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again with donald trump. rob: voters head to the polls in alabama as both candidates in the senate race pulling out political heavyweights, high-stakes election just hours away. jillian: to be cheap in six months, dallas police are blaming millennial's for their staffing shortage. "fox and friends" first continues right now. ♪ tony: it. good morning. jillian: that was alive look

outside on tuesday morning. thanks for joining us. rob: thanks for waking up early. the port authority bomber who targeted the largest transit have been new york city. jillian: he used chain migration to come to the us seven years ago. he bought the botched pipe bomb online and planned to do it in the name of isis. rob: police forming his home in brooklyn searching for new clues, todd pyro live outside manhattan. what do we know about the motives? >> reporter: that is the question, it is quiet here now but investigators spent yesterday pouring over every single detail of the suspected terrorist's life, his -- he

lifted the us in 2011 from bangladesh on chain migration visa available for those in the us. he was a licensed, the license was not renewed after 2015. he was inspired by isis but did not appear to have direct contact with the group and likely acted alone. he was upset with the way muslims have been treated by the us and recent israeli actions in gaza and became radicalized by islamic state media. a lawyer spoke about the attempted terror attack but ended up condemning law enforcement. >> we are heartbroken by the violence targeted at our city today and allegations being made against a member of our family. we are also outraged by the behavior of law enforcement

officials who have had -- held children as small as 4 years old out in the cold and who pulled a teenager out of high school classes to interrogate him with a lawyer, without his parents. >> reporter: not clear if the 4-year-old or teenager mentioned in the sound like are related to the suspect, a 5 inch metal pipe bomb and battery pack into the right side of his jacket before sending it off at the nation's busiest bus terminal, he told police he made the bomb at his work, three people injured in the attack have been released from the hospital and or told investigators he chose that subway station near times square, christmas posters hanging near that area.

jillian: new calls to abolish the controversial visa program that gave the accused bomber a 1-way ticket to america. rob: caroline has the swift and strong response from the president on this. >> reporter: the suspect came to this country under the extended family chain migration program. in a typical year two thirds of immigrants get a green card because of family connections. the president once action. in a statement he says, quote, america must fix it flex immigration system that allows too many dangerous inadequately vetted people in our country. >> the president's policy calls for an end to chain migration which is what this individual came to the united states through and if the policy had been in place that attacker would not be allowed to come in the country. >> reporter: the suspect, akayed ullah, is from bangladesh but he lived in the universe since 2011 legally and he is talking to

authorities, senator lindsey graham says investigators need to gather intelligence from akayed ullah finding out what makes a terrorist take. to do that you can't treat the suspect like an ordinary criminal. >> he was trying to commit an act of terrorism, he should be held as a suspected enemy combatant. soldier of the caliphate. >> reporter: the white house would limit the extended family that can be sponsored for visas cutting legal immigration in this country by half. donald trump wants to hire more ice agents and give immigration officers more power. rob: the other big story, all eyes on the alabama senate election is voters head to the polls a few hours from now. roy moore and doug jones facing off in an unlikely nail baiter in a very red state, a race that

captured the nation's attention. griff jenkins is in dc with the fight to the finish. >> reporter: they haven't elected a democrat in 25 years. despite the deep red state embattled republican roy moore finds himself in a dead even dogfight with doug jones trailing him in the latest news paul. as donald trump tries to rally the base with a robo call yesterday and steve bannon a last-minute rally. moore denied the allegations against him but was absent from the campaign trail, took to the mike's last night with a message his detractors. >> we talk about draining the swamp, difficult to drain the swamp when you are up to your neck in alligators. i want to make america great again with donald trump. >> reporter: that jones got

heavy weight outside help, former president obama and vice president biden, former nba star charles barkley flew in for a rally as jones continued to frame this as a referendum on more's behavior and something larger than one candidate. >> i think it is time we say no more to putting people down, no more to treating people as second-class citizens, no more to discriminating against the least fortunate among us. it is time that we say no more! >> reporter: polls open in a few hours at 7 am local and this has national implications because democrats are winless in special elections this year but this one certainly very unique, might be talking about something other than football today. jillian: apocalyptic mushroom cloud hovering over southern

california. look at this picture, the raging wildfires for the second week, thousands of firefighters shoulder to shoulder working on 6 infernos still burning strong. the fifth largest fire in the state's history is growing by the hour and is bigger than new york city and boston combined. on top of the high wind fueling the flames there is no rain in the forecast this week. the department of justice with an emergency stay to halt the acceptance of transgender recruits into the military, donald trump tweeting it would place additional burdens on the armed forces, last month a federal judge ruled against the change. >> the department of justice is reviewing options to ensure the president after can be limited. heather: as of now transgender enlistment will go on january 1st. rob: allegations of sexual

misconduct leading to suspensions at the nfl network, bloomberg news reporting marshall faulk, heath evans and ike taylor, all analysts named in a lawsuit by former female employee of the league owns network ranging from grouping to inappropriate text messages. another x player and former network employee donovan mcnabb named along with a former executive. jillian: three miami dolphins players kneeling on monday night football, pulling off a surprise victory over the new england patriots 27-20. rob: more for sunday night football involving a ravens steelers matchup, the game down 11% from the week prior. rob: the philadelphia eagles learning their star qb is done for the season breaking our hearts, carson west has a torn left acl. rob: eagles showing no interest

in signing colin kaepernick to fill that spot. got a backup guy. jillian: fox news alert, new york city targeted by a terrorist for the second time in six weeks. where does the investigation go from here? bomb squad commander with crucial steps that need to be taken next. rob: a sign of disrespect, vigil for kate steinle, but young woman killed in san francisco, torn down and trashed on a college campus in that city. jillian: the secret message dennis rodman has from kim jung un. ♪ help our friends in need ♪ you can count on me ♪ 123 ♪ a. a. the coffee here is amazing. because the volcanic soil is amazing. so we give farmers like win more plants. to grow more delicious coffee. which helps provide for win's family. all, for a smoother tasting cup of coffee. green mountain coffee roasters.

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a wannabe suicide bomber failing to cause the bloodshed he intended in the name of isis. >> officials for me that man's home looking for clues in brooklyn, where does the investigation go from here? a former member of the joint terrorism task force joins us to weigh in on this. thanks for coming on, a lucky break yesterday. >> luckily for us in the nation. jillian: something people have thought about, we are seeing terror attacks like we have seen overseas coming into the us. in large cities like new york and across the country how do you protect yourself from something like that? >> it is being aware of your surroundings was we are so engaged in social media, phones, earbuds, any coffee shop in new

york or anywhere in the united states people do not pay attention to what goes on around them. we need to focus on our environment, pay attention, see something, say something, we need to pay attention outside of being tuned in to our personal lives and know that other things are going on around us. rob: i want to talk about the bomb. i have no idea how difficult it is to make a pipe bomb, obviously this went wrong. how tough is it to do what he tried to do and why did it not go off the way he thought it would? >> pipe bombs are crude expose of devices can anybody can make one, i do not recommend trying to make one but they are very crude devices that even kids can make is i would say more than likely he didn't know what he was doing. just because it is on the internet doesn't mean it is true, he probably had no clue what he was doing, it failed,

didn't function properly and saved lives. rob: someone making a bomb in their home and it fails and you have neighborhoods blown up, don't know who is walking next to you. >> exactly. go into any store, convenience store, walmart, radioshack you can buy all the tools you need for such a device and it is scary, we need to be supervigilance on our surroundings, what our neighbors are doing, it is sad but we have to pay attention. rob: a very busy port authority on monday morning, it is rush-hour, people moving around, how bad with his had been had it gone off the way it was supposed to? >> it could have been treacherous, catastrophic for everyone involved. these devices is made properly, a lot of fragmentation, people injured, having a device so close did not help the

situation, he took the brunt of the impact, to our benefit, not to his but to our benefit. jillian: i don't want to scare people but this needs to be talked about, new york city, we are aware has been targeted twice in the last six weeks, i say we are aware of because we don't hear about plots that are foiled. how big of a deal is this that it seems to be increasing in numbers? at what point are they going to be successful? >> the old adage of a blind squirrel finding an acorn. that is what we had to be cognizant of, they keep trying, look at 9/11, they were successful, in new york, continues to get the brunt of this, so many people live in new york. they keep trying, they are going to be successful, we need to be vigilant and event of an take steps to give local, state and federal officials the ability to

be proactive in tracking down terror cells and organizations. rob: to stop these things, very adequate at their jobs and they stop a lot, how many of these are foiled every week, every month, some squeeze through, thank you for coming on, appreciate it. jillian: 50 illegal immigrants rounded up by the fed in two states, a four they ice operation ending with the arrest of 27 illegals, 87% have a committal history and five were previously deported. in kentucky, 22 arrested, all of them from guatemala, mexico or malaguena. ice announced a 40% spike in arrests over the last year. >> protesters crashing over joe honoring kate steinle who was combined illegal immigrant, anti-trump students showing up on campus of uc berkeley across

the bay saying they refuse to accept a fascist america. a poster of steinle found in the trashcan. college republicans organize the vigil say they refuse to back down, steinle's killer, josé zarate was convicted -- acquitted of murder. very nicotine just arrested accused of plotting an attack in america. >> on trump force when they were four food groups, mcdonald's, kentucky fried chicken, pizza and diet coke. rob: hard-hitting news, soto segment backlash, attempted terror attack causing chaos in the heart of manhattan, covering donald trump's diet coke. carly shimkus with reaction. ♪

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that issue caused panic across the country, the big take away was it could have been far worse but cnn facing back lash for reporting about the president's soda consumption as the details were still unfolding. more than an hour after the pipe bomb story broke cnn was busy with trump's diet coke, ticker at the bottom of nypd responding, crisis expert, twitter user says shows how obsessed cnn is with destroying trump and chris on twitter says we truly know where cnn's priorities lie, covering the president's soda habits rather than the new york city terror attack. probably some timing slightly off. jillian: those millennial's want everything. >> rené hall says they are having trouble finding people that want to be police officers and she says millennials are

partly to blame. >> nights, weekends and holidays, not attractive to the millennials who want all days off and to be the chief and six month. >> one twitter user says young people are always misled in congress thinking they are a hot commodity. fred on twitter says poor snowflakes and cupcakes. i do know some hard-working millennials but not all millennial's. rob: a little younger than us. >> 20, 30s. i am far younger than millennials. rob: let's talk about next blitz. >> a joke gone wrong, netflix under fire for marking people who watch their christmas themed romantic comedy called a christmas prince. to the 53 people who watched a

christmas prince every day for the past 18 days, who heard you? a lot of folks on social media chiming in, good to know netflix staffers sitting around looking at private users data laughing about them intending tweets to millions. a couple days off i saw the netflix christmas prince movie, i wanted to, it was on my bucket list for the weekend. jillian: 27 after the are, the port authority bombing proving soft targets are a top priority for terrorists, how can they be protected? our next guest, us army veteran and former nypd officer explains what police are looking for and how you can help. rob: a special election between doug jones and roy more. in mobile, talking with voters. >> we are in mobile, alabama, a

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rob: new york city on high alert after an attempted lone wolf attack by an isis fanatic, the second attack in six weeks. jillian: how do we protect soft targets? joining us is doctor darren porcher. how do we protect ourselves? >> if you see something say

something. we only have a police department of 38,000 cops, intelligence to be elicited from the public so the public plays a role in this coupled with technological advancement like drone maintenance, video plays a key role but we need information from the public. jillian: technology advances for police officers and us, everyone is on the phone. >> everyone is buried in their cell phones, and tunnel vision comes into play. you are protecting your fellow citizen. it is incumbent on us to gain that information and give it to law enforcement. another thing with law enforcement, we can't maintain

consistent policies like roadblocks, we need to switch it up and move it around so they can't plan a strategy. >> you guys foiled the bulk of these attempts doing a great job of surveillance in the city, some are going to slip through. is that the sad reality of the situation? how will you get every single person who does this? you can build a bomb off of the internet and take it to the subway. >> when we look at these lone wolf attacks, what happened yesterday and october these were lone wolf attacks inspired by isis, the most difficult attack for fortification, the drone maintenance could be an

effective tool targeting this terrorist attack. the police department can only do so much. an example of being overseas in iraq and afghanistan, a valuable tool in combating the caliphate and terrorists overseas. jillian: this with underground. >> a difficult situation when you have an underground attack. we look at the overall perspective, these occur outside and not inside. we take into consideration subway car, need to ramp up the video and audio in subway cars, direct forces. >> fighting surveillance and big brother mentality a lot of people believe keeps us safe here. is that a scary thought? we took back stop and frisk,

things like that keep people safe in a city this big. if you remove the powers of the police that is the risk you take that we will have more attacks. >> aclu is the envy of law enforcement. when caller it came into play, i believe the president is installing necessary justices in the court system to help us alleviate burdens from groups like the aclu. jillian: not as bad as it could have been yesterday. a texas man facing 20 years in prison for alleged ties to isis, resting and charging him at his home in houston, he told undercover fbi agents how to

make homemade bombs. he wanted to execute attacks on us soil the tried several times to travel to syria, carrying a knife to talk to officers and swept with a machete under his pillow. >> basketball hall of famer, solving north korean nuclear crisis wants donald trump to make him a peace envoy. rodman who calls kim jung un the marshall has said he has inside information, trying to tell donald since day one come talk to me. what marshall wants more than anything is not that much. rodman who has visited kim jung un multiple times is organizing a basketball game in china between north korea and the us territory of guam. they threatened to bomb with a nuclear weapon and all eyes on alabama today, voters heading to the polls, special election to

fill jeff sessions after vacant senate seat, roy more facing democrat doug jones today. >> what do voters? talking to them at the spot in mobile, alabama. >> it is very early but voters enthusiastic or talking about the election, what polling places they are going to, casting their ballots, you said you were not initially a roy more supportive, now you are voting for roy more, why? >> conservative values and we got a supreme court situation. >> reporter: is it about the senate and implications for investment in roy more? >> the senate and implications in the supreme court. >> reporter: any hesitation in

voting for him? >> sure. there's been a lot of stuff out there. there's a lot of noise out there but at some point you have to go back to what you believe and who is out there saying what you believe and that is it for me. >> i also will say initially -- when mo -- beat in the runoff election, there was no way i was going to is for the other guy, luther strange. i went to the roy more rally in fairhope before the runoff. seems to me a lot of national noise and disproportionate being placed on this race. this is a choice for the alabama people, people of alabama to be

making this choice, not the national media, not the washington post, not gloria allread. >> you are not for roy moore, doug jones, democrat, why? >> i have known doug a long time. he is an extremely competent attorney. doug, after many years, prosecuted bombers of the four little girls killed in the civil rights era, brought together. doug is a man who can bring people together. he works well with people, the most important thing. >> in alabama are there enough democrats that can come together for him to win today? >> i think so. i believe doug has worked very hard, he has been on the ground.

mister moore has not come out to meet the public very much. he has not been out there and the reason is so many questions about his background as i have read many of his legal opinions and i can tell you they are off-the-wall. >> some say our show is off-the-wall. we have to leave it because we are running out of time. all over the spectrum. i love you guys, back to you. rob: it depends on the day. jillian: speaking of off-the-wall. rob: dancing on the field like lionel richie. jillian: there is video that might surface on social media. take a look at current

windchill. >>-3 in international falls, it is cold out there and that cold is moving south and eastward across the northeast, the past 24 hours snow across the great lakes piling up and potential northwest of new york city, too warm for snow but cold air will die, temperatures in the teens and 20s and 30s in the northeast, cold air in place, snow-week-old pattern not only this week but next week, might have a white christmas next week. there is your forecast, lake effect snow, the rest of the country quiet but still dealing with breezy conditions in southern california and no rain in the forecast. heartbreaking scenes in california. rob: the bell of the ball at the christmas party. for the wicked hangover.

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>> a former member of donald trump's hispanic advisory council, thanks for coming in. bring up this map to show you what we are talking about, most of them are blue states, north carolina as well, you can see massachusetts, new jersey, colorado, new york on that map and these are programs that do what? >> trying to interfere with ice. i always try to defend the men and women of ice because they are often unfairly vilified and demonized in the mainstream media, made out to be storm trooper force out to harass hispanics in the could be further from the truth, one truth about ice is it is the most hispanic in terms of personnel of any federal agency so this is an organization that does dangerous work, whether nativeborn or legal immigrants, do dangerous work for little

pay, don't get much respect from the mainstream media so i think they need to be lauded rather than interfered with. >> talk about how dangerous their work is is it safe for regular civilians to take these pictures and doing this? >> that is the other aspect, may not be. i will be the first to say civilians have a right to surveilled what law-enforcement is doing. they are trying to interfere with place. when they show how professional ice is and how much more serious ice is about getting dangerous illegal immigrants out of the country donald trump has accelerated what is going on, the acting director of ice has said he has done more than the past six presidents combined to help ice get control of the

border and expelling dangerous illegal immigrants so in a sense by showing the work of ice it might be helpful for ice's image and compliance, the most important part is deterring illegal immigrants from entering in the first place, and thankfully donald trump has made enormous strides on that score. rob: most illegal immigration comes from central america but people all over the world would give anything to come into this country and work so hard to do so. people who never had a chance to come and to begin with and people fight for illegal immigrants to stay here how unfair is that for the rest of the world? >> totally unfair, my teenage daughter went to india for an extended trip and everywhere she went would meet impoverished kids, want to go to america someday, we won the lottery by being born here, incredible, we

love legal immigration, people like my father who did it the right way going through a difficult process, expensive and time-consuming and not easy to become a legal american, it is unfair and unjust to presuppose it is okay for people to hop the line into it as they please rather than according to the rules of america. shkreli we have to wrap it up. jillian: this is not a state-funded organization. rob: riders scrambling to flee the terror attack in manhattan seeing uber prices double from the normal price, trying to cash in on the chaos. >> we saw you a few hours ago. >> coming up doctor james mitchell interrogated the worst of the worst in gitmo, what we

need to know about this immigrant from bangladesh who tried to blow up the port authority. and we will discuss that with judge andrew napolitano and george w. bush press secretary ari fleischer and the department of justice, so many legal questions, so little time, it kicks off 9 minutes from now, "fox and friends" first, back in two. i tried hard to quit smoking. but when we brought our daughter home, that was it. now i have nicoderm cq. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. it's the best thing that ever happened to me. every great why needs a great how.

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>> foxbusiness alert, uber and lift under fire for a price surge in the new york city subway attack on the writers struggling to escape seeing double the normal price. >> the way systems do work a lot

of people see prices go up. tell us about it. >> reporter: uber and lift saying they didn't take into account what was going on so stop the surcharge even though people saw 2.5 times the normal rate, getting away from the port authority after the terror attack, they apologized to customers even though people took to social media complaining about this, unfair at a time like this and offering refunds. the city of denver said they received their first application for a marijuana themed business opening up, this will be called the coffee joined, i cannabis coffee shop but they are waiting for the approval of licenses,

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rob: time for the good, the bad, and the ugly. first the good. the indiana mom dressed for rest gimmick to buy toys tore underprivileged kids. every day they get a donation, she posts a new photo the next day. it keeps going. they have already raised more than 1600 bucks. jillian: next the bad. think before you pour another glass of prosecco. turns pearlly white into chalk light powder. rob: woman smoking in a lavatory reeks havoc. >> i swear if you don't land, i will [bleep]ing kill everybody on this [bleep] plane. >> sit down. >> i will kill everybody on this plane. >> can you hear the voice there that's what smoking does. she is only 24 years old u was arrested when the plane landed in sacramento.

jillian: that's not funny. if i was on a plane and someone were yelling i'm going to kill everyone. i would be petrified. jillian: thanks for watching. rob: "fox & friends" starts right now. [sirens] >> a massive police response on the streets of new york city for a terror attack under ground. the suspect identified as detonated a device described as a pipe bomb strapped to his body. policy calls for end of chain migration. if that had been in place he wouldn't have been allowed to come into the country. >> roy moore and doug jones facing off in unlikely nail biter. >> i want to make america great again with president trump. i wants america great but i want america good and she can't be good until we go back to god. >> exclusive reports on the so-called trump dossier. >> the link between f