many prayers are being answered. we lovest you, bro. you're an inspiration. most watched, most trusted, most grateful, you spent the evening with us. good night from washington. i'm mike emmanuel. heather: good morning to you. it is tuesday, july 16th. and this is "fox & friends first." happening right now at 4:00 a.m. here on the east coast, breakthrough at the border, brand-new rules going into effect today that could keep hundreds of thousands of migrants out of our country. we're live in washington where democrats are vowing to fight it in court. and joe biden giving iowa voters a blast from the past. >> anyone who has their employer based health insurance they like, they can keep it. >> if you've got health insurance, you like your doctor, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. heather: sound familiar? his health care promise that sounds a lot like former

president obama's so-called lie of the year. >> all those in favor signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> opposed. all right, that passes unanimously. heather: a win for america, the unanimous vote to honor the stars and stripes. "fox & friends first" starts right now. ♪ ♪ never would come to me. ♪ working on a mystery. ♪ going wherever it leads. ♪ running down a dream. heather: hopefully you had some good dreams last night and you're waking up to "fox & friends first" this morning, one of my first concerts, tom petty, love to start the day with him. you're watching "fox & friends first" on this tuesday morning. i'm heather childress. thank you for starting your day with us. we have new rules to tell you

about, cracking down on asylum seek ergs coming to the u.s. they will come into effect today and they're sparking outrage from democrats. >> we fight for the right of other countries to have a strong, powerful border so nobody could come in. but our border was liking a leaking sive. heather: ray bogen is live in washington with the legal battles ahead. good morning, ray. >> reporter: good morning. asylum seekers from far away countries will not be allowed to apply for protection in the u.s. if they pass through another country on their way to america. attorney general will barr explained in a statement saying, quote, this rule is a lawful exercise of authority provided by congress to restrict eligibility for asylum. the united states is a generous country but is being complete overwwell medoverwhelmed by thef hundreds of thousands of aliens

along the southern border. the trump administration says this will reduce the number of fraudulent asylum claims. >> two of the loopholes we are trying the to close, to keep families together and dealing with children being trafficked are the flores family rule and it's called the tvpra, but it's the human trafficking bill. >> reporter: there are three exceptions, this includes immigrants who applied and were denied asylum in another country, they can still apply. there's also victims of, quote, severe forms of trafficking of persons. many democrats spoke out against the rule. nancy pelosi said this cruel new asylum rule perfectly showcases the administration's utter disdane and disregard for immigrant communities and communities of color. it will almost certainly be challenged in court. the aclu said in a statement it is patently unlawful and they

will sue swiftly. heather, back to you. heather: ray, thank you for joining us this morning. great to have you with us. some other stories we're following. the man killed in an attack on an i.c.e. jail sent a manifesto to friends one day before the confrontation. in it, he calls the washington state detention center, a quote, abomb nation, adding i am antif a a. ben swanson seen here in a 2018 protest was armed with an assault rifle and explosives when police arrived on saturday. in the ma manifesto he claimed immigration roundups prompted him to attack. chilling new details in the savannah spurlock case. the detective revealing the gruesome details as the suspect appeared in court. the missing kentucky mother found buried 19 innecessary the ground on david spark's property. her body was wrapped in several garbage bags with her feet bound

together. a key piece of evidence is a rug that was buried with her as police say sparks was caught on surveillance buying a similar one. sparks has pleaded not guilty. the weather situation, several communities are under flash flood warnings as tropical rainstorm barry moves north. officials bracing for up to a half of foot of rain in illinois where certain places are already flooded from rain water. barry is expected to fuel downpours into tomorrow. this as louisiana officials are warning residents to be mindful of bears, snakes and other wildlife temporarily displaced by rising waters. today house democrats are set to vote on a resolution to condemn the twitter rift between president trump around freshmen progressives. as lauren blanchard tells us, the president he refuses to back down, calling again for any member of congress who doesn't love america to leave.

>> reporter: the four congresswoman dubbed the squad speaking out about president trump after he tweeted the women, all of color, should go back to their, quote, broken and crime infested countries. >> our squad is big. >> he does not know how to defend his policies. so what he does is attack us personally. >> this is the agenda of white nationalists whether it is happening in chat rooms or it's happening on national tv and now it's reached the white house garden. so it is time for us to stop allowing this president to make a mockery out of our constitution. >> reporter: congresswomen singled out by the president and despite outrage from many who are calling the president's language racist, president trump is showing no sign of backing away from the tweets. >> if you're not happy here,

then you can leave. as far as i'm concerned, if you hate our country, if you're not happy here, you can leave. and that's what i say all the time. that's what i said in a tweet which i guess some people think is controversial. a lot of people love it, by the way. >> reporter: the congresswomen say the tweets are meant to be a distraction from the ongoing situation at the border. >> this is a disruption and a distraction from the chaotic and corrupt culture of this administration, all the way down. we remain focused on holding him accountable for the laws of this land and accountable to the american people. >.>> it doesn't concern me. many people agree with me. >> reporter: they reuped their calls for impeachment, something the democratic house leadership has so far stayed away from. lauren blanchard, fox news. heather: just days ago you may

remember house speaker nancy pelosi was the target of the four freshmen congresswomen and now she's defending them. newt gingrich says this shows just how divided democrats really are. >> i think nancy has a huge problem. partially generational. she's a grandparent. this new group are people who look at her as two generations older. they think she's the problem, not the solution. they think were elected to clean out the congress, not to become part of the congress. so i think it's going to get worse and worse and of course what president trump did, is he forced pelosi to defend the people that she spent all last week attacking. and so if you watch it, it's almost crazy. last week guess who the racist was? it was nancy pelosi. this week, it's donald trump. because the only battle cry the hard left has is to call bad

names. heather: president trump describing the democrats' new-found community in part of the dems were trying to distance themselves from the four progressives but now they're forced to embrace them. happening today, the census will take center stage on capitol hill. the senate and homeland security committee hearing coming just one day before the house votes on holding attorney general william barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross in contempt for ignoring subpoenas related to the 2020 census. democrats demanding to know why the administration wanted to add the citizenship question. and do you remember when former president obama made this promise? >> if you've got health insurance, you like your doctor, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. heather: now joe biden is repeating that same pledge. once dubbed the lie of the year.

>> i would give people the option, if you like your health care plan and your employer based plan, you can keep it. you get your choice. youyou can staywith your employr you can move on. it's the quickest, most reasonable, rational and best way to get universal coverage. heather: the democratic frontrunner unveiling his $750 billion health care plan. it would add a public option, similar to medicare, and be partly paid for by rolling back tax cuts on the wealthy. well, the time now is about 10 minutes after the top of the hour and the media blasting the trump administration's new rules cracking down on asylum seekers. >> the president sees advantage in playing on fears and prejudice. >> this president's most radical effort to change laws along racial lines since the muslim ban. heather: retired i.c.e. director tom homan says the media is ignoring the rule of

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the new asylum rule that the administration's coming up with, the president sees advantage in playing on fears and prejudice. >> this president's most radical effort to change laws along racial lines since the muslim ban. >> what they're trying to do is restrict people from coming to the united states and auto flying for asylum -- applying for asylum. heather: the mainstream media slamming president trump's latest move to end the crisis on the southern border. the trump administration announcing a new policy that any migrant seeking asylum would have to first be denied in a

neighboring country before applying in the united states. joining me now is retired i.c.e. director, tom homan. thank you for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. i know you were on fox late last night so thank you. >> you're welcome. heather: in terms of the new asylum rules, what do you think about them and what do you think about the pushback coming from democrats? >> well, the sound bite -- the president isn't changing any law. he's using the existing law and he should. the congress isn't going to fix it. the courts aren't going to fix it. then the president and i.c.e. and border patrol need to do everything they can within the existing framework to try to slow it down. what they failed to talk about is 90% of central americans who come to our border don't get relief for asylum from a judge because they don't qualify.

what the president is doing -- the rules of asylum are clear. you're escaping your government because of fear of persecution, race, ethnicity, member of a certain social group, so if they're leaving el salvador and they go to guatemala, well, they've escaped that government, the same of people who escape from guatemala and go to mexico, so is it really about escaping fear and persecution from your homeland or about getting to the united states? i pick the latter. heather: as we've discussed, there is no such thing as the economic asylum and a lot of them try to claim that here. let's take a look at the asylum applications filed for the u.s. by year, 90% of these are not approved. then my other question to you, tom, is do these other countries have to agree to this? >> well, that's happening now. i mean, the negotiations are

going on with the other countriecountries. they understand international law too. this is the way the system is set up. several months ago mexico actually offered asylum to a couple thousand of that largest caravan. mexico's already done it. it works. heather let's say mexico says no, we're not giving asylum, then they can apply for asylum in the united states. there's still a possibility. but prove that you're really escaping fear and prosecution in your homeland, simply not coming to the united states to reunite with family members or get a better job than you had in your homeland. heather: there's certain exceptions for victims of human trafficking, things like that. days a after the explosive hearing about the crisis on the border from last friday that you were a part of, freshmen congresswould mean accused

president trump of violating human rights at the border. listen to this and tell me what they're getting wrong. >> i am not surprised the that he uses the rhetoric that he does, when he violates international human rights. >> the president is committing human rights abuses at the border, keeping children in cages and having human beings drinking out of toilets. heather: still claiming they're drinking out of toilets. we know this has proven to not be true. what do you have to say about what they said yesterday. >> they're making up human rights abuse. explain what human rights abuse is. they're enforcing the immigration laws. people are detained. they say we should shut down detention. 72% of everybody in i.c.e. detention, 72% are there because it's congressionally mandated

they be detained per the law. if they don't like what's going on, they're legislators, change it. you can't point your fingers at the men and women of border patrol who are trying to fit too many people into the facilities. they ask congress for help. those women up on the stage, had they voted no for supplemental package that gave money to the border p patrol to move children to facilities that were built to get them out of the border patrol jails. they still voted no even though the supplemental package went forward. it's ridiculous. heather: thank you so much for joining. we certainly appreciate it. we'll see what the democratic candidates have to say. thank you. >> thank you. heather: the time now, 20 minutes after the top of the hour. and amusement park horror, watch this.

two people killed when a ride snapped in half. the new criminal charges just filed. >> all those in favor, signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> opposed. that passes unanimously. heather: a city council overturns the decision to ban the pledge of allegiance. we have the reaction that occurred overnight, for this victory for america. ♪ do you want me to go first or do you want to go first, brea?

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six amusement park workers facing homicide charges after this happened. this ride snapped, killing two people. 27 others were injured. this happened at a park in india. the park's owner on the far right insists that the ride was regularly maintained. back to new york. new york city's main power company finally explaining what caused saturday's power outage. they said a relay protection system at a substation failed after a cable caught. fire. the company says the blackout was not caused by high demand but warned that that may not be the case this weekend as the big apple deals with a heat wave and you can already tell this morning that is starting, carley. hot and humid. were you impacted by that? >> i was not. heather: is was, five hours. not too bad, though. >> at least we weren't in elevators. heather: that's true. st. louis, talk about them now. the park city council

unanimously voting to reinstate the pledge of allegiance during city council meetings. >> all those in favor signify by saying aye. >> aye. >> opposed. that passes unanimously. heather: and carley's here to talk more about that. >> sure am, take talk about the weather and all things related to this story as well. if you saw that, that was a crowded city council meeting. about 100 people showed up to protest the decision to stop saying the pledge of allegiance and they were all very happy when the city council unanimously voted to overturn that decision so they will be saying the pledge before city council meetings now. this gains national attention when the president tweeted about it and the city was inundated with calls and e-mails, so a lot of people calling this a big win including this twitter user who says america wants -- they say

that's one way to get people to go to a city council meeting. jv says good for them, americans need to stand up. wake up, america. this is how the system works. if people don't like it, they can speak out. the elected officials listened and decided to do what they wanted. heather: some people were questioning why it came up to begin with, saying it shouldn't have. biden campaigning on something that is very familiar to us. we heard it from president obama and it was actually dubbed the lie of the year. >> it sure was. yeah. so he was at a campaign stop in iowa. he was talking about health care. and like you said, he made that very same promise that president obama made in 2009. watches this. >> if you like your doctor, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. >> i if you like your doctor, yu will be able to keep your doctor. >> if you like your health care plan and like your emplo employr

based plan, you can keep it. if you have private insurance, you can keep it. >> a lot of people noticing the similarities there. one instagram user said you fool me once, shame on you. you fool me twice, shame on me. biden's plan would expand upon the affordable care act which is different than bernie sanders and a lot of people describing what medicare for all would be. another twitter says this sets him aside from the rest. good move we want to get to this. a single dad asking for fashion advice from his daughter. >> a single dad stealing the hearts of thousands of people on social media for asking fashion advice from his 19-year-old daughter before a first date. the 19-year-old shared these images on twitter. this is a text exchange, sent another one with a shirt that it can be tucked in so i can see it

and then she said yes, that's good. so those photos have gone viral. they've been liked about 168,000 times. sadly, he was stood up on his date. heather: what? >> yes. but since the pictures have gone viral, he says that he has been asked on many more dates. so the story really having a very happy ending. heather: absolutely. i'm going to have to start following them so i can see what the ending is. that's awesome. thank you, carly. the time now, 28 minutes after the top of the hour. the trump campaign launching a new coalition, focusing on female voters. how crucial will that be in 2020. one coalition member says women will help trump win a second term, and she joins us live. ♪ not thinking about tomorrow. ♪ singing sweet home alabama all summer long. ♪

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heather: half past the top of the hour. welcome back. a look at our top headlines this morning. the white house issues a new rule cracking down on asylum seekers trying to enter the u.s. migrants will no longer be allowed to apply for protections if they passed through another country on their way to america. the white house officials say the change is meant to address immigration loopholes. government officials are set to testify on the hill about the 2020 census. the senate homeland security committee holding a hearing dubbed 2020 census, conducting a secure and accurate count. the supreme court ruling the citizenship question could not be added to next year's census following a legal battle between democrats and the trump administration. and a memorial service for ross perot will be held today in texas. the businessman and two-time presidential candidate passed away last week at the age of 89. the private service will be streamed online. an emotional day in court for

the friends and family of mckenzie lueck. her alleged killer faced a judge via video. >> we just immediately lost our breath. i think we were holding hands and just -- i refuse to say the person's name. this is probably the last time i'll give him any sort of attention. heather: he did not speak or enter a plea. to virginia now. a virginia judge sentencing a neo-nazi to a second life term, plus 419 years behind bars for the deadly charlottesville car attack. james alex field junior admitting to deliberately ramming his car into counter pro protesters at the unite the right rally, killing heather hair and injuring dozens in 2017. last month, fields was sentenced to a separate life sentence after pleading guilty to federal hate crime charges.

what about this? house democrats are threatening to hold kellyanne conway in contempt after she skipped a congressional hearing. conway defied to testify over accusations that she violated the hatch act, a law banning government officialin officialsm political speech. >> i helped the president who got elected all by himself and i'm here, talking about his policies. i would like to testify. i've done nothing wrong. there's a bipartisan precedent that applies to administrations of both parties and what would really happen if the hatch act were applied retroactively to other members of their administrations. have you seen things they've said and done that never got this kind of treatment. heather: that's a good point. house democrats are giving conway until the end of the month to testify. today marks 20 years since jfk

junior died in a tragic plane crash. the 35th president's son killed when a plane he was flying nose-dived into the at lain particular ocean. -- atlantic ocean. he was traveling to march that's vineyard for -- martha's vineyard for a wedding. jfk junior was 38 years old when he died. and this famous photo shows him saluting his father's casket on his third birthday. no doubt you've seen that. after the as a assassination in dallas in 1963. in just hours from now, the women for trump coalition will be launched in pennsylvania. it will focus on turning out the female vote in 2020. just how crucial will the women's' vote be? an advisory board member for the women's coalition for trump will be at the event later today and she joins us live. good morning, naomi. thank you for joining us.

you're going to have a long day. >> yes. it's just starting. great to be here. heather: tell us a little bit about this coalition that's being put together and why it is so important for the trump campaign moving forward. >> everyone's vote is important but the women's vote is extremely important and the goal of the coalition is to mobilize women to go back to their communities and talk to other women about issues that they care about. we have this fox poll that i'll bring up for you to respond to. and this was the president's approval rating among women and this was taken in june, this fox news poll. it shows 40% approved, 58% disapproved. so when you talk about talking to women about the issues that concern them the most, how do you plan to change those numbers? >> right. yeah. so one lesson we learned in 2016 was not to pay attention to the polls too much.

heather: that's true. >> i think there's a lot of -- right. and there's been so many initiatives and so many things that the trump administration has done for women and the goal is to just get that message out and we have less than 4% unemployment for women in the last 12 months. 56% of jobs that -- out of the 5.6 million that were created in the last year have gone s to women. there's so many great things that are happening and we need to articulate that. heather: yesterday the president was talking about american owned businesses. there's been an increase in businesses owned by women as well. >> yeah, that's definitely true. and as a woman in tech, i've been working in various startups in the new york city area and it's incredible to see this hyper growth that's allowed by our economic climate today and the trump administration and

ivanka trump have put forth initiatives, they're allocating over $200 million directed towards technology programs to encourage women to work in stem, encourage women like myself. so it's really been amazing. heather: what about ethnic and minority women, how do you plan to reach out to them? >> this time around in 2018 there is such a concerted effort to reach every kind of woman and minority. we have spanish speaking programs, just the makeup of the coalition shows that we're really focusing our efforts on that and, yeah, i want to say that as a woman and as a daughter of immigrants from the soviet union, one thing we can all get behind is that it's scary, the socialist agenda being put forth by the democrats, right, and this is

going to affect everyone and i'm just so grateful that we have a president who took it upon himself to push back against that and to fight for that. so we really have to support him and my message is that president trump, he's one of the good guys. heather: all right. naomi, thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it and we will be watching today for sure. good luck. >> thank you so much. heather: the time now, 20 minutes until the top of the hour. more than a million people signed up to storm area 51. the air force issued a warning not to trespass. so what exactly is the top secret site? our next guest says whatever was there is likely long gone but he joins us to explain why it's still so popular. ♪ erscan get $54,000 dollars or more to consolidate high rate credit card debt

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heather: 50 years ago today, millions of people around the world watched as america launched apollo 11 and the saturn 5 rocket blasted off into space, sending them on a mission to the moon. four days later, armstrong and aldrin would become the very first people to set foot on the moon. after more than eight days in space, the crew safely returned to earth. neil armstrong's son will join us live at 8:45 on "fox & friends," so certainly tune in for that, putting that american flag on the moon, so iconic. this next story is out of this world as well. more than 1 million people signing up to storm the top secret military facility known as area 51, hoping to find

aliens. the air force is warning against trespassing. here to weigh in is ufo expert, nick hope. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. heather: so this event started on facebook. and it was satirical, wasn't supposed to be taken seriously but we have all of these people signing up, saying they're going to storm area 51 on september 20t 20th 20th is the . what will they find there? what exactly is at area 51 now? >> well, what they are hoping to find of course is ufos and maybe aliens. what they will actually find is probably just next generation aircraft and drones. but, i mean, this thing is getting somewhat out of hand. i think when i last checked, a million plus people were saying that they were going to go. now, they won't of course. i think it's much easier to click going on facebook than it

is to actually go. but i think this just shows the huge level of interest in this subject. heather: yeah. the air force we can actually pull this up for people, i want to make sure i clarify, the air force warning people not to do this, saying the area 51 is open training range for the u.s. air force. we bodies courage anyone -- we woulddiscourage anyone from trying to come to the area. hopefully people heed that warning. do you think at some point there were ufos there? >> i don't know. i used to investigate ufos for the british government at the ministry of defense. and i'm afraid if the u.s. government did find aliens, they didn't tell us brits. so i don't know. i've heard the rumors, of course, but they are i think just rumors. and the other point is that if there really was anything there, at any point, now we are at a time where area 51 has been name

checked in sci-fi movies and tv shows. anything that was there i think will be long gone. but you know, i absolutely agree with the air force. i'm all for people's right for a lawful, peaceful protest. but storming area 51, that's a federal offense. trespass on a military installation is a federal offense and it's dangerous. it's irresponsible and dangerous. heather: you kind of skirted and this answer. you may not know if there were any ufos in area 51 here in this country, but what about where you dealt with ufos in great britain? great britain? >> well, we certainly had some unexplained cases. we had sights fro sightings fro. fos tracked on radar. that's going on right now here in the u.s. we have the u.s. navy encounter. we have congressional briefings.

senators have said they've gotten classified briefings on this in the last couple weeks. the president has just addressed this subject briefly. so interest in this is at an all-time high. yeah, we found some interesting cases but we didn't, sad to say, find an actual smoking gun, so no actual aliens but we didn't rule it out either. heather: okay. not ruling it out either. you know, there are a lot of documentaries on netflix right now so that's of course sparking everybody's interest. as you said, people should heed these warnings and do not try to storm area 51. nick, thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. this was a fun segment. >> thank you. heather: have a good day. after weeks of testimony in a landmark opioid case, it all comes down to this. >> they took the money and they ran and they left us here, holding the body bags. heather: the monda monumental

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tracee carrasco from fox business here with the discounts. tracee, we always like to hear about discounts. >> if you're looking to travel this fall, right now would be the perfect time to book that trip, according to p hopper, that is the air fare prediction app, forecasting that domestic air nar fare in july dropping b. another 5.5% drop, that's expected in august. a smaller drop expected to follow in september. prices will stay about the same in october. once we hit november, that's when you're going to see prices starting to go up by about 2%. of course, you're edin heading e holiday season. right now is a good time to book. heather: i may have to look into that. if you don't want fly and you want and you want to take a cruise, where is the best place to do that. >> disney cruise line, voted the

number one best mega ship ocean cruise line by travel and leisure readers for the first time ever. it jumped from the number two spot last year into the number one spot. travel and leisure readers they highlighted some of the things that disney cruises feature. of course, the dining options, entertainment, adult only pools, social spaces, those are the main things. these are the top five cruise lines voted also in the list, so there's another option for you, if you don't want to fly, you can take a cruise. heather: sounds like fun. thank you so much, tracee. well, the time now is almost the top of the hour. but not quite yet. does your face start like this? >> things are creeking and cracking and the red light is burning my brain. >> you look a little stressed. >> oh, i'm stressed. heather: where you live, that can make all the difference. the most stressed out cities, just revealed.

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heather: time now for the good, the bad and ugly. up first, the good. the coast guard crew responsible for this incredible drug bust at sea returns to land. >> it was a great move, those guys are great athletes and they've been working towards this type of take-down their whole careers. heather: that was amazing.

their captain praising a job well done. loved ones met up with the crew in california. lots of hugs. deservingly so. next, the bad. for the second year in a row, detroit is named the most stressed out city in america. >> you don't know what it's like in there. all night long things ar thingse creaking and cracking. >> you look stressed. >> i'm stressed. heather: wallet hub looking at things like the average number of work hours, debt load and divorce rates. rounding out the bottom five, cleveland, newark, baltimore and philly. and finally, the ugly. one of the nba's best players athletic skills failed big-time in the batting cage. take a look at this. basketball 2019 most valuable player known as the greek freak swinging and missing miserably. he said he never picked up a

baseball before visiting yankee stadium on monday night. no doubt he's going to be practicing that. well, that wraps up this hour of "fox & friends first." thank you so much for joining us. have a great day. "fox & friends first" continues right now. bye-bye. it is tuesday, july 16th. a first look inside the deranged manifesto of a self proclaimed radical who tried to fire bomb. >> the rhetoric from our own elected leaders undoubtedly fueling this. if you don't go after the law -- >> go after congress. >> the call for calm coming from both sides of the aisle. >> if you like your doctor, you'll be able to keep your doctor. >> if you like your health care plan and your employer based plan, you can keep it. gillian: sound familiar? the candidate is giving voters double vision. rob: reaction