john: just two weeks to go now before title 42 ends, biden administration is announcing new measures to tackle illegal immigration and human smuggling. scrambling to set up tents, tables and portable toilets to process migrants as they overwhelm border towns like brownsville texas. the surge is agents from 200 miles away are coming in to help. shelters in el paso, texas, overrun with migrants while an estimated 35,000 more are waiting across the border for title 42 to end. national border patrol council president brandon judd standing by. he ll join us on this and more coming up. john: but first, president biden taking the podium yesterday for his first news conference in more than a month and appearing to rely on cheat sheets to pull it all off. hello, john roberts, nice to spend friday eve as we like to call it around here with you. aishah: good to see you, john. this is america reports. 80-year-old commander in chief caught holding note cards featuring an expected
stadium, 26. it s a little oldish, but they are building a new indoor stadium which will attract the final four in the super bowl, the college championships, concerts. it s beautiful weather down there, so you don t need it, but that indoor facility bring so much marta nashville. ainsley: can you bring your boat? pete: not there, that s jacksonville. but i ve been to an out argument nashville, it s nice. brian: isn t that at the end of broadway? pete: you walk across a bridge. you party, walk across, go to the game, go back. brian: my prediction, they ll get a super bowl. pete: a super bowl, final four, everything. welcome to fox & friends and the 8:00 hour. brian, i was supposed to give you my open. brian: i kind of blew my first one. pete: 6:00 hour you blew by it, so i ll give you mine. brian: i wonder who gets florida-georgia line if they split up, because the fgl house is right there. ainsley: are you being negative? they re not going to split up! a
just a short time ago cnn s manu raju reported that there would be a republican conference meeting tomorrow morning. that, however, we understand has now changed. i want to go to cnn s melanie zanona at the capitol with the new reporting on that and mccarthy s frame of mind as well. melanie, what have you learned? reporter: well, things have not moved in kevin mckarth chriss direction since that third ballot where he failed to get the votes. it s been back to the drawing board for kevin mccarthy and his allies. we ve seen supporters going into his office. we re told he has been working the phones. he is still hoping to negotiate and not planning to drop out. but meanwhile, i just spoke to a gop lawmaker, this is some breaking news here, this is a lawmaker who texted me, this is someone who supported mccarthy. they said they had just gotten a phone call from one of the never kevin republicans who is trying to grow their opposition and is trying to get that member to flip. so
good morning. by the way, it is national ratification day, which is january 14th. the day the american revolution officially ended with the treaty of paris. i didn t know that. pretty fitting for fox & friends and more fitting for fox & friends, national dress up your pet day. if you have a pet, dress it up today. rachel: that would be fun. we should have people pete: maybe in a patriotic outfit for ratification day. will: i m not big on dressing your pets up. pete: i can t at all. i can t stand it. rachel: you re no fun. will: who else is not into december up your pets? the pets. rachel: that s probably true. pete: it is very true. will: we re glad you re with us on fox & friends and we re all back together for the first time since new year and we re bringing you this news that s ongoing this week. the latest on president biden s classified document scandal is he s traveled back to wilmington, delaware, this weekend and we learned his aids blamed president trump for
Going to work. i think it would have been better in this day and age. john: it s a shame, 79, probably had a lot of years left. i had a chance to talk to him a couple times, really nice guy. aishah: yeah, really, really big loss. john: he will be missed. the homeless man accused of attacking san francisco s former fire commissioner in the head with a metal pipe earlier this month is being released from jail. this after the victim did not show up to court to testify due to what his legal team says are injuries from the april 5th attack. claudia is live outside the courthouse in san francisco. let me make sure i have this straight. the guy walked free because hi victim could not show up in court because of his injuries. that stunning turn of events here at court today, john, and comes after the man who was very viciously beaten and of course the central figure in this high profile case was a no-show at