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intelligence, just let our vice president explain. the first part of this issue is ai is a fancy thing, first of all, two letters, it means artificial intelligence. todd: we re good now, that clears it up. jimmy failla will try to explain. carley: and the new woke-free favorite drink this summer. i m in pursuit of a conservative with a load of ultra-light beer. carley: the brand-new add in the fight against bud light. you re watching fox and friends first. i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. overseas with a fox news alert. president biden set to meet with the president of finland this hours on the heels of the nato summit, where he admitted the u.s. will likely give ukraine more weapons. carley: lucas tomlinson has more. lucas: off to visit finland, which borders russia. biden spoke before thousand at a university in lithuania. president biden: we will not waiver. we will not waiver. [applause] president biden: i mean that, our commitment ....
candidate doug burgum joins us live after former president donald trump says that burgum could play an important role in a second trump administration. there s a few reasons why he might make a good v.p. pick. we ll talk to him in moments. stick around for that. first, no labels seeks to give voters another ticket to choose from if the matchup is once again trump v. biden. not surprisingly, they re riling up both parties with this effort. now they re asking the doj for an investigation to what they say is extortion and racketeering to keep them off of the ballot. the alleged conspiracy to stop no labels is a brazen voter suppression effort based on the evidence that we have submitted to the united states department of justice. martha: this will get interesting. that is no labels national co chair benjamin chavis. he will join us in just a moment. stay with us for that. first to mark meredith with the back story on this from washington. hi, mark. that is quite a ba ....
president biden s focus today on the fight to raise the debt limit and the dress of consequences that could be in store for the country have no actions taken. not a single solitary has this data is not that i accumulated. but that is not that occurred of the last several years. it is 200 years of debt. 200 years. the idea that we wouldn t pay our debt is bizarre. it s estimated that we didn t pay the debt, we lose 750,000 jobs, we have a recession, would be a disaster. the idea is for the first time saying, unless you can approve this ridiculous budget what the republican mega budget is, if you pass this budget, we re not going to increase the debt limit. then we re going to go bankrupt. the white house has also warning that if the white house default, it would result in severe damage. a default according to the white house would result in hud to thousands of job losses, which could increase to millions the longer it goes on. joining me now is nbc s correspond ....
may 11th is the date that marks the end of the crisis officially. the crisis status that we have been in since january 2020. one thing that is not ending, though, the spending. president biden showing no signs of slowing down when it comes to hand-outs. his student loan relief measure looking more expensive than initially thought. new analysis that shows biden s newly proposed income driven repayment plan will cost you taxpayers, get this, more than $360 billion in the next decade. that s on top of the almost $4 hundred 70 billion in direct loan forgiveness. it all makes for a possible escalation in the battle between the white house and republican lawmakers who say the spending must stop. we finally reached that point in time where enough is enough. 18 trillion in debt when i got here. a little over four years ago. now 31 trillion. it has gotten to a point where if you don t start exercising a little bit of discipline like everyone else does in this country, all othe ....
the scourge of human trafficking is one of the biggest crises of our time. 25 million around the world are being pushed into firelessed labor or sex trade against their will. generating $150 billion every year. a lot of that activity taking place right here at home in the u.s. we see human trafficking across all 50 states and really it can happen in any of the 50 states. last year in 2021 the national trafficking hotline had over 50,000 calls into the hotline and more than 16,000 of those were likely survivors of human trafficking. bill: eric shawn is on this story more on how it can happen and what is being done to put an end to it. good morning. good morning. one of the heartbreaking tolls of the migrant crisis is human trafficking. the product moved by those cartels are people. trafficking for labor or commercial sex work is a booming business in the southern border. the feds say trafficking has been lucrative for the mexican base trans national criminal organi ....