refused to leave a forum she was not invited to. >> i have every write to be in this debate. how dare you. rob: this happened in my state where i live connecticut. facing criminal charges. jillian: thanks for joining us, everybody. have a good day. todd: "fox & friends" right now. >> donald cook is now within striking distance of syrian targets. >> we have got to go after them in a very public way and drag them into international criminal court. >> americans are deeply concerned that facebook are engaged in a pervasive pattern of bias. >> i understanding where that concern is coming from. facebook and the tech industry are located in silicon valley which is an extremely left-leaning place. >> the heavy handed fbi raids of president trump's personal lawyers continues to reverberate. >> dangerous thing to start into lawyers offices. much harder for people to trust their doctors, their lawyers, their priests. >> sir, were you trying to cross to america? what was happening there? >> so you had two

individuals that were attempting to illegally enter into the u.s. >> my great honor to welcome the college football national champions, the university of alabama crimson tide. congratulations. congratulations. [cheers and applause] [applause] ♪ american rock and roll. steve: came out last year. kid rock. we are new york city. wednesday telecast of "fox & friends." ainsley: a lot going on. we are talking this morning about how our country and european allies, what they are going to do after assad gassed his own people in that chemical attack and how we are going to respond. there are several things that are actually happening. leading up there could be strikes within the next 72

hours. brian: it happened on saturday. of the president has not done anything yet. he is meeting with his officials to come up with a plan. the word is the pentagon is very risk adverse. they are not coming up with an aggressive enough plan that is going to be significantly better and effective than a year ago where only a day or two amp we hit them with 59 tomahawks they were flying out from one of the main military installations that we had bombed. so, this time they want to hit comprehensively. this time they want the french and the british involved. steve: they do. and it looks like the united states and france are positioning warships within range of syria, within bombing range. the targets this time it looks like they are going to try to destroy the chemical weapons storage facilities in syria that are known. they are not going to try to push mr. assad out of power. now, it sounded like when the president talked a couple days ago it was going to happen at any time. the pentagon was not ready today they are going to

deploy the harry s. truman carrier strike group from norfolk. that could be positioned over in the western med very shortly. also air traffic controllers are tell airlines hey, be careful of the eastern mediterranean because there could actually be an air strike that could impact your flight. ainsley: mediterranean is under greece and right next to syria and next to israel. if we send carriers into that area, you're right, europe is saying to the air traffic control it's called the euro control, be weary there could be a sudden missile strike if you are a pilot flying in that area. brian: about an hour ago hopped on hezbollah television i don't get it on my cable system. steve: how do you know then? brian: i'm not sure. said to us, if there are missiles coming from americans, we will go after those missiles and then go after the source of those missiles. so the russians are saying you better not.

syrians are moving their assets to an install place. we will hit every syrian military base is a target. if you are there, it's your problem. they have about 40 planes. we have a lot more. ainsley: president met yesterday in the white house with senior defense and military leaders. he posted a picture on his twitter page showing all of them in the oval office. i'm sure there's the picture, asking them for their advice. general jack keane, he says we need to hit them where it hurts. listen. >> listen, iran, russia, and syria, they are pariahs in international community. we have got to go after them in a very public way, condemnation sanctions and drag them in to the international criminal court. i mean, it will make no difference to assad and no difference to iran ons. but it will make a difference to putin. his public image is very important to him. particularly at home. we have got to go after these guys in a public way. >> that's one of the reasons

why russia has called anything we do perhaps any illegal military venture. but i'm a little confused because i remember the barack obama administration said they got rid of all the chemical weapons in syria. why are we now going to later today or tomorrow or the next day going to do everything we can to blow up their chemical weapons? ainsley: how about what happened at the u.n. nikki haley, the u.n. security council is saying let's just investigate what happened in syria. guess who vetoed that? russia. one of the main countries can veto that and it can't happen. russia said no way. steve: because it never happened. syria didn't do it. brian: five minutes after the hour. yesterday the big story of the afternoon was about a five hour grilling or informational session between mark zuckerberg as well as as well as in front of the senate. today he goes in front of the house. the question is he was extremely well rye hearsed in my estimation. referred to his team

countless number of times. did he answer the question about our privacy. did he answer the question, and it's a tough one, what you deal -- what you deem hate speech and what you deal political speech and what you don't like. he was unable to answer a few questions or have you ever taken down a liberal pundit's remarks or a liberal cause's information? steve: here's the thing. he is in the hot seat because time and time again, facebook has screwed up. in their entire history they keep screwing up. he admitted they screwed up. every time they screwed up he said we'll do better. congress is ready to regulate. if you saw ted cruz yesterday grill mr. zuckerberg you were probably cheering because you are going we never see this kind of interaction where have you somebody from the political right actually with one of these big tech companies holding him accountable for the fact that through the last number of years, how many times

have you heard that a big media company like facebook has shut down conservative points of view? well, ted cruz had had enough and let him have it listen. >> facebook has initially shut down the chick-fil-a appreciation day page. has blocked a post of a fox news reporter, and most recently blocked trump supporters diamond and silk page with 1.2 million facebook followers after determining their content and brand were, quote, unsafe to the community. to a great many americans, that appears to be a pervasive pattern of political bias. >> i understanding where that concern is coming from because facebook and the tech industry are located in silicon valley which is an extremely left-leaning place. and this is actually a concern that i have and that try to route out at the company is making sure we don't have any bias in the work that we do. steve: so he is saying california is a very progressive state.

what is he going to do about it? going to move the headquarters? going to hire more conservatives? brian: he was saying perception. he said the perception from conservatives is because we're in a liberal place that we will be unfair to conservatives. and there is a reason for that he came here and he briefed select number of people at fox about his point of view and visa versa what kind of business deals they tried to set up. i get really concerned. i don't know if there is an answer. he said artificial intelligence going to be able to siphon out hate speech. we know al qaeda and isis want to kill you, that's got to go. what about stuff that's pro-life. what about stuff that's proabortion? what are they going to decide hate speech. what if you are pro-gun is that hate speech? steve: why is it every time facebook takes something down it's from the political right. they have got to do a better job. he said i'm sorry, i'm sorry, i'm sorry a million times yesterday. now it's time to see if they actually do it. ainsley: election medaling,

apologized for censoring. apologized. steve: scraping your info. ainsley: your info getting public and fake news. brian: michael cohen the embattled attorney of president trump for decades. we know his office was raided. his temporary office was raided. four places overall. they took out a number of important items, including taking the cell phone out of his hand after the fbi opened the door. they put their foot in the door, grabbed his phone and went through his offices. in a stunning turn, i cannot believe this. michael cohen decides to speak with don lemon of cnn by far the most anti-trump network on the planet. that includes msnbc. and speak with don lemon, who is a great guy, but couldn't be more anti-trump. what was michael cohen doing speaking to don lemon about his inner most thoughts. ainsley: don was asking him what happened and he said the fbi was courteous and respectful. he said he was unhappy. he was worried and he was

upset. he said i'm not going to lie? do i need this in my life right now? no. brian: is that a message to president trump that i'm turning, i'm flipping? ainsley: no. steve: apparently they were looking for information into payment made by a playboy playmate and that porn star. michael cohen turns out owns 32 taxi medallians in new york. ainsley: that's big bucks. steve: every one of the taxis has to have a. ainsley: a million dollars each. steve: they used to be. he owes $53,000 in back taxes according to a state website. ainsley: get another loan. steve: this is not the mural investigation. this is the u.s. attorney from the southern district of new york looking into this kind of corruption. alan dershowitz takes a look at all of it given the fact that he has been the fixer for the president so long. for this guy to be in this kind of legal payroll, peril, ts

a problem. >> it will make it harder for lawyers to trust their doctors, their priests, their spouses when people will say look, even the president's most confidential communications with his lawyer can now be searched just based on probable cause, which is a very, very low standard, i think there will be great distrust of relationships that are very important to american society. confidential relationships between a priest and a pen tant and doctor and patient. brian: he met with the president. he said i would feel the same way if hillary clinton was president and they were doing it to her. i think this is a really critical time it almost seems like the media is pushing the president to fire rod rosenstein, pushing the president to fire robert

mueller as if they are saying please, create a constitutional crisis. clearly the president feels ill served. clearly the president feels boxed. in clearly he is irate and trying to get some type of strategy together while trying to handle this middle east crisis and everything else. steve: apparently mr. dershowitz had been scheduled to be there. it had -- the dinner had to do with his work with middle east peace. brian: that's what he said but i doubt it. steve: that's what he said. no doubt about it. we had a guest on yesterday that said jonathan turley said that this is all being done as bait. go ahead, mr. president, look what i'm doing to you. fire somebody. and blow yourself up. but from everything we have heard from the white house, while they say he has the authority it doesn't sound like he is gonna. brian: also evaluating according to a report an hour ago whether he is going to sit down or how he is going to interact with robert mueller at all. does this change the calculus. second personal turning on paul manafort about what he

is doing. if you are trying to pressure the president and his inner circle, you are doing it. steve: still, no collusion and that was the whole idea in the beginning. brian: 12 minutes after the hour. a fox news alert now. president trump weighing his options to respond to syria. u.s. warships are heading to the region right now. our next guest says we are past diplomatic recourse. lieutenant expwren richard newton, he will share it. ainsley: we got an exclusive look at protecting our border from the water this time. >> sir, were you trying to cross to america? ainsley: griff jenkins asking that question. he goes out on the front lines of the border patrol. ♪ here i am ♪ rocking like a hurricane ♪ here i am ♪ rock rock you like a hurricane ♪

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brian: fox news alert now. tensions with syria heating up in every way. u.s. deploying armed nuclear power to the middle east, including the uss harry truman falling assad's alleged chemical people on his own people saturday. is this the right course of action? lieutenant general richard newton chief of staff joins us right now. this would be your branch that is going to be heavily

depended on to inflict the damage. does it bother you that we have waited since saturday to act because word is that syria is moving their assets to the russian bases. >> good morning, brian. it's good to be with you again. not particularly. i believe that the president has been huddling with his national security team, particularly u.s. military leaders and certainly with secretary mattis to go over a range of options. that could be, you know, could be as simple as what we did with the strikes tomahawk missile strikes we did 7 april 2017 to a more robust air campaign. i believe it's appropriate and certainly suitable for the president to go through these range of options and for the military planners, the pentagon planners in this case to provide those options and forces ready in place to strike as the president presumably would call for. brian: we want to get the french and british involved. no word from the british. the french are leading our

besides helping us. the fact that they are with us? >> i think that's very important. my sources tell me that the british royal air force could be a player as well. but as you mentioned, brian, the french air force as part of a broader coalition, which will make it a different, more robust approach than we did, again, back last april when you and i had that conversation last year. i think you will be looking for more of a collision strike. a -- coalition strike. this strike is important but what is the strategy behind it. brian: what happens if they do it again in a week. do we do it again in a week. they used it days after we bombed it last year. hopped on lebanese tv if there is a strike by americans missiles will be down and we will go to the source of those rockets. so they're saying don't do it. and if you do it, we are coming after you. what's the american reaction? >> i believe the american reaction is the president

has led this effort is to, as i would say, stand tall in the saddle. putin only understands power. the russians only understand power. they will respect that look at the panoply of options it will be more robust than last time. more than just a single strike. a prolonged campaign over a couple days using coalition forces. one thing important to consider the commander of the u.s. forces in the middle east of u.s. central command said last week that we have got it look at what's ahead of us. that includes all instruments of u.s. national power. diplomatic, economic, financial and certainly military. we have got to allow u.s. -- our tools such as the civil, you know, programs to provide for stabilization and so forth are very important that we follow along this effort. not just what's going to happen near term but long term as well. brian: general richard newton, thanks so much. >> my pleasure, brian. brian: we'll talk to you as this action gets into place.

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meantime virginia's democratic governor welcoming illegal immigrants with open arms. ralph north ham defeating a bill sanctuary cities in the state. steve: thank you, jill january. ainsley: today on the hill mark zuckerberg is gearing up for day two after failures to stop hate speech. >> you may decide or facebook may decide it needs to police a whole bunch of speech that i think america might be better off not having policed by one company that has a really big and powerful platform. can you define hate speech? >> senator, i think this is a really hard question and i think it's one of the reasons why we struggle with it. there are certain definitions that we have around, you know, calling for violence. brian: i agree it's hard. steve: fox news contributor tomi lahren joins us live from los angeles. facebook ceo who started it in his dorm room 30 years

ago. we heard that 50 times. he screwed up. promised to do better. will they? >> you know, i don't think they are going to change anything unless we pressure them to do so. i have got say this about facebook. many of you know i made my career on facebook. if not for facebook i probably wouldn't be sitting here talking to you three today. i opened a platform allowed me to create a platform and millions of views. mark zuckerberg liked my page on facebook. i have a love/hate. my page is large enough if they censor me i can generate controversy and i think i can correct the issue. other conservatives are not so lucky. conservatives with smaller pages, conservatives outside of the media industry, they are censored by facebook algorithms day in and day out. you just saw with diamond and silk. it's up to us to put the pressure on this company and hit them in the pocketbook. what if these conservatives are generating millions of views for you. what if we stop?

then, what mark? ainsley: what did you think about the testimony? because it looked like in the beginning he was terrorized but then i went to harvard. i got. this he was sitting there talking in front of the republicans. the ones he tried to see you lens or at least his company has. what did you think of the overall scene yesterday? >> it sounded like he didn't know a whole lot about facebook and being that he is the ceo that's probably a little unsettling. again, he can't define what hate speech is we have seen the left do this time and time again. they consider hate speech to be whatever they don't agree with. steve: exactly. >> that's what they consider to be hate speech. throw the labels and categories at us and we are silenced. we have to fight back and be vocal. do it on his own platform. i know i will. brian: number one is true, he is right. i don't know how you hate hate speech. al qaeda, isis. we get it the kkk.

when you go into what this site means or this site means, if you let it all go, it's the wild west which is probably not anyone's advantage. when he said i'm turning it over to artificial intelligence in the future to decide, you know, what's going to come forward and what's not? so now it's going to go to an entity that doesn't exist that we created that's going to weave and comb out what we're going to be watching? that's a little scary. >> yeah, more algorithms and that's not good for anyone. i would also encourage mark zuckerberg to hire more conservatives in the company, outspoken, honest, genuine conservatives. maybe he would get a perspective. he has surrounded himself with people that don't think like he does. steve: whoever designs the next algorithm will essentially determine what hate speech is meanwhile, talk a little bit about this. we have been talking about the mid terms. harvard did a poll and it looks as if a wave of young democrats outnumbering young republicans by 2 to 1 could wind up going to vote if

they do vote in the next election. what do you make of this? and how do republicans capitalize on the fact that evan likes the tax cuts, at the same time, a lot of people who are benefiting are democrats? >> well, two things. republicans, conservatives, independents, we have to do a better job of reaching outs to young people. in the past we have failed. we don't reach out, we don't go to college campuses. we don't speak to these young people and we need to do a better job of getting our message across. we tell horrible stories. the left is excellent at messaging and we are not so great. that's what i have really dedicated my career to is reaching the young people. we need to do a better job. second of all do not under estimate the whisper voter young communities as well afraid to say they support this president. afraid to say they are conservative. they are and they are probably going to vote conservative as well. let's wait and see. i didn't trust polls in the 2016 election and look who we're.

look who is in the white house. steve: the polls were wrong many of them. thanks, tomi, have a great week. ainsley: great to see you. steve: all right. up next on "fox & friends" for this wednesday, an exclusive look at protecting the border from the water. >> sir, were you trying to cross to america? steve: griff jenkins on the rio grand with the border patrol. you're going to see that live next. ainsley: this graduation photo hats a lo has a lot of pee talking. gun waistband and wearing a women for trump t-shirt. she will join us live with all the backlash she is getting. brian: happy birthday to supermodel who has been on our show multiple times. she was on our show when she was maybe 30. she is 37 today. ainsley: are you glad she was born? >> i'm glad she was born ♪ when everything i'll ever do

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alabama crimson tide football team at the white house. brian: the players and president huddled together and bowing their heads in unity while players placed their hands on the president's shoulder. steve: that is something. that was shortly after the president congratulated the team on big national championship win. as you can see on the south lawn of the white house. roll tide. 1600 pennsylvania avenue. ainsley: congratulations to that team. there is 171-mile stretch of the rio grande river at the texas-u.s. border that isn't protected by any sort of a wall. steve: it is absolutely wide open. and as the national guard arrives this week to help secure the border, our own griff jenkins is getting an exclusive look at the mission on the river. brian: he joins us right now from the border in laredo. hey, griff. griff: good morning, guys. it's shortly after 2:30 this morning. we were reminded of the real danger here. we heard a short gun battle going on. we asked the cpp guys on patrol here.

how can you hear it? we hear it about every week they said and that's a remind of what these guardsmen are arriving to. we hit the water to give you a closer look. >> every single week we get reports from our partners in the government of mexico. gun battles, people getting killed, down to the south of our border that is at the hands of the cartel, the same cartel that traffics illegal immigrants and narcotics across our borders through this area. >> mission on the boats is to patrol the river. make sure we have that constant presence. griff: there are tons of people. some are standing on the banks. some wave. ho how do you know who intends to come across? how do you differentiate? >> they might there scouting

for us to pass along the area and they will make a move as far as crossing either individuals or narcotics across the river. >> sir, were you trying to cross to america? we rolled up. what was happening there. >> you had two individuals that were attempting attemptingl enter into the u.s. as cross the river. we had agents up there waiting for them. that's what turned them back. >> in your estimation here is, this the boats, the land and the sky, is that with a stops people from entering? >> right. so it's a combination. you need personnel and technology and infrastructure that's going to give us access. the border patrol is a mobile force. it is a 24/7 job keeping those vehicles at a high state of readiness so our men and women can go out there and do that job. that's one of the elements of support the national guard can bring to bear.

griff: another element the guardsmen will bring here is horizontal engineering to clear roads, clear brush. that will let more green shirts as they are known, border patrol hit this border and try and secure it they told me of a gun battle that happened in recent weeks with the mexican marines, less than a mile deep over my shoulder back here. less than about 45 minutes going on here. so the threat is very real, the zeta cartel getting more dangerous and desperate as the guardsmen arrive here, guys. brian: is there a sense they are undermanned? >> absolutely. you spend any time with the border, whether i was out near san diego or all the way over here near laredo from, end to end of this u.s. border, manpower is the common theme. they need more manpower and certainly getting it with the now 1600 guardsmen being deployed in mexico, texas and california. arizona i will remind you has still not yet decided whether they will be part of securing this border?

steve: well, if they are smart they would. griff, thank you very much. great report from the rio grand as the train comes. in 22 minutes before the top of the hour. right over there jillian hats news. jillian: good morning to you guys and good morning to you at home. get you started with this. president trump signing executive order pushing to strengthen or add work requirements for welfare. ordering a review of the food stamps including food stamps, housing and medicaid. calling on federal agents to enforce current work requirements. the order will restore independence and dignity to millions of americans. the cdc issuing an urgent warning to doctors across the country about fake pot likely laced with rat poison. so far three people have died. 100 others have been sickened. deadly outbreak beginning early last month in illinois and spreading to missouri, missouri and wisconsin. arming teachers are mini baseball bats. officials in millcreek township want to have a

consistent tool for all teachers to fight school shooters. >> it's a last resort. it is the last resort. but it is an option. unfortunately we are in a day and age where we may need to use them to protect ourself and our kids. ainsley: the bats wil jillian: the bats will be located up in each classroom. steve: spending 1800 bucks on them. thanks, jillian. brian: turning now to extreme weather. steve: two twisters touched down in fort lauderdale, florida as you can see yesterday. brian: warm weather is finally coming to the east coast. we will move towards that. ainsley: really, janice is tracking it all is brian telling the truth? janice: brian is telling the truth. the caveat it's going to be cold again as we head into monday. we will take what we can get. look at the temperatures 38 degrees. 40 in chicago. 30 in cincinnati. put those temperatures up as we go through the rest of the workweek.

there is the past 24 hours. snow across the great lakes and bigger system moving across the midwest and rockies that will bring the potential for heavy snow, very heavy rain across the coastal areas and that system is going to move eastward, not only bringing the direc threat for snow. isolated tornadoes for friday. the threat across the central u.s. and the fire danger is also high as we go through the next couple days. wildfire danger. there is brian speaking the truth on friday and saturday with temperatures in the 70's. good job, brian. steve: 77 on sunday. janice: woo hooh. ainsley: we need to celebrate. steve: no kidding. take a look at this. this graduation photo has a lot of people talking. a college senior posing with a gun in her waste band and wearing a women for trump t-shirt. there has been a lot of backlash online. we will respond to that in about five minutes. brian: did you know your taxpayer dollars are funding sanctuary cities?

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>> did you know that taxpayers are actually subsidizing. one taxpayer is trying to change that here with incite on his bill chairman for the house policy committee indiana congressman leukemi luke messer running for senate. >> hi, steve, thanks for having me on. steve: you say no sanctuary city should get bonus. >> our bill was designed to stop the illegal immigrant bonus that sanctuary towns get under current law. here is why they get a

bonus. federal programs based on calculation or population look at total population which under the census includes illegal immigrants. i applaud the president's leadership. the president has said we are going to have a citizenship question on our census. that is a great progress. but now we need to give that some teeth. that's what my bill does it would require that any population calculation used for allocation of federal dollars not include illegal immigrants. it should just be taxpayers. it's crazy that these communities literally get a financial bonus for having illegal immigrants and we need to stop it i understand this bill of yours. was inspired by the president. his suggestion that there should be a question on the census that comes up in 2020 are you a citizen of the united states of america? absolutely. it's remarkable that the president's leadership has caused any kind of outrage. here is why. the democratic party is

becoming the party of illegal immigration in this country. they get more funding in these communities. when they have illegal immigrants. they also get more members of congress, too. remember that the calculation of members of congress is based on this same funding. i will give you an example. the city of san jose, california, has almost twice as many illegal immigrants as my home state, the state of indiana. as a result. they get additional federal funding. it's crazy. we need to stop it. and, frankly, i think as the measurtheamerican people learn , this it's going to gain quickly and we will get this change done. steve: congressman, when you look at what is happening in for instance orange county in california, i mean, sb state senate bill 54 that went into effect january 1st out in california, made the entire state a sanctuary. the people in southern california largely under republican rule, they are going, you know what? we don't want that. and we want to opt -- we

want part of the department of justice lawsuit against the state of california because this is unconstitutional. >> well, absolutely. look, if securing the border and stopping illegal immigration was unpopular. then hillary clinton would have won the last presidential election. president trump won on a platform of building a wall, securing our border, getting tough on illegal immigration. this census question is one example. i applaud the president's efforts to get troops on the border and secure our border, too. this is going to be a big part of the debate. you mentioned i'm running for the u.s. senate, steve. listen, the democratic party has become the party of illegal immigration. joe donnelly is part of that problem. we are working to stop it. steve: congressman luke messer from indiana. thanks for joining us live today. >> thanks. steve: what do you think about that email us at friends@foxnews.com. we have been telling you about diamond and silk and their battle with facebook. facebook said they were unsafe. well, that controversy made it all the way to capitol hill yesterday.

>> most recently blocked trump supporters diamond and silk's page after determining their content and brand were, quote: unsafe to the community. steve: well, diamond and silk are going to join us live in about half an hour to respond. and this graduation photo has a lot of people talking. a college senior posing with a gun in her waistband wearing a women for trump t-shirt. a lot of backlash online. she is going to ainsley coming up next. ♪ born in the u.s.a. ♪ this. is. lobsterfest at red lobster. with exciting new dishes like dueling lobster tails. and lobster truffle mac & cheese.

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university of tennessee, she is right there. defending her graduation picture after posing with a gun in her waistband while lifting her women for trump t-shirt. the viral photo comes at a time where both the second amendment and conservatives are under attack on college campuses. joining us now is that student brethren that spencer. thank you -- brenna spencer. >> thanks for having me. ainsley: why did you want to wear the t-shirt and show the gun. >> taking my graduation pictures i figured i wanted to make them personal and show who i am and represent the person who i am. obviously being very passionate about conservative politics and the second amendment, i decided that that was what i wanted to do. ainsley: how did you get to this point in your life. tell us a little bit about you, where you grew up, what your major is and why you are pro-gun and why you support the president. >> i grew up in cincinnati, actually. my family moved to nashville when i was around 10 years old. my parents have been very active in politics.

so, i kind of got my passion from them. and hearing about what, you know, they have to tell me. ainsley: i want to read some of the tweets that we pulled from twitter. this girl, lisa says you realize employers will see, this right? hope you enjoy living with mom and dad. lily says i support the second but don't get why anyone wants photos taken with their gun that anyone can get. attention seeker, #issues. what's your response? >> right. sexual assault has grabbed a lot of attention these past few years. especially on college campuses. so i think it's important for women to be able to know that they are their first line of defense as the campus reform has been reporting, the second amendment has been under attack, especially on college campuses. so not only do they try to restrict our right to carry on campus but they also are

trying to up the age to 21 to buy a gun. i think it's really important to empower people to show that you should be allowed to protect yourself. your rights don't stop at a college campus. ainsley: do you regret doing this? because it's not fun, especially at your age, you are 22 years old to get these attacks from people and you have every right to do. this would you do it again? >> yeah. absolutely. i would do it. it's really, really important to empower the tens of millions of women, gun owning women and let them know that they have a voice. ainsley: a lot of people, think about this election, a lot of people didn't want to admit that they were voting for donald trump. the left did not think he was going to win. many republicans didn't think he was going to win and he did. many people were scared to vocalize why they liked him or that they were voting for him. what do you say to people who have strong opinions but are too afraid to do them? you obviously are bold and courageous and don't care about the backlash. what's your advice to people who do care about it. >> you have a voice. you know, the bark lash is

there. and you are going to get hate, but it's really, really important to stand up for what you believe. in it's important to voice your opinions. and continue to do it. ainsley: what did your parents think about this? >> my parents love it my parents are actually with me right now. ainsley: what about your friends? >> i have a loft conservative friends and i have a lot of left-leaning friends, too. both of them are really supportive. ainsley: what do you want to do with your future? >> i'm not sure yet. i guess we will see. this has opened a lot of doors for me. i'm going to kind of roll with it. ainsley: i find that to be true when you find your voice and you don't care what anyone else thinks anymore. doors open for you. we wish you all the best. god bless you. thank you for being on with us. >> thank you so much. ainsley: many lawmakers are not happy with the doj for not opening probes fast enough. john lausch the attorney brought in to speed up the release of these documents. he will join us live in the

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appreciate brian tensions with syria heating up. nuclear power to the middle east. following assad's chemical attack on his own people. >> this is where the president has to stand tall in the saddle. what's going to be the strategy behind it. ainsley: today on capitol hill mark zuckerberg is gearing up for day two in the hot seat. >> it's up to us to put the pressure on the company and hit them in the pocketbook. what if we suddenly just stopped creating millions of views for you. >> today is the day to hand over unredacted house intel documents to the committee. >> we're not just going to hold in contempt. we will hold contempt and impeach. >> james comey is preparing for a media blitz. the ousted fbi director set

up for first tv interview. >> sir, were you trying to cross to america? what was happening there? >> so you had two individuals that were attempting to illegally enter the u.s. ♪ ♪ thank you for joining us again. part of your daily routine. waking up with "fox & friends." >> we have a lot to cover. you know, the president is saying we are all wondering how the president is going to react to what assad did. those chemical attacks. we saw the pictures of the babies and women and children. and the president is tweeting this morning. here it is: he says russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at syria. get ready, russia. because they will be coming, nice and new and smart. you shouldn't be partners

with a gas killing animal who kills his people and enjoys it. steve: i think we know how he feels about this. don't we? brian: this is in response to russia's ambassador to lebanon on hezbollah tv said this morning. if there is a strike by americans, missiles will be downed and even the sources from those missiles will be fired. the u.n. ambassador to the russian ambassador to the united nations yesterday had a similar thing to say. but it was in russian. he is threatening us, that we better not strike back after saturday's chlorine gas attack that killed 40. including mostly women and children. and sent 500 to the hospital. steve: that's right. well, it sounded like after the president made those comments in the cabinet room a couple of days ago that the strike was imminent, it was going to happen immediately. late last night our pentagon sources were telling us that the united states didn't have everything lined up the way they wanted it at that point. keep in mind down in norfolk virginia today the harry

truman strike group is being deployed. the uss donald cook has arrived off the syrian coast. things are lining up. ollie north and jack keane had these observations about what could happen in the next day or two over in the eastern mediterranean. >> if you are going to use more than just a happenedful of aircraft, you're going to have places to cover them. places to refuel and rearm. you have search and rescue assets in place. so, i think it's -- a lot of people thinking it was going to happen tomorrow. i couldn't imagine that. >> listen, iran, russia, and syria, they are pariahs in international community. we have got to go after them in a very public way, condemnation sanctions and drag them in to the international criminal court. it mr. l. make no difference to assad and no difference to iranians. it will make a difference to putin. his public image is very important to him particularly at home. we have got to really go after these guys in a public way.

brian: general keene knows what he is talking about. directly connected to people in the pentagon. when he speaks, understand, he is with the policymakers, and that's the type of respect he garners within the you were reaches of the military. i hope people listen to him because he seems to have the battle plan, too. remember he authored the surge and picked up the phone from his basement and called president bush. keep in mind anybody who says we have been going easy on the russians has not been paying attention. we are pressuring the u.k. banks to stop taking money from the russians, to start divesting yourself from the high priced real estate that the russians are involved in. even tell them to stop investing, tell them to sell their equity in the chelsea soccer team. same thing with europe. while we are doing that their market has dropped 10% 20%, ruble dropped, their steel company has dropped 50%. these last round of sanctions bill browder who was the force behind the that begin ski act says they have never this last round of sanction is the most forceful he has seen in

years. ainsley: western allies are all helping us. considering possible military action and those birthing pains are getting closer and closer together. sending out carriers, getting them in place. europe air traffic control, the euro control is warning airlines over the mediterranean sea to be very cautious and be weary of a sudden missile strike. also the president met with senior defense and military leaders in the oval office. steve: that's right. he tweeted out a picture. and he talked about the top military commander saying the greatest fighting force the world has ever seen. right now the administration continues to rally international support. don't be surprised if when the shooting starts it would be the united states, great britain, france, and maybe the israelis as well. we also -- it's interesting because they are already telegraphing while not the exact time it's going to start, major newspapers today are talking about the targets and that is the chemical weapons storage facilities in syria.

so, obviously, it's like if you are in the area, get out of there, because we're about to blow it up. ainsley: right. how big it will be, we don't know. sources are telling us that the president said it's going to be much more aggressive than it was a year ago after the same thing happened in syria. brian: because they immediately went back to the missile strikes using the same military bases we hit. they are moving assets to russian bases number one. number two, i would like to know if this is a successful three or four day campaign. what happens next? no more isis to chase out. we don't like assad, but we are not saying you have got to get out of here. we don't have a free syrian army to count on to really understand. what do we want long-term, at the very least, if we can't figure it out,-hope they will figure it out. ainsley: i will tell you what devin nunes wants. unredacted documents. it is april 11th. today is the deadline day for the doj to hand over those documents. steve: that's right. while they apparently got a whole bunch of documents, congressional investigators did, they got 3,000 documents.

ainsley: out of the millions. steve: now up to 6,000. the 3,000 that the department of justice handed over on monday apparently were largely duplicate. things that the investigators had already seen but the doj gets to say hey, look, we gave you a bunch of papers. well, they are worthless. here is the thing. what they want at the core is they want the very original paperwork that started the spying on the trump people. so far the department of justice has only given heavily redacted versions of it. devin nunes says unless i get it today, there is going to be hell to pay. >> i can tell you this: we are going to get the documents. we are going to get the two pages. so they can either cough them up now or it will get really complicated starting tomorrow night and we have to take all the stepping necessary in order to get the documents. we're not going to just hold in contempt. we have a plan to hold in contempt and to impeach. brian: we got the 1.2 million documents. michael horowitz has them. only got a couple thousand.

hired john lausch over the last two days u.s. attorney to oversee the production of these papers and expedite them. he was on with bret baier yesterday. he will be joining us today. he says well, the problem is you have got to go through the documents to find out what applies. and jason chaffetz had a great line. don't go through them. just hand them to us. we are the committee that can be trusted and we always have been. and we need to see it unredacted. ainsley: right. brian: because if you cannot trust the members of congress, what are they doing in that position? ainsley: devin nunes is referring to two pages. only two that would lead them to allow the spying? steve: to figure out what the junks for the spying was. ainsley: those two pieces of paper? steve: just two. ainsley: just two they gave to the fisa court to get permission to spy? steve: that's all they want to see at this point. keep in mind as well, a whole bunch of the things that have been redacted so far, the redactions were things that proved the bias at the department of justice. so keep in mind, who is redacting things? the department of justice.

getting rid of stuff that makes them look bad. it's essentially the same as getting to grade your own paper. brian: the thing is you don't know what you don't know. you don't know what you are going to find when you go through there. you know what you want but don't know what's in there. we know what is in there and that's interesting enough. meanwhile, as you know james comey's book comes out next week higher loyalty. axios reports ax sat down, george stephanopoulos sat down and spoke to james comey and was so riveting. they called it surreal experience. he answered every question and referred to our president, current president as a mob boss. and they said this thing -- the biggest thing they are going to have, biggest challenge they are going to have is knocking it into one hour. bret baier is going to have the third interview. stephanopoulos. ainsley: when is it going to air? steve: going to air on april the 15th. 2020 special with george. mr. comey did tweet out a picture yesterday showing the setup at his house.

there is george's chair, there messiah chair. ainsley: my house doesn't normally look like this. steve: it will be interesting to see how much he says because is he bound by law to not reveal certain things. brian: he has nine memos, i talked to people that read the nine memos, they dared james comey to read the nine memos out. if he does come out and decides to get it or go through his anonymous source the columbia professor who talked to the "new york times" who happens to be his attorney now, i imagine if that leaks out and facts come out there, it actually makes the president look good. ainsley: all for publicity to make him look better? steve: though is going to buy the book democrats hate him because he blew up hillary and republicans hit him. ainsley: that's what i said but it did well in presales. brian: they think it's going to be anti-trump because trump is the one that fired him. steve: stay tuned for that almost 7:11 in new york city. jillian: good morning to you. get you caught up on other stories we're following.

another california city joins lawsuit against the state's sanctuary law. the city of orange voting overnight to oppose the bill which limits local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. orange joins several other orange county cities that oppose the bill. meantime virginia's democratic governor welcoming illegal immigrants with arms open arms. ralph northam vetoing a bill to ban sanctuary cities in the state. whether a person has the right to openly carry guns on school property. this just hours after the broward county school board in florida unanimously voted against allowing district employees to be armed. that's the same district where 17 people were gunned down in february. massive illegal immigration sweep at the arizona border. agents nab ago suspected ms-13 gang member. the he will salvadoren national telling agents he intended to travel to los angeles. 60 others including mexican national and guatemalan nationals also rounded up at the border. royal wedding invites are

out. did you get yours? well, president trump or former president obama both made the cut. according to reports, the reason behind the decision is that prince harry is not likely to become king so it isn't necessary for any political leaders to attend. around 600 guests are expected to witness the couple say i do at windsor castle next month. did any of you guys get invited? steve: i think ainsley is going to go to cover the event. ainsley: i'm covering the event. jillian: so you are invited. ainsley: i'm no invited to the actual wedding. steve: you were asking for money for brian and jillian and me to buy the wedding gift. ainsley: what would you buy them in the couple that truly has everything? brian: where are they registered? steve: get them a crock pot. ainsley: what are some of those department stores? hehomeher rods. steve: when in doubt my

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regarding michael cohen, what did you think? >> i thought this was an extremely rare and extremely aggressive prosecutorial move. one that everybody should be concerned about who is concerned about the attorney-client privilege. it doesn't mean it was an unlawful search. we don't know all the facts yet. they went to a magistrate. the magistrate found there was probable cause. so unless they lied to the magistrate or left something out, it appears to be constitutionally sound. but, it's very unusual and worrisome to raid an attorney's office like that. particularly when, as is the case here, i have heard they are specifically authorized to look for attorney-client communications. steve: the team looks at all that stuff what they can and cannot show the u.s. attorney. don't you think after paul manafort's home was raided back last year that michael cohen might think in the

back of his head that you know, maybe they are going to come for me one day. >> maybe he thought that but he is an attorney, unlike manafort. let me explain something about the taint team. the taint team is there to protect otherwise privileged communications that don't fall within the warrant. but if that team i if the team comes across a document related to the russia investigations, they and it's there in plain view, under the plain view exception, they can turn that over to mueller's group. if they come across a picture of trump and putin naked together, for example, that's plain view, that goes straight over to bob mueller. steve: i have not heard about that picture. that would be big news. sol, let me ask you about this. during the break we were talking about this case, and you said you thought the u.s. attorney for the southern district of manhattan might have mueller envy. what are you talking about? >> mueller has been very

aggressive, which is what we expect from a special counsel. if you want to get things done in a short period of time. that office itself has a history of being somewhat aggressive and arrogant in doing whatever it wants to do. and this could end up being something that i don't think mueller knew this was going to happen, certainly not the timing of it i think this could end up very much hurting the mural operation. i'm skeptical why they thought they had to raid that office instead of getting a search warrant. they better have really, really have had strong evidence that cohen was about to destroy that stuff. steve: interesting stuff. more details we need before we know the whole story. sol wisenburg, former white collar criminal defense attorney, we thank you very much. >> current white collar. steve: not former. >> former white water deputy

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steve: was that a good enough answer? here to respond are fox news contributors. diamond and silk. were your ears burning yesterday because ted cruz and mr. zuckerberg were both talking about you. >> yeah. they were burning. and we got -- we saw everything that went down. but, you know what? here's the deal. if mark -- first of all, he really didn't answer the question. >> right. >> if he was concerned about his platform being a place for all ideas, then why would he put algorithms in place to censor some ideas? and why does is he turning facebook into a political playground for democrats? >> um-huh. >> that's what he is doing. he is so concerned about the mid terms, the 2018 mid terms because he doesn't want any interference. looks like he is trying to interfere in an election is what we see. >> that's right. >> he didn't really answer the question as to why he is deeming us, two conservatives, as if we are unsafe to the community. he really didn't answer the question. brian: what's your status right now?

i heard you are reinstated, you are no longer being pushed aside. how were you informed and what's your status now? >> we were never -- we never communicated with facebook. facebook never reached out to us. never called us. we never spoke to facebook. that's the number one thing. we were never taken down. we were still up, but there is algorithms on our page that will not allow our viewers and our followers and our fans to see our content. we are not coming up in your news feed. we ever getting messages still. listen, i put you all to default and it went back to the other default where i can't view your stuff. facebook need to take off all of those algorithms. >> that's right. >> take not only our page but conservative pages. take that off of our page so people can see and view our content. ainsley: they deemed you as unsafe. if you could sit face to face with mark zuckerberg. i would assume yes he would want to do it. what would you say to him. >> i would let him know we

are not unsafe. we are not animals. >> that's right. >> we are two black chicks down with politics that's patriotic, that love our country, that love our president. and that love his agenda. >> that's right. >> and then i would tell him what methods he needs to put in place so that everybody can be protected. this is really an easy fix. >> that's right. steve: sure, you know, he is going to sit down in front of a house committee later today. there might be a member of the house of representatives watching right now. what question would you like them to ask of the ceo of facebook? >> why is he being biased toward conservatives? >> that's right. >> republicans. people that support our president. and why is he trying to turn his platform into a political playground? and what is he going to do to rectify this with diamond and silk? because we are not unsafe to our community. ainsley: what did you think when you were brought up sorry, go ahead. >> one more question. what is so unsafe about two

black women supporting the president of the united states. >> that's right. >> donald j. trump. ainsley: what did you think when ted cruz said diamond and silk in front of mark zuckerberg, this famous gazillionaire. >> i was first smiling from ear to ear and i really appreciate ted cruz, senator ted ted cruz, thank you so much. he and senator tim scott. thank both of them so much for putting it out there. they spoke for the little people. >> that's right. >> they spoke for our little voices and i appreciate that. brian: one the headline stories is nothing has changed. you are still being algorithmed down and still being stopped. >> suppressed. take that off our page. this has to be an even playing field. if mark zuckerberg can't make this an even playing field, facebook is going to be the face without the book and the book with no face when we are done with us. brian: fox news viewers are probably their biggest users, so they better watch what they are doing.

thanks, guys. thanks, ladies. >> thanks for having us. steve: wonder if their names come up today. brian: probably will. many are furious with the doj not releasing thousands of documents on several probes and not doing it fast enough. >> give us the information, mr. sessions, that we have asked for. >> if this attorney general and deputy attorney general can't do it, let's find two who will. brian: john lausch, the new attorney brought in to speed up the release joins us next to respond to those congressman. ainsley: this debate was a real drag for that candidate right there. steve: got to hear this story. ainsley: remind me of the plane. brian: yeah. that was great. feel the clarity of non-drowsy

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ainsley: we are back with a fox news alert. president trump is ready to launch a missile strike against syria after the alleged chemical attack killed dozens. steve: moments ago the commander-in-chief tweeted. this russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at syria. get ready, russia, because

they will be coming, nice and new and smart. you shouldn't be partners with a gas killing animal who kills his people and enjoys it. that's the very latest on that. we will keep you posted throughout the morning. ainsley: in other news, the doj is under fire. accused by furious g.o.p. lawmakers of stalling those documents tied to multiple 2016 probes. >> there are some deadlines this week. we put forth deadlines. >> give us the information, mr. sessions, that we have asked for. >> it would take just one simple phone call from the deputy attorney general to michael horowitz who has all these documents, who has testified under oath that it's not a problem to give it to congress and it wouldn't impede his investigation. make that phone call today. let's get the documents, let's do it this week. and if this attorney general and deputy attorney general can't do it, let's find two who will. brian: wow, here to respond to that interview yesterday. the man tapped by the doj to speed things up, u.s. attorney john lausch.

john, thanks for joining us, thanks for doing. this someone has got to do it. first off, what's your response to them? let's see all the documents. just let me have them. >> right. so, first, clearly we need to do a better job at the department and the fbi at getting materials to the house committee to do their job. made very clear to me by the attorney general that we are to produce documents quickly. do so completely under the law. steve: right. >> do so with fairness and integrity and professionalism. steve: today is the deadline today. devin nunes wants to make it clear. why can't you turn it over by noon. >> okay. so that fisa application, that particular thing is being handled elsewhere in the department. and i expect people are taking his concern and that issue very seriously. steve: why aren't you handling it? seems like something up your alley. so far the doj has not really been helpful to capitol hill. >> right. well, right now, i mean my

job is to deal with the documents that are -- have been responsive to the goodlatte subpoena. there is a loft documents that are being reviewed. we need to do a better job at looking at those more quickly, addressing the redaction issue in those and getting them over to the committee. ainsley: do you believe that congress has a constitutional right to oversight and if you do, how is it possible that the doj is refusing to hand over these documents? >> yeah. and so, look, to be clear, refusing to turn over anything. and, of course, congress has -- they have an obligation to do their job which includes oversight. what our job and what my job will be is to ensure that we have a process, a better process than we have had going forward so far. to get the materials that they are entitled to while at the same time ensuring that the legal rights of individuals that are in those documents are protected. fringes, there might be grand jury material in some of those documents. we have a legal duty as prosecutors not to provide those materials. and congress understands that all of that said, we

need to do better. we need to do much better. >> couple things. former chairman of the oversight jason chaffetz says this. the relevant documents are all of the documents. if you are producing, if you are produced a subpoena you comply with all of it. it's not optional. you don't get to hand pick. this so you don't get to hand pick it just hand them over. >> right. and the key there is to produce the relevant documents. i think there is maybe one misnorm that's out there. the nun that's been thrown around is actually a much broader set. 1.2 is a much broader set than documents actually related to the clinton email investigation. so that's one of the things we need to do. steve: i understand the doj released another 3,000 to government congressional investigators i think on monday. but, what i have heard from one investigator is that most of the copies were useless because they are simply duplications of what they have already gotten in the past. >> yeah. i mean, it's clear to me. i have only been at this for a couple days now. clear to me we need to do a

better job getting the relevant material. ainsley: you said the beginning of the interview, the two pages, the fisa warrant application, that's what everyone wants to see. they want to find out what reason the doj had to spy on the trump campaign. and so those two documents are very important. but did you say that you're not overseeing that? >> i'm not. that's being handled elsewhere. ainsley: will would he be able to see those, two? do you even know? >> i don't know. it's a serious question and serious people in the department of justice will be addressing that today. steve: so you are handling the document production for the goodlatte subpoena. >> exactly. steve: here's a question. isn't there inherent conflict with the people who are doing -- who are implicated in the documents? doing the redaction? i said this a moment ago. it's like somebody grading their own paper. what we have seen in the past is some things were completely redacted and then congressional investigators found out later, wait a minute, they were just protecting themselves like the fisa judge and peter

strzok, they're best friends. that was redacted when it got sent up to capitol hill. >> right. so, look, i think reasons i'm here as an outsider, someone from outlines of d.c. to come in here in order to look at the process and in particular to look at the redactions. and to make sure, one, that there aren't any redactions based on embarrassment. that's never been an appropriate reason. they should get the materials while at the same time ensuring that certain material that lawfully should not be provided. things like grand jury material ongoing investigations. brian: are you the sole arbiter of what will be redacted and what would not? are you going to bring anyone to look over your shoulder to agree with it to wipe out any type of fear that you are not getting the whole story? >> right, well, look, i'm going to have, you know, a team of people working with me to make sure we do a good job here. steve: are they the same people doing it. >> some of the people will be the same but it's going to be my responsibility to make sure that i'm comfortable with the team

that's around me to get the material. ainsley: rod rosenstein who is one of robert mueller's best friends it appears that he is trying to protect people that are abusing power. what do you see and what have you seen in the last few days since you have been appointed this position? >> yeah, i haven't seen that at all. i mean, look, i am out here to do a job, you know, in the justice department. you know, we are doing very best to get this right. and i think that's one of the reasons why i'm out here. brian: lastly, john, what is the problem? it's taken months. we have only got 1,000, we need 1.2 million. you just got there a few days ago. tell everybody what the problem was. >> right. i'm still trying to identify what all of the issues are there. and as i mentioned before, 1.2 million is kind of not the right number as far as relevance. it's clear though that we can improve some of the processes along the way to streamline it a little bit more and make sure that any bottlenecks in the process move quickly. steve: could you stop by next week and just tell us you will have had a week,

figure out what the problems were and tell us the progress being made so far? >> i would be happy to talk with the folks here at the department in order to, you know, to talk with people in congress and y'all in order to make sure that we're keeping, you know, the american people up to date on what we're doing. steve: people want to know that the department of justice is just and fair and not just protecting people. ainsley: that was your lucky day when you got appointed this position. >> i mean, look, as anyone else who works for the justice department, we have a strong affinity for the justice department and we need to do a good job. brian: yeah. steve: we're counting on you. brian: john lausch, thanks. 19 minutes before the top of the hour. straight ahead. house minority whip steve scalise is going to be with us live, tell us what congress are going to be doing today and ask mark zuckerberg. jason chaffetz as well as newt gingrich. steve: protecting the border from the water's edge. more of griff's exclusive tour along the rio grande. brian: this is where they ran out of gas. >> sir, were you trying to

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jillian: good morning and welcome back. a political candidate is dragged off the stage when she refused to leave a forum that she wasn't invited to. >> i am a candidate and i have every right to be in this debate. how dare you. jillian: lee wittman rambling on stage at a debate. police desperately trying to make her stop. the democrat is running for governor of connecticut. she faces criminal charges. matthew mcconaughey with help of his mom. >> they did say you can pour your mom a glass. >> look at that i did. >> thank you very much. cheers. jillian: actor alongside his mom kay launching wild turkey long branch. it goes on sale in may. jillian: to that i say all right, all right, all right. even though i do a terrible

impression. you need to try. steve: you need your mom to help you with your whiskey. brian: i liked his brother better his brother was live in the show with a reality show. it's on your show. ainsley: i must have had too much of the bourbon that day. brian: absolutely. the section of the laredo border stretches 170 miles of the rio grande river with no border wall. ainsley: griff jenkins getting exclusive look at the mission of the river. steve: he joins us now from the u.s. side of the border, he is down in laredo, texas. griff, good morning. >> good morning, guys. as those guardsmen arrive here, they will find this one of the toughest sectors to defend and secure. because of that river and so we spent the day out there just to show you the challenges they have in getting their job done. take a look. >> every single week we get reports from our partners in

the government of mexico, gun battles, people being killed. down to the south of our border that is at the hands of the cartel. the same cartel that traffics illegal immigrants and narcotics across our borders, through this area. >> mission of the boats is to patrol the river, to make sure we have that constant presence. >> there is just tons of people. some are standing on the banks. some waving. some are fishing. how do you know who intends to come across? how do you differentiate? >> they might be there scouting, waiting for us to pass along the area, and that's when they will make the move as far as crossing either individuals or narcotics across the river. >> sir, were you trying to cross to america? we rolled up. what was happening there. >> you had two individuals that were attempting to enter illegally into the

u.s. by wading across the river. >> we had agents already up there waiting for them. that's what turned them back. >> in your estimation here, is this the boats, the land, and the sky, is that what stops people from entering? >> right. so it's a combination. you need personnel. you need the technology and then you need the infrastructure that's going to give us access. the border patrol is a mobile force. it is a 24/7 job keeping those vehicles at a high state of readiness so that our men and women can go out there and do that job. that's one of the elements of support the national guard can bring to bear. >> guys, just to give you some numbers here. last night there were 152 apprehensions. 47 get aways. 26 turn backs and seized 88 pounds of marijuana. to get perspective, we listened to about a 32nd gun battle that happened about 2:30 a.m. across that river, guys. steve: what a night. griff, question for you.

we saw the men in the water. presumably trying to get into the united states. what happens when they are picked up in the water, in international waters, essentially. are they brought into the united states catch and release or do they just say go back to your side? >> >> great question. i asked the agent on the boat with us. he said as long as they are in the water and they begin to turn back, they let them go back and they count that as a turn back. if they were to make land, if they were actually going to get on land, then they would take them into custody and start processing them. steve: gotcha. griff jenkins, great reportage down there in the rio grande and laredo. ainsley: thank you, griff. when we were down there on the border, we were also in the water when the vice president waste down there, and the mexican side, all the border patrol agents said sometimes they will just stand up there on the cliff and throw rocks at our border agents. brian: a lot of free time. steve: meanwhile, straight ahead on this wednesday, president trump lashing out

after his attorney's house and offices raided by the fbi. would the feds have done that if it was hillary clinton's lawyer? jason chaffetz says there is a double standard. you will hear him say that in about 10 minutes. brian: plus or march to the mid terms take us to ohio. can republicans flip the senate seat held by the democrats in the buckeye state? ♪ get ready, here i come ♪ oh my gosh! how are you? well watch this. i pop that in there. press brew. that's it. so rich. i love it. that's why you should be a keurig man! full-bodied. are you sure you're describing the coffee and not me? your cat can't face the misery of biting fleas alone. advantage ii monthly topical kills fleas through contact so they don't have to bite your cat to die. advantage ii. fight the misery of biting fleas.

>> all week long we have been highlighting the important races leading up to the mid terms in november, seven months away. this morning we are breaking down the senate race in ohio where republican challengers hope to unseat senator sherrod brown mainly because the president did so well there written winning the election by 8 points. real clear politics guy sean

trendy joins us. first off sherrod brown looked to be a popular person on the democratic side. do you list him as vulnerable? >> he is vulnerable. he is not as vulnerable as some of the other seats we have in places like indiana and west virginia, but he is still on our vulnerable watch list. brian: republicans have not picked his opponent yet but the president had. he liked jim renacci who was going to run for governor. he said do me a favor, jim, run for the senate seat. and he did. still going against mike begigigbones. begin bones. -- gibbons. >> we have seen lots of upsets in the republican primary. i would not write gibbons off yet. brian: even though the president won by 8 points. his approval rating in the state about 42 point. look what he has done in the last year and a half is that

going to help or hurt renacci. >> i think especially if president trump sees a continuation of the uptick of his job approval we have seen since december that would be a smart move for renacci. kind of the swing area of the state, eastern area of the state the president's trade policies play a lot better than they would elsewhere. that's certainly something renacci is going to want to warm up to. brian: couple things could happen. modernize nafta and step off the cliff with china and it looks like they might both be looking for an off ramp. so here's an example of some of the main issues. the question is brown too liberal for ohio today? has he left behind the blue collar worker like many democrats on trade brown is a long-time trade skeptic. so he kind of agrees with the president on that. and the question is, too. the president really never trailed in ohio. dolls that show a trend in the state towards republicans? what do you think? >> you know, thearls the big question that i think this race will help us answer, at

least. ohio kind of broke from tradition and substantially more republican than the country in 2016. so if brown finds himself in a dogfight, i think we are looking at a real shift in the buckeye state. brian: governor kasich is not leaving a popular governor, is he? >> he is actually doing okay in his popularity. he doesn't have as much pull in the republican primary as he would have had four years ago. brian: he didn't show up for the convention and no one cared. >> yeah. it isn't going to help renacci at all. brian: interesting case, sean trende good job. >> thank you. brian: president trump tells russia get ready missiles are coming to syria. we are not afraid of you nor are we going to back off because you warned us to. we are live at the white house on the latest of the president's tweets and imminent attack in syria. mother...nature!

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♪ >> president is tweeting this morning russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at syria. get ready, russia, because they will be coming. steve: when you heard the news that the fbi had raided michael cohen, what did you think. >> i thought this was extremely rare and extremely aggressive. >> facebook recently blocked trump supporters "diamond & silk." >> this will be the face without the book and the book with no face when we're done. ainsley: doj is under fire accused by furious gop lawmakers of stalling though documents. >> clearly we need to do a better job t was made clear to me by the attorney general we need to produce documents quickly. >> he is back. after march madness, loyola's sister jean decided invade the chicago cubs home opener. [applause]

♪ brian: right to a fox news alert. get ready russia. that is the warning from the president of the united states. he is warning of a missile strike in syria after the chemical attack saturday. steve: those images are obviously from last year. kevin corke live at the white house with the breaking news. kevin, do we know how soon this could happen? reporter: the smart move not to make sure or make sure people don't know exactly when it will happen, guys. with that said the president is telegraphing a little bit on twitter. let me take you there. he is pointing finger at not just assad regime but at russia, saying on twitter, russia, you may have read this already they are vowing to shoot down any and all missiles fired at syria. the president says, get ready, russia, they will come, nice and new and smart. you shouldn't be partners with a gas killing animal who kills his

people and enenjoys it. he added, our relationship with russia is worse now than it has ever been and that include the cold war. there is no reason for this. russia needs us to help with the economy. something would be very easy to do and we need all nations to work together. stop the arms race? u.s. responding very forcefully to the assault on syrian people by the bashar al-assad regime. more than 50 tomahawk missiles even surprised the biggest approach points in moscow -- proponents in moscow. u.n. ambassador to the u.n., nikki haley imploring the world to speak with one point against the murderous assad regime. there is list of u.s. assets i can share moving into the reason. this is when you know it is about to go down. the good news for most americans we are really hoping to be on the right side of history vis-a-vis is a the syrian

people. the bad news means we could be thrust into another hot conflict within the region. i will be here all day. any details we'll pass them along. but for now, back to you. steve: president doesn't want to say exactly when but he did tweet the missiles will be coming. bring in fox news and fox news contributor former republican congressman jason chaffetz. >> good morning. steve: seems like the right reaction from the president and pentagon, doesn't it? >> it does. overwhelming force. i have no doubt that defense secretary mattis knows how to do this. it will be done right under the direction of president trump. they made a mistake. they have gone too far. this is not a fictitious red line obama dealt with. president trump will take care and protect united states and united states forces. brian: we have to worry about what happens the day after. say four days of strikes. we don't have people on the ground that we agree with. we like the kurds. they're back to where they were in syria and iraq. so, what is our ultimate goal?

i think at some point the president has got to tell us that. >> and they need to dismantle the capability for syria to carry out these acts. i think by most military analysts i've seen and heard. they want to take out capability to launch and do more military strikes via their air force. ainsley: let's talk about the investigations going on. we say hillary clinton investigated, never indicted. now the president's attorney is getting raided. many on the right are saying this is a double standard. what are your thoughts? >> it's a total double standard. the raid itself i can't believe. remember, it was the inspector general for the intelligence community who made a referral with potential criminality to it that there was classified information being stored in a non-classified setting. that happened to be hillary clinton's attorney's office. they didn't have the requisite security clearances. it wasn't in a secure setting. what did the fbi do?

did they raid it? did they do a no knock hit on the attorney's office? no, those people cheryl mills, heather samuelson, they ended up getting immunity agreements. called up and knocked on the door and would you please give us this. over the course of time they made the transition, a totally different set of standards. and sensitive information that is so classified, even as the chairman of the oversight committee i couldn't see it because it dealt with people's lives. people could have been killed if that information was out in the open. brian: we were showing shots of michael cohen. not only has robert mueller taken a wide swath of this investigation indicting people, for lyings, not telling the truth from a dutch lawyer to a michael flynn, to paul manafort and now two people with paul manafort. they go in with a no-okay raid with michael cohen's office, four separate offices. on top of that we're finding out he decides to pick up the phone

and talk to don lemon at cnn how bizarre are the series of circumstances. what is the message with the president when your lawyer goes on, the biggest critic of your administration? >> i don't know. president trump is dealing with a lot of stuff but that is absolutely off the rails. remember the southern district of new york who got this referral, it was president trump that dismissed that person. remember the whole brouhaha. brian: preet bharara. >> yeah, preet bharara. that was the whole big uproar. we want justice to be equal under the law. it is not. that is what is i i have driving us crazy. you have to go in and clean up the department of justice. steve: jason, we had a u.s. attorney from illinois who has been tapped by the attorney general to go to the department of justice and try to get this document production thing going

fast because so few have been released. i think just a handful, you know, maybe 6,000 so far out of one million that the ig has. we had him on a little while ago. listen how he describes his job where he says we have got to do a better job getting the word out. >> clearly we need to do a better job at the department and fbi to get materials to the house committee to do their job. it was made very clear to me by the attorney general giving me this task, we're to produce documents quickly. to do so completely under the law. my job is to deal with the documents that have been responsive to the subpoena. doj are refusing to hand over anything. and of course congress they have a right and obligation to do their job which includes oversight. what our job, what my job will be to insure we have a process a better process going forward. we need to do better, we need to

do much better. steve: absolutely. mark meadows fails that as well. he is the chairman of the house freedom caucus, republican from north carolina. he tweeted this, i appreciate mr. harsh's efforts, the inspector general from the doj has all relevant documents. turn over the documents to congress. let us do our job. doj has been little of no help to congress in the investigation. i imagine, jason you feel the same way? >> i do. i'm convinced as long as attorney general sessions is there, this problem will continue. i look at sessions, attorney general lynch, attorney general holder and i can't tell the difference because these documents have been under subpoena since 2016. and for him to come on, john lausch that the department of justice is not refusing to turn over everything, they have refused to do it. they are out of compliance with a duly-issued subpoena. john lausch dust off the resume' because he will need to get a new job. anybody who is refusing to turn

over those documents, they should be held in contempt. congress needs to stand up for itself. yank up director ray and get attorney general sessions there, stephen boyd, a name you haven't heard, he worked for mr. sessions when he was in the senate, set director of legislative affairs, raise the right hand, hold them in contempt, stand up for yourself, congress. i couldn't get it done. i was chairman of the oversight committee. i issued the subpoena but if paul ryan, kevin mccarthy, steve scalise, if they're going to call themselves leadership, lead on issue. get these documents. mr. lausch went on the program, we won't turn over anything related to a grand jury. there was no grand jury. he doesn't even know this case. get those documents. they're undersubpoena and comply with it. bob goodlatte, do your job. yank them up, hold them if contempt. ainsley: why can't we get two pages, the fisa application? what is hard about that?

it is only go pages. why won't they happened that over? >> the one that does have a backbone in congress is devin nunez and devin nunez, separate case, russia, it goes to intel committee f it has nothing to do with russia, you're looking at trey gowdy, bob goodlatte, john radcliffe for the judiciary committee. two pages, twice trey gowdy gone over the department of justice. twice they have been rebeing todayed. all trey gowdy has to look at, he has necessary security clearance, to look what they redacted but they won't do it. ainsley: nunez says after today's deadlines he wants to impeach christopher wray. can that really happen? america is frustrated, we've been asking for these documents. he has been asking for the documents more than a year now, nothing's happening, is he really going to be impeached? >> he should. now will they have the pack bone and guts to do it, that is whole

another question. remember when the irs director would not turn over the document, remember when we were having problems with him, he came to congress and lied to us. we tried to impeach him. under the constitution you can impeach somebody who is civil officer. i'm glad to have devin nunez not only talking about it but willing to take action. brian: zip recruiter will find a job in one day. one of our sponsors on the radio keep in mind he does have an option. steve: jason, thanks. >> thank you. >> steve: business, busy. jillian. jillian: we're busy and starting with a fox news alert. more than 250 people were killed in a devastating plane crash in algeria. the jet carrying troops and their families going down shortly after takeoff near an aways in the african nation. no word what caused the crash. another california city joins the lawsuit against the state's sanctuary law.

the city of orange votes overnight to oppose the bill which limits local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. orange joins seven other orange county cities that opposed bill. trump administration. switching teams. the most loved nun in sports throwing out the first pitch at the cubs home opener. ♪ [cheering] jillian: 98-year-old stole hearts across america you during the ncaa tournament as her school, loyola chicago made a run to the final four. she is not really switching teams. she is cheering on chicago. steve: she had a basketball team. now a baseball team. brian: kids are in study hall. might as well watch a baseball game. steve: mark zuckerberg will be back on capitol hill for a second day on the hot seat. house majority whip steve

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♪ brian: sector of the southern border stretches 170 miles of the rio grande river with zero border wall as the national guard arrives to help secure the area. griff jenkins has an exclusive look at the mission on the river. steve: morning, give. reporter: morning, guys. the guardsmen will find one of the toughest parts to secure because of all waterfront. we went on boats yesterday to get closer look at the task they have in front of them. take a look. ♪ >> every single week we get reports from partners in the governor of mexico, bun gun bat, people being killed south of the border at hand of the cartel. the same cartel that traffics illegal immigrants and narcotics

across our borders through this area. ♪ >> the mission of the boat is to patrol the river, make sure we have that constant presence. >> there is just tons of people. some are standing on the banks. some wave. how do you know who intends to come across? how did you differentiate? >> they might be there scouting waiting us for to pass along the area, they make the move as far as crossing either individuals or maker ticks across the -- narcotics across the river. >> sir, were you trying to cross the river to america? >> we rolled up. what did you have there? >> we had individuals attempting to wade across the river. >> we had agents waiting for them. that is what turned them back. >> in your estimation, is it the boats, land and sky, is that what stops people from entering?

>> right. >> it is a combination. you need personnel. you need technology and infrastructure that will give us access. >> border patrol is a mobile force. it's a 24/7 job keeping vehicles at high state of readiness so the men and women can do the job. that is one of the elements of support the national guard can bring to bear. reporter: last night there were 152 apprehensions and seized 88 tons of marijuana. around 2:30 this morning, our cameraman and i listened to a 30-second gun battle. that cartel over there the zeta cartel has november been more desperate or more violent of the it is a real serious situation. thank goodness they're getting more manpower as guard men begin to rife. steve: griff, the guardsmen will be eyes in the sky, they won't be down on the ground apprehending anybody, right? reporter: that's right.

they will be supporting law enforcement, not doing the law enforcement although under title 32 they're authorized if the governor choose to do so. the key role is horizontal engineering and clearing roads and some of the river bank which is a paying part of the task. brian: how many more days did you pack for, how many more shirts? reporter: plenty of shirts. you recycle them from light blue, dark blue. brian: i saw that saturday. steve: you have a washing machine and a walmart. ainsley: take note of the shirt you're wearing today. don't wear it tomorrow. thank you, griff. brian: sarah sanders slam as reporter for asking this. >> with all the turmoil, particularly last year, has the president at anytime thought about stepping down. >> no, i think that is absolutely ridiculous question. brian: but then, he will step down and run for re-election. will the media ever back off the

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>> that was most absurd asinine questions asked from the white house briefing room. we knew the mainstream media news was biased. found 87% negative coverage first 100 days. only network that achieved balance in the harvard study fox news this network. that revealed evidence of political bias. you have a bunch of reporters in the briefing room, they're liberal commentators posing as reporters. ainsley: jessica, what do you think? >> i certainly didn't find it asinine. i think there is an issue with journalists having their leans come out. this is totally relevant question, what is going on with the raid of michael cohen, there is the fraud exception before we get to oh, my god, witch-hunt and totally illegal shouldn't happen. rod rosenstein signing off. trump appointee in the southern district overseeing this. the narrative for president trump is not going well. it is normal to think about what could be coming next when there is lot of talk about

impeachment. i'm not a fan of that approach, no thank you to mike pence. that is completely relevant. >> you do really. >> a really tough time in the briefing room. ainsley: jessica you think that is okay for even to think that the president would step down? >> why not? >> you think president trump thought, wow, this is not what i bargained for? he said that earlier on. this is lot tougher i thought it would be. you're the president of united states of america. ainsley: kayleigh,. >> yes exactly, there are million things you could ask sarah sanders about sub stant issues this is question no basis in truth or basis in fact that was lobbed at press secretary. that was ridiculous. boils down to the fact that the media can not stand that president trump is succeeding. they can not stand president obama couldn't achieve historically hoe unemployment. president trump has. they couldn't stand isis flourishing under the obama but under president trump they're on the run. they couldn't stand that president trump acted in syria.

they can not stand that president trump is succeeding. that is the root of it. ainsley: jessica, republican feel like they do everything they can to take the president down, hysterics for her to ask this question, she and sarah huckabee sanders they keep going back and forth that is why i laughed at beginning. she is one that said sarah huckabee sanders didn't make the pecan pie. that she was just kidding. do you think democrats will do whatever they can to take down the president. >> i don't think so. there are a lot of people on both sides of the aisle are following trail of what is going on here. if you listen to republicans all over television they are saying, you can not fire bob mueller. you can not fire rod rosenstein. these are things we know the president is mulling. he wants them desperately out of there. look at his twitter account. total witch-hunt. this is not a total witch-hunt. these are professionals who dedicated themselves in service of the united states of america doing this just because they don't like donald trump. they're republicans on top of it

all. that narrative is completely smashed. i don't think democrats can't stand all the accomplishments of these president. building great job building on obama's accomplishments, give him that in a lot of ways. i heard a giggle. what are you giggling about there. ainsley: so predictable. kayleigh, do you think it is backfiring on dem creates? >> no doubt about it. latest cnn poll, president trump gained% in approval ratings. in the rasmussen poll he breached 50%. it is backfiring, the american people i heard it out on the road, they say i didn't vote for this president but i am going to give him a chance because the media is breathlessly ped ding conspiracy theories like russian collusion. no rush collusion. it was concocted story to take down the president and obstruct the will of the american people. >> no. we don't have the mueller report

yet, so we don't know about russian collusion. if you want to talk about conspiracy theories, take a trip down roseanne bar's twitter or number of people on the right who peddle things about the seth rich theory. pizza gate. sex trafficking one showed upcoming off -- whatever. this is not a democrat problem whatsoever. ainsley: jessica, kayleigh, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, ainsley. ainsley: breaking news from capitol hill. speaker paul ryan will announce he is not run for re-election. former house speaker newt gingrich is here to react. mark zuckerberg just hours away from being back on the hot seat in capitol hill. house majority whip steve scalise will be there. what will he ask? that is coming up. >> would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night? >> no. >> i think that maybe what this is all about. your right to privacy.

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...and pretty. always discreet boutique. brian: fox news alert. here we go. this time could be for real. house speaker paul ryan may be ready to leave congress. steve: axios is reporting this morning he will not seek re-election no november. ainsley: he reportedly toll con if i daunts about the decision and will make announcement soon we're. brian: timing couldn't be worse. form speaker of the house newt gingrich. too many republicans from their perspective are leaving. is this a devastating time for the party, for him to go? >> i don't know it is devastating. paul ryan is a very talented person. he never wanted to be speaker. he is really oriented towards policy more than the challenges of running a legislative body. and i think he may well, again, this is a leak.

we don't know if it is true or not but he clearly has been thinking about leaving. he and his family might be much happier if leaves. he has a great future. he is very young. could end up running for governor and some day running for president. he has a lot ahead of him. on other hand you have people like kevin mccarthy, steve scalise, who have a big incent of it to go out elect candidates. when i left, it took about six days and they replaced me. denny hastert who replaced me. took about a week and they got john boehner. when boehner left took three days, got paul ryan. democrats don't. they keep nancy pelosi. bring her out regularly, but for the republicans we have lots of talent. either scalise or mccarthy would be a very good speaker. obviously paul is a unique person. he is a great policy person, but he has gotten deregulation.

he has gotten welfare reform with the president's statement this is week. he helped pass a big tax cut he always wanted to help pass. i think from his perspective he has gotten a lot of things done he believes in. and, if you wants to stay i think he would be a great speaker for next time. if he wants to go home, i think we'll find somebody who will be a good speaker. our job will be to beat the democrats and make sure we have a majority. >> why do you think he is stepping down? >> if he does step down i think it will be personal. i think he is exhausted. it's a great challenge trying to lead the house republicans. it is a great challenge trying to work with president trump and it is not what he wanted to do. he was drafted to be speaker. he loves policy he loves working on big ideas. trying to manage 200 and some people, take care of all the different egos, deal with the height house staff, negotiate with the senate, having done it for a living it ain't nearly as much fun as you guys think it

is. steve: one of the names you mentioned, steve scalise will be with us in eight minutes. we'll ask him about that, newt. meanwhile talk a little bit about the lead story. it does sound as if an attack on syria after their chemical attacks over the weekend, the attack is imminent. the president tweeted out a little bit ago, missiles will be coming. meanwhile russia essentially saying that if the united states strikes, that would be a war crime. where do you sit on this? >> well, i think first of all the war crime was killing children with chemical weapons which the russians have either tolerated or abetted. second, i hope that the united states will move sufficient forces into the region that the russians don't do anything foolish. the fact is if we mass our power they can't possibly compete with us in the region. we need to communicate very clearly to putin, at that if the president made the decision, that if his british and french allies made a decision to to

along with him, we'll not tolerate any russian interference. we have far more power in that area than they do and that if necessary, we'll use it. i don't think we should allow putin to have any illusion about trying to bluff us. brian: key moment, because they have had a great time flexing their muscle trying to embraer embraer -- i am. you better not bomb. this would be the first time we react with strength. >> one of the reasons i did this course on lying about defending america is i think we, americans have got to get back to a habit that we're prepared to prepare our civilization and defend our country and that means if you come up against some dictator trained by the kgb, he thinks he can bluff you want to make sure we have enough power in place that he has no hope. you don't, we don't want him to be confused. brian: yes. >> we don't want hill to think he could get away with it.

steve: newt, you mentioned the online course you have done. working people look that up. >> well they go to defending america course.com. i did it deliberately to set out a standard for explaining and understanding why america is a unique civilization. i think we're a genuine crisis where some of our schools refuse to teach american history. refuse to explain why we're an extraordinary country and defending america course dot-com lets people get the kind of material they need both to win arguments and educate their kids, to be prepared to defend america culturally, intellectually. ainsley: you talked about power. the white house is believing that the president has the power to fire special counsel robert mueller. do you think he should? >> i think the president clearly has the constitutional power to fire him. i think it would be an enormous mistake. i think he is far better off to let mueller to continue to be frustrated. the truth is mueller produced nothing about president trump

and russia. if you look what his original assignment was, it is a bust, its absurdity. instead they have gone off trying to find ways to create noise, but in terms what he was originally asked to look into, robert mueller came up with a big fat zero. and we ought to be honest about that of the president ought to relax, focus on being president. don't worry about mueller. he is going away. in the end this is going to turn out to be a great deal of noise about nothing. brian: but when you go into an attorney's office almost everybody in the legal profession say this is extraordinary. when you take his papers -- >> that is a different question. brian: but if you're going to that attorney and that attorney's protecting the president, and that attorney calls don lemon last night to talk about his innermost thoughts, you can't blame the president for being a little unnerved, if he is? >> look. but the president ought to relax. he doesn't need to be worry about unnerved. he is the p.

of the fact rod rosenstein has not done his job. he has not supervised mueller. this whole thing is absurdity. we, paul manafort and his wife in their pajamas at 3:00 in the morning, have the fbi break down the door. we have had, we have had this, last week, cohen the lawyer, had the door taken off the hinges at 6:00 in the morning. show me one occasion where out of all the different crimes committed by the clintons and their staff they ever had that kind of treatment? the fact is this is a left-wing bureaucracy at justice. it is anti-trump. it is anti-republican. people who think that the justice is blind which it is supposed to be, no, the left eye is open and what they have done, ought to lead to a real debate not just about mueller but about the whole justice department. remember, it was rosenstein who approved, apparently, going in at 6:00 in the morning. steve: right. >> there is no reason to have

done it. but i would say the same thing about manafort. how would anybody watching the show feel if you woke up 3:00 in the morning and you and your spouse were still in bed in your pajamas, armed people in your room and the united states government and they had no reason to do it. ainsley: especially when you're cooperating. >> there is no evidence. neil: tried to intimidate him to mueller or answer his questions. does this change anything, newt? what would you recommend the president do? >> i think president should be calm and go to the country. the president should demand that the justice department turn over the documents congress asked for four-month ago. the president should demand that they release the ig report on the deputy who was fired which they were supposed to do in february. the president should demand that they release the report on comey. when comey goes on the tv shows, we ought to have a list of questions for him. the objective reality is comey is off grandstanding making money, the truth he didn't do

his job in the bush administration, he colluded with schumer to embarass president bush. the truth is he appointed special counsel in the bush administration that ran wild. the truth is he failed to prosecute the people in the clinton campaign. we ought to take this as a chance to educate the country about comey and again to go back to my course on defending america, that's the whole point. we're supposed to have the rule of law. it ain't the rule of law when they kick in your door at 3:00 in the morning and you're faced with armed men and you have had no reason to be told you're going to have that kind of treatment. that is stalin. that is the gestapo in germany. that shouldn't be the american fbi. steve: if you would like to see what newt is talking about, go to defendingamericacourse.com. thanks for joining us live. >> good to be with you. brian: straight ahead, you will not believe this, this is breaking. one report in axios from is jonathan swan says house speaker

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brian: fox news alert. house speaker paul ryan may be ready to leave congress. axios says he will not seek re-election the "politico" have two sources saying that he is not running for another term. steve: axios reporting that the likely replacement might be our next guest. joins us live from the nation's capitol, ladies and gentlemen, the house majority whip steve scalise. congressman, good morning to you. >> good morning. great to be with you all. if that is true, would be that be a job you're interested in. >> which have a lot of work to do working with president trump, getting good things done for the economy. we have to make sure we have the majority. a lot of people say what they will run for next year. it becomes irrelevant if nancy pelosi is speaker of the house and clearly that is what she is intending on doing. they're raising a lot of money on their side. we need to make sure we hold the house, we need to make sure we work with president trump to get the economy back on track. good things are already happening but there is more we want to do this year. ainsley: have you heard he is stepping down? if axios knows, "politico"

knows, you certainly would know? >> there is speculation. i spoken with paul, ultimately the speaker will if i have come comments later today, that is his prerogative. he is a good friend. i think -- brian: he is addressing it? >> i think it is important he will be talking later today. in the end we have to focus on keeping this majority because we're doing the doing things we were elected to do with our economy back on track. working with president trump. i enjoyed working with president trump, we have gotten a lot done. there is more we need to get done. brian: as majority whip. saying he would speak today. he is speaking today because we have a major announcement. he will not leave early but he will not be speaker if you keep the majority. he is such a fund-raising, he fund-raising source, force, do you worry about the message with this, with the retirement like this to everybody about your optimism about keeping majority in the house?

>> paul's done an incredible job. breaking records as speaker and even with the young family, he maintained his family time on weekends, which is important to me. i focus on the same things on weekends too. you know, he has done that work and i don't see anything changing. look, the people around the country that support republicans for the house and senate and ultimately for the white house, they know what is at stake. they know what nancy pelosi would do as speaker. you can go back to 2008 what they did when they got elected. we're unraveling that obamacare and dodd-frank that wrecked our economy. there is so much more work to do. steve: one of our committees will seat mark zuckerberg in front of you from facebook. he did a lot of apologizing yesterday, saying yep, we blew it, we'll do better in the future. what is the one thing you want to know? >> where was the concern in 2012

when similar things were happening? you know what are they going to do protect privacy of the facebook users. i think that is something a lot of people when they sign up for facebook, they understand it's a free service but they are also not quite aware just how their information is being shared with others. the other is, is there a bias in terms of the news that they deliver to people? is there a bias against conservatives? some of that started coming up yesterday, but there are still a lot of questions i have, a lot of others have. i am glad mr. zuckerberg will be here and glad he acknowledged the mistakes but a lot of unanswered questions. steve: you will have five minutes. get ready for that. >> four. steve: steve scalise from statuary hall. brian: we might stalking with the next speaker. >> great to be with you. steve: we'll step outside. go outside right back in two minutes.

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