Steve wednesday, march 13th, 2024. Welcome to hour two of fox friends. We start with the disturbing fox news alert. That guy right there, Vladimir Putin, is warning the west russia is ready for a nuclear war. Where did that come from . We have a live report from europe coming up. Ainsley pretty scary. Tiktok vs. Congress. The house set to ban the chineseowned social media app. But will it stall in the senate, brian . Brian thats a good question. Miamis new necessary message for Spring Breakers. We were on a break. We were on a break [laughter] brian yep. Miami beach is cracking down with new curfews and a lot of bike racks. Lawrence is live with the exparty hub where the party used to happen and people just live there now shirtless. Steve now florida have their state back. The second hour of fox friends begins right now and remember, mornings are better with friends. Brian stay within yourself. Ainsley a fox news alert. Russian president Vladimir Putin says moscow is ready for nuclear war if threatened. Greg palkot joins us from london. Another warning from Vladimir Putin but the u. S. Ignores it at its own risk. In an interview putin said his country is technically ready for nuclear war, if there was an existential threat to russia. He added weapons exist in order to be used now there has been a fear russia could use tackle weapons war with ukraine. If the u. S. Sent troops there that would be a significant escalation. Here is more of what he had to say plus a reaction. Quote from a military, technical point of view, we are, of course, ready in the u. S. There are enough specialists in the field of russian American Relations in the field of strategic restraint; therefore, i dont think that here everything is rushing to it, nuclear confrontation, but we are ready for this. Rushing towards nuclear war, but, again, as a nuclear nation, of course, he would be ready just as we are. In fact, u. S. Security specialists are not seeing that russia is a more aggressive Nuclear Weapon at the moment but we do know tactical nukes to neighboring belarus right on the border with our nato allies. The Nato Alliance including the u. S. Is right now involved in the biggest military drills, the biggest war games since the cold war. Back to you. Steve maybe its connected. Mr. Palkot, thank you very much a live report from the u. K. Meanwhile, right here in the u. S. A. Of a. The rematch is on. Lets talk politics. Joe biden vs. Donald trump. They are the presumptive nominees for their parties. Mr. Indy boo, who is campaigning in wisconsin today put out a quote. Ainsley he said the Broad Coalition of voters representing the rich diversity of the Democratic Party across the country have put their faith in me once again. In a moment threat greater than ever . Republican National Committee has just declared us the official nominee. We north going to take time to celebrate. We will celebrate in 8 months when the election is over, november 5th, i believe, will go down as the most important day in the history of our country. Brian thats what the president hopes is a busy week in washington. A vote on the future of tiktok is heading to the house floor in hours. And lawmakers are still digesting the testimony. A former special counsel robert hur who defended his report on the biden document case and made it clear he did not exonerate the president. Ainsley we have team conch, kelly ogrady will have the tiktok vote preview. First, go to peter doocy live from the white house. Good morning, peter. Peter good morning. Even though nobody is denying that President Biden handled classified materials the wrong way, white house officials are saying that he has been cleared of wrongdoing. I think the main thing to take away from today is two words for the american people. Case closed. When a prosecutor spends 15 months investigating a case, only to determine that there is no case here, and that there will be no charges, and that the case is closed, it only affirms the innocence of the president. Peter but not exactly according to the special counsel on screen right there as democrats hoped to contrast this documents case with trumps documents case where there are charges that have not been litigated yet. The hur report represents the complete and total exoneration of President Biden. Did you reach conclusion that this man was outright innocent . That conclusion is not reflected in my report, sir. The word exoneration does not appear anywhere in my report. You exonerated him. Did i not exonerate him. That word does not appear in the report. Hur had hundreds of pages of facts and footnotes memorized. And he thinks now that he knows why President Biden may have been quietly collecting things for years. Pride and money is why he knowingly violated the rules. The oldest motives in the book, pride and money. Do you agree with that, mr. Hur . You wrote it in your report. That language does appear in the report and we did identify evidence supporting those assessments. Peter when the story first broke, i asked President Biden classified documents next to your corvette. What were you thinking . And according to the justice department, he may have been thinking about keeping stuff handy to refer to later for a book. It has been reported that he doesnt keep a daily diary. Rather, he takes notes here and there. So, original material would be handy to have if he needed to back up a multi Million Dollars book advance. Back to you. Brian 8 million. Must have sold a lot of copies. Steve a lot indeed. Didnt the president tell you hey, the garage is locked. Peter he did and, you know, i think wilmington, sometimes, has crime waves come and go and so he just didnt want anybody coming and checking to see if it was unlocked on the street. Brian documents in the back. Ainsley talked about the damaged boxes and how it was next to his zappos box and really messy. Read the transcript about 250 pages, 150 times he said i dont remember. Steve hose garage could actually withstand National Scrutiny . If somebody took a picture of any of our garages. Ainsley not my parents. Its just over time. Steve we dont have classified secrets. Ainsley no we dont have classified information our garage. Kelly ogrady with details on tiktok. Good morning to you all. Today marks a critical vote on the house floor whether it comes to Enforcement Action against tiktok. I want to underscore this legislation has rare bipartisan support. So for some context, the bill would allow the president to classify alps that are under control of adversarial countries as National Security threats. In that case an app. Would be banned unless it cut ties with that country in question within 156 days. Now, yesterday lawmakers attended a National Security briefing on the chineseowned app. All while chao met with senators on capitol hill. This is a clear sign we are inching closer to sweeping action against tiktok. The House Republicans they seem confident that they have got the votes. They will call for a vote under a suspension of the rules. That does require two thirds majority to pass vs. A simple majority though it does speed up the process. There is an interesting wrinkle, however. Former President Trump is now opposing the bill saying a tiktok ban would strengthen facebook which he called the enemy of the people. Now, if the house does go for, this it would still need to pass the senate and move onto the president s desk. There is a high possibility it could be challenged on free speech concerns. Though house g. O. P. Members are pushing back on that. Its not a bill reef it and ier in my view prospecific not red throw speckive. Protects the First Amendment. This isnt about content its really about conduct. This is really very much about the ccp and their ability to own data and use that data nefariously against our National Security interest and against our citizenry. Now, if this does pass, it would also spur an immediate need for tiktok to divest or split from by the dance. That six month very tough i have worked on large scale m and a and those deals take upwards of a year. Brian have to sell it. Thanks, kelly. Ins who house 300 votes to ban it. Six months to sell off 80 . In the senate very guysy. Among the people in the charge to lead it in is senator rand paul. Citing a Fifth Amendment right to use it why does a chinese owned app. Have a Fifth Amendment right. They are actually calling on the First Amendment the bytedance people like they have any idea about the First Amendment in china. Ainsley good point. Steve good chance it wont be brought up in the senate. They need a two thirds majority in the house. A poll came out in january, 35 of americans oppose banning tiktok in the united states. Only 31 favor it. But, you know the number one concern about why they want to ban it . The average american . Ainsley what . Steve kids spend too much time on it. Ainsley parents are probably banning it. My daughter is 8. She doesnt have a phone yet. When she does have one i dont want her on tiktok constantly like all the kids are the kids love it. Your children were teenagers when we started talking about this and they were upset about it and liked tiktok or did at the time. Brian cspan had the highest level Intelligence Briefings on this with bipartisan agreement that tiktok is bad. A chinese machine of manipulation against thats all that matters. If Chuck Schumer could stop looking at the polls and for once do things right, at least put it up for a vote and let people see where they stand. Lobbyists are making big inroads. Now the chinese executives are flying in to try to protect their investment. So i think its just anybody who watched those hearings, you would not be in support of tiktok. Ainsley President Biden said is he going to sign it if it does reach his desk. Steve Kara Frederick from the heritage foundation. And she said essentially at the 11th hour now a bunch of republicans are doing a 180 on it. Donald trump has changed his position on it and others as well it will be really interesting. Brian the last thing trump said was im staying o out of i. In the beginning i dont want to give facebook more fuel and give them an opportunity to buy it or do something. I understand that especially after zucker bucks played such a role in 2020. When you look at what tiktok is. The president was so right in 2022 or when he was in the administration to try to ban it. Ainsley saying i am staying after o. You out of it after the facebook comment. Brian yes. Steve point was done a 180. He had as president said okay. Lets get rid of it and lets ban it from stuff. Now lets see where it goes. Ainsley lawrence is down in miami because he went down there to chase the spring break crowd. Brian it left him. Ainsley not welcome there all these psas all over the tv saying dont come here if you are going to be rowdy. Lawrence yeah. Ainsley. I called myself playing football with some of them yesterday and i think i may have pulled something in my back. I will recover later. Getting a little old. The reason why we are here is because they decided to shut it down. We come every year. Its a much different crowd here at spring break. It seems like all the checkpoints, all of the psas have sent a message to the young people that if you are going to come here, you have got to come here safely, guys. Steve absolutely. And beings, you know, lawrence, we mentioned this earlier, but it sounds like the young people who want the crazy stuff drove 350 miles north of miami. It sounds like they are congress grey gaghtd in jacksonville on the east coast of florida. Yeah. Jacksonville and Fort Lauderdale as well. Which their city now is going to have to deal with that. I think the bottom line for the businesses here, there is some benefit from the Spring Breakers but there is also a lot of bad for the residents here that have to deal with the massive crime that happens here and then they block au all the streets all the time. They are making it very clear. They used to ticket you. If you decide to block the streets, theyre going to tow your car and its going to be 600 to get your car back. Brian by the way if you go to jacksonville they already have the players championship and you get get down the roads. I dont know what they will do with a bunch of shirtless kids with tequila bottles in their hands. Steve thats last year. Ainsley the reason its cleaned up in miami you said is because they have a new conservative mayor did you say . Lawrence yeah. Hes a conservative mayor and he made it very clear. Look, i have a Business Interest in the sense of making sure my businesses recover from the pandemic. He goes my first essential job is to keep everyone safe. Steve right. Well, speaking of Business Owners. Lets groh go from the east coast to the west coast out in california in oakland. 220 oakland Business Owners are saying, hey, you know, we pay taxes to the city of oakland and oakland is not doing what theyre supposed to do. They are supposed to keep us safe and they are supposed to clamp down on crime. So you know what . Theyre threatening to stop paying taxes unless the city addresses crime and retail theft as well. Listen to these soundbites from some owners out on the west coast who say the city letting us down. Scared for our lives now. Im in districts not the same as back in the year that i had been working. We are really struggling sales have dropped 20 . We are not going to pay taxes to the city. Until they give us what we want. I feel like we need to start somewhere. I mean, its ridiculous. It seems like its getting worse. Steve theyre right. They are absolutely right. Ainsley four taco Bell Locations switching to drivethru only and ought out burger citing ongoing issues with crime dennys crossed after 54 years of business. Raising cane is closing their dining room or they did in 2023. Brian what is Pretty Amazing is San Francisco is starting to crack down understanding crime is out of control there so is oakland. So the city that started the anticop movement San Francisco is starting to sober up. Athletics about to leave. Raiders already left. Most people dont want to live in oakland now suddenly they are realizing its unlivable, lawrence. Lawrence yeah, i mean, guys we have done a lot of reporting there. Two problems there. The overall Crime Problem when it comes to prop 47, which essentially said in the entire state that you can still not be held accountable as long as its not less than 950. Also, oakland has a huge Crime Problem when it comes to The Street Races and shutting down streets. And then they have there is people that died as a result of this. They got a Shooting Problem thats happening there. So, again, its this has been a Long Time Coming from oakland. They supported defund the police. And now were seeing the consequences of this big liberal experiment, guys. Ainsley the thing that scares me though for these shop owners, i feel so sorry for them Small Businesses losing money because of theft. If they dont pay their taxes is the government going to go after them . Steve of course. Ainsley have to pay fines on top of their taxes im glad that their voices are being heard i actually do hope they pay their taxes so they are not in trouble later on. Steve here in new york, in lower manhattan, the Westfield Fulton Center nearby that big Transit Center they say the Transit Center because there are so many Homeless People and so much crime its scaring away their customers. And they want out of a 20year deal with the mta because they say we want to close up shop. They are suing each other now. The city, mta is now suing them. Ainsley these are all like little shops down underneath the subway. Steve yeah a mall of sorts. People say, look, there are so many Homeless People. There is so much crime. Nobody wants to shop there. And the people who work there dont feel safe. So, they might be getting out of their deal. Lawrence what eventually is going to happen, guys, they are going to leave this reminds me of a building i lived in new york city. They stopped repairing the stuff so the residents said we are going to stop paying the rent. What eventually happens is they make them pay their rent and the people say you know what . Bye. See you later. We will go to another building and what is going to happen with the california residents is that they are just going to move to a state like texas and florida and restart their life. Its unfortunate. Brian lawrence, is that the same place where you ordered the five guys where they cost all that money last weekend . Thats the same place, right . Paying a ton of money for fast food and it looks like a mess. Lawrence this is true. Got to make sure have a nice gym so can i work off the fast food, brian. Brian work out the deltoids. Ainsley he spent so much money on five guys like 100 bucks for his friends who had just come back from deployment. That was nice, lawrence. Lawrence this is true. Steve you dont need a nice gym your back h