benjamin: you can let freedom ring, just not too loud. a north dakota man facing potential fines over the sound of his american flag. fox and friends first starts right now. everybody s working for the weekend everybody s working for the man jillian: we made it through the week, fox and friends first on friday morning. benjamin: good morning. i have done it, there we go. jillian: jillian is one of my greatest friends. no harm there. good morning. benjamin: a pleasure to be with you today. it is a busy day. the house has approved two immigration bills creating a pathway to citizenship for millions. the white house press victory slips up and calls the migrant surge a crisis. carley: we learn one high profile official is headed to the border today. a charged atmosphere for immigration reform is two measures past the house yesterday. the first is the american dream and promise act. it applies to the so-called dreamers who came here as children, creates a 10 year co
in custody charged with robbing the victim, the arrest follows a string of alleged hate crimes against asian americans in oakland, california. also tonight san francisco police arresting two men in connection with the attack on an asian man in the china laundromat. also tonight new york police are looking for tips after an assault against an asian american man in brooklyn is police believe the surveillance video from shortly before the attack, the suspect also hurled racial insults, vandals defacing a seattle church with anti-china graffiti and locals are growing frustrated with whether or not police are on the case. officials to local reporters they say it is safe to say there s an investigation, the graffiti says china, you will pay, go home. local residences we are in seattle which is pretty progressive in a lot of ways it is disheartening a lot of ways. the white house and activists primarily laying the blame on white supremacy and comments by donald trump when addressing
border crisis, the governor of texas sing the sharp increase in illegal immigration along the southern border states has led to a humanitarian crisis and not surprisingly the republican governor of texas is blaming the new democratic president. kristin fisher at the white house tells us what the biden team is doing about what he still refuses to call a crisis, but we begin with corresponding casey stegall in mission, texas, and governor abbott message. good evening. good evening, governor abbott did announced today that he has beefing up this program dubbed operation lone star, which is going to direct even more additional state resources and staffing here to assist at the border, but he insists that texas cannot shoulder this entire burden. how long will these children be here? what countries have they come from, and what covid variance have they been exposed to? along with the questions raised by governor abbott today, questions he says they don t have answers to.
is a political debate these days. even what time the sun rises and sets. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, and joshua johnson. welcome to the week. did you have a good week? president biden certainly did. over the course of 48 hours, he took big steps toward addressing his priority. the pandemic. on wednesday, congress passed the american rescue plan. the next day, he signed it into law. that night, he delivered his first primetime presidential address. and in that speech, the president division of post- pandemic summer. i set a goal that many of you said was kind of way over the top. i said i intended to get 100 million shots of people s arms and my first hundred days in office. tonight, i can say we are not only going to meet that goal, we are going to meet that goal. because we are actually on track to reach this goal of 100 million shots in arms on my 60th day in office. tonight. i am announcing i will direct all states, tribes and territories, to make
normalcy by july 4th weekend. there is light literally now that the lights have sprung forward. we ll have an extra hour of daylight. after the year we had it s hard not to feel a little good about what is on the horizon. however it could be a vastly different reality right now if the insurrection on january 6th had not failed. it has been two months and eight days since that day. the fbi is still working to make sure everyone that stormed the capital is fully prosecuted for their crimes. they are dotting their is and crossing their ts going through mown tapes of evidence but it all started at the top. cleaning up that january 6th mess is a top priority for merick garland. we re learning more about some of the rye jotters that were arrested. sivic is accused of stealing the badge and radio from a dc police officer after a crowd beat him unconscious. he buried it in his backyard in buffalo. he will appear in front of a federal judge on tuesday. also we re learning about a memb