distinction leading the country in two factors out of state migration. more people leave our state than anyone other state and two highest tax burden of any other states. this new policy on top of the bail reform policy is another reason why new yorkers are a little less proud. >> ashley: congressman, thank you so much for your time. "fox & friends" now. ♪ >> brian: we begin with a fox news alert. the suspected gunman who brought atlanta to a stand still for hours yesterday and everyone watching our channel is in custody this morning. >> ainsley: police accuse him of killing at least one person and hurting four other individuals in the medical center's waiting room. >> steve: in atlanta right now, jonathan serrie joins us with all the latest developments in this case. jonathan, good morning. >> yeah. good morning to you, steve, ainsley, and brian. the suspect is identified as 2 #-year-old deion patterson. he is charged with murder and

four counts of aggravated assault. he is now in custody. authorities say he opened fire in a medical office building waiting room here in midtown atlanta. seriously injuring four women and killing 38-year-old amy saint pierre who worked for the centers for disease control and prevention. the agency says cdc is deeply saddened by the unexpected loss of a colleague killed today in the midtown atlanta, shooting. our hearts are with our friends colleagues as they remember her and grieve this tragic loss. police received the car of the after shooter 12:08. the gunman spent only two minutes in the medical building and left in a stolen car. around 7:45 last night police located the suspect near truist park stadium in suburban cobb county. take a listen. >> an undercover officer was the one who originally saw and confronted this individual and was able to have backup from uniformed officers that came in and took him into custody

without incident. it does not work without a cooperative community. a community that backs up the police. that allows the police to take risks and try to take violent people into custody. >> the suspect was discharged from the coast guard in january after serving four and a half years there. patterson's mother who had accompanied her son to the medical building for appointment appeared to blame improper medicine for the outburst. the damn v.a. gave him some messed up medication and all he wanted was an ativan. now the midtown medical building here where the shooting took place is associated with the north side hospital system. hospital says this building in midtown will be closed today. all patient appointments canceled and urges patients to reach out of to their providers to reschedule. back to you guys. >> steve: jonathan, if he went to the hospital with his mother because the v.a. gave him messed

up meds as they said and he became enrained in the waiting room. do we know why he became enraged? >> no, that's something police are still investigating. they have not yet released a motive. the mother at least in her interview with the daily beast seemed to suggest it had something to do with the medication he was receiving for mental health issues. >> brian: what's interesting, jonathan in new york you are don't walk through the hospital without a metal detector. you have to empty your pockets to go through. how did this guy get a gun in? >> yeah. it's a little different here in the metro atlanta area. you can walk into hospitals without going through a massive screening. and this was an outpatient building with multiple private practices so less security you would see at a flab ship hospital than the main campus in atlanta. >> ainsley: jonathan, i know he was in the coast guard and

discharged this past january. do we know why? was it honorable discharge? >> the coast guard didn't release any details about the circumstances behind his discharge. just that it happened in january and he had served with the coast guard for four and a half years. they say they investigative unit with the coast guard is assisting local authorities here in atlanta and the surrounding community as they investigate what happened here yesterday. >> steve: jonathan serrie live in atlanta. jonathan, thanks. >> ainsley: in washington, a whistleblower claims there is a document detailing there was a criminal scheme involving the then vice president joe biden. now republican lawmakers are demanding the fbi turn that information over. >> brian: wow, this is getting interesting. this comes as a decision is reportedly coming soon in the federal criminal investigation of hunter biden four years and counting. >> steve: lucas come lynn son joins us live from the bureau,

two different binders involved in these stories. >> that's right four under investigation. james comer, senator chuck grassley say they have new information from a whistleblower involving then vice president biden in an alleged pay to play scheme. they wrote a letter to biden's attorney general demanding the fbi file that quote describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then vice president biden and foreclosure national real obligor to the exchange of money related to policy decisions. the document includes a precise description of how far the alleged criminal scheme was employed as well as its purpose will afterverify whether or not it's criminal activity but i do have faith in the whistleblowers that bring it to me that this document exists. >> white house defending the president's statement, quote:

for going on five years now, republicans in congress have been lobbing unfounded unproven politically moatgated attacks against biden and his family without evidence of claims or decisions influenced by anything other than u.s. interest. when it comes to president biden's personal finances, anybody can take a look, he has offered unprecedented level of transparency releasing a total of 25 years of tax returns to the american public. grassley and comer have not said when this alleged wrongdoing took place or what country was involved. as you mentioned, steve, the four year investigation into the president's son, hunter, may be coming to a close as prosecutors decide whether or not to charge hunter with tax and gun-related crimes. guys. >> steve: i'm thinking about the last guy, lucas. covered "the new york post." joe, the secret file alleging that then president biden in 2020 took money from a foreign national. >> this is the probably the riskiest of all of the g.o.p.

allegations thus far coming out of congress. this is not about hunter. this is about the former vice president and current president of the united states and claim that can only be backed up by that fbi document that they're requesting. a document that they probably never in a million years will get from the fbi. so, if they can't get it from the fbi, and they subpoenaed it. that's the headline. they have to try to convince the whistleblower to come out of the shadows and testify. >> ainsley: it's bad. they are alleging that he accepted bribes from a foreign national in exchange for a policy decision. they do say it's believed to involve a country other than china. >> brian: right. i don't know why the fbi wouldn't give up the document it's the law. it's speculated in the "new york post" and deals and what it could be around. ukraine we know about that burisma link. mexico carlos slim one of the richest men in the world. went over to mexico he also set up meetings hunter biden with carlos slim and his business

associate jeff cooper. the mayor of moscow, there is a linkage there with the biden family in romania breakfast with dad was one of the things on the daily planners, a romanian businessman. china and cefc and we know about the complication with china and hunter going over there on air force 2 and that possibly linking to the dad. so we'll see if paperwork backs this up. for those people who say this is ongoing accusation from republicans. it's not really. they have only been in power for a month or two. and senator ron johnson was zeroing in on all of this until the georgia election they lostth majority. they lost the majority in the senate and, of course, they lost the white house back in 2020. so we will see if this moves forward and see who this whistleblower is. miranda devine all over, this knew more about all that was going on with the biden family before most of us. she wrote the laptop from hell. talked about this in perspective and thinks it's really getting close to an answer. >> the prey verbal walls are

really closing in and incredible that hunter would choose to create this drama in arkansas right at this time when you have got the delaware criminal investigation into him looks to be coming to a head this week his father being accused by a new whistleblower. you have comer oversight committee is closing in on a lot of financial records. they have now found up to a dozen family members, immediate family members of joe biden have received money. that's what is he finding from these financial records. >> steve: so what the republicans are asking for, they are asking for something i have never heard of before, an fd 1023 file. >> brian: hike. >> steve: apparently what it is fbi record of interaction with the confidential human source. that's somebody who come in. brett tolman, the former federal prosecutor was on with jesse

last night. he looked at all of this. he said what he thought it was was somebody probably called the fbi and said we have evidence about joe biden. to they did an interview. and, of course, as we have learned over the last couple of years when they write down everything they ask him and they ask him every detail and put it in a so-called 302 form. this probably relates to that, according to mr. tolman, which that's a good supposition. so they interviewed somebody. they wrote down everything they said. the question is then did the fbi, the doj, did they deem that person reliable or not reliable? did they follow it up? is the case still open? the house republicans and the senate republicans are making a lot of statements. but we don't have many answers. they just would like that -- they would like to get that document from the fbi. but i bet you a dollar the fbi has a million reasons they will come up with not to release it. >> ainsley: they don't believe this is the same whistleblower that came forward last month with the irs. >> steve: sounds like an fbi

person. >> ainsley: they said the documents subpoenaed by the paneled was created or modified in june of 2020. that was months before the election. it must be supplied at the committee meeting on may 10th. >> brian: keep in mind that stenographer michael mccormick last week said this was a corrupt family i witnessed it up close and personal. i don't know what happened to his testimony but i look forward to him coming forward. i just know the previous administration if there was a rumor of the fbi having documents suddenly they would appear in the "the washington post" and every commentator would have a source from the fbi that reveals something is going on with donald trump and they are doing an investigation like they have never seen before. now with a legitimate subpoena to get paperwork, people worry about them not giving it up. it's bizarre. meanwhile, 11 minutes after the hour, today embattled dhs secretary mayorkas visit the southern border -- by the way it's sealed -- as title 42. >> ainsley: secure. >> brian: texas dps lt. chris olivares is on the lines and he joins us live.

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>> ashley: manhattan district attorney alvin bragg is investigating the death of a homeless man who was placed in a chokehold w by a subway passeng. the man had been acting erratically when a marine veteran put him in a head lock and other passengers stepped in to restrain him. he eventually passed out and e.m.s. workers were unable to revive him. the medical examiner ruled the incident a homicide. marine was taken into custody but later released without charges. protesters marching through new york city yesterday demanding justice for the homeless man. nashville police demanding the release of a manifesto by covenant school shooter audrey hale. due to litigation filed this week, they have been advised by counsel to hold the release of those documents. earlier this week the tennessee

firearms association filed a lawsuit demanding the release of hale's journals which were found by authorities along with a suicide note and several covenant school yearbooks. the shooting in march left six people dead, including three 9-year-old children. overnight elon musk spacex launches dozens into orbit as falcon robert carrying 56 satellites adding to the 4,000 already in service. this was falcon 9th 27th launch and seventh overall flight for this booster. a strategy that helps spacex cut down on the overall costs. and those are some of your headlines, ainsley over to you. >> good deal. thank you so much, ashley. dhs secretary mayorkas is heading to the southern border to speak with local officials and review cbp and ice operations before title 42 expires in one more week. encounters are up 15% this fiscal year compared to the same time last year.

with title 42 ending soon it's bound to get worse. chris olivares from the texas department of public safety joins us now. good morning to you. >> good morning, thanks for having me on. >> thanks for coming on. you see this firsthand. you are down there. do these visits by mayorkas help or hurt? >> they don't help at all whatsoever. when we look all the visits the secretary has done the past two years you showed the numbers on the screen and the numbers continue to get worse every single month, every single year. with all these visits that have been taking place, there hasn't been any significant change as far as to prevent the number of people coming across the border legally to will prevent got-aways. suspected terrorists coming across the border. i don't foresee that this visit is going to change anything. if you actually, you know, keep in mind, right now title 42 is in place. they did have the cbp one app. that's supposed to decrease the number of people coming across the border. but the numbers speak for themselves. the events that are taking place along the border speak for

themselves. nothing has change. the situation has gotten much worse. >> ainsley: we will put up mayorkas' plan he has a post title 42 plan. some of the things he wants to complement. expel through title 8. what are your predictions on ma? >> >> well, you know, right now we are seeing a significant increase along the southwest border with encounters. every single sector has increased the amount of people that have been coming across. also keep in mind, too. the shelters in new mexico right now, there are thousands waiting. you have the central caravans making their way they are all aware may 11 st. a free for all where anyone comes across the border will be released into the country. i say that because i have spoken tom solve the migrants myself. they tell me the reason some of them are coming right now they have family and friends that have been released into the country so that's why they're coming. the cpb 1 app. doesn't work.

if they would return to the policies remain in mexico policy, safe third country agreements and construction of the border wall and apply consequences we would not experience what we are seeing right now. especially going to title 42. they have had two years to put a plan in place in place of title 42. yet, they have not done so. i don't know if that's ignorance or just intentional. the fact of the matter is, they are allowing this to happen. >> ainsley: what do you expect will happen, biden sending the 1500 additional active duty troops down there? we are hearing mainly to do clerical work is that true? >> that's what i understand and, of course, that's not going to solve the problem at all. that's not going to aleve the processing for border patrol. they won't be allowed to process. you are still going to have agents processing and pulled from the field to process the amount of people that are coming across the border. these soldiers will be use ford administrative purposes which is the not role of active duty soldier. if you look at what the national

guard is doing, they are taking enforcement action, some type of deterrence. they have been able to stop 38,000 potential counters between the ports of entry. they have been putting up razor wire fencing. different roles than what the u.s. soldiers are going to be doing. it's not going to solve or prevented anything. so it's just another -- also, if you look back, too, prior to the 2021, there was criticism for the previous administration sending u.s. troops to the border. so, again, just completely undermines their claims that their plan and policies are working and the fact that the border is secured by them sending u.s. troops to the border. >> ainsley: i know dps was involved in that manhunt at the beginning of the week so that i think for your service. and, please, thank all the men and women in your department for that. >> i will. appreciate your support. thank you. >> ainsley: thank you, lieutenant. we have a fox news alert. an hours long manhunt. this one happened in atlanta that brought terror to that area ends with a suspected killer in custody. former fbi special agent and navy seal jonathan gilliam on the quest for answers, next

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we on our territory. we are defending our villages and cities. >> ashley: this as ukraine launched defense forces earlier today shooting down 18 of 24 drones believed to be launched by russia. u.s. officials are warning to take everything the kremlin says with very large shaker of salt. now, the brother of chief's quarterback patrick mahomes is facing charges for aggravated sexual battery. jackson mahomes was arrested jed for an incident that happened back in february. the owner of a kansas restaurant says mahomes forcibly kissed her multiple times even as she tried pushing him away. the 22-year-old suspect who denied the allegations back in march was quickly released on $100,000 bond. mahomes will appear in court next thursday. and those are your headlines, guys,. >> all right. thank you, ashley. >> you are welcome. >> we have a fox news alert. this morning the suspect accused of opening fire in the atlanta medical center now in custody after killing a woman and injuring four others.

>> now we are learning more about that man. the 24-year-old suspect who was discharged from the coast guard in january of this year as his mother speaks out blaming the v.a. for giving him, quote: messed up medication. >> brian: all right, former special agent jonathan gilliam joins us now served with the navy seals knows all about this with law enforcement background. what sticks out. the witness folded catching up to the guyer with did and then having him arrested. from what you know right now, what stands out about this incident? be. >> well, i don't know if this is a premeditated attack but he did have a gun with him when he went in there. so a lot of these hospital attacks and that's what this appears to have been stem from a prior incident or they stem from a domestic incident, possibly he had a relationship with somebody in the hospital. those are typically the two things that these types of attacks happen occur. and then the fact that the

shooter. he was this there for about two minutes. he cold one person and injured others. it sounds like within a few seconds or minutes his emotional outburst had stopped and he fled. and then he went to hide. so he didn't continue a killing. i don't think it was terrorism-related. i think this is going to come down to an issue that occurred not just medication but an issue that occurred and, quite frankly, could have been premeditated when he went in there. >> jonathan, this is what we know about the suspect. he entered the coast guard in 2018 as an electric tricks' mate second class. discharged from active duty this past january. dui charges dropped in 2017. arrested twice for violating probation in 2017. arrested and charged with possession of marijuana. ened in 2015 he is only 24 years old. what is happening when we are seeing all these school shootings or individuals like this who are upset about something and they just plow

down everyone. five women sitting in that waiting room and they all were hit ainsley this is a long conversation but a very simple answer. the fact is our society has broken down, i think it starts starts with the family and school when these people are not taught to control their anger anymore. there is no discipline in schools. enemy cases there is no discipline at home. so we have a generation or a couple generations of young people and middle-aged people who are to the disciplined in controlling their anger. when you throw into that things like gender confusion, drug abuse, and longstanding issues with authority, you're going to have people that do this. and this is something that has grown as social media has grown and has the department of education has completely fallen apart. there is a lack of discipline in this world. and when you add mental

instability which drugs will lead to that and this individual does have a history with drugs and dui. he had substance abuse, this is the type of thing that you will see. in almost every single one these shooters i would have to say all of these types of shooters typically have emotional or rage issues. sometimes brought on by medication but definitely brought on by the fact that the way children are raised right now is just not doing the trick. >> steve: what's unique about this is he actually went to the hospital with his mother and then became enraged in the lobby and we asked jonathan serrie why he got enraged. and the motive has not yet been revealed. maybe later today. jonathan, thank you very much for joining us live. >> ainsley: thank you. >> you got it, thank you. >> brian: still waiting on the manifesto to see what the shooter was thinking in nashville. >> steve: that's not coming out. >> brian: medication involved in this. jonathan saying if you were discipline problem you get detention now you get ritalin. i'm wondering about all these

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>> we are back with a few headlines. texas judge denied a request for a new murder trial for that soldier that governor abbott wants to pardon. sergeant daniel perry was convicted last month of killing an armed black lives matter protester back in 2020. perry requested a retrial over

improper jury behavior after the verdict abbott tweeted quote i'm working as quickly as law allows regarding the pardon of sergeant perry. chilling moment caught on camera. the baby stroller with the baby inside is heading towards traffic on this california street before a bystander thankfully jumps in at the last second. the baby's caretaker was back was turned when it started rolling falls and trips several times, unable to chase that stroller looks like she was injured. unclear if she suffered any injuries from that fall but the baby was not hurt thank goodness, and may the fourth be with you. the holiday celebrates a popular phrase coined by the iconic creator george lucas may the force be with you. the movie released nearly 46 years ago. hollywood parking the galaxy far, far away honoring princess leia actress carrie fisher on the wall of fame. next to co-star markham hamill

star. >> steve: may the fourth with you as well. the u.s. banking crisis may be far from over this morning focus shifted through have you heard of pack west. pacific western bank stocks plummet following news the bank is weighing strategic options the shares of many west coast regional banks hit particularly hard since the collapse of west coast silicon valley bank. the first of three major bank collapses since march. so this is the fourth. may the fourth be with us. right now, talk a little more about it we have the host of making money fox business charles payne. charles, this is not what we need to hear. >> it's not. you know, i think one of the sad ironies of it all yesterday the federal reserve got together and hiked rates for the tenth time and during the press conference chairman powell was pretty adamant that the banking system was sound and resilient. 90 millions yesterday pac west down 50%. not just pac west but a lot of

larger names. key bank under a lot of pressure. mt -- a few of them. we are going up the ladder, you know, to some of these more well-known names that i would considered them not just regional but you might call super regional like they're all over the country. it really is worrisome. and the federal reserve though, what's really problematic is, a, they won't accept any sort of responsibility for any of this how fast they have raised rates. b they won't accept responsibility on alaska supervision. and that's really scary because all of these powers we have given them abusing or ignoring them. >> i don't get where they don't accept responsibility because as the white house has said. they are -- the fed is completely independent. it's all on them. of course, if i was at the white house that's what i would say, too. here's jerome powell yesterday talking about how they have jacked up the rates to the highest level in 16 years. with today's action we have

raised interest rates by 5 percentage points in a little more than aer i don't. we are seeing the effects of our tightening on demand sectors of the economy particularly housing and investment. it will take time, however, for the full effects of monetary restraint to be realized. especially on inflation. >> steve: so what they are trying to do is trying to get inflation down to 2% we're still way north of that and he wants a happy, a soft landing. unfortunately we heard from some people yesterday, yeah, we will probably have a little mild recession. >> yeah, even the economists at the federal reserve have said mild recession. yesterday chairman powell was adamant. he does believe he is engineer a so-called soft landing. what is tough for a regular person out there. if you go to the mall you are business it's off the federal reserve. if you go to the movies you are pissing off the federal reserve because you are spending money and it really is perverse in a way. think about this for a element movement he just said we want to hurt investments. we want to hurt the housing

market. the core of what grew america to the greatest country of the world. the core of most people's central. your key investment in your life, your american dream your home. do you want your home price to go down in value. this is what they are trying to engineer. i just think, listen, they want to stick with the 2% rate which i think is an arbitrary number, fine. the notion of getting there so fast. right. remember, when inflation first reared its ugly head chairman powell said it was transitory and almost every economist said give it time. he said all of them said high prices are the cure for high prices. >> steve: well, you have got to figure. i know the fed is supposed to be independent. you have quote to filling maybe they jacked it up so fast to hit the brakes at least a year before joe biden has to run for re-election. because now, we're going to go over a year at this rate, perhaps, and that will give the market ample opportunity to stabilized. >> well, there is no doubt about it that the fed is loathe to be involved in policy decisions right before an election.

remember, the first bush, george bush sr. actually blamed the federal reserve for his loss not being reelected they are loathe to do that. i just think that there is a major disconnect. every now and then come out of these ivory towers and go to the supermarket. go somewhere and just catch a subway train. do something. engage? a conversation with someone. people who just aren't like minded to go from run away inflation to now maybe losing your job is just a hell of a 1-2 punch. >> i agree with that except taking a subway ride. just saying. i'm in new york. >> maybe take a body guard. >> steve: borrow yours or you just come with me. watch charles today 2:00 eastern over making money on fox business. thank you, sir. >> thanks a lot. >> steve: meanwhile, on this thursday, let's find out what kind of day we have got in store. the umbrella, adam, kind of gives it away. >> adam: yeah, dreary out here. continuing to be so across the northeast at least here on fox

square. folks dealing with this in the northwest, northeast. throughout the entire week. still some rain spots in the middle of the country and there will be a big spot possibility of severe weather texas running up toward oklahoma city, the west coast seeing rain, also. all the warm air piling up in the middle of the country, look at that, nearly 80 degrees or up to 80 degrees in montana. a lot of spots upper 70s. cold on the east and west coast. pollen high across the middle of the country. tree pollen new york, think that middle tier, new york across the midwest. stretching into the plains. the grass pollen are higher a little farther to the south. you are talking about areas across the southeast. including florida, but particularly the carolinas, georgia, stretching back into texas. those grass pollens have been high the last couple of days are there. >> those are the headlines. tossing it back inside to you. >> steve: thank you, sir. coming up on t this thursday new

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>> we are back with some sports headlines and get to 2024. stanley cup playoffs. hurricanes jump out 1-0 lead. they win easy 5-1 on home ice. out west golden knights. first regulation loss in the post season really since march 11th. fame one of second series sounded exactly like this. >> blocked by nugent hopkins. he tries again. scores! another vague answer and they've got the lead back.

>> brian: vegas held off the high flying oilers 6-4. best of seven win. ohtani joins babe ruth ball players 500 strikeouts and 100 home runs. the 100 ks yesterday's match with the cardinals. l.a. got the win 6-4. bad news, meanwhile that's what is happening in the world of sports. i'll take a deep breath and pause and change topics. bad news for president biden. 2024 democratic primary polls are signaling warning signs about his re-election campaign. the latest fox news poll reveals that 28% of democrat primary voters have ditched biden. they want somebody else. 19% for r.f.k. jr. and 9% for marianne williamson. fox news contributor joe concha woke up early for us. fox news political annual list and gianno caldwell and former nassau county executive democrat laura. let's start with you. these are the numbers that joe biden has. he is just counting on donald

trump being his opponent and head-to-head he beats -- he is leading trump by 1.4%. should he really be worried? >> well, i think the democratic establishment will coalesce around biden. he is the front runner. he is the establishment candidate. but these are pesky mosquitoes in the ear of the party right now. and they could peal away voters. this is something that we are seeing on the republican side as well. you have two frontrunners right now and of course we know things can change who, you know, the base of the opposite party thinks the world is going to end if either of them wins. also concerns within each party as well. >> brian: there is joe concha, i'm sure you know. this the president has taken 12 full weekends off. only about a dozen events after six. he has only done a handful before 9:00. he doesn't seem to have the energy for it and his staff seems to know it. >> brian, we saw that last week. he announces his re-election campaign does so by video? why, so that could be packaged,

homogenized make him look vigorous. then you look at the president's schedule. this week alone he has no public events on tuesday. one public event on wednesday. and that was a dinner that he hosted. no public events today and tomorrow he leaves for delaware. this is the absentee presidency. and the biggest gripe about joe biden in terms of him run for re-election seven in 10 voters do not want him to run for re-election including a majority of democrats is that he is too old. that he does not have the energy, dolls not have the wherewithal to run the country until he is 86 years old. so the last thing you do when you're running for president again is to hide in the basement again because that gives the perception that you're not up for the job. >> brian: yeah, pretty amazing, gianno, so many people who are ambitious on the left but they are going to stand back for two more years and just watch joe biden finish out the string. why? >> well, robert f. kennedy jr. isn't. 10% to 21% in some polls.

here's the thing though, brian, just like in 2016 the democratic party is trying to rig the election in favor of joe biden. we saw this before with hillary clinton. we are seeing it now with not even wanting to take on certain primary. "new york times" came out with a post recently talked about the frustration that black voters are file the enthusiasm gap that black voters have he has not kept most of his promises that comes on the heels of the 70% poll that came out with nbc which showed that 51% of democrats didn't want to see him run again. i think if they have a candidate like robert kennedy jr., who is able to get steam and money, that may make a difference. but, of course, you have got democrats who are looking to rig the election in favor of biden. it doesn't look good for joe biden if they're the real candidate that steps in the race. >> brian: laura, the other thing that is real is issues. issue like we have never seen with the border. not control the shots two weeks. remember the haitians under the bridge look like the good old days shortly.

economy where already 34% of the country are in support of president biden's economy. can that overcome a democratic machine? >> i think it's going to be tricky, especially when you talk talk about the border. we are here in new york city right now. you have a democratic mayor calling out for help from his president, from the congressional leaders down in washington. and it's almost like he is crying in the wilderness. so i don't know if that will be enough to drive the wedge. i think the party is so concerned about trump and perhaps wants trump to be the nominee. that they will do everything they can to coalesce around the guy they think can win. >> brian: debt ceiling debate too, joe, how important is, this june 1st fictional day we run out of money, there is a deadline, the president goes i'm not dealing with this. i don't want to deal with it. there is word that his staff ♪ comfortable with him going one-on-one with mccarthy or mcconnell or anyone else. >> joe: nor should they be. if this happens by the way if we end up defaulting and can't pay our bills, you are looking at a stock market that some analysts

say could drop by as much as 45%. this is a very big deal. yet again the absentee presidency where joe biden is not engaging with kevin mccarthy. says he will meet with him next week as if there is some sort of sense of urgency around that and, in the end, it seems like the democratic party wants a coronation instead of a nomination. and there won't be any democratic debates at all despite the fact that you saw robert f. kennedy at nearly 20%. marianne williamson 10%. these aren't big time candidates here that are eating into the president's support. he should debate just like the republican donald trump should debate his opponents as well. let's see an exchange of ideas without a teleprompter by the way and those situations joe biden has shown lately that he simply cannot handle it unless it's scripted for him, brian. >> brian: gianno to close out the city is falling apart, san francisco, new york and chicago democratic run cities. is the president on the clock on that? are people going to judge him by what is happening in these major

cities? >> i think they should. because he is speaking out. especially when you have seen what has happened in the city of chicago, baltimore, many other places where democrats and progressive prosecutors have ran amok if you really will look at the situation as it is. they should be protecting victims, they are not. let's not also forget about the criminal probes against joe biden did have an outside measurement and this election as well. >> and probes against trump as well. that's going to be interesting to watch. >> brian: it is. if i'm a democrat and i feel i would do a better job i would not wait for the machine. just jump in. for the country. that's what it should be. >> that's what obama did. >> brian: absolutely. he wasn't waiting. thanks, guys. great debate. hope to see you again in the halls. >> thanks, brian. >> brian: second hour of "fox & friends" according to reports starts now. ♪ >> ainsley: straight to a fox news alert. the suspected gunman who brought atlanta to stand still yesterday after opening fire at a hospital

waiting room yesterday is now in custody this morning. >> steve: police are accusing him of killing at least one person and hurting four others in a medical center's waiting room. >> brian: that's not news to jonathan serrie. he has been covering this story, following all the developments. he is from atlanta now. jonathan? >> yeah. good morning, brian, steve, and ainsley. police have arrested 24-year-old deion patterson and charged him with murder and four counts of aggravated assault. it all unfolded in a medical office building where i am in midtown, atlanta, they say the gunman opened fire, seriously injuring four women and killing 38-year-old amy pierre who worked for the centers of disease control in atlanta. the cdc is deeply saddened by the unexpected loss of a colleague killed today in a midtown atlanta shooting. police received the call of an active shooter at 12:0