covered in shoot. >> wow. that's a long bath right there. >> isn't there a window? got to be one open in the house somewhere. >> hope you had a great weekend. >> "fox and friends" starts right now everyone. >> bye. we do hope you had a good weekend. it's monday, october 17th. we start with a fox news lert alert. a republican headquarters vandalized and firebombed. >> this is a horrific, horrific act of political terrorism. >> the latest on the investigation in just moments. then two days away from the final debate in the desert and donald trump is doubling down on the allegations that the race for the white house is rigged. live from trump tower coming up. yep and think hillary clinton ever struggles with the idea of taking foreign cash? it turns out she never got the chance. it was her staff who takes the

foreign cash and run for her. let me just remind you. it is monday. you got to put something on eventually. mornings are better with friends. i think it's interesting that over the weekend, it was revealed that all the candidates seem to be interested in getting out the vote. apparently hillary clinton has cornered the market on one particular demographic of the vote. dead people. generally, dead people vote for hillary. vote for democrats. >> for the sunday show, they seemed to be talking to each other saying let's just panic everybody that donald trump is going to declare -- if he loses, the whole inning was rigged. that was the whole theme. >> it looks rigged. >> that was rudy giuliani. >> no, i'm not tweeting. i need to do that. i definitely need do that. thank you for reminding me. i was looking for vegas weather.

you said desert weather and i have to pack. >> it's going to be in the 80s in the daylight and in the evenings, we'll be live 3:00 to 6:00 a.m. pacific time. it will be in the upper 50s. >> that means sleeveless for you and i, steve. >> tank tops for you guys. >> hope you had a great weekend. hope you got some sleep. in a great mood. beware. >> see if heather is in a great mood. >> did you get sleep? >> i certainly did. we're going to start off with a serious news story. happening right now, an all-out assault against isis to take back the northern iraqi city of mosul. this battle is considered a pivotal move in terms of trying to take out the brutal terror network. thousands of iraqi and kurdish forces moving in overnight, launching the operation. this has been in the making for months now. the u.s. also playing a major role providing air support and also military advice. we'll watch the story as it

develops. another alert right now back here at home. a republican headquarters vandalized and firebombed in north carolina. the explosive torching the entire office. look at this right there. including donald trump's -- the executive director of the gop dallas woodhouse says the attack will not stop us. >> this is a horrific, horrific act of political terrorism. >> that happening in north carolina. >> intimidate people from volunteering, from working at this office. >> that happening in north carolina. woodhouse will join us live in the 8:00 hour. a manhunt for an armed and dangerous cop shooter intensifying at this hour as an alaskan police sergeant is now fighting for his life. police are looking for this man in the dashcam video seen blocking the patrol car moments before opening fire. he shot the sergeant multiple times before he stole his

cruiser. they were investigating reports of shots fired. a texas comeback on sunday night football. the colts led the texans 23-9 with less than 3:00 to go. but quarterback brock osweiler, 26-yard touchdown. ties the game in the final minute. this one needed overtime. houston's vic novak hits a 33-yard field goal. he got that field goal. the texans beat the colts 26-23. those are your headlines. see you back here in a little bit. thank you, heather. turning back to politics and the race for the white house. it's the final countdown. >> we're just two days away from the third and final debate. one of the dramatic elections in american history that has families breaking autopsy and people not speaking to each other. donald trump is doubling down on his claims that it's all rigged. >> national correspondent john roberts is live outside of trump tower in new york city with the latest. john, are you disappointed not

seeing that -- the final countdown? >> everybody loves a little europe at 6:05 on a monday morning. steve, quick tip on how to survive the desert weather in las vegas, the changeability between night and day. never leave the casino. it's 70 degrees. as long as you don't go outside, you're all right. this is an argument that donald trump made to great effect in the primaries suggesting that the election was rigged. that was from the party level. he's making a different argument now in the closing days of his election campaign suggesting that the entire election process, even the voting is rigged. here's what he tweeted out over the weekend. "the election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing crooked hillary. but also at the polls. saad." for the last few weeks, donald trump has been suggesting that the vote may be rigged.

he's been encouraging supporters that when they vote, hang around the polling places to make sure nothing is amiss. his running mate mike pence on the sunday shows styled back on the idea that the voting is going to be rigged saying we will accept the results of the election. they absolutely, what's rigged is the media bias in the election. listen to what pence said yesterday. >> the american people are very, very troubled. once again, here we are in an election of enormous magnitude in the life of this nation. and once again, the media is piling on with unsubstantiated claims as the headlines while they ignore an avalanche of hard evidence about corruption, pay to play, political favoritism emanating out of hillary clinton's years as secretary of state. >> donald trump spent almost all of yesterday in bedminster, new jersey. much of that involved in debate prep. he'll go over a little bit more of that today before heading to wisconsin where you'll remember

a couple of months ago he endorsed paul ryan, now he's literally at war with paul ryan tweeting out yesterday paul ryan, a man who doesn't know how to win, including failed run four years ago, must start focusing on the budget, et cetera. interview released by wikileaks should quid pro quo in crooked hillary e-mail probe. such dishonest person and paul ryan does zilch. trump will be back in green bay, which is where he endorsed paul ryan. the latest rcp average in polls shows hillary clinton up by seven points. we should point out that a republican has not taken wisconsin since 1984 when ronald reagan won it. some people questioning why he's going to wisconsin at all, he'd be better focusing on other battleground states like florida and ohio. >> it doesn't make any sense. >> he's been in all those states. he's just going all over. >> thank you. >> it's ridiculous.

>> talk about ridiculous. this is ridiculous. the day after hillary clinton declares she's going to run for president of the united states, the campaign behind the scenes is wondering should we take foreign money from registered agents of other countries? it looks bad. ultimately, what they decided, they had the give and take between familiar members of the campaign team and some lawyers and stuff like that. eventually they did decide to take the money even though from a p.r. standpoint, it was going to look bad. >> we're reading some of the e-mails and want to share the one that is stood out to us with you. robby says i'm okay just taking the money and dealing with any attacks. are you guys okay with that? here's the most shocking one. >> from the campaign communications director. she says, take the money. just take the money. here's the problem. and this is the exchange between the campaign manager.

hrc, hillary clinton read in the peep that we're taking the fara money. foreign registration act money. she doesn't want to? she didn't know we had decided to accept it. get that. she didn't know that we decided to accept it. so hillary didn't know it was going on inside her campaign. >> two different people the way they run things. donald trump has too much control of his campaign. it looks like the hand is off the switch. with hillary clinton, in many ways. there's a lot of things twirling about. she's got to worry about this debate, what else is coming out of wikileaks. also curious, wikileaks was taken down. the latest ones were taken down by the state department yesterday. i'm wondering if they're going to try little by little to start getting ahead of them. >> i don't know that it's the united states. somebody took it down. >> people going after donald trump for the woman issues and

hillary, people have gone after her saying yeah. but you're taking money from foreign governments that are abusing women. is she going to come back and say, i had no idea i was doing that? it's not my fault. >> that would be accurate. >> sure. >> take the money. >> that would be 50% would be a bad move, the other 50% would be a good move. let's talk about the san bernardino shooter. do you remember when he came out, this guy, he was from pakistan, came here with his fake wife and started killing people at a christmas party after he spent the morning with them? we know it looks bad because the president wants to end all wars and terror just stop. it comes out that this guy opens up, sigh ed farook, kills americans at a christmas party. here's what chris hayes of msnbc said. nbc news now reporting a u.s. citizen named sayeed farook one

of the people involved in the shooting. john podesta said better if a guy was reporting than a guy named christopher hayes was the shooter. get it? it doesn't work politically if islamic extremists are killing americans in america. >> because that brings up the immigration issue. hillary clinton says she doesn't care about the syrian refugees. she wants 65,000 to come in our country. they're saying it doesn't look good for our campaign. >> sure. the wikileaks stuff is very interesting. it's gotten -- by the way, over at cnn, at one point yesterday they said it's illegal to possess these things. but we have them because we have different rules here. we'll tell you what's going on. >> didn't give john dickerson credit. is it okay you should be reading wikileaks things and the vice presidential nominee said -- should we not read donald trump's tax returns that were hacked away from him and put on

the front page of "the new york times"? that silenced the argument. a busy day of politics two days away from the debate in the desert and now this. >> stop and look at this. a group of strangers form a human chain to save a driver after his car crashes and bursts into flames. the whole rescue caught on camera. >> that's why we're able to see it. revealing a plan for gun control. go at it alone. >> if hillary is elected, is there anything she could do to -- >> there might be executive order. david webb is here. >> hi david. [ overlapping talking ]

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. caught on camera. former democratic wisconsin senator, his name is russ feingold revealing hillary clinton's strategy to take guns out of your hands. the hands of americans and go at it alone. >> if there's no republican people in congress and if hillary is ee electriced, is there anything she can do to -- >> there might be an executive order. >> there might be executive order. here to weigh in is radio talk

show host david webb. >> this senator running for reelection in wisconsin, he came out and caught on camera saying if hillary clinton -- if congress doesn't vote in favor of taking guns out of the hands of americans -- >> if you don't gt way we want you to, never mind the constitution or things like regular order, which is what we really need. never mind your legislators, your representatives, we're going to do what we want by executive order. >> it's humorous at a level that we shouldn't accept, they don't like the fact that the constitution stands in the way of their eye dealing. >> she's totally against guns or is it because she wants control. >> it's more about control for them. if you think about what they've done for decades, they legislate away your ability to buy arms. in chicago they have safe zones. can't be within this distance of a school, a playground, a park. they push you out of your ability to protect yourself and who benefits the most from

protecting themselves? when the police don't show up because they can't, a bullet travels faster than a patrol car, what do you need? you need the ability to protect yourself. >> let's look at both of their plans. a lot of people are going to the polls. a lot of my friends down south. this is a big deal for them. let's look at hillary's plan next to donald trump's plan. look at his plan first. you want to go through this, david? >> focus on fixing the broken system. we can use technology and reporting and other means. we already have background checks. by the way, there is no gun show loophole. it goes through a licensed firearms dealer. if you buy a weapon, it goes to them. you have to show up and pass the check. hillary clinton, when you look at what she wants to do, she essentially is doing what we heard russ feingold say. we're going to impede your ability to not buy firearms. there's some that say we want to decide how many you can have. the constitution doesn't say you

get three and you get two. >> if you travel state to state, every state has a different law on this. donald trump does want it to be valid across stayed borders. >> the difference between open carry and concealed carry. people are playing the game of having to go to, say, michigan to get reciprocity in this many states, florida and virginia. it becomes a game and also a legal hassle if you're going from state to state as an american and you just want to transit to go -- whether it's long gun or hunting or the ability to carry a side arm versus going into the next day. we've seen that in new jersey and pennsylvania. >> just real quickly, hillary wants to ban assault weapons, increase inspections on licensed arm dealers, remove legal protection for gun manufacturers and expand background checks. donald trump focused on fixing the broken system as you were talking about. macon seal carry permits valid and improve mental health treatment. >> let's take one key point there. this whole use of the term

assault. there isn't an army on the planet that uses, for instance, an a.r. 15 unless it's modified to be automatic. it is one trigger pull, one shot. a.r. stands for arm a light. not assault rifle. because of the profile of the gun made it seem worse because of the profile. >> it's not accurate? >> it's not accurate. it's not an assault rifle. it's simply a long gun. >> so before they ban these guns, they should know exactly what type of gun they're banning. >> they don't care. the things they do know, they don't care. >> thanks so much, david. if you ask black lives matter, it's an epidemic. wow. but now the head of the fbi says they don't know what they're talking about. the road to the white house runs through four key states. we're mapping out where donald

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quick headlines now. there is no epidemic of police violence against black people according to the fbi director named james comey. >> in a nation of almost one million sworn law enforcement officers and tens of millions of police encounters every year, a small group of videos serves as proof of an epidemic. >> he's being sarcastic there. >> comey says the narrative is making the gap between police and the community worse. after years of a federal judge finally ordering the irs to clean up the tea part targeting

scandal, the tax agency has less than a month to clear up april backlog of applications. the irs admitted to targeting conservative groups for tax exempt status. you may have heard. steve? all right, brian, thank you very much. with 22 days until the election and still a virtual dead heat. with donald trump by four points to hillary clinton. how does the election map shake out right now? let's look at key battleground states. here to help is caitlin burns of real clear politics. good morning to you. >> hi, good morning. >> let's go to the magicwall. >> the map. >> these are the -- trump is red, hillary is blue. what are some of the other states that look like they're going to turn trump? >> i think we can -- arizona traditionally goes republican. say georgia there for him. iowa, actually, of all the battlegrounds is still looking competitive for trump. these are leftover of our battle

grounds. for the democrats, i would also give hillary clinton michigan. >> got to really push it. there you go. michigan and wisconsin where trump is actually compete -- campaigning today in wisconsin. and michigan and pennsylvania, i would say, are leaning democratic right now comfortably as well as virginia. >> let's talk about four key battleground states. talk about nevada, utah, ohio and florida. that really could help trump a lot. which way do you see nevada going? >> nevada has been competitive. but clinton has taken a lead now in nevada. that was a point of competitiveness for donald trump. but now after the debates and after a lot of different things, he's been falling behind there. >> sure. >> utah, where that third party guy is messing up trump. >> exactly. mcmullen is a utah native. of course, trump is not well --

is not popular among mormons in utah. the entire utah delegation has been against trump rescinded endorsements of him. it's becoming a very competitive state. this is really important because utah is reliably red. it's troublesome for trump. >> you want to paint it a color? >> it's still trending republican. you know, he has -- but the fact that it is competitive now shows how difficult this map is for trump. >> it's good. >> a couple other states that we need to -- florida and ohio are competitive. but clinton has started to take the lead in florida too in the averages. a couple weeks ago, that was a much closer race. ohio, too, had been trending for donald trump. he had been leading by wider margins in ohio. favorable demographics for him. always a competitive state. but this time it looked as if it

were turning to donald trump's favor. now clinton is showing that she can be more competitive in the state of ohio, which is an interesting development in the last couple of weeks. >> so those two are still too close to call like utah. you're uncertain which color they're going to go. >> utah, looking at it the traditional way it goes, we could say that it can lead republican. colorado is also an interesting state, too, because that is trending blue and blue in these past elections. >> interesting stuff. we're going to be out in the desert very shortly to go ahead and figure out what's going on. there we go. we're back to that. >> last debate. caitlin, thanks very much. >> thank you. meanwhile, after nine rounds of leaked clinton e-mails, is someone trying to silence wikileaks founder julian assange. what just happened overnight. we'll tell you coming up next. if colin kaepernick wants to protest, so can the crowd.

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in paperback. >> exciting. >> yes. we had an after word to give you an update. >> i was going to ask you about that. what is new about the paperback? >> i updated to give people an idea of -- so much parallels the islamic extremists we faced then. didn't go away. we went back and went for complete victory right after and next week, you'll hear about steven decatur, why there's decatur, georgia and the school. this guy was unbelievable. he deserves all the credit for going back. >> may i hold one? >> you can hold one. >> you have to buy it. >> by the way, this came out on mass market today too for $9.99. >> we can pre-order this today and it arrives at your doorstep tomorrow, is that right? >> absolutely. if you want to see me in person with steve and ainsley do regularly, tulsa on friday, then on october 20th atlanta and

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>> we are proud of brian. i love the history of our navy. just in time for christmas. it's fantastic. love that book. so do my boys as well. good morning to all of you. develop right now, wikileaks says that someone is trying to silence the founder, julian assange as he vows to release tens of thousands of new e-mails that he says will sink hillary clinton's campaign. wikileaks tweeting overnight, "julian assange's internet link has been intentionally severed by a state party. we've activated the appropriate contingency plan." that announcement after wikileaks posted some tweets that led people to believe assange was dead. tyson gay caught in the crossfire of a -- his only child and aspiring track star was hit in the neck when two cars, men in cars started firing at one another in a parking lot in

lexington, kentucky. police say she was hanging out with friends there. at this hour, three men are under arrest in connection to her murder. bystanders and police form a human chain to save a trapped driver in a burning car. after he flies off the highway and then plunges into a ditch. >> pull, pull. faster. >> nearly a dozen people rushing to help. pulling that driver on to the road and away from his flaming suv. this happened in palm bay, florida. it's unclear what caused that crash. the driver wasn't seriously hurt thank goodness for that and all the helpers as well. >> >> thank you very much, heather. colin kaepernick not getting a warm welcome yesterday at his big debut as a starting quarterback. those are boos. how did social media react? not well.

according to fox news radio headline reporter carley shimkus here with what's trending. >> the most discussed quarterback before playing a single snap. >> by a mile. >> he finally saw the field yesterday and social media reaction exploded. here's one guy holding a sign that says man up and stand up. so that is somebody's reaction. another video that's going viral online shows some guy getting pretty rowdy during the tailgate tackling a colin kaepernick dummy. that's not that good. a lot of people are using their freedom of speech rights to protest kaepernick. >> sure. two teammates taking a knee next to him and across the country now. eight players putting their fists in the air for black power during the national anthem. remember, you used to stand there and stare at the flag. >> pictures that show online that they were -- supporting

black lives matter. >> the key to the game yesterday was he lost. that was the headline. >> steve went out on the street recently to ask people if they knew the faces of the vice presidents and hillary and trump. people didn't know who they were. what was this yesterday? >> hillary clinton's running mate, tim kaine, was at a campaign event in florida. he was campaigning for hillary clinton. but uh-oh, he had to explain who he was because people thought he was mike pence. >> listen to this. >> in fact, they had -- >> i'm the other one. i'm kaine. not pence. i'm the other one. >> that cracks me up. the other one. >> how is that? he wanted to interrupt that person i'm sure. >> finally, i saw this, this morning. i could not believe it. we're talking about one of the stars from beverly hills 9021-old. >> move over gq.

the cover of aarp is steaming up social media. 90210 hottie, luke perry, just turned 50. he's on the cover. a lot of ladies were buying the magazine. >> a lot of people are getting panicked. he was in high school for ten years. >> somebody said luke perry is on the cover of aarp and i'll be sobbing into my metamucil. >> you have to remember -- >> he looked great. >> he was 30 on the show acting like they were high school students. >> this proves that 50 is the new 30. >> someone will be 30 soon, i don't know who. >> nobody on this couch. >> let's talk about the one artist i can relate to. we both came up through dance. beyonce. >> that's great. a virginia police officer dances to beyonce. take a look at this. it's fantastic and a lot of the kids went wild over this video.

♪ ♪ his name is deante' dig. he's a motivational speaker also. >> motivational dancer. >> he riled up the crowd. >> i love it when police officers dance. remember the one of the guy at the convenience store in front of the -- >> a lot of them try. god bless them. >> that's great. >> don't need a cop to dance. keep law and order. >> are you jealous? >> right. a little bit. absolutely a little bit. >> i'm amazed at his flexibility in that outfit. >> now it's time to tease what's coming up. brian is going to be twerking for us. >> still not appropriate. i apologize. >> i'm heading out. >> 115 on sirius. you have another job. thanks, carley.

still ahead on this monday, another late night wikileaks document dump shows what hillary clinton really thinks about the american people. but will any of it stick? when he found out foreign workers were set to take his job, he went to then senator hillary clinton for help. what did she do? nothing. he's here with the story of political betrayal straight ahead. can't see it. can't taste it.

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hillary clinton portrays herself as a candidate who is ready to take on wall street. but in her private big bang speeches, that were revealed by wikileaks, she says kind of the opposite. like these remarks to goldman sachs in 2013. i'll read now. i would like to see more

successful people run for -- business people run for office. i really would like to see that because i do think, you know, you don't have to have $30 billion, but you have a certain level of freedom. here is the co-founder and co-chairman of -- democrat strategies rich fowler. rich fowler, are you surprised by this remark? >> here's the thing. i think that this is really the -- wikileaks continues to sort of influence our elections in a very, very awful way. i don't care if you're democrat or republican. the fact that we have foreign entities influencing our elections by releasing private e-mails, it's disgusting. i agree. having said that, the speeches coming out, the sanders supporters out there right now, can you blame them with if they're red-faced? >> no, you can't blame them at all. i think at this point in time of the election, when you look at the ground, you look at all the most recent polling, these

numbers and polling in -- it's not going to have the impact that folks think it will it in the upcoming election. that's a reality. >> does it bother you behind one closed door eric is different from when the doors are open and hillary clinton is giving speeches about the evils of wall street to wall street when she sounds anything like she's addressing the devil? >> her rhetoric is what we should be focused on, not the sourcing of it. the sourcing we want to know. her rhetoric is important like donald trump's is important. she should be called out on that. she also says she wanted open borders and also said that a certain -- was backwards. you have to look at the way she's going to govern the country and what she says in private is not the same thing she says in public. that's an important trait for our leaders. >> rich, a lot of people were very happy to get three pages of donald trump's tax return which a lot of people says was hacked. no one knows who actually gave it up. so people, if you're going to say okay, i'd love to read

donald's tax returns, but you can't say wikileaks is out of bounds, correct? >> donald's tax returns came from somebody at trump tower. >> we don't know. like people say -- >> i mean, number two, here's the problem with the e-mail stories. the other gentleman talked about the criticism of catholicism. that didn't come from hillary clinton. that came from a staffer. which is why this story is uber conflated. they're conflating all these e-mail stories into one big ball of e-mail mess. that's what's problematic for the american people. you can't decipher between the two. not saying that the e-mails are problematic. but you can't decipher between the two. it makes it hard to understand. >> the strong counter argument except for john podesta is on that chain. >> that's not hillary clinton. >> but that's a hillary clinton key adviser. >> eric, let's talk about this. we know donald trump has been making it clear, he's extremely worried that this election is rigged. and there's some outrage because of it.

here's brian stelter of cnn. >> the real danger here is that when trump lies to sfupporters about others trying to steal the election, some of his supporters believe him. mr. trump, think of your children. america is great partly because everyone accepts the results of elections. for decades in the past and hopefully nor decades to come. inventing a conspiracy theory is no way to make america great again. >> if he thinks of his children today, do you think he won't say that? do you agree it's extremely dangerous? >> no, i don't. look, there's government accountability that we need to hold in a higher standard. we don't trust the media or our government agencies. to say we're going to accept the media's reporting on certain issues and certain topics, it's not -- >> that's insane. that's insane. wait, wait wait, wait. let me correct the record, brian, if i can.

wait a minute, wait a minute. there's 50 states. >> i tell you what -- >> there's 50 states and every state runs their election and every state runs their election with integrity. behind me in this capitol, the speaker of the house, paul ryan said the same thing on friday. if donald trump goes around talking about the government is quote-unquote rigging the election, he's condemning every secretary of state across the entire -- >> there's no cyber security issues on -- seven or eight tests about different rates of -- >> let's work together and fix the election. not condemn it. >> government. >> there's -- i do. when i say government -- [ overlapping talking ]. >> just like speaker ryan does. >> we'll see. >> guys, thanks so much. we'll have you back again. we have this thing called election day to count down until. thanks, guys. coming up straight ahead, when he found out foreign workers were set to take his job, he went to then senator

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this sounds like an absolute nightmare. you show up to your job and someone from another country is there to take your job and, guess what, you have to train them, and show them how to do it. that's what's happening to a lot of people around our country, including mike emmons, which he

wrote to senator clinton to help him, she says she chose to stand with the foreign company instead because they line her pocket book. mike joins us now. good morning, mike. >> good morning. thank you for having me. >> you are welcome. tell us your story, mike. what happened to you? >> well, back in 2002, i was working as a contractor, doing quite well, and then siemens decides to replace us with foreign workers, in comes 25 india workers. i had to train them. i paid attention to it. speaking out a little bit. got in a news here. we had an emmy nominated series on a local channel. i took it on to representatives and senators and i heard that hillary clinton was going to

speak at tata's grand opening in their buffalo office. i contacted them. sent them all kinds of information. talked to them on the phone and they did nothing. they chose to side with the foreign company. >> why would siemens do this? is it cheaper to hire people from other companies? >> yes, with the h 1 b visa, there's no salaries constraints and quantity limits. we learned our replacements were making $2,000 a month and they were nontaxable expenses. >> i thought you were only allowed to get a visa and work here in america if no one else could to that job. what is your message for the people who are supporting her? >> well, i don't think -- in 14 years i've been watching this and there's no chance she's going to create jobs for americans. she and bill clinton have been pushing jobs for india.

bill clinton got 260,0$260,000 hcl. hcl was the company that replaced the disney workers in orlando here. they don't care about this. >> in the wikileaks emails this morning, one of the campaigners talked about take the money. taking money from foreign governments. is that more important to your life and other people who lost their jobs too? >> it sure looks like it. >> what are your friends saying? are other people speaking out? . most people are afraid to speak out because they will get black balled from the industry. i chose to speak up and stand tall and do what i believe in. >> i'm sorry you had to go through that. wish you all the best. a fox news alert now, it is being called political terrorism. a republican headquarters destroyed after being fire bombed. look at that. the latest on this investigation from north carolina coming up

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good monday morning to you and your family. it's october 17th. we start with you. it is a fox news alert. a republican headquarters vandalized and fire bombed. >> this is a horrific, horrific act of political terrorism. >> the latest on the investigation in north carolina just moments away. from how she make her money to her health, hillary clinton says it's no big deal but the wikileaks email tell a different story. the brand-new bomb shells you are waking up to on this monday morning. act now while supplies last. the gun shop offering a huge prehillary sale because her executive order banning guns takes effect. gun sales are booming these days. wake up everyone. it's still dark but your mornings are better because you

are with friends. ♪ this is going to be a very busy week for us. we've got the debate in the desert. we're all going out to las vegas tomorrow and i looked it up. we will be landing at the las vegas airport which is at 5757 wayne newton boulevard. >> wow. >> we'll have to get him on the show. >> i think we will. do you expect a huge throng of people to greet you when you land? >> no. absolutely not. >> las vegas. i haven't been there in a while. i think it was a fight the last time i went there. >> if you haven't, you can gamble in the airport. you get off the plane and there are slot machines right in your face. >> do you recommend you do that? >> i recommend you don't do that. i think you should go get some sleep. our show starts at 3:00 a.m. eastern time. >> i'm not going to acknowledge the time zone change. >> that will be great. >> live from his bed. >> oh, please.

we're all excited about ithris the moderator. first time somebody from fox news has moderated a general election debate. we're very proud of him. he's one of best in the business and you'll see it all right h e here. >> i wouldn't be surprised that he took some of the questions that we have asked in the last two years in the election process and use them in the debate. >> we would be shocked. looking forward to that las vegas trip. we start right now with a fox news alert. and politically related. a republican headquarters vandalized and fire bombed in north carolina. take a look at these images. torching the entire office, including trump signs and possibly absentee ballots. he tweeted, animals representing

hillary clinton and dems in north carolina just fire bombed our office in orange county because we are winning. he says it won't stop them. >> this is a horrific, horrific act of political terrorism. >> well, he will join us live in the 8:00 hour. important to know, we don't know who is responsible for that yet but investigators are looking into it. happening right now, an all-out assault to take back the city of mosul from isis in iraq. it's the second largest city. this battle is considered a pivotal move to take out the brutal terror group. thousands of iraqi and kurdish forces moving in overnight launching an operation in the making months and months now. the u.s. playing a major role in this. doing air raids and providing military assistance to the peshmerga forces. still ahead, lieutenant general

michael flynn is here and he will give us his viewpoint. a manhunt for a armed and dangerous police shooter intensifying this hour as an alaskan police sergeant fights for his life. police are looking for this man seen in a dashcam video. he's walking toward the patrol car moments before opening fire. he shot the sergeant multiple times before stealing the cruiser. get your guns for cheap. a las vegas gun shop advising a -- advertising a pre-hillary sale. the latest polls show clinton with a 6 point lead in that battleground state. >> it's going to be tough for him but he's been in contention. turning now to the race for

the white house, it is the final countdown! >> something like that. two days out from the third and final debate in the desert in one of the most dramatic elections in american history. trust me, it is. donald trump is doubling down on claims that the election is rigged for her. >> john roberts has never sang during an update. i don't think it will happen now. hi, john. >> hey, john. >> it's not going to happen this morning. good morning. i can't wait for steve to wake up in vegas with a mike tyson tattoo and a white tiger in his hotel room. >> as long as i don't wake up on saturday on the roof of sees sar's palace. donald trump made the case effectively to his supporters during the primary campaign that the entire political system was rig against him. that the parties were running

things and ted cruz was stealing dell gattle and now he's saying the same thing was happening to bernie sanders. he says not just the parties are rigged, but the election is rigged. the election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing crooked hillary, but also at the polls, sad. he has been encouraging his supporters to go out there on the polls on november 8th and watch for anything that might be amiss. now, the republican party is beginning to worry about this because they are thinking that it could suppress voter turnout. yesterday on the sunday shows, his running mate mike pence will be out there to walk it back and say of course we have faith in the electoral process. >> we will absolutely accept the results of the election. the american people are tired of the obvious bias in the national media. that's where the sense of a rigged elect goes here. we're going to accept the will of the american people but between now and election day

we're going to work our hearts out against all odds. against most of you in the national media. we're going to lay out a story for a stronger, more prosperous america. >> donald trump spent almost all of yesterday out of his home in new jersey and engaged in debate prep almost the entire day. he will be heading to the green bay, wisconsin, you might remember on the fifth of august, he stood up there and endorsed paul ryan for re-election in his primary. now he's at war with paul ryan. tweeting out paul ryan, a man who doesn't know how to win, including failed run four years ago, that was the 2012 election, must start focusing on the budget, military, vets, et cetera. then this tweet, wow, interview released by wikileaks, shows quid pro quo, in crooked hillary email probe. such dishonest person and paul ryan does zilch. hillary clinton is up by 7

points in wisconsin. the last time a republican won was in 1984, with ronald reagan. it's going to be busy here on fifth avenue, an hour from now. a coalition of elected women, planned parenthood will assemble here outside of trump tower to hold a press conference denouncing donald trump for everything regarding his treatment of women. never a dull moment. >> thank you very much. meanwhile, rudy giuliani was out on the sunday shows -- remember that famous saying about politics in chicago. vote early, vote often. well, rudy giuliani has been around for a long time and he's seen it all, and to the campaign meme that the election is rigged for her, he's talking a little bit about how a lot of dead people are going to be voting for hillary. watch. >> i'm sorry.

dead people generally vote for democrats rather than republicans. i remember in my own election about 60 dead people voted. i can't sit here and tell you that they don't cheat, and i know because they control the polling places in these areas. there are no republicans. that is very hard to get people there who will challenge votes. >> how does that happen? i mean, we all know -- we've heard this happening in election after election, that dead people are voting. how do they do that? >> well, the death certificate is not filed or it's never registered or the state drops the ball and next thing you know it pops up there. >> ballots are sent to their houses and their families send it to them. >> how do you do that? >> there are a variety of ways that you could commit voter fraud, but rude diddy -- rudy in particular say in philadelphia,

that's where people control the whole process. >> newt gingrich, do you remember 1960 when texas and illinois won for john kennedy mostly understood it shouldn't have? i do understand people feeling uneasy with a very emotional election. whoever wins and loses not going along with the final verdict. just like people upset with al gore, saying listen, you lost florida, if you keep holding out to recount, it makes people doubt the electoral system. >> that's because he conceded and took it back. it was a very tenuous time. more from wikileaks -- by the way, we should point out that julian assange's internet access has been cut off by what they are referring to as a state party. we don't know who that is. you be the judge. >> but joe biden had a smile on his face yesterday and indicated maybe he's doing something. >> the latest batch came out yesterday. it was the ninth batch that was

john podesta's email. >> what this is about is the day after hillary announced that she was going to be running for president, her empire staff, lawyers, campaign people were right to figure out should she accept donations from foreign entities and foreign agents and whatnot like that? >> by the way, the legal answer is no. >> no, actually the legal answer was the lawyers went through it and said yes, even though it looks terrible. >> right. >> so, many people have been criticizing her for taking money from foreign governments that abuse women. here are some of the emails her staffers sending back and forth. this is robby mook says i'm okay with just taking the money and dealing with any attacks. are you guys okay with that? >> are you saying a foreign government can give money to an individual campaign. >> there's certain laws you have to follow. >> so the communications director said this. this is the quote of the day. >> take the money!

take the money! >> here's the problem, while this was going on in hillary clinton's campaign, she had no idea it was happening. >> people are asking her out open the campaign trail. you took money from foreign governments. i did? she can't say that. >> on april 23rd, between huma and robby mook, hillary read in the paper that we're taking fara money. she doesn't want to? he asks. and huma says she just didn't know that we had decided to accept it. so hillary did not know what we have decided for her campaign. >> some people behind the scenes are making decisions for her because she has no clue. >> absolutely. >> by the way, if you notice the momentum is picking up. more and more substance involved with a lot of fluff. more and more substance, so things are getting more intense with the leaks the closer we're getting to elenction day -- election day. i think it's getting more and

more interesting. i think they are doing everything in the world to stop it. >> is it cooperated by julian assange? >> whatever he's doing. he does massive dumps -- >> but it seems as the emails are getting juicier and juicier. >> don't be surprised if we see some of those emails that got deleted. it could happen. >> 22 days of all this, guys. >> i know it. just getting good. 7:13 here in new york city. bomb shell allegations of quid pro quo. did the state department try to make a deal with the fbi over hillary clinton's email? that is stunning. we'll thank you the news. and hash tag refugees welcome. the social media movement from the government and the backlash this morning. when cold and flu hold you back try theraflu expressmax, now in new caplets. it's the only cold & flu caplet that has a maximum strength formula

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former deputy chief of missions in tripoli greg hicks joins us right now. as we try to unwind the wikileaks leaks, it looks like some fbi agents were approached by patrick kennedy to change classifications on an email. who is he and why would he do something like this? >> thanks. patrick kennedy is probably the most powerful man in the state department. he controls everything related to the operation of the state department itself and our embassies overseas. that means information security, technology, contracts, acquisitions, budget, personnel, assignments, promotions and the foia office as the state department. the articles allegations are certainly within his authority. >> so he would approach an fbi agent to reclassify an email that maybe would look bad if it was on someone's private server that there may be using

classified information and sending it back and forth. if you declassify it it looks benign even if it is classified information, correct? >> that's right. unclassified information on an unclassified machine is perfectly fine. although there are still some issues related to that. mrs. clinton ordered all of her employees not to use their private email accounts for business while she went ahead and did so. >> the other thing is there's word that maybe if this fbi agent does this, there's going to be positions for them overseas, so if that linkage took place and they can prove that, how big a deal is it? >> i think it's a big deal, and i would like to -- i hope that congress will take a look at it. i think chairman chaffetz is certainly going to be calling for hearings on this matter as soon as the congress recon

veens. >> you are so right. this is a flashing red light of potential criminality. he's read into this and looking at it straight up himself. the fbi says this statement. the classification of the email was not changed and it remains classified today.ever a quid pr these allegations were nonetheless referred to the appropriate officials for review. man, that james comey seems to be putting his hand over a boiling pot. some very aggravated agents. i'm curious to see if a whistle-blower will come forward like you did. thanks so much for joining me, greg. >> thanks so much. pleasure to be here. >> straight ahead. cowboys and indians were called racists, then it was cops and robbers, and now banning could you -- cow girls from toy shelves. donald trump with weeks away from election. can he pull off the upset? taking off his shoes? i guess he no longer has to pay

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and four hours, that's how long it took arizona firefighters stuck inside a chimney. he was trying to get inside after forgetting his keys. he was covered in soot. i can sake that on tv. >> i hope so. brexit vote. >> brexit is going to happen because i have a lot of property there. brexit is going to happen. they all laughed. they said donald trump is going to happen. isn't he ridiculous? anyway, three days later, the vote for brexit happened. >> now a new abc news washington post poll reveals that donald trump is within striking distance of hillary clinton. as we near the election, could we be seeing a repeat of what happened in the eu and brexit? >> good morning to you. >> so the polls are shockingly close. some of them are. considering how much of the mainstream media has dumped on him. >> some of them are.

you got to the poll. i think the fox poll at 7 is where it is. we should make a commitment today. no more nationwide polling on these shows because the nationwide numbers don't matter. all that matters is florida, ohio, and pennsylvania. trump is 1.0 -- >> the rest of the country is going to feel left out. >> i know, they won't tune in. i apologize for ratings. it's only a half dozen states, north carolina, nevada, that's all that matters right now. in those states he's behind but only by a few points. >> what does he need to do in the debate this week? >> i'm going to give you a five-point proposal. you can do a checklist and see the day after whether he does it. number one. i said this on the show twice now. a forensic audit of the federal budget. the number one issue the american people have right now is ending wasteful washington spending forever. only a businessman like trump can do a forensic audit point by point, program by program with genuine accountability.

he needs to announce the people he would appoint as secretary of state, secretary of defense and treasury secretary, those are the areas that the public cares about most. >> is there a reason they can't do that? >> there is. you are not supposed to be able to make a promise, but he can mention -- >> guys like -- >> people like x. >> number three, he needs to talk about hillary clinton in terms of more than three decades in washington, d.c., did you get the change you want? did you get the change you deserve? but it's decades. not years. three decades is stronger than 30 years. number four is that he really has to lay off the conversation about women. i know he feels defensive and he feels put upon. when you are president, you are going to be attacked for a lot of things. he's not winning when he's defending. he needs to move off of that, and number five, it is an issue of change. it is an issue of which one of us do you think is going to

shake up washington to its very core? which one of us? ask a rhetorical question which is something that donald trump never does. ask a rhetorical question, who do you think is better able to bring about change that the american people deserve and hold washington accountable? you do all five of those points, he wins the debate and wins the election. >> does he need to say anything to women? >> he needs an humble apology. you look straight at the camera and say not just i'm sorry, but i ask for your forgiveness and i will seek to earn it in the months and years that follow. when you say to someone i want to earn your respect, i want to earn your trust, that communicates sincerity. >> i was with frank doing the focus group in st. louis and after he made the explanation and the apologized such as it was in st. louis, your entire group flipped.

>> right. >> like you've never seen it before. >> they still wanted something. they felt he read from a teleprompter. they felt like it wasn't emotional. you speak from the heart and you say i'm sorry, let me earn your forgiveness, and that starts to change things. i want to mention one thing while i'm on. >> that is a nice neck tie. >> this is a neck tie, this is about breast cancer. we're doing everything to raise awareness. i want to thank tanya, i'm watching all the players wear the pink cleats on. she's made an impact every mom, daughter, sister, needs to get checked. she's done an amazing job on breast cancer awareness. >> you mentioned, there was a big run through new york city yesterday. a lot of people went pink as well. >> frank, thank you. straight ahead on this monday, breaking right now, an all-out assault in iraq to take

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are we up against and are we actually fighting? connor powell is live in jerusalem live with details. are we shooting or are we advising? >> we're doing a little bit of both. the u.s. military kicked off this operation this morning with artillery and also air strikes. u.s. has obviously been conducting air strike across both iraq and syria for months now, but this operation got under way about 4:00 in the morning local time after prime minister abaddi announced it had begun. once the sun rose, security forces began to push into mow -- mow -- mosul. they are nowhere going into the city where they are expected to be 3 or 5,000 or so isis fighters up against 80,000 or so iraqi security forces.

this fight will take some time, but this is the last town that isis holds, and they have lost tikrit, fallujah and ramadi. how long is the big question. >> thank you very much. live report from our middle east newsroom. what does this mean? is mosul about to full out of a dust bowl? who gets it? lieutenant general michael flynn is here. what should we know about the mosul clash? >> first of all, we have a great military commander owing in lieutenant general steve townsend. if people were concerned in the united states of america about who we have leading this particular fight, they don't have to be. he's one of our best. i would tell you that the complexity of mosul is probably -- it's much greater than baghdad, even though there's fewer people. there's a couple million people in mosul, but the complexity of

kurds, shia, sunni, other aspects of the make up of the demographics on the ground is very dynamic. you are going to find it's not so much the assault on mosul and whatever -- god hope there's not that many casualties. it's going to be what's next, what's the day after look like. >> i knew you grew up as a dem, but you are supporting donald trump. why are you supporting him? >> i think we've gotten ourselves in a place in iraq and you see what happened in yemen and syria, we have sort of an unraveling of the middle east and it's happened over the last couple years because we've given ourselves fewer options to be able to do the kind of things we need to do. so i think that in donald trump's case, what we're really looking at is making sure that we're dealing with the right countries in order to solve this problem and some of those countries are countries like egypt, jordan, and others in the

middle east that see the future of the region going to pot. i think that what we have to do is we have to work with the arab nations as much as we're working with nato and iraq, and i will tell you at the end of the day, the big victor here in mosul is likely iran. that's -- >> their commanders are on the ground. we're actually doing the fighting to give this city really to iran. >> once it's all said and done, i think that the shia, which is the iranian-backed component of the iraqi government right now, i think they are going to be the big winners here. >> the whole premise from the united states' point of view is stop them over there so they don't come over here. >> yeah. >> you know, isis-inspired was as it turn out what happened in san bernardino. >> and orlando. and new york. >> before we knew that, chris hayes over at msnbc tweeted this out, he said nbc news now reporting a u.s. citizen named

sayed farouk believed to be one of the people involved in the shooting. and from wikileaks, better if a guy named sayeed farouk was reporting that a guy name christopher hayes was the shooter. >> that's sad. that's very disparaging. sadly what we're going to see is that when we conduct these atta we're going to continue to see this rise of our own problems right here in the homeland. so the infiltration of radical islamism inside the homeland is very true and that kind of commentary -- believe me, the people that are our enemies, they are going to see that and they are going to respond to that kind of stuff. >> general, the thing is maybe you are not at the dia right now because you told them because bin laden is dead, and operatives are in gitmo and others are dead, that the threat is actually worse and more

dangerous. they just got rid of you, and now we're seeing that they just wanted to change it as well as the daily briefing the president was getting was sanitized. that was the same mentality. >> the issue of bin laden keeps coming up in the campaign here. we've killed zarkawi, bin laden, a lot of these guys are dead. the problem continues to rise because it's an ideology that we are facing that we really have not come to grips to understanding and the ideology ideology we're facing is this ideology of radical islamism. it's more than 30 countries around the world. it's right here at home and i keep reminding people that the fbi still has roughly a thousand cases pending dealing right here in the homeland against this type of threat. so -- >> does donald trump get that? >> yeah. he absolutely gets that. the problem we're facing is not going to be solved in the attack

into mosul over the next couple of days. we have to deal with this ideology for a long time and until we come to grips with it, i mean we're going to be facing it. it's beyond san bernardino and it's orlando, new york, minneapolis, wherever, wherever this problem exists, and it exists here at home. >> general, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. heather has some headlines for us. >> we've been following this wikileaks story today and it's developing right now. that organization, wikileaks says that someone is trying to silence its founder, julian assange as he vows to release tens of thousands of new emails that he says will sink hillary clinton's campaign. wikileaks tweeting this overnight. julian assange's internet link has been intentionally severed by a state party. we've activated the appropriate contingency plans. that announcement comes hours after the hacktivist group posted cryptic tweets that led some to believe that assange was dead. this is developing. we'll bring you the latest

details. department of homeland security getting called out online for this tweet. it says we can and will continue to ensure our safety while doing our share to welcome those fleeing terrorism and violence. #refugeeswelcome. many on line were outraged on that tweet, slamming the obama administration, claiming to keep us safe and critics say they are failing to fully vet refugees inside our borders. violence is so out of hand that they are banning gifts under your christmas tree. the strict new law banning all realistic-looking toy guns, violators could be slapped with a $750 fine and up to six months behind bars.

that's something similar here in new york. i try to buy my little boys some realistic guns. can't buy them at home? i can't do that. >> that was a real gun that i had. i was four. >> it was not a real gun. >> i asked for the real one. my mom told me it was real. >> amazon now officially the toy police. >> unbelievable. >> could you imagine? >> walk away. fox news alert, it's being called political terrorism. a republican party headquarters fire bombed. we're live in d.c. with the very latest. and a bold prediction from newt gingrich. >> i think about the one-ending one-sided news news media, trump would be beating hillary clinton by 15 points. is he right, i ask? "driving my life away" by eddie rabbit

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mckay. the internet went bad. >> they made him look old. >> he's 50. >> that's not old. >> wasn't he 50 when he was supposed to be in high school on the show? >> 30. we have a fox news alert to tell you about. a gop headquarters was vandalized and fire bombed, look at that, in north carolina. >> donald trump signs and possibly even absentee ballots torched in what some are calling political terrorism. kristen fisher is live in d.c. with new precautions they are now taking. >> north carolina's governor is calling this an attack on our democracy while the executive director of the state's republican party says this is an act of political terrorism. listen to what he said last night while standing in front of their burned-out headquarters.

>> this is a horrific, horrific act of political terrorism. let me be clear. the orange county republican party and all of the north carolina republican party will be open for business and doing the business of a political party tomorrow morning. we will not be scared. we will not be frightened. >> but these images are frightening. look at what's left of the orange county republican party's headquarters in hillsborough, north carolina, after it was fire bombed. someone reportedly threw a bottle of flammable liquid through the front window of the office which you can see is a total loss. fortunately no one was hurt. but the state party executive director says a couch that volunteers often sleep on was burned down to the springs. can you imagine if someone was there? an adjacent building was spray

painted that reads nazi republicans get out of town or else. this happens in one of the critical battleground states three weeks before elect day. politicians across the political spectrum were quick to condemn it. hillary clinton says the attack on the orange county headquarters office is horrific and unacceptable. very grateful that everyone is safe. as for donald trump, he's placing the blame on his opponent. animals representing hillary clinton and dems in north carolina just fire bombed our office in orange county because we are winning. now the people who did this have not been caught, so there's still a great deal of concern. security checks are now being conducted at all republican offices in north carolina, but as for the orange county headquarters, the one that was fire bombed, they have brought in a mobile bus to serve as a temporary office. they say it's monday morning. they are back to business. almost as usual. brian and ainsley and steve. >> thank you very much. >> glad no one was in there at the time. goodness. next on our rundown, newt

gingrich knows why hillary clinton is leading in the polls. >> i think that without the unending one-sided assault by the news media, trump would be leading hillary by 15 points. >> is he right? we'll debate it. back in 1998, the bare naked ladies were topping the charts with "one week." i spent many years as a nuclear missile launch officer. if the president gave the order we had to launch the missiles, that would be it. i prayed that call would never come. [ radio chatter ] self control may be all that keeps these missiles from firing. [ sirens blearing ] i would bomb the [ beep] out of them. i want to be unpredictable. i love war. the thought of donald trump with nuclear weapons scares me to death. it should scare everyone. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message.

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overwheming display of media bias. without the unending assault by the news media, trump would be beating hillary by 15 points. what do you think about that? joining us now is molly hemingway. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> newt says trump would be up by 15 points -- 15% without the mainstream media. what do you think about that? >> well, there's no question that the media are playing a huge role in this election and they have for quite some time. they gave trump billions of dollars in free and largely friendly media coverage to ensure that he got the nomination and now that he has it, they are working overtime to tear him down. it's not just that they are so hostile to trump. they are very friendly with the clinton campaign. you can't read the wikileaks without seeing a general environment of coziness and comfort with the clinton campaign. newt gingrich is right, it is playing a huge role in the this election. i don't know if he's right about

the numbers though. >> it dds look like the mainstream media is working with the clinton machine to defeat him. >> this is a problem that republicans have no matter running as a candidate. they are a little bit friendlier to the democrats. donald trump made the case that he alone could defeat the media and hillary clinton. he should not have been surprised that they would become hostile toward him once he had wrapped up the nomination. >> when was the last time we saw this kind of piling on? i mean, it really is extraordinary. >> well, four years ago it was pretty bad too. i don't know if you remember how the media treated mitt romney, making a huge deal of him talking about trying to recruit women with his binders full of women. that was a major talking point for a while. >> you know, that was a bump in the road compared to what trump has been going through. >> this is just a hysteria that's unhinged. it's difficult to watch the

media when they are so emotionally invested hillary clinton. it's bad for their credibility as well. once this election is over, people will have less reason to trust national media and their inability to cover things. >> are people paying as much attention to the mainstream media as they used to? >> it's completely out of control and hysterical with the polling numbers to show it's not having as much of an effect as you would think with that level of media coverage. i think you are seeing a lot of people have tuned out the media. they are unable to follow a lot of it. polling is already showing that trust in the media is at historic lows. >> exhibit a. molly, thank you very much. think hillary clinton ever struggled with the idea of taking foreign cash. turns out she never got the

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think hillary clinton ever struggled with the idea of taking foreign cash. it turns out she never got the chance to struggle with the idea about foreign cash because they are staff decided to take the money and not tell her and run, so to speak. it is monday. you are going to have to wear something. whatever you see, grab it. you are already late and your mornings are better with friends. we hope you had a great weekend and got some rest. we have a lot of news to cover this morning. >> can you believe so -- two major polls so diametrically different? who are we to believe? >> it depends on who they talk to, how it all shakes out. ultimately, we'll find out just a couple of tuesdays from now. >> 22 more days. that's still a lot of time when it comes to politics. >> we thought the first debate was the most important, now i'm convinced the third debate is the most important. >> she won the first one.

he won the second one. coming in the desert, it will be a tiebreaker. >> it will be the thrilla in manila in vegas. we start out with a fox news alert right now. a republican headquarters vandalized and fire bombed in north carolina. the explosive torching of that entire office. take a look at this. it includes some donald trump signs and possibly absentee ballots. trump responding on twitter, quote, animals representing hillary clinton and dems in income just fire bombed our office in orange county because we are winning. we have no evidence to report it's democrats or hillary clinton, but investigators will look into that. the executive director, dallas woodhouse says that attack will not stop them. >> this is a horrific, horrific act of political terrorism.

>> he joins us live in a few moments. stick around for that. breaking right now, overseas, an all-out assault against ooises -- isis to take back the city of mosul. thousands of iraqi and kurdish forces moving in overnight. our producers on the ground there saying seven villages have now been retaken by coalition forces. the u.s. providing air support and military advice. lieutenant general michael flynn joining us earlier on the show. he says he believes donald trump is a better candidate to handle these types of situations. >> we have sort of an unfolding or an unraveling of the middle east and it's happened over the last couple of years because we've given ourselves fewer options to be able to do the kinds of things we need to do. i think in donald trump's case, what we're really looking at is making sure that we're dealing with the right countries in order to solve this problem.

>> that battle is considered a pivotal move in taking out isis. zblp iran fueling the already escalating tensions with the united states. the iranian hardline media releasing a new video. take a look at this. it shows the first images of a detained american iranian businessman since his arrest last october. the video also shows iranian's humiliating our u.s. sailors on their knees after they were detain in january. it also shows other clips of a drone flying over a u.s. aircraft carrier. all of this happening after the obama administration came to a nuclear agreement with iran and sent that country billions of dollars in cash payments. finally, colin kaepernick gets a cold welcome in buffalo. bills fans showing their patriotic pride. as the quarterback starts his first game since the national

protest. >> usa! usa! >> kaepernick taking a knee again during the anthem. right behind him, a police officer saluting the flag. when he took the field, fans let kaepernick have it. as for the game it was all bills. they crushed the 49ers, 45-16. crushed. good work for that. those are your headlines. turning now to the race to the white house, it is the final countdown. >> we're two days out from the third and final debate from the desert in one of the most dramatic elections in american history. donald trump is doubling down. he says the system is rigged against him. >> we want to see if hillary clinton will submit to a drug test and also whether john roberts has got the stamina.

>> i got the stamina and i passed the drug test when i got hired by fox news. down the street, there's a protest press conference, coalition of women's groups, people from planned parenthood, the national organization for women holding a press conference out here to denounce the comments that donald trump has made about women, to talk about what has come out in the last 72 hours. but donald trump really is doubling down as you said over the weekend on this idea that the election is rigged. this is something that he floated back in the primary campaign, that it was the party that was against him. now he's suggesting that it's the media, hillary clinton against him, as well as this is going to be reflected in the polls, that you can't trust what happens in the polls. here's what he said over the weekend. the election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing crooked hillary but also at the polls. capital s.a.d., sad. for several weeks he's been suggesting that his supporters should go out to the polls on november 8th and make sure

there's no funny business going on. yesterday, his running mate, mike pence dialed that back. he said no, we have absolute faith in what the results are going to be. the system is rigged. where it's rigged is in the biased media and their apparent support for hillary clinton. here's what he said yesterday. >> the american people are very, very troubled. once again, here we are in an election of such enormous magnitude in the life of this nation and once again the media is piling on with unsubstantiated claims as the headlines while they ignore an avalanche of hard evidence about corruption, pay-to-play, political favoritism emanating out of hillary clinton's years as secretary of state. >> donald trump is headed for wisconsin a little bit later on today. this is a place where back on august the 5th, he stood up in front of a crowd in green bay and threw his support behind paul ryan saying he endorses him for re-election. now he's at war with the speaker

of the house. tweeting, paul ryan, a man who doesn't know how to win, including failed run fou years ago, must start focusing on the budget, military, vets. wow, interview released by wikileaks, shows quid pro quo, in crooked hillary email probe. such a dishonest person and paul ryan does zilch. he's behind hillary clinton in wisconsin. we do have a crew at this little event going on just down the sidewalk here. the coalition of elected women. members of planned parenthood, national organization for women. we'll bring you what they say a little bit later on this morning. meantime, steve, brian, ainsley, back to you. >> john roberts down on the street. thank you very much. a lot of people are saying this election is rigged. one of them is rudy giuliani. he was on one of the sunday shows this weekend, talking about how both sides do it, he says. both sides are out there trying to get people to the polls that aren't supposed to be voting and

he said the democrats do it worse though, because if you look at certain states it's happening more and those are democratic-led states like pennsylvania. >> philadelphia. >> chicago, illinois. >> he was on and saying democrats are going and getting dead people to vote. watch this. >> i'm sorry. dead people generally vote for democrats rather than republicans. i remember in my own election, about 60 dead people voted, so i can't sit here and tell thaw they don't cheat, and i know because they control the polling places in these areas, there are no republicans. it's very hard to get people there who will challenge votes. >> so it looks like in a landslide hillary is going to wind up with a dead people vote. we asked you what you thought. the naacp sent me a voter registration form with my mother's name on it rmg her to register to vote.

one slight problem, she's been dead for 14 years. >> john says this. there is a very simple way to prevent dead people from voting. it's called photo identification. that's biased. it shows racism. >> none of the dead folks i know would vote for hillary. >> i was asking earlier, how is it happening? that first email is how it's happening. they are sending ballots to people's houses and if you want to fill it out for someone who is dead, i guess you can do it and send it in, which is wrong. i'm not saying you should do that. >> 40% of the electorate will have voted prior to election day. >> a lot of people. keep in mind, dead people watching right now. if you get caught, voter fraud. meanwhile, let's talk a little bit about something else we've learned from wikileaks. apparently the day hillary clinton declared she was going to run for president of the united states, her staff was trying to figure out should we take money, donations from those lobbying on behalf of foreign

governments. it's a loophole. so if government wants to funnel money into the american system, they have going to have to hire a lobbyist. >> it's corrupt. but you can do it if you find these loopholes. >> here's robby mook who is the campaign manager. >> i'm okay just taking the money, and dealing with any attacks. are you guys okay with that? jen palmeri, take the money. >> can we put jennifer's tweet up again? her mail back to him? >> take the money! >> exclamation point, exclamation point. >> to reiterate, you cannot take money from foreign governments. saudi arabia can't -- the king

can't write a check. >> it's all fungible. i'm saudi arabia. >> they could give money to that the clinton foundation. >> she filed -- she signed a paper saying that's not going to affect her policy. >> now i feel better. that's the very latest from the wikileaksers. >> he went to work one day and found out a foreign worker was taking his job. hes asked hillary clinton for help. what does she do? >> i talk to them on the phone and they did nothing. they chose to side with the foreign company. >> this morning, his message for america coming up. and look at this. a group of strangers stepping in to form a human chain when a car crashes and bursts into flames. that will make you feel good this morning. >> oh, my goodness. >> well, their help, their effort. ♪ a man attacked me in a parking garage.

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22 days until the election. where has the time gone? as we just told you new emails from wikileaks showed hillary clinton's staff had no problem taking foreign money and running

so to speak. here with more on this the author "clinton cash." author peter swhietser. it doesn't surprise you. >> it fits the pattern which is they are willing to take money from anyone pretty much at any time. you know, with we now know based on this internal review that came out on wikileaks that was done by simpson thatcher, they did an internal review of the clinton foundation, they said that donors were expecting a quid pro quo in exchange for their gifts. everything we assume or thought was the case a year and a half ago has been confirmed by these emails. >> what is the big surprise for you in terms of the people involved in this? i was a little taken aback that she didn't know. they didn't brief her on it. >> that's one of stunning things that comes out in this. these are emails that are her senior staff and there are so many times when she is supposed to meet with somebody or talk

with somebody and hillary simply says tell me when to call them and what to say. a lot of decisions are made without her input, and it just shows, i mean, this is a very staff-driven organization. this is not somebody who is in a sense calling the shots. she's relying on her staff what to say, when to say it, and to set her policy. >> peter, your book is a best seller. a ton of traction. they were almost obsessed with your book. were you surprised how often it came up? >> no. i was very surprised, and i think it shows that they are concerned most of all about this issue. there's all kinds of questions about both candidates, i think when it comes to hillary clinton, their obsesstive concern is precisely what "clinton cash" is about which is the flow of money and the flow of foreign money. one of my favorite emails that one of the aides is she talked about clinton cash and the

conversation did not go well. i took personal satisfaction out of it. >> guess who picked up on it. chelsea, she seemed upset about some of the things that seemed clumsy and irrational. >> that's exactly right. i think chelsea and doug, you have chelsea, and doug band who is the son that bill clinton never had essentially going to work at the clinton foundation. he had a lot of ancillary groups, flows of money. chelsea in a sense wanted to push him aside and try to, i don't know, clean up the foundation or bring her own people in to do the same thing, but fascinating insight into the game of thrones as it were going on in the clinton foundation. >> what are you looking for now? they seem to be getting more and more substantive, the more the releases are coming. what are you looking for? what should we be on the look out for since you do so much research on this? >> i think we should look in the emails for further granular evidence of who they are taking

money from and when. they are smart lawyers. they are not going to be explicit about it in the emails, but we'll get more detail about when the money flowed and why it flowed to the clinton foundation and the campaign. >> if we want to see your movie, how do we do it? >> you can good on youtube and type in clinton cash movie and the book is available. you also have a graphic novel. >> oh, okay. fantastic. although we're in the real-life world. we're in the real world right now and it seems like fiction but it's actually nonfiction. thank you so much. >> thanks, brian. a fox news alert, a north carolina republican headquarters destroyed in a fire bombing attack last night. dallas woodhouse he runs that party in that state. you see how upset he is. he says it's political terrorism. he and his brother joins you live. hillary clinton also condemns it in a tweet. bomb shell allegations in a quid pro quo, did the state department really try to make a secret deal with the fbi and why wear sunglasses indoors? ♪

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got a fox news alert. look at these maemgs. republican republican headquarters fire bombed in north carolina overnight. the attack being called an act of political terrorism. dallas woodhouse is the executive director of the north carolina republican party. along with his brother whon the other part of the aisle. what do we know about whoever threw that gas through the window? >> we don't know anything yet. that is our orange county headquarters which is about 40

miles west of raleigh. it is a total loss inside the building, but the most important thing is we did not have anybody killed. you know, these offices around elect time are occupied around the clock at times, and it's just god's grace that we didn't have anybody injured and that's the most important thing. >> who do you think is behind it, dallas? >> bad people. >> bad people. >> bad people are behind it, and people who -- i take it -- don't like republicans very much. don't like governor mccrory or senator burr or donald trump. i don't know who is behind it but they are not very nice people, and they have committed a federal crime. >> surely. >> the atf are investigating. >> you mentioned the governor, pat mccorey, he said the fire bombing is an act on terrorism on democracy. you would agree with that? >> i think it's a horrific act.

i associate myself with hillary clinton's tweet, it's a horrific act. it's zpik cabell and treshl -- terrible. it has no place in our politics. what i won't associate myself with steve is donald trump's tweet. >> let me put up the tweet so folks know what you are talking about. trump tweeted out animals representing hillary clinton and dems in north carolina just fire bombed our office in orange county because we are winning. north carolina gop. go ahead. >> i won't associate myself with that. even my brother won't go so far as to say these are supporters of hillary clinton and even democrats. no one knows who these people are. this could be teenagers. this could be a false flag situation. these could be supporters of donald trump. we don't know what -- >> let's not make that kind of speculation. [ multiple people speaking ] >> i don't think donald trump should be speculating that it was supporters of hillary

clinton, dallas. >> donald trump is not on the air with you this morning. >> i understand that. but i'm saying that i associate myself -- >> it's irresponsible for anybody to speculate who this is. >> exactly. i agree with that. [ multiple people speaking ] >> we're trying to help collect money to get this office back up and running for our orange county folks. our nc gop website. we're updating -- >> you guys one at a time. dallas, finish up. dallas. >> i was going to say you can visit our web page, the nc gop web page. we're collecting donations to help get the orange county office back up and running. i think my brother was going to point out that there is a democrat group that has also helped to raise money. we're assuming that's on the up and up. i'm not saying it's not -- i haven't seen anything about it, but we have had people across the aisle reach out and we

appreciate this. my brother and i are together on this that this has no place in our democracy and you may not like governor mccorey's tax policy but you shouldn't go blow-up a volunteer office over it. >> exactly right. >> and what's so ironic about it, steve, real quickly, is what was going on in that office just hours before this attack are the kinds of ways you should respond, calling voters, getting sample ballots together. advocating for your awses -- causes and beliefs. you didn't advocate for your cause by burning us down over there. you kept us from advocating for ours. not for long. we'll be up and running this morning. in that county, i understand, democrats outnumber republicans 5-to-1, so it's great that the democrats, brad, your side is extending the hand to try to get them back in business. >> yeah. absolutely. i think this go fund me page that us and democrats set up, i encourage people to go to the

north carolina gop site if that's where they prefer to help people these get back in business. that's the way to do it. not fire bombing. switching gears. country music legend randy travis accepting his place in the country music hall of fame when something amazing happened. ♪ amazing grace ♪ how sweet the sound ♪ >> what is going on there? the country music moment that will give you chills. we'll explain in a moment. accusations of a corrupt government. the sheriff known for law and order says it's time for pitch forks and torches. what was sheriff david clarke talking about? he will explain. coming up next. good morning, sheriff.

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all right. welcome back. 27 minutes before the top of hour. let's talk politics with milwaukee county sheriff david clarke who joins us live from milwaukee. hey, sheriff. >> good morning. >> when you talk about law and order, you think about donald trump right away and we saw james comey yesterday come out and say there is really not a race problem when it comes to law enforcement in this country. there's just too many videos out there that give a disproportionate view. is that how you feel? >> without a doubt. there's no data or research to suggest that our american law enforcement officers use a disproportionate amount of force

if you will toward criminal suspects and that's what we see first. we see crime, criminal. we don't see color. director comey is damaged with his pathetic involvement in not -- in the hillary clinton situation, with the emails and the secret server and the passing classified documents overan unsecured server for him to speak out on this right now it doesn't help us. i want to say this about what happened in north carolina too. iffic do this just for a second. if a voter registration drive set up by the naacp, an office was set up and fire bombed, you know darn well that the rhetoric would come out that it was donald trump involvement, he's responsible, republicans are responsible, with no foundation, so for that to happen on the other side i think is legitimate. i think it's a legitimate argument. >> that was your point in this tweet that you sent out. it's incredible that our institutions of government, white house, congress, doj, and

big media are corrupt, and all we do is blink. you said pitch forks and torches time. what do you mean by that? >> i meant the same thing that fredric douglas the abolitionist said, that the institution of slavery is an institute of brute force and it must be same weapons. barack obama says if they pull a knife, we'll pull a gun. during the entire summer, we had to talk about bernie sanders about the need for a revolution in america and the leftist media, fox not included. the leftist media had no problem with that, but all of a sudden when i talk about the corruption and a growing number of americans are fed up with this government. they feel that it no longer belongs to them. they no longer have any control over it. we're not a constitutional republican. we've become an administrative state. the constitution is being

shredded the rule of law doesn't matter for certain people in washington, d.c. and people have had it. i'm suggesting the same thing, the founding fathers did in the 1770s, when they drew up the declaration of independence. go back and read your declaration of independence. it's right there. were they insighting violence? no, what they wanted was self-ruled, they wanted a government controlled by the people and not the bureaucrats in washington. >> donald trump has been talking about how it looks like the system is rigged against him. that the mainstream media working with the clinton machine, talking about all the bad stuff, allegations about donald trump and they are completely for the most part glossing over wikileaks. do you see it that way? >> wholeheartedly. so does everybody else. anybody who doesn't have their head in the sand. look, the wikileaks stuff is very damaging and the liberal mainstream media, i call it big media now, they are in bed. there's evidence, there are email exchanges between the clinton campaign, "the new york

times," between others, that -- >> msnbc anchors. >> msnbc, right. it demonstrates that. donald trump has a good point. they have big media, they used to be the government watchdog, they are now the propaganda wing of the democrat party. >> so let's talk about what we find out. more and more people are saying this, it was a simmering kaled dron of fbi agents that worked on the hillary clinton investigation that are extremely upset by the overall and what james comey came out with and now we find that fbi was being coerced by patrick kennedy. the fbi responds to say this saying the classification of the emails was not exchanged and remains classified today, even

though there was never a quid pro quo. they were nonetheless referred to the appropriate officials. jason chaffetz is going to look into this. should he? >> of course. the higher-ups in that institution, they are corrupt. of course, they are going to deny it. look, that email that you are talking about is very damning and it should be looked at. the thing is this is another example. look at what happened with the irs when they starthd americans who had different political beliefs. all of our institutions of government have been infected by this corruption and so there's no surprise here and all they do is they sit up there and deny it, but look the american people are smart. i trust the american people. they are seeing right through this. this is a shame. this is a shameful period in american history. >> making it really tough. will donald trump be able to beat this? when all the mainstream media is for hillary clinton, it make it a little tough.

>> the third debate will be on wednesday. >> he will be able to beat it if he can get his people in the polls. there's a simmering under current of people who can't be captured in the polls. they have had with this crap too. we will see it on november 8th, if we get large numbers of people, either blacks stay home because they are disappointed with what's going on, maybe with both parties, if you can get a number of black voters to the polls to vote for him as well i think he can win this thing. they don't call him the comeback kid for nothing. >> thank you, sheriff. have a good day. good week. >> thank you. you too. 21 minutes before the top of the hour, still ahead, creepy clown sightings growing by the day we've been telling about them now spreading to nearly all 50 states. the trend even forcing one major retailer to pull clown costumes off the store shelves. >> even ronald mked from --

mcdonald's. and the whitewash the threat of radical islam, pete hegseth is next. >> come on in, pete. ♪

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>> we've got some quick headlines for you. first up, scared off the shelves, all those creepy clown sightings across the country are forcing target to pull clown masks from the stores and the company's website as well. if you want them, you can't buy them at target. they started at sightings but they have recently become violent in some cases. and bystanders and police form a human chain to save a

driver from a burning car after he flew off the highway and plunged into a ditch. as you can see, people rushing to help, pulling the driver on to the road and away from his flaming suv down in palm beach county, florida. it's unclear what caused the crash. the good news, thatten ma, the driver, he's okay. ainsley. thank you, steve. this morning, behind the scenes look at the attempt from the left to whitewash islamic extremism thanks to wikileaks. in an email in the wake of the san bernardino shooting, john podesta's who works for hillary clinton in her pain campaign, he comments, chris hayes put on twitter, he talked about the san bernardino shooter and he put that out on twitter, says the guy's name, which was sayed

farook. he said better if the guy named sayed farook was reporting that a guy name christopher hayes was the shooter. wow. pete hegseth joins us now to talk about this. that was shocking when i read it. >> shocking but incredibly revealing but telling the absolute mind set of the left. when something like this happens, they want to do anything possible to deny that it would have any tie whatsoever to islam, islamism, they won't use that work. it draws back to the president and it's a post modern secular view of the work that nobody would be so motivated by religion that they would kill with that cause. >> why are they pretending that does not exist? >> they have got a different view of mankind and future that doesn't comport. if we're all honest, a minute a shooting happens, we say okay, who is it going to be?

are we going to have a debate about guns or radical islam? you don't on email and say you wish it was this or wish it was that. they are more interested in the political agenda than the truth and especially when it comes to radical islam. it's not a religion of peace. it's a religion of submission. if you read the koran, you are understand there are violent paxings that motivate people just like peaceful passages to motivate people. they rfers to look at the past. >> we're not talking about the entire religion. these are the raledss. we cannot allow these radicals to come into our country, yet, hillary clinton wants to bring in 65,000 syrian refugees into this country, even though she has said you can't vet them. remember she said that three years ago. >> of course, because they won't see the threat. you help the moderate muslims when you call out the radical muslims. when you pretend they aren't radical muslims, then they get lumped together.

whose name is it? sayeed farook or christopher hayes. >> embrace the clinton-ness. our next guest voted for president obama in 2008 and has a pretty strong opinion about that kind of strategy talk. we'll find out what that is. let's check in with bill hemmer and martha mccallum. they are already in las vegas. >> no. we're not. it's a backdrop. >> when did you go out? >> yeah, we did. we're sourneded by paris, egypt, new york out there. we're here for the biggest moment in the campaign that we have really for the next 22 days which is the big debate that happens here live in las vegas. you can feel the energy that surrounds this big moment and it's coming a couple days from now. >> wikileaks is telling us more about the inside workings of

clinton's campaign. we'll tell you what we're finding inside of those documents. >> that terrible story out of north carolina. when you look at the pictures of the fire bombing at the republican headquarters in north carolina. it is just astonishing that this could happen. so all of that coming up when bill and i see you live from vegas. >> 4 days in vegas, what can go wrong? >> what can go wrong! >> see you at the top of hour, everybody. >> we'll see you then. millions of women worldwide trust tena with their bladder matters.

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i believe that says 22 days. yep, 22 days and thousands of emails to pore over all connected to the clinton campaign. the latest emails from wikileaks now exposing how the clinton campaign pushed to embrace all

the clinton-ness in the last 40 years. in an email in 2014, jennifer palmeri, make a virtue of her longevity, refusal to go away, embrace all the clinton-ness, the 40 years in politics, the decades on the national stage, et cetera, maybe folks had clinton fatigue at one point, but now they are just seen as a part of the fabric. joining us right now is columnist michael goodwin. are you surprised about that strategy? embrace the clinton-ness? >> what struck me about that email. it's this idea that we don't really know who she is. she doesn't know who she is. her staff doesn't know who she is. let's for tray her this way. there's one line the media will buy this as though she has to pretend to be somebody she's not. i think it's true that in the end of the day, she doesn't know

who she is. this inauthenticity wrap on her is very fair because she is so calculated about appealing to the middle class. every politician has to appeal to the middle class. that's where the votes are. this thing that she can't do it naturally just jumps out off the pages. >> here one and you know john podesta is going to be running the country. you know the damage he did for barack obama, getting the whole executive order thing done. he says this just can't go overboard and tie her personal story too much to middle class struggles, she certainly raised with the middle class values and work eth, but her strength and distinguishing characteristics as a candidate. >> this is trying to calculate who she is and that is one of things not just with her but with politicians in general, people don't want this calculation.

they want authenticity, which is, of course, is one of the reasons why donald trump has done so well. >> and one of reasons why donald trump has not is because he's got p in his own way. stopping people from really looking at some of these revelations here by coming out and going after miss universe and the women who have come forward and dwelling too much time on that. up until wednesday, we have a situation where it's a four-point race. in july, it was a four-point race. if you believe "the washington post" and abc poll, you are going to say it's a four-point race. what does donald trump have to do? >> i think talking about authenticity, he's authentic to a fault. he never seems to stop being this one kind of person and i think he could use a a little bit of that clinton campaign advice which is to focus more on what message you want to convey and i think that is the key thing for him at the final debate. what donald trump do you want the country to see in this last debate? >> you also point out that in your column yesterday about michelle obama getting all these

plaudits for her great speech condemning donald trump. you see some hypocrisy there. >> democrats have selective outrage. bill clinton was never attacked by democrats over the sexual issue or the vast majority. joe biden says bill clinton was punished for his sexual indiscretions. actually, joe biden voted against both articles of impeachment when he was in the senate as did every other democratic senator. this idea that donald trump is a monster, fair enough. let's apply the same standard to people of your own party and they don't. >> all these women coming up from the 90s saying donald trump did this or that and they get their sound bite. there's a wjuanita broader rick talking about how hillary clinton came after her. >> i believe if we had one single standard for everybody,

this country would be a lot better off and i think most americans would trust their government more, but to sent that everything is tilted to favor people on the basis of partisanship rather than the actual real results that they produce, i think that is what is turning so many people off to politics. >> michael, we'll talk to you more about it on radio. >> look forward to it. meanwhile, more "fox & friends" coming up. including a special surprise.

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infection, a viral infection in his heart caused a major stroke. we wish him all the best. >> absolutely. he was back last night and it's great. >> that's it for today. thanks very much. join us back here on the couch bill: good morning. north carolina's governor calling it an attack on our democracy. a republican office outside of durham hit by a suspected firebomb. no one injured but there was serious damage to the building and it was spray painted with graffiti that included a swastika. >> this is a horrific act of political terrorism, one that we'll not succumb to, and one that we'll answer. bill: so far no arrests, but both campaigns have responded. the clinton team, the trump team. a bit