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heather: world's number one golfer went from rock bottom to masters' champion. "fox & friends" fist starts right now. ♪ ♪ heather: good morning, tax day. beautiful day weather wise for many portions of the country, you're watching "fox & friends first" on monday morning, i'm heather childers, thanks for starting your day was. let's get to fox news alert regarding the weather, 8 people are dead including young children as tornadoes and tomorrows tear through the

south, more than a dozen twisters causing damage from texas all the way to alabama and two children tragically killed when a tree fell in car in east texas. hail the size of baseball look at that falling in some places, overnight storms battering the northeast. all of that on "fox & friends first". washington sheriff's department mourning a fallen hero shot and killed in line of duty, deputy justin was responding to a report of a stalled vehicle when it was hit, the chilling moments from dramatic call. listen. >> shots fired. >> i'm hit. i'm fired. i'm hit. shots fired.

heather: oh, man, 29-year-old deputy leaves behind a wife and 6-month-old daughter, colleagues remembering his passion for the job. >> he loved his job, he was incredibly good at it and as you can imagine, very personal for our agency. heather: manhunt is underway for killer, by the way, 14th officer to be shot and killed in line of duty this year. man accused of tossing a child mall of america, emmanuel is facing attempted homicide for what seems to be a random attack in minnesota, the victim's family says he's continuing to fight after falling nearly 40 feet to the ground. right now the 5-year-old is hospitalized and is in stable

condition. that's bizarre story. follow that for sure. well, new battle brewing over the crisis at the border, trump administration hashing out some details on proposal to release illegal immigrants into sanctuary cities and democrats are crying foul calling the move illegal, griff jenkins live with us with the growing feud. good morning, griff. >> good morning, heather, now white house press secretary sarah sanders said the president is forced to consider moving this. >> we talked about a number of different things over the last 2 years that we would love to see happen, certainly this wasn't be our first choice because ideally we wonlt be dealing with the massive influx of illegal immigrants coming across the board. republican lindsey graham plans

to introduce legislation striking at the heart of the problem. >> we have to change the laws so people start coming, there's a narrative in central america, if you can get to america with a minor child you will never get deported. we have to change the story line . >> democrats question the president's latest proposal blasting as political stunt, house chairman committee. >> this is, again, his manufactured chaos that he has created over the last 2 years on the border, everybody talks about democrats, republicans getting together, we are absolutely democrats ready to sit down and talk but we won't be lectureed and talk. >> we might hear a little more

about this. heather: all right, we will see if we do. thank you so much, griff, great to have you with us. president trump holding ground on newest immigration proposal. the counselor to the president kellyanne conway, waiting on democrats to help solve the border crisis. >> 25 million -- billion dollars on the table but the president walked away. that was allocated and not appropriated and they know it. we have done a great deal of work, we need to legislature to step in and we need to do something like the ninth circuit did on friday, at least give us latitude on the méxico policy, some liberals want the illegal migrants to remain in america, why not remain in america while claims of asylum, safe passage for the families and unaccompanied minors. >> the president is trying to

wow the democrats, there's no way to get a compromise. why don't you invite them? >> the offer stands, invitation is open. heather: democrats hitting the campaign trail hard as pete buttigieg is running for the white house. the left makes push in the heart of america, good morning. >> good morning, it's all about the midwest, mayor pete is making sure everybody knows exactly where he's from. >> i'm proud son of south bend, indiana and i'm running for the president of the united states. >> it is time to walk away from the policies in the past.

>> totally different. touting midwest upbringing and progressive values but can he claim indiana and its neighboring state, he's got competition, bernie sanders wrapped up a 4-day, 5-state swing through the heartland in pittsburgh sunday saying he's the best democrat to take back the midwest, targeting working-class families and in rally he say that is the president had told them a monstruous lie. >> donald trump has told literally thousands of lies since he began campaign. he was going to stand up for working families and take on the establishment. >> sanders is leading all democratic candidates in fundraising can 18 million in the first quarter. new york senator kirsten gillibrand trailing nearly every mayor candidate, though, with a

disappointing $3 million. don't forget fox news hosting a town hall with bernie sanders at 6:30 p.m. eastern time, bret baier and more that he mcallum where, heather, he will be taking questions from the audience. by the way, supposedly releasing tax returns today as well. heather: yeah, it is tax day after all. thank you so much, i appreciate it. >> sure. heather: unlikely rise of mayor pete buttigieg, charlie kirk has him questioning the focus and the direction of the democratic party. >> much more radical than people give him credit for. look, a personality context and the fact that he's been able to rise quickly shows the democrat party has really not sure what their base is or where the soul of the democrat party is right now. you go back to 2016 you got hot quickly, president trump he went on polls and now he's

president. he's uniquely unqualified to be president. heather: shows pete buttigieg in third place behind joe biden and bernie sanders. how about this, after almost 600 days game of thrones is back. >> what if he doesn't want me to? >> then i will enjoy your company. heather: social media lighting up as hbo's fantasy drama starts eighth and final season, kevin writing on twitter, i just can't imagine the kid i will eventually have will ever make me as thrilled and exciting as game of thrones just did. i wonder how many engineers they have at twitter building filters

that prevent game of thrones spoilers, that's a good one. happy game of thrones day, everybody, 2 years we survived. we made it. pretty good. i ended up staying up and watching it last night. 3 veterans commit suicide within 5 days of each other at va centers, is there an epidemic and what can we do to stop it? iraq war veteran joins us to tell the story and what the president is doing to help. petition to get vice president booted from speaking at a university commencement, the people who say the very idea has left them sick

heather: lawmakers are warning of epidemic america after 3 veterans all commit suicide within 5 days of each other at va centers. these veterans are some of the 20 that commit suicide every day. so what needs to happen for this to change, here to discuss iraq war veteran dan caldwell who served as executive director of concern veteran for america. thank you so much for joining us this morning on this very important topic, we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me on this morning. heather: 3 veterans committing suicide within 5 days, did that number surprise you, what do you think is happening? >> well, this has been a consistent problem and the specific issue of veterans committing suicide at va facilities, something that's happened in the past and incurring for years now and emphasizes that this is still a huge problem and that i think the va needs to go ahead and

reassess how they handle suicidal veterans and veterans having mental health issues when they come into the facility, that is something that they are doing, i think that the va secretary robert and the head of veterans health administration, they said that that's their top client cap priority so they are working on it but still clearly a lot of work to do. heather: dan, i'm sorry, you're going in and out in my ear but i did want to ask you, you yourself, you were an iraq war veteran, you received mental health through the va, what does the mental health -- what does the va do to help these veterans when it comes to mental health? >> well, i will just say that the va has a lot of great programs and resources that you could access, there's also a lot of great programs to offer to private sector, i will say that the va has vet center program, they have programs specifically tailored for female vets, programs that are tailored for

veterans like myself that recent returned from iraq or iran conflict. you need immediate help, call veterans crisis line at 18002738255. that's something that's available 24/7, if you're having urgent issues call them right away, they can hook you up with resources immediately. heather: i did know that you we wanted to talk maybe briefly about this project head strong, tell us about that. >> this is a great example of community organization that provide services for vets outside the va. they provide mental health care for veterans, you can find out more about them, fantastic organization, their in cities across the country, i encourage veterans to look them up in addition to resources provided through the va. heather: it is a problem that has to stop, we have to get it under control, 20 veterans a day is just unacceptable.

one a day is unacceptable. dan, thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate it. >> thank you. heather: have a good day, 17 minutes after the top of the hour and tiger woods comes roaring back, the win 11-year's in the making and the moment that happened after, todd piro has it up next.

heather: welcome back, president trump spending tax day in minnesota, headed to burnsville, outside of minneapolis to talk about tax cuts and progrowth policies at equipment company.

the president hoping hoping to flip the state in 2016, minnesota hasn't supported a republican presidential candidate since richard nixon. well, climate change causing a heated debate during iowa town hall where our very own harris faulkner, kayleigh mcenany and josé sparring over congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez's green new deal. listen to this. >> it's a good starter point, a good conversation to have but we have to be very careful, remember the primaries, primaries, real goal to the left, we try to play to the base and every single candidate goes to left. >> aoc comes out with green new deal, cost $100 trillion and what do democratic 2020 contenders do, they all embrace it, they all endorse it.

china as i mentioned is the cheat omitter of c02, any deal that doesn't include china is pointless. >> the world doesn't care if china doesn't get involved, climate change is real. look -- heather: at least 12 democratic presidential candidates support the green new deal. well, from green new deal to green new jacket, woods back on top for the first time in over decade. tiger winning the masters and breaking 11-year drought between major championships, todd piro more on stunning return to glory, what a day it was for him. >> how awesome? it was like christmas morning for golf war and by the end of it tiger and his christmas colors, signature sunday red top with all familiar green jacket.

>> here it is. [cheers and applause] >> the return to glory. >> a storybook transformation to resuming as top of sports. tiger woods with a 13 under with tournament winning by a stroke on sunday, early key time to avoid thunderstorms and saw the leader board change on almost every hole, back 9, the old feeling something special was in the air and the shot on 16 maybe reality, near perfect 8 iron that trickled just past the hole, watch this, giving tiger a 2-shot lead and quite frankly all the momentum, there was the feeling that it was just going to happen especially when you hit a shot like that. take a look at this, such an emotional moment, tiger hugging his children and iconic photo of

barely able to drink tiger hugging his late father in first masters win in 1997. >> this is unreal for me to experience this. my mom was here, she was there in '97 as well. i couldn't be more happy, more excited and i'm kind of at loss for words really. >> think about the comeback story, heather, tabloids, stories about athlete many viewed as unstoppable followed by 11-year major drought and new generation of stars that seemingly pass tiger by so now arguably one of the biggest sports stories of our lifetime. it was amazing. >> everybody loves a comeback story and i haven't always necessarily been a tiger fan, actually i've been the opposite. you couldn't help but pull for him especially at end, him hugging his two little children, little girl as well. >> obviously such an emotional

story, a lot of reaction on social media, your thoughts pouring in all day long. very happy for tiger after everything he's been through and all the injuries and back surgeries it was awesome seeing him win his 15th major, never give up on yourself, congrats, tiger, and karen on facebook says, i'm so glad he won, i'm sure his father is watching from home in heaven. i saw you nod you during second one. testament of perseverance. he had every reason for not doing this. heather: you know who stood by him, nike. we love sports, thank you so much, everybody can relate to that. time now is about 26 minutes after the top of the hour and democrats outraged over the president floating the idea of sending illegals to sanctuary cities, whatever happened to open arms, our political panel debates it up next.

heather: welcome back, half past the top of the hour, top headlines for you this morning, at least 8 people are dead including young children of -- as tornadoes and storms hit the south, more wind and heavy rain expected in the northeast today white house now says it is thoroughly reviewing president trump's plan to send detained illegal immigrants to sanctuary city, democrats call the idea illegal and political stunt and today is the 123rd boston marathon, expected to rain but that won't stop more than 30,000 people from competing, runners for more than 100 countries will hit the pavement along several people that were injured in 2013 marathon bombing. by the way, 7-time champ johnson

will also be competing. fox news alert for you, isis is plot to go recreate the 2015 terror attacks at paris concert hall that killed 130 people, that is according to documents uncovered by the sunday times newspaper in the uk. a member of the terror group dropped a hard drive while escaping syria, apparently detailing fresh wave of attacks, include bank robberies, vehicle rammings and assassinations all across europe. a new report shows méxico has deported 204 migrants back to honduras, national migration institute says that their stay in méxico was irregular and that they were flown from southern méxico back to central america, the group was mostly families traveling with children, mexican officials are under pressure from the trump administration to help stop the flow of migrants trying to reach the u.s.

don't forget about this, the redacted version of the mueller report could be made public any day now, garrett tenney has more on the operation growing in washington. >> everyone in washington is anxiously awaiting the release of mueller report but not surprising for very different reasons, what many democrats are hoping for any damaging information with special council on president trump, attorney general william barr said in bottom line findings that mueller did not determine whether president obstructed justice but based on mueller's report, barr said there's not enough evidence to prove it. that explanation on its own is not enough for democrats including senator ben cardin. >> i think mr. mueller is looking at criminal beyond all reasonable doubt, let's take a look at source of documents, he did say there was clear evidence in regard to obstruction of justice.

the past week we learned the attorney general is very concerned by some of what he has seen to investigate how the probe began, on sunday morning futures senator lindsey graham defending barr's comments this week that there was spying on the trump campaign. >> by definition, the foreign intelligence surveillance that allows our government to silent people we think working that are working with foreign government, the question was was there any legitimate reason to believe that. >> the justice department inspector is wrapping investigation as to possibly surveillance abuse to trump campaign and that report expected to be complete in may or june. in washington i'm garrett tenney, fox news. heather: waiting for a lot of stuff. well, chris christie gives legal lesson in campaign spying, former governor of new jersey getting fired up after democratic chicago mayor rahm emmanuel played the surveillance

of 2016 campaign. >> there was a proof by the court -- >> what do you call that? heather: well, christie went onto explain that there's a difference between legal spying and illegal spying, the discussion spurred by attorney general's admission that he's looking into the issue. the same democrats who pushed those policies are slamming the idea. >> it's illegal and it's immoral, it's unethical, it's sophomoric and petulent and par for the course. heather: why do democrats refuse to standby their own policies, here to debate it mustafa and

republican strategist kimberly, thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate it. >> good morning. heather: mustafa, i will start with you, sanctuary cities counties and state, sanctuary for illegal immigrants so why don't you want them there? >> well, i think the problem is with the department of homeland security. a number of officials have resigned, some of them don't want to break the law and the president offered them if somehow they were prosecuted. the president of the united states offering someone to pardon for breaking the law. you cannot take people that ask for asylum hearing and bus them to a different part of the united states, when they have a hearing they would not be able to make the hearing, the president of the united states asking people to break the law and when they don't, they either resign or he fires them in

homeland security and that's exactly what happened. heather: it's interesting you're making the argument, a lot of people are breaking the law to begin with and -- >> asylum is an international and united states law, they're not illegal, they're asking for asylum, it's legal process. heather: kimberly. >> this is when we understand liberal logic, it's harder to understand. they're upset because president trump's administration proposed the idea of redirecting the caravans to sanctuary cities where they'll be safe and have lots of freebies by taxpayer dollars and this further proves the point that no matter what trump does it will not receive bipartisan support. nancy pelosi of all people made a comment saying the children of immigrants are being put in this to perpetuate and dehumanize immigrants when it was her not too long ago, recipients as government shutdown approach.

please understand the people that treat children with immigrants the worst are their parents themselves, from those that are being created not out of love but in the sole purpose of being anchor babies and forced to make track from cities like guatemala without food or water. imagine your mom taking you on a hike with her, it's a crime. heather: let me ask mustafa about this, you did bring up asylum, part of the problem is some definitions are changing and people are trying to seek asylum not solely because they fear for their life, that's why they are supposed to seek asylum not for economic purposes but i want to talk about what lindsey graham said, we need to change loopholes that involve children and bringing children here and people think if they do that they can stay. mustafa.

>> asylum seekers are people who are fleeing violence in their country and -- and the process, they get a hearing and they get to plea their case and either we send them back after the hearing or they get to stay if they have a valid claim. if you then just take people in and ship them to a different part of the country where they can't come back to hearing then they become illegal. president trump is actually trying to create more illegal people in the country than not and as far as people bringing their kids in, imagine, put yourself in shoes of a mother that is fleeing violence enough to be able to daughters or sons border, try to do this and the more we shut down legal ports of entry which is what president trump has done, the more illegal immigration. the president is looking at this as political issue not humanitarian issue, putting kids in cages is not american values. heather: the previous administration did as well.

>> you keep saying that but it's not true. heather: that is true. >> you have to look at facts and not alternative facts. heather: but that is true because we did speak with border chief under the obama administration and he said it himself that did not happen, the issues were prevalent during the obama administration as well. >> the issues were but not putting kids in cages. nobody remembers kids in cages during the obama administration. >> there are pictures in 2014 where that happened. look, if these officials in sanctuary cities don't want caravans redirected their way, then perhaps they don't actually want these individuals in their town. like any democratic talking point it's great until it actually happens. heather: all right, kimberly, mustafa, thank you for joining us, we will see what happens. >> thank you. heather: time now 20 minutes until the top of the hour, under fire for putting stickers on

patrol cars because critics say it's too aggressive, meet the city councilman who calls the criticism ridiculous when he joins us live

heather: welcome back, the patriotic display has been called aggressive, since when date patriotism become a bad thing, peter blake councilman in laguna beach, california and joins me now with this, thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> morning, heather, how are you doing? heather: they look great to me, what is the issue that people apparently seem to have? >> well, i happen to think they look really beautiful. local activists h that's are trying to frame the debate around this american flag on the

car. it started out that they didn't like the black and white color, so, you know, when asked what was wrong with black and white police car they felt it looked aggressive, looked militaristic and wasn't friendly and then that debate changed to the flag and all of a sudden they felt that the flag was going to intimidate european visitors or immigrants and in some way was sending the wrong signal having the flag on a government car driven by government employees of the united states, somehow. >> another was going to create the wrong message. heather: yeah, about 23,000 residents there in laguna beach, about 50 miles southeast of los angeles, let's take a look at some quotes, this one is from one resident there who said we have such an amazing community of artists here and i thought the esthetic didn't really represent our community, it feels very aggressive. and then here is laguna beach police corporal who says every

time i came to a stop sign, every time i came to red light somebody is telling me the car looks great, we look forward to keeping them the way they are. so the outrage that you're hearing right now the minority or the majority there in laguna beach, what do you think? >> that's a vocal minority of left-over hippies that have been running this community since 1970, what you hear from the residents, they love the car and, you know, i -- i don't want to in any way vilify the artists that made the comment about the car not looking like something from artistic community. you know, i can appreciate thoughts and i can appreciate concerns, in the community if given enough time this could take 2 years while we figure out whether we want bunnies and canyons on police cars or

dolphins and oceans on police cars, the fact that we have the flag, the fact that we have a black and white car, the fact that we are able to make a decision in relatively short amount of time and get our police back on the road in a car that appears to be aggressive enough to deter crime is a miracle and i'm happy for them, looking forward to tuesday night where we can finally put this to bed, the latest california issue that we are having. california issue. heather: the flag has been approved for 7 out of the 11 squad cars, you mentioned tuesday night, they'll be another vote and maybe images will come down and off the cars? >> well, we are being asked in city council to allow the public to make comments regarding the flag which, you know, a misunderstanding, the council had originally pretty much approved 2 different flag

version. one was a very light and the other borter-flag version, as far as i'm concerned to allow the chief of police who we trust of the safety of the community to determine which one of those she wanted. when they went to print, the other image which was a more abstract version of the flag or the colors turned pink and light blue and it wasn't really fitting for police car. she made the obvious choice and chose the more bolder colors, we backed her up and then outrage among -- there's 300 people in this commit 'who i will call left-wing extremists that decided they did not want the car on their car and force it back to vote again and by law we have to give them the amount of time for public comment and that's what we are doing. heather: all right. >> the opportunity to come out and comment publicly in front of the council so we can remake the decision. heather: peter, thank you so much for joining us, please let us know what happens, it is a

shame when the flag, american flag becomes a sign of aggression and we have to argue whether or not we are going to use it. hopefully -- yeah. we will -- >> it's california. heather: thank you so much, have a great day. the time now 10 minutes until the top of the hour. it is tax day still haven't filed yours yet? well, apparently not too late, the expert tip for all the procrastinators. - my family and i did a fundraiser walk in honor of my dad,

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more on procrastinators need to know to meet the deadline, is that even possible, tracee? tracee: yes that is, millions of people who have yet to file their tax returns it is a deadline unless you live in maine or massachusetts, you have a few days because today is patriots day. irs.gov resource today whether you have to file an extension then you get 6 months so you'll have until october 15th to file your taxes or if you're ready to file them maybe just wait until the last minute, you can do that e-file on the website or if you have to pay anything you can do that through the website as well, so irs.gov if you haven't started yet, you might want to. heather: all right, so wait till the last minute. dozens of companies are offering deals in tax day. tracee: especially if you're one of those who has to pay today,

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heather: desperate to keep vice president mike pence from speaking in graduation. vp's political views are disturbing and inconsistent with the university's mission. comments pouring in. richard on facebook says, since when do students dictate what the colleges do and wayne writing on instagram, i'm tired of the left attacking freedom of speech, pv pence will have good insights, listen and learn something something for a change. so now time the good, the bad and the ugly and we begin with the good. heroic border collie, did you see this, rescuing dead friend from danger right in nick of time. dashing across the snow-covered road in canada to rescue

chihuahua from being crushed by reversing suv, both dogs escaped from any injury. the bad, streaming service crashing during the game of thrones season premier, also crashed likely due to flood of fans, hbo has not commented on the issue. a texas mom finds eletric razer. >> turn around. do you like your haircut? [laughter] heather: big brother teddy giving himself and sister haircut. so sad. i think teddy is probably in trouble. look at him. he knows he's in trouble.

well that wraps up this hour of "fox & friends first", thank you so much for joining us, "fox & friends first" continues right now. it'll grow back, right? jillian: questionable haircuts, good morning, this is fox news alert, severe weather slamming the south leaving path of destruction. rob: that's right, at least 8 people are dead including two kids, we are tracking where violent storms are next. jillian: white house considering busing illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities. rob: why liberal mayors are changing their tune and also ending fit for a man. >> here it is. the return to glory. [cheers and applause] rob: tiger woods, i know, right. first major in more than a decade jillian: incredible moment that is had millions on the edge of their seats, "fox & friends first" continues right