representative tricia cotham and tim moore, republicans, we appreciate it.ashley: university of iowa women's basketball team turns down first lady jill biden's invitation to the white house. the team suggesting should visit iowa following their loss in the national title game against lsu. angel reese responded to the first lady and believes her taunting gesture a caitlin clar played a role. >> are you saying that because of what i did? stuff like that, it bothers me temperature is hard to see things like that and not comment back on it. i had the platform where i can speak out. >> ashley: reese says lsu didn't let first lady jill into their locker room because president joe biden didn't have the tigers going far on his march madness bracket. >> todd: insanity. professional golf used to be golf, now it is not. masters won't be short on liv golf drama. harold varner iii says his fellow liv golfers are only in it for the money, telling reporters, they are full of blank, growing their pockets. you didn't come here to grow the game. fred ridley confirming liv com

in north carolina, tricia cotham switched to the republican party. cotham joined us last week and says radical viewpointses of the democratic party are alienating moderates. listen. >> the final straw has been a lot of different things, but last week after i voted my conscience on something i believed and did not push a button that the party and governor wanted me to vote the attack ads came out calling for my resignation and asking me to apologize. the thought of being an independent thinker in this world of cancel culture that has taken over the democratic party doesn't want people like me, independent thinking and who is here to govern and improve our state. >> they are absolutely nuts and the fact they want to take that away is driving people who are common-sense, middle of the road folks and drive them away. the republican party is strong enough and i'm a conservative, strong enough to have members of all thoughts. >> todd: we've seen this happen a few times in what i call relatively conservative states. i know north carolina does have a democra

republicans earned super majority after frances thompson left the dems and in south carolina, tricia cotham well. ash. >> ashley: a houston middle school teacher arrested in south texas, charged with smuggling three men and one woman, all illegal immigrants, across the border in his car. a problem that is getting governor abbott's attention. he tweeted actions like these are aiding drug cartels and calling for mandatory minimum 10-year sentence for smugglers. the sheriff of kinny county texas joins me now. thank you for being with us, sheriff. >> good morning, how you doing? >> ashley: good. how in the world did we get to the point in america to where american teachers are criminals smuggling people across the border? >> well, the alien smuggling organization, cartels are making it very appealing to people to go out and smuggle, promising them $1000 to $3000 per person to smuggle. people will try it. >> ashley: people like the guy on your screen, that was the teacher, he was pulled over. are these normal people doing this more and more or do they h have criminal backgrounds? >> this individ

>> tricia cotham is the canary in coal mine, this is not having just big implications for north carolinaould be massive for dem democrats on the national stage. we could see others sketching their party. -- switches their party, the party has been hijacked by radical left wingers there is no room any more for the democrat moderates. they want open southern borders and releasing criminals on to streets in major cities. full compliance is expected on every issue, if you are not fully compliant you will be pushed out of the party and attacked. i think that the more moderate version of the democrats, the jfk days and even the bill clin clinton days are done this is a new party. elizabeth: ari, who the white house putting forward as nominees, we have kevin mccarthy and smith and fox, looks like the republican california concongressional delegation saying no to his labor secretary julie su. and she presided over estimated 33 billion dollars in fraudulent jobless claims. >> this is where you to to look to senator joe m manchin and kyrsten sinema. manchin into his reelection year and kyrsten sin

years democrat turned republican state representative tricia cotham. >> on issues like school choice,for children. it might be okay for adults but i am about children. paul: a senior fellow at the american federation for children, welcome, good to have you here. tell us what happened, was school choice the trigger for that defection to the republicans? >> the democratic party has gone so far left at opposed school choice and sided with the teachers union, they are alienating members of their own party, in north carolina they lost one of their own sitting legislators. if they are not careful, if they continue this opposition to parental rights in education they will lose something more influential which is parents who want more say in their kids education. in north carolina you have super majority override vote in each chamber, the house and senate. and universal school choice bill floating around in the senate with 30 cosponsors, enough to override the expected veto. we are winning with school choice. it's popular among republicans, democrats and independent voters. paul: including fl

north carolina democratic state representative tricia cotham announced wednesday she is switching parties and will become a republican. her move gives a veto-proof supermajority to republicans in the state house as they attempt to ram through new abortion restrictions, anti-lgbtq laws, and other measures. in wisconsin, republican lawmakers are already talking about impeaching newly elected state supreme court justice janet protasiewicz after her decisive win in tuesday's election. her victory gave wisconsin's high court a liberal majority for the first time in 15 years and renewed hopes that wisconsin's abortion ban can be reversed. this week state senator duey stroebel told "the new york times" impeachment was not impossible. in nevada, a man is facing murder charges following a car ramming that targeted the food not bombs distribution site in reno. 55-year-old michelle jardine was identified as the dead victim, while two others were critically injured. david turner admitted to intentionally attacking the three. a new report by the maryland attorney general's office finds nearly 160 cath