revolution starting, that's why i wrote my book domestic extremists. i think women are figuring out the main beneficiary of feminism are men. >> laura: yeah, rachel peachy thank you both so much. that's it for us tonight, thanks for watching it was a fun show. it's america now and forever we'll continue to battle tomorrow night. jesse watters and everyone else take it all from here. ♪ >> breaking right now, united auto workers officially on strike against the nation's big three auto makers, about 13,000 workers joining the picket lines at three different plants in michigan, ohio, and missouri overnight. this is a truly historic move as it marks the first time employees from ford, gm and stellantis have walked out at the same time. you are watching fox and friends first on this friday morning i'm carley shimkus. >> todd: happy friday i'm todd piro. our economy expected to take a major hit with losses projected in the billions of dollars in

just the first ten days of this. and when asked how long the strikes will last, uaw president sean says, as long as it takes. alexandria hoff joins us live with the very latest. alex. >> reporter: carley, todd, good morning to you, president biden said early last week that he wasn't going to worry about a strike until it happens adding that he didn't think it would. well it did. 11:59 last night workers for detroit's big three auto makers walked off the job when their labor contract expired without a deal. >> we are the union! >> we are the union! >> mighty mighty union. >> auto workers union! >> reporter: first targets of the strike are three plants located in missouri, ohio and michigan and span gm stellantis and ford union leaders say the plan is to target additional plants if negotiations continue to fail. and the demands are admittedly

bold including a more than 40% wage increase over four years, pension benefits for all employees limiting the use of temporary workers and four-day work weeks. the auto makers have argued the demands are unrealistic considering the competition they're facing from tesla and foreign auto manufacturers. ford's ceo weighed in yesterday. >> there's no way they can meet them. that's why for the last two weeks we've been putting realistic offers that we can in the future. there's no way we can pay people $300,000 to work four day work weeks, we would have lost $15 billion and closed our plants the last few years. that's not a future. we're not doing a deal like that. >> reporter: united workers sean has defended the manned saying billions have been raked in off of his members' backs. >> let's talks about what good faith is. they've had our economic demands for six weeks. they waited until last week, we had to file unfair labor

practice charges on two companies to come to the table. they could double our ages and not raise the price of vehicles and still make billions of dollars. shame on them and what they're saying's complete bs. >> general motors released a statement expressing disappointment and noted it offered historic wage increases. a six-week strike back in 2019 cost gm alone nearly $3 billion. carley, todd. >> yeah, i was reading this morning a short strike last can ten days could cost to comma $5.6 billion so this is certainly going to be a thorn in president's side because he considers himself to be union joe. alex thank you so much for joining us this morning. the president of united auto workers local 14 in toledo ohio one of the cities striking right now will injoe us live. you do not want to miss that interview happening later in the hour. >> todd: looking forward to that. fox news alert, nebraska evacuations underway after a

train car carrying toxic acid modes at the largest rail yard in north platt. residents in a four mile radius told to evacuate as the highway is shut down due to heavy smoke engulfing that town. the fire is under control but still monitoring the situation for any further evacuations. cause of the explosion under investigation. >> fox weather alert, final preparations are under way as they brace for hurricane lee to make land fall. maine facing its worse hurricane threat in 15 years, a tropical storm warning issued for millions of people across the coast of new england, beach towns like cape cod face the possibility of damaging wind gusts storm surge and tornados. janice dean here with the latest when it comes to this and much more. janice good morning. >> we just got to 5:00 a.m. advisory. you see how close to shore this storm is and we're talking about a storm 600 miles wide.

so even though it's not going to potentially have direct impacts on the northeast coast, we're still going to feel, you know, the big waves, the potentially deadly rip currents and the beach erosion for in the next 24 hours. this is going to be a fast-moving storm, so that's the good news. 5:00 a.m. advisory, 85 mile per hour winds, but the storm is transitioning into more extra tropical, so kind of like a nor'easter. all right? so it's losing its tropical characteristics and becoming more of an extra tropical storm which means it's actually growing bigger. okay? so the effects will be widespread, 530 miles across, you know, theing toest core of winds around a hundred miles from the center of this storm system and we expect a land fall sometime on saturday as a strong tropical storm and excellent tropical storm, an event. the forecast track as of 5:00 a.m., again the center of

circulation offshore from the northeast but because this is such a huge storm system, we're going to feel those impacts. dangerous rip currents, high surf conditions and large waves of 5-15 feet. and we also are talking about a storm surge as far south as long island so tropical storm warnings, hurricane watches for eastern canada and flooding concerns and storm surge concerns with coastal flood advisories for long island up towards connecticut. so even though not a direct hit, we're going to feel those impacts. the good news is the storm its moving quickly so by sunday completely out of here. >> todd: we've been following this it feels like for two weeks, the day is finally here and to a certain extent we catch a break but still need to pay attention. >> carley: totally agree a huge storm. >> happy friday. >> carley: happy friday. to the other top story of the day hunter biden indicted on federal guven charges, we're going to break down the new accusations against hunter and how it impacts president biden.

>> that is hunter, meantime there's this from joe. i thought at the university of pennsylvania for four years, i used to teach political theory. >> todd: so he taught at the university of pennsylvania forfour years taught political theory. only one problem. that did not happen. >> carley: never taught a class. >> todd: we have yet another presidential fact check when fox and friends first on a friday rolls along. ♪ snow

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defense team is blaming maga republicans for the first son's legal woes. >> this office has never brought a charge like this against anybody. therefore, you have to ask what changed? it is the folks like chairman comer and the republican maga crazies who have been pressuring this us attorney to do something to vindicate their political position. and guess what, they've succeed. >> that's their story sticking to it. brooke singman is here with all the details good morning >> brooke: good morning. hunter biden is the first child of a sitting u.s. president to ever be criminally indicteded on federal charges. the first count is for lying on an application for a gun saying he wasn't using or addicted to any elicit drugs at the time of the gun purchase. the seconder for making those same false statements to the arms dealer who actually sold him that weapon and the,the third is for possessing the gun while illegally using a controlled substance. if convicted the charges could land the first son up to 25

years in prison but house republicans say if it weren't for them the allegations would have been absorbed. >> let's be very clear if we weren't in the majority nobody would be knowing anything about any of this stuff and the department of justice was going to be covering it up like they did the last several years. i think now there's going to have to be a real deep dive as to why there has been obstruction to this agree that protected the son of the president of the united states >> brooke: just a step in the long running investigation into the president's son, this dates back to october 2018 when hunter first purchased this 38 caliber resolver in his home state of delaware. 11 days later 11 window tosses it in a dumpster behind the local grocery store ant wasn't until 2021 when the president's son outed himself, he released a memoir admitting to use crack cocaine every 15 minutes around the time he purchased that gun. you'll remember back in june he agreed to a plea goal to avoid

prosecution on another gun charge but that deal fell through just one month later. still no word on which judge will preside over this case or when hunter will appear in in could. >> todd: thank you. let's bring in katie former federal prosecutor. katie republicans are saying thing like matt gaetz said, this is like charging jeffrey dahmer for littering then you have democrats up in arms over the charges. play lawyer for us if you would. where do you fall on that puck strum? >> well, there's so many different elements of this case. obviously the big outstanding question is, is there any information about all his financial dealing. i think that's what we've all been waiting for for 5.5 years here, david weiss was supposedly looking into it. but this particular charge deals only with the gun charges they were never indicteded because they were part of the diversion

agreement that fell apart, so it's unclear whether this is the final word in the ongoing investigation. it's unclear what will happen with these specific charges whether there will be another plea deal cut or they'll go on trial on it. there's so many pending factors it's really tough to say what will be the final outcome legally speaking for hunter, because there's so many different pieces out there that are not resolved at this point. >> todd: and one of those pieces is the diversion agreement, herb's still stands because it was signed by both parties. is that true? >> well, i can imagine that they would try to pursue that line of attack oak this. certainly that is something that, at this point his side can continue to argue, i don't think it's a very strong case, ultimately that diversion agreement was attacked by the judge on a couple different grounds. any sort of plea agreement has to be ultimately approved by the judge but hunter biden's team is saying because the proper signed

it because hunter's been compliant that somehow that makes it a binding agreement. i don't think the judge will agree with that but of course they have to shoot their shot. >> todd: this is an actual federal judge. i don't mean to be offensive that may be lower in the pecking order but the federal judge says i've they have seen anything like this, this somebody a thing, that is not a thing in the law. i understand what you said, there's still a lot of unknowns at this point, but on the gun charges themselves, obviously putting aside the tax, putting all the joe biden stuff, on the gun charges themselves, hunter faces 25 years in prison. do you think katie he serves one day behind bars? >> i would be very surprised. i mean, we have to remember joe biden still has pardon power here. i don't think he's going to exercise it at this point, i don't think that would be politically in his interest. but it would be surprising to see him spent any time behind bars although there could be a

nominal agreement reached just no an attempt to satisfy folks looking at this and hoping there's something more that comes down the pipeline but realistically speaking these charges are at the beginning of the process. they're still open to negotiation for other deals potentially or he may end up going to trial where the decision will be in the hands of a jury and judge. >> when it comes to david weiss you have to wonder why this is happening now. do you think he was embarrassed by judge noriega and this is a cleanup effort because she called out the plea sdmeel then you have vivek ramaswamy saying we don't believe what you're seeing. hunter biden will be ultimately protect theed. what do you think about that. >> couple different things, the gun charge was indicted at this point essentially had to be acted on because of speedy trial issues and that charge had never been indicted since it was going to be diverted under that agreement. so david weiss had to move forward on that. that doesn't tell us anything about whether he plans to move

forward on anything else or if he's trying to use that as a consolation prize, something's being done. in terms of the technicalities that charge had to move along at this point before they lost any opportunity to dole with it. >> whatsoever. >> then you have a lot of people saying hone is ultimately getting lucky because the judge let the statute of limitations expire for a lot of the tax charges. a lot to break down and unfold, thank you for staying with us. >> thank you. >> carley: if you're just waking up america auto workers are on strike in three states michigan missouri and ohio. >> todd:imu local union leaderm ohio joins us next. tualnsurance. so you only pay for what you need. that's my boy. now you get out there, and you make us proud, huh? ♪ bye, uncle limu. ♪

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makers. thousands of workers already walking off the job. three plants in michigan missouri and ohio. united auto workers local 19 tony joins us from ohio. tony good morning, we're about five hours into this now, where do things go from here? what happens today? >> it depends on the companies. good morning, thank you for having me. you know, i was at the jeep facility here in toledo at midnight. i think i see myself in that clip right there. and, you know, this is -- all depends on the companies on whether we get a fair deal or not on how long this goes, and if there's more facilities that go out. >> carley: so how far apart are you guys in negotiations now? last we heard united auto workers are asking for a 46% increase and the counter offer from gm and ford is 20%. >> we're still a ways away which

is unfortunate. the president plans that wasn't a reference point is was a deadline. pretty historic to take on all three companies at the same time. different tactic. we were all prepared to go out. we didn't find out until late yesterday on who was actually going out. you know, our membership is across town. we were prepared to go if we were called upon, and we're still ready to go if talks don't improve at the table and we get a deal. >> reporter: there will be a major ripple effect here especially if this thing drags on. the ceo of ford jim farley says what you guys are doing could affect workers at downstream assembly plants saying we can't make a vehicle without trans situation or stamping so those people will basically be furloughed and that's one of the reasons why this could cost, estimate, $5.6 billion in losses if this strike plays out for 10 days. so what's your reaction to all of that? >> it's a true statement but,

you know, they're in control of whether or not we get the deal. we've had record -- these companies have had record profits year after year. you know, we gave the concessions back in 2009 during the bankruptcy and, you know, they ever record compensation. you know, when you look at the increase of their wages, it's over the 40% we're asking for. we just want a fair deal. when you look at that jeep facility, they had over 1300 temporary employees that go, you know, years on end without being made permanent. so their wages are at about 16 lars an hour and that's not right while these corporations in the first half of this year alone, they can afford it. >> carley: i was also reading one of the areas of concern has to do with electric vehicles and the push of evs because it takes fewer people to make them is

that true. >> it does, we're fortunate to have a $750 million investment in our facility. there's enough jobs in the transition, but that's as long as the work's made here in our country, not mexico not china. that's on the companies as well to see if they want to be good us manufacturing companies that are true to our country, or do they want to support economies of mexico or china? there's enough jobs in ev to go around as long as they're done here. >> reporter: interesting. so working up the latter here politically, how much has president biden been active in the negotiations as far as you're concerned and do you think he should play a bigger role or stay out of it? what are your threats. >> well, he's not at the table, our negotiators are. and, you know, i know he's watching this. this isn't good for anybody's economy so the tricker the

companies can come to their senses and give us a fair deal. it might seem like a lot but it's because we've been without gay deal for a decade and we're not really asking for too much. >> reporter: so you're saying you're playing catch up. thank you so much for joining us, taking a tranned along sharing your perspective thank you. >> thank you so much, have a good today. >> carley: you too. todd to you. >> todd: first nancy pelosi now another establishment democrat will not commit to supporting cams as joe biden's running mate do you think cams is the best running mate for president biden. >> i don't know what else i can say, you might be a stronger president. >> oh, not a ringing endorsement there to say the least. meanwhile kamala harris is kicking off a college campus tour across america. we've called in a panel of young

voters to react and you'll hear from all of them coming up next. ♪ ♪

♪ >> carley: this is getting some attention here, another misstatement from president biden took place yesterday when he claimed that he used to teach at an ivy league school. >> our democracy's under attack.

we've got to fight for it. i taught at the university of pennsylvania for four years and i used to teach political theory. and, folks, you always hear, every generation fights for democracy and i found myself -- it's automatic you don't have to believe it. >> carley: he never taught as a class, he did serve at u p as a fellow and honorary professor but his responsibilities did not include actually teaching classes. that wasn't the only odd claim from the president yesterday, he's now facing backlash for telling a rabbi he was raised in the synagogues of my state. you think i'm kidding i was not. he previously claimed he was raised enter a puerto rican community as well. his recent statements raising concern whether he is fit to serve in a term. >> what are those puerto rican synagogues like. >> i'll leave it there. >> on the heals of his false

claim only 36% of registered voters think biden is mentally fit to serve as president. same poll also shows 46% of voters believe donald trump is able to serve. kristen jackson, maria ruth dunning and austin kelly all campus correspondents and join me now. kristen i would like to start with you. the key take away from this poll is that month by month more and more people do not think joe biden is fit mentally to serve as president. but the underlying thought in this poll is we have a lot of old candidates. so as a college student, would you prefer someone who's younger at this point in time? >> thank you so much for having me. i don't think i would necessarily prefer someone who was younger. i prefer someone who gets the job done. and i think we get into the identity politics of younger versus older, raise and all that and i don't think that matters.

i think if you're competent enough to do the job and do it well and do it honestly, i strongly consider voting for you as the candidate to be the president of the united states. >> todd: maria same question to you how important is new whether or noted in dc to you? >> well, i don't, i don't concern myself much with new blood or old blood but what i do concern myself with is the fact that kamala harris very obviously thinks that young people are stupid, she said it herself. and seeing joe biden, as we just saw, how he's not -- how he's gaffing and bumbling and stumbling over her words and harris herself can barely keep a sentence together when asked if she supports abortion up until the moment of birth. so i think age doesn't matter but the way to get young verityers definitely not to tell us we're stupid and biden unable

to string a sentence together and kamala barely being able to herself it's an insult. >> todd: i understand. other polls compared to 2020 joe biden has lost key support in groups including women, black, hispanic vote, voters under 20, 45, while trump's support is increasing. austin, work with me here. do you think that for many of these voters that donald trump, because he's not the president right now, is sort of the new blood to them and that explains while trump is going up and joe biden's going down big time? >> well, yeah, thank you for having me. donald trump has always been new blood. >> todd: we're having a little trouble getting austin. we're going to switch gears and go back to austin. i heard you mention kamala harris, while she is going on that college tour seems like she's only interested what people are talking about in the swing states if you look at the map of the places she's going but i will a let the

vice-president talk about what she's looking for in her own words. listen. >> part of why i embarked on this tour is to highlight our young leaders and to be able to do what i can to share a microphone and stage to highlight the issues they are leading on and the issues that concern them. >> todd: okay, maria kamala wants to know the issues that concern you and how she can lead you. why don't you tell her. >> one issue that concerns me which makes me think she's very much not fit to lead that she's the first female vice-president but seems to be doing a good job erasing women. she celebrates dylan mulvaney. when women do speak they get attacked. transgender activists held riley gaines hostage for hours at san francisco state university and in my home state in virginia a father was arrested for daring to a issue with his daughter

being raped who are i haveically by a trans-identified male a woman's bathroom. we're seeing the erosion of women's boundaries, of children's boundaries and we're not even allowed to take issue with it. harris claims to be going on a college freedom tour but she only wants freedom of expression for those who agree with her far left brand of gender eyed i don't believe. >> kristen you know kamala's going to focus on abortion, climate change and trans rights and issue. is that what you and your friends in college right now in a day in and day out basis are talking about? >> no, we are not. we are not talking about those issues, and although they may be relevant in today's society, but specifically to college students, they want to know why they can't afford their groceries, why they can't afford their books, and why there is such a financial strain on them versus when trump was in office, and the economy was booming and

they were able to do so many things commaically and financially. we want answers as to why that is, when you go to wal-mart and you scan a couple items and the dashboard says a hundred dollars and you're like, what in the world. college students want to know about cost and why their cost of living is not the way, and the quality it was, under trump. >> if there's one take away i've learned from this segment joe biden should pay attention to, kamala as well, is whether you're 0 to 150, money matters and that's going to be what decides this election. sorry we lost austin but the silver lining on that is i'm sure we saw mario's mom walk through in the segment so we got three people regardless. good luck with your college careers we'll check back with you. another new fox poll that is not good news for joe biden because right now it shows him losing against many of the republican candidates. we're taking a closer look at that. >> carley: plus how is the historic auto workers strike

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>> they have record compensation, you know, when you look at the increase of their wages, it's over the 40% that we're asking for. we just want a fair deal.

that's on the companies as well to see if they want to be good us manufacturing companies that are true to our country, or do they want to support the economies of mexico or china? >> carley: that was the president of united auto workers local 14 in toledo ohio, we spoke to him earlier this morning as the union goes up against the nation's big three auto makers. about 13,000 workers joining the picket lines at three different plants in michigan, ohio, and missouri, a move that could end up costing the u.s. economy billions of bucks >> todd: joe casone from fox business our sister station is here. joe not just an isolated fight here this affects everybody in our country because of the money we're talking about. >> yeah it's the downstream you touched on that earlier as well. you think about, not just within the auto business but think of the towns the cities in michigan and ohio that depend on these plants so this is going to have a cascading economic effect and that's what makes it so difficult to quantify.

so the union representing nearly 150,000 auto workers did launch that strike early this morning against the big three, of course that's gm, ford and stellantis but they did fail to reach a deal on a contract. just before midnight targeted walkouts began in i shall innen ga, ohio and missouri. so the economic impact of a strike lasted for ten days with the full shutdown at $5.6 billion. these numbers are hard to quantify this is the best analysis we have today. americans are already seeing inflation rear its ugly head across the country. we got that data this week. it's showing for instance oil prices jumped 41%, that number, gasoline up 20%. and in that same time frame overall, wholesale inflation is up.7%. that is a rue view of what the consumer price index will show us next month and the fed watching this closely and retail

gasoline we're at $3.61 this morning and oil prices are starting to push around that $90 level i see no signs that's going to change so all of this is going to impact, guess what, not the striking workers but it's going to impact the nation. >> yeah, and one of the reasons the workers are on strikes that to push for evs out of california. >> absolutely, we've been talking about the ev mandates that they want out in california. well the house of representatives in washington, dc, those representatives voted thursday afternoon to strike down environmental regulations in california that mandate the purchase of evs. the rote was 222-190 approving the preserving choice and vehicle purchases act. so this was a group that was represented by john joyce in pennsylvania. he told fox news it doesn't help in any district to have them buy an ev regardless of what they

want and regardless of the demands of the market. so the key argument to be heard here, the mandate hurts the economy, it vie late concern, and that is why the house took this action today. >> carley: no surprise there. thank you shelf for joining us happy friday. >> you too. >> carley: switching gears here in a big way, a new nasa report says there is no evidence of any ufos having extraterrestrial origins. >> the nasa independent study team did not find any evidence that uap have an extraterrestrial origin but we don't know what these uap are. >> todd: well, that settles it. ivy the pros thor of science she joins us. so they're not extra take resist teal, that's what bill said but we don't know what they are, what do we make of a conclusion or non-conclusion like that?

>> i guess it's not good enough for a definitive conclusion but they look just at open data where i think the most interesting data is classified. and so the question is, what does the pentagon know, and that we have no access to, because that data was collected by classified censors. so perhaps the way forward is to collect new data that has nothing to do with classified senators and figure out what these objects are. it's definitely intriguing. there were eyewitness temperatures in just. >> one by david brush that said that the government has new programs for retree and reverse yearing of spates craft so we need to get part of so what do you think? you have hundreds of reports from fighter pilots who say what i just saw in the sky does not make sense to men a then you have that display in mexico with those tiny aliens with the three

fingers, two very different cases there. but what do you make of all of this? do you think extraterrestrial life does exist? >> oh, that's a separate question. i'm definitely quite confident that we are not the first to exist since the big bang. it has been a long time. >> face is vast, there are billions of stars out there the question is how to find the evidence for that and the problem is most scientists are not engaged in this study and it needs to be on the main stage of science. because the public cares about it, government cares about it. we need to get to the bottom of it and we only starteded searching for pack answer in our backyard over the past decade and already the first two objects appear unusual, nothing like the rocks that we are familiar with in the solar system. and i went to an expedition just a couple months ago that found

the competition similar to the first interstellar media. so there are a lot of hints that we may not realize that there is space trash that came from other civilizations around us but maybe even functional devices in the context of these unidentified objects president so let's explore. >> todd: i think you nailed it when you said this is what nasa's saying, but the classified stuff the answer probably lies in those documents and they're not telling us that. avi loeb thank you. >> thank you. >> todd: president biden making a head scratching comment right after his son hunter was indicted on federal gun charges. >> let me close with this, i wish i had a chance to take all your questions but i'm going to get in real trouble if i do that. >> reporter: get in trouble, joe comp a will have plenty to go next.

>> pete hegseth with a look at what's coming up on fox and friends. >> what's going on you two. >> carley: happy friday. >> happy friday to you, the weekend's coming which means we're still working. i am not you. coming up on fox and friends the president's son hunter biden is indicted for lying about his drug addiction when he bought a gun. how did we get here? a special edition of off the wall with brian, ainsley and me break it down straight ahead. don't tell will we'll call it on the wall-so he doesn't get offended. former attorney general and our rower panel weigh in on 2024 and union workers striking against the big three for the first time in history, how the billions in losses could impact your wallet. plus piers morgan flew in from across the pine and general jack keane, check in with joey jones down in georgia, it's a lot all starting in ten minutes.

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♪ >> let me close with this. there is a lot more i know we could talk about. i wish i had a chance to take your questions. i'm going to get in real trouble if i do that. >> carley: president biden preemptively pleading the fifth after his son was indicted on three gun charges lying about sobriety buying a gun in 2018. >> todd: is he referring to speaking about hunter or is he referring to the fact that every time he opens his mouth he is a gaffe machine? >> joe: in trouble, he says, trouble with who, exactly? >> carley: yeah, he is the president. >> joe: he which t he is the commander-in-chief. 8 in 10 americans don't want him to run for president again. we don't know if he is in charge or has the faculties to do so when he actually does have to answer questions from the press.

you think the president would give a full-throated defense of his son. but his adviser said you can't do that i guess love stops at what's best for you politically in the moment, guys. >> carley: there was a cnn article published a few hours ago. entitled biden's two worst weaknesses exposed in week. threats to biden's re-election. his son's legal problems and widely held perception is he too old for re-election. are both of them causing him major pains this week. points out the cnn poll half the country, 61% do believe he had some involvement in his son's foreign business dealings when he was vice president. >> joe: s that that's the thing when joe biden ran for president in 2020. trump's a bad guy. i'm a good guy. i will bring back normalcy and honesty to the white house. he can't run on that anymore. and then if he wants to run on issues, well, how are things going in terms of the economy, in terms of inflation, in terms of crime, in terms the border, in terms of education, in terms of foreign policy?

this president is seen as way too soft on china. meanwhile, we just gave, what, $6 billion to iran. that was a ransom payment. on the issues he is losing. the thing about age is, it's not like wine, are he is not going to get better with age. it will only get worse. and the perception is there. we saw it with david ignatius in the "the washington post." we saw it with bill crystal yesterday, joe scarborough. all of these people are saying he should not run again. when that criticism comes from the left, that's a whole bowl of problems, guys. >> todd: i will correct you like wine that's been opened. really old. >> joe: vinegar. >> todd: donald trump says this about welcomer's indictment. >> mr. president, can you continue to say there are two systems of justice? >> i think there is no question about it. he had a plea deal that the was the deal of the century. all of a sudden broke up by a

judge who was able to -- brilliant judge, actually, who was able to see what was happening. it's a sad situation. nobody should be happy about this. >> todd: thoughts, joe? >> joe: there is a two-tier manied system donald trump is exactly right. why else have a justice department who serves at the pleasure of the current president trying to take out a guy who is looking to take his place in the oval office. and you see the schedule. that's what drives me nuts, right? before super tuesday, one day before super tuesday, a critical primary and donald trump will be in court. he will be in court right before the iowa caucuses and 2024, it's just one after the other court dates for donald trump regarding all these indictments, while is he trying to run for president and most americans look at these indictments. they look at these charges like with alvin bragg, for instance, paying off adult film star, hush money, for example, that obviously is political. we see the court in georgia and

is that really something americans are saying boy, donald trump did something wrong. what, ask for a recount? you could go on and on. the bottom line is donald trump is the victim of a two-tiered justice system it only is bringing his numbers up and up, guys. that's the ironic part. >> carley: you mentioned election as well, new fox news polling shows joe biden would lose in a hypocritical matchup if the election were held today by donald trump by two points. vivek ramaswamy by one. haley pence as well. ron desantis, biden beats him by three points. also he would beat tim scott and chris christie. all of these numbers, joe, are very close. >> they are. these are national polls, remember. we see this auto strike in michigan, for example that can help decide that state. where that state goes probably the election goes or ohio, pennsylvania, wisconsin, georgia. in those swing states joe biden is in even deeper trouble. when it comes down to those states if is he trailing now nationally he is in big, big trouble. >> todd: do you attribute this to the fact that it seems that

even the mainstream media is unable to run cover for joe biden anymore because you really can't run cover for this kind of an economy and this kind of a country right now. ed. >> joe: you can't run cover and i can't believe the joints have favored. >> todd: do you think they will cover? >> joe: no the jets will cover in dallas. make it daily thing. >> todd: sports prediction as well. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> carley: we begin this hour with a fox news alert. the united auto workers are officially on strike against the nation's big three automakers. >> brian: 13,000 union members walking the picket line overnight, three different plants in ohio, michigan and missouri. >> pete: it is truly historic move marking the first time employees for ford, g.m. and at the atlantis have walked out at the same time.