let us know what you think @howardkurtz on twitter. >> he tied a prisoner never taking responsibility for the murderers. >> first of all, it literally dying for tax reform. we have become uncompetitive. we lost industry because of it, wages over so many years under obama have been sag nant -- stagnant. >> i want to see some changes in the bill and there are some house provisions that i like better. >> 2017 was the year that tested our faith and these moments of crisis heros emerge. with us tonight are some of our first responders who ran towards

the danger. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ heather: good morning to you, you're watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning. the weekend is over but that's a good thing because that means you can join us right here for the very latest on your news, the upcoming week and what happened over the weekend, let's get right to top story right now. charles manson, the infamous

leader is dead of natural causes, manson convincing followers to convince crimes years ago and captivated the nation. casey siegal has more. >> synonymous with pure evil. >> charles millis scott manson. >> he's one to have country's most notorious criminals who will forever be a dark stain. manson arrived in san francisco at the height of the hippy culture. he preached on the streets claiming to be the second coming of christ. he attracted a devoted group who dedicated their lives to histreligious teaching, they were known as the family, manson's drug use pushed his paranoia further and prepared the family for what he believed

the race war destroying the country. he had complete control over his followers. >> during a two-night rampage in 1969 on august 8th, four followers killed for manson, first pregnant actress sharon on the los angeles door on the front door the word pig written in blood and the next they the businessman and his wife. manson and followers faced first-degree charges and a jury convicted all of them. >> they enjoyed killing. their life was murder. >> manson received death sentence in 1971 but after california abolished the death penalty died a prisoner never

taking responsibility for the murderers. >> i never broke nobody's will. >> fox news. heather: now to fox news alert for you, a pair of manhunt intensifying right now for two cop cippers in two different states, 43-year-old sean and 25-year-old brian shaw. ramel believed to have killed officer shaw. it has been on lockdown since then. $200,000 now offered in that case and a gofundme page and so far raised more than $13,000.

the hunt continues this morning for a possible serial killer in tampa. four people are dead and the fbi is going door to door desperately looking for clues, a former hock side detective is live for news tampa with the latest in the investigation. we have been following this for everyone, what's the latest, ted. >> we are here in the seminole heights neighborhood where they believe a killer is among them, within a 1 mile radius from where i'm standing starting october the ninth through november 14th, four people have been shot and they believe it's by the same man. on november 14th, felton, a gentleman was going to a homeless shelter over my shoulder here and he was shot and the key right now is they

believe that they have a person or description of a person and that person is a light-skin black person, approximately 6-foot tall but other clues, on october 9th and november 14th videos that they have been able to retrieve, in those videos, it appears on october 9th one that the person is right-handed and i would ask the individuals out here listening to this specially in this area of seminole heights to look at his feet and the manner in which he walks and when you look at the november 14th video, you see a similar person, so they believe that it is one person who is killing, on a killing spree shall we say. heather: so originally, tedd,

the first three victims were killed when they had got off a bus and those happened in the morning hours, was that correct, in the early morning hours? >> well, it was in the -- the three of them was while it was dark, the last person killed, it was the early morning hours. heather: they were evening so it was dark but the last person he was walking, he was walking as you said to that nearby homeless shelt the other help out where he had done that for years from what i understand but people think that the suspect lives in that area because why? >> well, because of the manner in which he's been able to carry out these shootings and to be able to get away. law enforcement believes that he's very familiar with this area.

there's heavy law enforcement presence in this area, heather. heather: i'm sure people there very concerned and hopefully they will find the suspect toon. ted, thank you very much very following the story and we will check back with you as, you know, the story continues to develop, thank you. >> some other news for you, president trump has a clear message for senate republicans on tax reform, don't disappointment the american people. the white house vowing and willing to make a deal to get the bill on the president's desk. griff jenkins live in nation's capitol with what is at stake. good morning, griff. >> the president is optimistic that the tax reform bill will hit his desk by the end of the year and senate to vote after thanksgiving and major sticking

point is inclusion of repeal of obamacare, provision not in house bill that passed last week and senator susan collins of maine says it's a key issue for her but hasn't decided no yet because she's hopeful it can be changed. >> i haven't reached that conclusion yet because i think there are going to be further changes but the biggest mistake was putting in a provision from the affordable care act into the senate bill that's not in the house bill and i hope that will be dropped or -- >> this is white house budget director mick mulvaney says they're open to dropping it if it makes a difference to passing it out. >> the white house would love to see obamacare taken apart all at once, bit by bit, however, we can do it. that being said -- >> collins' vote is critical where republicans can only afford to lose two votes, and one senator ron johnson says he

opposes because it unfairly favors corporations on the pass-through rate and two other senators are on the sense, bob corker of tennessee and flake of arizona and all hands on deck. the president took pressure, hopefully tank their efforts but we will find out, it's very fluid and by the way, the senate on thanksgiving vacation. no moving until next week. heather: they can't do without vacations. thank you very much, griff, appreciate it. another week of anthem protests across the nfl. raiders running back lynch sitting for the anthem while playing in méxico city against patriots, he sat down, but when méxico's anthem played, lynch decided to stand and then back in the states three miami dolphins kneeling again at a protest and during the chiefs and the giants game marcus

peters stayed in the tunnel while vernon took a knee. i absolutely think the protests are so upsetting, i blame the commissioner. we have young men and women fighting for the flag and we have to respect the white house. walker will join "fox & friends" live at 7:20 eastern so tune in for that. well, all eyes on american music awards of honors, controversies and political statement, imagine that, well start with the imagine dragon, speaking about divisiveness during accepting speech for favorite pop rock group. >> may we continue to progress as a nation towards one of love of equality, no divide, you know, there's been way too much of that last year.

heather: demi lovato bringing first transgender legislator to the red carpet and music legend giving performance of her life, diana ross winning life-time achievement award but another performance making its way on twitter, selena gómez accused of lip singing. ♪ ♪ heather: her fans were quick to defend her though, reminding her critics that she had a kidney transplant earlier this year, maybe give her a break. as for the other award winners, bruno mars winning artist of the year and keith urban favorite male artist in country music. big night for them. time now 12 minutes after the top of the hour, the president is the only one that can order a nuclear strike but what if the general who pushes the button says no? >> you'll tell me what to do and if it's illegal, guess what's

going to happen -- >> you'll say no. >> mr. president, that's illegal. >> air force lieutenant general who say it is commander is right he will tell us why. >> this wall of trap has never fallen on any woman in the history of america like it has on me. heather: kathy griffin cries about being blacklisted over he beheaded president trump picture and why she says that fox news is the blame and if i believe lap, tributes pouring in for nascar legend on his retirement. ♪

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father of deangelo ball who down played the efforts of his son's release. carley shimkus, siriusxm 115 with some of the reaction online and there's been a lot of it all weekend. carley: latest twitter feud that the president has gotten after lavar ball said this to espn, what was he over there for, don't tell me nothing, everybody wants to make it seem like he helped me out. well, the president fired back tweeting this, now that the three basketball players are out of china and safe from years in jail, lavar, the father of dean deangelo is accepting what his son did, i should have left them in jail. shoplifting is a big deal in china as it should be. 5 to 10 years in jail but not for father lavar, should have gotten his son out during my

next trip to china instead. china told them why they were released very ungrateful. now reaction to this back and forth has been mixed, jacob on twitter says, president trump has a big heart, lavar ball has a big mouth but other people are saying the president should have risen to the occasion. i still think you did the right thing, they are americans and shouldn't be rotting away in prison over in china. so there you have it. heather: yeah, a lot of people were talking about otto warmbier. carley: after the whole thing went down on social media, james comey sent out this week, a good leader takes more of share of blame a little than less share of the credit. attributed the quote to the late businessman arnold, could he have been talking about the president? maybe, a lot of folks on social media not so happy to hear him

chime in. brooklyn says a good leader doesn't craft collusions before all of the facts are in either unless the leader is in on the scam. another tweet, a good leader of the fbi doesn't seek to lie or deceive and another social media user says it's good that you're quoting others rather than speaking from your own expertise here. heather: isn't amazing how the world has changed with twitter. >> oh, my gosh. it's so divisive. heather: good insight. the final cup race for nascar, tears, final race. >> it was an amazing moment. it really was dale hart's jr.'s day, craft open beer, a lot of social media reaction, one twitter says class act, hell of

a career, another says, you know, thank you so much for your career and the fan base is going to miss him immensely. heather: yes, they will. 26 cup series wins, he's retiring of concussion concerns. carley: yeah. heather: thank you so much, carley, appreciate it. carley: absolutely. heather: time now 20 minutes after the top of the hour and border patrol agent killed in an attack near texas southern border. president trump now renewing calls for the wall, we are live with the growing outage and they held violent protest an called for the deaths of police. but now one university is offering a black lives matter course, is this really what you want your tuition dollars going to? we will debate it.

>> i provide advice to the president, he'll tell me what to do and if it's illegal guess what's going to happen? >> you'd say no. >> mr. president, that's illegal and he would say what would be legal and come up with options and respond to whatever the situation is. that's the way it works. heather: that's the way it works, joining us now the top u.s. nuclear commander that was, you heard general saying that he would defy an order by the president for illegal nuclear strike, his comments turning heads in the military community as tensions with north korea escalate and here the weigh in, retired air force lieutenant general richard newton, thank you so much for joining us. >> hey, good morning, heather, good to be back with you. heather: appreciate it. what did you think about the

comments? i thought the end there that people aren't saying a lot about is where he said, that's the way it works. so is this abnormal? >> no, it's not, actually, heather, first off, i've got great confidence in the president and secretary of defense, chairman of the joint chief of staff and general john hyton. we have an exceptional assessment, review and consultation process inside the nuclear command and control system, so, again, i think we can assure the american people that those, again, it's a system that's worked through decades and frankly the u.s. military does not blindly follow orders, orders have been illegal and what general hyton was referred to, legal orders have been followed, military necessity, they have to be proportional and

distinct and so forth and there's a review process that goes through chain of command, nothing new here frankly. heather: his role is to guide the president, the president would speak to him and say what he wants to do and he would say whether or not that's legal and they come up with a plan if that, in fact, would not work, the first plan. >> that's correct, again, the united states has a nuclear weapon's decision process, i won't go into much of the details about that, but, again, constant assessment, constant review, constant consultation with the civilian oversight with our military includes nuclear weapon, starts with the president of the united states, only the president of the united states can authorize a nuclear strike, however, does go through sound discipline complete approach in terms of how that process works. again, i've got -- you know, from my experience as b-52 aircraft commander sitting

combat alart all the way to joint chief's of staff -- heather: not abnormal. >> not abnormal at all. heather: let's move onto second time so we have time for it. the new york times published op-ed, war on diplomacy and this really tour into -- tore into the state department, do you think the state department is being undermined? >> no, i don't think so. we talked about this last week when we talked about north korea where we should pursue ongoing diplomatic efforts and above all other options. the united states has many options. i believe that we ought to continue to fund the maximum

possible, international affairs budget. >> apparently that's part of what they are saying is not happening and because of budget cuts that they are being undermine? >> i think you would find me to be an advocate to promote our affairs budget. secretary mattis, when he was the commander of u.s. central command, he advocated. he was for maximum funding of state department, if we don't do that, then i'm going to need more money for ammunition, if you follow, it's very important that we lead in many unstable global security environment that we find ourselves in. we need a military capabilities, absolutely, peace through strength but we also need strong diplomatic efforts as well. heather: yeah, all right, thank you so much for joining us this morning. again lieutenant general richard newton, we appreciate your time as always. >> thank you, heather, good

morning. heather: 28 minutes after the top of the hour, don't let the american people down, that message from president trump as he urges republicans to pass tax reform whra. can we expect from the senate? our next guests say what happens if they don't get the win that they need. ♪ >> flying cars to be a reality, tesla has promise and now there's word that the roadster can fly. ♪

heather: welcome back, "fox & friends first" calls to build a border wall while keeping texas southern border wall. what anita is saying?

>> president trump is reuniting his call to build a wall after a border patrol agent is killed in the line of duty. rogelio martínez dieing from injuries after responding to, quote, activity while patrolling the big bend section of southern border in texas, his partner whose name has not been released is in serious condition. president trump tweeting, quote, border patrol officer killed at southern bother, another badly hurt, we will seek out and bring to justice those responsible, we will and must build the wall. the fbi surrounding the area just 90 miles outside of el paso looking for suspects or witnesses to the crime. senator ted cruz backing up the president's call for action tweeting, quote, this is the stark reminder of the ongoing threat that an unsecured border poses to safety of communities and those charged with defending

them. we are also praying for the full recovery of partner who was also attacked. i remain fully committed to working with border patrol to provide them with all resources they need to safeguard our nation. the 36-year-old martínez had been border patrol agent since 2013, he was a father to a son and engaged to be married. as for the president's border wall, 8 prototypes are being tested right now while the trump administration awaits for congress to approve billions in funding. heather. heather: our prayers with the border agent's family. anita, live for us, really nice to have you in the studio. >> so nice to be here and happy for your show. heather: thank you. apologied for groping a woman while she slapped but minnesota democrat promises to do a lot of reflecting during thanksgiving holiday, a lot of reflecting according to star tribune after this photo and allegations surfaced last week that franken

killed lean theten. long refused to speak publicly on targeting conservative groups and wants to keep it that way. >> i have not layed my constitutional rights on the fifth amendment. >> washington times now reporting that the former irs executive wants her testimony to be permanently sealed. telling federal court that she fares for family safety if her explanation tea party scandal is made public, that's interesting. her taped do cigses are part of settled lawsuit over illegal targeting group over political beliefs. kathy griffin is back and crying foul saying she's been

blacklisted as she's out of work . >> the wall of crap has never fallen on any woman in the history of america, even as kid didn't have fox news. by the way -- heather: playing the woman card. initially griffin poldzed and since taken that back several times. i wonder if she has seen the latest from is wees the beheading of the pope. president trump meantime firing back after senator jeff flake was hot in hot mic slamming the commander in chief. >> the party of roy moore and donald trump.

>> he'll be a no, because he's toast. >> tax reform is beefing up in congress as you can tell and republicans have won final month to fulfill one of the trump administration's biggest promises, can gop leaders get a bill on the president's desk or blow up in the senate like we saw obamacare blow up. do you think they can get this done? >> that's the goal to have something on the president's desk by christmas. the thing here is timing is critical. if republicans don't manage to get tax reform in 2016, i don't think that they have a chance in 2018 because they've already

shown legislative incompetency with failure to pass obamacare. so this is absolutely critical. heather: failure to -- with obamacare, the whole plan involved some of the senators that are in question right now. we can take a look at six senator who is could hold up tax bill. susan collins, bob corker, jeff flake, ron johnson, john mccain also held obamacare and lisa murkowski also a familiar name right there. same folks. >> absolutely. perfect storm inside gop conference, you likely saw president trump is counted jeff flake, susan collins, it's up in the air when it comes to the individual mandate being included in the tax reform and then you've got, you've got ron johnson who wants to see small businesses treated more fairly under the final products and then john mccain wants regular order, whatever that means anymore. so the whip count is looking really, really ugly. heather: that's why john mccain

said no to the obamacare repeal, he also cited the correct order of things, why do they include the individual mandate when all of the folks, they couldn't lose the votes and why wouldn't they think they would listen this time around? >> i think the big republican push here is to bull rush democrats, they want to get as much as possible with as little debate as necessary. the idea of being -- the last time democrats have to examine the details, the less time the democrats have to throw up -- throw up obstacles in the end. so i'm not sure what the final package is going to look like. i don't think anyone knows at this point but the hope is that they'll throw everything including the kitchen sink in there and see if they can get to finish line. heather: that's what john mccain has a problem with. president trump is feeling positive about it regardless of what happens and he had this tweet, we can put that up, republican senators are working very hard to get tax cuts and tax reform approved, hopefully it will not be long and they do

not want to disappoint the american public, this is what you said. >> i hope they are working hard over thanksgiving break. but, yeah, there's an understanding in the senate that this is chair chance to get something done, that they need to. what we saw from the white house yesterday, you had mark and then also budget director mulvaney on a lot of the sunday shows showing that there's flexibility. they don't want something ideological like the individual mandate repeal to slow things down, so don't think for a moment that they wouldn't scrap that part of the tax plan if it meant really getting something to the president's desk for once. heather: yeah, that's very interesting to see the inner workings of this, philip, thank you so much for joining us, i appreciate your insight. >> thank you for having me. heather: have a good day. 20 minutes until the top of the hour, isis on the run. terror group driven out of last stronghold but the battle is far from over.

>> that problem is not going to go away as long as radical islam can still propagate their propaganda. heather: lieutenant oliver north breaks down how the u.s. can crush isis once and for all. tsa gearing up for record-setting rush, what you can expect for your thanksgiving get away. but first here is sky her gray performance glorious at last night music awards. ♪ ♪

heather: welcome back to "fox & friends first", major victory in trump administration fight to obliterate isis. katie logan live for us in london with the very latest, good morning, kitty. >> good morning, the very last

of the isis held town in syria and iraq have fallen. three years ago seized large part of both countries. the syrian army has taken back iraqi border, a few remote pocket where is the isis fighters and leader have fled to. the militants have no territory left and have, quote, crumbled. key isis held city of raqqah held back in october with help of coalition air strikes but many questions still about where the surviving isis fighters will end up and fears that these battle harden extremists may pose a threat elsewhere. >> look, isis is not gone, isis may not hold any more territory but still exist as ideological force to attract adherence and those people who carry out attacks that we have seen all over europe and the united states that problem is not going to go away as long as radical islam can propagate their

propaganda. >> now, isis was pushed out of final stronghold in iraq last friday the town, end of caliphate, intelligence agencies are warning reminiscence of the group may return to carry out attacks, but the point is that many fear that some of the fighters fled into desert still could influence people in europe and online and play not need to be physically present, heather. heather: hopefully that does not mean a rise in lone-wolf attacks, thank you so much, kitty, appreciate it. fox business alert for you, if you're flying for thanksgiving, you're not alone, tsa gearing up to screen a record number of travelers, tracee carrasco from sister network fox base here with what to expect and i'm

guessing long lines, tracee. tracee: tsa is estimated 2.4 million travelers will be traveling, they'll be screening 2.4 million people every day this thanks giving week, that could be a record-breaking number. the record broken in 2004 with 2.7 million people screened that day and the tsa says, yes, expect long lines there. they are advising people to get to the airport at least two hours ahead of their flight. heather: that's what they always say. i just purchased my ticket to fly home last night and i got a really good deal and buying the last minute you pay a little less. tracee: absolutely, still deals out there, you have to dig a little bit but if you're willing to fly out today or tomorrow you can find good round-trip deals on expedia, you can get to seattle -- from seattle to las

vegas, $300, there are deals for $500, of course, the closer you get to thanks giving the more expensive the tickets are, but just look, you found a good deal? >> i sure did, i used orbitz. tracee: leave it to elon musk but he tweeted yesterday that roadster that he revealed last week said that could include a special ub grade package that could enable it to fly short hops, it's certainly possible, just a question of safety, rocket tech applied to a car opens up revolutionary possibilities, of course, elon musk also the ceo of spacex, he would know a thing or two about rockets. heather: he sure would. amazing the things he comes up and his mind how it works, possibilities are endless. tracee: yes. heather: time now is about 10 minutes until the top of the hour and they've held violent protests and they've called for the death of police and now one

university is offering a black lives matter course, our next guest says the campus craziness has to stop.

heather: they health violent protests and called for the death of police. now james madison university is offering a black liestles matter course this spring studying human rights in the era of a new jim crowe, is this appropriate topic for college campus? campus reform contributor. >> thank you for having me.

>> good idea? >> bad idea. this is a taxpayer funded university that's fueling of violent movement. black lives matter encourages civil disobedience and then for this course to compare our current situation to the jim crowe laws of the past is totally ridiculous. we need to move forward but classes like this and the construction of whiteness only continue to divide us. this is social justice and by any mines necessary. this is exactly the line of thought that antifa has and as black man find it disturbing, we are constantly reporting on black lives matter events on

college campuses. heather: this is what they say, the course examines the radical resistance of black lives matter movement to state-sanctioned violence against black and brown communities, what strategies has the black lives movement device to defend human rights in the we are eaf of a new jim crowe. as you said, you don't agree with that at all. >> no, not at all. no word said in this classroom will benefit in 2018 economy. this is not a class that needs to be offered by the university at all and this is happening across the country, for example, at kimel university, attend event with black lives matter speaker, this madness needs to end. heather: have a good day. the time now is six minutes until the top of the hour and santa claus doesn't always have it so easy on christmas.

>> you discuss me, how can you live with yourself. >> cool it, skippy. >> you sit on a throne of lies. heather: one priest wants christians to stop saying christmas, wait until you hear why. sean menendez singing nothing holding me back material inside, so it keeps me dry and protected. go to depend.com - get a coupon and try them for yourself.

heather: irish catholic priest says that christmas has been

hijacked by santa and his reindeer. >> you discuss me. you sit on a throin of -- throne of lies. heather: quote, we have lost christmas just like we lost easter, we need to let it go. we need to recognize and accept that. one student saying that enjoying the great outdoors is white supremacy, quote, the image of the outdoor individual is classification that gives white people to venture into the outdoors freely leaving people of color behind. white people need to share the word outdoorcy.

i will see you tomorrow, bye. ♪ ♪ jillian: it is monday november 21st, breaking i don't- overnight, master mind behind multiple murders. >> i want to see changes in that bill and i think there will be changes. >> also don't disappoint the american people that message from president trump as he urges senate republicans to pass tax reform as house did live in washington with possible compromise that's on the table. jillian: do you remember the woman with the vulgar antitrump sticker. wait until you hear what she did now. "fox & friends first" continues right now