conv >> laura: our apologies to jeremy ronanersa appear to be ha heart break an youd had to cut m off his conversation. we will have him back.e se >> like seats breaking through the earth, our hopes reached towards each shining sunrise. >> laura: oh, my goodness. maya angelo -- that is it for us tonight. gutfeld next. ♪ ♪ >> todd: a fox news alert, law enforcement officials say they do not expect donald trump to be arrested today, but we are learning officials have discussed the logistics of the running for president new york. i'm president step to send shock waves across the country. you are watching >> laura: come i am todd piro. >> as>> ashley: ashley strohmien for carley shimkus americans bracing for trump indictment since former president said he believed he would be arrested today and the case is being ripped more than political

prosecution and district attorney alvin bragg to answer questions immediately. >> we want to talk to you and know what is going on and the communications that have taken place between federal justice department and your attorney office in manhattan. remember the justice department did not bring this case. they were not going to do this until mr. alvin bragg came along and that to me as a real concern here. be when brooke singman has more on exclusive reporting on this story, brooke, take it away. >> good morning, todd and ashley fox news says different branches of law enforcement discuss the logistics and closing down and putting lights up with generators, extra barriers and extra police and president trump's possible arraignment. we don't expect that to happen today as the grand jury has another witness to hear from tomorrow. yesterday they heard from robert costello who served as a legal advisor to trump's former lawyer michael cohen.

set before the grand jury two hours testifying that he is a liar on a revenge tour. listen. >> to stand in front of the courthouse and say things that are directly contrary to what he said to us. my obligation is to bring the truth to both the district attorney and to trump's lawyers. that is exactly what i did. they want to go after donald trump and they have solid evidence, so be it. but michael cohen is far from solid evidence. shoot somebody, whatever it takes i'm not going to jail. well, he went to jail and now on the revenge tour. >> ashley: bob costello's comments more fantastical, he would be best selling fictional. and stated years ago that the payment was done at the direction of incoordination and for the benefit of donald peer of the truth is truth and the documents connection of the district attorney of new york demonstrated this. after the testimony, costello

told tucker carlson new york city district attorney alvin bragg is not interested in hearing the truth. >> i just spent two hours testifying before the grand jury in downtown manhattan. i got my point across, although it was clear to me that the manhattan d.a.'s office did not want to get to the truth. i don't represent donald trump, but i do stand for justice. i think i have a legal obligation to inform both sides. >> republicans on the house judiciary committee demanding that bragg testified before congress about handling the case. a letter sent to bragg jim jordan accuses bragg of "unprecedented abuse of power." florida governor ron desantis accusing the d.a. pointing out his ties to mecca donor george soros. watch this. >> manhattan attorney with george soros 200 prosecutors so he like other funded prosecutors, they weaponize their office to impose a

political agenda on society at the expense of the rule of law and public safety. >> of the week and, president trump according to reports that were based on illegal leaks and he could be arrested today in connection with the case. the entire nypd force has been instructed to report to work today in full uniform, ashley, todd. >> todd: alan dershowitz does not think the case against trump hold up, listen to this. >> there are thousands of nondisclosure agreements every year. do you think anyone has ever told a truth about the payment? can you imagine the record saying we made $130,000 to buy her silence and adulterous affair with our ceo? what he said was legal in a settlement of the case. so they don't even have espionage be on the statutory period to turn it into a felony, you have to then assume that the only reason he did that, that

record, was because he didn't want to be prosecuted for illegal campaign contributions. that is the birth of this thing from trump's mind. the reason he didn't want that to make public because it would be embarrassing to his family and friends. i'm reminded when a civil rights worker and a train to go down south in the 1960s, our trainers told us one thing, don't spit on the floor, don't put out e-cigarettes because they are targeting you. >> todd: former congressman doug collins to help us unpack all of the bills in this case. the house judiciary committee do not miss the take on this and that is coming up later on. another fox news alert, xi jinping and his quote, dear friend russian president vladimir putin to hold talks since the first war in ukraine. >> ashley: alexandria hoff in washington with more details, good morning, alexandria. >> good morning, ashley, todd.

the discussion lasted four hours with president putin with escorting president xi to his car. he is envious of china and telling xi, china has made a colossal leap ahead in recent years. it is causing genuine interest all around the world and we feel a little bit envious. we will discuss those issues with the initiative we highly respected peer the international arena to strengthen the basic principles of global order and multi-polarity. president xi returned the complement under strong leadership, russia has made great strides and prosperous development. the two will meet again with top officials and russia has said it is open to hearing how to settle the war in ukraine. u.s. officials fear in a chinese proposal would only pay for russia. >> we hope that president xi will press president putin to cease bombing schools and to hold war crimes and atrocities

and to withdraw his troops. but we are concerned that instead china will reiterate calls for a cease-fire that leaves russian forces inside ukraine sovereign territory. >> according to the white house china has not taken and provided lethal aid to russia off of the table. the texas congressman michael mccaul fears that too. >> i think you will see more lethal weapons going from china into russia. this is a bit of a red line, if you will, if this impact happens. you can't bifurcate them here they are joined at the hip at this unholy alliance and it extends to iran and north korea. >> here is fox news peter doocy asking where president biden fits in. >> it seems like these two superpowers are teaming up now against the u.s. why did president biden let this happen? >> these are two countries that have long chafed. this is not something these two

countries just cooked up since president biden got elected. >> do you think putin and xi peer president biden? >> you would have to ask them whether they fear or not. it is not about fear. it is about president biden advancing our foreign policy around the world. >> ukrainian official city of china truly wants his successful peace plan than russian occupation troops must withdraw from ukraine, ashley, todd. >> todd: alexandria hoff, thank you. let's bring in global politics senior fellow at the center for renewing america, dr. great to have you. what was your main take away from yesterday's meeting? >> thank you very much for having me. as mentioned, china is the biggest threat to the u.s. in a way that diagnosing before from gdp production and sheer in manpower. what is happening here though is china is trying to put as a

global peacemaker that they are pretty much superior as they come here they were trying to spill blood and the same opportunity with the production and stockpile in eastern europe as well as northern alliance with russia. and never been in the line to china because the soviet union, china and malaysia, but now china sees rush's already weakened and strategic calculus that sort of have both the west and russia with europe which is one of the reasons why it is a red line if china starts to provide weapons to russia. which they already sort of art because of the companies are not private but state-funded peer the government is not doing anything. that is kind of like a receding fact. the point is, what are we going to do? russia is a partner in this relationship and i don't think the russians realize that, how

clear they are with china and using both how we were sort of thinking about ukraine and ukrainian war. but it is russia and the ussr and they would rather be on china side than ours. >> ashley: a big story today especially for americans is john kirby trying to downplay russia and china's relationship at yesterday's briefing. listen to this. >> it is a marriage of convenience than affection. we will see where this goes after this meeting. but these are not two countries that have decade long experience working together and full trust and confidence. >> ashley: he said, we will see where this goes. is that a good enough response for americans? >> no come i think kirby is completely wrong. there is a point china and russia don't have aligned interest but to say they are not working together they don't have

to experience working together is completely wrong. look at the amount of details china and russia does united in united nations and security council. one of the key elements of our theory of retainment [indistinct] between china and having -- but that is obviously gone because of biden incompetent handling of the ukraine crisis and we can reach out in eastern europe against taiwan. china, a wake-up a few days back but the social policies that we are pushing is undermining the u.s. capacity and balance in china. look at chinese naval buildup. look at chinese efforts to have education for their youth, sort of like re-imposing emotional

and physical and school system spirit and imperial officer in england. they are gearing towards supremacy. we have to sort of understand that. >> todd: you mention wicker has been good on this and says the following in addition to what you mention. in competition with china and russia the greatest is social policies being pushed by senior democrat appointees at the pentagon underlying this advantage. this is the point we have been making on this program for years now. when is our country specifically the democrats on the biden administration going to wake up to that fact that china is not hiding the ball on this anymore. they literally said, we are coming together with russia in a new world order. they said that yesterday. when are we going to wake up? >> right, you are absolutely right. china at this point in time like we have kind of lost control, like we have not been trying. so the biden administration not doing a great example of pushing allies and weather in europe or taiwan, there was a statistic

that came in like from the united states the average 36% of allied gdp but 61% of alliance defense spending. that is obviously unsustainable and we cannot continue to do that but when you see at the biration's strategy in europe, we are not doing anything compared to how the front administration was handling europe or utilization. same with taiwan. china percentage of spending growth from 3 billion to 300 billion as taiwan went down from what i remember, 2.1% roughly -- over the last few years and obviously that is not sustainable. so we have to push the allies, bring them together to balance china but we are not really doing it. >> ashley: such a great take on this topic this morning, dr. sumantra maitra, thank you for your time. we appreciated. >> thank you very much. >> ashley: more than 400,000 children in the country's second-largest school district will not be attending classes

today due to a teachers union strike. campuses in the los angeles unified school district will be closed starting today's negotiations fall flat. demanding more pay, more full-time positions and end to district's unfair practices. every 30,000 employees include teachers, classmates, bus drivers 4:30 a.m. -- picketing 4:30 a.m. and if an agreement it reached. >> todd: president biden with first meet up yesterday but the president watching bipartisan bill to protect your retirement funds with from esg agenda. m effectively cancels labor department build to shield retirement agencies to invest in environmental, social governance issues or esg for short. biden tweeting, this bill would risk the retirement savings with risk factors, maga don't like but quickly hitting back of the president.

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♪ ♪ >> ashley: border patrol has encountered over 1 million migrants at the southern border so far this year. >> todd: the news comes as u.s. secretary alejandro mayorkas and katie hobbs to hold joint news conference at the border today. jackie ibanez joins us live with the details, jackie. >> good morning, dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas and governor katie hobbs set to visit the port of entry a few hours. to attend multiple community committees and the trip comes a day after border patrol agents released a number of frightening figures. rio grande chief tweeting the 1 million migrants encounters this year, 125,000 came through the sector. agents intercepted 13 smugglers, three firearms, a sex offender and ms-13 gang member.

border patrol chief revealing that in the past 72 hours. agents made more than 1300 apprehensions including a sex offender, murder, gang member on top of 220 pounds of narcotics. this week, fox news cameras captured multiple groups of chinese nationals being apprehended at the border. smuggling nationals is a lucrative commodity for cartels to charge $50,000 for safe passage. former acting i.c.e. director tom homan said the america should be more x concerned about terrorist threats the border poses, listen. >> what is going on the southwest border right now is the biggest national security failure since 9/11. more people rested from 170 different countries since joe biden and office. some of these countries sponsors of terrorism. you don't think a single 1 million cutaways come from a country sponsoring terrorism then you are ignoring the

percentages. they should scare every american. >> 69 non-u.s. citizens on the terrorist watch list have been caught across the southern border since october. 60 apprehended last month alone, todd, ashley, those are scary numbers. >> todd: they continue to raise each and every month, jackie thank you. residents living on the border are terrified about the smuggler chases like the one you see on your screen right there. all too common in the communities putting communities putting innocent lives at risk. remember this a texans grandmother, 7-year-old granddaughter killed this week when a smuggler evading arrest crashed into their car. last week, the memory still exist. joining us texas border resident and texas pastor in texas ranger and sheriff of kinney county. thank you for being here. describe what it is like living under the constant threat of these chases? >> well, certainly an

eye-opener,

lawlessness is all that is happening, and the administration blind eye to lawlessness, excuse me, lawlessness. and it is continuing. went this all started off, it was maybe one or two runaways a week. in these highway traces one or two or three a week and now three or four a day. and it is just an atrocity what is happening and kinney county. and correct, you are worried about our crashes and we've had crashes in town and one of the public buildings here for housing. thank goodness no one was hurt. the man that was the driver of that automobile write down from our school and horrible brain

injuries. the death of the aliens, the illegals coming, that is growing every day. someone is killed on the highways here in kinney county. a couple of months ago, we had an awful situation of a young driver and caring illegals driving down the highway and automatic pistol being shot outside of the vehicle towards the other vehicle to cause other accidents to get away. so, this is not good. it's as if alejandro mayorkas and biden trying to dismantle the integrity of our citizenship and take it away. there is no rhyme or reason to where we are going. >> todd: tony i want to bring in the sheriff. you hear these stories and really between a rock and a hard place. you don't want these individuals

to escape it if you lead them on a trace it can lead to horrible consequences. what is the play here and how do you operate under these situations, sheriff? >> we take it on a minute-by-minute basis. we've seen a huge increase in number of pursuits. in january, 5:30 9%. more than one a day. if we just have to keep going with what we are doing and hopefully nobody else gets hurt. but i can't in good faith with these people go knowing that they may go up north and commit a heinous crime. you are talking about arizona deal. in a couple of hundreds of miles from us, one of the girls works at the courthouse and that was her cousin. it affects us both ways. if it gets through, we have something in arizona happening again. but related to the people here. >> todd: you would think that image of grandmother and

granddaughter with get the reaction of the biden administration. if they didn't react with the fentanyl crisis, they will not react to this and that is sad. be safe. we are praying for you. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> todd: other wild video careening on a packed sidewalk and sending people running for cover. we will tell you what led to this chaotic crash. >> ashley: one georgia democrat mincing words when she explains why parents shouldn't have the final say in kids education. >> a lot of those parents did not finish high school and could not finish their own education. i am extremely concerned. >> todd: backlash to that has been swift and when you won't want to hear the rest of this story. don't go anywhere. ♪ ♪

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>> todd: the city of miami beach won't have a mandatory curfew over deadly shootings over the weekend. miami beach city council voted 4-3 to close the city down at 12:00. but the mayor is going the decision a dangerous mistake. >> i think we are making a big mistake. i hope it is not one that results in something much worse. we have a real problem with a number of people that are coming in the gums that are coming. >> miami beach officials releasing chilling surveillance tape spraying the sidewalk with bullets before shooting a man execution-style. just terrific. two days after another gunman opened fire on spring break or sleeping one dead and another in critical condition. city leaders blaming the bloody we can on wild vacation stirring up miami beach seen jumping on a police cruiser, ashley. >> ashley: just how bad the crisis is getting in san francisco and we want to

warn viewers this may be hard to watch. you can see paramedics floating another body into an emergency vehicle during therapy third drug overdose call of the morning. tom with a former homeless active and founder of specific alliance for prevention and recovery. thank you for being with us. it seems that it is horrifying. have you seen anything like this yourself in your town? >> well, not to the degree that we are seeing it right now. so, last year we had 647 overdose deaths in san francisco. but over the last two months alone, we have had 131 overdose deaths in san francisco. it is all driven by new derivatives of fentanyl on the street. you have a new drug called frank and another drug called iso and another one cold clean which is a really high potency of fentanyl.

and you know, where these bodies are being pulled out of if you walk one block any direction from the apartment building, there are a dozen drug dealers waiting to sell you drugs. >> ashley: they don't care if you live or die because people are dying, as you said pure this year already 131 accidental drug overdoses and san francisco. how worried are you, tom, if somebody doesn't step in those numbers could double, triple, god forbid? >> i'm extremely world worried. we should be raising the alarm for san francisco and san francisco has been the epicenter of the overdose crisis and the united states. we have the highest overdose death rate per capita of any county in the united states right now. if we don't step in and intervene and we need to actually come in and take these organized dealers down. because they are cartel dealers operating on the street and we

have 500 operating in san francisco in broad daylight on the street for everyone to see. we just don't have enough resources to stop them stop them. >> ashley: does the city know this is happening? surely, they do. >> of course they know. everybody knows. well, we are down 500 police officers in the city. we took $28 million of funding away from the police two years ago. nobody wants to come to the city to become a cop. people are retiring and leaping from the police force. so we are under the gun. we don't have the resources to combat this cartel fueled organized drug dealing that is really killing the city right now. >> ashley: you said someone needs to raise the alarm. does that mean no one is saying anything from the city standpoint or the state? >> well, they are saying something about it, but they are framing it more, this is a public health crisis. it is not a criminal justice issue. when the reality it is both of

those things. so, when you are ignoring one piece of the solution, you know, you have heard that term half measure is nothing, that is basically what san francisco is stuck in half measure so guess what, people are continuing to die. the neighborhood continues and the communities continued to be harmed by the drug dealing happening right now. >> ashley: health and everyone band together to solve this problem and a two-part question, what would you do to stop it? >> at this point, to be quite frank, we need federal intervention in san francisco. i think we need to talk to the department of justice and the dea to find out ways in which they can help the city kind of reclaim these communities that have been basically taken over by the cartel and operating with impunity relatively peer they are resting them but when they get to the courts and the way the laws have changed in california with power 47, there was not a lot happening to the

dealers. they end back out on the street after multiple arrests selling fentanyl as little as $5. you have seen the results play out with all of the bodies coming out of the permanent support housing units and low-income housing units in the neighborhood that are really, really affected by the drugs. >> ashley: you know, todd interviewed someone yesterday and she lost her child to overdose for fentanyl. the first thing he asked the drug dealer is, what is this? so people are taking this because they want to die. but something needs to move to stop this because not just san francisco but the drug problem but literally everywhere. tom, thank you so much for your time this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> ashley: yet another shocking jewelry store heist caught on camera but the message the school closed from the employees will send a chill down your spine. ♪ ♪ >> hi.

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♪ ♪ >> ashley: new york city family man making an emergency landing on a beach party with his plane's engine failed. the single engine came crashing into the water. and he says he was not hurt in the crash. there was another passenger on board, but there has been no word on commission for csa investigating the incident. >> todd: two people dead and several injured after a car crashes into a curb in brooklyn yesterday. a video of this as well. it is chilling. the whites hooting and spinning when the driver ran a red light and t-boned the black suv. hits a second vehicle and roles across multiple pedestrians along the way. the driver of the vehicle and the pedestrian were killed. another victim in critical condition and for coothers in stable condition but expected to survive. >> ashley: gosh, that person in the white imagine walking on

the sidewalk. new york city come a thief back to rob a brooklyn jewelry store for the second time. watch this. >> hi. >> hi. >> hi. >> [indistinct] >> what? philippe, it will kill you! >> ashley: hello, i'm back. can you imagine working and that jewelry store and just thinking somebody is walking in and you have to help them and then come to find out that rob do you not once but twice. todd, this boils down to crime in the city is up. these thieves and criminals don't care. nothing is going to happen because [is not going to do anything and they will be out in a couple of minutes and doing exactly what they did before. but really, did you see the city is trying to get people back to

enjoying the city? >> t>> todd: sure. >> ashley: post-pandemic and hoping that will bring the likelihood back to it. and throwing a bunch of hearts on billboards. >> todd: i feel great here now, how can we live in a civilized society when criminals fill as emboldened. literally, look at that casual arrogance, hey, guys, i'm here to rob you. this is not how robbery looks in the movies. we characterize back in that they become supposed to be like quick and supposed to be brazen. supposed to be striking fear appear at this guy, no consequences but waltz in here and give me your stuff because i know even if i am caught come i will be out on the street. this is a city that prioritizes criminals. this video shows that. we are encouraging that type of behavior by not putting these guys behind bar. you think casually walking income i'm here to take what i think is mine? no, other people are doing this and that it's a sad state of the

city and country. you see this in san francisco, chicago, all over in the liberal cities like alan bragg who let anything happen, anything goes. with that, speaking of anything goes, people went to d.c. and those people dr. felt gm muriel bowser and to shut shutdown dr. fauci, hand the mayor muriel bowser going door to door to push the covid vaccine back in 2021. >> i heard it does not cure it and it does not stop you from getting it. >> on the very, very rare chance that you do get it, even if you are vaccinated, you very rarely feel sick. >> when you start talking about paying people to get vaccinated and when you start talking about incentivizing people to get vaccinated, there is something else going on with that pure of the campaign is about fear.

inciting fear and you attack people with fear. >> todd: such a microcosm of the way the majority of the american people feel. that man was speaking for the nation, yet, those in the liberal elite bubble don't seem to understand they still can't understand that. you heard what fauci said, "oh, i guarantee if you take this and you have a very, very small chance of it but even if you did, no consequences." that has been proven 100% incorrect. my last point on this, why are they releasing this? >> ashley: that is what i was going to say. it doesn't make sense if they were trying to inform people and they really grasp what we were saying. this guy was talking down that they were walking off here they were just like we will not listen anymore. but that is how a lot of americans feel. it was pretty much split 50/50 if you look at the numbers.

but for fauci to say in the rare event this could happen, nope plenty of people that have been hurt from the vaccine. it is not so rare if we can count on both hands people affected by it. >> todd: are fauci and muriel bowser so eric and that they think this makes them look good? we were telling people what they need. no, this makes you look absolutely horrible. you got schooled by a guy come i guarantee never led nih and 40 years in public health. you were schooled by this guy in front of everybody and you think this makes you look good? that is what i don't understand. another head-scratcher, georgia democrat backlash for saying she is concerned about parents without high school diploma to have a say in kids education. lawmaker, making the comment in a meeting on the georgia promise scholarship act to school choice in the peach state. listen to this. >> i see this as a problem and

parents being able to direct their child's education. a lot of those parents did not finish high school and cannot or could not finish their own education. i am extremely concerned that we would put money in their hands and that entire piece of life in the hands of parents who are not qualified to make those decisions. >> todd: the lady who sent her kids to school though my private school in georgia, the parent should pay for their education if they want to be involved in curriculum. it is pretty simple, she thinks she is smarter than you and because of that, you should not have a say in your child's education. that is it, point blank peer that is it. >> ashley: you said it a nice way but i think she just thinks parents are stupid. you are not smart enough to make decisions for yourself and your child. where i'm failing to understand is since when can the government tell you what to do with your

kid? >> todd: the last five years. >> ashley: i guess so. i'm not a parent, but i guess that is how it works these days. when i heard this, i was appalled. how does she know that those people didn't finish high school? i was looking just out of curiosity and walt disney didn't finish high school. there are plenty of people that drop out of college that do just fine. it doesn't make them less intelligent. it doesn't make the type of people that can't tell their kids what is right from wrong. but the biggest problem i have with all of this is you cannot sit here and tell someone you are right, you are wrong, or whatever it is or think that people are going to let you get away with it. i'm sure that the pushback on this has been beer. >> todd: you touch on something with the government there. this last line for a moment this lady sent her children to private school in georgia. went on to say parents should pay for education if involved in

curriculum. she is implying taxpayers don't pay for their kids education? if you are paying taxes, the majority of your tax dollar is going to education. so, you are paying for your kids education. but regardless, to your point, they are your kids! the government doesn't tell you how you raise your kids! you determine that! >> ashley: anymore, i think they own you and your kids. they are proving that. >> todd: that is why it is important people stand up. if you don't, we have seen over the last five years, the government likes control. when you give them more control, they will take more control. >> ashley: absolutely. >> todd: . parents need to stand. speaking of control china and russia strengthening alliance with xi jinping inviting putin to china. >> they've got the real one here now. [laughter] no, i need to inject with a lot

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