@mediabuzz@foxnews.com. we'll see you >> do not touch any packages that look like a package, stay inside your home until we have had until teem neighborhood safe. >> president trump attacking former deputy andrew mccabe and special counsel robert mueller. >> very serious concerns and tie overall concern how the fbi handled investigations into the elections last year. >> ly do whatever it takes and that includes filibuster. i will try to make a point. >> it doesn't feel like it's going to be expanded. >> the last shot.

>> miracle. ♪ ♪ heather: good morning, a brand-new day and a brand-new week and you're watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning from new york city. i'm heather childers, thank you so much for joining us and beginning your week with us, we begin with fox business alert, fox news alert i should say for you at this hour, urged residents to stay inside until daylight until a fourth explosion rocks neighborhood overnight. the blast coming over appeal to bomber from police. kelly wright with the breaking details. good morning, kelly, what can you tell us? >> kelly: not a good morning at

anxious residents in austin while police investigate latest explosion to happen in their community. blast injured two men in their 20's, we are told they are hospitalized with serious injuries, austin police chief ryan is warning residents to stay indoors throughout the night and not to open any unexpected packages, he added that police believe the blast might be related to three other bombings over the last ten days and those two people were killed and two injured. >> we now need the community to have extra level of vigilance and pay attention to any suspicious device whether it be a package, backpack that looks out of place and do not approach pit. kelly: bombings had had an impact on southwest by southwest

festival. over the weekend a 26-year-old man arrested after making a threat at the event, trevor ingram e-mailed bomb threat prompting massive sweep of the area. organizers canceled ruth concert, plus latest explosion is causing more anxiety for residents. >> people are still traumatized. the fact that somebody could even bring a bomb into this community. that could have been me. i get packages all of the time. my roommates get packages all of the time. it hits home. kelly: hitting home, indeed and doubled to people living in the community. no motive but police suspect could be hated crimes because all the victims have been black or hispanic, police are offering rewards totaling $1,000 leading to arrest of killer or killers, heather. heather: thank you very much, kelly, we will continue to follow the story, of course. in the meantime the white house

is firing reports this morning about the job security of special counsel robert mueller. now this comes after fbi deputy director andrew mccabe was fired, griff jenkins live in washington sorting all the new developments, good morning, griff. >> good morning, heather, the president set up a fire storm of speculation that mueller's firing was imminent naming him for the first time in tweet sunday saying, quote, why does the mueller team have 13 hardened democrats, big crooked hillary supporters, does anyone think it's fair, yet there's no collusion. while the president was venting clear frustration with the white house lawyer ty coob shut it down saying in response to media speculation posed to the administration, the white house yet again confirms that the president is not considering or discussing the firing of the special counsel robert mueller. republicans like trey gowdy in

house oversight committee warned against any notion of a firing. >> russia attacked our country, let's special counsel mueller figure that out and if you believe as we have found no evidence of collusion, you should want special counsel mule the other take all the time and have all of the independence he needs to do his job. >> meanwhile debate over attorney general jeff sessions firing of andrew mccabe plaid over the weekend, bob weighed in. >> i think the attorney general did the right thing, it was the appropriate decision given reports having leaked information to the media and then giving false information about that misleading information to those investigating the matter. >> mccabe defended himself against allegations in a statement calling it a personal attack as news surfaced that the former deputy director may have kept personal memos detailing

meetings with the president, president trump pushed back on twitter that mccabe didn't spend that much time with him and never took notes, much more coming in this saga, heather. heather: we will talk about that coming appear -- up after first break. braynon fired message on his own, slamming the president as corrupt over firing of andrew mccabe and calling him a disgrace to demagogue and judge janine pirro isn't letting the comment go, calling more proof that the fix was in. >> one piece of evidence, but no, what they are doing is they are going after this president over and over and over so that he can't tout what he's done with the american people, the hate is palpable and when you get the head of the cia and uses words like you're political corruption, disgrace, demagogue,

the dust bend of history, you escape coat andy mccabe, are you kidding, andy mccabe has been someone who needed to be fired and should have gone out in cuffs as far as i'm concerned. but mccabe lied, mccabe was part of that triumph of the fbi made up evidence, mccabe slow-walked the information of hillary clinton selective emails being on huma abide's ex-husband. heather: brennan tweeting at the president, when the full extent of morality and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as disgrace dem dog as dust bend of history as we told you, you may

scapegoat andy mccabe but you will not destroy america, america will triumph over you. kentucky senator responding, quote, this man had the power to search every american's records without warrant, what's disgraceful is attacking bill of rights and freedom of every american. in 2013 paul protested brennan's nomination with a 13-hour filibuster. some other stories, terrifying moments when a circus soleil plunges 20 feet to his death as the crowd watches in horror. emergency workers try today save french entertainer moments after the fall but died after being rushed to tampa hospital, the 38 posting picture hours earlier, the final two shows are now canceled as soleil launched investigation.

the florida school shooting florida suspect committed more than a year of massacre, recommended that nikolas cruz undergo a mental evaluation, the recommendation was never acted upon and that kind of involuntary commitment would have made it much more difficult for cruz to legally purchase a gun. well, president trump heading to new hampshire for the first time since heading office to unveil his plan to fight the opioid crisis, initiative calling elicit drugs from borders and within communities, expanding education and awareness and providing access to treatment and recovery efforts, the feds are also seeking the death penalty for drug dealers. opioids kill more than 42,000 people in the u.s. in 2016, that's the most of any year on record. plenty of march madness brackets

broken. [cheers and applause] >> pulled off a miracle. heather: well, getting 75-73 win, meanwhile defending champion north carolina the tar hills eliminated after falling, another one seed goes down with florida state 75-70. knocking off michigan state, 55-53, a lot of brackets busted after this weekend. [cheers and applause] >> what a finish? >> 25-foot birdie to win the arnold palmer invitation.

late challenge from tiger woods, woods was one shot off lead after hitting out of bounds to fall back to a tie for fifth. so big weekend for sports. also some racing going on. well, the time now 11 minutes after the top of the hour and black lives in charleston are teaming up and the white house sending message after firing andrew mccabe and judicial president saying this is the beginning, who could be next on the chopping block, he joins us live up next. the police taking aim at gym class, while teaching kids how to play sports is apparently racist

heather: firing of andrew mccabe is still sending shock awes

through washington and generating a mixreaction from both sides of the aisle but now that mccabe is officially out as director of fbi, what comes now, joining me now judicial watchdog president, tom, thank you very much for joining us, appreciate it. let's get right to the statement from attorney general sessions, he says oig, opr reports concluded that mr. mccabe had made unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor including under oath on multiple occasions, so he lied and that's against the law, this doesn't entirely surprise you, does it? >> no, it doesn't, you know, mccabe was always an ethical disaster at the fbi certainly under the latter days of the obama administration, as judicial watch separately uncovered that despite all the noise to the contrary about his ability to participate in the clinton investigation he ended up recusing himself because of the contributions, the clinton cash machine through terry

mcauliffe had made to his wife, and a few months later he's running clinton e-mail investigations and implicated, by the way, in the text messages between peter strzok and lisa page that's famous or infamous insurance policy messages they have targeting president trump. those meeting -- that material came out as it related to andy mccabe meeting, so there's a lot to be concerned about with andrew mccabe and it's extraordinary how the two intern al watchdogs of the justice department and fbi detail multiple lies and the controversy is over whether he'd be fire or not. the outrage is he lasted so long. heather: it was not president trump who fired him, it was jeff sessions who made the call ultimately based on this ig report by michael horowitz who was appointed by president obamn 2012 and the office of

responsibility which is made up of his fbi peers and run by candice will who was appointed by robert mueller in 2002, i should say. >> bureaucracy and he wasn't fit for service in the fbi anymore and as i said, it's been six weeks since, i think, mr. wray, the fbi director has been notified of this and jeff sessions and it's a shame it took so long, rather than mr. mccabe attacking the president, they might want to ask why the number two official at the fbi, he lasted so long having been caught in these lies and what investigations this troubled individual has tainted as a result such as clinton e-mail investigation and as i said the russia collusion investigation targeting president trump. there's no reason to think that

trump investigation, russia investigation is compromised certainly as a result of mccabe's problem. heather: on that front moving forward, what about robert mueller, what do you say happening with him? >> well, the president is putting a lot of pressure on the mueller operation. i've long called on the mueller special counsel to be shut down, now there's no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and the russians to steal the election. there's no reason to have a mueller investigation plus as the president pointed out, it's compromised by people like mr. mccabe, compromised by peter strzok with text messages and completely biased group of people they have hired including andrew who was an antitrumper supporting efforts to obstruct president trump and supporter of hillary clinton. we have to shut it down. heather: who is next in terms of

who is being fired next, president trump said he's not going the fire mueller although people seem to keep thinking that he's going to, what's going to happen next? >> well, the questions i have is why are people like peter strzok still in the fbi and why is rod rosenstein allowing robert mueller to run over the rule of law, i think there are questions about rod rosenstein has allowed mueller to get out of control as he has and those are the significant questions i have and i hope the president is taking steps to clean house at the justice department in addition to fbi over the long run. heather: i have a feeling he's listening to you and watching what judicial watch does next. tom, thank you so much for joining us this morning. have a good day, 19 minutes until the top of the hour, sanctuary showdown, one city fighting liberal states open-border policies and how feds can be getting an ally. >> ongoing pressure to vote the

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>> one city standing up to california sanctuary status, orange county will vote today on an ordinance to exempt itself from the new law that limits cooperation with local law enforcement and immigration authorities. the ordinance claims the law is unconstitutional, earlier this month the justice department sued the state of california over sanctuary laws. illinois, election leaders on

alert there preparing against possible security breaches drugger primary, two years russia-connected hackers accessed data on more than 70,000 voters prompting the state to add fire walls and fire scans, the democratic civil war in suburbs to take center statement, maria newman to represent dan lapensky who is being slammed for not upholding the party's values on pro-life stance. well, answering the offending, hillary clinton trying to respond to comment after receiving serious backlash. ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever believes you should. heather: well, carley shimkus with fox news headline 24/7, siriusxm 115 is here with reaction online to latest apology. carley: good morning, heather,

after a week of wide spreed backlash for suggesting trump reporters are racist and sexist and blaming election loss on white women who listen how husbands are voting, hillary clinton has apologized and in lengthy facebook statement also includes explanation where he called president trump's message dark and backward leaning saying there's research that suggests women are swayed by the men in their lives and that economically prosperous areas lane democrat and all that, she also said she was oh sorry. i understand how some of what i said upset people and can be misinterpreted, i meant no disrespect to any individual or group and i want to look to the future as much as anybody. well, her facebook posts now being met with a whole lot of resistance, susan on twitter said, misinterpreted what hillary said was clear to me and american women, nice try, hillary, apology not accepted. take a look at this tweet from caroline who says, how can she say she wants to look forward

when she's the one living in the past. heather: all right, well, nicely said. how about this, though, hero who evacuated hundreds has died? >> yes, that's right, thomas, he's a former firefighter who saved hundreds of people during the 9/11 terror attacks, he passed away just 45 year's old from cancer linked to deadly to xrk -- toxins in area zero. we will never forget his service and his sacrifice, a whole bunch of other messages coming in from lisa who said, thank you, sir, you are a hero and there's a special place in heaven waiting for you, prayers for loved ones, rest in peace, god rest. a lot of people honoring him as they should. heather: absolutely, the prayers

with his family. the teenager, good story, sparked social media movement. >> she said this teenager, her name is -- he's from maryland and her name is mika reddick and recently posted this to twitter, sparked a social media movement, hi, i'm willing to let a girl in need use my prom dress, use it for a night, i have shoes for you as well as make-up artist, you can use as well, i'm not charging you anything. have a great night. that tweet got 40,000 likes and sparked a whole bunch of other people to offer their prom dresses as well, hillary on twitter says, you girls are not just helping whoever gets a dress, you're setting an example for little girls, selfless and amazing role models, how about that? heather: that's awesome. carley: isn't that fantastic? you're only going to wear it once, why not give it to somebody else. heather: lead by example, good job. thank you so much, carley. half past the half of the hour,

congress back to work today and up against another deadline, imagine that, will lawmakers just have five days to avoid a thirty government shutdown, a couple lights on there, can they do it? our political panel on deck to debate it. >> thank you for your honorable and faithful service to america. heather: and happiest place on earth igniting anger, marine who has personally thanked veterans at theme park for years now silent, howdies any is now defending the decision

heather: welcome back to "fox & friends first", the now fired former deputy director of fbi will have several job offers from democrats, at least three lawmakers reaching out to andrew mccabe on social media after he

fell just short of earning his pension but congressman trey gowdy says mccabe has a credibility issue. >> oh, andy mccabe has undercut his credibility all by himself. he didn't need help doing that. own fellow fbi agents that said he leaked and then lied about it. heather: spokesperson for mccabe said he's considering his options. range of north korea's nuclear capabilities may have expanded beyond the united states, the german spy agency telling local media that they are certain that the rogue nation's weapons can now reach into germany and central europe. this comes as the senior north korean diplomat heads to finland to talks with former u.s. officials. nerve agent may have come through air vent, was used in powder form and taken -- sicken 38 other people. the bmw just before the spy was

found unconscious in england. several nations including the u.s. has blamed russia for the attack, vladimir putin claims not to have access to the agent calling allegations nonsense. despite accusations, vladimir putin wins fourth term as russian president betweening more than 76% of the vote, voter turnout topping 57% of force voting, appearing to show election workers stuffing ballot boxes, putin will now be in power for at least six more years and u.s. tariffs at g-20 summit, secretary steve mnuchin will have foreign ministers defending president's tariffs on steel and aluminum amid criticism of nations, the countries represented at summit make up 80% of the world east

economy. well, congress is back to work today up against another deadline, republicans and democrats have just five days to make a deal on the $1.3 trillion spending bill in order to avoid another government shutdown, so what is the hold-up and why do we keep finding ourselves up against the clock, joining me democratic strategists chuck rocha and ron myer, thank you so much for joining us. >> good morning. heather: another deadline is about to come to pass, who is to blame, ron? >> well, as far as who's to blame, there's nobody to blame yet because we don't have a government shutdown. both parties are to blame because we haven't had a deal, the funny thing is trump and republicans gave democrats everything they could have ever wanted, $300 million and more spending and blowing up the deficit and still haven't been able to pass this yet. here is the thing with

government shutdown, i'm reluctant to say russia around chuck, government shutdowns are like russian roulette, they can go bad for anyone at any time, when it comes to new writer that is people are trying to attach onto this bill, it's going to turn out like it did with democrats with daca and ted cruz and obamacare, if you get blamed for shutdown, it doesn't go well for you. what we are hearing on the hill is that there will be an deal earlier this week and will get passed because neither party wants to get blamed for shutdown. heather: let's look at the key battles in $1.3 trillion bill, tariffs, immigration, gun violence research, election security funding, sexual harassment, online sales tax and abortion restrictions amongst some other things. >> well, heather, i will start by saying my voice is rough this morning because i got back from

vegas, ron is one of the smartest republicans i know, i know smart republicans sometimes is oxy who moron, they can't col folks if they would have a budget tomorrow, we shouldn't be kicking it down the road because you need people in the military, yeah, chuck rocha said stock market and we can go on. if it was the democrats, republicans would be screaming from the rooftops about how we are trying to shut down the government. heather: ron. >> if helps -- republicans would try to do something by themselves, chuck would say they are partisan, they gave the democrats everything they wanted and democrats are trying to hold this up over this and over that. a few republicans on our side, yes, the deficit is too big, that doesn't mean that they are causing a shutdown necessarily.

it means that this deal isn't a great deal for republicans and so really it is a consensus document. it's a consensus budget and right now the democrats are just trying to cause chaos, because what, because why, it makes president trump look bad and they want him to look chaotic. that's why they are trying to do. >> you don't need congressional democrats to make donald trump look bad, he has a phone and twitter, the texas school, 50 plus majority, you have the majority, you don't need the democrats, you can pass the budget and be on your way like you did with taxes. heather: here is the question, is president trump trying to reach across both aisles and are there people on both sides both democrats and republicans who like chuck just said don't want the president to succeed? >> yeah, that's absolutely true and that's why like i said, 30 -- $300 billion more in spending, including infrastructure spending, all sorts of types of spending on

spending that democrats want. especially right now all with what's going on in the country, all going on with both sides sniping at each other, you would think they should be able to agree on, let's spend more money, that's what dc is good at, democrats won't agree to that right now. heather: that's pretty amazing, chuck, you will get the final word. >> eight democrats up for elections in state that donald trump won, free advice republicans, you can send me a check in the mail. >> i agree with that, chuck, i agree with that. heather: thank you for joining, chuck, i still like your texas hat even though texas beat my tar heels. some of the president's biggest critics throwing support behind louis farrakhan, there's

democrats who have ties with him, they are silent. democrats struggling distance themselves from the con trougherrial leader -- con

heather: welcome back to "fox & friends first", former cia director mike pompeo will meet with outgoing secretary rex tillerson. the pair will meet for two hours in state department nearly a week after pompeo was pick today replace tillerson. pompeo to meet with lawmakers ahead of confirmation hearings, gina haspel will head after

pompeo's move. >> you really want a diplomat to be in charge of state department, not someone who is advocating for war, i can't vote for pompeo, on haspel, my main concern is she oversaw block-opts in thailand that included torture and i don't think america torture is what america is about. there's enough votes, she will eventually win, there's things in life that's worth standing up and saying enough is enough, this is wrong. heather: paul says he will protest the nominations with a filibuster. well, he's known for antisemitic and racist views but instead of condemning louis farrakhan embrace him. >> instead of condemning al

sharpton and other groups, black lives matter and new black panther party are holding protest in the nation's capital defending a man who said this. >> here the 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 state. the satanic jews, you see white people deserve to die. white folks are going down. >> well, in just a few hours supported of farrkhan will propose resolution that formally condemns islam leaders, former president obama to the leader of the women's march tamika are feeling pressure to their ties to farrakhan, that group includes keith ellison, he

doubled down and he had not met with or spoken to farrakhan since 2013 despite that met recently. >> they preach to us about tolerance and peace and that, when they have a guy who calls hitler a great man, who is by every definition an antisemite and there's eight democrats who have at least who have ties with them, they are silent. that's why i support president trump and everything he's doing. >> as for this morning's rally, protestors say they will go office to office targeting gop reps especially congressman who just heard from there, shock to go me when you think about what congressman rokita is trying to do, provision, resolution that says we will go after and condemn somebody is antisemite and racist but individuals are protesting him, i don't get it. heather: amazing that they can get away with it this far. we will see what happens. thank you very much, todd, appreciate it.

coming up president trump vowing to fix the disastrous iran nuclear deal. >> everywhere we go in the middle east it's iran, iran behind every problem. we are dealing with it in a very serious fashion. heather: chairman on foreign relations says president trump may get chance to end it and next guest, security expert say it is deal will die a well-deserved death. you know what's awesome? gig-speed internet.

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heather: welcome back, president trump vowing to fix the iran deal's disastrous flaws or withdraw from it altogether and looking like now he may have his chance. >> the iran deal will be another issue that's coming up in may and right now it doesn't feel like it's going to be extend, i think the president likely will

move away from it unless our european counterparts really come together on a framework and it doesn't feel to me that they are. >> do you think the president will pull out of the iran deal? >> i do. heather: so ending the deal would be the right move, here to weigh in former u.s. army special forces operator jim hanson, thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate it. >> good to be with you. heather: let's begin with president trump's statement back on january 12th on iran deal, basically in essence and everyone can read at home, this is the last chance and then the absence of such an agreement, the united states will not again waive sanctions in order to stay in the iran nuclear deal. the next deadline is may 12th, what do you expect will happen? >> president trump will consign the iran deal to history where it belongs, president obama lied us into the deal and when president trump came on board he

took a look at the fatal flaws of this deal and he told the europeans, either you join us in follow-on deal that gets rid of sunset clauses which gives iran a path to a bomb in 10 to 15 years, you get actual inspections of place where is they do bad things and ban ballistic missiles or we are done and he's done. they are not going to do that. the europeans are going to fail and president trump is going to follow through on promise and kill the deal. heather: the ash heap of history, i like how you say that, have europeans done anything in reference to any of these issues that president trump brought forward? >> you know, i mean, the europeans are -- the germans don't want to do anything, the french are taking the lead and are willing to make positive moves and the brits are neutral, all in all, no, they are not getting enough done and consequently in the absence of a signed deal with all three of them on board prior to that may 12th deadline, the deal is done. heather: this is something that

rex tillerson and the president disagreed. a clear indication to you that this is what's about to happen with rex tillerson willing to let go? >> no doubt. this is what led to abrupt withdrawal. so he didn't want that, he had been perfectly clear to all national security leadership and generally mcmaster had helped him work out the plan they we wanted to get done, tillerson went against it and he's gone. heather: what about the impact on the upcoming meeting that supposedly is also set to happen in may with kim jong un? >> this puts kim jong un on notice that he's no longer dealing with someone like president obama who got his lunch money taken by the iran deal, he's dealing with the guy that wrote the art of the deal and he will have to make real concessions or he will watch the nuclear facilities turn into radioactive rubble, that will focus your mind.

heather: what would you consider real concessions? >> he has to denuclearize. there's no place short of that. that's president trump's policy, he has made that perfectly clear or either kim jong un gives up the north northan nuclear program or between sanctions and actual, you know, action against his facilities, one way or another, he's done as a nuclear power. heather: all right, big month of may on a lot of accounts, jim hanson, thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate it. >> pleasure. heather: time now ten minutes or so till the top of the hour and pc police going after pe, apparently school gym classes racist, taxpayer funding that will leave your heads scratching for sure. >> thank you for your honorable and your faithful service to america. heather: and marine has been thanking veterans for their service for years but disneyland

says it no longer needs his patriotic salute. the backlash at the happiest place on earth.

heather: welcome back to 4:00 a.m. hour of "fox & friends first", first live hour programming on fox news for the day. teaching soccer and rugby apparently now considered racist, controversial findings from taxpayer study in united kingdom. games were created in victorran era in schools that often discriminated against minorities, authors behind the

study is children should be taught dances from different cultures instead. one school is allowing students to find their zin in detention. they say that the goal is to teach the students emotional and social skills. >> take the moment to think and be mindful can help prevents all sorts of problems. heather: so far the school calls program a success. best place on earth silencing veteran who is thanking heros. >> we have served our nation on behalf and our proclamation, thank you for your honorable and your faithful service to america. heather: disneyland replacing the voice of marine corps sergeant ernie with recorded message at its daily flaght retreat ceremony after 26 years, disney says that he will still

be silently take part but the change was made so more people could hear but recording, quote, doesn't speak with passion from the heart. well that wraps this hour at "fox & friends first" 4:00 a.m. in brand-new temporary studio, "fox & friends" first continues right now, see you later, bye. >> do not touch any packages or anything that looks like a package, do not even go near it, stay inside your homes until we have had a chance to deem this neighborhood safe. >> it is monday march 19th, fox news alert. austin on edge, another explosion rocking texas neighborhood, the brand-new details just in as police ramp up their efforts to find the serial bomber. >> end the witch hunt, his