heather: the post is racking up more than a million shares on facebook u yeah, pay more attention to your child than facebook or twitter. unless you are tweeting us. otherwise, get off your phone. abby: happy ground hog day, everyone. "fox & friends" starts right now. heather: bye. >> there is a fox news alert. a massive blaze is raging at uc berkeley where author was supposed to give a speech instead it was shut down. >> people started arriving in black clothes to march. they were clearly carrying con shield weapons. hold at the building. >> rex tillerson was sworn in as the next secretary of state. >> this is where you were meant to be right here today at this crossroads in history. >> as of today, we are officially putting iran on notice. >> it is welcomed news. we are finally going to hold iran accountable. >> democrats walk out and threaten filibusters.

>> there will be 60 votes for confirmation. any one member can require it. many democrats already have. >> republicans are finally starting to turn the wheels of congress inspite of them. >> if i lost the election, don't lose your mind. you look like annual idiot. >> do you think maybe it's time that hollywood and the cultural elite in america gave this guy a break. >> it's time for us to embrace. shake hands with this guy because is he our president the next four years. >> george h.w. bush and barbara bush are home and now they are getting ready to go to super bowl 51. ♪ working for a living. steve: in washington, d.c., washington, d.c. this is your wake-up call. kitchen. guy is making your coffee. get up. brian: whole first floor was open yesterday. a light of action going on. opens up and closes late. big news did not come out of

white house or washington it came out of california. ainsley: oh my gosh huge protests at uc berkeley a liberal university because a republican group on campus, the republican club asked a republican -- well, someone who is with breitbart. steve: libertarian. ainsley: myelo yiannopoulos. steve: they started fires and trump supporters. started fireworks destroyed a starbucks and private property? where were the his? the police said hey if you don't act right, we're going to arrest you. i don't find any arrests last night which is extraordinary given the property damage and the assaults that's reported. > brian: they had reportable lights dark knocked it over. full of georgia's. and they blew it up.

and it just kept burning and burning and burning. and then they start going through it and there is video of this. they grab these huge fences and throwing through windows the point is they don't agree with the guy. just like that. ainsley: i don't understand. they are acting like animals. these are college students. brian: we think. ainsley: just because somebody comes to your university that you don't agree with doesn't mean you burn your own university. steve: woman being interviewed by the nbc affiliate. we are going to show you video. she is wearing make america great again cap and watch how she is pepper sprayed by one of the thugs at the conclusion of the interview. >> i think the people watching tonight should look at the people protesting and what color of hat they are wearing. certainly not red. >> ma'am? brian: right in the face. talk to. so people here who are peacefully protesting. there are many of them. after the interview is done. by the way. my opinion. very smug reporter talking to

her like what the heck are you doing here and then she gets that in the face. ainsley: two thoughts here as a female. why is this guy doing this to this girl? as a mother of a little girl, if someone did that to my daughter i would be after him? why didn't he get arrested. we see his hand and profile. brian: i didn't see any cops. ainsley: there were cops there protesters were throwing rocks at the cops. steve: campus police said hey, stop it: berkeley the home of the free speech movement in the 1960s. last night no free speech. betrayal of berkeley's color history. here is my low himself talking about what else went wrong last nights. >> what's particularly scary and should be particularly troubling it not only happened on american college campus. supposedly in the land of the free. at these places where you should be able tone gauge with different. be able to hear speakers.

people who come with my not necessarily agree but heart other side. violent trump the left. anyone who might be persuasive or interesting or might take people with them. i am not, you know, a scary, far right, you know, kind of neo nazi as some of the posts have claimed. they put those things on posts to try to legitimize violence against me and my forces. i'm libertarian gay trump supporting provocateur who likes to present interesting arguments. brian: people started showing up wearing all black clothes. they realized there was supposed to be a problem. they cancelled it. today it was supposed to be ucla and california system. one in three californians when asked are for succession because of this election. now you see the next generation not exactly on board. ainsley: it's sad that you have to be very brave to go to a college campus and talk and say that you are supporting donald trump.

because that is totally unacceptable. specially on liberal campuses like the ones in california. it's sad that young girl can't wear a red hat. what did it say, steve? steve: it's in the spirit of the make america america great again. it's make bit coin. international. ainsley: she can't say that. steve: he trump supporter. steve: college campus us are the first place you should have diversity and free flow of different ideas. if you are on the right, or you are a not progressive, they are going to shut you down. brian: think about this. if you are looking for a college right thought and parent do they have my major? where is it located? if you are not -- now one of the questions has to be what is the slant of the campus? even if you are not a political science major and have no interest in political affairs, you're a if i said major, education major, have

you to say to yourself am i going to be allowed to speak out? steve: you would be allowed, undoubtedly but would you? you wouldn't want to. we would love to hear your comments about the craziness out on that college campus. email us at friends@foxnews.com or facebook us or tweet us. brian: so you know the president of the united states has been talking to world leader after world leader and for the most part there is usually congratulations calls and get into detail often. by far according to donald trump this was his worst call. steve: what's interesting about this is some parts of this particular exchange were released by the white house and other parts came out. was this leaked by somebody at the state department and had the read out and trying to make him look bad? ultimately it makes donald trump look strong. because he got into what was supposed to be a one hour phone call with the prime minister of the country of australia. after 25 minutes, they said, you know, enough of this. we're done. apparently what he was angry at. and this is the call shot through the window. ainsley: shot through the window zooming in of donald

trump on the phone. steve: australia and the united states agreed to through the obama administration for a refugee swap. we would give them some refugees from el salvador and guatemala and hun der russ and d they would give us refugees from sudan somalia and put them off island of australia. donald trump who has that immigration pause right now, you look at that list, some of those people are from that country. he doesn't want those people coming in and said this is the dumbest deal ever. ainsley: i thought why australia? an ally of ours? why are we taking refugees? why don't they take care of their own people that are there? that was my first thought. and this was surprising that he would get into a yelling match with someone who is an ally. but these are people, you are right, that come from these seven countries, many of them come from those seven countries where we have the 120 day pause. and the prime minister of australia is saying bring them here, screen them here, and

then if they don't pass the screening test then you don't have to take them into your country. donald trump saying hold on a minute. i like that he ended the conversation first. and the reports i'm reading he hung up the phone after 25 minutes of this after supposed to be our call. brian: australia fighting by our side entire war on terror. i don't think there has been a better al lifetime achievement for the most part they are the only ones that didn't come out and say anything seemingly against donald trump. paws on seven nations with destabilized government he is. fascinating we worked up this deal and he said listen i will continue the deal because barack obama cut it however, we will go through extreme vetting before we bring them over here and before this is actually executed and he ended the call early. steve, i'm curious, because you believe that the white house let go of some of this? because i believe some of it leaked out. steve: some of the stuff has been confirmed by people in the administration.

state department or where. where. we have kellyanne conway on in a little while. donald trump himself tweeted this out. do you believe it the obama administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from australia? why? i will study this dumb deal. here's the thing about it. as we know he has gone to washington, d.c. and, you know, any deals that are on the table right now, he is thinking about. do we have to go through with this deal? the iranian deal? all these deals. this australian deal. we're taking a bunch of refugees from countries that i'm currently not allowing into the country. that's a dumb deal. brian: i just think that -- i just wonder if the administration is happy about this. i don't remember any leaked calls with vladimir putin and barack obama. we would see their body language and say that looked like a bad meeting. now we know his bad meetings? on top of it. ainsley: they don't say it's a bad meeting. brian: i'm not sure about that. steve: motivation. ainsley: he is tweeting about it. brian: i'm not sure it's too

our advantage to leak out a confidential call between two leaders because it looks the australian leader had no idea this was going to come out and embarrassing to him. on top of that very sensitive stuff came out about mexico saying have you bad um brace down there. your military is scared of them. ours isn't. maybe i will send them in? that is something that should be between two leaders. steve: sure. i don't know whether it came from the white house or the state department. which we know a thousand sand people at the state department signed that dissent statement say would go we think this thing that trump is doing is crazy. ainsley: you are talking about someone who extremely transparent. i'm not sure if he is upset if it was leaked. you will ask to ask kellyanne conway. get over to heather for weather and other stories. heather: defense secretary james mattis on the move right now. we have brand new video just coming in to fox news showing him in sout south korea. this is his first mission overseas for the trump administration. secretary mattis reassures south korea that the united

states has his back and help protect them from north korea's nuclear threat with a new missile defense system. he then heads to japan. now to the west bank where police continue to clash with protesters for a second day in a row. we are looking live right now at a amona in the west bank where at least 24 israeli officers have been hurt tryingch settlement there. israeli forces uprooting hundreds of residents and clashing with protesters in that community. palestinians say they own the land. israel considers this unauthorized outpost and will be demolished in a week or. so right now, negative intensifying at this hour for the release of two corrections officers. held inside a maximum security prison in delaware. dangerous inmates taking those workers hostage nearly 24 hours ago. this at the james tv von correctional facility in delaware. inmates calling the newspaper to complain about prison conditions and also president

trump. and those are your headline its. i will send it back to you. smyrna, delaware, we are keeping an eye on that. ainsley: donald trump is the president. the mainstream media doesn't get it and neither does hollywood. all except this guy. matthew mcconaughey. ed henry is live for his message with activist actors. steve: janice dean is live in punxsutawney, pennsylvania because today is groundhog's day. brian: again? >> yes, it is my first groundhog day in pennsylvania. punxsutawney is going to be out here 7:25. we will be out here broadcasting it live. we are dancing through the commercial break ♪ everything he does is magic ♪ everything he does just turns me on ♪ my life is so much magic ♪ my love for her is so strong i ♪

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likes trump? >> he does. sharp departure we have seen from award show necessary hollywood it past few days where just the opposite has been said. trump had african-american leaders in. and he is not backing down either in terms of pushing back against the mainstream media the president singling out one africaent singling out one african-american leader in the crowd there in the roosevelt room at the white house and saying he appears on cnn a lot. he says i don't really see him because i don't watch cnn anymore. it's fake news. the president sort of doubling down on pushing back against the media watch. >> a lot of thed me is actually the opposition party. they are so biased and really it's a disgrace. so media is fantastic and fair. so much of the media is opposition party. and knowingly saying incorrect things. so it's a very sad -- ed: the president has not been happy with how hollywood has been attacking him as well. as you noted matthew

mcconaughey out promoting a new movie he said enough is enough. get behind the president. >> he is our president. it's time for us to embrace, shake hands with this guy and be constructive with him over the next four years. no matter how much you even disagreed along the way, it's time to think about how constructive can you be because is he our president. ed: we will see if that message breaks through. the president with those african-american leaders again talking about how the media falsely reported that he pulled out the bust from mlk from the oval office when we know in fact it is still actually in there after being placed by former president barack obama. some the president's critics though saying look, it's time for him to move on with this back and forth with the media. focus on other things. it is clear the president is not going to pull back. ainsley: not necessarily know if he supported donald trump he said it's time to tell you back and promote him.

>> realize he actually won. brian: see if there will be pressure on him to backtrack from that statement. you. steve: ed, thank you very much. moments ago, we showed you. so video out of uc berkeley where there were violent riots, really. the president of the united states just tweeted about it. he said if u.c. berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view, no federal funds. he also just tweeted out, congratulations to rex tillerson as being sworn in on our new secretary of state. he will be a star. rex is in. also yesterday three nominees approved by the committee, steve mnuchin tom price, and scott pruitt because no democrats showed up. they changed the rules. now they moved onto the full senate. brian: betsy devos had her hands full. i. ainsley: jeff sessions still remains a senator.

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two republican senators susan collins and lisa turning on own party vowing to vote against betsy devos for secretary of education. could lead to a 50/50 split leaving like pence to be the deciding vote. ainsley: thanks, steve. president trump making unannounced trip to controversy air force base in delaware to attend the dignified transfer of chief petty officer william ryan owens. there is his picture. the 36-year-old seal team 6 member was killed during a weekend raid in yemen. the first service member to be killed after donald trump became our president. jane horton is a gold star wife and is here with a powerful response to the president's visit. thank you, jane, for being with us. >> thank you so much for having me. ainsley: you are welcome. your husband was killed in 2011. his name was chris horton. first of all, tell the audience at home what happened to chris. >> chris was an army sniper

that deployed to afghanistan in 2011. and about three months into his deployment he was ambushed and he was shot to death with two other people. ainsley: wow. how long had y'all been married? >> we had been married a little over two years. ainsley: i'm so sorry for your loss. >> thank you. ainsley: what was your reaction when you saw the president and ivanka when they were heading to dover to pay their respects? >> i will tell you i was sitting at my desk and the lump in my throat started to get bigger and the tears in my eyes started to form. of the president's actions did not go unnoticed by the military community and especially the gold star family community. for the past several years when we have been involved in wars that have largely gone unnoticed by the average american and when we're still losing some of our nation's finest treasures overseas, to have a president acknowledge that and to give the fallen honored dignity to give the respect they deserve and give

the family special place at dover was just overwhelming and hopefully we are hoping it sets the president for the future that he will continue to do things like this that we are so grateful for his gesture. did president obama come to your husband's funeral? >> he did not. ainsley: did you ever talk to him? did you hear from him? >> we -- the vast majority of families fallen from the era were not signed by him. they were signed by auto pen. did he on some occasions go to dover to be with the families of the dignified transfers. but it was not something that he regularly did. and we're hoping that more is paid in the trump administration to our fallen. they deserve more and we're really hoping that the american people pay attention to these deaths that largely go unnetsed. ainsley: i'm sorry. it's been a different story with president trump from your family. i understand have you been talking to him and been friends with him for the last five years and talked to him several times. >> i met him on several occasions. he has always been very, very kind to me.

always honored my husband and wanted to hear about him. he has been a wonderful supporter of the troops. ainsley: in fact, he honored your husband back in september before he won the presidency. let's take a listen to what he said about your husband. >> jane lost her husband, specialist chris horton in afghanistan on september 9th 2011. and jane, it's such an honor to have you here. and i hear so many things about chris. and he was a winner. and thank you very much. on behalf of the country. thank you. [applause] ainsley: now, you have said that you speak out because the fallen don't have a voice. if chris were here today, what would be his message to president trump? >> to win the war that's gave his life for. to continue to fight them to. give the resources to our war fighters. let them fight the wars. give them the rules of engagement that they need to win and continue to give the troops on the ground the supplies they need and also

the capacity to win the war. ainsley: well, jane, i know when you married him you had a plan mapped out for your life. and that wasn't able to happen because you guys made ultimate sacrifice for all of us. we can't thank you enough for that i wish you all the best and i hope you find love again. >> thank you. ainsley: you are welcome. god bless. he claimed the president's travel order was the reason for his mother's death. >> my mom would have made it and sitting right here next to me. she is gone because of him. ainsley: but this morning that disgusting lie has been exposed and we are going to tell you how. and janice dean is live in pennsylvania. she is getting ready for punxsutawney phil but he is not the only thing the photoer. the major award that janice dean is bringing back to new york. we will tell you what it is coming up ♪ we hanging around ♪ singing everything on the radio ♪ we light it up

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you ♪ people who surround ♪ bailed benefit ♪ you. ainsley: it is your shot of the morning. check your calendars, it is february 2nd which means it is groundhogs day. brian: looking at the punxsutawney, pennsylvania this morning. the crowds have been celebrating since 3:00 in the morning. steve: something we always walk. we are an hour away from punxsutawney phil if he sees his shadow. we expect him to come out at 7:25. it is punxsutawney, pennsylvania. it is the weather capital of the world. so we have dispatched our weather caster janice dean who got a very special something yesterday. ainsley: that is right.

yesterday janice was inducted into what, brian? brian: she was inducted into the weather discovery center meteorologist hall of fame. [applause] ainsley: janice, we're so proud of you. janice: thank you. ainsley: you are the only one that was inducted, right? janice: i was the only one inducted. steve: it sounds like they are singing national anthem let's take a listen. ♪ were so gallantly streaming ♪ and the rockets red glare ♪ the bombs bursting in air ♪ gave proof through the night ♪ that our flag was still there ♪ o say does that star spangl

spangled banner yet wave ♪ o'er the land of the free ♪ and the home of the brave. [cheers and applause] steve: how great is that? national anthem. this is a national thing people tune to see the groundhog it will happen in an hour. janice, tell us about your special day yesterday. [cheers and applause] janice: the fireworks are going off right now. this is a big event for all of punxsutawney. and all of u.s.a. is celebrating america. oh my gosh. and we have fireworks going on. 50 to 20,000 people are going to be here today for phil's tradition. you see that, guys? we're going to talk about what

happened to me yesterday because there was a very special event happening here in punxsutawney. let's look at it. >> it's groundhog day. ♪ ♪ >> we are so lucky here in punxsutawney, pennsylvania, the weather capital of the world to have with us janice dean, the weather machine [applause] >> many of us wake up onto her sunny smile and equally sunny disposition. i would like to present to you the 2017 punxsutawney weather discovery center meteorologist hall of fame recipient. [cheers and applause] >> thank you for this amazing honor. ♪ ♪

janice: this town obviously loves punxsutawney phil but they also now love freddie the frog caster. >> marlene, this is an amazing place. this weather discovery center. i love that things are interactive. my kids are playing here right now. >> kids end up teaching their parents. they come here and bring their parents back. see? we have to do this: janice: take me around some of these wonderful places we can see at the weather discovery center. >> this is the green screen. so if the forecaster is wearing green what do you think happens on punxsutawney? no winter for you. >> i can't wait to go down this tornado slide. here we go. ready or not weather emergency shelter. really important. take a look.

a lot of people might think they need a hair dryer in emergency preparedness kit? really? eh, you don't need a hair dryer. >> one of the inner circle with top hat. this is probably the closest i will get to being in the inner circle. >> where is phil? >> i have come from "fox & friends" in new york to meet phil the groundhog. ainsley: hi, phil, how are you buddy? hi? is he totally alert right now. >> yes, is he. ainsley: he must know that steve, brian and ainsley are watching right now. can you please predict an early spring for us? just for "fox & friends." janice: so, guys. you are not going to believe this. not only do we have fireworks going off but the snow is falling here in punxsutawney, pennsylvania. and, of course, phil is coming out at 7:25. i don't know. i was predicting an early spring but these big fat

snowflakes might be telling me something otherwise. anyway. i have got my top hat. i'm part of the inner circle and now i'm part of a really distinguished group of meteorologists. i'm so honored to be here in punxsutawney here on "fox & friends" to share it with you. woo! steve: fantastic the way they timed that music for the conclusion of her live report from punxsutawney, pennsylvania. ainsley: cob graduate legs. we are really happy for you. brian: is there a chance that's the bottle rocket paper coming down and not snow from the fireworks? steve: she is in the weather pinner hall of fame, shield know the difference. she said it is snow. brian: there was lava in hawaii. there was an eruption it could be that. steve: they do have volcanos there. brian: it's so close to pennsylvania. steve: we have headlines with heather. heather: good morning to awful you. hope you are off to great day. 40 minutes after the hour.

happening today, hundreds of bodegas hundreds of markets on street corners. hundreds of them will be closing early today. why? to protest president trump's efforts to pause immigrants from coming in from certain countries, including yemen until they can be properly vetted. store owners from yemen in new york will shut down from noon until 8:00 tonight. yemen one of seven countries on that list. well, do you remember this story of a man blaming president trump's immigration halt for killing his mother? well, it turns out that this was all a lie. listen. >> my mom would have made it and she would have been sitting right here next to me. she is gone because of him. heather: well that man, mike hager is his name he claimed his mom died in a hospital in iraq after trying to come back to the united states. well, now a leader at hague gear's michigan mosque said she died five day us before the executive order was even signed. listen.

>> she did die after two days. but that was a couple weeks ago. before the ban. heather: before the ban he said. however, mr. hager is sticking by his story claiming he didn't make anything up. he said he has been on heavy medication hence his mom's death. the man police say assassinated a former police officer and a pastor execution style is a radical islamist and was on the fbi's terror watch list. scott van lancasteren a security guard in colorado was helping two men with directions when he was ambushed. please say that vanlanken and uniform look the same. they believe the gunman targeted him because he looked like a police officer. we are praying for his family. what a difficult story. and stop what you are doing right now. have you to see this video. check it out once again right here. heart stopping video showing the moment a pickup truck slams into a city bus. watch.

oh, wow, how terrifying. passengers sent flying across the aisle in new york. this is in syracuse. the truck hitting with such force it came through the bus. police say the 82-year-old driver accidently hit the gas instead of the brakes when he saw stopped traffic. 8 people were hurt. miraculously they are all going to be okay. thank goodness for that. those are your headlines. brian: very lucky. steve: glad they are all okay. ainsley: heather, thank you. steve: president trump is taking every precaution to make sure his supreme court pick gets confirmed by the senate. >> if we end up with that gridlock i would say if you can, mitch, go nuclear. steve: okay. but what does go nuclear mean? judge napolitano knows. he knows his neurons. he is next. brian: yes. he is thermo. kellyanne conway is going to be here shortly. i hope she is ready. ♪ can't forget

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♪ ♪ brian: all right. super bowl 51 is three days away. we will be in houston, friday, saturday, sunday. and i will be there on monday. yesterday, we were talking about tom brady and him being -- and his friendship with donald trump. and i mistakenly said some falcon players weren't going to the white house. that was wrong. i want to clarify it. it was a patriot's tight end martellis bennett who said if the patriots win they would not be going to the white house. the falcons did not say that i can't wait to talk about what's going on with the legal stuff with a guy named steve doocy and a man who went to law school. steve: indeed, we are talking about judge napolitano. meanwhile other guy to went to law school the guy in the middle there. facing uphill battle when it comes to confirming supreme

court pick neil gorsuch. president trump is taking every precaution to make sure his nominee is approved. listen to this. >> we end up with that gridlock, i would say, if you can mitch, go nuclear. because that would be an absolute shame if a man of this quality was caught up in the web. steve: how could republican leaders actually go nuclear and how long does that thing last? let's turn to the judge. what does that mean go nuclear? >> the phrase go nuclear means change the rules. steve: the nuclear option. >> correct. the phrase nuclear option. right now, the one democrat can change the requirement for judge gorsuch to be confirmed from 50 votes to 60 votes. one person. steve: somebody will. senator markley of oregon has indicated he will do that there is nobody can do to stop him. if that happens, mitch mcconnell would need 60 votes. he already has 59 votes.

to break this request. he needs a 60th. if he can't come up with a 60th. which has got to come from the democrats because the 59 is 52 republicans and 7 democrats. then they have to change this 60 vote rule, which asth is the phrase go nuclear it will cause great political consternation. but by taking this 60 vote rule away so that the democrats can't use it against judge gorsuch, they will be denying themselves the opportunity to use when after they, the republicans are in the minority. i would encourage the president to relax and be confident and for this reason. mitch mcconnell is the shrewdest user and understander of senate rules in the modern era. steve: the rules are crazy. >> the rules are crazy. they don't always make sense.

how can 50 people take away the right of 60 part-time? that's what it says. each house, the house of representatives and senate will get to write their own rules. they don't have to be rational. the courts can't review them. whatever they write, that's what they write. this stuff doesn't exist in the house of representatives. steve: for the average person watching they go i like the idea of a simple majority. however, when the simple majority is in favor of the other party that can come back to haunts you. >> yes. steve: go back to the beginning of the obama administration the obama people used the nuclear option in the senate to pass the affordable care act? >> correct. steve: and to get a bunch of judges passed as well. >> yes. and they changed the rule with respect to trial judges and appellate court judges. well, you don't have to have 60. but for the supreme court right now if someone senator wants it. the requirement goes from 50 to 60. but with seven democrats saying i don't want to get involved in this. i'm not saying how i'm going to vote on judge gorsuch but i don't want to have that 60

vote. mitch mcconnell needs one person and i think he will find that person and the president's fears will be gone. the other interesting thing is the democrats gain by delaying here because there are major decisions coming out in early april which, without judge gorsuch will be 4 to 4 tie and it will affirm what happened below. and donald trump doesn't like what happened below. so, when he said he wants judge gorsuch on by early april, he knew exactly what he was talking about. i want that ninth justice there for these very important cases. steve: tie breaker. >> effect a lot of people's lives. steve: judge napolitano, thank you very much. >> i don't think this is the last of this, steve. steve: i don't think so. the freak-out is continuing on the left so we will see. thank you, sir. >> my pleasure. steve: counselor to the president kellyanne conway is here live. and we're counting down to super bowl 51. casey stegall is live in houston where all eyes are on the patriots and the falcons. casey. you're coming up ♪ ♪ we're coming to your city

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♪ ♪ brian: all right. the countdown is down until "fox & friends" for the first time ever goes as a unit to the super bowl. super bowl 51 yes, as a unit. we get to use the "fox & friends" plane which will be great. ainsley: both excitement and security are now ramping up for the big game. steve: we will be there tomorrow. right now live in downtown houston we have casey stegall where they are preparing forth big game sunday night. casey? >> hey, wait a second. i did not get use of the "fox & friends" plane. so we're going to have to talk

about that later, guys. steve: it's called delta. >> we are waiting for you. the game itself of course is the main event. there is a lot of stuff going on yesterday, today, tomorrow, everything leading up to super bowl 51. a nice tradition that we always like to talk about. last night a different type of football game was played. take a look at this. this is the game between former nfl and college football players matched up against wounded veterans. it's a charity game. all of the money raised goes to benefit troops who have been injured in the line of duty. the wounded warriors amputee team took home this year's win. meantime across town, production teams carefully dotting their is and crossing their t's for the big halftime show. artist lady gaga is headlining you may have heard. and are you ready for this? she is set to sing while suspended from the stadium's retractible roof.

that's about 265 feet in the air. not sure how they are doing it. but it will be fun to see. and when she rehearses the stunt, the teams, of course, are practicing. so you have got a flurry of activity all over houston as some 1 million fans are starting to make their way in. lots of police. a very heavy presence, of course. safety is the name of the game. can't wait to see you guys. steve: all right. we will be down there tomorrow, casey. thank you very much. we'll be live for the next three days. ainsley: i'm so excited. brian: sunday we will be at the stadium. that's the probably what we'll look like. steve: then again, this is what we look like right now. ainsley: we are following a fox news alert. destroying their own campus all to keep a conservative commentator from speaking u kellyanne conway, we will talk to her at the top of the hour. ♪

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liberals destroying their own campus. brian: protesters turning into violent rioters for hours as u.c. berkeley claiming destroying property is protecting american rights. all because a conservative commentator was scheduled and asked to speak. steve: live on the campus this morning with a look at some of the damage, claudia cowen. >> you can see the crews had to work all night long to clean up the damage and board up the busted windows here. i can tell you that this kind of damage continues off campus as well. what began as a peaceful protest here on the cal campus last night by students really escalated quite quickly when a grouch self-proclaimed anarchists wearing black and covering their faces broke through barriers torched a generator. they threw fireworks and also tossed a metal barricade into

glass windows where ultra conservative breitbart editor milo yiannopoulos was scheduled tschedulescheduled to. political correctness and controversy does follow him everywhere. safe to say most on this campus do not agree with his far right views. one person who wanted to hear his speech was attacked herself. listen. >> i think the people watching tonight should look at the people protesting and look at what color halt they are wearing. certainly not red. >> ma'am? >> u.c. berkeley issued an apology and condemned the violence milo as he likes to be called did have appearances scheduled at other college campuses including ucla. we understand that event has now been cancelled. within the past few minutes, president trump has been tweeting about this incident here and suggesting in his tweet that campuses that don't provide a safe place for people to exercise their right

to free speech may see less federal gunding. we will have to monitor his tweets thought the day. obviously the fallout will continue. that's the latest from berkeley. back to you. brian: the administration has to be some bare wassed. thank you. can you imagine paying that much money for tuition, yeah, my sophomore was burning the place down yesterday and throwing a bike rack through the window. i'm so proud of him. steve: home of free speech in the 1960's all those protests from free speech. this guy comes the finale of his college tour. is he a libertarian, editor of breitbart. they are so intolerant of hearing the other side, they have this gigantic, violent protest that turns into property damage. they had police there. campus police who said hey, you know what? if you kids get out of line, we are going to arrest you. brian: and watch you. steve: starbucks qualifies but this morning i looked at some of the california papers. ainsley: or the guy spraying pepper spray in that trump supporter's face u that girl's face. these are the people that

preach tolerance, love everybody. and when somebody comes to the campus. steve: watch this. here she gets sprayed. ainsley: someone comes to the campus they don't agree with their opinion they burn the campus? >> this guy from berkeley happens to be british. he happens to be conservative. and he happens to be gay. so, congratulations tolerant berkeley you really made a great statement there that turned -- the statement is don't go there. ainsley: donald trump tweeted this morning about it. he says if u.c. berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on people with a different point of view. no federal funds? question mark? what do you think about that? do you think the school should still get federal funds? steve: let's bring in kellyanne conway she joins us from the white house this morning. kellyanne, as you look at the other side of the country. this guy works for breitbart scheduled to come in. next thing you know hundreds of people. people with masks. they are destroying the starbucks. what's going on out there? >> what's going on out there is what is going on all across

the country. have you protesters who feel very emboldened. they have media cameras following them. they give introduce. i don't even know if they know what they're protesting. i would love to do this big survey nationwide and ask everybody on these airports on the college campuses. what's got you so in a lather? really, is it the free speech having somebody maybe on your campus that has a dissenting point of view? wants to present an alternative point of view? and look, in the real world, when these kids grow up and go to try to find jobs which they will in the trump economy, life doesn't work that way, folks. you are going to work with people who disagree with you. you are going to encounter folks who don't, you know, aren't just accosting you in this protective environment. the president has a point. they don't welcome free speech. they're not protecting the first amendment. i'm sure they don't hear much of it off the campus in the classroom it's just unfortunate but not surprising.

brian: watching them to pretend to sing at night when microphones don't work and walk out of senate meetings instead of confirming. why wouldn't these 22-year-olds think that's the way to do things if elected leaders are doing the same thing. let's move on. we find out about two private diplomatic calls with the mexican leader and australian leader that have leaked out. before we get to the contents of it. kellyanne, is this something that really rankels the white house that these transcripts have gotten out? >> it's very unfortunate. obviously we are not commenting on private conversations in that way. we give a read out to the media on most conversations but we don't release transcripts and we certainly don't mischaracterize and some others have. this is the practice for us though. we are the ones not leaking. you saw it with the earlier reports. you see it here. you know, you are a little bit hamstrung when you are the one upholding either the law or frankly upholding agreement to not release. brian so who did it? >> well, can you make your own conclusions.

again, this will be mischaracterized by the media they will pounce on this because it's a heck of a lot better for them as a story line today than covering the fact that the president and his daughter made a trip to dover air force base yesterday to receive the family of our brave fallen ryan owens in yemen. it's a heck of a lot easier than figuring out what he will say at the prayer breakfast today in front of people multireligious denominations. it's talk about ourselves hex tillerson. this is my whole point about the presumptive negativity. brian, by the way, to your earlier point? the democratic party, we're seeing it unravel in front of our eyes and seein seeing it be revealed in front of our ice. a bunch of cry babies who say they are going to oppose supreme court nominees before they even know the person's name and his academic credentials and impeccable record. think are holding up our nominee to the cabinet. i'm told yesterday this is the longest that the nation has gone without a secretary of the treasury at least in

longest, it's darn close to it. we need a secretary of treasury, folks, for those who actually go to work in the morning and need the dollar to flourish. we need a secretary of treasury to be running things. this on citizen next in obstruction is the modern democratic party. i think it's going to cost them because the hysterical about everything now. you can't -- there is no credit accommodation of hysteria. everything makes them cry and scream. steve: kellyanne, backing up. there are these comments that president trump reportedly made to the prime minister not happy with the refugee swap. exactly. so, in reading the story, originally from "the washington post, it talks about the administration -- people inside inside the administration. you are saying it's not from the white house makes one thing it's probably from the state department. we have seen that dissent cable where thousands of people have lined up and signed their names to it saying we don't like what donald trump is doing with this executive order regarding immigration. are you thinking that it

probably got leaked by the state department? >> well, it's north being leaked from the white house. and again, i will leave you to report and your viewers to decide. i will say, this it's dangerous to have these leaks, whether it's the intelligence reports earlier which we would not comment on, so we were in a difficult position. but the right position. or calls like this. look, nibble who just discovered that president donald j. trump is a resolute decisive man who doesn't mince words and putting america and allies and people in her interest first is waking up, i think, out of a cave from the last two years. at the same time, he has had very respectful conversations with many leaders, just in the last week or so, 10 or more world leaders. he is trying to reach out to them. talk to the diplomatic core, certainly. but he also makes very clear what his position is on any number of issues around the globe. he is very respectful. you saw him receive the u.k.

prime minister theresa may here last week. and he looks forward to receiving benjamin netanyahu from israel later this month. i think people who are trying to get these fallacious details and always try to marginalize the very serious business at a rapid pace is going on behind me every day, it's not serving the country well. ainsley: kellyanne, i'm confused because he tweeted out, he said that the refugee swap was a dumb deal. so i was saying earlier in the show i didn't think he minded that all of us know he had a heated conversation with the prime minister because he was the one that tweeted out it was a dumb deal. >> what he wants you to know is that he got results. i think that's more important. ongoing to the process he is talking about the results. talking about the means talking about the end. we are talking about the same thing. we shouldn't have leeckets. i like the fact that the president cleaned it up through his own platform, going around the media to try to marginalize tweeting to

everybody. democratickization information saying i got the result i want and this is the result i wanted. steve: catherine herridge had a fox news exclusive she went down with the homeland security general kelly and he said sounds like the wall should be finished within two years. listen to this. >> we'll build it where it is needed first as identified by the minute and women who work the border. and then we will fill it in as time goes on. i really hope to have it done within the next two years. steve: is that your timetable which you guys are working on. >> sounds like the classic trump project on schedule and under budget. we will see. i think people have great hope that one of the centerpieces of donald trump's campaign is a centerpiece of his presidency which is to build constructed a physical wall on the southern border. now that we have a secretary of home land security obviously he will take a very large lead in this. very happy to see him there yesterday make that commitment. i will tell you that they have been working with professionals who know about

the particulars and construction particulars. and they feel very cavuto that this is something that can be done. i think the physicality of the wall will show people in a tangible way that this is a man of action and resolution and completion. and that's incredibly important in a town that talks a lot and acts very little. brian: i also thought it was interesting, too. he talks about a layer. the wall being part of it. a layer of fences, including going and finding out what the problem is in central america and why they keep coming here. they there will be a multifaceted. seems like the right guy in charge. something else happened. an operation that evidently yielded unbelievable a results from an al qaeda cell. and sadly, ryan owens in his 12th tour of duty would not survive. his body came back to dover air force base. could you bring us back for the decision from president trump, after putting this mission in action to be there

to greet the body of ryan owens along with his family? >> well, it's something the president wanted to do and he wanted to do it personally. when he was briefed on the details of ryan owens homecoming here to the united states with his family, ryan, he immediately said he would like to clear his schedule and go. obviously we don't leak. it was kept secret as it should have been otr, off the record. he and his daughter ivanka were able to go yesterday and speak to the family and pay their condolences and respect -- the family requested no cameras no, press. of course that was respected as well. i saw the president after he got back last night. and we were able to discuss what a moving day it was. this is what presidents do and leaders do. i saw some introduce earlier in your broadcast of people who may have felt differently in the past. can you expect this president to always be fully involved with the fallen and their families. that was a successful operation in terms of yielding, in terms of destroying 14 operatives and

yielding a cache of information in which we can use. i would hope as a nation we're very sad today for the lost of ryan ions. ainsley: as a country we're praying for all of those men and women that fight for our country that leads us to the next topic. the national prayer breakfast is today. i know you will be attending. we a live look of folks getting ready deport national prayer breakfast this morning at the hilton in washington, d.c. kellyanne, what can we expect there today? >> the president will make remarks, obviously. and it's a tradition for presidents to do. so i was struck in looking at the schedule for today, ainsley, how many denominations, will be represented, will be represented in private meetings 'the president. will be represented obviously among the congregation there. and this is a president who has been very clear in his defense of religious liberty. and our religious rights are under attack. regardless of your denomination. particularly people around the globe. talked about the christians

being decapitated and getting very little coverage for that. brian: kellyanne will be covering. this we are up against a hard break there. >> i am leaving here and on my way there. see you there. thankthanks for having me. ainsley: thanks kellyanne. more "fox & friends" after the break. i should take a closer look at geico... you know, geico can help you save money on your homeowners insurance too? great! geico can help insure our mountain chalet! how long have we been sawing this log? um, one hundred and fourteen years. man i thought my arm would be a lot more jacked by now. i'm not even sure this is real wood. there's no butter in this churn. do my tris look okay? take a closer look at geico. great savings. and a whole lot more. ...one of many pieces in my life. so when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my long-term control medicine. i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment with breo. once-daily breo prevents asthma symptoms. breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a long-term asthma control medicine,

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steve: you know, we have been talking about filibusters and things like that down in washington, d.c. but today we talk about punxsutawney phil. the legendary groundhog. will he see his shadow? we l. we have sticks more weeks of winter or early spring? let's go live. they are going to be pulling him out right now. >> hang on guys, hang on. ladies and gentlemen, punxsutawney phil. [cheers and applause] okay. let's put phil on a stump? it don't look good, guys.

okay. big guy. come on. look at me. phil. phil? what do you mean you don't like it? >> what do you mean? what? >> okay. we got her. ladies and gentlemen, he has made his prediction. [cheers and applause] come on. we will do it right here. i will hold him for you. here ye, here ye, here ye. now this second day of february, 2017, the 131st annual track of the punxsutawney groundhog club. history of the groundhog day. [cheers and applause] punxsutawney phil, the prognosticator of all

prognosticators was awaked to the cheers of his thousands of faithful followers in groundhog ese at the encircled the president and scroll which reads at gob imler's knob on groundhog day we celebrate a worldwide hollywood. it's mighty cold weather you've been braving, is it winter or is it summer you're craving? since we have been up all night and starting to toddle, i punxy fill have not todd of the le. i faithfully see a perfectly clear shadow of me. six more weeks of winter it shall be. [cheers] he has spoken. i'm sorry. [cheers and applause] >> okay. steve: okay.

it's official, folks. six more weeks of winter. keep in mind it's six more weeks until spring actually starts. >> he has some figures left. steve: that's right. as we married from janice dean who is live in punxsutawney, pennsylvania earlier. it was snowing earlier today, so it makes sense. ainsley: i think it's great. you don't have to clean out the closet. wear layer as little longer. brian: you never think when you reach for a groundhog that it could bite. steve: a couple years ago staten island phil bit mayor de blasio and he dropped it and then he died, the ground hog. ainsley: i didn't know he bought it because he was bitten? brian: don't realize there is a danger to that ritual. steve: something they do every ground hog day and we're always happy that we could bring that to you live. ainsley: always fun. ed henry is live with the message about, you know, we have been talking about, ed, all this hollywood actors that are anti-trump. but matthew mcconaughey has a different message this morning. >> yeah.

is he getting behind donald trump. by the way we didn't need the groundhog to tell us six more weeks of winter. the president of the united states had already signaled a deep freeze fort mead i can't. [laughter] >> sorry, interesting transition, i guess. he met with african-american leaders for black history month among the leaders dr. ben carson, of course. his new housing, incoming housing secretary. also pastor darryl scott among others. you remember him from cleveland. he was key in helping to elect donald trump in ohio and turning out the african-american vote. he use offed the occasion, the president, to remind everyone about how the media had falsely reporterred that the mlk bust had been removed from the oval office. that had not happened, obviously. and so he used this to lash out again at the mainstream media. >> a lot of the media is actually the opposition party. they are so biased and really it's a disgrace. some of the media is fantastic and fair. but so much of the media is opposition party.

and knowingly saying incorrect things. so, it's a very sad situation. but we seem to be doing well. you know, it's almost like in the meantime we won. so maybe think will have the influence. they really have to straighten out their act. they are very dishonest people u. >> as we saw those violent outbursts, riots really out in berkeley in california last night. someone out in hollywood as you mentioned matthew mcconaughey promoting a new movie and actually is saying enough is enough. it's time to give donald trump a chance. >> well, they don't have a choice now. he's our president. and it's very dynamic and divisive inauguration in time that we have ever had. at the same time, it's time for us to embrace, shake hands with this guy and be constructive with him over the next four years. so anyone, even those most strongly may disagree with his

principles or things he said and done, which is another thing. we will see what he does compared to what he has said, no matter how much you even disagreed along the way, it's time to think about how constructive can you be? because is he our president for the next four years, at least president of the united states. >> a clear message of course from matthew mcconaughey to the president's critics to relax and give him a chance. the president's critics still lashing out and saying the president should stop beating up on the media, that he should move on as well. but i will tell you that at this meeting at the white house yesterday e the president also again went after cnn, calling it fake news. guys? steve: all right, ed, thank you very much. speaking of incorrect news. moments ago i said that the groundhog in staten island was staten island phil. staten island chuck. brian: oh my goodness complaints already? steve: two phils maybe that's not right. i looked it um. ainsley: glad you made that correction. brian: the president's poll

numbers are going up. gallup not a fly by night operation had him at 45. now he is 49% approval in a very polarized country. i don't know if you heard. we seem to be in. that's pretty significant. steve: no kidding. speaking of polarization. the president also hammering democrats yesterday telling republicans to go nuclear, mitch, if the democrats try to block his supreme court pick. listen. >> there will be 60 votes. >> it's the same things they have been saying about every republican nominee. >> we end up with that gridlock, i would say if you can, mitch, go nuclear. > brian: so what is judge gorsuch facing now? let's speak to former counts loor george w. bush ed gillespie almost the senator from virginia. he knows about the confirmation efforts for justice roberts and leith and joins us now to weigh in. ed, do you envy those who sheparshepherd the justice from meeting to meeting? >> it's a great experience, brian. and those meeting to meetings

by the way with the senators are a very revealing moments and you learn a lot about what to expect in the hearings. and there is some trip wires there. and it used to be that you would just meet with the chairman and the ranking member and then it became all the members of the judiciary committee and now it's pretty much all the members of the senate if they want to meet with the nominee. and i don't envy them. it's a grind and it's grueling. but you get a good sense as someone working on the confirmation effort of the nominee and how well they will do in the hearings. so it's a good run -- it's a good drill to run. steve: i love the fact that, you know, people from the opposition party, they sit down with the nominee and they are all, you know, happiness and small talk in their private meetings and then they go on the floor of the senate and try to destroy somebody. ed, you mentioned there are trip wires. what are you talking about? >> well, you will find out what certain members of the committee are really interested in. whether it's separation of powers or the commerce clause.

they all, each one, has their own kind of area when it comes to a nominee that they care about. and it's good to kind of get that sense and it will help prepare for the hearings. but it's clear from watching judge gorsuch the other night that he is going to be very, very well prepared. already just by virtue of his experience. and his intellect and his writings. he is going to fare very well in the hearing process. they will see someone that they will have great comfort on the bench as they look at the judge in these proceedings. ainsley: ed, what were your thoughts when you heard donald trump say to the senators they should invoke the nuclear power? >> well, you know, it's been talked about for a long time. and it was clear that harry reid was, you know, prepared to do that. he is the one that lowered the bar in terms of judicial nominations and confirmations for president obama. he set the precedent. now, it's not been used in a supreme court instance. and but neither has an actual

filibuster been deployed. i remember for justice leith when i was working for him, john kerry had said from switzerland, i think, that he was going to filibuster. but they never actually implemented a filibuster as i recall it. if this is deployed here against a supreme court nominee, it seems to me it's the only option that's available to leader mcconnell. and but nobody knows the rules better than he does. brian: so, ed, how does it work? before there is an actual vote they will know. have you -- you need 8 democrats. so joe manchin k4r50er8 is probably the most obvious. you will know by when, do you think, how many votes he has? because they say the earliest he will be -- the whole confirmation process takes until aim. when are you going to get the sense how bad this is going to be? >> i think most of these -- usks, the senators who are in very deep blue states, you know, people like chuck

schumer, elizabeth warren and others will rush to the microphones and vow they are going to block the nominee and they will respond to the protesters and the liberal base. but there is a lot of senators as, you know who are up, democrats in states that president trump won in november. and they will be much more cautious. and they will be watching to see the public response. and i think the public is tired of this kind of stuff. and i think they want to have a full court. and i think anyone who saw the announcement and saw this judge, you can see this person as a sitting member of the united states supreme court. and so i think public, you know, in these swing states that are up in 18, the public demand is going to be for confirmation. steve: of course you are from the commonwealth of virginia where you are, in reading the local papers down there, ed, you are the frontrunner on the republican side to be governor. how are things going in the race? >> well, i take nothing for granted.

i'm working very hard every day as you can see. i'm in rich monday now. but this is a critically important moment for the commonwealth of virginia. we are at a critical juncture. i have a plan to get us growing again. people can learn more about it at ed for virginia.com. it's going very well. i have always noticed in my -- steve: apparently we only paid for the satellite until 7:30. brian: absolutely. ainsley: ed, if you can hear us, thanks for joining us. steve: what was his website ed for virginia.com? brian: google ed gillespie and see what pops up. rnc. key aide to president bush. almost senator from virginia and now is going to be very -- is he going to be a legitimate contender to be the next governor from virginia. steve: unique view on somebody to shepherd somebody nominated for the supreme court because did he it with leith and roberts. coming up in new york city, the media so obsessed with what they call muslim ban.

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brian: look that's -- steve: look at that this event dates back to the eisenhower era. and, of course, it was back in 2013 that ben carson famously railed against the welfare state and put himself on the map. brian: wow, who is that? who are those two? they look familiar. mark burdett, he and his wife roma downing put together the jesus series and went a.d. after that they talked about life after jesus which has been going pretty well. also a special thanks to eisenhower for putting this together. that was mentioned in bret baier's book. did i not know that. ainsley: all different denominations are coming together to pray for our country and pray for our president. brian: that is the co-chair of our breakfast senator coons of delaware. saying so nervous. hope it goes right. number one i would dip the microphone.

ainsley: this is taking place at the hilton steve used to live blocks away. steve: given the fact that washington, d.c. is so polarized right now and there is a freakout on one side as we heard from some republicans it's because they lost. whatever, today is the day of the national prayer breakfast. a day to set politics aside and to be a little more spiritual. will they be? you're going to hear from the president 25 minutes from no right now. brian: everyone say a hail mary and let's change gears. punxsutawney phil, get this, has seen his shadow at gobbler's knob, thousands cheered. have no idea how they are getting out at the same time. janice dean is in the middle of this. what is the technical term. why is it from a meteorological point of view a groundhog seeing his shadow lengthens winter? >> this has been going on for 131 years. they tell me it's the same groundhog.

and at the drinks special punch every seven years to make him continue to stay alive to do these forecasts every year on groundhog day. and they say that he has predicted six more weeks of winter. 103 times where he has only predicted 18 times that spring will arrive. so he is very favorable towards more winter. and you have never seen 15,000 people clear out so fast from gobbler's knob after this. but you know what? this is such great family event. i mean thousands of people come to gobbler's knob to see this event every single year. i met phil yesterday. he was in kind of a bad mood that could be a factor in why he said more winter has arrived. the fact that, you know, we have had a really mild spring as well. people are, right now, getting their picture taken with phil, and, you know, the other great thing about groundhog day, i

got to experience it for the very first time. and yesterday, guys, i was inducted into the punxsutawney weather discovery hall of fame for meteorologists. 14 of us. second woman to be inducted. so that was a big moment for me. really excited to be here. i know he predicted more winter but i'm still excited and i'm still here. back to you. ainsley: janice, i'm sitting here thinking what do your boys think because they are still young. remember when you were a kid this was a huge deal. you always wanted to go to the tv and watch. your children especially what are they saying about it? >> my family is here. my husband was so excited when he knew i was going to be inducted. he didn't want to come to the super bowl but he wanted to come to punxsutawney. so my whole family is here. this has been such a great event. he was more excited than i think when he proposed. i have never really seen him this excited. steve: we feel sorry for you on that. janice, congratulations to you. she brought up the super bowl.

>> thank you, guys. steve: rooms in punxsutawney, pennsylvania costing more than in houston for the super bowl. 450 bucks per night average price in punxsutawney, pennsylvania. ainsley: don't have to have a ticket for that event. what are the tickets average on super bowl? >> $4,000. maybe i'm making that up. go down the block to the ticket broker. the guy that just seems to have it wear as tight t-shirt comes to the door. ainsley: wear as white t-shirt. >> steve: don't look at the ticket? ainsley: heather, we were talking to you earlier your boys love groundhog day. >> teachers talk about it in school. i sent a clip of it. they love janice. guy a couple headlines to bring to you. good morning, do not mess with america. that is the warning coming from the white house directly to iran. the president tweeting this morning, quote: iran has been formally put on notice for firing a ballistic missile.

should have been thankful for the terrible deal the u.s. made with them. the president also went on to say this, quote. iran was on its last legs and ready to collapse until the u.s. came along and gave it a lifeline in the form of the iran deal. 150 billion. well, these warnings coming days after iran test-fired a ballistic missile. a violation of u.n. security council resolution. well, this as the mainstream media obsesses over president trump's immigration crackdown. christians, millions of them across the globe, are being persecuted. open doors u.s.a. releasing a disturbing new report saying an estimated 215 million christians worldwide face some degree of% execution in the last year alone. an expert telling fox news there are many places on earth where being a christian is the most dangerous thing you can be. in fact, last year 90,000 christians were killed for their faith. we have seen that certainly in iraq and syria. well, if you are trying to score super bowl ticket, you

might want to buddy up with this guy. lyle just won tickets for the big game for life. that's thanks to bud light. the man in kansas found a golden can of beer in a case. he submitted a picture online and was then chosen as the grand prize winner out of nearly 40,000 entries. he will be cheering on the patriots at this year's game. we told you all about that. did you all buy that bud light? you can have that, too. steve: he found it in his 30 pack. heather: got to have 30 pack don't go for 24. brian: i didn't know they had a 30 pack. steve: showed you live picture from the national prayer breakfast. keep in mind we are in a prayer where the tv this big 12 feet away. that was actually the mvp for the chicago cubs and his wife julianna who has been a guest on this program. and the reason that mark burnett and roma downey were in attendance is they were the big speakers at last year's

event. brian: plus known in the christian community. ainsley: amazing. brian: two of the most religious movies ever. democrats have been working hard to make sure no work gets done in washington. and look who is leading the charge. >> what the president has done is not in the interest of security. it is reckless. it is reckless and rash. brian: someone hand her the bull horn. the congressman who challenged nancy pelosi's leadership got more votes than anybody else, gives the president -- he says give the president a chance. he will be joining us live next. ainsley: liberals are slamming the president for saying he might deport illegal immigrants on well fair. but it's been the law for 100 years. a debate that you won't see anywhere else. ♪ give a little bit ♪ give a little bit of your time to me ♪

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>> if you breathe air, drink water, eat food, take medicine or in any other way interact with the courts, this is a very bad decision. >> what the president has done is not in the interest of security. it is reckless. it is reckless and rash. brian: wow. democrats have not been quiet about the disapproval of president trump's performance on everything from orders on immigration and pick for the supreme court. nancy pelosi has been leading the charge even though she obviously does not have a vote there what happened to her call to find common ground with the republicans? here to react is the ohio democratic congressman many people say a rising star on the left who mounted a challenge to pelosi to lead house democrats and got more votes than anybody else who has challenged her over the

last decade plus congressman tim ryan. how would you characterize this era of nancy pelosi's leadership in the house so far? >> well, it's been very combative. but, you know, trump has put forth a couple things that i agree with and i think other democrats agree with getting back to renegotiating tpp. looking at nafta very, very closely. but he has made some decisions that have incited democrats, i think with the immigration order, the immigration ban that has made us less safe. i mean, we are alienating a lot of our muslim allies in the middle east. we have alien nate add lot of muslim americans. and that's not a good way to fight terrorism. we need those folks on our side. you are talking about over a billion people in the world and to cast all of them as somehow bad and wrong, i think is not only unconstitutional, i don't think it's good strategy for us. so we -- you know, there are things we have got to fight

him on and i'm happy to do that. brian: in terms of the democrats and the leadership, it seems like there is fighting on everything. i know you have been witnessing some on the senate from them not showing up at committee meetings, holding up the nomination process entirely. and outside betsy devos who got some republican turbulence it really seems to be a big stop sign. is that an effective strategy, do you think? >> well, i think you have got to pick your spots. personal live i think have you got to ping your spots. i don't know if you can despite on all areas. i just don't know if that's right. let's remember. and i love coming on with you guys because i think we can have these adult confirmations. i mean, the republicans blocked everything president obama did. you know, you guys weren't really complaining when, you know, we were holding up or republicans were holding up a supreme court nominee for president obama. so this is the give and take of politics. it's messy. it's ugly. there are fights. we shouldn't expect anything different. it's been this way for over 200 years. we will have fights like this and i think it's appropriate to have fights like this.

brian: two got through right await a minute the third one was the turbulence. real quick, anyone come up with you and said i wish we went with you, congressman ryan maybe on the q.t.? >> i got my share of friends here. you know, i think we gave a real voice, i think. i like the fact that we are fighting. but at the same time, you know, we have got to make sure that we find areas of common ground to work with the president. we owe it to our constituents. and, you know, i have got a few friends out there that still like me and wish i would be leader and a few democrats out there wish that was the case. that wasn't the case. they made the decision and here we are. we have got to move forward. the bottom line is we have got to do the work of the american people. we are going to get fights because whether you have a supreme court nominee that trump campaigned on draining the swamp and he is not for any campaign finance reform. trump campaigned for the working class. this guy is for repealing right-to-work which allows people to organize. you will get a fight on that stuff.

brian: make sure you learn the words to this land is your land in case you get the nod. >> thanks. brian: straight ahead on the run down, the left slamming the president for saying he might deport illegal immigrants on welfare? what's the deal? it's been the law for 100 years. debate you won't see anywhere else ♪ we're going to let it burn, burn, burn. ♪

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us. >> thanks for having me. >> cheyenne, what did you think about this when you heard it? >> beth, can you hear me? >> now i can. ainsley: what did you think about it? >> yes, hi. well, the lawsuits are presenting from the left three constitutional arguments. the first is based on religious amendment. third second would be due process and establishment -- i'm sorry equal protection under the 5th and 14th amendments. in my opinion these cases aren't going to go anywhere. i believe they pass constitutional muster. the standard would be a strict scrutiny standard and especially under the religious freedom, under the first amendment, this is not a ban against muslims. i don't believe any court is going to actually hold it as a ban against muslims when the vast majority of muslims aren't even affected by this ban. it's seven countries. and these seven countries they

are either jihadi trading camps. some of them are enemies of the state and others are, you know, they are just terrorist breeding grounds. the president's job is to protect americans. he has every right under the law to be able to protect us and keep us safe. >> cheyenne, why are you against us if the president is just following the law? >> are you talking about the welfare question or are you talking about muslims? >> yeah. >> i think that might have misunderstood the question. everybody comes to this great country with an american dream and sometimes they don't work out the way they should or do. basically we have to think about looking into these things case by case. helping them with training, skills, and trying to make sure that they are able to get, you know, up on their feet again. look. ainsley: shayan, doesn't it bother you though as a tax-paying citizen that you are paying for people who are not here legally, yet, our veterans can't get fair and they are fighting for our country. >> well, but illegal

immigrants do not get welfare. that's just not the truth. legal immigrants can get welfare after five years under the 1996 law passed by bill clinton. ainsley: we are talking about illegal immigrants though. how could donald trump deport legal citizens? >> well, no, no, no. the question is whether he can deport illegal -- legal immigrants who are on welfare to basically. ainsley: that are not citizens yet? >> yes. exactly. that's exactly it illegal immigrants are already deportable, right? they can't even get welfare. but legal immigrants who can be deported if they rely on government assistance, there is a process for it, but, like i said, you know, look, this the republican party says this country is based on you judeo-christian principles. most unchristian thing to do take somebody down on their luck and kick you out and at least not try to get to you a point where you can educate your children. ainsley: okay.

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steve: all right. you're looking live at the washington hilton on connecticut street in northwest washington d.c. it's the national prayer breakfast. it has been going since 1963. we're going to hear the president of the united states speak within just a couple of minutes but as you can see right there, mike pence the vice president is going to do some talking. brian: yep and -- ainsley: he's going to shake hands with everyone on both sides of the microphone. brian: saying hello to everyone. he's very comfortable in this setting. ainsley: many christians, evangelicals voted for donald trump because of mike pence and the importance of the --

>> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. [applause] [applause] [applause]

steve: all right. 3,500 people in attendance at the national prayer breakfast in the international ballroom at the washington hilton. politicians, faith leaders, dignitaries as well. speaking of dignitaries, we've got carl cameron. you were in the room in 2015 when ben carson, few people knew to talk about something political. >> yeah. obamacare. ben carson 2013 really made history and changed the tenure of that prayer breakfast with some very candid remarks of what he believed the tax rates should be in this country and american health care should be organized, and it was not anything like what barack obama had proposed. the sitting president on the day said ben carson let loose, and it launched what was for him ultimately a presidential run that went against donald

trump and now he is the secretary of health and housing urban development. brian: and he was running for president a short time ago. >> yeah. brian: interesting to see mark barnet talk to donald trump. when he came up for the idea of the apprentice, he said donald trump would be the perfect guy. put everyone back into consciousness, and a lot of people thought to themselves, you know what? this guy does have great command, great leadership. but key ever be president? the answer is yes. ainsley: we also have ed henry who joins us live in washington d.c. what does the national prayer breakfast mean? >> well, the history is you have these leaders of both parties, where you give public officials to talk about their faith, and i think what's significant is that this is a chance for donald trump to do that. because if you remember in the campaign, he was mocked a bit by his critics that he was somebody who really didn't know a lot about scripture and

there were fits and starts of his meetings with evangelical leaders and whatnot and then in the end, evangelicals came around and largely supported him. in part because of the pick of mike pence as vice president, obviously, that was a very important decision for donald trump. but he did talk openly about his faith in the campaign, number one. and number two, this is just one of the rituals that any president, democrat or republican does each year by going to this breakfast and talking about their faith and think back a few days ago when some of the president's critics were mocking the idea that his announcement for the first pick of the supreme court will be like a reality show and what's this going to be in prime time? and instead he stepped up and had a very traditional event in the east room of the white house with a pick that has been widely hailed as somebody who's imminently qualified to be on the high court, even had to democrats have opposition on some of his positions and whatnot. so, look, he rose to the occasion a couple of nights ago.

this is a chance for him to do that again this morning. steve: excellent point. carl cameron here on the couch with us in new york city. carl, what's interesting about this right now is that given the fact that we're just two weeks into the president trump administration and the town is so much at everyone's throat. if there was ever a time for prayer today is the day. >> well, the partnership has wrapped up again. we watched it escalate dramatically. but this is a nondenominatio nondenominational prayer breakfast. there will be rabbi, pastors, catholic priest, et cetera, et cetera. there may even be an appearance from somebody who's a muslim. not at all uncommon for this. this is all vinier. washington is on fire right now. democrats are digging in, trying to do anything they possibly can to stop the

supreme court pick. the threat whether the president will get mitch mcconnell to go quote nuclear. he's signed off on the idea to do away with the filibuster, which would dramatically change the senate, and both of these have the party dig in. and trump loves to seem the way. his call where he hung up after 25 minutes and made it very clear that he wasn't happy with it has stretched the turmoil yet again. steve: although we were talking to kellyanne conway just an hour ago, and it sounds like that leak did not come from the white house. maybe it came from the state department trying to make trump look bad. brian: that also. steve: but it backfired because it looks like trump is willing to walk away. >> the australia -- he kept saying i'm not going to talk about the conversation, i'm not going to talk about the conversation and just like the press does here, we through some of the leaked quotes at him, and you could tell he was in a ditch. ainsley: and then he ended up tweeting about it saying it

was a stupid deal. >> uh-huh. brian: hey, carl, there's the other thing going on too. we can't get anyone to lead the epa. there's all types of problems with the nominees and kellyanne conway was on with us a little while ago and talked about the no show democrats came to these committees. listen. >> the democratic party we're seeing it unravel in front of our eyes and revealed in front of our eyes. a bunch of crybabies who is that they're going to oppose the supreme court nominee before they even know the person's name and academic credentials and record. they are holding. our nominees to the cabinet. i was told yesterday this is the longest that the nation has gone without a secretary of treasury at least in modern times, if not the longest, it's darn close to it. this obstruction is a modern democratic party. i think it's going to cost them because they're hysterical about everything now. you can't even -- there's no.

ainsley: she brings up a good point. there's six so far. president obama had seven confirmed on day one. >> yeah. they're behind. no question about it. the trump white house has some responsibility for this. their transition team was a rather stop and go kind of process during the campaign, which meant that they weren't entirely prepared for the actual taking over of power and putting people in place. and it's also true that democrats -- republicans blocked the nomination all throughout last year because it was the election year. steve: the biden rule. the joe biden rule. >> the biden rule. this is fair play and the same thing happened when the obama administration came in, republicans were dragging their feet, and it has been going on like this for quite some time. but it is definitely longer than any previous president. steve: ed, i have a request he for you. and that is this. is the freak out, you know, where they are obstructionist, is that the only play the democrats have at this point? i mean, they don't have the house, they don't have the senate, they don't have the white house. >> yeah. it is, but i think

chuck schumer may have miscalculated because he started trying to go after a whole series of these cabinet picks knowing full well he probably could not stop them, especially if he can't get any republicans to oppose him. so as carl was saying, betsy devos, for example, as education secretary. there's two republicans who have come forward and said, you know, we're against her. and if you peel off republicans, there's a chance to stop some of these. but because of who? harry reid who changed the senate precedent and made it only 51 votes instead of 60 for cabinet secretaries, that's actually helping donald trump. by the way, on the prayer breakfast i want to note if donald trump sort of breaks with the normas carl was saying with these phone calls with prime ministers, another ritual where it's very nice, and you don't hang up the phone and people are freaking up about that. if he gets there before the prayer breakfast and does

something very nontraditional and starts lashing out, you're going to see his critics jump up. but let's not forget in 2015 at the prayer breakfast, barack obama said that people should get off their high horse he said about radical islam and compare what radical islam does to what the christians did during the crusades and jim crow area. he got a lot of throw back on that. steve: good point. >> some of their nominees haven't gotten all the paperwork to the senate and the democrats are using that to drag their heels even longer. brian: what about your choice, carl, to be partisan on this couch? steve: no, he's not a partisan, he's here to be a chef. >> i resemble that remark. we're having new england clam chowder and patriots chilly. steve: but your stand is somewhat controversial. >> listen, i go through campaigns, and i never pick anything. i'm a die hard everything when it comes to new england.

steve: it's great to have you on this conversation. we're going to take you down to the nationa national prayer breakfast as soon as the president takes the podium. ainsley: we're going to hand it over to headline who has headlines for us in the meantime. >> hi, good morning. carl, nice to have you in town. we start with a fox news alert breaking overnight unhinged liberals destroying their own liberal campus. protesters claiming to be protecting american rights, causing chaos all in order to block a commentator who is considered by some to be conservative, other say he's libertarian. they wanted to block him from speaking and watch what happened. rioters selling fires with molotov cocktails fireworks and reports of flag burning. all this to stop breitbart editor from giving a speech on his viewpoint. even targeting a president trump supporter with pepper spray.

she's okay but the violence against other supporters was also reported. senior adviser to the president reacting to the chaos earlier on fox and friends. >> is it this free speech? have been someone on your campus who has this point of view or wants to present an alternative point of view? and, look, in the real world when these kids grow up and try to find jobs, which they will in the trump economy, life doesn't work that way, folks. >> you see berkeley officials have condemned that violence. we're trying to figure out if anyone has been arrested, though. steve: someone is waking up no starbucks out there. >> they ruined one of the starbucks. all right. thanks. steve: coming up straight ahead the president's pick to turn the va around and give our heroes the care they deserve, cruising through his senate hearing, is he on track for the confirmation? veterans affairs committee only on fedex and friends

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ainsley: democratic leadership threatening to challenge president trump's nomination to the supreme court. >> if this nominee cannot meet the same standard that republicans insisted upon for president obama's supreme

court nominees, 60 votes in the senate, then the problem lies not with the senate but with the nominee. steve: so how do other democratic senators stand on this one? let's talk to montana senator. good morning to you. >> good morning it's great to be with you. steve: it's great to have you as well. you talk to your folks back in montana enough. how do they feel about what looks like to many the democrats play right now is to say no to everything trump related? and he brought up this guy who would like to be the next supreme court justice a couple of nights ago and rather than give him a chance, a lot of democrats are saying nope. we're going to filibuster. what do you say? >> well, montana sent me here to do the job as a u.s. senator representing them in washington d.c. of course and part of that job is advise and consent. we're going to be bringing in the supreme court nominee. we're going to sit down and visit with him about rural issues, the constitution, a

number of different issues that are really, really critically important. not only to montana but this country. and we'll base our decision based on that and what i read about some of the court decisions that he's -- steve: so you're going to give him a chance? >> oh, absolutely, yes. and i think that's critically important moving forward that we do our job, evaluate him for what he is and vote yes or no based on that evaluation. brian: senator, do you feel as though if he comes out -- he's obviously going to be more conservative in his opinions and background than you are, is that where the rubber hits the road for you? >> well, i think it's going to be a number of things. we're going to look at -- i think he's going to be a pro, he'll do a fine job presenting himself. but also it's going to be talking to him about the gravity of the position, where he is on a number of issues that apply to rural america and just getting a feel about how he views the country, views the world, and views the

position of supreme court justice. ainsley: senator, have you talked to some other democrat that are in a position where they're not sure which way to vote because they're up for reelection, and they live in a state where donald trump won, yet they're democrat? >> you know, i think this is a bigger decision than an election would dictate, quite frankly. i think everybody i visited with -- and to be honest, i haven't visited with a lot of people about what they're going to do on this, but the folks i have visited with are willing to give him a shake and move forward and election aside, i think it's an important -- one of the most important decisions we make, quite frankly. steve: so i know the va secretary position,ing ranking member there. david is up, he evidently got great reviews. one thing he said we will not be privatizing the veterans health care. is that good with you? >> yes, it is. i mean, i think david did a great job in the confirmationy. he gave great answers to everybody on the panel both republican and democrat.

i think, you know, he's been there for 18 months. i think he knows the problems with the va. and as senator said, there's going to be no grace period here. you know what's wrong. we expect you to get to work to fix it. and i think chairman isaacson, myself, and other members on the committee will hold him accountable. steve: are going to vote for him? >> i intend to vote for his confirmation. steve: excellent, well, that's an exclusive. >> thank you, guys. have a great day. steve: good news for the new va secretary. meanwhile we're waiting for the president to speak live at the national prayer breakfast down in washington d.c. as soon as he takes the podium, we're going to take you back there live. brian: and the democrats in hysterical over everything the president is doing. >> was mean-spirited and un-american. steve: speaker of the house paul ryan here to react. ainsley: carl is actually a

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chowder and new england patriots and for lack of a better term with, we're calling it patriot chilly. and it's steak-tipped chilly. and it's a knock off of actually the only recipe that won the national chilly bake off by jason buma, the chef. so i hijacked a little bit of the ingredients and stuff like that. steve: are you going to make it for us today? >> what we're going to do is finish off with clam chowder. so you have to have a basic stock of onions and cellar, you get that cooked up and buttered in a little bit, and then you add clam juice. steve: okay. brian: taken from real clams. >> magic elixir and heavy

cream. ainsley: what was that? >> that's a secret. ainsley: well, how are you supposed to make it? >> i'll get it for you. steve: it's on our website. >> it's just vegetable stock. it's simple. so you throw that in with the heavy cream and then comes the potatoes. steve: sure. >> and -- brian: who diced? did you dice this morning? >> no. the wonderful staff judy did. but. steve: and a couple of -- >> so that goes there and simmer for 20 minutes. so now what you do is that's been sitting there, and you pour the clams in. brian: you clammed these yourself? you walked in sand? >> there were places where i lived in massachusetts where you could actually go clamming. brian: we go clamming in long island all the time. >> now it's a no-no in where i

live. generally speaking you won't necessarily need it. ainsley: you always scoop away. steve: scoop away? >> croutons come with a separate recipe. brian: this is what the connallyists used to live on. >> back in the day, lobster was a poor man's food. and the guys who harvested oysters would eat oysters and lobster all day long. it was considered worker food. nowadays you come to manhattan, and it's 75 bucks to get a lobster. >> did you ever see yourself doing a cooking segment? >> i've been dying to come here. ever since the segment started. ainsley: how did you get the name campaign carl? obviously you're on the campaign trail but who came up with it? brian: i know. >> chef smith. steve: he did. >> when chef was hosted the 7:00 show fox report, they did a bit each year where it was campaign carl and the

washington angle. jim angel our chief correspondent. so he put everybody's name into a upon and mine was just a reimer, and it has never gone away. in fact, the president of the united states most of the campaign referred to me only as, hey, campaign. steve: mr. culinary carl, the recipes are great. i actually like the chowder better than the chilly. both recipes on our website fox and friends.com brian: he cooks, and he does everything. he's self sufficient. steve: meanwhile straight ahead president trump expected to speak at any moment at the breakfast. we'll take you down there when it happens, it will be a fox news alert. brian: and we're getting close. meanwhile the democrats over hysterical over everything president trump is doing it seems. ainsley: speaker of the house paul ryan has a message for them, and you're going to hear it right here on fox and friends. introducing theraflu expressmax

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amount of push back you guys are getting in everything that you're doing yet the president's approval generating is up 5 points, 49%. i guess the american people aren't as upset as democrats. how has that changed the way you're doing things being that there's such push back everywhere? >> it doesn't. how is that for an answer? steve: that's a good one and a short one. the democrats are completely freaking out, mr. speaker. >> they are. it doesn't change anything. we've got a plan, we had a plan with the president on what we wanted to get done in 2017. get jobs, reform the tax code, repeal and replace obamacare, get the borders secured. there's a lot of things we want to do. we're not going to get distracted with these tactics, we want to get work done because that's exactly why people voted for us. i kind of remember the feeling. i remember what it was like when we lost the house, the senate, and the white house. so i can relate to democrats on that front, which why i understand they're upset because they had a bad election, and they're upset about it.

that's not going to deter us from getting our work done and do what we. elected to do. ainsley: and a fox exclusive interview, secretary kelly, he said that the wall is going to be built down on the mexican border in the next two years. is that true? >> i think it's up to him because it's really the executive branch that has to execute the policy. we've already authorized this, meaning the law was passed almost ten years ago. and then we will give the financing to secretary kelly to go build the wall and the border security plan. so it's really up to them as to how fast they can execute this policy. he's the kind of guy that can get this thing done. he will have the funding to do it, and he already has the authorization to do it. brian: mr. speaker, i understand that the president is somewhat disappointed that there's not tax reform done right away. that the plan doesn't seem to be agreed upon or done yet. i always thought you wake up in the morning with a plan like that, just didn't have the power to implement it. where is tax reform on your things to-do list and how

ready is it to put on the president's desk? >> yeah. it's just a sequence of things. we already have a tax reform plan.com. you can go to the website and take a look at the one the house put up there. but it's because the american health care system is in the middle of a collapse. it's because five states only have one health insurance choice. one out of three counties only have one health insurancan choice. the deductibles are triple that. premiums are going up double-digit again. so we feel the need to rescue this system here. and that's why we're going with health care first and that's the first budget. and then in the spring when we do our second budget, that's where tax reform comes. it's just simply -- you can't do them at the same time because the way the budget system works. so it's repeal and replace obamacare so we can save and repair the health system in the country. and then it's tax reform, which gets its economic growth. and that's just the way the budget law works. steve: now, mr. speaker, you just used the word repair twice. >> i want to clarify this

because there's a miscommunication going on. if we're going to repair the u.s. health care system and get back to a patient-centered system that actually does lower cost and give peoples peace of mind, you must repeal and replace obamacare. steve: right. >> so what we've got going on here is a confluence of words. to repeal and replace, you have to repair this law. steve: so it's not a change. >> no. steve: this bloomberg story says that your retreat somebody snuck into and recorded parts of donald trump and whatnot a number of republicans so upset about how things are going, reportedly, according to this story, that you've moved from the language repeal to replace to repeal and repair. >> no. we much repair the system but you repeal and replace obamacare. if we had lost the election, democrats would be rushing to try to save the system from collapse. so that's the point, and i think what it is is people missed reporting or missed communicating if we're going

to repair the american health care system, which is in the middle of a collapse right now, you have to repeal and replace this law. steve: okay. you said you have to do that first but going back to brian's point about tax reform, initially we heard it's going to be in the first 100 days. then suddenly you're talking about -- >> that's why i put a 200-day plan out there. steve: 200 days. now they're talking about maybe by the end of the year. maybe by the end of next year. >> no. no. that's not true. i don't know who's saying that. it's just the way the budget works that we won't get the ability to write our tax reform until the spring budget. so this is a 200-day plan. there's nobody talking about pushing this into 2018. ainsley: what's after that? what's the next issue? >> so part of our basic plan i just said repeal, replace obamacare. while we're working on things simultaneously, regulatory reform is critical. we're passing regulatory bills right now going back into the obama administration, and getting rid of very harmful regulation that costs us jobs.

also working on border security. and then spring budget, ainsley, we have to rebuild our military. we have to get some fiscal discipline s towards balanced budget. these are the kinds of things we have to do. so close deficits, get tax reform, and rebuild our military. all of those things are things we're working on. brian: and i understand rebuilding the military, and i think president trump is taking an interesting tact in drilling down on the contractors. the way they caved makes me think we've been -- >> i have never seen anything like this before. this is my 19th year in congress. i have never seen a president -- i mean, is this what you get when you get a business guy in office. a president get so granular in defense department expenditures and to go quickly and get savings. this means we can stretch that pentagon dollar even further and get more equipment without hitting the taxpayer hard so that's our men and women in uniform don't have to choose between fiscal discipline and getting the tools they need. it's actually really something

that's exciting to see. brian: and totally caught a lot of people by surprise. real quick, you didn't mention a trillion-dollar stimulus. that's something that will bring democrats in. i don't know where you find a trillion dollars. i don't have it. ainsley has some. steve has a little. but where is that. ainsley: yesterday you said i have a billion. now i have a trillion. where is it? >> so we're going to start negotiations with ainsley and steve in the summer about how they're going to help us finance infrastructure package. just joking. no, that comes out of our spring budget as well. we have to come up with the fiscal space for our infrastructure package. but remember, this isn't a trillion dollars of taxpayer spending. how do we leverage private sector dollars so we have to leverage more spending on things like pipelines and things like that. faa reform. we have to overhaul the entire air traffic control system. that's a huge infrastructure of piece with airports. that's all part of this. steve: absolutely and as you said a moment ago, you have a businessman now in that job. he's doing a lot.

you know what? i think he has tweeted maybe five or six or seven times already this morning. mr. speaker, are the tweets growing on you? do you get what he's doing? >> you know, i don't actually see them all. steve: you hear about them. >> i definitely hear about them. there's no two ways about that. but i'm pretty busy on the day job, so i'm not just hanging out on twitter. but i do. they are growing on me. like i tell everybody, this is going to be an unconventional presidency. look, i tried to become vice president in 2012. we lost the election. he won the election. and i think one of the big differences is he has learned how to communicate straight to people. he is giving voice to people who felt like they haven't been listened to in this country, and i think that's an amazing thing, and i think that's largely what he's able to accomplish with twitter. steve: all right. paul ryan, speaker of the house, thank you very much, sir. we know you have a busy day today. thank you for spending time with us. ainsley: heather has a fox news alert this morning. >> good morning to all of you, and it's a drastic story we're

following in delaware. we're now learning that a corrections officer who was held hostage by dangerous inmates at a maximum security prison has now been found dead. now the other hostage, a female worker we're told was safely rescued after being held nearly 24 hours inside that delaware facility. inmates overtook part of the condition on wednesday. they complained about conditions there and also president trump. they released two other prison workers and dozen of other inmates throughout the day. we're told that hostage situation is now over as we take a look at aerials from that prison. we are working to learn if any inmates are holding any other hostages who are dead or alive. we will bring that information to you as soon as we get it. but we are certainly praying for that officer's family this morning. a real tragedy. steve: thank you, heather. ainsley: coming up a 16-year-old girl kidnapped by her friend's father now opening up for the very first time. >> yes. he would pick me up at the neighborhood behind the school.

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shall be. ainsley: there he is. and that means you have six more weeks of winter. brian: he does look 130 years old. punxsutawney phil saw his shadow. thousands of people lined up at 3:00. they started drinking at 2:00. dancing and celebrating. this was the biggest crowd in groundhog day history. steve: that's right janice dean right now is live in punxsutawney, pennsylvania with the 130-year-old groundhog. phil himself who, janice, you said earlier he is able to appear so vital and youthful thanks to a secret juice or punch? >> yeah. apparently. so ron and john are here with me. they are punxsutawney phil's official handlers. how did it go, guys? and tell me, this groundhog is 131 years old; correct? >> that is correct.

he's taken very good care of and gets the elixir of life. >> the elixir of life. what is that exactly? >> it's a concoction and i have the formula with. it extends his life another seven years. >> can i try some? >> it doesn't work on humans. i'm just out of high school myself. i tried a little bit and see what happened to me. >> listen, this is a big day. phil right here, no other person here, no other reporter has this groundhog except me and you guys. tell me how it went today. >> it was a great day. we were kind of surprised for a thursday for the number of people we had here. everything went -- >> one of the biggest turnouts. >> yes, it was. >> okay. and i realize that we're in for more winter. but he typically does this to us. >> probably about 80% of the time we get -- he sees the shadow. but that's a science that i don't understand. i mean, it's a mystery to all of us. but apparently he knows what he's doing.

he's never wrong. >> well, that's it. he's 100% right all of the time. but it's because he speaks groundhog, and you guys can't quite understand it. >> neither ron or i do understand it. it's just the president of the club, and he can sometimes barrel speak english. >> me too. especially after that elixir. listen, you guys brought me the biggest treat of all time. here is phil. even waking up for us. phil, can you just tell us. we're doing a redo, and you'll give us more springtime? please. phil. phil. hi, buddy. steve: janice, it's a groundhog. you don't speak groundhog. ainsley: poor thing. he's just trying to rest. he had a long morning, janice. brian: janice think so she's trying to get ahold of a labrador. steve: so six more weeks of winter. there you have it. it is 12 minutes until the top of the hour. a 15-year-old girl sparking a nationwide amber alert after

being abducted by her friend's father now opens up for the first time. >> yes. he would pick me up at the neighborhood behind the school. >> okay. and where would you go? >> back to his house. steve: not a good story. the exclusive interview with dr. phil when he joins us live next. brian: but first let's check in with bill. >> i see what you did there pucks tawny phil and dr. phil. ainsley: you need to change your name. steve: phil joins us now. >> thank you, guys. good morning. news on iran, what's the strategy? news on immigration? what's the back story with the australian prime minister? news on the supreme court. with the senate ditch the rules again? berkeley was burning overnight. some asking where was the tolerance from the left? we have a ton to get through. shannon and i will see you top of the hour ten minutes away. hello, i'm an idaho potato farmer

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ainsley: december 2016 within a 15-year-old georgia girl made national headlines when she was believed to have been kidnapped by her friend's father. brian: kayla now speaking out for the first time in a exclusive interview with dr. phil about a relationship with a 37-year-old man. listen. >> you were leaving the house like you were going to school, but you were actually going to meet up with a 37-year-old man. >> yes. he would pick me up at the neighborhood behind the school. >> okay. and where would you go? >> we would go back to his house. steve: what a story. the host of dr. phil, dr. phil joins us live. this is a rough story. >> it's a chilling story for parents and a cautionary tale. this mother met this man. and one of the first things

she said to him is she can spend the night with your daughter but no boys. and he said of course no boys. here's the thing. he was a sex offender. he had molested a stepdaughter, a biological daughter previously. steve: he was on the registry of sex offenders? >> registered. and when she had been over there the first or second time, he was grooming her and molested her. and then they were in a six-month relationship with him sleeping with her known to his daughter. his daughter would walk to the room and finally he says, look, i think they're onto us. if you don't go with me, i'm going to kill myself, she's out the bedroom window and off they go on a multi-state run amber alert. and she gets away with him for the first four or five days. and she says this is really bad. he had her panhandling for money at gas stations, all sorts of things, and they found her just in the nick of time.

a person saw the amber alert recognized her and him, followed them on the highway for a long, long time calling police, stayed on their bumper until police got there and found them. ainsley: why in the world was this man allowed to have the biological daughter living with him after all the things that he had done? >> well, it's shocking, obviously. and that's the problem with these children falling through the cracks of the system. you go from one state to another. exactly where was she? steve: in addition to the 15-year-old girl, you talked to the mother as well; right? >> i did. and the mother had the best of intentions but was very naïve of what was going on. steve: here's the sound byte of the subpoena because she missed so much school. >> finally, she had missed so many days that they sent out a subpoena for her to go to court. we went before a judge, and he questioned her. he said who is this jason? and he said you're either going to tell me, or you're going to go to jail.

and then kayla told him who it was. i just fell apart. i couldn't believe it was a grown man messing with my daughter. steve: her mother had no idea? >> she had no idea and people in the community had seen these two together and the daughter knew about it. and when they went missing nobody said anything. nobody in the community said anything. and the daughter knew where they were the entire time and did not tell authorities. this mother's dying thinking her mother may have been kidnapped or whatever. his daughter knows where they are, is in contact with them, doesn't tell anybody. ainsley: no telling what she's been through in her life, though. so you can't blame her. >> a cautionary tale. and here's the thing. parents need to know. steve: so we're going to watch today. ainsley: check your local listing to find out what time it airs in your community

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