it was hilarious. many panamanians inviting her to visit so maybe she should. that wraps of the independence day celebration on this hour, "fox and friends first" continues, see you later. >> let us pledge to remove the bonds of love and loyalty that unite us together as americans. we are one people and one nation saluting one great american flag. >> wednesday, july 4th, painter be to our troops. saluting our service members and ice age ands as protests rage on with the left demanding a end to the 0-tolerance policy. rob: dozens of american flags lining a texas highway removed after one complaint. how that business is fighting

back. jillian: the man who made it his mission to restore veterans monuments. celebrating our nation's heroes. ♪ rob: beautiful american flag shots. early early in the morning on 4 july. it is wednesday morning, independence day. jillian: thank you for starting the day with us on 4 july. it begins with opportunity to

spend weekends with my family down the shore, enjoying beautiful scenery of our country, to get out and do things. and to be able to celebrate with my dog tyler who wants to wish everybody a happy independence day and the opportunity to have this job. rob: i am a revolutionary war buff. i love that war and the bravery and courage it took to do what was done in this country a couple hundred years ago and pull away from mighty england. this is a tavern in my neighborhood a couple yards from i apartment, and in new york city the last place they pulled out of, general washington, a number of his troops. and -- >> home of the free.

what makes your proud american, send us your picture using hashtag proud american and show them throughout that. >> what it means to be an american this independence day by paying tribute our nation's heroes. rob: marking the day with resistance and protests. garrett tenney has more. >> reporter: we are so blessed to live in the greatest nation on earth and last night in west virginia the president emphasized we are able to celebrate our freedom because of the sacrifice, who fought for and continue to defend us. a salute to service in the president offered the sweat, blood and sacrifice, and immigration and customs enforcement agency slammed democrats calling for the limitation of ice. he called on the country to come together as one. >> let us pledge to expand the

blessings of liberty, prosperity and justice to all of our citizens and remember we are one people and one nation saluting one great american flag. >> reporter: after that and the president tweeted tomorrow families across the nation will focus on 4 july. we will think of the people and women serving overseas at this very moment far away from their families, we will thank god for blessing us with these incredible heroes. one of the freedoms they are fighting to protect is the right to protest and that is how some americans celebrate independence day by protesting the trump administration's policies at marches and rallies across the country including new york, illinois, texas, oregon and california. >> i am calling it first

amendment fourth. we are going to get out in every corner of the state and talk about family and what this means. >> the pres. will host a picnic for military families tonight. rob: wealthy fireworks. donald trump receiving a warm welcome. >> the president resonates with voters in every state because his values are american values. >> reporter: the most important part is he wants all this strength so we never have to use, which is the vital key to success on this point but what a great showman. always fun to see these things. he didn't miss the opportunity to tease out his supreme court nominee to be announced on

monday. and it is a good thing to do. and west virginia ranked second, west virginia ranked elsewhere on those scales so that was a good thing as well, enjoying being in campaign mode. >> he carried west virginia with 70% of the vote. rob: save the date, peter stzrok headed for the hotseat, the house judiciary committee with subpoena for him to testify tuesday over his role in the clinton email and russia investigation, he is under investigation for his anti-trump text messages, his attorney says the next hearing is a trap. >> i don't know if we are testifying next tuesday, and a chance for republican members of

the house to posture before their most radical conspiracy minded constituents. >> reporter: he first testified behind closed doors for 11 hours but refused to answer many of the questions. donald trump is on track to announce his pick for supreme court but before he makes his decision he is talking to plenty of candidates. >> reporter: the supreme court justice, a list of 25 candidates. we know he personally interviewed a short list of 7 and is planning to announce his choice on monday. >> you will be very impressed, these are very talented people. like neil gorsuch. >> reporter: he is speaking in west virginia the same day, a

supreme court justices. >> an important decision and give you a great one. >> since the vacant seat belongs to supreme court justice anthony kennedy who announced he would retire from the high court july 31st but the nominee will have to be confirmed by the senate and democrats are vowing to vote against all the names on the pres.'s well-known list. >> one of the key questions senators have to ask is what is your view whether the president is above the law? >> reporter: conservatives hope it will use the pick to make the court decidedly more right-leaning. liberals are afraid the pic will overturn rulings like roe versus wade. >> this will be a fight with the motion and republicans and conservatives interested in long-term notifications. >> to have confirmation hearings in august. to potentially have the new justice seated by october's

session. >> milania will join him for meeting and stops in london and scotland. the final leg of the trip is in finland for the summit with vladimir putin. the first lady's first international trip since a procedure in may. much more local trip, the first lady visiting walter reed medical center in maryland to meet with wounded warriors and their families was a wonderful visit and the staff take care of our men and women in uniform. the holiday, most have the day off but they will be outside barbecuing with friends and families. we want to know what the weather is like. rob: it is going to be a hot one out there.

>> it is nice after 4 july, if you took of the latter part of the weekend, it will be nice to calm down a little bit. look at the weather maps, show you what is going on along with the heat of the summer comes humidity. and the heaviest storms all week long have been in the far northern plains, that is the case today, cooler air moves in it heavy storms across the western gulf but you get the idea that they will heat up with garden-variety thunderstorms. temperaturewise it is hot again across the ohio valley towards the great lakes. across the coast, 5:00 heat index does cool down a little bit. it feels like july 4th.

rob: 10 minutes after the our. major blow to the democratic party is a longtime lawmakers upset by a socialist newcomer but the leader of the party says this is the future. >> he represents the future of our party. her victory was a remarkable reminder of the depth we have in the democratic party. >> is this the direction democrats want to be headed in? we debate that coming up. ♪ who you love ♪ the flag -- >> what is the problem with this patriotic tune? facebook thought it was offensive. why the social media site is accused of censorship again. rob: we are sharing your proud american pictures and we will have that right here, this one sent in. jillian: happy fourth of july to

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rob: a major blow to mainstream democrats as longtime lawmaker ousted by a young democratic socialist. nancy pelosi downplaying the victory of alexandria cortez but dnc chair tom perez says this is the future of the party. >> i have three could, two daughters:graduated college and when is in college and they were both texting me about the excitement over alexandria because she represents the future of our party. she ran a spirited campaign. rob: is this what it comes down to for democrats? is this the future?

here to deviate it is robin biro and gop strategist jen kearns. i just want to pull up a little information about the platform right there at the top, abolish ice, medicare for all, assault weapons ban, free college for all, federal jobs guarantee, very expensive platform, very liberal platform. >> it is a socialist platform, she is openly card-carrying member of the democratic socialist party of america. what you see is interesting, the best thing to happen to the gop since the election of donald trump along with record stockmarkets and successes of the first year in office but hundreds of primary elections settled across the country and an interesting phenomenon in the democratic party, democrats

competing with one another to see who can out liberal one another. they seem to think they are operating in a primary election season but nothing could be further from the truth. they are in a general election season and a difficult midterm election where they hope to regain control of the house and senate. if they continue down this left past toward the november elections they will do so at their own peril. >> democratic socialists of america website you see things that are scary to a lot of americans, essentially against private profit in the economy. that is a standard of our way of life. what do you say to that? >> that is concerning to me as a blue dog democrat from atlanta, georgia. a moderate. i reached out to associate chair, my friend jamie harrison of the dnc and he had this to

say. we are a diverse party of every aspect that our candidates reflect the districts they run in. there is room for all. she is on the far left spectrum and then people like me are fiscal conservative democrats and the gop has their spectrum from susan collins who is more moderate to more extremist candidates. don't know it is the future of the party but we have room for them in the party. she is new, she will get her sea legs and we will see what change as she battles the machine in dc. rob: a simple as that, pandering to the voters she needed, she is from the bronx, highly minority area, she worked in a district. >> she is technically from westchester, this candidate has

a lot of problems, her resume -- she grew up in westchester county. rob: she moved west. >> the message is tom perez is making a rookie mistake is dnc chair. sometimes you see this with new leaders, they don't have the discipline to keep their candidates in line. what the dnc chair should be saying in a soft election-year is may be pandering to people in the primary election but we have a general to win and that is the message the dnc chair should be delivering, not the socialist message for the rest of the party. >> it showed a lot of people, the ugly side of capitalism and its faults and flaws. did that lead us down this road to the far leftist ideology?

>> it could have i see your point. great point to make. there are a lot of things. we are still trying to gain inroads with the bernie people that the dnc understandably upset. in some ways we are trying to bring the party together. we are working to do that. part of the message, we have some inroads to make in our own party. i admit that freely. rob: thanks for coming in on a holiday. happy independence day to you. jillian: hope holding the holy family hostage. wire jesus, mary and joseph locked in a cage, the church that took the immigration protest to a new level. he has been on the cover of time magazine honored as citizen of the year. now colin kaepernick was given another award on social media.

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>> the church making a political statement by putting a nativity scene in a cage. christchurch procedural putting them in barb's wire to protest family separation of the trump administration of 0-tolerance immigration policy, church officials defending their move saying joseph, mary and baby jesus were refugees. >> one complaint forces the removal of hundreds of american flags, the company told to remove this display of her

claims it was a safety hazard. every year the company behind the event of the flags to customers for free. state officials allow some flags farther from the road. who is complaining about things like this? >> a volunteer with a bucket, a lot of elbow grease honoring our fallen heroes. >> making it his mission to restore monuments and gravestones. as people joining his cause. >> every week andrew makes it his mission to find, clean and restore veterans monuments long forgotten. >> so many veterans monuments were in poor condition. began to research how to properly restore monuments. and learning the process. >> using a lot of elbow grease.

>> it is a mission of sorts, two months to a year to restore a single monument depending on its aged condition and working on 60 projects. >> the individual veteran as if he was a member of the family. words can't express how much we appreciate that. >> takes before and after photos of his work and post them titled with his nickname the good cemetery in and a short biography of the person by the name is a tribute to their life. >> we don't only talk about their service. we talk about their lives from the day they were born to their last day on earth, delving into that person's life to respectfully tell what the person went through. >> reporter: his friend, chris, a 12 year us air force veteran who took his own life after suffering ptsd. >> we honor the past, the

history but i honor him. >> reporter: hundreds of new good cemetery in's are joining the cause and he plans on started cleaning kits to use in their own local cemeteries. in tampa, florida, fox news. rob: 26 minutes after the our, trapped in thailand, rescuers to save 12 boys and their coaches granted there. jillian: we found out what they were doing in a dangerous area to begin with. 30 missiles launched at the syrian military and getting an inside look at norfork, virginia. >> reporter: good morning to all of you and happy independence day. probably american coverage roles on after this break live from the decks of the uss monterey. ♪ -and we welcome back gary,

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come back. and isis execution who burned soldiers alive is dead. us that syrian forces killing them in an attack last month, the most wanted fugitive in turkey with the bounty that amounts to $300,000. he appeared in propaganda videos setting captives on fire. two accomplices are on the run. the teenage shopper trapped in a cave-in in thailand spending another night underground, rescuers will try to move them tomorrow with rain in the forecast. new video shows the wrapped in blankets. the plan is to hold the boys in their coach, they went down to perform some sort of initiation ritual. >> a little immigrant children crossing the border without their parents could outnumber troops 4-1 at one texas military

base. the spokesman confirmed 20,000 kids will be sent to goodfellow air force base, 5500 military members live there. health and human services department wants to send 12,000 undocumented families to fort bliss in el paso, texas. jillian: security tightening after apply was stopped in cleveland, police on notice, 6000 officers traveling by ground, sky and water using counterterrorism boats. >> radiation detection systems gives us 360 ° of radiation detection. >> the nypd says no credible threat of been made ahead of the fireworks display. rob: the marine corps war memorial getting a facelift. the national park service is there is no better place to celebrate independence day.

>> a fantastic place to watch the fireworks was if your positions behind the memorial is fireworks create a beautiful silhouette i hope people have a safe, memorable fourth of july weekend. >> preservers of this tribute completed the second phase of a 3-part multi-million-dollar rehabilitation project. in a rack and afghanistan. >> joey chestnut ready for battle already starving himself in preparation for the dog eating contests today. >> always ruins my appetite, looking for his third straight mustard bill on coney island in brooklyn, new york. >> chestnut set a record devouring 72 hot dogs in under 10 minutes. rob: he did some in the water,

so tough to watch. jillian: our proud american series ends this morning at norfork's great american picnic where the uss monterey is docked. rob: an exclusive tour of this big ship. >> reporter: happy independence day to you and everyone at home. we are on board the uss monterey, and active-duty missile cruiser. this is the ship that launched 30 tomahawk missiles into syria after bashar al-assad used chemical weapons on his own people, 350 sailors told me they are proud to be americans and be part of world history in the fight for human rights. ♪ >> i'm proud to be an american because of the ideals america stands for, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and everybody is created equal.

>> the main reason i'm proud to be american is the opportunity to grow with the country and as a person and being able to do what you want. when you want. >> small-town america, this is our home. anything you find in a small town you will find here, you will find the hospital with a corpsman, a post office, a store where you can buy ships memorabilia, a bag of fritos and a bottle of gatorade, everything you need is here. >> 3 meals a day, 350 sailors on board the ship, a lot of hard work. hey, guys, how are you? and you? thank you. what made you decide to join the navy and serve your country? >> not much else where i am. it is more than we had so i

showed that you can go out and get that. they are pretty proud of me right now. ♪ >> i joined the same thing and liked it. 25 years later still serving the country. ♪ >> walk me through the night in april in the red sea. >> when a missile goes off it is allowed bank and the missile ignites and seconds later you hear a wash as the missile goes up, very dark nights and the exhaust of the missile lights up the entire bridge. >> we are at the front of the ship. this is where the missiles were launched? >> the missiles go straight up. you can see the light and feel

the heat as the missile goes up. >> what makes you proud to be an american? >> the opportunity to serve. you can do what you want and to be who you want to be and have your own beliefs, and to make sure that continues is an absolute honor. >> reporter: did you get chills like i did listening to the commanding officer talking about that night in april, the syrian strike with tomahawk missiles? makes me proud, what makes you a proud american, and you are watching the fireworks. on social media feed and live on

the fox news channel. for friends in norfork, virginia, take a tour around the uss monterey, they are giving tours from 10:00 to 4:00. >> what a cool week you are having. jillian: purging patriotic content. what is the matter with this country song? >> don't care if you're black or white ♪ but who you love ♪ stand for the flag ♪ and the flag stands for all ♪ rob: we can't figure it out but facebook thought it was offensive. carly shimkus here with what the social media site is accused of censorship again. ♪ how can we say when you book direct at choicehotels.com

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jillian: welcome back. purging patriotic content, facebook under fire accused of censoring this patriotic tune. ♪ don't care if you're black or white or who you love ♪ i stand for the flag ♪ and the flag stands for all of us ♪ rob: we are trying to figure it out. carly shimkus with serious xm 115 here with how social media is responding to censorship this morning. >> the west coast band is behind that, facebook is under fire for preventing the group from using its paid tools to promote it. facebook said the song included political content so they were treating it more like a political ad than a music video. that is why they presented the group from paying to promote the

music video. the west coast band responded in the same statement saying our songs are about unity and love of country, race, color, religion or political affiliation, i stand for the flag means i'm thankful for the freedoms and opportunities this country gives all citizens and shows how dependent we all are on each other for the success of our individual american dream. facebook agreed, they overturned the decision, they did so amid backlash from the bands's fans. stephanie on facebook says if they just listen to the song they would see it couldn't get any further from political. tabitha took a shot at facebook saying another reason i am glad i am off facebook. >> you listen to it and understand it. colin kaepernick accepting another award. >> nation's largest t-shirt

union, the national education association awarded colin kaepernick with their pres.'s award, the highest honor for his fight to combat racial injustice. those who disagree with colin kaepernick's national anthem protests taking shots at him on social media. dobbs said still listen to starting qb talent, making fun of his football skills and the miller says that explains why i am not an nda member, totally disgusting, i guess he is a teaser. colin kaepernick has received a bunch of awards including sports illustrated award as gq citizens award as well. rob: i went to see what is up with this picture on the bottom left. >> i'm a proud american, happy to share this with you. you know that i am a big

michigan football fan. this is us at a michigan football game. there is something so american about going to a football game, cheering for your team with thousands of other fans. today and every day i think it is an appropriate time to thank our service plans women for keeping stadiums as big as this one is our nation safe as well. rob: all the heartbreaking nationwide singapore picture of carly. rob: just adorable. done good. jillian: we ask you to comment on that. 4 july might seem like an excuse to skip work, watch fireworks and have barbecues but do you know why we celebrate it? >> reporter: what is the significance of 1776? >> i don't know.

>> christopher columbus. >> reporter: our next guest has outrageous answers from college students, wait until you hear. rob: mortifying. why we celebrate independence day. >> reporter: we told king george iii you can keep your tierney, we want people in a freelance, we are doing america up big time. on "fox and friends," a great lineup this independence day, waking up, we have sebastian gorka park, jason chaffetz, a great lineup on "fox and friends". >> a navy veteran honoring all fallen heroes from the war in afghanistan by memorializing all 2000 names and writing them on a wall, joining us live on the plasma, rise all 2000 names of men and women that deserve to be remembered this fourth of july,

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jillian: fourth of july not just about having the day off work, or having barbecues, not everyone knows the meaning behind the independence day holiday. >> why do we celebrate the fourth of july? >> i don't know. >> i forgot. rob: social media influence will with was shocked a lot of people had no idea why this country

celebrates every july 4th. he joins us to tell us what he found. scary. >> reporter: is horrifying. this is what happens when you have leftists running public education in this country. jillian: let's listen to the other responses and get your take on the other side. >> reporter: why do we celebrate the fourth of july? >> what is the significance of 1776? >> christopher columbus. >> close. >> the end of slavery. jillian: what surprised you the most? >> reporter: we have made video before talking about history and the most surprising thing was people thought christopher columbus came over in 1776.

people nowadays don't know history. this is why we have a socialist to won in new york. if we don't learn history people and our country will make the same mistakes other countries and people. rob: you say millennial don't know history? whose fault is that? >> the education system. it starts in public school and goes to the university. you have professors, teachers and public school who are totally skewed to the left, one in 12 professors are conservative on college campuses. they are being indoctrinated all over, the counter education to what is going on universities. rob: it looks like santa monica beach in los angeles. define certain sections of the country have better knowledge about the country? i would think santa monica might be dead last in a survey like this. >> it is not the best place to be for finding conservative minds. i'm from colorado originally. when i made videos out there there was a much more educated

prisons into with what is going on. california is an echo chamber now. >> i'm sure you had some people who responded they knew the meaning of independence day. >> we did have a view surprisingly and that was great to hear. rob: it is not a hard question. a lot of people you put the camera in front of their face and are shocked. i understand a lot of shocked people in the streets, you're bewildered by the moment and go blank. this doesn't seem like one of those moments. independence day, take a guess what the day is about. >> reporter: it is not one of those moments was we got to people and ask do you want to talk to me about 4 july so they are not shocked, they agreed to it and not knowing the answer was shocking to me. i was not expecting so many not to know what the fourth of july was about especially living in

america. it is crazy. jillian: thanks for joining us. rob: christopher columbus. you can't write that. that cracked me up. 53 minutes after the hour, planning to hit the road this independence day you might pump the brakes and celebrate at home. jillian: why american flags among democrats hit an all-time low. more of your primary pictures, connor and sean helping keep the great country on earth, that is beautiful. rob: sarah freeman got a promotion. congratulate her. a fireworks show in manhattan. ♪ ♪ gather around her

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rob: here is melanie laney's patriotic daughters. jillian: thank you for seconding them. this. 300 proud americans enjoying their community with more than 40,000 star spangled banners. turning red, white and blue for the 20th year in a row. rob: gas prices reaching the highest they have been in 40 years. national average at the pump $2.86 a gallon. some airlines raising ticket prices to compensate for the gas prices. jillian: new poll reporting only 32% are extremely proud. that number has been on the decline since the president took office. republicans are 74%. their highest in five years. rob: that is interesting. celebrating independence day with red, white, and blue berry bread. jillian: rolling out the patriotic white bread filled with cranberry, but berries.

i would like some. rob: we are not gluten free around here. jillian: no, we are not. rob: 200 plus locations. jillian: happy independence day. rob: enjoy it, see you later. >> democrats say we want to abandon ice. we are not abandoning ice. and we are not abandoning our law enforcement protest outside of customs immigrations enforcement office turned violent. >> president trump has interviewed seven candidates to be the candidate for the supreme court. >> we will have another great one we will announce on monday. >> anti-trump text. >> melania trump surprising our nation's heroes eating with soldiers and families at walter reed. >> main reason i'm proud to be an american is the opportunity t