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we're making full resources available to support them. brooke singman has the details. >> brooke: officials confirming three soldiers are dead and another hurt near healy, alaska. the major general saying the fort community is one of the tightest knit in service, i have no doubt they will pull together and provide comfort to the families of the fallen. the apache helicopters collided in flight and went down 115 miles from fairbanks. two soldiers were declared dead at the scene and a third died on the way to the hospital. a fourth soldier is being treated for injuries. this is the second helicopter

accident this year. in february a military helicopter was involved in a military accident and a month to the day when two blackhawks collided midair before going down. we'll continue to monitor last night's crash as officials begin investigating what went wrong. >> ashley: thank you. president biden approval rating hit an all-time low and the white house plays defense after rocky start to the campaign. >> todd: alexandria hoff in washington with more. >> alexandria: look back at july of last year to find a number nearly as low, back then it was 38%. this latest gallup poll says 37% of americans approve. age is a major worry for americans who had reported not wanting the president to seek

another term. at 80, he will do so. moments like this do not help. >> what was the last country you traveled to? >> president biden: the last one i was in, i've been to 89 -- met with 89 heads of state so far. the last -- the last place i was, hard to keep track. >> ireland. >> you are right, ireland, that is where it was. how did you know that? >> brooke: the white house had to defend a cheat sheet held by the president at a joint press conference is wednesday, showing a question that would come from a specific los angeles times reporter. >> can you explain how that ended up there and why the president needed something like that? >> it is entirely normal for a president to be briefed on reporters who will be asking questions and issues we expect

they might ask about. >> brooke: los angeles times writing, our reporter did not support questions in advance, she is in regular contact seeking information for reporting. you would have to ask the white house who prepared the document and why they included that question. the question did not exactly match what was seen on the card, but the topic was the same. >> ashley: interesting, thank you. reince priebus served as chief of staff and had a lot to say about president biden. >> i was thinking about the press secretary issue. one of two i think thises happened, either the press secretary prescreened the questions or suggested them ahead of time or all the reporters sent in questions and those questions were chosen based on whether the press

secretary or joe biden liked the question and went for it. my experience was opposite. he kept going and going and going and never stopped taking the questions. >> ashley: another moment caught people's attention at the white house yesterday. president biden conveniently leaving out a grandkid when asked about them. >> president biden: i have six grandchildren and i'm crazy about them and i speak to them every single day. not a joke. >> ashley: this isn't the first time the president has ignored hunter's child since her birth in 2018. a year later, a d.n.a. test proved hunter was the father. he has fought to lower child support payments and an arkansas judge is ordering hunter to

appear in court next week for the paternity case. >> todd: think about that poor little girl. and update from the doj on federal probe into business affair says as new e-mails reveal hunter had a close relationship with chris kunz. >> ashley: jonathan gilliam joins us now. we are finding out hunter had a close relationship with president biden's co-chair chris kunz. kunz's finance director wrote in an e-mail, thank you for taking the time to meet with me and chris kun answer, we appreciate this and ways you can help chris win this senate race. your thoughts? >> jonathan: i read the back and

forth between the people that work for the candidate chris kunz and the part of hunter biden, we hear about him being hired by burisma and china and the issues over there and hear about his dealings and the laptop, but never get to see the relationship that hunter has with washington, d.c., through his father. hunter has never been in office or done anything he would be in the positions he's in where these people are literally fauning over him when they write him for meetings with him, not with his dad, but with him. from my perspective, he has nothing to offer. hunter biden has no expertise or

superior training to offer or longstanding service to offer. there is only one particular thing he had that nobody else had and that was that joe biden is his father and that the atmosphere in which e-mails were sent, you would think hunter biden is the man in washington, d.c. to go to for advice and contacts to big business people and to his dad. guess what, that is no joke, that is the truth. >> todd: i think the american people ultimately see through this. new poll showing 69% of americans believe hunter biden is using family connections to avoid harsher punishment. so doj under merrick garland slow rolls the investigation for years. we had a person on from the fbi,

they have had this information for a while and doj hasn't done anything with it. when james comer investigation heats up, hunter's team demands an update from the doj. is that assessment by me accurate? >> jonathan: it is, there is not a clear picture why they are demanding these thing. i can't tell if they are parading outrage, so the narrative can go through and this will dwindle away, that is a possibility or if they are not getting information for some reason and want to demand it to start formulating a narrative, i can't tell which that is, after reading e-mails if people get a chance to go read the story that your producer sent me as i was doing research about chris

coons' people, you will see a different picture of what is portrayed about hunter and his connections are so deep if i was in the doj at a certain position, i would be very nervous about going forward trying to prosecute hunter biden. he's that connected around dc. >> todd: it feels like chris coons was hand-picked by the biden administration for multiple reasons. >> ashley: anybody else would have been charged long ago, no denying that. the fbi director christopher wray, this is interesting, attempting to shut down accusation that the bureau is politically biassed against republicans while testifying in front of congress. >> just to be clear, there are no political appointees in the fbi, everybody is a career civil

servant, unless you count me. >> you're career, too. >> that is different from most other agencies in the federal government. >> ashley: wouldn't that be nice if everyone in the fbi was a career civil servant. what do you think? >> jonathan: you always have to take what christopher wray or any directors have to say at face value. he is a political appointee. he wasn't appointed by donald trump because of his honest reputation. it was a good deal made between chris christie and donald trump. it was a mistake to put christopher wray in there, same thing with the ones before him. and here is the reality, here is the little twinge of truth christopher wray says right there, it is not so much political as it is ideological.

when it comes to the democrats, these people are ideologically chosen, you see that with comey and mueller. end of the day, cases that are picked and the cases that get the most attention are the ones that are politically resonating with the people that the -- follow the president that is in office. these are outright lies, but the way they present those lies, christopher wray is an attorney and excellent at presenting lies in a way that are twinged with a little truth. typically that is no surprise for individuals, that is the way they work. >> todd: there may be not political appointees on paper, doesn't feel that way in account prais. jonathan gilliam. >> jonathan: one thing about it, people at that level do not get pulled up to work with

christopher wray or don't climb a ladder to get to the top. you climb a ladder to a certain point in the fbi and dod, you get pulled up the rest of the way, and only if you identify with individuals and that is what occurs. >> todd: all right. leave it there. thank you. speaking of difference between on paper and in practice, the 2023 nfl draft kicked off with 31 players selected in the first round and ashley, there were quite a few surprising moments. >> ashley: i watched every could is. lauren is wrapping up from washington. good morning. >> good morning, todd and ashley. panthers jumped to the top of the draft picking out their brand-new quarterback, alabama's bryce young. >> alabama selects bryce young,

quarterback, alabama. >> three chosen in first four picks, texans snagging cj stroud before trading up will anders k anderson and richardson went to -- and left on the board, kentucky quarterback will levis. detroit lions chose alabama running back jahmyr gibbs. jolt to start your morning, make a wish's kyle stickles, got hyped with the jets selection. >> with the 15th pick in the n.f.l. the new york jets, jets, jets, jets select will mcdonald,

linebacker iowa state. let's go. yeah. [laughter] >> you know he got some love online, mahomes writing shout out to stickles, for bringing the energy. second and third rounds are tonight. todd and ashley, i wish i had a hype man like kyle. >> todd: i think ashley had amazing insight and analysis, your thoughts on the draft? >> ashley: i need a couple hours to digest. i will get a graph and everything, stand by. >> todd: she said she thought will levis was cute. >> ashley: they are 22 years old, they have a big career ahead of themselves. >> todd: analysis segment with chris voleta in the 5:00 hour,

we'll rank players by cuteness. thank you. another touching moment yesterday when the league womaned families of university of virginia football players killed in the school shooting last fall, made honorary draft picks, families receiving their jerseys. desean perry and lavelle davis jr. lost their lives. former new york jets offensive tackle speaking about each of them and honoring their memory before the draft began. such a senseless tragedy. beautiful memory for their families. san diego leaders want to home the homeless. >> ashley: onlookers gasp in terror as protesters destroy the case containing a famous sculptor in the name of climate change. we have bizarre moment next.

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>> the parents of ethan chapin speaking out after the murders at university of idaho. they last saw ethan seven days before he was killed on parent's weekend. >> we had an amazing weekend together and drove out of town that sunday morning and literally high-fived each other that day. we literally congratulated each other. we were like, we've done it. we've done it. we have created, they are adulting, they are kind. >> we were planning on taking trips and spending time on the road. and just in a week it all changed. >> todd: the strength of those parents kohberger has been charged for the murders, his

preliminary hearing will begin on june 26th. >> ashley: san diego wants california taxpayers to foot the massive bill for their new plan to house the homeless in the city. it includes purchasing three hotels for $157.9 million. you heard that right. that is about 383,000 per unit. jim desmond is a county supervisor in san diego and joins me now. is this the right way to go about combating homelessness in the city? >> no, it is not, ashley. thanks for having me on here. 383,000 per hotel room, the city of san francisco is making this purchase. unfortunately, this money comes with strings and the main string, we have to offer housing first program, which sounds good, housing first.

basically itten moos people that get housing or get the rooms or units do not have to go into drug treatment or alcohol treatment or mental health treatment. what we're doing, california has about a third of the homeless of the entire country and we keep throwing more and more dollars at this problem without getting to the root cause of mental health or alcohol abuse or drug abuse and that is what people need to get into, treatment, not just the hotel room where they can continue to use -- not the bad habits that got them homeless in the first place. somebody is making money off this deal and it is not fixing homelessness. >> ashley: correct me if i'm wrong, i haven't heard of an incentive to get people clean or get them out of hotels they are wanting to buy to put people in

extended stays. what is the end goal, is this indefinite program to live there the rest of their lives? you would want them to get out on their own and not be under the support of the state. >> absolutely, but this housing first program, which the state dollars are tied to and federal dollars, any of the housing or homeless dollars we get can only qualify if we have this housing first program, which doesn't have requirements. we treat our pets better than we treat our fellow human beings, or homeless on the street. if this was your child, you would want them in treatment. treatment is necessary, all carrot, no stick. no requirement you get clean or healthy or get into a program. i think we have to -- we're getting to the point we have to force people involuntarily get them into the programs they

need. if you're in a drug-induced fog and hooked on heroin, you are not thinking clearly. if you live and use drugs and alcohol and there is a family down the hall in another room or unit and they're trying to get clean or get kids off to school and you have drug use in the same facility or in the same hotel, it really is a losing battle, but that is the way the feds and the state of california, you have to spend your dollars. >> ashley: that is the thing, these people are not getting the root causes addressed and if you don't address the root cause, there is no end game, we'll keep playing the same game over and over with no solution. i need your quick thoughts on the fact san diego wants california taxpayers to foot this bill. >> well, it is outrageous and we keep getting more and more

homeless people onnure on streets, the numbers are going up, not going down. past three years, state of california spent $10 billion on homeless and trying to fix the homeless problem and solution and caught in this never-ending cycle of homeless first. it has a fancy name and everybody says it sounds great, get them into housing, absolutely. if there is no rule or consequences for bad behavior, we are spinning our wheels and throwing more and more money at a problem that we're not going to solve until we get to those root causes of mental health and drug abuse and then can get a person into housing and spending all this $157 million on more rooms doing the same thing causing the same problem is fruitless. >> ashley: right. i can imagine that $157, almost

$158 or $159 million in california could go toward a lot of other things to help situations there. ittic mas you wonder and scratch your head thinking when are leaders in california going to stop throwing money at this situation with no solutions until they realize, this is not working, we're going to have to go back to the drawing board here. hope they figure it out soon, $10 billion to combat this with no resolution, that is ridiculous. thank you for your time. >> todd: i think they will figure it out when the moneyun ares out. >> ashley: they rely on taxpayers, a blank check for them. now to this, more irs agents coming to your state and going to be armed. wait until you hear all the details about this one. >> todd: you answered my question, why the money will never run out, the irs has armed agents taking your money. andern ms in sudan are hiring

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"wall street journal," our rescue teams have to navigate checkpoints in an active war zone. we have clients waiting, but it is increaseingly getting dangerous. >> todd: co-founder of project dynamo -- both join us now. brian, how dire is the situation right now in sudan? >> well, put in perspective a turkish c-130 was attacked by rsf doing evacuations within the last few hours or so. so there is active fighting in the streets, there is gunfire, it is a war zone and this war is the worst kind, two armed groups armed to the teeth with foreign support, if you will, that are

well trained, well armed and on their turf. this is gearing up to be pretty bloody. >> ashley: mark, i will go to you on this know wo. when he talks about what is happening on the ground actively right now and you get these calls or get notified these people, these americans are wanting to get out of sudan, how do you vet these people to make sure that you know who you are getting out? how does that process work? >> it is a complicated process. what we do is depending on the organization, we're looking for american citizens first, as a priority, greencard holders. the administration, instead of calling them americans, they are calling them dual-citizens, which i think is downplaying the importance of we have people who are legal voters that are trapped and left behind in a

country that is war torn and they do not want to provide help. it is left up to project dynaamerica o sxp shadow warrors project. >> todd: here is what was said yesterday. >> the situation could deteriorate at any moment, any option is a degree of risk. the situation is unlikely to improve, we encourage americans who want to leave to take advantage of the options that are available to them in the next 24 to 48 hours. >> todd: brian, as mark eluded to, this is after the white house told americans living in sudan earlier in the week to shelter in place because the u.s. government was not going to come for them. brian, doesn't this feel like the botched withdrawal of

americans in afghanistan all over again? >> i tell you, i was actually talking about this yesterday, this is now the third country project dynamo has operated in where the u.s. embassy closed and left americans here, first afghanistan, ukraine and now here. this is a terrible message, not just to our people, but to the world, to say nothing of the fact that there are americans stuck in a war zone in very terrible circumstances and they don't need to be. we have the most powerful military on planet earth. we can figure this out, not saying we should go to are wa, that is a policy thing and above my pay grade. certainly a better option than good luck and too bad, so sad. >> ashley: yeah, brian, she can say what she want from the

podium, when the safety in dc, butten 22 the checkpoints and active fighting, they say 24 to 48 hours for americans to get out, is that a reasonable amount of time? surely it will take longer than that, am i right? >> well, i mean, imagine if you are living on the ground and you're a mommy, daddy and a couple kids and you have to live life as an american refugee, it will take a minute. you can leave everything behind and run in the streets, but they are shooting people. you have to be calculating, certainly there is ia better oping than i hope it, wos out, that has been my concern with these things. if project dynamo can come, certainly the u.s. government can, too, and if they can't or

won't, that is being00, but they have to support the other groups and get our american citizens to safety. something has to give. >> todd: mark, final word, england, france, germany and italy have evacuated their citizens, what special magic do those countries have that the united states of america, greatest country on earth does not have under the biden administration? >> you know, i'm not sure what that is. i would suggest to the administration, maybe they ought to call them and ask, is it because it is africa? again, it goes back to the messaging they had, they are dual-citizens, instead of calling them americans, downplaying who they are. i don't know if it is because it is the continent it is, the location it is, they are not giving it due respect or due diligence that it should and it

shouldn't be left up to groups like project dynamo to do this. as brian said, we have the greatest military in the world, but we have an organization, an administration that is not willing to use that power and influence that we could have to protect our american citizens abroad. >> todd: our military lives by leave no man or woman behind, you think the administration would operate with the same approach for american is thes. apparently not. brian and mark, thank so much and best of luck over there. >> ashley: thank you both for what you do. >> we are donor funded, not for profit, projectdynamo.org, working to save our people. >> todd: help them out. pentagon taking closer look at how vet security clearance following alleged leaker

exposing pages of secret u.s. documents. >> the department is looking not only at intelligence processes and procedures's relates to security and sensitive information and who has that information and looking at the process by which we clear and vet individuals for security clearances. >> todd: defense department comes as jack teixeira appears in court. prosecutors argue he should be detained fearing he will flee and obstruct the having. jack teixeira is accused of leaking a trove of classified document, punishable by minimum of 25 years in prison. >> ashley: a train derailing along the banks of the mississippi river, leaving at least four injured, bnsf railway sent two cars into the water, hazard material like lithium

batteries were on board, but they do not believe it is a risk to the public. they have not called for evacuations and they are investigating the cause of the crash. okay, the irs plans to hire special agents who carry guns and make arrests in all 50 states. under major duties on the agent job posting site, the irs says the agents must "carry a firearm, be prepared to protect him, herself or others from physical attacks at any time and without warning and use firearms and life-threatening situations and must be willing to use force up to and including theus of deadly force," the agents will be part of the irs criminal investigation division, now looking to fill roles at 250 locations throughout the country with at least one in each state. i don't even know what to say about that. >> todd: i'll create an image

for the viewer out there. think of every accountant you know and think of them packing. that's all. i don't have an opinion, i want you to have this visual. >> ashley: what is the training to do that? this will cause more harm than good. >> todd: i don't think you are wrong, this is the approach, they will always have tax dollars because now they are armed. >> ashley: one fed-up father who stood up to his daughter's woke school non--ed a -- pro-parent agenda. >> todd: sharla main primary debates. >> put joe biden up on that stage with bobby kennedy, who is challenging them and marianne williamson and let's have a discussion. >> todd: let's play a little boys to men. >> ashley: i've never heard this. >> todd: never heard this song? >> ashley: no, i have.

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out the dnc. >> it is whack the dnc won't do no primaries, put joe biden up on the stage with bobby kennedy and marianne williamson and whoever steps up to the plate and have a discussion. >> ashley: you may remember charlamagne interviewed then candidate biden when he made this remark in 2020. >> you have more questions, if you have a problem figuring out if you are for me or trump, then you ain't black. >> it don't have nothing to do with trump, it has to do with my community. >> take a look at my record, man. joe concha will join us with his thoughts on this. and jim justice setting his sights on joe manchin's seat in 2024. manchin has not announced if he will run for reelection for a

third term. joe manchin supported the -- after his victory in 2016. government justice joins "fox and friends" later today to talk about the bid for senate. >> todd: interesting to hear what he has to say, that will be a wild race. a father who exposed his daughter's manhattan school for denying quota. andrew gutman is running for congress in florida. he says the same sense of duty is callings him to dc. here with more is congressional candidate, andrew gutman. you mention sense of duty is why you are running. what do you see as your duty? >> i wrote a letter to all the parents at my daughter's school, i never expected it to be read

by anyone other than parents. it got media attention and helped start it is parent's movement and i felt i had a duty to do that now. somebody had to speak up, other parents weren't doing it. two years later, we had a parent's movement and this is the next stage to have what we call the accidental activists to step up and run for political office because we have no choice but to fight for our children's education, fight for parent alg rights. k-12 is front line of the culture war. we need local, state and federal level that can fight that fight and i think very few of the people understand what is at stake here. it is enorm out amount at stake here. >> todd: you wrote, i cannot tolerate a school that judges my daughter by the color of her skin, but encourages and encourages her to prejudice

others by theirs. that is a statement and a half. going beyond brierley, the school you took your daughter out of, do you view this as existential threat? >> no question it is an existential threat. i wrote a piece after the mid-term election, why was there failure of the red wave, one in florida and one in new york. it was young voters. if you look at ages 18 to 29, there are over whelmingly democrat, plus 30 in key battleground states. this was why there was no red wave and kids that got indoctrinated, now we're indoctrinating kids starting in kindergarten and k-12 and if we

don't fix the education issue, there is a serious problem in the country. >> todd: how is your doughertier doing? >> doing terrific, i appreciate you asking. she's been a trooper. she was supportive of my letter. she loves history, we talk about it all the time, she's doing terrific. >> todd: you are a money guy, financial guru, wizard, if you will. while in dc, assuming you are able to win, restore fiscal sanity to dc, andrew gutman. duel-track it. >> that is part of my platform, as well. >> todd: loving the free state of florida, leaving me and ashley alone here. we appreciate it. fox news alert, helicopter crash over alaska leaves three u.s. soldiers dead and a fourth fighting for his life in the

hospital this morning. >> ashley: we have breaking details next.

>> todd: a fox news alert, helicopter crash leaves three soldiers dead and a fourth fighting for his life in the hospital this morning. two apache choppers collided in the sky. you're watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. the fallen soldiers memor liesing the three heroes, this incredible loss for the soldiers families, their fellow soldiers and for the division. our hearts and prayers go out to families, friends and loved ones and we are making the full resources of the army available to help them. brooke singman has details. >> brooke: officials confirming three soldiers are dead and another is hurt after two helicopters crash near