>> todd: a fox news alert, three police officers in los angeles hospitalized after being shot by felony drug suspect following standoff that lasted hours last night. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier, in for carley shimkus. it happened in a small neighborhood north of los angeles, officers were investigating a barricade in an apartment and refused to surrender. the suspect opened fire. >> todd: brooke singman has details. >> brooke: all three lapd are in stable condition at a hospital after last night's shooting following the standoff. >> it started 3:50 this afternoon, it shows the level of

patience and the officers trying to resolve this peacefully. behavior of this individual did not result in that. residents were not injured and grateful the officers will be okay. >> brooke: the officers were shot three hours after the standoff began. two were patrol officers and the other worked in the canine unit. the lapd says none of the dogs were injured in last night's shooting. los angeles issued citywide tactical alert in response to the shooting. the suspect is dead and there is no longer a threat in the area. he started firing at the officers and the law enforcement used canines, bean bags and gas to get him. a swat team broke through the barricade and moved in on the suspect. reports say the shooter was a felony drug suspect, police have not confirmed his identity.

fraternal order of police president reacting saying, how many more of us need to be shot or die before safety and protection of law enforcement is a priority? los angeles mayor karen bass visited the wounded officers at the hospital last night. she says all three were concern about their colleagues. >> todd: n.b.a. all star is in police custody in connection to a drive-by shooting in washington state. police charging the super sonic charge with a felony. one car fled the scene and authorities recovered a gun. no injuries reported. drive-by shootings carry sentence of 10 years in washington state. >> ashley: now wanted by the mexican government in connection with the hostage situation that left two americans dead just 30 minutes south of texas. family members of both surviving

victims say their friends were killed right in front of them. >> todd: marianne rafferty has more. >> marianne: accused of abducting four americans and killing two of them. garcia is wanted for the shooting death of two americans. mexico announced a bounty on garcia, who is the leader operating in matamoros since 2015. four individuals were kidnapped on friday, brown and woodward were later found dead. ge's cousin describing her family's shock at what happened to her? >> the thought of her coming over here, did that worry you at all at any point? >> it didn't worry me, i'm thinking everything should be okay. >> marianne: this brazen broad daylight shooting has lawmakers calling for justice and

increased border security. rick scott saying biden's botched border policy. dictators, cartels and bad guys know biden is a weak appeaser with open-border policies. a bill introduced to designate mexican cartels as terrorist organizations, a move the white house is not supporting, saying it will not prevent cartel violence. >> it would not grant us additional authority we don't have at this time, the united states has powerful sanctions to combat trafficking organizations, we don't believe this will grant us additional authority. >> marianne: this is days before spring break begins for college students around the country. travel department reminded to avoid sick states including where the four americans were

held hostage. >> ashley: thank you. democratic senator joe manchin says violence is escalating to a are wa, one china is helping fuel. >> to have china sending the base product to mexico and having the mexican government not doing what they should be doing to protect, having our military, if you will, this is a war. it has become a war. look at your graph, we never lost this many people in are was. >> ashley: ccp and mexican drug cartels will headline the hearing on key threats posed by china and the cartels. florida governor ron desantis exposing explicit material found in florida school libraries and some of it is too graphic for twitter and tv. >> some of the stuff you saw there, that porno graphic, why have this media center with 10-year-old students?

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travel plans will be not great. this is friday through sunday, interior sections of the northeast will get bulk of the snow right now and then on monday, a nor'easter, we have to determine if this is too warm for a snow event along the i-95 corridor. this will cause problems on monday and tuesday. that is a tease, pay attention to foxweather.com, for the latest details. the west, more heavy rain and mountain snow, this is great news because it will put a dent in the drought and fill up residencer voirs, but flash flooding is a concern for the burn areas and account see rock slides. along coast of california, interior sections will get snow. three to five inches for redmond, california. this is a good thing, but will cause some problems in the short

term. highs today warm across the south, cold for the northern tier of the country. we got a lot going on, lots going on across the country. you are giving me side eye. >> ashley: stink eye and it is not your fault. >> todd: i will get all expense paid trip to new york city. >> janice: it might be too warm for snow event, gusty wind and interior sections will get blockbuster snow. it happens in march. >> janice: i'll keep you posted. >> todd: ron desantis uncovering sexually inappropriate material too inappropriate for television in school libraries. >> we believe in the rights of parent to be involved with their children so parents know what books are being used in the classroom and procedures where

they say wait a minutes, that is porno graphic, why have that in the media center with a 10-year-old student? it is wrong. >> todd: a florida parent joins me now. this was a chess move by ron desantis. force twitter to call insensitive content and force local news to turn off cameras because they couldn't show it to the audience because it was so graphic. why is this okay for your school's library? >> well, quite frankly, it is not okay. when inparents drop children of to school, you shouldn't feel you are dropping your child off in front of an adult sex shop and that is what the schools are turning into many times. we are seeing so much explicit material you can't show it on the news, they feel it is okay to show to children. we are having conversations and get pushback from the left or

teachers unions or some adults who are just don't believe these things are happening and we're showing they don't believe it. we're getting pushback, that says a lot about where we are, where public education is in america. >> todd: we will not show the illustrations because they are too graphic, ilstragszs in books include minors engaged in sex acts, illustrations on how to masturbate or download apps that make it easier to have casual intercourse. this is for children, why is the left promoting this stuff in the first place. this is sick. >> well, i will tell you, this is an agenda called march through the institutions, they have an agenda to make our children minions of the state. they want complete and total control of our children.

they are looking to indoctrinate young minds and we cannot stand by and let this happen. we have to make sure, it goes beyond book bags, get involved and ask your children what is going on. what happened today at school? detailed questions because you don't know what is happening behind and inside that classroom door. >> todd: the fact that we're having this discussion makes me so sad because i look at my kids, i don't want them experiencing any of this nonsense. you want them to learn about sex in a healthy environment, i want that to be my choice, i don't want the state making that decision for them and doing it in a porno graphic way is horrific. over three million students in nearly 6000 schools are covered by guidance that allows gender

changes for kids to be hidden from parents. how outlandish is this? >> again, this is an agenda, we have to understand who and what we are fighting. they are intentional about ripping children away from parents, they will clothe them, send them to the dentist, give them eye and hearing exams, those are cares that parents typically take care of. when the public education schooling system takes charge of those things and we as parents have been like, that is okay, that gives them idea they have power to make decisions and to keep things from you as parents. we have to stand up and say no more, i will take care of these things, start bringing back power, never let anyone have

that power over your children and your family. >> todd: to do what you just said, do you have a specific step you advise parents to take? >> i do. what i did with my children, ask them detailed questions, not just how was your day. what did you talk about in class today. in history class, language art classes, social studies classes, even in math and science, ask them what did you guys talk about, were there things that made you laugh or feel uncomfortable? when your child starts to open up, you will be surprised what they say. don't stop there, let your child, if they are old enough, let your child figure out the logical process, ask them, do you think this is right? how do you think you can better handle these things? if you give your children the opportunity to make logical steps, they will figure this out and say, it helps them build up

courage and confidence to take a step when class is over to approach the teacher and say that this conversation made me feel uncomfortable. many teachers will take the time to listen. >> todd: i think it is a great approach, i've heard that approach from others and it works, is smart, every parent should do it. thank you so much. emotional day on capitol hill, veterans testify about failures they witnessed during the withdrawal from afghanistan, including one that could have cost 13 american lives. >> we asked him for engagement authority if we could shoot. our battalion commander said, i don't know. the individual disappeared, to this day, we believe he was the su suicide bomber. >> ashley: reaction to that emotional hearing next. yup, these guys too.

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>> todd: massive anti-government demonstrations breaking out across israel as lloyd austin is expected to touchdown in israel in just minutes while protesters swarm that airport. he will meet benjamin netanyahu throughout the day. protesters say they are targeting the airport to make it difficult for the prime minister to get on a scheduled flight to italy later today. >> ashley: emotional day on capitol hill on the withdrawal from afghanistan. marine sergeant breaking down in tears recounting the suicide bombing that claimed the lives of 13 u.s. service members. >> asked him for engagement authority permission if we could shoot. our battalion commander said, i

don't know. myself and my team leader asked, who does, this is your responsibility, sir. he replied he would find out, received no update and never got an answer. the individual disappeared, to this day, we believe he was the suicide bomber. >> ashley: the mother of lance corporal is here. thank you for taking time to talk about this. my heart goes out to each of you and your families and we appreciate the sacrifice of your sons. start with you first, when you were hearing this testimony yesterday, what was going through your mind? >> i got emotional while hearing the testimony and ended up becoming more upset when i realized that it could have been

prevented. >> ashley: paula, same question, what were you thinking when you were hearing this testimony? >>-- ryan's poster behind me and i held him because he is the reason why i have so much sadness this morning. >> ashley: i can hear it in your voice and i can't imagine what you were thinking when this was happening. hearing this yesterday. shana, when you say it could have been prevented. when he was asking about his boss, asking if he could engage this suspect and he said, i don't know, what did you think? >> what i've known all along, i've talked to several of the marines there throughout the last 19 months and they all said the same thing, there was

basically, they were running amuck and doing what they thought they were supposed to be doing, they didn't have a general direction of what they were supposed to do. they were asking each other what they were supposed to be doing. >> paula, when you heard that and heard what shana said and in talking to other marines, when it comes to the leadership in the military, not only should this be concerning to military members and their families, but to america, it doesn't seem leadership had any idea what was going on or discretion to make those calls. >> that is correct, ryan is army staff sergeant, ryan knauss. what i heard on capitol hill, there are many strong veterans

on the foreign affairs committee and it was relief to me to hear that we have men and women who are ready on capitol hill to finally hear the pleas that we have and it is also a very alarming thing to hear that individuals and organizations were the ones who have stepped up in the past 19 months to see that we are still retrieving americans and still retrieving individual afghan friendlies from danger right now. it is a great alarm to me our government has pushback against us trying to upon had those still left behind. it also is a great deal of joy for me to hear finally our children are getting justice on capitol hill. >> ashley: this has been a very long time coming, this should have happened within days of this situation in afghanistan,

but here we are too far away from the situation. shana, anything you learned yesterday? you said you had been talking to the maen radio -- marines, anything you learned you didn't know before? >> yeah, i think kareem had been seen before he passed away, i heard that when tyler was talking. i've had his marine brothers tell me before, that is what they all seen, it made me emotional thinking kareem's last hours on this earth were seeing people be hurt, he didn't like to see people be hurt. >> ashley: he had spoken to you about this. paula, did your son do the same? >> no, when ryan left and was on

site as an army special forces, he only had a short while to adjust to what was going on. one thing he said to me before he left, mom, i can't tell you where i'm going, but turn on the tv and it will be an s show you will see. he knew what he was getting into. >> ashley: absolutely heart breaking to hear. shana, give you the last word, your final thoughts on the testimony from yesterday? >> after listening to everybody talk, i'm hoping that we do actually get some type of accountability. i don't get my hopes up too much because i don't want to make this political, i don't get my hopes up too much. >> ashley: what would

accountability look like to you? >> this administration being removed. >> ashley: paula? what would it look like to you? >> i agree, our president, our congress, must take responsibility for the lack of what they have not done since the death of our children. it is an alarming thing to see in all these months, we're finally having justice because the administration asked is forced by congress to look at this with open eyes. >> ashley: paula knauss, and shana chapelle, thank you, god bless you. we'll be right back. ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ hey, man. nice pace! clearly, you're a safe driver. you could save hundreds for safe driving with liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance

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the woke word play text, this award winner wanted to change the national women of courage to national conference of women and lesbian crossdresser, bisexual intersects and nonbinary persons. >> jimmy: real name is halloween, she won an award for costume. they upon co-opting the identity of women. what is difference in this person and rachel, who we fired for pretending to be black, she is not biologically black. this person is not biologically a woman. i am pretending to be women's rights, it's a scam. >> ashley: mayor eric adams is

bashing over the migrant crisis, listen to this. >> an individual who is dedicated to do decompression strategy for the federal government, one person we should be looking at, it is stated the role of the vp in the portfolio to be focused on doing decompression strategy. >> ashley: it affects him, he cares, he was all up in arms when abbott was sending migrants to new york. >> jimmy: 100%. sanctuary city, branding exercise, they wanted store credit. we should be building atms, this is expensive. he played into this for not calling out the biden administration for two years.

understand what he's doing now is classic new york bar move, go after one person less popular than you are. screw the red sox fan, right? in this instance kamala is the red sox fan. >> ashley: i didn't know that was a thing >> todd: the argument is she has too much in her portfolio. what do you see about this demo dem violence? >> jimmy: it is fascinating. i have no work-life balance, this is my time hanging out with you. everyone is trying to orphan this administration, there is nothing they can latch on to that looks good for their political brand. i love what i'm watching, i hate what is going on in the city in terms of the humanitarian crisis they are responsible for. >> ashley: that is the one job she was given. >> jimmy: the one gig. i don't want to are had, they gave her the difficult jobs.

you are next in line to be president. >> ashley: they are all difficult. >> jimmy: that is the point. >> ashley: goosebumps author says his publisher made woke edits behind his back. he says the stories are not true, i never changed a word in goosebumps, any changes were not shown to me. words like crazy to silly, they changed clunk to cheerful. >> jimmy: i am plump, but cheerful. this is ridiculous about the whole thing. like, liberals don't want a kid seeing the word plump, but fine with him going to a drag show. don't read plump, but if you want to give $20 to that guy na named cinnabuns, that's okay. it is us that buy this crap and

as an author, i would be furious. when your editor tells you he issic maing edits, you go along with it, behind your back, not cool. >> todd: this is something that nobody is reading this. scholastic responding, we are attempting to avoid imagery that could negatively impact a person today. to your point, drag shows and all that stuff completely fine. >> jimmy: that is what i mean, i get so mad, we are fighting the wrong battle. talking about well being, they don't want them to hear plump, might make them feel bad about themselves, denies them right to confront a negative physical reality of their lives. don't read plump, be plump, being plump comes with health liability. reading plump might get you to the gym.

am i plump? maybe i should go. >> ashley: talk about affecting kid's mental health, constantly changing everything will not help their mental health. >> jimmy: imagine that, gender ideology, listen to cyndi lauper, themes just want to have fun. >> todd: breaking news, mitch mcconnell in the hospital after a fall, we have details next. >> ashley: president biden budget wish list, cheryl casone is here to explain why the president's plan might never see the light of day, don't go anywhere. ♪ every piece of land has a story - written by those who work it. like the caggianos, who are brewing their own legacy.

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he had triple bypass surgery. we'll keep you posted when we learn more. president biden unveiled series of major tax hikes in his budget plan today. >> ashley: cheryl casone has more. good morning. >> cheryl: let's reverse all trump tax cuts, the exact plan from the biden administration's proposal coming out today. he will unroll this in philadelphia. here are numbers. looking to put 25% minimum tax on billionaires, raise national gains tax, increase the top rate for americans earning $400,000 per year, raise tax 47%, increase corporate tax rate 21 to 28%. i do wish mitch mcconnell well, he has come out before he had his accident and said no way

this will go anywhere. this is complete reversal, they want to tax everybody that makes $400,000 and up in some way, shape or form. the market is suffering, with capital gains tax, going after anybody that makes a million or more. republicans say we control the house and purse strings, this will not happen, but it is what the president will pitch. >> todd: look, i tried anticipation of having to go far right on crime. >> cheryl: the inflation story is because of all that stimulus spending, if you need to reign in spending, reign in spending, enough is you have in out of d.c., they have to quit. >> ashley: cheryl said it, enough is you have in. mid-flight outburst on a boston brown plane, watch this. >> i will kill every man on this

plane. where are they? where is homeland security? hold the gun. where are they? why are you scared? why should you be scared? tell them -- remember that. -- wherever it is, it is going to be a blood bath everywhere. >> cheryl: another example of what we're seeing in the skies and what flight attendants have to deal with. we are supposed to have air marshals on flights and we are finding out air marshals are at the southern border. you talked to the national council, listen to her response to this. >> they should have had air marshals on the aircraft, they were in the airport. this was high level flight, east coast to west coast. how many wake-up calls will we have before we're talking about this for those on the plane and

ground. primary mission is to ensure another 9/11 does not happen. >> cheryl: maybe send military down to deal with southern border and put air marshals on airports where they belong. >> ashley: they put them in the airport, not in the planes, they are in the airports, so -- >> cheryl: they got to do something, yeah, the disturbances are happening onboard and in the airport, you have police and gate agents. she made a great point, you have good samaritans having to deal with this. i feel like living in new york city, we have to deal with people, regular people like adam klotz. why is it my responsibility if i'm a passenger, my responsibility to make sure i'm on guard so nobody comes afterthe flight attendant. >> todd: the gavin newsom and

walgreens battle. >> cheryl: he is not backing down, ending the california contract with walgreens over this abortion pill dispute. here is tweet from gavin newsom. california won't be doing business with walgreens or any company that put women's lives at risk. we are done. walgreens says we are deeply disappointed by california not to renew our contract. walgreens is a business, rite-aid is considering whether to consider this. walgreen is under pressure from 20 other states and ag's saying we will go after you in our state if you sell this particular pill. president biden is trying to fight this, governor newsom putting his neck out there and again, i will say this, fiscal health of his state something that -- i don't know what to say, california is in such a

fiscal disaster state right now. take all walgreens out of the state, that will help. >> ashley: thank you. former cdc director testify under oath dr. fauci shut down internal debate about the lab leak here. watch. >> this narrative was decided they were going to say this came from the wet market and they were going to support it to negate discussion about the possibility this came from a lab. >> ashley: congressman mike johnson was in the room when that happened and joins us next. >> todd: steve doocy will look at what is coming up on "fox and friends." good morning. >> steve: good morning, coming up on "fox and friends," nine minutes and 42 seconds from now, congressman dan crenshaw is here and will discuss calls to treat cartels, particularly in mexico, as terrorists in the wake of the deadly murder down there. congressman john james and mike brown join us and west virginia

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we now know there were infections all the way back to september. this was a narrative that was decided that they were going to say this came from a wet market and they were going to do everything they could to support it, to negate any discussion about the possibility this came from a lab leak. >> todd: mike johnson house committee and committee on the weaponization of government and he joins us now. why was pushing narrative at all costs and at the expense of the truth. >> it was a much cleaner narrative and it took the attention away from him. what mr. redfield also testified to, yesterday, in his words, there is no doubt that some agencies of the federal government, like the nih and usaid were helping to fund gain of function research which led to the creation of this. dr. fauci went to the narrative it came from an animal. obviously that would be accidental natural occurrence and implications are far less dangerous for him and all those people involved.

>> ashley: so, with hearing all of this, how will fauci and these entities of the federal government, how are they going to be held accountable? >> well, we have got to present all the facts. there is a long, deliberate process that goes along with this because we are going to do it very deliberately. this is not about politics. this is about restoring the people's faith in our institutions of government itself there will be accountability for anyone involved in that it appears dr. fauci one of those persons to whom accountability is owed because he effectively tried to cover this up. that is what the documents and evidence are proving. there is mounting evidence of this. he commissioned scientific papers to triad advance his competing narrative which he obviously knew was not true. that's the implication here. we are going to lay that out. the american people will be able to make those decisions for themselves and of course make our determinations here in congress as well proceed accordingly. >> todd: the gain of function research questions by republicans elicited some fascinating answers. take a listen. >> i think there is no doubt that nih was funding gunsch

research. >> as gain of function research gained any vaccines or therapeutics to your knowledge. >> not to my knowledge. >> has gain of function research stopped a pandemic in your opinion? >> no. on the contrary. i think it probably caused the greatest pandemic our world has ever seen. >> todd: that's bad enough in and of itself. if we know gain of function research is bad why are fauci and his acolytes still pushing it and using government funding to push it not just in the united states but still in china? that makes no sense. >> it makes no sense it. boggles the mind. members of congress have been asking these questions for a few years now, trying to figure out why in the world would we be engaged in this? our frustration with dr. fauci is based upon the frustration of i think so many millions of americans of people asking so many questions. the answers are difficult to determine. i'm not really sure, towed, and that's part of the problem. that's why we are digging in and doing this. to try to ensure that this kind of madness doesn't happen again. this killed 1 million americans.

it is the greatest disruption of our life times. effectively, went about destroying large parts of the u.s. economy. the implications of this and the reverberations go on and on and on and we have ensure this never happens again. >> ashley: speaking of madness, the twitter files subcommittee of the weaponization of the federal government today and you will be one of those lawmakers asking them questions. what do you want to know? >> well, listen, the twitter files detail what we have known intuitively that has been happening. it is a fact that the agencies of the federal government including the fbi used social media platforms to censor and silence viewpoints that they disagreed with, that didn't go along with their narrative. that the political party in charge had a different idea than many of us that were on those social media platforms advancing the conservative viewpoint or narrative. that happened, we know that the fbi was effectively using twitter as a subsidiary and twitter was the dutifully doing

what the fbi instructed them to do and that is to censor and silence certain accounts and posts and tweets. it went on and on. we know this and we will unfurl that today for the american people to see. >> ashley: it's concerning i'm not sure why a federal government thinks they have any business sticking their nose into that congressman mike johnson, thank you so much for your time. with that, "fox & friends" starts right now. have a good day. ♪ ♪ >> very deadly situation. >> three police officers in los angeles have been shot. >> following an hours' long standoff. >> we are grateful residents were not injured as part of this and grateful the officers are going to be okay. >> designating ftos would not grant us additional authority. >> manhunt underway for a cartel boss known as la ken that accused of abducting four americans. >> the consequences of allowingg mexico to turn over own internal governance to cartels. >> veterans testifying about the devastating impact of the biden administration's withdrawal from afghanistan. >> there was inexcus