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

♪ i want to rock and roll all night ♪ he. brian: you rrp there with them. steve: it is a rainy day. could be heavy later on. welcome to "fox & friends" for a very busy thursday brian: if you a moon roof in your car you better close it up. i won't tell you what to do because we are a free country. steve: scotch guard your entire body. ainsley: abby is live at a diner a&e at parrot's cafe.

hey, abby. abby: cooking up some pork as you can see down here in the south. i'm in robinson county. it's long been a blue county. gone democratic for years and years. last time the won richard nixon in 1972. this time around though it went for donald trump. why did they go for him this time? and what is the mood like here? we'll be here all morning long. also connected to gas station. on your way to work get some gas. get some bacon. very interesting. breakfast with friends. brian: no short of breaking news especially what's happened yesterday and what's happened today. fallout from the unmasking support following president obama national security advisor susan rice. steve: big question now did susan rice commit a crime? president trump seems to think so. ainsley: kevin corke is live from the white house with

new reaction prosecute this administration. good morning, kevin. kevin kevin the president makes no bones about it there may have been a crime committed here now. it's fair to point out the president is not an attorney. yesterday, at the rose garden, he was obviously asked about the ongoing situation. talked a great deal about a number of issues as he welcomed the king of jordan. did it go too far? what happened? we still have answers and we still have questions, right? now, rice, you may have seen on msnbc, that other network, seems to suggest that she didn't unmask anyone for political purposes. did you catch that? for political purposes was something illegal happening with this unmasking situation? >> american people have a right to know if there was surveillance of any private citizen in this country. and the identity of those citizens was revealed. people ought to have a right to know why and the fact that it involved our campaign and our transition.

i think is -- should be deeply troubling to anyone who cherishes civil liberties in this country. >> better believe it should be deeply troubling. >> as we have been talking about meet with the wounded warrior project, soldiers ride. it's such a grate thing. not just for our country and the heroes themselves but also the president gets really into it. then later on he will leave for mar-a-lago after which he will have a chance to meet with the president of china. president xi jane king. we are told the first ladies will have time together. everyone wanting to know how strongly will the president continue his push to get a more ebility tillable trade relationship between the u.s. and china. we will be talking about that all day. for now, we we will toss it back to you guys. steve: susan rice story where she, the unmasker, had been ununmasked. where was it in the "new york times." brian: page 16-a.

steve: it's on a 15. "new york times" got the big interview two reporters. brian: michael and glen. steve: she may have committed a crime in unmasking the "new york times" then said the president gave no evidence to support the claim but then again, he can't really reveal at love intel stuff. none the less, if they got that big exclusive you would think they would put it on the front page. ainsley: house and senate intel committees are trying to investigate this. trying to get hot leaker is and get to the bottom of it for you and me and give us a truth. they say they are having a tough time because the intel community is stonewalling. brian: is that unbelievable? our own intel community is stonewalling our own president. ainsley: not getting cooperation from the cia, the fbi and nsa they are saying. steve: apparently the fbi says we are working in good faith. the cia says the nasa is the lead agency. and the nasa says none of it is true. nonetheless, the lawmakers are trying to figure out

what's going on. you have got to figure though the intel agencies aren't crazy about revealing how closely they do surveil certain americans. brian: right. if it was more than just mike flynn. word is two people on the trump organization. asking to unmask is not a crime. leak something a crime. dr. sebastian gorka an advisor to president trump said this about the entire operation. >> you want to tighten me or steve bannon or clawn they regularly call their nephew in canada. that's a foreigner. i don't need the same kind of intelligence or authorities to intercept the foreign call. then you start to find the way town mask awful these conversations so that you can make political profit. that's a very, very tenable theory and that's the kind of thing we have to find out if it was really happening. because, if that's the case, that is weaponizing

intelligence for political purposes against your other party. steve: and judge napolitano is going to be with us this hour and say if it was for political purposes it definitely is a crime. there was one other juicy tid bit in the "wall street journal" that said that mike flynn's name was obviously unmasked. it wasn't done by susan rice. that means there are at least two people in the obama administration. ainsley: she could have called for the unmasking. someone else did the unmasking and someone else might have leaked it. steve: apparently, rice did not instigate the unmasking. sound like two people. ainsley: interesting. you are correct in saying the nasa saying this is categorically saying this sun true. one of the sources said a number of people saw questionable stuff surrounding the obama administration that they were using national assets and intel for politics. brian: i just find it very intriguing that ranking member adam schiff has been mysteriously quiet where there was no camera where he

wouldn't run in front of. now all of a sudden he has been quiet as the house intelligence committee has gone radio silent. ainsley: why is he head of the nsa and the fbi? why are they keeping their jobs? they're holdovers from the obama administration. brian: we decided i guess as a country the president of the united states said i am going to leave james comey in charge. he didn't. now it would be very problematic to pull him out. and the head of the nsa has only been there a year and a half. mike rogers. brian: i want james clapper and john brennan they need to be asked the questions did susan rice ever make a request of you or your agency or the nasa to unmasking of any trump transition figures and work his way that way? something that else intrigued something more than lindsey graham as well as john mccain, what's going on in syria? it's not an eyesy situation because we did nothing for the longest time. when the uprising happened in syria, we stood back. we watched as the russians moved in and we drew a red line and ignored it russians

said we will get rid of that poisonous gas after drew that red line. they drew some of it. obviously a lot of it left. if you saw the images from tuesday. you saw young children as you see this was probably a 1 or 3-year-old who are gassed with chlorine or something horrific as they struggle for their lives, riffing in pain with their lungs burnings. these images you have to wonder how bashar assad stays in power? that's exactly what the president of the united states was speculating on yesterday in the rose garden. >> i now have responsibility and i will have that responsibility and carry it very proudly. when you kill innocent children, innocent babies, babies, little babies, with a chemical gas that is so lethal that crosses many, many lines, beyond a red line, many, many lines. i will tell you it's already happened that my attitude toward syria and assad has

ainsley: you hear syria, what's going on there, it's just awful and horrific. when you see those immanuels you realize how evil assad really is to be able to do to that to children what kind of a person. ains. brian: he has been doing it four years. ainsley: these images hit home with americans. now you see these images and it comes to life. brian: over 400,000 left and millions left. flooded to europe and created chaos. and russians are as complicit as anybody. steve: according to the russians it was the syrian rebels. over the line this is one of the images a father holding his two twins. this is the payoff line though. trump says syria photos horrify him but waffles on actions vs. astros atrocity. ainsley: you just heard him. he is changed his attitude toward the syrian are regime. steve: how is i going to react he said you'll see.

brian: what we have learned after libya, what happens after assad is out is key. are we turning over to to the terrorists? i don't know who these rebels are that we're going to arm? nobody really does either. we certainly don't want isis there. he doesn't want to dump trillions of dollars into another middle eastern country. it's not an easy answer because we have waited so long to actually act. and i just laugh when center -- guys like senator ben cardin is demanding action. not one democrat was demanding action for 8 years. ainsley: 87 days in they need donald trump to act. he said that president obama, his administration left him in all of this mess. now going to try to fix it. steve: nikki haley. u.s. ambassador to the united nations, if the u.n. fails to act, we may. all right. we will keep you posted on that. in the meantime, it is about a dozen minutes after the top of the hour. heather has the headlines. heather: good morning to you. bring it back home to the united states now where a manhunt is intensifying at

this hour. for two dangerous inmates who broke out of jail. the pair escaping from a facility in washington state. one of the inestimates a suspect in a shooting. police say that season roche and chad tipton escaped early through a door with a broken lock leading outside. could trigger the so-called nuclear option for supreme court nominee. judge neil gorsuch majority leader mitch mcconnell suspected to call for ending on the debate this morning stopping the filibuster. the move expected to fail. that is when the nuclear option comes. in if that scenario plays out, judge neil gorsuch would be confirmed by tomorrow night. and pepsi pulling its controversial ad portraying kendall jenner as a hero of social activism by simply handing a police officer a can of soda. ♪ we are the movement ♪ this generation ♪

heather: tone deaf, kendall general saying she gave no creative input. pepsi saying pepsi was cry trying to project a global message of unity, peace and understanding. clearly we missed the mark and we apologize. a lot of people commenting about that this morning. steve: thank you. ainsley: coming up, what if the trump team wasn't the first set of political opponents the administration spied on? we have a shocking report coming up next. brian: first daughter, ivanka trump defending herself against the critics. >> if being a complicit is wanting to be

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what if president trump's team wasn't the first political opponent they allegedly spied on? fred is a former cia analyst and former staff member with the house intel committee. he is now a senior vice president with the center for security policy. fred, good morning to you. >> good to be here. steve: so, was the trump team the first political opponents, perhaps, that the obama white house spied on? >> it looks like it wasn't. i wrote about this for national review on december 30th, 2015. what happened was in the summer of 2015, nsa came upon intelligence on meetings by u.s. senators and american jewish groups with israeli officials on the iran deal. they all wanted to defeat the iran deal and went to the white house with this information. the problem here is that nsa is supposed to destroy information that mentions u.s. senators because nsa doesn't want to help one branch of government spy on another. steve: sure.

>> nsa didn't do this. it asked the white house if it wanted this stuff the white house didn't object it looks fast this information was used by the white house to win congressional votes on the fraudulent iran deal in december 2015. steve: where was the outcry then, fred? >> i don't know. the "wall street journal" had a great article in 2015. i wrote on it a great piece by my friend lee smith who lays it out again. it's an outrage. steve: speaking of the tablet article he wrote from inside the white house somebody said we began to notice the white house was responding immediately sometimes within 24 hours to specific conversations we were having. at first we thought it was a coincidence being amplified by our own pair know a after a while it became our working assumption that we were being spied upon. who is doing the talking there? >> i believe that is probably referring to u.s. senators who were concerned that whatever they did to defeat the iran deal -- remember, the iran deal, a majority of the senate and house voted against it,

including the top members -- top democrats of the house and senate foreign affairs committees. something was going on. you know, president obama was obsessed with getting this iran deal, basically he did anything. he struck any -- gave any concession to the iranians. also looks like he misused nsa intelligence. steve: fred, exit question, does it surprise you that apparently the cia, the fbi, and the nsa are stonewalling congressional requests for assistance in figuring out what happened? >> there is some sensitivity concerning providing the names of people who were demasked. i mean, this is available at the nsc. i think these agencies have to cooperate in this case. steve: they will eventually have to, you are right. fred, thank you very much for joining us live today. >> good to be here. steve: meanwhile, did "the washington post publish outright lie about the bible to smear a republican? that republican lawmaker joins us live to call out the fake news and correct the record. coming up next. dramatic rescue caught on camera after a hero goes

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♪ ♪ steve: now we have got a quick look at headlines caught on camera. first up, teenager police say was drunk steals an ambulance reportedly, sparking a high speed chase. we'ving in and out of traffic in texas before hitting a curb. >> get on the ground. [sirens. [. >> woo! >> police say he reached speeds 100 miles per hour and

eventually arrested. hero seen diving in a lake in florida to save another man's life after driving his suv right in to the lake. >> just let me drown i said not today, bubba. have you got to get out. i said come on, come on answered turned over. steve: way to go. by the way, the victim is okay. all right, ainsley. ainsley: thank you, steve. an article in the "the washington post" is the latest blatant example. here is the headline. he says g.o.p. lawmaker, the bible says the unemployed shall not eat. so what did congressman jody arrington really say? take a listen for yourself. >> ii thessalonians chapter 3:10 he says for even when we were with you we gave you this rule if a man will not work, he shall not eat. and then he goes on to say that we hear some among you are idol. i think that every american, republican or democrat, wants

to help the neediest among us. ainsley: so not quite the same as "the washington post headline, right? here to talk about it is congressman arrington. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, ainsley. ainsley: you are welcome. you spoke at a hearing last week on march 28th. then you read the article in the "the washington post." you probably saw the headline. they didn't use your quote in this article that they were talking about what you you said in front of hearing. what was your reaction when you read what "the washington post" had taken what you had said out of context? >> it was ridiculous. it was such a blatant mischaracterization of what i said. anybody that would watch that video or read my remarks knows that that was a misrepresentation. i couldn't believe that a news organization as reputable as "the washington post would allow such reckless and irresponsible journalism. fortunately, there was another peer pressure put on them and they were called out so often after that that they changed

the headline and the story. but, yeah, it's just absurd. ainsley: they did change it changed it to g.o.p. lawmaker, the bible says if a man will not work, he shall not eat. and they did use your quotes after they got a lot of push back from your audience. you said you were misrepresented in that article, the original article. how were you misrepresented. what did you actually mean when you were quoting that bible verse? >> well, at the hearing, one of the people testifying was from a jewish anti-hunger organization. and the gentleman quoted leviticus. so he gave a biblical passage to talk about the compassion of god and that god wants us to take care of the poor and needy. i affirmed that. i said thank you for bringing that up. in fact, do i believe god is compassionate, we ought tree flect that i wanted to introduce, i think, what is a more complete view of god's character and this is the biblical principle of personal responsibility. that god expects those who are able to be productive and not be idol and it was a cordial

exchange. and then i just used that to tee up the question what is a reasonable and responsible work requirement for those who are able and those who receive government assistance? ainsley: that seems like a reasonable question. money, our tax dollars to families that need assistance, you want to make sure these families deserve it, correct? >> absolutely. i think that's a basic expectation that most americans want included in our policies when it comes to government assistance. again, we are talk about able bodied people doing their part and, again, just introducing that biblical principle alongside the principle of compassion. ainsley: real quickly, have you heard from "the washington post? >> no. i have not heard from them. they have not reached tout me or my team since they published that article. i put a statement out to correct the record but, you know, ainsley, if i chased down every fake news story in this town, i would need to get another full-time job.

ainsley: it's interesting your holds you accountable but no one holds them accountable. thank you. >> thank you. ainsley: first daughter defending herself against the critics. >> if being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then i'm complicit. ainsley: this morning, nancy pelosi is taking a shot now at ivanka. plus, hundreds of our nation's heroes are set to be honored at the white house today. and pete is in washington, d.c. live with a preview. good morning, pete. >> good morning, weather won't stop this ride at all. for the start of it we're here in the east room where the president will be speaking later on today. i'm here right now with sergeant devon shia, combat veteran of afghanistan. wounded in 2010. he rides every year with his brother eric also wounded. it means a lot to him. we will talk to him what the wounded warrior project means for him and being introduced

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♪ ♪ ♪ a hero can save us ♪ i'm not gonna stand here and wait brian: the tradition continues. our nation's hoes are being honored at the white house this morning as president trump gets ready to kick off the wounded warrior project ninth annual soldier ride this has transferred three presidents. ainsley: wonderful. pete hegseth is live at the white house with wounded warrior devin shia.

pete: he is an sloo salute hero. the president is going to be speaking later on. they will be in this room shortly and ability for them to go on soldier ride and be with other vets to share their experiences and ultimately the healing of coming home. i'm here with one of those heros this morning sergeant devon shia. thank you for being here. >> thank you. pete: before we talk about whether or not you are prepared to meet the president later on. tell me about your own service. you were wounded in afghanistan. >> i was wounded july 2nd, 2010. right outside of can darr air field while on patrol we were ambushed. three and my other guys were severely wounded as well and medevaced out and went through two and a half years of recovery. pete: two and a half years of recovery? >> yeah. pete: what was biggest thing that got you through that. >> biggest thing that got thee through that was wounded warriors and other projects out there. people come and showed me they actually cared. pete: you were motivated to serve.

your family has service but your brother. >> my brother was injured out in mosul, iraq. he was injured right above his right here and shattered the skull above his eyebrow all at way around and rendered him quadriplegic. pete: after that happened to him it motivated you to serve it? >> was a promise to him if anything happened to him i would promise what he started. it was to put on the shie legacy you are all combat engineers. >> my dad did nine years as combat engineer and my brother did four years. pete: have you done your part on behalf of this country. now you are here today for the last couple years i think you participated six or seven years in soldier ride. >> we have done about seven all together me and my brother. and i have probably done 12 all together helping out wounded warriors. pete: unfortunately your brother won't be here today but normally he is.

>> no. pete: what does it mean to you as a vet. >> it brings a voice to show up and show these men and women soldier ride the first time to show them what it's about. not a race camaraderie. something bigger than yourself. pete: you feel like being with other vets physical. >> to see a double amputee or someone struggling get on a bike to finish the ride truly amazing. see the glow on their face they did it. pete: you are going to introduce the president. do you have notes? >> i have got notes, i'm not sure i'm going to follow them because i'm pretty nervous. pete: don't worry about it it's like talking to another guy. no it's not. don't choke. i feel like it's going to be just fine. thanks for your service and spending time with us on "fox & friends." back to you. steve: gait day in the east room and south lawn. brian: wounded warrior project back after these allegations most of which proved not true by cbs that really hurt the whole movement.

but they are back with this ride. new management. and i think it's going to be very intriguing to see where this goes. ainsley: that's wonderful. steve: big day. ainsley: we'll be covering it all morning long. meantime head to heather childers. heather: good morning. we have other military news. a military jet crashing between two maryland neighborhoods barely missing dozens of homes. take a look. the pilot taking off from joint base andrews on a training mission when investigators say that there was a mechanical that's what they're calling it, forcing him to eject. >> oh my government look at this. oh my god. thank god he's okay. oh my goodness. >> i ran to the pilot. the first thing the pilot said to me is everybody okay? i said i don't think you landed in the neighborhood i think you landed in the woods. he said good, i'm carrying live round. heather: nearly $20 million worth of debris scattered for miles with burning chunks of metal landing in yards. incredit debbie though no one was injured.

house minority leader takes aim at the first daughter's comments on being complicit. >> if being complicit is wanting to be a force for good, and to make a positive impact, then i'm complicit. >> i think everybody knows what the word complicit is. and what it means is you are not acting in the interest of the american people. heather: ivanka trump is working as an advisor to the president. amy robertson resigning from her possession at pittsburgh high school in kansas where she was set to make $93,000 a year. but, students on the school paper uncovered her degrees were from an uncredited online university. the superintendent praising the students for not being afraid to ask the tough questions. and a final goodbye to an american hero. in just a few hours snawnt astrt

john glenn will be laid to rest at arlington national cemetery. >> turning around. oh the view is tremendous. ainsley: glen, a distinguished fighter pilot and senator from ohio was, of course, the first american to orbit the earth circling it three times. john glenn was 95 years old. back to you. steve: god speed, john glenn. ainsley: absolutely. thank you, heather. brian: president trump saying susan rice committed a crime for her role in the unmasking scandal, implied that anyway. judge andrew napolitano joins us on the curvey couch because he studied the law. he has all these thick books. he said he read them all. he 8 answer the question. [laughter] ainsley: abby huntsman is live at paris cafe in lumberton, north carolina, where she is having breakfast with friends. brian: where's the apron? ♪ just another day in heaven's town ♪ country angel

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brian some quick headlines now, the masters may happen without the world's number one golfer, dustin johnson falling down the stairs and injuring his back in what some are calling freak accident in rental home in augusta, georgia. johnson hoping to play was a favorite to win the tournament which begins in just over an hour. and from political royalty to baseball owner jeb bush one of the possible 3 billion-dollar bidders to buy the miami marlins. the former 016 presidential candidate has major competition from a guy named how do you say this? derek jeeter. good luck. wouldn't have to leave home. could stay in florida. ainsley: do they have other investors help them with that. brian: a lot of the time like magic johnson doesn't have to put his money up just his name.

ainsley: susan rice denying that she knew about the surveillance of the trump transition team two weeks ago. >> i was surprised to see reports from chairman nunes on that count today. steve: and now multiple sources confirm that she, in fact, did know about the surveillance and was responsible for the unmasking of people within the trump team. brian? brian: i will take it over, steve. you just wait there. the president now weighing in saying she may have committed a crime. what's going on? let's ask fox news senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. we know the president is not a lawyer. was he right though? >> i can tell you what would be criminal. we start out with what we know and what we don't know. we don't know exactly what susan rice did. but we know what she admitted to. she admitted to asking for the unmasking that is the revelation of the names of the people caught up in nsa intercepts. people who were working at trump tower. she claims that the reason she

asked for their names was to understand conversations involving national security. so, if the russian ambassador is talking to somebody at trump tower and she gets the transcript of it, to which she is entitled because she works for the president and they are involved in national security, it won't have the name of the american to whom he is speaking. steve: right. >> here is what the statute says. if it is necessary to get that name in order to understand the conversation she can get it that's called unmasking. she can do that. the president can do that if they keep it to themselves and if the conversation is truly about national security. if they cause that name to get out in the public, then they have exposed a top secret national state secret. that's the same crime that hillary clinton probably committed when she put top secret information on a nonsecure email server. on the other hand, if susan rice, and this is what the president is concerned about, we don't know if she did this yet. i think an investigation will reveal whether or not she did. unmasked names in

conversations, that were not national security related, like, let's just say paul manafort and candidate trump discussing on the telephone or even in person his speech at the republican national convention in cleveland. if she got that and unmasked that, that's a felony. that is the use of american intelligence for political purposes. steve: there is a republican congressman familiar with what some of the documents have said. said that it's like or file. shows what the person is doing from from morning until night with very little left to the imagination. it sounds every day. brian: is that peter king. >> i think i heard peter king say that on one of shows of one of our colleagues. unmasking that is clearly a felony. there is no legitimate national security purpose served by the unmasking. brian: so catherine herridge indicated that by requesting it's not a crime. by leaking what i found is the crime.

ainsley: a felony. >> exactly correct. there is a request that can be a crime. if she knows that the conversation is not about national security and she gets the unmasking. ainsley: she is just going to say i thought -- i'm just checking to see if it is about national security. >> the fbi will be able to confirm whether or not i'm just check something rational. remember, she is not an investigator. she is not an fbi agent. she is not in the business of investigating what's going on. ainsley: is it not a crime to lie? because two weeks ago she said i didn't unmask. then she said i had town mask because i needed to know the context of the investigation. >> crime if she under oath. ainsley: should she testify under oath. senator cornyn testify under oath and many other congressman. you also have rand paul says she should be subpoenaed. >> judge: i'm smiling because do you want me to wear my judge had or defense counsel hat or she is trying to undermine the trump administration hat? of course these congressional committees should call in to testify. she is my client i'm going to tell her not to say a peep because she is in jeopardy of

being prosecute ford a felony. steve: it's interesting because it sounds like it wasn't the first time the obama team had surveilled people because in 2015 on the precipice of the iran deal it, sounds like the intel community was looking into u.s. senators and talking to the israelis toe pressure them. >> judge: so that the president would know which u.s. senators were inclined to go along with this iran deal. do you see the danger in the miss use of intelligence data, how troubles come about and rights are violated when too much private information is in the hands of the government? brian: to your defense, we were on the air together, you said the patriot act worried you because of that you said you are worried about where it can go. >> now it's dom fruition. steve: thank you very much. >> pleasure, guys. steve: what's more dangerous isis or president trump? >> what? >> i do think isis is going to cause a threat to me living my every day life? not really. i do think that the rhetoric that donald trump using, do i think that's mother of a

threat than isis? yes, for sure. steve: oh, man. next hour, we will talk to the reporter embedded in harvard to hear what he learned about isis and the president. brian: first, we sent abby to north carolina to have breakfast with voters. abby, how is it going? abby: find an apron. i found myself an apron. so i hope you are happy. we are in lumberton, thank you, brian, i appreciate that we are here in lumberton, i'm here with chester, tiffany and jonathan talking about politics. talking about why this area has gone republican. it has not gone republican since 1972. we will be back right after this. stick with us.in coffe ♪to ♪

steve time for breakfast with friends not these three friends it's abby huntsman dlif at perritts cafe down in lumberton, north carolina on this thursday. abby: good morning, steve, brian, and ainsley. you saw us this morning. came down here. we always love that what do you do. >> i work for image supply. i'm a sales consultant for jansen company. i have to go out of the county in order to make a good living. i have to go to faithville and fort bragg. abby: you say that's common here? >> it is. it's the good baying jobs are not here. you can't raise a family on what they have available in this county. so they have to go outside the county. abby: by with president trump win this county this time around? it has been years since a republican has won. >> yeah, but the way he spoke was different for many republican or any democrat or any independent.

he genuinely appears that he is going to try to make a change. and he is trying everything he can from what i can see. is he not getting the cooperation that he needs. abby: for you, healthcare is huge. >> yeah. number one, why they can't come up with a program that's going to work for america, i don't understand that. maybe what we ought to do is put them all up underneath the same program the politicians are under. maybe that's one way of correcting it. abby: not a bad idea. how about taylor over here? your grandma runs this place. you have been working here like 5, 6 years old at the perritts cafe. >> yes. >> you voted for the very first time for president 22 years old. who did you vote for. >> i voted for donald trump? abby: how come. >> i think it's time for a change. i think that's what he is trying to give us. if everybody would give him a fair chance, i think he might be able to make america great again. abby: do you feel like he has been given a fair chance.

>> no, i do not. abby: how come? >> i feel like the media does not give him a fair shot. every time you turn around they are only, again, the negativity. and i feel like people just hear the negativity and they run with it i don't feel like they tell both sides of the story. abby: what's the mood like here in lumberton? this county specifically? heavy minority, you know. it's gone democrat for so long. what do you think happened? >> again, i just think people are maybe ready for a change. i don't think it could have gone down hill from what we had for eight years. i mean e they need a change. i think that's what people wanted. we are a democratic county, and surprisingly, we have a republican in the house. but i think that's what it come down to, people were just ready for something different. abby: that seems to be the theme this morning talking to people. they just want president trump to be given a chance, see what can he do. >> yeah. i like trump. is he pretty good.

i hope he does change so everybody can live better. abby: what do you like about him? >> he is a stand up guy. he doesn't bite his tongue. abby: he says what he says. >> um-huh. he is a true dude. abby: so is he different than all the other politicians. >> yes. real different. change, help, we need it. abby: we need change? >> real bad change. abby: all right. we will leave it there i will toss it back to you guys, steve, brian and ainsley. if you are here in the area in lumberton,

meetings by u.s. senators and american jewish groups with israeli officials on the iran deal. they all wanted to defeat the

iran deal and went to the white house with this information. the problem here is that nsa is supposed to destroy information that mentions u.s. senators because nsa doesn't want to help one branch of government spy on another. nsa didn't do this. it asked the white house if it wanted this stuff. the white house didn't object. it looks like this information was used by the white house to win congressional votes on the fraudulent iran deal in september 2015. steve: wow, so they spied on u.s. senators. they spied on u.s. presidential candidate team. judge napolitano, we got that sound bite. pete was not only in charge at the stereo of the white house is he also in charge of the tape room. let's play it. >> here's what the statute says. if it is necessary to get that name in order to understand the conversation, she can get it. that's called unmasking. she can do that. the president can do that if they keep it to themselves and if the conversation is truly about national security.

if they cause that name to get out in the public, then they have exposed a top secret national state secret. that's the same crime that hillary clinton probably committed when she put top secret information on a nonsecure email server. there is a request that can be a crime. if she knows that the conversation is not about national security, and she gets the unmasking. ainsley: she is going to say. ainsley: reports show that the trump team was surveilled for a year. and the kind of information that they were getting could be very personal information. brian: susan rice might not have been the on one to haveque. meaning that somebody else, might have requested or if you are to believe adam housley's producer the other way around. >> the why don't you request this? it's somebody else on the trump team that actually got unmavericked and we got to wonder from the unmasking to the leaking to the "the washington post" and the "new york times," what is the

interim period there and what was the -- what was the. ainsley: you want to believe that susan rice is doing unmasking that it was for intelligence reasons only. it was not for political reasons. brian: she was concerned that the trump administration was too close to the russians? ainsley: unmassiveing of just regular conversations, then that is illegal. if it doesn't have to do with intelligence. if it's just him talking about the convention or whatnot. steve: sure. ainsley: she is going to argue i needed all of the information in case it was about intelligence issues. steve: andrew mccarthy wrote a great column in the national review saying why did she need to unmask anything? she was a white house staff. she is not an investigator. you leave the investigations up to the professionals at the fbi, at the nsa, at the cia, which, by the way, all three intel agencies according to fox news sources are not cooperating with congressional investigators. brian: mysteriously yesterday the president of the united states said i will speak to you in an interview in the "new york times." did he bring up the fact that he thinks susan rice may have mitted a crime.

the leaking we know is. we don't know what level it is and how the request went down. or if we will ever get to the bottom of it. if you have an exclusive like that. that's the time to dominate your newspaper. nobody else has it the word is exclusive. here now is steve doocy will tell us the headlines. steve: handle model? it's not on the front page. brian: not on the front page. steve: got to go back to a-15 and the headline is trump offering no evidence suggest rice committing a crime brian. ainsley: is on the front page. brian: tally of unorthodox president stumps publisher. having a hard time publishner very simple adult fashion to be able to write the donald trump story. that's a front page story in the "new york times" the day. ainsley: extremely important, brian. so the story is about these publishing houses.

they couldn't find -- they were banking on hillary clinton winning. so they had their next books about the next president already to go to get into the libraries of elementary schools. then they had to say oh, hold on a minute, she lost, now we have got find out more about president trump. and they say that his life is too complicated to find out information. brian: does that belong on the front page? steve: that's on the front page. rather than in the lifestyle section of the "new york post," i believe, had this as -- on the op-ed page. and this is exhibit a of that kind of stuff. they are trying to bury it. and then you have got other news outlets, tv outlets who call it a fake scandal o or beginneororginned up scandal. admits intel data and media friends were complicit in doing so. brian: can i say this. crowd strike, the first group that came out, this intel

cyber security group that came out and said the russians hacked us in june of 2016 are now backing off that claim. steve: they are not cooperating any longer with congress. so where did that go? brian: meanwhile, let's talk about syria. we know the 3e9 of the united states looked at sir i can't understand said, listen, i'm into the going to rebuild any more country the. >> i saw how much iraq costs. sadly as bad as how i feel about syria, our focus is isis. over the weekend is he not supporting assad, but he is saying that getting assad out is not the priority. it is taking out the group that is radical islamic extremists. well, that all changed after the gas attack that took place, that killed women and children. some infants and the images are apparent for the world to see. ainsley: yes. brian: here is donald trump saying things have changed now. >> i now have responsibility and i will have that responsibility and carry it very proudly. when you kill innocent

children, innocent babies, babies, little babies, with a chemical gas that so so lethal that crosses many, many lines, beyond a red line. many, many lines. and i will tell you it's already happened that my attitude toward syria and assad has changed very much. steve: well, when you saw nikki haley, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations yesterday and she held up the two images of the dead children, and essentially she was saying, hey, right here. dallas the first one and she is about to show the second one. she is pointing at the russian ambassador. hey, russia, pay attention. russia says, blame the rebels. we didn't do it. you know, they have got sarin gas, too. so blame them. don't blame us. but none the less, john mccain was very forceful yesterday when he said this. brian: after speaking to the president. >> we need to stop bashar assad's planes from flying. we can do that easily. don't fly or you will get shut

down. if you start operating out of the six bases that they of, we will crater your runwayways with cruise missiles. we are not going to let you drop nerve gas and chlorine and barrel bombs. he has got to be stopped from flying. tell the russians it's your guy. you join us in stopping him from flying and committing these war crimes. then i would have safe zones and there is a loft other things. but first thing they ought to do stop his ability to slaughter people. ainsley: the president doubled down and said the obama administration left him in this mess and the president said with 77 days in, he is saying i'm taking this serious. we might have to take action here. brian: i don't love when you criticize your predecessor. i don't think it works to anyone's advantage. i hated when president obama did that to president bush. you do have to bring it up in an interview and people ask you. ainsley: 77 days in it might be understandable. what happened with the last administration it was eight years in and he was still

blaming president bush. brian: 2014. i think when you point out secretary of state kerry came out and expected us to react on the red line. three defense secretary couldn't believe how neutered we were during all these years. now we have a situation where instead of just going after assad, what do we do if the russians act on us as we bomb their ally assad? are we going to have a world war in the middle east now with the russians after avoiding it for 50 years during the cold war? ainsley: i don't think president trump at all is scared of assad. i think there could be another war answered could wipe them out. steve: we believe it was assad. russia is pushing it wasn't assad. it was the rebels. that's the problem. we will keep you posted on that. meanwhile 7:11 is the time in new york city. time nor headlines. heather: good morning to you. and everyone at home. we start with a manhunt that is intensifying at this hour for two dangerous inmates who broke out of jail. the pair escaping from a

correctional facility in washington state. and we know one of the inmates is a suspect in a shooting. police say that steven roche and chad tipton escaped through a door with a broken lock, leading outside. it's not a good thing. and just hours from now, republicans could trigger the so-called nuclear option you've heard about for supreme court nominee judge neil gorsuch. majority leader mitch mcconnell expected to call for end ago debate on the president's pick this morning, stopping the democratic filibuster. but that move is expected to fail. and that is when the nuclear option comes in. if that scenario plays out. judge neil gorsuch would be confirmed by tomorrow night as republicans have promised. and the white house making changes to its national security council steve bannon the chief strategist no longer on the principles committee but still has his security clearance. a move the trump administration says is not a demotion. >> going to continue to play important policy roles. this is just a national evolution to ensure the national security council is

organized in a way that best serves the president. >> the united nations ambassador nikki haley, cia director mike pompeo and rick perry are joining the council as a part of the reshuffling. and we could be covering a new trump campaign sooner than expected. what about this? donald trump jr. reportedly considering a run for governor of new york against current governor and democrat andrew cuomo. page 6 reporting he already misses the excitement of the presidential election, apparently. he wants to get back in the game. those are a look at your headlines. what do you think about that? steve: exciting. why not? got a good taste of campaigning. heather: the first just ended. brian: who is going to run the company if everyone is in office? steve eric, tag, you're it. ainsley: what's more dangerous isis or president trump? >> i do think isis is going to cause a threat to me living my every day life? not really. do i think that the rhetoric

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brian: so cold and bias by admission so to speak. one of the nation's most well known papers the "new york times" says truth is more important than ever. "times" and "the washington post" say democracy do i dies in darkness. the post ignored the bombshell story then of susan rice unmasking members of the trump administration that came out over the weekend. so why aren't journalists the story up even regardless of their take or what they hope will happen? let's ask managing editor britney hughes. britney, how do you explain the lack of interest, let alone the editorial where they want to dismiss it? how about the lack of interest in covering it? >> yeah. so any journalist worth their salt that was actually concentrating on doing their job, this should be a buffet of juicy information. they should be going crazy over. this have you a situation where a president's national security advisor requested the unmasking of american citizens' names caught up in surveillance of foreign targets and had no real reason for doing.

so it's alleged that she did so to help in a political election year to help a specific party. this should be something that the media is jumping on. this is a gold mine for any media that actually cares about telling the truth. as we have seen, especially over the last few months, that's not what you have here. have you a media much more interested in pushing anti-trump narrative and anti-trump agenda. they did not want him to get elected in the first place. they are elm bare arrested that they call the election wrong. that their queen was not put on her throne and concentrating on anything that makes him look bad and get him out of office as quickly as possible. that's what this comes down to. brian: i remember one former president told me you don't think i wanted to go out and call out all these media outlets but i didn't. the next one called out fox on a president obama, meaning obama. almost monthly. any time he had an opportunity especially last few months. this president also is taking on major established news outlets like the "new york times" and "the washington post." here's why. here is an example of the

headline. trump tries to deflect russia's scrutiny. really opinion in the headline. citing crooked scheme by obama. instead of covering the story and come to your conclusion they are telling what you to expect. "the washington post anatomy of fake scandal ginned up by right wing media how can that be the case empirical call evidence at the very least they need to follow up these crews. >> this is what is shameless about the media these days. they will spend hours of wall-to-wall coverage trying desperately to dig up any shred of evidence that they can that trump and russia colluded to change the outcome of this election. they will completely ignore proof that susan rice, and by extension 9 obama administration may have done the exact same thing. it's incredible. it's shameless. brian: brittany hughes, thank you so much. interesting take. coming up straight ahead, we change gears. who is more dangerous president trump or isis. embedded went over to harvard to talk to students there listen. >> do i think isis is going to

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ticket sold at the u.k. box office on opening weekend of shia labeouf's new movie called man down. the drama only screened in one theater earning a grand total of $9. they are on their way to making their money back. brian: yeah. one ticket at a time. steve: campus reform went to harvard to ask students a simple question. who is more dangerous to americans? president donald trump or isis? so what did these ivy league educated students have to say? here's a snippet? >> i think play donald trump's rhetoric. >> i think policies. mainly because i think terrorism is really not that big of a deal. >> i think we are more at risk because of his presidency. >> i do think isis is going to cause a threat to me living my every day life? not really do. i think that the rhetoric that donald trump using and you know kind of empowering these folks who have been hidden in a corner for a long time with hateful views? do you think that's more of a

threat than isis? yes. for sure. brian: all right. what's your take? here with more is a man behind the microphone campus reform.org. what prompted this intrigues piece? >> we always see students that are saying that everything threatens them in the world and they're always being taught by the media the sensationalist idea everything donald trump does must be the end of the world. we asked students what scares you more donald trump or something that's an actual threat isis? it's ironic these students love their safe spaces. they always talk about safe spaces. aren't going to be too many safe spaces in the world if you don't confront threats head on. president obama who they all look up to for some years isis is the jv team. they are not this real threat. professors in the media who again are constantly saying donald trump is the real threat here and trying to shield their eyes from actual threats to convince them of manufactured threats. so i think that's the main root of what we are seeing here. steve: sure, if did you go to

a place, spending 60, $70,000 a year to learn with the smart brilliant professors have to say and they are all like-minded like that. that's what you are going to wind up with. besides, abbot, don't they have something called resistance school to teach the students how to stand up to president trump's policies? >> they absolutely do. a four week course going to teach students how they can really fight back because apparently he is still not their president in their eyes. while this is shocking, it's not actually that surprising. it's not just confined to ivy league schools. we reported last week or last month at the leadership institute campus reform in california a professor was teaching students that president trump's election was an act of terror against america and it's equivalent of 9/11. this is the environment for conservatives on campus. they always have professors that are throwing these ideas at them about conservatives in general and about liberal ideology. so i believe we have a clip here of a conservative student talking about what it's like for other conservatives on campuses. steve: we have got a sound bite. >> heard on campus for conservatives to speak out. there is so much tension right

now in our country. >> that's what we are seeing where these students, conservative students have their ideas shut down and no one wants to hear them. no one wants to speak out because they are afraid of their professors ostracizing them to. go back to this point, i want to point out these students, it's not that they have this inconvincibility complex i'm young and invincible. these students are scared of everything. scared of different ideas. microaggression, capitalism scare them, conservatives scare them. it's not that they fear nothing they fear the wrong things because that's what they are being taught. next video i could ask them who scares you more the "fox & friends" curvey couch crew or isis? and i'm sure they would say that you guys scare them a lot more. steve: absolutely. hands down. ainsley: did you challenge any of them on their beliefs? did you remind them that isis is cutting people's head off and killing people because of their religion. >> absolutely. i would say we see what's happening in europe and we see the threats. if this student saying well, isis isn't a real threat to me in my every day life.

how about we ask people in intern and orlando and saint peterburg and london. we point out these actual things. they like to think this is some far off thing. they like to ignore the privilege that they have that they haven't experienced it personally. it's a very real threat that needs to be addressed. brian: something happens. why isn't government keeping us safe with absolutely no sacrifice? all right. cabot phillips, thanks so much. >> thanks for having me on. ainsley: thanks, cabot. steve: somebody that went to ivy leagues and served in the military, what do you think, pete, is trump more dangerous than isis? pete: where do you start with that? this is what happens instead of teach america first you teach blame america first. instead of teaching about military at that particular time islam you teach about blind multiculturalism. i saw it at harvard and princeton. you are seeing it all over the country our institutions are largely lost. ainsley: tell me there are conservatives there at these schools? pete: there are a few. you know what is conservative right here in the white house with president trump who we are with all morning in the

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♪ an american on the front line. ainsley: images what's happening in syria. look at that image right there, the white house. pete hegseth is there with the wounded warriors in the white house. makes you proud to be an american. brian: ryan zinke, a former navy seal himself. this is your third career, isn't it mr. secretary. pete: he doesn't have ip. he it is third career. congressman and now newly lamented secretary. >> now the secretary. great job. great job. great boss. pete: you oversee a fifth of the territory of the united states. >> 12 time zones stretches from the virgin islands to poo lau. a great job. a lot of responsibility to be the stewards of our most majestic 40e8dings. pete: if i want someone in charge of a 5 fifth of our country i prefer it to be a navy seal. >> you know as a veteran, the strength is the sergeant the chief on the front line. same thing with the department of interior.

the strength of our forces and manager, the ranger, and we have the park service. so i'm spending a lot of time out in the front line, you know, talking to the troops. making sure they have the right resources, the right authority to make the decisions. rather than coming up to d.c. it's a great job, great boss. energy is a big picture what the president has asked me to do. regulation. all those good things need to be done. pete: speaking of the troops, i figured you would be here this morning for such a great morning. the president is going to be speaking to the wounded warriors, soldier ride. a bunch of wounded warriors in here to, banding in here to continue the next chapter of their life. talk to us about who a ride like today means to vets. >> vets aren't victims. they're warriors. they have the opportunity to meet the president and i was with the president when they met chief owens, the seal who passed away. it was scott taylor, congressman from virginia. seal, myself and others. the president went out there and i watched the president become a commander-in-chief. there is one thing to order it

it's another thing to seat consequence he is. and i understand, you know, the responsibility of the office. i watched the president quickly become a great commanders in chief on that day. and, you know, obviously, he feels very strongly about the veterans. pete: he has made veterans such a huge focus. what is about that service that you think really energizes the president to fix the v.a. and rebuild the military? what is it about him? >> i think it's service above self. the veterans have a special in our society. many have sacrificed the ultimate cost for our freedom. the president understands that and he just likes being around, as we do we just like being around really good men and women who are dedicated to higher purpose. have shown it, proven it with their actions. wounded veterans out there in the front lines, you know, this is exactly what the president should be doing and i would think from the secretary of interior's point of view. this is exactly what should be doing. wishing them well. have an opportunity to see --

pete: it's a cool room. he also has keys to cool facilities across the country. >> my pleasure. pete: we have sean spicer on the program next hour. steve: okay, great. pete, just a quick question. brian asked me and i don't know the answer to it the soldier ride starts at the white house. traditionally they have gone to the light house or annapolis. where are they heading later today? pete: indeed they are. this the is second day. they had had a day of ride before this. lots of soldier rides going on across the country. this is one of them. ninth year taking part here at the white house. brian: that's awesome. and by the way i think it started -- thanks a lot, mr. secretary. didn't you introduce one of them with president bush? steve: i did. i hosted the event at the white house. brian: and tony snow actually did the first one here where they met for the soldier ride and they went out to steven's talk house out in the hamptons. steve: that's right. i wound up hosting it because brian had a previous engagement. rather than say i can't do it

rather than do that. brian: steve took over. brian thank you very much. president bush, president obama and now president trump. ainsley: now the headline is going to be brian doesn't support the troops. on page a 1. brian: absolutely. ainsley: let's hand it over to heather childers who are will tell its what is happening in the news. heather: this is unbelievable. would you risk your life for a couple of likes online? well, a woman was seriously hurt after plunging 60 feet to the ground trying to take a selfie. a rescuer finding her under a bridge in northern california. apparently walking with friends when she lost her footing and she fell. walking on that bridge, by the way, is illegal. lucky she was just injured. well, millions bracing for extreme weather meantime as powerful storms move up the east coast, a tornado sending a tree smashing through a home. this was in georgia. split that home right in half. rain leaving roads looking more like lakes in south carolina and oh, no, golfers forced to put down their clubs

at the masters in augusta, georgia as thunderstorms force people to take cover there. and, stealing your hard working tax dollars by selling food stamps on facebook. post after post. people near philadelphia caught trying to pawn off millions worth of free food money for real cash. >> people come in here with a snap card, 8 of them want to sell me their food stamps. the other two want to use them. ainsley: food stamps cost taxpayers, by the way, nearly $71 billion last year. and finally, you will like this story. teenagers put their patriotism on display. ♪ the red rockets. heather: high school singing breathtaking version of our national anthem at ellis island. they visiting from arizona.

nice to see students in light of what you are talking about at harvard. ainsley: thank you, heather. call it the trump effect. the numbers are in and the private sector is booming. >> we're going to win so much, you may even get tired of winning. and you will say please, please, it's too much winning. ainsley: is cutting the red tape paying off. the property man bob massi is breaking down all the numbers. that's next. steve: he would take either. brian: what's the real story behind the shakeup at the national security council. ask the former campaign manager for president trump dave bossie to find out who is in and who is out at the white house. steve: abby huntsman is in having friday chicken for breakfast in north carolina. abby: we are here at perritts cafe in lumberton, north carolina. i'm here with the board of elections chairman here in the county. giving me a sense why this

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1250e6 oops, she did it again. private sector booming after 360,000 jobs. much better than the gain of 180,000 according to a new report. ainsley: some the biggest gains were in construction and manufacturing which added a reported 82,000 jobs. is this proof that president trump's slashing of regulations is really working? steve: here to discuss fox news legal analyst and the host of property man you will see next week on fox business. bob massi. good morning to you, bob. >> hey steve, good morning, steve, good morning, ainsley. steve: during the president's young presidency, he has already added three quarters of a million jobs. what's going on? >> yep. well, you know what? i think, steve, why we see all the politicians sort of in the sandbox fighting each other, what's happened is there is a sense from businesses that they have a chance to grow again. you know, i have been in vegas a long time. i represent a lot of small, medium and large businesses. they have a sense that they're

empowered finally. deregulations. the other day i'm sure you saw where the president this that board enlisted on all different permits people have to get in order to get started it takes years there is a sense now that the shackles are off. and they can grow. when means employment. which means jobs. which means money. which means a spirited america. and i think that's what's happening. ainsley: we saw that scroll. remember he rolled out that scroll. it was a long list of all the regulations you have to go through. some of these companies were waiting 10 years to get contracts and then some of them went out of business by the time the government finally said yes, you can do that. he says he is going to caught ought all of that and going to help construction manufacturing. most of thieves job gains came from small businesses. what does that mean to the average american, bob? >> you know what? i'm a small business person. so what i look at is say, well, if certain things are going to happen to taxes, ainsley, which we hope it's going to happen and i believe it will, it changes the attitude it allows me, if i save a certain amount in taxes, to bring on other people to work. same thing with other

businesses throughout the country. even in spite of all the things that you have been covering with the surveillance issues which is very important, the american business people are moving forward. they are not going to get caught up in that it's not that there is not a concern to say look, i feel energized. i feel there is a better attitude and somebody who understands growth. understands needs for business attitude is huge when it comes to growing business. and that's what's happening. it's happening back in vegas. in florida, different parts of the country. let me tell you, it's a good feeling. steve: you know, in another part of the country from where you are at right now in north carolina, abby hunts han was there and just an hour ago talking to some the diners having breakfast. they said they felt like donald trump, who is now our president. president donald trump is doing a good job the rest of washington is they are just not helping. >> you know what, steve, listen, look, there's a learning curve. and the other thing, when you compare the two presidencies. you have president obama

pretty easy going guy. passivist. community leader concept. and then have you a guy like trump coming in, there is a big comparison. as a result, there is a caustic side that says i don't like the guy, i don't think is he good for the country. he has only been there for a few months. he has done a lot of good things. look what he has done for the coal miners. the bottom line is if you give the guy a chance like anybody else has been given, i think in the long run he is going to be great for the country. but the caustic attitude is really really hurting. let me tell you, american business people they are moving on. they are saying this guy is for us. we are going to grow our businesses. they are not afraid anymore. they don't feel like they are bogged down anymore. they feel like they can grow again. that's important for attitude in this country. ainsley: all right. thank you, bob massi. the property man can't wait to see your show. thank you. steve: next week. >> thanks ainsley. ainsley: you are welcome. steve. >> steve: bannon's removal from the national security council is not a demotion. if not a demotion, what is it?

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steve: hey, abby. abby: good morning, you guys. the food is so good in the south. everything is good. here they are known for chicken and pastries. friday chicken and dumplings. we will be making it up later in the show. we have been talking all morning long. talking with steve stone and also the chairman of the board of elections here in the county. give us a sense of what happened this time. it has long gone democratic. why did president trump win? >> i have seen voters, long time democrat voters wanting to change parties. they had optimism and hope. they were looking for change. and they were expressing that they were believing trump was just did h telling them like it. he was telling them what they were wanting to hear because it was what they were saying and how they felt. and they had confidence in him. he wasn't telling them anything that was not true. that he would drain the swamp. that he would bring economic prosperity and work on that.

abby: it has been tough times here. what was the saying you just told me about lumberton. >> years ago the best view of robinson county was a rear view mirror, when you left town trying to find money. >> that's because of nafta. and after nafta, that's what we seen. textiles and manufacturing business. leaving lumberton. leaving town. leaving the nation. and they left abandoned factories. some of them now turned into junkyards. and with it went jobs. and when the jobs went, when the youth and the brains of the county got educated, they had to go elsewhere. abc be a you said you are already seeing hope in the last three months. >> it's been amazing. in three or four months. i'm a contractor. i'm a general contractor. and i work a lot of people and work for a lot of people. and now it's get in line. you have to get on a list. people on the list to work. because everybody's busy. there is a job for people who want to work. and people that have small companies. they are having to put people on lists.

i mean, it's no longer called tonight and get the job tomorrow. they are making money and they're spreading that money. these people voted for trump because, like these girls here, they want to keep more of what they earn. they built this. they made this. government didn't make. abby: they want to keep the money they make in their pocket. >> make the money and maybe have more perritt's. abby: were you frustrated resistance president trump getting things done. >> i'm frustrated a lot of democrats out there won't work with the president. abby: you used to be a democrat 20 years ago. >> 20 years ago i was a democrat. abby: what happened? >> i seen the way our country was going the wrong direction and when it took prayer and all of that out of schools. i'm waiting for donald trump to put it back in. abby: are you hopeful? >> i'm hopeful. abby: are you seeing things turning around here? >> i'm seeing a little bit. abby: what do you do. >> i do seemless gutters and rainwater management. abby: you guys work together. >> we work together. is he talking about the democrats not getting along

with trump. i'm a lifelong republican and staunch conservative. we also have some factions of the republicans that joust don't want to agree to disagree. i mean, they are even fighting this change, this bringing the economy around. and i mean republicans need to get on board with each other as well. abby: that's a great point. we are going to leave it there, steve, brian, and ainsley, such interesting conservations in lumberton. they have been through so much and they understand what it means to get working again and how important it that is. brian: job numbers reflect their optimism. thank you very much. steve: pick up that phone. every time she is on. brian: it's unbelievable. nonstop. ainsley: calling is there still room? you are on tv we want to come. steve: that chicken and pastry looks great. ainsley: i know. sounds delicious. steve: all right, meanwhile, a lot of big news coming out of the white house this morning. we're asking david bossie and sean sean spicer about all of that. that in the next hour of "fox & friends" ♪

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>> the fact that it involves our campaign and our transition, this should be deeply concerning to everyone. >> president trump believes that susan rice committed a crime. >> the purpose was something political, that's completely imperfectmissable. >> when you use a lethal gas, that crosses many, many lines. >> eight years of obama is what led to the events that just took place. >> bombshell from the white house. president trump's chief strategist steve bannon has been removed from his position on the national security counsel. >> just hours from now, republicans could trigger the nuclear option. if that scenario plays out,

judge gorsuch could be confirmed by tomorrow night. >> do you believe that more americans are at risk because of president trump's rhetoric and policies than because of isis? >> i think probably more than policies because i think terrorism is not that big of a deal. ♪ ♪ ainsley: that's the ultimate revenge song. if a guy broke up with you, that's how you get back. steve: michelle just tweeted out hello, #nuclearthursday. brian: because judge gorsuch could become. steve: the first one is going to be at 11:00, three hours from right now by tomorrow afternoon. it looks like they will have triggered the nuclear option. brian: and the senate might never be the same. joining me now david bossy,

former campaign manager for president trump and president of citizens united, and you can for an outside group. david, always great to see you. >> thanks for having me. brian: let's talk about this latest thing since the last time we spoke about the unmasking behind the scenes of the last administration of maybe even you. national security adviser susan rice looking to unmask the american one, american two of the interchange or the foreign entity and the president indicated yesterday that this might have been criminal. ainsley: he didn't even say might. he said it was committing a crime. >> and i totally agree with the president. these are criminal acts by somebody who we know has a history of not telling the truth. susan rice cannot be believed. for her to be on television a couple of weeks ago saying i don't know anything about this and then in the last couple of days having to admit, well, maybe i did it, but i did it for the right reasons. look, she is somebody who needs to be investigated. she needs a subpoena. she needs to be deposed. she needs to go before the

congressional hearing. she needs -- before congressional intel committees. before in it house and the senate. and i want to see if there's going to be a grand jury convened for this because somebody needs to go to jail for what happened during this transition and the president is exactly right. brian: do you think this is just about mike flynn's name and just about her? >> oh, well, first of all, i have no idea. look, there was a lot of us in trump tower during the campaign in transition. so it's going to be interesting to see what other names were unmasked, and i think that we're going to have to get -- whether it's dr dr. farkus who made that blundering omission to participating in a conspiracy on msnbc that we talked about. this thing now we now see the seed of what is going on, and we need to dig down and really drill into this. as a former chief investigator for congress, this is right.

this is ripe for a congressional investigation. i kind of wish i was back in my old spot because i would be issuing a lot of subpoenas over this last few days, i can assure you. ainsley: how does it make you feel on a personal level? do you feel violated at all knowing over the last year you were part of the trump team when he was running? do you feel like you were listening to or you were surveilled? >> you know, i don't put a lot of time into it because it's obviously not about me. if i sell into that pool of folks, you know, it will be a shame because we were doing the right thing for president trump at the time during the campaign, and we were doing the right thing for america during the transition. trying to build the government from scratch. and it will be a real shame if the obama administration was using that for political advantage, which is what president trump has said from the beginning. steve: sure, and it would be tragic because you weren't talking to any foreign nationals, you were just

talking to other americans. so if they were surveilling you -- ainsley: and if you say she wasn't telling the truth and it's been proven she hasn't, your personal information, do you trust your personal information in her hands? >> clearly not. look, what this administration has done over eight years, what the obama administration did over the eight years whether it was investigating conservative groups using the irs as leverage, we know that they will do a whole host of really bad things for america and for the american people. and this is just president trump once again -- brian: all right. we'll see where this goes, david. now let's talk about something else that i find very intriguing. late afternoon steve bannon, it was announced that steve bannon would be removed from the national security counsel and income cia director of mike pompeo who should have been there to begin with and chief of staff is back in and the word is master had that

done. what could you shed light on because we also understand steve bannon was so upset, he threatened to quit. >> well, first of all, i've spoken to steve and other members of the senior staff and that's just factually untrue. the new york times once again gets it wrong. steve did not do anything of the sort. steve is -- has the full confidence of the president of the united states. look, general mcmaster, he has been able to come in and put his own thumbprint on the national security team that he wants to have. and really, steve bannon was put on the national security committee because the president wanted him there along with general flynn, his former national security adviser, and i think it was really a check to make sure that the president was being conserved well and getting all of the right information, the president wanted to really have steve there just as his eyes and ears. i don't think that that's necessary anymore.

i think this is really a nothing burger story at this point. brian: this is inside the white house. >> look, they're going to make up something because the intrigue is always very strong. steve: well, let's go from the palace to mainstream usa and there was some really good news. 263,000 jobs were added in the month of march, which is way up from 180,000 that were expected. you know what, david, in the last three months of this young presidency, close to three-quarters of a million jobs had been created. something's going on. >> it's called optimism. and it's called the markets reflecting the hope that president trump's policies, economic policies are going to be put through congress. and congress better get with the program. they better start understanding what the american people want. and so these job numbers the last two months have been incredible for the president and that's all based on hope,

growth, and opportunity. not based on actual policies yet. so i think that this is really congress' ball to not stall. brian: because you're worried, david. it sounds like you're worried because you saw health care fall, you're worried that tax cuts may not come as quickly as they need to be or at all because of the interest groups and because congress, even the republican party is not on the same page. >> yeah. it -- i need to see some congressional leadership here. to be quite honest, they failed dismally on health care. and i put all of the blame on congress and the congressional leadership on this, not the president. look, the president came in as a change agent. the president came in as an outsider coming to change washington. the people inside of congress have had years to be ready for an obamacare repeal and replace movement. they had five months since the election to get ready, and they couldn't come to consensus. that's all on them.

not on the president of the united states who came in and trusted them to put together the right policies. so, look, i believe that it would tax reform, it's essential for america's engine to get revved up. we need to see two, three, 4% gdp. we need growth, and it's going to come through president trump's economic plan. ainsley: david, a lot of people are excited about these numbers. the polls to vote for president trump because of jobs. they also went to the polls, many conservatives, many of the evangelicals went to the polls after that billie bush video came out and said are you going to vote for him, and they still said yes. neil gorsuch could be on the bench in two days -- actually could be on the bench tomorrow. how do you feel about that? this is something he ran on and many people guilty of to the polls wanting a conservative on the bench. >> it is such a great question and, for me, i worked tirelessly for the president

during the campaign. really, for a lot of reasons but specifically for the supreme court vacancy that was the great, the late great antonin scalia. being now to fill that seat with judge gorsuch is a tremendous undertaking for the president. what a victory for him tomorrow. to be able to show the american people, you know, promise kept -- promise made, promise kept. it's really an opportunity for him to say you elected me to take on serious issues. really important decisions and this is one of my first ones, and i'm so excited that judge gorsuch is going to become justice gorsuch hopefully tomorrow. brian: does it diminish the victory knowing that they have to do it through nuclear option? >> not at all. as a matter of fact, i hope it gets the message that the democrats are not the place to go. these people in both the house and the senate dislike him,

despise his policies, and will fight tooth and nail against him at every turn. so to think that they're going to go along with judge gorsuch, it was just a -- you know, i said a fool's errand before. majority leader mcconnell is doing this exactly right. he's showing the american people through the hearing process, through the senate process that there is not one thing to hold your -- to hang your hat on to be against judge gorsuch. and these democrats for partisan reasons are simply holding him up, and they're going to go nuclear, and i want to send chuck schumer a bottle of champagne if he does it because i tell you that is something that changes the senate for the better because now the majority leader mcconnell can just deal with him the way he needs to be dealt with. brian: four democrats came over to vote for him. that's what i think. dave bossy, thank you so much. ainsley: thank you, david. steve: it is 8:12 now here in new york city. time for some more news and heather.

>> yes. good morning. following a manhunt all day, and it is intensifying at this hour for these two dangerous inmates who broke out of jail. now, the pair escaping from a correctional facility in washington state. one of the inmates is a suspect in a shooting. police say that steven rose and chad escaped through a door with a broken lock that led outside. and a final goodbye american hero in just a few hours astronaut john glenn will be laid to rest at arlington national cemetery. >> oh, that view is permissive. ainsley: glenn, a distinguished fighter pilot was the first american to orbit earth circling it three times. john glenn was 95 years old. steve: what a life. what a story. >> amazing man. steve: thank you, heather.

said the trump administration has crossed many lines now. >> assad has not stopped using chemical weapons. how many more children have to die before russia cares. steve: so next at the white house. trying to get some answers. brian: nancy pelosi just used that to take a shot at the first daughter. what she said is coming your direction. steve: one way or another. ♪ ♪ ♪ can i get some help. watch his head. ♪ i'm so happy. ♪ whatever they went through, they went through together. welcome guys.

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ainsley: well, forget the red line. president trump says bashar al assad and the syrian regime, they have crossed far too many our commander-in-chief saying enough is enough in the wake of this sickening gas attack. steve: meanwhile kim is live at the white house with how the president is vowing to respond. >> that's right. the president made it clear yesterday that his opinion on the syrian conflict has quite frankly changed and that now is the time to act. to do something to stop the suffering and the carnage that has been dominating the poor people in that part of the

world and this is what happens when you assume the office; right? it's one thing to talk about it when you are on the campaign but obviously when you're president, the battle is quite different. now, one thing he made quite clear, and i think this is important for everybody to understand. this white house he said will do a lot more than the previous administration did. >> i think the obama administration had a great opportunity to solve this crisis a long time ago when he set the red line in the sand. and when he didn't cross the line after making the threat, i think that set us back a long ways not only in syria but in many other parts of the world because it was a blank threat. >> blank threat, so says the president. by the way, that's a sentiment echoed by un ambassador nikki haley, who is doing a great job, by the way. calling on the world in particular to come together and defend the helpless.

>> how many more children have to die before russia cares? when the united nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own action. >> take our own action. now, here's the real request he. what does the u.s. posture look like moving forward. the president making very clear that he's not going to get into this habit of divulge into military strategy or what we might do in the future. one thing is certain, though. the russians continue to back the assad regime and that doesn't seem to be helping the syrian people. back to you. brian: kevin, do we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was assad? because they're claiming it wasn't. >> listen, i'm glad you asked the question. we don't know. i have lots of people that follow me on twitter. i follow the media all over the world, and it's a great number of questions about this attack. right now, we simply don't know. we're only going based on the

pictures, my friend and, unfortunately, the pictures are just certainly devastating. steve: well, without a doubt it was chemical weapons and how many people have that? kevin, thank you very much. meanwhile as the president just said, the president's going to react. what's he going to do? over the line, there's a picture of a young father holding his two babies who passed away. trump said syria photos hoarify him but lawful on actions versus atrocity. he's been president 77 days. come on. brian: senate ben carter was demanding action. he didn't say that at all to president obama. meanwhile 20 minutes after the hour. steve: coming up no plan, no diploma. the new role that would hold seniors back from graduating if they aren't sure what they want to do next. could be a good idea. ainsley: and these images from sandy hook still haunt us. our next guest, she lost her daughter that day but says her faith is stronger than ever, and she is here live to tell us how she managed to forgive her daughter's killer.

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brian: all right. a suspected criminal caught by the seat of his pants in every sense of the world with guns drawn, the man trying to climb over the pepsi, he got stuck on a metal spike. cops in san diego helped get him down and then arrested him. not much of an effort to unhook him, if you ask me. the suspect was then arrested and told to make it short.

and this man arrested for drunk driving for wearing this shirt, nearly three times the legal limit, and i guess he forecasted that arrest. ainsley. ainsley: thank you, brian. it has been more than four years since the horrific shootings at sandy hook elementary school that rocked our country. 20 children were killed that day including 6-year-old emily parker. there's her picture. her mother now turning that tragedy into a story of hope and healing, and she is incredible because she has learned to forgive the shooter. joining us now is alyssa parker, the mother of that precious child emily and the author of that new book right there. it's called an unseen angel, a mother's story of faith, hope, and healing after sandy hook. alyssa, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. ainsley: on so let's go back to that day. share with us what that was like. you learned your daughter was one of the ones that was shot five hours after the shooting

actually took place. >> uh-huh. ainsley: did you know during that five hours that this wasn't good? >> i knew that something was wrong. i knew that as i sat in the firehouse where everyone was to find information that something was wrong. and the whole time i was hoping if she was hot, she was just injured, that she was hurt, and i hoped that that's all it was, and i really clung to that for those hours until i was told that she was one of the victims. ainsley: this picture right here, this was at the firehouse, you can see the fireman behind you. that was you and your husband robbie, and he's holding you. it looks like you have kleenex on your eyes. is that when you learned? >> right. that was moments after we learned. i had been in that room the entire day, and i hadn't left at all, and i had no idea anyone was even -- reporters or anyone was there, and i remember when i found out, i was just, like, i just need to leave this room. i need to breathe. so we went out the back door and when i came around, i had no idea all the photographers

were there, and it was just very overwhelming to have such an intimate moment shared with all of these people. ainsley: it's a mother's worst nightmare. i'm a mother of a little girl too, and you see your child's picture and how precious she was, and we have all of these hopes and dreams for our children and then the day your child is born and the doctor puts that baby in your arms, it is the best day of your life. so to see that picture of you and to see the pictures of her, how do you not carry and harbor angry for the man who is responsible for her death? >> well, it wasn't easy, and it took a long time, and i learned to have a lot of patience with myself. and really, it was just through all of these small little miracles and moments that were presented in front of me that slowly began to change my perception of him and circumstances and situations and really find empathy for him and his family and the struggles he went through. and really humanizing him and seeing him as one of god's

children really changed the narrative for me, and i didn't look at him as just the monster that day. there was a lot of that led up to that and a lot that i felt like we could learn and help others who are suffering from the same thing, and it changed me and changed the way i saw him. ainsley: in the book, you tell about meeting his dad. tell the audience about that day. >> yeah. so we had -- through a series of events just felt this very strong precedent that we were supposed to go meet with him, and i didn't go to learn about his son. i went to go and tell him something that we had really felt strongly that i was supposed to tell him. we got there, and he just started to pour his heart out and his son's story, and i felt myself compelled to listen. ainsley: what did he say? >> the story was about him as a child and what went through and, you know, as he evolved and changed with the different

things that he was suffering, i saw him as a human. i saw him as this child that was not a monster at that time. ainsley: what did you plan on saying? you said there was something you wanted the dad to know. >> yeah. i wanted to tell him that there was some good that could come out of this and that he held the keys to really make a difference, to be able to hold -- take his medical records, take the information he did know and turn it over to someone who could give us helpful information to learn from what happened, and i wanted to inspire him to do that, and he started pouring out everything he was doing and saying all the things that he was planning on doing and i just think it opened the door for him to let out a lot of stuff that he was holding in. ainsley: well, thank you so much. we wish you all the best. i'm glad your faith has helped you heal and forgive. you're an amazing person if you're able to do that. >> thank you. ainsley: gos bless you. heart stopping video of a man

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knicks exactly one half hour, the president of the united states will preside over the wounded warrior. brian: pete said he was with sean spicer, i don't believe it. >> we do have sean spicer press secretary. and right there the president will honor the wounded soldiers, but we're here right now who stands at a podium almost every single day. >> his is bigger than mine. >> his is a little bit bigger, but you have a lot of people. i would say people use the metaphor you're being shot at, you're being ambushed, you know, you're being under siege. what's it mean for you to be around these wounded warriors? >> and these are the folks the president wants to make sure he honors today. these are the folks that have made the sacrifice to our country but then overcome it and are an inspiration to everybody. i think that's why the president wants to make sure he thanks them today. show the rest of the country what an aspiratio an inspiration these individuals

are. they've defended our country and show that they can probably lap us all. it's a great group of folks to recognize. >> i hope you get on a bike because they might lap you. >> i can guarantee that. >> so what is is it about the service in the military that the president steams draw strength and energy from? >> it's the service members, the first responders, the police, firemen, emt. i think he recognizes that these are individuals who sacrifice so much not just of themselves. they put themselves in harms way so often but their families do as well. and the president not just going way back has always been a huge supporter of the military and first responders because he realizes that they're our country's unhung heroes. that they don't get the recognition or the pay that but these are the people who quietly toll around our country, our states, our community to serve our nation, to protect our people, to put themselves in harms way or go overseas at much sacrifice to

themselves, and they deserve this kind of recognition and celebration. >> also the emphasis he puts on them are going to be the next chapter to their communities, a lot he talks about is va and fixing the va and accountability. what should we look for from future focus for the va? >> well, one of the things about the va is we have some of the most amazing doctors and health care providers at the va. but it's also the administrative and. how to connect those who have served, those who have earned an benefit and make sure they're getting connected with a caregiver who are qualified to make sure they get that care and service they deserve. and i think when you take a business-like approach to this that you can really solve

those logistical approach to this. >> talking to him to actually fire employees at the va. >> that's something i think the president -- we should not be hearing about multiple day appointments to be getting in, they should be able to go to a private doctor. those what the president wants to see. you should not have somebody who served this country, sacrificed for this country and then finding out they need 30, 45, 60, 70 days to get a single appointment or call back. >> yeah. absolutely. well, guys, you heard it from the man himself. they're focusing on vet issues here and the military. he will also be on a bike being lapped by veterans around washington, d.c. all day long. sean spicer, thanks for joining us. really appreciate it. steve: that's great. all right. pete live in the east room of the white house. great. ainsley: all right. heather is live here in studio with more headlines for us. hey, heather. >> good morning to you and everyone at home. house minority leader nancy

pelosi takes aim at the first daughter's comments on being complicit. . >> if being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then i'm complicit. >> i think everybody knows what the word complicit is. and what it means is you're not acting in the interest of the american people. >> ivanka trump of course is working as an adviser to happen. and take a look at this. this is simply terrifying. it's video of an attempted kidnapping in philadelphia. a man approaches the stroller, that's what's happening behind, and then he tries to grab the child. that's when the woman you see standing next to the stroller jumps in, hit the man. a man then lunged at the stranger. police then temporarily detained the man who they say acted aggressively. that's crazy. and this story also incredible for you a hiker rescued after getting trapped underneath a

1,500 pound boulder for hours. crews hiking for 45 minutes just to get to the woman and then they had to use the hydraulic lift and airbags. they were eventually able to move that massive boulder and then the woman was airlifted to the hospital. amazingly she's expected to be okay. and do your kids know what they want to do when they grow up? well, they better figure it out or they will not graduate high school in chicago. starting next year, students will be required to submit plans for their futures in order to get their diploma. students will have to prove that they were accepted into college or enlisted in the military. they can also sign up for a job-training program or trade school or apply to what's referred to as a gap year program. i didn't know what i was going to be when i graduated high school at all. steve: i still haven't figured it out. ainsley: you could just write anything down; right? steve: they have a lot of options. all right. heather, thank you. the vice president said steve bannon's approval is not a demotion.

so then what is it? chief national correspondent ed henry in the studio. he's next. brian: but first, abby huntsman is down south hanging out with voters in south carolina. hey, abby. >> good morning, guys, yeah, here in north carolina. a really interesting town. last time republicans was president nixon. it went for president trump this time. so why did it switch? everyone talking about the story, they're passionate about what's going on right here in bum berton. i'll be right back after this it, "is your daughter ok?" that's where i felt relief. we're the rivera family, and we will be with usaa for life.

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>> great honor. >> what does it mean to you? >> well, it's special, as you know we have big meetings today with china and others but this was a very special, really a very special point in the day for me. you look back here, you look at the enthusiasm, these are incredible people. >> you seem to draw strength from vets and military service members. what is it about when you round that affects you? >> well, i love them, and we wouldn't be here if it weren't for them, and i said we're going to take care of them. you know, they have not been taken care of properly, and it was a big thing in david who as you know was the news secretary is going to do a fantastic job, and he has a group of people with him, the transform's incredible, and you see it already. the results already have been incredible. >> and he wants to fire a few more people at the va if they're not conducting themselves well. >> he wants to get good people. more so than firing, he wants to bring in great people, and it's time. it's time because the va has not done so well. but we have the best people in the world, we're going to take care of them. >> you mention that chinese

president, what should we anticipate with that today, sir? >> well, it's going to be interesting. nobody really knows. we have not been treated fairly on trade for many, many years. no president's taken care of that the way they should have, and we have a big problem with north korea, we're going to see what happens. >> so the hope is to bring leverage on the issue with north korea? >> well, we're going to see what happens, pete. we're going to be in there pitching, and i hope we do well. >> you made comments about syria, president, is that. >> well, i thought it was a terrible thing. when you see little babies that are dead from gas in a very, very heinous form of gas, which very few people have access to, it's bad stuff. really bad. >> well, mr. president, we know you have an event to attend to here. the room's gone silent because they figured out you're on tv with us. but thank you very much for giving us a moment on fox. >> well, we love fox and friends. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. president. there you have it. president trump himself right before the event where he addresses wounded warriors

here in the east room. brian: great job. ainsley: that is great, pete. we found out a few moments but we were coming back on air that we had the president of the united states. >> me too. it was nice of him to pop in and say hello. steve: meanwhile since we had the president, we had to put ed henry on -- >> all right. i'm done. oh, you're still having me on? nice. steve: so what happened? steve bannon taken off the nationa national security council. why was he put there initially? >> well, if you talk to advisers, bannon was there to put a watch on general flynn because there were some people in the white house that didn't fully trust him. that was that spin after the fact because what happened to general flynn and misleading the vice president maybe so. this is the story now. and but remember, there was a backlash in the mainstream media that bannon is going to be running the national security council. what's a political adviser doing that? and i think a lot of those stories weeks ago were really overplayed and what they're trying to do now is saying

steve bannon has been demoted, he's on the bench. brian: they said he almost quit. >> you heard dave bossy on the show earlier saying, and he's close to happen, saying that this is all overblown and all of that, and what i think is from my reporting of people inside the white house is that steve bannon still has an office next to the oval office. so he's not somebody who whether he's on a piece of paper that he's technically part of the nationa national security council or not, he's still going to have a policy. two days ago i was here, and i told you some changes were coming. i think this was part two. part one was katie walsh, i keep hearing there's more. nothing imminent. spent major shakeup. there was going to be an exaggeration about this. but this president is retooling what's going on in the west wing. brian: the word is jared kushner is getting more steam, more power, more of the president's ear. >> i think push back might be an exaggeration.

i think bannon is being a bit overshadowed right now by others. there's some what i keep hearing from inside and outside the white house is that there is sort of now what is being called by some in the white house a wall street wing, which includes kushner, cone former of goldman sachs, dena powell, and these are people in addition to jared kushner who is married of course to ivanka trump but they're close to the president's daughter, and she has this rising influence now that she has a senior post inside the white house, not just an informal post. ainsley: could it just be that we're 77 days in and learning -- because they're not establishment, they're not politicians, maybe we're learning, hey, maybe he's better served in this position. let's move things around a bit. >> remember i said a few days ago this was an outgrow of the health care defeat. and people around the president were telling me, yes, he was tweeting the first couple of days, he was angry. but now he's focused on what he did in the campaign. every time there was a rough spot, what did he do? changes, new campaign manager,

mainstream media said he's going down the tubes, disaster, chaos, crisis, and he ended up winning. so this is somebody in the business world you make mistakes, you pick yourself up, you figure it out. as you say 77 days in, there's a long way to go. ainsley: these are the people who helped him get elected. brian: intriguing. roster changes. if you like a team, you want to know who's up, who's down. >> who's on the way out? who's the quarterback? we love that stuff. brian: they have to get another 50 people onboard. they're way too thin. steve: what a segment. we had the president and ed henry. >> good to see you guys. ainsley: that's what people like, though. you line up an interview days in advance. >> i never had president bush or president obama just walk up to a camera. steve: you don't see that every day. brian: meanwhile our voters abby huntsman talking over breakfast. but first, let's check in with bill to find out what he has to say. >> good morning to you.

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steve: we have learned so much about one particular county in north carolina this morning historically they had voted for democrat until this time they went for trump. ainsley: that's right a town called lumberton, and we sent abby down there, and she is having breakfast with

good morning, guys. how is everybody in lumberton this morning? [cheers and applause] i'll tell you this is a great town. there are so many great people here with different stories, different backgrounds. you've been coming to this place for 30 years now. give us a since of lumberton what it has been through, the hurricane, school system, politics, give people a sense that people don't know. >> lumberton is a great community and to see it come together like it has in the last year or two, it really shows there's strength here, and we just need help. and hopefully, mr. trump will change things -- even if he doesn't get everything done, i think he's given us hope again. >> you said he's changed the attitudes of americans. >> he's changed the attitude of americans. >> i feel hope. i feel like something may get done now and hopefully it will. >> and that's important for right here in had lumberton. >> right here in lumberton. that's what we need. >> yeah. it's been a tough few years. you own your own business. >> yeah. we do. >> what do you do?

>> a shop. >> you also voted for barack obama at one point. >> yes, i did. >> why trump? >> we want to see the change that was promised to us before that we never saw, and i believe it's going to come around if they give him a chance. >> give him a chance. i was talking to tiffany this morning, and you work here at the cafe and trump was your guy. >> yes. >> you're only 22 years old. >> yes. >> and you were saying that that you're frustrated that he hasn't been given more of a chance. >> yeah. people want to down him just because of his past, and everybody has a past and there's always a future. you have to give somebody a chance before you can down them before they have shown you what they're capable of. >> gave president obama a chance. >> yes. they gave him a chance. nobody did the writing of fires and let him did his job. if we could let him do his job, there would be change. >> eric, you're a nurse here.

>> obviously no matter one, if the government is doing good, we're all doing good. if they put things in place that work for everybody regarding the economy or health care for that matter, if it works, ultimately we're all benefited from that. >> yeah. that's a good message. and i'll talk back to you guys and just say on both sides of the aisle democrat, republican, everyone has told me how important health care is and how much they want that to get done in washington. they're passionate about it. it has impacted so many lives as you know. brian: thanks, abby. steve: great coverage. brian: capitol hill again. steve: and apparently they're trying to get this morning. brian: are they? steve: yep. we've got a busy two minutes in about two minutes.

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i'd love to meet you. we're having a book signing at presstonwood baptist church on friday and be in plano on saturday. >> bill: a live look from the east room in the white house. we expect the white house any moment host group of veterans for the wounded warrior project and they spent the past four days around the washington, d.c. it's been an annual tradition beginning with president bush in 2008. we'll take you there live to the white house. but first, president trump saying susan rice may have broken the law being call to testify. the house intelligence committee meeting in a private session on the hill. all ahead of a busy