shannon: it is tuesday, august 21st and this is "fox and friends first". happening right now murder motives revealed, the father charged with killing his pregnant wife and daughter just hours away from facing a judge. rob: the bombshell claim he is now making. >> i would like to get the hillary clinton treatment, not under oath, write a report before you question it. jillian: the hillary clinton treatment. rob: new demands from rudy giuliani as the president rails against the russia probe. >> you are allowed to kneel or

do whatever you ones. the old white man can't stop you. rob: the vma goes political. jillian: "fox and friends first" starts right now. ♪ a beautiful morning ♪ i think i will go outside ♪ jillian: stretch it out. rob: much more comfortable outside. jillian: i don't want to get ahead of ourselves. rob: we are on "fox and friends first" this morning.

jillian: donald trump unloading on robert mueller, targeting the russia investigation. rob: he expressed concerns of a perjury trap. >> reporter: in an interview with reuters the president says he could take over the mueller investigation if he wanted saying, quote, i could going into whatever, i could run it if i want but decided to stay out. i'm allowed to be involved if i want to be but i haven't chosen to be involved. he raised concerns that if he spoke to mueller he would be exposed to a perjury trap against james comey, if i say something and comey says something it is my word against his and he is best friends with mueller so mueller might say i believe comey, that makes me a

liar, that is no good. earlier in the day the president went on a twitter rant saying disgraced and discredited bob mueller and his group of angry democrats, 30 hours at the white house counsel only with my approval for purpose of transparency. anyone -- there is no russian collusion, someone he continues looking for trouble. they are enjoying ruining people lives and refused to look at the rear russia on the democrat side, the lies, fires, deleted emails and so much more, looking to impact the election, they are a national disgrace. the president's attorney rudy giuliani downplaying news, indicated he is leaning against letting him sit down with mueller under current conditions can sarcastically saying this. >> get hillary clinton treatment, give us questions in advance, just do a little report and writes a report before

questioning. >> reporter: the russia probe on the president's mind, then he heads to west virginia. we will find out if he has more to say. rob: transparency has been the president's theme since the beginning of the russia probe. jillian: an interview should be out of the question because it can fall into a perjury trap. >> i think originally the original plan of the trump defense team was to cooperate in the hope the investigation would quickly end, that hope has been dashed. all you need is one witness who contradicts one statement the president says to the prosecutor, that witness can be somebody who is thinking, composing, flipped, has a deal, told either you are going to die in prison or tell us what we

want to hear. any defense lawyer who whatever locker client into a perjury trap under those circumstances has to have his license reconsidered. rob: the president and rudy giuliani calling on robert mueller to end's investigation by september 1st. jillian: an american servicemember was killed in a military helicopter crash in a rack. that person's identity is unknown. the pentagon says the chopper went down following a raid against an isis target that was not taken out by enemy fire. two other coalition troops needed medical treatment but their nationalities of not been released. al qaeda's master bombmaker is dead. he was killed in a drone strike in yemen last year. the terrorist from saudi arabia believed to have been behind several bomb attempts including to bring down a train heading to amsterdam in 2009.

the us has ordered $5 million for information leading to his capture since 2004. rob: the last known nazi collaborator in the united states is deported back to germany. ice agents arrested 95-year-old at his home in queens, new york. according to the justice department he served as an armed guard at a death camp in poland and lied to immigration officials about his role in world war ii. he revoked his citizenship in 2005. it is unclear if this man will face any prosecution in germany, 95 years old. celebrating the men and women that protect our border donald trump throwing his support behind ice and border patrol agents. ray bogan has more as lawmakers slammed the president's immigration policy. >> donald trump hosted federal

immigration officers in his salute to the heroes where he read it support for ice and border patrol. >> my administration will not rest until you have the resources, the tools and the authority you need to do your job and do it properly. >> reporter: donald trump double down on his push for immigration reform. he vowed to stop sanctuary cities and end american catch and release policies which allow someone with illegal immigrants to be released until there immigration hearing. two of several promises he made monday. >> we will secure our border once and for all. >> reporter: the event comes the same day he sent a letter to state and local leaders asking their public support of agencies writing ice agents have been subjected to a nationwide campaign of insulted attacks. lawmakers on capitol hill are concerned about the orders he

handed to the agency. the trump administration's approach to immigration has been a subject of bipartisan criticism specifically the family separation policy. >> we were coming across the border. >> we can have border security without bullying. >> reporter: a federal judge made two rules on immigration, one, temporarily stopping the deportation of families separated at the border, the other approving a plan to reunite immigration children, whose parents had been deported. jillian: donald trump's message to the disgrace cia director, bring it on, i hope john brennan, the worst cia director and our country is history, brings a lawsuit. it will then be easy to get his records, texts, emails and documents to show not only the poor job he did but how he was involved in the mueller witchhunt. he won't sue.

after he hit the sunday talkshow circuit admitting he has been contacted by lawyers and willing to file a lawsuit over his dirty clearance being revoked and hinting at doing the delay cons brett kavanaugh in the senate, something republicans are doing. >> the first lady preparing her first solo trip to africa, expected to visit several countries them with

information and tools for successful and safe online habits. shannon: cyber bullying is the focus of her be best campaign. the empty video video music awards did not waste time turning political, kevin hart digging into donald trump before presenting the first award of the night. >> coast-to-coast right now. i'm looking at this like game day. do not worry because in this game you are about to kneel or do whatever you want. the old white man can't stop you. bad language, people run to the bathroom and send crazies wes, a typical day at the white house. rob: wrapper logic war a t-shirt

that slammed the border wall as a number of central americans stood behind with shirts that said we are all human beings. his performance protested the trump administration at 0-tolerance immigration policy and we want to know what you think. send us an email to fox news.com. was anybody surprised? jillian: 11 minutes after the hour. murder motive revealed, the father charged with killing his pregnant wife and daughter just hours from facing a judge. the bombshell claims he just made. rob: donald trump refusing to give into turkey's demands over a detained american pastor. >> a problem for a long time. they can't take our people. you will see what happens. rob: our next guest says the president is making the right

move by taking a hard line. stay tuned.

rob: the taliban and firing rockets toward the presidential palace in kabul, afghanistan. explosions are heard during the president's holiday speech. you can sort of hear them in the background. the first rockets not landing far from the presidential palace, the second near the us embassy in afghanistan. this comes one day after he announced a cease-fire with the taliban and. not going so well. jillian: the number one state sponsor of terrorism, iran unveiling a new fighter jet in a show of force as tensions rage in the middle east, state media

release images of president rouhani witnessing the first fight. rob: donald trump refuses new demand in exchange for the release of american pastor andrew brunson. jillian: the tension erupting into chaos when a gunman opened fire on the us embassy in the turkish capital, the president making the right decision? joining us is the president vice president of the heritage foundation. thank you for joining us this morning. what do you think? is donald trump doing the right thing? >> if you look at the timeline of what went on here the us has been very disciplined in how they approach this with turkey, they started with quiet discipline, the president raised this with president erdogan and then they demonstrate their frustration. i think the administration has

been correct on this and is consistent with the fundamental pillar of the administration's foreign-policy, it does believe in human rights and one thing it believes is the first way you demonstrate a commitment to human rights is you seek to protect the rights of your own citizens. rob: sounds like trump up charges made up by the turkish government but what about this guy we have in the united states, a turkish cleric erdogan said was behind a coup in turkey to overthrow the government. any credibility to that? >> i don't know but there is a difference between the two cases. in one case this man hasn't been charged with a crime. he is in prison. he hasn't had adequate due process. in the united states whatever he might homemade not have done we have a process for extradition, rule of law and he has been

processed like everybody also the turks want that guy, they have to go after him legitimately because anyone in the united states is considered a us person and that means they have all the rights of american citizens so to through the guy out of the country would be violating his human rights and we don't do that. jillian: what happens to pastor brunson? >> i think he should be released. you have a turkish leader whose foreign policies are not in the best interests of the turkish people. he started a needless dispute with the united states that wants to partner with him, committed to keeping the us turkish bilateral relationship strong even though we have differences. it is incomprehensible. rob: you are watching the situation deteriorate and

watching them fall toward countries we are not getting away from and they are moving toward the embrace and nato's embrace as well. is it sad to see turkey move in this direction? >> i don't -- in the end countries like russia and china and iran can do nothing for turkey but on the other hand we have been through this before. in the early days of nato, france, one of our strongest allies under a wartime partner of the united states pulled out of the nato military alliance and we survived and if turkey decides to make really stupid policy decisions the us will find a way to defend its interests in the region and the country losing here is turkey. shannon: appreciate it, 19 after the hour and so long silent sam.

>> oh my god! >> the piece of history protesters ripped down overnight. rob: the major change coming to animal crackers courtesy of peta. stay tuned. ♪ this wi-fi is fast.

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has more on the shocking revelations. >> my office filed formal charges against christopher watts. >> reporter: charged with killing his pregnant wife and two girls, a total of 9 felonies including one related to the unborn child. >> a class of felony as a result of her being pregnant at the time of her death. >> reporter: police discovered watts was having an affair with a coworker. during questioning, he asked his wife for a separation and told investigators she is the one who strangled the children. watts said he snapped and killed her and gruesomely destroyed all the bodies. >> he filed 3 counts of tampering with the human body each of which is a class iii felony each of which names them as victims. >> the town of frederick just north of denver has been in the media limelight more than a week

when the she and her daughters were reported missing. the father appeared alongside the district attorney to disgrace attitude for the support. >> thanks for coming to the candlelight vigil and saying your prayers, it is appreciated. keep the prayers coming for our family. rob: he has been and wife dead after their small plane plummets to the ground, - can video shows the private jet falling out of control and smashing an intersection in phoenix, arizona. both people on the plane were killed in the crash. the homemade plane hit two cars when it crashed, nobody on the ground was seriously hurt. stopping a confederate statue in north carolina.

[cheers and applause] >> the fictional silent sam has been the target of protesters for decades, the school spent $400,000 on security for the last year. one person was arrested on the first day of classes. >> animal crackers breaking free, nabisco changing the packaging under pressure from the animal activism group after 116 years, the animals will no longer appear to be inside circus cages, they will be roaming free in the crescent trees. they will be on store shelves now. they look happier there. rob: yes they do. wild and free, 26 after the hour. migrants behind three of the worst terror attacks in europe since 2016 or terrorist attacks, millions of migrants could stay in the uk if the brexit deal

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rob: a man questioned in a string of deadly robberies officials arresting him in our before turning himself in to authority, convicted felons named as persons of interest in two shootings, they agreed to a

third incident where a fourth person was mugged and shot in nashville. a one of the terrorist is heading to prison, marlon hicks spent 15 years behind bars information about explosives to be used in an attack in the name of isis, he was inspired by the 2016 pulse like him shooting that left 49 did in orlando. he begged forgiveness from the judge and a statement i'm not a terrorist, i'm a teddy bear who got emotional for 15 years. enough is enough, chicago's top cop after 6 people killed and 52 injured over the past week. >> i showed anger and frustration today mainly because these acts are tragic, senseless, i am tired of it. you should be tired of it too. rob: two of the victims, 15 and 17 years old, 344 people have

been killed in chicago. >> the jury in the paul manafort trial without a verdict in this defense think that is a good thing. >> very happy to hear that, he thinks it was a very good day, thank you. jillian: jurors have been considering bank and tax fraud charges against the former trump campaign chairman. he will be back a few hours from now. donald trump with a campaign rally in charleston, west virginia. it is a show of support for the republican challenging joe manchin for his senate seat this fall. rob: koreans reunited with long-lost family members after decades. jillian: benjamin hall introducing people torn apart by the korean war. >> reporter: after six decades families from north and south korea torn apart by war finally

reunited. a 92-year-old woman cried as she hugged her son for the first time in 65 years. the 75 woman, his stepbrother, she was with him as a child trying to escape the korean war. >> we were separated, what happened to us? what a world. i'm so happy. >> reporter: 300 south koreans from 89 families to see their loved ones out of an estimated 60700,000 people who have family there. the rare reunion comes after kim jong un and president moon agreed to it. it is part of a historic summit in the demilitarized zone following the us pressure campaign. >> i could recognize it from the past even though he has gotten old and wrinkled, there is some of them left from my memory. >> reporter: relatives will spend 3 days in the country but

only 11 supervised hours together. north korea does not want its people learning much about the outside world. and the thing about a firm network towards denuclearization the us once. and in september in pyongyang, high hopes becoming more firm might come from him. >> millions of migrants to stay in the uk, leaders can't make a deal on brexit. jillian: what is the point of brexit to strengthen borders? reaction, fox news contributor and uk independence party leader nigel farage. how did it get to this point? >> reporter: somebody negotiating brexit was week. the idea was if we had a deal with the european union on trade, people would be allowed to stay.

now we are told even if there is no deal not only can 3.8 million people stay but they will be allowed to bring their extended families, they have full access to social security and benefit system and even worse, there is no proposed cut off date from which any of this is changing. it is quite remarkable because the british public overwhelmingly voted with brexit, take back control of our borders, reduce the huge inflow coming into this country and they are being willfully ignored by the british government and british parliament. rob: teresa may wants to water it down as much as she can. >> that is right. a remarkable thing we finished up with a prime minister who voted in may and when asked even today does she believe in brexit can't answer the question. i walked into a shop to buy

something and the one behind the counter said of donald trump was negotiating for us we would have it all sorted out by now. jillian: ties to terror in 32 of 194 islamist plots targeting europe over the past four years that resulted in 182 deaths, and 814 injuries and in 2015 isis exploited refugee roots to go back and forth from syria to germany unhindered. you gave speeches on that point in the past. >> in april and may 2015 the eu were beginning to say our doors are open to anyone who comes, stood up in the european parliament, when isis say they will use the migrant crisis as a means of getting operatives into europe, perhaps we ought to believe them. perhaps we are to put stock in this, perhaps we are to say like the australians did when they had a similar problem, no one

will be allowed to stay, none of that happened and we do not have a clue how many bad people are being let into europe. it is madness and another reason why brexit is the common sense and safest thing to do for our people. rob: the anti-brexiters will admit you can't know who is coming in if you open this place up to all this migration, you can't know and the proof is in those numbers we just gave and put it to the people again, are we comfortable bringing in a lot of people knowing some percentage of them will try to do horrible things when they are here? >> the other side of the aisle believe we are all global citizens, lovely and fluffy and nice, we should go wherever we went and move freely around the world and when you link this

directly to terrorism of any kind they simply say you are racist, turnaround and walk away. they are not prepared to engage this conversation but people in this country, people in middle england, they know what they believe. another example of how the elites and much of the mainstream media are completely out of touch with public opinion. jillian: we will keep talking about it, thank you so much. rob: 38 after the hour. socialist cynthia nixon once universal rent control. just one problem, she doesn't appear to know what it means or have any details about it. is it a good idea to run on? >> you can neil, do what you want, no old white man can stop you. rob: the vma's turn, is

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>> reporter: in ms 13 gang member pled guilty to the brutal massacre of these four people, admitting to the deadly attack with machetes, knives and and ask when he was 15 years old. the victim believe to be rival gang members before they attacked in 2017. they face deportation to el salvador. this illegal immigrant deported ones, florida police say he was dating a 16-year-old mother. the teen told police he threatened to hurt her mother if she didn't have sex with him. he claims the girl started their

relationship and knew what they were doing was wrong. the sheriff says ice is aware of the arrest. rob: the music industry's brightest are not wasting an opportunity to trash the president of the mtv music awards in a politically charged -fest. >> do not worry, you guys are allowed to kneel, you can do what you want. an old white man can't stop you. you never know what will happen at the vma. bad language, people run to the bathroom and send out crazy tweets, like a typical day at the white house. rob: why do celebrities keep waiting into politics? here to debate that is michelle ritchie and new york city gop councilman joe borelli. thanks for coming on this morning. this is the ultimate safe space.

what is interesting is you don't see people engaging in much debate, they go to something like this where you can say anything you wanted everybody cheers for you. >> in the 90s they want the in your face joke, this is a reality. when you have rolling stone previewing with an article entitled will anyone watch the vma and revenue is down 50%, and they don't want to be pontificated to buy celebrities. rob: i like kevin hart. he is a funny guy. >> he is a comedian. and humor for comedians, this happened to obama, george bush, remember will ferrell playing him on snl which was fabulous.

you can't look at this as people turning it off. i'm a little older so i got into the music but i watch it, wasn't necessarily the politics. we were chuckling. it was a little funny. rob: you are going after the demographic, very young people. >> we should never stop making fun of our president and elected officials ever. when it gets to the part where if you support the president you are a racist was they novo been being lectured. rob: it didn't seem softer and musical performances, it got into the real nuts and bolts of politics and if you are not towing groupthink you are out.

rob: he is a wrapper and a number of -- immigrant children, we don't know how they got the story, and the shirt says asked the wall and we are all human beings, he is making a statement about the wall and family separation, the most difficult moment of the night. >> i would agree. it is freedom of speech, freedom of expression, we don't agree with it. rob: every time we have an award show we analyze the same stuff. let's move on to cynthia next and trying to be governor of new york, she has a plan for universal rent control which if you ask most people would be disastrous for a lot of reasons. and didn't have a lot of details about this. a big housing advocate in new york city, he didn't have a lot

of details. >> imagine the nerve of these reporters to ask how you are going to pay for this policy. there is consensus among economists that rent control is not working, look at the four biggest cities, new york, san francisco, washington dc, they all have rent control in the highest rental rates in the country. this is something that can't be done. democrats in 2020 are nothing but the party of bread and circuses and it is about what can they give out for free. rob: who are you more comfortable with, cynthia nixon? >> it is a proposal from cynthia next in, seems fair to take a line from sex and the city were terry bradshaw says in new york city are always looking for a job, a boyfriend and an apartment. the latter seems true for new yorkers. rent in new york city has

increased 33% in less than ten years when we have increased 2%. people cannot afford to live here, they are being forced out and in san francisco people in san francisco make $117,000 a year are able to qualify for food stamps and that is not the direction we want new york state or new york city to go. rob: i don't think rent control -- there has to be another solution. that would exacerbate the problem. 1 million apartments that rent control off the market -- >> there are 2.6 million apartment in the city alone. if you have $100 in rental subsidy you are talking 3 or $4 billion a year. rob: we got to leave it at that. 48 minutes after the hour. coffee shop explosion, the dramatic moment a massive blast

goes off with people inside. and marijuana for morning sickness. the shocking find about pregnant women going to pot, stay tuned. ♪

>> new surveillance video showing the moment in italian bridge collapsed killing 43 people. you can see huge chunks of debris crashing to the ground below. cameras catching get from multiple angles as dust to the year. this was such a tragedy. in one shot you see what looks like a dog running through the rubble. there are new questions about

the corrosion of the bridge's cables reducing its strength by 20%. >> explosion destroyed the coffee shop with people inside. surveillance video showing debris flying inside the georgia café, two employees and the customer were airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries. investigators say construction crew accidentally had a gas line and something in the kitchen sparked the blast. rob: overnight fresh evidence foreign actors are still trying to interfere in us elections. shannon: the hackers microsoft just caught ahead of the midterm. >> it hasn't 7 covered a new russian hacking attempt targeting us political groups that of the midterm elections. microsoft said that it removed 6 internet domain registered by a russian hacking group with ties to the russian government that tried to spoof legitimate websites.

two of them are political conservative think tanks, one being the international republican institute and the other the hudson institute and u.s. senate websites that were designed to look legitimate. microsoft said it has no evidence these hackers were successful in their attempt but this is scary considering what happened in the 2002 presidential election. jillian: apple taking preorders. >> reporter: that is the rumor. they are saying german wireless carriers preparing for september 21st as the official launch date for the new iphones, preorders will start around september 14th with an official announcement from apple. we should know media invites at

the end of august so we will find out when the exact date for the unveiling is. time for the good, the bad and the ugly. an american hero gets a high school diploma. the 90 when-year-old with a graduation ceremony more than 70 years in the making. >> the nypd, the military story, how he never got his high school diploma. >> reporter: he was supposed to graduate in 1945, he joined the nypd after the war. >> a crocodile spotted floating on a pool in florida, very comfortable. this citing happening in key largo. >> they are using pot to fight

morning sickness. they -- that says two. to treat nausea and headaches. what do i know? i would not know. 56 minutes after the hour, coming up at 5:00, this is interesting. john kasich wants to run as a republican in 2020 against the president. wiley carter says this is an to play to win the white house. jillian: hillary clinton on the campaign trail but for what? find out in the next hour of "fox and friends first".

>> she writes a report that i'm innocent. >> it is tuesday, august 21st, special counsel showdown. >> the president rails against the russia probe. >> more border patrol supporters the immigration debate ranges on. >> sending out crazy tweets. >> the vma turning into a political sideshow.