questionable traffic stop last month that led to the termination of three memphis fire department personnel and a six officer, the white officer seen taseing nichols. two other deputies were suspended five days without pay for violating a number of department procedures. those two deputies who were suspended are not expected to face charges. meantime the shelby county d.a.'s office is beginning to look through cases from the scorpion unit. the officers charged, their credibility is in question, sandra. >> sandra: we'll be watching for that. thank you very much, charles. >> bill: top of the hour now. fox news alert. three big stories top of the news. the biden administration during oaf owe's request for disaster assistance while sending medical experts to the train wreck to address the health concerns of anxious people in the town. house speaker kevin mccarthy leading a republican delegation to the border arguing it is

being controlled by the cartels and smuggling drugs. the family of bruce willis revealing he has been diagnosed with ftd, a form of dementia. his condition has gotten first. but first this. >> president biden: make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the american people i will take it down. >> bill: president biden finally breaking his silence. we've been waiting for ten days on those aerial objects shot down by the military. says the last three do not appear to be connected to beijing or any foreign surveillance campaign. meanwhile a hobby club out of northern illinois fears its silver coated party-style balloon may have been shot down by a side winder missile over canada. the missile costs a lot of money. the balloon not so much.

>> sandra: estimated cost $12 of the balloon. >> bill: the missile upwards of $4 hundred grand. dana has the day off. welcome, i'm bill hemmer. sandra, welcome back to you. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. president biden said three of the objects taken down by the u.s. military were likely tied to private companies or related to recreation or research. now he is directing his team to develop sharper rules for distinguishing objects that present safety risks and require action from those that are harmless. he says the u.s. will continue to engage with china. >> bill: republican presidential candidate nikki haley former governor of south carolina, key state for presidential primaries. i understand you are in new hampshire this morning. welcome to our program. a big week for you and want to get to all this now. first of all, joe biden, the president, called peter alexander of nbc news after the

press conference from yesterday and one of the quotes given and made public. i think the last thing the g wants is to fundamentally rip the relationship with the united states and me. he said that in misstatement on camera. what did you think? was that sufficient and was it worth the wait? >> you know, the idea that we would sit there and look to the sky and have a chinese spy balloon looking back at us is a national embarrassment. the problem is that we have to start treating china like they deserve to be treated and biden is asleep at the wheel. you can't have them buying up farmland that is near our military installations or have them putting money in our universities unless we will pull our money and take chinese money or ours. we can't have them stealing intellectual property. when it comes to the balloon flying over you have to start letting china know what we expect of them not worry about whether they want to keep a relationship or not. that's not what this is about. we have to start treating china

the way they should. republicans and democrats for too long thought if we were nice to china they would want to be like us. they don't. they're communist. we need to act together and make sure they know where they stand not that we have to worry about where we stand with them. >> sandra: great to have you this morning and good to see you. following up on that, were you aware in recent years of -- under the last administration of these balloons? this administration is confirming this is not new for china to have this program. and that they are only developing it to be bigger and bigger. what exactly did we know about this in the past? what have we been doing about it? >> so that goes to the heart of another problem. why did our intelligence agencies know this and why did they not tell the president of the united states? why did they not tell other cabinet directors that could do something about it? that's a problem. we have to go look into our

intelligence communities and let them know they don't get to decide these things. if they have information like this, this is valuable national security information that we need to know. they should have told us that because right now we've allowed chinese spy balloons to go over. when it ended in south carolina wasn't an accident. south carolina is a military state. that balloon went over our military installations and the idea that other balloons did that before means we not only have a china problem, we have a government problem in the fact that norad should have picked up on this balloon but our intelligence community should have told those decision makers exactly what was happening from china so we could have dealt with this earlier. >> bill: another topic here. you got on the news for a different reason. it is a big turn away from beijing and washington, d.c. politics but this was a comment that happened about 24 hours earlier on cnn. this is how it went. >> this whole talk about age

makes me uncomfortable. i think that it's the wrong road to go down. she says people politicians not in their prime. nikki haley isn't in her prime. when a woman is in her prime is 20s, 30s, 40s. that's not according to me. >> prime for what? >> depends, prime if you look -- if you google when is a woman in her prime it will say 20s, 30s, 40s. >> bill: i don't think he was talking about amazon prime. he tweeted later >> sandra: he said the reference i made to a woman's prime this morning was inartful and irrelevant as colleagues and loved ones pointed out and i regret it. a woman's age does not define her personal and professionally. i have countless women in my life who prove that every day. is that enough for you as an apology? >> you know, look, this is something that i have faced all

of my life. it was don lemon yesterday, whoopi goldberg the day before. somebody else tomorrow. i have always made the liberals heads explode. they can't stand the fact that a minority conservative female would not be on the democratic side. they know i pull independents and suburban women and minorities over to what we're trying to do. look, he made that comment. i wasn't sitting there sexist middle age cnn anchors need mental competency tests. he may have just proven that point. we need to be transparent. those elected officials making key decisions for us americans on national security and keeping our kids safe and the debt, yes, we need to know exactly that we're sending people that are mentally competent to do that. look, the liberals will continue to show themselves. they can't stand the fact that i am a republican and i am a

conservative and it rolls off my shoulders. i don't think too much about it. >> bill: the new york calls it lemon squeezed. maybe you feel the same. thank you for your time and well oh he speak down the road. nikki haley. >> go follow us at nicki hali.com. we'll be in manchester. >> sandra: the surgeon general sounding the alarm on social media. the companies that make smartphones also bear responsibility for protecting children online. kelly o'grady from the fox business network is live in los angeles now. what are we learning about this, kelly? >> sandra, that warning is coming amidst a wave of action to curb social media use in america's youth. you have a flurry of lawsuits brought against social platforms and lawmakers are introducing brand-new legislation including banning the use under 16. 16 years old is the limit suggested by the surgeon general

and yesterday he said how important that issue? >> mental health is the most important public health issue of our time. the mental health of young people in particular is at the heart of what we need to focus on. >> you mentioned questions are surfacing about what level of responsibility lies with smartphone providers like apple, google, samsung and what they could be doing to improve parental controls on their devices. it is hard to believe but kids having a phone is common place. the average age a child receives their first phone is just under 12 years old and access to social miffed yeah a few steps away. very little can prevent kids from accessing apps. no standardization for content ratings and kids can easily lie about their age. some providers like apple offer parental controls but it relies on the guardian to police content they may not know exist. teachers tell us tech savvy kids

are learning to hack the controls. parents aren't just fighting the pushback from kids. phone settings are constantly changing. some of that responsibility lies with phone makers. >> there is always this game of whack-a-mole that new features, new releases and new apps, kids flock to them. parents haven't heard of them. i believe the smartphone companies can do better, should do better. >> so some liken it to a carmaker. i might have driving a car but the manufacturer is required to put in seat belts. back to you. >> sandra: thank you. >> bill: north korea threatening retaliation for new military drills involving the u.s. and south korea. does this mean they could resume testing missiles or even nukes? alex hogan live in london running down the story for us today. hello. >> north korea typically argues that these joint military exercises only escalate the

situation. well, the u.s. and south korea say that these are military drills that are defensive in nature. seoul says the drills next month will be bigger than those we've seen in the last several years. less than two hours after those words, north korea issued a response warning of quote unprecedented constant strong responses. so we've heard similar threats from pyongyang and kim jong-un in the past but they could resume weapons testing. it was last year when the north fired off a record number of missile tests, more than 70 including an intercontinental ballistic missile which can be capable of reaching mainland u.s. just last week north korea celebrated its military with a parade putting the country's weapons on display including about a dozen icbms. kim also called for the creation of a larger arsenal and more

icbms this year and demanded the country strengthen its war preparedness. new today south korea announced it would join the u.s. for a one-day tabletop exercise next week at the pentagon in arlington, virginia. this will take place on wednesday as both countries also prepare what they would do for a possible nuclear attack from north korea. >> bill: alex hogan in london on that for us today. >> sandra: kevin mccarthy sounding the alarm on cartels, border crisis and fentanyl epidemic and pledging action. >> bill: calls for mayor pete and the biden administration to help out in ohio. toxic train wreck spewing hazardous material. people demand answers about their town. >> we need help whether it be fema, whatever the case may be. town has a very low median income and we all need help.

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>> sandra: fox news alert this hour. a court hearing took place within the past hour where all five of the former memphis police officers were there. they pleaded not guilty to the second degree murder and other charges against them in the violent arrest and death of tyree nichols. moments ago in the courtroom there. we'll keep our eye on that and they'll be back in court may one. bill. >> bill: we wanted to be sure that the emergency responders had all the resources and focus to do what they've done. yesterday was a great day for me to visit the derailment site. i spent time at a local creek. i spent time in a home, a member's home, and so we've been

there since day one. i want to stress. we've been there since day one. >> bill: epa administrator last hour. took them two weeks to get there. took heat for that as well. defending the white house response for the train crash in ohio. administration turned down a request for federal disaster assistance. the national political reporter for "the washington examiner." her family comes from northeastern ohio. a couple of things. fema is saying this, okay? they are in constant contact with emergency operations center in east palestine and coordinating and helping to test water and air quality and conduct public health assessments. i would say despite that, the reactions we're getting from those who live there on camera every day have been -- they have not stopped. here is a sample of that. watch. >> we need help. we do. we need president biden, we need

fema. >> i'm disgusted the government is not doing more. >> we don't feel like people above our town mayor or even our governor are giving us enough aid. >> bill: what do you think of the response so far and for the people back in that part of ohio? are they getting the help they need? >> you know, east palestine is a very sweet town and hasn't changed much in over 100 years. and the people that live there feel very vulnerable. not only do they believe that they are not getting the help that they need. remember, these are people that have had to stay in hotels, that had to go as far away as pittsburgh 60 miles away. that comes out of their pocketbook. it has disrupted their lives and business there. not only of the small businesses, the little retail shops, struggling to be open,

struggling to get customers. but also the manufacturing that's done there. there is a lot of ceramics done there and a lot of things made in that town. those businesses are closed and that means you are not only not comfortable in being in your own home, you also are unable to make money. and what happens -- bill, we've seen this in disasters for decades. what happens when the cameras go away? what happens when the attention is gone? they fear that east palestine is changed forever. no one will be able to buy a home or sell their home because it will always be that town that was contaminated. and i think they just believe that the problems that they are having right now are just the beginning of the problems going towards the future. >> bill: you wonder when the next story breaks whether the

attention goes away. we'll stay on it and see what they get from washington and from columbus, ohio, the capital city. john fetterman you covered his entire campaign and how our audience remembers you most recently. he had the stroke on the primary night and now clinical depression. a statement from his chief of staff on monday john was evaluated by dr. brian monihan the attending physician of the united states congress. he recommended in-patient care at walter reed and john agreed. he is receiving treatment. his doctor said he was fit for duty and can carry out affairs but this is a turn to the negative for senator fetterman of pennsylvania. >> yeah. absolutely. you know, i think we the end to forget and focus a lot on the stroke because it has the most cognitive examples. he doesn't speak in the way he used to. however, i think it is important

to realize and remember that the stroke was caused by a heart condition. a heart condition that was left unattended for for five years. and so i don't know, i'm not a doctor, however, one of the side effects of heart disease or heart problem is depression. i'm not surprised that this has happened. just in understanding with family members and what happens when you have a heart problem. >> bill: we wish him the best. selena thank you for coming on today. nice to see you again. >> thank you. >> bill: we'll talk soon. thank you. >> sandra: today marks two years since the death of rush limbaugh, the conservative talk radio icon launched his show back in 1988 and became the most listened to radio show in the country. he was a best selling author and

awarded the presidential medal of freedom. he died after a year-long battle with advanced lung cancer at 70 years old. >> bill: remember the landing in iowa for the caucus for the democrats and we got the alert that limbaugh had lung cancer. the first we had all known about that. rush is remembered again today. 24 past the hour now. house republicans getting a firsthand look at the chaos that they have seen on our southern border. >> we wanted to hear directly from people who work and live at the border. we heard from the sheriffs, we heard from law enforcement and border patrol and talked to business owners and ranchers. it is a crisis down there. the border is wide open. >> bill: a lawmaker, on the border with others. a growing number of democrats expressing doubts about the biden/harris ticket in 2024. could a change be in the work? shannon bream is new york and

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democratic leader jeffries in his home district of laredo, texas. it will be a whirlwind visit. first meeting with federal, state and local leaders touring a cbp facility and finishing with a bird's eye view, aerial guide of the region. where close to 17,000 migrant encounters have been logged this fiscal year. the trip comes one day after republican house speaker kevin mccarthy and freshman gop representatives were at the arizona/mexico border. mccarthy dismissing claims that things are secure pointing to the steady flow of people and drugs coming across like this cache ceased this week. like this drug fentanyl. >> tomorrow there will be 300 more. that's equivalent of an airline crashing. if an airline crashed in america every single day, by the third day the entire nation would wake

up and say we need to fix the problem. >> last night in his state of the state address greg abbott declared both fentanyl and securing the border as emergency items for the current legislative session underway meaning extra priority placed on those items to find solutions or enacting different laws to help curb this crisis. never ending. >> bill: thanks live in texas today, casey. >> sandra: supreme court dropping the case on title 42 border heflt restrictions from its scheduled after the biden administration called it mute because the covid emergency will expire in may. the migrant crisis will only get worse is predicted. shannon bream. nice to have you here. what do we need to know about the supreme court dropping this case? >> we get the email yesterday not completely unexpected. no explanation from the court

saying this case is going away. it would be heard march 1st. with the administration saying may 11 the covid emergency ising away that was the justification for using title 42. there has been conflicting stuff from the administration. we know it will create more chaos at the border. i wouldn't be surprised if some of the red states who brought this case will try to find another way to go at title 42. supreme court case going away. >> bill: they dropped that. if it comes back it will only come back if challenged again. the month of may, mid may temperatures get warmer and migrant influx gets higher. that's terrible timing. >> the administration is aware of that, too. this isn't just republicans saying we need title 42. you are hearing it from the border states like texas and arizona where they have a democratic governor we talked to last week. they know title 42 won't have a positive impact for them. >> bill: let's talk politics 2024.

rumors and speculation that some within the democratic party aren't so sure about joe biden and kamala harris in 2024. what are you hearing? >> our polling shows people aren't excited with them running. democrat don't want him to run again. there is a conversation in washington, you know, here is the thing. if we prop up joe biden, he runs for another determine let's get behind him. if not do we open the door to the vice president kamala harris running. they don't think she is a good match-up with president trump. she would lose to him. democrats are rallying to the president let's get him for another term because we don't like the other options on the bench putting them up against the former president. >> sandra: we got a peek at the growing republican field. someone joining you on your program this weekend. >> you just talked with her. nikki haley is very interesting and focusing on her youth. impressive resume. i think she will have to answer

questions about president trump and how she distinguishes herself from the rest of the field. she likes to say i'm kicking not sideways but forward and want to go against the current president. why are you better than ron desantis, donald trump or anyone else? you will have to punch sideways in the primary. >> bill: i'll be watching on sunday. meantime you have a new book out, right? this is the love stories of the bible speak. >> you were asking for this, bill, so we put it together. bill wanted to know more about this. in march. you can pre-order it now. a lot of people did for valentine's day. >> bill: you have the women of the bible speak and mothers and daughters and now letting the guys in now. there are messed up ones like samson and delilah and we touch on friendships and community.

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>> bill: tough news from the family of the action movie star bruce willis. he has ftd dementia. comes a year after his family said he was retiring from acting due to aphasia which causes speech difficulties. his family revealing the condition has progressed and his daughter rumor posted on instagram while it's painful it is a relief to have a clear diagnosis. it is a progressive disease that begins around middle age. signs and symptoms vary but causes extreme changes in personality and behavior. only 50 to 60,000 americans are living with ftd.

there are medications to manage it but no treatments for the disease. to his family and himself best of luck getting through this. >> sandra: it is such a rare form of the disease. they have been dealing with this for quite some time and our best to him and his family. all right. meanwhile china's ministry of foreign affairs taking a jab at the biden administration focusing more on balloons in u.s. airspace than the toxic cloud of burning chemicals over ohio. this coming just hours after president biden finally addressed the multiple objects downed in north american airspace last weekend. down played china's spy balloon program. >> president biden: we don't know exactly what these three objects were. nothing right now suggests they were related to china's spy balloon programs or surveillance vehicles from any other country. intelligence community's current assessment is these three

objects were probably balloons tied to private company, recreation or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research. >> sandra: ro khanna is a democrat and a member of the house committee on china. you called on this president to speak out on this and he finally did. was it enough? >> it was a good start. i think he made it clear that there cannot be any violation of american sovereignty, again if china tries something like that, those balloons would be shot down. i think he explained what the unidentified objects were. the one thing i will say the chinese are the last people given their human rights record to be lecturing america about what we're doing for our own people. i believe the response should be stronger in east palestine but i won't be lectured by the

chinese. >> sandra: nikki haley said this last hour. >> the idea we would sit there and look to the sky and have a chinese spy balloon looking back at us is a national embarrassment. the problem is we have to start treating china like they deserve to be treated and biden is asleep at the wheel. >> sandra: your reaction to that, congressman? >> i don't think it's fair and i don't think it's helpful. i'm leading a bipartisan delegation to taiwan in the very near future and we'll share more details when it is authorized. we've been working to figure out how to get more military assistance to taiwan to deter any invasion. the president, of course, has provided bases in the philippines. i really think we shouldn't politicize this and should have a strategy. that's what mike gallagher the chair of the china committee wants to do. >> sandra: what if we did spend time, money and resources taking down some hobby group balloons over alaska? >> look, i think we had to be

cautious and prudent. if the military thought there was a risk, then it is better we shot them down than let something traverse american airspace and find out it was from a foreign country but we need to have a better system to determine what are objects truly dangerous to american security and what objects are more innocent. >> sandra: shouldn't that plan be in place? the administration confirmed this week that we've known about china's balloon spy program for quite some time and that it is only growing in nature and posing a bigger threat to us. why weren't the protocols in place to begin with? >> look, this has gone on for a number of administration essential, not a biden administration challenge but a challenge for the country. there needs to be stronger protocols. what happened with the chinese balloon can't happen again. i think it was of a different order of magnitude when americans saw the balloon going across the country and a wake-up

call. often we need a wake-up call to take things seriously. we have that now and i hope both parties have a clear protocol and our military will have a clear protocol. >> sandra: quickly, senator kennedy weighing in yesterday. >> the president needs to talk straight up to the american people about what we know, what we don't know. but more importantly, what his plan is to defend our nation's sovereignty from these sophisticated weapons. that's what they are, surveillance weapons. >> sandra: his first point there before he drew that conclusion directly as it pertains to these balloons up in the sky, the president needs to talk straight up to the american people about what we know. you could say that about a range of issues right now including this ohio train derailment disaster that is ongoing for these communities in ohio. why is the president waiting so long to come out and speak on

these issues? >> i do think that's a disaster. these are working class folks, abandoned by the country with nafta, world trade organization and china. now they have poison in their air and water. it hasn't gotten enough media attention. i think we should have administration officials there, department of transportation and others to do town halls to answer questions and need to be more assertive. it is awful what's going on. i don't think we have done enough for people there. >> sandra: ro khanna, always appreciate your time. thank you very much, congressman. >> bill: the white house, the president says the pandemic is over. why are your tax dollars still paying for those empty abandoned hotel? it was a pandemic homeless shelter. you are about to meet a barber like no other. his haircuts are helping a special group of young people every single week. he will join us live as we continue.

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air and drink the water. ohio state senator is in "focus." nikki haley with plenty to say about don lemon's sexist remarks about her. joey jones and faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> sandra: president biden says the pandemic is over. now this hotel in washington state turned into a homeless shelter during that time is totally empty. the taxpayers are still on the hook and paying the bill. ann springer is live in renton, washington. >> every republican opposed the rescue plan saying it was too big and lead to wasteful spending on things nothing to do with covid. this hotel behind me is exhibit a in what they were talking about. king county, washington is leasing the hotel for $330,000 a month. it is completely empty and has been for the last nine months. the owners bought the hotel

through an online auction for $9 million. the county with covid relief money paid them 11.5 million in rent over three years and crime around the property and 911 calls skyrocketed. >> it is a tragedy to see taxpayers have to waste their money on something like this, a failed experiment in seattle. >> right after covid hit the county emptied one of is biggest shelters in downtown seattle but it is a bad fit for rent. crime went up around here. resident set a fire in the room and led to the city council forcing the county to shut it down. >> providing shelter that gets destroyed and costs the taxpayers in king county $330 a month to produce nothing is not the way to solve the problem. >> the county is trying to get out of the lease now after these three years but they're having a problem because the owners want

payment for all the damage done to the hotel which i'm told will run in the millions of dollars. again, taxpayers paying for something that has nothing to do with covid. sandra. >> sandra: dan springer on that for us. thank you. >> bill: hour next guest is a barber from cincinnati who dedicates one day a month giving free cuts to kids with special needs. all these kids they absolutely love him as you will see. >> you're doing an awesome job. i'm so proud of you. >> bill: it's all gone viral and that there is another satisfied customer. cool stuff. here to talk about it is the barber himself vernon jackson. you are near the university of cincinnati. proud graduate of princeton high school class of 2003. you are doing great work. thanks for your time today. tell us about it. where did the idea come from? >> thank you. the idea for it came from the need for a lot of parents

looking for a good barber in a nice environment in the city. and for me i need make time i can dedicate at least 30 minutes to kids to get the comfort they deserved. one day a month on my day off to do it. it just went from there, man. >> sandra: a beautiful story, vernon. thank you for telling it. is the little boy in the video we're seeing is that ellison? >> yes, that's ellison and his mom, julie. >> sandra: they are amazing. first let's hear a little bit from ellison getting his hair cut. >> you're doing an awesome job, man, i'm so proud of you. >> ready to go? here we go. >> there you go, buddy.

>> sandra: it's amazing. it is. his mother is giving you so much credit because she said she always felt such anxiety bringing her child in for haircuts. he didn't want to do it. you figured out a way. start and stop and it became a game, right? >> yes, yes. it was more of -- you have to figure out the right way and you experiment what works best for the child. the game, ellison is amazing client. i talk to each kid as a client rick not a special needs kid. have the parents' support and being there for them and the family as a whole has been a huge gift for me. >> bill: we have a qr code for a viewer for a gofundme page that can go a long way. we are putting that on the screen right now. kids don't want to sit in your chair, do they? that is your big challenge.

>> that's why i greet them with smiles, high fives and hugs. they go a long way. >> bill: great job. keep at it. see you in coreyville, okay? >> okay. >> sandra: thank you, good luck to you. love vernon and ellison. >> bill: here is harris, have a great weekend. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. who knows if we'll ever get straight answers from senator biden about the mystery objects in the skies that the u.s. military sent fighter jets and missiles to take down. patting us on the head apparently is a new federal policy. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." eight days between president biden's brief mention of the china spy flight in the state of the union address last week and