a toe in the door for future espionage operations to happen as we have seen in the last couple of weeks with the six police stations that were found and 40 police agents of the crp and ccp arrested in new york. >> steve: slotkin is running for your state in michigan. see what happens. ambassador, thank you very much for starting your friday here with us at "fox & friends." >> great to start my friday with you. thank you, god bless. >> rachel: all right. >> steve: all right. it's 7:00 in new york city and the second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ >> can you explain? >> it is entirely normal we do not get questions in advance. >> all time low. >> gallup poll 37% of americans approving. >> joe biden up up on that stage with bobby kennedy and marion williamson. >> we are 13 days away from the title 42 where the dhs secretary is out with a new plan.

>> the plan to continue to process individuals in the country. they are not the problem. >> officials confirming three dead. >> rushing from a training exercise when two choppers collided. >> this is incredible loss for these soldiers families and for the division. >> retail crime rise nationwide. >> the target store has now put shelves and inventory on lockdown. >> cosmetics, toothpaste, even the soap is all boarded up. going to be hard to shop at that target. >> the 2023 nfl draft now officially open with the first pick, the carolina panthers select bryce young, quarterback, alabama. >> it's a blessing and honor to be here. and ♪ for you ♪ i'm a sucker for you. >> steve: listening to the jonas brothers who actually grew up in northern new jersey as you look life at surf city new jersey.

>> rachel: i know that you know that trivia. >> steve: jonas brothers live down the street from us and actually went to school in the school behind our house. >> >> rachel: kid rock, the jonas brothers. you're just so cool. >> steve: i can't help it. surf city in new jersey not what the beach boys are. >> brian: put that music up for a second you? could tell how young they are ♪ i'm a sucker for you. >> brian: they sing much deeper now. >> rachel: so much more soulful. >> steve: how old is this song? >> brian: or it was mixed that way. and that should be a hallmark expression i'm a sucker for you, happy valentine's day. i am a sucker for you. is that endearing term if a woman you are trying to impress say, honey, i'm a sucker for you. is that something that women embrace? >> rachel: no. >> brian: we will find out. got to find out for us. >> steve: it was a really big

song that year 2019. >> brian: i like the expression. >> steve: it's a good one. going back to them, the jonas brothers. they lived over by the dairy queen, so every time the kids would after a game or something like that, we would take them to the dairy queen, we would always drive by the jonas brothers house to see if we could see them. >> rachel: see if you could catch them. way to get your dilly bar. >> steve: we never saw them at the dairy queen but we saw them at the stop and shop. hey, joe. >> brian: now they are big successes. i think some of them are acting, aren't they? >> steve: yeah. absolutely. they are doing very well. congratulations. >> rachel: some day do a whole segment on the jonas brothers. >> brian: we didn't plan on it. >> steve: they have been on the show. >> brian: not enough. >> rachel: president biden's approval rating not as high as the jonas brothers for sure. it's hitting all-time low as he kick starts his re-election bid. >> steve: yep, and the white house is already on defense after a rocky start to the campaign earlier this week.

>> brian: i don't know if he gave photo approval for that but it does work for this. alexandria hoff joins us now in washington. alexandria. >> brian, steve, rachel. according to gallup polling the rating is 53% approval rating. president biden coming in at 37% of americans approving of his performance right now. the last time it was this low was back in june of last year when that number was 38%. keep in mind this latest survey concluded the day that president biden announced his re-election campaign. so there are plenty of questions on how that can get turned around. buff it's how president biden prepares for questions from the press which had the white house on defense yesterday. it's after a cheat sheet of sorts was spotted in the president's hands. the image showed that a particular question 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 at a press conference. and issues that we expect they might ask about. >> well, the "l.a. times" weighed in on this, too. writing our reporter did not submit any questions in advance of the q&a with president biden. as such, she is in regular contact with the white house press office seeking information for her reporting. you would have to ask the white house who prepared the document for the president and why they included that question. now, the question that the "l.a. times" reporter did ask did not exactly match what was seen on the card but the topic was the same. we'll send it back to you. >> steve: all right. alexandria thank you very much. and we were talking about this yesterday. and we said, you know, ultimately the "l.a. times" is going to have to explain and they said we did not coordinate with the white house. >> rachel: you can decide whether you believe that or not. >> brian: i decided. >> steve: the question was so close to the stuff we saw on the card it just looked kind of suspicious. >> brian: there you go. >> steve: looked like they were trying to protect the president as he rolls out this first week of his campaign. >> rachel: exactly.

and look at those poll numbers and how low they are and imagine how much lower they would be if we had a free and honest press. the media runs cover for him. we had the proof with the cheat sheet there. by the way, yesterday, the president asked by children -- because it was bring your kids to work day. >> steve: yeah. >> rachel: they asked him where's the last country you visited? and he couldn't remember that he was just in ireland, which he made a big deal about. >> steve: last week. a week ago. >> brian: remember when he gave inspirational story about kids and gave great advice about success in the career by bringing up jesse helms. that was a great motivating story. the "wall street journal" has a story today and they basically talk about the rollout. and why joe biden is running. and he says he is running because he feels as though he can beat trump and if trump loses, if trump ends up winning and he doesn't run, he will regret it the rest of his life. he also says he wants to keep going unify nato and finish out

the operation in ukraine and he also says he wants to continue to green the economy. >> steve: right. >> brian: run for the hills. that's the reason why he is running. let's see if he will actually run because, if you look at the polls, with 37% approval rating. it's really must be unnerving in the white house when only 27% of the country even want him to run again. >> steve: and 37 is the historic low for this presidency during the, i think, alexandria said the tenth quarter. when you look look back historiy ronald reagan lower. i'm talking about a different quarter than that nonetheless he was at 35%. reagan was. unemployment at 10%. ultimately he picked up and he went around and came back and he won re-election. so, i'm sure the white house is thinking okay, if reagan could do it in a bad economy so can joe biden. and the number, if you look at the cross tabs of this poll for

biden, by gallup, the most encouraging thing for the people who run the white house and the campaign is the fact that joe biden has an 83% approval rating with democrats. that's why he is their man. >> rachel: even higher approval rating with liberal media. >> steve: he does. >> rachel: that explains a lot of the poll numbers. a lot of people feel like just he gets so much cover and support from the media. i mean, i'm still in shock about what we just talked about. but, that's the way it is these days. >> brian: for now. we'll see. i think it is telling that without actually almost any campaign marianne williamson has 9% of the vote. and r.f.k. 19% of the vote in a recent poll. maybe people want a choice on the left. the one big story where president biden has been ranking extremely low on is in immigration and the borders. and it is about to get a whole lot worse. in a matter of two weeks, title

42 allows people to be immediately expelled because of the pandemic put in place by the trump administration will evaporate. but they think they have a plan. and it's called title ix. title 8. and title 8 goes into place. and among the things they are going to do is let people apply for citizenship in guatemala and there's another nation. guatemala as well as another country in the latin america. this way they will cut out the traffickers who are getting so much money to get here. the problem is if they apply for citizenship, and the criteria remains the same. they will not get in because we have strict criteria and you can't say 4 million people are going to fit that criteria and they just come here illegally anyway. >> rachel: they just had a list that said that you would have preferential treatment if you were under age, so under the age of 18, or came with somebody who was under the age of 18. if you can't speak english, they

were also going to give you preferential treatment. and also, if you claimed or identified as lgbtq. remember that was on the list of things that will give you. >> brian: that will help you come here? >> rachel: yes. >> brian: colombia is the other hub. >> steve: essentially images we are looking at where people have crossed the river and en masse as you can see there in brownsville, texas. the administration wants less of those. because the dhs wants less people crossing the river and, instead, they want you to use, if you are an illegal migrant heading our way, they want you to use the cbp 1 app. and then you make an appointment. and then you will -- they want to do mass parole grants, certainly. get all those people, you know, all you people, mass parole grant. now, here's the thing. when you look at it, and i was listening to brandon judd yesterday on the channel and what he said was, essentially, there are going to be stiffer penalties if you are caught coming into the country. >> brian: five years you can't

come back. >> steve: unless, brian, you say i'm here for asylum. and then they go okay, hands are tied. title 8. come back in five years for your court appearance and as brandon judd said, nobody ever does. essentially the door is still wide open. >> rachel: also, steve scalise yesterday was saying the numbers that the government is giving us of who has come, in that he doesn't believe those numbers. i agree with him. i don't trust the numbers. and the reason why people don't trust the numbers is because you have someone like alejandro mayorkas saying to the americans that the border is not open when we can clearly see that it is. listen. >> >> we have been precinct for this transition for more than a year and a half. notwithstanding those preparations, we do expect that encounters at our southern border will increase. as smugglers are seeking to take advantage of this change and already are hard at work spreading disinformation that the border will be open after

that. will place a strain on our entire system, including our dedicated and heroic workforce and our communities. the smuggler's propaganda is false. let me be clear, our border is not open and will not be open after may 11th. >> rachel: so insulting, brian. it's so insulting. you -- we had the most secure. >> steve: don't believe your lyin' eyes. >> rachel: most secure border we ever had under president trump. every single border agent will tell you that was true. they reversed every one of his policies. the cartels react to that as they would because they're a criminal enterprise. >> >> brian: come one, come all. and then they say you are spreading disinformation. like i can't. >> brian: i can't imagine smugglers not telling the truth it doesn't seem right. number two is, when you have a -- they keep pointing to the child separation policy that the trump administration had for a couple weeks that even melania was against. that was ill conceived.

they went to d.n.a. kits and kind of fixed it. the policy they have with unaccompanied minors hundreds of thousands are here. 85,000 lost. many in child labor camps, essentially around the country. taking place right now. there is no outrage in this country. the "new york times" 11-page story on it. nobody even picks it up. and he is sitting there okay, we got this title 8 plan. do you know there is no proof that they stood up those hubs yet in colombia or guatemala. they plan on standing it up. you got two weeks to get it ready. >> rachel: the reason why they separated the kids from the parents was actually a very good reason. they wanted to make sure that the parents were actually the parents. and right now we are actually part of the criminal cartel who are letting the children go with people who they don't even know many times. and they're, as you said. rightfully so, being sold into sex slavery and working in slaughter houses and illegally all around our country. we're complicit in it.

>> steve: while the federal government refuse does do anything, the state of florida is. they are poised. the state of florida's legislature is poised to pass a governor ron desantis backed very strict anti-illegal immigrant policy. essentially it would mandate full e verify for public and private employers, if you have got more than 25 employees. you have got to make sure everybody is in the country illegally. if not, there is a gigantic fine. the company can lose their license. if you're a small company. and you have just one that you will loads your license. and every single company caught with a single illegal, their license suspended and anybody who doesn't use the e verify is going to cost them $1,000 a day. so the people of florida will actually have tougher standards regarding illegal migration than the united states of america. >> brian: e verify has been around forever. they decided not to use it especially with certain democratic governors and with this as opposed to. so it could be -- we could be doing. this here's the other thing.

and part of immigration reform that we all agree with there could be ways to loosen it up to get some of these students that want to stay, to see if they want to stay here longer to make it easier or to extend the visa. the other stuff we agree on. but we can't get past the borders. >> steve: ron desantis is going to be, you know, in a couple of weeks or months when he can a declares is he running for president. you know, forget -- look what joe biden's administration has done. look what we did in florida, e verify, $1,000 fine. >> rachel: can we all agree on -- let's punish people who hire or have child labor. can we just agree on that as a country? >> brian: yes. track them down and get them. why are they here to begin with because of bad policies at the border. >> steve: a lot going on. meanwhile, it is 7:15 here in new york city. and ashley joins us right over there with more. >> hey, guys, good morning. start your headlines with. parents of ethan chaffin

speaking out five months after the murder of their son and three others university of idaho. the family telling fox news they last saw ethan just seven days before he was killed. listen. >> we had an amazing weekend together. and we literally high fived each other that day. we literally congratulated each other due back in june. a it target fighting back against shoplifters by locking down entire inventory. protective cases throughout the store that require employee key. target implementing the measures since october along with hiring additional scawrdz. taking multi layer approach to combating theft the carolina panthers kicked off the 2023

draft selecting alabama's bryce young with the first over all pick as three of the top four picks were quarterbacks. the houston texans with back-to-back picks snag ohio state q.b. c.j. stroud. the florida quarterback anthony richardson is heading to the indianapolis colts. now, not selected was kentucky q.b. will levis leaving fans stunned as he was expected to be a top 10 pick the top moment of the night goes make a wish kid kyle sickles who went viral after passionate announcement. watch. >> the 15th pick in the 2023 nfl draft the new york j-e-t-s jets, jets, jets selects will mcdonald, linebacker, iowa state. let's go! yeah! >> ashley: i love this kid. i need him next to me every morning to hype me up. hall of fame joe namath will

join us this morning at 8:50 about all of his thoughts on the exciting first night. i watched the whole thing. i have a whole breakdown of it. >> brian: i saw you with the telestrator. >> steve: we need that kid on our show. friday, april 28th, 2023 here's "fox & friends." >> rachel: be careful, ashley, he might take over telling the news. >> brian: ashley said todd's in trouble. coming up straight ahead, fox news alert now and not good news. three army pilots are dead in apache helicopter crash in alaska. four star general fox news contributor jack keane with mor on that in a minute. don't move. ♪ to help you manage payroll, benefits, and hr today, so you can have more success tomorrow. ♪ one thing leads to another, yeah, yeah ♪ frustrated by skin tags? dr. scholl's has the breakthrough

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>> brian: fox news alert.

three army pilots dead and fourth fighting for his life after a helicopter crash over central alaska. officials say the helicopters collided on their way back to base. lucas tomlinson joins us live with the breaking developments. lucas, what have you learned. >> brian, the second deadly collision helicopters the last month. latest involves a pair of apache crash helicopters. the crash happened in alaska. let's take a look at the map. the collision took place between anchorage and fairbanks. the helicopters wainwright. apaches. the commanding general brian identify ler saying in a statement, quote. this is an incredible lots for these soldier's families, fellow soldiers and division. the fort wayne wright community one of the tightest communities i have seen in 32 years of service. i have no doubt they will pull together in exceptional time of need and provide comfort to the families of our fallen.

>> brian: lucas, thanks so much. another tragedy. not an easy day in the military and general jack keane knows that retired four star general, fox news strategic analyst chairman of the institute of study of war. general, your reaction to something like this. >> well, certainly, as the general indicated i mean, this is a tragic loss to be sure for the families and also for the troops that are serving every single day. it's a reminder, also, that the instruments of war can be as dangerous in peace time as they are in war. we have scores of military killed every single year practicing and preparing for war. that's the issue that they deal with every single day. it's also what gives them such enormous sense of satisfaction in carrying out their duties every single day. we don't know what the cause of this is, brian. i spent four years in alaska. it's a very challenging environmental place and one of the most beautiful places in the world to be frank about it. it either could be the

environment. it certainly could be a maintenance problem or a human factor involved in this. what i am convinced is we will get to the bottom of it. we will know what happened and what went wrong and that will be shared with pilots across the army and across the united states military at large. >> brian: talk about the action right now. there is a hot war going on in ukraine. a lot of people looking forward that are pulling for ukraine like me like hopefully the western world for offensive surge. we understand that nato has got 1500 combat vehicles and 230 tanks ready to go. what do those numbers mean to you? >> well, they are significant, taking a while to get there as we all know. a lot of this support was requested last year, so it's finally in ukraine's hands. the good thing that happened is united kingdom and united states military has been training the ukrainians for weeks on how to do this combat arms mission. that's going to take place here

and certainly training them on the vehicles that they have as well. they put together some 9 to 12 combined arms brigades that's mechanized infantry with tank armored vehicles. and they will be supported by artillery and on occasion overhead tack helicopters and overhead fighter aircraft after the times. they don't have the prolific means of doing that that the united states has. nonetheless, this is combined arms warfare. it's high end conventional war. and this is what we'll see unfolding here when ukraine is ready to pull that trigger. they have waited until they have been able to get the equipment and get the training done. you can imagine how complicated this is, brian. the equipment is coming from different countries, different types of equipment. different maintenance, different spare parts. >> brian: sure. >> different training that has to be conducted. so, integrating all of this together, while you are at war, is really a challenge. and you have got to take your

hats off to the ukrainians for what they are up against and their willingness and determination to get it done and, also, to the united states and our nato partners for getting them this equipment. should have been there sooner. but it's there now. and so the ukrainians are going to -- one thing we do know they will make the most out of it. >> brian: right. a year plus in, this is going to be the most decisive and impactful time in the war because people want to see and the ukrainians want to feel that they're making progress to take their country back. a little intriguing over the last few days, it seems like president xi of china has spoken with zelenskyy at the urging of french president macron. he's acting like a peacemaker. is this, indeed, possible. china going to call up vladimir putin and say pull out? that's the only scenario that would be effective. >> well, to be a peacemaker, you got to be neutral as a third party. and, obviously, xi is not neutral. i mean, he is all in supporting

putin. he is actually agreed with putin that nato is the reason why this war is started and we know that's a false narrative complete completely. democratic independent country and president xi has sided with the russians and russia is committing genocide and it's a brutal war that they are inflicting on the civilian population. it's hard for him though be neutral in this and see any positive outcome. why-what's his motivation here? i think his motivation is to get closer to the europeans. i mean, the europeans have been pulling back from china economically as a result of what has taken place with xi signing sidingwith russia. he wants to get credit in terms of him being on a world stage and exercising diplomacy. you saw what he was able to do in bringing saudi arabia and iran together. he got a lot of credit for that i think that's what he is attempting to do here.

and, remember, he wants to take the place of the united states as the world's global leader. and acting as a diplomatic person on the world stage is something the united states has done for generations so that's part of the story unfolding here positive result going to come of it? i don't think so. >> brian: russia still has 18% of their country. unless they leave, the ukrainians aren't going to stop fighting. general jack keane, thanks so much. have a great weekend. >> yeah. you guys, too. take care. >> brian: coming up. speaking of the weekend coming up on "one nation" 8:00 on saturday and repeated at 11:00. christy nome is going to be with us. grant nape pier got canceled because he said this horrible phrase all lives matter after 30 years with the sacramento kings. he talks about what this last year has been like for him. pete hegseth and will cain together, i don't think they have ever appeared on camera together. i believe for the first time we have our researchers on it. joe did he i have the toe the

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>> pete: former president trump suggests he mate not participate in the republican debate as governor desantis is expected to announce an exploratory committee next month. >> will: let g.p.s. off the wall take a look at the state of the republican race, the polls and america's top concerns. let's start with who is in and who is out. it's starting to look like a big field, at least among possiblies. potentials. only five candidates declared. a lot of attention on people who are looking. >> pete: a lot of 1 percenters in this group that probably won't. what you won't see in this list is a lot of republicans. there aren't a lot of folks that ran in 2016. they know what it's like to run against donald trump. they are not throwing their hat in the ring again. i thought it was interesting about why mike pompeo said he is not running. doesn't feel like my moment. doesn't feel like a moment when someone out of nowhere barn storms the field and known

entity of donald trump. get to the polls in the. >> will: good analysis what is happening on the republican side. whether you can barn storm on the democratic side. steve, brian and rachel talking about in this morning. joe biden has now officially declared for presidency so has self-help guru marianne williamson oprah spin golly. 18% of the polls which is pretty high for somebody taking on a sitting president. >> pete: it's really high initially it was 12% of biden voters now it's up to 18%. there comes a point where if his numbers continue to rise, this team right here, joe biden's team can't ignore that he said they don't want to debate. they don't want him out there in public. they want him out there in public as little as possible. if r.f.k. jr. big name in the democratic party keeps rising, you may look at more contentious primary than joe biden ever anticipated. >> will: the debates are on as of this summer. >> brian: or maybe they're on.

>> will: maybe they are on. that's the point. former president trump saying i'm not sure i want to participate. at least in the first debate. watch. >> well, i'm leading by 40 points, and a lot of people say why would you do a debate when you have people at 2 and 3 and 15 and 14 and desang tis is coming way down. why would i debate when everybody is said we weren't consulted on the nature of the debates they said the head of the "the washington post" why would i want to be in that. >> will: everybody can get from strategic standpoint. in fact, donald trump knows how important, how much a debate can swing the field. >> pete: is he working the refs. >> will: if i'm winning why would i want to give them the opportunity to swing the field? one of the guys we are talking

about is ron desantis who is taking on as we speak disney and their special district in florida over their involvement in politics. >> pete: the question is does it benefit him politically here. domestically he is doing foreign travel right now but the fight continues. here's a portion of what ron desantis said about his fight with disney. >> i don't think the suit has merit. i think it's political. the idea that somehow being pro-business means giving companies their own governments? that is not what a free market is all about. the days of putting one company on a pedestal with no accountability are over. >> pete: so far, will, it seems that fight has helped him 44% of republicans have a more positive view of desantis as he has taken on disney. we will see if it reflects in the next poll we are showing right now because there is a big lead. >> will: see where everybody stand right now. as you heard and as we just mentioned as to whether or not it's advantageous to take part in the debate donald trump with a commanding lead over everyone else in the republican field. >> pete: there are a lot of other polls that reflect this

number. 30 point gap considering what he has been through. we are talking about indictments and mar-a-lago raid. things that conventionally would hurt a candidate have actually helped him. >> will: right. >> pete: desantis number gone down. no one else has cracked any mow momentum. >> will: worth pointing out where we were in previous elections. look where we were in 2007 leading to the 2008 campaign. hillary clinton had a commanding lead over barack obama. >> pete: same thing in 2015. nobody saw this guy coming. came down the casey later didn't recognize the size of the movement that he h it is early but you could argue there is so many known entities in this race especially donald trump and joe biden that if those numbers are strong and remains strong it becomes difficult for someone to make a charge at it. you know, desantis folks know him but, as he rolls out, is he going to get some scrutiny he hasn't had before. >> will: really quickly, numbers are moving. throw this up quickly and show you where joe biden's administration stands today. it is at an all-time low water

mark. he was at 57% january. down to 37% according to a gallup poll. >> and according to 538, those numbers are under water as well. you have to point out it's not just that you're running against joe. elected at 82 years old. >> will: great point. >> pete: how long would he be president? would he be able to? which means republicans are strategizing but how do you run against kamala harris as well because that duel ticket she could be the president should he not be able to. >> will: hard to imagine joe biden running for president once again. even harder to imagine joe biden completing a second term for the presidency. >> pete: so who are you running against? >> will: that's the state of the race off the wall. coming up, two years after asheville north carolina reimagined public safety the city is reversing course. >> pete: how bad things got until the city said defund the police might be a bad idea and maybe i'll learn how to read. ♪

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>> you know, for me, safety is the priority. you know, as we move through these -- this process and we make changes and we reimagine public safety. >> steve: reimagining public safety. how has that gotten them. asheville, north carolina has come a long way from defunds the police department 2020 reimagining things starting may 1st of this year the tourist town is launching a public safety initiative focusing on getting more police on the streets to combat a surge in violent crime. our next guest owns a restaurant, a bunch of businesses there. and he has firsthand seen how bad it's gotten. asheville resident and business owner anthony joins us live from asheville. anthony, good morning. >> good morning, sir. >> steve: anthony, you know, so your town reimagined the police department. how did that all work out?

>> well, it was kind of a surprise to us that, you know, the citizens of the city. and, you know, our engine, our economic engine is the service industry. you know, whether it's breweries, whether it's restaurants. you know, we are in the blue ridge mountains, we get around 11 million people a year that come for the outdoors experiences as well where there is biking or fishing. you know, and we just wanted to be safe for our community, our residents and also our -- the travelers that come and visit us. >> steve: sure, absolutely. i understand. so, on may 1st, after crime has gone up in your town and your town is beautiful, by the way. may 1st, the city of asheville kicking off a new downtown safety initiative over 60 days, two months. what it will do is increase the police presence in parks and public spaces. launch community responder pilot program where the fire department is going to remove litter, needles and wastes. tourists hate taking pictures of

those get rid of gravity and graffiti andidentify dark streey are brighter. one of the problems and you have seen this firsthand, anthony, is when you reimagine the police and you defund the police you wind up with fewer cops on the ground. we understand that. but, ultimately, response time from the time you call 911 goes way up. so do you think this is going to help you guys with that? >> >> i really do. you know, i'm kind of proud of our chief. i know he has had a difficult time because he inherited the department as the numbers were going down. you are right, it's a numbers game. there are so many officers covering some things, less officers, less opportunity to find out, you know, the people that are misbehaving or being bad actors. so it is a numbers game. we can't hire our way back out of the problem. we're down 100 officers. takes a long time to train, you know, our officers refill those

ranks. we, as a community, kind of had to step up and that's the nonprofits, for profits, people that own businesses, own property, and just, you know, kind of raise our hand and say this is a untenable situation. we want you to listen to us. and niece initiatives they have done very proud one of the other ones was asheville fire department and they are setting up kind of a decentralized clinic away from the main firehouse which is about 3 or 4, you know, about 40 yards from where one of my restaurants are. and that's very good. because, you know, we have people that are reacting, you know, to, you know, drug addiction and they associate behaviors real easy to have those ambulances there. and those paramedics. also with the county. the county and the city is doing that the county also sheriff's department is starting to do joint patrol initiatives with asheville police department to kind of augment and supplement

the amount of officers who are on the street. which is a positive move forward that mutual aid is a wonderful thing. good things are happening. >> steve: surely, as the tourists head to your town, that's good news that more police presence everywhere, anthony thank you for joining us on this friday. fluke to you. >> it was an honor talking to you sir. thank you. >> steve: all right. thank you. 12 minutes now before the top of the hour. switching gears for a element no. take a look at the big screen. my wife kathy and i are going to do an online event tonight because all three of our cookbooks as you can see screen right are now available as a beautiful three book collector's set. comes with a certificate of authenticity and kathy and i have autographed all of them. peter doocy by the way is leavingth white house and moderate the live signing 7:00 eastern and take your questions and ask them of his parents. please join us, once again, kathy and i are donating 100% of our profits to eye cancer research. if you are interested in the books or joining us, go doocy

cookbook.com. it is the perfect gift for mother's day. doocy cookbook.com. all right. meanwhile, adam is out on the streets. and, adam, it looks like it's trying to rain. >> adam: it's a little overcast and eventually rain is in the forecast. steve, no rain right now. and probably not for the next couple of hours. at least out here on fox square. not the case everywhere across the country. sitting around 50 degrees currently. take a look at temperatures 50 in new york city. 50's, 60's, fairly widespread across the entire country besides the mountain west where you are looking at temperatures down into the 30's. where has it been stormy. the red ones in the florida panhandle those are tornadoes that popped up yesterday. they have a chance for severe thunderstorms again this afternoon. the other spot we're going to be tracking for a possibility of severe weather is back across texas. those your weather headlines today, steve. for now, tossing it back inside to you. >> steve: all right. adam. thank you very much. meanwhile, straight ahead, a brand new fox nation special explores the outrageous lies and

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>> rachel: a new fox nation series explores how three master minuters elizabeth holmes the fake saudi prince and the grifter finally taken down for their scams. >> one demonstration in a laboratory not long after i joined one of these devices exploded while it was drawing blood. and blood splattered everywhere. elizabeth is standing next to me. i nudged her on the shoulder i said elizabeth, this is terrible. this is what you want to go live with on patients? she didn't even look up. she continued texting on her blackberry. >> rachel: kacie mcdonnell hosts scam preneurs on fox nation. she joins us now. this is so fascinating. you go give a deep dive into how they did this. >> it's on the heels of this sam bankman-fried ftx stuff. i have to say the fox nation

crew did a fantastic job with this. it is so good. you have to watch it. they always do a great job. >> this is a three-part series so far. elizabeth holmes right there. this is pretty recent, edison machines and exploding and she wanted them in every drugstore, 200 tests that it could do with one drop of blood. first, self-made billionaire, she was proclaimed. at least kylie's lipstick does what it is supposed to do. you put it on and it stays on. that's what we want from a billionaire. yeah, it is fascinating. you have the hipster grifter that is katie farrell, she ran through salt lake city. she pretended she had cancer to get money from friends. she said oh, it's very anna -- inventing anna, my atm card doesn't work. this keeps up and they build and build and build. >> rachel: a lesson we can learn to maybe be more aware when we see one of these people. >> elizabeth had her blackberry we know when this was all going down. now there is the internet. there is ai. we are going to find out. you are not going to get away with it and make a documentary

out of it. if you don't want to be behind bars and maybe just getting fan tweets you should back off of the scams because fox nation will sniff it out. >> rachel: really fast the fake saudi prince. >> fake sawed from prince tried to buy the fountain blue. this wasn't his first scam either. come on, anthony, give it up. and he actually one of the things that people found out he was lying he was eating shell fish, his diet didn't match up with the person he was trying to be. things like that. maybe do your research if you are going to be a scam. there it is do your research if you are going to be a scammer. rach catch scampreneur on fox nation. thank you. up next my "fox & friends weekend" co-hosts are back with us at the top much the hour. hall of fame quarterback joe namath on the nfl draft. ♪ ♪

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