ground setting up shelters at local high schools. still no word on what started the flames. thankfully no one has been hurt. for the local on the 8sest on the new jersey fire head to the fox weather app. steve: particularly this time of year in april, the pine are very dry and very acceptable to wildfire. this is the height, the peak of wildfire season in new jersey. brian: going to need new pine trees. ainsley: looks a lot better than it did. we were seeing flames shooting high in the sky this morning. steve: indeed. starting to get a handle on it. brian: smoke is not going to make joe biden happy. speaking of joe biden he is in ireland this morning meaning with prime minister sunak. ainsley: his son hunter is tagging along on that trip just after fox news reveals his business associates visited the white house, hunter s business guys and women over 80 times while joe biden was our vice president. steve: well, peter doocy wakes up today. he s in belfast, northe
going to give a speech an hour from now around 8:00 eastern time here. and then is he going to leave where you guys are in belfast and is he going to go to ireland, the republic down south to visit with his kin folk, the finnegans. i know that the bidens spent the easter weekend up at camp david as a family. it s just so weird for joe and hunter to be in ireland. where is dr. jill biden? why didn t she make the trip? peter: we were told there is a conflict with her teaching schedule. back to virginia. steve: they couldn t get a substitute? [laughter] i don t know how it works when the first lady is your teacher, actually. ainsley: thank you so much. peter. people are criticizing for him being there for going to find out about his lineage. brian: it s insane. ainsley: couldn t he have done this after he finishes his presidency. the french president saying they
i know she was you write about the difficulty of her teaching and what it was like after she left the white house the first time. now she s back at the white house and she s still teaching. i think one of the things that is interesting, this is not an act. her teaching is not just something she talks about. her schedule is really dominated by her teaching schedule. that really comes first for her. so everything else that gets built around it, all her travel, all her official appearances as first lady get built around her schedule as a teacher. when she s in the classroom, she s dr. biden and her students in some cases don t know that she s first lady. certainly when she was second lady and a little lower profile, they really had no idea that she had this whole other life outside of the classroom. yeah. i know aides say sometimes she s grading papers on air force two when she s on the plane and traveling places. i really think this is something that is very important to her, she
certain kind of nervous energy. and i m dealing with that by engaging with the media and pushing forward with the finding phillip wood facebook page to bring awareness and to provide a format for group therapy, if you want to think about that. but at a personal level i ve tried very hard to keep with the routines that phillip and i have followed for the last couple of years. i get up early. i drink coffee in front of the window and look out over the sunrise. we live next to an apple orchard. and i do yoga every morning and eat my oatmeal and go to work. i ve continued to keep a teaching schedule. and i m sure that that s what phillip would want me to do. no use having other casualties of my students not being able to hit their exams. so i m keeping normal life going, but i m pushing all this extra energy into trying to make a difference. it s extraordinary that you re able to continue teaching
well, desperation leads to a certain kind of nervous energy. and i m dealing with that by engaging with the media and pushing forward with the finding phillip wood facebook page to bring awareness and to provide a format for group therapy, if you want to think about that. but at a personal level i ve tried very hard to keep with the routines that phillip and i have followed for the last couple of years. i get up early. i drink coffee in front of the window and look out over the sunrise. we live next to an apple orchard. and i do yoga every morning and eat my oatmeal and go to work. i ve continued to keep a teaching schedule. and i m sure that that s what phillip would want me to do. no use having other casualties of my students not being able to hit their exams. so i m keeping normal life going, but i m pushing all this extra energy into trying to make a difference.