heather: train ye priest. baseball brawl breaking out. fist fight started after the fan stole a backpack. the guard later fired. todd: ladies, it's just baseball. heather: "fox & friends" starts right now. bye. >> the hits keep on coming. the dow closing at another new record. >> we're unleashing a new era of american prosperity. >> word just in that a nato convoy in afghanistan has been attacked. >> republicans on capitol hill are hopeful that a tax overhaul is coming soon. >> we have to do it. a lot of this economic growth we are seeing now because that expectation of tax reform is already built into the growth. >> we are trying to convey to the north koreans we are not your enemies. you are presenting an unacceptable threat to us. and we have to respond. >> massive breaking story, former obama national security ben rhodes is now a person of interest in the house intel committee's unmasking investigation.

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guy. when you are on an airplane i want to take a raiser and get that for you because you don't know it's there. welcome to the curvey couch. what are some of your crazy shaving patterns. clayton: steve and brian are off this morning and working on neck shaving. enjoying time off. thanks for having us. ainsley: the dow is set to hit 22,000 and go over 22,000. clayton: that's crazy. ainsley: it's crazy. if you check your 401(k)s it looks really good. clayton: we will hear from the president in a few moments on that exact question his optimism around the economy. ainsley: hand it over to griff. in a few hours president trump is going to announce new plans to restrict and reform legal immigration. clayton: tom cotton and david perdue expecting to roll out a plan with new immigration levels. >> good morning, pete, clayton and ainsley.

a little break from health we form. the president making immigration announcement today. tom cotton of arkansas and david perdue of georgia. they will propose new immigration process potentially cutting levels by nearly half by the year 2027 and moving towards the president's goal of a merit based system. senator cotton said yesterday our current immigration system is outdated and doesn't meet the diverse needs of our economy. they continue that skills based immigration system would make america more competitive. raise wages for american workers and create jobs. this push coming as immigration and customs enforcement or ice announced the arrest of 650 people nationwide over a four-day period. many of them had been targeted and ordered to leave the country by a federal judge but had refused. many were families and had unaccompanied children. ice also said that 130 of those had criminal convictions beyond their immigration violations for crimes that

included dui, assault and battery. drug possession, domestic abuse and sexual assault. that announcement coming 11:30 today at the white house. clayton: thanks, griff. this is good news for businesses that can't find skilled workers. they are in a position to hire. they want to be hiring in this economy. they have the money to hire. they are having difficulty to find skilled laborers to hire. pete: they haven't had an immigration system to bring the skilled people. our economy needs certain skill sets. we need to train workers here to do those jobs as well. if you don't understand who is coming to your country, you can't get a handle on managing the economy. ainsley: the president says he doesn't want the criminal illegals to enter the country. tucker was in prison interviewing ms-13 gang member said it is so easy to get into the u.s. we our ways of doing it and easier than people might suspect.

pete: what is not easy to have thought the dow jones industrial average potentially at 22,000 which it may reach today. this comes as president trump at the white house is touting what he calls a golden age for small business. clayton: 22,000 when he took office six months ago 16,000 was sort of unheard of at that time. you know, this economy making money hand over fist. we saw record earnings yesterday from apple. apep announced their third quarter earnings yesterday. ainsley: exceptionally well. sales up 7.2% in that quarter. profits up 12%. what does that mean for that company if you are invested that company made $8.72 billion in that quarter because of the iphones. more people are buying iphones. summer usually normally sales are down because the new iphones come out in the fall but so many people are big these and this is the reason the economy is doing so well. clayton: this the reason apple

did so well the new ipads released. ainsley: and the mac. clayton: people are out there spending money. using ipads in their small business getting things set up. president trump pointed out yesterday that america is on this golden age for small business. listen to what the president had to say. >> america is on the verge of a golden age for small business. we're ending job-killing regulation. these folks know that very well. and we're really ending at a record pace. i will tell you. [applause] we are setting economic records and we're very proud of it. you know, it's a very big thing. and the jobs are coming pouring back. factories are coming pouring back into our country. you saw the foxconn last week. they're going to spend 10 billion, but he is one of the great businessmen of our time. and i think the number is going to be 30 million. so he told me, off the record, so he told me that off the record so i promised i wouldn't tell anybody.

clayton: of the record. foxconn is i object credibly important, too. look, one of the number one companies in the world is apple right now. apple, x on go back and forth a little dance. foxconn makes the iphones in china. one of the criticisms of apple has been can you get those jobs back to the united states. those people in there putting the parts together to make the iphones. we make all the parts here and ship them to china and built inside foxconn and ship them back to be sold. why can't we do that here? because of the costs involved. pete: start bringing billing business like that that's huge. small businesses have been hit the hardest by regulations of the obama area. big business is called cronyism they can manipulate the system with accountants. it's the small mom and pops that are trying to become big that the regulations crush. that's what the white house understands if you unleash small businesses that's the majority of jobs in this country, i don't know exactly what the number is but 60 to

70% of small business. ainsley: according to the bureau of labor statistics. 4.4%. that's one of the lowest in the past 10 years. the president says that's because small businesses doing really well. they are talk about tax reform. people are expecting in the united states. tax reform is coming. put more money in everybody's pocketbook. pete: this rally could be derailed if tax reform doesn't happen. this is a pro-business president. this is investment, down payment on the future. republicans saying they are turning to tax reform. fund mental tax reform in the house and the senate. democrats, well, they haven't been on board with anything else. i have said it many times i'm still looking for magic unicorn is that true democrat who is going to work with the republicans in this administration. ainsley: maybe joe manchin will. clayton: democrats' plan says we don't want this to be reconciliation vote. straight up or down vote. we want to have this debated

so everyone can see what's in this. ainsley: even though they came one the fast track plan. clayton: that's ironic part of it. they don't want increased tax burden on the middle class. which is not unreligion reasonable. they don't want the benefits to hit the wealthiest individuals so just the rich get richer. they also want regular order. they want it to be debated in open order. ainsley: they want 60 votes. clayton: they don't want to add anything to the deficits right now. so democrats saying they don't want to add anything to the deficits. ainsley: when it comes to tax reform are the republicans requesting to need the democrats to weigh in. they say they have to have bipartisan agreement in order for it to be successful. the republicans don't need the democrats they can pass with the 51 votes. it could be every single republican would be for this. pete: can we put those four back up. i would like to translate. not add to deficits number 4. this sunday the obama administration you add all his deficits together it's $6.57 trillion in annual deficits.

the debt went up 9 trillion under obama. i want to put a ha ha ha ha ha ha ha after not add to deficits. suddenly they care about deficits. that's absurd. regular order. do you know why they want regular order? so they can throw every wrench in the process so they can drown it down. this is not a good faith offer from democrats. they haven't brought any good faith yet in my opinion. and as far as the richest. if we simplify the tax code we get rid of the cronyism so the wealthy pay more so they can't manipulate the tax code. it's never been about rich vs. poor. clayton: you can blame obama but also blame george w. bush and the administration for adding massive deficit. pete: exploded under obama. clayton: it's unsustainable. both parties need to be on board getting deficits down. how are you going to pay for it that's the great debate of our time. how do you pay for tax cuts

and also have structure. pay for healthcare. pete: president trump says growth. grow your way to prosperity as well. ainsley: republicans are crafting tax plan. there is a committee that works on tax reform. they will start working on that after labor day. pete: take a little vacation. ainsley: a month. clayton: you deserve a break. take august off. let's go over to jillian with a fox news alert. jillian: good morning to you guys and to you at home as well. we do begin with a fox news alert. a nato convoy in afghanistan has come under attack. the violence happening in the kandahar province, home of the taliban. weave know there were deaths in the attack but right now it's unclear if any of those were americans. this is all happenings as the white house weighs sending severaseveral thousand more tros to afghanistan.

intercontinental ballistic test. crashing into the sea of japan. we learned a commercial plane packed with passengers actually passed through the same airspace 10 minutes before that launch. the jet had more than 300 people on board. the last of a dozen inmates who used peanut butter to bust out of alabama jail is back behind bars. police finding brady kilpatrick more than 11 hours away hiding out in south florida. he allegedly hitched a ride after escaping prison and told the driver, quote, take me as far as south as you can go. kilpatrick and other inmates you see here smeared peanut butter over a number on exit door to trick the guards into letting them out. that's a look at your headlines this morning u. ainsley: i don't understand that. heather: i read so many stories about this yesterday. my impression is that they smeared peanut butter over a number and wrote new number. peanut but the irwas the same color as the hall.

can you open so and so. new guard at the diswral. i spent a lot of time reading about this story. ainsley: after hearing that it makes more sense. i still don't know how you write on peanut butter. jillian: it's like anything. i don't know. ainsley: demonstrate. ainsley: we will not show you how to break out of jail. pete: former top obama aide being unmasked in new investigation. clayton: president trump has used twitter to speak directly to the american people. our next guest says he should look to president reagan for inspiration for unused place. can you guess where? ♪ keep on rocking in a free world ♪ keep on rocking in a free world ♪ those feelings.

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>> are you entitled to the fruits of your own lehner or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend? clayton: well, president reagan knew how to use the greatest bully pulpit of all. so far president trump has yet to use it for oval office address. he should. former speech writer for george w. bush bill mcbern

joins us now. that speech there president reagan why was that speech so important in the oval office speaking to the american people that. >> was only one of many but that was on his tax cuts and a lot of people wavering, he had a democratic house so he had to be bipartisan. he gave a speech two days before the vote in the house. and at the end of the speech, after laying out why republicans wanted tax cuts and why it was good for the economy, he asked the american people to let congress know what they thought. and it was an avalanche of phone calls and his tax cuts passed. clayton: he was even using bar graphs and pie charts. >> it's a chance to explain to the american people on your terms what your agenda is that never happened on the healthcare bill. i don't think. clayton: you think the president made a mistake by not using oval office address? >> yes. you think of state of the unions and other formal addresses they are very that

magestrial. nothing like the president addressing the people in the 0e68 office and explaining what he is trying to do. clayton: here are numbers from oval office addresses. ronald reagan used the bully pulpit 33 times. george h.w. bush 12. bill clinton 15. george w. bush only six. and barack obama three times. so, you make the argument you need to use it effectively. you need to drop them in at the appropriate moments. you think tax cuts, tax reform is that an appropriate moment for presiden president trump? >> the oval office is for a big issue of import to the american people. it's not for every day things. and when you have narratives competing in the media, the president is the one that can command attention. and unlike a rally, nothing wrong with having rallies as the president does. but those are mostly his most are a sent supporters.

an oval office address even the people that hated donald trump would almost have to tune in to see what he said. clayton: as a speech writer, we only have 30 seconds left, what sort of advice would you give to the president his presidential speech writer in a moment like that on tax reform? >> i would say two things. first he proved in poland is he give a very good speech. speech on western sifltion. he has a common touch that he can explain complicated things in ordinary language. i think they need to do that on tax reform because i think the democrats and their allies are going to run the same narrative. this is republicans robbing from the poor to give to the rich and president trump could counter that from the oval. clayton: bill, great to see you this morning. not just twitter. start using the oval office. great to see you, bill. thanks. we have a fox news alert. the u.s. preparing a show of force this morning in response to north korea's latest missile test as we learn it could strike the united states in less than an hour. what are our options? rob o'neill has that story. he's up next.

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preparing to launch its latest test missile this morning. this as we learn it would take less than an hour for north korea's newest missiles to hit new york or chicago. so what could that look like and what can the u.s. do as well as what other threats are we facing right now? here to weigh in the former navy seal the man who killed usama bin laden rob o'neill. you saw that graphic of the flight times and distances. to an average american to realize a regime like that can strike, what are we doing about it and what are our options. >> it's scary for the average american to see that this is going to go up over the atmosphere. we worry there is the capability they could reach new york and boston. they say it might fall short of washington, d.c. but that doesn't make me feel very good of about it because what if it doesn't. we have different angles. we are using the state department. so secretary of state tillerson is saying. not looking to go to war and that is sort of message any

things the state department does. senator lindsey graham saying we talked to the president and we will strike them preemptively. we will destroy your capabilities. we will destroy what you have. and if hundreds of thousands of people are going to die they will die over there you are using both. peace through strength right now. if it comes to war, it's not a good thing. pete: how about our ability to shoot down one of those missiles? >> it's not the problem of shooting down one of the missiles. >> it's can we shoot down 50 of the missiles at once. that's the issue. we have the technology. a lot of technology we have proven that we have them. you don't want to be wrong. this is the point i know this is a time in our society where we are talking about safe spaces especially in places like portland and san francisco. if a nuke from san francisco hits there that's not a safe place. harsh reality of the planet right now. pete: few statistic about north korea they fired 18 missiles during 12 tests in 2017 alone. export to russia, china and middle east and earn their

profits in illicit ways across the board. russia and china. you came not just to talk about north korea but other threats in the world. we have a map of a number of them. in particular you feel like keeping an eye on syria and isis. >> syria, isis iraq and iran especially. we were pushing isis out of the strongholds pushed them out of mosul and iraq can a and certain parts. issue with mosul in iraq is we are not getting credit for it the iranians are. iranian backed government in baghdad and hezbollah of all things. they had the leader of the revolutionary guard general sole khamenei i believe you say it. he had the flag of iran and flag of hezbollah. instead of going left to right with isis is left to right with the shias. they are committing atrocities like isis about. revenge. pete: such an important reminder because it is aiding north korea in search for nuclear weapons. >> of course they are. they are looking to wipe

israel off the face of the map with their nuclear weapons. we fund israel. a lot of the technology from missile systems comes from israel because they have vested interest. this needs to remain on the front burner. as we are arguing which republican senator has a grudge because of something mean said and why democrats are in lock step because the party is more important than the united states. pete: when we talk about iran we understanding how disastrous that deal really was and reviewing it in compliance. >> terrible deal and bad decision made on politics and who can stay in office as opposed to how do we keep everyone safe. pete: absolutely. i know this white house is focused on that. rob, thank you very much. sorry, uncle joe, former president barack obama appears to have someone else in mind for 2020. and, remember the company microchipping its employees? well, they just had a party to celebrate, ain't no party like a microchip party. doesn't that look fun?

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>> anything to cop and a bomb shell now report out this morning from circa news that says obama aid ben roads is now being considered a person of interest in the unmasking investigation. this is according to news that released this information just yesterday the former white house national security advisor top obama aid or was, that they're investigating whether or not he had the ability to unmask and if he did, did he do it for political reasons or for national security? absolutely a portion of that article reads like this that

says the number of americans identities appears to have increased beginning last july, so after president trump secured the gop nomination. the number accelerated after trump's election in november. launched a transition that continued through january, most of the intercepts had little to do with the russian election interference scandal and some appeared to have nothing to do with national security, so to your point if you add that together they ramped up when he received the nomination and really ramped up or continued to ramp up after he won and were realizing now it has little to do with russia and little to do with national security reasons all of that if you piece it together and if it's true is very problematic. it's politics to play. earlier he had this to say. listen. the fact if you look at the rules one of the things that clapper did is he widened the circle of people that could un mask a name without any written permission. it used to be just the defense secretary, the secretary of state and the president and vice

president and national security advisor the only five people to have special access to unmask the information when clapper put up the rules in 2013 it expanded to all of their deputies and advisors and i think that's an interesting area for us to look at in the weeks ahead. if it doesn't happen, yes it does. they have to do that to protect us. the volume, the amount as he was saying is just in question. if you broaden it, you can be done without written permission to deputies. and down the food chain it will go. so irresponsible with the privacy of americans who give the responsibility to the government for foreign entities and if americans are captured you don't reveal their identity. if you do and it starts to become a lassie-faire thing there's no american that wants that to happen. so other networks are talking about russia russia russia right now, it could turn out the real scandal is unmask ing and that can continue to look at this we'll see. one of the many scandals you're right. let's hand it over for headlines

good morning to you guys let's get you caught up on what you need to know before you leave the house this morning starting with this. two california sheriff's deputies in serious condition this morning after being shot in the line of duty. two officers shot. shot in the leg and the shoulder the gun fight breaking out after church members reported an armed man pulling a marijuana plant from their farm north of sacramento. the officers exchanging gup fire after chasing a man to a nearby home where he died. both unidentified deputies worked with the yuba county sheriffs department for more than a decade. >> as president trump vows to e radicate the deadly gang known as ms13 we're learning how easy it is for members to sneak know the country. speaking to a former ms13 hitman behind bars in all salvadore. how hard is it for an ms13

gang member to get into the united states? it's easy. how do you do it? i never wanted to go to the united states. but your friends did. they have their people. last week president trump called for tougher policing and sanctuary cities to crack down on ms13. >> sorry joe biden, it appears former president obama has someone else in mind to run against president trump in 2020. the obama camp reportedly pushing for former massachusetts governor patrick. they feel he could win back a crucial state turned red by president trump. patrick telling a massachusetts newspaper that it's way too soon to think about 2020. former vp biden said he regrets not running in 2016 >> every good party needs chips but these happen to be microchip s.

more than 40 people signed up and now those employees can open doors, log into computers and buy snacks with a wave of a hand . would you just get an implant in your hand, go get gas , driving along? no. hand out the window? you need to show them how to have a real party? you wouldn't hang out with those guys? i would but i'd show them how to dabs on a table. >> ex stream weather heavy rain pounding southern florida turning roads into rivers. nearly half a foot soaking

the sunshine state causing major flash flooding in miami beach. as much of the country braces for triple digit temperature, and we are live on the plaza tracking it all. okay it's officially august. it is officially august and do you know what we'll get a little bit of a cool down across the upper midwest but first of all let's quickly look at the radar and then i'm going to talk to this nice lady as she holds her sign and says hi to dan. pleas take a look at the radar actually there's florida because we had a tropical system emily that moved across the sunshine state and with it brought a lot of heavy rainfall in some cases over six inches in a very short period of time we have this frontal boundary that remains in place across central florida so showers and thunderstorms remain in the forecast there. cold front moves into the upper midwest the threat for strong storms and then you talk about the heat across the west coast. they are dealing with triple digit heat and high heat indices from central california all the way up to seattle and portland so watching that in the forecast today. what's your name? sarah. and hi, dan. hi, dan.

i miss you guys. where are you from? allentown, pennsylvania. and who is dan? my husband of three years and he's a huge fan of fox news. hi, dan he's watching at home? yes, right now. why is he at home? watching my son. he's a good dad. what are you doing in new york? training for a new job. does that sound fun? it is. i've had a good week so far. a good week so for and you're on fox and friends and saying hi to dan. hi, dan. back inside. we have something for her. i can't really read that. she looks like she's holding a posterboard. what does it say? it says hi dan, and waylan, your son, miss you guys. back inside. i need to get my eyes checked. me too. >> breaking right now, we are just learning just that the latest inter continental ballistic missle test from california. the launch at 5 a.m. comes just days after north korea fire s the longest missle yet crashing into the sea of japan.

secretary of state rex tillerson now opening the door to negotiations with the dictator kim jung unif he ends his nuclear weapons program more on that as our show unfolds this morning. absolutely well next on the rundown, what does your character look like? that's the question being asked by a foundation honoring fallen heros. does it stand out by standing out? does it make good on good intentions. a gold star wife behind that campaign is here next with a message for all americans. >> oh, that's great and we have seen this emerge in the white house, praying over our president and now we have learned cabinet members are going to bible study so what's behind the spiritual role at the white house? &%c1 &%f0

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♪ ♪ clayton: welcome back. quick headlines. that you senator introducing new bill to introduce pot nationwide corey booker also wants to withhold federal money from states whose marijuana laws disz proportionately incarcerate minorities. right now pot is only legal in 8 states and distric district of columbia. new soda tax in colleague. collects 12 cents per can of soda and 67 cents per two liter bottle. sugarally soft drinks, lemon nadz, teas, soft drinks also included in that tax. pete, ainsley? pete: love that more taxes. well, first lieutenant travis manning was killed in iraq in 2007 while saving wounded teammates. the words he spoke before that final deployment, if not me, than who. that question are the inspiration of the travis manning foundation which continues his legacy.

this week it's launching a new campaign. listen. >> what does your character look like? does it bounce back after each set back? does it stand out by standing up does it make good on good intentions? character is invisible until it's not. only true action will the world know what it's made of. ainsley: here to tell us more amy looney the vice president of the travis manion foundation and gold star wife. her husband navy seal brendan loony was killed in afghanistan in 2010. it was three years after travis died and he and travis were best friends and they are buried next to each other at arlington. good morning, amy, thanks for being with us. >> good morning. ainsley: i guess we just told a little bit of your story. anything else you want to add to that before we talk about this psa and new campaign? >> you know, i'm -- i look to travis and brendon as my inspiration and, you know,

it's amazing to see with the growth of the foundation how much they've inspired and empowered others to live a life of character, you know, setting the example, leading from the front. and really, you know, doing the right thing when it really matters. pete: i love the mission of the travis manion foundation. you do a lot of work on transitioning. service initiatives. the 9/11 hero's run. this effort, explain more about this effort. it's about connecting the 99% of americans who didn't serve with those who did and motivating to fight for character. >> yes. character revealed is our campaign that we're launching and we're really excited about it because ideally it sets the example out there for those that might never choose to serve or haven't served. it really identifies, you know, the adistributes and contributions that our service members, their families and our survivors are really bringing to the table. they lead through strength, resiliency, courage. things that they have learned whether that's through dealing

with adversity or through their time in service. and i think that's really something that america needs to sees a something positive and inspiring that can really lead our next generation to. ainsley: my dad always said there are two things you can control, your reputation and your character. i think it's very important to really push this issue. thank you so much for doing that tell us some of the initiatives and how folks at home can get involved. >> yeah. so, you know, at the travis manion foundation, our goal is to help redefine what america's national character looks like. we are using that by empowering our veterans and surviving family members to go out in their communities and instill character into our next generation. and really at the end of the day, you both mentioned different initiatives that we have. travis' words, if not me, than who, that he spoke before that last and final deployment to iraq is really what everything that we do at the foundation elm bodies that mantra. you know, we're talking about instilling character into our next generation and we do that

through our character development initiatives. and that's done in two different ways. we have our character does matter presentations where we train veterans and families of the fallen to go out and not only share stories of their time in service or share the stories of their loved ones that are no longer here but to really go out and talk about what character looks like. and through our curriculum we do that by breaking character down into four different pillars, courage, integrity, leadership and service. being able to provide relatable examples for young adults, middle school and high school students to go out in their communities and live a life of character. pete: what i love you lose your country and culture when you don't educate the next generation to love it and serve it. the mission of this foundation is of course to support veterans and their families and those left behind. but to educate americans to love their country and to serve and fight for it, which is very proactive and empowering message. >> absolutely. couldn't agree more with you. you know, and we talked about

connecting the 99% to the 1% that did -- that does serve in our military and the way that we're doing that at the foundation is through two additional initiatives. one is our operation legacy projects. these are community service engagements. taking, you know, you don't have to wear a uniform in order to serve. you can go out into your community. you can be a service member. you can an inspired civilian. you can a young adult that just wants to really embrace that mantra if not me than who, and pay that forward and give back to your own communities here at home. additionally you mentioned earlier our 9/11 hero's run which are coming up in september, to me, this is more than just a run. this is a way to activate our communities, to come out and not only honor and remember all of our military and first responders that we lost on 9/11 and in conflict since, but also to really educate our next generation about what selfless service looks like. what sacrifice looks like and how they can pay that forward each and every day in their

own lives. ainsley: amy, if if they want more information what's your website. >> we would love for everybody get involved join our movement travis manion.org. find out more information there. pete: very cool. amy looney vice president of the travis manion foundation. thank you for your service and your husband's service as well. god bless you. >> thank you. pete: the dow opens in record territory this morning as president trump tell as golden age for small business. white house budget director mick mulvaney on plans to continue that plan. ainsley: we have seen photos like this. now we learned cabinet members are going to bible study. what's behind the spiritual awakening ♪ faithful ♪

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♪ ♪ ainsley: they are some of the country's most powerful people and now they have been gathering at the white house for god making history as part of the president's cabinet's bible study. so what's behind the spiritual awakening at the white house here to weigh in on this is chief political correspondent for christian broadcasting network david brody. >> good to see you, ainsley. ainsley: what's happening at the white house, they are having a bible study every week. >> every week at the h.h.s. building. cabinet members, 12 of them, which is the majority of the cabinet, is attending. these are evangelicals, christians, mike pompeo, the cia. you have got ben carson, rick perry, tom price, the list goes on. and, you know, mike pence is planning to drop by. the invitation is open for the

president as well. so, but he is getting the notes from the bible study. so, it's pretty fascinating. our white house correspondent jennifer broke the story. pretty fascinating. ainsley: is this the most evangelical presidency you have seen? >oh 100 percent. ainsley: more so than george bush 43. >> there are no qualms about that. there might be push back from some evangelical leaders in that george w. bush era. if you talk to evangelicals privately, the dirty little secret is they are getting more access and face time with this president than george w. bush the evangelical president. there is not even a question about it. it's kind of like a factory in the sense that all of these folks just kind of keep coming in and out. it's like a hustle bus going into the white house from evangelicals. and it's interesting because actually emailed evangelical leader the other day i said hey, there are a couple evangelical leaders at the white house today. what's going on there trying to get at a source. the guy tells me there is always evangelical leaders

here every single day and that really is the case. ainsley: compare this white house and the evangelical movement to the last administration? >> well, i mean, look, there were bible studies up on capitol hill. and there are still bible studies that the democrats and republicans together. you know, i know the president, president obama took his faith very seriously. he got push back in evangelical circles there was some of that. this is much different. this is a president, president trump who encourages the evangelicals and the bible studies and the cabinet meetings and it's interesting. if you talk to evangelical leaders, when they are around this president. they say this president has a lot of peace. that he wants to be around evangelicals. that he is at ease with them. it's a very interesting dynamic. ainsley: well, i know many of us need faith. it makes us better people. and that's exactly what i have gotten and my friends have gotten from bible studies. i think this is a great thing. thank you so much, david for being with us. >> you bet, ainsley.

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>> a long fly ball deep center field. jackson is back. he leaps, he made an unbelievable catch. that just might be the play of the year. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ freedom ♪ freedom ♪ freedom ♪ you got to give for what you take ♪ freedom ♪ freedom ainsley: come on over, everyone. welcome to the second hour of "fox & friends." if you are just waking up, we have already had a great big hour. we're going to have another two straight ahead. pete: i have got to ask that foul ball caught in the red sox game. it looked like me. usually how i catch.

that's over the outfield and catch it and fall over is it a home run or not? clayton: that's a great question. caught the ball in and then he fell over. it was a catch. pete: not that play i'm saying hypothetical. if it's over the fence. ainsley: if it goes over the wall, over the fence it's a home run. pete: even if they catch it. ainsley: you mean someone in the stands? pete: player in the outfield catches it. ainsley: if you catch the ball it's out. clayton: how about this. if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it actually work? ainsley: director of white house budget and management mr. mick mulvaney joins this morning. >> i didn't hear what you were saying. i would love to talk about baseball. ainsley: americans want to talk about healthcare. many people have said they just want to move on. even have the leader mitch mcconnell who said let's move

on and focus on tax reform. do you think that's the appropriate reaction. >> i understand why the leader is saying that at the same time, i think it is important that we still deal with the issue. i don't know how -- remember, seven months ago i was an elected member of congress. i don't know how you run saying something for seven years if you repeal obamacare give us the white house. if you don't follow through. that's a mistake that follows through to haunt you in the future if you don't fix it. i da think it's important they continue to work on healthcare. pete: we saw the tweets the president sent out over the weekend. keep going. don't vote on anything else. that reremains the view of the white house. >> obamacare is still broken. it's just as broken today than it was last week. in fact more. so the president ♪ giving up on this. what you are seeing from the white house is encouragement to the senate, especially the senate to stay and not give up. the president is not giving up. they shouldn't give up. clayton: could be even more broken this morning if you saw the "wall street journal" last night we got the alert right

before bedtime that some insurers now would be seeking 30% increase just to cover these costs. states with increasing premiums rising 30%. idaho, west virginia, south carolina, wyoming, and 20% in tennessee, hawaii, north dakota and mexico. it's broken already. >> i'm real excited about that since i still buy mine in north carolina. don't worry with obamacare your premiums were going to go down $2,500. this is what we have been talking about. so much discussion what would this bill in the senate do. what would this bill do. a lot of us have focused on the system we have doesn't work. obamacare doesn't work. people are suffering today because of obamacare. people cannot go to their own doctor. some can't go to the doctor at all. some people cannot get coverage at all because of obamacare. that should be the beginning point of the conversation. pete: one of those proposals, you said there have been various proposals, different iterations, some have been scored and some not. one proposed more recently by senator lindsey graham wants

to block grant money to the states and provide a lot more authority to the states to determine how they provide healthcare. this somehow the senator described his plan. take a listen. >> instead of trying to redo obamacare in washington, why don't you turn to the governors, who have done a great job doing a lot of things, including healthcare, and take all the money you would spend in washington on healthcare, block grant it back to the states and let them design healthcare systems closer to your family. this would empower state choice. it would empower consumers. punish me in any way you think is appropriate if i can't fix your healthcare. you sent us up here, the american people, to repeal and replace obamacare. this is the end of single pair healthcare. if you take the money and the power out of washington and give it to the states, that's the end of bernie sanders' dream. there will never be single pair healthcare because the money is out of washington. pete: republicans have long ran on pushing more authority down to the states. is this the answer. >> it absolutely is i hope that lindsey and his friends in the senate do get traction on that.

i was in the state legislature in south carolina then i served up in the national legislature. i didn't get any smarter. all i got is further from home. folks at home governors live there, they know what's going on there. they have the ability to respond better there we knew how we could provide care better in south carolina when i was in the state legislature. the idea of federalism taking this complex thing, draining it out of washington. draining the swamp a little bit. sending stuff back to the state governments is a tremendous idea and i hope they get traction with it. clayton: let's talk about tax reform. that seems that's where republicans are turning their attention right now even during this recess. this comes as we are about to, today we could hit 22,000 as the dow could crest 22,000 for the very first time. the president yesterday talking about and you see the numbers right there 21,000 at this hour. the president talking about small businesses and entering this golden age now for small businesses because we could remove all of these restrictions. one of the main things that the president is focused on is tax reform. we heard from democrats

yesterday, mick. they come out and unify 45 of the senate's 48 democrats came out and signed this six paragraph thing. and here is what they said. they said they don't want to increase the tax burden on the middle class. they don't want this to just benefit the wealthiest individuals. they want to have an open, regular order when they're voting and they don't want to add to any deficits. what about the democrats' proposals here. can you work with them? >> it seems that the one thing the democrats have been unified in since this administration came in is opposing this administration. we have a long conversation about the confirmation process. a long confirmation every single time we call them they say they are not willing to work with us. they will say that to the television but they won't say that to us behind the scenes which is frustrating. tax reform, look, what we were able to do last week was important. it didn't get that much attention. when we unveiled what they called the big six agreement. those principles that was a step in the right direction. people said there was no details, what you saw there was an agreement on the

fundamental principle, the fundamental ideas all agree on tax reform. that's a huge step in the right direction. i wish the democrats would look at those proposals and see that many of the things that they want are contained in those principles as well. ainsley: do you think republicans can get this passed without even needing the democrats' vote. >> again, that's the idea. because, again, you have a choice. you can either try and do it with 50 votes in the senate using budget reconciliation or 60 votes in the senate without. my gut is that a tax bill looks a lot weaker, a lot less likely to get us to 3% economic growth 8, 10, 12, 14 democrats on it. we need tax reform. why are we pushing this so hard? we are trying to get the american economy back at old normal 3% economic growth and get out of this rut we were in with the obama administration of growth under 2%. now, that's absolutely critical and tax reform is a central feature in that. pete: if you decode what the democrats' demands are they are talking about deficits which is the ultimate irony because they are the party

that drown us in debt. [laughter] ainsley: you laugh. >> that was a softball question i will let you take that one. pete: so obvious almost doesn't need to be mentioned. is there even -- is it even worth going through the process when there is such a diametrically different view of the world. they want to tax and spend. they believe in tax rewar. regular order means muck it up. can you bring 50 senators together though? if the republicans can't bring 50 senators together on cutting taxes then what in the world do republicans stand for at all. >> we can. you are absolutely right. if you stop to think about it, the party was not necessarily united. at least we are finding out now it wasn't in terms of how to deal with obamacare. there are a lot of folks who withiran saying they wanted obamacare with you about when they got the chance they didn't do it. i would like to think there is a lot more support. lower rates, simpler tax plan. i don't know of any republican even privately who doesn't like that idea.

i'm cautiously optimistic that tax reform will be easier than healthcare. it's important because we unveil this idea about two weeks called imagineomics. unifying theme trying to do. tax reform, healthcare reform. regulatory reform. one of the reasons small businesses so excited what we have done on regulatory reform can get us back to a sustained healthy economy. we need to have each and every one of those pieces. ainsley: all right. mick mulvaney live with us. thank you for being with us. pete: i love that statement. just because i went to washington doesn't mean i get matter is it means i'm further from home. push it back to the legislature. these guys know how to govern, too. ainsley: home is pretty good when you are in from south carolina. pete: that is true. clayton: jillian has a look at the headlines. jillian: a lot of news this hour. we begin with a fox news alert right now. a nato convoy in afghanistan has come under attack. the violence happening in the candle harr province, home of the taliban.

we know there were deaths in the attack, as of right now it's unclear if any of those were americans. this is all happening as the white house weighs sending several more thousand troops to afghanistan. another fox news alert right now. just moments ago the u.s. military launching the latest intercontinental test. happening after 5:00 a.m. from vandenberg air force base in california. the rocket 4,000 miles landing in the ocean. comes just days after north korea fired longest missile yet crashing into the sea of japan. and new report now claims a commercial plane packed with passengers passed through the same airspace just 10 minutes before that launch. the air france jet had more than 300 people on board. a desperate search and rescue operation underway right now for missing american sailor. the unidentified service man went missing from the u is s freedom as the destroyer conducted routine operations in south china sea on tuesday.

american and japanese ships and aircraft now scouring the water for the sailor. and did you see this? it's already being called baseball's catch of the year. >> andre switch hitter at bat. there is a long fly ball, deep center field. jackson's back. he leaps, he made an unbelievable catch. he flips into the bullpen. did he hang on? jillian: i can watch this over and over again. cleveland indians central fielder austin jackson getting standing ovation from the boston red sox crowd by the way at fenway forever that over the ben catch, honestly guys this is amazing. i do love his reaction. this is hanley ramirez. his reaction he is like whoa. that says it all. that was incredible. clayton: boston is a baseball town. they love great baseball. they will applaud something like that. jillian: to give standing ovation to the other team is incredible. ainsley: if baseball doesn't work out for him there is

always gymnastics. holding onto the wall. flips over it. balances himself. jillian: i love when you see mommy's like that in sports and get off your feet and you are like you deserve that one, man. awesome. pete: twitter has confirmed it is a home run. jillian: if you catch it it's an out. clayton: thanks quitter. jillian: you need twitter for that i was standing in the back. clayton: twitter for us. pete: jill i can't believe i apologize. jillian: it's okay. clayton: major immigration overhaul live in washington with a preview next. pete: forget the democrats. there could be a new political party in the works to take down the trump movement in 2020. ainsley: what would it be called? pete: the rosie o'donnell party, maybe. ♪ it's my party ♪ and i'll cry if i want to ♪ cry if i want to ♪ you would cry to if it happened to you ♪ isperer?

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in washington with details for us. hey, griff. >> good morning, guys. the president is taking action on immigration reform today at the white house alongside senators tom cotton of arkansas and purdue of georgia outlining new legislation to reform the legal immigration process president's goal of a merit based system like canada or australia for potential my grants. senator cotton's office says in a statement to fox news, quote, our current immigration system is outdated and doesn't meet the diverse needs of our economy. right now only one in 15 immigrants come here because of their skills and we don't prioritize ultra high skilled immigrants. they also argue that a skills-based immigration system would make america more competitive, raise wages for american workers and jobs. this comes as immigration enforcement cracks down on illegal immigration on

operation called border guardian border resolve. ice arrested 600 people nationwide. all targeted to leave a country by a federal judge but refused. ice notes of the 650, 130 had criminal convictions beyond their immigration violations, including dui, assault and battery, drug possession, domestic abuse and sexual assault. ice acting director homan issued this statement yesterday quote i urge anyone considering making the dangerous and unlawful journey to the united states, please do not take this risk. ultimately if you have no business to remain in the united states you will be identified, apprehended and returned to your home country. guys, that announcement at the white house comes today at 11:30. ainsley: okay. pete: thanks, give. ains apes attorney general jeff sessions telling a meeting of black law enforcement executives the doj has their backs. >> our next guest was in the room and says that's exactly

what they wanted to hear. clayton: nsa now willing to pay to you protect earth from aliens. that's part of a job description posted on their website. pete: they don't need to pay me for that. clayton: the job posted $150,000 a year. ainsley: no. ♪ ♪ and i think it's going to be a long, long time ♪

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to the president's desk. next, 50,000. that is how many jobs are up for grabs at amazon today. the company is making on the spot hires at 12 fulfillment centers around the country. finally $1 million. that's how much richer a north carolina army veteran is this morning. here's his picture. his name is allen holderby he hit a scratch off on a lottery ticket and he served our country for 13 years. congratulations. pete? pete: very cool. attorney general jeff sessions pledging to the doj stands with local police while standing with black law enforcement executives. >> you deserve the support and respect of every american. and i'm here today on behalf of president trump and the department of justice to say thank you. i am proud to stand with you. the department of justice is proud to stand with you.

clayton: so how did his message resonate? >> clarence e. cox iii. nice to see you this morning. >> good morning. thank you. clayton: you were in the room. how did the attorney general's remarks go over from the administration? >> >> certainly we were glad to have a.g. sessions in our attendance. we certainly welcome the partnership with the trump administration. pete: he didn't allude to the remarks but obviously president trump recently gave remarks in front of law enforcement where he sort of jokingly said hey, as your police -- you know, if you are taking in a gang member and don't hold their head or knock their head, some are out there criticizing those comments, what do you make about this administration's approach to law enforcement and how seriously they back them up? >> well, throughout the

campaign, i recall the now president trump speaking about his war on crime and his, you know, desire to decrease crime across america, but that certainly is not in my mind and members of noble's mind that good approach. we were certainly concerned about his comments and more concerned that we had constituents and colleagues that were gathered in the room with him who applauded those comments. those comments were certainly derailing for some of the things that we are trying to do. we're obviously trying to reengage in our communities and have several outreach programs that would tell our community that we are there for them in a way that we have not been for several years now. and that derails what we're trying to do. as we spoke with senator about those comments, a.g. sessions, i'm sorry, expressed that we

were very disheartened by our commander-in-chief endorsing proper uses of force. that's just not something that noble will stand by and agree with. and the a.g. says that it was, perhaps, a joke. but noble is not laughing. it wasn't funny. and the community that we serve didn't find that funny. clayton: he was talking specifically really about ms-13 and these brutal thugs that were hacking people up on the streets. you say it's really hard in some of your comments, it's really hard being black and being a police officer when these things happen in your community. that you are living in these areas where you go to the barbershop, did you go to the restaurants and talking with members of the community when these things unfold. do you think that the administration is listening to your concerns? >> well, we hope that the administration is listening. in fact, i offered up a suggestion with the a.g. when he was about to leave. i said hopefully this is not the last of the dialogue. and i would hope that you

would commit to an open dialogue with noble and other groups like this so that we can help to you effectively combat crime and do some of the things that the administration is wanting to do. in fact, we have a special message for our president. you know, we feel that noble is uniquely positioned to assist him in some of those efforts, if those things are done in the right way. we have the ability, because, one, again, we are black law enforcement and, you know, we live in the community that we serve across this country. and our ranks include federal, state, local, and city municipal police officers. so we have a gamut of sources, resources to assist administration. we have had some comments and a few meetings with the administration. but nothing of real substance. and we feel that, you know, obviously with crime in some parts of the country on the uptick.

we feel that we are better positioned to give him a hand in something that we all have a goal to make america better. and if we are going to make america great again, we can't have comments like that. pete: certainly attorney general sessions attending furthers that conversation. thank you for joining us this morning. clayton: thank you, sir. coming up on the show, president trump is one step closer to building that big beautiful border wall. stea. pete: plus, forget the democrats, there could be a new political party in the works. clayton is talking about it all morning to take down the trump movement in 2020. up next e meet their fearless leader, clayton? your fearless leader? clayton: never. ♪ i draw the line ♪ with an end to this game ♪ before it's too late ♪ head games ♪ it's you and me baby ♪ head games ♪ i can't take it anymore ♪ head games

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♪ with the stars and stripes ♪ and the eagle flies ♪ ainsley: this is your shot of the morning. a bald eagle flying to freedom after being rescued off the coast of maine. pete: retired police officers using a life preserver and rope pulled the bird to safety. it was nearly drowning in the ocean. wow. clayton: it then flew away as if nothing happened. i would love to know why it was drowning. because they go right down and grab fish and fly away: they were flying away with 10-foot fish in their law. ainsley: a toll loan broken, perhaps? pete: how would you know how to rescue. that's a dangerous animal. they will get you. ainsley: that's true. clayton: have a bald eagle parachute lifesaver on your boat. vice president mike pence has

been -- is he in montenegro. he is at the hilton hotel in montenegro speaking. are we going to listen in? we are not going to listen. in we are monitoring it. the vice president has been having this overseas trip. he has been meeting with a lot of different diplomats and world leaders on this trip. it's been going very well, actually. pete: he is reassuring allies america first doesn't mean america alone. we are going to stand by our regional and security allies in cooperation with the united states. we will continue to monitor his remarks. if we have anything particularly significant, we will definitely bring it to you. podgorica. ainsley: very impressive. i'm glad you had to read it and not me. jillian: i'm thinking the same thing. i'm glad it was you and not me. ainsley: wait, kelly helped you, our producer. clayton: i'm just a monkey in a suit. do you think i knew how to pronounce that? jillian: you are giving away all the secrets, ainsley. let's begin with this.

a government program designed to find new military recruits are now actually causing concerns of enemies hiding among the ranks. the pentagon program selects thousands of immigrants for language and other specialized skills in exchange for a faster pass to citizenship. but now lawmakers say the program has been compromised due to poor vetting. and some enrollees are now unaccounted for, raising concerns of foreign infiltration. the defense department suspending new applications as it reviews that program. it seems nothing will get in the way of president trump's border wall. the department of homeland security will wav waive more thn three dozen laws and regulations to begin construction in san diego. most of those rules put in place to protect the environment. critics claim waving environmental tall reviews is unconstitutional and could be catastrophic. rosie o'donnell is so upset with the democratic party she wants to leave. after hearing a report that top party leaders are open to funding candidates who oppose abortion rights, rosy tweeted

this women should form our own party if dems do. this #don't you dare. this comes as democrats are trying to attract a variety of candidates to take back the house in the 2018 mid terms. how about this? nsa wants you to save the world from aliens. i'm not kidding. you heard me right. the space agency is looking to hire a planetary protection officer who defends the planet for potential alien contamination. you will also have to defend other planets from being contaminated by earth. the out of the world opportunity comes with 6-figure salary and benefits. applications are due by august 14th. clayton? clayton is weighing his options here. pete: post planetary protection officer. clayton: the idea that organ nisms, send all these missions to mars. found water. found tons of water and all these different asteroids. ainsley: think other creatures out there?

clayton: of course. jillian: next commercial bake break he will be online. ainsley: at home let us know what you think. send email. pete: clayton believes in aliens everywhere. clayton: i have been putting trying to get buzz aldrin on the show. ainsley: friends@foxnews.com. write us. jillian: i didn't realize this would be such a talking point. clayton: lot of ignorance floating around. ainsley: do you still have those glow in the dark stars on the ceiling over year bed? clayton: you think we are alone? this is it? jillian: i don't. i used to want to be an astronaut when i was a kid. i feel you. clayton: this is all we have to offer the universe. ainsley: extreme weather. rains pounding roads turning roads into rivers. pete: major flash flooding in miami beach and knock being

out power in other areas. clayton: this as the country embraces for triple digit temperatures. janice: i know how to help with triple digit temperatures. ainsley: how? janice: ice cream sandwiches. pete: is that today? janice: national ice cream sandwich day and we will be making some later on. stay tuned. take a look at the maps, because it is hot outside. not only that but you mentioned the flooding across florida. so there are your temperatures across the central u.s. we are dealing with summertime but really extreme heat across the west coast and then showers and thunderstorms for our friends across the sunshine state. we have a cold front moving through the midwest and bring potential for strong to severe storms. there is florida. so emily is gone. but we still have a frontal boundary remains in place and that could give us an additional 2 to 4 inches of heavy rainfall across florida. the heat is a big story across the west coast from central california all the way up towards the northwest. hi there. you want to wave?

you are talking to somebody on the phone? hi, who are you talking to. >> i'm harry mccune from illinois. janice: who are you talking to. >> i hung up. i was talking to my friends at home watching me. janice: hi to friends at home watching. like to say hi to anybody else. >> my son. donna and cammeron. janice: dial them up and i will say hi to them. more ice cream sandwiches coming up. back to you. ainsley: thank you, janice. ainsley: we can put it on speaker. clayton: janice wants to borrow the phone to make personal calls. ainsley: joke to interns and reported as real news. guy benson is fired up about this one and he is on deck. clayton: one group of fishermen didn't expect to make a catch like this. ♪ i want to rock ♪ i want to rock ♪ rock

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heist i wear a polka dot backpack. ainsley down to you. ainsley: he wrote the book on the left war against free speech and we have proof that he is right. mr. guy benson joins us now. guy, i understand you were talking. you were at a public appearance and you were heckled. what happened? >> i was at politic con. a big political convention over the weekend in los angeles. the discussion was about free speech on campus in particular and censorship. one of the co-panelist was ann coulter who, of course, has dealt with this issue, especially at berkeley at her event being cancelled. ainsley: watch the video. >> yeah. this was what happened. had you a couple people dressed at nazis disrupting for quite a while. then there was a second group that -- there they are with a banner. that took a while to get sorted out. so maybe 10 minutes in. it was just chaos. and we couldn't even really begin speaking on a free speech panel which is sort of like you are proving our point. and the other thing, ainsley, that was so interesting was the second group of hecklers

were holding up this big banner that said trump and pence must go. and they were chanting over and over again very creatively trump and pence must go. when it finally settled down i was like, you guys, we are going to have an election in three and a half years, that's how we do things in this country and the way you are behaving, frankly, is helping to prevent trump and pence from going because people see that and they are more inclined to support donald trump, i think. ainsley: did i see the rest of the crowd was chanting u.s.a.? >> some of them were. so what's interesting about politicon not conservative or liberal everyone is thrown in together which is unusual for political conventions. this was a wild scene people there to disagree with ann coulter but listen to her. people there just to yell at her and then supporters. i was just caught in the rhetorical crossfire unimpressed by the spectacle -- i mean, showing

up in nazi regal gal i can't. shouting down speakers who other people have paid to listen to. that's not constructive at all. ainsley: are they going to silence you? are you going to continue to speak? >> obviously here i am. we have the book out. ainsley: i'm not going to heckle you. are you still going to go to events like. this absolutely. ainsley: where can you expect hecklers? >> something that i think is important is for younger conservative voices to go on to college campuses and say, all right. i know that a lot of people here aren't going to agree with me, if we don't bring the message, who is going to? instead it will be sort of an echo chamber for the left. that's why when i get invited places i spoke at princeton with my co-author last year they had to pay for extra security because we were controversial speakers. ainsley: look at berkeley. it's dangerous. >> that's the thing that i think is alarming to me is that some on the hard left. this is not the entire left. but the hard left that is anti-speech, what they have done is conflated speech with violence.

so they say your hate speech and define that very broadly. your hate speech is violence. and, therefore, we can shut you down using any means necessary, including violence. it's a very orwellian thing. >> guy benson must go. clayton: shut him down. >> pete that is a weak heckling attempted. ainsley: u.s.a., u.s.a. guy, let's read excerpt from book. you release this but have new chapter in the book, right? >> the book came out in 2015 sort of warning about how our national dialogue is deteriorating and how the left is increasingly trying to win debates by preventing them from happening. this was two years ago. so it's sort of before its time. it came to press, we came out with it literally one week to the day before donald trump came down the escalator. we decided between everything happening in berkeley and donald trump being elected we should probably update the book with that you chapter. ainsley: title end of

discussion why don't you read the excerpt. >> trump and that really is true. i think it is indisputable that the weaponized political correctness that we talk about in "end of discussion" was a huge driving factor in the rise of donald trump's candidacy. if you deny that, i think you're asleep. a lot of republican voters were really subordinate other concerns, whether about his temperament or his character or his ideology and say who is someone who is going to fight back against these cultural bullies. finally a bunch of people on the right were sick and tired of being bull idea. we are going to hire our own bully thank you very much and see how you like it, liberals. that's how i think donald trump, one of the reasons why

he was nominated. and then the left told us forever, you know, this guy was no chance of winning whatsoever. then he wins. and rather than -- with a few exceptions. rather than looking at themselves and saying my goodness, maybe our conducted is turning off a lot of people, and agitating a lot of people, maybe we should change our approach. they doubled down on all of these exact same resistance tactics and we're in the middle of an ugly, protracted culture war that seems to be getting worse, not better, unfortunately. ainsley: all right. guy benson, if you want to support guy and agree with him buy his book. it's called "end of discussion." >> thank you so much, ainsley. ainsley: you are welcome. another sign of oklahoma's collapse. some insurance companies want to increase their premiums by up to 30% or more. senator ron johnson is here to react to that coming up in the next hour. plus it was life changing moment for one teenager.

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changed her life. teenager sophia dominguez-heithoff, it changed her life forever. clayton: joining us now is miss teen u.s.a. 2017 herself nice to see you this morning, sophia. congratulations. >> thank you. i'm so excited to be here. clayton: you watched that video. so nerve racking. what was it like to be there in that moment. >> i was completely shocked to be on that stage in the first place let alone representing missouri at national pageant but ending up winning it was incredible. life-changing. clayton: among the u.s.a. contestants you were voted most likely to become president of the united states. >> yes, i was. clayton: president trump are you watching? ainsley: is that your goal? >> i'm not sure. i'm really interested in policy making. i will be studying political science at university of kansas. i will be moving in a couple days. i graduated high school a year early. pete: an under achiever.

ainsley: what do you look forward to most about your reign and college. >> number one i'm very excited i get to do both at the same time. while a freshman at the university of kansas i will be miss teen u.s.a. i think it's going to be incredible year for me to expand my horizon and also pursue my dreams of attending a university and really getting the best possible education that i think will be best for me. pete: part of what elevated you to winning that pageant is the work that you did that's passionate to you in missouri at the state house. tell us about that. >> i actually have done a lot of advocacy for adults with developmental disability specifically down syndrome. my aunt joanne has down syndrome and i have worked alongside her. i have worked with the missouri state legislature to make sure that people with developmental disabilities are getting the best quality care and i think it's wonderful that as a 17-year-old i'm still not able to cast my ballot, yet, i'm able to have a part in our civic process.

clayton: what was the response from the state legislature? >> it was very well received. i think the fact that i was -- at the time i was only 16. and knowing that they had 16-year-olds in their state who wanted to get things done, i think it was exciting to them. pete: that's what you guys were doing when you were 16 years old, too. right? ainsley: exactly. we wish you all the best in college next year or in a few days. it's going to be so much fun. clayton: she still has to get shopping done. >> i haven't bought my dorm room stuff. pete: you haven't met your roommate. >> i haven't. it's going to be exciting few weeks. clayton: congratulations. ainsley: we willing loa willingg for your name on the ballot. pete: 2040 maybe? latest picture showing intercontinental ballistic test. details coming in overnight. clayton: president trump says we are entering the golden age for business. stock markets breaking

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not a safe space. >> they offer expedited paths to citizenship for military service has been quote, compromised. >> deep centerfield, jackson is back. he leaps. he made an unbelievable catch! that just might be the play of the year! ♪ pete: come on in with "fox & friends." we're having a debate, nasa on the website, want intergalactic policeman.

to help protect us against microorganisms and aliens. we had the debate. you were making fun. i think we're not alone in the universe. our email inbox got flooded. they're all on my side. peter, there is overwhelming evidence before you laugh off the subject. years with rosswell, national archives interviews. even president reagan is on the record. pete: will says i believe it. all the night sky was meant for us is pretty arrogant. pete: jerry writes this. we are not alone. aliens are vetting us before they befriend us. ainsley: we're not alone. i said i'm on your side. pete: i appreciate that. ainsley: don't forget about me clayton. pete: email from friends at foxnews.com. i think chuck schumer and nancy pelosi send them into

space as well. ainsley: producers, all of the emails really on his side? pete: overwhelmingly. you think we're alone in the universe? i agree with the people that said -- >> what about the actress in terms of endearment. shirley mcclain. pete: ainsley: republican senators tom cotton and david perdue helped him to roll out the plan to cut illegal immigration levels. pete: griff jenkins live in washington. reporter: clayton, speaking of aliens. president along senators tom cotton of arkansas and david perdue of georgia outlining new

legislation to reform legal immigration process aims to cut levels in half by the year 2027. builds upon a previous bill introduced by cotton and perdue in february. cotton at the time said that it would move us towards the goal, president's goal of merit-based system. >> net effect will be to cut annual immigration in half from one million to 500,000 green cards per year. this approach is broadly consistent with past reform measures and it would begin to move us towards a more merit-based system like canada and australia have. reporter: they say skills based immigration system would make america more competitive, raise wages for american workers and create jobs. this push at the white house comes as immigration and customs enforcement cracks done on illegal immigration, announcing arrest of 650 people nationwide over four-day sweep. all were targeted in order to leave the country by a federal judge but refused.

i.c.e. noted of the 650 arrested, 130 had criminal convictions including dui, assault and battery, drug possession, domestic abuse and sexual assault. i.c.e.'s acting director sending a warning if you're thinking about coming here illegally don't. we'll identify you, arrest you and send you home. guys the white house announcement today with cotton and perdue is at 11:30. we'll look to hear more about this prioritizing of highly-skilled immigrants. >> it is an important story, griff. thank you so much. a lot of companies are in the position, it is on the front page of "the wall street journal" and others where manufacturing lawn mower companies in north dakota, other places are wanting to hire, they want to hire skilled workers, they have the money to do it, but they can't find the skilled workers. we need programs that give skills to the people apprenticeship programs. skilled legal immigration would

help all companies pat pete made promise on illegal side which they have been following in spades and it has been broken on both sides. ainsley: as long as they're not criminal illegal aliens. tucker did interview with the ms-13 gang members behind bars. so easy to come to the united states. how do you do it. we have a whole system. >> what was also difficult to imagine that the dow jones industrial average would be at 22,000 or about to break 22,000 today. president trump says we're about to enter a golden age for small business. also some big news, clayton as you're talking about big businesses in this country. >> look at number, 21,000.

new mac sales pushes that over 22,000 first time in history. businesses are making big profits right now. president trump says look, america is now on the verge of a golden age, a renaissance if you will. listen tote president. >> america is on the verge of a golden age for small business. we're ending job-killing regulation. these folks know that very well. we're really ending it at a record pace, i'll tell you. [applause] we're setting economic records. we're very proud of it. that is a very big thing. the jobs are coming pouring back. factories are coming pouring back into our country. you saw the foxconn last week. they will spend 10 billion, he is one of the great businessmen of our time and i think the number is going to be 30 million. so he told me off the record, but he told me that off the record, so i promised i wouldn't tell anybody. clayton: apple is on the record wanting to bring more jobs to the united states. foxconn the president talked about is are with the iphones

are assembled in china. so interestingly, we make the parts here in the united states. send them to china to have people put them together, and send them back to be sold. bringing a foxconn plant to the united states could be a game-changer. could start to see other companies doing this in the united states. ainsley: added costs to ship them back and forth. apple, amazing impact this one company has. exxon and apple are two largest. sales up 7.2% just in the last quarter. profits up 12%. do you know how much money that is? $8.72 billion. and to your point about the iphones, they said this summer, believe it or not more people are buying iphones. normally summer sales lag because people wait to the fall for new iphones coming out. they say people are still buying new iphones. clayton: i pads for first time in a while. pete: president makes larger

point that small businesses are the biggest economic driver of our economy. if you look at gdp which hit 2.6. the president believes it will go to three, potentially four, it will have to be small businesses that do majority of hiring and basically wage increases happen at small business level. you reduce regulations. little guy benefits the most from that. not big guy with accountants and attorneys and lawyers. ainsley: you wonder why all the sales go up for apple, more money in our pocketbooks and 401(k)s because stocks are doing so well. that brings us to tax reform. clayton: whether the president can get tax reform through or president wants pub opinions get to health care first, tax reform is thing it is built around. hope of a tax reform. ainsley: more money in the pocketbooks to buy things for your family. clayton: democrats came out with a little bit of a plan. 45 of 48 senators wrote their names -- ainsley: on a letter.

clayton: on a letter, this is what we want to work with republicans. don't want to increase tax burden on middle class. don't want benefits to help healthy individuals. go through regular order. on the floor of the senate. we don't want to add to deficits. pete: we talked to mick mulvaney and about so-called principles or talking points. this is what he had to say. >> one thing democrats have been unified in this administration in opposing this administration. we had a long conversation about the confirmation process. long conversation every single time we call them they say they're not willing to work with them. what we were able to do was important. it didn't got that much attention. we unveiled the big six agreement. what you saw agreement on the fundamental principles, the fundamental ideas that all republicans house, senate and white house agree on tax reform, that is a huge step in the right direction. i wish democrats look at those proposals, see many things they

want are contained in the principles as well. pete: for democrats to talk about deficits is ultimate irony. obama administration drowned us in that. ainsley: they started reconciliation. clayton: republicans have never run up deficits at all. pete: not as much as obama. they're both to blame. clayton: go with clinton when they worked together to get stuff done with balanced budget. jillian with a look at headlines. pat is not cynical. >> we'll let you guys work this out while i tell everyone at home what is going on because we do begin with a fox news alert. we're getting our first look at the latest intercontinental ballistic missile test by the u.s. military. the launch happening after 5:00 a.m. in vandenberg air force base in california. it landed in the western pacific ocean. comes days after north korea fired longest missile yet, crashing into the sea of japan. a new report claims a commercial plane packed with passengers passed through the same airspace

just ten minutes before that launch. the air france jet had more than 300 people on board. breaking right now, brand new video just in from scene of an attack on a nato convoy in afghanistan. the bombing happening in the kandahar province which is the home of taliban. we know there were deaths but unclear if any were americans. the white house weighs sending several thousand more troops to afghanistan. the justice department may plan to sue universities over affirmative action policies. according to "the new york times" the trump administration wants to use civil rights funding to investigate alleged intentional race-based discrimination. the department of justice has not yet commented. that is a look at your headlines, guys but i know that we have some more. mails come in, is that right? ainsley: email at john directed at you two crazy people. tell clayton and jillian they're

his and hers tinfoil hat is on the way. >> welcome it. bring it on. clayton: i'm with it. bring it on. no one is staying up late thinking about it. jillian: late is 8:00 p.m. ainsley: we digress. clayton: ignorance is -- jillian: i have to go to work and take care of my child. i don't have time to worry about aliens. clayton: our next guest says was there and says because of the trump administration she is ready to invest and hire a lot of people. pete: have you heard the one where two priests walk into a bar? ainsley: i love that picture. pete: what about one where they got kicked out? that actually happened. ainsley: no. ♪

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trump addressing a group of small business owners as part of white house's american courtoom week initiative. tana green was there. owner of the frein group. mice to see you. welcome to the show. >> thank you, clayton. i appreciate you having me on. charles: talk about small businesses and way the trump administration views this. they view getting rid of regulation as sort of opening up the flood gates. he really sees small businesses as the engine of our economy. are you encouraged by what you heard in the room the other day? >> i'm extremely encouraged. i'll tell you, i've been in business 30 years. there was point i was ready to give it up basel it, go retire, an joy life, because the regulations were getting so bad, you couldn't sleep at night. you would make a profit. then it would be taken away by some regulation that hit you hard. it got to the point where the struggle was so bad, you didn't want to do it anymore. you weren't adding jobs.

you go into being small business owner to help other people and you want to make a difference. you get to the point regulations and taxes hurts so bad, you go, this is not worth it anymore. the hope that came out of the meeting yesterday will drive the economy, i can guarranty it. clayton: so you used the word hope. we've been talking a lot about hope over the past few months. maria bartiromo and others on our couch have been talking about tax reform, regulation reform, and a lot of businesses are pinning their hopes this will happen. have you seen anything yet to suggest that this is happening? that you can rest easier at night not worry about being sued or paying because of all of these regulations? >> absolutely. i'm in a very heavily-regulated industry, the trucking industry, and i can tell you already they have to kill two to put one in place. we're already seeing it begin to happen already this fast. so that gives you, every little piece of that gives you hope to the next level. so, yes, absolutely. clayton: what do you want to see the administration continue to do?

so you're seeing some of these pieces starting to move for you. what more do you want to see from the administration? >> i think the administration is on it. i think they get it. i think they know what needs to happen. i think they need to concentrate on tax reform and all of these regulations. those two in combination are going to continue to create jobs. clayton: i couldn't agree more. tana greene, thank you for being with us and sharing your concerns and your thoughts. >> thank you. clayton: good luck to you. coming up on the show, senator ron johnson joins us live. sorry, joe, president barack obama appears to have someone else on his mind for 2020. ♪ ♪

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♪ clayton: welcome back to "fox & friends." quick political headlines for you. sorry, joe biden, but appears former president obama wants to run somebody else against president trump in 2020. pushing former massachusetts governor duval they think could win back crucial states turned red by president trump. valerie jarrett behind the idea. duval says it is too soon to decide. kid rock looking at campaign in michigan a new poll says he may have a shot. ♪ that is not a poll. gratuitous showing of a kid rock video. insight poll shows kid rock would lead republican candidates

in the michigan senate race. still trails the michigan incumbent by eight points. who knows. ainsley: obamacare premiums are on the rise as major health insurers seeking increases as high as 30%. clayton: but as repeal efforts fail in the senate what can americans expect next? hear to weigh in wisconsin gop senator ron johnson. senator good to see you this morning. that news was disheartening. wisconsin is one of states hit hard. 30% increase in premiums? >> face it obamacare is a mess. premiums nationally increased 105%. so they have more than doubled. i talked to constituents to have seen premiums triple and more. what is disheartening in the debate, no one really seemed other than myself champion cause of forgotten men and women, folks bill clinton was talking about, busting it, works 60 hours a week. premiums doubled, tripled,

coverage cut in half. nothing in the bill, virtually nothing in the house and senate bill really addressed root cause of skyrocketing premiums. we should address that. pete: senator, you were a latecomer to a lot of republican bills, holding out to see them improve. ultimately voted in favor of them and skinny bill as well. new proposal from senator lindsey graham would push a lot of decision making down to the states in a block grant. what is your take on that proposal? how do you think this process moves forward in the senate here? >> i'm working with lindsey and bill cassidy and governor walker and other governors. i think that is a pretty solid proposal. get these decision making, decision making on health care out of washington, d.c. we just mess things up, pushed down to the states where for example, medicaid can be managed more effect of itly and efficiently than out of washington, d.c., here. pete: do you think that bill can get across the 50 vote threshold? >> it is complex, it is difficult. certainly one of the things i've

been trying to promote is my amendment during the vote which we never got to, made sure members of the congress in the exact same position as our constituents. purchasing their health care plans on the obamacare exchanges without an employer contribution. that is exactly the way the law was written, the way it was debated and voted on. president obama, face it, leadership from both parties circumvented law, put themselves in the favorable position. that has to end, members of congress get serious about fixing the mess. pete: amen. ainsley: what about tax reform? democrats want 60 votes. they came up with reconciliation. so you don't really need 60, you could do it with 51 votes. do you think you get democrats and get all republicans on board? >> as i start the conversation looking for bipartisan support. they started the conversation saying we're going to demand basically no tax cuts for anybody who actually helps

create jobs, which is not a very good starting point. i'm happy to work with them. i have my own corporate tax proposal, would tax corporate income at ownership level, a true warren buffett tax. i think really good proposal. i've been working hard on it. that should be able to garner bipartisan support but we'll see what is going to happen. we have to get tax relief to the american taxpayer. pete: talking about richest, wouldn't simply foycation of tax code that means those at top could not exploit loopholes and more fairer system simplified and they pay a higher rate anyway? >> much rather talk about tax simplification. all reform is not good but we obviously have to have far more competitive tax system. my corporate tax proposal is exactly that. it makes us globally the most competitive nation in the world. actually very advantageous to people that pay low tax rates. more advantageous to own stock under my type of plan. it is good plan. i hope the senate finance committee gives it serious

consideration. clayton: the big question how do you pay for it all, right? how do you pay for tax cuts, when you have infrastructures, health care and tax reform. where does the money come from? are we running deficits up? >> what you want to do design a tax system that makes america more competitive so the economy grows a whole lot faster than it currently is. over last 50 years, economy average growth is 3%. enormous difference between 2 and 3%, adds $14 trillion of economic activity in just a deck kid. that has money flowing into the federal government. you have to grow the economy. tax reform should be targeted toward economic growth. if we do that we'll have money to pay for it. pete: we asked about democrats and will they get involved in the process. they have done nothing but to resist and obstruct. they talk about regular order but more likely to throw muck in the wheels. nominations by the trump administration versus how many have been confirmed.

31 nominations, 56 confirmed. ainsley: 311. pete: sorry, 31 is 1 to 56. obama administration, proposed 428, 23confirmed. you could have resisted his and not way democrats. >> democrats have been obstructed staffing this administration. one of the reasons i proposed changing rules of senate to let committees do all the vetting and only allow two hours of debate on any nominee subcabinet level or lower court levels in supreme court. that would take away a lot of this obstruction on part of both parties forever. that is really solid proposal in terms of senate rule change. pete: amazing when you put numbers out there, that is how resist actually manifests itself, 250 positions unfilled because democrats -- ainsley: he said it is un-american. pete: i agree. ainsley: senator, thanks for joining us. >> have a great day. ainsley: you too. pete: next on the run-down, chilling admin mission from a former m ms-13 hit man on the

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♪ clayton: that is janice. national ice courtroom sandwich day. coming up we'll be competing to see who can make the best ice cream sandwich. ainsley: we'll have to try it. clayton: nothing subjective judging that at all. pete: aesthetic beauty as well as taste. clayton: not making sure it is

too tall. the worst when you squish it. pete: or a bigger one. ainsley: do you like the regular tank lar sandwiches or round cookie ones? clayton: great question. ainsley: they're different brands of cookie ones too. one is better than other. clayton: one has cake on it, gets stuck to your teeth. ainsley: why don't we go out there and try the ice cream. jillian, hand it over to you. jillian: you guys are having enlightening conversation and janice dancing on screen. i'm enjoying myself. go out there to enjoy the ice cream as i get caught up on news of the hour. president trump vows to eradicate the deadly gang known as ms-13, we're learning how easy it is for members to sneak into the country. tucker carlson speaking to a former ms-13 hit man behind bars in el salavador. >> how hard is it for an ms-13 gang member to get into the united states? >> it is easy. >> how do you do it?

>> i never wanted to go to the united states. >> but your friends who did, how do they get there. >> they have passes. they have their people. jillian: tucker carlson, hunting ms-13 series, 8:00 p.m. eastern. check it out. college students outraged after the school forces them to move a 9/11 memorial on campus. thousands of flags sat you outside the main building at texas southern methodist university for the last several years. but the school changed the rules last month you saying signs on campus may be quote, triggering or harmful. instead the flags will be displayed on a different part of campus this year. the school has sinced walked back the initial statement about triggers. u.s. senator introducing a new bill to legalize pot nationwide. democratic new jersey senator cory booker announcing his proposal on facebook, bashing the trump administration, knowing his proposal would not get through, a republican controlled congress. >> it disturbs me right now that attorney general jeff sessions

is not moving as the states are, moving as public opinion is, but actually saying that we should be doubling down and enforcing federal marijuana laws. jillian: booker wants to withhold federal money from state whose marijuana laws disproportionately incarcerate minorities. have you heard this one. seven priests walk into a bar around get booted out. it is not a joke. this is for real. it all went down inside of a pub in the uk. the trainee priests including reverend james seen in the picture were told they weren't allowed in. turns out the bartender thought they were a bachelor party. he just didn't want to deal with the quote, hijinks. when he realized he was wrong, he gave them a round on the house and the profits stayed all night. so at least we can have a happy ending to that story. a look at the headlines. let's go back outside to janice dean who stopped dancing for the moment. >> i don't need music to dance, jillian. we'll talk about weather real

quick. it is a perfect day for national ice cream sandwich day. a look at temperatures across the map. very warm across the west coast, we're dealing with 106, day time high in portland. 85 in houston. 87 muggy degrees in new york city with storms in the west. are you ready? it is national ice cream sandwich day. here to help celebrate is kimberly from nestle to house chip cafe. >> thank you for having me here. clayton: doing something special today, right? you're doing a discount? >> we are. we have 2-dollar discount sandwiches in all of our cafes 4:00 and 8:00 p.m. we have them from coast to coast and around the globe. pete: we're having debate this morning on the couch what goes into making perfect ice cream sandwich. can you give us tips? we try to put some together there. >> we like to give our guests choice of two cookies. go with the classic to house

cookie or combine the to house cookie with snickerdoodle. or mint chocolate chip ice cream is also a favorite. ainsley: you put this one -- >> hold it with your hand. hold it with your hand. we'll take a scoop of ice cream. ainsley: which scoop do you want? >> chocolate chip. can he have cookies and cream. ainsley: i want cookies and cream for my cookie. >> there you go. clayton: that is your choice. >> a little bit more. you're dissing my scoop? >> don't miss toppings, guys. i do want to eat it but with the toppings, you dip it in like that. >> you can dip it, if you want to dip it or we can sprinkle it. >> i'm a dipper. >> how did he go so fast. clayton: sprinkles are on the side. sprinkles on the side. >> we can do that.

clayton: or just spill it all over the place. that is how i roll. there you go. ainsley: i have caramel. clayton: national ice cream day. thank you so much. pete: who wants my ice cream sandwich? >> you put your hands all over it. pete: i touched it. >> i think a couple of you definitely earned your double-dipper pins today. double-dipping pins. here we go. [laughter] clayton: thank you so much. >> yum. pete: next on the run-down, former cia operative says russians were involved in the election. but it wasn't collusion. he joins us to explain. justice department sparking outrage for officially using the term illegal. nick adams is a legal immigrant, who says it is about time we started using that word. how is my ice cream sandwich? good.

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♪ clayton: welcome back, former cia operative were involved in our election. but rather than collusion, it was more about disruption, than anything else. vice president and spg, former cia officer daniel hoffman served in moscow and he joins us now to explain. daniel, thanks for joining us this morning. we noted a op-ed you wrote in the "new york times" on this very subject. lay out argument you're making what the real russian involvement was. >> i served in moscow five years and devoted a good portion of my cia career to tracking russian intelligence. this operation really is straight from the russian intelligence playbook. it really shouldn't come as much

of a surprise given that vladmir putin served in the kgb. he was director of the f sb. in this case i believe he mounted an influence operation. when we consider the facts -- pete: go ahead. >> yes, sir? pete: continue. what is in their playbook? what did they do? i cut you off, sorry. >> in this case what they sought to do leave a trail of bread crumbs leading directly from trump tower to the kremlin with eye connecting our electoral process to the kremlin. in vladmir putin's estimation that would be best way not only soil our electoral process but also induce a media feeding frenzy which would then interfere with our governing process. pete: so our argument, it was less about beating hillary clinton or helping donald trump and more about insuring that from the outside it looked like we're in disarray here in america and our election process

is not legitimate? >> yes. i think with an eye towards muddying our democratic institutions as well as focus on his own march 2018 elections, i think this was put it put's goal. when you consider the russians who attended the june 2016 meeting, they were all essentially connected to the kremlin. the lawyer, natalia veselnitskaya lobbied on half of the f sb against the magnitsky act. he also served in the soviet military. the other son of a oligarch son close to vladmir putin. this was easily discoverable connection to the kremlin which is exactly what i believe president putin would have wanted. pete: some of these leaks, do you believe they're coming from the kremlin as well, seeking to throw bread crumbs out and make sure coverage reflects that or democrats make this big issue through investigations?

>> i am not sure where exactly the leaks are coming from. i do believe it would be in the interest of the kremlin to create the conditions for the looks to occur. and one way they would have done that was this email trail, starting with the rob goldstone email which was really a very provocative, again, very discoverable email. had russians wanted to establish a clandestine channel for collusion, then they could have done so with deep cover operatives, which is certainly you know a quiver in their espionage bow. they have significant number of intelligence officers in the united states. pete: sure. >> they certainly could have done that but they chose not to, and i believe deliberately. pete: you're a former cia station chief. you served in moscow, iraq and pakistan. with your judgment and experience, and experience, was their intent to collude with the trump administration? >> my late father, a u.s.

district attorney always taught me look hard at the facts and ask the right questions and at this point from everything i have seen i see no evidence of collusion. i will leave it for others to comment on the strategy of one campaign or another or the tactics and behavior of specific campaign officials but i, i believe that looking at it from the optic of russia's own strategy and tactics and goals, i think that the russians were interested, perhaps in weaponizing information they obtained through cyber and through their intelligence operations but i don't believe they needed to do it through a campaign. pete: they ultimately remain a geopolitical foe of freedom and of the united states of america. daniel hoffman, check out the op-ed in "the new york times" on july 28th. thank you very much for joining us, sir. >> thank you. pete: the justice department sparking outrage for officially using the term illegal, but our

next guest is a legal immigrant who says it is about time. let's check in with bill hemmer what is coming up at top. hour. >> pete good morning to you. big push on taxes. where that stands this morning we'll let you know. are some republicans bucking the president? is this an issue? we'll do a deep dive. crackdown on crime. what is changing in america. senator marco rubio and how the president is handling the crisis in venezuela. from the white house, kellyanne conway joins us live, and much, much more. shannon and i zoo you ten minutes away top. hour here on "america's newsroom." 80 percent of recurrent ischemic strokes

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♪ ainsley: the trump administration attorney general jeff sessions calling illegal immigration what it is, illegal. >> some jurisdictions in this country refuse to cooperate with

the federal government when it comes to immigration authorities to turn over illegal aliens who commit crimes. ainsley: but some are outraged over the term illegal aliens. the center for racial justice innovation saying quote, the "i" word is legally inaccurate, politically-loaded, dehumanizing to the people that it describes and likely unintentionally fuels racial profiling and violence directed towards immigrants. here to sound off, author of green card warrior, nick adams. founder, executive director of foundation for liberty and american greatness. good to see you again, nick. >> good morning, ainsley. ainsley: for folks at home don't know your story, first of all tell us your journey here to america. >> my journey to america was a tough one, ainsley. cost lots and lots of money and took really long time. i followed the law. i followed everything i had to do. thankfully almost exactly a year

ago i immigrated to the united states. i'm a permanent resident of greatest country in the history of the world but can you i tell you nothing frustrates me more than those people that come here the wrong way, that don't follow the law, that don't follow the processes and get rewarded for it. ainsley: advocates for immigration reform say it's a racial slur, it is dehumanizing, do you agree with that? >> ainsley, these people really need a tablespoon of cement and harden up. this is calling exactly what it is. it is not due humanizing. it is not politically-loaded. facts do not care about your feelings. unfortunately we live in a society where feelings get elevated over facts to the detriment of our society and civilization and our culture. i don't agree with any of those things. we're calling it what it is. ainsley: you say call it what it is. if i were caught drinking and driving that would be illegal. you would be able to call it

illegal because that is what it is. the law doesn't allow you to do it. if you come into the country, don't follow the rules, you sneak in and not paying taxes, that is illegal, right? >> that is exactly right, ainsley. if you come to america the wrong way you have broken the law. if you come to america the wrong way, you have committed a crime. there is no two-ways about it. there is no gray area. you have either come here the right way and you haven't broken the law or you have come the wrong way and you have broken the law. ainsley: well you know what is interesting? i remember when president trump was running for office he was saying i'm not going to separate families. if you're here illegally, basically you have a pass. if you're a criminal, and you're here illegally, you're going home, you're going back to your country. should they be thanking this administration? even though they're doing something that is illegal, he is allowing them to still stay and find a way? >> look, immigration system really needs to be overhauled entirely. we need to do something about illegal immigration, ainsley, we

need to do something about legal immigration because it is profoundly unfair. for those who want to kind of complain and use the term undocumented immigrant, they are really, all they are doing is trying to condone and obscure the unlawful actions and conduct of those who would violate our immigration laws. ainsley: okay. nick adams, author of "green card warrior." thank you so much, nick. >> always a pleasure. ainsley: thank you. we have more "fox & friends" just moments away. ♪ binders. done. super-cool notebooks. done. that's mom taking care of business. but who takes care of mom? office depot/office max. this week, filler paper just one cent with five dollar minimum purchase. ♪taking care of business.

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the open. we can't possibly believe we are alone in the cosmos. >> bill: good morning, everybody. breaking news now on the tensions building over north korea. the u.s. military test firing an icbm. intercontinental ballistic missile lighting up the night sky in california that coming days after north korea's missile test. in reports from washington is president trump is said to get tough on china. good morning, it's wednesday and i'm bill hemmer live in "america's newsroom." good morning, shannon. >> shannon: i feel like that's the tip of the iceberg. a lot more to come. i'm shannon bream. the "wall street journal" is reporting the trump administration is planning new trade measures cracking down on intellectual property theft and makin