>> 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: police are still on

the hunt for the killer after the councilwoman was found gunned down in her car. eunice dwumfour was remembered as the first african american to hold office in her burrough. >> eunice dwumfour saw our community and saw her residents. we can all learn from her, her love of family and 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 running, the figure is seen running shortly after a 911 call was made after residents reported hearing six to nine gunshots and heard the sounds of eunice

dwumfour's white vehicle slamming into other vehicles. a video camera caught eunice dwumfour speaking to the suspect shortly before her death. there is possible video from dash cams or businesses in the area that may have had cameras. eunice dwumfour leaves behind a 12-year-old daughter and was recently married. the fbi has joined in the hunt. >> todd: horrible tragedy, thank you. called in bomb threat halting murder trial of alex murdaugh. the courtroom forced to evacuate just as a witness was being called to the stand. >> we have to evacuate the building at this time, we'll recess until we discover that is going on. >> todd: they continued with the tr

trial. the data appearings to suggest alex visited his mother 20 minutes before he alleged he found his slain wife and son. >> ashley: paying respects to fallen officer adeed fayaz. officer fayaz died tuesday after three days of fighting for his life. he leaves behind a wife and three children. police say the officer was gunned down by suspect randy jones when he responded to a facebook ad to buy a car. >> todd: arizona rancher george allen kelly charged in the shooting death of a citizen

mexican citizen. it is going to take a long time to review. police were called to kelly's ranch on reports of shots fired and found a deceased man. his friends say he's had trouble with migrants illegally using his property to cross the border in the past. kelly due back in court on february 22nd. "fox and friends first"ed, house and senate lawmakers receiving briefing on the chinese spy flight that traveled across the country unobstructed before being shot down and we're learning how vast that chinese spy operation is. >> ashley: and i.r.s. could be coming for y, we'll tell you abt

that next.

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>> todd: back with a fox news alert. lawmakers set to receive briefing on china spy flight today, 10 days after it entered

and controlled our country from coast to coast. we are learning this was just a blip on the map, revealing it is part of chinese vast global surveillance program. president biden defending his actions. >> i told the military to shoot it down when safe to do it. they said it was unsafe to do it over land and they could learn a lot watching it go across the country. as soon as they had a chance to shoot it down, they did. we will learn from what they garnered and what kind. equipment they had. >> todd: lawmakers want to know when it was detected over the pacific on january 21, and why were no fighter aircraft launched from alaska. >> ashley: newly formed subcommittee on weaponization of government will hold first hearing later today with republicans ready to argue the

doj and fbi have become politically motivated. chairman jim jordan declaring we have a government that i believe is targeting the people it is supposed to serve. >> todd: former fbi agent tom baker will testify later today and joins us now. how weaponized have the fbi and doj become against the very people that they are supposed to pro protect? >> this is a concern of ours, a concern of many of us who serve in the fbi. i hope that congressman jordan's hearings and other hearings will get the fbi back on track. >> ashley: what will you say when you testify? >> well, i'm going to explain what i think is the origin of so much of the problem. we keep hearing the bad apples are out and it goes back to comey, strzok and mccabe, they were shown the door. it is not a matter of bad

apples, it is the issue of change in culture from a swear to tell the truth law enforcement agency to more of domestic intelligence agency, which potentially poses danger to all citizens on right and left. >> todd: how deep do you fear this weaponization has spread? >> well, it is becoming part of the culture, that is the danger and the culture has to change and that is what i and others keep telling the current fbi hierarchy. >> ashley: you said there needs to be an independent bureau, tell us what the bureau needs to focus on and how can americans trust anything, be new independent bureau or the fbi. >> well, ashley, you just touched on the big problem. americans have lost faith in the fbi, an organization they used

to hold in the highest regard because it adhered to the guidelines ever the constitution and operated like a law enforcement agency. beginning under the reign of bob mueller, it was changed into an intelligence-driven organization and that is where it got off the tracks. >> todd: the left always champions themselves or did as the party of "civil liberty," mr. baker, what happened? >> well, civil liberty should be a concern for people on the right and the left and the tools being misused threaten people on the right and the left. it is current effort to change things and current efforts of congressman jordan committee viewed as coming from the right. the left is threatened just as much potentially. >> ashley: i'm sure yourself being a former fbi agent, it is

disheartening to go through this. what are your thoughts this is even happening right now and did you ever think this would happen? >> no, and it is a danger and challenge for a nation, but personally, someone in my pog, we find it heartbreaking. i look forwards to the day the fbi can get back on track as law enforcement organization where people raise their hand and swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. now it is like an intelligence agency where the truth is shaded and we have to change that culture. that can mainly come from the fbi, but congress has a role to play in shining a light on this. >> todd: you do believe the doj and fbi can be reformed, correct, thomas? >> i'm always an optimist. it can be and needs to be reformed, it will be hard, the effort and worth it and nobel.

>> ashley: good to hear, we have doom and gloom, good to hear you think there is hope still. check out thomas 'book, "the fall of the fbi," available now. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> todd: california facing 22 billion dollar budget deficit, but lawmakers are pushing a bill to cover college tuition for students in mexico. one mayor thinks this is a terrible idea, he'll tell us where he thinks the tax dollars should be spent. >> ashley: and bill gates forcing to work as activist after being called out for flying high in his private jet. wait until you hear the billionaire's excuse.

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>> ashley: weather alert, up to 26 million are atific are as storms strike the south with a tornado touching down in louisiana. the storm flipping two trailers and blowing glass off windows in new orleans. three injured, including two children. >> todd: arkansas getting slammed with heavy flooding making it impossible to drive on some highways. take a look, looks like a lake in the middle, that is not something to drive in. janice dean has the fox weather forecast. january was tough, february hasn't been a cake walk. >> janice: we're getting spring-like storms in middle of winter. severe weather and snow and strong winds. front moving across the tennessee and ohio river valley

and very strong winds. midwest snow, upward of five to eight inches and then you have wind in excess of 60 miles per hour over the ohio valley and strong storm for the ohio valley and gulf coast. this is your threat today, included toledo, ohio toward indianapolis, south bend, indiana and florida panhandle and alabama and georgia. strong storms meaning we could see hail, damaging wind and tornados. heavy rainfall through sunday and pockets of heavier amounts. look at spring-time temperatures, 68 in new orleans. 51 today in new york. today, friday and saturday, above average temperatures for millions across the country. here is temperature we'll see or feel today, 70 in pittsburgh feels like mid-april, late-april

temperatures. see if i can get to new york. orlando, 85. 84 in charleston. spring-time air and cold not fro, you'll have rough weather today. foxweather.com, for details and i'll be here, too, all week. >> todd: tip your waitress, biden will go after those tips, we reported earlier. >> ashley: newly proposed bill would cut tuition costs for people who live in mexico. the bill if put into law will cover student who has residents within 45 miles of the california-mexico border. this comes as california faces 22.5 billion budget deficit and huge enrollment drops at community colleges. guest who is mayor in california

joins us now. put this in laymans terms so we can understand. >> well, the idea is to give people the opportunity to be in-state tuition in the community college system, even if they live in mexico and sometimes even if they are not american citizens. >> ashley: do you think there are concerning parts more concerning than others? >> well, i live in a border town, i'm mayor of a border town. 27% of people who live in my town are hispanic and they are asking me to make sure we have low crime, good parks and safe streets. they don't want me to give in-state tuition to people who live in other countries, people want us to take care of their kids and their community. >> ashley: where could money be

going toward, somewhere it would benefit better? >> certainly. revamp of the college system is in order. we have a decrease, it is part of the market that says community college is not working for people, they are looking for education help them get jobs like hvac and electrical jobs. we are back in the old system of making sure union are taken care of and we are taking california state taxpayer money and propping up the community college system and making sure unions are taken care of to take care of democratic politicians and goes back and forth. >> ashley: student debt leads the nation, you talk about revamping the system. what would you do to change it? >> we need to make the system more user friendly, to get jobs that will pay them enough to

have a living wage. california is incredibly expensive to live, a lot has to do with the government, unrealistic regulation and taxes. if we ask people to live and work in the state of california and bring income to the state of california, we have to prepare them for jobs and give them enough money to live here. >> ashley: this bill just proposed, do you think it will pass? >> it is california, i would think every kind of -- will pass. we have seen that in the past. another thing that bothers me, nibbling the edges of the concept borderses don't matter, open the border and let everybody do what they want. where does it end? do we give unemployment benefits to people that are not citizens? do we give a free attorney to somebody or give healthcare to

people who are not citizens? this is a slippery slope that takes us in a bad direction. >> ashley: we'll see what happens with this bill. have a good day. republicans have a fair share of name calling, deploration and now this. >> you know, i told people i have phd in white trash ologyshg. >> todd: we have the tape and reaction you do not want to miss. welcome to the next level. this is the lexus nx with intuitive tech... (beeps) car: watch for traffic ...and our most advanced safety system ever. ♪ ♪

>> todd: democrat strategist james carville facing backlack for name calling. >> i have phd in white trash ology and you saw white trash on display. -- she dresses like white trash, she needs a fashion consult ants, i remember george santos. >> todd: james, you are wearing rugby from 1994, you are not the

fashion consultant. he's talking about -- screamed "liar" after house speak are kevin mccarthy clarified this was not on the gop agenda. ashley strohmier, no republican wants to cut social security or medi medicare. >> ashley: i have to say with the carville analogy, so classy. kidding. i'm joking when i say that. i don't know why he had to go there. i'm not saying republicans should have done what they did and i'm not saying nancy pelosi should have ripped up that paper at trump's state of the union. you can't have democrats and republicans do the same thing and call them white trash.

>> todd: biden was spewing lies from the podium, republicans are getting sick and tired of this and called them out. trump, they were not lied in his state of the union that peel ripped to smitherines. >> ashley: they wanted everybody to be calm. >> todd: civility. >> ashley: i wish everybody could act like adults. >> todd: don't you feel civility from carville and democrats? >> ashley: the biden administration is proposing crackdown on service industry workers that can closely monitor cash they take home in tips, people. the i.r.s. mandates workers report tips daily, new proposal make them report to the i.r.s. directly.

the program would be voluntary for businesses to enroll in, claudia tenney says it would be used with ultterior motives. it is clear the hands of big government are reaching further into the tip jar of hard-working americans by attacking waiters and waitresses already working paycheck to paycheck. president biden's inflation reduction act gave i.r.s. 80 billion to hire 87,000 new agents. so much for going after the little guy. we all said this is going to happen, had so many people come on saying there are ulterior motives, of course they are going after people who are working paycheck to paycheck and probably working two and three jobs to make ends meet. the biden administration don't care if you are republican or democrat, they will go after

everybody and suck you dry of every penny they can. >> todd: i don't know a lot of denny's waitresses that qualify as rich. you heard charles payne talk about that yesterday. who do they go after? go after the waitress trying to scrape by and support a family and biden has to find a role for the i.r.s. agents. instead of going after tax cheats and joe biden who avoided medicare accident taxes for years are going after waitresses. >> ashley: i worked a job, i was a waitress at a pizza parlor and one time i got a $100 tip, would i have to report that if the business enrolled in that program? >> todd: the employer would demand accounting from you if

enrolled in this program. >> ashley: wow, that is not fair. >> todd: this is the way -- >> ashley: even for young people? >> todd: of course, doesn't matter the age. there is a reason wait staff don't get paid the standard minimum wage, they make it up in tips, not anymore. president biden facing harsh criticism during his state of the union address. >> ashley: he went off script and admitted our country need oil and gas. >> president biden: they are afraid we will shut down oil refineries, why invest in them. i said we will need oil for another decade -- [laughter] -- and beyond that. >> ashley: biden made that, raas oil workers across the country wait on the unemployment line. the founder of oil and gas association joined us and here is had reaction.

>> joe biden lies a lot, even a broken clock is right twice a day. every oil and gas worker knows this administration wants to kill our jobs. when joe biden talks about people don't want to invest, it is under this administration. there is possible crude oil export ban. >> ashley: 70% of energy produced and consumed in america come from oil, gas and coal. i loved him as a guest, very cut and dry and to the point. he made something very clear. i asked him if he came off skr script and he said the white house didn't want that to be said. is there possibility he would open alaska and gulf and keystone pipeline. he said, maybe, it would be six months to a year. >> todd: we was wearing a hard hat. from that part of the environment to this, microsoft

ceo bill gates says it is not hypocritical he travel by private jet while calling himself a climate activist because he funnels money to a swiss company that woshs to remove co2 emission from the air and he is comfortable with the idea, not only am i not part of the problem by paying for offset and for the millions my group is spending, i'm part of the solution. private jets cause 5 to 14 times more pollution per passenger than commercial planes. the elites are never part of the problem, they can do whatever they want. he overtly states he bought his way out of feeling bad about emissions from his private jet. he says he needs to travel, got to travel to work on climate initiatives, but don't zoom

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>> ashley: the virginia state senate rejecting one of virginia governor glenn youngkin nominee to state board of education one week after she defended constitution and spoke out against socialism at the board meeting. that ousted member joined us last hour. >> i feel political indoctrination has no place in our classrooms and it is mind-boggling to me how anybody growing up in this country wouldn't learn about it. i believe our children should be taught about the founding fathers, founding documents. >> ashley: democrats control the state senate adding last-minute

amendment to remove her, claiming she was not qualified to sit on the board of education. >> todd: she is imminently qualified and brings fascinating experience, not the least of which, she is an immigrant to our country. virginia is becoming more diversified by the day. that state wants to silence her because she wants to tout virtues of the constitution, our founding document and the declaration of independence. sarah huckabee sanders nailed it on tuesday saying this is battle between normal and crazy and this exemplifies it. >> ashley: you would think the constitution wouldn't be controversial. she is right, absolutely right. it is sad to see what is happening to her and doesn't make sense. >> todd: she is a parent

fighting for her kids that is your number one job as a parent. you need to raise them to be good citizens, but it is your job to protect them, grow them and make sure they have a good path in the world. which you have a school board and a school system, school infrastructure that is trying to subjeigate your child and rights as a partner, you should speak up, should be able to speak up and not be shunned like this woman by the state board of education. >> ashley: here is glenn youngkin speaking, listen to this. >> what is stunning to me, they will support a board member who believes that we shouldn't teach our children tconstitution and declaration of independence. this is at the heart of the parent movement. >> todd: think about that, again, normal versus crazy, that is a campaign slogan.

i keep beating this dead horse, but this is the world we live in now. the woman who said she was uncomfortable talking about the virtues of the constitution and declaration of independence was tim kane's wife, who was close to becoming the vice president of the united states. his wife, not a fan of the constitution or declaration of independence, those annoying documents. mask mandates returning to california schools despite a study saying healthcare trials did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with use of medical or surgery masks. >> ashley: the superintendent of the school had this response. we're just following the guidance from public health, as we see fit. what did they mean?

there are studies that shows no difference between someone who wears a mask and someone who doesn't. >> todd: this is not just any study, a doctor was on talking about how key and how basically without reproach this study is. listen. >> it completely refutes everything we were told and we are currently being told. i think the government, if they admit we are wrong, they will lose credibility employees the gold standard of medical review, they look at 78 different studies and merge them together and assess data of all studies taken together, that is powerful analysis. >> ashley: i love him, he is articulate and makes everything make sense. he is so smart and educated. when you talk about this county,

one county with this school trying to implement the mask mandate. 53is cas were reported. i just i'm not quite sure where they're getting that they need to put kids in masks, there has to be a underlying reason they are doing this and i can't put my finger on it. >> todd: what happened to follow the science? this study is the gold standard, why don't you follow it. you mentioned public health administrator, why do they think they know better than scientists who conducted this study and they review 78 to 78 studies to come up with final research. the answer to your question of why, why, why. far left states like california cannot give up the control covid

pan dem i think gave to them. they had power. we gave them this power, but they are not giving it up and want to hold on to it and perpetuity and we are seeing this. >> ashley: it is sad, sad for kids too. >> todd: biden family business back in the highlight into big tech censorship. a former editor of the "new york post" joins us next. >> ashley: brian kilmeade will look at what is coming up on "fox and friends." >> brian: this is straight ahead, senator marco rubio will be giving preview of what he expects to hear on the briefing on the chinese spy fly and pat fallon will break down the hunter biden laptop story and cam ron anderson will join us and i head to arizona for the

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by doctors and patients. call now to get started. (bright music) ♪ >> todd: fox news alert. exclusively hunter biden proposed hiring a full-time employee in 2015 to ho would have a separate back entrance at beijing if firm. hunter laid out a proposal for a new employee who would, quote: monitor all deals and keep the beijing team informed as to fundraising. the office space is directly connected to the rosemont seneca offices with a separate entrance. but it will be rebranded as a u.s. office. less than five months later, hunter received an email for a

hong kong-based candidate jamie foo. unclear whether foo ever used to new office space. >> former twitter executives in hot seats in the biden family and the spotlight as the house hearing on big tech censorship. the house oversight committee former executive on hunter biden's scandal cover-up. >> brooke singman. >> facing tough questions 2020 hunter biden atlanta story. the officer admitting the platform did not consider the impact of that censorship. >> people could and did talk about the contents on twitter or anyone else. still over the course of that day it became clear that twitter had not fully impact on twitter or anywhere else. >> democrat congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez still dismissing the story as

half-fake. calling the hearing a waste of time. listen. >> a whole hearing about a 24-hour hiccup in a right wing political operation. we could be talking about abortion rights, civil rights, voting rights. instead, we are talking about hunter biden's half-fake laptop story. >> fbi when it was censoring that story and other content and the consequences could be severe. >> i think you guys wanted to be taken down. i think you meet with these guys every week. they send you all kinds of emails and documents get information on that. i think you guys wanted to take it down. i think you guys got played by the fbi. >> fbi used its relationship with twitter to suppress criminal evidence. that's the bad news. it's going to get worse. because this is the investigation for it. later comes the arrest part. >> the fbi responding saying it, quote: rejects the characterization of inappropriate relationships with twitter or any other social

media company. the fbi does not instruct or direct any social media company to censor an account or remove information from their platform. and as republicans say investigating punter's questionable past and potential ties to the white house a priority, president biden says the public doesn't care. watch this. >> the public is not going to pay attention to that they want these guys to do something. that's the only thing they can do is make up things about my family. it's not going to go very far. >> judiciary committee chairman jim jordan also sending a letter to the doj yesterday asking for documents and information relating to any efforts by the executive branch to side step the first amendment. guys? >> ashley: all right, brooke singman, thank you. editor for the "new york post" who was at the post had the story about hunter's laptop was censored. like we said you were there. tell us what was happening in your newsroom when this happened.

>> well, of course, i was on the opinion side of things. i was totally shocked, like everyone else that morning. mi thought it was a great scoop. it seems like we had reported it very thoroughly. and then we saw 10:00 in the morning facebook announced it would quote, ungovernment reduce circulation on the story pending fact checking. and twitter all together banned the story not only could you not share it on your public timeline but you couldn't send it in direct messages. and then they suspended the twitter account of "the new york post." america's oldest continuously published daily newspaper funded by alexander hamilton and kept it that way for two weeks. that's why it's extremely, i think, enraging and shameful to hear someone like representative alexandria ocasio-cortez call this a waste of time. you know, at its best, at its best, the old left was about checking concentrations of corporate power. and there's no better example of this kind of market power to

silence journalism than this. so, for someone who aspires to that kind of -- the values of the old left, to then dismiss this oh, this is half-fake: it's principles of her own. i don't know if she has principles. sohrab, aoc's nonsensical lie like we heard there to someone like jamie raskin i got the sense in watching this hearing it's abundantly clear that democrats are not for doing away with censorship. this censorship helps democrats. was that your sense as well? >> well, i mean, of course. and i will have to say, i'm glad that house congressional republicans were on this. and they were on the senate side when it was happening in a very helpful way they intervened and put public pressure that probably resulted in twitter lifting the suspension of "the new york post."

but i have to say, in some ways are, the fbi question, which they honed in on so much could be a red herring. because, even if the fbi weren't there, it would -- it would be no better if you had prioritized censorship it. would make no the situation no better if this wasn't directed by the fbi. and, to be honest, again, as much as i cheer republicans for doing this, the time for hearings is over. the time now is for action. and action on taking away the law that allows social media companies to act like this. and then the fbi are not a fan come into it. 196 law communications decency act which allows companies like facebook and twitter to act like publishers, censor things but without bearing any of the traditional publisher's liability. you take that away from them, and that's over. but, facebook, twitter, others do an enormous amount of lobbying to prevent us from

reforming that. again, it's very shameful that the left who normally is supposed to be concerned with concentrations of corporate power is also indifferent to this. in fact, as you said, they want it. >> ashley: it took years to get to this point with investigations in the hearings. but what opportunity to see come out of this? >> well, i mean we want to see the truth. if there is collusion with the fbi. that's important. we should know that because then it directly implicates first amendment issues. that said, what i really want to see is reform. taking away big tech power to impose on privatized censorship regime on american citizens. the likes of fox news, "new york post," me and you, we can withstand it. we can speak out. what i worry about is ordinary people having that chilling effect where if i say such and such a thing i lose my online identity. i become a nonperson. that is profoundly unamerican. it takes legislative reform. that's what i want to see.

reform of that law as i mentioned. >> todd: at the end of the day, not only benefit republicans but benefit democrats and the country because we are all americans. sohrab ahmari thank you for your time and insight on this important cause. >> >> ashley: thank you. >> todd: "fox & friends" begins right now. >> intelligence revealing it's part of a broader global surveillance program. >> not like this is a one-off campaign with will xi jinping. >> biden doubling down of the state of the union claim. >> bill. >> freeze i meant social security as well. >> that's why bidens polls are so well it was disinformation. >> hunter biden's half-fake laptop story. >> shut have