>> 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 the long-term, this

could smother america's productivity, wages and living standard, the president's regulatory agenda ensures in a single turn, he will transform the economy and life in america. >> ashley: alexandria hoff with what we can expects today. good morning. >> alexandria: we expect this announcement to come by way of video message, same way it did four years ago when even then the idea of a president in his 80s seeking a second term was major debate. here is the president yesterday. >> are you ready to run again, mr. president? ♪ >> alexandria: the real race will be on to rule 70% of voters who do not want the president to run again, most citing age. senior advisor to the president,

julie rodriguez will take on that role with fultz being named deputy, he had run raphael warnock's campaign. democrats upset about how this progressed. former ohio state senator ninaturner wrote the dnc refusing to hold a debate is unamerican. this is happening, florida governor ron desantis on four-country tour, including japan, south korea, israel and the uk. he is polling behind president trump but considered his top competitor, despite not announcing a run yet. >> i said from the election in 2022, people started asking me, we have a legislative session we're working on and we'll be putting wins on the board and i'll not make announcements before that is concluded. >> are you leaning one way or

another? >> stay tuned. [laughter] >> alexandria: we heard that from president biden, too. thomas massie told associated press, i encourage him to get in the race right now, it is race between donald trump and ron desantis, urgency is more cats and dogs in the race, more they can siphon from ron desantis. massie doesn't one another trump-biden match up, we're almost halfway there. >> ashley: former trump advisor steven miller says democrats do not understand middle american. >> they are out of touch and spiteful of the working class as you can get. foreign wars overseas issue open borders at home and empowering big tech and massive corporations to spy on us to

censure us and send jobs to foreign countries. if the republican party can make endroads as it has in the trump era and continue to say we'll fight for your jobs and border and dignity, we can create a republican party that is majority party for a long time. that the require a lot of work and hasn't been done right now. >> ashley: miller says republicans will need to work hard to gain the ground democrats have lost among blue-collar voters. >> todd: arresting pro-transgender protesters after a rally inside the state house of representative in support of a trans lawmaker. forte is considering a bill banning sex change surgery for minors. >> jackie: these protesters came

after zooey zephyr was censured since the house banned gender reassignment surgery for children last week. >> if you vote yes on this bill, i hope next time you bow your heads in prayer, you see the blood on your hands. >> jackie: you see zephyr standing there as lawmakers move to the side of the room for safety with republican lawmakers calling the scene a riot. zephyr stayed on the floor with the microphone raised in the air. she refused to help calm down the scene despite protesters interrupting for nearly half an hour. seven were arrested for trespassing and the sheriff's department says the suspects will be booked and released. montana freedom caucus, including a fifth of republican lawmakers condemn zephyr and the protesters saying due to zephyr actions, the montana freedom

caucus is calling for action against zephyr. protesters rallied yesterday and zephyr telling it is crowd she plans to forcefully oppose legislation against the transgender community. the bill is on the governor's desk and he is expected to sign it into law. >> ashley: thank you. missouri republicans want state takeover of st. louis police department as prosecutors put criminals back on the street. how this would work and if other cities should follow suit. >> todd: president biden meaning to call in army of influencers as he hemorrhages support among the gen-z voters. with his announcement expected today, we'll ask tomi lahren what this account mean for the

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>> janice: good morning, everyone. happy tuesday. it was hard to get up this

morning. i know, look at the temperatures, feels like early march. 31 in fargo, 49 in new york city. even down toward the mississippi river valley, temperature departure. this is the trend over the next couple weeks. we have a trough in place, potential for showers, thunderstorms and severe weather and high pressure across the west which hangs out and brings up the temperatures. it is the tale of two seasons here and will be the trend heading through the next two weeks. showers and thunderstorms and snow in higher elevations over the rockies and great lakes and interior northeast moving across the country this week and another one getting into next week. severe storm threat meaning isolated tornados today up toward the panhandle of

oklahoma, down toward houston, texas and then again, the threat ramps up on wednesday for parts of central texas, northern texas, including the dallas area. cooler temperatures over the next -- >> cool this morning. >> janice: it was. >> ashley: thank you. republicans -- take control of t the -- putting the blame on one of her assistant attorneys.

-- state representative from missouri and he joins me. thanks for getting up -- no secret i visited st. louis many times. so tell us, obviously --not

sure why the city of st. louis wouldn't think if anybody take it over, why not a former sheriff, now the governor. what do you think? >> correct, he's a very pro-law enforcement governor, he would sit over the board and it is local control. -- >> ashley: right, brad, so far, st. louis have seen homicides, 165 robberies and almost 400 assaults with a firearm, the mayor of st. louis says it is about power and politics, look at cities we are facing control over overreaching authority, what is the trend? they are all led by black mayors. they don't think it has anything to do with the sky-high crime or

t the -- they are letting them back on the street and love them to tell that to the people who are suffering in the city of st. louis. just recently with had a girl walking down the street from a volleyball tournament and got hit by a car from a guy out on the street. he had 40 priors and then had an ankle bracelet on, he was on house arrest and was out. thank you for your time this, mo, good luck on this bill. i want to follow-up, i covered the unrest in ferg usson, following the michael brown situation and i know a lot of people, it is a very liberal area in a lot of places. they say, we don't want the governor to take over, governor parson, former sheriff, i'm not sure what the st. louis police department would say, interesting to see if they would

agree with this. it can get dangerous, even to this day, when i go home, we fly to st. louis, it is dangerous, no doubt about it, has nothing to do with the color of anyone's skin, everything to do with lack of da prosecuting criminals and letting them out on the street. same story, different day. president biden praising the tennessee three during the visit to the white house yesterday. >> president biden: honor to have you all three here, standing up for our kids and communities and democratic values. >> todd: the families of the victims killed in the nashville school shooting get the same treatment from the president? tomi lahren responds to that n next.

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your kids, our communities and democratic values, that is what it is all about. all three of you speak so well about why you do what you did. >> todd: president biden giving a welcome to the tennessee three after they led expulsion effort. no word on whether he will extend similar -- tomi lahren joins me now. joe biden said thanking individuals for standing up for kids, what about the families of the three kids killed, where is their invite? >> tomi: it is such a slap in the face, i'm here in the nashville community mourning. she gives an impassioned speech

about the tennessee three and they go to go "gma" and this is repulsive and disgusting to me, especially when this white house has not even acknowledged the families of the six christians. you can't care about the community or children or gun violence when you don't address the victims of the gun violence. we are still awaiting the manifesto from the nashville trans shooter. we have not gotten it. the tennessee community is disgusted by this. >> todd: what does it say about democrats and the main-stream media these three are being lionized like they are? >> tom: watching kamala harris give her speech was bad enough,

watching these three on a press tour is another level of disgusting. getting celebrity status off the death of six christians is enough to make anybody furious. the two of them here, their pasts are sketchy and different when we look back at them. the third one was not expelled, she is using it and knows very well has nothing to do with race why the other two were expelled. this is all-around horrible situation. in nashville we mourning the death of six christians. >> todd: virtue signalling on the backs of the dead and it is signalling. may be time for the white house to send in influencers. poll shows president biden is losing gen-z support, 39% say they support -- i believe 36%

from the fall and 5% from last year. i thought influencers like dylan mulvaney could put lipstick on any policy pigs and youths of america would automatically vote for him. what happened? >> tomi: now they want to bring in an army, of tiktokers about 100 tiktokers that are supposedly unpaid but want to be elevated in the white house briefing room. this is how desperate this administration is for young voters. biden is losing support amongst gen-z, losing support because he is older, not because of his policies. -- we have to make sure young

people understand seeing somebody on tiktok laud a politician is not enough. look a little deeper. look at the policies and tell me if you agree with them, we have to do a better job. >> todd: nearly half of young americans say they felt unsafe in america in the past month. one-third are concerned -- in america in the past month personally become homeless one day. i don't know about you, when i was growing up, i didn't know one young person that said, i could be homeless one day. if they still -- -- we'll see if they do. tomi lahren. one school board pulling the plug on music class because they say it promotes white supremacy

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>> ashley: a popular tourist spot getting hit hard. push to defund the police. >> todd: cheryl casone has more. >> cheryl: good morning to both of you. they have seen uptick in crime between 2000 -- aggravated

assault up almost -- armed robbery up 20%, facing a crisis. initiative to address safety. calls for increased law enforcement, community responder program from the fire -- replace -- destination now dealing with sky-high crime. >> i have this joke that my really good friend live in chicago, it is getting too dangerous here. it follows him. >> cheryl: american dream home, i've been there.

-- between the state and disney self-governance of the reedy creek district. reuters reporting 4000 affected so far, companies looking to slash 7000 jobs by summer. these layoffs expected across disney entertainment, espn, the parks across the u.s., it is considered a global layoff at

disney. there are other ways governor desantis can go after disney, the monorail might be stickier hurdle to cross. >> todd: another example how the left does think it owns your kids. >> cheryl: exactly. critics are going after president biden for this comments. >> 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. >> cheryl: senator tim scott tweeting, mr. president, you are absolutely wrong. parental rights group, moms for liberty, stating, we do not co-parent with the government. >> todd: i made the joke, it is not funny, after you did what i did yesterday with my children, you are the parent, you have ownership over that child and joe biden has not ownership and you pay for that child. thank you.

seattle largest school district cutting music classes, you won't believe why. >> we're a school district that -- surrounded by white supremacy culture, local government, state government, churches, neighborhoods allow white supremacy culture to cause significant institutional violence, are things we have to think about as a community. wow, she has three kids in the school district and joins me now. how is music racist? >> well, it is not and it is in this situation no evidence provided whatsoever what he said had anything to do with the music programs. this type of language from this particular director and the entire board is not surprising at all, this is actually par for thes course. >> todd: did the district

provide examples how music classes are examples of white supremacy? >> no, the issue is that we have such a catastrophic budget, the are cutting programs and this program has been deemed inequitable. director of elementary education stated the program is unequitable, when she heard the word tradition of excellence used to describe the music program, she says the word tradition translated to her as discrimination. this is hard to ignore at this point. >> todd: if you need an example of how the left wants to tear down our traditions in the

aggregate, look at that statement. calling this tradition and tradition is bad, think about that for a moment. this is not the first time they are dealing with this. olympia school district had history of controversial policy, one was appointing blm activist that said she was -- one established a student group and the principal said no white students were allowed. what is this doing to the kids? >> well, this is causing a lot of division and a lot of damage. it sounds nuts to probably a lot of people, we are living through this here. as a result of all of this and policies being implemented, we are losing students in huge numbers, not talking about handful of students, hundreds of

students are exiting the district and all citing these reasons. you cannot sustain a school district with a mass exodus of students, it is just not sustainable. for funding or anything else. >> this is about fifth grade instrumental music. fifth grade instrumental music. we are going to reach out to the board for comment. we'll keep you posted once we get an answer. we appreciate you coming on the program and telling us about this, this seems not right. hunter biden going on the offensive into family corruption. >> james: that is just a drop in the buckets, this is national security performance we have. >> todd: wait until you hear the latest moves from hunter's legal

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>> todd: hunter biden legal team taking a more aggressive strategy into the investigation. his team is going after marjorie taylor greene. >> james: going after anyone trying to bring the story to light. they have been influence pedalling with china. this family took in over million dollars from the chinese communist party, just a drop in the bucket from what we believe we will present to the american people in the next few months. this is a national security crisis with respect to public corruption in the white house. >> ashley: brooke singman joins us live with more, good morning. >> brooke: hunter biden lawyer demanding the inspector general

look into trump aide garrett ziegler for showing his banking record. writing a letter, i request they investigate the private records. hunter's team urged it take action against congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. they are arguing greene made defamatory statements against hunter and should be held accountable. hunter is kicking back in santa barbara at $50 million vineyard owned by medical device company executive joe kiani, who is a major donor to joe biden. and zeroing in on how the legislative branch will investigate hunter biden's business dealings ahead of a meeting with doj officials.

>> step one, get the facts on the table, we have duty to do investigation and get the truth out for the american people. second, we have to propose legislation to remedy the situation, agencies weaponized against we the people the american citizens. >> brooke: and nancy mace is calling for an investigation into every biden family member who had a role in hunter's deal. it is not a conspiracy, we're talking about up to a dozen biden family members and the left says no one is above the law. put your money where your mouth is, have this fully investigated. >> how do you know what you saw -- >> i would ask the department of justice to follow the money, more questions than answers and more biden families involved than we know. >> brooke: it is knowledged

prosecutors are weighing whether to bring a number of charges against him. >> ashley: thank you, brooke singman. fact check biden website fact checking the president in realtime, as he is expected to launch his campaign today. >> todd: ronna mcdaniel says they will continue to hold biden accountable for lies and the american people will, too. >> ashley: joe concha joins us now. why is it so important for republicans to launch this website? "washington post," they monitored 78 false and misleading statement in biden's first 100 days before they stopped tracking. >> joe: amazing. why would they stop tracking? this fact checking idea is solid idea because this president sits on a throne of lies, to yourin po. think about the things he's

claimed. he says that he inherited high inflation we currently have now. no, it was 1.4% and it is triple that number now. he didn't inherit this, he created it. republicans actually are ones who want to defund the police? lie. they say that donald trump is to blame for the current situation we have at the border that they inherited the problem. bottom line, basically fact checkers have taken a 27-month spring break since the president has taken office. karine jean-pierre everyday deserves a fact check or 10 has not been fact checked by politifact. the rnc has to step in and hold this president accountable. fact checkers should be there often and the rnc, not tough to fact check. somebody has to do it. >> todd: it is unclear if the president smells like beef and

cheese, we'll send peter doocy in to see. will they be quick to use the republican fact checkers with the r next to their name as they were in the trump administration. >> joe: two words, no shot. i don't see that happening, do you? >> todd: interesting, fact checking only goes one way? >> joe: it seems, yes. you can't find the guy in terms of being on the air to fact check joe biden and the examples are numerous and happen daily. >> ashley: you guys are killing me with the conferences. >> todd: it is april 25ths, not december 25th, i'm off on the christmas movies. >> ashley: calling out the dnc for not having debates

scheduled. there are no other ideas we should discuss about ways to win in 2024 or other ideas to discuss about ways to repair the country and former ohio state senator nina turner says this is democratic and robs voters are choice. it does. i feel like they may be scared that biden cannot handle it or god forbid they bring up it is hunter biden story that ties him in. >> joe: it is about power, not transparency. wyoming is no longer the first state that will cost votes. that is all by design. r.f.k. jr. polling 14% out of the gate, overall in one poll, one third of democratic voters rather have r.f.k., marianne williamson or player to be named

later. majority of democrats don't want this president to run. when you take away debate stage, it sends a shot at joe manchin, you will not have a chance to debate, we will not allow it, the basement strategy worked in 2020 and it is alive and well. >> todd: all we have seen from joe biden's disastrous election, can joe biden call a lid 19 months before the election and still win over independents? >> joe: absolutely. >> todd: independents, not democrats. >> joe: it is usually swing votes. donald trump will be front and center everyday, and not in a good way, it will be about legal trouble and

something he bha have said on truth social. it will be referendum on donald trump, instead of the guy in the oval office. it worked in 2020 for whatever reason, less you see of him, the better it is. >> ashley: trump takes the focus off him, nobody cares when trump is up talking. what does it matter? >> joe: he is the commande commander-in-chief. >> todd: thank you, joe, new video appearing to show the suspect accused of operating chinese police station in new york rubbing shoulders with dems. chuck schumer didn't have much to say, find out if david webb has anything to say. >> ashley: brian kilmeade will look at what is coming up on

"fox and friends." >> brian: david webb, three layers. i will still around. next three hours, joe giving it a go again, expected to throw his hat in the ring announcing had can dasy himself on tape. is the party behind the 80 year old? it doesn't seem so and florida governor ron desantis says stay tuned on potential white house run and what it means for the gop field tlchl he is. overseas in sudan, 16,000 americans stuck in the war-torn country and the white house says they are on their own for now, claiming it is too dangerous to rescue them. have we not seen this before? on the roster john james will be here, he served in the military and sara huckabee sanders.

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>> todd: new video showing new york mayor adams and chuck schumer rubbing elbows with the suspected chinese agent being accuse' much operating a chinese police station right mere in new york city. schumer didn't have much to say about it. >> senator, what can you tell us about attending a gal la last month and taking photos with a suspected ccp agent? >> ashley: how infuriating lawmakers think can they ignore.

this this person has $32,000 to democrat since 2006. does he know this person? does he not? why not answer the question? this doesn't look good. >> let's draw a track here. dianne feinstein, her driver, swalwell, fang fang, there is another path ignored in the story by most media outl ts. those acting as chinese agents operating in america have been doing so since we have been around. now they are operating fully with the democrat party. they go to compromise politicians or donate to get close to them. it's an effective strategy. they seek influence. you don't get influence in new york city or new york state from the republicans you get it from the democrats. look at all these other states. this is not just a new york problem. the chinese communist party is operating out of chinatown strategy which started decades ago to influence to if you have a family member in china and

you're an expat over here that can do something about that. if you were involved in tiananmen square. i talked to people that survived mao's revolution. they outline and she does and others do what their strategies do when you see it makes sense. i have got to tell you, predominantly it's with democrat politicians because they align more with the left. the far left and their outright communists operating as democrats. look at the working family's party in new york city -- i mean new york state, frankly and 24 states. this is part of a greater strategy. >> this was a picture taken 10 years ago before we knew the ill effects of china. this was taken last month. everybody should be on board that china is the enemy. i don't know how we can ever have confidence that the left will be tough on the ccp when we

continue to see images like this and we continue to hear things from this administration by the administration not being tough. before we let you go. i want to get your thoughts on this. fentanyl, now killing more americans per week than covid, david. look at these numbers on average 2,000 deaths caused by fentanyl overdoses weekly. covid caused again you feel bad for the people passed and their families. only 1100 last week comparatively. >> covid has been endemic for the while. catching up for what is going on. fentanyl is growing. there is something worse than fentanyl: we are starting to see overdoses in multiple states. and it's not about the people who die and that's already tragic enough but it destroys families it. destroys a relationship. so those who survive, who don't die from an overdose, their lives are ruined. combined with the other factors.

combined with abuse in the family. goes in all directions within family units. these drugs and china, by the way. precursors come from china to the cartels. they come in through legal ports of entry because we can only check so much. they come across the southern better. we are interdicting a chemical war being carried out by china primarily when it comes to fentanyl against this country. think of a population that literally is unable to run its own life. a growing percentage of that that benefits the chinese communist party. it weakens america. and if we can't function as people, we can't function as a country. >> ashley: you know, and they have known this was happening and coming from china. i have d.e.a. agents tell me back in 2013 that it was coming from china. they knew it was coming from china. my thing is if you declare an emergency with covid because it was killing so many people. why not declare an emergency with fentanyl and shut the border down? >> why not designate the

cartels. designate them as far as in terrorist organizations. they're literally carrying out an attack on our country daily. in the time we have done this segment, someone may have died. >> that's horrible and unconscionable more action isn't being taken. >> good to see you. >> todd: with that -- >> ashley: "fox & friends" starts right now. have a good day. ♪ >> ainsley: a fox news alert. right now, president joe biden making it official. announcing his 2024 re-election campaign. >> freedom, personal freedom, is fundamental to who we are as americans. >> there's nothing more important. nothing more sacred. >> that's been the work of my first term, to fight for our democracy. >> this shouldn't be a red or blue issue. >> to protect our rights, to make sure that everyone in this country is treated equally and that everyone is given