you re watching fox & friends first on this friday morning. i m carley shimkus. ashley: i m ashley strohmier. todd an jillian are off this morning. now to the border crisis, homeland security secretary new mayorkas announcing border crossings hit a 21 year high. carley: griff jenkins is live with brand-new audio recordings that are telling. reporter: we haven t seen these kind of numbers since the spring of the year 2000, never during a raging pandemic. secretary mayorkas announcing this number here, more than 212,000 encounters in july, a five-fold increase over last july. the situation at the border is one of the toughest challenges we face. it is complicated, changing, and involves vulnerable people at a time of a global pandemic. reporter: but behind closed doors, in this leaked audio, talking to border patrol agents, mayorkas admits the situation is much more dire. these numbers cannot continue. we cannot get to the point we were a couple weeks ago and we re go
i don t anymore. violence between israelis and palestinians escalates towards an all-out war. militants in the gaza strip have fired 1,000 rockets towards israel. san francisco students are going to return for less than a week before the school year ends so schools will be qualified to get the $12 million in state reopening funds. if i m back back in the new york groove i m back back in the new york groove. ainsley: we re back in the new york groove, everyone. steve: we re up here. ainsley: back upstairs on the mezzanine level. this is where we used to be. i haven t stepped foot in area year and a half. you are way over there and you are way over there we still have to do. steve: we are 6 feet apart. this is our original curvey couch. like some other things it put on pandemic pounds because it s 2 feet longer in each direction. brian: should be 3 feet that was the rules last week. ainsley: i missed you guys. steve: that s because you are 6 feet away. they meas
neighborhood. there are different analyses about how many million jobs this will create you are the one deciding as 19 million and it s actually 2.7 million. fox news transportation secretary, pete buttigieg, over misleading. fox & friends of first continues right now. good morning. you are watching fox & friends first . on julian. i m in for todd pyro and we start with based fox news alert with a minnesota city turning into a work zone after black lies matter protest turned violent. national guard on the ground and the curfew is in effect. jackie joins us live. good morning. last night this minneapolis suburb looked a lot like the city did a few months ago. police in brooklyn city brooklyn center that is using flash bang grenades and tiered cost to clear crowds. a black man was allegedly shot by police during a traffic stop and demonstrators crowded around the police station watching fireworks and throwing things at riot officers. shots were fired at the sta
that president biden ever had any involvement in his financial ventures. but a witness said the exact opposite last week. john: remember hunter s former business partner, he told congress the biden family business was joe biden, period. bobilinski tried to blow the whistle in 2020, it went nowhere. we all heard from tony, he was a credible guy, he s a guy with information from inside the biden organization that says listen, this is what was going on. he went to the fbi, the fbi refused to further investigate. john: and politico reports biden s brother used his name to promote a hospital chain, then it collapsed. aishah: fox news contributor james freeman is going to join us in a minute, but first, david spunt live on capitol hill. what are you hearing about the closed door meeting? from everything we can tell, aishah and john, james biden is defending his big brother what happens to be the president of the united states. the interview began this morning at 10:30, it
jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. hi, jacqui. hey, gillian, good evening to you. u.s. officials revealed today that the u.s. has not formally requested a phone call with chinese president xi jinping despite president biden saying yesterday that they expected to be talking soon. we re learning that they re hoping that secretary of state antony blinken will first be able to smooth things over and make contact with his chinese counterpart at the munich security conference next week. but, if no meeting ends up happening, it will be a telling sign of where u.s.-china relations stand. chinese spy balloon lifted from the ocean store from south carolina. quantico. we learned a lot already from the balloon by surveilling it while it was flying over the country. we re going to learn even more, we believe, by getting a look at the guts inside it. but u.s. officials are warning we may not learn much more about the three likely harmless objects sho