that is what people want. s we will finish the job, we will get back to thriving economy and all of that. an important elections lori lightfoot this week. >> steve: that is a big event for everyoneex. we will see you all and we will sunday on the next revolution when it will be televised. ♪ ♪ >> todd: a fox news alert, the police arrested 35 people as demonstrators clashed with officers at a future post training facility in atlanta. multiple fires at the construction site during so-called coordinated attack. you are watching "fox & friends first" on a monday morning. i'm todd piro. >> ashley: ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. dressed in all black and breach the site with molotov cocktails at the police. >> when you attack law enforcement officers, you

are breaking the law. this is a violent attack. a very violent attack. this was about anarchy and about the attempt to be destabilized. >> brooke singman joins us live in the new york city newsroom, good morning, brooke. >> dumped by progressives as cops that he is still under lockdown this morning. from the attack, protesters throwing fireworks at the facility including one that exploded near police officers. some demonstrators wearing masks, suits, and shields at the construction site. the atlantis police of chief said multiple people arrested with the riots. listen. >> a group of individuals attending events not too far of the training center left that location and move towards the training center site armed with fireworks, rocks, molotov cocktails.

with criminal attacking officers. we have been joined by georgia office of investigation as well as the fbi and we will make the appropriate charges as we speak. speak with those protesters torching a bulldozer with other equipment and smoke billowing from the fires was visible for miles. dozens of state troopers and alanna officers swarming to the place 5:30 yesterday afternoon. citywide protests in atlanta based activist group throughout this week. specifically targeting the public safety training center calling it an urban warfare campus as part of so-called week of action. these aren't the first protesters with the police facility on the city. january 21st, major riots surrounding the facility caused property damage and injuries downtown atlanta. activators have been public safety and training centers for months. a facility to open at the end of this year would have a mock city in which atlanta police officers

could conduct a training exercise in a realistic setting. it is unclear if yesterday's riot at the facility will impact the timeline of the facility, todd. >> todd: the center is designed to train the officers so we don't have incidents like we have seen in the past were officers come under attack. the training facility is coming under attack. it makes no sense. book, thank you. for u.s. citizens kidnapped in mexico on friday. the americans traveling in a minivan with north carolina plates across the u.s.-mexico border just south of brownsville, texas. the u.s. embassy in mexico city said moments later unidentified gunmen shot the passengers of the vehicle. the gunmen hurtled the four citizens with them. a $50,000 award for any information leading to the gunman's identity. anyone with information urged to contact the fbi's san antonio division. speak with the crisis at the

southern border female border patrol agent violently assaulted with migrants in arizona over the weekend. border patrol region while being placed in a surface vehicle at the subject assaulted the agent with face and hands. the agent was transported for medical treatment. cbp said agents were needed to bring the suspect into custody. the fbi and the sheriff's office are investigating the incident. the house committee announcing its first hearing on the origins of covid appear the fbi director christopher wray admitted that most likely originated from wuhan lab. >> todd: alexandria hoff with the latest, alexandria. >> good morning, todd, ashley. the committee set to take place wednesday. witnesses will include former cdc director dr. robert redfield, dr. jamie netzel and

senior fellow atlantic council and nicholas wade a science and health editor. congressman spradlin strip is the key city care. i've seen sitting on the intelligence committee but you have to drive forward and getting questions answered because the more we find, the more questions we may have. really what we tried to do is follow the breadcrumbs if you will. look at the forensics of what took place. it is important to find the origins of covid. >> in a memo released yesterday, and alerted to information that shows dr. anthony fauci sought to discredit early warnings of the wuhan lab leak theory. this is new evidence released by select committee today suggest dr. fauci prompted the draft of publication to disprove the lab leak theory. and skewed available evidence to achieve that goal. dr. jeremy for work went

uncredited despite significant involvement. here is congressman jim jordan on theft. >> dr. gary's email says i don't know how this happens in nature. it would be able to do it in the lab here a dr. fauci with a conference call and dr. gary, dr. anderson get on there in three days later everybody changes their story. the fundamental question is why was dr. fauci so consumed with making sure the narrative wasn't about the lab? >> malcolm of course, there are questions for china too in an intense time on friday. director william burns said this about taiwan. we know as a matter of intelligence that president xi with the army to be ready by 2027 to conduct a successful invasion. now, that does not mean he decided to conduct a evasion in 2027 but a reminder of the seriousness and the focus and

his ambition. this year, chinese government will boost its military spending by 7.2% bringing the total budget in u.s. dollars to nearly $230 billion. that is a number that draws additional concern with u.s. officials warned china is considering sending lethal aid to russia, todd, ashley. >> todd: alexandria thank you, mike pompeo says the american people deserve answers, listen. >> this is a chinese virus that came from their laboratory. there was no mistaking that, but we should make sure we understand fully what the u.s. role in this pier there were loads violated by any senior member official and they should be held accountable too. millions of people around the world, shannon, ruth dominic the only way to get this right for the american people is to make sure that everyone connected to this and is held accountable. >> todd: late spring and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for east asia, thank you for being

here. you heard alex's piece damaging information against dr. fauci and concerning article in the u.s. post by miranda devine about how anthony fauci commission paper in february 2020. let's remember the timeline here, february we didn't start having impacts until march 2020. the goal of this paper was to disprove the lab leak theory. even that early on. shouldn't that be one question in these hearings this week? >> thank you very much for having me this morning. i think what is top of mind is how did this virus originate? out of this pandemic originate? what is allowed to spread? what we certainly know is it was made in china with the wuhan lab, what have you, it was definitely made in china. the chinese communist regime did little to stop the international

spread. we know that the chinese regime has been hiding the facts confiscating any sort of international investigation. moreover, and do influence on the world health organization has also stymied any efforts to try to find what they origins actually are. perhaps even as important is to try to mitigate something like this from happening again. because we have to remember most recently it was covid. before that, the flu, before that sars. it is not just a one off. >> ashley: i want to talk about dr. anthony fauci for a second. just last week dr. fauci tried to rush off conclusions by the fbi and the department said it leak from a lab in wuhan, china, listen to this. >> do you think we will know how the pandemic originated? >> might not. we may never know. that is unfortunate, but that is a possibility we might not ever

know. >> so we heard that the end of . jim jordan made a very interesting point and alexandria's piece sagging dr. anthony fauci was consumed with trying to push up this idea that covid came from a lab in wuhan. do you think he actually knows where it came from and not saying this whole time? >> i'm not a virologist, but i am a scientologist. so i can tell you that it is a clear indication that the chinese are not coming clean with the international community by the fact that they are still not cooperating with efforts to investigate the origins. i think the fact they are now going to be hearings on the bill to be able to do a deeper dive into white officials within the u.s. government knew and when they do which will be helpful to try to get to the bottom of

this. >> todd: let's put your scientologist expertise, chinese with the expense of 7.2% with a looming invasion of taiwan. is this a normal budgetary increase for the chinese, or is this the latest that china is building up for potential conflict with us that would inevitably start with their invasion of taiwan? >> so the 7.2% increase is only slightly larger than last year's increase. i think what is significant is the fact that the chinese economy has slowed down significantly. and the fact that the chinese are still willing to commit so many resources to modernization of the people's liberation army is a clear indication that they are preparing for conflict. if you look at the statements that general secretary she made last year at the 20th party congress in beijing, he is

galvanizing national support for tamping down freedom. taiwan as well as trying to negatively influence america's position in the region. i do not anticipate that there is going to be an invasion per se in the short run, however as we saw after nancy pelosi's visit to taiwan in august, the p.a. with use of force in order to try to influence allies worldwide. >> ashley: and we appreciate your time this morning and the biden administration hopefully paying attention getting ready to fight a war. something we couldn't necessarily do if we had to right now and that's scary. house minority leader to criticize president biden for failing to block democrats d.c. crime bill that goes softer give

softer penalties to criminals, listen. >> did president biden pull the rug out from under the new you an fellow democrats? >> not at all and i haven't had a chance to talk to the president's view so i will not characterize his position one way or the other. >> he said. he's made it clear. it's not changes again. >> they are public conversations. >> >> todd: the democrat dance on full display. divided with of course progressive lawmakers with the move a disregard for local government to have control over local matters. democratics are supportive of a bill with rising desire to avoid being seen soft on crime. >> ashley: joe manchin declining to endorse president biden's potential reelection bid in 2024 just yet. >> are you going to endorse

joe biden if he runs for reelection? >> there is plenty of time for elections and that is the problem every time, let's see who's involved and wait to see who the players are. let's just wait until it comes out. >> ashley: joe manchin is not ruling out a white house bid of his own. now, at the powerlifting is being forced to let transgender athletes compete with women all thanks to a new court order. will ask chance what this means for their future of support. >> todd: plus chris rock firing back at will smith for that infamous oscar slap. >> i know what happened to me getting smacked by shug smith, it still hurts! will smith practices selective outrage. >> todd: you haven't seen anything yet because he doesn't stop there. we have major moments from a netflix special that everyone is talking about. don't go anywhere, you are watching "fox & friends first" on a monday morning.

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problems out here, but your governor is concerned what we are doing in florida. so i figured i had to come by. all the way to the last four or five years, people beat a path to california. yet, now you see the state hemorrhaging population. >> we witnessed a great american exodus from states governed by leftist politicians imposing leftist ideology and delivering poor results. and you have seen massive gains in states like florida. >> ashley: desantis said people are flocking to florida because of support for law enforcement in his defense against woke ideologies and school spirit and bringing the library, desantis spoke hours before his remarks. >> todd: minnesota court ruling said powerlifting has to reverse its transgender policy which did not allow transgender women to compete with biological women pure the courts of the

organization violated human rights act by "making a person pretend to be something different." team april hutchison and marsha smith join me now. thank you for being here. april, someone trained their whole life, how disheartening is a verdict like this for your fellow american female power lifters? >> well, thank you, todd, that is exactly the word, disheartening. you know, women struggle as it is. like myself, i got into powerlifting as a way to help. i'm four years sober and i got into powerlifting as a wave to better my mental health a couple of years ago. i did that during covid. so having to deal with say, diction, covid, and now this battle to compete against men is

heartbreaking and it's disheartening. >> todd: admittedly, a boy don't know a lot about your sport so maybe you can educate me. how hard would it be for a biological woman to defeat a biological male and powerlifting? >> it is basically impossible. but powerlifting has classes so we have different weight classes and we have different weight classes. i'm between 40 and 50 years old so as a 47-year-old i won't compete against a 20-year-old because they can lift more than me. if you take my age as a 47-year-old and match me with a 47-year-old man with the same experience, the man will outlive me due to physiological differences like muscle mass, bone density, handgrip. >> todd: that is very concerning. obviously, that makes no sense to folks like me who say, wow,

that is weird. from powerlifting to your sport of swimming, what the heck happened to follow the science? >> well, it seems like we are entering into an unenlightenment era where truth no longer prevails. the judges and the country should be seeking on a quest for truth and for justice. and to imply that women should be able to overcome, for example the sport of powerlifting 30s percent to 60% male advantage in the sport is outrageous. to try to attribute this enormous gap to better coaching or training facilities is really insulting to women. >> todd: usa powerlifting is an appeal of the court's decision with the president saying, "our position is

balancing the transgender women whose capacity differs significantly and purely strength. sports knows this is strictly a minnesota law that has been attacked here and as a result we have a situation where this will go through the various forms of litigation. this could be overturned, naturally because this is a natural governing body. but how should governing bodies of all sports navigate this transgender issue? >> this is a very crucial time for the future of women's sports. because this ultimately affects women sports category. sports governing bodies really need to have a backbone right now and stand up for the female athletes to ensure integrity and ethics in the sport. each sport will have to decide now. it is not a matter of, are they going to be confronted with a lawsuit?

they will. it is a matter of whose side do you want to be on? do you want to be on the side of women and girls, truth and science, or against us. >> todd: april that is a good point. what message, april, does this send to girls whether in sports or all sports? >> i mean, it is a negative message. i mean, this is why i'm fighting for this spirit because she is six years old, i have a niece, my boyfriend has to daughter spirit is is the future of women sports. if we don't do something about it now, female sports will be no longer appeared five years, ten years, it will be male-dominated. so we have to stand together. there are so many women i know that are silenced and don't talk about this because they are afraid of ramifications or that they might get kicked out of the

federation. so no, we have to stand together and we have to fight this. >> todd: i have two daughters and both chilling for them. but i'm appreciative of both of you, april, and marsha for fighting this. april and marsha, thank you very much. now to a story about absolutely unthinkable tragedy. a 19-month-old baby girl dies from a fentanyl overdose vacation at a florida error b'n'b. >> ashley: how did this happen and who will be held accountable, we will talk to the attorney right after this.

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train derailment in east palace dean that contaminated 1 milliod left residents feelings sick. transportation secretary pete buttigieg hitting back the critics who say he took too long to visit the town telling cnn, "it is really rich to see these folks literally lifelong card-carrying members of the east coast with economic policy priority over these tax cuts for the wealthy and wouldn't know their way around a t.j.maxx if their life didn't depend upon it and if they generally care about the forgotten middle of the country." >> ashley: this is a gut wrenching story, suing error b'n'b after 19-month-old daughter dead from fentanyl poisoning. they put the little baby down for a nap in a home they rented only to find her dead two hours later. the previous renters allegedly threw a drug filled party before checking out.

the attorney representing the family joins me now. thomas, thank you, but my gosh, what a gut wrenching story and a terrible situation this is. what is the family saying happened? >> good morning, ashley thank you for your attention to the story. the family remains devastated by this. they had all plans for a nice, simple family vacation. everything seems fine. they put their baby down for a nap after she played in the house for a little bit. and then went to wake her up a few hours later and they are met with a lifeless body. it is every parents absolute worst nightmare. >> ashley: i cannot imagine what they are going through. we do not have thomas anymore. i can still hear you. so, thomas, what i want to know and i'm not sure how this works, but when it comes to figuring out it was fentanyl, was there

an autopsy done? was there a drug test? how do they come to that conclusion? >> initially, they had no idea what happened. they thought may be sudden infant death syndrome or genetic in the family. but it was not until an autopsy report came back that found the fentanyl actually 34.2-millimeter, i am no chemist but that is a fatal dose of fentanyl, especially for a 19-month-old baby. >> ashley: thomas, did they say how this was ingested? was there a pill lying around and got a hold of an accident? what was it? >> no one knows, but it looks like that we can piece together that you are talking about residue, residue left over from being cut up, crushed, something from a surface not wiped up, you

know how babies are pure they put anything in their mouths. they put things in their mouths all day long. that is the message that this family wants to get out is a, number one, do not assume just because a place looks clean, safe, sanitary even if advertise that they are safe, they are not. you don't know who was there before you. you don't know what they were doing before you. wiped out the surfaces. take that extra step, extra measures because you don't want to find yourself in the situation they have. >> ashley: you have to worry is that particles in the air? you can do as much cleaning as you want but still, they were so much about this drug we don't know. from a legal standpoint, is airbnb protected under anything as far as papers that they signed, consenting to anything when they checked in? >> well, they are standard sort

of, you know, i don't want to call it a release but standard contracts when you sign up for anything whether the rbl, airbnb or rental car or anything like that. regardless of a contract, to bust through and fighting for a child and their family. so, they can do whatever they want, but they and everybody involved has responsibility and culpability to see that they are held responsible under the law. >> ashley: thomas, is there any chance at all in your mind that this little baby could have come in contact with this anywhere else? >> zero. absolutely 100% zero. i have looked at every issue. every issue in this case. these parents, actually they live and die for their children. absolutely 100%, and fentanyl

reacts pretty quickly in the system. it is not like to come in contact with this on the airplane or rental car or anything like this. it is simply in that house. now, i understand no one would want to admit to that. i wouldn't want to admit to killing a child either. but these folks did, and they will have to answer to it. >> ashley: before i let you go, there have not been any criminal charges filed. and anything against may be the renter or a previous renters, airbnb or people that owned the airbnb, do we expect those charges to come down? >> i don't know what the sheriff's office is going to do. all i can do is do my work and supply them with the information because i tend to dig a little bit. >> ashley: well, obviously our hearts go out to this poor family in that sweet little baby girl taken away too soon from

us. thomas, thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you, thank you very much. >> todd: what a horrible story there. a double murder trial of alex murdaugh accredited in faith with a difficult double decision to convict the attorney. that was a huge factor in us being able to sit comfortably with our decision. he also says it was this dog kennel video that ultimately led the jury to find alex murdaugh guilty after he said he was not near the crime scene where maggie and paul were shot. the public turning its attention to another suspicious death in the community of a 19-year-old stephen smith. smith was openly gay student with classes with buster myrdal and suspected the two involved. found a country country road and reported as a car accident but the jurors not consistent with the crash. some believe the murdaugh family was involved or knowledge how he

passed. >> ashley: the netflix series on the murdaughs watch for that. chris rock finally addressing the slap around the world at the oscars. >> todd: this moment will smith walked up on stage and slapped him on live tv, marianne rafferty, no slapping here, we will keep her hands to ourselves. she's here with chris rock's response. >> chris rock speaking out about last year's incident at the oscars for the new netflix special "selective outrage." he called them out for slapping him on tv well data pinkett smith with a jaded affair. it said more about the marriage than it did about his feelings towards rock. >> i know what happened to meet getting smacked by shug smith, it still hurts! will smith practices selective outrage. everybody that really knows knows i had nothing to do with

that leap. i didn't have any entanglements. she heard him with more than he hurt him. okay? >> the comedian actor calling out the woke establishment and megan merkel. >> everybody trying to be a victim like let's go with megan merkel, still acting all dumb like she don't know nothing. going on oprah "i didn't know." some of that belief she went through was some in lo [bleep]. >> to avoid similar controversy at the oscars, the crisis team put on standby to handle incidents that should happen like the slapping of rock. we have a crisis team and it is our hope we will be prepared for anything. these crisis plans, the crisis communication teams and structures we have in place allow us to say this is the

group we have together quickly. anyone who thinks the words hurt has never been slapped. >> todd: this was unbelievable. you know i've been talking off-camera about this, chris rock is my absolute favorite comedian and i have been following him for years. he has the best joke writer out there in the ebb and flow of a joke. beyond that, he tells truth, truth about race, relationships, now he added victim culture to truth telling and boy, it was spot on. >> ashley: he was a victim and got slept in front of everyone. and i almost watched last night but now i'm kicking myself because i didn't. >> as>> todd: don't slap yourse. >> ashley: excuse me may set at one point will smith literally practices for movies with his shirt off. even a movie with open heart surgery, he had a sweater on. trying to put it in perspective

but on the flip side i a movie with will smith in it. all i could think about was i think he has tarnished his reputation so much. all that people will think of but to your point, chris rock he's hysterical, absolutely hysterical making light of this. >> todd: on the megan merkel front, did you google the royal family before you married them? like staring into the budweiser family and boy these people can drink. the fact that chris rock can prove being against racism while not being woke. look, we should all be antiracist. that is the goal. do unto others as we do into you. but listening to so many snippets of this over the last 24 hours, it really does make that point. rock makes that point that the woke where we get the more weak our society will be an the megan merkel prince harry thing is positive of that. well met, that strength.

it is weakness. >> ashley: nobody wants to claim they are a victim especially megan merkel claiming but chris rock was a victim. he was a victim! >> todd: summertime singer. but we will talk to joe concha about this all morning long. i know joe concha is a big chris rock fan as well. according to real estate agent ready to say goodbye to the city after flies through the window of his office. >> this is where i work. a lot during the day and look what happened last night, bullet holes, bullet holes and put the back of my head right now. >> todd: he's got a smile on his face but he knows this is no laughing matter. his local leaders. >> ashley: the issue of crime is pitting democrats against each other with eric adams calling a wake-up call for the party. what does the signal for 2024? we will dig into this next. >> is what happened to her a warning sign to you?

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disparity like shikoku, new york and many big cities across america. that is why we are zero focus because people want to be safe. they don't feel safe and they are actually safe. >> is what happened to her a warning sign to you? >> to the contrary. it is a warning sign for the country. >> it is a warning sign new york is not safe either. they saw double digits and triple digit increases in major crimes since lori lightfoot took office 2018. >> todd: walmart announcing it will shut its doors in portland. the superstore said the city's two locations did not meet my foot, financial expectations. and warned he consider raising prices to offset random theft. >> ashley: a lifelong portland native is ready to move out of town after this happened at his office. >> all right, portland i'm done

with you. i'm over this. it's got to stop here this is where i work, right here during the day. there are bullet holes, bullet holes. if i was here, it would be the back of my head right now! >> todd: micah miller is a portland real estate developer and joins us now. thank you for being here. obviously, that video says it all, but give us a little more background what you were thinking when you walked into your place? oh, my gosh, i would die if i were here. >> thank you for having me, todd, ashley, i appreciate it. it is scary living there and coming to work and find bullet holes in your office somewhere where you sit all day. they are literally right behind my head. you can see that the glass and the bullets hit into the wall. you see everything there. it is scary, frightening.

it's got to stop here at city is out of control. it is unrecognizable and i have lived here my whole life. it is just deteriorated over the last five years. it is a sad place for sure. >> ashley: dustin, you said you were going to move and moving is no easy thing to do and takes a lot of time but are you worried about the interim period and something happening while you are at work before you can move? >> yeah. it is scary being around there. and just the violence. you will see it is not uncommon to see homeless people running around the city with axes and machetes. and it's just a common thing. nobody does anything. you call the police and it's very rare that they show up. so, it is a scary place to be in. you don't expect this stuff to happen. but it is a good reminder that

it's in front of you and can happen to anybody. >> todd: it is compassionate to give the homeless shelter but not compassionate to let them roam the city with an x or machete. do you scratch your head wondering why city leaders let a city like portland fall apart like this? when i was living out in california early 2,000, portland was a city on the upswing. and moving to portland, now people are fleeing. do you have any idea why city leaders would let it deteriorate like this? >> it is mind-boggling i have no idea. we have a decline in population. people are fearing for their lives. crime everywhere. and we continue to pass laws that enable these people to do whatever they want. i think there is a bill on the table where we can give every homeless people $1,000 a month. you've got to be kidding me?

this is absolute madness. we just pass laws where all drugs are legal. like possession anymore. there's a certain amount of quantity, no problem. you go to court and you have -- the lights are freaking out here. you go to court and you have to go to treatment. obviously, it is crazy. it makes no sense to me at all. >> ashley: not only is your business dangerous but if you have ghosts in there what that light situation, it might be time -- final thing, you said there is a decline in population. has there been a decline in your business because you are a real estate developer? have you seen decline in business as well? >> you know, obviously, i've had some problems and just overall.

things are changing. but i don't see decline in the business just yet. we are fearful of it. it is something that is very real. and i worry about rentals and i worry about evaluations and stuff. so it is certainly a concern. >> todd: we are thinking about you, dustin, you grow a business and now you have to move your family. you'd have to do what you have to do to keep your family safe. dustin michael miller thank you for joining us. >> be safe and thank you for having me. >> todd: a fox news alert chaos and anarchy where mass rioters trying to burn a new police training facility to the ground. >> ashley: responding officers, throwing bricks and molotov cocktails. the entire area and locked ailment. we have the report next. ♪ ♪

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>> todd: a fox news alert, police arresting 35 people as demonstrators clash with officers in atlanta. multiple fires spreading during the so-called attack. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier, agitators dressed in black and breached a construction site and throwing items at police. >> you are breaking the law. this was a very violent attack that occurred, it wasn't about a public safety center, it was about anarchy and attempt to destabilize. >> ashley: brooke singman joins us live. >> brooke: dubbed a cop city,