>> i'm not concerned about -- >> the air national guard accused of will sharing intelligence secrets set to appear in court. steve the fbi escorting out teixeira from his home. >> this is stunning access for 21-year-old. >> mr. lee and mr. mow mini knew each other. >> there was a connection. >> this doesn't take away from a large crime problem in san francisco. >> doomsday mom lori vallow day bell trial underway in idaho. >> you have already assisted us in ways that can never be repaid. >> we hope there is justice but will it ever change what happened? no. >> never back down. >> super pac supporting desantis rolling out first national ad. >> you are coming after the rights of parents i'm standing in your way. >> he is a really effective governor very exciting. >> usfl kicking off second season showdown between memphis

show boats and philadelphia star. >> brings us together from so many different background and that's what i love. ♪ >> ainsley: we begin this hour with a fox news alert. air national guard members accused of sharing intelligence secrets is set to appear in court today. >> steve: that's right. the fbi as you can see right there leading jack teixeira out of massachusetts home at gunpoint yesterday as fallout from one of america's most security breaches deepens. >> brian: alexandria hoff has the latest. alex? >> good morning. according to the pelc this was a deliberate criminal act but what motivated teixeira, that is still a mystery as is why a junior air guardsman was able to gain access to such secret military planning. the 21-year-old was based in cape cod and served as tech especiallyist for the air national guard. he was taken into custody outside his family's home. >> today the justice department

arrested jack douglas teixeira alleged retention of classified national defense information. teixeira is an employee much the united states air force national guard. we will share more information at the appropriate time flns to arrest were accelerated. chat room discord. that chat was titled thug shaker central where teixeira sported the user name jack the dripper accord tog "the daily mail." drip is a young people people use to swag and the kind of swag that he allegedly came by way of teixeira was sharing for months it was top secret u.s. surveillance capabilities mainly regarding russia and ukraine war but also included intelligence related to i china and allies too. when theest these came to light that was spread more widely into other platforms by some of the users. that's how authorities found out about this. president biden down played the

breach yesterday saying he doesn't believe it's of any great consequence. intelligence committee and stated quote while we seek to learn the extent of classified information released. will intelligence committee examine why this happened and why it went unnoticed for weeks and how to prevent future leaks. a source tells fox news that investigators are now looking at others who may have been involved. steve, ainsley, brian? >> steve: so, alex, that last part. others may have been involved. do we know if that somebody else there at ottis air base up in cape cot. >> according to the "new york times," the i believe the way i read it that was a teenager so we don't know how many people in this chat room were nefarious in involvement in documents whether they found it to be amusing. even if so would that be criminal to post it on twitter.

>> steve: alex, thank you very much. she is absolutely right. she read the "new york times" information on 17-year-old luka from california. the chat room there was a code. you could talk about it inside the chat room but you couldn't tell anybody else about it. and you could not share the documents. but the 17-year-old from california was in a conversation about ukraine in a public disdiscord room and put couple f those documents in there next thing you know it winds up in another group about mine craft and that is how the "new york times" eventually got wind of it. the "new york times" did great reporting on this and as alex just mentioned they actually showed up at his door before the feds. the feds have been watching him for a while. but the "new york times" did an amazing bit of reporting and that is the "new york times"

found digital evidence online gaming profile in his name and connected him to his sister's instagram account and on her instagram account they saw the same kitchen counter top that you can see under the documents. they matched the granite from the sister's instagram account to what he had put out through this discord channel. somebody on twitter referred to it as counterintelligence. >> ainsley: the fbi was forced to accelerate their plans after the fbi did identify him. this is a threat to the national security. it's very worrisome for us and for our allies. it gives adversary access to intelligence and plans released information about special forces at the embassy in ukraine and gave the locations, their locations which, of course, could make them targets. >> steve: sure. >> brian: they have the one of the things that he was responsible for may have gotten

access to was the drone footage from the war. the u2 spy plane information being sent back. responsible in description for upkeep of hardware and military communications. he was in charge -- he was described as a cyber transport systems journeyman. so he needed higher clearance because he was responsible for network protection. so, he could be a maintenance guy worried about the lines of communication but at the same time, taking in the communication and the intelligence and then he decides to share it with teenagers who were bored, needed direction and some leadership, so they formed a chat room. actually, he formed a chat room. chris swecker from the first hour, former fbi director said this about the 21-year-old having access that he had. >> this is stunning access for a 21-year-old enlisted man as brian pointed out. signal intelligence, human intelligence, electronic intelligence, it's been suggested to me that he was on

some sort of special project that would have actually granted him that level of information. at least temporarily. i don't know that for a fact, but i mean that is very high access. i would like to see background checks that have more teeth in them. apparently this young man was displaying bizarre behavior before he went in the service. the intelligence community is huge. it's a big apparatus. we have got to devote the resources to make sure that the people that have the intelligence have the tutor. >> steve: that's the key. maturity. this kid had a maturity problem. when you take the oath, you are not going to spill the beans. you are supposed to follow through. a couple of days ago, before we knew the name of this guy we speculated what if it were a kid in a gaming site who is just showing off. as it turns out that was pretty much contact isly what appears to be the motive. but, you know, he started in the service at 8.

someone 21 years old as mr. teixeira is get his hands on all these secrets. the pentagon regularly issues information to troops as young as 18. but, as i was. he got it when he was 18. when you are in a unit they give you a secret stuff on a need to know basis. so this mr. teixeira worked nights at the air station in cape cod he might have had access to everything else while everybody else was gone. >> ainsley: i understand that. asking men and women 18 years old to fight for the country and risk their lives. some of this information they might need to know. >> steve: absolutely. >> ainsley: but when they go through the training they do understand what the requirements and responsibilities are israel, the uae, ukrainian allies, the south koreans it is really

beyond damaging as we look at the -- what has happened over the last two years with there irresponsible 21-year-old. >> ainsley: expected in court in massachusetts. likely between the hours of 10:00 and 2:00. they said more guidance will come this morning. >> steve: mr. teixeira told a friend he said this isn't something like oopsy daisy i'm going to be reprimanded. he said this is life in prison type stuff. >> brian: let's hope. >> steve: more on this later. in the meantime president biden wrapping up his four day overseas trip today with a visit to his great, great grandfather's hometown. >> brian: we don't want him distracted with there stuff. meanwhile, we are learning new information about his son punter's past efforts to strike business deals in ireland. >> ainsley: peter doocy live in dublin with more. peter?

>> peter: and when president biden was on his way over here he said he was going to bring his sister valerie and son hunter because neither had been to ireland before. but now we know hunter has at least tried to do business in ireland in his life. in 2011, he and his business partners tried to pitch a deal to the ireland strategic investment fund. there is some email traffic that we have got now where hunter suggests that his partners reach out to the u.s. ambassador to ireland, the late ambassador dan rooney. it is unclear if a deal wound up getting done. and it's unclear if hunter wound up attempting to connect with any of those business partners while in ireland. he has been at his dad's events he has been in his dad's motorcades and at his dad's hotel since arriving here a few days ago. fast forward five years from ireland outreach. hunter biden got an sec subpoena in 2016 on unrelated matter. he emailed his attorneys about it and new records reveal that

his attorney met with then vice president biden at the white house the same day the attorney met with hunter. it is unclear what exactly they talked about, and it's unclear if that breaks the pledge that president biden made years ago, four years ago that he has never spoken to his son about his overseas business dealings. because now there is a possibility that he may have spoken to his son's attorneys about those overseas business dealings. back to you. >> brian: peter, real quick, can you characterize the frustration, most of the press core feels to take this long trip, search hours there, seven hours back, and not have any press conferences? >> peter: there is a lot of red -- i would say in the press corps about that particularly because the way it's laid out. his event today so it's a seven hour flight from the east coast to ireland, but then they have got to take a three and a half hour bus ride to his beach at the castle in the countryside

today. three and a half hours back. there is not expected to be any press availability. he has answered a few stray questions. >> brian: inhe had dr.able. >> peter: most of the time he kind of takes the questions about serious stuff and wait until somebody asks hey, how was dinner? to answer. and last night i think the most substantial answer that he gave was oh, well, i like dinner but i like the company more. >> steve: good answer. >> peter: that does give this the feeling of more of a family vacation trip than a business trip. >> steve: sure. >> ainsley: update on the leak. i got to plant a tree. >> steve: peter, you know, because usually there would be an official bilateral meeting where you have got the president. >> brian: exactly. >> steve: either the president of ireland or the prime minister, and they would make statements. they would say we are good friends and then there would be two questions from somebody from ireland and somebody from the united states. as well. but that did not happen. and that's the frustration. regarding the.

>> peter: part of the reason, yeah. well, part of the reason for that is that while ireland is a lovely place. and the whole press core, i think is having a lovely time in dublin. they are not involved in any of the big issues that the u.s. is tied up in right now. they have very -- their involvement in the ukraine war is kind of on the sidelines, they are not involved with helping the u.s. counter china or they're not involved with president biden's top issue back home which is inflation. and so i think that's part of the reason. >> brian: have a solo press conference like did he with russia. that would be fine. steerst. >> steve: peter, i was about to ask you. you reported a little bit on hunter's other overseas business dealings. it's not unusual to see-it's unusual for us to see the president with hunter. but doesn't or didn't hunter live at the white house with joe biden during this administration for a period of time? >> peter: it's unclear if he lived there full time but we do

see him there a lot. >> brian: and they have extra bedrooms so we don't know. >> steve: there you go. >> brian: thanks. >> ainsley: ashley has more headlines for us and she is over there. >> ashley: good morning. we are going to start with florida with a fox weather alert. officials in florida are cautiously optimistic that fort lauderdale international airport will be reopened this morning at 9:00 a.m. that's two days after the area got more than two feet of rain. broward county schools are still closed and hundreds remain in emergency shelters after flooding left streets looking more like rivers. this wild footage shows first responders rescuing a child who was trapped. fire rescue teams responded to more than 900 emergency calls. of course, you can follow this fallout from the storm by down loading the fox weather app. to any of your connected devices. the department of justice says it will request an emergency order from the supreme court to put on hold a judge's order that suspends the fda's approval of the abortion pill. this follows a federal appeals

court ruling that partially blocks a ruling that would restrict access by mail while still allowing the pill to stay on the market. a former biden administration energy department official pleads no contest to stealing luggage from a las vegas airport. sam britten who identifies as nonbinary was ordered to pay over $3,600 to the victim. brinton given a suspended sense of 180 days in prison which means probation rather than serving time behind bars. the former nuclear waste official was also implicated in a second luggage theft in minneapolis. charges in that case are still pending. okay. now, to the mlb history is made in tampa bay. of the rays extend their winning streak to 13-0 after beating the boston red sox 9-3. >> lowe leads off and it's a high shot into deep right field. that ball is gone! >> undefeated rays have now tied

the major league record for most consecutive wins to start a season. it's also the team's longest winning streak in franchise history. those are your headlines, guys. >> brian: one of the finest franchises in sports, period. they don't have a huge fan base and don't have a huge budget and all they do is win. unbelievable. >> steve: they are doing good so far. >> brian: 15 minutes after the hour. 21-year-old leaking america's top secrets online for months. general jack keane assesses the threat to national security next. >> ainsley: plus, the big show ahead with former vice president mike pence, mike rowe, vivek ramaswamy, geraldo, nancy grace and country music star granger smith, who is leaving music for the ministry. >> brian: geraldo will go into music ♪ ♪

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>> brian: fox news alert. we are covering this story. we are all over it. the suspected leaker air national guard jack teixeira expected to make first court appearance in in hours. despite serving in a junior position he had the highest level security clearance and apparently been leaking since the end of last year. here to react retired four star general jack keane. what's the biggest surprise for you who spent your career in the military and in and around the highest intelligence? >> well, my biggest concern here is that there's information obviously top secret sci which is our most sensitive information that's being released on the joint worldwide communication intelligence system that the pentagon runs. this unit that he belongs to at otis air base, the 102nd air wing is providing some kind of support function to the pentagon. obviously an intelligence services. and they have been given access.

but the fact that's running on the digital system. that we're collecting on certain allies and saying what are we collecting? that's very sensitive. and that should be very, very close. number two, anything that deals with life and death in ukraine this is a war, is also, you know, very sensitive information. and it should not be out there unless you actually have a need to know that. and those are absolutely, you know, make issues that we're dealing here. i think the pentagon is going to look at this and say, one, why is all of that on the joint worldwide intelligence communication system. why is the 102nd air wing on that. i don't know why the commander of the air wing would have access to this much less somebody that's providing technology support and given such wide access to sensitive information. and the other area that concerns

me revealed is the fact that we just had successful penetration of the russian military intelligence unit abbreviation gru. well, the russianst are going to look at that and they are going to start walking that back to figure out what the sources are. that's very sensitive stuff. so, are yeah, big picture, why is all this out there to begin with. why is it going to the 102nd air wing and then, obviously, the members of that unit. all carrying the same classified it security clearances get access as well as this youngster. >> brian: general, "the washington post" says an element of this story and talks about we come out and said china don't give lethal aid to russia. turns out we had that intelligence and they agreed to secretly provide weapons to russia and say, you know, just label it civilian. so where do you think this is at? have they executed this? and what does it tell you that they would still do it when we warned them not to? >> well, i give the administration some credit here because, you know, as we know

now, i mean, prior to president xi meeting with putin, the administration released that classified information that they detected that china was intending to provide lethal aid to russia. and, obviously, i think we're watching that like a hawk, to be frank about it. and i don't think they have done that and i think the leak of that information has given them a pause. now, listen, china wants russia to win because if russia wins so does china. that means if russia wins, we have got to put more troops into nato because nato countries will be next. we all know that because that's what putin has told us. not immediately. he has to recover from a war certainly even if he wins it. but the fact is that is in china's interest because the united states and even western democracies wash in it ukraine. that makes them weaker on the world stage and gives them

incentive to be the very kind of aggression in the indo-pacific region. south china sea, taiwan especially. and that gives him an upper hand. so, yes. this is a serious issue. this partnership is a strategic partnership that is very real and we have got take it seriously. >> brian: general, what you just said, you explain this better than anybody else, the administration needs somebody to explain that on a regular basis so the american people get the right information and understand the reasons why we are there. it makes total sense, but they just don't explain and it the administration doesn't take questions on it unless there is some type of crisis. i wish they would take a page from your book and isw actually does a great job which you handle. thank you so much, general, great to see you. >> yeah, you guys have great weekend. thank you. >> brian: you too. i will dive in with this on senator ruby year saturday 8:00 on one nation. kevin o'leary break down the

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>> ainsley: a suspect is now under arrest for the murder of cash app founder bob lee who was stabbed in upscale san francisco neighborhood last week. >> homicide investigators developed information that identified the suspect as 38-year-old nima momeni of emeryville, california. we can confirm that mr. lee and mr. momeni knew each other; however, we will not be able to provide further details at this time regarding the evidence that confirms that information. >> and here with more on the break in the high profile case fox nation host nancy grace, good morning, nancy i'm not sure

why the mayor of san francisco is bragging the two knew each other. the fact of the matter is the city is drenched in violence multi millionaire who gets stabbed literally on main street and nobody will help him. and then the very next day, a former fire department commissioner gets attacked outside of his mother's house. i'm not quite sure where the mayor is getting crowing rights but they are very misplaced. >> ainsley: what do you know about this suspect? >> well, this is what i know. i know that he apparently lied about graduating from berkeley. they have no record of him. i know that in the past years he was arrested for not only dui but selling an illegal switchblade. and the case was dismissed. and now, years later, he apparently stabs lee dead and

everybody talks about lee founding cash app which is a huge p.-to-b. banking. part of a $40 billion con sort yum called block. he bitcoin now. what they don't mention he is leaving behind two little daughters, dag any and scout. and that's something to think about. momeni met lee through momeni's sister. three search warrants were executed. we believe one of those warrants were on her -- was on her place. she is married to a high profile plavix surgeon in san francisco. we know the two knew each other. lee was in town. he lives in miami now, for a tech conference. and somehow hooked up with momeni. and the two were out partying. i believe in the next hours there is going to be a flurry of activity finding ring cams,

surveillance video from red lights, restaurants, bars, getting their phones to determine how they hooked up and why. what was the nature of their relationship. did lee know this guy was known to carry a switch blade? was it a one off? had they just met at the tech conference and they were out seeing the town? we are going to find all that out. but none of that has any bearing, regardless of the relationship, if any, on the fact that momeni is charged with stabbing this guy dead. and he's caught on surveillance wandering the streets, going up to a camry that's parked with the hazards on, showing his stab wound and the car takes off. nobody will help him. >> ainsley: yeah, nancy we also were following yesterday the trial of lori vallow day bell and jurors heard a chilling recording in court yesterday of chad day bell, her husband, who is also charged with murder, leaving a message for her brother. what do you know about this?

>> well, if you are talking about husband number 5, oh, yes there he is. husband number five, the prophet chad daybell and that definitely gets air bell is he prophet. speaking to cult mom lori vallow's brother alex cox who i believe had a hand in multiple murders, basically giving him prark call blessing for all the help he gave sister lori vallow and sister charged with murder. why the death penalty has been taken off the table for this mom who apparently orchestrated the murders of her two children and at least one ex-husband, i don't know. but she is not seeking the death penalty. the jury heard that call and earlier, get, this they heard another call where cult mom lori vallow talking to hubby number 5 the profit on the phone and police are running through his property and they're like oh, yeah, what's happening? have they found anything? if police were running through my yard i would be freaking out.

these two seemed to expect it. >> ainsley: if that message we heard in the courtroom yesterday you have already assisted us in ways that can never be repaid but you will continue to do so as you move forward in this life. that was a message from chad daybell to her brother. nancy, thank you. have a great weekend. >> thank you. back to the courtroom. >> ainsley: that's right. can you catch more of nancy on crime stories. available on fox nation. coming up, taking america first. even further than trump. presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy shares his policies for america first 2.0. now, there's skyrizi. ♪things are getting clearer♪ ♪i feel free to bare my skin♪ ♪yeah, that's all me♪ ♪nothing and me go hand in hand♪ ♪nothing on my skin♪ ♪that's my new plan♪ ♪nothing is everything♪ achieve clearer skin with skyrizi. 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months.

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first 2.0. vindi2 vivek joins us from newh. are you seeing the same neck ty i see on the bus. >> that's right. it's a very similar one. it's good to see you, steve, how are you doing? >> steve: i'm doing okay. tell us, you are driving across new hampshire. in it i can see the great part that strike back there some of the people of new hampshire started signing it. you are running for president. tell us what you are telling then about your new 2.0 focus. >> look, i'm an america first conservative. i'm all in for the america first agenda. but to put america first, we need to rediscover what america is. and that's what my policy set of commitments is all about. i'm looking at actually taking that agenda that donald trump took so far, take it to the next level. actually shut down the government agencies that created the problems in the first place. actually use the power of an executive order to end

race-based affirmative action in america. really to go even further than any u.s. president has, abandoning the climate cult to unleash the american economy. i think people across this state are hungry for this message. not just with grievance and vengeance to go even further to get the job done and go the distance. that's what this is really about. >> steve: when you say grievance ageneral general's. what are you talking about? >> i think much of the republican party over the last several years has been backward-looking. there is an important role to identify the problem. but that's been done. now the moment in 2024 is actually to have positive solutions to address those problems. and i will say the america first agenda does not belong to one man. it does not belong to donald trump. it does not belong to me. it belongs to the people of this country. and it was born actually in 1776. it wasn't just eight years ago. what i think we need to do is revive the ideals that set this nation into motion. i think what we will find, steve, is that most americans,

black or white, and even democrat or republican, most of them, share those basic ideals in common. and when working onsz principal principled footing and a moral foundation rather than grievance or vengeance, we can go even further with that agenda just as reagan did in the 1980s. >> that's what i'm aiming to do in 2024. >> steve: speaking of 2024, we have already seen some ads placed by the former president, donald trump, i have seen them here on fox where he is attacking ron desantis who has not yet declared he is running for president; however, desantis super pac is going to start running ads on monday, i believe. and the ads are called never back down. we're going to play a little bit and then get to you comment. >> freedom is here to stay. >> we believe freedom is worth fighting for. >> we never back down. >> steve: all right. we never back down. so, vivek, you want to be

president but right now according to the polls donald trump and ron desantis, governor of florida are ahead of you. how do you beat donald trump and beat ron desantis? >> well, i'm about where donald trump was when he came down that escalator in june of 2015. this is a long race. frankly we are already making progress here in states like new hampshire. started at zero, already have surged in the polls already and going further. i will tell you this, the biggest joke in american politics right now is the idea that ron desantis isn't running for president. you see that with this ad now. i would like to welcome him to this race. i love ron desantis' message he got it from me. is he actually reading "woke inc." and putting that in his teleprompter as his message. is he running on the book it's not the one he wrote it's "woke inc.." great the way he has governed in the state of florida. who we want in the white house it can't be a professional politician. i think we need an outsider and independent thinker that's what i'm bringing to the table. >> steve: so you just took a shot at ron desantis.

i have noticed that donald trump has not taken a shot at you yet and you haven't taken a shot at trump. why is that? >> well, look, i'm not running against trump. the shot i'm taking against desantis is point two week delay that i say campaign trail comes out in ron desantis' words and makes blush. when it comes to trump we are both sousers. are going to take an outsider in the white house. i'm not afraid to make my case for contrast. first millennial candidate to run for president as a republican. i'm doing it with a positive vision to actually lead our country forward. i don't think we can tolerate another career politician in the white house. that's for the democrats to put up career politicians like joe biden. but i think if we want an outsider, the question is now who is actually going to deliver national unity while going further? i'm the candidate who i think can take america first further than any candidate ever has but also unify the country in the process because i'm doing it based on principles and putting the country first. so that's why i'm in this race.

>> steve: something that has gotten the country talking is the bud deal with a trans activist. you tweeted this out. get bud right. there are two genders, men are men and women are women. don't apologize for the truth. ditch your next bud light. donate the cost and get his or her exclusive campaign koozies? you got koozies now? what do they say? >> we're having some fun. >> we are having some fun on the campaign trail. i don't think what bud did was right. i have been severely critical in severe terms and very serious way. transgenderism and gender dysphoria is a mental health disorder. we need to speak truth and call that out for what it is and treat it as sump. we should not affirm the confusion of kids who are confused. that is not compassionate. that is cruel. and, as president, i would ban these gender affirming surgeries, chemical castration, effectively genital muted labor relation under the age of 18.

instead of bud light if they're going to make this mistake we will get bud right. bottom up grassroots movement anyway. weave had some fun with it and that's part of our grassroots effort here as well. >> steve: how does it taste? how does the beer taste? >> oh, i think well, we are just offering the campaign boozeys, we didn't get into the beer manufacturing business. >> steve: i got charges all right. the main message is, you know, we can get the country right, we can revive our culture but do it with a smile on our face, too. >> steve: i was just thinking about that new beer called ultra right also coming out. all in response to the bud partnering with transgender tiktok influencer dylan mulvaney. vivek, thank you very much for pulling over at a rest stop or gas station to talk to us this morning. >> good luck on your bus tour of new hampshire. >> thank you, steve. good to see you. >> steve: you bet. he has got beautiful weather in the northeast today.

>> janice: yeah. someone was mentioning maybe sangrias for lunch. keith my cameraman mentioned that today is sangria day. >> steve: you have got to wait until at least 8:00 a.m. to start talking about alcohol. >> janice: not for us. 9:00 a.m. is quitting time. take a look at the maps. we set a record in new york city. 90 degrees. amazing yesterday, rights? hartford 91. so these are all the old records in the upper 80's. we just shattered them yesterday. we will set some records today. yes, the sangria friday for parts of the great lakes and the northeast. talk about florida. holy moly you saw the video, right? over 2 feet of rain in fort lauderdale in just a matter of hours. 24-hour period. the good news is across the sunshine state better weather in the forecast. we do have some scattered thunderstorms that could pop up later today in fort lauderdale, so that's not good news because they got so much rain. but let's take a look at the

next seven hours. thunderstorms will be possible later this afternoon. a quick-moving thunderstorm we hope because they don't need to see any more rain. but all of that moisture is moving up towards the mid-atlantic. they could get some severe weather today. behind this next cold front is going to be cold enough for snow and ice. so we'll continue to monitor all of the above. fox weather.com for your latest details. steve doocy. we have got an hour to go. a little over an hour to go. >> steve: hour and 12 minutes and 4 seconds. not that i'm counting. all right. thanks j.d. >> janice: you got it. >> steve: abby on check is live in memphis for the kickoff of season number two. who is that guy? >> this guy is head coach todd hali. he is the coach of the usfl newest team the memphis show boats. and he has a lot to say coming up so stick around. ♪

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>> ainsley: football is back as the usfl kicks off its second season this weekend. >> steve: that's right. the memphis show boats take on the philadelphia stars life from simmons bank liberty stadium in memphis and can you catch the game live on fox. >> brian: guess who you have waiting in your office we have a usfl helmet. abby hornacek on. >> steve: logo. >> brian: don't have one on the other side. every weekend covering every single down joins us from tennessee with extremely special guest. abby? >> abby: hey, you guys. i am here with a special guest head coach todd haley the head coach of the memphis show boats brand new team this year. give you context 18. they will be playing 10 games leading up to the post season and we are going to cover all the action. right now we are in memphis.

coach, thank you for joining me this morning. >> no problem. >> abby: talk to me about your level of excitement. you are back here in the city. you are the home team this year. something you didn't get last year. what's that going to be like for you? >> very excited we are all coaches, players alike are all embracing the opportunity to play play in front of these great fans nothing like the home game and get to come out of the gates with hopefully a lot of people in these seats and a beautiful stadium excited to put on a good show and hopefully a winning product. >> abby: with so much coaching experience, what makes the usfl different? >> you know, i think it's about not enough spots in the nfl for a lot of the talented guys. this piece has been missing for a bunch of years as far as -- i don't want to say developing guys but giving guys the opportunity to continue their dream. and the more usfl players saw

guys make it into nfl camps and then ultimately make it on to teams and make an impact, i think that makes it a really big thing. because these guys love the game of football. they want -- the ultimate goal, obviously, is to make it back to the nfl or get into the nfl. and we all embrace that. so, you know, it's an opportunity to let these guys play the game they love. they are hungry. they know what's at stake. and they get a chance to do it. >> abby: yeah, you talk about that talent. that's something that's made this league successful so far has brought it into season 2. what have you seen so far in practice that makes you excited for the showboats this season? >> i think we have a lot of talented guys. we have guys that have been in nfl camps. have been on nfl teams. have been at big time colleges and had success. so we got a lot of talented guys. you know, the challenging part is bringing them all together. now, we have a core from last year. which is a nice thing. 20-some guys that were with us

last year that know kind of what we expect. we know a little bit more about them. they're able to then pass that along to the new guys. so, that part has been really great on top of being here in memphis. >> abby: absolutely. well, we're excited to watch. and you can catch this game 4:3. they take on -- you guys are. >> philadelphia stars. >> abby: philadelphia stars. you can catch that on fox. >> steve: nice. the showboats vs. the stars. thank you very much. >> brian: football is back. we have something to watch in the spring. awesome. meanwhile, don't move. former vice president mike pence next. ♪ pass it on ♪ pass it on ♪ pass it on to someone else ♪ what could if you got to ruin your love ♪ keep it all to yourself ♪ there's enough to go arounder ♪ sensd it on down ♪ thanks, mom. i am groot. nothing brings the galaxy together like king's hawaiian.

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