you're watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning. i'm todd in for rob schmit. heather: a lot of people on vacation taking a long weekend in anticipation of july 4th, republican lawmakers, they are apparently warming up to the idea of repealing and then replacing obamacare. >> president trump celebrating first fourth of july gaining traction in capitol hill. >> good morning, heather and todd. the white house legislative director says president trump has been working the phones over the holiday weekend to get this senate health care bill across the finish line. >> where we are is the president this weekend is continuing to make calls to members to try to get the senate package across the senate line. we believe that our package will help to lower premium costs and provide health care for patients

>> while they hope the senate can pass, repeal and replace health care, he acknowledges divide and considers option to immediately repeal it first and then work on replacement. the idea of splitting the bill is getting traction with republican senators. >> if you want conservative support, you split the bills, you can get every member of caucus to vote for clean repeal. if there's a concurrent or simultaneous separate bill that includes some of the things that moderates want. >> senate majority leader has dismissed the option so far as he and leadership try to overcome the lack of support at tend of the week 9 republicans opposing the bill with three more that are voicing concerns, now they can only afford two to pass anything. no democrats are supporting it. the goal is to pass something by the august recess but already ten republican senators have

written mitch mcconnell to cancel august recess that they can't find agreement. i'm not sure how further we are. >> i know one, senator collins would not be in favor of repealing and then replacing. we will see what happens. >> a long process. heather: thank you, griff. another news the united states, japan and china vowing a united front against north korea belligerent test. the key topic of conversations stepping up pressure against erratic dictator kim jong un. the calls coming just days before the g20 summit in germany later this week. todd: that's when president trump and vladimir putin will meet face to face for the first time. this meeting at the g20 amid investigations alleged ties to russia. president trump arrives in

germany on thursday. heather: and it is president trump versus the mainstream media reaching new heights, if you can believe it it. it can go even higher. >> accusing our commander in chief of threatening journalists. marian in la with details on the cnn smackdown tweet. >> good morning, president trump's twitter account steeling the pot slight once again taking criticism to cnn to a new level. controversy centers around the video our commander in tweet tackling a man with network's logo edited in his face, old appearance of president trump pretend to go fight a prowrestler. cnn accusing the president of threatening journalists saying, quote, it is a sad day when the president trump of the united states encourages violence against reporters but the white house standing by its boss.

>> this is just going way too far, the president of the united states is inciting violence against the free press. >> i think that no one would perceive that as a threat. he's beaten up in a way on cable platforms and he has a right to respond to. >> cnn reporter jim acosta step intoed the ring responding to the video tweeting, isn't prowrestling fake, acosta quickly schooled including the president trump's son donald trump, jr. who hit back, yes, just like your coverage. latest online battle after cnn was force today retrack story to russia and now retracted story. >> the left is melting down. it's incredible how they still haven't gotten over how donald trump won. >> twitter says the president's tweet does not violate the social media forms' terms and

conditions. president trump calls use of social media, modern day presidential. back to you. todd: secretary of health and human services would be about the american health care crisis, right? but tom price segment on meet the press dominated by questions about the president's twitter habits. >> chuck, you know, this is really remarkable. you have incredible challenges across the nation, incredible challenges around the world, the challenge that i've been given to address the health care issues and that's what you want to talk about? >> i don't. mr. secretary, i don't -- >> price continued to push health care message saying the president is committed to giving the americans choices. heather: well tracks are back open today for limited service after amtrak train derailed in washington state. more than 250 people on board when that train, it was headed to seattle tipped over. the train nearly sliding into a bay injuring a handful of people. the cause of derailment is still

under investigation. then there's this, massive gas explosion rocking a home in pennsylvania, ripping it to shreds. blast killed utility worker and injured three others. debris scattered all over lawns an houses an cloud of smoke over the home, four other homes in the area were damaged in that explosion. look at that. todd: plane packed with people burst into flames moments after touching down. passengers running off the united express jet as fires pours out of an engine. none of the people in the plane from aspen to denver were hurt. that's miraculous. the pilot reported engine trouble shortly before landing. the trump administration taking yet another step to put america first. the department of homeland security now mandating all 280 foreign airport that is have direct flights to the united states install explosive

scanners. all part of broader band on laptops. the u.s. lifting the laptop plants in abu dhabi airports due to implementing security measures. heather: 28-year-old man facing charges in deadly shooting that claimed the life of high school graduate. david turning himself in to pennsylvania police, he shot and killed 18-year-old bianca robertson after the two tried merging into the same lane at the same time. officials calling it a heartless act. >> this is a story of a savage and senseless murder. bianca robertson, 18 year's old, gunned down because somebody didn't want to give way.

heather: is being held without bail in murder charges. a car penter arrested for flying drone. emergency crews force today land all aircraft and called when he started circling a plane that was fighting the blaze. police say that he posted those drone views on his website leading, of course, to his arrest. it is illegal be the way to drone interfere with emergency crew, that makes sense. todd: another attempt of latest launch after calling it quits seconds last night. >> ten, nine -- >> we've had an abort and the countdown sequence. heather: the launch called off due to apparent glitch in the

rocket's guidance and navigation system, that would be important to have. it was going to carry powerful communication to orbit. ♪ ♪ heather: adam is here and can tell us for sure whether or not that would be the case. >> good morning. we are heading into holiday weekend. the long weekend, maybe mother nature providing some of the fireworks for us. here is what we are looking at in the middle of the country. severe weather early this morning. that's going to linger in the afternoon hours, eventually in the evening hours, as we speak moving through oklahoma and parts of kansas drifting towards the arkansas area. that's where it will continue little bit later today. early this morning, line of thunderstorms moving through little rock area producing very heavy rain will continue to do so. take a look at the numbers. future forecasted rainfall widespread, 3 to 6-inches, we could see localized flooding,

otherwise highs for the day. temperatures piling up in the middle of the country. 95-degrees in montana, that's going to be warmer tomorrow guys, a good opportunity to get outside, wear the tank tops and enjoy. get the sun. heather: red, white or blue. todd: trust me, you don't want to see me in a tank top. officer ryan becoming the fourth person in his family sworn into the new york city police department. heather: congratulations, he follows his grandfather, father and uncle wearing the exact same shield's number. it belonged to another officer for a few years but he gladly gave it up so the family can continue their tradition and thank you so much for your service, putting your life on the line. ten minutes after the top of the hour and abc's republican strategists calling on women in washington to condemn president trump. >> i wish the republican women

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todd: the media trying a new tactic to mock the president. the washington post assembling a course to sing president trump's tweets. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> fake news, fake news, fake news.

todd: the elementary school kids with some even playing instruments. meantime, a church choir serenading our commander in chief with a song based on his motto, make america great again. ♪ ♪ ♪ todd: choir performing at a rally at the kennedy center over the weekend. president praising during speech saying the music honors our heros more than words will ever do. two musical stylings, two different messages. heather: polar opposites. abc republican pundit ana navarro lashing out over president trump's comments over comments on mika brzezinski calling on republican women to

confront the president. >> i would hope to call a meeting with him and explain what it does to hear those words about women and what it means to children to bully others in school, report that is we have seen are happening, this is affecting our moral fiber, we cannot let it go. heather: are conservative women really outrage by this? thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. heather: first of all, let's clarify when we say that she's the republican commentator. ana navarro, she actually voted for hillary clinton during the election, so there's that. do you think that she's speaking for conservative women, sarah? >> no, we haven't seen a lot of conservative women step forward and criticize the content of the president's tweets you haven't seen them crying sexist in the way that a lot other democrats in the mainstream media has.

what you have seen from conserve tiff women is frustration from president trump's willingness to distract legislative agenda, go off message and squander last week what could have been an opportunity to take a victory law on kate's law and win on the supreme court for the travel ban and instead there was wall to wall coverage of the president's tweets fairly or unfairly but president trump should have known that a tweet that inflammatory would have earned back to back days of media coverage and that's the kind of frustration we have seen from conservative women. >> that's what you hear when you hear social media and twitter, you're right, that's absolutely what people say, it's distracting from his message, of course, this week coming up with the summit with vladimir putin, we will see what comes of that. hopefully that will be front and center in the muis. -- news. let's see what she had to say, the video and the wwe.

>> incitement to violence. he's going to get somebody killed in the media. heather: compare that to this tweet that she sent out about kathy griffin who actually held up the head of our president, president trump, she said this, back in the u.s. i like kathy griffin, i dislike trump a lot, her act was awful, not funny, excessive, distraction, focus on russia. so kathy griffin's tweet is excessive and dye tracts but yet president trump's tweet with the wwe is inciting violence. >> well, i think what you've seen from the media from democrats and a lot of president's critics is shock and outrage and surprise every time president trump tweets something that you might not expect from a typical u.s. president. his supporters love and that's

exactly what we always could have expected from president trump but each time he does it. there's the new wave of outrage and surprise when, in fact, this is something that president trump has been a part of his personality for years. heather: it sure has. >> it's exactly what we should have expected from him once he became president. heather: sarah, thank you is for joining us. todd. todd: 19 minutes after the hour, pulling a fast one over republicans, brand-new emails giving former president obama giving supreme court pick, showing that it was politically motivating and this is important, people, one of your favorite fourth of july hot dogs just got healthier, don't forget this fourth of july we want to know what makes you a proud american, send us your photo using the #proudamerican, we will air some during the show on tuesday. ♪ ♪

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todd: heather, president trump delivering another campaign promise to shrink the government and saving taxpayers millions of dollars in the process. americans could save as much as $22 million from the white house leaner payroll, employing 1,000 fewer staff members than former president barack obama. heather: well, america's favorite fourth of july food, at least for some folks it just got a whole lot healthier, what? todd: tracee carrasco from sister network fox business with recipe. heather: how do you make hot dogs healthy? tracee: good morning, i'm not sure you really can. nitrate derived from celery juice which is preserved to get processed meat. it changed recipe, it's part of

a a broader trend to remove artificial ingredients from products, the change makes little difference because it's still a hot dog. heather: celery juice? tracee: celery juice. todd: i'm fired up about the next story because i really we wanted to see the house with will ferrell, according to american public not a great movie. tracee: no, it didn't do so well but the minions are ruling the box office. todd: they always rule. >> we are going back to being villains. [inaudible] [laughter] tracee: $75.4 million in opening weekend coming in second, baby driver jamie foxx, $30 million in the first five days in theaters and 21 million from the

three-day weekend. todd, the house starring, will ferrell one of the lowest. heather: chocolate peanut butter twinkies. tracee: chocolate sponge cake with peanut butter filling. as you can imagine, people went crazy on social media. one person tweeting, best day of my life, son's birth, wedding day, chocolate peanut butter twinkies hit shelves. hostess has been busy rolling out new products. heather: have any of you had the fried twinkies?

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>> but also say that is if the senate cannot pas a repeal and replace consider an option to immediately repeal at first and then work on a replacement. this idea of splitting the bill is gaining tractions with conservative senators like rand paul. >> i think if you want conservative support you split the bills, i think you can get almost every member of caucus to vote for clean repeal if there's a concurrent or simultaneous separate bill that includes some of the things that moderates want. >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has dismissed the option so far as he and gop leadership face growing resistance. at the end of the week last week, nine republicans opposing the bill with three more expressing concern. no democrats supporting it and they can only afford to lose two votes to pass anything. the goal now is to pass something by the august recess although you have ten republican senators already calling on mitch mcconnell to cancel the recess to give them more time. we will see what's happening. who knows, heather, maybe they

need to get the new box of twinkies to get on on the same page. heather: you don't get them unless you get the work done, that's the deal, thanks, griff. president trump versus the mainstream media reaching new heights over the controversial video. todd: white house firing back at credit ex. marian in los angeles with details on the cnn smackdown tweet. >> good morning, president trump's twitter account steeling the spot slight once again taking criticism of cnn to a new level, the controversy centered around this video the commander in chief tackling a man with the logo, clip from old wwe appearance pretend to go fight a prowrestler, cnn slamming the video accusing the president of threatening journalists saying, quote, it is a sad day when the president trump of the united

states encourages violence against reporters but the white house standing by its boss. >> this is just going way too far. the president of the united states is inciting violence against the free press. >> i think that no one would perceive that as a threat, i hope they don't. i do think he's beaten up in a way on cable platforms and has a right to respond to. >> cnn reporter jim acosta also step intoed the ring responding to the video tweeting, isn't prowrestling fake, acosta quickly schooled by twitter users including donald trump, jr. the latest after cnn was force today retract tieing trump transition member to russia. >> the left is melting down. it's incredible how they still haven't gotten over how donald

trump won. >> twitter says the president's tweet does not violate the social media forms terms and conditions. president trump calls use of social media modern-day presidential. back to you. >> marian, thanks. anthony scaramucci in washington at the top of the list, prominent ally voicing concerns over a gnaw retracted cnn story linking him to a russian investor. >> it's a very tough town, maybe it's from the watergate crisis. there's politics of personal disruption here. there's manufactured scandals. i will tell you why, there are front stabbers in wall street. todd: network has publicly apologized saying that the piece did not meet editorial standards. anthony scaramucci accepts apology. heather: great tweet from donald trump, jr. barack obama just can't let it go apparently, the

former president helping rebuild the democratic party behind the scenes. sources say that he's been meeting with house and senate leaders and multiple meetings and phone calls with dnc chair tom pérez, democrats still searching for new leadership after a stunning some say 2016 election loss. meanwhile brand-new proof the supreme court selection may have been motivated. the obama administration thought republicans would not be able to deny judge merrick garland, the emails showing that the democrats we wanted to sell garland as a meticulous jurist, that won him bipartisan praise. the vacant seat left by scalia filled by president trump's nominee neil gorsuch. todd: blue lines matter bills. the group telling the daily caller they approach police protections federal and state levels. the law makes attacking officers a hate crime but aclu claim

police are the most protected class and don't need to increase their legal protection. this all comes as some states look to introduce mandatory minimum sentences for crimes against cops. heather: lots of people took a long one spending time with friends and family. todd: beaches and parks. adam is here in the weather center. >> for the most part, things are looking good. there's a couple troubled spots out there being fueled by warm air in the middle of the country. 80's, mid-70's very early in july 3rd morning, most of the activity firing up really in the heart of the country taking area of kansas that's going to eventually fall down in portions of oklahoma. we are seeing thunderstorms early this morning, by the afternoon bumping up to severe level. another line of thunderstorms through arkansas, little rock area, this is going to be an

important one. if you're in this area, it may wash out some of the fourth of july plans. take a look at. this rainfall totals from now taking you into tuesday and pretty widespread across the state. 3 to 6-inches of total precipitation. that'll bring localized flooding issues. that's something to pay attention to. for everyone else, though, the story is really going to be the heat bubbling up in the middle of the country. forecasted highs for today. take a look. 95-degrees, it gets warmer, continues to pile up in the middle of the country for us on our tuesday, fourth of july holiday. definitely jumping in the lake or the pool, going to the shore, whatever you can do to beat the heat in the next couple of days. todd: george w. bush, creepy secrets to jay leno as he takes him around his texas ranch.

heather: revealing wife's secret pet name. >> what about you bushy? >> this is new. bushy. >> i wish you wouldn't repeat it. heather: that's cute. president bush revealing that once you become president you are forbidden from driving in public roads. really? interesting. i learned that new today. todd: from bushy. heather: 20 minutes until the top of the hour. playingplaying the blame game bernie sanders' wife is under investigation for fraud but you'll never guess whose fault it is. todd: proud american joins us live on the other side of the break from wilmington, north carolina whoooo.

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heather: welcome back, listen to this statistic, nearly 20% of the voters in rhode island do not live there. according to the journal, 50,000 none rhode islanders registered to vote in the state most of them have either moved or died. secretary of state is work to go clean up on voter roles. her challenger making a dig by sending a special surprise. dna ancestry test. posting the images to twitter to prove it writing, quote, i'm deeply saddened that senator warren refused my thoughtful

gift. the response to warren's past claims of being an american indian which has since been unfounded. todd: you think that's going to be a race to watch in 2018. barack obama taking attacks on president trump abroad even on our nation's birthday. former president criticizing president trump's decision to pull out of the paris climate agreement saying, quote, in paris we came together around the most ambitious agreement in history to fight climate change, an agreement even with temporary absence of leadership will still give our children a fighting chance. if we can't keep our partisanship to ourselves, can we keep in our shores? here to debate carry and atima, democratic strategists, good morning to you both. carrie, we will start with you,

what do you make of this? >> the paris climate change agreement, barack obama did not have authority to get into it. it was unconstitutional and now for him to toot his own horn is blatantly wrong. not to mention, he's going around to europe, telling them lies that sound great rather than uncomfortable truths, that's what donald trump represents, the fact of the matter is since world war ii we have not had more refugees in this world and that happened under barack obama's watch. he's telling people a bunch of lies, you don't need to pay your fair share. barack obama loves about talking paying their fair share in america. same thing with syria and iraq. he did not stand up to isis. he can tell all his lies. it's not true. todd: atima, what's your response, a lot to unpack? >> that would be my first

response. listen, president obama is not resorting to personal attacks which is all that president trump has been doing all this weekend whether it be at media analysts or certain network that he does not like. as you can remember, twitter is seen overseas by a lot of people, a billion users or so, when you talk about keeping partisan tax on shores and not going overseas, it can definitely be apply today president trump as well. todd: shouldn't president obama, in fact, be doing this in the first place or he should be golfing or letting president trump taking four, potentially eight years and have his chance around the country? >> personally if i was former president i would be enjoying a lot of vacations and that's actually what president obama has been doing, i read an article here on the fox news network that he was criticizing the number of vacations he was

taking, i feel like which one is it, is it a person that's still commenting or doing stuff for his foundation because he has great relationship with foreign leaders or taking a lot of vacations, it can't be like either one and everybody has to criticize what he does. >> how about he spends his post presidency being a statesman, a uniter? >> that's what he's doing. >> my liberal friends will not admit that president donald j. trump is barack obama's legacy. he ignored middle america, he did not care about where i'm from, the quote, unquote ply-over states, he lift down his nose against rural america and now he's taking that hate overseas and ashamed of our country. >> oh, my gosh. i hate when you're talking a difference on policy. this is exactly what's wrong with trump and his followers. please. [laughter] >> you know what, it's wrong and hateful to insult a sitting president when you're abroad.

you're supposed to be a -- >> you can disagree respectfully on policy and that's what state statesmen like this is. please continue them. >> he's not in office anymore. >> no, he's not, people respect him. todd: all right. last question. atima, then to you, last question for atima. should president trump be supported by president obama? >> president trump and president obama don't have a great relationship and that goes back to the fact that he questioned his citizenship as the president in the country so i think that they should have a great relationship, that's my opinion but it's never been a great one basis of that having had eight years ago. todd: we have to go. thank you for being here. heather, over to you. heather: thank you very much. well, the time now is about five minutes until the top of the hour and he already risked everything for his country and

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