>> steve: look at that. we have a new logo and new music. we are in a new room. it's kind of a new week. it's 7:00 here on the east coast. it is tuesday, may 28th, 2024. welcome to "fox & friends" and brand new studio, studio b. our top story this hour. a manhunt is underway two of four inmates who escaped a louisiana jail are still on the loose. >> lawrence: plus, democrats reportedly in full blown freakout mode over biden as we are about five months out from the election. >> ainsley: and what is the most annoying thing to americans? there's a list. >> do you want to hear the most annoying sound in the world? guys, guys, guys. >> ainsley: second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. and, remember, mornings are better your friends. >> steve: eh! >> ainsley: wake up. >> steve: screaming at the white house. we will tell you about that in a minute. turn to the latest on former president trump's new york criminal trial, closing arguments are set to begin today after more than four weeks of proceedings and testimony from nearly two dozen witnesses. >> lawrence: and president biden is reportedly ready to break his silence on the case, ainsley. >> ainsley: rich edson is live at the white house to tell us the latest. hey, rich. >> rich: good morning. president biden has made some references to his opponent's legal issues on the campaign trail. but this would be different. politico is reporting, quote: biden intends to initially address the verdict in a white house setting. not a campaign one. to show his statement isn't political. according to the people who were granted anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. the report says the president has made no decisions on timing or setting where he would refer to any type of verdict. the biden social media team is considering using, quote: convicted felon donald trump unquote to refer to the presumptive republican nominee if the jury convicts the former president. biden is enlisting the hem of democratic predecessors to raise some money. former president bill clinton. former secretary of state hillary clinton will join a fundraising dinner for president biden in virginia june 18th. former virginia governor terry mcauliffe is hosting that a few days earlier actor george clooney hosts former president barack obama, biden and clinton. this memorial day weekend, president biden did visit his daughter-in-law haley's home just ahead of the ninth anniversary of his son's death. her husband and biden's son beau veteran. hailly is expected to testify as a witness in hunter biden's gun crime trial next month. the president spent memorial day at arlington national cemetery for a wreath laying cemetery and speech at the tomb of the unknown soldier. back to you. >> steve: so rich, you know, i don't think the president has ever visited halle biden's house before. and i know the white house said no, they didn't talk about the trial for hunter biden, which starts a week from, i think, yesterday. witbut it just has a lotof peops what is he doing just dropping by oh it's a coincidence that the trial starts in a week. oh, it's also the ninth anniversary of his son beau dying. >> yeah. and that was the issue as well. and a lot of people have brought up those questions as to why exactly the president made that visit. you know, the white house is putting this as something that is just ahead of beau biden's death. the ninth anniversary of it. he was a army veteran. the president did mention it yesterday at the arlington national cemetery. she is now part of this gun case ongoing between the president's other son hunter biden. so, you know, those questions coming up, certainly. >> steve: indeed. >> ainsley: questioning the timing of it. thank you so much, rich. >> lawrence: another thing the white house distance themselves the president is going to make some type of address. they are distancing themselves from colangelo who is number 3 in the doj saying that the president had nothing to do with it. it's the equivalent if someone was working within the white house and decided to join back on the campaign or go work for a heavily contested senate race. i know they say he has no involvement. but it just doesn't look good to the american public to take a demotion to work for some local prosecutor when they're targeting his political opponent. and that's why the former president is calling it the biden trial. didn't know what he was saying at first. but when you got one of the number three guys in the doj that suddenly takes a demotion. it raises some eyebrows. >> ainsley: and now democrats are also freaking out according to politico article that just dropped this morning about joe biden. and they are saying in this article if you work for the campaign or you are a close friend of his, you don't want to go on tv and talk about this. you don't want to admit how bad joe biden is. it talks about some of their concerns. some of them are immigration. high inflation, biden's age. how unpopular kamala harris is. and the presence of a third party candidate like r.f.k. jr. >> steve: politico writes in part: nearly five months from the election, anxiety has morphed into palpable trepidation according to a dozen party leaders and operatives. the gap between what democrats will say on tv or in print and what they will text their friends has only grown as worries has surged about biden's prospects. you don't want to be that guy on the record saying we are doomed or the campaign is bad or biden is making mistakes. nobody wants to be that guy said a democratic flaive touch with the white house granted enmity to speak freely. poor polling and stakes of the election creating the freakout. people hold office, democrats and ofings holders and democrat justs and they look at the fools the siena poll came out last week where it showed that in new york state, which is just about as deep blue a state as can you get. joe biden is only beating donald trump by nine points. donald trump has made some real headway with black voters and hispanic voters. and he outraised joe biden in the last month by 25 million bucks. so, you know, they can put a brave face on. and there they have got a couple brave faces right there, but this campaign is taking on water. name one smart thing that the campaign is doing. i challenge you. name one smart thing they are doing? >> lawrence: they are not. that's why they are freaking out it. goes on to say in that politico article that the former president going to the bronx and going to all of these different events targeting new -- even going to the libertarian convention is getting under democrats' skin and d.c. insiders under their skin. but they later on say in the piece that it's not compelling campaigning. so, they are not paying attention to the polls to see that black voters are changing their minds. historic voters -- young voters, which is shocking to me that there has been -- after joe biden has given them all the free stuff, you turning the court. still young voters are going for donald trump even more. so, it's going to be interesting to see, i don't think there is going to be another nominee, steve. i think that the democrats are stuck with joe biden right now. unless something god forbid happens. so, what do they do now? >> ainsley: they also talk in the article about how much money trump raised in the month of april. it was record-breaking. he raised more than i believe 25 million and biden did in that month. and this is the month that people are focusing on. not only is it our last indication but also we have the trump trial going on. so maybe more people are pouring money into trump because of what they are seeing what is happening to them. i was watching over the weekend. and there was one commentator that talked about the election and how trump is probably going to win all the states he won last time. but, when you look at these swing states, that's what matters if joe biden loses michigan, is he in big trouble. donald trump could walk away with a win. and you have all these people in michigan voting oncology tested. uncommitted whatever they call did in that state. that's pretty scary for joe biden. >> steve: the cook political newsletter came out, and it showed that they're predicting if the election were held today, donald trump would essentially win six of seven swing stays. but, when i said, you know, name one thing that the campaign is doing right, yesterday, the president and some of his surrogates started using a new phrase that i think we're going to see a lot of where they are essentially trying warn people you don't want donald trump. so they were talking about choice. america is facing a choice. do you want acongress crazy or democracy they used that a couple of times yesterday think contd make it clear they are talking about autocracy with donald trump. i don't think that many people know what autocracy is they got to come up with something better than that. they got a gillian dollars they are throwing at the wall and nothing is sticking. >> they also got to stop. >> lawrence: you have to say what you are going to do to make people's life better. people that want to give donald trump another shots. they try to scare americans and say, listen, they are going to put you back in chains. you're not -- you are going to lose your right to vote if you elect donald trump. like none of this happened during the first term. at least say it just shows you to your point they have nothing. >> steve: nothing. >> lawrence: at this point to run on. >> ainsley: when you are a voter and looking at how much groceries are and seeing that taxes are going up. if you live in one of these blue states, many are moving out into these red states because of all of the taxes, because of toll fees, because of this and that and all the money that's going to these illegal immigrants. then you see the crime increasing in your city. we are talking about all the murders in chicago. a 5-year-old little girl was killed over the holiday weekend. and we usually see those numbers go up in the summer months because it's warm outside. when you are a voter and look at how your community something effected in these blue states. you stop and pause and say do i want a better administration? i do want my life to be better? and, yes, there were a lot of things that many people didn't like about trump and some of the things that he would tweet out. when you compare him and the direction of our country and how important this next election is, and the risk of losing our country, they talk about democracy on the blue side. on the red side, many conservatives are scared our country is going in the wrong direction and we're going to lose our country forever. >> steve: ultimately it, comes down to this. i remember ronald reagan ran on this when he was doing morning in america campaign. he simply asked a question. are you bitter off today than you were four years ago? and he wound up winning. so, think back. four years ago, 2020, we were in a global pandemic. but things, you know, inflation was still really low at the beginning of the year. at love people -- unemployment was near historic low records. we didn't see this constant flow of migrants across the southern border. there seemed to be some sort of system, checks and balances before people were let. in i just think the average person thinks, you know, things were cheaper last time. and joe has had three years and and a half. and here we are with inflation. 20% higher than when he took office. >> lawrence: such a good point. i'm so sorry, ainsley. steve, there's a four year, four year comparison. and the american people -- and to your point, ainsley, about the mean tweets, people are saying did the mean tweets effect me personally? because what i'm living with right now. i will take the lower taxes with the mean tweets. they can dislike that they want what is going to impact their life. mean tweets aren't going to impacted you on a day-to-day basis. i think that's what they are going to voted on. it's funny because i thought that the issues were going to be border and all that and those are big issues. we have seen that. but, the closer we get to the election, it looks like everywhere i go people are talking about the economy. >> ainsley: look at foreign relations. look what is happening in other countries. look what is happening in israel and ukraine, and our fears about china and taiwan. and when you -- i watched this movie over the weekend or a series. it was amazing. it's called the tattooist of auschwitz. what our jewish friends went through and how horrific it is. when you see the state of our world and hear from people who moved here from countries that are communist countries and you see how the democratic party is changing and the far, far, far left want a lot of those same policies that you see in these communist countries, it's very scary. >> steve: ultimately, to wrap this up, once again, the big story, lead story right now in politico is how behind the scenes democrats are in full blown freakout mode because joe biden is blowing it at this point. >> ainsley: now let's turn to a developing story that we're following out of louisiana. >> steve: listen to this. two potentially dangerous inmates are still on the run this morning after escaping from jail over the holiday weekend. >> lawrence: where are they. brooke singman has the story on that. >> the jail officials didn't know about the breakouts until hours after the fact. a total of four prisoners escaping through a weak spot in a chain linked fence. the police chief acknowledging that the jail was short-staffed at the time but says that's no excuse. listen. >> between not properly wat watching, counting, and structural issues, they were able to facilitate their escape. we had a failure within that we hope to correct. learn by our mistakes and move forward. brooke brooke three of the four escapees are facing charges in connection with 2022 murder including one of the two men on your screen right now still at large. other two captured on sunday after a family member of one of the escapees alerted police that the inmates had tried coming by their house overnight looking for a place to stay. those two esc escapees were eventually found hiding in a dumpster behind a dollar general store roughly 22 miles from the jail. police say they are skill scouring the area looking for the two on the loose. you have been in the men involved are above the age of 21, guys? all right, brooke. thank you very much scary if you live in that area. happened it over to carley for a fox news alert. >> carley: i certainly do. starting with this fox news alert. the u.n. security council holding closed door meeting today after airstrike starting hamas officials in rafah killed dozens of civilians. prime minister netanyahu accused hamas of hiding among the general population saying for us every uninvolved civilian who is hurt is a tragedy for hamas it's a strategy that's the whole difference. spain, ireland and norway recognize palestinian statehood. president biden reportedly pressuring allies britain and france not to censure iran at nuclear watchdog meeting. added pressure would lead to iran becoming more erratic as it looks to elect a new president. cory mills joined "fox & friends first" earlier. >> well, shear biden telling israel, our ally exactly how they should be doing things and yet showing appeasement to iran. this is the same administration under biden that delisted the houthi rebels as terrorist designation. this is a real swham they are actually willing to put pressure on our allies but weakening themselves when it comes to appeasing allies greatest state sponsor of terror. >> carley: any speculation about decisions is premature. we are increasing pressure on iran through sanctions and international isolation. on to a fox news alert. a very violent memorial day weekend in chicago leaves nine people dead. including a 5-year-old little girl. areignware sitting in a car. was shot. her father was also wounded but expected to survive. police are still searching for the shooter. check out this video here. a united airline flight catching fire just before takeoff from the chicago o'hare airport. you could see black smoke coming from the wing of the airbus plane. united tells fox news digital the seattle-bound flight was towed to the gate after the plane's engine caught fire. that's not good. passengers quickly got off the plane. thankfully no one was hurt. the airline says it is working on alternative travel arrangements for the 143 customers who were on board. walmart releasing a new ad to celebrate pride month touting new merchandise. >> pride month is not just a slogan. it's that sense of community at the end of the day. >> i'm really really grateful to walmart for giving me this opportunity to spread a little bit of happiness. fanny pack that says i heart gay people. >> the pink 5eu7 problem i'm excited to use it with my kids in my kitchen. i think it's all exciting to be a part of. >> this comes as target scales back priode merchandise and displays at some stores after facing backlash from customers last year. and one man on social media igniting a serious debate with his new rule how tips in restaurants. if he orders while standing up like at a counter, is he not tipping. the michigan man received nearly 2,000 comments. most of them supportive of his stance. and those are your headlines, guys. do you like the new rule? >> lawrence: it's a tough one, it depends. >> carley: i get where you are coming from. grabbing a cup of coffee and there is a thing that says do you want to add a tip? if you are not being served seated he said no tip. lawrence lawrence i always tip the ba list thats though. so part of it. >> steve: on your $8 coffee you are going to give them another 25%? >> lawrence: always ba list thats. >> ainsley: this flows into our next talking point thank you so much, carley. >> carley: you are welcome. >> steve: they asked americans, was it 2,000 people, 2,000 americans, what annoys you. what drives you crazy. and here is a list. >> steve: tipping culture as you can see at the bottom of that first column. every other person, 47% is annoyed by the price of groceries. >> lawrence: joe can't catch a break. >> steve: 6 in is 10 r. steamed about politicians. one in three doesn't like the way other people driving. customer service, social media, the tv is too loud for 15% of people. also, something we see here in new york, a lot of stuff if you want to buy it, you got to get somebody with a key because it's locked up. >> lawrence: i hate it. >> ainsley: if you want the razor blade at the drugstore or deodorant. >> lawrence: at my target pretty much everything is behind it. >> steve: used to be batteries, remember? >> ainsley: hate the self-checkout. parking, movies being too loud. text language abbreviations. >> ainsley: i feel so old when someone text me abbreviation unless it's lol, laugh out loud. >> lawrence: do you ask sometime? >> ainsley: no, i check on my phone. >> lawrence: just pretend like you know. >> ainsley: i should ask you because you are younger than me. >> steve: my daughter was traveling yesterday she sent me omw right now i'm thinking. >> lawrence: on my way. >> steve: it took me a little bit. >> lawrence: this is my contribution to the couch. >> steve: here is one. we talked about that when my kids were young, one thing that the young people would type out to their friends on their phones would be pos. now, i know there are several different means for pos. [laughter] >> steve: if a kid was using it do you know what it stood for? parent over shoulder. >> ainsley: give me an example if you would use that. >> lawrence: i use the other one. >> steve: lawrence was on my space account and typing with your friends and dad walks up behind you and pos. >> ainsley: got it parent over shoulder i can't write what i really want to write because dad will read it. i thought that was great. survey said one in five their mood gotten more positive as they have gotten older. only 5 percent said they were really getting more negative as they got older. grumpiness, they said, sets in at the average age of 42 years old. lawrence lawrence when you are 42. >> ainsley: starting to get a little more pessimistic. a little more grumpy. >> steve: ainsley, you have 10 more years to wait. >> lawrence: well-played, steve. >> ainsley: nice. >> lawrence: see, that's the one thing, you can be young that's wisdom. he just showed me how to play that. >> steve: look to me, yoda. >> lawrence: ainsley, so tell us. >> ainsley: sean hannity was, you know, such influence in our lives mentoring us when we first got to fox. so, we hang out a lot, you know, on the weekends or whatever, and so the other day i'm talking to lawrence and i said it's mom's birthday and i said how old is your mom, lawrence, she and my age. he could be my son. made me feel really old. i know. i know. >> steve: now i feel really old. >> lawrence: great thing is you have great skin and fit and going to be on this couch a long time. >> ainsley: i better be. >> lawrence: called clean up for a conversation i had earlier. >> ainsley: i don't mind getting old. i really don't. i'm okay with it. >> steve: where are they? we are actually in studio b. we have vacated the big "studio m" for the summer. >> ainsley: undergoing a renovation. >> steve: they're adding new lights and whistles and bells and whistles. here we are. we were actually in this studio 15 years ago. >> ainsley: hey, everyone, wave. >> lawrence: did i my first fox interview in this studio. >> ainsley: i like it, it's just one room. it reminds me of our old studio when i first started on "fox & friends." we're all a family. we can all talk. everyone is in the same -- our other studio is beautiful but it's so big. >> steve: the original first studio was on the corner of the building studio a used to be a record shop. it was called sam goody. and then this spot right back there, and then this area, do you know what this area used to be? >> lawrence: what? >> steve: it was a retail space. we are sitting live in dress barn. this studio was dress barn. when we first started dress barn had this. >> ainsley: labels for less. all the women used to shop in this area in this space. okay, are cell phones more addictive than drugs? we will ask a social psychologist who just wrote a book all about this. ♪ i got nothing left to lose or use or do my bad habits lead to ♪ happy memories just come easier on the water. our founder, johnny morris and his dad knew this first hand, they created a boat that was more affordable... tracker, the world's #1 one best selling fishing and pontoon boats powered by mercury. proudly built in missouri and sold factory direct at bass pro shops and select dealers. for as little as 5 dollars a day... you can own a brand new tracker and make lifelong memories of your own. bass pro shops. voted america's best outdoor retailer. save even more and support conservation when you join the club. the tempur-pedic breeze makes sleep feel cool. so, no more sweating all night or blasting the air conditioning. because the tempur-breeze feels up to 10° cooler, all night long. for a limited time, save up to $500 on select tempur-pedic adjustable mattress sets. craig here pays too much for verizon wireless. so he sublet half his real estate office... 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should you say no phones at all in school? >> let me first just convey exactly what is happening in school. the best way to do this is for parents to think what if you were in middle school your school had a policy can you bring your television, can you bring in your radio, you can bring in your guitar and everything everything, plug it in on your desk, use it during class. >> ainsley: would never happen. >> that's what kids bring a smart phone into class that's what we have done from. a student's point of view they can't learn. what this article did what this teacher did was he showed us that how impossible it is from a teacher's point of view, so, yes, i would say to anybody who has any authority here and to any parent who can influence their school, you must put the phone away for the entire day. if your school allows your kid to keep the phone in their pocket. that means they are not learning very much. you can't have phones in pockets. you can't be using them at lunch. you have to lock them away in the morning in a yonder pouch or phone locker and get them back at the end of the day. that's the only policy in a phone free school and only in a phone free school might kids pay attention to the teacher or kid sitting next to them. >> ainsley: look at the stats teenagers ages 13 to 17. 95% use social media. 33% use it almost constantly. okay. so what do you tell the parent that does have someone in this age, age group, they are going to have a phone. most parents are giving their teenagers phones. might not be 13. but maybe 15 in eighth grade or onward. what do you tell those parents? what should the rules be so we don't get our kids addicted? >> right. the most important advice is for parents of younger kids. do not give your child a smart phone until high school. when you give them a phone, that's the day that they will stop looking at everything else in the world and rest of their lives the phone will be in the center of their life. don't give a phone until high school. give them a flip phone or something. if you have already given your kid a phone and their whole life is on it and they are in high school. now the game plan needs to be you need to set zones most of the day is a phone-free day. and the biggest chunk of that is a phone free school. really push your school. give your kids six hours aday away from the phone they might learn something. they're the home phone mealtime no. phones at the table. you can't look something up because you are having a discussion. mealtimes must be phone free. nighttime, sleep time phone freely. free. all screens outside of the room 10:00 at night or pick some time. at least 30 to 45 minutes before bedtime. all day at school, mealtimes and you have got sleep time are now phone free. and then i would also suggest homework time. they are working on their computers. they often multi task computer and smart phone. get the smart phone out of the room during homework time. if you do that most of the day clear. then they are just spending 5 or 10 hours a day on their phone which is horrible but better than currently. >> ainsley: we are about to approach this time a few more years. what do you when your 8-year-old. we were all together for memorial day weekend and all of us have second graders and all these kids coming up to us the moms and saying mom, can i hold your phone? i want to look at one video? can i have your phone? what do you say to your kids? >> you say no, you have to establish clear lines. you have to try to -- our kids used to have a play-based childhood. what they really wanted to do play with each other. they didn't wanting to do homework, play with their friends incredibly healthy. now they have a phone based phone. more interesting than everything else in the world. in general i would say no. family life in america and around the world is now larging fighting over screens. how did this happen to us? we have to start setting limits. we have to start saying no. >> ainsley: good advice, it's so hard though when you have a big group. i'm going to do better, jonathan. >> okay. but the key is don't do it alone. talk to the parents of your kids' friends. if five of you do it, it won't sound like deprivation. hey, you want a good childhood we will let you play without phones. >> ainsley: thank you so much, professor. all right, closing arguments, jury instructions and maybe a verdict this week in trump vs. new york. shannon bream is outside the courthouse. hey, shannon, we will talk to you outside in just a second. ♪ everyone say, “space pod.” cheese. 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"fox news sunday" anchor and fox news chief legal correspondent shannon bream is in lower manhattan outside the courthouse. she joins us live. shannon, good morning to you. >> shannon: good morning, steve. >> steve: i know the judge has been very clear all right. i'm not sequester the jury, whatever you do, when you are out and about, don't watch news and don't talk to your friends or family about this cases. so, during the long holiday weekend, you got to figure a number of them were at family barbecues or family gatherings and while the jurors may not have said anything, you know their family members are trying to get something out of them. >> shannon: yeah. and think about that, steve. they had a week between the last time that we saw them. they were in court. they are hearing from everybody until now. and like you said it's a holiday weekend. it's a time you would be gathering with people. if anyone in your life knows you are part of this jury, they are going to have questions. they have orders from the judge. you got to wonder how difficult it's been to maintain those for a week break in this case. today finally now these jurors will hear the final arguments from the defense and then the prosecution and then it's up to them. that's the last time these attorneys are going to have a chance to talk to these jurors as they then go into their deliberations. the key here though, of course, are those jury instructions that will come from the judge. remember last week there was a lot of fighting in the courtroom about what would and wouldn't be included. but those are the instructions to give the jury to say as you are coming to your deliberations this is the law. this is how you apply it. this is the way you interpret it. so they're really really critical. >> steve: okay. so there are a number of possible outcomes. and i want you to explain, particularly one of them. one of them is it could be conviction on all the counts. conviction on some of the counts. acquittal on all the accounts. a hung jury where one person said nope, i don't believe it. or, the final one is a directed verdict where the judge could remove the jury from the equation entirely. how would that work? >> shannon: um-huh. so, at the end of a case, what essentially happens is the defense will come forward as they have and say the prosecution has not met the basic underlying fundamental of this case. so, judge, you are able now to say i can't even put this to the jury. it doesn't even meet that standard or that requirement. so a judge in some cases, though rare, can say i'm just -- the case is over. this is it. now, the way that judge merchan has acted and ruled in this case and previous requests along this line, i'm highly doubtful he would even seriously consider that but it is a possibility among all the legal options. >> steve: all right. things kick off about an hour and 450 minutes right now. you will be down there all day long. shannon, thank you very much for joining us live. good luck today. >> shannon: thanks, steve. >> steve: check out her show each and every sunday. of course, it is not only on your local fox affiliate but right here on the news channel at 2:00 on sunday. meanwhile, 44 minutes after the top of the hour, from the battlefield to the golf course. the 2024 armed forces cup is today. how the sport helps veterans transition back into civilian life. straight ahead, they're live with us coming up next on "fox & friends." ♪ ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance policy of $100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. even a term policy. even a term policy? 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>> i truly do. you know, through the game of golf, and our members who are sitting behind me, they found a new mission, you know, they are able to set goals, they are able to come together week in and week out. as a family. they enjoy the game of golf, it's cam rad derlyry. i just wish more programs were out there to introduce veterans to outdoor activities, be able to get them involved. not just sitting around the house. unfortunately, when you see the things happening on tvs and the suicide numbers, those are our brothers and sisters who seem to be forgotten, you know, josh and i and all these members here, our mission is to reach out to them. get introduced as many as we can to the game of golf. >> so if there is any veterans out there or family members of veterans that like to play golf and want to join our vga family, they can go to vga golf.org. look us up and join our over 23,000 members nationwide that are coming together every week, every weekend to play golf and get together and what we see is that that is really helping the transition from the military to civilian life. >> lawrence: it's beautiful. you know, gentlemen, coach, i'm working on these golf lessons. i won't be ready for tomorrow, but i guarantee you i will be ready for the next match and i will see you guys there. if anybody else wants to see, they will be able to see it on july the 7th, 12:00 p.m. on fs-1. coach? >> we would love to have you here. you know, it's pretty serious around here. this is what the boys are playing for the ring. >> lawrence: what i'm talking about. >> army has won the last two. so, it's going to be a street fight out there today. >> lawrence: we love a good street fight. gentlemen, thanks so much for joining the program. >> thank you guys so much for having us. >> lawrence: thank you for your service? >> yes, sir. >> lawrence: all right, carley, you have headlines for us. >> carley: i certainly do the ceo bass pro shops not only inflation very real but the company's stores are going to adjust accordingly. johnny morris inflation is here it's real. my dad was big on delivering value to customers. one of his sanction to me every dazhony, it's not worth any more on your shelf than it is your competitor's. we work hard and we still focus on affordability. affordability regal cinemasrolle future of movies [screams] >> carley: no hollow grams here but there is a new way to watch movies on the big screen called 4 dx featuring gyroscopic seats and other immersive seats like fog. three movies are showing in 4 dx garfield movie and kingdom of the plan net of the aprils. pretty cool stuff. lawrence, back to you. >> lawrence: i don't know if i'm ready for stuff flying all over the place. >> carley: you want to relax. that's not relaxing experience. >> lawrence: thanks, carley. billionaire gives students a thousand dollars with a catch. he is going to join us. >> we want to give you two gifts. the first is our gift to you, the second is the gift of giving. each of you is getting $1,000 cash right now. 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