first, the losers. [bird sounds] >> that is nothing compared to the big winner. he was really good, thank god he didn't start picking at something on the beach. ♪ >> todd: president biden expected to announce re-election bid today and full steam ahead as fox news learns the president is already onboarding high-profile democrats to his campaign. you are watching "fox and friends first"s, i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. members of the president's own party panic over his poor performance and recent polling.

>> the poll numbers are not what you want to go in to re-elect with. >> that is understatement. >> these are not normal times, the electorate is crabby and anxious about the economy and the country is very divided. biden comes in looking at the race with those two perspectives. >> ashley: alexandria hoff, good morning. >> alexandria: we are anticipating this announcement will come by way of video message issue the say way president biden announced four years ago. at a white house event yesterday, the president was asked a popular question, perhaps for the last time. >> are you ready to run again, mr. president? ♪ >> alexandria: i don't know if he heard that, i think he assumed what the question would be. he is wanting to woo the 70% of

voters who do not want him to run again, according to an dr. nesheiwat news poll. senior advisor to the president, julie rodriguez expected to be named campaign manager and clinton fultz as deputy, he had run raphael warnock's campaign. former ohio state senator nina turner wrotes this, the dnc robs the voter of choice, no one who feels confident would hesitate to stand on them. florida governor ron desantis has been on a four country tour, japan, israel, the united kingdom. he has not announced a run yet, but said this. >> people started asking me, we

have a legislative session that we're working on, a few more weeks to go with that, we'll put up a lot of wins on the board. i will not make any announcement before that is concluded. >> are you leaning one way or the other? >> stay tuned. >> alexandria: we've heard stay tuned from a couple people these days. massy says i would rather him be in the race right now issue right now is heads up between donald trump and ron desantis, the urgency is more cats and dogs in the race, more they can siphon from ron desantis. we are expecting senator tim scott and former vice president mike pence to announce but the big one is the president today employs >> todd: alexandria hoff kicking

us off. tulsi gabbard said democrats want more power. >> this is what i think the democratic play is. they need joe biden to run for re-election and get re-elected so when he cannot function, which will likely happen sooner than later, they will install their puppet, chosen one, kamala harris to become acting president of the united states. >> you really believe it is her? >> she runs in 2000 28 with the power of the incumbency behind her. they want someone who can control. >> todd: hunter biden legal team taking a more legal strategy, calling for an investigation into a former trump aide and congressional action against marjorie taylor greene. >> ashley: brooke singman has the latest. >> brooke: hunter biden lawyer is demanding the treasury

department inspektsor general looks into cory ziegler, writing, i want ziegler investigated how he obtained hunter's private records and urging to take action against marjorie taylor greene arguing greene made defamatory statements against hunter and should be held accountable. hunter is kicking back at santa barbara at a 50 million vineyard owned by medical device company who is a major donor to democrats and his father president joe biden. republicans zeroing in on how the legislative branch will investigate hunter's suspicious business dealings ahead of his

meeting with doj officials. >> step one is getting the facts on the table, we have a duty oversight to get the truth out for the american people and second, we have to propose legislation to remedy the situation, which i think is appropriately described as agencies being weaponized against americans, we the people. >> alexandria: nancy mace is calling for an investigation into every family member who had a role in the business deals. >> for years, the left said no one is above the law, put your money where your mouth is. have this investigated to fullest extent of the law. >> how do you know what you saw is verified to make a statement like that? >> i ask the justice department to follow the money, there are more biden family members involved than we know.

>> alexandria: prosecutors are deciding if to bring one count of felony tax evasion. >> todd: here is congressman james comer, we've had you on the program for years covering the hunter biden scandal. i think we can all agree, this moment is different, this has come to a head in a significant way and you know that by looking at the actions lowell, hunter biden's attorney is taking. contrast that with today, the announcement by joe biden that he isun aring for re-election, what do you make of those two events coming together as horrible timing for the president? >> james: start with abby lowell, the attorney for hunter biden, it's been a journey with respect to hunter biden's legal

team. when i first announced, hunter biden's lawyers were quick to say the laptop was russian disinformation and there were bank violations, that was just a conspiracy theory. fast-forward to today and they are suing the computer shop repair man because he leaked the laptop and now they are panicking and trying to file ethics complaintses because people are leaking out what happened with respect to the bank violation. they have gone from denying hunter biden had done anything wrong to the fact he has done wrong and going after anyone that has oddacity to try to bring the truth to life. with respect to joe biden announcing his candidacy today, that is unimaginable to me. this family has been influence

pedalling with our worst country on the planet, china. this is a drop in the bucket from what we'll be able to present to the american people in it is next few months, right after joe biden becomes a candidate for reelection. how will joe biden explain to the american people how his family has been able to take in all of this money and not pay a penny of taxes on it, at same time he has a soft-on-china policy, putting every american citizen at disadvantage to the chinese communist party. it is breathtaking he would have the nerve to file without answering these basic questions with respect to public corruption. >> ashley: how can he face anyone in the white house or biden administration, face american public with all of these allegations racking up and potential charges coming down this week with it being a

potential re-election bid? hunter doesn't care, he's tucked away in a vacation home that is 50 million from a donor. how can they keep ignore thanksgiving? >> james: i don't know, we know hunter biden owed 2 million in taxes and another big democratic donor owned him the money and that raises campaign finance concerns from joe biden. with respect to doj looking at hunter biden, potentially to indict him on tax evasion. let me be clear, tax evasion is just a drop in the bucket to the problems the president's son has. you can't just indict him and not do anything to eight other biden family members who did the same thing, had llcrashing's created to launder money by our

adversaries into their back pockets. this is the entire family and this family wouldn't be getting large sums of money from all over the world if it weren't for joe biden. that is why we're investigating joe biden. we're very concerned that the fact his family received millions and millions frommure on adversaries around the world, that he may be compromised. to think the democratic insiders know this and encouraging him to run for re-election says a lot about the current state of the democratic party in america. >> todd: it does, when you saw the charges against hunter, you said, wait, that's it? there is a lot more here. see what goes on with that. national security advisor jake sullivan denies playing a role in the influence pedalling in ukraine after a former obama official implicated him.

watch. >> in the transcript, you don't know who jake sullivan is, senior administration official is. i'm the witness that says jake sullivan said it and he should be investigated and joe biden is bringing money to enrich that company and himself and his family. >> former white house stenographer and this month outed you as anonymouseen senior official, he says you -- the second son secretly joined the board of a company. were you part of this? >> no. >> todd: that stenographer coming on our program detailing the actions against jake sullivan. this is a joe biden investigation and that will come through in your work, but when you hear that and based upon what you read so far, how much

trouble is jake sullivan in? >> he's in a lot of trouble. i want toic mathe argument that antony blinken is in trouble. we've had two whistleblowers come forward, not just the stenographer, also the irs agent. i believe more whistleblowers will come forward shortly. i mentioned whistleblowers and jamie raskin made the announcement there were no whistleblowers, now two have come forward and i believe there will be more. this adds to legitimacy and urgency of our investigation. we have a national security crisis at our hands and information i've seen and nancy mace and byron donald talked about it, we've seen bank records and bank statements and it is concerning. there is no explanation for why this family continues to take in

significant amounts of money and the way they did it and created llc's to hide the source of the money and deceive the irs. another thing joe biden says that drives me crazy, he talks about tax cheats. the first family that pops in my mind is the biden family. we're going to continue to dig and continue to get more bank records. the more we learn, we find more bank violations, we find more llc's created to launder money back into the family and we find more bidens involved in this influence pedalling scheme. i hope the main-stream media that i cans this more seriously, this is crisis with corruption in the white house. >> ashley: yesterday i had to do a double take when cbs was covering it on friday.

hopefully the more you dig in and release, they will have to address it as well as the white house. >> james: they'll have to. >> todd: congressman james comer, we appreciate your work on this. fox news alert, police arresting transgender protesters in support of censured trans lawmaker. there is a bill banning sex change treatment for children. >> ashley: jackie ibanez joins us with more. >> jackie: the lawmaker has not spoken on the floor since banings gender reassignment surgery last week. listen. if you vote yes on this bill, when you bow your heads in prayer, you see the blood on your hands.

>> jackie: you see zephyr in the room and this was called a riot. you see protesters chanting who's house, she refused to calm down the scene despite protesters interrupting for half an hour. seven people were arrested for trespassing and the sheriff's says they will be booked and released. due to zephyr's actions calling for action against zephyr. -- plans to continue to forcefully oppose legislation against the transgender community.

the bill prevents children from getting gender reassignment surgery is on the desk. >> todd: what a scene. what a scene here, check out the "new york post" cover this morning. jolly. jets fan for now is jolly. now part of new york jets after the team came to an agreement with the green bay packers. the jets get the star quarterback and the 15th pick in this year's draft, which begins on thursday. packers get the 13th overall pick, second round pick and sixth round pick and green bay gets second round pick next year if rodgers plays 65% of the snaps thissen sa. did you jot that down? good. >> ashley: will they be good now? >> todd: i don't think you can ever sap the jets will be good,

that is tough statement to make. in baseball now, this heartwarming video showing minor league player's dreams come true. watch this. he is not 23, he is 33-year-old infielder drew maggie getting called up to the big time, getting the news he will join the pittsburgh pirates after playing in the minors for 13 years. >> man. the other side. >> it's a dream. >> how awesome is that? after 1155 games in the minors, maggie looks forward to taking the plate for the first time as a pirate. >> ashley: consistency and staying with it is key. >> todd: guys don't make a lot of money in the minors, when you hit that 30 plateau, you want to settle down and have a family, he stuck with it.

awesome. >> ashley: this story out of austin, activists bragging about deflating tires and destroying property in the name of climate change and they prevented first responders from getting to work. >> todd: minor details there and woke disney back on track and lawmakers going after the park's mono-rail system. keep it here on "fox and friends first." ♪ (music throughout)

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>> todd: a u.s. envoy confronting russia's diplomat at the un demanding the release of "wall street journal" reporter evan gershkovich and paul whelan, accusing the kremlin of using u.s. citizens as human bargaining chips. >> russia time and time again violated fundamental freedoms both outside and inside its own borders. there is human cost to russia violation of international norms to barbaric practice of using

people as political pawns. >> todd: whelan is serving a 16-year sentence after being convicted of espionage and gershkovich is in moscow prison also facing espionage charges. top u.s. officials call russia's allegations baseless in both cases. >> ashley: 40 s.u.v.s in boston, the group called tire extinguishers put letters like this one on the window of each car they hit. you will have no difficulty by getsing around by walking, traveling with transport. a radio host in boston joins me now. tell us what your listeners are saying about this incident? >> well, it is par for the course in boston, there is

virtue signalling going on among the protected classes and this is another indication telling people to use public transportation, it is a ruined state. i guarantee you the people who did this did not walk or take a bicycle to beacon hill to do this. they are trying to impress everybody with their virtues. it is the -- this has been done so many times and it is just ridiculous. they are asking people to make sacrifices they are not willing to make. the united states of america is 5% of the world's population and massachusetts 3% of the 5%. somehow massachusetts is supposed to, according to these people, these hippies, massachusetts is supposed to make the sacrifice to do this. and where are these, if you get an electric vehicle, beacon hill

is one of the richest neighborhoods in the northeast and dates back to colonial times. everything is jammed in. you buy an electric vehicle, where are you going to recharge it? just for starters, my listeners, only thing they thought they might be in favor of, one peep of the people who live there is john kerry, the so-called special presidential envoy for climate change. he has an s.u.v. and he flies around the world in a private jet owned by the taxpayers telling other peep toll give up their cars. would he like charging stations in front of his mansion on the square? i don't think so. a few years back, there was a fire hydrant outside his mansion

on beacon hill and he thought it blocked his limousine from parking there and had the city of boston remove the fire hydrant. if he doesn't want a fire hydrant, you think he wants electric chargers? we have a liberal judiciary in massachusetts, like the legislature and political leadership. the judiciary doesn't crack down on people when they do this. a few years back, during black lives matter, they blocked the expressways and chained themselves to the same type -- same people chained themselves to barrels and stopped ambulances from getting into the city. >> ashley: it is ridiculous, this group bragged on twitter, first action in boston, massachusetts, 43 s.u.v.s disarmed, great action for taking out 43 s.u.v.s in the

beacon hill area, this is a do it yourself movement whachl do they think they are doing when they destruct property? this is not making any claims or moving anything forward with their cause, per se. >> they feel good about themselves, the previous governor, they brought a boat in front of his house in the suburbs and just to make their statement, they irritate most people in the community. another ironic thing, ashley, they could have gone to other neighborhoods in boston, it would have been easier to get to. there are people that aren't living in beacon hill, that are not as likely to turn the other cheek and call triple a and -- they are going to come out with weapons and they would have done something to these lay-abouts who came from cambridge. >> ashley: nurses and

firefighters couldn't get to their jobs and now affecting first responders from saving their lives. thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you, ashley. >> todd: good luck slashing tires in southie, that will not work out well for the tire slashers. >> ashley: president biden getting pushback over this head-turning claim. >> president biden: there is no such thing as someone else's child, no such thing as someone else's child. our nation's children are all our children. >> ashley: excuse me? what do you think about that? we will show you the best responses. >> todd: you can change my children then, joe. we are expecting president biden to officially launch his 2024 presidential campaign today as support is tanking with even democratic supporters. jim will crunch the numbers. hi, jim.

>> todd: president biden expected to officially announce his bid for reelection today, potentially setting the stage for a 2020 rematch. jim mclaughlin, joins me to break down the current state of the 2024 election. jim, you know it is time for this when you are here and when we bring out the notecards, it is official. this poll is most concerning for the president. it shows 70% of american people say joe biden should not run for reelection. have you ever seen a sitting president with numbers that bad? >> jim: no, we've never seen it, our own polls we've seen less than a quarter of democrats actually prefer him and want him

to run for reelection. not to mention, in past history, look at barack obama, donald trump, when they were running, the republican and democratic base, it was about 75% and with bill clinton, half the voters and now a quarter of all voters say don't run, that is horrible sign for an incumbent. >> todd: you said you would crunch the number. next -- approve, is that a bad sign for the president? seems like that number is around where trump was. i feel like you never have a president in the 90% range, 42.6%, what do you say? >> it is horrible. d next to your name, you get about 42 or 43%, that is where

we are. the opposite be number to look at, disapproval rating, 56% or higher. the worst thing is quinnipiac poll, two-thirds of independents have a negative opinion of joe biden. 57% disapprove of the job he's doing. >> todd: if i was in charge of the dems and saw the first two slides, i would find somebodiel. take a look at that full screen. r.f.k. 14% and marianne williamson and undecided 13%. focus on r.f.k. jr., is there enough there that he will have potential to make endroads against joe? >> jim: i do and i think the democrats do and i think this is why they put together this hasty

announcement today, one, they see donald trump surge nothing primary polls and general election polls and see joe biden's weakness. usually these announcements are months in the making, well planned out, you have a big event or rally. he will put out a video. why? he can't attract people the way donald trump can attract people to a rally. >> todd: it would be wild if a kennedy, 2023, how the party has gotten so far away, if he would be the nominee. talk about this flip-flop when it comes to trump and biden. 45% trump, 45% biden in hypothetical race between them. that wasn't that way a few months ago, what is the main factor why that is happening?

>> jim: joe biden's failures. a lot of people say it is his age. if people thought he was doing a good job, he could be 90 or 100 and they would still vote for him. a lot of democrats say he is too old. when you ask about issues like the economies, inflation, immigration, national security, his negatives are 60% on the issues, that is driving that right now. the main reason for donald trump's surge over the last couple months, he's talking issues and people look at issues they care about and say, i was doing better when donald trump was president versus joe biden. >> todd: i think this is fascinating. we haven't seen this, the fact independents are leading to that is good sign for president trump, assuming he can get past desantis and the rest of the folks going into 2024. jim, got to leave it there.

we're still in april of 2023, november of 2024 a ways away. ash. >> ashley: critics calling out president biden for these comments, quoting a former teacher. >> there is no such thing as someone else's child, no such thing as someone else's child, our nation's children are all our children. >> ashley: sorry, no, parental rights group moms for liberty responded with, we do not co-parent with the government. senator tim scott responded to biden, you are absolutely wrong, parent rights and education remain major election issue at local and federal levels. >> todd: joe can come over and see what i cleaned yesterday and then make that comment. >> ashley: i don't think so. lawmakers in sunshine state file amendment to give florida power to inspect disney's mono-rail. the amendment doesn't mention

the company, but takes aim at privately owned fixed guideway system, the latest crackdown on disney's autonomy in the state. one attorney buildings it is a losing battle saying, "if disney wants to bring the fight, they will probably win the fight," this is as disney begins layoffs, at least 4000 have been affected so far as the company is looking to slash 7000 jobs by summer. layoffs expected across entertainment and espn and product segmentes across the u.s. the breakfast club star mollie ringwald taking aim at cancel culture, reflecting on the me too movement and looking at harvey weinstein. a lot of people have gotten

swept up in cancellation. some people have been unfairly canceld and don't belong in the same party as harry weinstein. cancel culture makes people roll their eyes instead of changing jobs, it is a problem in hollywood and everywhere. >> todd: the stars from the '80's will save us, i've always said that. >> ashley: says it everyday. >> todd: i've never said that. >> ashley: no. squatters set up camp in a closed down bar and the situation took a dangerous turn. that bar was burned to the ground. the president of the associations enough is enough and he is here next. >> todd: crime in one blue city is so bad you can't get a bottle of shampoo off the shelf. tell you where this video was

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>> ashley: asheville, north carolina rocked by violent crime following the push to defund police. armed robbery is up in the tourist town and officials are

set to kickoff a 60-day safety initiative beginning may 1, including enhanced police presence, community responder program and cleanup efforts. debra campbell say the efforts will be tracked and updateod a downtown city safety initiative page. staff will assess if this is impacting safety and next steps to support a safer downtown and city as a whole. >> todd: we profiled this months ago, why are they just acting now. in a target store, locking up all merchandise as the crime crisis continues. toiletries like mouthwash and shampoo secured behind glass. the store's products have been under lock and key since october. san francisco police have received 9500 reports of larceny

thefts this year alone, causing retailers to shut down. whole foods shut down just a year after opening. group of port lands squatters setting fire to an abandoned bar after residents complained and officials failed to address the situation. >> ashley: the president of the firefighters association joins us now. thank you for getting up and talking about this. this is daefrjous for people living in that area and neighborhood, but the 40 firefighters who had to respond and resources taken off the streets, so why did the city not do anything before? why not be proactsive and get the situation under control? >> yeah, that's a really good question, ashley. i think you have to ask our elected officials that, i'm sure the laws when it comes to

buildings in portland, especially ones vacant like this one was, this was ushgnique, one of many buildings the fire marshal deemed unsafe. as firefighters we need to know what structures we can go into safely to search to make sure everyone is safely and extinguish the fire. this building was marked as an unsafe building, which is indicator for firefighters to be on alert. this is an extreme hazard foor firefighters. >> todd: you risk your job doing your job, this exacerbates the situation. you don't know if somebody is trapped inside and you feel the responsibility to go look. neighbors in this community have been physically attacked by the squatters issue threatened with guns and had trees cut down for

individuals to build fires. why does the city of portland seem to side with the squatters, criminals, over the taxpaying citizens? >> i can't speak for elected officials in the city, they are responsible for listening to constituent, but as a firefighter my main concern is the safety of everyone in portland. i've been a firefighter for 20 years and now president of the firef firefighter association and my responsibility is to make sure firefighters are safe so they can keep everyone else safe. with elected officials, we have a crisis looming, we are looking at 24 firefighters being cut from the front lines, that is a pretty def starretting number, that is like closing two fire

stations and that decision is a month away. we're concerned about that starting new fiscal year july 1, could have reduction in the number of firefighters and haven't had an increase in 20 years, that is with population increasing and fires increasing and the need for 911. >> ashley: you said there has been more fires in recent years under bridges and because people live on the streets. you see the squatter situations. you said you will possibly lose 44 firefighters does any of that have to do with the covid vaccine mandates? >> no, that is a struggle many members had to deal with, without a doubt. >> ashley: just the budget? >> that is corrects, yeah, the budget and a question of they want to reduce the number of firefighter on the front line and that is unsafe.

we're at a low number now, we've had many reports done that show we need to increase with size of population and meet demand we were being asked to do in the city of portland and doing it with less is not an option. >> todd: eight fires at that bar alone. prayers to you, i know it is not easy, we wish you the best. "fox and friends first"s, police descend on the montana capitol. [cheering and chanting] >> todd: we have details on the latest state house takeover. >> ashley: and we're expecting president biden's official 2024 announcement today as plans for reelection campaign take shape, republicans are preparing their

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>> todd: president biden expected to announce his reelection bid today and full steam ahead as fox news learns the president is onboarding high-profile democrats to his campaign. you're watching "fox and friends first" on tuesday morning, i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. biden campaign launch, new op e ed transformed america. >> todd: in th