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>> griff: took the jury less than three hours to convict him of the murder of his wife and son. >> ainsley: charles watson is outside of the court house in walter borough, south carolina. what is the latest? what are you expecting this morning will seek life in prison without the possibility of parole when alec murdaugh is sentenced behind me this morning for the murders of his wife maggie and son paul. after thursday's verdict alec was remanded almost immediately and let out ever the cool tan county courthouse he is staring at 30 years to life in prison after the jury came back guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of possessing a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.

scene of the murders after voice was caught snapchat video moments of before his wife and son were killed. son buster sat a few rows behind him with a deflated look on his face. his lawyers tried to throw a hail mary with a request for a mistrial lack of evidence. judge newman thought otherwise and denied their motion before he applauded the jury for their six weeks of service. >> all of the evidence pointed to only one conclusion. that's the conclusion that you all reached. i applaud you all as a group and as a unit and individually, evaluating the evidence and coming to a proper conclusion.

>> charles: yeah, meantime the prosecution, which had a tough and complicated case to prove from the very beginning said justice will prevail in south carolina. no matter where you come from or your status. >> 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, then justice will be done in south carolina. >> yeah. we made it to that conclusion on that thursday after an alternate juror was swapped in thursday morning after the judge dismissed a member for allegedly talking to three people about the case. we're told reported the alleged misconduct to the court. meantime, we expect to hear from alec murdaugh's defense team this morning after he his sentencing. it will be interesting to see what they have to say, guys.

>> griff: it sure. will let's bring in susan williams, south carolina based criminal defense attorney and susan, i spoke to you right in front of that courthouse the day after this double murder. >> here we are now, your reaction to this verdict? >> i was completely shocked. after i heard that there was a verdict, i actually thought that it was a hoax. because i had no idea that the verdict would come in in less than two hours. which is about the same amount of time that alec murdaugh spent on the stand. >> ainsley: you know, we have all watched this case. i know you live in south carolina. south carolina was glued to the tv over this because many people know the family. south carolina is small, y'all, people don't leave south carolina generally. everyone kind of knows everyone. if i didn't know you griff, our moms might have gone to college together. it's just all woven together. and, susan, you know this for sure. what was it during the trial that really stands out? for me in the very beginning everyone here at fox was saying, you know, he stole a lot of

money but that doesn't mean that he's a murderer. but as the trial went on and you saw how his decisions affected his friends, affected his family, people got on the stand and they were crying and then you watch the netflix thing and then you watch the low country on apple tv. you got a sense of how harmful he had -- what he had done to people's lives throughout the years. and then i started to think people are getting sick of this guy. he's going to be guilty. what did you think? >> ainsley, i think the smoking gun of this case was the video of alex at the kennel. why do i think this? he consistently lied to the police about his presence at the murder scene. because he lied, he had to take the stand and explain to the jury why he lied. >> brian: is there anything that makes you think he will not get maximum today whether it comes to the sentencing? he has got 30 minimum, max is life. >> if i had to guess, just my

own conjecture just from seeing what judge newman said yesterday, a little bit of what he said, i think the judge newman is probably going to give him life and certainly is -- whenever alex said that the person who did this thought about it or planned it for a long time, i think the jury believed him when he said that. >> griff: hey, susan, let me walk it past this trial and go back to as ainsley was pointing out. we heard in this trial all the other situations from the death of mallory beach and then of course the reopening of the steven schmidt case. i just have been texting in the last 30 minutes with todd proctor who was the lead sled detective on that case. he has now since retired. he said it is still open, obviously. where do you see things going? will other investigations come about? >> my understanding is that the stephen smith case investigation was reopened in -- alongside

this investigation for alec murdaugh so we don't know yet what will become of that. we haven't heard anything but we look forward to hearing any updates if there are any. >> brian: thanks so much, susan williams, appreciate it. >> ainsley: thank you, susan. >> brian: 9:30 we will get that sentencing. other big story not going away even though a lot of people in the administration would like it to. that is what is happening in east palestine. as you saw the independent investigations and analysis of the air says potentially if we can't find a way to clean it up, this could be -- have long-term physical effects. and now we have pennsylvania and indiana standing by saying why are we not getting money why are we not getting attention? we are now scooping up a lot of this contaminated soil and bringing it to other states. and the other states are saying like michigan i don't want it. and then it ends up in indiana. so it's chaos has loomed because the transportation secretary has not shown his face and the president of the united states has shown almost no interest. you heard yesterday the governor

of ohio say i have not talked to the president since he was in poland last week. so how interested can he be? and how interested county ceo of that train company be when he doesn't show up for a second time at a town hall to address the people that he basically poisoned? >> ainsley: pete buttigieg did go there but a little bit too late everyone was saying on the ground because it was eex after or more than a week. what was it two weeks when pete buttigieg went there? people's lives are affected. they are worried about their kids. they are worried about the long-term effects and many of them can't afford to move or can't afford to go stay in a hotel. so, reporters have been asking joe biden are you going to go? are you going to go? and another reporter asked him yesterday after he was having a closed door meeting with chuck schumer. here's that exchange. >> discuss the situation there with the train derailment with the people there the federal assistance. >> i have spoken with every official in ohio, democratic and

republican, on a continuing basis and i will -- >> so he is going to go. i think, brian, because of you. you are to blame for this because you asked governor dewine. >> brian: governor dewine said. >> griff: he should be there. he should go. it's because he is the commander-in-chief. is he supposed to represent all the people in the country and the people in east palestine are absolutely livid and terrified of what they're dealing with right now there was another community town hall last night, norfolk southern not there. >> brian: alan shaw did not show up the ceo. >> griff: we had some of the residents erupting in anger at that town hall. listen to this. >> i'm begging you, by the grace of god, please get our people out. >> no matter how great your credit is, they won't lend you 10 cents because of norfolk southern. so are you proud of that, sir? are you proud of that? >> has there been any talk about

relocating? >> there is not. >> why? >> why is that? >> alan. >> we are going to do the right thing. >> ainsley: wow. they are upset. we interviewed a mom who lives about three blocks from where the train drarld. she has a moved out. they will go stay occasionally to get out. she can't afford to leave. hers will live right next door to. we have had the nausea, vomiting, skin rashes to the point it looks like sun burn. numbness in my tongue. gums hurting, headaches. >> my stomach has been hurting a lot and my eyes. they are really itchy. >> we are doing the best we can to try and stay in hotels when we can but we are a working class family and just like everyone else for the most part live paycheck to paycheck. they need to own up and say they are going to help people with their medical bills. we have already been to the

hospital once. it's not a cheap bill. >> brian: the governor came out yesterday and said there is supposed to be a fund set up. we will see how that goes and how much money will actually be in there when you have the value of your homes which is a lot of people's 401(k) and all of a sudden it's worth a third of what it was and maybe never come back, i don't know how you put a number on that. meanwhile, the neighboring states are getting upset. governor who he who he come sau dumped hazardous waste in my state. we are one mile away can we possibly get some attention. whitmer the darling of the president of the united states i don't want any toxic stuff in my state and they quickly go to the republican state. there is politics all over this. and i think that j.d. vance and sherrod brown are working on legs to do train reform. i knew very little about train reform. fundamentally 50 cars, three people. 10 of which are toxic you don't tell anyone it's coming? is that a bit of a problem? >> griff: seems like it would be

bipartisan legislation. >> ainsley: it is. >> brian: brown is afraid, too. is he a guy in a republican state looking to hold on to that seat. he is another one who, you know, does not want to stiff arm j.d. vance at this point. >> ainsley: called the railway safety act. now, we have some headlines for you. newly released footage of a deadly crash in baltimore shows a vacant building reduced to rubble. the chaos unfolded last month after police tried to pull over a suspect in a stolen hyundai. the driver slams into another car and barrels into a bystander and a row house. >> units, medics. civilian vehicle, a building collapsed on it on both vehicles. [shouting] >> let me see your hands. let me see your hands. >> the pedestrian died at the scene and for now the suspect is only charged with stealing the car. on capitol hill. an alleged turned whistleblower tells the house select committee

the fbi created a threat tag to target pro-life supporters, the move followed the supreme court ruling of roe v. wade. the fbi special agent garrett owe boil tells fox news digital, quote: when this threat tag came out, it was like why are you focusing on pro-life people? it's pro-choice people who are the ones protesting or otherwise threatening violence in front of the supreme court justice's houses. columbia university is dropping the sat and the sat scores as an admission requirement. the policy change comes after the pandemic pause and a 2021 lawsuit involving the university of california that argued the tests are biased against students of color. columbia saying its admission process is, quote: rooted in the belief that students are dynamic, multifaceted individuals who cannot be defined by any single factor. >> brian: does that mean i could have gotten in now? >> ainsley: i'm thinking the same thing. my grades were good. i don't know if i would have gotten accepted otherwise. the hit thriller cocaine bear. griff wants to go see it i'm

going to go see it. set to keep clawing its way. blowing expectations. and already earning more than $23 million. it's loosely based on a true story from back in 1985. but the original 157-pound bear has been sitting in connect in a souvenir store, what? i don't think is he in a souvenir store. >> brian: killed and stuffed? >> ainsley: maybe. than that's what it is. >> griff: i can't comment. >> ainsley: that store is reeling in the cash and has been for years. meanwhile here is griff jenkins catching cocaine bear in theaters this week. >> brian: you went yesterday? >> griff: it's awesome. you got to go see it. mindless escapism. done by elizabeth banks who did hunger games. she is a great director on this. it's ray liotta's last film it. is he a central character. if you want to find out what happens when an apex predator consumes large amounts of cocaine in the forest of georgia, you won't be disappointed to go see it.

>> brian: finally we will get that answer. >> ainsley: when you told me the name of it "cocaine bear" that sounds ridiculous and stupid. when you showed me the trailer. y'all watch the trailer. you will scream. there are moments that do you not expect what is about to happen. >> ainsley: this is my cocaine bear not the stuffed one. >> ainsley: that's pretty good. that looks like grateful dead, doesn't it the dancing bear. >> brian: meanwhile, 15 minutes after the hour. coming up face to face. secretary of state antony blinken lavrov for the first time since vladimir putin's ukraine invasion that unique story yet yesterday. general jack keane will address that and the war. >> griff: deion sanders caught in the battle religious freedom for sharing god with players. ben watson is standing with the coach. that's coming up. ♪

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>> brian: secretary of state antony blinken met briefly with russia's foreign secretary lavrov at the g-20 summit in india where he urged russia to rejoin the nuclear start treaty and release former marine paul whelan and to cease with the violence. here to react is fox news senior strategic analyst four star general jack keane. general, what do you think was accomplished and was it a good move for the secretary of state to do this with lavrov. >> well, i don't think there is anything wrong with them talking to each other despite the fact that we have major disagreements over ukraine and telling him to get his or oar in the water so o speak. russia was absolutely violating that treaty much as they had done with the intermediate nuclear force treaty of 1987

that reagan had brokered and the trump administration pulled out of it. the reality is they suspended they did not completely withdrawal from it. opening up the opportunity to come back to it. i think why they pulled out, frankly, is just to raise the whole issue once again of nuclear weapons to use that as leverage for the united states and the west, not to provide all the optimum assistance that the ukrainians want. and, obviously, they have been using nuclear weapons right from the outset as a potential threat of escalation. and, frankly, that is one of the reasons why these weapons have been moved in at such a slow rate and piecemeal after initially being rejected. but certainly talking and getting back to the issue of a nuclear treaty is the right thing to do but russia is likely not going to comply and it doesn't make much sense staying in a treaty where your partner is violating it anyway.

>> brian: it's got to be a three-way treaty because china can run wild with their production and they can go surpass us and we can be hamstrung by a treaty. it might be in russia's interest to let china surpass us. let's get to the actual battle itself. do you agree that even though strategically they say losing bakhmut wouldn't be a big deal for the ukrainians, they do not want to give in up any city and even give them the pr victory. is that the right strategy? >> yeah. >> what the ukrainians are doing here is the russians have taken such casualties here that it will be helpful in the long run much as took place in the eastern part of the donbas region when they were taking sarin, do dough new mexico and other cities. that's what the ukrainians are counting on here. if the ukrainians pull out

bakhmut is not strategic but certainly it's got so much publicity surrounding it, ukrainians would want to hold on to this things as much as they possibly can not much of a city left, unfortunately yes, the russians are having such difficult time and made such a contest out of that they have lost thousands and thousands of troops trying to take a town that is not strategically significant, which is the russian way of war. they have used human wave attacks here that have just been mowed down by machine guns which is absolutely stunning even to the ukrainians in terms of how far the russians are fighting this. >> brian: how frustrated are you that i am that we are not pressuring india to stop helping the economy of russia. they are taking over the places that have been vacated by the west. they are also buying oil and gas cheap. they are helping to prop up vladimir putin and, yet, they are supposed to be our ally.

>> yeah. it is really frustrating. india's trade with russia since the war began has gone up 300 percent. that is really outrageous and india has significant it amount of russian soviet equipment that they could be providing to the ukrainians and provide significant assistance to them. really unfortunate. incident i can't in dealing with the china threat. it's unfortunate that we haven't been able to exercise more leverage with them and getting them not only what they claim to be neutral here. they are not. they are helping russia in terms of helping to sustain their economy. >> brian: as it turkey too to a degree. general, thank you so much. all eyes will be there and we can't wait for the ukrainian surgeon to start. general jack keane, thanks so much. >> yeah. you and the team have a great weekend. thank you.

>> brian: meanwhile, coming up on one nation, speaking of the weekend, starting at 8:00 and repeated at 11:00. amongst our guests robert o'brien, he is going to break down the china threat as well as the fentanyl threat. dan rooney, what is happening to recruiting in our country. he has a plan to fix it. tyrus on whatever is on his mind. i'm not going to coach him. bryan llenas will do the news dual and bottom i can't saigon will join us some of the guests and a research to tune in. straight ahead on this show because we have a lot more show left. alex murdaugh guilty in the murders of his wife and his son. will criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor explains what is next as the court reconvenes for sentencing in just about two hours. ♪

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♪ >> ainsley: this is a fox news alert. alex murdaugh found guilty of murdering his wife and son with the court set to reconvene this morning. you have to watch bill hemmer and dana perino this morning at 9:30 in the morning for sentencing. here to react former defense attorney and former priority mark eiglarsh. good morning. >> good morning. >> ainsley: thank the good lord for this snapchat video, right? he was telling police he wasn't there. the video came out a year later when the feds unlocked paul's phone and they saw that he was

there, eight of his friends said we know that's his voice. he was there. >> charter. snapchat, thank you very much. you know, before that, he is like i wasn't there. i'm snow white innocent, i'm being 23r5eu78d like the mona lisa. what's that? that's my voice on the snapchat? okay, okay, okay, i was there but you see i'm on opioid for addict for 20 years and i get super paranoid. the jurors systematically rejected that three hours and during that time period you are picking a foreperson? they were unanimous, i think, from the start. they didn't buy it. if not you, who else? these people phantomly just came in after four years of a boating accident and wanted justice? that doesn't make any sense. >> ainsley: yeah. how does the family move on now? it's a big family in south carolina. his brothers have the same last name. they have children. his son buster, who has the fire engine red hair hard not to see him if he walks in a restaurant. how do they move on?

>> well, look, there is bad apples in every family. my father is sick. i don't know i'm not going to tell buster say. he is sick. he is a sick, disturbed man. i can't wrap my head around it. i don't understand. don't do drugs. whatever message you want to tell yourself. this guy is so disturbed that he represents everything that is abhorrent and we can't relate to him. that has nothing to do with this family. >> ainsley: mark, what was the jury thinking at first they were thinking all right he stole a lot of money. he has lied a lot. doesn't make him a murderer. as the evidence poured in is that when they changed their mind or they knew from the beginning? >> most jurors decide in opening statements. so, when they heard the prosecutor's opening, i think they pretty much felt that he was probably guilty. when his voice is heard on that video, there's no rational reason why you would say you weren't there unless it's for consciousness of guilt.

i think they knew and i think this three hours sends a message. i will predict one thing though. i don't think he is going to serve a life sentence. is he going to get a life sentence. he has already tried to take himself out. he has already tried to kill himself. that was before the shame associated with this conviction. i think they need to keep a close eye on him. i don't think he is going to make it. he is going to take himself out or have somebody take himself out. >> ainsley: the sister-in-law marion proctor took the stand he seemed more concerned with protecting paul's reputation than with learning who killed his wife and his child. why do you think he shot his son that night and then turned the gun on his wife? why would he -- how could a dad shoot paul? >> here's the good news they never have to prove it in a murder case, we still don't know with certainty. that's what said with the prosecution. i buy it i think he is that disturbed that he wanted to shift focus away from him he is that self-centered but we will never know. he knows. he is the only one who knows. and fortunately prosecutors don't have to prove that.

they never had a question about who did it. why? they don't have to prove and maybe they still don't even know with certainty. but, for sure, he did it. >> ainsley: yep. it came out earlier that day, the day he committed these murders, it came out earlier in the day the cfo at his law firm confronted him and said we know you have stolen $9 million from our firm and our client. mark, thank you so much. we are anxious to see the sentencing today. >> same here. take care. >> ainsley: thanks, you too. have a good weekend. coming up hundreds of thousands without power as tornadoes are ripping through texas. the severe weather warnings across the south. plus, left wing politics are infiltrating the merchant marine academy and it's accelerating undersecretary buttigieg's leadership. the weekend crew is going to react to that next. ♪ don't come out ♪ don't start caring about me now ♪ walk away ♪ you know how ♪ and pray for those who persecute you. don't

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♪ back with a fox news alert. more than 600 million people in the south are in the path of severe storms after parts of texas are hit with tornadoes. 76 miles per hour winds and golf ball sized hail. >> ainsley: more than 120,000 families are without power this morning. the system also leaving behind a trail of destruction in arkansas. >> brian: check in with senior meteorologist janice dean. hey, janice. >> janice: good morning. unfortunately see more throughout the day today. take a look at it. the radar will show you the story as we have this cold front and area of low pressure across the ohio valley. flash flooding is a big concern right now for little rock all the way up towards paducah where seller inches in a short period of time will cause flash flooding and then the tornado threat until 2:00 p.m. for the nashville area. of course if you do down towards huntsville and greensville, that is going to continue this afternoon with the severe storm threat moving eastward. large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes will be possible be

alert and have way to get warnings. upstate new england, new york city will be mainly a rain event and it's going to come, you know, on the rush hour. just be aware of that as well. snow forecast some areas in the mountain also get 12 to 18 inches. great for the skiers, the other big story is the west where we're going to see more rain and mountain snow. several rounds of rain and mountain snow as we go through the weekend into monday. they have been socked in with all sorts of weather, potential record highs ahead of that system for florida and the southeast, wow, it feels like summertime for parts of florida. so we will wrap that up on a good note where it feels nice and warm, toasty warm in florida. all right, griff and ainsley and brian, to you. >> griff: all right, janice, thank you very much. >> janice: you got it. last frontier midshipment at the marine academy that woke ideology has been seeping into the school and only accelerated under the leadership of transportation secretary pete

buttigieg. >> ainsley: anonymous marine academy shipment told fox digital it's unfortunate the politicization that our school has undergone from the new administration and it only seems to be getting worse. >> brian: yes. transportation division is in charge of it. weekend co-host will cain, rachel campos-duffy and pete hegseth join us now. guys, pretty disturbing. the u.s. merchant academy they will pay for it if you get in. and then you have a four year obligation after. now we find out they have a problem with a jesus painting and they have awoke ideology they want to jam down their throats. >> yeah. it's a lesser known military academy but significant role. they lost 142 people in world war ii. it's got a long history and there is this painting in a conference room called christ over the water because people, when the war is raging and the waves are raging often look to a higher power. it's been there for decades. they were told -- they took one legal challenge. the superintendent caved and as a result, they covered it up with a curtain and then as a compromise because of blow back

they moved it into the library, which is prone to flooding where the students won't see it. this is par for the course for institutions the left wants to take over. how long will they be midmidshipmen? can they tolerate that midship people. example after example pull christ down and put the lgbtq flag up. put someone in charge to move the principles and the left wing direction. >> ainsley: rachel, what's your reaction? i know this is happening in our schools. you are raising nine children. are you seeing this seep into your schools, too? >> rachel: well, i sends my kids to a catholic classical academy. i'm not seeing it at my schools. sure is the reason why i'm sending my kids to that school because i don't want that to happen. they took down that the painting but the mural is up at that school. the reason this really concerns me on a very deep level is that the merchant marines are

important. we need the best sailors, especially during this time, and you're seeing that, you know, the people who spoke to fox digital spoke under anonymity. they are afraid. there is a cultural of persecution to anyone who speaks out. and everyone knows that they will get a black mark. not just at the school but for their entire career. if they speak out against this ideology. this new religion that pete buttigieg is using. our government institutions to implement. and by the way if pete buttigieg was in the storm in the middle of the sea, you could cling to that lgbtq flag. but most sailors are going to cling to christ. and that was the purpose of that painting. but, this is much deeper, this is about trying to advance an ideology when we should be advancing excellence. especially as china is on the move. >> griff: you are right, rachel. it is deeper. you have senator ted cruz and jim banks writing letters about it and of course the midshipmen speaking out names mustily.

their voices aren't being heard. will, what's the solution? >> you know, rachel used an important, i think, couple of words there she said this is a new religion. this entire story reminds me a little bit of the story earlier this week where deion sanders at the university of colorado admonished for giving prayers in the locker room. some violation of the establishment clause because he is an employee of the university of colorado. you know, i don't think that the constitution-of religion be the freedom of religion. what's interesting here as pete said you take down the flag of jesus, you take down this painting. you cover it in a white curtain, it's not simply that we are going to have freedom from religion in the place of something like that painting. what we have then is the replacement with a new religion as rachel said. woke i'd o ideology is a preach, doctrine. inability to question the faith. it is a new religion that replaces the jude deo christian ethic that is now unacceptable at the university of colorado or

the merchant marine. so let's not pretend we have freedom from religion here. what we have done is just replaced the acceptable state religion in these institutions. now woke ideology. >> brian: very good point. i wouldn't be surprised if that ended up on your run down. rachel books most of the guests and approved of them. governor ron desantis going to iowa this he can would. is he going to drop by. mike braun is going to be here and maria bartiromo at some point will weigh in. is any of that true, rachel? >> rachel: it's absolutely true. that is not fake news. >> ainsley: i have been seeing these promos for y'all's show on sunday. you're having a concert? >> pete: we are. we have kicked off for the easter season, oh, sorry. i don't know if you said me or rachel. >> rachel: go ahead, pete. >> pete: faith and friends concert series. donte bo is with us on sunday. like you are going to church just a few hours early. absolutely beautiful performance last weekend and the concert

series goes all the way through easter so about six weeks. join us for it. >> brian: anything to ask will, griff? >> griff: will, are you going to go see cocaine bear? very important movie. >> i will tell you this, griff i many see it i don't know worthy of a movie ticket. to a point i'm interested. >> ainsley: go see je jesus revolution we want that to do well too. i. i might wait until that comes out apple tv. >> griff: big screen is tempting. oscar business tore russ could be released on parole weeks after serving half of his 13-year sentence for the murder of his girlfriend convicted of shooting and killing in his south africa home on valentine's day in 2013. a parole hearing is set for march 31st. if he is released reported be

given 24 hour police protection out of concerns he could face retaliation. the nypd on the hunt for a group of thieves targeting ride share drivers. these men accused of stealing $24,000. they take the driver's cell phone and run off. then police say they transfer money from the victim's bank account. overseas we go. a massive fire destroying a skyscraper that was under construction in hong kong. blowing embers and debris rained down on the city. some say they heard the sound of explosions from within the building as it crumbled. two people are in the hospital this morning. the cause still under investigation. and spacex capsule carrying a four-person crew safely docking at the international space station overnight. the spacecraft arrived about 24 hours after launching from

kennedy space center in florida. how is this for a warm welcome. astronauts conducting research over the next six months to help pave the way for future manned missions to the moon and possibly even beyond. how about that? those are your headlines. would you go to the moon? >> ainsley: i don't have any interest in doing. that is like swimming with the sharks like have you done. i don't have any interest in doing that either. i'm fascinated by it. he probably would. he loves space. >> brian: if i can get the time off. [laughter] >> ainsley: make it a work trip. >> brian: you know what? i will tribute to the show this way it would be not a day off. like a working vacation. >> griff: do live remote from the moon. >> ainsley: you should get fox to pay for your trip to go to the moon. >> brian: we're thinking out loud here. [laughter] >> brian: very interesting. >> ainsley: impermissible gifts taxing the rich while socialist aoc is facing a house ethics probe over her met gala attendance. >> brian: plus.

>> ainsley: plus. >> brian: fight for faith on the field. deion sanders religious freedom sharing belief in god with players. former nfl player ben watson standing with the coach. >> ainsley: for heaven sakes. >> brian: i got it. ♪

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>> brian: back with quick headlines the house ethics committee found substantial reason to believe the new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez improperly received gifts associated with their attendance at the 2021 met gala. the democrat faced complaints from vendors -- the vendors that they paid includes the designer of aoc's tax the rich dress. not good. forget quiet quitting have you heard about bare minimum mondays work trend fueled by gen z workers on social media. you must be very proud. corporate trend taking over tiktok great tiktok. employees know how to do the least amount of work possible to get through the dreaded day of the week. some don't like mondays. griff? >> griff: put them to work. all right, brian, thank you. colorado's new head football coach deion sanders is known for

his faith on the field. watch? >> don't you ever tell me his limits. >> of all the persons in the world god chose me? for that, i thank you. for that i love him. for that i magnify him. for that i glorify him. for that i praise him. for that i owe him. each and every day. griff griff that's not got him at the center of a religious controversy with one organization saying, quote: the university of colorado must take action to protect student athletes and ensure that sanders understands that he has been hired as a football coach and not a pastor. here to react former nfl player and star ben watson. ben, thanks for taking time to join us. i want to just show you a quote also from the first liberty institute backing sanders saying this: the supreme court has repeatedly held that public school elmly nos may engage in

religious expression and therefore universities like university of colorado more members of the football staff for exercising constitutional rights on campus? how do you see it? >> well, this is just the latest in an attempt to, i guess, quelch or silence religious expression in this country. this is ongoing struggle. even when we look back at kennedy verse primgton the supreme court upheld whether you are employed by a public institution or not you as a american citizen has a constitutional right to religious expression. for coach sanders, look, he is who he is. he said that repeatedly. and during my 21 years of playing football, nfl for 16 years, college for four years. there were numerous times where there was religious expression but also there was the cav vote that if you don't believe in this, you don't have to be a part of it. so, there's a struggle that we're seeing right here. it's a struggle that we should have but as americans, no matter what your religion is.

we have to stand up for religious freedom and religious expression because that is one of the hallmarks of this republic. >> griff: clearly deion sanders is not going to back down. do you support him taking this fight to whatever next level it goes? >> >> i do. i do. again, these things are going to keep happening. we saw this last year in the supreme court. so, i went back, griff, and read the initial letter from the freedom from religion foundation. and in the letter, they made some assumptions. they made some claims not based on players. not based on people that were employed by colorado. they made claims. colorado residents worried about what was happening or what might happen at colorado with deion sanders coming there. so, again, i think this is just another attempt but as americans of all religions, whether you are an atheist or not, i think it's imperative that we understand that freedom of religious expression is important. we have to protect that. we have to be people that stand up against that for all

religions because that's what makes america what it is. >> griff: that's a great point, ben. just about 30 seconds we have got left here, why is faith on the field important to you? >> have you been on the field? faith is important many times because, number one, you have believers on the field. i just left a conference with over 330 professional athletes and football players who are believers, also my favorite times in sports have been baptizing people at facilities and seeing people's lives changed by the power of jesus christ. >> griff: so well put. ben watson, thanks for joining us. have a great weekend. >> you too. >> griff: come up. a minimum of 30 years up to life in prison and 90 minutes court reconvenes for the sentencing of alex murdaugh. nancy grace was in the courtroom yesterday. she will break it down for us, the guilty verdict and all coming up. ♪ ♪ she's been looking for. sotyktu is the first-of-its-kind, once-daily pill for moderate-to-severe

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