Thursday, march 7th. And this is fox friends. Ainsley the brother of laken rileys murder suspect linked to Venezuelan Gang. A live report from the border. Brian big shocker. Plus, we are hours away from the State Of The Union. Thats our permission to stay up late tonight. Brandon branding his address as a public reset. Steve new kid on the block. A 21yearold beat out a long time incumbent in North Carolina. Ainsley 21 . Steve i know it. We are going to talk to him. Lawrence second hour of fox friends begins right now and remember, mornings are better with friends. All right. We start this morning of fox friends with the State Of The Union address, which is tonight, where laken rileys parents were invited to attend but declined; however, a georgia congressman is leaving a seat open in her honor and her memory. Ainsley tonights speech marks a Pivotal Moment from President Biden and his 2024 opponent. Former President Donald Trump says that he is going to be watching closely, factchecking
honk the victims, 86-year-old ruth whitfield who stopped for groceries, she had just returned from visiting her husband in the nursing home. her son spoke to omar jimenez. one of the things that we as a family wanted to ensure is that we call it what it is, it is white supremacy, it is hate, it is racism, it is bigotry. we got to call it what it is and stop beating around the bush and take it head-on because it is proliferating, it is not getting better. jasmine wright is for us in washington. and as you just heard, the families are calling for officials to confront racism head-on and it seems like that is what the president plans do today. reporter: that s right, christine. a white house official says that the president is expected to address the racial motivations that led to this shooting and he is expected to condemn them, but also call on americans to embrace diversity, the thing that makes this country really america frankly america here. so we will see the presid
worse? i think there s a bigger question mark. the clouds are darker. there s more confusion. when there s this kind of confusion, people ask questions later, find out the answers later. we had a big day yesterday on the upside, which might have been bigger if it wasn t for the russian plane crashing into that drone. then overnight credit suisse is in trouble. what boggles my mind on credit suisse is it s been in trouble since 2007. i mean, really. the stock was 76 bucks in 2007. two years ago it was 14 bucks. sandra: it s never been as low as it is today. just listen to me. all time high for this stock was 16 years ago and it crashed and it s never come back. i don t understand that if there is some contagion, if there is a systemic risk, this would be embarrassing. the big european bank. this should not be any u.s., true u.s. exposure to it because
you have a 60% for the people in this country living paycheck to paycheck. tens of millions are working pain and starvation wages. it is not too much to ask the wealthiest country on earth, what we have massive and wealth inequality. people who are or if you re working 40 hours a week, you re not living in poverty. 14 bucks an hour is nothing to do with. that we ve got to raise the minimum wage to a higher level than that. i ll do my best to make sure that happens. another point i want to make, and everyone should notice, and terms of walmart, walmart is owned by the walton family. the wealthiest family in america. you ve got a lot of their workers, who are earning wages so low they have to go on food stamps, they have to go on medicaid. so in other words, you have the taxpayers of this country subsidizing the wealthiest family in america, instead of pain a living wage. let me ask, you because i want to put wages on the screen for a second. the current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour
s thank you for being here. this is about demand for workers, for these type of hourly workers. the company saying in its memo, this is to make sure we have attractive pay in the markets we operate. we talk about layoffs practically every week but that is pretty specific to industries to technology, banks, media companies as well. for the largest economy, it s still a very strong labor market, and demand for these type of hourly workers is still very strong. andy challenger who runs the firm, challenger grand christmas, the labor market remains competitive, particularly at this level. hourly workers are hard to find and companies are continuing to compete for them by raising wages. federal minimum wages are about to go up to a little over 9 bucks an hour soon. this would be above that. target, amazon, they have all already done this, right? we can show you how this compares to other competitors. walmart is on the lower end of the starting range. walmart saying 14 bucks, that work