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
in the crowd. lawrence: okay. lawrence: one final tour, teaming up as foreigner is ducted into the rock-and-roll hall of fame, they will joan us just ahead. ainsley: final hour sta starting steve: hunter biden live going into court in 15 know minutes. whether or not he will take the stand. show of support for hunter, his father s brother james is there and hpresident s sister valerie is there. ainsley: do you think he will take the standpoint? brian: i think he will, he walked into there press conference. lawrence: correct me if i m wrong, brian, james biden not only his uncle, he is his business partner. brian: yes, who is accused of lying. ainsley: he would have to take cross-examination. steve: it would be brutal. brian: open the laptop. rick, what are we see something we are waiting on the arrivals, it is black s.u.v.s, defendant, hunter biden, his aunt and uncle, and we re waiting to see if first lady jill biden will be here. president biden i
steve: a busy day here on fox & friends. right over here we have freshman senator from the great state of ohio j.d. vance. j.d., great to have you. good to be here. steve: let s talk a little bit about what is going on overseas. we know the president is about to speak in belfast. for the last couple days we heard from emmanuel macron the guy who runs france who essentially said yep, we need america s help with ukraine, but, when it comes to taiwan, ,you guys are on your own. now, as it turns out, he said this. russia must rather, europe must resist the pressure to become america s followers. he suggested europe should reduce its dependence on the extraordinary extra tear torality of a u.s. dollar. that is word i have never seen before just now and he could have made it up. first of all, steve, macron