laura ingraham, check out my new book, serenity in thish h storm . living through chaose stor by lt on . i don't forget to tune in weekdays at 12 pm eastern time a for when i co-host outnumbered. thank you for watchir watchinglk the special edition of thees "ingraham angle". greg >> todd: a fox news alert, the bipartisan debt deal heads to the floor, vote expected after review period at 7:13 eastern time tonight. set your watch. this is "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. >> this is a two-year bill and that is just basing hope and dream and handshake that you

commit to spending caps and may not be in the majority two years from now. >> nobody gets everything they want in negotiation. take 2 trillion in savings. >> ashley: lucas tomlinson has more from washington. good morning, lucas. >> lucas: good morning. salty language from nancy mace. clearing the rules committee passed by a single vote. in the house, 435 will be voting, needs 218 to pass. speaker mccarthy is confident it will. single democrat and 30 republicans say they are against the bill. here is what some who are against the bill are saying. >> send in one person to go into a room with another person and no cameras there and they come out and say up or down, take it or leave it, that is not a good process. >> this is about increasing

credit card for prospective spending. >> this is smoke and mirrors, never talk about the interest on existing debt. forget everything else. 32 trillion, one trillion is 30 billion. >> lucas: there are those saying full speed ahead and want to see the bill passed. >> this is just the first step. we've been waiting for years to get a chance to your honor it the directior of this country around. >> it protects seniors. >> physical responsibility bill holds washington accountable. >> lucas: at the white house, karine jean-pierre says the president has been busy on the telephone. >> the president has been engaging with members of congress throughout this process, that includes 100 one-on-one calls with be ms of congress. >> lucas: chip roy from texas

says he's not done fighting this bill. we have to regroup, leadership needs to bring us back to the table so they don't do what they did this weekend. >> lucas: the bill will cuts 1.5 trillion over the next decade, conservatives say that is not enough and say the u.s. government is over 31 trillion in debt. >> todd: inconceivable number. congressman ken buck says he will vote no on the bill, it will not stop it. watch. >> this bill will pass, some republicans will vote for it, some democrats will vote for it. it will pass in the senate and it will pass and the united states will not default. the devil is in the detail. republicans say a few billion here and a few billion there that we are saving, only people in washington, d.c. believe you can save a few billion dollars and spend and go into debt four

trillion more. people are furious. this bill will be on level of obama care. >> todd: larry kudlow has a much different take on public perception. >> i want to know if you realized that the kevin mccarthy deal on the debt ceiling is really terrific. completely spun biden around, cutting 2 trillion, a record amount, no increases, cap on future spending and it will reduce inflation. >> todd: kevin o'leary knows about making a deal, see what he thinks later in the show. >> ashley: house oversight committee chairman james comer set to confront christopher wray during a phone call later today as the committee moves to hold wray in contempt. >> todd: brooke singman joins us. >> brooke: the fbi's decision to stiff arm congress and hide information from the american

people is obstructionist and unacceptable. the back and forth between congress and fbi is about a document that connectses president biden to a 5 million bribery scheme. yesterday the fbi missed the deadline to turn it over. the bureau is defending itself and ush approximating back against contempt proceedings against fbi director wray saying the fbi remains committed in good faith and fbi committed to providing information responsive to the subpoena in format and setting that maintains confidentiality and protects privacy interest and any discussion of escalation is necessary and senator chuck grassley says he and comer have been more than patient with the fbi. the bureau failure to comply with constitutional oversight duty comes with consequences.

i hope t congress must defend oversight perogative. >> he has given us the run-around for three weeks, he' have not produced anything or admitted they have a document. we do not have confidence in director wray. we will hold him accountable and demonstrated pattern of behavior that suggests this is credible accusation and we want answers. >> ashley: contempe bannon. >> todd: you had four years, thank you. white house dodging questions

from the press on president biden's re-election strategy. peter doocy tried to get answers on what is next for president biden. >> peter: will president biden hold a campaign event ever? >> i will say this to you, peter, as you know, we follow the rule of law here and believe in following the rule of law as relates -- >> peter: asking you to weigh on just schedule around rallying. as relates to anything connected to the campaign and rallies and events, any endorsement connected to the 2024 re-election, that is not going to come from here. that will come from his campaign or the dnc. >> peter: you can't say if he will be campaigning for re-election? >> i will not comment from here on the 2024 election.

-- does exist. >> todd: president biden is facing two democrats looking to take his spot, robert f. kennedy and author mariann williamson. >> todd: and desantis kicked off his presidential campaign in the hawkeye state with this message to voters. >> it really does take two terms as president to be able to finish this job. the bureaucracy is so entrenched i think we can bring george washington back and i don't think he could fix it in one single four-year term. we must restore sanity to our nation. we can't have every constitution going on ideological joyrides. we have to be guided by reality, facts and enduring principles,

merit must trump identity politics. we in florida held the line when freedom hung in the balance. >> ashley: brandy cruz joins us now. good to see you this morning. i'm goed to get your take on this, especially coming from the viewpoint of an independent. we are starting to see republicans throw jabs at each other, just now starting this campaign trail. ron desantis also took time to respond to criticism from former president trump, listen to this and talk about it. >> if you say cuomo did a better job with covid than florida did, that is not what he used to say. this is new. six months ago he did not say this. his whole family moved to florida under my governorship. if someone is saying that, i will counter punch, fight back and focus on biden. he should do the same, he gives

biden a free pass. >> ashley: how is this perceived by independent voters? >> first, i think ron desantis is better in front of lectern than on twitter space, i'm glad he is in iowa. i think there should be law that says no presidential campaigning until a year out from the election because 18 months of this is just too much, it is bonkers. i know america doesn't live on twitter, it is embarrassing desantis and trump, mostly trump, going unhinged on social media and ron desantis said it there, i will focus on biden and former president donald trump should, too. republicans have a wonderful position heading into the 2024 election. they have besides kamala harris, the worst possible 2024 nominee for democrats in joe biden.

the democratic party has done nothing for everyday americans, except offer freehand-outs, which does not improve position long-term. the vitriol coming from the trump camp for desantis, they will be so deep in the mud by the time the election, independents are scared away by that. do i leave someone out or write someone in. i would like to see them focus on ideas, their vision for the country and what they will do economically and at the southern border and in terms of public safety. what ron desantis says is true, trump lives in florida, and attacking kayleigh mcenany because she dared to not call right step with him, calling her milquetoast, it reeks of

desperation, to be honest. >> todd: you are giving consensus view among independents, so many in the republican party want that fighter and they want the people fighting for nomination to fight. that is why you see so many people in the trump camp and desantis camp dropping the gloves and going at it. as an independent, you don't want to see that. "the view" host sunny hostin disparaging white female voters, watch. >> i think women, white women in particular want to protect the patriarchy, it is to their benefit. they want to make sure their husbands and sons and children do well and make sure they do well. most women in the studies are married white woman and they do fall in line with what their husbands are doing.

>> todd: i cannot think of one woman in my life who goes along with what her husband does, including my own wife, in fact, it is the opposite. why does show that builds it's championing women, bastion of women, go after women like this? >> women are fair game as long as they are conservative in this country. dem don lemon never would have said that about a woman. i would say, i agree with you, never have i sat down with my ballot with my fiance telling me how to vote. i was looking back and you played the clip there, when you read what she said, they want to make sure their husbands do well. they want to make sure their sons and children do well. they want to make sure they do well. doesn't everybody, aren't those good things? i want to make sure i do well and my family do well. i want everyone to do well in this country. i struggle with, i'm sure you

do, too, is "the view" only relevant because they say the craziest stuff and we replay it? they are a wealth of insanity, maybe let them go into obscurity by not playing their clips anymore. >> todd: i don't know who watches "the view," my mom used to watch "the view," growing up, who are women current ly watching. >> ashley: i know i'm not. i guess we just did. >> todd: 21 seconds, we are keeping them relevant. thank you. >> ashley: to this, chick-fill-a getting some backlash after naming a vice president of dei two years ago, joey moreno

tweeting, this is bad, really bad, are we going to have to boycott and another twitter user says something tells me chick-fil-a will be called to repent, eric mcreynolds has been vice president and has been with them since 2007. >> todd: i can go without target, i cannot survive without chick-fil-a sauce. i need the sauce, figure this out. >> ashley: wait until you see this, chinese fighter jet flies dangerously close to u.s. airplane in u.s. airspace, we have response from the white house. >> todd: and a terrifying shoot out from a bus driver and a passenger who pulled a gun. [shots fired]

>> todd: that driver lost his job for being armed. what would have happened if he wasn't armed? the driver's attorney joins us next.

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>> todd: nine teenagers in custody for brutally beating three marines who confronted them for firing off fireworks on a pier. one marine was struck in the face by debris from the fireworks. the marines asked them to stop and the mob offen toos started swinging. you can see two marines in the fetal position. one victim speaks out, saying, we towed them we were marines so they would leave, they kept going at it. five suspects charged with assault with a deadly weapon. >> you had the aggressors, you can see that with assault with deadly weapon, a serious felony charge. it is serious business. these young folks will face

serious consequences for their action. >> todd: the marines suffered minor to moderate injuries and were medically treated at the scene. unbelievable. police in california finding a tennessee mother safe after she went missing while traveling cross country with her boyfriend. she was determined a missing person, following a bloody fight with steven stratton. first responders arrivin after /* -- >> hello, ma'am. what is going on? i'm a truck driver. i was driving by. i seen her on the ground. i seen the dude over there slap her or punch her in the face.

>> is he related to you? >> we've been together 16 years. >> boyfriend and girlfriend? >> boyfriend and girlfriend. >> do you want to press charges? >> i do. >> stratton was placed in cuffs after the incidents, police split them up and no charges were filed. >> ashley: a bus driver issic taking legal action for defending himself when a passenger pulled out a gun. watch this. [indiscernible] [shots fired] >> ashley: ken harris is the attorney representing that bus driver. ken, good morning to you. my biggest question is, your client was fired because he had a gun and that wasn't allowed

with the transit system. did he specify why he thought he needed a gun in the first place? >> there has been a long-standing history of violent events in the cat system and mr. fuller appreciated the events, including the death of a bus driver, ethan rivera, not long ago. he understood importance of protecting himself in event of a violent situation and was aware of incidents that have occurred to those in the system. >> ashley: he did lose his job. my understanding, he has not been charged with anything. is this self-defense case? >> thankfully he has not been charged at this point. he is looking to pursue benefits he might be entitled to relative

to his long-standing work with the cat system. he is a 19-year employee, loved his job, a dedicated employee. he wanted to be sure he got home from the job everyday and drivers in this system encounter violent circumstances. >> ashley: 19 years at the same job, that is a long time. had he had other issues? >> no, and just like many other drivers in the system, dedicated employee, did his job everyday, loved his job and co-workers, but was aware there were dangerous circumstances and incidents involving many drivers and wanted to make sure if one incident occurred he was able to protect himself. >> ashley: he is charged with carrying a concealed firearm. with that being said, the

transit system spokesperson says they think the driver, your client, could have deescalated the situation. where were there? did they know for a fact? were they in his position? nobody knows how it feels to have a gun pulled on them until it happens to them. >> exactly, exactly. i don't know about the deescalation argument because once a person approaches with a gun already drawn, it seems like the time to deescalate has already passed. this issue is longstanding and we've asked for changes in the cat system, bullet-proof glass, armed security guards, passenger education programs, those things have not been fully implemented yet, we are concerned this will continue to occur in the cat

system. >> ashley: what did the driver tell you as far as how he thinks this could have ended, differently, if he didn't have a gun? has he specified? >> of course. he is concerned, had he not have had a weapon, he may not have been able to get home. just being aware of the prior situations involving violence related to drivers in the system caused him to have a mechanism to protect himself. >> ashley: do you have other clients going through similar situations? >> i've represented clients in the cat system who have been victims of assault, been spit on, been shot at and been shot. this is a situation that is well known by the administration in cats and something that needs to be remied and addressed to protect drivers. they consider themselves public

servants, they just want to go home and get home safely. >> ashley: what do you think will happen here? >> i think we will be in a position to help mr. fuller get what he needs in terms of benefits owed to him. we're in an uncertain situation now. we have a long road ahead legally. there may be twists and your honor its, we will start the process and see where it ends. >> ashley: this is the sole reason americans are so strong on the second amendment, the right to protect yourself. you have to be able to protect yourself. you never know when a situation like this will arise. thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you. >> ashley: you're welcome. to the border for first hand look at wide open gaps of the wall in new mexico. >> this is how easily you can cross through. we made it through. >> ashley: we're talking to the group that took this video and

we're going to ask what a found. >> todd: shocking update about the coca-cola 600, remember that crash between denny hamlin and chase elliott? wait until you hear what happens and what nascar plans to do about it.

>> todd: take a look at this, frightening cockpit video showing a chinese fighter jet buszing close to u.s. air force plane over international airspace. the chinese jet swerved in front of the reconaircraft coming as close as 400 feet, forcing the u.s. plane to fly through its wake. the u.s. air forces their aircraft was conducting safe and routine operation allowed by

international law, calling the chinese jet swerve and unnecessarily aggressive maneuver. former head of china cdc said not to rule out possibility covid-19 account have originated in a chinese lab, telling the bbc, you can suspect anything, that is science. the government organized something and he says the chinese company investigated the center of virology. beijing has officially denied the possibility researchers at wuhan lab could have leaked the virus. >> ashley: raul ortiz will retire next month. the border patrol acting commissioner praising the outgoing chief. he says he has champions the men

and women of the border patrol and worked to ensure they have support and resources they need to do their job. i want to congratulate chief ortiz after three decades of service to our country. his agents made 13,000 apprehension with 4000 gotaways and seized 60pounds of drugs in the last 96 hours. >> todd: 600 pounds? that is a lot. >> ashley: shocking video out of new mexico shows giant gap in the border wall for easy access to the u.s. >> right there, this is how easily you can cross through. check it out.

see, we made it. >> todd: anthony reuben owns the video and joins us now. anthony, walk us through how open the border is. >> sure thing. actually, you made me laugh, you said shocking footage shows giant hole in the border wall. there is nothing shocking about it. the shocking part, there are sections of miles of wall put up during the trump administration and it doesn't make a difference. illegal aliens show up and border patrol meet them at whatever opening in the wall. they meet them there and pick them up and stick them on a bus and ship them to the interior of the country. doesn't matter if there are holes, there are holes in

immigration law. holes or no holes doesn't make a difference. >> ashley: is this area patrolled by border patrol? have you seen them there? >> definitely patrolled, i don't know how many get away, i'm sure plenty do. we were driving along the dirt road and we had a group of five to 10 to start in front of our car dressed in all black in the u.s., through another hole in the border wall. >> todd: as if we needed more evidence, this video underscores that point of how can anybody watch what is happening now and still say we don't have an open border? it makes no sense, anthony. >> we have an open border. i'm beginning to subscribe more and more to the rand paul idea

that large wall could be used to keep us in. what i see more and more, i've seen the border from mcallen to sand diego, our immigration wall is faulty, we have wall, our immigration law let's people in. they meet border patrol at gates that are part of the wall and they open the gate and let them in. the law needs to be changed, stop aiding illegal aliens on the quest up here. >> todd: is it the law that is the problem or enforcement or lack thereof? >> it is the law, enforce mment has their hands tied.

enforcers are enforcing the law, the law is to catch illegal aliens and release in the u.s. tha will not change unless you change the immigration laws. >> ashley: i have never been to the borders, you are at the border all the time. how prevalent are the gaps? from the vantage point i have, it looks like it was made this way, not just opened up. how frequently do you see the gaps? >> i don't want to seem con conspiratorial, but there are cartel there. we had cartel throwing rocks at us driving along at nights. if you are asking how prevalent holes are, some sections are secure and other sections, you

could walk across into mexico. at this point, it doesn't make a difference, it is a cool video, our law is off and hundreds of showing up at wall gates and we open gates and let them in. >> ashley: interesting take. >> todd: next video will be in the interior, migrants are going because there is no enforcement. they are caught and released and amongst us. >> ashley: the story about the gotaways and drugs, everything and everyone flowing through. anthony rubin, thank you. >> todd: jewish leaders and pro-israel group want to strip funding from the new york law school that allowed a student to make this speech at graduation. >> israel continues to reign bullets and bombs on worshippers, murdering the old and young, law is manifestation

of white supremacy that suppress people in this nation and around the world. >> todd: aren't you just supposed to read, oh, the places you will go. former professor is talking about lunacy on campus, wait until you hear this one. >> ashley: nevada democrats fine school board $5000 per day if they block biological maleings from girl groups and their locker rooms. >> i would call this amendment the bud light amendment and to do this as floor amendment and not have hearings is abuse of the process. >> ashley: ouch, that is how republicans are responding. next, hear from a parent. stick around.

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>> ashley: the state of alabama passing a law banning transgender athletes from participating in -- the governor says if you are biological male, you are not going to compete in

women and girl's sports in alabama. it is about fairness. alabama joins a dozen states prohi prohibiting -- >> todd: exact opposite happening in nevada. state democrats passed bill that could fine school board $5000 per day, if they try to block biological male from participating in women activities or using women facilities. >> i would call this amendment the bud light amendment. there is enormous backlash on this very issue and to do this as floor amendment and not have hearings and put on bill that was fine, which both parties supported, is absolutely abuse of the process. >> todd: power to parents and a nevada pattern joins me now. erin, thank you for being here.

what was your reaction when you heard democrats snuck this in on the friday before memorial day weekend? >> important point and graduation weekend. you have inner pas trying to enjoy family time with kids, go to graduation, celebrate end of the school year and have democrats with this amendment we've seen happen over and over where parents aren't paying attention, we're raising our kids and working. this is your honor underhanded. >> todd: you have five kids, this is impactful here. it takes away right of parents by nullifying their vote for the school board in their town. now the school board can't do anything without the state of nevada coming down hard on them, basically that is it, right? >> we think parents should have

control over policies in the district where their children attend. policies are tethered to the stake holders where children attend schools. we are holding your child hostage and your school board hostage to policy that is not right for families in the district. we see this over and over with these policies as they come at this from a one size fits all standpoint and that is not how it works. we want our families to be engaged and original text of this bill was helping families be engaged in school board meetings. they utilized a bill parents were excited about to slip something like this in is underhanded andic taking power away from parents. >> todd: there is safety of children on the whole. when democrats are press on, they share the same defense.

here is what one democrat used as her defense. listen. >> this intended to protect all students from discrimination in any way, shape or form and the amendment is not targeted at a specific group of students and not intended to marginalize any student, broadly written every student's right. >> todd: they use the word protect, what about protecting girls from having a boy pop in the room when they are changing. >>y yeah, we are having a national conversation about what is fair, inclusive and compassionate. when you look at the issue of girl sports, we see we are removing the fairness factor for our girls. they are unable to compete at the same level as biological

boys. if you look at polling and average person, parents want to protect their daughters in private spaces and sports. this is a safety issue, we've seen girls be injured in competition when you add a biological male to competitions and these are high school sports. we are taking opportunity away from girls to compete and putting them in danger. >> todd: why try to sneak it in last minute like they did? >> that is a great question, it opened up good debate. what we will see happen, we have a governor who has recently signed on with 25 other governors to protect women based on title nine, which has been rolled back and erases women, it is anti-woman. we are fortunate we have a governor that will be told this if we go forward. we need to be engaged as parents, that is what i do and

as my organization, we make sure parents are empowered to know when things are happening. parents have to be engaged and we have to know what is happening. >> todd: being a parent is 24/7 job. i don't know what is more than 24/7, it feels like that. thank you for your work on this. >> head to the track. shall we? nascar suspended chase elliott from the race next week in illinois, ruling he intentionally slammed denny hamlin into the wall in charlotte on monday. this will be the seventh race he will miss this year. elliott claims the crash was not deliberates, hamlines it removes all doubt. do you know how nascar started? as way to run moonshine, the

origination of nascar was to move moonin shoo, now you have denny hamlin going, i will show you what was happening and what the driver did. >> ashley: he used ai. i have no idea if an investigation could prove this. what if chase elliott is telling the truth and now suspended from the race? this is a dangerous sport, these guys know what they are getting into. i don't know how i feel about this. >> todd: taking chase elliott's side? >> ashley: i don't know, i need more data. >> todd: we will go into ashley's office and it will have chase elliott's stuff all over, big fan. >> ashley: doesn't bother me, denny hamlin or chase elliott, i need more data. >> todd: james comer wants a document, as well, he will

confront fbi director christopher wray in a phone conversation today. we have response from the bureau. >> ashley: and heading forward with a vote expected tonight. kevin o'leary knows about making a deal, we will ask what he thinks, keep it here on "fox and friends first." ♪

>> todd: a fox news alert, bypass debt ceiling, timer on your i-phone, 7:13 eastern time tonight. the people in congress do this, sit this one out. you're watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus.

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