trump goes after the crowd. look at this guy over here, how the hell did you two meet. >> laura: that is rickels, he did that. >> jimmy: if you sit up front, you get splashed by the animals every time. >> laura: remember rickels was like, look at that puss in the front. grab tickets for jimmy's tour in cleveland on may 31, going to sellout. that's it tonight, follow me on insta and x. it is america now and forever and getting better everyday. jesse is here next. >> carley: united states and ukraine inking strategic mineral deal that gives the u.s. a major financial stake in the country as the administration works toward peace. >> todd: they are working toward cutting taxes, speaking to ways and means committee nicole

malliotakis about where the bill stands. >> carley: military appreciation month, a unit that has received recognition it deserves, look forward to bringing that story to you. you are watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning, i'm carley shimkus. >> todd: i'm todd piro. doug luzader joins us with more on the big u.s.-ukraine minerals deal. doug. >> doug: a lot going on today, guys. we have new communication strategy at the white house, early morning press briefings, today we'll hear from deputy chief of staff stephen miller. at yesterday's lengthy cabinet meeting, a lot of talk about tariffs and deal making. here is the treasury secretary. >> i view this 100 days as setting the table for peace deals, trade deals, tax deals, the next 100 days will yield remarkable results, energy costs

plummeted, mortgage rates down, foods costs moving lower and american families are finding financial footing again. >> doug: and one deal is the rare earth mineral agreement with ukraine. this was delayed but we now have pen to paper, as you see there. idea behind this is to give the u.s. compensation and offer ukraine protection, perhaps laying groundwork for a ceasefire deal between ukraine and russia. then there is the economy, we learned gdp declined a bit last quarter. the president is talking about new investments. >> president trump: this week celebrating most successful 100 days in american history since the election, the companies represented in this room have collectively announced 2 trillion dollars in new investments and a total of close to 8 trillion all told. there has never been anything

like that in this country, never had anything close. >> doug: another busy day today starting with observing national day of prayer in the rose garden. todd and carley. >> todd: doug luzader, thank you. then the president rolls tide. president trump returning to tuscaloosa to deliver commencement address to university of alabama graduating class, joined by one of the school's most beloved figures, the guy on the right-hand side of the screen, former coach nick saban. not everyone is looking forward to this speech. 25,000 people signed the tide against tir any protest. there is a rally headlined by beto o'rourke. remember him? >> carley: i do, barely, skateboard comes to mind. >> todd: a student will meet with the president ahead of his speech. today is may day, may 1,

international workers day. en its of thousands will mark holiday by protesting trump. demonstrations planned from l.a. to new york and philadelphia. senator bernie sanders will speak at a rally at city hall and protests at the colorado state capitol and in washington, d.c. >> carley: r.f.k. jr. is shifting money with a goal of protecting against multiple strains of virus at once and hhs secretary is pushing to scale back how many fluoride is in drinking water. >> there is correlation between fluoride exposure and low iq in children. the more you get, the stupider you are. we need smart and healthy kids. >> carley: florida lawmakers just passed bill banning

fluoride, would be second state to ban fluoride after utah. it is awaiting president trump's signature. elephant in the room, kamala harris talking about elephants in her speech talking about president trump's first 100 days. >> kind of dark, i'm asking for show of hands, who saw that video from couple weeks ago. the elephants at the san diego during the earthquake? google it if you have not seen it. as soon as they felt the earth shaking beneath their feet, they got in a circle and stood next to each other to protect the most vulnerable. in the face of crisis, the lesson is don't scatter. >> carley: this is her first major address since leaving office. she must have been watching "fox

and friends first," we played that video when it came out. >> todd: over and over again. i will give her credit, that is not her worst one ever, so far down the list of weird thing sh she's said. >> carley: first one since she lost the election, she's still laughing. >> todd: loves to laugh. >> carley: elephants, buses, space even. >> todd: my question, would you as carley shimkus paid $25 to hear that specifically the elephant reference? >> carley: probably not. >> todd: there we go. >> carley: there is also this, defense secretary pete hegseth saying you will pay the consequences, white house with explicit warning for iran, details coming up. >> todd: n.f.l. slapping fines on atlanta falcons and the coach's son who called shedeur sanders. we have details. "fox and friends first" on thursday morning rolls along

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pete hegseth sending a very strong warning to iran over backing of houthi terrorists in yemen. defense secretary posting on x, we see your lethal support for the houthis, you know what you are doing. you know what the u.s. military is capable of, you were warned. you will pay the consequence at time and place of our choosing. michael allen joins us now. good morning to you. what a tight-rope walk, diplomatic talks with iran and this warning on the other. social media posts like this, does iran take a message like that lightly or will they change their behavior as a result of what the defense secretary just said? >> i'm not so sure they will change their behavior yet. if the secretary, however, is signalling we might try to hit some iranian assets or ships or trainers in the region.

i don't think they will try to hit in iran. if they were to try to hit someone around yemen, that might get the iranians attention and might benefit us in the longer run on diplomatic efforts, not only with iran nuclear, but trying to get some sort of handle on what is going on with houthis. >> carley: the uk just carried out first joint operation with the houthis, since president trump entered office and reports are that was successful, that is good news. other big news took place yesterday with the minerals deal. united states and ukraine finally signed that rare earth mineral deal. this is coming at time when president trump is becoming increasingly frustrated with vladamir putin for prolonging this war. when it comes to the substance of the mineral deal, tell us about that, what the united states gets out of it and how ukraine benefits as a result, as

well. >> you bet, for new efforts at production of critical mineral and hydrocarbons we will jointly invest or dollars we'll invest into the country and the proceeds will go to helping fund ukraine's effort to have military assistance which is necessary to deter an eventual russian reinvasion. and overtime as new projects yield honestly a return, the united states will benefit from those particular financial comebacks. so that's good for us, this delivers on what donald trump said about putting america first. it helps us get paid back for support we give the ukrainians and gives us economic state in critical minerals we need for the military, for batteries here in the united states and other advanced manufacturing capabilities. i do agree with the president, i

think it is a win-win situation and it is something he should be proud of and it ultimately helps with deterrence and security in europe, which is something we're looking for. >> carley: yeah, we have invested economic interest in ukraine, which is great for ukrainians. when it comes to united states, talking about rare earth mineral, i'm sure this news in signing this deal is something that china was none too pleased. >> i think you're right, we are too dependent on rare earth minerals, it is great president trump put this at the top of his agenda. he is making sure we can get these minerals in the united states. if we can, he wants to make sure we can get it from greenland. but going with ukraine in this particular instance is a smart move strategically for the united states. >> carley: it is good news all around. michael, thank you for waking up early with us, we appreciate

your insight as always. >> thanks for having me. >> c >> carley: janice dean is here. >> janice: can i be mad at myself for the forecast? i'm going to the kentucky derby today, earlier this week it looked like we were going to have a great day on saturday for the big race. now it looks like rain in the forecast, which happens every year. i'm mad at myself. okay. look at it. here is live radar. potential for stronger storms across mississippi river valley, ohio valley, a lot of lightning associateed with this storm system and heavy rainfall. severe threat from texas through oklahoma, across louisiana and mississippi and over kentucky, ohio in toward interior northeast. here is the risk we could see potential for large hail, damaging winds, tornados, from texas through arkansas, louisiana, mississippi, up

toward louisville, kentucky, cincinnati to cleveland. oklahoma city, we are into may, we had record wettest april for oklahoma city with foot of rain and rain still to come. we could get a couple of inches and flooding continues or risk for it. here is the kentucky derby forecast for today, friday and saturday. chance of thunderstorms and looking at saturday looks like rain will be in the forecast from the morning when i start on "fox and friends" throughout the day and we're hoping that at race time, 5:00 p.m., there might be a break in the clouds but rain moves in saturday evening. i guess a lot of mint juleps might help that. northeast, not only kentucky, this cold front stalls and low pressure cuts off from the main system and lingers and that means a messy wet weekend for

the northeast down toward mid-atlantic. >> todd: back to the horses, will you reform your forecast to give betting odd changes, wet track versus dry track? >> janice: interesting, my assumption is yes, bet on horses good in the mud, maybe not the california horses. >> todd: they don't get a lot of rain. >> carley: so many different arenas. >> janice: i am excited, i have a big hat, it will shade me. rain or shine -- >> carley: you'll be there. >> janice: it will be fun. >> carley: yee-haw. >> janice: see you tomorrow from the kentucky derby. >> todd: roll tide, the president gives an address at university of alabama. two guests will tell us why gen-z is gravitating to the president and how he can

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>> carley: florida governor desantis will be joined to discuss operation tidal wave, which resulted in final numbers of the operation, which are expected to be in the thousands. >> todd: another protective order against suspected migrant gang member kilmar abrego garcia has been uncovered, this time from 2020. >> carley: chanley painter has details. chanley. >> chanley: good morning. in addition to the protective order filed by the wife of kilmar abrego garcia, another filing surfaced. his wife wrote, i'm afraid to be

close to him, i have multiple photos and videos of how violent he can be. he told my ex-mother-in-law, even if he kills me no one can do anything to him. democrats, many of whom traveled to el salvador, are advocating for kilmar abrego garcia release believing he is an innocent man wrongly deported. one lawmaker from north carolina is calling on congress to act to secure our border after a visit to ice facility. congressman don davis saying, i believe we need to secure the border as next steps, the number of unlawful entries have come down, we can't just stop where we are now. this all comes as ice in colorado begins cracking down on employment violations by issuing notice of fine for local businesses employing illegal migrants, including $6 million

for one company for employing seven unauthorized workers and a 1.5 million for employing 12 unauthorized workers. guys. >> todd: that is one democrat that doesn't want to go to el salvador and bring that guy back. the rest need them back. >> carley: you are reading what the wife said about this guy. am i living in a crazy world? this is the guy democrats are championing? so much for defend all women. >> todd: chanley, thank you. on this topic of immigration, president trump weighing in on the supreme court role in immigration as his agenda continues to face legal hurdles. >> president trump: they don't want us to do what we're supposed to do and i hope the supreme court is going to fully understand what is going on. we have to get the criminals out of our country and that is the

basis under which we won the election. >> todd: former federal p prosecutor androbbering ea lewis, joins me. does the immigration crackdown hinge on that case that will be heard before the supreme court in two weeks? it is birth-right citizenship case, but overarching ramifications are greater because this case could decide whether or not rogue district court judges can override donald trump agenda. do you think that case will decide immigration next four years once and for all? >> good morning, todd, thank you for having me. as you noted, this case unquestionably will have a significant impact on the various immigration issues that the trump administration is taking on moving forward. you heard trump note in the video you showed, this was really one of the keys of his

platform and american people largely supported it. as we can see, he is getting frustrated because he's run into roadblocks and there may be ways to get around that. as you noted, what happens in the next few weeks will be dete determ dete determinative moving forward. >> todd: the 15th is one of the biggest cases before the supreme court in decades. and ordering release of -- deportation order. here is what he said when he was released. >> i'm saying it clear and loud. >> yes. >> to president trump and his cabinet. >> yes. >> i'm not afraid of you. >> todd: andrea, what comes next? will trump administration succeed in deporting him? >> well, todd, what we have

here, obviously a little setback for the administration itself with the recent court ruling on the habeus issue. that being said, that does not affect the case proceeding forward. there is still an open immigration case happening. the immigration judge is still going to be ruling on this and as we know, the trump administration has had some success using this immigration law that it is and the principles that these activists, these pro-palestinian activists are undermining the foreign policy issues that the president is largely supporting. time will tell, but this case is far from over. >> todd: to be clear, what you are referring to is ability of secretary of state, in this case, marco rubio, to say this individual who is not an american citizen is undermining our foreign policy and national

security so i as secretary of state can order him removed and i think that will be interesting to see what happens legally going forward with that. if senator marco rubio, now secretary of state, retains that power, that could be huge for this administration. and hearing major religious liberty case. seeming open to religious charter school. watch this. >> you can't treat religious people and religious institutions and religious speech as second class in the united states. >> essence of establish mment clause, we are not going to pay religious leaders to teach their religion. >> todd: if you go off oral argument, it looks like it is heading to 4-4 split, amy coney barrett is not participating in this case. what does this mean for future of concept of a religious

charter school? >> it is really interesting, there is a long line of p precedence on this. for as long as i can remember, clear divide where you don't mix church and state. what we have here, just the fact the supreme court is open to entertaining this is a huge, huge change from the way this issue has been presented in the past. even if this does not pass through, if there is a split, that does not mean this issue is not going to continue to come up because in the past we've never had a supreme court that has even open to this concept. this marks a very significant change in that regard. >> todd: it could redefine what the first amendment means and how far the first amendment ext extends. thank you for your time. carley. >> carley: president trump will return to university of alabama

to give commencement address to the graduating class. rnc youth advisory co-chair and chairman of college federation of alabama, riley mccardle, join me now. you will both attend the speech later today. you will meet with president trump to talk about the youth vote. what are you noticing among young people and advice you intend to give him regarding maintaining support among young people. >> thank you for having me. it says a lot about the president, the busiest man in the world is taking time to fly to sweet home alabama, while other leaders are talking and teaching young americans to hate america, president trump is reminding us it is worth fighting for. last november, 84 of the 88

major college campuses across this country saw gen-z shift to right by 11 points, this is double-digit shift in a group we were told was owned by the dnc. this is cultural shift toward common sense and rejection of radical woke left. i couldn't be more excited to meet president tonight, it is our 5th conversation about the youth vote. he is in the oval office thanks to gen-z. it is conservative. >> carley: that is music to his ears, i'm sure. riley, we did get word there will be a protest on campus and beto o'rourke is going to be speaking at it. overall, what has reaction from students at the university of alabama been to the president coming to make a speech later today? >> i think overall it has been incredible. we've had so many requests for tickets or how do i get into

this event? can i meet the president? we don't have control over any of that. i think people are just excited he's coming. and i think the coliseum will be packed tonight. i'm excited. >> carley: i'm sure energy will be high. brilen, kamala harris delivered her first speech since the election and she attacked president trump. here is her characterization of the state of the economy. >> it's an agenda, a narrow, self-serving vision of america. where they punish truth tellers, favor loyalists, cash in on their power and leave everyone to fend for themselves. >> carley: she said the president has created the greatest man-made economic

crisis in modern presidential history, i'm sure the trump administration would love to respond to since they won on economic issues. talking about university of alabama and graduating class, there will be new slate of young people entering the workforce. are young people right now concerned about the economy? >> yeah, they absolutely are and that is why we voted for president trump in november. we know about crisis, that is what kamala harris and joe biden did for four straight years in the white house. kamala harris is sitting in the -- next to hillary clinton. if she won one or two swing states she would have room to do a tour, she lost every one. this is rejection from gen-z, rejection of this woke liberal ideology they shoved down our throat. she called him hitler jr. and called them trash and garbage.

this sinking ship of party will be titanic when j.d. vance is sworn in come 2028. look forward to kamala harris continuing thissure too. >> carley: enjoy the speech later today, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having us. >> carley: house republicans look to am haer down the final detail of big beautiful deal. >> todd: nicole malliotakis is here to tell us what she is hoping to see in the final draft. ♪ wanna lose weight and be healthier? it's time for aerotrainer. a more effective total body fitness solution. (announcer) aerotrainer's ergodynamic design and four patented air chambers create maximum muscle activation for better results in less time. it allows for over 20 exercises. do the aerotrainer super crunch, push ups, aero squat.

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hi, lauren. >> the president is touting corporate benefits thanks to benefit of the tariffs. watch here. >> president trump: together we will bring back the most beautiful words i always say, made in the u.s.a. we'll have made in the u.s.a. like we have not had in a long time. >> white house says president trump secured over 5 trillion in new u.s.-based investments which they say will add $450,000 new jobs. huge companies investing, softbank, and another 500 million from nvidia and apple. boeing 3 billion, chobani, corning, pharmaceutical companies, too. this is part of the president's plan to rework and remake the economy including tariffs and tax cuts. >> carley: pharmaceutical element is critical to bring

back to the united states. it should have never gone to china and never lingered this long there. it is essential. >> for national security and defense. >> carley: bingo. the president made comments on the big beautiful bill. >> white house is looking to lock in tax cut and eliminate tax on tips, social security and overtime. these are taxes and tax cuts for working americans. here is the president. >> president trump: in the coming weeks, we'll pass largest tax cuts in american history and i think more so we'll be doing things for business like you have never seen before. big, beautiful bill, as i call it, big, beautiful bill, we may name it that actually will include 100% retroactive to january 20. >> 100% expensing back to the beginning of the year and wants that over the four years. if you want a company to reinvest and come back to the

united states of america, they need more than a year to do it. i was sitting with the ceo of alcove, it costs me 3 billion in five years to build a new factory. if you can deduct 100% of expenses over that period of time and have no tariffs because you produce in the united states, that is a perk that benefits everybody. you are bringing that supply chain back and hiring american workers in the process. >> todd: i love talking accident ta -- taxes, i appreciate you talking taxes with us. new nicole malliotakis will talk more taxes, that was not my best segue. we will move on. i view this as a situation, congresswoman, where mike johnson, speaker, donald trump, they have all been saying we're close, we're about to get there. in reality, how close are we? does this all come down to the salt cap? does this come down to the

issues lauren simonetti just discussed? where are we? how close are we? >> i think the ways and means committee with our portion, it would take care of the tax portion, we are close. i think we'll be able to achieve something that creases adoption for middle class and implements the president's priority of eliminating taxes on seniors for social security and reducing taxes people pay for tipped workers, those on overtime and will preserve if not increase standard deduction and child tax credit. i think we're making tremendous progress and committees are doing work now, hope we'll be able to get a bill out in the next week the public can read and vote on committee and all pieces have to come together in that one big, beautiful bill. hope is we could get something by end of the month.

>> carley: there was a meeting with house republican mike joh johnson. you were at that meeting, talking about salt, money you can deduct from federal taxes in high taxed state and local areas. politico describe it as republicans walking away from that meeting empty-handed, was nothing accomplished regarding this? >> we had a positive conversation and the good news is the president, speaker, member of ways and means committee, we all recognize importance of doing something for salt. it has to be increased. somebody representing brooklyn, i recognize reason we need salt relief is because our mayors and governors are mistreating and abusing taxpayers. i want to deliver for my constituents who are having hard time staying in their homes.

that they are not getting a return. if we can provide relief for states like mine, for taxpayers to keep their hard-earned money, that is what we're trying to do with salt relief. i think we doll that. not looking to restore this for billionaires and ultrawealthy, it is for middle class like people in staten island and brooklyn. >> todd: if you don't get salt figured out, i will be insufferable, i talk about salt every single day and she's sick of it. meantime, from salt to medicaid, texas congressman chip roy says medicaid needs reform. listen. >> in my view, everything should be on the table to ensure we deliver and focus medicaid on population it is supposed to be focused on. medicaid is up to 619 billion in last five years, slated to be

1.2 trillion by end of this budget cycle. that is insane. spending needs to be cut. >> todd: how do you reform medicaid without giving democrats talking point that you are cutting medicaid? >> medicaid is minute for seniors, most vulnerable and disabled community, traditional medicaid. expansion piece, there are reforms we can make to go after abuse of the program, eliminate the fraud that is 500 billion over next 10 years. if we implement work requirements, that is reform that will bring heavy savings to the taxpayer. we have to get the illegal immigrants off. in new york alone 500,000 illegal immigrants are benefiting from medicaid and nationally projected to be about 16 billion in cost. so we can do a lot here to reform the program, to go after

the waste, fraud and abuse without touching the traditional medicaid population and i think that we'll achieve something there that will be very good news for the taxpayer and also the states that have gone off the rails with medicaid cost. new york is perfect example, the governor said it is unsustainable the way it is. do a google search and see the fraud, how much arrests because of fraudsters taking advantage of the system. >> carley: that would be beneficial to us all. thank you for joining us, have a great day. >> thank you. >> todd: to lawrence jones with what is coming up on "fox and friends." lj. >> lawrence: it is friday eve, a big thursday morning on "fox and friends." so ukraine finally signing rare earth mineral deal, trump and zelenskyy feuded about months ago. national security advisor michael waltz will tell us about that and break down the major

spike we're seeing in military recruitment since president trump was elected. plus, 11 high school lacrosse players turned themselves in after a hazing stunt on younger t teammates. the district attorney will tell us about that case. small business administration kelly loeffler and joni ernst have a plan to bring business back to the united states, they'll tell us about it. we have a busy thursday morning, a lot to get to, we'll be there with you every step of the way. we'll be there top of the hour. see you. the park. (mom) okay, have fun! (liam) okay, bye. ♪

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>> todd: today is the start of military appreciation month and just in time for the occasion, an historic world war ii unit was hawrged for their incredible work. the six triple eight ba tallian awarded amedal all black female unit that helped solve a mail crisis during the war. >> by the war's end the six triple eight had sorted over 16 million pieces of mail. got it done in the lack of supplies and discrimination. it is my honor to present the congressional gold medal to the six triple eight. [cheers] >> todd: judely earley was in washington to accept the medal on behalf of her mother charity

adams earley and she joins he is me now. what was it like being at that ceremony honoring your mom? >> well, i have been hearing the words overwhelming and amazing. i can't think of too many other ways to describe it. i never ma imagined that it woud grow to this point. that something like this would be even possible. >> todd: did you know about your mom's story growing up? >> not really. to say me, she was just my mom she was a person who she finished one part of her life and she moved onto the next which the next was marriage and children and then working in the community. so, i really didn't start to learn some of the details until she wrote her memoir.

and i was probably -- i was out of college by then. >> todd: it's important to remember that your mom and important to point out that your mom and her battalion were trailblazers. they faced discrimination. they were not supported as well as they should have been what did your no, ma'am and those who served with her futures of black men who joined the military and followed your mom's lead? >> i have had so many women come up to me and say because of your mother, i served, because of your mother, that the war was open for me. because of your mother, i knew that i could handle what was set in front of me she was an inspiration and example. you don't know when you are making history when you are making history.

that's what she did. she opened that door. she opened that door for young women of any color but especially young black women to know all things are possible if you work hard. >> todd: there is a beauty to her story. there is a violate importance to her story. but i had one question as i was reading about her. her unit cleared out a backlog of 17 million pieces of mail in three months twice as fast as expected. so that led me to this question -- did she run your household with the same effectiveness and efficiency? people ask me that all the time. no, she was very organized. she believed in being completely prepared. but i was born 13 years after my parents were out of the army.

so, they weren't still living with a military mindset. but she handled a husband and two children and all the confusion that comes with that plus her community service. so she was organized. >> todd: got it. before we let you go, what do you want people to remember most about your mother? >> she was a woman of faith. her father was a pastor. her brother was a bishop i am a woman of faith and i believe that god has a plan for all of us, whether it's a big plan or whether it's something very small he chose to bring my mother in this world through black parents, but she made american history. >> todd: yes, she did. yes, she did.

she truly was a member of the greatest generation and we love her for that judy earley thank you for getting up with us. we sincerely appreciate it. such a beautiful honor. congratulations. >> thank you for having me. >> carley: because of your mother, i served. how about that? wonderful story there. one good news story to another. p.j. daniel a 13-year-old with brain cancer received the department's medal of merit in true new orleans fashion he celebrated by riding in a parade through the city. d.j. has been honored by over 900 law enforcement agencies and was sworn in as honorary secret service agent during president trump's address to congress. how about that? "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ >> brian: all right, i have been chosen to tell you this time. it's 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. >> ainsley: 6:00 right there. easy. >> lawrence: what a way to open the show. >> brian: i feel good abou