>> they are going to be talking about this around the water cooler. a few hours ago brazilian police pulling gunner bents and conger from a flight. the judge forcing them to stay inside the country to testify about exactly what op earth happened. we have learned another swimmer jimmy fagan is also cooperating with authorities in rio. ryan lochte claimed he and teammates were in a taxi cab leaving a club by men investigating police. now investigators say the time line isn't adding up pointing to this video. they were seen leaving around 6:00 a.m. according to the video. it shows them getting checked back into the olympic village after 7:00 in the they were too drunk to remember any details about the location, crime or taxi driver.

to make matters more confusing he's backtracking his dramatic description. this is what he told nbc the day after the incident ever happened. >> i was like we didn't do anything wrong. i am not getting down on the ground. the guy pulls out his gun. cox it. puts it to my forehead and takes it down. i put my hands up, i was like, whatever. >> now lochte is telling nbc their cab wasn't pulled over instead they were ambushed while stopped at the gas station and the gun was only pointed at him and not held to his head. authorities called on lochte and fagan to stay in the country but he had already landed on american soil. he told usa quote i am just trying to give brazil what they need or want or get out of here. it's a hassle, but i am safe and everything is fine.

they are calling for lochte to return to rio. >> we would never require any american citizen to comply with those kinds of requests. we would like to see and encourage american citizens to do what they can to work with brazilian authorities . >> we stand by what we provided in the interview and signed off on. >> the other swimmers will give their testimony later today. >> the story not adding up. >> now we return to the wait for the white house. donald trump receiving his first classified intelligence briefing from washington officials. now rifles we have the latest on the campaign trail. >> good morning. it was a busy and sobering day for donald trump the other day. hours before his first

classified briefing they held a roundtable meeting to discuss tactics to defeating radical islamic terrorism. the meeting included former mayor rudy giuliani jeff sessions as well as trump's new campaign of steven ban nonand kelly ann conway. earlier in the day trump downplayed the potential value of the first classified intelligence briefing in question how much trust he can put into the information given the track record of the intelligence committee over the last 10 years. following the more than 2 thundershower briefing lieutenant general michael flynn said he was pleased with how it went. >> it is the briefers that came in today were absolutely professional. top of the field. and the discussion that we had was very thorough. i will tell you we were only able to scratch the surface of the complexity of the threats that our country faces and so today was just the beginning of a long dialogue between

essentially what this represents, which is a series of intelligence briefings for the next president of the united states. >> hillary clinton will hold her own round table with law enforcement leaders later today in new york city. last night at a rally in cleveland, ohio she continued to making her pitch to dissatisfied republicans saying trump will not be changing any time soon. >> for any one waiting for donald trump to suddenly become more responsible, remember what a great american maya angelou said, when someone shows you who they are, believe them. friends don't let friends vote for trump. >> the trump campaign is now trying to gain back some of the ground in some of the key swing states and will start airing the first tv ads of the general election starting tomorrow. >> garrett tiny live for us.

>> swiftly and viciously. that's how donald trump plans to take out isis if he is the next president. he talked to sean hannity doubling down on his claims that hillary clinton and president obama are blamed for the rise on the terror group. >> i didn't want to go into iraq. nobody cared what i wanted to do. that was a terrible mistake number two was getting out the way we got out. president obama, hillary clinton the way they got out was absolutely insane. it will be talked about for many, many years. it led to the formation of isis. >> we have to be so tough and smart and vigilant. the muslims have to help us. they see what's going on in their community. they have to help us. if they don't help us. they are to blame also. >> what we are doing by allowing

houses and houses, tens of thousands of people that we don't know anything about, it's going to happen again. there's something wrong. and until we figure it out. we to stop it. >> trump also blasted his democratic opponent and the media for shielding the former secretary of state from negative attention and controversy. >> meanwhile the clinton foundation scrambling to make sure the charity wasn't hacked. signs they may have been breached they are already on shaky ground over the recent hacks of the fundraising committee and the clinton foundation. >> the white house claims it was not ransom. the wall street journal reports the u.s. stalled a nearly half billion dollar payment to iran.

we have breaking details. >> raising the red flags this morning. the wall street journal held the $4 million cash payment until the hostages took off from iran. the report masking what one of the hostages, pastor said ab dini said. they said we are waiting for another plane until that plane doesn't come we never let go. >> the state department officials denying ab din abedin story. >> we know it was a ransom payment. what we know now is there's no way this money could have gotten to tehran without the law having

been broken. the way they run deals and in foreign cash it's interesting, but it doesn't change the fact that sanctions were violated. rnc chairman rance pre-- ree preeb business says they should change the price on the he had every american involved. state department says it is looking into it. abby, heather. >> an escaped inmate convicted of shooting at a police officer. he over powered the staff at his alabama jail, stole keys and ran out. he's serving a 30 year sentence for opening fire at a deputy during a police chase last year. he is armed and dangerous and

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>> welcome back to "fox & friends first." it was a story saw here first. american flags were ordered to be taken off the back of fire trucks. >> they are calling the flags a liability. >> and a distraction. forcing firefighters to remove them earlier this week. they went on the record with tra their thoughts. >> i don't feel there was a

danger. there were three members who felt they didn't want the flags on the back of the fire equipment. it is not unprecedented. it has been more prevalent since 9-11. you seatons of emergency vehicles with flags on them. >> union members are scheduled to sit down with the board of commissioners to discuss the possibility of bringing the flags back. >> the union president will join us live on the 6:00 hour of fox & friends. >> the hardest hit many forced to close their doors. >> which presidential nominee's financial plan is a better fit to bring back the economy? our only awe gabeial joins us with details.

>> they are products made right here in america. >> i am a fat guy. if you ask me what restaurant to go to, you ought to listen to me. if you ask somebodyi how to create business ask someone like donald trump. >> this is the oldest tailored clothing manufacturer located in cleave lapped, tennessee. it has been in business 135 years. thaichgs to the great recession in 2009 it almost didn't make it. the company's owner were forced to file bankruptcy an layoff most of the workers. that is when a lifelong cleveland resident stepped in. >> i care about cleave lapped. it is the most prestigious company and we needed to save it. >> he spent his career in

finance and had zero experience in clothing. he hired a man that had almost three decades making clothing. >> we want young people to be able to afford a garment so when they open it up they say hey this is made in the united states not just the united states but in tennessee. >> we have to set our sights a little higher. the only way to save the company is to re-invent it and come out with these materials. >> with so many jobs moving overseas the american worker has been under valued. the owner says the workers are the greatest asset. >> people sow buttons on. you sow them on no one notices. this is my coat when she sees it on fox and in the great stores

in the united states they take pride in that. >> the company faces many challenges. >> our number two expense is obamacare. obamacare went up 37 percent. >> the other obstacles regulations. >> if they would release guys like me they create jobs they come out of this mess. we need them to get government every detail of business. we have the handcuffs on. we need them off. to do that we will make this country great again. it is already great, but we will make it greater. >> he is making great american clothing again. in 2015 the italian blazer won the garden and gun style award for the annual made in the south awards. their motto is sown in tsewn in south. >> thank you very much.

leah. >> good morning to you. >> the time is 26 minutes after the top of the hour. >> hillary click ton playing off h -- hillary clinton playing off her e-mail scandals. >> i did not send nor receive material marked classified. >> why does the chief investigator of congress say they are too top secret even he can't see them.

>> it is thursday, august 18th. breaking overnight two american swimmers held off of a plane and held in rio over ryan lochte's robbery story. >> bombshell reports u.s. held the $400 million payment to iran until after the hostages were released. can the white house really deny

it wasn't a ransom now? >> they should have resigned after the monday taw lewinsky scandal. that's what some folks say. don't take their word for it. that's what hillary clinton's running mate also once said. "fox & friends first" continues right now. >> happy thursday morning. >> almost friday. >> almost there. >> i am abby huntsman. >> i am heather childers. >> it is half past the top of the hour. overnight a development from rio. that's where police are investigating the robbery claims of 12 time olympic medallist ryan lochte. >> two of the teammates hauled off of the plane as they were about to take off. >> good morning to you and everyone at home. hours ago brazilian police pulling swimmers off of a flight

bound here for the united states. a judge forcing them to stay in the country to testify about exactly what happened after olympic swimmer ryan lochte claimed they were robbed. we have learned another swimmer involved jimmy fagan is cooperating with authorities in rio. the time line the four men gave police isn't adding up according to video obtained by the daily mail they left around 4:00 a.m. but they were seen leaving around 6:00 a.m. the video shows the four swimmers checking into the olympic village. they were too drunk to remember details about the location of the crime but lochte is beginning to change his story. this is what he told nbc the day after the incident happened. i was lake we didn't do anything wrong, so i am not getting down on the ground and then the guy pulled out his gun. cocked it. put it to my forehead and said get down. i put my hands up.

i was like, whatever. >> here's the latest lochte is telling nbc last night. the cab wasn't pulled over instead ambushed while stopped at a gas station. the gun was only pointed at him and not at his head directly. authorities called on lochte and fagan to stay in the country. lochte had already flown to the united states posting this photo on snap chat. i am just trying to give brazil what they need and what they want and get out of here. i am safe. everything is fine. they are responding to the call for lock tee to return -- locht return to rio. >> we would never require a citizen to respond to that request. we are encouraging american citizens to do what they can to close out the investigation. >> lochte's lawyer says his client is not returning to

brazil. >> abby and heather back to you. >> that story. >> the race for the white house. donald trump receiving his first classified intelligence briefing from washington officials. garrett tiny joins us live from washington with the details. >> ahead of the first classified intelligence briefing held a roundtable meeting with a dozen of advisors to discuss strategies for defeating radical islamic terrorism. it was the first meeting with the campaign's latest edition steven bannon. he had his first classified briefings on the threats to the united states. he was joined by chris christie as well as retired general mike

flynn who prufrp said he brought along to help vet and verify the information he was receiving during the briefing. afterwards he said russia did come up in the briefing and recent reports with campaign chair to paul manafort are nothing but a distraction. >> all of this noise about russia and paul manafort, and we did talk about russia today. i won't get into any of the specifics. russia does not have the same perspective and the same belief in the way we want to work as we do. >> clinton will hold the roundtable later today in new york city. last night at a rally she continued to make her pitch to dissatisfied republicans saying trump will not be changing any time soon. >> for any one waiting for donald trump to suddenly become

more responsible, remember what a great american maya angelou said, when someone shows you who they are, believe them. friends don't let friends vote for trump. >> and in response to the most recent polls showing him slipping to the states donald trump is airing the tv spots tomorrow. >> 81 days now and counting. >> it has been so long. just since super tuesday if you can remember back that far. >> thank you, garrett. >> donald trump values isis most untracked tools to stop the terror group. during the town hall social media will be a big part of the extreme vetting process. listen. >> let me tell you, you get smart people, and there are those people they are good at understanding what's going on.

beyond that you use social media. if you look at what isis is doing, they are recruiting over the internet. i also said we have to end that. we have to not get out. we have top end that. but shawn, at the internet what isis is using the internet and what they are doing and how they awhat they are doi us. then you have people say you can't do that. we have people who want to blow us up. we have to take them out very swiftly. weapons are getting stronger and stronger, meaner and meaner. believe me. they want to come over here. >> trump vowing social media will be part of the extreme vetting process for immigrants looking to enter the u.s. >> they should have rei signed after the monica lewinsky scandal. those words coming from running mate senator tim kaine.

kaine calling both situations beneath the dignity of the office. yesterday kaine confirmed he had made the comments adding he had been disappointed in president bill clinton. but he says that scandal has nothing to do with the current election. >> ju how classified the information was with the state e-mail server. the chairman of the house over site committee saying even he wasn't allowed to see them. >> the clinton campaign would seem to want to let the public know it is only just a few and it is not that bad, but the sensitivity of the material the oversight of the committee the investigate i body i don't have the proper security clearance to look at this.

>> those documents just receive. >> the exact moment the country released four american hostages. jackie ibanez is live with the breaking details. the wall street journal now says they held the $4 million cash payment until a plane held american hostages took off from iran. the report matching what one of the hostages pastor saeed abedini told fox business earlier this month. >> i asked them why don't you let us go? the plane was there and everyone was ready. we never let it go. >> state department officials denying abedini's story. they are planning to investigate. >> we all know it was a ransom

payment. you can call somebody that parks with four legs a cat. it is still a ransom payment. there is no way this money could have gotten to tehran without the law having been broken. the fact that it was in cash, the way drug runners run deals and mafia run deals, it is interesting. but it doesn't change the fact that they were violated. >> reince priebus says the obama administration should drop the charade saying there's quote a price on the head of every american abroad. >> iran detained at least three americans since the money transfer. they plan to charge one of them with threatening its national security. the state department says it is looking in a it. abby, heather? >> lots of questions there. >> thank you, jackie. >> thanks. >> the state department defending its decision to release 15 more gitmo detainees saying quote very few return to

terror. >> detainees have been vetted after what was a rigorous process. is it 100 percent full proof? are there zaire cases of it happening? there have been cases of it but very few. >> how many is very few? according to the pentagon of the nearly 700 detainees released 200 are brought back to the field. that is a raise of more than 30 percent. >> pass the umbrella. >> we are going to be seeing rain across many areas in the country today. in the northwest it is going to feel great in the gulf coast.

>> it is not only the great rain but subsequently dealing with the flooding out there. we have a few showers. fortunately things should get drier out here the next few days. the front will start to lift. >> you have light showers that are rolling through those areas. we are going to be seeing the heaviest of rain in southwestern texas parts of arkansas and parts of the great lakes. there are threats for flooding out there. there is risk for severe weather today. heads up across parts of minnesota and the dakotas. out west the fire danger remains high, a number of red flag warnings are in effect. >> the time now is about 15 minutes until the top of the hour. they are known for violent riots and throwing rocks at officers.

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>> we are back the story black lives matter is seeing green. the activist group cashing in millions of dollars from liberal donations. the black led movement fund is a donor campaign raising 100 million over six years that is in addition to 33 million from grants from top clinton supporter george soros. >> she is the queen of talk. what is the one word that oprah

winfrey will not say? diversity. during a joint interview with the hollywood reporter they talk about pushing others to use the word inclusion instead of diversity. she said i eliminated it from may vocabulary that i learned from her the word that articulates what we are looking for is what we want to be, included. to have a seat at the table where the decisions are being made. now to a fox business alert. hacking fears for the clinton foundation and the nsa. >> cheryl casone from our sister network fox business with the details. >> the web site that the nsa dot gov is running suffered a day long outage raising questions about the security for the nation's spy agency. over the weekend a group of criminal hackers calling themselves shadow brokers offered to sell nsa programs to the highest bidder even posting

pieces from the programs of the nsa out on the web. they say the programs look real. meaning hackers may have access to our nation's secrets. one former nsa agent called it the kings to t-- keys to the kingdom. they haven't responded yet. it is not just the government worried about cyber attacks. the bill and hillary clinton foundation has hired security to look at the systems after a possible breech. no documents are public but security experts say it is possible it is the work of russian hackers last month. >> the russian hackers up to no good. >> they will get you. let's check in with steve doocy to see what is coming up on "fox & friends. an olympic record breaker getting no attention. >> she is the first athlete to win a medal in six con secty

summer li -- consecutive summer olympics. no one is talking about her. why? because kim rhode is a skeet shooter. there are some who say nobody is doing the story because it involves a gun. how does she feel about it? she is going to join us live on "fox & friends." >> i have attempted that. it is hard. >> look forward to hearing what she has to say. >> thank you, steve. >> we will be right back. stay with us. t @@

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>> is it the policy of the state department where the preservation of the secrecy of secret negotiations is concerned to lie in order to achieve that goal? >> james, i think there are times when diplomacy needs privacy in order to progress. this is a good example of that. >> judicial watch demanding the release of all records about how the edit happened after it was initially called a glitch. new evidence saying bowe bergdahl fantasized of becoming i hit man for the mob -- the night before leaving his post in afghanistan. he had plans to go across pakistan and india to get to russia. bergdahl was captured by the taliban and returned to the u.s. in a prisoner swap after 2014. he faces a court-martial in february and could spend his life in prison. he was compared to donald trump or he compared donald trump to disgraceful dictators like hitler, mussolini.

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