most grateful you spent the evening with us, good night from washington, i am shannon bream. >> it is friday, august 3rd, this is "fox and friends first". a fox news alert, possible break in the case of molly tibbetts. rob: the search for the missing iowa student. >> because we are americans and our hearts bleed red, white and blue. todd: donald trump in the keystone state making his case for the midterms. jillian: the fiery speech rallying his base. todd: flames of fire at high flying patriotism have a lot of you talking.

jillian: "fox and friends first" starts right now. rob: a song to ease into your friday. jillian: it is friday. it is energetic for us. todd: do you want energetic? good morning, good friday morning, you are watching "fox and friends first". jillian: thank you for starting the day with us. a fox news alert, a brand-new clue could help investigators track down missing college student molly tibbetts. her family believes she is being held captive. todd: jackie ibanez has more on

the desperate quest. >> reporter: two weeks since molly tibbetts vanished from her small town of brooklyn, iowa but investigators could be closer to finding her. search teams coming through ditches after a red shirt was found nearby. an interesting find since employees of the daycare where molly works, the fbi question the owner of the farm and searched his home but he has nothing to hide. investigators say the farmer pled guilty to two counts of stocking. it is believed molly went missing after returning to her boyfriend's home from a jog, she was dog sitting for him while he was out of town for work. investigators chased hundreds of leads and came up empty. molly's family is not losing hope they think she is alive and could be held captive. >> we wake up every day at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning and fight, dalton is fighting, everybody is fighting to get her

back. shannon: former homicide detective and fox news contributor will join us live to weigh in on the case in a few minutes. right now there is a $170,000 reward for information leading to molly's whereabouts. jillian: let's hope they can find any information that will lead to her. another fox news alert, swat team searched the home of a man accused of killing george hw bush's former doctor, police coming up empty after sweeping joseph pompous's house in houston, accused of killing the cardiologist as he rode his bike two weeks ago, he may have been seeking revenge after his mother died on the doctor's operating table in 1997. he is believed armed and dangerous. the fbi doing an amber alert for a girl who may have been abducted. investigators saying she was

taken at reagan national airport in dc by the woman in this surveillance photo. the 12-year-old was traveling with a group, police say she is an extreme danger. >> we believe there is evidence that suggests while the child was walking with the woman or child may have put on another piece of clothing. we are tempting to get in touch with the chinese embassy. because of the age of the child this is a serious incident. jillian: police think she left in this white car with the woman and an unknown man. todd: a 5 year veteran of the police force after being shot in the head, the suspect due in court this morning. police officer jim devol responding to a call when police say,c was shot, he is expected

in court today charged with attempted murder. he was out on bond for a weapons charge. put the man police a friend to shoot a congresswoman set to face a judge today. carlos is accused of leading voice mail for the majority whip and caffrey -- kathy mc mars rogers, they told him, quote, we are going to feed them led, make no mistake, you will pay. scalise nearly killed last year after a gunman opened fire at a republican baseball practice. jillian: donald from rallying the crowd in the keystone state out of his economic success, slamming his opponents and calling for a government shutdown. rob: drumming up support for lou barletta's senate bid. >> reporter: in classic form, in

his campaign to unseat bob casey. it was an unfulfilled campaign promise the president made in the same arena at the top of his mind and is willing to go to great lengths to fulfill it. >> we are going to start to get very nasty over the wall. the democrats, anything i want they want to oppose. we are going to be taking some very tough actions. we are closing down government. we need border security. >> reporter: rallying support behind barletta who trails by double digits in the polls, the president coined a new nickname for two term incumbent bob casey. >> i got to talk about bob casey i will start falling asleep. don't fall asleep as we talked about sleeping bob. we need republicans. we need lubar letter. he is tough. >> reporter: he looked ahead to 2020, those he sees as new stars of the democratic party.

>> maxine waters, very low iq. running against pocahontas or crazy bernie. i saw him up there the other day. that hair is getting wider and wider, he is getting crazier and crazier. >> reporter: the attack on the media was a centerpiece of the rally message. >> we are doing better in all of these states than we did on election night. despite only negative publicity, only negative stories from the fakers back there. >> reporter: donald trump surprised many when he won in 2016 which is why this race for the senate seat is a big prize this november. barletta trails by double digits. it will be an uphill climb but the president going back to the arena he has gone to in the past.

todd: pocahontas, crazy bernie is now sleeping bob. he loves the nicknames. donald trump using his rally to encourage voters to go to the polls in november as the partisan gap grows wider. >> the midterm elections offer the once forgotten men and women a chance to make their voices heard again. >> we have a chance for a historic election to give the american people and honest choice between a radical extremist democratic party and the progressive wing gradually being destroyed by radical extremists or they can try to appease the elites. if they run district by district campaign they blues the house. it is impossible in the modern era, rush limbaugh approved of it. 435 districts every day.

republicans are going to win the fight, when the argument, all the issues on their side but the question is do they have the courage. >> the midterms 95 days away. todd: mike pompeo with his counterpart overnight demanding an american pastor held captive be set free. the two speaking privately in singapore. pompeo is hopeful something will get done. pastor andrew brunson is facing terror-related charges while under house arrest, the white house is not budget and economic sanctions on turkey after they refused to release him. jillian: a newcomer claims victory in the gop primary for tennessee governor. bill leads beating out three republicans to get the nod. one of them congresswoman diane black was favored to win, karl dean in november. congresswoman marsha blackburn

easily winning the gop facing tennessee's former governor, democrat who won by a landslide. todd: 9 minutes after the hour. we are just hours from the july jobs report. american workers get their biggest pay raise in more than a decade. economist peter moricci with why trump's economy is bad news for the democrats in the midterms. >> you cannot say the press is not the enemy of the people. >> it is ironic that not only you in the media attack the president for his rhetoric. jillian: hot off the press, sarah sanders and jim acosta, how the fire exchange ended. ♪

jillian: americans keep on winning, the president touting his economic boom in pennsylvania claiming democrats

have no answers. >> america is winning again. last week we announced that the us economy grew 4.1% last quarter, nobody thought that was possible and if the democrats got in, that number would be 1.2, it could even turn negative. jillian: will the jobs report due out in just hours add to the president's successes? peter moricci joins me now. thank you for being here. what do you expect in the next few hours? >> 210,000 jobs which is in line with what we averaged the last several months with an expanding and growing economy. jillian: that is the number we have seen the last couple months, 213,000 jobs created in june 2018. do you expect this number to

plateau? >> we should not expect to see bigger numbers, and at that pace of growth, gradually getting people off the bench and that is people who weren't in the job market, who were really -- to start looking again. pulling a lot of minorities and disadvantaged people. people who might have a black mark on the record, people with criminal records, this is a very robust job market. people with some experience, opportunity to switch jobs and -- jillian: it is a nice number and you have critics out there saying american people are not seeing a difference. what do you say to the critics? >> what else are the democrats going to say?

donald trump has accomplished 45% better growth then democrats did. he is averaging 2.7% a year. barack obama averaged 1.8, 1.9. the record is stark. all they can do is make up fake news, that there is great unfairness in the country and every mainstream church wagging a newspaper in people's eyes, not just the media saying there is terrible unfairness in america. the reality is a lot of the raises are going to people at the bottom and people who didn't have opportunities before have opportunities. we are going to make it so you don't have to work. we give you guaranteed annual income. we have an economy where nobody works, borrow money from chinese and democrats will get elected that way. i don't think that is a winning formula. jillian: what do you think these numbers mean as we head into the

midterms? >> good news for the republicans. unfortunately the republicans don't always have the strongest candidates. in a special election coming up on tuesday, when things look dark for the republicans a lot of people bail. it was hard to recruit the kinds of candidates, now we are stuck with what we have got. democrats raising a lot more money, hollywood on their side and silicon valley on her side. and the rich and wealthy went to dupe the poor into keeping them in power. >> that report, we are standing by to see the numbers. todd: democrats testing a new method to win over voters for

the midterms, text messaging, that can work. jillian: kurt the cyber guy with the downside. ♪ are you ready to take your wifi to the next level?

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jillian: ocasio-cortez's victory causing a rise of democratic socialists on college campuses, young democratic socialists of america experiencing a 280% increase from 2016 from 2018. in the fall over 250 campuses registered for a chapter which is the most ever. todd: politicians looking to win over use of voters sending a text message that. todd: fighting that is a got texts and vented mailers donated to campaigns. voters only got mailers. todd: is there a downside to this political spam? let's bring in kurt the cyber guy. >> when we look at this closely it is a brilliant way for political campaigns to reach people not only for the vote but donations to their campaign.

a group of people have been using a similar way, instead of volunteers sitting around calling you and annoying you in the evening hours they will instead text you. hi, jillian, what is going on, who is this? at the end of the day it is much less annoying than getting a phone call according to people receiving this. what happened in tennessee, where it is being sent to the moon? never areas actors, badmouthing, doing political attacks against opponents. it is certainly not allowed. at this point you don't know who is behind it. jillian: there is the national do not call list, don't know if that works for text messages.

>> robot machine, vote for me because that would not be allowed. you are completely allowed to have an individual text you at a time so they created software applications that work for political campaigns, individually texting you. their databases so virtually everything including what nail color you have. we have that information out there, you may have offered it before to a political party. >> can i do anything to stop this? >> there is a little bit you can do. once you receive this, you can request as they call you please don't text me again. is a going to be effective? apparently not. the second go around they start to think about removing you from the list.

how to remove anybody who is bothering you by text. jillian: including people you know. todd: the final day. jillian: where can we find that? >> cyberguide.com. jillian: a new clue in the search were missing iowa student as the family of molly tibbetts refuses to give up hope. >> molly didn't go to work today. at that moment adrenaline shot through my body, something is terribly wrong. heather: disgrace will act calling stone from the grave of a fallen hero. carly shimkus with growing outrage from a goldstar mother. >> friday the all-american

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>> fox news alert, brand-new clue in the search for molly to its. a red shirt found near the pig farm investigators have been coming through. rob: the family of the missing college student not giving up hope just yet. >> we believe that molly is still alive. of someone has abducted her we are pleading with you to please release her. todd: that was molly's mother pleading for the return of her daughter who she believes is still around after disappearing two weeks ago. jillian: ted wilson sat down with her yesterday and joins us with that interview. what is the latest information that you know? >> reporter: i can tell you over my shoulder here is the command

center where local, state, and federal law enforcement officers will be converging in this area with one objective and that objective is to bring molly home. they have gotten quite a few clues, some of it they shared with us and hold close to their vests. >> i want to play some sound from your interview with molly's mom. >> i was quietly sitting in the public library and approximately 5:15 my youngest son scott called me and said molly didn't go to work today. at that moment adrenaline shot to my body, something is terribly wrong. law enforcement has been essential, crucial. i can't find the words to say what happened. >> how are you holding up?

>> through some kind of internal strength that is just there. todd: we heard how important hope is during this process, you are there with molly's mom. what did you see in her eyes when you spoke to her? >> reporter: i saw what i have seen thousands of times as an investigator over the years, someone clutching onto just a glimmer of hope that at some stage in the future they will be able to hug their loved one who is missing. molly's mother's eyes, my heart went out to her. jillian: all of america's heart goes out to their family. in your conversation with molly's mother, do they have any suspicions of their own what may have happened to their daughter?

>> reporter: some do and some don't. i mean some of her relatives have an idea, they believe she is somewhere abducted, that she is alive. they believe sooner or later the person who is holding her, that person will release molly award. >> take us through what happens of law enforcement identifies this. >> once they identified the suspect they will bring that person or persons in, look physically over that person because if there are any abrasions, in a fight with the person, and confiscates their

cell phones and bring them in, they will do what is done with a digital footprint and find out about the person's background. and confiscate their automobile. one of the most important things they do, and aspect of suspects to take a polygraph examination as part of the investigative process. jillian: the number to call if you know anything no matter how small you think the detail maybe you can call the sheriff at 641-623-5679. thank you very much. >> reporter: the pleasure. jillian: an exclusive look at the military gear and personal items returned with us marines from north korea, helmets,

campaign buttons, from the korean war, caskets recently handed over to the us. also found, this dog tag. it will be given to the fallen soldiers two sons at arlington, virginia. the remains being tested in hawaii after mike pence accepted them on wednesday. todd: sarah huckabee sanders flipping the script on reporters during a fiery exchange in the white house briefing room. >> the president is rightfully frustrated. 90% of the coverage on him is negative despite the fact the economy is booming, isis is on the run and american leadership is being reasserted around the world. >> you did not say that the press is not the memory -- enemy of the people. >> personal attacks without any content other than anger. the media has attacked me personally on a number of occasions including her own

network, harassed, that i should be choked. todd: jim acosta tweeting that he walked out of the briefing room in protest. mark live in slamming the press corps. >> the dc press corps today is the least professional press corps of my lifetime. they think that their job is to make it impossible for the president to function. as long as they keep putting clowns like jim acosta out there who is a drama queen of sorts, the reaction of the american people. todd: live-in says the press needs to take a look at itself but it won't. as anti-trump rhetoric rams up eric trump is shining a light on how his family has been a target. >> i have been threatened, we have had white power show up in our house. there is no moral outrage about that but when it happens to them, when they are offended by a message.

todd: vanessa trump was hospitalized after opening a suspicious letter with a white powdery substance addressed to her ex-husband donald trump junior. jillian: hundreds of protesters fed up with gun violence take to the streets of chicago. the march shutting down a major highway during rush hour, demonstrators sending a loud and clear message to democratic mayor rahm emanuel, make changes or resign. >> 16 shots covered up. we are praying today, the mayor and city council, do something different. jillian: gianna caldwell is on the ground with the protestant will join us live in the next hour. todd: democrats blasted by their own party over their efforts to impeach the president. >> not a single person in the

senate democratic caucus has shown the common sense or the sense of right and wrong to support impeachment. jillian: carly shimkus with serious xm 115 with reaction to those comments. >> reporter: tom stier made his money on wall street, he is a billionaire who became an environmentalist and is founder of a campaign aimed at impeaching donald trump. you heard him calling out members of the democratic establishment who have not backed his campaign but conservatives on social media are responding to his comments, when twitter user rights goes to show you common sense is not needed to become a billionaire. another rights you actually have to commit a crime to be impeached. nora on twitter writing sorry but not liking him is not a valid reason for impeachment. stier pledged $40 million in his business campaign to impeach donald trump. todd: it is about having grounds

on which to impeach. really unfortunate situation in massachusetts. >> the mother of a fallen soldier said thieves have been stealing coins people are leaving on her son's graveyard. take a listen. >> it just makes me, it makes me sick to think that someone could do that. >> the mother noticed the coins were missing a couple weeks ago. it is a tradition for people who knew a fallen soldier to leave money on their gravestone. a lot of people on social media sympathizing with this family. i never heard of this tradition but love it. how dare people steal the coins, so much disrespect, such a beautiful young man he was and another twitter user rights there is no accounting for scum who would violate the grave.

jillian: 3 girls on horseback going viral. >> 3 girls in california came up with a unique way to thank firefighters and first responders battling the car wildfire. they are riding past the command center on horseback carrying american flags and a sign it says thank you. it listed their spirits and people in social media responding to this, one twitter user rights that is the country i grew up in and we have to get back to and another twitter user says my hometown, proud of those girls, a simple thank you in a unique way. jillian: i will not get on horseback to say thank you. 39 after the hour, 17 years after 9/11 airplanes are a real target for terrorists. >> terrorists want to bring down

aircraft. they still see aviation as the crown jewel target. jillian: why in the world with the tsa cut security screenings at airports across the country? jim hansen, an expert in hunting extremists, joins us with why he says this could be catastrophic. rob: this video showing a dramatic car rescue, americans help officers. the weather across the country. ♪ not ♪ a hero ♪ the hero in the morning sky ♪ - in a crossfit gym, we're really engaged

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>> reporter: terrorists want to bring down aircraft to disrupt their economy, undermine our way of life and it works. which is why they still see aviation as the crown jewels target. jillian: joining us with reaction his former us army special forces conducting counterterrorism operations, jim hansen. thank you for joining us. i want to hear what you have to think of this was we were stunned yesterday when we heard it. >> reporter: it does not seem like a wise move. as secretary kelly said the terrorists have always focused on aircraft. if you can knock an airplane out of the sky or as on 9/11 use them as weapons you create a very normal fear for people. there is something completely not quite right about putting a couple hundred humans in a tube and hurdling them through the sky. we all have a rational fear of that.

i have jumped out of them at the same altitude, but the terrorists know that puts fear in us and disrupting that and our air travel system causes massive disruption to people and businesses. it is a great target and we need to keep our eye on it. todd: you can't put a price on human life but for arguments sake, say they came back and said this will save us $100 billion. then there might be a little more of an argument here. $115 million annually. that is nothing compared to the scope of what we pay at airports and how much the federal government has. this is insanity. >> you can make the case there are plenty of other targets. a terrorist in nice, france, killed 87 people and wounded 450

with a cargo truck. it is not like they don't have other ways to do it but this is the one they focus on. this is the one that given a choice they will do. the idea of saying smaller airports if we go ahead and leave them a little bit foldable they won't go there but the 9/11 hijackers focused on an airport in portland, maine based on the assumption that security at smaller airports would be less. they proved the fallacy in that thinking. tsa needs to accept the fact that we either protect all our airports or none because knocking a plane with 50 people out of the sky is not much less bad than knocking one out with a couple hundred. jillian: a statement from the tsa says, quote, there have been no decisions to illuminate passenger screening at any federalized us airport. you brought up a good point when you were talking about what happened in nice. we saw terror play out in many aspects since 9/11, vehicles on multiple occasions, a lot of

shootings, concert venues targeted. just because we are seeing other factors of terrorism doesn't mean you start getting lacks at the airports. >> i don't think this is the place to make cuts especially for budgetary reasons. let's go ahead and if we are going to secure our air travel system we have to secure it on this go in through the weakest spot and weakest links in the chain. secure it all and look at procedures that are ridiculous at some of the checkpoints but no reason to stop screening luggage or other things. if they sneak a bomb on a plane anywhere in the united states on the us aircraft or anywhere else on the world especially our own us travelers that will cause a massive disruption and we can't let them. todd: thank you for adding a little sense to a senseless argument.

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♪ at the site of you ♪ todd: if you do want free food you can come to the plaza later today. 14 and country will be performing the. jillian: best corn muffins i ever had. amazing. my first line is do you want free food? get a job. donald trump urging lawmakers to work together to put the rule in the farm bill. the president tweeting when house and senate meet on the farm bill, hopefully they will be able to leave work provisions approved. the senate should go to 51 votes. the current farm bill ends next month. todd: promise you won't laugh at this. this woman so distracted by her phone she falls into a fountain. california wants to ban people from using the phones while crossing the street. people who cover both ears with

headphones, violators could be punished with a $500 -- honolulu became the first major american city. with a similar law. jillian: sometimes it is insane. no one is paying attention. pay attention to this. stores closing their doors for good. todd: tracy carrasco is here to explain why. i found that one -- jillian: i like brookstone. >> you need to find another place to get chairs or high-tech gadgets. they filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. they will be closing all mall locations, about 100 of them. they hope to keep 35 of their airport locations open but this is all due to declining foot traffic at malls, more people shopping online. another victim of the retail ice age.

jillian: they have the softest blankets. >> reporter: i have a blanket from brookstone. todd: some big guinness news. >> reporter: the first guinness brewery in the united states in 60 years is opening today just outside maryland. the guinness (worry, not going to be brewing the iconic stout, that is coming from dublin, ireland but they will be brewing the lacquer, they will have a visitor center, task force, you can take tours. this is opening up today, first time in several years. todd: the players are not getting in. >> reporter: you can taste the imported beer from ireland. they are not doing that iconic status. >> time for the good, the bad and the ugly. a lot on the line to pool a man

from a burning car. first responders pooling the unconscious driver out. he crashed in southern california. jillian: a teenager tried to steal a plane to go to a rock concert, the 18-year-old found bike security arkansas city in the cockpit of an american eagle jet but he doesn't know how to fly. heather: caught red pod, a company named savage seen on surveillance video stealing and amazon package. it was not the only thing savage swiped. he took a pair of prescription sunglasses and a garden hose nozzle the owner did not realize. jillian: all right. chicago protesters outraged over

rising gun violence instead of democratic leadership. >> not everyone believes chicago is a trump freezone. i accept his help. we can't turn any help away. todd: born and raised in the windy city, joins us live with reaction in the next hour of "fox and friends first". ♪

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crucial clue and standard in the search for mollie to that. jillian: her family refuses to give up hope. >> i'm running against pocahontas or crazy bernie. jillian: how donald trump is resonating in the midterms and beyond. todd: can you believe it? football is back but to the national anthem protesters make a return to the field? todd: "fox and friends first" continues right now. ♪ ♪ tonight is going to be ♪ a good night ♪ tonight is going to be ♪ a good night