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>> todd: that video is remarkable. the officers are being honored and details about the families. brooke singman. >> brooke: honoring them at a vigil tonight. police have identified all six victims, three faculty members and three studenting. the family of evelyn dieckhaus who tried to pull the fire alarm to save her classmates are speaking out on the loss. her sister said she doesn't want to be an only child. the family can't believe this happened. head of the call katherine koonce was on a zoom call, she hung up and went for the shooter after hearing the gun shots, something her friends say is something she would have done for her students.

>> she was an absolute champion for her students, her students knew she was in their corner. >> she was an educator and the smartest person in the room. >> ashley: the daughter of mike hill speaking out saying ittel foos like a bad dream. i have watched school shootings happen over the year and never thought i would lose a loved one. we are getting a breakdown of the killer's 14-minute shootingistry spree. audrey hale is seen pulling into the parking lot and she sent a number of texts before shooting through the door and making her way through several hallways and classrooms. officers arrived at the scene and were met with gunfire. officers engage with hale. those two officers identified as

rex englebert and michael col collazo. nashville police say hale was armed with several guns. listen. >> we were able to talk to the parents of audrey hale and found she purchased seven firearms from five local gun stores here in the middle tennessee area, they were all legally purchased. three of the guns were used in yesterday's murders of the six victims. >> ashley: officers say the shooter was being treated for an emotional disorder and was described as very quiet and shy. >> ashley: such a good job in the swiftness and quickness of the officers. it was two minutes before the threat was -- it was chilling. brooke singman, thank you. senator josh hawley calling on federal authorities to -- as the

massacre is a hate crime against christians. >> police in nashville have said this school was targeted, it wasn't random, they were targeted, that is a federal hate crime and there should be a federal hate crime investigation. make resources available to national police. prevent this from happening. we need to know the hateful rhetoric that led to this, the influences on the shooter and be clear about the truth. when you target christians, that is a hate crime. >> ashley: violence based on religion is a hate crime. >> todd: to the border crisis, slamming mayorkas for handling of it is southern border at yesterday's hearing telling him he should be canned. >> ashley: lucas tomlinson has more. good morning. >> lucas: president biden's dhs

chief guessing drilled on capitol hill. john cornyn asking the following question. >> mr. secretary, you understand you have a credibility problem with the congress and with the american people, don't you? >> i have unflinching confidence in the integrity of my conduct. >> lucas: over a million migrants have been encounters on the border since october. republicans demanding more answers. >> who is accountable? who got fired? you haven't been fired, you should be fired, but you haven't been fired because you were carrying out the policy of the biden administration. it seems to be intention effort to obviskate the problem, to hide the legal disaster we have unfolding on the southern border. your behavior is disgraceful and the deaths of children assaulted

and raped, they are at your feet and if you had integrity, you would resign. >> lucas: it is on the southern and northern border, 866% increase this year. president biden traveled to canada last week to meet with justin trudeau. the u.s. border patrol needs help. >> cbp -- remained stagnant even as threats have increased. >> this shortcoming is -- numerous traffickers utilize this water to bypass heavily guarded sections of the border, smuggling drugs into our communitieses. >> lucas: 38 migrants were killed in a fire in juarez.

>> todd: governor abbott helping austin. a message for the activist and politicians who created this public safety crisis. >> ashley: and hunter biden's business partner wired money to the biden family was a frequent visitor at the white house while joe was vice president. cheryl casone is here to walk us through the records. ♪ allergies don't have to be scary. (screaming) defeat allergy headaches fast with new flonase headache and allergy relief! two pills relieve allergy headache pain? and the congestion that causes it! flonase headache and allergy relief. king's hawaiian sliders are ready.

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>> janice: good morning, happy wednesday. take a look at the map. we have cold air in back of a cold front that is moving across the plain states. take a look at the radar. another storm system in the west. coastal rain, mountain snow for california. we have a frontal boundary lingering over the gulf coast. this area of low pressure is going to move across the great lakes and toward the northeast bringing a quick shot of which actually could cause travel problems. we call this a possible snow squall. what is a snow squall? an intense, short-lived burst of heavy snow, which could impact

folks over 12 to 24 hours, quickly reducing visibility with gusty winds and could see roads with white-out conditions. sometimes it can just last a minute or two, but cause big problems on the road. near the great lakes northeast overnight. for the west, this energy will give next severe weather outbreak, which will come on friday, affecting the same states affected by the deadly tornados over the weekend. severe threat on friday. another multi-day severe weather threat for central states. friday widespread risk of damaging winds, hail and tornados. we'll update you. there are the latest forecast details. this one spreading more towards the upper mississippi valley and the upper midwest, that will be

a big deal. those are the areas that got hit hard in the red shaded area for the confirmed tornados we saw over the weekend. we'll keep you up to date. lesson on the snow squall, is happen in a flash. >> todd: that is important, so many people commuting, it is in overnight hours, truckers, police officers. >> janice: total white-out conditions is scary. >> ashley: it is scary. cool from your house, on the road, a different situation. >> todd: fox is supporting victims of the tornados in mississippi and across the south by partnering with the american red cross. you can help by going to redcross.org/foxforward, by making donation. >> ashley: crime in austin texas has gotten so bad governor abbott is stepping in to help the overworked austin police

department after a wave of officers quit following the defund the police movement. 97 officers retired last year and 80 are expected to retire by the end of april. dennis farris, president of retired officers association joins me now. dennis, thank you for being with us this morning. >> good morning. >> ashley: how did we get to this point in austin? >> we get there because in 2000 twenty, the city council in its infamous wisdom decided to defund the police department and start attacking the fine women and men of the police department by cutting 150 positions and siding with the activists who want to abolish the police department. >> ashley: are you putting all the blame on defund the police movement specifically? >> yes. this council or the previous

city council and to the extent this city council in right now continued bashing the cops in austin and causing such low moral that officers are retiring early, they are retiring when they can and officers who can go to other departments are quitting and leaving and going to other departments. there will be 88 officers have retired by the end of march of this year, so far. by the end of april, i expect the number to be close to 100. >> ashley: what will happen, i know the city and i believe the police chief, they are doing something to increase moral or garner police officers to join the force, but what happens to the number, the 88 by end of march, what will happen at the end of the year if they can't get the officers to get onboard? >> it will continue up. i expect right now 200 officers

are eligible to retire, can just walk away, i expect the number to be 150 to 180 by the end of the year. what a lot of people don't realize, every time an officer leaves, it takes a year to replace and train. it takes a year to get cut loose by themselves, where it makes a different in the numbers. austin is hurting. we have staff that answer 911 calls that we had in 1995, when i was a five-year officer and we had 500,000 people in the city. that is where we are right now and we can't sustain that. the crime rate is going up, violent crime is going up, no

traffic enforcement in austin right now. it is not sustainable, something has to be done. >> ashley: 911 response times have increased from seven minutes in 2018 to 10 minutes in 2022. dhs will try to help with that, do you think they can get this under control? >> yeah, i think so, the dps will do what it needs to bring troopers to austin. dps serves 254 counties, so that is 254 bodies. austin other than border has highest number of troopers in it because it is the state capital. i have every confidence that dps will bring enough troopers in to help with the issue. they will be on the high-speed roadways taking crash reports

and traffic enforcement and backing up officers when they need them. >> ashley: austin crime stats, arson up, murder up, burglary up and auto theft is up 38%. when the police force is so strained, they don't have enough officers because they are retiring, go back to what you said. you were saying upward of maybe 140 or 150 officers are going to retire. are these sergeants and lieutenants or are they beat officers that are working the streets? >> well, it is every rank. what happens, you have a commander retire, last promotable rank at the austin police department, it has a domino effect. somebody has to move up to that position and somebody from sergeant gets lieutenant. corporal gets promoted to

sergeant and then to -- rank of officer and those are the people pushing patrol cars around the city and answering 911 calls, so not like we have vacancies at lieutenant, we have vacancies are the rank of officer. >> ashley: it can take six monthses to take the sergeant's test, people think they can move officers up, that is not how it works. >> no, not at all. what happens, you have a list good for two years and when you are exhausting that list in seven or eight months, it takes three months to get the next step and you go through hoops to get the people promoted, it is six months. you have vacancies there, but most vacancies or all are at the rank of officer. >> ashley: hopefully dps can get a handle on this and hope what

the police departments is doing to get police to join the force will help and this can level out. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> ashley: you're welcome. okay, the new numbers are in and some biggest names in the democratic party are some of the most ineffective lawmakers in congress. >> todd: progressives in new york now want to change the name of city field because citibank invests in the fossil fuel industry. ash, i did his show a couple weeks ago and comedian and mets fan is here to reacts, joe piscopo is here to discuss that and more. (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...

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because of his conservative views. here is one student at gmu who doesn't want youngkin to speak at the school. >> in society, you need to hear people's ideas, but when the ideas target people on campus, it enrages people, we are upset about this decision. >> ashley: we spoke to students who say this is cancel culture at its finest. >> they are saying the same old he's racist, trans phobic, but when you ask him about his policies or what he's done as governor, they don't know anything. >> as a mason student, i want to apologize to our own governor, it is childish, not supposed to be a political events, students try to make it one. >> ashley: the university says it has plans to cancel youngkin's address, i'm not sure they have plans to cancel it.

>> todd: we'll see. in a recent study, democrats got lowest marks with bernie sanders, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer at the bottom of the list. the study by the center for effective lawmaking, when it comes to lawmaking, dems score below expectation. wearing a suit from the spring collection, an inside joke between joe and me, former "saturday night live" cast member and talk show host, joe piscopo. joe, great to have you, my friend. this is tough for two loud mouthses from new jersey to acknowledge this, but seems in this instance, the loudest voices in the room are least effective. what say you >> joe: it is so true, these are national people on the spotlight all the time. go to nancy pelosi's district in san francisco, take a look

around. you can see chuck schumer will work locally sometimes with broadcasters, but some high-powered politicians, i'm about to go on the radio in a second and we'll be talking about it. in their district, nothing is done. >> todd: members of the squad ranging from meeting expectation to below expectations, but none of the performances ranking at the top. why does the white house and this democratic party let these people set the tone for the country's discourse by allowing them to dominate the conversation? >> joe: with it's a great question, only a good jersey person would ask that. as a dem, i've been a blue dog democrat my whole life, i'm an independent now. you go to the bronx and i have celebrity friends from the bronx

that give back, there has never been an aoc sighting in the bronx, no idea why the white house leads on this. terrible time in regard to politics. i watch you and ashley every morning, you are my go-to show on the radio airwaves, it is true on a.m. 970. you and i are from an area that is family oriented and love the country, god bless america, i was brought up with that, with my father. he served in the second world war. this particular white house, we are such a dangerous time, they are trying to take that away. >> ashley: the area we grew up in was democrat, now kennedy would be maga in this world and that is insane. new york city public advocate jumani williams says your mets

need to rename citi filed. here is why. >> as we start another season, see what the mets do on the field and what management does about who represents the field itself. if citi refuses to end partnership with the fossil fuel industry, end -- citi. >> todd: your reaction, joe? >> joe: they should rename it fossil field and put an oil well in the center of the field. whales are washing up at our jersey shore, dolphins are washing up. bill bradley, former senator, cleaned up the beach, now whales are coming up. why? because they want to put windmills out that are three times the city of the statue of liberty. now citi filed? this is what gets me about alvin

bragg and williams is a nice guy, but there are more important things to worry about than changing the name of citi filed citi field. i did the mets video in 1986, if you were born yet. >> todd: glad you mention that video. roll it. >> hello again, joe piscopo, shea stadium, the big story, mets 86, exciting, thrilling, awesome. >> todd: joe, like you, i am a yankees fan, that video may make me convert. >> joe: i love the mets, man, i'm a yankee fan, but we love the mets. and leave the name of citi field, stop with the politics and get this country back. >> todd: this is part of an effort to make it impossible for oil companies to invest in clean

energy production in our country. we'll have windmills that will not work and require electricity to run and we'll go overseas for dirty energy and that is a losing proposition. what is a winning proposition, you and i doing each other's show, keep this up, joe piscopo. >> joe: you are welcome any time. god bless. hi, ashley. >> ashley: i'm glad you came on, now todd will be in a good mood the rest of the week and i have to deal with him two hours per day. >> todd: joe piscopo is one person that talks more with his hands than me. thanks, joe. >> joe: what do you expect? >> todd: good luck with your show today. new california bill would give therapists the power to take kids as young as 12 away from their parents if kids say they are not being supported to be transgender. one mom fighting this bill we'll

hear from her next. >> ashley: npr says not enough claims to say biological men have advantage over women in sports. we're asking an orthopedic surgeon what she thinks about it. (vo) if you've had thyroid eye disease for years and you can't get any shuteye because you can't shut your eyes, or...if your itchy eyes have you itching for a fight, it's not too late for another treatment option for thyroid eye disease, also known as t-e-d. to learn more, visit treatted.com that's treatt-e-d.com.

>> ashley: democrats in california are pushing a bill that would allow therapists to

take children from their homes without any evidence of abuse and without parent consent. here is what a california mom had to say about this last hour. >> i call this bill the state-sanctioned kidnapping bill in the world of transgenderism, that means child who goes to a school counselor and says they are transgender and their parent won't support them, that child can be whisked off to an lgbtq facility and not come home from school that way. >> ashley: the trans refuge bill would give the state emergency custody of children whose parents deny them gender-affirming care, this is heading to the senate. npr forced to correct news item down playing evidence of claims that biological men have advantage over women in sports and one tweet they report, the

international governing body for track and field will ban trans women athletes citing priority for fairness over inclusion despite limited scientific research involving elite trans athletes. >> todd: npr issuing a change, existing research shows higher levels of testosterone does im impact, there is limited evidence. an orthopedic surgeon joins us now. mary as an elite doctor and elite athlete, do you think there is a physical advantage? >> there is absolutely a physical advantage, there is no question. the science is clear, males and females are different. males are different, biological advantage of being a male is not

erased with testosterone suppression. >> ashley: mary, what about the fact this is a media organization, what do you think about them trying to put this notion in people's heads, you are shaking your head, i'm sure you have something to say about that. we don't have to wait for male athletes to beat elite female athletes to know there is biologic difference. we don't need to wait for more events to occur. we see it playing out all the time. the science is clear. >> todd: let's get into that, at the risk of turning "fox and friends first" into medical school, how different are male and female anatomy in competition? >> one thing that is important to recognize, the sex differences between male and female start in utero and at puberty, the changes are accelerated in males because of

testosterone. males are bigger and stronger and have greater lung capacity and stronger bones, all these physical advantages are not always muted by testoshgsterone suppression. males who retain that advantage despite years of testosterone suppression temperature is simply not fair to allow a male, even males who have been suppressing testosterone to compete against females. >> ashley: mary, do you think this will be the end of female sports if we allow biological males to compete in female sport? >> this is compromising women sports already and it will increase that compromise. it also sends the wrong message do our children because basically it says that fantasy

competition matters for males, but doesn't matter for females. our girls grow up feeling they are somehow less valuable, less worthy, they don't deserve fair competition. what do our sons think? this creates a culture where we're not seeing ourselves as equal, although we are different. men and women, males and females are different. >> todd: what a horrible message for young girls, especially in teenage years, when they are going through a lot, seems like a recipe for disaster. jim jordan just set a hard deadline for the i.r.s. to explain why an agent was sent to the agent of matt taibbi. >> while testifying, "new york times" best seller testifying in front of congress on weaponization of the federal government, guess what? the i.r.s. is knocking on his

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demanding irs hand over documents after a visit to matt taibbi's home while testifying before congress. >> todd: cheryl casone is here. >> cheryl: yesterday we talked about, is it normal for federal agents to go to someone's home? normally, no, maybe talking about a dangerous criminal. matt taibbi, not that person. normally you go down to the office and talk about your tax return. this goes back to matt taibbi, same day he will testify in front of jim jordan's committee, they visit his home. now jim jordan is saying, this needs to be explained. he says to the irs, facts need to determine if the visit was thinly failed attempt to intimidate a witness before congress. jordan calls out the irs for knocking on his front door, matt

taibbi, while he was testifying at the same time. >> while he was testifying, "new york times" best seller testifying on the weaponization of the federal government in the committee hearing, democrats are asking who sources are, violating the first amendment, while that is going on, guess what? the irs is knocking on his door, left a note saying we'll be in touch with you after the weekend on the following monday. >> cheryl: matt taibbi tweeting, i don't want to comment on the irs issue, i am not worried for myself, i felt the committee should be aware of this situation. >> todd: handled perfectly by matt taibbi, he is really raising his stock in the eyes of so many. >> cheryl: he handled himself well, i watched the testimony, he handled himself well.

the questions were inept, lack of understanding from lawmakers what they are holding the hearing on. >> todd: combined with malice. >> cheryl: exactly. >> ashley: hunter biden's business partner was a visitor during biden's vice presidency. >> cheryl: the hunter biden continuing. rob walker, his business partner, visited the white house 16 times while joe biden was vice president and obviously hunter was in and out of the white house at the same time, other partners meeting with the chief of staff, assist an of chief of staff of president obama met with mr. walker, we don't know what was talked about, we do know they all had a company together that was receiving payments from a now failed chinese energy firm and those connections continue to be

questioned. we're learning so much more because of bank of america documents that were subpoenaed by the committee investigating the hunter biden connections here. was he pedalling influence? how involved was rob walker and the other individuals and how far do the payments go? why did the biden family get the million dollar payments and where did the money go? there are questions about it. >> ashley: it doesn't look good temperature is a little weird. >> cheryl: influence pedalling never looks good, unless you are trying to get ahead at starbucks, i'm cheryl casone and have to get to wok. >> todd: i use thattin loo, do you know i'm cheryl casone? starbucks coming up. enes kanter freedom having problems with the chinese. >> cheryl: he talked to laura and talked about why he was taken off tiktok as he was

calling out human rights abuses in china, watch. >> i started to post on tiktok for all china abuses, literally in one week, they banned me from the app. i knew it was going to happen, i texted one of my congressmen friends and said, can you ask them why did they ban my account. why they he was asking, they unbanned me. >> cheryl: while he was answering questions, he got unbanned. i saw? snips of the testimony from last week and there were missed opportunities when the tiktok ceo took the microphone. there were questions i didn't get answered. >> todd: didn't come out well for him, imagine if they would have asked the other questions, he would have looked worse. >> cheryl: we have toun are, but even the l.a. times, congress

may be out of touch with technology, concerns over tiktok are right. >> todd: then again -- >> cheryl: l.a. times wrote that. >> todd: as long as it is a tale, we don't give the government too much control, got rid of tiktoks, don't embolden the government further, they have a lot of power. she knows that is my thing. top pentagon officials squaring off as officials are forced to answer questions on military readiness. >> ashley: senator ted bud was in the hearing and will tell us if he got clarity from this administration.

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>> todd: howard schultz set to testify before the senate today where bernie sanders is expected to press him on allegations of union busting. schultz previously tried to side

step the hearing but reluctantly agreed to testify are a sanders threatened a subpoena. >> ashley: ted budd serves on the hearing committee holding that today. he joins us now. senator, thanks for being with us. tell us what you want to know from this testimony. >> look, what we see here is we see the biden administration. we see people like bernie sanders. they are essentially weaponizing the federal government against job creators. now, we're going to look at any of the allegations against starbucks under howard schultz tenure but at the same time what's the purpose of the hearing in bernie sanders mind? and ultimately, this increases cost of taxpayers. it's picking winners and losers and usually if it's bernie sanders or joe biden. they are going to pick big labor over the american people and that raises cost for the taxpayers and makes it harder on the worker. >> todd: total overarching approach here why are we doing this but specifically with regard to starbucks. here's a statement, quote.

we strive to address issues relevant to our people, including pay equity, financial literacy, student debt, human and civil rights, environmental sustainability. hiring military families. civic engagement. ban the box. addressing the mentallal mental health crisis while doing our part to help our partners life skiles deep breath, deep sigh that is from mr. schultz himself a written statement. i guess what i'm wondering, senator, why is starbucks, a place to go to get your latte, coffee, involved in all that on or about stuff and why does the american person watching this hearing listening to you right now care about any of this? >> we're a little baffled here because we see that the left is going after corporations but they are going after quite a left leaning corporation. and bernie sanders simply wants a scalp here. he want a corporate scalp but going after somebody left leaning as far as starbucks and at the same time this is somebody who is not even the ceo.

he is on his way out. he has exited so he is grasping for relevance but he missed the target as far as bernie sanders. >> ashley: we have to get to this defense secretary lloyd austin called out after a top general detailed austin's delayed response to the chinese spy flight earlier this year. listen to this. >> the intel community made me aware on the 2 #th. >> did you ever speak with secretary austin about this balloon. >> i spoke with secretary austin on the 1st of february. >> ashley: i mean, how concerning is it that it was a delayed response? i mean, days after. was he just not paying attention? >> that's four or five days. what we need is clarity. we need the straight answers. we're hearing mixed things. we're hearing was it the 27th? was it detected before it entered american air space and went across canada and reentered american airspace or could we have shot it down before? he would haired two stories. we just need a straight answer

indecision is back and weakness is provocative allows china to fly a balloon across the continental u.s. multiple days before we shot it down. weakness is provocative. we need to be strong and clear. this should have never even entered alaskan arab space. >> you get a sense the rest of you us can't. do you get the sense elaborate cover-up as this was traversing our entire nation or was this simply a screw up by top brass. >> i think it's a mixture of all of the above. who knew what when? we see serious options being presented by the u.s. military very early on detection before the u.s. airspace so i think they are more worried about their narrative than the public safe answers are lacking with

this administration. are you worried we are not going to get answers about this and something like this god forbid happens again and here we are in the same position? >> well, on the armed forces committee, we are going to keep pushing for true answers. we are going to keep pushing for clarity and hold them accountable. that's what the american people sent us to washington to do is to hold this administration accountable. get straight answers and make sure that we're strong, not weak so that we can prevent these problems from happening in the future. >> todd: we have about a minute left in the program. not enough to play your testimony, your questioning yesterday. but did you press secretary austin and general milley on the repeated attacks on american forces by iran-backed militias. were you satisfied with the answer that our top brass gave you? >> look, what we need to do is keep pushing for american strength and when you see that we get punched and we get punched and we barely respond, it's going to allow them to continue to push the edge and we lost a u.s. contractor last week. we think they may have held back answers, again, controlling their narrative rather than the

protection of u.s. citizens. so, this is very concerning. and we're going to continue to press for answers and for accountability. >> ashley: i will take it not being satisfied with the answers you got, no. of okay. fair enough. >> todd: understood. >> ashley: senator ted budd, thank you for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> todd: with that busy and fun show. >> ashley: fox and friends starts right now. ♪ ♪ flesh. >> todd: nashville will harsh the victims of the covenant school shooting. >> hailed as a hero she headed straight for the shooter. >> she was an absolute champion for her students. >> her behavior is disgraceful. >> homeland security secretary back on the hot seat. >> things got testy on the capitol hill. >> our southern border is not secure, is it. >> let me assure you we are doing so much. >> senator rand paul says his aide flip todd interes