>> ugly. an gray man could face some charges after caught on camera trying to tear down a restaurant's awning. mass mats man raging after a man couldn't serve him because the kitchen was closed. police have id him buy no word if he has been found. jillian: hangry is a real thing. >> my friend was crossing as the bridg bridge was coming down and it hit him. >> it was supposed to be a bridge to the future and today it's a catastrophe. >> what we can confirm tiff six fatalities. >> two big republican senator today calling for second special counsel. >> crimes may have been committed but we believe the fisa warrant process was abused. >> did you see how high it is next it the president. really in a civilized society we would do something like that. >> officials confirm andrew mccabe asked doj officials today not to fire him before his retirement. >> it would be surprising that he would not be brought up on charges.

>> the united states of america has truly been blessed with the luck ever the irish to have you with us. i look forward to your return next year. in fact, we will see you for about, what, seven more years, i think. [laughter] ♪ ♪ ♪ i've been hoping ♪ let me go. steve: ladies and gentlemen, after extraordinarily long week, it's friday tgif thank goodness it's office. ainsley: long day for you? pete: shortest day of the week. ainsley: are you working this weekend? pete: i am. steve: you are going to work three days in a row? pete: yeah. it's in my contract no more than three days a week. steve: good to have you,

pete. >> thank you. i appreciate that. steve: we will celebrate saint patrick's day later in the morning. we have serious news to start with. it's a fox news alert. moments ago police confirming six people have died after that walkway, that bridge collapsed in miami on trask. ainsley: 950-ton walkway crashed down on to 8 lanes of traffic, just a few days after it was installed. 10 people were hurt. pete: our own laura incorporate gradual is in miami with the latest. good morning. >> good morning, guys. investigators have been working very carefully through the night on what is left of this podesta walkway that is left into this big crumbled up heavy concrete metal. i want to have push in and see what we have been able to see over the last few hours. heavy machinery brought in to get through what is obviously a very, very big task. the death toll has gone from a reported four to a confirmed six. police here say some bodies

have been removed. others have not. and now victim advocates are working with the family members of those who have been identified who were just simply driving down this street when that 950-ton bridge came crashing down on them. national transportation safety board teams are here now. they are helping with the investigation. fbi here as well. osha and local law enforcement all trying to find out exactly how this happened. listen to this witness, how he describes what it sounded like. >> some people were screaming for help. some people were trying to get people to come over to try to assist. of course, this is something that you can't really help with. >> now, this was a much celebrated project here in miami. and over 14-million-dollar project at that 200-foot long podesta bridge built in an innovative construction method known as accelerated bridge construction. it's called abc. that walkway was to be built on the side of the road. it was built on the side of

the road and it was sprung into place with big heavy cranes over the weekend on saturday morning. that was meant to connect the florida national university with the city of sweet water. miami-dade police confirmed this was moved to a recovery effort now. and this bridge is very vulnerable. >> the entire bridge is in jeopardy. what the engineers were so concerned about last night during the operational brief is how are they going approach this bridge where it doesn't harm the rescuers and at the same time -- >> and, of course, there is a lot of questions about all of the people that were involved in the construction of this bridge and about this abc method and about, you know, were there any shortcuts that were made. a lot of people looking into that. the construction crews are standing by their work saying this has never happened. we will get into more of the history of those companies as we move through the

morning. the nbc expected to give us a briefing few hours at 9:00 local. we will bring you the latest as we continue to watch this scene developing behind me. steve: terrible story, laura ingle live in miami. the bridge was not supposed to open to podesta traffic for months if not close to a year sounds like the company that installed it, and this is something that is standard these days where busy traffic you essentially drop a bridge into place. ainsley: you build it on the edge and put it all together. steve: sounds like they were doing some sort of a stress test yesterday. the bridge was not complete. they still had to put up towers that supported the cables. they weren't there. so now they have goin have got o figure out what went wrong. ainsley: that bridge clawpsed in minnesota years ago. everyone fears. this you stand on a balcony and you fear it there are so many balconies in new york city, all these apartment complexes have this. i do think about that. you put faith in these engineers they are going to do the right thing.

pete: absolutely you do. in anner ar an era where our infrastructure isn't what it ought to be. it's a terrible story. steve: let's see, jeff sessions has got 11 hours to decide whether or not he is going to fire andrew mccabe. you know andrew mccabe was the former deputy fbi director. and the fbi, the office of professional responsibility said fbi, you should fire him because what he did was he leaked sensitive information to the newspaper and then he lied to the investigators about it now on the heels of that decision, there are now officially a number of u.s. senators who are saying it's time for a special counsel because the fbi has broken the law. ainsley: you had two house committee chairs asking for this and now you have four republican senators that are

jumping on board. they sent a letter yesterday to the attorney general saying we need a separate investigation. we need a special counsel, even though the inspector general investigating with the doj, even though we think he is a great guy, we don't think the doj should be investigating itself. keep in mind the fbi is under the umbrella of the doj. pete: absolutely. you look at a list of senators. not that i want to label people, some are seen as more partisan than others. grassley and graham are not two necessarily that just come down on party lines. for them to say we need a second special counsel, because we don't trust what happened in the fisa process. we don't trust what happened in the clinton email investigation. it raises a lot of eyebrows. this is what both of them had to say yesterday. listen. >> we have all kinds of confidence in the inspector general's work. we know he's a good person. we know he's doing good work. he has a staff of maybe about 400. he is only bring in those people that are already in government to investigate.

this special counsel working in a team will give him the tools he needs to get all the information. >> there were conflicts of interest that there was political bias that may have resulted in giving clinton a pass. the steele dossier was paid for by the democratic party. mr. steele had associates in russia that could have easily compromised him. and we believe the fisa warrant process was abused. and the reason we want a special counsel is i think crimes may have been committed. steve: there you have got those two senators laying out why there should be a second special counsel, special prosecutor, essentially. keep in mind, this inspector general, michael horowitz, can't talk to nibble who has left the department of justice. for instance, anybody in hillary clinton's circle from the state department, they are gone. james comey, can't talk to him. this guy doesn't have subpoena power, so they have made the case, also, they said if the fbi decides or if the department of justice decides not to appoint a second special counselor, we

want, in writing, you to tell us why. ainsley: in detail they said. nancy pelosi had her weekly press conference the self-proclaimed master legislator had this to say about the wall. listen. >> at the border. did you see it how high it is and the president wall? really a civilized society we would do something like that. as obnoxious as it is? you know, that's a community there with a border running through it okay. we have a difference of opinion on that. but a wall that big separating people? i mean, really? it's a big wall. ainsley: does she prefer a short wall? she prefers people be able to jump over it? pete: she prefer no, sir wall. let's be very, very clear. her, hillary clinton, a lot of the democrats -- they should play that on a loop. that is the definition of the difference between republicans and democrats today. you have a president who

says i want borders, i want a country. i believe in a flag. all those things. and the left says no, no, no. not only no wall. you z. those pictures of the president in front of the wall? they are offended by that this idea that you would prevent illegal immigration and make sure that citizenship matters. that's not civilized society to nancy pelosi. ainsley: what's offensive is crime, drug flow, welfare fraud, ms-13. a wall would not be needed. the $25 billion of your taxpayers would not be needed to pay for the wall if all those problems were not in the united states of america. and this president is trying to prevent it. steve: when he was running for president, donald trump highlighted the case of kate steinle who was killed by jose garcia zer zarate: his attorneys are coming out and saying hey, he accidently killed her, but the president and the federal government have used my

client as a national punching bag. pete: yes. steve: he said this case was highly publicized both locally and nationally after the death of kate steinle. then donald trump began to use mr. zarate as the symbol of the dangers of illegal immigrants and need for a wall between the united states and mexico. you know what? he is right about that. pete: one man's symbol is another man's example this is what he tweeted in june of 2017 about the steinle verdict. a disgraceful verdict in the kate steinle case. no wonder the people of our country are so angry with illegal immigration. the reality is when someone has been here deported and come back. steve: five sometimes. pete: come back five times and have to ask ourselves what are renot enforcing? what are we not doing? the simple truth about donald trump is he showed up and said we have got laws. let's enforce them.

not here's new laws. let's enforce the ones we have. ainsley: he is suing the government because he was used. pete: actually unbelievable. ainsley: he was used and it's vindictive. steve: the president was using his case as an example why we need the wall. i'm sure the president would do that again today because, you know, according to nancy pelosi, it's really tall and it would keep people out. pete: steve, the wall just got 10 people taller since you were talking. steve: going to be 40 feet. pete: this is where we are in the debate. crystallization of the left vs. the right. have a border, have a wall. get it shorter. get it down here maybe hop over it. ainsley: cut the grass. pete: you are exactly right. jillian: we do have news we want to get to starting with this fox news alert. we now know the u.s. military crash in iraq was deadly. the defense officials say seven people were on board the hhs hawk when it crashed

after hitting a power line syrian border. unclear how many are dead. it was not on combat mission and no indication of hostile fire. this is the first deadly aviation accident for american forces during the isis war since 2014. we have now learned the names of the two navy aviators killed in a deadly crash off the coast of florida. lieutenant commander james johnson and caleb king died wednesday after ejecting into the water when their f-18 super hornet reportedly caught fire in the air. king who least behind a wife and 16 month old daughter is remembered by his family as a patriot. >> he was just an all-american, random acts of kindness. really humble dude. he was a great guy. i can't believe he is gone. jillian: the crash is under investigation. that's a look at your headlines. i have more for you coming up in the next half hour. ainsley: thank you. steve: meanwhile, some would call the army's jorotc

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ainsley: what's that have to do with saint patricks day? steve: something irish folk -- [laughter] steve: we will go from green to pig in particular code pink. code pink was started in 2002 as a grassroots protest group to counter george w. bush and the war in iraq. pete: they actually protested the war in afghanistan. it's not just bush's war in iraq it's any war at all. steve: now they have a war on the junior rotc program. ainsley: they are writing our congress men and women, two in particular. one from texas. it's congressman matt thornberry and then john mccain from arizona. they are the senate and house armed services committee chairs. and they are writing them basically saying we need jr. rotc out of our schools because they are killing machines. pete: war machines. this is what code pink said. i hate to give them any time but we will. they said nic lazarus cruz,

the shooter in florida, was an expert marksman because he was trained by the u.s. army jr. rotc program. tell take violence and war out of our schools end the jrotc program. steve: something they do not mention on their web page is colton haab. we told you his story. 17 years old. a jr. at parkland high school. pete: member of that program. steve: he and other members of the jr. rotc program ushered 50 kids in a classroom and took down kevlar pads they used in training exercises and put them up against a big table so if the shooter came into the room they would have some measure of protection. ainsley: a hero. steve: then have you peter wang. 15 years old. he actually died. he was wearing his uniform. he was helping students and teachers escape the shooting rampage. if you recall, west point

admitted him posthumously to an upcoming class. ainsley: that was his lifelong goal. his parents buried him in that uniform. all he wanted to do was go to west point. that training, you could argue the jr. rotc training helped these two individuals out or protect other people. pete: of course i had the chance to speak at a big navy rotc event in new jersey a couple days ago. the men and women who wear that uniform as kids in high school they apply to it it's an honor. patriotism, discipline, respect, conduct, all the values that they put in that program. they love this country. some of them go on to serving in the military. but a lot of them do not. it gives them advantage in college. these types of programs shape the citizens that our nation needs going forward who actually believe in something bigger than themselves. steve: a war machine or patriot machine. pete: or a patriot machine. sign me up for either but i

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and financial aide. elizabeth was modern in mexico. first person living in the u.s. illegally to be named to a statewide appointment. steve? steve: okay, ainsley. thank you. president trump slammed oakland california mayor libby schaaf for her warning to illegals before impending ice raid. >> the mayor of oakland goes out and notifies when ice is going in to pick them up and many of them were criminals with criminal records and i have dangerous people. what happened as an example in oakland was a disgrace to our nation. steve: a disgrace to our nation. well now angel parents. parents of children killed by illegals are calling for the mayor to be prosecuted for her actions. jamel sr. lost his son when he was lost by illegal on his way home from a football game. terrible story. jamiel joins you live from los angeles.

good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. steve: i'm sure when you heard the news that the mayor had warned people who were in the country illegally, hey, i have heard there might be an ice raid, you better hide, what did you think? >> you know, it was just disgusting, you know, because, you know, she is -- her job is to protect the citizens, the american citizens, you know. and for her to take a stand like that, she is allowing americans to be murdered. she had the blood on her hands because she could have easily let them go into the jail system and capture those criminals, but she allowed them to come out and then for people to be murdered and raped and robbed and identity theft. that's all on her. and people like her. steve: i understand a number of the angel parents like yourself would like to see her prosecuted. for what? >> yeah, for aiding and abetting, i know, for putting our lives in danger. right now you are hearing everybody demanding to be

safe in their schools and their communities. when our kids are murdered and we demand to be safe, we're all racist and we are all bigots, you know, because trump supports us we are all bad people. but when their kids are dead, they all of a sudden, you know, they are shutting down the city and they want all these gun laws and stuff like that. the guy that killed my son was on his third gun charge, but they don't care if illegal aliens carry guns and kill our kids. steve: jamiel, you are sitting in los angeles which is a sanctuary stay in a sanctuary state. how many people in california actually like the fact that people who are in this country illegally can live there without fear of prosecution, rather, you know, being deported in many cases? >> pretty much none of them. they have all these polls. i have never, my son has been dead 10 years. i haven't been involved in no polls. i don't know anyone that's been involved in the polls. if they really want to know how we feel, take a vote in

california and ask the people dew points to allow illegals into our country and you will find out that it's always no. years ago we voted against it, and they found a wacko judge to throw it out. a lot of black people are upset that l.a. is being rebuilt with illegal alien labor and blacks are just being shut out. none of the black politicians care. all they care about is votes. we are just being sold out. steve: well, you papghted a really horrible story. you make it sound like these politicians in california just want to continue in power and have people vote for them to the exclusion of people's safety. >> yeah, and that's what they are doing. where my son was murdered, they put 11 ice agents in the county jail so that wouldn't happen again. a year or so later, they voted, took them all out. and then they won't even let ice do their jobs on the street and then they wonder why the so-called innocent

illegals ha are being rounded up, what do you expect? people like me demand justice. we want deportations. we want the gangs all out of here. we want to go in the county jail and get them. if they don't want to do it, if they get caught o in the net, that's clearly on them. steve: you listened 20 minutes ago we played a sound bite with nancy pelosi yesterday who said she had seen the prototypes for the wall and she said they were too tall. we don't have that in the civilized society. what did you think of that? >> if they would have one -- she is crazy anyway, nancy pelosi, everybody knows she is. if they would have had a wall like that, maybe the people who brought the illegal alien son over here to murder my son it wouldn't have happened. she doesn't care. i guarantee you somebody in her family was murdered by an illegal, i guarantee you she would go hog wild building a wall to the moon if she had to. steve: well, you know how horrible it is personally.

jamiel shaw sr. joining us from l.a. with your story. jamiel, thank you. >> thank you for the good work you guys do. keep it up. steve: thank you. god bless you. all right. it's 6:30 here in new york city on this friday. coming up collin kaepernick may be making a come back. the anthem kneeling quarterback just spotted throwing a football. could he be heading to your team? we're going to tell what you we know. plus, hillary clinton's election excuse tour continues. >> his whole campaign make america great again was looking backwards ♪ i tell you once more. steve: sarah huckabee sanders just fired back at mrs. clinton. you're going to want to hear that ♪ ♪ out with your fancy friends ♪ i'm telling you it's got to be the end ♪ don't bring me down ♪

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ainsley: it's your shot of the morning. president trump decorated with shamrock welcoming the prime minister of ireland to the white house. steve: u2 is the appropriate music. the irish leader keeping with saint patrick's day tradition handing our commander-in-chief a bowl full of shamrock. pete: the two men also spoke about the strong bonds between the u.s. and ireland, which we in new york city know a lot about as well. we are sort of getting in the spirit this morning. ainsley: did you know this an irish representative has been presenting a u.s. sitting president with shamrock in a box and now in a crystal bowl since 1952. pete: i didn't know that. ainsley: now you do. steve: 10:00 in the morning a lot of people in new york are going to start drinking green beer. it's too early for that we have some of the green bagels and soda bread right there. pete: it's not good. steve: i like soda bread. rather than yeast, they use

soda as the agent. and here's the thing. it became very popular with the irish because during the potato famine. jillian: i do like it. pete: she tells the truth but right now she is. steve: powdered sugar on top. steve: delicious. so tomorrow is saint patrick's day but we are celebrating early. ainsley: that's better than the bailing. pete: we will see tomorrow. steve: it's dry but good. jillian joins us with the news. jillian: we are getting a look at the surveillance video from outside majory stoneman douglas high school in florida. the moment 15 people were gunned down inside. scott peterson was armed but stayed outside. the father of one of the victims is disgusted. >> my daughter was killed on the third floor. so he had ample enough time

to save everybody on the third floor. not only is he an embarrassment to every police officer that puts a uniform on, he's a coward and he's also a liar. jillian: peterson has since resigned. his attorney said peterson thought the shots were coming from outside the school. president trump hitting russia with fresh sanction for meddling in the 2016 election. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders announcing it's time for russia to change its ways. >> i think you can see from the actions we have taken up to this point, we are going to be tough on russia until they decide to change their behavior. jillian: the white house also disclosing moscow's attempt to hack the u.s. energy grid. sanctions would serve as punishment for other major cyber attacks. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders firing back this about donald trump's supporters. >> his whole campaign make

americamerica great again was looking backwards. don't like black people getting rights and women getting jobs. jillian: shows how disconnected clinton is with the american people. >> i think that's a perfect example of why hillary clinton is not in the white house u and certainly i think shows her disdain for the millions and millions of americans who came out and voted and supported president trump and still support him today. jillian: clinton making those comments in india this week adding to long list of excuses for losing the election. rumors swirling after an thom nearly collin quarter back doing drills in houston. they were unaware of the workout. no nfl scout attended the session held by cap pfeffer neck's personal coach. he hasn't played since the 2016 season when as you know he sparked the controversial nfl protest. that's a look at your headlines. send it back to you so i can finish sewed bread.

pete: minnesota we are good with quarterbacks. i'm wearing my minnesota socks today. minnesota bread. steve: it all works. yesterday, if you were watching "fox & friends," cooking with friends, janice dean made pizza bailings with her children. pete: i missed the pizza bailing segment? where was i? ainsley: what did the boys say yesterday when you do got home from work. janice: you were heroes. matthew's teacher played it in class. they got back skipping off the bus. they said mom, when are we coming back? ainsley: any time. janice: let's take a look at the current temperatures. we have got like the first day of spring happening next week. for a lot of the country it's not going to feel that wait a minute we have system after system moving into the west. moving into the central u.s., northern plains, a mix of snow and freezing rain and sleet. and all of this is moving across the country and potentially could bring our next nor'easter tuesday and

wednesday. so stay tuned. here's your future radar, not only the wintry side of this but we could see some severe weather across the mid mississippi and lower mississippi river valley. large hail, damaging winds, isolated tornadoes. then we will watch, my friends, the potential for yet another coastal storm tuesday and wednesday. stay tuned. keeping us in business in the weather department. steve: oh man, it's always something. ainsley: it's friday. we will take whatever you give us, janice. steve: this is friday. let's talk movies. the new 21st century fox film love simon hits the theaters today. >> have you seen the new post but the closet gay kid at school. >> what? >> who do you think it is? >> can i call you back? >> dear blue, i'm just like you. >> tells the traditional story first love, lies and blackmail in a new way.

ainsley: here is michael tammero who sat down with the cast and it's love, simon. like a letter. >> how he communicates with another person. sort of a coming of age, coming out story. and the john hughes type of vein. i recently caught up with the cast out in l.a. who told me all about this incredible movie. >> my name is simon. i'm just like you. except i have one huge [bleep] secret. >> hey, i like your boots. >> noble knows i'm gay. >> i love this movie, guys. congratulations. where was this movie when i was growing up? this is the movie we all needed. i'm sure you sort of feel the same way as well. >> did i from the second i read it and i sort of thought okay, gosh, i could have used this movie. i got to make sure i don't mess it up. >> i love this movie. i want people to go out and

see it and support it more stories like this. simon is one of many stories that need to be told like. this what is it like to be part of -- it's a game changer. >> i think greg was definitely aware that he grew up on films from the '80s, the john hughes classics. he talked a little bit about watching those films and seeing these couples kiss and having to do the mentalmate in his head like where do i fit into all of this. it's very cool to be having a film like that that's representative of a different experience. >> i'm done living in a world where i don't get to be who i am. i deserve a great love story. and i want someone to share it with. >> everyone deserves a love story. i feel like this is no different. >> it's about the person and the love story and the relationships and the people around him. and i think that that's something that has made it accessible and also resonated with people. >> the idea that people are that ecstatic when they get to feel like simon is succeeding and that celebration of a character like that is something that we all want to see. >> what makes simon story so

universal is finding his voice accepting himself and telling the world in no uncertain terms this is who i am. >> ps it doesn't seem fair that only gay people have to come out. why is straight the default. >> i like girls. >> i like men. >> straight. >> i'm heterosexual. >> help me, jesus. >> wow. there is a lot to love about love simon. first major studio gay teen romance production ever. it's opening up today in 2400 theaters arranged the country. word of mouth it's fantastic and gotten really good reviews. steve: looks funny as well to boot. michael, thank you very much. pete: thanks, michael. appreciate it left blasting republicans claiming attacks on nancy pelosi are somehow sexist. what about all the attacks on conservative women? our next guest is calling out that hypocrisy. ainsley: plus, alan dershowitz, geraldo rivera, and dolly parton.

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ainsley: when asked about the republicans trying to link conor lamb to nancy pelosi in pennsylvania's special election, one democrat leader left no question about what he thought. >> conor lamb really localized the issue. the attempt here to nationalize it by the republicans, i think they need to get a new game book. the attempts to use nancy pelosi is failing them at this point. and i think quite frankly it's sexist. ainsley: why is it sexist, to question a democrat but perfectly okay to criticize republican women? here to discuss is senior news producer at the daily signal and co-host of the

problematic women, a pot cast kelsey hartman. thanks for being with us. >> good morning. ainsley: what do you think of this? do you think it's fair for democrats to say if you criticize nancy pelosi the content of what she says and her beliefs then you are sexist? >> of course not. i think the first thing that needs to be said is that if everything is sexist, nothing is sexist. and while this is the party that claims to champion women. when they walk around terms like sexism. when no sexism actually existed, it's actually detrimental and dangerous to women. now americans when they hear these types of news stories, they are not going to believe women when real instances of sexism occur. ainsley: conor lamb the democratic candidate said he would not support nancy pelosi in the next leadership bid. now, he is choosing to distance himself from nancy pelosi. is he sexist? >> that's a very good question because if republicans are sexist for linking nancy pelosi to his election, i sure think that

the man who is choosing to distance himself from nancy pelosi and choosing not to support her bid for leadership has to be sexist herself. ainsley: why is it okay for democrats then to criticize female republicans? listen to this. we have some sound bites that we have butted together. three different democratic senators criticizing gina haspel who is the cia nominee, director of the cia nominee. listen to this. >> to advance her now is really in effect a vote for secrecy in government. >> we will look at her past record, her commitment moving forward. it's an issue of concern. >> she clearly presided over a massive illegal operation. i'm sure those orders came down from above her, but that is no excuse. ainsley: kelsey, is this a double standard. >> it's of course a double standard. this shows how ridiculous that comment is. it's actually degrading to nancy pelosi.

although i disagree with her on just about everything. nancy pelosi is a strong woman and capable of defending herself in the her ane policies she supports. around terms like sexism when no one attacked nancy pelosi on her looks or gender is actually degrading and i don't think helpful to any conversation surrounding real sexism. ainsley: you know, you bring up a good point it's valid to say it's sexist is you criticize someone's look or gender based on that. but criticizing on what they say and how they vote how is that sexist? >> it's not sexist. we hear the same lines again and again from democrats like when they run out of things to say they go to these terms like sexism and racism. we heard it from hillary clinton earlier this week. then when it comes to criticizing conservative women, they have no problem criticizing conservative women on their policies, which is completely fine. and we should be doing that we should be critically looking at women and the policies that they're supporting. ainsley: i agree.

save those criticisms for when they are valid. like crying wolf. when everything is sexist you say, nothing is sexist. thank you, kelsey, for being with us. >> thank you. ainsley: robert mueller targeting the trump administration with his subpoenas. does that really fall under the scope of his russia probe. alan dershowitz has been warning about this and he is going to join us live in the next hour. plus, union nighted airlines accused of killing that dog right there by stuffing it in an overhead bin. then shipping a dog bound for kansas all the way to japan. kurt the cyberguy flies every week. he's got tips to help keep your family pet safe while traveling. has he coming up next. before discovering nexium 24hr to treat her frequent heartburn, claire could only imagine enjoying chocolate cake. now she can have her cake and eat it too. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn?

pete: welcome back. a dog mistakenly sent to japan, well, instead of kansas by united airlines returning home. ainsley: a little detour. steve: supposed to take a right. took a left. united is already under scrutiny. now a criminal investigation is under underway after the death of a puppy which was placed overhead bind during a flight to new york city. ainsley: how does it stack up to other carriers. kurt is with us. you fly all the time. what's the news when it comes to animal deaths. >> department of transportation combings up with dated caupdate that. airlines are required by law to announce department of transportation any incident involving a pet death on animal death on board an aircraft. these things that happen happening three times more often on united airlines, with 18 deaths reported in 2017. that's a higher number than

all other u.s. domestic carriers combined. steve: why did they wind up putting the dog in the overhead bin? >> there is some controversy to that passengers who were eyewitnesses on board that united flight have said the flight attendant came the bag needs to go up there. the passenger that owns the dog with a small puppy said there is a dog in there. >> the flight attendant is saying she didn't understand that's what she was saying. all the people around there saying we all got it. you knew. they are calling her a liar and she is saying wait a minute, i just didn't understand. ainsley: why wouldn't anyone say something you can't put a dog up there, lady? >> you know what in the moment that door shut on any commercial airline. ainsley: scared to open their mouth. >> flight attendants mustable obeyed. you hear that constantly. you must obey the instruction of a flight attendant. pete: there must be a reason. steve: tell us about delta's tracker. >> delta was very proactive

started this first in the industry. when you ship a dog in the cargo part of delta because they no longer accept it as checked baggage. either in the carbon or as cargo. they have a tracker that has a g.p.s. tracker on the side of it. what it does is location, the temperature air pressure whether the dog has been shocked or they drop the crate. this data is transmitted constantly. steve: to your cell phone. >> inside delta so they can monitor that. ainsley: they are very careful. if you are going to send a dog in cargo. you have to send it early in the morning when it is still cool. >> avoid a connecting flight and avoid going in the cargo if you can at all. that's what the humane society would say. steve: kurt, interesting stuff. pete: thank you, appreciate it. steve: coming up on this friday, the white house calling out fbi director andy mccabe. >> we do think that it is well documented that he has had some very troubling behavior and by most accounts a bad actor.

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steve: moments ago police confirming six people have died after that bridge collapsed in miami. >> national transportation safety board teams are here now trying to find out exactly how this happened. >> jeff sessions is considering firing finn official andrew mccabe if mccabe gets fired before 5:00 p.m. today, he would lose his pension. >> mccabe so far has been worried more about pensions than prison. >> we do think it is well documented that he is by minnesota accounts a bad actor. >> families who lost loved ones at the hands of illegal immigrants now demanding this mayor in oakland be prosecuted by the doj. >> blood on her hands. it's disgusting. >> did you see how high it

is the president next to the wall. isn't it disgusting in the united states we would do something like. >> that the united states of america has been blessed with the luck of the eye liberal to have you with us. i look forward to your return next year, in fact, we will see you for about, what, seven more years, i think. [laughter] ♪ ♪ me and my gang. steve: we are the leading number one cable morning news show on the planet thanks to you. pete: 100 percent thanks to you. ainsley: it's friday you are filling in for brian. pete: i go to these diners. have you got to go. they love you guys. ainsley: they love you, too. pete: they are like we love watching on the weekdays what you bring to people's homes is amazing. steve: you know, i actually

started the diner thing. we en went up to new hampshire to the presidential primary two years ago and there was a problem with the location where we were going to be. it's like could we go to a diner? and then we met what was her name sue up at the airport diner. ainsley: that's how it all started? steve: we had chris christie, jeb bush, donald trump come through the kitchen all on that show. and that's how it started two years ago. pete: threw have it. ainsley: waking up 7:02 in the bathroom and don't have a clock in front of you. brian would say get dressed. we will get straight to a fox news alert. we have a live look what's left as the campus bridge that collapsed down in miami 6 people were left dead. pete: wow, 950-ton walkway crashing down on to 8 lanes of traffic, days after this was installed. 10 people at least are hurt. steve: terrible story.

laura ingle is actually live down near the bridge in miami with the latest. laura? >> good morning. and as you mentioned, that death toll has now gone from what we heard last night was four to confirmed six this morning. and we also learned that some of the victims are still underneath the rubble. others have been removed. i'm going to have our cameraman ben west to show you exactly what we're working with. engineers and investigators are trying to get through all of that to carefully remove the mounds of concrete and metal. they have had to be carefully moving the parts and pieces of the collapsed podesta bridge as they first work to find any survivors. search and rescue teams were working overnight using listening devices and dogs, hoping to find any signs of live. now homicide detectives are hoping to preserve evidence of how and where these six people died, which is pretty much a routine practice when working with an industrial accident like this one, according to police.

now, this pedestrian walkway, which was constructed to the side of the road then swung over is known as instant bridge or accelerated bridge construction. it had been celebrated feat by the engineers who designed it until yesterday. senator marco rubio tweeted last night the cable that suspended the bridge had loosened and engineers had asked for them to be tightened. that's when the bridge came down. police here could not confirm that to us this morning. we are expecting more information to come in a briefing at 9:00 a.m. right now the focus is getting the concrete up and out as safely as possible. >> there is a lot of equipment that's over there that i have never seen before because it's for heavy machinery. it's for heavy loads. and they have been working all night working at that time slowly. again, it's going to be a slow process because of the fact that the unstableness of the structure. the safety of the personnel

that are there. keep the integrity of that beam. be able to preserve any evidence. >> meanwhile, many questions surround the firm who built this bridge. some of which we have looked into have had violations and there has even been a lawsuit against the construction company for intelligence filed just this month on another construction progress. stories of heroism also emerging as though who witnessed the collapse share what happened. >> i was in disbelief of what i actually was just witnessing. and my in60's kicked in instin. in had one not breathing. we started cpr on him. we had another major laceration to his head completely inconscious. >> just a heart breaking scene overnight. we are expected once again to get a briefing from fbi and osha here as well at 9:00 a.m. local time with

more information about how this day is going to go and where the investigation is at this point. back to you. steve: all right, laura, thank you very much. you will see that briefing live here on the fox news channel. shortly after it happened. first responders were on the scene. there were so many police and law enforcement and news helicopters above the scene they couldn't hear whether or not anybody was calling out for help. so they ordered all of the choppers out of the area and they could hear voices. ainsley: wow. pete: as that police officer said you almost don't believe it before your eyes. and then you have to snap in and realize. ainsley: we talk about infrastructure all the time. like you said earlier most of the time they go with the lowest bidder. and sometimes that's the person -- pete: we don't know in this case at all. ainsley: if you go with the lowest bidder you might not get the best quality. we don't know what happened here u they're going to investigate. pete: god bless them. steve: will andrew mccabe, the former fbi deputy

director, a man of great integrity we have heard many times. pete: we have been told. steve: will he be fired by today because the fbi office of professional responsibility halls recommended firing him because, as the inspector general parentally has uncoward, mr. mcauthorized a leak, i believe to the "the washington post." and then when he was asked by the inspector general hey, tell us about that, well, apparently mr. mccabe lied. how many times have we heard people during the trump collusion russia thing that they lied to investigators they wound up being charged. pete: and indicted. ainsley: he stepped down. can i still say employed, please, through the end of march then can i retire and then can i get my pension. you, the taxpayer can fund it. and he said can i keep my job? they said sure. well, now there is talk that jeff sessions is trying to decide and has until the end of the day today to decide if he is going to fire him because his pension would begin or he is able to

retire on sunday on the 1st. pete: sarah sanders was asked about this yesterday. listen. >> that's a determination that we would leave up to attorney general sessions, but we do think it is well-documented that he has had some very troubling behavior and by most accounts a bad actor and should have some cal cause for concern. that's a quality doj will have to make. pete piatt i know if i was in the military and i did 21 years and did something terrible at the end of my career i would get a dishonorable discharge and not get my pension. it doesn't matter. accountability actually matters. i think there is a lot of people out there. not about twisting a knife. this is about making sure if you get a pension you've earned it because have you served honorably. in this case if that's not the case, why does he get it. ainsley: jonathan temperature live the constitutional law attorney says the pension is the least of his worries.

>> the real strange thing about all of this mccabe so far has been more worried about pension than prison. that's not the choice given to michael flynn. michael flynn was charged with false statements even though comey's investigators reportedly believed that flynn didn't intend to mislead them. that's not the conclusion of the inspector general with regard to mccabe. steve: i will say, this the fact that he was essentially fired by the fbi shows future fbi and department of justice officials, if they come before congress and they testify and they lie about it, there are consequences for lying. pete: i would like see it a countdown clock fire or not fire. steve: right by prison? pete: that's not what i'm pointing to right there. ainsley: people watching the 6:00 hour, you guys are

writing in. you are fired up about this story. jose garcia zarate. you might remember that name. the illegal immigrant charged in kate steinle's death, he is suing the government saying the president was tweeting about this case and that it was vindictive. steve: exactly. conclusion between the state authorities. he says circumstantial that his turner does, that his client was used as a political punching bag. we asked you what you thought. you don't think much of that. pete: only in america scenario. email from joe i swear these criminals have more rights than citizens of the united states. what has happened to our country? i will agree with you, joe, it reminds me of some of the things that happened at guantanamo bay sometimes. ainsley: illegal alien kills an innocent young lady and now sues the -- because he was victimized, unbelievable. steve: meanwhile, we telling you about two weeks ago the mayor of oakland libby

schaaf essentially tweeted out that she had heard there could be some ice raids. pete: criminals look out. steve: warned them you better hide. well, angel parents, patience whose children were killed by illegals, including jamiel shaw, they are outraged. they would like to see her prosecuted for doing that he was on with us about an hour ago. >> her job is to protect the american citizens. for her to take a stand like that, she is allowing americans to be murdered. she has blood on her hands because she could have easily just let them go into the jail system and capture those criminals but she allowed them to come out and then for people to be murdered. that's all on her. and people like her. pete: that's common sense stuff like that right here. that's it. steve: we did hear the department of justice is looking into swlornt she did obstruct justice. pete: a lot on the plate of attorney general sessions today and going forward. ainsley: let us know what

you think about that story. we want to read your emails. hand it over to jillian who has more headlines for us. jillian: good friday morning, following up on some of the stories we have been keeping annual eye on. starting with a fox news alert. we now know the u.s. military crash in iraq was deadly. officials say seven people were on board the hhs pay hawk when it crashed after hitting syrian border. unclear how many people dead. chopper was not on combat mission and no indication of hostile fire. this is the first deadly aviation accident four american forces during the isis war since 2014. a man charged with murdering a police officer is now behind bars. john hall is accused of shooting pikeville kentucky police officer scotty hamilton in the head on tuesday as he helped the state trooper with a drug investigation. hall is already a convicted felon and also faces a gun charge. hamilton, a 12-year veteran of the force leaves behind a wife and 9 month old daughter. crucrews will soon

resume looking for missing worker after a massive explosion in texas. evacuating over fears of another blast and toxic fumes at the facility near fort worth. look at those images there. phil and mitchell stanley says they haven't heard from him since the blast and fear he may be dead. investigators believe an employee sparked the explosion by dragging his foot along the factory floor. two people are hurt. that's a look at your headline he is. send it back to you. jillian: thanks, jillian. pete: coming up, did the obama administration make it easier for fugitives to get gun us? a bombshell new report and we promise you won't hear this, of course anywhere else. ainsley: some white house staff changes have the liberal media working overtime. but, has all that so-called chaos slowed the president down? charles payne says no way. and he is next. pete: where is he? come on out, charles. ainsley: that's it. ♪ lilly.

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>> upheaval has been the subheading on all news about the white house. >> many white house officials describe them sizzles as on edge, in the dark over the threat of yet more firings. >> what does chaos mean in our foreign policy?

it means many of our allies who i have worked for over the years, they don't know what to expect next from the united states. steve: a number of white house staff changes sending the media into usual frenelzy. while the mainstream press pushes it as chaos. president trump is still working to achieve his agenda, apparently. do these suggested staff shakeups even matter? here with his thoughts host of making money on fox business charles payne. charles, donald trump is a businessman. a year in somebody is not working out, i get why you would want to get rid of him. >> yeah, in the stock market businesses are judged every three months by quarterly earnings. we know president trump. we saw him on the campaign trail. he got rid of campaign managers. he got rid of staff. he shook things up. things aren't working or time to pivot to make a change, he makes that change. washington, d.c. is thought accustomed to that they are

accustomed to people settling in and having 50 year careers. the word accountability doesn't matter there the mainstream media is so disenjessous. our allies aren't worried. everything president trump has done so far he told us he would do. rex tillerson's firing was a surprise and shocking. he learned over twitter. no, he probably knew for the last six months. everyone knew that also a the last thing they were hysterical about. there was a time we would judge a president on job, wages, peace and prosperity. you know last year around the world global terrorism the number of victims was sliced almost in half. 8,000 from 14,000. isis is almost gone. in this country 2.2 million jobs were create you had. last year on pace to do much better than that this year already. to put it in perspective first year of george bush we lost almost 2 million jobs and first year of obama we lost 3 million jobs. they focus and of course they won't there are ulterior motives, if they would focus on president trump what he is getting achieved rather than mode

disomodus operandi. judge the president on mean tweets, decade old affair and rate of turnover in staff. steve: charles, the mainstream media does not like him. >> no, they don't. steve: if there is some turnover after people not working out. they will turn that in to chaos at the white house. >> taking on people that really did not fit his agenda, did not fit his campaign, what he promised on the campaign trail when he got to d.c. neo fights. hey, take this person, take that person and he did. this is from 2.0. focus more on what they want to get achieved. steve: we are going to achieve something today. we are going to be watching your show. >> thank you very much. steve: making money. >> thanks. steve: thanks, charles. coming up, two new york city police officers ambushed and killed in cold blood. the man who pulled the trigger is about to walk free. our next guest is the widow of one of those officers.

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pete: welcome back. time now for news by the numbers. first 500,000. that's how many fugitives the obama justice department ordered the fbi to remove from its background check database. it reportedly happened when the doj defined fugitive as someone with an outstanding arrest warrant who had also crossed state line. next, 2 million. that's how many americans are off of food stamps in president trump's first year in office. according to new u.s. da

report the six year low reflects booming economy and low unemployment. that's definitely good news. finally the number zero how much military families will have to pay to get into a special shopping event at cosco. 117 stores across the country will participate in military hour for active duty members and veterans on saturday, march 24th. they're just going to open one hour early with snacks and samples. pretty cool initiative. good on costco. ainsley, down to you. ainsley: thanks so much. a convicted cop killer will soon be a free man. there is his picture, her man bell granted parole after serving 45 years behind bars for the murders of not one but two nypd officers back in 1971. in a new op-ed, the widow of nypd officer joseph writes the worst thing about it is that it is setting a precedent. new york city police officers and officers all

around this country walking with a bulls eye on their back. joining me now is diane piagentini. this happened in 1971. did you get a call or knock on your door. >> knock on the door. ainsley: worse day of your life. >> worse day in my life. ainsley: had you two little ones at home how old were your daughters. >> 15 months and 3 years. ainsley: what did this man rob your girls and you of. >> robbed us of our life. my daughters never got to know their father. he wasn't there when they went to high school. father/daughter dances. they never got to know him. ainsley: now you have grandchildren. >> and i have grandchildren. and with this decision it's like how do i tell my grand children when they hear about it. ainsley: did you ever think this would happen? >> no, no. never in my wildest dreams did i think would be let out of prison for what they did. ainsley: why did you write

the op-ed. >> because we need to know. we need -- we need to know what happened, what they did. we really need to know what they did. the public needs to know that police officers are there. my husband took that job to protect and to serve. and he served the community of harlem. he was in the 322 precinct. ainsley: you wrote in op-ed the man who killed my husband will get out of jail. what did my daughters get. they were 15 months and 3 years of age. i have grandchildren, who what do i say about this. what do i tell them when they get ol older and understand the system let them down. it's not just our lives. they don't have a grandfather. the system let you down. this parole board appointed by the governor? >> yes. ainsley: what is the governor saying about this? >> right now we haven't had any contacts with the governor. and we most likely will within the next few days or a he can would.

the pba is trying everything with this decision to have it rescinded and we will see how it goes. ainsley: what's happening with our country? it seems criminals have more rights than innocent tax paying citizens. >> and that's a true statement. that is a true statement. because when you look at this, this happened in '71. it was the first time in the history of the united states that a police officers were ever assassinated you look at today ramos and lee. look what happened to them. and look what happened to officer familia. and look at what is happening throughout the country, texas where they now walk up to a police officer and they kill them. ainsley: unbelievable. you wrote about that. you said they have targets on their backs now. >> yes, they do. ainsley: what do you say to the police officers watching, the men and women in blue to risk their lives every day to stand up for individuals like this guy? >> right, to continue doing their jobs, to continue

protecting and serving but be aware, be careful. if you are in a parole car and sitting on the street somewhere, make sure you are aware that somebody can't come up behind you and shoot you. ainsley: it's sad that you have to give that advice today. you said one of the hardest things that you had to go through was telling your 3-year-old daddy is not coming home. i can't imagine what that day was like what do you want to say to the families that are in your same position. >> every time a police officer's family loses their husband and their father it effects me. i know what they are going to go through. i know how they are going to feel when he is not coming home we used to sit on the stoop and wait for him. so, you know, i know all about that. ainsley: what's your message to the man who killed your husband? >> i really, at this point, don't have a message.

i really don't. my message is this: i would like everybody that is outraged by what has happened to write letters to the governor. and to write letters to the two commissioner. ainsley: can it be reversed? >> we are working on it pat lynch and the. ba is working on that. and we will see what happens. from the general public they need to write to the governor. they need to show that they are outraged with this decision and also to the two commissioner. ottis cruz and carroll shapiro. they need to be written to. ainsley: the mayor says he is troubled by. this and the nypd commissioner sent out a statement and said releasing him from state prison indefensible. so they are on your side? >> yes. this decision is indefensible. we can't defend what they did. it should never, never have happened. when you kill a police officer.

you don't get out of jail. you are in there for life. ainsley: god bless you, god bless your girls and two grandchildren. >> thank you. ainsley: thank you. we'll be right back. you do all this research

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♪ ♪ ♪ go your own way ♪ go your own way ♪ steve: all right. welcome back. it is we have got 90 more minutes of "fox & friends" for this friday. pete: yes, we do. steve: let's dial in our old buddy, author of the new case the case against b.d.s. and we will talk about that in a minute. professor, good morning to you. ainsley: good morning. >> good morning. steve: okay, "new york times," cover this morning mueller demand's trump's company surrenders files. court order.

when you heard that news, what did you think it meant? >> first, i think it means that they are ratcheting up the pressure because normally, in a situation like that, you just ask the company lawyers for the documents and they turn them over. you don't generally need to subpoena them. the other thing it may be is sending a message to the company don't you dare destroy any records because now that there is a subpoena destroying becomes crime. clearly it's a sign they are ratcheting up the pressure and moving beyond his presidency to look at matters that seem beyond the scope of what his original mandate. pete: what does it tell you about what type of a case they are attempting to build. >> well, they obviously have not been able to build a case based on the alleged obstruction of justice all the president did was engage in this constitutionally

authorized acts under the constitution. they are trying to go beyond his presidency. and go back to the time when he was a private citizen and the link they are trying to create is by mentioning the russia connection, funding from foreign countries. they are trying to bring it within the parameters of the mandate that they were originally given. but it seems like a stretch to me. steve: professor, don't you think they were expecting this? they probably had the stuff all boxed up, ready to send it out anyway? >> i imagine so. but, remember the president has said that there are red lines for him. and that he will not cooperate if the investigation goes beyond russia and goes into personal family finances. this is not a publicly held corporation. you do have to have a basis for asking for private documents from a private company. so, i don't know whether that red line has been reached, but if it is, we will see some litigation, probably, and some responses to these demands for documents. steve: okay.

the next topic is close to your heart because of your new book which we just mentioned the case against b.d.s. why singling out israel for boycott is anti-semitic and anti-peace. we have been playing over the last couple of days these extraordinary things that louis farrakhan has said. we're going to go ahead and run that right now just to remind people of what he had said in the past. >> jews don't like farrakhan so they call me hitler. well, that's a good name. hitler was a very great man. >> your country has been taken from you by the synagogue of satan. the satanic jews. >> because you see white people deserve to die. >> white folks are going down. ainsley: professor, there were 8 democrat. democrats in congress that were linked to farrakhan and seen in pictures standing with him, taking meetings with him, so, many republicans and democrats

said you need to separate yourself from this guy. three of them did. three black members of congress did. and now the nation of islam is calling them sell outs. should more democrats come out and say, you need to stop, you need to all separate yourself from them. what's your response to this? >> well, i think more than just separate themselves. i think keith ellison has to be fired immediately as deputy chairman of the dnc. not only has he become close to farrakhan, but he has lied to the american public about ending his relationship with farrakhan. we know that he continued to meet with farrakhan. even after he said he no longer met with him. this is the leadership of the democratic party. bigot. far worse than david duke, why? farrakhan has a large falling. david duke is a joke. he has no large following. he has no influence on university campuses and no influence with the major segment of the american public. we see farrakhan has continuing influence within the african-american

community at the very highest levels. that's why he is so much more dangerous. and he ought to be treat you had the way we treat david duke. if any republican dared to meet with david duke, that would be the end of their career. it should be the end of the career of any democrat who has any association with this bigot farrakhan. ainsley: why does he have such a following when he says these kind of remarks? >> because he also tries to help the black community. look, hitler helped the communities in germany as well. he ended unemployment. he helped inflation. stalin, the same thing. every bigot can claim to do some good, even david duke has said that, look, he helps energize the american whites. that's all nonsense. when you are a bigot, you're a bigot. and when you are anti-semite, there be is zero toler recidivism for anti-semitism. the democrats have to do something about this. they cannot be associated

with this bigot and race is no excuse. we don't have a affirmative action when it comes to bigotry whether you are black or white, you cannot be associated with a bigot like farrakhan. it must end. pete: you have been clear on this from the beginning you would leave the party, physical keith ellison became chair. you remain critical. this is consistent position. another democrat who has been in the news a lot and stayed in the news because she is on book tour now in india, continues on her soirt osortof what happened tou. we have to get your reaction to it. almost seems like the further away she is from america the more candid she can be about how she feels about the election u listen to hillary clinton bashing people who voted for trump. going to get your reaction. listen u. >> i won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward, and his whole campaign, make america great again, was

looking backwards. you know, you didn't like black people getting rights. you don't like women, you know, getting jobs. we do not do well with white men and we don't do well with married white women. part of that is an identification with the republican party and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever believes you should. steve: there is a lot to unpack there where would you like to start? >> well, i would like to learn lessons from her defeat and make sure we don't -- the democrats don't suffer another defeat like that again. if we take her lesson seriously we have to move the party away from the radical left, move it back to the center. try to get middle class voters, white voters, people

of color, people of every background from the middle west, union people, and learn the lesson of the defeat, not try to make excuses. but just learn how to make sure you avoid that in the future if the democrats are going to win. pete: had the party not left you, professor. i'm told i'm not optimistic or dynamic if i support president trump. at what point do you say this is a party that's gone so far left that they have left me? >> it hasn't left me yet. i won't let the democrats leave me. i won't be pushed out. i want to stay in the democratic party. i want to move them towards the center. i want to move them toward reasonable policies and away from the extreme left. if they nominate a candidate from the extreme left, they will lose again. i want to see the democrats and the republicans both move towards the center. america thrives at the center. america suffers at the exstreentle. ainsley: look at what happened in pennsylvania, conor lamb. >> we have to continue to learn lessons.

a centrist democratic candidate can do very well. particularly, look at moore against a radical republic can. centrists win. radicals lose. both parties have to learn that lesson. steve: all right. >> i hope we will. steve: professor alan dershowitz a very smart man because during the winter is he currently in miami. ainsley: congratulations on the new book. >> thank you so much. ainsley: we you have back to talk about that. >> sure. pete: hundreds of people killed in one community because of opioids. many many communities. now that community is going after the drugmakers. they say the drugmaker is complicit. she joins us next. steve: have you heard nancy pelosi's latest beef with president trump's border wall? >> border, did you see it? how high it is and the president next the to wall? really civilized society would do something like that? ♪when you've got...♪ ♪...nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!♪

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♪ pete: welcome back. well, milwaukee is taking on 13 drug companies in the opioid fight. the county's top attorney suing them from the damages of the devastating tool opioids have had there. prosecutors say 336 people died from opioids in milwaukee county last year. that number doubled from five years ago. joining us now is milwaukee county corporation council margaret dawn. margaret, thank you very much for being here. tell us about the approach you are taking, it's not just about drug dealers on the street. you are going to the source, tell us about it. >> right. >> we think that if you are a drug pusher on the street or fortune 50 company if you are taking the lives of milwaukee county residents and citizens, we are going to come after you. on wednesday we filed a civil lawsuit against 13 of this nation's largest opioid manufacturers and distributers to seek

injunctive relief as well as monetary damages and assistance in repairing our communities from the devastation that these businesses intentionally have reaped on milwaukee county. pete: margaret, let me make a comparison here. >> sure. pete: as a layperson i say okay, is this similar to suing a gun manufacturer if the pinner selling it or giving it was doing something improper like a doctor overprescribing. why is it the fault of the drugmaker if it is used improperly? because there are reasons why these drugs are out there for legitimate purposes. >> well, let me start with the analogy to a gun manufacturer. if a gun manufacturer sold you a gun and told you don't worry, it won't harm you, then you might have a claim. that's the actual analogy here. these manufacturers knew that they were making inherently very addictive, very dangerous drug. and instead of being trifle

truthful about that they intentionally lied and created shell industry groups and paid off physicians to tell other physicians that these drugs, even if used long term, did not pose a significant risk of addiction. and that was simply false. and that's truly the ground of our claims. pete: we will read a statement briefly from the healthcare distribution alliance, which represents the drug distributers. they say this in response: those bringing lawsuits would be better served addressing the root causes, rather than trying to redirect blame through litigation. so they are saying we make a drug. we put it out there. and people misuse it or abuse it. that's not necessarily our fault. but your claim is they are misrepresenting the effects of the drug. formally or informally? >> formally. in industry statements, in their education for doctors and physicians, in studies that they have published they claim that these drugs

were simply not addictive. and as many of your viewers, i'm sure, well know that have families, friends, co-workers, that are struggling with addictions with these medications, that was simply false. let me further say to the gentleman that provided the industry commentary, i find that surprising since his clients have already accepted blame for this epidemic. in fact, mccommittees son, the largest drug distributer in the united states paid over $150 million in a settlement in 2017. i think the bigger picture here is that we wouldn't be sitting here. we wouldn't be having this discussion if the drug distributers and manufacturers obeyed the law. pete: sure. >> specifically the controlled substances act. they didn't. these drugs have poured into our community. and when congress relaxed the regulatory structure in 2016 after significant lobbying by these companies, we have had no choice but to

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side. ♪ ainsley: okay. first she called president trump's tax cuts crumbs. now nancy pelosi is setting her sights on the border wall. listen. >> the border, did you see it, how high it is -- really in a civilized society we would do something like that as obnoxious as it is? you know, that's a community there with a border running through it okay. we have difference of opinion on that. but a wall that big

separating people? i mean, really? this is a big wall. steve: here with reaction we have fox news headlines 24/7 reporter carley shimkus. carley, that wall the president want to make too big. carley: too big. too tall. obnoxious. you know viewer comments on pouring in on this one. let's get straight to it silas sent us an email saying the wall is too tall for nancy pelosi to get her mower over. [laughter] 30-foot wall at the border. the comments she made about -- remember she said the thing about mowing the grass. >> steve: mow the lawn. >> or don't mow the lawn to prevent people from coming over. charlie said nancy pelosi's idea of a fence would be a picket fence with flowers and a gate with a sign that says enter here. that's some imagery there. steve: big beautiful picket fence. >> how tall is the wall around nancy pelosi's house?

pete: good questions. carley: all comments coming in there. ainsley: really funny. carley: she is calling it obnoxious because it's going through certain american towns. president trump says it will cut taxes and save lives. pete: as effective to wall be effective to deter people. carley: are we surprised she holds this point of view, this perspective? ainsley: thought at all. steve: why would we build a 20 billion-dollar wall that was too feet too short. ainsley: i love that image of the first one her pushing her lawn mower. carley: clearly she has never seen the game of throwns before that wall is pretty big. steve: it is a big one. have you got to go back to work. >> i have got to go. steve: 24/7 fox radio. thank you. ainsley: white house calling out fbi deputy director andrew mccabe saying is he a bad actor. what happens now. is he going to be fired? geraldo weighs in on that. here he is. at the top of the hour.

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♪ steve: police confirming six people have died after that bridge collapsed in miami. >> jeff sessions is considering firing fbi official andrew mccabe. >> we think it is well-documented he is by most account as bad actor. >> familys who lost loved ones at hands of illegal immigrants demand the mayor in oakland prosecuted by did the oj. >> she has blood on her hands, allowing americans to be murdered. >> dianne feinstein ought to retire now. she is brand standing about waterboarding. ainsley: granted parole after serving 45 years for murders of not one but two nypd officers. >> never in my wildest dreams did i think they would be let out of prison for what they did. >> the united states of america has been truly blessed with the

luck of the irish. i look forward to have your return next year. we'll see you for about what, seven more years i think? [laughter] ♪ steve: if you're working 9:00 to 5:00 today and you're just getting dressed brian kilmeade would say, tomorrow is st. patrick's day. today we're honor norring him like this. ainsley: dolly parton is on the show today. pete: i saved my green. i will be here this weekend wearing green. steve: you are a patriot. pete: yes. i have that with me always. minnesota vikings tie because we signed curt cousins. ainsley: show them your socks. pete: minnesota socks. you have to do it well. always a great day on friday when i spend it with you guys. ainsley: we played 9:00 to

5:00 and our week is done. we have best jobs. you all are sleeping. we gather the news. we tell you what you need to know as you head out of work and we're done by 9:00. pete: they feel bad for you. steve: thank you for joining us on this friday. brian is off, pete is in. we start off with a fox news alert. pete: six people are dead after a campus bridge collapses in miami. steve: that walkway, 950 tons, crashed down crashed on to eight lanes of track, just a couple of days after it was installed. we are learning more people may be trapped under the rubble. ainsley: so sad. laura engle down in miami with the breaking developments. reporter: good morning as the sun comes up here in miami, more questions coming to light about the safety and method of the way the construction was done with this pedestrian bridge. i will have you zoom in to see

what the folks are working with, the engineers and investigators have working with through the night trying to get into the rubble. we've been told by police, they came by our live shot, to let us know, give us a correction, we had been told some of the victims were removed. some are in there. now we're being told all five victims are still in those cars underneath those bridges in the rubble. so one person died in the hospital. five victims still remain here at the scene. there could be more. the nearly 200-foot-long walkway was built on the side of the road in one big piece known as instant bridge or accelerated bridge construction t was just moved over the roadway last saturday with much fanfare, celebration. they hoped the walkway would create safe passage for students on florida international university on one side. and the city of sweetwater on the other. something noticeably went wrong a lloyd bang at 2:00 p.m.

950-ton structure came down crushing cars instantly. setting off rescue mission as civilians and construction workers trying to help though trapped. miami police confirmed six people died. some are still under the rubble. they will have to move slowly because heavy concrete is still unstable. >> entire bridge in jeopardy. what the engineers were concerned about the during the operational brief how will they approach the bridge in tactical way where it doesn't harm the rescuers and at the same time -- reporter: and we do have a briefing happening at 9:00 a.m. eastern. so that in the next hour. the ntdb will be here to bring you more information. we'll brit i to you. steve: thank you very much. it is friday. geraldo from cleveland. pete: live and in the flesh. >> go cavs. steve: here is the attorney general --

>> that is terrible story. the edge gear designed that system, so modern. ainsley: other loved ones were underneath the rubble. >> can you imagine that. pete: someone needs to be held accountable for that, right? someone made a big mistake. lives have been changed and lost as a result. steve: perhaps. pete: perhaps, good point. former deputy director of the fbi andy mccabe resigned hoping to keep his pension. his name has been all over the news. now our attorney general, has an opportunity, and white house said he is a bad actor. we know he has done some things wrong. they have until the end of the day to fire him, hold him accountable. he would not receive his pension as a result. what do you make what should be done here? do you let him retire or hold him accountable and say, hey, you can't get away with this? >> it is weird the coverage of mccabe that is coming down because if i were him, or if i were he, i don't know which is

the correct english here i would be a lot more worried about getting a criminal defense attorney than i would getting a pension ruling from myself service union. i mean this is a person, apparently, who lied to the fbi about the hillary clinton email probe, about, you know, the other, clinton foundation. you can do a lot of things but the one thing you can't do is sit with a federal investigator and not tell the truth. steve: tell michael flynn. tell martha stewart. tell george papadopoulos. >> he worked 22 years, everyone wants security in their old age but it does seem to me his prime concern would be whether or not he goes to jail. pete: geraldo, if i did 21 years in the military and 22 year i

did something worthy of dishonorable discharge, why should i get the pension. >> it is difficult to deny a pension in the federal civil service -- ainsley: what if you broke the law? almost like -- >> it is possible but it is a lot more likely he can be indicted than he can be denied his pension. pete: so frustrating. >> the american people are out there working really hard to pay his pension, it looks like he is getting rewarded for doing something wrong. you know what? go home. retire in march. we'll give you two months off before that. sit at home. >> i would bet he would gladly sacrifice his pension if he were given a green light, criminal charges. you live your life. we'll never charge you, we'll give you a pass. i bet he would take that deal. he could get the pension, be

charged and they seem to have him about it short hairs. steve: we'll find out if that happens by the close of business today. you know jamil shaw, sr., his son was murdered by somebody who was in the country illegally. we had him on as a guest 90 minutes ago. he was talking about the mayor of oakland, california, libby schaaf, who heard couple weeks ago i.c.e. might have raids, hey, illegals, run. we had him on because he is bun of the angel parents. they would like to see her prosecuted. listen to this. >> her job is to protect the citizens, the american citizens, you know, for her to take a stand like that, she is allowing americans to be murdered. show had blood on her hands. she could have easily let them go into the jail system and capture those criminals but she allowed them to come out, for people to be murdered that is all on her and people like her.

steve: apparently not just the angel families against the oakland mayor but perhaps the department of justice is looking into did she obstruct justice. >> whether or not she obstructed justice is a finding of fact. did she get information i.c.e. was coming down through official sources and betray her official job or did she get it informally, scuttlebutt off the street. a texas appeals court ruling has just come down that said the federal government is in charge of immigration. you have to do what the federal government says. that case will surely go to the supreme court of united states. there are different rulings in different federal districts. ultimate question, there was the big arizona case where the obama administration went after arizona because arizona was too tough on undocumented immigration. the federal government said ease off, the federal government was ruled by the supreme court to be paramount, to be supreme. if that logic holds i think they will find that california is not

fulfilling its constitutional responsibility to the federal government. but that is still in the -- what i really want people to know, i totally get it, every time i come out i have to say it, i get that i'm in the minority but there are definitely, particularly in these blue states that are very heavily populated by documented and undocumented but related people, there is a real sentiment of compassion, inclusion. they're here so long. they have law-abiding lives, otherwise, other than their presence here, they have citizen children. the mom is -- pete: we get that. we're not talking about law-abiding people in oakland. these people were criminals. alerting criminals. steve: one of the things jamil shaw said, i asked him how many people in california supporting a sanctuary state? i don't know anybody. if they wanted to know they would take a poll. they're afraid to take the poll. >> we should take the poll, perhaps. the biggest polls the fact that

the democrats are winning everything anywhere, generally speaking california are the two top vote-getters in the primary session who run against each other in the finals, running two democrats against two democrats very often. steve: pennsylvania ran two republicans against each other. >> this would be the wave of future. i want people to know there is real divide in this country how to approach this country. i think, i advised president when i saw him a couple weeks ago, i love the idea this whole thing with the dreamers, 1.8 million dreamers, let the president get the wall, $25 billion to fund the wall. build the wall, that will satisfy to a certain extent many trump supporters. the dreamers getting a pass and a road however arduous to citizenship, i think that would placate the left, maybe we can then start with something comprehensive. pete: is the wall too tall for you, geraldo? >> the think about the wall, i

joke, the wall is 35 feet high. you know, it is a 25 billion-dollar wall. you get 32-foot ladder for $25 at walmart. you defeat the wall. elections have consequences. the majority of people in the states with the electoral votes voted for trump and the wall. should get the damn wall. steve: get a damn wall. >> good morning. get the green on man. pete: join us tomorrow. >> i'll be there. steve: jillian has headlines. >> h. jillian: fox news confirming that all seven people on board a military helicopter that crashed in iraq are dead. the black hawk went down after hitting a power line near the syrian border. it was not in a combat mission and no indication of hostile fire. this is the percent.

overnight the man dubbed the stocking strangler was executed in georgia. carlton gary was given lethal inject hundred of 1977 murders of three elderly bill. he strangled them with their own stockings. another athlete was given lethal injection in alabama. michael eggars giving thumbs up. he killed his carnival boss in the year 2000. that is quick look. the get back to you. steve: getting a note from, somebody, one of our sources if they fire mccabe, he does not lose his pension. he would need to be convicted of treason or something similar. he might loosen handed benefits but that would be different. ainsley: so why fire him? just for the ceremonial firing? steve: stay tuned. pete: some would call the army's j.r. otc program an incredible opportunity for young patriots. folks like me might say that one

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something that codepink put up on their website. they are taking aim at the junior rotc program, particularly out parkland, down in the great state of florida. they write, i'm not going to say the shooter's name, the shooter was in florida, was an expert marksman. because he was trained by the u.s. army jrotc program. tell congressman mac thornberry and senator john mccain, the chairs of the house and senate armed committees, take violence and war out of our schools. end that program they write. pete: yeah, part of the reason this is become such a national discussion, colton hobs was a member of the jrotc, 17 years old. he helped beer 60, 70 people to shelter. hid them behind kevlar sheets. he credited his training to the reason he reacted that way.

ainsley: peter wang, he was in jrotc, he was helping staff escape the rampage. steve: where is the courage come from? people shooting at you run. pete: it is not natural, steve. it is trained and taught. that is the what the program did. steve: that is the program they want ended because they feel, because the shooter learned how to shoot there, they should end that. ainsley: this is crazy. don't build a wall. sanctuary cities. steve: build a short wall. ainsley: build a short wall. pete: mow the grass. ainsley: sanctuary cities be allowed. no more junior rotc. no more guns. pete: i was keynote speaker at a jrotc in new jersey just a few miles from where i live, it was unbelievable. they're not kids. they're young adults who are being trained to love their country, have discipline, show courage, be respectful and there were over 400 of them and their parents so proud of what they're

doing. some may go into the military. most of them don't because it's a voluntary program. their parents who are proud raising kids that love their country. steve: 100%. go to the email. ainsley: rotc programs show responsibility, maturity, critical thinking. so those people complaining are weak and want to blame someone else except the person pulling the trigger. steve: marie emailed us, my grandson and granddaughter are in the program. my grandson is reaping to the enter the naval academy. when he graduates in 2019. this program teaches respect, discipline, focus on education. pete: amen. hugh, writes the jrotc is defense program, not a war program. aimed to protect all the snowflakes in their safe spaces. codepink exposing where the left goes. a lot of them hate the military. steve: they were started as a antiwar group. ainsley: did you have rotc in your high school. pete: we did in college. ainsley: the students were disciplined, focused, out there

training on our front lawn. steve: can keep the comments coming. media claims that the trump pick to lead cia endorsed torture. one outlet says we got the story wrong. mark steyn is coming up next. you know what's awesome? gig-speed internet.

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excuse. steve: you got the mainstream media talking about how the president's pick to run the cia has a big problem with her past. the problem is, according to "propublica" they issued a correction. turns the out she was not involved in the interrogation of abu zubaydah. mark steyn at the end. couch, hosting tucker tonight. he joins us live. what do you make of this. >> i love the way the guy referred to it she was in charge of the torture program. that is now an official job in the u.s. government, assistant deputy undersecretary of torture. it was in fact a perfectly lawful program at the time. and as, as you guys know, waterboarding is a technique. it was a technique that at that time was lawful under the united states government. steve: that's right. >> people objected to it. a lot of journalists objected to it underwent waterboarding.

late christopher hitchens put himself under it. in fact more journalists have been waterboarded than terrorists because it became the thing to do. this is completely ridiculous t was a lawful policy and it is no longer a lawful policy but the idea retrospectively that makes her a torturer is vile. pete: that she was too tough on terrorists. that is why we shouldn't like her? >> one of the things i hate, i have come to loathe about the political culture generally is the whole rear view mirror thing. so we've spent two years now investigating donald trump over russia. that hasn't really gone anywhere but we might have something on his tax returns from 1997. but if that doesn't go anywhere, let's go back to relitigate what was happening in the wakes of 9/11 everybody thought there would be another attack coming and all you could do was use extraordinary techniques to

persuade someone to cough up the information. steve: everybody was onboard. >> absolutely. including all these people who are now protested for opportunistic reasons. this rear view mirror thing is absolutely killing us because we have a whole political culture that wants to relitigate 15 years ago and never looks ten minutes ahead. pete: great point. ainsley: speaking united airlines, put the dog, flight attendant allegedly put the dog up there. the owner of the dog said, there is dog in there. flight attendant said she didn't hear it. you're blaming a lot of people sitting around the dog owner, right? >> i think one of the dangers of this post9/11 flight environment training free-born peoples to behave like a herd of animals. no, i'm being serious. it shocks me people hear barking they think, oh look, there is a dog trapped in the overhead compartment, i will film it on my telephone and put it on

social, no. i understand that, if you don't do what the flight attendant, nearly said stewardess, that is offensive. we used to call them in the '60s, in britain they used to call them trolley dollies which is even worse offense. but the flight attendant, if you don't do what you do, she says you're taken off the flight in manacles in case you're mohammed atta. they let in mohammed atta on the bike path. free-born people on a plane, travel three hours with a dog in the overhead compartment and don't assistant up, open it, get the dog out. steve: mark. who knows, maybe they thought that was safe. put him up there, probably safe. turns out not safe. i don't why didn't the dog owner in the middle of flight. i understand you can't have too many baggings under your feet, in the middle of flight, get up

and get the dog? >> i think people are cowed because they know if you say anything the flight is going to be late taking off. you will be sitting out there on the runway. ainsley: you won't have any rights. you're scared. >> everyone is staring at you. ainsley: you don't want to be embarrassed. >> no. we're actually destroying and corroding, i mean it actually is a serious, it actually is a serious point. i don't think you should put any animal in there. you know, st. patrick, supposedly drove the snakes out of ireland. >> steve: right. >> he didn't do that by sticking them in the overhead bin from dublin to heathrow. >> put them on a plane. >> i wouldn't do that to a snake and we shouldn't do it to a dog. steve: there is a big question. >> i don't know. pete: similar but different. steve: i don't know if you had

your midlife crisis yet, apparently turns out more than half of millenials are going through their quarter life crisis. >> the minute i read about millenials going through a quarter life crisis, i strangely had a premature 15, 1life crisis. i am not sure i want to live in the same world as these people. i kind of understand it, because we prolong adolescence now until basically, until the age of 30. and then you start your adult life. so, you wake up in early middle age, and you're living in your parents basement and you have got six figures of college debt, there is an unattractive side to millenials. in some ways they're the most privileged group of people in human history but there is also something tragic, because of this whole business of deferred adulthood, that leaves them ill equipped for adulthood. pete: isn't the crisis rest of us went through when we had to go off to college.

cut the chord. see if you prolong that, it prolongs the crisis. >> i think that's true. you were thinking about jrotc and everything, moving, visit war graves cemetery, i visited canadian commonwealth cemeteries in normandy, look the at age on those markers, those guys are 17, 18, 19 but they were men. there is a lot to be said for raising -- ainsley: think about our parents and our grandparents. they were getting married at 21, had kids at 22, 23, paying bills. >> almost all our structural defects, tie it back to the trillion dollar debt, we need people to do the jobs we don't do. why do we need people to do the jobs we don't do? because our own children are in protracted adolescence until age the 28 or 29. ainsley: grow up. steve: got you started. back with the tucker show

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before the walkout. you're a history teacher, and you were talking about what in your class? >> i wanted to make sure that my students were informed. i said are you guys aware what is happening next wednesday? very few of them were. i said this is brief overview. i want you to please go look deeper yourself. i want you to go home have a dialogue with your parents and let your parents know this protest is taking place. and i opened up the discussion for, if schools, not only just our school, our administration, across the country are going to allow one group of students to get up during class and walk out to protest one issue, would they still give the same courtesy to another group of students who wanted to get up and walk out to protest -- i used example of abortion. steve: sure. >> apparently there was exactly two students and one parent who

had issue with that i teach over 120 students. none of this was corroborated with any of any other students. they just took these two students and one parent's complaint and put me on leave. steve: your comments seem fair to me. you know, when we first heard about the national walkout day, the way it was presented was, that it was to honor the lives lost down in parkland high school. turns out if you look at website it, was to protest guns. >> yes. steve: to ask for more gun controls in this country. essentially all those young americans and their teachers who participated were making a political statement. and you were saying if the politics were on the other side, would people take part? and the answer obviously is, you know, you're out of work for a couple of days. >> absolutely. or, worse yet.

you're pinpoint accurate that is exactly the point i was trying to raise and the guise was this was to memorialize the 17 victims. steve: yeah. >> which absolutely nobody would have any problem with. steve: not at all. >> in fact some of my other students floated beautiful ideas how the entire school could rally together during lunchtime, and they negative got a sufficient answer to why that couldn't take place because it was a protest and it was condoned. steve: right. you mentioned abortion. abortion and guns, two issues in our country, that are very polarizing. people -- >> yes. >> steve: people are dug in on their sides. your school district put out the statement. the teacher was not penalized based on their viewpoints. the action was taken due to complaints by parents and students, communications

regarding the student-led remembrance activities. i don't know that i buy that. how about you. because it was your point of view in the beginning got two people to complain. whatever happened to the free flow of ideas in country? >> i'm not sure what is happening with that at this moment. again just contextually to reiterate i teach over 120 students, and they took two students and one parent complaint and i feel like took that miniscule evidence, did not corroborate it with any other students or parents. they basically targeted me. steve: sure looks like it because you had a different point of view than the teachers organizing that. quick exit question, when are you going back to school? >> well they asked me to come back today. they said we want this issue to be done with and swept up i think was the terminology. we want you back to school today. it has been a lot over the last two days. i had to process this.

i'm taking a mental wellness day today. i'm hoping to be back on monday. i miss my students dearly. steve: i'm sure they miss you. julianne benzel, got not a couple paid vacation but put you in the time out room. >> time out room. steve: thanks for telling your story. >> thanks for having me. >> it is troubling. what do you think about that? email us. 20 minutes before the top of the hour. jillian has headlines. jillian: thank you, steve. a cop killer will soon be a free man. herman bell granted parole after serving 45 years behind bars for the murders of two nypd officers in 1971. one of them, joseph piantini shot 2 it times. his widow joined us earlier after writing a powerful op ed on the release of her husband's killer. >> should never ever happen. when you kill a police officer you don't get let out of jail.

with this decision, how do i tell my grandchildren when they hear about all this? jillian: bell is expected to be released next month for showing good behavior and remorse in prison. remember when retiring republican senator jeff flake said this? >> become the party of roy moore and donald trump. we are toast. jillian: well the never trump arizona senator is at it again, taking yet another shot at the commander-in-chief. ahead of an appearance in new hampshire blake told the national press club this washington, as a result of president trump, republicans quote, might not deserve to lead. he also said he is not ruling out a run for president in 2020. now to the best story you will hear all day. a oklahoma high school football team celebrating a teammate's greatest win, beating cancer. [cheering]

awesome. jackson lily's teammates cheering him on as he rang the school's personal record bell. the 17-year-old spent a year battling stage 4 lymphoma. many well-wishes to him, steve. steve: that bring as tear. thank you, jillian. democrats claim to be the party that values women, if you ask hillary clinton this is how women decided who to vote for. >> vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever believes you should. steve: can you be a feminist and say stuff like that? she is a country music legend. today is a big day for dolly parton. she will join us live to explain coming up on "fox & friends." ♪ feel the clarity of

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♪ ainsley: democrats claim to the be the party that truly understands the value of the woman. but if you ask hillary clinton, white, married women did not vote for her because the men in their lives ordered them not to. listen. >> we don't do well with married white women. part of that is an identification with the republican party and a, a, sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should. >> so can hillary clinton really be a feminist icon if she thinks that women can't think for themselves? fox news contributor, president of independent women's voice tammy bruce says no! she joins us now to discuss. >> hey. ainsley: what decade are we in. i can not believe she said this

what do you think? >> this is what is great about the 21st century, women and men rejected that kind of tripe. the problem it wasn't surprising. i was the president of n.o.w. 20 years ago. pleased to be the press of iwb. it is left it policy and constantly, heard behind closed doors in the feminist movement, if you did not think correctly, toe a certain line, pay allegiance to the liberal point of view, you would lose your women hood, you would not be female anymore. as an example in gloria steinem in 1993 when kay bailey hutchinson running for texas, steinem called her a female impersonator. this notion to degrade women who you disagree, that is not unusual. we heard it constantly. it has been generally a threat what makes us important, what makes us who we are, is going to be erased if you don't pay allegiance to the liberal point of view.

these days, it is something for all of us, becomes ingrained in us we attack people we don't agree with. we are certainly working to get out of that. right now we can disagree. you can have difficult points of view. it is not about smearing or defraying that individual with whom you disagree, particularly other women. but that is the threat to the left, ainsley. is that women realizing there is a different way to think about things, you can think differently about policy. you can have a different point of view. you can be a republican or you can be an independent, that is it all right. that is a threat to what the left wants to do as it co-opted women's issues. ainsley: can't believe she was a woman that ran and i kept hearing women were for a woman becoming president, just the right one. >> that feminist idea took hold, as independent women we'll decide what we want to do. most americans want that hillary

and certainly liberals are finding that out as well. ainsley: thank you so much, tammy, for being with us. >> my pleasure. ainsley: have a great weekend. she is a country music legend. and today is a huge day for her. dolly parton joins us live to explain. hey, dolly. first let's check in with bill hemmer what is coming up at top of the hour. >> i don't see green on dolly, what is going on there, ainsley? good morning. breaking news about the awful bridge collapse. we'll have a press conference and watch that live together. russia is on the hit list for the white house. sean spicer, peter king on today. will the fbi be investigating. listen to the senators making a stand on that. dave ramsey wants to get you out of debt. he will tell you how. space race too mars. is that what happens next? see you at the top of the morning.

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♪ ♪ nine to five, what a way to make a living, barely getting by, no taking and forgiving ♪ ainsley: she is so cute and so loved. country music legend and actress. pete: even has her own amusement park reopening for the 2018 season today. steve: joining us dollywood, dolly parton. she is not working nine to five but it is about working 5:00 to nine. >> this is the 32nd season at dollywood. you people have been good to me. you've been here at least 15, 20 years to promote. we have a lot of people behind us. if you hear a lot of noise, those are my fans. thank you for having me. we're all excited about our new

season. steve: we're looking at pictures of imagination library program giving away 100 million books. tell us what is new in store for dollywood this year, dolly. >> actually, every year we specialize in something. this year we actually just, we're actually going to spend about a million dollars just on the entertainment. we'll bring a lot of people in, about 30 artists from the past with all of those wonderful songs we all love. like still the one, with or liens and all the great -- orleans with the wonderful songs you sing and or in the shower. we'll have my family and my story, it has been rewritten. we're focused on all the music and every year we have the festival of nations where we have people come from all over the world bringing their music and their food. it is a wonderful way to travel around the world without going around the world. steve: hooray for dollywood. pete: absolutely. ainsley: you're working on a --

the nine to five movie, there is not a release date. you're working on a film with jennifer aniston called, "dumlin." >> actually a story about a little girl inspired by my music and sayings. it was a "new york times" best-seller book a few years back. jennifer aniston adapted it. she is starring in it. about a little girl, whose mother, who is jennifer aniston, who was a beauty pageant, but in her hometown runs the pageant. her daughter is overweight and not beauty contestant type. she wanted to be in the contest. through my songs and music the little girl makes her way through all that. a story about misfit girls to decide to do that. i written music. i'm not in it. since they had my stuff in it, they asked if i would write additional music. so i have, that will be

something. i'm not sure about the date of the release, but sometime soon. the movie has been done. pete: you're such an inspiration for some people but also young girls. i see them waiting in line behind you, presumably to see you. all these years and all the things you accomplished what is your message to young girls in this country? >> well, i think it would be the same message for young boys as well. you have to be true to yourself. you have got to stand up for what you believe in, especially the young girls. you have to believe in yourself. you have got to be willing to sacrifice for whatever that dream of yours is. there is nothing that is going to be hard work. you can overcome a lot of things. we have to, a lot of times but i was lucky, that i made it, when i was younger, by having six brothers and my dad and my uncles. we have to know our own strength, know our own talents and go for it. steve: the message, dollywood is officially open.

ainsley: great. so great to see you again. >> thank you for helping me out always. so special. i appreciate you. ainsley: god bless you, dolly. >> thank you. pete: american legend. ♪ [upbeat music] you wouldn't feel good not knowing the price here. don't let it happen when you buy your diabetes test strips. with the accu-chek® guide simplepay program, you pay the same low price. all without having to go through insurance. plus, they come in a spill-resistant vial along with a free meter. skip the guessing game and focus on your health. not the cost. make saving simple today at simplepaysaves.com.

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going to be talking live to dolly par ton. >> have a wonderful weekend and pete will be anchoring tomorrow and sunday. happy friday. >> bill: good morning. 9:00 now here within the hour, we'll get more answers on how that bridge collapsed in florida. at least six people now confirmed dead. crews digging through a mountain of rubble and it's now a recovery effort. good morning, it's friday. we've gone green. i'm bill hemmer, welcome to "america's newsroom." >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. that bridge was a new pedestrian walkway at florida international university and not even open yet officials still looking into why it collapsed. and crews using dogs and high-tech listening devices into what is a delicate operation. >> you have to under