[scream] jillian: mom surprised knocked him to the ground in walmart. rob: passenger shaming posting this video of a woman giving a pedicure. look at her scrubbing her feet. viral. what is wrong with people. see you later. >> i think the chewbacca video is fake. i think it's staged. >> total devastation in parts of florida. it could take months to clean up from hurricane michael in the panhandle. >> an entirely empty lot where dozens of houses, the boats torn absolutely crushed in every possible way pastor brun son arrived at court hearing prelude for relief deal worked out by the trump administration. >> we will continue to stand strong until pastor andrew

brun son is free. >>free. >> only option we have now is hold him in contempt of congress. >> there is something about when i put this hat on it made me feel like superman. you made a superman of me. >> >> i love this guy right here. [up and down the boulevard brian: why would we be playing this song? ainsley: steve perry we have an interview with him today. steve: he is still on the record. thank you very much for joining us. it is october 12th, 2018. ainsley: friday. steve: no kidding. thank goodness. hope you had a great week. we have a busy day and we start with an alert. brian: we begin with a fox news alert. as steve mentioned right now american pastor andrew brun

son is inside a turkish courtroom, he could walk free today some say after being held captive for more than two years. ainsley: while we wait on a decision there. turkish officials making a bombshell claim in another major case saying there is audio and video proof that that missing "the washington post" journalist was murdered. steve: what's the latest? doug mckelway joins us from washington with diplomat standoff. >> questions about the face of two individuals both of which could have big impacts on u.s. relations abroad. the first has to do with pastor andrew brunson who is in the midst of a court hearing right now we think. he was taken just before dawn to a courtroom. he has been facing charges for a while now of both espionage and terror related charges. charges that he denies he could in theory face up to 35 years in prison though. the trump administration has been pushing hard for his release. there have been some sanctions levied on turkey

and they may be ramped up if in fact brunson is not released. the other issue halls to do with the disappear and of of a saudi critic last seen entering the saudi con slot in istanbul. saudi arabia's crown prince ordered an operation to detain him. as you just mentioned turkey claims to have some actual evidence about his disappearance. so this could be pretty explorvel. there is a lot of bipartisan sentiments here on capitol hill to get to the bottom of this. and this may really draw into question the relations between the united states and saudi arabia. we are watching both of these cases very, very closely this morning. brian: thanks, doug. bipartisan support for harsh sanctions. that begin skimaginethey believw he was murdered. choptiond up the body and took it out in different bags. ainsley: they don't want to release that video and don't

want other countries to see how they survey other people in their country. they have video from inside the consulate. audio, individual yorks the guy walked in on october 2nd. he was trying to get some sort of official document before he got married. they killed him and dismembered his body. steve: apparently they are looking for his apple watch. they feel because his wife was outside and they were paired, it could actually have information regarding his heart rate and stuff like that. turkey says they don't have it. also, the president, if true, the president cannot let saudi arabia get away with this. if it's not sanctioned sanctiont turning off the arms sales some other sanction that really hurts. this is way over the line. brian: this is a shame. every time you push back on saudi arabia iran gains. even in this case has to be a no-go sign when it comes to killing and chopping up

journalists. ainsley: yesterday, kanye west, we were talking about it yesterday morning. expecting kanye to go to the oval office and have lunch with the president. steve: how did that go? ainsley: some people were cheering about it saying it was great. other people had a melt down. there he is talking to the president wearing his make america great again hat. >> sitting between jim brown and monique brown. >> kanye west was kanye west yesterday. if you milled it, here is some of it. >> they try to scare me to not wear this hat. this hat gives me power in a way. there was something about when i put this hat on it, made me feel like superman. we really get caught up in the idea of racism over the idea of industry. we feel that stop and frisk does not help the relationship in the city. that's the number one thing we are having this. >> what about gun violence. >> illegal guns is the problem. not legal guns. we have the right to bear arms. you know i love you.

>> i don't want to put new that spot. >> i'm standing in that spot. i love this guy right here. let me give this guy a hug right here. i love this guy right here. >> he said be brave. he went on to explain why he said that hat made him feel like superman. he didn't grow up with a dad in the house. he said i love hillary clinton. i just don't relate to her and i don't relate to her message. he looks at donald trump and he says this president i relate to his message. i didn't have a dad in my house. i always wanted a man to play ball and throw back and forth. i can relate to him. brian: people setting policy, no one ever said that guy who cares about his city. has a view of the country. likes the president. invited over for lunch. they weren't supposed to meet with the president. the president wings things and says bring the. jim brown spengt activist

working on prison. van jones and jared kushner working together on policy. kanye west is not setting the policy. people are acting like he is being used. no. he has supported the president in the past. the president invites him to the oval office. is he a musical icon along with a sports icon. but that's all it was. steve: it was very stream of consciousness. he has some interesting ideas. you know, he said we should abandon the current air force one. we should have the hydrogen plane. talked about ford. he talked about all sorts of things keep in mind he was the darling of the liberal level in 2005 when he said george w. bush didn't care about black people after katrina. now they hate him because is he embracing a republican president. a lot of people have said that in the last 12 hours or. so a lot of people don't like the president sitting across the rest loot desk

with that manual in the red cap. listen. >> >> wow. okay. i'm doing this for everybody who is watching us who turned their volume down. you can put it back up again. >> if you think -- that was an assault on our white house. >> i thought that was really sad. >> i think you had there a man who is clearly not okay and a who is willing to exploit that. >> what i saw was a minstrel show today in front of all these white people. mostly white people embarrassing himself and embarrassing americans but mostly african-americans. kanye's mother is rolling over in her grave. steve: one thing we did learn yesterday is kanye west i phone code is 0000000. it's six zeros he wanted to show a zero answered tapped it in. that's all out there now. brian: he would later go to the apple store and give a

keynote address. he was wearing a purple cat. and he talked for a while and said i'm going to africa now. ainsley: media does not agree with him. he is not conventional. neither is the president. kanye is a musician. extremely talented. made a lot of money in the music world and gone on to invest in business. he is very real. he was very open. it wasn't conventional. so the mainstream media looks like is not enjoying that he talked about having. he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. they said it's not it's sleep deprivation. he talked about manufacturing and business deals with adidas. steve: there is a lot going on. ainsley: he said it's illegal guns that's the problem not legal guns. we have the right to bear arms. brian: mollie hemingway tried to put it all in perspective last night. >> i think there is something in our culture a

lot of criticism for being a conservative. a ton of criticism being a trump supporter. if you can with stand that criticism there is something empowering about it. the reason you are seeing negative reaction you have a very prominent black celebrity aligning with the president. something threatening about that. race issues. you have a tons of hispanics supporting ted cruz. donald trump got more black votes than mitt romney. something people feel nervous about when people don't play the parts they are supposed. to say. steve: without a doubt the number one story serve is talking about. did you see the president is kanye west yesterday. brian: we will see where it goes from here. the president did get more votes than mitt romney and john mccain. african-american votes. still ridiculously low. there was a time in the 1950s republicans got between 30 and 50%. if they were looking for a form larr for success, maybe the fraternal comiewfnt is something they should legitimately try for. maybe this is the

groundwork. steve: what did you think foxnews.com? also we are on twitter usually and facebook. ainsley: hand it over to jillian who has headlines for us. jillian: good friday morning. i am happy this morning. serious news. a fox news alert. a tropical storm michael blamed for at least six deaths so far. it's still a major threat. this incredible aerial video, look at this. showing the complete devastation left behind by the storm. there is just debris everywhere. it looks like neighborhoods are flattened. michael is so strong it flipped a plane at air force base. it's dumping rain on the carolinas causing life threatening flooding and knocking out power to thousands. rick scott is assessing damage in his state. a semi slammed into a fire truck overnight killing one firefighter. the fire engine stopped at the scene of another car crash in hanover, virginia when it was rear ended. lieutenant brad clark was

killed. three other firefighters were rushed to the hospital. the driver of the tractor-trailer also being treated for serious injuries. police think rain may have been a factor. the co-founder of fusion gps, the firm behind that anti trump dossier is set to plead the fifth. the house judiciary committee subpoenaed glenn simpson for closed deposition. his lawyer says he won't testify claiming the investigation isn't designed to discover the truth. and now the story brian has been waiting for. the defending super bowl champs looking super once again if i do say so myself. the philadelphia eagles soared to 34-13 victory over the struggling new york giants. odom beckham jr. melting down on the sidelines. head bunting a fan in frustration. a cooling fan. not a real fan. [laughter] brian: i wasn't watching. i was preparing for next

segment. steve: i have noticed you put struggling in front of the giants even though it wasn't in the teleprompter. jillian: they are though. brian: i have never been so wrong in my life. jillian: you have to correct yourself on my instagram. brian: they have a rematch. ainsley: congratulations, jillian. brian: why do you have to congratulate her? brian. you made it worse, ainsley. eric holder doesn't know where the high road is. >> michelle always says that, you know, when they go low, we go high. no; no. when they go low, we kick them. brian: the chairwoman of the rnc says stuff like that will help republicans win in november. michelle actually rebuked him, too. steve: what happens when the press tries to bait kid rock? >> should trump fire jeff sessions? >> he should fire you.

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survivors] >> i don't know why there aren't uprisings all over the country. maybe there will be. ainsley: the rnc blasting the democratic party as an unhinged mob ahead of the midterms. will that strategy work? brian: there are sometimes you hire actors to do that sadly that is news footage. let's ask rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniel that what made you put this in an ad? >> it highlights the dangerous rhetoric of democrat leaders and then what it is leading to. heidi cruz and ted cruz being attacked at a restaurant. we saw what happened with sarah sanders. we saw what happened with steve scalise. and to see eric holder and hillary clinton and cory booker and maxine waters encouraging this type of behavior is leading to an escalation and it could get even more dangerous. we need to make sure we are calling this out. democrat leaders don't seem to be refuting it. but we at the rnc certainly do not want to see people create problems around democrat leaders or attack

people in restaurants. we need a return to civility. ainsley: it was really shocking to see the former head of the justice department to tell the folks in the crowd to kick them. he responded to that because the media was pretty outraged about it. especially republicans. i know you were one of them saying that he shouldn't come out with that rhetoric. it's inciting violence some of the defended himself. he says okay, stop the fake outrage. i'm obviously not advocating violence. in fact, when i was the a.g. violent crime in the u.s. was historically low. i'm saying republican us are undermining our democracy and democrats need to be tough, proud, and stawp up for the values we believe in. the end. so he didn't apologize but says he wasn't advocating violence. what is your response? >> as a top law enforcement officer of the country. former top law enforcement officer he should know words matter. it just takes one person to misconstrue what he said. when he said when they go low we kick them. one person to take that too

far. we saw that one personal go and shoot steve scalise. he needs to be responsible with his words. his words can mean actions and individuals that are upset right now. he is stoking passions. they are doing it to get votes but it's dangerous. brian: ronna, among the people who agree with you is michelle obama. what would you like your kids to do and kids to know. when they go low you go high. pushing back on a family friend. at least she is acting sensible. >> i agree with michelle obama. it's a contrast to hillary clinton when she said we will not be civil until we get power. think about what that means for our democracy. we will not work with you. we cannot be civil until we are back in power. what is she saying there? this is part of our strength of our country that we can have differences of opinion and continue to be civil. leader of the democratic party keeping stoking these tensions it's not safe for our country. brian: ron that, when your

greatest offensive weapon is the words of your opponent, that says a lot. ronna mcdaniel, thanks so much. >> thank you. brian: plus, more "fox & friends" in just a moment. i could tell you exactly what's coming up, but i would rather you guess. [stomach gurgles] ♪when you have nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea... girl, pepto ultra coating will treat your stomach right. nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea.♪ try new pepto with ultra coating.

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carolina marine corps air station last month. the inspections will be done within the next two days. steve? steve: all right, ainsley. thank you. now to a fox news alert. all eyes on turkey this morning as detained american pastor andrew brunson heads to court renewing hope for his release. this as turkish officials tell the united states they have proof that a missing "the washington post" journalist saudi was killed in the saudi arabian consulate in turkey what does this mean for u.s. reelingszs for that country? here to weigh in author of a brand new book, chasing the demon, lieutenant colonel dan hampton, good morning to you, colonel. >> good morning, steve. steve: have you lived in turkey and saudi arabia, what do you make of the fact that it sounds as if they are about to spring the pastor who has been held for two years. >> yeah. you know, have you got to look at this from the point of what does each side gain. and turkey has some serious economic problems. they don't want to risk an open confrontation with the united states over anything.

or with the other matter that's pending. steve: the other matter is that the saudi journalist who worked for "the washington post" who was run out of saudi arabia fled in 2015, 2016 is missing. the turkish government says we have proof that the saudi royal family did. this the united states is in a pickle, because they have been other ally since fdr. >> a lot of business. we do a lot of business with saudi arabia. again, you have to ask yourself what's at stake here? and what does turkey get out of this? if turkey could drive a wedge between the united states and saudi arabia. steve: they are doing that right now. >> then they stand to gain. erdogan gets to turn his attention away from all the problems inside into something external. it's an old trick. steve: are you suggesting that the perhaps the evidence turkey has is not accurate. made up for financial gain? >> i would look at any evidence anywhere and say you need to keep a critical eye it could be manufactured. it could be real. who knows, especially over

there it's not a transparence society. steve: that would explain why the president of the united states has looked into it. said it can't happen. he would be wise to not commit himself to anything and let us see how it plays out. steve: that's where he is right now. talk about new book, chasing the demon. it all has to do back at the height of the cold war how this band of dare destlesz were out in the desert trying to break the speed the sound barrier. >> right. right. ultimately came down to a jet flown by george welch one the two of guys who got airborne at pearl harr bon and attacked the japanese and then the x 1 which is a rocket plane flown by chuck hager. famously. >> and rightfully so. it's been an open secret all these years is that jeager was not first. whether it was welch or some german pilot during the war flying a jet. somebody else had done it before he did. steve: the demon is the

sound barrier. >> the demon for a pilot like i was or any pilot is what's next. it's the next big challenge. it's what you are going after. what you wants to do and what you want to achieve. in this case chasing the demon was to get past the sound barrier which didn't really exist to go faster than the speed of sound. >> open secret it was welch, not jeager. why haven't we heard about it before. >> whoever hats best publicity gets the credit. steve: scket that right the way it works. >> jeager guess show me the proof there hasn't been any. antidotal. this is a strong cases. the book is called chasing the demon. congratulations. >> my pleasure. steve: meanwhile straight ahead, this democrat is running for senate in arizona. how does she feel about arizona. >> the arizona is a -- crazy. steve: that's just the beginning of the tape. we will share some with you. the media went wild over

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and headache may occur. tell your doctor about your medicines and if you're pregnant or planning to be. otezla. show more of you. >> what i need "saturday night live" to imperuvian on or the liberals to improve on. is if he don't look good, we don't look good. this sour president. we have to bring jobs into america because our best export is entertainment ideas. but when we make everything in china and not in america, then we are cheating on our country. and we're putting people in position to have to do illegal things to end upped in the cheapest factory ever, the prison system. steve: the president of the united states had a busy day yesterday. he spent 47 mention of his day with us on "fox & friends" and 25 minutes in the oval with kanye west and jim brown and a few others. ainsley: that's right. let's bring in diamond and

silk who join us now. they are trump supporters. super stars and saw them on the campaign trail and come on with us every friday. thanks for joining us, ladies. >> thanks for having us. steve: good morning. ainsley: what did you think of this meeting. >> i'm very proud of kanye that he was bold enough to go to the oval office sitz down and speak with our president. i was just proud of him for doing that now, if you look around, you look how the left wings media is spinning it. they are afraid. >> yes. >> you have the gate keepers of the democratic party afraid that people are not going to walk away but run and run like heck. they are going to get away. because people want economic opportunity and what kanye was doing was presenting the president with something so that we can move our country forward. >> that's right. >> and move our race of people forward instead of allowing a party, the democrat party to keep us stuck for years. we loved it. brian: some people not happy with that appearance. for example, the person we

have could youd up righ could cn lemon last night. >> what i saw was a minstrel show. him in front of white people, mostly white people embarrassing himself and embarrassing americans but mostly african-americans. this was an embarrassment. kanye's mother is rolling over in her grave. steve: that's his point of view, ladies. how about yours? >> well, what's an embarrassment is somebody like don lemon sitting up advocating for a party. the party of slavery. the party of jim crow. the party of the kkk. the party of antifa. the party of socialism. >> yes. >> that's what's embarrassing. >> yes. >> that black people are still stuck in this country because of people like him. i commend kanye. kanye, listen, the more they hate, the more you continue to educate and speak out. >> we also commend our president for bypassing these so-called black leaders that's done nothing for the black community.

he is going directly to the people. the people that's being affected by all of this. we are so glad about that. if you remember, black in 2015, it was diamond and silk that started the revolution telling people you can think for yourself. >> that's right. >> you can come off this democrat plantation. now what you sigh with kanye and a lot more others is the evolution. they see it is okay now to speak for myself and speak outside of the black box. >> that's right. steve: ladies, you seem really angry about this. >> i'm not angry. >> i'm passionate about it. steve: passionate. >> what kanye did was a good thing. for people to ostra size, criticize and stigmatize to try to make him look like is he sleep deprived, he is this or he is that no. he is telling the truth. he has a right to speak his truth and i'm happy about it? >> a lot of sinking thinking in the community and it's time to be revealed. who has held the black people back, al sharpton,

jesse jackson. all these differential organizations not doing one thing for the black community. have you hillary clinton sitting up on tv saying we can bring black stability back. they had 8 years. eight doggone years and did nothing for the black community. you had a black president, barack hussein obama did nothing for the black community. then have you got this white president, donald j. trump that's doing he can for the black community and it's black people like don lemon that want to sit up on his platform and try to ostra as tht size and criticize somebody. brian: candace owens coming up to expand on what you just said. diamond and silk, thank you very much. >> you are welcome. >> thanks for having us. ainsley: jillian has headlines. jillian: firefighters make a daring rescue in the pouring rain. here we are. incredible moments have been caught on camera. look at this. jillian: rescue mode. orderly a second alarm and

two additional ambulances. firefighters cutting the hole through the side of a burning abandon home in california. they spotted a homeless man's hand sticking out of the crawl space where he was trying to hide from smoke. taking him to a hospital where he was later released. unclear how that fire started a democrat running for senate in arizona caught on camera bashing her state. kristin cinema mocking this newly released video from 2011. >> over the past 20 years [inaudible] crazy. something about the there is something wrong with the people. they are called republicans. >> said she was born and always protect and defend. she is running against martha mcsally in next

month's election: offering id cards for illegals. the parish ids strength the relationship between police and vulnerable people. to say qualify illegals must be members of a catholic parish for at least three months, provide andreas and have someone confirm their identity. kid rock making his voice heard at the white house. firing back at that time reporter asking about the fate of the embattled attorney general. >> should trump fire jeff sessions? >> he should fire you. jillian: kid rock at the white house as the president signed the music modernization act. strengthens copyright laws. making it easier for artists to get paid when their music is streamed online. send it back to you. ainsley: that's so funny. brian: who yelled the question? jillian: i know. steve: i think it's the press in general. he has a show in west palm beach. brian: is it sold out of? can you till get tickets.

ainsley: are you going? steve: no. i'm not. i just know he is heading that way. ainsley: we should go. steve: well, we're busy. folks on a rainy friday in new york city. january january not too bad. the rain has stopped. these folks have come to see us at 6:30 in the morning. talk to them in a moment. take a look at the maps real quick. tropical storm post tropical storm michael is now moving offshore. it has transitioned into something called a post tropical system because it's lost all of its tropical characteristic. a lot of rain in the northeast. flood warnings in effect. tail end of the system out of here which is good news. watching tropical storm sergio in the pacific. a lot of rainfall across the southwest and texas this weekend. a couple of tropical systems that are causing some problems across the u.s. and look at that we have some snow across the rockies and the northern plains. all right. where are you from? where are from you? >> texas. >> and. >> south florida. >> it's your birthday today?

>> yes, it is. >> he showed me his driver's license. >> louisiana. georgia. >> say hello to steve, ainsley and brian on a friday. steve: kid rock show is tomorrow at the coral sky ample theater. ainsley: you have time to get there. steve: we all do. brian: bill and hillary clinton hitting the road on speaking tour. one of the former advisors says it's really bad idea by the way it's $700 a ticket. ainsley: steve scalise, candace owens and ari fleischer all here live. ♪ the crossover in its most visionary form. experience amazing at your lexus dealer.

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all the tools you need for every step of the way. make it, squarespace jillian: good friday morning. welcome back. a toxic metal discovered in jewelry on store shelves across the country. the center for environmental

health nordstrom. made entirely out of cad yum linked to cancer and reproductive issues. apple could soon keep the robo call away. don't we hope? patenting software. it could block the fake call. it's unclear when you could see this new feature on your iphone but we are counting down, brian? interesting. they are back. 2020 election receivable will kick off with interesting faces. bill and hillary clinton. launching a 13-city tour an evening with the clintons. starts two weeks after the midterm elections featuring bill and hillary no. word with chelsea will emcee. mark penn knows them well and joins us. mark, is this a good idea for the party and for the clintons? >> well, at the moment, having the clintons do a roadshow isn't the best thing for the party that needs to move forward. but i don't really understand why this wouldn't

be completely for charity. go out and give a speaking tour for individuals to pay 75 to $700 to listen. that doesn't make any sense to me. brian: it doesn't. is it hard when the stars of a party don't walk away for other people to shine? president obama was out a couple weeks ago. he endorsed 230 candidates. hillary clinton a major interview and now a major tour. does it make it harder for somebody else to emerge? >> well, right now, there is a lot of drift because there is no nominee or leader in the democratic party. i think the other leaders are kind of coming in to fill in temporarily here. they are not doing any help. they would help if they would frankly come out against incivility. if they would come out for the kind of politics i think the people admire instead of stoking a resistance i think that's taking the democrats in the wrong direction. brian: brings me right to excerpt from your column. upset is possible if democrats fail to turn away from the resistance and its

extreme tactics. americans are not going to vote for the party whose message is impeachment and investigate. investigate, investigate kavanaugh and impeach the president or impeach kavanaugh, too. americans are going to run from that and break maybe with tradition and not rebuke the party in power. right? >> well, i read in the '98 messaging and in '98 because the republicans went too far, we gained seats. i have think here the democrats coming out of kavanaugh have energized conservative base what people want to see now is a more co conciliatory unity oriented politics. that's the way to get back into office. i think what holder said was way out of line for a former attorney general to say that. let's get back to policy, to rationality, to convincing the american public what the right direction of the country should be. >> mark, the number one issue for democrats and republicans is not the

sexiest issue but most practical, it's healthcare. it's not political, either. it's everyone's kitchen table. how come no one realizes that? >> yes. the number one issue in the polls for a long time is that healthcare sun resolved. democrats have had an edge on healthcare. and i think they got wrapped um in fomenting more support from the base and not understanding that it's swing voters in suburban areas and working class districts that will really decide this upcoming election. they, oddly enough, have shown that they care about the issues. not about just fighting out resistance and pounding on the supreme court doors. brian: george stephanopoulos said we thought it would be a good idea to go out there campaigner. hurting his cause in his first term. how come trump seems to be helping his cause? >> look, i think trump is in a situation in which the

republican leader of the house quit and so there was nobody out there to create a republican message. so i think he probably helped more than hurt. but i think actually it's the democrats here who so far we have shot ourselves in the foot here going overboard that actually provided republicans and your show with more talking points than you can imagine for the next three weeks. brian: we thank you for that lastly bernie sanders does an op-ed and he talks about single payer healthcare and how that's the future. it was answered by president trump and saying it's going to cost $33 billion over the next 10 years and it's not sustainable nor will it give quality. isn't that the wrong message to the right issue? well, first at least it's a debate about issues where i would like things to be. i think single pair or medicare for all. i think that people don't understand the incredible cost there. brian: gotcha. >> americans are looking for a compromise on healthcare and they do want to see progress made, but they don't want single payer yet.

brian: i would hope. so maybe we can stop vilifying each other and work together on something. mark penn, always great. thanks. >> thank you. brian: congressman steve scalise survived assassination attempt. he has a lot to say about the left's ramped up rhetoric. he will join us live. he told us to don't stop believing it i'm talking about singer of journey. lead singer steve perry. he will be with us. he has shorter hair ♪ wheels in the sky keeping on turning ♪

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steve: used to play it all the time. ainsley: we still do. next guest is the voice and the mind behind some of journaly's greatest hits, including don't stop believing. steve: he didn't stop believing and now former journey front man steve per j is out with a brand new album first in decades it is called traces. and he joins us now in the new york studio. good morning to you. we play that song don't stop believing all the time. >> yeah. steve: it's fantastic. >> thank you so much. steve: since you recorded it, then it was picked up by different tv shows and the eventually the sopranos. >> many generations have embraced that song. it's kind of a miracle to be honest with you. because of petty jenkins is really responsible for the relaunching of it because the movie monster and it started there and it went into a real oc and supporting events and ended up with the sopranos. steve: is that long note. can you still hit that note. >> good day perfect world i

would say sometimes at this age, you know. ainsley: your father used to sing to you, right? >> my father was a singer. ainsley: he left the house when you were little. >> really you? did your homework. ainsley: 7 years old. >> very painful time for me when i was 7. they split up. that was a real big void in my life not to have my dad singing to me every day. steve: when you were in high school. you were a drum everywhere in the high school marching band? >> that's right. i had a r and b band called the sullies in the day. after game dances. all the funk. steve: where did journey came from. >> journey came from san francisco. the group was built arranged neo sean by a gentleman by the name of herbie herkt kept on picking neil up in high school when he was just a kid and brought him in and brought a band and neil. i got to meet the guys later on because i had a childhood friend who knew herbie herbert. steve: networking. >> my tape somehow miraculously ended in to herbie's hands. he remembered me as larry's cousin. i got to meet neil again.

steve: the rest is history. ainsley: when you fell in love it changed your life you say? >> it did. ainsley: in what way. >> i found a girl or a girl found me i think more likely kelly nash i method through petty jenkins. petty was working on a film about breast cancer called five on the lifetime network. i was watching this incredible thing that patty was working on. there was a girl sitting in the lobby of this hospitals. and i said who is that? she said oh, that's kelly nash. i said well, what does she do? she is a ph.d. psychologist but she had breast cancer buffer she is doing pretty good. i said well, do you have her email? and petty looked at me funny, i don't do that she says really? i said yeah, do you have her email? tell her maybe i should go to lunch or something. we eventually got together and the rest has kind of been a life changing experience. i lost her a year and a half after we were together though. and as a result of that, making a promise to her to

not go back into isolation if something was ever to happen to her which is something she asked me to promise. i'm keeping that promise talking to you now. steve: sure. that's why you have been working on decades on getting the courage to do your own album and now traces is out. >> traces is out. steve: it's great. >> thank you, thank you. i'm glad you like it. steve: how do you describe it. >> the album, i think, is an emotional album. meaning it's got rock and roll emotion. it has love song emotion. it has loss of someone you love emotion. it's just an open heart, i think, the whole album. steve: the new album traces is available now. steve perry. >> thank you so much. steve: don't stop believing. ainsley: thank you for touching our lives. gotten us through the ups and downs, we appreciate it. >> thank you so much. ainsley: you are welcome. a fox news alert. one of the most powerful cardinals in the united states has just resigned. the breaking announcement from pope francis coming up next. steve: plus congressman

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jillian: tropical storm michael blamed for six deaths so far still a major threat. incredible aerial video showing the complete devastation. brian: american pastor andrew brunson is inside a turkish courtroom. he could walk free today. >> we will continue to stand strong until pastor andrew brunson is free. >> when they go low, we kick them. [laughter] >> fear is not it's not a proper motivator. >> we at the rnc do not want to see people create mobs and attack people at stlawnts. we want to create civility. >> something about when i put this hat on made me superman. you have created a superman.

>> a president who is willing to exploit that. >> i'm so very proud of conway. you have the gate keepers of the democratic party afraid that people are going to not walk away but run and run like heck. ♪ ♪ ♪ i bet my life. steve: hello, everybody, welcome to "fox & friends," it's hour two of our big friday telecast. it's great to have you. ainsley: good morning. yesterday we had the president on. he was on for 47 minutes with us. and then he had lunch can w. kanye west at the house. brian: right. and jim brown. steve: are you talking about wild, wild west wing? brian: right. steve: is there you can see the president embracing kanye who said that that red maga hat was like a superman cape. made him feel really good. ainsley: people are making fun of him for saying that. he explained why. i grew up in a household without my dad. i grew up around all these

women and had all these influences from the female perspective. and he said i really wanted my dad to be there to play baseball with me and throw ball with me so i put this hat on and i feel like a man. i feel like a super hero. brian: if you missed it in the afternoon because you might be a 9 to 5er. we taped it you see we taped it vcr for the whole network. we owe you that here is cop yea west being kanye west. the president is playing himself. >> we really get caught up in the idea of racism over the idea of industry. head of the police and -- met with me last night. we feel stop and frisk does not help the relationship in the city. and everyone that knew i was coming here said ask about stop and frisk. that's the number one thing that we're having this conversation about. >> you know i love you. >> i don't want to put new that spot. >> no. i'm standing in that spot. i love this guy right here. let me give this guy a hug.

[laughter] >> i love this guy right here. brian: look, they don't agree on everything, hear what they said. i'm against stop and frisk. he is talking about getting a gang member out of prison that's probably doing life. and he also, you know, he also talks about if i was worried about racism in america, i would have left a long time ago, obviously there is still racism in america. these are three things the president doesn't say at rallies. he is trying to say you don't have to agree with everything that i agree with. the fact is you are a supporter. what kanye west is doing in his own unique way we have got to roo rout for this president. why are you telling me what to believe. that's why the hat is freedom for him. ainsley: when our president looks good our country looks good. be brave. think about how hard that is to be on hollywood. go on "saturday night live" and wear that hat and he doesn't care. there is definitely a great lesson there. he said that he loved hillary clinton, which i thought was impressive because he is saying i

support this president but i loved hillary clinton. i just didn't relate to her. steve: sure. after this wide ranging stream of consciousness conversation, soliloquy he had there in the oval office. there were a number of people who went on television and their hair was on fire. they thought it was extraordinary. brian: it was extraordinary. ainsley: they thought it was a melt down. steve: the president would bring this guy who some regard as just crazy in the oval office for that kind of display. if you missed some of the media melt down, here is a little bit of that. >> wow. okay. i'm doing this for everybody who is watching us who turned their volume down. you can put it back up again. >> if you think you are going to get out, that was an assault on our white house. >> i thought that was really sad. i have think you had there a man who is clearly not okay. and a president who is willing to exploit that. >> what i saw was a minstrel show today in front of all

of these white people. mostly white people embarrassing himself and embarrassing americans but mostly african-americans. kanye's mother is rolling over in her grave. ainsley: okay. that's just mean. that is so mean-spirited. i'm sure his mom would be so proud of her son sitting across from the president. even if he didn't vote -- or even if she didn't support him. steve: think back to after katrina and kanye west famously at that telethon said that george w. bush didn't care about black people. and he was a darling of the left. actually, and now he is being demonized because he is embracing a republican president. yesterday, he actually kind of referred to the meant about george bush after katrina. he said i regretted those. you know, istlesz emotional at thi was emotional atthe time. i was programmed to think from a welfare mentality. brian: candace will be on. she talks to him about a

regular basis about everything. extremely bright and understands what's going on. also says he might unrub for president in 2024. he was going to run in 2020. he wants to now support this president. the other thing to keep in mind as i said earlier, people go how could president trump be getting policy cues from kanye west? he is not getting policy cues, he is saying we wanting to straighten out the inner city. kanye west is from the inner city. is he living th the life of luxury because of his talents. he is not setting policy. jared kushner, ben carson, darrell scott and jim brown with his 50 years of working in prisons on criminal justice reform, and, you know, anti-gang units. they are putting together curriculums to begin to roll things out to the point where van jones just wrote a letter saying jared kushner in particular is on the money with criminal justice reform. this is just part of it. and the reason wife we saw it is because at the last

minute the president said you know what? kanye west and jim brown why don't we bring the press. in the press is upset it because they brought in. steve: they wanted that picture the white house did. brian: they wanted the picture they didn't plan on having the video. steve: they brought in video cam radios. brian: that was the president's decision at game time. hey, welcome, wave, go have lunch and let them go. steve: i think given the fact that everybody was talking about they were going to have lunch. they had to bring in the cameras. but, maybe they didn't. we asked you what they thought. we heard from diamond and silk. they were furious at the media reaction. kanye was simply trying to be kanye. he wasn't being anyone else. he was simply being himself. ainsley: richard says kanye is a threat because he has power. power the left fears. they fear it because people may even listen. brian: here is manuel. he says i'm 70. i have never listened to his music. yesterday i heard his words. keep talking, kanye: other

thing that is unbelievable to me we had herschel walker here he talked about mental i will notice and things he illness. i'm going to come out and fight for mental illness. evidently there might have been a situation where some have diagnosed him with bipolar he says no i was just sleep deprived. whatever it is. why are people knocking somebody who might be born in a way there might be a chemical imbalance, might be bipolar. people live great productive lives. some of the most successful people in the world have add. why mock people. >> i watched him and he was complimentary of hillary clinton. he said he loved her. he doesn't agree with her. he loves this president. he seems like a nice guy. i don't know him but he seemed nice. it was a extremism consciousness. people are saying he is crazy because he had been, i think, hospitalized for mental illness. steve: he has been treated. ainsley: i felt like the media was so mean spirited to him. steve: keep the comments coming. we would love to hear from

you. we played for you yesterday a sound bite of eric holder stumping for a gubernatorial candidate down in georgia a couple of days ago. when republican quos low michelle obama says we go high i say kick them. michelle obama walls on another morning show and she did not like what her husband's former attorney general said. watch this. >> fear is not a -- it's not a proper motivator. hope wins battles. and if you think about how you want your kids to be raised, how you want them to think about life and their opportunities, diewpghtd them afraid of heir neighbors? do you think the them angry? do you want them vengeful? which motto do you want them to live by? brian: that's great. we have got to be civil. hillary clinton couldn't say that eric holder couldn't say that the former first lady had to show some class. steve: eric holder tweeftd out okay, stop the fake outrage.

>> i'm obviously knot advocating violence. in fact when i was ag violent crime was hisksly low. republicans are undermining democracy and democrats need to be tough proud and stand up for the values we believe. in. brian: fake outrage. ainsley: good for michelle obama. even if you have differing opinions people getting along. president bush gave her the cough drop? brian: they get along. ainsley: trump family said when they were inaugurated the obamas were really so nice to them and showed them around the white house and they were available all the time to take phone calls. brian: they have since gone south. jillian: side note steve once gave me a cough drop. steve: i did. opens you right up. brian: gave you a ludens. jillian: cherry flavor, yum. we are following a bunch of stories. we begin with this story pope francis accepting the resignation of donald

westerville archbishop of washington, d.c. of the 70-year-old under scrutiny for handling sexual abuse cases while serving as the beneficial shop of pittsburgh and allegations he covered them up. the vatican has asked wuerl to stay on until a new archbishop is found. tropical storm pounding the carolinas causing life-threatening flooding. hundreds of thousands waking up without power. storm blamed for six deaths so far. incredible aerial video showing the path of destruction left behind in florida. debris is left everywhere. looks like neighborhoods are flattened. take a look at this plane flipped over by kendall's air force base. only the beginning. now we have another fox news alert. >> told you will we are following at love stories. crew member dead after falling down on tom hanks new mr. rogers' movie. smoke break in pittsburgh. police say he may have had some sort of medical

emergency before he fell filming for the movie has stopped for the time being. police are looking for a man caught on camera stealing an american flag and wearing it like a cape. surveillance video showing the suspect swiped the flag from a world war ii monument honoring japanese american veterans in los angeles. s crook's motive is unclear. a look at your headlines, i will send it back to you. steve: a lot going on. thank you, jillian. meanwhile straight ahead this democrat was elected mayor age of 23. now he could spend more than 23 years in prison for fraud. we will tell you his story. brian: but, this democrat is running for senate in arizona. so, she must love it here, right? wrong. >> arizona is a stated of five out of six crazy. brian: former secretary of state ari fleischer here to react to that. >> good morning. brian: look at those people

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in the water. if conservatives because of the kavanaugh issue, now are fired up and turn out, this election we are looking at in november could be a very different election. ainsley: is that your message today to those folks that are watching they might be busy that day. sometimes it's a decision you make that day. especially when it's a midterm election. whees your me sage to republicans that are watching. >> democrats fired up. anti trump. they are coming out in droves no matter what. conservatives until kavanaugh were generally sitting at home. now, they have a chance now think are fired up. >> what did you think of the president with kanye yesterday. >> i loved it i'm the author of the republican national committee piece about the need for the republican party to do outreach. this is outreach. and it amazes me. i get all these calls for reporters saying what about republicans not following those recommendations? here is trump doing it and the reporters say how dare he do it? ainsley: there is a video that's now surfaced from years ago from this democrat

kristin cinema who is running in arizona. the video surface of her mocking folks in arizona. it just came ow listen to this. >> over the past several years. people would [inaudible] >> people are crazy. something about the water? there is nothing wrong with the water. [laughter] there is something wrong with the people [inaudible] they are called republican. republicans. steve: she is talking about arizonans being crazy. just a bunch of republicans back in 2011. >> audiences laugh when hillary clinton called republicans deplorable. the audience laughed at a private fund raise with her barack obama said people in small towns cling to their guns and religion. this fits that same pattern. i don't understand this. there is almost a liberal base disdain of republicans of conservatives, of people who come from rural areas. people who aren't sophisticated. that disdain is killing the democratic party and really ruining their chances with

low income and middle income peoplement and changing the roles of the two parties. she was in trouble before that i suspect that she is not going to win race in arizona. this is going to compounds her problem. steve: sounds like the senate could pick up some for the republicans. what about the house? your prediction? >> i have always said republicans net 2 in the senate, could be 3. could be 4. the house, i think the democrats gain is between 20 and 30. which means either republicans control it by five or democrats control it by about five. it is going to be real, real close in the house. steve: polarization? >> polarization is a modern fact of life. and this is where it's fascinating because the question to me is can donald trump somehow rise above. can he be the same guy at the rallies who riles up the base and people say he is so authentic but also find some way to unify. find some way to do both. to expand his broad width and elevate so people say, you know what? he actually does care and he is doing a lot of good.

if he can do both. that man has a great future. ainsley: thank you, ari. >> thank you. steve: what's coming up. ainsley: congressman steve scalise survived assassination attempt as you know. he has a lot to say about the left's ramped up rhetoric, and he joins us next. if your moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's symptoms are holding you back, and your current treatment hasn't worked well enough it may be time for a change.

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representative steve scalise is speaking out calling their behavior a direct threat to our democracy. brian: steve scalise joins us now. congressman, it's as if they forgot what happened to you. you were bleeding to death at second base because of bernie sanders supporter thought he had to kill republicans. do they understanding that these deranged people just need a go sign and their aggression could be the trigger? >> well, you know, you are seeing more and more of this from the left. and there is no place for it. what i wrote about is that when you see these kinds of things being said, t. is inciting people and frankly not the direction we should be going and not what our country is all about. we are a great country that celebrates the fact we can actually disagree with each other. we can disagree with our government. but there is a way to resolve it you resolve your differences at the ballot box. you don't resort to violence. and to see leaders calling on violence, that happens in third world nations.

not in america. ainsley: congressman, why did you decide to write the op-ed? >> well, i'm concerned that you are seeing an increase of this. you know, look, i would like to see leaders on both sides calling it out. you are seeing leaders on the right calling it out. you are not seeing any leaders on the left calling it out. in fact, you are seeing some of the leaders on the left inciting more violence. calling on more violence instead of saying there is no place for it. i would like to see the mainstream media asking both republican and democrat leaders to stand up against this kind of rhetoric. this kind of violence. steve: congressman scalise, maxine waters just works across the hall from you in a figure of speech. you are working in the same building. have you thought about going over to her office and saying what are you talking about? what are you doing? >> >> you know, i have talked to some democrats about this, and there are a lot of democrats that are concerned about it. i would like to hear some of them speaking out publicly because i think that's what it is going to take. steve: why don't you speak

to her directly, sir? >> well, i have spoken to a number of them directly. and i think the ones i have spoken to, you know, some of them get it some of them don't. but ultimately we have got to keep shining a light on this to make it clear that this isn't what politics is about in america. it's not what the founding of our country was about. it was about free speech, freedom of expression. not violence against anybody. and, you know, margaret thatcher used to say first you win the argument. then you win the vote. they are not winning the argument if they are resorting to violence. ultimately they will lose the vote if they continue to call on violence. look, president trump has worked really hard to get this economy back on track. people like the direction of the country. they don't like the direction that we are headed. they go out and try to lay out a better course and better agenda. that's not what they are trying to do on the left. they are trying to threaten and intimidate people. that's not what america is about. >> congressman, i get the sense when i watch noption that she feels like she is speaker already. do you feel like it's done that you should get minority

or do you feel there is more time on the clock left with three and a half weeks? >> interest is weeks? >> there is a lot more game left to be played. you feel a lot of momentum our way. people were angered by what they saw in the senate the last few weeks. and frankly when you talk to them about the economy, they like what they are seeing. people are working. they are getting higher wages now because of the work we did with president trump to cut taxes. you are seeing an economy that's booming. and, yet, democrats want to raise taxes. they want to accomplish ice. they have got a very leftist agenda that's out of touch with the people i'm talking to when i go to swing districts. brian: you don't think it's over. okay. congressman, great message. >> i think we hold the house. brian: thank you so much. thanks for joining us. steve: good weekend. here in new york city. first he was hugging it out inside the oval office. kanye met with candace owens. what did kanye tell her about his big meeting?

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u.s.a. over the last couple of months she has become friendly with kanye. candace, what did you make of some of those sound bites, for instance, talking about how his appearance was an assault on the white house? >> look, all the commentary that i have heard surrounding this meeting has been absolutely despicable. utterly racist especially coming from cnn. don lemon bringing up kanye's dead mother to draw blood from this man because he doesn't agree with liberal ideas. he understands democratic policies have harmed the black community. is he bold enough to move the ball forward and speak about publicly. it's desparticular cable. kanye was built for this. >> what is he like? >> i met with him following his meeting. he is just in a very, very positive state. he is optimistic. he understands exactly what he is doing. i mean, there was a lot of happiness and euphoria in the room. i simply said the paradigm has sliftded because it has.

black conservatives will no longer be fearful. black conservatives are willing to speak out. we are excited. it finally feels like it's our time. and the commentary means nothing. it will not dissuade us from speaking out. brian: kind of drug. the backlash has been so enormous. you would think that maybe the word is keep your mouth shut because who wants this blow back, candace. can you blame somebody for not coming forward when you get this type of retribution? >> i don't blame them. i think it's all sort of come to a head. in the past we have seen that. that's why black conservatism was so shunned and saw their treatment of dr. ben carson, larry elder, dr. condoleezza rice. this is a different time. we are audacious. we are standing up. at turning points u.s.a. we have our first ever young black leadership summit. black conservatives are going to hear these ideas to meet the first family. to say have the president speak to us. we are feeling inspired. we are feeling bold and optimistic and feels like at long last this is our time to speak out.

brian: i know you speak to the president often. you know darrell scott and others. we have had them in here. ben carson. they are making some major moves in the inner cities. we knowed about new opportunity zones that's in the new tax reform. they are not doing a good job getting the message out. how do you change that? >> >> that's exactly what i'm doing. i feel like in so many ways that's what you i'm here for to get the message out. that's why we are doing the summit to bring our community to the ideas. i myself am launching a project next week which i'm not going to speak about today. really exciting. we will target the inner cities and have these sorts of rallies and conversations to keep this going. kanye has built us a runway and we are not going to squander that opportunity whatsoever. steve: candace, what's your message to the sound biters who were on television last night and will be on today talking about looking at what kanye said there in the oval office in that 10 minute soliloquy regarding him as crazy? what's your message to him. >> my message is i can hear

their fear. i can hear their insecurity and let them know that there is absolutely nothing they can say. there are no words strong enough that is going to stop this movement of black conservative thought. steve: what is the fear? >> they are fearful that they are losing control and that they are losing power. one thing surprised by donald trump's presidency. they were surprised by that they thought hillary had this. they had done so much and invested so much into her. america surprised them. they never ever ever saw thissing coming. they never saw an awakening in the black community that we might start to understand our history and understand they are our oppressors they have always been our oppressors. we will no longer let them oppress us. ainsley: how big is that movement? >> it's huge. i cannot stress to you enough what my inbox looks like from the black community saying i never even understood. this i never heard this perspective. thank you for bringing me to this. i want to get involved. how can i get involved. we are telling them exactly how they can do that. steve: isn't there a fear on

the part of some if they come forward and support this president they are going to get the kanye treatment? >> no. it feels a bit punk rock. a bit rock and roll. wearing the maga hat as kanye stressed yesterday. there is something empowering about that. i wear it through airports all the time to let people know liberals cannot bully me. there is nothing that you can say that distracts me from knowing i am correct and i have the right to wear this hat and supports this presidency. ainsley: what do people say in the airport when you wear the hat? do you ever get bull idea. >> lacy week i was on an americans airline flight. a woman walked over and said i want to let you know that your hat offends me as a woman. i said i want to let you know that that is none of my business. have a seat. steve: have a seat. let's go. candace owens who has a big announcement next week stop by and tell us, okay? >> absolutely. thank you guys so much. brian: of course jill onalways has big announcements. most of them in the prompter. jillian: yes they're. good morning.

happy friday. brian: hopefully no time for sports. jillian: not right now, brian. we will get to that letter. justice kavanaugh officially on the bench. republicans aren't stopping at that victory. chuck grassley now pushing dozens of judicial nominees to fill federal courts. the iowa senator tweeting, quote: the judiciary committee just sent 8 more judges to the full senate for final votes. total judges on floor now 49, 4 circuit, 43 district and 2 federal claims nominees. lots of work to do. senate should stay in session until all 49 judges are confirmed. work comes before campaigning. an 18-year-old high school student forced to take off his president trump jersey at a patriotic themed football game. matthew collins told him others were complaining about it collins' dad is a registered democrat and says he sees nothing wrong with this jersey. he has consulted a jersey but doesn't have any plans to sue. are you feeling lucky? there is still a few more hours until tomorrow's mega

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friends. janice: 45 over here, right? >> right. >> what's the secret? >> being very good friends from cincinnati. janice: and loving "fox & friends"? >> yeah! that's the key to a good marriage as well. take a look at the maps real quick. we had a lot of rain real quick from michael. this is the end of it though. finally gone. it's post tropical. it is going to scoot off the northeast coast line. we could see some rainfall this afternoon, parts of new england, but then the cooler air is going to move on through with the cold front. also want to point out that we have tropical storm sergio that's going to bring the potential for heavy rainfall across the southwest and texas. all right, you guys having a good friday? [cheers] japan january steve, ainsley and brian. bark inside. look at these amazing people who come to see us every day. steve: i have like you saying key to the happy marriage is loving "fox & friends." brian: thanks, janice. real quick, i have to tell you what's coming up next week closer and closer

friday night in tampa, florida, norfolk, virginia on saturday and over at nashville, tennessee. one of those events is going to be on fox nation which is going to be rolling out shortly. america great from the start. a chance to talk about all three books at the same time. interact steve and ainsley knows the bad parted about book signing is you don't get to talk to people just a little this is a full interaction. ainsley: move on we have a full crowd. this is great. i'm sure there will be humor in there, too. steve: more information, finding out about the venues live stage show go to brian kilmeade.com. brian: 18 minutes before the top of the hour. ainsley: american pastor that has been held captive for the last two years in turkey could be free in just a few hours. we're live outside the courthouse next. steve: that would be great news. look at the lineup, trish region again, geraldo, dana, sarah. you are watching "fox & friends" on a great friday. thank you, america. ♪ nothing says fall like a homecoming football game,

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find your certified financial planner™ professional at letsmakeaplan.org. ainsley: we are back with a fox news alert. america pastor andrew brunson in a turkish courtroom right now there is speculation after two years in captivity could walk away today. brian: benjamin hall is live outside the courthouse with a possible deal to bring him home. benjamin, is this close? >> brian, steve and ainsley, good morning. we don't know. there is a nervous wait outside the court hours today to find out whether or not pastor bronson will be released. we are south of istanbul. right behind us is the courthouse where the trial has got underway. it is moving along. they have heard from a few prosecution witnesses and hear from defense witnesses after that. make no mistake, many people are seeing this case as purely political. any decision to release him

will be much higher country to country, townhouse turkey not expected to get official verdict today. what we're hoping for is that his house arrest and travel ban lifted. come home to the u.s. court case can continue along. a long of saving face. if he is released today will be done thanks to you will at u.s. pressure we have seen we remain hopeful see its way clear free this good man guilty of nothing been incarcerated for several years in turkey unjustly. we will continue to stand strong until pass tore andrew brunson is free. >> as you said, there have been indications that a deal has been done. there were reports yesterday that the u.s. and turkey had agreed on some framework. what turkey wants is effectively relief from sanctions and lifting of tariffs. those two combined have crumbled their economy and cents their currency into

free fall. now is the time turkey wants to reach out to the u.s. and burbuild the bridges they had burned. there was a plane waiting to take him home. at the last minute that didn't happen. until is he on that plane heading back to the u.s., nothing is sure. back to you guys. steve: benjamin hall live from turkey the pastor shouldn't have been jailed. brian: there are thousands who shouldn't be in jail. hundreds of journalists. steve: the president of the united states is focused on this and applied a lot of pressure. fingers crossed. ainsley: 50 years old from north carolina hopefully coming in soon. brian: vice president has pushed it too. media trashed kanye west for visiting the white house. praise taylor swift for supporting democrats. why the double standard? dana loesch on that. ainsley: the stock market having worst two day stretch in eight months. is it really about time for our economy? trish regan says not so fast ♪ what's wrong confident

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brian: stock market has rattled us once again hitting worst two day stretch in 8 months. the. steve: the dow jones industrial average dropping 545 points on the heels of a more than 800 point drop the day before. ainsley: experts blame the drop on rising interest rates. what does this mean in the context of today's economy? here to weigh in on this is trish regan the host of trish regan prime time. congratulations. >> starts monday at 8:00 p.m. on fox business. got that one out of the way. steve: what's going on? >> it's natural. the market is at all time

high and been doing incredibly well. people are saying okay, well, at some point, this economy is going to be doing so welled that fed is going to have to, imagine this, raise interest rates. i mean, they spent the last near decade not raising interest rates. and just having effectively liquidity spigot open. they have to raise rates and consequently people said maybe i don't need to be invested in the stock market. maybe i can have a safer debt fixed income instrument which is a treasury bond or some kind of debts instrument. so this rotation of money is what's going on. brian: i know there is multiple factions. you can't oversimplify. what factor do you believe, trish regan, this whole china, america trade war we're in. >> i don't think it has anything to do with it honestly. look, we are china's biggest customer. and do you really want to alienated your biggest ghure? no.

eventually they have to come to the table and engage in these negotiations. i don't think it's actually china. i think the economy is doing great. brian. you just look at all the numbers. i'm somebody who gets nervous. the market is looking 6 to 9 months out. if i see a big sell off in the market i say what does that mean for our economy? our economy is doing so well right now, 4.2% growth. ainsley: unemployment -- >> yes. lowest since 196. nothing on the economic horizon that would say fundamentally things are not in a good spot. steve: right. but the president, you know, over the last couple of days, he has been brushing back out feds calling them loco. essentially saying okay, you've jacked up rates enough. >> yeah. steve: stop it. >> no president actually wants the fed to raise rates, right? because as soon as you start raising rates effectively costing more to borrow money. steve: sure. >> less likely to borrow money. less likely to put money to work. i get where he is coming

from. he doesn't want this. trust me. a lot of people on wall street don't want it either. what the fed is trying to do is tame any sense of inflation. and it's like this balancing act. right? they are always trying to keep the economy going but not going too strong. ainsley: trish, you are going to be working hard right here this weekend. and then your new show prime time on the fox business note work starts on monday, 8:00 p.m. congratulations. >> thank you so much, ainsley. ainsley: tell us about your new show. >> politics and the economy. that's it. people vote their pocketbooks. so there is a real intersection there that we're going to dive into in a very big way. and we're covering the news. and the news, as you know, never stops. brian: right. >> >> 8:00 a lot going on. i'm looking forward to it. brian: new bump in music and animation. like nothing we have never seen. >> a new set. all that good stuff. brian: "fox & friends weekend" first. >> i'm here this weekend saturday and sunday for the

marathon, my gosh. like a whole week's work right in one. steve: you are so lucky that your new program is debuting a couple weeks before the midterms. everybody's antenna is up. they want to know what the very latest is regarding politics. at the same time, what about my wallet? >> look, i think people really do fundamentally, this someone of the reasons why donald trump was elected. ed somebody who understood economics and understood business. they were willing to put -- whatever they might have thought of his tweets, et cetera, aside because they said this is a guy that get it. when it comes to my wallet. and my family's economic future. brian: steve's house still uses the antennas. you did break news. ainsley: step up from coat hanger. brian: i got uhf. steve: congratulations. we will be watching this weekend. >> appreciate it. steve: three weeks away from the midterms. new signs this morning the blue wave maybe not so blue.

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♪ . >> tropical storm michael blamed or at least six deaths so far. it is a major threat. incredible aerial video. showing complete devastation. brian: american pastor andrew brunson is inside after turkish courtroom. he could walk three today. >> we will continue to stand strong until pastor andrew brunson is free. >> when they go low, we kick 'em. >> fear is not proper motivator. >> this is inciting people. this is not what our country is all about. you resolve differences at the ballot box. >> something i put the hat on,

made me feel like superman. you made me a superman. >> wow. that is bonkers. >> kanye's mother rolling over in her grave. >> kanye was built for this. there are no words strong enough to stop this movement of black conservative thought. ♪ brian: could we bumped in with kanye west music. ainsley: you ask how many people in the band. twenty one pilots. how many people in the band. are there 21? brian: there could be. steve: could think so. brian: imagine dragons is too crowd crowd. ainsley: glad you brought up dragons. kanye called it dragon energy. he was in the white house bringing that dragon energy to

donald trump. steve: it was wild, wild in the west wing. he went to a georgetown apple store and jumped on the table to give a address. brian: we all do it at one point. >> a keynote speech. after making history in the oval office with a stream of conscious kind of soliloquy, if you missed it, you missed a lot. watch. >> they tried to scare me to not wear this hat but this hat, it gives me, it gives me power in a way. there was something about when i put this hat on, made me feel like superman. we get caught up in the idea of racism over the idea of industry. we feel that stop-and-frisk does not help the relationships in the city. that's, number one thing that we're having this conversation about. >> what about gun violence. >> illegal guns is the problem. not illegal guns. we have the right to bear arms. you foe i love you. >> don't want to put you in that

spot. >> i'm standing in that spot. i love this guy here. let me give this guy a hug. i love this guy right here. brian: that was great. that was unscripted. and that was real. the language was over the top. i don't think language has been spoken on camera in the oval office like that. there are nixon tapes out there that aren't -- ainsley: he was honest. he shouted out love to hillary clinton. he says he loves her but doesn't recommend to her. looked at president. you taught me to be brave. love wearing the hat. makes me feel like superman. steve: there you go. geraldo rivera joins us live. fox news correspondent at large. >> good morning. steve: i know you watched the oval office soliloquy and back and forth. what did you think? >> inthought it was great. i thought with bitter irony that in 2005 kanye west was the darling of the mainstream media because he condemned republican

president george w. bush's response to hurricane katrina. in 2005 the media loved kanye. in 2018 because he embraces the republican president, the media jumps all over him. i think when you listen to what he said, if you kind of divorce it, i know it i difficult from the burlesque theater there. kanye made some excellent points. he said he and the president have a shared interest in fighting urban violence, trade imbalances, prisons, oppressive prisons that employ among other things involuntary servitude. i thought kanye made very important substantive points. i think the media can't deal with the fact here you have a prominent man of color embracing the 45th president of the united states. brian: you want proof media can't handle it? here's the proof. >> it was like watching a train wreck because it was and the president just sat there.

>> kanye west was talking about all this stuff, making not a lot of sense in front of president trump. it was truly bizarre, bizarre moment. >> you had there a man who is clearly not okay and a president who is willing to exploit that. >> this was embarassment. kanye's mother is rolling over in her grave. steve, well, what do you think? >> i like most of the people you just showed, particularly don lemon but i just think that they are so thin-skinned and narrow-minded themselves when it comes to trump derangement syndrome. they cannot abide anything other than a united front opposing this president. kanye believes as i do, we get one president at a time. he does well, the nation does well. to root for the president to fail is to root for the country to fail. kanye totally gets it. when i spoke to the president two weeks ago, i made the specific point, mr. president, you have substantial support

among people of color. look at these men. you have kanye west, tiger woods, the golf champion and you have football great jim brown, who was sitting alongside kanye, didn't get much play because of kanye's program buoyant performance. there the fact of the matter the rising economic tide that has lifted all boats and has reduced unemployment in the african-american community to historic lows is the best social program there is. maybe kanye did a very, you know, kind of a flamboyant, extraordinary performance but core message was, that this is the way to improve the plight of the urban poor. i thought that he was, he was terrific. i would have preferred maybe happened on a day that we weren't talking about, you know, saudi journalists getting carved up by their government or hurricane michael ravaging the gulf coast or stock market

plunging but when is a good day? this is the political season. they had i had scheduled. made the point t was very entertaining. >> you mentioned political season. we're only a few weeks away from the midterm. what do you think about the idea that the blue wave is drying up like some are saying? >> ainsley i'm not an expert at that. my sense is that immediately following the brett kavanaugh debacle they ruined that man's reputation and hurt his family grievously, at same time they were confronting people like ted cruz in restaurants and chasing mitch mcconnell through reagan national airport, there was a real backlash against the left, against the blue wave so to speak and that the republicans were ascending. maybe that cooled off a little bit the last couple days, but if the election was last week i was sure the president's party would carry the day. we'll see what happens in the next couple weeks. how i think he responds to

hurricane michael is important. how he deals with the saudi journalist getting carved up in istanbul and stock market has to stablize. brian: important for the governor's race in florida, important for the senate's race in florida. i know you like when two sides come together. there might be something there with criminal justice reform, jared kushner, getting a credit for it. just like a few other major issues. when van jones praising jared kushner there might be an actual breakthrough? >> i like what van jones is saying. he seems to me to be a results-oriented person. i think he is very eloquent, smart guy. i think everyone, when kim kardashian, kanye's wife was in the oval office and she successfully got parole, a presidential pardon, rather, for someone who is jail for awfully long time a black woman for non-violent drug offense, i think that might have been the exemplar. we have to move toward criminal justice reform where we don't

automatically stuff people in, kanye mentioned the 13th amendment, involuntary servitude, in prison, awful, awful fate that doesn't help anybody, costs a ton of money. i think with this kind of emerging coalition between the president of the united states and urban oriented people who know the score, there could be a reform that broadens the base of the republican party. it is necessarily doing that. the democrats have for too long as kanye mentioned had a monopoly on municipal government. they have been arrogant and neglectful and i think the, you know, it is all come home to roost. the chickens came home to roost. let them work for a pragmatic solution to a dreadful problem. i think the president in doing so will broaden his support and blunt any chance of a blue wave. steve: jim jordan, mark meadows from the congress have written an op-ed in foxnews.com, they

say there are 25 days left. the republicans need to show the contrast between democrats. democrats message, raise taxes, abolish i.c.e., socialize medicine, impeach the president. they go down through a litany of things where republicans are done, taxes down 1600 bucks, regulations reduced, 3.5 million new jobs, essentially they say let's show the contrast, the choice will be clear and people will vote with their pockets and vote with their hearts with the party that is getting more done they say. >> very, very important. also look at south chicago. look at west baltimore. look at communities like east cleveland here where i am, my beloved city, new city. there is work to do. there is work to do still and i think a broad-based coalition, the more the president reaches out to others than his core, i think the stronger he becomes and the better it is for the country. we need to change the way we've

been approaching these endemic problems. kanye for all his extraordinary flamboyance and that unscripted, you didn't know where that thing was going, there were real nuggets of information and advice in there and i think it was important. ainsley: i agree. brian: i talk to you on radio about that a little later. >> have a great weekend, geraldo. >> thank you, ainsley. steve: 8:11 in new york city. jillian has some news about the pope. jillian: good friday morning. pope francis accepting the resignation of cardinal donald wirl of washington, d.c. the 77-year-old was under scrutiny for investigation of sexual abuses cases when he was in pittsburgh and allegations he was covering them up. to another fox news alert a crew member is dead after falling to the ground on tom hanks new mr. rogers movie. the sound mixer plunging off a

balcony during a smoke break in pittsburgh. he may have had some sort of medical emergency when he fell. filming for the movie is stopped for the time-being. president trump will go for his third make america great again rally this week in ohio. jim renacci is facing incumbent sherrod brown in a tight senate race. we'll have live coverage on the fox news channel. the president has another rally tomorrow in kentucky. there is a royal wedding today and kids are stealing the show. princess charlotte and prince george, a gusty wind takes down the whole crew. part of their cousin princess eugene any bridle party. prince george is a page boy. they are always adorable. steve: they are a win tunnel. they are adorable. ainsley: we don't care, there is

friday and a cold front. steve: we just learned more people have died in the aftermath of hurricane michael as we get a bird's-eye view of an entire town, look at that, wiped off the face of the beach. ainsley: we care about that weather. steve: griff is in a chopper right now and his report is next. brian: dana loesch is with us and reverend franklin graham is always in action when people need him. he will tell us how we can help. all that is coming up in the remaining 45 minutes of "fox & friends." ♪

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it's our healthcare. can i say it? what's in your wallet? ainsley: we are back with a fox news alert. at least 11 people are now dead as tropical storm michael leave as trail of destruction. moments ago virginia officials announcing five people were killed in that state. steve: my goodness. it could take months for hard-hit areas like the florida panhandle to clean up after the storm. griff jenkins is in a chopper. brian: almost like they went through a grinder. he is in tallahassee. good morning, griff. reporter: i'm in tallahassee, ground zero of mexico beach that took 155 mile-an-hour punch leveling everything. these images are unbelievable.

watch. >> it is quite something to see having covered a lot of hurricanes, this is definitely the worst wind damage i've seen in a small oceanfront town. it is unbelievable. it looks like something that i've only seen in tornadoes in moore, oklahoma total area of devastation. this whole beachfront is wiped. this house was literally lifted across the street. the foundations of looking at houses that used to be oceanfront, some of the best properties in mexico beach thrown a block or more back. completely turned upside down. an entirely empty lot where dozens of houses, the boats torn, absolutely crushed in every possible way here. you can see where the storm surge came in this channel but you can see the wind damage that just flattened everything in its

path. >> i have never seen this kind of damage in hurricane in coastal area. it will be a long time when it was in the past. reporter: that is one of the hardest tours i ever took at one the beaches in the florida panhandle. beautiful white sand. people won't be coming to mexico beach in a long time. officials say more than 250 people were believed to stay behind in mexico beach. we saw helicopters, black hawk rescue teams going in all the time we're there. i'm afraid the story gets grimmer and death toll may climb. steve: griff, must break your heart. you wound up going to mexico beach when you were growing up and now you look at it, it is gone. reporter: it is tough to see. i played on the pristine beaches in desinit. my parents had a condo my entire childhood west of there. tough to see.

mexico beach is a small fishing town. people go there to get away from tourists like me in memphis. that is gone entirely. i covered 30 tornado in moore, oklahoma, one of worst, ef-5, 200 miles an hour, it was a quick touch down in area that devastated, but in entire beachfront we haven't seen anything like this in the panhandle. steve: looks like a bomb went off. it is terrible. ainsley: thank you so much, griff. brian: ten minutes before the bottom of the hour. a bombshell new report on the russia probe. andy mccabe and rod rosenstein arguing over who should recuse themselves right in front of, get this, robert mueller. steve: oh, boy. ainsley: media trashing kanye for his white house visit but praised taylor swift supporting the dems. does that sound like a double standard to you? dana loesch is going to respond next. ♪

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say "teach me more" into your voice remote to get started. ainsley: here is some quick headlines for you. we begin with a fox news alert. turkey claims to have audio and video recordings that prove a missing journalist was killed. jamal kashoggi was seen entering the consulate. the saudi crown prince was said to have ordered to detain him. high-speed train goes up in flame in germany. all 510 passengers evacuated from the train going from frankfurt to cologne. unclear what started the fire. how a plane flew for three hours after crashing into a runway wall.

huge hole in the plane. systems were running normally and the plane landed safely in mumbai. steve: it is the meeting everybody is talking about. kanye west america first sit-down until he stood up and hugged the president at the white house yesterday. the left, political left wasted no time, slamming him, kanye for being there. ainsley: when taylor swift spoke out for the democrats she was praised. >> speaking of glamour, pop star taylor swift, in a eplengthy instagram post this weekend urged her 112 million followers to register to vote in the midterm elections. >> vote.org experience ad flood of new voter registrations. >> when she comes out i think it catches a lot of people's attention. >> a lot of this of course goes back to the idea of turnout where somebody like taylor swift can be key. brian: we'll see. she has a huge social media following. dana loesch is host of the dana loesch show. joins us right now. hey, dana, do you think that a lot of the blowback on kanye west is because his comments

were so unorthodox or you think it is something else? >> i think it is probably both. good morning to you all. by the way i noticed when you were playing some of those super cuts there of the taylor swift praise, nobody was pretending to be a mental health professional and trying to psychoanalyze her from the anchor desk which a ton of people said yesterday. he previously said he was bipolar. what no one was talking about, what he told the president yesterday he was misdiagnosed. it is offensive, with the week of world mental health awareness day, that people are mocking mental health or his mental health because he is sharing a different viewpoint. taylor swift can support democrats. you had common was invited to the white house. in fact kanye west to the obama white house. lewd did i -- ludacris was at the obama white house. nicki minaj. no one attacked those individuals. they were all there when they went to visit former president

obama to discuss criminal justice reform. when kanye west goes he is crazy and selling out his community. i never heard people be so confident and casual in their racism as i heard progress sis try to psychoanalyze a successful black man, he was free to meet the president but progressives want to remind him otherwise. ainsley: did republicans treat taylor swift that way after she said she would not support marsha blackburn? >> no. that is a great point, ainsley. she was talking about bredesen is on the issues she was avoiding marsha blackburn over. that is the only criticism i heard about taylor swift. i have one of those people never had a problem people in hollywood talking about politics. sort of in a way pop culture codified, right? why aren't we free to talk to whoever we want, whenever we

want. i didn't realize kanye west had to ask permission. if progressives will get upset over accurate descriptions of his meeting in the white house, they should think about what they say sitting on national television, psychoanalyzing someone, using racial smears because he went to talk to a president about criminal justice reform. he said he loved hillary clinton in addition to donald trump. but apparently nuance is dead and we're not allowed to find common ground. steve: there you go. maybe the president is trying to find common ground though, dana, he said if the democrats win the house, doesn't really look like they will pick up the senate, if they win the house, he will try to work with them because he says that is what leaders do. >> yeah. and that is what mature adults do as well as opposed to saying that they're evil and trying to block their confirmmation based on ridiculous, awful sneers and lies and all of that stuff. no, i mean he is doing what elected leaders do. saying you will work with the other party, that is

statesmanship t doesn't mean compromise. it doesn't mean caving t means working with them. if that were to happen, obviously we'll see how the president handles it. that is what leaders do. he is right. brian: here is the other thing, hillary says you cannot be civil unless we win an election, house or senate. the good news for republicans if they win, they hold the power. bad news, they can expect to be screamed at every time they go to a denny's. >> yeah, exactly. hillary clinton saying that we can't be civil unless they hole power, that should scare people. that should really scare people. no one should ever, anyone who has that viewpoint of government should never be allowed near elected office. so, genesis sift, that was a gift. i hope people realize just how close they came. because that is comment tyrants make. that is not a comment democratically elected people in our constitutional republic make. steve: always a pleasure to have you on the program. dana loesch. have a good weekend.

>> 29 minutes after the top of the hour. an american pastor held captive for years is in a turkish courtroom right this very second. he could be freed in just a few hours. we're live outside of the courthouse. brian: let's go to the wall. reaction from reverend franklin graham next. steve: huge news this morning about one of the president's biggest campaign promises. listen. >> we will build the wall. we are building a wall. build that wall. build that wall! voice. carl? lowest price, guaranteed. just stick with badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com

brian: we're back with a fox news alert. american pastor andrew brunson in a turkish courtroom right now. ainsley: there's speculation he could be walking away free after more than two years in captivity. steve: benjamin hall is live outside of the courthouse with a possible deal to bring him home. benjamin, what is the latest from turkey? reporter: brian, steve, ainsley, good morning again, just in the

last few minutes we've been hearing news from inside the courtroom, witnesses stopped giving evidence. now over to the prosecution. the prosecution does not want to take the case further. the decision is up to the judge. if we expect a decision will happen sometime in the next two hours. to remind you two options, 35 years in prison for espionage and terror charges connected to the july 2015 coup, or, best-case scenario, what we're hoping for, some people have been claiming he has his house arrest and travel ban lifted and possibly by this evening he may be on a flight home. nothing is decided yet. this has been a political case decided at the highest levels of government, u.s. and turkey. what we're hearing that a deal has potentially been done which involves some kind of deal on turkish tariffs and turkish sanctions. we don't know the details a a lot of optimism. some people are leaving in a convoy. all we can do is hope for the best. about two hours we hope until we get some news on pastor brunson's release. back to you. steve: it necessary the hands of

the judge. benjamin thanks very much. brian: he will go right to the white house. that is where the big thank you goes. ainsley: let's bring in reverend franklin graham, president of billy graham's eadvantage gel call association and samaritan's purse. what do you think about this pastor from north carolina could be coming home. >> he could be coming home. this is something we've been praying for a long time. there is a connection. he is from the same community i grew up in, montreat, north carolina. i know all the of montreat, black mountain are praying. christian around the world are praying. he was held 18 months without even having a court hearing. these are false charges brought up against him. so i pray that the judge will see this today and say this is enough and turn this man and his wife loose and let them come home. brian: international strain on

relations between two nato allies. really this reverended caused a lot of his unjustified arrest. as soon as hurricane grind up the north coast of florida, i think the thought but guys. you always spur into action. what right now do the people of that region, got hit by hurricane michael need? >> well, first of all we're set up in albany, georgia, we're outside of mexico beach with our teams. we need volunteers right now. we need an army of volunteers willing to come and work and help people clean up their lots, look for possessions that have been lost. cut off, cut trees off roofs. a lot of things volunteers can do. if they went to our website, samaritan'spurse.org, they can find out how they can be involved. we also need financial help as well. it is expensive when you report to these areas. we've got teams there. we'll be working today.

we'll be there probably for the next, probably year, we'll be down there. steve: no kidding with the chainsaws, next couple days. franklin, can you explain logistically how it works, when you go into an area so devastated, you bring in volunteers, for anybody watching, maybe i could do it, where do you go? obviously go to where the problems are, but when it gets dark and it is time to go to sleep where do you sleep? there is no place to actually shelter? >> we always look for a host church that is able to put us up, a church that hasn't been damaged enough where we could sleep in the church. so we'll be set up at church. and we'll work out of that church. our volunteers come back and forth to the church. we take our own shower trailers in. take our own food trucks in, so we feed and shower. the church lets them sleep on the pews. that is the way it works. ainsley: if you're watching, can't make it down there to volunteer, go on the website to donate some money.

samaritan'spurse.org. thank you, reverend. >> thank you so much. steve: they have it figured out. 22 before the top of the hour. jillian has more news for this friday. jillian: good friday morning, the first portion of president trump's border wall is complete. the replacement part in calexico, california. mitch mcconnell, tells the washington pam inner the senate is looking to increase border wall fund to $5 billion by the end of this year. a michigan man is charged with killing his wife who has been missing for 43 years. police arresting richard gale pierce was arrested. they think he was in abusive marriage with his wife. she disappeared in 1975. her body was never found. massachusetts top court dismissing thousands of drug

convictions because after lab worker high on the job. the state must toss out all convictions involving evidence from the 2009 and when the lab closed in 2013. 8,000 cases involving only involving evidence tested by her have been dismissed. she pleaded guilty to stealing drug samples in 2014. if this would you feel if your favorite place in the world was closed? >> ah! ah! >> walter. i told you why he with can't go. i told you. i told you why we can't go to the park. it is closed today. jillian: is that for real? i never heard a dog make those noises. walter the french bulldog. obviously the video is going viral of him reacting to news his favorite park was shut down for the day. walter has 360,000 followers on instagram. i keep watching that over and

over again. steve: more followers on instagram than we do. jillian: combined. ainsley: dogs are a lot cuter than we are. brian: new study that dogs are not smarter than pigeons. steve: than pigeons. i had no idea we were studying that. janice, who is that behind you. janice: tax dollars paying for it. janice: these guys are smarter than pigeons, right? >> yeah! janice: brian kilmeade, we don't foe sometimes what he comes up with. anniversaries, birthdays here. how many? >> seven teen. janice: i remember 17. it was a good year. anniversary. >> 29 years. janice: what is the secret. >> patience. janice: patience is a virtue. tropical storm michael, left the coastline. that is the good news. cooler temperatures as you can

see behind this. we don't have anymore rain in the forecast. good riddance to that one. tropical storm sergio could bring heavy rain across parts of mexico and parts of southwest. we have anniversaries. >> 52. janice: what is the secret? >> good husband. janice: good husband. watching "fox & friends"! [cheering] thanks so much for everybody coming. will you come back again? yes. it's a little cool out here. so group hug. come on. steve: secret is is a good husband. ainsley: so he says. steve: meanwhile 19 minutes before the top of the hour on this busy friday. a bombshell new report on the russia probe. andrew mccabe and rod rosenstein argued over who should recuse themselves in front of robert mueller. sarah carter following the story from the start. she joins us next. brian: we're saluting the u.s.

navy. they're celebrating 243 years protecting our country. the envy of the world. we're having a birthday party for them in our own studio. bring your own sword. ♪

♪ ainsley: tensions in the doj over the russia probe date back to may 2017. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and then acting fbi director andrew mccabe were arguing over the case urging each other to step aside. this all happening in a meeting in front of robert mueller. brian: what does this mean for the investigation? joining us right now, fox news contributor, investigative reporter leading the charge so often zara carter. >> hi. i think you set it up really well, ainsley. back in may 2017 here's this

back-room meeting. we have rod rosenstein battling it out with andrew mccabe, who is then deputy fbi director. there were reasons for both of them be recused. they should have both be removed from this investigation based on the evidence we found out now over the last year from congressional investigators. andy mccabe obviously knew what was going on within the fbi. he knew how this russia probe was being handled. they withheld exculpatory evidence from the foreign intelligence surveillance court. even had problems before that with the hatch act violations and his wife, jill mccabe's unsuccessful run for virginia state office and $700,000 that she actually had in donations from people connected to the clintons. and rod rosenstein, to say the least, he wrote the memo actually authorizing the firing of comey. brian: right. >> he laid it all out. there were a lot of reasons for them to be recused.

brian: to tie it up. they never liked each other. they don't trust each other. makes steps mccabe was behind the whole leak of that story to the new york times about the 25th amendment. more on that in a second. we have another topic for you. ainsley: melania, the first lady, sat down for an interview, she was carb thus about some of the people working within the administration. listen to this we'll get your reaction. >> he hats been in office almost two years. has he had people you didn't trust working for him? >> yes. >> did you let him know? >> i let him know. >> do you think there are still people there he can't trust? >> yes. >> still working now? >> yes. ainsley: what do you think about that? >> i absolutely think she is 100% right. melania trump, the first lady has every reason to suspect there are people within the white house, we've seen that through the anonymous op-ed in "the new york times." i think there is a lot of concern who is in the administration that has been leaking information to the "new york times" and "the washington post." and i think that we've seen a

lot of people leave for that very reason. look back at omarosa and others in the white house, how the backlash has been on them. the president learned over the years how washington plays out. he is much more savvy now than he was back then. i think we're going to see a lot more people leave in the near future. brian: melania watches his back like nobody else. >> she is amazing. brian: she looks out for him. sara carter, thank you so much. >> thank you. brian: we have breaking news about the american pastor in turkey. we're live outside the courthouse in moments. >> the navy turning 243 years old this weekend. we're having birthday cake in the studio to celebrate next. brian: show us the sword. ainsley: sandra smith has what is coming up at top of the hour. >> good morning friends, top of the morning. one million people still, as we watch the coast of florida without power. new images show towns flattened by hurricane michael. todd turel, the head of the

"cajun navy" will join us in a moment. we could get news on american pastor andrew brunson any moment now as he appears in court in turkey. we'll have that for you. everyone talking about the kanye west in the white house. our a-team is here to respond. join us live in the "america's newsroom." top of the hour.

ainsley: we are back with a fox news alert. a turkish prosecutor recommends american mass store andrew brunson be released from house arrest. brian: that is huge news. he has been held captive in two years. benjamin hall live outside of the courthouse with a possible deal to bring him home. benjamin, are we to believe this is the truth? >> there is buzz of activity outside the courthouse in the last few minutes. we hoped to bring you definite proof he was on his way back. we haven't got that write yet we

have news that the control order is to be dropped. that is the major hurdle. the order says he has to stay here, check into parole. that has been recommended to be dropped. it is over to the judge at the moment. that may be the key point here, that we were waiting for. so we haven't got definite proof yet. we don't want to get ahead of ourselves. certainly getting news filtering out of the courtroom at the moment. all the u.s. pressure is building to this point over two years, a year-and-a-half in jail, just the last few months in house arrest, could mean the ordeal for pastor brunson could soon be over. one major hurdle just passed. we hope to bring you news of the full release very soon. back to you. brian: wow, that is great news. benjamin break in. we're certainly ready for launch there. meanwhile, seven minutes before the top of the hour. steve: back here at home the united states navy is celebrating 243 years of service. their official birthday is tomorrow, but, we're saluting them a day early because we -- brian: we don't want to come in

tomorrow. ainsley: here to celebrate is vice admiral, forest faison, surgeon general of the navy. >> thank you, ainsley. >> what does this mean to you? >> mean as great deal. i would like to give a shoutout over 600,000 men and women of our navy serving around the world today, above on, below the sea and on every continent defending and protects us. brian: are they all celebrating? >> there are celebrations occurring around the world today for our navy. our navy has unbremmished tradition of honor, courage commitment, a hallmark of our freedom. steve: why did you dead your life to the navy? >> service. to be part of something bigger than myself. helping the nation and those in need. protecting security and passing on our children the greatest gift we ever give them. brian: there is tradition when it comes to cakes. tell us. >> absolutely. so around the world whenever we

have a birthday or celebration, all ships stop, we turn to, cut a cake to celebrate shared ideals, shared commitments,. brian: youngest and oldest. >> youngest and oldest. passing values of honor, courage commitment to one generation to the next. ainsley: you always remember when the navy's birthday is why? >> because i always remember the navy's birthday because it is my birthday. [applause] steve: you're armed. shall we do it. >> grab ahold. grab ahold. >> don't cut yourself. just cut the cake. brian: what could go wrong? just a sword. >> happy birthday. steve: actual sword. we don't trust him with metal for example. brian: time to cut the cake, the sword only weapon we have. absolutely. appreciate i, 2 hupp plus years old. guess what, you got a lot more money to build a lot more stuff.

>> we sure did. brian: what is on deck? >> the navy the nation needs to protect our interests around the world is growing. we're trying to get to 355 ships to protect global commitments and insure security and peace around the world. steve: admiral, thank you very much for your service and ladies and gentlemen as well. brian: a lot of hungry sailors. get to work. it is your birthday. steve: we'll be right back. ♪ making my dreams a reality takes more than just investment advice.

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