♪ ♪ >> todd: a fox news alert, mexican authorities located four american citizens violently taken from the drug cartel. they rushed to a white house. one suffering bodily injuries. you were watching "fox & friends first" on a wednesday morning. >> ashley: ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. the americans tortured and held for days in this wooden shack. they arrested this man who they

thought was guarding the property at the time they arrived. brooke singman has the latest. >> todd, ashley we are learning that they were dead by the time the import authorities arrived. the two other victims, eric james williams survived the horrifying and back in the united states, travelers from north carolina went so that they tell me took procedure and the mother giving this update, she is doing okay, she is crying, watched two of them die. they died in front of her. this photo shows nikki in the back of an ambulance after rescued from the mexican authorities, they cross the border and brought to a hospital in texas shortly after they were saved. the victims were held in this small shack located in rule part of eastern new mexico where they got lost and mistaken by members of the drug cartel for drug

mules. mexican police arrested a 24-year-old mexican national with the violent kidnapping and the suspect identified as jose guadalupe and accused of guarding the shack where all four victims found pure the authorities didn't say whether involved with a cartel. the kidnapping caught on surveillance video and some find it disturbing. the moment when all four victims were dragged into the back of a pickup truck. you can see the suspect holding long guns and bulletproof vests. now that we know the fate of the four victims, all eyes on the white house response to the cartel senseless violence, watched. >> the violence aspect of it, americans are being slaughtered with president biden taking same approach as al qaeda or isis just across the border from the american city. speak with the president takes us very seriously. the fbi and other agencies have been on top of this from day one. that is what he will continue to

do. when it comes to americans lives or comes to the safety of americans, the president will always make sure that is a top priority. >> would president biden ever consider using the u.s. military to disrupt cartel operations? >> i am not going to get into the military and how it is being used. >> senator lindsey graham's to introduce a bill that would designate the drug cartels as foreign organizations to allow the u.s. to use military force against them. >> ashley: brooke singman, thank you. we asked the u.s. marine veteran and former fbi agent this morning where do things go from here? listen to this. >> i think how things happen with the cartels here at 21 state attorney general's have already requested that they be labeled a terrorist organization and that would allow us to use intelligence and other assets to help the mexicans and ourselves against them. >> ashley: later this morning,

we will be joined by former border patrol with more on the story. >> todd: into another story out of mexico, 24-year-old canadian woman found dead at her resort south of cancun the day after she got there. her boyfriend, ryan, who went with her held on mexican authorities in connection with her death. investigators with possible marks on her body. it is shocking. we want to know what happened. she was a beautiful, wonderful person inside and out and it was unfair she was robbed of her experience to experience life to the full list. >> ashley: speaking out on the note she wrote to her son about -- roberta claimed she sent the note marked reading after gabby patino was murder. and one other of her favorite books. i use the words that seem to have a connection with his

actions and taking gabby's life, i never would have found that the events unfolded months later would reflect the words in my letter. she said she gave her sound the letter before gabby and brian's cross-country trip where he is accused of murdering her before taking his own life. >> todd: the house committee holding first hearing on the origins of the virus since the fbi and energy department concluded a lab here the house committee to divvy up more information moving forward on an information with the administration to declassify any and all information related to links between wuhan institute of virology and covid-19. dr. anthony fauci though still insisting that it could have emerged natural. >> i don't think there is a correct and verifiable answer to your question. it still remains unknown at this particular point. >> todd: senator rand paul say the claims is a cover up what

fauci has known all along. >> it was an elaborate cover-up that began in january 2020. those emails between dr. collins and dr. fauci which dr. cullen said this would not be good for china are good for science. >> todd: several witnesses expected to testify with former director of the cdc. >> ashley: new york city crime and bartenders are still banding together and using a group chat to alert each other about criminals threatening customers. >> todd: one is to explain how they are taking time this crisis into their own hands. upshaws. and this is their playground. there's a story in every piece of land, run with us on a john deere tractor and start telling yours.

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northern tier of the country, focus on the snow, we could see several inches, some cases eight to 12 inches from tuesday to saturday and across the northeast, warmer snow. there will be a rain event and flash flooding, these areas have seen a surplus of rain over the last several weeks and the west getting socked with many systems, especially for california, heavy rain along the coast and snow for the sierra, nevada region. there is the forecast thursday through sunday, you can see heavy rainfall, upward of six inches plus for all areas along coastal california and the snow for the mountains. this is a big deal. we'll wipe out the drought in some regions, which is great news, but flooding will be epic in some locations. the rain forecast through sunday, three to five inches for

california, two to three for san francisco. they have seen a wet season and the next couple weeks will be no change to that. i do not see any highs on this upon ma, we'll go with shaded red, it will be warmer than average. colder than average for the west and plains and around around for central u.s. that is strange. i will check the forecast and fix that for you. over to you. >> ashley: i don't see red in new york. >> janice: we'll have to wait, this might be the coldest month for march. >> ashley: thank you, janice. bar continueders say violent criminals are threatening them and their customers. they started a group chat to warn about potential threats. one stories the 911 operator could hear him screaming in the

background about he was going to kill me, they were like, is he still there, do you still need assistant and the police showed up three hours later. a bartender from the east village is here. you said a couple group chats were basically created to warn other people and other bars and managers about these violent criminals. >> that's right. it's disturbing. community relations between the police and citizens, deteriorated to the point where police do not know what is going on sometimes. we talk with each other to determine or identify threats and that way we can warn each other and have some degree of communication. some of these people go from bar to bar. when officers respond to calls,

they know what to look for. >> ashley: have you had to call the police at your bar? >> i have, everyone in lower new york have had to and oftentimes they are responsive, sometimes 911 doesn't categorize calls properly and they take a long time to respond. >> ashley: now, you are not blaming the police officers? everyone who knows a police officer or owner in new york city knows they are up against a lot, so how do you solve this problem? if you were in charge, how would you solve this? >> funding needs to increase, new cops have to be paid more and training for 911 operatorses. the relationship between the community and officers need to be improved. >> ashley: i'm not saying you are blaming one or the other or blaming anyone, you say more on dispatch that is the problem? >> that is a serious issue.

50 minutes pass before anyone showed up at the bar, i walked to the local precinct and they did not have the call. it had not been categorized properly. better training and more resources for dispatcher and patrol unit, more foot patrol, they need more funding. >> ashley: people are waiting up to three hours for police response, starting salary for a police officer is $43,000. they are always looking for a second or third job to make extra cash. has anyone in the group considered hiring off-duty officers and paying them to stand security? >> it is expensive and i have spoke to many officers and they tell me turnover has not been this high in a long time, members of the community sometimes do not support new officers, they get burnt out.

they need to be paid more because of the danger. there has to be outreach so people know cops are their partners, there to protect them and cops know they are providing a service and ensuring safety. >> ashley: other than them saying turnover is the worst they have seen in a long time, what else do they tell you when they respond? >> well, you know, young people don't see the police in the same way that individuals who lives in the '80s and '90s see the police. i know a lot of individuals who are violent and criminals and they respect police more than the younger individuals behind the bar or in entertainment, until they need police and then things change. >> ashley: are these people violent with you guys? >> sometimes they are. when you have combination of mental health issue, substance abuse and aggression, trying to

get them out is priority and can be difficult. if you call for a trespass call for someone that comes in, it is difficult to get them there, because they have not gotten violent yet or armed. we need resources to have cops respond to that type of call. >> ashley: nypd needs more funding across the board, i don't think business owners and managers in new york city would detest that. thank you for getting up with us so early and good luck to you. >> todd: horrifying story, a man tries to stab a flight attendant with a broken spoon, the whole thing caught on camera, watch. >> i will kill every man on this plane, where are they? where is homeland security. where are they? >> todd: not what you want to hear. we will show you the video and tell you what happened next and

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to be a blood bath everywhere. >> ashley: crazy, torez attacked a crew member with a metal spoon, going for his neck, jabbing him three times before being restrained by otherern passengers. >> todd: that is scary stuff. the house foreign affairs committee will hold first hearing today examining president biden's botched withdrawal from afghanistan. scott mann was part of task force pine dollar the apple that helped charter flights out of afghanistan during that time. he will appear before the committee today. thank you for being here. what will you tell congress today? >> thanks for having me on, todd. what i will try to do today is represent 800,000 war vets and their families and tell the

story about how this impacted the families in a way that i don't think has been revealed and remind people why afghanistan matters a year and a half later. we've tried to turn the page on the country and a lot of veterans believe it will put us back. >> todd: this happened in august of 2021, i imagine the impact is still being felt today. what are these folks experiencing still to this day? >> imagine being on the world's longest 911 call, todd. afghan allies and special forces were hunted by the taliban, the veterans did pick up the phone and forming organizations like dunkirk and moral compass and task force pineapple. a lot of them did not make it, these veterans and other volunteers stayed on the phone

for a year and a half cashing in pensions and kid's college funds to pay for food drops and safe houses. that story is not being told. our veterans have paid their dues, they are still on the phone with an uncle-sam sized problem with pension funds and it is not right. >> todd: the people that give the most of their lives, in many instances, continue to give and you just highlighted that. contrast that with when president biden was busy checking his watch when the bodies of the 13 service members were brought home, not an image the democrats want out there. what do you think democrats will ask you today? >> well, what i think is that democrats and republicans will ask questions responsibly about what happened and what are the lessons learned from this and how can we prevent this from happening again.

how can we help afghan commandos have a pathway to freedom? there is plenty to go around, and none of them should be pounded their chest. i think veterans are hoping to see a true bipartisan effort to what happened and get to bottom of it, the way our veterans stepped up and we sat politics aside and focused on our allies. >> todd: we want to know what went wrong, they are pressing for documents and information and are being stonewalled by the state department trying to goat to the bottom of what went wrong. what do you think the documents will say that they do not want getting out? >> i really don't know, i think what will come out of this hearing from multiple conversations, you will hear from people on the ground, veterans involved in this and

many involved in helping american citizens and greencard holders get to freedom when no one else would help them. the moral injury for veterans, we're not seeing a response from institutional leaders, not seeing institutional leaders from state department and the administration stepping up and taking ownership for the problem the way we were trained and held accountable to do veterans. we were violated by the leaders we trusted and that caused a massive moral injury. we are on the virge of a mental health tsunami, we have a spike in the suicide hot line since the abandonment. >> todd: the other elephant in the room, the taliban runs a country now with billions in equipment that we gave to

emthis. describe the latest on the situation in afghanistan after the disastrous pull-out? >> this is another thing that has veterans concerned. i had an interview with the leader of the national resistance front, who is getting no support from the u.s. and according to him, there are 27 violent extremist organizations including al qaeda and isis with complete impunity. and as congressman michael waltz says, the dashboard is blinking red on pre-9/11 type situation and no one is talking about it. veterans lived through this and saw 9/11 and we said never again will we have lack of intelligence and partner capacity that caused this to happen. we left it on the side of the road to be hunted and killed. >> todd: it is disappointing, frightening and shouldn't

happen. 9/11 was 20 plus years ago, we should be deep in the lessons of that, to hear you say we're not is frightening. hopefully there will be conseconvinces to afghanistan. scott mann, you can get a copy of "operation pineapple express" detailing the various missions he performed. best of luck today, we're looking forward to it. >> todd: the ftc wants elon musk to turn over -- >> ashley: and "washington post" wants major league baseball to boycott florida. it didn't go well last time the league played politics. joe concha is here and we'll talk about all of it. >> and the jersey. my asthma felt anything but normal. a blood test helped show my asthma is driven by eosinophils, which nucala helps reduce.

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>> todd: federal trade commission demanding elon musk turn over internal twitter documents including all the journalists who had access to twitter files. >> ashley: musk says this is weaponization for political purposes and suppression of the truth. >> todd: joe concha joins us with more. what happened to first amendment, freedom of the press, the constitution? >> joe: no reason the ftc needs

to know the names of journalists, this is a private company, twitter. no reason the ftc needs to know the internal communication within this company. this is weaponizing power to go against what they see as a political foe, that foe being elon musk. all we have seen is transparency in terms of what went on there under jack dorsey during that era and now the ftc is getting involved? >> ashley: isn't it odd they are specific about james baker? >> joe: yeah, why is that? why did you fire him? how dare you. it is elon musk's company, they can hire and fire whoever they want. this is why there is such low trust in government and institutions in general when we

see our government acting this way and putting their nose and butting into situations they have no business butting into. >> todd: ftc is engaging in hr question, that is not in their purview. isn't this biden and democrats thinks that the way government should work that you should be able to use the power of administrative institutions to abuse your enemy? >> joe: that is the way it works in moscow or pyeongchang or a democracy, which we are in, not how it should work. >> ashley: sounds like meddling to me. mlb should boycott florida under desantis, arguing baseball can no longer ignore ron desantis culture war and demand teams go west. the person who wrote this, they are not from florida, i wonder

what people in florida will say how this will affect their economy? if you have no skin in it, stay out of it. >> joe: kevin blackstone is a professor at university of maryland, has no skin in the game in florida. think, if you took the teams out of florida, what does that do to businesses? spring training is big around them. ush cs them. east and west coast of florida, why are they doing this? kevin blackstone is arguing there is an attack on diversity by ron desantis. only attack on diversity is kevin blackstone, "washington post," on diversity of thought because he disagrees with ron desantis, the guy who won by 20 points in november, won in democrat counties like palm beach and miami dadesxchl we saw

what happened in 2021, when they argued major league baseball all-star game should be pulled out of atlanta. that was over voting rights. jim crow dot 2.0. set voting election under this, it looks foolish. we talk about bias on this show often and it is justified. here we forget that sports media is probably more biassed than political media when you see this come out of the "washington post." >> todd: we did a story charles barkly calling out espn on race baiting, how can you have a white m.v.p. story and kevin blackstone does a lot with espn, it is based on lack of understanding of ron desantis policy to begin with. ron desantis is not

anti-speaking about slavery, he is anti-speaking about 1619 project. >> joe: 1619 projects, their premise, the revolutionary war was fought over slavery and that is completely and totally not true. all desantis is doing is say, look, let's not teach history that didn't exist and not teach as a parent, i don't want my first grader being taught sexual orientation or identification at that age or any age. a parent should have a conversation with their kid, not a teacher, that is all desantis is saying and it is being misconstrued by sports media, congratulations. >> todd: focus on sports, but what do i know, joe concha? joe concha knows a lot. >> joe: a little bit. i'll be on "fox and friends"

later. >> todd: "fox and friends" big east tournament. and calling to allow novak djokovic into the country to compete at the u.s. open on march 19th, he's being kept out due to the travel ban which is set to expire a month after the tournament. desantis writing, the current travel ban to mr. djokovic and other foreign visitors seems ungrounded in logic, and common sense and went on to question a biden administration proclamation barring non-citizens from entering the u.s. by air saying is not clear why even by the terms of your own proclamation, mr. djokovic could not legally enter this country via boat. >> ashley: a bill that could ban tiktok taking a major step forward thanks to support from

the white house. >> todd: president biden set to raise taxes on americans right after the market tanked. cheryl casone will break it all down for you next.

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>> ashley: the dow jones plunging 500 points after federal reserve chairman said interest rates could go higher than initially expected. >> todd: cheryl casone has more. i listened to this, it was fiery. >> cheryl: it was. a lot of times it is not about policy, it is politics, which is not jerome powell's area of expertise. listen to jerome powell go at it with -- well, her going after him, this is senator elizabeth warren. >> i would explain to people more broadly that inflation is extremely high and hurting the working people of this country badly, all of them, not just two million of them, all suffering

under high inflation and we're taking the only measures we have to bring inflation down. >> and putting 2 million people out of work is part of the cost and they have to bear it? >> well, will working people be better off if we walk away from job and inflation remains 5 or 6%? >> cheryl: they only have so many tools, they are federal reeverybody is, they control employment situation, which is their job, the stimulus that led to inflation and spending led by democrats in washington has gotten us to this point with high inflation, with cpi. what happened yesterday and why markets reacted negatively, he said we will have to keep raising rates. we were looking for three quarter-point hikes that would end in june and now probably half a point hike at the next meeting and more after that.

stop spending in washington, learn to control inflation, it is not jerome powell's fault inflation is out of control. i can't believe i'm having to defend the federal reserve. >> todd: she attacked him with no alternative, stop the money spending, turn it off. >> cheryl: we will get more inflation data next week. >> ashley: interesting to see, the white house is backing bill to allow a tiktok ban, i think it is a long time coming, glad they are paying attention. >> cheryl: this is a bipartisan effort, jaur warren, john thune, marco rubio want to go after tiktok and the chinese government, listen to this. >> the data here is controlled by a company that is owned by chinese company and that chinese company by dance is under

complete control of the communist party of china. >> whether than this whack-a-mole attack, we need rules-based comprehensive approach that will require intelligence community to layout the facts. the >> cheryl: the white house backs this, they say it presents framework for addressing security and safety of americans. finally something we can actually come together with and say we support this. this is a bipartisan effort in washington. >> todd: thank goodness, tiktok needs to go away. story of seattle bus driver is terrifying and sad and a whole lot of wrong. >> cheryl: quality of life issues is why you see people leaving blue cities like seattle, new york and los angeles. the seattle bus driver has been out sick, he says it is because people are smoking fentanyl on his buses and you both talked to

him, let's listen. >> it is a terrible feeling. i'm responsible for those passengers. we have almost 2000 complaints of drug smoking on the bus. we have 60 cases of drivers who got sick while driving. >> cheryl: listen to this. former ceo of king county metro says kn-95 masks helping reduce covid-19 filter chemicals and other biological chemicals transmitted by air, so it is supposed to be okay, i guess. i read something from an employee of the city that said he is making it up, which is disrespectful to this driver going out for hard work and likes his job. he said, i like my job. >> ashley: it is amazing, they

are saying no chance this is airborne. they are getting sick. he is you can taking about drugs. >> cheryl: the drug dealers now have the right to do drugs, put a mask on so they can do drugs and the rest of us have to suffer, like small children talking the bus to school, because that happens in seattle. protect the drug dealers, this reminds me of san francisco and tent cities, here are new needles for you. fentanyl is a serious drug, the death tolls are jumping and jumping and prediction now is 100,000. >> ashley: there is a lot we don't know that we will probably find out. thank you so much. fox news alert, mexican police finding the fourern ms inside a shack in mexico. two are alive in a hospital in texas and two are dead, it

happened 30 minutes from brownsville border. former border chief is here on the threat to homeland. >> todd: brian kilmeade is live from goodie burgers in tampa, florida. i cheated and looked at the rundown and i see you have my favorite baseball player of all time coming up, nick swisher. >> brian: ashley, do not let him peek again, i don't want to reprimand you when i come back. you are right, nick swisher 8:30. baseball players have to sleep in, major force in tampa bay in spring training and president joe biden will deliver his budget proposal tomorrow. how will it affect people in tampa and you at home. 40 years since ronald reagan's

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>> todd: a fox news alert.

mexican police finding the four american citizens kidnapped by a drug cartel in that tiny shack the other as rushed to hospitals in brownville, texas. the mother of one of the survivors spoke to her daughter and says that she is doing okay. she was crying. she watched go of them i do von former acting ilings director and former u.s. border patrol chief and joins us now. ron, thank you so much for being with us. my question to you, how should the president be responding you because like we said this happened 30 minutes from the u.s. border. not only are the cartels killing americans with their drugs that are brought into the u.s. but now they are shooting them in broad daylight in mexico. how should he respond? >> well, let me just say, you know, our hearts and prayers go out to those families and those victims. a terrible thing what happened. this administration has to do something. they have to come out very boldly and talk and use the rhetoric against mexico, against what they are, what they are not doing, support the patriots in mexico who are trying to take this fight to the cartels, call

their president out for what's happening as it relates to his policy against the cartels, which is hugs, not bullets, he ran on that. he has talked about that since he has been in office. and so it's very lacking. these cartels have enormous power. and, also, this administration has emboldened them. right? for most of the last two years we have had a chaotic border around the cartels are making money hand over fist in this situation because large numbers of people are come to the border every night. they are facilitating that smuggling. they have too much influence in mexico. now they are starting to have influence in the united states and these people that were down there from, i think it was south carolina, you know, they paid the price. you know, that lawless area in mat momatamoros and other border cities is a danger to us. >> todd: look how close it is. no doubt it is seeping into our country. of course it is. it is so darn close. how much death and destruction

do they need to wreak on americans before this white house designates the cartels a terrorist organization and allows themselves to really go after them hard core? >> yeah. they need to start by saying that they think it's a problem. remember what's happened over the last two years. they talked about the border like it was somewhere else. like it was some far offer planet. they ignored it was a crisis. they refused to call it a crisis. now they are starting to realize the costs of that and as it reels to these cartels, we got to talk about demand in this country. we have got to talk about mexico's responsibility. mexico is not going to step up and try to control their border or add resources to this problem if they are not going to have a willing partner in the white house. >> ashley: yeah, they know what's going on because now the white house is reportedly considering whether to bring back the trump era policy to detain migrant families at the border. like i said, they know what is happening. if they do bring this back, is there any one thing that you would change on this to make it better? >> well, we are talking about a surge, right? we are having uncontrolled

migration, illegal migration across the southwest border. it's only been ended in two ways, detention for everyone that's coming, until they can have their hearing in the case of family residential centers. that worked in 2014, until the government was sued and lost and lost that authority, or having the migrant protection protocols at scale across the southwest fully implemented. those could do that right now, the family residential centers is going to take regulation. it's going to take some work and bureaucracy to make that go. but having people, the ability to get their due process while they are in custody, if they get relief in immigration court, we welcome them to the united states. if not, we send them home. if you do that, you start to have a much smaller problem at the border, like when this administration took over. >> todd: also, let me just add that i guess this trump policy works because the white house seems to like it. i guess it wasn't inhumane either as democrats basically ran on against you and the trump administration. ron vitiello, thank you very

much. we appreciate your time as always, thank you, sir. >> ashley: the only thing i worry about that. i think it's a good question for a lot of people. is it too late? has too much damage been done whereby it's going to take too lock to fix or not fix at all. >> todd: we need to get answers and get them soon. "fox & friends" there take it from here. three hours, split show new york city and tampa. bye-bye. ♪ >> the present takes this very seriously. >> two americans kidnapped in mexico are dead. two others back on american soil. >> police earrested a mexican national items were found. >> we need to bankrupt them and put them out of business. >> the house subcommittee on covid-19 is holding first hearing on origins ever the virus since fbi and energy department conclude it emerged from the lab. >> it was elaborate cover-up. this wouldn't be good for science. >> federal reserve chairman says interest rates could go higher than previously.