good morning to you. it is sunday, december 21st, 2014. two police officers executed by a gunman seeking revenge for the deaths of eric garner and michael brown. what we just learned this morning about the killer's motive. a bold message from the police union to the steps of city hall in new york. >> there's blood on many hands tonight. those that insighted violence on this street under the device of protest -- >> why police officers in new york city are holding the mayor bill de blasio accountable for the deaths of the two officers. and an emotional salute by

new york's finest. we have the heartfelt tribute. "fox & friends" begins right now. well, good morning. we want to get right to the breaking news. the execution-style shooting of the two police officers here in new york city happened just five minutes after the new york police department got a warning from police in baltimore that a gunman was on the way to the city to determine to assassinate police officers. >> jackie is live in our studio with details. >> reporter: guys, the two police officers were on overtime in their marked car having lunch. the police commissioner bill

bratton says they never had a chance. >> he walked up and took a shooting stance on the passenger side and fired his weapon several times. >> police say the 28-year-old suspect ishmael brinsley was already a suspect. he shot his girlfriend and he survived. his instagram post said, i'm putting wings on pigs today. they took one of ours, we'll take two of theirs. #ripericgarner. moments later he was dead as he shot himself in the head. the two officers were pronounced dead where a sea of blue stood at attention where the two bodies were taken to the morgue.

police tactics have not seen this since the 1970s. an e-mail was just sent out to police officers saying two units are to respond to every call no matter the condition or severity no matter what the type of job is pending or what the opinion of the parole supervisor happens to be. that e-mail coming too late for officers, lou and ramos. thank you, jackie. this morning we remember the lives of the two officers killed. 32-year-old lou ramos has been married just a short time. >> the tragic heroes worked overtime assigned to an area in brooklyn seeing an increase in violence this year. and they were inside their car. ramos in the driver seat, lou sitting besides him. both men were taken on to the

hospital and pronounced dead. swift reaction from the head of the police union. the pda. pat lynch had this to say with the implications of the killings. watch. >> there's blood on many hands tonight. those that incited violence on the street under the guys of protest that tried to tear down what new york city police officers want every day. it does not go on. it cannot be tolerated. that blood on the hands that is on the steps of city hall at the office of the mayor. >> you saw a cold moment with mayor de blasio going to press conference with members of the nypd turning their backs to mayor de blasio. >> you can see the mayor right there walking through the crowd and the officers turning their backs. see that crowd with his face to the wall? they feel like the mayor has

turned his back on them. so that's why they are doing this in protest. >> we want to bring in a former fbi joint task force member here with us onset. thank you for joining us this morning. >> you're welcome. >> so this obviously, this tragedy, reveals among other things a profound level of distrust between the police in new york city and the mayor. >> look, the mayor of the city of new york embraced al sharpton. and through their rhetoric and through their inflammatory remarks about the nypd, they now have blood on their hands. and they can't spin this or pivot this to anything else. the most epic leadership. the mayor of new york city. >> many people are calling for the mayor to resign. what are your thoughts on that? >> he should but he won't. and i think he's going to lose a good police commissioner soon enough bill bratton is going to step down. i think he's going to be fed up to a point that he can no longer control what the mayor is doing. >> let's listen to mayor de blasio on saturday. take a listen.

>> i think this is a time to think about these families. i don't think it's the time for politics or political analysis. it's the time to think about families that just lost their fathers, their husband, their son. >> the question asked to mayor de blasio, do you think the attacks will inflate more violence? >> well, you hope not. you have copycats who want to get their 15 minutes of fame, who want to make a statement. as you can see, you can't get around this. this is an epic failure of leader shilead lead leadership. we have to understand one thing. this is not indicative of the african-american community. this is not a race issue. it never was. it is good guy versus bad guy and this mayor embraced bad people. and this is what happens when you try to be politically correct and embrace bad people. >> but then the mayor himself, i

agree with you completely, but didn't the mayor make this a racial issue when he called his own police officers racist repeat zpli. >> yes, he did. and he used his son as an example of someone afraid of police. this is the result of an epic failure in leadership. he's immediately got to come out, if he wants to survive this position of being mayor, is to tell people like al sharpton to stay away. get out of the city. you're only causing more problems in the city. it's a shame because the city of new york police department is the best in the country. and as the police commissioner said the other day, we are supposed to be celebrating the birth of christ, the birth of the savior, and this morning we're talking about mourning two police officers. >> give us insight into how the police officers are coming into the city this morning, lights blaring all over the city out in force this morning. give us insight into what's going on in that community this morning. >> well, i can tell you what's going through the minds of a lot of police officers is they are no longer going to be proactive.

they are going to be reactive. you know what that means? they won't hurry to the scenes of crimes anymore and put their pensions and lives on the line because they don't get backing from their government leaders. i hope that's not the case. i hope they are doing their jobs and stay professional, but these people are human beings. to put your lives on the line and to have the mayor of the city of new york say the things he said and do the things he did, it just isn't worth it. >> there was 45 minutes before the baltimore police. they had this piece of paper that was supposed to be sent to brooklyn or the nypd in general about what they knew about this guy. he had obviously left baltimore earlier in the, mo. they tracked his instagram post and knew he was in brooklyn. this piece of paper sat on the desks down there and didn't make it to the nypd. if it had gotten there 45 minutes earlier, who knows. >> in this age of up instagram, why was it on the desk and not sent immediately to new york?

they can blame nypd and gangs as we talked about earlier, but this is the failure of the mayor of the city of new york. period. >> where do we go from here and remedy this situation? how do we allow the commissioner and the mayor to work well together? >> i don't think it's going to happen. i think we are beyond that now. we're talking about death. >> something has to happen, this is going to get out of control and get worse and worse. >> perhaps the governor or someone at a higher level has to step in. and i would not recommend eric holder or the president of the united states because they have a bit to blame in this situation, too. but the governor's office perhaps should get involved to bring someone in that can actually control the situation. >> you said you do think de blasio should step down at the beginning of the interview. but then you said you think bratton will step down, too. but how will that affect the police officers? >> it would be devastating, but bill brotton is a cop's cop. he's a great commissioner, but his boss is the mayor. how long do you think bill br

bratton is going to put up with this? >> that's a good point. he describes the crimes as a political act. that's really the way the mayor talked about it. people are responding to their oppression by committing crimes. that's the way he sees it. don't you worry there's going to be a lot more crime? >> well, exactly. as we said in the beginning, this was a bad guy/good guy issue. never a racial issue. the mayor made it into a racial issue and a political act. the mayor made it a mess and two police officers are dead as a result of it. epic failure in leadership of the mayor's office. >> we'll have mayor giuliani on throughout the show this morning to respond to the crisis now in the city government over the shootings. >> steve, thank you. >> you're welcome. we'll continue to follow the top story this morning. and that, of course, is the tragic murder of two new york police officers killed in cold murder yesterday in brooklyn. what happens when outrage over

powers keep the police from doing their jobs? and unsung heroes rise out of the tragedy. meet the two men who confronted the mobster who assassinated the cops who otherwise may have escaped.

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those situations supposed to do? >> our police officers are charged with a responsibility to uphold and enforce the law, to protect all of us. this case is such a tragic example of a bad guy, a criminal, committing a terrible, tragic act. the public outcry to what's happened with our jury system did have an impact on what this criminal has done. but it is in no way to suggest that there's anything that legitimizing his conduct. >> no, definitely not. and the thing is, we cannot react to violence with more violence. this is just putting more and more tension in between the people and the police officers. these types of acts, this is a tragedy. and this should not be the way we're dealing with the system. everybody needs to be put through the grand jury system. a grand jury makes a decision and we cannot take it on ourselves to go to the streets to try to get justice that way.

it is not effective for anyone. >> the city functions well when you have a mayor at the top and the support of law enforcement do. you think that the mayor is undermined this morning? >> clayton, you bring up a very good point. this is a time, especially now, that the city and this country needs strong leadership. we need someone who is going to work together with law enforcement to remind everybody those good people and those who are going to commit criminal acts, that we are a nation of laws. that we are founded on the premise that we all follow the law. and when we have the mayor as we do here in new york city right now, who is at odds with police. when we need that support and that connection more than ever, it's going to lead to more criminal activity in my opinion. >> we can't have a fire being lit under people to take action into their up hands. >> you have a mayor who put up a higher fence at his home and then asks police officers right before christmas to go into terrible neighborhoods and to try to quell the problems, the

violence in brooklyn. how do those two scare? >> you can't reconcile those two decisions of this mayor. it's an inherent inconsistency to say, i'm going to build with my limitless funds greater protection from the bad people and i'm going to tell the police officers, you go out and you put yourself in further jeopardy. we should be seeing this mayor and the police working together. i'm wearing blue today in support of our fallen police officers. and i know so many good people believe that the police need the support of our local and state government. and they are not getting it right now. >> we definitely need unity with the government and the police officers. >> we have the mayor call on the relationship with the police officers and al sharpton. >> to take it to this extreme, to be shouting "kill the cops!" it is just too much inciting

more destruction. it is causing a worse situation. >> should the mayor step down? >> i think it can be repaired and should be repaired. and if our mayor is smart enough to listen to his advisers, he will do his best to repair it. >> we need to work together to repair this. >> you saw that video last night with the mayor going to the press conference. we have the grainy video of him walking down the hallway and police officers turning their backs on him, the mayor. >> i think they very much feel he's abandoned them in this situation. that's why we need to make sure the government is supporting the police officers and working together to come together as a unified front. to combat this violence, this violent reaction. again, we just cannot take these situations into our own hands and go with violence into this. >> this is such a human element right before christmas. you think about the 13-year-old

son, the newly married wife, the son a few days before christmas not to have a dad. >> they are working overtime to buy christmas gifts for their children. >> they were working overtime. >> right. but the sadness on this story is not lost on anybody, i know that. we cannot blame the mayor for this one person's bad acts. we can blame the mayor for a lack of leadership and reminding and informing the people of this city the good deeds and the need for our law enforcement to work together with everyone. >> absolutely. >> thank you for joining us this morning. coming up on the show, two heroes arriving. we'll tell you about two con-ed workers who faced down the gunman before he went down to the subway area that possibly could have saved more lives. [coughing]

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welcome back this morning to "fox & friends" in the city. the flags will be flying half-staff this morning while the two police officers sat in their car working overtime in brooklyn in a rough neighborhood trying to squell violence there. some unsung heroes from coned saw this happen. >> this is the electric company here in new york. >> exactly. the murderer comes up and assassinates the two police officers. they never had time to reach for their guns, and the two coned workers saw this happen and followed this man. the murderer turned, pointed a

gun at them and threat upped their lives. they backed off a bit and he went down to the subway station. >> he thought he was going to get away trying to get on the train. >> he went down below to the g-train. and that's when the coned workers called the police officers and went underground and confronted him. that's when the suspect turned the gun on himself. no telling what would have happened if he got on the g-train. i was thinking about this because the subways don't run as often on the weekends, but i don't know how long he was underground. but thank goodness because who knows what he would have done next. >> we see the footage there of him standing on the train platform waiting for the train to arrive. because the coned workers were brave and followed him and saw this go down and tipped off police, they wouldn't have known where he went and escaped to. >> they have not revealed their identities as of this morning. >> i'm anxious to talk to them. they risked their lives to save the lives of other people as

this story is unfolding. no telling what would have happened if the guys were on the train. i'm proud of them for risking their lives. >> it is so nice to be reminded that there are decent, good citizens who are helping the police in the face of all of this. good for you. >> much more on this throughout the show this morning. coming up this morning, a third new york city police officer could also be dead today when another man aims a gun right at his head. we'll tell you what happened. and the brutal assassinations of the two officers right on the heels of the hatchet attack on officers. what can they do to protect themselves from all of this random violence now? former nypd officer and secret service agent jan fajino is live, next.

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thank you for coming on this morning. >> you got it, tucker. >> you're hearing people connect the dots here, al sharpton led protests in new york, attacked the police, you saw the mayor of new york city describe them as racist, do they share some of the responsibility here? >> they do, tucker. the people who have made their careers off of political division and implying racism where it doesn't exist, number one, have really destroyed credibility in cases wheof raci where they should be pursued to every extent legally possible. and secondly, they have incited people -- there's a big difference, tucker, and it is important as a police officer. to be involved in a potential police brutality event and a potential police brutality incited by a racist is a totally different thing. so i do put some of this on them. >> to refresh the views, you can

hear what they said on this issue. take a listen. >> we want the justice department and the federal government to deal with the fact that the grand jury systems on a state level are broken and seem to lack the capacity to deal with police when you are dealing with questions of criminality and killing. >> mr. garner's death is one of several recent incidents across our great country that have tested the sense of trust that must exist between law enforcement and the communities they are charged to serve and to protect. this is not a new york issue. nor a ferguson issue alone. >> if you look at, after what happened with michael brown, what happened after trayvon, if you look at the decision after eric garner, i'm being pretty explicit about my concern. and being pretty explicit about

the fact that this is a systemic problem, that black folks and latinos and others are not just making this up. >> dan, those are our leaders, is there a failure of leadership in this country on this issue? >> well, they are not my leaders anymore. these men are frauds. and they have acted like frauds. they've become grotesque caricatures. and what gets lost in this, another important point, one thing sharpton did say that's a legitimate conversation to have in the country, the grand jury system is appropriate for police-involved shootings due to their relationship to prosecuting. there's other arguments to have about militarization of policing. these are fair topics but this is not what the people do, that's why they are frauds. what they do is they are looking for political gain. and the only way to do it is to divide. they never say vote for me, they

say vote against the other guy because this guy hates you and this is how they do it. people are being manipulated. the people are not legitimate anymore. >> dan, there are a lot of people saying what happened in ferguson, what happened on staten island was not about race. but there are a lot of people in our country that are saying it is about race and there's a fox news poll that shows that race relations according to the individuals polled, look at this. 65% white people say race relations has gotten worse. 16% say better. as for the black community, 26% say better, 55% say worse. the majority say race relations since president obama took office have gotten worse in the country. why is this? >> well, ainsley, it is simple. every scenario that involves race, he seems to somehow imply that there's a correlation with racism.

that's not the same thing. because someone i'm interacting with has a different component to their skin doesn't have anything to do with my behavior towards them. i'm not saying the polices with blacks is far different. there are legitimate conversations there that should be had, but that's not what the president does. he jumps to conclusions as the leader of the free world and puts everyone under the bus in the investigation afterwards. >> what could he do to change race relations in this country? he has two more years in office and a grand opportunity to do that. >> well, this had to be done, it's too late for him now because he doesn't have any credibility. the way from my experience in policing, the way it's done is it's done in advance. the police are in the communities talking to affluent leaders in the community beforehand. so when incidents like this happen, the relationships are built and the calm is already there. >> how could he have a conversation when it's entirely

one sided? in the president's view, there are no bad neighborhoods but just bad cops. if you're a police officer in new york city or chicago or l.a. or any big city in this country, you kind of know that the leadership does not support you, don't you? >> of course. and when you're always making these slick correlations, you know, mayor de blasio talking about historical examples of racism in the country, yes, he's absolutely correct. but in the context of a police-involved incident, the garner incident, tucker, there's zero evidence whatsoever that this has any element of racism in it at all. he's not slick. that's my point. every police officer got it. they got what he was saying. they got -- they are oddly enough, he's implying all police officers were judging people upon the color of their skin and is telling people to go out to judge police officers on the color of their uniform? this is not leadership. these people have no credibility anymore. >> dan, you saw the grainy video

i'm sure of the police officers all turning their back on mayor de blasio last night at the press conference when he arrived. they all turned their back. how do you go to work as a police officer this morning knowing their mayor feels this way about you? >> that's tough. i got a couple texts last night from friends. i went to the academy with them almost 20 years ago. they are all -- the level of frustration of disapointment, of anger directed at this mayor, them turning their backs, i think, they are professionals and will go to work and do what they need to do to keep the city safe, but i can tell you 100% in certainty, the new york city mayor has absolutely zero credibility. the absence of value, zero credibility with this police system. >> we'll talk to mayor giuliani who had enormous support from the nypd in the city later.

>> mayor giuliani cleaned up the city. when this news broke yesterday, i kept thinking how heartbreaking it is for all of us in new york, but for all of you guys out there protecting the streets. we saw the city really cleaned up after giuliani or during giuliani, and now are we going back? >> bill bratton is a firewall. bratton with jack maple who i think was the first deputy commissioner, they brought in the broken windows policing. which worked. the theory was if you jump the turn-style and commit a rape on the subway, you wouldn't put a token in. they stopped that person at the turn-spout. when i first got to brooklyn, they had something like 100 to 200 homicides in that one precinct. i live in maryland now, the entire city of baltimore only had 200 homicides. that's how bad it was. they came in to save a number of

minority and white lives. when they implemented this police strategy, they didn't say, let's just save black or white people. and rudy giuliani has a point when he brings this up, the communities where sadly the crime was happening, i hope they don't revert back. there's the very sensible conversation, i think, oddly enough between the occupy crowd and the libertarians and the tea party talk about overpolicing and criminalization and the militarization of police. but david jenkins said during the riots, let them air off the steam or something to that at the cops are told in these rallies, it's amazing. the brooklyn bridge, the lieutenant who was attacked, is a disgrace. my sources are telling me that they were told, everybody was told during the gatherings, to let them blow off steam unless they commit a violent act. you let it happen.

that's not policing. >> and the young people have such a -- they don't remember because they weren't alive what cities were like 20 years ago. it was scary, known wanted to live in them. dan, what an interesting take on this. thank you so much this morning. >> thank you, dan. for other headlines this morning, we begin with a third new york city police officer who was lucky to be alive after a man tried to shoot him in the bronx but failed. cops say 18-year-old ramon leonardo pointed his gun in their direction and then pulled the trigger. what he didn't know was he was out of bullets. the officers approached leonardo after reports that someone was shooting at windows. leonardo apparently used all his ammo on the windows and didn't have any left to kill the cops. and another developing story overnight. boxing legend mohommad ali rushed to the hospital with pneumonia. the 72-year-old is in stable

condition this morning. the pneumonia was caught early. the three-time world champion has been battling parkinson's disease since 1984. more than two dozen people are hurt when a double-decker bus skids off the highway in indiana and lands on its side. take a look, this video just in to "fox and friends" on interstate 65 with the front windshield blown out. the driver lost control of the bus when changing lanes but slid on the icy roads. all the passengers we are told are going to be okay. one day after the government blamed north korea for the cyber attack on sony, a group claiming responsibility for the hack posting this message online saying, we congratulate you, success. fbi is the best in the world. at the same time, the u.s. is asking china for help combatting north korea attackers. telecommunication systems in north korea are run through chinese-operated networks.

those are your headlines. all right. let's get outside to rick reichmuth tracking the weather here before this christmas holiday. hey, rick. >> good morning. a big week of travel ahead with big problems coming up. today, not all that bad. take a look at the weather maps to show you what's going on. much of the eastern seaboard today is looking fine. you see this moisture streaming in across parts of the southeast. this is going to be persistent for the next couple of days. by tuesday to wednesday, get ready. we'll being willing at the threat for severe weather. possibly a tornado or two even on christmas eve. so we'll watch for that. but the bigger story is this storm coming in across parts of the west right now to bring heavy rain and mountain snow. and watch what happens to this storm over the next couple of days, this is the future radar. you see this developing into a pretty big snowmaker across the rockies. then a snowmaker into the northern plains and a very heavy rainmaker across the southeast. we'll be looking at the threat for not only severe weather but for flooding. and you'll notice it's all rain. it's not snow, but it is also going to be a very windy storm. and that means some big delays

from chicago, i think down through atlanta, many of eastern seaboard airports with ripple effects across the country. we'll watch this closely for your wednesday into thursday. and we'll keep track of that right here for you guys. all right, back to you inside. thank you, rick. well, coming up, more on the top story this morning. brand new details about the murderer and his connection to a guerilla group started by the black panthers in the '70s. and the deaths of these two officers has some people celebrating. reaction from social media ahead. ♪ you don't need to think about the energy that makes our lives possible. because we do. we're exxonmobil and powering the world responsibly is our job. because boiling an egg... isn't as simple as just boiling an egg. life takes energy.

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and chicago mayor rahm emanuel's son robbed right outside their family home. the 17-year-old zach emmanuel says two men attacked him and took his home. he was outside making a phone call at night. the area is supposed to be under 24-hour police surveillance. the incident is under police investigation. he walked away with minor injuries. mayor emmanuel is skrucrushed b this incident. we are learning more about the brutal killer's associations with the black guerilla, but what is this family that was formed back in the 1960s in the california prison system. the offshoot of the black panther. remember, george jackson who really rolled out this group in california. tucker, you know a lot more about this. >> well, he's a mass murderer. george jackson died famously in a shoot-out, pulled a gun out in court and held a bunch of hostages, murdered six people in prison before he was killed by ultimately the authorities. he was famous and political.

and the royal family received a lot of donations on this. and they were explicitly a markist group, probably more of a prison game, but they were very much a wing of the left. >> and then soon they grew into a multimillion business with chapters stretching from los angeles to kansas city to detroit. >> and the gang is affiliated with the black liberation army, the weather understoodground, the red guerilla family. and out of baltimore with the prison system there, that's really where the heart of it is right now. and police in baltimore were given warnings to the nypd about them declaring open season on the nypd in the wake of the eric garner grand jury. >> right, they talked about getting back at the cops. >> and people forget, we saw a whole lot of these kind of murders during the late '70s and early '80s in new york city. but around the country, a lot of them in california, where radicalized criminal gangs

murdered police officers. a lot of them, not just a few. in oakland, los angeles, san francisco, here in new york. >> that's what is scary about this. something has to be done so this doesn't snowball and continue. >> yes, there's precedence for this. but the ones to tie theme as together is all of them describe their crimes as politically motivated. not just because they wanted money but because they were acting on behalf of some oppressed group or other. that's why they got support from the left. >> well, we are learning more about the nypd officers gunned down in cold blood. the heartbreaking message from the son of one of those fallen heroes when we come back. for over a decade,

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on the heels of the murders of two police officers yesterday, reaction is pouring in online. joining us is kurt knudsen. >> from twitter to facebook, instagram, we're learning a lot. not only about the alleged killer but the fact that the two officers are getting support online. and tweets coming out about me a j mayor de blasio coming under fire. >> there's a tweet from al sharpton. >> we'll go with this first coming out right away saying, i am outraged at the killing of the two police officers in brooklyn. that's why we stress non-violence as the only way to fight for justice. >> i missed that stress on that issue. i have watched a lot of al sharpton's press conferences and never heard him say that. >> and many protesters are chanting "kill the cops." >> people are talking about that

issue. you remember the news report last week where there was a march throughout part of midtown manhattan in new york city where a group was caught on camera chanting, accoukill cops. and people are trying to draw a line on that in social media. we are seeing people repeat that saying, this is not what may have incited this alleged killer of the officers in brooklyn. and that continues to go on. we'll take a look at another tweet coming up here. this from sba. >> this is from the police sergeant association. >> this is out against the mayor. the blood of two executed police officers is in the hands of mayor de blasio. may got bld bless their familied may they rest in peace. you saw the dramatic video earlier of the police officers turning their backs on him sparking more and more social

media reactions. and we invite you to go to "fox & friends" website or facebook.com/ffweekend. you'll find an opportunity to express yourself. we would like to hear from you. there's a lot to be said on this issue. >> obviously, there's an outpouring of grief and horror and shock. the idea that something like this could happen. but they are also disgustingly, was there celebrations with people online saying they deserve this? >> in every slight of life, you'll have the idiots out there screaming their heads off. and moisture attention do we want to give them? we want to recognize they are there, but do we want to highlight there's going to be nutbags in the world everywhere we go? yes, you'll see a little bit of that and it just gets you disgusting when you watch that and read that. you're seeing two good american police officers eating lunch sitting inside their car murdered in cold blood and people simply take that

opportunity to celebrate. it's abhorrent. most of the social tweets, most of the facebook reaction, most of the instagram reactions have to do with supporting the police officers in this great country. and obviously the two fallen in brooklyn for nypd to extraordinary officers who had no chance at all. and according to chief bratton, could not have had an opportunity to even see this assailant come from the side of the passenger window in this vehicle. >> congressman joe walsh also weighing in on this on social media as well. pull up this tweet, bill de blasio, this is an attack on all of us. no, it's not. it's an attack on our men and women in blue. and you are comlicit in it. >> wow. just scanning through here, several tweets and quite a trend is de blasio coming up. later this morning, we'll wrap

up a lot of your feedback coming in. >> well, that video spoke volumes of all the officers turning their back. we heard that's how they felt but to actually see it, you realize how strong their feelings really are. >> you are absolutely right. >> we'll see if he holds on to his job. >> a lot of calls for his resignation online. >> but they have to work together. if they can't do that, something has to be done. >> we appreciate it. kurt. thank you. coming up, we'll continue to follow the latest on the murder of the two new york city police officers. who is the murderer? what was his motive? we'll learn in a live report at the top of the hour. stay tuned for that. and we're hearing from the family of one of the officers. the heartwrenching message coming up. introducing the new philips norelco shaver series 9000 with contour detect technology that flexes in 8 directions for the perfect shave at any angle.

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alert. two new york city police officers executed by a gunman seeking revenge for the deaths of eric garner and michael brown. what we just learned this morning about the killer's motive. and a cold message from men in blue. they turn their backs on the mayor of new york city. watch. >> there's blood on many hands tonight. those that incited violence on this street under the guys of protest -- >> the head of the police union in new york city says the deaths of these two officers go right to the steps of city hall. and an emotional salute by new york city's finest. watch. we have the heartfelt tribute coming up. "fox & friends" hour two starts right now.

good morning. we'll go right to the story that is shaking this country. the excuse-style shooting of two police officers in new york city. this happened five minutes after the nypd got a warning from police in baltimore saying the gunman was on his way to new york to assassinate police officers. >> brian eunice has been following this story for us and is live with the details. good morning. >> good morning. here's what the police commissioner said last night. >> two police officers were shot and killed with no warning, no provocation, they were quite simply assassinated. >> police say this man, 28-year-old ismaaiyl brinsley walked up to the parked cop car

and shot through the passenger side of the window shooting wenjian liu and rafael ramos. police say the shooting was so fast they probably didn't even see him coming. police say brinsley was already a fugitive as he shot and wounded his former girlfriend in baltimore, maryland, before traveling to brooklyn. the killer posting images of his semiautomatic weapons and blood-stained pants with anti-police messages suggesting this was in revenge for the deaths of michael brown and eric garner writing, quote, i'm putting wings on pigs today. they take one of ours, let's take two of theirs. #shootthepolice. #ripericgarner.

#michaelbrown. the deaths sending shockwaves through the police and community. >> they are no longer going to be proactive. they are going to be reactive. that means they won't hurry to the scenes of crimes anymore and put their pensions and lives on the line because they don't get backing from their government leaders. >> baltimore police had faxed a warning five minutes before the assassination warning the nypd about brinsley. tragically, that came too late for officers liu and ramos. >> thank you so much. we'll talk about what we do know about the two officers because we want to honor them this morning. we're remembering their lives as we go into the christmas season a few days away from christmas. this is 32-year-old officer wenjian liu who served with the new york city police officer for more than seven years and he just got married two months ago. >> and officer rafael ramos celebrated his 40th birthday a

week ago. he was the full safety officer before becoming an officer. he was very involved in church and leaves behind a wife and two sons. >> his 13-year-old son posted a heartbreaking message on facebook saying. today i had to say bye to my father. he was there for every day of my life. he was the best father i could -- i could ask for. it's horrible. someone getting shot just for being a police officer. everyone says they hate cops but they are the people that they call for help. >> these two individuals were sitting in their car eating together. they were taking a break and working overtime hours. >> they were assigned to an area in brooklyn that has seen an increase in violence. they were inside their car, ramos was in the driver seat, liu besides him when gunned down. both men were taken to the hospital pronounced dead. >> these murders are shocking here in new york. i think also across the country, but they are taking place

against a backdrop of real hostility between the new york city police department. they widely acknowledge they are the most confident and professional in this country. and mayor bill de blasio elected a little more than a year ago after michael bloomberg. really, from the perspective of cops, he declared war on the nypd, especially after the eric garner case, describing the police department as racist, living off the legacy of hundreds of years of racism here in new york. and boy, there's no love lost there. >> and you saw this play out last night in this video. dark video here, but the message is clear. the police officers turning their back on mayor de blasio. you can see he's the tallest one of the bunch as he walks by here on his way to the press conference. there he is walking through. notice all the police officers with their backs turned to the mayor as he makes his way to the podium. >> that is just the picture of

disfunction right there. the new york city mayor historically, going back to teddy roosevelt who was police commissioner on the city, one of the key jobs of the mayor is to keep order to a city of 8 million people. things can fall apart quickly. they have fallen apart quickly in recent decades. but it could go backward. this is a very big deal. >> you have to work well with the police department because they are the guys to keep the city safe. and they have cleaned it up so much. >> i tell you, it's funny you bring up teddy roosevelt, i was thinking of him earlier. he would show up as police commissioner at midnight at random spot where is the police were on patrol. he showed leadership in a city that desperately needed it. it was one of the most corrupt places in the world. >> we want to show you the extended quote from pat lip ch, head of the police union in new york city.

a powerful ma n to speak for th police officers. listen. >> this city and our country is in shock and mourning. starting today, there are two families of police hero officers that became part of the nypd family. every police officer that lined these streets today with sadness in their eyes showed respect as we carried two hero police officers out of this hospital. we will show these two families love for etach and every day fo

the rest of their lives. every police officer will know their names and hold them close to their hearts. and educate our children about the sacrifice they made. there's blood on many hands tonight. those that incited violence on this street under the guides of protest that tried to tear down what new york city police officers did every day. we tried to warn it must not go on, it cannot be tolerated. that's blood on the hands starting at the steps of city hall and the office of the mayor. starting today, we started the mourning for our police officers. they are heroes. they are fathers, they are brothers, they are children. that's the men we lost today. >> and support is pouring in from all over the country, too. los angeles' police department

say we stand with our fallen brothers putting black stripes across their badges in the los angeles police department this morning. >> it really feels like a turning point, like a pivot point. like a moment that we're all going to remember. police officers, unfortunately, lose their lives in the course of their duty pretty regularly. one was killed last night in harbor springs, florida. they are killed all the time, but this was an assassination done for political reasons. and it comes out of a climate of distrust and demagoguery by certain politicians and it feels like we'll look back in ten years and say something big changed in this moment. >> yeah. thank a police officer for their service when you see them. you see the picture of the two men, officer liu and ramos. and we talked about how ramos said the church is very important to im. it's sunday morning when his family would normally wake up and go to church together. i'm sure his congregation will honor him and many churches throughout the country will be remembering the two fallen heroes. if you are going to church, say

a prayer for their families as we are a few days away from christmas. here at fox news, we are honoring their lives by flying our flag out front at sixth avenue at half-staff this morning as we remember their families and lives and dedication to that street right there and all the streets of new york city. we thank them for their service. >> amen. we continue to follow this story all morning. two new york city police officers killed in cold blood. and outrage over powers of police and the abilities to do their job. we'll have the legal fallout, next. [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ] [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. [ m'm... ] great taste. [ tapping ] sounds good. campbell's healthy request. m'm! m'm! good.®

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a fox news alert of two nypd officers on the heels of protests across the country. the protests have really

dramatically increased tensions between the public and the police officers around the country. >> but here's the thing, we are a nation of law. and law enforcement's job is to make sure we all abide by those laws. >> joining us now to react is fox news legal analyst arthur idell. help us unravel this. >> this hits home for me because i was assigned to both of these precincts because they break us all down. my friend who was a captain who is retired now, i can visualize the whole situation. here's two cops, you have ramos on the job for a couple years who has a 13-year-old and kid in college. he's sitting in his car. you have liu who got married two months ago. you have anewlyweds who are jus doing their job.

to open forenforce the laws tha differentiate us from a society of rules and regulations from orc c anarchy. ainsley, you stole my thunder. it is sunday, we have christmas coming with a food extravaganza. we think of grandma and grandpa, we talk about the two police officers. this cannot be tolerated. i think the president of the united states needs to come out to make a very strong statement. i think mayor de blasio has to, and i think he will, i think he will. you can say a lot of things about him, but he's a new yorker. he was in shock yesterday in the news conference. >> so the guy is a murderer -- >> of course he was. >> he is also angry. it makes sense he was angry because he's been told by the

mayor of new york and the attorney of the united states that the problem is racist cops. the cops don't like you because of your skin color. have you ever heard the president mention criminals? >> of course not. and both of the people who died, they were in the middle of criminality. they were not just pulled over because they were black. they were in the middle of criminality. that's a ridiculous statement. and the mayor has to let people protest, but this is what i don't understand. there have been millions of protests. it doesn't come with shutting down bridges and shutting down highways. it comes with police barricades and this is the area where you can protest. that's violation number one. and i have to tell you the truth, the other thing that really burns me up is, okay, people are allowed to say what they want. you're allowed to burn the american flag. so you're allowed to be a jerk. fine. but when you have people screaming, what do we want?

dead cops. when do we want them? now. as the mayor of new york city, you have to take the podium and say, even though they are allowed to say this and i cannot stop them from saying this, i want to be clear. we don't want dead cops ever. we never, ever want this to happen. am i clearly the gentleman of this city? that didn't happen. and he's freaking out about it and is right to freak out about it. >> the protest there, the nypd protecting these people during this protest calling for their death. >> it's insane. >> can the mayor survive this? >> yes. >> we build a higher fence around his house to protect him from intruders. and he's asking the police officers, which he labeled racist, to go out there into the terrible communities and to protect other people. >> i don't know if the mayor labeled his police officers racist. that i'm not sure of. i'm not saying you're wrong.

i don't recall any particular statement where he said, my cops are racist. but do i think he'll survive? yes, he will definitely survive. i think -- he's got to reverse course. he's got to realize, okay, i tried to appease that portion of the electorate who voted for me. don't forget, people in new york don't know, he was in a four-way primary. and he won without a runoff. that's almost unheard of. i mean, he really surged at the end. this is is a guy who was way behind in the polls in june and surged. and then he won the general election by historic numbers. so he was emboldened by his base. to have all the political capital and thought, i'm going to let them do what i want and let them do the protests and let them shut down the bridge. but now that ended. that ended. it's over. bill de blasio has no more political capital in new york city. >> we saw the video yesterday when we were watching that video of the officers turning their

backs on the mayor when walking through. it really hits hard. you realize what is really happening. you see the division. it is visual there. how will they ever be able to work together? i agree with you, they have to find a way, but how? >> i will tell you, it's got to start with pat lynch. i don't want to overemphasize his importance, but obviously on fox in the last week, he is the voice. he is their voice. so he needs to sit down with the mayor and he -- the leverage has switched. the hand has switched. the police, the pba union chief now has the upper hand because nobody wants to see this city slide back to 1989. >> that is what we're looking at right now. >> tucker, maybe i'm an optimist, but i'm hopeful. there's nothing good that can come from this track dry, but if there is, as i said, bill de blasio lost all political capital last night. it's over. >> do you think de blasio, the other people in the city, his

wife, recognize how fragile this achievement of a safe city is? or do they take it for granted? >> i think a lot of people take it for granted. i'm 47. but you just go ten years behind, people who are 37, they don't remember walking -- you would walk around brooklyn, you couldn't wear any jewelry. they would just come right over to you and pull the chain right off your neck. we all walked around with car r radios in our hands because they would break into your car to get the radio. insane, graffiti -- >> is it heartbreaking for you to grow up here? >> before i walked in, i just said to myself, i can't cry. i've been on fox a million times and just can't cry because it's brooklyn. this is where i grew up. it's brooklyn, where i worked in the precincts, and these guys did nothing wrong. nothing. >> prayers at your house tonight, i'm sure. >> thank you, guys. sorry we are under these circumstances. coming up in the show, in

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states. why in the world do we give the people a license who don't belong here in the first place? >> we'll talk about illegal versus undocumented dreamers. these are people who were born in here, came in under the age of 18 and brought here unwillingly so, they only know america as their home and incorporated the american lifestyle. they are going to school, paying consume r taxes and working. but arizona is one of two states violating this rule. basically governor brewer who since had the state in a $1 billion deficit spent $1.4 million defending this rule because she's discriminating. >> so it's discriminatory not to want to give a driver's license to illegals, do you agree? >> tucker, this is example of a one-man rule. obama is violating the

immigration law by not enforcing this, not just so in the docket people, but millions of illegal aliens are now going to be able to get driver's licenses because he's refusing to open forenforc immigration laws. all these years in fighting with arizona against this tyranny of really what is a dictatorship and the willingness of the immigration of the people have enacted it. if we continue to sabotage this tyranny in underminen the rule of law, we'll have millions of people lose their faith in the system. >> what's the point of being a citizen when you get all the rights of a natural born u.s. citizen? >> they can't go to school legally right now. >> what do you mean, they have

in-state tuition? >> not in arizona and that is what matters here. when you have a license in arizona, with the docket -- >> we are almost out of time. >> they are going to bring in $540 million in taxes and become part of the workforce. it's safer. now they can file for insurance policy. if you're hit by a car, in the past, you're stuck. now -- >> dan, does this make you feel safer? >> no, no country in history survives the collapse of control of its borders. and we are well on our way. that's this president's agenda, tucker. >> dan stein, nikki, appreciate you both. stopped in his tracks, a story is emerging about two c coned worker who is may have saved future lives. we'll bring you details after this break.

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their hands. yes, they do. and they can't spin this or pivot it to anything else. >> and by them you think the mayor. >> i think you are going to lose a great police commissioner. soon enough, bill bratton is going to step down and will be fed up to a point where he can no longer control what the mayor is doing. you can't get around this. it's an epic failure of leadership. the mayor should have been tough from the beginning with protesters. this is not up digtive of the african-american community. this is not a race issue, it never was. it is good guy versus bad guy and this mayor embraced bad people. and this is what happens when you try to be politically correct and embrace bad people but he's got to immediately, if he wants to survive this physician of being mayor, tell people like al sharptop to stay away. >> that would be al sharpton, one of president obama's close advisers. the first person asked to the white house after the midterm election this is year.

>> al sharpton, a lot of people on twitter are writing this saying, how can nbc square the two? they still are employing this guy who has his own television show over there and getting his thoughts on this on a regular basis? so a lot of people are calling this morning for that. and if you're just waking up and you were out on your friday night and didn't know what happened, you didn't hear happened, we should recap the horrible events of last night in brooklyn in the community. these two police officers gunned down in cold blood as they were sitting there working overtime before the christmas holiday in an area of brooklyn that has seen increased violence over the past year. they were sitting through in their marked police car having lunch, taking a break, when this brutal killer walks up on the passenger side door and fires through and execution-style murders both of them. there's the face of the killer. >> there he is. an ex-con with a long rap sheet.

before he left baltimore this morning, shocked at 5:45 in the morning, the former girlfriend was shot and has survived. then he came to new york leaving a trail of social media messages denouncing the police and then bragging about his intention to murder some. >> there are things to tell you about in this story. there were two guys who worked for con edison here in new york and witnessed this happen, witnessed killing the two officers working in their cars in overtime, and they chased him and he held up a gun to them and said, you want some of this? then he ran off to catch a train and went underground. that's when the suspect turned

the gun on himself. if it weren't for the two individuals that worked for coned, that suspect may have gotten on the g-train and gone somewhere in new york city to kill other officers. these guys are heroes this morning and we thank them. >> we don't know of their sex or names because they have not identified themselves publicly. that's the feeling right now in new york. there's a lot of fear that the murders took place completely out of the blue within the context of a lot of political agitation and tension. but these two police officers did nothing wrong. other than wear a police uniform. >> and the one on the left, officer liu, was only married for two months. ramos on the right heavily involved in his church with two children and leaves a wife behind as well. >> if you read them, you saw the facebook message his 13-year-old son wrote. just tragic. tucker was reading it, as you were reading it earlier this morning i got choked up. >> saying you were the best dad,

you have been with me every day of my life. >> saying good-bye to my father. he wrote that on facebook. i know the cops have been getting picked on. he's a great guy and please thank your police officers this morning. >> the son reminds us, these are the officers, dad, that we call on when we are in need, when we need help. >> it's hard not to get emotional. you want to keep to the facts. you don't want to start speculating about why this happened or cast blame unfairly. we know who pulled the trigger and who is responsible, but it is such an emotional thing. it's so wrong and unfair that it's -- almost hard not to point at some of the people who have been whipping up hatred in race over the last few months. they do spare some responsibility in some way. >> it's hard living in new york city but also being an american. all of you out there watching that don't live in the city. it's so disheartening because what our forefathers worked so

hard for in this country, my grandfathers were in world war ii trying to fight for our freedom. we love this country and hate to see what is going on here. we are a few days away from christmas. when you read the stories and know there are individuals chanting and protesting to go out to kill cops. it is so disheartening. >> when the president of the united states is a smart guy and changes his words carefully and basically says the problem is police. you know, there are bad cops. i get it and have met them. but there are also bad neighborhoods and the president never mentioned that. it was only about the cops. it's distressing. >> the president was asked that question at the podium before leaving for hawaii the other day. what is the state of black america? it was the final question he received from that reporter. what is the state of black america right now and the feeling of race relations in the news right now? a fox news poll out this morning that among whites, 65% feel that it's worse under president obama since he became president and

black americans think it's 55% worse under president obama right now. than it was when he came into office. >> then the president is in hawaii. this is a great opportunity for him to come back from vacation and talk about this and get this country on the right track. but you can see the poll here. >> we are talking to some of the leaders, and tucker referenced the leaders who whipped up the protests to a frenzy. to recap, some of this, if you have been traveling over the past few weeks, here are some of the leaders. listen to their messages. listen. >> we want the justice department and the federal government to deal with the fact that the grand jury systems on a state level are broken and seem to lack the capacity to deal with police when you are dealing with questions of criminality and killing. >> mr. garner's death is one of several recent incidents across our great country that have

tested the sense of trust that must exist between law enforcement and the communities they are charged to serve and to protect. this is not a new york issue nor a ferguson issue alone. >> if you look at, after what happened with michael brown, if you look at what happened after trayvon, if you look at the decision after eric garner, i'm being pretty explicit about my concern. and being pretty explicit about the fact that this is a systemic problem, that black folks and latinos and others are not just making this up. >> for them to embrace sharpton, let's take three steps back. who is just an open bigot and tax cheat whipping up hatred in the united states. but for the president to embrace this guy as a personal friend and adviser, to have him in the white house again and again and again to endorse his methods, no wonder you have craziness on the streets! i can't believe the president of

the united states is open divor endorsing sharpton. >> here's what sharpton said, i'm outraged at the killing of the two police officers. >> i kind of get that stress. i have seen a lot of sharpton events but missed that part, i guess. >> maybe the facts speak for themselves because there's been a lot of people arrested because of the violence in the protests, including the two police officers attacked on the brooklyn bridge two days ago. >> i can't wait to get his thoughts on the future of the city from mayor rudy giuliani. he'll weigh in on what mayor de blasio is facing. but first, we have some headlines. >> this is what you missed during the night. a third police officer is lucky to be alive after a man tried to shoot him in the bronx but failed. listen to this. 18-year-old raymond leonardo pointed his gun in the direction and pulled the trigger. what we don't know, or what he didn't know, i should say, he

was out of bullets. the officers approached him after reports that someone was shooting at a window and he apparently used all his ammo on the windows and didn't have any ammo left in his gun when he pointed the gun at the cops. meanwhile, across the country in minnesota, people are swarming the mall of america slamming comes for the deaths of eric garner and michael brown. police issuing a partial mall lockdown arresting people and chanting them at one of the biggest malls in the country on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. and another developing story overnight. boxing legend muhammad ali rushed to the hospital with pneumonia. this was caught early. the three-time heavyweight champion has been battling parkinson's disease since 1984. and this guy is giving elf on the shelf a bad reputation. he is facing drunk driving

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a strong earthquake happened this morning off the coast of mi indonesia. they are watching for the aftershocks. and the russian government demanded facebook take the page down since it was anti-putin. and a group claiming responsibility for the sony pictures hack saying, quote, we congratulate you success. fbi is the best in the world. at the same time, they are asking china for help with these hackers as north korea uses them for their telecommunication system. will the city survive the

brutal killings we saw unfolding last night in a community in brooklyn? bernard carrick was a former police commissioner the wake of september 11th. in fact, president bush appointed him to establish authority in iraq after the invasion there. he also grew up and was born in newark, new jersey. which you and i talked about and the violence, the rise that unfolded. what is his thoughts now? what are his thoughts on the violence that has unfolded in the city? take a listen. >> this reminds me of the days back in the '60s and '70s when we faced the executions of new york city cops in this circumstance. i believe, i personal feel that mayor de blasio, sharpton and others like them, they actually have blood on their hands. they encouraged this behavior. they encouraged protests. these so-called peaceful

protests that people were standing out there saying, kill the cops. i hope they are happy because they got what they wanted. they have outrage. i want to see protests for the two cops that are lying dead tonight. i want to see those protests. >> less than a week before christmas. >> i want to see al sharpton and the mayor and others around the country, where is the outrage tonight like there was two months ago? >> don't hold your breath. we've got mayor rudy giuliani, the former new york city mayor on in ten minutes. we'll ask him that question among others. >> it is heartbreaking for him as he cleaned up the city in many ways and was an adored man on the streets of new york. we'll talk to him about what this means for him and the future of this great city. coming up on the show, the state of kentucky jumped at the chance of building a theme park based around noah's ark. but then they dropped the idea

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when the million-dollar noah's ark water park was announced, leaders were all about it. >> we are excited to making this tourist project happen and look forward to its completion. >> but now the state has withdrawn support and is now refusing to give the project any tourism tax incentives. so what changed? joining us now is chief council for freedom guard joining us

this morning. great to be with you this morning. >> i know it is. why did the governor and the lawmakers, why did they change their tune? >> it's a great question, ainsley. they were with this project for several years. you heard the audio there and saw the clips. the governor and everyone in the state was in favor of it for good reason. i mean, this is a big boost for economic development in northern kentucky. but suddenly they have changed course. we have a theory about that. i think it's because these radical itatheists have applied pressure and it's sad when that happens. and it's up lawful and that's why we may be heading to court. >> why is it unlawful? >> you can't treat religious groups differently than everyone else. the state of kentucky like many states and governments around the country offer an economic incentive package and say, if you're going to build a theme park or major tourist attraction, we'll help you by rebating some of the new taxes you generate.

answers in genesis want to do that and gave the incentive to a number of different groups. but hen they realized this would have a religious overtone, it's a religious theme park, suddenly the state changed course. they can't do that under federal or state law. that's why it is unconstitutional. >> your clients put years of hard work and money into this project and then they are going back on their word. let me read you a quote from kentucky's governor. this was a statement he released saying, it's become apparent that they do intend to use religious beliefs as a litmus test for hiring decisions. for that reason, we cannot proceed with the tourism incentive application. are you saying anyone who works for the organization has to be a christian? >> yeah, but that's not unlike any other religious organization in the country. it's well established in federal and state law in kentucky and elsewhere that a religious entity can employ a religious preference in its hiring. there's nothing unusual or controversial about that at all.

that's how they may taint their identity. the state of kentucky knew these things from the beginning of the project and it is disingenuous to say it's a problem now. aps l ainsley, it is also unlawful. is he willing to hire individuals that are not necessarily christian? >> they can't do that because it changes their identity and changes what the theme park is all about. listen, the feasibility study says they will have almost $1.8 million visitors in the first year of operation in this thing. hundreds of millions of new dollars in hundreds of new jobs, it's crazy for any government official to say they don't want this. the park is going to go forward, but we're going to have to get this part sorted out. >> i'm sure a lot of christians will be watching this to send money in support for this. thank you so much. merry christmas to you. thank you for being with us this morning. >> you too, ainsley. thank you so much. sure. coming up, the outrage of the nypd cop killings falling

squarely on the shoulders of mayor de blasio. former mayor usedrudy giuliani weighs in and his opinions, next.

two cops have been killed in the revenge deaths of eric garner and michael brown. >> no warning, no provocation. they were quite simply assassinated. >> he said he wanted to put wings on pigs. what else we are learning about his sick motive this morning. and after ramping up the anti-cop rhetoric, a bold message from police officers here in new york city to the mayor bill de blasio. they have turned their backs on him, literally. >> that's blood on the hands

that starts at the steps of city hall and the office of the mayor. >> we'll get reaction from former mayor rudy giuliani in moments. >> and this is the message of the head of the justice departme department. >> mr. garner' death is one of these that has tested the trust between law enforcement and the communities they are charged to serve and to protect. >> so a question this morning, do our leaders have more to give to the city than this? "fox & friends" begins right now. we have breaking news this morning. two police officers murdered execution-style in brooklyn yesterday just five minutes after the new york city police department got a warning from police in baltimore that a

gunman and assassin was on his way to new york city to kill police officers. >> bryan has been following this all night for us and is live with details. >> the nypd police commissioner bill bratton held a press conference last night. take a listen. >> he took a shooting stance outside the passenger side and fired his weapon several times through the front passenger window striking both officers in the head. officer liu and officer ramos never had the opportunity to draw their weapons. they may never have even seen their assailant. >> police say 28-year-old ismaaiyl brinsley walk up to the patrol car on saturday and fired shots through the passenger side of the window and killed officers wenjian liu and officer

rafael ramos. moments later brinsley was chased by officers into a nearby subway station where he shot himself in the head. police say brinsley was already a fugitive as he shot and seriously wounded his former girlfriend in baltimore, maryland. before he traveled to brooklyn. the killer posting images of the semiautomatic weapon and blood-stained pants with anti-police messages suggesting this was in revenge for the deaths of michael brown and eric garner. writing, quote, i'm putting wings on pigs today. they take one of ours, we'll take two of theirs. #shootthepolice. #ripericgarner and #ripmichaelbrown. this may be my last post. listening to mayor bill de blasio last night, he was asked if this will increase tensions. take a listen. >> i think this is a time to

think about these families. i don't think it's the time for politics or political analysis. it's the time to think about families that just lost their father, their husband, their son. >> last night hundreds of police officers gathered outside that hospital to salute the ambulances carrying the bodies of two of their own. now, baltimore police had faxed a warning about brinsley to the nypd which tragically as we have been reporting came minutes before he assassinated officers liu and ramos. >> bryan, thank you. this morning we are remembering the lives of the two officers killed in cold blood. 32-year-old officer wenjian liu served for the police department more than seven years and had just gotten married. >> officer rafael ramos celebrated his 40th birthday just a week ago. he was on the force for two years and before that was a school safety officer and leaves behind a wife and two sons.

one of them 13 years old. >> and his 13-year-old son posting a heartbreaking message on facebook saying, quote, today i had to say bye to my father. he was there for me every day of my life. he was the best father i could ask for. it's horrible, someone gets shot dead just for being a police officer. everyone says they hate cops but they are the people they call for help. i will always love you and never forget you. rest in peace, dad. >> these tragic heroes were working overtime assigned to and area in brooklyn that has seen increasing violence this year. they were gunned down and shot execution style. both men taken to the hospital and pronounced dead there. >> this takes place against the backdrop of real anger and mistrust between the new york city police department that recognized worldwide is one of the best police departments in the world. and the mayor's office now run by mayor bill de blasio who is

deriding his own police department and characterizing them as racist. he would take the side in case after case of the perpetrators against the police. that's their view, anyway. they are very upset about it. >> they showed it off last night, too. watch this video that's a little dark, but the message is clear. watch as mayor de blasio is in the press conference, the tallest one in the room, walking down the middle when all the new york city police officers turned their back on him as he makes his way to the podium for that press conference. >> they feel he has done that to them. >> so is his leadership undermined? pat lynch absolutely thinks so. listen to pat lynch. >> there's blood on many hands tonight. those that incited violence on this street under the guys of protest that tried to tear down what new york city police officers did every day. we tried to warn it must not go

on, it cannot be tolerated. that's blood on the hands that starts on the steps of city hall in the office of the mayor. >> we're grateful this morning to have the former new york city mayor, rudy giuliani, there he is right there, mr. mayor, thank you for joining us this morning. give us the overview if you would, what happened yesterday and why? >> well, what happened yesterday was an assassination, which we haven't had since 1988 with officer burns. officer burns' brother was a good friend of mine and i know the family very well, but we have not had an assassination murder like this in a long, long time. there's no question from the words of the killer that there was connected to the garner and brown matter. it could be connected in an insane way, but it's not unfair to create a connection between these two things. and it's certainly true that we have been treated to about three to four months of propaganda about how the police are the

enemy. the police are the problem. they are the major problem between the police and the black community. i call it propaganda because the reality is that the police interaction with the communities is a reaction, it's not the cause. the cause is why those police officers were there yesterday. they were moved from one precinct to another because there was more crime in that precinct. they were there to protect the lives in this particular case of black people in that neighborhood. and the reality is that the problem here is citizen crime. in inner cities, it happens to be black crime. in other places, it can be white crime. the problem here is not police interreaction. the police shooting a young black man, if that happens 1% to 2% of the time, that's a lot. a black man shooting another black man is 92% of the time. if you have a black child, if

your child is african-american and you're an african-american father and worried about your son being killed, why would you talk to him about the 1% of the time, which is the police and not the 92% of the time, which are all the other people in the neighborhood who are the ones more likely to kill him. and why would you give this false impression to people that the police are the problem? i am a very big supporting of police reforms. i think they should have cameras. i am a big supporter of training the police better. you know something, that's not going to save more than one or two lives, if that. now, if you want to start going into what the real problems are, that's where the time should be spent. that's where the efforts should be spent. why is there so much crime? why are they killing each other at levels that are that high? i'm talking about in the case o. the black community, if you want to talk about the white community, we can talk about the white community. i put as many white people, when i was u.s. attorney, i put so many mafia people in jail, i

used to have italian-american groups protesting me for being anti-italian-american. i was hardly italian-american. i was trying to save lives and i'm hardly anti-black as i try to save black lives. you are looking at a mayor who saved more lives in the history of the city on purpose because i care about the children that live there. i don't care about the stupid propaganda and the lies and this ridiculous myth that police are a danger to the black community. the police are saving the black community. >> and yet, mr. mayor, we'll keep you over here and have you stick around on the show because we want to address the very issues coming from president obama and attorney general eric holder and al sharpton when we come back after the break. if you're just joining, former mayor rudy giuliani is joining us. more "fox & friends" in two minutes. [ female announcer ] hands were made for talking.

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the justice system is broken and seems to lack -- >> our great country has tested the sense of great trust that must exist between law enforcement and the communities they are charged to serve and to protect. >> i'm being pretty explicit about my concerns and pretty explicit about the fact that this is a systemic problem, that black folks and latinos and others are not just making this up. >> we're back this morning with the former mayor of new york city, rudy giuliani. mr. mayor, thank you for being back on the show. you were hearing that soundbyte and you say that's the 1%. they should address the 99% of

the violence in this country. are they missing the opportunity? >> tremendous. it's a tragedy. an absolute tragedy. i mean, that is exactly the kind of misinformation and the kind of lying that create this is atmosphere of anti-police hatred. and make no mistake about it, it's hatred. if you hear what people were saying at the rallies, kill the police, destroy the police, there was a lot more violence at the rallies in new york than was ever reported by any of the stations. fox covered it. most others didn't. police officers were punched and spout on. a police officer almost hit with an ax. there was a tremendous amount of violence, not just a little bit. what you saw in new york city over the last couple of weeks would never, ever have happened while i was mayor of new york city. never. it would not have been allowed to control the bridge. people don't get to take a public bridge from the public.

i don't know if new york city officials realize, you close down the streets in new york city, you'll kill people. we need two to three minutes to get people to the hospital with a heart attack. you start cutting down the ability of flow through the street, you start diverting police and fire attention, people die. so what hasn't been allowed to go on fosters the sense of anti-police hatred. and that's 1% of the problem! habit the what about the 92% that is causing the death of black men in this country? we can't talk about that? you're racist if you say that? frankly, you are racist if you don't say that. >> so you are, mayor, for a long time, eight years, al sharpton was president of the city running around demagoguing, how does it feel to you to see him, a key white house adviser in the barack obama administration? >> well, for al sharpton to be tearing down the grand jury, which is a little older than al

sharpton, it started with the magna carta. and as someone who has been a prosecutor for more of his life than anything else, is an absolute outrage. the fact is, i've been before the grand juries, they are careful, honest citizens. they take an oath of office. in both of the cases he's talking about, crimes would be committed. nobody ever writes that when writing that in "the new york time time times". they say the first unarmed man punched a police officer in the face and fled the scene of the crime. the second armed man was committing albeit a minor crime but resisting arrest. what is a police officer supposed to do when you resist arrest? he's trying to give you a speeding ticket, let's say. and you say, no, i won't give you the driver's license. the police officers have to take action. in the case of these two police officers -- >> when you break the law, there are consequences. the two officers killed in their

car were not breaking the law, they were doing the right thing. i want to ask you about the current mayor, you say this would not have happened on your watch. you have the head of the police union asking for de blasio to step down because he says de blasio has blood on his hands. how do you go forward and do you agree with them? >> i'm not saying the murder would have happened on my hands. i do not blame the mayor for that incident. what i blame the mayor for is allowing the protests to get out of control. i allowed protests. but you had to be in a certain place, you had to be -- you could not block traffic. you could not impede the ability of the city to respond to emergency. i went to court, they would have to get permits. that's why in all of this attack on broken windows theory, it's very dangerous. you have to give people the sense that there's law, there's order and the police are in charge. they are not in charge. the mayor has switched it. >> so what do you say to do

here? >> he's an opportunity for him. i think -- i feel sorry for mayor de blasio and very sorry for my good friend bill bratton. we lost our first police officer, i remember, officer demuters we lost in 1994. i was at the bed of 24 police officers watching them die. so it is very emotional for me. the mayor has to make a speech and i would kate to the police that he understands they are not the problem. they are reacting to another problem that he has not spent enough time on. and he would be a very good one to spend time on. because he's a good role model, a good family man, a good father. a lot of these things have to do with the real problem in the community. taking responsibility for the children. making sure that the men take responsibility for the children. making sure that this better education, he would be well-advised to support the charter school rather than to destroy them. because that's going to reduce more crime in the black

community than anything you do with the police. >> mr. mayor, it's great seeing you. the mayor is going to stick around and will be here to join us at the top of the hour in the 9:00 hour. we have many more questions for the mayor who has been the best guest on the show. thank you, mr. mayor. it's hard to believe the death of these two officers have some people celebrating and others are calling for mayor de blasio to step down. the latest reaction on social media straight ahead. ght. ♪ when i didn't worry about the hepatitis c in my blood. ♪ when i didn't think twice about where i left my razor. [ male announcer ] hep c is a serious disease. take action now. go to hepc.com or call 1-844-444-hepc to find out how you and your doctor can take the next step towards a cure. because the answers you need, may be closer than they appear. ♪

this is the time to think about these families. i don't think it's the time for politics or political analysis. it's a time to think about families that just lost their

father, their husband, their son. >> that was new york city's mayor bill de blasio responding to a question of whether yesterday's murder of two nypd officers will now increase tensions between police and citizens. our next guest, a former nypd detective, says it's time for de blasio to step down. beau deditl, thank you for being here. >> i came on the force in 1970. we lost 13 cops that year. we would run to the hospital to give blood but it was too late. we had foster and lori, just to name a few of the officers assassinated just like the two last night. >> history repeating itself?

>> the environment that has been brought about by the mayor of big bird. i call him big bird for one reason, not to be funny about it because he's an idiot, but these are the demonstrators that are allowed to walk in the street and stop traffic. when you create an environment like that, that is feeding this fire. on the social media for the last week and a half, they were calling to kill cops. last weekend, i heard the voices and when they said, what do we want? dead cops. when do we want it? now. that mayor let that persist and says, let's not talk about politics. he made this environment and is destroying the police department. mayor de blasio is the big bird. but we have a police commissioner trying his hardest, but he's being directed by de blasio. no one should say bill bratton is doing a bad job. he's just directed by an idiot mayor. and i'm upset and angry.

i didn't sleep thinking about the poor officers in the '70s and their families. i saw guys die like that back then. and i'm calling it out, he went to cuba when he was not supposed to in 1994 with his wife. he should go back to cuba to live with his wife because new york doesn't want him. new york is a great city with a great police department and commissioner, time is now for new york to speak. i am really upset about this. >> so how do you, since you have been there in a situation like this, let's say you are a current new york city police officer. how are you feeling now about just going to work every day? >> i talk to them every time i go to street, i hug cops out there. our great mayor rudy giuliani was dead-on with the 92% of black on black crime. i am using this because i'm not afraid, when you have a mayor who says i have to worry about my son against police. no, worry about your son walking through black communities where crime is pref lebt. that's what you have to worry

about mr. big bird mayor. maybe you can smoke some pot in your backyard. >> when you see the video of the cops turning their backs on the mayor, it's obvious they feel like they feel he turned their back on them, except in reverse. how do you improve the relationship? >> get rid of the mayor. you have to understand his mind. his mindset is he doesn't understand about co-existing and the hard guy that goes to work in the morning at 6:00 and then gets in his car at 5:30 to go home to have dinner and wait in traffic for two-and-a-half hours for the protesters who shut down bridges. >> if we don't get rid of him, how do we move forward? he's saying, let's focus on how to move forward and the officers and their families. >> my problem is when they have the mentality the way he has grown up with this liberal mentality, i don't know if you'll ever be able to conform.

let's face it, who runs this all the unions. and it's funny that the protesters, this mayor was only voted by 18% of the voters in there. and all those 18% votes were pulled out by 1199, these are the blacks, hispanics and asians, we should put out some referendum. i'm halfway kidding about running for mayor but i'm not kidding anymore. i want to find out there's no recall of new york state, but there has to be something to do. i call upon new york state and the governor. we have a problem in new york city. governor cuomo, please take charge of this moron running new york city. i don't want to see another dead cop. and what worries me is that it becomes a system, like when we used to have the change snatch, also people started grabbing chains off people's necks. right now this is a cool thing, go shoot a cop. you have a guy who just thinks

he killed his girlfriend. he has nothing to lose. you have other gang members milling in their mark, let me be super cool and whack a couple cops. every cop has to look over their shoulder in worry and i worry for the cops and feel so much. i'm sorry for being so emotional, but someone has to speak out. this may go on, for instance, and it's political. you put the environment the way it is and the poor cops are out there. my police commissioner, he stands there to listen to big bird talk and can't do anything about it. if the police commissioner wants to go do something about it, he would be fired the next day by big bird. i'm so sorry for being so -- >> you brought the perspective. >> i feel for the cops. i was here in the 1970s. we bury sod many. the cops were doing their job in a black neighborhood. the crime is so high. they are working overtime. that's what these heroes were doing.

people have to band together. i want community leaders from the black community, hispanic, everyone to band together. hey, that was a hispanic cop that was killed, my his panic friend, let's get together with my friend from east harlem. >> thank you, bill. speaking of bill de blasio, social media burning up about comments from him and calls to step down. we'll tell you what people are saying when we come back. [ female announcer ] you get sick, you can't breathe through your nose... suddenly you're a mouthbreather. well, put on a breathe right strip and instantly open your nose up to 38% more than cold medicines alone. so you can breathe and sleep. shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe right i'm keeping my mom healthy! keepers, so you can breathe and sleep. i'm keeping dad on schedule. i'm keeping my mom happy! comfort keepers in-home professional caregivers can provide meal planning and preparation, health and wellness services and personal care services through custom care plans that can change as needs change,

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it all started with a man who murdered two police officers yesterday. he said this, i'm putting wings on pigs today. they take one of ours, let's take two of theirs. shoot the police. ripericgarner. #ripmichaelbrown. >> kurt is here to discuss this with us again. >> by the way, the suspect, ismaaiyl brinsley, his facebook page previously called blue baracuda has just gone down. we don't know if facebook or someone in his family has turned it off. but on and on remarks online, especially also the foot you step on today could be connected

to the fill in the blank you may have to kiss tomorrow. that's another one of his tweets online and a facebook post. and also, we have learned a little bit more about the suspect who speaks arabic, his middle name is adula and this dates back to a georgia incident where apparently it involved abuse toward a woman at the time. allegations at that point. #nypd is enormous online. these tweets coming in right now, have a look at one of them coming in, it is reverend al sharpton first online to really have this point of view. tucker has a different spin on what we have been hearing of al sharpton. this morning we are reading, i am outremained at the killing of the two police officers in brooklyn. that is why we stress nonviolence as the only way.

>> i get this. also, you have -- you pointed out earlier, you have the nutbags coming out right now on social media celebrating this moment. it is though ren douse and tragic that it is occurring. online is the outpouring of support for the two officers families, officer liu and ramos. our condolences go out to your families. you can surge all around the country. one of the things is that items they are sharing in terms of their opinion, nypd is ominously relating to the two nypd officers. they were on the lunch break in

brooklyn and from the side the suspect comes up and apparently chief bratton says even the officers didn't know that the people were there. >> let's get this tweet, cowards like de blasio, sharpton, holder and obama stroke bogus racial flames with gasoline and then run away and cry politics when [ bleep ] happens. >> this is george e. pataki writing, sickened by these barbaric acts, which sadly are a predictable outcome of divisive anti-cop rhetoric of eric holder and #mayordeblasio. >> this is from stacey dash. the murders are the national

result of the jihad on cops that @thereval has called for. they should be held accountable. >> so basically people just saying that this didn't happen in a vacuum that is the natural outgrowth of a lot of divisive rhetoric we have been hearing. >> and we have a tweet from richard grinnell who writes, de blasio should step down, his tenure is dangerous for new yorkers' public safety. >> a whole bunch coming out after mayor de blasio of new york city, all sorts of rhetoric from this trending online. it's remarkable how vocal america is being on this particular story. >> all for good reason. >> a fox news alert now just

hours after two nypd officers were murder. we are learning an officer in florida was shot and killed overnight. this happening in a residential neighborhood outside of tampa. police say they have a suspect in custody now but are not saying what happened leading up to that shooting. that was in tarpon springs, florida. meanwhile, people are swarming the mall of america slamming cops for the deaths of eric garner and michael brown. police are issuing a partial mall hockdown and arresting 25 people chanting there and staging so-called die-ins at one of the biggest malls in our country on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. and another developing story overnight, boxing legend muhammad ali rushed to the hospital with pneumonia. the 72-year-old is in stable condition right now as this was caught early. he has been battling parkinson's disease since 1984.

russia could say good-bye to social media revolutions. facebook blocking a russian political page supporting one of president vladimir putin's biggest critics. the russian government demanded facebook take the page down for safety reasons after thousands said that they would protest. facebook listening to the russian request. and those are your headlines. >> no more social media revolutions when the putin government seems to be in charge of facebook. rick reichmuth is standing by for a look at the holiday forecast for us. hey, rick. >> just a huge week this week for travel for so many people trying to get home. and we have some problems. the big storm that we'll be watching, take a look at the maps and what is going on. the eastern seaboard, looking good with a couple troublespots in connecticut this morning. but you see the moisture all across the panhandle of florida, the southern parts of georgia and the carolinas, that's persistent the next couple of days. and really by tuesday, we'll have some problems. i'll show you that in a second

from the storm moving into the pacific northwest bringing heavy rain. up to five inches to date in parts of oregon. we'll see one to two feet of snow falling across the lower rockies. but here's how the storm plays out the next couple of days. the high plains around nebraska and south dakota bringing snow for tuesday, but look at all of that rain across parts of the south and in towards the eastern seaboard for your day wond. we'll be talking about travel concerns and windy conditions, but it is a warm storm for the most part. primarily rain, possibly a little bit of snow across areas like chicago. we'll see snow in wisconsin and a little into minnesota. but for the most part, this is a rainmaker and windmaker to spell problems across the east. back to you inside. >> i like the graphics to tell you where the green light and the red light is. up next, a lot of you are asking for a nation of laws. how can law enforcement do its job? elected leaders don't support them. we'll analyze that question,

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officers designed to serve them. so is the killing of the two officers a result of this? do you think the violence is as a result of these political leaders coming out to ratchet up tensions? >> certainly there's an issue with that. because if somebody unbalanced hears the comments, they take it as a call for violence. that is not what needs to be emphasized at this time. we can't blame the mayor for these murders, but we can talk about all of this commentary that fuels the fire, that needs to be quelled. the mayor needs to come out with a strong stance that is pro-police and that violence is never an option and is completely unacceptable. >> will it be disingenuous, the mayor at the podium talking about the violence in this city. mayor rudy giuliani says he has an opportunity to speak to the

opportunity and to talk about correcting the course of action that he's let down. >> i watched rudy giuliani on the show and he was spot on and accurate. this is an opportunity for the current mayor. he needs to pivot and shift his focus. to answer your question, i hope it is not disingenuous. we cannot blame the mayor as misty said for the shootings, but we can blame him for his failure to lead in the days following the other cases. he should have limited the protests. he should have managed the crisis in a way that would be the way mayor giuliani would have done it requiring permits and people going to courts. he wouldn't have closed bridges disrupting everybody's lives. that sort of fans the flames for the outrage that really is not what this is about. whether the grand jury's system needs to be reworked is a legal question. people need to be educated about it. but nobody under any circumstances would say these

cases are the cause for or should be the cause for any further violence. >> and what i think we need to remember is the police officers are people, too. they now -- it's the week of christmas. their families have lost them. this is not what -- we have two names now that people can relate to. there's no reason for this violence outbreak. >> we saw them turning their backs on the mayor as he walks into this press conference. we have seteve rogers who was here earlier. he's worried police officers are not going to go work overtime in a harsh community, that's not even the area i normally serve, but you call upon me to go into an area right before christmas to worry about my pension and my family. >> of course they are concerned. that's why there needs to be an extraordinary step on the part of the governor and the government to say we support you and we're going to do what we can to make your job as safe as

it can possibly be while you fulfill your duty that you chose to do. your civic duty to protect the city and the people of new york. >> you remember when mayor giuliani first came into office, what he did with respect to the police officers. he gave them new uniforms and fostered a community and a sense of respect and trust with our police officers. mayor de blasio has done the opposite in light of the criminal case that is have been in the press. it is his time now and it is his obligation in my opinion to foster the relationship and make it a positive one so that people don't feel the need to do something like this. >> remy and misty, thank you for sticking with us. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. and mayor giuliani will be joining us again in about ten minutes here on the show. coming up here, so many people are asking this morning, where is god at a time like this? father jonathan morris is here, next. we'll be right back. ...and the wolf was huffing and puffing...

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so many people in this country this morning are waking up and ask ever asking where was god yesterday when these two cops were killed in cold blood. joining me now, our fox news contributor. >> a lot of people waking up this morning saying, god, why did you let this happen? >> it's a fair question. first of all, we know that god didn't do it. it was the free will and terrible, terrible, evil decision to kill innocent police officers. that's why it happened. okay? but why didn't god intervene? i think it's important to say if

god intervened in every bad action of every human being, we wouldn't be human and we wouldn't be able to choose for the good or the bad. now is the time for us to choose for the good. that means whether you have a strong, political position, one way or the other, it's time to calm down, to relax and say i will not incite -- not just violence, but i will not incite hatred for everybody. unfortunately, i think some religious and political lead verse allowed their emotions to get the best of them and have said this is the problem and it has been very divisive. >> a lot of people are waking up making sure it's going to be for these individuals. the christmas season, we're four days away from christmas. what's your message from the pulpit today? if you could give a message to those families. >> first of all, to those families, on this christmas, in this christmas season, you know,

baby jesus was also the innocent one. he was the ultimate innocent one like the police officer who sat innocently in their car trying to do good, and he was killed. they are not alone. and we believe, as christians, that in heaven every tear will be wiped away and that justice will be had, no doubt. at the same time, we have to use our free will now to fight for the good. and to say we will not push our agenda in any way that could incite somebody else to violence. this guy who killed, maybe he was a little bit off. maybe he was psychologically sick. we don't know. but we know from his writing that he picked up a spirit of hatred for police officers. we're responsible, we are all responsible. those who avoid to make sure that we are not speaking even to those who are on the fringes who could go off like this. i would invite religious leaders of every stripe, of every creed,

police leaders to say i will not allow myself to speak in a way that can incite. >> is there is a great bible verse, romans 12:12, do not confor the form to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that be testing you may discern, what is the will of god, what is good and perfect. >> and that whole idea of not allowing ourselves to be conformed to the world, the world tells us, choose your side and let the other side have it. now is the time to say we will love, we will choose goodness even when our passions are telling us something else. >> and if you are a believer, this is the perfect time to remind ourselves that this is the perfect time to allow all believers and nonbelievers coming together. thank you so much, father jonathan, for coming.on. after ramping up the anti-cop rhetoric, a bold message from the men and from

the women in blue to our mayor, bill de blasio. former mayor rudy giuliani is going to react in just a few moments, so stay with us.

it is sunday, december 21st. a fox news alert, two cops executed by a gunman on the hunt for revenge with eric gardner and michael brown. >> no warning, no provocation. they were, quite simply, assassinated. >> yep. and the guy responsible for this, police say that he wrote on facebook, he's going to put wings on pigs. we have the late-breaking details on his motive. >> and the bold message from police officers here in new york city, to mayor bill de blasio, we turn our backs on you, literally. >> would never, ever have happened while i was mayor of

new york city. >> that's former new york mayor rudy giuliani. >> here is the message we've been hearing from the president of the united states. >> a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color. >> does he have a greater responsibility than this? "fox & friends" hour four begins right now. two police officers killed execution-style just five minutes after the new york city police department got a warning from police in baltimore saying a gunlman was on his way to the city to assassinate cops. >> ryan has been reporting on this and has all the details. just moments after addressing the grieving families of who of new york's finest, a

visibly emotional and shaken nypd police commissioner bill braton detailing the killings last night. they were sitting in their pa tros calls when this man, 28-year-old ismaaiyl brinsly walked up into their car with a semi automatic killing both. >> he took a shooting stance on the passage of side, fired his weapon several times with the front passenger window, striking both officers in the head. st frs never had the opportunity to draw their weapons. they may never have seen their assailants. >> moments laird, brinsley shot and killed himself pep shot his

girlfriend earlier in the day. it was suggested this was in the revenge of the deaths of michael brown and eric gardner writing quote, i am putting wings on pigs today. #shootthepolice. last night, new york city mayor bill de blasio was asked if these murders were further increase tension in a city seemingly divided between pro and anti-cop sentiment. >> i think this is a time to think about these families. i don't think it's a time for politics or political analysis. it's a time to think about families that just lost their father, their husband, their son. >> hundreds of police officers gathered oidz outside that hospital to salute the officers. the death sending shock waves through the nypd. >> they are no longer going to be proactivity. they're going to be reactive.

that means they're not going to hurry to the scenes of crimes any more. >> new yorkers asked to adopt tactics not seen since the 1970s. >> this morning, remembering the two lives of officerses, wenjian liu just got married two months ago. >> and officer rafael ramos just got married. he was very active in his church. he leaves behind a wife and two sons. >> yeah. and then this. his 13-year-old son posting a heartbreaking message on facebook said this, today, i had to say bye to my father. he was there for me every day of

my life. he was the best father i could ask for. it's horrible that someone gets shot dead just for being a police officer. everyone says they hate cops, but they are the people they call for help. i will always love you. i will never forget you. rest in peace, dad. that's just crushing. they were inside their car. ramos in the drivers seat. they were gunned down apparently without seeing it coming. both men were taken to the hospital. >> so there is real tension in new york city and the officers and bill de blasio. there's a lot of anger between the two groups. >> and take a look at this anger right now. this is video shot last night,

the mayor, the tallest one in the room on his way to a press conference. notice, all those police officers with their backs to him, turning their back to the mayor as he makes his way to that press conference last night. pat lynch is the president of the policemen's union here in the city and he has the mayor has blood on his hands. >> there is blood on many hands tonight. tonight that incited violence on the streets under the guise of protests trying to tear down what new york city police officers did every day. we tried to warn. it must not go on. it cannot be tolerated. that's blood on the hands, on the steps of city hall, in the office of the mayor. >> we're honored to have former new york city mayor rudy giuliani with us this morning to react to all of this. mr. mayor, there are ominous reports that bystanders in that

neighborhood applauded some of them and laughed at the shooting of the police. have you ever seen the city this divided? >> i don't -- i don't think so. maybe the crown riots, maybe the washington riots in the 1990s when we had a similar theory that mayor de blasio had to allow these protesters to do anything that they want. i admire pat lynch very much. i think he's a great union leader and i consider him a great friend. i think it goes to far to blame the mayor for the murder or to ask for the mayor's resignation. but i don't think it goes too far to say that the mayor did not properly police the protests. he allowed the protesters to take over the streets, he allowed them to hurt police officers, to commit crimes and he didn't arrest them. when you do that, similar to what happened in crown heights, you create a tremendous riot.

he should have known better. for that, he has to take accountability and he has to change the way in which he operates. >> mr. mayor, you watched that video of him going to that press conference yesterday with the police officer turning their backs to him. first of all, your reaction to that? that would have never happened on your watch, but what advice do you give to the mayor this morning? >> well, when i say it would never happen on my watch, as i said earlier, what i was talking about was not the murder. i lost 24 police officers before september 11th and a lot more on september 11th. what would not have happened was the protesters taking over the streets. the protesters touching any of my police officer without being arrested. we would have controlled the protests. they would not have been able to take over highways, bridges, streets. they would have to be in confined areas. that gives them their first amendment right. they have no right to block the entire city. i feel bad for the mayor. i think the mayor must be heart broken over the loss of those

police officers. i can't believe this is what he wanted. i don't think he is a bad man in any way. i think he's a man that pursues the wrong policy. we were pursuing the wrong policies when we had 2200 murders a year and 1900 murders a year. this mayor is pursuing the wrong policies. he should speak to his police officers, he should embrace them, and he should make it clear that when he's talking about police violence against blacks, he's talking about a very, very small number of incidents. but when he's talking about crimes between and among citizens, and in his city it's mostly black against black, that just happens to be the way it is. that's when he's really talking about the problem, that's when he's really saving lives. the other part is propaganda. we've had four months of propaganda starting with the president that everybody should hate the police. i don't care how you want to describe it. that's what those protests are all about. the protest are being embraced,

the protests are being encouraged. the protests, even the ones that don't lead to violence, a lot of them lead to violence, all of them lead to a conclusion. the police are bad, the police are racist. that is completely wrong. actually, the people who do the most for the black community in america are the police. new york city and elsewhere. they are the ones, not the al sharptons, they are the ones who are putting their lives on the line to save black children. >> mr. mayor, the president and attorney general eric holder and reverend al sharpton disagree with you. here are some of the comments they've made over the past few months. >> the grand jury systems on a state level are broken and seem to lack the capacity to deal with police -- >> one of several recent incidents across our great country that have tested the sense of trust that must exist between law enforcement and the

communities they are charged to serve and to protect. >> i'm being pretty explicit about my concern and being pretty explicit about the fact that this is a systemic problem, that black folks and latinos and others are not just making this up. >> you heard al sharpton come out and tweet last night, mayor giuliani, saying that's why we condemn violence, have never called for violence, i don't want violence and i condemn these killings. what do us? >> well, what i say is they should have been saying that for the last three months and they should be putting more emphasis on the real problem and less emphasis on what is the reaction to the problem, which is the way the police behave, which is mostly correctly and sometimes incorrectly. they have created an atmosphere of severe, strong, anti-police hatred in certain communities. for that, they should be ashamed of themselves. >> we appreciate your insight into all this. if you stay with us, we'll be right back. we'll ask this question, will

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i think this is a time to think about these families. i don't think it's a time for politics or political analysis. it's a time to think about families that just lost their father, their husband, their son. >> that was new york city mayor bill de blasio last night on whether the brutal murder of two nyc police officers would increase attentions between the public and the police department. joining us next, former mayor rudy giuliani. going forward, what would you do as the mayor to calm tensions in this city? >> if i was in the situation that mayor de blasio is in and i feel sorry that he's in this

situation, i would give a speech to the police department and i would explain that maybe i was wrong about a few things. maybe i was wrong about putting too much emphasis on, you know, police misconduct when, in fact, police misconduct is a minor part of the problem. community, serious violent crime, is a much bigger part of the problem. i think i would say to them -- and i have said this to the police. you know, the people who are saving black lives in this city are you, the new york city police department. i'm not doing it. president obama is not doing it. mayor de blasio is not doing it. he's not out at night walking up and down housing developments and trying to save children for being killed.. the police officers are doing the most, right now, in these very, very poor communities. and sometimes they're white communities. but where there are black police officers in black communities, the police officers are doing the most to saip save the children that are at greatest risk. the politicians with this

propaganda separating the community from the police are doing something that's shameful. and they have to stop doing that. the vast majority of police want to help and the politicians rhetoric should reflect the truth, not propaganda. >> is there a way that every group can come together to ease the tone that we're seeing across the country? it's happening in california, ferguson, here on the east coast. is there a way for all of the politicians and for you to sit down with mayor de blasio and figure out a solution that -- >> i would be happy to. i think -- i think that pat lynch and i understand it. look, i have 400 uncles who were police officer, i lost a cousin in the line of duty and i've been at the bedsides of over a 100 police officers who were dead or dying. this is not the time to call for the resignation of the police -- mott the police commissioner, the mayor.

it's not the time to say there's blood on his hands. a lot of other police officers were killed under a lot of other mayors. it is the right time to talk about his policies, however, his policies of allowing protests to get out of control and not emphasizing enough the importance of fatherhood, the importance of education, the importance of alternatives to a public education system that is failing the black children. it shouldn't just be me and charles barclay who are pointing out these issues. that should be an equal part of the discussion. if you really want to save black lives, and you just don't want to hear yourself talk and make some money and be important, then you start talking about the underlying problems and how we solve it. you don't blame it on the police. the police are doing the best job of saving black lives. they've saved a lot more black lives than al sharpton has ever saved. >> do you have a message for the country, something you can leave us with? is there something you can say on a positive note to all of us?

>> yeah. my message is that every time i've been in the black community, the black community wanted more police. don't listen to these hucksters and these conmen who are constantly spewing this anti-police hatred. the biggest demands that i got for more police when i was the mayor of new york were in the black communities. they wanted more police because the black motheres and fathers, like white mothers and fathers, understand it's the police that are keeping their kids alive. and a lot of this does not reflect the community. and i wish the community itself would just speak up the way charles barclay did and many, many others did. >> mr. mayor, thanks a lot for joining us and for adding your perspective. >> thank you. special it. coming up, a look at the other stories making headlines today. plus, so many of us hugging our wives and our kids a lot tighter today, including me. up next, i'm going to take you home to my house at a christmas holiday, how we celebrated it

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so many of us are hugging our families a little tighter this morning. and we'll even be more grateful for the time that we spend with them during this holiday season. >> including how anna spends her christmas. tucker home for the holidays. we'll see rick in a little bit. but i'm taking you to new jersey where nal natalie and i are creating brand new traditions with our son, miles, and our little girl, ava. take a look. >> the very first step for us at christmas is to paint a christmas card picture. we have four thirteen and to get four of them all sitting still

and looking cheerful for the picture is harder than it sounds. when we pull it off, we're so proud of it that we frame the pictures. >> this is when they're making fun of me by trying to be cheerful and happy. >> that's ironic cheerfulness, you see. >> this is almost always going from october to april. we have fires almost every day. we do everything in front of the fire. christmas unfolds here. >> tucker has this delivered at the beginning of the summer. and it's dumped in the driveway. tucker has gone to new york to do the weekend show. and so the kids and i have to stack three cords of wood. >> it's the greatest plan ever. >> for you. >> this is dave. dave is a spaniel. this is meg right next to me. they are a huge part of christmas. they get their own stockings.

>> tucker always gets the tree with the kids and it makes him very tense to get the tree in the house. i'm in charge of the decorating. our most important ornament is the pickle. we hide it and then whoever finds it on christmas morning, they get to open the first present. >> we believe in rituals and traditions on christmas. we always go to georgetown on christmas eve. then we have dinner here with familiar and we open one present on christmas eve. then all the kids, all four of them, sleep in the same room on the floor in sleeping bags. susi and i wake them up pretty early and they bad downstairs with bed head and with the dogs and come in here and is we open presents. we always take the kids to tony chang's mongolian barbecue christmas night. it's not the most modern restaurant, but it's fantastic. it's a tradition. we always go. ♪ >> you know, you said your kids

were little. they look big. >> i'm impressed how much ava has grown up. she was 2 when we started the piece. now she's a 20-year-old college student. >> not to worry. we're going to see little miles and ava coming up. >> so we had a tape error there, but it was great to see the carlson family again. merry christmas to you. we'll see my monkeys in a little bit here and then we'll also see rick. >> how cute clayton's kids are. they are shocking. >> they got the better side of the gene pool from my wife, clearly. i'll take you home with me, i promise. man (sternly): seriously?

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get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. >> what do we want? dead cops. those words hung in the air during protests about a week ago. protesters marching the streets calling for murder. does the shooting of two nypd police officers prove that rhetoric has deadly consequences? peter, the question is, what is the line between free depression and incitement of violence? >> words have consequences and words can result in death and in murders. however, the first amendment under the brandenburg case makes it clear that there's a very

high standard. something is violentive of the first amendment if it's likely to cause imminent violence and produce imminent acts of violence. but the conduct that we saw in those demonstrators who are obviously anarchists, communists, obviously looking to destroy the fabric of our society, that has an effect. when people hear that, and that is deemed to be acceptable in some fashions, do us no justice, no peace? so if there's no justice, there will be no peace in the city or the state or the nation that has a cumulative effect that is destructive, corrosive to who we are as a people and, unfortunately, sometimes results in the kind of brutal, shameless, shameful, disgusting attacks that we saw yesterday. i represent the families of dead police officers in this city. for many, many years. and so the pain that they're feeling, that we're all feeling in this city today and this

nation is incalcuable. i mean, i wanted to come talk to you about in this morning. that's how much it hurt me and affected me. so we have the first amendment, but we have bounds in a civilized society, as well. >> you're a student of history, peter. you referenced the brandenburg case. tell us about that. why is the threshold there? >> the threshold is high and it's been evolving in terms of constitutional history. we have a robust first amendment. the presumption is that you can pretty much say anything you want. unless it's going to cause imminent violence. we're at a time in our society when people are saying reckless, horrible things. and we talked about that and you've just seen that chant. unfortunately, i think we see a by-product. i agree with mayor giuliani, though, that it's unfortunate and it's not the language that i would choose in terms of mayor de blasio. i don't believe there's blood on his hands. he hasn't caused the death of

these police officers. you can disagree with his policies, but what he says in terms of how he talks to his child about dealing with police officers in the city, but that's not the right way. we need to reason together. we need to mourn these police officers because they've given their lives. i believe -- i believe and i'm told eating a meal in their police car. and a guy comes in the middle of the day up behind them and executes them. we have to condemn that and at the same time, we have to figure out how are we going to get along? how are we going to do better as a society 12347 are we back to the black panthers in the '60s and '70s? there was a term, off the pace. the only good pig is a dead pig. are we back to that sensibility in this country? and what do we do as leaders to not fan the flames and to bring the conversation and reasoning together? i think cardinal bill ohman is trying to do that in the city today. >> you mentioned condemning. pat lynch is the leader of the

police union. he had this to say, and i want to get your reaction. >> sure, yeah. >> there's blood on many hands tonight. those that incited violence on this streets under the guise of protests that tried to tear down what new york city police officers did every day. we tried to warn, it must not go on, it cannot be tolerated. that is blood on the hands, on the steps of city hall, in the office of the mayor. >> we heard you disagree with him, but you had rudy giuliani on and he said this would not have happened under his watch. not necessarily the deaths, but these protests when they're chanting kill the cops. >> you can't stop people from saying words. you can kaum cause them to be held accountable, either civilly or criminally, but i think rudy giuliani said those are not words that he would have used in

terms of characterizing the conduct of mayor de blasio. and he's been very critical of past administrationes and of this one. but at the same time, pat lynch is a great union leader, a great police officer, but at some point, he'll sit down with this mayor, he'll sit down with this police commissioner who has had a good, long relationship with and i think he wanted him to be the police commissioner. and they'll come to terms on this issue. we can't have a divergence between police officers and civil authority in this country. i understand that they've turned their backs. that was an emotional reaction. the same emotional reaction we saw in ferguson and that stepfather got a pass. i think we need to take a breath but mourn deeply the loss of these police officers and consider their service and understand as rudy giuliani said that police officer are great in this country. what we're talking about is a very, very small -- >> so the president, on the basis of what you described as a

very small issue spent a lot of time talking about how the police are bad. they're setting up a justice department pass course to change american policing. >> how should the president respond? >> the president should respond -- i think he needs a national address on this. you can't let this get out of control in any community in this united states. and i think unfortunately he's failed. he was seen as a historical figure that was going to bring people together, transform this country. and people are more divided than they ever were in their city. i feel it on the subway, i feel it in the streets. >> can he exchange that? he has two more years. >> he has to fix it. we have a great, diverse people. it can be fixed. >> peter, you're referencesing a new poll out this morning, race relations in the united states since barack obama became president. these numbers are astounding, actually. among the white community, 65% think it's gotten worse under his leadership.

55% in the black community think it's gotten worse under his leadership. >> that's unfortunately. let me invite al of you, my friends, and our friends at home, there's a detective in mcdonald's about 25 years ago, he was shot. he is an irish catholic police officer in this city. he was shot by a 14-year-old african-american teenager. he's in a wheelchair. he's on a ventilator. he's been on this show. not only did he live, he lived to forgive the young man who shot him and tried to kill him. not only did he live, he went on to counsel jones in prison, went to church with his grandmother and, incredibly, thought about having shavon jones live with him in his home after he got out of prison. so that is who our new york city police department are. they're incredibly compassionat,

decent, strong people with a great social sense. and this killing is absolutely, absolutely indefensible and harsh. we need the president out on this today, the governor of the state out on this today, spiritual leaders out on this today. i know cardinal dolean is out on this today already trying to bring people together, grieve in a way that's appropriate. what a christmas it is for these families. what a christmas it is. death in new york at christmas of the great police officers. i -- i don't believe -- >> thank you very much for your perspective. now to on some other stories, a new york city police officer is lucky to be alive after a man tried to shoot him in the bronx but failed. 18-year-old raymond leonardo pointed his gun in the direction

and pulled the trigger. st officers approached leonardo after he allegedly shot out some house windows. mean while, people are swarming the mall of america, slamming cops for the death of eric garner and michael brown. police issue ago partial mall lockdown as they were marching, chanting and doing so-called die-ins. investigators are now doubling the reward to $10,000 to find this man. the suspect in the shooting of a tv weather man. patrick crawford shot in the parking lot of a television station where he worked in waco, texas, after an argument with the gun man crawford remains in the hospital, but he's in stable condition here. and another developing story overnight, boxing legend mohammed ali rushed to the hospital with pneumonia. the 72-year-old is now in stable condition. the three-time world heavyweight champ has been battling parkinson's disease since 1984. and the show must go on.

"the interview," that movie, was pulled from theaters after hackers brought threats. sony reportedly planning to release the movie in its online streaming service known as crackle.. those are your headlines. let's check in with rick right now looking at your holiday forecast. hey, rick. >> good morning. everybody already getting to new york for the holidays. welcome. >> thank you. >> what's your name? >> logan. >> logan, are you in new york for christmas? yeah? all right. well, you are. have fun. enjoy. a great morning here in new york city. take a look at the weather maps. we have -- this is your wednesday temperature. look at these temperatures. christmas eve and everything looking really good temperaturewise and across much of the east. we're also looking pretty good, even into thursday on christmas day. so -- astmas, that's not good. and we're going to have rain across parts of the south. this is going to stick with us

all the way into tuesday and wednesday. i think we'll see some severe weather tuesday and wednesday. out across the west, this is a storm that is going to plague all of us right now across the west coast. some snow across the rockies and eventually tuesday, wednesday, thursday, a big rainmaker across much of the east. all right. thanks, everybody, for coming out. send it back to you inside. coming up, five years after the ft. hood massacre, the government called workplace violence, the heros of that day finally able to get the recognition for the day they deserve, a purple heart.

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shot at ft. hood several years ago. turns out his father is a retired police officer. mr. lunsford, thanks for coming on this morning. >> you're welcome. thank you for having me. >> so you grew up the son of a police officer. how do you feel when you see the events that unfolded here yesterday in new york? >> i'm embarrassed by it. because i know that, number one, a police officer's job is to protect and to serve. and also our police officers put their lives on the line every day but they're overworked and underpaid, so they are frustrated. and i feel now that the police officers have a target on their back, we might need to start up armoring their vehicles and then our elected officials need to give them all the tools and support they need to get the job done the right away. >> but these elected officials haven't been giving them the support they need. they raise the fences higher around the mayor's house to keep out bad people, yet the mayor also then asks these police officers to go into communities that are struggling and seeing

an increase in violence over the past year working overtime a few days before christmas. what do you make of that? >> well, that's not what i mean by giving support. the first thing in giving them support is paying them more money. the second thing is allowing them to be embedded into these at-risk neighborhoods to have a up close one-on-one relationship with these people and giving them a better understanding. to help educate our youth and supporting our youth to help strengthen our future leaders. >> we want to thank you for your service. we're so sorry for what happened to you in ft. hood. we're so glad finally you're getting your well deserved purple heart. what are your thoughts? how are you feeling did this and how did you find out about the purple heart? >> well, actually, the first call i got saying that the bill had passed the house and the senate.

and i was happy, but i've been down that road before. and so when i finally got the call from fox, i mean, i was on a high. it was like an early christmas gift. but there again, one of the things that i am thinking about is we get the purple heart, some of the benefits we were denied before is the crsc, come combat related special compensation and combat related special disability, we should be getting that now. question is, is it going the be retroactive from the onset of injury to the present or are they going to do it from when the bill passed and turned into law? i feel it should be retroactive. >> well, yeah. i mean, i don't understand why it's taken so long. you were shot. a lot of people were murdered in the line of duty by an islamic nut case. why did the white house have to be dragged to this? >> well, i think that the white house was basically embarrassed.

i think that they also -- they want to face reality, but history touches us a lot. now that you've seen what isis is doing, the threats that isis is issuing to all military personnel, also to law enforcement, ems and the ft. hood shooting survivors is that it's a wake-up call. and at the end of the day, you have to look at every elected official, when they go home and lay their head on their pillow, safe. they have to realize those brothers and sisters that are putting their live on the line every day so that they can go home safe, that they should compensate themmer for their just do. >> amen. it's going to be a merry christmas hopefully for you, as well. we thank you for your service and thank you for joining us this morning. >> can i ask one last question? i want to find out what's your message for nadal hasan now? >> well, again, christmas is coming up. i get a chance to enjoy it with my family. i get a chance to hold my wife

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tighter this morning, and we'll be even more grateful for the time we get to spend with them this holiday season. >> including me. and this morning i'm taking you to new jersey, where natalie and i are creating brand-new traditions with our little kids, our 2-year-old and our 4-year-old, miles and ava. take a look. ♪ welcome to my home during the holidays, my crazy home during the holidays. i love the traditions that we're creating in my family with my kids and gathering up the family together and having fun. one of my favorite traditions, though, during the holidays is that i don't shave at all. this is a rite of passage in my family. my dad always had us out there the first weekend after thanksgiving putting up the christmas lights. so, now that tradition is handed down to me. >> he scares me when he does this, because every year he threatens to go higher on the house. it gets too dangerous. >> ahhh! ♪ >> natalie always tries to come up with different christmas-themed crafts, like

the christmas tree. miles, did you make the gingerbread house? >> yeah. >> can i take a bite? >> no! >> are you sure? >> yeah! >> i used to love decorating the tree as a kid. i would throw so much tinsel on the tree. now i get to watch the kids decorate. you want it up here? >> when i take these out of the box every year, i start to cry. >> and every year i take this one off the tree and i get really upset and start to cry. i realize they haven't won a world series since 2008. want to play your christmas record? okay, go ahead. ♪ then one foggy christmas eve santa came to say ♪ ♪ rudolph with your nose so bright won't you guide my sleigh tonight ♪ >> so, the lights come on every day at 4:00 and they like to gather around their tree with their christmas books and wait for it. >> and since this is the technology house, i have to control our christmas lights with a smartphone app. >> yay! >> there is one tradition that we do on christmas eve, which is

now exchange pajamas. the kids have to put out cookies and milk for santa, and i always like to think that i'm going to have a relaxing evening on christmas eve with maybe an adult cocktail. >> and then i pull out boxes of things he has to assemble. >> growing up, my parents created such a warm house on christmas, and i loved coming down and having stockings to open in the morning and the tree looked beautiful. it's such a joyous time. so, i try to carry that tradition down to my kids. just seeing their faces, i don't even care what i get for christmas now. i just, i love seeing what they get for christmas and seeing them smile. >> and it makes it all worth it. >> thank you so much for coming into our house on this christmas and seeing how we celebrate. it gets a little crazy around here, but you know what, i'm ready to relax. it's christmas eve uniform time. i'm ready for christmas. >> you're ready to put toys together. >> there's more? >> wow. >> pajamas. >> i feel like we invaded your

space. >> are those your real kids? >> the cameraman said, oh, you're really going to wear those pajamas. that's right. >> your kids are so cute. >> it's great to create traditions now. rick is going to arizona and we'll see this on christmas day. >> yes, christmas day. you will see it on christmas day. make sure you tune in. >> there you are. >> i'll be watching. look at that. >> you'll find out if we survived. >> we survived. spoiler alert. >> i still have bruises, but -- >> all right, more "fox & friends" next. man (sternly): seriously?

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it's taco tuesday. man: you're not coming. i took mucinex to help get rid of my mucusy congestion. mr. mucus: oh, right then i'll swing by in like 4 hours... just set aside a few tacos for me. one pill lasts 12 hours. i'm good all day. mr. mucus (to himself): wait! your loss. i was going to wear a sombrero. [announcer:] only mucinex has a bi-layer tablet that starts fast, and keeps working. not 4, not 6, but 12 full hours. start the relief. ditch the misery. let's end this. so, there's been an explosion of commentary online about the murder yesterday of those two new york city police officers. here's former new york governor george pataki saying this -- "i'm sickened by these barbaric acts which are sadly a predictable outcome of divisive anticop rhetoric of eric holder and mayor de blasio." >> and "my prayers to the families of murdered cops in nyc

and to those doing the hard work everyday wherever they serve." and then "the fault lies with poor local and national leadership. when protesters resort to violence or incite violence, arrest, arrest, et cetera." >> we'll continue to cover this throughout the day. thanks for watching. >> stick with fox. responding to north korea. good morning, everyone. i'm maria bartiromo. welcome to "sunday morning futures." president obama vowing that the u.s. will respond proportionally to the cyber attack on sony pictures. "in a place and time and manner that we choose." what might that entail? we'll ask congressman peter king who sits on the select committee for intelligence and the homeland security committee. king, a new york congressman, is also speaking out this morning about yesterday's heinous crime. two new york city police officers shot dead, execution style, while sitting in their patrol car in brooklyn. we will speak to the congressman about this breaking