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for blocking the president's nominee. >> senate has confirmed 48 of 197 presidential nominees. >> mosul has been liberated. think about that. we have only been in office less than six months thanks to the president's leadership we are winning everywhere. you wouldn't know it if you turned on cnn or read the "new york times." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ brian: all right. get ready we are going trite a fox news alert. the death toll is rising in horrific military plane crash. ainsley: marine corps refueling plane spiraling out of control and slamming into a soybean field in mississippi, killing at least 16 people. steve: this is a terrible story. griff jenkins is covering it live with the latest on this

devastating loss. griff? >> griff griff good morning, gog guys, our thoughts and prayers going out to those who lost their lives in the plane crash. the cause is undetermined at this point but that the marine corps kc 130 experienced a mishap before going down in the mississippi delta some 85 miles north of jackson around 4:00 p.m. yesterday. one witness on the ground reported hearing a loud boom and seeing a large plume of black smoke as the plane spiraled down in a corkscrew crashing. the debris field stretching for miles. the officials for will he leffly urging everyone to stay away. >> we don't want anybody without responding in the area or around any area. >> fbi has been called into this scene. there are few details coming

out of the marine corps folks. they announced the crash on twitter. we're trying to learn more. here is what they had to say. >> at this time we getting more information to work this incident, the scene out to see further what we need to do. >> mississippi's governor phil brian expressing his concerns for these marines. this is certainly a tragic and developing story, guys, that we will certainly learn a lot more about later today. steve: we will, indeed. all right, griff, thank you very much. brian: you realize, too, when it comes to the military oh you are just going through training, just going through exercises. no, everything is dangerous. because they drill, they go through all these things and you just hear about this stuff domestically because you have to go through all of this to hopefully pull it off in actually the theater of war. steve: in this case the kc 130 is essentially a flying gas station. full of gas.

apparently in this instance it sounds like it also had a load of ammo as well. ainsley: so dangerous. they are still searching. the vegetation is so high in rural field they're searching through all of that to see if there are more bodies. 16 people we know confirmed dead as griff was reporting. keep those families in your thoughts and prayers today because those lives are changed forever. steve: absolutely. as the sun comes up, we have a live report out there in mississippi. brian: i like to have productive lunches. though i like to enjoy myself for the most party. i love when people say let's have a working lunch. man, on the republican side they will have a working lunch today at which time all the work that's been done during out so-called recess over the last week and a half will be revealed. the brief, the draft that was put together and was not successfully put to a vote two weeks ago has been amended and changed and will be reintroduced to the g.o.p., to the senators today at lunch. ainsley: senators are working really hard. they are trying to fix the healthcare bill. they are trying to get it passed before they go on the

next recess, before the year is over. because republicans ran on this. and they know their constituents are expecting it. steve: so they have got the revised version. they are going to unveil it because really nobody has seen it so far. by the beginning of next week they hope the cbo is able to price it out, figure out how much it would cost and how many people would lose insurance. they hardly ever remind people that a lot of the people would no longer have insurance because they choose not to. mandated. and then perhaps a vote next week. from the changes that we have seen so for a, it is unlikely that any of the changes suggested so far are going to get the 10 republican senators back on board. and that is a problem for mitch mcconnell who is in charge of trying to right this ship. ainsley: they do have the majority. 52 republicans. they need 50 votes and the vice president would be that tie breaker. pretty hard. brian: twrerm with the opioid money, they have to come up with money for opioid rehab and to address that situation.

number two, have you te ted cruz with something got a lot of the people intrigued. proposal to allow the insurance companies to sell any kind of healthcare plans they want sell one plan that regulatory requirements. among the people who like that secretary treasury mnuchin. among the people who like that senator majority whip cornyn in texas. ted cruz is somebody who he is so conservative you will never let him go along with anything that doesn't go by his structure. no this the time. is he going to work. he wants everyone to work through the summer. >> it's crazy that we would be taking a recess. there are a bunch of us, myself included that have been urging leadership back from january. let's not take any recesses. let's work every day. let's work weekends. let's work until we get the job done. and, you know, the people who are pushing for that, i would say the folks elected in the last five, six, years, what i call the young tuckers that we have been consistently in the lunches pressing saying look,

we have a job to do and we have a short window of time and so we ought to stop taking recesses, stop taking time off and just keep going until we get it done. ainsley: they all have vacations planned because they have that august recess but good for him for saying that because the constituents, this is what they want. steve: here's the problem though with his plan. it makes sense to a lot of people where if you have a affordable care act compliant thing loaded with all the stuff and then have a skinny plan, unfortunately what they are worried is that for people with preexisting conditions it would jack the price of premiums way up. if you are young and in good shape, it's great for you. but anybody with preexisting conditions, that's going to be a problem. ainsley: they have to get it right. if they don't they are going to be in the same mess as obamacare. steve: in iowa chuck grassley tweeted out over the weekend all 52 republican senators should be ashamed they haven't voted to repeal the affordable care act by now. if we fail, he writes, we will go from majority to minority

and, of course, that's the big rub. it is all politics. brian: i would add this. i think the repeal and we will replace it when we get a chance would be a political disaster worse than not passing anything. although the vice president of the united states said yesterday that would be preferable to not doing anything at all. senator mitch mcconnell said last week if i don't get this done with the republican support, i'm going to go talk to senator chuck schumer and talk with democrats which most republicans would hate because senator chuck schumer would then have leverage. steve: that's not whether a they voted for. people across america voted to have the repeal and the replacement which is what we were promise you had. ainsley: today the nypd is giving the final salute to officer familia. you remember we talked about this. she is the one murdered in the bronx last week when she was on the job. steve: absolutely. there is a bit of bright news regarding this story. you know, we talked about it on this show last week. she was killed when she was sitting in a commands vehicle

outside an area on the fifth of july. 12:30 in the morning. yesterday, the state senate here in new york state appropriated $4 million for bullet proof glass because they don't ever want what happened to her to happen to anybody ever again. brian: all right. so families and friends and colleagues are set to say their final goodbyes today. i wonder if the mayor will fig fit that into his schedule. steve: he went to the viewing last night but he refused to answer questions. ainsley: you see the picture of the mother and kids. look at that picture. steve: i know. sat story. ainsley: now we are going to shift gears a little bit. george lopez the comedian has never been a friend of donald trump when he was running for president. yesterday he posted on his instagram this. this was the message. the trump administration is deporting latinos to make the streets safer. you want to make the streets safer, deport the police.

this is not an indictment of all law enforcement but, still, he then deleted it proximate result. ainsley: he then sent out an apology, kind of. and tried to clarify what he meant by the police. he says i hope this clears up any misunderstanding, comedy has a wave healing but i also realize it can hurt, too. so, let's let cooler heads prevail and then look at the picture. deport the police, which is the band. steve: from great britain. brian: unbelievably inappropriate and lacking. listen to dan bongino. >> these guys and women, martha are banged up. they have heir heads on swivels. they have to be worried about getting hit by actions and cold blooded shooters shooting them. have you black lives matter with these chants that happen and general climate against the cops. these guys are really, i was

just up in new york and i spoke to a port authority cop and he said morale is at all-time low. they will can't seem to catch a break, ever. thank god the general public still holds them in high esteem. but the politicians have really failed them. it's really a disgrace u. brian: worry too fallen down is it fair to say and pressure from families who ever wanted to be police officers. i don't want you to do that you are not supported by the government and local people. you are not getting the respect on the streets you deserve. i don't want new harm's way. there is better things for you to do. you don't get top cops. ainsley: even the cars you are sitting in don't have bullet proof glass. brian: if it's a shame you need it. ainsley: remember in philadelphia he told us i take my uniform off when i clock out every day. steve: on the way home. ainsley: i'm too scared. steve: sad commentary. yesterday on this program we aired and tweeted this story saying former fbi director james comey leaked memos containing top secret information. we were mistaken in that

according to the report half of the information in the report clarified secret or classified level not top secret. documents in which mr. comey leaked are at this point unclear. just you wanted to straighten that out. in the meantime 12 minutes after the top of the hour, time for other news with jillian. jillian: we are following a few breaking news stories this morning. let's start with this. a fox news alert. the u.s. flexing defense muscles overnight destroying incoming test missile off the coast of alaska. lockheed martin thad system successfully intercepted the target. the u.s. army providing critical support to full off. the test meant to send a strong message to north korea that if the communist country fires nukes, america can denksd itself. more breaking news right now, the phish arriving on the scene and a military center in oklahoma this morning. after a late-night explosion. witnesses say someone on a motorcycle threw a backpack at the u.s. air force recruiting center near tulsa.

when that happened, the doors were completely blown off the building. officials believe it may have had a pipe bomb inside. calling it a possible act of domestic terror. no arrests have been made and no one was hurt. and the home run derby turned into judgment day. take a look. >> there it is, ladies and gentlemen. >> aaron george your 2017 home run derby champion. ainsley: is he unreal. yankees rookie slugger aaron judge putting on a show easily winning the der any miami. beating minnesota miguel snow in the final round. judge crushed 47 homers, overall, four of them over 500 feet. i know a lot of people had a late night watching this. brian: first round he had 22, 21. ainsley: that's amazing. that's awesome. brian: one of the greatest sporting events you will see that doesn't matter. steve: always fun to watch. thank you, jillian. the white house tearing into

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ranking positions in the government. to date, to a total of 50 trump administration nominees to. put that in perspective, the senate had confirmed 202 officials at the at the same time point. >> pointing fingers at schumer for blocking president trump's nominees. here for reaction is former trump campaign national spokeswoman katrina pearson. good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. steve: the "wall street journal" today they write in the op-ed pages senate democrats are abusing senate rules to undermine the executive branch and the republicans need to restore normal order. what's going on? >> well, it's true. the democrats are definitely obstructing these nominations. you know, republicans are getting a real eye opener what it means to be the opposition party. what is it nearly every cabinet official has been confirmed by now since eisenhower. but the good news is they are operating under democrat rules

put in place in 2013. so all they can is slow walk. eventually there will be confirmations. they think this is being parity of the resistance that's going to putter president trump and, in fact, they are wrong. steve: take look at the big wall over there 336 nominations, 186 were confirmed and then with pump, he has made 242 nominations. and only 50 confirmed there are a number of democrats though, katrina, who say, look, the problem is from the administration because we haven't gotten this many names. is there any truths to that? >> the math doesn't add up. if you are waiting on another 100 to 200 nominees but still slow walking the 50 on your table. is it doesn't matter how many have been appointed. they are obstructed literally by causing obstruction committees can't meet i literally slow walking this process. the only people it's hurting are the american people. even in blue states, people

voted for donald trump. they wanted to get affordable healthcare. they need tax reform. they need relief from this country. that's what they are slow-walking. steve: mitch mcconnell runs the u.s. senate. he is in your party. he should be able to zip these people through. what's going on with the mitch team? >> i agree. i think the president would agree that the republicans need to get a little bit more aggressive at pushing these measures through. we will see what happens. but, at the same time, there are rules that are in place and the democrats are using those rules to slow walk it they have this gentleman's code in the senate and republicans are finding out that they're not going along to get along like they have been so long. steve: we will see what happened. >> we will. steve: thank you, katrina, for joining us live. what do you think about that? email us at friends@foxnews.com. this man could have killed cops had he gotten his way. why did a judge just release him with no bail? and governor chris christie gets a shot hosting a sports radio show? how did that go? listen.

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♪ ainsley: here are quick headlines for you. new evidence might give charlie gard a chance at life. the parents have until tomorrow to prove that their son could be kept alive. a british judge giving them a chance to prove brain damage the 11-month-old has suffered can be reversed by experiment tall treatment in the u.s. or italy. otherwise the original ruling to pull charlie off life support will stand. the aclu is suing president trump over voter fraud. accusing the administration of violating federal public access requirements by holding first meeting in private without public notice.

president trump put together the 15 member group to investigate claims of voter fraud in last year's election. brian: backlash is building this morning after a judge released this guy cardale emanuel. is he accused of trying to violently steal a nypd's gun from his holster. steve: thankfully that officer was able to overtake him and arrest him. the police officer said he cketdz have killed officers had he gotten his hand on the gun. still one day later he was released without bail. by a judge. judge lauren bailey shipman. ainsley: here to react is pat lynch patrolman of the benevolent association. good morning. thank you for being with us. what is your reaction? >> it's outrageous that a judge would sit on that bench and look down at a person who attacked a new york city police officer on the eve of a shouldering assist police officer killed in the line of duty say that this person who walked into a station house,

struggled to get a police officer's gun, was interviewed after the police officer subdued him and the mission was the voices in my head are saying kill as many police officers as possible and this judge can look down and say, you know what? we're going to release you on your own recognize. steve: are they going to treat the voices in his head. >> no. treat it by sending him out on the street into other neighborhoods to attack police officers and god forbid officers walking up the block. she says own recognizance. that means you are good, go home. don't get in trouble. brian: think about this. this person saying i will strike again. nothing will stop me from striking again. is that something similar that happened with the assassination of that officer last week. >> absolutely right. person hearing voices in the head walked up and assassinated a police officer. days later release, walked into a police house. tried to gain control of the officer's weapon. thank god the officers were who they were and brought him to the ground and arrested

him. we have got to put them away. $250,000 bail. the judge says go on home but be good. ainsley: today is the funeral for officer familiaria, visiting hours were on monday. what's your reaction? what are the folks in the police department? what are they saying about the mayor? >> you know, the mayor's job is to be the compass for the city of new york, to say this is where we are trying to go. and we talk about bringing the community and the police together. that's the time to say here, look, this is what police officers do each and every day. they put them sestlesz as the risk and wto rest.we lost one o. brian: protest our country and our president. >> protest what we stand for. what police officers and our country stand for. brian: support the anarchists on the street hurt the cops. >> cops are great but 250 went off to the hospital. meanwhile, you should be here in the neighborhood. look, we had a vigil in the fourth, sixth precinct in the bronx where the neighborhood came out. fellow police officers came out.

the family was there. standing with candles, in silent prayer. he was protesting over in germany. his job is to say we need to support our police officers from all sides. we need to bring everyone together. the way do you that is say look at this tragedy. we have lost one of our finest, a mother, the bread winner in the family who now three children are without a mother. brian: he showed up last night. >> he showed up last night at the end of the wake. brian: at the end? >> he showed up at the end. he showed up at the house earlier in the morning while everyone else, law enforcement, other folks in the city all weekend were embracing that family and the fellow police officers. steve: we are looking at a picture of her. tell us about her. three children she leaves. >> she is a wonderful person. even folks in the neighborhood said oh, i knew her. i would talk to her and when her and her partner were walking down the concourse. i didn't know this was going to happen. you saw the line at the wake yesterday for blocks regular working folks getting off the

subway but standing for hours online to go in and show respect for those two children, for that daughter, 20-year-old girl who when told that it's not good, your mother may not make it, you saw it in her face that she realized that i am it now. i'm the mother. i'm the bread winner, i have to rear my brother and my sister. terrible. ainsley: there is outpouring of support and love for the community. fund set up for three children to help send them to college. there is $88,000 so far in the fund, which is wonderful for them. if folks want to give? >> take the time to go on the nypd website, look at all the different charities there. make sure it's a reputable charity where the money is going to that family. and we need your help. this woman was working on the fourth of july to make sure that she can take care of her children. kiss them goodbye. an extra hug to her daughter. unfortunately never came home. brian: is that the right one? >> absolutely. ainsley: can you go online,

send by name, what's the difference sending online and electronically. send through your bank account online. steve: to make it easier go, to our websit web foxandfriends. and we will link to your website. pat, there is a story this morning that apparently the republican senate up in albany appropriated $4 million for bullet proofing. does that help you guys out? >> it does, indeed. we have these thvs, big campers with the police elm represent blems on the side. they are sitting ducks when they're on the street by themselves. thee need to be resistant like we have done to radio cars. we need to be training our police officers, not being reactionary. doing it after the fact. we appreciate it. let's continue the money coming to we can prepare for the tragedy that may come tomorrow. that's what we do as police officers plan for what we hope never happens. brian: pat, great to sigh. >> thank you so much. ainsley: thank you for your service. brian: brand new details

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mississippi delta, which is about 85 miles north of jackson, mississippi. steve: the debris field stretches apparently for miles and officials in leflore county warning residents to stay away. the fbi looking into a cause. details released later today as the sun comes up, we will try to get a live picture out there in mississippi. brian: let's bring in chief counsel, center for law and justice and attorney for president trump jay sekulow is with us. >> good morning. brian: we have a bunch of topics to talk about which is all in your area of expertise. the story in the hill that came out a couple days ago that talked about james comey in his nine meetings with the president, seven of those meetings he took notes on it is said n story that four of the seven contained some type of classified information, some type of classification. what does this mean to you? >> it means that james comey was potentially leaking classified information. but we know he was leaking information. and may well have been classified. look, just think about for a

moment here what has happened. james comey had conversations with the president of the united states. he wrote those conversations or put them into a memo that he types in his government car on his government computer. put them in his government desk. then, when he got fired, he releases them to a friend of his who then releases them to the "new york times." this was not just conversations, you know, extending pleasantries, exchanging pleasantries. this was a conversation with the president of the united states. the classified information situation increases the level one more time. look, at a minimum. at a minimum, he gave out information about a conversation with the president of the united states that violates section 641 of the criminal code. ainsley: jay, will we ever find out if any of the information he leaked to his friend if that information was classified? >> yeah. i think we are going to. ultimately this information has been turned over to special council. i'm sure the committees, senate and house committees are going to look at it look at the number percentages. the percentages something there was classified.

i want to take a step back again, ainsley, this was a conversation with the president of the united states. it was covered by executive privilege at a minimum and james comey ignored that when he illegally, i will underscore that again, distributed that information for one purpose only, to get a special prosecutor. he gets a special prosecutor based on illegally leaked information. what does that tell you about the whole basis for this special counsel? steve: there you go about that. mr. comey, the fellow who leaked to the "new york times," columbia university law professor daniel rich monday, he says that no memos were given to the press, no memos were classified at the time he received them. i have think he says they weren't given because i believe he read them to him over the telephone. >> right. steve: he also says this was not classified at the time and remains unclassified. >> how does this football professor know that by the way? steve: that was my question? >> how does this law professor know if it was classified or not?

remember what james comey testified to on the hillary clinton matter? it's not always marked as classified even if it is classified? first of all, how did he end up with these memos? oh, james comey gave them to him. memos, again, i wanted to reiterate these. memo that's engaged in conversations with the president of the united states that he leaks to this law professor who leaks them to the "new york times" by reading them to him as if that means they are not liable because they were read. that's not the way it works. taking that property was violation of the law. that's the basis of the counsel. that's absurd. ainsley: quickly want to ask about donald jr. he got them from a friend. this lady says she has information against her dad's opponent and the party. he says he has no knowledge that she was specifically connected with russia. is him taking a crime. >> no. are the democrats screaming thascreamingthat the ukrainianse working with the dnc and others for the hillary clinton campaign and are they screaming about that process? no. look, in campaigns, guess what? there is opposition research that becomes available sometimes.

here ends up being nothing. a meeting takes place. making like this is some huge international event hundreds of meetings take place in campaigns. brian: are you going to go through the entire campaign and say you are embarrassing the president. come clean. talk your secretaries and assistants and find out who met with any russian or anybody of russian dissent or any other country instead of drip, drip, drip doesn't fuel other haters? >> brian with due respect, if he met with anybody with a russian dissent he would be meeting with me. my name is sekulow. i understand that. this whole thing -- no one is going on -- you are asking basically is everybody reviewing notes? of course people review notes, review data and find out that data. this is much to do about nothing. it was a meeting with an individual lawyer who was russian, flight that's what it's been reported as. and supposedly had information regarding hillary clinton.

which she did and the meeting turned out to be about what? brian: i agree with you. if he had said that when they asked, it would be almost no issue. >> well, look, it's no issue anyways and guy back to, brian, the fact that the ukrainians were attempting to intervene on behalf of hillary clinton and because these are political campaigns. these things happen. no one has pointed to me where there is a legal violation of a meeting with a russian lawyer that involved a campaign. steve: jay real quick exit question and this kind of tie into the comey stuff where he had his friend leak to the "new york times." according to the "new york times" on this story about don jr. and the email, there were three sources who talked to the "new york times." it sounds like either the sources were somehow in the department of justice or in congress. and both of that, if either of those are true, that's really bad. >> well, i mean, if there was leaked information by people who had authority to have that information that was leaked, of course it's bad. there are also reports that the individual, one of the

recipients of the pro-portered emails, i haven't seen anything, was also the one talking to the "new york times" yesterday. so here's what you've got. information is being leaked. those location needed stopped. james comey, the known leaker, the one leaker we have is the basis upon which a special counsel has been formed. that should raise into question the entire special counsel issue based on illegally leaked information. brian: somebody doesn't want to see this administration get traction. jay, thanks so much. ainsley: thank you, jay. >> it's gotten traction. the supreme court justice confirmed a lot of activity has taken place. steve: absolutely. we have tried to detail it here on the counsel. thank you, sir. >> thank you. ainsley: jillians has headlines for us. jillian: a decorated u.s. soldier now accused of trying to give highly classified information to isis. the fbi says sergeant first class pledged allegiance to the terror group. the 34-year-old tried to give drone and military documents to undercover fbi agents who he thought were connected to isis. the affidavit says the

hawaiian based soldier was heard saying he wanted to kill a bunch of people. he may suffer from service related mental health issues. kang set to be in court thursday. we will keep you updated. sophomore in washington state landing an interview with james mattis after spotting his phone numbers scribbled on that little yellow post it note. the teen texted mattis and the secretary gave him a call back agreeing for interview for high school newspaper. mattis said quote i think we owe it to you young folks to pass on who we learn going down out road so you can make your own mistakes not the same ones we made. got to love that governor criminals christie still feeling the heat over these pictures of him on the beach during the new jersey government shutdown. the governor clashing with one of his constituents while guest hosting on new york's sports radio. >> governor, next time you want to sit on a beach that is close you had to the entire

world except you, you put your fat [bleep] in a car and go to one that's open to all your constituents. >> i love getting calls from communists in montana. >> you are a bully, governor. i don't like bullies. >> you are swearing on the air, mike, you are a bum. jillian: christie is auditioning to take over for mike francesca who is expected to retire this year. what do you think about that. brian: i listened to his show yesterday. he is very good. he needs a partner. no one is ever going to replace mike fra francesca. he is ♪ insult at all. steve: if he did that every day i would listen because you don't know who is going to call in and how is he going to answer. ainsley: you need to be polite and you don't need to can you say and say that about him. that was really mean. people feel like they can say anything. brian: that's why you don't listen to sports radio. a lot of people are mean. ainsley: call each other?

steve: yes. brian: absolutely. come from a string of attacks. best selling author daniel silva's book may have predicted. this he is here next.

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away the caliphate. but it does not mean, necessarily, that the end of isis is at hand. they have been preparing for the loss of the physical caliphate for about a year now. so they have been moving their operatives around, moving their resources and while we have taken away mosul and we are probably about to really hurt them in raqqa. we have not really degraded their ability to carry out attacks in the west. brian: they will become insurgency. >> they are already making that transition. what i think is going to happen with isis is that they are going to be a little bit of both. they are going to be a local insurgency as well as international terrorist group. brian: how does house of surprisspiesplay into the fact. >> anyone who follows this issue as carefully dies knew that isis had literally painted a bulls eye on the united kingdom and they were bound to strike in the united

kingdom. british authorities, british intelligence services were incredibly lucky in interdicting and stopping about 13 attacks and their luck ran out. we had a string of three attacks there and my book actually opens with an attack. so i wrote my book before and pretty much what i wrote in my book came true in real life. brian: sadly ariana grande concert what happened next on the bridge. >> correct. brian: chronicled by new a fiction book. your sources led us to believe this stuff is going to take place and sadly foreshadowed a lot of attacks. daniel silva congratulations on house of spies. pick it up today. i know you will. thanks for sharing: democrats have a new plan to get back on top. hillary clinton and former president obama. new explores past. we'll take a look at that on "fox & friends" this morning. ahh.

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ainsley: have you ever wanted to know what goes on behind the scenes with the first ladies of this great country? the smithsonian channel has a new four-part series, it's called "first ladies revealed." that gives us a new perspective on some of history's most powerful women. joining me now with what to expect is anita mcbride, the former chief of staff for laura bush, also an assistant for president bush 43. you serve on the white house historical association. >> i do. ainsley: have you quite a resume. >> thank you. thani'm very honored. ains apes you worked for president reagan and president

bush senior and 43 and his family. >> . you know these first ladies. >> dime. ainsley: tell us about the series. >> it's an honor and privilege to have worked in the white house. you just spent a lot of time there covering it you feel the awesome sense of our history when you walk through those doors. so to have been there three different times is really quite an honor. watching them up close and seeing who they are as people and not just the images that, of course, are always on the news is really an opportunity to appreciate what life is like in the white house. and the pressures that they all feel and the challenges, but also the opportunity. ainsley: why was it important for you to be a part of this series. >> i think the series that the smithsonian has launched is really terrific. because it gives it such a snapshot into the multifaceted world of a first lady. first ladies of example of style and the impact that has an our country in diplomacy. style is power. first ladies in times of war, which is such an important

role to help comfort the nation like laura bush bush did, eleanor roosevelt did. first ladies by chance. those that didn't expect to be in the role. lady bird johnson came at a time of such national grieving, after the assassination of jfk. and had that famous line, people look at the living and they wish for the dead. that's how she started as first lady. ainsley: i want to play a clip for our audience. this is the clip that highlights laura bush's life. you know her well, watch. >> this thank you. >> certainly somebody like laura bush drew from inner reserves of strength. >> laura bush after 9/11 became a different first lady. she really had to confront this issue head on, the fact that the nation was at war. ainsley: you bring up a good point in that because everybody can be going great and then all of a sudden something happens, there is breaking news, have you a tragedy like 9/11 and everyone turns to the president and first lady to see how they are going to respond.

>> absolutely. at this point this was september of nine months into the administration. already started with, you know, such controversy, of course, after the election. and by this point, laura bush had just found her footing. she had just hosted the first national book festival. they just had their first state dinner. she really felt she was now able to hit the ground running on her initiatives, then 9/11 happened. that's where really the character of a person is tested. and that's how she helped our nation get through the trauma. ainsley: wonderful. thank you so much. >> thank you for covering. this. ainsley: have to continue these series because now we will have to watch melania trump. >> absolutely. another woman of style. ainsley: thank you so much. great to see you. anita mcbride. we have a huge show still ahead. house majority leader kevin mccarthy, laura ingraham and dr. sebastian gorka. they are all going to join us live. the associated press says don't say islamist or terrorist. say militant instead. the new guidelines that may

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♪ ainsley: a marine corps refueling plane slamming into a soybean field in mississippi killing at least 16 people. >> decorated u.s. soldier now accused of trying to give highly classified information to isis. the fbi says sergeant first class kang pledged allegiance to the terror group. >> this was a conversation with the president of the united states. it was covered by executive privilege. at a minimum, taking that property was a violation of the law. >> the draft that was put together has been amended and changed and will be reintroduced to the g.o.p. today at lunch. >> we ought to stop taking recesses, stop taking time off, and just keep going until we get it done. >> the white house pointing fingers at senate democrats for blocking the president's nominees. >> they think this is being part of the reisis tans that's

going to hurt president trump. but the only people that it's hurting are the american people. >> there it is, aaron judge, your 2017 home run derby champion. and he made it look easy. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ steve: straight to a fox news alert on this tuesday morning. we now know that 16 people were killed in a military plane crash. they were service members. brian: they were marine corps -- they were on a marine corps refueling plane that spiraled out of control slamming into a mississippi soybean field. ainsley: griff jenkins is live in washington, d.c. with an update for all of us. good morning, griff. >> good morning, ainsley, brian, and steve.

the marine corps confirming our fears saying a transport aircraft crashed in leflore county, mississippi 4 o'clock p.m. the flight originate frud cherry point, north carolina. federal aviation officials contacted the marine corps when the aircraft disappeared from air traffic control radar over in mississippi the cause of the crash is unknown at this time. the incident is under investigation. as our thoughts and prayer goes out to the families of those service members. a witness on the ground reported hearing a loud boom and seeing the plane spiraling down. a large plume of black smoke as the debris field stretched for miles. fires burning in the fields with smaller after explosions. it occurred here about 85 miles north of jackson and the plane is the standard bear for military work. not only is it capable of refueling operations, guys, but also used frequently for decades for troop and crarg

transport. warning residents to stay away. >> we don't want nobody out there. we have fuel everywhere. why don't want anybody without responders in the area or tamp around any area. >> that guidance still holds this morning as the fbi is on the scene assisting with local authorities. we can expect to hear more as well from the marine corps eventually. in these sensitive times it's important to remember that the military first has to notify the next of kin before further details. and i would just add, guys, it is a stark reminder whether on the battlefield far away or training back at home our men and women in uniform put their lives on on the line every day. sending condolences this morning. steve: i'm looking right now senator thad cochran from the great state of mississippi tweeted out deeply saddened by

the loss of life today in the u.s. marine corps when the plane crashed in the mississippi delta. our thoughts and prayers are with everyone involved. ainsley: confirming 16 people died do. we know how many people were on the plane? i know they are still searching for bodies. the vegetation they say in that rural field is so tall they are looking for other bodies. the debris field is vast. steve: right. in that report it didn't say at least 16. they said 16. perhaps that's the numbers of people who were on board. brian: all right. now switching over to washington. what's going to be happening behind closed doors. you know the draft plan that was put out by the republicans last week did not get unanimous. about 10 republican senators said i can't do this. they can only afford to lose two. they went back to the drawing board. they went home, celebrated the fourths of july. some had town halls like senator cassidy and started to revise the plan. number one mitch mcconnell thread the needle. make the moderates and conservatives happy. do something that the house will accept on its face and not take into conference.

how do you do that? put together a plan to release it today during lunch. amongst the ideas. taking in all ideas, ted cruz's ideas. he said, listen, if you guys don't want to do. this he goes then we have got to stay and work it out until it gets done. listen. >> it's crazy that we would be taking a recess. there are a bunch of us, myself included, that have been urging leadership back from january. let's not take any recesses. let's work every day. let's work weekends. let's work until we get the job done. and, you know, it's really the people who are pushing for that i would say are the folks elected in the last five or six years. what i would call the young turks that we have been consistent will he in the lunches pressing say look, we have got a job to do and short window of time. so we ought to stop taking recesses, stop taking time off and just keep going until we get it done. ainsley: that's went to the polls. voted for donald trump. because he said he was going to repeal and replace. obamacare is not working. it's failing. insurance companies pulling out.

people left without herng. they need to repeal and replace. steve: nobody suggested mitch mcconnell is talking about adding $45 billion to help fight the opioid epidemic. susan collins had said she would be interested in that. would that get her vote? she said that would be helpful. but not sufficient. some other changes would actually leave some of the taxes intact, which so many republicans were against. at the end of the day, mitch mcconnell has a math problem on his hands. he has got 52 members of his caucus. can he only lose two. so far 10 are not in his column. i just don't see how -- ainsley: goal is to vote next week. brian said yesterday he thinks this is going to happen. steve and i saying. brian: i think it was harder to pass the house. ainsley: if you win, brian, next week what do you want? healthcare care? brian: satisfy my deductible. [laughter]

ainsley: how much is it? brian: i'm not sure. and my dental which is required. ainsley: not going to happen. sorry. steve: here is the thing, ainsley, to your point. the people of the united states went to the polls in november, one of the reasons they elected a republican senate and house was the fact that they were all promising to repeal and replace obamacare as the president of the united states did. that is one of the main things that he has got on the big wall that he wants to check off here is the thing. reportedly there was an item in politico yesterday that said is he so furious a at a number of republican senators who have not been on board and, in fact, according to politico, the president has said, you know, jeff flake has not been on board with this. i am willing to spend 10 million of my own dollars to make sure that he is no longer a senator from the great state of arizona. brian: that's a mistake. jeff flake knows one of the worst places for the exchanges is arizona. you are better off trying to win over jeff flake not run against him. he seems to be doing enough to

keep himself popular in arizona. steve: the senators need to get together and figure a plan to satisfactorsatisfy everybody. ainsley: having a did closed door meeting today. they are in a tough spot. they don't wants repeat of obamacare. they don't want insurance companies to pull out because they will be at fault two, three years down the road. brian: you need 60 votes to pass a repeal and replace. procedure that don't do the things that require anything about a simple majority. bottom line is they have got to get it done. it's how they are going to get it done is the key. everybody wants to get it done. most people know it's got to be fixed but they can't agree on how to do it. the problem is the american people. you are very fickle. you hated obamacare when you had it. now all of a sudden therein is a replacement and 17% support the replacement plan because the republicans have been piecemeal in releasing the details. at the same time, you put people in office to change.

they go to change it and then did you go crazy because you want to change it. steve: those are in polls where they ask everybody about obamacare. how many people actually are involved in obamacare? i think maybe 8 million across the whole country and the balance are in medicaid. the people who have obamacare hate it. my daughter has got it she hates it employers hate it. they are having to cut back people's hours. they have got to cut back the number of people they can employ to make sure that they don't have to then provide it. this is such a lousy program for the most part when you look at the high coast of deductibles and stuff like that. brian: and the medicaid expansion. steve: it's been clear. november we heard from the people of the united states get rid of it. if they can't do it, the republicans have going to have -- brian: true. now talk about something else. this inexcusable, unacceptable. even if you didn't vote for president trump. have you a right when you win an election to staff up. the senate democrats have gone out of their way in great detail.

lead editorial for the "wall street journal" if you really want to know the exact detail how senator schumer is doing it going out of think way to delay the confirmation of president trump's nominee he is. to the tune they have only confirmed 46 of the 178 appointees up there. ainsley: look at the tweet, brian, obama had 183 and bush had 130. steve: president tweeted this the senate democrats have only confirmed 48 of 197 presidential nominees. they can't win so all they do is slow things down and obstruct. and with the "wall street journal" lead editorial also says is with the republicans in charge, what they need to do is they need to return to regular order, which is something they haven't done for a while. brian: look for senator lankford has a way forward here and up to senator mcconnell to get as flexible as senator schumer in stopping minority leader from blocking the president from having a staff. he has 248 nominees out there.

50 are okay. this guy david pellpass was nominated for international secretary for affairs oversee the pine lines. put through in march. passed committee in june. he can't get confirmation simply because democrats don't want to see this administration stand on its feet. ainsley: that's right. not like they are appointing supreme court justices that are going to change laws down the road. this is so president obama can have a staff. brian: president trump. ainsley: i mean president trump can have a staff. brian: anti-american. steve: antichurch which is what it is. brian: anti-american. steve: democrats don't want the president to succeed. ainsley: hand it over to jillian. she has headlines for us. jillian: we fin to follow few breaks news stories. fox news alert. u.s. exercising defense muscles overnight. lockheed martin were aerial defense system or thad successfully intercepted the target. the test meant to send a

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brian: they are back. hillary clinton and barack obama officially reentering the political arena. hillary launching a pro-democratic pac and president obama hosting a fundraiser this weekment first one of post presidency. both in an effort to flip congress in the upcoming elections. is this really the democratic party's fresh new plan to get back on top or only way to raise money. let's ask dinesh d'souza who did documentaries on both those people, those very well known democrats.

first off, is this a good move dinesh, after all, they are money-making machines. >> maybe from a fundraising point of view it makes sense. i think in a deeper way the democrats are trying to recapture some of the magic from the clinton 90's and maybe from obama's first term in office. but the reality is that these are two people, obama and hillary, who have wrecked the brand of the democratic party. they have taken the democratic party from a party that was perceived as fighting for the ordinary guy, fighting for his economic interests, fighting for his values, to now being a party that is economically and culturally at war with the aspirations of ordinary people. so i think the hilarious aspect of all of this is that the two people who have poisoned the waters are now showing up dressed as the water commissioners. brian: that's interesting. nobody has the courage on the left to stand up to them. bottom line is the most popular active democratic politician is a leftist, is he a socialist.

is he bernie sanders. not officially in the party. how do you gel the two if you are a democrat hoping for the best in these mid terms? >> i think that for a while people were so exhausted with the deep levels of narcissism and corruption on the part of obama and hillary that they were looking to bernie as the kind of honest outsider. he might be a little whacked out but neferlsz, he seemed to have a certain kind of decency to him. the problem is that even bernie now has been caught with his paws in the cookie jar. he is embroiled in a financial scandal involving his wife. so it appears that the contamination in the democratic party, not merely ideological but also financial runs pretty deep. brian: let's look at what hillary wants to do. she is examining the 23 districts that she won, but republicans won their district and she is going to try to see if she can flip them. try to dive into california where, for example, darrell issa is somebody in a district that hillary clinton won by 8 points.

that is not a bad -- that is not a bad strategy. >> well, by itself it isn't. but, think about it. california is already heavily democratic state. the idea of winning a district or two more in california isn't going to change the fortunes of the party. the problem is that the american industrial states won safely in the democratic camp were essentially invaded and conquered by trump. that's their problem. brian: do you believe that there is a democrat throughout in the middle, like a congressmen ryan or joe manchin say enough of this, we have to give the people what they want and that is more representatives in government that are for the people, not for themselves? >> well, i think that when we look back a generation or so, there were many mainstream democrats who would fit that description. the problem today is the people like leashman, manchin, these guys are seen as freaks in the democratic party. even if they were the solution, it's difficult to see the party nominating them.

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ainsley: time now for news by the numbers. first, 700, that's how high the national average credit score has reached. f.i.c.a. reporting the all-time record high. then $655,555, that is how much 19-year-old in california won on two $5 scratch off tickets in one week. rosa doug domingas planners to o shopping and buy a car. she should save it museum

workers in new jersey find prohibition wall of new jersey's first governor and get, this it's probably still drinkable because that type of wine rarely spoils. brian: it was around the founding father's time. meanwhile the parents of baby charlie gard have until tomorrow to prove that their son should be kept alive. steve: courts in the united kingdom demanding what they called drastically new evidence that little charlie gard should leave england to the united states for treatment. ainsley: our next guest was asked to join the family for support. u.s. pastor patrick mahoney, he joins us now with more as the situation is unfolding there in london. all right, patrick, i'm reading about in this morning. i understand parents in britain don't have the absolute right to make decisions for their children. another reason we are grateful to be in america. and i have been told, well, according to this article, their 18 children that are currently on this treatment that's being offered here at

flornewyork prebs. one of the children was not able to do anything, now she is riding a bicycle. my question is why in the world wouldn't the judge give this child a shot to come here or go to italy to get this treatment? >> well, this is what is so troubling about this case. the issue is simple. should parents make the decision for their children medical help for their future or their destiny rather than courts, judges, hospital officials and government brats. sadly in this case, that has not happened. i have to say, this charlie's parents connie and chris are two of the most wonderful people i have ever met, loving, cargt, they have raised $1.7 million to get help for charlie, and it's stunning, and this is why most of great britain, the world, we have had a petition drive with over 400,000 signatures in just a few days, presented that to the hospital.

are stunned by. this our simple notion is quite basic. parents, know what is best for their children. and public institutions should come alongside those parents, not strip and usurp them of parental authority. that's why the pope got involved. in fact, a little joke that was going around, only little charlie gard could get the pope together, president trump together, and the actress cher together who all are in agreement that charlie's parents should have the final say in this decision. steve: surely. so, reverend, the suggestion is there is a doctor here in the united states who has got a treatment. but it is only got 10% chance of working. the question is, if it were to work, would charlie's brain condition and everything be reversed or we always be at this stage for the balance of his life? >> i'm not a medical expert. but the 10% would be there would be significant

improvement. but you raise a very interesting point. we have to understand out there if the court rules against chris and connie, charlie's parents, they will take him off a ventilator and he will die very, very soon. so, if there is a 10% chance for improvement, is there not one parent, anywhere on this planet whatever country they are from. whatever faith tradition they might have that would not risk everything for that 10% chance? and that's what connie and chris are saying. give us a chance. let us move forward. and that's what we're talking. this isn't whether he will get significantly better and they will leave him. this is a life and death decision. and the the court case on thursday, our hope and prayer is that the judge will listen to the seven world renowned medical experts and allow

charlie to come to america to get this treatment. ainsley: so we find that out. next step we find that out on thursday. this judge who has actually made rulings on this very case before is going to make decision if the parents provide enough evidence to show them or show this judge that this child could have hope down the road, right? we find that out on thursday? >> the judge indicated, i was at the hearing yesterday, he may issue a decision thursday it may take a bit longer, not much. but i think everyone needs to pray. we're encouraging everyone, set their profile picture, #i am charlie gard. this decision will impact whether the hospital takes charlie off the ventilator or not. it's tragic and we must speak out as an advocate for human rights for justice and the role of parents in our culture and society. steve: absolutely, all right. reverend patrick mahoney joining us from london.

thank you very much. >> thank you. brian: email single pair, who would decide if we had single pair who would decide something like that. the government says yeah, it's not worth it. steve: if there is a one in 10 chance, slim chance we would all still go for it. ainsley: can you imagine if you heard that if your child takes this treatment there is a chance, might be a 10% chance, and there is another little girl riding a bike now who was in a similar situation. if you heard that as a parent, you would move mountains to get your child that treatment. steve: it's heart-breaking. let's see what happens. ainsley: president trump is urging congress to pass the healthcare bill next week or work through the august recess. what's the plan in the house? we will ask house majority leader kevin mccarthy next. steve: journalists now being told they can't say pro-life, refugees, or terrorist because those words are too conservative. brian: one state sold out of legal pot so fast the governor just declared an emergency.

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back in the early 2000's, janice would have dropped off all four of her kids at soccer practice after a sit-down dinner. but janice is a mother today, so all four of janice's kids are on four separate paths of self-discovery which occur at four different times in the afternoon, leaving a total of four minutes for her kids to eat. even though dinner time has become less strict, we remain strict as ever when it comes to our standards.

made with premium cuts of 100% kosher beef, so you can feel good feeding your family, no matter what time dinner is. hebrew national. we remain strict. brian: we are back right now with a fox news alert. 16 service members are killed when a military plane crashes into a field. ainsley: according to a statement just released from the u.s. marine corps, the refueling plane left from a base in north korea. the faa contacted the marines when the air disappeared from radar over the state of mississippi. steve: exact cause at this hour of the crash still under investigation as debris field apparently stretches for miles. more details are expected at a press briefing a little later on today. brian: joining us now from capitol hill is house majority leader congressman kevin mccarthy. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. before we get into the issues. last time i saw you were so

optimistic about steve scalise the whip, and then we find out he had a set back. can you update everybody about how he is doing today? >> yes. i was with him on the fourth of july. i actually saw him. my wife and i, he and jennifer, in the hospital. and he was in the chair. he was out of his bed in the chair. now, the one thing i want to tell you, i was at the hospital the day of the shooting. i was with the doctor. and what we were battling at that time was the amount of bleeding. but the doctor told me once we go through this, it's not if, it's when steve would get an infection. so this was -- why knew this would come about, we just didn't know when it would happen. steve had a little temperature. he last has been battling infection. we talked update last night. he is doing better. that's really what we are fighting and working through today. but he looks so much better. he was back to finally eating any food that he wanted. so he was feeling better. ainsley: that's great. we wish him all the best if he is watching this morning. let's talk about healthcare. the president is pushing the senate to pass healthcare bill by next week or to work

through the august recess. what is the plan moving forward? >> i think they need to get it done. let's not wait until august. we have three more weeks right now. i know during the fourth of july, when people back in their district, they were working out different ideas. they are looking at congressional budget office to score those ideas and have a vote next week. this is much what would happen inside the house. remember a lot of people didn't give us the opportunity or thought we could get it done, and we did. so, i have high hopes that they get it done, send it over to this house, and let's solve this problem once and for all. because every day that goes by, we have a new story. just in the short amount of time since the house passed the bill. one more of those co-ops have collapsed. 19 out of 23 co-ops that were given $2 billion under obamacare have now collapsed. steve: sure, absolutely. congressman, i got to ask you though, i know the ball is in the senate court right now and up to mitch mcconnell to pull a rabbit out of a hat and try

to get the requisite number of yes votes on it. but, every republican on capitol hill knows that unless you can get this done, you're going to be punished next time folks roll around to the polls. >> we made this promise. there is no excuse. every member that had served here prior has voted on repealing obamacare and made the promise that we would actually improve. give a lower the cost of premiums, the quality of care, there is story after story where the premium premiums have doubled in the individual market. 41% of every county only has 1 provider. what more do individuals need to understand. brian: right. >> that they need to move this bill forward quality of care. >> bill: i know you say they were active house bill coming through. yesterday it was speculated that maybe the president would do well to speak generally to the country about the need to get this done. and frame it out and put additional pressure aside from tweets on the republicans to

push this forward. and reaffirm his commitment and outline what has to be in there. >> i know the president is always helpful when he is talking to members. i think talking to the american public is a great idea. explain to them, because if we simply go on the facts, i mean, remember this. under obamacare, mandates that you have health insurance. if you don't, you have to pay a penalty or take a waiver. more people, almost twice a man, pay the penalty or take the waiver than what signed up for it if you want to go back to the old cbo score it, never materialized what okay said it would do. all it did was raise premiums, push more people out of market. look at the number of counties next year that won't have any healthcare. we cannot wait. i think the president talking to the american people will help drive those phone calls to those senators and encourage them to get it done this month. steve: congressman, there is a report in the "wall street journal" that apparently one of the plans with this new plan -- the revised version that's going to be unveiled, there is a possibility some of

those taxes, that you guys tried to get rid of in the house may actually be left in place in the senate. republicans who voted for repeal and replace didn't vote for that. >> no. we voted to repeal those taxes. because that's continuing to harm this economy. think for the last eight years the middle class work less today than they were eight years ago. if you take the highest growth year under barack obama, it's still lower than the lowest year under clinton. this country has got to get working again. we have seen in the short time of donald trump that more jobs are being produced. he is going after the regulatory. we changed that now we are trying to make sure healthcare has the quality and affordability that we deserve. we have got that through the house. let's get it through the astronaut, and let's finish the job we promised american people we would do. brian: if those taxes are there, this whole thing is predicated on passing if you guys don't go to conference. you will take the senate plan, you will say okay, let's put that forward, and let tom price have had it over the next upcoming months and years. if those taxes are there, will

that stop kevin mccarthy and company from signing off on it? >> i'm not going to prejudge. let's see what the senate produces. i know where their heart is and i know where they have been going. i think the product they produce is going to look pretty close to what the house did and we can be accepting of what they do. ainsley: all right. there are two republican congressman that say they are going to shut down the government if you don't build the big beautiful mexican wall. there is mark meadows and mo brooks saying we need to fund this wall. we want the money to do it. what's your reaction? >> i would say that's what we're working for in the aprops. join us and help pass those bills. i never think when you threaten somebody -- we can get the job done. this something the president promise to the american public. this is something that he campaigned on. and one ever the reasons why he was elected. we need the security in this country. we can get the job done and the aprops process is working right now. join with us to pass that and we can all be in the right place. brian: you are -- the threat. because. >> you know what?

i have always found -- i know ronald reagan. i have a big portrait of him smiling. if you truly believe your policies bring people more freedom, you should be happy about it you don't have to threaten people. more people want to join what you are doing. this is something that the president campaigned on. so more people joined him. elected him to be president. now let's get the job done. steve: congressman, before did you go, exit question, a year from now, will they be building a wall? >> i believe they will. if we get the propositions through this year, they will start building it next year. what's even more important, we would have new healthcare, we would have a new tax plan done, more people would be going to work. america would be coming exactly as the president said great again. brian: especially san diego your state where they could finish that wall pretty quickly, right? >> there is a lot of portion of san diego that has been able to be built already in the republicans were in the majority in the past. we need to finish that across the country. steve: all right, congressman. ainsley: thank you. i like the abbreviation. aprop. brian: inside basic for a

while. talking about inside baseball. what about outside weather? ainsley: janice dean is outside. she is going to tell us what we can expect today. good morning, janice. janice: good morning my friends where are you. >> from mississippi kansas. >> where from you from. >> kansas. >> jane from janesville, wisconsin. >> where are from you. >> thomasville and my name is evelyn. janice: what's your name? come on up? >> her name is susina. >> what's your name, love. >> grace. janice: do you want to do weather real quick with me? >> sure. >> janice: hot and humid across the northeast can you see right there. just say hot and humid across the northeast. >> hot and humid across the northeast. janice: we could be expectation storms across the midwest and the great lakes. >> we could be. janice: storms across the midwest. >> have some storms across the midwest. janice: and the northeast. janice: how did she do? >> great. janice: say back to you, steve, ainsley, and brian. steve: that's how it works. janice: than fast particular. good job. wave, everybody.

we have a great crowd today. ainsley: we do. they are the best. thanks so much, janice. another reason to have another cup of coffee this morning. new science shows it will help you live longer. brian: every day we change our view on this. steve: tax man only targeting the wealthy in seattle while everybody else is getting a break. stuart varney says that plan won't work. he is shaking his head. he will tell you about it next. ainsley: did you drink your coffee? >> always. ♪ ♪ day 13. if only this were as easy as saving $600

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tried to give undercover documents to agent he thought were isis members. the 34-year-old was heard saying he wanted to quote kill a bunch of people. his lawyers say he may suffer from service related mental health issues. less than two weeks after sales kicked off, for recreational marijuana, nevada is now making emergency regulation because there is not enough pot. stores in nevada running out due to unanticipated demand. the regulation will allow more dispensaries to become distributors including liquor wholesalers. coffee, regular or decaf could help you live longer. new stud notice show a few cups a day could decrease your risk of death from cancer, heart disease and more. reason why still unclear. hey, if you are enjoying your coffee right now, cheers to you. i'm going to get some. brian: that study sponsored by maxwell house. steve: thank you, maxwell house. brian: i'm kidding. taster's choice. ainsley: this week you are okay to drink a lot of coffee. this week is different. more stories that say coffee is positive than negative.

steve: starbucks is from seattle. ainsley: that's funny you should say that seattle's wealthiest residence might be the only ways to pay a state income tax. steve: approved 2.25% tax for those earning more than a quarter of a million dollars a year and families earning more than half a million dollars a year. brian: here to react the host of varney and company for the fox business network airing 9:00 to noon. stuart, this bothers you. it doesn't seem like thatch money. what else the big deal? >> here we go again. the socialists of seattle ruining things all over again. it's the law of unintended consequences. so they introduce an income tax on the wealthier residents of the city of seattle, 2.25% as you just pointed out. has it never occurred to them that rich people when faced with a brand new tax that takes money right out of their pocket will simply leave. go to the subburebsz of seattle and you don't pay the tax. that's what happened in maryland. they introduced a big tax for wealthy people.

wealthy people simply moved and they brought in less than ever. there are other examples of seattle doing the same thing, counter productive policy. for example, much higher minimum wage. as soon as they imposed that came down, employers had their employees work fewer hours, lower paid people actually took home less money it's the law of unintended consequences. there is one more. seattle also introduced a special tax on guns and ammunition, result, didn't bring in as much money as they thought and there was explosion of gun violence. they hurt the people that they say they are trying to help. it's always the same. steve: sure. but people on the political left they love to say hey, let's tax the rich. they have plenty of money. we will help people down below them. >> it's their way of this income inequality solution. they think. steve: redistribution. >> take from the rich and redistribute it, then you get a more equal financial society. brian: look at what governor scott does. look at what governor perry

did. they went and took those companies that were getting heavily taxed and said you come with us, bring your employees, we have zero tax. so america will create out competition to make seattle maybe change their ways. >> that's the great thing about america. have you 50 laboratories, 50 different states with different tax structures who can attract people from high tax states to come to my state. florida and texas did exactly that and won. i think the same thing will happen here. ainsley: when i lived in texas we had more money in our paychecks but our property taxes were really high. >> okay. steve: i live in new york. ainsley: if you live in texas, rent. brian: watch from you 9 to noon. we have a simulcast. >> yes, we do. brian: i'm going to wear this outfit. >> so will i. steve: journalists now being told not to use words like pro-life, migrant, or even terrorist. is there a bias against conservatives going on here? kind of looks like it. that's next. ♪ listen closely to the

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♪ ainsley: a journalism style book by the associated press gives guidelines for writers on everything from punctuation to words that should be used in coverage. steve: now the a.p. style book doesn't want journalists to say words like pro-life, refugee, event, terrorist. and so is the associated press style book blatantly changing phrase to be more toward liberals? ainsley: editor for the stream and contributor for the hill, she thinks. so and she joins us live. good morning, great to see you, rachel. >> good morning. thank you for having me on. ainsley: i have my a.p. book

here. it's from 1997. we showed you a picture in the new style book that kids are getting in college now it, says don't say pro-life. you should say anti-abortion. don't say migrant or refugee, you should say people struggling to enter europe. don't say islamist or terrorist, you should say militant. so what is your reaction to this? >> the mainstream media claims that it's not biased, but it's got this bias built into its own words. and we're seeing these words increasingly scrubsd from news articles and replaced by politically correct words instead. i mean, how many times have you seen those who doubt mainstream client science recently. and climate change doubters. it's frankly ridiculous and it's fan that advertising the english language. >> sanitizing the english language from conservative words to instill more liberal

words instead? >> absolutely. that's what they are doing. it's a bias against conservatives and it's getting worse every year. i mean, i have gone through in my article and show how words like, you know, illegal alien were first taken out. and then it was illegal immigrant is now no longer even able to be used. and they don't even say what you are supposed to use instead. ainsley: who takes them out of your articles? your editor? >> well, the a.p. -- the a.p. style book instructs journalists to write it this way. if you don't write it this way. and then you submit an article to mainstream publication, the editors will change your words. steve: it sure looks like the associated press style book wise at least has a bias. rachel alexander senior editor for the stream, contributor at the hill. thank you for joining us live. ainsley: do you know what i remember. further and farther. farther is distance and further is furthermore.

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>> we now know that 16 people were killed in a military plane crash. they were service members. >> the cause of the crash is unknown at this time. the incident is under investigation. >> decorated u.s. soldier is now accused of trying to give highly classified information to isis. a hawaiian-based soldier was allegedly heard saying that he wanted to quote kill a bunch of people. >> it was put together has been amended and changed. it will be reintroduced to the senators today at lunch. >> that's because i have high hopes that they get it done, send it over to this house, and let's solve this problem once and for all. we made this promise. there's no excuse. >> the u.s. likely sending

defense missiles overnight destroying an incoming test missile over the coast of alaska. now, the test was supposed to send a strong message to north korea. >> we've only been in office for six months and thanks to's leadership we're winning everywhere, but you wouldn't know it if you turned on cnn or the new york times. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ steve: our director is standing up in the control room. ainsley: he's being a conductor. steve: exactly right. ainsley: that is a great song, isn't it? brian: it's good, and i found out that imagine dragons, who

i thought had a bigger group than the mormon an tabernacle choir, they are at just four. ainsley: who did you ask? brian: rand paul. rand paul. and he was right. rand paul was right. steve: if you look at the calendar, what is today? ainsley: tuesday. steve: july. ainsley: what is today's date? i don't know. steve: 11th. it's 7/11, it's free slurpee day across the country. brian: you have to choose between cherry or coke. ainsley: if you turn it around you can get those. but i enjoyed the coca-cola slush ease that my husband got me. steve: they are delicious. let's deal in laura ingram, she's the editor and chief. >> i like the rotating hot dogs that never change. those are my favorite. brian: order those so you can

get new ones? >> are this like the old let's make a deal food stops where you open the refrigerator and it's the fake roast beef. brian: if there's a long line, it hypnotizes you. ainsley: i'm so glad you pointed it out. i'm going to laugh he have time i go in a gas station. >> see? news you can use, ainsley. you guys go from 7-eleven slurpees to breach birth and now health care. we're going to do it all. ainsley: it's all medically-related. steve: why would anybody eat that and not a slim jim, i have no idea. >> good point. the touched on health care. the senate now is going to phase two, they're going to see if they can come up with something to get enough people onboard. what does your gut tell you? because right now, the math is not in mitch mcconnell's favor. >> yeah. the math isn't there. vice president pence came on my radio show yesterday and said they're close. and i pressed him, and i said are you in constant contact with mitch mcconnell? because in my mind, this is due or die to him. this is a test of his leadership in the u.s. senate.

after all of these years of voting to repeal obamacare when it didn't count, when they were kind of show votes and now when they can govern, and they choose not to or people can't take a little haircut on what they want, it's going to raise serious questions on the part of american voters on whether these -- at least these republicans are the right republicans to go forward. brian: right? >> ted cruz has some interesting ideas on offering lower cost plans that don't comply with the regulations and the provisions in this affordable -- really, more affordable care act. i'm not sure that they're going to get the votes on that. you have two or three senators who are liberal republicans who are happy with expanded medicare and have become, frankly, like a lot of these governors, guys. they've become drug addicts. you have to wean them off of narcotics with something like methadone or something because they became addicted to expansion of medicaid

dollars. so the states are addicted to federal dollars, the federal dollars are drying up, and health care costs have to come down. if they don't, we're going to have a flat lining economy. mitch hick connell should step aside and let someone else do it. brian: i don't think minimal really has that type of experience. this seems to be a series of brush back pitches to democrats and republicans that were happening over the last week. if you hear mitch mcconnell say, listen, we can't get this done, i'm going to have to go deal with republicans -- excuse me. democrats. and then we're going to leave it in place and see what voters say. so he's kind of manipulating behind the scenes. i think they'll pass a framework just like obamacare with some blank pages and let tom price, a lot of people agree that he might be the perfect person to fill in this pages. steve: blank pages are scary. >> another thing they could do, of course, is to repeal obamacare, leave a two or three-year grandfathered period of time in place where it could be a slow wind down

of obamacare. brian: exactly. >> and that period of time in the next 12 months, they get together, and they're going to have to get together with some democrats, and they come up with a framework that will actually lower the cost of health care, including a wide range of options on transparency and prescription drug prices, which they do not deal with in this legislation. so that all has to be done. but the waves way to do this is to repeal and have a slow phase out. not abrupt. no one will get thrown off their coverage. that gives them a little breathing room. frankly, a lot of these republicans, you can tell by their comments, they really do want to kick the can down the road, but they have a deadline. ainsley: you know what's frustrating about the republicans we talked to? >> everything. ainsley: they say we elected the president, we have the senate, we have the house, we thought we were going to get everything passed quickly, and look what happened? that is not happening. one day the moderates want that, the conservatives want this, the american people aren't keeping up with that. they just want it passed. brian: but they also want it

to work. >> right. think about in november everybody was shocked after the election because this man donald trump surprised everyone. the pundits, the clintons, the obama's, everyone. they were voting for a radical transformation of these programs and policies that have failed the american people. they don't want a little snip here and a little snip there. they want this fixed in a profound way and the republicans that are not willing to do this because their governors and their states are addicted to federal dollars, they still don't understand why he won. and the white house has to have a all out clear push for the health care plan that we need. and i think there's some room for improvement for the communications for republicans who have good ideas in the senate, the house, and the white house. they have to have a push. the democrats are pushing resistance 24/7. they have hollywood, they have all of these guys getting arrested on capitol hill every

day sitting in because preexisting condition people are going to get hurt. they have to do the hospice. we have been health care freedom in america. health care freedom. brian: yeah, i wouldn't mind a presidential speech. real quick on the donald trump jr. story in russia accelerated just a little bit. evidently three people saw an e-mail from this ron gold stone to don jr. saying i have information from the russian government that's damaging. where's this story going? i watched it last night on special report. and there's some mistakes that the administration has made in being exposing this stuff. >> i think, again, any contact with anyone related to russia, anything related to russia, it has to -- it has to be put out early. brian: yep. >> and you have to be really clear and transparent. and this issue i do believe in what i know -- this is a pal of donald trump jr. he wasn't all that informed on what the person want. he was, like, oh, yeah, -- during the campaign, these guys are getting thousands of e-mails. okay. i know because i was

talking to them. and i don't know how much they read. i don't know how much he understood about that. but one thing he did not get before that meeting is that this was going to be some person really connected with the russian government. this was a friend of his who had business in russia and had business with the trump corporation or potential business, his father. and so i was, like, yeah, we'll meet with anybody. the clintons were meeting with everyone. journalists, we're getting help from dona to the dnc during the debates. they were meeting with everyone anywhere any time to get their war room going. so i think this is a big nothing. but, again, anything connected to russia, you have to be transparent about, otherwise it's the appearance. ainsley: expensive meeting. nothing came out of it. and now he has to hire an attorney. >> 20 minutes. steve: and the hypocrisy, according to politico, the ukrainians met with the dnc on

how to discredit donald trump. >> and hillary's team was happy to get any information they want. the issue we were talking about before is what people want traction on. steve: meanwhile, let's talk a little bit about the president of the united states. he's been up about an hour ago. he tweeted this out. the senate democrats have only confirmed 48 of his 197 presidential nominees. they can't win, so all they do is slow things down and obstruct. and, laura, when you look historically, it's clear that this particular senate under the leadership on the democratic side of chuck schumer is slow walking everybody on donald trump's slate because they don't want him to get stuff done. >> yeah. again, it's the resistance. and you have to hand it to schumer. they can't do a lot, but they can slow things down, and they can make departments virtually not unworkable but really crippled in their ability to do their mission. that's resistance. and so the president is right to raise this.

i hope he speaks about this, gets his surrogates out there to speak about this. brian: nonstop. >> i just ran into rick perry, who i know was on earlier. energy secretary. he said we don't have a debt duty yet. ainsley: what does that mean, laura? >> the american people cannot get effective government if the key players in each department are not in place. brian: right? >> we didn't vote for obama's holdovers. we voted for fundamental transformation of government and an economy that works for a broad base of americans. the american people are being hurt because we don't have the players on the field. we have to expose schumer on this. brian: listen, this is not up for debate. this is a fact. schumer is flat out lying. they got off to a slow start. if you read the lead editorial of the wall street journal, they'll go into detail on what exactly they're doing. senator langford has an answer. it's time for republicans to stand up because not that you're -- this is anti-american.

we have no government. >> now, i know we're out of time but john mccain, lindsey graham, all of these people who spend 24/7 trashing donald trump on foreign policy policy. it would be nice on occasion if they stood up and said, you know, we have some disagreements with the president. but he deserves to have his team in place at the energy department defense, state, white house employees still innocent place. that is resistance. that is intolerable and hurting the american people open. on occasion, it would be nice if some of these guys who were always trashing trump would help on this. but it's like critics. you don't hear from them at all on this. brian: now they will. i think people will understand. thanks, laura. >> great to see you. brian: 12 minutes after the hour. ainsley: jillian has headlines for us. >> that's right. guys. starting with this breaking news. the fbi arriving on the scene at a military center in oklahoma this morning after a late night explosion. witnesses say someone on a motorcycle through a backpack

near the u.s. recruiting center in tulsa blowing the doors off the building. no arrests have been made and no one was hurt. the search for four missing men in pennsylvania did to be victims is set to resume this morning. now, this comes one day after police arrest a man linked to a property that has become the focus of that investigation. now being held on a million dollars bail on a unrelated gun charge. the 20-year-old accused of possessing a shotgun and ammo, despite a history of mental illness. police have been scouring every inch of his family farm north of philadelphia. the four young men all vanishing within a week of each other. that's a quick look at your headlines. i'll see you guys in a little bit. steve: thank you, jillian. ainsley: thank you. coming up, police say this man could have killed cops, had he gotten his way. so why did a judge just let him walk free? for adults with advanced non-small cell lung cancer,

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ainsley: we are back with a fox news alert. we now know 16 people are dead after a military plane crashed in mississippi. all of them were service

members. steve: president trump just tweeting this: marine plane crash in mississippi. it's hard. melania and i send our deepest condolences to all. brian: live in washington, d.c. with the other reaction from the white house. hey, griff. >> hey, brian, ainsley, and steve. that's right the president reacting to the news that we're all waking up to. the marine core releasing a statement in our last hour confirming our worst fears. a marine core ac130 crashed at approximately 4:00 p.m. central, claiming the lives of those 16 service members. they also say the flight originated from cherry point, north carolina and that the faa contacted the marine core when the aircraft disappeared from air traffic control radar over mississippi. the cause of the crash is unknown at this time. the incident is under investigation. the fbi is on the ground assisting. this occurred now in the mississippi delta. some 85 miles north of jackson. a witness on the ground

reported hearing a loud boom, seeing the plane spiraling down in a large plume of spoke as this debris field streps for miles. they can expect more details become available. but right now the name of the service members is being withheld to allow time for the loved ones to be notified. vice president mike pence also tweeting his condolences saying quote karen and i are praying for the family of marines who lost their lives. these marines will be in our hearts. it's important to know that pence's son michael is a marine core pilot in jet training right now. certainly not part of this, but it's hits at home and let's us know that friends and loved ones are fighting for our freedom whether at home or far away. ainsley: god bless them all. steve: a former gitmo dainty who killed an american soldier narrow terror attack. and canada's prime minister is paying the guy $8 million.

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20,000 officers expected to attend the funeral today in new york city. the 12-year veteran ambushed while sitting in her patrol car around midnight. and a judge released this man, accused of trying to steal a police officer's gun in new york city from her holster. but a judge decided to release the man without bail. earlier on fox and friends, the president of new york city patrolman association blasted the judge's decision. >> and the mission was the voices in my head are saying kill as many police officers as possible, and this judge can look down and say what you know? we're going to release you. steve: what, are they going to treat the voices in his head? >> no. by sending him out onto your street to attack police officers and god forbid, the folks walking down the block. steve: officers say prosecutors are taking the case seriously. but apparently not the judge.

all right. brian and ainsley. brian: a former gitmo prisoner, steve, who killed an american soldier and blinded another gets an apology and $8 million check from the canadian government. ainsley: omar is a canadian citizen and claims his rights were violated radio when he was detained at gitmo. here's canadian prime minister justin trudeau defending the 8 million-dollar payout. >> the rights of charges and freedoms protects all canadians. even when it is uncomfortable and the government violates any canadian's charter rights, we all end up paying for it. brian: it's not uncomfortable. he's a terrorist. former special forces officer lain morris the soldier blinded by a grenade during a fierce firefight in afghanistan. he says trudeau is guilty of treason and joins us right now. even if it's uncomfortable, it's okay. that's okay to write an $8 million check and

let him out? was that offensive, isn't it? >> totally offensive. this man kills somebody and then gets a check for $8 million? you know, $8 million. he's not even dead. it's just crazy that the canadian government -- even if the guy's rights were violated, that's worth $8 million? he had a bad day at gitmo. varney shoulder to cry on at gitmo, and you want to give him $8 million? where is the scale. where is the justice there? there is none. ainsley: lane, tell the folks at home what happened to you and how you are connected to this story. >> well, in 2002, we were tracking -- we were hunting omar's father, who is an international terrorist and fundraiser for osama bin laden. we tracked him to an isolated compound. he had left, but he had four or five guys there along with his son, omar.

we sat outside that compound for 45 minutes trying to get them to come out and talk to us. finally, when the rest of my team showed up and the afghans we were working with, they started a firefight, decided to go out in a blaze of glory, shot our two interpreters and through grenades at the wall to the rest of us. we ended up killing the rest of them, shooting omar. in that firefight, omar through a grenade that landed too close to me and blinded me. brian: so you can't see right now? >> fortunately, i have two. the right eye doesn't do much. brian: so what's your reaction from the comments of the prime minister and also the message it sent to these terrorists? >> it's so -- it is so crazy. i mean, i don't know what kind of sick, twisted ivory tower

trudeau has to live in to have this make any sense. but to those of us on the street walking around, this totally sucks. there's -- it's just crazy that you would give somebody like that $8 million because his feelings got hurt. i know he spent time in guantanamo. that was due to his own actions. brian: i have to tell you. president obama moved him out in the middle of the night and put him back in canada, so he knew this was going to be a problem. he probably knew where this guy was heading, and that's freedom and a multimillion-dollar lifestyle. what's your reaction to the fact that the former president thought it was okay to move him out? >> well, you know, and you're totally right. obama when he realized he could not close down gitmo, decided to change strategy and just empty it out. so he made a deal, sent him back to canada, they promptly released him, he's out on bail, and then he turned around and sued them. so, yeah, we've got

president obama to thank for this fiasco. ainsley: what we all worry about, we worry about the future. what's this guy capable of down the road? >> well, his family, this is what his family does. these people move money around the world. they're very good at it. so to write this man a check for $8 million u.s., i mean, it's crazy. $8million, you know, trudeau says, oh, no, he wasn't anxious to do it. he's got to have the worst negotiators on the face of the earth. that's why i was there was deliberate intent on the trudeau government to not only shield omar from any repercussions legally from this, but they gave him that $8 million in secret, told him, omar, we've got -- we can't keep this secret forever, so you better get that money and get it secure before the americans come after it. brian: incredible. >> yeah. when trudeau says, oh, no, he -- they negotiated

in good faith. they didn't negotiate in good faith. they just wholesaled just otto march cotter bandwagon with both feet and have funded him an extremist jihadis for good share money. brian: isis, al al shabaab, al-qaeda where high-fiving today. >> exactly. brian: thank you, lane. ainsley: thank you, lane. thank you for serving. trump touting a major victory in the fight against isis, dr. sebastion go t is here next. brian: and governor chris christie's next job. listen. >> governor, next time you want to sit on a beach that is closed to the entire world except you, you put your fat (bleep) in a car. >> hey.

steve: i tell you, one thing about having donald trump as president of the united states, never boring. he just sent out a tweet 48 minutes ago working hard to get the olympics for the united states in los angeles. stay tuned. what's he up to? brian: it's amazing because you know who wants it? paris. so we've got to get it for los angeles. remember, last time we had the olympics. jillian, you know this. last time we had the olympics, the russians boycotted, and we had mary lou on the balance beam, and still there today. steve: if paris wants it, keep in mind, the president of the united states is going on thursday. >> yep. all of these connections. i see where you're going with this, steve. i will take that as your t toss. good morning to you, by the

way. if funding for president trump's border wall doesn't move forward, mark meadows believes the president will veto a spending measure if it doesn't include money for the wall. house majority leader kevin mccarthy tells us earlier what happens next. >> this is something the president promised to the american public. this is something that he complained on and one of the reasons why he was elected. we need to security in this country. we can get the job done and the process is working right now to pass that, and we can all be in the right place. >> congress passed a funding bill in may to keep the government operating through september. money for the border wall was not included, despite president trump's demands. more than a dozen members accused in the hazing death are heading back to port today. a judge is deciding if there's sufficient grounds to send the case to county court for trial. today's hearing comes on the heels of explosive new evidence being revealed. bombshell techs show frat

members was dead after he fell down the stairs during a night of heavy drinking. and then acting pledges to keep quiet out of fear of going to jail. this morning, the faa investigating a near catastrophe on a crowded runway. an air canada flight packed with 140 passengers from toronto cleared to land in san francisco last friday. but the pilot lined up for a taxiway instead where four other planes were waiting to take off. other pilots raising the alarm, possibly preventing a really horrific accident. the plane eventually landing safely. air canada is also investigating. well, governor chris christie is still feeling the heat after these pictures of him on the beach during the new jersey government shut down. the governor clashing with one of his constituents on sports radio. listen. >> governor, next time you want to sit on a beach that is closed to the entire world except you, you put your fat (bleep) in a car and go to one

that's open to all constituents. >> i love being called -- >> you're a bully, governor. >> you're swearing on the air, mic. you're a bum. >> oh, man. christie is auditioning to take over for a long time wfam host who is expected to retire this year. and that's a look at your headlines this tuesday morning, guys. brian: he was still very good. he needs a cohost. ainsley: one to do color and then one to do -- brian: just -- owned by mike and the mad dog for years. mike took it by himself, so i think that christie with somebody else would be very interesting. ainsley: says the guy who just changed his radio show from brian and friends to the brian kilmeade show. you're cutting out the friends. >> yeah. i have. i cut out the friends. okay. 23 minutes before the top of the hour. ainsley: a decorated u.s. soldier under arrest this morning trying to apparently help isis. sergeant allegedly pledged allegiance to the terror group, even helping to buy

them a drone. brian: our next guest warns isis is using drones like never before. joining us now special ops analyst author of drone warrior and elite soldiers in the hunt for america's most dangerous enemies. welcome back, brett. >> hey, good morning to you. >> does this surprise you? it stuns us. >> no, it's absolutely incredible. and in this case what we know from the fbi affidavit is that this u.s. army active soldier started first class cane was using material -- basically to provide material to the group isis, specifically classified documents and utilize his military training to actually take a drone, a consumer drone and use it for targeting. specifically to direct artillery attacks on coalition troops overseas. so we've been talking about it all week, and it's definitely something that people need to be prepared to see a lot more of. ainsley: did he ever buy into what the army teaches him?

or was he just using that as a cover? >> well, his actual position was out of an air traffic controller. so when you think about what he does all day and especially coupled with trips over to iraq and afghanistan, he knows what groups like isis need, and he understands very quickly the type of technology that can be used for that. so when you take a consumer drone, especially now that as of january isis actually created this drone warfare unit. when you take a consumer drone, and you use it in a way for surveillance, you give the enemy a capability unlike ever before to be able to look at indirect fire for their attacks to be able to determine where they're located and saying that effectively fire. steve: and essentially a book out of our playbook. that's what you used to do. used to use drones as eyes in the sky. >> well, look, this is a future of warfare. i don't think another war that's fought will ever be without drone technology, and it's also the future of terrorism. the fact is that drone technology is more capable than it ever has been before. the manufacturers know this, and i've got to tell you.

we really need to lean on them to help fix this problem. there's no reason right now that a consumer drone should be able to fly in raqqa or mosul or isis territory. they need to create a geofencing platform to be able to not fly and hurt u.s. troops. brian: and read your book, you talking about hunting the worst of the worst and sometimes you don't kill them right away. you watch them to see who else they're working with, and you chronical that in your book. other are reporting that a al-baghdadi could be dead right now. >> yeah. and i have to tell you, i know al-baghdadi more than anyone, and i don't believe the report that he's killed. it doesn't make sense to be around hundreds of isis fighters. he doesn't operate like that. the u.s. government has some of the greatest minds right now hunting him down, and he knows it only takes one of his fighters to rat him out, so he's constantly on the move at

this point. but obviously with them closing in on mosul, we're getting very close to hurting isis quite a bit, so we're getting close to getting him, and i think it's just a matter of time before that happens. brian: but you do not think the reports are correct. >> no. i don't believe them. ainsley: u.s. government has not confirmed it, so maybe he's right. thank you, brett. >> thank you. brian: all right. straight ahead, speaking of isis, president trump just tweeted about big wins against eyes as mosul is free from the terror group. but what's next? deputy assistant dr. sebastion here to react re fibromyalgia, i was a doer. i was active. then the chronic, widespread pain drained my energy. my doctor said moving more helps ease fibromyalgia pain. she also prescribed lyrica. fibromyalgia is thought to be the result of overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. woman: for some, lyrica can significantly relieve fibromyalgia pain and improve function, so i feel better. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions.

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steve: all right. let's go ahead and take a look at a brand-new tweet the president of the united states just sent out. big wins against isis. what's he talking about? let's bring in sebastion gorka, deputy assistant to donald trump. he joins us from the north lawn. sebastion, good morning. when the president talks about big wins against isis.

what is he talking about? >> he's talking about the incredible news that after only 24 weeks in office here in dc, our partner, the iraqi government has declared mosul liberated. and that really is significant because if you recall after the former administration pulled out our forces in 2011 out of iraq, just two, three years later in the summer 2014, isis declared the new caliphate out of mosul. mosul was the epicenter of the new radical islamic terrorist caliphate. and in just a few months in office with our partners in iraq, we've routed them from the place where they created the new caliphate. so a huge success. it's just the beginning, but a huge success. ainsley: how did that happen, dr. gorka? >> well, first thing's first. we did something that absolutely essential to success.

we allowed our troops to use the rules of engagement that are standard. we je jettisoned the idea that you have like vietnam the 8,000 mile screwdriver and that we're going to sit here telling people what to do in theater. that's insane. we don't do that. that's obama strategy. we said we trust you. the president trusts our military. they've been trained to do this job. the local commanders understand best. and with the iraqi partners, we told them go and crush the enemy. remember what the president said in front of congress? he didn't talk about managing the threat. he didn't use obama verbiage or degrading. he said we are -- brian: but dr. gorka, it did start under the obama administration, the take down of mosul when we realized that wasn't the jv time that we thought famously isis was. >> brian, with one big difference.

one massive difference. and this is thanks to how it was expressed by secretary mattis. we're not here to degrade the enemy. okay? it's not nibbling at the edges. we are there to annihilate them. that's why you can see such rapid changes. brian: what has changed about today? because we have to make sure that the shi'a and sunni coexist. the shi'a police cannot police a sunni population. that is why they basically welcomed isis because of the thuggery of the government. what can we do to make sure that doesn't happen to al-baghdadi's government? >> we have an administration that isn't paranoid like maliki. malachi's administration was paranoid to work with other terrorist groups in the country. we have a chance now. it's not going to be easy, but you're absolutely right. this war isn't just about kinetics.

it's not just about body bags and theater. at the end of the day, everybody has to come together and answer a very simple question. do you think your future, the future of your children and your grandchildren will be better served by an iraq that sticks together or by maintaining sectarian violence? and i think the answer to that question whether you're shi'a, sunni, whether you're from one clan or another tribe, i think that question is easy. it's what the founding fathers said; right? we stick together, or we hang together. steve: exactly. dr. gorka, when we saw the president's tweet, we thought when he's talking about the big strategy against isis, maybe he's referring to these unconfirmed reports, at this point, that al-baghdadi, the guy who runs isis is dead. there are some news accounts out there that he is. what does the federal government know about that? >> well, right now, we take any report of this nature with a large dose of salt. do you remember how many reports we had about bin laden being dead or bin laden being on dialysis? i mean, look.

the fact is we have an amazing intelligence community in america, the best in the world. we will verify. we will look at the intelligence available, whether it's signals intelligence, imagery intelligence, and we will give a statement when we have the requisite facts. but right now, remember, the first rule of war. all initial reports are erroneous. brian: right. the daily mail saying that he was killed in a air strike. the russians claim they killed him two and a half weeks ago. but you say representing the white house you will not confirm that he is dead, but you have heard the reports. >> correct. exactly correct. ainsley: our last guest says he doubts he is dead. he thinks that isis might be putting out this information because normally the leader of this group is not going to be out in the middle of a group of soldiers. >> right. so they have been pressured. we put the squeeze on them in mosul, and now they're running for cover. and one of the things they want to do is they want to distract, and they want to provide disinformation.

a classic tactic in war, and this could be another disinformation. we shall see. ainsley: all right. we'll see. steve: indeed. dr. gorka, thank you very much. ainsley: coming up next, all the mainstream media wants to talk about is russia, russia, russia. but what about the the president's accomplishments. former press secretary joins us live next. come on in. steve: part of the family now. but first, let's check in with shannon. what's happening in ten minutes on the channel? >> good morning, gang. well, is there new life for obamacare repeal and replace efforts in the senate. we have yes and no columns with us this morning. will join us live. plus, we'll take you live to the scene of that tragic military plane crash in mississippi. the marine core confirming at least 16 are dead. and more questions about a meeting between donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer during last year's campaign. we've got new details. we're going to separate facts from fiction this morning when we see you at the top of the hour from america's newsroom what's the best way to get two servings of veggies? v8 or a powdered drink?

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steve: you wouldn't know it by watching the mainstream media, since all they talk about these days is russia and collusion but our president has a list of accomplishments. joining us right now is fox news contributor as of this week. welcome to the family. >> thank you. great to be here, dad. >> so all you hear about, we were clicking around a little while ago on the other channels. it's russia, it's don jr. collusion, blah, blah, blah. >> i thought the press was my entire career antirepublican. it's so much easier to be working with a democrat than republican. it was bush derangement syndrome. whatever bush derangement

syndrome was, it's triply worse with donald trump. but part of that he brings on himself. steve: they hate him because they don't want him to get anything done? >> i think it's simple. during the campaign, he offended them and took relishing in offending him, and they don't like him ideological and because they never expected on and won by taking on the press, which was to his benefit during the campaign, they have a deep grain sense that he shouldn't be president, and they never had a honeymoon, which presidents usually do, and antitrump. steve: we'll take a look at his accomplishments, though. neil gorsuch approved to the supreme court, keystone pipeline green lighted, dramatic declines in illegal crossing, and this morning agreed on a syria cease-fire.

>> and he's making america an energy exporter. if you want to be tough on russia, the toughest thing you can do is lower the price of fossil fuels, which he in effect as of doing. so he has a lot he can brag about. but he competes with himself too. it has to be said. sometimes the tweets he puts out have gone too far and created a firestorm, taking the attention away from those accomplishments. steve: but sometimes they're used to divert, again, a way from other stuff the mainstream media's chewing on. >> well, that's true. he does use it that way also. but if you tweet smarter, you would have a better presidency. i have no problem with him tweeting. but he has had a couple tweet bombs, and those have hurt him badly. steve: all right. part of the fox news family. thank you very much. >> thank you. steve: we're going to step aside. more fox and friends in two minutes and two seconds

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and friends." now you do not have any friends. >> no more money, jason davis will be with us. it will be a great show. >> we'll see you tomorrow, everybody. >> bill: morning everybody. we are going to begin with a fox news alert. a plane crash and in mississippi. the pentagon confirming, 16 service members are dead. an active investigation underway. we will get a live report coming up. first, can republicans get closer to a new deal on health care. senators say they could be a crack in the stalemate as they arrived back in washington, d.c. see bachrach's big enough to win over some votes. good morning, how are you. >> shannon: great to see you, bill. i am shannon bream. they're hoping to relive a revived bill this week.