February 29th, it only happens once every four years its leap day and this is fox friends. Ainsley we have a Fox News Alert to start with. Illinois the Third Straight to kick donald trump off the ballot as the Supreme Court says it will take up his president ial immunity case. Brian as soon as he appeals it will go back on the ballot. Battle at the border today. Lawrence is live from brownsville, texas where President Biden will be this afternoon. There he is. And former secretary of security live in studio for a Brief Analysis on what is going to be taking place and what is at stake. Steve meanwhile, fit for duty, thats what President Bidens doctors say after he had a physical that surprised everybody yesterday in maryland. Steve but no cognitive exam. They said he didnt need it. Second hour of fox friends starts right now and, remember, mornings are better with friends. Brian what that day its going to be. Fox news alert. Former president of the United States donald trump now kicked off another ballot. Steve an Illinois State judge disqualified him from the March 19th Primary even though early voting already happening that order is on hold until tomorrow when the trump team is expected to file an appeal. Ainsley rich edson is live from the white house with the latest for us. Hey, rich. Good morning, ainsley, steve and brian. Add illinois to the list. The judge there says the 14th Amendment prohibits former President Donald Trump from being on the ballot in that state cook county judge wrote when trump filed the candidacy in illinois he had been found guilty to engage in insurrection by the colorado Supreme Court. This Court Concludes that trump falsely swore in his statement of candidacy filed on january 4th, 2024 that he was legally qualified for the office sought. Illinois joins colorado and maine where officials have argued he should be booted from the ballot citing the same reason that he engaged in an insurrection trying to hold on to power after the 2020 election. The Supreme Court has already heard this issue earlier this month the justices seemed inclined to keep trump on the ballot in these cases. The high court will also hear whether the former president has immunity from prosecution announcing yesterday that justices will consider this question whether and if so to what extent does a former president enjoy president ial immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office. Thats a win for trump. It delays his trial here in washington over his role on january 6th. Possibly up until or after the election. Now the d. C. Circuit of appeals ruled against the former president s argue. That he did have imcommunity here. They said he did not in that case. Now its up to the high court. Steve, ainsley, brian, back to you. Steve all right, rich edson, a noisy north lawn. Ainsley always, right . Steve they got the sweeper. Whenever they see us on, turn it on. All right. Meanwhile another Fox News Alert. Its just going to be in a couple of hours we have been telling you about. This President Biden will be noisy white house to head to our southern border. Joe biden and former President Trump making duling trips to different places in texas. Ainsley today, yes. And trump will be in eagle pass, which is a hot spot. We have been seeing over 2,000 Migrant Apprehensions within the last just five days. And then biden is going 325 miles away down in brownsville. An area only seeing 46 apprehensions in the same time frame. The white house and Republicans Trading Jabs now. Each side arguing the others trip is purely political heading into this election year. So, now, lets go to Lawrence Jones who is live on the ground down there in brownsville where biden will be. Hey, lawrence. Lawrence hey, good morning, family. And good morning, ainsley. You know, The Big Question for the president of the United States why this location . I mean, i was here a year ago when there was an actual surge going on. Now were down to about 15 to 17 migrants crotszing illegally a day. Why this location . Why not get to the bottom of whats happening at the border . And i think it goes to the larger conversation. As you guys talk about the politics, obviously, border issue is the number one issue. What was the change in joe bidens policy from when he was a u. S. Senator to now as president of the United States . And you guys have the former secretary momentarily that is going to be reacting. But there was a change in policy. There was even some democrats that called Barack Obama Deporter in chief. Sure there has been disagreement between republicans and democrats of what needs to be the solution whether its amnesty or, you know, work visas. Those are the politics of it. But there has never been a president of the United States that was so open and b. Being so open border. So, what happened . Why does joe biden allow the migrants to come across the border . And why did he undo every single action of the former president of the United States, donald trump . And i know there are some in the white house that are saying they didnt know that donald trump was coming here. But he announced it two weeks ago. And coincidentally, guys, they are picking the same day. Two different situations though when you compare eagle pass to brownsville. Brian all right. Its going to be exciting and is the number one issue in the country, lawrence, thats why you are there. Appreciate your work. We will get to more of it shortly. Lets bring in our next guest. He says we need a solution to the border crisis. Not more politics. Jeh johnson served as dhs secretary under president obama and joins us right now to explain. Mr. Secretary, great to see you. Thanks for having me back. Brian hahave you ever seen t this bad . The border . No. December we had 250,000 apprehensions in one month. My second year in office we had 315,000 apprehensions in all of the year, 2015. Just for some perspective here. I understand the numbers have dropped a bit of late. But, longer term, big picture. This is a hemispheric shift northward. Its a crisis on multiple levels in multiple places. Steve there you use that crisis word. Whenever we think about numbers, we think about you whether you said this back in the day. I know that a thousand overwhelms a system. I cannot begin to imagine what 4,000 a day looks like. So we are truly in a crisis. Steve okay, so we have doubled. Who was that guy . Just younger. Steve why are you on that channel . That was five years ago. The Network Across the street. Steve exactly. But you were talking about how 1,000 was bad. 4,000 is a crisis. Now. Ainsley 10,000 a day. Steve in some cases triple that. That is true. And its a crisis on the southern border, in texas, in arizona. And its a crisis here in midtown manhattan, just a few blocks away. Can you see migrants by the roosevelt hotel, on the subways, at times square. This is extended nationwide now. The issue is what do we do about it . Do we continue to play politics and scream about this issue . Or do we fix the problem . There are solutions to this problem. But, given our politics, they have become politically unattainable solutions. In my view, the legislation that james lankford, the very conservative james lankford, chris murphy and Kyrsten Sinema negotiateside a good bill. And would fix this problem on a number of levels. I guarantee that if that if those provisions become law, the numbers will drop. The question is what are our politicians in washington going to do about this . Are they going to adopt this hardfought compromise or just going to continue to complain about the problem . Ainsley you hate to make it political. We want this all fixed but day one joe biden took office, he rolled back Donald Trumps policies. He has rolled back 90 different policies on when it has to do with the border. So, it is political. Because. Day one donald trump rolled back a number of our policies from the Obama Administration that were actually working. We hit a million in 2019 while President Trump was in office. And so i think we need to put aside whose fault it is on what administration did this happen. There are solutions to this problem. We need more Border Patrol officers. We need more judges. We need an Emergency Authority like a title 42 when the numbers get high. We need to fix how one qualifies for asylum in this country. Raise the bar on the front end that serves as magnet for more illegal immigration. Longer term, got to deal with what is hang in the hemisphere that is causing this great shift northward. Brian who caused it . So a couple things. Nobody likes to say that by the way. We want quick and easy solutions. But, so long as those conditions in Central America and South America persist, were going to see this problem over and over again. It will ebb and flow but its going to get worse. Brian you said its going to ebb and flow. Just what you said on central and South America anybody who looks through always a problem a dictatorship. A nicaragua about to pop up. Bolivia about to go along with it a cuba dissidence and now you have venezuela the biggest problem in the hemisphere arguably. But there is Little Things that can be done. Number one, the remain in mexico, when you had a deal with mexico, the president had that was immediate deterrence. The fact is there is a sense right now among central and South America among africanamericans, eastern europeans, now is the time to come. So there is always going to be tornadoes and communism and dictatorships, but there is word went out that nows will the time to come. Now or never. Do you agree with that . Let me answer it this way. I own this problem for three years. The lesson i learned is that there are things we can do on our southern border to clamp down on enforcement, to expand Detention Capabilities that will cause a very sharp sudden decrease in the numbers. But, so long as the underlying push factors persist, the numbers are always going to revert back to their longer term. Brian push or imagine netted . Burn they just want to come or a manage net we are bringing them . The overwhelming factor at issue here are the push factors. There are aspects of our snl that serve as magnets to the problem. But, theres a reason why these families are making a decision to leave nicaragua, el salvador, honduras, guatemala in the first place and head north. One of the things we need to do which doesnt get talked about enough is get the Mexican Government to do more on their southern border. Brian absolutely. Southern america. We have 1900mile border with mexico. They have a 300mile border with Central America. They dont have much of a Border Enforcement Force down there. One of the ways. Brian 20,000 marines. One of the ways we dealt with the crisis in 2014 was to get the Mexican Government to do more on their southern border. Steve one of the big problems and you know this because you read the New York Post. Every third day there is a story about some sort of migrant crime. So, the Biden Administration has allowed all these people in. And as its being adjudicated and some are Getting Court dates in seven or eight years. But while they are here, some of them are committing crimes. And in some cases really bad crimes. We had the story a couple of days ago about the young Nursing Student who was murdered when she was out for a jog. Turns out that may have been a sanctuary city. Were going to talk to the attorney general of georgia in a moment. But this is a sanctuary city. And there has been a lot of crime here. And now the white house is asking for Sanctuary Cities to cooperate with ice. But, you know, a lot of them are going to say nope, were not going to do it. Dont care. Should they . So this has been a problem through multiple administrations. In 2014, we had a program called secure communities that did exactly this. It became politically and legally controversial. In 2014, i revamped the program to encourage local Law Enforcement to work with ice, again, particularly on those who are the most serious felonies. And, we got Something Like 80 of local communities start working with us again. Steve how . Only like two major cities refused. One of them was the city of philadelphia. I got mayor nutter to work with us. His successor on the first day in office tore up the agreement. And, you know, i will never forget talking with the member of the city council in philadelphia, who said to me why should we send him back he has already done his time here in the United States. Thats not the point is he a convicted felon. So, we ought to be able to have local Law Enforcement work with ice to detain and send back certainly the most serious criminals among us. Thats not a hard proposition. Ainsley if those were your policies and you felt like they were working well under obama, biden was our Vice President , are you disappointed with his policies now and the state of our country when it comes to immigration . I will answer it this way. Im all about solutions. I believe that there should be a sustained, visible energetic, forceful commitment to addressing this problem and messaging. In washington you have to repeat yourself 25 times before anybody will listen to you. Same in the public space. You have to repeat yourself 25 times. I suspect yall know this on this network. And so, one of the ways you deal with this problem is continually send a message to Central America dont come here. Dont just say it once. I used to go to guatemala and honduras to the airports and greet the ice plane coming back with the cameras so people in those communities could see that were actually sending people back. So you have to say it over and over again along with the strict enforcement. Brian theres a couple things. Number one, you sound like henry square are a i need to see video of people getting on to planes and being sent away that image goes to every news network. Yes. Brian we can go back and forth on who whose policies is whose. One thing that seemed to get through the message denying aid to countries and allowing future Illegal Immigrants to get in also in the president of the United States said his message is tariffs. Sold are social list you got to give tariffs. People coming through tariffs on it. Next thing you know he has 20,000 marines on the southern border and the message is remain in mexico and they did it. The message was for these people who were probably in some cases wellmeaning people. If you come you are not going to get in. 20,000 you sold your car, you sold your house. You gave it a and you cant get in. This would ripple downward you couldnt get the Homeland Security secretary to even admit it was a crisis. Maddening to see one thing and have somebody describe it differently. The problem with remain in mexico its like taking a balloon and filling it with water. Sooner or later its going to burst. I believe that more effective than that is getting the mexicans to do more on their southern border to stop the flow heading into mexico because what happens in mexico is theres a whole lot of inacceptive heading north. Dont stop here. Just keep going just keep going mexico, if you put another pressure on the Mexican Government will appreciate that its in their interest to partner with us on this problem. Brian would you urge a city like new york, right now in a crisis, stop with giving hotels, turn down service. Three meals a day. The transportation to get here because we have to send a message we cant if you come, you will be turned right around. Of course people who are in guatemala and el salvador prefer to live here. These people are preferring to come to america instead of coming here and not using our system. Would you crack down on the democratic mayors as a democrat who is a Homeland Security secretary . Mayor adams has been very vocal about this issue. This issue has blown. Brian not originally. Not originally. I have said to mayor adams, you know, Keep Making Noise about this issue. But this primarily is a matter for the federal government. Immigration is part of our foreign policy. Its part of our National Security really up to the federal government to send a consistent message, executive and legislative. And im going to come back to this point there is a solution to the problem at hand that has been negotiate in the u. S. Senate. Brian you like that bill. I like that b