actually, not too long ago. >> ashley: used to think when you heard from officials like the e.p.a. and doj, and fbi now there is more questions. >> the president should go there. >> todd: one thing can i confirm today is friday, you are joe concha. have a great weekend, sir. the rest of you out there enjoy. >> ashley: "fox & friends" starts right now. >> guilty verdict, signed by the forelady. >> justice was done today it doesn't matter who your family is. it doesn't matter how much money you have or people think you have. it doesn't matter what you think how prominent you are. if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, the justice will be done in south carolina. >> ainsley: disbarred attorney, now convicted killer alex murdaugh awaits his fate.

we are hours away from his sentencing. the hearing will be this morning at 9:30. >> brian: took the jury less than three hours of deliberations to convict murdaugh in the murders of glinchtsd watson is live outside the court house in water borough, north carolina. >> convicted of the murders of his wife maggie and son paul. he was remanded almost immediately after the verdicts were read and led out of the coal tap county courthouse facing 30 years the jury came back with the unanimous verdict of guilty two counts of murder and guilty of two counts of possessing a weapon in possession of a violent crime. this after weeks of testimony including from alec who was

forced to admit that he lied to police about not being at the scene of the murders after his voice was caught on video by his son paul. in court, the disgraced south carolina attorney didn't really show any emotion as the guilty verdicts were read late thursday evening. his surviving son buster sat a few rows behind him with a deflated look on his face. alec's lawyers tried to throw a hail mary request for a mistrial due to lack of evidence. judge newman thought otherwise and denied their motions before he and the south carolina attorney general applauded the jury and the criminal justice system. >> all of the evidence pointed to only one conclusion, that's the conclusion that you all reached. i applaud you all for, as a group and as a unit and individually, evaluating the evidence and coming to a proper

conclusion. >> our criminal justice system worked tonight. it gave a voice to maggie and paul murdaugh who were brutally mowed down and murdered on the night of june 7th, 2021 by someone that they loved and someone that they trusted. >> yeah. a little drama in the courtroom. an alternate juror was swapped in on thursday morning after the judge dismissed a member for allegedly talking to three people about the case. we're told someone reported that alleged misconducted to the court. meantime, we expect to hear from alec's legal team this morning after he is sentenced, guys. >> ainsley: all right. thank you so much, charles. the nail in the coffin really as i was watching this trial and glued to it originally he said "i was not there at the scene." then they unlock paul's phone and it turns out he was snapchating with his friend, who is a neighbor. the neighbor was out of town, let paul keep his dog. so he was snapchating with them

to show the neighbor your dog's fine. i'm with him right now. i'm feeding him at the kennel. the dog is running around and you can hear alec's voice chasing that's a beginy, that's a guinea. 8 friends personal friends who said that is definitely shall. when police arrived the dog was back in the kennel. and if you are -- if you are just a random person and out there on someone's property trespassing and you murder someone up you are not going to worry about the dog put the dog back in the kennel? no. the dog would have probably eaten your leg off. the alec murdaugh was familiar with the dog. the dog knew him well. he puts the dog back in the kennel probably and then says to police he wasn't there. and i only lied because i was paranoid and i was -- didn't like sled. i didn't trust sled who is south carolina law enforcement

division which i think he said that to try to appeal to one of the jurors who might not have liked law enforcement another thing two outfits in one day. dressed one way wearing long pants and a shirt stand buying a tree and later wearing shorts and something else. the question is where's that other outfit and the situation with everything he was able to pull off, how was he able to live his life. shows what a maligned murder is he. handling the kennel and killing two of the people closest to him. we don't know the circumstances but the wife and his son think about the son sitting there testifying on behalf of his dad. his dad goes to jail minimum 30 years. probably going to get life today. and then you lose your brother on top of that. i mean, think about this guy. >> ainsley: say a prayer for buster. the nation needs to pray for him. he lost everybody. griff griff he did. to your point, bill hemmer put it well this is like the first iphone trial because of that

video and snapchat our other colleague judge jeanine pirro has this take. >> judge jeanine: sad part of this classic domestic violence case kills his wife and son thinks everybody is going to buy this, you know, oh poor me, poor me and in the end they saw him for what he was a drug addicted can a neefing, lying now double murderer. >> ainsley: he stole from his paralegal, best friend, stole from everyone in that law practice. they have to pay back the millions and millions of dollars. they had to change the name of the law firm. he stole from his wife and housekeeper who died on his property. he had recently gotten out an insurance policy. he gets the millions of dollars and her sons never see a penny of that until they hired a lawyer. and had though get back involved and start an investigation. he was lying to his wife. there were reports that she hired a divorce attorney. she was about to find out what

he had done and on the very day that his law firm, the cfo confronts him we know what you are doing that's the very day he kills his wife and his child. let's bring in eric bland, he's an attorney. he actually represented the man we are about to talk to the sons of the late housekeeper. he is also the host of cup of justice podcast. good morning to you. >> good morning, ainsley. how are you. good morning brian and griff? >> you must feel justice has been served. >> well, yeah. this case from the start, ainsley, was about power and privilege. and the extension of that power and privilege. and this jury didn't just find him guilty. they found him incredibly guilty. this was a referendum on alex and the lifestyle that he lived for 12 years. not only betraying his family but doing to clients as an attorney it's the ultimate offense when you breach the trust of clients. and this jury kind of focused only on alex.

amp he made that extraordinary decision to testify, the scientific evidence of blood d.n.a. and gsr went out the window, then the technology evidence of the videos, on star as well as the phone mapping went out. the jury did not want to believe him when he said look, i'm a liar, i'm a cheat, and i'm a drug addict and i have lied to everybody but today, when the devil is at the door i'm going to tell you the truth. they weren't going to buy one last con job from him. >> griff: eric, let me ask you because you represented gloria saterfield's family. what implications does this verdict have for that situation? >> well, so far to date we have recovered over 7.5 million from the 4.3 that was stolen. and we have a judgment against alex for over $4 million. $4.3 million that we expect to collect some on. of the implications are last week he testified that he was guilty. that he was responsible and he

stole the money from gloria satterfield wells from the pick anyneys and moores and bangers. those are guilty and he pled not guilty to the charges. i think the state is going to put the foot on his throat and start scheduling these trials immediately. he is going to have no defense because, under oath, in a court of law, it's a judicial admission that's going to be used against him. he waived his fifth amendment privilege. he's going to be convicted now of all these other financial crimes. and i think they will do that because you can't just hedge your bet that the conviction on the murder will stand. he is gonna appeal it. he is going to raise ineffective assistance of counsel. and other direct appeal issues. so, i think the state's going to give him that full cup of justice that every other convicted murderer gets. >> brian: eric, just strategically back to this case because you are going to do well and you should. what about the move putting him

on the stand. obviously it didn't help, he was convicted in hours. but would you have backed that if he was your client? >> brian, look, it's hard for us as lawyers to second guess other lawyers. but it is an extraordinarily rare move that you would put your client on the stand in the circumstantial evidence case. now, i do believe the defense counseled against it but he was his client in wait a minute he insisted i could sell this to the jury. he will didn't sell it. it was devastating for him. he just couldn't convince the jury. but, don't forget, brian, he really didn't have anything to lose. because, he is facing all of these fnge crimes that he was going to get convicted of. those were a to z easy crimes. he was going to get life without parole on those if there was three or more convictions for breach of trust. >> ainsley: is he a personal injury attorney and his family has a lot of power.

>> he was. >> ainsley: exactly. >> he was. >> ainsley: used to the theatrics loves performing on stage everyone has always bought his lies. he thought i can get away with it in court i'm a master at this. they didn't buy it. after watching it for weeks and weeks, you kind of got sick of it. you realized he has hurt so many people when his law firm partner -- go ahead. >> ainsley, you understand south carolina soil. and these jurors who live there understand the soil of our state they understand guns and a lot of the things that came out about guns in that trial they did not believe. for instance, killers who are going to come to kill somebody bring their own guns they don't steal the guns from the property. two, gun owners didn't believe that you couldn't hear the sounds from the house, only 900 yards away from five shots, 300 blackout and two shotguns blasts. so, it just didn't work. >> ainsley: yep. he killed paul with a shotgun which happens to be his favorite shotgun.

killed maggie with a rifle that happens to be paul's favorite gun. just doesn't add up. thank you so much, eric. >> hey, thanks for having me. i'm glad to come again. >> brian: 11 minutes now after the hour. >> ainsley: what's coming up, brian. a fox weather alert. 200,000 without power. the severe weather warnings across the south. chris? >> dems in disarray as president biden blind sides house democrats on crime. the d.c. crime bill is so soft on crime even biden is willing to denounce it. coming up. ♪ conversations with a stranger ♪

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♪ >> brian: all right. here we go. back with a fox weather alert. people across the south in the path of severe storms as people in parts of tension hit with tornadoes. 76 mile-per-hour winds and golf ball size hail. >> griff: powerful system leaving behind a trail of destruction in arkansas. >> ainsley: katie byrne joins us from ark with the latest. >> good morning, guys. we know that six tornadoes have been reported across three states so far in the last 24 hours. at least 100,000 customers without power in texas this morning. and nearly a roughly 20,000 without power across all three states of arkansas, louisiana, and mississippi. a tornado watch is actually impacting parts of all three of those states at this hour and is likely to extend. so, we're starting to see visuals of what happened through the night and a lot of what you are going to see is actually going to be in the dark because that's when the most severe impacts of these storms happened and people are going to be waking up to this assessing the daniel as the sun comes up. this is storm damage from late

last night in arkansas. pike county, can you see trees down there. tornadoes are the no the only risk. flooding is a huge concern as well. you can see police and firefighters have to rescue people from their homes, surrounded by water in another county. yell county of arkansas late last night as well. meanwhile in texas it's dark there. many people waking up with no power today. millions in the actually dallas metro area heard tornado sirens going off because of strong winds there. you can even see a funnel cloud as people were on the roads. this storm system we are talking about is the same storm system that impacted the east and the west earlier this week. of the same storm system that snowed in people in lake tahoe with 10 feet of snow. guys? >> griff: all right. katie byrne, thank you very much. >> brian: all right. stay safe. meanwhile. >> griff: let's check in with senior meteorologist janice dean for our fox weather forecast. good morning, janice. >> janice: yes, take a look at

it. we did have a tornado watch in effect. we have the cold air behind this system, cold enough for snow across the west and the great lakes and the northeast as that storm continues to move eastward and there are the storm reports yesterday. six reports of tornadoes. we are going to seat risk today as well across the mississippi and ohio river valley and then we have those wind gusts and the hail. there is the tornado watch until 8 a.m. local time louisiana up towards tennessee. and then those storms are going to continue to move eastward. we do have the risk for flash flooding in and around the little rock area. up towards paducah, kentucky. heavy rain in the next couple of hours could cause flash flooding. there is your severe storm threat today for friday. we have got that very likely bulls eye for parts of tennessee, kentucky, georgia, and alabama. and there's the future track. so this area of low pressure across the ohio valley, great lakes going to be cold enough for snow for some of these areas. we will not get snow in the new york city area. i apologize to all the children

who have been wanting snow. if you go upstate and in towards new england, that's where the jackpot is going to be. we will continue to watch the watches and the warnings and then we'll see what the snow does for parts of the northeast. >> griff: at least some people are happy there is no snow. ainsley loves the snow. >> janice: should we take a poll on the couch? brian, ainsley and griff what do you think snow? no snow? >> brian: i could take snow this weekend i could actually shovel it because i will be off and redeem -- get my man card back. [laughter] >> ainsley: dawn does all the shoveling in the morning. >> janice: we love you, dawn. >> brian: thank you very much. >> ainsley: and she has good arms. >> brian: nice of to you say. i will tell her every said that. >> ainsley: i, for the record, love snow. >> brian: i know you do. that's someone who didn't grow up with it. 20 minutes after the hour. going to go to my own camera. hundreds of chicago residents gathering in prayer i have jilts to honor the life of a fallen police officer lasso who was killed in the line of duty.

that happened on wednesday. investigators say the officer was shot and killed while responding to a call that a man was chasing a woman with a gun. the suspect, steven montano was also shot and remains in critical condition. we are learning he was arrested last summer in connection with another shooting but was only charged with a misdemeanors. he is now facing three felony charges related to the shooting on wednesday. totally preventable. the city of buffalo new york mourning this hour. firefighter caught in a raging four alarm fire. jason was trapped in a partially collapsed building and unable to escape. shocking footage taken from the response shows first responders getting knocked over by what seems like an explosion. may have been a back draft that. the cause of the fire is still under investigation but officials believe workers in the area were using a torch which could have started the fire. all right. meanwhile this: florida governor ron desantis is heading to iowa.

i wonder why. the state that holds the first contest in the 2024 republican presidential nominating calendar. maybe that's it. i'm thinking out loud now. scheduled to make stops in des moines and davenport next friday. desantis has already began touring the country to promote his new book and all of the work in florida, all about his work in florida. fueling rumors of a 2024 bid. word is he could announce as early as june. and a scary moment for the mcconaughey family on wednesday. matthew's wife kamala -- camilla, i should say got caught up in the vice president. was a recent flight from texas germany forced to make emergency landing after dropping 4,000 feet due to severe sur turbulence, at least one passenger reports being struck by lightning during the flight. seven people hospitalized. the designer says she is grateful to the airline for the accommodations they gave her, even giving her a drink after the roller coaster of a flight. and that's a quick look at your

headlines. now let's talk about what's happening in washington, d.c. >> ainsley: which is where you live so you can start this off. >> griff: i would love. to say because i have lived in d.c. owned a home since 1995. and increasingly over the last two decades, the city council there has gotten more and more progressive. so progressive now that they have got this crime bill they passed in the d.c. city council against the mayor bowser's objection. she'll doesn't like this bill. the police chief in d.c. robert contee doesn't like this bill because of what it does. take a looker who. i want to show you some of the highlights. it reduces maximum sentences across the board. it gets rid of nearly every mandatory minimum sentence. allows for jury trials in almost all misdemeanor cases. reduces penalties for offenses like burglaries, carjackings and robberies. reduces it in the max penalty for felony with gun drops to four years from 15 years. this bill makes absolutely zero common sense.

that is why you had house republicans step in because, remember, the district of columbia is not a state. congress, under the constitution, has oversight of it. it can override things that the council does. house republicans passing a bill with 31 democrats joining them saying we are not going to allow. >> brian: going to block it. >> griff: going to block it. the senate is going to have people like joe manchin and get on board. and president biden saying okay, you know what? i get it, i'm not going to stand in the way. i'm not going to veto. i'm going to allow congress to block the d.c. city council bill. here is what biden tweeted i support d.c. statehood and rule but i don't support some of the changes d.c. council put forward over the mayor's objections such as lowering penalties for carjackings. if the city votes to overturn what the d.c. council did i will sign it. >> brian: homicides are up 40%. car thefts have more than doubled. they are down slightly year to year buff the numbers the last three years are over the roof.

485 incidents have been reported of carjacking. that's up 14% really since 2021 to 2022. so, d.c. is a mess. it's a crime haven. we saw what happened to the washington commanders running back this past year just an example of it on valet parking. you would think that somebody in the house, some -- these idiots on the council would read the tea leaves even in democrat dominated cities they are getting head fed up with crime. look who got elected in new york a moderate democrat. look who just got destroyed in chicago. look who is being recalled in new orleans. people are saying this is so out-of-control we are not going to do it. buff the problem is, ainsley, that joe biden didn't communicate that he's going to block it. leaving a whole bunch of liberal democrats out to dry like aoc and ben cardin. >> ainsley: many of them probably would have voted for this soft on crime bill anyway. but the ones who only did it because they thought will be they were going along with the

president they say they feel like they were just blindsided by this. some of them are angry. there is an na anonymous house democrat who talked on the hill and wrote this in a text message the white house f'ing this up royally a lot of us allies we voted no in order to support what the white house wanted and now we are being hung out to drive. f'ing amateur hour. heads should roll at the white house over. this thinking about jim clyburn. he is in the house, congressman from south carolina. he was so upset in the last election when all of these democrats were saying defund the police. he said this is the worst message that democrats can send. >> brian: but they don't get it. aoc weighed in this ain't it. d.c. has a right to govern itself like any other state or municipality if the president supports d.c. statehood he should governor like it. plenty of other places pass laws disagree with respect the government of d.c. just as he does elsewhere. >> ainsley: she is taking

advantage of this and saying d.c. needs to be its own state. >> brian: she is like cori bush she doesn't say it. defund the police. she says it everyday. and that is the feeling. they think cops are the problem rather than crime being the problem. we are getting a sense since 2020 of what it is like when you go soft on crime. you eventually will become a victim of it. and your city will be destroyed. and the people that vote on it usually move out. >> griff: you mentioned cori bush, how is that working out for st. louis. i will tell you living in d.c. i talk to d.c. cops all the time. i have gotten to know several of them. they are telling me look, our police force is the smallest it's been since the 70s. >> brian: no one wants to do it. griff griff now getting it. be no one wants to do it. tom cotton tweeted this out by d.c. law president biden acknowledging that soft on crime policies endanger the public. it's not very complicated by the way. he should apply the same reasoning to drug traffic defund the police and illegal

immigration. there are perfect parallels there between the last two years i have been report on the ground, border patrol agents saying give us support, give us manpower. give us the things we need and, yet, they don't get them. >> brian: tactically, republicans should take advantage of sherrod brown being vulnerable in ohio. tactically take advantage of jon tester being up a democrat in montana. these are areas that are gone red. of course, joe manchin, in west virginia, as red as it gets defying logic and gravity if jim justice gets in he loses by 20. they will try to look tougher and be open to maybe looking like moderates in order to win another six years. >> ainsley: at least this shows you they are thinking that way now. the pendulum is swinging back. >> brian: right. do they really believe it and once elected? >> ainsley: they know the american public believes it. >> brian: meanwhile, 28 minutes after the hour. coming up, a new warning near ohio's toxic train advising children to stay out of creeks and streams despite still claiming the drinking water is

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a result some of our creeks and streams have pollution in them. we are working very hard to clean up that pollution. for the time being, while the pollution is present, as a father, i would not advise anybody, adult or child play in the creeks and streams. what we said is the drinking water has been tested. >> ainsley: that's the e.p.a. director advising children in east palestine in ohio to stay away from the creeks and the streams. says he wouldn't let his child go in it. despite still claiming the drinking water is safe. our next guest and her family live about three blocks from the site of the toxic train derailment. east palestine mom nicole bench and her 10-year-old daughter kenzi join us now. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. nicole i will start with you, what are you experiencing? >> since this has started we have had the nausea, vomiting, skin rashes to the point it almost look sphblinchtsz in my

tongue little bit of everything honestly going through my house. how about you mckenziey, how do you feel. >> my stomach has been hurting a lot and my eyes but really itchy. >> are you scared? >> yeah. >> >> ainsley: nicole, we worry about ourselves but we worry about our children more. how are you feeling? >> stressed. scared. three of our children haven't been home since this started. we have been going and staying in the hotels we don't want to expose them. kenzi has been here since day one with me. and my family lives close by so i can't even send her anywhere safe. so we have been bouncing between home and hotel. >> ainsley: what's making -- i understand it might be a financial issue or people have to work. what is keeping you at home? >> financial. we are doing the best we can to stay in hotels when we can we are a working class family. and just like everyone else for the most part, live paycheck to

paycheck. and my fiance works right beside the tracks. even for work he doesn't leave town. >> ainsley: yeah, are you worried more? the water, we can get you bottled water but the air you breathe, you can't replace that. >> no. and they say it's all clear and all safe suspects you are in town especially after it rains, you can taste it. it almost feels like you are breathing in hot air. >> ainsley: your governor was on our show yesterday. this is what mike dewine said. >> i think where this clearly goes in the long run to assure people that there are concerns about the long run will in fact be taken care of a year from now, five years from now, 10 years from now. we will have to end up with a fund and the railroad is going to have to establish that fund in conjunction with officials. >> ainsley: can you believe that? preparing for a fund and then

there was that study carnegie mellon and texas a&m came into ohio and did the testing of the air. they found there were toxic chemicals that can cause long-term health concerns in the air. meanwhile, you have got other agencies, federal agencies saying that the air is clean. what do you believe, nicole. >> obviously i read that report that texas a&m and carnegie melon put out and i truthfully believe them because they are an independent test. they are not funded by norfolk southern. they have no reason to lie to us or say that there is something when there isn't. >> ainsley: real quickly the ceo of norfolk southern is going to testify. what exactly do you want to hear? >> i want to hear him say that he's going to right what was wrong and admit that they shouldn't have built the tracks back over a site that they clearly knew was contaminated. that they are going it test for the proper things. and honestly, i feel like they need to own up and say that they

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♪ >> griff: fox news alert. the verdict is in and court will reconvene this morning at 9:30 a.m. eastern for the sentencing of alex murdaugh. the jury deliberate for less than three hours before finding the disgraced attorney guilty for the murder of his wife and son. here to react white collar criminal defense attorney randy zahn, what did you make of the speed with which this jury

returned a verdict? >> the jury came back with a verdict quicker than it took me to get from manhattan to ithaca. the speed of the verdict, it was absolutely stunning. from an ego standpoint as a defense lawyer, you always at least want to be able to look at the time that you kept the jury out thinking about the case as some soothing effect, again, personally but, the fact that that jury came back in under three hours, that was the jury's message of you lied to us be not being a murderer. >> griff: randy it, seemed as when murdaugh was doing the paw paw and imagines and taking the chicken out of buster's mouth and trying to appeal to it jury speed in which they returned saw more of a narcissist on the

stand than a sympathetic wit witness. >> i actually did find those moments to be sympathetic. i think what resonates with me now what resonated with me then and with the jury was the following: number one, again, you lied, you lied, you lied. there is an old saying in my business you dare what you not admit and you admit what you dare not deny. by admitting to all of the financial crimes, it certainly made it very easy for anyone to find him to be a cold, cruel, heartless thief who was a liar. when you couple that with the fact that he lied to the police about not being at the scene. right before the murders, that -- that i hate to say it, that really killed him. >> griff: you think that, randy, was the nail in the coffin moment? >> there is no doubt.

because that was objective evidence. again, we didn't have a confession. we didn't have an eyewitness. we didn't have great forensics. but, putting him at the scene minutes before that now established the prosecution's duty to show opportunity. what resonated with me was always that questionable motive. when mr. murdaugh took the stand and said oh the motive was the boat accident. to me, that made less sense be than the prosecution's motive of doing this as a distraction and then again, what really nailed it for me was anyone who could stage his own homicide was capable of committing a homicide. >> griff: so, randy, in the last 30 seconds or so we have got here in hindsight, would have you ever put him on the stand? >> in this -- in these circumstances, yes. he had nothing to lose. because he was going to jail for a million years for the financial crimes. >> griff: all right.

randy zel lynn good insight as always. captivating trial. soon we will know what his sentence is all right 30 years or life in prison. randy zelin, thank you very much, have a good weekend. >> all right. we have some headlines, we begin with this. california senator dianne feinstein is being treated for shingles at a hospital in san francisco. she says she does hope to return to the senate later this month. the democrat turns 90 in june. feinstein is the oldest sitting member of congress and is said that she will not seek re-election in 2024. the florida student accused of attacking a teacher's aid is no stranger to the law. he faced multiple, unrelated charges prior to last week's incident. newly unveiled records show the 17-year-old completed a juvenile justice program to settle three misdemeanor battery charges back in 2019. and now he is set to be tried as an adult and being held on a $1 million bond.

court documents indicate the teacher was attacked after taking the students' nintendo switch she says that never happened. two russian billionaires who dodged u.s. sanctions over moscow's invasion ukraine reportedly went property shopping with hunter biden and dined out with the then vice president joe biden. lorena and another russian tycoon were spared a fresh batch of sanctions announced by the treasury department last week. sources tell the "new york post" the pair met. hunter and vice president biden for dinner back in 2012. a former ambassador to russia says that the billionaires should have been sanctioned a long time ago. hershey's canada is facing boycott calls over a new advertisement that features a transgender woman. her face is actually on a special candy bar wrapper for international women's day in the ad the activist says this is how women are change the future. critics say hershey's canada is

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york en route to cpac. >> that's right. yes. >> brian: what did you do? what did you offer? >> we filed a lawsuit a couple weeks ago with 24 other state a.g.s to shut down this rule. in the meantime, as you mentioned congress has passed a joint resolution using their congressional review powers to block the rule. it's going to go to the desk of president biden. he has already promised that he is going to veto did. likely republicans don't have enough votes for a super majority to override. so it will come back to the courts and we will keep pushing. >> brian: what they are trying to do with the legislation is divest from oil and gas and tell you it's not good for the environment so don't invest. but, yet, if you have a 401(k) you want maximum profit. this is your retirement. this is your future. and, yet, they are more focused on their agenda and they mandate it in their legislation. you are looking put a stop to that joining congress, joining the senate republicans are joe manchin and jon tester. but it's not going to be enough. >> yeah. i think the congressional

action. >> brian: veto it. >> i think that will help us in our lawsuit. you are absolutely right. putting at risk trillions of dollars. about $12 trillion in 401(k) retirement plans of 152 million americans. only 165 million total working americans. think about that for a second. how many average everyday americans are being put at risk. the esg investments have underperformed. look at 2022. they're under the benchmark. they are under performing. that means dollars are coming out of people's retirement in an already depressed economy. right? people are hurting right now with a downturn economic with inflation and this is just adding salt to the wound, brian. >> brian: how many other attorney generals see it like you see it? >> well, at least 24. we are hoping maybe we can coax some more to join. in that's half the country right now. we filed in texas, we are confident -- the last time we filed against the department of labor. you will remember. this osha covid mandates, we took it all the way to the supreme court and we will do it again. we won then. i'm confident we will win now.

>> brian: everyone today this weekend and look at bills and utility bill. it's higher than it has to be because we are not maximizing our production of oil and gas. that's all related. you open up your 401(k), it's not as high as it you had is be because somebody has got a political agenda instead of looking out for your financial future. >> absolutely. we should not be just seeking energy independence but energy dominance. america has the resources here. and instead of investing again in some of these woke esg initiatives, that don't actually help the environment, we have the technologies right here, american made companies like ominous energies. these are technologies that actually work that would give a return and protect our environment. we want to protect our environment as well. >> brian: right. what was the reaction been in utah? >> people are very excited that we are standing up for the average americans, they think this bill is very wrong minded. those who have been in the investment community for a long time know that forever the one job for somebody managing who is

the saturday of other people's assets is to maximize return and value for the beneficiaries. >> brian: do you remember what happened in 2008 we went through all this regulation because people decided to go after their own interest instead of the interest of investors. and now we are doing it intentionally in legislation unless you guys can stop it. >> weaponizeing it. and totally undermining the democratic process. >> brian: i know you got to get to maryland. sean reyes attorney general over in utah thanks so much. >> thanks, brian. appreciate it. >> brian: straight ahead, move over quiet quitting new workplace trend all about taking it easy. yes, relax a little bit. the redick luz bare minimum mondays. they are off fridays so when are they working? ♪ ♪

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