>> greg: out of time. thanks to katie pavlich and brett velicovich. [cheering] >> greg: i love you, america. y. [cheers and applause [cheering] >> carley: breaking this morning, police are looking for the group of teenagers accuse of murdering an afghan interpreter who escaped the taliban, only to be shot while working as a lyft driver. we have the latest on this story. >> ashley: and no real information about the bag of cocaine found in the white house. and even biden's friends are not happy about the stonewalling. >> i was found limited access

place down near the situation room down below. >> the west executive entrance is closer to the situation room. it is also next to west executive drive, where for example, the vice president's vehicle was parked. >> ashley: we will bring the administration's latest excuse for dodging reporter questions. >> carley: did you hear this, brittney spears said she was backhanded by a security guard while trying to talk to wendy. how both are reacting this morning. you are watching "fox and friends first"s, i'm carley shimkus. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier. after haul nothing 35 million for second quarter fundraising. >> carley: white house hopeful ron desantis raking in $20 million as gop candidates look

to gain momentum. alexandria is live with more. >> alexandria: in council bluff, iowa, this is the largest crowd he has seen. will take a hit from agricultural policy. here is what the trump campaign released. they said desantis has problematic policy position that hurt farmers and demonize ethanol. former president trump opened the door for increased ethanol. governor desantis co-sponsored a bill that would oppose the sales. likely spell skepticism among farmers. desantis has impressive numbers. according to his campaign, $20 million brought in the first six weeks, outpacing trump's 35.

desantis says this shows what polls do not. >> if you look at the people like the corporate media, who are they going after? who do they not want to be the nominee? they are going after me. i'm running to win in january and february, not running to juice polling now. record fundraising, nobody has matched that in history of modern politics. we have huge amount of support to tab the case to the people. >> alexandria: desantis has less half the support of president trump. you have vivek ramaswamy, holding the third position in the latest poll with support of 5% of republican primary voters. here is what he had to say. most of this country doesn't know who i am yet and i'm glad to see we are doing better in the polls than donald trump was doing in june of 2015, by a wide margin, actually temperature is still early in the race.

the race begins with the debate stage in august. looking forward to the debate stage. history should teach us all those polls are noise anyway. >> alexandria: biden campaign might hope that to be the case. his opponent r.f.k. reported raising $3 million in just three days. meanwhile, president biden is heading to the beach this weekend. >> ashley: definitely one to watch for the democrat side. treasury secretary janet yellen kicking off a full day of meetings in beijing this morning, addressing china new report for export restriction during a business roundtable. >> i've been particularly troubled by punitive action taken against u.s. firms in recent months and concerned about export controls announced by china on two critical minerals used in technologies. our economic relationship with

china must work for american businesses and american workers. >> ashley: janet yellen meeting with china's premiere as the biden administration looks to ease tensions between the two nations. >> carley: and russian military jets are flying over eastern syria and dropping flairs in the u.s. military flight path. the pentagon now calling on russian forces to stop the risky behavior. clearly meant to harass and clearly unprofessional and unsafe behavior on the part of the russians. call on russian forces to cease this reckless behavior and behave like professional airmen. >> carley: russian jets first began flying dangerously close to a u.s. aircraft, just four months after russian jet forced down an american drone over the

black sea. today marks evan gershkovich 100th day in russian detention, after being rested on espionage charges. he will remain behind bars through late august. a top spokesman for russian president putin claims they are in contact with the u.s. over a possible prisoner swap that could bring gershkovich home. u.s. embarrass embarrass to russia visited gershkovich the same day russian citizen was detained in the u.s. for cyber crime charges. conversations will be continued and complete silence. back at home, seattle is scrambling to clean up the homeless encampments before the mlb all-star games next week.

why isn't the city trying to find a permanent answer? >> brandy cruz is here putting those on the hot seat next.

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>> carley: seattle leaders are scrambling to clean up the city's homeless camps after baseball fans arrive for tuesday's mlb all-star game.

brandy cruz is host of undivided podcast and joins me now. good morning to you. tell us how bad the situation has gotten around the stadium and are you noticing actual improvement because of this game? >> well, okay, so the worst aspect of the open-air drug epidemic and the crime and homelessness is in the area where fans are most likely to be. that is one of the most problematic areas of this. open-air drug is downtown. fans will be wanting to experience the market, that is problematic. homeless encampments and derelict rv's parked in soto, the stadium district where the game is going to be. i predicted this a couple months ago, they would come in a few weeks beforehand and sweep

everything out, have a police presence down stair so you didn't have selling of stolen merchandise in street bizarres. we are seeing that happen now that we've just days away. >> carley: i remember before the oscars in l.a., they clear the homeless folks out so the rich and famous can enjoy it. why does it take a baseball game to clear out the areas when taxpayers and business owners has been asking for this? the situation is unliveable there. >> it is unacceptable. i don't blame businesses wanting things to be cleaned up to have legitimate foot traffic. i don't blame them for demanding that of the city. you put this effort in for a baseball game, can we keep it that way? what the last couple weeks has

shown, they can find political will to do the things. if they can do it for a baseball game, can you do it for our economy? please. >> carley: you just brought up the keyword there, political. this is a political situation. if they are clearing out homeless people just because of a baseball game, the city do not care about the homeless people or the taxpayers, they let this situation fester. you mention after the game, what do you think? do you think the homeless people will move out for good and the area will become more liveable once the game is over? >> i don't know. there are a couple weird things, the mayor will have a press conference today. yesterday there was clearing of homeless encampments to the south of stadiums and crews came in with giant concrete blocks

and put them in places where they moved the encampment and rv's so they couldn't come back. there is disagreement who is responsible for the concrete blocks, is it the city or businesses and can the concrete blocks stay where they are after the baseball game? i think that is a critical question. one thing on your radar, the city is currently denying, i try to say without laughing, denying sweeps in direct proximity are happening because of the baseball game. if anyone believes that, i have a friend who i want to introduce them to who is a nigerian prince. >> carley: 33% of seattle residents are considering moving, due to home cost and public safety.

this is happening in cities across the country. brandi, 2:15 seattle time, we appreciate you being with us. >> my pleasure. >> carley: ashley, over to you. >> ashley: brittney spearses she was slapped by victor winbiomba, a security guard. it happened wednesday night, spears claims she recognized him and went to tap him on the shoulder. his security backhanded me in the face, nearly knocking me down and causing my glasses. he says spears grabbed him from behind and they had no idea it was her until hours later. >> carley: you nailed his last name, i wouldn't have known how to say it. anthony was talking, can you say

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>> welcome back, we cruise through summer, still summer-like temperatures for most of the country here early. one of the hottest spots on the map, new york city 77 degrees. not the hottest sport, but warmer than atlanta.

middle of the country is where storms have been. still very heavy showers moving across the texas panhandle stretching to kansas to oklahoma. warm air bumping into old air will happen today. where orange are is where it is cooler and heat is at. continues to be hot in pacific northwest. hot across the east coast, 86 in new york city. for today, temperatures cool off in next couple days. run from today, still warm, getting cooler, 90 in baltimore. rain moves in on sunday. temperatures in the 70s and 80s. interior of i-95, in the orange, is getting three to five inches. we need the rain, heavy rain on the way. summer-like heat. maybe cooling off a bit with some rain moving across portions of the northeast.

>> carley: thank you for that complete weather report. how dare you. >> ashley: we told you, feet in cement. >> carley: commercial break joke. to live tv. >> you said don't move, i will keep moving. >> ashley: national society of black engineers latest group to pull out of florida, moving black engineer convention to atlanta, saying the political climate in florida undermines what the organization stands for. working toward equity for black stem students, from black legacy org organizations like the naacp. david webb joins me now. always good to talk to you. interesting you mentioned a couple years back, major league baseball pulled the all-star game out of atlanta and think

about the revenue lost for that. how is this convention reasoning with taking out of florida and putting in place like that? >> david: they are signalling virtue, diversity, equity and inclusion, no expectation with regard to color of skin. your point about the all-star game is important. that was a lot of revenue lost in atlanta to local and black-owned businesses. i did a little digging, we do research, according to conference locate from 2023 to 2027, florida has 261 conventions booked, so florida will be just fine if they pull out. florida, number one state in college education, including black engineers.

you have lots of colleges, including black engineers going to various schools as they have the programs. you want to alienate them or ignore them. part of this and i like to call it what it is, this hard bigotry of think like us or you are not right or you are not the right black person. everybody in florida who is black must agree with them temperature is ridiculous and insulting and 261 conventions between december of 2023 and april 2027, florida will be just fine, guys. >> ashley: they had 13,000 people show up in orlando last year and expecting 15,000 this year. we'll see what happens. vice president kamala harris left people baffled once again after trying to define the word culture. watch. >> well, i think culture is -- it is reflection of our moment

and our time, right? and present culture is the way we express how we feel about the time and that is reflection of joy, you know, it comes in the morning. [laughter] >> ashley: first off, david, it is not funny, she is second in charge. she is in charge of things like the border and can't even string together a sentence. >> david: i have a lot of thoughts that i can only express on radio. maybe there was essence involved. kamala harris, this is embarrassing. i don't care who you are, you want someone who is in charge to be able to make a point or at least sound somewhat lucid.

the problem, she is another diversity hire by the biden administration because this little girl at the school bus, who was -- barely poll at 2% never qualified for the position just like she wasn't qualified for ag in california. you hire based on false diversity, rather than most qualified. democrats should be ashamed. the world is watching and no joke, they are laughing, she is incomprehensible. >> ashley: we laugh at this, when we stop and think, it is concerning. i got to get your take on this, singer jill scott performed her own rendition of our national anthem and she doesn't think america is the land of the free and home of the brave. here is what she says >> >> this is not the land of the

f free, but the home of the select. >> changes to lyrics are not getting hot reviews. i can't imagine you will give her 10 out of 10 on that. >> david: i grew up around a lot of singers and artists. the job is whatever you are there to do, do it. her fans may care about her, but most of america doesn't. she puts herself into the media. we are talking about her, i get that. i looked it up, somewhere around 12 million dollars is her net worth and it may be more or less. so for you to sit there and virtue signal and lecture the country that is actually overturned slavery, yes, racism exists, if there is slavery, it is legal.

that is not the issue here. she's done well for herself and yet she stands up there and lies to the american people and most of the country doesn't care. >> ashley: it baffles me when people bash this city but they are cashing in. >> david: i'll bet her downloads are up and she's bringing in that money. leave that alone. >> ashley: david webb, good to talk to you, have a good day. the billionaire brawl between elon musk and mark zuckerberg took a new turn, hear what musk is threatening to do now to fight back against the threads app. >> carley: and white house is facing backlash about using the hatch act about the bag of cocaine found at the white house. joe concha is next. so many hotels. ah! ah! ah!

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>> ashley: twitter is firing back and threatening to sue meta over release of the new plate form threads. sending a cease and desist letter to mark zuckerberg, saying it is a copycat app. and meta hired former employees who had knowledge of twitter trade secrets.

elon musk writing, competition is fine issue cheating is not. a spokesperson more meta denies former twitter employees are working at threads. >> ashley: the white house invoking the hatch act to refuse speaking about the cocaine found in the white house. >> mr. biden made wild posts on social media, one was cocaine found in the white house belonged to either the president or his son, are you willing to say that is not the case, they don't belong to them? >> i don't have a response to that, we have to be careful about the hatch act. >> carley: joe concha joins us now. what is up with that response? >> joe: odd one, he could have just denied it, of course it doesn't belong to the president or his son. how do i not answer that question, hatch act. he republican for congress as a

democrat last year. great answer, after publishing stories about the hatch act. he said, what the expletive does this have to do with the hatch act after it has to do with cocaine. team biden is hoping this goes away and media is there to help. last night, abc and cbs didn't cover it. nbc news gave it 41 seconds. lather, rinse, repeat. >> carley: hatch act says you can't use your podium to campaign, only the president and vice president. cocaine denial is not campaigning for the president, it is a news story. >> ashley: they should be answering questions regardless if they want to, it is uncomfortable. talking about the time spent on the networks between the three

of them, abc, cbs, nbc, quickly, is that a shock they are also brushing this under the rug? >> joe: seen this movie better with the hunter biden laptop. like the third rail of journalism. >> ashley: isn't that concerning, anything negative coming into 2024, the same story over and over again. coming into an election year. >> joe: not focus on current president or his son, let's concentrate on the guy running against him. >> carley: cocaine at the white house is no small thing and it was found in a more secure area than we heard previously. there are a bunch of questions and i'm confused as to why the white house is not answering the questions, the president could very well be a victim in this situation. >> joe: it was found, near the situation room. this is no longer a tourist may have dropped it type of

situation. at first, no one knew what the powder was. >> ashley: it could have been anthrax. >> carley: media research center did work so we don't have to, analyzing karine jean-pierre responses from january to june of this year and when asked about biden family business dealings, she gave direct answers 2% of the time. >> joe: wow. if karine jean-pierre ran a funeral parlor, no one would die. when was last time you guys who do this show on a daily basis, ever had something news worthy come out of the daily press briefing? all she does is deflect. whatever a story is about, if it is about the biden scandal, that is per view of the department of justice or secret service. daily press briefings have become useless. demand more answers, continue to

press and get answers on things that really do matter. >> ashley: i want to switch gears here and leave enough time for this. >> joe: let's talk about the baby. >> ashley: later. "sound of freedom" beat "indiana jones," so what does that signify you to that americans are tuning into more "sound of freedom." >> carley: it is about human trafficking. >> ashley: just the title itself beating something as popular as "indiana jones." >> joe: "indiana jones" budget was a fraction of "sound of fury." on july 4, it generated more money at the box office because

maybe there is an audience for this kind of content and disney passed on "sound of freedom." maybe people want to go see an 80-year-old figure and now people are interested in this topic, it is a major issue. again, mainly happening at the u.s. border that the media also is not starring. >> carley: there is a religious element to this movie, it is unfortunate people are making it out to be a conservative movie because it does have discussion about the southern border, about child and human sex trafficking. it is not christian, it is about a serious issue about children suffering in a major way. i want to see it. >> joe: triple date tonight, let's do it. >> quadruple date. we have a little one. >> ashley: i'm a party of two now. >> carley: thanks for coming in.

turning to this, former u.s. interpreter who survived the taliban threat and came to america to start a new life is murdered in our nation's capital whil whiling as a ride share driver. >> ashley: more after this.

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>> a young father of four and interpreter in afghanistan was gunned down in d.c.'s latest senseless act of violence. nasrat ahmad yar moved to virginia less than a year ago, escaping afghanistan in 2021. he worked alongside american armed forces for two decades, starting when he was 10 years old. he was working as a lyft driver. he was slot in his car shortly

after dropping off customers. a veteran who served along nasrat ahmad yar said the afghanistan native did more for the u.s. than most americans. >> i don't have words for it, it is unfathomable how senseless this is for somebody who came here for the expressed opposite reasons. >> ashley: this alley security video, you see four suspects running after a single gunshot. they can be heard saying, you just shot him. there are no arrests, police are worthing $25,000 reward for information. lyft say they reached out to the family and are assisting law enforcement with the investigation. a gofundme has been set up to

help his wife and family. >> carley: he risked his life serving as an afghan interpreter only to get killed in the united states. his best friend said he is the sole provider for his family. he has four children. he was so happy when he was able to afford a car so he could take care of them driving lyft and look at what happened. his wife said she didn't want him to drive that night and he did anyway because he was behind on rent. matthew butler worked closely with nasrat ahmad yar in afghanistan and said you don't have words to describe how you feel about someone who had given so much to this country issue not as a citizen, but comes here and experiences some of the

worst behavior our country has offered. really our country failed this man twice. first how we got out of afghanistan, forcing him to flee the taliban and because of rampant cry in the dc area, his life cut short. >> ashley: he was trying to make a decent living. i didn't know the part about his wife not wanting him to go to work. he spent 10 years in afghanistan and escaped that war-torn zone to come to the united states, supposed to be the greatest nation in the world, only to be shot and killed senselessly. i want to make this point clear. if you have conservative da's and people who are going to be tough on crime, there will be crime everywhere. the amount of rampant crime happening there is uptick of it. and the trickle-down effect will

affect the four kids and their lives. this is our future and this is going to have such a ripple effect and it keeps happening and there is no one stepping in to stop it. >> carley: these afghan interpreters are amazing. when you were an afghan interpreter for it is u.s. military, you are not living on the base, you are living in the community. they go into efr situation first. these guys are willingly working for the u.s. government and most likely to step on anie d and die. they did it because they believe in america and the american dream. there are so many of them in afghanistan that are living in hiding. he was lucky enough to flee the country and get out, but unlucky enough to get hit with the crime cries. he started living in philadelphia, but felt it was

too dangerous and moved to virginia. i was under the impression alexandria was safe. crime is popping up everywhere, such a sad situation. the gofund me, support family of murdered afghan interpreter, it raised $60,000. this family of four, the youngest being 15 months old, i'm sure they would appreciate a donation. turning to this. forget gavin newsom, new politico piece is propping up michigan governor gretchen whitmer as future of the democratic party. >> we've seen one in vanity fair, in the atlantic and this politico piece talking about what a great president she would be. seems they are setting the american people up for this. >> carley: asking mike huckabee

what this means for 2024. >> ashley: first steve doocy will tell us what is coming up on "fox and friends." >> steve: hello, coming up in 10 minutes and 13 seconds, 2024 presidential candidate nikki haley will join us live. she responds as president biden is pushing bidenomics and admits china is ahead of the united states of america in her home state of south carolina, why she says americans are not buying his policies, what he's trying to sell. russian fighter jets send flairs to flight path of military drones, we have scrambled general jack keane to the united states. we have dr. dr. nicole saphier and brian brenberg joining us live and we have multi platinum singer/songwriter, our pal,

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when she told everyone they could be. she shut down everything, not just the schools, hardware stores, every kind of business imaginable. she was ruthlet in her autocrat i can ways of governing. and when somebody says she has a great policy i'm thinking if that's the boasts the democrats have, republicans are in for a real good year in 2024. >> this has now become a media trend. it's not just politico, the atlantic wrote a headline, why not whitmer. and vanity fair's headline on this topic, why gretchen whitmer has what it takes for a white house run. tudor dixon ran for governor of michigan against gretchen whitmer and lost, here's what she had to say about this. >> they're all talking about

what a great president she would be so it seems as though they're setting the american people up for this, ready to move her into that position and somehow they just never mention all of the bad things that have happened in the state of michigan like since she took office the economic outlook of michigan went from 11 to 36 if the nation. >> she also said she could see a situation where joe biden is forced not to run, forced to step aside. do you think that's realistic? >> i think it may be that there's enough pressure within the democrat party from the top to the bottom that tells joe you just can't cut it. you just don't have it anymore, you've lost your fastball, if he ever had one. and i think that democrats are scrambling, they're frantic, they know they don't have anybody in the bullpen, certainly not kamala harris she just puts a salad of words over and over again. rfk is the only thing rising at this point and he has a message

that's connecting with a lot of democrats but they're scared to death of him because he is the democrat version of a republican who wants to fight the deep state and end some of the corruption and the collusion between big business and big government. they don't want him so it's basically newsome whitmer. so they have governors who have run people out of their states, chased them away to red states, and they think that's the hope. well, good luck with that. >> yeah, good luck is right. now to trump's fund raising nearly double in the second quarter to 35 million despite the indictment. seems like every time there's controversy with former president trump his base and the wallet, the dollar amount continues to go up. what do you think momentum will be like, will it continue on to the election of 2024. >> i certainly do, especially ashley if they continue to go after him as they do with all these percent executions in the name of prosecutions, people

look through this and realize this is no a standard of justice, this is a standard of weaponizing the government and turning our government agencies into political arms and people are genuinely disgusteded when that happens and it shouldn't happen to democrats and it shouldn't happen top republicans. it's not how the country's supposed to work. so i do think that it just makes them stronger. it's like the movie wolfe reap, you shoot him in the head and he spits out the bullet comes out stronger. it's not working. >> governor i want to ask you about a situation that hits close to home, your daughter arkansas governor sarah huckabee sanders posted a picture on social media of a chalk cross that her kids, your grandkids drew on the driveway at the governor's mansion. there's a group called america's united who's demanding she remove the cross because they're saying it violates the separation of church and state. she's hitting back. in the 20 seconds we have remaining, what is your response to this group america your nighted. >> i love the way my grandkids

did wonderful chalk art, by the way they do it on my driveway every time they come to see me so that really is genuine and i'm proud of my daughter telling these people to pound sand because in this case pound chalk. what a stupid issue to pick and take on some little kids making chalk art. everybody ought to say, hey, good job kiddos, not this take that down. >> the biggest scandal the governor ace facing she's doing an okay job. got to leave it there. thanks so much for joining us. fox and friends starts right now. >> it's never been a good bet to best against america. >> he can't fool the american people. >> biden outred states south carolina to talk up his bogus bidenomics agenda. >> the drive for the white house. >> we've rejected bidenomics. >> we need every mama and every grandma ma to stand up and fight back. >> florida first lady casey desantis ready to make her solo debut with a group aimed at mobilizing mamas to vote for