♪ ♪ will: welcome back to the american rodeo right here in arlington, texas. the american rodeo. let me introduce you, if i might, this morning, pete, rachel, to the fourth member of "fox & friends" in the fourth hour, the ultimate morning person, jester. [background sounds] that right there -- rachel: right on cue.

will: -- is a rode -- rodeo bull, and he is not exactly smiling this morning. pete: he's looking at you. will: that is head down, dirt scratching, slobbering bull right there. can you imagine, pete? i don't even want to get closer -- pete: no. wait, will, will, will, there's a gate between you and that guy. just walk a little closer, you know, he can't go through the gate, he can't jump, right? rachel: it's your yellowstone moment. come on, will. [laughter] will: you guys sitting on a couch in new york city. let me tell you, i'm surrounded by non-smiling faces that work at the rodeo. they're terrified that he's going to lift that panel. i just gave everybody behind me, you know, a cameraman, an audio guy, go up, not out. when he gets out of here, you climb up. he'll chase you down, so you climb fences. he is -- i saw him yesterday. by the way, jester has only been ridden five times.

87% buckoff rate. he's really not happy this morning. e -- yeah, or he's not happy. let me show grow guys -- pete: yeah, give us a tour, will. show us where you're at. will: he could lift that. look, i'm not putting it past him. you know, what's interesting about the american rodeo is i'm sitting home in the middle of the field, a brand new baseball stadium. it's gorgeous. look here, pete and rachel. that is the foul pole if line, that is left field. on my left side is another foul pole, that's right field. let's get rob to pan all the way around, home plate back here. you're looking at a baseball stadium. now, i want to show you exactly what happens when they turn turn this into a rodeo. you've seen the rodeo, you've seen what happens when cowboys get on saddle bronc, bareback or a bull. they get in chutes, right? it usually happens from the other side, but cowboys climb up the chute, and in the here is loaded the animal, right? now, it's this wild.

so jester gets loaded into here, all right? cowboys come up, and then they -- i might have unplugged my feed, you let me know. and then he spreads and drops onto this huge thing and then gets strapped in to jester. and then this gate comes flying open, jester comes out snorting, slobbering and spinning. and if you're lucky, if you're lucky, you stay on for 8 seconds. [laughter] pete: 8 seconds is the standard. i mean, looking at jester -- will: i might have just lost you guys. i'm going to the make my way back to do the show with you as you set up the news on "fox & friends." pete: he's about a minute away from the set, he's going to walk over there. cool guy cowboy walk. rachel: we gave him a hard time earlier for not wearing a western shirt, and our director said he looked more like john dutton who owns the ranch rather than the rancher we knew he was back in the day before his tv days.

by -- but i just got a tweet from victoria, basically chastising us for teasing will. i don't care what will wears on a horse, he looks good doing it. pete: he does. listen, most of our poking fun at him is based in envy. rachel: yeah. 100%. pete: our hat is off to him. i want to say things like, will, go ride the bull, but that's ridiculous, because he would die. and we don't want him to die. [laughter] the rodeo with, it is intense what they do, and it's pretty cool. the american rodeo, what better setting for "fox & friends" weekend, americana. we're down in articling arlington -- arlington, texas. rachel: will, it's really fun seeing you in your element. oh, god, you're ruining everything! i tried to set you up as a ranch hand, and i was already are keeling with your button-down shirt and your nice jacket and all -- come on, will. bring us back -- will: i'm not going to pretend. [laughter] we wear makeup for a living.

i pretend to be a cowboy. [laughter] pete: well done. rachel: thanks for ruining it for us. but according to twitter, you're still looking good doing it. turning to the a fox news alert, three women from texas have disappeared in mexico. tear families telling authorities they crossed the border haas month, and they never returned. alexandra of joins us live from washington with more. alexandria, good morning. >> reporter: this is sad, this is scary. it's been over two weeks since these three women, two of them sisters, crossed into mexico, and they have not been heard from since then. the police department tells fox news that marina perez r ios and her sister were joined by their friend in crossing the border from texas to mexico last month to sell, apparently, clothing at a flea market. the women ranging in age from 47 to 53 were then reported missing

on february 28th. local police tell fox news that the families of the women are concerned that they may have been kidnapped. the group had been traveling in a green mid '90s chevy silverado headed to a mexican city about three hours away from the if u.s. border. very limited information has been released in this search so far which is in stark contrast with the four americans allegedly attacked by the mexican gulf cartel. the two survivors in that case were found on tuesday, prompting an apology from the cartel. so we're told that mexican authorities are sphereheading this -- spearheading this investigation into the three missing women, the fbi leads that case on the u.s. side. guys? pete: alexandria, thank you so much. as this, as the chaos continues on the border sending record number of illegals, of encounters not to mention known gotaways, the white house' chief propagandist, press secretary karine jean-pierre, is touting the humane border policies that are happening at the southern

border. anything but humane, as the administration had talked about reconsidering, reintroducing family detention, something the trump administration had done as a deterrent. they even, they just floated the idea. here's how karine jean-pierre, when asked about it on another network, responded. watch. >> there was reports the white house was considering or department of homeland security was considering reintroducing the practice of family detention. is it true that that's being considered? >> what we are going to promise is that we're going to do this, we're going to move forward with a, with a, with this kind of system, this immigration system that has been gunpointed, really truly gutted by the last administration. we're going to do it in a humane way. >> i think if i said you're going to do child accept is ration again, you'd say, no, we're not going to do child separation, right? it just seems like you could say, like, we're not going too old family detention, but you're not saying that. >> i think what you're asking me, chris, is to speak to the

rumors that are out there, right? and that's not something that we're going to speak to in conversation. will: what you're seeing, what you're speaking to there, dear white house press secretary, is that the policies of the biden administration are not only not better, but they are worse than previous administrations. obviously, including the administration of donald trump. why are they worse? because this is the numbers, this is what's happened. here's the real human impact: nearly 20,000 migrant children are unaccounted for in joe biden's first year. pete: can't find 'em. will: can't find 'em, pete. historic migrant deaths in the fiscal year of 2022, something rachel's talked about a lot whether it's drowning or dying along the trek to the united states of america. a rise in terror watch list encounters and, of course, the rise in poisonings and overdoses here in the united states of america. all of the stuff that we saw, rachel, during the trump administration was posturing, it was acting, it was pretense, and it was setting the stage for something much, much worse that

was to come under joe biden. rachel: yeah. you know what else is not humane? making the u.s. government complicit in the child sex trade. there are so many things, and you're right, 20,000 children, that accounts for about 40% of the young unaccompanied children that come through the border we lose track of. the vetting, we've had people on our show talk about the vetting, it's shoddy. they just want to move them through, process them through, and the hhs secretary even said that himself, kind of talking about them like they're just numbers, move 'em through. he compared them to -- pete: i don't know. rachel: i can't remember. we'll have to come back to that, because it was absolutely shocking. but, yeah, or they're just numbers, move them through, and nobody keeps track of them. pete: it's true. go ahead. rachel: no, you go ahead. pete: let's bring in dan bongino to comment on this. the upside down world of the administration the most inhumane to illegals is the one claiming

tock the most humane, but the numbers don't lie. >> a couple of things first, chris hayes over at that new network, just ran into what jessie watters calls the binder. i mean, have you ever met someone so unfit for a job? her title is is literally white house spokesperson, and she doesn't want to speak to things. it's like being like the number three hitter on a baseball team going, you know what? i don't feel like stepping in the batter's box, not my thing. if it's not your thing, then don't play baseball. she never answers a question on anything. [laughter] i mean, at least psaki would answer the question and lie, okay? we get it. she's very talented at lying. i don't know if that's a compliment or what, but karine jean-pierre is just really genuinely awful at this job. that aside though, this is a very serious topic, and i'd glad you're -- i'm glad you're covering it this morning. i was excited. my wife's a legal immigrant to this country, came here with her mother. i don't like talking about -- i

get choked up talking about the story, rachel's heard it, pete's heard it, will, you're going to hear it now a little bit. you know, they came here legally. my mother-in-law mentioned she busted her butt, you know? they used to sleep on one mattress in a jackson heights apartment, you know? heads, tails, the three -- her and her three kids together. she came over with $10 in her wallet, you know? and then she got to meet, you know, when i brought her home a signed hat from president trump, she couldn't believe it. she said, you know, danny, i came here with nothing my -- in my wallet, now you're bringing me home a hat signed by the president of united states. that's the conservative republican position that, gosh, you know, we're in -- most countries on earth are in the middle of a demographic time bomb. read that "wall street journal" op-ed about china if you doubt me. there's not going to be anyone around to care for the elderly in china. we need people. we need people wherever you're from, mexico, africa, the caribbean, we need you to come here the right way because of

what will just addressed in those god awful statistics. fentanyl crossing the border, drugs crossing the border, sex trafficking at the border. and i'll tell you what, i was a secret service agent. what people don't know is the same mules who are bringing drugs across the border are bringing counterfeit money, they're bringing weapons, all kinds of contraband. these are not the people you want in the united states. you want people who want to be here and be part of this fabric of america. and one more point, guys. i'm sorry, i don't mean to hijack the segment. don't be scared talking about this topic. the liberal media knows exactly why the left is letting this atrocity go on at the border, and you know why? this is about abusing and using migrants for what the left perceives to be the political power. they are so afraid of you talking about this, their, their, let me repeat, their love affair with what they call are replacement theory that if you mention them talking about it, they accuse you for being a racist for highlighting them

talking about it. i had my wife print this, this is a new york times op-ed right here literally titled we can replace them in the "new york times." they are obsessed with this idea of using and abusing migrants for what hay call demographic destiny. and if you caught me one bit, you should -- always fact check -- go online, put in dick durbin, joaquin castro, demographic destiny, and listen to the way they talk about these migrants to this country as if they are tools for their political power. it's disgusting. rachel: thanks for telling the truth, dan. i just think radical truth telling is the only way out of the mess we're in. >> and don't be cowed. they do this all the time. and people get -- oh, my gosh, you know, these goofballs and media, whatever, they said don't talk about it. you know what? i flip these people a double-barreled middle finger every time. i'm not talking about, i'm talking about you talking about it, and i just backed it up. just go look at "the new york times" and read it. it's called we can replace them.

what else do to you need me to say? rachel: meanwhile, they're -- will: it's cbs 2. it's conspiracy. rachel: they're treating the children coming across as assembly line. >> it's disgusting, rachel. and these people, these are human beings, and they deserve far better than that. they don't deserve to be treated like pawns many some big political game for your disgusting political goals. and no one's going to lecture me about immigration, or you, rachel, either. my wife came here, went through the entire process. hard pass on lectures from samuel at media matters smoking a bowl in his mama's basement in between watching porn sessions. i don't need your lectures on what immigration's like. you can plant a big wet one on my rump, okay? i've been through it. you don't know jack squat. go back to your, you know, 14th century women's class on the quad in college and read about in a book what your buddy told you about. we lived through it. will: no, no, dan, it's

conspiracy to the read someone's words back to them. >> right. will: that's now conspiracy. >> it's crazy. will: but, hey, dan, you've got a new book on preorder now. i love the title, you have to tell us about it, "the gift of failure." >> thank you so much. it's available for preorder wherever you get your books. i said i'd never write a book again, but i did because i was coming out after rumble went public, it was that first successful parallel economy story with rumble. it's funny, i was leaving and a whole bunch of people, liberals, of course, were attacking me on twitter about what a loser i was because i lost for office, and i thought to myself, guys, we just brought a company public at $3 billion valuation, if that's losing, i said bring on the losing. [laughter] we love this. this is some great losing! everybody writes books about how great they are and all their successes, 12 steps, dan bongino's wonderful. i said to my wife, i'm not going to write that book. i'm going to write a book about everything i screwed up. it's raw, it's embarrassing at

times, but it's stories about the secret service, things i screwed up, about the nypd, things i screwed up. it really was -- it's, i'm really proud of this. i mean, we are our failures. we're marked more by our failures and what we've done after them than we are by our successes. and i think that's the theme of the book, and i hope everybody likes it. rachel: i can't wait to read it. will, pete and i talk a lot about how our own failures have led us to where we're at. >> it's a gift. rachel: it is. it truly is -- >> if you handle it right. rachel: that's right. precisely. >> the world is littered with super smart people who are talented, good looking and athletic who can never handle failure. will, you could probably tell a hundred stories about this right now. will: no doubt. rachel: khan -- dan, tell us what you have on the show tonight. >> we have an exclusive, finally, i got a first great exclusive with matt taibbi about getting attacked up on capitol hill.

will had the best tweet about that, democrats attacking a democrat journalist about censoring democrat tweets. that was awesome. [laughter] jack carr and i have a fury rebuttal with a democrat who's a good sport, but i pin him down on, hey, what's the fair sharesome can you give me a number? how much more do i owe you guys? and i actually, i get him to argue for a tax cut, a democrat. he doesn't even know the it. it's gorgeous to watch. and pete's on it, of course, as well with hot takes. pete: congrats on the book, man, it's awesome. >> thanks, guys. thanks to the team for letting me promote that. it means a lot. will: "the gift of failure." rachel: you've got to come on my podcast to promote it. >> let's do it. actually, done. rachel: never miss "unfiltered." still ahead, squad congresswoman cori bush accuses a fossil fuel advocate of, you guessed it, being a racist. >> he came here to promote

fossil fuels which we know are disproportionately harming and killing black and brown people. >> the idea this is associated with skin color is despicable and racist. skin color has nothing to do with ideas. rachel: that energy expert fires back and warns biden's energy policies are endanger our security. he's coming up next. pete: plus, the collapse of silicon valley bank, how a prominent lender for tech start-ups got shut down by regulators because of a run on that bank. dan ricatt the o tells us what it means for your wallet coming up next. ♪ hey, or girl, put that body on me ♪

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♪ rachel: federal regulators shut down the nation's 16th largest bank, the california-based silicon valley bank, and took control of its deposits yesterday. but what does this heene for everyday americans, and what could it foreshadow? let's ask a personal finance expert and university of san diego finance professor dan ricato. what because it mean for the rest of us? if. >> yeah, good morning, rachel, how are you? i would imagine most americans never heard the name silicon valley bank until yesterday. it's not the kind of bank that you and i would necessarily, you know, have our emergency savings in. it's kind of a niche bank that

catered toward start-up companies, very large bank, but really catered toward start-up companies, think tech, biotech, that sort of thing. we saw basically an old-fashioned run on the bank. not to bore you too much, but here's how it kind of works in a nutshell. you make a deposit in the bank, the bank doesn't just put that in a vault and sit on it. this bank was buying u.s. treasury bonds with that money, which is what a lot of banks do. well, the problem is with the fed raising interest rates, the value of those treasury bonds went down, and that means as the goeser thes were looking for their money, the bank was scrambling around to find it, selling those bonds at a loss, created this sort of death spiral. and that's what you and i saw yesterday. rachel: could the happen to other banks? some people are saying this is just a case of mismanagement of this particular bank, but other people are saying this is kind of a sign of just the unhealthiness of this economy. >> yeah, well, that's a good question. ands the very much sort of a

niche bank, and i don't think we're going back to where we were in 2008 necessarily. but i've been around a long time the, rachel. these things aren't one-offs. my suspicion is we're going to see a few more of these things, you know, creep up. i don't think it'll rock the system necessarily like we saw a few years back. but when the federal reserve moves the turn -- furniture around as they're doing with raising interest rates, you find all kinds of dust bunnies where furniture use to be, and i suspect we might find a few more. rachel: how can i protect myself? i'm just a regular person, how do i protect? >> you mean you and sean aren't putting tens of millions in those start-ups, rach? come on. [laughter] rachel: yeah, they're going to kids. [laughter] >> i feel your pain. i've got four kids. number one, know your bank, know the bank you're doing business with. always stay within the fdic limit of $250,000. since the 1930s when the fdic

was founded, no depositor has lost money as long as they're under that indiana -- insured amount. ing free money has a price. the fed had this free money policy for a few years. it was a great party but, man, this is the hangover. rachel: yeah. and we're printing money and devaluing it, and there's all kinds of problems, so good time to reassess all of our finances and where we have our money. thank you so much, dan. always great to have you. >> see ya, rach. rachel: okay, take care. mice to have one break it down and make it simple to understand. coming up, the mexican cartels have been becoming a growing threat to u.s. citizens, but how did they become so powerful? pete gives us a little history lesson and, boy, do we need it now.ke treasure s outlawing golf. wait. can i still play? since we work with emower, we don't have to worry about planning for a third kid. you can still play golf... sometimes. take control of your financial future to empower what's next.

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rachel: we are back with a fox weather alert. of at least two people are dead in california as major flooding devastates entire communities

leaving homes underwater. nearly 10,000 are under evacuation orders. meanwhile, the midwest is getting lots of wet and heavy snow. crews in milwaukee are busy freeing big rigs stuck in the slushy mess, ask and now the east coast is bracing for a nor'easter. let's turn to rick reichmuth for our fox weather forecast. rick: there's a reason people go to florida in the winter. it's almost been summer-likenses, the only spot that hasn't been getting big impacts from storms. you see the satellite and radar picture across the u.s. one system diving out of canada is going to bring significant snow, blizzard warnings in effects across areas of northern north dakota. we also have a warm side to the same system, that's browning to -- going to bring severe weather towards parts of the deep south, so be very aware of the severe weather in your area. now, we've had rain overnight and some interior snow last

night across parts of the northeast. this is not that storm. this is the storm monday, tuesday it's going to bring significant snow accumulations across interior sections of the northeast, probably not coastal areas. and then today things a little bit calmer across parts of california although some rain into southern california, more systems of rain coming in over the next few days as drought monitor will continue to improve. we're getting much too much rain too quickly here, and and that's going to be the case, again, or all week long. pete, over to you. pete: appreciate it. all right, the mexican cartels have become a growing threat to u.s. citizens, but how did they become so powerful? and most importantly, what can we do to stop them from hurting america and americans? let's break it down at the wall this morning. so the timeline is long of the influence of cartels in mexico. they took advantage of about seven decades up until the millenium of one-party power in mexico that facilitated and allowed whether it was marijuana, whether it was cocaine, these cartels started

to gain power, and they understood they had a demand north of the border to fulfill. finish '60s and '70s, big drug culture whether it's quaaludes, lsd, marijuana, cocaine, there was more and more demand north of the border. the dea, drug enforcement agency, was created by the u.s. government in the 1970s, '73 specifically, to start to begin to fight back. now, there was a big shift mt. '80s when the gangs started to say we can run the whole business. we don't have to just be the ones trafficking the drugs up into the united states and throughout mexico. let's make 'em too. control the supply, control every aspect of delivering it to the united states. vicente fox was elected president of mexico in 2000. he actually ran against the cartels and the increasing grip they had across mexico. well, that's when the cartels ramped up their violence against the government. they had nothing of it saying we used to have carte blanche before you, vicente fox, we're going to war with you. violence broke out throughout

mexico. in 2007, look at this, they're controlling 90% of cocaine entering the united states. that's part of their preferred cocktail, you will say, of drugs they're introducing. obviously, fentanyl and others more prominent today. we start the spending, americans are now spending on average $153 billion a year on illegal drugs, and as i mentioned, in 2022 fentanyl pills, sometimes disguised as child-colored candy do pills, crossing the u.s./mexican border in droves. so we know the problem is real, well, at least we do do here at "fox & friends." the biden administration still ceases to commit that the border is wide open, controlled by cartel. but it's not just the cartel, it's the complicit nature of government officials inside mexico who allow them to operate. here is two particular examples of the corruption inside the mexican government. this is a former state a.g. of a region in mexico. he helped facilitate the drug trafficking into the united states. see, if they're not doing it

themselves, they're greasing the skids and paying politicians to help them that facilitate it. the politicians are getting kickbacks, the cartels are getting freedom of movement. the former secretary of public security in mexico, so his job is to secure the public. he took millions in cash bribes from the sinaloa cartel securing their safety but not necessarily the safety of mexican citizens. and lastly, let's look at this map. if you have a question of how far and wide the influence of mexican cartels are north of the border, here's a color-coded map provided by the dea, national drug threat assessment, it includes in orange the sinaloa cartel, the jalisco cartel in yell row, the gulf cartel the reds, across -- you can barely find a major city in the united states that isn't influenced by a mexican drug cartel facilitating drugs into that particular community.

here to ore act is a former acting dea administrator. so we broke to down the problem. help us out with what a solution might actually look like. this network that's over my shoulder across american cities is about as vast as you can imagine. cartels seem to have near full control over the mexican government in certain places. 40 do we change that? >> first, we need to secure our borders, our southern and northern border. we need more secure ports of entry, and we need to secure between the ports of entry. the bottom line is we need a very secure southern and northern border. and, pete, you pointed out that we have drug cartel members all throughout the united states. every cartel has cartel members and associates throughout the united states as part of their command and control structure. the individuals who distribute the drugs, who control the distribution of drugs in the united states. we need to take those individuals out. actually, three years ago today

as the acting administrator of the drug enforcement administration, i announced a dea operation called project python where we arrested over 600 cjnj members here in the united states with over 350 indictments. we demonstrated then that we can attack the drug cartels right here in the united states, and we need to see more operations like that to take out the command and control structures right here in our country. pete: makes sense to me. secure the border and then go at the cartels already inside our country. is there a component of going on the offense as well inside mexico? that's late, recently been discussed. >> absolutely. look, the mexican government over the last few years has really damaged our ability, dea's ability, to operate in mexico. just a few examples, a few years ago the mexican legislature passed legislation that required law enforcement, foreign law enforcement officers, to tell mexican law enforcement everything they were doing. with the corruption in mexico,

that's the equivalent of requiring dea to tell the cartels about every one of their operations. also dea operated for decades with a sensitive investigative unit, embedded mexican law enforcement officers that we worked hand in hand with in mexico to attack the drug cartels. the mexican government disbanded dea's sensitive investigative unit last year. and dea for decades operated aircraft in mexico. well, last year, of course, the mexican government now forbids dea from operating the aircraft that supported those operations in mexico. so basically, the biden administration needs to force mexico to allow dea back into mexico to attack the drug can cartels where they live and work. that would make a big difference. pete: but right now the mexican government is standing in the way, which is a big problem. uftam, thank you so much for being with us. appreciate it. >> the thank you. pete: you got it. still ahead, the biden administration complimenting china? >> we're, we're hopeful that, you know, we can all learn from

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>> i think china has cone, has been very sensitive and has actually invested a lot in their solutions to achieve their goals. so we're hopeful that, you know, we can all learn from what china is doing. but the amount of money that they're investing in clean energy is actually, you know, encouraging. will: that was energy secretary jennifer granholm claiming the quites can learn from china -- united states can learn from china when it comes to climate change, but meanwhile, it's the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases since the turn of the center. joining us now for reaction, alex epstein. good morning, alex, great to have you on the program. when you listenedded to jennifer granholm there, what is your

takeaway that -- what is it we can learn from china, alex? >> well, actually, there are things to the learn, but it's the exact opposite of what she thinks. one thing is that we should use cost effective sources of energy. china's overwhelmingly powered by coal, and they're using coal to make our solar panels, wind turbines and equipment and materials involved in that. that's one thing. another thing is they're actually pursuing nuclear in some way, which we've basically criminalized. they're doing can some things, but not the things granholm advocates. will: i assume she's talking about waste and invest ifments in companies like sri lanka. i think we flashed this on the screen a moment ago, take a look at greenhouse initiatives, this is 2000 and 2019. china is far and away the world's leaders. they're happy to take the world's dollars while they continue to grow industrially with fossil fuels. you had a fascinating moment this week up on capitol hill.

you every thed, and you were confronted by congresswoman cori bush. i want to let the audience hear exactly what she had to say to you. >> you're here to promote fossil fuels which we know are disproportionately harming and killing black and brown people. >> the idea that this is associated with skin color is despicable and racist. skin color has nothing to do with ideas. will: she went on, alex, she went on to say that your views, which you had said certain cultures are better at individual freedom, medical advancements, certain cultures are superior to others, she described your views as white supremacist because of that, and you had an amazing response. tell us what you said to cori bush. >> sorry, i thought you were going to -- oh, yeah, sorry. i mean, i basically just said that it's true that these ideas are superior. now, grantedded, what i was

saying, what she was quoting was something i said 20 years ago in college, so she was obviously just digging something up in order to kiss credit my work -- discredit my work versus listening to what i had to say. freedom is morally superior to lack of freedom, and the world has a lot to learn from america. they called this white supremacist and then most embarrassingly afterward and most outrageously, i think, instead of apologizing, the actual democrat oversight committee publicly called my views white nationalist. so if i would ask a favor of the viewers, if you have a representative who's on the oversight committee like aoc or ro khanna or cori bush or anyone on the oversight committee, call their offices and tell them they owe me an apology and tell them to read "fossil future," i'll e send them a free copy. but this is totally embarrassing that you call a witness trying to educate them a white nationalist. will: because you advocated to some cultures who expand life

spans, better health outcomes, expansion of individual liberty, embrace of freedom. because those cultures are some we should emulate because they had superior outcomes, that's somehow tied to skin color. and i love what you said, ideas are not tied to skin color. st racist to presume, in fact, that those are the sole property of one race. no, that's for everyone, every bit of humanity. bravo, alex, on what you had to say before cori bush and her racist diatribe. >> thanks, will. will: you bet. thank you. all right, pete, over to you. pete: will, nicely done. we've got a few additional headlines morning starting with this: the man convicted of murdering kristin smart is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison the judge calling paul flores a cancer to society. smart and floor -- flores were students in san louis to bit toe concern an louis obispo, flores

claimed he escorted her home. flores was arrested in 2021, one year after a true crime podcast sparked an interest in the cold case. police never found smart's remains. and so-called elite ivy league universities charging up to $75,000 the in tuition per year are still keeping unvaccinated students out of the classroom. they're following the science. [laughter] harvard, yale, columbia and u-penn require students to get the new booster before allowing in-person learning. other ivy league schools demand at least two jabs. columbia is reportly set to end its covid vaccine requirement after the spring semester. they're so smart. so wise, so much wisdom in those institutions. just can't figure out science. all right, tomorrow on "fox & friends" weekend, by the way, just to preview it, steve forbes will be here,

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♪ [laughter] will: how many times did i do i it off camera? >> try it again. try it again. [laughter] oh! almost! almost. >> will, you are no -- just saying. >> anything better than pete, that's all you need, will, just gotta do better than pete. [laughter] will: now, i'm not lying when i tell you, i'm, like, 10 for 10

off camera, and i'm 0-3 on camera. riley webb, rookie year last year as a tiedown roper. he's amazing. if before we get started on the tips i might need to be a better roper, riley, tell us about tiedown roping. what is it? >> yes. so i'm an individual, not a team. it's just me, and i've got my horse, and you rope on your horse, you know, behind the barrier, rope the calf, and then you get off, go down there, put him on the ground and the fastest time wins. will: you're seeing these guys, he hops off his horse after he ropes it, he throws the calf on the ground, ties three legs, throws his hands in the air, and that's the time. fatsest time wins. okay, here's the deal. i'm going to let you go first. [laughter] i've got all the tips, man. pour the drink out at the top, right? bend my wrist. if anybody's watching, this is what you do, you bring it around here. but i miss every time on camera, so show me what i need to do. >> big, open loop, try to keep

it open, you know? just point -- will: see, see the masculinity with which you whipped that rope in. [laughter] don't mind my pink rope. [laughter] that's what i did wrong, i was a little aggressive, you know? instead of just a nice smooth motion, please, lord, once on camera. >> you got it. yeah! he got it. will: cowboy! not just all hat. now, here's the question, can rachel and pete back in new york do this -- rachel: and rick, and is rick. pete: rick east here too. we have an answer for you, and it is no. [laughter] rachel: pete says that our ropes came from a dominatrix shop in new york city. [laughter] pete: we have just these little ropes, they don't have any structural integritiful we are set up to fail. you rigged it, okay? [laughter] they can't -- it's not possible. rachel: you go, pete. >> look at our rodeo here. pete: see, i hit the head.

rick: it's not possible. pete: go for it, rick. rick: i did. nothing happened. [laughter] hey, i'm going to give -- pete, we were practicing in the green room, and pete hit one. and i did as well. pete: i i hit two, let's be honest. it's tough. will: on camera. pete: it's not gonna happen. nicely done. you proved yourself on camera. more "fox & friends" moments away. will: thank you. pete: couldn't even get the camera. >> the nicely done. [laughter] oes it mean to be ever better? its your customers getting what they ordered when they expect it. discover how ryder ecommerce makes your customer's experience ever better. [coughing] hi, susan. honey. yeah. i respect that. but that cough looks pretty bad.

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♪ ♪ a small town boy like me ♪ pete: we all just roped it, will. you missed it. it was off chasm rah -- camera.

will: you got one. hey, the american rodeo right here in arlington. go get your tickets still, 40,000 seats. thanks to riley webb. i'm glad you guys got one. pete: we're all wearing your hats from your office. thank you very much, will. will: oh, you are? [laughter] pete: you know we are. have a great saturday, everybody. ♪ [background sounds] neil: read it and weep. stocks swoon as the 16th largest bank in the united states collapses after a run on deposits. silicon valley bank is now essentially being run by the federal deposit insurance corporation. that fast, that startling, and for nervous wall street with fearing other financial shoes to crop, that sweeping. to drop. the markets finishing their worst week of the year. regulators going out of their