welcome home what a great moment in history unfold. >> one the men passed a state to secretary of state mike pompeo right when they walked down the steps. i'm curious to find out what that is. rob: we have to wait and see. jillian: "fox & friends" continues with our coverage right now. ainsley: straight to a fox news alert. smiles from ear to ear flashing those peace signs. this is what freedom looks like. >> yep, president trump welcoming home three american detainees overnight. really overnight. i'm talking about 3:00 in the morning, held captive in north korea. >> nobody thought we could be on this track in terms of speed. so i'm very honored to have helped the three folks. they are great people. it's a great honor. but the true honor is going to be if we have a victory in getting rid of nuclear weapons. steve: that is the goal. but the current goal, getting those three men out. he landed at andrews air force base at 2:42 this

morning. they appear to be in good health. they are now at walter reed medical center. ainsley: secretary of state mike pompeo secured their freedom second trip to meet with the rogue dictator. finalizing the upcoming historic summit between president trump and kim jong un. brian: get them out as soon as possible. victory and apparent goodwill gesture ahead of the face-to-face meeting and beginning to get details about that meetings. steve: we are. meanwhile, leland vittert has been live at joint base andrews. >> exactly. steve, brian, and ainsley. you guys are up at 3:00 a.m. all the time and happy about it. not often that the president of the united states is up at 3:00 a.m. for a reason to smile about. normally it's bad news. anything but last night. ear-to-ear smiles by the president, the first lady,

the vice president, and mrs. pence as well as they walked onto the plane to greet those three americans and then walked off with waves and smiles. one of those former prisoners in north korea saying it's like a dream. very, very happy. and after this homecoming ceremony, they headed to walter reed medical center for a physical checkup. also, to deal with sort of the emotional trauma of more than a year in captivity in north korea. one of the detainees saying that he had been forced to do a lot of labor while he was there. the president on the tarmac taking a moment to remember a north korean prisoner who came home in a very, very different situation. >> very important thing to all of us to be able to get these three great people out. i must tell you i want to pay my warmest respects to the parents of otto warmbier

who is a great, young man who really suffered. >> secretary of state pompeo has been in the air and on the road now since monday night. still, he spent about 20 minutes inside the terminal at andrews air force base briefing the president and vice president on his trip. and now begins the strategy sessions to figure out exactly how the administration wants to play their meeting with kim jong un coming up early next month. guys, back to you. steve: all right. lee land vittert live at joint base andrews. thank you very much. it does sound as if that summit according to our own john roberts in singapore. the president said overnight it's going to be in the next couple of weeks. >> ainsley: it's unhistoric. it's unbelievable. a positive step towards reducing tensions on the korean peninsula according to kim jong un. that is what he said on heir

their state news television unbelievable. very historic and lead to a good future. brian brian i think the president has done a remarkably good job how measured he has been about expectations for the summit. how he has kept it quiet about the three coming out. he acknowledged moved to a hotel. acknowledged that was one of his things. never made a statement these three have to get out or else there will be no summit. he keeps saying this is what we hope for we like these signs but i'm not promising anything because if it's not going to go the way he wants he's going to get up and leave. that's the perfect way to set the table for consequential negotiation. steve: a fenegotiation.steve feu probably up. the welcoming event three men held in north korea for over a year. was very trumpian. behind that airplane that traveled from anchorage to joint base andrews just outside of washington, d.c., there's a gigantic, an oversized american flag

stretched between two fire trucks never seen that before. half of the press corps in washington, d.c. was awake. when was the last time the president of the united states himself actually went out to joint base andrews in the middle of the night to meet somebody who had taken a red eye? brian: how about this, with his wife. out of all the gigs, can i sleep through this one? but, no, she is ready to go at 3:00 in the morning. someone is going to need a nap later. ainsley: i know. he has a rally tonight at 7:00. they boarded the plane and went on. came out at 3:00 in the morning. can you see they walked down the stairs and they met the vice president, the second lady and secretary pompeo on the tarmac. steve: we saw in that little shaking of hands there at the bottom of the stairs, we saw one of the guys give mike pompeo a note. i want to hear what that note said. ainsley: and a hug. steve: let's watch right here. you can just tell by the looks on their faces how

unbelievably happy they are. then they walked over to the press. they talked for seven minutes. the president did most of the talking and here's what they said. >> my proudest achievement will be, this is a part of it, will be when we denuclearize that entire peninsula. this is what people have been waiting for for a linger time. nobody thought we could be on this track in terms of speed. so, i'm very honored to have helped the three folks. the true honorable is going to be if we have a victory getting rid of victims. we appreciate he allowed them to go before the meeting. it was sort of understood that we would be able to get these three terrific people during the meeting and bring them home after the meeting. we are starting off on a new footing. this is a wonderful thing that he released the folks early. that was big thing. very important to me. and i really think we have a very good chance of doing

something very meaningful. and if anybody would have said that five years ago, 10 years ago, even a year ago, you would have said that's not possible. so, a lot -- i will say this. a lot of very good things have happened. brian: you know what's pretty amazing too, how shocked must these three are been when they said they have virtually been shut out of the real world. what's donald trump doing here? wait a second? where is hillary clinton? ainsley: i used to watch him on tv. who is he? is he president now? brian: the most important thing the president said not to forget the warmbiers, otto warmbier did not come back in any condition he died three days later. the president is not forgetting that lower your expectations. number two, i will not forget who these people are and what they did to the warmbiers. ainsley: you wonder why did they do that to him and these three seem to be in

good health. one of the three did hard labor when he was sick they treated him. i talked to the warmbier family yesterday and said we were thinking of them and otto was on our minds a when we learned during this show the three were coming home. he said we are happy for the hostages and their families. we miss otto. steve: i know why the president had went out in the middle of the night, he worked hard to get those three sprung. he wanted to be there and shake their hands. the president on the last two minutes on his official twitter account has released 32 seconds, the length of a tv ad. kind of looks like a tv ad of what went on a little bit behind the scenes on that airplane and they came down the stairs. we are just ingesting that into our system. gavin the producer is telling us we may have it now. we are going to run it for you. here it is. listen. there is sound on it. that's a little music i'm

told. there is that flag. ainsley: this is the video that the white house staff edited together and put on his twitter page. steve: that's the last 10 seconds of it right there. brian: whole thing what the president has accomplished so far getting out of iran deal something he has done. seen ramifications from it positive israel taking action against the spread of iranian influence. we also talk about the president's foreign policy achievement with north korea name a his an place and time. jerusalem embassy is opening opening. doing it all at once very unusual for any administration. ainsley: yesterday morning his supporters were celebrating the fact that he pulled out of the iranian deal because that's what he ran on. then they started celebrating the release of these three. then they started celebrating the fact that he is going to sit down with kim jong un and we know the location. not the date and the time

yet. steve: obviously he has a foreign policy team on board they are all on the same page. they are getting so much done. here is dr. sebastian gorka putting it all into perspective. >> the president and secretary pompeo with this one act have done more for america than obama and his whole cabinet did in eight years. no more appeasement. no more middle of the night pallets of currency being ships to our enemies. what did we pay for these three americans to come home, sean? nothing. we dealt with a dictator as you should deal with all dictators. no appeasement. walk softly and carry a very big stick or aircraft carrier battle group. that's how you get things done. it is a new day for america and this is a message for all dictatorships. brian: it's not over. you don't know how this is going to turn.

remember what john bolton said. if you want to know what a north korean leader is lying, watch when their lips are moving. steve: because they're always lying. brian bine we have been down this road before. later we will have jay on who looked over the previous summits from jfk to reagan. there is little things that can happen and little challenge take place. there is no necessary script here. but my sense is japan is on board. south korea is on board and china is on board. there has been a series of meetings to set it up to mean something. it will be beginning of a series of confidence measures, measuring sticks along the way from both sides. steve: think about the fact president xi met with kim jong un just last week. some have suggested kim jong un going to china as kind of a dry run for whatever is going to happen the next couple of weeks in singapore. the president of the united states is quoted as saying all the other people who have had this desk in the oval office, they have been too predictable. i'm unpredictable. that's one of the reasons waived nobody knows what i'm

going to do regarding what we're going to settle for in north korea. ainsley: we know singapore. we know june. has the president announced when he's going to tell us? steve: he said in the next couple weeks he said overnight. that will be interesting to see. apparently the white house staff has been told get ready for a trip to singapore. that's a pretty good indication. brian: looks like the dmz is out. ainsley: i thought they needed to be on a more neutral site. steve: other thing though is there are not enough hotel rooms for the thousands of journalism, press and security people. brian: need a motel six. steve: or pup tents. brian: should be able to get pup tents. steve: historic day and other images coming in. gina haspel firing back at democrats grilling her about her cia past. >> i don't believe that torture works. valuable information was obtained from senior al qaeda operatives that allowed us to defend this country and prevent another

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and visit myrbetriq.com to learn more. >> i don't believe that torture works. i believe as many people, directors who have sat in this chair before me, that valuable information was obtained from senior al qaeda operatives that allowed us to defend this country and prevent another attack. brian: gina haspel fighting back against democrats who used her first confirmation hearing for cia director to smear her as advocate for enhanced interrogation. what many of them failed to mention was her more than 30 years of experience and service with the cia. former cia station chief daniel hough map was asked by the cia to be at the hearing yesterday. he joins us now with his reaction. we know it was all about enhanced interrogation and that's fine. daniel, you said they missed an opportunity, all those senators, republicans and democrats. what was that opportunity? >> this was an opportunity to address key issues of

interest to the american public. there were no questions about terminating the iran nuclear deal. there were no questions about the upcoming summit between the president and kim jong un and for the democrats, in particular, who are so focused on the russia investigation, no questions about gina haspel's views of the russia threat of which she is really an expert, a substantive expert. brian: john mccain has weighed in and said she is a great patriot. i won't support her because she won't disavow the enhanced interrogation program. i also sense she does not believe it's torture. she didn't want to get into it then. what's your thoughts? >> neither i do. john mccain is a great patriot. i don't begrudge him his views. i do believe it's important to distinguish between our program and the torture to which senator mccain was subjected, the means, the motives and results of our program were entirely different. brian: every living cia director endorsed her. john brennan got through to her. we will play a montage

later. he was higher up than she was. and he got okayed. here's a little of the back and forth on the interrogation program with gina haspel yesterday. >> i would never ever take cia back to an interrogation program. first of all, cia follows the law. we followed the law then. we follow the law today. i support the law. i wouldn't support a change in the law. brian: and she also knows, but she doesn't want to say i imagine like jose rodriguez says. it worked. >> right. it did. we know that it worked. that's the uncomfortable fact for those who oppose the program. i would say as well senator cotton he will quepghtly exposed what would be a double standard. if gina haspel is not confirmed as john brennan was then she would be treated unfairly. brian: unbelievable. what is the feeling inside the cia in langley about the chance of her getting this

job? >> you know, i have talked to some friends, some retired colleagues and others as well. just a feeling of pride. one of our colleagues has risen from -- someone who started at the agency 33 years ago and now being considered and hopefully will be confirmed as director of cia. we know gina well. she has exceptional leadership aptitude for hard languages and the substance of our work. intellectual honesty and integrity. i just hope the congress does the right thing and confirms her. brian: we know camilla haste is out. king is out. also looks like john mccain is out and rand paul is out. joe manchin, one democrat who has stepped up and maybe senator from virginia as well. thank you very much, dan, appreciate it. >> thank you. brian: all right. straight ahead. they are here illegally, so should they get a break to go to college? california taking the nanny state to a whole new level. facing every new homeowner to get solar panels. will that move back fire?

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on the u.s./mexico border. that national guard support has led to over 1600 arrests. 451 voluntary returns and the seizure of 1,000 pounds of marijuana. ainsley? ainsley: okay. thank you, jillian. people who li in new houses in california will soon be forced to conservative energy and get solar panels on their homes. that means it's going to cost the homeowners an extra $10,000 during the construction process. but aren't housing costs in california already sky high? here to weigh in is the host of the mike slater show mike slater himself. hey, mike. >> good morning, ainsley, how are you? >> i'm great, thank you. this is your state. you live in california super early out there. thanks for getting up for us. >> of course. ainsley: what was your reaction to this? >> as you said california already has incredible problem with housing costs. in san diego county the average house is $540,000. it is nearly impossible to live here as it is. also impossible to watch hgtv to get mad people are

buying houses in waco in $80,000 and can't even renovate a bathroom for that in california. this is only going to make it worse. you said $10,000 for no systems. with the government involved it will be 20,000 if not even more. that only hurts lower income and middle income families who just want to buy a house and it's so hard. right now, in california, 40% of the price of a new house is regulations. that's before a shovel even goes in the ground. 40% is regulations. and now we are adding more to it? come on. ainsley: you have to have a lot of money to live in your state that's why a lot of people are moving to texas where you don't have to pay state taxes. this goes into effect in 2020. what are residents out there saying? the board voted unanimously for this. all the lawmakers like it that voted on this. what about the residents? you live in a more conservative area. you are in san diego. >> it was very pro-environmentalist state which is weird because solar panels aren't very good for the environment either.

i don't know where people think they come from or what they are made out of. they are made out of rare earth metals mostly from china and not exactly great stewards of the environment as they dig these things out of the ground anyway. your listens are not going to believe this. one of the problems with solar panels is we can't store the energy that's made. so it creates these big surges in the middle of the day that we can't use. so we actually call our neighboring states hey guys we have this extra electricity, will you buy it from us? they are not like, we don't really want it okay we will give you the extra electricity. no, we don't want it. we pay neighboring states to take our excess solar electricity because we can't use it so we literally pay other states to take it and here we are mandating that we make more power from solar. it makes no sense whatsoever. ainsley: everyone, of course, wants clean energy. we all want what's best for the environment. the question is do they work like you said?

the solar panels are they really good for the environment? and how much money are people going to save from this? you put a lot of money upfront. do you know the answer to that? >> listen, i'm all for the free market and one of the sponsors of our radio show is a solar panel company. i'm all for it if you want to do it and that's the great thing about a free country. if you want to put solar panels on your house free to do it. some houses it's not a good idea. the angle of the roof maybe there is trees nearby or doesn't add up for everybody. so to mandate it, that's never a good idea from the government. and it's going to be another failure here, i'm sure. ainsley: you have to cut down trees to put up your solar panels, right? you have to pay more than 10,000, you say, to put up solar panels. they are mandating that sanctuary state so paying for illegal immigrants. very expensive to live in california. hohow are people doing it? >> as if everything else is solved, right, anxiously? no other issues here no. sanctuary state issues. no water issues. no crime issues.

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steve: very nice. brian: that was turned around pretty quick that happened at 3 in the morning eastern time and that was quickly recapped for you in an ad that's now out union line. steve: a 30 second twitter spot from the president. three hostages walking down and stepping foot on american soil. they walked off the plane and gave the peace sign. steve: rich edson is live at the state department with details on the meeting and he joins us with the very latest. hey, rich. >> good morning, steve, ainsley and brian. secretary of state mike pompeo also returned from north korea. he says he spent about 13 hours on the ground in pyongyang including 0 minute meeting with kim jong un. of course, he secured the release of the three detained americans. but he also helped finalize some of the details for the meeting between president trump and kim jong un. and as the president welcomed home the former american prisoners, he

mentioned that many of the details are now set. >> we have the location set and we will see if we can do something that people did not think was going to happen for many, many years. >> pompeo says the u.s. and north korea have agreed on a one-day summit with the option of a second day. senior administration official says this trip was designed to settle on a country, a city and a specific venue. white house team is reporting movement towards singapore in early june. now the defense secretary says he is hopeful for a positive outcome. >> north korea their capability concerns us on the military side. however, we see there is some reason for optimism. we said all along this was a diplomatically led effort backed up by military force. i think there is reason for some optimism that these talks could be fruitful. flrg. >> there are still plenty of

unknowns how much north korea is actually willing to surrender of weapons program and whether it would submit to sanctions and what the allies are willing to give in turn as the u.s. has a substantial military presence in south korea. guys, back to you. steve: all right, rich edson there at foggy bottom. thank you very much for the live shot. brian: a lot of people are saying how were they treated? i thought this was a telling statement through the translator. how were we treated? we were treated many different ways. for me i had to do at love labor. when i was sick i was also treated by them. ainsley: you look at otto warmbier why was he treated the way he was? yesterday the "new york times" had a headline it said at a key moment trump's top diplomat talking about mike pompeo is, again, thousands of miles away. steve: right. keep in mind the reason they had that story is when the president announced that there would be a summit with kim jong un, rex tillerson was thousands of miles away rex tillerson is being marginalized and irrelevant.

and then with the president pulled out of the iran deal, the iran nuke deal where is mike pompeo? he is awol. well, he had a good excuse. he was going to north korea. here is the president. >> i think ourselves, despite the fact that the "new york times" said he was missing he was in north korea. but i think ourselves has done a fantastic job. they couldn't find him because he was in north korea. brian: i don't even think most people reading the "new york times" or what their opinion is which is supposed to be a news column. i would bring this up, too. this president is taking on five things at one time. he is in the middle of a trade deal trying to rebalance us us with europe and china. after a lot of negotiation, a year and a half, i'm going to pull out of iran. when it comes to what's happening with north korea, preparing for a summit and getting the hostages out as well as talking about a phase 2 tax reform. he is doing nine things. that's just the way it's

gonna be for the next two, maybe six years. steve: look, the "new york times" was trying to say look, at the time that the president had pulled out of the iran deal north korean leaders who needed to get ahold of him at the state department, they actually have phones on the president's plane, on the secretary of state's plane. sometimes they don't work but generally they can get the message through. it came on the same day though that the president tweeted out about the lousy coverage that he has gotten by 91% of the mainstream media. ainsley: to your point, brian, the headlines started out at a key moment trump's top diplomat is 1,000 miles away. he wasn't present for this key moment. but he was present for that key moment because there is a key moment. yesterday we saw three or four different key moments all at once. brian: rex tillerson. he is referring to the fact rex tillerson out o out out of sync. steve and i are dressed in the shade of blue. we have blue in our color spiral. it seems as though the

producers have decided to put the back drop like ainsley's dress. am i wrong to be bothered by that. jillian: you can bothered by whatever you want. steve: i didn't notice. brian: matching ainsley's background. ainsley: the show for once, briajillian, is not about brian. brian thinks it needs to be red to match brian. ainsley: we're changing the name of the show it's brian kilmeade and friends. steve: perhaps this is why television used to be in black and white. jillian: would you prefer that brian? ainsley: that's where brian's career started. brian: wow. ouch. jillian: let's move on. they are still going. i will tell you about this incredible story the hero pilot who landed that southwest plane after the engine blew up is now speaking out tammie jo shults who many said is a hero relied on military background to get the packed

plane safely on the ground. >> my first thoughts were actually here we go. just because it seemed like a flashback to some of the navy flying that we had done. we had to use hand signals because it was loud. and there was -- it was just hard to communicate for a lot of different reasons. ainsley: incredible woman. the entire crew honored by president trump at the white house. one woman did die on that flight after being nearly sucked out of a shattered window. illegal immigrants can now get college financial aid in new jersey. democratic governor phil murphy signing a new bill to help dreamers. to qualify students must have graduated from a high school in the state. undocumented students already get instate tuition in new jersey. critics say it's wrong for the taxpayers. just come to your tv and just watch this. it's not every day that you spot a bear out for ice cream. that's 1-year-old berkeley leaning out of the window of a pickup licking ice cream

at dairy queen drive-thru. while you may think this is hilarious. wild life officials in canada are not laughing. they have charged berkeley's home the discovery wildlife park for taking the animal out. i see the background is now blue. brian, you can rest easy, my friend. it's all about brian again. brian: and steve. ainsley: where was the driver of that car? steve: good question. brian: there are a lot of questions. ainsley: there are first it helped illegal immigrants get in and now one university is training its students to protect them. an outraged student is going to join us live. brian: plus, just how independent are those quote, unquote independent prosecutors handling the probe. judge napolitano walking up the stairs. he couldn't get here in time so he has to walk in live on camera ♪ feeling like a little kid ♪ i'm still standing ♪ after all this time ♪ picking up the pieces of

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brian: sweet mess when a tanker truck filled with chocolate overturns. [laughter] ainsley: yum. brian: 12 tons of polish highway i was going to say polish. the truck. ainsley: five second rule. you could lick it off the street. brian: clean up crews had to use hot water to melt it off the road. the search is on to find the thirsty thief struggling to stay away. catching him stealing a cart full of energy drinks. mocking him online stealing can be exhausting which is probably why this guy can't stop yawning and why he has nearly $250 worth of stolen

red bull in his cart. we will following that story wherever it leads us. [laughter] ainsley: can't make it up. we have been telling you about that judge in paul manafort's case accusing prosecutors of gunning for president trump's impeachment and questioning mueller's authority. steve: judge napolitano now pointing out a troubling question how independent are these so-called independent prosecutors handling the probe? the answer is. >> good morning, guys. the answer is they do have a measure of independence as do all prosecutors. so, think about this. when judge ellis said the other day look, we all know why you are prosecuting paul manafort for financial crimes that, according to you, the indictment, began and ended before donald trump even ran for president. you want to squeeze manafort to testify against the president. that is repellant but that is the process that the federal government uses in every courthouse in nearly every prosecution almost every day. so, if judge ellis throws out the indictment, because

he finds that mueller does not have the legal authority to go after something manafort did 10 years ago with his bank, what will happen? the local federal prosecutors in alexandria, virginia will get another indictment and will prosecute manafort for the same crime. so, there really will be very little change. it will mean not that manafort can't be prosecuted, but that mueller can't do the prosecuting. because, prosecutors have an ethical duty. if they see evidence of crime, and it's provable, they have to pursue it. brian: would have you said something similar? judge: if i were on the bench? brian: if that were you. judge: who cares what the judge thinks is what my attitude would be. i have argued that prosecuting somebody like they did to mike flynn, squeezing him, reducing his jail exposure so he will say what you want him to say is a form of bribery. i have been arguing that for years. i am in the distinct minority in the legal and judicial community. the courts have said this is fine. if defense counsel gave a

witness so much as a lollipop, the lawyer and the witness would be indicted for bribely. ainsley: judge, is he in trouble tore something on his taxes 10 years ago. don't they say taxes 3 years, 7 years, can they go back that far? >> yes, the argument was it was a continuing series of acts. the most recent of which occurred before the statute of limitations applied. only one of the two trials against manafort. he has another one for similar behavior in washington, d.c. he was indicted by another grand jury. judge ellis is quite correct. they are putting extraordinary pressure on him because they want him to flip and become a star witness the way his partner rick gates did. steve: right. meanwhile congress has got oversight authority over, you know, because it's a coequal branch of government over, for instance, the oversight committee and intel over the fbi. >> right. steve: they have been looking into what the fbi did before the mueller probe. we understand apparently devin nunes who has suggested perhaps the attorney general could be

held in contempt of congress and trey gowdy are going to go to the department of justice today to look at some secret documents that they won't show all of congress. >> the two of them. they have top secret security clearances so they can see these things. the question is will they use them for law enforcement and intelligence purposes or will they use them for political purposes? it is dangerous -- i've been saying this for a long time, for politicians, even with security clearances, to examine raw intelligence data and use it for political narrative. that keeps intel people from wanting to reveal what they have found because they don't want their names and their methods to be out there. steve: doesn't congress have investigators as well. >> yes, it does. steve: we need that piece to figure it out. >> congress' investigators are usually retired or former cia, fbi, secret service, so they know exactly what they're doing. but they have a law that requires them to protect the names of sources and protect the means that the sources

use. otherwise, the source of the source contact in a foreign country gone. steve: gotcha. >> all the best, guys. you can see i got the same memo kilmeade did. i love the background particularly when it complies with ainsley. brian: there you go. >> love you, brian. [laughter] ainsley: that is so awesome. how do you do that? brian: brian you know what? it's a secret. president woodrow wilson coming up next. steve: stepping aside. coming up in color and black and white. brian: i will being black and white the rest of show. ainsley: you are so dull, brian. number one sleep doctor recommended remfresh-your nightly sleep companion. available in the natural sleep section at walmart. bp's natural gas teams use smart app technology to share data from any well instantly.

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new jersey helping illegal immigrants once again. first they hosted a college fair just to help illegals get into rutgers. now there is a new program to teach students how to help illegal immigrants. a number of rutgers administrators expressing their approval. one of them saying, quote: trainings like these are important to start conversations about how to begin supporting undocumented students. the training should be mandatory a correspondent with campus reform.org and student at rutgers he joins us right now. what do you think? >> honestly i'm frustrated but not surprised. this is really the latest episode in a long series of rutgers privileging illegal aliens over natural born citizens and legal immigrants like myself i came here in 1999 from israel. my whole family we got 2012. went from l 1 to h 1 b to green card. we went through the process legally and, you know, these

people are going around the system and it's really not fair. steve: sure, i live in new jersey. i'm a new jersey taxpayer so obviously i'm subsidizing what they are doing out there. it was interesting for me though to look up and as it turns out if you lived in new jersey as an illegal student in high school for more than three years, you qualify for in state television. >> yeah. steve: at rutgers while other people in the country legally. >> international students won't qualify. these people aren't even in country let alone in state they are getting instate tuition and financial aid. >> what do you think the message by rutgers and one faculty member saying this should be mandatory. >> this is a worrying trend college campuses nationwide. especially the leadership institute's campus reform.org has really reported extensively on this. just like colleges

privileging illegal aliens in these programs diverting public resources for them. providing scholarship money or whatever. it's a worrying trepsd that colleges are sort of enforcing this lack of respect for the rule of law. and that's really what's the case here is that they are not respecting the rule of law. yeah. that's it. steve: well, it's interesting. new jersey is the fifth most physically burdened state by illegals, costing $4.5 billion a year. >> that's right. that's a lot of money. steve: not mandatory yet but could be. stay tuned. >> they are saying they want it to be. steve: thank you for young joining us live. >> thank you for having me. steve: more on top story this morning. three american hostages back on american soil. our team coverage continues in a couple of minutes. >> this is a special night for these three really great people and congratulations on being in this country. thank you.

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brian: president trump welcoming home three american detainees held captive in north korea. >> these are great people. they have been through a lot. it's a great honor. >> iranian forces have fired about 20 rockets from syria into the golan heights area. target apparently the israeli military. >> this action further demonstration that the iranian regime cannot be trusted. >> i would advise iran not to start their nuclear program. if they do there will be very severe consequence. brian: gina haspel fighting back against democrats who used first hearing to smear her as an advocate for enhance the interrogation. >> i would never take the cia back to interrogation program. i stepped up. i was not on the sideline. i was in the front lines in the fight against al qaeda. >> congratulations on being in this country.

steve: this is a fox news alert. 7:00 in washington, d.c. and this is what freedom looks like. president trump welcoming three american detainees home overnight. exactly four hours ago. >> nobody thought we could be on this track in terms of speed. so, i'm very honored to have helped the three folks. they are great people. it's a great honor. but the great -- the true honor is going to be if we have a victory in getting rid of nuclear weapons. ainsley: home, sweet home. while you were sleeping the men landing at joint base andrews. brian: bringing them back home and leland vittert is with us right now. leland was reporting through the night with the great ed henry. leland, so the sun is up. you are still up. what can you tell us about the arrival? >> steve, brian, ainsley, it is not often that the

president of the united states is up at 3:00 a.m. for a happy reason. but he certainly was overnight. and you can really see these ear-to-ear smiles. not only on the president but also, of course, on the men who he greeted. this is the very first video we are getting from the president's twitter account of him going onto the air force plane that brought them back all the way across the pacific from japan to anchorage, alaska and then here to joint base andrews. he went on the plane, said hello to them. brought them down. a lot of hand shakes, a lot of smiles. few peace signs. cheers from the gathered members of the air force there. they talked to the media very briefly. one detainee said it was like a dream being home. said that while he was in north korea he was forced to do at love hard labor. to that end, the detainees were put on a bus and taken right to walter reed medical center it appeared as though physically they were doing pretty well. the big question is sort of

what emotional state they are in. that's something that the psychologist at walter reed are going to start dealing with. sort of reimmersing them back american culture and begin debriefing them from their experience in north korea. president trump clearly made bringing these three men home a priority. especially after seeing what happened to another american inside north korea. >> it was a very important thing to all of us to be able to get these three great people out. and i must tell you i want to pay my warmest respects to the parents of otto warmbier who is a great young man who really suffered. >> at joint base andrews, you had the president, the vice president, the secretary of state huddling for about 20 minutes debriefing the secretary of state's meeting with kim jong un. and now, guys, gibbs the strategy sessions for how

that summit will happen next month. back to you guys. brian: thanks so much. and, again, great job overnight. because you had no idea what was going to be happening next and you guys filled it great. i thought it was interesting what happened before they got on the plane. evidently it's a 12-hour visit for the secretary of state. at which time he had a 90 minute visit with kim jong un. this is his second one in a matter of weeks. this is pretty significant. they are making big gains. you never know, in the past, we have sent over former presidents and important people like bill richardson and bill clinton. didn't know if you were coming back with the hostages. could have been humiliating experience for us. ainsley: y'all were sleeping in the middle of the night. i woke up this morning and immediately went to the tv. it was a little after:00. i knew these images would be all over the tv. look at that it's amazing. after interviewing warmbier's parents and you all saw that interview on "fox & friends." to know what he went through and see these three americans. we all needed to see it for

ourselves that they were in good health and hold up the peace sign. that's the american pastor. steve: other two are educators involved in universities over there. they were all held for spying on north korea or stealing state secrets and hostile acts against north korea. nonetheless, this is setting the table for the president, probably sitting down with kim jong un in singapore in the next couple of weeks. and his ultimate goal? well, we found that out last night. at about 3:10 in the morning when he walked over with those three men and talked to the media for seven minutes and 10 seconds. >> my proudest achievement will be this is a part of it, but will be when we denuclearize that entire peninsula. this is what people have been waiting for for a long time. nobody thought we could be on this track in terms of speed. so, i'm very honored to have helped the three folks. the true honor is going to be if we have a victory in

getting rid of nuclear weapons. we very much appreciate that he allowed them to go before the meeting. it was sort of understood that we would be able to get these three terrific people during the meeting and bring them home after the meeting. we're starting off on a new footing. this is a wonderful thing that he released the folks early. that was a big thing. very important to me. and i really think we have a very good chance of doing something very meaningful. and if anybody would have said that five years ago, 10 years ago, even a year ago. you would have said that's not possible. so, a lot -- i will say this. a lot of very good things have happened. steve: no kidding. brian: so measured for a president that sometimes could get ahead of himself or feel freewheeling. with this he has been so buttoned up. i'm not raising anyone's expectations. i'm encouraged what i see. if it goes wrong i will pull

back. if he does have to pull back, no one will say wow, look at you, you failed. no being look at me i tried. and we're going to go back. ainsley: it happened so quickly. i feel like the president just started negotiating that summit with kim jong un. so what was it that made kim jong un release these kids we were all surprised or former vice president dick cheney. steve: former vice president. that's an interesting point, ainsley in the past used detainees as bargaining chips. they released them as of 3:00 this morning back here in the united states of america mainland. so what's come forward? here's the former vice president dick cheney himself. >> well, if had you told me this is going to happen, i would have been surprised. i would not have expected it could happen. so i'm pleased that it has.

i think it offers of possibility of significant progress. i think we have to be very careful and i think the president is being very careful to go operate in a way that we don't get sort of hung out to dry. if they don't meet our standards, then i would walk. steve: what's interesting is when i look back at the president's first term, you know, he brought in a lot of outsiders as his national security team and he did pretty much exactly what they said. he added troops in afghanistan. he delayed out plans to move the israeli embassy and then he hung on to the iranian nuke deal. now he has got a new foreign policy team in there with pompeo and also bolton and he is going more with his gut. because is he essentially trying to get global leaders to do what other presidents previously have been unable to do and that's where we are right now. brian: yeah. the next big thing we're going to be talking about is the whole standoff with china. they are sending somebody here now on trade. two weeks last week we were in china.

trying to work something out. that's his other thing that everyone said don't start a trade war. he said i'm not. trade imbalance has got to change. steve: hinelsd the scenes president xi was sitting down with mr. kim jong un last week, you know, it's part of that maximum pressure thing where that probably had a lot to do with the release of those three men overnight. brian: other drama that took place yesterday was on capitol hill where gina haspel put her best foot forward to be the next cia director. maybe the most qualified nominee we have ever seen in our lifetime. yet, there was push back obviously over the enhanced interrogation. as was pointed out earlier in the show they didn't bring up russia and didn't bring up iran and the challenges of china and militarizing the south china sea. it was all about what happened in 2003. and many of the lawmakers then were the same lawmakers questioning now. ainsley: keep in mind back in 2013, when john brennan was sitting in that seat and he was being questioned by same senators, he was her boss at the time. brian: number 4 overall at the cia. ainsley: that's right.

the questions they posed to him in 2013, totally different than the questions that they posed to her. those three senators that questioned both of them, watch the difference. >> i think it is also important, these will be questions that i will be asking as well to ensure while we look at the programs of the cia that these programs effectiveness be measured objectively and not simply by those who are charged with implementing them. >> many people and i include myself in that number, have questions about the message the senate would be sending by confirming someone for this position who served as the a supervisor in the counter terrorism center during the time of rendition, detention, and interrogation programs. >> it's incredibly important for the cia to be as open -- to be totally open with this committee. the reason is that there is no one else watching. typically in this -- in our country, we have the public

is involved. the press is involved. was it a matter of coincidence that you -- that this decision was made to destroy the tapes in the same week that two major stories appeared in american newspapers to a great deal of public interest just that week in the whole interrogation question. >> mr. brennan is without a doubt qualified for this position. he served at the cia for 25 years. analytic operational and managerial capacities. you are very unique. you have 30 years of under cover experience. accordingly, we asked the agency that your records be declassified. i think i signed three letters in that regard. to make an informed decision. steve: ultimately brennan was confirmed and some of the senators who were there then and are still there, he was confirmed by senator warner, senator feinstein, heinrich, collins, king, burr, manchin, wyden and

rubio. how many of them will be voting for her given the fact that they gave her boss, who is in charge of waterboarding and enhanced interrogation the thumbs up a couple years ago? brian: i thought she was great. i thought she was strong. while she was also proud of what she accomplished and keeping america safe and stopping the next attack that goes forward, bottom line is she does not consider enhanced interrogation torture. number two is it worked. you don't get bin laden without it most of these senators know it they felt they didn't stop it when they were there like senator feinstein who has been there for ages. now all of a sudden she comes out and she has questions about. ainsley: you are talking about what happened with ksm. they did do the enhanced interrogation on ksm when that was legal. that led us to the courier talking to bin laden. we followed that courier and got bin laden as a result. steve: ainsley, you made a great point right there. that was everything that she did at that point was.

ainsley: she said i followed orders. steve: look, they changed the rules. congress changed their, you know, interpretation of what enhanced interrogation should be and what torture is. but, back when they did it, keep in mind, when you go back to the -- immediately after 9/11 mind set, you know, anthrax came into this building. people in the united states of america were just waiting for the other shoe to drop. and they were doing the patriots at the cia and all the operatives around the world were doing everything they could to stop another attack and that was her job. brian: how do you think danny pearl's family feels about ksm getting waterboarded? do you think they bleed for them because their son's head was cut off by that guy. ainsley: she was very calm and collected. her dad was in the military and served in the air force i think she said for 33 years. she is a military daughter. she said she learned discipline from her dad. she would be the first female cia director which would be amazing. brian: manchin is in and mccain is out.

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a problem or recognize this crime, i'm asking you to pick one of your loved ones and kill them for no reason and then maybe you will have a little bit of an idea of walking in my shoes. steve: that was california resident don rosenberg. his 25-year-old son drew was killed by illegal back in 010. he was in the room this week when santa clarita became the first city in l.a. county to join a federal lawsuit breaking away from california's sanctuary law. don rosenberg joins us right now from l.a. good morning to you. >> thank you, steve. good morning. steve: you bet. over on the wall, we have got the communities that are opposing the state wants s.b. 54. something is going on in california, isn't it? >> yeah. it absolutely is. i mean, it's like california brush fire. you've got people realizing what was passed last year is a law and how ridiculous it

is. not only do you have all these cities. but three weeks ago i filed an initiative. the children, family and community protection act which would overturn the sanctuary state law and would require law enforcement to cooperate with the federal government and ice. steve: sure. of course, the very core argument about sanctuary cities is those policies are needed to get illegals to cooperate with the police locally to report crime. but we have experts on this program, don, who have said that's not true. >> yeah. it's ridiculous to say that. there is no evidence to back it up, number one. and even if they report crime, california, in so many cases california law now these people are back out on the streets. steve: right. >> i don't believe they are afraid to call. if they are, it's probably

the retribution they are going to get from the person that they ratted on. you know, we had a case here right when they were debating the sanctuary law. steve: right. >> where a woman called domestic violence case. they arrested the guy. ice wanted to deport him. steve: right. >> they let him out and he murdered her. steve: it's a terrible story. real briefly and quickly your exit question. what should sacramento take from what's going on in southern california right now? >> well, i think they should realize that the public is starting to learn what they did and they're not happy about it. steve: right. >> the cities are leading the way by taking these votes. and, of course, they will learn very soon about, you know, the initiative that i filed. if anybody wants to learn about it it's fight sanctuary state.com. steve: i'm sure a lot of people are going to go to it right now. don rosenberg who lost a son to an illegal. don, thank you very much for joining us live. >> thank you.

steve: all right. coming up: switching gears. democrats grilling gina haspel over her past ties to the cia's interrogation program. next guest was known as one of america's deadliest snipers and he says we need her. about your reputation, is that small? when you own your own thing, it's huge. your partnerships, even bigger. with dell small business technology advisors you'll get the one-on-one partnership you need to grow your business. because the only one who decides how big your business can be, is you. the dell vostro 15 laptop, with 7th gen intel® core™ processors.

>> we are back with a fox news alert. tensions reaching a boiling point in the middle east. firing missiles at iranian targets in syria. move in response to iranian market attack in the go alan heights. many were intercepted and no one killed. it's considered iran's first attack on israeli soldiers. it comes less than two days after president trump withdrew from the iran nuclear deal. rescuers desperately searching for a teen who may have been attacked by an alligator. the 15-year-old boy last seen flailing around in

orlando pond screaming it bit me. >> eye on binoculars he sunk under the water and didn't resurface. >> i hope i didn't see what i saw. >> neighbors reported seeing a 6-foot gator in that pond. as you recall in june of 2016 a 2-year-old boy was killed at alligator by nearby disney world. president trump is making it easier for military spouses to get jobs. the commander-in-chief signing an executive order encouraging the government to hire them while their loved ones are deployed. >> military spouses have already shown the utmost devotion to our nation and we want to show you, our devotion in return. [applause] jillian: unemployment for military spouses is four times higher than the national average for females. second it back to you.

steve: all right. jillian. thank you very much. she served in the cia since 1985 under six u.s. presidents from both parties. but that did not stop senate democrats yesterday from trying to smear gina haspel. >> cia selectively declassified only small pieces of information to bolster your nomination while keeping damaging information under wraps. >> why destroy videotapes doesn't that feel like a coverup. >> what i feel sitting here today is i support the higher moral standard we have decided to hold ourselves too. >> can you please answer the question? >> senator, i think i have answered the question. >> no, you've not. brian: yes, she did. sergeant nic irving was known as one of america's deadliest snipers taking out the taliban in many cases and more and says we need her in charge and joins us now to react. welcome, sergeant, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. brian: congratulations on your book rebirth ghost

target. wrote with general at a time ta. also seemed like fiction for a while. what do you know about gina haspel and how do you think she was treated especially in that exchange. >> what i know about her, guys from my background we couldn't model a candle to that. a lot of covert drops. her background speaks of what legends are made of. it almost sounds like it's from a fiction book her background is stellar performance, a lot of guys from my background look up to that we envy that. steve: your parents were both in the intel community. >> both intel i was born overseas in germany. we have a little bit of i say so or know how how things go on the intel side. ainsley: you killed 33 individuals in three months. first african-american to deploy in the global war on terrorism as a sniper in your battalion. how did you get into this. >> started when i was in the sixth grade. i had this dream watching a lot of chuck norris shows

and stuff like that with my parents. [laughter] i always wanted to ride the motorcycles with the rockets on it after that i wanted to trade triout for the naval seals. i have color issue. i'm colorblind. the army stuck up for me and help me not say cheated on my test. but the battalion nurse helped me out and got me through that. steve: did they have the motorcycles with the rockets? >> it's classified. i can't say. [laughter] brian: can you got to make a stand. in particular when she was talking about what she needed to do we know it's not politically correct to say enhanced interrogation i did what i had to do. she is prideful for what she did. i think she should embrace from what happened. she stopped a lot of future attacks is that your belief. >> 100 percent my belief. like you said earlier, 9/11, no one complained about how we got the job done back then. and, you know, watching individuals and innocent moms and dads jump from those towers it's hard to forget. what we do to get the job done is how we get it done. ainsley: have we forgotten. >> i think we have.

it's become somewhat bumper sticker deep. only goes that far. so i think we need to kind of get back on track and let the guys, you know, do their job. steve: the president of the united states is taking an unconventional approach toward foreign affairs and foreign policy. but, you look at what he has done in the last week, seems to be working. >> unconventional warfare. you know, i think one of thization isayings in my commune do bad things to bad team. we have not deterred from that. brian: we had in the news yesterday captured five higher ups in isis in iraq yesterday. clean capture we now have them. >> yes. >> what do you think about that? how does that benefit? >> i think it's a really really good deal. you know, one of our missions overseas in special operations iraq and afghanistan doing six deployments there our job was to capture high value targets and get those guys turned over to giving up intel or any information they have. ainsley: have you complete confidence in our military. we are not going soft in that area, right?

>> no. no. i still talk to a lot of the guys and they have not changed. brian: talk about this. reaper ghost target. what about your background play into this novel. >> a lot of my background. i kind of wanted to go into the fiction side. it's where i grew up my first book that i ever completed was based off of a goose bumps novel back in elementary school my mom still has it printed out with the serrated edges of paper. my first book i ever wrote. i think going back to that childhood dream state. i think we have kind of forgotten the older we get being able to dream and living not so much of a fantasy world but explore the mind. steve: goose bumps, chuck norris. brian: you wrote it with general tata also successful. real quick, michael strahan grew up in a military family in germany. what is different about your background that allows you to accomplish so much? >> the appreciation for the military. both of my parents, you know, serving in the military. i watched, you know, their

career play out in front of me and it kind of, you know, instilled that into me. me and my siblings. appreciation for america. the united states and our military. stand behind that. steve: we were talking little bit about what you are doing now. you are actually filming something right now. >> i am. i'm filming something right now it's also classified. but hopefully soon we will get a little bit of information on that. but it's pretty cool show. ainsley: everyone needs to go out and buy his book. his book came out. steve: motorcycle. jillian: book came out in the beginning of april. it's successful. everyone needs to read this and buy it we need to support you because have you done so much for this country. you are a hero and we thank you. >> thank you, guys. ainsley: nicholas irvin it's called reaper, ghost target. brian: coming up ahead, president trump welcoming those three americans after they return home from north korea. how important is this ahead of the president's summit with kim jong un? we're going to asking ted cruz. he promises to answer. ainsley: plus, this veteran used to be homeless. we told you about him

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ainsley: back with a fox news alert. historic homecoming. three americans held prisoner in north korea. they are now safely back in the united states. steve: the three men now being evaluated at walter reed medical center in maryland. brian? brian: president trump and vice president pence welcoming them home at joint base andrews at 3:00 in the morning. >> frankly, we didn't think this was going to happen. it was a very important thing to all of us to be able to get these three people out. ainsley: diplomatic victory comes as prepares for summit with kim jong un and that happens in june next month.

brian: let's bring in ted cruz looking to keep that seat for another six years. has his handsful in texas but a big student of what's hang internationally. senator, what is your take -- i'm sure you weren't up at 3:00 in the morning. what is your take at what has taken place so far? >> well, it's a big deal. the president is to be commended for bringing these three americans home. that is a major victory. it's really the results of american strength. you know, we saw for 8 years under barack obama a foreign policy that was really a policy of weakness and appeasement. remember how obama put it, leading from behind. the problem is weakness and appeasement doesn't work. especially with dictators like kim jong un. president trump has come in with a strong american foreign policy, getting back to peace through strength. i think we are seeing the results of it with three americans coming home. steve: you know what's interesting, senator, i was clicking around yesterday with the big news that they were coming back to the united states. and the majority of the news coverage on the other

channels was about stormy daniels. what's the heck is up with that? >> most of the media -- they are just out of their mind. they have what i call trump derangement syndrome where all they can do is attack the president all day long on the scandal of the day. i have got to tell you i think most texans are really tired of it. when i go home nobody asks about the latest scandal of the day and whatever the talking heads are lighting their hair on fire about. people are excited about tax cuts. about regulations being lifted. about jobs growing. i will tell what you people are excited about, for example, is yesterday at the white house i was there. the president made a decision that saved thousands of jobs. he stepped in and solved the broken ren system. something the e.p.a. invented to enforce the ethanol mandate. what happened was renn skyrocketed and they were threatening the jobs thousands upon thousands of blue car union makers at

refineries in texas and refineries in pennsylvania. i have been for six months working with the president and work with other senators. yesterday, the president made a terrific decision. he stepped in and said that we're going to allow rennes to be created when ethanol is exported of. what that means we are going to export a lot more ethanol. that's going to help corn farmers. we will sell more ethanol and also allow e-15 to be sold year around. it's a big win for corn farmers but critically the president saved the jobs of tens of thousands of blue collar union members, refinery workers. exactly the people who elected donald trump instead of hillary clinton. it was exactly the right decision. ainsley: senator jobs check. ethanol mandate check. primps home check. the summit now set and the iran deal. what are your thoughts about that? >> well, once again, i think the president did exactly the right thing to pull out of the iran deal for the last year and a half i have been talking with the

president, urging him to take this course. i think the president hastedtly been on this path. the iran deal that president obama negotiated was catastrophic. it did enormous damage to america because it allowed billions of dollars to go directly to the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. and even worse than that, it did so in a way that ensured iran would get nuclear weapons. you know, when the ayatollah khomeini pledges death to america and death to israel, i believe him. he is a religious radical zealot and canceling the deal is the exactly the right thing what we need to do and what we are going forward doing is reimposing crushing sanctions, urging our allies to do the same and making sure that iran never never never gets a nuclear weapon. brian: senator, you know how they feel they made it clear. the foreign minister of england and macron spent two days here and merkel spent a day all to keep us in. in fact, she released this statement. it is no longer such that

the united states simply protects us. but europe must take its destiny in its own hands. that's the task of the future. your reaction? >> listen, we're going to see some posturing in european capitals. the reason is there is some big european companies want to do business with iran. they make money. that's got a lot of the european countries defending this deal. i will tell you, when the deal was being negotiated, i had european ambassadors in my office asking for my help saying the obama administration is pressuring us. we think this is a foolish deal. will you help us press back? so, look, no one should be surprised that their companies are interested in money. but you know what? we have a bigger responsibility. the ayatollah with a nuclear weapon, if he ever acquire as nuclear weapon, i think the odds are unacceptably high. he would detonate that weapon in the skies of tel aviv or new york or los angeles. we can't roll the dice. brian: if germany was worried about their own destiny. maybe they wouldn't accept a pipeline from russia that keeps them on the russian

natural gas crack pipe forever when we could supply it. steve: senator cruz, let me ask you this. the white house is now sending to correct me if i acongress a 15billion-dollar ren package. it's been over a month ago you guys passed that spend popalooza $1.3 billion. i know you got a lot of funding from the military. now how are you trying to claw it back? >> yes. well, i have been, the omnibus was a serious mistake. i voted against that 1.3 billion-dollar spending package. steve: trillion. >> now you got me doing it. steve: i did it, too. >> it was a serious mistake and i think the president is right to send a rescission package. the biggest advantage of rescission is the democrats can't filibuster it. it's a procedural vehicle that only takes 50 votes. if republicans just stand together we can claw back some of that spending and one of the things i have been urging republicans in

the senate, we have a narrow 51 vote majority. of the democrats are filibustering everything. we need to be using all of the procedural tools we have to pass things with 51 votes to get victory after victory after victory for the american people and reigning in wasteful spending is certainly something we ought to be doing. applaud the white house for doing that. brian: sarah jessica parker going after your opponent in the senate race. can you still win? >> she joins rosie o'donnell and al franken and chelsea handler and i got to say. if this election were in hollywood, i would have lost already. but, fortunately hollywood celebrities don't tend to vote a whole lot in texas elections. listen, i have got an opponent who is running hard left. is he running on gun control. is he running on open borders. is he running on impeaching the president. he is the first democrat senate candidate in the country to pledge he would impeach donald trump but i have got to tell you, he is raising more money than any

democrat in the entire country. he raised $7 million last quarter and so what we're saying is conservatives in texas and across the country, they are going to ted cruz.org and we are standing together. we're going to win because there are more conservatives than there are liberals in texas. but it's going to take conservatives showing up in november to defend our freedom. steve: all right. senator ted cruz.org. thank you very much. [laughter] ainsley: thanks, senator. great to see you. this senator used to be homeless now he is one of the top v.a. nurses in his state. is he going to share his remarkable story of how he turned his life around. he was hooked on drugs, when he joins us live next. ♪ come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away. ♪ ♪ come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away. ♪

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thing you know don't go to work and then i start selling it or making it and all this -- it's -- i could go on and on about the perils of addiction. ainsley: what did you lose as a result? >> everything. i mean, they repossessed my house. i had no car. no phone, no friends. you know, i mean, i lost everything. and that's what the disease of addiction will do to you. ainsley: david, when did you hit rock bottommen? >bottom? >> in 2003 when they repo saysed m --repo saysed rerepossessed my home. i was hopeless and godless. opportunity arose to go to the central arkansas veterans healthcare system which opened the door and gave me the opportunity to change my life and it continued this day to help me change my life. i have to give credit where credit is due.

the v.a. has been there the whole time. they have supported me. and it starts at the top with dr. margie scott what a great director. all the way down to my nurse manager jackie nunn who encourages me every day to do something good my phenomenal team ohio work with no matter how bad it gets and no matter how low it gets around there, we always try to come out with a smile and warm hand to our veterans and to help them. ainsley: i know, you are doing an amazing job. what's your message. >> my main message is all of america, for every bad thing you hear that goes on at the v.a., there's a thousand great things that go on every day that you will never hear about. and sometimes that's okay with us. when i walk into the room and family member goes you have given us so much great care here, we really appreciate you, that's enough for me. and, you know, i come in every day with an open mind and just do the best i can. ainsley: we need more nurses and doctors that have your attitude. you are an amazing person.

congratulations. you turned your life around. you have a daughter and granddaughter important two months ago. >> yes, ma'am. ainsley: they need you. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for this opportunity. ainsley: usual welcome. president trump gearing up for high stakes meeting with kim jong un after getting our hostages back home. the next guest says the president can learn from the past to make sure his summit is a success. plus, people say she is elizabeth warren's worst nightmare. meet the candidate running to unseat the senator in the next hour ♪ hold on tight to your dream ♪ at bass pro shops and cabela'. like bass pro or cabela's flag t-shirts for only $5. an igloo 48 qt. cooler for under $20. and save 25% on camelbak hydration packs. with the right steps, 80%of recurrent ischemicide. strokes could be prevented. a bayer aspirin regimen is one step to help prevent another stroke. so, i'm doing all i can to stay in his life.

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brian: a fox news alert. in case you missed it three hostages held in north korea now free in the u.s. as president trump prepares for upcoming summit with kim jong un. this was a great show of --

i guess their point of view heading into the summit. next guest writes in op-ed summits can be risky business. will trump bungle it like fdr or jfk or triumph like ronald reagan did. we are encouraged about where we are at. we have seen these summits before. let's go back in time. personalities matter, circumstances matter. what went wrong there? >> well in yaltafdr who was sick and dying he thought he could charm joseph stalin. it turns out he couldn't charm joseph stalin. he didn't really have a plan and as a result, the pols went from going to one master the nazis to another master the soviets. in that sense it touched off the cold war. because he overrelied on his personality, because he wasn't as well-prepared as

he could have been, it turned out to be a disaster. brian: calling him uncle joe and acted like he was friendly when he was a mass fever. he would be voted out of office. >> exactly. brian: next you want me to bring jfk. what went wrong there. >> jfk was young, cocky and brash. and he thought he could charm him but the old soviet came and he quickly put -- he quickly put jfk on his heels. as a result of that jfk, his uncertain performance actually led crews chef to believe he could put nuclear missiles into cuba and that led to the cuba missile crisis which is near armageddon. brian: to his credit he said he knew he blew it, he was not prepared. next reagan, gorbachev. what almost happened and what didn't because of reagan? >> that was an epic summit. it was actually supposed to be just a prep meeting in preparation for a larger

meeting to take place later in washington, d.c. as it turned out. gosh che came, he had a whole set of proposals yet, reagan, to his credit. he and his team were prepared to counter. they added on an extra negotiating session and they came very close to talking about riding the world of all nuclear questions it found floundered over the question. ronald reagan decided it was a bad deal he walked away from it. gorbachev looked at reagan i don't know what more i could have done reagan very hotly said you could have said yes. brian: warning and word of caution for trump? >> well, the word of caution for trump is expect the unexpected. come prepared. and be prepared to walk away from a bad deal. brian: one thing to his credit so far he has made it clear. if i don't get it i will walk away. jay, fascinating perspective, of course, as a noted historian, i would expect nothing else. jay thank you.

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♪ steve: this is what freedom looks like. president trump welcoming three american detainees home overnight. >> these are great people. they have been through a lot but it's, it's a great honor. >> overnight israel firing missiles at iranian targets in syria. the move in response to iranian rocket attack in the golan heights. >> this action is further demonstration that the iranian regime can not be trusted. >> i would advise iran not to restart their nuclear program. if they do there will be serious consequence. brian: to smear her as advocate for enhanced interrogation. >> i would never ever take cia back to an interrogation program. i stepped up. i was not on the sidelines. i was on the front lines in the

fight against al qaeda. >> congratulations being in this country. brian: here we go, right to a fox news alert, welcome home. president trump greeting three u.s. detainees, literally overnight, 3:00 in the morning held captive in north korea. >> nobody thought we could be on this track in terms of speed. i'm very honored to have helped the three folks. they're great people. it's a great honor. but the true honor is going to be if we have a victory in getting rid of nuclear weapons. steve: that is his point t all happened at 3:00 a.m., the men stepping foot on u.s. soil at andrews air force base in maryland, outside of washington. the white house released this video early this morning on twitter. exclusive behind the scenes action what happened. it was all captured by the white house camera.

♪ steve: that is very trump gran, isn't it? -- trumpian the overstretched flag between two fire trucks. the president live at 3:00 a.m. the a 6:00 a.m., eastern time, a 30 second, essentially victory lap on twitter. >> while you were sleeping this was happening. we woke up this morning, turned our tvs on. leland vittert was there live at joint base andrews. leland. what was it like to witness that in person.

reporter: in this business there are not a lot of good reasons to be up at 3:00 in the morning. often times it is for the worst of news. this was for the bet of news. there was something special for every one there, even among the hardened white house press corps when those three men walked down the stairs with president trump, there were you have a you will full lot of smiles. you could see almost to ear smile on the face of three former detainees from north korea. one saying it was like a dream as he walked down and experienced the freedom of america once again. another one said they had experienced hard labor while they were there inside of those camps. president trump said he made this a priority for his administration to bring these men home. they are at walter reed medical center getting checked out not only physically but emotionally. a psychologist working to reintegrate them back into american life, experiencing the

brutality of that regime for so long. president trump talking about why it was so important to bring them home and remembering somebody that came home too late from north korea. >> it was a very important thing to all of us, to be able to get these three great people out. and i must tell you, i want to pay my warmest respects to the parents of otto warmbier who is a great young man who really suffered. reporter: so behind the scenes pictures from sarah sanders here of the president the secretary of state, the chief of staff and the vice president all huddling in a little bit of a debrief that lasted 20 minutes here at andrews air force base. now begins the planning and strategizing for that kim jong-un president trump summit scheduled for early next month. back to you guys.

steve: leland vittert live at joint base andrews outside of washington, d.c. with the latest. brian: that count is 15 detainee hostages that the president gotten out. there is whole huge list to work on. ainsley: otto warmbier's dad i called him yesterday to see if he wanted to come on the show to react and he was in our authorities and prayers i thinking about otto yesterday. he said, his quote was, we're happy for the hostages and their families and we miss otto. we wonder why did he come home in that state. when we saw these three, even though the president tweeted yesterday they were in good health, we were all happy to hear that, i wanted to see with my own eyes. brian: it was great that you called them. it was great that the president mentioned, but i do believe otto's death allowed them to live because the fallout from the way he was returned to the u.s. was so devastating and so clear, even from, the north korean allies, they knew. when he said, one of these detainees said i was in hard

maybe bore. when i was sick they took care of me, that to me because of what happened to otto. they clearly didn't take care of him. steve: he got typical treatment people in north korea get when they were in one of those hard labor camps. while the president has been really good springing hostages, ultimately what he wants to see is a unified north and south korea with no nukes. here he is last night, this morning, 3:00 a.m. >> my proudest achievement will be, this is a part of it, but will be when we denuclearize that entire peninsula. this is what people have been waiting for, for a long time. nobody thought we could be on this track for at such speed. i'm truly honored to help the three folks. the true honor if we have a victory getting rid of nuclear weapons. we appreciate he allowed them to go before the meeting.

it was sort of understood we would be able to get these three terrific people during the meeting and bring them home after the meeting. we're starting off on new footing. this is a wonderful thing that he released the folks early. that was a big thing, very important to me. and i really think we have a very good chance of doing something very meaningful and if anybody would have said that five years ago, 10 years ago, even a year ago, you would have said that's not possible. so a lot, i will say this, a lot of very good things have happened. brian: 90 minute meeting with our secretary of state. their second meeting. the first one was impromptu. pompeo was went over there to visit his counterpart in north korea to set this one, easter meeting. this was an hour. and then he had 90 minute meeting with kim jong-un. ainsley: meeting with the south

korean president and shaking hands. this is remarkable. we see what happened with iran, tearing up the deal. his supporters are excited about that. steve: unlike a number of u.s. presidents who promised to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem, this president is actually going to do it monday. ted cruz says what we're seeing a different kind ever strength than we've seen in the past. >> it's a big deal and the president is to be commended for bringing these three americans home. that is a major victory. and it's really the results of american strength. we saw for eight years under barack obama a foreign policy that was really a policy of weakness and appeasement. remember how obama put it, leading from behind. the problem is weakness and appeasement don't work, especially with dictators like kim jong-un. president trump has come in with a strong american foreign policy

and getting back with peace through strength and three americans coming home. brian: knowing it could all fall apart. i know one thing they are not testing nuclear weapons. they shuttered one of them. another collapsed on its own. rockets are not going over the direction of guam and japan. that is clear. steve: north korea gave up a lot and now the hostages. the president is clear the sanctions that are crippling the nation are not coming off until they denuke. ainsley: don't show you we don't know all the negotiations behind the scenes. steve: i'm fine with that. ainsley: absolutely. we didn't know that the secretary of state was over there until he peaceally was coming home. then we got word he might bring those three individuals. "new york times" is writing where is he, he is mia with the iran deal. meanwhile he is over there bringing hostages home. brian: something that had a lot of drama yesterday. acting cia director, gina haspel wants the job full time. she was nominated for it.

she took a 32-year career put it on the line and stood with pride. the controversial part was enhanced interrogation, challenges with leaving the iranian deal, north korean summit, all everybody wanted to talk about what happened after 9/11. like for example, we picked up all the first generation of al qaeda and we managed to get people like bin laden because of it. steve: keep in mind, it was just a couple years ago many of the same senators in that room gave a pass to john brennan, who had been the number four person at the cia. he was her boss. so all these questions regarding enhanced interrogation and waterboarding, where were they were him? they weren't there. ainsley: they were interrogating her, yesterday. kamala harris, if you didn't see it. listen to this. >> do you believe the previous interrogation techniques were

immoral? >> senator, i believe that cia to whom you referred -- >> it is a yes or no answer. >> senator i believe that cia -- >> it is yes or no answer. >> did extraordinary work to prevent another attack on this country give the legal tools we were answered. >> please answer yes or no do you believe in hindsight those techniques were immoral? >> senator what i believe sitting here today i support the higher, moral standard we have decided to hold ourselves to. >> please answer the question. >> senator i think i have answered the question. >> no you've not. brian: that was dismissive in a world, when you're five or seven years old, that is the way the world is, yes or no. black and white. there is nuance -- ainsley: she plain explained why the she made the decisions she did. senator senator -- steve: that was gotcha questioning. when it happened, it was all

100% legal. we were on the couch an hour ago, one. deadliest snipers against the taliban. gentleman by the name of first quarter irving. he is a retire army ranger. his parents were both in the intel community. he said that she, gina haspel is what legends are made of. >> we couldn't hold a candle to that. she has done a lot of covert things we look up to, a lot of covert drops. her background speaks, things legends are made of. almost sounds likes from a fiction book. background of stellar performance. a lot of guys in my background, special operations look up to that. brian: pretty amazing, lost mccain, lost kamala harris, voting no. this gang pretend to be independent, goes way to the left, will not do it for his conscience. senator joe manchin is in after meeting with her. susan collins is in. looks like rand paul is out.

steve: there was a lot of grandstanding yesterday. ultimately she will be approved. you watch. brian: you do need democrats besides joe manchin. steve: she will be approved. ainsley: senator elizabeth warren isn't afraid to get voters fired up. >> we nasty women are going to march our nasty feet to cast our nasty votes. ainsley: all right, our next guest hopes to face her in the november primary. some are calling her warren's worst nightmare. steve: dana loesch will join us live on this very busy thursday. you're watching "fox & friends." spray relieves 6 symptoms... claritin-d relieves 8, including sinus congestion and pressure. claritin-d relieves more.

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>> being native-american has been part of my story i guess, since the day i was born. we nasty women are going to march our nasty feet to cast our nasty votes, to get you out of our lives forever! ainsley: while speculation brews whether massachusetts senator elizabeth warren is running for president in 2020, she is up for re-election for her senate seat this year. people in her state say our next guest could be her worst

nightmare. that is in a recent op-ed, that headline. joining us republican candidate for u.s. senate beth lindstrom. thanks for being here. >> my pleasure. ainsley: what a career you have had. first female executive director of the massachusetts state republican party. first female director of the state lottery. you served on mitt romney's cabinet. you managed senator scott brown's victorious seat. he was not supposed to win that election, it was a special election when ted kennedy passed away. correct? >> correct. ainsley: you have had a career in politics, well-known in massachusetts. why are you running right now. >> i was watching tv in the morning and i would have a argument in my head with her. i have a fundamental disagreement about role of government. people of massachusetts feel they -- ainsley: why people saying you are her worst nightmare.

>> i'm a contrast to her left-wing liberal politics. i believe in free markets and money better spent in the hands of people that earn it. that is a very different take where she is. she demonizes anybody who disagrees with her. it is about tone and temperment. she has said she wanted to teach books, throw rocks. you can pass legislation you can not be a rock thrower. i have built bridges with people in my career. there is big difference there. ainsley: what do people say in massachusetts about her? what is the reputation of elizabeth warren? >> when i'm out across the state women say they just hug me, thank you for running. we have got to get rid of her. she does not have the same values. men three times a week it is like nails on a chalk board, truly. ainsley: the primary is sent 4th. running against a guy named jeff diehl. if massachusetts voters are watching why should they vote for you over jeff diehl? >> i am the best chance to win

in november. end of story. ainsley: what are some of the issues most important to you? >> economy. we agree a lot on those republican conservative issues but it is truly in massachusetts, when she won in 2012, obama won by 23% of the vote. she won by sieve. she is a flawed candidate. but she did win the women's vote by 20%. don't vote for me because i'm a woman. vote for me because i'm qualified. because of my background, where i stand on issues. ainsley: if you win sent 4th, you're going up against her in november. will she run or run for president? >> i think she is running for president. she is continuing to say in present tense terms that she's not. we'll be up against her in november. if we give voters in massachusetts a real choice, we might give her a real surprise. >> we'll be watching. thanks so much. >> you're welcome. >> president trump bringing americans home from north korea the same week he ripped up the iran deal. what message does this send to our enemies? congressman brian

mast lost both legs fighting in afghanistan. he will join us next to react. .

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jillian: good morning we're back with fox news alert. tensions at the boiling point in the middle east. israel's overnight airstrikes killed three people and damaged iranian facilities in syria. the move in response to a iranian rocket attacks in goal lan heights. it is considered their first direct attack on israeli soldiers. it comes two days after president trump with drew from the iran nuclear deal. well have more live on the ground from the golan heights in a few minutes. defense secretary james mattis will decide whether to send additional 700 national guard troops at the border. there are 1600 guardsmen serving on the border.

national guard support has led to over 1600 arrests, 451 voluntary returns and seizure of 1000-pound of marijuana. look at the headlines. brian said read them quick, so you could have more type. was that to your licking? brian: that was perfect. appreciate. brian: jillian. president trump overnight welcoming three americans taken prisoner for no reason by the way at the height of his sum wit with kim jong-un. around also ripping up iranian deal. what do the messages send to our enemies? we have others. u.s. representative brian mast lost both legs to an ied deployed in afghanistan, while meeting our enemies. what do you think the diplomatic message is to iran and north korea, congressman? >> this is something we have seen played out through history. this is something many have known a long time. this is difference between foreign policy conducted through

strength and foreign policy conducted through recession. you can not purchase a dollar or $150, anymore you can buy a real friend for a dollar. brian: we'll see what happens. yesterday iran directly hit israel, israel hit back. do you think that is related at all to the iranian deal being torn up? do you expect more of this? >> this is not related to the iran deal being torn up. this is something that is related to the iran deal and its concessions, the fact that the previous administration was allowing for the expansion of iran throughout the middle east, through lebanon, into syria, and in the other direction into iraq. allowed them to get on to israel's borders unchecked. not just through the auspice of hezbollah. we're talking about the iranian revolutionary guard being on their borders. these are iranian forces under the flag of iran, being there fighting our closest ally. brian: they start up their

program, saudi arabia will start up the next day. see if they start spinning the centrifuges again. i want to bring you to this quote from angela merkel. despite her urging the president did not adhere to the deal and is out. it is no longer such he said, that the united states simply protects us but europe must take its destiny in its own hands. that is the task of the future. what is your read? they want to take more of their security. i'm fine with that. >> what they're missing is this, we don't make peace with current enemies. we make peace with former enemies. if they're failing to recognize that iran is still a current enemy they're going to fail in this endeavor. brian: we'll see what happens. again that haspel on capitol hill, in front of the senate, not the house. so you were able to watch. i was stunned by some of the dismissive, condescending questions that went her direction. now you know why she was tempted not to put herself up for this.

did she afford herself well. >> i will not judge miss haspel for her role in enhanced interrogation. the reality of the situation we weren't pillow fighting fightine al qaeda and weren't pillow fighting with iran. they were beheading people and this is very dangerous and deadly work. takes a very special person to do it. she is that special person in the politically motivated senators need to get out of the way. brian: by the way, congressman, it worked, no doubt about it. it worked. i have to bring you something that matters a lot to you. the house approved extensive va reform package. without a va director by the way. is this what is best for veterans? do you think we're heading in the right direction? >> acting director will key is a good guy. i know him personally. the funding of va choice program and beyond that expansion of the care program that exists for post-9/11 veterans where you can go out there have a caretaker, perhaps the spouse or somebody

else helping to take care of you in the home, that is being expanded for veterans from world war ii, korea, vietnam eras, this is one of the biggest things that can be done. brian: if jeff miller is nominated would you support him? >> i think jeff miller would be great. brian: you used to head the committee. good to get your perspective. >> brian: president trump calling out "new york times" for a change for slamming secretary of state mike pompeo going missing? >> our secretary of state is doing a fantastic job. they couldn't find him because he was in north korea. brian: 12 1/2 hour flight, 9minute meeting with kim jong-un. thought that was important. does the "times" owe the president an apology? dana loesch weighs in. california taking the nanny state to a whole new level. guess what they're doing now? every homeowner has got to get solar panels. that will blow my budget. why do they hate poor people? ♪

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steve: fox news alert. three americans held hostage in north korea for over a year freed overnight. the president greeting them live 3:00 this morning, joint base andrews. the three of them currently are being evaluated at walter reed in maryland. set to reunite with their families later on today. they are home. brian: huge news, you know what? they didn't delay a minute in order to put it on prime time. hold it on the tarmac. 3:00 in the morning. that is the role the president and vice president and wives were all there. dana loesch is with us now to talk about that. huge news overnight. >> yeah, brian, huge news. good morning to all of you. yeah, this is fantastic. this is type of winning people have been wanting to see in foreign policy for quite some

time. the new york sometimes wasted no time in attacking the president. i was talking about this president. it feels as though the president could cure cancer and legacy media could find something over which to attack him. this is great. these are all the lines previously drawn in the last administration, all those being enforced. we were all supposed to die from a nuclear attack because of trump's tweets. now look what is happening. >> you mentioned "the new york times" headline. it was, at a key moment trump's top diplomat is again thousands of miles away. they were talking about the secretary of state. who actually wasn't in washington when the iran deal was ripped up. instead he was in north korea bringing home these three prisoners. pretty amazing. so they started that headline at a key moment. there were several key moments that happened yesterday and happened this morning and the day before. >> yeah. this was, kind of silly for "the new york times" to do. and i mean, for obviously i think it also underscored just

how separate both of these negotiations are right now. but mike pompeo bringing back three americans, who have been held prisoner in north korea, that's pretty significant. and it seems that the "new york times" at least needs to modify their article to note this, instead of using this separation as some sort of cudgel to undermine the administration. mike pompeo was acting on behalf of the president. shows no separation for him and the president's agenda. it was a goofy headline for them to do. this was the same type of attack when the from the media when the president rightfully was trashing the iran deal. why he knew at least a year all the evidence that mossad gathered from a civilian warehouse. i feel like a lot of stories need to be modified or retracted. steve: dana, look what the president and his new foreign policy team have been able to do the last week. he ripped of iran deal which is

not surprising because he said he was going to do it. the american hostages were released from north korea in a good faith issue, gesture on the part of kim jong-un. then on monday the u.s. embassy is going to open in jerusalem. a number of presidents have promised israel. yep, when i'm president i'm going to do it. they never did. he did it. that is all one week. >> all in one week. every previous president always kicked the can down the road where it concerned moving the embassy and the president has accomplishing that on monday. this is a huge, great week for foreign policy and i think it shows america's foreign policy, we have an administration that has some strength. we have an administration that follows through on its promise, and that is exactly what we're seeing here. we also have an administration that understands the process getting things done in our constitutional republic. if you want a fifth bump

acknowledged, take it to the senate and get it a ratified. who can be mad at this? brian: by the way, just watch, there will be redemption, no matter what this deal looks like, when it goes to congress, no democrats will vote for it. it might even be in trouble with that, if things move forward at this pace. >> yeah. brian: real quick, when it comes to politics the democrats definitely have history on their side. the generic poll usually in their corner, however the gap narrowed considerably. in may the democrats have just a three-point lead. in february it was 54-38. so how do you explain it? i think a lot to do with the fact that nancy pelosi says i will be your speaker. they say their agenda, we'll impeach the president. >> yeah. they also say when they reclaim the house they want to increase taxes. all the americans around the country are looking at their bigger paychecks, we don't want any of that. democrats have enthusiasm problem, they have a lack of leadership problem. i don't know how they can talk about a blue wave, they can't

even drum up enthaws a in their own pry maryies -- in texas, we saw the past three previous primaries same thing, west virginia, ohio, indiana, saw democrats lagged enthusiasm to match the talk of turnout that they promised this is a real struggle for them. they're struggling with donations. they're struggling with messaging. they're all over the place. they're in the middle of the civil war with clintons and that faction trying to stay into power. it is bernie's power. turning into socialist principles, quasi-socialist party, that is what they're looking at. i think they have serious problems. ainsley: i think numbers might be closer now after the news we saw this morning. when you see three individuals coming off of a plane and coming home. democrats, republicans every one loves that. steve: a good picture. >> absolutely. steve: thank you very much. brian: i know what you're saying to yourself. i just saw jillian do the news. we have to have her do it again. jillian: i apologize i'm taking

away from your time, brian. brian: absolutely. jillian: we need to get caught up on some other stories we're following. starring with this, a suspect is under arrest accused brutally murdering a teenage girl with her mom listening on the phone. police say sean french violently attacked 15-year-old bailey bradshaw. she was on the phone with her mother who listened in horror. french had previous relationship with the girl. he has a felony warrant with unlawful activity with a minor. according to "the new york times" terror bosses were captured in a joint sting with u.s. and iraqi forces. a three-month long operation tracked the group hiding in syria and turkey. one. terrorists is a top aide to isis leader al-baghdadi. illegal immigrants can now get college financial aid in new jersey. democratic governor phil murphy signing a new bill to help dreamers go to a state school.

to qualify students must meet certain requirements have a diploma from a high school in the state. undocumented immigrants get tuition in new jersey. critics call it fundamentally wrong for taxpayers. here is look at the headlines. back to you. steve: new jersey homeowner around taxpayer i am subsidizing that program. there you go. as you know yesterday was janice dean's birthday. today she is out the streets with the folks. >> how are you guys? do you want to be on television by the way? >> absolutely. >> where are you from? >> from florida. >> and what's your name? >> kathleen. ken. >> mike and mary from fondue lack, wisconsin. >> and from california. >> over here? >> from texas. >> nice. >> lauren from texas. >> what is the high height been so far? >> you. >> fantastic. a beautiful day in new york city. let's look at the maps, i will show you how beautiful it is. it is 58 in new york city.

nothing but sunny skies. we do have a front that will move through could bring potential for maybe some hail, maybe damaging wind, not only the northeast and mid-atlantic but upper midwest and the great lakes. it is that time of year we could see potential for strong and severe storms. not a severe weather outbreak. we could see potential for strong rain. anybody want to say high to anybody at home? >> hi, kaley. >> hi to our grandchildren. >> all right. >> hi to my kids and grandkids. >> i want you to waive to steve, ainsley and brian. nicely done. we didn't even practice. >> love "fox & friends." steve: they're adults. i think they have been waving for a while. i don't know you need to practice. we hear from the producer time to go. world leaders are freaking out about president trump's move to tear up the iran nuke deal. how should they react in order to get a better deal? steve hilton weighs in coming up. ainsley: california taking the nanny state to a whole another

level, forcing every new home owner to get solar panels. will that move backfire on them? "the property man," bob massi coming back. brian: producers didn't give me anything to read. ainsley: you need practice. ♪ feel the clarity of non-drowsy claritin and relief from symptoms caused by over 200 allergens. like those from buddy. because stuffed animals are clearly no substitute for real ones. feel the clarity. and live claritin clear.

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launched an attack targeting israeli territory. it was around midnight last night that israel says iran's elite al kud force fired rockets from across the border in syria. none of the rockets caused any damage. israel retaliated, biggest attack in syria since the end of the 73 war. they detroit launchers used by iran in the attack. destroyed iranian logistic headquarters. iran intel systems. syria saying one of the radar bases was destroyed, ammo depot, air defense system was hit. iran so far saying nothing about this attack. war monitoring group says there are some 23 dead. the 18 of them we are told, foreigners, that meaning non-syrians. fox news, this is significant, fox news learned that european sources have been told major general soleimani, commander of

the "al-quds" elite force in syria, using syrian resources in the latest attack against israel and syrian regime of bashar al-assads had no knowledge or consent regarding what was taking place. israel maintained repeatedly it will not allow the iranians to have any military presence across the border in syria. at this hour there is an uneasy peace here in the golan heights. things are tense but quiet. brian? brian: david lee miller, thanks so much. we'll be back. meanwhile, steve, you have a different point of view. steve: i do. take a look at this, brian. california taking the nanny state to a whole new level, forcing every new homeowner to conserve energy by mandating that they install solar panels, adding at least $10,000 to the state's already sky-high construction costs for every house. here to react "the property man"

host, bob massi who i was talking to in the commercial break and bob massi reveals he hates solar panels. >> i'm not a solar panel guy, not because of the fact i don't believe in conserving energy, now with california mandating it, it takes away the choice of the homeowner, prospective homeowner what they want. some homeowners like myself would not prefer to have solar panels. now the government again taking people's right of choice for solar panels. steve: tell you what, bob, get robocalls at least once a week where somebody is selling solar panels. you told me something else in the commercial i didn't realize. some of the panels they are selling, they sell to you, but actually they're leasing it to you. so what happens if you contract with one of these solar panel companies and you're leasing them on your house, and then you decide, you know what, i'm going to move and i'm going to sell my house? >> let's assume you leased the solar panels pause you don't have the money to pay cash to

buy the solar panels and you lease them, and i want to buy your house. steve, i don't want solar panels. you are stuck with paying that lease, literally the solar panels would have to come off the house and move on, so you're paying for something you may not be able to use again, you go to another house, i suspect you talk to the solar panel company to put them on that house. bottom line, people don't recognize like leasing a car. you don't own them. you possess them. you pay for them, but the bottom line if you sell your house you are still responsible if that new homeowner doesn't want them, doesn't want to pay the lease, you're stuck. steve: bob, come on, the government is smarter than you are, they say you will save power. so just put the darn things on your roof. >> particularly california, right? i mean here's the other thing. the price of homes in california are through the roof. we're adding 10, 15, 20,000. a lot of contractors over there

i was reading but support it but what i don't like is the intervention of government, saying to a homeowner, you have to have these solar panels on it. that overstep as line. we shouldn't be surprised because it is california. steve: he is all about freedom. he is talking about bob massi, talking about solar panels on all new homes out in california. bob joining us from las vegas. tune in for "the property man" fridays 8:30 p.m. eastern oaf on fox business. meanwhile some world leaders firing back after president trump's decision to exit the iran deal. steve hilton says, bring it on. he's next. speaking of bringing it on, sandra smith will be hosting a show in about nine 1/2 minutes. >> that show is "america's newsroom." good morning, steve. president trump overnights welcomes home three american hostages released by north korea. what happens next? also the president signing an executive order to push federal agencies to hire more mill terri

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♪ steve: iranian protesters are not the only ones outraged by the president's move to rip up the nuke deal with iran. european allies claiming they can no longer rely on the united states. ainsley: german chancellor angela merkel saying it is no longer such that the united states simply protects us but europe must take its destiny in its own hands. that is the task of the future. brian: you got to wonder if the french and british feel the same way. steve hilton host of "the next revolution" here on fox.

see you on sundays. he served as strategy director for former uk prime minister david cameron. he is here to react. what is your reaction the when it comes to the iranian deal? >> it shows we have real leadership here in america. the thing is, forget about the nuclear element of this, iran is a dangerous, warmongering regime trying to control the whole of the middle east and the allies should be joining president trump in putting maximum economic pressure on iran but instead, they're doing the opposite. they're desperate to get back in there. the french are desperate to sell their cars. the germans are desperate to build railways. the british are desperate to do financial transactions with their banking civil. there is a whole world out there. are there other countries that the french, germans and brits can do big with? steve: plus, steve, it's a bad deal. the president is right, we probably should do something about it but they're stuck with a stink bomb deal!

>> exactly. this is the thing i just don't understand, even within the deal, as we all know now, iran would have gotten a nuclear weapon. it's a terrible deal, and the reason you have to come back to, that the allies still want to get in there and still want to keep the deal alive even though president trump has effectively killed it is purely financial. they just want the business deals. and to me that is really disgusting when you look not just at the nuclear aspect but at the way that iran is funding terrorism and destabilizing the whole region and the world. brian: let alone their alliance with north korea. a lot of their nuclear program came from that. ainsley: steve hilton's show sunday night what time? 9:00? >> 9:00 eastern. ainsley: we are going to the uk together. he will give me a tour of favorite pub and favorite park. we'll cover the wedding. brian: you're supposed to be cover the wedding. >> forget the wedding.

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