were so gallantly streaming. and the rockets reed glare red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. o, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave pete: good morning. that was our nation s anthem as is the tradition here on fox & friends weekend. thanks for sending in presumably maybe some fourth of july photos with the kiddos there. and. a lot of beautiful babies. pete: speaking of beautiful babies, will cain, carley shimkus in today for rachel campos duffy. carley: love to see the kids in the red, white and blue, nothing like it. i hope that you are still feeling the fourth of july spirit into the fourth of july weekend. this is the fourth of july weekend, isn t it? will: i think a lot of people took the entire week off, made it a 10-day carley: isn t that a beautiful way to do that? will: i don t know, tell me about it. pete: it was great. [laught
this race is far from over, there are dozens of states left to go. [cheering] and the next one is my sweet state of south carolina. [cheering] todd: you re watching a sweet version of fox and friends first on wednesday morning, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. other side of the political aisle, president biden defeated his challenger. he got half the vote from people writing his name down. dean phillips coming in second place with 20% of the vote. todd: brooke singman breaking it down for you. brooke: donald trump winning over nikki haley. he told me he is honored with the win and the gop is united behind his candidacy. trump is calling out haley after picking up a majority of delegates in the state. the polls, talking about most win ablts, we ve won almost every single poll in the last three months against crooked joe biden and she does not win those polls. she does not win those. this is not your typical victory speech. let s not have somebody take
casey stegall joins us from texas. it sounds like the suspect s wife is in jail as well. yes. it s possible. we know more people are behind bars as well as you heard the sheriff saying that was a little bit of a surprise to us. although there was some indication last night that if they find out people were aiding and abetting, hiding this criminal as this manhunt was underway that those people could face charges so that s possible as well so we just got that update from officials over in liberty county. they just wrapped that up. all of the a agencies involved also taking a little bit of a victory lap. now that the manhunt is officially over. and with little fanfare, i might add. the 38-year-old alleged gunman didn t put up a fight. francisco oropesa found hiding under a closet in a pile of clothes not far from the crime scene itself. the suspect will appear before a court later today by video conference from jail. this all came to an end after a tip was called in and then
china is upset because the u.s. shot down a spy balloon, our next guest is no stranger to china, chinese president xi jinping allegedly tried to get him fired, mike pompeo, author of a very successful book. never give an inch: fighting for the america i love. a weather balloon off course is what china said. what do you make of the spying their excuse, our reaction. thank you. no weather balloon, properly a spy balloon that was a trial balloon to figure out how u.s. would respond. i m glad they shot it down. it was probably handful of days too late. they probably got all collection they needed for the first few days. this is part of a bigger challenge. with taiwan. tiktok espionage in our country of day. you remember during our administration, i directed and president ordered the closure of chinese consulate in houston, texas, largest. weakness of america is inviting more aggression. trey: for those who were never the director of cia. i think these are our questions, when