do you think young people find a lot of what they have been sold is pretty empty and they want something more? do you find that? >> i do. i think that is what we saw when 4000 gathered and 200 were baptized at the red barn. people want god more and this is a good thing for this great country. >> laura: pastor and michael, i love ending my show in a good mood. i won't say i'm a bama fan, right now i'm an auburn fan. >> go, eagles. >> laura: no, crimeson tide, come on, roll tide. follow me on social media, thanks for watching. it is america now and forever. jesse watters has good news and takes it from here. [siren] [shots fired]

[siren] >> todd: another shocking look at the impact of open borders. dallas police locked in a shootout with an illegal immigrant that was already deported nine times. we have details. >> carley: more about the new england patriots fan that die at the game sunday. >> todd: the attorney general will face house republicans and answer for major allegations of biden family and doj corruption. you're watching "fox and friends first" on a busy wednesday morning, i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus. brooke singman is live with our first look at garland's opening statements. good morning. >> brooke: merrick garland previewing his opening statement he plans to deliver this

morning. there is not one set of laws for powerful and another for powe powerless, one for rich and another for poor, one for republicans or democrats or ethnicity or religion. our job is to pursue justice without fear or favor. house judiciary committee plan to investigate whether the justice department has become politicized and weaponized under his leadership. garland defended the department and touting protecting democracy and crack down on crime. he does not make mention of the hunter biden investigation and potential biden family corruption in the document, something house republicans have been following closely. listen. >> we followed the money and found wires from china to romania to ukraine to russia, to uzbekistan to the shell companies that were then disbursed to nine different biden family members.

we found over $20 million the bidens have received from foreign nationals and the biden family cannot say one thing they did to account for what they received that money for. >> brooke: house republicans launched impeachment inquiry against biden last week and will hold a hearing next thursday, something the white house described as baseless impeachment stunt to divert attention from the extreme agend. republicans say they will layout evidence they have found in their investigation. guys. >> carley: thank you. congressman biggs on the house judiciary committee is leading effort to impeach attorney general merrick garland. he will be here live with questions he wants answered today, do not miss that. president biden will meet with benjamin netanyahu today.

>> todd: no mention of the problems joe biden is facing at home. lucas tomlinson joins us live from washington with more. hi, lucas. >> lucas: good early morning, carley and todd. critics point out irony. iran president given free pass to speak and israel president detained for protest. meeting with the prime minister is day after biden spoke at u.n. general assembly and got to ukraine 20 minutes into his speech. >> the moment of historical challenges from accelerating climate crisis to once in a century pandemic exposed inequity across the world. aware of member of united nations security council launched brutal attack against the people of ukraine, taxed against the character of the

united nations. >> lucas: some calling for russia to be kicked off the general assembly. eggs are up 40%, milk up 13%, poultry up, bacon up 11% and gasoline is now up over 60%. rate of inflation has increased for second straight week 3.7% in august and that is on top of 40-year inflation highs. gop presidential candidate nikki haley slamming the president for not doing more about this and attack the age of the oldest president in u.s. history. >> joe biden is asleep at the wheel, he doesn't get it. the american people are smarter than this, they see he doesn't get it. it is time for a new generational leader. >> lucas: back to new york, united nation -- walked out and was later detained, not clear why. israelis government said, being

detained for standing with iranian people and protesting vile mass murderer given audience on global stage is utterly disgraceful. ambassador attention comes after signing document of 1787 and bill of rights added four years later, which include right to free speech, as you well know. >> todd: lucas tomlinsons, i had a question why that individual was detained, too. seems like not the way it is supposed to work. we have more questions than answers. president biden talking about climate change and ukraine, hasn't mentioned the migrant crisis, even though he is in the middle of it in new york city. >> carley: think again, they are focused on removing statues of george washington. >> this bill allows new york city to confront deep-rooted legacy of slavery by mandatorying plan for removal, we are acknowledging and

rectifying historical wrongs. >> carley: someone talking about the migrant emergency is barrelli. he joins us live, don't go anywhere.

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>> janice: good morning. take a look at the raider. we have stronger storms moving across the central u.s. this is off ford and we have nigel. this area of low pressure regard lsz of whether or not it becomes tropical or subtropical, it will

produce a yucky weekend for millions across the eastern seaboard. high pressure along the atlantic coast, if you live from florida to savannah, georgia, to carolinas, yucky next couple of days and area of low pressure toward the northeast over the weekend. we have nigel, potential disturbance number two and this one off coast of africa looking healthy and national hurricane center says good chance, 70% chance we will have a likely storm or hurricane. we will watch that. no getting into october, we could have activity in the tropics. forecast today not great across florida, the southeast and storms moving across the mississippi river valley and powerful cold front moving through the northwest and spread across the west over the next

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[sirens sounding] >> gun, gun, gun. it is in his hand, i got him trapped. >> todd: shootout began last week when officers attempted to confront the suspect in a parking lot after he open fire, killing a man at a nearby gas station. he hit one officer in the chest. lopez was in the u.s. for illegally crossing into texas earlier this year. a second train carrying hundreds of migrants coming to a halt as the passengers chant, "let us continue." [cheering] >> todd: it comes just after a different train was spotted cheering in cargo cars heading

toward eagle pass. that is what the mexican authorities are saying, not sure if that is case in reality. cbp telling fox news last week 45,000 encounters along our southern border. >> carley: president biden is four blocks from the migrant shelter at roosevelt hotel, he has not addressed the issue. 113,000 migrants have arrived and expected to cost taxpayers $12 billion by 2025. joe borelli is testifying about this before the house homeland security hearing today and joins me here first. what an opportunity to speak about this issue. what do you plan to say to convince lawmakers on both sides that something needs to change. >> joe: you are right, it is a

great opportunity. they are given alternative view. we have polling that indicates there is broad and diverse group of new yorkers, overwhelming majority think this is a problem for our city. it was two-thirds in a recent poll. they are not hearing from elected leaders like mayor adams and dan goldman and clark and members of house homeland security, these are people who are pro-sanctuary city and try to paint a rosey picture. we are in new york everyday and see reality, it is time people in congress see reality of what is happening in new york city. >> carley: you are in washington, president biden is in new york city at the un general assembly. he did speak to other nations and say secure your border so we can secure our country, as well. he did not do that.

he so far hasn't met with mayor eric adams, much to his anoticeance, listen to what he had to say yesterday. >> president biden is coming to the city, i hope he understands this beautiful city, economic engine of the country, is being saddled a $2 billion that we spent already, $5 billion we will spend in this fiscal crisis, $12 billion in the next two budgetary cycles. new york don't deserve this, asylum seekers don't deserve this. >> carley: he's saying, listen, president biden, we're allies, carve out 30 minutes of your day to talk with us and come up with solutions. >> joe: he's right to call them out. there are 108 shelters, certainly one can be passed by. reality is he came in office in 2021, changed policy at the

border, appointed kamala harris the border czar, saying we're going to stop the crisis and nothing like that happened. it has been abject failure, we have seen this crisis explode. we never saw this under president trump or president obama or any point in our city's history. come see the bidenville he created in some places. >> carley: bidenville, you mai have coined a term there, i had not heard that. yesterday new york city council met to talk about removing statues. according to them, that includes george washington and christopher columbus and talking about whether new yorkers should pay reparation during a migrant budget crisis, what is your reaction to all of this? >> joe: this is like the return of the pumpkin spice latte, every fall they chirp about

removing columbus statues and added reparations and george washington. these people want to erase history, they have not been successful in the past. the public and council members see through the nonsense. i anticipate this will not go far. this cuts to the heart of w progressives are. they want to erase shared experience as americans. >> carley: i was reading brookhaven said new york city, if you want to get rid of your statues, bring them to us, we will take them. a situation where towns outside major cities have statues and no statues left in the city, they can't tolerate it. best of luck in washington, d.c. today and thank you for joining us. >> todd: what if we took them in the studio. over there and gw over there. >> carley: we should put a bid

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seventh congressional district, i grew up working in my mom's restaurants, mopping floors and cleaning dishes and i received rotc scholarship and went to virginia and i was the first to graduate from college. i served in the military for 10 years as an infantry officer, ranger and went to iraq. i was fortunate to go to special forces training and earn my green beret and deployed five times to include afghanistan and i designed to run last cycle and continued that based off watching biden's botched withdrawal in afghanistan. led to 13 service members being killed. it hit hard, i lost two green berets and civil soldiers in afghanistan. when we look at pictures of president biden looking at his

watch during the transfer of the soldiers, it hit hard. it is time for me to stop screaming at the tv and get off the couch and serve in a new capacity, to serve the people that raised me. for more information on my campaign go to derrick anders.com. we have important thing in virginia, we are talking a lot about 2024, we haveeck las going on right now. >> todd: youngkin was on the air talking about that the other day. before we get too far from the issues, i want to refocus on that. you talk a lot about the military, as you should, you are versed in those issues. what other issues do you want congress to focus on if you are elected? >> we need a balanced budget, that is important for america right now. if we look at cost that people

are bleeding right now, whether they are going to the grocery store, getting gas, things just cost so much and seventh congressional district we have i-95 thatun ares through the middle of the district. anyone who travels, we have commuters in our district. it is terrible. we need to get that fixed. we have big agricultural community. population of the district is around i-95. majority of the land is farmers. we have a lot of veterans, multiple military instapations in our district. we have bases and a lot of veterans retire around the seventh congressional district. we want to continue to increase healthcare for veterans and make sure they get healthcare they need and quality care they need post military service.

>> todd: understood. in the 2022 midterm your district re-elected spamberger by five points, about 13,000 votes. all reports are she is going to run for governor, nothe for reelection. this looks like one of the biggest pickups for republicans, derrick anderson is trying to make that happen. thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. >> todd: thank you for your service. vice president kamala harris says young people are not buying houses or starting families, you guessed it, because of climate change. >> carley: i am sure nothing to do with the economy. cheryl casone will look at kamala harris's claim. ♪ liberty mutual customized my car insurance and i saved hundreds.

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>> carley: a life-long patriots is dead after witnesses report he was hit multiple times in the head by a dolphins fan. >> todd: anita vogel is here. what is going on with our society? >> very sad story. we are getting a better idea what happened to dale mooney.

sunday night at gillette stadium. there is video showing him get hit in the head before collapsing. cpr was performed on him to no aval. >> at some point, guy in dolphins jersey punched the victim twice in the face and the victim fell behind into his seat unconscious. the guy got hauled away by police and everybody noticed something was wrong. >> his wife lisa said it took a lot to get him mad, she can't imagine what could have happened. she said, numb, i can't believe

this is for real. i want to know what happened, what caused this. back in 2009 mooney risked his own life to save a little girl he saw caught between rocks on a local blm. he rushed to rescue her by putting her on his shoulders and taking her to shore. he was a patriots season holder for three decades before sunday. spoke to fox news digital adding, we are saddened to hear about the passing of a 30-year season ticket member who died while attending last sunday night's game. we are assisting with the investigation. there are no arrests, no charges, it is massachusetts police leading the investigation. todd and carley. >> carley: we'll see if that changes. so sad and unexpected to take place in the stands of a

football game. we appreciate it. turning to this, according to vice president kamala harris climate change is keeping young people from achieving the american dream. >> todd: cheryl casone will explain that one, has nothing to do with biden-flation her administration brought on the world. >> cheryl: she is claiming it is climate anxiety and that is what is causing young people to consider whether or not they want to have children or buy a home. nothing to do as you point out with an economy that had a very bad year. here is what she says, future generations of americans are not buying homes because of -- well, listen to her words. >> i've heard young leaders talk about a term they coined called climate anxiety, which is fear of the future and the unknown. of whether it makes sense to think about having children and think about aspiring to buy a home because what will the

climate be. >> cheryl: to be clear here, that home comment. right now this may be a reason people are not buying homes, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate is about 7%. we will get another read on that data today, actually. another part i find interesting, you have recent gallup poll that shows 20% of americans believe buying a home is a good idea. nobody talked about climate anxiety back in i ma, to be clear. >> carley: it feels like buying a home is luxury, not a standard anymore. i was reading an article in new york magazine about women who did say they desperately want to have children, they are not because of climate change. they feel they could be bringing a baby into the end of the world. kamala harris should have said at the end of the statement, don't worry about it, have the babies. that would be --

>> todd: reason the women think like that, they have been brainwashed in institutions like college to think that way. say a child has 100-year life, they will not die because of climate change in that time. >> cheryl: i am glad you mentioned college, in the same one-on-one, she talked about the fact of student loan forgiveness, we had a record number of young voters come out in 2020. >> carley: i wonder why. >> cheryl: thank you for voting for me, we will pay for your loans. >> carley: speaking of congress, advice from tom brady to a college football player. >> cheryl: this is so great. this is tom brady and colorado quarterback sanders, deion sanders kid. he gives him a hard time about the rolls royce he decided to

buy. listen to this exchange, it is great. >> one question, tom, do you think a college kid needs a phantom like a rolls royce phantom? >> it is not a phantom, it is a rolls royce. >> get in the film room and respond less time in the car and more time in the film room. >> thank you, tom. >> cheryl: get to work, buddy. he has a little bit of coin, we should say. his son actually has nil, name, image and likeness, 5.1 million is his worth right now, only . >> todd: listen to dad and the goat, get in the film room and study. >> carley: get in that film room and don't come out until i say so. >> todd: that is what carley shimkus says to me all the time. >> carley: just call it democrats revolving door.

james clapper, john brennan signed that letter calling hunter biden's laptop russian disinformation just got jobs in the biden administration. >> todd: and saying he is not worthy of the democratic nomination, so what is up with his days long media tour? joe concha reacts to all of it next.

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>> if you care, why don't you run? >> because i believe in this guy. >> you think joe biden is the best democrats can do? >> i have deep receive and reverence for joe biden as a person, his character and decency and capacity to do great things, that is why i'm not worthy of that conversation, this guy deserves it. >> todd: wow. california governor gavin newsom saying he is not worthy of the democratic nomination. caps days long national media tour. watch. >> i'm old-fashioned, i want guy that produces results and results are in. it's been a master class, there is no administration in my lifetime that has been more effective. democrats, time to buck up,

never had a record to sell like this. >> todd: fox news contributor joe concha is here to weigh in on comments by gavin newsom. he is making a serious effort to convince people i'm not running, joe biden will be the guy. are you buying it? if so, what happened? >> joe: there is saying somewhere around trying too hard and boy, that was a master clas in trying too hard to sell something unsellable to the american people. gavin newsom is not wrong here, guys. based on his record, he is not worthy. highest poverty rate, highest homeless rate in the country, more people and businesses leaving california more than any other state. imagine if newsom was leader of all 50 states. mr. newsom is your guy, if you want to follow that footstep.

he wants to be president, why else debate ron desantis who is running for president? why do interviews and tour red states, as he has done. democrats are accomplished at one thing, sticking together and not going rogue. newsom likely has been given a talking to and told, you better support the biden/harris ticket as boldly and loudly as you can. >> todd: he is setting up twenty28 ticket. donald trump is defeating joe biden in almost every poll. that has to give gavin newsom pause. joe biden naming intel officials who signed hunter biden laptop letter to a committee. appointing former director of national intelligence and former cia director john brennan and paul colby to expert dhs

committee. joe, seems like fox in the hen house to me. >> joe: it is reward for a job well done. you got to love washington. swamp that rewards those in powerful position who knowingly lie as these intelligence officers did. how else would they know hunter biden's laptop was a product of russian disinformation just days after the "new york post" story broke. it is like a coroner determining a cause of death without examining the body and team biden is so arrogant they know they can make appointments without scrutiny for most of the media focused almost solely on donald trump. congrat congratulations, these folks will be working for the biden administration. frankly, they have been for sometime. >> carley: american people are complaining, 63% of americans have little to no confidence in

the political system. some say it is working somewhat well, 4% say it is working extremely or very well. numbers not surprising, people are saying something needs to change. >> joe: unsurprising, carley. trust in institution is dropping almost everywhere across the board. look at gallup, only three entities polling above 50%, small business, military and police. numbers plummet from there. trust in banks is 33%. public school 32%. organized labor 32%. trust in newspaper 21% and trust in congress just 12%. gas station sushi polls higher than that. that is where we're at at this point. no one trusts anything except military, small business and small majority of police. >> todd: who are the 4% that

think everything is going great? lobbyists, they make money no matter what happens. >> carley: at least there is not a hidden agenda in gas station sushi, but maybe there is. thank you. >> todd: attorney general merrick garland facing house lawmakers today and republicans are ready to hammer him on allegations of biden family and doj corruption. congressman andy biggs will be in the hearing and joins us next. >> carley: lawrence jones on what is coming up on "fox and friends." >> lawrence: nikki haley is here in the studio taking questions from live gen-z and millennial voter panel, top issues affecting the demographic and previewing today's testimony from attorney general merrick garland, brian and ainsley break down what the ag need to answer pushing on weaponization of the doj. and sol wisenberg tells us what

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read is what he gets to say before he gets grilled by folks like yourself. there are so many areas to merrick garland on. where will you start, congressman? >> well, i think the place that you are going to see most of us start is the david weiss investigation of hunter biden. and whether merrick garland was interfering with that and, also, whether through merrick garland and david weiss, whether joe biden was interfering with that so you have got slow-walking of investigations so that statute of limitations end up running and who was doing that? why were they being slow-walked? we have had whistleblowers come in and testify that their investigation was hindered, that david weiss -- and he's the guy that ultimately designed this weak plea agreement that ultimately even a judge said is not good, not appropriate. who decided you are going to drop the most serious crimes or the allegations and then give him a sweetheart deal with nothing going on when you are putting other people in prison

for that? so i think there is a lot going on with that issue and a whole plethora. this is a target-rich environment. so a whole plethora of other ideas that people are going to come on. >> carley: congressman, what do you think about the "wall street journal" report that came out over the weekend that says that merrick garland's relationship with president biden has gone from i believe the phrasing was distant to frigid the president is angry that they gave david weiss special counsel status. are you buying that? >> i don't know that i buy that. it seems almost like a deflection, doesn't it? it certainly gets to the point did david weiss get special favor from merrick garland for how he handled the hunter biden deal? i mean, he basically slow walked stuff. he made it easy for hunter biden to get away with stuff. so you wonder, is it real that joe biden is upset about that, having a special counsel that

actually has favored hunter biden over the course of time? >> todd: seems like they are creating a little tiff where one may or may not exist. meantime the first biden impeachment hearing is set for next week, of course, the impeachment inquiry is the situation we are facing. bank records obtained by the house oversight committee show biden family made at least $20 million from foreign nationals while joe biden was vice president. here is what your colleague oversight chair james comer told sean hannity last night. >> what i said on day one of this investigation is we were going to follow the money. and right now we have followed the money. we found the shell companies. we subpoenaed the bank records of those shell companies. we found wires from five different countries from china to romania to ukraine, to russia to uzbekistan to the shell companies that were then dispersed to nine different biden family members. >> congressman, there are reports that even from the g.o.p. side that we're not going

to learn anything new in this hearing next week. so how will this hearing help move this investigation forward? >> well, i think this hearing coming up next week is going to actually lay the parameters of what we can get at and what we can't get at. in the sense that we have an expanded authority with the impeachment inquiry. and so with that, we are going to be talking about what we have and what we're going to be able to get. so, you are going to see probably some more subpoenas issued for some more bank records, more documents that we're aware ever. you know, chairman comer has done a great job but we have actually seen additional countries in there from which money has come. most of the attention has been on ukraine. so we'll probably be doing a lot of talking about ukraine. but we will also open it up and remind people of china and the craziness there from romania, from kazakhstan, from a russian oligarch. all of that.

>> carley: congressman, where are you on the spending package? the investigation, the impeachment inquiry shut down if the government shuts down. why not pass the continuing resolution to give yourselves more time to negotiate a deal? >> well, the inquiry will not shut down. >> the impeachment inquiry will still go forward. congress will still do its work. we will be doing committee hearings. in fact, the vast majority of the federal government just continues on. but what you do -- if do you a continuing resolution, you continue with the bad biden schumer pelosi programs that are in place that allow things like spying on american people that we're trying to get rid of. and this notion that you're going to fix this thing in 30 days seems ridiculous when we have had 10 months. we should have already done this. >> we are barreling toward a government shutdown which does not make americans happy. we will see how it shapes up. congressman biggs. thanks for joining us. "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ >> president biden addre