>> oh my gosh. the elephant punching that pennsylvania teen across the face and knocking the phone to the ground. in a letter to fox she said she felt like she had been hit by 10 people at once. scary. she is okay. jillian: got to go. bye. ♪ hander hands up ♪ playing my song. >> baseball. american league continues to flex their muscles over the last -- steve: that is an understatement the american league last night in cleveland seven times in a row they won the 90th annual all-star game. and it was. ainsley: the announcers aren't even excited the guy blowing bubbles with bubble gum. griff: 4-3. all-star game it could have been higher. ainsley: these are the best

of the best. already amaze going have you become a pro-athlete and then these are the best of the best. steve: it was. cleveland rolled out the red carpet and fox did something really cool during the live action. not only did they have mics on the players some of them had ear pieces so they could talk to the announcers and at one point the astros could actually talk to each other. while they were playing. ainsley: while they were playing? steve: it was cool. really cool. beautiful job done by fox and the american league and the national league and progressive field, of course really did a nice job. griff: i don't know, you know, listen, we got to talk about some news. i came to join you. steve: that's right. griff is here. ainsley: you have been down there quite bait. is it working because you have been down there reporting on it or the pressure. griff: mexico doesn't want griff jenkins to visit again we have got to get our act together. we will talk about that later. the june numbers are out and

we are seeing a 28% decline from last month. look at these numbers here. 144,000 were in may. these are the apprehensions and inadmissibles combined. 104344 actions in june dropped from last month. ainsley: 40,000 fewer individuals, detainees coming across the border. good numbers. that's great news. steve: it is and it isn't. when you look at the numbers year over year 28% seems like a pretty big number. last year at the same time it was 17,000. if you think about the maximum pressure that the president put on mexico and said hey, look, unless you do something that stops this flow of migrants we will hit with you tariffs. mexico says we have put thousands of troops on the border on the south and the north and effective live they were only able to increase that detention number by 10%. look. that number we just put up was still north of 100,000 in a month.

at that rate it's over a million in a year. have you got to wonder whether or not mexico is just trying to get the president off their back because they gave -- the president gave them a deadline of july 22nd. so it's just around the corner. these numbers impressive. but are they impressive enough to the president. ainsley: dan crenshaw praised the decrease. he said it's a good sign. he agrees with you, steve, unacceptable of four straight months of more than 100,000. griff: cbp officials say they are beyond breaking point full emergency their words there are some members of congress that still refuse to recognize that. alexandria ocasio-cortez, shear is what she had to say yesterday. >> ice is not under doj. it's under the department of homeland security. so we have now. >> would you get rid of homeland security, too. >> i think. so i think we need to undo a lot of the egregious.

a lot of the egregious mistakes that the bush administration did. i feel like we are at a very -- it is a very qualified and supported position, at least in terms of evidence, and in terms of being able to make the argument that we never should have created dhs in the early 2,000s. ainsley: she is talking about the mistake of president bush because that happened under the bush administration this is a radio show in new york. the host is david remnick. he asked her, he said what does a sane immigration policy look like? she said we shouldn't be using detention for people who have not harmed anyone. these are folks who have come over the border illegally. griff: yes. ainsley: we detain them because we are trying to figure out who they are and why they want to come in if they are seeking asylum. the border agents are there to follow the law. steve: she sounds a lot like the people running for president on the democratic side. remember, we saw all those hands come up who is for

decriminalizing border crossings almost everybody put hands up. ainsley: and giving insurance. they all said yes. griff: we are seeking clarification. i have got the number from what i have been tracking 891,000 total enforcement actions this year. we will see if they will confirm that that number is not out yet. that will tell us that we're definitely heading for 1 million. if you cpb who is going to deal with it. cbp officials say once adult males being released into the country's fabric. we are literally at risk losing sovereignty. steve: this period this year 100,000 illegal border crossings. last year it was 45,000 about. griff: 43. steve: two years before that 21,000 it. has gone up five times in two years. so the president is going to have to figure out whether or not that number is acceptable. july 22nd just around the corner. ainsley: the question was

trying to get the citizenship question for 20206789 that was rejected by the supreme court as you know. the judge sai president says i'g to change attorneys. district judge bars him from doing so. he is obama appointee. steve: judge said local rules in new york for federal court cases require any attorneys leaving a case have to give satisfactory reason. and he looked at the reason that they gave and said that's bogus. have you got to come up with something better than that. the department of justice has got to say look, we are switching teams because and what we heard from the attorney general was yesterday. ainsley: you need a reason to switch your lawyer? steve: you do according to the judge in new york. state rules. the big question is, will they take into account the fact that the attorney general said that the team said we don't want to be involved in that phase. griff: saying it's too little too late in the game

for this change. the president weighed in with a tweet so now the obama appointed judge on this u.s. census case are you a citizen of the united states won't let the justice department use the lawyers that it wants to use. could this be a first? ainsley: weighed in last night on tucker. >> did you go to any small town big city in and walk up to a citizen on the street do you think on the census we should ask a citizenship question. and their response will be yes. and quickly followed up by aren't we doing that already? this is so common sense but everyone gets it except democrats i in the united states congress. steve: see what reason the department of justice is able to come up with and whether or not the original team will go ahead and try to complete the game. stay tuned. griff: rumor in washington now is you could have executive order as well to try to tackle this. that would be certainly something that would likely be challenged. ainsley: the president said he is not giving up on this.

steve: meanwhile, the president of the united states has got a supporter in the form of the man who founded bet, robert johnson, who if you remember, in 2016 he supported hillary clinton for president. he has been a long-time democrat. there he is right there. he thinks what the president has done with the economy and various americans has been fantastic. listen to this. >> the party, in my opinion, has moved for me personally, too far to the left. i think at the end of the day if a democrat is going to beat trump, he or she is going to have to move to the center. i think the economy is doing absolutely great. reaching into populations that heretofore had very bad problems. african-american unemployment is at lowest level. i give the president a lot of credit for moving the economy? a positive direction that's

benefiting a large number of americans. ainsley: why do you think this is important? the economy, according to this new poll is the most important issue, 26% say gun control. steve: you look at that graphic right there, that's really good for the white house. bowers the president's economy and we just heard for somebody who voted for hillary clinton is doing real bureallywell. if that person is going to have beat trump you to move to the center and you can't wait too long to do that. griff: i love that image if you show the tape again. here is bob johnson walking in front of the eiffel tower happened to stop to the man on the street the economy is doing great under trump. minorities are booming. why do we have that in the center of new york city or in washington, d.c.? i don't know. you tell me. ainsley: when the economy is doing well, you can travel. steve: there is a democrat who says the president's economy is really good right now. and then have you got somebody else who is a big

supporter of the president and his policies and that's bernie marcus one of the co-founders of home depot. he announced a couple days ago he is worth 4 or $5 billion or something like that he is going to donate to president trump's re-election because he feels the president's economy is great. he says he doesn't agree with everything the president has done so far but he still produced more than anybody else. but when he announced that to "the atlanta journal constitution" he was going to do that, ha has prompted boycott calls. ainsley: a lot of people have said they are not going to shop at the store anymore because he supports the president. steve: so the president came out and he heard about this threat of a boycott of home depot and the president supported him and said this: truly great patriotic and

charitable man bernie marcus co-founder of home depot at the age of 9 90 is coming under attack by the radical left democrats with one their often used weapons. they don't want people to shop at those great stores because he contributed to your favorite president, me. those people are vicious and totally crazed but, remember, there are far more great people, deplorables in this country, than bad. to do them what they do to you. fight for bernie marcus and home depot. griff: email us at friends@foxnews.com. let us know what you think. where are you going to go if you don't go to home deep toe. steve: you could go to lowe's or local hardware store. griff: i guess. steve: bernie marcus donated $7 million last time to the president's campaign. this time? don't know. jillian: carley shimkus told us he parted ways with the company 15 years ago.

so there is that. family and friends gathering for emotional vigil to honor a georgia deputy killed in the line of duty. nicholas dickson shout in the stomach while chasing suspected gun thieves. >> i could not cry be, hoping and wishing how to make it to you on time. i didn't get to see you one last time. >> the 28-year-old leaves behind a wife and two young sons. four teenagers are behind bars. dickson is the 24th police officer shot and killed in the line of duties this year. calls growing for labor secretary alex acosta to resign or be fired. they're outraged in his role over jeffrey epstein plea deal. facing new sex crime charges. the crimes committed by epstein are horrific and i'm pleased that new york prosecutors are moving forward with a case based on new evidence. president trump revealing he had a falling out with

epstein 15 years ago. reports say epstein has been banned for mar-a-lago for at least 8 years. a california school district is changing its name because the old one was called racist and insensitive. the dixie school district will now be known as the miller creek elementary school district. officials casting the vote after th dixie name was linked to slavery. it was actually named from a native californi woman from california: contribution to president trump months before he died. reporting in last documented political acts. the two-time presidential candidate wrote two checks for the highest amount he could legally donate to president trump's re-election campaign. tributes have been pouring in for perot. president george w. bush wrote in a statement texas and america have lost a strong patriot. franklin graham tweeting he was a great texan and great

american. perot was 89 years old. send it back to you. steve: he got 19% of the popular vote in the election back in the day. he was really something. we got to interview him a couple of times. very nice manual. the "new york post" has got a contribute to them. they say regarding his legacy, laughs and use of talks and giant sucking sound taking jobs to mexico. he won the voters who later became the core trump constituency. griff: i loved in his last interview with the dallas morning news he apparently told them he was texas born and texas bred and when he dies he will be texas dead ross perot. ainsley: born in 1930. steve: got rest his soul. 6:15 in new york city. tom steyer said this not that long ago. >> i'm not running for president at this time. instead, i'm strengthening

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>> i think corporations bought democracy. politicians don't care about or respect them. don't put them first are not working for them but are actually working for the people who have rigged the system. my name is tom styer, i'm running for president. steve: he is indeed. is he also a billionaire. he announced yesterday he is officially running for president. styer has become one of the country's most visible environmental advocates i have the particulars say his previous career paints a very different picture. what was previous career? with background we have executive editor of climate depot.com and author of the politically incorrect guide to climate change marc morano joins us from d.c. mark, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. glad to be here. steve: he made his money with hedge funds. >> group fairland capital. invested in companie companies m

indonesia, australia and essentially became a billionaire as a fossil fuel magnet he was before coal before he was against coal and now he is using the money he made to aswaw asage his guilt and go after climate change upon that which he built his fortune, coal. steve: mark and i were talking during the break and you said that one of the things that has terrified democrats is the fact that in the past mr. star styer has donated a lot to their campaigns. if he runs for president what does that mean. >> they are not running and winning the presidency. they are terrified of him spending $100 million on himself. it's a hilarious article out of "the seattle times" about, you know, washington state, governor jay inslee, other democrats actually in a panic saying please don't do. this give the money to us, not yourself. don't waste the money on yourself. and they actually say look

at howard schultz of starbucks. he went nowhere. you are going nowhere. spend the money with the democrats. don't waste it. and it's funny thing to see because, you know, tom styer has been called a. he will be spending all that money on himself and democrats are terrified. steve: mark, when president obama was the president, what did tom steyer do in forming something called the extreme weather swat team. what was that all about? >> what they are trying to do is try to link, first of all, any weather event to climate tom steyer and his financing and money tried to exploit every natural disaster to lobby for action. called this kind of action climate ambulance chasing. look nor any disaster and say ah-ha this works.

people like chuck schumer took to the united states senate floor and said had we done more on carbon change we would have fewer hurricanes. we have democrats and united states senators believing that u.s. policy can regulate hurricanes and natural disasters and tom steyer is paying them to say these kind of things. steve: before you go we quoted this poll from emerson a couple minutes ago climate change not in the top six or. so there it is right there at 6%. how potent is that as an issue? >> among the democratic base, it could be considered an issue. the problem is you have dozens of candidates running now, making climate an issue. but now you only have one who has got this kind of money. he will try to buy this as an issue with the democratic party base. steve: let's see what happens. marc morano thank you for joining us from d.c. >> thank you, steve. steve: meanwhile, minnesota city council vote voted to

stop saying the pledge of allegiance before city council meetings. we will go inside to reverse it next. >> one republic for which it stands. [chanting u.s.a.]

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bucks on most flights. so bon voyage. griff: thanks, steve. all right. a minnesota community demanding their city council a vote remove pledge of allegiance from meetings. >> public for which it stands. >> that took less than 15 seconds. is that too much time. [chanting u.s.a.] >> but will the st. louis park city council listen to them? our next guest has been on this story from the very beginning and called the council's move anti-american. griff: joining us now is joe pack host of the joe pack show what the late es they voted 5-0 to get rid of the pledge. any chance it will come back? >> they said they will revisit. i don't know what it means. revisit it and vote again 5-0 against it and say they will do a study. what i love about this very

much like san antonio where i am based and the city council said no to chick-fil-a the attorney general said we are going to sue you. you can't do this. anti-american to go against a company that wants to sell chicken sandwiches. the residents showed up and said the pledge which took 15 seconds, they chanted u.s.a. it's my hope they will show up every single meeting until this council not only revisits and studies it but undoes this dumb thing they did. the american flag it's over my shoulder. what's wrong with that? it used to be fixed in this country that we love the flag. why is this an issue? ainsley: what is it about the pledge that they don't like? >> i don't know. i guess somebody said they were intimidated by this, ainsley. i don't know what's intimidating by saying we pledge of allegiance to a flag that symbolizes freedom, liberty, independence, the best, you know, country on plant earth and value system that accepts everybody from every culture and religion. it's weird. there is no justice if you are an american in minnesota. one of my biggest stations is right there in that

district. and the people that i hear from every single day say this is in minnesota. this doesn't represent us. this isn't who we are. we are stunned this is happening. they are always put on the map for some dumb reason like this. >> you are talking to minnesotans. what is it about the fact that you had a -- remember of the council voted 5-0 unanimously to get rid of it. is this a case of local government completely out of touch with their constituents? >> well, clearly because monday night what people did griff, they showed up and they said the pledge of allegiance. the weird part about this is that the council isn't really say something known inobody is forced to say it. pledge that symbolizes the flag and our freedoms and liberties. that's okay. no one in the audience has to stand up and say it. suffer through it for 15 seconds. the people in that district have said enough is enough. we have a blind eye to a lot of the radical progressive leftist stuff happening in our district. this is one step too far.

ainsley: the president was weighing in on this and we saw that fourth of july celebration the president had in d.c. honoring american exceptionalism and honoring our military. and democrats, many people in the media still criticized that celebration. how is this going to play out in 2020? there are a lot of people that agree with those folks, believe it or not, in minnesota? >> i think people on the left, and the democrats, all 3700 that are running for president. they have all under estimated our patriotism. our love for our country. the flag. the red, the white, the blue, the stars and stripes. little by little you are seeing it bubbling up. people like those in st. louis park which by the sway a democrat district. it's a left district. they are standing up and saying wait a second. let's start with some things we know. we love the flag. we love the country. we love why we are independent and why we are the greatest land on planet earth. we might agree with you on some issues but you are taking this too far now and overstep yourself into losing my vote if you don't stop it. people are starting to be

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s. steve: those are pictures of ed henry and his sister co-lien he was donating part of his liver to her. it went as planned. ainsley: they will take 30 to 40% of his liver and it will regenerate. and his sister got -- well, got a portion of his liver which will regenerate as well and saved her life. griff: we hear ed was even joking with the doctors. steve: that's ed. >> that sounds about right. steve: for answers to how

this all works we brought in dr. nicole saphier fox news contributor. how does this all work? how does something that's 30% regenerate to normal size? >> the liver is a very incredible organ. think about it as your skin your skin is also considered a organ. if you cut your skin or shave some off it regrows. your liver does that. kidney and hearts don't do the same thing. liver does. ed is giving 30% of his liver to his sister. and within about 6 to 8 weeks. his liver is going regenerate back to normal size. hills 30% in her is going to regenerate into a full size liver as well. hopefully. all things considered. liver transplants or transplants in general it's a marathon not a sprint. they have made it through the big hurdle and gotten through the surgery which is amazing. sounds like they are doing well. they will be closely monitored for n. this crucial time period to make sure regeneration happens in him and also she accepts his liver and everything goes as well. so, we are doing great.

but we are not quite there yet. griff: we keep our prayers for ed and mcalleenan and their family. ainsley: the president has a big announce 89 today. a series of initiatives to encourage more kidney transplants and treatment at loam. this is going to be in speech this morning. tell us more what to expect. >> many have reign in healthcare cost and drug prices and tackling chronic kidney disease and stage reasonable disease in the united states cost medicare some hundred billion dollars a year. what he is trying to do is figure out how we can treat these people a little bit less expensive. right now they are going to hospitals to get their dialysis. expensive medications. he is saying can we bring some of these services into their home to offset some of those high costs? and so through executive order and other initiatives that's what he wants to do is really rain that in. we have a lot of people suffering from kidney disease and some of it, you

know, you need to be able to lower healthcare costs when it comes to some of these measures so that we are able to fund these transplants. ainsley: if you need dialysis you go to the hospital three times a week like my mother. now she would be able to do it at home. >> possibly. we're not quite sure what he is going to say. some are able to go to outpatient centers. trying to do a lot more of this in home. griff: you have tips how to lower cost. >> that's right. bottom line most people don't want to hear this you can take charge of your healthcare costs to some extent, okay? first of all, you have to know not all pharmacies are created equal. if you need a medication, sometimes if you pay cash price at the pharmacy it's less expensive than if you go through your insurance company. and where you may -- the cost at one pharmacy may be even lower at another pharmacy. take responsibility. price check. just like you are buying a car. make sure you are going around. it's not one size fits all when it comes to that second, you need to limit

whether or not when you go to emergency room and when did you go to urgent care clinics. some people when they sprain their ankle they go to the emergency room their deductible for insurance $110,000 emergency room. if you have a veined ankle call primary doctor go to urgent care center after hours. it's less expensive. rely on primary care doctor and not urgent care clinics. steve: there is the problem you might be traveling, you might need some sort of healthcare, and you are a long way from innetwork doctor. >> we can talk about that all day, guys. insurance companies really restrict how can see. see someone in network. might be doing everything right seeing your dermatology in network. if they do biopsy they send that to out of network lab and you get a will fo bill. you need to say where are you sending this and call to make sure they send it in network. last but thought least take

responsibility for your own health. go to all your health screenings. exercise more. eat healthier. can you lower your healthcare costs because a far majority of disease is preventable. if you want to reign in your healthcare costs, leif healthier lifestyle. griff griff good advice. >> i know sounds simple but it really is. griff: thank you. steve: 24 minutes before the top of the hour. ainsley: jillian has headlines for us. jillian: a delta flight forced to make an emergency landing after engine malfunction while thousands of feed in the air. a piece of the left engine spotted dangling as the metal cylinder inside turned red. passengers say they heard a loud boom as smoke filled the cabin. the flight from atlanta to baltimore forced land in north carolina. delta says the engine was replaced and the plane will be back in the air today. thankfully no one has hurt a crazy video going viral on social media. a family brawling, all out

brawling at the happiest place on earth. watch this. >> hey, ma'am we are at disney land. >> family fight unfolding at disneyland as bystanders looked on. one of the bystanders who stepped in trying to break up the fight shared his story with fox news. >> as soon as he laid hands on the woman, you know, i knew that was wrong and it's time to step in and at least separate it and diffuse the situation as best i could. >> the family seen in the video has not been charged burr the incident is still under investigation. a former florida gator football player was attacked for sporting president trump. daniel welding claiming he was targeted at a restaurant group of women on the fourth of july because he was wearing a maga hat. >> when one of the girls decided to take the hat off my head, she -- multiple of them proceeded to push me around and one of them snatched the pin i was wearing across my chest.

>> gainsville police say they are investigating. all right. forget the candy. grandparents now resorting to a new tactic to spoil their grandkids rotten. >> mike, do you think might shut that thing off. >> no. are you crazy? he won't answer in the station break. >> the world wants to hear from you. >> can't you shut up? i'm busy. jillian: new study finding kids between 2 and 7 years old spend an average of two hours on tablets, computers or watching tv during four hour visits. grandpa appears to let kids play with gadgets more while boys tend to spend more time on screens than girls. sorry, guys. i was going to talk to you about that because it's funny. let's talk to adam klotz about that. is he outside right now. adam: did you spend too much time staring as a kid and your mom said you will go blind. adam: yeah.

here you are. jillian: i ate my carrots. adam: temperatures feel find across the country. feels great out here on fox square. but there is a storm developing across the gulf. let's take a look at these. temperatures this morning. a lot of spots lower 80's. been hot, been warm. heat advisories for portions of texas across arkansas and in to alabama and running up to mississippi. farther to the north, also. all spots to pay attention. to say the big story is a low pressure system that's drifting off the coast of the florida big ben. there is a 90% chance this becomes tropical storm barry in the next couple of hours. even even if it doesn't become tropical storm barry a lot of rain. drift off to the west. low pressure system on the move. this one, guys, as i talk about getting to you cause a lot of rain across the gulf coast. wee will pay attention to very closely the next couple of days. steve: looks like it's

heading toward louisiana if your track is right. adam: yes, sir. griff: thousands of fan also honor the u.s. women's soccer team today. set to take a victory lap but not without a hint of controversy. ainsley: team already gotten the party started co-captain alex morgan sharing this photo from a roof top pool party. steve: i believe that was taken yesterday. bryan llenas at new york city hall where the celebration will come to an end after ticker tape parade. brian, good morning. >> good morning, guys. behind me the stage is set at city hall. 3500 people will sit here after the parade comes to an end. be given the keys to the city from mayor bill de blasio. starting at battery park and canyon of heroes and end up here at city hall. not without controversy as you said. this team by the way is historic. they have won four world cups. that's a record. they scored 26 goals in this tournament. also another record. in fact they never trailed not even for a second in the

entire tournament. there is a war of words between president trump and the leader megan rapinoe and rapinoe says well, look, she is not going to go to the white house if president trump invites her. yesterday she went on another network and rapinoe explained why she believes her team shouldn't go to the white house. >> i think that i would say that your message is excluding people. you are excluding me. you are excluding me and people who look like me. you are excluding people of color. you are excluding americans that maybe support you. >> megan rapinoe the most outspoken member of the national team. again, she did say in that same interview that she plans on meeting and accepting envy tations from chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, and aoc. she says she wants to meet with people that she believes in, that share the same message so we will see. the white house has yet to send an official invitation to the team.

guys? steve: bryan llenas at city hall in new york where can you expect gigantic traffic jams during rush hour this morning in lower manhattan. straight ahead on our wednesday telecast. healthcare for illegal migrants, california just made it law. lawrence jones is fired up about that. he is going to join us coming up. ♪ ♪ that's not a bug, that's not a bug! (burke) hit and drone. seen it, covered it. at farmers, we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪

griff: 10 minutes till the top of the hour. we are now learning the toddler killed on a cruise ship fell through an open window. new details in tragic death cruise ship. anna kooiman is in the newsroom with the breaking developments. >> good morning. >> what a horrible tragedy for this indiana family. 1-year-old chloe wegen falling 11 floors from grandfather's arms in child play area it. happened on royal caribbean freedom of the sea. the grandfather setting the toddler on a wooden railing o. long this wall of glass not realizing one of the glass panels was actually open. the family's lawyer now defending the grandfather. >> he literally thought there was glass there and he thought that she was going

to bang on the glass like she was at a hockey game like she loves to do on brother. she went to bang on the glass and next thing he knows she is gone. michael winkleman is disputing reports that he dropped the 18 mold instead of blaming royal caribbean and how the room was designed. >> why would you ever in a kid's play area put windows that passengers can open and it was reasonable for sam, the grandfather, to think this was all glass. >> the wiegand family father is a police officer. sending condolences saying it is deeply saddened. at the time of the incident the ship was docked in san puerto ricoian. staying on the island while the family investigates. the newer cruise ship does not have the same set up. meaning passengers on those ships cannot open those glass windows. so terrible. griff: that's heart breaking thanks, anna.

ainsley: gosh, i can't get that story out of my mind. thanks, guys. california officially becoming the first state to provide health benefits to illegal immigrants. gavin newsom signed that 98-million-dollar plan to provide 90,000 illegals with medicaid. contributor and host of the fox nation shows keeping up the jones and man on the street. lawrence jones is with us. hey, lawrence, good to see you. >> hey, good morning. ainsley: good morning. so governor gavin newsom signed that bill yesterday. your thoughts? >> well, this is them protecting illegals yet again. this has become the new priority of the democratic party. remember what the democrats said on the debate stage a couple weeks ago that they're anti-obamacare essentially and they want to give healthcare to all illegals. that is the position that the democratic party california they have a problem with homeless people on the street right now that don't have healthcare. a lot of mental health issues. they are not even taking care of those people how are

they going to take care of the illegals in this country? this is the position of the democratic party. i hope the voters that are out there that aren't being taken care of right now are apaying attention. >> all those democratic candidates you saw that on the debate stage they all raised their hands and said they would give illegals free insurance. >> right. it's become abundantly clear that this is about votes. this is about, look, i know illegals can't vote right now that's the end game for democrats. finally get them on the voting block where they can get these votes. they don't want to reach out to middle american america or people forgotten. essentially told black voters we are going to depend on your support even though we are not taking care of you when it comes to healthcare. i hope the voters are paying attention. they have made it clear they don't care but. they are worried about a new voting block. and that's illegals in this country. ainsley: people have a choice when it comes to the election. let's talk about starbucks because those six officers were asked to leave the starbucks. you got reaction from folks here in new york city?

>> yeah. i was talking to new york residents how they felt about officers being targeted. here's what they had to say. take a look. >> how do you feel about a starbucks in arizona telling cops to leave because it made a customer uncomfortable? >> shameful to be quite honest with you. >> i think it's crazy. i think it doesn't make any sense. what do we do? what would we do if we didn't have police officers? >> i can't think of a safer place on the planet than a starbucks or any restaurant with six uniformed police officers. >> i find people don't appreciate right now how important they are, the things they do. and a story like that just makes me sick. ainsley: did anyone say that they agreed with starbucks, lawrence? >> not one person agreed with starbucks. look, ainsley. there is obviously relationship issues in some cases. some officers get it wrong. the 99% of them get it right. and the fact that they were just sitting in there drinking a cup of coffee and having a bite to eat and targeted for being cops.

i think any group would be outraged if any other group was targeted just based on what they do. you are going to find bad doctors. you will find bad, you know, lawyers in every profession there is going to be a bad bunch. the majority of them do their jobs every single day and i think a lot of people outraged by. this. ainsley: i will say we were pleased to know that starbucks immediately came out and apologized and met with those officers and said they were sorry. thank you so much, lawrence. great to see you. >> thanks, ainsley have a good one. ainsley: thanks, you too. can you catch his shows keeping up with jones and "man on the street" on fox nation. on foxnation.com. if you don't have it, get it. middle class joe no more. what we just heard about the vice president's millions ♪ say injury ran know jerry rono

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♪ life changes ♪ you wake up ♪ nothing is the same ♪ and life changes ♪ steve: come on in. ainsley: i love that song thomas rhett. life changes, doesn't it? steve: the couch changed today the. ainsley: it did. griff: change is good. steve: brian is out. is he off this week. griff is in today. ainsley: are you filling in for the rest of the week. griff: i'm here for the rest of the week. griff: i'm here all week try the veal. i love when i come up because we have so much washington. even in the dead of summer, right? people are worrying about vacationing. where they are going to go to the beach. what they are going to put on the barbecue. but, yet, members of congress back in washington and, you know, no shortage of controversy. steve: absolutely not. front page of the "new york times" this morning, the headline is discord with

young progressives task pelosi and her party's unity. the second paragraph reads this: six months into the new house democrat majority long simmering tensions between the speaker and the squad aoc and company setting off a flurry of criticism of mrs. pelosi among liberal activists and reinvigorating debate within the party about how best to stand up to president trump. it all started with the fact that the squad, all four of them, voted against that $4.6 billion to fund the southern border. ainsley: that's right. and aoc, she is reacting because they have gone back and forth. this is the news this morning. this is what alexandria ocasio-cortez said today. it's not even the four of us. it's like these ones, what the speaker said, it's not true. it's just wrong. as progressives, it's okay not to vote for the legislation, to make a point at the end of the day mitch mcconnell is going to mitch mcconnell. did i not believe for a

minute mcconnell was going to pass the house bill. the house bill was dead on arrival. >> i love michigan mcconnell is now verb. we have ilhan omar, rasheda tlaib, alexandria ocasio-cortez and presley and by the way there is a hearing today on immigration entitled kids in cages. have you aoc on that committee. we will hear a lot more about that. it's interesting not only did she vote against the 4.6 billion, she, from the beginning has refused to listen to the cbp officials. ainsley: she voted against it and goes down to the border and complains about what is happening. the border agents are saying give us more money. we are trying to fix this problem. we are overwhelmed and we need your support. steve: they said they voted against it because they did not trust the trump administration. ainsley: with the money. steve: exactly. yesterday on this program, we had the house minority leader kevin mccarthy on and we asked him about the tensions. he said tension? it's chaos in that caucus right now.

ben domenech of the federalist publisher had this observation about the tension between the speaker and the squad last night on "special report." >> speaker pelosi comes from the before time the long long ago. the aim of the speaker was to hold power, to maintain power, to maintain majority and pass legislation. aoc comes from a different time in which legislation is not the way that you represent the people. instead, you are a hype machine for everything that they believe in public on social media, on tv and elsewhere. and that's the role that she has chosen to play. this, i think, that kind of tweet from aoc is sort of saying to nancy pelosi do you feel in charge? because let's test that out. and i think at the very least she can change the trajectory of the debate in ways that are much more powerful to the four members of the congress. ainsley: we're just getting word that the u.k. ambassador to the u.s. has resigned after diplomatic cables criticizing trump were --

steve: that's right. known as gregarious and popular figure who rarely let's his diplomat mask slip in public. that is according to a politico headline from a day or so ago. now apparently, even though i believe it was mike pompeo yesterday said he would maintain diplomatic relations with the man even though he said those things about the trump administration. pompeo said that yesterday. and now the news this morning is that the u.k. ambassador, who has this that job since 2016 is going to step aside because his comments apparently. ainsley: leaked. steve: not something can you get around. griff: his comments attacking president trump you have to remember the significance here no greater ally fo to the u.k. is u.s. you cannot have things out like this and starting to grow.

the u.k. attacking the ambassador as well. you are a distraction. time to go. steve: the president of the united states sent out a couple of tweets i believe it was yesterday, july 10th that is to say. i don't know the ambassador but have been told is he a pompous fool. tell him the u.s.a. now has the best economy and military anywhere in the world, by far. dot dot dot. so it went on. we will go ahead and read it. it said the wacky ambassador that the u.k. hoisted upon the united states is not someone we are thrilled with. a very stupid by. he should speak to his country and prime minister may about their failed brexit negotiation and not be upset with my criticism of you who badly it was. griff: it will be interesting to see who replaces him. one would be knee neil farage no indication he would be interested?

ainsley: nigel? griff: nigel. while the tweets we were showing were very colorful it is indicative of a lack of confidence. and so march in step, to be on the same page, you central to find someone that clearly this administration. ainsley: i wonder if nigel would take that role? he is in parliament there. he is mr. brexit. steve: there is a lot in flux right now because they are looking for a new prime minister in great britain and now the u.k. ambassador, given the fact that those diplomatic cables were leaked. he is stepping aside a couple of jobs that need filling. griff: to your point, farage, from what i was reading, has indicated he feels he is more effective across the pond rather than coming to washington, but you never know. steve: all right. meanwhile, let's talk a little bit about politics here in this country. emerson college has come out with a brand new poll and it shows that joe biden still in the lead substantially. he is at 30% among the democratic caucus followed

by bernie sanders with about half that. suddenly kamala harris is tied with bernie. elizabeth warren is right there. they are the top four and then have you pete buttigieg at 5% and beto and mr. i can't think, gabbard and booker the top 9. ainsley: yesterday we were telling that you congressman swalwell got out of the race and so that narrowed the field a little bit. but now there is someone else that's gotten in the race mr. tom steyer who is the billionaire and he has spent he and his wife signed a pledge to donate half of their fortune to charity. it was the giving pledge. he made his money in hedge funds. steve: he did. in particular, in 1986 he launched hedge fund fairlawn capital. the firm invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in businesses that operate coal mines and coal fired plants over the years. ainsley: he made his money on coal but now he is

environmentalist. >> essentially became a billionaire as a fossil fuel magnet. he was for coal before he was against coal. and now he is using the money he made to assuage his guilt and go after climate change. you have dozens of candidates running now making climate an issue, but now you only have one that has this kind of money. you know, he will try to buy this as an issue with the democratic party base. steve: mark went on to say that democrats are terrified, not that he is going to run for put, but that he is not goin going to spd the money on him and not donate to them. griff: i'm only for impeachment. i'm not running. then looked at this field and said wait a minute, there is nothing here that's going to get me where i want to go. i have got to be the guy. is he bringing a lot of money to the game. you can't count that out.

ainsley: smart guy though. he went to yale undergrad. got his mba at stanford and went to work at morgan stanley and goldman and started his own firm. he is brilliant. made a lot of money. whether or not people will vote for him, yet to be determined. griff: will it be enough though to take down joe biden? ainsley: i don't think so. he has the experience and name recognition. steve: well, one of joe biden's names is middle class joe for the decades he was in the u.s. senate he would often refer to himself as the poorest guy in the senate and that was absolutely accurate. ainsley: not anymore. steve: in fact, we put together a little montage of mr. biden talking about himself that is ironic given news that we will break to you on the other side of these sound bites. listen. here's joe biden. >> i don't think these guys understand us. and i'm including us because we come from the same kind of background. just a normal middle class kid with a father with a

high school education. >> we came from coal guy who scranton, no jobs. my dad was a white collar worker. >> native town of scranton hometown of womenton. represent thes and towns that make up middle class americans. all my time in public life i have been referred to as middle class joe not always meant as a compliment. >> i know i'm called middle class joe and that's not compliment. >> i know i'm called middle class joe in washington and i know that's not a compliment. steve: documents filed show he is actually a millionaire. he and his wife have made millions of dollars in the two years since he left office earning about $15 million. got a number of 6-figure speaking arrangements. he wrote a couple of books. joe biden is rich. and that flies in the face of his income inequality message that he and the party are talking about.

griff: and when the "new york times" opinion columnists are calling him joe biden closet republican, comparing him to liberal bob dole. that's just not good news. ainsley: i wonder if he will own it though. president trump said his dad gave him the million dollars. he grew it to billions of dollars. people liked the fact that he owned it. but was still -- he could still relate to the blue collar worker. when you hear joe biden talk about you know, i don't have much or that kind of thing or talk about his dad not having an education or just a high school education, i wonder if he will come out and say look, this country gave me my millions now or allowed me to earn my millions. we will see. steve: over the two years since he left the white house, he and his wife made more than $15 million. that is more than, you know, aside from tom steyer who is running on the democratic side. kamala harris and her husband made over the same two year period $3.4 million. but the bidens five times

that amount at 15. griff: if you look at that poll we showed, the 2, 3, and 4 position. all about the big 4 are tied at 15 challenging joe. but we have got some other headlines as well. steve: we do. griff: jillian is standing right behind me. jillian: we do. start with this story out of greece. a family is searching for answers after an american scientist is found dead in greece. rescue crews discovering suzanne's eaten body inside abandoned. eaten, a california native was in greece for a work conference last week. it's believed she vanished while out on a run. police have not said how she died. at least nine people have died from drug overdoses in just one ohio county since sunday. officials in the columbus area believe the surge in deaths could be tied to fentanyl. tests are being done to confirm that. ohio has been one of the hardest hit states by the nation's growing opioid epidemic. republican senators introducing a bill that would allow victims of

crimes committed by illegal immigrants to sue sanctuary cities if the crime happened in one. earlier this year, a federal appeals court blocked kate steinle's parents from suing san francisco after illegal shot and killed their daughter in 2015. now this: hollywood in mourning after death of hollywood actor rip torn. >> huge rolling. >> i have got to governmental huge rolling in the aisle. >> all right. i will do it? >> get out of here you big successful talk show host. >> torn won an emmy in 1996 as arty the producer on the larry sanders show. he is also known for starring as zaid in the men in black in movies and as patch houlahan in dodge ball. >> if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. >> what? >> oh. >> he died in texas

surrounded by family. no cause of death was released. rip torn was 88. you know, it's hard not to smile when you see those clips. ainsley: he was like the guy you didn't know his name but in so many things. griff: hatches of houlahan. ainsley: that was painful that scene. jillian: i loved that movie. steve: he is behind a lot of great work. rip torn was 88. ainsley: okay. 13 minutes after the top of the hour. she was convicted of encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself using text messages. and now she wants the supreme court to throw it out because it violated her free speech. griff: does she have a case? well, we will debate that coming up next. ♪ i switched to liberty mutual,

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♪ griff: it was a case that captivated the nation 2017 michelle carter was found guilty and sentenced to 15 months in jail after investigators found her text messages encouraging her boyfriend, conrad roy to ultimately commit suicide. now, her lawyers are asking the supreme court to throw out her involuntary manslaughter conviction saying it violates her right to free speech. so does she have a case? here to debate it criminal

defense attorney and attorney ken duncan. thank you for joining us. everyone remembers this sad case now we have not only a new hbo documentary taking a deeper dive that includes conrad's parents but not the carters, we have this appeal to the supreme court. ken, what do you make of this, where this stands? >> first of all, look. it's not guaranteed that the supreme court is going to hear this case. you know, the supreme court sees about 5900 petitions for writ of sit year a year. i do think the one case this case has going for it where the supreme court should hear it is that states are increasingly legalizing assisted suicide. at some point we will have to contend with what these conversations mean in a legal context. griff: ken, you brought up a good point these this case wouldn't be happening but if for text messages. here is an example of one the day before his body was found. i thought you wanted to do. this the time is right and

you are ready you just need to do it. you can't keep living this way. you just need to do it like you did last time and not think about it and just do it, babe. you can't keep doing this every day. heart wrenching, venue. >> this case, this woman should be the poster child for carbon monoxide poisoning. she went in there and told this guy, pushed this guy in a way that you have never seen before. no case has come out like this. she -- when he hesitated, he stepped out of the cab of his car, he stepped out of his car, she said you better f'ing go back in there stop b.s.ing. she was saying these kind of things to him to push him to go through. this this is different than a situation where you are talking about assisted suicide here in that end of life decision. this is very direct acts. and words have consequences. and that's what the massachusetts supreme court said. and it's very unlikely the u.s. supreme court is going to take this case up. >> let's be clear words have

consequences but he didn't choke to death on words. he asphyxiated on carbon monoxide, no? >> that's why they didn't charge her with homicide, right? they charged with her involuntary manslaughter. >> this is what occurs to me. involuntary manslaughter. same charge get behind the wheel of a car after drinking 12 beers and run over and kill them charged with the same crime. is what she did the legal equivalent of that. griff: testing vinoo these two had a relationship that was largely through messaging and so that is -- let me ask you this though. she is trying to get this thrown out but she is going to serve time certainly, even if the supreme court does take it up, she would be out. so why even take this step? >> she has already served her time. they gave her like a 15 month or 23 month sentence. she served her 15 months. >> she is serving now. >> the issue is a legal one. this is why groups like the aclu have jumped behind her saying their issue is a

little different. they are saying it's giving prosecutors too much leeway i'm usually for curtailing the power of prosecutors. in this kind of case, this is the wrong kind of case to bring forward because this is a very bad person. this is an extreme act. this isn't something that you jump behind and start arguing first amendment protections for. because this is not protected speech. griff: ken, i want to give you a chance to respond quickly. this is a statement from carter's attorney daniel marx who said michelle carter did not cause conrad roy's tragic death and should not be held criminally responsible for his suicide. >> was her speech one in reckless conduct and behavior. this guy could have chose to put down, hang up. it was his decision. he stepped into that car. he took that water rised motor pump into the car with him. >> with her help.

she was the one that actually directed. >> she didn't provide the water bottle and put it in the car she didn't slam the car door. >> initially, when she stopped -- when she started encouraging him was when he wouldn't do something with her. all of a sudden continue changed. griff: clearly we have sparked debate amongst attorneys watching this case. it could set legal precedent if the supreme court takes up and all of america is watching because of the tragic nature what has happened many of us with teenage children too. this social media thing is real. vinoo and ken, thanks for joining us. you know her from buffy the vampire layer is and fariss buehrle's day off. >> he is sick. my best friend brother's girlfriend geraldo from this guy who knows this kid who saw ferris pass out at 31 flavors last night. >> actress kristy swanson is here. you get to talk to her coming up. ♪

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griff: welcome back. the world cup champs are set to take a victory lap in new york today but not without a hint of controversy. ainsley: the players sharing pictures and video from a roof top pool yesterday. steve: bryan llenas is live at city hall. go through the canyon of heroes for a particular e. tape parade, brian? >> good morning. guys. going through a canyon of heroes special moment because women's national team is the only women's athletic team to ever get that honor. and they are now doing it twice. they did it in 2015 when they won the world cup and doing it again. this team has been nothing short of remarkable. and the parade today is expected to have up to

30 tons of con gety, two giant floats with all the team members, including the mayor of new york, bill de blasio as well as the governor of new york, andrew cuomo. they will come back here to city hall where they will have the ceremony here and given the keys to the city. this team has been nothing short of remarkable, winning their fourth world cup. that is a record, scoring 26 goals. also a record. they have been nothing short of dominant and they really represented us out there over the last month or. so you know, there has been some controversy. a war of words between the most outspoken player megan rapinoe, megan rapinoe obviously having a war of words with donald trump about whether she wants to go to the white house. president trump said look, i'm going to invite the team win or lose. and he had said why don't you win the world cup first before you stuart giving us your opinion about coming to the white house. obviously they have won the world cup and now she has had said this last night about the war of words about

why she is not going to the white house no matter what. listen. >> i mental all of it and every word of it. i think it's an opportunity for this administration to sort of put us on display as their sort of guest for the day and i don't think that makes sense for us at all. >> war of words aside today should be incredible, incredible day and stage set two hours from now 9:390 parade begins. steve: we will have live coverage. brian, thank you very much. >> let's bring in kristy swanson, actress and friend on fox. >> good to see you. weed to talk about controversial topics around of the country. number one soccer. megan rapinoe said she would not go the white house and many on the team would support her and not go. you were invited during bill clinton's years and you went. >> obviously i went. ainsley: do you think so the soccer team should go. >> they should. incredible experience. an honor to be there it should not be about, you

know, politics at all. it should just be, you know, we are team u.s.a. and we won and we are being honored and it should just be that. it shouldn't, you know, you shouldn't have politics on the field and you shouldn't bring it there either. just go. griff: key point by the way. you said not on the field. have we crossed the line is this a new point really opposing whoever is the occupant of the white house rapinoe's feud with trump overshadowed for many viewers the watching team win. >> when you are representing your country in a sport, then, you know, say it's the olympics, you know, i don't think that you should bring politics in to it at all. and if you get invited into the white house, just go. steve: you work in hollywood. and everything is political now, it seems, about different things. is that hard for you as a conservative in hollywood to

navigate or not so much? >> well, i just come -- i kind of handle it like i just think there is a time and place for it. i don't think that you should bring politics onto the set when you are working on a film, you know. steve: how often does it come up? >> a lot. like people are very loud about, you know, and i think just like at the thanksgiving table when you are with all your different family that have different points of view you don't talk politics. i think at the workplace probably not a good idea. i think on a stage at awards show, you know, it's just not good. it's just taking it like you said to that -- it's crossing the line, i think. ainsley: in st. louis park, minnesota. did you hear about this? the city council made the pledge of allegiance political they voted 5-0 to do away with the pledge. people are so outraged there. >> what's going on? what's next? the anthem? it's got to stop.

if somebody doesn't want to hear it or they don't want to say it, they can just sit in the chair and wait for it to be over and sulk or whatever. they shouldn't take away from others just because they don't want to do it or -- griff: kristy last year. you are in orange county. in san diego county they have had a number of city council meetings that got heated. this one goes to minnesota where you don't normally see it. are we seeing really some of the politics of the left coast of california starting to go across the country mainstream when they are opposing a simple 10, 15 second pledge? >> i just think that their thoughts are just so extreme. so they want to make extreme decisions and extreme demands. and, you know, our country is a beautiful country. we all think differently, but we should say the pledge. we should honor, you know, our country and our flag and

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♪ ♪ ainsley: we are back with a fox news alert. the british ambassador to the united states ken deroch has resigned. steve: this after our president publicly slammed darrick after leaked memos leaked criticism of president trump and that was embarrassing for him. griff: kevin corke is live at the white house with the latest. busy morning, kevin. good morning. >> guys, never a dull day here at the white house. i can just tell you that. ken derrick has just stepped down. we received a statement from the u.k. fairly lengthy one. i want to share part of it to give you an understanding of what and why he had to say the current situation is

making it impossible for me to carry out my role as i would like. fairly lengthy he ends by saying this although my posting is not due to end until the end of this year i believe in the current circumstances the responsible course ar lou the appointment of a new ambassador. there has been this back and forth between ambassador darroch and the president. those cables are not only embarrassing for the u.k. but a great number of people here at the white house most notably the president of the united states. you may remember, he actually had some tweets where he sort of talked about darooch. i don't know the ambassador but i have been told is he a pompous fool. he went on to tell him the u.s.a. has the best economy and military anywhere in the world by far. what is new is that the u.k. will have a new ambassador here to the u.s. we don't know if that person will be seated before there is a new prime minister or not bewee do know kim darroch is out of his

position. back to you. steve: kevin corke at the north lawn. i think it was just yesterday that theresa may the prime minister said that she -- he had her full support. but then again, you know, these diplomatic cables were revealed and they look really bad where they call the trump administration inept and clumsy and stuff like that, something had to happen. we do know the u.k. apparently was trying to figure out who leaked the cables. griff: they do do controversy with some class though. the statement from darroch to sir simon mcdonald who he was basically resigning to wrote back to his resignation letter saying that you demonstrated the essence of the values of british public service and thanked him. ainsley: we had mentioned who may be a replacement, nigel farage who is a fox news contributedder could possibly be a replacement. that name has been thrown out there.

we will see. steve: stay tuned. breaking news. all right. 22 minutes now before the top of the hour. jillian has the headlines. jillian: that's right. good morning. an update on a story that has really captivated the nation. a toddler killed on a cruise ship fell through a window. family revealing new details on the death on the royal caribbean cruise ship she fell 11 floors. put her on the edge of a window not realizing it was the only one without a glass pane. the family's lawyer defending the gran grandfather. >> how would you ever in a kid's play area put windows where passengers could open. it was reasonable for sam, the grandfather to think this was all glass. jillian: the freedom of the seas ship was docked in puerto rico. the family is stayin staying the during the investigation. just heart-breaking. investigation underway after a louisiana cop is doused with gallons of water while responding to a noise complaint.

the department spokesman in shock. >> really a shame, you know. that things have resorted to this type of behavior. it was definitely an act of disrespect and aggression. >> police now looking for the people responsible in the video. she should be charged with a felony. a tourist gets more than she bargained for on a wildlife photo shoot. watch this. >> oh my gosh. [screams] jillian: oh my goodness. the elephant slapping a teenager across the face in africa smacking her phone to the ground apparently not wanting his picture taken. the high school students coming across the large animal during a mission trip. wow, that is scary. a look at your headlines, go out to adam klotz, adam does that to me sometimes when i hold the phone in front of his face to go on instagram. adam: a lot of commotion out

here. a big crowd all very excited because steve, ainsley and griff just walked outside. everybody wave, we are on tv right now. are you guys enjoying the forecast. >> yes. tammaro dam little steamy side. that's true across the country. temperatures run into the lower 80's at this point. across the eastern half of the country. we have had heat advisories in texas, from louisiana over towards mississippi, alabama. a lot of spots dealing with at love heat. the story in the next couple of days is a low pressure system. now settle ling off the big bend of florida. still a low pressure system. there is a good chance this becomes tropical storm barry in the next 48 hours. it's going to drift slowly off to the west. these are some of our forecast models. everything is indicating a drift to the west. up across new orleans and louisiana in that area. one thing we do know this low pressure system is going to bring a lot of rain. there can be spots along the gulf coast where we sees a much as 8 to 10 inches of

rain here over the course of the next couple of days run into the weekend. it is beautiful here in new york city. a beautiful day to be outside. and i think you guys know that because you are outside just. ainsley: look to your right. it is race car driving like you have never seen it before. an all-electric street race series called formula-e. griff: championship 13 races 126 the world's biggest cities including right lehr in new york. the final rounds are this weekend airing on fox and fox sports 1. steve: before that formula-e driver mitch evans with panasonic jaguar racing joins us on fox square to tell us all about it? >> hey how is it going? electric car fully electric. no combustion engine. quite quiet. looks very future his stick and goes pretty fast. steve: when you say quiet though, that's one of the thrills of being a car

racer. vroom,. >> it allows to us come to big cities it like new york city huge iconic cities in the world doesn't bring much noise and lower emission as well. racing in brooklyn. i think from that side it's a really cool and it's going to be the future you will see it on the road a lot more often. ainsley: you have a beautiful accent. you are from new zealand. when did you start racing? when did you get in to. this my family is in racing and i started in new zealand 4 years old. so i didn't even know what my father was thinking back then. ainsley: 15 to 16 to drive and you were driving at 4. >> crazy but racing ever since. griff: you said have you been in it for years. nascar, farm la 1. what separates e-racing? >> the whole automotive world is changing going towards electric.

jaguar and race in big cities like new york city. championship, the noise and everything like that. >> got the car right here. why don't you show us ed, come on over here. show us what's inside here. steve: there is not much room. >> steering wheel plenty of buttons on there. steve: do all the buttons do something. >> yes. this is like a dummy steering wheel they have multiple buttons and reporters. griff: how fast does it go. >> miles per hour maybe around 1, 160 miles per hour. steve: races are shorter because it's battery power. >> 45 minutes. racing saturday and sunday in brooklyn. that's going to be, yes, just under 45 minutes. it's a good distance.

you don't lose anyone's attention in that sort of space of time. ainsley: congratulations on your success. we will come back out here later in the fox show and see the similarities. >> looking forward to that. steve: that's coming up in brooklyn this weekend. meanwhile, still ahead on this show, texas attorney general ken paxton is going to join us congressman trey gowdy both here live on this wednesday "fox & friends." ♪ me and my gang ♪ we live to ride ♪ we ride to live ♪ me and my gang ♪ this is the couple who wanted to get away who used expedia to book the vacation rental that led to the ride ♪ which took them to the place where they discovered that sometimes a little down time can lift you right up. ♪ flights, hotels, cars,

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♪ ♪ jillian: good morning to you and welcome back. time for news by the numbers. first 3. the dnc officially announcing round 3 of the democratic debates will be held in houston. it is scheduled for september 12th and 13th and will be hosted by abc news and univision. the second date may not happen depending on how many candidates qualify. so we will keep you updated. next 26. that's how many states have decriminalized marijuana. hawaii is the latest to do so. people caught with small amounts of pot there will no longer face jail time starting next year. finally zero. that's how many volkswagen

beetles will be made after today. the last beetle will roll off the assembly line in mexico after nearly 70 years in production. last year vw announced final edition beetle with a price tag starting at 23,000 bucks. the end of an era. griff? ainsley: that makes me sad. jillian: i know. griff: hard to process. thanks. the number of people taken into custody along the southern border dropping in june and declined u.s. authorities reflects the impact of trump's hard push on mexico to step up its immigration enforcement. steve: ken cuccinelli serves as acting director of citizenship and immigration services he joins us from d.c. to talk about the numbers. good morning, sir. ainsley: good morning. >> good morning. steve: that's impressive that it would fall 28%. >> right. steve: it's still north of 100,000 people in a month. >> right. we have gone to from calamity to near disaster. the may numbers were unprecedented and

particularly given that over 70% of those people were in family units or unaccompanied children. that is very difficult to management throw the numbers on that happened in may it reached certainly epic proportions. some of that has eased in june. the numbers dropped down to 104,000 from 142,000 i want to say. but, understand, that's still the third highest month in i don't know how many years. the last bit of data i looked at goes back to 2012. so we are still in crisis mode. there is no question the president's handling of foreign policy in particular with mexico and the northern triangle is helping to make a difference here. mexico is now a better partner than they have been in recent memory. and i believe you're going to see more headway made with the northern triangle countries as well. again, the president has taken some heat for withdrawing financial aid that we provided to those

countries. it seems like the only way that others prior to this president believe we could go is to pay more, give more, do more. rather than to start withholding some things. america has a lot to offer. and that's making progress. griff: ken, no doubt mexico's numbers are north of 18,000. they have deported. i wanted to not lose sight of this having you on as a director. you sworn in americans that go through 10, 15 years. >> people doing it by the law. that's right. griff: how do you feel about this and is it full-time for congress to change our asylum policies? >> we are not really going to get our arms around these numbers at the border until congress acts. that is the best, long-term approach. i'm seeing some congress people say i can't waited to go to parks in august and go on vacation. how about if you just stay and fix this problem? and we could do some things that the obama administration argued for,

fix family detention issue with settlement called the flores settlement. the obama administration had the same position that the trump administration has on that. keeping children out of trafficking and repatriating to their families. we have the same position the obama administration had on that, to fix those holes. these are some of the attractions that are bringing people here in droves illegally and until we get rid of those incentives and that requires congressional action, we're not going to see -- we're not going to be able to declare victory in the long term over the problem at the southwest border. ainsley: ken, alexandria ocasio-cortez has gone down to the border, has been very critical of what's happening down there, did not vote for that funding bill last month. she was on our radio show here in new york with david remnick, this is what she had to say about dhs. >> is not under doj. it's under the department of homeland security. and so we have now --

>> -- would you get rid of homeland security, too? >> i think. so i think we need to undo a lot of the egregious -- a lot of the the egregious mistakes that the bush administration did. i feel like we are at a -- this is very qualified and supported position, at least in terms of evidence and in terms of being able to make the argument that we never should have created dhs in the early 2,000s. ainsley: ken, what's your reaction to that to get rid of the department of homeland security? >> look, the point of the creation of the department of homeland security was a response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 where there was a complete failure of communication or a thorough failure of communication between federal agencies. and we always have to be on guard against falling back into that trap. and i would tell you that as with the creation of homeland security, ins was broken up. the old ins broken up into

customs and border patrol and into ice and in my agency uscis. that creates new barriers to communication on the immigration issue. and, you know, perhaps we could agree on some things with aoc. you want to get rid of ice. reform ins and let us all work more efficiently again. so who knows if we could find some common ground there. >there. steve: but to do that you have to changes the law. >> yes and that's congress. steve: you are in washington, d.c. two blocks from the congress. >> that's right. steve: we understand the vice president is heading out to california later today. by the end of the week he and a bipartisan group of senators are going to visit the southern border. it's one thing to get the senate on board because it is, you know, a majority of republicans. it's quite another to get the democrats on board in the house. >> well, again, my point about some of the asylum loopholes. we're not asking for the moon here. we're asking for some things that even president obama had the same position on. how hard is that?

and on those items, i can put those on one piece of paper, literally, you are used to obama and other bills being thousands of pages long. i can write this on one piece of paper. and surely they can pass that without a committee hearing before they go on vacation and head to the beach and to the park. steve: ken, wouldn't that be a win for the president, something they don't want to hand him? >> that's right. but god forbid we actually solve a problem. these are the same people who are calling the crisis that we are all talking about now manufactured only a few months ago. and dhs, which aoc would like to get rid of, was warning about this problem last year and being mocked for it. and being mocked and then we heard the manufactured crisis language and then they finally started admitting it. now we need to start solving it. steve: let's see what happens. >> good to be with you all. steve: ken cuccinelli, thank you, sir. ainsley: more "fox & friends" coming up.

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♪ ♪ this is owing to be the best day of my life ♪. steve: tomorrow is seven 11 day. we'll have slurpees. ainsley: if you're having a baby today, that day applies. this is the best day of your life. get as slurpee and being born? griff: you bet. steve: who is having not a great day? that would be the british ambassador to the united states. kim darroch resign in the last 90 minutes. griff: after the president slammed darroch after revealing

memos slamming president trump. reporter: i have to admit i saw this one coming. anytime the describe the administration of the united states as inept an dysfunctional when you're an ambassador, you're supposed to be the guy doing this behind the scenes you don't want to get caught. in this case it was a leak. the ambassador is out of a job. kim darroch stepped down. he did that in part as you should understand if you become the distraction, it simply down make sense to continue in his position. his statement reads the current situation is making impossible to carry out my role as i would like. my posting is not due to end until the end of this year i believe the current circumstances, that's right, responsible to allow for appointment after new ambassador. the name-calling between the two allies heightened theresa may will be stepping down, leaving

downing street likely replaced by boris johnson. this didn't help the relations between the allies. the president tweeted this, i did not know the ambassador. i've been told he is a pompous fool. the u.s. has the best economy and military anywhere in the world by far. here is mark short. >> reality his effectiveness was limited based on the news coverage. we know he has resigned and look forward to a new ambassador. reporter: from jeremy hunt on twitter. deeply saddened to the hear of the resignation of kim darroch. standing up for britain means standing up for the finest diplomats on the world. it should have never have come to this. guys, back to you. steve: quick question for you. the united kingdom is looking

into the source of the leaks. do we have any inclination it was meant to embarass? obviously it embarrassed both. reporter: it really did. we don't have that nailed down, it has been speculated this may have been an inside job, somebody didn't want him in the position, didn't like him. they have been lying in wait. you assembly never know. anytime you write something down, haven't we all learned this by now, be prepared if it comes out you have to be responsible for that. unfortunately kim darroch it cost him his job, guys. ainsley: kevin any word who might replace him. reporter: say again? ainsley: any word who might replace him? reporter: that's a great question. we talked to our friends in the uk. i was just there. the president had a state visit a number of names are being considered. keep this in mind with the change in leadership, boris johnson probably will be the new prime minister, it would make sense to have him name his own ambassador. we'll see how that plays out.

the brits have to figure that out. ainsley: is meghan markle on the list? reporter: i would love that. sign me up for that. i would vote for meghan markle. she is very business. steve: mr. darroch. has had the job, sir darroch has had the job since 2016. now he is out of it. we told you who it trump administration was switching legal teams to present in front of the judge the case for putting the citizenship question on the 2020 census. now we're receiving word that the judge in the case, jesse fuhrman, said to the department of justice, hey, wait a minute, you can't switch out the lawyers right now. you have to have a better reason than what you have given me, so i will not accept it. ainsley: he is an obama appointee, this judge. no surprise. griff: he saying, defendants provide no reasons, satisfactory

reasons for substitution of counsel that prompt ad response from the president. ainsley: a appointed judge in the case, won't let the justice department use the lawyers it wants to use, is this a first? it would be shocking anyone can change laws. steve: judge said local rules for federal courts requiring any attorney to leave a case to give a satisfactory reason. he doesn't think satisfactory. same judge in the past ruled against putting citizenship question on the census. john yu, who is deputy assistant attorney general under george w. bush, had this observation about switching lawyers this late in the game. >> if i were a job i wanted to give president trump more ammunition to claim judicial bias, this is what i would do. i never really heard of a case

where the government wasn't allowed to change lawyers. the government changes lawyers on cases all the time. to try to throw a wrench in something as ministerial as obviously technical, easy as this, that is waving a red flag, go ahead, rush to the appeals court, rush to the supreme court because the district court judge here is intransigent, is revealing unfortunately bias because he should just let the government have the best lawyers it wants to, get to the merits of the case. steve: sounds like he, the judge, does not want to swap out all the lawyers although i think two have left that department. so they would be excused but the seven others, he wants to come back and explain, what? griff: judge fuhrman's defense, saying it is all about time sensitive. the clock is running here. steve: they have to print them. griff: we'll see what the white house does. ainsley: more on that issue of illegals. the state of california, gavin newsom the governor there just

signed yesterday a bill to allow illegal immigrants to get free health care. it will cost the taxpayers there $98 million. it is coverage for about 90,000 illegals ages 19 to 25 according to the state of california budget summary. steve: shouldn't be surprising. it is a sanctuary state. lawrence jones had this observation about the priorities of the legislature. >> this is them protecting illegals yet again. this has become the new priority of the democratic party. remember what the democrats said on the debate stage a couple weeks ago. that they're anti-obamacare essentially, they want to give health care to all illegals. they have a problem with homeless people on the street don't have health care a lot of mental health issues. they're not taking care of those people. how will they take care of illegals in this country. this is the position of the democratic party. i hope voters out there, that are not being taken care of right now are paying attention. griff: talking about paying

attention, obviously governor knew some is paying attention to the democratic debates. the first of 11 democratic debates. i covered first one. i will be at the next one. we'll see who raises their hands. the idea you will spend whatever it costs for illegal aliens and health care is certainly a starting point. where do you end up? ainsley: lawrence was saying you go to california you see homeless people on the street. those are legal citizens. his point was take care of them before taking care of people who are here illegally. you know california is so liberal and they are a sanctuary state. steve: where exactly does immigration fall on the list important to you? emerson university just did another poll, the number one item, issue for voters is the economy, followed by health care, followed by immigration, followed by social issues. environment only 6%. gun control 5%. ainsley: we'll use the economy to pay for the next two, health

care for illegal immigrants. steve: combine health care at 21 with immigration at 17, that is two issues they're addressing california. this is the number one issue benefiting the president, in all the polls we've seen, his personal approval is lower, he get as higher number the way he handles the economy. by the way one of the reasons very famous democrat who started b.e.t. number of years ago, bob johnson, says the president is doing a lot of things right. watch this. >> the party in my opinion has moved, for me personally, too far to the left. i think at the end of the day, if a democrat is going to beat trump, that person, he or she, is going to have to move to the center. the economy is doing absolutely great. it is particularly reaching into population heretofore have very

bad problems. so african-american unemployment is at the lowest level. i give the president a lot of credit for moving the economy in a positive direction that is benefiting a large number of americans. griff: how, how do you move though? if bob johnson is speaking to the larger electorate, get past the primary, now you have a candidate in the general, how do you move back from free health care for illegal immigrant? how do you move to the center on that? i don't see it happening. steve: a number of candidates through history say my viewpoint on such and such issue has evolved but it is hard to evolve that quickly. rather than over decades to evolve over just a number of months. you have got to figure, say what you will about those, can i see the hands at these debates. they are very effective getting people pinned down on various issues. can i see the hands of who would free health care to illegals, who would get rid of your private insurance, saw those

hands. that is going to make very powerful campaign issue. ainsley: it is very effective. remember when donald trump was running, everyone hold up your hand if you will support the person who gets the nomination. everyone -- steve: except the winner. griff: my next question, do you agree with james carville, forker advisor to the president, it is the economy, stupid. jillian: thank you very much. an undate what is going on in the dominican republic. there are more trouble. a third american just died after getting plastic surgery in the dr. she died getting liposuction getting it from a doctor she met on facebook. it wall listed as embowlism or a

blood clot. calls growing from democrats for labor secretary alex acosta to resign or be fired his role in the jeffrey epstein 2018 plea deal. acosta tweeting, that the crimes committed by epstein are horrific, that new york prosecutors are moving forward with a case based on new evidence. president trump revealing he had a falling out with epstein 15 years ago. reports say epstein has been banned from mar-a-lago for the last eight years. senator ted cruz is set to hold a hearing on google es alleged anti-conservative bias. according to "the hill," the vp of public poll i a former official in the george w. bush administration is expected to testify in front of a senate judiciary subcommittee next tuesday. a new study revealed nearly 61% of conservatives say they do not think google treats all of their

users equally. so we'll keep you updated on that. how about this? a nearly five foot alligator is spotted swimming in a lagoon in chicago. steve: what? jillian: you thought i was going to say florida. a reptile is trying to humanely capture the zoo. it may have been a pet released into the wild after getting too big. that is not something you see every day in chicago. ainsley: not the pet i want either. jillian: no, no thanks. griff: alligators lose in chicago. steve: that is what you do, tired of your pet, release them into the wild? jillian: that is what they're assuming right now. we'll see. steve: jillian, thank you. meanwhile the fate of obamacare could now be in the hands of a federal appeals court. 18 states are suing to declare obamacare unconstitutional. griff: texas attorney general ken paxton is leading the charge. he joins us next.

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>> future of obamacare lies in the hands of a federal appeals

court. a the texas attorney general's office arguing that obamacare should be declared unconstitutional. their fight is being met with opposition from 20 blue states and the democratic controlled house. what is happening next? joining us with insight is texas attorney general, ken. >> this is fight between california the largest blue state and texas the largest red state, right? >> the trump administration decided it was unconstitutional. now california and these other states have stepped in and what is interesting about that they want to impose obamacare on the state has don't want it which is really a mystery to me because all of these states, if they wanted to do obamacare themselves they could but they also want to impose it on my states and the other states that don't want it. steve: which part do you feel unconstitutional about the part of obamacare that is still left?

>> the individual mandate was declared by the supreme court to be unconstitutional. the five justice said that in the last obamacare case. however roberts sided with the liberal judges, however it is preserved there is penalty associated with not getting insurance. therefore under the taxes power of congress it preserves the whole thing. we thought at that was a stretch. here now congress has eliminated penalty, there is no tax. we think the whole thing now should be unconstitutional. steve: that's your opinion. if the judges, the three-judge appeals court finds in your case, it to be unconstitutional, then it is undoubtedly going to wind up in front of the supreme court. then it becomes what would chief justice john roberts do this time? >> that is exactly right. we won at the district court. it was declared up constitutional. we think we'll be successful after arguing the case in the fifth circuit in new orleans. this ultimately is a case likely ends up in the supreme court t

will likely be a close decision again. steve: it is not even close for chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. they were on the steps of capitol yesterday, they said this would be a terrible thing to overturn it. watch this. >> shame on them. the stakes can't be higher. if the right-wing wins the lawsuit, families from one end of america to the other will lose. >> every chance they get they try to undermine the health and economic security, financial security of america's working families. the aca is a pillar of health an economic security. steve: i looked at numbers this morning. something like 20 million americans have health care through the affordable care act. it is unclear how many medicaid expansion, how many actual insurance but nonetheless, if they say it is unconstitutional, it goes away, what will happen to those 20 million people, ken? >> so there is choices here.

congress can step in and do something. they certainly have the prerogative to do. or what i would suggest, let the states experiment. every state has different needs. and in texas we believe we can offer a better solution than what a bunch of bureaucrats in washington offered or will offer. we're hopeful in the end our state gets to decide for ourselves what type of health care we're going to offer our citizens. we think we can do it better than washington. we have proven that. steve: what is texas doing where it is so much cheaper than what the other states are doing? >> we offer more after market-based approach. that is what we offered before. we provide a risk pool for the uninsured. we're about competition and free markets. which lowers cost, provide more choice, versus government programs which offer less choice, higher costs and don't let people decide who their doctors will be. steve: ken, there is an election a little more than a year away, and to think that the two sides would get together solve an

issue this big, isn't that naive? do you really think they could? >> well, you know there is always a chance but i'm not counting on congress to solve anything. i'm back at the state level, wanting states to have choices f california wants obamacare, sure they can create their own obamacare system. we don't want that. we want individual choice. we want lower costs. we want a better health care system for our people. steve: let's see what the courts decide. ken paxton, thank you very much for joining us today. >> thank you, sir the. steve: what do you think about that? share your feelings, friends@foxnews.com. paralyzed football player went viral walking across the graduation stage. remember when we showed you that? then when he walked at his wedding. that is just the start. the couple will join us live with their inspiring journey. you will meet them live next. the

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♪ griff: welcome back. we're learning a toddler killed on a cruise ship fell through an open window. the family attorney revealing new details in the tragic death on the cruise ship. anna kooiman is live with breaking developments. tragic story. reporter: horrible tragedy for the indiana family. one-year-old chloe wiegan. felled from a child's play area. the grandfather apparently setting the toddler on a wooden railing along this wall of glass, not realizing one of the glass panels was actually open. the family's lawyer now defending the grandfather. >> he literally thought there was glass there. he thought xi would bang on a

glass like a hockey game like she loves to do with her brother. next thing she goes to bang on the glass, and she is gone. >> defeating reports that the grand father dropped the 18-month-old and blaming the it on royal caribbean and how the room was designed. >> why would you put windows in a kids's playroom that had windows that could open? it was reasonable for the father to think this was glass. reporter: the family is from south bend, indiana, where the father is local police officer. royal caribbean is sending condo lenses saying it is deeply sad end. the ship was docked in the san juan, puerto rico. the family is staying on the island. the newer cruise ships don't have the same setup. passengers on those ships cannot open those type of glass windows. a horrible tragedy, having a little one at home, i can hardly report this story. it is horrible.

griff: our thoughts and players go out to the family. thanks. ainsley, to. >> terrible story. thanks, guys. this is a positive story, a inspiring true story of defying all odds. chris norton first went viral when he walked across a graduation stage after being paralyzed from the neck down in a college football accident. he and his wife, his wife emily, that went viral again when she helped him walk down the aisle at their wedding last year. the two say the viral videos are small moments in their life together. they're sharing the story in memoir, called, the seven longest yards. chris and emily norton. we've been following your story for a long time. you have this book. it is wonderful. tell us, chris, what happened freshman year of playing football. >> 18-year-old kid. i was running down to cover the kick. i made a diving tackle for the ball carrier. i mistimed my jump, my head pot

in front of the ball carrier. my head collides with the legs. i was told i had 3% chance that i would gain any movement below the neck. ainsley: how did you deal with that, freshman, playing football, college ahead of me. >> i thought my life was over. i was an athlete. i was a strong man. who am i. now that i lost all my physical movement. i was terrified. will i ever go back to school. will i meet a girl that would want to be with me, will i ever be happy. i was crushed. ainsley: well your dream came true. you met emily. tell us your story. how you met. >> we met online. there was instant connection. i was so drawn to him and his story of going through something that could have destroyed him. but instead he used it to make himself better. he still was able to find great moments during the day he had struggles. not just focus on struggles. started a foundation to help other people with neurological disabilities. he was using it to help others.

i was so drawn to that we had this instant connection where it felt like we were meant to be together. ainsley: you're pretty amazing. how did you know this was god's calling for your life? >> i felt -- ainsley: you knew there was a lot of work ahead. >> there were fears what kind of life. a lot more would be on my shoulders much i felt so much peace about it. i just knew. i had a feeling we were meant for each other. i'm thankful i didn't heat the fears get in the way. ainsley: i want you to tell the audience at home, the hard work to walk across the graduation. to do it again on your wedding day. >> i put in four to six hours a day training for this one moment. ainsley: four to six hours, whoa? >> it was just an everyday grind. i just knew, your future will take care of itself, when you take care of today. ainsley: how did your parents react to it? >> i mean they were in tears. they were so excited for the first graduation walk and

wedding walk. i think it goes to show, when you keep going, you take one step in front of the other, what is possible. when you trust in god. that is why we want to share our story in this book because we want to give other people that courage to keep moving forward. ainsley: what do you say to folks out there boeing through a hard time? you were told 3% chance you might ever feel anything from the neck down again. look at you now. >> that there is always hope. to always keep going, to not give up. life's lowest moments can be the source of our greatest exists. ainsley: when did you know it was really bad? did you know instantly on the football field? >> i didn't. on football field i thought i would be okay. i will get back up in a few minutes. they called in the for the helicopter, i knew this was serious and my life was about to be changed forever. ainsley: emily, you started a family. tell us about that. >> we have been foster parent for a few years now. we fostered 17 kids, adopted five of them. we have five daughters, to make

our life so much better. they bring so much joy and happiness in our life. there are hard moments, being a parent in general can be hard. what really helped us, to trust in god. lean on god. surrender the weight, things that carry, weigh us down, give it to god. let go of things out of our control. they bring so much joy. it is amazing to be a part of their live. ainsley: let go and let god my mom says. how old are the girls. >> 3-year-old, 8 years, 10-year-old, 20-year-old. ainsley: you are busy. you live in florida? >> we do. ainsley: why did you write the book. >> i struggled with depression and anxiety. after the graduation walk i went through hard time. ainsley: why is that? >> i lost hope completely. i was carrying too much on my shoulders. i always wanted to help others. i started shutting down my feelings. this was too hard. i had no idea i was going through it at time. i had no idea it could be

depression. i never gone through anything hard. it made no sense, instead of facing it, i buried it down. i was against getting help. i'm extremely independent. i want to do everything myself. that was really hard. i struggled way too hard. that wouldn't show i would be okay in life. that was hard. really changed it all, we wept back to church. i was able to get strength and courage to make an appointment with mental health therapist. i was put on medication. there was chemical imbalance. ainsley: that did the trick? >> i'm happier. i truly believe i went through that, to learn valuable things we use now what we're doing. i'm able to follow my calling god gave me because of it. ainsley: that awesome. god bless you both. thanks for being with us, telling your story. it is remarkable. to pick this up. the seven longest yards. get it on amazon. out this week. chris and emily norton. thank you, guys. >> you're welcome. ainsley: the spy behind the

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♪ ainsley: ed henry was there for his sister colleen, giving a portion of his liver to her to save her life. steve: that's right. ed very emotionally towed the story how he would be donating it over the weekend. the surgery was yesterday. and we hear that the operation wept exactly as they expected. they are both recovering at this hour. ainsley: doing well. griff: ed, apparently joking a little bit with the doctors. steve: that's our ed. griff: a story what life, courage and love is all about. so we wish him and colleen the very best as they recover. ainsley: yes. thank you for your prayers. they worked. god was listening. got them through it. steve: keep them coming. ainsley: 38 mints after the top of the hour. the world cup champs are set to take a victory lap in new york in a few minutes. steve: less than an hour.

team uas already partying sharing pictures from a rooftop pool party yesterday. griff: bryan llenas is at city hall where today's celebration will wrap up. brian? reporter: good morning, guys. what amazing day for the team and country. the parade starting at 9:30, 45 minutes away. it will be downtown at battery park. it will end here at city hall in new york city. now this parade celebrating the u.s. women's soccer team. wow, what a dominating performance they had over in france. i mean they just outscored everybody 26-3. they, not only set the record in how many goals in one single tournament but they set the record for the most world cup championships this is back-to-back now. there is no question that the best soccer team in the world is team usa. the best soccer team in the united states is the women's team. there was some controversy, there has been a little bit here.

a little back and forth between megan rapinoe and the president. megan rapinoe is the most outspoken player on the team, who had six goals at the world cup. she says she is not going to white house to visit, when and if president trump invites the team over. she explained her decision last night. >> i think that i would say that your message is excluding people. you're excluding me. you're excluding me that look like me. you're excluding people of color. you're excluding americans that maybe support you. reporter: president said win or lose he would actually invite this team over to the white house. so we'll see. that invitation has not come in yet. what an incredible day for this country and this team, remarkable accomplishment. guys? steve: bryan at city hall. the last time we had a tickertape parade was the for the women's soccer team. griff: it will be a nice day.

ainsley: this is like confetti stuff. normally have it in times square. when we walk outside some of it floats over. this is block away. this is downtown, won't get any tickertape, right, jillian. jillian: scattered on the sidewalks for weeks. piles up in the corners. it is pretty. let's talk about this story we've been following because it's a miraculous survival. police say a man is okay after being swept over the largest waterfall at niagra falls. he apparently climbed over a retaining wall at horseshoe false. he was swepted away by the current, dropping 167 feet. he was found sitting on the rocks below. incredibly the man was not seriously hurt. that is unimaginable. a group of young people running into a walgreens store causes thousands of damage. look at this dramatic surveillance video. philadelphia police say about 60 people stormed the store, knocking items off their shelves. some throwing merchandise at employees causing injuries.

the cost of the damage and stolen merchandise is estimated at 6 or $7,000. no arrests have been made. dunkin' donuts manager is arrested for hiring a fake employee and pocketing the paychecks. nelson is now charged with grand theft collecting more than $1600 in unearned cash. nelson clocked in 235 hours over seven weeks for the bogus worker at the florida store. nelson could now face identity theft charges because the fabling employee is actually a real person. climate change activists barbra streisand flew her dogs to london so they could watch her perform. the sun reporting that singer sent her pups, miss scarlet, mice violet and fannie on a 10,000-mile round-trip across the pond. the publication saying in part the poodles were waiting in wings with custom dog buggy with dedicated vip escort for them backstage. worth noting climate change

activists have slammed the environmental impact of flying. there you have it. that is look at headlines. outside. a lot of activity out there. >> a lot and lot of activity. we learned last hour about formula e race be championship. this is happening in new york city. steve: formula e as in electric cars. we'll go head-to-head who comes out in race simulation. griff: joining us once again, panasonic racing driver, mitch evans. how are you? >> great, thanks. griff: it will be brooklyn, very quickly you're going to win it. >> hopefully i give you tips on the simulators. griff: we see steve's name, my name. >> jump in. griff: stand over my shoulder, mitch, help me beat steve. ainsley: tell us what we're seeing. how do you do this? >> we'll start the race now.

see the standard throttle on -- >> am i that car or is that griff? which one am i? >> you want to be me? steve: sure. who doesn't. griff: okay. steve: i'm that car right there. >> you're both in the same car? >> throttle on the right. brake on the left like a road car. will rough you into braking. full throttle. steve: this is cool. >> harden the brake when you do hairpin right now. harden the brake. less on throttle. back on the throttle. brake on the left. throttle now. throttle back on track. steve: i love this thing. >> on brake now. left, right, now. too far away. griff: this is very cool.

steve: here we go. backing up. steve: where am i? >> i think you're in the hazard now. no, left, left. perfect. back on track. steve: wait a minute. i'm in the garage. >> you're in the pit. steve: how do you back up? >> back up. griff: i hit that wall. ainsley: that looks tough. steve: this is just a simulator. seems like the electric car drive as lot like -- [inaudible]. >> exactly, no. [inaudible]. griff: i have no idea. >> direct drive. steve: hold on. yeah. there is the wall. >> less drag. griff: hold on. i am starting to be destroyed.

which way, left or right? >> brake now. right. griff: oh god. >> that way. yes. griff: that way? >> yes, exactly. steve: arrows on the streets need to be pointing the other way. griff: how do you know left or right? steve: griff, we're going backwards. people will be all to watch this weekend. >> this weekend saturday and sunday. tickets start from $12. quite reasonable for new york city. plenty of grandstands. good times. steve: who is winning? >> you're not. you're not. ainsley: we take a short little break. coming up former congressman trey gowdy is coming up next. let's check this with bill hemmer. >> ainsley who is really winning down there? ainsley: i think steve figured

it out now. griff is on a roll now too. i will say they're tied. >> thank you, guys. in a moment breaking just now. the uk ambassador will resign. that story coming up in a moment. big parade. congrats to the women. the captain is making rounds. she is making news. we'll have all that today. how did a jet engine fall apart in the air? there is video. is the u.s. winning over allies in europe on the iran nuclear threat? big morning coming up in a few minutes. join sandra and me in 12 minutes at the top of the hour. we'll see you then.

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♪ jillian: good morning. welcome back. some quick headlines. first time ever two great white sharks are seen interacting on video. a drone capturing a rare sight off the coast of massachusetts. scientists say sharks were known to have some interaction with each other. this is the first time any social interaction has been seen. that is kind of cool. a huge group of sharks captured in a feeding frenzy. watch this. >> oh, my god. [laughter]. yes, that has a whole shark in its mouth. >> no way. jillian: oh. incredible video showing a giant

wreck fish devouring a shark. a group of 11 sharks snacked on a swordfish off the coast of south carolina. that is incredible. steve: who knew that was going on in south carolina. ainsley: not going there anymore. griff: surfing in south carolina yesterday morning. steve: who is in south carolina right now? former congressman trey gowdy. fox news contributor. former south carolina congressman. good morning to you. >> how are you all doing? steve: we're okay. were you surprised to hear apparently the department of justice has now finally interviewed christopher steele, the former british spy who helped put together that dossier? >> pleasantly surprised. the only way michael horowitz can issue the kind of report he wants to issue, that we would benefit from, to interview every single witness. i cannot imagine a more seminal

witness than christopher steele. kudos this them for going to europe and interviewing him. they certainly couldn't make him come here. ainsley: six teen hours they interviewed him. have you heard from your peers in washington when the it will come out? >> no, ainsley. michael horowitz is happy to talk about timing but not substance. i'm not a member anymore. i would not ask him about timing. i heard it has been delayed a little bit, in part because of the new witnesses that have come forward. also in part, let me think, horowitz is having to read this report in a scif in a secure room. a lot of the report will be classified. i think, look, we all wanted it yesterday but i'm willing to postpone when i get it to have the most thorough accounting of what happened over that year-and-a-half time period as possible. griff: trey, who else do you want to hear from?

who else besides steele do we need to hear from? >> well, i don't know everyone that horowitz has interviewed but you're going to have to hear with respect to that factual predicate in early 2016. you know we repeatedly asked the bureau when did the investigation into the trump campaign begin, they always said july of 2016, which is when peter strzok initiated it. i want to talk, i want to talk to the agent who was handling steele. i want to talk to anyone who can shed light when the world's premier, most powerful law enforcement agency decided to investigate a presidential campaign. look, horowitz was a prosecutor before he became ig. really smart guy. there is nothing i can tell him he doesn't already know. go fine everyone who knows anything. then write the most thorough apolitical report you possibly can. steve: right. let's switch gears to talk a little bit about the supreme

court a while back, came out said, regarding the census question, you could ask it but the way you have formulated this, you know, your paperwork, don't like it, sent it back. well, now, we heard yesterday, mr. gowdy, that the doj would switch the entire legal team because certain members said, you know what? we're out on the next phase. now the judge on the case said, no, not so fast. you're all still back on the case unless you give me a really good reason? >> yeah. i have a ton of confidence in attorney general barr. my guess he is just now getting involved in this. i think that the department has not handled it well, commerce has not handled it well, even dating back to i was in congress. it is a very simple question, why did you add that citizenship question to the census? there are 1000 reasons that were legitimate and good. there are only couple would be nefarious.

inability to tell the truth why that question was added to the census has hurt the u.s. government's position. from a timeliness standpoint you can't go in front of a judge, hey look, you have to hurry up, hurry up, by the way we'll switch out our entire legal team. the department of justice speaks with one voice. i don't care the individual opinions of women and men at the department of justice. the united states government speaks with one voice. so if i'm a judge, i'm kind of wondering why are you switching out lawyers at this point when you've been asking me to go, go, the time was of the essence? why now? why are you switching out your team? i think it's a legitimate -- griff: thank you for being with us today. it will be interesting to watch to see what happens. >> yes, sir. ainsley: good to see you. >> thank y'all. ainsley: more "fox & friends" just moments away. on select ford models, plus earn complimentary maintenance through fordpass rewards.

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e this weekend on fox sports. >> thank you for being with us, and thank you for watching. have a great day. we will see you tomorrow. >> bill: thanks, guys. happening this hour, a hero's welcome, message from their captain, stirring up controversy yet again. there's going to be a big parade here in new york city. hello, i'm bill hemmer. good morning. >> sandra: 's good wednesday morning, everyone. the team winning therefore titles on the with a 2-0 victory over the netherlands, but it's the latest comment from their star, megan rapinoe, making it clear that they will not go to the white house. >> bill: accepting an invitation from democrats to make a visit on capitol hill. >> this is such a special moment for us, and to be