>> todd: a fox news alert, president biden finally inviting congressional leaders to the white house to discuss the debt ceiling as our nation is on the brink of default. treasury secretary warning the u.s. could run out of money by june 1. we are two days into may already, it could happen soon. you're watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. lawmakers passed bill to raise

the ceiling and cut that wasteful spending. >> president biden: folks, we've got a lot to do, most immediate thing we can do is continue our economy and the financial system. most important thing we have to do is make sure the threat by the speaker of the house to default on the national debt is you hava the table. america is not a dead beat nation, we have never failed to meet the debt. >> todd: alexandria hoff is live in washington. >> alexandria: good morning, since january, the treasury department has been moving money around to pay debts. the cash is about to dry up,s janet yellen, who urged immediate action. we have learned from past debt limit waiting in the the last minute to increase the debt lim

irrelevant -- limit can impact the credit rating of the united states. yesterday president biden called top four congressional leaders and invited them to a may 9 meeting at the white house. manchin says i hope the invitation is sincere and he's willing to negotiate because the country cannot afford a failed negotiation. kevin mccarthy says his side has done what they should do with debt reduction provision included. only has republican support and won't be takenun in this senate and speaker mccarthy wrote this, after inaction, the house acted and a bill sitting in senate to put the risk 've default -- need to get to work and soon. republican senator john kennedy is glad the president arranged next week's meeting, expressed

doubt the treasury secretary gave. listen. >> it is predictable, secretary yellen is trying to put pressure on congress. i wouldn't pay attention to treasury and statement about the precise time because i think a lot of their statements on the timing are political and the fact that he is willing to sit down and have an adult conversation is long overdue, i wish he would have started doing this some time ago. >> alexandria: republicans have sought to negotiate spending cuts, democrats want to boost without conditions. >> ashley: this falls on the biden administration when it comes to the end of the day, thank you. gop strategist reacted to janet yellen's warning when we spoke with her last hour. >> here janet yellen is trying to push forward this

fearmongering tactic to get a deal and negotiation across, but really i don't trust janet yellen either because we've seen her history, because of her we're in a lot of this. and yes, it is also political. biden amcampaigned on unity and i hope he wants this deal to be negotiated. investors are going to be concerned about what happens to our budget and our debt. right now, i mean, he is going to have to negotiate because republicans have passed the bill in the house. >> todd: and now to this. a warm welcome for fox news's benjamin hall in the briefing room. he was injured while covering the war in ukraine last year. [applause]

>> i felt the support in this room throughout and gave me strength, grateful for everyone who reached out and i will say that the briefing room is probably the thing i missed most while i was away. i'm glad to be. >> todd: hall was ambushed by the russian military while reporting in ushg ukraine. he lost a leg after the attack. great to see him doing what he loves most. and blinken says the u.s. is working to bring every american home during his interview with hall yesterday. watch. >> in sudan, we saw great news, 500e americans being bussed out are there future plans? >> yes, as long as americans are inun zoo, we will continue to do this.

we will make sure embassy personnel was able to get to safety and american citizens who ask for assistance are able to get to safety. >> todd: fighting between the sudanese sources and military group erupting into know conflict on april 18th, leaving hundreds dead so far. every member on a michigan town board after approving factory with hardly any input from the voters. >> no questions from the floor. >> i'm absolutely disgusted with each and every one of you and i shouldn't have voted for anybody, especially you. >> thank you, kindly. >> ashley: they have every single right to be mad. outraged resident who identifies as environmentalist and gretchen whitmer voter is calling this

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caused pile-ups in illinois. an 88-year-old woman was one of the half dozen killed and 40 people taken to the hospital. >> ashley: tornado in virginia beach rated ef-3 with winds of 136 miles per hour. senior meteorologist janice dean is here. good morning. >> janice: lots to talk about and snow across the great lakes. weather pattern is stuck for cooler temperatures for the east coast and west coast and in between. we will see the warm-up and potential for severe weather later this week. zoom into the great lakes in the northeast and this area of low pressure bringing inclement weather and foot of snow for parts of michigan and wisconsin the last 24 hours. this area of low pressure will linger and going to bring messy

wet weather to much of the east coast wednesday and thursday when it settles down. again, we're into this pattern and going to see inclement weather for the east and the west and potential record cold highs for areas with temperatures in the 40s and 50s, not feeling much like may at all. this is omega-block pattern and that means things remain stuck, they do not move. same wet weather for the west and east and warm and dry for central u.s. and we'll see wet weather and cool weather for the east and west taking a look at california, we have another round of coastal rain and mountain snow heading into thursday and friday and some energy is going to move to central u.s. and bring potential for severe storms. rain and mountain snow through saturday, watching parts of the northern rockies and there is

forecast for today. cool for the east and west, in between, warm-up temperatures and that is going to remain the pattern over the next couple of days, that happens in springtime, that omega block. that is what we'll talk about. >> i took omega block for high cholesterol. >> janice: cholesterol is doing okay? >> todd: thanks to the omega block and a chinese battery plant signed off on and town citizen concerns are dismissed. no questions. no questions from the floor. sir, if you are disorderly, the door is that i wa, i explained that last month. >> don't just stay here. do you not understand that?

it runs up and down. and y'all should be ashamed, i'm absolutely disgusted with each and every one of you and i shouldn't have voted for anybody, especially you. >> thank you. [applause] >> todd: marjorie steel is a resident. if allowing a chinese company to build a plant in your town was such a great idea, why was it done in secret? >> that is not a question i can answer, we're very upset about it. you may know, all of the members of the green township board are under recall. there is more underway, big rapid township and county level. these recalls are all well and good, we have our eye on the prize, which is stopping the

projects. they are -- we can't even talk about how toxic they are, they do not have environment al impat reports. >> todd: you voted for gretchen whitmer, you are hard core environmentalist and you are saying, let's not build this ev battery plant for a number of reasons,ss and it is helping adversaries in china. why are they choosing china over interests of their own citizens? >> that's a great question and that is a question we have been asking for a long time. i think the simple answer is greed, but just to be clear, this is a problem that goes all the way up from the township level to the county level to the state. our michigan economic

corporation has been incubating the taxpayer funds and has been doing nothing to insist that proper due diligence be done. i was preturbed by the meeting that we here in big rapids don't have the privilege of turning down good jobs. first of all, good jobs issue the wages, we have no impact report, can't attest to them. wages started at 60,000 and went down to 45,000, below the national average. this is insulting, the premise this is built on is false. >> todd: i don't know how many more examples we need to realize china is not our friend, especially for environmental matters f. they cared, they

would stop being the number one polluter in the world. they fool our country into making ev's. keep up this fight and keep us posted. hunter biden paternity case could blow the lid off this case and play a major role in the probe. >> ashley: a top biden official scrambling to distance himself from the cover-up. joe concha is here to react next. whoa. okay. easy does it. we switched to liberty mutual and saved $652. they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. with the money we saved, we thought we'd try electric unicycles. whoa! careful, babe! saving was definitely easier. hey babe, i think i got it! it's actually... whooooa!

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>> todd: hunter biden appears in front of a judge. >> ashley: this could blow the

lid off the biden family business. brooke singman live with details. good morning. >> brooke: major revelation in court yesterday. hunter is petitioning to lower child support to navy joan roberts. he says he has paid $750,000, about $20,000 per month. remember this moment when the president left this child out when asked about his grandchildren, watch. >> i have six grandchildren and i'm crazy about them, i speak to them every single day, not a joke. >> brooke: hunter did not acknowledge navy as he left the courtroom.

>> hunter, is your dad doing the service for not recognizing his grand child. >> ashley: hunter has been ordered to discloz his finances and house republicans say this paternity case may be key to moving their own investigation forward, listen. >> this has potential to be very helpful, what in fact is his income from his artwork and who the buyers are is most important part. we want to know if hunter has offshore accounts, we are learning about the scheme the biden family had to disguise the source. >> ashley: hunter's lawyer are trying to intimidate the center of the legal troubles. >> in communication with our

witnesses and people cooperating from subpoena standpoint, they have been contacted by the attorneys for hunter biden, their objective is witness intimidation, we will press forward. >> brooke: both hunter and roberts will sit for a deposition in mid-june under oath. >> ashley: secretary of state antony blinken is denying any role in pushing the letter that aimed to discredit "new york post" reporting on hunter biden laptop in exclusive interview with our own ben hall. >> can you explain your role and if you incentivized it? >> great benefit of this job, i don't do politics and don't engage in it. with regard doing that letter, i -- wasn't my idea, didn't ask

for it, didn't solicit it. mike morrell confirms that. >> todd: joe concha joins us. bold testimony to invoke morrell. blinken says he wasn't the impetus of the letter. >> joe: antony blinken is classic dc swamp, blinken says he doesn't engage in politics, you worked for the biden campaign to get this job as secretary of state. you were the impetus behind the letter from the former intelligence officials that insisted hunter biden's laptop -- finally admit the laptop was not russian

disinformation, but real, belonged to hunter biden, he ducked that question, as well, saying, i'm not political. please. since we have media compliant and serves for this administration, he will not be asked by other news organizations and therefore will get away with it. >> ashley: that was my next question, do you think we'll see anything come of this? blinken said he never e-mailed hunter biden, messages from may of 2015, show exchange between the two attempting to schedule a meeting. this implicates him, he is saying one thing and receipts show the complete opposite. >> joe: this is not he said, she said, sources close to the secretary of state say or vice versa, there are actual receipts here like with hunter biden a

laptop, receipt with antony blinken as pertains to his role in terms of shaping a narrative that turned out to be one of the biggest acts of media malfeasance we have ever seen. there is house of representative that is controlled by republicans, i hope they would bring him up there and have him testify under oath about this because he is not going to be able to squirm out of this for hours on end and they put up on the screen the e-mails he wrote and are his. >> todd: to sports, should be talking about joe and new jersey devils beating the rangers in seven. instead we are talking about espn bomani jones and dominic foxworth had an interesting exchange about the n.f.l. >> rule changes, the first three

quarterbacks drafted in this draft? black dudes. you might be listening and thinking dominic is arguing the n.f.l. is flat out "i hate black people racist," no, it is different type of racism. they think you are "i hate black peep racists," and -- >> todd: espn injecting race into where it doesn't exist, claiming n.f.l. will change the rules to help white players, what is your take on that? >> joe: it is unbelievable. a poll yesterday from the associated press speaks to this rhetoric and found 74% ofs adults believe the media is increasing divide. so when these two espn

commentators make such a divisive comment. do you think the n.b.a. cared when shaq, lebron, became biggest products? jalen hurts is the highest paid player, his run to the super bowl was incredible, just as mahomes turned this into a minidynasty going to the super bowl. incredible story. ratings for the super bowl in february, featuring two men, they should take two seats. don't expect espn to reprimand them, executives fear being portrayed as racist if they speak up and say cool it. >> todd: real sports fans could

not care less about race, they want wins. joe concha representing the new jersey devils in the big win yesterday. happy today. thank you, joe. >> thank you, go, devils. >> ashley: majority of americans are concerned about artificial intelligence. wait until you hear the new warning from the so-called godfather of ai. cheryl casone is next. >> todd: florida tourism board counter suing disney about ownership of the theme park. jimmy petronas has more on the legal fight. don't go anywhere.

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>> ashley: concerns are growing over potential impact of artificial intelligence and americans are joining experts in calling for government regulation. >> todd: cheryl casone from fox business here with more. >> cheryl: can you regulate something you don't understand? does the federal government had the ability to regulate ai? a former google employee, known as godfather of ai, created the technology that led to chat gpt. he says i console myself with normal excuse, if i hadn't done

it, somebody else would have. you can see more ai generated ads, as the election season heats up and that could be problematic. >> this technology is coming faster than campaigns in the industry can keep up with right now, you see what is happening in the music industry over the last couple weeks with the fake drake and weekend song coming out garnering millions of views or listens rather. what is to stop that disruptive technology coming into the political arena and having a late game-changing impact? >> cheryl: talking to someone yesterday telling me we are 20 years away from realizing full impact of ai, in particular the tools, in particular in healthcare and other areas. there is down side to this

obviously. >> todd: ashley does not want to be part of the ambum jackie ibanez and i are going to put together, can we include you? >> cheryl: absolutely. >> ashley: i'll do it. tinsel town is front and center. >> cheryl: widely expected move, writers guild did decide to do a strike, first time in 15er yoos. picketing begins later today after the producers did fail to reach an agreement. this is going down to pay. regulation and more. the guild writing their decision was due in large part to the guild calling out netflix, they say the company's behavior has an immovable stance and commitment to devalue the profession of write.

late night shows have already shut down and will start airing repeats. seth myers, he said, no one is entitled to a job in show business, but they are entitled to compensation. the last writers guild strike happened in 2007. i am not expected to see yellowstone any time soon. >> todd: meantime, coke tried to go woke. >> cheryl: shareholders is waking up that going woke and bad business. the proposal would have had the company conduct a survey restricting abortion and would impact the company's business performance. the proposal was created by a

nonprofit and the group states shareholders request coca-cola board of directors reveal -- proposed state policy restricting reproductive rights. the vote was 87% of controlling shares, they voted no. >> ashley: sounds like coca-cola went flat on that one. he made me do it. >> todd: so proud of you. >> ashley: thank you. the florida tourism board planning to counter sue disney as the fight continues and governor desantis is doubling down on his plan for takeover. listen. >> no corporation is above the law and the people of this state. basically corrupt the local government and run it as thief dom. >> ashley: the chair of tour i.

board said disney sued us, we have no choice but to respond and seek justice in florida. jamie petronas joins me now. thank you for getting up with us this morning. >> good morning. >> ashley: of course, what about when nikki haley came out last week and said disney, come to south carolina, we'll take the 70,000 jobs. she did say it. this is something in people's minds because desantis is all over disney. when you hear nikki haley say that, is this fight worth picking a fight with them? >> i thinks nikki haley is doing anything to be relevant in a failing presidential campaign. when she tries to talk about it, we're talking about it. it is fu tile, disney is not

going anywhere, i have said it once and will say it a dozen times, bob iger is in a hole, he needs to stop digging, this will not end well for anyone. suck it up and know his team was wrong and bob chapex's scalp is on the wall. stop with the lawsuits, you're being ridiculous. >> ashley: where does it stand? >> yesterday a counter suit was brought to light, having to deal with what florida statutes require sunshine and public notice, things that i have to abide by and have a meeting. these are things we have seen the oversight board has seen, observed broke florida law. filed in circuit court in

florida. the disney lawsuit is filed in federal court. >> ashley: we'll stay on it, it's been a big story. 27 states including florida are urging the biden administration to end a mortgage policy that has people with good credit subsidizing borrowers with bad credit. tell us about this letter you signed, this is not right. tell us why you signed it? >> sure, the reason i'm upset about this, you have people that are truly struggling with inflation, working hard and living within their means and now you have the biden inflation saying we will create an effect, if you have not been a good steward of your dollars, we'll give you a break. it is not right or fair. you are taking those who do not know how to manage money and giving them a great and hurting those that manage their money well. horrible policy, biden administration should reverse this deal.

>> ashley: why do what you are supposed to do, no incentive, makes no sense. thank you for your time, we appreciate it. brand-new numbers show bud light sales plummeting, despite theiring campaign to win back consumers. ♪ >> todd: in love with the song, latest ad not undoing the damage caused by the dylan mulvaney partnership. now blocking the youtube comments from it. tomi lahren reacting next.

>> todd: bud light getting called out for turning off youtube comments for a new commercial featuring friends enjoying beer at a country music concert. it comes as bud light sales are down 26%. tomi lahren joins me. what does that number tell you and what does disabling comments on a merica ad tell you? >> tomi: that tells me

conservative consumers matter and bud light and other companies are starting to realize that the hard way. we get angry and offended by things and never do anything about it, we don't come together like the left does to send a message, now with this bud light commercial and backlash, it shows conservatives matter. i wish conservatives would come together and vote, that would be better use of our time. the fact bud light wants to put out country themed commercial like that will make us forget about the man who dressed up to mock women, that is insulting and also patronizing, all right, here you go, conservatives, we'll have a country fried chicken commercial and that will make you feel better, but we will not acknowledge the mistake and error we made. until they acknowledge it head

on, conservatives will be upset and not be drinking bud light. >> todd: advertisement for fourth of july, with every six pack, you will get an american flag. and zephyr just filed a lawsuit after be ing censored. house leadership directly targeted me and my district because i dare to give voice to value and needs of transgender people like myself. your take, tomi? >> tomi: house leadership were well within their rights, this leader broke the rules and if this was a dem kra -- democrat controlled legislature, this is what would have happened. they said when you pray, you will have blood on your hands

because you want to keep children from being mutilated and taking hormone and puberty blockers. the fact this was appropriate or logical is disgusting to begin with. this is the same with the bud light story. conservatives realize they have power, especially in montana, here in tennessee, we did the same thing. when you win election, you have the power. democrats do it, they run roughshod, republicans are supposed to sit back and let them do what they want. i don't think so issue not in 2023 and hopefully not in 2024. >> todd: great point, way of fighting back is not to say, we will not vote, that doesn't work as we have seen. tomi lahren, thank you, we appreciate it. >> todd: fox news alert, day four the nationwide manhunt for

the illegal immigrant accused of murders his neighbors. >> ashley: first brian kilmeade will tell what is coming up on "fox and friends." >> brian: finish up strong. on our show, four-year-old girl could give america the answers how the biden family got their money, hunter's secret love child not secret anymore. high-stakes battle overs paying money to a baby momma. bride dies after being hit moments after leaving her wedding recept ron. and dozens of semitrucks and vehicles colliding after a random dust storm forms and new fox poll on the rise of artificial intelligence, the responses from 1000 people when asked about ai and whether it is good for society.

it worries me everybody that created ai is worried about it. kayleigh mcenany will be here, jimmy failla, leo terrell and kirk the cyber guy, out of the five, who will talk about ai? vote at home and then e-mail us. back in a moment, you know what that means, you have 10 minutes to get dressed and get started.

>> a fox news alert. the manhunt continues for the illegal immigrant accused of killing five of his neighbors, including 9-year-old boy on texas on friday. the white house addressing the tragedy but leaving out one key detail about the suspect. >> all five people were murdered by individual armed with a powerful ar-15-style rifle. congress must act because what makes tragedies like this one all the more heart wrenching is the fact that it is entirely within our power to take these weapons of war off our streets.

it's not too late to save lives and prevent the next mass shooting. >> what she failed to mention is that the suspect is a mexican national who has been deported five times since 2009 and has obviously come back into the country five times. texas attorney general ken paxton joins us now. ken, isn't that an essential part of the story that this white house absolutely cannot ignore? >> absolutely. and i think the sad part of the story is this is the last story we are going to see like this. as you invite and import millions of people that you have no idea who they are, including people that have criminal background we are going to not just see this in texas, this is going to be happening all over the country and the biden administration does it and tries to sort of change the conversation to something about guns when, in reality, this is about them enforcing federal law and protecting the citizens of this country. >> ashley: they are ignoring the fact that if he wouldn't have been deported five times and coming back, he clearly doesn't

follow the rules. he doesn't care about rules. it wasn't just the white house it was california governor gavin newsom went to trustworthy pile on mentioning the five people's names human beings whose lice were stolen gun violence once again wrapping it around gun violence. in new york city will mayor adams calling out greg abdomen continue busing migrants to new york city. governor abbott is once again deciding to play politics with people's lives tarlgting cities run by black mayors. put plainly abbott is using this crisis to hurt blackrun cities. look, this is a very, very powerful accusation. i understand, you know, he is kind of at his whit's end what to do attacked biden the federal government. desantis obviously abbott. what do you make of those comments now? >> well, first of all, these are

cities that created sanctuary cities. they were critical of trump enforcing immigration laws and stopping illegal immigration. that's only created and invited people to dom their cities. now that a few of these people, not very many. we were getting 5,000, 6,000, 7,000 a day. they get a few hundred a few thousand it shows the hypocrisies of their decisions. they are not criticizing joe biden for not enforcing federal law. instead they get a few people from texas that wheelry shouldn't be here they start blaming governor abbott. i commend the governor because it shows the hypocrisy of these mayors who have taken just the opposite position when it related to joe biden. >> todd: finally, you are launching an investigation into top pharmaceutical companies looking into whether they misrepresented data related to covid vaccines during the pandemic. obviously, there is information that has come across your desk that has led to you begin this investigation. why? why are you doing this? what did you find that we all need to know?

>> this is the beginning of the investigation. we started out questions. we don't have answers to the questions until they respond. if they don't respond appropriate we will sue them because of the discovery process. we want to know whether they misled. they have protection under federal law if their vaccine causes harm to individuals. but they don't have protection under state law if they misled consumers about the efficacy, the effectiveness of the vaccine or whether it stops the transmission of covid. so we want to look at that to determine if they misled texas consumers. >> ashley: what's the latest angle you are taking on this. i know there are lots of different angles to this. what's the latest one. >> really just asking questions, you know, about what they actually have in their trials. what information, what science they have. what information they had before they put these vaccines out. and then was that information, did it match up to what though told consumers as consumers

oftentimes were being forced to take these vaccines. >> todd: you raised a good point. the state ags do the work going after companies in the agencies when the federal government does not. they get remedies for those consumers. be curious to see how it all plays out. ag ken paxton great state of texas. >> ashley: thank you. and, with that, "fox & friends" starts right now. have a good day. ♪ ♪ ♪ oh, oh ♪ everybody's dreaming big ♪ oh everybody's just getting by ♪ how it goes >> kennebunkport, maine, isn't that beautiful? >> steve: gorgeous. >> ainsley: it's such a fun place to visit. they have really good lobster if you like that. >> steve: and chowder can. >> ainsley: let me look at the