♪ ♪ ♪ i'm getting them good vibes, i'm living this good life ♪ rachel: good morning. it's 9 a.m. here on the east coast, and those are good vibes. good vibeses today, it's national day of the cowboy, we've been celebrating out on the square. pete: some cowboyses from can

kellogg to, idaho. rachel: for sure, there are. pete: chris jansen, great guy. joey: fantastic guy. pete: and you hear the voice, joey jones -- joey: that's me. rachel: i'm back from the north woods. joey: how was it? rachel: so good, i'm going back with. joey: were they out of cheese curds? rachel: not. i'm wearing them all here. joey: there's no way you did not bring me some cheese curds. rachel: i walked every day between 4-6 miles, but i still macked to put on some -- managed to i put on some weight. i love to walk in the woods by the lake. pete: so you're walking on that -- did you get on your pontoon and go across the lake to that restaurant? rachel: yes. but now we have that little, we have a wakeboard boat. we took that boat and the

mamacita as well and went across to the restaurant on the lake and, yeah, that's where we get the cheese curds with the margarita. pete: you've got cornhole out there, that restaurant, i've been there. awesome. like, it's lake life. we're glad you're back. rachel: i'm happy to be back. pete: we've got some news this morning, we'll start with this, you know, we've got -- you had the testimony -- on capitol hill of the irs agents who said our investigation was blocked, and as a result they have now gone public and said, hey, these are the roadbrockses we faced. -- roadblocks we faced. they were never introduced to an entire slew of fbi documents to include a confidential human source who came forward to the fbi and said he had evidence that the burisma ceo was paying money to the bidens in realtime to get out from underneath investigations that could potentially be targeting burisma. so pay to play. and inside this 1023 document,

this is what the fbi informant -- by the way, credible, we're told, fbi inform minute -- said, part of it. it cost $5 million to pay one biden and $5 million to another biden, ask cowell remember burisma was under investigation from a prosecutor. joe biden is overseeing policy in ukraine, flies over there, demands the president be fired and using a billion or dollars of u.s. tax dollars as leverage. sure enough, the prosecutor is fired, clearing the way for burisma to get whatever oil and gas leases it wanted and enriching the bidens in the process. it's staggering though that these whistleblowers -- well, here, here's a portion, a sound bite from the special report. these irs whistleblowers didn't know about this. watch. >> it's not new, it's newly released, this fd1023 that senator grassley has put out that has various or allegations involving the bidens. they're the unverified, this is one source who said it, involving payments to a burisma official, payments from that

official to them from ukraine. did that document ever become part of your investigation, did that come across your desk? >> so i provided an additional document to the house ways and means committee which they' lease -- released which that testimony that i had in there said that i had never seen that document before. so i'd never seen that 1023. and the reason why that 10 is 23 might have been important is that can further validate some other evidence that we are trying to prove in the case. and and that's why all information is necessary for especially the lead irs case agent to have. joey: so the democrats are basically saying, hey, this 1023, that's just something they said they heard somebody else said. it's not hard evidence, it's conjecture. it's he said e-he said. but what the whistleblower's saying is that's how you turn it into more, is to show it to the investigators so they can say, okay, are any of these

allegations relevant or are any of these allegations present in these other things and we don't know what they're talking about. but now with this allegation, we can discern that's what that means. rachel: right. he spoke to john ratcliffe earlier in the show, pete, and here's what he had to say. >> as i reviewed this, the thing that really stuck out to me were three words on this fd23, and those three words are the big with guy. the irs has criminal investigators, but they work with the fbi. and we've heard lots of testimony about the fact that they should be working hand this glove with regard to this. but in this case, you had these documents that were the, again, under oath, both whistleblowers have said -- remember, gary shapley testified that in september of 2020 he asked to see the laptop and was refused. and, of course, they both said that they hadn't seen the fd1023. and then what's more troubling, pete, is it goes so far as the fbi director later, to congress, denied the existence that there even was an fd1023.

rachel: so many, so many lies. pete: so many. and, joey, to your point what john ratcliffe also pointed out, the big guy is found in this 1023, that's also the language used on the laptop and the e-mail -- >> 10% put big guy. pete: if you see the big guy popping up different places, now you can put the puzzle pieces together. no one human source can be usually enough to be actionable, but you tie it to other thing, and pretty soon the puzzle comes together. rachel: and you said 5 million -- these guys are not two for one, okay? 5 million for hunter, 5 million for the big guy who we all know is joe is biden, so obvious. this is why this matters. it's not just that we want to, you know, this is corrupt, that we shouldn't allow this in our government, but the consequences of this corruption, we are experiencing in realtime because many people believe that zelenskyy and the people in that government are holding, could

potentially be holding joe biden hostage -- pete: who knows? another billion, another billion. rachel: exactly. you look at the amount of money that's going, there's very little transparency. there's no effort on the part of this country to, a, look at, you know, where the money is going and follow it, track it, make sure it's being used responsibly and not being put into bank with accounts somewhere else. but also absolutely no effort to bring peace to this situation, to negotiate a peace. all of this, if you look at it, makes sense if somebody's holding manager over you which -- something over you. you have to go back, again, to impeachment number one which was, you know, donald trump on the phone with zelenskyy saying, hey, what's going on with joe biden? i know you guys have some information about corruption between him and his son. all of this makes sense if you look at this. this is why this is so important. we do not want our president compromised by foreign governments -- pete: i don't know how this doesn't lead to impeachment -- rachel: it must. joey: politics is how it

doesn't. politics is how it doesn't. and what does impeachment matter anymore? really what matters to me is what happens in 2024. do we let him even -- pete: that would be the only reckoning for real, you right. joey: yeah. it takes someone of common intelligence to see that there's some corruption there or at least a strong allegation and and evidence of it. but maybe artificial intelligence is even scarier. so these companies, amazon, google, a company called inflection, melt that -- meta, microsoft, openai, they're all saying they're going to sign on to a safety code for a.i. so although biden may not say i am the big guy, he is willing to admit that he is a.i. let's take a look. ,. >> i'm the a.i. [laughter] [inaudible] blame it on a.i. pete: don't worry, nobody's confusing you with abe lincoln.

rachel: i was just going to say that. i know abe lincoln and you, sir, are no abe lincoln. [laughter] joey: i want to know the backup conversation. why is abe lincoln getting brought into this? pete: it's just a really bad grandpa joke. rachel: yeah. joey: yeah. rachel: i give him a pass -- pete: i ap am the a.i. [laughter] yeah. what's scarier is that that's the guy in charge of potential regulation for a.i. or determining if we're up to par if with our adversaries on a.i. and the advancement of the technologieses. and to our previous conversation, where is his focus, where are his priorities. there's a lot of questions that could be asked about that based on what we're learning, and there was recently -- it didn't get much press, but the chinese hacked a lot of government e-mail accounts. joe biden was asked about that. here's what he said. >> reporter: can you tell us

about the hacking of cabinet officials by china and the threshold of concern you have about that, sir? >> [inaudible] rachel: yeah, well, you know, when you, when your family corruption business takes money from the chinese, it's really hard to call them out for, by the way, hacking the u.s. ambassador to china, and then they were able to grab thousands of other government e-mails. serious thing you'd think he would want to send a message to the chinese, but actually that might have just been the message to the chinese, i'm not going to do anything. don't tell anybody else about the big guy's money. so that was really depressing. pete: it's really hard not to be cynical across the board right now. rachel: yeah. pete: you feel like nothing is aboveboard. rachel: that's why i think, you know, you say the next election will resolve it. yeah, maybe. maybe not. but it's important for people to face consequences. joey: you're right, but the democrats proved in the last presidency that impeachment means nothing. you know?

rachel: it damaged donald trump in many ways, it hurt him -- pete: i till think it's a worthwhile exercise. rachel: if it's legit. pete: if all of this comes to fruition, it's a worthwhile -- they diluted the value of it, doesn't mean it's still not the right thing to do in a particular case. we'll see how that plays out. but i just looked at what house republicans have been able to uncover with just is one lever of power. donald trump in the white house in 2024 is the thing the left fears the most, the deep state fears the most. joey: and on that point, with just one lever of power that according to what we're learning from these whistleblowerses may have been working against another lever of power. not only is it just congress that's uncovering this, but the justice department decided not to as well. rachel: yeah. no, absolutely. pete: no doubt. another topic this morning is cmt, country music television, is in hot water this morning because they've canceled -- depends on who you talk to, but they pulled jason aldean's new

music video from their it's station that nobody -- television station that nobody watches -- [laughter] rachel: right. pete: and a lot less people are going to be watching as well. we had winston marshall on the program earlier, the former mumford and sons band member who tweeted out support about andy ngo about antithat. weed asked him what -- antifa. here's a portion of what he said. >> they ignore in the video the references, the clips of georgia's state of emergency that was in january of 2023, pretty relevant, i think -- rachel: yeah. >> -- in which protesters shot at police officers. one protester was killed. two months later, 23 of those protesters were arrested on domestic terrorist charges. that is what jason aldean is directly referencing, and yet they ignore that. there's referencing to sucker punching people, random people

in the street, to holding up -- pete: carjacking. >> carjacking. he's saying no to that. he's saying i recommend you don't do that when you come to my small town, and yet they see it as a video promoting violence. i think there are two americas. i watched this video, i take the it at face value. they watch this video, and they somehow link it to jim crow. what? like, how is that possible? it's such bad faith. joey: i love the english translation there, by the way, jason aldean says try that in a small town. no, what he means is i recommend you don't do that. [laughter] rachel: i recommend you not carjack in our town. joey: you know, that's exactly the point he was making. of when he first sat down on the couch, we were talking, he said, is it really a first amendment expression of speech, it is a controlling of the speech -- in other words, jason aldean has the song out this. we can all go listen to it. so it hasn't been silenced. but what it has been is we've been told what the song means, even jason aldean's being told what the song means.

rachel: right. joey: in other words, controlling the narrative. rachel: i've seen jason aldean's statement where he came out and said that's not what i meant, i didn't say anything about lynching, he tried to defend himself. and, you know, i saw a quote just recently, it's actually by st. augustine. he said the truth doesn't need to be defended, it can defend itself. and and i really, i give that advice to him. there's no need to defend it. everybody who's fair-minded understands exactly what he's talking about. the images in the back of that video, which is really what ticked off the left, this is really about them -- we know what antiking fa -- antifa if did, what blm did in the summer of love in 2020. they tried to tell us it was mostly peaceful protests. no, it wasn't. min yap minneapolis -- minneapolis hasn't even recovered from that destruction. they want us to believe, not believe our use. -- our eyes. and what he did is he played the news footage behind him in that

video, and they're trying to change the subject and talk about something that happens over 100 years ago versus over what happened just 3 years ago a. everybody knows that's what this song is about. i'll tell you one other thing. had this been january 6th footage, nobody would have cared had we run that on a loop. this is about, what you said, the narrative. they want to tell a story, they want us to buy it, and they also want to -- joey: every lyric in that song references something real that happened that we reported on sitting right here, a woman getting sucker punched, someone getting car jacked. every lyric was very purposefully written is and backed up by the footage of it happening in the video x. what made me so mad is they said, well, when he talks about small towns, that's just white people. really? come to the south. are you kidding me? if you go to the smallest town i know, chatsworth, georgia, every business there is subtitled in spanish, okay? we have a huge mexican immigration population that are very conservative, very

religious, very family-oriented, and they would not put up with that in a heartbeat. it makes me think about the l.a. riots, you know? it was the koreans, i believe, that would not allow their own businesses to be destroyed. but this is about white supremacy, basically taking that same spirit of, hey, you're not going to bring that trash into my city? pete: there's just no reason will be, the song stands for itself, you're exactly right. you don't have to defend yourself or explain it. they're trying to explain something that doesn't exist. just say try that in a small town. like, it speaks for itself. it is what -- rachel: it defends itself. pete: by the way, winston marshall went on to say, to your point, it has a chilling effect to other young artist. jason aldean's going to be fine, it's the next 18-year-old who wants to write a song that's outside outside the cop fines of what country -- confines of what country music will allow youd to do. rachel: the actual quote from st. augustine is the truth is like a lion, it doesn't need to be defended, it detends itself.

that's actually the quote. pete: all right. let's turn to a few additional headlines this morning starting with this, at least six people are hurt in an explosion at a housing complex in newark, new jersey, last night. at least one of the victims is in critical condition after being seriously burned. the blast completely destroying the two-story building that was home to at least 13 families. the cause of the explosion is being investigated. and a 13-year-old girl kidnapped in is rescued days later on the west coast. rachel: wow. pete: waving this help me note at people passing by. authorities say the kidnapper grabbed the child at a bus stop in san antonio before driving 1300 miles to southern california. someone called police after spotting the girl alone in a car flashing that help me note. the 61-year-old suspect is facing federal charges and could spend life behind bars. let's hope so. rachel: maybe that's somebody that we talked about earlier,

should get castrated. pete: the megamillions jackpot now swelling to $820 the million after no one matched all of last night's numbers, but in case you won anything -- oh, there still could be a winner out there. those numbers were 57, 47, 29 and 40 with a megaball with of 25. the next drawing will be tuesday, and the powerball of a $1 billion prize has yet to come forward, but a woman who says she won turned out to be a fraud. [laughter] rachel: i actually believe this one. she looked so happy that i bought into it. pete: according to the daily mail, the los angeles bodega says the woman didn't win a thing and is just wanted to be on tv. [laughter] well, she did win that. rachel: yeah. she did make it on tv. you've got to, listen, you've got to play to win, so -- pete: they're saying someone won a billion dollars, but they haven't come forward yet? joey: yeah. pete: what if you threw that one

away or misplaced that? rachel: i could have done that. pete: boy be, a big mistake. that'd be a big iou. want to hold on to that one. rachel: for sure. all right. well, coming up, wesleyan university is following the lead of other colleges, ending their legacy ad missions program after the supreme court ruling on affirmative action. leo leo terrell joins us next with his thoughts on that. joey: plus, it is national day of the cowboy with, and we've lasso up some of the best barbecue in town to celebrate. stick around. ♪ ♪ where we were chasing falling stars on a hill at your daddy's farm ♪ asthma isn't pretty. it's the moment when you realize that a good day... is about to become a bad one. but then, i remembered that the world is so much bigger than that, with trelegy. because one dose a day helps keep my asthma symptoms under control. and with 3 medicines in 1 inhaler,

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rachel: new england liberal arts college wesleyan university puts an end to legacy admissions weeks after the supreme court's ruling on affirmative action. the college's president saying, quote, we still value the ongoing relationships that come from multigenerational wesleyan attendance, but there will be no bump in the selection process. civil rights attorney and former history and social studies teacher leo terrell and my friend joins us next. leo, so great to have you can on. i am going to tell you, i am not a fan of legacy a admissions, so

i'm not necessarily unhappy that some of these universities like wesleyan are going to let that go by the wayside. what are your thoughts especially as it relates to the latest affirmative action ruling by the supreme court? >> well, first of all, thanks for having me, rachel, glad to be here. look, i'm no fan of these legacy admissions as well, but i want to make sure people understand this. to conflate these preferential treatment for previous family members at these schools and the supreme court decision is absolutely wrong. they're trying to conflate, rerelate the two. they have nothing to do with them. and the affirmative action violated the constitution. it was illegal. there is no constitutional violation for legacy admission. i am in your camp. i disagree with legacy admissions. if a college wants to get rid of 'em, so be it. but don't play the race card with them because it has nothing to do with affirmative action. rachel: yeah. i think's a fair point. and, but again, i'm not going to

be unhappy if they go away. but i'm hoping that these schools abide by that ruling because we need the best and the brightest more than ever, and merit-based has always been part of that american dream, and we don't want to have people making these decisions based on race. i'm with you 100%. let's move to another topic. i'm going to show you this clip. it'll jog your memory. >> and i still ask -- [inaudible] if the juice is worth the squeeze. i mean, is it worth the -- [inaudible] rachel: so that was the dean of the law school at stanford, there was the trump-appointed judge who came to speak and was, you know, shouted down, and she took the side of those who were trying to censor him and prevent him from giving his point of view. he was put on, i guess -- she was put on, i guess, leave, and now she's officially being let go. what are your thoughts on this? >> well, i'm glad. i want to be very honest, i'm glad she's gone.

but it might be too little, too late, and i'll tell you why, rachel, because the problem is this: stanford is hurting. federal judges will not hire stanford raw graduates. so they're going to be -- can law graduates. so they're going to be hurt because the law school's going the lose a rot of prestige. what's happening is this woman who just resigned is the sacrificial lamb are, but what's happening now is stanford needs to open up the diversity of opinions within the law school. hire conservative alterative judges. what they're doing right now is damage control. and i think the federal judges and i think the fact that it was a blowback hurting stanford law school, i think now they're trying to basically repair the damage. but i think it's too little, too late. rachel: yeah. if you're saying it's just a band-aid, what they really need to do is go in and clean house, get rid of all this dei, bring in diversity of thought, get back to the law and not all this

identity politics. but could the message, and you rightly point out this is one of the most prestigious schools in our country, could the message of this woman being fired, law students who paid a ton of money to go to stanford law are now getting discriminated fairly, some would say, a they're being passed over for beings positions, could that send a message to other law schools? >> oh, absolutely, rachel. i think this is a bigtime message because i think the federal judges are telling stanford, which is a prestigious law school, basically, hey, look, if you want us to hire your brightest and best, you need to be fair. and what they need to do, rachel, is to invite you and i to speak at stanford university. rachel: yeah. well, definitely you, you are the voice of reason in california and an incredible attorney and a good guy all the way around. thanks, leo, we loved having you on. >> love you, rachel. rachel: love you too. take care. still ahead, president biden making quite the entrance at a

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rachel: we're back with your headlines. a trial date has been set for may 20th for former president trump over charges that he mishandled classified documents. he, of course, has pleaded not guilty to all 37 felony charges. prosecutors had asked for the trial to be as soon as december. attorneys for trump said the trial should be postponed until after after the 2024 election as it would be nearly impossible to seat e an impartial jury. now to a fox weather alert. powerful storms triggering flash flooding in the atlanta metro area yesterday creating very

dangerous road conditions. first responders jumping in to help three cars that were stuck in the rushing waters. and a wild scene in fenway park in boston as flash floods caused the red sox to suddenly postpone their game against the mets. a 2-hour downpour turning staircases into waterfalls and flooding the concourse. and the heat is up, it's not letting up. more than 95 million people across the country are still urn heat advisories with no sign of relief. be sure to download the fox weather app for the latest on those stories and more. and now to the women's world cup. team usa winning their opening match against vietnam yesterday 3-0. >> trying to break through somewhere, here it is. goal! [cheers and applause] u.s. leads! [cheers and applause] rachel: more world cup action earlier this morning with japan shutting down zambia 5-0 #

before england beat hi today -- haiti 1-00 with a penalty shot -- 1-0. sweden and south africa will square off tomorrow morning. team usa will face the netherlands on wednesday, and all the coverage bins at 7 p.m -- begins at 7 p.m. eastern. those are your headlines. joey? joey: scientists in australia have received a massive military grant to fuse human brain cells with a.i. one scientist involved saying the project, quote, merges the field of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology to create programmable, biological computing platforms. an a.i. expert and professor at duke university joins me now. listens -- listen, this is incredibly important work, i'm sure. it's also scary to someone like me. i didn't know you could grow brain cells, i didn't know they could apparently play the game

of ping-pong computer games. so explain this. >> it's an interesting area, right? it's something we've been working on for decades now. for so many years we've been trying to get artificial intelligence to mimic the human brain with which is the best computer out there, and this is a great next step. but what really it's trying to do is two things. one is to help us make better hardware so that the computers or or that are running our a.i. systems today are faster, more reliable, you know, easier, cheaper, things like that. and then the second so to actually make the a.i. systems behave more like humans, to have smarter intelligence, because we're really at this issue where a.i. systems don't really know how to learn as well as a human brain does. joey: you know, i want to stay on this for a second. these programmable brain cells, are they carbon-based, biological matter? is that really what this is? >> well, you've got a couple different versions of it but, yeah. in some cases you have a model, so they have a computer chip

that mimics how a human brain with operates, so that's kind of the more silicone side of things, and in some cases you have actual biological cells that look not too dissimilar from a human or a pig sometimes they use that are just there to receive electrical signals just like a human brain cell does, and then the electrical signal controls other computers. joey: we've shown all morning this list of companies that say they're doing this kind of creed to say we're going to do a self-check on a.i., amazon, google, meta, microsoft, openai. what are the kind of moral problems here in you take this a step forward and talk about growing biological matter that could be used as a brain for a computer, and now you have these companies saying we're going to do a safety code, could we get into a place where we were like with stem cells a few decades ago in. >> well, it's an interesting parallel because the regulatory system here in the united states hasn't been updated in a while

to deal with artificial intelligence, and that's whey you see these -- why you see these seven companies just agreeing with whatever the biden administration want to say. but stem rells -- cells have a lot of rules average it, so it changes the game there. joey: very interesting. i want to say exciting, but who knows? thank you for joining me. >> thank you. joey: coming up, the border battle goes underwater. the doj pursuing legal action against texas over their water-based barrier aimed to deferer the -- deter illegal immigrants. governor abbott's fiery response right here next.

♪ pete: the united states department of justice warning the state of texas of potential legal action over the lone star state's use of new buoy barricades in the rio grande river. but texas governor greg abbott is doubling down on twitter writing: texas has the sovereign authority to defend our border under the u.s. constitution. and the texas constitution. adding, we will see you in court, mr. president. chris cabrera is the vice president of the national border patrol council and an agent in the rio grande sector. he joins us now. thanks so much for being here, chris. >> i appreciate you having me. pete: the state of texas is trying to do something to deter illegal entry, and yet the department of justice is suing them for it? what do you make of this? >> yeah, i think it's absolutely

insane, you know? the federal government has had years to try and figure this out, and they've done nothing but sitting -- sit on their hands. and finally somebody stands up and tries to get something done, and now they want to turn around and sue. if congress had done their job in the first place, we wouldn't be in this situation we're in. pete: do these water barriers work, in your experience? >> you know, this is the first i've seen them. i would imagine in certain areas where the water's fairly shallow it will be a big deterrence on getting across. you know, let's, you know, or let's be realistic, nothing is going to stop anything 100%, but it will give us enough time to react and get people in that area, so i believe it will have the desired reaction of, or desire ised effect of slowing the crossings down and maybe even pushing them to other areas. pete: chris, it e seems so -- if it works, which you're suggesting it would, it seems that anything that works the department of justice is

against. >> yeah, it's mind-blowing, you know? you wonder why they're called the department of justice if they don't want to enforce laws. it makes no sense to me. and, you know, i, for one, applaud the governor for standing up and doing what's right for the state of texas and, hopefully, he's on to something here and other states will stand up and start doing, you know, something similar along their borders. pete: chris, you represent a lot of border patrol agents. do they echo this view? are they grateful for what the state of texas is trying to do? >> you know, i think most agents, especially in the state of texas, are proud that our governor is standing up and doing what our federal government refuses to do. it is a shame though as a federal agent that the federal government's not letting us get out there and actually do our job. pete: what is the, just give us a quick update. you know, we cover the border so often, what is the state of the border writ large? is the flow increasing, decreasing?

what ooh's the status? -- what's the status? >> right now it seems to be on a slight uptick. i know where i work in the mcallen area we're starting to see more and more people coming not just those turning themselves in which, obviously, or we see a lot of, but no one's actually trying to avoid detection. smuggling cases are up. stash house numbers are getting high, and hard drugs coming in are pretty high as well. pete: well, we're grateful for the job you do and all the men and women that do it thankless arely at this point without the support of the federal government. chris cabrera, thank you. >> thank you. pete: you got it. all right. well, tomorrow on "fox & friends", shannon bream, monica crowley, charlie hurt and kara frederick join us all tomorrow. but first on this show, it's national day of the cowboy. look at that brisket, look at that bark. meaning barbecue on fox square, plus we'll get some lasso lessons from a pro. that's coming up next.

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rachel: welcome back to "fox & friends." today is national day to have cowboy which is why i'm in denim. joey: and we're here celebrating

with barbecue fit for a cowboy. chef shane mcbride is the founder of pig beach barbecue which is opening a new location in louisville, kentucky. >> next month. joey: you have to have some bourbon with that barbecue, i guess. will we go. >> ready to go. rachel: i came out, and i said it smells so delicious, and he said that's my natural scent. [laughter] pete: so what'd you cook up for us this morningsome. >> so today, national i cowboy day, we did some tomahawk steaks for you guys. i've got our -- so in may we won memphis of may. we won gran champion in memphis of may. joey: for your ribs. >> first rib team in 202 -- 21 years to win. pete: what's the key to winning? joey: is memphis in may ribs specificsome. >> no. first time -- what's the secret? a patience. i've been waiting since 2008. pete: patience and lo.

[laughter] -- and love. i can't do that. these are the grand champion ribs. we've got us some brisket here, cornbread, baked beans, candy bacon. rachel: can i have one of those candied bacons, chef? >> yes. joey: can we talk barbecue? >> yeah, there you go. rachel: i told you to cut a piece off for me. joey: i'll cut this off -- >> we got plenty more. joey: so the conversation of barbecue is very regional. >> absolutely. jee scree so you guys are out here, right? >> we're based in new york. we never really say that we do south carolina or texas -- joey: that's what i was going to ask you. you're going to kentucky and you go to texas, they don't want sauce, they want rub. georgia, we're all pulled pork. do you adapt all of those? rachel: give me that little piece. that's amazing. >> awesome. pete: what's the key to the bark? i haven't figured it out. >> the key to the work is we do

mustard, salt and pepper, garlic powder, and it's all about the slow and low cooking. 235 degrees, this cooks for about 4 hours. joey: you got a -- 14 hours. >> you got a cookbook for us? >> i do. rachel: this is so amazing. can you cut me another piece? pete: when you get great brisket, there's nothing better on the planet. rachel: it is so soft. thank you for that. [inaudible conversations] pete: joey's feeling inadequate right now. >> sr. sorry, joey. >> that's why i'm asking. are you to go hunt now so you can -- let's do it. we'll get him there. >> do you want to have some bourbon too? joey: sure. [laughter] pete: you've got a new location in louisville. when are you coming to nashville? >> man, i'd love to go to nashville. i love nashville. joey: don't forget about georgia. it's out there and a whole lot

better -- >> i'm from florida, so we have a problem -- this is pinhook, the the newest relesion, 7 years old. it's an awesome bourbon, it's made in kentucky. a gentleman -- joey: we're going to take this to commercial, drink it a little bit later. for more information visit pig beach barbecue.com. rachel: i'm telling you, it is so good. >> thanks for having me. joey: looking for my steak on a stick. more lassoing lessons up next. rachel: i mean, that is so -- ♪ ♪ i was told my small business wouldn't qualify for an erc tax refund. you should get a second opinion from innovation refunds at no upfront cost. sometimes you need a second opinion. [coughs] good to go. yeah, i think i'll get a second opinion. all these walls gotta go! ah ah ah! i'd love a second opinion. no.

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♪ long live cowgirls ♪ pete: i don't think we're going. now we're good. [laughter] national barbecue on national day of the cowboy with, and we're continuing the celebration with a lasso lesson here on fox

square. joey: here to show us how it's done, cowgirl carol anne, women's professional rodeo association cowgirl for the first frontier circuit. carol anne, tell us what we're doing today. >> id -- i would love to hoe you how to rope the calf dummy. joey: you weren't calling me a dummy. >> no, sir. [laughter] pete: it's not an easy thing to do. rachel: you can do it. will can't. better president we'll have to roll the tape. rachel: he did do it, and will worked on a ranch, so, yeah. suis e jee will isn't here today, you've got pete and joey, i don't know anything about it, so teach us. >> sure. so you're going to take your rope, you're going to stay about 16 inches from your honda, hold these coils in your left hand, swing over your head counterclockwise. joey: that's pretty --

rachel: that is aggressive. or all right. i think i'll give it a shot. pete: rachel ooh's got the outfit going. rachel: i do. i hope it helps. joey: got the 411. rachel: okay, what's the secret? >> is so you're going to hold your hand there. nice and light. coil's in your left hand and then we're going to come -- pete: you've got to let it go. go, rachel, go. pop culture round-up. joey: you got it by the tail. pete: there's no way i'm going to get this. >> step up a little closer. pete: a little closer. >> almost. pete: not even close. rachel: all right. you're next, joey. joey: that wouldn't work on yellowstone, they'd cut away -- [laughter] is this the marine version? i've got to go around the head like in this? >> a little closer. joey: am i doing this right? pete: i think you look good. rachel: i feel like you're going to hit pete. pete: were you aiming at that one over there? okay, i got it, i got it.

pete: rachel, give it one more try. rachel: all right. pete: live up to your picture. [cheers and applause] pete: rachel! rachel: i am if from arizona. pete: that was, i mean, how do you even follow that? you can't follow that. [laughter] rachel: all right, pete, give it a shot. pete: undeniable victor. i don't want to hit -- joey: here we go. pete: come on, come on. joey: over and flip it. pete: not even close. collective groan -- come on, joey. joey: i'm not very good at mig that keeps distance. i'm just going to keep going around and around. there -- [cheers and applause] rachel: good job, joey! joey: i learned from the best. pete: let me give it one more try. i don't think it's the rope. [laughter] rachel: it's very hard for a competitive guy like pete to handle. joey: don't be the only one that

didn't rope a calf, dummy. rachel: one more, one more -- pete: now you're just humiliating me. [laughter] rachel: well, it is national day of the cowboy with. how long did it take you to learn to do that? >> about six months because i was already riding. joey: she learned it in six months, i learned it in two minutes. oh! pete: is so close. rachel: carol anne, thank you -- ♪ ♪ neil: fox on top of the 2024 race are really heating up right now as more legal troubles for the front-runners seem to be coming down. for one donald j. trump, an indictment on the january 6th probe could drop any minute and for joe biden, new allegations about his son hunter and what he knew or didn't know lingering over his campaign, seemingly every day. maybe that is why one in three voters say they are, indeed, open to a third party candidate in 2024. we're all over