>> the united states took a very measured step last night. we are prepared to do more. >> this is legitimate. it was justified. it was very targeted. >> he did more in less than 100 days than president obama did in eight years. >> he didn't draw a red line. he just acted. >> the president is going to take justified, proportional action when it comes to protecting america's national security interests. >> four people killed today when someone drove a truck into upscale department store in stockholm, sweden. >> one suspect in custody who claimed responsibility. >> pretty safe to say it's a question of islamic terrorist.

>> "wall street journal" says a shapeup is coming in the west wing. >> the policy stories don't matter. >> is bannon there to stay? is reince priebus in to stay. >> that's up to donald trump. donald trump is coming in as the disrupt ter. i know people want to write stories about process, personnel. who is up, who is in, who is out. >> confirmation of neil gorsuch of colorado to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states is confirmed. ♪ stand my ground ♪ and i won't back down ♪ i won't back down ♪ hey, baby abby: that song plus the look of that skyline what a fitting moment for this morning. >> clayton: we're at a pivotal moment. it's not a kick back saturday. welcome to "fox & friends." pete: incredibly busy week into what will be a busy

weekend. clayton: biggest test of this president's first -- the president's probably first big test. foreign policy test. of course we are talking about the strike on syria and over the past 48 hours. the white house says they are prepared to strike once again if there is another chemical attack by the assad regime. nic is i haley in about face where she was week ago said we are not interested in removing bashar al assad had to this so say as the ambassador of the united nations. listen to what nikki had to say. >> the united states took a very meciousd step last night. we are prepared to do more. but we hope that will not be necessary. it was time to say enough. but not only say it, it was time to act. bashar al assad must never use chemical weapons again. ever. the world is waiting for russia to reconsider its misplaced alliance with bashar assad.

it could be that russia has been incompetent in its efforts to remove the chemical weapons. or it could be that the assad regime is playing the russians for fools. the united states will no longer wait for assad to use chemical weapons without any consequences. those days are over. pete: she presented a lot of alternatives. basically stared down the russians either you condoned and complicit in this or incompetent and fooled by assad. the agreement made 2013 during the fake line president obama said was the russian also get rid of the chemical materials, clearly that did not happen. abby: is assad diagnose to retaliate. reports they are sending planes to the town that was attacked by chemical weapons. there you hear from nikki haley. we are not going to back down. if you are going to respond to this we'll only come back even stronger. clayton: we hit a number of these planes, bunker busting bombs.

abby: these bombs are intense by the way. clayton: take a look at the cover of "the new york post." these are fortified bunkers at this air base where we hit right through and destroyed this airplane inside the bunker to the precision of just a meter. clayton: those planes were destroyed and other planes able to fly. up in the air and flying after in these particular areas. i mean, there is so much here because now as she is pointing the finger at the russians saying what are you going to do? it looks like they have already moved a warship off the coast and positioning themselves to defend or prop up the assad regime. having tensions with the russians only heightened by the hour. abby: we heard from russia. yet dmitry medvedev he said instead of an overworked statement about a joint fight against the enemy isis. the trump administration proved that it will fiercely fight the legitimate syrian government. beyond that mistrust. really sad for our now completely ruined relations

and which is good news for terrorists. clayton: talking about the rebels, right, that isis and al qaeda make up a large portion of these rebels. abby: they continue to claim that when we attack bashar al assad. we. pete: assad has been saying all along fighting for. fighting for survival. it's the rebels we are backing that are hitting isis. there is a lookout of double speak. you have got the medvedev saying that ultimately our relations are ruined. it's just ironic that okay, president trump, the president who is in cahoots with the russian also do anything for them no matter. what. abby: weren't they in bed together for a while. pete: in collusion. working against interest in contentious area. russia has swiped back. warship mediterranean. deconfliction airspace. they don't want to talk to us

anymore in realtime. we will see where this eventually leads u but when america pursues our own interests and does so without asking u.n. for permission. i think that's what president trump did. listen, i'm not interested in russian interests. i'm interested in american interests. clayton: there has been walking back from the administration we heard rex tillerson say we would explore and be interested in the assad regime and being removed from power and they have seemed to have walked that back a bit. nikki haley a week ago saying they didn't have any interest in that seems to be interesting discussion right now. what's the broader strategy here though? that's the bigger question. is this just one prick strike that we're going to forget about in a week's time? pete: on the ground that's a good question. ultimately they made it clear talking about chem cam weapons use and use of chemical weapons. ner should have happened. what's the bigger message here? america is back. red lines matter i words matter. it's not just talk talk talk. if you violate irnghts national norms we are going to

act and act decisively that sends ripples around the world. abby: that's why people went out to vote for president trump. they were sick of this country leading from behind. represent us and represent the world and send that sign that what do we stand for and not stand for? chemical weapons is something that no one should stand for. you see these images of these kids and these people, by the way our own griff jenkins did a time line of this for us yesterday. looking back the last 8 years how many times syria has gotten away with using chemical weapons without us even responding. clayton: this is a question i have in 2013 in when the chemical attack was arguably even worse when president obama went to congress to ask for approval to attack syria. the same tarttle targets that the military already identified and congress sat on their hands and didn't do anything about it now same congressional leaders today are tweeting go u.s.a. and coming out now because it's president trump in charge. pete: we will play that montage in a second. barack obama copped out.

he passed the buck. war powers act gives you'6" 0 days to take. if you take more than that you come back and act for congressional approval. given the ability to act in the america's interest. he decided i'm going to punts to congress. this barack obama. clayton: why are congressional leaders applauding the exact same thing they they wouldn't do. >> making sure that assad knows when he commits such despicable atrocities he will pay a price is the right thing to do. >> i think the president had the authority to do what he did. and i'm glad he did it? >> the mission looks like it was successful. targets were hit. and the mission's objective is to make it clear to assad that we will not stand by and let him use chemical weapons against his own people. >> i would just say this about president trump. i'm proud of him. >> >> he did more in 100 days than president obama did in

eight years to save lives in syria. >>ened a agree with the decisive action going in there and saying you know what? congress is not going to move on this. whatever. pete: u.n. going to debate it for weeks. clayto i love these republicans and democrats coming out now and doing this applause line taking this rally when they had the opportunity to do the same thing in 2013 by the way before russia was there. so they had an opportunity, perhaps even to keep russia -- abby: i would say we should appreciate this moment. when you see those statements on both sides of the aisle to say we can't stand for this. thank you for standing up for the country dry and world. both sides of the aisle come together. we never see this. how many times on this couch do we talk about both sides agreeing on anything. let's find this refreshing and appreciate it for the moment. pete: i take your fox news deck kel of congress that's why approval rating is 10%. it's the fact that barack obama set a red line and would never enforce it and allies starterred to believe our word

meant nothing. charles krauthammer, who talks about these things a lot was on "special report" last night. he tried get to the bottom line of what this all means. take a listen. >> what he wanted to do was to send a message. he sent a message. he just wanted to say it's not that there is a new sheriff in town. there is a sheriff in town. there was an absence for eight years. america is back. and you're not allowed to you do whatever you want. that, in and of itself, is going to have a big effect. pete eat that also sends a message to kim jong un. you have a leader who is whipping up chaos right now, you know, in the korean peninsula and looking at this and saying okay, you have a president who could be rather impulsive. when pushed and sees these images take certain actions and not telegraphing certain moves and not you don't know if he is going to do these things. abby: a test on president al ashard. testing out president obama how far can we push him? making it clear very early on

don't mess with me. pete: take a look at the team around h.r. mcmaster, to mattis. these are thoughtful military strategists and tech you cross the americans you will get a tomahawk missile in the face. when the world understands that it changes the calculus of everyone from kim jong un to everybody else. abby: some questions on what happens next. i wants to bring you other headlines this morning beginning with a fox news alert. here is a live look at an investigation underway in sweden. less than 24 hours after a driver plowed into a busy shopping mall. this as we learn the suspect praised isis online. the uzbekistan native reportedly posted videos of isis propaganda on facebook and liked the bloody aftermath picture from the boston marathon bombing. four people were killed in sweden yesterday after police say he hijacked a beer truck and drove into a department store. witnesses say he was targeting children. the suspect did flee the scene but was arrested a short time

later, covered in glass. and for the first time in more than a year the united states supreme court has a ninth justice. >> the nomination of neil gorsuch of colorado to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states is confirmed. >> republicans using the nuclear option in the senate to get a 54 to 45 simple juvenile court vote to put neil gorsuch on the bench. following through on president trump's promise to replace the late antonin scalia. the president tweeting. this congratulations to an exceptionally qualified and respected judge on his confirmation to the supreme court. gulch will be sworn in on monday. well, before he heads home to china, president x.i. jinping made a pit stop in alaska. china is the leading trade partner. successful meetings in the florida sun with the commander-in-chief focusing on the economy, on jobs, and trade.

president trump also accepting an invitation to visit china later on this year. as you said, so interesting even with neil gorsuch that normally would be the top headline this morning. pete: use the nuclear option to confirm a new justice. big stuff. clayton: part of that bipartisan stuff you were talking about: syria controls add red line. what did the american people think of his speech? lee carter has the brand new dials on that speech yet. pete: the president mediating a dispute between jared curbnejaredkushner and steve ba. there is the picture. very serious. clayton: and ed. ♪ we can handle some resistance ♪ if our love is a strong one ♪ is a strong one ♪ that can make a world of difference. expedia, everything in one place,

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action this week and letting syria know that the u.s. will no longer stand by as the assad regime murders its own people. abby: how do the people react to his speech. lee carter is the president and partner of maslansky and partners. she's joins us now with those answers. good morning, lee. >> good morning. this has been some week. abby: let's start with that let's start with president trump on bashar al assad. take a listen. >> using a deadly nerve agent, assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women, and children. it was a slow and brutal death for so many. even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. no child of god should ever suffer such horror. >> so this is really really

hard for everybody to listen to. i call this one gradeless. the reason for that is that no context given. talking about atrocity. no one is going to say this is a great message. what they did say they were really glad that donald trump really his tone was right. he seemed to get the magnitude of it you can see there even democrats were on board with saying this is just not okay. where things got different when he talked about what they were doing. overall even the democrats i spoke with said you know what? i'm so thankful and so glad that the president really understands the magnitude of what just happened in syria. pete: one of the things he talked about usage of chemical weapons. another clip we will play. >> there can be no dispute that syria used banned chemical weapons. violated its obligations under the chemical weapons convention and ignored the urging of the u.n. security council. years of previous attempts at

changing assad's behavior have all failed and failed very dramatically. >> you can see there republicans gave this an a. independents a little bit lower at b. democrats gave it about a c, c minus. what the democrats didn't like was the talked about failed attempts before. what republicans and independentindependents were reg to before a leader taking strong action and about time we take a stand and do not allow these things to keep happening. clayton: what about being the moral leader in the world trump addressed this and getting help from other nations. take a listen. >> tonight i call on all civilized nations to join us in seeking to end the slaughter and blood shed in syria. and also to end terrorism of all kinds and all types. we ask for god's wisdom as we

face the challenge of our very troubled world. we pray for the lives of the wounded and for the souls of those who have passed. abby: all sides seem to agree we need help in this fight. >> they all really do. republicans and independents off the chart and democrats are on board. he struck the right tone with this message and i'm really really encouraged right now. because for the past how many months we have been talking about how divided we are. pete: don't see the democrats at a c very often. >> we don't see the democrats at a c very often. this is something we can all come together on and agree we need to stop assad and need to stop what's going on over there. so i think it's a really really strong speech by donald trump and i think it was a really strong week for him as well. abby: lee carter, thank you for being here this morning. great to have you. >> thank you. clayton: putting our enemies on notice. was the syria strike a wake-up call for north korea? our intelligence panel here next to discuss this.

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clayton: welcome back quick headlines for you. this former army officer could be our next secretary of the army. president trump nominating mark green this week. 52-year-old physician army medic for a special ops team capturing saddam hussein. the u.s. senate still needs to confirm that nomination. mitt romney considering a run for the united states senate. majority leader mitch mcconnell saying he has had conversations with the governor and 2012 presidential candidate.

romney would run to succeed or orrin hatch the current republican senator? utah which is i don't mean any's home state. pete? pete: president trump sending a strong message to syrian president bashar al assad that the u.s. will not stand idolly by as he murders and gases his own people. as the u.s. learned from the libya intervention in 2011 taking out a dictator without a clear strategy can destabilize an entire region. how county president prevent further damage to the middle east? here to discuss former cia analyst fre fred fleitz and forr cia officer brian dean wright. gentlemen, than thank you for joining us onational intelligence panel this morning. brian, i will start with you. we took out qua deaf in 2011 and libya descended into chaos. how do we avoid anything like that here in syria? >> it comes down to strategy. we have to figure out what exactly we want to accomplish. do we want regime change? do we want to create a new democratic state? or do we want to focus on tactical issues like degrading

the ability of assad to deliver these chemical weapons? that's where we have to focus on a broader strategy because the tactic also flow from that. pete: ryan, that's a good point, if you don't have a strategies your tactics can be aimless. it seems that the trump administration has wanted to focus on just preventing the use of chemical weapons. is that what you're seeing? >> yes. but they also want to get assad and his inner circle out of power to resign and probably leave the country. when people say that the policy is now regime change as if they are uprooting the entirety of the government. that's not accurate. the other lessons that we need to learn is to support forces on the ground fighting islamic militias as is going on in libya now. i will also add if something goes wrong probably shouldn't blame it on a youtube video. pete: fair point. fred, in libya, we took out a dictator. didn't have a plan afterwards. if ba shall al assad intentionally or unintentionally were to be dedeposed or a regime change happens what would happen next.

>> let me be clear here, we should not be talking about removing assad without a plan. let's consider that about half to 60% of the syrian rebels were not just fragmented, they are islamist or hard line jihadists. we could make the situation much, much worse. right now i see two scenarios. we have to occupy the country and engage in nation building, the american people will never stand for that. or, the country falls into anarchy like libya and al qaeda and isis and other islamist groups take over. for now we should be roining in assad. intensifying diplomacy. let's not do something rash that will make the situation much, much worse. pete: decisive action sends a strong signal to the world that america is back. we won't stand for breach he is of international norms. brian, i don't know if we have that much time so i don't know if we'll go all the way around again. how is this a wake-up call for

other adversaries say north korea. >> here's the bottom line, north korea is working very closely with iran. we know that from a missile perspective those two nations are working closely together. this strike where iran has been actively engauged, this is going to send a very clear message not only to the iranians but also the north koreans. i can guarantee that you mr. kim and pong jiang did not sleep well these past few days. he is going to be very clear that the united states is going to act unilaterally. he has never believed that in the past. and certainly the chinese haven't believed that in the past. pete: in your enemies don't believe you are willing to act unilaterally then they will change call could you also a. ryan, what's the calculus of kim jong un. >> look what trump did over chemical weapons attack killed 90 people. i have 80 to 120,000 people in concentration camps right now. what is trump going to do when he is confronted with that fact? pete: fred, briefly, what is the caucus? >> the president said if china doesn't take out north korea's program he will. i think china and north korea

are right now very worried. pete: boy, such great analysis from all of you. the clear case here is if you use military action, it strengthens your hand in diplomacy because your enemies start to realize their words mean something. when you deliver those words, maybe you get an outcome without the necessity of the use of military force. all of you, brian dean wright, ryan muir row, fred fleitz thank you for your expertise. >> good to be here. >> thank you. pete: new rumors of a staff shakeup in the white house. ed henry here next. patriotic veterans are about to run through new york city to honor our fallen heroes. doing it with -- clayton can't aim. these americans will get started on our plaza just ahead. ♪ i'm having a ball ♪ don't stop me now ♪ if you want to have a good time ♪ just give me a call ♪ don't stop me now ♪ having a good time ♪

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he did such a good job. i love that i'm going to toss it out to rick for some wet weather. it looks pretty nice where you are. rick: finally a lot of the country is looking really good a great day for almost everybody. at least we will say the eastern two thirds of the country. take a look at the maps and see what is going on. what we have not seen in a long time is warm temperatures across the eastern two thirds of the country. here's what you are going to have the next few days. look at sunday in chicago, 76 degrees. monday 74. cleveland, you're in the 70's. new york finally in to the 70's. pittsburgh, you get the idea. finally it's going to warm up. you know what that also means all the trees are going to suddenly explode and allergies go crazy. just a little side note. across the east coast this morning we will have a nice day. tons of sunshine by the afternoon. down in the southeast, spectacular, a beautiful day for the masters. we will see sunshine almost everywhere. we have some storms return across parts of oklahoma for tomorrow. get ready for that in towards the northern plains, beautiful day as well. a little bit of rain moving in across parts of north dakota.

finally out across the west. this is where our troubles are with the rain. mountain snow. significant. clayton: mountain snow. rick: mountain snow, clayton. pete: clayton is hurting since 2014. shepard's men has been raising awareness and funds for share helps veterans suffering from protest traumatic stress and brain injuries. clayton: today they hold their rough for the brave meaning rough sacks. carrying the 3 pounds of gear on their backs for 22-kilometers. that's 14 miles here in the united states? abby: travis ellis founding member and active duty marine. a vernal who has gone through the share military initiative james patterson. thank you for being with us. give as you sense how heavy this is for people who don't know. >> it's 93 pounds. that is what it is i suppose.

i think it's all mental. so, you know, anything is as difficult as you make it you have to say it's going to be awful and just go do it. clayton: how did you come up with the idea of this? >> well, for shepherd's men stop doing things for ourselves and give back a little bit. we came up in 2014, we started it and did it three years in a row. this year we wanted to focus not only on the 22-pound vest for the 22 veteran suicides a day but also 93 pounds total just to honor the sacrifice of flight 93 and the ordinary citizens who were all we can do something great. we are just trying to give back. >> this is you are helping guys heal but also reminding a nation of the responsibility that we have. is that right? >> exactly. >> flight 93. we're years away from that, but the legacy of what that member did on that flight we can't forget. >> the legacy and what was so important to us we got the firefighters. we got military.

but it's what average -- average great americans can do when we just put our mind to it. clayton: rick just tried to get in this by himself. he almost went down. rick: i almost went down. clayton: how are you feeling? clayton: going through the firehouses. take us 14 miles in new york. stopping at all the different firehouses. >> starting at the town house on liberty street. going up to 38th street on the west side. cross over to the east side and then down back south on the east side. clay pete. clayton: what does that mean. >> anything the fire department can do to help raise money to help these vets coming back that are protecting our freedoms that we have over here. abby: i feel like the woman here at least needs to attemp attempt. pete: you want to try this? you went through program. get. clayton: take mine off. >> i was at a point where i was in so much mental and

physical pain that i was ready to take my own life and luckily we found the share program and so i was saved through them through hard work. continual hard work. but, you know, i'm here today thanks to the share program. pete: very cool. how is abby doing. abby: you run with this on? that is insane. you guys are incredible. high heels. that's the next challenge. next year in heels. clayton: pick up five children and put them on your back and carry them 14 miles. >> walk through awful no. abby: gives you a whole different appreciation for what you guys do. unbelievable. i'm like better than clayton. he was struggling. clayton: i was strupg gling i was wearing it for 20 minutes while you were drinking coffee. pete: shepherd's men.com. very cool. clayton: how can people donate to help out.

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to distract from the success that he's had this week. >> the question is will that strengthen university of opinion stick around? is bannon there to stay? is rib reasons priebus there to say? >> i would think so. that's up to donald trump. i have heard nothing but rumors and innuendos and press reports. clayton: let's bring in fox news chief national correspondent ed henry. we are hearing about this battle, steve bannon vs. jared kushner in the white house and president trump being forced to choose between his son-in-law and steve bannon. what do you make of these stories? >> i think a little bit ofne ofs true. is there a potential staff shakeup coming or changes. yes, there is a lot of that talk going on inside the white house. we talked about it on "fox & friends" a few days ago that there is a lot of chatter inside the white house and outside the white house among some of the president's outside advisors that he wants changes. when we first reported on it on "fox & friends" a couple days ago we didn't use any names because we didn't want

to speculate. some people are recklessly saying rinsz preebs ma reince pe out. is the president in the white house talking about some changes? absolutely. did he then say hey, you guys, work this out because it's getting too nasty? i'm sure did he that as well. abby: media describes it as total and complete chaos. >> that's the problem. abby: normal for the first days of a presidency to shake things up. pete: that could be huge. >> could be. we don't know. there is no hard reporting yet on exactly which names may be in or out. the way i heard it a few days ago was that it may just be more about a plus-up, adding more people. they are still short some bodies inside the white house. they have taken a little too much time in sort of getting the running room ready and getting the full team in place it does seem like jared kushner has been taking on a

bigger and bigger role. and definitely what is true is another piece of this story, whether there is a shakeup or not, that jared kushner has taken on a bigger role and there is this wing within the white house of jared kushner and ivanka trump who think gary cohn from goldman sachs, deanna powell, others who are sort of more moderate some would argue like gary cohn a democrat whereas bannon is on the other side of all of this, as the outsider, the let's stay true to the america first roots of the complain. there is that split. >> candidate trump and president trump does not appear to be hasty and makes changes on a whim. how much is based on. you have moderate. >> and then have you some bring in some democrats. pete: steve bannon made campaign promises. america first. all the things they emphasized. could it come down to that or ultimately figure out what everyone's role is. >> figure out everyone's role. also you have these two different camps if you will, as you just laid it out.

and what's happened, they haven't had major victory. sure, they have had smaller victories. president cut deal on jobs. he did get this supreme court nominee through did have to change precedent to get it done. they couldn't get their own folks the folks in the freedom caucus on board. talk there we would get the democrats. democrats don't want work with the president. stuck with the two camps trying to work the way forward. that's the president saying you guys figure this out. you guys work this out. we have govern. ainsley: that seems to be his style. it's you guys duke it out. you guys battle it on your own and figure out. pete: present the best ideas to me and let me make the decision. clayton: figure out who i'm going to fire. >> this president, also when the media sort of says it's chaos, it's crisis, there's so many changes, it's a shakeup. think back to the campaign, several times he retooled. he pushed someone out there. is a new campaign manager and

people said there is no hope. abby: remember manafort was in charge at one point. >> lewandowski is out. and he wins. so the idea is there is a lot of time to govern. but have you got to get the team in a place where it will help you govern and get some of these big ticket items because taxes is coming down the pike, too. pete: at the same time he has done a good job ignoring the mainstream media's perception there is chaos everywhere. he has the ability wh make the decision who he wants around him. >> absolutely. abby: nice to have you here. pete: pete we will see you tomorrow into. >> yes. abby: good. clayton: about the obama administration mislead public when they said they were dead wrong assad this chemical weapons. >> we struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the weapons out. >> able to find a solution that actually move the chemical weapons that were known from syria. clayton: why would they push this false narrative.

abby: huge saturday morning on tap. rob o'neill. mike baker, stuart varney and geraldo riverall still coming us morning. you are going want to stick around with us. ♪ i was born free. ♪ i was born free ♪

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abby: welcome back. the obama administration said the syrians got rid of them. >> we struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out. >> what this administration did, we used the unique capabilities of the united states to destroy those chemical weapons. >> we were able to find a solution that actually removed

the chemical weapons that were known from syria in a way that the use of force would never have accomplished. >> so why would they push this blatantly false narrative? clayton: here to weigh in is executive vice president of the center for security policy jim hanson. jim, great to see you this morning. >> a pleasure. clayton: clearly that didn't come to pass. we removed 100 percent of the chemical weapons from syria. why would they be pushing that? >> i can't remember a time when the obama administration wasn't pushing a collection of lies and bad policies their foreign policy was a cavalcade of capitulation and catastrophes. now president trump has to clean that up. fortunately he is reversing that he enforced the red line that president obama adan donned and put the rest of the world's tyrants basically on warning. you use -- french foreign legion says to. you pound one of them, the rest of them pay attention.

pete: do you think at that time they thought they trusted vladimir putin. hey we have international agreement. they are going to work with assad and take all the chemicals out we win. are they foolish enough to believe that was going to happen. >> either foolish enough to believe it and didn't care and just wanted to say what they needed to. they lied their way to the iran deal. remember, the same people who promised they got rid of all those chemical weapons in syria also promised they stopped the iranian nuclear program. neither of those things was even close to true. as i said now president trump has taken action. and he is probably going to have to take action to let the iranians know that their mess is not going to be left alone either. abby: speaking of the difference in leadership styles. former obama staff. he said obama showed courage by doing nothing. there is also massive momentum for a military strike being the break takes more courage and strength than being the accelerator. what do you make of that? >> i think that is a classic example of spin. i'm sorry, it's easy to sit on the sidelines. whistle past the graveyard and

hope nothing bad happens on your watch and then you can say look how smart i was to do nothing it takes guts to act. president trump was elected because the american people wanted a change from obama's cringey capitulation. now we have seen action that putin and assad and the iranian mull also a and the rest, kim in north korea, they all know that they are not free to be bad actors without consequences. pete: this decision reverb rates. mark steyn said it so well on the couch don't confuse the sidelines for the moral high ground. if we do nothing, we are the tough guys. >> and they're not. they proved they weren't. and inaction and weakness empowers and emboldens tyrants that happened for eight years. the truth has changed. president trump has shown that america is back again. abby: we have seen that in the rise of isis. jim hanson thanks for being with us this morning. >> my pleasure. abby: launching air strikes on syria, what does this mean for our standing in the world and

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>> the "wall street journal" saying that a shakeup is coming in the west wing. >> palestinian stories don't matter. >> is bannon there to stay is reince priebus there to stay. >> that's up to donald trump. coming in as a disrupter. i know people wants to write stories about process and personnel. who is up who is down. who is in, who is out. >> the confirmation of neil gorsuch of colorado to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states is confirmed. ♪ big time ♪ big time ♪ clayton: get any bigger than new york city? pete: doesn't get any bigger than this show this morning. pakdz. huge. boot. clayton: talk about the latest out of syria. good saturday morning. welcome in to "fox & friends." rob o'neill has been crawling across the studio. pete: he will make it. abby: we want to start with

the fox news alert. president trump he is not backing down. clayton: white house warning dictator bashar al assad we are prepared to strike again as tensions come to a boil now with russia. pete pete's our own rich hudson is live. >> good morning. nikki haley is warning the administration's thursday night strike in syria was only a measured step in response to what the u.s. says syrians use of chemical weapons and russia's support for the regime of bashar al assad. >> we're prepared to do more but we hope that will not be necessary. it was time to say enough but not only say it, it was time to act. the world is waiting for russia to reconsider its misplaced alliance with bashar assad the united states will no longer wait for assad to use chemical weapons without any consequences. those days are over.

>> treasury secretary steve mnuchin says the administration will pursue economics sanctions against syria to as he says emphasize how significant we view. this russia bears moral responsibility for the chemical weapons use because it was supposed to have ensured syria destroyed its stockpile. secretary of state rex tillerson says that means russia has been complicit or simply incompetent. russia says syria has no chemical weapons and that the u.s. strike is a violation of syrians sovereignty and international law. and has threatened the potential for partnership between the new administration and russia. secretary tillerson is still scheduled to travel to russia next week where senior state department officials say he will explore areas where the two countries can work together, if it benefits the u.s. american allies have largely applauded the administration'ss. iran and syria have joined russia in condemnation of the u.s. back to you.

abby: rich hudson live force us. see if that meeting still fakes place with russia and rex tillerson. clayton: war ship being moved there to strong arm. let's talk to rob o'neill this morning. >> good to see you. clayton: you thought you were going to have the weekend. not the case when we start bombing syria. >> turns out stuff going on in syria all the time. clayton: what kind of a message does this send to the rest of the world. is of kim jong un. >> he has been quiet. he has been rattling his saber for quite a while. there wasn't really anything going to be done internationally by the united states and president trump pretty much has proved he's not the commander-in-chief you thought he was. he can pivot and strike and he did. and he should have. and it is just sending a message to everyone to include vladimir putin, bashar al assad and iran. pete: rob, not just our enemies have you been on the ground with our allies. what does decisive action like this say to our friends as well who have been looking to america? >> the country that will back them is back. it's been hard to be an ally to the united states just

because we have been weak overseas. nato loves. this france loves. this spain, everybody is talking about it turkey likes it. people are happy about it. russia doesn't have a lot of allies they bully people. iran, syria, kind of it, but they bully people. now that we came back and standing up to them it's a really good sign for our allies and nato. abby: what a change from what we have seen over the past 8 years just in terms of leadership style. i can't help but think about our military when something like this happens. because they are the ones on the front lines. they will be a part of whatever happens here. what impact do you think this has on our brave men and women who will likely go out to try to handle the situation? >> it's good for them because now there is -- i mean, there's a purpose. they definitely have backing. not that each administration doesn't want to back troops. they know they will get the funding for the training in order to fight the enemy that we may need to fight. most important of all they just know we have the ability to deter. you can stop force with force.

hit the bully the in its fanned usually the conflict backs down. clayton: he launched airplanes immediate kwr59ly after our strike. bashar al saad. i don't know what he is doing right now. because the bigger question to me is, yes, we're stopping the chemical strikes or that's our red line there. but, to those people who have been bombed and killed, the children. they don't care whether it's gas or barrel bombs that he has been dumping on them for years. is it just the chemical strike? are we going to see stronger response from this white house as the bombing continues regardless if it's chemicals or not. >> people on the ground in jerry are happy that the united states is now doing something instead of just rhetoric and actually doing it we know what needs to happen is bashar al assad needs to be -- he doesn't need to be taken down but removed with the help of russia. russia is there their. they have one of their naval ports right there. need to get rid of assad. reason the civil war started. need help from the russians. we will get peace through strength hopefully. it's not an easy problem to solve. i'm 2k3w4r5d i don't need to

make the decision. abby: that's the big question. who goes in assad's place? how can you be sure you get someone who better? get someone as bad as assad or worse. >> not necessarily going to get someone better. proven right now there is a vacuum when you remove a leader. unfortunately some people in that parst world have been living under dictators. that's all they know. we tried to go in through iraq and say we will just give you freedom under a will accept it. it doesn't work twhavment saddam hussein was a horrible person. he had control in that weird way. takes a lot of time and they will need it themselves. they definitely need a new head of state in syria. reason for so much conflict. pete: a lot of indecision around the world led to the chaos. led to refugees around the world. and the crisis. and there have been questions about who we let into this country and who we don't. interesting exchange that played on another network yesterday where an anchor was talking to a syrian refugee and said hey, aren't you mad at president trump because he won't let refugees in and the syrian refugee turned it on

the host in a very interesting way. we'll play the clip and get to you react to it. >> i saw the news. i cried out of joy. for the very first time we see assad held account being. i felt grateful for president trump. i felt grateful for the united states. >> so clearly president trump is motivated by as we all have compassion for these horrible images of, you know, these babies who were killed, but at the same time, this is a man who, you know, doesn't want syrians to come into this country with this refugee ban. >> with all due respect, i didn't see each and every person who was demonstrating after the travel ban, i didn't see you three days ago when people were gassed. we don't want to become refugees. we want to stay in our country. help us establish safe zones. >> i understand. >> help us stay safe in our country. >> i understand. >> if you just give me few seconds. just to tell president trump

once again, please, sir, what you did was amazing. what you did was powerful message of hope for a lot of people inside and outside of syria. please, don't stop on this. abby: that's not coming from like a trump supporter in the united states. that is from a syrian refugee. >> i talked to friends from mosul. they come here and they want people to be screened. one of my friends said look, i carried an ak 47 in mosul. i don't want to carry one here in los angeles. let's screen them. they try to spib it to a ban on all syrian refugees was not the case at all. clayton: one thing he did say though was please don't stop. >> help them try to end the civil war. >> pinprick strike. >> hard to say that i'm sure have you raised it raised now what we need a plan. people at the pentagon planning the now what since 20003. i mean, the plan will be there. but, again, it's 23409 going to be just war, it's going to be dip plea macy. pete: hypocrisy.

please refugees, whatever we can criticizing military strikes when we forget that a refugee is a refugee from a country where they wanted to live and wanted to be and they want to go back. >> they want -- like the guy kept reiterating. i don't want to come to the united states. i want to stay in syria. it's not safe in syria. they want to rebuild their country. i love the people on the ground are happy with what the united states did. it's not the rhetoric, just the people actually affected. this is going to help in a lot of different ways. strike is a good thing. abby: we want to be home. we wants to feel safe in our home. good to have you here. pete: well said. abby: now to other headlines this morning. bin beginning with a fox news alert. suspect deadly terror attack. praising isis. the uzbekistan native reportedly posted videos of isis propaganda on facebook and liked the bloody aftermath picture from the boston marathon bombings. four people killed after police say he hijacked a beer truck and drove into a department store. witnesses say he was targeting children. the suspect running from the scene but was arrested, still

covered in glass. and for the first time in more than a year, the united states supreme court has a ninth justice. >> the nomination of neil gorsuch of colorado to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states is confirmed. abby: using the nuclear option in the senate to get a 54 to 45 simple majority vote to put neil gorsuch on the bench. following through on president trump's promise to replace the late antonin scalia. the president tweeting. this congratulations to an exceptionally qualified and respected judge on his confirmation to the supreme court, gulch will be sworn in on monday. and before heading home to china, president jinping making a pit stop in alaska as crews refuel the plane. he met alaska governor bill walker for sightseeing and dinner. china is alaska's leading trade partner. this comes after successful meetings in the florida sun with our commander-in-chief focusing on the economy, jobs, and trade. president trump also accepting

an invitation to visit china later on this year. and finally tying the not at trump hotel. apprentice star turned director of communications for the white house omarosa will walk down the aisle later today in washington, d.c. marrying her pastor fiancee. the bride to be appeared on the show say yes to the dress. she was originally going to get married in jacksonville, florida but changed conveniently you after receiving death threats. we are told the ceremony will be private. how unfortunate is that? >> ridiculous. i hope she has a wonderful day. clayton: mainstream media turning the syrian strike into a political attack. washington "the washington post" headline in striking syria trump risks confirming the worst fears about his presidency. pete: confirming the worst fears. the secret democrats have been dreaming about and waiting for hillary clinton to write another book that won't sell very well to explain why she lost the election.

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♪ >> now fallen to donald trump to enforce the red line that was first enunciated by president obama but that he did not follow through on taking that action, donald trump has restored the credibility of american power. >> after this chemical weapons attack by assad, he has acted in a timely, decisive and reasonable way. >> for it it's day 78 of the trump presidency, what changed

last night? >> i think trump became president of the united states. clayton: some in the media showing support for the president's strike on syria. not everyone is lined it, of course, giving the president of the benefit of the doubt. here to break it down for us staff writer of the federalist bree peyton. nice to see you this morning. >> thanks so much for having me. clayton: let's start with the "the washington post" here is the headline. in striking syria, trump risks confirming the worst fears about his presidency. what did you make when you saw that? >> so i think it's perfectly legitimate to question donald trump's decision to use force against the assad regime. this confirms the worst fears about the trump administration is laughablably dramatic and textbook how not to oppose trump. clayton: what are fears is he impulsive? what exactly are the fears that they are talking about? >> right. i mean, can you name anything

that trump hasn't done that hasn't, in quotes, council firmed our worst fears about him? i mean, any time he eats a sandwich. any time he eats a steak dinner any time he does anything confirming the worst fears about him. as i said i think there are a number of questions that we do need answers to. we do need to know how to how the assad rerah jet stream is going to make america safer. we do need to note cost of what these one off strikes are going to be. we do need to know the answer to the question of whether or not we should employ the strategy or seek to gain congressional approval. that's not what aaron blaine is doing in his column. is he just doing this media trove that's become very embarrassing at this point. clayton: try to understand trump's motives that's what the media likes to do. the "new york times" on trump's motive. it's impossible to ignore the degree to which the military strike push as slew of unflattering stories about the trump administration. its failed attempt to undo

obamacare, the feuding in its ranks. russian government to the side of the page. frank bruni "new york times" column on april 7th. this is just an attempt, bri to change the narrative. that's why we struck syria. >> you know, in the wake of the attacks, there was an obama white house official that said that this really is an indictment on the obama administration because the obama administration wouldn't be able to put this strike together in 48 hours. and donald trump did say that he would undo the fecklessness and inability to enforce the red line that obama failed to do all throughout his presidency. so i think it does change the narrative. but i think that's clearly not his motive there are a number of children who died in a very, you know, brutal and horrific manner last week and i think responding to that and saying if you sign a treaty with u.s., you need to keep your end of the bargain is perfectly legitimate. clayton: there was some move from the "new york times" to clay claim to trump's heart. here was the first headline they ran on syria attack, trump's heart came first.

but then they switched it um. and they switched it to this. acting on instinct, trump up ends his own foreign policy. >> trying to mind read the president is ridiculous. is he trying to make sure a that assad does adhere to the treaty. very strategic interests and not just whatever emotional tea leaf reading of the media is trying to put into this. pete: all right, bree peyton, thanks for being here this morning. >> thanks so much. clayton: and actress scarlet johannsen calls out first daughter ivanka trump for being a total coward. details on hollywood's latest mission to discredit the first daughter is straight ahead. ♪ don't bring me down ♪ no, no, no ♪ i tell you once more ♪ before i get off the floorne

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♪ ♪ >> if the question is will that strengthen diversity of opinion, stick around. is bannon there to stay? is reince priebus there to stay? >> i would assume. so that's up to donald trump. in other words, i have heard -- i've heard nothing but rumors and innuendos and press reports. clayton: rumors, innuendos and press reports. pete: that was kellyanne conway on the first 100 days last night. and here is corey lewandowski. thanks for joining us this morning. is this an epic disruption or is this a media obsessed with palace intrigue? what's your sense? you are well connected inside the white house whether it's

reince priebus or steve bannon or jared kushner. lou relations there? >> this is a real attempt to distract from the real story which is april the giraffe has still not given birth. abby: thank you for reminding us of that. >> last week this was the topic. last week that was the topic. and today we are worried about steve bannon and reince priebus. clayton: i would frankly watch a live web cam than talk about this. this is interesting. obviously, we saw the reporting about steve bannon. jared kushner. figure it out, guys. hearing rumors that reince priebus, it didn't sound like ringing endorsement from kellyanne conway last night when asked whether reince priebus is in or out. she said that's up to the president. is he out? >> i don't think he is out. anyone who wants to pretend to speak on behalf of the president may find themselves backtracking very quickly. what we know is the president is the one who makes the decisions in the white house about who is going to stay and who is going to leaf.

that said, if you look at the success of this administration in this week that's happened, three bilateral discussions. a meetings with the president of china. having neil gorsuch confirmed as a supreme court justice. this administration has had a very good week. plus, responding to a dictator in syria, you know, this is a week that most of the media isn't focusing on. what they want to do is focus on what is supposed to be the palace entry. is reince predisin or out. he is the chief of staff today is that going to change in the only person that knows that is donald trump. the president has surrounded himself number of people how things should be accomplished. that's a healthy environment in my opinion whether it's steve bannon or reince priebus or jared kushner or gary cohn. whoever that may be. you want difference of opinion. and people willing to tell the president sometimes they think the decision process has to change. that's important for the president to make the best decision. that's what he has done by surrounding himself with a number of different people.

abby: main role for members of his team is not about them individually. not about their egos. not about them winning every single time. about making their boss the president look better. so it's in on them to figure out how to move forward. it sounds like in these reports, president trump said you guys duke it out. you guys solve this. >> i think that's exactly right. i think what the president said. you know what? candidly, staff decisions should not be brought to the president's level. that should be done at the staff level. this there is a step i have between two individuals, three or four. they need to get behind closed doors sand say what are we doing to move the president's aend da forward today. what are we doing to make sure we fulfill the promises that the president made on the campaign trail. all these discussions about staff shakeups that should never take place in the media i never remember when george w. bush was the president all the intrigue about andy card who had been the chief of staff five years finally leaving or when barack obama changed out rahm emanuel or all the other people, it was never all this media hype

around it that stuffen behind closed doors move the president's agenda forward. pete: big week from neil gorsuch's confirmation to strikes in syria. they can't wrap their arms around that instead obsess conspiracy theories yet again about russia and they are talking, another network has an anchor who had a very ridiculous theory. listen to -- we may or may not have it yet do. we have it? we do. we'll play it. >> wouldn't it be nice if it was just completely totally absolutely impossible to suspect that vladimir putin orchestrated what happened in syria this week? so that his friend in the white house could have a big night with missiles and all of the praise he has picked up over the last 24 hours? wouldn't it be so nice if you

couldn't even in your wildest dreams imagine a scenario like that. >> i don't know what it is. is it a 2% chance? is it a 50% chance? i don't know. but i don't think it's a zero percent chance. and it used to be with every other president prior to donald trump. >> that moment when rachel -- even rachel maddow thinks you are insane. >> it's amazing to me how terrible the mainstream media is. look, here's the problem. have you another anchor who wants to be the news and not report the news. you know, what they want to do is get clicks and face time. they want to get people to talk about them. they just completely make up stories that have -- they are not based in any fact. they are not held accountable. say whatever they want with because they have a television show no accountability. then people wonder why people don't believe the mainstream media anymore. make up things. clayton: what happens next? we saw this air strikes. it was decisive. taking out these airplanes of the assad regime. but what happens next?

what's your sense of what kind of discussions are happening now behind closed doors in the trump administration? >> i think what you saw nikki haley says the united states is prepared to act if assad uses chemical weapons against his own people. i know president trump. i know him very well. the last thing he wants to do is have u.s. citizens or military action in a place that doesn't serve the best interest of the united states. so i think those conversations are ongoing. we're going to have to understand what continues to happen in syria. and, look, rob talked about this just on your show earlier. once assad is taken out. and that will happen. who fills that vacuum. that's a very serious colonel. we know when there is a dictator in place, when he is removed, sometimes the problem gets worse. and assad is a very bad guy. he needs to be brought before the world's court and held accountable. what happens when he is held in power. >> america first and american leadership. abby: big question remaining. corey lewandowski good to have you here this morning. go check on the giraffe and

get back. pete: he is all over it. abby: we don't have update. pete: tell me one of our producers is obsessed with this story. abby: look at this. it's still going? pete: there is no baby. so it must still be going. abby: i said from the beginning i think she is pregnant. pete: you are a connoisseur of giraffes during pregnancy. pete: did members of the obama administration mislead et public when they said back in 2014 assad no longer had chemical weapons. we got them all. >> we struck a deal where we got 100% of the wheps out. >> we were able to find a solution that actually removed the chemical weapons that were known from syria. clayton: one of president obama's foreign policy advisors joins us live to react to that next. pete: it's the sequel democrats have been dreaming about. hillary clinton is writing a brand new book to explain somehow how she lost the election. it wasn't her fault. breaking news, voters they just don't like women or they just don't like her. ♪ it's you and me baby ♪ head games

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>> we struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out. >> what this administration did, we used the unique capabilities of the united states to destroy theory chemical weapons. >> we were able to find a solution that actually removed

the chemical weapons that were known from syria in a way that the use of force would never have accomplished. pete: that's former obama administration officials taking heat for claiming that the obama administration was able to remove all the chemical weapons from syria. so did they mislead the public? clayton: let's ask former obama campaign foreign advisor and former state department official david do you fury. nice to see you this morning, welcome back to the show. >> thank you for having me. clayton: this deal struck back in 2013, was it a good deal? did we get all the chemical weapons? >> this was not a good deal. this was a compromise deal. i remember remember back then that i felt we were making a mistake that we should have used military force to send a much stronger message to assad that he cannot use chemical weapons and that as you mentioned earlier in the show, just getting stop chemical weapons was not enough. needed to get him to stop some of the other atrocities, barrel bombing killing so many people. back in 2013 only last 8,000, 10,000 people in syria which

was a strategy. nowhere near the tragedy we have now. we have almost 500,000 people killed. it wasn't a great deal. it was a come premize u it was good to get assad to give up his chemical weapons. what we see now he didn't give up all of them. that's because there wasn't a strock monitoring regime in place. also partly relying on russia to help collect the chemical weapons and make sure that assad was complying with the deal and obviously he didn't. pete: as someone, david, who understood this administration and their calculations. when they make these statements that the chemical weapons are gone. is that delusion? is that deception? is that as you said a failure to monitor? why would you make a statement they're all gone if if it's not true. >> i don't think it was delusion or deception. it was their understanding from the information they h at that time we didn't have a strong presence in syria. so we didn't have much capability to verify. we were relying on, you know, the u.n. verifiers who were in country and monitoring the

situation and on russia and on assad. we now now and as we should have known then that we couldn't trust assad or russia. i do think it did result in assad giving up a lot of the chemical weapons. obviously he kept some, he hid soil. >> he was successful in having them to use them later on which he has now done. abby: that's one of the bigger questions here too. iran is a huge player here and that concern whether or not they had chemical weapons in syria. couldn't you ask the same question about iran with nuclear weapons? are they really getting rid of them or are they rebuilding them for all we know? >> well, that's a relevant question. you know, i think the monitoring regime that we have in place for iran is much stronger and much more significant. but i also have, you know, some questions about the iran agreement. i think that also could have been stronger. as with syria just getting iran to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions wasn't enough and isn't enough because we know that iran does a lot to foment violence and terrorism all over the world

other than just pursuing nuclear weapons. so, you know, president trump has said he wants to change the iran agreement. i think this administration is serious about that. i'm interested to see what they're going to do. i don't think we should scrap it because the good thing to have iran giving up its nuclear weapons capability but we need to make it stronger and we need to do more to curb the activities of iran that foment violence and instability, especially in the middle east. clayton: do you think your former boss missed an opportunity to strike in 2013 when congress wouldn't give him the approval to do so. >> i definitely do. i said that back threaten. i wrote about that back then. we should have used military force back then. i didn't think that we needed congressional authorization. i think president obama went to seek congressional authorization because he wanted to make sure everyone was on board. but i think that was a mistake. pete: wow. david tough furry, thank you for being on nest this morning. we appreciate it. abby: great perspective. pete: neil gorsuch officially

confirmed as the next supreme court justice. how key vote on cases that effect you like using guns outside of your home in self-defense? famed attorney allen dershowitz here to discuss next. abby: many claim that president trump is too cozy with president trump. did the syrian air strikes end that talki we will debate it next ♪ we didn't start the fire ♪ it was always burning ♪ since the world's been turning ♪ okay, i picked out my dream car.

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>> it's so uninspired and actually, i think, really cowardly and i was just so disappointed by that interview that she gave yesterday. pete: actress recently portraying vawnks on "saturday night live" mocking his or her as complicit. such great people in hollywood. hillary clinton emerging from the woods to release a tell-all book about her disastrous loss to president trump in last year's elections. spoiler alert. of course, she is going to take many, many tell you why it wasn't her fault. tell hour how misogyny, wikileaks and fbi director james comey derailed her campaign. she will also preach the same extreme liberal values most voters just didn't buy during the elections. be ay, over to you. abby: thank you, pete. president trump has long been under fire by i have the particulars claiming cozy with vladimir putin. the air strikes against russia's ally syria. some in the media seem to think so.

clat sarl asks what happened to putin's puppet. that's the president's bromance with putin is history. cnn writer says yanked the russian card for from the democrats' happened. so is the item's russia talking point now dishand tell. here to debate is richard fowler and former trump spokesman. thank you for being here. >> good morning, abby. abby: richard, we will start with you. we played a quote from the an corps of another network saying you can't be 100 percent sure that russia wasn't behind our air strikes on syria. i don't care what political party you are a part of that's just crazy town. >> i don't think russia was behind the air strikes. i think we did find out later that the united states did warn russia about the air strikes about an hour or so before they happened. >> let's not take away from the facts that while this is happening. while we are having this conversation will the atrocities in syria, right here in washington we have a political atrocity, right?

have you trump administration campaign official paul manafort, roger stone, mike flynn, now devin nunes has recused himself from being the house intelligence chair for the time of this investigation. there is a cloud hanging over the white house that has a cloud. even though we saw president trump doing something bold in syria. abby: still no ties to president trump in russia. when you see the actions he made is that a clear sign to you that relationship with russia he is going to be tough? >> right now we are well aware through the media and otherwise that president trump and putin are not in communication. cooperation has been suspended. leaf it to a democratic strategist to point out old news and old stories right now what we should be focusing on, syrian people are happy. chuck schumer and nancy pelosi have literally nothing to say good about president trump have backed his actions in syria. also john mccain outspoken critic of president trump called president trump's actions required.

so what president trump has done here is sort of build a consensus across party lines while doing something that benefits the whole world. weapons of mass destruction are used against innocent civilians, this is a global crisis. and president trump's response says to the world, listen, if you're going to behave like this. there are consequences. so don't do it. so this is really a good moment for washington. abby: and reason why we have seen bipartisan support which i do have a question on. you mentioned that president trump warned russia about 30 minutes before. he had not done that wouldn't democrats be out saying that he would be causing world war iii, that he did not communicate with the russians at all? >> i wouldn't have. because we know that russia engaged in our elections as dick cheney said a couple weeks ago the fact that the russians did engage four elections is an act of war. i don't think we have to warn the russians at all. the fact that he gave russia a courtesy to me seems to say there is some smoke some fire here. let's not say this is old news.

we haven't gotten to the bottom how the russians engaged in our elections blarks they did and who they talked to both in the trump transition team and u.s. government after he was sworn. in i think we have got to figure this out. this is not a democrat or republican issue. this is an american issue people like lindsey graham and john mccain both praised the president both called for select committee to talk about what happened in russia. what happened with trump associates. why mike flynn is asking for immunity to testify in front of senate and the house intelligence committees. these are all major issues do they take away from the fact we saw the president be strong this week and take out syria for engaging in what is called almost a holocaust of our era. no. there is still some smoke here. abby: what do we do to move on in the russian conversation because democrats don't want to let this go. >> he is talking about where

there is smoke there is fire. what they say in texas. this is all hat and no cattle. no proof that everything is going on or ever went on between trump and the russians. how do we move on. president trump keep putting best foot forward this week. judge neil gorsuch another win by the trump administration. what about in syria how donald trump handled that situation. i think he continues to move forward in a positive fashion and does the best for the american people. donald trump like other candidates and other presidents isn't beholden to special interests. his special interest is the american people and that's who he is here to help and that's been his commission the whole time. focused on that and keep moving forward. abby: actions do speak louder than words. the debate will continue on. erin and richard, good to have you here this morning. >> thanks, abby. abby: neil gorsuch officially confirmed as the supreme court justice. how key vote on cases that may affect you like using guns outside of your home in self-defense? famed attorney allen dershowitz is here to discuss next. plus, stuart varney and former

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>> the nomination of neil gorsuch of colorado to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states is confirmed. [gavel] abby: after contentious battle neil gorsuch will be sworn in as the 113th justice on monday. what impact will he have on cases that will likely go before the high court. touching on everything from --

i still can't believe 113 justices that's all we have h it just goes to show you how important these justices are to deciding cases. >> becoming more important. when justices were first picked they were picked at the age of 40 and died at 50. today being picked at 49. he is going to stay on the court until he is 89. >> talking about 30 or 40 years. there will be fewer and fewer justices as they pick them younger and live longer. clayton: cases come before the court. trinity lutheran church what is this fight and what can we expect? >> this is case of whether or not the state is entitled to help a school that both performs religious and secular functions it could be a close case. gulch will clearly come down on the side of the religious institution. that's his history. pete: meaning religious institutions can receive federal dollars. >> for secular purposes. i want to emphasize one point.

nobody should be taking victory laps here and the democrats shouldn't be saying this is the end of the world. supreme court is not that important of an institution in democracy. i would say they decide one very important case in a decade. most of them are not 5 to 4. bush to gore. clearly a 5 to 4 decision. roe vs. weighed 6 to 3. desegregation 9-0. neil gorsuch is not going to change the lives of americans in a fundamental way in a way that democracy matters. >> talked about the denver baker who refused to sell a same sex couple a wedding cake. >> i think he is going to vote for the denver baker in this case. i think it's a mistake. i don't see how anybody's religion could prevent from you making a cake for a wedding. pete: religious liberty case. >> religious liberty always on the side of the religious liberty. one your religious liberty. the other the state can't basically side with rec. that's the establishment clause. is he weak on the establishment clause and very

strong on religious liberties. abby: gun rights are huge for so many people. carrying firearms outs outside of your home for self-defense. >> one of those decade cases that really do matter to people who want to own guns. that's going to be easy one for him. is he going to say are you a right to carry guns outside the home. by the way, if you have a right to carry a gun inside the home, of course have you a right to carry it outside the home in certain neighborhoods. you are more likely to need it to defend yourself outside the home than in the home. pete: if you are an originalist, a conservative you will like the outcomes that 234u67 brings. >> most of the time. justinjustices are unpredictabl. some cases overrated. citizens united so much money. look what happens the democrats raise more money than the republicans last election. the republicans won anyway. so don't overemphasize the supreme court. both sides do that and both sides are wrong. in a democracy, the presidency is much more important. congress is much more

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♪ ♪ >> the united states took a very measured step last night. we are prepared to do more. >> this is legitimate. it was justified. it was very targeted. >> he did more in less than 100 days than president obama did in 8 years. >> it takes guts to act. president trump was elected because the american people wanted a change from obama's cringing capitulation. >> the president is going to take justified, proportional action when it comes to protecting america's national security interests. >> the country that will back them is back. >> four people killed today when someone drove a truck into an upscale department store in stockholm, sweden.

>> pretty safe to say it's a question of islamic terror. >> the "wall street journal" saying that a shakeup is coming in the west wing. >> the stories don't matter. >> is bannon there to stay? is reince priebus there to say? >> that's up to donald trump. donald trump is coming in as disrupter. i know people want to write stories about process and personnel. who suspect who is down. who is in, who is out. >> discrepancy between two individuals three or four. they need to get behind closed doors and saying what do r. we doing to move the president's agenda forward today. >> the nomination of neil gorsuch of colorado to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states is confirmed. ♪ ready, set, let's roll ♪ ready, set, let's ride ♪ pete: we're improving on each hour. abby: i like the music choices starting from 6:00 a.m.

pete: you are very agreeable personality. clayton: we started off with tom petty. i don't know. that was a high bar. we won't back down is how we started at 6:00 a.m. our show starts at 6:00 a.m. abby: action-packed show. so much news. pete: going to talk about in this hour. neil gorsuch the new supreme court justice not the first thing we are talking about this hour huge news. clayton: all eyes on syria and white house reaction to the chemical strikes by the assad regime this week. nicly kailey the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, doing a little bit of about face about. a week earlier basically saying that the removal of assad was not a priority. now it looks like it could be. listen to nicly kailey. >> the united states took a very measured step last night. we are prepared to do more. but we hope that will not be necessary. it was time to say enough but not only say it.

it was time to act. bashar al assad must never use chemical weapons again. ever. the world is waiting for russia to reconsider its misplaced alliance with bashar assad. it could be that russia has been incompetent in its efforts to remove the chemical weapons. or it could be that the assad regime is playing the russians for fools. the united states will no longer wait for assad to use chemical weapons without any consequences. those days are over. pete: you are right, clayton. earlier this week they said assad could change. it's not them saying regime changes. use chemical weapons again smack them again. now they know that america no longer leads from behind when we say we are going to do something or you cross a red line, even if the previous administration said it we're going to enforce it russia and assad are calculating accordingly. abby: also not saying this is a one time thing. there are reports that assad is sending in planes in to

that town that was hit with chemical weapons. clayton: after we destroyed 20 of those planes with to come hawk missiles. abby: saying that hit you back. pete: assad is using conventional weapons. conventional weapon vs. chemical weapon is different it kind of is. historically speaking in international law. you enforce the norm on chemical weapons. you won't be able to use wmds. the civil war is going to continue, unfortunately. abby: last hour we had david tafuri on who used to work for president obama. and you asked him if president obama missed an opportunity back in 2013 when he didn't get approval from congress to hit back on chemical weapons used in syria. he said yes that was missed opportunity. clayton: he said i wrote about it back then. it was a missed opportunity. because, look, russia wasn't there yet. russia wasn't in syria yet. they didn't have the boots on the ground.

they didn't have interference that chemical strike in 2013 arguably more devastating than what we saw last week and president obama didn't do anything about it. pete: president trump is having to clean up for the weakness of the obama administration. the biggest take away we heard from multiple gests on this show america back. our word will matter it doesn't mean the russians or the syrians are going to take this laying down your point. syria is still going to try to push its hand civil war. russia had words to say yesterday as well. this is russian prime minister medvedev yesterday saying instead of overworked statements about a joint fight against th the biggest enemy. isis. the trump administration proved it will fiercely fight the legitimate syrian government beyond that is absolute mistrust. now really sad for completely ruined relations. completely ruined he says. which is good news for terrorists. clayton: saying that these rebels are isis and al qaeda banged backed. you are picking to be on the side of isis. abby: which russia has been

say for a long time now. right? one of the biggest complaints about president trump from democrats is he is in cahoots with russia. they are in this together. one of the biggest take aways what he did in these air strikes, no, we are playing hard ball here. it is america's interests first. it's what this world will stand for and won't stand for. we are going to lead that charge. pete: not just democrats but allies in the media as well. the failing "new york times" says the strike is a significant blow to u.s. ties says vladimir putin. they have to come knowledge that president trump is acting in america's interests. certainly not russia. clayton: what does that do to their narrative. vladimir putin in the last 24 hours has moved a warship mediterranean. back up the regime. rahm o'neil earlier on our show the man who killed usama bin laden says the united states is back. listen. >> president trump pretty much proved he's not the commander-in-chief thought he was. he can pivot and strike and he could have and should have.

people on the ground in jerry are happy the united states is doing something instead of rhetoric and actually doing it we know what needs to happen is bashar al assad needs to be -- he doesn't need to be taken down but he needs to be removed with the help of russia. russia likes having syria as a puppet. they have got one of their naval ports right there. they need to get rid of assad which is the reason the civil war started. we will need the help of the russians. we will get peace through strength hopefully. clayton: what happens next? that's the big question, right? we have a lot of guests on the show this morning that will answer that question for us. abby: if you remove assad who do you put in his place? how can you district that they are going to be any better. pete: they tried to narrow it down. nic is i haley said prepared to do it more. look at the words in the context of chepsz. they don't want necessarily to tip the balance. we saw it happen in libya. intervene without a follow-up. get chaos. be a. pete: send all of those people

home and descend into chaos. we saw n libya. my concern is chemical weapons. that's the red line. if we remember 100 years ago world war i in trench amend the gas warfare that unfolded and we said we would never again have that. we have that red line. yet, assad is still bombing these people with these giant barrel bombs. children being killed whether from gas or bombs. pete: the argue. president trump made and others if you are going to work in america's interests you don't need to spend trillions of dollars and look for villains to slay across the world. can you pick your fights where you pick them. we have been absent everywhere. by acting decisively on such a clear international norm, kim jong un in north korea. our enemies say in iran who are seeking nuclear bomb. they see that and they say okay, we saw barack obama talking tough but he never actually used military force. president trump is will to use it. so when he talks tough, he probably means it. and that's a whole new calculus across the world. abby: other reports this morning about some infight not guilty trump administration, particularly between his son-in-law jared kushner and steve bannon, one of his

senior policy advisors. reports that president trump had to sit them down and say you guys figure this out. so we had corey lewandowski on the show earlier who understands president trump's mind set and sort of how he thinks about handling these sorts of difficult situations. here's what he said. >> i don't think he is -- what i do think that anyone who wants to pretend to speak on behalf of the president may find themselves backtracking very quickly. this administration has had a very good week plus responding to a dictator in syria. this is a week that most of the media isn't focusing on. what they want to do is focus on what is supposed to be the palace entry. is reince priebus in or out. he is the chief of staff today. is that going to change in the only person who is going to know that is donald trump. what i do know is the president has surrounded himself with a number of people who ho have different opinions on how things should be accomplished. that's a healthy environment in my opinion. whether it's steve bannon or reince priebus or jared kushner or gary cohn or whoever that may be. you want differences of

opinion. clayton: steve bannon does not want intervention in syria and then he has military members of his staff on his cabinet who obviously gave him, you know great insight what we should be doing in syria. then you have the reince priebus argue. too which is when kellyanne conway was on the air last night, didn't necessarily give a ringing endorsement of reince priebus. abby: he did that on purpose. he likes to surround himself with people who have different points of view. different things they can bring to the table that comes back to his business mind set. the problem is you get people with very different policy points of view obviously there is going to be some friction. he says you guys figure it out. you guy get in a room and figure out how to move forward. pete: first he wants to surround himself with the best. we see that on the military side h.r. mcmaster and general mattis. that's why i think the military strikes were so successful and targeted and tailored. he obviously values hisson jared kushner and steve bannon as chief strategist. he wants those voices.

a family voice, a trusted voice. core of america first populism. dishadn't ling the state. you have to work it out and-to-work together because i need you both in different dynamics. early white house there is shuffle ling around on that. the media is going to run around and say everyone's harrison fire. more likely trying to shuffle out roles in a new administration u. abby: getting it right in the early days of a presidency. pete: i think. so. abby: turning to other headlines, beginning with a fox news alert. the suspect in the deadly terror attack in sweden praising isis, the uzbekistan native reportedly posting videos of isis propaganda on facebook and even liked a bloody aftermath picture from the boston marathon bombings. pete: wonderful. abby: four people were killed after police say he hijacked a beer truck and drove right into a department store. witnesses saying he was targeting children. the suspect running from the scene but was arrested, still covered in glass. he is expected in court this afternoon. and for the first time in more

than a year, the united states supreme court has the ninth justice. >> the nomination of neil m. gorsuch of colorado to be associate justice of the supreme court of the united states is confirmed. abby: republicans using the nuclear option in the senate to get a 54 to 45 simple majority vote to put neil gorsuch on the bench. following through on president trump's promise to replace the late antonin scalia. the president tweeting this about it: congratulations to an exceptionally qualified and respected judge on his nomination to the supreme court. gulch will be sworn in on monday. before heading to china president xi jinping headed to alaska. china is considered alaska's leading trade partner. this comes just hours after successful meetings in florida with our commander-in-chief. focusing on the economy, on jobs, and trade. president trump also accepting an invitation to visit china later on this year.

that's probably the most important relationship we have going forward. that's good news they actually planned on another meeting. pete: also a meeting with russia coming up next week. abby: we will see if that stays in place. president trump sending a message to the world syria crossed a red line. what do the american people think of his speech. lee carter has the brand new dials in next. clayton: mitt romney didn't get the job of secretary of state. no one thought that was going to happen there may be word this morning may be planning another keep political come back. pete: interesting. another question everyone wants answer which is april the giraffe going to go into labor? when? abby: we're still watching. pete: maybe on our show. don't miss ♪ i'm ready to go ♪ oh, oh, oh ♪ i'm ready to go, go, go ♪

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♪ clayton: welcome back. president trump taking action in letting syria know u.s. will no longer stand by as assad murders its own people. pete: how did the people of the united states react. lee carter is partner at maslansky and partners. she joins us with the answer. >> good morning. clayton: here was donald trump the other day talking about the assad regime when he laid out what america stands for. listen. >> use ago deadly nerve agent, assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women, and children. it was a slow and brutal death for so many.

even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. no child of god should ever suffer such horror. abby: i mean everyone is in agreement on that. >> yeah. the point here is that this is gradeless, i think what i would call it everyone that responded was glad that he was taking this so seriously. his tone was right. they felt they agreed with him. and this is all context laying for why he ordered what he did. i think people all agreed with it. pete: sure, later in the speech he gave more clarity ordering what he did talking about chemical weapons. take a listen. >> there can be no dispute that syria used banned chemical weapons. righted its obligations. under the chemical weapons convention and ignored the urging of the u.n. security council.

years of previous attempts at changing assad's behavior have all failed and failed very dramatically you can see republicans off the charts completely agree. they gave this an a. independents a b. agreed very strongly, loved his strength. democrats while they agreed with our strength they did not like him saying everything up to this point failed. fact of the matter is in 2013 we could have dealt with this differently and we didn't. so republicans, independence on board with that democrat don't so much like the reference to that. abby: tim kaine is reacting to syria. here is what he said. >> just two or three days ago they wouldn't even condemn atrocities by bashar assad. they were cozying up with russia who was propping up the assad regime and helping them commit atrocities against their own people. clearly, there has been a major change in direction in president trump's thinking. abby: here have you both sides of the aisle saying thank you, this needed to be done. yeah. >> i think you can see.

why he is going backwards in this statement didn't membersly work. didn't even necessarily work with democrats his own party. got b minus. g.o.p. don't want him to rewrite history. get behind it people agree this is the right thing to do. whether it's the only thing we are going to be doing or more is up for debate between the parties. everybody wants us to take a strong stand right now. donald trump had a very good week. he acted decisively usually democrats don't come around but this time they did. >> lee, great to have you here this morning. >> great to be here, thanks. clayton: remember when the obama administration said this about the assad regime not having chemical weapons anymore? >> we struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out. >> we were able to find a solution that actually removed the chemical weapons that were known from syria. clayton: did they mislead the public. mike baker is here to react to that next. abby: what impact did the strikes have on the economy?

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abby: time now for news by the numbers. first 100,000. that's how many can be at risk after information stolen from the irs. thieves filing thousands of false tax reforms. next 11. that's how many days until a massive as destroyed. can you listening, clayton, dangerously passes by earth. you should be age to see it in the sky april 19th. this the closest that an as destroyed has come to our planet in 400 years. wow. and lastly, 15 months, that's how long april the giraffe has

been pregnant. her caretakers are hoping for a baby this weekend. they say she has been eating a a lot. which is a sign a giraffe is about to way. clayton: here to weigh in on period for a giraffe 18 months. >> gin giraffe gestation period would be the subject. clayton: it's not. you are going to be talking about the economy. we saw a broad impact on the attacks on the syrian infrastructure across all forms of the economy over the past 48 hours. what did you make of this reverberation across international global markets. >> if this had happened at any other time, say the last 15 years, you get missiles flying in the middle east, the price of oil goes straight up and stays up this time it went up for a couple of hours and went down. abby: why is that. >> three cheers for american frackers.

everybody know knows in these ds if you have short fall in oil production in the middle east it will be made up for by production in the united states. that's how good american fracers are. we have 520 million barrels of oil in storage in america ready to go if there is any short fall from the middle east. result, oil prices got a lid on them and gas prices only went up 6 cents for the entire week. pete: u.s. production limits the volatility that we have traditionally seen, energy independence lessens the extent to which those type of things actually affect us. >> actually. opec is in check mate. the middle east is not as important of the source of all our oil. it's not. measure produces enormous amounts of oil already. set to produce a whole lot more. very good news. abby: isn't that all the more motivation to keep doing it here at home. >> yes, indeed. energy independence. nothing wrong with that. clayton: let's talk about the jobs report. it was pretty weak. but your concern is in the retail sector.

why? >> well, one of the major points of weakness in the economy is the retail sector. by that i mean the bricks and mortar, the shopping malls. 30,000 retail jobs lost in the month of march and 38,000 job losses announced for the computer this is just the bricks and mortar. clayton: post hollywood. >> this is amazon. >> amazon. abby: i buy clothes there, i buy milk. i buy everything there. >> amazon takes up 38% of all online shopping. all of it. 38%. one company. the next closest competitor is best buy, which has 3.5% of retail sales union line. pete: will we see this continue or not? >> oh, yes. you will see ghost malls popping up. ainsley: once did you go am zonel you won't go back. >> ghost mauls. the feel of suburban america is slightly different because we are not going to those stores.

abby: sad though. pete: what time is your show on the fox business network. >> 9:00 on monday morning. up then again with neil cavuto. abby: thank you very much. thank you. pete: did the obama administration mislead the public when they said this about assad back in 2014. >> we struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out. >> we are able to find a solution that actually removed the chepsz that were known from syria. pete: former cia director mike baker here next. clayton: video goes viral asking emma stone to the prom ♪ i should have done it earlier ♪ but now i'll sing a song. clayton: this morning she has a big response for him. we will tell what you it is. abby: he's so cute ♪ so jerr jerry

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we made months ago and it never faltered even during these moments of conflict. >> people may criticize us for not having launched missiles against assad after. keep in mind we why we didn't. we didn't because they got rid of the chemical weapons. that, in fact, was very important. >> pete: there you have it susan rice, john kerry, former president barack obama all assuring us that assad no longer had chemical weapons. joining us cia operative and co-founder of diligence mike baker. thanks for joining us this morning. >> thank you. pete: what was this? deception? were they delusional? did they not have the ability to oversee it? how did they miss this so badly. >> frankly i would argue that they were naive and i don't think they were -- they weren't being deliberately nefarious in their description of this. i just think that they -- that foreign policy team of the previous administration we talked about this for many years, they were just naive, i think about how the world worked.

>> john kerry saying russia has been constructive about this soviet union rice. god bless her. she was out there talking about this very thing saying we didn't have to take military force. we got rid of all these chemical weapons. i will say two things about this one if is extremely difficult to assess and verify the program of a nation state that is hostile to your interests. it's extremely difficult to do that. second point i would make is people should stand up and pay attention to that fact, fact number one when we think about the infamous iranian nuke deal. abby: i was going to ask about that. isn't that reason for us to be skeptical with the nuke deal. are they really getting rid? look what happened in syria. >> the answer is no they are not secretary kerry also said about the unique deal the important aspect of it is verification. say we are basing it on

trouble because we have never been able to verify. pete: north korea also told us they weren't pursuing nuclear weapons until they got them. >> right. pete: same in syria. abby: eyes wide open. >> syria people are talking. i was at the barkley center last night for the rock and roll hall of fame induction ceremony. abby: that is awesome. >> i ran into a lot of people complaining about missile strike a lot of people say how could we do this in this is about international norms. if you don't take action on the use of chemical weapons, you are essentially over a period of time normalizing that behavior that's true whether you are talking about toddler doing something rude and don't show them consequences or talking will a state or group. pete: saying smack you up side the head. brian pete pete i totally agree with you. world war i we ended that gassing in the trenks inhumane way of carrying out warfare.

got it off the table. however, he is still using barrel bombs and killing children. what are we supposed to do next? >> >> in his death, stretching back for decades. has tremendous amount of blood on his hands. everybody ar agrees for the fact that assad is a butcher. now, if the changing calculus here, because of that missile strike i suspect may be if we can convince we got an opportunity right now with the russians to convince putin and his regime that they need to get on board this train. and if putin, best interest. if you think nothing else of the russian government right now, other than to think think they always act in heir own best interest i think there is an opportunity. what they are most interested in is that port that maintains that fleet. only port. military presence there. that's number one. it's not assad. assad enables that. pete: useful tool for them right now. >> right there.

their best interest doesn't need to look like assad. what they are going to see or we're going to see is that the global community, if we're able to do this and convince others to get on board with the idea and convince them that assad is going with or without them, they will come down to the table. they will sit there. because they will not want to lose their leverage there is a place for them in syria. we are not going to be in a position where that's it, you're out of here. we don't want them, to i think. we want them to share the pain. abby: mike baker. what an interesting perspective. really grateful to have you on the couch. >> thank you, i think you are terrible judge of character but thank you. abby: really jealous by the hall of fame. i wish i were invited to that we want to turn to other headlines starting with the coast guard frantically searching for a cruise ship passenger who went overboard. 32-year-old georgia man fell from the ninth deck near the berry islands in the bahamas. the man was on his honeymoon on board the carnival liberty with his. why still unclear how he fell off that boat. and a reminder to look both ways.

you've got to see this. before crossing. take a look at this train. nearly missing a woman walking across the tracks. this is in new zealand. the woman sees the railroad signals passing. she looks to the right to collect. rice as she turns her head she notices the oncoming train. hopping out of the way just in time thank goodness. transportation officials warning pedestrians that the new electric trains are much quieter. than typical trains. that's scary though. luckily she is okay. emma stone responding to the prom proposal seen by millions of people online. ♪ go insane ♪ we'll have to see abby: emma stone has responded to the arizona high school student jacob staudenmaier promposal by saying no. she sent a letter saying thanks but i have to work.

clayton: i had that same response when i ask to the prom i have to work. pete: she had though work you were in junior high? clayton: exactly. i believed her. rick reichmuth with the forecast. rick: leave it to arizona though, i'm home state. i'm impressed. hey, guys, finally kind of nice out. it's a chilly morning. are you cold? >> yes. rick: she says it's cold. it is a little bit chilly, i agree. it's getting better so don't worry. the east coast especially. take a look what's going on. chill morning across the east. 35 in cleveland. 37 in chicago. certainly well below average for this time of year. tons of sunshine. so today we will start to see things warm up. and today is kind of the first day of the warmer air that's beginning to move in across the eastern part of the country. really no precipitation around at all. big snow across the syria nevadas. snow across southern california even. take a look at these

temperatures a high of 70 degrees in fargo today. 68 in chicago after your cool start. getting up to 76 tomorrow. and you get the idea this warmer air begins to pull off toward the east. monday 71 in new york. 70 in buffalo. and you get the idea. warmer air finally coming in. clayton, you'll be happy, spring and allergies all at one time. clayton: oh, good. you always have to be the wet blanket. just give us the warmth. abby: my allergies have been flaring up. starting already. 9 pollen. pete: headache or allergies, i just take pills for both. abby: that's always helpful. congressman devin nunes temporarily stepping away from the russia case due to epics complaints. next guest calls that case frivolous says the susan rice story the real story here. pete: sequel democrats have been dreaming about about the election. hillary clinton writing a new book that won't sell, what should it be called? what should the title of her new book explaining why she lost in the election?

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home state of utah. pete: republican chairman of the house intelligence committee congressman devin nunes temporarily stepping away from the russia case while ethics complaints have been investigated. clayton: while two republicans will take the reins. time to move forward. >> i'm sure it was a very difficult decision for him, but as he mentioned, i think it is in the best interest of the investigation. clayton: next guest calling this against nunes frivolous. eli lake joins us now. eli, good to join you this morning. why do you think the susan rice scandal is not going away? >> i think there is a number of questions that even at this point the ranking democrats on the senate and house intelligence committee have agreed to look into it. there are still a lot of unanswered questions. for me, i think we have focused on the unmasking element. now legitimate question to say

why was the national security advisor receiving fairly granular, raw, summaries of intelligence that were dealing were the trump transition and according to devin nunes the chairman of the house intelligence committee that did not have to do with russia. so those are some even aside from the question of unmasking the identities of u.s. persons that are redefense secretaried in those reports. it's worth just noting why she was getting stuff like that to begin with. and it could very well be that there is a good reason for to. but it's worth finding out. pete: eli, not to mention leaking which there is never a good reason for. >> siewivel rice has said she did not leak anything at this point. that's just putting that out there. pete: you mentioned chairman nunes he did temporarily say he won't be part of the russia investigation. you are saying they are building a frivolous case against him, why? >> well, the people who were initially bringing these complaints to the office of the congressional ethics, a lot of them are sort of

partisan democrat types. and trump critics. you know, and you know, if you look at some of the organizations, they are funded by george soros' organization and so forth. but more importantly, the actual charge here is that by discussing the existence of these raw intelligence reports, which deal with intercepted communications, that technically nunes was revealing classified information, which is in violation of the house ethics rules, this is absurd in light of the fact that many of the democrats and partisans on the other side of this issue were cheering a far more significant leak in the modern communications of mike flynn, former national security advisor with mike flynn russian ambassador. served a great purpose, what nunes did, he did not disclose the names of anybody who was monitored nor the methods they were monitoring, which would have been more serious. what he said is i have seen these reports, they are really inappropriate.

they have dealt with the trump transition and i want to know why. that was in his position of oversight. the way he did this in my review was very misleading lie by pretending he was getting it beside some source beside the white house. all of that was in error. but the substance of it and i think he has been somewhat vindicated because you are seeing now the committees taking it seriously and including this their investigation is worthy of further examination. pete: eli lake: great work. have you been in the middle of this. >> i appreciate being on the story. thank you. pete: you bet. coming up, next guest fled the atrocities of the assad regime to come to america. now is he thankful to president trump after the air strikes that refugee will join us live next hour. clayton: plus spring is here. time to freshen up. tips to make spring cleaning a breeze like using a lint roller to clean your lamp. pete: never done that.

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can list and can you get paid right on your mobile app. using the ebay app. what you do is you can also go to a fedex store, drop off your items, use elay valet. so i really great option for you to be able to sell all of the items that you are looking to get rid of. bring this brand new items, ebay has 81% of ebay items are brand new. something that people don't really know about. abby: i love that these hangers, walk us through. this is such a great idea. the glue. >> i love this trick. nonslip hangers a lot of times you lose half of your items it falls right to the floor. this is really great hack. you use hot glue, we've it onto the edge of the hang, all of a sudden than rubbery texture is enough to keep your items from falling on the floor. abby: finally the shower rings, i love this as well to make it so things don't take so much space. >> yes. you got it so actually this is a boutique hack. so you can actually use shower rings. so inexpensive.

put up hats, jeans, scarves, your belt, anything. that's a really great trick so you can minimize the space in your closet so you can pit in more. i also love this trick here. this is aroma therapy dehumidifier for closet. >> i thought it was to cigarette. >> i know it does look like it. >> tennis balls are great. what you do k. do is use rubber cement. put tennis balls right on the inside of your closet that you just quickly hang your shoe right on it. so that's a really great. >> i though you are thrilled about awful these. >> i'm excited to watch you do it. >> all right. the carpet? >> the carpet. so someone might want to toss over that cinnamon over there. >> clayton: hand me that thing of cinnamon. use cinnamon on your carpet. >> two to three tablespoons. sprinkle it high up so you don't end up with one big wad. this is really great chemical free organic way to be able to clean your carpets and give

that you really beautiful smell. and if you have kids crawling around you don'tly don't want to put any of those carpet. >> clayton: a little whip cream on top. vacuum it up. >> you would vacuum it up after 10 to 15 minutes. clayton: i'm not too bright. rick over to you. rick: you say dust with fabric softener sheets. >> the trick is what you want to do is actually put them in the dryer were your clothes before -- instead of tossing them out, they have a new life. so, they dloing static, right? so the same idea is they are going to cling to the dust around your home. so you can use the used fabric sovereignner sheets to clean around your house, again, it's going to suck in that dust. rick: this assumes that you dust. abby: steve, when iwhen is the e that you disgust. >> how about bed sheets. >> last one here. you forget all the space that you have in your home to store

things. so, instead of putting bed sheets in your shelves, what can you do is actually bu put pt them right underneath your mattress. >> i use one, take them off and put them back on. >> if do have two or three sets put them underneath the mattress. lay them as flat flat as possible. lift up your mack mattress. and then you put it right there. and you won't even know. >> when you change your sheets you pull them out. anna, great to see you. abby: great tricks. clayton: thank you very much. clean up the cinnamon. guess who is praising president trump for the syrian air strikes. >> making sure that assad knows when he commits such despicable atrocities he will pay a price is the right thing to do. clayton: chuck schumer isn't

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>> it's the 19th annual national day celebrating scottish americans. >> are you part scottish at all? >> i am when i enjoy nice scotty dogs. abby: learn how to play the bagpipes. i think it's really hard to do. you do it obviously wearing a kilt. >> ly i wanted to have a nice little glass of scotch. >> knew tarten day was coming. so we salute. >> here's a little winning in your glass this morning. abby: a lot of news to get to this morning and a big last hour to go, we do begin with a fox news alert and.

there's moral responsibility for the chemical attack because it was supposed to have insured syria destroyed its stockpile that means russia has been complicit or simply incompetent. russia should drop its support of bashar al-assad. >> the united states took a very measured step last night. we are prepared to do more. the world is waiting for russia to reconsider its misplaced alliance with bashar assad. >> secretary tillerson travels to moscow next week before the u.s. strikes syria. this as the white house confirms to fox news president trump told steve bannon and jared kushner, also the president's son-in-law to work

out their differences. spoke yesterday according to the source and also says they agreed to move on. this as reporting president trump is considering a shakeup of his white house that could include the replacement of white house chief of staff reince priebus. 's former campaign manager defended the staff and choices. >> is reince priebus in or out? he's the chief of staff today. and is that going to change? the only person who's going to know that is donald trump. but what i do know is that the president surrounded himself with a number of people who have different opinions on how things should be accomplished. that's a healthy environment, in my opinion. >> the white house denied the staff shakeup is in the works. pete and automobiley, back to you guys. abby: thank you. >> well, the story this morning we're also talking about is what happens next in syria and the white house acting decisively this week to -- 59 tomahawk missiles taking out some key sites and aircraft of the regime.

now they've moved a warship into the mediterranean, and it seems like the tension has right side there. >> they were up against a weak leader in barack obama. now you have a decisive action from a strong leader who is putting america's interest first. what do they do then? sure, they put it north dakota mediterranean, they're in a weaker position. what donald trump showed yesterday is if you mess with us, if you cross international norms, we're going to drop a tomahawk on your face and the world takes note of that and that matters. abby: yeah, we had rob o'neill on earlier, he's the man who killed osama bin laden, and he said the u.s. will not be intimidated. take a listen. >> president trump pretty much has proved he's not the commander-in-chief he thought he was. he can pivot and strike, and he did, and he should have, and it's just sending a message to everybody to include vladimir putin, al-assad, and iran.

the people in the united states are happy that we're doing something not just rhetoric, and we're doing it. bashar al idaho doesn't need to be taken out but needs to be removed with the help of russia. they've got one of their naval ports right there. they have to get rid of assad, which is why this whole civil war started. but we will get peace through strength, hopefully. >> a lot of revisionist history happening this morning too and some obama staffers when you look at 2013 when obama had the opportunity and arguably a worse chemical attack to act decisively and go after the assad regime and instead punted to congress waiting their approval on it. they said of course we're not going to approve of it. now this morning there's a look from the white house where this guy is coming out and supporting trump's position on this and some people saying this was a mistake. abby: yeah, we had david on earlier, and you asked him that question, complaint, and he said this was a real missed opportunity for obama not to step in.

do we have that thought? let's play that. >> do you think your former boss missed an opportunity to strike in 2013 when congress wouldn't give him the approval to do so? >> i definitely do. i said that back then. i wrote about that back then. we should have used military force back then. i didn't think that we needed a congressional authorization. i think president obama went to seek congressional authorization because he wanted to make sure everyone was onboard. but i think that was a mistake. abby: that was a really telling statement there from someone who used to work with president obama. it's not that there's a new cop in town. there's a cop in town, meaning for the past eight years we've been so passive when it comes to handling our foreign polic policy. >> exactly right and, clayton, to your point, there were only 10,000 dead displaced at that point. it was just beginning. clayton: yeah, russia wasn't even there yet. pete: russia wasn't even there. a lot of people are

acknowledging that, including annmarie, served under president obama, saying donald trump has done the right thing on syria. finally after years of senseless atrocities. if you're talking about years, you're talking about the obama years where there was a lot of rhetoric at the un security council hel help. >> meanwhile also coming out from obama staffers making the claim that in order to turn the page on some of the problems of the health care and budget and all the other issues that the trump administration is dealing with or using this as cover, here was his tweet. there's always massive momentum for a military strike. being the break takes more courage and strength than being the accelerator. pete: so doing nothing. when we did nothing in face of all of the chaos, that's just us being brave. abby: there are a lot of people, both sides felt aisle a lot of bipartisan support for both of these air strikes

what president trump did. big, bold action but a lot of questions remain as to what happens next. what does this mean for russia? what does this mean for iran? was this sending a message to north korea at the end of the day? what is bashar al-assad going to do? and if he does, then what do we do in response to that? >> even the failing new york times this morning acknowledging that by striking syria, it strikes a significant blow to u.s. ties to vladimir putin. we're not working for vladimir putin's interest in this action we're going against. but it doesn't stop other networks to pontificate maybe this is a conspiracy with vladimir putin. take a listen. >> wouldn't it be nice if it was just completely, totally, absolutely impossible to suspect that vladimir putin orchestrated what happened in syria this week so that his friend in the white house could have a big night with

missiles and all of the praise he's picked up over the last 24 hours? wouldn't it be so nice if you couldn't even in your wildest dreams imagine a scenario like that? i don't know what it is. is it a 2% chance? is it a 50% chance? i don't know but i don't think it's a 0% chance, and it used to be with every other president prior to donald trump. abby: even rachel adams face was i don't know about this. that seems to be a stretch to me. >> core lewandowski was on the show earlier saying these news anchors want to be the story rather than reporting the story with conspiracy evidence. pete: even when rachel think so you're insane, you're off the deepened. and, again, as you said absolutely no evidence. you look at the evidence on the ground, the evidence is on the front page of the new york post where you've got fortified bunkers with

ballistic missiles, planes destroyed underneath because a dictator dare cross the united states of america. donald trump says no more. a sheriff in town. that's the take around the world today. including refugees, we're going to talk to a refugee, obviously not on this program. they're reading into this too finally someone taking our interest in syria. abby: take action. bring you to other headlines fox news alert. we are learning more about a suspect that plowed a truck right into a crowded mall in sweden. the 39-year-old reportedly was also known to swedish security agencies and praised isis online. the persecutor in the case said he has not spoken since his arrest. four people were killed after police say he hijacked a beer truck, drove it into a department store, a witness saying he targeted children. well, the suspect running from the scene but was arrested still covered in glass. investigators have not ruled out others being involved. and for the first time in more than a year, the united states

supreme court had the ninth justice. >> the nomination of neil m gorsuch of colorado to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states is confirmed. >> republicans using the nuclear option in the senate to get a 54-45 simple majority vote to get neil gorsuch on the bench. following through with president trump's promise to replace the late antonin scalia. the president tweeting this "congratulations to a exceptionally qualified and respected judge to his confirmation to the supreme court. gorsuch will be sworn in on monday" and before heading home to china, president made a pit stop in alaska as refueled his plan, he met alaska govern bill walker for sight-seeing and dinner. alaska is considered the leading trade partner. and this comes after meetings focusing on economy, jobs, and trade. president trump also accepted an invitation to visit china later on this year.

seems like it went pretty well in the meeting. pete: yeah, looks like it. coming up on the show, fox news alert. now a russian warship heading towards united states destroyers that launched the air strikes against syria. is this a move we should be worried about? the u.s. officer joins us next. >> and hillary clinton is writing a brand-new book. what should it be called? what should the title be of her book that talks about how she lost? we've already received thousands of instructions here on fox and friends. keep them coming. the title of hillary clinton's new book. let us know what you think. >> i'm going to crowd source my book title. to folks everywhere whose diabetic... ...nerve pain shoots and burns its way into your day... ...i hear you. when that pain makes simple errands simply unbearable...

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abby: tensions are rising this morning as russian warship has entered the eastern mediterranean sea heading straight towards the u.s. navy destroyers that launched a strike in syria. >> so is this a move we should be worrying about? u.s. commanding officer joins us now. nice to see you, sir. >> thank you for having me on. >> you heard vladimir putin saying the u.s. strike was an act of aggression, harsh words and then you see this ship moving into the mediterranean sea. should web worried? >> i don't think we should be worried. i think we should be concerned as you do with any deployment where you have a most capable. this is the russian's most modern frigate, 450 feet wide, carries super sonic cruise missiles, 100-millimeter gun, i mean, it is a very powerful warship but nonetheless it's there to monitor activities and also try to send a signal that, hey, we're willing to go tow to tow if necessary.

it shouldn't come but they're trying to say that they are capable of sailing the seas like us. abby: what are the rules of engagement in the mediterranean sea if they were to do something, how do we respond? >> well, i think right now those ships are probably operating under peace time rules of engagement. every navy ship that's out there and those commanding officers have an inherit right of self-defense is that if the russian warship were to take action that they deem threatening either hostile intent or shoot at us, they could respond in kind to do it. but right now, i don't anticipate and i don't think the commanding officers do either. but they are going to be an aggressive maneuvers that would call from that. >> we heard from prime minister who called the united states basically as backing isis and al-qaeda by supporting the rebels and that they thought that this was a bridge too far. if we're going to get them to sit down it he table and try to pull the assad regime apart in order to replace him, that doesn't seem like it's likely given that kind of response.

>> well, you have to remember there's a difference between posture and action. and what you're seeing is a lot of posturing and talking. when we sit down at the negotiation table, the first thing we're going to ask the russians is, well, hey, 100% all the chemical weapons are supposed to be gone. that was your responsibility by the agreement. why didn't it happen? and when you look at we show them here's the path that the aircraft flew. here's the time when they hit. here's their route back to that base. here's where we think the storage facility is, and we share that intelligence and then show them this is what also happened afterwards at the hospital, you need to explain yourself we're clearly in a position of strong negotiating authority, and we should call them out for it because it's only through a position of strength that the united states can begin to work with russia to arrange for that peaceful transition of the assad family out of power and begin a transition to a new government in syria. abby: yeah, that's very well said. we'll leave it there, commander. thank you very much for your insight.

>> my pleasure. thank you. pete: coming up next on the show, our next guest fled the atrocities of the regime to come to america now thankful of president trump for the air strikes. will join us next. abby: plus we're taking a walk on the wild side. i'm in love for this one. we have some exotic animals in the studio. a toucan. pete: that's a lemur. abby: a lemur. look at that. ♪ ♪

>> president trump taking immediate action following bashar al-assad's chemical attack in syria.

trump: it was a slow and brutal death for so many. even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. no child of god should ever suffer such horror. >> so how are those that escaped the assad regime reacting to the missile strike in syria? a refugee from syria, he fled -- he and his family fled in 2011 when he was just 17 years old, and he arrived in the u.s. in 2015. he joins us now. we thank you very much for joining us this morning. >> thank you for having me. pete: so what was your reaction when you saw president trump take action? >> president trump make red line a real line for bashar al-assad that he will stop to kill my people.

i'm so happy and glad that he did that. finally after six years, we saw -- pete: yeah, what was your reaction? president obama originally said we're going to draw this red line if he uses chemical weapons then america did nothing. what was your feeling then? >> so sad. i'm so happy right now trump did that, like, when obama say he will stop assad doing that, and he gave a fake red line, bashar al-assad start to kill people again and again and again, and he will keep going, keep killing people if mr. donald trump given that other red line. but mr. donald trump, he didn't do that. he start to show him the real

america. pete: the real america. you still have friends and family back in syria. how do they feel what president trump has done? >> they're saying that when -- two days ago when mr. donald trump started in syria, all the people were happy and all the people was happy about what he did. it's really awesome, and it's really amazing, and i wish that mr. donald trump continue doing that to kick assad out so i can go back home. yeah. pete: critics of president trump have said, well, sure he may have taken action with a missile strike against bashar al-assad in syria, but he has a refugee ban here in the united states right now. so muslims don't like him. what do you say to that? >> say something about refugee. we should talk about why the people become refugee. as a refugee, i would say i left syria because of what's happened to my country, what

assad did to me in 2011. so if he want to make a refugee ban in the united states, that's okay, but he will help me after that what he did two days ago. he will help me back to syria when he take assad and all the militia outside of syria. pete: so you're ultimately saying, hey, i'm hoping these actions will allow me as a refugee go back to syria? >> yeah. absolutely. he will help me go back to syria absolutely after that. pete: and that's what you want? a lot of people say, no, refugees want to stay in america no matter. you're saying, no, this is my home. i want the civil war over so i can go back. >> i mean, i cannot go back to syria right now if assad is still in power. i'm still here if assad is still in power, but i want back. everyone misses home. i miss to be with my family. i mean, i say it to my family in other countries, sweden, germany, turkey, so i wish i can go back to my home. i miss my friends.

i miss my country. i want to go back to my country to start to make, like, a new and good relationship with people around the country. i absolutely i would go back home if donald trump keep doing that and kick assad out of syria. pete: so from your perspective, you're just grateful that american president is taking a decisive, ultimately military action as opposed to president obama making a lot of promises and decorations but nothing changing. >> finally. yes, finally trump do it. i'm so thankful of trump. he did that finally. and what i wish -- i wish he keep doing that chicago. sure. >> not because bashar al-assad, the terrible bashar al-assad did by killing

innocent, bashar kill people every day. women, children, all people every day by bombs, by, like, by a lot of things. also bashar al-assad he's bombing the hospitals, and that's horrible. so i wish that president trump attack bashar al-assad and kick him out of syria. pete: you have iran, hezbollah, and isis as well. >> absolutely, isis. absolutely, isis. pete: thank you very much for your time. we wish the worst on that brutal dictator for sure and the best for you and your family. thank you very much. >> thank you. pete: some lawmakers saying president trump needs congressional approval before escalating military action in syria. texas congressman henry is one of them. he joins us live just ahead. then it's deceit democrats have been waiting for.

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abby: you fit right in fill. >> two of my ex-wives were scottish. pete: but who's counting? boy, there are has been a lot of news over the past 24 hours and the united states strike on syria response moving that frigate into the mediterranean and show of strength vladimir putin calling this a sign of aggression from the united states and pete just talked to a refugee from syria who is living in the united states right now, and he wants to go back, and he said what trump did is meaningful to him and his people. listen. >> some make real red line for bashar al-assad that he will stop and kill my people. i'm so happy and glad that he did that. i cannot back to syria right now if assad still in power. absolutely. i am still here if assad is still in power but i want back. everyone misses home. i miss to be with my family.

i mean, i say it and my family in other countries sweden, germany, turkey, so i wish i come back to my home. i miss my friends. i miss my country. i want to go back to my country. >> so president trump said many times it's a mess. i inherited a mess. it's very interesting and insightful. he said his friends also want to stay. he said refugees ultimately want to stay in their home country, and i want to help them do so. >> surely. there are five million, there no doubt as many syrians living outside the country as in the country. now, i don't think this air strike solves that problem. that is the dilemma that president trump faces right now. he has had this hugely successful brilliant strike. presize, proportional, almost universally acclaimed except by iran, some of the usual suspects. but the world is elated right

now, including justin trudeau, as did the leaders of other countries. what the president does right now, though, this is the damneddable problem. the shi'ites, they are one religion, the sunnis, the immigrants, the migrants, the disrupted population, shi'ite, sunni, how do these people ever live together again? how does the sunni community ever have faith that assad won't poison them when the united states looks the other way in the post civil war era? so i think that it's a really -- one thing is to strike, to knock out 20 russian built syrian aircraft, it's quite another thing now to mend the country that has been broken by civil war. pete: that's what he wants. that's what he said. if this continues, we can topple him somehow. i hope that donald trump continues this. but that's, as you mention, a hornets nest. >> look what happened in iraq. in iraq, there was a -- >> or libya. >> or libya. but iraq is specifically a religious thing.

one religion, the sunnis were on top even though they were the minority. we upended that, we put the shi'ite majority up on top and look at the endless conflicts we have had. we helped give birth to isis. >> president obama's abandonment of the red line and abandonment of iraq. >> absolutely. i'm not being partisan here at all. president obama has been just as destructive as george w. bush's invasion by this whole arab spring nonsense and encouraging destabilization, i think president obama this is the terrible mistake that he has made and history will blame him for it just as they blamed george w. bush for the iraq invasion. now going back to syria. you have two religions, how can you flave way that they can mutually trust each other. i think you need massive international policing of a state much like post-war germany where you have these different faxes, you -- i think the united states --

>> the only country with the will to do that and president trump certainly didn't build on nation building elsewhere, so there has to be leverage on the russians. >> i think -- people say now that this attack in syria shows that any special relationship that might have existed between how our president donald trump and the russian president vladimir putin shows that that's a bunch of bologna. abby: we played a clip earlier of an anchor on another network saying you can't be 100% sure that they are in cahoots on these air strike. >> sounds like crazy talk. where did he get this? that's a smart man with government experience. how does he come up with these fantasies that it was some kind of conspiracy between the martians, putin, and trump? it's ridiculous. abby: this is a clear mind that i'm sorry, russia, we're going to do what's right first. >> but i think the solution to the problem going back to how do you protect these two religions from killing each

other. lies in u.s. russia coalition. it will only work. the russians control the shi'ites, the assad government. we have a lot of sway with the sunnis. let putin and trump get together, and they could be the chair of an international kind of coalition that could put together a future syria policable by the outside. unfortunately, in the short-term but also the nation can heal itself. pete: you never know. you have to smack a bully first. >> i totally agree. abby: we'll leave it there. good to have you here this morning. >> thank you. abby: all right. i want to bring some other headlines this morning south to the border jeff sessions will tour the arizona-mexico border on tuesday. known to crack down on illegal immigration and an outspoken supporter of the president's wall during the presidential campaign. and more politics from hollywood. scarlett johansson calling

ivanka trump quote coward from the baffling interview by the first daughter when she said the first impact of the obama administration will be behind the scenes. listen. >> it's so uninspired and actually i think really cowardly, and i was just so disappointed by that interview that she gave yesterday. >> great hollywood actor. abby: on sannel mocking her as complicit. also a tell all, president trump's last year's election but a spoiler alert. it was not her fault. the book is set to be released this fall. it will talk about how misogyny, wikileaks, and fbi director james comey derailed her campaign also preach the same liberal voters that most voters did not buy during that election. >> and all morning we've been asking you for your suggestions of what the book title should be. abby: no one has written in.

>> no one. no. thousands of you have written in. so we thought we would do a top ten list. can i get a drum roll out there? all right. number ten from sherry in pennsylvania. she says what difference does it make? number nine, left out. number eight from mark, end of an error. from david in massachusetts, an inconvenient truth. number six from illinois, mary russian. number five from lawrence in new jersey, cloudy with a chance of comey. number four from rochester, underdeliver and through the woods. number three from francine. how to lose a race in ten ways. number two from barry. hillary's understandable it or not. and the number one reason what hillary clinton's book title should be from janet in georgia. trump. >> i think my favorite was the

comey one again? >> what was it? >> cloudy with a chance of comey. abby: really clever suggestions, actually. thank you for sending all of those in to us. >> all right. well, it's national tarten day and in just a few hours -- rick, you take it, please. >> yeah, nice. the pipe band and thousands of marchers will be parading down 6th avenue celebrating scottish heritage to kick off the celebration. i've got kyle telling us what the tarten parade is. >> it's a celebration of tarten day, which is on april 6th every year. 1998 george bush made national tarten day through signing the decoration, and we celebrate that, celebrate these scottish immigrants and what they give to our country here. >> and because of that, you have this big parade. 30 pipe bands today are going

to be marching through manhattan, including this one right here. these guys all came over here from scotland. >> yes. >> just for this. and in addition -- >> the dog pack. we have over 100 dogs marching in the parade this year and these are some of the winners of the dog competition that we have. >> there is nothing better. all right. let's listen to this band. >> yeah. >> john, do you want to do it? >> here we go. ♪ ♪ [bagpipes] ♪ ♪ ♪ [bagpipes]

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>> well, president trump's show of force in syria getting reaction from both sides of the aisle. while many showing support, others are calling for congress to vote on authorization and seek approval on those. >> one of those lawmakers is texas congressman henry cuellar and joins us now. congressman, thank you very much for joining us. so you say regardless of the merits of the strike, he should have sought congress first. now, keep in mind, obama tried to do the same thing and did not get approval. why do you say president trump has to do so now? >> well, first of all, i say if it escalates, then i think he needs to talk to us. what he did was appropriate. especially like all americans, i was horrified what he did to his own people.

and part of the reason i'm saying this is keep in mind last week president trump was saying that president bashar al-assad should stay and now of course he's changing his mind saying he needs to go. so the bottom line is if we're going to have an end objective, what is the goal that we're going to do this? that strike, no authorization needed at all. but if he escalates, then it might be something that we need to talk to congress, and i said on the defensive appropriations committee with my good friend the chairwoman, and we're going to be funding this, and if we go any further, we need to hear from secretary mathis and the president. >> do you think that your republican colleagues agree with you on this? and of course the rules are beyond 60 days, an escalation 60 days, they would have to get approval; right? >> that's correct. and, again, i don't know. as you know, we're back in the district, and we'll go back in a couple weeks.

but, again, i certainly want to be bipartisan because any time we have a situation abroad and our men and women could be put in a difficult situation, i think we need to do this in a bipartisan approach. and, again, whether it was president obama or president trump, we want to be supportive of our commander-in-chief. abby: congressman, you say our military need strong, bold action. they need a plan. you would think that what happened two days ago, that's exactly what president trump tried to accomplish here. >> well, you know, again, what he did now, what he's done, that's appropriate. i don't have a disagreement. my point is if he -- if we have to escalate, and we have to take other steps that include further involvement of our military, then i think we need to have a discussion. nothing wrong by having a discussion with congress. i mean, he's the commander-in-chief. we support the commander-in-chief, and he's our commander-in-chief. but if it escalates into something else, then let's

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abby: we are always celebrating something here today at fox and friends, today we're celebrating national zoo lovers day with some furry friends.

>> the animal ambassador for seaworld and bush gardens cory, great to see you this morning. >> great to be here. >> one of our animal ambassadors from bush gardens and like you mentioned, it's national zoo lovers day so what better opportunity than to bring some zoo animals here? look how engaged you guys are by making this connection, and that's really what the importance of zoos are in our country today; right? we want to get our kids and adults too engaged in these animals. see them up close, make a connection with them because when you have a connection with an animal like you guys have a connection here with him, you're going to be inspired to connect with animals. >> what's the name of this toucan. >> there you go, abby.

there you go. [laughter] >> toucan sam over here. >> this is parino, he is a toucan from the rain forced of south america. you can toss it and see if you. okay. there you go. >> look at that. >> he would be a hit at a party. >> here's another one if you would like. now, as you toss the grape, you'll notice that he has a long feather-like tongue in that beak. that tongue is going to help kick that fruit back into his throat, and these guys are seed disbursers, they eat fruit, the undigested seed goes into their bodies. >> one of my favorite animals is a sloth here. >> yeah. i think a lot of people. the craze these days is sloth. he had his first birthday.

he was born at bush gardens in tampa bay, and you can touch him down here. bush gardens and many other zoos around the world were all part of a species survival plan, which is to help make sure that they are providing and care. you can't see this in his hair, but he has microscopic grooves. most people don't get the opportunity to see them in the wild, but you'll noise they're green with all the algae on them. i heard somebody is excited for a cat. why don't you guys take a step back here. >> all right. is this cat deadly? can we pet the cat? >> we're not going to reach out and touch the cat. he's eating his meat right now. so this is an african cervile.ve >> we'll have more of this in just a couple of minutes. we'll be right back when that pain makes simple errands simply unbearable...

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