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.

the dow plunged 500 points. >> this is unbelievable. >> ftc going after elon musk for communications with journalists. >> on the biden administration's effort to censor americans online. >> a minnesota vikings player being praised for helping rescue a man from a fiery crash wide receiver k.j. osborn. uber driver noticed the crash and they managed to free the driver. ♪ ♪ ♪ got high, high hopes. >> steve: another one of those beautiful red, white and blue in the district of columbia. it's absolutely clear, about 50-mile visibility. currently they have got 33 degrees in the federal city and they're going for a daytime high of 52. and sunrise for our nation's capital is 6:30. although ainsley people would

say people are in the dark there all the time. >> ainsley: that's exactly right. if you are heading out and you are in washington this morning. bundle up. 33 is pretty cold. >> steve: it is, indeed. here in new york city we will go down to brian in tampa. >> ainsley: much warmer. >> steve: here it still feels like winter because there is a little breeze. we have three hours of news and it starts with this awful news. a fox news alert. two of those four americans kidnapped at gunpoint in mexico are now apparently dead. >> ainsley: yeah. there are the guys who are no longer with us. the other two victims are now back safely on american soil after a dramatic rescue near the border. mexican authorities are tracking down the victims. in this -- they were in this shed. we are going to show you a picture of it. there it is in the back. they were arresting the suspect who was standing guard there was only one person out there on the property at the time that our authorities went in there where the mexican authorities did. and they arrest him.

todd piro is here with the latest. todd? >> todd: steve and ainsley we are learning that shaeed woodard and brown were already dread. williams survived the kidnapping and back in the u.s. all four traveled from south carolina to mexico so mcgee could get a tummy tuck procedure. mcgee's mother giving update she is doing okay. she was crying. she watched two of them die. they died in front of her. this photo in the scene shows mcgee in the back of the ambulance after she was rescued by mexican authorities. she'll and eric james women's crossed the border and brought to a hospital in texas shortly after they were safe. the victims all held hostage in this small shack located in a rural part of eastern mexico where officials say they likely got lost and carttled members may have mistaken them from road haitian drug smugglers. mexican police arresting a mexican national in connection with the violent kidnapping. that suspect identified as jose

guadeloupe and is accused of guarding the shack where all four victims were found. authorities did not say whether he is a member of the cartel. the kidnapping caught on surveillance video. that some may find disturbing. the footage showing the moment when all four victims were dragged into the back of the pickup truck. can you see the armed suspects who were wearing bullet proof verses. see them right there? there they are. now that we know the fate of all four victims all eyes on the federal government's response. the u.s. has put mexico on its strongest possible do not travel alert on the heels of last weekend's deadly kidnapping. back to you. >> steve: todd, thank you so much. the white minivan with the carolina plates was in the wrong place at the wrong time. it sounds like the cartel wound up thinking that white minivan full of the haitians who are drug peddlers so on the wrong street at the wrong time. you know what? apparently the mexican officials

found out about the kidnapping online. and they didn't know that they were americans until they saw the license plate so they called u.s. authorities. you know what the mexican authorities did they used surveillance cameras in the area to determine the number of cartel vehicles involved in the attack. so if the guy outside the wooden shed where they were keeping the two survivors was not from a cartel it would be amazing because obviously they used the cartel camera to figure out who everybody was. >> ainsley: yesterday, when we heard mexico, we instantly thought spring breakers. a lot of people go down to mexico for spring is break. the u.s. government is warning all of you if you have plans to go to mexico to avoid the cartel hot spots amid the spike in violence. travel agents are reporting the post pandemic boom. they are saying numbers are very similar to the pre-pandemic year, pre2020, so if you are going down there, be very careful. these individuals were from the

myrtle beach, south carolina area. tay mcgee is 35 years old. she has had six children. she wanted to go down there for a tummy tuck probably because it's a lot cheaper down in mexico and they thought they would just be safe. but, unfortunately they weren't, brian. >> brian: yeah, so far, you know, this barbara burgess the mom of the kidnapping victims said that her daughter talked to her daughter who is doing okay. she was crying because her brother got killed and she watched him die. she watched the two of them die. they died right in front of them. now you have the attorney general who comes out and says the justice department would be relentless in pursuing justice on their behalf. we will do everything in our power to find and hold them accountable. sadly, i don't believe. i just don't believe. the fact is that we haven't heard from the president yet. the fact that we haven't come out strong against this. the fact that he is not instinctively outraged by. this i find astounding. here is the give and take in the pressroom yesterday as peter doocy tried to find out where

the president was and what he plans on doing. >> cartels kill americans on the side of the border with drugs. and now they are killing americans on the other side of the border with gun us. why is president biden so comfortable with cartels operating so close to the u.s.? >> well, let's be very clear. let me take on the drug part here since you brought this up. because of the work that this president has done, because of what we have done specifically on fentanyl at the border. it's at historic lows. can. >> pete: would president biden be taking the same approach if it was al-qaeda or isis operating just across the border from an american city? >> the president takes this very seriously. when it comes to americans' lives and when it comes to the safety of americans the president is always going to make sure that that is a top priority. >> peter: would president biden ever consider using the u.s. military to disrupt cartel operations? >> i'm just not going to get into the military and how it's being used.

>> brian: yeah, the fact is they don't tell her anything. they put her out there. what they're going to do. the actions they are taking. why is it that congressman and senators can say this is what i hope is done republicans and democrats. never get anything from the white house. stick her out there every day with almost no answers with generic catchall phrases. it's embarrassing. this is something where, guys, if you are president of the united states and this is your neighbor to the south, you have already broken the border. your asylum policies are absolutely awful. you are in a crisis situation already. we have numbers of fentanyl just boggles the mind and now we are seeing our citizens kidnapped and killed on camera and the administration can't get -- doesn't feel as though they need to speak to us. i find that astounding. >> steve: she had a real whopper in that answer and fentanyl was at historic low. and that simply is not true. the former attorney general, bill barr, said yesterday the united states should treat gangs, terrorists like isis because they are terrorists.

and texas congressman dan crenshaw and the congressman from the state that brian is in, in florida, michael waltz, recently introduced a bill giving the president authority to use u.s. military against the mexican cartels. if the mexican cartels, ainsley, had that kind of threat hey, you know what? if we grab people across the border they might send a cruise missile at us or something maybe they wouldn't do it. >> ainsley: lindsey graham is working on legislation too because he represents south carolina where these victims lived, resided. when you hear her say we are at a record low for fentanyl. >> steve: crazy. >> ainsley: it is not true, like you said, steve. in 2022, cbp says they seized almost 15,000 pounds. the year before that 11,200 pounds. it's graze that they are seizing that. if the numbers are increasing in what they are seizing, i'm sure the numbers are increasing in what is actually making across the border that they aren't

being able to seize. brian? >> brian: all right. yeah. so, goody goody burg early is where i'm at right now. are you guys happy "fox & friends" is here? [cheers and applause] brian i'm going to be meeting some of tampa bay's finest today and finding out what is going on in this area which is a real mix of blue and red and find out where they stand about their governor. a little bit later on today i'm going to have a chance to go one-on-one with governor desantis. you will see that saturday and part 2 on monday on "fox & friends" and find out how he is going to respond to major league baseball calling florida out and everything else that's going on and meanwhile, find out the pulse of the people here in free florida. seems as though the governor of california has a real problem with florida. i wonder why a lot of their citizens have decided to move here. we will do that and talk to nic swisher and mike of the bucs. have a lot of fun and find out the history of this restaurant which dates back to 1925. but, ainsley, you know exactly what is straight ahead.

>> ainsley: i do. and i have know that area very well, too. did you go to ebore city last night? >> no. i wasn't in the party mood. we just were getting ready for this but i apologize. i will try to go clubbing before all diner events even though we have to get up at 2:30 in the morning. >> ainsley: you don't get up. you go straight to the location the diner. >> brian: that's always a thought. >> ainsley: you will be very hungry and that point and want to stop and get a burger. still ahead the federal trade commission coming for elon musk what they want from the richest man in the world after his takeover of twitter and how it poses a threat to the first amendment. >> steve: plus, charles barclay dumping on nba analyst kendrick perkins for suggesting that mvp voters biased against black players. hear his fired up response live from new york city on this wednesday, march 8th. and look who else is joining us on this wednesday "fox & friends."

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treatments receiving treatment. the hacking group published the images after lehigh valley health network refused to pay ransom. the network is calling it unconscionable criminal act. at least one person is dead in a massive apartment fire overnight just north of new york city. the fire in yonkers started on the first floor and spread quickly through the multi story building. at least eight fdny firefighters that fire broke out last night and quickly spread to nearby buildings. nba legend charles barkley dunking on nba analyst kendrick perkins for suggesting that mvp voters show a racial bias against black players. the remarks came during a debate about denver nugget start in a cola yoke kitchen who is a gave detroit win the award this season. >> if only five white guys have won mvp in the last 30 years.

that makes zero sense, his argument. zero sense. because if that was the case. we would have a lot more white mvps. >> yoke kitchen is average ago triple double this season. those your headlines, back to you. >> ainsley: thank you so much, ashley. well, you know, these republicans now have taken over the house and they are in control of the house and they promised all these investigations we saw that with covid. going to start seeing it with afghanistan and also start seeing with weapons that the government is overreaching the weaponization of social media like twitter. the house select subcommittee on the government weaponizing social media has been informed that the ftc was sending all these letters to twitter more than a dozen of them saying we need you to hand over so much information, elon musk, and we need to find out why you fired jim baker who was formerly with

the fbi and worked for twitter. we need to know what they knew when it comes to the twitter files. they have although demands. the letters are played public. the "wall street journal" done huge story on it. they are accusing the ftc our lawmakers of overreaching to harass twitter. >> steve: and for instance, brian, tell us a little bit of what they are asking for. >> brian: so this is absolutely insanity. this is insanity if you look at some of the demands identify all journalists. if you get the twitter files. can you see all the journalists, shellenberger, tiberiasy. we know about bari weiss provide all internal communications related to musk. why are not we asking internal communications with zuckerberg. >> ainsley: it's a private company. brian what are they talking about? they're allowed to do what they want. explain why they fired former fbi counsel jim baker? why wouldn't he have.

the bigger question is why was he even there when he got the keys to twitter. you want to go over jim baker's transgressions? pull up a chair and get an ottoman, twitter blue subscription service. the massive layoffs is i a many the richest man in the world. i had a company fat and lazy. he went in and gutted it and runs it like a business. i believe he has a microchip business. who is the ftc to tell him who to fire and hire. steve, this is absolutely insane. by the way, we are going to see shellenberg and taibbi. bari weiss i don't think they have agreed to yet. go tell what happened at twitter. why are they so concerned about internal communication at twitter that might reveal the operations of a major company that effects the freedom of speech in america. this is absolutely insane. >> steve: well, some of those journalists you just mentioned michael shellenberger his response was it's a shameful case of weaponization of a

government agency for political purposes and suppression of the truth. this is an outrageous attack. >> brian: no kidding. >> steve: attack on the first amendment. elon musk says a shameful case of weaponization of government agency for political purposes and suppression of the truth and matt taibbi said this is insane overreach. okay, now, keep in mind, this is the ftc, the federal trade commission. why would they be looking into a social media company? well, what they say is they were worried about as soon as elon musk took over, and he started firing people, that staff reductions would impact twitter's ability to protect consumers' information. and that was in one of the official demand letters that they sent to twitter. ultimately, the ftc is run by a democrat by the name of lena khan. and what it looks like. it looks like from the outside the biden administration does

not like the fact that suddenly there is somebody who is more in the middle lane than to the far left running twitter. and ultimately, they used to control it and now they can't control it anymore. >> ainsley: yeah, appealing back the onion. no word yet if elon musk actually, i guess he got these letters but whether or not he did anything about it. whether or not he handed over all of this information. >> steve: he was supposed to be deposed february 3rd. didn't work out. unclear when that's going to happen. >> ainsley: i imagine if they are sending in more than 12 letters he probably never responded, right? here is tom fitton the president of judicial watch on president biden using the ftc to target elon musk and free speech on twitter. >> well, the ftc is on the cutting edge of the biden administration's efforts to censor americans online. they are very keen on doing this, using the powers of the ftc has in litigation. and musk is a key figure.

he is standing fast, almost alone among the big tech companies in promoting freer speech online. and joe biden opposes first amendment protections online and his ftc is acting on his behalf you know, remember, biden specifically targeted musk from the podium. he said there should be a national security review of what he is doing. >> steve: brian? >> brian: yeah, well, i will tell you what, to me, this is just the beginning. like dave chapelle in comedy. very few people can push back against cancel culture, push back against government overreach. elon musk actually has the wherewithal, the governmental contracts. the impact with his internet, with his satellite service, cloud service. his space transportation getting us up to the space station. you can't mess to this guy to a certain extent.

if you want a green economy you can't mess with the guy who gave you the number one electric car company. my hope is expose it and reign back in the ftc. meanwhile i had a chance to be here at goody goody burger because they have opened their doors to us one hour early. the one who had the keys to the place andrew gosar williams a fifth generation business owner. this dates back to 1925. tell me about legacy. >> when goody goody was founded in 1925. a huge part of tampa bay. i talked to so many people this morning say their families met and got married because they were at goody goody. and my father had the pleasure of reopening the restaurant in 2016 giving it back to the community. >> brian: even though it's goody goody burger. number one thing for breakfast. >> pancakes are this big. >> brian: number one for lunch. >> the burger, of course. >> brian: how has the economy been. >> we have been so fortunate. great comeback after code. just by the looks of this

morning see how grace great it is. >> brian: thanks so much. we will be bothering you throughout the day and talking to some people. talk so some of them now. first off, what's your name. >> mayan degree a masena. >> brian: do you have a special connection to this place. >> a little bit. my parents over there are going to be celebrating their 60th anniversary in july and they got engaged at the goody goody. >> brian: is any of this true, sir? >> absolutely. they are telling me it's true. >> would i lie to you. >> brian: absolutely not. what's special about this place and tampa bay. >> just that desantis is great governor. he allows you the freedom to be able to do what we like to do and no taxation. great lace to live. >> brian: tell me what attracted you to this lovely handsome man 60 years ago. >> good looking. >> brian: still. >> and was funny. a little humor can get you a long way. >> brian: let me just tell you he is still funny. >> very much. >> brian: let me go over here if i can sir, what's your name?

>> peter shatner. >> brian: why was it important for you to wear this jacket that screams florida and come down here an hour before this opened to be on our show? >> because i'm going to direct traffic later. [laughter] >> brian: what issue matters most to you? >> you mean generally now, right now, i think we have a problem in this country. we need new management and i hope that trump runs, of course, and wins. we will see what happens. >> brian: all right. how many people here want trump to run? [cheers. [how many people want trump to win? [cheers and applause] >> brian: all right. we will have more from everybody. get everybody's opinions here this morning. great breakfast place so glad you are up. let's go either to break. in fact, i want to go to ainsley. ainsley, you want to tell us specifically what is coming up next. >> ainsley: thank you so much, brian. coming up, a fox news alert. the murders of those two americans down in mexico highlighting the ruthless drug cartels operating just across our border. >> steve: texas dps lieutenant

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♪ >> ainsley: this is a fox news alert. an arrest is made in the murders of the two americans in mexico. the group traveling across the border for a medical procedure when they were ambushed by a violent drug cartel. the two surviving friends are now in a texas hospital as we learned they might have been

mistaken for haitian smugglers. this is all highlighting the dangers of the drug cartels that are operating just across the border. texas department of public safety lieutenant chris olivares joins us now. good morning, lieutenant. >> good morning, ainsley, thanks for having me on. >> thanks for coming on. this was a shocker yesterday when we learned of this news. some americans go across the border. they go to mexico mainly for vacation. they were there for a medical procedure. this happened just across the border. what do americans need to know about this threat. >> one thing we are telling, of course, anybody that is wanting to travel to mexico try to refrain from traveling to mexico now. too dangerous. too much crime as far as with the cartels operating in mexico. especially not morass the gulf cartel operates smaller groups of enforcement groups that pretty much carry out attacks

within those groups several groups fighting within each other. because of that the violence has increased in that particular area. we talk about the haitians. one thing to keep in mind too. those cartel groups are recruiting meigss for organized crime. because of that any part of mexico from these dangerous cartels. >> this just is a good reminder of why our border security is so important because these cartels are so close to america that is one thing with spring break coming up. visitors not only in texas but out of state that travel to that particular part of mexico matamoros one thing we are trying to tell our people trying to travel to those areas is do

not go into mexico to stay away from mexico before historically that was a place to be. everybody would want to go to mexico for the restaurant and the clubs and the bars that were there. in case now, with the violence that's taking place within miles of the texas-mexico border, it's very dangerous to go into mexico right now. these cartels don't care as far as who they are dealing with and who is coming across. we saw on that video just they weren't worried. they weren't worried about the military. they weren't worried about the police. they were taking their time to, you know, kidnap the female and also recover the bodies. that's very rare and i have fortunate that the female and the other male that were released that survived this vicious attack actually were released by the cartels because in most cases the cartels would not allow anybody to survive. they would not leave any victims or evidence behind. but, in this case they realized that they actually made a mistake. they shot at u.s. citizens and they are going to receive pressure from both sides from mexico and the u.s. >> ainsley: lieutenant. thank you so much for coming on this morning and thank you for what you do. >> appreciate it, ainsley.

>> ainsley: the fed indicating that interest rates will rise once again. leading to a massive sell off on wall street. what you need to know about your money. and, brian is having breakfast with our friends down in tampa, florida. >> brian: and, like so many stories we get, so many people left new york and came to florida including -- your name, sir? >> richard darlington. >> brian: richard, why did you move down here. >> basically all three of our kids were here first but a lot of other reasons. >> brian: your background is. >> retired police sergeant. >> brian: right. so many retired police sergeants and firefighters choose florida. >> absolutely. >> brian: what's the atragesdz? >> where do i start? crime, politics, taxes. the weather. >> brian: that's a good start. some of the reasons why people came here and went to tampa in particular. we will have those stories and so much more from the goody goody burger a place that's been around since 1925. i hope i don't screw it up. back in a moment.

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>> steve: did you look at the numbers yesterday the stock market took a big dive closing significantly will her after the fed warned they might have to raise interest rates for a lot longer and maybe up bigger, a lot. the move could be, yet, another attempt to lower inflation rates they say but is it worth the market turmoil and instability. well, joining us right now here in studio m we have got stock swoosh founder melissa armo. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: yesterday the stock market took quite a swoosh didn't it swooched straight down. >> it did. >> steve: the administration is always trying to put on the happy face. things are getting better. we are trying to get the inflation down to 2%. we are still along ways way from it. we will have to continue to jack up the rates. unfortunately that means a lot of people are going to lose their jobs. >> you have already seen

companies lay people off since the beginning of this year. american company are very resilient they are almost planning ahead for the fact that we could possibly go into a recession at the latter part of 2023. in fact facebook which is now meta is planning on coming out with more layoffs by the end of this week. amazon, disney. have already laid people off since the beginning of this year. overcompensating bringing people on board. almost overhired because such a competitive market and now they are laying people off. remember, the unemployment rate actually comes out friday. we will see what it says. that's a lagging indicator. every time we get the number. every time the administration talks about the number. it's retroactive with something that happened in the past. eventually it's going to catch up to it where we will see that number tick up and it could be this friday and in you could see another negative reaction in the stock market by the end of this week. >> steve: here is the head of the fed talking about raising rates yesterday. watch.

>> come in stronger than expected. which suggests that the ultimate level of interest rates is likely to be higher than previously anticipated. if the totality of the data were to indicate that faster tightening is warranted, we would be prepared to increase the pace of rate hikes. >> steve: okay. so, increase the pace, increase the amount. ultimately, if you have anything on credit, it's going to cost you more and it's going to make it much harder to buy a house. >> first of all, i think anybody that wanted to buy a house probably bought a house when the boom happened. you could have sold your house and made tons of money. >> steve: if you could find something. >> a lot of people down sized. people wanted to retire early. things like that. or move to a cheaper state. obviously people are moving around a lot across the country after covid that played a part in it. by the end of the year see mortgage rates 8%. years ago they used to be 9 and 10. when my parents bought their first house i think it was 13%. >> steve: i remember 18% during the carter years. >> 8% is cheap for you.

>> steve: but it's not. it doesn't have to be that high. >> well, the problem is that inflation right now is ticking right under 7%. but, me as a consumer you know if you go to the grocery store you have your cookbook and go buy food. food costs are not 7% higher. so food costs are 100 percent higher. >> steve: i bought eggs yesterday for $7 a dozen. >> ridiculous. especially in new york i have seen them for $10 for like a dozen. it depends on where you live. they say the bird flu. this thing with the eggs. still seen uptick in prices across the board with everything. the bottom line is people should expect the fact every $10,000 in credit card debt you will pay an extra $100 the next three months in the way they are going to raise rates. nobody knows if they will raise them a half a point in two weeks. or not. people need to be aware of that. >> steve: stand by. get some good advice over at stock swoosh.com. thank you. thanks for having me. >> steve: all right. it is 17

minutes before the top of the hour. and ashley joins us with news from the laundrie family. >> yeah, steve. brian laundrie's mother is speaking out on the note she wrote to her son about helping to bury a body. roberta laundrie claimed she sent the note, which was marked burn after reading as a metaphor for the lengths she would go for her son. while i use the words that seem to have a connection with brian's action and taking gabby's life i never would have fathomed the months would have reflected the words in my letter. laundrie said she gave her is on the letter before brian's cross-country trip. first hearing on origins of the virus. comes as the intel committee advances a measure requiring the administration to, quote: declassify any and all information relating to potential links between the wuhan institute of virology and the origin of covid-19. senator rand paul is also accusing dr. anthony fauci of hiding the truth.

>> it was elaborate cover-up and began in january of 2020. there is emails between dr. collins and dr. fauci in which dr. collins says this wouldn't be good for china. this wouldn't be good for science. >> ashley: former cdc director robert redfield is among those set to testify today. north carolina police are searching for four men caught on camera is taking pricy cars from a luxury dealership. surveillance footage shows them grabbing keys from a desk and driving off through the showroom windows. they stole three bmws and maserati worth more than $300,000. in arizona incredible images of a bobcat getting cozy on dog bed inside a arizona home. the person who lives there telling state officials they think the wild cat got in through unlocked doggy door it escaped before an officer arrived that is the sole reason i do not have a doggy door. those your headlines. check in with janice dean for fox weather forecast.

>> janice: we have one of those doggy beds. they are really really comfortable, i think. i would like one for myself. take a look at the maps. it's cold here in the northeast. i have been looking at long range forecasts. march mighting the coldest month so are if a. it field feels colder with the winds. feels like, i don't know, it feels just colder than that i don't have the air temperature or the wind chill but just take it from me it's pretty chilly. storm system and storm track bring the potential for flash flooding in some of these areas across the mississippi and the missouri river valley and days of snow my friends for the northern plains and the upper midwest and the great lakes. so this pattern is going to kind of stick around for the weekend. we could actually get a little bit more snow in the new york city area. i will keep you up to date on that. rain forecast could bring the potential for flash flooding on wednesday and thursday and then something we didn't talk about but affecting the west is more heavy rain along the coast and mountain snow and we are putting

a dent in the drought but flash flooding is going to be a big risk. all right, steve doocy, over to you my friend. >> steve: janice, i know because it's cold outside. as soon as i start talking about what's coming up, she is now able to run into the building from 12 seconds. i have timed her, i will tell you she is coming. she is coming. she is in the building. all right. way to go. all right. coming up. >> we are marking 40 years since former president ronald reagan's evil empire speech. >> to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire. >> steve: how the former president's warning about communism may have a greater meaning now. plus, brian is having breakfast with friends at goody goody burg early in tampa. >> >> brian: yep. here in tampa this place is not supposed to open for another 15 minutes but it's packed out. a lot of people including ed buckley. you grew up, your dad is in the

military. >> that's right. >> brian: traveling all around? >> that's right. >> how did you end up here? it is amazing place. i came down from the university of florida go gators. i came down and got to meet mayor bob buck horn. it's an awesome city. can't say enough great things. >> brian: good for your business? >> it's awesome. raised over 50 million in capital. it's an easy place to recruit heck, you came down here. >> brian: how about that? thanks so much for showing up. let's go back to the studio. in fact, take a short time-out and come back. we will have more from goody goody burgers in just a moment. don't move. o sleep and wake up ready to go. how could you? wake up to a new you. with mucinex nightshift, it's not cold and flu season. it's always comeback season. only at vanguard, you're more than just an investor you're an owner. that means that your goals are ours too.

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>> brian: all right. here is what is going on football nfl time. top brass jets california landed last night to try convince packer's quarterback aaron rodgers to not retire leave the packers and go to new york. jeff stars gardner chiming in on twitter he will burn the packers cheese head he briefly wore after a win last season if rogers leaves green bay to new york. jets beat them last year. ravens used nonexclusive franchise tag on jackson. the baltimore can match any offer. that's a risk. giants sign jones to a four year

$160 million deal and use their franchise tag on star running back barclay. no idea how he feels about that. tom brady is laughing off rumors to a potential return to the nfl. he tweeted out anyone who thinks i have time to come back to the nfl has never adopted a 2-month-old kitten for their daughter. all right. >> i'm convinced the seven time super bowl adopted two kids last month. retirement comes eyeing the miami dolphins. steve and ainsley, back to you. >> steve: so a is i kitty could keep him on the sidelines. former president ronald reagan's infamous evil empire speech. >> i urge you to beware of the temptation of pride. the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label sides equally at fault to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire to

simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil. >> steve: i remember that. >> ainsley: "fox & friends weekend" co-host rachel campos-duffy is live at the victims of communism museum in washington, d.c. hey, rachel. >> good morning. so great to see you both. i tell you, i hear at the victims of communism memorial museum and i'm here with dr. elizabeth spalding. she is the chairwoman of this museum. and also with elliott burke. he is the head of the evil empire memorial foundation who they are about to put up a marker memorializing this an verse. i will start with you dr. spalding. so many 100 million victims of communism and yet we know -- i know as a parent there is a virtual blackout on this information. tell me about why this museum is so important. >> it was because of that blackout in part and we wanted to remember all of the victims

of communism that have been created for over 100 years now. and so we have a foundation that's been in existence for almost 30 years. we do all sorts of educational programming, including curriculum. we have a memorial. but we wanted to have a museum in order to have a place for people to go and learn this very important lesson about 100 million victims killed by communism. that doesn't include all the ones that are forced to live under communism. now and in the past. >> rachel: yeah. and uppersfully murdered, dehumanized by communism. such an important place. children can come to this museum. schools are coming. a lot of private schools, charter schools. we need more public schools coming in here and learning the truth. but speaking of the truth, elliot. you know, ronald reagan understood that if he was going to defeat communism the weapons weren't enough. he needed words. he needed the truth to be told. and that's what this speech was about, right? >> that's correct, yeah.

i mean, i think president reagan knew that his words were what would ultimately reach so many people that were suffering under communism. and over the years, after i set up this foundation, i have met so many dissidence that said it was this speech that really gave them hope. >> rachel: they were in their cells and find out about this speech and he used the words evil empire. and they would tap it in morse code to each other to give themselves comfort and support and hope. >> that's right. this was their moment. >> rachel: yeah. this was their moment. let's talk about the speech was given in orlando. >> that's right. >> rachel: to a group national evangelical association. derided by the media. his advisers were angry that he gave it. what is the marker, the historical marker say outside of this hotel now? >> so it's the marker will go up probably in about six or seven months. >> rachel: okay. >> but what it's going to read is known as the evil empire

speech. president reagan knew that victory against soviet communism has much to do with words as weapons. he made his case for freedom with a moral clarity that galvanized victims of communism across the world. in the years that followed the speech. soviet union came to the negotiating table. the berlin wall was taken down. the iron curtain fell and the soviet empire crumbled. today millions of people that once lived under the tyranny of soviet communism now live in freedom. >> rachel: such an important speech with so much meaning still today. so, thanks for joining us this morning and i'm looking forward to taking a tour. >> great. >> rachel: back to you guys. >> ainsley: thank you so much. fascinating. >> steve: speech he gave 40 years ago today. >> ainsley: singer jennifer nettles hosting a brand new show on fox. so fun. you will want to know more about this. e is going to join us liver a sneak peek.g to join us liver ew flonase headache and allergy relief! two pills relieve allergy headache pain?

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