right? we had a lot of interesting discussions about the coverage of these investigations and the way the president and michael cohen portrayed the media. i would love to hear from you. we'll see you then, 11:00 eastern with the latest >> good morning, it is monday september 17th and this is fox and friends first happening right now at 4 a.m. here on east coast in the hot seat, fired fbi director james comey ready for round two on the hills today. as the president legal team takes aim at the so-called perjury trap. laid by the special counsel. >> special counsel doesn't want with the president. what they did to flynn over my dead body. >> live in washington with lawmakers are are armed with new allegations of fbi misconduct.

and a decorated former green bray who killed a taliban bomb maker now facing murder charges on death row. how president trump is stepping in. and sending a message the plan to tax text messages, that just got deleted. fox and friends first starts right now. ♪ ♪ been a long night for me somewhere because i said in september and it is december. december 17th almost christmas by the way, good morning to you. you're watching fox and friends first on this monday morning. i'm heather thanks so much for starting your day with us. let's begin with james comey who

is back in the hot seat today. president trump firing become at the ousted fbi director and russia probe this all comes after explosive allegations made in the case of michael flynn. griff jenkins live for us in washington and to sort all of this out for us including what month it is. good morning chris how are you? >> happy december, back in the hot seat when former director sits down with house republicans there's no shortage of new things to talk about. starting with revelations the president trump former attorney michael cohen sentence to 36 months in jail on friday says president directed him to make payments to two women claiming they have affairs with him. a charge the president is repeatedly says is false and the president tweeted this in response saying remember, michael cohen only became a rat after the fbi did something which was absolutely unthinkable and unheard until witch hunt illegally started they broke into attorney's office why didn't they break into the dnc

to get the the serve herb or crookeds office and comey fired back in a tweet of his own saying this is from the president of our country. lying about the lawful execution of a search warrant issued by federal judge shame on republicans, who don't speak up at this mommy for the fbi rule of law in the truth. now heather also likely to come up in questions are now allegations that comey mig and to into michael flynn without properly informing him of his legal rights something republicans are calling troubling that could lead to flynn conviction overturned but democrats are down playing. >> they laymen terms violate ared his miranda right tricked him into not having a lawyer which, in fact, he was not only a suspect but a target. >> several witnesses now who are trying to have it both ways in some degree. they want to cooperate and get the best from the government at the same time they want to leave themselves open to getting

pardon from donald trump. >> so it is going to be a busy day on capitol hill starting at 10 a.m. combmy sits down members in oversight committees. >> when is it not a busy day these days? [laughter] all right we're going to talk more about this. thank you so much chris as griff mentioned michael flynn will soon be sentenced for vying federal agent but president lawyer rudy defiant on fox news sunday saying that robert mueller he's the one who is breaking the law. >> a special counsel doesn't want to interview the president. you have good luck -- good luck of of a what they dido flynn and trapped him in perjury and no sentence for him four days i did better on traffic violations than they did with papadopoulos no interview. they're a joke. over my dead body but what they did to general flynn to result in discipline, they are the ones who are violating the law. they're looking at a noncrime collusion, the the other guys

are looking into the a noncrime campaign violation not violations and they are ones who are violating the law, the rules, the ethics and nobody wants to look at them. they destroyed struck and pages text, 19,000 texts, if he's destroyed 19,000 texts, they put him in jail. even though they can because he's the president. as we said much more on this coming up did you know russia probe cost taxpayers more than 25 million dollars. your money well days after texas judge ruled obamacare unconstitutional, senator minority leader chucker vowing to intervene. >> first thing we're going to do when we get back there in the senate is urge, put a vote on the floor, urging an intervention in the case. republicans susan collins weighing in as well saying she thinks the judge went too far.

he could have taken a much more surgical approach and just struck down the individual mandate. i believe that it will be overturned. trump administration remaining firm, though, expecting the health care law to be struck down completely in the supreme court. >> obamacare was ruled to be unconstitutional. and more important question is whether democrats are tbing to work with republicans once obamacare is ultimately struck down which we believe it will be. that ruling lookly to face legal challenges. well how about a live look at capitol hill today, there you have it, this is where the senate senate lawmakers will vote on a contentious prison reform bill. republican leader mitch mcconnell trying to get it done before the end of the year. senators will hold an initial vote today to see if they have 60 vots to push it forward. the bill reduces some prison sentences and it expands inmate programs. well president trump showing no

sign of budging on the border wall even if it means shutting down the government. democrats also appearing unwilling to give in. molly has the latest on the battle in washington. trump administration standing firm saying that nation needs border wall for national security and the white house is willing to risk a government shutdown over it. >> comes to it absolutely this is a very fundamental issue at stake is the question of whether or not the united states remains a sovereign country whether or not we can establish and enforce ruleses for entrance into our country. the democrat party is a simple choice. this can either choose to fight or for america's working class or promote illegal immigration you can't do both. president trump told the top democratic leaders that they would be proud to shut down the government for border security. he's asking for five billion dollars for the wall, and democrats say no. >> what we're trying to do is give the administration and experts at the department of homeland security the resources they need. they tell us they need

technology and personnel we put 1.3 million on table or for barriers if they are necessary and we with define them in ways so that we aren't building medieval wall but building them in smart fashion but up to president to accept this. >> democrat chuck schumer said about a as plainly as possible that president trump, quote, will not get a wall. in washington, molly he he knowx news. to fund border wall as clock ticks to friday shutdown deadline republicans senator john says, americans want to keep washington in business. but that doesn't negate need for stronger southern border. >> i'm working to fact of keeping the government open. i think that's what american people expect of the people that they elect. keep the government open, and if there's any sort of a shutdown it would only be a partial shutdown to the appropriations

process already have approved 75% of the funding for the government for the next year. but i still think it is better to not have any sort of even a partial shutdown. a lot of things you need to do with border security one is a physical barrier. but also the technology, the manpower, the enforcement all of those things incentive for foam to come to this country illegally people working on this to get to a conclusion so government will remain open which is what i believe american people would prefer. >> senate lawmakers are back in session today. but part of the problem house doesn't reconvene until wednesday to give days to iron out a solution. ♪ saudi arabia are pushing back on american lawmakers, saudi foreign ministry denowngs a resolution overnight which condemns crowned prince for the death of columnist jamal khashoggi a bipartisan group of senators voted last week you'll remember to blame muhammad for the october murder of khashoggi inside the saudi embassy in

turkey and lawmakers also voting to pull u.s. military support for saudi forces in yemen. to north korea north korea they think the u.s. over latest round of sanctions. pyongyang saying measure could stop denuclearization talks forever. now the prompt they say that could prompt more exchanges of fire like kim jong-un nuclear test next year and new round targeted three north korean officials close to the leader. little progress has been made with north korea since the nuclear summit in singapore. a british prime minister theresa may will shoot down a brexit referendum today according to may it would states with british people who already voted in favor of the plan back in 2016. this despite may pulling a vote on her brexit deal just last week appears that it would fail. during a meeting in brussels eu leaders told may that teal was, quote, not open for

renegotiation, but could be clarified. whatever that means. how about football for you philadelphia eagles flying high on sunday night football reigning super bowl champs, keeping their playoff hopes alive scoring their biggest upset since 1995. beating l.a. ram ares 30-23, and on other side in pennsylvania steelers defense, stands tall against the patriots, they their five game losing streak with a 17-10 win. isn't that too loss for patriots in december. and then the bears go from are worst or go from worst to first. after finishing 5-11 last year the chicago wins their division beating the the packers, 24-17 but one player leads with a division title, and a fiancé. >> jennifer -- jr., will you -- will you accept it -- that was three yeses and charles

jr. getting yes as he proposes on the field. good for him. the time now is about 11 minutes after the top of the hour and fired fbi director james comey heading become to hill for round two. what can we expect in his second day of testimony? and attorney alex sawyer has questions republicans need to ask up next. and home for holidays this touching moment thousands of sailors come ashore after months away at a sea.

welcome back to fox and fends first former fbi director james comey returns to capitol hill for a second round of closed tore hearings on russia investigation. but this time lawmakers are expected to grill him over the explosive allegation made by general mike flynn, as well as

the dossier briefing material that was just released by the fbi. here with a preview of today's testimony attorney legal affairs reporter at the washington times alex sawyer thank you so much for join us we love having you with us. >> yeah thanks for having is me so what's surprised you most in terms of the dossier material that came out over weekend that was supplies to president trump? >> there's a couple of different elements first they did not name christopher steele they just alluded to him talking about an individual who works in counterintelligence owns his own firm, and they also didn't disclose this source was funding we have come to find out that he was paid by hillary clinton's campaign. through fusion gps and that was not something that was disclosed whatsoever. it did say that he was fade for the information but it did not say what store. >> elex i want to stick with that for a moment before you bo to your next point we can pull

that up as you were referencing it part of this summary is calledex does not mention michael sources and executive of a private business intelligence firm, and a former employee of a friendly intelligence service who has been compensated for previous reporting over the past three years. this source collected this information on behalf of private clients and not compensated for it by the fbi. so why is it significant tay this was not made clear to president trump who this was, and who paid him? >> well i think it raise ares two questions. first, you know, if you're briefing the president of the united states i think it is important to show the credibility and what you're dealing with whether it's opposition research or comes from unbiased source, and so you know, discovering who actually funded this, why there was an interest in getting this material would be important for the president to know. and not only that we saw in his previous testimony it was

roughly at 7 hour interview behind closed doors now returning again today. that this is something that he had had memory lapses about in terms of what we said to the president and also what was put in the phee is a application before the the fisa court so i'm not sure is if we're going to see lawmakers use this information to try to refresh his memory today and maybe get more information about what he did tell the federal judge. what will be the purpose of not providing that information to the president? because clearly -- it was not provided for a reason. >> you know, i think if we're going to ask extremes combmy thought the funding came from republicans source so you know touring the primary. and then later he learned that it was a democrat source so maybe it was the timing of that. when he did discover is the funding source, but at this point you know, i think that, you know, trying to make sure that if you have a target in information only giving them a limited amount of information

may have been what he was going for. >> couple of other things, though, let's get into why these phone claim of text messages between peter strzok and page do you think he'll be questioned about that? >> he could now the idea report did say roughly 20,000 texts that have been wiped clean when two agent were released from the mueller's team, and so they thought initially that they had lost those text messages they did recover some so you know i don't know if he'll be quizzed since he had been fired from the fbi at the time but they could ask him, you know, whether it was proper. process that was followed or, you know, look for anything there that could be a little iffy in terms of trying to get rid of controversial texts we've seen in the past. >> speaking of proper process -- the interview with general flynn, do you expect him to be questioned more about that today? >> absolutely. you know we've been seeing a lot of coverage about an interview we he gave he said in other administrations he wouldn't be able to send fbi agents over to white house to talk to

administration official that they would have had to go through white house counsel offices so fact that he admitted that i think is going to be a line of questioning he'll have to face there's a become and forth about whether or not the whole guilty plea situation will end up being overturned because of the way that he was sat down with no lawyer present. you know, michael flynn team saying that he should have been warned not to be given rightings and lie to investigators whereas mueller you know this gentlemen has been in armed forces he's working administration he know not to lie to federal investigates. a memo written by director andrew mccabe who says that he, quote, explainedded that i thought the quickest way to get this done was to have a kftion between flynn and the agents only. so definitely that will probably be a line of questioning. alex thank you so much for joining us we appreciate it. yes thank you have a good day. time now is about 20 minutes after to of the hour media taking aim at first lady melania

trump nonstop -- she has now adopted this woe is me attitude and she even has this supposed program that she wants to focus on cyberbullying but that's not what she focuses on. carly is here with a fiery response from the first lady's communication director. ♪

welcome back fox and friends melania trump the first lady making every effort to spread joy and cheer this holiday season in last week the first lady participated in a toys for tots drive, visited service member and their families and even spent time with patients at a children's hospital. but that's not what the media is talking about. >> she has now adopted this woe

is me attitude you would think to in her rare public appearance you know that some wrong has been done to her in this country. i've always been surprised by that error of grievance she carried publicly -- >> carly was fox news headlines 24/7 siriusxm 115 how the spokes lady spokesperson is fire back at unfair coverage. >> good morning. >> good morninger you're right stiffny taking aim at the media what she considers unfair press now in an interesting twist she attacked cnn and media outlets in opinion piece that appeared on cnn.com writing, quote, the the media also has the opportunity and responsibility to report fairly accurately and without bias. and many ways, they are failing to measure up to this responsibility. this failure must be addressed well she certainly did just that. and many on social media agree

with her point of view alley says first lady certainly deserves dignity respect and privacy. one person on instagram responding saying she most certainly has been treated horribly she deserves respect and nola on twitter saying we all love and respect our first lady melania. particularly taking aim at cnn contradict tore kate anderson braugher for writing a piece titled melania shows she's a trump through and through. firing back saying at least she got that part right. >> yeah. well it is amazing i for one i don't think that she's been treated farly either and stephany will be on fox and friends today to respond and talk a little bit more about it. >> must watch interview there for sure. absolutely california state commission they will not pursue this tax on text messaging. they have thrown out there. >> that's right if you're watch in california we have good news for you that proposal aimed at taxing text messages say that

three times fast. has been shutdown so the the tax was initially suggested as a way to fund telecommunication services for lower income residents. but it didn't pass a smell test a lot of people are really happy about that. joshua says thank goodness for fec next california politicians will try to tax people for each breath they take. and then a two years coming in saying thank god someone has common sense to give california politicians want to tax everything. so oh don saying this, saying tax air a tax, food, water, tax, tax, tax are you wondering why so many people struggle so no tax on text messages like i said it is not going to work out. so -- that's a good news california. >> let's talk about other good news for all of these families, and we always love these holiday stories 6500 sailors returning home. that's right, aboard uss harry st. truman returning sunday

after a eight month deployment now carrier became first to enter the arctic circle in about 30 years so a lot of these soldiers receiving some much needed warm hugs from their loved ones after that very cold journey, and more than one of the soldiers even met their babies or for the first time so an incredible memory for them and a great way to celebrate the holidays for a lot of these families out there. >> i love that image such a great image of him standing there as they did -- all of these i love it. great news. thank you so much charlie appreciate it. time now is 28 minutes after top of the hour and this decorated war hero killed a taliban bomb maker now charged with with murder and faces death penalty how president trump is now getting involved. >> right health care every man or woman or child in this country. >> good health care for every american is a right not a privilege. >> and democrats have been demanding medicare for all and

those calls may grow louder after judge ruled obamacare is unconstitutional. but is it a good idea we'll debate that, up next.

>> did you kill the taliban bomb maker? >> yes. >> well he confessedded to killing a suspected taliban bomb maker right here on fox news. back in 2016, and now a decorated war hero is charged with murder and could face the death penalty. todd joins with us more on how president is getting involved. good morning, todd. >> good morning to you a story that grabbed nation attention in the last week. former green bray matthew goldstein wants clear by a military tribunal now fighting for his freedom. president trump tag to twitter in response, quote, after requests of many i will be reviewing the case of a u.s.

military e hero major matt goal steenl charged with murder. he could face the death penalty from our own government after he admitted to killing a terrorist are bomb maker while overseas. in 2010 two marine in the unit in afghanistan were killed by booby trap explosives and found one nearby but man refused to talk under rules of engangment he was ordered to release him, however, he was concern ored that the suspect would target afghanning with u.s. soldier here's the wife julie on reopening this investigation. >> disappointing and absolutely reprehensible what they have done to him, and for them to charge him with premeditated murder, is almost laughable. his lawyer says this is an act of betrayal by the army. his patrol that was approximate 50 man plus patrol underattack

by a superior enemy force and matt engaged the enemy directly which really important for the public to understand is, there was nothing described in brett's interview that army didn't have back in 2011. now coming up on fox and friends goldstein father rei will talk about this case. letter. >> thank you so much. lots of people outrage ared over this story. well other headlines for you a restaurant explodes into flames sending 42 people to the hospital. you can see the huge flames in black smoke pouring into the sky. this is in japan officials say suspected gas explosion shook buildings in the area causing many to think it was actually an earthquake. right now police trying to figure out exactly what happened local reports claim that several propane tanks were found outside the building. a new report describes a massive campaign by the russians to rgt tay americans during the 2016 election. according to a draft of the study obtained by was poe groups

put russian ties divided americans into separate groups. using data from tech companies. now the the deliberate messaging increased during key events like debate and national conventions. the independent study also slammed the tech companies for their slow response. and congressman devin is urminging president to declassify documents related to the russia investigation. now california republican is now calling for a new white house office solely dedicated to ensuring government transparency. >> more that we can get declassified i think the better and easy way to do it so opposite actually just works directly under the white house. that specializes in evaluating this documentation to get air on the side of more sunlight the better to make sure that everything that we want declassified gets declassified. president trump ordered the declassification documents

related to the russia investigation back in september. but you'll remember he delayed the release siting concerns from the justice department. >> well federal judge dealing a crushing blow to the affordable care act ruling it unconstitutional. but could the collapse of obamacare help democrats ignite a push for medicare for all. >> to every man, woman, child in this country the commitment to universal health care. good health care every american is a right not a privilege. here to debate it is democrat political analyst jason nicoles former intelligence officer don bramer thank you both for joining us appreciate it this morning. >> thank you. [laughter] so let's get started with this earlier we said senate minority leader vowing to intervene we have republican ares susan collins she thinks judge went too far. don i'll start with you. what do you think? >> the whole act had been a major disaster ever since it

came out you know it has been too high for employers too high for people subscribing to it, and many companies have turned away but people buying plan they did not want well we've seen since it was taken away people started to disenroll from system and enrollment has fallen by 11%. jason. >> no i would agree that there were problems with the aca and that there need to be changes and i believe that health care is a right. and i believe that most americans there was a poll that copy out that 70% of americans 52% of republicans want universal health care so medicare for all single payer -- >> democrats should push that a winning avenue for them. with 2020, >> absolutely. i think that americans seem to want it. it's actually going to save americans money and i think that it's -- it's shows that health care is a right. and keep people from losing

medical debt that we see americans in. >> let's listen to what health and human services secretary had had to say over the weekend alex. >> first of all you get medicare committing there as an option paying medicare rates which are much lower to hospitals and doctors than what private insurance pays. they won't be able to compete it will run them out of the marketplace and single payer system one size fits all for every american and undermine seniors access to health care. >> he has a different take on it, don. whanch i see from the very beginning is, medicare for all that's a 32 trillion debt over ten years. how to we pay for it also if you look at had, seniors have a hard enough time standing in line for the care they get now. you add an entirely new demographic to that, that's going to make longer line longer excuse me and people are not happy about this system go back, jason is right everyone deserves good health care what we need to see here is that congress as a whole comes together sits dun and find a solution. this has been a broken system

from the beginning. it does need to be repaired but let's find a system that works across the board. >> affable. i mean, that's a valid question, though, jason even talks about in this perfect world everybody gets this great free health care but how do you pay for it? >> so just by eliminating the administrative cost will save somewhere between 400 and 500 billion dollars a year. and in addition, when we look at this, they've done studies on this in vermont when they were experimenting with medicare for all, is the fact that it will actually save americans money. the average american spends 10,000 dollars per year average adult american on health care costs. but if we raise taxes it will cost every american family 10,000 so essentially you're saving 10,000 for each american family. so and not only that, companies like you know gm charge another 1500 dollars because they have

to provide their employees with health care. so your consumer costs are lower and actually a system that is worth in the entire industrialized world and our system right now actually doesn't produce any, any better outcome people are living longer in other parts of the world. >> don final word. >> look at this we do ned a new system, however, we have to find a system that is completely affable across the board. stay with the government thousands doesn't stack up to trillions that's where i think we need to look at this long-term picture of this and how we move forward let's get congress to sit down at the table. actually legislate and instead of going into new congress with a full agenda of investigations. >> all right thank you both for joining us we appreciate it. look what happens well time is now 20 minutes until top of the hour and iowa a stone to voters there they want the president back in the white house after the 2020 election. but who does democrats want to face him what two new polls just is revealed. look at all of those things.

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welcome back fox and fends noirs getting our first look at how republicans could vote in iowa ahead had of the 2020 election. a new survey shows 67% would definitely vote to reelect president trump if the general election were held today. 19% say they would consider someone else while 10% say that they would definitely vote for someone else. iowa will hold first caucuses in next presidential cycle in february 2020. meanwhile democrats like joe biden in iowa, 32% of likely democratic voters choose former vice president as top choice. bernie sanders second at 19% and associated press report biden has been ling with whether too old to run and advisor

suggesting that 76-year-old team up with a younger vp. ♪ how about some business news a fox business alert for you a california farm linked to the massive romaine lettuce recall. now taking more product or more produce off the the shelves. tracee carrasco from our store network fox business here with more on the latest callback. >> good morning heather yeah adam brother farming in california now recalling even more produce after last month's being named one of the sources in that e. coli outbreak with romaine lettuce so they're recalling cauliflower red leaflet us and green leaflettuce this after setment from revoar near where produce was being farmed lynxed back to some bacteria with e. coli so far none untreated water tested positive for e. coli.

but they are doing this out of on a aa bun dance of caution, the recall effects 14 different states. >> all right so let's move on to facebook. yet another privacy scandal. >> that's right facebook says a bug in its system accidentally exposed 6.8 million users private photos so in a blog post last friday facebook says certain third party apps were given more access than they normally would of to photos normally they have access to photos on time line but they were given access to photos not made public also some of the photos in the facebook marketplace, and in the stories. so facebook they discovered this breach or this -- this bug happened back in september. september 13th through the 25th now we are just hearing about it now. facebook did apologize but didn't say why it took them several months to disclose that this is happened. >> all right so several months

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>> welcome back a family's christmas is room and when neighbors demand they tear down their hockey rink. in canada of all places. the newly installed board made it too ugly. all this family wants her christmas as their dog back. they make up with jewelry, and christmas presents in the family beloved bully smoky. showing a maroon suv in the man approaching the home. the neighbors had $1,500 reward for smokey's safe return. let's hope he gets back home in time. >> is time for the good the bad and the ugly. the good. animal addition. it is a twist on the classic tale firefighters rescue a cat

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is searching for the criminal who got away with a handful of cash. if you recognize the giraffe let us know. >> fox in friends first continues right now. >> it is monday, december 17. back in the hot seat. james comey ready for round two on the hill today. >> where i live in washington. we are armed with the new allegations of fbi misconduct. in the decorated former green beret who killed a taliban bomb maker could be headed to death row. how the president is planning to step in. bah humbug. you're a mean one minnesota. christmas spirit