♪ ♪ i come alive loving you ♪ joey: good morning. welcome back. hello, welcome to the 7 a.m. hour, the hour that we welcome the sun up, i hope. with this time change, i don't know when the sun's going to the

come up. it's going to to be bright all evening long. and today's faith and friends concert series we have the house fires here live. they've been practicing, and it was beautiful. absolutely. rachel: yeah. we love having all this great music here on the weekends. we're not jealous of the week days anymore, now we have our music. pete: just co-opted it for six weeks. they are setting the house on fire here, it's a wake-up call. rachel: it's i awesome. there's so much energy in the green room. we can't wait to bring them out later in the show. joey: they sound so great. you go to concerts, that doesn't sound quite as good as the radio. that was beautiful. pete: very, very well cone. -- well done. we're one hour into a four-hour tour, one hour behind where we were yesterday. so you do the math of what that all means, i don't know. we're going to start with this, at least two people are kid in california -- dead in california

as major flooding devastates entire communities. thousands of people are evacuatedded after a levee breaks from historic rainstorms in the state's central coast. rachel: and in pete's home state of minnesota, blizzard warnings are now in effect for the south and central portions of the state. some areas have already reported 78 inches of snow, and they're now bracing for high winds and even more accumulation. joey: and iowa is getting slammed by wet, heavy snow causing dangerous road conditions. state police say they assisted in more than 40 crashes yesterday. the east coast also bracing for a nor'easter which can bring heavy rain and strong winds. let's turn now to our chief meteorologist, rick reichmuth, from our fox weather forecast. rick, 78 inches, as my dad would say, that's stacked taller than me. rick: a lot tall ther. joey: that's a lot of snow. rick: by the way, 7:12 is when the sunrises, 10 more minutes.

98 inches, i think, is a record in minneapolis. we're not getting at that record, i don't think that's going to happen, but it's it's certainly a lot of snow. that is going to melt and cause issues as well. take a look at this, the eastern seaboard, this has been one of our criest -- not driest, snowless winters around. 24 inches below where we'd typically be in new york city. philadelphia, .3 inch. s. even boston just under a foot of snow. we do have some snow coming not as much to the cities, but we have a nor'easter brewing overnight tonight. it starts to get its act together monday evening into a wednesday morning event. the ski resorts are going to be happy about this and snow lovers as well. cities, probably not any major problems, but we'll see a little bit of snow. want to head out quickly to california, and this is the drought monitor. it's where we see how the drought has been and is progressing anywhere in the

country. you notice this right here, this is the breadbasket of the u.s., and is we had extreme, the highest level of drought, actually exceptional caught can a that's december 6, 2022. fast forward about three months, and that drought has been wiped of off. we have no drought across that area of california, and we have more rain that's coming in again this week. we're watching that flooding concern. today a little bit of rain, but we get a little more extreme tomorrow and tuesday and take a look at this, by the time we're done down towards the l.a. a basin, we're looking at 5-8 inches of rain. flooding threat across california continues. guys? pete: thank you,, rick. if you're the chief meteorologist, why is your nickname not the chief? rick: i don't know. [laughter] pete: it's gonna be there from now on. are. rick: did to you hear the world i just tried to signify? snowiestless? pete: is that a word? rick: it's not even a world.

joey: i thought it was scientific. rachel: buy, chief. bye, chief. pete: it works. i think we're going to roll with it from the now on. in other news, things that we were told were settled science or totally debunked, of course, two years later or three years later flipped in the other direction as the misinformation/disinformation world we live in with the uni-party group think that we're told from washington d.c. see, tony fauci is now going on media and saying he's completely open-minded about covid-19 origins -- [laughter] and where they came from. at the same time, we reported yesterday biden's not willing to say whether he'll sign a bill to declassify origins of covid-19 -- rachel: and, pete, he was asked directly in this interview with jim across a the on cnn should joe biden, you know, sign this legislation. and he said i can't say. i'm not, i don't really want to

weigh in on that. joey: such a change in demeanor from the guy who was so stalwart in those hearings early on and bringing so much attitude, i guess almost looking arrogant and pompous at times. so go there from kind of what we've learned in hearings this week, basically squashing the idea to now he's open-minded. pete: so now he's open minded, but at the very beginning he was, from the very start the, he was one of a very small group of scientists who worked very hard concern the even though they heard about the lab leak theory -- to push with certain certainty that it had to be natural origins. here's how the media and other democrats slammed the lab leak theory early on. watch. >> the conspiracy theory going around that the coronavirus or originated with excuse perhaps -- and was perhaps man made inside a lab in china -- >> for this theory that the virus was accidentally released from a lab in wuhan, that's his new angle to the feed the wingnuts. >> there's a danger in the

administration either putting out theories that cannot be substantiated or deliberately provoking a fight during the middle of a pandemic. >> many of us feel that it is more likely that this is a natural occurrence as has happened with sars-cov-1. rachel: you're right, pete. he can't just say that, he literallied had e-mails where he was -- literally had e-mails where he was pressuring scientists who were saying the opposite about whether this could have been a lab leak of whether it could have been, whether it could have been manmade. and right now in thatter into -- that interview with jim acosta, he's also pushing this is definitely -- it could have been a lab leak, now the he's conceding to that. could possibly have been a lab leak, but it's definitely not man made. it's definitely not a bioweb. so that's where he's at right now concern bioweapon with. here he is earlier on thursday with neil cavuto. listen. >> i've always kept an open

mind. as the data involved, and evolutionary biologists began to look at the data the, the it looked much more likely it was a natural occurrence from an animal reservoir. i have always kept a completely open mind that it could be one or the other. quite frankly, the evidence weighs more likely towards one, namely a natural occurrence, but i would be perfectly accepted if there were ed that it was a lab leak. joey: so there's a reason why he's saying this now. so there's a bill that passed unanimously in congress, 419 votes to 0 in the house, the senate passed it without, without anyone objecting. they didn't really vote on it, but they passed it, unanimous consent is what that's called. so now there's a bill that's going to go to joe biden, and it's up to him to sign it to let americans see what evidence we have or to veto it. vetoing it would be absolute

political disaster. the democrats would not be happy about that. but i say to you guys, what is the price of truth? we've had so many people die from this virus, we've had that many more people lose their livelihood to this virus. it completely shook the next generation of youth and their ability to learn. haven't we paid for truth? rachel: we deserve truth. the most radical thing you can do is tell the truth these days, and what i'm hoping is this new republican majority in the house will continue to press and uncover everything, reveal it all. i want to declassify everything. not just, you know, what we're talking about this bill to declassify the origins, what the government knew about the origins of covid, what anthony fauci knew about it. i want to declassify all of it down to the kennedy files. [laughter] this is what we need to restore trust in government. pete: well, that's true, but this is what the left because so well, from a story like this to remember horse whipping on the border? ray rae yeah.

pete: they report with a narrative hard with the group think, and today put the talking points out for whatever motivations whether it's the they've got under the table deal, profit motives, political benefit. they push it out and condemn their critics or naysayers as misinformants, and they don't care if it comes out later because it's a back page story, the idea's already baked in people's minds of one's a conspiracy theory, the other is tony fauci's fact truth, so they whisk it away -- the. rachel: could fauci -- joey: wingnuts, conspiracy theorists. rachel: but could this particular issue9 with the covid origins and all the e-mails we now have of anthony fauci trying to squash the story and cover his tracks, involvement in funding that lab with gain of function research through the back door, through ecohealth alliance, could this actually take anthony fauci down? is there a possibility that this could be toxic and career-damaging in terms of his

legacy for fauci? pete: probably not. jee yeah mutually assured -- pete: i agree with you. they find a way to help each other out. joey: from oneself importance flip-flopper to other maybe, senator joe manchin is slamming ford the motor company for partnering with a chinese company that builds batteries. joe manchin saying i'm totally opposed. i'll be danged if i'm going to give them $900 out of $7500 to let it go to china for basically a product we started. you're telling me we don't have the smart people and the technology and we can't get up to speed quick enough? that doesn't make sense. now, it's not that i don't agree concern i kind of start this not heavy on joe manchin. it's not that i don't agree with him, it's just this is a politician who we used to think would kind of be a maverick, but we realized in this last year will make bills thinking he's going to get something out of it and then get nothing out of it

like he did with the inflation reduction act and where we are with coal mining. but this is a guy who thinks he's so important in d.c., i don't know if he understands how these batteries are made and that it's government regulation that has pushed china to be the ones that provide batteries. it's the votes he's made that's put us in this situation, and now you blame the car companies because the government that he supports and votes with wants them to have electric vehicles, and china's the only chance they can get the batteries to given with. rachel: right. pete: go ahead. rachel: i was just going to say ford defends their deal. they say making these batteries at home is much better than continuing to rely on foreign imports like other auto companies co. pete: so the inflation reduction act, which is actually a green new keel bill which i believe joe manchin voted for, provides a $7500 subsidy to people who buy electric vehicles. and apparently, ford has cut this deal with a chinese battery

maker or so that this chinese battery maker will get a portion of the $7500. so $900 of the $7500 goes to this chinese subsidiary, but ford is able to say, no, batteries are made here because that was the point, some say is, of the inflation reduction act. it's a shell game. rachel: yeah. pete: it has been. people are getting rich off of it, and they're not really dedicated, to your point, if they were serious about bringing back, bringing in the mined cobalt and do batteries here, they would loosen the regulations to do that. rachel: can and these subsidies make us more dependent on china because as long as china is creating the batteries and as long as this, you know, administration is hell bent on transition thing us to electric vehicles when we don't need to be because we have fossil fuel in abundance, we are going to become more competent on the people who want to a annihilate us. it makes no sense. joey: this shows nothing but hypocrisy. segment after segment, joe

biden's administration is saying one thing, doing another, and joe manchin's chiming in and joining the team here. it's green energy policies that have pushed us in this direction. what do you expect car companies to do if you're telling them they basically have to create electric vehicles and we, through our own regulation, have made it where we don't have mines anywhere, to we can't make these batteries the same way china because. they're pushing for offshore or wind, but it's okay because -- rachel: it's children in africa, who cares? pete: you flashed a graphic, it's not just ford, it's gm, tesla, volkswagen -- the government has put those companies in the place where they do these types of things. by the way, china, they launched a war cabinet in october, they're implementing the largest military buildup since world war ii, they're trying to sanction-proof their own regime and mobilizing the civilian population for war. i mean, this is a country that

absolutely seeks dominance. and not just in this example, but jennifer granholm -- rachel: ray yeah. [laughter] pete: -- is saying heir the example. rachel: yeah, they're great, she says. by the way, this would have never happened during the cold war. pete: we knew who we were at war with. rachel: exactly. thank you. all right. turning now to your headlines. texas authorities are issuing a stern warning not to travel to mexico. listen. >> our county is urging -- department is urging anyone thinking about traveling to mention de, especially spring breakers, to avoid those areas because right nows the too dangerous with the increases in violence and kidnapping that are taking place in mexico. rachel: the warning coming as three women from texas have disappeared in mexico. their families telling authorities that they crossed the border last month to visit a flea market, and they never returned. why are we only hearing about that now? it's so serious. passengers on lufthansa flight from hell reportedly say

the airline tried to silence a complaint. a passenger told insider that that a flight attendant made an announcement to delete any images or photos they took while the plane cropped nearly 4,000 feet in the air while flying to germany the earlier this month, but plenty of photos videos kid end up on social media after the plane was forceed to the make an emergency landing at washington's cullless. the newly-elected democrat commissioner of miami goes totally silent e when she's asked to lead the pledge of allegiance during, or ahead of her first meeting. check this out, it's unbelievable. >> commissioner or covo, could you -- would you lead us in the pledge of allegiance, please? [no audio] >> you don't know it? [laughter] rachel: that is our future, by the way. lots of children will not know the pledge of allegiance. she responded on twitter saying,

when you feel the responsibility is that important, nervousness is very normal, and i'm not a afraid to admit that's what it was. so was she nervous or was she not aware of how to say the pledge of allegiance? those are your headlines. pete: you've got on the really nervous. joey: to be a leader, the one hinge you have to do is make a decision in a -- those three words, i pledge allegiance, then everybody joins many and you keep going. [laughter] pete: that's true. it is a preview of our future. rachel: yeah,s. pete: all right, now to this: with the9 rise of near misses on the runway, airports across the country are rolling out technology to prevent potentially deadly landing incidents. joey: the cyber guy joins us live with more from lax. if. rachel: good morning. >> hey, good morning. a fog by morning here at lax, middle of the night, actually.

the runway lights for 24 left behind me, you can see how a fog by day like now might be why these numbers are terrifying. since 2016 in october, 1600 -- 1641 of what they call wrong surface events meaning a pilot has landed on a taxiway or attempted tolan on a taxiway instead of the actual runway. it's such a huge problem that now new technology rolling out not only here at lax, but 43 u.s. airports, ctac has been testing the. up in seattle, the airport there. since 2018 when they've been testing the technology, 50 of these terrifying ideas of landing the wrong way were prevented. and here's how it works. the air traffic control tower, which is in the dark way over here, but at each airport an alarm goes off. it's both visual and auditory for the air traffic controller. then that is when the command

goes in the and you say go around, go around, and that's where the aircraft aborts their landing and goes into the sky. why is this happening? they don't know. is it a autothe pilot issue or is it the pilot simply not seeing the ground to land in the correct spot? the most serious of these events happened many 2017 landing at sfo where about four aircraft were waiting to take off on a tax taxiway and at the very last minute, that flight was averted, and they went back up into the sky. we'll dig more into it online as well, you can look at it there. rachel: all right. thank you, sir. joey: i'm sure pete buttigieg will be all over this. [laughter] pete: he'll take credit for it. rachel: a maybe we should make kurt the new transportation department secretary. he seems to mow a -- can know a lot more -- pete: i have a lot more favorite in him. thank you, we'll check back in. still ahead, customers lining up to take out cash after

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pete: a fox business alert, the dow posting its worst week since june closing more than 330 points lower on friday as regulators shut down silicon valley bank, the worst bank failure since the great recession. so how worried should everyday americans be? let's ask fox business senior correspondent charlie gasparino. charlie, thanks for being here. that is kind of the top-line question. okay, this bank failed. definitely not good. it's affecting the people that use that institution, but does it echo elsewhere? >> you know, i don't think so. i think this is kind of a one-off. i think there is something that affects all americans, and this is a warning sign of just how screw ised up the plumbing in our -- screwed up the plumbing in our banking system and our economy is. let's rewind the videotape a little bit here, you know? we've had years and years of printing money by the federal reserve, way too much. even when we were coming out of

the pandemic, we had the biden administration spending a lot of money. you know, you costuff like that, you mess with the economy like that, by the way, spending when you didn't really need it, you're going to have some stuff that happens. particularly when you normalize stuff. so all that spending both on the fed side, from the biden administration caused what's known as inflation. to right the ship on inflation, you've got to the raise interest rates. when you raise interest rates as the federal reserve is doing right now to get stuff back in order so we don't have 6% inflation which means if you have a job, it's like you're not working because you're not earning that much, you can't afford basic stuff. you know, you're going to have these sort of disturbances in the markets, these hiccups. this bank is an example of that. listen, i can go through with you guys, and it'll put everybody to sleep exactly why this bank went under, don't want to do that. i'm giving you the sort of 30,000-feet message here. you screw around with the

economy like we did doing really stupid stuff, joe biden spending all that money when he didn't have to, out of the, out of the pandemic, the fed just kept, keeping interest rates low, printing money. you do that, you're going to get inflation. you get inflation, you're going to the raise interest rates because inflation is horrible. it destabilizes societies, economies. when that inflation, when you deal with that, come down, when it comes down and when you deal with that,s guess what? you're going to have these sort of disturbances. this is a warning sign of possibly more to come. i mean, listen, i have my money in jpmorgan chase. i'm not pulling it out tomorrow. i don't think that's an issue. big banks are well capitalized. but if you're in a regional bank, that's another worry tomorrow, that there's going to be a lot of people pulling money out of regional banks and putting them into major banks. that could cause runs on these regional banks. so be prepared for that if you're in a smallish bank.

i'm not saying do that, because in this becomes a self-pull filling prophesy. but -- fulfilling prophesy. that's what people are bracing for. pete: you mentioned inflation, and one of the places it hits people the most is groceries. year-over-year, if you look at the percentage, it's up 11% across the board overall on groceries. and on items like eggs and butter and bread and milk, i mean, if you're making french toast, it's costing a lot more, 70% on eggs. i mean, are they getting this urn control? >> it's what's known as a pernicious tax on the working and middle class. if you lived in the '70s like i kid, my dad was a construction worker, he add the to to bartend on the side, drive a cab. you had to work three jobs to make ends meet. there may be jobs out there there, but that's why inflation is so bad. it destabilizes societies. are they getting it under control, it's a great question.

it depends on what statistics you look at. here's the thing about inflation, it's sticky. it looks like it's going away and it comes back. looks like it's going away, it comes back. so that's why the fed is saying, the federal are reserve chairman jerome powell is saying i'm going to keep raising interest rates, i'm going to look through raising interest rates because it's crushiing ed the continue to crush the working and middle class. and because of that you're going to get stuff like we saw with silicon valley bank. pete: yeah. >> trust me, there's more to come. pete: there's more to the come. if inflation is persistent, there's more ink therring, fed gets involved, and when the tide goes out, then you find out who's not wearing any pants. [laughter] >> i guess that's one way of looking at it. pete: right, charlie? charlie gasparino, thank you very much. >> all right, guys. pete: coming up, a fox weather alert. devastating floods in california, blizzard warnings in the midwest and a nor'easter coming tomorrow. we're tracking all of it for you

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pete: we're back with a fox weather alert. at least two people are dead in california's major flooding when a levee breach forced thousands of evacuations on the state's central coast. and iowa getting slammed with wet, heavy snow causing dangerous road conditions. a nor'easter could impact travel on the east coast and bring heavy snow and rain affecting

millions of people tomorrow. download the fox weather app on any connected device. rachel: thank you, pete. across america women now make up the ruling majority on college campuses at 75% of i've i have league -- ivy league presidents and 58% of recent graduates are female. our next guest warns there's no strength in numbers here, arguing that the consequences of the great femmenyization of the american university are actually troubling. heather macdonald is the author of when race trumps merit, and she joins us now to explain. heather, explain it. we saw those numbers, clearly, women are doing really well in academia. what because it mean, how because it translate into life on campus? >> well, the irony is that they claim they're not doing well, rachel. rachel: right. [laughter] >> the result is this mass traumaification of university life.

it is the construction the of truth and the dedication to a lie which is that females shouldn't be vulnerable, that there's this mass mental health crisis on campus if that ideas can fell somebody's mental health. and is so females are behind the drive to shut counties senting speech to declare anybody who disagrees with the idea that gender is a mere personal women choice, a heretic, that that is somehow threatening to females' well-being. so we have now a university that's turning away from its fundamental mission which is to pursue truth and knowledge. rachel: yeah. all the trauma also leads to a growing bureaucracy on campus which is also increasing the cost of education. how else is it affecting life on campus? i think about the men. how is it affecting men? >> well, the dominant ideas that males are toxic and females are a threat for males. and so you have a vicious circle now where a lot of men peel like

they've just -- feel like they've just got targets on their back, so they're not completing their degrees, they're not enrolling to the same extent. and then the females complain, oh, there's no males around -- rachel: yeah. [laughter] >> it gives males power, so then you have the campus hook-up scene. so it's a pretty destructive, vicious cycle that we're in, rachel. and the result is, again, a betrayal of what academia is supposed to be. what we need now, if females claim they're so strong, be strong. don't take up this ridiculous victim ideology. and claim that you need protection. but again, there's a codependent relationship between the students and these bureaucrats who are there to say if you feel some kind of discomfort, it's because you're in a sexist environment, you're under the patriarchy which is preposterous. rachel: right. because they are running the universities. >> exactly. rachel: that's very interesting. again, when men aren't doing

well, that's not good for women, right? >> right. because if they want mates, and now it's not clear they do because the idea is strong women can do it all and that includes child rearing, which is not true. men and women are different, they bring complementary vir i chews and strengths and weaknesses to child rearing. they need each other. and the feminist ideology has said women don't need men, men are being sidelined and, frankly, let's be honest, men have give us civilization. women are important too, but the male virtues of risk taking, entrepreneurship, courage, yes, extreme ego, but those things have conquered poverty, sickness, ignorance and brought us the extraordinary prosperity and freedom from fear that we do deserved to win. rachel: all right. three cheers for men. >> exactly. men's day. rachel: all right. thank you, heather mac donald, very fascinate nateing.

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rachel: the white house is cardiologying questions from the media as new reports suggest

president biden is considering detaining migrant families at the border. enter we are not going to, certainly, comment on rumors or conversations that are, that are out there. we're going to move forward with a, with a, with kind of system, this immigration system that has been gutted, really truly gutted by the last administration, we're going to move forward and do it in a humane way, we're going another the it in a safe way, and we're going to do it in the way that moves us forward. pete: still blaming trump and they're the humane ones. [laughter] under the biden administration, america has faced a surge of unaccompanied minor encounters, many of which we can't find, 20,000, record deaths at the border and a spike in drug overdoses in the u.s. joey: former chief of u.s. border patrol and retired acting i.c.e. correcter ron vitello joins us now to react. where do you think they are on this? can you really believe anything the press secretary's saying on this?

>> well, she's trying to defend what's indefensible, right? we've gotten over two years now of complete chaos at the border. and to say that they inherited a broken system, right, it's more blame the other guy kind of scenario. when they took over, we had 45-year lows in activity on our southwest border. that means there were more agents on patrol seizing drugs, saving peopling, rescuing people from human trafficking and controlling that border better. it is not more humane to have the cartels own the terrain on our southwest border, and that's what we've been given by this administration. yeah, i wish she was a little bit better at what she did, but she's trying to paper over the huge mistakes that they've made. now they're talking about this idea of putting people in custody. oh, imagine that, mandatory detension for people who cross -- detention for people who cross the border illegally. guess what? that's already in the law. to say they're being more humane is a fantasy, and if she

believes it, we're in worse trouble than i thought. rachel: ron, i agree with everything you say, but my only beef with you is i don't believe they made mistakes. i believe this is completely intentional. do you agree? >> well, they've not done anything to fix it, so you're right. this is the, this is a purposeful agenda to blow up what control levels that they had, right? when they took over, it wasn't pert, but -- perfect, but it was so much better than it is right now. we still have thousands of people coming to the border every night, thousands of encounters by cbp, and no one's talking about it -- this channel's talking about it, all the folks that are getting away, all the criminals, the pedophiles because this administration has gone on record saying if you're in the country illegally, you're not a target for enforcement. that is encouraging everybody with enough will and energy to come to the southwest border. pete: given everything you've laid out, why would the white house now be considering

detaining migrant families? what ooh's the calculus there? >> this is unsustainable, right? millions of people have come to the country illegally, millions of people have gotten away from border authorities. this is unsustainable. year-over-year, we've gone almost three years with a border e that's in chaos. we've seen the power and the degradation of these cartels, the ruthlessness of what they did to these folks from south carolina last week. this is unsustainable, and now they have to short through how does this work with. the surge has -- is only stopped in two ways, detain people until they have their hearing or make them wait in mexico for their hearing. both of those worked, and they blew both of them up when they got here. >> it's the irony of not calling the detention the inhumane, and the fact that so many of those children weren't with their parents, they were with smugglers. it's hi hypocrisy or maybe it's

just lying, i'm not sure. ron vitello, thanks for joining us. pete: thank you, ron. >> thank you. rachel:s the incredible to think, as you said, 20,000 kids, we know percentage, somewhere upwards of 25% of the girls who come over, women and children, are raped -- pete: horrific. rachel: it's just, and then lost in child sex trafficking rings. pete: and now they say it's unsustainable, so they're trying to put a band-aid on the gaping wound? rachel: we opened the show kind of talking about -- president now we're going to detain migrant illegals, we're going to open one pipeline, is people -- are people going to buy that? joey: the topic of each segment today is biden administration hypocrisy. everything that's happening right now is the biden administration having to flip-flop. now we're going to turn to your headlines, and we're going to start with this: authors karol markowitz9 and bethany mandel and their guest, steve forbes,

faced angry protesters at their book release party in new york city this week. the party for stolen youth was disrupted when two women screamed black lives matter and called the attendees fascists among oh insults. they also threw drinks and several people op toking the display of books over -- toppling. i mean, that's inhumane. bethany says the protesters were exactly what they warned about in their book, "angry, irrational and most importantly uninformed." the authors and steve forbes will join us this morning at 9:30 a.m. don't miss it, today tuned in. all right, more than 10,000 farmers urn thing out for massive protests in the netherlands yesterday demanding the government stand down a crippling environmental policy. the farmers calling out the government for regulations on heavy machinery put in place they say to curb climate emissions. dutch voters will head to the polls this week in a crucial

election as the government faces increased criticism for climate overreach. i mean, there's nothing like stashing -- starving your citizens to death. rachel: huge story. joey: the spacex dragon capsule and crew five are back on earth. the crew of four astronauts spent 157 days at the international space station after blasting off back in october on a falcon 99 rocket. they conducted critical experiments and did demonstrations in preparation for the next manned mission to the moon. they need a no-legged astronaut, i'd volunteer now. rachel: would you really want to do that? joey: oh, in a heartbeat. those are your headlines, by the way. if they ever want to study the effects of amputation in space, i'm here. rachel: would you want to do it? if. pete: i'd do one of those tourist ones. rachel: where they give you coffee -- pete: would you like a cock a tail?

[laughter] float around for 30 seconds and go back down. rachel: i say send me to the spa. i'm not interested. [laughter] pete: if president okay, fair enough. proving his point, the media cuts off governor ron desantis from showing a school library book because it was too explicit. you can have it in school, but you can't show is it on news. 's education commissioner was at that event. he's next. this is going to be great. taking the shawl off. ok i did it. is he looking at my hairline? is plaque psoriasis making you rethink your everyday choices? otezla is a pill, not a cream or injection that can help people with plaque psoriasis achieve clearer skin. and no routine blood tests required. don't use otezla if you're allergic to it. serious allergic reactions can happen. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. some people taking otezla had depression, suicidal thoughts, or weight loss. upper respiratory tract infection

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♪ joey: welcome back. local media helping to prove the florida governor's point as they cut away if from a press conference where he showed explicit images from books he would like to remove from school libraries. >> we believe in the rights of parents to be involved in the education of their children. the parents know what books are being used in the classroom and then they have procedures where they can say wait a minnesota, you know, some of the stuff you saw up there, that is pornographic. why would we have that in a media center with 10-year-old students? it's just wrong. joey: our next best was at that event, florida education commissioner manny diaz joins us now. commissioner, did the governor know this is how they would react, is that why he did this? >> well, it was great to be will to finally clear up this

book-banning hoax that's been going around. but it was very telling that media outlets cut their feed when some of the graphics came on because they were afraid of being fined by the fcc, but yet the opposition is in favor of having these books in our schools. the florida department of education has not banned any books, has not removed books from the shelves. however, we're not going to allow pornography to be in our schools and expose our children to that. joey: explain what you mean, you haven't banned books, so what action are you taking, and what is happening with these books in. >> last year the legislature passed a law, governor desantis signed that law which provides parents and community members access to the materials until school that are offered to children. and when a book is, there's a complaint filed on a book, it goes through that process. and if it is pornographic or if it's not age-appropriate, it can be remove by that committee. and so this press conference was to really expose some of the books that have been found in our schools even though the

opposition had been saying these books didn't exist and there wasn't a problem or need for this law. it really gives parents access and parents the right to have access and transparency to what's going on in our schools. joey: quickly with the time we have left, who's advocating for these books in these schools that show such explicit and almost pornographic content? >> well, the left, the democratic party, the teachers' union and some of the districts, believe it or not, have fought us on this. but once you expose these images as pornographic, statute count permit it. again -- doesn't permit it. the example of why the media had to cut off their feed, they couldn't have it on tv, but they want it in our schools. joey: maybe parents were sleeping on some of this before, but i think especially coming out of covid, they're not anymore. we appreciate y'all for highlighting this and showing what our kids are exposed to. commissioner diaz, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. joey: all right. still ahead, shannon bream, top of the hour, plus our faith and

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rachel: get ready for this. that gets me going. good morning, everybody. we're playing basketball ahead of march madness week, which is like holy week for pete. we