>> laura: i know michigander's work full by the bidens flyby today. the truth is really ugly in michigan. bidenomics has been a disaster for the state. when adjusted for inflation the median michiga buying power by the end of last year. that's about 2.6%. michigan now rates at about number 37 the list of real household incomes. that's a nightmare. you're all smarter than that. that's it for us tonight. i'll be around for the pregame >> todd: a fox news alert, mass looting overnight in

philadelphia, businesses are ransacked by masked teenagers just weeks after philly police commissioner resigned. you are watching "fox and friends first" on wednesday morning, i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus. looters targeted apple store, foot and lululemon and the acting police chiefs this was a bunch of criminals taking advantage of unrest in the city. brooke singman has breaking details this morning. >> brooke: police say 100 teens were involved, but only 15 to 20 of them are in custody. you see here just a fraction of the damage outside of the lululemon. just down the street at apple store, electronics are littered throughout the store temperature is unclear how many businesses were hit.

john stanfords these are coordinated attacks. listen. we were able to link some things on social media, there was chatter about certain locations. we are investigating there is possibility a caravan of a number of different vehicles going from location to location. it is possible we had a group making their way through the city. you have followers, people see this and start to come out to it. >> brooke: police say the looting is not connected to earlier protest after charges were dropped against a police officer involved in a fatal shooting last month. this morning police were still responding to looting throughout the city. >> todd: it is clear by now, when you see scenes of looting like this, these are not individuals trying to feed their family, you don't need yoga pants to feed your family.

there is enough blame shifting, but these individuals need to be prosecuted to fullest extent of the law. none of this happen unless there is an environment that allows this to happen. whether it is defend the police, or making criminals victims, it creates scenes like this in philadelphia and cities across the country. >> carley: earlier in the day, there were black lives matter protest over a police-involved shooting, this is reminiscent ofern of 2020, we are back in the same place, we have not progressed. crime, lack of education, fatherlessness are fkting major cities across the country. one viral video is a person participating in this behavior screaming, everybody must eat, a common talking point among

people on the left who try to justify this behavior. aoc said people are stealing bread to feed their families. those messages trickle down, it could inspire this behavior. over 100 young people involved and so far only 20 arrested. >> todd: if you're a cop and you know these individuals are probably not going to be charged by the da, how demoralizing is that. >> carley: true. crime could come up tonight. this evening, the second gop debate will take place at the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california. >> todd: while candidates prepare, who is one person we should have to prepare the official democrat response? that's right, governor gavin newsom. lucas tomlinson joins us live

with the latest. i find that curious, a shocker gavin newsom is giving the response. lushgs >> lucas: what a coincidence. one fewer candidate from the stage, here is the lineup for tonight. burgum, chris christie, nikki haley, vivek ramaswamy and tim scott. here is florida governor ron desantis on his debate strategy tonight. >> the time for talking is over. i look at the border situation. i look at the budget situation, these are issues republicans have been talking about for decades and yet they still persist. i'm the only guy running that can say everything i promised my voters i would do, i delivered on 100% of the prom is. >> lucas: california gavin newsom will attend the meeting

tonight. newsom said, when you look at next debate look at the contrast between the two parties. i don't know how they get away with their rhetoric, it is not interesting. some say tune in before saying that. with 100 days before the caucus, former donald trump has a commanding lead in iowa. trump with 51% of the vote, more than twice support from nearest competitor, ron desantis. trump has a bigger lead in new hampshire, trump 50% and ron desantis at 13%, nikki haley in third at 11% and the rest in single digits. the second debate on fox business tonight at 9 p.m. eastern, 6 on the west coast. >> carley: lucas tomlinsons, we will be watching. thank you so much. one man who will not be on the big stage, former president

donald trump, he will be heading to michigan today to address autoworkers striking against the big three. trump will speak at drake enterprises just north of detroit one day after president biden joined united autoworkers yesterday on the picket line, becoming the first sitting president to do so. trump oppose the ev push, he says donald trump is gas lighting his disastrous policies. and ripping president biden for picking sides, saying progressives said we don't want a med iator and he vowed to progressives and he's putting his thumb on the scale and it is wrong. >> todd: speaking of gavin

newsom, he just signed the country's tax on guns and bullets. the rule takes effect in -- charged 21% for exercising their second amendment right. >> this is not a general income tax, not a corporate tax, this is more of a syntax, any conservative should be making that case. cost of prouscution, cost of incarceration is extraordinary, this is pretty modest investment in prevention and reducing cost. >> todd: newsom says money will pay for school safety and gun violence safety program. they have the strictest gun laws in the country, newsom will limit number of places people can carry concealed carry, another requires micro-stamping

on semiautomatic weapons. governor gavin newsom dresses really well, i believe we are wearing the same out fit you saw in the picture. >> carley: he stole it from you. >> todd: judge finding donald trump liable of fraud, stripping him of new york business licenses. the former president is calling this another tactic, we will ask congressman jeff van drew what he thinks about the ruling. we have been avoiding this subject out of respect for your personal life. >> my personal life that is nothe so personal. >> i did this to myself, jason, i know this. >> carley: travis kelce is dressing romance rumors about him and taylor swift. keep it here on "fox and friends first."

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>> todd: a new york judge finding donald trump liable for fraud by exaggerating his wealth of the trump organization. he will have his new york business license revoked. writing on truth social, this is judicial conduct forcing companies to flee new york for other environments while nobody comes back to the city or state, a very sad day for the new york state of justice. congressman van drew serves on the commerce committee. your reaction to the ruling? >> it is reaction we have each and every time they try to do this. keep in mind, donald trump is

not being prosecuted, he's being persecuted and americans know that. if you didn't support donald trump before, you are now because people know this is wrong. this is eshg m, we don't do things like this. we don't use the law or prosecutors to go after somebody because they have a different idea. they have opened the bows of hell against this man, they are prosecuting them, they are censoring him, punishing him in every way possible to make sure that he can't speak the truth. here is the deal, every time something happens and what happened most recently, we found joe biden's delaware address was being used to receive chinese communist money. i'm not making this stuff up, this is things we have. it is not a van drew talking point or republican talking point. they hear that, they try

something more and the more he goes up in the polls because people want freedom. americans want freedom, we have to bring our republic back. >> todd: more on that coming up later in the program. it is curious, regardless whether the ruling is valid or not, there will be an appeal. it is curious the time of the appeal. joe biden first impeachment inquiry hearing set for tomorrow. you left the democratic party after being told you had to vote to impeach donald trump. what is different this time, congressman? >> well, first of all, this is an impeachment inquiry, not an impeachment. they rushed to judgement with impeachment. we have mounting evidence and be sure that this is going to be something based on fact. if we follow the evidence and it

leads us to wrongdoing, so far there are questions and problematic issues. then and only then would we impeach, we're doing it the right way and legal way. we know there was 20 times joe biden was on phone calls with his son to burisma. we know then that burisma was worried because they were being investigated by a prosecutor in ukraine and that prosecutor was then removed because joe biden said he had to be or the money wouldn't go to ukraine. we know that there are many other issues just similar issues where there are really questionable deals, where joe biden was involved with his son with the chinese communists. i just said now we find out his delaware address was being used as place to send money. there were issues where joe biden was involved in all kind

of activities that a president shouldn't be. he was meeting with an oligarch from russia and she's the only one he didn't publicly censor when he censored different oligarchs. no question there is something here, it doesn't smell right. there is corruption throughout. the plea deal for his son. you really don't believe he wasn't involved. he was on the phone calls, it was clear he was on them and he originally said he wasn't. now he says he was just talking about the weather. >> todd: a lot of talk about weather. democrat lack of interest in this is amazing, especially in light of how they have decided bob menendez is guilty without a trial and that leads to the next topic. speculation what happens with bob menendez new jersey senate seat as more democrats call for him to resign. 26 so far calling for him to

resign. there has been speculation on the republican side you would throw your hat in the ring for this senate seat, so are you in? >> i'm not in, i'm seriously considering it. right now, i have to focus on this budget and my work in congress. i will go through a pros and speak to my friends, family and closest advisors. it is time for a good, solid republican conservative after over 50 years in new jersey to win the united states senate seat. people are tired of high taxes and inflation, tired of high interest rates, and tired of their children being told and taught things that no child should be taught. they are tired of this administration and what it has done to our police. you just saw what happen in philadelphia. they are tired of not following

the rule of law and wokeifiying our military when we are paying for and we strip that out. defense authorization acts, we were paying for drag queen ambassadors to attract a new type of person in the military. military should be best, most focused in the world. we are tired of it all. >> todd: 1972, last time new jersey elected a republican. >> i know. >> todd: i wasn't even a glimmer in my new jersey parent's eyes, that is how long ago that was. keep us posted, we'll be watching. washington commanders being sued by a native american group that wants the team to bring back the name redskins, we're talking to one of those people in the lawsuit. >> carley: and colin kaepernick is trying to make an n.f.l.

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of misinformation and lies by a very well funded effort. and 90% of us across the nation on average, have not been heard. yeah. so i was going to ask you, you say that 90% have not been heard. my question was going to be, is your opinion an outlier? one, because we have heard from native americans who say the redskins name is racist . so are you a minority in this

or are we just hearing from a vocal minority you're hearing from a vocal minority. some of which are have been pretty heavily funded to do so. but. several polls across the nation have actually proven that the number stands strong. even one from the washington post. that definitely was not in favor of us, but the results were. and they really didn't want to publish that. but they kind of had to because they they were so public about it. so it was it's fantastic that it it the number stands strong again and again. and i think if the commanders new ownership had even a second to spend time with us and hear what we have to say, i believe that they would see that the narrative that is out there in america that says all native imagery is racist and needs to be erased

immediately, i think that go away. and i think we'd have a 100% chance of reconnecting the football team with native america. well, statement from washington commanders. spokesperson we believe the complaint is without merit and we will address the matter in court. chad the lawsuit is against the now washington commanders in the new team. owner josh harris. the accusation is defamation, civil conspiracy and civil rights violations. make your case here . yeah, thanks for having us, by the way. um, so i'm saying that the case is without merit is a good way of saying we're going to get our butts kicked because that is what's going to happen. um, the commanders made a grave mistake when they accused noggin's members of being a fake group. couldn't be further from the truth. you see, billy right there? he's a native american. the only difference is, is that the commanders and mr. harris don't want to listen to what maga has to say and that's racism itself

. well, billy, your group is responsible for a viral petition. this summer went viral, got about 150,000 signatures calling for the washington commanders to change the name back to redskins. so that is certainly some support there. billy diekman, chad lavella, thank you so much for joining us this morning. we'll keep an eye on this one for sure. we appreciate you joining us. thank you. thank you so much. absolutely. all right. turning now to this, a terrifying moment caught on camera when a jack in the box employee opened fire at a family in the drive through after a fight over french fries. you're not going to believe this story. unreal. plus president biden appears to stumble again while taking the stairs off of air force one. that close

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>> take a look at the tape, president joe biden appearing to stumble while exiting air force one. >> carley: it comes on the heels of an axios report thats

president biden and his campaign are working on a critical project to make sure he doesn't trip. joe concha joins us now. joe, that axios reports the biden campaign is making sure he wears sneakers and he takes the lower stairs when he goes up air force one. this is doing him no favors and critics quick to react. one reporter says this is not a scoop, this is not news, it is advancing the right's narrative and andrew bates says this is media attempting to sensationalize something that has long been public instead of covering the president's achievements. he is doing his job to protect the president, the question is, are the american people buying it or is the damage done? >> joe: maybe they should

install a stair lift at this point to go up to air force one, or perhaps an elevator. bates is trying to spin the inspinable. anyone with eyes and ears see what they see. this is about people witnessing an 80-year-old president who is unsteady physically and mentally. they shorten the stairs on air force one, just for him. that is why 8-10 voters don't want him to run again. if we're at the point where the bar is so low, we are just hoping the president doesn't fall trying to go from here to there, that may be a problem. mr. biden was on the picket line with uaw workers for 12 minutes yesterday, in michigan for an hour before he got back on air force one to go to a ritzy

fundraiser in california. this is the part-time presidency at this point and sequel no one wants to see, including majority of democrats. >> todd: handlers for the leader of the free world have to make numerous acommendations to keep him upright, that is a news story. switching gears, taylor swift helping skyrocket everything in the n.f.l., sunday's chiefs/bears game most watched program of the week with 23 million views, ranking first in the female demo. you see it there. chiefs ticket sales increasing three times. travis kelce merch sales increasing after swift attended. does this exceed the n.f.l.'s wildest dreams or do we need to calm down? see what joe made me do? that's three.

>> joe: that was outstanding. it brought in huge female audience, according to numbers. maybe i'm in the minority on this know wo. this whole taylor swift and travis kelce thing is profoundly annoyed, they eclipsed prince harry and meghan markle as the most talked about couple. the bears probably the worst team in the league. travis kelce, who caught dozens of touchdowns catches a touchdown pass, most unimportant pass for a touchdown and you have taylor swift in the box celebrating like he caught a hail mary to win the super bowl. they are up 40-0 at thissin po, no big deal. what is she worth? $750 million? that did not buy her class, she goes on one date with travis

kelce and she is next to his mom and -- todd, let me finish, she is dropping f bombs in front of her. i would say, you know what, go find another girl, she will not drop an f bomb in front of your mom and that is what she was doing. >> todd: i will offer a message to the swifties, views expressed by joe concha do not express views of ours, it is an angry bears fan. i love each and every one of you. >> carley: there is a social media trend, her girlfriends saying taylor swift put travis kelce on the map. boyfriends are mad, glad this is not closer to thanksgiving, there would be fights in families across america. >> joe: i just can't wait for the travis kelce broke up with me song.

that can't come soon enough. >> carley: could happen. >> todd: send letters to concha, not carley or me. >> carley: thanks so much. >> todd: target shut down stores in several cities due to violent crime and theft and they are not the only major retailer to do it. we will tell you who else will shut down shop. >> carley: impacting business owners and families in the economy, cheryl casone is here coming up next. liberty mutual customized my car insurance and i saved hundreds. with the money i saved, i started a dog walking business. i was a bit nervous at first but then i figured it's just walking, right? [dog barks] oh. no it's just a bunny! calm down taco. sit duchess. stop! sesame no no. archie! walter don't, no, ahhhh. ahhhhh! you're lucky you're so cute. only pay for what you need.

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>> carley: argument over missing curly fries. the customer was with his pregnant wife and daughter when the worker started throwing packets at his car. the worker pulled out a gun and fired several shots as the car sped away. the former employee had a criminal record. jack in the box needs to do

background checks. >> todd: that is wild video. mas looting in philly. about 100 masked teenagers targeted several major retail stores like apple store, footlocker, lululemon, only 15 to 20 of them have been arrested. >> carley: this comes as target announces it will close nine stores. the companies it is a direct result of crime and they aren't the only major brand closing stores. cvs will close 900 stores by 2024 to move business online and avoid shoplifting. >> todd: cheryl casone joins us now. what other choice did the stores have? >> cheryl: that is the problem. and we knew this was coming in particular from target, this was not a surprise.

the last two earnings reports, they call it cling, it is theft, organized theft. billions that companies are telling wall street, we can't operate under these business conditions. this story is not new. but the hard part for communities, are communities that need a target. they need stores and will not have them anymore. target did put out a statement about the nine stores closing. they said we know that our stores serve an important role in communities, we can only be successful if the working and shopping environment is safe for all. they are talking about their employees, to be clear here. national retail federation did a report and businesses lost $110 billion. it is important between target

and cvs, i think we will see more stores closing. have you gone into a dwayne reid, everything is locked up. something has to change. >> carley: it is true about everything being locked up and it is a chore to try to get something simple as shampoo, so i buy online. that is another issue. >> cheryl: consumer behavior has changed. >> todd: to your point with places like target that have grocery stores, now the inner cities will become food deserts. >> carley: and people lose their jobs. >> cheryl: and the community suffers. >> carley: talk about savings, americans have less of it. >> cheryl: i talked about this yesterday, as well. we are to march 2022 levels, 80% of americans do not have savings, we're seeing this

personal savings rates are going down, people are charging more on credit cards, a lot of times for necessities. this is less extra cash in their pockets than before the middle class is hurting lower level income levels, lower income levels in the country. americans are hurting. this is federal reserve bank of san francisco actually said basically any savings is going to be spent in current quarter, americans are dealing with inflation and everyday goods costing more money. if you look at all this, this tells you americans are really hurting. here is data to prove that. they can tell us they are suffering under inflation, we've talked about this under president biden. >> carley: numbers don't lie. >> cheryl: numbers bear out what we hear from people. >> todd: having been on with you and maria, the experts say this time feels different.

you have to think tone on fox business debate, this and crime will be center stage. >> cheryl: retail crime, it is about the economy, kitchen table issues and that is how americans feel, we have numbers to prove it. there is a new fox news poll that showed when it comes to what voters care about, the most important issue is the economy, 38% say the economy. crime is a top issue, immigration, border security, look at that, guns, these are things people vote on and questions that will be asked tonight. someone on the stage will be the next president of the united states, how do you address concerns and get interest rates down? how do you manage the fed? how would you -- put it out there, we are having a spending fight in d.c. how do you deal with out of control fiscal responsibility happening in washington? >> carley: that is right, we

will be watching dana perino, stuart varney and ilia calderon. very exciting night for america. thank you so much. did you hear this, todd. 250,000 dollars from beijing found it's way to hunter biden and the address for the wire was joe biden's house. >> they go out and need to feed their child and don't have money, so you maybe have to they are put in a position they feel they need to shoplift bread or go hungry that night. >> todd: remember that? looters who ransacked stores across philadelphia last night are repeating the democrats' same message. wait until you hear this. but it does so much more. this thing shows you your fico® score, you can get your credit card recommendations, and it shows you ways to save money. do so much more than get your fico® score. download the experian app now.

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business partners and joe biden's address was listed as the beneficiary. >> on the wire that hunter biden received from the chinese national, the beneficiary address listed was joe biden's home address at a time where i'm pretty certain hunter biden was not living in the home of joe biden. this jonathan lee, who wired the $260,000 from china to hunter biden's personal account, he is part of the chinese communist party. and it happened while joe biden was a candidate for president. >> todd: american majority founder and ceo ned ryun joins us now. democrats led by jamie raskin, dan goldman continuously say there is no evidence whatsoever tying joe to hunter's business dealings. then how the heck, ned, could they explain this? >> well, exactly.

i'm sure they will be out there bleeding there is still no evidence. little hard to deny that also proof, todd, in my mind, that joe biden has been lying the whole time when he said he had no awareness, never had conversations with hunter about his business dealings. little hard to deny that when it's your address on the wires. it also tells me, again, joe is intimately involved, as we know, with these wires, as with the phone calls. all the other pieces of evidence that are building up that he was intimately involved in the family business of influence peddling. i will say, this todd, the other thing that really strikes me that is interesting about this the wires took place a few months after he declared for president, which strikes me as extremely interesting timing to be getting this money. >> carley: that certainly raises the stakes here a bit. ned, you look at the president's position right now politically. you know, there are major concerns about his age. the poll numbers are bad. the situation with hunter biden legally is not happening matters

there was one white house insider quoted assaying that a third party candidate is, quote bleeping concerning. what is going to happen here? >> i have to tell you, carley, i'm still convinced at some point this might become untenable for joe biden. i do think there will be a serious primary challenge? i do not. at some point next summer does this become a situation his physical ailments all these piece of evidence about corruption add up to the point democrats realize he cannot be the nominee and something happen on the floor of the dnc convention in august next year in which they find a new candidate for the general election. at some point it really feels this is all going to implode physically and on the corruption level as well. >> todd: i got to get your thoughts on this. said something in answer. do you believe there is a connection between this payment and ultimately the white house's policies toward china? >> i do. it's hard to say that there's not, todd, when there is money

coming in and you look at their policies. they're extremely dovish on china. >> todd: understood. >> carley: there was mass looting overnight, ned, in philadelphia. the images we are getting in are unbelieve it or not it's reminiscent of the 2020 black lives matter riots that took place in cities across the country. nothing has changed. there's a major police shortage in philadelphia. the crime rate is high. there's an education issue as well. fatherlessness also an issue. we aren't learning from our mistakes here. will we ever? >> no. carley. i mean, the issues of defund and weaken the police cash bail reform. all of these things, this is what you get. this is what happens. you get philadelphia. you get mass looting and rioting and stealing. they are not going into lululemon or apple or foot locker for bread. they are going in because they realize there will be little to no consequences for their action. until there is actual

consequences for this type of behavior, you will see more of it. and it's not lost -- i don't think this is lost on the american voters, carley, when they see these things happening in democratic cities, there is a reason that crime typically is one of the top 2 or 3 issues for the voters. it's going to be one of the top issues next year in the 2024 elections. >> we heard aoc going into the commercial theories people need to eat, ned, this is all about stealing bread. to your point yoga pants do not feed you. 15 seconds. how responsible are social justice warriors for ultimately putting us in this position? >> 100 percent. this is absolutely the issues they have been pushing. these are the consequences. the question is are the american people fed up enough to actually vote these people out of office? >> carley: it's a sad state of affairs. ned, thank you for joining us this morning we appreciate it. "fox & friends" starts right now. have a great day, everybody.