>> todd: a fox news alert, the fbi getting set to analyze remains of the shot-down chinese spy craft that may have contained explosives to destroy itself. you're watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier. look at biden's decision-making, which saw the chinese spy balloon cross the entire united states before being shot down off the coast of north carolina. brooke singman has details. >> brooke: possible debris from t the -- analyze the remains of the flight at an fbi processing lab. senators prepare for a briefing on the chinese flight.

president biden is ready to deal with the fall out. >> president biden: no, we made it clear to china what we're going to do and they understand our position, they will not back off, we did the right thing. this is reality. >> ashley: the airship flew over several military bases, weighed nearly 2000 pounds and was 200 feet high. mike pompeo now criticizing the biden administration for allowing something so dangerous to stay in our skies for a week. >> the chinese may have been able to blow this thing up themselves. imagine if you knew that and the chinese could decide where to drop this thing, they didn't understand risk. >> brooke: the white house is defending their claim previous airships flew over the united states during the trump administration. >> how is it possible this administration discovered three

previous baknow balloons, but trump officials didn't know it was happening? >> we have talked about this before, about how the -- when it -- when the prc government balloons transited the u.s. briefly three times during the president's prior administration, but intelligence community is prepared to give briefings to key officials. >> brooke: gop lawmakers claim detection from the lack of urgency in shooting down the flight. >> todd: you heard joe biden talking about the relationship with china, look how the chinese is talking now? they are flipping this around like we did something wrong by shooting down something that was overour sovereign airspace and talking tough like we will have

a response to this. they should be in no position to talk like this, it is incursion in our country, yet the biden administration weak response embolden the balloon and this response they should never feel embolden to give. >> brooke: you will hear president biden tonight say we will reassert our leadership around the world, he plans to tout the alliances he made and discuss competitionen 22 the u.s. and china. i don't know if he will address the balloon. >> ashley: if he does not, that is going to send shock waves, this is a huge story right now, huge situation that americans need and deserve answers to. when you talk about his state of the union address, we had that -- the "new york post" cover says deflate of the union.

hopefully right out of the gate he talks about it. china doesn't care what biden says or what anybody in america says at this point. my question, we don't even know what that balloon was collecting. >> brooke: we don't and officials says they were not as concerned, they were unclear if this balloon had additional tools the ccp is using. members of the biden administration sounded the alarm that china is the greatest existintiel threat, but others say it is climate change. >> todd: overcomplicate foreign policy, it is pretty simple, there are two paths you cannic ta, the ronald reagan path, peace through strength or the

chamberlain path, appeasement, appeasement did not work out well, and we are appeasing china in every way, shape or form, could be because of biden connection to china or china is connected to corporations. this was a golden opportunity to unite our country against the threat of the ccp. we are playing politics again and that is not right, that is what china wants. >> brooke: it does. you even see the administration saying this doesn't just happen under our watch, this happened under the trump administration, as well. pointing the finger again at the trump administration. former president trump told me he never heard of anything like this. a number of top officials told me they didn't. the white house and

administration officials say this is information discovered after they left. is this new intelligence they found this week? potentially, maybe not. >> ashley: all of america saw it cross from corner to other than coer, that is what is happening right now. >> todd: brooke singman, thank you. schools celebrating black lives matter week and curriculum is actually shocking. >> ashley: what kids will be learning in classrooms across the country coming up next.

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>> todd: schools are offering special courses for black lives matter week, including restorative justice, diversity and trans affirming and international and black families and black women and unapologetically black. stacey washington joins us now. stacey, one topic i want your thoughts on. what does the average black person think about having trans affirmation as part of their story. >> i think black americans feel

as i do, that has nothing to do with black history. black history deserves to be included in curriculum because it is unifying and talks about contributions made during the revolutionary war. i talk in my book, about how we have been here since then, contributed since then. queer theory and other new gender, this is obsession, these things do not do anything to bring us together and don't teach about the history of this country and contributions going forward to make america stronger and better nation. >> todd: what about the topics on this week of learning? restorative justice, globalism, interracial families. does that provide best

representation of black history? >> absolutely not, we're talking about new buzz words, they all indicate ideology that the democrats party is pushing american children into. nothing to do with unifying children or teaching them they are beautifully and wonderfully created in the image of god and they are unique people with a purpose who are going out to do amazing things. these are none of the concepts. we're talking about structural racism and things that divide and hurt children and divide them from their parents. interracial children are taught they need to choose to be black and not other part of ethnicity of their nmother or father. >> todd: the group behind black lives matter raised $103,000 for national week of action, not

enough to buy three mansions in l.a., but proving this is about money. meanwhile, disney getting criticism for reboot of "the proud family," here and here is a clip. >> slaves built this country. >> we have earned rep parations and continue to systemic prejudice racism and white supremacy that america does not atone for. >> todd: that is different from the he-man cart oon, what is your reaction? >> we grew up watching sesame street and he-man, right, todd? we were thinking about having super powers and doing amazing things and these kids are taught look at each other by the color of their skin. this goes against what martin luther king taught us.

no creativity, no fun for the kids. parents, you need to be involved at your child's school, go to school board meetings, talk to teachers, offer up an alternative. did you know the first ever special forces operation was held during the revolutionary war? we can teach kids and bring everyone together and have them cheering about this country and who they are as americans, let's get back to that. >> todd: this is not about diversity, there should be diversity, that is representation of the world. i love that my children's books contain different races, creeds, it is important. that was college level crt course wrapped in animation for five year olds, which makes no

sense. thank you for your time, important insight, we appreciate it. >> ashley: new york city mayor eric adams ending the city's covid-19 mandate for city workers caused employees to lose their jobs. the workers will not automatically get their old jobs back issue the cities they can reapply and be reconsidered for the roles since the mandate went into effect we have spoken with several fire workers who lost everything. >> we are second-class citizens, if we're not making millions of dollars, they don't care about us. >> we went from heroes to zeros. teachers have it so hard, everybody was empathetic and we were congratulated. oh, you don't want to comply? bye. education is not to be discriminated against, there is

discrimination against the city and children. >> ashley: remember people hanging out windows celebrating first responders. uniforms fire is suing for back. it was punishment and they were not given due process. and speaking of new york mayor adams is paying bus fares are for migrants trying to esip cathe city. he had four republicans sending him his way? tomi lahren is here on deck with more. >> todd: arizona man facing first degree murder charges for kill -- citizen trespassing on his left-hand. we have the shocking deil tas next.

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to acknowledge there is a crisis. >> we have a president and administration that will not acknowledge a crisis at the border. it took the president 718 ways to make his way down to the border, when he carved out 146 days fvacation time. >> marianne: and border czar kamala harris responding monday in washington to ask for taxpayer money not to build a wall, but to give away to countries to deter illegal crossings. agents will testify today just before the state of the union address. >> todd: thank you. i am sure this topic will be front and center. officers in arizona seizing fentanyl pills and nine pounds of cocaine in six loads in one

week. smugglers hiding the drugs in panels, gas tanks and bumpers and finding pills taped to legs. fentanyl has been seized since january 1 of this year, not even two months. new york migrants are fed up with crime and drugs in the big apple. welcome to the party. they are catching a free bus ride to the canadian border on your taxpayer dime. remember mayor adams slammed texas for bussing migrants to new york city? >> this is horrific when you think about what the governor of texas is doing, after a month of traveling across the border, place them on the bus with no direction. >> ashley: tomi lahren joins us now, imagine coming from a third world country, getting here and

saying this place sucks, i'm going to canada. >> tomi: it doesn't say a lot about new york city or leadership in new york city, which is mayor eric adams and that state is almost exclusively run by democrats. it goes to show when democrats are in charge, your city goes to u crap, as you said. these are so-called asylum seekers who got into this country saying they claimed asylum and are fleeing extreme danger and oppression. now they say new york is not good enough, the luxury hotels, and now they want to go to canada. this goes against that whole claim that they were seeking asylum. they feel entitled to dictate where they want to go and they

want american taxpayers to foot the bill. we need to get ahold of this, that is largely what is happening here. new york city is feeling the pain, border cities are feeling the pain. shut it you hava, we cannot absorb millions of people and pay for them to go wherever their heart desires. >> todd: asylum laws are specific and by asking to go to canada, they are admitting they do not have the requisite things to hit asylum. i thought buses were bad according to eric adams. and blm leaders are calling out top officials for refusing to defund the police. every year families, community leaders say this must stop and there is different way to do

this and yet there is deep cowardess from officials, failure all the way up to our president. quite a political pickle that joe faces right now, virtue signalling joe. what does biden do now? >> tomi: well, let's talk about patrice colors, she was buying multi million dollar mansions and expanding to backyard projects and pools. talk about blm inc. raising billions off what is supposed to be a great and valient cause. this woman put that defunding the police is her religion in ersocial media profile, let's keep it at that. democrats face a dilemma, it was popular during the summer of 2020 and through the election, they were about bwell, m and defunding the

police. when it was not convene yents, they decided to move away from the notion. they cannot use blm and say they want safe streets, they have to pick one. democrats have been able to play both sides and they are winning on both sides. it is time to hold their feet to the fire and ask them, do you believe that blm is a money-making scheme or in fulliund iffing the police and giving them resources to complete their job effectively. democrats have not been asked that. every time an election comes, they decide if it is convenient to be pro-blm, or pro-police, they never pick one or the other. >> ashley: they need to pick know wo, they play middle of the road and see what sticks. >> todd: it is bad that people

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>> ashley: shocking 58% of democrats want someone other than biden on top of the party ticket in 2024. can the president turn that around in his state of the union address tonight? >> todd: that is the question, former speech writeser for george w. bush joins us now. bill mcgurn. can they turn it around in tonight's state of the union? >> it is a good opportunity. the state of the union is the most watched address by the president. he gets an hour in prime time to go to the american people with his agenda and try to sell it. these are always about the campaign ahead. so his laying out what we will likely see as plan for his reelection and for next two years. >> ashley: 62% of people will be

dissatisfied if biden was reelected. do you think he can get support behind him? do you think he can do it? >> bill: all parties, that just means people prefer someone else issue but a lot of parties, once they settle on nominee, go with them. he's been successful at keeping other people out of the race. the danger for joe biden, if one person announces, say gavin newsom, two or three other will get in. no one wants to be first to challenge a sitting president. i will say this about democrats, until trump and hillary clinton, things were different. until trump, republicans were like the elks, they let the oldest member run, john mccain,

bob dole, it is your turn to run. democrats used to finamination. jimmy carter had to fight off kennedy and bill clinton won after a lot of -- primaries. it still could be a fight. it depends if someone rises to the challenge. the only reason bernie sanders is household name now, he was only one that dare run against hillary. there is an opportunity for someone to do that. >> todd: sell your capitalism books if you are bernie sanders. bill, you are somebody that has written a state of the union, so not that you are in the practice of giving advice to the biden administration, but what are your dos and don'ts? >> the dirty secret, the state

of the union is one of the most unpleasure among speech writers, it is a huge effort, usually taking the whole team and everyone in the government wants to get a line in about the program they are working on. no one takes lines out. they say it will not be a baundry list and every year it is a laundry list. that is the problem. tricks we used to do that people of both parties, you try to present your agenda in way that forces the other side to -- make them look bad if they sit down. i don't know if joe biden will do that. he tends to create strong man and attack people, i'm not sure he will have the same type of

state of the union. our hope was we could word it in way that made it hard for them not to cheer. >> ashley: interesting to see what this speech writer comes up with. >> todd: i don't think mayorkas will try to get a line in his administration's work there, seems like joe biden will avoid the border at all cost. >> ashley: thank you, bill. senior meteorologist janice dean is here with the fox weather forecast. >> janice: the state of the union is warm. all i could come up with. >> todd: great, it was gold. >> janice: here are temperatures, warmer. 31 in new york. 70 in miami. 60 in houston. a cold front will push through the mississippi river valley and bring threat for severe storms in texas and cold air across the

mountains and snow for new mexico, here is the mid-week storm we are watching. front moves across the plain states, on backside light snow, ahead of it, we'll see rain, it is too warm for snow. there is the rain forecast, could get several inches today and tomorrow and then that system will move eastward in the next couple days. tornado threat possible today, could see large hail and gusty winds. it will feel like late march or early april, next couple days 54 degrees in indianapolis, 48 in chicago and 58 in columbus and 53 and 62 in washington, do we like this? do we like this, everybody? >> ashley: i am so excited, if i never saw another snowflake, i would be fine. >> todd: i tried to do backyard

hockey on sunday it and it was like a pool in some areas 24 hours after 0. >> janice: did you get ice time? >> todd: a little bit. i took the guilty one out there and she played with the water, we decided to wrap it up. blue collar lobstermen facing wrath of environmental groups cashing in from dark money groups. >> ashley: one worker joins us next to explain the toll this is taking on his business.

>> todd: ohio governor mike dewine ordering residentses of a small town to evacuate after what officials call catastrophic derailment. planning the release of toxins that are so dangerous it was used as a weapon during world war i. one local described the blast. >> it was pretty intense smell

that hit your eyes first before anything else. being that close, it was potent and strong. i feel like they have the situation under control, i have a feeling those close enough to the zone, it will be decent amount of time letting everything settle. do research and make sure everything is safe for you and everyone involved, as well. >> todd: still unclear when residentses can return home. >> ashley: maine lobstermen and ceo mike yo joins me now. thank you for getting up with us this morning. >> good morning, thank you for having me. >> ashley: no problem. center for biological diversity received $10 million from left wing donors. how do you compete? how do blue-collar lobstermen compete with this?

>> it is hard. it's been rough. we find ourselves in a multi million dollar legal battle. on the east coast, there is a danish company testing right now and whales are dieing and we're be being told by the media they are not hurting the whales. you have 5000 independent business owners fishing in the watering and they are saying we are not harming anything and we find ourselves in a multi million dollar legal battle just to go to work. ic >> ashley: has all this been recently happening? >> seems like there is always a battle in this industry. they have deep pockets and just file another lawsuit to get us out of the water or change how we fish in the state of maine. i'm not a lobsterman, i'm the

ceo of the company. >> ashley: you have a lot of workers that work in that aspect. >> absolutely. to the point we have to start fishing foundation to all of our -- we spent $500,000 plus defending this and 90% of the money came from fishermen. these guys are paying their own legal battle against people with deep pockets. >> ashley: what do they say is the biggest struggle right now? >> like everybody else, fuel prizes rise, cost of fishing is going up and the lobster is a happy food, happy and joyful and this country right now doesn't seem happy and joyful and the price seems to go down. everybody has their own agenda.

we believe there is a lot of push for windmills and that type of industry and that is pushing us out. from a fisherman perspective, if they are not in the water, nobody is there to put up the windmill. >> ashley: do you think your livelihood is being pushed out in part by the biden administration? >> our industry is very overregulated. fishermen regulate themselves and implement gear changes on their own to protect the industry to be told by other organization they are hurting a species in the water that is not here. we don't have whales here, we call it weaponizing of the whales, they are being used against us. if there is climate change on

that side, the whale, that is ush approximating the whale's food out of the water and whales are not here, why are we in court trying to protect something we cannot see. >> ashley: to support local lobstermen, consider donating to the maine fishing foundation. thank you, we appreciate it. president biden will deliver his state of the union address 9 p.m. eastern tonight and arkansas governor sarah huckabee sanders will deliver the republican response. >> todd: her dad, mike huckabee will tell us what to expect and we'll call him dad, he has no other political qualifications for this segment. i have moderate to severe crohn's disease. now, there's skyrizi. ♪ things are looking up ♪ ♪ i've got symptom relief ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me. ♪ ♪ ♪ control is everything to me. ♪

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♪ >> steve: come up in about 8 and a half minutes we have a big program on "fox & friends." ahead of the state of the union, which is going to kick off 15 hours 8 minutes and 27 seconds

from now. we will have a live voter panel all morning. they are going to -- currently they are in the green room. they are going to weigh in on top issues from china, to crime and of course to the economy. plus, remains from china's spy flight will reportedly be taking to quantico in virginia for testing. senator tim scott and congresswoman elise stefanik will discuss that also, ohio governor mike dewine will join us live. he will give us update on that release of toxic chemicals at that train derailment. plus, so much more. don't touch that remote. "fox & friends" kicks off 8 minutes from now on the channel you trust for your morning news. todd and ashley back to you in another studio far away in this skyscraper. >> ashley: we will see you soon, steve. president biden is gearing up to deliver hits second sturch address just hours from now. is he expected to brag about what the white house calls economic progress. prices rising at the it gas he

pump and grocery store could make it a testify you have touch sell. >> many feel like they're struggling which he will say everything is going well. >> i think that the president is hoping to do two things, probably, when it comes to the economy and the state of the union. the first is to put the progress that we have made economically into -- back into the broader frame that really compelled him to run for president in the first place. >> the white house adds that president biden will show the american people his plan to build on the unprecedented deficit reduction. his leadership has already delivered by having the richest taxpayers and big corporations pay their fair share and lowering prescription drug prices. well, house speaker kevin mccarthy preempted the president's address saying yesterday that america's future depends on less government

spending and that cuts are the way that he will compromise on raising the debt ceiling. >> mr. president, it's time to get to work. surely, we both agree that the national debt is too high. surely, we both agree that inflation hurts american families. surely, we can trim waste and streamline programs to make them both stronger and more efficient. so let's do this. >> this second state of the union address is largely considered the kickoff to a run for a second term potentially and following it, president biden will travel to states likely to be critical for 2024 elections. right now though, the president's approval rating stands at just 45%. that's down 11% from its highest in june of '21. and the long list for guests tonight will include the parents of tyre nichols, a 3-year-old pediatric cancer survivor ava

barren and youtub u2 singer bon. >> former arkansas mike huckabee. all joking aside your daughter sarah huckabee sanders current governor of arkansas, is going to be delivering the rebuttal. what is she going to be saying tonight? , well, i think she is going to help to show the contrast between joe biden's america and america a whole lot of people wish we were living in again which is america where there is economic prosperity for all. jobs are back. people are optimistic and hopeful. it's very effort that joe biden has not created that. he can tell us we are living in a great economy. he has done a great job. but he is like the fireman who is also an arsonist. he lights the fire and then rushes in and says, look, i have put it out. yeah, but, joe, you started it. i think he is going to have a hard time selling it to people who know they are struggle glick. there's an old expression in the

south don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining. it's one of these who you gonna believe? your facts or your lying eyes. joe biden has a hard sale tonight trying to tell the american people everything is coming up roses because it isn't. >> ashley: he sure does. democrats are losing hope in vice president kamala harris with many labeling her a political liability. i want to go to this. it's in part from a "new york times" report. it says the painful reality for ms. harris is that a private conversation over the last few months, dozens of democrats in the white house on capitol hill and around the nation said she had not risen to the challenge of proving herself as a future leader of the party, much less the country. what's your take on this and now not even democrats backing her? >> well, it apparently is not a very private conversation anymore. i think it's pretty evident that democrats are scared to death she might be their best hope and that means there's no hope.

her word salad speeches are embarrassing. she is constantly making gaffes. the one respondentability she was given was to be the border czar. boy, that's worked out just brilliantly. so how does she present herself to say look at my leadership. look how i can inspire people. she confuses people with her speeches, even the people who are around her, and there is such widespread discontent within her staff. she has multiple people leaving. it's a revolving door. if you go it work for her, they don't even put your name on the door plate. they simply put it in chalk because they don't think you will be there very long because you can't stand the toxic environment. it's a tough sell for her. it just is. >> todd: number one thing that would concern me about this report this is coming from allies. this isn't coming from republicans. this is coming from people who want her to succeed. 57% of voters as well disapprove of her job performance compared to just 39% who approve.

so it seems like there is fire to the smoke that is coming here. that said, there are other people who chalk this up to just political posturing. knives out from the other people who want to not only be vice president but who want to be president. what say you? >> well, it would be valid if there was such sense of leadership that she just was overwhelming and people were inspired by her. but i can't think of anybody, democrat or republican who just just:s and awes when she goes. cringe-worthy takes one phrase and repeats it over and over in the same sentence. you are thinking what the heck did she just say? and, honestly, what i don't understand, she is clearly got government funded speech writers. what do they do? how do they hand her this script or does she just throw it away and go with her own feelings, which is disastrous?

>> do you think the reason that her allies or quote unquote allies are come out saying this type of thing think she is just in the way because she is the vice president and she can just slide into that seat. people like pete buttigieg and elizabeth warren and the gavin newsoms of the group. you would think they would just wanted her out of the way. >> well it, could be. pete has got some real issues. the airline industry is in meltdown and all he wants to talk about is diversity. i don't think anybody cares what color the person is sitting in the cockpit or whether they are straight or gay. they just want them to be able to get the plane taken off on time. land on time and get people where they need to go without fearing whether it's going to run into the runway. is he so focused on things that don't matter. that's the trouble with this administration. they need to keep their mind as the old saying goes. make the main thing the main thing. and they haven't done that and it's a disaster for them. >> todd: to your point on the speeches. it's like she has word crutches

and she hasn't i don't know back and e eliminated. for me it's the word obviously. and obviously i don't use the word obviously anymore obviously. enjoy watching tonight. i'm sure you are going to be watching like a dad watching a 5-year-old in a soccer game but much bigger stage than that enjoy it, have fun. governor huckabee thank you for your time. >> ashley: have a good day. "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> hours from now, president biden is set to deliver his state of the union address. the president's approval rating is at 45%. is he expected to brag about economic progress. >> the national debt is too high. it's time to get to work. >> pennsylvania police officer was shot and killed and another injured. >> it responding to a domestic disturbance. shot at both police officers. >> keep the family in your prayers. >> house republicans bringing the border crisis to capitol hill. border patrol agents set to testify. >> a larger sits in jail killing a migrant on his