kudos to you, most watched and most trusted, goodnight from washington until tomorrow. i'm shannon green. ♪ ♪ heather: it is wednesday july 11th, 2018 and this is "fox & friends first", happening right now 4:00 a.m. on the east coast, fox news alert for you, time to pay up, while you were sleeping president trump arriving in brussels where he is prepare today put nato allies on notice. we are live in belgium with what we can expect. and judge brett kavanaugh making his case on the hill. >> i think we feel very encouraged at the early response not just here at the united states capital but really all across the country. heather: well, president trump's supreme pushing for bipartisan support and how democrats are in full obstruction mode and the

shocking moment george clooney being tossed like a rag doll. "fox & friends first" starts right now. ♪ ♪ heather: well, thank you for joining us on wednesday morning. made it halfway through the week. halfway to go, i'm heather childers, already fireworks with this one. we start with fox news alert. president trump coming out swinging already pressing nato allies on defense spending after bilateral in brussels happening right now actually. kevin corke traveling with the president in belgium, good morning, kevin.

>> hay up or prepare for a payout, the nato summit, not that he's talking about taking the u.s. out of nato or anything draw connian in that respect but what the president is saying, i'm here to stand up for the american taxpayer who had been funding disproportionately. >> we are protecting germany, we are protecting france, we are protecting all of the countries and numerous countries go out and make pipeline deal with russia where they are paying billions of dollars into the cofers of russia and i think that's inappropriate. you tell me, is that appropriate? we are complaining about this from the time i got here, it should never have been to happen. i have to bring it up because it's unfair to our country an very unfair to taxpayer and i think that these count have to step it over not over 10-year period, but step it up

immediately. >> heather, all i can say watching that is wow, that display by the president comes as the leaders of alliance are certainly looking for ways to strengthen the unit while obviously mapping the financial expectations of the president of the united states. by the way, fewer than 10 of nearly 3 dozen nato members are currently spending about 2% of gdp on defense and that's been the president's argument that somehow the u.s. which is paying about 3 and a half percent of its gdp on defense is disproportionately paying if for security interest in the region. he simply wants our partners to step it up. we will have more on that in our next hour including more about the upcoming family photo and what promises to be a very interesting day here at the nato summit. heather: who will be next to who, of course, that's always important. makes a lot of sense what he said if the numbers are correct that germany is spending up to 70% of, you know, on their energy from germany but we are

-- germany spending it on getting it from russia and we are spending money protecting germany from russia, doesn't make a whole lot of sense, he's right. thank you so much. >> yeah. heather: sorry, kevin, delay there in our connection. well, president trump's tough talk is not what many of the nato leaders are used to hearing, wyoming senator and member of the foreign relations committee said it's helping what other predecessor couldn't get other to pay up. >> the president is right, for too many years nato has not been doing enough. dwight eisenhower said that in the 50's, donald trump was the first to ever get action. the nato countries have paid 14 billion more dollars now that he's in office per year than they did under president obama because president trump's tough talk, america first really made the difference. the u.s. shouldn't pay more to

defend the nato alliance than the different nato countries who are right there in the location do. they are supposed to go 2%, very few of them have, many more are up to that level, there's a lot that they haven't paid over the years. heather: so far 8 countries pledged the meet requirement of 2%. that's 4 more than last year. so we will see how it goes. great update for you, all 12 members of soccer team and coach are now recovering after being trapped in cave 18 days. this morning are in isolation as doctors monitor health. beside weight loss they say the team is okay. parents have been allowed to see them through glass window, crowd of heres for complete mission impossible. those heros barely making it out alive after water pump fail,

local media getting first glimpse inside the cave that trapped the team and caused the death of one rescue diver. well, china threatening to punch back after white house targets another $200 billion in tariffs on chinese goods, the trump administration publishing a list of products including seafood an handbags following measures taken by bay gypping in response to u.s. hike imposed last weekment chinese government call it is list totally unacceptable, the new tariff won't take effect for at least another 2 months. former fbi lawyer who bashed then candidate donald trump in text with fbi lover now refuse to go comply with congressional subpoena, lisa page says he wasn't given enough time to prepare for today's interview. congressman goodlatte, appears that lisa page has something to hide. she has known that the house

judiciary committee has sought her testimony and that she has, quote, no excuse for her failure to appear. peter strzok who who she exchanged those messages with is scheduled to testify tomorrow as part of investigation into bias at the doj. well, supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh will be back on capitol hill again today looking to win bipartisan support from senators, democrats are vow to go put up a fight. garrett tenny live in washington with more of the battle brewing in the senate. good morning, garrett. >> heather, good morning to you. this will be a tough and tumble battle to get kavanaugh confirmed. most democrats expect today vote against, a decision that many made before the president announced pick. after escorting kavanaugh to capitol hill, mike pence said after they sit with nominee, most will be able to support him. >> we have every confidence that

as members of senate come to know and appreciate judge kavanaugh as the american people come to know and appreciate of the principle jurist that we will see him confirmed. >> leading democrats are intent to stop the nomination and are waging a fierce campaign against brett kavanaugh claiming he will undo a whole host of protections. >> a nominee of the supreme court that would undo roe, nominee that would undo the health care that so many people depend on. he's done it. >> majority leader mitch mcconnell is touting kavanaugh's cred i want ails and urging the senate to move quickly with his confirmation. >> the president really could not have done a better job picking extraordinarily well-qualified nominee. i think the comments all over the country have been rolling in not just from people that are conservatives but others as well. >> today judge kavanaugh will be back up on capitol hill to meet

with several senators while leading democrats, again, are holding press conference to speak out against confirmation, heather. heather: garrett, we will see what fireworks happen with that as well. two ranchers who inspired a 41-day stand off are free after being pardoned by president trump. dwight and steven convicted of arson in 2012 for setting fires in public land in oregon, serving reduced sentences but federal appeals court resentenced them to maximum 5 years in 2015, the tough punishment inspiring a malacia of armed protestors led by bundy, wildlife in 2016, one occupier was killed by police. >> and obama-era ruled is getting dump sod medicaid money goes where it is actually supposed to, the trump administration plans to scrap

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heather: fox news alert for you, president trump holding a bilateral breakfast tat nato summit less than an hour ago. the president already calling for his nato counterparts to step up their defense payment to the military alliance. so is this the right stance to take, here now to weigh in is former chief economists for the u.s. international trade commission peter, thank you so much for joining us. love to have you with us, always. >> thank you. heather: the president did take some questions, not really scheduled as usual and he talked specifically about germany and made a lot of sense if his numbers are correct as saying earlier, he said that germany

spends between 70 to 80% of their energy comes from russia, so then why are we spending money to protect them from russia when they are spending billions of dollars with russia. makes sense? >> absolutely. we warned the germans and others not to develop a dependence on russia for natural gas, they had other alternatives and took the cheap way out which the germans like to do. they complained about steel tariffs, their steel mills are security risk because there are allies, there's absolutely security risk. if war broke out in europe, i don't know that we would be able to stop them before they got to grind, eventually we can deal with russians but it'll take a long time to get yankees to stop them. the troops aren't enough because we can only afford to put so much. it's up to the germans to defend themselves. heather: we have been hearing for a while that the spending is unfair when it comes to defense spending with nato and nato

countries must pay more. so, i mean, president trump obviously he's already set the ground work that he will go after them, he will go after them hard, is that the correct thing to do? >> absolutely, he sent a letter to many european leaders basically saying you have to spend and the leader in belgium which spends less than 1% of gdp. it's about .7 compare today our 3.5 on defense, oh, it's hard to take letters like this seriously. they just assume that at the end of the day, like a younger brother, you know, leeches off the older brother that we will show up. well, there's limit to ability to show up. we have pressures on us in asia and so forth, the north korea problem, you know, there's only so many yanks to go around. when they say the yanks are coming, i mean, what about the germans. the germans won't even fight. they have the constitutional restrictions, they didn't

participate in gulf other than put water around. heather: china hitting back with $200 billion u.s. tariff threat i should say, 200 billion-dollar threat calling totally unaccept -- unacceptable. what do you expect them to be? >> they just respond in kind and they can be more effective. the other thing they can do, they can print money, they don't have laws, subsidize industry so we don't feel it, the president is talking about 10% tariff on $200 billion, they manipulate currency and value the yawn, we will hit the chinese harder and i've told the administration this if we expect to get results, the tariffs are inadequate to move china, for example, we should impose sanctions just the way we do on

russia metal companies, on chinese companies that have appropriated u.s. technology. don't give them access to this market, penalize the banks that do business with them and we have levers an frankly we are going after china with one hand tied behind the back. heather: much like we have in russia and north korea. >> absolutely. they can get around tariffs. heather: peter, thank you so much. we will have you out after what unfolds in brussels. >> take care. heather: thank you, time now almost 20 minutes after the top of the hour, buildings leveled, what sparked this that sent people running for their lives? supreme court collusion where nominee judge brett kavanaugh and retiring supreme court justice anthony kennedy were they in cahoot, that's what one reporter is saying, carley shimkus is how she's actually

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it gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, provides the most wifi coverage for your home, and lets you control your network with the xfi app. it's the ultimate wifi experience. xfinity xfi, simple, easy, awesome. heather: welcome back, massive explosion rocking wisconsin neighborhood overnight injuring two firefighters and police officer, well, flames, smoke, debris, you can see all of that filling the area up in the sky there, well, fires burning all night, this was in sun prairie outside of madison, people living within half a mile of the scene still evacuated at this hour. well, officials say that a contractor apparently hit a gas line before the explosion, the injured firefighters and the officers will luckily be okay. new video as well capturing cape

exact moment that is georgia clooney seen there at the top of the screen, the moment he slammed into the windshield flying into the air. take a look at the top of your screen, you can see clooney was riding his scooter, he was on the italian island of sardinia and reportedly heading to film tv show catch 22, spokesperson for the actor says he's recovering at his home and will be just fine and i understand that filming for that show has picked up again so everybody is okay. well, patriotic price tag, air force veteran forces to sell home after being slapped with hefty types just for the placement of american flag. carley shimkus with fox news headline 24/7, siriusxm 115 is here with the outrage online, good morning. carley: hey, good morning, larry murphy who served as air traffic controller served in florida, one day he received letter from

association to remove unauthorized object, that unauthorized object was american flag he placed in flower pot. he decided to ignore the requests and face a fine of $100 per day, now, after an intensely legal battle and facing foreclosure murphy was force today sell his home. why did he decide to fight the homeowners association to begin with, he says t a small flag but stands for a big thank you. a lot of folks on social media weighing in on this controversy, phil says, as sad as this is, the case of home owner not following the hoa rules that he already agreed to when he purchased the property. let this be a lesson to anyone considering purchasing a home with hoa, you must read the agreement. michael on twitter also weighed in saying, this hoa is out of control, they should never have happened and let's just get to one more tweet, called it ho

rindous, should never happen to america. that home owner's association by the way, heather, refused to respond to the story when several news outlets requested the comments. heather: speaking of news outlets, nbc reporter who deleted a tweet on the kavanaugh selection but did claim that judge kavanaugh was in cahoots with kennedy. carley: that's right, the tweet coming from leanne calledwell, she deleted tweet, kennedy and trump white house have been in negotiations for months over kennedy's replacement once kennedy received ashuirnts that it would be kavanaugh, his former law clerk, kennedy felt comfortable retiring, rather, according to source who was told of the discussion. well, she later deleted that tweet and replaced it with another one saying that it kind of didn't really suggest the story and the right way and a lot of folks on social media are now weighing in on this one, john says more false stories from the media, go figure and

another twitter user says, it's bad journalism to not vet your sources before distributing it to the masses, so there you have it. heather: all right, are we talking about the last one, the fun one with the stuffed animal. >> we have to get to the fun one. when a little girl lost her dog, stuffed dog named cookie dough, police saved the day by finding the dog and taking the dog in adventure around the airport. there he is right there. he's also there, how cute is this. when mom went to the airport to pick up the dog, the police actually handed her a hand-made book of these pictures that you see right here and mom was very impressed, so was the little girl and cookie dough is back home with owner. isn't that so sweet? heather: thank you so much, carley, appreciate it. 26 minutes after the top of the

hour and celebrities and athletes protesting president trump for months and now one team supporting our commander in chief and his supreme court nominee and the left is losing it. basically what i'm trying to say, people in the public light supporting the president are not supporting the president, is that hypocritical? our panel weighs in next? you k, stacking up the memories and the miles and the years. he's gonna get mine -but i'm gonna get a new one. -oh yeah when it's time for your old chevy truck to become their new chevy truck, there's truck month. get 18% of msrp cash back on all silverado 1500 crew cab lt pickups when you finance with gm financial. that's $9,000 on this silverado. plus, during truck month make no monthly payments for 90 days.

heather: welcome back, a judge ordering the white house to reunite illegal immigrant families who remain separated faster, the expedited process will cut out dna testing government lawyers argued was needed. jackie ibañez here in the studio to break down details. good morning, jackie. >> the same judge who issued order was the same one that

imposed deadline. that was yesterday and most of those kids remained separated this morning. the president's answer to that, listen. >> tell people not to come to the country illegally, that's the solution. don't come to our country illegally, come like other people do, come legally. >> the department of justice releasing this statement, quote, any children not being reunified by the july 10th deadline are not being reunified because of legitimate impediments that render timely compliance impossible or excusable and so defendants are complying with court order. u.s. district judge dana wants to speed up process by citing with aclu that it's not necessary for all of the families, birth certificate can be used to confirm biological participants, meanwhile u.s. secretary kirstjen nielsen that is meeting in guatemala with

officials from central america and agreeing to work together to stop illegal immigration. >> i will continue to encourage all those who undertake such a journey please do so legally, please do so and ask for asylum in the first safe country that you reach. no need to break u.s. law to seek the shelter that you need. >> take a look at the staggering numbers of individuals trying to illegal crossed the u.s., that number 40,000 in just may alone. heather. heather: all right, jackie ibañez live for us this morning. you had a busy night, been all night with the breaking news in brussels, good job with that. the staggering numbers that jackie only to apprehensions not total number of migrants arriving tat border each month, angie mccarthy says that it's all because congress has consistently failed to pass laws that adapt to an evolving world.

>> if congress had dealt with this in an adult way we would have answers to all of those questions and instead as it floated up in litigation and the fact of the matter is, the supreme court in the early 1990's assumed as did the justice department that they have substantive due process to a certain level of humane detention here and then they basically say, you guys now work it out, figure it out. and the problem is back in 1997 when the decree was entered which now has the force of law, the problem was -- was one level. now it's like -- it's bigger issue than it was before and we don't have the infrastructure that we need to address it. heather: well, the last time congress voted on immigration reform was at the end of june when two separate bills failed in the house. israeli prime minister netanyahu

is set to meet with russian president vladimir putin at the kremlin today. two leaders will talk iranian presence in syria, putin has kept iranian forces from israeli border there but calls withdrawal of the troops unrealistic, putin then meets with president trump on monday who is currently as we have been telling you in belgium for the nato summit. well, jared kushner and secretary of state mike pompeo going face to face with méxico's leftest president elect, the u.s. delegation heading south of the border on friday to talk about immigration and nafta, andrés lopez obrador, said recent conversations have been respectful. and vice president mike pence expecting the new supreme court to swiftly secure seat on the bench. >> i think we feel very encouraged at the early response t not just here at the united states capital but really all across the country to judge

brett kavanaugh, to his personal story, to his incredible record. >> democratic leaders and pro-choice groups alike are vow to go pull out all of the stops to judge block kavanaugh's nominations, hearings are expected before supreme court next term in the fall. and the president of the arizona cardinals publicly endorsing long-time friend and former classmate judge brett kavanaugh but despite months of anthem protests by players, democrats are now demanding politics be kept out of the nfl. so can they have it both ways? joining me now to discuss liberal analyst kathy, author of reasons to vote for democrats and host of the michael knowles show, cowboy comedian chad praiser, thank you for joining us, appreciate it. >> thanks. >> good morning. heather: kathy, i will start with you, this statement from the cardinals president, he, of

course, as we said was friend of kavanaugh, we want to speak up and show support as former classmate and long-time friend, what's wrong with that? >> as long as he's saying on behalf of my team we are supporting this candidate for the supreme court, so the nfl supposed to keep politics out of the game or or is nfl have to have politics in game. they weren't happy about kaepernick doing it. the right wasn't happy with kaepernick on his knee, is the left supposed to be happy with this es divorcement? michael, what do you think, it's hypocritical? >> the central theme has been patriotism, they celebrate the nation, what colin kaepernick

violated the rules of nfl, protested the country itself, the symbol of the country itself. this is very different when lebron james we wanted to campaign for barack obama, nobody said, it's fine, when víctor cruz appeared in campaign for barack obama and when the president of arizona cardinals writes a letter for old high school pal, by the way, a role that's nonpartisan independent judiciary role, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. heather: okay. >> democrats are backed into the a corner here. heather: chad, who's side do you take? >> i will be on the middle, yes, i agree that he's not doing it on game day, what he said, he came out and he said, what we ask players to stand up for the anthem 20 times a year, on game days, we ask them to do that. what i disagree with is if you're going to say we are going to keep politics out of nfl

which by the way the nfl is going to find every way it can to become dead in the waters if possibly can. i'm not sure many people are missing it at this point. i don't think the guy should come out and put it on the arizona cardinals website or social media pages and i agree with michael, he's a non-- kavanaugh is being hopefully confirmed in a position that's a partisan position, it's not like he's running for president. liberals came out in force when gregg popovich in the nba bashed president trump, they were all for that. he was not the only -- gm for the new york yankees came out on the same letter and said we agree with this man's character, coming out and making a statement on behalf of somebody's character is far from campaigning or stumping for someone. heather: kathy, the nfl will still be making political statement by allowing players to stay in the locker room in terms of the national anthem. that's still a political statement. >> which the players union is not happy about, which trump

seems to agree with, so the players and trump agree on this one. they're not happy with this kneeling for the anthem or staying in the player's room, so no one seems to like roger gadell on this one, i don't think either side is happy with that. i think everyone can agree that no one wants to see politics on the field. heather: what type of society is it, michael, when you can't support one side or the other, when you can't just publicly come out and say, hey, i support this, or i support that because of fear of the backlash that you'll get? >> oh, yeah, absolutely. i think that víctor cruz is perfectly entitled to be in a campaign for barack obama, lebron james can do whatever he wants. the question with kaepernick is he's attacking the country itself which is clearly in violation of not only rules of the nfl but in violation of the spirit of sports. but i'm all for that, people can have speech, the left is trying to restrict speech, they write

pieces in the new york types about weponizing free speech censoring conservatives because in the area of maxine waters. [laughter] heather: chad, final word, chad. >> whereas you can't have cake and eat it too, the nfl has to come out with policy and stick by it on official level. i agree with that. there's nothing wrong with endorsing a guy you've known for 37 years and went to school with and believe in his character. there's something i believe wrong in kneeling and disrespecting the flag of the united states of america. heather: thank you for joining us, great panel this morning. thank you. >> thank you. heather: have a great day. the time now 20 minutes until the top of the hour and cracking down on distracted driving the brand-new tool that can actually catch you in the act and raise the alarm for other drivers and the embarrassing tweet democrats scrambled to delete about the president's supreme court pick, can you spot this problem here? we will tell you what it is.

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heather: we are back with extreme weather for you. take a look at this, tornado whipped through north dakota overnight killing newborn baby, destroying more than 100 homes in the rv park with winds reaching up to 135 miles per hour. the storm injuring more than 2 dozen people. adam klotz joining us now live to talk a little bit more about that, more severe weather on the way, adam. >> hey, there, heather, we have been seeing the severe weather through overnight hours, but another big story overnight, a different kind of severe weather, hurricane chris tropical storm to hurricane 2, this really begin to go move a little bit, running right along

the coast, this is one that we want to pay attention to in the next couple of days, what we are paying attention to is high-rift current, anyone planning going on the beach along the east coast in the next couple of days, anywhere from virginia to atlantic city, hamptons, rough seas in the next couple of days, the other system that we had been paying attention to, this is getting back to hurricane what once was, that currently in the bahamas and will go to warm water and has chance to develop, otherwise the story is going to be back to summer-like temperatures currently we are looking at numbers in the 80's, heather top k back to 90's, mid-90's later today. heather: be care nfl you're heading to the beach and if not heading to the beach, try to stay cool. thank you very much, adam. tracee carrasco from sister network fox business here with the iphone models that the tech

giant will no longer be making, good morning. tracee: apple is reportedly making the iphone 10 and se, this comes from report done by analysts, they are saying that they will discontinue the newer models this year to address, quote, demand for upcoming phones, meaning that there are a lot of people just waiting to up grade their phone but they really haven't liked what apple has put out. there also have been reports of sluggish sales when it comes to iphone 10 so that could be another reason why they are discontinuing it but we do know that apple usually releases their new products, they launch those in about september, so we will wait and see if this report in fact, is true. heather: all right, let's talk about road signs, this is really interesting, apparently road sign that is can detect phones being used an vehicles if you're texting? >> yes, this is county of norfolk near london, they are

trying new way to cut down on distracted drivers, what it does scanners that can detect the radio signals that are put out by phone when it is in use. they'll detect that and if they think you're on your cell phone making a call, you'll see a flashing sign that will tell you, hey, stop making this call but the only problem here is that it can't detect if it is a passenger using the phone or the driver, so that's one issue but it will be interesting to see down the road if this does cut down on distracted drivers. heather: interesting, all right. thank you so much, tracee, appreciate it. tracee: thanks, heather. heather: time now almost 10 minutes until the top of the hour and the former navy sail or pardoned by president trump turning the tables on the obama administration for not prosecuting hillary clinton for the same crime that he was thrown in prison for, live next with how he's taking a stand for all americans.

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heather: welcome back to "fox & friends first", he was pardoned by president trump after spending a year in prison for taking photos inside his classified submarine and now former navy sail or kristian is suing barack obama, james comey amongst others claiming he was unfairly prosecuted while hillary clinton walked free and the former navy sailor joins me live to tell us more about the situation. thank you for joining me so early first of all. >> thanks for having me on. heather: explain to people at home if they're not aware exactly what went down, what you were accused of doing and what were you eventually charged with

doing. >> okay, well, i was accused of mishandling classified information. i took pictures to have service momentos and the phone was discovered with the pictures on it in 2012, so so i took pictures in 2009 and discovered in 2012 and started investigation and i ended up being charged with unlawful detention, so, you know, i accept the responsibility, i pled guilty, i didn't go to trial. i wanted -- i felt the charge should have been handled in the military. i was charged in civilian court

even though i was active military at the time. heather: some people think that you were. >> no, i was not subject under the more ucmj, i was punished in civilian. it's upsetting a lot of people think, he was held to different standard because he was in the military, that's not the choice that they made, very much so was she eligible to be prosecuted under the same law based off of how the law was explained to me at the time. once again, i accept the responsibility, i made a my take, i served my year in prison and president trump pardoned me because he felt what happened to me was harsh and i totally agree but i was willing to accept responsibility. all i'm asking that the people that held me accountable, they held themselves accountable. they're having issues doing that. heather: you pled guilty and accepted responsibility, you did not say that you did anything wrong, you admit that you did, you served 12 months in federal prison but then the president pardoned you, why not just leave it at that? >> well, i could have done, you know, i could have moved on with my life, i have a great job and a great family and i could have

went on living the american dream thanks to president trump, but i think that all americans need to be concerned about what happened here because it's a bigger issue than just me, you know, the fact that these people are above the law or allow today exercise the laws in a manner which keeps them above them is upsets -- upsetting and i feel obligated as patriot as american to stake a stand not for myself but the american people. i would drop this lawsuit tomorrow if they would hold those people in government to the same standard that they hold average americans like myself. if they're willing to do that i'd settle the lawsuit for dollar and indictment but -- heather: a dollar and indictment. you're representing yourself, so what happens next? >> well, what happens next is we are going to go to discovery, i'm going to put information, i want to see what exactly was their process, thought processing taking my case out of the military courts where it

should have been handled and thrusting into civilian court so they can make a national spectacle of me. peter strzok was heading counterespionage unit which the unit that prosecuted me right from washington, d.c. so i want to see what he was doing and what he had to say about my case, he obviously had a lot to say about hillary clinton and the russia investigation, so i want to see the texts involving me, i want to see emails to james comey and loretta lynch. heather: you want to see people go to jail? >> i'm sorry? heather: do you want to see people go to jail? >> well, no, i want them to be held as same standard as me, if they don't get sentenced or go to jail, but at least let them be prosecuted, let them go through same legal process i did otherwise how can we say we have a true justice system in the country. heather: all right. >> the laws should be applied evenly to everybody and not just the little guy. heather: good point. thank you so much for joining

us, we really appreciate it. >> thank you, thank you very having me on. heather: well, the good, the bad and the ugly up next.

heather: time for the good, the bad and the ugly, first jason aldean and wife are expecting baby number two. congratulations. the bad, democrats slammed the

president's supreme court nominee but they used the wrong picture, the democratic party deleting the tweet of image of judge hardiman and not brett kavanaugh. running for his life chased by 72-year-old. have a great day. bye bye. >> wednesday july 11th, fox news alert. rob: president trump putting nato an notice and laying down the law on defense spending. jillian: can he bring allies to the table before heading to meeting with putin. rob: lisa page says she's be a no-show today. jillian: why lawyers say she's above the law as lawmakers ask wha