>> thursday, september 6th, this is "fox and friends first". another mole in the trump white house pending an explosive op-ed in the new york times, the president firing back saying this is beyond personal, this is a shot at our national security. >> i watched his statements and they have been totally brilliant. i think the other side is grasping at straws. jillian: nothing off the table, intense cross-examination of brett kavanaugh, more democratic

grandstanding and a 3 on capitol hill. one celebrity's story of survival aboard a plane with sick passengers that has the internet singing. "fox and friends first" starts right now. ♪ heather: good morning to you across the united states. you are watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning. thank you for starting the day with us. donald trump demanding answers after the new york times publishes a scathing anonymous op-ed. the article supposedly written

by a senior white house official the president is calling gutless. jackie ibanez joins us with more on how the white house is responding. >> reporter: the anonymous op-ed suggests the administration at success is in spite of the president and not because of him, the author saying white house officials are actively working against donald trump writing, quote, donald trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by modern american leader, the dilemma he does not fully grasp is many senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate his agenda and his worst inclinations. i would know, i'm one of them. donald trump wasted no time reacting to the story which describes them as adversarial, petty and ineffective. >> when you tell me about anonymous source, and here for all the wrong reasons.

anonymous meaning gutless, a gutless editorial. >> reporter: citing national security donald trump called on the new york times to release the writer's name. white house president terry sarah sanders said he is not putting country first but putting himself and his ego ahead of the will of the american people. some democrats are speaking out saying this could not be ignored. >> the white house is very afraid our nation is being damaged on a daily basis and we should take that very seriously. >> reporter: the operators the latest jab at a president who was slammed in bob woodward avenue book fear which paints a chaotic picture of the west wing. shannon: really unbelievable, one thing after another. thank you. the white house is standing behind donald trump amid a round

of attacks, the latest in the new york times, counselor to the president kellyanne conway joining several officials in shooting down the claims saying the president's momentum won't be stopped by critics in the mainstream media. >> it rang true, he has a good point, it is unclear that many who cover him every day and criticize him understand how he got here and what he has done since he got here. judged by the noise or silence, any week by the usual critics. they are judged by the metrics. when i hear people, the same words like historic, unprecedented and stunning that is the way we describe the economy and democrats would take that away. heather: should the white house

official be identified and should they resign? head to facebook, twitter or instagram to weigh in. some other news happening, 5 suspects charged with running a terror compound in new mexico will stay behind bars, a judge delaying their bill hearing until next week, the defense, all 5 facing federal weapons charges, several rearrested after a judge cleared them of charges because prosecutors missed the legal deadlines, accused of training children to terrorists while forcing them to live in filthy conditions was the illegal immigrant accused of murdering mollie tibbetts was using an alias at work, christian rivera was known as john budd in iowa at the dairy farm, taking questions whether there were any warning signs,

and rivera confronted mollie tibbetts in july, stabbing her to death, he is awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charge. brett kavanaugh gearing up for another day of confirmation chaos, standing his ground during intense questioning and even the president is watching. >> the statements have been totally brilliant grasping at straws. >> griff jenkins at the hart senate office building with more highlights and low lights as well and protesters. >> reporter: she took questions from all 21 senators on the committee, each in turn had 30 minutes, topics ranged from issues like the second amendment, executive privilege and abortion.

when the committee's top democrat dianne feinstein pressed brett cavanagh on the future of roe v wade he had this to say. >> it is an important precedent of the supreme court, roe v wade and planned parenthood versus casey, reaffirmed many times casey is precedent on precedent which itself is an important factor. >> an important issue is judicial independence of brett kavanaugh, said he would certainly be a fair and impartial judge despite his personal views. >> what assurances that you will not allow the president's personal views or interests to impact your decision? >> i'm independent judge. is confirmed as supreme court and sitting judge, i owe my loyalty to the constitution. if you are right under the law you prevail.

>> reporter: we expected the mueller investigation has come up, senator harris asking and pointed question whether the nominee had conversations with a law firm of a former attorney of donald trump. >> have you had a conversation about that? a really specific question. >> i would like to know the person you're thinking of. >> it is someone you don't want to tell us. >> reporter: as you mentioned there were plenty of outbursts and interruptions. a total of 73 individuals were arrested and removed, bringing the total to 4 in 140. we will have that today. heather: the capital police are busy, the senators saying

something to brett kavanaugh and no, i didn't say that, that is not correct and then again, no, i just said that wasn't factually. >> laser focus, quite a difficult thing. >> the capitol hill wednesday, conservative censorship announce he will investigate if those sites are intentionally stifling free speech is twitter ceo jack dorsey was grilled by lawmakers over political bias. >> our algorithms censoring 6000 accounts including some members of congress. the result was not impartial. >> you agree there were more

republicans than democrats. >> i didn't say that. >> you can't have it both ways. heather: testified with sheryl sandberg about election meddling in 2016. senators searching for answers from google didn't get any. south korea announcing they were provided with a message from north korean leader kim jong un, not clear what that message said but korean leaders planning a third summit to discuss denuclearization. the meeting between kim jong un and south korean president moon will take place in two weeks. a nuclear free peninsula. donald trump is heading back on the campaign trail to montana, rallying for matt rosen dale u.s. senate seat, the republican

going up against john tester in the november election. donald trump has a make america great again rally in montana just last month and he will be back. the time is 10 minutes after the top of the hour and new questions about bruce ohr and his connections to the anti-trump dossier. why hasn't robert mueller interviewed ohr? that is what their life is trying to figure out live next. >> believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. shannon: like you came into criticism taking a ted campaign to the next level. the nfl season kicks west.

>> lawmakers keeping the heat on

demoting bruce ohr and urging the watchdog to look at new concerns over his questionable connections to the anti-trump dossier and the other big question, why hasn't robert mueller questioned ohr about any of this yet? joining me of darrell isa. let's talk about this. do you think the inspector general will investigate bruce ohr? >> if not for ohr there would not have been a fake dossier. when they cut off communications to be honest for valid reasons christopher steele would have had nowhere to go, or the backdoor conduit and even his own statements be foreclosed session he was doing something he hadn't done before in his entire 27 year career and his

lawyers don't to do, becoming an actual fact witness, carrying data from the organization, the active part of planting evidence. heather: mentioned his wife nelly ohr -- >> he has a poor memory of things like how much did he make? we know she received $44,000 for nondescript work she apparently did. heather: fusion gps. >> couldn't give any of this information, a joint tax return or how much he got paid, or any outside income or russian expert but he couldn't name another

company worked for before that in that russian area. heather: was any of this included in the materials? >> one thing we got from bruce ohr that was valuable was things he said, he told people which they didn't include including his conflict of interest because of his wife and the fact that the source was not credible. it was double hearsay. this is the reason mark meadows and myself are demanding that, may or may not have been involved, to what is criminal. heather: we have declassify inc.

declassify 20 pages of the fisa warrant? >> he tried to deliver it. national security in this case is understanding and appreciating what goes on behind closed doors. we need to trust our government after the false fisa information. we can't trust our government. heather: on that note we understand the administration is agreeing to answer questions on russia. is that a good idea? >> to do it in a written format which seemed reasonable enough. the historic areas of go no go, by a president, this president

airs on the side of transparency, he has been but many times for being overly transparent and to be careful but forthcoming, this is unprecedented in that he is offering to do things the lasted ministrations would never have done. heather: responsible for this anonymous op-ed, do you think it could be related in timing to the president tweeting out he could release all of this declassified pages. >> the new york times has outright lied in creating fake evidence even against me without any willingness to apologize when they get caught. the credibility of the new york times makes what would otherwise be an explosive statement doubtful. that is one of the unfortunate things. you can't trust the new york times but the new york times lies repeatedly.

the history of lies, good reason to say this might be true. heather: thanks for joining us, have a great day. it will be a busy one again, 20 minutes after the top of the hour and a true case of teamwork. making the dream work. and this guy found out the hard way what happens when you run away from police, the dramatic canine takedown caught on camera. ♪ bad to the bone ♪ your typical bank. capital one is anything but typical. that's why we designed capital one cafes. you can get savings and checking accounts with no fees or minimums. and one of america's best savings rates. to top it off,

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heather: new surveillance video showing the moment a man rammed his truck into a tv station. he intentionally crashed into the side of our dallas fox affiliate slamming to the windows before backing up and crashing into the building again after going on a red. police arrested the driver who has a long criminal record and left behind a bag, it turned out to be safe. teamwork makes the dream work especially for this deputy and his canine, ship. [shouting] heather: he was accused of crashing a stolen car in pascoe county, florida and leaving a 19-month-old baby in the backseat while running from police but they always get you eventually. summer is coming to a end, not

quite yet but fall is around the corner and that means fall movie season is upon us. joining us with the most anticipated films of the year. >> that was it is state of mind. they were up 14% over the last year, going into the fall, 9% of the year overall. judging from what is coming up this fall. >> i'm really excited about one of them. a star is born. a new take on a powerful love story starring bradley cooper and lady gaga. this movie has been in the making years, on and off for years for everyone from denzel washington to whitney houston, but this launched bradley

cooper's directorial debut and singing debut, actually sings, the songs and performances in this movie were done at live music festivals. when warner bros. dropped the trailer in may or june the internet went wild and most of the incredible -- oscar season. cooper called this a revelation. heather: bradley cooper and lady gaga singing. >> who could ask for anything else? heather: aquaman. >> the summer 21st starring jason momo from game of thrones, his first lead role. the fans got a sneak peek in

justice league last year. looks really good. these movies have been hit and miss at the box office. will critics make sushi out of this movie or will they dive in? new things we haven't seen before, new features and landscapes and judging by the trailer they delivered on that. heather: fantastic. >> this is the second movie -- it takes place in the usa, johnny depp, the villain in this, the cast made headlines in comicon when they got political. we have to wait and see. >> getting political hasn't helped some folks. thank you so much, very exciting stuff. it is half past the top of the

hour and democrats lining up to take swings at brett kavanaugh. >> missing just to expressed openness in temporary circumstance of using racial profiling. >> i'm asking a direct question, yes or no? >> or next guest says this is political grandstanding by the left. what, really? craig and shelia broke up!? no, craig!? what happened? i don't know. is she okay? ♪ craig and sheila broke up! craig and sheila!? ♪ as long as office gossip travels fast, you can count on geico saving folks money. craig and sheila broke up! what!? fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.

heather: half past the top of the hour, 7 people are dead and dozens missing after a massive earthquake rocks japan. the.of magnitude quake hitting an island 700 miles north of japan triggering mudslides rescuing people under the rubble. just like paper.

dangerously unstable, 3 million people are without power. the atlantic hurricane, florence strengthening to a category for storm heading towards bermuda. no warnings for the us yet as the focus turns to dangerous flooding. janice dean told us this would be a problem with tropical trump ration gordon making its way north and west, after the storm drenched the gulf, flooded roads in florida leaving parts of homes underwater in alabama. secretary of state mike pompeo and secretary jim is optimistic

nothing is set in stone. >> the discussions we have has remained in a place where these things happen. heather: the two sides at odds after the trump administration cut $300 million in aid to pakistan over failure to fight terrorism. following this for you, supreme showdown, chaotic hearing for brett kavanaugh continuing, democrats grill donald trump's supreme court nominee on guns, abortion, past rulings and all this madness is expected to carry on for a third day today. what is the take away from yesterday steering? chris and paul joins us to discuss. i was saying this is riveting.

you can't turn the channel. they did get to some substance. what were your main take aways? >> history happening in front of us. my main take away, this is more political circus. this is not a constitutional inquiry. the fact that they keep asking general policy-based hypotheticals proves they are not interested in whether we have a candidate that is constitutionally fit to be a justice. heather: you were saying your opinion shows they don't understand the role of the supreme court. >> what we have our members of the senate asking policy questions. it is not the role of brett kavanaugh or any supreme court justice to consider policy issues. you have diane feinstein asking questions about gun violence and the impact on society. it is the role of a supreme court justice to review the law and compare it to the constitution.

heather: in terms of what senators are doing, with griff jenkins who is covering for us hours on end, they would go through this whole dialogue in five minutes and say to brett kavanaugh that is not what i said at all and ignore that is not what i said at all. >> this is political theater with members of the senate simply setting up soundbites for their future campaign, posing statement and raising the intonation of their voice and saying don't you agree or phrasing it in some type of question because they are not inquiring on brett cavanagh but trying to make the statements. heather: a great opportunity to educate everyone if you would ask these questions and listen to what he has to say, fascinating how the entire

process works. >> this is a great teaching moment for the american people especially considering recent polls have told us the average american knows absolutely nothing about the supreme court, they know more about dancing with the stars. heather: true. something we don't know about is who wrote this op-ed in the new york times, a big topic today. in terms of that when does the right to free speech cross the line? >> it depends. we are free to offer our opinions, free to offer our thoughts. it is when we make accusations of a criminal nature that are false and when you are a public official the standard is higher. do you have to prove that somebody made that statement with malice knowing the statement was false when they made it?

this is clearly just an opinion based the. heather: you don't think it is a threat to national security? >> no threat to national security. we have a childish employee who doesn't like his boss needs to find a new job. heather: hopefully they will come forward and discuss your opinions and issues publicly. you don't have a right to work anywhere and if you don't like the people you work for that is a pretty good indication you need to find a new job. heather: appreciate you joining us. about happening, time is 20 minutes until the top of the hour and twitter's top boss grilled about anti-conservative biases anyone buying it? a plane packed with six passengers quarantined but guess who was on board? vanilla ice. carly shimkus tracking the reaction to both of those

stories on social media.

>> reporter: one reason jack dorsey was on capitol hill was to explain why conservative lawmakers were censored or shadow band. he says politics had nothing to do with that and 600,000 users were unfairly filtered so those lawmakers were just part of the larger group. dorsey did admit keeping the

playing field fair for everyone is a complex issue. >> using algorithms is an important topic. our responsibility is to understand, measure and reduce accident or bias. this is a complex challenge facing everyone. >> something twitter has to work on his regaining user trust. look at these tweets posted after, how about taking out conservative words in your algorithms? another that you have blatant bias, not accidental, cleverly hidden. a lot of people questioning whether dorsey is telling the truth. heather: tonight they will show the commercial featuring colin kaepernick. >> when they teased the commercial it caused an uproar and yesterday nike unveiled the controversial ad featuring colin

kaepernick. >> become the best basketball player on the planet, be bigger than basketball. believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything. >> that will air during the nfl season opener. a lot of pushback on social media. alley says they keep digging a bigger hole, good luck. glenn says no thursday night football for me. a lot of controversy and anger. vanilla ice was on board this plane and tweeting from the plane. heather: they quarantined the flight after 100 people reported feeling ill on board and one of the strangest twists ever, rapper vanilla ice was on board

the plane, take a listen. >> must be pretty serious. a lot of people out there. the news stations. >> health officials met that flight when it landed at jfk and you knew this would happen on social media. all right, stop, vaccinate, flipping, vanilla ice is feeling okay. you got a problem, i will solve it. thank you so much. "fox and friends" all-american road trip coming to a end, todd pyro is live from the last stop of his journey, the kentucky bourbon trail.

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heather: former president obama wants you to see him speak, not here how much he will make for it. the daily caller reporting obama is threatening to cancel a speech in denmark of contract details become public. the event will be paid for by danish taxpayers in the town he is seeking in dealing with the financial crisis at the same time, the danish media claims obama will make $312,000. the dmv in california scrambling to fix a mistake, submitting 23,000 botched voter registrations to the secretary of state's often, some identifying people with the wrong party. officials blaming employees for improperly merging information through a new program that emerges people to register to vote through the dmz. that is a big mess.

this is not a big mess. he flew with the thunderbirds, spent the day of our pilot of florida sure that it was an amazing adventure exploring the us in his rv for our all-american road trip series but it is coming to a end on the kentucky bourbon trail as todd joins us from their live. a little early for bourbon. >> reporter: a little too early. it is great to be with you, happy to have you back. our last stop on the bourbon trail is the coolest, the grand design solitude, 41 feet of awesomeness. one of 3 stops on our cool trip on the bourbon trail, check it out. check out this rv. it is like a house in here but it is time to check out the bourbon. come on.

our next stop in verse i, kentucky. meet somebody, the assistant master distiller. >> excited to show you around. >> reporter: let's check it out. >> what is happening is to consume the sugar and convert it to alcohol. this is early on fermentation so it is really sweet, got rocking and rolling, triggers to alcohol. >> reporter: it is like sweet breaded liquid. where are we right now? >> this is the barrel warehouse, historic warehouse. there are 5000 barrels resting here right now. this is the maturation phase, that is where the magic happens, creating 60% of the flavor and 100% of the color.

>> another good relationship. >> it happened one of our barrels. >> not everybody gets that. >> it is wild turkey time. come over here joann. fourth-generation worker at wild turkey. did you know i am a wild turkey? how cool is that trail? read >> it is awesome to see how we make it here. >> reporter: this building was historic. >> this is a warehouse, the oldest warehouse on the property built in 1894. >> reporter: this is where the bourbon ages but each floor has different bourbon on it. >> exactly. we checked out the grounds at

wild turkey but one or two people are important to us. jimmy russell. >> reporter: call him by a different name. >> pleasure to meet you. how often do you speak to the individuals whose name is on the label? the signature on the front. it is safe to say this is your first. if there is one lesson you have learned making bourbon what is it? >> easier to talk. >> older generations to the were once including a craft distillery, welcome. what makes this unique is it is the only brewery on the bourbon trail. >> the same as the distillery. >> why jump into the bourbon years? >> we are right in the heart of bourbon country. how could you not be into it? >> cow ranchers were recognized.

>> it means a lot to see what we are producing. let's give you a sample of this. >> i could get used to that. >> i hope you can take this gift back to new york. >> i need to give this to them? >> all i know is i gave it to you. what happens after that is up to you. >> four weeks on the road and nothing goes with a bourbon like s'mores. just a quick sample, the 375 never shown to the public. the wild turkey 101 you saw in the peace and the town branch bourbon we have here, matthew mcconaughey has his own bourbon but no matter where you go on

the bourbon trail this is how our experience was. are you ready, america? >> don't drink all that bourbon. we might have a problem. >> reporter: we will have problem if i step have to paint. heather: a big thank you, we have been asking your thoughts on the big story of the day, the anonymous op-ed next. - in a crossfit gym, we're really engaged with who we are as people and making everybody feel welcome. ordering custom ink t-shirts has been a really smart decision for our business. i love the custom ink design lab because it's really easy to use. they have customer service that you can reach anytime. t-shirts help us immediately get a sense of who we are as a group. from the moment clients walk in,

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heather: another mole at the white house, senior anonymous official pending an explosive resistance op-ed in the new york times, donald trump demanding a name amid calls for the person to resign. your comments have been pouring it on this, kristin tweets resign? that person should be fired, thrown out so hard they don't hit earth again until they are over the pacific. if they haven't trump is incompetent patient presented with name attached. otherwise trump is the guy who got elected to do the job his way. jimmy disagrees writing on facebook trump should resign. larry says the anonymous official should have resigned before they wrote the editorial. the good, the bad and the ugly. let's start with the good. man has a new best friend. how a lion on a safari ride with

tourists in crimea. the giant cat crawling all over these passengers giving them lots of affection. the park is known for letting animals get up close and personal. despite a woman being bitten by a different lion weeks ago at the same park. now the bad. would you like some politics with that? outrage boiling over after people in organ welcomed back to work despite violating a policy about wearing pins that read abolish ice and no one is illegal. the workers were initially sent home but the restaurant did an about-face after the union called a form of, quote, white supremacy. finally the ugly. the empty chair steals the show a congressional hearing in washington. google leaving the seat open after a member refused to testify on foreign interference in us elections, facebook and

twitter executive showed up. that wraps up this hour of "fox and friends first," thank you for joining us, busy day. "fox and friends first" continues. >> i think whoever wrote this is being incredibly self-indulgent. if you are this person you should resign. rob: it is thursday, september 6th, a new mall in the white house and donald trump with a name. jillian: the hunt is on for anonymous, the official who released an explosive resistance op-ed to the new york times. rob: the chaotic hearings continuing on capitol hill and democrats fired up. jillian: how they are taking their attacks on brett kavanaugh to the next level. rob: the idea just fired big time.