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♪ i love you more than a california sun set ♪ more than beer when you ain't 21 yet ♪ more than a sunday morning ♪ >> brian: here we go, that's jacksonville, florida, if you go over that bridge can you go see a jaguar game, concert, hockey game. soon see a usfl franchise in that region which is right underneath the mls and mls commissioner don garber will be here live talking about one of the biggest signings in sports history messi comes to train miami. >> ainsley: how far is that scene from ponta vedra. >> brian: i would say without traffic 30 minutes. >> steve: how far would that be to tallahassee? >> brian: two and a half hours. straight run though you will be able to get there. >> steve: that's where you were yesterday. >> ainsley: we sat down with

casey and ron desantis. they got married and lived there. when he became governor they moved. >> brian: congressman. >> ainsley: when they became governor they moved right there into the governor's mansion. we sat down with them. talked about how they met. learned more about casey. we haven't heard a lot from her. it was nice to hear her perspective. she is sharp as a tack and could not have been nicer. we met their three children. we talked policy. we did lightning round every topic under the sun. we will talk about that at 7:30. >> steve: how did they meet? >> ainsley: are we going to show it? >> steve: yes. >> ainsley: watch. this how we met his version or my version how we met. >> ainsley: both. >> i grew up in ohio, actually, in troy, very blue-collar, manufacturing town. after i graduated from high school, i realized you can go south. it's warmer south. so i was in northeast florida. well, one day while i was in jacksonville, i was out at a golf driving range. i needed to work on my swing because it was pretty awful i was hooking and shanking all

over the place. i had noticed behind me someone had left a half full bucket of balls. on the other side of those balls was this guy. >> i was a lieutenant junior grade in the navy, stationed in naval station mayport. i just happened to pop out to this range one day. i'm sitting there hitting. she's there. i see her looking over her shoulder. i thought she was looking at me. >> ainsley: looking at you. of course you did. >> steve: that is meet cute they would say. >> ainsley: we talked about jason aldean and that controversy the cancel culture. why he decided to run. why wait and then he could get in the race after that. because people love him in the state of florida. we talked about the polls. and we talked about the military, abortion, you know, he signed the six week-was it -- heartbeat bill. exactly and immigration. so we will show you that coming up. >> brian: what happens interesting is that if he does wait four years, people say why didn't you go when you won that big election? because it's the chris christie principle. he had been the hottest governor

in the country. >> ainsley: 1.5 million votes. >> brian: guys, i'm not ready to run. let mitt romney have it or whoever gets the nomination. i have only been governor a year and a half and then the window -- he is trying to reopen the window now. the window was wide open then. >> steve: obviously ron desantis is running because he thinks he can beat donald trump on the republican side. you have got lots more. we will see some of the stuff coming up in 20 minutes, right? >> ainsley: exactly right. >> brian: now stunning prediction from oversight committee chairman james comer who expects to uncover more wire transfers from foreign sources to biden family members. >> steve: starting to add up. this comes after explosive testimony yesterday from two irs whistleblowers. one says the biden family and associates may have received a total of $17 million from overseas. but we don't know for what. >> ainsley: lucas tomlinson is live in washington with the latest for us. lucas? >> good morning, steve, ainsley and brian. house oversight which i chairman

james comer says hunter biden raked in millions of dollars while his father was vice president. he wants to know what did biden do to receive that cash. >> no one can explain one simple thing the bidens did to receive those payments. now, that's just to the president's son from three countries. there are many more countries where we are just now getting the bank records. in we are fixing to announce more wires from more countries. >> comer says the biden family brought in $17 million from foreign sources. known previously as whistleblower x, now he has a name. joseph ziegler. the second irs whistleblower to come forward. >> i kind of equate this to the experience and ephesian i encountered when coming out. it was honestly one of the hardest things i ever had to go through. i implore you to consider if you were in my position with the facts as i have stated them, ask yourself if you would be doing the exact same thing. >> gary shapley, the irs supervisor who first spoke out

says he was blocked from pursuing the hunter biden case further. he wanted felony charges and access to hunter's laptop. >> investigators are not allowed to follow up on whatsapp messages from hunter's apple cloud backup where he suggested he was sitting next to his father. investigators not to ask about the big guy or dad when conducting interviews. >> democrats claim the six hour hearing yesterday was all an effort to obstruct former president donald trump and no smoking gun was discovered. >> we can conclude that this inspector clues so he style quest for something that doesn't exist has turned our committee into a theater of the absurd and exercise in futility and embarrassment. >> seems to be a new level of hypocrisy here. >> we are here today because donald trump is exerting an influence campaign. >> i know the american people are confused because we're all confused what we're doing here. nothing this majority has claimed about the president's or

his family have merit. >> the hearing also included photos of hunter biden in full grante with photo marjorie taylor greene said was a prostitute. >> steve: lets bring in chris tan left, attorney for one of the whistleblowers. good morning, tristan. >> it's actually shapley. he will tell you quickly people might say he is shapely. >> that's a good line. tristan, he has made it very clear that the red line for him was back in october of last year when they're all sitting around and they are talking about what's going to happen and then the story got-came out in the "the washington post" that they have got the goods on hunter biden. and he will be charged very shortly. but mr. shapley said the red line for him was when david weiss at that meeting said, yeah, i would like to have

special counsel status but i can't investigate outside and i'm not the decider. that really was why he divided to come out of the shadows, right? >> that's right. and that combined with the fact that the attorney general, merrick garland, had said before congress there will be no political interference in this and led the american people to believe that political appointees wouldn't have any decision-making in it. for weiss to say i'm not the deciding authority because in fact the district attorney in colombia appointed by president biden and the u.s. attorney in central district of california appointed by president biden they had the final say on whether charges were brought in their districts. >> brian: i want you to hear, let's go back to shapley talking about matthew graves, a donor to joe biden. refusing this goes directly against what weiss says, refusing to accept charges there. listen. >> after the united states attorney for d.c. matthew graves appointed by president biden refused to bring charges in march 2022, i watched united

states attorney weiss tell a room full of senior fbi and irs senior leaders on october 7th, 2022 that he was not the deciding person on whether charges were filed. >> so he -- shapley has said, your client, that in los angeles and d.c., bringing charges was rejected. david weiss was rejected to bring charges there weiss came out with a statement. i don't have it in front of me. but basically says i did everything i could -- i was able to go anywhere i wanted at any time. who is telling the truth? >> well, there's no question that gary shapley is telling the truth. he has provided contemporaneous documentation, which is corroborated by his supervisor, which was also in that meeting. that said, weiss hasn't explicitly denied that he ever presented the case to d.c. if you look at the evolution of his three letters, they are very carefully worded denials. so when all the evidence is out there, when all the dust settles, he will, i think, based on -- if i recall correctly, he will be able to say well, in

this way i was precaiaphasly telling the truth. i was this way. but there's no question that gary ha shapley is not lying. >> ainsley: democrats are just dismissing this saying you know what? these are just prosecutors and investigators who are disagreeing and then your client, mr. shapley says no, no, are no, no. they did agree. listen to this. >> it seems to me that a lot of your testimony has been about the problem of prosecutorial discretion and the traditional tug-of-war between investigators and prosecutors who are more attune to the riggers of the courtroom. >> it wasn't just investigators that agreed with these charges. in exhibit 2 in my testimony, it clearly shows prosecution recommendation report where it says right in the document that the assistant united states attorneys and department of justice tax division agreed with those recommended charges. >> ainsley: so if they agreed, what happened? >> well, the 2014 and 2015

charges, including the felony for the 2014 burisma income being hidden and not paid or not reported, the fraudulent returns, those had to be approved bye the d.c. u.s. attorney unless the doj tax division gave its approval and doj tax has been silent throughout. when the d.c. u.s. attorney rejected them weiss had nowhere to charge them. that's why he said i'm going to let the statute of limitations expire on 2014 and 2015 charges because there is nothing i can do if u.s. attorney graves objects. >> steve: one of the other things mr. shapley said yesterday he still thinks a special counsel is needed for the investigation which, you know, there are a lot of us who think that we need lots more information, probably not a bad idea. but, i'm just curious. you, yourself, tristan, have looked into government misdeeds and cronyism and stuff like that for at least a decade. have you ever seen anything that looks this bad at this level?

>> to be honest because my first operation was fast and furious. >> and they were very similar in that way that whistleblowers came forward and doj just instinctively denied and very strongly did so. and they asked the people in question did you do anything wrong? of course denied it. and when all the dust settled, again, it was clear what the problems were and so these are very, very similar to me. and so i think the key thing is i don't know whether merrick garland realizes or not but there's no question that weiss is trying to have his cake and eat it, too. >> and, you know, it's not going to work out that way. >> brian: what does shapley's future look like? here's what he said. >> how were you treated in this endeavor? >> the irs has chosen to retaliate against me in multiple ways. even now there's a major case initiatives actually special agent ziegler started as well that are now, you know, being put on a back burner. my immediate supervisor and two

levels above him haven't spoken to me since june 1st of 2023. even though i'm sending them emails and trying to conduct my business on a daily basis. they literally have not spoken to me. you know,. >> would that be normal. >> no. absolutely not. i mean, we're running under cover operations. we are doing interviews across the world, and it really becomes when senior leadership really cuts off communication like that, it increases the chance of some officer safety type issue. >> brian: so what is happening with gary? he says i don't have a book deal. my salary is my government salary. what's going to happen with him? >> well, we are going to ensure that he stays at the irs. the office of special counsel, which helps to protect whistleblowers. i used to be the number two official at that agency. they are closely investigating. we have confidence that they will help to protect him and, you know, that's why we have whistleblower protection laws in place. >> brian: let's hope because

both have complaints. did he help coach ziegler to come out? in the beginning ziegler's identity was held back and now he decides to come out and obviously testify. what role did gary have in that. >> gary didn't have any role. joseph ziegler decided to reveal his identity to the public because he was asked by the committee if he would be willing to testify and he was because he stands by what he said. >> ainsley: ziegler says i risk my reputation and career and i risk my existing case work but he says i'm paying my way to get to d.c. for these hearings. and he said i'm doing all of this because i just want to do the right thing. i'm sure your client feels the same way. >> absolutely. >> steve: tristan, does your client have any regrets? >> not so far, no. >> steve: okay, good. >> brian: what if nothing comes of this? everyone is so tired of these okay, here are the facts, it's horrible. we're just going to ignore it and move on like with fast and furious. what's going to be different

now. >> it would be a tragedy if nothing happens. in fast and furious dozens of interviews that were conducted as congressional staff. that's what needs to happen here. that's what both joe and gary have, i think, expected. they have laid out here's the people you would need to talk to to find out if what we are saying is true. we expect congress to take the steps, talk to the relevant individuals so it's not just resting on their shoulders and accountability. >> brian: millions still unaccounted for. >> ainsley: how much was hunter supposed to pay to the government that he didn't pay. >> that's a number i'm not as familiar with. they talked about that yesterday. i think the key element actually is most of them have been paid but i think it's the 125,000 from the 2014 charges. >> ainsley: and 106,000 ziegler talk about, too. >> steve: still some real money. >> yeah. no question. no question. >> ainsley: thank you. >> steve: tristan, indeed. good hearing from him. >> ainsley: all right. let's hand it over to carley for more headlines. >> carley: update on situation out of no north korea. new photo shows travis king

blending in with tourists at the demilitarized zone moments before he crossed the border into north korea. the image comes as his family speaks out saying the idea he defected is unlike him. >> i think there's something wrong with him. he ain't thinking clearly. i don't think he would have ran like that. my daughter said the same thing. she that don't seem like my son. >> i know he is in a real bad place. a bad situation. and i'm hoping that they let him come home. >> well, the u.s. is actively seeking his return but the state department has not heard back from north korea. about two hours from now on capitol hill, democratic presidential candidate robert f. kennedy jr. will testify on the biden administration's online censorship efforts. the president's top primary challenger joined us last week explaining how he was silenced for airing his views on covid-19. >> i wases first one that the

administration started censors it's not for misinformation. nothing on the internet i put on the internet was misinformation but it was politically inconvenient. and that's not what we do in america. can. >> carley: democrats are demanded cut kennedy from the hearing over controversial statements over the origins of covid-19. the majority has refused. and check this out. two port authority police officers saving the day helping deliver a baby boy near the entrance of the lincoln tunnel. the mother unexpectedly went into labor during rush hour on the new jersey side. that's when the brothers in blue stepped up, helping the mother give birth to a baby boy in the back seat of a car. that is the fear of every pregnant lady and those officers got a quick lesson in labor and delivery nursing. got to do it. >> steve: i hope they named the boy lincoln. >> carley: that would be great. >> steve: right? >> brian: shows you how easy birth is. anyone can do it. >> ainsley: says the man on the couch. you want me to hit you with this paper? >> brian: i'm hoping.

>> steve: thank you, carley. >> ainsley: coming up, a new report revealing 2500 migrant children infected with tuberculosis have been released all across 44 different states. how dangerous is that for your family? we're going to ask the doctor nesheiwat next. >> brian: plus, jason aldean's new song hitting number one on itunes as the controversial swirls. now some liberal activists are taking issue with the location of the music video. we'll tell you why and explain it away. ♪ sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk ♪ car jack an old lady at a red light ♪ pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store ♪ you think it's cool? to act a fool if you like ♪ can y cuss out a cop and spits face ♪

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>> ainsley: report from the "washington times" revealing 2100 migrant children infected with tuberculosis have been released across 44 states. tb is one of the most notorious infectious diseases in the world and the government says they can't be sure the children are treated. let's bring in dr. newark watt a family and emergency medical doctor. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> i know you work in one of the facilities in the times square area where some of these shelters are set up. where many of them are coming in on the buses. are you seeing this in your practice? >> yeah, unfortunately i do take care of a lot of immigrant patients who come in very ill and unwell. sometimes we are not sure what's wrong with them. they have fever of unknown origins. i have taken care of patients pneumonias, dehydration, appendicitis, pediatric rape patients have come in.

it's really heart braking to see this because they are children and it's preventable by securing the border and not allowing, you know, immigrants to come in illegally putting themselves at risk, putting their children at risk. but one of the most important things that we're seeing most recently is tuberculosis. you know, normally tuberculosis affects your lungs but it can effect any part of your body and it's easily spread by coughing, by sneezing. and children are coming in at the border unaccompanied and they are found to have what's called latent t.b. which means the bacteria is in their body and it could spread to others if it becomes active. and instead of holding these children at the border and treating them appropriately, the government is letting them go free relying on their sponsors and cdc to make sure that they get the treatment that they need. ainsley, the problem is it requires months of treatment on top of that there is a shortage of antibiotics in this country. if you let them go out into the

united states and they are not properly treated they could spread it to orms. >> ainsley: there is 2 #% spike of kids under the age 5. 73% of the cases in the u.s. are penal not even born here. is this contagious? how do we protect our children if they don't have t.b. from kids who do? >> it is potentially contagious if you have the active version. that's why we want to treat latent t.b. in these children at the border so it doesn't become active and they don't spread it. child in the classroom and they are coughing and sneezing and have prolonged contact with others, it can spread in that manner. if your child is having any symptoms of prolonged cough, fever, chills, night sweats, coughing up blood, that sort of thick, you want to get seen right away. there is treatment that is available. >> ainsley: dr. nesheiwat, thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you, ainsley. >> ainsley: you're welcome. still ahead a "fox & friends" exclusive. we sat down with ronen and access desantis talking 2024 plus how they met.

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♪ ♪ around here we take care of our own ♪ you cross that line ♪ it won't take long for you to find out -- i recommend you don't ♪ try that in a small town >> steve: try that in a small town. that's a song at the center of a recent controversy with jason aldean. suddenly number one itunes song. >> ainsley: yeah, the producers behind the music video are now pushing back against all the critics as other industry stars are coming out in support of the country music star. todd piro joins us now with the latest. todd? >> todd: as we say in this business this story has legs guys. great to see both of you. even abc getting pulled into the controversy after they aired a pretaped performance of the song as part of its cma fest concert series. part of the backlash is over where the video was filmed. aldean singing at tennessee's

morey county courthouse where a lynching happened almost 100 years ago. while the producers are pointing out no one had an issue with other high profile projects films like hannah montana the music and we were rich. the country star's wife jason aldean that is, taking to social media to defend her husband media it's the same song and distance. everything you can to repulsive narrative. focus on child trafficking. aldean getting support from country star travis tritt who i would like toe blind my friend that twitter and social media in general is not a real place. the views shared by many accounts on this platform are not actually representative of the vast majority of the population of this country. and it seems like is he right. despite the criticism, the song has surged to number one on itunes. later this morning we are going to speak to a musician who knows all about cancel culture. former mumford and sons member winston marshall going to join

us in the next hour. back to you. >> all right. thank you very much. >> ainsley: you know, out of all the songs that are out there, this one? he is talking about a small town. it's a song. he wrote it and released it in may, he said and now here we are several months later talking about it video just came out there. are blm protests. people are going he is in front of that courthouse. you know there was a race right at that location. there was a lynching back in the 20's as well. that's why suddenly it's become a big deal. >> ainsley: when a country music singer uses the back drop. like todd just said. this site has been used for hannah montana. >> ainsley: green mile. >> steve: lifetime movie as well. it seems to be a little selective in the outrage because they did it as well. sheryl crow was also on twitter. she called out jason aldean

because she said your lyrics are too violent. >> ainsley: jason aldean controversy getting a lot of reaction. here is what presidential hopeful ron desantis had to say about it in our exclusive "fox & friends" interview. >> we need to restore sanity to this country. i mean, what is going on that that would be something that would be censored. i mean, give me a break. we're off the rocker here in the united states with a lot of this stuff with cancel culture, with big tech censorship, with a lot of stuff that the federal government is doing, policing so-called misinformation, we need to get back on kilter and start having a free society again and embracing truth. so i think it's part and parcel of a lot of the nonsense we have seen over the last many years. >> steve: nonetheless, as todd said, this particular controversial has made that song number one on itunes as people download it to hear what all the hullabaloo is about.

>> ainsley: ron desantis was endorsed by trump. the second time he won by 1.5 million votes. he even got miami-dade. florida is basically a red state now. they love him down there. so we asked him, also, why now? why not stay governor? why not give donald trump the opportunity and then you run after that? this was his response. >> i'm not running to be somebody. i'm running to do something. i think 2024 is make or break for this country. this country is in decline. and i'm not somebody that's content to nibble around the edges. i'm not just trying to manage american decline a little bit better than biden and the democrats. i want to reverse the decline. i don't think we have an opportunity to do that in 2028. so i have a responsibility to step up. if i'm the guy that can get it done, beat the democrats, get all this done up in washington, you know, that's going to put this country on an entirely different trajectory. >> ainsley: what about the polls? real clear politics that's the average you are 33, 34 points

behind trump. how do you overcome that wide lead? >> again, we are doing state by state, i think even people that cite those acknowledge in the early states it's much closer. so where we are in iowa, i wouldn't trade places with any other candidate in iowa. i think that we are on the path to be able to win iowa. so that's what we are focused on. we are not chasing national polls. we are really focusing on accumulating the delegates. >> steve: and that's what it is all about, delegates. and early state voting counts and, you know, iowa, new hampshire, if you can score big in the beginning, it helps you a lot. >> ainsley: yeah. we also asked him a lot about the military. because he was in south carolina the beginning of the week a few days ago talking about how he wants to get rid of all the wokeness in the military. we asked him about his abortion policy no abortions after six weeks and his immigration policy. listen. >> ainsley: in my home state of south carolina you were saying you are going to rip the wokeness out of the military. you were in the military. you served our country. so what does that look like? >> so, first of all, we have to

diagnose the problem. recruiting is at an all-time low since the draft ended during the vietnam era. on this current course, it's a crisis situation. we're not going to be able to defend our country. and when you see a lot of the wokeness that's gone on in the military, china is laughing at us. they see that and a they see a weak america. so let's get back to basics. let's focus on the core mission and that will be a day one issue, the wokeness is gone in our military. >> ainsley: what about abortion? the six week abortion rule? >> i think that in states where you have had the ability to make improvements, and to add pro-life protections, i applaud states that have done that. but we have a big diverse country. i acknowledge that. and i'm not suggesting that somehow new york is necessarily going to follow iowa's lead on that. i think you're going to see some differences. >> ainsley: immigration, 40% catch and release just don't show up for their court hearings. >> so what we're going to do, first of all we are going to declare the border to be a national emergency day one.

we are going to mobilize all available resources including the military to go down to the border. we are going to end the invasion. we are going to have border patrol and military on the border. if cartels are cutting through a border wall or running product, we're going to use lethal force against these people because they are killing americans. mothers are losing children because of the fentanyl that's being trafficked into this country. human trafficking because of the cartels is at probably all-time high. it is an absolute disgrace and i guarantee you, if you show the cartels who's boss, you're going to see different behavior. right now, they have more control over our border than our own country does and that is a disgrace. >> steve: a great interview. you went down to hall has he yesterday. flew down, flew back where he is talking about plans and policies. but, his wife is sitting right there. and you've got some great answers from her. >> ainsley: learned more about her. and i said to him we have heard you from a lot and we appreciate these interviews and we understand you're the candidate.

buff we would love to learn more about casey. how y'all met. we would love to meet the children. so she opened up with us about policy but also about her personal life. and how she battled cancer and how hard that was for her. she got very emotional when she talked about the possibility of losing her life and not being able to watch her children get married and, of course, you know, we are all tearing up when she is talking about that. who wouldn't? that's a really sweet interview. that's coming up. we will show you a little bit more. >> steve: just a tease, where did they meet? you think where would they have met? >> ainsley: she is like the perfect woman, right? playing golf. >> steve: a golf range. >> ainsley: coming up, the numbers don't lie. china is the lead polluter in the world. and climate czar john kerry is coming up empty on solutions after a trip to the communist country. ♪

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conversations but we came here to break new ground and it is clear that we are going to need a little more work to be able to complete that task. >> steve: need a little more work. climate envoy john kerry facing backlash over those climate re-set talks in china as he admits that china, you know, the world's top carbon polluter will make its own decisions when it comes to global warming and isn't listening to the united states. copen hagan buren lombberg joins us from sweden good morning to

you. >> good morning. >> steve: john kerry is going to try to put a happy face on this trip but i don't think he got much accomplished. >> no. first of all he actually suggested i thought it was a fun quote he was suggesting how can we help help to accelerate a transition that doesn't cripple the economy? that's probably not what china wants to hear oh we can get something that doesn't cripple our economy? that is going to be fantastically expensive. that's of course why they are actually permitting two coal fired power plants a week. remember in the 1970s, china was 40% renewable and dead poor now 10% renewables and better off. hard to tell them sure don't you want to go back to much, much more renewables it's costly in the rich countries is not going to play well in china. >> steve: sure, we just saw the graphic that shows that china outstrips the united states. we are number two when it comes to co-2 polluters. had you been queried before john

kerry's trip and asked okay, bourne, what do i say to the chinese how what would have you said how would you have presented it other than hey, i don't think you are going to go broke only way fix big problems is through innovation. take a look at los angeles in 1950s, it was terribly polluted mostly because of cars. you couldn't tell loss angelenos to just walk instead the solution was a catalytic converter, it costs a couple hundred bucks and put on tail bite pipe and basically cleared up the air. you need those kinds of solutions for climate change. that's incredibly cheap instead of spending trillions on basically getting nowhere with forcing solar and wind on everyone i never owned a private

jet i never owned one. of course his wife did. it makes you laugh, doesn't it. >> yes, it does. look, it also shows everybody actually likes all the stuff we get from fossil fuels. it gives you mobility. it gives you cheap food. it gives you an opportunity to keep cool when there's heat waves and hot when it's cold. this is just why everybody loves fossil fuels and everybody wants more of it. what we have to do is to innovate the alternative so it becomes cheaper so everyone will want to switch than trying to tell china would you mind becoming poor in order to fix this problem? >> steve: yeah, no kidding bad argument. bjorn, thank you for joining us today from sweden. all right. 12 minutes now before the top of the hour. carley joins us with some news from alabama. >> carley: yes. alabama police revealing shocking details in the case of the woman who vanished for two days after calling 911 to report seeing a toddler walking along

the side much the interstate. investigators were unable to verify most of carley russell's claims including the existence of that mystery child. they also say she looked up the hollywood hostage thriller "taken" just hours before disappearing. other searches include terms like maximum age for an amber alert and how to steal money from a cash register. officials say carley declined a second interview. the investigation is ongoing. a suspected robber hitting four houston banks in two weeks and, get this, the fbi is calling the suspect the sticky note bandit because he reportedly hands the bank teller sticky notes with threatening messages while demanding cash. the bureau is now asking for the public's help in findings the suspected robber who they say is a man dressed as a woman. there's a lot in that story. steve, i hear you like this one. the so-called coors field cat is ready to retire from his life as unofficial member of the rockies. smoky has made himself at home

at the baseball stadium for the last decade stealing lots of hearts while keeping the mice population under control. and there are already a lot of adoption applications rolling in because who wouldn't want to adopt that little guy right there? >> steve: yeah, how many times has that cat been on television? >> carley: yeah. probably around the same amount as you, which is a lot. >> steve: this cat, that cat. carley, thank you very much. >> carley: you're welcome. >> steve: 11 minutes before the top of the hour and janice dean joins us. do you know what, janice, we are hoping today is a nice day. >> janice: here across the east expecting more thunderstorms in the forecast. that's the way it's been over the last several weeks. and we had severe weather strike kentucky yesterday. let's take a look at the storms. we also had a tornado report for the north carolina area, ef 3 which, of course, we have been reporting on, damaged a pfizer plant. kentucky rain totals close to a to the of rain. this is historic for them. i know this has been the rule

for parts of the ohio valley and the northeast and take a look at these storms that start to develop today through the next 24 to 48 hours moving up towards the northeast. we are saturated here so flooding is going to be a concern. make sure that you have a way to get your watches and warnings. that is going to continue through the weekend. there is flash flood threat for tomorrow through saturday for parts of the northeast all up and down the i-95 corridor. heat is a huge story, phoenix i think we are two weeks into temperatures well above 110 degrees and that is going to continue not only from the west coast but across the southern plains into florida so there is phoenix over the next 10 days. steve this is really historic. a lot of folks are like well they see that heat all the time. but to see this extreme temperatures for so long is really historic for them. >> steve: yep. and they are getting sick of it. j.d., thank you very much. >> janice: you got it. coming up miami and soccer messi's big debut.

we are going to talk to the commissioner of that league don garber he is next. good morning to you. ♪ i'm going to miami 12340e9 m welcomome to miami ♪

>> brian: messi, miami, mls prepares for the soccer star's debut tomorrow.

ticket prices hitting as much as $100,000 to see the best player in the world. don garber all over this big decision. one of the biggest in sports history as the best player in the world on the best most popular sport in the world comes to america. the best country in the world. don garber, commissioner, congratulations. how did you get messi here? >> well, brian, it starts really with the moss family down in miami when we launched the team a couple years ago had the press conference and said we are going to bring in the best players in the world. david beckham is their partner it. all came together. it was launched and announced last sunday. game friday night our new league's cup. >> brian: when it became official what were your thoughts when he said "i choose you." >> it was really remarkable to see the trajectory, the momentum of major league soccer, the best player, i think, in the history of the game saying this is my league of choice. so it's pretty cool. that's not something that happens every day. >> brian: you have got a world

cup champion the mvp the best player this in the world and best team in the world argentina and he chooses to come here. you have 25,000 seat stadiums. are you going to allow them to shift for example when they come to metlife -- would they come to metlife instead of red bull arena when they come to new jersey. >> i don't know, brian, we spent so much time building these soccer specific stadiums our team needs to have a home. let's get those stadiums to sort of celebrate what major league soccer is, what it's become. if a team wants to move a game that would be fine with the league. i think they are going to stay in their home stadiums. >> brian: i was there when they launched the league and they couldn't launch they were not ready had to wait until '96. at one point you had phil and bob kraft save the league. you are about to add st. louis and san diego. what does it mean for you because you were there during the tough times and you seem to be here during the great times. >> you know, brian it, shows

fortitude, commitment and where soccer in america really is. this is a soccer nation. you know, we are a league that's going to drive the momentum. women's world cup that is going on now. the men's world cup will be in this country in 2026. all of this driven by guys like phil and bob kraft and david hunter, the hunt family that's been around forever. there is an unbelievable ownership group of very, very powerful and important fan base. and i still think our best days are still ahead of us. >> brian: the premier league is the premier league. no doubt about it. but now some of the best players looking to your league beckham comes here at 32. chris jenner arnaldo decides to go to the saudi league. they are now done. this is what he said about messi going to the mls. the saudi league is better than the mls. now all the players are coming here and one year more top players will be coming to saudi arabia. what's your answer to reynaldo? >> you know, i'm not going to get into. >> brian: yes you are. come on.

>> listen, what i will say is this is the global game. and the fact that you have got leagues that are competing against each other. you have got two of the great players in the world, the best player ever has decided to play in major league soccer. our league is great. we're very excited about it. i'm happy for cristiano, i hope he has fun in zawrd. >> brian: what do you say to people who want to get tickets to see messi play. >> i hope they have been saving a lot of money. >> brian: he has charisma. he doesn't speak english. he won't be able to do "the tonight show" like david beckham right off. the thing is he scores. >> is he living close to the stadium. and you are a soccer guy, brian. you just know he has got it in him. is he wanier. he just won the world cup for his home country arge argentina. he is going to be here a number of years. there is a lot of soccer to be played. i think it's going to be

fantastic. >> brian: shutting the league down a month to play the mexican league. can you give us an idea what to expect? >> we are trying to be part of the global conversation, brian. we are one of the major leagues here in country but we are playing the global beautiful game and we want to expand the breadth and scope of what is happening in mls. we are the only two leagues in the world across border that are going to be playing think of march madness, you know, our 30 teams, their 18 teams playing in a world cup tournament. it's going to be really exciting and innovative, which is a big part of what mls is about. >> brian: i know apple tv is your tv deal. do you regret doing it being that fox and espn would give you more mainstream coverage? >> well, fox is still with us for a number of years and fox, you know, the broadcast network, univision doing our games. linear and spanish language and you have got the most innovative tech and broad globally reached company in the world doing our games. we love the partnership, brian. young fan base. very, very global. imagine that you can be in

buenas are a reiss and tune in on friday night. press a button and watch the game on your phone. >> brian: don't blow up the phone for tickets to messi's debut he only has so many. don't call me i don't have any insight. thank you so much. >> good to see you, brian. >> brian: hopefully more frequent visits for you commissioner because you are right across the way. third hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ >> two whistleblowers testifying about two men, hunter biden and joe biden. >> do not ask about the big guy or dad when conducting the interview. >> day one issue, the wokeness is gone. >> exclusive interview with governor of florida and first lady of florida, ron and casey desantis. >> i