♪ ♪ it is a beautiful day ♪ abby: live shot from the streets of new york city. joining us on "fox and friends" first it is thursday. rob:a potential bombshell, the requested report that the center of the susan rice controversy not only unmask the trump transition team but appear to have spied on everyday americans. heather: to the obama administration's top security advisor commit a crime? rob: this appears to be getting

deeper. >> reporter: it does. john roberts, president trump believes susan rice committed a crime in the unmasking of officials cooped up in those intelligence reports. vice president pence is latest to call on rice to say he believes the american people have a right to know. >> surveillance of any private citizen in this country and identity of the citizens was revealed people should know why and the fact that it involved our campaign and transition should be deeply troubling to anyone. >> reporter: one lawmaker, peter king, sits on the intelligence committee, says he is familiar with this. and could include, quote, every

day details. will she testify, will she plead the fifth, >> >> people in charge, susan rice asked for, and if she takes the fifth, that would be stunning. >> utilize intelligence reports, we hear from sources, and we are cooperating with these investigations a little later. >> the question remains who asked her to do it.

>> susan rice to testify under oath, democrats still refuse to take these unmasking allegations seriously, eric's wallwell telling martha maccallum he thinks donald trump is making this all up. >> curiosity to find out why unmasking american officials, shouldn't this concern you at any american citizen, and if there is nothing there there is nothing there but why not ask a question you don't have time to have curiosity on what donald trump makes up. he is the only person in the world who has the ability to show us the document so -- >> verified by a number of sources that the unmasking goes back to susan rice. there is a division in the intel community whether that is normal or unusual.

i don't understand. if the shoe were on the other foot what you want to know if someone had unmasked your name whether they did it illegally or had reason to do so? >> the shoe was on the foot of the trump team, they are under investigation and this is another tactic to avoid finding the truth. rob: republican leaders have asked rice to be investigated. heather: the republicans could trigger the nuclear option for neil gorsuch, mitch mcconnell calling for end of a debate on the president's pick this morning stopping the democratic alabaster but the move expected to fail since it takes 60 votes and that is where the nuclear option comes in lowering the threshold to 51 votes. if that scenario plays out neil gorsuch would be confirmed by tomorrow night. >> the president said the siri regime crossed a line when it unleashed heinous attack on

innocent civilians. heather: they are sitting -- not sitting back to letting go unnoticed. >> i have a responsibility and i carry it very proudly. heather: the president's new tone. >> reporter: donald trump taking the stand after a horrific gas attack killed dozens including 20 children in syria, these are disturbing images of toddlers sprayed with water after the attack. blasting syrian leader bashar al-assad, pointing the finger at the obama administration's approach to the country's civil war. >> i think the obama administration had great opportunity to solve this crisis when he said the red line in the sand and when he didn't cross that line after making a threat that set us back a long ways not only in syria but any other parts of the world because it was a blank threat.

>> reporter: in emergency session nikki haley blaming blocking the resolution to condemn chemical weapons in syria. >> how many more children have to die for russia cares? when the united nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively there are times, we are compelled to take our own action. >> reporter: russia blaming syrian rebels, the military denies they used chemical weapons against civilians saying it is too honorable, the death toll rising, 500 people injured. heather: a manhunt at this hour, escaping a jail in washington state urging people nearby to be

vigilant. a suspect in the shooting, a broken lock. family and friends and law enforcement officers pay a final goodbye to an officer murdered in cold blood. funeral services in texas where clinton greenwood began in a few hours, the manhunt for his killer intensifies. tips continued to pour into police, getting new leaves after releasing this surveillance video, showing a suspect moments before and after the attack. rob: a jet crashing between two maryland neighborhoods just missing homes. and a training mission when investigators say a mechanical

issue that forced the pilot to eject. >> to a pilot, it is okay, i don't think it is in the woods and i am carrying live rounds. >> the pilot can be credited with saving a lot of lives which it is uninhabited, $20 million scattered for miles, chunks of metal landing in people's yard. nobody was hurt. and exclusive fox news report grounding its entire fleet of training jets, pilots tasked with defending our freedom refusing to fly saying oxygen systems in those jets are releasing poison including mike

pence's son, michael pence. heather: inhalers that are supposed to save lives have a dangerous defect. rob: i was looking at the next -- >> reporter: one of their inhalers looks like leaking a little bit, a danger to consumers if you have this one inhaler but they are recalling it because you are not getting all the inhaling doses you need. the 200 d, 600,000 are involved in this recall. it was sold everywhere, hospitals, pharmacies, retailers and the packaging and leaking, that is the recall.

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heather: putting safety at risk, the first sanctuary city in michigan, tucker carlson going head to head with the city's may run why he seems determined to throw away federal funds. >> i want to know when it is okay for cities to ignore federal law. >> probably never. >> immigration is not a priority. your job is to protect the city, the people of lansing, why did you do that except make a fashionable moral statement is i didn't look for this fight. this fight found me as we are not looking for donald trump's leadership. heather: taking a jab at the federal government saying he is not doing their work for them. rob: which poses a greater threat than isis or donald trump

to give that question posed a harvard student and their answers would shock you. >> i or the policies because they are not a big deal >> we are more at risk because of his presidency. do i think isis will cause a threat to me living my everyday life? not really. to i think the rhetoric donald trump is using and empowering these folks who have been hiding in the corner a long time, do i think that is more of a threat than isis? yes. rob: the campus behind us joining "fox and friends" later on with thoughts on these answers. heather: we talk about rose in any department store, but apparently isis is turning those relative to killing machines.

>> take on these toys turning into weapons of terror. >> reporter: iraqi forces take aim at an basis. the us military says things like this have become more prominent over six month, isis is now using commercial drones to drop names from above were surveilled coalition troop movements, isis propaganda, and whether the us is prepared for them. >> we don't have this type of technology and in the countermeasure technology in place. >> reporter: use of drones by terrorist is fueling a counter industry, dozens of companies started up like drone shell which offers a program, a single jet which sends drone back where

it came from, or allow the operator to landed safely, too's multidetector radar drum shield can detect them. >> listen for the sound of a drone approaching, very effective technology and separate the drone from the product. >> reporter: these companies say their biggest customer so far is the us military, putting out calls to defend against harmful drones, awarding $80 million of companies in february. of particular concern is the ability to stop a swarm of drones. >> nightmare scenarios 2025 of these drones that you can buy over-the-counter that have been weapon iced explosives that you can put on a timer with gps coordinate whether it is a military base or nuclear. >> reporter: this is a look at present stadiums and law

enforcement agencies are interested but regulations prevent anyone other than the federal government taking down the road because they are considered a threat. 20 minutes after the hour. rob: high school principal kissing her $100,000 a year salary goodbye will tell you why journalist is just exposed her as a fraud. heather: ending police brutality with a can of soda. brand-new fallout with a pepsi commercial.

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bombshell new evidence revealing reports the center of the susan rice controversy not only unmasked the trump transition team but spied on every day americans. rob: efforts to investigate are being stonewalled. live in dc, the very latest. >> reporter: in a phone call yesterday, john roberts, donald trump says he believes susan rice may have committed a crime in the unmasking of those officials in intelligence reports, like pens is calling for rice to testify and joins a course of republicans like senator tom cotton. >> anytime something went wrong in foreign policy which was often, susan price is in the middle of it whether it is benghazi or the syrian redline and there are serious allegations the intelligence committee will have to review.

>> reporter: peter king who sits on the house intelligence committee says the information contains details about the individuals, quote, everyday lives. sources for those investigating committees saying the intelligence agencies themselves are beginning to stonewall requests, something agencies are denying but the key question is will rice testify or not and if she won't will she take the fifth, senator graham says this surprised him. >> i would be surprised, she said she did nothing wrong but we are trying to build a case i suppose in the old-fashioned way, people in charge of the collection, ever asked for material that was unmasked, what did she do with it as if she takes the fifth it would be stunning. >> reporter: rice said she did nothing wrong and the allegations utilized intelligence reports for political purposes are, quote, absolutely false was one for

sure, it appears she will not be asked to testify, called getting louder in washington. heather: will she take the fifth? that will be interesting. near blackout from media on the susan rice revelation, political left claiming the focus on races to distract from russia but britt hume isn't having it. >> there has been lack of curiosity on the part of a lot of news media, it made news on a couple mainstream hours, calling for susan rice to be called to testify but the revelation she was involved in unmasking requests had not been news to them. democrats seem so afraid that this hope they have the trump could be brought down by being found to be colluding with russians, so afraid that investigation will go off track.

>> reporter: the former top foreign policy advisor to president obama tweeting this is amazing, the stories clearly news, and choosing not to report it is not the behavior of a news organization. bullying people into covering routine work of any senior national security official is news is a clear effort to distract from questions about trump and russia. and saying bullying please and if it was the routine, why did rice falsely claim on pbs that she knew nothing about it. t7 republicans could trigger the nuclear option for judge neil gorsuch. mitch mcconnell expected to call for ending a debate on the president's pick this morning which would stop the democratic

filibuster but that move expected to fail since it would take 60 votes. that is where the nuclear option comes in lowering the threshold to simple majority of 51 votes. if that scenario plays out, neil gorsuch would be confirmed by tomorrow night forget the red line, bashar al-assad and the syrian regime has crossed too many lines. rob: enough is enough in the wake of these sickening gas attacks. >> i now have a responsibility and i will have that responsibility and carry it through. rob: how the president is bowing to respond. >> reporter: those images just horrible, or effect gas attack killing dozens including 20 children in syria and these are the disturbing images, being sprayed with water after the

attack, donald trump and mike pence blasting syrian leader bashar al-assad. >> the obama administration had a great opportunity to solve this crisis when he said the red line in the sand. a reflection of the failure of the last administration, confront mindless violence of the assad regime, to account for the promises they made to destroy chemical weapons. >> reporter: john mccain agrees with the white house and has a plan to remedy the syrian situation. >> we need to stop flying. you join us in stopping him. then have safe zones but first thing to do, to slaughter people.

>> russia blames syrian rebels for the attack but the military denies the used chemical weapons against civilian saying it is too honorable to carry out the crime. 500 people injured. >> it is their reality. >> let's keep talking about that, the obama administration to blame for crisis in the middle east. keep talking. change with you risk your life for a couple likes online. a woman seriously hurt after plunging 60 feet to the ground after trying to take a selfy, she was found with several broken bones under a bridge in california, she was walking with friends when she lost her footing and fell, walking on this bridge is banned.

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what's in your wallet? rob: department of veterans affairs defending its work to fix a broken system. top va member testifying, the hotline is the strongest it has ever been. >> given the va track record the question is is it enough? u.s. army veteran is here with more on this. >> i tell you this. the va crisis outline has been plagued with problems for a long time, the general came out we to go saying one third of the calls to the crisis hotline were going on hold or rolling over to back up calls. that is untestable until this

committee grill the va. the va said they fixed the problem. a lot of people including myself and others follow this closely, the va is good at addressing these, doesn't mean they fixed the problem. there have been other recommendations made about what the hotline can do, none of which have been followed. temporary fix likely but not a systemic change, veterans be treated like a customer like they should be. >> doing a better job, actually an obama holdover that donald trump approved of and did a better job than his predecessor. i can't wrap my mind around the suicide hotline where you have to wait 30 minutes to talk to somebody. that is outrageous. >> absolutely unacceptable. it has improved since but even the training for those on the

other end, mental health, care providers, properly trained and how long are veterans waiting is a key question, if you call the crisis hotline and you are at the breaking point or a family member is at the breaking point you deserve to be entered immediately by someone qualified to answer your questions. part of the reason it has changed, he's fighting to bring accountability and changed culture to the department so turning a corner and with the va it is trust and verify, they earned the reputation and stick with it on this as well. heather: he seems to think it was better. >> he is fully supportive that we need the ability to act in a way that protects our veterans. it is very serious, we are going to be making changes at the va

and the values -- >> not deviating from those values. rob: he knows health care and will focus like a laser beam on it, get real choices and accountability infused into the department and judge whether to turn the corner but there is a focus. is excited to see changes. we want to give you time to talk about the wounded warrior ride at the white house. >> a cool event we are excited to cover, we are live all three hours from the east room of the white house, the more your project soldier ride, it happens to -- president trump continuing the tradition, a bunch of wounded warriors will be in the white house to meet the president kicking off a three

day ride and physical activity proven to be huge reasons why veterans improve when they and posttraumatic stress, and donald trump is always energized in the presence of our nation as heroes, three hours on "fox and friends" with the president and these brave americans. >> a portion of their ride headed out of dc, so definitely inspirational for everyone. thank you so much, appreciate it, see you later. for the next three hours. 's check in with what is coming up on "fox and friends". rob: having breakfast with some people who voted for republicans for the first time in a long time in november. >> in robbins county, very much

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security guards for both events. so they delayed the election. they are going ahead. >> delayed the election. heather: not her concert. rob rob "fox & friends" starts right now. see you later. heather: bye. >> the fact that it involved our campaign and our transition should be deeply troubling to anyone who cherishes civil liberties in this country. >> president trump telling fox news that he believes susan rice may have committed a crime. >> if the purpose was for something political, that's completely impermissible. >> there is clearly something that is not being openly discussed or disclosed here. >> these heinous actions by the assad regime cannot be tolerated. >> how many more children have to die before russia cares? >> bombshell from the white house. president trump's chief strategist, stephen bannon has been removed from his position on the national security council. >> just