police says -- was caught on camera speaking to the shooter shortly before her death. the council welcome leaves behind her husband and 12-year-old, it is a heartbreak. that's it, it is america now and forever. greg gutfeld is next. >> todd: a fox news alert, house and senate lawmakers set to receive a classified briefing on china spy flight today, 10 days after it entered the mainland. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier, in for carley shimkus. we are learning this is just a blip on the map and part of china's surveillance program. >> lucas:ace has details, good morning. >> lucas: good morning, these

are classified briefings on capitol hill, top republicans demanding answers from the pentagon and director of national intelligence to fill in the blanks on this timeline. senators want to know when the spycraft was picked up on radar. since the odyssey across the united states, are countries are reporting in india, philippine, taiwan and u.s. territory of guam. the one that crashed off hawaii a month ago, other recent sightings in the u.s., "washington post" says it is part of chinese espionage arsenal. chinese have taken old technology and married it with modern communication and observation capabilities to glean intelligence on other nation's militaries, it is a massive effort. americans want to know why the

spycraft was not shot down sooner, especially if there are explosives onboard. president biden defended his actions. >> president biden: i told the military to shoot it down when safe to do it, they said it was unsafe over land and they could learn a lot watch being it go across the country. as soon as they had a chance to shoot it down, they did. we will determine what they garnered and what kind of equipment they had. >> lucas: other lawmakers want to know when the u.s. military detected the baloon. >> todd: thank you. president biden hitting the road on the heels of his state of the union repeating debunked claims from the night before. watch. >> president biden: many of you have seen we had a spirited debate with my republican

friends. they seemed shocked when i raised some of the members and their caucus to cut social security. a lot of republicans, their dream is to cut social security and medicare. it is your dream, my veto pen will make it a nightmare. >> ashley: scott fitzgerald joins us now. your reaction of what you just heard biden say? >> a big lie told during the state of the union temperature is unbelievable and i think when you heard reaction from myself and my colleagues to that bill tale he is telling, it is not surprising he's back on the campaign trail, which honestly, we were well aware of in our swing state of wisconsin that is what the president was up to. he's back on the campaign trail and the big lie is part of that. >> todd: he's headed to florida, no longer really a swing state, pretty red at this point. a lot of retirees that rely on

social security and medicare, he will be there today, also home of ron desantis and donald trump. is social security and medicare out and out lie attempt to distract from his economic policies that led us to the highest inflationary period in a really long time? >> yeah, he's playing loose with all the data and i think that is what is driving many members of the house and myself crazy, just when you hear them roll out the numbers one after the other, it simply couches everything as the economy is moving in the right direction. in the district of wisconsin, i know my colleagues are back home, that is not the story, not what constituents are telling us. they are telling us it is rough out there and hard to make ends meet. it doesn't match up with what

the president is saying in the state of the union or on the tour now. >> ashley: do you think biden is setting the stage for his 2024 reelection bid? >> yeah, i don think there is any doubts, that is what the state of the union was. he ticked off laundry list of items, promises to specific groups or coaition wells and with no funding or strategy how those would make their way through a responsible budget and to get back on air force one and hit the trail, don't think there is any doubt they are moving toward another candidacy. >> todd: my concern is that the lie issic taking hold in some people's minds. you have james carville, for a few days, was rationale and

sane, but apparently he is back to his nonsense. take a listen. >> the level of white trash-dom, to see how trashy and rude these people are, how ill man erred they are, you don't see this often at this level. >> todd: basically republicans actively calling out blatant lies in a state of the union to the american people is white trash? >> yeah, i don't know where james carville is coming up with this stuff and i don't know if he is relevant anymore. what i will say, there are number of members that have better than out there disputing everything said in the state of the union and honestly, i think it is working. i think our message has been upbeat, sergeant kevin mccarthy has done a good job out of the gate leading the conference in the right direction and going

toe to toe with the white house, which is what many people that elected republicans this last fall were looking for. they want to know the house is going to stand up against this crazy white house and what is going on in the u.s. senate and i think we've proven that so far. >> ashley: it is amazing he said that, if you remember pelosi ripping up trump's speech and everybody cheering. we can't have it both ways. do you think biden made headway with i think 70% of voters who don't want to see him run again. do you think with his speeches he's given this week in wisconsin and with the state of the union, do you think it persuaded them to want to vote for him? >> no, it is so early what we consider a cycle that i don't know that people are specifically tuned in to some of the political messages, but they

are worried about what is going on at home, worried about the kitchen table issues and that is what i think republicans will focus on now and when we come back up for reelection. >> todd: should be noted while president biden was in your state, he had a mistruth, taking credit for private investment in your state. seems like people who put money into private ump cans should be taking credit, that is current state of affairs in the biden world. we appreciate your time, thank you. >> thank you. good to be with you. >> todd: to the crisis at southern border, arizona ranch er, george allen kelly will remain jailed on 1 million bond. he was speesed to have a preliminary hearing yesterday, his attorney requested it be pushed back saying it will take a long time to review. details of the shooting remain

unclear, police were called to the ranch on shots fired and found deceased hispanic male. the ranch sits just 1.5 miles from the southern border. he had trouble with migrants in the past. kelly is due back in court on february 22nd. >> ashley: hundreds of new york city's finest coming together in full force on wednesday to stare down the career criminal accused of shooting officer fayez. the suspect was gunned down by jones when he responded to a facebook market place ad to buy a car. the blue flooded the streets to pay respect to fayez as his body was taken to the funeral home.

he died after fighting for his life, he left behind a wife and three children. he will be laid to rest this afternoon. praying for his family. new jersey councilwoman eunice was remembered last night. >> todd: this was a senseless murder, marianne. >> marianne: just tragic, the councilwoman was remembered at first african american to hold office in her burrough, and rising star in the new jersey republican party. >> eunice saw our community and saw her residents, we can all learn from her. her loyalty to her oath of office, she taught me to have faith in the process. and that is a gift that i don't

think i can ever repay. >> marianne: surveillance footage shows a suspect in the back of the townhouse where she was found shot dead near her home. residentses reported gunshots and moments later heard the white nissan slamming into other vehicles. video caught her talking to the shooter shortly before the death. the killer -- cameras. drumfor leaves behind a 12-year-old daughter and was recently married. the fbi has joined in on the look for her killer. >> todd: bizarre case. thank you, pennsylvania senator john john fetterman was

hospitalized for tests. last year he suffered a near fatal stroke and underwent surgery to implant a pacemaker. he did not suffer another stroke, according to tests. we are wishing him a speedy recovery. 12 after the hour. former twitter executives are in the spotlight. here is how the president responded to the investigation. >> president biden: they want the guys to do something, only thing they can do is make up things about my family, it will not go very far. >> ashley: we'll bring fireworks from the hearing and layout what comes next, don't go anywhere.

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>> ashley: a fox news alert. brand-new house sub-committee on weaponization of federal government will hold first hearing. republican jim jordan is

pinpointing release of twitter files which demonstrate big tech and government to control speech under political bias. the hearing is expected to include testimony from grassley and johnson and jonathan turley and two former fbi agents and matt gates replacing chip roy on the committee. roy saying he needed to devote more time to other committee assignments. >> todd: fox news learning hunter biden proposed hiring a full-time employee in 2017 who would have a separate back entrance at his beijing firm. he laid out the proposal for the employee who would monitor all deals. the office space is connected to

rose rosemont seneca. he received -- jamie fu. former twitter executives on the hot seat. >> ashley: brooke singman has details. >> brooke: former twitter employees facing tough questions yesterday for censure shop of the 2020 hunter biden laptop story. admitting they did not consider the outcome of the censorship. >> over the course of that day, it became clear twitter had not fully appreciated the impact of that policy on free press and others. >> brooke: despite sound verification, alexandria ocasio-cortez says the story is half fake, calling the hearing a waste of time. >> a whole hearing about a

24-hour hiccup in a right-wing political operation, we account be talking about abortion rights, voting rights instead talking about hunter biden half fake laptop story. >> brooke: the consequences could be severe. >> i think you guys wanted to be taken down, you meet with the guys every week and they send e-mails and documents and you get information, you wanted to take it down and got played by the fbi. >> fbi used its relationship with twitter to suppress criminal evident, that is bad news, it will get worse. this is the investigation part, later comes the arrest part. >> brooke: fbi saying it rejektss characterization of inappropriate relationship with twitter or other social media company and the fbi does not instruct or direct social media

company to sensor an account or remove information from their platform. investigators say investigating hunter biden past is a priority, president biden says the public doesn't care. >> president biden: the public will not pay attention to that, they want the guys to do something. only thing they can do is make up things about my family, it will not go far. >> brooke: jim jordan asking for documents and information relating to efforts to side step the first amendment. >> todd: what was shocking was how much democrats like aoc and raskin are advocating for censorship and i think senator josh hawley nailed it. take a listen. >> i thought maybe she was

auditioning to be the next chair of joe biden's disinformation board, that or she's been living in a cave for the last year. nobody says it is disinformation anymore. even the "washington post" and media know it is 100% real. hunter says it is his laptop. aoc and democratic party love big tech censorship and are willing to lie about it and the facts in order to keep the big tech censorship regime in place, that is what today was about. >> todd: josh hawley nailed it, my concern is some people believe the lies from people like aoc, and those people get a vote at election, that is in the back of their mind, this could spread like wildfire. >> brooke: this is mind blowing to me, i've been covering the

investigation since 2019, when investigations were opened into hunter's foreign business dealings. hunter biden business dealings came up during trump's first impeachment. zelenskyy was asked to look into business ties and johnson and grassley were looking into ties to burisma, that firm he sat on the board of, this story has been going on for years and when the laptop came out, the u.s. intelligence community said this is not disinformation, despite biden campaign and democrats all said, this has markings of russian smear campaign. it is really interesting and now of course to see hunter's lawyers requesting investigations into trump dissem nated information from the half fake laptop, they basically

admitted. >> todd: another attempt to stop free speech. >> ashley: hunter basically admitted it was his and his lawyers, but two days after, no, it is not, let's investigate state and federal help to investigate people like rudy giuliani, who were against the bidens. aoc said it was a 24-hour hiccup, this hiccup says cause massive problems for this administration. i have to hit on this, when biden says public doesn't care about this laptop investigation, this is not just about hunter biden. it has to do with a sitting president and shady business dealings, between the whole family is opened up a can of worms that keep coming. how much more can we get from the investigations? >> brooke: right, aoc saying this half-fake story that was

hiccup in the right wing efforts before the election. i can't believe she said this, it wasn't half fake story, this was critical, e-mails from the laptop were critical, drawing critical points from the biden family business dealings before the presidential investigation. and they censored the stories. there were stories flagged on twitter and twitter files came out, one story was in the deliberation back and forth. i mean, it really is just stunning because at the end of the day, democrats can say this was a right-wing pre-election fake story, but hunter has been under federal investigation for business dealings and foreign transaction with money related to china since 2018.

this federal investigation has been going on for four years now, so when democrats say this is fake and republican talking points, it's not, there is an ongoing open four-year investigation into this. >> todd: the "new york post" was at the center of the censorship and "new york post" has unique take on the hearings given nod to twitter with this cover to grill a mockingbird. the folks there really nail it. ashley nailed it, we always have to come back to, hunter biden is who we talk about, but this is a joe biden story, not necessarily a hunter biden story. >> ashley: before i let you finish, i think that is what people need to hammer down on more. if the democrats we don't care about hunter biden laptop, shift the focus to the president. >> brooke: right, it really is, look at e-mails that came from the laptop or former hunter

business associates that in black and white say joe was involved in this. president biden says no, no, no, i never have spoken to my son about his business dealings. new story we broke yesterday on fox news digital about a separate entrance for vhr chinese joint venture hunter was running. hunter was requesting keys for his new office mates and his father, so -- >> todd: the big guy. >> brooke: he never spoke about transactions with his son, that is the president and democrats main response if you ask how the president responds to this. >> todd: see if this segment gets censored.

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exclusive surveillance balloons will be used to monitor at the border. this is due to lack of funding and 12 eyes in the sky at the border are already out of service agreeing to spend 52 million in the 2022 fiscal year before the department cut funding for the program. >> ashley: president biden facing tough criticism after admitting our country still needs gas and oil. >> president biden: big oil just reported record profit and increased domestic production. they said we're afraid you are going to shut down the refineries, so why invest in them? we're going to need oil for at least another decade and that will exceed -- and beyond that, we're going to need it. >> ashley: matt cody is

president and founder of the oil and gas workers association and joins me now. i love your hard hat this morning, matt, let's get this straight. joe biden came off script at the state of the union and said i stopped the keystone xl pipeline within hours of being in office, we still need gas and oil. how does that resonate with all the workers who immediately lost their jobs? understand thises of workers. >> well, first of all, joe biden lies a lot, even a broken clock is right twice a day. joe biden said on the campaign trail, transition away from your old jobs, everything else since then every american gas and oil worker knows this administration wants to kill our jobs. when joe biden talks about how people don't want to invests, it

is under this administration. nobody wants to invest in a losing opportunity and oil and gas companies are scared because this biden administration signalled, we're going to kill your jobs. >> ashley: the oil and gas companies are holding on to whatever they can right now because they are afraid he will shut them off. he said we were going to need oil and gas for 10 more years, i argue it will be more, what do you think? >> it will be much longer, fortunately for us, we have oil and natural gas under our feet in america. we don't have to import from foreign country, we can use american fuel to power the nation. >> ashley: you compare joe biden's admission during the state of the union to his handling of the border crisis, what was that, tell us? >> joe biden started talking about how maybe we have an issue

at the border three years after we had an issue at the border and talking about how we need oil and gas two years after he cancelled the final leg of the keystone xl permit. we cannot afford to wait two years to talk about a problem we know we have. we need to invest in future production right now so americans don't have higher gas prices, higher grocery prices, higher home heating cost. democrats, republicans and independents know. >> ashley: in the gulf, he shut down reserves and pulled the plug on leases. we were oil and gas independent before him, do you think he will open this back up? you heard democrats in the state of the union booing when he said that, he came off script, that is not what the white house wanted him to say.

>> it is always possible, just not likely because joe biden talks out of both sides of his mouth. i was trying to think of a nice way to say that. joe biden has chance to prove his administration cares about every american and wants to lower gas prices and increase production by approving infrastructure project and speeding up federal permitting and getting his boot off the neck of american workers and let us get to work. >> ashley: even if he did all that, how long would it take to become independent again? >> we're talking about months to bring a new well to production and years to get back out of the woods. if we don't start now, we'll not get there any faster, we need to be drilling in the united states right now. other foreign country, china,

russia, saudi arabia, iran, venezuela drilling, why aren't we drilling in the u.s.? this administration says one thing and does another and will leave us depending on foreign oil as much as they can. >> ashley: what happens if biden getses reelected, he is more or less setting up he's going toun are. how bad could this get if he does get reelected? >> we're talking about a grave threat to our national security. this isn't just about the economy and our jobs, this is about national security and leaving us depending on hostile foreign nations. oil and gas workers are working with federal and state legislators to ban china and other entities from taking control. we need to control our natural resources and we're hopeful all

americans will see that biden's policies hurt every american and people in office really put american workers and families office. >> ashley: i agree. matt cody, thank you for getting up with us, love your sweatshirt, it says united we stand. thank you. >> todd: i will start wearing a hard hat. the i.r.s. could start taking from the tip jar. biden administration is proposing crackdown on service industry workers that would closely monitor the cash they take home in tips. i.r.s. mandates workers to report tips to the the i.r.s. it is for the purpose of decreasing taxpayer and i.r.s. administrative burden, nothing

to do with raising funds. claudia tenney says it would be used with ulterrior motives. even by possibly attacking the waiters and waitresses already working paycheck to paycheck. president biden inflation reduction act gave i.r.s. money to hire more agents. charles payne has thoughts listen. >> it is insidious, this notion about taxing the rich, i get sick of it, going after jeff bezos, no, the government they are trying to build. the electric vehicle program, 30 billion to manufacturers, up to 140 billion, where do they get this money from? you go after tips?

>> todd: americans lost 2.1 trillion from 401(k) since president biden took office. >> ashley: i have to make a comments, my dad and brother wear hard hats to work. i've seen them my whole life. walt disney slashing jobs to cut cost. bob iger announced restructuring for 5.5 billion in cost savings. disney shares closed at $111, and bounced up after that announcement. bob iger says it is in response to slowing subscriber growth and increased competition for streaming viewers. the fight for parent's rights taking center stage on capitol hill and here is biggest highlight from congresswoman ilhan omar. >> i am not aware of any

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actor arkansas governor sarah huckabee sanders announcing proposal for universal school choice. families could send their children to any public or private school in 2025. it would allow students to transfer schools and remove

limit on number of charter schools allowed to operate and would ban critical race theory in arkansas. >> todd: the virginia state senate rejecting glenn youngkin's nominee after she defended the constitution and spoke out against socialism. >> you cannot reference declaration of independence and constitution and not comfortable with language of socialism or co communist, incompatible with democracy. >> i think they are remarkable documents. i think socialism is just about as bad as communism. >> todd: that candidate joins me now. what did you do that was so wrong in the minds of the

people? >> good morning, todd. thanks for having me. i'm not sure. i'm just a proud immigrant standing up for a fantastic country, the best country in the world and we recognize how truly great america is and we -- i believe our children should be taught about the founding fathers, founding documents or what would our future look like? i believe strongly our children should be taught about the constitution, declaration of independence. >> todd: why did your takedown of socialism and communism offend them so much? one has to assume they are either communist or socialist to be so offended, right? >> i feel political

indoctrination has no place in the classrooms and it is mind-boggling how anybody growing up in this country wouldn't learn about it and all i can think they truly don't believe america is something to be proud of and talked about. >> todd: you mentioned you are an immigrant, minority, did the party of immigrants and minority, tongue and cheek saying that, did any democrat stand up for you? >> it was incredible, one reads about it, but when mistruths and smears are pedalled on the state senate floor by senators and not a single democratic senator questions it, just ordinary citizen so cheaply smeared, it

makes one wonder and this pattern we parents have been noticing, standing up and advocating for our children. from the republican side we have support over the last few years and i just wonder for a second, was this the country i immigrated to. >> todd: the woman we heard saying she was uncomfortable and the wife of kane, who ran in 2016, is that correct? >> that is correct. >> todd: that is equally as disturbing. trying to rebrand investigations as politically driven. congresswoman ilhan omar brushed off concerns about parental rights in education, watch.

>> i am not aware of any decisions that are being made by lawmakers here in congress, by local lawmakers, saying we do not want parents input, we don't want parent involvement or engagement in our schools. >> todd: it is in writing, she is unaware, correct me if i'm wrong, she was unaware she used jewish tropes, i think she is unaware a lot. >> she is, being a parent in the trenches, i know how difficult it is, how difficult it has been for parents and children last few years. we have been treated like dirt, brushed aside when we try to speak up on behalf of our children to prevefsh merit and excellence in education and

prevent and opt out of divisive indoctrination and yes, it is upon haing. i have seen in my child's school and several instances. parents are branded with the terror tag by the fbi for daring to speak up in local school board meetings, that is amazing, she is unaware. >> todd: is the pushback on behalf of parents actually working? >> it does help. it does intimidate a lot of parents and it does prevent them from going to local school board meetings when they see all of this happening and all of the unimaginable happening just to prevent them from speaking up and voicing freely, it does stop the public conversation. >> todd: they are not the

children of the state, they are children of the inner pa parents and parents need to fight back. mask mandates heading back to one state, despite experts saying they make no difference stopping spread of covid. >> ashley: and bill gates being called out for flying high in his private jet, wait until you hear what his answer is. ♪

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>> todd: new jersey councilwoman eunice dwumfour being remembered after being gunned down last week. the fbi and police have yet to name a suspect. this is "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. remembering the councilwoman as a loving mother committed to serving others. >> what drew her to community engagement in sayreville was wanting to help people. everyone is grieveing and mourning this loss of life, senseless loss of life. >> ashley: marianne has more from the service, good morning. >> marianne: