heather: and i'm heather childers, the taliban claiming responsibility while rocket claiming attack to mattis. nearly 50 launches were launched shortly after mattis had left. rob: the defense secretary did safely leave. first trip after announcing military strategists there. stay with "fox & friends first" as breaking stories remain. failed attempt of attack on secretary of defense. heather: glad he is safe. the take a knee protest continues to intensify. >> the controversy escalates nationwide, president trump not backing down at this point. instead ramping up his fight against the nfl. heather: griff jenkins joins us live with free speech debate, good morning, griff. >> good morning, heather and

rob. democrat became the second member of congress to take a knee with some of the nfl players on the house floor. >> it's a sign of love of country, a country with a promise that has to be for everyone regardless of the color of their skin. so i join so many and nfl and elsewhere in taking a knee for the america that we all inspire it to be. >> pocan, first member to kneel president trump double down taking a knee calling it an important situation. >> i was ashamed of what was taking place, to me that was a very important moment, i don't think you can disrespect our country, our flag, our national anthem. to me the nfl situation is a very important situation. >> one member of congress representative al green come to the president's impeachment over this issue.

>> i rise to announce that on next week, mr. speaker, i will bring a privilege resolution before the congress of the united states of america. i will stand here in the well of the congress and i will call for the impeachment of the president of the united states of america. >> this is the second time since july that green called for president's impeachment. sessions of congress does not open with the national anthem. finally back to steelers, the they are issuing statement that the team never intent toddies respect anyone. heather: wife of american chris kyle challenging the nfl to get off its knees in response to national protest.

one big team with one big goal to do well and win together. you are asking us to abandon us what we love about togetherness and kyle asking for players to fight for causes off the field instead of sideline. rob: rush limbaugh weighing in on the protest after tuning in watching the cowboys. >> we are dealing with liberalism here and that's not how that liberate. everybody knows how much the nfl and bigger than life but it doesn't seem bigger than life, it just seems, it seems like a tool now. it has become something being used by the political forces of the left to advance their agenda

which is an antiamerican agenda. >> the protests are taking the life blood out of the game that americans are loved for years. heather: president trump goes to indiana to push tax reform plan aimed after boosts american businesses. >> we will cut taxes tremendously for the middle class not just a little bit but tremendously. heather: several indiana lawmakers will join the president including democrat senator joe at the event, this after heidi kampf appeared. you may remember that. rob: coming up in the next half hour, more details on that. antiestablishment candidate roy moore getting a big win in the alabama senate runoff.

>> as long as it's constitutional, as long as it advances our society, our culture, our country, i will be supportive. rob: big race we have been talking about all week, the race to replace the senate seat that was now held by now attorney general jeff sessions, high-profile endorsement on both sides on this race. president trump backing luther strange. >> sometimes it's politics and sometimes friendship, common goal to make the country better. rob: the man that people said was more like the president actually won. president trump tweeting congratulations on roy moore on republican primary win in alabama. luther strange started way back and ran a good race. roy, win in december and more

will -- roy will campaign in december. heather: president trump said he will campaign in december. rob: here to weigh in founder of american majority and former presidential writer for president george w. bush, ned ryan, thank you for coming on this morning. >> good morning, guys. >> roy: thank you. this was a big win for roy moore, of course, he didn't have the backing of the president in a state that loves the president, how did he pull this off and what does it mean? >> well, i mean there are a couple of dynamics that were played in alabama. first, this is really about the people of alabama saying do we want a former corrupt governor and the dc establishment or are we, the second dynamic was, is this really a bit of rejection of mitch mcconnell, lack of leadership in the u.s. senate and pushing forward the agenda. if you look at those two

dynamics, i think, if luther strange had not accepted that appointment in governor bentley -- rob: who he was investigating. >> luther strange would have been a shoe. that's the tone for 2018 and various primaries around the country. if mitch mcconnell and dc establishment can spend 30 million to protect luther strange and loses by double digits, nobody is protected anymore. heather: let's take a look at the final tally, luther change 4.51%. won by 44,000 votes. did you expect it to be that wide of a margin and what does this say, a lot of people were saying that it was bannon versus president and bannon won this round? >> you know, this is -- i do think it's about trump voters saying, listen, president trump we love you but we love roy moore more. the second point is, i had been

calling for 5 or 6-point roy win. i saw the numbers yesterday and bumped it up to 10 or 12. i think it would have been 15 minutes if president trump had not come town and rallied on behalf of luther strange. rob: it certainly was a healthy victory. >> it was one of those things if you saw the poll numbers and look you realized that roy moore was going to win. only thing i needed is to understand how much he was going to win. rob: i have to ask you real quick, i was trying to figure out the time, it must have been a request more mcconnell or favor that mcconnell needed this. go out there and go for our guy luther strange because everybody -- it seems like trump would have naturally gone roy moore all the way and everybody was trying to figure out why does the president like luther strange because he's not

establishment? >> that's right. i think roy moore, this is a dynamic that president trump should fully understand. last year understanding that people wanted more of an outsider, not a dc establishment person. 2016 was all about that then and we are seeing it continue to play out. i think president trump got bad advice. hopefully this morning he will wake up and examine who is getting political advice. do not listen to consultant class. i think that trump going forward needs to understand. there are people in dc that do not have best interest in mind therefore do not listen to their advice. heather: we will see what happens in the midterms. rob: thank you. no food, no water, no power, a very dire situation in hurricane ravaged puerto rico. this has been happening for days now growing more desperate by the hour. heather: white house stepping up recovery efforts as president

trump plans the trip to devastated area, gary joins us with the latest, garret. >> the trump administration is increasing its disaster relief for puerto rico providing more support and emergency protective emergencies. president trump is set to witness the damage firsthand. >> we are unloaded on an hourly basis water, we have top people from fema and first responders and everybody else. >> that announcement came after the president faced harsh criticism if response to crisis. democratic lawmakers took issue about tweets about the nfl and one suggesting puerto rico debt contributed to the situation here. >> unfortunately what we see from the white house over the weekend has been a diversion, distraction to really nonsensical issues. >> to the president again, if you don't take this crisis seriously, this is going to be

your katrina. >> but devastated island, home to 3 million americans, basic nect his are hard to come by and most of the island is still without power, there's not enough generators or diesel to run them. >> we have no electricity or no water and we have people without houses. >> military personnel are bringing supplies, lines for basic nect his, water and gas and days before the help can reach some parts of the country. in san juan gary tenney. heather: it became the rallying cry for president trump's campaign. >> build that wall, build that wall, build that wall! heather: we heard it over and over again and now it is happening. we will take you inside the construction of the southern border wall. rob: remember the passenger

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in san diego we rescue half a million people, that's reduced dramatically. >> area of roadway by the construction site has been blocked off as free speech zone for people who want to peacefully protest. san diego county officials ban all weapons in anticipation of possible protests. president trump says he intends to pick the winning prototype himself and as the head of the executive branch he does have the authority to award government contracts, heather, rob, here we go. rob: remember that all protestors out there, president obama, then -- senator obama and hillary clinton both voted for a border wall back in 2006. that's the interesting thing for everybody that's against the wall. jackie, thank you so much. >> you're welcome. heather: national anthem protest are moving to nfl to capitol hill. >> join so many now in the nfl and elsewhere in taking a knee for the america that we all

aspire it to be. heather: well, these supposed calls to action are also being followed by even louder calls for impeachment. joining me to weigh in fox news political analyst, thank you so much for joining us this morning. first question is, what is the point now, we begin can colin kaepernick, he had one point, is the point now to protest donald trump and are we losing the initial message in all of this? >> it absolutely is. i will tell you, heather, nfl players are taking taking the ly out. if the initial intent was to protest racism which we can think of the democratic party, they would have been in the hill with me and leaders of 2020 of america last week as we were going capitol hill lobbying people like senator chuck gassily in favor of criminal justice reform. this has become nothing more

than antitrump demonstration and it's problematic, at this point where there's division seemingly everywhere, we need a time to get together and time to get together generally usually when it comes to watching the nfl and other sports teams. heather: in essence the democrats are doing a disservice by taking it over and making it about donald trump instead. in terms of the divisions, you know, people blaming president trump, people blaming the football players, people blaming democrats, who is responsible and who can change it? >> you know it's interesting in terms of this protest. now we have to be very honest. president trump has made a lot worse than initially was and putting his name in the hat with this has caused a bit of a stir and one thing that president trump has to know he's not a president or celebrity where he puts his voice -- heather: along with the language he used as

well. >> the b language was rather disgusting in my view. the miami has been hijacked and completely antitrump demonstration, jackson lee who is in favor of criminal justice reform, according to sources on capitol hill, every time there's a bill that could make changes she's generally speaking against specially if it's a republican proposing it. heather: how do we end this, that's what i keep asking? is the media perpetuating the story. we keep talking about it, how do we end it? >> it was interesting that i was on air with neil cavuto and i was discussing the church shooting which no one heard about if you heard fox news. heather: distracting. >> whatever is going to be a distraction, whatever is going to divide us more is what they want to focus on and not the things that impact our country and individuals with in it.

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heather: welcome back, football fans angry and a lot of them, could be getting cash back. rob: isn't that interesting. tracee carrasco to explain. >> direct tv is letting customers who are upset about all of the national anthem drama cancel their sunday tickets to watch these games. this is a pricey ticket, $280, normally they don't let people cancel but because of this they are letting some people cancel. it could really hurt them in the long run and viewership is down. down 11% so far this season.

it's compared to last year. rob: okay. heather: saving money or more expensive or less expensive. seven-dollar orange juice. tracee: even if you were not in florida directly impacted by hurricane irma you could be impacted if you drink orange juice, 30 to 70% of the crop was destroyed by the hurricane, so you're going to be paying more, about 2.30 more a gallon for orange juice which could hike up the price all the way to $7. now our only hope right now is brazil. if they could import some of their oranges here, we could -- surprisingly the prices will go down. rob: hopefully. time of the year where we need it to. the again -- geniuses at the plane know that they can't throw somebody out of a flight, you

can bid on a price if you have to get booted, the highest bidder gets to leave. explain it to us. tracee: in response to that infamous video we saw that united passengers. united is letting passengers make a bid, how much will it take you to get off the overbooked flight. delta already has something in place like this and they are testing it out and see how it goes and they will soon let it out. hopefully it'll go better than that video. heather: yeah, no more scenes like that. rob: i couldn't believe when that happened. professional athletes taking a knee during national anthem. do they really know what they're protesting? >> i don't think they know the story of the flag, i don't think they know about this memorial, children become adults an they act different roles in society and we are seeing the result of that. rob: why the players may want a history lesson before they disrespect our nation's flag.

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heather: welcome back to "fox & friends first". a fox news alert is where we begin the taliban claiming responsibility for a rocket attack targeting defense secretary james mattis while on a trip to afghanistan. you're looking at new video of the airport in kabul where fox news has learned that nearly 50 launches rocketed shortly after mattis left. he had left the scene. it is being reported that only six rockets landed near the airport and there were no casualties. rob: most importantly the defense secretary did get off safely. first trip to afghanistan since the president announced a new military strategy there and, of course, we are still getting information on the story. stay with "fox & friends" as the breaking story does develop. heather: but right now from the sidelines to the house floor,

back at home, take a knee protest and backlash is intensifying. rob: tensions escalate nationwide. president trump not backing down, ramping up his fight against the nfl. heather: griff jenkins live in capitol. >> house of representatives are taking the knee, wisconsin democrat mark pocan, second member to do so in the house floor. >> it's a sign of love of country, a country with a promise that has to be for everyone regardless of the color of their skin. so i join so many now in the nfl and elsewhere in taking a knee for the american that we all aspire it to be. >> pocan follows jackson lee who was the first member to kneel and president trump doubling down in the rose garden calling it an important situation. >> i was ashamed of what was

taking place because to me that was a very important moment, i don't think you can disrespect our country, our flag, our national anthem, to me the nfl situation is a very important situation. >> it didn't stop with kneeling, one member of congress representative al green of texas is calling for the president's impeachment over this issue. >> i rise to announce that on next week, mr. speaker, i will bring a privileged resolution before the congress of the united states of america, i will stand here in the well of the congress and i will call for the impeachment of the president of the united states of america. >> now, for the record this is the second time since july that green has called for the president's impeachment, so guys, we certainly haven't heard the last of this issue. heather: definitely not. all right. thank you so much, griff. rob: okay, so the big question is, how many people in this country, what do they think? do they think you should be allowed to kneel for the anthem.

heather: the majority of people, 64% of people say they should stand and maybe the others need a history lesson. rob: that's right. reminds me so much of the monument debacle that we went through a one or two ago where everybody we wanted to tear down the the national monuments and it was more understanding of people of anything that was for a -- a confederate leader was understandable but then they started talking about taking down monuments of people like george washington and people like madison who owned slaves and people were resoundly against that. heather: the other thing that we talked about yesterday, back in 2009i found it ironic that the obama administration paid the national football league to be patriotic, they had to stand for the national anthem then because they were getting money, but now they want, you know, this to happen and it's not equal on both side as you were saying. rob: that's right. that's very true. let's look at another poll, here

the national anthem a place to protest, 31% say they support the right to free speech and to do whatever you want even during national anthem. 9% unsure, didn't want to touch it as you might expect. >> now it seems that the whole miami has been hijacked by democrats so perhaps there's a different place if the football players do want to continue with this purpose of, you know, racing awareness of racism in america. rob: here is former secretary. >> i don't think people know american history. i don't think they know the story of the flag, for instance, frank key, it was still standing. i don't think they know the memorial over there where the guys are putting the flag up there and i don't think they know unless they saw the movie

glory about the sergeant who would not -- born a slaif, part to have 54th massachusetts would not let the flag fall to the ground. single most important thing who gets the teach children and children become adults and we are seeing the results of that. heather: very true. people they actually think they don't need to learn the lessons because they can google it. you can google it. rob: great point. who is teaching our kids, the scariest thing of all. heather: it will continue no doubt. in the meantime the department of homeland security is expanding the kinds of information that it collects on immigrants including social media and internet search data. starting next month all social media history will be searched. this will apply to not only recent immigrants but also green card holders and naturalized

citizens as well. it goes into effect october 18th. rob: all right, women in saudi arabia just given green light to drive just now. the foreign ministry posting the royal decree on twitter writing, quote, sing solomon issues order allowing women to drive. it took this long. president trump commending the change positive step. law will go into effect in june. heather: well, this sure beat it is yellow cab, dubai testing out the world's first unmanned, do you want to try this, flying taxi. yes. rob: wait till they start bumping into each other. 30 minutes at 60 miles an hour powered by clean electricity and engineer to fly very quiet. no word yet on when the public can step on board, but -- heather: looks like a giant drone. rob: helicopter kind of thing. heather: the jetsons are here.

janice, what do you think about the weather. janice: i love the jetsons. let's try that out. we are talking about maria. we are not talking about a hurricane anymore, thank goodness, tropical storm. do not go in the water if you're not a seasoned swimmer. goodbye to maria, the good thing lee will remain out to see, bye, bye, lee. chicago, 7 straight days of record setting highs that's going to end today with 73-degrees. we are looking at potential for shower, thunderstorms across the southwest and into parts of texas, southeast texas remains dry but potential for flash flooding. south texas up towards oklahoma city and temperatures are going to drop.

83 in new york, 76, 70, 67 on saturday. here comes fall. what do you think? heather: lee is changing, that's beautiful. rob: i love summer but fall is the best. janice: great to see you, guys. rob: wife of american sniper chris kyle slamming the nfl players claiming they are protesting for unity. heather: birth control being sold in vending machines where college students think it's necessary. rob: accused of stealing american secrets now has a new target to blame and that is his child's homework, we will explain sheep, have you any wool? no sir, no sir, some nincompoop stole all my wool sweaters,

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rob: welcome back. remember the affluenza teen that was led off easy on manslaughter charges where he was too much to know any better. a similar case in england causing outrage. 24-year-old seen here showing nothing but smiles as she walks out of court after a judge called her too bright for jail. the oxford university student and aspiring surgeon walking free after stabbing her boyfriend during an alcohol and drug fueled frenzy, the judge allowing her to take a course in order to save her chances for a medical career because clearly she's too smart to end up in prison. heather: not too smart to do that. first nfl players and now kids are joining the national anthem protest. about 140 high school and middle school students in the oakland, california honor band taking a knee before playing. students even blaming president

trump. >> they bash nfl players but not like call out neo nazis for their violence. heather: ban first taking a knee last year when colin kaepernick started the protest. the wife of american sniper taya kyle has a message. rob: here with powerful response. >> facebook post that has everybody talking about today. we have seen lots of different groups respond to national anthem protest. some people are applauding it. others are so angry that they are burning nfl gear. now the wife of late navy seal chris kyle has responded in open letter to nfl urging play toaster get off knees. here is a direct quote, football was really a metaphor for our ideal world, different backgrounds, talents, political

believes and histories as one big team with one big goal to do well to win together. she goes onto urge the nfl to stop focusing on anker and division and start playing ball. her words are going viral online. one twitter used called it best response to nfl failure. mike also chimed in saying, your family continues to lead by example and give to this country amazing. ginger on twitter, she said that there's so much truth in the letter, blessings to you, her husband will never be forgotten you want to read the whole letter, you can find it on official facebook page and also on foxnews.com and who better to listen to and learn by than her. heather: bret baier was help to go spread this online yesterday. carley: what has peyton manning been up to these days. he's had initials qb in front of his whole life. what about the letters sen,

senator, after the news broke that bob corker will be retiring after his term, peyton manning's name was floated as a possible replacement. now tennessee congressman scott added fuel to that flyer, maybe peyton may not be interested in 2018 but 2020. you know social media and bret baier will be responding to this. does this mean that tennessee will get discounted papa johns. kyle, the phrase should be said in the nationwide jingle voice. he wants us to peyton manage insenator, has a nice ring to this. rob: has he ever said anything about politics? >> not that we know. maybe scott -- rob: you had me all excited like he was already

in. heather: coach would be good. carley: good news for people that have a whole lot to say, possibly expanding expanding thr limit from 140 characters to 280. right now they are testing this out with a small group of people but, of course, people on twitter had big opinions on this. people don't like change, so a lot of people are complaining, leading ben to say this, for everyone complaining about twitter expanding to 280 characters, you know you don't have to use them all. he has a pretty good point there. another twitter, with 280 characters expect autobiographies. i kind of like the idea. have you ever had the perfect tweet but you are three characters off. rob: figure it out. heather: people won't do three

characters, long tweets now. rob: worst than facebook. [laughter] rob: steve with what's coming out on "fox & friends". steve: i only send emojis. florida congressman and former army ranger, congressman from florida will join us, he posted that powerful facebook photo in response to the nfl protests. protestors should already be gone. we have a big show today. the guests include kellyanne conway and attorney general for the united states of america jeff sessions, a busy three hours kicks off 12 and a half minutes right now in the channel you trust for your morning news. "fox & friends first" back in a couple of minutes start the interview with a firm handshake.

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heather: welcome back to "fox & friends first". birth control is just as easy to get as the candy bar. a stanford university selling emergency contraceptives in vending machines right outside in all gender restrooms. the university even offered students discount by subsidizing the cost. students complaining that they couldn't get the morning after pills since the health center is closed. what do you think about that? aerosmith canceling tour after front man becomes sick. ♪ ♪ heather: steven tyler is blaming unexpected, that's the quote, medical issues forcing him to call off at least four shows. the 69-year-old rocker tweeting, quote, please not to worry, i am not in life-threatening

condition but i need to deal with this right away. we hope that he'll be okay. rob: we certainly do with that voice. thanks, heather. president trump heading to indiana later today where he's expected to pitch tax reform plan and give us more details. what would it mean for wallet and what obstacles does it face from the left? you're well versed in all of this stuff like that and -- i know. it's a lot. we will learn a lot more today. >> that's right. rob: let's bring up some of the things that we do know. let's pull up the screen. cutting corporate tax rates and the president says that's how you will grow the economy and pay for all of this. cutting tax rate on pass-through businesses at 25%, that's from 39.6, collapsing individual tax rates down to 3 brackets, simplifying it, likely to be 35, 25 and 12 for the lowest earners and cutting the top rates on the

wealthiest americans 39.6 to 35 and doubling the standard deduction, that's some of the basis of this. i think the idea is we are going to cut taxes on everybody, people say how are you going to pay for all of this? we are in so much debt. he wants to get the gdp up. >> we want to grow the economy for two reasons, one is putting people back to work, but two economic growth can help pay for tax cuts as well. there's people challenging the story, whether that's going to work or not. that's going to be the battle in congress. how many people can you get on board with this idea that we are going to get more growth? the president is focusing on business tax cuts because that's where he see it is real growth potential. rob: you will have bernie sanders screaming the wealthy corporations, private-jet guys getting ax -- a tax rate, blah, blah, that's part of the reason we are 20 trillion in debt. >> that's the biggest disappointment of obama

administration. the president right now is saying, enough of that, i want to cut taxes, put money back in people's pockets and business' pockets so they will invest and hire people and get the economy growing. rob: the health care situation has sucked. the president -- it's a loser for the republicans right now. they can't win on it. they needed to move this months ago in my personal opinion. let's look at proposals and talk about something that they can win on. eliminating state tax, alternative minimum tax, i can't talk today, expanding refundable tax credit for child care or dependent care, that sounds more like ivanka idea. allowing business expensing of investment, one-time repatriation earnings, talk about the last one. >> trillions of dollars sitting overseas the companies aren't bringing back to the united states. we have ridiculous tax rate. one-time low-tax rate.

we need to fix our corporate tax rate. it's one of the highest in the world. we want to grow the economy, give companies a reason to stay here. rob: when the far left screams about giving the break to all the corporate guys, if you want jobs, you want people to have jobs, you have to lower the tax rate. >> when they have money in their pockets they invest in plant. that helps everybody. it's an organic together and this is part of the plan. rob: brian, thank you so much. we appreciate it. we will be right back al-time, al-time, so our engineers can solve problems with the most precise data at their fingertips. because safety is never being satisfied. and always working to be better. breathe freely fast wmy congestion's gone. i can breathe again! i can breathe again! vicks sinex... breathe on.

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