>> todd: a fox news alert, a chilling new look inside the christian elementary school where three children and three adults were murdered in a shooting that left the city of nashville and the country heartbroken. you are watching "fox and friends first"s, i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier. the shooter identified as a transgender student and she walked the halls and planned her attack. >> no parent should have to receive that call and go through anything like that. i think he's doing better now

that he knows the shooter is dead, i'm still telling him, son, be aware of your surroundings, do you know how to get out of the building? you know, these are conversations we shouldn't have have to be having with our children. jackie ibanez. >> three nine year olds and three faculty members of nashville's covenant school are dead. >> i was literally moved to tears to see this and the kids being ushered out of the building. we have identified the suspect, a 28-year-old female white, actually nashvillian, at one point a student at that school, but unsure what year. >> police say hale arrived in

her honda fit and you can see on video her going into the school and she went in patrolling the hallway calmly armed with two rifles and a handgun. she opened fire from the second floor. she also hit and shot a responding police car. officers rex englebert and michael collazo entered the school fatally shooting the suspect. a half-hour before, a basketball teammate of audrey hale received chilling texts, in them hale reveals she no longer wants to be living. hale replies, "i just need to die." hale identifies as a transgender

man. when they served hale's home, they found a manifesto of sorts, something congressman says will be crucial to understanding why this happened. our trans youth are troubled, if they do not get help they need, they can have serious issues. we need to know what was going through this person's head and the manifesto should be made public. the nashville community has been left reeling from this. the covenant school released the following statement writing, our community is heartbroken, we are grieving and coming out of shock in this terror that shattered our school and church. we love our family, faculty and staff and beginning process of healing. a motive is unclear, the nashville police chief says hale

could have had resentment for going to that school. we will know more soon. >> ashley: heartbreaken story. and border hearings on capitol hill today, as officials investigate the growing issue at the borders. alexandria hoff joins us. >> alexandria: you have the house and senate asking questions today, senate judiciary committee will hear from alejandro mayorkas, focus is the u.s.-mexico border. agents marked one million illegal migrant encounters since october. house homeland security, one sector reporting 846% increase in encounters.

illegal aliens up in the swanton sector alone, northern border patrol agents are left without to defend our border. biden administration and alejandro mayorkas must answer for this. president biden and justin trudeau announced a deal to turn back illegal migrants at their shared border. biden administration says this will reduce pressure at our southern border. >> ashley: thank you, parents in california supporting bill that increases penalty for fentanyl dealers. state lawmakers are rejecting this after one democrat refused to show up for the hearing. we spoke to a mother who lost her son to the deadly drug react. >> he is sending a clear message to the drug dealers of fentanyl

in our community, in our state, that he cares more about them than he does about the law-abiding citizens of california and it is outrageous. i ask that any californiian that is listening to this broadcast reach out to their state legislature, put pressure on the public safety committee chair to step up and do the right thing. >> ashley: smith called on sacramento residentses to come together around laws with stiffer penalties on fentanyl dealers. president biden will set off on his investing in america tour. most people in his party do not want biden leading them into 2024. >> todd: we want patrice onuka to lead us, she says the white house has a big problem on their hands. she joins us next.

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>> todd: boy, they can't catch a break. another batch of strong thunderstorms battering the southeast after 26 were killed by tornados in mississippi and

arkansas over the weekent. >> ashley: severe weather causing flash floods with three inches of rain. senior meteorologist janice dean has the fox weather forecast. >> janice: and we are just beginning the severe weather season. 363 reports of severe weather. we had 66 tornado reports, four tornado emergencies and the national weather service is out there assessing the damage. already off to a busy start going through the severe weather season. springtime we see the worst of tornadic activity and we'll have a break in terms of calmer weather until friday, that is when we see potential for more really strong storms moving through some of the same areas that were hard hit by the last round of storm systems. we have the cold front producing showers and thunderstorms along the gulf coast. severe thunderstorm warning just

southeast of mobile, alabama and here is the severe storm threat on friday. we have tornado reports, some same areas could see watches and warnings on friday. future track, powerful system moving toward the west again, including california, where we have several inches of rain along the coast and feet of snow in the mountains. again, ultimately good news situation to wipe out some of the drought, but short-term problems for central california, we could see potential for flash flooding. that area of low pressure, off the coast, quieter weather for the next couple days in some regions hard hit. there are your temperatures, 52 new york, 52 in chicago. quiet today and tomorrow and then thursday and friday things ramp up again. keep you up to date, foxweather.com. tornados are the lead story,

they'll update you on incoming weather. >> todd: ash and i have been talking about growing up in missouri, this is a constant thing. prayer for those folks. >> ashley: thank you. fox is supporting the victims of the tornados and mississippi donating $1 million to the american red cross, the money will be used to provide aid and resources including water, medical supplies and housing support to those affected by the devastating storms. go to redcross.com/foxforward to help. >> todd: president biden will kickoff his economic agenda today. several top cabinet officials joining him on the trip ahead of the biden 2024 biden announcement. >> first lady and second gentleman will fan out over the

20 states in the country and have the impact of the president's economic agenda and what is at stake if maga republicans get their way and repeal it is inflation reduction act. >> ashley: patrice onuka is with the independent women's forum andin jos us. of course they had to throw that maga republicans nonsense in there whachl is the purpose of this tour? he's all but said he's going to run. >> absolutely. president biden has a problem on his hands, two-thirds of america in a "washington post" poll do not think he's done much in office at all. his key legislative wins are actually losses for the american people. american rescue plan touched off 40-year high inflation that we are battling today and his inflation reduction act does nothing to reduce inflation.

what his policies have been doing is advance his climate change agenda and social justice agenda that cannot pass through congress on their merits alone. he has to put himself and his officials out to see the story they are getting something done, i don't think it will work. >> todd: true cost of the inflation reduction act $1.2 trillion, according to the number crunchers at goldman sachs. his own party does not seem to be buying in, new poll shows 44% of democratic voters want the president to step aside in 2024, compared to 25% who want him to run again whachl do democrats seem to understands that the leader of the democratic party does not? >> they understand he is not a fresh face. he doesn't have fresh ideas and

he is the worst messenger. they recognize there seems to be time for generational shift in politics, particularly in the democratic party. that said, it is a scary party, the bench behind him are far left, very progressive and willing to stake our economy, prosperity and freedom to vance marxist ideas. >> ashley: this has myself and todd concerned, the american dream seems harder than ever and american true thoughts on the state of biden's america. 80's % of america think we are in a poor state. 47% think it will get worse and 78% say they are confident their children's lives will be better than their own. how do we come back from this? >> it will be difficult, there

is pessimism driven by inflation high prices we haven't seen in generations and this goes back to the great recession. you saw collapse of the housing market and millennials graduating and not able to find employment and behind othe generations with things like buying their first home. higher education system hate america. i am sitting before you as an example of the american dream. i'm an immigrant, a proud citizen. you can create a dream and a life that is better than your own, we just have to tell more stories to counter acts the negative. >> todd: thank you for your pos

positivity. >> and happy birthday. >> ashley: you made todd's day. >> todd: 100 satirical stories published by the satire site have become reality. >> ashley: ceo seth dillon is here next. ♪ (vo) some people say the metaverse will only be virtual. but firefighters entering a burning house... will one day save time when lives are on the line. visualizing a patient's most recent scan... will help speed up decision making in the er. and while the woolly mammoth is still extinct... that doesn't mean students can't take field trips to visit them. the metaverse may be virtual, but the impact will be real.

>> ashley: we know the name of the man accused of brutally stabbing one of rand paul's staffers in washington, d.c. glen neil is charged with assault with intent to kill. officials say he was just released from prison on friday. the victim identified as philip todd, who is on the homeland sec security. we are relieved to hear the suspect has been arrested, we

ask for privacy so everyone can focus on healing and recovery. the man accused of accusing gwyneth paltrow of slamming into him in a ski accident, takes the stand in his lawsuit. terry sanderson claims he was left with permanent brain injury and four broken ribs. >> everything was great and i heard something i have never heard at a ski resort, a blood curdling scream. i can't do it, and then boom. >> ashley: the actress took the stand on friday clai claiming sanderson was the one who hit her. paltrow's husband and children are expected to testify later this week. >> todd: today's punch lines are tomorrow's headlines, parody

site revealing 100 joke headlines have come true. in july 2021, the joke, kamala harris taking likeability lessons from hillary clinton and axios reported on a kamala harris crisis dinner hosted by hillary clinton. and the vaccinate me elmo, and news reporting elmo vaccinated seth dillon from the babylon bee is here. could you ever envision your jokes becoming reality? >> well, it has been happening for years now, it is just picking up. we have nearly 100 of them and seems like everyday, every week something new is popping up. people think that our job is easier now because the world is

insane, it makes satire harder, we have to exaggerate the jokes. >> todd: great point, how do writers come up with something so egregious it will get laughs and not be a roadmap to the democratic party? >> it is challenging. not all is political. we did a joke about how pant sales were plummeting because everyone was working from home during covid and it was a guy in front of his computer with boxers and a nice shirt on. and next day a story talking about increase in tops and not bottoms because coronavirus. >> todd: most jokes aimed at left, some deal with husband and wife things that i adore. what does it say about their

ideas and foundation of their ideas they mimic and seem to copy satire? >> it is funny, right? we joke it seems like they are looking at our website, looking for ideas. if my world view was leading me down this path where i was making jokes come true and comedy bits that were a comedy bit a week ago, i might rethink the direction i'm going. >> todd: do you think we can undo this crazy? >> i hope so, one way is to ridicule crazy stuff happening. when people abandon nationality, the only thing you can do is ridicule their crazy, wild ideas and hopefully reasonable people see how insane and come back to reality. >> todd: you do a great job focusing on the left and husband and wife stuff and you call the right into question. you do what comedy should do,

point out the lunacy of everything. it is just weird that one side is copying that lunacy. >> yeah. i mean, it is the job of the comedian. they tell you number one rule of comedy is to not punch down, but the number one rule is to be funny. you are funny by poking holes in the funny narrative. people complain about how funny is not funny anymore, late night tv is not that funny, they are going for more applause and affirmation than laughter and amusement. it used to be poking holes in the popular narrative, that is what is funny and what we continue to do. >> todd: if you are not reading the babylon bee, you are missing out. one quick thing on husband and wife stuff, i like this one, wife doesn't like tone of husband's okay text reply, that happens to me more than you could know.

seth dillon, great stuff, appreciate it. what you got, stro? >> ashley: same thing, i don't like the okay text response, k would not be much better. >> todd: wife yells at husband for trailing too close to a car that is five miles in front of them. it is in a different area code. former president trump unleashing on alvin bragg in a sit down as democrats drum up support for manhattan's liberal da. >> never been done like this to this extent. people are pleading with the prosecutor, don't do it, it is wrong. even democrats. >> todd: going to hear from both sides as bragg's investigation stalls again. >> ashley: 38% of americans say patriotism is important to them and the numbers aren't better when it comes to religion and values. army veteran and former n.f.l.

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>> todd: former president donald trump slamming new york da alvin bragg's legal challenge against him as a political stunt in an interview with fox news. >> ashley: brooke singman joins us now.

>> brooke: former president donald trump says manhattan district attorney alvin bragg is taking desperate measures ahead of his 2024 presidential bid. >> even people who don't like me say this is a horrible thing to do. it is election interference. they can't win at the ballot box, i am leading everybody, including biden by a lot, they will do this kind of stuff. this has never been done like this before to this extent. >> brooke: new york city grand j jury -- hush money payment to adult film actress stormy dan daniels. heard from national enquirer's david pecker who is accused of being key player in the alleged payment. democrats are rallying in

support of alvin bragg, group of state and local lawmakers and community leaders claiming there is systemic racism in the justice system and slamming trump during a bizarre press conference yesterday. watch. >> for far too long our justice system and our country has been meated out against certain communities. >> donald trump is an abuser, narc cyst, he will not take accountability. >> alvin bragg deserves our respect, no president, prime minister or king can stop our district attorney from doing his job. >> ashley: pushing the manhattan da to testify, chairman james comer says it is inappropriate for alvin bragg to indict a former president. listen. >> james: i don't think any person that has understanding of the law would argue the local da

needs to be trying to indict a presidential candidate, former president of the united states. this is a political stunt. >> brooke: house judiciary committee and james comer called for alvin bragg to testify before congress. >> ashley: thank you. new poll reveals shift in american values in recent years and numbers don't look good. survey from the "wall street journal" showing patriotism, religion faith and raising children plummeted by double digits in the last 25 years. jake bequette, a u.s. army veteran and former n.f.l. defensive end, joins me now. good morning to you. as an army vet, how does the patriotism one settle with you? >> the entire poll is disturbing. it is evidence of situational

decline. it shouldn't come as a surprise, for decades, conservative americans have been socially conditioned to ignore the cul culture war. it is too controversial. you meet someone on the street, they say i'm fiscally liberal. that is result of a long propaganda effort, to be frank thachl is well and good until you wake up one day in a country you don't recognize and that is america today. it is important to note, a country is more than a tax rate or gdp growth. these things matter and polls are showing us, look at chartses, would you buy that stock in the future? average republican today is less patriotic, is less religious,

less family oriented than the average person in either party in america 25 years ago. so it is really disturbing and just one more thing to add, as an army veteran, i talk to vets everyday. people in arkansas and around the country, there is patriotism, but toward the new identity in america, not the old one. we see the white house draped in the pride flag, military gone woke and cultural institutions, big business, everything, sports, military, leftist talking points. there is new patriotism, not the patriotism we grew up with or our parents and grandparents. people have had it and that is reflected in that poll. >> ashley: a lot of americans are scared almost to admit they are conservative and have to throw in that, i'm socially

liberal. but what is your message to these people and how do we bring this back? >> well, part of the reason i ran for office in the last cycle, i think we need a new generation of leaders who understand the issues and are willing to speak the truth and cut through the noise and the bs and go to what everyone understands in their heart, which is we are a nation in cultural decline right now and you can't reverse that unless you admit we have a problem and that you plan to reverse it. i speak to young people as part of the campaign and in my everyday life, young people are terrified to have kids right now. the poll, might have come as a shock to a lot of people, to me, i wasn't shocked at all. young americans say, i don't

know if i want to have kids, i don't want them to get trans, these are real conversations. you don't have business being in politics right now, right leaning politics, a lot of people are not ready for that. decades of social conditioning i referenced earlier have worked. i hope we can reverse it before it is too late. we need a new gen raying of leaders who are bold and fearless and courageous and not worried about being called a name like racist or sexist. fight for what is right. >> ashley: only priority that has grown in importance is money with 43% of people saying it was important to them and christians know money is the root of all evil, that was concerning for me to see. jake bequette thank you for being with us.

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>> todd: the band hitting high notes there. ohio congressman jim jordan demanding answers from the irs after an unannounced visit to matt taibi's home while he was testifying. >> cheryl: when federal agents come to your home, that is great. they came on the same day as he was giving testimony in front of jim jordan's committee. he gave us twitter files before elon musk took twitter over. this happened march 9. they showed up to his new jersey home. jim jordan wrote this letter

when he finds out what happened to matt taibi, to janet yellen. the i.r.s.'s action could be interprets as an attempt to intimidate a witness before congress. they had questions about his 2018 and 2021 tax returns, but from what i read, nothing that really -- i would think, would require a federal agent or two or five to show up at your home. >> todd: they gave him a bigger refund in the end, which is crazy. is this a thing? do i.r.s. agents come to your home? i thought they wrote a letter when there was an issue. have you heard of them going to your home? >> cheryl: i'm sure it has happened, there are tax

criminals out there, i don't think matt taibbi is one of those. >> todd: they are going to utah. >> cheryl: that is strange, a blockbuster report that came out yesterday. here is headline of the story making ripples. chinese government basically successfully influenced legislation in utah. lawmakers delayed legislation they didn't like and displayed displeasure and enhanced the chinese government's image. examples of what they did, delayed action to ban chinese confusius institutes. there was a letter from xi jinping that went to fourth graders. >> todd: happy birthday. >> cheryl: that was weird. chinese advocates were quoting mormon church leaders and trying

to work with the mormonon church. one retired fbi counter intelligence agent says if the chinese can succeed in utah, they can make it elsewhere. >> todd: i don't want my kids celebrating with xi jinping. >> cheryl: was this their testing ground to see how far they could influence political legislative decisions? first it is utah, then what is next? >> ashley: you can't trust what they will do next. biden says he will veto the gop's version of the green new deal. >> cheryl: this is hr-1, they will work on this will this week in washington. it is low energy act, president biden says he will veto it. they want to ban states blocking infrastructure projectses, think pipelines, 6 billion tax cut on natural gas production,

institute that and their act would repeal fracking and exports and import bans and go after the epa slush fund that was part of the fund. the biggest thing, they want to reform the 1970 environmental policy act, which is a sea of red tape, talking 53-year-old piece of legislation and law that really slows down and hinders energy production, which we really need. >> todd: we could use it. >> cheryl: we're headed back to the saudis, unfortunately, under the last two years of president biden. >> todd: biden wants to keep the 1970 legislation in effect. >> cheryl: red tape is alive and well, biden said he will veto this. happy birthday. >> todd: get a cupcake, come on.

forget the marathons you run, eat a cupcake. >> ashley: thank you. >> todd: surveillance shows the nashville school shooting suspect blast her way into the building before killing three kids and three adults. tomi lahren joins us live next, she lives just down from where this happened. >> ashley: we will be joined by steve first. >> steve: live coverage of the heartbreaking nashville shooting that left three children and three adults dead inside that christian school. what police are learning about the transgender shooter, including text messages sent just before the tragedy. also former president donald trump sits down for exclusive interview with fox news speaking out on his potential

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>> on to a breaking fox news alert. at least 37 people are dead after a fire at a migration center in the mexican city of see dad juarez less than a mile away from the southern border. this fire started after they picked up more than 70 migrants from the site. cause of that fire under investigation. we will keep you posted as we

learn more. >> ashley: and a fox news alert. investigators are now looking for a motive after a 28-year-old transgender former student of nashville's covenant school shot her way inside to carry out calculated attack which left 39-year-olds and faculty members dead. >> todd: tomi lahren lives minutes from where the shooting occurred. she joins us now. the tragedy impacted your community. >> well, first, i just want to thank our metro nashville police department because they acted so quickly. they rushed in to danger as police officers do. and they neutralized the threat and they saved countless lives. first, i just have to say that as a member of this nashville community we really are so grateful and appreciative of that police department for what they did. i will also say as the story unfolds, we hope that this story in nashville continues to get coverage, even when it's not politically convenient for the left. after we heard about the identity of this shooter who i

will remain nameless because i don't think we should be giving these people any notoriety or recognition. we know it was a transgender a biological female who identified as a he him. that's not going to be politically convenient for of the left to discuss. if we are going to be talking about gun control and a gun grab. we need to talk about mental health and all the factors that could have taken place here and also talk about the anti-christian, antireligious rhetoric that is so popular in mainstream right now really cheer led by the left. that needs to be part of this conversation. i hoped heat will remain on this story in nashville and it won't be dropped because the left doesn't want to talk about all the variables that occurred. o. >> todd: so many questions to put the pieces together to figure out what the motive was and figure out if there were motives it the extent that you described them there are so many questions that we do need answers to. >> we know the suspect identifies as transgender but police haven't said if that has any role in the shooting. here is what former fbi agent job than gilliam told us

earlier. listen to this. >> with somebody who has mental illness, the motivation may be completely unbased or based in false reality. they do not understand who they are or what their gender or sexuality is because of the way that society has changed. and we're supporting these things and it's causing mass confusion to the point that people are going out and killing. until we start looking at this for the reality of what it is, we are going to continue to have these types of attacks. >> ashley: tomi, your thoughts on gilliam's comments. >> there is he exactly right. i will also this. i'm not in fan of blaming an entire community of people for the actions of one. i'm not saying that the trans community is responsible for this. that would be irresponsible and reckless to say. that i will say this. we need have a discussion mental illness particularly as it pertains to young people. a discussion how the left has

talked about our new bills here in tennessee that prevent drag shows for children that prevent gender mutilation for adolescents demonized in the last few weeks. i know we manifesto. the shooter had maps of the school and there was discussions about how this would be a soft target easy to get into. there were no armed guards at the school. there needs to be a discussion how we are going to protect our schools moving forward. we need to address mental health and the security of our schools. and that needs to be part of the conversation as well. >> todd: such an important point, typically. democratic congressman revealing the quiet part out loud while justifying his stance on the tiktok ban. listen. >> 150 million americans, many of them young people, many of them tend to lean democratic. so, if the democratic party is a part of shutting down a platform that they have used to build community it can harm us politically in 2024. >> todd: he said it there, tomi. your thoughts?

>> oh, well, i'm glad that somebody finally admitted this. the chinese embraced the chinese communist entity tiktok. the fact that democrats would be willing to put our national security at risk to get more voters on an app. really tells you where they stand. it's really no different than their justification for the wide open southern border. everything is a means to an end. for them it's all about electoral victory. we need to ban tiktok. i'm so proud of some of the democrats stepping up to do just that. this is a bipartisan initiative. we don't need a surveillance apparatus on our phones if you are not okay with a chinese spy balloon you shouldn't be okay with a chinese apparatus on your cell phone. delete tiktok, ban it and put our national security first for a change. >> ashley: god forbid you can't control the narrative on an app. that runs mindless nonsense 24/7. tomi lahren we have got to leave it there but we appreciate your time this morning. >> thank you, guys.

and pray for nashville. >> ashley: of course. >> todd: going back to the tiktok thing you raise an important point. the focus on tiktok is limited. i want tiktok gone we don't want to give congress and government more powers of controlling of us with that in mind. >> ashley: you raise a good point i'm sure we will all be talking about it eventually. "fox & friends" starts right now. thanks for being with us. ♪ ♪ >> bret: three 9-year-old children and 3 adults. transgender. >> little kids coming out. that was really tough for me. >> another batch of strong thunderstorms battering the southeast causing flash floods after 26 people were killed by tornadoes in mississippi and arkansas over the weekend. >> the children come here every day. >> you have to go to the pointed of entry. >> will hearings on scheduled on capitol hill as investigate the border crisis ater