offered for their capture. ugly, blowing up entire street with his cigarette. the man was sent flying into the air after dropped it down a sewer. someone else had dumped trash down the hole a minute before no. big on. heather: how big was that baby? jackie: 13 pounds. heather: "fox & friends" starts now on that note. bi. >> we're not going into syria. but, when you drop gas or bombs, this is an animal. what i did should have been done by the obama administration. >> if they use chemical weapons, they are going to pay a very, very stiff price. >> north korea is warning of a nuclear attack against the united states if provoked. >> i think this truly does keep the president up at night. i think it's cancer. i don't think it's overblown. very different from syria. >> most important thing for us is to send a message to the world that the border is not open, please don't come. >> frankly, i used --

mistakenly used an inappropriate and insensitive remark about the holocaust. i especiallily this week using that term. >> there was no malevolence. >> media blowing up with this meme southwest logo we beat the competition, not you. ♪ it's all rocking in the free world. ♪ keep on rocking in the free world. brian: southwest. taking advantage of a catastrophe for united. steve: for southeast looking east down 34th street here in midtown, manhattan. good morning, folks, it is a wednesday during holy week. ainsley: it is holy week. easter is this weekend. brian: which meals palm sunday was last weekend. my mom got the palm. she always gets it. ainsley: and then makes it

into the cross? brian: don't know what to do with it palm sunday is over, even though it's june? what is the tradition? do you burn it? steve: it varies. we keep them for the most part. brian: where is father jonathan when you need him? steve: i take the palm right next to the bathroom mirror. last year's is right next to this year. brian: to so come august it makes sense? ainsley: we made them into little crosses. steve: very ambitious. ainsley: should we talk syria this morning? steve: i would rather that you can holy week. steve: "new york post" got brarmt wide ranging interview with the white house. brian: would. ainsley: many people are wondering what happens next? do we continue to strike in syria? he is saying it's not going to happen. we're not going in to syria. brian: there is a few things

going on too. ourselves is going into russia and is he there is he going to be meeting with contemporary foreign secretary. and maybe putin. you already have vladimir putin accusing us of saying oh, by the way, this was all a ruse done by the insurgents. america is making it up. general mattis answered yesterday saying i will tell you exactly the proof we have. take a look at yourself world community and see where we go from here. for the president though, this is one stop shop. ainsley: president said russia, vladimir putin you are on the wrong team. listen to this exclusive interview he had with maria bartiromo. >> we are not going into syria. when i see people using horrible, horrible chemical weapons, which they agreed not to use under the obama administration, but they violated it. >> they said they got rid of them. >> hey, look, what i did should have been done by the obama administration a long

time before did i it you would have had a much better. i think syria would be a lot better off now than it has been. i will tell you when i look at the pictures on any show or any newspaper, especially when you see them on television, putin is backing a person that's truly an evil person. and i think it's very bad for russia. i thrif it's very bad for mankind. it's very bad for this world. but when you drop gas or bombs or barrel bottoms and have these massive barrels with dynamite and they drop them right in the middle of a group of people and in all fairness you see the same kids no arms no, face, no legs e this is an animal. brian: they don't care about the humanitarian element. if they had been paying attention to the last hundred years. only care about getting warm water port. they now have a huge presence in the area. everything has worked out for them. they have more influence with

syria before they took action. they don't care about the humanitarian element of this. they never have. they want us to stop caring. steve: i will tell you what the secretary of defense james mattis who was very clear the president of the united states authorized one strike. this is not going to go anywhere else unless assad uses chemical weapons again. watch this. >> if they use chemical weapons, they are going to pay a very, very stiff price. this military action demonstrates the united states will not passively stand by while assad ignores international law and employs chemical weapons he had declared destroyed. the syrian regime should think long and hard before it again acts so recklessly in violation of international law against the use of chemical weapons. ainsley: that's a warning. that was his first press conference since being named the secretary of defense at the pentagon. he is saying we have warned you.

you signed up for the good gooda convention in syria. when you use chemical weapons we are coming after you. brian: white house officials do indicate russian personnel were at the same airfield used to launch chemical weapons and at least brings out the possibility that russia knew about the chemical attack. it's hard to believe they didn't. and they say they were co-located at the area. how could russia sit there and expect the world community to digest the fact that we say that was set up by insurgents. at the same time, they are at the airfield where it existed and they got a heads up we were going to bomb them. steve: that's part of russia's #fake news. eli lake from bloomberg news is going to be with us in the next five minutes to talk about that and next hour general jakeenan talk to him about everything military with him. jeff sessions was in know gal less, arizona, yesterday.

he made very, very clear. there are new rules applying to people who come into this country illegally. ainsley: coming after you if you are illegal. he was on with sean hannity last night here is what he had to say. >> i knew strong leadership unlike the wishy washiness in the past would impact the flow but not as much as we have seen already. the numbers are down 70% since president obama let office. the most important thing for us is to send a message to the world that the border is not open. please don't come. you will be apprehended if you do com deported promptly. and if you are a criminal, you will be prosecuted. and if you assault our officers, we're going to come 59 you with a ton of bricks. ainsley: people said there saw in sheriff in town. this is the message. this is the theme this morning. you have the president saying that you have the defense secretary mattis and jeff sessions saying don't mess with us. here's your warning. brian: you already have some results. the numbers are down 70% in terms of border crossings since president trump took over. here's the thing i worry about

as we get set to fund the government. you know donald trump ran on building a wall. you could say it's one of the main reasons he won. i think senator chuck schumer who does all things to be obstacle is going to look to deny the funding. the wall or the government? a lot of republicans in the house that don't want that border wall built. so even though trump has a plan, it's going to start in san diego and work his way across, i there this could be where they are going to try to make him look bad. steve: jeff sessions say illegal ones went down 74%. people are going do we really need the wall? a lot of people who say yes, a lot people say no. ainsley: it's already happening. the bid is in. brian: money is not there. gte the funding from the house. ainsley: i thought mexico was paying for it. steve: that's right. let's just forward a check. oh, thears against the law. jeff sessions anybody thinking about coming into the country illegally the penalties have changed.

it had been a misdemeanor now going forward it's going to be a felony. ainsley: if you are kicked out and try to come back. in. steve: wherever possible he is going to tell prosecutors charge criminal alings aliens with document fraud and i.d. theft. brian: focus on the criminals though that are here not the people here illegally. those people here on the dreamers you are not being targeted. steve: we are talking two separate things. is he down there talking about people coming. in people that are in this country that's a whole another ball of wax. ainsley: let's hand it over to jackie i ban yes ibanez he jack republicans hold onto the congressional seat left by cia director ron pompeo single digit victory too close for comfort in what is at this point if i can lay right leaning state forcing the g.o.p. to pull out the big guns. president trump urging voters

to head to the polls early yesterday morning. florida on a safety emergency as more than 100 wil 100 wildfis rage right now. massive inferno feet away from homes in palm beach, gardens. you can see it right there. this is the worst wildfire season in six years. torrential rains and thunderstorms causing flash flooding in texas. fort hood, a despretty search now continues for a missing driver after raging waters sweep his vehicle into a swollen creek. pleading with residents to stay off of the roads. and united airlines ceo buckling to backlash. finally apologizing to the passenger you see right there dragged off a plane in a very violent manner. oscar munoz now calling it horrific event in second response to this incident. the damage now of though already done. united losing $700 million in market value before settling

at 255-million-dollar loss for the day. now lawmakers on both sides of the aisle calling foul including new jersey governor chris christie demanding federal regulations to over i don't care flights and remove passengers be suspended. he will be joining us next hour to talk about it here on "fox & friends." the man behind. so biggest hits of the 1980s has died. ♪ my blood runs cold ♪ my memory has just been sold ♪ my angel is a centerfold ♪ my blood runs cold jackie: john gilles founded the j.geils band in 1970. freeze frame, love stinks. he was found dead in his home near boston. police believe he died of natural causes. he was 71 years old. so many hits there: steve: his music will live on. brian: 11 minutes after the hour here is what we have ahead in the next two hours

and 49 minutes. just when you thought he was gone, mahmoud ahmadinejad is back. why you may ask? we will tell you what iran's former president is doing now because you asked. steve: sean spicer apologized but it didn't stop the mainstream media from something a meltdown. >> white house errors of historic proportions. >> bigger question tonight is not whether sean spicer thinks he has a credibility problem. it's whether the president thinks he has a credibility problem. steve: okay, was the coverage over-the-line? pete hegseth on that. you are watching "fox & friends" on wednesday. ♪ carry on ♪ may your past be the sound ♪ of the feet upon the ground ♪ carry on ♪ looking for clear answers for your retirement plan?

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news columnist eli lake. good morning. >> good morning to you. thanks for having me. steve: the trump administration wanted better relations with russia but given the fact that russia is pumping out all this fake news about it, it's going to be a lot harder? >> it's not just that it's that the russians have not only stood behind their client, the dictator bashar al assad after he used sarin, that violates the agreement that he made with russia and the united states in 2013 when obama backed away from his red line that itself is super serious that they would continue to support him. but support him in such a way to basically cover and lie for him like that, i think that for at least for the white house when you're talking about national security advisor mcmaster. talking about people like mattis and nikki haley, the top members of the national security cabinet, they are all like they have had it with the russians. how can you have a deal with

them if they're going who lie like. they. steve: have you got to look at a four page dossier that talked about this and how russia is trying to confuse the world along with syria, right? >> it's extraordinary because we really haven't heard from president trump any serious or significant criticism of vladimir putin for his white house to come out with a dossier with like that, it's based on stuff from the intelligence community. i think goes a long way to dispelling the notion that he is some sort of siberian candidate. under the sway of vladimir putin, you are seeing open tensions between the u.s. and russia right now. this dossier could have been released by the obama administration or other democrats or republicans who have been very tough on russia in recent years. steve: there are so many different narratives floating around right now. oh, russia, united states is behind it russia is behind it, blah, blah, blah. the united states can prove that actual saharan gas was used because we apparently got tissue samples and things like that, right? >> well, it's not just that.

the cover story from the russians doesn't add up. when you look at it by comparing it to the social media videos that were posted at the time in realtime. so, because of the fact that every camera has a -- i'm sorry, every phone has a camera on it, we are able to see these events unfold in a way that maybe we weren't five or 10 years ago. at this point the facts are not really with the russians praying on unfortunately the most credit columbus people in the west to believe et conspiracy theory narrative as opposed to those grounded in reality. the rouse is trying to correct that at this point. steve: what happens with the meeting with rex tillerson and foreign counterpart. >> i don't think throw is much that's going to happen at this point because, you know, we saw his comments beforehand. rex tillerson who won that on the order of friendship from the russians when he was the ceo o of exxon doesn't seem like

a frefntsd russians right now. getting to the point where the reign of the assad family is going to come to an end. that's not what the russians want to hear. they want a deal where assad will remain in power after five year war where he is basically responsible and you all the misery he has caused his own people. tichina i don't expect much, we are certainly seeing washington moving the other directions. steve: indeed we are. eli lake from bloomberg news. thank you very much. >> thank you. steve: coming up, the vice president booed when he went to see the show hamilton here on broadway. well, is he about to be disrespected again. wiehl tell you about that and general netanyahu particular tests about to do more than reveal your heritage. now they will be able to reveal if you are going to get alzheimer's? is that a good idea or bad medicine? dr. saphier on that coming up next.

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and iran's former president mahmoud ahmadinejad is going back on the ballot. the controversial politician filing to run for president in may. some in iran see him as a candidate who will stand up to president trump. he served two previous terms from 2005 to 2013 and consider a disatser by most clear-thinking people. ainsley? ainsley: thanks, brian. the f.d.a. is allowing the company 23 and me to sell tests to gauge disease risks to consumers. is that a good thing? here to weigh in cancer center dr. nicole saphier. good morning to you, dr. satisfdr. saphier. >> good morning. this was a test approved by the row fda to determine if you are susceptible to certain diseases. >> there is no right or wrong answer. it's debatable. we can argue both sides of the equation. being at a cancer center we do a lot of genetic testing under the guidance of professional

genetic counselors and physicians. should you have access to information about your body? absolutely. i don't want to withhold that just the same as can you get your family tree online ancestry.com. wonderful things. you should have information. however, what you are going to do with the information is where i get a little concerned as a healthcare professional. you open up a piece of paper and all of a sudden it tells you have increased risk of having a carrier for mutation for guoche disease. when you consult dr. google you will find out a very rare form of it that may be lethal by potential unborn child by the age of 2 and scare you. ainsley: 10 different diseases that can be tested for. i have think we have a list of those diseases. i don't know what most of them are but you do. park parkison's, always primaries and seal yack disease. gaucher is on the left e they will go on google and find out

information about it and not necessarily correct. so, alzheimer's disease, late stage alzheimer's mean after 65, everyone knows what that is. ainsley: do you want to know you are going to have that. >> okay. i'm at increased risk for that i don't have a magic pill to give you at this time that's going to prevent that the best i can tell you for the majority of those diseases is healthy lifestyle. good dietary choices, and just not having a sedentary lifestyle. now you are going to have this information. what am i going to do with it? if you notice, nothing on that list is cancer risk. most people want to know cancer risk with the popularity of the brca genes and preventative surgeries to decrease the risk of cancer. this test is not showing u. that. when it comes to cancer risk. screening cancers. if i find those cancers earlier that may save your life that is a positive thing. that's why we absolutely want to screen those high risk for cancer. ainsley: are there positives for this? >> sure, having knowledge.

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♪ we lit up your world ♪ like the fourth of july steve: well, it's the shot of the morning, these iconic images have stood the test of time, but the actual flag left on the moon by the apollo project probably haven't. ainsley: scientists say the six american flags planted from 1969 to 1972 are most likely bleached white by years

of exposure on the moon's surface. brian: i always wonder evidence what happened with that because there is no wind, right? that's not all. the flags may also be decent grating as we speak. researchers blaming the uv radiation extreme heat from the sun and freezing cold from darkness of space. so they have uv ray problems on the moon. steve: they do. so if you are planning on attending something on the moon, pack accordingly. brian: i really wish we would go back. ainsley: there is no wind brian said. brian: am i right, joel? steve: in space no one can hear you scream. ainsley: can we not send some kind of a camera to see what they look like now? do we have a drone that will go tha if a far? brian: soon. if anyone is listening in nasa, is a i would like to go back. personally not personally. ainsley: if you had the opportunity you could go into space. >> if you could prove to me it is safe. ["star trek" sound]

brian: tom hanks put together sketches and rubber bands. steve: duct tape. joining us now is u.s. army vet fox news contributor pete hegseth down in orlando today. how are you? pete: i fully support a moon drone. i agree send a drone there or go there again right now. brian: first, i would like to get healthcare settled. steve: work on taxes and then a new flag on the moon. ainsley: let's talk about what sean spicer said. he was talking about what happened in syria. listen to this gasp. >> someone as despicable as hitler who didn't sink to using chemical weapons, so,. steve: so, obviously, that's a big problem because that's not true. pete, we want your point of view,let's play a media montage how they covered that gaffe. he. >> white houser ares of historic proportions.

the job of the white house secretary is to articulate the positions of the president and clean up the presidential mess. they are not supposed to create any messes for the president. but it happened again today when sean spicer made one colossal era. >> he doesn't believe e. has a credibility problem. that's why he is on tv making apologies. when you make a mistake you own it david, the bigger question tonight is not whether sean spicer thinks has he a credibility problem it's whether the president thinks he has a credibility problem. steve: he came out and apologized and said it was inappropriate. over the line. the guy can't cut break, can he? >> no. first of all the left is a big defender of this. stop using hitler as an example, ever. no reason to do that. leave that side. the credibility problem here is expose through, of course, the coverage of the mainstream media. would this have ever been done to the obama administration robert gibbs, jay carney, josh earnest, would they have ever gotten this kind of treatment when they quickly came out and

apologized and acknowledged hey, it was the wrong thing to say. i shouldn't have made that analogy. let's move on to, i don't know, north korea, syria, healthcare, tax reformer. the big issues that this presidency is tackling right now. they breathlessly tried to bring him down. colossal error of historic proportions? one comment from the white house podium? are you kidding me? what they have done is continue to expose themselves because they can't hold back on their dedication to tearing down any single member of the trump administration. any one. it doesn't matter. sean spicer is front and center opt front lines taking it from the opposition party. the left-stream media, legacy media, whatever you want to call them. there is no news division and opinion position inside these places. it's all opinion masked as information. the american people know that trump has exposed that. this example shows it yet again. brian: no one is excusing sean spicer even sean spicer. he came out and took the same question over and over again from wolf blitzer, i thought

is my have. cr stuck because i still use a vcr, asked the same question over and over again. someone who is on three hours a day. he is also on unscripted. i make mistakes. steve: everybody makes a mistake. brian: big picture. i wonder if he is getting briefed effectively what he should go over and not go over. i watch a lot of this stuff. it seems like is he expounding on issues he doesn't have to expand on. just stick to what the president said. answer questions, x's and o's keep it simple. i think they are dramatically under staffed in the communication division opening themselves up for problems like. this that's the parlor game of that briefing room the press wants to keep asking you questions to get you off of your talking points or what you want to be focused on. discipline is key. if you don't stay disciplined then you can get caught saying something they want you to say or in a way they want you to say it so they can turn it. we have heard about staffing issues there i have met sean spicer. you know him.

he is on top of his game. to accuse him he doesn't understand history and world events, that's what the failing "new york times" is reporting other than the easter egg roll which they have made biggest story of the century. the white house is going to fail. trip up sean spicer so he has to keep did straight and narrow. ainsley: showing video of easter egg roll. they ever ming the big story. this is on the front page of the "new york times." it's about the egg he is, the commemorative eggs being ordered for the easter egg roll. brian: exactly the headline. latest on the front page. will russians get it done? brian: rush limbaugh? ainsley: latest test for the white house pulling off easter egg roll because they waited for the last minute to order

easter eggs they give out to everyone. >> pete: syria just gassed their people and they are up against a resistance like we have never seen before, staffing people, because you have got democrats in the senate willing to filibuster anything. oppose anything, stop cabinet picks. listen, it's unprecedented resistance. that's what the failing "new york times" should be reporting on. >> not the easter egg roll. steve: keep in mind the easter egg roll handled by the east wing. north korea and stuff like that, that's the west wing. pete: just cancel easter. brian: fox report waited 12 minutes to do this story. everyone else led with it north korea threatens nuclear war. china offers to help us out with north korea. those are all legitimate top six stories that there is no way sean spicer's comments at

2:00 in the afternoon is should lead anyone's newscast. >> no reason unless your goal is to take down the trump presidency. that is the goal of nbc, cbs, abc. full of leftist in the newsroom who pretend to be news men. i went to school with them at ivy league colleges. i know how they think. they think they are better than you and better than us and notoriety answer and people are dumb. they use their newspapers and news caseys to try to propagate to them and tell them what to think. they hate donald trump. remember that every time you open up your newspaper or you watch the newscast. they are trying to discredit him not pull the information out of the day. otherwise you would be hearing about all those issues you just talked about not minutes and minutes and minutes about whether sean spicer should resign because he said one thing and then imikly apologize donald trump has revealed all of this.

steve: pete, have a nice time in orlando. ainsley: thank you, pete. >> thank you. appreciate it. steve: jackie is joining us on this wednesday she has the news. jackie: another show has dropped in the trump team surveillance scandal. s "the washington post" reports the fbi was spying on carter page. they got a warrant to monitor his communications because they believed russia was recruiting him as intelligence source page left the campaign. i'm excited the news is coming out. i've done nothing wrong. i have no concern. first lady settling libel case against the daily mail after the british newspaper slammed her as, elite escort in two piece spread back in awpg. the daily mail agreeing to pay damages and apologizing in a statement saying this, quote: we accept that these allegations about mrs. trump are not true we retract and withdraw them. we apologize to mrs. trump for

any distress that our publication caused her. remember when the vice president was booed when he went to see the hamilton on broadway? [boos] now is he being disrespected in his own state. notre dame. vice president pence named this year's commencement speaker. the president's second in command makes them feel unsafe. the university is defending its choice. wanted schwinn someone who served the state of indiana as they celebrated 175th anniversary. come on. those are your headlines. can you believe it? steve: at notre dame that is crazy. ainsley: eye roll from jacque. jackie: it is ridiculous. brian: between that and clermont. thanks, jackie.

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seek improper and illegal entry into this country, be forewarned. this is a new era. the trump era. the lawlessness and the ability to enforce our laws and catch and release policies of the past are over. brian: attorney general re touring the border yesterday. national association of former border patrol officers david joins us. david, you heard the attorney general's words. when you talk to people on the border is it backed up by their reality. >> yes. the agents are very encouraged with our president and attorney general who is stepping up to the plate to back our agents out in the field. the one thing that wasn't mentioned that should be is taking away the incentives of the immigrants coming into the united states in the first place and that's jobs. so if they go after everything that attorney general sessions mentioned yesterday including the job market.

we're going to be in pretty good shape with the immigration problem. brian: look at stats. border doings in 2017 january to february. illegals have dropped 40%. march 72%. yes trump inauguration low for 17 years. the numbers don't lie it's the fear of coming when you get here is one thing. are you concerned that he congress is not going to increase the increase in border patrol officers and the bulking up of the wall beginning in san diego? >> i have no trust in the congress and haven't for quite some time. they are a lot of talk and no action. we have a president who wants to secure our country and border. we have a congress that's basically inept. after following feckless obama administration with immigration enforcement we have an issue on our hands as far as securing the border. we do have a president and attorney general that wants to

address the problem. brian: in terms of the border patrol whether a they hoped for when they endorsed him are they getting it. >> they are getting the endorsement took sessions has promised to back the agents up in the field. over 8,000 border patrol agents have been assaulted in the last 8 years. 30 killed in the line of duty. now we have an attorney general that's going after these people that have been assaulting our agents. unlike what happened in the past administration when brian terry was killed and we still have that to be addressed, throw have been no answers yet on brian terry's murder. brian: that's very true and have that family back on. i just hope the president doesn't back down to what he says with the wall because it's going to be through our politics that will stop it david ward, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. have a good day. brian: you too. he calls happy alligators in the swamp. lawmaker with his own plan to

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>> steve: as you know over the weekend united airlines and delta overbooked passengers on flight. uniteside under fire for this video. why haven't we heard about the delta problems.

delta take as much different approach. here is the host of varney and company over on fox business stuart varney. they are in the same business. they do overbook people. they go about, you know, how they handle people completely differently. >> this is day and night a tale of two airlines. you know the story of united overbook and offer 400 bucks, 800 bucks, a thousand dollars no takers. use algorithm to get four people off the plane and one guy is dragged off the plane. that's their approach to overbooking. delta last week had a huge a problem because of a storm and the evening rippled through throughout the week. 3,000 flights were delayed. steve: impacted atlanta big hub. >> what delta did was offer gift certificates. not discount cards for future airline flights like united. oh, no.

vouchers don't fly a lot. >> had very happy customers people like a gift card. not being locked in to a future flight on united. brian: stuart, people understand if it's a natural cause, have you a huge storm, you can't get plaid at the airline. if you overbook a flight just so you don't lose money on that flight and then you have that attitude you are randomly off, that's the issue. >> i think all airlines overbook because people don't show up for flight and they don't want empty seat they don't want to lose that revenue. if the general radios city of the airline settles with the overbooked passenger. last year, delta had more overbooked people than any other airline. but because it was so generous. it had far fewer people involuntarily denied boarding. steve: story out of laguardia lpga week because of the

delays one woman and her family total of four wound up getting a aaccommodated $1,350 worth of gift cards four times because they kept canceling the flight. she ended up with $11,000 worth. >> $800. 1,000. $1,350 gift cards. american express else, et cetera, generous. ainsley: if you work for a company, the bosses that are really generous and listen to their customers, they're the ones you want to work for. that's why people stay at one company for a very long time. it's the same -- they are listening to the customers. if you are nice to the customers and generous, they will keep coming back. >> by the way the gentleman that was dragged off the flight now has a lawyer you will be pretty sure it will cost united a lot more. ainsley: a lot more than $800 voucher. brian: watch stuar stuart varnen

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regret using that term and apologize. >> there was no malevolence intended i give him a pass. >> the man behind the biggest hits of the 1980 has died. johjohn giels ♪ my blood runs cold ♪ my angel is a centerfold ♪ freeze frame ♪ and i freeze. steve: i used to have all these albums. j.geils died of natural causes in new england. brian: that's sad. something else inextremely intriguing. what's going on in syria. the president sat down yesterday with mariah baltimore and gavmarie mariabar. fighter jets bombed that syrian village. so the president spoke out yesterday and said here's my plans in syria.

listen. >> not going into syria. when i see people using horrible, horrible cheps, which they agreed not to useaman but they violated it. >> they said they got rid of them. >> what did i should have been done by the obama administration a long time before did i it and you would have had a much better, i think syria would be a lot better off right now than it has been. i will tell you when i looked at the pictures on any show or any newspaper, especially when you see them on television, putin is booking a person that's truly an evil person i think it's very bad for russia. i think it's very bad for mankind. it's very bad for this world. but, when you drop gas or barrel bombs massive barrels with dynamite and drop them

right in the group of people. in fair ms. you see the same kids, no arms, no legs, no face. this is an animal. steve: oh, boy. part of maria bartiromo's exclusive tv interview from fox business. meanwhile, let's bring in four star general and former vice chief of staff of the u.s. army, general jack keane. good morning, general. >> good morning. steve: the president makes it very clear. we're not going in to syria. explain that obviously we are going in to syria. we are going to defeat isis. he doesn't want to be embroiled in the civil war. he took action because of the humanitarian taking place with the chemical attack. can you see the emotion and energy on his face in that discussion with marie a what has happened here also is secretary kerry always wanted to take action. so desperate he asked general petraeus and myself to give him military objections so he

could be more persuasive. they were still rejected. this military attack that we did is limited as it is, does give us political action we didn't have. we are a player in the syrian civil war as a result of it that an established fact. tillerson in his discussions up in moscow with his counterpart laf ro lavrov will have leverage we didn't have two weeks ago. one, let's get control of the chemical weapons once and for all. he was supposed to do it in 2013. inspectors in to guarantee it two stop the killing. we have had one cease-fire after another and it's all been a joke because you, russia, violated those cease fires incredibly on every single case. let's move in that direction. tillerson is not going to be

successful removing the assad regime. the reason for that is putin is deduct conducting disinformation campaign not accepting responsibility for it. if he believed assad was a liability, he probably would have secretary of defense something like this. this is a moral outrage. i condemn assad for doing something like this et cetera et cetera he didn't do it. steve: not even close. brian: urging broad action. can't separate the fight between isil and the assad regime. he wants to set up safe zones and wants greater military action right now. take out the syrian air force and establish safe havens. are you for that? do you see president trump doing that? >> i think -- the administration is referring to it as zones of stabilization. same as safe zones just don't like the name. i do believe if we can get a cease-fire that may not be possible, certainly, we have to have a place where the

civilians can go to get safety and protection. if we want to call them zones of stabilization, fine. that is something we need to negotiate. it's been imperative for a number of years. if we have problems with chemical attacks or if these barrel bombs get cleat completely out of hand then certainly taking down those five other operational airfields does make sense. ainsley: in order to establish niece safe zones, don't our soldiers have to go in there and protect that area? if so how are they going to do that if the president says we are not going into syria. >> first of all, i would not put americans in there put beam on the ground international force in there made up of many countries in the region certainly who have been willing to contribute for a long time but the obama administration has always

pushed back on them. also tuck these safe zones up near the border where we can protect them from patriot missiles from turkey and jordan and be pretty smart about how you do these things. there is a way to do it. it's not easy. nothing in syria is easy. there is no simple solutions in syria. but i do believe moving in the right direction better outcome than sitting on our hands like we have for the last seven or eight years. brian: don't you think in the fedex two weeks we need some type of strategy? we know general mattis has it we know chairman dunford can come up with did. don't you think if we are going to take this momentum as a country now everyone has got our attention and paght us on the back we come up with a plan? >> first of all, we have to take -- we have to accept the reality, the assad regime and aloe white regime is not going any place.

come in there and solidified staying in power because the opposition ford in 2015 was incursion on them and pushing them. that's over. they have retaken aleppo. the aloe why the regime is what russia wants. if assad becomes a liability they will get a better leader than assad. that's north going to happen. no opposition force overthrow the regime. certainly not going to bring u.s. ground forces in there to try to overthroat regime and participate to the civil war to that degree. the strategy is to try to work a political solution with the russians. that may be unacceptable. it doesn't sound strong enough, but that's the hand that we have because obama scwan dered all of the opportunities we had for years to change the momentum in favor of the opposition forces so that you could get a political solution. our hands are somewhat tied. we just have to be honest about it. steve: truly. general?

ainsley: that's why that meeting with rex tillerson is so important over in russia. thank you for telling us about that. >> good talking to you. brian: 8 minutes now after the top of the hour. we have general -- we have some generals. governor christie is waiting in the wings. first we have news for you guys to handle. ainsley: all right. brian: you know what? not quite yet. ainsley: save that time. steve: big news yesterday sean spicer mentioned something that he later had to walkway back when he compared assad to hitler. listen to this. >> the credibility problem here is exposed through, of course, the coverage of the mainstream media. the best test is would this have ever been done to the obama administration. so, robert gibbs, jay carney, josh ernest, would they have ever gotten this kind of treatment when they quickly came out and apologized and said i shouldn't have made that analogy. let's move to north korea, syria, healthcare, tax reform, the big issues that this presidency is tackling right now.

but they breathlessly tried to bring him down. steve: there is pete hegseth who joined us about a half an hour ago talking about how the mainstream media really lit into sean spicer after he made that appropriate comment which he completely apologized for many times. ainsley: he said the comments -- most people say the comments deserve criticism. pete hegseth says the media is going for kill shot. the gaffe and continue to rerun that narrative. brian: very curious to see if the president is going to meet. talk about nato. nato leaders meet with the president today. see if they come out. president have a joint statement and take questions. a lot going on. meanwhile, 10 minutes after the hour. talk about a lot going on, that's what we have going on. president barack obama playing president once again with angela merkel that meeting. ainsley: sending a strong message directly to the cartels and criminals trying to cross. new jersey's governor chris christie is known for his tough talk, too. and he is live next. good morning, governor.

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entry into this country, be forewarned. this is a new era. this is the trump era. ainsley: attorney general jeff sessions there putting illegal immigrants on notice. laying out an aggressive guideline or several guidelines that could put illegals and those who harbor them behind bars. steve: all right. >> here to discuss new jersey governor chris christie. good morning to you. ainsley: is he your constituent. i know you talk to him. >> we are so excited about it we really are. brian: jeff sessions yesterday made the case now that donald trump has been president, the number of illegal crossings has fallen. in the mean time we are going to criminalize things in such a way that we're going to be able to put people away unlike the last administration. >> listen, i think this is what the president ran on, right he? said is he going to toughen the border and the attorney general is following the if president's lead as to what he should do attorney general appointed by the president. that's what you should do. make it tougher and put everybody on notice.

listen, following the law is not a bad thing. brian: senator schumer seems to want to humiliate pump and best way to do that deny funding for that wall. already took bids and estimates and know roughly what it's going to look like. where does the rubber hit the road for the president knowing how important this is to him. >> i think the president will be able to figure out a way to pay for it whether senator schumer likes it or not. brian: where do you find $15 billion? >> it's a big budget. multitrillion-dollar budget. i think the president will be able to find his way through it senator schumer is still fighting the election results. i mean, enough already. the election was months ago. people spoke clearly 306 electoral votes. senator schumer should want to cooperate a little bit with the president. brian: is he not. >> for those of us that live in this area we are not the least birth surprised. ainsley: sean spicer had to apologize yesterday for this comment. >> somebody as despicable as

hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons e so,. ainsley: comparing what happened in syria to what happened. brian: only got worse from there. steve: hitler did use chemical weapons. >> yes, he did. here should be a general rule for anybody involved in public life. whether you are a governor, a press secretary for the president or whether you are a host of "fox & friends" don't bring up hitler. you can't win in any conversation about hitler. he is the most despicable human being in the history of the world. sean got carried away with himself. i'm glad he apologized. given that experience he should know better. ainsley: definitely deserves criticism. the mainstream media this is their headline talking about it constantly. >> listen, this is the game we

play if you are the white house press secretary you know that he deals with the mainstream media every day behind that podium. he made a mistake and apologized for it the fact of the matter is you never bring up hitler. that's a good rule. if you follow that rule, i think you keep yourself out of this trouble completely. brian: is there enough people in the communication to go over the headlines to handle a 45 minute or 1 and a half meeting with the press. >> sit across don't compare anybody to hitler. new 50 people in the white house communications staff they probably wouldn't have done that. that's why it's a mistake. he made a mistake and so now he apologized for it and i think people move on. ainsley: in all fairness, that has to be the hardest job. can you imagine being in the hot seat every day. brian: actually he would have no problem with that. >> it's a tough job. the fact is though that i don't believe sean meant anything by it i certainly don't think he is discriminatory in any way. i don't think that's who sean

spicer is. but, your job is to be throughout every day speaking for the president united states. anything you should take out of the portfolio is any reference to hitler. steve: lesson for today. united one of the big hubs is in your town of near, new jersey, you are calling on airlines to stop with the overbooking thing. >> what i'm really saying is saying to the trump administration and secretary chal you can do something important here. until you review how the airlines are really using overbooking suspend them. stop them from doing it what we saw the other night unfortunately live is at this point calf the attitude of united airlines. i know that because 70% of the flights at newark airport in and out are for united airlines. the attitude for that airline is awful. brian: what happened? >> i don't think ever really recovered from the merger. i don't think they have

integrated their employees and set a culture there. a ceo who basically takes off after the guy getting dragged downtown aisle. ainsley: we actually didn't overbook. everybody a seat. we kicked four people off because our crew needed to get there. brian: that's better. >> make allowance for your crew. these are paying customers. when i checked in and assigned a seat. i expect if i'm boarded ontothao stay on the plane. i think to do what they did, everybody who flies, everybody who flies commercially knows that uniteside awful they know union nightside awful. i talk to constituents in new jersey all the time who really if you look at the northern part of the state basically have no choice but though fly united and united uses that. overbook it, less planes make more money. remember this, they kicked those people off, that guy off the plane and the other three to make money they are doing

it with the permission of the federal government. what i'm saying to the administration is regulation. steve: two lessons in that. >> we know they listen to "fox & friends." we know. brian: talk about draining the swamp next. somebody else's take on it a book about it governor might stick around for that.m voya. ♪ retirement. who's he? he's green money, for spending today. makes it easy to tell you apart. that, and i am better looking. i heard that. when it's time to get organized for retirement, it's time to get voya.

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the controversial politician filing to run in the may 38 race. some in iran see him as a candidate who will stand up to president trump. he served two previous terms to 2005 to 2013. president obama making first major public appearance since leaving office. he heads to germany next month for forum on the protestant revolution and german chancellor angela merkel will be there as well. steve? steve: thank you, ainsley. remember this campaign promise from president trump. >> i want the entire corrupt washington establishment to hear and heed the words that we. not me, we, have to say. when we win on november 8th. we are going to washington, d.c. and we are going to drain the swamp. steve: our next guest is making it his mission to do just that by blowing the whistle on his colleagues on

capitol hill. joining us now is the author of a brand new book, came out yesterday, it's called drain the swamp, how washington corruption is worse than you think. ken buck who is a congressman from colorado. congressman, good morning to you. >> good morning. donald trump has made it very clear he would like to drain the swamp but the swamp doesn't want to be drained. that's why he is getting a lot of push back. >> there is a lot of comfortable people in that swamp. steve: democrats and republicans. you say most lawmakers are fat and happy alligators who feel pretty darn comfortable in the swamp. >> absolutely. it is an inviting place and the goal in the swamp is to win re-election. it's not to do america's bidding. it's not to reduce spending. it's not to give states the power to run programs. it is absolutely to win re-election. steve: it's a jobs program essentially for them? >> federal jobs program, right. steve: did i not realize until i read your book that he people see -- you are on different committees on capitol hill. i didn't realize there

essentially was a surcharge that had you to raise on the republican side at least you have to raise a certain amount of money and don't flight it to the republicans to stay on the committee. >> absolutely. republicans and democrats have the same system in place. if you are on an a committee, one the top committees appropriations, ways and means, energy and commerce, you have high dues and you have to raise the money to pay those dues. and if you want to be a chair you have to raise more money. if you want to be in leadership you have to raise more money. steve: so it's pay to play. >> it absolutely is. steve: is that sounds crept. >> it is corrupt. we need to have ethics laws in place that actually prohibit that from being a criteria in the selection process. steve: how does paul ryan feel about this book? >> paul ryan is a great guy. is he a policy wonk. inincredibly bright and honorable person. is he dealing with a system that is corrupt. i think he is trying to fix it the best he can he is a great person. steve: there is a tweet out from the president regarding

you, great op-ed from @ rep ken buck. looks like some in the freedom caucus are helping me end, #, obamacare. what's he talking about there? >> the affordable care act, the replacement bill for the afordable care act was pulled from the floor. i was trying to help and i was going to vote yes for it i wrote an op-ed in the hill a explaining my reasons for it and the president appreciate that effort. steve: sphwhawnt one thing that washington needs to do to drain the swamp? >> yeah. i think we need to have a balanced budget amendment. if we have to choose between a and b between choosing a or b rather than choosing a and b, i think we would get to the answer we need. we need to have that pressure on to us balance the budget and i think we won't have as much money influence in washington, d.c. steve: blueprint in new book drain the weamp congressman from colorado ken buck.

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steve: this is a fox news alert. we are back with big news overnight regarding an election in my home state of kansas. with that, here is jackie. jackie: good morning. one of the most watched political races since the november election ending in a victory for the trump administration. republicans holding onto the congressional seat left by cia director mike pompeo.

ron h estes tee close for comfort forcing the g.o.p. to pull out the big guns. president trump urging voters to head to the polls in a tweet really early yesterday morning. and north carolina lawmakers introducing new bill to ban gay marriage in the state. the uphold historical marriage act says the supreme court quote overstepped its constitutional bounds when it legalized gay marriage nationwide in 2015. the bill's sponsors argue that decisions should be left to each state. but democratic governor roy cooper disagrees with that tweeting this. this is wrong. we need more lbgt protections, not fewer. and one of the president's former aides was spied on by the fbi. "the washington post agency former aide carter page. the fbi believed russia was trying to turn him in to a spy. he left the campaign in september. tells fox news how low the

clinton obama regime went to destroy democracy and suppress resistance who did not fully support their failed foreign policy. penn state on the verge of ending greek life completely after a wild parents weekend. you heard it right. university president slamming fraternities, sports and their parents for violating the new rules implemented after the alcohol-related death of a sophomore at a fraternity party last february. barron writing an open letter calling the weekend a mistake. and those are your headlines. over to you ainsley. ainsley: all right, jackie. it's an interview you will want to hear. as a new interview when should my parent go back to work after child is born. it's called being there. which says mothers should make their kids a priority for three years after giving birth. here to explain is the author of that book erika com comb caesar. parenting comb and mother of three. good morning, erika.

>> good morning. ainsley: you are saying we are failing our children. absence of mothers is a big problem for our society and not prioritizing our children? >> exactly. ainsley: what do you mean by that? why do you think this? because i feel like back in the day moms were having so many kids. nowadays you have one or two children, and we're being called helicopter moms and we are there and we are checking assign manies and always a part of their lives. is that not the case? >> so in my practice i was seeing an epidemic level of children with emotional problems related to the absence of mothers. so, it's an interesting question about helicopter mothers. usually when we use the term helicopter mothers we're referring to anxious mothers. so, you know, in fact, you can be there physically and not be there emotionally, so what i say in my book is more is more. the more you can be there emotionally and physically for your children, the better off your children will be. >> a lot of moms that are watching they have to work. >> they would love to day at home. they might not like their job but they need evident income. what do you say to them?

>> it really isn't a book about working or not working. it's a book about prioritizing. we pick that word carefully. prioritizing your children in the first three years. that's what really have critical. ainsley: why one through three. >> critical period of brain development. by 3 years old, 85% of your right brain or social emotional brain is developed. so it's one of the most important windows for a social emotional development. ainsley: when we do prioritize our children and spend time with them, what do we need to be doing during that time? >> being emotionally present means putting a&e way your distractions. it means focusing on your children. it means being interested in your children. we don't often think about being interested in our children. and it means being -- toward our children. ainsley: as a working mom, it's hard to put the phone down. when i'm spending time with my daughter i'm still checking emails and messages from work. it's continuous. >> it means being more conscious of that even if you consciously think about i'm looking at my phone, i'm looking at my computer.

i say to moms put your technology in a basket by the door and leave it there until your children a are asleep. ainsley: if mom is the breadwinner and dad ha dad stayt home? >> interestingly research shows that moms and dad are both critical to the nurturing of the children. they are not exactly the same. there is something called objection i toe sin that we produce. a love hormone in our brain and men and women both produce it when they care for their children but it has a different impact on men than women. for women it makes them more elm pat thick and sensitive. and men more playful. makes them encourage their children to be resilient before their children are ready to be resilient. ainsley: have you met with so many different clients you said kids from v. more adhd. aggression. because the mothers are absent? >> so one in five children today have -- are being

diagnosed with what we call adhd or symptoms that are attentional symptoms. epidemic level of depressed children, anxious children, children with aggressive and behavioral disorders and social disorders. and this is what i was seeing in my practice and yes, i was linking it to mothers not being emotionally and physically present enough for their children. ainsley: you also say the teenage years are crucial. >> they are. we say all the years are crucial. there are certain critical windows of development and another critical window is adolescent. worm hole between toddler and adolescents. a lot of the happens in adolescents and to the letterhead. it happens again in adolescence. ainsley: is it important for your children to sigh as the female as the children going to work. i'm excited for my child to one day see me working and providing for the family. >> most important thing you can do for your children is to be there as much as possible in the first three years. that's not when they recognize

the importance of your work. that's when they need you the most. later on, yes. it's important that they can see that you balanced your life but that you still prioritize them. they still need you as much as possible. more is more. ainsley: finding al tea partyive is more. i am blessed because i have this morning show job. so i get to spend the majority of my day with my daughter and same with you as a therapist. you were seeing patients for an hour and a half, two hours a day and made it easier to spend time with the kids. maybe the womans watching can find jobs in similar fields. >> we think life is long and have you many, many years to work and be ambitious and make money. you only have a few years to have that great influence on your children. ainsley: that's a great point. aaron com come comisar. thank you, erika. >> thank you. ainsley: hand it over to adam. adam: good morning. we hit 80 degrees. feels fantastic.

breathe it. in you know what else happens in spring. pollens beginning to hang in the air a little bit more here the last couple of days because it's been so warm, kind of fueling that take a look at pollen numbers in new york city. high today, high as we go in the weekend as well. not just new york but across the country. spring definitely in full effect. phoenix, arizona, pollen he is also high, taking you all the way into the weekend. only thing help that maybe some of those spring showers. the temperatures though, those continue to be warm high pressure is what it looks like across the country. sitting close to 60-degree necessary new york city. that's the case in atlanta. warm one the last several days. we are beginning to track rain moving along the east coast. here with the next couple of hours showers from storms moving into texas later today and through the overnight hours. guys? steve: all right, adam. april showers bring may flowers. >> they do. brian: that's what they say we have no verification on that.

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♪ >> healthcare is going to happen at some point. if it doesn't happen farce enough i will start the taxes. the tax reform and the tax cuts are better if i can do healthcare first. ainsley: president trump vowing to take action in order to make the government more effective and now his administration is following through. steve the omv the office of management and budget mick mulvaney is set to issue a warning to federal agencies telling them to prepare for big budget cuts and he joins us now to explain. good morning, mr. director. >> good morning, everybody. steve: we know in january when he came in to office president trump signed a hiring ban. now you put together a 14-page memo that outlines big cuts. what's the ideas here? >> well, the hiring freeze was sort of a way to stop everything from going on while the new management team came in. it's not unusual in a business an monday unusual in a government when the new team

comes in to step back and say okay, let's stop hiring and see where we are. now that we have had a couple of months to look at it we have now come out and said this is what we are going to do. some folks being allowed to hire back. especially where the president has priorities where he wants to do more. other areas where he wants to do less that's a lot of the federal government. strategic reductions in the workforce ao. opposed to across the border freeze in january. ainsley: taxpayers all want to cut unnecessary spending. i know the president has a plan with all federal agencies. your message to those agencies is just reduce your costs. how are they going to do this? >> a bunch of different ways. in fact, one of the things that we did yesterday and actually will start doing more formally today is asking them actually you, you can go to the whitehouse.gov website and actually reaching out to the american public and say, look, if you have had an experience with the federal government that's given you an idea about how to make it better, tell us. we met. steve: customer service for the u.s. government?

>> can you imagine such a thing? steve: whoa. >> we met with leaders from the men and women from the private sector and asked them to help us fix the government. something that hasn't happened in this town for a long time. sort of refreshing thing about having the businessman in chief be president, we're trying to bring this business attitude the way we run the government. brian: watching members of the frawction give interview to television. listen healthcare is far from dead. we want to do it right. we want to have hearings about this. hear from people about proposition rather than being told a binary choice and this is take it or leave it what do you hear because the freedom caucus are some of your best friends? >> the discussions are continuing. obviously congress is not here this week. they are off for the easter break. but we do know, i talked to members of the freedom caucus. i talk to members who are not of the members of the freedom caucus every day as do other folks in the white house. those discussions are continuing. it's a lot more organic this time and good ideas filtering up. we are cautiously optimistic

that we are making progress and when they get back after the easter break, maybe sooner, we have heard some discussion coming alabama back before easter. brian: because you have a deal? >> obviously i don't think they come back if they hadn't come to some type of agreement. letting the house. the house has difficulties. that's the one thing we learned at that first attempt at healthcare is the house has some he internal challenges right now this white house can't help them fix. they have to learn to work through that themselves. that's what you are seeing in this two week recess. steve: mr. mulvaney thank you very much for joining us from the north lawn of the white house. it's official they are draining the swamp where appropriate. ainsley: thank you. brian: straight ahead, start your engines, never before seen cars live from the new york auto show. that will be next. sounds like a hybrid. ♪ i want to be famous ♪ the star of the screen ♪ you could do something in between ♪ baby you can drive my car ♪ if i'm going to be a star

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brian: i didn't care headlines. alabama judges can no longer overrule a jury to send a murderer to death row. newly sworn in governor kay ivy signing a bill ending the state's one of a kind practice. the new rule will not inmates already on death row. a lot of prisoners watching us good news. another state attack action to end the war on police. arizona senate pagliano the blue lives matter law attacks on police and first responders as hate crime. it's now headed to the. if signed they would be the third state to adopt the law. ainsley: this weekend car

lovers from all around the world will head to the new york auto show and this morning "fox & friends" is getting a sneak peek at the never before seen cars. steve: car guy mark cardell joins us a mile west from where we are sitting with the first look. hey, mike. >> good morning, guys. you are not going to believe what i'm going to show you at the very end of this segment. i will hold to you one car at the end, last night's press conference here in town. it was absolutely mind boggling. industry record was broken. i want to get right to the news. i will jump out of the way really fast. this is the all new kia four and five. now in fourth generation. this vehicle is the perfect vehicle for millennial with the rough starting price around $15,000. they are aiming for a five star ihs safety pick. great cargo capacity with second down fold down seat. perfect for millennial. that's $15,000. beautiful, display screen in there 7-inch touch screen.

great exterior on this vehicle. infinity showcasing the q-50 concept. north american debut. look at the stunning exterior. bmw, mercedes watch out with concept vehicle. when they bring it to market definitely show stopper. interior redefined. quilted seats. 400 twin turbo motor on it hyundai showcasing all in son thasonata with upgraded exterio. 67-inch touch screen on the interior. not to mention it's packed with a variety of tech features now. let's just go back to a throw back year 1960's. range recovery had a concept prototype vehicle called vola are. showcasing it now in a new model. future his stick look mid size suv from range recovery would look like this. one is going to come to market. showcasing that future like i told you on the interior, 10-inch touch screen on the interior. this is a really cool feature. it's called hidden wind lift.

when you get inside that instrum cluster is dark. when you touch the screen everything illuminates. look at that screen. just beautiful. now, it's also meant for after road as well. $49,900. all right. guys. i want to bring it back here for a minute. this is where i was last night. it was a huge press conference with the dodge team. this is the all new dodge demon. this is a fire breathing dragon. listen to this. street legal drag car, 1.8 gs off the line. record breaking 0 to 60 in get, this brian, 2.3 seconds. it's been banned by the national hot rod association. it's got speed 840-horsepower. and it comes with a warranty. they are breaking records over there right now with the dodge team. and that demon is exciting. it will go on sale, guys. steve: that is awesome. what kind of gas does that thing did yoguzzle?

>> that will take 100 octane. adjust from racing to street. this thing is amazing. i want to bring it to you guys so can you see it it's insane. brian: drive it over take you three seconds: ainsley: where do you get the gasoline? steve: airport. >> not pull into the gas station and get it the front wheels come off the ground. unbelievable. steve: exciting things this weekend at the new york auto show at the javits center. thank you very much. great we preview. brian: drag racing at home could lead to trouble. in greece. they got in trouble ended up sipping about it message sent to the next generation. steve: i think it had kind of a happy ending at the end of greece. brian: really? ainsley: we will take note, brian. brian says no drag racing. brian: i will say no. huge show still on tap. judge jeanine pirro if we can get her car ready she will be here and ed henry is doing his hair

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ran on; right? he's going to toughen the border, and i think the attorney general is following the lead. >> white house errors of proportion sean spicer made one colossal error. >> one comment from the white house podium? >> and the man behind some of the biggest hits of the '80s has died. ♪ ♪ ♪ steve: a big part of the soundtrack of the 1 1980s. ainsley: yes, he did. steve: died last night in new england. ainsley: even after death, your music lives on forever, and you get paid to perform on stage in front of live audience every night.

brian: i don't really -- i don't care what happens after i die; right? ainsley: you want to leave a legacy. brian: yeah, i don't know what's going to live on. ainsley: but you care about your children. brian: i do but you have no control of your persona because you're dead. ainsley: this is true. brian: so he can't control it, but he did write a great song. ainsley: he did. brian: let's talk about what's happening in the real world, secretary of state tillerson is in moscow at this hour, he's going to meet with foreign minister lavrov today. will he meet with putin? if so, what will they say to each other? steve: we figured going in, we knew a couple of weeks ago this meeting was going to happen. will tillerson lean on russia to lean on syria to do something about the evil dictator bashar al-assad? well, probably not going to be exactly how it works out six days ago. we sent this 59 cruise missiles into that airstrip

over in syria. donald trump sat down with maria bartiromo in i believe the roosevelt room in the white house and made it very clear because a lot of people are wondering what's going to happen next. what happened with syria? we're not going into it. listen. >> we're not going into syria. but when i see people using horrible, horrible chemical weapons, which they agreed not to use under the obama administration, but they violated it. >> they said they got rid of them. trump: look, what i did should have been done by the obama administration a long time before i did it. and i think syria would have been a lot better off than it has been. i will tell you when i looked at the pictures on any show or any newspaper but especially when you see them on television, putin is backing a person that's truly an evil person.

and i think it's very bad for russia. i think it's very bad for mankind. it's very bad for this world. but when you drop gas or bombs or barrel bombs that have these massive barrels with dynamite, and they drop them right in the middle of a group of people and in all fairness, you see the same kids no arms, no legs, no face, this is an animal. ainsley: yeah, if you're going to do that, you can expect america will act. we were talking with general jack keane earlier on the show, and he said under the obama administration our hands were tied. listen. >> there's no opposition for us that can overthrow the regime, and we're certainly not going to bring in u.s. ground forces to participate in the civil war to that degree. so the strategy is to try to work a political solution with the russians. now, that may be unacceptable. it doesn't sound strong enough but that's the hand that we have because obama squandered all of the opportunities we

had for years and our hands are so tied. we have to be honest about it. brian: nobody in america wants to spend another trillion dollars on a middle east war. but i think the surrounding neighbor is hardened that america is taking action. would probably say i'll write the check if you set up the safe disowns inside syria for the refugee problems maybe come to an end and the protection to begin because as you're seeing in jordan, a community will take root if they're forced to leave and these ten cities become communities, then maybe that will be the beginning of a truly endorsed bipartisan acceptable plan for syria. because i don't think anyone wants thousands of people on the ground. however, we are targeting isis as we speak and guess who isn't? russia. and guess who probably they believe saw the chemical weapons being loaded on plans, according to reports in today's new york times. they say russia was on the

base louisa hodge would say they saw this happening. so how so some level complicit or as secretary of tillerson said incompetent. ainsley: that's why he said this meeting is so important because russia can be the mediator between u.s. and assad. brian: no way. there's no way they'll be an effective mediator. their point of view is i'm establishing a base. ainsley: how else do you fix the problem? safe zones? brian: i don't want to say there's any quick fix but russia has gotten everything they wanted. they have a foot hold in the region. they have a huge base in the area. and two years ago they had nothing. they were kicked out. steve: so it will be interesting to see what does come out of the meeting with mr. tillerson and mr. lavrov later today. meanwhile james mattis, the general in charge of the --est secretary of defense, he had a briefing yesterday at the pentagon where he made it very clear if mr. assad once again returns to dumping chemical weapons on his people, we're

going back. >> if they use chemical weapons, they are going to pay a very, very stiff price. this military action demonstrates the united states will not passively stand by while assad broughtently ignores law. should think again before it acts so violently. steve: and he also made it very clear that the operation last thursday night was a one off. essentially he said it was a single attack that the u.s. military not automatically have the authority to strike again if chemical weapons were used, it would involve another directive from the president of the united states, as he signed off on it a week ago today. brian: why not give some of the best military minds that happen to be on his staff three weeks to a month to sign up on a plan, submit it to congress, and see if he can

pass it. this way with a trump plan for a way forward in the region and should they act, you don't have senator rand paul or others saying you're unconstitutional. ainsley: all right. well, sean spicer is talking about what's happening in syria, talking about bashar al-assad, and he made a gas, and he apologized for it. >> someone as despicable as hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons. so. steve: and of course hitler famously used gas on his people. he did go out and talk to all the networks yesterday and he apologized for using inappropriate language and imagery. however, the media, the mainstream media, they had a field day with this. >> white house errors of historic proportion. the job of the white house press secretary is to articulate the positions of the president and to clean up

the occasional presidential mess. they are not in response to create any messes for the president. but it happened again today when sean spicer made one colossal error. >> he doesn't believe he has a credibility problem. he says that's why he's on tee right now making these apologies. when you make a mistake, you own it. but, david, i think the bigger question is not whether sean spicer has a credibility problem, it's whether the president think so sean spicer has a credibility problem. steve: wow. pete who has been a spokesman for different organizations in the past had this observation about how mainstream media has been going after the members of the trump administration as opposed to what they did during the obama years. >> the credibility problem here is exposed through of course the coverage of the mainstream media. the best test is would this have ever been done to the obama administration? so robert gibbs, jay carney, josh earnest, would they have ever gotten this kind of treatment when they quickly came out and apologized and

acknowledged, hey, it was the wrong thing to say. let's move on to health care, syria, tax reform, the big thing that this presidency is tackling right now. but they breathlessly try to bring him down. brian: and they go for it. they did that with devon nunez, they did it with mike flynn, i think they're going to try to do it today. i think the president's instinct is to stand behind his person and when you look at sean spicer, and you're going to be on for 45 minutes or an hour and a half today, there used to be two or three tough questions to josh earnest a day. he's got 50 tough questions. ainsley: i couldn't imagine doing that job. what he said was awful. he shouldn't have said it. he apologized. pete is saying we need to move on and move forward. to his defense, he has the toughest job. i would be a nervous wreck doing that. i mean -- steve: luckily, we just talk about the news. we're not creating it. we had chris christie on the

couch with us less than an hour ago, in the public eye, just never bring up hitler. ainsley: a lesson of the day. let's head over to jackie who has headlines for us. >> hey, good morning to friends and everyone at home. north korea it now vowing to end its nuclear program. a phone call overnight led to a stunning break through. the white house calling on china to curb kim jong-un ballistic ambitions and follows the president's meeting with his chinese counterpart at mar-a-lago. the u.s. mainland in response to the u.s. navy fleet now streaming towards the rogue nation. and it's one of the most watched political races since the november election ending in a victory for the trump administration. republicans holding onto the congressional seat left by cia director mike pompeo. ron's single digit victory too close for comfort. typically a right-leaning

state forcing the gop to pull out the big guns. president trump himself urging voters to head to the polls and tweet early yesterday morning. and now to extreme weather. florida in a state of emergency right now as more than 100 wildfires rage. this video shows the famous alligator alley consumed by smoke. this is the worst wildfire season in six years and torrential rain and thunderstorm is causing flash flooding in texas and watch this woman and her baby. they're pulled from a car as raging waters rush past them. police carrying out dozens of other rescues throughout the state. just stay off the road. and gym memberships on your dime. listen to this. a shocking new report claims 37 employees from the epa bill taxpayers roughly 15,000 bucks for memberships at 24 hour fitness in las vegas.

the membership is costing about 400 bucks a pop. now, the revelation comes as critics slam president trump for his proposed budget cuts to the agency's funding. ainsley: how did that happen? how in the world? steve: what was it? they were going to drain the swamp, they might as well be in good shape. brian: yeah, absolutely. 13 minutes now after the hour. steve: the mainstream media totally obsessed with president trump's relationship with russia but remember this. >> the 1980s are now calling for their foreign policy back because the cold war's been over for 20 years. steve: well, our next guest says take a look at former president obama. that man right there. brian: and new developments on the passenger controversy for the united airlines problem. just moments ago the airline ceo spoke out for the very first time. his solution to the problem? ban cops from planes. judge is here and she'll be looking to take that question head-on.

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brian: ever since president trump took office, the narratives from the left is about the relationship of russia and trump. why are they so cozy? our next guest says it's not president trump. it's actually president obama and the facts are what they are. here to break it down with us is national review editor and fox news contributor rich. you came to this opinion but first you formulated your case. formulate your case. it's 2018, brand-new president. president obama. so in the summer of 2008 russia invades georgia. big deal. tells you everything you need to know about the putin regime. months later after obama takes office, we give them the reset button and obama proceeds in eight years of an incredibly accommodating attitude to russia. initially, out of kind of willful naïve, and then later on out of passivity and weakness. brian: some of the proof, all of a sudden you take the missiles out of eastern europe.

a nuke deal we just signed. we just have to subtract our nukes. they don't have to touch our nukes. and remember the ukraine gets invaded, we don't provide weapons, and we do nothing but condemn them and give them some weak sanctions. and who can we remember in 2012, it was president obama who smugglely said this to mitt romney, our number one geopolitical foe in his mind was russia. >> a few months ago when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat favoring america was russia. not al-qaeda, you said russia. in the 1980s are now calling for their foreign policy back because, you know, the cold war's been over for 20 years. >> it's incredibly snotty and condescending and wrong on top of it. and also, during that election campaign or prior to that election, president obama says tell vladimir i'm going to be more flexible.

can you imagine president trump being caught on a hot mic telling anything to a russian official? and what we've seen over the last week or two is we were complicit in the russian syrian deception over the shammed chemical weapons deal because obama needed a fig leaf to red line his fiasco, so he pretended all those weapons had been removed when assad was really using them all along and still had them. brian: secretary of state national security adviser susan rice said they were gone. >> right. brian: they are still there. and because there was no ram fix, they ended uptaking their plate and setting up a military base there because there was no hell-to-play and that's this president is in a box. and retweeted by peter king. all right. coming up straight ahead, former speaker newt gingrich joins us live. he's fired up about secretary of tillerson in moscow. plus a controversial topic. should new moms stay home for the first three years for their kids?

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apologies and agreeing to pay damages after saying she was an escort. steve: the secretary of state rex tillerson is in moscow right now. what are they talking about? they're talking about all sorts of stuff. what are we talking about? talking about that newt gingrich former speaker of the house joins us right now. mr. speaker, good morning to you. >> good morning. i'm delighted to be with you. steve: so what do you think's going on? >> well, i think it's an exciting moment because lavrov has danced around, very articulated english, very cynical, always on offense attacking and trying to put us on defense, and i suspect tillerson has found a guy he can't bully and shove around and tillerson will very calmly and methodically stick to the

position is, which russia clearly has to have known that the syrians had chemical weapons, they had to have known that they were lying, and they had to know that they were using them. and i think that it's a very, very important test of will because the president is indicating clearly unlike barack obama he's not going to be pushed around, not afraid to use military force, and we're not going to tolerate assad using poison gas. so i think it's going to be very interesting in the next 48 hours what the tone is coming out of moscow. brian: right. doesn't it seem like tillerson doesn't need to use mapquest in moscow either, he's been there so often. but real quick, what does it mean. the g7 summit just came to an end and the military secretary of nato is meeting with the president today. on top of that, we're now supporting the expansion of nato, that gets underneath russia's skin. so we have a little bit -- we have them on their heels for

the first time in a long time. >> yeah. and, look, it's a very important fact when president trump retaliated with the use of poison gas, the only four countries that disagreed were north korea, iran, syria itself, and russia. putin has to feel pretty isolated right now. and if you look around the entire planet and all you've got available to you is a nutcase kingdom in north korea, a theocratic kingdom in iran, and the very people you're trying to prop up in a violent dictatorship, you have to feel pretty isolated that maybe the time has come to rethink that strategy. ainsley: yeah, that's why the president said he is on the wrong team, and it's time for him to learn that. how important is this meeting with rex tillerson? >> i think it's very important because it's a moment of taking a measure. the first time lavrov met with secretary clinton, it was an embarrassment.

she tried to look cute but looked stupid. brian: with the reset button. >> he made a fool out of kerry. kerry is nice and pleasant, wants to know what the next restaurant they're going to, and lavrov didn't care. and then they concluded obama didn't matter. would never do anything. brian: do you think it's important that putin meets with him? >> and i suspect that they're going to be very surprised with how calm but how firm that tillerson is. brian: do you think he's going to meet with putin? do you think putin's going to meet with him? is it important? >> well, i think it will be interesting if he met with putin. i think it more important that tillerson be yielding, that he be calm, and he say, look, we're the most powerful country in the world, you're not. you're way overextended in syria. we're not backing off. brian: sure. >> and you don't have the

power to make us back off. it's a very important message to communicate. steve: indeed. so that's going on in moscow. and then you've got the situation with north korea and michael goodwin had a story in the new york post with president trump yesterday where president trump said that when he explained last thursday night at mar-a-lago to the president of china that we had just bombed that site in syria, the president completely understood from china because he got the gravity of the situation, given that everybody had been gassed. so now fast-forward, we're looking at china's influence over north korea. how much influence do they have? obviously, a lot, but how much are they going to exert? >> well, look, i don't think they have decisive influence. i think the north korean dictatorship is very isolated. there's a reason north korea used to be called the hermit kingdom. they're afraid from both china and japan and try to hide from both of them. but i think they can do

everything from cutting off coal sales, which they have done, to they moved 150,000 troops up to the north korean border. they're clearly sending signals that they're unhappy. there is some thought that this weekend, which is an anniversary that kim jong-un may have set off another nuclear explosion, that would be a real test of china's resolve and china's impatience. i think -- and i also think china understands much better that the united states is serious. we cannot allow this guy who is basically insane, totally out of touch of reality, we cannot allow him to have nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles and at some point, something is going to have to be done. the chinese are saying be patient. let us do it. i think that's a good idea. i would much rather have them take the risk than south korea and the united states take the risk. brian: well, we do have news, china saying they're willing to help us with north korea's nuclear program. that came across today. so that may be some synergy.

>> right. that's a real testimony to president trump's ability to reach out to somebody who could be an adversary, and i think they had a total of three hours of one-on-one conversation. and in that period, two-hour period then a one-hour period. they seemed to really as people get along surprisingly well, and i think that that bodes well for that relationship. ainsley: that steak dinner was important, it seemed. brian: aren't they all. ainsley: thank you very much, speaker. brian: thanks. next on our run down if you have something different at home, please let us know. tweet us. ainsley: and moments ago, the ceo of united spoke out for the very first time. he is trying to blame the cops. judge is on deck. come on in. you can react to that story. steve: she's not going to like it. liberty mutual stood with us

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week, this week it's going to be twice. so what do you think of jeff sessions, our attorney general went down to arizona yesterday, made it very clear that the number of people crossing into the country illegally has plummeted in the last two months. and there are a whole bunch of new ways they're going to interpret the laws to make sure that the people who come into the country illegally are dealt with appropriately. >> well, i think it was a great thing. i mean, for the first time, it was made clear i mean, when president trump became president that law and order is back in the united states. but i think more importantly when the attorney general went to that border, he basically said, look, here it is. we are now going to prioritize these prosecutions. we're going to give you -- have enough judges on the bench another 125 on the immigration bench within the next year so that we can actually handle these cases. we're going to prioritize any assaults on those who are border patrol officers. we're going to charge these people with identity theft and

false instruments that they're using and in addition to that, you come in a second time with charging with a felony, and we're going to prioritize your case if you're a gang member. so what we've got now is the recognition that these cartels, drug members, drug cartels, gang members are coming in, and they're destroying not just the quality of life in this country but they're adding to the drug problem and, you know, ms13 gang members are one of the biggest problems we have. steve: i think a lot of people didn't realize it until yesterday, essentially, crossing into the country illegally was a misdemeanor. >> that's because the last administration, they thought it was a freebie, you know? i looked it up today. if you go into administration illegally, you are jailed two years. if you reenter a second time, you get a ten-year mandatory imprisonment. and they'll send you over on a bus themselves. and it's a mandatory no due process, by the way, if we go over there. ainsley: all right. we're just getting word that the ceo

of united came out with a statement this morning, he spoke on camera. let's listen to this, and we'll talk about that controversy. >> specifically, if i were to be here today as i am, i would tell you that the use of law enforcement aboard an aircraft has to be looked at very carefully. they're clearly there for a purpose of safety, and we want to make sure that they protect us. but for other reasons, i think that the policy we have to absolutely relook at. >> in the future if no one voluntarily decides to leave a plane based on the amount of money that united is offering. >> we are not going to put a law enforcement official to take them off the aircraft. >> a law enforcement official will never come on one of your planes again. >> to remove a booked, paid, seating passenger, we can't do that. brian: so what is he saying? >> let me tell you what he's saying. what he's saying right now was, look, what we did was wrong. i know the lawsuit is coming,

and i have to take responsibility. this guy's been flying high for too long, and i tell you why. he first comes out and says, you know, the guy, the. steve: doctor. >> yeah, that he was belligerent. and then he says we did everything, we treat our passengers with respect and dignity. everything that he says is so out of character with what happened on that airplane. brian: he's not taking any responsibility. he's blaming law enforcement for the problem. >> well, look, his people called law enforcement on. law enforcement does not have the right in a civil dispute to go on a airplane, bloody somebody up, and take them off that airplane. especially if they paid and the airlines allowed them to get on that airplane. look, i'm on a airplane once a week, at least. i never fly united. i think they're messed up. that's just my opinion. brian: that's what the governor just said. >> well, that's my thing. i will not fly on that airline. but the more important thing if you're a paid passenger, you have a ticket, they will

let you on that airplane and then they go i think you should come off that airplane. and, by the way, 120 million in china are not happy with this. and they're on social media. and they decide to take you right now united's getting sued, that police agency is getting sued. they have no right to bloody that man up. none at all. brian: i actually don't blame the cops. >> they've offered $1,200. they just keep raising the amount until someone voluntarily leaves. he's a doctor. he had patients. this is an outrage. this isn't a police state where some flight attendant comes out and says let's just move this person out. i have an employee, a guy who didn't buy a ticket who should remove someone who actually bought a ticket. ainsley: if they were in your courtroom, i would side with the doctor. >> i would definitely side with the doctor. if anybody should have flown, it was him.

he's got patience. patients and patience. steve: judge, thank you very much. brian: i can tell you you got fired up. i've never seen your hand quite like that. >> i'm really upset because i fly all the time. ainsley: thanks, guys. let's hand it over to jackie who has headlines for us. good morning, jackie. >> good morning. it's now 20 minutes from the top of the hour. back on the ballot, the controversial politician filing to run in the may presidential race. some in iran see him as a candidate who will stand up to president trump. he served two previous terms from 2005 to 2013. iran suffering huge sanctions under his administration over fears that we're trying to get nuclear weapons. and the federal hiring freeze coming to an end today as drastic cuts coming come to washington. director nick mulvaney set to issue a 14-page warning telling them to find ways to cut costs. mulvaney joined us earlier and said the government is even asking for your help saving money. listen.

>> some folks are going to be allowed to hire back, especially in areas where the president has priorities that he wants to do more. but in other areas where he wants to do less, and that's a lot of the federal government, they're going to have these more strategic workforce reductions as opposed to across the board hiring freeze that we had in january. >> and the department of defense and va are expected to grow. when should mothers go back to work after child is born? one author sparking controversy saying kids should be their only priority for their first three years. she joined us earlier to explain her new book being there. >> the most important thing you can do for your children is be there as much as possible in the first three years. so that's not when they recognize the importance of your work. that's when they need you the most. later on, yes, it's important that they can see that you balance your life but that you still prioritize them. they still need you. >> and that was erica, also saying parents can balance by

putting their phones down when they're with the kids and there when they wake up and go to sleep. hard to do at times but great advice. steve: donald trump tweeted great win in kansas last night easily winning the congressional race against the dems. heavily and predicted victory. brian: next will be tom price's seat in georgia. democrats giving a real run at that. we're going to cover it. also going to cover something else. you guys stay here. sean spicer apologized to the mainstream media. >> the white house press secretary is to articulate the positions of the president but it happened again today when sean spicer made one colossal error. brian: so did they react the same way when obama's press secretary made his own gas? henry in the room, here to say what he lived through compared to what sean spicer lived

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. >> someone as despicable as hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons. >> white house errors of historic proportion. the job of the white house press secretary is to articulate the positions of the president and to clean up the occasional presidential mess. they are not supposed to create any messes for the president. but it happened again today when sean spicer made one colossal error. >> he doesn't believe that he's got a credibility problem. he says that's why he's on tv right now making these apologies. he says when you make a mistake, you own it. but, david, i think the bigger question tonight is not whether sean spicer has a credibility problem, it's whether the president think so sean spicer has a credibility problem. steve: okay. some mainstream reaction last night.

sean spicer apologized last night comparing bashar al-assad to adoff hitler. ainsley: not along ago, -- brian: so what makes this situation different? in the pressroom, he was there for one of carney's gaffes and many of them and joins us right now in washington. were you surprised a lot of times when you had the sparring sessions that not many people -- other outlets didn't find it as newsworthy? >> yeah. i think that's the double standard is when a gap was made in the obama administration at the podium, you wouldn't have a pile on oftentimes the way you're seeing with sean spicer. but the problem for spicer is that this gap is worse than, you know, obamacare keep your plan, you know, not going to be able to keep your doctor and all of that stuff. yes, there were credibility problems and the press

wouldn't always want to press the obama administration about that. well, when you make these, you know, mistakes about the holocaust and talk about holocaust centers instead of concentration camps, this is something i think that's a much bigger magnitude, and it's why it blew up on the trump white house. but i think to sean spicer's credit, the fact that he owned it, he apologized quickly and trying to turn the page is something that speaks to his character and how he realizes that he messed up, but i think there's going to be a heard mentality and people want to beat him up no matter what. steve: sure but you look at what's going on in the world right now. we're worried about the guy in north korea. we're worried about the guy in syria. we're worried about health care. we're worried about taxes. and i was turning around the other channels yesterday, and it was spicer, spicer, spicer. it was a spicer channel. >> yeah. they turned it around bigger than any of these other challenges. if you're going to be at the podium dealing with the challenges that you're talking

about north korea and syria, you've got to have your facts right and got to know your history, and he's under the microscope right now, no doubt about it. ainsley: ed henry, thank you so much. great to see you. coming up next, an american tourist in south africa wrestling with a lion. his wild story when he joins us live. brian: but first, let's see what wild stories bill has for his show over the next two hours. >> good morning, guys. breaking news with north korea. what did the president hear from the chinese leader late last night? we're telling you what we learned so far this morning. also high stakes in moscow. putin is looking for proof that assad is guilty. wow. so where is this meeting going today? also maria bartiromo talked to president trump, joins us live with that interview and what the american people have been thinking since november's election. we've got it all. see you in ten minutes top of the hour in america's newsroom. owing where you stand has never been easier. except when it comes to retirement. at fidelity, you get a retirement score

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ainsley: this video is insane. an american tourist in south africa thought he was going in for a photo op with that lion and ended up with a real walk on the wild side and ended up wrestling with the king of the jungle. steve: and did he lived to tell us about it. he joins us live. ted, good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: we get it. you would love to have a picture with the lion, and it started out with good intentions but tell us how it went so south when you were in there with that 500-pound wild animal. >> i don't want so i was picking -- getting ready to do the photo shoot, and i was getting instructions from the lion's owner and the lion turned on me, and my initial

reaction was to grab his pause because, you know, i didn't want to get caught in the face or really bad injury if he was to hit me in the eye. so i held his pause, and then he rolled on top of me and then from there on, you know, the lion's name is napoleon, i thought napoleon wanted to play, and we were playing and things got frisky. brian: what made you think you could go in there and pull this off and why was your wife in support of this? >> my wife's seen me play with so many different animals, she always supports me. sophie's been great with all of my travels. when i first entered the enclosure to meet napoleon, napoleon, he was on the other side of the enclosure. well, he came running towards me and, you know, i said. okay. he's trotting towards me. i thought to myself. okay. napoleon wants to play. so i immediately ran towards him, and we started hugging

and wrestling, and it was just a fantastic experience. ainsley: people at home are wondering why you would ever try to play with a lion or -- steve: you've got a weird bucket list, ted. just saying. ainsley: would you do it again, ted? >> oh, absolutely. ainsley: oh, my word. >> this was my favorite experience i've ever done. brian: ted, glad you're okay. >> yeah. thank you. ainsley: thanks, ted. brian: his wife is shooting that. so she's taping the whole thing. steve: not exactly what i remember from born free. brian: not exactly. elsa. more on elsa when we come back. [laughter] ♪ ♪ ♪

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