heros. i say that's going above and beyond, a lot of heros, well, most watched, trusted, goodnight from washington. i'm shannon. heather: it is thursday july 12th, 2018 and this is "fox & friends" happening right now at 4:00 a.m. fox news alert for you, overnight president trump entering his final meeting with nato allies fresh off his tough talk that called the world's attention no doubt. we will have the same effect, will it have the same effect with vladimir putin, we are live in brussels and strzok beat, antitrump fbi agent finally sharing story with the publish as his lover mysa page on edge of jail sentence. not so proudly held.

but why is it still hanging on campus, "fox & friends first" starts right now. ♪ ♪ heather: good morning, to you, live shot of new york city as folks wake up all across this country but we are going to head out of the country for our lead story for you this morning. thank you so much for joining us on this thursday. i'm heather childers and we the president coming off a day of comments aimed at allies that he says are drags their feet in

defense spending, this is a live shot for you right now where all of it is underway and the final of round of meetings coming before his first visit to the uk. well, greg live where all is happening in brussels with what to expect, good morning, greg. >> good morning, heather, yeah, another morning at least, nato diplomacy for president trump before he heads out to next leg of his trip and he shows no sign of letting up. in some early tweets before he left residence he said that nato member states have to pay their fair share and then some, calling on them to pay something like 4% of gdp in defense, most don't even make 2%. he also criticized again this morning germany for paying billions to russia for a new natural gas pipeline being built at the same time the u.s. he notes is supposed to be

defending germany from russia hanging over all this, of course, is the trade imbalance between the united states and european countries especially germany, that was a major point yesterday and probably will be coming up inside discussions this morning, heather. next stop as you noted, the uk, he least brussels this afternoon with british prime minister theresa may who has her own problems, key government ministers past week have been quitting over own plan, brexit plan to leave the european union, a plan, by the way, that president trump favors on friday he'll be having tea with the queen at windsor and will be rather large protests in the center of london which he will be missing. after a weekend in scotland, heather, golfing, relaxing and a little bit of prepping they'll be going onto finland where they'll be meeting on monday with russian president vladimir putin, a lot of folks here at

nato, have been concerned about that before he even left he said that that would be the easiest stop of this trip and those are the concerns that he might go a little bit easy on russia's aggression in the ukraine, cyber hacking and maybe even sanctions, worrying time, busy time, president trump very busy over the next several days and i guaranty, you heather, making news. heather: we are looking at live shots, the meeting going at 4:30 a.m. eastern time dealing with afghanistan, do you have any more insight as to what to expect there, but perhaps more importantly, some of the behind scenes are happening in terms of the big personalities, all of the world leaders there, we saw them taking group picture, can you provide any insight on that? >> absolutely, heather, president trump is a different animal than the other presidents that nato leaders in the past

have dealt with. he sees nato as a transactional situation. we pay in a certain amount, that is the united states pays a certain amount for defense, what is the united states getting out of it especially as trade imbalances stack up with germany and others, so it's a different approach to nato, it has nato even concerned a little bit that it might to work to destabilize the very important strategic alliance but in the final communique that we saw, heather, coming out of this meeting, yes, there was cause for more spending but also there were calls to be aggressive, strong defense against russia and call for unity as well, so i think some of the cracks that might have appeared with some of the strong language coming from president trump might have been tapered over in the final messages coming out of this meeting and while there were tough talks and aggressive language, it went, i think some

smoothers than some had feared, heather. heather: we got some agreement. we will see what happens. georgia, ukraine, romania and the bilateral meeting at 4:30 a.m. eastern talking about afghanistan. thank you so much, greg, we appreciate it. very exciting. in the hot sought hours from now the other big story the american people will finally hear disgraced fbi agent peter strzok testify before congress. ellison barber live for us in washington, d.c. with what we can expect from that, morning, ellison. >> peter strzok is expected to tell lawmakers that his work has never been tainted by political bias, he's expected to be on capitol hill today. democrats say that all of this is part of political gained at discrediting the special counsel investigation. strzok previously sat down with lawmakers for 11 hours, dim

contracts are calling release full transcript of the closed-door deposition. congressman said the american public should see what republicans are doing with their tax dollars adding, this, quote, this investigation is political charade, platform to elevate far-right conspiracy theories and undermine the special counsel's ongoing criminal investigation of the president and campaign aides, strzok's antitrump messages raised concerned about political bias in the counsel investigation even though robert mueller removed him of the team after learning about the text messages, yesterday from brussels, president trump called russia probe witch hunt in the morning as i head out to very important meeting, i see that fbi lover agent lisa page is dodging subpoena and refusing to show up and testify, then went onto say, so much corruption on the other side, where is the

attorney general. then tagged fox news. lisa page was set to appear on capitol hill yesterday, she failed to appear in deposition despite subpoena, last night two congressional panels sent letter telling page she can show up at public hearing with strzok or give closed-door deposition. they will begin contempt proceedings if page does not answer questions by friday morning. page's attorney says she has nothing to hide and needs access to relevant and doj didn't grant her request until late tuesday night, heather. heather: we will talk more about this story as well with our in the case guest. trump administration rolling out some brand-new guidelines that could limit the recent surge of asylum seekers, those coming in, now being asked to prove they were mistreated in their home countries and that their government at home mistreated

them as well or allowed it or ignored it. border officials are being told to crack down even harder on those trying enter the country illegally, all part of attorney general jeff sessions plans to reduce number of asylum seekers. in an unusual move, rosenstein is combing through the records of president trump's supreme court pick, fox news confirming that he has asked all u.s. attorneys to appoint federal prosecutors to go through judge brett kavanaugh's past writings. justice department has not publicly commented, with all of that going on, the judge is that going on, the judge is going about his business as usual, you see him right there, lets than two dais of nomination serving food to homeless in washington, d.c. he says volunteering is a big part of his life so he's going to keep that up. well, judge brett kavanaugh heads into the confirmation process without a single democrat on his side. oklahoma senator james lanford

part of team to whip the vote, he's confident that kavanaugh will be confirmed without them. >> it's not a green light to have judge that will do anything what they want, nobody knows what the judge will be like when they get in bench. these are life-time appointments we had ruth bader ginsburg voting with conservatives an chief roberts with the affordable care act. brett kavanaugh came out clear i will say it is law means what the law says, what's interesting the same terms that east antiwomen, worst thing ever, these are the things democrats said when kennedy was going on the bench. normal play book but we will walk-through this, if we have the 51 votes, then democrats will jump on board. i think democrats will be hesitant to be the final vote on it. heather: no date has been set for judge kavanaugh's confirmation hearing, but the white house says it hopes to have him on the bench by

october 1st, we will see if happens. well, first lady melania trump set to honor hoar's overseas, she will meet british veterans during her and president trump's visit to london. she will also bring her be best campaign in events with british children. this comes after she and the other spouses of nato heads of state visited a belgium music academy that's worth young musicians and performed classical music. fox news alert for you, live look at brussels once again for you where high-level talks will happen any moment now from leaders around the world this after nato allies agreed to cough up the cash for defense so the president's tough talk rehearsal for face to face with vladimir putin. general anthony live to weigh in next. great to hear from him. will people die in judge brett kavanaugh is confirmed? that's what students and staff and ana maría matter at yale

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heather: fox news alert for you, live look once again for you at brussels right now where high-level meetings are about to get underway, a couple of bilateral meetings and multilateral meeting coming up as we have been telling you around 4:30 a.m. eastern time. but they are running a little bit late it appears, that one has to do with afghanistan this after nato allies finally agree to pay fair share of defense after tough talk from president trump, here now is former deputy commanding general u.s. forces in afghanistan and author of new book dark winter, general anthony, thank you very much for being with us. great to have you with us with all of this taking place going on in brussels. in terms of these countries that

have now agreed that they're going to pay what they were supposed to be paying, agree today pay 2% anyway, what are your thoughts on that? >> my thoughts are this is what the president has been talking about in campaign and has been consistent about it and the people criticized the president, heather had never operated with nato on the ground as i have, the afghanistan mission is largely a nato mission and the member countries there have so many national caveats from rules engagement to logistics and thicks, it's all on the back of american soldier and i understand that collective security arrangements need primary leader and the primary leader is always us be that doesn't mean that we should be taken advantage of the way we have. heather: so there are four countries right now that are paying their 2%, 5 countries if you include poland with 1.9%, these additional countries have

agreed, 8 other countries, britain, estonia, latvia, poland, romania and the u.s. >> right, what that means is those countries are not going to be taken as much advantage of us as they have in the past and that will-less son the defense spending an we can spend on other things for our nation and this is very much president trump's america first policy and what nato really -- political organization more than any kind of military organization, it yields political influence in a large way but its political organization has migrated into almost a proxy for the globalist agenda and so you have these almost socialists, socialists nations that are part of nato, not paying fair share and you've got this globalist agenda that is happening over in europe and that's part of president trump's rightful outrage is that they

have to pay fair share and we are defending them and we stopped the russian bear for many years and we still have 50,000 troops plus deployed throughout europe. >> can i ask you about that, though, we have the meeting coming up on monday with russia -- >> that's right. heather: indication of what we expect to happen there as to how the nato meetings began? >> yeah, russia, is an enemy. they attack us through cyber means and want to divide us and want to do all kinds of things that split us from the west and -- and really try to disable the nato alliance and all of that, so people are rightfully concerned that nato remain a holistic block as secretary of state pompeo said at the same time you can have good cop and bad cop with the president and the secretary of state and as we go up against russia we need to have unified front and it would

make more sense that everybody pay their fair share if we are that concerned about russia. heather: theresa may said the same thing. thank you so much for joining us. appreciate it. we will see what happens with the afghanistan meeting at 4:30. the time now 19 minutes after the top of the hour and sparks outrage and instead of removing from campus, removes to art museum, jackie ibañez with reaction to that story that will have blood boiling and thank you very much for your book. appreciate it. are you ready to take your wifi to the next level?

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heather: american flag, look at that, flying high outside the university of kansas, but an outpouring of backlash the university is still refuse to go remove flag entirely, jackie ib ibañez here to explain? >> the work of art was way to end political division but it did just the opposite as you can imagine, the piece known as quote flag 2 designed by german artist as part of art project. the american flag has black smears of paint representing deeply polarized country. also on the flag a black and white sock meant to represent the imprisonment of immigrant children at the border. students and alumni outraged by the exhibit. >> i wonder if there was a better way to -- to protest that than --

>> even governor intervened there. demanding it be removed. disrespectful display on ku campus is unacceptable, douglas choosing to remove the flag from campus ground saying, quoting the conservation around the -- the conservation the display has generated public safety concerns for our campus community. while, we want to foster difficult dialogue, we cannot allow dialing to put our people or property in harm's way, the privately-funded project will not be entirely gone. it has been moved indoors at the museum on campus but governor appearing to jab the university posting photos an twitter saying, quote, meanwhile at state capitol we fly the flag proudly. heather: thank you so much, jackie, we want everybody to let us know what they think about this, sure they have a lot to

say. >> yeah. heather: well, kevin costner is back and better than ever starring in the western called yellowstone, senior vp michael tamara, who sat down with veteran actor, great to have you with us. isn't it awesome? >> gorgeous set. we match. it all works out for the best. with over 500 scripted series out there, it's hard to navigate what's cringe worthy and bing worthy. first scripted show for brand-new relaunch network, incredibly bing-worthy, perfect show for summer 2018 starring kevin. kevin

costner. heather: i have seen a lot of promotion for it. >> a lot of buzz, great word of mouth. he told me what appeared about this show. >> sort of american story, sort of to -- when i was a kid i wrote a play and i would do courtroom drama. the appeal of this was the outdoors but it was really the story that tailored crafted in the script. >> i found myself looking at things differently than some to have things they deal with. is that sort of the goal -- >> yeah, the details the way tailor looks at things, modern day ranching, i don't know, you take a lot of things for granted farmer or anything in the world of ranching, the day starts before the sun comes up and it

stays and it really doesn't matter, there's not a clock on what has to be done and and that's if you're doing it right. >> to all the great shows you can find getting lost, wednesday nights 10:00 o'clock on paramount network. heather: i like dallas and 90210. [laughter] heather: favorite thing we do every year, everyone has been asking, social media has been a buzz, when is fox fan happening? >> it's happening saturday july 28th and sunday july 29th up at yankee stadium. 12:00 o'clock and game at 1:00 o'clock and you can get tickets by e-mailing fox fans summer at foxnews.com. we have the best fans and right up there is marcie who comes every year and she's been hounding me for tickets. heather: she was outside the fox news studio yesterday and i was able to talk with her. >> she starts -- i believe she starts chemo today.

she has organized scheduled her surgery around fox fan weekend. marcie, come on. start e-mailing us now. coming up soon. heather: thank you so much, appreciate it. well, the time now is about half past the hour antitrump fbi agent peter strzok finally in the hot seat, but exlover lisa page refusing to speak to lawmakers.

heather: for the first time the american people will hear peter strzok's side of the story. embattled fbi agent who vowed to stop donald trump from winning the white house. among many questions that

lawmakers have, will lisa be joining him? you say that mueller has a situation with strzok. >> yeah, first of all, strzok had stelar career, perfect guy to lead investigation with russian counterintelligence and russian espionage, he got himself involved in scenario where now this information is in text, thousands of messages, as a witness, this is what nobody is talking about, heather, mueller had no protect to investigation, he has to go for pub lib perception, more importantly can you imagine at a trial or hearing today the cross-examination of people who were in possession of this data that can argue that it compromised ability to properly do the clinton and tr trump investigation. the ig said that did not happen but nevertheless as witness he's very compromised donald trump. heather: you have the texts, you mentioned them.

let's bring everybody back to them. the text in october of 2016, e-mail from strzok to page detailing pressure to get the warrant on cart ter page buttoned up before election day. here is what was said at minimum that keeps, hurry the f up pressure on him, let's look at the next one. strzok and page, stop trump. he's not ever going to become president, right, right? no, no he won't, we will stop it. he can't escape those. >> you know with certain things you never speak about investigations and you definitely don't want to mix politics in there with respect to legal stuff that you're doing and that's what happened here. he should never have crossed that line. again, he had a stelar career but unfortunately he really hurt himself with putting the things out there as far as being effective witness. heather: what about lisa page? >> she has her problems too, she's deciding she's not showing

up for subpoena. they will get her testimony one way or the other. heather: what if i did that, what if i did what she she is doing? >> people don't respond to subpoenas and usually given opportunity to come to compliance and if you don't come to compliance you face sanctions. heather: had she just said that she's not going comply or not responded in. >> i have not been given documentation from doj to properly prepare for testimony, so what they're going to do so come to some sort of agreement in my opinion because she cannot decide there's a subpoena and i cannot show up, that's what lands you in court. heather: what more information does she need in. >> there's documentation that doj has, maybe she wants to see all the texts, maybe she wants to see reports, i'm not sure what she's looking for. what her lawyers are saying she's not being properly prepared. heather: thank you so much for joining us. everybody, i know i'm going to

be tuned in for sure. well, border patrol agents tried to help a pregnant woman attacked with rocks, spotted the woman who told them that she was in pain, when they tried to help someone on a nearby bridge started hurling rocks am them, the agents got mexican woman to hospital, she will be processed by immigration authorities but suspects who threw the rock escaped into méxico. and who claims that she had an affair with president trump arrested in ohio strip club, stormy daniels accused of letting customers touch her which is in violation of state law, i cannot believe that i'm actually saying that on national newscasts, her lawyer, there he is, calling it a set-up, tweeting she was arrested for allegedly allowing a customer to touch her while on stage, are you kidding me, resources and

sting operations, there has to be a higher priority. there you have it. now, let's talk about weather, it's almost weekend, adam klotz is here, adam i know that we have been dealing with severe weather deal cross much of the country, what's in store for us? >> the severe turns into heat, we have seen in the last couple of weeks, it's coming back, temperatures already there this morning, spots in the middle of the country. again, currents up to 85-degrees in kansas city and 80 in minneapolis, another very warm one across the country as again we are talking about temperatures, feel like temperature are you positiving in triple digits in some locationslows 03 in tulsa and kansas city, that continues for us on saturday and sunday. heather will be hot and summer marchs on a little longer. heather: stay inside and wasm foch news.

nice suit, by the way. >> thank you, trying to blend in with the red. heather: will people die, that's what students in yale think. >> would you run? >> i'm considering. >> dewayne johnson really rocking the 2020 vote, we just got an answer, carley shimkus here with social media reaction up next. and because of all those miles. obviously. what's in your wallet?

>> people will die if judge brett kavanaugh is confirmed. that is an actual message coming from students and staff after yale law school praised the president's supreme court pick. carley shimkus with fox news headlines 24/7, siriusxm 115 here with the outrage online.

good morning. carley: kavanaugh graduated from yale law school in 1980 and alma mater, well, major backlash to that one as a result, over 200 members of alumni community signed a letter demanding the school resend their statement, that letter says in part, people will die if he is confirmed. please use authority and platforms for stakes of the moment and the threat that judge kavanaugh possesses, yale's deputy director of communication director she responded, yale law school is a nonpartisan institution, we routinely and we did the same thing not too long ago when judge sotomayor received nomination to the high court.

so a lot of folks outside the yale law school are also responding to the backlash and the story in general. donna says, please, the court will be more entered and follow the law instead of political agenda and pam, let me get to one more on social media seems today people go to any lengths to smear a person they disagree with. so major reaction to sort of a noncontroversial statement from yale law school. heather: yeah, people were up in arms yesterday saying he used credit cards, baseball tickets, you know, how can he dare do that. carley: wow. heather: let's talk about dewayne johnson ordering rumors -- carley: looks like he's not cooking up presidential run, he recently respond rumors that he would be running in 2020, unfortunately i don't see it happening in 2020. it's a position that requires years of hard work and experience to learn the skills due to my schedule it's not possible in 2020. position, it's something that i seriously considered, what i

need is time and to go out and learn. a lot of folks on social media they are weighing in on this one big time. let's get to some reactions, guys, someone in hollywood with some sense. another twitter user writes this, good, stick to acting, sir, you're great at it. it sure does sound like he's interested in running just not 2020. heather: interesting, we have another season of ballers coming up pretty soon, we will watch him there. >> he has a busy acting schedule. heather: let's talk about taylor swift. >> there was rumor that taylor swift will make appearance, interns rushing for cell phone and flooding the highways, take a look at tweet from daily mail reporter emily, with twitter, taylor swift coming to stop, this tweet, james fonda, look at her, she's right there, walked

into the russell building and none of the interns wait if for taylor swift blink. heather: what is jane fonda doing there? jane i don't know. heather: investigate. the time now 15 minutes until the top of the hour, liberal students demanding north eastern university cancel contract with ice, why they need to learn how to study the facts first? and finally an airline that's making flying a better experience, how jet blue is making everything bigger for passengers.

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>> fox business alert for you now, better ingredients, better pizza and new owner, tracee carrasco from sister network fox business is here why the founder of papa johns just resigned, what happened? tracee: good morning, heather, more controversy for papa john, he's the founder of papa johns, the face of papa johns, he has resigned as chairman after reportedly using n word during conference call. it all came out after the conference call was reportedly a role-playing exercise design today prevent public relations crisis and that's when all happened and he used the racial slur, so in a statement, quote, regardless of the context, i apologize, simply stated racism has no place in our society, you remember last november there was a major controversy where he had to step down as the ceo of the company following some criticism of the nfl and how they handled

that incident with the national anthem and the players kneeling, all of that, he said that hurt pizza sales, he did step that and now no longer with papa johns. heather: tsa cannot be sued for assault, what's that all about? >> agents doing job as screeners, as security texts, can't be sued as you said for false arrest, abuse or assault, tsa officials have sovereign immunity while working in their official capacities and this is all under the federal tort claims act, so that law usually doesn't cover law enforcement officials but the court did rule that they're not law enforcement officials so they are covered by that law. heather: interesting. tracee: if there are going to be any changes it would have to be up to congress. heather: we want to get to that story, good news, improvements to jet blue. i love jet blue.

>> a lot of people might like this, one to have things is bigger overhead bens, bigger windows and planes have more seats, current jets have about 100 seats, so these will be with about 120 to 140 new seats, they will get the new planes in 2020 but we know more seats means more money for jet blue. heather: they seem to have a lot of room. tracee: the biggest out of all the airlines. heather: i'll be off tv recovering from surgery to correct condition with cord compression and here to explain exactly what that is and the procedure that i'm having fox news medical doctor, dr. mark seagal, appreciate it. >> you'll be fine. heather: surgery tomorrow morning for me, for others who may be having symptoms, numbness

in legs and arms, tingling in fingers, balance problems, difficulty walking, some of those symptoms, they should pay attention to them, correct? >> really public service to point that out because the final cord which is a big cord going all the way down, starts in the neck and goes to the back, that's covered with the cage, the cage is called the column, bones, in between the bones are shock absorbers called disks, that gives you flexibility, let me tell you what could happen, heather. heather: this is what it's supposed to look like, correct? >> exactly, that's what it's supposed to look like and what can happen over time or trauma or other issue, disks can become bulging, they can start to not work properly, you can have bone spurs, bones, spurs.

>> those disks start to push on the spinal chord and you can lose function and have the issues that you have been talking about, weakness. heather: we actually had that backwards, the second one was the way it's suppose today look because you have your spinal chord and supposed to have a lot of space in there and when it becomes compressed which is the first one we showed you, starts pinching down in spinal chord. i have no spinel fluid at all in three different areas. >> when you get the compression over the cord and you start feeling symptoms and that's when a spinel surgeon will draw the line and say i don't want this to progress. here is what you do in a situation like this, you replace the disks, shock absorbers and grafts from other parts of the

hip, put titanium plate. that's a miracle operation that takes 2 to 3 hours, final fusion and state of the art and get a pretty rapid recovery and if you don't paralysis. >> the most important thing, for those out there in this condition, it's an art. you have to find the best artist, surgery is an art especially this kind of surgery. heather: you helped me find the best. >> you have a great surgeon. heather: and the time now is about 8 minutes until the top of the hour, your hard-earned money used to fund a reality show, what? >> tonight on the bachelorette. ♪ ♪ heather: yeah, just how much of your taxpayer money is being

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heather: second amendment rights under fire in texas, three university of texas professors asking federal appeals court to bring back their challenge against 2015 law which allows students and professors to carry

concealed handguns in classrooms. they argue that students may be scare today voice opinion if they are worried other students are armed. a texas judge dismissed lawsuit saying there wasn't enough evidence. students and faculty in boston claiming that it is immoral to be associated with the agency. the school's research partnership with ice has raised more than $2 million in 2016 and north eastern says they have no association with immigration enforcement. time now for the good, the bad and ugly, first the good, paralyzed hockey player jack took a shot and scored. look at this. he tried wiggling his toes, first time that he was able to do that in nearly 7 years, former minnesota high school

athlete paralyzed from the chest down after spinal chord injury during game in 2011. for this episode of the bachelorette. >> tonight on bachelorette. heather: use to have slogan was part of the contract with officials, they say it was an opportunity to reach millions of potential new visitors. and finally, the ugly, uber passenger charged $250 for 7-minute trip, british tourist books 9-dollar trip and found out driver kept on going after dropping him off. 150 miles from miami beach to port st. lucie, the tourist thinks it was an intentional money grab. this wraps up hour, i will see you in a couple of weeks, until then follow me on social media, i will let you know how i am doing, time for rob an jillian,

see you. rob: we wish you well and see you back soon. fox news alert, upping the ante president trump getting ready for high-lel meetings just hours after nato nations have caved to tough talk and cough up cash for their own defense. public will hear from antitrump fbi agent peter strzok today. jillian: high-stakes hearing as republicans threaten lover with contempt. rob: still tough as nails, 95-year-old veteran who helped 60-year-old overcome fierce. >> the story of bravery that will make your morning, "fox & friends first" continues right now. ♪ ♪