carley: twitter is reportedly facing a class-action lawsuit as elon musk s mass layoffs begin this morning. todd: temporarily closing today and will alert employees of their status at 9 a.m. pacific time. you re watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. elon musk will cut jobs via e-mail this morning, for half the workforce. in an effort to place twitter on a healthy task, we will reduce global workforce on friday. this will impact a number of individuals who made valuable contributions to twitter, this action is necessary to guarantee success moving forward. todd: that decision challenged in court. twitter employees are suing the company for violating law requiring 60 days notice of termination. twitter says internal communications, twitter is special, after four years i m leaving with the fullest heart, experiences i never imagined, my head is held high knowing i gave it my absolute all. break down what this is all about. lawyers a
friends first co-host, brian kilmeade, welcome to the show. carley: welcome. todd: we have to welcome brian kilmeade. last night, hillary clinton and kamala harris playing identity politics card, you need to elect kathy hochul, because she took over for andrew cuomo when she left. did identity politics that got us kamala work out so much they want to repeat with hochul? brian: they brought in it is all-star team, kathy hochul s message is off beat and she is cutting crime ads, hillary clinton, is aggravated and she brings anger level high and the vice president is too happy about a small crowd. together they are celebrating abortion and talking about being tough on crime, it is different reality, not sure that resonates. this seems to be the perfect match up for lee zeldin because you have, i think, a lack of
that base. the breitbart reader who looks as this and sees the attacks on sessions and says we like that guy. here had he are again out in the open playing the white identity politics card as they did throughout the campaign. it s probably a win for their base. the president probably likes the combativeness when he sits back there and sees steven miller going at members of the press, the mainstream media. he probe likes that, but you can see from what the new chief of staff is trying to do, john kelley s reaching out to democratic leaders, he s trying to sort of passcy phi, cool tensions and trying to figure out how to stabilize this administration. he realizes you have to do more if you want to be successful than just please your own base than just rile up your base and harden divisions. i don t think steven miller did that. i think he copied to store the of inflame passions, excite the president, excite the base and they got to get beyond just doing that if they re going to be succes
again, politically here is why it matters. let me ask you you are playing the identity politics card and it s unacceptable. donald trump plays that consistently. thank you. i don t think so. give me your take on ted cruz response. you think it s a great response, but does he do that at his own risk? not taking something that might not be true but could hurt him with just 20 plus days left to go to iowa? one, i don t think it will hurt him. when you re the candidate being attacked, a good way to do it is laugh it off. we watched the video and laugh at it. i would love to see republican candidates go more systemically and more specific on donald trump and treat him as a serious candidate. the emperor doesn t have any clothes, he doesn t have any answers and is not able to talk about serious issues defeating