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hunter biden pled not guilty after his so-called sweetheart deal blew apart. >> hunter biden is a criminal, serious concerns about other potential charges. >> i refer you to the doj. >> vivek ramaswamy is running behind the front-runner and ron desantis. >> do we have the bodies? >> biologics came with some discoveries. >> human or nonhuman? >> nonhuman. >> level of outrage is strange. >> the joe rogan pulling nie punches about the cancel culture going after jason aldean. >> there are rap songs infinitely worse. >> journey of service. >> life changing for tens of thousands of veterans and their

families. >> ainsley: we begin with a courtroom curveball, hunter biden pleading not guilty in delaware after his so-called sweetheart deal on tax and gun charges falls apart. >> steve: sticking point is immunity from future prosecution. >> lawrence: lucas tomlinson is live at the courthouse. >> lucas: thank you, this was supposed to be five minute pro-forma deal and it stretched three hours. just getting word from our colleague jake gibson, both parties have 30 days to come up with written responses to her question. this was supposed to take five minutes, the case starting unravelling when the judge asked the prosecution, is this criminal investigation in the president's son over?

the prosecution said it isn't. the judge did not let him plea if he thinks he has protection from something and he doesn't. karine jean-pierre added the following. >> hunter biden is a private citizen and this was a personal matter for him. as we have said, the president, the first lady, they love their son and support him as he continues to rebuild his life. >> lucas: the plea deal is not over, hunter could enter a guilty plea 30 days from today, two days after fox hosts the first gop presidential debate in milwaukee. the terms hunter musts look for a job, not possess weapons, not use alcohol, not use narcotics and permit to testing of

substances. the chairman of the ways anden moos committee says his committee has questions they would like to ask and get answers, as well. >> there are three members that need to come before us, we've asked for 13. we will have to find a way to get them in and get answers to questions we have. >> another sticking point of the judge yesterday, will hunter biden be charged as unregistered foreign agent, he was on ukraine's large energy company burisma. >> steve: from the podium at the white house yesterday, karine jean-pierre said hunter biden is a private citizen. doesn't he live at the white house? >> he's been seen many times getting off marine one and seen at the state dinner with ibdia's prime minister and seen on the ground. look out and see if he is still

here. >> ainsley: jason smith said 13 more, when he was on the couch with us last week, we asked him, why don't you bring in hunter biden, is he one of the 13? he eluded to he could be. >> and oversight committee wants to hear from devin archer. >> ainsley: who is apparently in hiding. >> lawrence: thanks, lucas. >> ainsley: we're supposed to hear from devin archer on monday. he keeps pushing it back. >> lawrence: him and his family's safety. bring in house oversight committee congressman scalise from great state of louisiana. thank you for joining the program. what is your reaction to all of this that just happened yesterday with hunter biden and the court essentially saying no deal? go back and draw something up. >> good morning, good to be with you this morning.

that was a bombshell and signal from the judge and i amraud the judge, something stinks in this plea agreement. some point, the people working for the federal government cut this sweetheart deal with hunter biden. "wall street journal" pointed out anyone else in america that did what hunter did would go to jail. here you have blanket immunity and judge was concerned with that, how do i sign an agreement for things that let him off the hook, when we don't know if the investigation is over. we've been doing in the house and jason smith's committee and james comer committee and jim jordan's committee, combine last week with whistleblowers that came forward and brought evidence. they talked about deeper crimes they were trying to look to and told to stand down by superiors. everywhere you turn, hunter was

getting sweetheart deals and treatment that nobody else in america would get. there are questions and jonathan turley raised this, if he should have been registered as a foreign agent. he is getting millions from foreign countries, ukraine, getting money from chinese companies to be an energy expert even in america and yet wasn't registered as a foreign agent. others have gone to jail for that. there are more questions. our committees will not stop working. you showed the clip from jason smith. this bizarre twist where jason smith's attorneys filed some information with the judge and then the -- somebody from the other council from hunter biden's law firm called and got it pulled down. the judge said, were you misrepresenting yourself? that hasn't been answered adequately, bizarre your honor it of events. over and over again issue the judge got sick and tired of seeing the special treatment and said let's go back to square 1.

>> ainsley: what was your reaction to the judge finding this, seems like she found the fine prints, he will be granted immunity from everything going forward. they put this word and language in there and she saw it and said, no, this will not fly. >> that was section 14 and 15 of the plea agreement. the judge looked and said, hold on, you're telling us you can't turn over information to congress and we're trying to get more information. the justice department and fbi says there is an ongoing investigation. the judge said if there is ongoing investigation, how can you give him immunity when you are still looking into it. i will not sign off on this. i applaud the judge, nobody in america would get that sweetheart deal and he shouldn't because his name is biden.

>> steve: we've heard over last couple months, david weiss, the u.s. attorney whose department brought this, they agreed to the sweetheart deal and it is a head-scratcher why would hunter biden get such great treatment? they all work for his father, who heads up the executive branch. david weiss said, i'm not the decider about this stuff and you hear the attorney general say, it is all on that guy, david weiss, it seems like between david weiss and the attorney general, somebody else at the department of justice is calling the shots. >> right and keeps pointing back to people like david weiss, if not weiss, start you can taking about who it is. we are not done with this investigation and it is not just about hunter biden, we've seen references to the big guy and there are bank accounts we are seeing the administration trying to block and the white house trying to block. you just saw days ago, for

years, including during the campaign, joe biden kept saying he never talked with his family about business dealings. we have video of joe biden saying that and a couple days ago, karine jean-pierre changes that and says he never was in business with his family. that is a major change. the white house hasn't explained that, what about the times joe biden chided other people, including during the campaign by saying i never talked to anybody in my family about business dealings. it emzoos clear that is no longer the case, there is evidence of him talking about business dealings and talking to people at burisma. that is another change white house hasn't explained. >> lawrence: congressman, you guys deserve credit, when i'm innin dooers talking to voters, especially republican voters they say you guys are not fighting enough. you guys fought and were on the gas and i don't think we would get this revelation without you

guys fighting. i think the judge saw the documents you provided and was moved to dig deeper. you deserve kudos. thanks for joining us this morning. >> i think we were at one of the diners in pennsylvania and said we would dig to find the facts and get to the american people. takes time, but look what we've done, not trying to short cut things, it takes months and months and all that time we had the administration trying to block this. they do not want to give us this information. we have gotten a lot, there is still to come and more we will keep fighting to get and the american people need to see all this. >> steve: yesterday a scary moment there in the u.s. capitol with mitch mcconnell, where reportedly he got light-headed what his office said. have you heard how he is? >> i haven't, i need to reach out toim had. my hearts and prayers go out, i

have not spoken to him yet. >> steve: hope he is okay. >> ainsley: there he is right there, froze for a while, talking and stopped talking and froze. >> steve: thank you very much. all right, last week on the program, we told you how there was outrage over jason aldean song called "try that in a small town," and remember the song came out in may and nobody complained about it until the video came out. critics said it is anti-lynching and all sorts of things and him in front of the courthouse. they said once upon a time there was a lynching there. supporters said they filmed about a hundred things in front of the building and nobody had a problem until he sang this song. >> ainsley: joe rogan said so many songs have racy and raunchy lyrics and this is the song

people decided to be outraged about, so strange, he said. listen. >> the level of outrage coming from people upset about that song and so strange when there are hundreds of rap songs out there that are infinitely worse. there is hip-hop, wild rock songs, a lot of wild -- and to be focusing on that one and it is the racial aspect of it. crazy. the real antifa problems happening, i think a lot of white people doing it, wasn't it? lost liberal whites who were angry and decided to take up this movement, so the racial aspects, there is nothing racial about the lyrics. >> lawrence: what a great point, i made a similar point on my show on saturday, about when it comes to art in general, whether

comedy or lyrics of songs and all that, artistic expression and good point to mention the people burning stuff down. i can't tell you how many protests i went to, when you look at mug shots, all these people that were white, from outside of town, that were part antifa. if they were black, they were not from there, they were from out of town. they lost me on this one. they really did. >> steve: double standard, joe rogan says. e-mail us. >> lawrence: don't e-mail carley, though, don't flood her inbox. >> carley: why not? another day, another issue. start with a fox news alert. right now, fire crews responding to major ammonia leak at ice factory in chicago. this is a live look at the scene. you can see vapor rising from the roof.

fire crews are opening water hydrants to ush >> the sewers after ammonia detected underground. folks told to shelter in place, exposure could lead to burning in the nose or throat. so far no injuries reported. three military whistleblowers testifying before congress the united states government has been in possession of nonhuman aircraft since the 1930s. fighter pilot ryan graves said he's had several run-ins with ufo and he joined us earlier. >> not as rare, i thought before i joined the navy, we started seeing objects on a daily basis. my squadron had a near mid-air with one of the objects. this object went between two

f-18s, the fact of a fundamental of reality can't be ignored. >> carley: the u.s. government is taking extreme efforts to hide the truth. and "barbie" topping -- on track to make $5 million globally. mattele will launch 14 new movies. the new films will be based on popular tv shows and toys like polypocket, barney issue hot wheels and uglt no, those are your headlines. i don't know how much intrigue uno will make for a two-hour movie. >> lawrence: do not come for uno. >> carley: i'm not coming for uno, a movie, though? >> lawrence: it gets heated in

our household over uno. >> steve: that is where dramatic tension will come, brad pittt pla playingno with george clooney and -- >> ainsley: you are describing "oceans 11." >> lawrence: it gets violent, uno and spades. >> ainsley: the polly pockets were not around when i grew up. >> carley: i will share my polly pockets with you. >> ainsley: hayden loves them now. >> lawrence: coming up, 12 hurt and three firefighters after the crane collapse in new york city, we learn about the operator involved in another incident. todd piro at the scene. >> steve: and helping families of first responders find hope, gary will join us with a new way

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>> steve: all right, we were telling you about this and you saw it live on the air. 12 people, including three new york city firefighters were hurt in yesterday's crane fire and collapse here in midtown manhattan. >> ainsley: we are told they are in stable condition as authorities are investigating the cause of the fire that caused that massive boom to buckle. >> lawrence: todd piro is on the scene and joins us now. todd. >> todd: despite the dozen injuries you mentioned, new york city mayor eric adams acknowledging the situation

could have been much worse. listen. >> as you see from the debris on the street, this could have been much worse. we are fortunate we were not during the busy time of the day. many buses move through here. we were fortunate. >> the cause of the fire is being determined, sources telling the "new york post" the working theory the crane fire started from hydraulic fluid from the crane's main deck. the 180-foot boom careened down 54 stories to the city streets below. it was lifting 16 tons of concrete at the moment of collapse. debris blocking the trance of the downtown hotel to pack things, check out and find another place to stay. we are learning the crane operator was involved in an

incident in 2008. a a -- yesterday extinguish the crane fire before getting to safety. back here live, the mayor is correct, this did happen in off peek peak time, it is new york city, busy all the time, this happened close to port authority where buses come in and out and really was lucky and almost a miracle that more people were not hurt or worse. back to you. >> thank you very much. we were talking yesterday to frank siller from tunnel to towers at the end of the show. he traveled across the country in a jeep, frank told us he was there in that block when the crane fell yesterday. >> ainsley: yesterday, a block from where your apartment is -- >> lawrence: took me 50 minutes to get home yesterday.

finally walked. most people were taking videos causing the traffic. >> steve: could have been so much worse. >> lawrence: thankful the firefighters and law enforcement are safe and the innocent folks there. we'll keep following it. fox weather alert. heat about to hit east. half the u.s. under heat alert with extreme temperatures expected today and tomorrow. >> ainsley: temperatures will approach the triple digits. >> steve: it will hit us in new york later today, janice dean out on the street, it is coming. >> janice: the humidity is impressive and i want to talk to friends from houston. >> allison. >> dj. >> arkansas. >> sady. >> what is the weather in new york city? >> very, very hot. >> janice: excellent job, you are right, my dear. look at the map, extreme heat warning, 78 and feel over 100

degrees for new york city area. first time we had excessive heat warning in two years here and that stretches into new jersey. excessive heat watch for folks up and down the i-95 corridor. will feel like 103 or 105. on sunday, cooler weather moves through and get into the 80s. we have a couple days to go. not only the heat, but that will trigger severe storms, including hail, damaging wind and isolated tornados and upper midwest. continue to monitor that for millions of folks. foxweather.com for the latest details. nice job. all right. back inside. >> steve: thank you, janice. >> ainsley: any of the girls single out there? yesterday you were trying to set lawrence up. >> janice: i will not ask. >> lawrence: janice may or may

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that makes this company so unique. >> carley: back with quick headlines. a woman hospitalized after causing chaos near the oakland bay bridge. police say a naked woman with a gun got out of a car and started firing into oncoming traffic. >> holy -- oh, my god. oh, my god. >> it's a lady. i think she ran out. she ran out. >> carley: the suspect is on mental health hold and will be booked when she gets out.

and actress sarah jessica parker says she is determined to make sure her children understand the value of money. >> great way of living for children, there needs are met to be fed and safe and loved and the important things, books and food and interest ing experiencs and they're warm in winter and cool in summer. but they should pine for things. >> carley: the star doesn't think she would have worked this hard if she was raised as a child of privilege. love that. over to you. >> steve: thank you. meanwhile, first time presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy is surprising political pundits with his recent rise in the polls. new monmouth poll has him on the rise behind donald trump and ron

desantis. is vivek ramaswamy worried he will wind up being the target of donald trump as others have? vivek ramaswamy joins us now. how are you? >> how are you? >> steve: good question, we have seen the former president go after ron desantis, chris christie, nikki haley. why isn't he going after you yet? >> the fact is unlike many of the other candidates in this race, steve, i'm not running against anybody, i'm running for this nation. i'm not running from something, i'm running to something. the truth is, i think president trump was an excellent president, i agree with him on a lot of policies. i will lead us forward and take the america first agenda to the next level. it belongs to the people of this country, the character i'm running this race. this will make it difficult for other candidates to attack me,

i'm not attacking them either. >> steve: you are rising in the poll. "washington post" said vivek ramaswamy runs trump 2.0, outsider with extreme proposals. you would think from the outside, that is a positive thing, it goes on to describe you as you are like trump, only more extreme. >> you know, i disagree with that characterization of more or less extreme. i'm taking america first agenda further than trump did. the wall was insufficient, they are building tunnels under that wall, cartel financed. i will use the military. i will shut down the department of education and end affirmative action created by executive order. i will take a pen and draw a line through it. perhaps the "washington post" finds that extreme, i find it

sensible, i think it is what the people of this country want and i am confident i will win this. >> steve: you are willing to put your money where your mouth is, you have been very successful. you're living the american dream and you have said in the past, you are willing to spend up to $100 million of your own money to become president of the united states. why does it mean that much to you? >> part of the reason it means so much to me, i have lived the american dream. my parents came to this country with almost no money. i've gone on to fund multi billion dollar companies. the country, it is not extraordinary, it is the norm, it is possible for every kid in this country or should be. i am worried that we're not going to be able to pass that american dream on to my two sons and their generation. it is personal to me and important to stay independent.

the republican party suffered this in 2016 and rest of the primary suffers from it today. you have super pack puppets, people subject to what the donor classes they can and cannot say. i did not want to ask the super pack class for permission to run and that is why i decided to use my money to get the campaign off the ground. we put in 15 million already and using small dollar donors to lift this up, different character to the campaign. >> steve: as you rise in the polls, people are looking into your past and in fact, somebody uncovered in college you were -- i've seen the video, you were l libertarian rapper. explain that, mr. ramaswamy? >> look, the things they are digging up, they are going deep and some opposition research stories are false, i will confirm that one is true. i was a libtary ainsley free

styler in college. >> steve: do you remember that? do you have freestyle today, vivek? >> it is not like what you remember, you say what you are inspired to say, that is what i'm doing on the campaign trail in some sense, freestyling the message. join the campaign trail. you can do that. i say my name is vivek, it rhymes with cake, it is not about me, it is about thee and the united states is about liberty, "fox and friends" join us on the trail, we'll have some fun, i'll see you at the trail. >> steve: very nicely done, sir. >> join us and put on a real show. come out and we'll make a deal, come to the campaign trail, we got the audience and will do something in full form. >> steve: stop by "fox and friends" tomorrow, you and flo rida, can go viral. good luck to you. >> may give it a try. thank

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before you were in congress, you were u.s. attorney, you predicted this would happen. the question is, when they bring the briefs back, will this judge accept this? >> john: i think the answer will still be no. the reason i said a month ago, this was announced, the judge is to look at videotapes of user in possession of a firearm and whistleblower testimony in public view about payments to or from china and ukraine and other countries to hunter biden and potentially fara violations and what you saw play out was the judge asked about those things. she asked, is there precedence in a gun case and answer is no and in fact, right on crime looked at this, this is not just

a sweetheart deal, this is unicorn case and 4000 cases involving users in possession, the only one offered pretrial diversion and hunter biden. she asked about payments and whether or not potential future charges and that is where it unravelled. i think now at the end of the day, hunter's problems will continue from a legal standpoint and the legal consequences can't be underestimated. so much of what the biden white house, joe biden and media that tried to suppress this story, they pedalled so hard to keep this from the american people and now they are one witness away from devin archer testifying on monday. if he says, look, i didn't know

my son was on the board of burisma, if devin archer says in sworn testimony that he heard on the phone hunter say to joe, the big wigs at burisma need our help and joe delivers that help by ordering the firing of the burisma prosecutor, we will be in middle of impeachment and more focus on this. >> lawrence: that is where the real story is going and i'm glad you brought that up, leon pinella was on another network and pressed about signing that letter and calling that information disinformation. >> do you wish you wouldn't have signed that letter or been involved in it? >> not at all, i signed that letter for one reason, to make the american people aware that the russians deliberately were engaged in a disinformation campaign in the united states and trying to impact on our

election. >> lawrence: he has no shame. >> i appreciate secretary panetta's prior service to the country. everyone knows he did make a mistake and was wrong and knows the 51 people that signed that, whether they intended to or not and some did in case of mike morrell, john brennan and blinken, they intended to mislead the american people and unfortunately, the last chapter of this story is not written. as joe biden gets embroiled within this, there is greater focus on the fact all of these things that related were on the laptop, have been verified and there was a fraud on the american people shortly before the election and they played an important role in that. >> lawrence: unbelievable, we need to trust intelligence

community, they become political and make outrageous claims. it hurts us all. thank you for joining the program this morning. >> lawrence: still ahead, foundation helping families of first responders find hope. he is next, first check in with bill hemmer on what is coming up top of the hour. >> bill: nice to see you, talk to you soon. senator chuck grassley hot on the hunter and joe biden matter. what after this whirlwind day in court, talk to him about that, is cornel west the spoiler in 2024? here live today, as well, on that. breaking news in the economy, maria will break it down. do you have a lazy girl job? what is a lazy girl job? it is a real thing, we'll talk about it. big two hours coming up in 12 minutes, we'll see you top of the hour. (wheezing)

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>> gary has been a long-time supporter of u.s. service members, the snow ball express program helps fallen heroes with empowerment workshops and events

culminating with a trip to disney world each december. the program is expanding to include families of fallen first responders. gary and stephanie join us now. stephanie lost her husband, who was a combat veteran and jacksonville firefighter in 2019. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> ainsley: gary, you have done so much to help our first responders and anyone who lost a loved one in service to our country. tell us about the snowball express program. >> it is a program i've been involved with for many years. it was part of my foundation started to take families of fallen military heroes to disneyland and about three years into that, we moved it to dallas, american airlines is one of our great partners, provides travel free of charge for all

the families and then we moved to disney world and it became a part of my foundation. the gary sinise foundation, we've been supporting in various ways and expanded over the years, this year we're planning on taking families who lost a love one serving our communities in the first responder space, taking them free of charge, all expenses paid trip in december and will continue that program into the next year with our community events all over the country in support of families. >> ainsley: incredible. stephanie, four years ago, your life changed. he was a veteran and firefighter. he was in a boating accident and you lost him on that day almost four years ago. you have two children together, he was your high school

sweetheart and that changed on that day. you started working with the foundation, how did that help you with your recovery and how did it help your children? >> to be able to experience the warmth and the heart of gary and all that he provides in healing and the support of just other families walking through the same. to be able to turn around and help people and find purpose in that loss and just it reframes it and gives it new perspective. >> ainsley: what would you say to the mom or to someone who is watching that has lost a loved one who fought for our country or a first responder? >> they're not alone, they are not forgotten and we want to come alongside them and honor their hero while we provide the space to create new memories. >> ainsley: okay. thank you so much, gary, thanks for all that you do. >> my pleasure and please any

families out there who may have lost a loved one serving our community, please go to the gary sinise foundation and sign up. >> ainsley: you can donate on the website 1234 >> absolutely, gary sinise foundation.org, there are families and children like stephanie, they deserve our support, we want to wrap our arms around them and treat them to a good time. >> ainsley: we wrap our arms around you. thank you for coming on, god bless. more "fox and friends" moments away. t really home. images and videos. social media, fine-tuned to suck them in. and steal them away. alone you can't stop it. together we will. we have a plan. join us.

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