requirements. i have to go to some place happy. i had to go to a low crime area because there is nothing worse than getting carjacked in a golf cart at 6:00. i had to go to a place where there is pleasant weather. and that is why, ladies, welcome to the villages friendliest hometown. steve: how much fun is this. yesterday i got messages from all of my friends who said steve, you know what? you said you are going to go somewhere in america and make breakfast for somebody so my friends could call and say hey, i will make sure that our kitchen is clean. and so when i was coming up yesterday, a bunch of people said hey, steve, my kitchen is clean. there are 145,000 people who live in the villages. and we might stop by any one of their houses exactly two hours from now. [applause] and you guys are not off the hook. we might go to your house. we might put you in the golf cart and say let s go to their house. and then i m going to make them breakfast from our brand new simply ha
hey, griff. good morning, brian, ainsley and steve. look, texas governor greg abbott has had enough with border towns overrun with migrants and drugs like the deadly fentanyl and he is designating cartels now as terrorist organizations. watch. fentanyl is clandestine killer and texans are victimized by mexican targets that produce. so cartels are terrorists and it s time that we started treating them that way. griff: this as we get a heart breaking reminder as the cartel s ruthlessness, border patrol agents and rbg two brothers 6 and 2 abandoned with the name and contact with someone in the u.s. written on their shirts. just two of the more than 140,000 unaccompanied minors left at the border this fiscal year. now, this comes as dhs s office of inspector general reports agents were so overwhelmed in 2021, they were forced to cut corners, saying, quote: border
steve: well, you know, one of the things the federal reserve said yesterday when they jacked up rates for the third time in a row. three quarters of a percentage point. they said there is imbalance in the supply chain. they have got to fix the supply chain. i was talking to the villages here. they build about they sell 300 houses a month. they sold 4,000 houses last year. they are building them as fast as they can. they can get stuff simply because they buy a lot of it. but gary lester was telling me that one of the patrol cars is at a certain point, they could not get rock for a while. and if you can t get rock, you can t build roads. and if you can t build roads, you can t build houses. and they were really terrified that that rail strike that might have happened last week was going to impact them. luckily, it has not. but, you know, they buy a lot of stuff. they are smaller business owners who are, you know, they are at the mercy of the big suppliers and so that is one of the th
you can t get another one. i was trying to do that and they told me two years. brian: on top of that you have got to keep did probably the better deal to keep it. ainsley: and buy it. you have to buy it if you have the money to do it. brian: usually people walked away because ever the mileage. brian brenberg kings college the economic expert stopped by fox & friends first to talk about where we are heading. it s going to be here for america because of these rates go up, the economy slows down. they are talking about higher unemployment rates now. they are talking about slower growth. they got this wrong in a big way. but, biden doesn t get it. you saw it on the 60 minutes interview. he doesn t even admit that we have had inflation spike. that s so bad. that s such problem because they re going to having the inclination to spend, spend, spend. fed has to fight against that. it prolongs the pain if the administration keeps doing. this. steve: see, here s the thing. the
from now. [applause] and you guys are not off the hook. we might go to your house. we might put you in the golf cart and say let s go to their house. and then i m going to make them breakfast from our brand new simply happy cookbook which, by the way, according to the new york times. the number one cookbook in america. ainsley: that s great. yeah. [cheers] steve: yeah, thanks. brian: those people eating there anyway? did they know you were coming ahead of time? have you interrupted or enhanced? steve: you know what? r.j. gators normally opens 11:00 in the morning. as one of the people said for fox & friends we will do anything because down here at the villages, happy hour starts early. am i right? [applause] ainsley: 145,000 people live there. everyone is cleaning up their kitchens if they live in the villages this morning. they know you are going to one of their houses. steve: absolutely. and, also, you knows one of the things, a lot of people are