>> 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. that is a very concerning

future. for those who study history, it seems like the 1930s and the axis of power. >> ashley: live in washington with more, good morning, mark. >> today chinese president xi is expected to wrap up his high-profile visit to moscow. both leaders say they are eager to strengthen their diplomatic ties and we are hearing from putin about the opportunity to -- promise to expand economic ties. as far as ukraine, china says it is ready to broker the conflict, china calling for a ceasefire to fighting in ukraine and sanctions. vladamir putin weighed in, saying we believe many points are in approach with russian approaches and could make for

peaceful settlement. others say russia is stopping short of -- >> press russia to pull troops out of ukraine, urge president putin to cease bombing cities, hospitals and schools to stop the war crimes and atrocities and end the war today. >> the white house says president biden will speak with his chinese counterpart eventually, but we don't know when that will take place. it is a fear china will provide weapons to russia, which would prolong the war. >> if china unesh loos it's arsenal to russia in ukraine, i don't know if this will ever end and drain us of our resources. we have to put a red line in place.

>> antony blinken is expecting to face questions about china, russia and ukraine, testifying before two senate panels. back to you in new york. >> todd: that mckarthy comparison is terrifying. we are learning donald trump has not been formally notified about whether the manhattan district attorney alleges to charge him. there is a chance alvin bragg decides not to bring charges as one more witness will testify before the grand jury today. protesters gathering outside the lower manhattan courthouse as rumors swirl throughout the week. the house oversight committee calling on alvin bragg to testify before congress about the indictment. alvin bragg says we will not be intimidated by the justice process or let baseless accusations deter us from fairly

applying the law. we spoke with oversight chair james comer and asked him about calling alvin bragg to testifying, here is what he told us. >> this is a local da trying to prosecute presidential candidate based on federal election law. he is two levels of government below the appropriate level that would have potential to look at this case. it is not constitutional what the da, mr. alvin bragg is trying to do. i believe this is a political stunt and disappointing. his job is to prosecute bad guys, he is spending all this time and self-promotion to further his political career at expense of citizens suffering from crime. >> ashley: teachers going on

strike forcing studenting out of classrooms across los angeles. teachers, bus drivers, custodians and cafeteria workers are rallying for better pay and staffing. they have been negotiating since april, but failed to reach an agreement. the strike could last until tomorrow if a deal is not reached. dhs secretary mayorkas touring the border with hobbs. >> todd: fentanyl pills were stopped in the same area, what is plan to stop the k5r9el for using this area as a drug pipeline. we will discuss this here next. shingles. some describe it as an intense burning sensation or an unbearable itch. this painful, blistering rash can disrupt your life for weeks.

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>> todd: dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas visiting the southern border alongside arizona governor hobbs. >> ashley: week before mayorkas is set to testify in front of the senate, facing bipartisan calls for impeachment. mayorkas celebrated while on the

trip. >> in the last two years, we have seized more fentanyl than the previous five years combined. >> todd: abe homiday joins us now. i don't know if now is the time to be celebrating anything if you are mayorkas when it comes to the border. that said, will this visit get alejandro mayorkas to enforce border laws and stop allowing arizona from becoming basic pipeline for the drug cartels? >> thanks for having me on. unfortunately, right now you have federal government that is lawless at the border and the governor who is now complicit with this. it is insult to our intelligence that they visit the border and say they are seizing record number of fentanyl. there is record number of

fentanyl apprehended because of hard work of sheriff and police and you are looking at the increase of number of fentanyl coming across the border. it is happening because the border is completely wide open right now. drug cartels have complete operational control of our southern border and northern mexico and they feel embolden because the federal government refuses to act and uphold the law. not just drugs coming across the border, you see human trafficking is significant part of the drug cartel business operation, upward of 11 billion every single year and increasing and looking at number of migrants from across the world, you have chinese, indians, every walk of life because federal government refuses to uphold law and what you saw with katie

hobbs, she signalled to drug cartels she will not enforce the border. >> ashley: secretary mayorkas presented blue lotus, featuring new scanning technology and targeted inspection and more drug-sniffing dogs. we've had so many people on here, sheriffs, border patrol agents, former border patrol, say this is a huge problem, you have to shut down the border to get this influx of drugs into the country to stop. do you think him impleapting operation blue lo tus will help? >> no, it is a silly attempt them acting like they are going to do something. drugs are not coming from the port of entry, drug cartels are sophisticated business operations, they know how to distract border patrol and sheriffs officers, they are

smuggling through the desert and using human trafficking as another avenue for their business to distract border patrol. this technology will enhance port of entry and we need more manpower at the border. you are seeing border patrol acting as travel agents to illegal immigrants coming across seeking refugee and asylum status, 90% of illegitimate asylum claims. the federal government's response right now, they act like nothing is going on. what goes on at the border doesn't just affect border communitieses or arizona, it is affecting the country. >> todd: they want to take credit for putting out the fire. >> ashley: fbi offering $20,000 award about the whereabouts of

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>> todd: there won't be a spring break curfew in miami beach, they are going after liquor stores. what one business owner thinks about this. >> and ron desantis on 2024. >> you are running then? >> i didn't say that, i said i could. if you look at florida -- >> who would be harder to beat, biden or donald trump? >> i don't know. >> ashley: the florida governor had a lot to say and shared thoughts on donald trump. we'll show you more from that exclusive interview. bring you this she■s a hero moment. new york city. you have to have the skill and the drive to make it here. not all chefs are men. oh, she can't do that. she's a girl. women bring creativity balance into a kitchen.

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>> ashley: fox weather alert. an amtrak train derailing near san francisco after hitting a fallen tree, which was knocked

down by storm winds. this comes as 35 million americans are under weather alert with parts of san francisco being battered by atmospheric river storm. >> todd: and drivers are abandoning their cars as flood waters continue to rise. janice dean is here. >> janice: it seems like groundhog day in california. storm after storm. you see radar, coastal rain is moving in and piling in across southwest, some energy is going to give threat for severe storms later this week. wednesday, thursday, friday, some rain will shift more to the north. it is moving to the west. flood alerts for 35r9s of california and moving southwest.

look at snow still to come, sierra to the mountains of west and south west and toward the plains, as well. severe weather starts to ramp up on thursday and friday, especially across the southernin plas. mississippi river valley, dealing with heavy rainfall, that could cause flash flooding today and thursday and friday this bull's eye, we think severe storms will explode for parts of louisiana, arkansas, toward mississippi, something we will watch and fox weather will be covering. rain forecast going toward saturday, three to five inches in the ohio river valley. dealing with flash flood threat likely for those areas and there are your temperatures for today. the second full day of spring. not bad in the northeast, warmer than average for the south, that will fuel storms getting into tomorrow and friday. >> todd: a lot going on.

thank you. the attorneys for the mother of stephen smith, who died suspiciously near the murdaugh family state says officials are calling his death a homicide. the death of stephen smith is now considered a homicide, one day after buster murdaugh spoke out about his rumored involvement after netflix tied him to smith in a documentary. buster writes, "baseless rumors of my involvement in stephen's death are false, i deny any involvement in stephen's death." the sons of murdaugh's former housekeeper are also seeking justice. her death was ruled an accident, but an autopsy was never

performed. settlements were received, but kept most of it. >> ashley: officials in miami beach voting against putting a curfew in place. chaotic scenes like this play out on the streets. officials have decided to ban the sale of alcohol after 6 p.m. the owner of a liquor store in miami beach joins us now. george, thank you for being here this morning. tell me, why do you think they decided, officials in miami beach decided to shut down sale of chicago past 6 p.m. and that will somehow stop this problem? >> to be frank and honest, i understand they have an issue in south beach with chaos and spring breakers, i don't see why shutting liquor stores down. eight or nine stores on the

beach, shutting down stores and implementing that law, emergency ordinance for small liquor stores when the issue is on ocean drive and they are basically leaving everybody open. >> ashley: how far are you from ocean drive? >> like 2-1/2 miles away. >> ashley: okay, do you know if there is any type of tie to the shootings over the weekend to be alcohol induced or alcohol was part of the problem, did they ever mention anything like that? >> no, i believe one of the persons who shot somebody was not impaired, he just had a rampage and had it out with somebodiel, from what i understand from the news. if you are going to do something, you are going to do it regardless. they claimed when i spoke to somebody yesterday claim they are shutting us down because they found bottles on the floor.

>> ashley: can bars stay open? >> bars, restaurants, clubs, everything routine. >> ashley: and they sell alcohol? >> correct. >> ashley: it does not make any sense as to why they are stoching the sale of alcohol if bars and clubs can stay open until the wee hours of the morning. we had a guest earlier this week saying the solution to this would be to stop wild parties they are having, what do you think the solution is? >> i think i agree with that person. to be honest, i agree with them. i disagree, if you shut me down 6:00, they close at 6:00 thursday. >> ashley: how will that hurt your business shutting at six? >> of course, you have spring break and the music conference and this is my last big weekend

that i do have and they did the same thing last year and doing it again and now a different way shutting just liquor stores down and the clubs are allowed to stay open regular hours. >> ashley: it doesn't seem fair. how much money do you think you will lose this weekend being shut down at 6:00? >> to be quite frank, more or less, being the weekend it is, easily $200,000. >> ashley: are you doing anything to push back on this? >> excuse me? >> ashley: are you pushing back on this? can you? >> right now we've filed, i have team of attorneys i hired yesterday and we're doing emergency injunction to the court, along getting ready to do a lawsuit, filing for a lawsuit

that will be filed today, as well. >> ashley: that will ultimately cost you more money that you are losing on this weekend. >> it is not even about the money right now, it is about this not happening again. >> ashley: i don't blame you. >> it has been three years consecutive, they shut us down. >> ashley: crazy, $200,000. george zubigaray, that is not fair. george, thank you. >> todd: i heard $k200,000, insane. dr. fauci is not denying the wuhan lab theory, he is laughing it off. >> it would be molecularly impossible for them to turn it

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>> my message to the white house is, this is not going away. there are other bank records and other potential "business" deals your family made with china and other countries around the world. we'll get the truth out and eventually the main-stream media will not let him stand up there and lie to the american people about the fact his family has taken millions from our adversaries. >> ashley: james comer is giving president biden until monday to admit to the american people that members of his family received more than million dollar cut from a chinese wire

sent to hunter biden business associate. >> todd: joe concha joins us. joe biden continues to say this is not true, how is that denial anything other than a lie if mounting documentary evidence james comer has in possession? >> joe: that is the thing, during the trump year, there were so many bombshells that relied on unnamed sources, anonymous sources. here you have bank records with names on them. you have e-mails from hunter biden's laptop, contents verified showing. james comer is right to apply pressure. several members of the biden family, james biden receiving money in a transaction, the

president's daughter-in-law, hallie biden, a guidance counselor received money for services rendered and there is an unknown biden, is that the big guy joe biden? home page of cnn this morning, no stories on this. "washington post" and "new york times," no stories on their home page either, but there are glowing stories about joe biden honoring bruce springsteen and julia louis dreyfus at the white house. the media pressure is not there on the president so he can continue to deny because no one else is asking questions besides james comer and house republicans. >> todd: from yesterday, everybody loves jason sedakus and bruce springsteen and julia

louis dreyfus. >> ashley: and dr. fauci is laughing at the wuhan lab leak theory, listen to this. >> it would be molecularly impossible to turn it into sars co-v2. you have a chevrolet and a motorcycle and you say, i want to make that chevrolet into the motorcycle, no matter what you do to the chevrolet, you will not make it into a motorcycle. what are you talking about? >> ashley: i swear, sometimes the little smirk. >> todd: what is he talking? >> >> ashley: no idea, he also lives in $2 million mansion stocked with his face in it. >> joe: how do you get to life where you have portraits and

pillows of yourself all over your own home thachl is weird. if i'm mrs. fauci, maybe i should take over the decorating. my wife has taken over my decorating in my house and it looks nice. that smirk, it is hubris, he says he is the science and he only and he cannot admit data and the science outside of him shows covid can be transmitted from person to person, regardless if they are vaccinated or not. he continues to say this did not come from a lab that studies coronaviruses in wuhan, where this originated gchl to jon stewart analogy, maybe it came from the chocolate factory that produces chocolate. dr. fauci is retired now, he

will not roll into the sunset, he will have to answer questions from people like rand paul and we'll be talking about that sometime soon. >> ashley: you know we will. >> todd: joe concha, i look forward to the joe concha throw pillows soon. 15 of gwyneth paltrow will take the stand today. here is description of the day of the accident. >> i hear the scream and i see this slam into the back of terry. she just slammed him. >> how hard? >> very hard. very hard. i backed up and was going to go down and check on her and then she just bolts andicic tas off.

>> paltrow's legal team says he slammed into her. he claims he was left with permanent brain injury, emotional distress. the actress could be called later this week. washington state restaurant owner nearly lost her business because of covid restriction and now she is running for governor to make sure this never happens to another hard-working person. >> ashley: we'll ask her about her campaign when she joins us next. sfx: [text notification] ♪ ♪ your prescription for... staying right where you are. ♪ ♪

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>> ashley: florida governor ron desantis still hasn't committed to a 2024 white house bid, but he says if he does run, he can beat biden. watch this sitdown with piers morgan. >> you could beat biden? >> i think so. >> then you are running now? >> i didn't say. >> who would be harder to beat? >> i don't know. >> ashley: and acknowledging many nicknames donald trump has given him? >> what is your favorite

nickname? ron desanctimonious or -- >> i don't know how to spell desanctimonious, it is long, a lot of vowels, call me whatever you want as long as you also call me a winner. >> ashley: watch the entire exclusive interview tomorrow on fox nation. >> todd: washington state restaurant owner running for governor after seeing the way her business has been treated throughout the covid pandemic. the board determines issuance of liquor license will not be in the best interest of the welfare, health or safety of the people of the state. the owner of mcinaw's restaurant joins me now. laurel, why did you keep your restaurant open during the pandemic? >> so i have never heard of

government shutting down businesses widely like that and picking which stay open and which ones don't. i from day one said, this is not right, you are putting fear into people. this is not the way to take care of the populous. i knew that people who needed to stay safe would stay safe and people felt they could go out and have freedom to choose what they did, that was the way it should be. >> todd: the government is saying giving you back your liquor license would not being in the welfare or people's best interest, is there any rationale behind that? >> not that i can figure out. i find irony i'm running for the people of washington state. where would that be?

the people are who i care about. i look at what our president, governor insley, the state is endangered by him and what he's done to businesses, the state and students. >> todd: do you feel you are being punished by the state for your covid stance? >> definitely. i was very honest when they said you need to do this and comply. i said, i'm not going to and stood by that. most followed what you had to do and i didn't believe in the mask, it was symbolic that is complying by wearing the mask and following the rule was divide and conquer and i didn't believe in it. >> todd: this letter is vague, what is happening is washington state government is picking

winners and losers based upon politics. did you ever think you would live in a world, a state that would do that? >> not at all. i was a political science student in the '80s and saw what was going on. you can't gather more than five people at a table, can't be in a car with more than five people, it reminded me of the soviet union. >> todd: any way to keep open without a liquor license? >> no, i did one year without it and it was a struggle, i put everything i financially had back into it and had to wait to reapply in december of between the22, they took three months to decide my fate and my fate was decided last week and i have nothing left. i -- my only option is to sell,

which is unbelievable, but i could stay on as a chef. it is an incredible restaurant, it was to be on diners and dives. >> todd: now into the future, even when they are proving to be false, they are still punishing people who spoke out. laurel is running for governor in the great state of washington, we wish you luck, check back in. biden administration had no reason to target parents protesting at school board meetings. brooke singman has exclusive reporting. >> ashley: and tiktok making last-minute appeal to stop the app from being banned. marianette miller-meeks is here to talk about that. ♪ ♪

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♪ >> a new report from the house judiciary committee says the biden administration had no reason to target parents who protested at school board meetings in 2021. >> todd: same concern moms and dads labeled terrorists by the justice department. brooke singman joins us with exclusive reporting from the story. >> the new house judiciary report said there was, quote, no legitimate basis are to the biden administration to use federal law enforcement resources against parents at school board meetings ahead of virginia's gubernatorial election in 2021. the report reads in part, quote. the justice department establishment of an fbi cases file that includes their political views and the application of a threat tag to their names. the direct result of their exercise of their fundamental constitutional right to speak and advocate for their children.

the report said the biden administration used counter-terrorism tools to go after parents. the biden administration worked to silence critics of democrat education policies ahead of virginia's gubernatorial election in 2021. the report said those policies threatened the parties' chances of winning of governor's race. house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan summing up his committee's findings. watch this. >> this was simply a case of moms and dads saying we have had it with the woke curriculum and mask mandates and keeping our kids out of school. they show up at meetings. the school board gets together with the biden administration to say how can we use this in a political way to help terry mcauliffe win the virginia governor's race. that's what they did. backfired on them, thank goodness in virginia. >> governor glenn youngkin beat democrat 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's what mcauliffe had to say in one of his debates against youngkin.

>> i'm not going to let parents come into schools and take books out and make their own decisions. vetoed it. >> yeah. stopped the bill that i don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach. >> some of those parents were arrested at those school board meetings. the prompted backlash by sending a letter to president biden suggesting those parent protests were acts of domestic terrorism. garland in october of 2021 wrote his memo which directed the fbi to partner with local law enforcement and u.s. attorneys to monitor parental threats at school board meetings and, quote. prosecute them when appropriate. garland earlier this month defend the his memo saying it was not aimed at parents making complaints at school boards but instead general threats of violence against public officials. ashley, todd? >> todd: just horrible. brooke, thank you very much. did you hear about this, once purple iowa is becoming redder and redder and not sitting too well with the "the washington post" with one reporter mocking

the state as, quote, florida of the north. >> republicans in the iowa legislature empowered by the state wants recent red wave embarked on new agenda that includes a costly school choice bill and legislation targeting the lgbtq community. a joke among state house voters that iowa is becoming the florida of the north without beaches. iowa congresswoman mariannette meeks. trying to take a job at iowa saying that. but i would argue that a lot of people would think the complete opposite because florida is the place to be right now. people are flocking there. >> well, you know, what's insulting is that in iowa, we all think that florida is the iowa of the south. we're very happy with where we are. we had a huge red wave. people wanted issue will.

they wanted school choice. they want the ability to make decisions. we have a growing economy. we have done very well. the most resilient state coming out of the pandemic thanks to governor reynolds' leadership. so, what's fringe is schools that will change the pronouns of your student and your child and help your child along a pathway of gender changing surgery. pursuant blocker without telling a parent. that's what is fringe. what is fringe is schools not opening. curriculum that's hidden from parents. so, i think, you know, we made it known what we were campaigning on throughout the election season. and we were elected by a large margin in iowa. >> todd: congressman, doesn't this demonstrate the elite liberal bubble that these media elites live in your d.c.s and your new yorks and your l.a.s especially in light of what ashley said where people are fleeing these democrat run states and flocking to florida and maybe iowa, like you said,

in record numbers. >> yeah. you just have to watch the u-haul traffic to see where people are going. they are not going to high tax blue states with brad democratic government that wants to lock people down and mandate vaccines and keep schools closed. when people pay their taxes in iowa they get a lot of bang for their buck. a governor who listens and pays attention and a governor who is really looking out for them. >> ashley: you may not all have beaches but you do have wonderful steaks. now to this the ceo of tiktok making last-minute appeal to americans before testifying in front of the committee of your committee tomorrow. take a listen to this. >> some politicians have started talking about banning tiktok. now, this could take tiktok away from all 150 million of you. i will be testifying before congress later this week to share all that we're doing to protect americans using the app. and deliver on our mission to inspire creativity and to bring

joy. >> ashley: congresswoman your reaction to this last-ditch effort by the ceo? >> i think certainly we have a lot of concern with tiktok as you know. it's banned, prohibited on federal devices. and, you know, it's an app. that has an algorithm that is based on surveillance data. so we need to get that information, energy and commerce is leading the way on this. do they follow your key strokes? do they collect passwords? what data, what facial recognition data and voice data are they collecting and is that going to the chinese communist party? we need to get the answers on that. first and foremost is, you know, do we need to ban tiktok in the united states? what's it doing for our children? and then the second thing is we need to look forward to the future so that no app. or computer programming spies on american citizens again. and energy and commerce is leading the way. >> todd: in the end, congresswoman, will tiktok be completely banned in the u.s.a.? >> it's very possible.

but, you know, there are individuals who are coming to congress. mr. chu will be giving witness testimony to us. and so we'll go through that process and they need to assure us as american citizens that their privacy is protected and we need to go about the process of having a national privacy data standard. >> what could they tell you that would assure you that our privacy is protected? >> they would have to show demonstrably and we have some tech experts that are on our committee. but they would have to show demonstrably that information is not going in the chinese communist party. that they have guardrails and blockades for collecting data. collecting key strokes and passwords that they are not using surveillance data and that they are not feeding certain data to children in the united states and other data to children in china. so i think they have got -- it's a long uphill climb in order to prove that. and i think this is a bipartisan issue. so i actually think it's one of

those rare times that you will see members of both parties agreeing on what needs to be done and whether that's breaking apart tiktok or banning tiktok. you know, those are decisions that we're going to have to make based upon the testimony we have. but there is tremendous concern right now. >> todd: congresswoman mariannette miller-meeks, we appreciate your insight this morning. and with that, "fox & friends" begins right now. ♪ >> former president trump has not been notified about whether the manhattan d.a. plans to bring charges. >> new reports trump could be indicted wednesday. >> what we are hearing is what everyone else is hearing. >> this is political and everyone sees it for what it is. >> put a lot of points on the board. >> ron desantis hasn't committed to a 2024 run. if he does he could beat biden. >> you could beat biden. >> i think so. >> set to testify before two senate committees today. >>