[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] pete good morning and welcome to fox friends. It is saturday, april 20th. Year of our lord, 2024. And you continue to send us phenomenal photos for our nations an them. What a beautiful, beautiful start to the morning. Pete we do that every saturday, every sunday. And were glad to have you. Will dr. Nicole saphier in for Rachel Campos if duffy. We had hours, dogs, we had flag pete giant cranes will on a Crane Outside of a barn. We had a bald eagle nick can you get more american than that . With. Will and then, out of the blue, we have a pole vaulter. Pete athletics. Will awesome. Pete hopefully, it was a female pole vaulter. Nicole foreign female. Will would would never know, was that a male or female Pole Vaulting Competition . Zoom in and then ask. Pete we play never know. [laughter] will are you in the male or female division . More of that in just a moment on fox friends. Were going to start with this, protest it is across Ivy League Campuses starting here in new york city, columbia university, where 77yearold actress the susan san can was among others who were spot pd up at columbia spotted protesting israel supporting palestinianen can palestinians. Have a look. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] wow. Youre what in. Yes, were all hamas. Never forget the 7th of october. [inaudible] nypd kkk [inaudible] theyre all the same. [inaudible conversations] i believe that we will win. From the river to the sea, palestine will be free. [cheers and applause] [bleep] nicole you know, watching those are just kind of shocking to watch, and some people continue to say were really just looking for peace for the palestinians but, clearly, that is not what this is about. They are calling for the, essentially, the destruction of jews. We are hamas . Hamas is a terrorist organization. So they are actually showing their true selves during these disgusting protests. Pete yeah. This feels like its boying to be the Summer Of Love its going to be the Summer Of Love 2. 0. You had antifa, blm, these antiisrael, proterrorist, prohamas, antijewish protests appear to be sort of protests spark if that the left always looks at in an Election Year to fire their base up and get everyone scared and get everyone at each others throats. Its the same revolution they seek all the time overturning the hierarchy and the patriarchy and western civilization. In this case, israels now the target. And you have Harvard Students saying f or harvard, you can leave harvard or if you want. I mean, things like intifada, hamas, october 7th will happen 10,000 times in this is straight up proterrorism talk, and its a lie too, by the way. What israel has done in gaza to protect civilian lives is unlike any other Military Offensive that ive ever seen, having been involved in a few myself, to protect civilians. These are uninformed, highly ideological kids at our socalled Elite Universities who are surely intimidating not just jewish students, but all students. I had a student from columbia who was not a conservative on ing lams show last night ipg hams show and because she wasnt wearing the imis bolls, the scarf and the mask, she wasnt participating, she was targeted for being proisrael, and they harassed her, pushed her up against a cop car. She didnt do anything. This is intimidation. Will and its also a, modern day education is nothing short of advocacy. And also had some students who were well connected. As we mentioned, there was actress susan saw sarandon, the daughter of a ups executive, there was a professor who famously wielded a ma metty in threatening, in a confrontation pete a professor if wielding a machete . Nicole dont worry, they were fired, but with they were still there in solidarity with Susan Sarandon will yeah. And the daughter of congresswoman ilhan omar. This is it is what she tweeted, im enormously proud of my daughter from Organizing A Schoolwide statewide School Walkout at 520 leading the 15 to leading the biggest Climate Rally at 16 and now pushing her school to stand against genocide. Stepping up to change what you cant tolerate is why we as a country have the right to free speech. Just one quick pollup, frame you know, obviously, we could spend an hour talking about all the characterizations of genocide, whatever it may be. Which is important and substantive. But just to ping on what i said about education advocacy, i saw Charles Krauthammers son on the Network Earlier this week, but he thought i thought it was as much a good point there was a time when Higher Education was pursuit of the truth. And truth is meaningless now because education is advocacy. Nicole yeah, well, it certainly is. You listen to ilhan omar say she is pursuit against genocide, and the reality is genocide is october 7th. What happened there when hamas infiltrated into israel and brutally massacred women, children and other and continuing with their antiisrael sentiment. One of their fundamentals is the destruction of the israeli people. And not just israeli people, but jews as a whole. And so that is what genocide is. And when they continue to call for a ceasefire, we have to continue to remind hem the only people rejecting the ceasefire right now is hamas. Pete yeah. By the way, at yale some students are entering if their eighth day of hunger strikes. It just feels like everyones trying to up the ante, and where does it lead to . I dont know, the dnc convention. That seems to be where they point a lot of air ire, genocide joe, and hes not supporting any side at this point. Opening statements start monday in former President Trumps Hush Money Trial in new york. Will the full jurys been selected and sworn in with alternate jurors selected yesterday. Nicole Madeleine Rivera joins us now. Reporter the trial enters a new phase on monday after an emotional week both in and outside of the courthouse. The nypd says 37yearold max is dead after he lit himself on fire across the street from the building on friday. Police labeled him as a Conspiracy Theorist and dont believe he was targeting any particular person or group. The incident happened just after the jury was finalized. The group of seven men and five women who will weigh the office include a software ending knee, an english teacher and an investment banger. Is six alternates will step in any of the 12 drop out. Some jurors expressed anxiety, others had broken down in tears. Former President Trump expressing his anger too. Whats happening here9 with the judicial system is an outrage. This is a giant witch hunt to try and hurt a campaign thats beating the worst president in history. Reporter trump is also. Slamming the gag order against him. Manhattan District Attorney alvin bragg asked the judge to hold trump in contempt for violating the gag order seven times, but trump and his Defense Attorneys argue the gag order violates his First Amendment rights. Theyve taken away my Constitutional Rights to speak. Is and that includes speaking to you. I have a lot to say to you, and im not allowed to say it. And im the only one. Everyone else can say whatever they want about me. They can say anything they want. They can continue to mange lies and everything else. Make up lies and everything else. They lie. Theyre real scum. But you know what . Im not allowed to speak. Reporter trumps defense team had filed an Emergency Appeal to delay the trial as he appeals his motion to move the case out of manhattan, but that motion has been denied. Former President Trump maintains he will testify. Will, or nicole and pete. Will thank you, madeleine are. As you point out, the gag order, jury selection and yet here again, as if to hammer home this is a political trial, that every single nail will attempt to be hammered into the coffin, attorney general Letitia James is has asked the judge to vacate, the void e Donald Trumps 175 million bond in the civil fraud case. Pete so i woke up this morning and read that headline, and i thought, wait, did Letitia James, like, shes not going to i thought void i was reading it the wrong way. Oh [laughter] no, no, no. Theyre saying the folks that he used for his bail bond money arent licensed in new york and, as a result, it should be revoked, and he has to find Somebody Else to work with to post the 175 will right. Mys spoke saying it was this judge, it was one of the many cases with donald trump. And, yes, theyre saying the Interest Company cant cover the 175. Pete yeah, theyre not big enough. So he has to find Somebody Else. But the whole point to make trump and his team scramble. Nicole thats the whole point right now, she cannot hide the fact this is politically motivated. She just will not stop. She wants to continue to show the people she will do Everything Possible to come at donald trump not for criminal or civil activity because she doesnt like him, and that thats very blatantly obvious. Pete the latest wrinkle in the trial thats ongoing is the judge has ruled trumps team doesnt get to know who the witnesses will be until right before they hit the stand. Yeah. Well, because theyre fighting over the gag order, and theyre i guess theyre presumably saying, well, he could talk about the witnesses before the witnesses go on the stand. Now youve got a guy whos gagged, who doesnt know what the full charges against him, and now his defense team doesnt have the ability to know who the actual witnesses are with very little preview time nicole that might set him up for a potential appeal because that does not give him the ability to prepare pete i Jonathan Turley about a it. He said i e asked Jonathan Turley about it, he said its kind of standard these days. The prosecutors will hold that until the very end will the whole trial is set up for appeal. To be honest, its a complete legal injustice, but it just doesnt matter. The point of the trial is to succeed for about six months pete exactly right. Will just to be able to say donald trump, convicted felon. Nicole and keep him off the Campaign Trail as well. Pete thats exactly right. All right, so lets move to Something Else that joe biden is doing. It may be his last year in this term of office, hopefully overall, but hes dismantling yet another trump era rule. We reference ared it at the top of the show. Its about gender, its about a gender in sports, title ix. Title ix because a big accomplishment. Its often applied to sports. It makes sure theres fair access for women, bioroj call women, in sports biological women. Well, the Education Department is doing its damnedest to undo that. Theyre going to sidestep the issue of transathletes in girls sports. Heres miguel cardona, secretary of education, on title ix revisions on friday. He said more than 50 years, for more than 50 years title ix has promised an equal opportunity to learn and thrive in our nations schools free from sex discrimination. These final regulations build on The Legacy Of Title Ix by clarifying that all our nation s students can access schools that are safe, welcoming, respect their rights. Basically what this means, guys, is that biological sex has been replaced with gender identity, and that means that if you a identify as a woman and you are a man, then you have full access to title ix the way joe biden sees it. Nicole we have to remember, title ix, the impetus behind it was actually good. It is the reason women were allowed to play sports in college, get scholarships and funding for it. So it started out as Something Wonderful for women. It is going well beyond that. And what president Bidens Administration now by rolling certain things back, theyre essentially trying toe race women in this entire process. And riley gaines put it best in this x post. She essentially gave you the common sense of how this rollback can be used. This is what she had to say. The biden admin has just officially abolished title ix as with we knew it. Now sex equals gender identity. In a nutshell, men can take academic and athletic scholarships from women, will have full access to bath rooms, locker rooms, etc. , can be housed in dorm rooms with women. Students and faculty must compel their speech by requiring the use of preferred pronouns if the guidelines above are ignored or even yesterday, you can be charged with harassment. Will, its going too far. Will congratulations, dudes, you won. [laughter] title ix is dead. Heres how it works, by the way. Title ix comes in, as you point out, in an effort to promote gender equality, least at the time as gender was considered to be binary and understood as the same thing the as sex, male and female. So in terms of College Sports, it equals out scholarships, right . If you have 150 Scholarships Available to your university for men, you need to have 150 available for women. When i came along, that meant that a lot of mens programs, by the way, were canceled. Mens a swimming at ukla, for example ucla, canceled because youve got to balance out the number of scholarships, and football eats up Something Like 85 scholarships. Womens sports like water polo, you name it, womens badminton started getting psychological lahrships to even it out. Of course you have this, right . Now men can say, well, i want to be on the womens badminton nicole im sorry, i cant keep this in. Are you saying mens football, womens Water Employee and bad with minton . Come on, women play other sports too. Will i think you misunderstand, because theres a finite number of scholarships and mens football its up eats up so much, other programs dont get scholarships. For example, theres four and a half mens scholarships in water polo, theres nine for women. Theres way more womens scholarships in almost every sport except for basketball and football pete because of football tax up so many. Neil nicole going to. Will on top of that, title ix enforcement, it happens specific create when title ix came in. But were talking about the gender threats to title ix, and now in pursuit of Racial Justice because this was the motivation, College Sports was a place where athletes are forced onto the plantation at the price of a scholarship. Trust me, ive heard all these arguments. Pete s this is how they characterize it. Will they bring in nil now. Okay, you can make money off the a field. So heres what happens. Now guys play football or sometimes basketball without a scholarship. They just get nil money which is worth more than the scholarship. So now your rships are totally out of whack. So my point is title ix, which was designed to even out scholarship, has totally been invaded by dudes, blown up to the point where everybody meg sport can get one, and you have effectively killed title ix pete and College Sports. Will congratulations, dudes. You tilled title ix. Bill there you have it. Will the senate extended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for two years overnight. The measure passing just 15 minutes before its midnight deadline. The the Program Allows the government to collect information from nonamericans outside the country including spying on conversations with americans in the u. S. If. Pete uhhuh. Will the bill passed with reforms to address Privacy Concerns for lawmakers including upgrading the penalty or can penalties for anyone mess using the program. Pete im sure. Will the fbi officially serving subpoenas to dalton, illinois, mayor and other Village Officials over corruption accusations, shes accused of Spending Taxpayer Money on trips. He was also named in a lawsuit accusing a Village Official of sex assault during a trip to las vegas. She previously vetoed the boards request to launch a federal investigation into her. If. Morgan wallen breaking his silence after a his arrest in nashville. The country star faces charges for allegedly tossing a chair from the roof of a downtown bar owned by a fellow singer. That singers eric church. The chair landed near two officers. Wallen posting, quote i didnt feel right publicly checking in until i made amends with some to folks. I touched base with nashville law enforcement, my family and the good people at chiefs. Thats the bar. Im not proud of my behavior, and i accept responsibility. Wallens due in Court On May 3rd which is the same day his tour stops in nashville. And a Police Department in connecticut is holding a Caption Contest after posting this hilarious video of a runaway horse trotting down the road. [background sounds] [laughter] what the hell am a i supposed to do with this . If. Will residents enteri