>> todd: a fox news alert, chinese president xi jinping arriving in moscow to meet russian president vladamir putin just over an hour from now, part of china's plan to establish new world order with beijing at the forefront. you're watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier. one of his closest allies is facing war crimes in ukraine. >> todd: the international criminal court should uphold objective and impartial stance,

respect immunity enjoyed by the head of state in accordance with international law, exercise power by the law and do law in good faith and avoid politicization standards. alexandria hoff is live. >> alexandria: a meeting be arranged with alleged war criminal. president xi calls it a journey of peace. conflict and war benefit no one, all parties must stay -- spiralling out of control. u.s. officials are highly skeptical about this sentiment maintaining china is planning to -- john kirby on "fox news

sunday." >> john kirby: no question that china and russia are two countries chafing against this order that the united states and our allies and partners have built since world war ii. they don't like that, they would like to rewrite the rules globally. >> alexandria: if the meeting results in a ceasefire from beijing, that would ratify russia conquest and give putin time for renewed offensive. last week biden said he would speak to the chinese president soon, according to the white house, no call head been scheduled. here is tom cotton offering this. >> joe biden put a kick-me sign on america's back. it has created void of leadership and not filled with peace and stability and understanding, it is filled with

adversaries working against our interest. >> alexandria: this summit was announced the same day as the arrest warrants for putin, citing war crimes. president biden called the action justified. >> ashley: kim jong-un is calling on his country to launch an offense against america. kim jong-un oversaw ballistic missile tests over the weekend and now talking up his country's nuclear capabilities. the force of the dprk will control the enemy with high war readiness and carry out important mission without hesi hesitation. 1.4 million have planned to join

his military since his announcement. some say this administration is not doing enough to counter foreign threats. >> north korea and iran, proxies of china and russia, their little brother who do their bidding. anything koreans are doing takes what china ask is doing and what the russians are do. there is fight, flight, posture or submit and every turn joe biden rolls over and shows his belly to putin and xi jinping. >> todd: fox news cameras capturing chinese nationals crossing our border. public safety agents intercepted them. authorities apprehend 90 chinese nationals in a single day last

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reports on illegal leaks says he expects to be arrested on tuesday. costello may have information that could exonerate former president trump. the nypd is bracing for unrest in the city if trump is indicted, new york is preparing to have riot officers. kevin mccarthy is calling for peace, listen. >> i don't think people should protest this now. i think president trump doesn't believe that either. no one should harm each other and let me be clear, no matter what transpires, we want calmness. >> brooke: president trump's lawyer speaks out against alvin bragg. >> if anyone else was in this

situation, would they be prosecuted? the answer is 100% no. this is politically motivated prosecution, the thing happening in this country now where we're using the justice system as a weapon, weaponization of prosecutor office to get a political opponent. >> brooke: authorities in new york will be on high alert our trump told the supporters to take our nation back. >> todd: let us bring in former member of president trump's transition team. there is craving to figure out what is going onner hoo, walk us through what you think happens in the next 24-48 hours? >> there is no way to know for sure, grand jury hearings are secret. the grand jury has to wrap up business. the way that works, the

prosecutor asks the grand jury to vote on an indictment within the discretion of the prosecutor. this is civil settle mment paymt made in 2016, that is a lot of years ago. will prosecutors worry about statute of limitation terms, that assumes if they seek to indict president trump. there are news reports, but it hasn't occurred and until it occurs, we don't know what will happen. >> ashley: there is no evidence he will be arrested, he says he will be arrested tomorrow. if he is arrested, what message does that send? >> it is a shocking message, there are over 3000 counties in the united states, i bring that up because the manhattan district attorney is a single

elected official, to create precedent where a single state county elected official has veto power over who can become the next president of the united states is shocking especially when the sorts of crimes we appear to be investigating seem to be, shall we say ticky tack that in most instances might give rise to a civil dispute between like the person and the i.r.s. or federal election commission, but actual crime, where someone would be arrested and have to go to jail seems shocking, especially since it looks like donald trump is the most investigated person in the history of the united states and has been for many years and now a single county official trying to indict him seems a shocking situation as far as i'm concerned. >> todd: mark, some say the timing is suspicious considering the timing of republican

investigation into biden family business. biden family made over million dollars total, miranda devine writing the following, for democrats machine it was time for a trump scandal, always their tactic in case of emergency moment like this. guaranteed to distract media and keep voters in the dark about the real crime swirling around biden. your take on that? >> one of the biggest stories from the trump era, to the great extent the legacy media is really works with democrats on messaging and the big story out of the issues is not that someone has done something right or wrong, it appears to have been kept from the public in the run-up to the 2020 election. this is the sort of thing americans might have wanted to know about before they went to

the poll to elect their president in 2020. why are we learning about this now almost over two years in to the joe biden presidency? >> todd: joe biden says this is not true, documents unearthed by james comer would say otherwise. mark smith, thank you for your insight on both topics. a mother who used to support dei is doing complete about face after her daughter came home and told her about an inappropriate classroom game that involves students pretending to be hookers. >> ashley: the school is apologizing, but the mom says it is too late, we're talking to her next.

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it is cold. tomorrow is the first day of spring, but doesn't feel like it. 32 in new york, 29 in atlanta, georgia. 28 in louisville. frost and freeze alerts for 48 million under alert this morning from texas toward the carolinas. we'll warm temperatures up in time for the first day of spring getting into tuesday. temperatures in the 50s and 60s toward the mid-atlantic. across the south, we get warmer temperatures, setting us up for severe storms on thursday and friday. new system moving into the west, coastal rain, heavy mountain snow. stormy, the lines of storms moving into the west on tuesday and wednesday, bringing heavy rain and increased flood risk for california and pile-up of snow feet in the mountains and

spread in toward parts of nevada and the southwest. we'll get ingredients we need for severe weather starting on thursday and friday, we have warm temperatures and moisture from gulf of mexico and setup from damaging wind thursday and friday. spring-time temperatures, we get spring-like storms for the south. warm temperatures up in the northeast because it was chilly this weekend. >> ashley: it was cold yesterday, i was not happy. >> janice: i'm sorry. the complaints filed. >> ashley: i wasn't complaining to you, we love you. >> todd: 100 people rally in new york city outside james drag story hour for kids and families. 40 of them were protesters denouncing the event. nypd and sergeant at arms security were on the scene as half a dozen lawmakers attended.

police arrested one unruly protester. 200 people attend the four back-to-back story times, the events cost $200,000 in city contracts. ash. >> ashley: texas middle school is apologizing after students were asked to play a game in class that had 13-year-old girls pretend be to be "seducing hookers," and sharing this statement. sometimes we stumble with activities and words like hooker or seduce should never have place in our school. i recognize impact may have caused students to feel uncomfortable or traumatized. laura maria gruber, pulled her daughter out of that school after learning this. thank you for being with us, tell us what happened?

>> exactly what you just shared, it was boys and girls asked to participate in this game. if you google it, it is replacement of rock, paper, scissors, which they could have just play. people role play an angry bear, a shooting hunter to another peer and then a seducing hooker with a hand behind the ear and one on the hip. they were lined up in order of maturity, so youngest to oldest in one class and another class, they were offered candy, two separate teachers in two separate classrooms. >> ashley: more than one class? >> yes, my child and two other children corroborate it happened in two other classes. >> ashley: your daughter told

you about this, the same day? >> the moment i picked her up, she cringed, grossed out. >> ashley: the school response, what was the immediate response? six months later they are saying sorry. >> i had no idea what i was signing up for, i met with the principal through zoom a week later. i requested the meeting monday and able to get on with her on friday and basically they do intake and listen to you and make you wait and i got reply from her saying she had granted some remedies i requested, which were a few. one granted was she had communicated, sent a letter to parents saying there were

counseling services or therapy services available at the school. i didn't know it never referenced the game, why send a vague letter home when the parents don't know what that is for and also, she stated that although she thought the game was inappropriate, she didn't consider it sexualization of children. i appealed to her boss here in san antonio and he said the same thing, we support first level, i don't think it was sexualization of children. the superintendent told me the same thing, i appealed and this was over about a month each -- waited a month between each reply. here we are now at five months and i get reply back from the ceo of schools. she is in charge of all texas

schools and tell me the same thing. i support my staff and don't believe the kids received sexual education through this or kids were sexualized through this. i go to the board and -- >> ashley: quickly, do you think they are just now getting around to this? other kids pulled out of this school? just because they are trying to clean up? >> i know one other child pulled out, i don't know of any other. i pulled my child out, i didn't get to address it with other families. they just weren't communicated with, details were not sent home, why would a parent pull their child if they had no clue. they waited to sunday a letter home. >> ashley: you said the parents didn't know until that letter came out, i'm sure it was

startling for a lot of people. thank you for your time, we appreciate it. >> any time. thank you for doing this. >> ashley: could you imagine? could you imagine being those kids? >> todd: i am like, am i hearing this? >> ashley: brand-new video of spring break chaos in miami beach, mandatory curfew is in place after deadly shootings. talking to a business owner about the impact this is having on his city. >> todd: san francisco is hiring undocumented police officers in attempt to fill the ranks. one officer says this is self-inflicted, details next. >> same department that fired myself and others for being unvaxxed, they lost about 40 to 80 officers. looks right.

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>> the volume of people in our city, the unruly nature of too many and presence of guns has created a peril that cannot go unchecked. >> todd: city of miami beach under curfew for third straight year after raukous spring break rush weekend led to a pair of deadly shooting. businesses are suffering because of curfews. >> ashley: owner of the hotel in

miami beach shares us now. i think everybody understands people need to be safe and to keep people safe in miami when tensions are heightened in situations like this. but this hurts people's business, explain how it is hurting yours? >> well, let me elaborate. this would be our fourth, what has been annual, consecutive emergency declaration. for me, as a hotel owner, my clien teleis an international crowd. it hurts me, especially to provide them with refunds when they tell me they have nothing to do and will be departing early. again, this is fourth year in a row, highly disruptive and to -- my neighbors, as well, i hear the same thing year after year.

why does the city continue to provide a carnival-like circus on the street with multiple stages blasting music, the city embraces this spring break atmosphere and i've been appears before the mayor and commission for a decade now telling them not to throw millions upon millions of taxpayer money at the police but to address the open-air entertainment zoning found along ocean drive that just a handful of businesses exploit with blasting music and dance performances on the public right-of-way, that is the crux of our problems down here. >> todd: the mayor says he doesn't want sprifrng break in your city. your response? it seems inconsistent with everything you just described. >> he's been saying the same

thing since he's been in office. i believe him, but he's been ineffective in making any changes that -- a lot has to do with campaign donations. his colleagues and himself have taken so much money from the night life industry, which again, is the reason nothing has changed. >> ashley: are you putting the blame on anyone, other than the mayor? >> well, it is on everybody. the administration and those we elect. >> todd: are you worried about the long-term impact of how this makes your city look for your own business? you are having trouble now, what if the people think, i will never go back there if this is reception i get, long-term impact could be severe, as well.

>> miami miami beach brand has been damaged i think recognition are if the last decade. again, someone who has been in the hotel business for over 30 years, my guess and i've known generations of their family have told me in recent years, they are no longer coming back here, they will seek out alternative destinations. i'm optimistic that things will change. >> todd: i hope it does, it's a beautiful location, world renowned and a shame a few rowdy kids are leading to this ridiculousness. >> ashley: and probably not from there. >> todd: thank you, best of lus. district super visor in san francisco is begging for more police on the street despite previous calls by her to defund them, watch.

>> i've been begging this department to give mission what it deserves all year long and been told time and time and time and time again there are no officers that we can send to mission, it hurts and i feel betrayed by the department and mayor. i feel betrayed by the priorities of this city. >> todd: okay, you heard that, just three years ago, hillary rothen, sang a different tune following george floyd protest, she tweeted, i want to make it clear, i believe strongly in defunding police and reducing number of officers on our source. same thread, ronen attacked the mayor about the police budget and reduction in the number of officers. san francisco police numbers on the decline year over year as

crime continues to surge. >> ashley: you can't make it up. city leaders beg for more police. san francisco is hiring undocumented and unqualified officers to make up for the shortage. 45 were flagged for fingerprintses, proof of citizenship, psyche exam and background checks. former police officer joined us earlier and wonders how this is legal. >> how does someone, i don't know how the psyche evalgot lost, that is impossible. this department fired myself and others for being unvaxxed. you see people like ronen backtracking. trust is integrity, you don't catch this in the academy, it will manifest on the street. >> ashley: recruitment standards

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>> ashley: a number of banks making big moves after the silicon valley bank collapse. >> todd: major firms considering buyouts to avoid future financial collapse. cheryl casone has more. >> cheryl: first time since 2008 financial crisis, l large-scale goeb global bank is being taken over, ending 167 year run for the independent bank. suisse falling victim to panic

withdrawals similar to what started at silicon valley bank. the california lender failed after a run on that bank. svb problems hastened by rising interest rates coming from federal reserve, the bank's management made. agreed to buy from svb worth 2.7 billion. all signature bank branches will be renamed flag star bank. take look at bank stocks. j.p. morgan and bank of america, stocks are down premarket and in europe, which has been interesting this morning, credit suisse shares are falling and so are ubs, negative reaction to the european bailout, if you will, of credit suisse. one more thing, the fed is

meeting this week. the expectation they will raise interest rates a quarter point, will they? seeing bets change. another real quick point, all of this may hasten recession faster than we expected. >> todd: i'm shocked when you say futures are down for the bank. i thought people would buy low, what do i know? >> cheryl: continues to spread and saudis took a real bath on the credit suisse deal over night. >> ashley: american company being taken over by mexican police and military. >> cheryl: american company facility taken over by mexican police. vulcan material, based in alabama, watch their facility taken over, footage obtained by fox news. the company has been in dispute with mexico over the land.

the government's participation in this gross violation of our property rights is another example of the government's arbitrary and illegal treatment of vulcan and investments in mexico, this occupation must cease immediately. vulcan is largest produces in the united states and the move is called unlawful and unacceptable. >> todd: reminds me of looking at your ring camera, imagine looking at your ring camera and seeing that. what is going on? cheryl, thank you. nonpartisan latino voters on track to be one of the biggest swing voter group in the u.s. and could make a major difference in 2024. impact is large in california, nevada, texas, florida and new york where first-time latino voters are outpacing other first-time voters. daniel garza, mayra flores and

judy pinot for the independent women's forum joining me now. judy, how does each party get these groups of voters on their side? >> they need to pay attention to the voters, for a long time democrats have been neglecting this important sector of the voting block. they have -- they think latinos are a given and they aren't and know ares have been paying close attention, been on the ground and they need to continue if they want to win the election. >> todd: daniel, for u.s. house race, 39% of latinos voted republican, up from 2020 with 39%. how do republicans continue that trend in 2024? >> look, i think the latinos and

the center right need each other, they are finding issues of alignment. issues that are popular like school choice, reducing tax burden, reserving private insurance for healthcare needs. free speech, seating judges, energy abundance like in texas. that will connect with latinos across the country. you will see they will attract more votes and distance themselves from the radical agenda democrats are pushing. >> todd: mayra flores, as someone who spoke with groups of latino voters, what did they tell you on the trail? >> the republican party needs to continue investing in the hispanic community that is conservative, people of faith,

family and hard work align with the republican party and i'm glad to see our party is representing us, the everyday american and focusing on kitchen table issues and that is the reason why more hispanics everyday are voting republican. we are focused on the everyday issues we care about, the economy, the border, school choice, which is important in south texas and pushing republicans and democrats to support school choice. we believe no skrip code should dictate the future of our kids and glad to see our party is focusing on i think thises americans care about every single day. >> todd: judy, when it comes to texas, republicans did not do as well in texas as many thought. did great in florida, not in texas, what is advice to the republican party to get gains in state of texas with young, unafilliated latino voters?

>> that is the key word, young, unaff unaffiliated, keep an eye on young people. democrats did win by razor-thin margin. i think we need to grab on to that party and the young latinos and keep focusing on what their needs are. they are definitely not in tune with the woke agenda that democrats are putting forward and they are not monolithic and not a given. >> todd: the groundwork for november, 2024, gets laid today, thank you for your insight on that very task. we appreciate it. fox news alert, chinese president xi jinping arriving in moscow to meet with the russian president vladamir putin this morning, part of mission to up end world order and replace the united states as the leader, we will ask a foreign policy expert where the white house goes from

here. >> ashley: first check in with brian kilmeade, what is coming up on "fox and friends"? >> brian: high stakes of that meeting and what is at stake for us and what about the war in ukraine, which is a disaster for president putin and everyone realizes it, except president putin. president donald trump preparing to be indicted, the 45th president believes he will be marched into the courthouse and fingerprinted and perhaps understand hacuffed. overnight miami beach ordering curfew and declaring state of emergency after spring breakers become too much out of control and senator john kennedy will be here and benjamin hall on that great special last night and stuart varney will make sense what is happening with the bank. rooney and jillian michaels. put on something tight and respectable and get ready for a good week and most importantly,

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>> ashley: xi jinping arriving in moscow where he will be meeting with vladimir putin opinion within the hour. as china comes to write a new world order. >> there is no what he did china and russia and this is out in the national security strategy two countries chafing against in international rules based order that the united states and so many allies and partners built up. rewrite the rules of the game globally. they have been increasing their cooperation and relationship. >> adam boehler is a former administration and trump negotiator he joins us now. adam, great to have you on the program. are you there to buy the xi jinping line i'm there as a peacemaker the more likely scenario i'm there to displace america in this new world order? >> it's coming on the heels of

his success in the middle east. xi is going to look for a win here together with putin. i don't think it's really about ending the ukraine efforts, et cetera. i think a lot of it is anti-u.s. sentiment here to drive diplomatic victory for the chinese. >> how high are the stakes of this meeting today? >> i think the meeting is all preordained. the two have been coming closer together. their mutual shared interest is kind of an anti west approach. a lot of it will be pomp and circumstance. the things we need to look for in this meeting will be behind the scenes. number one, are we going to have a situation where china is going to support russia with can lethal weapons in the war? that's going to be the first question that the intelligence community is going to watch for and look for. that won't be announced. the second is how much can china push towards some sort of conclusion. they reached a 12-point peace suggestion before the meetings back in the end of february which was pretty general.

i don't expect much progress there. i think what you will see is a lot of discussions and meetings around how they are going to collaborate together at a higher level. >> todd: you just heard defending after the criminal court issued an arrest. the icc should uphold an objective and impartial stance respect the jurisdictional immunity joined by the head of stays. exercise its functions and powers prudently by the law. interpret and apply international law in good faith and avoid a politicization and double standards. taking that, combine that with the overall trip, do you think any of this would be happening if joe biden were stronger on the world stage? >> absolutely not. there wouldn't be a war in ukraine if not. this is a region that responds to strength. and i will tell you that everything begets everything. so, when you look at the start of the russia action. it really stemmed from our

action in afghanistan. and we have that disaster pulling out. it shows somebody like vladimir putin that they can take advantage of where we are. and that has led to all of this. it led to what you saw in the middle east. i think what happened with xi coming in and bridging our enemy, iran, into saudi arabia is a direct affront to the abraham accords and it shows that we are losing strength in the region. i think it's a huge issue. it's brought russia and china closer together. now, our plan here, i will say it's an uneasy alliance because the chinese like things planned out for, quite frankly, hundreds of years. putin plans for weeks and made some real ill timed things with the ukraine war. so our key here is we might have shared interest with china in ending the ukraine conflict. there could be some quiet things that happen in the background but there's no question any of this would be happening under the prior administration. >> ashley: you said it's because we are losing strength how do we regain that and whose shoulders

does it lie on it? >> lies on our shoulders. let's start a few things. number one, we need to kind of reengage middle east and be a dependable partner from that perspective. the other thing we need to do from a russia perspective. i agree with a couple things we are doing now. i like that we are declassifying information and i like we are providing weapons. here are the issues they are half measures. you say you are going to provide tanks and they come six months later. we can't take half measures. we need to be congress and son sis tent in our support or don't do it at all. getting the worst of both words. i would like to see very direct support that comes right away. not months and months later. >> >> when it comes to weapons, before we let you go, is putin going to walk away with significant weaponry from xi jinping today? >> i think is he going to walk away with something. the question is how much and how lethal. there is no question that you be going to see some support and i bet it's characterized as defense against kind of western aggression, et cetera.

all going to fit within the dialogue that you hear. the question that we're all going to be looking for behind the scenes is how much and how lethal versus some of these other things. >> ashley: adam boler, thank you so much for your time this morning. we appreciate it. are. >> ashley: "fox & friends" starts right now. >> chinese president xi jinping heading to moscow to meet with russian president vladimir putin. >> undoubtedly seeking support in this while xi is trying to frame this trip as diplomatic. >> increasing. like to rewrite the rules of the game globally. >> a new york grand jury is getting set to hear testimony from michael cohen's moral former legal adviser. >> expected to atacoen's credibility. the nypd is bracing for unrest in the city if trump is indicted. >> we don't ask for spring break in our city. >> mayor of miami beach putting his city in a curfew in the wake