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>> did you see that final round of the masters yesterday? it was something else. it was really remarkable. the lights coming on here in new york city, a live shot there with a little bit of jason aldean to get you moving. good morning to you wherever you are waking up, we always appreciate you watching "fox & friends" first. i'm heather childers. let's begin with this fox news alert. israel now blamed for a series of airstrikes against syria. an air base attacked early this morning hours after one of the worst chemical attacks in history left dozens of innocent people dead.

doug luzader's live in washington, d.c. as the u.s. considers retaliation. >> reporter: good morning, heather. we don't know who was responsible for these airstrikes in syria overnight. they initially blamed the u.s. seemingly, now their pointing the springer at israel. disturb finger at israel. the pentagon says it wasn't us. whatever the story is, there's a lot of pressure on the united states to act after those horrific images of a chemical attack just outside of syria's capital. some tough talk this morning from the president's homeland security adviser. >> this is the one-year anniversary of our action the last time they made the mistake of using these weapons and pushing the rest of the world. this isn't just the united states. this is one of those issues on which every issue, all peoples have agreed and have agreed since world war ii is an unacceptable practice. i wouldn't take anything off the table. these are horrible photos, we're looking into the attack at this

point. >> reporter: nothing off the table, and from the president this tweet, among others, specifically blaming russia, president putin, syria's president, assad: >> they see our resolve breaking. if it becomes a tweet without meaning, then he's hurt himself on north korea. if he doesn't follow through and live up to that tweet, he's going to look weak in the eyes of russia and iran. so this is defining moment, mr. president. you need to follow through with that tweet, show a reso that obama never -- resolve that obama never did to get this right. >> reporter: and the timing is somewhat problematic. just days ago president trump indicated he wanted to pull u.s. troops out of syria. meantime, we expect a meeting on the u.n. security council on this you issue later today. heather: coming almost a year after another deadly chemical attack there. thank you so much, doug luzader.

as president trump vows a big price to pay in the wake of the devastating chemical attack, florida congressman ron desantos agrees. he says the problem isn't just assad, but russia and iran are to blame too. >> president trump in his tweet framed the issue exactly right. yes, assad is a thug, he is an animal, but he's really a flunk key of the iranians and the russians. so you don't deal with assad just in a vacuum. you've got to look at the support that he's getting from the iranians and from the russians. and part of the problem with whole issue is that president trump inherited a major mess, one of the biggest messes any president's ever inherited from barack obama's failed policy. he drew the red line, didn't enforce it, then they claimed they got the chemical weapons out, but we've seen chemical attacks since then. i would say look at iran, look at russia. that is really the root of the problem here.

but also be mindful that it's such a mess. there's probably not an ultimate outcome that we can just will or bring into focus given all the really negative forces that are on the ground there right now. heather: and we'll have much more coming up, so say tuned. in the mean um time, kim jong un is ready to discuss the denuclearization on the korean peninsula. north korea contacting with u.s. directly for the first time on the matter, increasing the likelihood of a summit. the white house expects that meeting to take place by the end of may but no date or location has been set. so we'll follow that story as well. and two soldiers killed in a helicopter training flight at fort campbell have been identified. 28-year-old james casadona and ryan connolly losing their lives in the apache crash that happened friday night. their deaths mark the third deadly crash in the military in

just one week. seven service members killed in all. well, president trump predicting an end to an escalating trade war or dispute, we should say, with china as washington ups the ante. the president calling for another $100 billion worth of new tariffs after china threatened to target another $50 billion in american goods. president trump tweeting this: president xi and i will always be friends no matter what happens with our dispute on trade. china will take down its trade barriers because it is the right thing to do. taxes will become reciprocal, and a deal will be made on intellectual property. great future for both our countries. well, chinese officials have said that negotiations are unlikely. the question is what really happened on the tarmac. former attorney general loretta lynch is ready to talk about her infamous meeting with former president clinton and her relationship with fired fbi

director james comey. the interview, airing tonight on nbc, comes just days before comey releases his new book. comeys has said lynch's meeting made him go pluck about the information into -- public about the information into hillary clinton's e-mail server. and feeling the heat from presumption attorney general jeff sessions naming a federal prosecutor rt to help speed up the response to republican demand for documents. john rausch will supervise the handing over of materials to congress on the surveillance of carter page. the firing of andrew andrew mccabe from the fbi and the investigation into hillary clinton's private e-mail server. the move comes after the president tweeted this: heather: maybe they'll finally get those documents. well, facebook's data scandal front and centered today.

the social media giant expected to notify millions of affected users a day before ceo mark zuckerberg prepares to face lawmakers. kelly wright is here now with what we can expect. good morning. kelly: good morning to you as well. facebook will post detailed messages to the news feeds of 87 million people to let them know their privacy was breached. the members will receive a notice titled protecting your information with a link to see what apps they use and what information they have shared with those apps. compounding facebook's dilemma, it suspended cube you, that's a company that was gathering information about facebook users through quizzes that were labeled as nonprofit, academic research. that was misleading. all of this comes ahead of facebook founder mark zuckerberg meeting later today with u.s. lawmakers before formal hearings tomorrow and wednesday. chief operating officer sheryl sandberg tells fox news that

zuckerberg is prepared. >> mark's happy to go to congress because mark wants to answer every question people have about the service we offer. you know, we really believe in social experiences, and we were really focused on that, and we weren't focused enough on being proactive enough. kelly: they're focused now, and republican senate john kennedy hinted some lawmakers may want to regulate facebook. >> i don't want to hurt facebook. my biggest worry in all of this, and i have many, many questions for mr. zuckerberg. but my biggest worry with all this is, is that the privacy issue and what i call the propagandist issue are both too big for facebook to fix. kelly: cambridge analytical reportedly misused the data from millions of profiles, improperly assessed users' information to build to files on voters that were later used to help elect president trump in 2016. meanwhile, heather, christopher

wyle, the whistle blower, says he can't confirm if the trump campaign used the data, and he is cooperating with the justice department. heather: remember when facebook was founded? remember when it didn't even exist, and now he's testifying before lawmakers. i think it just grew so quickly. kelly: 2.2 billion people using facebook. heather: thank you so much, kelly. appreciate it. well, wisconsin. stepping up the fight against the opioid epidemic today. republican governor scott walker will sign two new bills into law to address the crisis that's killed thousands of people in the state over the past decade. now, the first bill creates programs to prevent substance abuse, provide drug treatment and combat drug trafficking. the second bill pushes for more education and prescribing -- in prescribing controlled substances. to oklahoma now, oklahoma teachers extending hair strike into a second week -- their strike into a second week, forcing dozens of schools to close this morning.

>> we're not leaving. heather: yeah, some districts have already canceled class through wednesday. last week you may remember lawmakers approved several tax increases to help fund the state's education system, but some of the teachers say still not enough. and american golfer patrick reed is the masters champion. >> yes, it will. [cheers and applause] captain america captures awe bus that. heather: the 27-year-old holding off late charges by rickie fowler and jordan spieth. boy, that was something by jordan spieth. president trump congratulating reed on twitter with writing with, quote:

heather: congratulations to him. well, the time now is 11 minutes after the top of the hour, and no option is off the table. the white house preparing to respond to another sickening gas attack by the assad regime in syria. our next guest says, or he's a national security analyst, i should say, and he says that military retaliation may be the only option. >> ask lots of questions about this and that. [laughter] >> about this and that. heather: backlash is building. jimmy kimmel under fire for making fun of melania trump's accent. the brand new push to boycott his show. and shirtless, barefoot and wrapped in an american flag. the man who captivated hollywood climbing a 200-foot crane. ♪ ♪

heather: welcome back. president trump talking to tough after another gas attack in syria, calling out russian president vladimir putin and iran for backing animal assad, this as russia blames u.s. ally israel for airstrikes on syria overnight. so what does this mean for the u.s. now on the world's stage? joining me now is national security analyst ryan moore. ryan, thank you so much for joining us this morning, we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. heather: so this story continues to develop, coming about one year, almost exactly one year after another deadly chemical attack there in syria. what should our response be? >> i see no other option besides military action. i think i would actually be surprised if by the end of this week we're not talking about american airstrikes on syrian targets. not just one of them, not just one air base like we did last time, but multiple, probably designed to severely damage if not completely remove the syrian air force from the sky ises.

because if our standard before was to respond to chemical attacks and we blew up one air base, well, assad just did it again. that's quite a challenge, and i don't think trump want toss back down from a challenge. heather: that's what i'm wondering. since the response one year ago was to launch tomahawk missiles, what should the response be this time around, the same or different? >> bigger, probably longer. and that's because like i said, we have to actual makes a sad's grip on power loosen. he doesn't care if he loses people within his military. he doesn't care if his own civilians die. what he does care about is his own power. so if the u.s. targets the syrian air force, individual military units involved in chemical attacks to the point where assad says, look, i'm losing territory, that could possibly deter him. but more broadly, we also have to think of the terrorist groups beyond isis that could benefit from assad losing territory and,

frankly, i think we need to double down on our support for the kurds, christians and arabs allied with us in northern syria so that we have some type of long-term partner there. i've got news for you, turkey is not that partner. we have a lot of people, including so-called friends, who are acting as spoilers. heather: yeah. here's something else president trump tweeted over the weekend, and this was in reference to obama and the red line. he said if president obama had crossed his stated red line in the sand, the syrian disaster would have ended long ago, animal assad would have been history. what he is referencing is back in 2012 when president obama promised that -- or he warned syrian president bashar al assad not to cross that red line. he did cross that red line and used chemical weapons. there was some sort of agreement made, and bashar al bashar al ad agreed to remove his chemical weapons stockpile which apparently has not happened. >> right. i don't necessarily agree with

trump because, look, he enforced obama's red line last year, and assad waits a while and started up the chemical attacks again, and they started increasing as he saw a lack of international care for the syrian people. and so now he's back at it, and it's time for the united states to respond. but what i want viewers to understand is that over the next week you're probably going to be bombarded with disinformation from the propagandists of russia, iran and assad. you're going to be hearing stuff like conspiracy theories saying assad is somehow innocent. he's a great ally against the jihadists. it couldn't be further from the truth d. heather: what is he getting out of these, what is he getting out of these attacks, assad? >> his forces are overstretched, so when he gets bogged down in certain areas held by rebels and/or terrorists -- because not everyone fighting assad is necessarily a freedom fighter -- he has to use these type of chemical weapons so that he can better control the population,

and he's trying to regain as much territory as he possibly can. so that's why a lot of people say this is not going to end until assad as a person is out, meaning him individually out of syria or, frankly, someone near him decides to become a hero and kills him, but the regime does not implode. we need to hurt assad, but if the regime implodes, everything gets worse. heather: yeah. and it brings in russia and iran. meeting with the u.n. today, so perhaps an international response. thank you so much for joining us, ryan, we appreciate it. we'll keep an eye on it. >> all right, thank you. heather: the time now is about 20 minutes after the top of the hour, and hundreds of national guard troops deploying to the southern border at this hour and more could be on the way. >> we have 250, we have planning to raise that number on a weekly basis until we're either told that's enough or to continue to bring troops on. heather: our own griff jenkins

live at the border as the president's plan takes shape. and high-speed hyperloop, the brand new test to see if elon musk's transportation pods can reach half the speed of sound. ♪ you know what's awesome? gig-speed internet.

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joining us live at camp mayberry in austin as even more troops are expected to deploy. good morning, griff. >> reporter: good morning, heather. they are on the border, the first to respond, the texas army national guard, and they are conducting missions at this very hour as we speak in support of the border patrol down there. they tweeted yesterday that they were on the job, and it is amazing being here at the headquarters, because i'm seeing their planning, the logistics. you know, heather, since 2014 the texas national guard has been supporting texas in a smaller role, a hundred troops, guardsmen, down there. but it's getting much bigger. we spoke to brigadier general tracy nor sis who's -- norris who's the commanding officer about the mission and the numbers. >> i see it as an evolving mission, and we're still identifying exactly the requirements. we have some. we're expecting to have more coming from the border.

and then if for some reason with our rotation and that we get to a full capacity, we also have the ability if we need to to call on other state toss assist us. we have 250 that are either on the border, enroute to the border or armored preparing to go to the border. so they are on duty right now. we are planning for that number to grow. we are planning to raise that number on a weekly basis until we're either told that's enough or to continue to bring troops on. >> reporter: and, heather, when she talk talks about other states possibly responding, you've got arkansas, ohio, south carolina that are all willing to participate. however, one state -- california, which has a long border -- has not yet even responded to the call for guardsmen. however, i talked also to general norris about the role they'll play.

traditionally, they've been an observe and report, eyes in the sky, eyes on the ground. i asked her what about the role they'll play in this mission. take a listen. >> here when we're under our governor in title 32, a support role to law enforcement or any other federal agency and, or any other state agency. but we are always in support of first responders or law enforcement. >> reporter: one of the missions they'll be doing is flying along that border, and i can tell you a little later today, heather, we're going to go up on one of these first missions and have a rook at the role they're playing and the hard work they're doing. heather: tell us a little bit more about that, so that will be logistics support from above? >> reporter: that's right. what they do, in a nutshell, is they put the cbp, the border patrol guys, in the helicopter with them. the technology they have, night vision during night, daytime they've got helicopters, they do this all around the world. the last time this guard was

called up, you may remember, hurricane harvey. they're back on the job today. heather: that'll be really interesting, looking forward to seeing your report on that. griff jenkins, thank you so much for joining us so early. appreciate it. well, the time now is about half past the top of the hour, and a dangerous uptick in drugs, cartels and even terrorists crossing our southern border. whywhy shouldn't extreme vetting apply here too? our political panel on deck. and unsafe to the community, 2ru67 supporters diamond and silk censored from facebook. >> i've seen a lot of things on facebook, shooters and killers and people being beat with stilettos. that seems unsafe to me. heather: their epic response to the social media giant. ♪ ♪ i joined the army after 911,

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you're watching ""fox & friends" first." israel being blamed for an airstrike in syria early this morning syrian media initially pinned the attack on the u.s. this comes after one of the worst chemical attacks history killed at least 40 people including children. the syrian government denying involvement, but president trump vows the as saturday regime -- assad regime will pay a big price as u.s. homeland security considers the next steps. >> this isn't just the united states. this is one of those issues on which every nation, all peoples, have all agreed and have agreed since world war ii is an unacceptable practice. i wouldn't take anything off the table. these are horrible photos, we're looking into the attack at this point. heather: the u.n. security council will hold an emergency meeting today to discuss the attack. well, an autopsy will be performed tomorrow on a body that was found near the site where that suv plunged off a cliff in california killing a family of eight. only five bodies were recovered,

leaving three children missing. investigators believe that sarah and jennifer hart intentionally drove their suv off of a cliff with their six adopted children inside. one of the so-called gang of eight senator, lindsey graham, is predicting a new immigration deal and says both daca and the border wall can be addressed. >> there's a deal to take care of them and get the border wall we desperately need plus interior enforcement to make us safer. that deal can be done, and i'll make a prediction on this show that there'll be another effort to marry up border security and daca by the spring, early summer. heather: well, the south carolina republican admitted that such a deal could fail, but that it's worth trying. as more guardsmen head to the border to fulfill president trump's promise to secure the south, a republican congressional candidate for california, antonio sabato jr., is calling out democrats saying

both parties need to unite in order to fully protect the american people. >> it's ridiculous that we're living in a society where it's okay to have an open border. we're allowing people to come here and using the american people every single day, bringing criminals, drugs pouring in, and we the american people are not standing up. we finally have a president who's standing up for us, but it'd be great if the democratic party -- both parties would stand up and say we need a border, we need to secure this. we can't spend over $100 million on immigration every single year. it's ridiculous to me. finally, we have the right leadership, and i'm going to do the same thing for my county. heather: in the meantime, there's a shocking homeland security threat right along our southern border as march sees an alarming uptick in apprehensions. texas congressman mike mccall warning americans that it's not just a political issue. >> when we apprehend somebody from mexico, we can deport them immediately but not from central

america. a lot of these young men go join a family called ms-13. this is a safety issue, it's a drug cartel issue and a potential terrorist issue as well. heather: so shouldn't there be extreme vetting at the border too? joining me now to debate is former republican congresswoman from new york dr. nan hayworth and democratic strategist chuck roach cha, by us -- rocca, i was looking at your hat with the writing on it, like it. >> are thank you, ma'am. heather: nan, i'll start with you. extreme vetting at our southern border, why is it not happening now, or is it happening now? >> well, as you know, heather, the president has done as much as he can and is continuing to do by sending the national guard to help with surveillance, to help with construction by increasing administrative law judges' obligations to get these cases processed to help protect us. but it is very true that extreme

vetting which has been applied to targeted nations that we know are the sources of terror should just as readily be applied to the threats on the southern border because thousands and thousands of people are pouring in. most of them do not intend to do us harm, but they're still breaking our laws. there's no reason that the technology that we're adopting, the scrutiny, the techniques that we're developing to evaluate others should not be used at the southern border as well. heather: chuck, we were talking about the increase, a 200% increase in apprehensions up to, like, 50,000 apprehensions across the border. so why is this not happening in terms of the extreme vetting? >> let me take a couple bites at this. first, let's talk about the raw numbers. there has been a small uptick in march, but last year there was only about 300,000 mexicans coming in compared to ten year ago where it was a million.

i wouldn't say there's this huge flow of people, but i acknowledge there's been an uptick in march, and a lot of that's due to seasonal migration patterns. back to our original point about the vetting, nobody in america wants anybody coming in who wants to do harm to america, but there's lots of good people who want to come to america, pay their taxes and be part of the country. we keep talking about the one-half of 1% of people who shouldn't be here to begin with. heather: well, that's true, and a lot of people are trying to do it the right way too and not trying to do it illegally. here's what the white house deputy press secretary had to say about the increase in people also trying to declare asylum. listen to these numbers. >> we are absolutely working to put an end to this immediately. this is one of these egregious loopholes that are in the law that allow people to come here and claim all types of things as it relates to i want to be free in this country were credible fear, for example. we've seen a 1700%, 1700 -- not 17, not 170, 1700% increase in

people claiming credible fear from their -- >> so they want asylum. >> right. and they get it. heather: and that's the thing, chuck. i'll start with you on this point. all they have to do, and i've talked to several -- i know you know firsthand these border patrol agents say all they have to do is put one foot across the border, and they're either taken into custody where they are released pending their court date or they declare, you know, this -- they claim credible fear that they cannot return to their country, and they're immediately given asylum. >> the drug cartels in central america have had control of these governments for a long time, and you see mothers putting their children in the hands of somebody who's bringing them to america to literally save their lives. that's why this law is in existence. are there people that probably take advantage of it? maybe. i don't think we can turn our back on those women, those children, those people who are fleeing horrible situations and literally running for their lives. heather: you know what? that's the source of the conundrum, so to speak. on the other hand, nan, you have

98% of heroin coming across the border as well. >> absolutely, heather. and, look, what chuck is saying, yes, there are -- certainly, we know there are people who are fleeing horrible situations, but that's, if anything, you know, that's another reason to have the kind of vetting that will allow us to distinguish those with real claims versus those who are coming to the country to take advantage of americans and to pursue criminal activity like ms-13, like bringing drugs across the border s. and we have a lot of work to do with that, but there is no reason at all why we should not apply the best technology and it can anemics to this kind -- techniques to this enormous part of our border security. heather: all right. chuck and nan, thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> have a great week. heather: you too. bye-bye. about 20 minutes til the stop stop top of the hour, and facebook is set to reveal the nearly9 0 million users caught up in its data scandal. and black lives matter

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heather: welcome back. fire marshals are still investigating what sparked a deadly fire inside a trump tower apartment in new york city. now, the cause appearing to be accidental, that's according to the new york daily news. art dealer todd brasner pulled out of his home on the 50th floor, and he later died. no members of the first family were there at the time. this daredevil waving the american flag on top of a crane 200 feet in the air is under arrest after refusing to come down for three hours in hollywood. thousands of people watching him from from below as he attempted

some pretty dangerous maneuvers like that one right there that you're looking at, dangling on the crane's rope. police taking him to a hospital for mental evaluation. still unclear why he climbed up there to begin with. well, now to a fox business alert for you, today nearly 90 million facebook users will find out if they have been swept up in the scandal as whistleblower chris fir wiley -- christopher wiley says that number could be way off. >> i think it could be higher, absolutely. in terms of how many people had access to the facebook data or derivatives, i couldn't tell you because it was a lot of people. heather: tracee carrasco here with what to look for in our facebook feeds today. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, heather. yes, starting today those 87 million people that might have had their data shared with cambridge analytica will see a detailed message on their news feed saying if they have been impacted by this. now, a majority of those people, about seven million of them here

in the u.s., other users affected were in understood news ya, the fill -- indonesia, the philippines and the u.k. this comes before mark zuckerberg is set to testify before congress this week. heather: all right. we'll see what happens there. in the meantime, elon musk is up to something again. a new announcement? >> reporter: yeah. so this is an update on his hyperloop transportation idea. that's the one where the high-speed pods will travel, carry people. so this is what he tweeted out over the weekend. he said upgraded spacex/tesla hyperloop pods speed test soon, will try to reach half speed of sound and break within 1.2km, that's braking within less than three-quarters of a mile. he followed up with a tweet that said it may be a nutty idea. if anyone can do it, it's elon musk. heather: yeah, absolutely. big thinker. >> reporter: yes. heather: thank you so much, appreciate it. the time is about 15 minutes until the top of the hour. jimmy kimmel bowing to backlash

after making fun of the first lady, melania trump's, accent. >> ask lots of questions about this and that. [laughter] >> about this and that. heather: is his apology just a desperate grab at ratings? up next, dr. gina loud aren on what he can learn from can conservatives. ♪ ♪ you know what's awesome? gig-speed internet.

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♪ ♪ heather: well, late night host jimmy kimmel taking a cheap shot at first lady melania trump. >> be clever and courteous just like a cat. ask lots of questions about this and that. [laughter] >> about this and that. [laughter] you realize what this means, you

could be first lady of the united states. heather: and now an online petition with 150,000 signatures is calling for a boycott of his show. here now to weigh in is radio talk show host gina round. thank you so much for joining us this morning, appreciate it. >> pleasure to be with you, especially for this. i love defending her because this is really disgusting to me, heather. heather: so why do you think it's so disgusting, so now we're making fun of immigrants? >> yeah, well-educated immigrants. she speaks five languages, let's not forget that. she is a loving mother by all testimony, everyone who knows her says she's a very loving mother. here she is on easter reading a book to the children, and jimmy kimmel finds that fodder for his lame show to grab ratings? i think it's despicable. and i think it's really funny that, you know, they are constantly -- the other side is constantly going after everyone, like you, like me, like half of

the hosts on fox or half of the commentators and going after our livelihoods. that's what they do. so i find this petition of about 150,000 people saying, you know what? if those are the rules you want to play by, both sides can play that game. i find it a little bit amusing, if i'm honest. heather: he's last in the ratings right now, by the way. he did offer this apology. he said i will give my words more thought and recognize my role in inciting their hatefulness. mrs. trump almost certainly has enough to worry about without being used as a prop to increase tv ratings. what do you think about his apology? >> his apology is backhanded and very small, and it is, it sounds precisely like the words of somebody who knows they are losing yet again. he's lost this argument. he got in a big twitter war over weekend with sean hannity. sean hannity clearly won when he reminded him of some pretty disgusting thicks that he's done with women, also that he dressed in black face before. i mean, and for him to call

anyone a racist or a misogynist or anything is despicable. but now for him to attack this immigrant who is our beautiful first lady of the united states when they all talk about coming together and tolerance and all these things, i just, i find it the biggest hypocrisy ever, and i'm glad that conservatives are finally fighting back and standing up for our first family who has endured so much just to support their family member who is our president. heather: yeah. and speaking of hypocritical, i was reading that the president of abc who has backed jimmy kimmel and actually sported him and his show and him hosting the oscars or the emmys, whichever he does, they said after the success of rose anne that they were going to make this effort to reach out to middle america, but this does the exact opposite. >> this does. and other things do too, heather. we know about -- i think it's called the last man standing, they canceled that because tim allen is a conservative. the backlash against roseanne,

we'll see how long this lasts despite its success. i would love to see tolerance that they talk about on their shows ever, but we don't ever see that, heather, and i believe that's why they're this in last place. when one network finally does figure out that they can speak to middle america and really connect with the heartland, i think that they will have something. but until then, they'll keep losing. heather: yeah. i cannot wait to see sean hannity's response tonight. [laughter] thank you so much for joining us, appreciate it. have a great day. >> thank you. have a great week. heather: well, the time is about eight minutes until the top of the hour. unsafe to the community, trump supporters diamond and silk censored from facebook. >> no, no, no. facebook don't get this, because i'm not scared of facebook. >> we're not scared of facebook. heather: well, the internet stars now renews -- refusing to back down from the internet giant. and off the this world, the first luxury hotel set to open in space, and you'll never guess

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♪ ♪ heather: well, black lives matter act vests leading the charge to tear down a 133-year-old memorial calling the statute, quote, a monument to white supremacy, but supporters say the memorial does not celebrate the confederacy and instead marks the graves of

4,000 confederate prisoners during the civil war. facebook now labeling diamond and silk's videos unsafe to the community. now, the response coming after the pair contacted facebook nearly seven months ago after noticing that their fans weren't receiving notifications about their new online content. the duo sharing their outrage with "fox & friends." who likes to determine what's unsafe? because i've seen a lot of things on facebook -- shooters and killers and people being beat with stilettos. they let that get millions of views, and that seems unsafe to me. >> that's right. heather: the two say facebook has told them the decision is final and not able to be appealed in any way. diamond and silk will be back on "fox & friends" in the 7:00 hour, so stay tuned for that. the military putting robots in harm's way instead of our soldiers. remote-controlled vehicles clearing enemy obstacles like this simulated minefield during training in europe. the exercise also included

drones that could be used to detect chemical weapons. u.s. and british troops conducting the drills together. and the luxurious getaway to outer space is one step closer to becoming a reality. this is pretty cool, but it's going to cost you. orion's span announcing the world's first space hotel set to launch in 2022. a guest will spend 12 nights aboard the aurora station. the company already accepting deposits of $80,000, so for $10 million you can be an astronaut. that wraps up this hour. "fox & friends" first continues right now, i'll see you tomorrow. bye-bye. ♪ >> it is monday, april 9th. a fox news alert breaking overnight, deadly missiles hit an air base in syria following

that sickening chemical attack over the weekend. president trump weighing a response as the world vows to take action against assad. >> today is the day millions of facebook users will find out if their information was compromised in that massive data breach plaguing the social media site. are you one of them in -- them? >> we have 250, we are planning to raise that number on a weekly basis until we're either told that's enough or to continue to bring troops on. >> more troops getting ready to secure the southern border. we are live with the national guard as president trump's plan takes shape. "fox & friends" first continues right now. ♪ ♪