original content. we are back in washington next sunday, 11:00 eastern, 8:00 pacific with the latest rob: it is monday august 20th, "fox & friends first", 4:00 a.m., fox news alert, 271 shootings in 28 days and another weekend of deadly violence in chicago. >> unlikely hand to extended killings. >> i was troubled by his conduct and statements he made in public and what i thought was his politicization of the intelligence community. rob: so did john brennan misuse classified information, though, that accusation from team trump? >> brand-new threat from the former cia boss. >> that's going to be tight through there. oh, my gosh.

rob: look at that, quote, at least he is alive, shocking moment an indy car driver is in air through collision. >> unbelievable. "fox & friends first" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> beautiful shot of new york city, it never gets old. look at that, every day i pinch myself i work here in new york city. rob: good shot. little boy from indiana. i'm still growing. >> yes, you are. rob: every day. >> good morning. come on, rob, you're being hard on yourself. you're watching "fox & friends first" on the monday morning, i'm jackie ibañez.

rob: i'm rob schmitt we are both in for heather. john brennan and president trump taking another turn. >> the trump administration brennan may have used classified intelligence but member nonisn't backing down. rob: that's right, war of words is heating up this morning, hey, griff. >> hey, rob, jackie, good morning, brennan is not backing down, days after cia director had lifetime security clearance revoked he doubled down on decision to speak out against the president. >> i have seen the likes blinking red in terms of what mr. trump has done and is doing and is bringing the country down on the global stage and he's fueling and feeding divisiveness within our country. he continually lies to the american people and the types of things he's i think to, i think, i need to speak out and so i've been speaking out forcefully. >> critics are claiming

president is playing politics. >> a number of people have commented that he couldn't be in the position he's in of criticizing president trump and his so-called collusion with russia unless he did use classified information when he was director of cia. i was very troubled by his conduct, by statements he made in public and what i thought was his politicization of the intelligence community. >> another former cia director came to brennan's defense. >> if someone uses classified information or reveals classified information or misuses that in a way while he's exercising the viewpoint, then i think that crosses a line but that was not the case here. >> brennan is just one of ten intelligence officials that the white house is considering revoking clearances and on friday the president hit it that the only one still currently

working for the government, assist ain't attorney general bruise ohr could be next. >> i think bruce ohr is a disgrace, for him to be in justice department and for him to be doing what he did that's a disgrace. >> the list which critics have aimed enemy's list includes former fbi director james comey, clapper, susan rice and former acting attorney general sally yates, you all heard the list last week, looks like the white house is take a lot more seriously with these under review, we will find out what this week brings. rob: thank you so much, concerns that john brennan may have misused classified intelligence. >> texas congressman and member of homeland security john ratcliffe says revoking more clearances is only appropriate if there's proof they have been

abused. >> i like the policy of extending clearances to former intelligence and law enforcement officials for the purpose of being able to provide add vieses and counsel to successors, he was leveling accusations, accusations of treason, he said that donald trump was a despicable demagogue that balloons in dust ben of history, i agree with the privilege and revoke when it's abused n. john brennan's case i think it's appropriate and with respect to other people urn consideration it's entirely appropriate when someone in intelligence community is under investigation or criminally referred or fired or misconduct that you revoke their security clearances, why would you give them access to national security information under those circumstances? rob: no word when a decision on pulling clearances from those other officials could be

announced. >> fox news alert for you, 50 people shot during violent weekend in shot, four of those victims are dead, 3 of the deadly shootings happening on sunday alone, there's been 271 shootings in chicago in the last 28 days, professional sports team in chicago banning together to stop the violence, the organizations donating $1 million to provide mentoring and therapy to at-risk kids to keep them out of trouble and police are ramping up a manhunt for cold-blooded killer in nashville, they are looking to see if the two shoot thración left three people dead are connected to the same gunman, both hang within one week, the gunman robbing the victims before killing them, a fourth person also mugged and shot in a third incident earlier this month, she's now paralyzed, they are looking for dark chevy sedan, get away car, they are urging people do not walk alone.

rob: taking more than 100 people hostage including women and children in ambush in afghanistan, the ambush comes despite announcement of officials cease fire with the terror group. secretary pompeo praising it saying in part, quote, the plan response to continued call for afghan people, we will facilitate between afghan government and taliban, meantime national security adviser john bolton is open to privatizing american's long discussion. >> i'm always open to new ideas but i will not comment on what the thinking is, that would ultimately be the president's decision. rob: bolton says discussions between afghanistan andal -- taliban are moving in the right direction, we shall see. focus has been on russia, russia, the trump administration sounding alarm as other global

threats as near term elections near. >> korean meddling that we are taking steps to try to prevent it. rob: bolton will be meeting with russian officials where he will bring up russian meddling concerns. >> president trump attorney general squashing white house dan mcgann is coorp rating with mueller because he's fear being set up. rudy giuliani says it's not true and shows mueller team's team is panic that. >> they are down to desperation, they don't have single evidence. >> president trump confirmed that he allowed to answer questions in mueller's investigation in russian meddling in 2011 application. rob: all right, jury could return verdict to paul manafort

trial, potentially faces life in prison if he is convicted on all charges. >> and even if acquitted he faces uphill battle but as tbar ret tenney explains, lawyers are confident. >> back to work after judge told them not to speak about the case and put it out of their mind until 9:30, day three of deliberation, they review all the evidence from the trial including testimony from 27 witnesses and hundreds of exhibits prosecutors presented including financial statements, loan applications, tax documents and emails and photographs, during first day of deliberation the judge passed note to judges asking four questions please define reasonable doubt, to that judge ellis responded, the government is not required to prove the defendant tblt -- beyond reasonable doubt.

paul manafort's attorneys are feeling good about chances. >> very good, very happy about the fair trial that judge ellis ensured for mr. manafort. >> longer favors your client? >> i do and he does. >> the case against paul manafort is largely to be special counsel mueller's best and strongest, we don't know that for certain we will start to find out in just a few weeks because next month the former trump campaign chairman is scheduled to go on trial in dc on separate charges, conspiracy to fraud the u.s. and fail to go register as agent. i'm garrett tenney fox news. rob: incredible story, dozens of south koreans on the way to to

demilitarized zone. more reunions at dmz later this week. >> president trump is honoring heros on the front lines of immigration battle, today's white house i haven't salute to the heros round table discussion about border security and community safety issues, comes as democrats clash with the president over immigration policies. rob: 11 minutes after the hour, the obama administration signed the iran nuclear deal in part to prevent terror regime on boosting up military on weapons and such but now iran is gearing off to show off new fighter jets and new missiles, daniel hoffman says more proof that we need to crack down on iran and the crack-down should come from trump administration, he's live next.

>> you can't control your kids, no food for you, that's right, the restaurant ban sparking backlash this morning, don't go anywhere.

rob: welcome back to fox news alert, fed offering reward for this wanted fugitive threatened to put a bullet on the president's head and would shoot anybody that has tried to arrest him. he's considered armed and dangerous. >> several shots fired at u.s. embassy overnight manhunt underway for the gunman of the capital up to 5 gunshots were heard in drive-by shooting, suspect taking off in white car after attacked, in one was injured but bullets hit security

but were to close for public holiday. rob: nation of iran flexing muscles ahead of new trump administration sanctions with plans to unveil fighter jet and show case missile capability later this week. >> the iran group would be responsible directing all aspects of iran-related activity, they will report directly to me, we must see major changes both inside and outside of borders, iranian people and the world are demanding that iran finally act as normal nation. >> isn't what the nuclear deal was design today stop? fox news contributor daniel hoffman joins us early this morning to react, good morning, thanks for being with us. >> good morning. >> how are they able to do this? was designed to stop and here we are. >> well, the iran nuclear deal, there was a bipartisan consensus on three of its critical

failings, the first was the lack of any sunset clause as i should say and secondly, didn't really hold iran to any limits on ballistic missiles and so iran's military development is ongoing and they are going to unveil the new fighter jet on wednesday, they've also got antiship ballistic missile which they tested last week during military exercises in strait and also producing surface to air missile defense modeled on russia s-300 in march. rob: testament to how dad the deal was that they're not breaking the deal that they are doing these types of things, iran clearly has bad intentions and europe still continues to

try and support this deal and it just makes you wonder why they have such blinders on in this situation, who thinks that giving iran more money and more capability could possibly be a good thing? >> i think the trump administration would argue that's -- that's a bad idea from a long-term strategic perspective. european allies, not to mention russia and china believe short-term economic interest would certainly benefit from not scrapping the deal and allowing some level of economic partnership with iran to carry on and in our view given iran's aggressive behavior in the region and the risk of iran developing the capabilities that would be adjunct to nuclear program, ballistic missile capability in particular, i don't think we find that is something we want to pursue. definitely a point of friction between european allies as well as russia and china.

>> well, iran, they are trying to show capabilities and how strong they are but they you in free-fall, what about the show moving forward and what they can do. >> iranian currency and economy is in free fall and find themselves to be in precarious position, iranian people expectations had to be rising after jcpoa was signed, may have believed that economic situation would get better but in fact, it's getting worse, they've always been concerned about the potential for arab spring coming to iran with populist uprisings that could threaten the regime, watch for the potential for increased domestic oppression in iran while secretary pompeo who just announced that brian hook would be our special representative for iran seeks to message iranian people and deliver coherent strategy for dealing with iran's aggression. rob: could get even worse as the

u.s. starts sanctioning countries that are buying iranian oil as they are threatening to do, thank you for your time, we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> first andrew cuomo started war of wards with president trump after saying this, remember. >> we are not going to make america great again, it was never that great. [laughter] >> here he goes again, wait until you hear what the new york liberal just said in a church. rob: milk or water, those could be the only two options that your kids have because the california apparently knows what's best. the restaurant restriction proposal that has your comments pouring in, stay tune this wi-fi is fast.

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rob: welcome back, and listen to this, the leader of me too movement is accused of paying off her own sexual assault accuser, according to new york times italian actress paid 380,000-dollar settlement to jimmy bennett claims that she assaulted him when they were working on a movie, bennett was 17. first women to come forward and accuse harvey weinstein of sexual assault. >> florida democrat tries to rally crowd with a sick joke about the president. [inaudible]

>> that's congressman hasting speaking at event near fort lauderdale. rob: andrew cuomo with war of words with president trump delivering latest jab during political speech at brooklyn church. >> mr. trump is the great divider in chief. i've known you for 30 years, you maybe a slick salesman who fooled many people in this country, but you didn't fool me and you didn't fool new yorkers. [applause] rob: with crowd calling president trump un-american and king trump, the governor has been under fire for the comments he made last week saying america was never that great. >> no kids allowed, german restaurant banning children to

give adults, quote, oasis of peace, sick of parents who can't control kids, he claims children bother guests by pulling on table clothes and throwing wine glasses, of course, not my kids, rob, parents parents do nothing to stop this, he could be sued but the customers approve of new policy. if you don't like it, don't go there, i don't want my kids there. rob: as a mom with no bold statement, as somebody with no children i think the dad is dead-on accurate. >> i don't want to be the person who ruins for you i rather stay and have p&j. this could tick people off, the goal to score parents effort to feed kids nutritiously and you guys at home have strong

feelings at proposal. rob: theresa marie, unless they are eating out every day this won't make a difference, up to parents to care more about child's health. >> outrageous but after all it is california. rob: michael commenting, can't restrict the number of criminals pouring over the border, bloomberg started with the soda ban. >> 27 minutes after the hour father accused of killing pregnant wife and two daughters, why did he do it? rob: president trump taking on "the new york times" for claiming counsel don manager began turned on him, now he wants to know when the russia probe investigators will be investigated themselves, does he have a point here? we will debate coming up.

rob: prosecutors will decide to face charges to colorado man accused of killing family, police could possibly release motive, the father chris watts is behind bars shannon and kids reported missing one week ago when they never showed up to doctor's appointment, shannon was 15 weeks pregnant as well. missing iowa college's student boyfriend took polygraph test and he passed. this comes as molly tibbett's father return today california, he's reluctant, i would imagine so, he's been helping lead the searching since molly vanished

from brooklyn, iowa. >> social media giants will now be punished for not removing propaganda according to financial times, will start fining companies that don't delete extremist content within hour of being posted, it will drop voluntary approach, the policy if they didn't comply with original order back in march. and this is a really sweet story, baby kids by the pope 3 years ago has beat brain tombor after given months to live, giana antonio was a-year-old when pope francis kissed her during philadelphia visit, there it is right there. the tombor now gone after undergoing chemotherapy and participants say is doing great and will attend preschool this fall. president trump playing quick round of golf in new jersey, day on the links after the senator comes to recent trip to russia where he's trying to improve relations there.

he's expected to ask president to lift sanctions on tough russia officials which would allow to visit to u.s. in a few months. john bolton visiting with key u.s. ally in the middle east and president trump's national security adviser greeted to warm welcome in israel where he broke bread with benjamin netanyahu, more on what to expect from today's meetings. >> president trump's national security adviser john bolton arrived in israel where he then had dinner with prime minister netanyahu and to hold series bilateral meetings and exchanged pleasantries and calling bolton true friend of israel. visit of bolton is important and he had a number of topics he would like to discuss mainly iranian aggression in the region. during dinner israeli embassador to the u.s. ron and talks between netanyahu and bolton will allow to dive deeper into

reconstruction process in syria and rising tensions with iran. it's important to look at the timing of the meeting between bolton and netanyahu because following his 48-hour stop in israel bolton will head to geneva, switzerland to meet with russian couldn't part, nikoli, conversations about future of leadership in syria. when asked by nbc news bashar al-assad staying in power is acceptable outcome for the united states, bolton responded by saying the u.s. is focused on defeating isis and humanitarian aid. bolton is scheduled to hold press conference wednesday to discuss conversations with israelis regarding syria and iran. from jerusalem fox news. rob: president trump putting the new york times on blast for insinuating that white house counsel don mcgann turned on the president and he's demanding to know when the investigation, the mueller investigation will turn toward the obama era officials at the center of the fisa warrant controversy, whether or

not this all started from something real. does the president have a point here, here to debate that fox news contributor richard fowler and independent women's patrice, guys, thanks so much for coming on this morning, i want to start from a quote from the article, white house counsel don mcgann has cooperated, mcgann and lawyer feared that mr. trump was setting up mr. mcgann to take the blame for any possible illegal acts of obstruction according to people close to him, so he and his lawyer mr. burke divides own strategy to do much as possible to cooperate with mr. mueller to demonstrate that mr. mcgann did nothing wrong, the time says richard, that mcgann may have turned on the president, what did you make of the article. >> at first i didn't know what to believe when i read the article. yesterday on another network rudy giuliani answered the questions, well, didn't answer them, and further to say that he wasn't sure what mcgahn said in

30-hour conversation with mueller team. if they were working together and president trump had sent mcgahn down to talk to mueller he would know what mueller said and the fact that the trump team doesn't know has raised eye bow for me, mind you, none of us know what is happening in mueller investigation, we haven't heard a word from him in almost 12 months, he's been focused on getting to the bottom of it and less focused on having conversation with the media. rob: the president knew that mcgahn was going to go down there and the president said in a tweet he has nothing to hide there. what do you think. >> i think "the new york times" article is pure speculation, they are suggesting because mcgahn talked for 30 years with the mueller team this is him flipping, in fact, this is the president -- the legal team strategy for the president which is open, honest and provide as much access to, you know, staff, to documents that could help the mueller team figure out what's really happening and if nothing happened close the investigation down, granned all of this

access, all of the interviews with over, what, three dozen different staffers and we still have yet to see any evidence of collusion of cover-up of collusion or obstruction of justice by president trump, then you have to wonder what is the mueller team really doing or what do they have up their sleeve if anything. >> patrice, the thing that we are waiting is because the mueller investigation is still not over, there's still more things to do, the fact that they talk today mcgahn for 30 years and rudy giuliani does not know what was said in the meeting should raise an eyebrow and should worry trump supporters. rob: let me bring this up, i found this particularly thing in the article, white house counsel said the president's lawyers had been careless in not asking mr. gahn what he plans to tell prosecutors, he say that is the white house and the president were careless but another great explanation for this, do

whatever you want, i have nothing to hide here and something that's this important it would be hard to imagine that they would be this careless, isn't it? >> well, i would usually agree with you but here lie it is problem, mcgahn has separate defense, does not have a defense cooperation agreement with the trump team which rudy giuliani confirmed yesterday in another network raises the eyebrows for me, am i saying this is true and i know what happened in the meeting, none of it, only mueller and team does. i didn't want to believe "the new york times" article at first but rudy giuliani did a good job of confirming pieces yesterday in an interview with another network. rob: patrice, final word? >> we don't know what's happening, once again, this is pure speculation and intense to try to get the president to sit down with mueller and perhaps perjure himself and would be wise for him not to do, whatever giuliani said, i don't think he's trying to undermine what

don mcgahn has sat down and said. >> how do we know that? the truth is the truth. >> we don't know but we will see, let's just hope that at the end of the day there's nothing, there's nothing. rob: that's it, guys, we have to leave it there. that's the highlight hit from the weekend with rudy giuliani, guys, thanks so much, we appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> 40 minutes after the hour, lucky to be alive caught on camera, look at this, the shocking moment that indy driver is catapulted through the air and incredibly terrifying collusion, unbelievable. >> we are going to win so much you may get tired of winning and you'll say, please, please, it's too much winning. rob: more winning, brand-new study says workers about to take home their biggest paycheck in years, why our next guest says we have the president to thank but first, a quick look at the weather across the country, find

your city.

rob: welcome back to fox news alert breaking right now, american special operations helicopter crashing this morning in iraq, several u.s. members on board are injured, this according to newsweek, the aircraft was returning to base after a small raid in iraq, military official telling newsweek the crash likely happened after some type of mechanical malfunction, we will keep updated on the story and give update as as they come in. >> va hospital where at least one patient was misdiagnosed and died. arkansas medical center reviewing 30,000 cases linked to pathologist accused while work ing while impaired, at least 7 misdiagnosed cases discovered so far, investigation to take at

least 6 more months. also happening today president trump's supreme court nominee judge brett kavanaugh set to meet with senator, with senator dianne feinstein, california democrat to express the -- press the judge over work in the george w. bush administration, democrats are called for open access to all documents from kavanaugh's years from serving as white house lawyer and staff secretary for president bush, kavanaugh's hearings are to begin next month. rob: all right, more winning for american worker? americans are in for biggest paychecks in years. >> good news there as unemployment rate has fallen sharply specifically for minority groups, is this all to thanks to the president's tax cuts? rob: senior fellow matty. >> good morning.

>> you talk to nancy pelosi and tax benefits will benefit companies and employers will never see it, scraps according to pelosi. >> i think we will see data what tax law would happen, one of the components of tax bill last year was corporate tax rate why you hear nancy pelosi say that this only benefit it is high -- the well-connected and the elite. that's simply not true, taking that corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% was so important in order to get workers wanings to rise because increases the amount of capital available to businesses to invest back to workers, increase productivity and that's finally what we are starting to see where data here, workers are starting to see the benefit of cut in corporate tax rate. >> what does this actually mean for me, 2018 general industry salary budget survey says 3.1% pay increase to the average u.s.

worker in 2019 compared to 3% in 2018 and 4.6% average pay increase to top performers in 2018. anything helps and that's not bad? >> that's exactly right. listen, i like to think about tax reform in three different ways, the first month of the year when we saw businesses start to offer bonuses and increase compensation because of the tax reform law, now that was just a one-time bonus for workers but obviously benefited a millions of workers in this country, secondly there was a change in table so people's paychecks are starting to get bigger and thirdly some of the economics, fundamental change in respond to changes in tax law making the united states a competitive place to do business again is good for business but even better for workers. rob: yeah, i think there's another big part of this, as the -- as it gets more competitive to find good employees because the unemployment rate continues to go down, companies are then -- we are living in a capitalistic society, companies

are forced to pay more because if you want to have somebody good, that good employee now has a lot of options. >> right, you're exactly right. rob: drives up wages in a much better way. >> exactly right, not only fundamentals of the economy improving but there's a tight labor market and we are starting to see -- every week we see data that shows us that there's strength in a lot of different sectors that have lagged for so many years, retail is where we saw good numbers last week, transportation and warehouse, we hear about trucker and how much pressure is on that economy, on that industry for workers there, we are going to see the tightness in labor market and compensation so businesses can hold onto them. rob: i've talked to my friends say i have job offers coming in from different places, yo you want me, give me another 20 grand, that's huge. >> about ten minutes till the top of the hour, shop run out of bedroom, a couple busted for

massive marijuana operation but is who they had running it that has everyone shocked this morning. >> it's the police. i need change for a dollar. rob: you have seen it on the simpsons, now you can visit the quickie mart in real life. oh, i can't wait. >> finally. rob: where the iconic store from the best store ever just opened its doors. this wi-fi is fast.

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rob: welcome back, indy car driver rushed to hospital after a violent crash at coconut raceway.

or -- >> oh. rob: just that little touch leads to all of that. amazing, robert slam dog the fence going airborne. this happening in pennsylvania, horrifying accident, treated for injuries to legs and spine as well as bruised lung, got pretty beat up but he is awake and he is alert. alexander ron that race which was delayed nearly 2 hours after the huge wreck. >> crew ship passenger falls overboard and spent 10 hours, rescuing british tourist after finding swimming in the area where she fell in, the 46-year-old with sincere gratitude, she's been taken for additional treatment this morning. rob: shocked to be alive. apple pulls the plug on 25,000 gambling apps from store in

china, apple reportedly pulling the apps because they are illegal in that country. >> have you been tracee carrasco here, good morning, tracee. tracee: apple came under criticism from the chinese media because of this, because they were not doing enough to filter out this illegal, ban content but, yes, as you said, 25,000 apps have been pulled from the app store in china because of that content, here is what apple had to say about the move, quote, gambling apps are illegal and not allowed on the app store in china, we have removed many apps and developers for trying to detranscribe -- distribute apps and vigilant to stop these from being on app store, apple reportedly offered 1.8 million apps on the app store in china so 2r5 thousand really just over about 1%. >> simpson fan out there, i know rob is, i remember watching as kid, it's coming to live for us.

tracee: yes, the kwik-e mart. if you ever wanted a hot dog, maybe donut, now is your chance. this is set up, opened on friday, myrtle beach, south carolina, you can also pick up some character memorabilia. rob: the kwik-e mart didn't have a good reputation. >> i don't think they did that there. >> time good, bad and ugly, first the good, the match putting on display of true sportsman with handshake after game, the mets winning second annual little league classic 8-2. rob: next bad, mom accused of

having 15-year-old running pot shop out of bedroom, confiscating guns and 80 pounds of marijuana along with you can see here edible marijuana, edible marijuana and a dozen pot plans plants from the home, california teen with hanging sign on door, two adults arrested and two kids put in protective custody. what a story. >> the ugly, single woman going viral for show casing for not ingoinged life, 30-year-old mary mccarthy posed hundreds of pictures featuring her ringless hand. that's right. rob: that's right. >> we don't need you. rob: rightly so. you don't need me i know that much. >> that's for sure. rob: coming up at 5, he took hillary clinton to task in coal country. >> coal miners out of jobs and coming here and tell us how you're going to be our friend.

rob: now that coal miner right there calling out the obama administration again as president trump is set to roll back restrictions on coal-burning power plants this week. >> and don't miss live in next hour on "fox & friends", don't go anywhere, good morning.

rob: all right, monday

august 20th and fox news alert happening right now, massive manhunt for the man who threatened to murder the president. >> the price the fbi is willing to pay to find him. rob: did john brennan misuse classified information, that accusation from the trump administration. >> brand-new threat from former cia. rob: this is horrifying video, a mad dash through a blazing forest fire. >> the desperate son and father escaped all caught on mara as "fox & friends first" continues right now. ♪ ♪ >> good morning, you're watching "fox & friends first", on this