Fox and friends first continues right now. Jillian: you are watching fox and friends first this thursday morning. I did not see any stars but they were probably secured by the beautiful light that is manhattan. We begin with the border crisis, texas, greg abbott banning certain transportation of migrants who to be infected with covid. This is to protect communities after covid positive illegal immigrants were sent to hotels. Griff jenkins joins us with the claim that biden officials ordered them to downplay a covert outbreak. What is going on? governor abbott s executive order is pretty significant. It bans anyone other than federal, state or local law enforcement official from transporting migrants to stop the spread of covid into texas. The biden administration cares more about people who are not residents of america, to mask up and vaccinate fellow americans, allowing free passage into the united states of people with high probability of covid and spreading that covid in our communi
there have been calls for boycotts. those actions often impose the greatest burdens on the most vulnerable in our society. go back this is a moment tonight is the night we will fight until it s over we put our hands up like the ceiling can t hold us like the ceiling can t hold us. ainsley: that s a live look at miami, florida. good morning to you. it s nurse, y all. where has this week gone? it s flying by. brian: right. i believe there is a curfew in miami. they have to listen to that at home normally without a pandemic they might still be in the clubs and lights start going on. that s pretty much the last song they play. steve: i think it s in miami beach. i m not positive. for much of the rest of the city. i just looked, it is 70 trees there. 80 for a high. zero is the state income tax because i bring that up because they just jacked up the state income tax here in new york state, two whole points to 11% for people who are very successful. brian brian new yor
killing george floyd. chauvin is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after that video surfaced that sparked a social justice movement of him pipping floyd to the ground with his knee for more than nine minutes. the jury is 15 people selected, 14 will hear the case in the courtroom. what do we know about them? nine are women, the others are men. eight of the 14 to hear the case are white, four are black and two others identify self-identify as mixed race. that s a jury that experts here in minneapolis say is a little bit more diverse than you would normally see. this is a county that is about 74% white. now that the jury has been seated, we move on to those opening statements. i m told that these statements are essentially a road map for the jury. it will lay out what we will see in the case. i spoke to a defense attorney here in the county who is not connected to this case at all. listen to what he said about what we can exp
future policing. and calls to defund the police. here is what the city council s vice president told ali velshi earlier. we transferred $1 million to violence prevention to develop a mental health response, crime prevention so we re not always sending officers with guns out to situations that don t necessarily require that. let s go to nbc s shaquille brewster outside that courthouse. shaq, what do you know? reporter: in terms of the pledge and promise to dismantle and defund the minneapolis police department, the status of that depends on who you ask. it started with a promise and a park. to end policing as we know it. city council two weeks after the police killing of gorge floyd. majority of city council members on stage supporting that idea. headline grabbing commitment. defund the police sxwlr still unfulfilled today. what s happened since that day? we ve allocated it toward other programming. reporter: there has been progress. the police chief an
and his new administration complying with a law passed by congress in 2019, but ignored by the trump administration, we can see the truth for ourselves with our own eyes. the report states, quote we assess that saudi arabia s crown prince mohammad bin salman approved an operation to capture and kill jamal khashoggi. the assessment of the crown prince s control of the decisionmaking in the kingdom since 2017. the protective detail in the operation, and the crown prince s support for using violent measures to silent dissidents abroad, including khashoggi. new york times adds this on the significance of those findings, as the world watches president biden for signs of what could happen next in the push to hold the saudis accountable. the release of the report would not set aside the killing of mr. khashoggi, and that the biden administration intended to attempt to isolate the crown prince, although it will avoid any measures that would threaten to break ties to the kingdom.