one of the wounded was police officer nicholas will, he remains in critical condition. he graduated police academy just 10 days ago and his younger brother wants to be a police officer just like nicholas. please keep him and the victims in your prayers tonight. gutfeld next. >> todd: a fifth victim has died following a shooting yesterday at a downtown bank in louisville, kentucky, a former employee who was live streaming the attack on social media. tributes are pouring in as the community grapples with the senseless act of violence. >> the violence that took place today, they are weeping because someone decided that they wanted to take life today.

>> todd: you're watching "fox and friends first" on tuesday morning, i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier, in for carley shimkus. the heroic officer who remains in critical condition after being shot in the head while lunging toward the gunman. he graduated from the police academy just 10 days ago. lauren joins us with the latest. good morning. >> today that officer is fighting for his life, in critical condition when he was shot in the dead in the louisville bank massacre yesterday. officer nicholas zilt had just graduated from the academy just days ago. a fifth victim has died and eight others were hurt, including two officers. >> code three. >> officer to the hospital code three. >> transport one officer. get the officer ready. >> the alleged gunman began

shooting just before old national bank opened to the public yesterday morning. witnesses say the shooter began in a first floor conference room sending employees running for their lives and hiding. the latest mass shooting hit close to home for many. the governor says he lost a close friend. >> these are irreplaceable, amazing individuals that terrible act of violence tore from all of us. one of whom was one of my close friends. what we need in a word is love, love for the families. they are going to need it, i can tell you. >> the suspect was 25 years old coner sturgeon. apparently he had been told he was being let go from his job. he was shot by police when he pointed his rifle at them.

>> you heard shots and he started firing. >> blood on me from it. >> the shooter live streamed the attack on his instagram. the video has been pulled down and police have it down. >> ashley: absolutely horrible story, thank you for the report. china military simulating aircraft carrier strike against taiwan. >> todd: intel leak put the entire foreign policy under scrutiny. alexandria hoff is live. >> alexandria: it continued after beijing said the drills had ended. taiwan ministry says warships remain close to the island where a chinese carrier group launched jets and they do not think real action is far off. >> there is no way we finish this decade without china trying to do something about taiwan.

we should stop pretending we are not heading toward something we are. >> everybody thinks something is going to happen, the difference of opinion is when it is going to happen. they do not want taiwan to get too prepared to push them back. i think sooner rather than later. they were close down the economy, covid times 50. hecked republican congressman michael mccaul fears the u.s. does not have weapons available to help taiwan defend itself. >> this is new equipment, this is a production issue. it's a pentagon problem, state department problem. reprioritize, put weapons in and use allies to put them in taiwan. without deterrence, you invite aggression. this is not strength. >> alexandria: secret military

intelligence including information on israel and the war in ukraine appeared online more than a month ago. fox new's jennifer griffin says the leak could be worse than the edwards snowden leak. >> how is it different from past leaks, whether snowden or wiki leaks? >> we are coordinating efforts to determine the impact these documents might have on national security going forward. there is a lot we have to review and assess, the review and assessment is ongoing. >> they have to figure out where the leaks came from and if more secret documents could come. >> are there more documents that have not been released? is this ongoing threat? >> we don't know, the main concern, they are out there and shouldn't be in the public domain. >> the white house contends with

this, this morning president biden heads to northern ireland. >> todd: mark levine says the biden white house needs to send a stronger message to china before we're laughed off the world stage. there is axis of power against us, china, russia, iran and north korea. this is no joke. china hasn't built the biggest navy on the face of the earth, military islands in the south china sea, 27 bases in our hemisphere, a deep water naval base in somalia, where my great uncle fought on the canal, you have the western coast of africa facing us, killer satellites, nuclear missiles. you think they are building that to defeat taiwan? they are building that to defeat us. he's dragging this country into

depression and war, not because of what the isolationists say, but because of the opposite. we are not acting like a confident, strong country, so people are disrespecting us. >> todd: reporters are calling out the white house for lack of communication with beijing after french president macron's visit with president xi. watch this. >> why hasn't he picked up it is phone with president xi and said, knock it off? >> tensions are high, like to see this relationship on better footing and when it is appropriate for the two leaders to talk, it will happen. we are working to get secretary blinken on a plane to beijing as he was planning to do a couple months ago. >> ashley: army veteran, podcast host joins us now. jake, it is very obvious things are escalating and not in a good

way. reporters are saying, why won't biden pick up the phone. even if he does, does what he has to say carry any weight this deescalating anything with china? >> you're asking the right question because america's credibility is on the line with a commander-in-chief as weak as joe biden is. rewind the clock and go back to two prior events to explain this current taiwan crisis. first is the afghanistan debacle, that botched withdrawal in 2021 that signalled the commander-in-chief is not up to the crisis and the second is the ukraine crisis. the chinese communist party was watching and were going to see how capable and credible the american military was under the new commander-in-chief joe biden and to me they got their answer and this explains why this taiwan crisis is happening.

no credibility, no deterrence and america's enemies are on the move. i will say, give a word of caution here. i think the chinese communist party, their best outcome is a political assimilation, a political takeover of the island of taiwan akin to what they did with hong kong a few years ago. they don't want a hot war. they don't want a blatant invasion. things might escalate to that, but i think the current playbook they are running is what they ran over hong kong years ago and i believe the dom nee nos are beginning to fall in that direction. >> todd: we shouldn't facilitate with weakness or make it easy. here is mike pompeo on tough talk much watch. >> this is only creating risk for the united states. this is what macron gets wrong,

too. this is xi doing. he is on the is the vladamir putin and the ayatollah in iran. to say we're going to send janet yellen over there, demand things and treat with reciprocity and stop the trade silliness with the chinese communist party. if we get that right, we will prevail. >> todd: i like that confidence, why doesn't the white house seem to act tough when toughness is needed? >> the left is focused on domestic policy agenda and foreign policy, they send more interested in lgbtq rights. john kirby says that was a pillar under joe biden. they are living in fantasy land. that was started with obama, he detached american foreign policy

when under democratic rule. that is continuing in obama's third term, which is joe biden's term right now. i am disturbed by the weakness being projected worldwide. america's enemies are on the move. when america is not strong and not the hedgeman, things destabilize quickly and i think president macron of france, this diplomatic opening to the chinese communist party is the first step of this political assimilation of taiwan. it is really disturbing. i think the ccp has tremendous leverage over many western leaders, not just joe biden and the biden family, but across many western countries, chinese communist party has economic leverage. you heard senator rubio talk about overseas manufacturing base. america can't hardly produce anything anymore, everything is

offshore, these are decades long projects that the chinese communist party has been working on and the things happen slowly and all of a sudden, it didn't happen overnight. the chinese comun moo -- communists see where china lost their place aboard the world stage and see the 21st century as century of resurgence, america better wake up, starting with leadership at home. >> todd: sobering words, it is happening. the state department declaring "wall street journal" reporter evan gershkovich as wrongfully detained and work to secure his release from a russian prison. antony blinken saying journalism is not a crime, we condemn the kremlin in russia and call for the russian federation to

immediately release mr. gershkovich. the 31-year-old was formally charged with espionage after being arrested on march 29th. he sits in russia's most notorious prison and maintains he was never spying on russia. president biden was at the easter egg roll yesterday, watch. >> are you saying you would be taking part in our upcoming election? >> i'll be rolling egg or be the guy who is pushing them out. >> help a brother out, make news for me. >> i plan on running al, we're not announcing it yet. >> todd: he still thinks he has four or five more easter egg rolls at the white house. host jesse watters says biden faces a branding crisis. >> the man has no brand, he is

not known for anything or never goes anywhere and when he does, people are not into it. biden is spending money on canceling student loan debts, everything but campaigning himself. >> todd: 67% of americans do not want president biden to be re-elected. >> ashley: state lawmakers dealing another blow to democrats, leaving the party, louisiana democrat jeremy lacomb will register as a republican, making him the second louisiana lawmaker to switch parties in less than a month. last month earned super majority after francis thompson left the democratic party. in north carolina, tricia cotham switched to the republican party. cotham joined us last week and

says radical viewpointses of the democratic party are alienating moderates. listen. >> the final straw has been a lot of different things, but last week after i voted my conscience on something i believed and did not push a button that the party and governor wanted me to vote the attack ads came out calling for my resignation and asking me to apologize. the thought of being an independent thinker in this world of cancel culture that has taken over the democratic party doesn't want people like me, independent thinking and who is here to govern and improve our state. >> they are absolutely nuts and the fact they want to take that away is driving people who are common-sense, middle of the road folks and drive them away. the republican party is strong enough and i'm a conservative,

strong enough to have members of all thoughts. >> todd: we've seen this happen a few times in what i call relatively conservative states. i know north carolina does have a democratic governor. when you think of north carolina, you think conservative and louisiana relatively conservative, curious to see if this happens in hard-core blue states. >> ashley: only time will tell. jeff van drew van dru did it, that is jersey, interesting to see if it happens in the bronx or manhattan, curious to see if that is the case. >> ashley: former fire commissioner brutally beaten in san francisco by homeless people thchl morning we have video of the broad daylight attack and we're hearing from the victim for the first time. we'll bring you that next. >> todd: progressive da pushing back on pardon for army sergeant daniel perry has a record of letting criminals walk free despite protest from victim's

families. the income guest -- that family joins us next.

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vallow, her family says she started to ignore her children after her marriage started falling apart in 2019. vallow and her current husband josh chad daybell are charged w with -- both maintain their innocence. the trial will resume today and she faces life in prison. newly released surveillance showing the moment a former fire commissioner is brutally attacked with a metal pipe outside his mother's house. 53-year-old man was hospitalized and beaten so badly he needed 50 stitches and surgery on his skull. suspect charged with assault with deadly weapon and

aggravated battery. he is sharing disturbing details with us. one of my attackers was wearing my hat as a trophy, this is unacceptable. joe is a friend of the former commissioner and blames chilling leadership for the chilling attack. >> it is not rocket science, a former police commissioner, we have to back up our police department. the far left leaders in san francisco, there is major crime, they go out in the streets and ask where are the police officers, but when they vote to fund the police department, they are not there. >> todd: the attack comes as crime skyrockets, up 20% in one year. >> ashley: and criticizing

abbott's plan to pardon daniel perry. the soros-backed da says the governor statement he will intervene in the legal proceedings is deeply troubling and comes as garza is being criticized for letting numerous prisoners off easy, including those that murdered christopher brannumchristopher's mother and sister join us now. thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you for having us. >> ashley: of course, connie, i will go to you first. the perry-garrett situation is upsetting. one man lost his life, the other convicted of murder, but what is most troubling thing you take issue, especially when it comes to garza criticizing abbott on

this potential pardon? >> well, that story is absolutely heartbreaking all the way around. what i find troubling is the statements that da garza is making because in our experience, he makes decisions on guilt or innocence on a daily basis, when a jury or victims or other parties agree with him or not. >> ashley: is it fair to say the austin da garza, there is a bit of a -- what can i say here? a double standard, if you will? >> uh-huh. yeah, we definitely feel that he cherrypicks who he would like to prosecute and who he lets go. >> ashley: as i said in the opening, your son christopher was robbed, brutally assaulted

and shot to death in the 2020 riots, how did garza treat your family after the death of your son? >> no, christopher was not killed in the riots. he was robbed and he was very brutally assaulted and then murdered and then he was left in the middle of a cornfield for 37 days. we searched for him for 37 days. >> ashley: excuse me, i was meaning the perry and garrett situation. tell us how garza treated you after your son was killed? >> at first he came across as kind and charace mattic and things changed quickly. we had grand jury indictments for all five involved in our son's murder. he kind of ignored those grand jury indictments starting with the juvenile involved.

we had a determined sentence approved and he ignored that and went with undeterminant sentence and dismissed one and then pursued with the other three adults involved with murder, instead of capital murder and robbery instead of aggravated robbery and this robbery was as aggravated as you could possibly imagine. >> ashley: monica, i want to talk about one suspect, jamel watford, you posted a mugshot of him getting denied for parole. he will be in three years. how troubling that someone who had a connection to your brother's murder could possibly

be out in just a couple of years, especially when garza is acting like abbott is doing something wrong because he has a history of being easy on criminals. what is the problem? >> yeah, it is very troubling to know he can be back out on the streets as soon as now. luckily we got him blocked for parole and we have to wait three more years, but he's a very violent person and we were ready to go to a jury trial with him. we didn't feel comfortable with da garza deciding to make deals with them without our knowledge, just like he decided five days before jury trial that he made sweetheart deals with them without discussing them with us,

when we thought we were going to jury trial, which we trusted way more than his decision on making deals with them. >> ashley: in situations like this, these das need to understand all this does is revictimize the families and that is what this is. so sorry for the death of your brother and son. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> ashley: house judiciary committee subpoenaing christopher wray for documents after learning the bureau was working on developing sources to look for extremism inside catholic churches. this memorandum talks about doing just that and signed off on by two senior analysts and the chief division counsel there, how can a lawyer sign off on something like that? >> ashley: take a closer look at the latest allegations against the burro.

>> todd: american businesses in need of reliable employees, they are turning to the older generation. we are talking to a woman who came out of retirement to help older workers like herself get employment.

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>> todd: a new artificial intelligence bot says it wants to destroy humanity. chaos gpt said it will cause chaos and destruction, controlling humans through manipulation and says it finds

pleasure in creating chaos and destruction for amusement. this comes as lawmakers called for regulation and safeguard against the emerging tech, even though some believe it could be complicated. democratic congressman says there cannot be one size fits all approach, we can bring people together to have conversations. still really scary. republicans on the house judiciary committee subpoena christopher wray after new documents show the bureau worked to develop sources within catholic churches to fies domestic terrorism. jim jordan details it last night on hannity. >> they were looking to put sources in churches, have i inform antss in catholic churches. this memorandum talks about

doing that and signed by two legal analysts and general counsel. if not for the whistleblower, this would still be going on. >> todd: in letter to the fbi, director to the fbi director, jordan accuses bureau of carrying out extremism investigation against catholic churches. >> ashley: the nashville metropolitan council will send justin jones back to the state legislature, less than a week after he and justin pearson were removed from the house for participating in a chaotic gun control protest at the capitol building. now an msnbc guest is preparing just justice's -- comparing the justice's vote to jesus.

listen. last week they sent two gentlemen home, easter weekend, they have been resurrected and it has been thwarted for now. >> ashley: the two and gloria johnson were on the floor during the protest. pearson could be reappointed early as tomorrow. democrats say jones and pearson were expelled because of their race. >> todd: we have >> tomi: coming up, curious to see what she has to say and companies are hiring those that have a better work ethic. >> people age 75 and up in the labor force expected to grow by 96% by 2030.

laurel mcdowell, thank you for being with us this morning. tell us the deciding factor to go out of retirement and back into work. >> thank you so much for having me on today, todd and ashley, i really appreciate it. i came back to work because frankly i had a lot to give and i wanted to make a difference and my company saw the opportunity to retain my wisdom and knowledge and skills that i had given to them for over 27 years and didn't really want to see that walk out the door. i could have a place and knew they would start a mature worker program to focus on individuals who were transitioning into second careers and what better person to advocate than myself, somebody who had lived that

opportunity. >> todd: why are the workers coming out of retirement, is it that sense of purpose or have to do with the fact that inflation is really tough right now, it is tough to afford basic necessities, do these people straight up need the cash? >> they do. they totally do. they are seeing what they thought was secure financial situation erode away and many of them didn't necessarily want to come back to work, but are finding because budgetary reasons are having to do so. we're trying to create opportunities for them that fit their work life balance requirement at this point in their lives and make it easy for them to be able to make some money and protect their retirement savings. in addition, there are people

who are looking to downsize their level of responsibility, but didn't want to drop out of the workforce completely, so we're helping them transition into opportunities where they are able to make a difference and a solid contribution and feel good about themselves. >> ashley: a journal poll reveals three quarters of americans 65 and older say that hard work is really important to them while only 61% of people ages 18 to 29 agree. would you agree that possibly the work ethic is better and stronger for the older generations than the younger? >> well, i have heard a statistics like that, but for me, working with the mature job seeker, i'm finding they are very reliable, they have a lot of creativity, they are great problem solvers and they are very adaptable and that makes

very great for companies who are the beneficiaries of individuals and talents and skills when they hire mature worker or tenured employees. >> todd: what are jobs these older imployees are going into? >> they are gravitating toward remote work, they don't want so much windshield time anymore. if they can get remote opportunity, customer-service based is great for them, they want to feel they are helping people and that is a great industry to be able to feel like you are really helping others, so they really enjoy that or hybrid role, they like the socialization and if they retire, they would miss that. they are womaning the

opportunity to engage with people again. >> ashley: i was wondering, is it physical labor or more remote jobs, there are so many remote jobs post-pandemic. appreciate your time. >> todd: really interesting story, as is this for different reasons. transportation secretary pete buttigieg husband not happy about the -- dylan mulvaney. thank you, as well. jason buttigieg says you might want to start bottling your tears. lgbtq people drink water, too, going to boycott that next? what does the corporate deal have to do with civil rights? excellent question to ask, it has nothing to do. wild story, ash. >> ashley: the same athletes who fought for equal pay between men and women are fighting against

fair competition on the playing field. we'll tell you about the new bill athletes are trying to shut down. >> todd: it is odd. president biden getting ready to roll out for new cars, our next guest will explain how new green energy alternatives could cost in big ways you will never expect.

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>> ashley: swimmer riley gaines is calling out what she calls manipulative diversity, equity and inclusion culture while condemning violence she experienced at san francisco state university last week. >> dei only works if it is in agreement with what they are pushing. diversity is racism and equity, it is not indicated what message they are using, it is manipulative, it is vengeful and hateful. i've never seen a movement like this movement. >> ashley: gaines was on campus fighting to keep transgender individuals out of women's

sports. many are calling out nancy pelosi who stayed silent on the incident that took place in her district. riley gaines is planning to sue the school. megan rapinoe and sue bird sending a letter to house lawmakers protecting -- biological males from participating in women's sports. we believe gender equity in sports is critical. our hope is transgender and inter-sex kids will never feel isolation and othering the bill is seeking to enshrine into law. and major backlash after proposing to forbid laws that would ban transgender athletes from women's sports. >> todd: they realize they have no careers if that wasn't the case, anyway, biden epa will announce new rules on tailpipe

emission that would require 70% of vehicles to be fully electric by 2032, nine years away, causing a major strain on the power grid and could cost you a lot of money. with insurance companies warning electric batteries cannot be fixed even after minor scratches and fender benders. jason, putting aside the fact these goals are unattainable in a nine-year timeframe, what would the rules mean for our country, big picture? >> good morning, todd. thanks for having me on. we are worried these rules would effectively impose almost a soviet-style level of government interference in people's lives and effectively force people, consumers to buy products they

may not want. >> todd: average monthly payment for vehicles is more than a combustion engine model. if we force everybody to buy electric vehicles, what would that do to their insurance payments and everybody's insurance payments? this cost will be passed on industry-wide to everybody. >> right. the thing we were concerned about, we have heard reports, even if you get in a small fender bender, the entire car will be written off, you need to replace battery packs that cost more than the entire car, you will replace entire cars, 60 to 70,000 mean insurance prices

have to go up. >> todd: how is constantly throwing away batteries good for the environment? i was told it is to protect the environment. >> correct. when you are dealing with that, people focus on co2, they are ignoring the fact you have to mine more minerals and metals to make the batteries. if you are replacing batteries, then you are doing more environmental harm. >> todd: remember where those metals and minerals are coming from, they will come from china and we will be helping our main adversary. also this point, only 5.8% of all vehicles sold last year were electric, increase that by 60% over nine years, according to joe biden. is there any way the electric grid can sustain any of this? >> correct. we were saying this is nonsensical, an order of

magnitude increase. we're seeing problems with our electric grid, we heard about winter storm taking the entire state of texas down. california is now going through blackout problems every summer. we're having trouble in europe. we're going to compound problems and spread them across the entire nation. >> todd: the fact these cars are expensive, how will people afford them and china and india will pollute, not like us doing this will save the planet if those guys don't follow suit. jason hayes, thank you. shocking integration between federal agencies and big tech and you will never guess house minority leader people have gone from agencies like doj to silicon valley. >> ashley: digging in with tomi lahren and congresswoman and nancy mace are here, do not miss

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>> todd: a fifth victim has died following a shooting yesterday at a downtown bank in louisville, kentucky. the shooter was a former employee who was live streaming the attack on social media. tributes are pouring in for those who lost their lives as the community grapples with the senseless act of violence. we shouldn't hear the tears coming out from the families and that right there sticks because they are weeping because someone decided that they wanted to take life today. >> todd: you're watching "fox d ie