related to discrimination, related to the way roads are designed and built? >> that's why he was a road scholar. i get it. such a bad joke. all right, america now and forever. up next, greg gutfeld and the gang take it from here. >> todd: fox news alert. major revelation from elon musk in part one of his whirlwind interview with tucker carlson including extent of government overreach he's uncovered at twitter to protect your privacy. >> if i have something unconstitutional from the u.s. governor, i would send him a copy of the first amendment and say what part of this are we getting wrong? >> what elon is saying the government is intercepting and monitoring dm's raises questions about big tech.

it is google allowing federal government to monitor g-mail or messenger and what's app? remember the big scandal under george w. bush monitoring e-mails, elon said the federal government is doing that actively in private communications. >> todd: such a revealing interview. part two is tonight. you're watching "fox and friends first"s, i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier, in for carley shimkus. elon musk warns of ai and he gives us information on what he's working on now. good morning, jackie ibanez. >> part one of the interview with tucker carlson and elon musk aired last night.

musk called for stricter regulation of artificial intelligence. listen. >> it is dangerous to the public. when you have things dangerous to the public, like say food and drugs, we have the food and drug administration and the federal aviation administration, the fcc, we have agencies to oversee things that affect the public. where they could be public harm. and you don't want to come up and be cutting corners on safety. and then having people suffer as a result. so that is why i've actually for a long time been a strong advocate of ai regulation. >> in addition to artificial intelligence being a danger to the general public, musk says it threatens companies like twitter, it could become smart enough to manipulate public

opinion. >> if you have super intelligent ai capable of writing incredibly well and in a way that is very influential, convincing and is constantly figuring out what is more convincing to people over time and enter social media like twitter and facebook and others and potentially manipulates public opinion in a way that is very bad, how would we even know? >> so what will musk do about the rising threat of ai? musk says he's working on his own alternative to chat gpt called truth gpt. >> i'm worried about the fact it is being viewed politically correct, another way of saying untruthful things. >> yes. >> that is bad time. that is path to ai dystopia, to

train ai to be appalling. i will start truth gpt or maximum truth-seeking ai that tries to discover the universe and might be the best path to safety in the sense ai that cares about understanding the universe is unlikely to annihilate humans because we are an interesting part of the universe, hopefully they will think that. >> also during the interview, musk says some government agencies have full access to twitter, including users direct messages and users will soon be able to encrypt their messages. government yaujs had full access to twitter, that blew my mind. >> would that include people's dm's? >> yes, a dm is not encrypted. one thing we're about to release

is dm encrypter, able to toggle encryption on or off. if you are in a conversation that is sensitive, you can toggle it on and they could put a gun to my head and i couldn't tell it. >> part two airs tonight at 8:00 p.m. ashley and todd. >> todd: can't wait. with that, bring in grace curleymuch grace, let's break down and start with ai. do you feel better or worse about ai following that interview with elon musk? >> you know, it is hard to say. last time i was on your show, you had a guest talking about this same thing. there are positives on ai and we don't want to fall behind on that. there are country, china, for

example, that are involved in developing ai, i don't think taking ourselves out of the ring is a good idea. when elon musk says listen, we're going to try to insert truth into the narrative and have ai that can give people the facts and not the politically correct version, that does give me hope and think there is a way forward with ai that is scaring people. >> ashley: when ai specialists say there needs to be a pause, you don't agree with that? >> i don't. really when it comes to ai, experts know more about it, i think we would be doing ourselves a disservice to take ourselves out of the game. other countries will continue and we don't want to fall behind on what is crucial in so many industries. >> todd: another major reveal

last night with regard to twitter, which elon musk famously bought. here is what he said about it being a news source. >> do you read legacy source? >> i get my information from -- >> in light of that revelation, i want to go back to the fact this was so co-opted, twitter that is, by government and intel agencies, how can the common person believe, even to this day, what they are reading on twitter is the truth? >> they probably can't. you have to have a discerning eye and look into what you are reading and consuming. this interview was just fascinating and the fact he talks about how unfettered the government access was to people's dm's, to people's

messages, it is very chilling. another part i think needs to be talked about is how this should be a major story and yes, on fox, it will be and other outlets, it will be. for a lot of people, this will not pass their path. ted cruz was comparing this to other scandals in the past, but the media used to of coer these things and i'm afraid this will not put a blip on the radar for a lot of outlets. >> ashley: i thought about that same scenario. now to this. governor ron desantis heading to washington today. he is ramping up his fight with disney with this new proposal. listen. >> you look at this whole special district, walt disney corporation owns a lot of it, but the district owns other

land. people are like, what should we do with this land? maybe create a state park, maybe try to do more amusement parks, some said like another state prison. who knows. the possibilities are endless. >> ashley: this land is right next to an amusement park. what do you think about him saying put a prison there. >> i think he is learning to poke the bear. when you step back and look at this fight disney and desantis are in, it is telling how strategic he's been about fighting this corporation. i think disney really did think, okay, we can virtue signal and do whatever we want and he's going to cave and desantis is on the offense and you just mentioned, he's going to meet with gop lawmakers and i hope he starts giving them tips on how to show people you are not just

playing defense with democrats, you have a plan and you are picking some battles in this woke ideology war and you are sticking with them. >> todd: he tries to garner support, some endorsement for if and when he does enter the 2024 race. half ofern ms say they are politically independent, raising concern about the might about the two traditional parties. 49% say they are independent, only 25% each democrat and republican. what does this mean for 2024? >> well, i found this poll fascinating and the analyst here, jeff jones, broke this down. he said independents are important and typically younger generations are independent and they get older and pick a party. that is not happening any longer. the generations are aging, but they want to stay in the middle.

where this gets tricky for candidates on both sides of the aisle, base of democrats and republicans want a fighter, whether a democrat with climate change or republican with woke curriculum, they want someone who will not back down and ride the fence. then you have massive group of independents who are soured on politics in general. for a candidate to be able to hit that magic in between of both is going to be really difficult to do and it could be the difference between winning the presidency is not. >> todd: that total is where the secret sauce is made. bold strategy by bookers for booking somebody in boston 4 a.m. the day after patriots day. grace curley delivered and she wasn't drunk. we appreciate it. great to see you, as always. >> ashley: house lawmakers gearing up for second hearing on origins of covid-19 today.

>> todd: john ratcliffe sharing his testimony with fox claiming only explanation for covid-19 is from a lab in wuhan. hi, brooke. >> brooke: former dni, john ratcliffe shared exclusive testimony with me yesterday. he reads, "my informed assessment as a person with as much or more access to government intelligence during the initial year of the virus outbreak and pandemic onset has been and continues to be that a lab leak is only explanation supported by intelligence, by science and common sense," and he says the only plausible assessment the agency could make is that the virus, which killed over a million americans, originated in a lab whose work

included work for the chinese military. it would have geopolitical implication that the biden administration seemingly does not want to face head-on. this comes after senate report that says there could be two triggers, in 2019 and again in november when china started vaccine development. senator roger miller says he is 90% confident in the conclusion and says the research related incident likely resulted from bio safety containment during research. initial unrecognized infection could be cause of the outbreak and the pandemic. chinese officials are warning the united states to back off. the chinese embassy sending a message saying the u.s. is going further and further down the wrong path, to find a scapegoat

for its own incompetence is easiest thing to do. respect science and facts and put a stop to politics-driven origins tracing. now fbi director christopher wray spoke out months ago on the lab leak theory and china's response. listen. >> the fbi has for quite sometime assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in wuhan. the chinese government seems to me has been doing its best to thwart and obfiskate the work we're doing here. >> a spokesperson calling china's effort to halt the investigation absurd. >> todd: and very telling and admission of somewhat guilt. congressman ronny jackson will be in the hearing today and will join us with a preview. can't wait for that. and things getting heated at

yesterday's field hearing on the crime kriersz in the big apple, new york city. democrats attacked gop committee members for not focusing on gun control, witnesses, victims of the crime, testified da alvin bragg has not done his job to uphold the law. watch. >> they talk about government legislation, you can have gun legislation, but if it is not enforced by alvin bragg, an innocent man will die. >> protect themselves from violent attack, they should not be made the village, treated as the victim. >> we don't give a damn about your politics, we don't care, it could be the man from the moon running for president. as long as whoever in there stands for law and order. >> todd: one witness jose alba,

reliving the moment he defended himself from a criminal for standing his ground. democrats like georgia congressman hank johnson labeling witnesses like alba, as republican props and ripping the hearing as a charade. >> republican extremists are not interested in gun or knife violence. the republican witnesses who have used their time to criticize district attorney bragg have served as props in a maga broadway production. >> todd: what an absurd statement there. here is more from madeline brame, who joined hannity who called out democratic party lack of interest in the victims of violent crime. >> i would challenge hank johnson to step one foot in the hood, step one foot in the hood and tell me if those people in the hood are props, as well. you know. he's a rich, black man.

he is a rich, black man telling poor black men that they are props and that the crime and things they are experiencing is not as bad as they think they are. not just him, not just him. all elected officials, especially the ones running new york. >> todd: has anyone said it better than madeline brame? no. jim jordan supporting the witnesses saying they do not prosecute violent criminals and wonder whyern ms don't feel safe in their cities. >> ashley: now to this. on social media, roasting adam schiff and other democratic lawmakers over the pro-bud light photo op. ted loop posted this of him and other colleagues posing with bud

light facing the camera. the move due to republicans boycotting relationship with relationship of transgender activist dylan mulvaney. jake snyder joked, looks natural, not staged and dean chimed in, worst party ever. >> todd: basically acting like tools, you could not be more toolish if you tried. isn't this like wearing the uniform of a losing team in a game. bud light admitted they lost and doing everything to turn it around and make it right again and these guys are like, yeah, bud light. take the l. >> ashley: like product placement in a movie. you heard elon musk warning about artificial intelligence. one mom says scammers used ai to clone her daughter's voice in an attempt to get ransom money frommer had. >> call your parents and demand

money like ransom situation. >> ashley: that mom and her daughter are here live to share their story. >> todd: did you see this? toronto blue jays pitcher bass claims a flight attendant forced hes pregnant wife to clean up her daughter's mess on a plane. that is next. ♪

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>> people are using ai to pretend to kid nap you and call your parents and demand money like a ransom situation. this guy had my voice, i was balling saying mom, i don't want to die. my mom was telling me, payton, it was your voice. i know your voice, you are my daughter, it was your voice on the other side of the phone. >> todd: payton bock described the moment her mother received a scam call from an ai voice that made a call to her mom. payton and her mother join me now. this story has us all talking in

the commercial break. i cannot imagine getting a call like that. walk us through it. >> well, it was super scary. my husband actually took the phone call and i was outside. he came out with this man on speaker phone using all kind of foul language screaming and yelling and saying my daughter had hit him in a vehicle accident situation, she can't find her insurance and wouldn't let my husband get any words in. he was screaming and yelling and cussing. you better get here now, i am going to take care of her. it was awful and very believable. i felt as though i could see a scam, normal scam like on a phone, don't click this e-mail, don't do this, this was different level. >> todd: when you heard your daughter's voice did you have

any doubt it was payton? >> no doubt. i called the police while my husband is keeping him on the phone. they are saying this is possibly a scam situation. i said no way this is a scam, this is my daughter's voice, this wasn't a person pretending. as a mother, you know your daughter's voice, no doubt. >> todd: do you have any idea how or why you were targeted or how they got your voice? >> actually no. after i posted this, there were skeptical people posting that is what happens when you post your life online. i wasn't on tiktok at that time. i did not download it, no, no, no and then i fall in love with tiktok. i have no idea, i never posted my life online like that before. >> todd: how did you connect with your mom to be like, this

didn't happen, i'm okay, i'm alive. >> i was working and saw she was calling me, i was on the phone at work with a client. i saw her calling, i couldn't answer the phone. after the third call, i thought something might be wrong, then the phoenix police department was calling me. i are swed the phone for the police department and then called my mom. i haven't heard her sound like that ever in my life. >> i cried for two days. it was awful. >> todd: how could you not? >> the most real, scary thing i've ever experienced, worst day of my life. >> todd: when i was reading preparing for this story, i go to my own daughters. i broke down and almost cried myself thinking of what i would

do in this situation. have these people been caught? do we have a sense who they are? >> it is interesting, this was a bit ago for me and now hearing it is all happening again and wasn't an isolated incident. i thought it was just me, a strange person using whatever evilly and i thought it was just me and now i'm hearing it is happening more and more and not being reported a lot and that is why we wanted to speak out and let people know, even if you think you are savvy, when you hear your daughter's voice -- my daughter has been gracious enough for to allow me to see where she is. >> todd: do you think someone you know did this? >> honestly, no. i have a very small circle.

i don't -- i know for a fact no one i know would do this to me. after i posted on tiktok, my mom said i thought we were the only ones who experience something like this, then a lot of people. if you go to my video, in the comments, it's happened to so many people. it has to be this upcoming thing with ai, specifically, which i'm not a fan of at all. >> todd: payton said her point. delynne, take this home with your opinion as this grows. >> in my generation, as a mom, it scared me to death. >> todd: understood. thank you for sharing your story, it is soming people need to hear. this is not an isolated incident, it will happen more and more and it is frightening. thanks so much.

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>> todd: we have more now of tucker carlson exclusive interview with elon musk. hear the ceo talking about massive layoffs he made shortly after taking over twitter. listen. >> what percentage of staff did you fire at twitter? >> one of the great business stories of the year. i think about 20% of the original size. >> 80% left?

>> yes. >> how do you run the company with 20% of the staff? >> turns out you don't need that many people to run twitter. >> 80%? that is a lot? >> if you are not trying to run some kind of glorified activist organization and don't care that much about censorship, you can let go of a lot of people. >> todd: musk says they were overstaffed and it can be run by a group chat at scale. >> ashley: members of the house oversight committee sounding the alarm over biden family business dealings saying they have evidence against additional members of the first family. >> todd: alexandria hoff has the latest. >> alexandria: evidence found with newly available financial record shows six additional biden family members got rich

from hunter biden's business dealings, bringing the toelgs now to nine. >> there are understand thises offige pas of documents relating to financial transactions, this is not the president's son or brother, we identified six new biden family members involved in shady foreign transactions we believe were result of influence pedalling and have more we suspect were involved. >> alexandria: the committee was given access to suspicious activity departments from banks alerting to suspicious business activity. >> just left the treasury to review 100 suspicious reports on the biden family and there are more bidens involved than we knew previously. it is wild the number of family members involved and even the amount of money we're talking

about in the suspicious activity reports is astronomical. >> alexandria: democrats fired back, after years of political dirt, today's statement by chairman comer reveals he failed to uncover wrongdoing by president biden and republicans continue to mischaracterize suspicious activity report as evidence of misconduct instead of calling them unsubstantiated tips that result in follow-up by law enforcement. comer says more will be released. >> todd: house oversight committee moves forward with the probe against the biden family, the department of justice continues to investigation hunter biden, accusing merrick garland of covering for the first family. >> merrick garland is a cover-up artist, like a mob lawyer for

the biden family. there is massive amounts of evidence from the comer committee, from grassley, from johnson, from the laptop, from bobulinski, first-hand information, e-mails, texts, everything prosecutors want. to appoint a special counsel and drag joe biden in for an interview with a special grand jury under oath. >> todd: we are taking a closer look at this with cheryl casone in the next hour. >> ashley: three minors shot in chaos brought on by crowds of teens over the weekend, but illinois lawmaker robert peters defending the incident. i would look at behavior of young people as political act

and statement, mas protest against poverty and segregation. three boys shots were 17, 16 and 6. 6 years old. chicago progressive mayor-elect brandon johnson condemned the violence, did you tell defended it saying it is not constructive to demonize youth. not constructive to accept this. a mob of looters ransack a gas station leaving behind thousands in damage and stolen merchandise. [video playing] [indiscernible] >> todd: where are the police? one deputy says the number one problem is simply not having the personnel needed to respond to

the street takeovers. alex villanueva, joins us now. where do you lay the blame for scenes like we just saw? >> straight on the shoulders of the sheriff. campaign to defund the department, impose a hiring freeze -- did -- attract people to the job. wow. to make matters worse, they are operating at 30% vacancy -- -- and the number is even lower because -- they go without the -- -- [audio cutting out] -- yes, they do not have personnel to handle situations like this. >> ashley: my question then, if

deputies are called to scenes like this one we have been showing of this, i think 7-11 or gas station of some sort being infiltrated or ransacked and you have the scene of street racers, drag racers, whatever you call them. the deputies respond and do not have enough bodies to back it up, what do they do, let it happen until it is over? >> they take a report, try to identify the suspects -- [audio cutting out] -- far cry from what is needed -- >> todd: having a little trouble understanding, we have a little technical difficulty. we will try one more and hopefully can get through this one.

look at chicago, look at los angeles. if we don't get some sort of control over these mobs at some point, alex, will the mobs take over the cities? >> well, they will keep growing in size -- don't have any -- for what they are doing. this is -- >> todd: unfortunately, we're having trouble hearing you, apologize for cutting you off. hope to hear you better next time, you know l.a. and you know what is happening in the city and i know tons of people, i lived in l.a. for eight years. a lot of my friends who were born and raised are in colorado now because it is such a horrible place to live. >> ashley: i want to make another point before we dip out of this. no shock to me, there was no

arrest made, one person detained. if you look at this time last year l.a. sheriff department reported being 927 officers short. when you have such a huge area to cover and so many people to cover geographically and to actual bodies, not a good recipe for anything, it is recipe for disaster and this is what you are going to get. >> todd: good points, l.a. is the most spread out county and population is huge, how do you cover it? you can't. california democrat says it is time to roll back the state's travel ban on red states calling the lgbtq measure a step too far. >> ashley: we'll tell you why next. ♪

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>> todd: the u.s. ambassador to russia says she made her first visit to detained "wall street journal" reporter evan gershkovich. yesterday was first time u.s. envoy granted access to gershkovich since his arrest. the american embassy tweeting he is in good health and remains

strong, we reiterate our call for his immediate release. last week the u.s. designated him as wrongfully detained calling the spies charges politically driven. the fbi is investigating a former noncommissioned navy officer linked to a pro-russia social media account. sara bills accused of overseeing donbas -- which sells pro-russia merch. jack teixeira was charged last week with two counts under the espionage act. bills is under federal investigation, but the scope of the investigation is unclear. she argues she is not the only administrator of the site. ash. >> ashley: china so-called rent a womb industry is posing another national security nightmare as chinese nationals are using american surrogates to carry their children, a quote

from federalist says the practice arises from differences in american and chinese laws. washington has no idea who the children are or their parents. visiting fellow with independent women's forum raising concerns is emma waters. thanks for being with us this morning. >> thanks for having me on. >> ashley: rent-a-womb is apparently big business in places like california. this is first i've heard of something like this. >> so commercial surrogacy involves practice of hiring a woman to gestate someone's child for a hefty fee enables chinese nationals to birth children in the united states. so technological developments, they can create embryo in china

or send gametes to the united states and have them implanted in a surrogate. when the surrogate births the child, the child maintains full benefit of u.s. citizenship in the united states and what is more, the parents of the children have direct access to citizenship when the child turns 21 through green card application process. you can imagine there are grave national security threats that come from this. >> ashley: of course, maybe these people want to be parents and that is as far as it goes. what does the national security threat look like and how are the people vetted? >> the china house select committee announced it will invest in farmland to defense contracts, social media and more and one area we haven't looked into is reproductive medicine

space. there are situations where potentially parents just want to have children because of their own age or infertility or lack of a partner. they have not been able to have a child in china. on the flip side, if you think about what is at stake, chinese nationals have direct access to u.s. citizenship and some of the best technological advancements when it comes to creating a child. with adoption process, you have intense background checks and a long vetting process to ensure the family the child is going to will provide a good life for the child. when it comes to commercial surrogacy, we don't have any of the background checks in place, at least not consistent ones enforced by law, which means it is wild west.

anyone who has the money can find a way in california. >> ashley: that makes me nervous, the national security threat. they may just want kids issue but we don't know that, that is why they have to be vetted. to this, elon musk sits down with tucker carlson for a jam-packed interview and he has a major warning about artificial intelligence and how he explains how he's stepping into the world of ai development and we have detail. >> todd: do not miss that, cheryl casone, tomi lahren and ronny jackson all here live. keep it here on "fox and friends first."

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>> todd: a fox news alert, major revelation from elon musk in part one of his whirlwind interview with tucker carlson. it includes the extent of government overreach he's uncovered at twitter and his plans to protect your privacy. >> if i got something unconstitutional from the u.s. governor, i would send them a copy of the first amendment and say what part of this are we getting wrong? >> what elon is saying the government is intercepting and monitoring dm's, raises question about the rest of big tech. it is google allowing the federal government to monitor g-mail. is facebook monitoring messenge