thanks again. >> todd: from basic to football nfl fans provided including producer anthony and i who literally yelled at each other during the commercial break about this. green bay packers submitted a turn push play. play become a specialty for the philadelphia eagles involve players lining up beyond the qb lung forward. gives unfair advantage risk injuries. teams should figure out ways to stop it. the issue will be argued. the annual league meeting next month and speaking of the eagles team reportedly denying rumors it did not want to visit the white house to visit president trump. source telling outkick the team would be honored to visit and celebrate their super bowl victory. they just needed invite from the white house first. so we will be watching that we thank you for watching us here on a tuesday morning. "fox & friends" begins right now. ♪

>> brian: all right. it is 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. it is tuesday, february 26th. >> ainsley: 25th, sorry! >> brian: wow. >> steve: thinking about tomorrow. the sun will come out tomorrow. >> brian: what's with the yelling? >> ainsley: it was a happy yell. >> brian: democrats don't want trump's tax cuts for americans as they push to block the president's agenda in congress. i'll pause. >> you are a low income or middle class family they are going to take away your healthcare. >> this budget is the republican betrayal of the middle class. >> brian: speaker johnson is asking for prayers on this one. really? >> ainsley: plus our defense secretary heading back down to gitmo today where the administration is housing the worst of the worst criminal migrants that's been detained in our country. >> lawrence: an activists in l.a. are doxxing ice agents. wait until you hear this. >> steve: that is just awful. "fox & friends" for this

tuesday. >> ainsley: texas tuesday. >> steve: it's texas tuesday. >> ainsley: woo! >> steve: starts right now. [laughter] >> steve: great. elon musk is giving some federal workers the boot and others a second chance to respond to his email. as he continues asking for details of what they accomplished over the last week. >> lawrence: madeleine rivera joins us live from washington with the latest. good morning maddy. >> madeleine: hi, guys, good morning. a lot of confusion regarding this directive. elon musk says while there's a second chance to respond. failure to answer again will result in terms this time. but the office of personal management says agencies will be the ones to review responses and evaluate nonresponses. they will look into whether employees were on excused leave yesterday or whether they had access to their email over the weekend. the opm says agents can exclude some workers from this exception at their discretion given that

they provide reasons for exclusion. and, finally, the opm says it is up to the agency's leadership to determine what actions are taken. some agencies, like the fbi and the department of defense, for instance, have told employees not to respond to the opm email saying they will be doing their own reviews but others like the transportation secretary saying that their department is going to be following this directive from musk. president trump says a different orders don't necessarily mean a division between the trump administration and musk. and is he defending musk's order. listen here. >> so what they are doing is trying to find out who is working for the government where is the money going. a lot of jean justs sending it sending a letter to people please tell us what you did last week. it's possible there is no such person or they are not working. >> there appears to be no deadline set for a second

response we will see if we get more clarity later today. >> steve: a that last word, clarity. there hasn't been a lot of that madeleine, for the federal employees watching right now, what are they supposed to do? >> we will see later on today as we get more answers from the white house, from the president, look, if you listen to the opm email, what they will say is they are not taking a one-size-fits-all approach to this. they will take into account the differences among the different agencies, they will work with the different agencies and taking into things confidentiality reasons for example which president trump says was the reason for example that the fbi and the dod, why they not might not be responding to this email right now. they will take those factors into account. the white house is down playing the notion that there is a division between the opm and musk here. they say at the end of the day, the administration is working together to create more efficiency among federal

workers. but, again, like you said, steve, there is no doubt that are a lot of federal workers who are confused by this and they are hoping to get more answers later on today. >> steve: all right, madeleine, thank you very much. >> ainsley: elon said the email request was utterly trivial as the type words and press send. some failed. urged on by their managers. have you ever witnessed such incompetence and contempt for how your taxes are being spent makes old twitter look good. i didn't think that was possible. the problem is the federal workers are getting mixed messages and turf war by some of the agency leaders, the new agency leaders and elon musk. now, donald trump said yesterday look, all we are trying to do is make sure these people are actually working. that there are actual people. like the social security sending out checks to people that are 140 years old? that doesn't exist. they are just making sure that these positions are filled by live bodies not sending

paychecks to people that don't exist. office of personnel management voluntary won't be fired if you don't respond. pause responses. we are in charge of employee reviews. and and then kristi noem with the department of homeland security saying don't respond. what are you supposed to do? >> steve: right, exactly. who is running the show? >> lawrence: the president gave them cover yesterday as well. a lot of these same agencies. you are talking about the defense department as well as transportation as well have invited doge into their department. they are not anti-doge. what they are saying is the information that's going out, there is some security measures they need to put in place for that so they want to coordinate the response of this. >> brian: yeah. so there is a lot of people who are going to be let go. in a lot of different agencies. i know the transportation has let some people go. the v.a. doug collins dismissing more than 1400 employees with non-mission critical positions. others in transportation were let go. did not have safety implications. day to day.

and that's what is happening, too. just about everywhere, if you are probationary they are looking to let you go. the overarching headline is we have to cut the federal workload. 2.7 million. it's got get less. the question is now, that was a speech the president gave at cpac. the president elon musk saw it and said i hear you, mr. president, i put out this email and the president said yesterday i like the idea of an email, i think next time very easy. a lot of these people, musks personal friends, i'm going to send out email and go to all the divisions, are you okay with this? because kash patel was only on the job two days. he can't have fbi agents who may be miscommunicated. same with tulsi gabbard i really can't do this. i'm going to back out it. doesn't mean they are fighting. it just means they make more of an effort to coordinate. >> steve: that's the key. i think a lot of it with the statement department and fbi and national security apparatus. they don't want their boss -- they don't want somebody at a laptop somewhere putting out

okay these are the five classified things did i last week because there was an email that went out yesterday hhs, health and human services. if you apply assume that what you write will be read by maligned foreign actors to taller your responses accordingly. what is curious though. i don't know if you guys saw this or not, there was a hearing yesterday regarding doge access to treasury records. and the government attorney representing the white house was asked by the judge, so who exactly is running doge? who is the administrator? and the attorney for the federal government says i don't exactly know. i don't have that answer. so, it's kind of like what is the flow chart for the person who is running doge? elon musk has been described as a adviser to the president. >> lawrence: i think it's a flat organization. this is not -- and i think washington is so used to this

chart. essentially you have all of these people that are across agencies reporting back to elon musk who then goes back to the president and he makes the final decision on it. i just want them to be able to do their job. it looks like they are doing a great job. there are some bumps in the road. i have been getting a lot of emails from federal employees. i understand why some of you guys are feeling the heat and being lumped into the basket of all the other federal employees that americans have distrust for. we're not talking about you. we understand there are career people that just want to do their job that love their country. but you have to understand it is bipartisan thing. independents, democrats, as well as republicans all feel like ththere inefficiency in our government. i apologize you are being lumped in and want to do your job. something has to give like in the private sector. >> brian: argentina is doing it.

they had 110% inflation it was a joke. this guy came in the leader who gave him the chainsaw. musk's agency is the only way to do it. because if you do it through normal committee meetings and oversight it. ends up being a report that nobody does. remember, the erskine bowles, the bowls report. bowls report. simpson bowles. it was pretty comprehensive, barack obama looked at that time this will never pass. put it on the back burner. these guys got paid for 18 months. i need somebody on the outside. doesn't need to be elected to go in and make tough decisions. >> ainsley: take brian kilmeade send email i did "fox & friends" on monday and i did radio on monday. on tuesday i did "fox & friends." i did radio wednesday. just one week of what you did, just to make sure you are a live body and a real person. yeah. i feel -- i understand what you

are saying, you do feel for the federal workers getting lumped in and worried about losing their jobs. i think the purpose of this is not necessarily -- if you respond to the email, it sounds like you have a good chance of surviving. >> ainsley: at the workplace. >> steve: then again if your adviser says don't do it. >> ainsley: i know. >> steve: that's complicated. ultimately this is going to be tied up in courts for a while. >> lawrence: yeah. ains. >> steve: some of the people brought lawsuits. a group of probationary employees who were fired last week got a 45-day stay as they take a look at it. ultimately, democrats and others say that it's unconstitutional. you need the power of congress to get close agencies and things like that. i will tell you, over the last five days, i have been down in texas and i have talked to a lot of people down there who are not part of the family government.

they got a family member or in-law or a friend or know a guy who got that letter. >> ainsley: the majority of the country supports the cutting. >> steve: i get that, ainsley, but, if you got the letter, you are just very, very concerned and you're worried about the future. who knows whether or not those people will be let go. >> brian: the consumer bureau put out there by elizabeth warren. the whole division was cut. that's been controversy when trump was in the first time. >> lawrence: from the very beginning. >> brian: yeah. from the very beginning. elizabeth warren is not happy with that she is having all these meetings about all -- and all the vitriol is flying about how the musk people don't know what they are doing. they are just cutting out just trying to give tax cuts for billionaires. bret cooper was on with you yesterday. >> ainsley: she more than a million followers, 1.2 million on instagram. on youtube 1.4. when she had a show 8 million, 9 million people would listen to

it. she was on with us. she is a gen zer. she is young and in her early 20's. she has become very successful a covid student in college. when she graduated she didn't know what she was going to do. started working for prager u. her career just built. people like what she is saying. she is a conservative. she voted for trump. she said this is why more young people voted for trump than kamala. >> i think we were just ready for something new, especially after biden. because, obviously, the system wasn't working. and so in looking at my generation, i think that they realized like lets burn it down, basically. let's try something new. we are willing to walk away from what we known and what we have been told is pathetic and inclusive and correct and what young people should believe. we were willing to try something new. imagine go is raging against the machine and young people are rebellious and willing to try something new. >> lawrence: i can't blame her generation or my generation. folks can't afford a house and sending money to foreign governments it.

doesn't feel well. i think that the democrats, they are argue -- the argument that they make is process. they are not targeting the issue of waste, fraud and abuse. jazmine crocket she went on charlamagne the breakfast club he asked her do you think that waste and fraud is a big issue? and she goes not at all. that is not a mainstream point of view, even for people in her party. so, you can stand with the workers that for our federal government say look i want a fair process. but you have to understand. most americans want cuts to happen and if you keep being on the other side, you are going to find yourself we are almost to the midterms already, that started the moment donald trump was elected. if you run on that, you are going to lose again. >> steve: i think we will see a lot of it splayed out for the public today and brian was mentioning how they are going to have a forum today, senator warren with the consumer financial protection board. keep in mind, it was elon musk who said what was it whatever that acronym is cfpb, rip, that

was a week or two ago. he obviously wants to get rid of it. and this would be great to see, elizabeth warren has invited elon musk, we will have this forum, you come on here and explain how people are going to be protected from scrupulous lenders. >> ainsley: ages 18 to 25 support doge and 62% found a strong majority of all americans support doge's efforts to reduce waste, fraud. >> brian: they like the idea of cutting waste but don't like when it comes to their back yard. they want to cut social programs just not their social programs. that's why an outsider is necessary to come in. 14 minutes after the hour. >> steve: well today pete hegseth is going to have kind of a homecoming. remember, back in the day when he was in the military, weigh was actually guard at gitmo. well, now he returns to gitmo as the top dog worse of the worst

for al-qaeda. migrants who have been deported admit mow as they try to figure out where they should go next. >> ainsley: he says these are. so worst of the worse. kristi noem said this on illegal border crossings. low number. we haven't seen as low of a number as we have this past saturday in 15 years. listen. >> we only had 200 encounters at the border when under the biden administration on our worst day we saw up to 15, 16,000 encounters. so to have that kind of a drop under president trump is because of a change of policy. it's because of telling the world to stay away if you want to come to this country illegally, you will be stopped because america comes first. and it's because of president trump. the fact that he is so firm and so confident and he wants to uphold the law. and he follows through with consequences if people don't. so, setting that record, the

lowest number in 15 years is remarkable. and the wins just keep coming because we have a president that believes in this country. >> brian: they look at title 42, bring that back to make sure people can't just say hey, i'm having a bad time in my country. they will say this is a health emergency. we don't know what diseases you carry. it's not good for the country. stay. they got rid of the app. where can you go to another country. just log in with your information. get in and show them your app. at the door and now they get rid of special nation status that allows haitians. cubans and venezuelans to come here because of extreme strife in their nation. that's all gone combining that crack down and cartels labeling them a terror group that has combined to really destroy illegal immigration right now. soon they will have to bring the troops off the border, which is a good thing. >> lawrence: well, if you listen to some of the other stations what they have been talking about is gitmo and the fact that we had terrorists that were

there. i just hope people understand the damage that the cartel has done to this country. they probably killed more people with the fentanyl that's crossed the border than the tears have on foreign land as well or the amount of people that died at 9/11 as well. so, i think what the secretary and the president is doing is trying to get an effort of deterrence but also making sure these guys don't go back on the street. if you allowed them in the prison of these local cities, they are releasing them every single day. >> steve: right. keep in mind, this administration, unlike any administration we have seen in modern times, uses the imagery of what is going on with the federal government to make a point. a couple of weeks ago, when they started the ice raids, those images went around the world. and suddenly the people are thinking about coming oh, look at that they have ice raids. the defor station flights suddenly it's like if i go over there and pay that coyote $25,000. i might wind up on that airplane. today, more of the images during

his tour of gitmo. laura ingraham will be with pete hegseth and tomorrow night see what happens on "the ingraham angle." those pictures of the worst of the worst of these criminal migrants being at this high security prison what person in another country is going to go you know what? i think i will roll the dice. i hope i don't wind up in a raid or in a plane or in a prison. you know what? maybe i will just stay home. >> brian: los angeles putting up posters to target ice. you have the doxxing, putting the names and the figures and the addresses of the ice and fbi agents. >> ainsley: we're going to be talking about that this morning. here is news you need to know about. everybody is praying for pope francis. is he still in the hospitals this morning for 11th day as he continues to battle double pneumonia. 88 years old, in critical condition. the vatican says he is showing slight improvement resuming work. approving new decrees for

candidates for possible saint hood. hundreds are gathering vatican city. these are images from yesterday. they are praying for his full recovery and we will have a live update from rome in the next hour. also the cdc is working to ease concerns about a new virus discovered in bats at the same lab in wuhan, china, at the center of the 2020 covid-19 lab leak theory. the u.s. health agency saying, quote: cdc is aware of a publication about a new bat coronavirus but there is no reason to believe it currently poses a concern to public health, researchers behind a new study out of china says this newly discovered virus has the potential to infect humans but the cdc stresses no human cases have been detected. president trump wants to revive the keystone xl pipeline project that would extend the existing line this transport more crude oil from canada to the u.s. trump says the company building

the keystone xl pipeline that was viciously jettisoned by the imcompetent biden administration, should come back to america and get it built now. if not them, perhaps another pipeline company. south bow which was spun off of the original company telling fox business we have moved on from the keystone xl project. we continue to engage with customers to develop options to increase canadian oil supplies to meet growing demands. deni's adding a surcharge to all meals that include eggs at locations. it is necessary because of rising cost caused by the nationwide egg shortage. this comes after waffle house started charging 50 cents extra per leg. on the flip side you have cracker barrel it's promising not to add an egg surcharge. that's eggs lent. finally texas tuesday we got to show off our resident texan,

steve and i did, lawrence how we're celebrating with him. [cheers] [laughter] >> ainsley: i don't know they were recording that. that's hilarious. lawrence you brought it to new york. >> i'm so happy, ainsley that you got your boots. steve did it bass week he changed. >> ainsley: those are pretty. >> lawrence: brian our resident yankee will not. >> brian: it's not me. i can't dress up. i can't be authentic. i boycott halloween. i don't act. >> lawrence: say i go and buy you a pair of lieu caseys. will you put them on auto. >> these are lucchse.

>> ainsley: huge shops. >> brian: beautiful gesture i'm out. >> ainsley: no participation award. >> brian: can't doo do it because i'm pretending. i can't pretend. check in with my brand later and the answer is no. >> ainsley: do line dance? i used to know some. >> steve: brian, i remember when we used to the have the mechanical bull out front, i think you wore boots because i wore boots that time, too. and we wore cowboy hats. >> lawrence: that's the key. if we bring the bull back, you have to put the boots on for the bull. >> brian: listen, we're not doing the bull again. it's been done. >> lawrence: don't tell you are not going to do. >> steve: how about the dunk tank? >> brian: they stopped making them. they stopped making them unfortunately and they lost the technology. >> what if we have a famous country musician that comes in

people in the background dance they don't have to. willie nelson the dancer. >> ainsley: he wears boots and dances around. >> brian: i don't want to plow for the next hour. he enjoy that you are enjoying. this i'm out. >> steve: okay. >> ainsley: we love texas. we love our resident of texas here lawrence, supporting you. >> ainsley: you were in texas this weekend did you wear boots? >> steve: did i wear my boots. today is texas tuesday. good news, brian. monday is massapequa monday. we will dress like we are from massapequa. >> brian: tight muscle shirt that's all we need. >> steve: straight ahead, democrats don't want trump's tax cuts for americans. so where do the budget negotiations stand? we will tell you coming up next live from here. >> brian: nice day. hey

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>> this budget is a republican betrayal of the middle class it gut theguts the programs peopley on. as. >> steve: as the house looks for a vote on the budget maybe today, maybe tomorrow, speaker mike johnson feels confident about his odds of getting it done. despite some republican holdouts. listen to this. >> there may be more than one but they will get there we will get everybody there. this is a prayer request. just pray this through for us. it is very high stakes. everybody knows that if you are a small business owner, this is a very challenging time because you don't know what to expect. the market don't know what to expect. putting that clarity in as early as possible is critical and so the way to do that is with one big beautiful bill. okay? like that's the president's phrase and i have adopted it. >> steve: sitting next to the speaker during that right now

was fox news contributor guy benson, he conducted the interview and now we are conducting an interview with him right now. hey, guy, good morning. >> guy: wow. hey, steve. >> steve: right now at this point we have got a graphic shows some of the potential republicans had are nos. right now speaker johnson needs pretty much every republican to be on board they have problems. the people screen left the budget cutting is not deep enough. where is this going to end today or tonight. >> it's great question. and i posed a series of questions to that effect at this event yesterday afternoon. it was hosted by americans for prosperity. they want to do a lot of the heavy lifting to help the house republicans and president trump get those tax cuts renewed prevent a huge tax increase across the board by the end of the year. the big question to your point is the how. do they have the mechanism to get this done because you have got some people on the right

flank saying it should go further. some people more close to the center saying we're a little anxious about some of these proposed cuts. what speaker johnson said and this is so important about this upcoming vote, this is not the final package. this is not all the last details that would become law or be signed by president trump. this is really just the vehicle to get to reconciliation he sounded confident he called it a prayer request which sounded funny. he confident they can only lose one. he thinks they are going to get there and then the nitty gritty starts. is he ambitious on what comes next. step one is this week. >> steve: exactly. and i mentioned that there are a number of republicans who say the spending cuts are not deep enough. but then there are, guy, and you know this, there are a lot of moderate republicans who are worried about the medicaid cuts and any changes to that because one in five americans relies on medicaid. >> guy: exactly right.

it's threading a needle. can they get on to this next stage of the process by passing the budget resolution this week, which then allows them to have those intensive negotiations about what a final bill would look like. right now as i mentioned they can only lose one. i was talking to speaker johnson about this. he is aiming to try to get a final bill signed on the president's desk by mid april. and part of the reason why he is looking at april, i think that's aggressive. that's timeline. he believes he can do it. he wants to wait until after april 1st. why? that is when two republican seats down in florida will almost certainly be filled. right now they are playing shorthanded by three seats, right? they want to gain a few of those back to give themselves a tiny bit of breathing room which makes the negotiation process a little bit easier because, right now, it's a margin of error of nothing. if one person comes out and says i now -- they cannot lose another person.

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>> brian: we are just hours away from a congressional hearing, examining if the biden-harris administration weaponized the justice department for political purposes. some of the instances we're

expected to hear about are the crossfire hurricane investigation into russian collusion, the multiple fisa warrants targeting former trump adviser carter page and the alleged suppression of the investigation into the biden family. former assistant fbi director chris swecker will be testifying at the hearing and join us now. chris, there are investigations that look political that aren't. and there are ones that look political and were. first off on the ones you think were. crossfire hurricane, does that file under the yes it was political? >> no doubt about it, brian. when you look back at the origins of crossfire hurricane and the doj inspector general said this. it was an unpredicated investigation. that means that there wasn't sufficient facts to open up a full fbi investigation. so that -- you know, we know now, peter strzok, paige, mccabe, comey, they had a personal animus towards donald trump, and if you remember, the text between page and strzok, we

will stop him. and that just resonates in my mind and it did at the time when i heard about it, that's personal animus. that's inject g injecting your l opinion politics full investigation that wasn't predicated. they went to lie on fisa applications using that discredited steele dossier. that would have never happened under an fbi that w wasn't led y james comey i can tell you that. >> brian: their reputation is being destroyed by people that don't like a certain president. then you have the delay in looking into the laptop and the biden family. the slow-walking of a prosecution. after biden loses, suddenly this thing hits hyper speed and pictures start emerging of biden meeting in china with hunter biden's business partners. your thoughts on that being political? >> yeah. i mean, it wouldn't take a two year investigator out of the fbi

academy to see that there was more to the hunter biden case than a garden variety gun case and garden varietiy tax case. 170 suspicious bank activity reports. you have might get one or two. i worked at bank of america as security. one or two, 170. almost 19 million moving through 20 shell corporations? unheard of. there's a lot more going on there than guns and taxes. >> brian: and the press, too. they are not interested. real quick, on the mar-a-lago raid. some say well it was an emergency, classified documents, he was moving those boxes around. do you see politics in that? >> i do. you know, some of the faces of the crossfire hurricane had left the bureau at that time but there was a core group at the department of justice idealogues and also a core group of upper management in the fbi that were still there and so they tried to

take another bite at the apple with the documents case. no, that search at mar-a-lago was, you know, it might have been technically legal to do it but it was not -- that was an abuse of power. it was an active intimidation. one high level agent tried to talk them out of it. they couldn't do it. overruled by chris ray, they went there at dawn and searched the bedrooms and residents of a political opponent. >> brian: real quick, if you were on that raid, should you lose your job because they are evaluating that now. if you got an order to go raid something and you can't say well, i don't think so. can you at the fbi? >> no, you can't disobey an official order that's not illegal, if you will. it was probably unethical, immoral abuse of power. but if you are a trench agent and you are told to go somewhere and do something you have to do it. i would look further up the food chain upper to mid level

management that were part of that again, chris wray overruled the guy in charge of the investigation ostensibly anyway. >> brian: who trump appointed on the recommendation of chris christie. chris social worker, i look forward to your testimony today. hundreds stranded if the bahamas getting a sequel. some are priced over a million dollars. is anyone that gull snrible todd piro will be going. todd? >> todd: i already booked my tickets. >> brian: what could go wrong. >> todd: fire fest fei at this value billy mcfarland is attempting to make a return for round 2 in mexico. mcfarland says his dream is finally becoming a reality all this after serving four years in prison. he spoke to our own jesse watters last year about a plan for a fyre 2. fyre 1 cultural moment people left their comfort zones and

embarked on this venture and met people who materially impacted their life. that's what i'm trying to build for fyre 2. i actually have professional support they are not letting me do any of the logistics. >> jesse: you didn't have professional support last time. >> that was definitely one of the problems. >> todd: just one of the problems. in 2017 fyre was a festival in the bahamas despite being advertised as a luxury experience. deluxed rooms they promised never existed. people left stranded at the airport. can't forget about this the infamous photo of the cheese sand witch showing that the food that was served at the event was not the gourmet catering guests were promised. the new festival set for may 30th on an mexican island off can coon. ticket prices range at the low end from $1,400 to $1.1 million. so far no artists have been announced. we can't be bothered to actually come up with a list of artists. but, brian, i have a question

for you. i know you are quite familiar with prison life, where did he develop these connections to make fire 2 that much better than fire 1? usually look for track record. he has anti-track record. a record of not doing well yet people are still around him and giggling about it after four years in prison. i don't know what country we are in but i'm liking it. very entertaining. >> todd: if they give you a camera and send toucan do you know will you go? >> brian: i will call bryan llenas. i will not go. i would love to hear the story reported. thank you very much. i will bring my own cheese sandwich. boston's mayor getting ready to face congress as republicans put sanctuary policies under a spotlight. >> sanctuary cities are a sanctuary for criminals. i'm coming to boston. i'm bringing hell with me.

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>> adam: welcome back the forecast this morning includes earthquake that struck in the caribbean overnight, about 2:00 a.m. local time. 6 on the magnitude just 50 miles north of punta can that. we are tracking a flow of moisture running we see high

wind warnings across the region. folks across the country it is warm. temperatures currently 40's and 50's. feels a lot more like spring than winter as we are seeing spots ultimately in the mid 50's to mid 60's and stays this way the next couple of days. those are your headlines for now. lawrence over to you. >> lawrence: it's warming up. thanks, adam. boston mayor michelle wu four democrat mayors set to testify before congress next week on sanctuary policies. as voter czar tom homan calls out the city refusing to help ice prosecute illegal immigrants. >> sanctuary cities are a sanctuary for criminals. i'm coming to boston. i'm bringing hell with me. >> lawrence: catherine is organizing a protest in support of homan next week and she joins me now. thank you so much for getting up this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> lawrence: so i'm always

curious because we don't just see it here in boston but we see it in chicago. we see it in denver. we see it in l.a. all of these mayors are making these crazy statements about what the administration is doing. but is that what the local community feels? >> no, it's not. we have i -- i think in massachusetts we have a huge voter population that is uninformed because of the lack of information that's available to them. we don't have any local conservative media. we don't have any local conserving movement really at all. since michelle wu has gotten into office there has been a small handful of us resisting and protesting. and, other than that, people are usually just not informed enough to know, to make a different decision. >> lawrence: tom homan gave a

speech at cpac and he criticized the boston police commissioner because essentially he's a cop and both of them are cops, and they are asking another cop to turn over criminal migrants, people that are committed sexual assault, murder, and he said that this guy is not really representing them. well, your mayor had a response to that here is michelle wu. >> i will say it's pretty clueless for someone to be insulting our police commissioner who decades of experience, whose leadership in the role and whose results with our amazing police department speak for themselves. >> lawrence: what is she talking about? >> i think she is pretty clueless as to the oath that she took when she took office. and she was a constitution she is supposed to uphold. >> lawrence: yeah. there has been 19-plus arrests in boston area, since january. do you think she has considered those criminal aliens were

essentially prepared to do crimes again in your community? >> i don't think she cares. michelle wu lives in a nicer part of boston. she doesn't have to personally deal with crime, nor does her family. i live in not so nice part of boston. and i have lived in boston my whole life. there is tons of crime almost every single day there is a shooting. we don't always hear about them. but we hear them because we're there. and i don't think that most of the crime actually even gets reported on. people don't get around. charges don't get pressed on people who are looting stores. it's like a jungle out here. >> catherine, it's so true. i remember when they first started shipping illegals. i always said they are not going to the rich neighborhoods, they are going into communities that are already impoverished that

have their own struggles that they have to deal with. but they didn't care about that. thank you so much for getting up this morning. >> thank you. >> lawrence: you got it. president trump is working overtime to bring an end to the russia ukraine war. state department spokesperson tammy bruce will tell us where an ♪ d bowel incontinence. but that changed when my urologist told me about axonics therapy. a long-lasting solution that has really changed my life. this is not another drug, and it works. visit findrealrelief.com to arrange an appointment with an expert physician to determine if axonics therapy is right for you. results and experiences may vary. stop suffering in silence. what do a neurosurgeon, a country artist, and a television & radio host have in common? they all saw the writing on the wall. big bank sharing your financial information with big government. join them as owners in old glory bank -

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