disgusting for a lot of us here in nashville and a lot of conservatives who quite frankly are going to be pouring out bud light on this as well. >> todd: on the beer front if you are on the left and like this whole dylan mulvaney thing you are drinking a craft beer. thanks for coming on and starting it off with us with that -- >> "fox & friends" begins right now have. a good day. ♪ ♪ ♪ dance, dance, dance. >> brian: well, uconn is back and came in heavily favored victory 76-59. as tacks of san diego state and let the partyings beginning

where the hurley family is fun, danny hurley his dad coached for years there at saint anthony's bobby hurley was the star of the family. danny was a good player. and first of the national championship as a coach. >> ainsley: amazing. congratulations. i love looking at the reaction of the people in the stands. >> brian: instead of tearing like light poles. will. >> ainsley: fantastic. tear them down. >> steve: no celebrating whether it comes to the march madness bracket because of all the upsets so many cinderella season april nobody got a perfect bracket. there will be winners but nobody got the perfect bracket. >> brian: women has had a great side too. record ratings for them yesterday or i should say on sunday. but, for uconn in particular they say they are the best program. five titles in 25 years. we'll see how it goes. and i will say this: this is the era of one and done for

entire team. it's the name, image and likeness. you can establish a program in a year, get five guys or five women but on the guy's side right now. you get the deals. you could be in the national title. >> ainsley: i'm driving down fifth avenue this morning heading into work there are tv cameras already set up. >> brian: why? >> ainsley: several hours ago trump tower to the right across the street and to the left all the barricades up and several police officers in front of trump tower because today is arraignment day. >> steve: we go from the basketball court to the real court. >> brian: law enforcement in new york city bracing for demonstrations over former president trump's arraignment just hours from now. >> ainsley: one report indicates he will face 34 felony counts; however, the indictment remains under seal. fox news sources say he is not expected to be put in handcuffs. >> steve: that's right. fox news senior correspondent laura ingle joins us live from lower manhattan just outside the court house where six or seven hours from now laura is going to be a circus.

>> it certainly is and certainly already is happening. now we have got tents of media, reporters and cameras and security extremely tight. just behind me in the last few hours. we have been here since 3:00 in the morning. we have seen another row of barricades put up behind me outside of this courthouse. and to my right there is a line of people who have been camped out since yesterday afternoon. at 8:00 a.m., the first several groups of people will get a ticket to be inside of the courtroom for this historic arraignment of donald j. trump. as you mentioned, we are just hours away and as ainsley mentioned mr. trump arriving at trump tower monday afternoon waving at his supporters. lots of police presence there. we are now expecting to see him arrive at the manhattan criminal court building sometime around 1:00 p.m. this afternoon ahead of his 2:15 arraignment. the court proceedings will not be televised and only still photos will be permitted.

this, after the defense argued it will create a circus like atmosphere at the arraignment, raise unique security concerns and is inconsistent with president trump's presumption of innocence. law enforcement, including the nypd and fbi working to make this process as smooth and safe as possible. the secret service, as we know, will accompany trump at all times and that includes at processing, fingerprinting and if a mugshot happens. he is not expected to be handcuffed. protesters and supporters of trump lining the streets outside of trump tower yesterday where the former president is right now after arriving it from mar-a-lago. more are expected here in manhattan. new york city mayor eric adams urging protesters yesterday to keep it peaceful today. >> new york city is always ready. while there may be some rebel rousers thinking about coming to our city tomorrow, a message is clear and simple. control yourselves. new york city is our home. not a playground for your

misplaced anger. >> now, as we have been reporting, the exact charges are still under seal. trump legal team is already planning to file a motion to dismiss the case. trump will first turn himself in to manhattan district attorney alvin bragg before reportedly facing the more than 30 criminals charges. one expected to be a felony. his attorney re ready to fight. listen. >> there will be a host of motions we will make including right off the bat a motion to dismiss based on selective prosecution. prosecutorial misconduct. there is zero, zero chance where donald trump is pleading to anything here. he commit nod crime. he committed no wrong. not a misdemeanor, not a felony. not a traffic ticket. there is nothing here. i still can't believe this is going to survive our vigorous motions to dismiss. >> and now we have learned that there will be, yet, another attorney involved in his defense. yesterday, we learned that attorney todd blanch, who is a former federal prosecutor and

considered a top white collar attorney will be part of the legal team. so, we are now just counting down the hours, waiting for that motorcade to arrive. >> ainsley: he successfully got paul manafort's case dismissed. many are wondering if that's why trump brought him on the team. >> steve: laura, is he not going to be put in a jail cell and no it handcuffs and no mugshot is there is a possibility that could change? because i read that the judge is going to go through pre-trial stuff first before he decides whether or not to do it or was that already decided by mr. bragg, the d.a.? >> you know, we have been hearing so much back and forth in the last few hours since overnight about the mugshot. about how these proceedings are going go. some of the timelines have changed but we did simply have to wait. we have to wait until everything unfolds and we will be here to watch it all. >> steve: all right. laura, thank you very much. great reporting through the night. >> ainsley: the reason for handcuffs they say is because if the defendant is a flight risk or a threat to the d.a. or

personnel inside the courtroom but neither applies here because the former president is protected at all times by the secret service. >> steve: is he surrounded by a posse. >> ainsley: correct. >> brian: the president right now has raised $8 million since the indictment has been announced. we don't have the details of the 34 counts. it's rumored to be 34 counts. but at the is expected to speak tonight and have almost a jubilant approach to it. >> ainsley: how many people at mar-a-lago. >> brian: i think they are expecting 500. very interesting, too. a motion to dismiss the judge. i'm sure that will be rejected. a motion to dismiss alvin bragg. make sure there is no gag order. that he was going to be interesting. i think there is -- if you say he can't speak about the case in a way, i think on some level his attorneys might be happy about that because they can control the narrative and just focus on what he needs to beat it as opposed to worry about what the president is going to put on put

on truth social or say on the stump. >> steve: joe tacapino says a gag order is not going to happen. that could be just wishful thinking. keep in mind the former president has already bad-mouthed the d.a. and the judge in the case. the judge can do whatever he wants. if there is a gag order it can keep the former president from talking about the case and actually talking about stuff like running for president. cnn across the street did a poll and 76% of americans say that politics did play some sort of a role in the indictment. but, here's what's interesting. while 76% say it was politically based or somehow, 60% of americans approve of the indictment. 62% of independents approve but only 21% of republicans. what's interesting is since the indictment was announced, trafalgar just did a poll and

donald trump's support rocketed up. now it went from 43 to 56%. ron desantis went down 10 points. and liz cheney is suddenly in third place. she was at 5%. now she is at 10%. >> ainsley: what poll is that that central garr. >> steve: travtrafalgar poll. 70% of americans are more likely to vote for donald trump in the primary because of this. >> ainsley: because they think it's politically motivated. the story that broke last night is michael isikoff. he was saying that he has a tip that trump will be placed under arrest today and informed that he has been charged with 34 felony counts. we were thinking one felony count. he is saying all 34 counts will be felonies for falsification of business records. >> steve: right. >> ainsley: the reason bumped up to class e felony lowest level

of felony in new york. >> steve: still a felony. >> ainsley: bragg says trump was attempting to conceal another underlying crime. a class e felony can result in prison terms of up to four years. >> brian: right. here's the crazy thing. how do you do a poll on what do you think about the indictment whether you don't know what's in the indictment and have you an opinion on it is bizarre. >> ainsley: we don't know what's in it. >> brian: fossa phiing criminal records is crazy. no plaintiff. no bank that said he screwed me. there is no building that's not built. nobody is complaining excepted for an attorney general and a district attorney that said i'm going to run on convicting donald trump on something. and they just want to poor over his records tax returns and fine him in a million dollars in a case he lost in civil court. they say criminal court always has precedence over civil court. they try him in civil court. get some information and reportedly about to enhance a

criminal court case. so, i think there's a lot to fight here. and in the back of my mind in watching all of this is we could be doing this three more times. we could be doing it with the january 6th. >> ainsley: georgia? >> brian: we could be doing it with the georgia situation and mar-a-lago which is heating up like you wouldn't believe. they are now making secret service testify. they make his own attorney will corcoran he has to testify. jack smith is somehow rocket fuel to get trump in a way that -- i can't believe people aren't challenging this and saying even if i don't like donald trump what's going on here? >> steve: because of the crime we have talked about. the crime fraud exemption. if you get legal advice during the execution of a crime. >> brian: almost never happens. >> steve: it happens more than you would believe. >> brian: talk to mark levin about that. >> steve: your attorney-client privilege goes out the window. >> brian: how many times has it

happened? it's nuts. you have an attorney and secret service and you flip them? >> steve: i'm just talking about what is the law. that is the law. >> brian: rarely used. >> steve: it's used in this case. >> brian: no kidding. >> steve: i feel like it's open the mic night. i'm getting heckled over here. >> ainsley: i'm saying lieu crews. >> steve: brian brought up a couple of points i want to explain the law. >> brian: i note law i am saying it almost it discount matter what the law says. they are targeting a former president. this attorney jack smith sought of his mind with aggression. >> steve: here's the thing regarding the secret service agents, if they witnessed a crime there would be an expectation that they would tell the crime. >> brian: really so jfk. the secret service saw jfk having as many trysts the ones that witness monica lewenski in the oval office? where was that secret service being hauled in. >> ainsley: a double standard.

>> brian: triple quadruple standard in american history. >> ainsley: laura was on last night and saying the same thing. treating republicans differently than democrats. look at what happened with hillary clinton. she gets slapped with a fine. nothing happens to her. donald trump is being thrown into different courtrooms all over the country now for basically doing the same thing. >> steve: my point is there are laws on the books that are making this possible. lara trump says ultimately this is a waste of your. >> ainsley: how much is this costing us. >> steve: a waste of your taxpayer money. >> to see the entire new york police department in full force mobilized lining the streets. i mean, this must have cost the taxpayers of new york tens of millions of dollars over, what? over $130,000 completely legal nondisclosure agreement payment? you know, these things happen all day every day in the united states of america. and the sad part is that alvin bragg, of course, the district attorney there in manhattan, is supposed to be locking up

criminals. supposed to be keeping the streets of new york safe. yet, this is where all of the energy focus and taxpayer money is going. we know their investigation has been years long into my father-in-law. they have been trying to find anything possible on him. >> brian: look at the joe biden investigation. have we heard anything about the documents? they went to his lawyer's hotel excuse me his office in boston. what did they find? they go to his university of delaware, took out thousand -- hundreds of boxes what did they find? what about the boxes at penn center. everything goes silent. i guess nobody leak from the biden investigation but it looks like jack smith wrote the column for the "the washington post" two days ago. i mean, people should be outraged by. this. >> steve: well, ultimately, it is still an open investigation. and that seems to be what is going on there. brian, you mentioned the januara

thing, the mar-a-lago thing. keep in mind here in the new york state the attorney general is going after the former president for, i think, $250 million worth of corruption. and then there's a possibility, actually, it's on the books, the rape trial is supposed to start in two weeks near new york. it. >> ainsley: if is he convicted nothing in the constitution that prevents him from running for president. he will still run. you just have to be an american citizen. >> steve: is he running. >> ainsley: over 35 years old. i think he will run. all right, still ahead, lori lightfoot's reign in chicago coming to an end. voters are set to elect the city's next mayor today. >> brian: plus, as we mentioned to start the show. uconn on top. huskies securing their fifth men's basketball championship dominating san diego state. but it's the women also making headlines this morning and the message it they have to first lady jill biden and her invitation. ♪

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are. >> ashley: back with headlines starting with this. authorities reveal the nashville school shooter fired 152 rounds from a semi-automatic rifle and handgun during the rampage. police say the suspect studied other mass murderer he is before killing six people including three children last monday. tennessee governor bill lee is now pushing a $140 million bill that would put armed guards at every school across the state. meanwhile, three democrats in the legislator lost their committee assignments after storming the state's capitol building during a chaotic anti-gun protest. those lawmakers could also face expulsion. a senior isis commander killed

in an american led coalition drone strike in northern syria. u.s. central command revealing the terrorists were planning attacks in europe and working to rebuild isis centcom writing, quote: isis continues to represent a threat to the region and beyond. though degraded the group is able to maintain operations in the region with a desire to strike beyond the middle east now though this. 48 million people in the u.s. are bracing for another round of severe weather. this is just days after the midwest and south were hit by a string of deadly tornadoes. now, over the weekend, the powerful system swept through arkansas and other states killing at least 33 people. fox is donating $1 million to the american red cross to support the victims in hard hit communities. can you also donate to the red cross online by heading to red cross.org/fox forward. okay. so uconn takes down san diego state 76-59 in the ncaa championship game last night. the huskies capturing their

fifth national title after winning every tournament game by double digits. making them one of the most dominant teams in ncaa history much the crew of the artemis two mission were honored during the big game last night. their appearance came just hours after nasa announced the four person team is set to be the first to take america back to the moon in more than a half century. meanwhile first lady jill biden is getting heat for suggesting lsu and iowa should be invited to the white house. lsu star and champ reese laughing off that idea calling it quote a joke but everybody gets a medal these days so why not. >> invitation to the white house from the first lady. >> what do you think about that brian? >> brian: no way. tradition of -- we thought the big debate was should these teams go? remember with the trump era and everyone is like i don't know if i have time. to me you can't invite both teams. >> ainsley: she is inviting the winner and the loser. >> brian: plus, they don't get

along. >> steve: maybe she was rooting for iowa. >> ainsley: do they both go at the same time? >> brian: this has never been done before. it's not right. but, they had historic ratings. >> ainsley: maybe there will be a fight. i don't encourage that i don't encourage that. >> brian: a little bit of taunting at the end. >> ainsley: holding the ring finger up saying i quote a ring and you didn't. >> brian: people have forgot how to win and lose today. >> ainsley: taunting throughout the whole season. let's talk about the race in chicago. polls are set to open in less than one hour at 7:00. in about 30 minutes for this year's heated runoff election for the city's next mayor. you have democrats paul and brandon johnson. facing each other after defeating lori lightfoot last month as the windy city's crime crisis remains the biggest issue in the race. here to react is iris more

continue nez. good morning, iris. >> good morning. >> ainsley: what is the biggest issue for you i know you are supporting va vallas. whether a is the most important issue to you. >> in chicago the public is in crisis right now. the violence on the streets. you know, families suffering for so many, you know, shootings that are going on. i really believe the public safety plan that paul vallas has in place it ome reflects who i am and what i believe in and i really believe that he has the perfect -- i can't say perfect but he has the plan to draws it and right now the other candidates, you know, all he has ever talked about is defunding the police and i really believe that our police need much more resources. >> ainsley: paul says he wants to add police officers on patrol and on public transportation. he wants to increase funding for police. the chicago fop president said 800 to 1,000 officers will resign if brandon johnson wins

who is considered more progressive and more liberal even though they are both democrats. this is very personal to you and your family. tell us what happened to your niece. >> a year ago, around march, she was coming out of bible classes with her husband. >> five kids at home. and a gang banger shot into the car because she had tinted windows. tinted windows because two of the children have autism. and shot into from a mistaken identity. shot into the car. her husband was in the car with her. it got her. you know, she died two days later. and, you know, for me, you know, knowing that this young -- this man, who killed my knee, is an 8-time convicted felon. he was out on a warrant. and, again, you know, there is just the public, you know, it's a crisis here in chicago. you can't go out or do anything without fearing gun violence. it's very personal to me. >> ainsley: how angry does that make your family? this guy should be behind bars. >> he should have never been on

the streets in the first place. so i really believe that paul will bring in, you know, myself, the state attorney to the table to talk about how we address it and uncuff our police officers to do their job. at the same time provide mental health. because we know there is a crisis out there in all communities. we have to know how to address. paul does have a plan in bringing all of those folks together so we can start addressing the true problem here in chicago. >> ainsley: i didn't realize chicago a third of your population is latino community and vallas was endorsed by the illinois hispanic claim berl of commerce. he did win by 32.9% compared to brandon's 21.6. but i know in the polls, depending on which one you read they are neck and neck. thank you so much for coming on. i'm sorry about your loss. that's devastating. >> thank you so much. >> ainsley: everyone say prayers for those five children.

thank you. coming up back to our top story arraignment day for donald trump. the former president waking up in trump tower ahead of his court appearance later today. former new york congressman lee zeldin weigh in on that and alexandria ocasio-cortez senate run we are talking about that as well.

steve welcome back. more on top story. we are hours away from former president trump's arraignment here in new york as he is arrested this afternoon.

>> ainsley: it is the first time in america's history a former president faces criminal charges in a case that our next guest warns will bring down our justice system. >> brian: it would have been different if he had won the governor's race. former g.o.p. congressman lee zeldin joins us now. we know we are in unprecedented areas but around the country they don't understand the politics of new york. could you explain what's facing donald trump besides the politics behind the justice? >> this is all politics. alvin bragg ran and even pledged before taking the oath that he was going to be personally supervising this case. he did not know what the charges were that he was going to bring against donald trump. he didn't know what the facts were going to be that he was going to use but he was personally going to supervise this case. takes the oath, issues a day one memo where he says across the board that all different kinds of charges he was not going to allow his prosecutors to go after. all sorts of other offenses he

said across the board would be down graded to lesser offenses. so, now new yorkers experienced the first few months of alvin bragg's tenure and seeing crime in many metrics go up. individual cases like the jose alva case where this bodega workers gets attacked he has to defend himself. he has an open stab wound. alvin bragg throws him in rikers island and asks for hundreds of thousands of dollars in bail and the person who stabbed him getting charged with nothing. individual case after case is have new yorkers really upset that they have this prosecutor who seems to be more of a defense attorney than a district attorney, so not having a consistent law and order prosecutor here when you fast forward to the facts of this particular case makes a lot of people in doing that basic smell test realize that this is a political prosecution. >> ainsley: will we see the same treatment for democrats? because this happens all the time. when have you successful,

powerful people, they're accused of different things and sometimes they pay people off so that they don't talk about it. it's not illegal to do it. and they sign nondisclosure agreements. will we look into all the democrats that have done this as well? >> no. alvin bragg won't. and that's part of the problem. we're crossing into a new rubicon here where some republican district attorney somewhere in america could in theory be bringing charges against a democratic former president or vice president. so this is a really slippery slope. i'm more of a student of history and in other countries brian is more of a professor of history. in other countries you have the dictatorial powers trying to can manufacture charges to take out political opponents. this isn't something that we ever want to see here in our country but today we will. >> steve: today we will. and reportedly 34 felony counts. we'll find out what they are in about six hours.

meanwhile, we wanted, lee, to pick your brain about a quote from aoc responding to potentially running for u.s. senate challenging senator gillibrand. she said don't ask me that question. print that. okay. we did. there's a word where i'm -- there is a world, that is to say, where i'm here for a along time in the seat in this position. there is a world where i'm not an elected official anymore. there is a world where i may be in higher office. so, you know what? i'm sure she is ambitious. the big question is could she win at a statewide level? >> i think that she can win a democratic primary. i think that she would have a strong ground game. she would be able to raise a lot of money. a lot of the democratic party primary base is in new york city where aoc's district is located. kirsten gillibrand is not from new york city. the democratic party not just has that far left base.

they have certain minority constituencies that aoc might do a better job penetrating in a democratic party primary. she decides to pull the trigger on a race like this, i think she would be a very strong candidate against senator kirsten gillibrand. >> brian: who doesn't do anything just is invisible. how will that affect whether you decide to run or not and are you considering it? >> no, kirsten gillibrand has been wishing this into existence. mentioning my name in media interviews and fundraising introduce. it was not anything that i was thinking about. the more she keeps mentioning my name and i have to answer questions about it. you know, i'm wondering maybe as we go forward, listen, if aoc gets into this race, while i say she will be a more competitive democratic party primary candidate, if she was to win a primary, she is a more deeply flawed general election opponent. so the race will be shifting in

the republicans' favor if aoc gets into the race. it is something that potentially we might look at but at this point we will have to see how the race shapes up. >> steve: your ears are apparently burning all the time because people are talking about you. former congressman lee zeldin thank you for joining us on this tuesday morning. >> ainsley: thank you. >> take care. >> steve: you bet. coming up on this tuesday a fox weather alert. millions of americans on severe weather. janice is tracking the alert today. >> brian: receiving data in real time when it flew a spy craft over the united states. beijing is testing what it can get away with under this get away with under this presidenttel to book? fear not, i got you! who are you? i'm your fairy hotel mother. what is happening? let me help you pick a hotel you feel good about. choice hotels is a family of brands, with a hotel for every type of stay. like a comfort with the kiddos.

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♪ >> brian: more than 48 million people are bracing for another round of severe weather as the midwest and south picks up the pieces and look of these shots of a deadly outbreak of

tornadoes. over the weekend a powerful system swept through arkansas and several other states killing at least 33. late season snow storm set to blanket states by wyoming, utah, colorado and both dakotas. the snow could break snowfall records for the month of april. let's check in senior meteorologist janice dean to put it in perspective. >> janice: yeah. >> this is a big deal. i know we have news to cover but the weather is going to be particularly dangerous if not deadly for some of these states. chicago, we have an election happening today. we could see some severe storms moving through that region. here's the threat from texas all the way up towards the great lakes. again, we have a significant risk for hail, damaging winds and tornadoes. glinchts flash flooding for some of these southern states all the way up toward the tennessee river valley. flash flooding is going to be a huge concern. and then the snow part of this storm, a feet of snow and blizzard conditions with winds in excess of 30, 40, 50 miles per hour. in some of these regions it will

be impossible to travel. people are, you know, saying we're going to be hunkered down for a couple of days before rescue crews can get out here. blizzard warnings are in effect. we actually have an ice storm warning as well for pars of michigan. a big deal today, not only the risk for tornadoes but that blizzard risk for the northern states. there's your forecast today. look at that snow. i mean, it's april and we are already dealing with still dealing with the winter side of this storm and severe storm threat. fox weather.com has august of your details and some of these storms could come overnight. know where you will get those watches and warnings, brian, over to you. >> brian: thanks, janice. talk about this now. chinese spy craft that flew across the united states and transfixed us all was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive american military sites according to brand new report and do figure eights over some of them. that sending data back in real time to beijing however the white house pushing back. >> exploiting and looking at and

analyzing the material from that spy balloon that we pulled up off the bottom of the ocean. i don't want to get ahead of that analysis. but we did, while that thing flew over the country, we exploited on it. we studied it. we analyzed it. and we're confident because we knew where it was going, we were confident that it didn't discover anything really additive to what they could have gotten from other intelligence sources. >> brian: what a convoluted ridiculous statement what they could have gotten from other intelligence sources. author of bully of ages steve joins us now. they crolsd over the air force base in montana and north dakota and grand forks in north dakota dakota and base in wyoming. of course then they went over a base in nevada. but, no big deal, they probably had that intelligence already. >> well, look, instead of immediately shooting it down biden allowed the spy shift

complete illustrates mission and send its data back to china. why did he do that? does he not understand that this was not a civilian air ship as beijing claimed? does he not understand that it was no accident that he was over the bases that you mentioned and circling them? does he not understand china practices warfare pushes the boundaries and see how much it can get away with before it provokes a response. here it got away with everything. completed its mission before being splashed down. does he not understand that china considers itself to be in a cold war with the united states since 1991. and xi jinping has just said that -- identified america for the first time in a speech as its principle obstacle to world domination? i mean, look, the it should have been shot down as soon as it entered american airspace in alaska. and pictures of smoldering remains should have been put up over the internet for the whole world to see. instead we let it complete its

mission. i don't think any president carter bush 1, reagan certainly. clinton, even obama, as feckless as he was probably would have shot the thing down over alaska. i don't understand why biden let it complete its mission and now they are backfilling saying it didn't get anything new? how do we know that, brian? >> brian: why does it take three weeks? we still don't know what the balloon yielded and what it's capable of? we don't believe that statement either -- at least i don't. i will add something else to this. that was a test. they want to see what they could do and how far they could push us. the other thing that you wrote about that i wanted to bring up it is this belt and road program and how they are inbringing on all of our influence around the globe. neck can a door you pointed out china put $4.5 billion in loans to he c ecuador. they can't pay them. what are they going to get in return? maybe take over that hydro electric plant? in pakistan they gave them all kinds of loans. pakistan can't pay back. in djibouti the same thing. same thing with sri lanka they

basically owe 7.5 million to sri lanka, hand over the port the chinese built and get a 99-year lease. so they go in like mobsters, give these dropping countries in need money. they can't pay it back and they take what they built. >> i call them will chino states. vehicle control and it expansion around are the world. we talk about failed states like somalia and narcostates where criminal gangs one run the states these are it states where the chinese communist party in a position to dictate events in djibouti, in sri lanka and pakistan and other countries around the world. in a country where the ports and railroads and resources are deep in china's pockets. the governments follow. china spreads corruption everywhere it goes. it uses money. it uses drugs.

it uses hone pots. and it corrupts democracies and turns them into surrogates for its own extension of power. the prc is building the people's liberation army with a force the mmanpower. the hardware the weapons with taking on the u.s. military. now building a network of what may become a global network of military bases around the world just as america has. brian wine we have push back on every single one of those countries and others. not looking to extort people and work with countries. they should see what is happening to these countries that take the money and don't see that for themselves. the state department needs to do their job. thanks so much. appreciate it, steve. pick up his book "bully of as asia." >> ashley: former chief of staff of maryland governor larry hogan is dead following a standoff with the fbi last night outside of knoxville, tennessee. roy mcgraph was on the run for weeks after failing to appear in court for a federal corruption trial. now, it's not immediately clear

whether mcgrath took his own life or killed by law enforcement. legal victory for law enforcement suing the university of delaware over shut down of campus over the covid pandemic. allows class action lawsuit to proceed. the students accused the school of breach of contract attend' in person classes. they say the university charged more in tuition for inperson classes than remote before the pandemic and then didn't charge -- or change the rates after introducing the restrictions. the louisville police department swearing in an 11-year-old cancer warrior friday as an hearn chief during a recruit graduation ceremony. d.j. daniels suffers from a terminal cancer that effects the spine and brain. he has always wanted to become a police officer and d.j. has been sworn in as on area member of 690 law enforcement agencies across the nation. achieving his original goal of

joining 100 agencies. good for him. those are your headlines, brian, back to you. >> brian: thanks so much. i love that story. 12 minutes before the top of the hour. coming up, out of this world wokeness, nassau hires two diversity champions as the biden administration takes its woke push to outer space. no joke. fox across america host jimmy failla will react to that he promises. ♪ is here with smile replacement solutions that work for your life. whether it's your first step, or a fast fix, you can get in today for all your denture needs, all at an affordable price. right now, get 20% off dentures and make your smile work for you again. call or book online today.

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one giant step for them kind. absurd. i love how they frame it good of all humanity. person hears that i would like to do something good for all of humanity. the only person this is good for is the guy getting this cushy high salary gig to pretend we are fighting some sort of civil rights oppression movement. this is nothing, nothing on earth more integrated in the year 2023, okay, than the united states of america. nothing more tolerant and inclusive. okay, our military, our nassau as a whole. that's why this is ridiculous. doesn't even affect me. i'm too chubby to be an astronaut. i'm not getting in those astronaut. i still know it's junk. >> steve: there they are going to the moon unless you believe that movie where they faked it. nassau took flack for talking about climate regulation. so, for them, it's a part of the administration. >> yep. >> steve: the administration is woke. and they are pushing things like climate change and things like that. so this should not be

surprising. >> but this is where i find it to be a setback for all of humanity. >> the thing that benefits all of humanity is having the most competent astronauts and flight crews get us in space to do the research and advance the culture. when you make this the priority, whether it's climate change or whether it's inclusion. you are signaling to the rest of the world that we're not as focused on doing the job as we are as having the best-looking college brochure. you. one of every student standing there holding a helmet which, again is, a nice thing. nobody is against it. but when you see this in places like the military, the military is as integrated as anything on earth and has been for hundreds of years. meet kids from every country. socioeconomic background known to man. when we signal to the world we have got focus on hurt feelings and dei. the rest of the world doesn't look at that and fear our military. we are five years away from having army tanks having coexist on the back. hate has no field in this

battle. shots at like a three hour lunch. there's nothing to do. we are so diverse. we are so inclusive. this is a charade. i want the gig. it's a no show construction job. >> steve: go ahead, apply right now. >> do i get the costume for me it's just a costume. it's not a flight suit. they are not putting me on that shuttle. >> for mere it's just halloween. >> steve: jimmy, always a pleasure. thank you for coming. former president trump is set to be arrested later today and charges by the d.a. we are live outside the court house in a couple of minutes.

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♪ ♪ say hello ♪ hello. >> steve: hello and welcome to hour two on this fourth day of april. you're looking live at north myrtle beach. >> ainsley: do you see a spy balloon? >> steve: i don't. but then again. looking at the water. currently 62 degrees there. it is 47 in new york as you look out the window. the sun rose two minutes ago