interview with pbs pretending he's open to the lab leak theory. he is laughing it off. >> it would be molecularlysa impossible forrs them to turn it into sars-cov-2. were so different. it is kind of like you have a chevrolet and you have a motorcycle and you say come i want to make that chevrolet intt the motorcycle. >> laura: what a complete fraud. gutfeld next. >> todd: secretary antony blinken to testify between two senate committees today as xi jinping and putin with the chinese president and putin to beijing. you are watching "fox & friends first" on a wednesday morning i'm todd piro. >> ashley: ashley strohmier and for carley shimkus. where the u.s. relationship stands with china and the ccp strengthens its alliances with our adversaries. >> president xi has only left

twice since the pandemic and both times revolved around putin, russia. the other time was north korea and iran. that is a very, very concerning future. for those who study history, it seems a little like the 1930s and the excess of power. speed to mark meredith in washington with more, good morning, mark. >> ashley, todd good morning to appear at the last of president xi high-profile trip to moscow. the two trips response and putin said chinese peace proposal for ukraine may have merit while the critics call it a one-sided deal. the russian leaders have signed two agreements with china, affirming the partner and the other a promise to expand economic ties. as for ukraine, china has 12-point plan to end the conflict. china calling for cease-fire and end to sanction some more protections for nuclear power

plants in the region. putin weighed in on all of this telling the media, we believe many points of china's peace plan are in sync with russia approaches and could form the basis for a peaceful settlement. but the biden administration says china is stopping far short of urging russia to pull its troops out of ukraine. >> china wants to play constructive role here with this conflict, they need to pull their troops out of ukraine and they should urge president putin to cease bombing cities, hospitals, and school to stop the war crimes and atrocities and end the war today! >> the white house white house had president biden still plans to speak with a chinese counterpart eventually but no phone call has been set up yet. the republicans fear china may end up providing weapons to russia further prolonging the war. >> if china and relations and opens its arsenal into russia, into ukraine, i don't know if this will ever end and

essentially start for centering us of our military resources. we have got to put a red line employees. >> secretary antony blinken face a lot of questions from senators on all things china, russia, ukraine and he will be testifying before the two senate panels through the day, todd and ashley. >> ashley: mark meredith, thank you. tiktok ceo on a defense in a bid to save the app before he appears in tomorrow's house hearing on privacy and security concerns. because some politicians have started talking about banning tiktok and this could take to kick talk from 150 million appeal all because of congress later this week to share all that we are doing to protect americans using the app and deliver on a mission to inspire creativity and to bring joy. >> ashley: despite pressure from washington lawmakers, the chinese app got its first major ally and democratic congressman

jamaal bowman and railing with opposition to a tiktok fan arguing, "there are many apps on our phones that are chinese apps, so the idea tiktok is bogeyman is just part of a political fearmongering that is happening." a new app claims it is tracking on u.s. state government websites across 27 states. this includes some with bans on employees having tiktok on state networks and devices. a new report from "the wall street journal" said 30 state government websites accidentally helping tiktok by collecting data and using tiktok trackers where the app has already been panned from government networks and devices. >> todd: arkansas governor sarah huckabee sanders with transgender students to use a bathroom that aligns with biological gender and the multiperson bathrooms and locker rooms at public and charter schools serving prek-12 grade appear this bill was passed by state legislature with an

overwhelming majority. the new law will not take effect until september. it falls on the footsteps of similar policies in alabama, oklahoma, and tennessee. >> ashley: new report from the house judiciary committee said the biden administration had no reason to trick a parents who protested school board meetings in 2021. >> todd: concerned moms and dads labeled terrorist by the justice department. brooke singman reporting on the story. >> house judiciary committee reported "no legitimate phases for the biden administration to use federal law enforcement resources for parents at school board meetings ahead of georgia's gubernatorial election in 2021. the justice department's of the subject of moms and dads to an opening of an fbi investigation about them the establishment of a case file that includes their political views in the application of a threat tag to their names as a direct result of their exercise of their

fundamental, constitutional right to speak and advocate for their children." the report said it used donor terrorism tools to go after parents. it also said the biden administration work to silent critics of democrat education policy saying both policies threaten the party's chances of winning the governor's office in virginia. house judiciary chairman jim jordan summing up the committee's findings, listen. >> this was a simple case of moms and head saying we have had it with a woke curriculum and we've had it with the mask mandates and we have had it with keeping her kids out of school. they show up at meetings and association gets together with the biden administration to say how can we use this in a political way to help terry mcauliffe into race? that is what they did but it backfired in virginia. >> glenn youngkin beat terry mcauliffe in the race after running his campaign on a promise to reform virginia's education system. during the contentious campaign cycle, parents protested at several school board meetings throughout the state.

here is what mcauliffe had to say during one of his debates against glenn youngkin. watch this. >> i will not let parents into schools and actually take and make their own decisions. [applause] stop the bill that i don't think parents should be telling schools what they should be teaching! >> some of those parents arrested at the school board meetings and the national school board association prompted much with backlash sending a letter to president biden in september 2021 suggesting those parent protests were acts of domestic terrorism. garland in october 2021 wrote this memo which directed the fbi to partner with local law enforcement and u.s. attorneys to monitor parental threats at school board meetings and "prosecute them when appropriate." about garland earlier this month defended his memo saying it was not at parents making complaints at school boards, but instead general threats of violence at public officials, ashley, todd. >> todd: so wrong so many

levels. these are your taxpayer dollars and he was a parent a say. the oversight committee giving president joe biden members that received more than one million-dollar cup from a chinese wire sent to hunter bids business associates. >> ashley: house oversight committee james comer joins us now. congressman, thank you for getting up with us this morning. you have the bank records showing these payments happen but president biden has repeatedly denied this entire story. here is actually biden's denying it last week. listen to this. >> [indistinct] >> hunter biden's business associate and family members. >> that is not true. >> ashley: your reaction. this is pretty rich. he is still denying it to the american public. >> t>> wood is rich the presidet stood there and lied to the

american people. it is rich the mainstream media hasn't called him out on it. where are the fact-checkers? they have gone for years now saying this is russian disinformation, that the biden polis were involved in influence peddling. obviously, they said that wasn't real and it had been compromised. now, i have subpoenaed bank records to prove that the family took over $1 million from a chinese communist party back energy company for no apparent reason and he is still denying it, he is still lying about it! so yes, we expect an apology from joe biden. we are disappointed but not shocked the mainstream media has turned a blind eye to this. my message to the white house is, this isn't going away. there are other bank records. there are other potential business "deals" that your family have made with china and other adversarial countries around the world. we will get the truth out.

there will come a point to where eventually the mainstream media will not be able to let him stand up there and lie to the american people about the fact that his family has taken millions and millions of dollars from our adversary. >> todd: you said just to come out at some point, but to your point, you will have to admit something when the evidence continues to pile in front of him. when will you release the next batch of information on these files? >> well, i'm very hopeful that we will get bank records within the next week. this is a step-by-step process. i've been very transparent with the american people about what the purpose of this investigation is pure the purpose is to try to determine whether or not this white house is compromised because of the millions and millions of dollars this family is taken from adversaries around the room. we need this based on whistle-blowers. we knew this on text messages and emails. now we know this based on bank records.

we have our first set of bank records and led to the second set of bank records which i hope to get my hand on the next few days. the second will lead to the third set. and in the meantime, we were able to prove without a shadow of a doubt to the treasury cabinet that, look, we need those bank violations because obviously, this family has taken over $1 million from a chinese communist back energy company for no apparent reason. so, we need those bank records. we have one set of bank records and all the bank violations. it looks like a lot more than 150 than previously reported. we will continue to follow the money and try to get the american people the proof they deserve about this family occupying the white house. >> ashley: congressman what about that one account titled biden? who could that be? >> we could be anybody. i've been involved in banking

most of my life. i've seen a lot of bank wires. bank wires are like checks. you put the name, address, dollar amount and then there is a memo at the bottom just like a regular check. and all of the bank wires at this robinson walker account had ten over 10-year plus period would always have the memo listed except on the ones they sent to the bidens. that would be obvious first step to determine what the bidens did to get over $1 million from this company that just received a wire and 24 hours earlier from china. not only did this one way or not list the memo, but it just listed their last name, just like they were trying to hide it. they were obviously trying to hide something as to what the purpose of the wire was. on this particular wire not only the purpose of the wire but the first name of the wire. so we are trying to figure out what account that went to.

we are trying to figure out which biden that was. as i said for the past week at the end of the day i'm pretty confident that all of the shady business schemes from the biden family with adversaries around the world, you will see between six and seven biden members actively participating in this and actively receiving money from our adversaries. >> todd: that is allowed. president trump has not been notified about whether manhattan d.a. plans to bring charges on tdal from bragg decided not to indict the former president. what do you think? do you think the latter scenario where he doesn't indict donald trump is likely at this point? >> this is a local d.a. trying to prosecute a residential candidate based on election law. these two levels of government below the appropriate level that would even have the potential to look at this case. so, it is not constitutional

with the d.a., mr. bragg is trying to do. i believe this is a political stunt. it is very disappointing because new york the highest crime rate and his job is to prosecute the bad guys. but he is spending all of this time and self-promotion trying to do what i consider a political stunt to further his political career at the resident manhattan suffering. remember we put the house of representatives in november because we over performed in the state of november. one is in blue state new york and the voters were fed up with the democrat soft on crime policy. and this d.a. is the perfect example of a prosecutor whose priorities are all among. >> ashley: do you think this was a last ditch effort by his office because it is obvious, also took him with the people of new york not charging criminals the way they should be charged and saw what happened in

new york in november. >> yeah, i think reality is setting in from everything that we have read, this d.a. is very politically ambitious. i have nothing against the people who are politically ambitious. but at the end of the day and you are doing your job, stead of prosecuting the criminals in a high crime rate, and you are trying to focus on something that you clearly have no jurisdiction, and i think starting to feel the heat from the voters. i don't think he's prepared to handle himself. if he did show up for congressional inquiry because this is something in congress as per view. we write federal election laws in congress and not the manhattan d.a. i do believe he's having a second thought on this. obviously, we will see what he decides to do at the end of end of my. >> todd: congressman james comer, thank you for your insight pure to be appreciated. florida governor ron to sentence has not committed to 2024

white house bid but if he does run, he could be biden. watch this exclusive sit down more. >> piers morgan. >> so you're running? >> i just said i could. if you look at florida. >> >> todd: the florida governor acknowledging the many nicknames former president trump has given him. they cut favorite nickname trump has given me one is sanctimonious. even he -- >> i don't know how to spell sanctimonious and i don't know what it means. i kind of like it. it is long and has a lot of valves. that is fine, call me whatever you want just as long as you call me a winner. >> todd: you can watch the entire exclusive interview tomorrow on fox nation. >> ashley: there is heart breaking new exclusive images showing a little 2-year-old boy left alone at the texas border

with a sign for someone to say "take him to louisiana. that gives me chills all over my body and fox news capturing chinese nationals attempting to cross into the u.s. griff jenkins with a full report from the border. >> todd: that is horrific. do you want your tax dollars going to bail out gavin newsom over the states out-of-control homeless crisis? california democrat wants the governor six months of rent using federal medicaid upon sphere that is your money. states former senate leader who left the democrat party joins us next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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>> todd: a family gwyneth paltrow to take the stand with alleged involvement in a 2016 ski extant with left a man with permanent brain damage. retired optometrist claims gwyneth paltrow slammed into him leaving him unconscious snow before taking up your of the soul eyewitness describing what he saw the day of the accident.

>> just slammed into the back. and she just slammed him. >> how hard? >> very hard. and then going to go down and check on her. and then she just bolts and takes off. >> todd: gwyneth paltrow's legal team said he crashed into her saying he doesn't remember the incident clearly. sanderson is seeking $300,000 in damages claiming the accident left him with permanent brain injury, broken ribs and emotional distress. the actress could be called to the stand later this week -. >> ashley: gavin newsom asking the white house for federal tax payer dollars to foot the bill to house homeless people in the sunshine state. the "los angeles times" reported "states are barred from using federal medicaid dollars pay directly for rent." but newsom is asking for president biden to authorize a new program called transitional rent, which would provide up to

six months of rent or temporary housing for low income enrollees who rely on the state's health net. gloria romero is the former leader of the california state senate and joins us live. thank you so much for being with us this morning. what do you think? do you agree with this idea for newsom? >> no way. make no doubt about it, this is a bailout. the reality is california under the leadership of gove governor newsom leads the nation in homelessness and it is spiraling out of control with his lack of focus on increasing crime, drug addiction and the failure to provide for mental health services. so this is a backdoor way to try to get president biden in a presidential run that newsom is still considering to bail out his failed policies. >> ashley: but why it does governor newsom think he's above everyone else by going to the president asking for the federal

dollars? should this really rely on american people in illinois who can barely pay their bills to fit the problem that california has created? >> look come i live in california, but this is not right and not fair to anybody across the nation to bail out the failures in california. but the truth is, newsom is a very political animal. he still considered the presidency but does he have something over biden, look, go ahead and bail us out and i won't run against you. there is a lot of back talk going on. but newsom went to biden to ask for a bailout on the banking issue. don't be surprised if he comes in the future asking for a bailout of his planned reparations plan. >> ashley: gavin newsom tweeted this back in 2020, "dr. should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin or

antibiotics." please make this make sense to me because the logistics of that does not make sense. >> absolutely pure there is no way he can do this without a prescription pad but only political muscle. but if anybody thinks this would only be for six months even at high state for the nation as well as every californian number remember two weeks of flattening the curb, there is no such thing as a temporary government program in six months will become a year and then permanent. this is something that newsom hopes will bail him out so nobody across the nation will see how failed the california state is when it comes to homelessness, drug addiction, to crime and to the lack of mental health. this is on newsom, not on the taxpayers. >> ashley: gloria, how else will newsom tech with homeless crisis? right now we have countless people in the program actively trying to help to get people off of the streets and out of homelessness.

they say people keep throwing money at this problem. if it was money that solved it, it would be sold now so what else should he be doing? >> absolutely, he has to stop throwing money at the issue. this is not a housing issue when you look at it honestly. this is about drug addiction. it is about mental health. yes, there is housing but the reason so much money is put into housing is because follow the money. that is where the big bucks pay off. it is oftentimes called the homeless industrial complex because of the lucrative contracts that can be made in this area with no demonstrable change in the reduction of the homeless population. some other things have to be done but simply by taxing the taxpayers now across the united states of america to try to bail out this problem, newsom who has been promising, by the way, to end homeless

homelessness and smear of -- he wants to get out before 2024. it won't work. you cannot buy yourself out of this crisis. it takes leadership, collaboration and honing in on the drug addictions and that mental health issues that are paramount to understand and ultimately resulting the housing issue when it comes to people living on the streets. >> ashley: the state currently accounts for 50% of the nations and shelter population. so, he really does need to work in different ways because what he is doing is not working. gloria romero, thank you for your time this morning. appreciate it, have a good day. >> thank you. >> ashley: of course. the death of stephen smith, investigators reopening the case as a homicide eight years after closing it as a hit-and-run. we have the breaking details. >> todd: that story could not get any crazier. the american citizen and mother of seven kidnapped in mexico as

the feds issue a new urgent warning about mexican cartels targeting tourists. we will speak with the victim's daughter who said she's getting a ransom from her mother's kidnappers. stay with us. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> todd: a fox news alert, an attorney for the mother of stephen smith who died suspiciously near the alex murdaugh hunting estate said authorities are officially calling his death a homicide. >> ashley: it comes one day after buster denied involvement in his classmate's death. jackie ibanez joins us live, good morning, jackie. speak with the attorneys for the smith family after an extraordinary disclosure of phone call with south carolina law enforcement division chief mark, the death of stephen smith is considered a homicide at think that we have a chance to write eight years of wrongs and we intend to do just that.

stephen smith my classmate of alex murdaugh's older son, buster found dead in the middle of south carolina road on july 8, 2015. his body was discovered 3 miles from where his car had run out of gas. the police and south carolina originally considered stephen smith's death the result of a hit-and-run. something his mother sandy smith never accepted. and the case reopen in june 2021 based on information brought to light in the investigation into maggie and paul myrdal's murders. one day after buster spoke out about his empire involvement after hbo and tied him to the specials on his father's murder trial. buster writes, "these baseless rumors of stephen's death are false. i have to publicly deny any involvement in stephen's death and my heart goes out to his family." ." but attorneys for smith's family say this is not about the

murdaughs. >> this is about stephen smith and get answers to questions his mother desperately needs answers for. so there is no reason to discuss buster murdaugh and no, it to be made back to murdaugh. god willing, court willing what was stephen smith's true cause of death? >> in the meantime, the sons of the murdaugh's former housekeeper calling for justice for their mother who died on the front steps of the family's homes. her death was ruled an accident but an autopsy was never conducted. the prosecutors say the disgraced lawyers secured $4.3 million in insurance settlements for the families, but kept most of it, todd, ashley. >> todd: the intrigue continues, jackie, thank you. the fbi offering 20,000 reward on maria del carmen lopez. an american citizen and mother

of seven who was kidnapped at her home in mexico. >> ashley: family members say a witness off a car drive to the property caring five mast individuals who picked her up and took her. and then started receiving ransom calls. >> todd: maria's daughter joins us now. obviously, this is a nightmare for you. we have no idea how you were going through this but we are praying for you. what did the kidnapper say to you in these ransom calls? >> they asked for extremely large amount of money, something that we are just a normal working family and we don't have that type of money. >> todd: could you hear your mom's voice in those calls? >> and aunt that all we did here her voice but there was a recording in one of the phone calls where she is pleading for us to pay this money if her life depends on it.

>> ashley: knowing that you heard her voice, do you think that she is still alive? >> it is 42 days today. obviously, i'm hanging onto that whole that she is. >> todd: why do you think your mother was kidnapped? did she have any enemies? >> no, that is one of the test she has a u.s. citizen and she went back to this small town of 200 people in the town. i honestly think she was just targeted. >> , >> ashley: do you think she was targeted because she is an american citizen? >> i think it is a comment that they go back to mexico, they want to retire there and people probably assume they have more than them but the reality is they don't. >> todd: can you share any more details about how this kidnapping went down?

>> yeah, it was afternoon and she was watering her plants. she loved watering her garden, cleaning the house. dad drove in with 45 individuals, two mast came in and they were just some kind of a struggle and exchange of words. there were witnesses and she was crouched down on the floor. they picked her up and one of them got out of the right off the bat and covered her mouth and pulled her into the van and drove away. >> ashley: zonia, had your mother ever ever said anything to you about someone following her or feeling uneasy about any situations? b: no, not at all. she actually in the property, there is a large gate and had it open all the time. that is how comfortable they were. there was never any red flags or any kind of signs of danger, any

enemies, anything. she never expressed any of it to us. >> todd: zonia what has this nightmare been for you, your daughter and the rest of the family? >> it is devastating and it's like we are reliving the same day over and over and to think to think it is 42 days today, it is hard to date and to keep counting. we are hanging on one more day. and it's going on for 42 days today. [crying] >> ashley: my heart breaks for you, zonia. she was an american citizen. she retired in this town of mexico. why did she decide to retire there? >> it is her hometown. it is their land, they are people and what breaks your heart, too. she worked hard, she is a citizen and has seven children. you know what my orchids are

good. we will go on and live a nice, peaceful life in the small town. and now, the town is inferior. we are not getting any information or details to help authorities to lead them to where she might be. it is heartbreaking. >> todd: on the authorities line, have you heard from mexican authorities or the fbi? >> the fbi have been great. they have been guiding us through this whole process. it is very scary because the authorities will give very little information. a lot of sense, you feel like you are waiting for any kind of details in which we don't really have any at. >> todd: zonia come i can imagine what goes through your mind at night thinking about your mom. it is a nightmare times exponential. just terrific. zonia lopez, we are praying and we wish you the very best. keep us posted for your mom, you

and our thoughts and prayers are with you. >> ashley: thanks, zonia. >> todd: fox news exclusive from the border, catching the moment chinese nationals crossing into the u.s. illegally are released into taxes. >> ashley: griff jenkins with all the details, griff. >> good morning todd and ashley. chinese nationals are literally streaming across the border here rio grande valley sector. the chief, border patrol said she is seeing 920% increase in four straight days that i've been on the ground, texas tbs i have encountered towns of chinese. take a look at the latest video. you can see well before dawn, six chinese dropped off squatting in this photo. the same we have seen previous days. we even had two chinese walk up to one of the live shots on the air on fb end. but this is the video that is exclusive. fox news capturing what happens

to them after they are processed. you can can see chinese nationals being released in the public with ngo simply nothing more than a notice to appear appear then they will head off wherever they intend to go in the u.s. the reason why the chinese are being released publicly is that they simply do not have bed space for these chinese migrants anymore to hold them here that is how many are coming. but not all are chinese. take a look at this heartbreaking video. this is a 2-year-old toddler that was dropped by at a smuggler across the river just moments before we walked out. you can see texas dps sergeant consoling this child. he had nothing more than a sign around his neck. the domain constructing the border officials to send him to louisiana. that is showing the callousness, the heartlessness of the smugglers and how bad this problem is peer that is why you have got the border patrol chief

ortiz coming down here to testify saying this border is not under operational control. todd and ashley, back to you. >> todd: a 2-year-old, my goodness. my goodness, go to my 2-year-old. and your heart breaks for that little boy. who does that to a little boy? activists portland seattle leaving lee's not trash tags all throughout homeless camps to make sure items are not cleared out. one of the items tagged, a used needle. and a portland resident found this entrance is next. >> ashley: dive into the life of dr. felch he continues with those from a tour of his two million-dollar mansion an impressive collection of fauci memorabilia. joe concha is on deck. keep it right here on "fox & friends first." ♪ ♪ fe insurance through the colonial penn program. if you're age 50 to 85, and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three ps.

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♪ ♪ >> ashley: an amtrak train carrying 55 passengers derailing their cost in california after a falling tree knocked down by storm winds. firefighters are responded said no one was hurt. this comes has more than 35 million california's under weather alerts as part of san francisco are battered by another atmospheric river storm.

this is a look at two larry county near fresno where 10,000 acres of land under water. county officials say flooding has destroyed seven buildings and damaged others. drivers are abandoning their cars and parts of california as floodwaters continue to rise. chucking video showing the moment a violent mob of teenagers break into a roll at a san francisco mall putting one teen in the hospital. watch this. [screaming] [bleep] [screaming] >> ashley: the play say one of many fights recently and local say they are terrified to come back and shop or even show up for work. authorities say the victim from this attack was treated for nonlife-threatening injuries. no arrests have been made, todd.

>> todd: a drug counselor and activists in seattle leaving tags saying "not trash" discarded items including needles like this. they reportedly meant to tell cruz not to clear anything that could be someone's belongings. portland drug counsel shared that photo with us and joins me now. kevin what message are these activists trying to send? >> the message is stay away from all homeless, all homeless camps, and all formally homeless camps. basically a void in the area where even almost five years ago. >> todd: why, aren't the activists interested in getting help? >> that is not what i've seen. i have been participating multiple trash picks in seattle and portland to try to restore our cities. what we find is when we show up to the parks and pick up trash

from abandoned camps, activists will show up and berate us often times for hours. and they will oftentimes follow us on social media and know when we will show up so the day before, they will show up and add these tags, put up signs, warned the homeless we are there to pick up trash. what is frustrating for us is nine times out of ten, the very homeless that used to live there are the ones helping us pick up the trash because we involve them, right? we are not throwing away anyone's belongings. >> todd: oregon recording 72 opioid overdose is 2020, 745-2021 and so for 391 in 2022 and that number expected to be updated and of course, rise. when you see an image with this combined with experience trying to help these people and activists trying to literally do the exact opposite, do you wonder what is their vision for the city of portland? what is their vision for seattle? >> well, i believe their vision

is they want a dystopian society. they believe that capitalism is the root of all evil. and when we pick up trash, it goes against their narrative that our cities are crumbling and dying because of capitalism. and you know, one especially frustrating thing they do is after we do a trash pick they returned the trash to the parks, open up the bags and put the trash back out into public parks. so, it is just, it is just madness, really. but the thing is, they are part of the problem and we are part of the solution so we continued to go out there every day to do advocacy, outreach, the trash picks. most of the time as volunteers to just try to be a part of the solution to restore our beautiful cities. >> todd: it is sickening but commuters in portland on mass

delays on public transportation is buses and trains to air out fentanyl smoke for 15-20 minutes every time someone lights up onboard. so, you are punishing the law-abiding citizens trying to use the bus to and from work and allow something to happen on the trains and buses that is illegal, which is smoking of fentanyl, mi right? >> you are right. i wrote the max train sometimes and fentanyl use on the trains is very common and appear at more terrifying, it is important to know the risk, there isn't ag risk of secondhand smoke but after someone smokes it they usually will nod out and when they gnawed out they drop what they are using and even a couple milligrams of fentanyl can be fatal. >> todd: of course. >> 2 milligrams of fentanyl sits

on the forehead of abraham lincoln here on the penny. so, when they nod out and let go of the tinfoil and often times light in the seat next to you. >> todd: and that can kill people. >> you can get it on your hands and it is illegal does. it is lethal. >> todd: thank you so much, it can kill you, thank you, kevin a fox news alert. to senate committees as chinese president xi for putin to visit. >> ashley: we will hear today.

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>> todd: secretary of state blinken set to testify before two senate committees itself a xi and vladamir putin wrap up their meeting in moscow with the chinese president inviting putin to beijing. you're watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier. where does the u.s. relationship stand with china as the ccp strengthens alliances with our adversary. >> president xi only left china two times since the pandemic, with putin and the other time with iran.