grady trimble in chicago this morning. same situation happening in new york. we have a new quinnipiac poll. 70% of voters believe that the big apple is in a crisis with the influx of migrants as well as crime. 82% believe it's the federal government's responsibility to handle all of these migrants and then on crime 39% say they feel less safe in the city compared to last year. meanwhile city officials removing dozens of migrants camped outside of the watson hotel on the west side, refusing to relocate to the a shelter. the men have been moved and sent to brooklyn cruise terminal while women and children were allowed to stay in the hotel. joining us for all hot topics, liz peek. liz, you were telling me a story of your friend in new york city. >> went into a high-end retail store on madison avenue and while she was in dressing room someone came in and lifted 25 handbags and walked out and the problem is nobody calls the cops anymore. i was in grocery store and guy walking around and picked up stuff and no one turned a hair. it's pretty extraordinary and unconsc

grady trimble on capitol hill. to some cities want to use covid funds to pay for this? >> they do.s identified ten cities, states, and counties, the recently considered some sort of reparation programs and of those, at least two of them are proposing using federal taxpayer dollars for the american rescue plan to pay for the. providence, rhode island, shelley county, tennessee, which includes memphis, the commissioner cosponsoring the proposal in shelby county, that is up for a vote today, wants to give $5 million in pandemic relief funding, with some possibility of a longer-term reparations bill, in a statement to fox business, he defend that use arguing it addresses the negative impact of the pandemic to include assistance to households and communities while promoting affordable housing, assistance to small businesses, aid to impacting industries and other areas. some in congress state is spending taxpayer dollars using them for reparations. >> there are wide disagreement on this topic. to use pandemic spending on something congress did not vote for and approve for, in localities

grady trimble from fox business in chicago has the first of many different angles to this story today. hello, grady, good morning. >> good morning to you. the sighting of this spy balloon is drawing attention to how reliant we are as a country on china across industries. for example, china owns a small but growing percentage of farmland in the united states. the city of grand forks, north dakota just put a stop to the construction of a corn mill by a chinese company after it got a warning from the air force that it would be a national security concern. >> it was time to say no. not in grand forks. it was a long process but i don't think in the end if that's a threat it won't move forward. they legally own the land but not be able to build anything on it. >> beijing's influence over the united states is also growing in the tech space. more than half of states in the u.s. are banning tiktok from state-owned devices because the data could end up in the hands of china via the tiktok parent company bytedance. about 2/3 of lithium that goes into batteries for electric vehicles, phones and o

grady trimble watching that on the hill today. nice to see you. thanks. >> you have to talk to your kids and tell them they can't ever be sure about anything that they get from another friend or a friend of a friend. you don't know. you just don't know. >> dana: urgent warning from the heartbroken mother of a teenager killed by fentanyl as a major u.s. city reports an alarming rise in accidental drug overdoses. >> bill: new reports of china getting cozy with russia. is china putting its thumb on the scale to tilt the war in putin's favor? >> dana: a pair of cases before the supreme court that could dramatically transform the internet and the technical arguments causing some confusion on the bench and maybe even here in my seat. jonathan turley ahead to help make sense of it all. >> we're a court. we really don't know about these things. these are not the nine greatest experts on the internet. think he's posting about all that ancient roman coinage? no. he's making real-time money moves with merrill. so no matter what the market's doing, he's ready

grady trimble is on capitol hill this morning. grady, what's the latest on?h, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are calling for an investigation into the derailment. there are concerns about what the train was carrying, who knew as well as whether regulations on railroad companies are stringent enough. those train cars that derailed were carrying multiple cancer-causing chem chemicals and other skin and respiratorier e about thes, but the train didn't have to be classified as high hazardous. that designation would have required the train to reduce its speed and for the state to be alerted that it was passing through. ohio governor mike dewine wants congress to investigate. >> governor dewine's exactly right, this train was not labeled as high hazardous. we're looking into why that was. that's likely a screw-up on the department of transportation side, and we're investigating that as we speak. >> reporter: senators j.d. vance and marco rubio are among a growing number of lawmakers calling out transportation secretary pete buttigieg for not going the east pa

a barn burner, joining me grady trimble. take it away.resident biden is spend a good portion of his speech touting the economy. which he believes is in good shape. that is an area where his economic advisers say he doesn't get enough credit. we're expecting the president to say that the billions of dollars in government spending under his watch has actually been good for the economy. that is the case he has been making in various speeches over the past couple we'll be weeks, sounding like campaign speeches here, is to highlight key pieces of legislation passed in his first two years of wa office. >> if judged biden on his record and work, he is good to go, we have more to do, he understands that america is in a difficult spot. his steady leadership and his economic plan is working. reporter: the president's critics say that ignores how americans are feeling about the economy. they say president biden has not done enough to bring down inflation for example or to tackle record number of migrants illegally crossing the sword e southern borde

in washington, grady trimble fox news.rney general's efforts to remove kim gardner we are joined by andrew stotman. this story makes me so man. it's so tragic, the young girl has a whole life ahead of her, volleyball star and now it's turned upside down because her justice system fails her. there's plenty of outrage to go around but will this outrage be enough to remove this da? >> well, i certainly hope so and there's a process for the attorney general, the state of missouri to have this incompetent prosecutor removed and i hope it's a shot across the bow, warning to other prosecutors, look, you cannot replace the will of the people with your own ideology, your own democratic ideology because the result is a disaster and, look, we have seen it it here in illinois, cook county, we are seeing it in new york and now in missouri and it's unfortunate. aishah: i'm glad that you said the word results because this is proof after proof although gardner says that this is all a political stunt. listen to this. >> the attorney genera

grady trimble on capitol hill this morning. grady, the big question is where did all that money go.eporter: good morning, ash. simply put, it went to criminals and house republicans are taking aim at them. the oversight committee launching an investigation into pandemic era fraud between people falsely filing unemployment claims or applying for paycheck protection program loans. the total amount of fraud we're talking about or money misspent as the department of labor puts it totals nearly $350 billion. that's just what we know about. that number could top $1 trillion by some estimates. so far more than 1,000 people have pleaded guilty to or were found guilty of defrauding covid relief programs according to the government accountability office. president biden claims he's cracking down on the covid crooks but the department of justice didn't turn up to the first hearing on the matter even though they were invited. system of articulation i hope the white house will show up and they don't like a lot of lights turned on into the darkness they've been approaching. >> it's totally self-s

. >> aishah: and grady trimble live in washington. what more do we know about the legal filings against the st. louis top prosecutor? >> we know it's the first step in what could be a long legal process to try to remove circuit attorney kim gardner. the situation in st. louis is highlighting how progressive prosecutors like her have come to power all across the country. gardner is claiming that her office did its job in the case of janay edmundson, the teenager seriously hurt when a repeat offender with multiple bond violations caused a car crash when she was walking with her family downtown. missouri's attorney general called on gardner to step down herself, she did not, so now he's trying to remove her. >> the general assembly, the people's elected representatives have spoken and provided a mechanism, a safety valve, a check and balance to prevent this kind of abdication of authority, illegal willful neglect of one's duties. >> the people have a process. if they no longer want me in this office and that's called an election. >> our

grady trimble is on capitol hill with more on how the government is handling this railway disaster. hey, grady. >> reporter: hi, cheryl. the white house is sending teams from a number of agencies to east palestine, the cdc, the hhs. the epa has been there for some time now, but republican lawmakers say the biden administration needs to do more. governor mike dewine's office tells us fema denied his request for aid because there's no property damage at the disaster site like there would be after a hurricane or a tornado or some other natural disaster. senator marco rubio going so far as to call for transportation secretary pete buttigieg to step down. buttigieg has yet to visit the community impacted by the derailment. for his part, buttigieg with on thursday spoke about the derailment on camera for the first time. >> look, rail safety is something that has evolve ised a lot over the years, but there's clearly more that needs to be done because while this horrible situation has gotten a particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing. >

stuart: grady trimble, thank you very much.pite the report from the energy department, the administration still claims there is no definitive answer on covid origins. >> president biden has directed repeatedly every element of our intelligence community to put effort and resources behind getting to the bottom of this question. president biden specifically requested the national labs, which are part of the department of energy, be brought into this assessment because he wants to put every tool at use to be able to figure out what happened here, but right now, there is not a definitive answer that has emerged from the intelligence community on this question. stuart: let's bring in lee stein hour, a policy expert on china american relations. lee, do you agree with jake sullivan's assessment that there is no definitive answer? >> well you know, appreciate you having me on first of all. just a short while ago, even discussing this lab leak theory would have been considered a dangerous conspiracy theory and as you noted would have go

grady trimble on capitol hill with the story. >> reporter: liz, the big tech companies no longer label the lab leak theory as misinformation, but for a long time they considered it to be fringe conspiracy theory. in fact, from the start of the pandemic until last november when twitter stopped are policing covid misinformation, the social media company suspended # 1,000 accounts and removed around 100,000 pieces of content. that, of course, changed when elon musk took over. facebook also did an about face in 2021 when it stopped flagging as misif information posts about the lab leak -- misinformation posts about the lab leak theory. >> we need to get to the truth here, and we need to see what our government knew and why they were censoring people. but it's going to have a deleterious impact, for sure, on the u.s.-chinese relationship, no caught about it. >> reporter: responding to the "wall street journal" report that the energy department now supports the lab leak theory with low confidence, senator tom cotton tweeted: being prov

grady trimble right there. thanks very much, grady.ook at this op-ed in the "wall street journal." seen any other spy balloons lately? an $850 billion defense budget and we can't detect a chinese airship? congressman russel fry ex republican from south carolina joins us now. how could these spy balloons go undetected, congressman? >> i think you hit on a very interesting question that we all have answers to. this entered our air space on january 28 over alaska and for days was allowed to kind of meander through alaska, through canada which culminated in missiles being fired over myrtle beach, south carolina, so i have a lot of questions about this. i know my colleagues on the hill have several questions about why , who, what, where, and we're just not getting information from the administration at this point which is unfortunate, because at the end of the day, china is our chief rival on the world stage and they send a spy balloon over our country to wander for days and it wasn't until really local press picked it up in montana that it

grady trimble's with me. all right, grady, could we really see an all-out ban on tiktok in america?s attempts to ban tiktok, this time around the latest proposals is have growing bipartisan support. that bill you mentioned in the house introduced by republican congressman mike gallagher and democrat congressman would ban tiktok unless it sells to a u.s. or european company. republican senator marco rubio and independent senator angus king who caucuses with the democrats have proposed a similar bill in the senate. for years republicans have been sounding the alarm about the national security threat of tiktok owned by cheese -- chinese parent company bytedance, of course. now those on the left are joining the push. >> i think what's changed is the level of chinese activity in the united states. i just think it's downright dangerous to have a company that potentially is a pipeline to the chinese communist government that's collecting data on americans. >> reporter: in addition to those national security concerns, law enforcement officials say tiktok is increasingly being used by adult

grady trimble in chicago, he's with us now. passengers from future air travel nightmares. what would that bill actually do? >> reporter: a whole host of things, stu, from stopping airlines from making seats on planes smaller and smaller. it would also outline requirements for refunds and compensation in the case of delays and cancellations. if your flight is delayed between 1-4 hours, for example, the airline ares would be forced to refund passengers and find alternate transportation for them. if the delay is more than 4 hours, the airlines would have to cover the cost of meals and lodging as well. it would also require them to refund bag fees if luggage is lost or stolen as well as pay travelers at least $1300 if a passenger is denied boarding on an oversold flight. the airlines, no surprise, are pushing tobacco against this -- back against this proposed legislation. industry group airlines for america says they don't need a law to incentivize them to take care of customers. deregulation has benefited airline consumers for mor

grady trimble with fox business is live now on that. heavily rely on china, grady? >> john, it spans a range of industries, from tech to autos, even agriculture and farming. a recent report from j.p. morgan found beijing holds the vast majority of global inventories of copper, aluminum and corn, and sizeable stockpiles of wheat and crude oil. >> if we haven't learned yet that we need to decouple ourselves from at least our food supply and energy supply and critical mineral supply and pharmaceutical supply chains from china we have not learned anything. >> the communist nation also processes about two-thirds of the lithium and other elements that go into batteries for electric vehicles, phones, and other electronics. ford ceo jim farley is sounding the alarm on that. >> even if the raw materials are secured outside china, they are processed there. >> china owns a small but growing percentage of u.s. farmland, and concerns over tiktok still because users here in the united states of that popular app could be handing over their data to chi

liz: grady trimble, thank you for your journalism.gazine. she's a great writer. kristin, it's good to see you again. "the new york times" is slamming florida governor ron desantis me you book saying he's -- new book saying he leads by crackdown. what do you make of that? >> hi, liz, great to be with you. yeah, the best way he's going to be a superstar in the gop is to look at where the media is aiming its venom, and right now the coastal pundit class including "the new york times" is trying to take down ron desantis. the left is absolutely terrified of desantis. just look at what he's done as governor. i mean, he was one of the few governors not to shut down his state during covid, he's protecting his kids from sexual indoctrination with his parental rights in education bill, he is taking the fight to woke disney by stripping that corporation of its special privileges. the list goes on and on. and i have to say, liz are, it's incredible when you look across the nation, all the purple states in the nation have been trending blue for th

grady trimble is live on capitol hill. what are lawmakers biggest concerns, grady? >> that is the top concern, why wasn't that train labelled as high hazardous, even though it was carrying cancer-causing chemicals and skin and respiratory irritant. that is reserved only for highly flammable materials would have required the train to reduce speed and the state to be alerted it was passing through. senators j.d. vance and marco rubio sent a letter to the transportation secretary asking whether railway company in general are operating trains with too many cars and too few workers. both republican senators are going after secretary pete buttigieg, yet to visit east palestine, for not doing more to help the community. >> i don't know what the guy needs to do to get tired. asleep at the switch, no pun intended, this entire time in areas. feltdowns with the faa, southwest airlines, and now the toxic chemicals, his job is not to only make sure the system of transportation is reliable but that it is safe. >> for his part, buttigieg is seemingly putting some of the blame on p

implications of all of this, fallout from all of this grady trimble. grady, what do you have?er: neal, lawmakers here on capitol hill are demanding answers about the derailment. perhaps even more desperate for answers are the people who live in east palestine. you mentioned that town hall last night a lot of people that our crews on the ground there spoke to felt like they didn't get enough information or answers to their questions. at one notable absence, you mentioned off the top the train's operator norfolk southern. people also wanted to hear from president biden's transportation secretary. he wasn't there either. listen. >> i am shocked they weren't there last night. we've been told the norfolk southern representatives were not there because they had been threatened potentially with bodily harm, they were worried about their safety. as far as the secretary of transportation i would certainly like to see more from him. we need help. >> reporter: ntsb is investigating that massive derailment. it is focusing on this video showing sparks flying off the wheels of the eastbound

elizabeth: we have fox business, grady trimble found 10 cities, states and counties, they got a lot of pandemic aid money and looking to set up reparations for african-american americans, we know the issue in racism but this is about abuse of cove covid relief funds that was for the pandemic. >> we have so many doses ofs vaccine getting ready to expire and go to waste. because the government insisted to getting the vaccines. they were insisting they had to spend the money. they should have spent a fraction of it to do studies that show there was a need. >> let's move to this, governor ron desantis stopped florida l lockdowns, we have a lot of wild claims with governor desantis, watch this msnbc pundit, making claim that state of florida will hurt governor desantis. >> in my view, there are three states you can't run from. you run from new york. too crazy and a liberal. california you are too crazy and liberal and make sure i can't get plastic straws, you run from florida it is crystal meth and alligators. that is what people think. elizabeth: all people think florida is about crystal m

grady trimble, we ask you what's up with that? >> hi, bill.nlike previous attempts to ban tiktok, the latest proposals this time around seem to be gaining growing bipartisan support which wasn't the case before. the leading republican and democrat on the house china committee have put forward a bill barring tiktok in the u.s. unless it sells to an american or european company. republican senator marco rubio and angus king have proposed a similar bill in the senate. for years republicans have been sounding the alarm about the national security threat of tiktok owned by chinese parent company bite dance. those on the left seem to be joining the push. >> i think what's changed is the level of chinese activity in the united states. i just think it is down right dangerous to have a company that potentially is a pipeline to the chinese communist government that's collecting data on americans. >> in addition to those national security concerns, law enforcement officials say tiktok is increasingly being used by adult predators to lure children accordi

grady trimble is with us, the white house denied this request they are not going to give them the money why. >> the governor's office tells us the explanation that they got from fema is the derailment does not qualify for the fema aid because there is no property damage like there would be after hurricane, tornado or a natural disaster. here on the hill there is finger-pointing over who's to blame for the derailment and what to do to prevent another disaster. democratic senator brown in transportation secretary pete buttigieg are blasting former president trump were reversing the role requirement of specific braking system on certain trains. pete buttigieg addressing the derailment for the first time on camera saying it is one of many. >> real city's telling and involved a lot over the years, but there is clearly more that needs to be done. while this horrible situation has gotten particularly high amount of attention there are roughly 1000 cases a year of entering the railing. >> republican senator jd vance in a letter with marco rubio is questioning whether rail companies are operatin

. >> gillian: grady trimble on capitol hill, thank you. >> john: time for larry kudlow, and back to the story as russia and china reaffirm their partnership, tensions are boiling over with the u.s. critics say biden's weak policies are emboldening america's adversaries, including the next guest who says we have neither peace nor strength. larry, you had a column out on foxnews.com that suggested this situation in ukraine could have been avoided if president biden had embraced policies that kept the u.s. economy strong, if he had embraced peace through strength mantra. >> i think there's a couple pieces to it, john. thank you. look at, peace through strength, we have neither peace nor strength right now. i mean, the economy is very weak. last year it grew by 1%, inflation rate is 6.5% last year at one point it was almost 10%. look, china sees that. russia sees that. reagan not only argued peace through strength, but said if you are strong at home, you are strong abroad. but if you are weak at home, you are weak abroad. we are in position of weakness right now. i believe china, in fact, t

all right, grady trimble is on capitol hill this morning. grady? the deficit, so give us the story. reporter: hey, ash. president biden has repeatedly claimed that in his first two years in office, he's cut the deficit by nearly $2 trillion. he says that wealth tax will help keep the deficit going in the right direction down. >> he takes his fiscal responsibility very seriously, and he is going to continue to find ways to build an economy that doesn't leave anybody behind but also is fiscally responsible. reporter: the deficit has fallen drastically since president biden took office but the committee for responsible federal budget says biden shouldn't be taking credit for that. the real reason they say is that we're no longer writing huge checks for covid relief programs and as you can see from this chart, our nations debt is still growing at what many economists say is an un sustainable rate. >> debt is about as large as the economy. that's only been true one-time in our history and that was just after world war ii and unlike after world war ii, a

grady trimble, all that cash found the darndest things. >> federal government getting creative to justifys and cities spent a lot of covid aid, maybe not connected to covid at all. one hundred $40 billion in covid funds went toward a delay in student loan payments under the biden administration. in washington dc the city set aside $2.5 million for parking enforcement officers, new jersey governor phil murphy approved $12 million to build a state how of fame and another half-million on new suvs for his administration. in iowa state allocated 23. $5 million to build a permanent field of dreams ballpark, governor reynolds arguing it would help the hospitality industry that was hit hard by the pandemic. other cities spend money on walking trails and even pickle ball courts. >> congress didn't have basic accounting controls in the federal agencies and state governments to ensure these dollars were expressed to people who had real needs. >> we should add that none of these projects were illegal. it was perfectly allowed within rules various pandemic spending packages that were passed which is w

fox business correspondent grady trimble has the story. >> missouri republican attorney general andrewdner of injecting race and politics into bipartisan efforts to get her to step aside telling fox digital her accusations of racism are ridiculous. but the defiant gardner is still serving as st. louis circuit attorney the people have a process if they do not no longer want me in office and that's called an election. >> the photographic prosecutor is under pressure after a car crash caused by repeat offender who was out on bond led to a teenage volleyball player's legs being amputated bailey citing the crash and a backlog of at least 3,000 cases is moving to oust gardner. >> instead of protecting victims, she is creating more victims by her illegal refusal to do her job. >> the case in st. louis is highlighting how far left districtest attorneys have come to power. campaign finance records show gardner received at least $116,000 in a paid ad from a political action committee funded by george soros. she sailed to reelection in 2020 even as st. louis homicides from the previous year spike

jonathan turley moments away, but first get to fox business's grady trimble. reacting to this at this moment? >> bit of an i told you so moment for republicans in congress who have long been entertaining the possibility of a lab leak. big tech companies no longer label that as misinformation or disinformation but for a long time social media companies were kind of considering that theory of fringe conspiracy theory. now looks like the leading explanation for how covid started. from the start of the pandemic 'til last november when twitter stopped policing covid misinformation, the social media company suspended 11,000 accounts and removed around 100,000 pieces of content that all changed when elon musk took over. facebook similarly did an about face in 2021. it stopped flagging as misinformation posts about the lab leak theory. >> it's amazing how we have never seen an apology for those who got canceled for this thing, what's considered the mainstream and government position on the wuhan lab leak. >> responding to the wall street journal report that they suppo

for that we got the latest from capitol hill and our grady trimble. grade did i, how is this going down there? >> reporter: neil, for some it is an eye told you so moment here on the hill but for a while, at least from the start of the pandemic for a year or two that lab leak theory deemed by critics as fringe conspiracy theory. now it is the leading explanation for origins of covid at least according to the department of energy in that "wall street journal" report which cite ad classified government report. the energy department says it made its judgment with low confidence but it does join the fbi which had moderate confidence determining coronavirus spread via a lab mishap. several other government ages less clear. they still think it spread and started naturally while others just don't know. >> if we gain any further insight or information we will share it with congress and we will share it with the american people but right now there is not a definitive answer that has emerged from the intelligence community on this question. >> reporter: a repre

grady trimble is in chicago. all right, what are businesses doing about this? it? >> reporter: well, stu, the city has beefed up the police presence here on chicago's mag enough seventh mile, though mayor lori lightfoot's critics say she's not doing enough, and that's why some of the retailers here have added their own security and added their own cameras to stores. you've also probably noticed not just here in chicago, but across the country at target, walmart, cvs, wall greens -- walgreens, items with anti-theft devices attached to them. home depot and lowe's are testing new technology so power tools don't work until the customer pays for them. >> we wanted a technology solution which will be frictionless for our customers and the same time it'll deter theft. >> they're spending an awful lot of money in order to secure those goods. they can't do this alone. >> reporter: so the national retail federation wants lawmakers to help out, and some lawmakers in various states and in congress have introduced legislation to try to crack down on the crime like what you'

grady trimble is there. are we going to run out of money earlier than anticipated?quite possibly, stu. the u.s. could default on its debt as early as june according to a new study from the bipartisan policy center. that same study found that the federal government will take in $2.5 trillion between now and june but will spend half a trillion more than that in the same amount of time. summarizing the government spending problem in a nutshell. this study even more dire than the congressional budget office's warning that the u.s. will default between july and september. the committee for a responsible federal budget calling that the report really, really bad. >> it was chilling, and hopefully this will get lawmakers to the take seriously the negotiations that they're in the midst of on how to raise the debt ceiling. there should be no talk of default. it's really dangerous. but the idea of raising the debt ceiling while doing something important on the budget and on the debt is a really good idea. >> reporter: and while president biden has falsely accused republicans o