right now. put my hands up. they re playing my song. the butterflies fly away. nodding my head like yeah. jillian: good morning. you re watching fox & friends first on this monday morning. i m jillian mele. how you doing, griff jenkins. griff: we were just seeing the olympic torch there live in tokyo. viewership down on the olympics but i have been glued. do you know that on day one of the olympics we had zero medals, no gold, silver or bronze. that s never happened since 1972. 4 # years ago was the 49 years ago was the last time we had a zero medal start. jillian: that s truly sad. griff: now we are back with six, tied with china. here we go. team usa, we re on a roll. jillian: you mentioned tv viewership is down. in the u.s., for the opening day, 33 year low, 16.7 million u.s. viewers. i know you were one of the 16.7, griff. i know you re super stoked about this. i have to be honest with you, i haven t seen a second of it. griff: we have a lot more to talk abo
washington the super-spreader event. what she would be calling it? our panel debates it. on the heels of a deadly weekend of gun violence, the democratic mayor of portland, oregon, is calling for more police. why did city leaders slash the department s budget by millions of dollars last year? we are going to take a look at the numbers as the city faces its lowest staffing level in decades. flight attendants brushing up on their self-defense skills as they trained to take down unruly passengers. what you might want to watch out for the next time you fly the unfriendly skies. we begin tonight with the white house congratulating texas democratic lawmakers for their stance on voting rights and more people question if they are super spreading covid-19 on their visit to washington. white house correspondent kevin corke is tracking the latest. good evening, kevin. texas democrats bringing their voices to washington in a quest to convince senators to change the filibuster and to pa
they know when it hits the bottom it will be 1990 and goodbye to the 80s. ten, nine, eight eight eight eight. will this horrible year never end? we re starting to see a lot of experimentation. and the simpsons in some senses was inspired by not necessarily a hatred of television but a lot of distrust in the way television talks. it laughs with me, not at me. you stupid doh! i think the sitcoms of the 80s were so of a warm safe humor. you see the kids they will to the rap music which gives them the brain damage. i think there s a real yearning for another type of human. we were able to spoof fatherhood. what a bad father. which at the time and i stress at the time was bill cosby as the shining example. the stuff they got away with it because eats a cartoon. the father strangling the child. why, you little argh! we re going to keep on trying to strengthen the american family to make american families a lot more like the walletons and a lo
and i was not prepared for that even though he just told me. be careful and i was like whoa and almost fell, luckily i am here. todd: this is no joke. it is an ice event and we are having fun with it, what is going on in texas is serious business. we have a lot of whether to talk about but be careful northeast if you are out there today. you are watching fox and friends first on this friday morning. jillian: the trump era remain in mexico policy coming to end as thousands of migrants are expected across the southern border to await processing. president biden s controversial s reform overhaul. todd: the first wave of 25,000 asylum-seekers forced to remain in mexico under trump era policy, cross the border today as senator bob menendez unveils the administration s new immigration overhaul bill. undoing trump s damage and passing minor reforms is not enough. our current system is riddled with inefficiencies and needless cruelties. todd: in a year pathway to citizenship fo
hours. byron york will dig into in. new information on that. remember when john kerry was accused of undermining trump s iran policy by going behind the president s back and having discussions about the deal with iran that had fallen to the back burner of the investigation? new reporting today on this. what was doing on, how extensive were those discussions. we ll have reactions from the top republican. congressman mike mccall wants to weigh-in. we ll talk to him about texas and his role as the doj civil rights division john docket was heavily in getting to the bottom of the nursing home scandal. he s written a piece today that is getting a lot of attention. here s why. the question by cuomo should be worried about a federal probe. he s here in moment. stick around. president biden s nominee for attorney general on the hot seat today. merrick garland being asked if he will commit to a full investigation of the nursing home scandal and what happened under governor cuomo. we