>> it is 5:00 a.m., good morning to you, you are watching "fox & friends first". very special monday morning. i'm rob schmit. heather: we begin with president trump issuing memorial day proclamation urging the country and media to unit in prayer. rob: also the president slamming media over constant leaks of the white house and their reporting of them. griff jenkins with the president's fiery tweets? griff griff clearly he missed twitter while away. first the president issuing a unique proclamation calling for, quote, a day of prayer permanent peace designating the hour as a

time when people might unit in prayer urging the press, radio, television and all other information media to cooperate in this observance and calling on all americans to observe national day of remembrance. the president will make trip to arlington on cemetery. now, about those tweets, the president lashing out at the leakers in a barrage of tweeting yesterday first saying, quote, it is my opinions that leaks out of of the white house fabricated by the #fakenews media. when -- you see the news sources say fake news media and they don't mention names, it's possible that those sources don't exist but are made up by fake news writers, #fakenews is the enemy. the white house took to the sunday shows, dhs secretary john

kelly had this to say to chris wallace. >> it's outrageous, i don't know why people do it. it jeopardizes not only investigation but put people's lives in jeopardy. i don't know why people do it but they do and that's the world we live in. griff griff all this white house prepares to defend against russia probe led by steve strategists steve bannon, it would be a very significant memorial day with the president in arlington memorial cemetery but looks like they are going push back. rob: certainly looks like it. heather: john kelly also reporting jared kushner. homeland security saying president trump's son-in-law and white house adviser was only looking out for the u.s. >> any channel of communication back or otherwise with a country

like russia is a good thing. that communication goes into the white house as a data point in terms of discussion. i don't see a big deal. heather: kushner's lawyer said his client is willing to talk to federal investigators. rob: fox news alert. north korea intensifying show of force overnight. taste for war appears to be heating up firing yet another missile into the sea of japan. marian in los angeles with how the u.s. is responding to this, marian. >> the rogue nation's disturbing bold move, a clear violation of un resolutions and the latest -f in the series of launches feeling tensions over quest to develop weapons capable of hitting the united states. and the white house confirming north korea's short range ballistic missile flew for six

minutes before landing in the waters of japan's mainland in the country's exclusive economic zone. now, this comes in fresh defiance of tough talk from president trump who promised that the big problem of north korea will be solved. and just hours after defense secretary general james mattis set a conflict with north korea could possibly be the worst kind of fighting in most people's lifetime. >> the north korea bean regime has hundreds of artillery launchers in most densely populated cities on earth which is south korea. we are working with the international community to deal with the issue. bottom line it would be a catastrophic war if this turns into combat, if we are not able to resolve this situation into diplomatic means. >> the trump administration taking swift after action learning about kim jong un new

provocative action sending a third aircraft carrier strike force and one of the world's largest warships to the pacific region. south korea also urging national security council a day after north korea had seen antiweapon system. this is north korea's ninth missile launch so far this year. heather: all right, thank you very much. dismantling behind the manchester bombing, arresting a 16th suspect overnight. 23-year-old man taken into custody as armed police raid three areas of a city in a single day. 14 people connected to the massacre remain in custody. their ties to the bomber salman abedi still unknown. the ariana grande attack leaving 22 dead and more than 10 injured.

rob: navy seal falls to his death when parachute fails to open, sends him plunging in hudson river. right here, right outside of new york city. his empty parachute landing in parking lot in jersey city. detached from the chute before randing in water. heather: door to door murder rampage shot and killed respond to go a fight between billy, confess today killing his victims at three separate homes only stopping when he ran out of bullets, telling local newspapers that he wanted to be killed by kill, quote, i ain't fit to live. deputy was a husband, father and

former youth minister, he spent six years in law enforcement. rob: all right, it is memorial day weekend and a lot of people have a lot of things planned. in the east coast kind of nasty out there. heather: rain in new york. janice it was a little childy yesterday. janice: yes, you are correct. we did get a few days of good weather here in the northeast but today is going to be the wet one as we have a frontal boundary that stretches all the way to the northeast back to central u.s. you can see where temperatures are below average, 57 in new york, 45 in rapid city and we have many reports of severe weather yesterday over the mid atlantic and southeast and that's going to be on going as we have frontal boundary. future radar is going to show showers really for the next 24

to 48 hours t west coast looks good, the central u.s. not bad, again, it's the east coast that's going to deal with the potential of shower storms. if you do have plans for barbecues, you might want to have to bring them inside. don't bring the barbecues inside. heather: don't bring the grill inside. not too bad. january genuine we got saturday and sunday, today is going to be the wet one. heather: thank you, janice. rob: okay, memorial day weekend means indy 500 in terrifying crash in motor speedway. car flying through the air as it ripped in half. look at that. >> caution, turn two. trouble, oh, my goodness, what a huge crash. heather: look at that. jay howard smashing into scott during the race. airborne right into the wall, both drivers amazingly walking away unharmed. rob: can you believe that that

driver walked away unharmed. that is a miscall in itself. the first asian-born driver to win the indy 500. heather: a lot of talk about that online. in this race for nascar's longest event. i love this race. austin dylan finishing first. it's first nascar cup victory. i went to bed before that was over last night and i was very surprised. rob: it takes five or six hours? heather: longest race in nascar but it's exciting. rob: i bet it is, yeah. heather: nine minutes after the top of the hour, one-on-one with cracking down on border patrol and illegals. >> the situation today is much, much worse than the situation in 2008. heather: what secretary john kelly says needs to happen to

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right now no specific threat. heather: the rule would expand one already in place, passengers from carrying on electronics bigger than cell phones on flights from ten airports in the middle east and africa. rob. rob: the united states coast guard is our first line of defense at the border, stopping criminals as well as millions of pounds of drugs from entering our country every year. dhs secretary john kelly personally awarding the crew of the coast guard for incredible job and we were there on board with him. >> for somebody like him to come here and, you know, personally be here for something like that, it does, it means a lot. >> to have it be such an awarded marine who fully understands what it means to deploy and

relate to the crew so well. >> really honored to be here. everybody keep doing what you're doing. take care of each other. >> as americans we spend a lot of hard-earned dollars in defense. this ship that we are on cost $700 million, but in just the last couple of weeks, it has confiscated almost that much in illegal drugs mostly cocaine. >> the president told me to get control of our southwest border and my conversations with him included starting that process 1500 miles south of texas. 99% of all the heroin consumed in the united states is produced in méxico, 100% of the cocaine that comes into the united states comes up from latin america. rob: to people that say that it's outrageous to put this emphasis on checking that border, you give them those numbers, how can they possibly argue with that? >> politics, i have never seen anything this ugly in my life.

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awake at night. heather: boom, that's why he has been called one of the most revered marines in a generation. love that quote. rob: i think everybody loved that quote. we honor our heros in memorial day a gold star mom, using his sacrifice to send an important message to parents across the country, a message that they need right now. karen vaughan and joins us live with big issue and to talk about a special young man who we lost in combat. first of all, this is memorial. i understand it's a tougher day for you and your family. can you tell us about erin? >> erin was a kid that he knew what he was created to be, unbelievable joy to raise because he had this drive in him that just, you just knew he was going to accomplish great

things, you know, we as parents came in and nurtured that, he told people that he was going to be a navy seal. he was a skinny kid, ended up 6' 4tall and was a giant by the time he was an adult. he achieved that dream. rob: he made it happen. >> he was funny, the laughter, that's what we miss more than anything. just larger than life laughter, always cracking us up. rob: can you tell us about what happened? >> rangers had been engagement for 3 and a half hours in river in afghanistan, this was just three months after we took out osama bin laden. the threat was heightened, before that deployment he explained to me that -- he never said anything to me like this before, he explained to me that it was going to be a very

complicated deployment. they were flying in to assist the rangers on that raid and their helicopter was shot from the sky just before they landed. 30 americans on board, largest loss of history in navel warfare, still today single lost of life and it was one of those days that changed everything forever. rob: terrible to hear but it sounds like you had a very wonderful young man for the time that you had him. he set a goal and achieved it in the short time that he was here and a child to be very proud of. >> absolutely. rob: i can tell by the way you talk about him so proud to be here this morning and happy to tell the story. i want to talk about your book because i think it is so pertinent right now by the way if we can bring it up. i'm going to show it to everybody. the full screen, even better. we live in a generation right now and i've always had the complaint in the last past few years, people that are passive,

i mean, people all of the time my anal and younger that watch the news and don't care, are we living in a bubble that this generation can be that way? >> absolutely. the bubble about the dangers that are outside and the dangers within, young people who are not engaged at all in our government, in the civic foundation of our country, but you know, even more fearful to me than that is fact that we have a again ration coming up who are weak and that's not who we are as americans. we were founded with strength, with power, fortitude to overcome and achieve. that's how we became the greatest nation on earth, people who loved other people more than themselves, who loved concepts of higher things of themselves. we seemed to be generation of slackers rather than achievers. rob: teach parents how to make your children the way your son was. >> right. strong greedy kids who know what they want and give them steps to achieve what they want, that's what the book is all about.

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in 2001 i was deployed to seal team two. different type of conflicts where we had lost seals when 9/11 happened, we were at a point if they were going to send us to afghanistan or back home, seeing the flags on every house

down independence boulevard, shore tri, that's when i realized that i would reenlist to fight for this country. >> send your pride in #proudamerican. heather: good morning to you, you're watching "fox & friends first", i'm heather childers. rob: and i'm rob schit. heather: the president reporting war on white house leaks and fake news by the media. >> first the president issuing a unique proclamation this memorial day calling a day of prayer beginning at each locality at 11:00 a.m., a time that people might unit in prayer, urging television and media to cooperate in observance in calling all americans to

observa -- honor america's fallen heros after ceremony at the tomb of unknown soldier. the president lashed out in tweets yesterday saying, quote, it is my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the white house are fabricated lies made up fbi #fake news media continuing whenever you see the news sources say in the fake news media and they don't mention names, it is very possible that those sources don't exist but are made up by fake news. writers #fake news is the enemy. the white house took to the sunday, dhs secretary john kelly saying it's approaching treason. >> i believe when you leak the kind of information that seems to be routinely leaked, high, high level of classification, i

think it's close to treason. >> this comes as the white house is assuming a war room lead by steve bannon to defend against the leaks. buckle up, an interesting week, guys. rob: griff, thanks so much. heather: thanks, griff. former fbi direct or mueller will deliver commencement speech at private prep school, speaking to graduates in massachusetts, this comes less than two weeks after his appointment at special counsel to overseeing investigation into possible ties between russia and the trump campaign. mueller served as fbi director from 2001 to 2013 under president george w. bush and barack obama. rob: north korean dictator apparent taste for war seemed to have intensified over night. the rogue nation launched another missile and very near their exclusive economic zone.

>> we are working with the international community to deal with this issue but the bottom line is it would be catastrophic war if this turns into combat, if we are not able to resolve the situation through diplomatic means. rob: the trump administration ordering a third aircraft carrier, strike force, one of the largest world ships to the western pacific region sending a strong message to dictator kim jong un to knock this off. a hero, fdny firefighter who fought for health care as he battled cancer of his own has died. ray spent eight months at ground zero after the attacks in september of 2011 searching for friends. heather: six years later he developed cancer linked to that heroic work but it didn't stop him, lobby to go get the act

pass to fellow first responders could get the help, the medical help that they needed. ray was 59 year's old. rob: janice here now with the check to have weather, we understand he was close with you janice and we do want to offer our condolences and sounds like a very important man. janice: absolutely, ray fought this battle long and hard and served in the same fire house with my husband, 435 shout-out to you today and his beautiful wife and kids and he will be long remembered for his fighting hard to make sure that act is in place for 9/11-related illnesses. ray, you would kill me if i started crying during weather report. let's get to it. you guys need more weather on "fox & friends".

57 in new york, 57 in constituency, -- kansas city. saturday and sunday pretty good day. today is the day where we see the showers and the thunderstorms, so if you have any outdoor plans make sure you have a place to head indoors when the rain comes. not a lot of rain but on and off throughout tuesday and then memorial day forecast across west cooler than average in the northeast where we should see showers and thunderstorms and thank you "fox & friends" for remembering ray, he was a huge fan of fox. he watched it 24/7 and he watched fox every single day. rob: thank you so much for remembering him. we love that. thank you. heather: our heart goes out to you and his family as well. time now 20 minutes after --

before the top of the hour. president trump railing against the media declaring all out war against fake news. does it justify pulling the plug on daily briefings altogether? we will have fair and balance debate. rob: army specialist gave life in afghanistan when he was just 26 year's old. coming up, his wife joining us with a special message about what honoring the fallen means to those who are fighting abroad right now. what if technology

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no comment yet from the university. baltimore could be the next american city to remove confederate statutes, the mayor weighing idea to taking monuments and auctions them off to highest bidder, that move would follow in steps of new orleans where four confederate statutes just came down. supporters say they are a reminder of a racist past in the country but critics says this is removing american history, heather. heather: well, president trump firing back at the press tweeting, it is my opinion that many leaks are fabricated lies made up by the #fakenews media. >> the left-wing media hates donald trump. the left-wing media wants to destroy donald trump, that's why they should cancel daily briefings. the left -f wing media sits down, what can we do. when they wake up, they are

opening to themselves, i know donald trump did something horrible, i wonder what it is. heather: president now under pressure to consider canceling white house press briefings altogether but is this a good idea. here to debate democratic strategists michael star hopkins. thank you very much for joining us this morning. >> thanks for having me. heather: let's start with the obvious question, good idea to cancel briefings altogether? >> no, not at all. this is the united states of america. specially on memorial day where we think about our troops and battle that they fought, our first amendment is something that makes us different, makes us special, makes us great and i think that the idea that the president of the united states and his administration would limit the first amendment to gauge with this administration is something that -- heather: do you think that the press is being fair to him, i mean, when we hear these press briefings are they actually asking relevant questions, you know,

about policies, about the economy, about jobs or are they really going for the more dramatic, the sexier stories? >> i think they are. the same is true with education and the same is true with jobs, they need to explain what they're doing so the american people can understand what their game plan is and where we are moving forward. heather: carrie, what do you think about that, the press is not being fair in their questioning, should the president consider canceling these press briefings? >> i think it might be time to put prez out in timeline right now. the press failed to do its job, failed the american people and harvard university just confirmed this. they show the mainstream press,

places like cnn, nbc, 93% negative stories about the president, that's not fair and balance. you know who was fair and balance fox news according to harvard university. honestly, yes, in order to serve the american people, the american people don't care about the latest tit for tat, they care about jobs, health care, substance, they don't care about made-up stories that the press obviously has agenda and doesn't really care about the truth. they do not -- it's un-american what the press is doing. the press isn't saying you are guilty until proven guilty, that's un-american. you are innocent until proven guilty and, yes, let's have that investigation but let's not come in with this hack agenda. heather: assumption of guilt. the numbers are really staggering, michael, if you look at cnn and nbc coverage outpace positive ones by 13 to 1 on the two networks, cbs90% negative. new york times 87% negative.

washington post 83% negative. it's kind of like you keep walking into a room, you know you're going get hit and you keep doing the same thing over and over. that's not really smart. >> you know i say this, it's ironic to hear donald trump is not fair the press coverage. to me that sounds like the real snowflake presidency. donald trump loves the prez unless it's criticizing him. if he had a better relationship with the press there would be a little better coverage. i'm not saying it would be fairer coverage. i think the press is doing a fair job with their coverage but i think when you are respectful to the press the press is more likely to work with you and be fair to you. >> i strongly disagree. this is not a fair press. this a press who has an agenda, this is a prez who does not believe in due process, this is a press who believes that because they're liberal and they have a liberal-world agenda that they want to impose on the rest of the country that the trump voters are somehow misguided that the trump voters are ignorant, that's wrong and

un-american and also against what the trump voters want. so they have failed the american people so senator what you say, you can call the president a snowflake but the reality is there's a thing called truth and the mainstream media is ignoring it. heather: we appreciate it. carrie, mightal. great debate. now time to check in with steve doocy to see what's coming up on "fox & friends". i hear you were live in patriot cup in oklahoma on this memorial day, right, steve? >> that's right, absolutely, heather. i have to leave new york so i don't have to wear a tie and i have my coffee here and right back there the lights downtown tulsa, oklahoma. this is the eighth annual patriots golf cup event and it is so fantastic. if you're a patriot or a proud american you are going to want to see it. we have dan who started years ago. he started this as well. he's going to be with us.

we've also got a medal of honor recipient we heard last night at the national gala here, a fellow by the name of laroy and his story is unbelievable and finally because we are in cable news we have larry the cable guy. three hours kicks off just about 12 minutes from right now right here on the channel you trust for your #proudamericannews. "fox & friends first" continues live from oklahoma and new york city in two minutes.

heather: on september 9th, 2011 army specialist christopher

horton gave his life in afghanistan. he was just 26 year's old. rob: as we honor legacy his memorial day his wife is here with a special message on what honoring the fallen means for the strategy in afghanistan. heather: jane horton will be sitting in the president's box, thank you so much for joining us and our heart goes out to you and your family and all of the other gold star families. >> thank you very much for having me today. heather: can you share with us first the story about your husband, what happened in afghanistan? >> absolutely. my husband was an army sniper, one of the proudest americans i've ever met that we wanted to serve his country during wartime, he deployed to afghanistan in 2011 and he was shot to death three months into his first deployment. rob: we certainly are sad to hear that and we thank him and you for his service, absolutely.

you kind of want to talk about what you're dubbing the forgotten war, we have been in afghanistan since just after 9/11, it's coming up on -- it's been 16 years now. tell us why you feel that way and what you think we need to do back here at home to get people to remember that there are men and women like your husband that are fighting very important wars that maybe people aren't paying attention to. >> absolutely, sir, one of the things that's been on my heart, we as america, we as fox news audience honor fallen and service members so well that we have been disconnected from the wars and strategies and in afghanistan particularly we are coming up on one of the most critical junctions in the war's entire history. so it's a very important juncture right now and as we have service service members it's important what we are signing over blank checks to

their lives and what war they're fighting and strategy, we owe them and service members on the ground a real clear strategy to win. heather: on this memorial day, i like what you had to say about the heavy heart should not be the family members in the military. everyone should really be remembering the reason for this day. >> absolutely, a 100%. i have traveled to afghanistan twice myself to see for myself what is going on over there and see the progress that has been made. you know, we hear a lot about the negative situation, security situation on the ground is challenging but they have more women in parliament than we have in congress, 400 female judges, last year alone a million kids entered school, 40% girls. there's a lot of good things happening but does that mean i don't think it was worth it, no, that's not what i'm saying, we shouldn't be the only ones contemplating this. rob: you also had another message and i thought was important there are unpopular

wars in the united states, vietnam was unpopular war, iraq was unpopular war but the soldiers that go over there, they don't get to pick and choose their battles, they are there to defend their country and protect us and they go where they are told to go. >> absolutely, sir. as i mentioned, i just got back from afghanistan in march and i talked to the service members on the ground and it was one of the hardest things of my entire life to hear from many of them. don't forget about us, we feel forgotten, we are not even part of the conversation anymore. it pleases the american people, honoring the fallen goes hand in hand with paying attention in the campaigns that they have given their lives in and so many have served in. heather: that's so sad. we should never let our military members feel that they are abandoned. rob: we really appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. rob: of course. heather: we will be right back. stay with us.

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rob: finally the ugly, the youngest person ever elected to the house. bill sounds familiar passing a bill for free online college courses there you have it. letter: starting young though. "fox & friends" starts right now. have a great day. bye. >> north korea has fired an unidentified projectile off its east coast. >> one thing we can't live with is a north korea that has a nuclear weapon. >> conflict in north korea would be probably the worst kind of fighting in most people's lifetime. it would be catastrophic war. >> the president is vowing to deal with those who are putting our national security at risk by leaking classified information. >> it's border line treason. >> you believe it's treason to leak some of the stuff you believe -- >> -- i do believe it is. >> british authorities meantime dismantling the terror network behind the manchester bombing arresting a 16th suspect overnight. >> they estimate as