It is raining outside. Its a lousy day. I hope its nice and sunny wherever you are on this may 16th, 2024. Welcome to hour two of fox friends well, the president ial debates are officially on but only on joe bidens terms. Leaving nancy pelosi wondering if its a good idea for them to meet at all. I myself would never recommend going on the stage with donald trump. But the president has decided thats what he wants to do. With just six months left until the election, biden might finally be addressing the border crisis but only after 4,000 illegal crossings per day. Brian right. Good job. And it is hereby decreed burritos and tacos are considered sandwiches in the court of law. Lawrence more pressing issues . Ainsley glad a judge got involved in that. Brian they had to steve eve. Lawrence fox friends begins right now. Mornings are better with friends. Ainsley former President Trump emphatically agreey to President Bidens laundry list ahead of novembers election Mark Meredith live at the white house. Mark good morning, friends. This years president ial debates are not only going to be historic but going to be the first time we have seen a change of the conditions to these debates that americans have come to expect in the last 40 years. As of now, both president s biden and trump have agreed to two different debates the first one being with cnn in late june and abc in september. The Biden Campaign had a set of demands for the president s participation including no audience, no other candidate, just a oneonone matchup, limited news outlets would be considered eligible for the debate. And candidates mics must mute after time expires. The effort to keep this a twoman debate not surprisingly has upset robert f. Kennedy jr. He has posted on this. He said they are trying to exclude me from their debate because theyre afraid i would win. Keeping viable candidates off the debate stage undermines democracy. Want to see debates calling it extremely or very important. Trump also wants way more than two debates. Is he already vying for a third. He posted on his platform, quote please let this truth to represent i accept a on fox. The would be october. Hosts would be bret baier and martha mccallum. The Biden Campaign has yet to agree to anything like that. Politico in this one reason debates might matter this year because of the president s aides. Bidens performance could either do a lot tao lay or confirm the fears. Already announced the moderators for june and september. We could still see some things change especially with that later format in september. The debates would be before early voting begin. The first debate would happen before either have officially become their partys nominee because they will be before the convention. Steve, ainsley, brian and lawrence, back to you guys. Brian the decision didnt come out of the but there. It looks like the New York Times said they were back channeling about this. When the announcement was made it didnt catch everybody by surprise like we might have assumed . Remember, the president was on howard stern what was that 3 or 4 weeks ago and he mentioned that yes, he was looking forward to debated trump there victim blinks that may have jump started some of the conversations. You are right in terms of the criteria that was selected, you know, how this was going to happen so quickly. It was a fascinating turn of events that happened within rapid fire succession. Steve the tv networks got involved and suddenly, you know, cnn and abc outmaneuvered everybody else. Fox was not on the preferred list. Allowed list. Cnn is hosting it. Back in the day when the president ial commission ran things, every channel ran it. If cnn is hosting, will there be a simulcast, abc has already said yes, we will have one. Yeah, abc has said yes simulcast to allow others to broadcast it. The conditions cnn put out they would allow it to be on streaming platform as well as on their cable channel. Whether or not that changes between now and late june, of course, is anyones guess that could also be demand the idea would be to let the debates play out as much as possible. As you would imagine there would be so much interest in this. With no audience in the first one in cnn, you have to kind of wonder what is the format really going to look like and will it play to either candidates strengths . Brian right. Both cant lose. They both cant lose. Thank you, mark. Lawrence donald trump gave Joe Biden Everything thanks, Mark Meredith. Gave him everything that he wanted. I dont understand how they could complain about anything when you get to the debate stage. I think i know why joe biden is agreeing though. There is an article in the new republic. It says that democrats have a joe biden problem. When you look at the polls rightly cause panic among democrats but also shows that the election is not a lost cause for the party. Talking about the other candidates. The numbers for biden are specifically terrible. Other democrats are performing quite well cite nevada which the candidate is up by 12. They cite arizona. And they cite pennsylvania. So, essentially, theres a call behind the scenes from move away from biden. Ballot enough stated ballots and score 15 . And at least four Major National popoll jfk says is he going to meet the criteria. Nancy pelosi was asked if she thought that joe biden should have agreed to a debate. Listen. I myself would never recommend going on the stage with donald trump, but the president has decided thats what he wants to do. I think the format he is suggesting is a good one. I think yall should have separate town Hall Meetings with them and let them challenge them with questions about the future and let the public make its decision. Steve the public is going to get the opportunity to see them, you know, president ial candidates, even before either of them are nominated by their party. Its going to be the earliest ever. And you got to wonder i you know, i heard Byron York Say yesterday with early voting you need early debates. And is he absolutely right. Lawrence i agree. Steve what is the plus for joe biden . Well, if he stumbles, there is plenty of time behind it. And apparently what the biden camp thinks they can do is by announcing this so early and having them so early. They can jolt the American Public that is not paying attention to the biden camp think that will force people to say okay. I dont like joe biden but im going to go for him j they want to remind the American Public of the trump years and the biden people thats a great thing they say trump is chaos. I say this. For two and a half years you told me he was illegitimate. You put a nonstop Russian Investigation every time they had success, some russia allegation popped up. Can you imagine if they just leveled the Playing Field and just called him on his policies instead of trying to prove he was illegitimate. They asked people fox asked people do you think the debates are important . 41 percent said extremely important, 23 percent said very important. I will add one more thing to the fray. Just as i brought up. The problem i have with this format are the moderators, do they despise trump . Nonstop partisan. Doesnt mean they are not bright. It doesnt mean they are not good at their job. But they have a bias against one candidate. They should be eliminated. Is there anyone there nonbiased . Number two is you cant kill their mics. I dont want to see two guys speaking. We get that all the time. We need the whole point of this is the interaction. And if you are then going to put all the pressure on the moderators. So you will have donald trump will say had the best economy. Not according to the numbers. Next question, those Throw Away Lines at the end, the moderators always do when they dont like lawrence to that point, brian, i also would like to see the questions asked. Just ask the questions. The getting involved in the debate process, i think is going to leave a bad taste in American Public thats how they put them thumb on the scale when they start getting involved. Let the candidates duke it out. I think also a positive for donald trump is that there is not going to be a crowd there. Is he an entertainer. He plays to the crowd. He likes the cheering. Thats what he has done his whole life. Not having people there, i think will calm him down. Ainsley Critical Of Joe Biden for that reason. Because they are saying donald trump feeds off the crowd. Joe biden didnt want a crowd i agree its television. If you cant hear their responses. Joe biden answers a question donald trump might say liar you want to hear that. Steve we put up the rules. One of them was they cut the mics only after the time is up. So there is a possibility you would imagine, that if during joe bidens time you would think that would be played. Its just after okay, everybody has got one minute, i feel sorry for the audio guy. Not only does he have to figure out which Volume Control but a stop watch. Oh, time is up, boom. Brian we will see what happens. Donald trump i think advantage to let joe biden talk. Because he talks in circles. Ainsley i know, mullen nels. Brian mexico is the president of egypt. Lawrence then he will cut himself off. Maybe i shouldnt talk about that when he has nothing to say. Ainsley one of the topics will be the border. Headline says joes failed mary because now he is saying all right. Im listening to you all. Even my constituents are saying that these open borders arent working. Seeing crime. We are all paying for these migrants to live here. All right. So, once 4,000 migrants per day have gone over the border, then i will close the gate thats one of the Executive Orders he said he couldnt do. Comes up to a million. Get to a threshold and shut it down. They will just whether its carousel, you get a certain threshold at disney, they dont let anybody else in. They shut down even the right passages of entry. There is our future lifeguards right there. They did a breakdown of the gotaways under joe biden. Lawrence astonishing. Brian bill melugin said freedom of information act halloween. They just gave it to him in may. The amount of gotaways, look at this. Last year 670,000. The last year the Trump Administration, 151. Prior to that was around 120, 104,000 for the year. Now they are up to 670. We think the numbers are high now. The people we only see the back of their heads or see the dust as they cross, 670,000. Do you think they are here to make America Great again . Lawrence these are people you cant track. Inside of the country. We dont know what he theyre doing. We dont know where they come from. Well dont noe if they had a record or not. I just dont understand from the Biden Administration i get why they want to get involved now because its an election issue. Do you guys really think you can fix the damage that has been done to the country in just three and a half years in just a couple of months . Its just bad strategy. Steve yeah. All those people that you are looking at right there are in the country now. So, last two things we were talking about both the debates suddenly out of nowhere and now is he going to take executive action. Do you know what it is . This is all about the polling. Because joe biden and joe bidens camp, their plan was to blame congress and the republicans. Lawrence it didnt work. Steve and blame donald trump. Donald trump told them dont pass that senate bill and they didnt. And you are right. Its not working. So, what are they doing . Theyre pulling back and they are saying essentially and Speaker Johnson who brian talked to the other day said essentially this is a an acknowledgment that joe biden could do it all along. He could do it without congress. But he chose not to for political reasons. Ainsley i thought he couldnt do anything. Steve well, are you talking about the Way Back Machine . Steve lets push the button. Ive done all i can do. Just give me the power. I have asked from the very day i got in office. Its time for republicans in the congress to show a little courage, to show a little spine. The bipartisan bill would be good for america and help fix our broken immigration system. And allow speedy access for those who deserve to be here. And Congress Needs to get it done. I sent congress a comprehensive plan on immigration reform. My Friends On The Other Side have done nothing with that. Over and over i have asked for resources to step up action at the border. I made it clear that we need congress to make changes to fix what is a broken immigration system. Brian the other thing congress did yesterday, they took a vote. Do you agree that if you are an illegal alien, here illegally, waiting for your court date, and you assault a Police Officer you should be kicked out . This should be a layup, right . 148 democrats said no, i dont think so. Steve thats crazy. Brian cops and their families. Ainsley we already know thats how they feel. Look at the guys who beat up the Police Officers on times square plea deal. Lawrence how tone deaf to the American People immigration, during the primary the number one issue. And to not be able to condemn and vote on a bill that say they just cant attack cops. Steve here is what is happening. Chuck schumer is failed senate bill. Lawrence another go around. Steve think about it, its an Election Year put all the republicans on the spot you will have to vote against this if donald trump wants. To say they are trying to keep the majority on the democrat side in the senate as tough as they will be on the border. Its Election Year and they know you want it. If he wins another four years the wall is going to come down. You think this is bad. Its going to make this look calm. Lawrence the problem that the democrats have is the onus is on them right now. They broke the border no voter is going to say suddenly that the republicans and donald trump were weak on the border. If they plan on casting this vote to get them on the record. Steve they will. Lawrence its not like the voters are going to come back and say oh, those republicans are antiborder security. They are going to blame the democrats for what happened in the fentanyl coming across the border. Attack on cops. Brian senator lankford had some good things negotiated in there but it wasnt the type of things they feel as though as long as this president had discretion it was still going to be a problem but he would have to cover up this legislation which worse. Doesnt mean there werent some positives in that bill. Ainsley there were some positives and all the republicans said that, too. They agreed with that they didnt love the bill overall and some things very important to them and their constituents they wanted in that bill that werent. Steve also, dont forget, donald trump said look, this is not in the production best interest dont pass it this year because it helps joe biden. Ainsley he spoke out against it. You are right. Steve in a moment we will find out what is a sandwich but first we have some other news. Carley starting with a fox news alert. Right now in chicago, at Depaul University where police in riot gear are clearing out a propalestinian encampment. This after yesterday students hosted a walkout after protesters and School Administrators were not able to reach an agreement on the University Divesting from israel ongoing protests forced them to cancel Music Festival over security concerns. Unclear if any arrests have been made police in Riot Gear Clearing out protesters uc irvine who stormed and barricaded a campus building yesterday. Officer clearing encampments that the University Says had been there for more than two weeks. The school says all classes will be held remotely today as a result of all of this this as a fox news poll shows 59 of voters oppose antiisrael protests. A third of respondents say they support them hunter biden will be facing two trials at the same time next month legal team may have a big problem. Socalled Sugar Brother reportedly told his associates that he can no longer afford to fund the first sons legal defense. Hunters first case is expected to begin on june 3rd. We will be watching as that happens. New jersey senator Bob MenendezsCorruption Trial resumes today this after his lawyer claimed the senator was unaware that his wife had stashed gold bars and cash in her closet. Telling jurors, quote the gold bars were found in a locked closet. It was nadines closet. Menendez is facing charges alleging he accepted bribes of gold bars and cash in exchange for his influence and also charged with acting as a Foreign Agent to egypt and clearly has some trouble at home as well. Wild video shows nypd officers rescuing a man fell on Subway Tracks in the bronx. Watch this. Come on, come on. Come on. Carley heart pounding moments there. The man had fallen onto the tracks after reportedly having a seizure. They saved his life. A Taco Stand In Mexico becoming the first in the world to receive a michelin star. Cost around 5. Its been in business since 1968 and received michelin star. So proud. Here is the question of the morning. Are burritos and tacos considered sandwiches . One judge thinks so. In 2022 a restaurateur had plans to open a taco Mexican Grill in a strip mall in indiana but his application was denied. Only restaurants that sold madetoorder or subway sty