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>> alexandria: this is last day of combat readiness controls, according to beijing, an aircraft carrier has been used to send jets. all in response to taiwan president visiting with speaker kevin mccarthy in the u.s. last week. u.s. lawmakers -- hardening the island in an event to -- by china. >> this is very serious. if you look at the authority of the chinese air force together with the ships becoming close to taiwan and any accident might spark uncontrollable war between taiwan and china. and if other countries try to intervene, it might be the start of a war of grand scale.

>> alexandria: china state television sharing what a missile attack could look like. congressman michael mccaul weighs in. >> this is intimidation tactic they are known for. the size of this one is quite large, one of the largest ones we've seen and it is not going to -- intimidate us. if we have deterrence for peace, we need to get weapons into taiwan. >> alexandria: china claiming the u.s. illegally intruded its waters and navy says they are abiding by international law. here is senator lindsey graham on potential of using u.s. forces to defend taiwan. >> strategic ambiguity is not working, china after afghanistan believes the store is open and you can take whatever you want on biden's watch. question for the congress, should we have defense agreement

with island of taiwan? yes, i would be open to use u.s. forces to defend taiwan in national security interest to do so. >> alexandria: today president biden will host the easter egg roll as he plans to go to -- tomorrow. >> todd: rebekah koffler joins us earlier. >> rebekah: we must demonstrate to china we can defend taiwan, the truth is, we're stretched pretty thin even though we have a doctrine that we are supposed to be able to fight a two-front war with two major adversaries, the pentagon calls tier 1 near peer competitors, truth is we can't, we depleted our military

arsenal and are dependent on military hardware that takes a long time to build and super expensive. production capacity is not up to par to meet the requirements. >> todd: cory mills will join us for more on this. >> ashley: lawmakers set to reconvene for the first time since two democrats were expelled from the house for their role in protest following the covenant school shooting. nashville city council will hold a special meeting on his potential reinstatement. >> the body has burned the constitution, they operate without regard to democracy and it is up to peter sexton, the

extremist republican speaker who has taken control of $10 million and members of his staff say they may not seat me, the will of the voters should be ultimate. >> ashley: democrat justin pearson. joans and justin pearson's fires were racist some say. >> todd: timberwolves bench, rudy bo gobert throws a punch at one of his teammates watch. that is something you don't see everyday. >> i have never been on a team where a teammate punched somebody like that. >> todd: ash goes, is that

something you see all the time? he goes, you don't see that everyday. minnesota won without gobert, he was sent home. gobert apologizing after the game writing, emotions got the best of me today, i should not have reacted like that. augusta, georgia, jon rahm wins the 87th masters issue his first green jacket and second major, his first was the 2021 u.s. open. jon rahm entered the day down by four points and made a six footer on the sixth to take the lead. jon rahm the fourth player to win the green jacket, spanish star dedicating his title to

seviballesteros, who would have been 66 yesterday. >> never thought i was going to cry, but i got close on the 18th hole, a lot because of what he means to me and spanish golf. this one was for sevi. he was up there helping and help he did. >> todd: that was a great story, another wild story, 52-year-old phil mickelson finishing in tie for second place after shooting seven under par. 52. here is final leaderboard, jordan spieth, patrick reed and sahith theegala posting top five finishes. >> ashley: 52 is not even old, maybe in golf, it is older. >> todd: back in the day, 52

didn't matter. you have guys over the last 15 or 20 years, they train like linebackers. phil mickelson is focused on beer and cigars. younger generation, they are eating right and they can cut and drive the ball 400 yards. >> ashley: how old is jon rahm? >> todd: born in '94 -- >> ashley: younger than both of us issue right? >> todd: 29? >> ashley: that has to be a accomplishment for someone that young, i think jordan spieth may be younger. >> todd: jordan spieth had a pretty good run, so he may be older. the guys are good in this grouping for lefty to come up the leaderboard like that, just insane. jon rahm is 28, okay. for him to come up on the leader

board insane. we were hoping for lefty and tiger action. >> ashley: poor tiger, i say poor tiger, he's had an awesome career issue but hard to see him come off the course like that limping around and in pain. we watched him as we were growing up, you kent penetrate the guy, he is untouchable until he shows he is. >> todd: the number one is father time and it will get lefty and tiger and all of us. not to ruin your monday, it is reality of it all. happy monday. president biden gearing up for re-election run telling insiders it is definitely happening. according to new polls americans are less than enthusiastic of formore years of scranton joe. >> ashley: pollster lee carter

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>> welcome back to what will become a summer-like week for millions of americans. temperatures in the 80s. beginning the week with the coolest temperatures we'll see. 40s and 50s.

one spot where temperatures are cooler along the mid-atlantic. early this morning, freeze and frost warnings, hope you covered up your plants stretching from dc to charlotte and stretching to kentucky. look toward the week ahead and this changes in a major way. i'm jumping to middle of the week, we will see the warm up take off. record-high temperatures and everything in orange getting warm. record highs stretching across the middle of the country. 80 and 70s in the upper midwest. this drifts toward the east and warm temperatures continue. looking at thursday and record temperatures in the northeast and temperatures in the 80s. middle 80'ses, show you numbers widespread across the country. wednesday national temperature map, close to 80 from kansas

city to new york down to atlanta. thursday closer to 84 or 85. it is going to be feeling like summer if you live in the middle of the country to the east coast. >> ashley: i'm so excited about the number in new york. >> it will be nice. >> todd: it will not be that temperature in the studio. >> ashley: it is not, matt freezes us out. >> todd: call matt out. he is not happy about that. >> i control out there, not in here. >> ashley: president biden holding back his 2024 campaign launch despite reports he's running for a second term. axios says they do not expect him to announce any time soon and it could be july or late fall. >> todd: it needs to come become november of 2024.

one-third of americans think joe biden deserves to be re-electioned. >> ashley: lee carter is office of "persuasion" and joins us now. a third of americans do not think he should be re-elected, is that a reason why they are holding back on announcing? >> i think the news is not good in the poll for joe biden. the news for joe biden imposed for a while is one he sits under 50% approval rating for almost every category. he is underwater. his strategy is a smart one. he did a similar thing when he ran in 2020. i expect him to do something similar. the more he campaigns, the less well he does. put his head down, do his job

and let the republicans go at it for each other and then he should be making an issue for himself, i think his best chance of winning is to make progress on abortion or make that more issue than he has up to now. more than a third of voters who voted in midterm said that was the primary reason they were voting, he could pick up more votes, that would be good for him. the polls are dammingning for him. he will have to get some winless up on the board if he will have a chance in '24. >> todd: the way he will try to get the voters is to use influencers in his re-election campaign, saying we're trying to reach young people and moms who use different platforms and climate activist, there are

three categories of people in this world, people get information from digital. i get the sense republicans think their way is better because it is the way it has always been done. over the course of the last couple elections, it is not working, don't they -- >> conservatives can be reluctant to change. the world is changing, we need to be more digitally forward and get in front of folks. a lot of issues more important to young people do not score well with republicans. republicans have to have a message and platform that will appeal to young people. same time, the base of the republican party is solid. when you look at enthusiasm for know ares, more enthusiastic

about voting than those on the left. >> ashley: makes sense why democrats not in favor of a tiktok ban. >> todd: keep biden in the basement and use tiktok, which many want to ban. that could hurt us issue let's not ban it. lee carter, thank you. texas governor greg abbott taking steps to pardon daniel. abbott is getting pushback from a liberal da. >> ashley: and riley gaines responding to activists who assaulted her at a campus event. david webb will react next.

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>> ashley: prosecutors working with a judge to set a sentencing

date for army sergeant daniel perry after a jury found him guilty for the murder of blm protester garrett foster. stand your ground law, perry mainin tas he was acting in self defense saying foster surrounded his car and pulled an ak-47 on him. the da is saying a jury gets to decide whether guilty or innocent , not the governor. texas attorney general ken paxton says he is backing the pardon, self-defense is a god-given right, not a crime. the da in travis county cares more about blm mobs than justice. perry is facing life in prison.

>> todd: let's bring in david webb. if you can't defend yourself in texas, where in our 50 states, can you? >> yeah, where in america? what we know about this case, i have a problem with a service member having to drive an uber, but that is another story. that is a whole other issue. but he gets a customer who says this is where i'm going, he runs into the mob or drives where the mob is, be clear about that. he is surrounded and they are pounding on his car. we see social media video, which they excluded in the trial. why does he carry an ak-47. in that circumstance, he stands in front of this are ca. what is this guy supposed to do?

wait until he shoots him? people talk about george soros, i want to talk about alexander soros, since 2015 to now and 2018 to 2021, 13 million spent by soros funded organizations, funding organizations at the local level where election rules are different and contribution structures are different to elect left-wing das, right now 40% of americans are presided over by das put in place for george soros and alexander. there is effort to change the justice system to left wing system that is danger to the american people. >> todd: one of perry's attorneys visited him saying he

is devastated, spoke to me about his fear he will never get to hug his mother again and crushed this conviction will understand his army service. that mother posting a video in march, watch. >> an angry mob of black lives matter protesters tried to kill my son, united states army sergeant daniel perry and now daniel is being charged for murder, he was just trying to defend himself. >> todd: do you think perry will ever be a freeman? it is not easy to pardon as it is in other states. >> bureau of pardon has been successful, clemency cases have been brought. for the governor to initiate it

is a good one, there will be input. i hope the pardon goes through and his military service, he should be allowed to go serve this country. >> todd: riley gaines appearing at san francisco university saying she was held hostage in a violent scene. the school apologizes to riley, no, wait, they said it took tremendous bravery to stand in a dangerous space, she is talking about the students. students demonstrated right to protest peacefully. these values are at our core. riley responding, did this say peaceful? i was exported and held for ransom and they told me to pay if i wanted to make it home

safely. different opinions on the word peaceful. your statement. >> a man beating on a 23-year-old young woman is wrong, that is assault and battery. i look into sfsu, they have a large endowment fund. sue the university. failure to protect someone on campus grounds and three hours in a room, they clearly failed. hold them accountable, use the legal system and san francisco, talk about left wing, we have a dead tech mogul. the drug loin, the paris of the west is now a -- not paris of the west. >> todd: i believe riley is

suing the school, any wonder law and order is breaking down when a school says what the kids did was right, that was brave? unreal world. david webb, thanks, we appreciate it. >> ashley: breaking now issue the united states is staring down china after days of live fire drill near taiwan. what is u.s. policy if beijing invades? is the military prepared to counter the threat? >> i'm not saying this is on you and that you caused this, but it is a tough -- >> pretty sure i didn't cause it. >> rank and file have to be on food stamps to me that is corruption. >> ashley: biden administration is laughing off concerns over the pentagon bloated budget and corrupt priorities. cory mills is responding to all of this next. ♪

>> ashley: searching for the source of an intel leak on social media, including documents on the war in ukraine, china and middle east and africa. pentagon released a statement saying the department of defense highest priority is defense of national security.

we have referred this to department of justice which has opened a criminal investigation. house foreign affairs committee member and congressman cory mills joins us. based on the chatter we are hearing, some are saying this could have been an american, especially when you look at how it appears to have been altered. do you think this could have been an american leak? >> we need to wait until information comes forward, but it could. where i go in and look at top secret or scrashingci documents, the documents are counted and we are checked to make sure we do not have electronic devices. how does this happen in the dod? this is not first time there has

been leaks or intentional releases that were illegal. we have multiple conservatives running in congressional races that had information released to democrat opposition. why does the dod continue to have leaks and breaches in security platforms that could endanger the lives of those in the intelligence community and those abroad. >> ashley: it makes you wonder if we will know who is behind the leak. and the u.s. is challenging china as china carry out simulated strikes around taiwan for the third straight day. i get it, we have to show strength to china, but do we have the resources right now? >> we can look at mustering up

resources, it is something i've had multiple discussions within armed services and foreign affairs. you have a vess will who has done continual joint training with philippines who are in maritime waters and not violating law and country who just collected intel, we know was not blown off course, trying to talk about violation, the same nation who is violating taiwan straits median line while doing simulation models. the chinese are adversary, not an ally. they are attempting to eliminate the u.s. dollar, we are seeing with recent discussions of the

french president that is advising europe to decouple from the u.s. dollar and advances the initiative and utilizing russia to expand the border and taken africa with regard to resources and take oceanania to cut off western hemisphere supply chain, they see weakness and that invites aggression and they have seen that since the botched afghan withdrawal. we have to get everyone to recognize their goal. >> ashley: jon stewart had a tense exchange with kathleen hicks questioning 842 billion budget while some service members are on budget. >> if you can't tell me where it

went, what am i supposed to think? i am not saying it is on you and you caused this -- >> pretty sure i didn't cause it. >> the pentagon got 850 billion to a department, meaning rank and file still have to be on food stamps, to me that is corruption. >> ashley: your thoughts? what do you think? >> the defensiveness of the deputy secretary speaks volume, especially when the dod cannot pass its own audits. i agree with jon stewart when he says you have allocation there to buy equipment or certain gear and assets that you can't account for, that is waste. they talk about increase in salary with 4.6% increase last year, that doesn't meet the rate of inflation, the fact we have

13 and 14% rate of inflation on goods you are defending the military. do more about food insecurity and ensure military members are properly paid are sufficient and make sure there is enough base housing or allocation and child care and look to better quality of life for men and women willing to go into uniform and go into harm's way to defend and protect this great nation. >> ashley: not one member of the military should be on food stamps. thank you, have a good day. >> thank you. >> ashley: congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez wants the white house to avoid a federal warning on over the counter abortion pills, listen to this. they make a mockery of our law. >> ashley: even the media is struggling to defend that wob.

>> todd: george soros's son spending time at the white house since joe biden took office. cheryl casone will look at how this could be impacting policy decisions. ♪

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>> todd: new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez not backing off after calling out president biden to ignore a federal judge's ruling and approve over the counter abortion pills. >> ashley: cheryl casone is here. >> cheryl: issuing an injunction, this is mifepristone and this judge makes a ruling and aoc says biden administration should throw out that court ruling. she says they should ignore the abortion ruling and goes on cnn and watch this exchange, dana bash presses her on her opinion here. >> pretty stunning position, if you think about it in the abstract about the notion of

ignoring a skwl's position. >> i want to take a step back and dig into the grounds around ignoring this preliminary ruling, as well. there is extraordinary amount of precedence for this, it is mockery of our system and democracy and law. >> cheryl: i will not go into the legal precedent, i'm no lawyer. she says courts don't have approval over the fda and somebody on twitter said courts are great if they rule in your favor. you can't -- we have a judicial system, three branches of government for a reason. she is also going after the supreme court, who may be taking on this case. >> todd: precedence goes court over administrative states, i understand the left does not like that, that is not how this

works. >> cheryl: consistency, along with governance. >> todd: not just little kids visiting the white house for easter egg roll, big kids, including the kid of george soros. >> cheryl: official records reveal george soros's son alex soros made more than a dozen visits to the white house since president biden took office. look at the numbers, alex soros donated 11 million to left wing political action committees, this george soros who likes to get progresive. there he is with barack obama, chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, as well, in the pictures. 14 times, that is a lot of

access. last hour here is what was said about this breaking story. >> it is looking like alex soros is primed to go on soros. it is a picture of him and every progressive democrat and left wing counterparts overseas. it is notable column all with exception of ron ron klain was involved. he has a war chest that can double the amount of damage his father will do and probably more. >> cheryl: open society foundation, who has been donating to the campaigns. >> ashley: like todd said, not everyone, todd can't walk up to the white house and visit with

joe >> cheryl: money talks. alvin bragg, george soros 11 million bucks. >> todd: gavin newsom thinks he can give ron desantis political advice. >> i would tell him to pack up and wait a few years and actually do hard work which includes governing, not identity and culture war. >> todd: we'll ask joe concha what he thinks about newsom's advice next. >> ashley: here is steve doocy. >> steve: what was that thing with joe concha pursing his lips like that? >> todd: he is not happy, ready to shoot. >> steve: read my lips, coming up on "fox and friends," good morning, in 11 minutes, the u.s. keeping close eye on beijing as

chinese military drills continue near taiwan. -- will break it down and texas attorney general ken paxton is here and james patterson and his wife and rachel campos duffy. plus, cheryl casone just finished your show and will head to our shows talking about business headlines and in particular about how manufacturing is returning to the united states. finally, is tiger woods ready to retire? rumors are swirling after one of golf's greatest withdrew from the masters this weekend. why did he withdraw? we will share with you. coming up on the channel you trust for easter monday news. todd and ashley, back in a couple, you are watching "fox and friends first." how do we decide what hotel to book? fear not, i got you. choice hotels has a hotel for every type of stay.

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♪ >> todd: california governor good afternoon offering some political advice to florida governor ron desantis during a wide ranging what is his political pat there should he being running away from criticizing trump. >> trump is just going to roll him, thumped. obviously, if i were offering him political advice, i would tell him to pack up and wait a few years. and actually do some of the hard work which actually includes goraning not just cultural work. >> ashley: with the track record that gavin newsom is i doubt i would be taking any advice. the massive sweep that desantis did in the governor's election back in november, joe. >> precisely, ashley. and, look, ron desantis is sitting at 60% approval in his most recent poll as far as his job in governing that gavin

newsom just criticized him on infinitely lower. jen psaki is doing her job calling him a stars that her job at msnbc. california has the highest income tax in the country. it's not even close. california also has the highest poverty rate in the country. no state, none is seeing a bigger exodus out of its state in terms of citizens and also businesses companies, than california, according to u-haul. number one state they are going to evil florida run byron desantis. number two is texas, so if you look at gavin newsom's record, is he no billy idol in terms of being a rock star. anyone sober in california will tell you that, todd. >> todd: she was gushing all over hey, you would be on a collision course if it weren't for kamala. they live in a unique world that the rest of reality doesn't

exist in. >> ashley: called warped. >> todd: great word for it. newly released documents the fbi is tying common internet lingo with violent extremism. red red pill, based, and the names chad and stacey. the fbi flagging phrases that include it's over and just be first. even though this is all often used be in thely. non-innocent portion of this is being tied to the involuntary sell bits with fear they are going to act out in a violent way should this be the fbi's focus, joe? >> what's with stacey? i like the name stacey? >> ashley: that's what i said. >> junior year it was stacey with me anyway. maybe instead of the feds looking at red pill and based and tie it to extremism. 182 million182 whocrossed over r

illegally and on the terrorist watch list that should be more the priority at this point. let's not forget, there are hundreds of thousands of got-aways who have come into this country. we have no idea who they're, where they're, also on the terror watch list i'm sure. so like everything in life, it's all about priorities, less about language, more about securing the u.s. southern border. and doing things that the fbi used to do when it wasn't looking at language as far as being a problem. guys. >> ashley: also, for this weekend, behind easter being the number one thing that was going on, the number two thing was obviously the masters, and then tiger woods he sparked retirement rumors after he withdrew from the masters. the golf legend took to twitter to say i am disappointed to have to withdrawal this morning due to reaggravating my plantar fashionites. >> ashley: thank you to the fans and masters who have shown me so

much leave and support. good luck to the players. what did you think of this? >> well, look, ashley. multiple knees and back surgeries and car accidents where they put nuts and bolts to hit his leg back toke. in golf when you have to play 72 holes there is no golf carts in professional golf, that's going to take a toll. this is a guy used to winning on a big level at tournaments like the masters. i don't think he likes the fact that he is finishing 20 shots back. sometimes when you are great, you realize that you want to go out without damaging your legacy and maybe that's what tiger woods is thinking about at this point where he wants to win. he doesn't want to just be there. and that's something that should be applauded on some level because, obviously, this is all he knows is golf since he was 4

years old on johnny carson. >> todd: playing against the young bucks who can hit the ball a country mile. can you confirm a second source stacey's mom has got it going on? >> ashley: oh my gosh. >> one of the greatest songs of all time. >> todd: obviously from new jersey. just like joe con. >> that my hometown. we got to go. ♪ ♪ >> earn rom wins the masters. >> brian: bad weather over the weekend and john rom of spain which is a good country was able to beat brooks kept can a as well as two second