[applause] >> i want to make sure that anybody that comes into our country comes in through merit. what i think is tre membereddous pressure on many democrats to get something passed. heather: monday may 20th and this is "fox & friends first", happening right now at 4:00 a.m., putting pressure, putting on the pressure i should say, president trump demanding democrats come to the table to solve immigration crisis of 2020 democratic hopefuls are promising to throw out the laws we already. picking up the pieces, thousands waking up without power this morning after high winds, heavy

rains and tornadoes rip through parts of the countries, what states are in path of another round today. seen around the world. will the terminator fight back? "fox & friends first" starts right now. ♪ ♪ good morning to you, you're watching "fox & friends first", if you stayed up late watching game of threans, thank you so much for joining us, i'm heather

childers, let's begin with this. willing whatever it takes, president trump signaling he's ready to make a deal on immigration but key democrats don't seem too eager to get on board. acting dhs chief now clarifying what the administration is doing with the influx of migrants, griff jenkins live for us with latest on fight for immigration reform, good morning. >> good morning, heather, well, we have reversal of course, the administration now ruling out a plan to ship illegal immigrants apprehended at southern border to florida and other areas in the u.s. interior after phone call friday they are looking at places to ship migrants where processing centers are not overwhelming, acting dhs secretary seek to go explain the reversal.

>> when you have 16,000 people in custody in facilities designed for many fewer, you have to look at any planning factor you can. >> sigh of relief to florida officials but does little to address situation in southern border. democrats like kirsten gillibrand is hammering away at the president's immigration plan handling of crisis at the border. >> and the truth is president trump's immigration policy is inhumane, ineffective and wrong, as president of the united states i wouldn't use detention system at all. >> but in an interview last night on fox news with steve hilton the president places blame at democrats. >> whatever democrats stick together, if leadership decides that they don't want to have it, then we will have a continuation. >> now, clarification as for those fights we had reported about last week, heather, about

borders officials sending migrants from texas to san diego, officials confirming that is still happening and it's a very telling point to the very situation that they have dealing with these numbers all weekend long i was getting reports from border official sources saying they are overwhelmed again, no end in sight? >> i don't know how anyone can argue that that is not a cries, griff, thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate it. "fox & friends" news alert for you, breaking overnight, british prosecutor requesting, rape 2020, assange arrested, certainly serving 50-week sentence for skipping bail f granted the warrant would be the first step to have assange extradited and also faces extradition for the u.s. for allegedly conspiring to hack

into pentagon computer. well, don't provoke war if you're not prepared to be destroyed, that is the strong warning from president trump to iran, listen. >> i will innovate if i want to, war hurts economy, i don't want to fight, but you do have situations like iran, you can't let them have nuclear weapons, you just can't let that happen. >> the president doubling down on twitter saying if iran wants to fight that would be the end of iran. rockets lended 1 mile near embassy, iranian-backed militias could be responsible. amid rising threats, rare training exercise in northern arabian sea this weekend focusing on lethality and agility. u.s. warships being used to send china a firm message as tension

between two nations intensifies over trade talks, this is the second time this month the u.s. says has been sent to the region to challenge chinese claims of international waters, this comes days after china imposed retaliatory tax hikes of $60 billion of goods. pat toomey praising the president. >> i put china in distinct category separate from the entire world. so i actually think the president is right to challenge china, this agreement, if we reach one won't solve all of those problems and the tariffs are absolutely painful and dislocating but if in the end we end up with agreement that gives us reform, we might look back

and say, this was worth the price that we are paying, what i think we ought to be doing is working with allies, working with friendly countries, finding more markets, opening up more markets, taking down trade barriers and selling products around the world rather than sending check from taxpayers. heather: last week president trump's hiked tariffs to 10% to 25% on $200 billion worth of chinese goods. we have different story this morning, preparing for new round of tornadoes, after weekend of dangerous weather, in some areas winds gusting so strong homes were lifted from the ground, this one dropped in the middle of the road, look at that. storm victims start the long road to recovery. >> i just put my back against it and praised through the whole

thing. >> severe weather bringing high winds and heavy rains, dozens of tornadoes touching down in southern and mid western plain states, homeowners getting first look at the damage. >> setting up barricades and setting up clear the streets. >> some folks in louisiana and oklahoma facing a longer road to recovery, strong wind gusts knocking older homes right off their foundations leaving extensionive damage behind. first responders to rescue woman. >> we assisted her getting out of the house. >> crews are out in full force helping people. work to go restore power to thousands of customers removing trees and power lines, the fast-moving storms were the worst they had ever seen. >> no warning, no sirens and, you know, next thing you know

they were getting hit by the tornado. >> hurricane katrina, nothing compared to just like 3 or 4 hours of mayhem. >> more severe weather is on the way, heavy rain expected throughout the week in the middle of the country with it the threat of more flooding, in new york jay, fox news. heather: 48 million people turned threat of severe weather, we will have more on weather forecast. as attorney general bill barr looks into what exactly started the russia investigation, president trump renews campaign promise to drain the swamp. >> i think it's going on right now, the draining of the swamp because you look at people that are running scared. these were bad people, we have tremendously bad people, the witch hunt was a hoax, it was a con job the whole time and it was start bid some very bad people. >> well, barr appointed federal

prosecutor, the justice department inspector general report into the origins of the probe is expected in the coming weeks. and president trump heading to pennsylvania for a make america great rally tonight. he won by almost 45 percentage points in 2016. the president will be stumping for republican fred keller ahead of special house election tomorrow. he's expected to easily win against democratic opponent. well, golfer brooks nearly blows historic 7-stroke lead but survives to win his second straight pga championship. [cheers and applause] >> coronation. heather: well, winning by 2 strokes, it is his fourth major title in just 2 years, it was

really, really exciting. president trump tweeting, great win for brooks, congratulations to a great champion. was almost great comeback by d.j. as well, time now 10 minutes after the top of the hour, actually 11 minutes, this time four years ago. so who could the dark horse be for democrats for this time around, former trump campaign pollster says it might be someone not even in the race yet and from congresswoman to wonderwoman, aoc may be super hero in eyes of the supporter but creator of iconic character is saying not so fast, the super hero showdown coming up.

heather: welcome back, you're watching "fox & friends first", joe biden polling double digits ahead of the rest of the field and some believe he's a lock for the nomination but at this time way back in 2015, do you remember, jeb bush was leading the republican pack and then candidate trump was trailing way down in sixth place, so who are the dark horse candidates this time around for the democrats, anyone that could possibly surprise us? here with more former trump campaign pollster jim. thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you, great to be here. heather: that seems like so long ago. [laughter] heather: at this point, but it's true, president trump was really trailing the list at this point and we can actually bring up the list of all democratic contenders, if there's any dark horses, that's what we want to talk about.

let's bring up this. >> think about that, 4 years ago, and jeb bush even though he was the front on polls he was raising all the money. heather: name recognition. >> we all know happen, donald trump, when this poll was taken it was before he announced. that's what happened. once donald trump announced, he came down the escalator in june of 2015, he dominated the field. heather: i was with jon scott and heard him begin to speak and fired people right away. >> no doubt about it. people agreed with him while he was connecting with the american people the media was attacking him and that helped him.

heather: the outsider play intoed that. >> no question. heather: we are looking at democratic nominee preference, you compare bush which had 13 to biden to has 35%, way out in front. >> yeah. though i will tell you again, i don't consider him a preeminent front runner even though he's at 35% of the vote, think about it. if you look back, hillary clinton was getting about half, sometimes more than 50% of the vote back in 2008 versus barack obama and we all know what happened then. barack obama beat her. the interesting thing is joe biden, he's the, you know, he's the front runner here but i've seen polling 6 out of 10 democrats want somebody new, they want a fresh face and the two people that are out front right now are not fresh faces, bernie sanders and joe biden. heather: lets get to this because this is what we want. any of the dark-horse candidates? >> yeah, the interesting part is three of the dark horses i have here mike bloomberg, stacy

abrams and that rod brown, they are not even in the race right now. mike bloomberg run several times and he's wait to go see how joe biden does, if you see joe biden falter, don't be surprised -- heather: already have 23 candidates. >> some people say 24 and then stacy abrams she's still out there. what's interesting among african americans the front runner overwhelming, preoverwhelmingly is joe biden. rust belt guy and some people say he might be able to get voters that trump got and governor of washington, he's made it all about the environment, and i look at tulsi gabbard, polling at 0% or 1%,

he's a former veteran and she also is one of those people she's been attacked from the left in the democratic primaries. heather: starting to hear about her lately. a lot has to do with timing as well. >> she's very good on camera which is going to be interesting when you the debates coming up in a couple of weeks who shines, just like, again, donald trump came in those debates no matter where he was, where they put him on debate stage he nominated the stage. heather: you know, we have to go, running out of time, i could talk to you to the whole show, thank you so much. appreciate it. we will have you back. mayor pete taking on president trump trying to stand out in the crowded field we were just talking about. >> there's a lot of us running for president on the democratic side and it's safe to say i'm not like the others.

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heather: welcome back, despite jam-packed field in 2020, pete buttigieg says he stands alone in race to the white house. there's a lot of us that are running and it's safe to say there's not others. heather: good morning. >> good morning, pete buttigieg admits he has work cut out as he

made his case for the white house at sunday fox news town hall, blake -- paul gigot is nal right and declining support to any limits to women's right to choose. >> i think the dialogue has got to caught up on where you draw the line that we've gotten away from the fundamental question of who gets the draw the line and i trust women to draw the line. >> mayor pete pushing for higher tax rate too for those earning the most, taking a swipe at companies like amazon that make big profits and pay zero taxes but even though he's enjoying name recognition, he's not doing so well with minorities, recent fox news poll show him polling 1% among nonwhite democratic primary voters, listen to what he had to say about that. >> it's why we've worked so hard to make sure that as we go into this summer in our outreach and in our substance attendance that we are speaking to voters who

are concerned with what the next president can do to deal with, for example, the racial inequities that we see in our society. >> okay, so if he's able to wait over enough democratic voters mayor pete says he's ready for a tough race against president trump. >> how would you handle the insults and the attacks and the tweets and all of that? >> the tweets are -- i don't care. >> meanwhile president trump sharing his thoughts about pete buttigieg on fox's the next revolution, he says mayor pete runs a city that, quote, doesn't do perfectly, but when it comes to a gay candidate running for president, he's got no problem with that. >> i think it's great, i think that's something that perhaps some people will have a problem with. i have no problem with it whatsoever. i think it's good. >> plenty campaigning still left to do, president trump holding a maga rally in pennsylvania today, bernie sanders holding

town hall with voters in montgomery, alabama, still a lot of time like you said, heather, a lot of candidates. heather: so much, thank you so much, have a great day. well, dc come -- comics, issue ing politic as super hero, featuring congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, depiction of aoc is too similar to character, the companies wants covers to be recalled, destroyed. the standard edition shows aoc dressed in white suit. well, the time now is about 26 minutes after the top of the hour, republican breaks ranks over the mueller report and the president fires back, does the congressman have a point or is he just buying for attention, kimberly and joe reuben will debate it up next.

heather: welcome back, look at top headlines for you, president trump vowing to keep iran from getting nuclear weapons while insisting he wants toe avoid war with the country. >> i'm not someone who wants to go to war, kills people most importantly. >> the president doubling down on twitter saying that if iran wants to fight it would the end of the country. he's speaking at airport there where he won by almost 45 percentage points in 2016, he's also stumping for republican fred keller who is expected to win special house election tomorrow. and trio of 2020 presidential hopefuls hitting campaign trade, beto o'rourke, bernie sanders and eric all holding public

events, o'rourke will be in iowa while sanders will rally supporters in alabama. fox news alert for you, at least 17 people are hurt when a roadside bomb strikes a bus packed with tourists, you can see the chattered glass near egypt's giza pyramids, the bus was carrying tourists, no americans injured, no one claiming responsibility for the blast, second roadside bombing near the pyramid when at least 3 tourists were killed. american farmers business with méxico and canada following new agreement, u.s. promising to lift tariffs on steel and aluminum as long as both countries remove tariffs on a variety of american products including agricultural goods. the president tweeting the good news with warning telling farmers to, quote, be sure you're treated fairly.

and president trump takes aim at the biden family dealings with beijing. the former vp's son is accused of making millions from the chinese government in in a business deal. >> that should be investigated, the financial connection, the chinese government putting billions of dollars into biden family -- >> 100%. it's a disgrace and then he says china is not a competitor ours, china is massive competitor of ours, they want to take over the world. heather: hunter biden accused of profiting with chinese while dad negotiating with china as vice president. hunter denies the allegation. republican congressman justin breaking with party ranking sweeting this about the mueller report, quote, president trump has engaged in impeachable conduct, the move sparking a mix reaction across dc, listen. >> this is exactly what he wants, he wants to have attention, it's a question whether he's in republican

conference as a whole. >> my own view is that he has reached different conclusion, more courage than any other republican in the house or senate. >> but was this all just for attention, here to debate is republican strategist kimberly and formerly deputy assistant secretary of state under obama joel rueben. >> good morning. >> kimberly, i will start with you, what do you think he's up to? >> minority leader got it correct. a lot of people have the mueller investigation mixed up, the original question was did russia meddle in the 2016 election, but hillary clinton lost so many emails and they couldn't answer any questions. it move today whether or not trump campaign colluded with russia, the answer to that is no. president obama had 8 years and couldn't accomplish as much as president trump in 2 years, people are upset, rightfully so,

he we wanted to be exonerated quickly as anybody else would. heather: joel. >> the republican reaction demonstrates that he has struck a nerve and he has because there's legitimate reason, the report demonstrated that there was a vast russian involvement meddling in our russian and volume 1 in two-volume report. not once called the fbi or defended the united states, amash is looking at that, these are impeachable offenses, members of congress haven't read report which i agree with you. heather: have you read the report? >> oh, yeah. heather: in its entirety. >> well, redacted version because we don't have access. heather: i find it interesting though that people disagree with barr's conclusion, they disagree with then deputy rod rosenstein

that helped him come to the conclusion and mueller as well who also was part of what was going to be said although it's come out that he disagrees with the take that the media had on it. kimberly, let's listen to this, this is what justin amash said about possibly running for president, maybe this is one of his reasons, listen. >> would you be willing to run for the white house? >> well, i'd never rule anything out. it is important that we have someone in there that's presenting a vision for america that is different from what the two parties are presenting. heather: kimberly could that be a possible reason, maybe feeling things out? >> yeah, that would better explain it honestly, any republican is usually for the best interest of the american people, if you want to be that guy on the opposite side of history, you want to be against unemployment record low numbers, you want to be against just everything that president obama -- president trump is doing

including actually tacking the broken immigration system, you can be that guy, you can have fun on that side of history, i think president trump is doing a great job and if even wants to run for president it's not going to happen. heather: to be fair, what president trump had to say over the weekend, i won't read the whole thing but begins by saying he's not a fan of justin amash and calls him lightweight, if you read the mueller report composed by 18 angry dems who hated trump and goes on from there but he points out no collusion ultimately no obstruction, how do you obstruct when there's no crime, in fact, crimes committed by the other side, your response and we have to wrap it up. >> sure, heather, amash is house freedom caucus, not a liberal democrat and this isn't about president trump's position on policy issues, he's looking at this report and saying it really does demonstrate that there are

problems, high crimes, need to be investigated. heather: established no conspiracy between russia and no findings sufficient to charge president trump with obstruction of justice, joel and kimberly, thank you for joining thus morning. time now 20 minutes until the top of the hour, winter is coming but game of thrones fans are not, millions to call out to work today, come on, seeking professional help as show comes to an end and match maker in chief, carley shimkus with the tweet from elizabeth warren that set social media on fire

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heather: video has gone viral, arnold schwarzenegger drop-kicked from behind, the event happened in africa, the terminator barely flinching. heather: but will the governator fight back, he was at an event in south africa. carley: yeah, that's right. heather: support athletes and then this happened out of nowhere. >> mingling with fans on saturday when out of nowhere somebody drop kicks him from behind, after the video went viral he took the twitter he said that he didn't know somebody kicked him and thought he was being jostle by the crowd.

a lot of you ask but i'm not pressing charges, i hope this was a wake-up and gets life on right track but i'm moving on and i'd rather focus on thousands of great athletes that i met at, at arnold sports, sponge bob square pants theme, that's truly what it was like and take a look at this, terminate him it says. heather: he's 2 years old, he did not flinch. carley: drew attention to the arnold sports africa event that he has where he holds this big competition for athletes in south africa, all different ages and ability and tweeted video of man doing archery. heather: the kid who did it help

me i need a lamberghini. the commencement speaker in morris house college. carley: surprised by saying he will pay off student loans for every single student, watch this. >> on behalf of the 8 generations of my family who have been in this country, we are going to put a fuel in your bus, my family is making groont eliminate student loans. carley: can you believe it? heather: wow. carley: that was billionaire technology investor robert smith so much social media reaction praising that man, john says

tremendous gesture and impactful and thoughtful lesson about the pathway for each of us to move from success to significance, thank you for leading by example, paying it forward, another twitter user says smith is the most sought after commencement speaker in the world. the grant he's going to give to eliminate the debt is expected to be around 40 million. >> he's worth about 5 billion so he can handle it. >> carley: elizabeth warren new campaign slogan is i have a campaign to that. take a look at tweet from comedian ashley nicole black, she tweeted, do you think elizabeth warren has a plan to fix my love life? to everybody's surprise warren responds direct message me and let's figure this out, folks on twitter taking note of the moment.

if you say elizabeth warren in the mirror three times she appears with a plan to fix your life. some little love lessons, love advice from elizabeth warren, who knew. heather: lots of folks going viral. carley: good to bad to ugly. heather: thank you, carley. carley: appreciate it. heather: time now 15 minutes until the top of the hour, taking aim at founding fathers. >> i specially think about how issue something like rake ill equity is, we are thinking twice about naming events after jefferson and jackson, maybe we should name it after a person of color. heather: mayor pete calling for americans to no longer honor names of thomas jefferson, is that a really good idea, presidential historian up next xfinity mobile comes with our internet,

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>> something like racial equity is, we are thinking twice about naming our events after jefferson and jackson. maybe we should name for a person who is living, maybe name it after a person of color. heather: making case at fox news town hall for americans not to no longer honor names like thomas jefferson, former white house staffer jane hampton cook, thank you so much for joining us this morning, we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. heather: as we begin our discussion, let's bring up some date that is people can look at at home, these are different dates that we have when people attempted to pull down the particular statutes or deface them. february of 2017, november of

2015, october of 2015 and then september of 2016, is this a good idea? >> well, you know, we -- we need to -- everyone is morally conflicted and mayor pete did mention that but we have to remember that people like thomas jefferson gave us amazing founding principles, his best words, jefferson's best words are in the declaration of independence that are all created equal endowed by creator with inalienate -- and when we start talking about taking jefferson's name after future naming opportunities, we miss and lose that core founding principle that applies today, it's the root of who we are as

people. >> but at the same time state by state democratic activists seem to be removing the names of jefferson and jackson from the party. >> well, i think they are forgetting why jefferson's name is associated with the democratic party. in 1790's the democratic societies started popping all over the united states and jefferson is founder of the democratic party and, you know, the democratic party has stood up for civil rights and so i think we've got this all or nothing thinking about our founders and we've got to stop applying identity politics to founding fathers because what they left us were principles that we live by together. heather: when i know you bring up identity politics seems like we haven't learned anything when it comes to that. here is what president trump had to say in august of 2017.

>> george washington was a slave owner, are we going to take statutes, think of thomas jefferson, do you like him, he was a major slave owner. heather: where does it end? >> well, you know, i think it ends by reminding people of what these founders gave us in looking at the positives, mount vernon which is washington's home, great article about how george washington's views on slavery changed because of these founding principles and let him to free his slaves, if there's a lot to learn and i think we are just -- we are just kind of washing everything away and we will lose who we are at the root that we are all created equal. heather: yeah, can you neighboring future better if you attempt to erase the past? >> no, you don't give people an idea of where these beliefs came from when you that. heather: all right.

thank you so much. jane hampton cook, we appreciate your insight. >> thanks for having me. heather: have a good day, ten minutes until the top of the hour, after 8 years your watch has ended. >> she doesn't want -- >> she doesn't get the jokes. >> no, but you do and you have to choose now. heather: if you haven't watched i, how game of thrones fans are turning to professional help, this is true, to move on from the series finale

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heather: live shot from nation's capitol. the vice president heading out, he's heading to florida opinion a route of his own, we will have all of that coming up throughout the day on fox news, senator bernie sanders say that is he will only nominate supreme court justices support roe versus wade, 2020 contender campaigning in alabama while condemning the

state's new abortion law. >> make no mistake these laws are unconstitutionally and we will fight them in every way possible. >> kirsten gillibrand and cory booker have made similar pledges about supreme court justices, beto o'rourke is looking to the past as he tries to jump-start his struggling campaign, politico report that o'rourke has hired two senior staffers tied with former president obama and hillary clinton. lauren worked as regional director for 2016 clinton campaign. latest fox news poll by the way shows o'rourke in

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offering counseling sessions to help fans move on, millions of people expected to call in sick to work today, by the way, following the series finale. let us know what you thought about it if you watch it. this wraps up this hour of "fox & friends first", "fox & friends first" continues right now, bye, bye. >> instead of dealing with the overall comprehensive immigration issue. as president of the united states i wouldn't use attention system at all. >> lousy policy and in many cases lousy politicians, for whatever reason the democrats stick together. >> all right, it's monday may 20th and the president having dejavu in regards to making immigration deal with democrats. >> instead of offering their own plan to fix broken border plans, they are digging deeper to shut his down, live in washington with the president's exclusive