and what are the things we've seen from the white house is one of the least transparent white houses expense of the modern era they do not take questions and they do not allow the president. they do love lecturing us on democracy. thank you for being with us. we will see you next sunday on "the nex ... >> a fox news alert, a massive search underway for a man accused of killing five people, including a boy execution style. police warn he is armed and dangerous. >> the suspect is francesco, an illegal immigrant who has been deported at least five times. i'm griff jenkins in brownsville, texas, just off the rio grande river. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier

in new york. an emotional scene as family members gather to remember the victims, including that third grade boy. he asked the man to quiet down just before midnight and the suspect allegedly opened fire on this family killing five of the 10 people inside the home. that is man lost his wife and step-son in the senseless attack. he said, i never thought he would shoot and he went room to room looking for people and couldn't catch me. bullets were hitting everywhere, i cannot believe what he did. >> griff: officials have no leads to his whereabouts and local authorities fear he could be anywhere. >> five people died in my county and that is where my heart is, in my county, protecting my people to the best of our

ability. >> we have over 200 law enforcement from federal, local and state agencies trying to bring this suspect into custody to bring justice and to ensure this community is safe. >> griff: they're offering $80,000 reward for the man's capture, that has people very on edge here, ashley. law enforcement is doing combined join effort trying to deal with the number of migrants coming across, now this know mahunt for this illegal immigrant deported five times coming from mexico and if his path were straight out of houston, it will come through brownsville. >> ashley: that is another thing, griff, deported five times, here we are in a

situation again to where there was an illegal immigrants in the united states and now five people have lost their lives including that eight-year-old boy, over senseless things, no murder, no shooting or killing of anyone is warranted, this is senseless and should scare everyone in the community because they don't know where he is. >> griff: that is exactly right. that is why you are seeing such a robust response from fbi to the texas dps. they know time is running out and he is likely heading to get back into mexico, which makes it more difficult to bring him into custody. we'll have lieutenant chris

oliveras joining us at the border in a few minutes and we'll get into what leads they possibly have. we know they do not have hard ones because the suspect's cell phone was recovered near the scene. if he's eaggressed south toward mexico issue it is tough to bring him into custody. >> ashley: this begs the question, we keep asking, is the border secure, we keep asking mayorkas, we see from your report at the border, you are at the border all the time and bill melugin is at the border showing how wide open the border is with the united states. can mayorkas secure the border? secretary mayorkas facing questions if he is able to effectively lead at the border. his own border patrol says it is not secure, listen. >> the union doesn't like you

and make it pretty clear on social media, this month, last month, the month before, from the border patrol union on you. the chicken will come under roost because of what he has done, remove mayorkas is the most recent tweet. how can you use these people. >> i support them vigorously and will continue to do so, tremendous source of pride. >> what do you think the disconnect is? >> i am focused on mission, i look at their needs and try to fulfill their needs. this is the first administration since 2011 that plussed up the border patrol with more agents, our request for 2024 is another 350 border patrol agents, that

has not haned in 12 years. >> ashley: none of those answers help the situation at the border, those are the responses we get from mayorkas. griff, i want to elaborate on where you are, where you are, segue this suspect might go through, what are you seeing down there and what are people telling you? >> griff: what we're seeing right now and all weekend, ashley, is surge of migrants well ahead, we are 10 days from title 42 lifting and people were worried about a massive surge. guess what, it is already here, the crisis has arrived and in brownsville, we are ground zero. i want to make a comment about secretary mayorkas, of the two years i've been covering this crisis across border, i have heard from rank and file border

patrol agents and cbp law enforcement, frustrations about the secretary. not just they don't have his back, but they won't allow them to do their job, border enforcement on the line. they are seeing 200 plus migrants coming everyday and they have a smoother process of encountering, screening, prosing and transporting out. we've had a year to deal with it. when you had border patrol driving and transporting migrants everywhere, changing diapers, that hurt moral and it has not recovered as we stand on the door step of unprecedented migrant crisis after two years of unprecedented numbers. in the streets of el paso, you see migrants all across the street, shelters being overwhelmed. you see them lined up along the

streets, in the last 24 hours we had el paso mayor declaring a state of emergency as he braces for the end of title 42, take a listen here. >> the reason why we're declaring the state of emergency is to make sure we can stand up and be prepared for a may 11, may 12th to have public shelter and public housing and this is really temporary housing, we do not provide permanent housing for anyone. he have actually have already made ready and need to continue to have the staff and the staff will be ready to give shelter and help people that have gone through the proper process to move forward and continue to move forward and consider it is 10 to 12,000 people ready to come on may 11, may 12, there is no end game to this, this will

continue everyday and we can't continue as a city and country to continue to provide this service without federal government. >> griff: we have much more on the border crisis coming up, including the numbers here in brownsville. we'll discuss that with lieutenant chris oliveras from texas dps. democrats defending president biden's reelection bid arguing he can serve another term. >> ashley: polls show most americans think otherwise, alexandria hoff is here. >> alexandria: major players came out in defense this weekend. chris coons and bernie sanders, who is a year older than the president. >> i think joe biden is agile, capable, his record of

leadership at home and abroad make him imminently qualified and we should focus on the experience and wisdom he brings to the job. >> the democrats and president have to be stronger on working class issues, do that, i think biden will win in a landslide. >> alexandria: according to latest polling, democrats are split on this with 19% preferring robert f. kennedy jr. and 9% prefer marianne williamson and asa hutchinson says age does play a role for the american people. >> the american people figure this out very quickly, every time you go to a town hall meeting it is a mental acuity test. voters will make a decision on this and i don't think they will choose joe biden for presidency for another four years. >> alexandria: 44% of americans approve of the president's

performance right now, seven points higher than the latest gallup poll. the pool may be growing with south carolina governor tim scott teasing an announcement to come later this month. >> two more years will be hard as a dickens to suffer through, six year? somebody give me a seat. lord have mercy, can't do it no how. on may 22nd be in charleston talking about solutions. >> alexandria: scott launched an explore tory committee last month. >> griff: that is a tease, tim scott getting in will make it interesting. alexandria hoff, thank you very much. >> griff: biden campaign co-chair coming to vice president kamala harris defense. senator coons arguing she is

ready to step in as commander-in-chief if needed. listen here. >> the vice president has struggled to get positive press coverage and get credit she deserves for hard work she's doing. the vice president is ready to run and be president should that have. our president has confidence in her and so do i. >> ashley: you heard senator coons say right there that vp harris deserves more credit. what do you think? is america not giving her a fair shot? recent fox news poll shows 57% disapprove of the job she is doing. >> he says, she is ready to be president, i would hope so, she is one heartbeat from being president, i hope she is ready to be vice president or

president of the united states or we're in a scary spot. kamala harris has proven unqualified for the job and i'm sure democrats will say, you are saying that because she is a woman. no, joe biden gave her the job because she is a woman, not my words, joe biden's words. she has dismal ratings. i wish the president health and longevity, but not to have a conversation about his -- not his age, mental acuity. bernie sanders is above and beyond his mental capacity. i believe joe biden will note be on the ticket for democrats in 2024, i think the democratic party knows that and this is their strategy to gain sympathy for kamala harris from the american electorate. some stage between now and the

election, joe biden will not be able to move forward and democrats are hoping the process will lead americans to be sympathetic for that process and engrateiate her to the party. >> griff: brandi, you heard senator coons say he was proud of the record of the vice president. i am at the border, unprecedented numbers, half of venezuela is about to pass and she is the border czar. is there an actual win for her in her term? >> i'm not even a republican, i want you to know what i'm about to say is coming through that lens. i will enjoy watching this play

out because democrats are the party that pushed ide identity-ariannism. joe biden says i will have a woman be vice president and appoint a black woman to the supreme court. democrats have painted themselves into a corner, they cannot say go around the black woman we put into that position because of her gender and color of her skin. they are stuck with her, their rules. there is no major accomplishment, best description of kamala harris, when you have 100 words and you have to write 10,000 word essay, you just stretch the words. i hear her talk about domestic or foreign policy, it issin paful to watch.

>> ashley: you took the words >> my mouth, painful and i have no idea what she just said. governor ron desantis has not announce bid for president and yet raised $110 million, more than former president trump, who is second with 55 million, what does this signal as far as where the gop stands? >> i think it is iginals the gop are ready to move on from donald trump and some might be they just realize he's not the right candidate or he's not capable of winning or with everything going on legally speaking, timing could be bad for republicans if he's party nominee. ron desantis is a very capable candidate and will enter the race, i think that is clear by now. i think there is a conversation this morning you want to have about this idea of him being the governor of florida while he

embarks on a presidential campaign. i know florida lawmakers passed law that would allow him to run for president while still the governor of florida and comes down to whether he can do both jobs at once. he just asked the people of florida for four more years. jay insley ran and spent 50% out of state on floundering presidential campaign and i had a problem with that, i want to be consistent and say i hope ron desantis can do both jobs at once or he shouldn't be the governor while running for president. >> griff: such a good point, floridians like him now, if he is an absent governor, that

could change. great insight brandi, thanks for getting up with us on this monday morning. former n.b.a. star enes kanter freedom may be running for a career when he finds a sweet spot. >> i am having conversations with people, i'm trying to find the right place where it is warm, obviously -- [laughter] -- i really like florida and he the governor was like, move here, let's go. >> griff: he hasn't announced concrete plans to run just yet. texas sending 50 humvees to the southern border where we are to

manage more than 15,000 migrants through brownsville, texas in just eight days. we are live on the ground to bring you the latest at the border. >> ashley: and forget a limo, these teenagers decided to ride in style to prom. you won't believe how they made it happen. stick around.

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>> griff: a fox news alert, our top story this morning, a massive manhunt continues for francisco oropesa, an american national accused of killing five neighbors execution style in texas. we are told the 38-year-old suspect is an illegal immigrant who has been deported five times. lieuten nota chris oliveras joins us. what is the latest on this manhunt as we sit here? >> great to be with you this morning, we have dedicated

resources helping the sheriff's office, it is a multi agency manhunt at the state level dedicated to this manhunt. the governor announced $50,000 reward in apprehension of this suspect. the history of have individual, there are reports he's an illegal immigrants, been deported five times. >> griff: does that upset law enforcement to hear that? >> it does, look at the immigration issue, for this individual to be deported five times, in regard to the fact he committed this tragic crime, devastating crime to these innocent victims and now searching for the suspect. if we look at the history where

he's from, mexico and the houston area, the direct route from houston, direct route would be from houston to matamortis. >> griff: we've been talking about him coming straight down here to get back into mexico and you were relaying to me that they recovered his cell phone closer to the scene of the crime, they do not have the technology to ping him, that is a big part of that, can you speak to that? >> the latest developments, they found his home in a brushy area and the phone has been recovered and now more challenging to i think ping the individual, and penitentiary to rely on the public and call in information to the sheriff's office and fbi in houston so we can find this individual and bring closure to

the families and victims that were tragically taken from this h horrendous crime. >> griff: we are at brownsville, ground zero, you have your governor deploying a massive show of force, lt, we shot footage of 50 humvees coming along the rio grande, talk about the situation, 10 days from title 52 and it appears the crisis is already here. >> when governor abbott launched plan lonestar, border patrol was overwhelmed. you have been coming here two years, they deployed national guard and dps personnel and with the current surge in brownsville, 2000 plus per day encounters strains the resource

of border patrol. governor abbott took proactive approach and gave more resources, more national guard, the purpose is to interdict illegal crossings. look at comments from the federal government, right now what is happening in brownsville is not humane or controlled effort when you have people crossing a dangerous river between the point of entry. go to the port of entry and prevent illegal crossings taking place. >> griff: we have 30 seconds, we have a situation that is more than what we saw in 2021. 17 days for 27,000 hatians at the port of del rio and now that

many are right here, are we ready for what comes next? >> it will not just be in brownsville, numbers are increasing at various sectors know loo the border. you have to keep in mind gotaways and drugs, criminal organizations exploiting the fact that border patrol will be strained with processing of title 42 and they will take full advantage of that. we are keeping close eye on criminal activity leading up to title 42. >> griff: hats off to the men and women of texas dps, thank you, sir. appreciate your work. >> ashley: armed drones rescue hundreds of americans from sudan yesterday, more than 25 buses evacuating nearly 1000 americans from the capitol of khonorings

artoyou know, where the u.s. brunswick is stationed to take them to saudi arabia. this is a week after u.s. sources evacuated diplomats out. two americans have died after violence broke out earlier this month. high school junior shernam bynum taking a grand entrance to prom in a battle tank and brought a date along for the epic ride. watch. >> he asked me with a sign that says i would be tank-ful to take you to prom with me. >> ashley: they began planning the operation in february and started gofund me campaign to raise thousands to reserve the tank and they booked the unipiper to escort the massive

tank and on saturday night their dreams came true as they alled off this unique prom experience. now presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy is calling out trans ideology and how it is hurting children. >> twh a kid says i'm born into the wrong body, more often than not, that is case of a mental health disorder. >> ashley: more from the tense exchange next. >> griff: could artificial intelligence change how elections aring run and the dangers that come with it. ♪

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alert. jp morgan chase will assume first republic's deposits and purchase most of its 229 billion of assets. first republic 84 branches will reopen today as j.p. morgan chase bank. >> griff: and presidential hopeful vivek ramaswamy, who has a biology degree, issue clas on how many genders exist. >> it is legitimate to say below 18 years of age, we will not -- >> you are calling it that, you're are you confident you know gender is as binary as you are describing it? >> i am. >> you know this as a scientific? >> there are two x chrome sewns,

y and y -- >> scientific research says gender is a spectrum. >> chuck, i respectfully disagree. >> griff: that is debate we didn't think we would hear, joe concha will weigh in on that. >> ashley: republicans launched political ad last week in response to president biden and it was generated by ai. watch. >> just in, we can call the 2024 race for joe biden. >> this morning inslayeds taiwan. >> ashley: that move sparking fiery debate over impact ai could have on the 2024 election. tom newhouse, with convergence media joins me live. you know, there is mixed debate surrounding ai in general.

now we've seen when it comes to campaigns and can twuft p twist people's minds around, what are major dangers from 2024 and from here on out? >> yeah issue this technology is coming faster than campaigns and the industry can keep up with right now. we see what is upon haing over the last couple westbounds with the fake song coming out garnering views or listens rather, what is to stop that technology from coming into the political arena in 2024 and having an impact. we watched the rnc ad on the screen, if that doesn't have context of being ai generated

ad, it would be difficult to stop. the american public, it will be tough and will impact politics and already is, you see here. >> ashley: people question what is real or not. one measure thing to add fuel to the fire. consultants with -- is there anything positive about ai? i would be the one that would question everyone, there are people who think there are pros and cons. some pros would be improving campaign fundr fundraising, provide consultants with immediate information. on the flip side ai can dub over candidate speak, flood voters with robo calls and deep fake technology and political ads, do the pros outweigh the cons, in your opinion? >> you know, it is a tough one

to answer. we don't exactly know the massive impact this will have on elections. ai come at us so fast over the last couple months, who is to say what it will look like in a year or year and a half when the elections roll around. it is tough to say we're oge at it is tip of the iceberg. as far as how voters encounter this and see it, outside of deep fakes, big impact is extremely personalized advertising over time. people do not like their data being in the marketplace issue but they will be receiving mess messaging extremely personal to them and probably most relevant. that is one way voters will see

ai being used in politics. >> ashley: i know ai has been around for a long time, we in the public are just starting to see what it is capable of. i can ask questions all day long, unfortunately, until we get in the middle, we have no idea how this will impact even campaigns, positively or negatively. thank you for your time, we appreciate it. >> ashley: 568 emergency calls were made at a san francisco whole foods in the month before close, wait until you hear what people sail was going on there. . . . . .

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>> ashley: new york city is handing out trackers to curb carjacking. 4500 cars have been stolen in the big apple this year, up 13%. new york city mayor eric adams is giving 500 new yorkers air tags to track have beens in case they are stolen. the tags were donated by a nonprofit and will be distributed by neighborhoods

hardest hit. police will use the trackers to safely recover vehicles. critics say better approach is take a tougher stance against criminals. no kidding. >> griff: now to this, employees at whole foods in san francisco made 600 911 calls in the month before it closed, due to crime. >> ashley: brooke singman has the latest. >> brooke: the employees say they were regularly threatened with weapons before the store was closed. "new york times" says people threatened employees withun goes, knives, sticks, screamed and fought. 560 emergency calls made over 13 months, many depicting scenes of mayhem. one employee reported a man with a machete returning to a store and another incident involved a

man attacking several guards with a comboo knife. richie greenburg says gavin newsom is failing the bay area. >> he is failing on every other point, san francisco is where he lives in the city and bay area. we are reeling under the drug and drug dealing epidemic and have people leaving and businessings fleeing the crime and he is unprepared at this point. unbelievable. >> brooke: u.s. census data shows red states were fastest growing. utah, texas, and florida increased by 14% over the last decade and new data shows how much the changes are costing blue states. illinois lost 11 billion of adjusted gross income from residents who moved in 2021.

new york lost 24 billion and california lost 29 billion from residents leaving the state. blue states lost billions issue red states like florida and texas saw massive increases. florida agot gi, grew to 32.9 billion. that irs report says half texas increase came from residenting fleeing california and florida's growth came from new yorkers. griff and ashley. >> griff: brooke singman live for us, good insight. hunter biden is expected to appear in arkansas courtroom this morning for contempt hearing in his paternity case as the president's son wants to redorse child support payments to london roberts. >> ashley: mr. biden claims to

be nothing more than alert educated attorney artist who is destitute and needs child support ajusted. mr. biden is living lavishly. >> griff: mark smith, a constitutional attorney and former member of president trump's transition team. good morning, let's quickly get your reaction and what you anticipate happening at the hearing today. >> well, today is a big deal in the hunter biden situation because i suspect the state court judge, an arkansas state judge, will ask hunter biden is the laptop yours or not and will want an answer to that clearly and he'll have to give that. keep in mind that this is a dispute about how much hunter biden should pay to raise his daughter, which has been established through paternity test in arkansas and is dispute

about money thchl is important because it will require hunter biden to turn over information about assets, liabilities, contracts tracts, anything that speaks to financial prowess. that ties into the things that house republicans are looking at in terms of who has he done business with leading up to the presidency. >> ashley: how likely is it hunter will fight this case? it could open up more problems. >> yeah, i'm perplexed why hunter biden decides this is the hill to die on. this is state court, that is important because his father is president of the united states and has authority to pardon hunter biden for federal crimes, this being state court in

arkansas to the extent we were to do anything improper there or in the arkansas state system, his father would not be able to pardon him. it is risky from that point of view and you are right, he will have to start talking about business dealings he has or hasn't had. if you think about historically, remember bill clinton was impeached because he sued paula jones for defamation and he refused to settle the case and context of sdoe, he made false statements about monica monica lewinsky and none of that would have happened if he settled paula jones case early. >> griff: i was just looking down a moment ago at the timeline showing on the wall there. and i think really the ultimate

question, how do you see this ending? >> well, you know, the presidential election for 2024 is literally going to cost americans and people billions of dollars, it seems to me it is a drop in the bucket for hunter biden to resolve this case with his daughter and the mother of his daughter on some amicable term. it seems to make sense for there to be financial settlement, like it is win, win, win, i don't know why hunter biden would fight this to the death. of course i don't know all the details, seems strange they would fight this as hard as they are, seems like resolution would make more sense than fighting this. >> ashley: and president biden refused to acknowledge this little girl as a grandchild, recently talking about his six

grandkids. mark's book "disarmed," is out. thank you for your time, we appreciate it. fox news alert, over 250 law enforcement officers across a dozen agencies are desperately searching for an illegal immigrant who killed five people execution style, including an eight-year-old boy. >> griff: breaking details on the investigation as we join you live from brownsville, texas, along the rio grande river next. ♪ the all-new chevy colorado is made for more. bring more. ♪ do more. ♪ see more. ♪ and be more. ♪

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>> ashley: fox news alert, massive search underway for a man accused of killing five people, including an eight-year-old boy execution style. police warn he is armed and dangerous. >> griff: ice officials say the suspect is 38-year-old francisco oropesa, an illegal immigrant who has been deported at least five times. you're watching "fox and friends first," on monday morning, i'm griff jenkins in brownsville, just off the rio grande river at ground zero for this migrant crisis. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in new york, todd and carley have the day off, it was an emo emotional day yesterday. a nabber ask