♪ let's get loud ♪ >> good morning to you from the streets of new york city. you are watching "fox and friends" first tuesday morning. rob: thanks for starting your day with us, donald trump standing by his son-in-law jared kushner among the mainstream media frenzy over alleged back channel communications with russia. heather: the media has all wrong. good morning. >> reporter: donald trump gaining firmly behind his son-in-law against allegations he tried to set up a secret back channel with russia killing the new york times, quote, jared is doing a great job for the country. i have total confidence in him. john kelly also defending jared kushner saying establishing communications with the country like russia is a thing.

now a source tells fox news it was the russians who first raised the idea of a secret communications channel and was only discussed for a single call about syria, not as another channel but senator john mccain doesn't like it. >> i don't like it. i know some administration officials it is standard procedure. i don't think it is standard procedure prior to the inauguration by someone who is not in an appointed position. >> reporter: katrina pearson saying all this will be cleared up by kushner. >> jared kushner was the first person to say i will go in and talk to any of the committees investigating this ridiculous allegation.

he has never kept anything secret, he said he will meet with anyone anytime but however long it takes to clear up this mess. >> democrats are piling on in the house, adam schiff calling for security clearance, and he needs to go back to doing real estate in new york. finally, before we hear from jared kushner sean spicer returns, that should be interesting. a lot of questions about this. >> there was a question about sean spicer himself. >> back channel communications calling out the media for trying to find a scandal, we are talking about that coming krauthammer calling out the media for trying to find a scandal in everything that comes out of the white house. the change the back channel connections with adversaries for generations, henry kissinger had them with the russians and the chinese, hillary had a back channel to establish the opening

negotiations with the iranians and what turned into the iranian nuclear deal. this happens all the time. i don't understand where is the crime other than another piece that has russia in the headline, trump people in the headline and it is supposed to be scandalous, show me. >> tiger woods says he did not do it. the golf great claiming his dui arrest in florida was because of an unexpected reaction to his medication, not because he was drunk. look at this embarrassing mug shot. the desk and put it could be released today. he was charged with belligerent, arrogant refusing to take a breathalyzer test. the incident could cost the 41-year-old hundreds of millions of dollars in sponsorship and was suspected of dui after a crash in 2009. that incident feeling his

infidelity to his wife. >> a gop lawmaker's call to ice reporting unhinged liberal protesters sparking a fight on the house floor in texas, things getting physical over this over and immigration bill. violent allegations. >> protests over the new law cracking down on sanctuary cities turned ugly and hostile. protesters wearing red t-shirts bused in from new york and california took their stand against the new law, they shouted so loud it drowned out lawmakers as they conducted regular session on the texas legislature. police officers moved into remove the protesters from the gallery but on the house floor even lawmakers were caught up in emotion pushing and shoving each other in anger, confrontation triggered by the protesters as

some lawmakers exchange dangerous threats to each other. republican lawmaker -- they verbally threatened to hurt each other. he would get him. ranalli taking to social media on facebook, this, today representative poncho nevarez threatened my life on the house floor after i called ice on several illegal immigrants who held signs in the gallery which that i am illegal and here to stay. several democrats encouraged protesters to disobey law enforcement. >> you did what? he said i called ice and -- >> anything to incite people. >> reporter: the heated moments testify later during a brief news conference, claimed he said he would put a bullet in his head. all this volatility stemming from the new texas law stopping practice of sanctuary cities which takes in effect in

september. rob: thanks. heather: look at this, could help bust the manchester bomber's terror ring. british police releasing a video showing salman abedi with the luggage before the attack. it is unclear what is inside. police are asking anyone who sees it to call immediately, 16 people have been arrested at connection with the attack, 14 remain in custody. the bombing at the ariana grande concert leaving 22 ted, 100 injured. >> former panamanian dictator manwell noriega has died. known for his brutality, has been hospitalized since march with complications from brain surgery. a 1-time cia informant if you

can believe it, noriega was forced from power by an american invasion in 1989, he served a 17 year drug sentence in the united states, spent time in france and panama. he was 83 years old. >> the white house will test america's ability to defend against north korea's growing nuclear threat. the pentagon firing off a long-range interceptor over the pacific ocean testing its capabilities to shoot down a missile. this comes as allah u akbar -- kim jung un promises to send a gift package to the us. the latest landing in japan's exclusive economic zone the country promising to retaliate. that is a scary story. rob: severe storms ripping through the midwest leaving a deadly path of destruction. >> two people are dead after their car was washed off the road in missouri during flash flooding. first responders searching for

that driver. rob: janice dean live with where that storm is headed. >> reporter: scattered showers and thunderstorms in the upper midwest through the northeast and the great lakes as well as the central us, look at your current temperatures, very springlike, 40s and 50s on the map, cooler than average on the eastern tier of the country and the northeast, there is your satellite radar imagery, we don't have any big storms but we will see nuisance rain showers from the northeast to the great lakes of the gulf coast and the rockies are nothing organized but we could see scattered showers here and there, some reach severe limits but we won't see a tornado outbreak or anything like that, large hail and damaging winds possible, there is future radar, you can see the unsettled weather in the eastern us and rockies and there's the rainfall forecast so not a huge storm system but we will see on it off showers

throughout the rest of the work we can to the weekend especially for the eastern third of the country. heading to june i am hopeful we will get warmer weather in the northeast. rob: it feels like april. >> rob is the only one who doesn't like it. >> always complaining about something, you know how i am. thanks so much. days after a catastrophic it feel your passengers on british airways still can't find their luggage. >> that is not all. cheryl casone he from foxbusiness here with is a massive bill they might be facing. steve: good morning. a rough weekend for british airways after the massive meltdown that affected 1000 flights. the airline facing a potential $120 million plus bill as a result. compensation for stranded travelers and various customer care issues the airline still has not returned to normal

operations. airline flights from heathrow saturday because of that computer issue. the city of boston has announced a tuition free college pilot program for boston high school grads enabling low-income students to get four your degrees without paying tuition called the boston bridge and will be open all 2017 high school grads in the study, students need to meet federal pell grant income standards, new york college students can apply for their state's free tuition plan next month, the new york initiative covers tuition at state universities for full-time students of low income families, families. finally melania's $51,000 jacket worn that overseas trip is shining new light on the high end fashion luxury market. a few experts they are wearing that jacket could boost sales of items that are handmade with hours of embroidery needed.

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>> welcome back to "fox and friends" first, john mccain calling russia the bigger threat to the world than isis. in an australian interview he says vladimir putin tried to destroy the fundamentals of democracy and the us hasn't done anything to stop him. >> vladimir putin is the premier and most important threat more so than isis. we have done nothing in response to the election last november to respond to vladimir putin at attempt to change the outcome of our elections so way to go, vladimir. we haven't responded at all to it. >> mccain calling for tougher sanctions against russia. apparently islam is on track to take over christianity is the world's number one religion. if you research report project the muslim population will grow by 70% worldwide between 2015,

and 2016. christianity is only expected to grow 34% in the same timeframe. the study says it all comes down to demographics, muslims are younger and have more babies than christians. >> secretary of homeland security john kelly blasting the leaks that have been plaguing the white house. >> over the line of trees and. when you leak the kind of information that seems to be routinely leaked at a high level of classification. >> could these confidential intelligence leaks be putting american lives at risk. that is the big question, cia officer and author of jawbreaker, gary bernsen, thanks for coming in early this morning. i asked john kelly last week whether or not the leaks put us

in a situation where countries might not want to share information with us anymore and that could put us in danger, you say you wouldn't go that far. >> if there is a leak of intelligence information attributable to a human source it could put that source at risk for the truth is a lot of people save the theory that information being leaked other governments won't share with us but the truth is other governments there not share with us, the cia is an intelligent superpower with massive programs globally and it shares with all its allies and even its adversaries because we are trying to stay wise and people dare not share with us. it is just a fact. the media says this -- americans are going to die. it is a gigantic echo chamber of the uninformed. >> reporter: i can understand that. why would you not want us on

your side when it comes to intelligence, how could you not share with us and be in bed with this nation and our intelligence. donald trump tweeted out is my opinion many of the leaks coming out of the white house are fabricated lies made up of either fake news media. do you think that is a fair tweet to put out there? >> i believe these leaks are designed to undermine and destroy the credibility of this president. this white house needs to get their arms around this and i would say to them get counterintelligence officers over there, there is no reason they haven't been able to determine who leaked the comey memo. the new director of the fbi has the power to do that, i would have is people on the box and if you can figure that out, should be gone. >> they can do that, polygraph, they can take it to that level,

nothing wrong with that. >> no problem doing that in the fbi. if i was president of the united states i would have people in the white house also polygraph and exclude the national security advisor and chief of staff but the rest of them, new game in town. >> thanks for coming on this morning, interesting perspective, we appreciate it. maria: time is 19 minutes after the top of the hour. most of us honored our fallen heroes as most people do on that day, one liberal website smearing the marine corps. the recruitment at sparking outrage. >> residents protect and serve in dallas, texas, the good samaritan who jumped into action after a police officer crashed into a creek. ♪

♪ >> on a day meant to honor our fallen heroes one website, fox.com instead was smearing our marines as fraternity members with a toxic masculinity problem. >> taking on the critics, one minute commentary, good morning. >> the rest of the nation was commemorating memorial day, the far left at fox.com were bashing the military. they published a nasty piece accusing the marine corps of having a masculinity problem. they went on to say the marines have a well-earned reputation for being a fraternity that marginalizes or mistreats female troops. sounds like they have a toxic

snowflake problem. as matt walsh wrote, call me crazy but i'm pretty sure the marine corps is supposed to be both masculine and toxic but these are the kind of people who went on marines to prance around into battle wearing high heels. the expose would have caused a meltdown in the obama pentagon. white wine spritzers but i don't think the defense secretary is going to lose any sleep over the fragile and emissions from the emasculated pajama boys, semper fi, america, back to you. >> i have known a healer two that could be used as a weapon. >> that is a fair point. >> the good, the bad and the ugly. donald trump junior marking memorial day with a challenge named after u.s. navy seal michael murphy, it consists of

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>> a lovely day might be a stretch but no rain like there was yesterday. you are watching "fox and friends" first. heather: 7 thanks for sticking around with us. the mainstream media has been in a feeding frenzy over jared kushner's alleged back channeling with russia. >> a source telling fox news they have it all wrong. christian can live in washington with the latest developments. >> reporter: donald trump defending his son-in-law against those allegations telling the new york times, quote, jared is doing a great job for the country. i have total confidence in him. john kelly also defending kushner over the weekend saying establishing communication with countries like russia is, quote, a good thing. a source tells fox news it was the russians, not kushner who first raised the idea of a

communications channel and it was only discussed for single call, not a permanent channel as some in the media have alleged. katrina pearson says this will all be cleared up by kushner. >> jared kushner was the first person to say i will go in and talk to any of the committees investigating this allegation, never kept anything secret. however long it takes to clear up this mess. >> reporter: senator john mccain remains skeptical. >> i don't like it. i know some administration officials are saying it is standard procedure. i don't think it is standard procedure prior to the inauguration of the president of the united states by someone not in an appointed position. >> democrats piling on.

>> he needs to realize this is the grown-up world now. if he cannot handle his job, he needs to turn in his security clearance and go back to doing real estate in new york city. >> before we hear from jared kushner, one of those, sean spicer returns to the breathing room today, that should be interesting. lots of questions coming. >> molly hemingway, senior editor at federalist also slamming the so-called kushner controversy calling it ammunition in the mainstream media's arsenal, a story of collusion. >> journalist in washington dc are living in a dramatic alternate reality, willful participants in a coordinated leak campaign with selective information, half-truth, without context, frequently incorrect and they use it to prove the point they have already concluded which is donald trump is a traitor in the white house.

>> switching gears, a gop lawmaker calling ice after unhinged liberal protesters spark a fight on the house floor in texas, things getting physical over an immigration bill. kelly wright live in dc with details on violent allegations. >> you can call it crazy and physical over a new law cracking down on things were cities in texas. turned ugly and hostile. >> protesters wearing red t-shirts bused in from new york and california, took their stand against the new law from the gallery, they shouted so loud they drowned out lawmakers as they conducted regular session of the texas legislature, police officers moving in to remove the protesters from the gallery but on the house floor even lawmakers were caught up in a motion pushing and shoving each

other in anger. confrontation triggered by the protesters had some lawmakers exchanging dangerous threats to each other. matt rinaldi and democrat poncho nevarez verbally threatening each other to hurt each other. navarre is telling that all the that he would get him. rinaldi taking to social media posting this on facebook today representative nevarez threatened my life on the house floor after calling ice in several illegal immigrants who held find in the gallery which said i am illegal and here to stay. several democrats encouraged protesters to disobey law enforcement. >> what do you mean, you did what? >> i called ice. >> to incite people. >> not what you would expect them to do but heated moment intensified later when during a brief news conference he claimed rinaldi said he would put a bullet in his head. all this volatility stemming from the new texas law stopping

the practice of sanctuary cities going into effect september 1st. opponents without a challenge it in court. what an environment we are living in. thanks so much. >> isis claiming responsibility for a deadly explosion outside an ice cream shop. 15 people dead, dozens injured in a targeted attack on families in baghdad. surveillance video showing the car bomb light of the night like a fireball. look at that. chaos, panic in the streets. many muslims out latebreaking, breaking their fast for ramadan. the deadly attack as we learned isis quickly pushed out of mosul as early as june tends. >> we know the identity of the navy seal who died after his parachute malfunctioned over the hudson river in new york, 27-year-old remington peters tragic death happening in front

of thousands of people in any event on the river between new jersey and new york city, colorado native peter had 900 jumps under his belt, he completed two combat deployments. family members remember the decorated seal is a courageous warrior fiercely loyal to his country. the following seal honored in a memorial day ceremony on the intrepid ship in new york city. >> a group of good samaritans of into action after a dallas officer's squad car plunges 30 feet into a creek. ♪ >> a dozen people helping flip the cruiser onto its side, stolen pickup truck hitting an intersection sending him over a bridge, the driver still on the loose, the officer has a collapsed lung. >> you might check the bottom of the pool before you jump in.

family finding a massive gator sitting at the bottom of their pool in sarasota, florida. the video showing a professional trapper struggling with the beast, trying to pull out, the alligator was trying to perform a death roll to get him in the pool. that gator later released into the wild. what if you are on a night swim? heather: i don't go for night swims. 20 minutes until the top of the hour, the trump administration vowing to wipe terrorists off the earth but what is the first step? by wiping them off the internet. next guest is a cybersecurity expert, he says we can learn about terrorists from their social media profiles. rob: the best golfer that ever lived could be hitting rock bottom right now. what tiger woods is now saying about his dui arrest over the weekend. >> campus protesters furious

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>> outrage intensifying over the puerto rican day parade honoring the leader of a terror group responsible for 100 bombings in the united states that killed 5 people. veterans joining the chorus of critics, former soldiers confronted mayor bill diblasio during his memorial day speech on the intrepid in new york city. one calling the democratic lawmaker a hypocrite for praising our fallen heroes while supporting oscar lopez rivera who is supposed to march at the front of the parade down fifth avenue in new york, more scription's a disappearing from

va hospitals, fit investigating -- at these facilities as seen by the ap shows the inspector general opened 36 investigations from october to may of this year bringing the total number of open cases to 108. the va has pledged 0-tolerance. rob: the trump administration is vowing to crush the rise of islamic extremists. >> we are going to shatter their sense of invisibility, that is only one phase of this, the virtual caliphate, the internet, we have to watch for other organizations. we cannot go into some kind of complacency. heather: an average of 38 online terror messages are released a day. what can we possibly do to

counter the cyberpropaganda? thank you for joining us this morning. we talked about this before plenty of times, what you can do to limit their reach on the internet, limit their reach worldwide. you said right now the state department's efforts are pathetic. >> when it comes to counter messaging, not just destroying twitter account and trying to inhibit the flow of information which he will never succeed at, countermessaging, mocking them when they mess up and celebrating our victories, things they do to attract support like make themselves look so big and powerful, we can do that 10 times better, they do it with lies and hatred. i get frustrated when i see isis so successful with the quantity

of content, how it grabs thes attention in the stuff week put out gets barely any views, barely distributed, doesn't have muscle behind it. i like when we called them losers and things like that. >> you got some pushback from that. >> that is the rhetoric of the middle east, so much goes into self glorification and a feeling of honor and success, pushing back on that saying you are losers at life is great, followed up with an example, a campaign that marks isis, the ideology, and pro-western messaging campaign. >> people are thinking if you mock them you will make them angrier and there will be an attack as a result, you think the opposite will happen. >> on 1-10 scale of anger, beheading people, you are at a level head, i'm not worried about making them angrier. i want to take their prestige and sense of momentum.

when they are successful they win arguments in the muslim world. mocking their failures, we will get a ton of information of them not knowing what they are doing, saying stupid things, making mistakes. when we have victories we need to celebrate just like they lie about their supposed victories and also go after other groups and the general concept of the caliphate, you need to enter modernity, enter the current year 2017. heather: tried to pull us apart from within. why is this happening? it makes common sense, we have the capability. >> it is focused on shutting down individual social media accounts which we have gotten better at doing and individual companies of gotten better at doing and that is positive but there isn't a response from the content that still exists but one thing the british did, there was an al qaeda magazine saying how to build a bomb, they

switched out the explanation how to build the bomb with recipes for cupcakes. doing things like that. heather: that is smart, thanks for joining us. we definitely need to defeat them. coming up next we check in with brian killmead. a lot of us called this the president high-5ing this young man as he stood in front of his father's grave. >> that little boy dressed like his fallen father greeted by the president and his mom it will be here live with their son. unbelievable story. among our big story today pushback on the jared kushner story, a big exclusive detail, discussing that with kelly -- kellyanne conway. laura ingram, the pushback from republicans, if the president doesn't push away from the paris

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>> welcome back to "fox and friends" first. fall from grace, tiger woods, police arresting the golf crate for dui but he says he wasn't drunk. >> you could face more embarrassment or vindication, dash cam video from the incident will be released today. more from jupiter, florida. >> unexpected reaction to

prescription meds. a mix tiger woods says he didn't know what effect him so strongly landing him in a jail mug shot. the golf pro's statement apologizing for that 3 am arrest not far from his exclusive oceanfront home and his well-known jupiter restaurant where fans flocked. >> to his house and everything. >> reporter: they still are not sure what to think. >> i'm a huge fan of tiger woods. >> a very talented golfer but he got caught up in the wrong thing. >> he stepped away due to back injuries and last week blogged his recovery from surgery is going well. it is unclear if that factors into the arrest. he is trying to smooth things over with fan staying in that statement i would like to apologize to my family, friends and fans. i will do everything in my power to assure this never happens

again. >> privileges for everybody. >> watch out for that. a sickening sign of disrespect as a vandal, pow and mia flags from a veterans memorial, the thief striking hours before a memorial day ceremony in johnson city, tennessee, and the vandal failed. >> if it was their intention to deter our patriotism they missed their mission because you see the crowd. people are very supportive of the mission we have. >> reporter: the memorial displays the names of 2000 heroes. >> college students furious a video documenting their horrifying behavior has been made public. ♪

>> the most violent who ever briefed. >> water in here? >> activists at evergreen state college in washington state making the video a day of absence demanding white students and faculty members leave campus to give space for people of color. the students who have seen it, it was stolen by white supremacists demanding it to be taken down by friday. >> bashing america's bravest, social media sounding off as a left-wing website attacks the marine corps on memorial day. rob: spicy skittles and starburst, social media a little skeptical. i might be skeptical too. carly shimkus will tell us about it next.

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heather: welcome back. left-wing website vox news sparking outrage by bashing america's bravest. rob: that's vox with a v by the way. carley shimkus with sirius 115 with you what is trending.

>> vox.com appeals to a younger audience. they recognize memorial day by bashing the marine corps. the marine corps has a toxic max lint problem. now masculinity problem. douglas says vox.com that you would choose to post this today says more about you than you will ever realize. look at this tweet from michelle. she actually came up with a bit of a solution. she said the vox staff should all enlist and solve this problem. somethin' tells me that's not going to happen. rob: i don't think they have the guts to handle that. >> thank you, instead of attacking the military. heather: baseball instead of baseball hats. >> mlb under fire for what some are calling a tasteless move on memorial day. all 30 teams promoted these limited edition memorial day hats.

take a look at this tweet from the new york yankees all the teams tweeted out something similar. today is about honor and respect tip your neweracap to those jehovah sacrificed to keep us safe. go to mlb charity will go to veterans group. a lot of people thought they were exploiting our veterans. heather: nothing wrong with that. heather: jane tells me i'm overreactinreact memorial day h. even even daughter's picture chimed in and didn't like this tweet either. not a good move for them. heather: some money goes to veterans that's good. rob: i say if it works don't mess with it. why do you need a spicy. >> sweet heat in 2018, wrigley is coming up out with spicy star bursts and skittles. a lot of people upset about this one. whoever approved this creation

of spicy skittles and star burst, god will deal with you. like the apocalypse. people are very upset. rob: jumping the shark. heather: if it works, just leave it alone. >> if it ain't broke, don't fix it. rob: "fox & friends" starts right now. we will see you later. heather: bye. >> the president freshly returned to his fresh foreign trip to a washington seemingly obsessed with his political troubles. >> the controversy surrounding jared kushner is taking up a lot of oxygen here at the white house. >> we have had the back channel connections with adversaries for generations. this happens all the time. i don't quite understand where's the crime? >> tiger woods said he didn't do it. golf great said duui arrest in florida was unexpected reaction to his medication. >> g.o.p. lawmakers call to ice sparking a fight on the house floor in texas. things getting physical over immigration bill.