floor without a shelter and water. -- absurd he wouldn't want to visit the migrants, the president is pushing his agenda, but doesn't want to fix the mess he created. >> todd: it is bizarre out there, i was there yesterday. the house has a major hearing scheduled today on the border crisis, right, brooke. >> brooke: the first hearing on border crisis since republicans took control of the house and today lawmakers plan to zero in on fentanyl. three major fentanyl busts in just two days, nearly 300,000 fentanyl pills were recovered in

a car with 458,000 pills stuffed in the roof and gas tank of another vehicle and 14 pounds of fentanyl powder found in the bumper of a third car. the del rio sector reported 4200 gotaways they know of, put that in perspective, approximately 40% of people coming across the border that be successfully evading and esip caing into the u.s. without apprehension in recent weeks. one gop lawmaker says he is ready to bring articles of imp impeachment against secretary mayorkas. >> remove someone from office who is causing public harm, that is impeachment. look at the damage he's done, came in and got rid of every policy that was working. last year that sector had 360's,000 encounters, people

bringing drugs, human trafficking and sex trafficking. >> brooke: same span at del rio sector, 61 people were caught smuggling something illegal into the u.s. >> ashley: thank you. brooke singman. bring in sheriff mark daniels set to testify before the house judiciary committee today. thank you for getting up with us, you have a big day today. what do you expect to tell lawmakers today? >> good morning ashley and todd, i come straight for the community, it is not political. i come to d.c., to address what is going on in our community, talk about disruption array and the crisis on the border. there is no political spin, this is reality coming this morning. i appreciate chairman jordan bringing this committee together to address this today and have me here, looking forward to it. >> ashley: do you feel the biden

administration has muzzled you and now you are getting a chance since the gop is in charge of the house? >> sheriffs across the country, west upper and southwest border, we have done everything to engage president biden and secretary mayorkas to work with us as community public safety leaders with no results. it is intellectual avoidance, intellectual abandonment with intended conseence requests. this is opportunity to have sheriffs express what is going on in this country. >> ashley: now that we're going to have actual hearings with the house, it is more or less impossible for the president, his administration to media to ignore this. what do you think? >> he's doing a really good job of ignoring it and i am not being ill when i say that, but it is true. mayor adams was addressing this, we are on the front line, he is secondary line and he won't even

meet with mayor adams who is right down the street from him. imagine the border being abandoned, we are dealing with it on the border, it is time to unite and come together and congress does something to fix it. >> ashley: what do you think about the possible articles of impeachment being brought against mayorkas, would you support that? >> i would, we brought him a 16-point action plan to address this. when i asked him where are we with the national action plan, he asked me, what action plan, sheriff. he failed to engage with us, he is secretary of homeland security and he failed to address it. the false narrative he states when it comes to border is effectively secured, it is not effectively secured. we know by fentanyl and elicit drugs, terrorists coming to this

country, we have to secure our border for all americans, not a political agenda. >> ashley: you bring up fentanyl and drugs, it is concerning because of sheer volume of how much is getting over, do you think that is the biggest issue with the open border policy? well, when you look at 300 people per day dying of opioid overdoses, that is sad and we are failing to even address that. arizona leads nation for fentanyl seizures and that is what is getting through that we catch. one million gotaways, since biden has taken office. we have to address this, these are vulnerabilities and negative on this country. if we don't do something now, the return is going to be deadly like it is today. >> ashley: this year in 2023, officers seized 500 pounds of

hard drugs include 40un po -- pounds of fentanyl. is it too far? >> we have to stop it, it will start with president biden and secretary mayorkas and vice president harris, congress and every sheriff and governor to say we want a secure border and have to have consequences when you cross our border illegally. until we do that, they will come, cartels will still exploit the southern border. >> ashley: it is reassuring you think there is light at the end of the tunnel about this, you are the first person that has answered like that, sheriff, thank you for getting up on this busy day for you. >> thank you. >> ashley: have a good day, nikki haley expected to make a major announcement about 2024, how will she shake up the race for the white house? >> todd: we will find out what

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now, what did you think about this when you heard it? >> joe: i wasn't surprised. she ran for president once. successful resume, very successful ambassador to un, she has gravitose. this is uphill climb, she has her former boss, who has a core base that will never leave him, it seems and another governor ron desantis climbing in the polls and getting national recognition seen as formidable opponent and mike pompeo fills that foreign policy lane and foreign of state. can she stand out from all those folks to get to the nomination? there is more than 350 days until the first votes are cast. >> todd: here is what haley thinks, l listen. >> you look at does the current

situation push for new leadership? the second question is, am i that person that could be that new leader? we need to go in a new direction. can i be that leader? i think i can be that leader. >> todd: she said she's never lost a race, does that streak continue? >> joe: interesting, maybe. i'm out of the prediction business. remember before the 2008 election, the front-runners were -- >> todd: jeb? >> no, rudy giuliani and in 2014, it was jeb bush. make any predictions, i don't know. if she falls short here, when looking at vice presidential possibilities, nikki haley would be at the top of the list. >> ashley: i wonder if she will have more advantage because she is a woman and stands out in that aspect. >> joe: that is right, you don't hear of any other women saying

they are going to run, except maybe kristi noem. >> todd: cnn announced overtime, can you say his name? shank, culture warrior while msnbc -- can you say this name, too? >> i don't care to. >> todd: mehti hassan. bill maher is a conservative as much as i am playing for the knicks. >> joe: tough loss for the knicks. i was silly enough to stay up -- you are the center. bill maher is seen as too far right because he doesn't tow the party line like the folks you mentioned. he is unpredictable. ever seen howard stern's "private parts," one scene the

program played by giomati, he hates stern. a, maetting guy comes in and says average stern listener listens for an hour and a half to see what he is going to say next. what about the people that hate stern? they listen 3-1/2 hours, i want to hear what he has to say next. bill maher makes him unpredictable and you want to hear what he says next. >> ashley: good forhim, i have to get to this, favorite topic with you joe, senator bernie sanders has upcoming speaking event for "it's okay to be angry about capitalism"and tickets cost $95. this reminds me of aoc, trying

to sell shirts and talking about capitalism. actor here is the shirt. >> joe: good job. bernie sanders is multi millionaire and charging nearly $100 per ticket to come see him to sell a book that will go for nearly $30 and doing so on evil ticketmaster. he is embracing capitalism in all forms, but this is the same bernie sanders who used to fly private to campaign events. the same bernie sanders who owns multiple homes. i believe capitalism has been good to bernie, especially for the gloves he wore at inauguration. >> todd: does anyone on the left care about the hypocrisy they pedal? >> joe: if judging by their action, never ever, with covid and not masking, that is biggest example for rules for thee, not for me, that is democrats. >> ashley: my biggest question,

people who support people like bernie and aoc, do they not see it, do they not get it? >> joe: they think bernie and aoc represent a bigger cause and can break the rules. >> ashley: makes sense, clear as mud. >> todd: go get my knicks jersey as center of the knicks. >> joe: exactly, number four. >> todd: number one in your hearts. thank you. >> joe: 6'2"and a center. >> todd: 5'11". >> ashley: armed robbery suspect proving what we know, criminals are taking advantage of the left's weak crime laws. [indiscernible] -- i'll be out. >> ashley: he says i'll be out in 24 hours, we'll tell about his wild crime spree. >> todd: and maxine waters making big money moves from her campaign to her own daughter.

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california congresswoman maxine waters used campaign funds to pay her daughter $192,000 during the 2022 election cycle. >> todd: cheryl casone joins us with more. this is not the first time, is it? >> cheryl: it is not, if you look at the cumulative total it is 1.2 million. it is not illegal what they are doing, it is other campaigns giving money to the maxine waters campaign to be added to her mailers, it comes down to endorsement. it is not a common thing we see, but it happens in california, the $192,000 was during the 2002 and the 1.2 million is coming from her mother's campaign since 2004. >> ashley: i want to get to this, students attending a public university in new york now have to take a new racial

equity class to graduate? >> cheryl: yes, look at this, according to state university of new york document. new class focuses on individual and group identity involving race, class and gender, power, privilege, oppression, social justice action. the college chancellor defends the course. fostering dialogue and debate, provide world-class education they deserve. critics say maybe go back to reading, writing, math, basic skills, maybe trade work in there so kids can get jobs. not sure how this helps in the workforce. >> todd: everybody i know, including myself, you learn nothing in college you can use in the real world. everything i learned, i kind of learned practicing law and doing this be jo. in the job itself. good luck if you're a concertative in the suny system. there are a lot of pockets in

upstate new yorks where they have sunys. >> cheryl: they are getting pushback online and parents, something to consider here. >> todd: meantime, this is a shocking, but not completely unsurprising statement from a criminal literally moments after he was arrested. >> cheryl: it makes me so mad, this story, i'm not surprised, but it makes me angry. two guys go on a crime spree and get caught, they robbed a food truck downtown and multiple places and the suspect, listen to what he says when he's on camera. this is fun, y'all will enjoy this one. >> 24 hours, i'll be out on bail. >> i'll be out in 24 hours, criminals in new york city know that they are not going to face consequences. in my neighborhood, i won't say

which one, we had the same group of three criminals came back three times in one day. they got arrested, got out, got arrested and came back to our neighborhood recommitting offenses. i have to laugh at this point. >> ashley: they are so brazen. i don't laugh about it, it is a serious problem. it will be sooner than 24 hours, it takes eight hours to know if the paperwork and they'll be out two and three times committing the same crimes. last year some stat said there was same -- not exactly the numbers, same like 150 criminals committing the crimes. >> cheryl: you get what you vote for new yorkers. >> todd: these criminals know what the laws are and know they can take advantage of them. broadening this out, look at the migrants, they know they are going to get acute rimeats.

>> cheryl: we got to say, there is a big push in new york city to clean up crime, this goes back to albany and until state lawmakers do something, i throw up my hands every time we do a story. until something changes in albany and governor hochul. >> todd: you threw y'all, that shows you are serious. >> cheryl: in texas, we don't mess around. >> ashley: san francisco pizza shop fires employees for telling police officers they were not welcome. >> cheryl: the union tweeted about it, people on twitter are angry. an employee at pizza squared told several officers they were not welcome in the restaurant. you pointed this out earlier, ashley, this was a trainee, third day on the job. they have been fired and the pizza shop apologized, but this disrespect for law enforcement is unfortunate. they are hard working. in san francisco, they can't

even afford to live in san francisco, going to a pizza shop, that is what they got, they can't go out to something else because they are serving the public and not making -- they don't make a lot of money. >> todd: can't go to the french laundry like the governor. >> cheryl: changing topics, american dream home is tonight. we're going to georgia and we're going to go to north carolina, we have mountains, farm country, families looking for life not in the big city, put it that way. american dream home. >> ashley: the dream, the dream. >> todd: you better tune in tonight. cheryl, thank you. you have seen president biden touting electric vehicles now he says climate change is a bigger threat to humanity than nuclear war. >> ashley: congressman michael waltz gives the white house a much-needed dose of reality

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>> ashley: the world is still feeling the effects of president biden's botched withdrawal from afghanistan. new report reveals that u.s. weapons are now turning up in the hands of pakistan-linked terrorist groups. quote, authorities and indian controlled cashmere tell nbc news that militants trying to region pakistan carries m 4s and 16s and arms and munition that has rarely been seen in 30 year conflict. a flood of u.s. funded weapons that fell into the hands of the taliban when the u.s. led nato forces withdrew from afghanistan in 2021. >> florida congressman michael walton is demanding answers on why that equipment was left in afghanistan. he joins us now. congressman, everyone but the biden administration saw this coming. why were they so blind to

reality? >> well, you know, i think the biden administration and biden himself was so determined, even when he came into office to get us out without any conditions with no common sense really think that my teenage daughter could have planned a better withdrawal than what we saw. but what we haven't had is any accountability. we haven't had anyone fired. no one has resigned. no one has left their position over the worst withdrawal since saigon and i would argue even worse than saigon because this problem will follow us home. but, before it gets to america, it's going to spread across india, and right now as we speak, those weapons just aren't going to terrorist groups in india. they are going to al-qaeda. they are going to isis. and according to the u.n., tens of how far to sands of foreign fighters are flowing to now what was usama bin laden's dream,

which is islamic extremist caliphate from which to spread terror all over the world. >> ashley: well, the department of defense says the united states left an estimated $7.1 billion worth of weapons and military equipment in afghanistan during biden's botched withdrawal and now that we see these reports coming out, how bad does this look to really the world and even a bigger issue our adversaries? >> well, i'm utterly convinced from what i have been briefed and the reporting i have seen that putin felt like he had the green light to go into ukraine after the afghanistan withdraw, on top of the nonresponse from the obama-biden administration in ukraine in 2014. those two things combined led him to believe he could get away with it. and china is actively using the botched afghanistan withdrawal in its propaganda to taiwan. look at what america does with its allies. look how it will just walk away

from you. you better side with us and not them. so, we have seen that in reporting. we have seen that in their propaganda channels. don't ask me. just look at the propaganda coming out of our adversaries. >> todd: another thing we predicted on this air you and your fellow republican colleagues say this would happen and it's happening. president biden now says that climate change is a bigger threat to humanity than nuclear war. here is what he told supporters in new york city yesterday, quote: if we don't say under 1.5-degree celsius, it's the sing guest most existential threat to humanity we have ever faced including nuclear weapons. we have a real big problem. congressman, how worried should every american be that the president of the united states doesn't unequivocally see nuclear weapons as the existential problem. >> this is scary. this is petrifying. as we speak, putin has been actively considering using a

tactical nuclear weapon in ukraine. that's bad enough. but china and the chinese communist party are tripling the size of their nuclear arsenal. they are developing hypersonic nuclear capable missiles that we can't defend against. and we have the commander-in-chief saying climate is more dangerous than nuclear weapons. the thing that's so scary chinese listen to this. they hear it. and they know this administration and biden will make concession after concession to the chinese in order to achieve their climate goals while china has the most rapid military buildup in modern american history and the irony on top of it is that the chinese are then dominating the global battery market so they're making money off of it in addition to us being distracted while they triple their nuclear arsenal. my question for president biden is if xi of china realizes his dream of becoming the dominant

global super power, do you think he's going to care about climate? absolutely not. >> ashley: aright. almost makes you wonder the climate activist pushing it or if he actually truly believes what he is saying. congressman michael waltz, thank you for getting up with us. have a good day. >> thank you. >> ashley: and with that, fox and friends starts right now. have a good day. ♪ >> house lawmakers holding a highly anticipated hearing on the border crisis. >> meanwhile, dozens of migrants are refusing to relocate from a high end manhattan hotel. president biden is being slammed for ignoring it. >> the failure starts with his border and ends in brooklyn. >> today tyre nichols will be laid to rest in memphis. vice president kamala harris and the family of george floyd are all expected attend. >> the death at the hands of memphis police officers led to a new push for police reform. >> we need to go in a new direction. >> former south carolina governor and trump adviser to the u.n. nikki haley will jump