it's about families. it's not about politics. >> right. so, ashley, this is your chance. we have a lot of lawmakers that watch "fox & friends." what is your plea? what is your request? >> that they come out to the day care centers. see how it's benefiting them. see how the children are doing. go and speak to the families that have to pay for the child care. child care is expensive. >> ainsley: what happens if the funding runs out for your family? >> he might not be in at a care. i might have to change my schedule around at work to accommodate him. the day care has been great for him developmentally wise. he is going to suffer. is he going to suffer without seeing his best friends every day, seeing his teachers every

day i think the main thing is i'm probably going to have to find another route and it might be family or it might be trying to switch my schedule around at work which is going to be difficult. >> so many people are all for helping other countries, we're helping ukraine a lot and helping other countries and helping immigrants come into our country. we need to help our own american children and families like yours. ashley, josephine, thank you so much for coming on. we appreciate it. okay. the second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

[jazzy upbeat] ♪ ♪ >> lawrence: now, you may think this is new orleans, but it's not. suspects timmie valley. you are listening to the brass animals perform live from the reagan national library ahead of tonight's debate. i love the band. >> ainsley: i love the name, the brass animals. lawrence, if they gave you a show and you called it lawrence and the animals. >> lawrence: i love that. >> ainsley: how fun is that any time you include animals reminds me of the muppets. >> brian: remember animal steel the wrestler very hairy guy? >> lawrence: very masculine. >> steve: you are looking at the campus of the ronald reagan library out there. pete hegseth big man on campus at 5:02 pacific time and, pete, you have a busy day because you

are going to be on fox nation tonight as they take the stage for fox business channel. >> pete: i'm the big man on campus because i'm the only man on campus right now. >> ainsley: you are still the big man. >> pete: there you go. big man for a moment. it's 4:00 a.m. and the brass animals are playing and this is all glass. so it's all echoing. it's only six people but it's very powerful here at the reagan presidential library. as you mentioned, obviously fox business is hosting the second debate tonight and dana perino and stuart varney will be hosting. we are also covering on fox nation. you want a little precoverage. i will be there with will cain and rachel campos-duffy and joey jones. in the commercial breaks, come to fox nation while you are watching. we will give you, you know, some analysis during the breaks and post show coverage. sean is having everybody come into the spin room. we will be talking to people, too. as the spin room all happens on fox nation. but you know, guys, it's a pretty cool environment here. i will give you a little sneak peek. it's, you know, what, 12 hours

away. 14 hours away. we have a nice little perch here above the debate stage. 600 people will be in here tonight. seven podiums. eight last time. no asa hutchison, no donald trump. in the center will be ron desantis flanking him. vivek ramaswamy and nikki haley. got a little information. this air force one. they brought it n 20085, when they expanded the reagan presidential library. pullerred it up on a semitrailer and boeing came in and put the wings on it afterwards. 600,000 miles ronald reagan flew in that thing and service all the way ford in '72 to george w. bush in 2001. we might get a look in there later on. it's an awesome setting here for the big debate tonight and honor to be here. >> steve: since it is air force one. technically, it still belongs to the air force, right? it's probably just on loan? >> pete: it's on loan. took it 100 miles from air force base on loan. i don't think there is plans any

time soon to remove it, steve. good luck trying to get it out here. >> brian: don't know exactly what to expect. the big surprise last time was vivek ramaswamy, he commanded the stage and his comments got mike pence going and also got governor nikki haley going. i know senator tim scott said afterwards, man, i should have interrupted more. he was following the rules. do you get the sense that all of them have a better idea of what to do and there's going to be strategy is going to be going after vivek? >> pete: very much so. there has been a lot of opposition research on vivek and nikki haley. you are going to see ron desantis in the middle and then you have got vivek and haley who went after it. the question is how much is ron desantis, the governor, in the middle of those exchanges as well. mike pence will be on the far end along with doug burgum. there is a lot of campaign teams doing the after action review last time. how do we do differently? and if you are going to start shining it better be now. these debates get important

considering how strong donald trump's poll numbers are if you want to start breaking out, you have to make a splash on stage. i do think they will be going a lot of a vivek and probably nikki haley as well who has had a bump. >> ainsley: i wonder if he will go after ron desantis? they really didn't last time. >> pete: you are exactly right. they said they liked that the campaign did initially. ultimately he got left out of a lot of the those exchanges. he will be involved more in scraps tonight. center podium again with donald trump not here. is he there that's going to draw incoming no matter what. >> how many times do you get a chance to address 35 million people? >> pete: exactly. >> lawrence: you spend time in our diners all across the country each candidate is looking for a moment. especially to go against donald trump's big lead what do you think they need to do to speak to that maga base to really get them on their side? is there anything they can do tonight on the stage?

>> pete: i have been thinking about this ever since this campaign kicked off. how do you garner maga support, trump support, which is the base of the republican party while differentiating yourself from the original without offending trump supporters in the process and i don't know that i have seen anyone thread that needle very well yet. there is a lot of america first policies and then you have got all these indictments and then polls show trump is beating biden by 10%. not an easy thing to do. we will see if any of them can capture that lightning in a bottle tonight. >> brian: pace yourself, peter. i don't want you nodding off tonight. >> pete: i was nodding off 10 minutes ago i'm going to go back to that. >> ainsley: are you going to be in the spin room tonight? >> pete: i will with sean. >> ainsley: you could see brian off to the back of sean hannity i was like you were trying to find interviews. >> brian: let me in i'm come on? must have felt bad for me. >> ainsley: you are going to be on some of the shows.

>> steve: in the spin room, the governor of the great state of california is actually going to be on the -- at the campus because he, essentially is joe biden's surrogate. when they talk about joe biden tonight, gavin newsom is going to be right there it's interesting and you have got figure as well a lot of the candidates tonight are not going to be shooting at each other. they are going to be shooting at joe biden. joe biden was the topic of podcast. bill maher's podcast yesterday with james carvel. and essentially what james carvel said this is an extraordinary situation. he said democrats need wake the f up because joe biden is a problem. and if the election were held -- if the election were held this year, he's not sure that joe biden would win. and he said the democratic party, and this is the problem. the democrat party has morphed into as you are about to hear him describe it, something

weird. >> there is a certain coastal arrogance in this country and people feel it. the western far left is habitually the most stupid naive people you can imagine. they come up with these really goofy constructs and it's all about feeling. >> feeling? >> feeling good about yourself. >> or just feeling as opposed to like free speech, like if you your feelings are hurt, that's more important than free speech. >> most people don't even know what they are talking about. overeducated coastal white people do everything else they completely [bleep] it up and everybody in the country off. >> now you are speaking my language. >> if we just could get the humanities faculty at amherst to shut the [bleep] up would be a

lot better off. >> steve: wow, that was excellent. >> ainsley: bill maher went on to compare joe biden than ruth bader ginsburg. she stayed in longer than the democrats wanted and is he staying in. >> lawrence: james carvel is a democrat. not a liberal. this is a guy from louisiana that spends his time with a diverse group of people. what he said is you guys are talking over people's heads. all this gender ideology stuff they don't understand this nonsense. they don't understand you trying to reeducate their children. you are not talking about the economy in a palatable way. you are not talking about all this ev stuff when people are just trying to get to work on a day-to-day basis. child care stuff. he did go after the republicans as well. he still thinks that the republican party is crazy. but what he is saying is the way that the democratic party is talking about it from these academic, these woke, white liberals that are trying to indoctrinate your children, it's just not going to work in this

election, brian. >> steve: take a shot at university like he did at the end, that's extraordinary. >> brian: he says a couple other things, too, i think is important. him and bill maher are singing the bill clinton type. this is what i think but this is what i have to deal with. let's be practical. that is a 1990s approach to it which i think the country needs. i don't have the majority in the house or the senate let's not propose radical things we can't afford. we ended up with zero deficit. we long-term literally balanced the budget. no deficit. look what has happened since. is he trying to talk some sense into it except for just stop with the white and black thing, listen, you have elite people at all these universities that come out with these idealistic ways in which our country should live and these criticisms about what our country has done and it's not effective. the average person and bill maher can appreciate it because he is a comic and he travels the whole country. he leaves the west coast all the time he will go to ohio and

texas. he will go to small towns and big towns where he sells out and he knows that this is not way people think. what is so amazing about what we are ceiling with on daily basis. we used to talk about tax cuts and we used to talk about even obamacare. oh, this is not going to work. you don't understand. we used to have interesting debates. now these debates are so idiotic about can you be on your pronounce on the border. what do you think the border is it going well? does anyone in the country think this is a good policy? does anyone in the country think that they even know the president knows what is going on are we pretending that the president is actually with it on a daily basis? other people are pretending as if the rest of the country is just stupid. that's what carvel and bill maher is talking about. they haven't changed. they are never going to vote for trump or desantis or governor nikki haley. >> steve: he made it very clear. democrats need to wake up. and speaking of waking up at the white house, it sounds like there is a dog that is barking

and biting people. probably waking people up. there is commander, the dog. >> ainsley: not cujo, it's commander. >> steve: has bitten another 11th nittany lion biting incident 2-year-old german shepherd white house and delaware. there is apparently an officer was hospitalized because the dog clamped down on their arms and thighs? and in july they said a new training and leashing protocol would be used. now, keep in mind, remember the dog major bit people? they had to move that out and then commander came n, i think the summer of 2021. there was one incident last october where the first lady, jill biden could not apparently regain control of the dog as it charged a secret service agent. >> lawrence: of course. >> steve: the secret service agents are worried essentially it's a significant hazard. they have got to watch the president and make sure nobody does anything to him and they have to watch out for the dog.

>> ainsley: lawrence, what do you think about this? because you have a dog -- how would you describe your dog? >> lawrence: she a working dog. they have no control of the dog. mine is a belgium but i trained german shepherds as well. if my dog would have bit someone one time it probably would have gotten down. because this is the president's dog: it's not a bad dog. it's a bad handler. >> steve: or training. >> lawrence: it's clear that the president as well as jill biden haven't been working with the dog and there hasn't been one person. the secret service, they have k-9s as well they know how to work with dogs. the problem is these dogs have not been trained. >> brian: number one there is no budget to get this dog a trainer. number two the dog doesn't belong there number three the head of the secret service has to step up and say to the white house. i'm not putting my men and women in trouble this is not a joke and by the way i have had four german shepherds.

and if you make a mistake for example and let your friend go in the house first, they will attack. >> lawrence: that's right. >> brian: i had this great german shepherd one time my friend went into the house before me and got bitten at the arm. the first thing they say at the emergency room do you want the dog put down. how in the hell do you bite a human being 11 times and not adjust that? i know he is president. but you have to make a move here. you have had about a dozen dogs i imagine in your life. >> ainsley: can you train the biting out of the dog? >> lawrence: can you train it out. the problem is they have let major have a bite. once the dog gets that taste of blood and the way it's been done, it changes the dog. so, honestly, i hate to say, this it's too late. it's too late with this dog. >> brian: the secret service you got to get them out of there. >> lawrence: get him out of the white house. this dog doesn't belong. they need to stop just replacing the dog. it's not a dog -- stop getting new dogs. it's not going to solve the problem. if the dogs haven't been trained, you're just going to continue to have the same issue.

>> ainsley: get a yorkie. if you get a new dog, send it to lawrence, lawrence will train the dog. >> steve: that would be great. >> lawrence: put it on me. >> steve: put it in the white house. >> lawrence: also, stop getting german shepherds. they are working dogs. you can't just have them caged up and everything like that. this is not the proper dog for the white house. go get a poodle. go get a golden retriever, something that is just family, friendly that you don't have to put a lot of training in there. >> ainsley: toy poodle. best dog i ever had. i feel bad even saying that gosh my toy poodle is so good. she is the easiest dog i have ever had. she is so good. potty on the we we pad. >> steve: they need a golden retriever. the golden retriever will go and lick everybody. >> ainsley: hayden wants a golden retriever. i say next time. >> lawrence: clean up the hair nice. >> ainsley: british something golden retriever.

>> steve: british cream. they are so beautiful. ratings. fox news channel number one for. >> ainsley: thank you forever. >> steve: dozens and dozens of years. >> ainsley: brian and steve are the ori originals. >> steve: i remember taylor swift was here when she was 14 years old. >> ainsley: you all made her famous. >> steve: she made the kansas city chiefs famous. fox kept taking pictures of her in that box with the mother of travis kelci it. turned out to be the number one broadcast of the week. the number one broadcast with women of all ages. and fox sports sent out a press release that said america's game of the week swiftly scores the most watched telecast of the week. >> brian: meanwhile a blow out by the way. 40-10. >> ainsley: read some of the stats it's crazy. >> steve: go to the videotape, because taylor swift was there 400 percent spike in travis

kelce merch. three time increase in chiefs sale on stub hub. sold more tickets since the start of the tense. will kelsey adds 300,000 instagram followers. 24.3 million people watched. number one game of the week. 63% jump in female viewers age 18-49. the kansas city chiefs, i'm sure would like to say thank you taylor swift. >> lawrence: travis and his brother have a podcast finally addressed the rumor. let's watch. >> we have been avoiding this subject out of respect for your personal life. now we have got to talk about it? >> yeah. my personal life that's not so personal. i did this to myself, jason. i know this. >> well, trav how does it feel that taylor swift has finally put you on the map? >> ainsley: he is cute. is he a cute guy. then there is this running joke that when girlfriends online on social media are saying that she

is responsible for putting him on the map and all the guys are saying are you kidding me? he was in the super bowl? we have known him forever. watch this. we have a clip of that, right? >> steve: we do. >> put travis kelce on the map like he was irrelevant before. >> no, he wasn't. he is like a super star football player. >> i don't think he's that good. >> travis kelce arguably the best tight end of all time. >> she is going to be get his career going and the economy. >> because it's going to explode when he was winning super bowls. >> taylor swift with him he has a good fan base. >> no, don't say that. >> lawrence: this is why this is going to be a problem. bad for his career. >> steve: i hope it's real. >> lawrence: i'm glad he laid on the sword. i recently found out michael parson the best player in the

nfl right now is a huge taylor swift fan and i'm so glad that they did not get together. i'm so glad he is friends with kelsey many and that's done. >> brian: weird thing to be grateful for. i say this look he is 33 years old. in a couple years he is going to be done with the game. he can go back and go to concerts with her. chords, whatever he has to do. >> ainsley: help her write songs. >> steve: take care of their kids. >> ainsley: that's true. >> brian: maybe he could train commander. >> ainsley: we know her mother-in-law she seems like a nice person help with the kids. >> brian: i think it's going to work. five years from now do you remember whether they first started dating? this is going to work. >> ainsley: i think it's been three weeks? >> brian: yep. >> brian: i'm on the record >> lawrence: i'm on the record saying this is not going to work. >> brian: every day how many days has it been so far? >> ainsley: did you all see joe

concha. >> lawrence: taylor ticker. >> ainsley: give me a break why does everyone -- did you see her going crazy? they threw a tiny little pass to him and he caught it. it was like three yards. going crazy. >> brian: joe does not understand love. >> steve: he doesn't understand football is he a giants fan. >> ainsley: going crazy like it was the biggest deal. >> lawrence: that's cold. >> brian: in your person catches a touchdown. >> steve: i said joe doesn't understand football is he a giants fan. they are in new jersey, the giants are. more on this later. in the meantime, coming up on this wednesday, it's a tough story to report on this morning, a cbp agent has rescued that 2-month-old baby near the rio grande river. >> ainsley: this as dramatic new footage shows migrants breezing through an open section of the border in california yesterday as construction workers attempted to reinstall the barrier. texas governor greg abbott joins us. ♪

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right now with illegal immigration. >> without a doubt. look at the raw numbers. >> brian: people to say new york we have over 100,000 here, teaming, sleeping on the streets. people want to blame texas for this. how many illegal immigrants did you send here? >> so, as of last night. texas has sent 15,800 migrants. >> brian: we got 100. who sent them here? >> joe biden has sent the rest of them here. and so joe biden really is responsible for the majority, the overwhelming majority of the people that the migrants here in new york city and of the people in new york city have a problem with all the migrants they are having to house, they need to blame joe biden, which can candidly that's what mayor adams is beginning to do. that's what the new york governor is beginning to do. also what the people in chicago and l.a., et cetera, are are beginning to do because they are realizing the problem here is not the governor of texas. the problem we have going on is the president of the united states. >> lawrence: governor, have you declared an invasion. we saw that 2-month-old baby that was dropped across the

fence, border agents picked the baby up. but what does the invasion decree actually mean? does that mean that texas is going to start deportations themself or are they going to be pushing them back? what does that mean? >> that means several things, first of all, showing the world the magnitude of the problem that we have. this is the first time a state has ever used the invasion clause of the united states constitution to describe exactly what's going on at the border. but also we use that where we are deploying the national guard. the texas department of public safety and we are, for one, for the first time ever in american history, we are repelling and turning back people who are trying to come into the country, some we apprehend and take back across the border. others we apprehend and jail for trespassing in the state of texas. but you all on fox news, have you shown the way that the texas national guard are repelling people coming to the border. but, we are using every tool that we can to make sure. >> lawrence: will we start deportations in texas well? >> some of the people -- first, our first goal is to make sure

they don't get across to begin with second, when they do get across, we have the national guard and dps take them right back to the border. and the other is, again, if there's a reason to arrest them. we will arrest them and put them in jail in the state of texas. >> brian: buoys that you put suing you to get it out. they are suing you not to put up the wall we paid for no scenario the federal government going out of their way to make your life worse and your life worse. >> true make it worse than that we are putting up the buoys. the buoy idea came from the border patrol. and they tested it for safety. they tested for effectiveness and no one will cross those buoys. obviously the biden administration sued us because we have those buoys in the water. we will continue to deploy them, they are out there right now, if we win that case, which i think we will, we will put hundreds of miles of buoys there and let me explain why. we are building a border wall the exact same border wall.

>> brian: right now? >> right now today the border wall is going up as we are speaking. but the border wall cost 10 times as much as those buoys so, we can have more prevention of people crossing the border by putting hundreds of miles of those buoys in the water. but, talking about the biden administration suing us to try to eliminate the buoyys, but it gets worse, because you all showed here on fox news the national guard put up this constantino razor twir prevent people coming across into the state of texas. it was effective. the biden administration border patrol they cut that razor wire. then they pulled it open and let the migrants through. there is a war going on on the border and that war is between texas and the united states of america. it's outrageous. >> lawrence: governor i want to bring up colony ridge. would very had a lot of viewers outraged about this. this little community is housing illegals, advertising to illegals. and, as you know in 2015, we

banned sanctuary cities in the state of texas. so what's exactly going on? i know there is a special session that's going to be going on and this will be an item on that special session. >> absolutely. first, importantly, so, all texans and americans know, i signed a law sb 4 that bans sanctuary cities in the state of texas. we are looking for the application of that law to what's going on in colony ridge. we are taking this very serious and what we have done to make sure that we have law and order in that area, deployed the texas department of public safety to patrol the region. texas department of public safety has special agents that are undertaking investigations about what is going on there. we deployed the texas commission on environmental quality to make sure that whatever is going on there is not posing any type of environmental problem. and the st state of texas issued subpoenas to the company that is in charge of all of this, to find out the financial background. find out exactly what is going on. then as you pointed out in two weeks, we are having a special session begin where the issue of colony ridge is going to be on

that special session. so we can look into it and pass. >> lawrence: do we know if it's true that these folks tonight have social security numbers, texas drivers i.d.? what do we know about the people being housed? >> when we have a special session and have bills proposed deal with it, we are going to have legislative hearings that will surface the information about whether or not those allegations are true or not. and, if they are true, what we can do to stop it. >> brian: lastly, governor, when they make a mandate that venezuelans get to temporary work visas how much harder does that make it? what does that signal to venezuelans, come one, come all, come here, free meals, free stays, we will do your laundry and give you a job. >> it's called a magnet. this is a magnet to the entire world. it may be for venezuelans, but other people from 150 countries from across the globe see that same thing and come here. but i will tell you this. so i filed a lawsuit, daca back

when i was a attorney general. what president obama did at the time mass amount of people stay here. we won the daca lawsuit. we will file a lawsuit, the state of texas will file a lawsuit it is illegal for the president-to-a lou people like that here illegally and gives them work permits here illegally. >> lawrence: greg abbott the great governor from the great state of texas. thank you, lawrence. >> brian: good luck later explaining yourself to the city of mid-atlantic. i'm glad you are doing what you are doing. still on our show urgent manhunt underway for convicted sex offender wanted for murder in baltimore. a live report straight ahead. don't move. ♪

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in philadelphia in overnight looting spree leaving piles of clothes and smashed iphones. comes as target announces had will close nine stores in new york, california, oregon and washington state due to skyrocketing retail crime. target's former vice chairman joined us earlier. >> ultimately, it comes down to a really good police work, you know, going after these organized crime rings and trying to tear them apart the way you used to could the mafia or someone like that. prosecutors and politicians that have lowered the penalties for committing. this and the criminals are just like anyone else. they are economic entities. so, when they do the math it says i can do this and get away with it, i'm going to do it. >> carley: listen to this, stores in the u.s. lost $112 billion to retail theft in 2022 alone. happening today, new jersey senator bob menendez and his wife will be arraigned on federal bribery charges.

this as a list of democratic senators calling for menendez to resign continues to grow. 26 senators have now done so including long time ally new jersey senator cory booker. menendez is still refusing to step down. >> senator menendez. >> i'm innocent, what's wrong with you guys car carry says he is innocent. prosecutors say they do have a mountain of evidence, including cash and gold bars, like the ones you see on your screen. earlier this hour, a nasa astronaut and two cosmo knots safely return to earth after spending one year in space crew spending three hours after docking at the space station. franco rubio setting the record for the longest spaceflight by an american. the crew was supposed to spend six months in orbit but their trip was delayed after their spacecraft suffered a major

coolant leak. and those are your headlines. steve, that's big news. a year in space. >> steve: that's crazy. >> >> carley: coolant leak? >> steve: listen, you need antifreeze, just saying. >> carley: even in space -- especially in space. >> steve: carley, thank you very much. >> carley: you are welcome. steve the stage is set. seven republican candidates, those seven right there, gearing up for tonight's primary debates on fox business. what do voters want to hear? let's ask a couple of them. joining us right now a panel of voters. republican iowa voter nicole olson screen left along with independent voter and campus reform correspondent at high point university in north carolina kristin jackson. ladies, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> all right, nicole, let's start with you. i know after the first debate you felt that nikki haley was the winner. so, tonight, you are looking for her answers but, also, do you feel like the others are going to come after her? >> yeah. i think she is going to have

target on her back and i'm excited to see her show how she handles herself under that pressure. she is going to, again, show up and really get her base excited and draw in some more momentum. >> steve: sure, nicole, why do you think she won the first time? >> because she spoke the truth. she wasn't afraid to take on the tough issues, and she didn't back down. and i think she really showed that she has experience and that she has the candor to stand in front of a crowd and really take on the tough issues. >> steve: sure, now, kristin, you identify as an independent voter, so what -- you watched the first debate. you are going to be watching tonight. donald trump is not going to be there. you know, and some voters are disappointed. they would like to see him in action. he has done great. he is the frontrunner. are you disappointed that he is not there? >> thank you so much for having me. >> steve: thank you. >> i don't think i would say i'm disappointed nor surprised that he's not there, being that he is

the frontrunner and he does have a lot of things going on in his life, that we have seen play out on tv. but he is letting the other people get their words in and letting the american people see what the rest of the field has to offer and what they have to say about the issues in america. so he is just taking it light. but i'm pretty sure we will see him soon. >> steve: sure. nicole, you know, for this second debate, at least one candidate did not make it. and for the third debate the requirements are even more stringent. you know, if a couple of weeks after this debate and a candidate is still polling in low single digits, is it time for them to say -- especially with the third quarter fundraising deadlines coming up, with s. it time for some candidates to say you know what? i gave it my all. i should probably suck in my bats and go home? >> you know, that's a really tough question to answer. and i will leave that to the experts, but i certainly hope that we start to see some more

unity and the more momentum around one particular candidate because i think that's what we need if we want to beat biden. >> steve: okay. and kristin, how about you? given the fact that the field is seven tonight. we don't know how many for the third one, if people are not gaining traction, is it time to say, you know what? i gave it the old team spirit but it just didn't work out? >> personally, i do think so. i'm not one to say, you know, you should quit. but, i think it's time to be realistic and, like, the other panel has said, we need a little bit more unity and it's seeming like there is not any at all and it's just a bunch of bickering and arguing and being that those candidates that are low in the polls should unite and support those that are the frontrunners and just create more unity within the party and just realize that it might not be their time and maybe their time

is something in the future which is not now. >> steve: there you go, well said, kristin, nicole, thank you both for joining us from iowa and from north carolina. >> thank you. >> thank you for having me. will. >> steve: you bet. 16 minutes before the top of the hour. ainsley? >> ainsley: okay. thank you so much, steve. now a fox news alert. a manhunt happening in maryland for a convicted sex offender wanted in a murder of a young tech ceo. lucas tomlinson joins us live with the disturbing details. lucas? >> ainsley, tragedy out of baltimore. a 26-year-old tech ceo named the forbes 30 under 30 list found beaten to death inside her baltimore apartment. police are searching for the suspect who they say is a violent repeat offender. police have issued an arrest warrant for 32-year-old jason billingsley, admitted the killer should have never been released from prison. he was convicted of a violent crime in 2011 and received a 30 year sentence. he was paroled last year before serving less than half of the

time. here's a warning from baltimore police about the killer. >> we implore residents to be aware of your surroundings at all time. this individual will kill and he will rape. he will do anything he can to cause harm. >> pd will not rest until we have him in custody. we are working with every law enforcement partner that we have to make sure that we bring this individual, who quite frankly shouldn't have been out on the streets in the first place, into custody. >> echo math founder was found murdered inside her luxury apartment after being reported missing. she started the company from the dorm room at johns hopkins university in baltimore. her business sought to quote digitize ecosystems to help entrepreneurs from all background and walks of life, according to the company's website who said in a statement, quote. pava was not only the visionary force behind echo math. johns hopkins is mourning her

death and says she will be profoundly missed ted talk a few years ago she spoke about failing society and violence, guys. >> ainsley: holy cow. she had a ted talk? she is so successful. that is so -- no matter who it is, it's horrible but my goodness. >> just watched it before the hit, a tragedy. >> ainsley: thank you, lucas. he is still on the run, right? >> yes. he is armed and dangerous. >> ainsley: be careful if you live in that area. thank you, lucas. america's soaring crime rate major topic taking center stage when g.o.p. candidates take the stage tonight. let's head back out to simi valley where "fox & friends" co-host pete hegseth joins us live. >> pete: good morning, ainsley. thanks for tossing it out here. i'm here with the sheriff. thanks for being here. >> you got it. >> pete: as ainsley mentioned crime is going to be a huge topic tonight. what do you expect at large from the candidates here talking on crime? >> i think every voter will have to assess for themselves does

this in terms of leadership nationwide in combating crime because it's getting out of control in every large major metropolitan area. even rural areas are now seeing the impact of and it just the news from baltimore is just part and parcel of what is happening. especially with progressive d.a.s kind of like. >> pete: they are letting out criminals and repeat offending in that baltimore case is staggering in the amount of time he should have served, didn't serve, now someone else is dead. >> look here in l.a. we have george gascon, progressive d.a., george soros funded. and he has let out case after case where the person gone on and reoffended. october 1st starts a zero jail schedule in l.a. county. >> pete: what does that mean? >> that means if you got caught in the act of doing let's say a smash and grab, sight and release, book and release the funny one is magistrate review where they will order you not to commit additional crime and you just. >> pete: you are ordered to commit no crime. >> yes. >> pete: go forth and don't

commit crime. >> that's what they're saying. >> pete: that's incredible. let me ask you about oakland business. in california a bunch of them going on strike saying we can't run a business in this crime environment. 200 of them? >> that's scary. you look at the closures the target. we have seen cvs closing in the bay area as well for the same reach. the theft is so rampant it doesn't even make the news anymore. it's on an hourly basis. people are walking in, walking out with whatever they want. and everyone feels helpless because police make the arrest, there are no prosecution. >> pete: doesn't even make the news. police make the arrest. there is no prosecution. there is no more bail at this point and the businesses can't meet their bottom line because their product is being stolen. how does that -- how can that be sustainable? >> it's not sustainable. it's the doom loop we are seeing in san francisco. l.a. is starting to go down the same road because you can't sustain your business. you shut your doors and now all of a sudden now that's less employees and the economy just spiraling downward.

>> pete: no doubt. alexville nay have a thank you for your service. >> you quote it. >> pete: clarity on this topic. crime is crime and you pay the price. >> yes. >> pete: by the way crime will be a topic on stage i'm sure tonight we will cover it on the pre and post debate coverage on .tune in to us on the big show commercial debates. >> ainsley: i did that during the first debate. >> pete: i appreciate that, ainsley. >> ainsley: during the commercials you give your analysis and really informative. >> pete: quick what do you think just happened? how do you think they will come out of the gates again? it's fun. thank you, ainsley we will see it tonight. >> ainsley: we love you. you always do such a great job. >> pete: appreciate it. >> ainsley: thank you for going out there. 10 points for griffen door. i'm not a harry potter person. thank you, carley, she watches it. she loves it. she has sheets for her son

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island /* >> janice: good morning, it is a beautiful day in new york. chilly, feeling like fall.

take a look at the map. potential for shower and thunderstorms for the sunshine state for a couple days. look at that. stalled front, area of low pressure that will bring nonstop rain for next few days. people have -- it will put a damper on that. there is rain still to come. two to three inch, three to five and isolated amounts for the state of florida. across the northeast, system moving in on friday, rain will return. looking ahead to next week, warmer temperatures. there is a silver lining, we'll have to get through friday and saturday. potential for showers and thunderstorms, maybe severe weather for ohio valley and another storm system moves into the northwest.

fox weather.com, for details. carley. >> carley: happening today, the convicted murderer who escaped from prison last month, daniel cavalcante, is facing a preliminary hearing today. daniel cavalcante is serving a life sentence for murder. he is also facing charges for a murder in brazil. today a union leader signed off on tentative deal with major studio, this would end 150 day strike, that brought production to a halt. the vote would begin on monday. the actors union just authorized a strike against video games. sag said they do not have contract talks planned.

harry potter taking over the empire state building 25 years afters first book was published here in the united states. >> you're a wizard, harry. >> i'm a what? >> a wizard and a thumping good one, i wager, once you trade up a little. >> you have made a mistake. >> carley: at sunset today, the empire state building will be lit up in the hogwarts colors. we have fun stuff on the set over here. >> steve: one of the houses, i'm wearing the colors here. >> carley: you are puff. and raven claw scar. >> lawrence: and my mother -- >> carley: i watched harry potter last night. >> ainsley: how did you get harry potter. >> brian: don't spoil the ending. >> carley: i won't.

it was chilly and started to feel like fall. >> ainsley: this is beer kids can drink? >> this is butter beer. >> ainsley: kids can drink it? >> carley: yes. like butterscotch. >> steve: i remember taking my kids to the bookstore to buy the harry potter book. and peter and mary went to oxford, but the big dining hall is where they did the book. >> brian: there is a virtual ride where you don't move temperature is great. i think the butter beer, too, so jammed at university you can barely move or get the butter beer. >> carley: thanks to harry potter new york. >> ainsley: i told lawrence, this needs to be a profile picture.

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