sanchez all female flight crew to go to space. >> joe: harrison ford pointing typically lee jones i didn't kill my wife. he says i don't care. i'm tommy lee right now. i don't care. i don't understand what this accomplishes. you are lauren sanchez, dating jeff bezos, that's nice. what do you get the girl send her into space. is this a runway trip or are they coming back? >> i like my feet firmly planted on the ground. >> joe, thanks for joining us, happy friday. >> happy friday stretch now at this point. >> any weekend plans? >> enjoy skiing tomorrow in new jersey. >> carley: the ladies are going up to space. got to love it. joe, thank you so much. have a great day. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> todd: have a great weekend. ♪

>> ainsley: good morning, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. it is friday, last day of february, february 28th, and this is "fox & friends." >> soon it will be monday again and we will be back to work. a crucial meeting at the white house today as president trump hosts ukrainian. as they prepare to sign a minerals deal they could bring a lot of money back home. >> lawrence: plus, an accused cop killer is back on the street in my home state of texas. we are talking to the former district attorney that wanted this man to get the death penalty. >> steve: why is he out? you will never guess the surprising partnership the fbi is reportedly considering to get their agents in top shape. hmm. >> brian: it's got 8 sides. >> steve: it does. thinking out of the box and into the octagon. "fox & friends" for a friday starts right now >> brian: to a fox news alert. today two of the 29 cartel members who were just extradited to the u.s. from mexico,

including one accused of killing a dea agents back in 1985, will appear in a new york court today. >> ainsley: chanley painter is here with all the details for us. chanley? >> chanley: good morning, at least two of those defendants will be arraigned in brooklyn federal court according to a drug lord who is alleged to have been among those responsible for the murder of a u.s. dea agent in 1985. this comes as mexico on thursday handed over 29 high profile drug cartel members to the united states as part of an unprecedented extradition as the trump administration ramps up pressure on drug trafficking organizations, illegal immigration and fentanyl production. according to prosecutors, the prisoners face charges related to drug trafficking and, in some cases, homicide, among other crimes among them are members of five of the six mexican organized crime groupings designated earlier this month as foreign terrorist organization

by the trump administration, guys. >> steve: chanley, thank you very much. keep in mind, we heard from the president yesterday that the tariffs are coming and we are going to talk about that throughout the morning. they are going to come down hard on mexico to the tune of 25%. and when mexico heard about it, he started negotiating with the president sheinbaum down in mexico. what does she do? just a couple of days before the tariffs are supposed to go into effect, she releases these -- we extradite into the united states a 29 jailed cartel members, including somebody at the top of the most wanted list for 40 years. she also is pulling out all the stops, they say, this is mexico's point of view. they have arrested more than 400 people since february, after she announced that they were going to send 10,000 troops to the northern border for them. they seized 12 tons of narcotics, coke, meth, and 120 pounds of methamphetamines. and fentanyl. it's all about trying to keep

those tariffs from happening but they are happening on tuesday. >> ainsley: donald trump is going to hold them accountable. he wants them to protect the borders. he wants them to stop allowing individuals, especially cartel members, people bringing fentanyl over. trafficking children across the border. >> lawrence: the cartel can't be happy, mexico is a narco-state. now because of the president's pressure, their number one enterprise getting people across the border. people pay 10s of thousands of dollars across the border. that has been totally disrupted. now you have the mexican president turning over the bosses just because they are in jail doesn't mean they aren't running the criminal enterprise from jail as well. their tunnels are being sealed with concrete. i mean, it's pretty much all maximum pressure against the cartels, brian. >> brian: two of the leaders are from a now defunct cartel, they have been in driven that long. there were cartel leaders, security chiefs from both factions of the sinaloa cartel,

including their finance operatives. because, guess what happened when they are here? we get to talk to them. and we get to interrogate them. we get to unwind them and we say we can use their conditions as a way of getting them to talk. and it also goes show those people that are now out and functioning in mexico, this is what you're looking at. retribution american style. you will be extradited out here. you won't have any cushy situation where the cartels some would say are more powerful than the government. this is almost an out for the president of mexico, perhaps to get control of their country for the first time in decades. >> lawrence: in a box 23 hours a day, no windows, may get some sunlight for 43 minutes a day. >> steve: it's not going to work because she is going to levy those tariffs on them. what impressed me is just the fact that the d.a. has had picture of agent murdered by this guy, murdered in 1985 up on the wall, they have been looking

for this particular guy. this particular king pin was convicted down in mexico and supposed to serve 40 years in prison. in 2012 inexplicably suddenly he is out. he was recaptured 10 years later. we have been waiting to get our hands on him now we got him. >> ainsley: video of him in new york city. >> brian: nothing certain in the tariff world it. would change at any moment. a truth social post away. [laughter] >> lawrence: it's a negotiation. i like we continue to get stuff as he uses it as a negotiation tool. >> steve: the problem with the negotiation is, it scares the living daylights out of wall street. wall street went a little south yesterday. then again he could say something and go straight up today. >> brian: happening today president trump is set to host ukrainian president zelenskyy at the white house. >> ainsley: the two are expected to sign that crucial deal that could make the u.s.a. lot of money. >> steve: we like that. madeleine rivera is live in washington with more. hey, maddy.

>> madeleine: hey, guys, good morning. the president says the deal is beneficial for ukraine and the american people who in his view will now be compensated for the military and resources they have given. ukraine's resources include titanium which is used in f-35 fighter jets, lithium, used for batteries and smart spokens and electric cars and nickel which is used in battery and jet engine production. >> we're going to be signing the deal together, probably in front of the media. and we're going to be having a good conversation. no, we want to work with him, president zelenskyy, she said before. we want to work with him the president and i have had a gool good relationship. >> it would mark a shift in the leaders' relationship after a

tense few weeks. the president calling zelenskyy a dictator without elections when asked yesterday if that's still the case. here's what the president said. >> do you still think that mr. zelenskyy is a dictator. >> um, did i say that? i can't believe i said that. next question. >> madeleine: but the agreement does not include security agreements for ukraine which ukrainian president zelenskyy sees as crucial from attacking again. the president, president trump sells europe is responsible for long term security guarantees. lawrence, steve, ainsley, and brian. >> brian: i imagine both leaders meet afterwards around 11:00 and have our third major press conference this week, right? >> madeleine: yeah, that's exactly how it's turned up over the last couple days with french president emmanuel macron and kier starmer and now today volodymyr zelenskyy. we will look out for that news conference. there is a lot we are waiting to hear. >> steve: no kidding. >> lawrence: i love his response to that question from the

reporter. >> ainsley: did i say that? >> steve: did i say -- did i call him a dictator? steve. >> lawrence: and then the trump smirk at the end. this is what i'm telling people from the very beginning. don't panic, this is a negotiation back and forth. if you swing at the president terms and conditions will swing back. the deal is now done and the fight is over. >> ainsley: it's incredible, what, a week ago this deal didn't look like it was going to get done. zelenskyy is going to the white house this morning at 11:00. donald trump said much of ukrainian aid to ukraine has been in the form of a loan. they will get their money back. he said we will not. ours has been provided and it will not be recouped. that's why he wants the minerals. we can bring the minerals here. give ukraine money to rebuild. >> steve: he wants a better deal. ultimately though, the prime minister of the u.k. came in yesterday. and what he was asking for, forget about the mineral deal. what he wanted was, he was

talking about a 30,000 member peace keeping force from europe right there between ukraine and russia. he would like the united states to back stop it militarily. in other words, air support and also intel. but, trump said, essentially, i'm not going to commit to anything until we sign the deal and it's about peace. so, once that happens, then maybe the united states will be involved some fashion, although donald trump has really wanted to get out of ukraine for a long time. >> brian: he did say got the question from i think the british reporter. he said we'll always have the british's back. they are a great fighting force and they don't usually need our help, if they do we will do it. i know what everyone is getting at. if vladimir putin thinks he can overwhelm a 30,000 member european force, that's beyond bold. but if the u.s. is coming over the top, he wouldn't even think about it. i also thought it was

interesting u.s. and russia had talks yesterday at a lower level talking about reinvigorating their respective embassies. and i think the next things we are going to see, maybe as early as this weekend is a vladimir putin meeting with president trump or right below or a follow-up because now, it looks like europe is in lock step. zelenskyy is in lock step. different from a week ago. so now all the pressure, not that he feels it, perhaps he does, is on vladimir putin, oh, you don't want that 30,000 person force? what's the problem? if you are not going to invade, you are not going to have a problem. do you have a problem with the u.s. investing in another country? what's the problem. the question is are you going to shut down this fighting force? and would you return those 20,000 plus children that you kidnapped from their families and have put in other russian families and/or fan knowledges in order to make them russian?

that will be a goods confidence builder. >> ainsley: a week and a half ago we were talking about the moon anymore security conference. j.d. vance was over there. we were all listening to the speech and shocked at some of the things he was saying was happening in the u.k. like he said, there was this british army veteran convicted of breaching a safe zone around an abortion chin clinic. the man was just out there praying in that zone, praying silently years before he and his girlfriend decided to abort a baby and he felt he wanted forgiveness and wanted to pray for that baby. he went in front of the abortion imlin nic and prayed for unborn child. then he cited j.d. vance the scottish government was warning people about praying in their own private homes, even silently praying. he said i have a problem with free speech. he had an exchange with the prime minister starmer listen to. this great, yeah. look. i said what i said which is that we do have, of course, a special relationship with our friends in

the u.k. and also with some of our european allies but we also know that there have been incorporate fringements on free speech that actually effect not just the british british up to them. tech knowledge companies and by extension american citizens. that is something we will talk about today at lunch. >> we have had free speech for a will he very, very long time in the united kingdom and it will last for a long time [inaudible] >> certainly we wouldn't want to reach au.s. citizens and we don't and that's absolutely right. in relation to free speech in the u.k., i'm very proud of our history there. >> steve: um-huh. so j.d. vance taking a shot at him in the oval room where he essentially said okay, we believe in free speech, so do you. it's just different. we have it a little different than you do because here you can pretty much pray anywhere. >> brian: the thing is they are going offensively after american companies. >> lawrence: that's right. >> brian: including facebook and now demanding apple open up

their back door for all information that they have that they put in the cloud that we have security issues we can debate that forever. but the u.k. say saying no we want that back door open. they will get my stuff, your stuff, everybody's stuff. this is why, i think, in the big picture, you have such an asset to have ai and crypto-currency there david sacks and elon musk and mark zuckerberg regular visitor and jeff bezos. these are the problems we are having. i don't need a handout. i don't want a deal. can you help us internationally because europe is pushing back massively. >> lawrence: that's exactly right. i just love the fact that not only with the president, but j.d. vance. there is no intimidation factor of just saying things. >> brian: it's real. >> lawrence: they will say it directly to your face. and the press continues to try to pit all of the cabinet members against each other. you see it. these guys love each other. they respect each opener.

and they are on the same page. you just witnessed it yet again in the oval office. >> ainsley: j.d. vance is going to be speaking this morning at the national catholic prayer breakfast. >> lawrence: is he a new catholic. >> steve: that's right. he was talking about prayer. >> brian: bishop blasted him and the drum team in front of him and his family? >> lawrence: he was disgusted by that. >> steve: meanwhile on, let's see, this was this past wednesday, two days ago. so much has gone on in washington, it's hard to keep track of all of it. kash patel, the new director of the fbi, apparently was having a video conference with the 55 field offices that the fbi controls. and, you know, he said okay. i'm your new leader, and, you know, give me a chance. i'm going to earn your respect. he also said one of the things was, you know, one thing i don't want anybody to do, i'm sick and tired of the leaking. so, the leaks have got to stop. so, fast-forward about 24 hours, and there is a leak. and the leak is this. and it is something interesting. and as you can see from the

banner right there, it sounds like kash patel, who lives in las vegas, which is where the ufc is based, he has got an idea to get dana white's company, essentially, to help them get fbi agents into promo shape. which is interesting, because fbi agents are in great shape, the skill set for ufc is fighting a little different. >> they want to partner with ultimate fighting championship or ufc which dana white is the head of to help the fitness standards. we have already probably trained. i know i have had a few classes with the mixed martial artists. why not? it's wonderful training, and can help you defend yourself. >> you trained with some ufc guys? >> martial arts guys it's

wonderful. >> lawrence: the basis of ufc is jujitsu. many law enforcement use this. i think it's great tool. >> brian: the cops like new york city had over 4,000 assaults. assailants are getting bolder and bolder and put their hands on you. you have to quickly be able to neutralize. a lot of these guys are bigger for you. for you guys it's probably new. but i actually sparred with tito or tease just to show him what i had. i didn't have a chance to get in my proper gear. he was trying to throw me off at the end i would end up eventually winning. this you don't see at the end. we don't have enough time. at the end i would flip him over and he submitted. >> steve: you are tito is the fbi and you are some random bad guy. so the fbi agent is going to be able to do this to the bad guy to essentially make america

safer. >> >> lawrence: how much do you weigh? i just treated you like a rag doll and he is talking and it's just like. >> ainsley: conducting an intriewnget do we have the one of tyrus one of tyrus is good too. >> brian: the fbi watching it could have learned a little bit. >> steve: let's not do that. >> ainsley: can we see it one more time? watch how brian whips his leg around his neck. >> brian: i was trying to reverse the whole thing. at the end of the show i would actually beat him and he would submit. [laughter] >> ainsley: brian puts his leg over his head. borders. >> brian: wrestling team only learn that in my town. a lot of times in fights i end up on my head. >> steve: pile driver. >> brian: he does not know what he is doing. at one point he wants to bail out and at this point he realizes too much this could get

ugly. >> lawrence: you are supposed to sprawl, when they go for your legs you sprawl. >> brian: right, that's your style. >> lawrence: you accepted it and allowed him. >> brian: i'm at best when i'm pointing toward the ground. [ laughter ] >> steve: in wrestling there is a takedown. usually there is not a pickup. he picked you up. >> brian: there is a lot to learn. >> ainsley: while he is talking and wearing a suit. >> brian: a lot to learn there i will play this in the break. >> steve: not a good idea. you know what? let's just send a copy down to that to the hoover building and teleconference. >> brian: might not need that. >> carley: you can play the rest right now. i would glad you give you my time so we could watch the end of the clip. >> brian: i have that. he is more my size. we will probably show that a little later. >> ainsley: and tyrus. >> brian: i also fought tyrus. there is so much to learn. >> ainsley: and shaquille, shaq. >> brian: did i fight shaq.

>> ainsley: how did that go? >> brian: didn't go well. >> steve: if they follow what you did, fbi would stand for the flailing bureau of. >> brian: that's one way to think about it, steve. i thought you were in our corner for a while. >> steve: okay. the flipping bureau of investigation. >> carley: feet up in the air bureau. that's another one. get to some more news, shall we. the justice department releasing a wave of jeffrey epstein sthopg store of releasing the client list. pam bondi is accusing the fbi of withholding thousands of additional pages and dhanding that they be delivered to her office this morning 8:00 a.m. fbi director kash patel talking about him says no stone will be left unturned when it documents revealing the full truth behind the epstein case. the senate teeing up the final confirmation vote for trump's education secretary pegged linda mcmahon. lawmakers 51 to 47 to move

mcmahon to a final vote which is expected to take place some time next week. and trump's labor secretary lori chavez der reasonable one step closer to securing her spot after the senate help committee advanced her to a full floor vote with democratic party. and did you see this? kind of funny here. players from the new york yankees challenged to write the name of the team in cursive. boy did some of the bronx bombers struggle. >> i literally don't know how to do. yeah, i can't even do it. i'm ashamed. >> tell me if i got that right though. >> the k is one getting me. >> best can i do right now. >> how do you do the k? >> carley: that refresher course comes as the team gets back in game shape during spring training in tampa. guys, it's becoming a lost art. no one is learning cursive

anymore. >> brian: how do you sign your name? >> steve: they all do for multimillion dollars contract. >> ainsley: that was such a big deal. second grade, pine street elementary school. that's when you learned cursive and so excited to learn it. so much easier, more advanced. >> steve: it's faster. >> brian: never have to pick up your pencil. what's the reason for that? why aren't they. >> steve: i just asked ai while not universally taught cursive is still being taught in some schools across the united states. >> ainsley: i think our teach it. >> steve: when is the last time you wrote somebody a note? ains. >> carley: i remember why there were two bumps for the n and three for the m. one too many. >> steve: you you could be a yankee. >> carley: they struggled with the m and ns too. >> ainsley: the q was so weird. >> carley: and z. >> steve: all the emphasis on

the keyboard. >> lawrence: so true. >> ainsley: younger people write a note they print it. >> steve: they text it. >> brian: president trump's next executive order he is going to say cursive is going to be back in schools and sign it the way he does. right? which is by the way pretty good. he has a pretty good signature. meanwhile donald trump's first month in office a complete 180 from the last four years. the biggest difference we have seen yet. [multiple people asking questions] >> appreciate it. >> can you comment. >> no, come on, you guys, let's move. >> if you have any questions, please ask me or elon. go ahead, please there are many ways to deliver a shipment. at old dominion freight line, we deliver them this way.

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steve president trump is continuing his push for transparency taking questions from the press during his meeting with the british prime minister yesterday at the white house. listen to this. >> president trump can you get a peace deal done in ukraine? how confident are you sir? >> yes, we will. >> are there areas specifically in ukraine that you are talking about and giving back specifically cripple i can't. >> we will be talking about that see if we can get a lot of it back. >> mr. president did our prime minister persuade you not to put tariffs on the u.k.?

>> he tried. [laughter] he was working hard, i will tell you that. >> president trump has reportedly answered more than a thousand questions in his first month of his second term compare that former president biden only answering 141 questions during that same period. here to discuss is senior adviser to president trump's campaign jason miller. jason, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: back in the day. i think joe biden thought he could tangle with the press but he never did it very well. donald trump now has redefined a way the president approaches the press, because, if they have got a question, it could be a gotcha question, it could be anything. he is going to take it and he is going to answer it. and is he going to keep answering as long as they have got questions. is he going to wear them down. >> the ear thing, too. it's not just influencing the presidency. he has also influenced the way world leaders across the entire globe deal with the press. i think part of the reason why president trump has been so successful and why this has been

the most transparent administration in history, probably in world history, because he goes directly to voters. what this does is cuts out the middleman, it cuts out the artificial filters. realize hearing directly from him. these aren't spoon fed soundbites from aides. they are hearing from him. what that does is drives authenticity. when voters hear the president they know it's coming from him. even say they didn't agree with him on an issue, they know he is being sincere and coming directly from him. i think that's a big part of the reason he has record high poll numbers right now i think you are probably right. we have put montage contrasting mr. trump with mr. biden during the same time period. watch the difference. >> thank you all for coming in. [shouting questions] >> appreciate it. >> thank you. >> you said all hell will break out if all the hostages are not released on saturday. what did i mean by that? >> they either have them out by saturday at 12:00 or all bets

are off. >> thank you. that's a long way to come just for that. >> thank you. >> come on, you guys, let's move. >> how did your relationship with latin america and brazil? >> great. should be great. they need us. mormon are more than we need them. >> steve: jason, we put that together it shows you joe biden can say okay, i'm done. he will just say thank you. whereas donald trump says i'm done and then he will take 25 more questions. >> well, exactly. one of the things i don't think donald trump gets credit for greatest political speaker he halls ever lived. he takes these amazingly complex issues, whether it be about the economy. whether it be about securing the border. bringing back peace deals but distills it down into very easily deliverable, simple ways of communicating. you can be a regular person. >> you might not follow politics or read the newspaper every day, but you understand exactly what he is saying he talks about how it pertains to you and your life

and not a bunch of washington gobbledygook which is basically what you have seen from joe biden. by the way, i don't think anybody knew what joe biden was saying in the first place. president trump is so precise with the way that he hits it. and that's why it's must see tv it's ratings gold. >> steve: listen, we love to watch it in the afternoon. real quick though, in addition to taking a million questions, just look at the warp speed with which it looks like there is going to be some sort of a peace deal with zelenskyy later on today. it took joe biden three years. got nothing. took trump essentially three weeks and it could be paydirt. >> exactly right. middle east peace is back. cease-fire in place. ukraine. also, we have not seen push towards any additional wars. there is a new sheriff back in town. that's president trump. and deterrence is back. and i can't tell you, steve, how critical this is when foreign leaders know that president trump is there and is he tough and we have peace through strength that saves so many lives.

it's really critical. >> steve: people like it when stuff gets done and it looks like a lot is getting checked off. jason, thank you very much for joining us today. >> thank you so much. >> steve: all right. carley has got some news. >> carley: i certainly do. that's right, steve. a big protest breaking out inside iowa's capitol after state remove gender eye at this as protected class from iowa's civil rights code. the legislation now heads to governor kim reynolds desk. if signed into law the bill would also changed language defining sex and gender and would bar trans people from changing the sex of aassigned on birth certificate. the measles outbreak spreading to more states. health officials now reporting cases in new jersey, kentucky, and washington state. state health departments have also reported additional case in nine other states. meanwhile in texas, a child has died. in as many as 124 cases have been detected. in the next hour, fox news medical contributor dr. nicole saphier will join us to discuss

this. and february is american heart month. and we are highlighting a global partnership that's looking to transform treatments for childhood heart disease. the decoding broken hearts initiative brings together experts at the murdoch children's research institute in me bourn and gladstone institute in san francisco. researchers are using artificial intelligence and stem cell technology to advance treatments and offer help to children suffering from heart disease worldwide. more than 40,000 babies in america alone are born with a heart defect each year. to learn more about this partnership and make a donation, scan the qr code on your screen or head to go to the fox/mcri. a wonderful cause. steve. >> steve: it is indeed. carley thank you very much. >> carley: you are very welcome. >> steve: outrage cold blooded murder of an accused police killer. why the accused cop killer has been[c released from jail coming

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>> ainsley: we are back with new developments in the deaths of legendary actor gene hackman and his wife betsy. officials are calling their death suspicious as hackman's daughter is speaking out for the first time. and todd piro is here with all the details for us. hey, todd. >> todd: we are hearing from hackman's youngest daughter telling "the daily mail" she had not talked to her father and stepmother in a couple months. she did say her 95-year-old father was in quote very good physical condition up until his passing. two time oscar winner and wife betsy along with one of their dogs found dead at santa fay home wednesday. after a maintenance worker grew concerned after not seeing the worker for two weeks. a police affidavit also revealing the couple's hands and feet signs of mummyification. authorities releasing this 911 call. >> are they breathing? >> i have no idea. i'm not inside the house. it's closed. it's locked.

i can't go in. but i see she is laying down on a floor from the window. >> todd: now, according to that affidavit, detectives believe that the circumstances surrounding the deaths are, quote: suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search and investigation. hackman was found in the mud room of the home while his wife was found in a bathroom with an open prescription bottle and pills scattered on the counter top. also, one of the couple's dogs was found dead inside a bathroom closet while two other dogs were found alive on the property. the affidavit also noting while the front door of the home was ajar, there was no sign of forced entry or theft. the affidavit suggesting the couple may have died due to some kind of gas poisoning but the new mexico gas company did not find any problems. officials are also saying there was no sign of visible trauma to the bodies. the case remains open pending autopsy and toxicology results. lawrence, over to you. >> lawrence: just a crazy story. thanks, todd. so a man charged with the

capital murder of a texas police officer released on bond. the first time someone has been released with such a charge over 20 years. the suspect is now on house arrest. former district attorney kim ogg joins us now. thank you for joining this program. two guns, cop ambushed. 50 cases on the scene and you release him with a an ankle monitor. >> our judges unfortunately in harris county have shown a pattern of he releasing repeat violent offenders among us. right now there are more than 830 fugitives or individuals on bond for capital murder or murder. but l.j. none for the murder of a police officer. this is a first for us. >> how did this happen? i just want to understand the psychology behind the thinking from the judge. did the new da not push back and say i'm representing not only the state of texas, but law

enforcement as well. this was an ambush. we know the ankle monitors don't work. they are monitored by private companies. this is just not safe for our community. >> not safe is an under statement. with 830 fugitives or individuals on bond for murder and capital murder. we know the average person in the public is in danger. what the thinking of the judge was, we see docket entries where there are statements that the judge had to set a bond. that is true in certain circumstances. but she could have set a bond that was high enough. >> lawrence: that's right. >> to protect the public. unfortunately judge hillary unger is a rogue judge. notorious for releasing repeat offenders who go out and kill other members of our community. we have got to stop these rogue judges. i was attacked as d.a. for fighting against this type of activity by our local judges. right now we appear to have a d.a. that's complacent and okay

with it. >> lawrence: i don't know how she is a judge in our home state of texas. i can't understand how someone who is a part of the court, who is a part of the criminal justice system would be okay -- by the way, kim, how did he pay this bond? that's $100,000, if we're doing the math right, 10% of $1 million. >> well, he clearly wasn't an average criminal defendant. he had access to money, to make this type of bond, 10% charged by the bonding companies is standard. but this is insult upon injury to the fallen officer's family, to know that their loved ones' murderer is free today in his home, under, quote: house arrest. we know that those g.p.s. monitors simply give the public a false sense of security. when, in truth, they provide none. >> lawrence: kim, what is the new da doing?

they didn't want to reelect you because they said you were too moderate. you didn't want open borders. you didn't want criminal defendants back on the street. you cooperated with the feds. so, what does this new da doing? he wanted the job. he has it. did he push back. >> well, it's unclear to me whether he did anything at all. judges set bond in texas. they are exclusively responsible. das should be fighting for public safety. that's what my administration was doing. they have sought to blame the prosecutor in this case for not pushing forward. let me tell you, judges set the schedules in trials. they set the bonds for the defendants. they have important responsibilities. and that is their record. and this is, unfortunately, judge unger's pattern and practice. we have seen too many violent offenders released from her court. [lost audio] >> oh, we just lost her. a tragic case in my home state

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yesterday. the warmth really has captured this bo average warmth we have been feeling 08 to 850% of the country for the past several days. tomorrow we start to see big changes, winter returning in a big way. temperatures crashing, especially for folks alongs east coast. sunday will be the coldest day for some but, again, keeping that warmth across much of the plains, brian. >> brian: thanks so much, melissa. now 9 minutes before the top of the hour. pro-palestinian protesters gathered for a second straight day at barnard college, columbia university's sister school injuring an employee and making jewish students feel unsafe. >> student protesters tend to invite in our lifetime. those people have been assaulted they punched my friend johnny in the face. they were invited to come. >> brian: sickening. joining us is jeff flax. great to see you again. your reaction to this outrageous

behavior at barnard? >> outrageous and outrageous that the administration is capitulating to these goons. >> brian: they are upset that two kids were kicked out of school for interrupting an israeli class. and then they assaulted a security officer and still they want to have a sit-in the next day and you just see the cops sitting there. >> unbelievable. crazy demands. they basically want colombia outrageous columbia is legittizing these rabble rousers. >> brian: barnard. >> w what i support isn't a question whether you support a genocide. whether you support an administration that expels students with obscure adulted,

unaccounted forms and all of this. >> ma'am, do you work here. >> does not really help. and you framing the questions by what authority, those students in there are taking risks. >> a colleague of yours was assaulted on campus today and you support that. >> dude, that is not the frame of the question. do you know what is going on in this country in terms of political repression? >> i do. >> brian: she should be fired. >> she is a colleague of mine? yes. >> brian: defending the students and see her outrageous behavior begin to ramp up because in real time you see the anti-israeli anti-semitism. you made some progress. governor hochul deserves some credit, why? >> i have been a critic of hers in the past. she did an unbelievable, unpress unprecedented think this week caused israel apafer tied state

and genocidal and she demanded that pull this ad down to professor of that class. >> brian: bds funding calls for divesting from investment in israel, what about that. >> yeah. that's another great point, brian two great things this past week. one of them was our faculty union also unprecedented fashion also divested. they didn't call for divestment they actually divestment. they had investment funds in israel and they pulled them. they announced they are pulling them. she condemned it and they rescinded. >> brian: part of it she feels pressure ritchie torres who is a bronx democrat is probably going to go after her in the primaries and he has been pro-israel. >> this is his strength. this is his bread and butter. is he strong on jewish issues and israel. she knows that the cynical people, you are right, brian. that's the definitely part of it. she knows he is coming. >> brian: you stand up for israel and you stand against the

lunacy thank you so much i predicted this and all coming true. >> brian: hopefully bounce back in the trump era. we reached out to barnard for an updated statement have not heard back. they have been busy. we are awaiting remarks from vice president vance this morning. more of that, "fox & friends" continues on friday. ♪ that's a tough one to recover from steve. so check allstate first yeah. for a quote that could save you hundreds. nexium 24hr prevents heartburn acid for twice as long as pepcid. get all-day and all-night heartburn acid prevention with just one pill a day. choose acid prevention. choose nexium.

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