your family. >> happy independence day, trey, thank you for everything you are doing. >> trey: thank you for spending part of your sunday with us, have a great week ahead and happy july 4th. until next week find us on the trey gowdy podcast. good night from south carolina. ca >> democrats are not letting go of the supreme court landmark decision and limiting the court's power. >> i believe that if chief justice roberts will not come for an investigation voluntarily, we should consider subpoena and investigations. there must be impeachment on the table. >> ashley: elon musk accused of limiting free speech with new

twitter restrictions, what changes he's making and how users are railing against him. carol >> karl: you will not believe how he is doing it, get a live look at his work. "fox and friends first" starts right now. >> good morning, we hope you are enjoying your 4th of july weekend and week. i'm carley shimkus. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for todd piro. we obviously have news this morning, start with fox weather alert. round of severe weather from midwest to east coast yesterday. >> ashley: strong winds destroying kentucky, downing power lines as 45,000 residents wake up without power this

morning. in st. louis, one dead after a tree fell on top of a car. >> carley: heavy rain pounded chicago. many states will face severe weather this week with excessive heat warnings issued from california, nevada and arizona ahead of independence day. adam klotz has the fox weather forecast, good morning. >> adam: active weather pattern across the country. 12-hour radar loop on the eastern half of the country, big thunderstorms yesterday. some continue this morning with heavy rainfalling across interior new england, boston and stretching to the west. further south, not as many early, plenty thunderstorms from georgia to carolina and virginia. will continue to see risk of severe weather today. this is our risk for severe storm. two out of five, including

charlotte and nor folk and dc and approaching new york city. you can see thunderstorms as cold front runs up against the coast. what are temperatures looking like for the rest of your holiday weekend? hopefully have days off. 90 in atlanta. 115 in phoenix, you notice rainy parts are on the eastern part of the country and 4th of july day forecast, a lot of spots in eastern half of the country seeing showers and it does stay warm across the dessert southwest. 115 in phoenix, those are the headlines. >> carley: out of america's air force, severe weather blamed for cancellation and delays this weekend. >> ashley: not all travelers are buying it and have questions for

pete buttigieg. alexandria hoff has the latest. good morning. >> alexandria: good morning. before we entered the busy weekend, there had been 7500 flight cancellations and tens of thousands of flights delayed, that is impacting return flights now and we have seen the numbers jump up. over 340 flights delayed and 75 cancelled at this point and a range of issues led passengers to suffer through the holiday weekend. severe weather took most of the blame, but staffing shortages and tech glitches strained this system which accommodated record number of passengers on friday. >> you could tell there was chaos, they announced several flights had been cancelled. the airport seemed more crowded

than normal. we got another flight assigned and i watched it from florida and it was delayed and cancelled and no flight coming in for us, i was like, it is only a matter of time. >> alexandria: transportation secretary pete buttigieg down played his role in this. people are desperate to get answers and pete buttigieg denied his role in this, despite jet blue and ceo of united pointed to problems in air traffic control infrastructure as a factor. we had a hard few days with severe weather at the beginning of the week, that definitely put enormous pressure on the system. on friday, according to tsa, most every passengers in america and cancellation rates stayed low, below 2%. they shot up at first part of

the week, largely because of weather hitting key hubs. >> alexandria: one passenger, sunrise at denver airport, no such thing as beauty sleep here, thanks united for miserable start compensate and accommodate your passengers and chief financial officer for state of florida did one thing more than tagging the transportation secretary, he called him out, since pete buttigieg, the airports can't seem to function. pete buttigieg said the faa is hiring 1500 new air traffic controllers to ease the scheduling issues. >> ashley: a lot going on in the sky. one dead and several hurt after plane crashed near a south carolina golf course. he went down hard like nose first. i feel so bad. >> ashley: single-engine

aircraft crashing near a wooded area yesterday, the aftermath caught on camera, causing smoke and debris. authorities confirm five people remember onboard that plane and one person is fighting for their life this morning. unclear how badly the other passengers were hurt. the faa is investigating what caused the crash. >> carley: and police are searching for those behind three explosive attacks. one shattered windows of a bank and the suspect attacked a nike store causing damage to the door. a molotov cocktail was thrown at a grocery store damaging the exterior. no one was hurt. officers releasing the image of who they believe the suspect is, along with the car. police believe the suspects were

targeting the businesses and not people. crazy. top gop candidates trying to win support from inner pas with stops at moms for liberty summit weekend. jack brewer tells us about the issue of education. >> ashley: and take a look at this. [cheering] >> and ricky returns to the winner's circle. >> ricky fowler, incredible playoff victory. we have the highlights next. ♪

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>> carley: 31 people shot and three killed during a violent holiday weekend in chicago. the youngest victim just five years old. two teen boys were hurt in drive-by shooting. over in baltimore, community is mourning loss of two people shot and killed during a block party. gunfire erupted injuring victims from 18 to 32 years old. the city mayor speaking out against the violence. this act of violence has taken two lives and altered many more. we will find those responsible and we will not stop until we do so. >> carley: no suspects are in

custody, police believe multiple shooters everywhere involved. >> ashley: congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez calling for a check after ruling striking down affirmative action and biden's student loan forgiveness plan. >> we have justices saying the supreme court is going themselves much too far. they are expanding their role into acting as congress itself. we really must focus on the danger of this court and the abuse of power. there must be impeachment on the table. the supreme court has not been receiving adequate oversight necessary. >> carley: brewer group ceo jack brewer joins us now. quite a comment, accusing supreme court of overreach and

abuse of power. they are decentralize ing. the supreme court is saying that congress needs to make that decision, in which congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is a member of. >> that is exactly right, what the supreme court is doing is sticking to the constitution, which seems extreme to many because we have seen things move so far to the left. talk about the supreme court ruling on sexuality and marriage and abortion and things in the past when they did not go by the constitution, now they are doing that. they are doing an amazing job and bringing balance back to america when we are seeing craziness around us. it is refreshing to see the supreme court stand for the

document that founded this nation. >> ashley: the 52% approve and 32% disapprove and 16% do not know. going deeper into the poll, jack, 58% of independent voters approved. what does that tell you about the state of our country? >> it tells you people are sick and tired of talking about skin color. i come on the show and i have to be looked at as a black man before you hear the word out of my mouth, that is culture we created. it was sad we needed affirmative action plan for college, when they wouldn't even let people in college years ago. forcing university to look at race and color of our skin, that is why we have the generation

that we have now. everything that happens, it is not about issues, it is about your identity and that is sad. what the supreme court did was to give truly give the decision-making back to the parents and teachers and universities. you can still let kids in, based upon poverty level, give opportunity to those that are least of these, just like the bible tells us to do. the bible doesn't tell us to pick based on race. that matters. let's uplift people out of poverty, instead of teaching the generation to look at race. next step supreme court needs to do is remove race box from our identity. we are only country in the world that forces people to talk about

their skin color. my kids are persian and black and european and mixed with everything, they are confused, they do not have a box that says where their parents are from. this is destroying the nation and i hope presidential candidates address this mess to end racial division. >> carley: speaking of presidential candidates, five gop presidential hopefuls gave speeches at moms for liberty event this weekend. this is an organization that champions school choice and parent rights and education. here is what the candidates had to say. >> they will never forget, don't mess with america's moms. >> don't subcontract leadership to woke corporation, we stand for inner pas and kids. >> our kids need to know to love america, saying the pledge. >>ic maing decisions for your

children that make sense for them. we will shut it down, starting with agencies like the u.s. department of education. >> carley: how important is education in 2024 and what changes would you, somebody that works with children on day-to-day basis, like to see? >> this is the most critical issue we are facing right now. the candidates should be applauded, they are addressing the nation at its core. when you look deeply at the education system, it has to go to public school level. one issue you have when you focus on parents, some kids don't have parents. over 24.5 million fatherless kids temperature is time to look out for kids that do not have parents to stand up for them. those are kids you see, the 28

that just got shot in baltimore, those are kids that need help, those fatherless children. republican and democratic candidates, start addressing this issue, it is the cancer of america, causing violence and poor education for kids without math and reading proficiency. >> carley: it is such an important topic and the fatherlessness issue is something larry elder brings up, that is his number one focus, see if it catches on and more candidates talk about it. thank you for joining us and happy 4th of july. >> happy 4th of july, god bless you. >> you, too. one artist taking patriotism to new heights with largest minted

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>> ashley: celebrating proud americans this 4th of july. one artist is constructing the largest knitted american flat ever made using excavator to move telephone pole size needles and giant red, white and blue yarn. dave joins us. thanks for getting up with us. i come from heavy equipment background. i have never seen them do this. tell us where this idea came from? >> i'm talking to you from the

momentary, contemporary art space in bentonville, arkansas. i have used textiles and knitting in my art practice and decided to take it to the logical extreme or illogical extreme. >> ashley: telephone size needles are poles, right? >> utility poles. has this been a challenge for you? >> it has been a challenge, a work out. >> ashley: you started a couple weeks ago and will be finished by tonight? >> will finish on the 4th. >> ashley: what has the response been from the community? you are in bentonville, arkansas. >> amazing. the folks have been amazing to work with. there is place for contemporary art that is both intelligent and

accessible. i think there is place and need for contemporary art that is respectful and also relatable. >> ashley: talk to us how you are more or les blending this contemporary art, huge passion with patriotism, never seen or heard of anything like this, but it is pretty cool. thank you, thank you very much. >> i've been using the flag as a subject matter for many years now temperature is rich territory for talking to people about things in way they don't get talked about often. >> ashley: can you give example of those conversations or one conversation or what you say to them? >> well, i had this experience number of years ago after a show of mine, fellow comes up and says, i'm a decorated combat

veteran and yours is first piece of art that ever brought me to tears, it represented my experience in way no art ever had. i have never forgotten that, highest compliment i've ever gotten. some art requires complex feel of art and that is not what i want mine to do. >> ashley: i agree, when i think of contemporary art, sometimes it can blow your mind. this blows your mind in a different way because of how large it is and what you are doing. when you look at it, you know what you are looking at and that is for everybody. if somebody wants to see this, how do we see this? will it cost anything? how long will it be up for? >> well, it is will be up at the momentary in bentonville through the 16th, come here and see it.

we'd love if you did. >> ashley: one more question, as far as yarn, how big is one piece of yarn? i'm curious. one stitch is about five feet long when you make a single stitch. we're using it by the yard. >> ashley: that is awesome. dave cole, thank you for your time and thank you for doing that. it is amazing you are doing this and showing patriotism and especially on the 4th of july, we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> ashley: of course. >> carley: cool. we love dave and his big american flag, awesome. to golf, ricky fowler is on after his performance at the mortgage rocket classic. >> ricky returns to the winner's circle. >> carley: fowler shot four under par, first tour win since

2019. fowler plans to celebrate with his wife and daughter, awesome. this is not awesome, there will not be fireworks at mount rushmore this 4th of july. is this white house putting politics before batrion theism? we'll talk about it with congressman cory mills next. ♪

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-- arrested in france over the weekend as unrest continues. total number of arrests since the shooting of a 17-year-old is 3000. a firefighter died while battling a fire with dozens of reported injuries to police officers. government officials have been targeted. a mayor says one protester drove a car into his home while his wife and children were asleep, his wife suffering serious injury, along with one of his

children, whose condition is not yet known. fireworks will not be allowed at mount rushmore, after the biden administration denied kristi noem's request siting environmental concerns. congressman cory mills joins me now. they can't have the fireworks show because of the pandemic and wildfire chance, what do you snng >> it is disappointing the biden administration has this anti-american sentiment. this is not a partisan holiday, this is 4th of july, our

independence, what we fought and stood for. i just came back from a trip meeting with naval commanders in hawaii and guam and taiwan. these are americans who are celebrating july 2nd, celebrating independence day. we have not had fireworks at mount rushmore since the trump administration. i guarantee if it were pride day, we would launch as many fireworks as possible. not independence day. anti-american sentiment. >> carley: supreme court just ended race-based -- you still can't use affirmative action,

should race be a factor when deciding who gets into schools? >> having served and being an army combat veteran myself, idea they need to implement affirmative action to make a selection does the opposite, it divideses us. key are cohesive, we don't care the color of your skin, or the religion, if you go to the headstones, you wouldn't know what color of skin is, you only know he sacrificed for this nation. we need to get to merit ocracy, not on diversity, equity and inclusion. >> carley: you are voting for a committee to focus on diversity, equity and inclusion, how close are you to the goal and the

push? >> would show dei impacted moral of armed forces and reduced recruitment. we have a deficit right now, add that to the 8600 purged because of covid vaccine, we have three military divisions we can't fill. we are putting a report together to get rid of dei and return military to not serving political agenda. >> carley: military is facing worst recruiting crisis in 50 years. 15,000 army recruits shy of the 2022 goal. here is nikki haley talking about china and comparing to the united states in terms of fighting forces, listen to what she has to say. >> if you look at the military situation, they have the largest naval fleet in the world, they are developing hyper sonic

missiles and we're just getting started. our military is taking gender pronoun classes. carol how do you feel about those comments? are we at risk of no longer being the number one fighting force in the world? >> we have the number one fighting force because of the men and women. former ambassador haley is right, we are outpaced by china. we can out pronoun our adversaries and the he, her, she, him, they, them, those are not what china and russia and north korea are focused on, they are focused on eliminating. that is where we need to be and something i take seriously, i'm here to support armed forces and will continue to allow military to focus on readiness.

>> carley: we will not out pronoun our enemies, combat should be the main focus. happy 4th of july. >> thank you, happy 4th of july. >> carley: workers about to lose their job and it could be because of the dylan mulvaney bud light controversy. >> ashley: cheryl casone is here to explain. you can age on your own terms. retinol overnight means... the smoothing benefits of retinol. are now for your whole body. plus, fast-working crepe corrector diminishes wrinkled skin in just two days. gold bond. champion your skin.

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>> carley: elon musk facing backlash from twitter users from the number of posts you can read each day. >> forget mark zuckerberg, elon musk picked a fight with america. he thinks we're so addicted to this, let me shake them down, they will all sign up. >> ashley: maybe he is trying to break our habits. >> cheryl: or make more money and twitter needs it. good morning. elon musk facing major backlash, here is what he tweeted to address extreme levels of data scraping we applied temporary limits.

verified accounts can read 6000 posts per day, unverified accounts 600 pr day. jack dorsey said, running twitter is hard, i don't wish that on anyone. i trust. the goal is to see twitter thrive, it will. musk shared update, restrictions are 10,000 1000 and 500 in the earlier order. one of the biggest problem at twitter has been bots and this is one way he's trying to address the issue of bots on the platform and also to joey's point, he wants to make more revenue at twitter. >> carley: elon musk respond to

criticism and he is like, if you are reading 10,000 tweets per day, maybe spend more time with your family. new development in terms of the bud light controversy. >> cheryl: people losing their jobs, bud light backlash continue. a glass producer that contract with anheuser-busch say they will close plants in north carolina and virginia resulting from 645 job cuts. memo says wrr -- wral news says due to slow sales, the production line will shut down. partnership with transgender influencer dylan mulvaney, the company has lost billions and

now people are losing their jobs. >> ashley: trickle-down is brutal in this situation. thank you. >> carley: thanks, cheryl. to this, the largest indoor fireworks show in the country and thousands turning out for the stadium of fire as part of the freedom festival in provo, utah. >> carley: abby hornacek has a behind the scenes look. ♪ >> we are at stadium of fire and just looking around, you can tell why this is one of the country's premiere independence celebrations. biggest stadium show, a flowover and performance by journey. i can tell already the patriotism isser hoo.

let's go. i don't know if i have authority to do this, you might be the best dressed here. what is planning like? >> what would look best for our country. >> we have a fun group over here, you have been before, what makes it great? >> everything, it is patriotic, my personal favorite, the flyover. >> i do this every year and you don't feel more american than at the stadium of fire. we celebrate 4th of july and our nation's veterans, especially world war ii veterans being honored tonight i caught up with emthis. >> o say can you see by the dawn's early light. >> the battle was on, and we would realize we were in trouble

or be in danger, in the dark, i could hear guys praying and swearing. >> jack mentioned he heard people praying and swearing and i think i did both. >> you have a message to people who served our country? >> thank you for your sacrifice, we wouldn't be here without that. >> what makes you proud to be an american? >> freedom, standing up for religion and family. free to be myself. >> family and freedom. means a lot. >> what makes this so spoeshl and brings you back 20 years in a row? >> for us, journey is special, my dad loved journey. ♪ ♪

>> carley: lots of red, white and blue. democrats going to bat for doj at the center of the hunter biden controversy. >> i would have a concern. if weiss was saying, i didn't have total authority, but weiss is the key person and he's not saying that. >> get joe concha's reaction to the sunday show talking points. >> ashley: steve doocy will look at what is coming up. good morning. >> steve: hello, ashley and carley, coming up on "fox and friends" nine minutes and from seconds from now, flightmare continues as planes are delayed ahead of independence day. what is going on out there? taylor riggs, a doctor as france

sees sixth night of protest. piers morgan will preview the visit to meet king charles and the prime minister and we have ceo colonel dan roony and the tallest and fastest roller coaster in america, a crack in a support pillar, talk to the visitor who reported the safety concern and you won't believe what they told him. busy three hours kicks off less than eight minutes from now on the morning you trust for morning news. ashley and carley back in a couple, you are watching "fox and friends first."

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dismissing whistleblower testimony about u.s. attorney david weiss's role in the hunter biden probe. >> what the whistleblower's saying is that weiss appointed by trump is that he was not the deciding official on this case. if that turns out to be true, doesn't that directly contradict what the attorney general has said? >> but weiss is not saying that. isn't the source weiss? i mean, if weiss was saying that, i would have a certain. if weiss was out there saying i didn't have total authority, there was interference, but weiss, weiss is the key person and he's not saying that. >> fox news contributor joe concha joins us now. joe, good morning to you, so david weiss responded to congress's request for all the documents in the hunter biden case and he said you can't have them because the case is still ongoing. now the wall street journal editorial board says in an op-ed about david weiss his refusal to contradict the whistleblower enhances their credibility. what do you think about that david weiss telling congress the

wife blower is wrong and you're just going to have to trust me? >> well, that's not going to fly, right? david weiss saying he never had the authority here, of course he has said that. and, look, what we're seeing here overall, in regards to this hunter biden story, is that we're starting to see more coverage of it, but then you see the row con a's of the world dismissing it like they dismissed the laptop as russian disinformation just weeks before a presidential election in 2020 and then throughout this entire process nothing to see here, no big deal. and, again, the story here carley, ashley, isn't so much about hunter biden, of course it is and the influence peddling that happened in places like china and ukraine, the question is, did his father profit and benefit from those particular dealings around energy companies in those places where his son had no experience in the energy business whatsoever and is the sitting president of the united states now compromised as a

result of those dealings with those particular places, particularly china. so this is a story that's not going to go away. you can't just dismiss sit. it has legs because now we have a gop congress under james comer, in this particular case an oversight that will not let this go because the evidence keeps mounting and mounting that there is a there there ashley >> ashley: you would think anyone with half a brain sell would know this isn't just about hunter biden it's about the sitting president of the united states. but when you talk about the media cover this, we're starting to slowly see them start to cover this more and more but do you think the public is really going to get the full story of what's happening here and all of these whistleblower testimonies all of the complaints the entire story has been going on for year. so by 2024 do you think the voters will get the full story because the media has refused to cover it and now they're just piece by piece putting it together. >> and by years ashley we're talking nearly five years now at this point and there's good chance these investigations

could be going on up until the 2024 election. the media has covered here, however, because all they have to do is say look over there, the donald trump trials are going on, whether it be the mar-a-lago documents, whether it be the ridiculous indictments regarding alvin bragg and hush money payments to an adult film star. there's probably going to be trials around georgia as far as voting there and the president's call to find 10,000 votes during one phone call at that point. so as long as donald trump has his problems, as far as his issues in the courtroom, the media will focus almost exclusively on that and look the other way, for the most part, with once in a while a question here and there, regarding hunter biden, joe biden, james biden, haley biden, the biden family in general making all that money from those places in china and icu where we have no idea the services rendered to make that kind of money in this situation ashley >> ashley: so many questions on this hunter biden situation too,

like tony bobulinski came out and said he reached out to david weiss's office to have a conversation with them and they never got back to him. you would think the investigators investing hunter biden's business affairs would want to talk to hunter biden's business partner but that ended up not happening. joe got to leave it there. thanks so much for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. >> thanks joe. >> thank you carley and ashley good to see you. >> "fox& friends" starts right now. >> have a good day. ♪ >> steve: good morning everybody it is monday july 3rd, 2023. we start this hour of fox and friends with a fox weather alert. more than 110 million americans are currently under severe weather alerts this morning as strong storms, wind and extreme heat hit different parts of the country. those strong thunderstorms battering central kentucky yesterday brought down power lines and trees as well and look at those