>> we are looking at national emergency because we have a national emergency. we have an absolute crisis and a crimals and gang members coming through. >> heather: monday january 7th and this is "fox & friends first", happening right now at 4:00 a.m. on the east coast, president trump says the shutdown shows no signs of slowing down until democrats get serious about securing the border, if the left refuses to budge, is it time to side-stepped congress, we are live in washington? >> thank you for giving me inspiration on thousand play this role. heather: and it wouldn't be a hollywood award show without celebrity injecting a political

jab, vice star taking jab at dick chiny at golden globe, how daughter responded. why the play is unleashing a different kind of response from fans? "fox & friends first" starts right now. ♪ ♪ heather: good morning, always good to start your day with hand clapping, live shot of new york city for you where it's dark and will be bright another weekend,

you're watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning, i'm heather childers, thank you so much for starting your week and your day with us. let's begin with president trump offering now a steel barrier, we heard for a couple of weeks in an effort to reach an agreement with democrats on border security. still no signal that government shutdown is close to being over. good morning, doug. >> a lot of talk but not much action, the president spent time at camp david huddling with advisers and talking about building a wall out of american steel as opposed to concrete. >> we will build a steel barrier, steel. it'll be made out of steel. it'll be less obtusvive and that gives us great strength at the border. >> but the standoff and the shutdown continues closing in on 3-week mark with democrats trying to put all of this on the

president. >> in the meeting at the white house was to open up government, the impression you get from the president that he would not only like to close government, build the wall but also abolish congress. so the only voice that mattered was his own. >> house democrats plan to moving ahead with individual bills to fund these part of government separately but it's not expected to go anywhere in the republican-controlled senate. heather. heather: all right, doug, much more to come on this throughout the morning and day, thank you very much. >> thanks. heather: former national justice director for bernie sanders 2016 campaign and even she says that democrats need to stop obstructing the wall because the president's election proves that it is something that voters want. >> i worked for the staff in the world including my own staff and business and the first job that i could put someone in manufacturing job particularly

coming out with high school diploma and a lot of times felons gets opportunities. no one wants to talk about that because that's good news but when we talked about the wall and how it's affected job, it's not about my personal belief if we should pursue it or not. they are either going to allow him to pursue what it is that voters want or they don't and democrats will have an opportunity in 2020 to take over if they feel and tear down the wall. heather: one spending bill sent through the house $1.3 billion for homeland security but democrats say none of that money is to be used on wall construction. some other stories we are following for you, a man charged with murdering a child riding in car with family is due in court today, prosecutors said that he admits to driving a truck as passenger opened fire shooting and killing 7-year-old jasmine barns, police say the family was

not the intended target. a second suspect larry is in custody, he has not been charged with murder. that happening in texas. community is mourning the death of utah police officer killed in line of duty, officer joseph killed in a shootout with a man who had reportedly been making threats with law enforcement. a 3-year veteran leaves behind wife and 1-year-old. >> he understands sacrifice, he's the officer you would want to show up at your door in crucial moment. heather: suspect was wounded in the shootout, he could face murder charges, a gofundme page is raising money for officer's family, to donate go to "fox & friends first".com. shootings in first weekend of

2019, according to sun times, reports show a woman shot and killed one man after he violated protection order. another man died when a car pulled up beside him and shot fires into his vehicle, chicago police reported 155 murders last year. so violent start to the new year and the show today. well, let's talk about this, do you remember the sonic attacks that sickened diplomats, they may have been just crickets, studied recordings of the mysterious noise causing concussion-like symptoms, the high-pitch sound is crickets but researchers add still does not rule out a sonic attack, much more on that to come. al-qaeda terrorists behind the deadly attack on uss cole killed in air strike in yemen, jamel, planned 2000 bombings that

murdered 17 sailors, president trump tweeting this, great military has delivered justice for the heros lost and wounded in cowardly attack of uss cole, work against all al-qaeda continues, we will never stop in our fight against radical islamic terrorism. kirk, the u.s. cole's commander during the attack joined "fox & friends" at 6:00 a.m. eastern. defeating isis is top priority before pulling out from syria, strong message from john bolton, trey explains. >> president trump's national security adviser john bolton met today with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying that the united states will not pull troops as quickly as expected. boldon indicating to reporters that the trump administration will wait for assurances from turkey about the fate of

u.s.-backed kurdish fighters, critics say he was abandoning the kurds. national security adviser adding that isis will completely defeated before the united states withdraws. trump administration officials say that part of bolton's business was to ensure is rallies that president trump will not rush to withdraw like he had previously indicated. just last week, president trump extended timeline to 30 days to 4 months, now time ien appears to be open-ended with bolton's new comments, some will be removed from syria and others to iraq. following visit to israel, bolton will head to turkey to meet about u.s. withdrawal and protect kurdish from turkish military operation. fox news. heather: much more to come on that. president trump says he's in no rush to fill handful cabinet

positions. >> i'm in no hurry. i have the acting and they are doing great, i like acting, gives me more flexibility. heather: the president chief of staff, ambassador to un, secretary of defense and attorney general are among the top roles being filled on a temporary basis besides chief of staff each position requires senate confirmation. well, let's talk about this, alabama will defend itself title tonight in college football national championship, the clemsen tide taking on tigers, third time in 4 years the two schools had played each other in championship game, clemsen won the last title match-up in 2017. so who do you think will win what that one and will you be watching? heartbreaking missed field goal by the chicago bears.

>> that's impossible. heather: did you see the mascot there? eagles win 16-15, defending champs lead by mvp take on new orleans saints next week and the los angeles chargers provides late comeback to beat the ravens, charges will face new england patriots in next round. well, fox news alert for you, violent protests ripping france again and they show no signs of slowing down, the big move and change of command president emmanuel macron could make after 8 weeks of unrest there. and as the shutdown stalemate enters third week, should president trump bypass congress to get the border wall built? republican strategists ashley

leaves near the border and says that he may have to if democrats keep ignoring a national emergency, she joins us up next

heather: we are entering day 17 of government shutdown and democrats are no close the other giving money for border security, but president trump maybe signaling that he's willing to come to the table offering a change at least from the border wall to a steel barrier. joining me now to discuss director of california women's leadership association ashley, thank you very much for joining us. always great to have you with us. >> thank you, thank you for having me. >> you're there in san diego, let's begin with this, you were down visiting a portion of the

border just before christmas, what was your experience and what can you share with people? >> what i know for a fact is that the border patrol agents that are working very, very hard tirelessly to make sure we are safe, they are doing a lot of humanitarian efforts, working with people who are not well and they are definitely focused on keeping our border safe and i was actually reminded of operation gate keeper which happened in 1990's during clinton administration and it was when they increased budget, increased number of border patrol agents and they -- they built the wall that's down across like the california border and what that did actually was first of all decreased the number of illegal crossings tremendously but also created a lot of development, that's why there's a big shopping mall at the border, there's housing, there's a new school, it actually did a lot of

the community in san ysidro, there's economic impact that's beneficial to the region as well. heather: earlier in the show we had someone speaking about that, how putting up a border wall does benefit people financially in terms of manufacturing jobs, that type of thing. there was something that happened over the weekend on fox news sunday, sarah sanders was on there and she was talking about in terms of the illegals who do cross the border or the people who do cross the border illegally, the numbers of those that include terrorists and she used 4,000 and chris wallace pulled back and said a lot happened at airports but we do have people crossing the borders who should not be here. >> correct. i believe the numbers base on the department of homeland security are 17,000 in fiscal year 2018 with criminal record

as well as an additional 6,000 folks who -- just overall, significant number of criminals that even within the current caravan and to be quite honest it took one person to kill an innocent -- an innocent american last week, the police officer, there was 12 high-profile cases of americans who were killed and quite frankly it is not worth one american life in order to have people with criminal records, ties with ms13 cross illegally. heather: president trump is referring to steel barrier and i know he talked about how he will use different materials and different parts of the countries that are along the border wall based on what they tell him they need there on the ground. >> right, we heard from the border patrol agent at the press conference saying how much it is needed. you have to give people the tools for them to do their job.

is it border wall 100% eventive, there's not one solution that's 100% effective, but the bottom line is president trump is willing to negotiate and talk about what would be best, what physical barrier would be better along the border wall whereas democrats are basically saying, we can't afford to give into this president and that's where it's a huge disservice to americans and national security. heather: today 17th day of government shutdown so somebody needs to do some talking and come together at some point. ashley, thank you very much for joining us, great to have you with us. >> thank you. heather: time now 18 minutes after the top of the hour and christian bale taking political shot after winning glowedden globe for role as dick cheney. >> thank you to satan. heather: big winners from last night's ceremony, chicago bears

are heater broken, we just showed you this, missed field goal to lose season. they are paying up for big playoff win. hey, batter, batter, batter, batter.

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heather: democratic socialist going onto say that there's no question president trump is a racist and the white house deny it is claim saying the president has condemned racism and bigotry in all forms. well, big night for bohemian rhapsody, taking home best actor in drama for role as queens freddie mercury. [cheers and applause] >> coming to stage -- heather: the movie also winning best motion picture drama and honor many thought would go to star was born with lady gaga and bradley cooper. took one award for best song. sandra winning for best actress, steered clear of politics. while both of those movies and i thought they were both great, some celebrities did manage to

take some cheep political shots, actor christian bale former vice president dick cheney who he portrayed in vice. >> i will be cornering the market -- what do you think mitch mcconnell next, thank you to satan for giving my inspiration on how the play the role. heather: carley shimkus with siriusxm 115 with how dick cheney's daughter responded. carley: she sure did. kicked off with the star-studded golden globes and while the host and majority of the award winners skipped the political statements you just heard you heard actor christian bale who won for portrayal of dick cheney delivered one-two punch insulting two politicians but like you said liz cheney has responded to the criticism. she tweeted out an article about

christian bale's arrest for allegedly assaulting his mother and sister in 2008, she writes, satan probably inspired him to do this too. he denied doing that, the charges were later dismissed but many other people on social media also responding to his political statement, let's see if we can pull up one more. this person says, this is why the viewership is dropping, you are paid to be actor, i don't care about your beliefs. and justin on twitter chiming in saying, sad for christian bale to act in such a classless way, a lit bit of controversy to kick-start monday morning. heather: yeah, well i have not seen vice. something else that was also great and it's time the carol barnett show.

>> the carol barnett award, take a listen. >> my first love growing up was the movies and later when i was a teenager we got our first television set and then i had a new love, i'm just happy that our show happened when it did and i can look back and say once more i am so glad we had this time together. carley: i thought her speech was the highlight of award show, a lot of people on social media, great person to name an award after she's still a genius and courtney says, i'm so glad that we live in a world with carol burnett, kudos to her. she did it at tend of her speech heather: the eagles, let's talk about what the fans are doing for cody parker. carley: if you're a bears fan you may want to overt your eyes,

he missed field goal, you saw the ball bounce the cross bar so eagles fans elate ed by this, no word if it's his or not, a lot of folks are sending him money, literally pay to be rando named cody, people are changing the names to his to maybe cash in on this tragedy for him. heather: be aware of that and it was a tragedy. even made the mascot pass out on end zone. carley: not good. heather: thank you so much, carley, the time now is about almost half past the top of the hour, bizarre to tell you about in a park, jogger bitten by a dog and then gets bitten by the dog's owner, why the woman says not her fault. >> sometimes you see tax rates

as high as 60 or 70% as you climb up this ladder you should be contributing more. heather: and the congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez revealing her grand idea on how to pay for her green new deal but should the country's business owners really be footing the bill, we will debate it up next

heather: welcome back half past the top of the hour and you're watching "fox & friends first", fox news alert for you, french president emmanuel macron reportedly ready to fire the paris police chief over the yellow vest protest, that's according to french newspaper after the protestors broke into government building. the riots forcing spokesman to evacuate when demonstrators smashed through wooden door, protestors had been hitting the streets for 8 straight weeks

demanding economic justice. well, british prime minister theresa may is getting a vote on brexit deal next week according to bbc, the vote comes amid calls for a second referendum. >> going for second referendum is not the way forward for this country. it's not the way forward because it is disrespect. >> we understand your -- heather: she may be wrong, however, a survey released shows 54% of 25,000 british citizens poll would vote to remain to eu if given the chance. outgoing california governor jerry brown is standing by sanctuary status despite blaming policies for police officer's murder, gustavo with criminal record is charged with killing corporal singh.

>> i think people are now are looking to blame somebody because of the terrible thing that happened that had nothing to do with the law of california. heather: corporal was lay today rest on saturday. house speaker nancy pelosi toning down calls to impeach the president within her party. >> if and when the time comes for impeachment, it would have to be something that has bipartisan way. heather: well, pelosi speaking out after video went viral of new democrat congresswoman vowing to kick president trump out of office. >> when your son looks at you, bullies don't win, baby, they don't because we will go in there and -- [cheers and applause] heather: refusing to apologize saying i will always speak truth to power unapologetically me. joe biden one step closer to deciding on 2020 presidential

run. democratic officials telling new york times the former vice president will make decision in 2 weeks, biden has told friends that he believes he's the party's best chance at beating president trump, the parties big donors are pressuring biden to decide by the end of january. and then there's this vermont newspaper begging senator bernie sanders not to run in 2020. the paper's editorial board writing, we fear a sanders risk dividing the well-fractured democratic party and could lead to another split in 2020 presidential vote, there's too much at stake to take that gamble. although sanders topped progressive straw poll of potential candidates last month he's not officially announced a 2020 run. well, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is shaking things up in first few days on capitol hill, the self-proclaimed democratic socialist revealing new details about her green energy initiative including

plans to impose taxes as high as 70%. >> but once you get to tops on your 10 millionth dollar, sometimes you see tax high rates 60 or 70%, doesn't mean the $10 million are taxed at extremely high rate but as you climb up this ladder, you should be contributing more. heather: so is it fair to rely on the rich to fund the tax initiatives, joining me now to debate democratic strategists raúl avilar and republican strategists holly turner. >> thank you for having me. heather: raúl, i will start with you, what do you think about her latest comments? >> i think that her comments are one -- i think she thinks there are people that are in tax bracket that need to pay their fair share, i think that's what she's referring to and i don't think she's referring to taxing

businesses or small businesses, that's something that we need to look at as country and the country goes forward. heather: holly. >> when you are taxing people that are making -- at the rate making $10 million or more, those are small business owners, yes, that's what she's talking about, they are llc owners and i can't even believe that we are still having this conversation, the american education system has obviously failed us, we are still having to talk about this, this type of socialism has never succeeded, it never will succeed, the only thing heather that i can see positive about this if you have a tax rate like that the democrats will have to support the wall because you will have to keep all the entrepreneurs here otherwise they are going to leave the country. heather: raúl that brings up the question, do young people, do they really understand what socialism is versus capitalism, let's take a look at gallup poll, back in 2010, 68 approved

capitalism compare today 51% that approved of socialism and you look at 2018, 51% approved of socialism compare today 45% that approved of capitalism, raúl. >> yeah, i mean, i think two different things, i think what's happening here is, again, people in this country feel like people need to have a fair shake and when you have 68 million americans working two and three jobs and they are not able to make a good wage to support their families, that's an issue, so i think that's what we are seeing here. now, i don't think that this issue is socialist issue, i think it's an issue about fair wages and fair tax brackets for everyone across the board. and i think that's what we are seeing. heather: when you're talking about taxings people up to 70% that's pretty close, holly. >> yeah, this is stifling innovation, it's punishing success. these people making that kind of

money are taking risks every day and they are the ones that are providing the jobs and the wages for those families that are paying no taxes so you can't just take them and say, hey, we will make them pay their fair share because that does affect everyone else. the democrats are not on board and raúl, please correct me in i'm wrong, sounds like a one-off idea, i don't see the party getting thanked but if you do you will see a revolt. heather: thank you both for joining us, we appreciate your insight. >> thank you for having me. heather: fox business alert for you, the massive, the akata air bag recall expanding a million more vehicles flagged for explosive air bags, the cars and trucks now in question and we just talked about the far left plan's to raise taxes but the new intel committee chair says that's far of first order business, the democrats experiencing mixed messaging

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heather: welcome back, happening today democrat gavif newsome will be sworn in as governor, quite a party. newsom takes over for jerry brown after serving since 2011. russia probe interview transcripts could soon be fully available to robert mueller, the house intelligence committee adam schiff says it's at the top of his agenda. >> we hope as one of our first acts to make the transcripts of our witnesses fully available to special counsel for any purpose including the bringing of perjury charges if necessary against any of the witnesses but also to see the evidence that they contain and help flesh out the picture for special counsel. heather: this comes after special counsel robert mueller's

grand jury is extended up to 6 more months. a fox business alert for you now, nearly 1 million vehicles recalled over concerns about exploding air bags, tracee carrasco from sister network fox business here with what you need to know this morning, good morning. tracee: good morning, heather, ford is recalling nearly 1 million vehicles after it discovered that the metal inflaters within the air bags contained chemicals that could cause them to explode with excessive force. now this is all part of the massive tekata air bag recalled, ford edge, fusion, mustang, mercury, lincoln models, mkx and mxz from the years 2010 to 2014. as i mentioned this is part of tekata air bag recall. not every single one of them but definitely check dealership, so

far no injuries have been reported to this ford recall but, of course, we know the takata air bag recall has been deadly. heather: make sure you check. chick-fil-a in south carolina is doing something pretty cool because of ncaa, title game. >> they have a special breakfast sandwich, a tiger paw shaped biscuit chicken sandwich. there it is, available at select south carolina chick-fil-a restaurants to cheer on clemsen, playing in ncaaa national championship, if you're a fan, this is one way to get in the spirit today. heather: yeah, they brought home the title last year, i think the tide will try to stop them. tracee: thanks, heather. heather: fox news alert for you, the flu now widespread across 24

states killing at least 13 children, dr. saphier next with what you need to know before sending children to school this morning. that's not all, how the crook literally made himself right at home i am a family man.

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heather: fox news alert for you, health alert, child death toll rises to 13 at flu season just ravage it is united states wide spreed flu activity also being reported across two dozen states. here with everything that we need to know is fox news medical contributor nicole saphier, look at the states impacted, 24

states. >> by the way, happy birthday. heather: thank you, thank you. >> flu is now widespread in about 24 states, we have 13 children die of the flu, that means we are on our way up. we still have a couple of months left of what we will see bad flu season, it'll only get worse from here. we had nearly 200 kids die from flu last year, 80% were not vaccinated. right now we have 13, we don't know vaccination zait but we will only see numbers increase. how do you know is it a flu or a cold? when do you see a doctor? heather: don't hesitate, not just children, we are talking about adult as well, one of our contributors loved by everyone died of flu, i had a friend who died of flu last year at the same time. >> i remember that. heather: when you're dealing with children how do you know it's the cold or flu? >> if you want to compare flu versus cold, it's not that easy to tell but some of the things

that i try to keep in mind, fever, chills and being tired, lethargic that tends to go with flu, you're right, if you have symptoms don't wait on it, especially with kids, a couple of days children are dying, if your child is home with fever, a lot of times you may keep them home and milk it yourself, when it's flu season, take them to the doctor and get them tested because there are medications that could help that can lesson severity. >> it's not too late, h1n1 is what we are seeing right now. it does lesson severity and if you haven't gotten flu shot, i highly, highly recommend still getting it. heather: last year they were talking about shortages but this year i haven't heard so much about that. >> not necessarily shortages of the flu shot but the antiviral the tamiflu, that tends to go real fast, if you don't have a

flu shot and you have shortage of tami flu that's the problem. it's only going to get worse, do what you can. let's talk about next topic, all u.s. hospitals to put list of prices online, what do you think about that? is this good or bad for hospitals? >> transparency is a good thing when it comes to health care, when it comes to everything. everybody should know exactly what they are paying for when they're getting services, however, hospitals posting list prices is not really a great thing that people may want to think. so your list prices, that's not necessarily what patients are paying for their care when they go to the hospital, you can't say, i'm going to get appendix removed. that's not really the case. this is my charge, insurance company will say i'm only going to pay you this percent and sometimes it's that difference is what the patient will end up paying so the real question is

maybe insurance companies need to list how much they are reimbursing hospitals and physicians for services provided. heather: that's a good idea. what's the thought process behind requiring hospitals doing this then? >> they want people, they want patients to take accountability, shop around, what's most cost efficient. to be able to see hospital down the street is charging significantly more than the one closer to and maybe you want to go closer to the one that's cost effective but the truth is you don't have a choice, you're held hostage to network, it's really a monopoly to insurance company on top and trickle down effect. i would be more interested in seeing what the insurance companies are negotiating, not necessarily what the hospitals are listing. heather: transparency but not in areas that would most be beneficial to you? >> that's my opinion. heather: thank you so much, appreciate it. well the time now is about 7 minutes until the top of the hour, let's say, a bizarre

attack in a park, joggers bitten by dog and then gets bitten by the dog's owner. >> it is a bad bite, i will tell you what i would bite someone really bad if they were grabbing my hair. heather: the story that ended with this woman behind bars. >> we know that -- we couldn't have planned this. heather: this is great, love story 50 years in making, stood the test of time and distance

♪ ♪ ♪ heather: lights are on in dc but the shutdown continues days 7 of the government shutdown, lots of work to be done, the president says he made declare national emergency over the next few days over the situation at the border, serious talks to take place there monday, tuesday and wednesday at the white house. we, of course, will follow it throughout the day for you. nice shot of the american flog in the breeze. in a few hours kevin spacey will face judge on sexual assault

charges, inappropriately touching teenage boy in bar back in 2016. he's expected to plead not guilty if convicted. he could face up to 5 years in prison, spacey has faced other accusations of assault but this is the first criminal case against him. and the trial over the trump administration's citizenship question on the census is set to begin today, doj arguing that it will give the government accurate count to help enforce a 1965 raw aimed at protecting minority voting rights. opponents claim it's political move to benefit republican policy. so we will follow that for you. well, now it is time for the good, the bad and the ugly, up first the good, high school sweethearts tie the knot after losing touch for more than 50 years. >> sweet, loving man that he was then. we know that god is in charge, we couldn't have planned this. heather: milwaukee couple

renected on classmates.com, good for them. and now the bad, though, georgia family returns home from vacation to find the stringer living in their house, changed the locks, moving belongs and ate all the food, understandably he's under arrest and finally the ugly, a dog owner accused of biting a jogger who pepper sprayed her pup, the jogger told police that the dogs ran at her in california trail, she sprayed them thinking they would attack, officers say the dog's owner started punching and biting the woman, well, the woman who did biting could face up to 6 years in prison. well, that wraps up this hour of "fox & friends first", thank you so much for joining us, "fox & friends first" continues right now. bye. >> we will not give to this radical left ever.

rob: monday january 7th and days seventh of the partial government shutdown, still no deal in sight. jillian: what the president is offering democrats but will they come to the table and socialists claiming moral high ground over republicans. >> i think that there's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely factually and semanticically correct. jillian: miss kick heard around the world, the wild end to go nfl's wild card weekend. rob: "fox & friends first" continues right now.