♪ ♪ heather: good morning, to you, you are watching "fox & friends first" on this friday morning. i am heather childers, we all made it to the weekend. abby: we made it. happy friday. thanks for starting your day with us. the white house working at lighting speed on communications direct o. heather: trump goes head to head with the mainstream media outraged over coverage of intelligence leaks. abby: breaking detail. >> good morning, to you, earlier this morning fox news learned that mike will be named as the white house communications director and he's the founder of several median communications companies and he's been involved in politics going back to 1998.

until now shown spicer has been filling that role and that of press secretary. this announcement comes after another busy day at the white house which included a wide-range prison conferences with no other, continuous reporting of fake news and in particular he pointed out the leaks that have been coming out of his administration, some of which he admitted were true. >> you could talk all you want about russia which is all fake news, fabricated deal to make up for the loss of the democrats and the press plays right into it. it's all fake news. the nice thing i see it's started to turn where people are now looking at the illegal, i think it's very important, the illegal, giving out classified information. >> in regards to those

responsible for the leaks, the president said he's asked the justice department to investigate and promised those individuals will pay a big price. >> i've gone to all of the folks of various agencies and i've actually called the justice department to look into the leaks, those are criminal leaks, they put out by people either in agencies, i think you'll see it stopping because now we have our people. >> the president also pushed back on reports that there's been all sorts of dysfunction within the white house, dispute inheriting a mess, his administration is running like a fine-tuned machine. speaking of machine later today, the president makes his way to south carolina where he will tour the new boeing plant there. and this weekend he will head down in florida and spend time in mar-a-lago and orlando for a rally. heather: a lot of time answering questions. abby: thank you, garrett.

mainstream media calling the president unhinged after he took on the media on press conference. our own chris wallace explains why he was anything but. >> he wasn't unhinged. i think that this was a determined effort by this president who is by far the best spokesman in his administration for his administration to cease the narrative. there's chaos, you have john mccain talking about there's disarray in the white house, there have been real problems, it's not just narrative. i'm in charge, i know what i'm doing. i'm not going to bend to washington, washington is going to have to get use today me. abby: what did you think about the president's press conference, log onto "fox & friends first" facebook page right after the show for a live debate with the #keep talking. heather: thanks, but no thanks.

the president turned down the job while the senate is pulling an all-nighter, you're looking at a live scene from the senate floor, they are worked to approve a new head with the epa. live. good morning, jackie. jackie: the senate up all night yet again and still on the floor discussing the president's pick to head the epa, scott pruitt. the oklahoma judge ordered released thousands of emails between pruitt and fossil fuel companies, many calling for vote to be delayed but still planned for around 1:00 p.m. today. another member of the president's team can officially start working. the senate confirming mulvaney. according to white house official vice admiral harward

who worked for defense contractor turned down the offer due to football and family commitments. still run forking the position lieutenant keith kellogg, acting national security adviser and general david portraeus. >> he has a law degree of harvard law school. great student, former clerk for samuel aledo and he has had a tremendous career, i think he'll be a tremendous secretary of labor. jackie: those hearings expected to last three to four days. abby. abby: busy weeks and many weeks to come. heather: thank you, jackie. abby: search for child killer

intensifies in indiana, investigators are now searching a home. it's still unclear what, if anything, they have found. the girls' bodies were found in wooded area while vanished during a hike. the police releasedded a photo of a man spotted. >> authorities say the ben jam inn thomas samuel mcdowell was busted when he tried to buy a handgun in south carolina, police says that he said he we wanted to commit a, quote, big scale attack, his specific target, unknown. his inspiration, though, dylann roof, white supreme cristwho gunned down nine parishioners back in 2015.

abby: hope to go make the retail giant stock fall so he could make money. he's accused of making explosives and putting them inside food containers, he was caught after offering unidentified person for planting them. new york jets allegedly grabbing a cell phone from a man recording him throwing it into the streets, another man helped knock them out. revas face-to-faces multiple charges including terroristic threats. he's now expect today turn himself into police. heather: immigrants across the country shutting down restaurants by giving themselves a day off. thousands marching through the streets in cities like chicago, minneapolis and charlotte to demonstrate immigrants impact on

our economy. the boycott dubbed a day without immigrants is in response to president trump's pledge to crack down on illegal immigration. abby: first rumors of kid rock running for the senate, primary competition could be another rock star ted. abby: he will not roll out a potential run in 2015 in michigan. heather: hollywood's biggest night would be tainted by politics. jimmy kimmel promise to go get political when he hosts the 89th academy award show. abby: he hasn't quote decided exactly how much i will dwell on that, meaning politics, a lot fends on what happens that week. kimmel has 80% of the jokes

finished, the oscar set for february 26th. heather: i talk today michael tamara about this yesterday. we can probably expect a guest surprise first and it would be political to present an award. abby: no surprise there. heather: eight minutes after the top of the hour. a replacement is on its way and you can bet it won't happen again. >> we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it. heather: remember that. the gop revealed new healthcare plan. cheryl casone up next to break down what's in it? abby: who knew people would get bent out of shape over symbol, the maddens on social media after monopoly dishes a classic. heather: avoid being swallowed by an avalanche

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abby: the city that never sleeps. live look there at times square where the lights are always shining so bright, good morning, welcome to "fox & friends first". repeal and replace, president trump's to overhaul obamacare now looking like a reality. what we can expect on the gop's plans, cheryl, good morning. cheryl: president donald trump and congressional republicans will soon unveil plans to repeal and replace obamacare in early to mid march, the president

saying the law just doesn't work. >> we have begun prepare to go repeal and replace obamacare. obamacare is a disaster, folks, you can say oh, obamacare, they fill up our alis -- allies and you wonder how people get there. we are in final stages, we should be submitting the initial plan in early march. cheryl: well incident document that is outline the goals of the new republican plan were distributed on thursday among the ideas, relief from tax penalties the republicans have say have hurt job creators and increased premium costs eliminating mandate penalties for both individuals and employers and repeal expanding for medicaid expansion, would throw it back to the states, house speaker paul ryan told reporters that the republicans plan to introduce legislation

for repeal and replace after a ten-day recess, the recess begins, well, today. abby: a lot of people looking forward to that plan, cheryl. heather: president trump supporters sticking it up to nordstrom. >> what are you doing? [inaudible conversations] >> going to dillard's. heather: nordstrom defending their move citing a drop in sales of ivanka's line. >> under fire for enforcing a dress code, the school now apologizing for banning students from a job fair for wearing the wrong color clothes, the dress

code like blue suits and colored shirts and brown shoes, the dress code change within response for students who didn't dress appropriately in previous years. school plans to help students that turned away find a job. pot smokers want a place to their own, first state to allow people to smoke marijuana indoors at clubs and dispe dispensaries. heather: keith urban leading academy awards with seven nominations including entertainer of the year. >> the australian singer album earning him two.

from country to major pop news, this ain't no lie, in insnc is coming back. insync will release a favorite after 15 years announcing their hiatus. heather: confirmed that insync will finally get a star in the hollywood walk of fame. congratulations to them. abby: first concert i ever went to, love it. i hear you back there. time now it's 18 minutes after the hour and president trump taking on cnn and giving the network a new name. >> i'm changing it from fake news. >> doesn't that -- >> very fake news. abby: it didn't end there.

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friends first. it is the weekend. we are excited about it and excite that had you are joining us to end your week. courtesy of president trump after he goes head to head with the media in a fiery press conference and cheryl -- carley shimkus is here to talk about it. carley: a handful of moment that is had people buzzing with the press conference with the president. one of the head lines occurred when mr. trump took on cnn telling jim acosta that his opinion of the network got even worse. >> i'm changing it from fake news, though. >> doesn't that undermine -- >> very fake news. >> the president has fought with acosta in the past most notably when he would not take a question before the inauguration, but this time acosta try today make peace. just for the record, we don't hate you. i don't hate you.

>> okay. never been more hopeful from a president than trump. abby: at one point he said, i'm actually really enjoying this. heather: i really think the media was too. abby: time magazine, the new cover that social media -- kansas features a photo of him sitting in an oval amid a rainstorm, nothing see here. the cover reflects article titled inside donald trump's white house chaos. some folks aren't having it. time is a joke and have been disrespectful of the new president. they fond all over president obama, another person tweeting, the left making a mountain out of a hill, obviously desperation

about credibility. no reaction of him yet regarding latest cover. only time will tell. heather: new season election 2016. carley: if you're a fan of the show american horror story focuses on super natural, witches, the upcoming season will tack it will presidential election. here is the producer revealing the surprising theme. >> i don't have a title but the season that we begin shooting in june is going to be about the election that we just went through, i think that will be interesting for a lot of people. carley: some are saying it's going to be the scariest season yet. others calling that theme predictable. heather: maybe a hoax. abby: the game piece voted out

of monopoly, the symbol. carley: sending a classic game piece directly to jail. it will be fazing out the symbol in new versions of the game and we only have ourselves to blame, guys, voters rejected it on online competition but monopoly purists are not pleased. felicia says, i will pull out my symbol from my sowing kit. this is just un-american. new piece will be revealed on march 19th. abby: did you have a favorite piece? heather: the car. i'm always a car gal, anybody that knows me. carley: the new pieces could be hash tags, very millennial friendly. abby: that's a good idea. we will ask our audience what they want, what do they want to see. heather: time now 25 minutes after the top of the hour and immigration is front and center as president trump is set to

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friday morning started. i'm abby huntsman. heather: and i'm heather childers, thanks for sticking around with us. nice to be with you half past of the hour. breaking news overnight for you, the white house working naming a new communications director. abby: this just hours after president trump goes head to head with the mainstream media outrage over coverage of intelligence leaks. heather: gary is live with us in washington with the details. good morning, garrett. >> good morning, to you, sean spicer can breath a sigh of relief because help is on the way, mike dubey is set to be named communications director. spicer has been filling in addition to role of press secretary. buey has been involved media companies. he spent the entire day at the white house yesterday and interesting day to be there as the president held a

wide-ranging press conference taking questions from reporters for over an hour and regularly scolding them for reporting what he called fake news. particularly stories involving leaks from within his own administration. >> the leaks are real, you know what they said and you saw them, the leaks is absolutely real. news is fake because so much of the news is fake. one thing that i felt was important to do and i hope we can correct it. >> the president also promised that those who were responsible for the leaks will be cut and be paid a big price. he also pushed back on report that is there's been all sorts of dysfunction within his administration and blamed democrats for not helping the situation by stalling the confirmation of his cabinet. eventually, though, the president said despite the chaos he walked into, america will come out on top. >> to be honest, i inherited a

mess, it's a mess. at home and abroad. a mess. jobs are pouring out of the country, you see what's going on with all of the companies leaving our country, going to méxico and other places. low pay, low wages, mass instability overseas, the middle east a disaster, north korea, we will take care of it, folks, we will take care of it all. >> it'll be another busy weekend for the president. he will head down to mar mar-a-lago and tomorrow he will hold his first post inauguration rally down in orlando. heather and abby. abby: thank you, garrett. heather: president trump very busy also signing a new executive order loosening regulations on coal mining.

this is the trump america voted for. >> that's the trump who won the election by making that connection against an opponent who had no clue who actually said at one point that the coal mines and the mine workers are going to essentially disappear and that, i thought, was the critical metaphor for the whole campaign. if he sticks with this and forgets about the press about a day, i think it'll be extremely helpful. heather: that new order puts a halt to regulation blocking coal mines from blocking debris in nearby streams, something that critics called a job-killing rule. one of the minors who thanked trump, president trump will join "fox & friends" at 8:30 eastern. abby: looking forward to that. president trump vow to go roll out a new immigration order as a new study finds that a southern border wall could save taxpayers billions.

jackie ibañez is here with the latest on that, jackie, good morning. jackie: good morning, abby. president trump sticking firm on his promise to keeping terrorists out of the united states. >> we are issuing a new executive action that will comprehensively protect our country. so we will be going along the one path and hopefully winning that at the same time we will be issuing a new and very comprehensive order to protect our people. >> for president says he's tailoring around, the ninth district court has agreed to give up for now. travel restrictions don't apply to permanent residents and other visa holders, all this while the president revisits his campaign vows to get rid of sanctuary cities and build a southern border wall. you're undertaking the substantial security measures in a generation to keep the nation

and tax dollars safe and now in the process to beginning to build a promise wall on the southern border. we ordered a crack down on sanctuary cities that refuse today comply with federal law and harbor criminal aliens and we have ordered an end to the policy of catch and release. >> brand-new study finding a border wall could pay for itself in ten years, according to the center of immigration studies f the wall stops a fraction of the illegals coming in, it could save taxpayers, get this, $64 billion, with a b in freebies for the immigrants. the wall is supposed to cost $16 billion. new executive immigration order will be issued next week. ladies, thank you. abby: looking forward to that. heather: a gang of illegal immigrants now accused in the horrifying murder of a teenage girl. discovered in the woods in springfield, virginia last weekend.

she had been abducted from maryland home. three adults and 317-year-olds facing charges, ten people total with abduction and gang participation. at least four of them had been living in the u.s. illegally for years. abby: 37-year-old adam arrested near lax airport, authorities in denver, they found pipe bombs in hotel room which he left in a safe, the fbi is now investigating his connection to denver and what he may have been planning. hyatt american citizen from pakistan is due in court later this morning. heather: frightening moments to say the least. passengers as two airports collide moments before takeoff. frontier airlines jet was pushing back from the gate and clipped a southwest airlines plane ripping off the wing tip. the accident causing a fuel leak, all passengers safely

evacuated. faa is investigating how it happened. abby: lucky to be alive this morning. incredible escape after triggering an avalanche. watch this. wow, terrifying video. the man riding the wave of snow completely unharmed. thank goodness. heather: time now is about 20 minutes until the top of the hour and a new warning for parents, the stroller recall that we need to tell you about. abby: teachers caught telling students on how to break the law . >> this is fact-based information. if ice knocks on your door, don't answer. abby: outrageous course for illegals. heather: this is not a crash

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advice on how to resist immigration officials. a school district in austin texas banning them from handing out information packet like this one you see here. telling children to stay silent if they are approached by ice agent. the teachers union left outage. >> this is not political or agitational information, this is fact-based information. if ice knocks on your door, don't answer. >> teachers say the district isn't doing enough to protect students who are scared of being deported. >> and free college for all black students, that's what students at the university of wisconsin madison are demanding, the student government complaining that standardized test discriminate during african-american community. those demands do not end there. the students also want free housing thrown in for pay back for u.s. slavery in the 19th century. heather: now to fox business alert for you, a major stroller scare after dozens of children

were left injured after a safety defect. abby: cheryl casone fox business with all of the details to keep your children safe. good morning, cheryl. cheryl: unfortunately there has been injuries, britax, sometimes you can take the stroller apart, the ones that come with the car seat are the problem here. children fallen out. 33 incidents, they are now looking to issue a repair kit. if you own the strollers that you can fix that has something to do with the latch, the click and go technology that made these popular, unfortunately there's a bit of defect in the construction of the stroller, 700,000 of the strollers has been recalled. 700,000. pretty large recall. heather: i see a lot of those. delta is bringing back to free meals.

cheryl: they are going to up their game, delta and a lot of the airlines there's a lot of competition now that kind of step up that service to keep in particular those business travelers happy, well, whether it's flights between new york and los angeles or new york and san francisco, those longer haul domestic flights on delta are actually going to start serving little snacks, whether it's a breakfast auction, wrapper for lunch, you are going to get breakfast bars and things like that, they are trying to step it up to keep customers happy specially on a 6-hour flight. [laughter] heather: finally, this is something, i have to tell you, paternity, pawternity. cheryl: this is call brew dog, they are going to up up brewery in columbus, ohio.

they say they understand the tough time it is to get that puppy or that new dog adjusted into your home. here is the tweet the company put out, introducing puppy parental leave. our latest awesome, idea and that's what they say, this is a staff perk, basically the company offering this think it's a great idea. abby: i think it's a great idea. heather: how long is it? cheryl: is that enough? [laughter] abby: let's check with steve doocy. what do you think about the pawternity leave? steve: good question. if you were watching fox news channel, you saw that donald

trump had his solo press conference unlike any other in modern heck presidential history. after he ticked off his many achievements. i just don't get why i don't get good coverage from the press because i have done so much and he proceeded to show why they are not only fake news but very fake news. here is the president on the press. >> donald trump rants and raves at the president. i won with news conferences and probably with speeches. the public doesn't believe you, people, anymore. "fox & friends" in the morning, they are very honorable people. steve: wow. what do you think about that? president trump giving us a shout-out.

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abby: a big weekend at the box office with three new movies heading theaters today. which ones should you see or skip? heather: kevin mccarthy is here with movie reviews, always great to have you with us. abby: hey, kevin. >> thank you so much. i'm so excited. three massive films opening in theaters this weekend including the great wall. heather: start with that one.

>> this is the movie that looked cool from the previews and the visuals are amazing. the film maker who made the movie made a movie called hero back in early 2000's, amazing action film and amazing visionary, the story line is matt damon's character help to go defend the great wall of china against mythical creature, action movie, the action looks cool, the visuals are phenomenal, that's what makes the film work. the policemen is the script is absolutely stupid and every single part of the dialogue makes it seem like they are overexplaining everything to the audience and that to me makes the audience feel like they are stupid and i feel like that's a problem. the screeb writer should trust the audience and know that they know what they are watching and don't need to be overexplained to on what's happening on screen. abby: what about the man bunt

there with matt damon, i'm loving that. >> one of the cool themes is the scene where he shoots three arrows and catches bowl. you will never believe how it looked when he actually shot it. he was telling me he worked with a great archer to get this right, watch this. >> he said it takes about a year per second if you want to shave off a second, a year of doing nothing but practicing. so we realized well the arrows are going to be sgi. i learned the movements. in a sequence like that i draw three real arrows, i walk out, i have them in my hand, the three arrows and then as i go under the camera i drop them, right. >> amazing. >> and then just go through the motions as if i'm holding three

arrows and then my friends at ilm put them in. >> you will never know when you watch the movie. he drop it is arrows and they become fake computer arrows. it's cool how they pulled that off. abby: fascinating. >> 2. 5 out of 5, visually cool but the script is horrible, it really is. heather: i am a fan of comedies and this one is a comedy, fistfight. >> this is an r-rated comedy, they are both teachers, long story short, ice cube's character gets fired and blames charlie character and sets up a fistfight and the movie takes place in one day and two teachers that are going to be fighting during the movie. it's very rated r, i found the film to be funny and it's not the most memorable comedy but i

did find myself laughing out loud. i gave 3 out of 5. it is a fun combri concept that two teachers are going to be fighting in a schoolyard. abby: lastly, quickly, -- >> this is an insane movie. did the ring and pirates of the caribbean. something creepy is going on there. this movie is beyond insane. my iowa and i watched it last fight. our jaws were dropped to the floor. it's way too long. they could have cut out 20 to 30 minutes. know going in you are going to be disturbed and you are going to be horrified by some of the imagery in this film. abby: you warned us. heather: hope you have a great

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is what's happening today. dreamer is about to face a judge. the admitted gang member taken into custody during ice raids was brought to the u.s. illegally as a child and protected under the obama administration. remember the christian florist who refuse today provide flowers for same-sex wedding, they are plan to go take the case to the supreme court. lawyers set to appeal a washington state supreme court's ruling that she broke antidiscrimination laws. and the president heads down to north charleston, north carolina. abby: time now for the good, the bad. robbed at gunpoint. california cops buying one thousand dollars in cookies to replace stolen cash. next the bad, military helicopter lands right in the middle of the highway to ask for directions, the pilot lost and decided that was the best place to stop, crazy. the ugly sounds amazing but isn't exactly heart healthy, mac

and cheese doughnut, 9,000 calories. more than 4 times daily allowance. heather: head to the gym. "fox & friends" starts right now. abby: happy friday. >> i turn on the tv, open the newspapers and i see stories of chaos, zero chaos. we are running -- this is a fine-tuned machine. the public doesn't believe you, people, anymore. >> the press has gotten to the point where they need a watchdog and it turns out that trump is the watchdog. >> i've been mining in this industry for 40 years, we thank you very much for everything that you have done for us, everything that you're doing for the industry is very much needed. >> that's the trump who won the election by making that connection against an opponent who had no clue. >> dubke will be