>> todd: take a look, that full screen just got deeper. that means the republican bench got deeper. florida governor ron desantis launching his campaign for president, presenting biggest challenge to former president trump we've seen so far. >> the pledge i make for people is this, we need to win again as republicans, we got to dispense with this culture of losing. if you nominate me, i pledge on january twenty, 2025, at high noon, i'll be the guy on the west side of the capitol with the hand on the bible as 47th president of the united states. no excuses, get this one done. >> todd: so much detail, i can't get over it, he listed everything that will happen on inauguration day, that is wild. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. initial launch was not smooth, technical issues on twitter

delaying desantis's big announcement and driving away most of the audience before he could get a word out. >> todd: doug luzader live in washington. >> doug: this is a first, live on twitter space platform, delayed for 20 minutes, as the host, including twitter ceo elon musk, had to vamp. >> i'm pleased to introduce to individuals who have done more to -- all right, sorry about that, we've got so many people here that i think we are melting the twitter verse, which is a good sign. let's see. we on? >> yeah, i think so. >> doug: the biden campaign mocked the rollout and former president trump called it a disaster. but desantis thought it was demonstration of the governor's popularity and later appearing on fox news, desantis tried to

turn the focus back to president biden. >> we know the country is on the wrong track and we have a president who is listless vessel, not energetic and not dealing with key challenges facing our country. this does not have to be this way, our decline is not inevitable, it is a choice and i think we can choose a better pathway. >> beyond the twitter rollout, more traditional aspect to the launch, including video message posted on social media. >> truth must be our foundation. common sense can no longer be an uncommon virtue. i'm ron desantis and i'm running for president to lead our great american comeback. >> part of that comeback involves addressing key issues for voters like immigration and crime. >> i'm running to lead a great american comeback. we know the country is on the wrong track. we see it with our eyes. we feel it in our bones.

we see the border being overrun, crime infesting the cities, we see the federal government making it difficult for families to make ends meet. i will help restore normalcy to our communities, integ rit tow institutions and sanity to our society. >> doug: desantis is entering a crowded republican primary field led by former president trump. new fox news poll shows how large that lead is. trump has a 33 point edge over desantis, that has been steady in recent weeks, but desantis is building huge campaign war chest and plans to carry out intense ground game in iowa and new hampshire, that can determine who wins the nomination. todd and ashley, we've seen forces turn in places like iowa and new hampshire. a lot can happen. >> ashley: sure can. doug luzader, thank you. a lot can change between now and

then, there is plenty of time to see what is going to happen. interesting to see what happens. the thing i cannot get over, elon musk is no dummy. he knows all about tech and technical issues and surely to goodness they prepared for this, or i would have thought they prepared more or did they not think this many people would log on? i can't see that explanation, i'm confused why this happened and why it happened when it did, lost so many people. i'm not going to deal with this. we were talking, we ran it and thought something was wrong with our air thachl is what happened to twitter, here is the moderator explaining what went wrong. >> laura, we had a million people trying to get into a twitter space, an online room, desantis melted the everybody issers, normally it takes a

kardashian to do that. took 15 minutes, never had that level of scale, i think the biggest room was 100,000. we moved the room from elon's account to my account. then it worked perfectly. >> ashley: it worked perfectly after they lost people. >> todd: trump will seize upon, as commander-in-chief, you need to think through every eventuality and prepare your country and your administration to respond they not prepare for this? i understand they said we saw a level we've never seen before. you know what, there is interest in ron desantis running for president. you should have been able to anticipate this. second part begs the question, was this purposeful to drum up and show my god, the interest is so overwhelming, don't look at

the poll numbers that show donald trump 30 points ahead. if that is the case, you are starting your campaign on a disingenuous lie. neither is a good look and plays into donald trump's hands of this guy is not ready for prime time, no matter which way you cut it. interesting to see if that notion trump will seize upon grows the numbers or if people want an alternative to trump and you will see the numbers go up and trump go down. >> ashley: just being organized. this was a huge time for desantis to prove whether or not his team was organized or not. i was fascinated with what kayleigh mcenany said yesterday. she said the trump team is super organized, even more organized now than in 2016. give them the benefit of the

doubt, they did something different, stepped out of the box, didn't go smoothly, time to make up for it. >> todd: what is ironic about this, we've been waiting for this announcement for months, they had months to work on this, why have an error when you had months to work on it. another question. >> ashley: chilling moment caught on camera, gunshots rang out during a local tv interview near a kids' playground. >> spell your name for me. >> my name is yolanda, [gunshots fired] >> get down, just get down. >> todd: her calmness is amazing, that woman is here to tell us what happened in that heart-stopping video. don't go anywhere.

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>> ashley: shocking video shows the moment a california highway patrol officer is brutally beaten on the side of a busy freeway. police say the officer received reports a man was yelling at drivers and attempting to take down a traffic sign. he was going to let him off with a verbal warning, but the man started swinging and gets on top of the officer and starts wailing on him. two good samaritans stepped in

to help. the suspect is facing multiple charges, assault and battery and resisting arrest. the police officer suffered minor injuries and police worry they will take their gun. they cover their gun when somebody goes after them. >> good on those samaritans for helping out. chilling moment caught on camera, as gunshots ring out during a local tv interview. >> can you spell your name for me? >> yolanda. >> [gunshots fired] >> get down. just get down. get down, stay down and get down. it's okay. thank you, lord jesus. just stay down and get down. are they coming back? >> okay. >> you're okay, jay. thank you, lord, for the blood of jesus to of coer us. thank you, father. thank you, lord. all right, we should be all

right. drive by? yep. >> todd: that woman is community leader and candidate for memphis city council, yolanda sutton. walk us through what happened from your perspective? >> from my perspective, i was received a phone call because there is so much crime going on in memphis right now and a lot of gun crime. guns that are just rampant in memphis. i got a call to do an interview that they wanted to talk about the crime and gun crime and the solutions that are now arising with the citizens and with the current administration and what my thoughts were around it. had no idea that we would be in the middle of an actual drive-by

shooting. so -- >> todd: when you hear the gunshots, like what is going through your mind in that moment? >> well, in that moment, i knew that it was gunshots and i knew that it was immediately to get down because a moving target is a hit target every time. not sure where bullets were coming from, i knew they were bullets and my instinct was to hit the ground and i did. and assisting the gentleman that was doing the interview, he froze. and just stay calm no matter what, if the car decided to drive up in the parking lot, to stay calm, not move, stay calm and get -- calm as i possibly could. >> todd: when you hear your

voice, yolanda, how did you remain that calm? >> i remained thatum ca, calm, i don't know, just instinct. this is something very common around memphis. you can be riding down the highway, interstate and gunshots. i can't tell you, i just know in that moment and you played this moment over and over and over again in your head because when you live in a city like we do right now and the increase in gun violence and the drive-byes, any moment, anything can happen. so you prepare yourself mentally, should we be in that act or ready to be in that moment? no. but this is where we are right now. i was able to be that calm and to remember what my grandmother, who is 94, always tell me, still living. in every situation, stay calm

and think it out because a fast reaction sometime will get you in more danger than a slow reaction. >> todd: two things stood out to me from what you did. the calmness and you invoked the lord. how much did you lean on god in that moment? >> i leaned on him for every breath that we were taking at that moment. and once again, i knew if i called on his name, that myself and those that were in the surrounding area, it was not only myself, it was a couple more other guys, there was construction work going on. i knew if i called on the name of the lord, we would be okay. that was my faith, no matter the situation or circumstance and what was going on at that time, i knew when i called on that great name, our lord, and savior, jesus christ, we would

be okay. >> todd: amen. you were doing interview on 10 age curfews, perfect example of how dangerous our communities have gotten, not just forren toos, but for everybody. yolandacooper-sutton, we thank you for remaining so calm and being a shining light on a thursday morning. best of luck in the campaign, come back and visit us. we will. thank you, thank you so much. >> todd: stro. >> ashley: when she asked the construction worker she was talking to, she said, drive-by shooting? he said, yep, like it was -- like they heard it before. >> todd: she knew it was safe to continue because the drive-by had passed. >> ashley: my gosh, frightening. >> todd: george george gascon office facing 10,000 case backlog and staffers keep quitting because they say it is a toxic work environment. >> ashley: one of george

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>> janice: good morning, we're getting close to memorial day weekend, what does the forecast look like? here are current temperatures, 50s and 60s, 70s down south. 58 in seattle. severe weather today and for next couple of days for places like texas and oklahoma, severe thunderstorm warning in effect for west texas, that is the area we see potential for thunderstorms and perhaps some stronger storms getting into friday. then saturday. same areas slow-moving system. then we watch this area of low pressure off the coast of florida. it has tropical characteristics. will it develop into a named storm? if it does, it will cause same amount of heavy rain and winds on the coast, when it moves

inland across the carolinas. not looking great for memorial day weekend. several inches of rain for beaches here of south carolina. look at the forecast as we go through the next couple days for georgia, north carolina and south carolina, not great. here is memorial day outlook for saturday and this is the setup for much of the weekend, that system continues to linger across the west and plain states and southeast, not fun. in the northeast, high pressure, looks like it will protect us, we have to watch the forecast. >> thank you. >> todd: veterans and know ares rally behind daniel penny, the marine veteran facing second degree manslaughter charges in choke hold death of jordan neely, the homeless man who witnesses say threatened passengers. we are here for daniel penny because he did the right thing. he was a man of courage.

he cared about his community. >> mr. penny served our country, his instincts were to protect defend. >> we're calling on alvin bragg to stop this senseless prosecution of a good samaritan, of a united states marine veteran. >> todd: manhattan da alvin bragg has six months to secure an indictment against penny. >> ashley: the district attorney's office is facing 10,000 case backlog as current and former employees are calling george gascon an author tainian and toxic manager, driving people out of the office. in my career as a prosecutor, i've never had victims families hate us until i came into this office. we are hated by all the victims because of lack of prosecution and low sentences because of his

policies. >> todd: jason has had run-ins with george gascon in the past. we know george gascon's policies are horrible and destroying the great city of los angeles. what is worse, his policies or his actions as a boss? >> his actions as a boss are becoming worse. he's destroying the reputation of the office and forcing talent out. some of the most experienced people are leaving, retiring because of abusive work environment and we have a huge backlog. thatten moos criminals are on the street not being held accountable, thousands of victims are denied access to justice and a lot of criminals are violent offenders, they are on the streets committing more crime and coming back, a revolving door.

his policies working fast enough to keep criminals on the streets, now just not prosecuting cases. >> ashley: shea, there is 200 open positions, i know george gascon's office said like 139 because of hiring freezes and retirement. do you buy that? >> no. no. i have been told in the past there has been 1500 applicants every job posting and currently receiving 150 applicants. we should be able to fill those jobs, even if there is 150, no problem, and we can't fill the spots. >> todd: when you graduate law school, you're faced with a choice, work for a big law firm or go into public service. for somebody like yourself, you become a prosecutor to be the

voice of the victims. it is an important responsibility, how is it when those victims hate you because of what george gascon has done to the office of district attorney? >> it is extremely difficult. gascon should change his mission statement to criminals are the victims and victims are inconvenient, that is the way he treats them. he makes excuses for the criminals, treats them like victims and treats the victims like they are inconvenient to his agenda. a woman whose son was brutally murdered, he called her uneducated and said some people need to learn to keep their mouth shut. this is a mother whose son was murdered and when she spoke out, it was inconvenient forhim.

he supported a child molester on trial. when has george gascon met with victims families, he's meeting with the criminals families. we join the office to get justice and to be part of public service sector prosecuting criminals and now we've been turned into public defenders who make excuses for criminals and help them and ignore victims. we're revictimizes people who are victims. >> ashley: george gascon's term ends in 2024, people think he faces uncertain future. he did survive recall, i don't withstand everything coming out of los angeles and crime, how he could go any further than he is now. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> congressman comer is threatening to hold fbi director christopher wray in contempt of

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>> ashley: fox news alert, house oversight committee chairman james comer will meet with fbi

director christopher wray next week, threatening to hold the bureau in contempt of congress if they do not provide a document he says could incriminate president biden. >> todd: brooke singman has the latest. >> brooke: the key document could link president biden to a criminal scheme. the whistleblower claims the document describes alleged criminal scheme involving biden who was vice president at the time and a foreign national, specifically detailing exchange of money for policy decisions. in a letter i obtained to fbi director christopher wray, comer gave a may 30 deadline. the fbi failed to produce the fd1023 form or offer reasonable acommendation to allow the committee to review the document. the fbi gamesmanship in holding a meeting about confidentiality issues instead of addressing the

form from the subpoena is unacceptable. fbi spokesman responding telling fox news turning over the document could jeopardize ongoing investigation. the mission of the fbi is to protect the american people, releasing confidential source information could put lives at risk. the fbi remains committed to cooperating with congress' oversight request on this and others as we always have. comer and fbi director will meet next week, the chair says he is still going to hold wray in contempt if he doesn't get that document. >> if he doesn't turn over the document, i expect the document and expect to know what the fbi did to investigate the validity of the claim. it all stemmed over the course of 2015 and 2016 during the end of the obama administration when

joe biden was vice president and took it upon himself to travel the world to some of our adversaries and talk about foreign policy and foreign aid. >> brooke: house speaker kevin mccarthy believes the fbi will provide that document as house oversight committee into the biden family continues. >> todd: thank you. chicago public schools now allowing migrant children to enroll despite not having any important document including school and health record and taxpayers are fed up with how the city is handling the influx of migrants, watch. >> inviting everybody to come here and collect all our freebies, we will give it to you, every sucker will pay for it. >> todd: we spoke to a chicago mom calling the entire system hypocritical. we have to provide residency, citizenship, and vaccine

records. my child cannot return to school next year without a specific vaccine. it is inconsistent with what they are allowing for the migrant children. i'm overly compassionate for the migrant children, nobody is saying immigrants can't come here, where the law. >> todd: we have not received a response from the school. >> ashley: two moms battling indoctrination by writing a book. the book focuses on teaching historical, economic and biological truth and in a world of lies. ladies, thank you for getting up with me, i was looking forward to doing this interview with you guys. i'm going to be a new mom and this is honestly something my husband and i talk about almost daily how are we going to

navigate this woke world that we seem to be living in. katie, what is your advice for me and future moms like me? >> your kids don't have to be victims of the current cultural infection, they can be shapers of culture, rather than victims of culture. that is why stacey and i wrote the book. your kids don't have to be consumed by the woke virus. we laid out our joint parenting strategy and that is what we did, we laid out this recipe for how to make sure that you balance protection and exposure to what the world is throwing at our kids today and maintain a strong relationship throughout so by the time they leave your home, they are fully equipped to standa their own. >> ashley: you heard katy say you layout a recipe, what are a

few you can share from your book? >> most importantly, be the person your child comes to in school situations, friend situations, you need to be the expert to your child and cultivate the no -- rule as quickly as possible. when you are a safe space for your kid, they are going to come to you as the authority on how to deal with the little stuff at school, teachers that are poking and prodding or big stuff when their friends are facing something with difficulty. you can help them be the wise council to speak to other children's lives. in woke environment in dark blue cities, the only ecposure to conservative principles are the children conservatives send to engage the world. >> ashley: katy, schools concern

me, the woke teachers in particular concern me. i think my child would have a safe space and really be taught the way of the world and the way i think is right and i think he should act. how you go about maneuvering around this, i mean, one of my biggest fears is that my son will come home from school and tell me something and i say, where did you hear this from and it be his teacher. how do you navigate that? >> we layout sort of guiding principles for what to do at each age. we recommend in elementary school to filter out as many woke or damaging ideas as possible. if you are able to do that by home schooling or sending your kid to a private school, do it. if not or you are in a blue city, all through elementary school, your job is to saturate them and expose them to true and beautiful as possible when it

comes to economics, biology and history. in middle school, you want to start to expose them to the lies of the world. in elementary school, we talk about how you don't know how crooked a stick is until you lay a straight stick next to it. in elementary school, you are honing their straight stick. in middle school, ecpose them to the world's crooked sticks to evaluate on their own. elementary school, make hard calls. >> have hard conversations, i feel like a lot of parents don't want to have hard conversations, you have to. thank you so much and thank you for writing this book, i'll have to grab it. >> thank you so much. >> ashley: you're welcome. >> todd: i was actually taking notes. you need to be that safe space for your child, they know they can have a backbone and stand up

to craziness around them because you have their back. >> ashley: i want my kid to come to me before anyone else and knowing he will be okay no matter what. first bud light and target and no north face. >> it is me, patty gonia, we are here to invite you to come out in nature with us. >> todd: i don't have words for this, we'll ask cheryl for her words on the latest ad campaign that is causing a lot of questions.

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>> todd: north face following in footsteps of bud light and target with a woke ad campaign. >> hi, it's me patie goneia. come to nature with us. >> ashley: cheryl casone is here. >> cheryl: north face is making a clear choice with this campaign and they have said this is what they believe, they think all the -- everything you saw in the ad, they are standing by it.

if they get criticized, we shall see. it is hurting target, stock price of target following 2.7%, stock down 9% because of the displays they put up in their stores. these decisions can affect business. north face is making a very calculated decision. target is trying to back away from the decision, saying, there were employees being threatened in stores, especially in the south. investors are realizing that a decision that ends up being unpopular with your customers, as in the case of bud light and target, that affectses business. look at anheuser-busch, see the market cap and value of this company. look at this. they have lost, i had to double -check the numbers, are you

kidding me? 15.7 billion for the bud light brand. look at coors light and heinekken. we talked about adidas last week, will you go by nike, or other swim gear? i don't agree with some of the decisions. >> ashley: i feel like patagonia take liberal stances. >> todd: but this is north face. >> ashley: you are right. and when you look at target, they are targeting more younger people and kids, i wonder if this will affect them and then bud light. all different in ways.

>> cheryl: brand loyalty starts at a young age. >> todd: core audience, for bud light, frat boys, for target, 25 to 45-year-old mom and for north face, venture capitalist who will wear north face to go to work. how does that commercial target that audience? we got to move on. noted mit scientist cori bush speaking out about gas stoves. >> cheryl: says more concerned about appliances. >> number of my constituents are being poisoned by gas stove in the state it is without this proposed rule being in effect. >> cheryl: look, gas stoves have been around, they will be around for sometime. but everything has to be climate change and if it is taking away

gas stoves, fossil fuel, gas hurts consumers, stoves and appliances will be more expensive if more states do what they have done in new york. >> ashley: what about her constituents dying from crime. >> todd: focus on ones dying from crime, not the ones that could inhale propane. sad news, fans across the globe mourning death of qbing of rock-and-roll, tina turner. we can't go live to the memorial outside of her in switzerland. turner dying at the age of 83, after battling a longlongness. lionel richie, praising turner, what a life, what a show, what a talent, your resilience was a

life for us all. i will miss you. >> ashley: dolly parton says she is rolling, rolling, rolling to glory issue referencing one of turner's biggest hits. ♪ keep on burning and we're rolling rolling, yeah rolling on a river. ♪ >> ashley: tina turner is survived by her husband and two sons. >> todd: what a life and talent, she will be missed. our top story, ron desantis entering the presidential race and posing biggest challenge to donald trump we've seen so far. will he gain ground after his disastrous campaign launch last night? >> ashley: lee carter joins us next to react. ♪ rolling on a river rolling on a river say we're rolling

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lee carter of maslansky and partners joints us now. go right to this poll it's trump vs. desantis. 5 #% for trump. 20% for desantis. i know there is still a lot of time between now and november of 2024 but can he make that much headway? >> it's a really interesting question because what polls really do is they show us a snapshot in a moment of time. desantis has lost a huge amount of momentum look back two months he was neck and neck with donald trump now is he far behind. he has a lot, a lot, a lot of ground to make up. last night's announcement was an important step for him to do

that and i don't think he was able to pull it off. >> todd: good news for desantis everything went technically perfect. oh, no it didn't. let's watch the tape. >> tonight i'm pleased to announce two individuals who have done more to. [lost audio] we have got so many people here we are kind of melting the servers which is a good sign. let's see so,. >> todd: okay, which narrative moves the narrative this morning? the desantis narrative of wow! we were so popular we broke the internet or the trump narrative of you're too young. failure to launch. >> one of the biggest problems desantis is going to have he is running on this idea is he a common sense conservative. he does all of these things. he fights the elite. he is going to do things that are practical and makes sense and he couldn't even pull off an announcement video. if he had a lot of people would

say look, is he young. he is using a new platform. is he with elon musk. is he an entrepreneur. is he a business-friendly guy. none of that wanted ha. now all we are going to talk about is the failure to launch. >> ashley: we do have to talk about the comparison of the campaign launches. because they have been starkly different to what desantis showed us. here is desantis' message during his tech challenged twitter launch. watch. this well, i am running to the president the united states to lead our great american comeback. look, we know our country is going in the wrong direction. we see it with our eyes and we feel it in our bones. i don't think it has to be this way. american decline is not inevitable. it is a choice. >> ashley: okay, so, lee, back in november trump was the first to declare his candidacy in front of a massive crowd shoulder onto shoulder from mar-a-lago. >> the biden administration has destroyed the u.s. economy, just destroyed it with victory, we

will again build the greatest economy ever. in order to make america great and glorious again, i am, tonight, announcing my candidacy for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] >> ashley: so we have that visual. we have the audience cheering. we had nothing with desantis. don't forget about tim scott announcing this week as well and people were fired up. was he missing that visual aspect of an announcement? >> he absolutely missed the visual. donald trump with all the flags. tim scott with his mother on stage and all of those people and the energy was contagious. ron desantis really lost a big opportunity. now, here's what is interesting. every republican candidate is now putting america as a centerpiece of their campaign whether they say we can be great again or america is great. that's in stark contrast to the democrats. the question really we have is who can do it best, right? who can restore american greatness. who are we going to put our faith. in that's what the test is going to be.

everyone is running on same concept. democrats are taking away america first, american economy, american greatness we need to restore it. >> todd: desantis had a seven month sneak peek at what trump did and that's what he came up with after seven months. >> and $200 million. >> todd: you mentioned america first. take a look at how people are america first and campaign ads. >> i'm running to lead a great american comeback. we know the country is on the wrong track. we see it with our eyes. >> america is a land of opportunity not oppression. >> america first does not belong to donald trump. it doesn't belong to me. it belongs to those voters we just looked at. it belongs to the people of this country. >> 2024 is the final battle. that's going to be the big one. you put me back in the white house, their reign will be over and america will be a free nation once again. >> todd: are those campaign pitches enough to boot biden? >> well, they could be because

there is a fundamental underlying belief here that america is great in all of them. the question really is there is only one candidate, tim scott who said america is great. everybody said america used to be great. that's a big interesting framing difference. >> todd: we will see. lee carter awesome to have you on set and with that. >> ashley: "fox & friends" starts right now. have a good day. ♪ ♪ >> i am running for president of the united states to lead our great american comeback. look, we know our country is going in the wrong direction. we see it with our eyes and we feel it in our bones. >> brian: florida governor ron desantis officially launching his campaign for president. the initial announcement was not so smooth. >> ainsley: yeah there were technical issues on twitter spaces delaying the big announcement hosted by elo