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and he's going to drop by before he goes to work. right? >> yep. >> steve: all right. did you get a free breakfast yet? >> yeah, i got one to go. >> steve: good boy. round of applause for my nephew. go to work. very good. [applause] >> steve: all right. we're here in kansas city for the big game is in nine days. and, do you know what? brian and ainsley, i know you are going to be a little jealous, right over here is a fellow by the name of ken cramer. ken used to be with the kansas city chiefs. he is a sports agent now. everybody calls him fuzz i have no idea why. >> it's a long story, steve. >> steve, on behalf of the bright futures fund here is a helmet for the super bowl for our running back pacheco signed it for you. >> steve: very, very nice. thank you very much, kansas city.

[cheers and applause] everybody brought me something. [cheers and applause] >> steve: more of that in a little bit. ainsley and brian, we have breaking news. >> brian: yeah, we do. that is great stuff, steve. we will check back in with you shortly. >> ainsley: put that in your office, steve. now to a fox news alert. u.s. officials are telling fox that the gang of 8 has been briefed on the chinese surveillance balloon hovering near critical u.s. military sites. >> brian: how is this still in the sky? so what's being done about it? get right to mark meredith live at the white house with more. mark? >> brian, ainsley and steve. good morning to all three of you. u.s. officials say for the last few days they have been monitoring this high altitude surveillance balloon as it has been floating over the continental united states. while officials stress they do not believe that this balloon poses any physical threat, there are still a lot of concerns about where this balloon has been coming from, several u.s. officials stressing that they believe this did come from china. it's sparking major concerns

about how the u.s. plans to respond. we did hear from pentagon officials late yesterday. >> the u.s. government to include norad continues to track and monitor it closely. the balloon is currently traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground. >> balloon has been floating over sparsely populated areas of montana. we have been told that have been discussions both here at the white house and across the river at the pentagon about potentially shooting it down. military experts reportedly warning against the idea over concerns about falling debris. reporters were in the oval office yesterday trying to ask the president all about this. but he chose not to talk publicly. take a listen. >> folks, we're going to get to work, thank you for coming in. [shouting questions] >> thank you, thank you, press. ♪

>> those reporters tried very hard to get their questions in. while the president chose not to talk publicly, we are hearing from the governor of montana who says from the spy balloon to the chinese communist party spying on americans through tiktok to ccp linked companies buying american farmland i'm deeply troubled by the constant stream of alarming developments for our national security. we are also hearing from the canadians overnight. their defense department putting out a statement saying they are watching the possibility of a second incident that they have also been monitoring but not a lot of details about what that potential second incident would be. also this morning we are hearing from a spokesperson from the chinese foreign ministry. china not claiming that they own this balloon yet. instead, that they are calling for qu calm. the quote they have flow intention of violating the territory and airspace of any sovereign country. they are aware of this report. they are looking into it. calling for calm but still not claiming that this balloon is theirs. although u.s. officials say with high confidence they believe it is. steve, ainsley, and brian, back

to you guys. >> brian: do you know what i'm going to do. i have a balloon and fly it over china. let's see if they are that cautious about taking it down. remind me after the show. would you do that, ainsley? >> i also want to mention there is high stakes to this because the secretary of state is expecting to be heading over to china in a matter of days. they said we're not sure if the chinese were saying that they weren't sure if this was going to impact the trip at all. you have to wonder what this could mean for the secretary as he heads overseas. >> brian: mark, thanks so much. i know tom cotton said it's over, it's done. we're not going to do it. let's talk about this. 300 miles up into the sky. they say well, it's really not that big a deal because they have satellites that actually are more precise and more intrusive and they are allowed and permitted right over this area. but this is a balloon that went through the islands around alaska. the northern part of canada. goes into montana. f-22s ryan up about it. the president says blow it up.

at the last minute the pentagon says oh, let's not do it. believe me, montana is sparsely located. you could eviscerate this thing and nothing onto the ground i am sure. this is at thi at timidity at . all encompassing let's test the super power game plan. >> ainsley: if you want to shoot it down make sure the people below, i'm sure there are experts that track where it will fall. >> brian: hand out helmets. >> ainsley: get the people out of their houses or could they send some sort of fighter jets around it, cast a net over it and drag it down? and how did this get in the air there? did they -- is that why they are buying property in america? they want to use the farmland so they can launch balloons like this as surveillance and to spy on americans? there has got to be a way to get it down. they are saying that tensions are -- tensions between the u.s. and china are really tense right now, not only because we are sending our leaders to china but

also the defense secretary lloyd austin is -- he is heading right now to the philippines so tensions are ramping up. they are worried about the philippines being so close to taiwan and what that means for their country in the future. lloyd austin, the joint chiefs of staff chairman mark milley and general glen van hurt, they quickly convened to talk about this to look at options to how to get this balloon down. they said it is over the sparsely populated area it like brian said. they couldn't risk shooting it down. they are worried about the part on the before the the balloon and all that of that equipment and where it might fall, steve. >> steve: you know, it's really interesting it's other one of the least populated areas

usually burn up on reentry. isn't it curious that china has parked it over montana. i wonder whether or not perhaps they are simply trying to provoke us. look, that thing is hard to miss. you can see it from the ground. i think they are trying to provoke the united states to get us to do something. the big question is will we take the bait? i just asked the folks here in kansas city a moment ago what you would do. 90% of the people said "shoot it down." now, michael waltz from florida says the pentagon said no, not a good idea. here he is earlier. >> it was suggested to shoot it down and the pentagon has decided that what they think this balloon is able to surveil isn't worth the potential civilian casualties from the debris and the collateral damage but, from what i can tell, it's over rural montana or the dakotas, not over downtown l.a. so i want to see that analysis.

this is part of the lack of pushback. the total lack of pushback. >> laura: they own us. congressman,. >> over our planes. now they are overflying our nuclear sites and keep getting away with it because we let them. there is no consequence. >> laura: this is a national embarrassment. >> brian: no question about it. we could be doing anything except for showing the weakness. we're questioning whether a chinese surveillance balloon should be shot down over our country because we're worried about some pieces that might hit the ground and hurt somebody? on a daily basis we know how to handle hurricanes, floods. >> ainsley: this is the united states of america. >> brian: come on, get out of the way. got to be kidding. no one buys it. >> steve: the problem is if they are simply trying to provoke a response from the united states. let's say we shoot it down. next thing you know what are they going to do? might start shooting elon musk satellites down. they might start shooting

american satellites down. >> ainsley: steve, they are trying to provoke us. they are the ones putting a spy balloon over our country. >> brian: it's not a satellite. >> steve: right, exactly. that's my point. i think they are trying to get a reaction from us. it will be very telling to see how this is all resolved. >> brian: not the first one either. >> steve: they have got a button in china where they could deflate it. let's see if they deflate it. >> brian: i don't know. i have never heard of the deflate button. i know they have had other balloons we have let through. >> ainsley: how would another administration handle this? >> brian: you mean the previous one? goodbye balloon. no question. meanwhile, 10 minutes after the top of the hour. ashley strohmier according to reports is poised to give you was the other news. >> ashley: we are going to start with this. a california doctor was killed while out on a bike ride. after a driver runs him over and then stabs him to death. witnesses say the suspect hit dr. michael mahoney with his lexus before plunging a knife in his back.

the suspect pulled out a gun, firing multiple guns before dislarmd. not found any connection between the two men. that suspect is set to appear in court later today. a disturbing video shows the moment students attacking a 9-year-old girl on a school bus in florida. we do want to warn you this video is graphic. [screaming] [shouting] >> ashley: that is so horrible to watch. that poor little girl. two boys repeatedly struck the girl who is only able to defend herself with one hand. two adults, the driver and aide were on the bus at the time. the girl's mother is pressing charges against the boys and the schools. miami school says the offender has been arrested awful. the january jobs report is due out in just over an hour. as disappointing tech earnings dragged down the stock market.

amazon's earnings signaling cloudy skies, the retail giant is planning to cut cost by closing some amazon fresh supermarkets as well as a number of amazon go convenience stores. those are your headlines, back to you. >> brian: thanks some. let's turn to the hunter biden laptop story. >> ainsley: well, his lawyer is denying that they admitted that hunter's laptop is real after asking the doj to probe its leakers. hills attorney writing, quote: these letters do not confirm mac isaac's or others' versions of a so-called laptop. they address their conduct of disseminating what they allege to be mr. biden's personal data wherever they claim to have gotten it. >> brian: joining us now is the man in the eye of the storm. john paul mac isaac himself. the computer repair person who blew the whistle on hunter's laptop along with his attorney brian who joins us right now, too. first off, john paul, what's your reaction to them not only saying the laptop is real but

then walking it back in the afternoon while still trying to tell you they are going to sue you for letting out this laptop. do you believe he admitted that the laptop is his? >> well, i think that what it teams like is feels like hunter's legal team needed to run something by the white house before they sent that out to the press. and now they are forced to back pedal peddle pedal it. this whole thing wreaks of retaliation but going off half-cocked. >> ainsley: brian kilmeade interviewed someone earlier and he said that john paul, he can take ownership of this laptop and he is able to disseminate information after a certain period of time. after hunter doesn't pick tum. did hunter sign some sort of a waiver saying i will pick it up by this date if not it belongs to you? legally, is he allowed to release the information on that laptop? >> well, first of all, hunter

did sign a consent to have john paul access the computer. he also on that work order, it also said if he did not pick up the computer within 90 days, after completion, it become abandoned property and become property of john paul. i do want to correct though. john paul didn't disseminate any information. he gave it to the fbi. when the fbi didn't seem to do anything, he then took it to the president's attorney. most people, especially people who are not attorneys trust that an attorney will handle the property as he expects them to. and it was for president trump's protection. john paul throughout was information on there and we all know there is that could have helped during his impeachment proceedings. >> brian: john paul, one thing they allege in the letter on the laptop they now say they are not even sure if it's hunter biden's

which is a joke. they said folder were added later dates into the laptop that showed more incriminating information. do you think anything -- do you know what they are talking ab about? >> for quite some time i have actually been very public in announcing that there has been several attempts by several individuals to modify, to insert fake data to muddy the waters or to discredit the overall contents of the laptop by inserting fake data into the laptop. i'm not surprised that after two years of "the washington post" examination of the drive after it's passed through countless numbers of hands is going to record some things. that's why i made a copy of the drive before i gave it to the fbi because i didn't trust the fbi. i held on to another copy of the drive because i just didn't know what was going to happen to that drive once it got out into the wild. >> brian: wait a second. you are saying you admit the dry you handed over to the fbi has been inflated with additional folders and you don't know how

that was done? >> no, no, no. the drive i handed to the fbi is the exact copy of what i recovered from hunter biden -- well, the fbi has hunter biden's laptop, a, b, they have hunter biden's backup drive. the copy that i held on to was a copy of that. the only time i have noticed any data or any efforts to insert data into the drive was after the fbi took possession of the laptop. so, and then after i gave the drive to rudy giuliani's lawyer bob costello. so, any effort to say that i manipulated or modified that data is a complete lie and the fbi can back me up on this because they are sitting on the original. >> ainsley: okay. well, brian, if you read the "new york post" it's the front cover this morning refuse to admit the information on the laptop belongs to hunter his attorneys now. it says one of his lawyers' letters seems to say that it was his. is that accurate? >> oh, absolutely.

there is no doubt hunter knows it's his laptop. hunter showed up at john paul's shop not just once, but multiple times. first time to drop off the laptop ands second time to drop off the external hard drive to which john paul transferred the information. i think the question that people need to ask hunter, which had never been -- which has never been asked is where were you at that time? , john paul knows where he was because john paul met with him multiple times. but no one has held his feet to the fire on that question. >> brian: right. are you going to counter sue? >> we are considering our options right now. we have got a lawsuit pending right now. but we are considering other options, too. >> ainsley: all right. >> brian: he was that brazen. he wrote a book and did a book tour and wouldn't answer the question is that your laptop? john paul mac isaac thanks so much. >> thanks, guys. >> thank you. >> brian: trying to beat up on the little guy.

meanwhile a fox news alert the white house is monitoring and so are we a chinese spy balloon looming over montana. general jack keane is next on the china threat. >> ainsley: later, we go back out to kansas where steve is interesting breakfast with friends all morning. you do not want to miss it. ♪ love is listing me higher and higher higher ♪ i said your love ♪ my most important kitchen tool? my brain. so i choose neuriva plus. unlike some others, neuriva plus is a multitasker supporting 6 key indicators of brain health. to help keep me sharp. neuriva: think bigger. postmenopausal women with hr+ her2- metastatic breast cancer are living longer with kisqali. so, long live family time. long live dreams. and long live you.

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located near several u.s. military bases nuclear sites. we're told the gang of eight briefed officials stressed it does not pose an active threat at this time. how brazen and how provocative. here to react retired four star general fox news senior strategic analyst jack keane. general, the pentagon told the president we recommend you don't shoot it down. why? >> well, i guess what they're saying is the risk profile of hurting somebody is too high. we haven't seen that. we don't know what that data is. but, what we do know is they have done this before. i think this is the first time we have shared that with the american people. and likely because people have been spotting it, commercial pilots, et cetera. but, if this is something that has been repeated, i don't know why we would let it get past the allusion islands, which is alaska and just shoot it down right there shoot it down at sea. we have plenty of opportunity to

do that a spy -- spy balloon going to depart at some time we don't want this to happen again, shoot it down on the way home over mountains we already know it's spying, to me it's about deterrence and you reduce used the right word, brian, it's brazen. the reality is china is reminding us that they really have an adversary. remember, this is just a very visible sign of the most comprehensive penetration of american society in our history. frankly, it's quite overwhelming to every aspect of our lives here. not just technology transfer but our education system, our very way of life.

democratic values, it is quite extraordinary. and i think the fbi is overwhelmed by it to be frank about it. >> brian: give them some help. there is boarding schools and private schools they are buying up. they are putting hundreds of millions of dollars into our colleges. we know they are buying land, outside military bases in north dakota and around the country. we have got to sober up. >> american people will understand the threat. meanwhile, let's talk about something that's real, active and hot. that's ukrainian war with the russians. they are planning a massive offensive. called up 300,000 people. president volodymyr zelenskyy sat down with trey yingst. here's a little of that interview. >> if ukraine, if ukrainian war and i believe that's a global wall of democracy. we are this living wall. that's what i would like to underline, if we will fall this will be the start of the third world war or the recognition of the fact that nato member nations are standing by

themselves on our own. >> brian: is he right? >> yeah. pretty much right. the fact is all of us who looked at this, the europeans and certainly our government, our intel, analysts like myself, absolutely realize if russia is able to take ukraine, they don't stop there. moldova aligned country, nate stow is likely next and then encroach on nato countries, particularly the baltics or romania, bulgaria. why do we know that? because putin has already told us that. we dismissed him as being a declining power and we under estimated his determination and his intent here and obviously we're not able to deter him. but president zelenskyy is absolutely right. we have got to stop russia now and he needs all the advanced weapons that we can provide him as soon as possible with a sense of urgency.

>> brian: evidently, vladimir putin told his military i want the donbas by march, so let's get the superior fighters, the weapons they need to win and then they will break them. general jack keane, thanks so much. >> yeah. and thanks, brian. have a great weekend to you and the team. >> brian: absolutely. meanwhile, coming up on one nation, 8:00, repeated at 11:00 right here on saturday night. amongst our great guests mike pompeo talking about the chinese balloon. microroe on the need to get back to work. bill melugin and his take on what the democrats were saying about the beat that he has been what the reality is and michael loftus. is there room for a conservative snl? we will go out and watch his stage show. we will be watching that tonight and bringing you that story. meanwhile, coming up on this show. a dea official is claiming that cartels are the greatest drug threat to the united states. former u.s. marshal robert almonte warns the danger doesn't start there and joins us next. a little bit later we go back

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♪ ♪ with the notion ♪ to love you devotion >> brian: all right. we have chosen our shot of the morning. and here it is. "fox & friends" family can officially make it official. just got a little bit bigger. we are going to be responsible for raising carley's child. we are thrilled to announce that carley shimkus is a new mom to a healthy baby boy. >> ainsley: his name is so sweet brock edward. he was born on monday weighing . and carley says he is, quote: pure sweetness. look how perfect he is. >> brian: 19 inches long. >> ainsley: is he beautiful. >> steve: both mother and baby are happy and healthy and doing great. congratulations to carley and her husband pete. and, ladies and gentlemen of kansas city, how about brock's first standing ovation? carley had a baby. [cheers and applause]

>> ainsley: carley, we are so excited for you and so are our viewers. we are so glad he was born. we have been praying for your baby for a long time. welcome to this world sweet brock. you are a patriot and part of the fox family. >> brian: a lot of pressure on brock. i sense with a name like brock, steve, is he going to be a quarterback. >> ainsley: right. >> steve: he absolutely could be. or starring in a rom com. if carley is interested. i heard from chad who owns this place if she comes over this morning she will get a free breakfast. >> ainsley: she said he is on my chest right now and i have never experienced this kind of love. it's so sweet. >> brian: she will be back on monday. we will see. >> ainsley: she will not. she has to recover. >> brian: oh, steve we will check with you shortly. ashley, you have the news. >> ashley: i do. now to your headlines guys, starting with this. investigation underway in portland, owing after a memorial dedicated to fallen police officers is vandalized. one local police officer calling

it senseless, destructive and intentional. quote this memorial honors heroes, people who had the courage to give their lives while serving the city of portland. no amount of destruction can erase their legacy no. arrests have been made in connection with the vandalism. a new study finds arizona was the most popular state to move to in 2022. according to the moving company allied van lines, south carolina, north carolina, and tennessee followed pretty closely behind. but the report also finds total moves dropped by 20% between 2021 and 2022. illinois, california, new jersey, michigan and pennsylvania saw the most outbound moves last year. and cheerleaders at st. john's university are refusing to perform after the school did not recognize him on national girls and women in sports day. they wore custom t-shirts protesting calling out the school for not including cheer and dance as official sports on its website. the university has apologized, calling it an inadvertent admission and working with the

squad on a way forward. those are your headlines. we are going to send it out to janice dean who has our weather for us. >> janice: it's so cold here in the northeast. it's going to get colder. take a look at the maps across the northern plains. we have temperatures dipping into the minus 30-degree range when you talk about wind chills. these are current temperatures. actually, minus 35 in parts of the northern plains. i believe that's international falls and you can sees a that spreads across the great lakes and into the northeast where it feels like 14, which is what it was in punxsutawney, pennsylvania yesterday, the actual air temperature. here is your forecast today. that ice storm that brought incredible damage across the south and power outages we still have over 200,000 without power in texas. that has weakened. so that's the good news. and in terms of big storm systems, we don't have any. but we do have very cold. the coldest air in years for parts of new england so wind chill alerts is going to be really dangerous to be outside for a are great length of time. here is what we are talking

about for forecast highs today. 31 and then look what happens as we get into saturday. 9 in new york. negative 6 in boston. and, again, with wind chills of upwards minus 40 degrees for parts of maine. warm it up with another look of this awesome car. busch light clash coliseum happening on sunday on fox. and, of course, the daytona 500 begins on sunday february the 19th. we are going to be celebrating with "fox & friends" there in florida. the clash at the coliseum takes place in los angeles. and this is a great kickoff to the daytona 500 season. i mean, we are all excited about that. brian kilmeade, are you going to be going to that as well? i know you are going to the super bowl and all sorts of fun -- oh, it's not brian, it's just ainsley. hi, ainsley. ainsley, we should go. are you ready? >> ainsley: it would be fun. i have never been and something i want to do. it's on my bucket list. >> janice: i think producers are listening right now. >> ainsley: okay. let's go.

>> janice: let's do it. >> ainsley: testifying in front of a house panel on wednesday. >> the sinaloa and jalisco cartels pose the greatest criminal drug threat the united states has ever faced. these ruthless, violent, criminal organizations have associates, facilitators and brokers in all 50 states. the cartels are destroying families and communities with callus indifference and greed. >> ainsley: here to react is former el paso u.s. marshal retired deputy chief of the el paso police department who worked narcotics for 1 years robert almonte. good morning to you, robert. >> good morning. >> ainsley: good morning. you have seen this firsthand. why is this the biggest threat when it comes to cartels? >> well, first of all, i'm glad to see this issue involving fentanyl and the cartels finally come to the forefront. this has been a crisis for some time and i'm so glad to see it finally come out in front.

it is a very alarming situation. both of those cartels, they're the two most powerful cartels in the world. and they're all over the world. and not only are they dangerous in all the drugs they are distributing throughout the united states, especially the fentanyl that's resulting in killing tens of thousands of americans and destroying family, they are involved in violence here in the united states and a lot of people don't realize that. the sinaloa cartel a few years ago was involved in beheading a 13-year-old little girl in huntsville, alabama area. the new generation cartel was involved in a full blown shootout involving ak-47s at a trailer court in north carolina. these mexican cartels, these two cartels are simply too comfortable here in the united states. and i saw an example of that where you have got the sinaloa cartel actually spray painted on the back window of their pickup truck sinaloa cartel number 1. that if that isn't too

comfortable i don't know what is. i'm really happy to see this at the forefront now and finally we can really go after these two cartels and they need to be not only dismantled they need to be destroyed. not only here in the united states but in mexico. >> ainsley: all right, robert, last year in 2022, there were 73,102 people who died in america from synthetic opioid overdoses. primarily fentanyl. i know that these d.e.a. agents are saying they have foot soldiers, the cartels in all 50 states. do they recruit americans? >> yes, absolutely. they have a lot of americans working for them directly by distributing, selling those drugs here on the streets in the united states. and they are also recruiting a lot of the street gangs here in the united states. so, yeah, there is no doubt the cartels are involved in recruiting americans. >> ainsley: more than 73,000 died because of this last year in america. that's more than what would fill

most college football stadiums so picture that. that's how many people we're losing every year. robert, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> ainsley: you're welcome. still ahead, we go back to the big biscuit in kansas where steve is having breakfast with friends this morning talking more football. steve, what's you signing there? >> >> steve: i'm signing a cookbook which is kind of weird because -- sheila, thank you very much. >> thank you, steve. >> steve: because right now i'm working the hostess stand, party of 2. all right. can you put them at table 9? more from the big biscuit in about two minutes, folks, there ♪ ♪

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hovering over the u.s. in montana belongs to the chinese communist party. okay. the gang of eight is now briefed on the matter. the pentagon says not an active threat. >> ainsley: the surveillance balloon was seen over several air force bases including one in billings, montana. president biden is weighing his options now. but officials fear that shooting it down could result in injuries for civilians down on the ground. chinese officials not yet claiming ownership of this spy balloon. in other news, we are in kansas this morning having breakfast with friends at the big biscuit, all the food is big. you showed us the pancakes earlier, steve. what else is on the menu? >> well, just a lot of tastiness. we're going to show you how to make something else a little later on. what do you think we should do about that spy balloon? >> well, if you can't safely capture it, you have got to take it down and get it out of our skies. >> steve: you would know because you went to the university of kansas. unlike this is janice rupp, she

went to kansas state. janice, stand up for a second. >> i might be taller than him. >> steve: she went to high school with me. we were just talking in clay center, kansas. next year is going to be our 50th high school reunion. well it's going to be yours. it's going to be my 37th. >> steve: thank you very much for coming. >> good to see you, steve. >> steve: as soon as i saw her, i remembered your name the whole name. of course the name before she got married. >> of course. >> steve: of course. so many people showed up and thank you very much for bringing the cookbook. >> you're welcome. >> steve: here to the big biscuit today. can i poll the audience? hello, hello, hello. who here today is for the chiefs? [cheers] okay. that was easy part. now, who here today -- nobody is going to say anything.

who here today is for the eagles? >> yeah, baby. [laughter] >> steve: oh, man, what's your name? >> bruce. >> steve: bruce, really? you are in enemy territory today. >> yeah. [laughter] >> steve: why are you an eagles fan? >> actually, i have two favorite teams the green bay packers and whoever is playing the chiefs. that's why i have a whole closet full of nfl hats. [boos] >> steve: i think i need to alert chad who runs the place, he is going to need a food tester. [laughter] >> steve: all right. we're going to be here at the big biscuit all morning long and we have got a special -- oh, actually, let me go ahead and just tease it for a second. you know, kansas city won the lamar hunt trophy just this last week. and, ladies and gentlemen, lamar hunt jr.'s in the house. [applause]

[cheers] >> they're going to know what to do. how about them chiefs! >> steve: were you at the very first super bowl? >> yes, i was. >> steve: how did that work out? >> it wasn't sold out. >> steve: it's just amazing. we have got people watching from all around the world who want to know about the chiefs if that guy who throws the ball is healthy and a lot of other questions. can you stick around? >> i will, absolutely. we're here. >> steve: i see you brought your wife as well. >> good morning. >> steve: anyway, thank you all for getting up so early here in kansas city. it's great to be here. give yourselves a round of applause. [cheers and applause] >> steve: more from the big biscuit. >> brian: something about the hunt family helped save the mls. >> ainsley: that's lamar hunt jr. his dad bought the team all those years ago? >> brian: yeah. his dad was a founding member of the afl and did the merger. got to the first super bowl and

lost to the packers would eventually go and beat the vikings for first championship. can you believe the first super bowl not sold out? >> ainsley: you and i were like, what? >> brian: nobody cared then. they do now. a troubling sign from congress. a house vote denouncing the horrors of socialism snubbed by 86 democrats. florida lieutenant governor gin net new nez knows the horrors of socialism. fled cuba because castro is a socialist and communist. she'll react. ♪

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>> ainsley: house resolution condemning the horrors of socialism completely splitting democrats in the state of florida, 86 voting against it. >> this resolution is a distraction from extremists and nothing more than a thinly veiled scare tactic directed to voters. >> this resolution today in fact does nothing except spread lies and fear about a threat that doesn't even exist. >> brian: really? joining us now with reaction is florida lieutenant governor jeanette nunez, your reaction to 86 defectors who i guess are pro-socialist.

>> well, they are. and they have shown exactly what they stand for. when you have 86 democrats vote against this resolution. the only thing extreme about this is their position and the fact that they clearly are in favor of socialism. they have been chipping away at the tenets of this beautiful country, this amazing and special place. and so here in the free state of florida, governor desantis and i aren't going to stand for it. >> ainsley: your family escaped the evils of communism. tell us your story. >> yeah. my parents left in 1961 when they saw what was happening in communist cuba, what they saw what castro stood for that you couldn't worship your creator, that you didn't have the freedom to express yourself. my dad came first. he left behind his wife and a young daughter. then they shortly thereafter were able to unite and so it was something very, very personal for me. and here in the free state of florida we see the importance of freedom. i think there's no other safety

in the union that understands it. that's why governor desantis has always stood along the side of freedom. that's why we made sure that we have victims of communism day in which students can learn the horrors of communism. over 100 million people have died at the hands of brutal dictators and regimes across the globe. so, here in florida, we're not going to stand for it. we are always going to make sure to stand on the side of freedom. >> brian: we know the governor said hey, listen, florida is going to be anti-woke. and he took on african-american studies program in college. and he changed the curriculum. they have decided to remove the black lives matter study, the crt emphasis and black queer studies and actually have some african-american conservatives school of thought like shelby steele, what's your reaction people want to confuse and malign what the governor is doing, of course we want students to learn african-american history. in fact, it is a requirement

under florida law to study african-american history. and that comes with studying it factually and accurately. not embedding this woke agenda, this radical ideology, like you said queer studies, intersection nantle, crt, none of this stuff has any education value. we want our students here in florida, which is the number one state for educational freedom. we have been fighting for parental rights. it was really reprotectioning to see that the college board would see re-evaluate their curriculum to provide students with an actual, valuable course. >> ainsley: for the high school a.p. exam to get credit for college. thank you so much lieutenant governor. >> thank you. >> brian: go get them. meanwhile, coming up we are counting down until super bowl 57 right here on fox. >> the daughter of chief's owner clark hunt will be live. i lowered my a1c, cv risk, and lost some weight.

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