♪ ♪ [national anthem] ♪ ♪ [national anthem] muck finish if ♪ ♪ ♪ [national anthem] ♪ if if ♪ ♪ ♪ will: good morning and is welcome to "fox & friends" weekend on this saturday coming to you live from new york city seated in the heart of the best country in the world. [laughter] pete: absolutely. will: i just with, i've got some recent context -- [laughter] rachel: oh! i get -- i was, like, what is going on here? pete: i didn't get it for a second. he just recently rearrive toed, he's jet lagged, came back from france. will: it's nice. rachel: tell me what it was -- will: just america's the best. that's just the way it is, okay? that's not even an opinion, that's a fact. rachel: something a happened in france. will: no, nothing happened, it rained. pete: he had a terrible time -- will: no, i didn't have a terrible time. [laughter] america's great. that's all i'm here to say. america is -- rachel: well, you landed, you went to france, you came back and realized our judicial system is in trouble. will: well, yeah. not everything in america's going, you know, throwing 10100 to-- 100 mile-an-hour fast balls. but we've got a lot of things figured out, including showers. pete: bathrooms a little different. will: beds. eggs for breakfast. you're here because you understand america is the best country in the world. pete: yeah. and you're staring the at a brand new set. we're coming to you from studio b with, is that what it is? we were in studio m. and we have a new logo and color scheme and everything. feels like a brand new -- feels like i'm in a tv show inside a tv show. [laughter] that's what it feels like. rachel: your with tie is kind of matching -- pete: oh, yeah, the logo's a lot more yellow. you want me to yellow? i'll double yellow you. will: we've got four hours to bring you this. by the way, teens, tomorrow morning right here we will have the three of us will sit down with president trump. his first sit-down interview since his conviction in a new york court. we'll be plague it throughout the morning -- playing it throughout the morning. so a make sure not to miss tomorrow -- rachel: tomorrow's going to be an incredible show. will: meanwhile, president biden is speaking out. rachel: it comes as his campaign reels in nearly $53 million in the first 24 hours since his guilty verdict was issued. pete: $553 million in small dollar donation. madeleine rivera joins us with the latest. >> reporter: president biden kept his remarks regarding former president trump's conviction direct saying his administration wasn't behind the prosecution. listen here. >> the american principle that no one is above the law was reaffirmed. donald trump was given every opportunity to defend himself. it was the a state case, not a federal case, and it's reckless, it's dangerous and it's irresponsible for anyone to say this was are rigged -- this was rigged just because they don't like the verdict. >> reporter: he didn't take questions, but a reporter had a follow-up question about the verdict, you see him here smiling, but our peter doocy was able to engage with the president as he was wrapping up celebration for the super bowl kansas city chiefs at the white house friday. >> reporter: do you think the conviction helps trump in the election? are you worried that this could happen to you someday, somebody comes up with charges and -- >> [inaudible] doing it wrong. the system still works. >> reporter: and when trump says you're trying to bruise hi- [inaudible] he thinks your pulling the strings behind the scenes, doing all this to help yourself. >> i didn't know i was that powerful. >> reporter: like you guys said, former president trump is turning his conviction into cash, hauling in nearly $53 million online in the 24 hours after the guilty verdict. >> i was leading the republicans, i was leading the democrats, i was leading everybody, and all of a sudden they brought it back. it's a very sad thing that's happening in our country, but i'm very honored to be involved because we're fighting for our constitution. >> reporter: trump has some top-dollar fundraisers in california next week as he tries to close the gap with president biden's $192 million war chest. will, pete and rachel. ing. will: yeah, $53 million in one day reflects a huge amount of grass roots support, a flood of support for president trump in the wake of this verdict. rae iowa yeah, it's incredible. and what they're saying is that a huge portion of that are coming from small dollar donors. so these are regular americans. although the i did see an article about stephanie raoul, she's from msnbc, and apparently she heard the verdict, heard that all this money was coming in to donald trump, got stressed out -- [laughter] and ended up calling some big donors that were sort of the nikki haley type of donors who were still on the fence about donald trump. and and she called them and they said we're all in with trump, and she was distraught at hearing that and said that something about how now republicans, you know, are going to become, like, one-party rule and want to be dictators and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. pete: of course. rachel: but the point is, it is about people who were maybe a little bit reluctant, not sure about donald trump and also these small dollar donors, that's significant. pete: just like the mar a lag go raid -- mar-a-lago raid, the country had two separate reactions. my phone was blowing up with a lot of people that were not political. and a lot of people went to the web site, crashed the web site, it and ended up being over $50million in donations. disgust on one side and then on the other side usually when something like this happens, there's usually a feigning that? s this is a sad day for america. the left, they're not even trying to do that anymore. if you happened to flip over to "the view," here's their reaction to the conviction. watch. >> donald john trump -- [laughter] is a convicted felon. [cheers and applause] what was your reaction? >> oh, my reaction was i was at costco buying, you know, 10 boxes of keurig coffee, and my watch started to buzz. i got so excited, i started leaking a little bit. [laughter] >> this is a man -- yay -- this is a man who made my life a living hell for four year, has made the life of our country a living hell for six years, and so he deserves to be accountable. [applause] >> i didn't feel somber. i felt like the knicks won the tournament. [laughter] [applause] i felt like america won. >> yep. >> i felt like new york won. i felt like the manhattan t.a.'s office won -- d.a. a's office won. i felt like i won. rachel: you guys, i have never seen -- and i'm not kidding, i've never if seen a greater display of elitism than i just saw right there. donald trump made my life terrible. that's ana navarro because she's gotten into some twitter spats with donald trump. or you have sunny hostin saying, you know, i won, new york won, i felt like i won. she didn't go down to the south bronx where people were saying why is the d.a. over there in manhattan over $13 if 0,000 -- 130,000 accounting error when we have crime rampant in our neighborhoods? i think it was everything trump -- eric trump that also brought up on jesse watters, there was a guy with a machete in times square. those ladies are not going to those places to have lunch. they're going to their nice little lunching lady places out on park avenue where i'm sure there's security out front just like in front of their fan city apartments, penthouses. so, again, total elitism, total disregard for how everybody's life is -- will: well, the same thing stood out to me which was their use of first person. rachel: yes. will: to me, i don't know about elitism, i hear what your saying, to me, it stuck out as faressism. obsession and narcissism. to make everything about you. i think a lot of people have personalized their relationship with donald trump in that way. the i, i, i, he made my life, i won. it's the not limited to elites on television. there's a lot of people walking around out there that are seeing everything through the prism of it's me versus donald trump. pete: for sure. i know i heard this from people, no, no, no, 12 jurors in new york city, in a democratic -- and a democratic judge in knight aren't choosing my candidate for me. will: right. pete: they can do that the over there, but around here, that's not how we do things. we're going to support donald trump. so there was a reaction -- rachel: like that country song, not in my town. pete: try that in a maul town. by the way, we want to get your input because as a will mentioned, we have an exclusive interview with president donald trump that will air tomorrow morning. so e-mail if us, friends@foxnews.com, what questions and doings do you want us to explore -- topics do you want us to explore? we look forward to it. rachel: t going to be the first interview with the president since this verdict happened. pete: friends@fox news.com, maybe we'll read a few of them at the end. rachel: well, yesterday or this week anthony fauci had to testify ever be the house panel on monday as newry-released transcripts from closed door interviews with lawmakers show he was stumped on child masking evidence. he admitted to lack of scientific basis for social distancing and claims he was not involved in the nih grant for the wuhan lab and denies gain of function research occurred. here's what was -- pete: here's what it is, he's testifying monday. rachel: ray a yeah. pete: and what you're referring to, rachel, which is something you've covered and we've covered a lot is that behind closed doors he admitted -- rachel: yes with, he did -- pete: -- earlier this year that he didn't have any scientific evidence for all of this. so on monday they're going to say, hey, why did you do x if you said y behind closed doors? this is from january. we're just getting it now. t just being revealed from this house transcript ahead of his testimony. this is what the house oversight committee asked dr. anthony fauci about masking kids. was there ever a cost benefit analysis on the unintended consequences of masking kids if if fauci said, not to my knowledge. rachel: not to my knowledge. then fauci said, you know, i don't recall. it's sort of just -- it sort of just appeared -- will: this was on social distancing. rachel: i don't recall, like, a discussion of whether it should be 5 or 6 or whatever, it was just that 6 foot is, well, did you see any studies that supported 6 feet? that was asked to him. and if he said i was not aware of studies that, in fact, that would be a very difficult study to do. i think it would fall under the category of empiric, just an empiric decision that wasn't based on data or data that could be accomplished. will: so this is, again, as pete said, stuff that was just coming to light. he'll have to answer for some of that on monday. and, i mean, those two quotes show you on two very important issues, and i would suggest these are not limited to those two, issues, they're winging it. winging it. and then cloaking themes -- themselves in science. pete: the experts were weighing -- rachel: he is science. will: yeah, claims that he is science, and also censoring anyone that dare question my of the edicts of science including in this case did you do any cost benefit analysis of masking kids? no. where'd you come up with 5-6? if i don't know. it just kind of emanated. rachel: i think the real question, the most important although i don't want to minimize the masking of children which i think was cruel and and i think ran walsh but -- tyrannical, but the involvement of the u.s. government, the nih, in funding even if they did it in a back door way and tried to launder it through ecohealth, his friend's company, if there was an involvement of the u.s. government in the funding of gain of function research at the wuhan lab. there's no way that something that huge could have happened without his knowledge. and if he did that and if then he didn't alert everybody about the u.s. involvement because he kept saying it was a bat and it was this and it was natural so that it would get everyone off the trail of the lab that i think we probably funded, this research, then, you know, he is actually responsible for the millions of deaths that occurred. we should not be with doing these dangerous experiments. pete: you know how he gets around it, staffers say that a fauci claimed he did not recall information more than 10 100 times. by the way, smart of this committee to hold on to the transcripts a day or two before this hearing so he has to answer to it as a well. all right, a few additional can headlines starting with this: the illegal immigrant accused of killing laken riley pleading not guilty during his arraignment yesterday. jose ibarra is facing 10 counts including murder, kidnapping and assault. a status hearing is scheduled for august, and his trail's expected to begin this fall. riley's mom was seen sobbing when ibarra entered the courtroom. her daughter was killed while out for a run on the university of georgia's campus back in february. and hundreds of pro-hamas protesters nation off with police after a taking over parts obviously brooklyn museum yesterday. protesters defaced art and draped a free palestine banner over the building. this as columbia students set up a new anti-israel encampment during lumbar knew weekend. protesters are calling on the school to divest if israel-associated companies. and more than a thousand high schoolers in new york city walking out of class yesterday in protest of israel's war. nearly 400 protesters rallying outside the department of education's offices calling for a ceasefire. school's still going on in new york city. and joe biden welcoming the kansas city chiefs back to the white house after this year's super bowl win. the team gifting him a helmet which he decided to wear and probably should just wear permanently. [laughter] rachel: that could help. pete: many comparing the moment to when michael dukakis infamously wore a helmet on top of a tank declaring his ability to lead the u.s. in 1988. i wonder if they had a chat. and those are your headlines. rachel: those delusional comments were about joe biden's position on abortion and how he claims to be a catholic and has such a radical pro-abortion position. will: well, the mayor of london say is the he wants the super bowl to come to his city and i say, quote, it's really important to us. sadiq khan told the athletic, the super bowl is really important to us. we have a number of american football game, and i want it to come here because we want american sports fans in europe to come to loan to on the to watch them, not -- london, not just go to america. pete: what does that mean? will: he just wants the super bowl in america -- pete: why would we do that? rachel: football's growing overseas, just like soccer is coming here. my brother has a football league, he's in dubai and runs a football league for ex-pats and all a kinds of people. pete: do you know who runs a football league in dubai? american football league? a. rachel: yes, it's crazy. it's like kids' thing, but they travel, to or like, they go to, you know, european countries. they go to chai a narc saudi arabia and play. will: you know, or i'm not as outraged. pete: what? will: i'm going to tell you why. the super bowl's a spectacle, okay? i'm a fan of football. you're not moving texas, oklahoma or georgia auburn or alabama-auburn to london. it's the super bowl. if you moved the n if fc or afc championship game, i'd have a problem. pete: this is why we don't have nice things. these are our things. these are american things. we don't give them away. i want to win championships too. just give me the dallas mavericks then. i'd like to have the dallas mavericks because i'd like to win something stay. will: you can do that, i'm going to -- you can switch teams. rachel: you don't think think it's a form of flattery that they want it? pete: i do, absolutely. rachel: you don't think it's flattery? pete: why? no, start your own super bowl. will: one hinge the about a france, the olympics? it's going to be awesome. they have all a these stadiums throughout paris right in the middle of the historical monument withs. you're going watching bmx riding next to the louver. -- louvre. it's amazing. rachel: not interested. pete: there's a lot more to the story. [laughter] will: trump says his new york case is far if over. questions still unanswered like how was judge merchan chosen, and who decided to fast track the trial? rachel: retired nypd inspector paul mauro says it all reeks of collusion. he's live next. ♪ ♪ ( ♪ ♪ ) start your day with nature made. the #1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand. for moderate to severe crohn's disease skyrizi is the first il-23 inhibitor that can deliver remission and visibly improve damage of the intestinal lining. serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine or plan to. liver problems may occur in crohn's disease. control of crohn's means everything to me. ask your gastroenterologist about skyrizi. ♪ control is everything to me ♪ learn how abbvie could help you save. craig here pays too much for verizon wireless. so he sublet half his real estate office... 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[laughter] pete: paul, you mentioned the statement from al baker, the state office of court administration if spokesperson, you referenced part of it. we're going to read the whole thing, judge merchan was assigned to supervise the grand juries that investigated the trump organization and alan weisselberg as well as donald trump from a rotation of judges available to supervise special grand juries. he was in turn assigned to the trial that arose from that information which is the court's look beyond -- longstanding practice since the judges has some familiarity with these often-complex cases and manage them more efficiently. he started on it, so he has to do everything, every as aspect related to it? >> yeah, that's essentially the argument. and, you know, you actually can make a pretty good counterargument which is that in order to insure fairness in a a second trial, maybe a different judge should be doing the trump trial because at least then you're getting fresh eyes looking at the case. what bothers me here, to be clear, is that we're note not get or -- we're not getting straight answers. and i think the inclusion of bannon if as a third case, the fact this judge very clearly had these conflicts, you know, there are ethical rules against those donations. the congresswoman for upstate, elise stefanik, has, in fact, filed a misconduct complaint regarding this, and congressman jim jordan has an open investigation in house judiciary regarding this. he has sent letters to tisch james, to merrick garland, alvin bragg and most significantly in my eyes, matt coangelo. he was the number three at doj, and he left that big job and to lead this investigation. but here's something a lot of people, i don't think, realize. he previously worked at tish james, the attorney general of new york, he worked on her investigation of the trump organization. if the civil case regarding the overvaluing of the real estate. so and, by the way, according to some reporting judge merchan's wife also worked at tish james' office for about a three years. so you have a very sort of nested group of people here, some of whom might have contact with the white house. that's the purpose of jim jordan's investigation. and it just feels like we can't get straight ans. i don't know that there's collusion, but, you know what? we we should be able to get clear are, straight answer from public officials whose salaries we pay. will: so you don't know there's collusion, but you said in the introduction, you see at least the appearance of potential of collusion, and you've laid out those individuals right there that are all involved at some level of new york state judicial system. but you're pointing out some who worked for the doj and have connections to the white house? >> that's right. coangelo was the lynch pin here. the fact that he would leave number three in doj, number one in doj is chose bin the president, so he's having very high-level meetings, going to briefings probably every morning, he's very much in the if mix. he leaves that job, again, after having done the work at a the a.g.'s office regarding the trump organization, he's going to concern he comes down from that job to do all of this and he goes to the d.a.'s office. that's a pretty direct connection, excuse me, between washington and the local case here with alvin bragg. and then, you know, you've just got to say the manner in which the case was conducted by the judge. you guys have covered it very much. i don't immediate to go into it. but, guys, this case was unorthodox to say the least. pete: we haven't heard much about a it because trump's gagged and can't talk about it. he came from doj specifically to these cases. paul mauro, thanks for digging into this for us, appreciate it. rachel: thank you. >> thank you, all. rachel: it's interesting. whiled he take a job -- it's a demotion and also a kind of embarrassing for alvin bragg, he needs a hand holder -- pete: he revived the case that alvin bragg wouldn't bring up. why? 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>> they're obsessed with it because they have bought into this concept of equity, that all outcomes have to be equal across racial groups, across sex. and anytime you don't see that exact representation the way it is in the general population. the only explanation as has to be discrimination of some kind, racism, structural racism, white supremacy, whatever you want to call it. their trying to -- they're trying to pick it through rigging the hiring, the promotion and the other outcomes so that everybody ends up in the same place. pete: okay, so we've got a chart from if your report that shows there's bidding for positions inside the state department, percentage ifs of who bids versus percentages of who's selected. so the column on the left is 64% of men are bidding for certain high-level, coveted positions. but it's an inverse on the other side of who's actually selected. so that's part of it. heying men and women apply, or women mostly selected. black and whites apply, minorities mostly selected, that kind of thing? >> well, that particular graph is a snapshot of one bureau, latin america in 20 20, but it does illustrate the point there's no way you end up with one-third of the bidders being women and two-thirds of the winners being women without somebody putting their foot on the scale. that's just one example of the positive discrimination at the state department in certain jobs. pete: what's the impact? our state department is supposed to set our foreign policy, represent us around the globe. what does it mean to us, the taxpayer withs, to those they're representing, how does it impact us? >> we should expect to have an elite in the foreign service, and there are certain professions that you just have to have free and fair competition and end up with people best able to do the job. in the end, it doesn't matter if all of our pilots are black, plumbers are jewish as long as they can fly the planes, fix the brains and unclog the drains. you can swap out ethnicities and swap out the professions, but in the end, america's about competition, it's about a selection, and it's about a merit. it's about people doing what they want to do. we want to create equal opportunity, but we can never create equal outcomes without exactly equal inputs. it's never going to happen. pete: it's a great point. we got a response from the state department to this report. we haven't seen the report, but we welcome a diversity of viewpoints. to to do they really? do you think they welcome a diversity of viewpoints? if how do they feel about a trump? >> unfortunately, no. i worked at the state department for 23 years, i loved working there being a diplomat, but it's no secret it does trend left. it's probably three-quarters or more people who support democrats against republicans and, yes, the general feeling in the state department was not positive towards president trump. a minority of people, but a significant minority, were trying to undermine his agenda and possibly would undermine the agenda the of a conservative with strong views. and that's not in the interests of the united states with. the civil servants are supposed to be there to carry out the will of the president. pete: no doubt. well, simon, thanks for the report, for highlighting this for us. >> thanks for having me. pete: and simon points out there are institutions like the state department that should be a her tock the rah city, and there's another one like the defense department that should be too. the same thing is plague out, and later in the program i'm going to share an excerpt from the book, i looked up the word obsession inside my book and found a very similar track. the defense department is obsessed with dei. what does that mean? you're pushing priorities of certain people into certain places not based on meritocracy which has a corrosive effect. so the book is "the war on warriors." it comes out tuesday, just a couple days, you'll get it in time for father's day, in time for summer if. i promise you, you will not be disappointed. all right, moving on, getting out of fantasyland? former obama advisor david axelrod telling people, a third party candidate is not an option. >> this is the choice, it's trump and biden. you can say, well, i'm not going to vote for either one of them, but one of those guys is going to be president of the united states, and people ought to focus on that. pete: joe concha reacts live next. oh, absolutely. 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>> i use basic logic, and i think if he is a democrat, therefore, he hurts the incumbents when is also a democrat. i don't see where robert f. ken i think jr., who's -- kennedy jr., who's an old school liberal, a former environmental warrior, may still be that, how does he possibly take votes from donald trump given the huge gap in policy differences? and even always points to, welsh they agree on the vaccines. well, the vaccines aren't a thing anymore, you know? 2021, i might buy that. it isn't now. it's trump versus biden, right now -- i'll leave it here, rachel. post-conviction, two polls out, donald trump is seeing a bump post-conviction while joe biden continues to struggle. that is very telling. rachel: all right. thank you, joe. always great getting your take on these things. take care. >> great to see you, take care. a iowa rae you too. all right, will? if. will: thank you, rachel. now to your headlines. new overnight, a big brush fire breaking out just west of phoenix, arizona, right next to the interstate. it caused traveling jams thanks -- traffic jams thanks to rubber neckers who wanted to get a closer look. no structures are in danger. this is the third weekend in a row that a fire started in the same spot. some orange juice are manufacturers are considering juicing other fruits like mandarins as the cost of oranges surge. this is due to the declining output in florida and brazil. global prices for oranges have skyrocketed 33% since april of '23, hitting $3.68 per pound this past april. that translates to a 12-ounce can of oj casting -- costing an average a of $4.25 that the at the supermarket, up 411 percent since last year -- 411%. a world war ii veteran got a hero's send ah before flying to normandy to take part in the 80th an is versely of d-day. friends and family waving flags and cheering on members of the greatest generation. >> there's a cam rad ally that a you don't get any place else -- camaraderie. we understand one another. i watch the younger people, the younger generation, i want them to know what we did. will: american airlines flying more than 60 veterans and 2 rosie the riveters ranging from 90 to 107 years old. once in france, the veterans will take part in wreath-laying ceremonies and visit world war ii sites. and those are your headlines. really cool. reeling in a record, a catfish the size of a sixth grader tops the state record after pulled from an oklahoma reservoir. that fisherman is live next. well done, viv. you got the presents, the balloons and the raptor cake. now, how about something to put a smile on your face? 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>> oh, yes. as soon as i pulled it up from the stump, i felt him on there, i thought, well, i've got a 30, 40-pounder. the closer i got to it, he pulled me to the side of the boat. my hands went in the water, and i said, whoa, i've got a good one. the closer i got to it, i had a little channel cat, i was trying to get it off, and i seen him. i said, holy, man, he's 80 plus. how in the world am i going to get him in the boat? [laughter] will: exactly. were you by yourself? how'd you get him in the boat? >> well, i fought him for i don't know how long, but finally i pulled him up. when his lips come above my boat, i just lifted him and pulled him in the boat. will: 11 pounds, as i understand it, short of the the unrestricted state record set back in the 1970s. but -- >> yes. will: what'd you do with9 95 pounds worth of catfish? >> we're gonna eat it. [laughter] will: you haven't had the fish fry yet? >> not yet. will: i mean, he would have taken a while to clean too. that's a -- >> yes. will: you're going to need a big nail and a big tree. >> yeah. a good buddy of mine skinned him for me. will: you know, before or this what was the biggest ca catfish you ever caught? >> 53. will: i'm sorry? say it again? 33? >> 53. will: 53. so you blew that out of the water. 95 pounds. writinged him in the boat -- writinged him in the boat yourself. heck of a catch. that's going to be some great stories for you and your family for quite some to time. >> yes, it's. will: all right. bradley courtright, from oklahoma, thank you so much. all right, a big show still ahead, more "fox & friends" moments away. ♪ girl, what a coincidence. ♪ i was just thinking about that weekend out at cumberland bay ♪ (♪) try dietary supplements from voltaren, for healthy joints. ♪ i'm gonna hold you forever... ♪ ♪ i'll be there... ♪ ♪ you don't... ♪ ♪ you don't have to worry... ♪ this is the all-new tempur-pedic adapt mattress. and we designed it to help make aches and pains a thing of the past. because our most advanced, infinitely adaptable tempur material eases your pressure points, inch by inch and molecule by molecule. in a way no other mattress can. all night. every night. during the tempur-pedic memorial day sale, save up to $500 on select adjustable mattress sets, and experience deep, undisturbed rest. learn more at tempurpedic.com today, at america's beverage companies,... ...our bottles might still look the same... ...but they can be remade in a whole new way. thanks to you... we're getting bottles back... and we've developed a way to make new ones from 100% recycled plastic. new bottles - made using no new plastic. you'll be seeing more of these bottles in more places. and when we get more of them back... ...we can use less new plastic. see how our bottles are made to be remade. ♪ rachel: it's the 7 a.m. hour of "fox & friends" weekend starting with this, get out of fantasyland. former obama adviser david axlerod telling americans a third party or candidate, not an