♪ you can jump right in ♪ let the music pull you in ♪ you can jump right in ♪ lose yourself again ♪ >> we just saw dave dancing. i have never seen it. jedediah: i have seen it before. it happens. griff: jump. in give us a little shot at dave. todd: come on, dave. jedediah: you want to dave. you know it. griff: good morning. it's saturday, august 17th. i can't believe it. i was saying before we went on the air i'm not going to let summer go. same way in washington. they have already have halloween candy display. too early. jedediah: i like halloween and i could have a halloween

baby. my mom is like oh you can dress him as a little pumpkin in the hospital or i or dress him as a little freddy kruger. like come on. glad to have you in our living room. we hope you are having some pancakes already because that's what i would be doing if i were home. griff: it is a busy news day. again, a fox news alert. griff: jeffrey epstein's official death officially ruled a suicide by hanging. jedediah: this as his lawyers cast doubt on the autopsy report. todd: aishah, good morning. >> epstein's lawyer saying he is not satisfied with those results. let's go ahead and take a look at them first. chief medical examiner says after careful review of all investigative information including complete autopsy findings, the determination offer the death of jeffrey epstein is cause hanging, manner suicide.

epstein's attorney rejecting that conclusion saying, in part, the defense team fully intends to conduct its own independent and complete investigation into the circumstances and cause of mr. epstein's death. including, if necessary, legal action to view the pivotal videos, if they exist, as they should, of the area proximate to mr. epstein's cell during the time period leading to his death. we are not satisfied with the conclusions of the medical examiner. there are plenty of reasons. they're making a lot of people suspicious out there. we already know epstein was placed on suicide watch last month and for some reason he was taken off of that days later. jail guards on duty the night epstein died are suspected of falsifying log entries to show they were checking in on the inmates every half hour. and fox news now can confirm from a federal source that some of the mcc personnel, including prison staff, have not been initially cooperative with investigators. so a lot to take.

in there is a spras federal investigation underway. attorney general william barr having the fbi and the justice department look into what went wrong inside that jail. todd, jed, griff? todd: aishah, thank you very much. first thing came to mind working in d.c., friday news dump, right? this happened late on a friday. that's the first thing that came to my mind. second thing take yourself out of our living where you have to be skeptical. every single word i read in every single story on this i second guess. that's bad for any type of investigation at the outset. we are not even close to scratching the surface on this. jedediah: yeah. there were so many red flags, why he was taken off suicide watch. why there was so many aspects of not being able to see within the cell and so many people are potentially asleep. so many people not doing the job they were supposed to do. for such high profile criminal within the jail

where they are used to dealing with high profile criminals why did so much things go awry. i'm one those people let the fbi and doj do their job sit back and hold tight before offering too much comment on it. the truth is we really don't know right now. there is really a lot we don't know and affect what they discover could really effect the commentary. todd: 100 percent. griff: tell you about washington news and i'm a washington reporter, the story with congresswoman rasheda tlaib trying to go to israel to visit her grandmother may have been she had never met her. she had said in a tweet may be her last chance. well, remember, she said president trump starts tweeting tharg president netanyahu should not allow her to come, which would actualliable allowed under israel's rules. so now she is not going to go. now all of a sudden she writes to israel and gets a humanitarian visa to go. she gets it. and then doesn't go.

jedediah: right. initially they were denied entrance. remember, we are talking about rasheda tlaib and representative omar who are part of the bdf movement. unapologetic supporting that. there were questions about what their motivation would be. there was a delegation of republicans and democrats that went to israel just recently and they opted not to go. they said you know what? we are going to go separately and many were questioning why, what the motivation was the way it was billed it was labeled as a trip to palestine which cass controversial right from the outset. and then she replies to this letter as you say and she says listen i really want to go visit my grandma. sure, come on a humanitarian basis as long as you are not going to make this into a political battle she goes oh, never mind. now it looks like it was this giants setup. one person who has commented on it is president trump coming out and tweeting representative tlaib wrote a letter to israeli officials desperately wanting to visit her grandmother. permission was quickly granted where upon tlaib

obnoxiously turned the approval down, a complete setup. the only real winner here is tlaib's grandmother. she doesn't have to see her now. todd: always a zinger at the end. we all have grandmothers. we all love our grandmothers and see them obviously before they pass. what's so interesting is the israel foreign interior minister he so unequivocally said what so many were thinking. i approved her request as a gesture of goodwill on a humanitarian basis. that's the key phrase there but it was just a provocative request aimed at bashing the state of israel. apparently her hate for israel overcomes her love for her grandmother. israel, no matter what you think of the lead-up to that they did offer this humanitarian gesture of goodwill, an olive branch if you will. she threw it in her face and threw her grandmother under the bus in the process. jedediah: leader, organize everything of their particular trip that the two of them were going to take

was known for anti-semitism. this is a group, mist that is what it is called. used by bds. saying jews have blood on heir hands. if you planning to go in a noncontroversial, humanitarian unifying mechanism, then why would you choose to ally yourself with this particular organization and make that what your trip is focused on and it really does look like a set-up. it looks like they wanted to be able to set that netanyahu denied them entrance so they could make a propaganda political talking point. and it's sad because, you know, originally i was saying you know what? netanyahu should just let them, in just radarless of where they stand on bds. don't make this a spectacle. when you look at now what seems to be the motivation and who they allied themselves with how could you blame israel from saying hold on a second you are allying yourself with anti-semitic group you do

support bds and several anti-semitic comments in the past. wife would we want you to be here under those conditions? they say hold on we will do it as strictly humanitarian effort. rasheda tlaib says no, i'm not going to come. it looks very suspicious. i wish the media would do digging on this and look at the organization they were tied to and forget about your politics for a second. forget how agree with on political issues and say what would their motivation be if they were going to alivallythemselves. griff: here is what he had to say. >> the itinerary, first of all, said nothing even about visiting israel it. wasn't about visiting israel. it was about visiting quote unquote palestine. when they said visiting palestine. they didn't mean visiting are a mallla. the first day is in jerusalem. jerusalem according to omar and tlaib is palestinian territory. not only that the group that omar and tlaib were going on this trip with are openly anti-semitic terrorist supporting groups.

so why would israel let these people in? nancy pelosi, by putting this ideologically radical nasty human being on the house committee on foreign aaffairs committed a great sin against the american people. this woman should be nowhere near the leefers when this comes to power for foreign aid. todd: jed, you said originally you heard a lot of republicans say israel should let them. in you said you felt the same thing. i kind of felt that tlaib and omar had the upper hand for a while there throwing grandmother under the bus really swayed this back and helps the president and conservatives drive this point home and really helps israel in this p.r. battle. they had it and they lost it. jedediah: question is where will the democratic party align? is the bulk of the democratic party going to align with representative omar and rasheda tlaib on issues like this? we have been talking a lot about candidates. have you this far left field. where are the candidates

going to align and what are they going to say? one person absent from the whole thing is president obama who i have been saying an endorsement from him would really help joe biden. i know joe biden sells i understand why. joe biden you are itching for that in enindoorsment. guess what? president obama seems to be wading into the scene. the "new york times" says he tried to talk joe biden out of a white house run and even reportedly advised him to shake up his, quote, old and out of touch campaign team. so this is a quote, what obama told biden early this year. do we have the quote? "you don't have to do this joe, you really don't." that's interesting. did president obama also have in his head what a lot of the us have been saying maybe this isn't joe biden's moment. griff: president obama was the candidate of change. he had a lot of people arranged him it. talks about how president obama is trying to convey to joe biden listen, you have got to surround yourself

with a new team. it's got to have young people to meet the times. biden's response to this quote was essentially well, i thought i could beat trump last time in 2016 and he could, quote, never forgive himself if he passed up a second chance to try and defeat him now. but that doesn't really account for what president obama's real concern is that joe biden isn't meeting the times, isn't meeting the politics that we're seeing the lurch to the left and in some ways the article inmates obama is concerned too if joe continues to stay out there he could disparage possibly his legacy. todd: that's why they are trying to cloister joe at certain times of the day. you can only talk in the morning, not afternoon or evenings we are worried what can happen. jedediah: he has been making a lot of mistakes. and a lot of the big time money donors and big time in d.c. originally backed him. hold on a second. maybe this isn't our guy.

griff: friends@foxnews.com. if you are advising joe biden what would you tell him? stay in or get out? griff: we are going to turn to headlines for you now. two law enforcement officers shot in hours long standoff in missouri, male suspect surrendering after shooting a highway patrolman and sheriff's deputy serving eviction notice. air lifted to a hospital. he is in stable condition and will be okay. the trooper was treated and released. and border agents rescue 2800 hondurans after smugglers left them trapped in the rio grande river. trying to cross into texas. several of the my grants swept away before agents brought them to safety. of it the 28 people rescued, 14 were children. actor peter upon darks best known as the star of easy rider has died.

>> i never wanted to be anybody else. jedediah: fonda nominated for oscar for co-writer the 1960 counter culture film. he died in los angeles after battling lung cancer. he was the only son of henry fonda. his sister jane fonda said in a statement that he went out laughing. peter fonda was 79. those are your headlines. very sad. griff: easy rider, what a great movie. jedediah: yeah, great work. griff: bill maher hoping for, you guessed it, a recession. what he is saying about the reason he wants america to suffer. ♪ ♪ who's dog is this?

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todd: 17 minutes after the hour now. thanks for being with us. the on again off again visit is off again. after israel letting her come on humanitarian grounds, rasheda tlaib now rejecting israel's offer to allow her entry saying in part, quote: i will not allow the israeli government to humiliate me or my family and take away our right to speak out. racism and the politics of hate is thriving in israel. this all comes after israel initially denied tlaib and congresswoman ilhan omar entry earlier this week. our next guest is running to unseat omar and is here with a message for both congresswomen. lacy lee johnson joins us now. thanks for being here. what is your message? >> well, my message is that we do not want a

representative in congress like miss omar that the government of israel was well within its rights to deny her and it is expected that they would do that. ms. omar has openly called for the boycott divestment sanctions of the nation of israel. as such, she has basically made herself an enemy of that nation or an enemy of the state. no country that i can think of would let an enemy in. the other thing that's not being reported, i guess, on a large scale base is that basically mr. netanyahu, they saw her itinerary. it had nothing to do with humanitarian reason. it had to do with her continued support of the bds movement. and it also had to do with her delegitimizing the state of israel. they rightfully decided they were not going to let her enter. the same thing goes to the other congress lady. she was not there to see her mom, once they saw her

itinerary they knew what she was there for. todd: the grandmother. >> she is trying to change the narrative now. that's basically what's going on here and what people need to know and israel is well within its right to deny her that entry. todd: what really stood out to me, sir. you heard a number of republicans, even a aipac israel should let these folks. in to me, like i said earlier, i thought they were winning the pr narrative on that point. when the grandma stuff happened, i felt like they completely lost that my question to you is, do you think the nation sees that switch in the pr narrative and specifically with regard to the race you are running? do you think they are going to tie omar to tlaib and give you a win there in minnesota? >> well, minnesota is a basically liberal conclave here, especially in the metropolitan area. it's going to be tough. but we plan to pull it off. but, as far as mrs. omar and

her looking at israel, we are here to run against her, to stop those type of things, to stop the embarrassment. baseballly what she is doing is -- basically what she is doing is trying to be an international celebrity rather than concentrating on the needs of her people. mrs. omar lives in a district where the black population has a poverty rate of 40% of the blacks are below poverty. she has not done anything about it. she she is not proposing to do anything about it. other issues as far as crime and violence going on in the district she has not address you had. that's why i'm running against her to stop this bait and switch. todd: understood. we will be monitoring your race of course throughout the course of the next year or. so we wish you the best of luck and we will see you soon. >> thank you. todd: all right. 2020 hopeful joe biden keeps mentioning his buddy, president obama. >> barack obama is an extraordinary man. >> my buddy barack. >> my buddy, i shouldn't be

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i would have to give up more time with my kids. which is the main reason i left the military. everybody wants more for their kids, but i feel like with my kids, they measurably get more than i ever got. and i get to do that. i get to provide that for them. jedediah: some quick headlines for you now. you are looking live in hong kong where protesters are filling the streets for 11th straight weekend. these demonstrations kicked off by the city's teachers in support of students who have been demonstrating. the group also calling for the unconditional release of arrested protesters. it comes as china lines up military vehicles at a stadium across the border raising fears use force to end the protest. travelers returning from abroad forced to wait after customs and border

protection computers went down nationwide. agencies had to use alternative procedures to process those entering the u.s. while passengers shared videos of sprawling lines. cbp say there is no signs the two hour outage was militias. down to you, griff. jedediah: all right, jed, thank you. former president obama cautioning his v.p. joe biden for running for president. quote in march, mr. obama took the unusual step of summoning mr. biden's top campaign advisors. when they were done, obama offered a pointed reminder win or lose they needed to make sure biden did not embarrass himself or damage his legacy during the campaign. whose legacy is really on the line here by den or obama's? here to debate jason nichols and kimberly clay sick. good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> i will start with you, jason, maybe have you heard a little bit about what's been going on behind the scenes. what do you make of this article?

whose legacy is really on the line? >> well, i think their legacies are tied. i think both of their legacies are on the line. particularly president obama and part of this honestly is his responsibility because he ran from his own accomplishments. there are many things that the obama duratio administratiod and they put in place and people don't know about because they weren't good promoters of themselves. i think the party has shifted to the left. i think that's something that obama realized and recognized and thought that maybe joe biden could sit this out and being there is no shame in being vice president of the united states. griff: kimberly, what do you make of it. president obama saying joe it's passed you, you don't meet the politics of time, you should just not run. >> there is obviously a stark difference between biden and the new members of congress. but i have to disagree with jason nichols here. i don't think president obama had any accomplishments. as we saw in the last democratic debate. everyone was throwing him

under the bus, each candidate was, yes, he is jumping in to defend his legacy, also defending the dnc playbook. their strategy, just like in 2016 was to run on the fact that they love obama and that everyone else should love obama. he didn't really have anything to show for himself. i have to wonder if obama was keeping under wraps that he didn't think that biden was fit, i wonder what other secrets obama might have. griff: quickly, jason, i have to let you respond to that and then i want to move to what happened in new hampshire. >> well, i think there is an economic recovery. there is saving the auto industry. she talked about the last debate that was in detroit that city could certainly say thank you, mr. obama. there were many things obama did that were serious accomplishments. again, i don't expect everyone to acknowledge that. that's partially obama's fault for not promoting it enough. griff: the obama-biden not the environment we find ourselves in. president trump in new

hampshire making the case essentially like me, love me or hate me, you have no choice but to vote for me. take a listen. >> but you have no choice but to vote for me because your 401(k)s down the tubes, everything is going to be down the tubes. so, whether you love me or hate me, you've got to vote for me. griff: kimberly, does he have a point. >> he does have a point. you know what? people should check out polls not just polls but other information that isn't partisan. look at any travel agency website right now it, will show you more people are taking summer vacations this year. more families. why is that? because we have more disposable income and gas prices are lower. he is absolutely right about that. griff: jason, do you see this more as president trump concerned that we could have as many economists have suggested a recession on the horizon? >> oh, absolutely. i think he is trying to shift blame pretty early. he is talking about how great the economy is.

but, and if people are looking at their 401(k)s right now, particularly how the stock market has been performing as of late, they may actually have some disappointment. so i think, you know, president trump, i expect him to you know, show his huber russ. he is going to end up being the emperor with no clothes. that you will bluster and bluff is going to hurt him in the long run. >> no way. griff: kimberly, i will give you the last word. >> president trump has been taking so many negative attacks. more popular now than he was in 2016. it's trump 2020 all the way. griff: we may have to bring you back. i hear you laughing, jason, but we are out of time. thank you for being here. >> thanks, griff. >> all right. griff: there is new buzz that jay-z may become an nfl team owner. there is at least one nfl team player who has a big problem with that the new backlash coming next. ♪ fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely.

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i'm 40. i'm not 20 doing. this and they wanted to know how i felt about that. we talked about everything. i really laid it all on table. i bet it will shock a lot of you that i didn't hold back. we talked about fitness. one way to de-stress. i will to make some adjustments i was afraid. we talk about soulcycle oh my gosh i'm going to hurt the baby. i got the help of an expert there i am in the gym with my little bump helped me figure out what to do and not to do. get my stress out without compromising. i want to make sure he is safe all the time. we talked about my main message was like, listen, everything happens in your life at your own time. so, i was always asked when i was in my 20's like when are you going to get married? when are you going to have a baby? that wasn't my moment. this is my moment. that's really okay. so i -- i talk symptoms, fears. i lay it all out. griff: you are being modest. the article is great, jed, because it talks about your courage to really as a professional, unbelievably successful woman to tackle

pregnancy at 40, to do these things, to try to find the balance in a very chaotic environment and i think captured that you were very honest speaking about that. >> i just aappreciated that they had an interest in it and i got to voice my opinion. for all the people out there who, you know, don't have a microphone i'm always saying like i put instagram videos of fitness up there to say listen, this is really expensive to do. there have been times in my life when i certainly wouldn't have been able to afford this and figure it out. let me offer up hey this is what worked for me and offer that out there. too doo it on your own watch don't do it on what society tells you. thanks, guys, i really appreciates that. griff: we have got to talk now a little bit of sports, a little bit of politics, that is the carolina panthers blasting. i don't know if you have seen jay-z very famous musician is in the middle of becoming an nfl owner. he would become the first

african-american nfl owner if he was able to do so. he, of course, has not yet been granted that is he trying to get a stake. he has a partnership with the nfl where his company water cooler partner to try to bring awareness to issues to help pick the acts at the super bowl and brings other events bring diversity and racial issues to the forefront. todd: this is not sitting well with somebody who is very outspoken during the entire kneeling situation eric reed. he actually used to be teammates with colin kaepernick on the 49ers. now he plays for the carolina panthers. here is what eric reed said in response. we never advocated for collin to lose his job while we fought against systemic oppression. that's unjust and where the nfl inserted itself into this. now the nfl is chopper i don't knowing social justice to cover their own systemic oppression in black bawling collin. we will fight get collin's

job back as well. here is the telling line, jay-z knowingly made a money move with the very people who committed an injustice against colin and using social justice to smooth it over with the black community. and when this story came out this week. i was shocked at how both sides of this issue attacked jay-z. people saying jay-z is just pandering, and there were people like eric reid who said this is horrible. you are throwing i use this phrase 18 times here in the first 37 minutes. but you have thrown colin kaepernick under the bus for a movement we were all in together. at the end of the day, one key quote that you have to agree that i think as you see it in jay-z's music. jay-z is about the money. and so to think that he was going to do something that was going to jeopardize that when he wants an nfl team is naive. so i think to a certain extent eric reid is right. jedediah: i think what that issue is jay-z's suggestion that, quote: we have moved

past kneeling and the concern is that he is not going to be an advocate for social justice it is really all about the money. wait and see. maybe there is a possibility he is in there yes it's a money deal but maybe he wants to effectuate change from the inside. sometimes that's how you have to do it. they will have some beavers on these, two. griff: jay-z said we need to move beyond. thank you, kaepernick you got our attention. now let's have an impact and do step two. that's what's new is eric blasting jay-z's attempt to become an nfl owner. we will see what happens. jedediah: we will turn to our headlines now. local fox affiliate report and anchor has died. nancy parker killed in a small plane crash in new orleans along with a pilot while covering a story for the local fox affiliate. tributes pouring in. saints quarterback drew brees tweeting quote my heart goes out to the family of nancy parker a beloved reporter and news anchor in

new orleans. wife and mother of three. my thoughts and prayers go out to all of you. she was just 53 years old. fired after sending often note to passenger. shows her slipping it to random traveler. it writes quote you ugly. the worker is seen laughing as the worker reads the message. he wasn't offended but did report her to the rochester airport. powerful photos show the moment four young children from a burning home. fortunately they are all okay. the children including two 18 month old twins were home alone. one was found hiding in a closet. when firefighters carried out. emergency responders performing cpr in the street before rushing the kids to the hospital. their mother is charged with child endangerment. those are your headlines. thank god they are okay. todd: you know him as your meteorologist. i know him as my former office mate at the fox news

channel. adam klotz is tore to deliver your temperatures and whatever else is going on across the great land. adam: former? i missed that introduction. todd: walk down the street later. adam: that's a good deal. talking about the forecast. really warm in the middle of the country. that's going to be fueling big storms. we have been seeing this quite a bit. a lot of heat portions of texas and farther to the north. continue to cause big storms this morning particularly in the kansas city area. running closer and closer over to st. louis. now the other system we are paying attention to a broad low pressure system sitting in the gulf of mexico. that is going to bring a lot of rain across portions of western florida running all the way up into the big bend. guys, this does not turn into a hurricane, does not turn no a tropical storm. this is the kind of system that okay we are getting to the point where we should start to see the tropical system really pick up. so far so good it's quiet across the tropics. adam: knock on wood. >> coming up. inside look at the worsening

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todd? todd: the homeless crisis worsening in los angeles. this as we are getting a first hand look at the potential fallout the crisis is having on residents and how it now shines a light on the failures of public officials. here with investigation is fox news emily compagno. always good to see you. >> thank you for having me. it's such an important topic. it was an honor to travel to l.a. with the "the five" and fox news. i lived on the west coast my entire life and i have seen firsthand how the homeless crisis is spiraling out of control in cities like seattle and portland and los angeles. and in california, things are going from bad to worse with an explosion of trash build-up and rat infestation. as one who practiced law there for years, it's heart breaking to see and, in fact, the situation is so dire, experts have been sounding the alarm about the potential for a plague outbreak. i went to skid row with dr. drew pinsky to see the devastating conditions. watch.

>> buyer l.a. basin is at risk for a public health crisis. if it ends up being tie fuss or plague, i don't know what it's going to be, but rodents are a vector and we're one of the only cities in the country that doesn't have a rodent control plan. heroin and meth takes people to the street. >> it's been here for so long have you seen it exponentially explode in the last couple of years. >> oh yeah, my god. it has gotten rts worse. >> a lot of it is drugs. a lot of it is mental illness. >> category. >> yes i do. i'm in recovery myself. >> oh you are in recovery? >> okay. >> red cross and i will say national guard. >> it's not just skid row. >> there is no attempt to do anything, right? you see all that trash that's out there? >> yeah. >> look at that, that's all garbage, rats and feces it's all going into the l.a.

river and ocean. it promotes the rat infestation. >> worst i have ever seen especially with rats and roaches. rats this long. this big. >> estimates have r. that we have more hats than humans, around 12 million rats here. if 2% of the rat population comes up with the diseedz, you will see plague in the human population. we already have tie fuss exploding much like malaria exists in certain areas. tie fuss exists in certain areas. this someone of those areas. now the state of california is about to outlaw rodenticide because of concerns about the mountain lions which i share if we don't do something about this your children are going to be exposed and die. reverend lost his leg because of mrsa. >> i got a blister and it turned into a wound and it was almost healed i was out walking the streets in skid

row and i stepped. got flesh eating disease on the street and that infection finally caught up with me and i lost my leg two years later. i would lose my other leg if we would actually solve this urgent situation of homelessness. [siren] >> i'm appealing to the federal government we need to triage this and inventory it and we need to treat and it manages this like the humanitarian crisis that it is. i don't understand how people can live with this. i can't. as a doctor, i cannot live with this going on in my city. todd: i work in downtown l.a. for four years. actually lived in downtown l.a. for one that was only in 2010 when i lived there. it didn't look like that. >> it has exploded since then. what struck me is not only how vast skid row itself is block upon block upon block but also everywhere you go in los angeles you see those tents and those people. and the problem goes far beyond just homeless down and out on their luck and a tent and a sign, these

people are zombies. the drug addiction, the mental health problems and the fact that they are literally being run by gangs, you don't need to be an expert to see it. todd: it's not so much about oh it doesn't look like nice or smell nice, this is a problem of humanity. these people need help. and it all starts as we have said multiple times with mental health. >> exactly. todd: concerning stuff. emily as always, thank you. really appreciate you exposing a real big problem out in l.a. and in seattle. >> thanks so much, todd. todd: his father served our nation in world war ii. and now his son is reunited with his dog tags 75 years later. proud son joins us live next. ♪ ♪ i'll be a soldier ♪ ♪

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jedediah: an amazing story to tell you about a world war ii veteran dog tag recovered and returned to his family 75 years later. it was all done with the help of my heritage.com. the son of that world war ii vet keith yates joins us now along with my heritage.com collaborator. she is also the author of "something beautiful happened." welcome both of you. this is an amazing, amazing story. first, keith, i want to you a little bit about your dad's service, where he was stationed. just tell us about your dad. >> well, he grew up in kentucky. went to -- he enlisted in a town called calhoun, kentucky which is my hometown, now. and ships off to camp

sutton, i think it was in south carolina. and went into the service and became part of the 225th division and was a tech 5 as he went -- you know, i don't know how he went through the ranks and what all took place. but he was just raised on the farm as a young man. family of four brothers and two sisters. and they are all dee dee ceased now, obviously. he was just a great young man. he played a lot of basketball in high school and in the service, too. they had traveling teams. jedediah: oh wow. >> different divisions and groups across italy and north africa. and i found a lot of pictures of that where they played ball and had a great time. i guess that would be their best relax and get away from the war and everything else in those dark days of world war ii. jedediah: how did you come to get this dog tag? this is 75 years later.

that's amazing. >> i was called some time ago by a gentleman from my heritage, and i had several calls. i kept ignoring them. just being paranoid. jedediah: right. >> and finally my wife, cindy, she came out the door with the phone and said you really need to talk to this guy. he is pretty persistent. and so after that you know, yeah, we had a conversation. i said come on, now, this can't be true. after all this time to find one small little dog tag in italy. jedediah: amazing. >> first, you know, i thought well, it's a scam. you know. and then he kept sending me this information and then i finally sent him some pictures of discharge papers, matched all the numbers up. and i remember the first thing he said in his email was bingo, found you. jedediah: wow. >> he sent some other information and some history about the war at that time. jedediah: yeah. >> because my dad didn't talk a whole lot about the

war. >> like so many. >> he was so quiet. jedediah: i have to get to yvette. so amazing you found him. >> romanian gentleman who was in italy as a hobby he would go out with a metal detector. he went out and he found dog tags. like some men who do this right as a hobby. sometimes they sell it. you can find these things on ebay. he decided well, actually, i want to find this family and return it. the name, your dad's name is marianne. the remaining man thought it was a female soldier. he wanted to return the dog tags. the researchers at my heritage dug into the database and found keith and return it. jedediah: wow. this is amazing story. everybody at home is going to be blown away. this blew me away. i want to thank you both for being here. i know you have amazing photo you want to hold up of your dad and his service. we have a special offer for "fox & friends" viewers if you go to my

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i ran into a congressman who last name may or may not be duffy. may be married to rachel campos-duffy who is a lumberjack by profession. i assume he knows something about lawn mowers. he can possibly join us and that has me intimidate. todd: if you think i'm an athlete now. wait until the story tomorrow. jedediah: both the audience and myself have a little bit of fear rising in our throats. we will get to it. griff: good morning it's saturday, august 17th. todd: new tensions running high between antifa far right groups. griff: leaders say they will use the full force of the law against anyone who engages in violence. jedediah: more on what's being done to keep everyone safe. jillian in. >> good morning you are all champion athletes to me so you know. appeals court has sided with the trump administration and allow the president's new policy to go forward.

the policy is designed to limit asylum requests from immigrants in honduras, el salvador and mexico. the san fran court yesterday afternoon blocked the nationwide injunction from a california district court judge that had blocked the administration from implementing its new policy. that court order reads in part, quote: the district court clearly errorred by nationwide relief is necessary to remedy plaintiff's harm. based on the record before us we do not believe a nationwide injunction is justified. it can only be blocked in western u.s. states including california. for months the white house has been tussling with federal judges who ordered the president's policies to go forward by imposing these nationwide injunctions. yesterday's order it looks like at least one appeals court is now backing up the president. the next step, the ninth circuit will hear orel arguments october 1 by

immigrant rights groups opposes the asylum policies. back to you. todd: thanks, jillian. all right. we are obviously monitoring that situation because that could have huge implications throughout the nation if a rule that the ninth circuit, one of the most liberal circuits says is not a nationwide rule is only for the geographic where the ninth circuit is that could have huge implications where the trump administration trying to write a brief. the ninth circuit. even the ninth circuit says this is not a nationwide application that could be huge. griff: that's not the only news on the west coast. what we were referencing earlier is portland is embracing for more antifa protests which would bring the violence we have seen before, right? remember all that mayor out there trying to discourage this stuff. as we saw andy noe the conservative journalist who got beaten up. he has been on this channel a lot. here is a quote from a former member, gabriel of

antifa in an op-ed to fox news basically summing up what it's become. antifa has become far more violent and bold since i was involved nearly a decade ago. i have followed the growth in numbers extremism. i strongly believe it's the recklessness of those who have the power and recklessness of the soapbox. as a society we need to take antifa seriously. that means it's full-time for our leaders and honest about exposing a real danger to public safety and american principles. what we're likely to have later today is this patriots march, a conservative group coming. as well as antifa. we could have clashes throughout later on this afternoon. jedediah: we have had gabriel on the show. important voice. is he a former member of antifa as you said, griff. he has inside knowledge as to what the motivation of the group is. what beliefs they hold on the inside. it's very scary right now. you want to defend people's right to protest. this is a corner stone of this republic we live. in at the sam at the same time , becomes very scary when

journalists going to cover these protests fear their own lives and safety. that is profoundly unamerican to violate people's rights to protest by infusing these movements with violence and with a lot of fear. you know, people should be able to go. they should be able to express themselves, differing opinions. what you are seeing on camera right now, which was from the last protest in portland in june, that is andy ngo, who got assaulted, you remember we covered this at the time and you saw images of him and his face had been badly hurt. he had gone to the hospital. this is despicable behavior on behalf of any movement. griff: the mayor was criticized in what you are watching now, one thing is missing, that is a police presence. almost as if portland allowed it to happen. we will see in today's protest, whatever unfolds whether or not the mayor and the city leaders say hey, listen, we don't want another andy ngo situation.

todd: it's important to remember the culprits have not yet been prosecuted in that situation. one final note on, this you think that kind of violence would be called out by every single one of the 2020 democrats. read a report that said not everybody has called out that violence from antifa. jedediah: another big story we have been talking about is the case of jeffrey enstoon. his -- epstein saying his lawyers are not satisfied with that he committed suicide. still question why there is no surveillance footage of his final hours. that's something many of us have brought up. here is a statement from dr. barbara sampson. it says after careful review of all investigative information, including complete autopsy findings, the determination of the death of jeffrey epstein is below. cause: hanging, manner: suicide. if we look at a statement to epstein's lawyers from fox news the defense team plans to conduct its own independent investigation into the circumstance and cause of epstein's death

including if necessary legal action videos if they exist as they should of the area proximate to mr. epstein's cell time period leading to his death. we are not satisfied with the conclusions of the medical examiner. we will have a more complete response in the coming days. i think the questions his legal representation have raised and a lot of the questions raised by people who have observed the case which is you notice the way it's worded there if these videos exist. these videos absolutely should exist. if they don't exist, many questions why they don't exist. that's really one of the chief ways of you who you get to the bottom of what actually happened. griff: epstein's attorneys they called it medieval conditions at the metropolitan correctional center. that is certainly raising a lot of questions, too. this is a holding facility that traditionally has held chapo, epstein, holds high profile people that have going to be transferred to other facilities like the super max in colorado and elsewhere. not only were so many mistakes and irregularities

as the attorney said the conditions now that the defense team saying that is way below standards. todd: you are not the only ones saying that andy gomes nypd sergeant calling sergeant allowing highest profile inmate be capable of committing suicide negligent. this was on hannity. take a listen. >> the mindset of this individual before he, perhaps, committed suicide, apparently committed suicide has absolutely nothing to do with the negligence, the recklessness of you who mcc behaved in this matter. in fact, they are acting as psychologists which has nothing to do with the case at hand, which is how is the most highly visible inmate in the united states capable of committing suicide when they went against every protocol that they hemselves had in place to prevent this. todd: let's also keep in mind, some of those that were involved. so prison employees are

heard to be not cooperating with the investigation. so, all of this information that comes out little by little by little is chipping away at the public's confidence in ultimately getting the truth as to exactly what happened. griff: now, there is a story here in new york. it's fashion week coming up. and first it was our beloved soul cyclist steven ross who had a stake in it. we had people trying to boycott it. going against equinox gym and soulcycle. he also has a property ownership in hudson yards where fashion week is going to be. the hollywood reporter putting this headline out. rag gone bone pulls out after trump fund raiser, this is going back to that same steven ross, trump fundraiser. and now it looks like it's going to hit the fashion world. jedediah: we also had a statement i was previously in conversation with hudson yard the vessel as the venue for my brand's upcoming show

during new york fashion week. when i heard about this fundraiser, i chose to pull my marption participation. obviously people have the right to do whatever they want. it's really interesting that there is no tolerance for diversity of thought anymore. there is no appreciation for the fact that not everyone, whatever industry you are in, not everyone is going to agree. fund raisers held for people you don't like. there is going to be people within your organization or within your enterprise that support a different political candidate or a different political ideology. this is spezzed to be america. where is the spirit of just saying you know what? i disagree with you but you know what? that's okay. now all of a sudden there is this objection to this cohesiveness of thought. we see that in hollywood a lot. we see that in the fashion industry unfortunately and it makes me sad. todd: how long do these boycotts last. hudson yards, nibble in the city this is a big deal people are all excited about it all of a sudden continue fell off a cliff. my question to you two i do not soulcycle as you can see. do you think soulcycle will

come back? jedediah: i don't know. i actually don't know. griff: i don't think they are hurt. i continue to go. the classes are still full. the larger point is with fashion week it's like here we go again. what corner of our lives being it sports, be it fashion world, be it a soulcycle class can you not leave your politics behind and go and enjoy whatever that is. todd: how long will this last? jedediah: i have to say i don't care about my designer politics. i just care that the clothes look good. that's just me though. turn to headlines now. faulty landing gear blame involving dale earnhardt jr. and his family. the ntsb said the right land go ahead gear collapsed caused plane to bounce off the runway and bust into flames. he was on his way to brystal with his wife and daughter to announce a race for nbc sports. there were no serious injuries, luckily. and a child is found dead after being left inside a

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jedediah: welcome back. president trump sounding off on congresswoman rasheda tlaib's rejecting president trump's offer to west bank. todd: wrote a letter to israeli officials desperately wanting to visit her grand mom. permission was granted quickly where upon tlaib obnoxiously turned approval down. a complete setup. the only real winner here is tlaib's grandmother. she doesn't have to see her now. jedediah: here to react author of the book still winning charles hurt. charlie, welcome. >> good morning. jedediah: charlie, what do you think? is the president right that this is starting to look like a set-up? >> i don't know how you could determine anything else from this chain of events. i mean, you know, clearly israel said police come see your grandmother but we don't want you to come and

make this political, you know, your political statements which are completely adverse to the existence of israel. meanwhile, she is has also turned down an opportunity to go with congressional delegation to the country. and so i don't know how you could possibly read this any other way. and i have to say the thing that strikes me more than anything else about this is, i mean, who uses their aging grandmother as a pawn to make a political point in what is really kind of a stupid political kerfluffle to begin with? there is something really wrong with someone that does that. and wrong with -- you know, we shouldn't let politics become this big of a deal in our personal family lives. it's really ridiculous. todd: here is how she did it, tlaib issuing this statement just hours after saying yeah, i will go. she writes visiting my grandmother under these

oppressive conditions meant to humiliate me would break my grandmother's heart. i will not allow the israeli government to humiliate me or my family or take away our right to speak. charlie, i think earlier in the week you heard a lot of republicans, even aipac saying israel should have allowed these two to go in to israel. i think at that point maybe, in some minds, they had the you were hand. upper hand. with a statement like this, how do you think this plays in the middle of the country for lack of a better phrase throwing grandma under the bus? >> i think it's just that and it makes her look install and it makes her look like her politics are more important than other own personal family life. i certainly understand why aipac issued that statement because, as an american, i want members of my congress, of my country, to be allowed to come visit, you know, to go anywhere in the world. especially to a place like israel, which is a tremendous ally. but, the policies that she

embraces are directly set to undermine and destroy israel. and i understand why that's a problem for israelis. and we could sit here and discuss whether or not israel should sort of look the other way and say come on in anyway and maybe she should. but whatever, again, who drags their poor grandmother in to some stupid political fight like this? jedediah: yeah, charlie, i want to ask you about 20206789 there has been hooper and then it was beto and now it's yang. there seems to be this push to get these 2020 democratic candidates to say you know what? we are not going to run for president anymore. instead we are going to run for senate. what do you think of that andrew yang coming out right away i'm not doing it under any circumstances. what do you think is behind this push? >> i think a big thing that's behind it is democrats are getting frustrated because you still have this huge massive fieldenned all of the media attention is on a couple of two or three of the craziest candidates out there. and so they are trying to

sort of salvage the field here and find places for these other candidates to go. tto winnow the field down. a guy like beto o'rourke thinks fairly highly of himself at this point and can't imagine that he can possibly deprive america of his presidency. [laughter] and to stoop so low as to do something like run for senate. and so, of course they are all going to get their backs up. jedediah: thank you for being here, charlie. i agree on beto. that's funny. he definite live thinks he is set for the presidency. i can see that thank you so much. >> have a great day. jedediah: president trump mistakenly calls out one of his supporters at his new hampshire rally he thought was a protester. >> that guy has a serious weight problem. go home, start exercising. [laughter] todd: but that man tells us exactly what happened and talks about the call out from the president after the rally. you don't want to miss it.

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jedediah: time now for news by the numbers. first nearly four tons, that's how much pot border officials just prevented from hitting the streets. officially seizing a load of marijuana valued over $2 million found in the shipment of jalapeño peppers? what? amazing. next, 8 hours. that's how long passengers on a delta flight from new york to miami was stuck on their plane before finally taking off. a fight breaking out in the chaos with police having to break it up. delta says the delay was due to weather.

and $6.4 million. that's a record breaking price tag for an original james bond as ton martin. the car used in pro-emotional vehicle for the 1965field film thunder ball just sold at auction in california. very cool. griff: very cool. i will take one. president trump's new hampshire rally thursday night the president thought he was mocking a protester. watch. [cheers] >> that guy has a serious weight problem. go home. start exercising. get him out of here, please. got a bigger problem than i do. griff: well, it turns out he was singling out one of his own supporters. that man joins with more. i was outside the rally. griff, i have got to tell you what really happened.

so for the rest of the country, frank, what happened? >> well, basically i'm enjoying the rally like everybody else to see my president of the united states donald trump and support him and there were some individuals that i a little hankie feeling about and law enforcement term, and they -- in the rally they started to stand up and protest and i dropped the signs that they secreted into the arena. i said it's not going to happen on my watch. so i started to take the signs away. i was successful with all three. griff: you spent more than 30 years retired u.s. navy and law enforcement and so you got a sense that something was taking place near i in this case you were correct they were protesters and you said "not on my watch." what did you mean? >> i didn't want it to happen and a quick clarification i was a u.s. mark for 31 years and i was in the navy for four and then the reserves for six

years. government service my whole life. and catch on to things and i i just didn't want it to happen. they were standing up in front of people and they were rude and they didn't belong there i don't like bullies and they were trying to bully their way to be recognized and it was president trump's night. he is my president. i love the guy. and i don't care what he said he is a great guy i wanted to enjoy the rally. griff: you received a very important phone call. did you not? >> yeah. don't you figure that there is no service in the arena. right after the event, the president called me. i never even knew i got the call because there was no service. around midnight my phone went off again and i looked and i got oh my god what's this? i got a message from the president of the united states. and i have already told people i'm not going to tell anybody it was a private message between him and i. but i will summarize it by saying he thanked me several times and he was appreciative to the fact that i dealt with those

protesters. griff: have you spoken to the president directly yet, frank. >> i have not. i don't expect to because is he a busy guy. he is the president of the united states, one of the most important people in the entire world i'm just a guy that supports him like millions of other americans. i love the guy and it doesn't matter if he talks to me or not, i'm still going to support him. griff: what would you like to say president trump, frank? >> i want to thank him for recognizing what i did. i mean. he is a busy guy. he is on that stage if someone said he misidentified me. that's fine. things like that happen all the time. it's the matter of fact the news has already started, the fake news has already started to say different things, he called you up and apologized. that's not true he called me up and left a message thanking me. and trying to throw other wrenches into the monkey works here and if just didn't happen. he is a great guy. griff: just for the record,

frank, are you taking any measures to lose any pounds? >> i go to the gym four or five days a week. i use the elliptical. i might have a stomach area but i like bud light. my local tavern the new town in bill ricker mass. that's one of my haunts. maybe they will start giving me miclite instead. griff: it was great meeting you. thank you for coming on. we appreciate it? >> thank you very much. it was a pleasure meeting you. say hi to everybody at "fox & friends." griff: yes, sir. time for a fox news alert. a live look at hong kong the 11th great weekend. we will have a live report on the ground coming up. griff: and why we are racing lawn mowers around the fox square, you see adam and todd racing. go, adam. griff: spin out of control.

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sportsmanship maybe one of my favorite things in this game. ♪ put me in, coach. jedediah: it is your shot of the morning little league world series pictures showing incredible sportsmanship after giving up a home run. griff: alexander son high fiving virginia's yates as he rounds the bases. todd: that compelled 3-0 but rhode island definitely won america's hearts. jedediah: that's amazing. little leaguers play better than i do. i'm just going to put that information out there. i'm not very good. future baseball player. jedediah: if he is going to go to the majors and make a lot of cash. griff: i like that plan. todd: speaking of the majors we all know what the number one issues of this campaign is going to be. of course, we are talking about the economy, immigration, the did h designatd hitter rule. what? that's right. pete buttigieg just said the d.h., the did he go sis nateed hitter, the one that exists in the american league.

the american league has somebody bat in the place of the pitcher. you have the pitcher bat. well pete buttigieg, i'm going to say, spoke out of turn. he offered his most controversial statement yet on the campaign trail. get rid of the dh. jedediah: you guys have to tell me, is this a big deal? todd: i want to hear what he has to say. jedediah: okay. here he is, all right. >> i feel like you ought to have to play both parts of the inning. [applause] it just seems a little funny to me that all have you got to do is just be there for the hitting part. but i'm not going to impose that on anybody else. todd: here's the deal with that. jedediah: it is a big deal. >> you hear on talk radio especially here in the city. you talk all the time the d.h. is important it should be in the national league. no it should be out of the american league. worst thing in the world. ruins the tradition of the game. at the end of the day, if you want to see a lot of home runs, if you want to see a lot of runs, period,

you want the dh. if you want traditional strategic baseball if you want a thinking man's game you want national league. buttigieg is a harvard smart guy he likes the strategy. trump i want results, i want runs. i get the feeling trump is american league dh want numbers. jedediah: is there anybody at home going what's the dh like me didn't have such a profound analysis of todd right here? griff: people are wondering, buttigieg, indiana, do they have a major league baseball team in the answer is no. todd: i guess he is a cubs fan from the region. jedediah: maybe this is what gets people talking about buttigieg. we will turn to headlines for you. more than 700 people coming together to comfort a man lost his life of 22 years in the el paso shooting. antonio vas co-getting hugs and condolences for his wife. vas co-invited the public to the services after revealing

he had no other family. the response was so overwhelming, the service had to be moved to a larger venue. hshe will be laid to rest today. justice department seizes iranian oil tanker. the doj attempting to take control of the ship, all of the oil on board and about a million dollars in cash. officials accuse iran of using the tank tore launder money and breach u.s. sanctions by shipping oil to syria. and lightning miss as man by mere feet and it's all caught on camera. surveillance cameras from a south carolina high school shows the man walking through campus when the bolt suddenly strikes. can you see him drop his umbrella in shock as he first jumps and runs away. incredibly, he was not hurt. he works as a counselor at the school and says he was trying to get something to eat and those are your headlines, head out to adam now. adam, what do you have in weather for us? adam: steamy day in new york city.

a nice little crowd out here. they kept backing away from the gate because we were on those lawn mowers just a moment ago. people are scared when todd and i are zooming around fox square. they were get that under control. the weather across the country not looking too bad today, temperatures right now sitting in the 70's and 80's. take a look at those maps. what we are looking at with those temperatures causing some thunderstorms in the middle of the country, this is a spot pretty much throughout the entire day. but those are severe thunderstorm warnings which means the conditions are there can you see some severe thunderstorms right in the heart of missouri working their way towards st. louis. the other story is a big broad low pressure system sitting in the gulf of mexico. we got flood warnings stretching across the western side of florida into the big bend. we could sees a much as 8 to 10 inches of total precipitation. it will be mostly dry. 20% chance here in new york city. which means it's a good day to mow the lawn. which is how i'm going to now toss it to the guys. here about 100 feet from me. right over there. griff: that's a great toss. thank you, adam.

we are getting ready for a mow down showdown on fox square. the 27th annual lawn mower championships is coming up this labor day. todd: here with the sneak peek at the action. u.s. lawn mower racing association along with the group's president, quite an executive body you have got here. carrie evans and three families getting ready to compete in the finals. the question that all of america is wondering, what the heck is lawn mower racing? [laughter] bruce? >> it's a great opportunity where too much free time meets american ingenuity. we have been doing this 27 years. we are rocking and mowing. griff: this is the 27th annual. this has been going on for a while. how did it get its start? >> well, it started back in america in 1963, believe it or not, and then the british started in 1973. and then we have brought it over across the pond. in 1992. april fools day, of course. and we have been kicking grass ever since. [laughter]

jedediah: these guys are going to race later. >> they are. jedediah: what's the key to being a really good lawn mower racer? >> the key is actually a sense of humor. [laughter] todd: i am known as the fourth funniest person in rank. >> sense of american ingenuity. we americans love to tinker we built theist in the backyard and shop no blades no, motorcycle engines. it's just good, good american fun. we don't race for money. trophy, glory and bragging rights. griff: kerry, talk to us why it's so popular. >> it starts out like a family event. we are so family oriented in what we do. it seems like when we have these family reunions a lawn mower race breaks out. [laughter] jedediah: i love that spread across the united states. we probably have over 500 events from cois-to-coast

local chapters and events. adam: i mowed the lawn as a kid i always wish my dad in h. a faster mower so i could get it done howfs do they move. >> some 20 to 30. we have some 60 and 70. we actually in 2010 did the bonville 96 miles per hour. griff: we gorg race later on. you will get a sneak peek. i will read this tease. while you fire those lawn mowers up and get them ready to go. who 2020 andrew yang wants to forgive if he becomes president. first, start your engines. and off you go. ♪ ♪ -their béarnaise sauce here is the best in town.

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and now the stuff that he says to a certain segment of the world is politically correct. specifically his appear salute abject hatred of president trump and what is he willing to put our country through to accomplish that. jedediah: people talk about trump derangement syndrome. this is it on display. he is now, again, this is multiple times he has done. this but once again calling for a recession saying it would be worth it to get rid of trump. let's take a listen. >> i have been saying for about two years that i hope we have a recession. they don't last forever. you know what lasts forever? wiping out species and people. he rolled back the protections of the endangered species act. this to save the green sea turtle, the american alligator. bald eagles, grizzly bears, gray wolfs, humpback whales, yes, a recession would be very worth getting rid of donald trump and these kind of policies. jedediah: you know what bothers me most about this is the applause, actually.

you can't tell me that there is no one in that audience that isn't part of the middle class that would be impacted by a recession and it's like have all of those people as well forgotten their sanity that just because they hate donald trump now they are actively supporting something that would actually hurt themselves, their friends potentially and their own families? this is the kind of lunancy you see when someone cannot see beyond their hatred of someone. he hates donald trump so much he is not seeing the big picture anymore. griff: mar does also see because of president trump's strongest talking point for his strongest, you know, thing to check the box. here is why you should vote for me is this economy which is booming in so many ways admits there is some talk that this new inverted yield curve has been an indicator that a recession was on the horizon. you have to wonder whether or not it is entirely political or he keeps doubling down because he believes that his prophecy after two years is finally going to come true. todd: to your point, jedediah, the individuals in the audience clapping. i live in an extremely

democratic state. i would say majority of my friends who are democrats do not want a recession by any stretch of the imagination. they may not love trump but they worry about their pocketbook. that said, i have a lot of friends that are on facebook and other parts of the country. they espouse that bill maher view. it's going to be interesting to see how much that you see of that view coming up in 2020. jedediah: yeah, tell us what you think friends@foxnews.com. do you think it's smart for him to do that? and will there be any backlash toward bill maher among democrats for saying something like that and does it work? hey, listen, maybe it's successful. griff: if we end up in a recession, whether or not people are actually really hurting. we have stories of real financial collapse, what then will bill maher say? jedediah: we have a very big story coming up. a navy veteran and father fighting to get his son back. his mother took him without permission to her home country of peru. the legal battle he is now facing to bring his son home is coming right up. so any plans for this weekend?

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griff: a navy veteran has been locked in a fierce legal spanning three years and crossing two continents all to unite with his young son. jedediah: nicholas niko johnson was taken by his mother to native peru without his father's knowledge or permission. the custody battle has been tied up in peruvian courts ever since and now his father is announcing a public campaign to shine a light on his fight to bring niko home. griff: eric johnson joins us now. good morning, eric. let's start with where this stands. what is the latest on this story? >> good morning. thank you all for having me. the latest on the story is that we have been fighting for three years now as you said. we were waiting for court in

peru but it's taking quite a bit of time. we are now trying to bring public awareness to our fight here as this next court battle can take three to five years just to get a court date and that's way too long without my son. it's going on too long. jedediah: take us back in this story this started in 2016. you had full custody. how did this come to be where we are now standing in this place right now? >> of course. thank you, yeah. in april of 2016, my son, nicholas, was adopte adducted to his peruvian mother to peru. sorry. he was abducted to peru by his peruvian mother. and from there we started a long battle to bring him home. the state department has been helping us as much as they can. but as far as we can go we

need our country's help now. so, we have asked for the police department to help, the state department. we're asking for our senators to help. and just try to bring nicholas home. griff: eric, let me ask you, what cooperation are you getting from lawmakers or the state department and also when is the last time you were able to speak to nico? >> so the last time -- i will answer the second one first. the last time i was able to speak with nicholas, there are court ordered call times in peru about the court order is not adhered to and communication is very sparse with talking with nicholas. we have reached out to senator bergas senator corbin and senator cruz and we would also like to reach out to president trump. we are asking our

representatives to use the tools provided by the goldman act, if you are aware of the goldman act and it allows the state department to use certain tools, to help bring our american children home. but we are not using those tools that was provided to us. jedediah: we should note that we did reach out to nico johnson's mother. she could not be reached for comment. we also reached out to the state department for comment. they have not returned our requests. my concern here, eric, is will it be used to justify this kidnapping the fact that now your son is there in peru. will they say now he considers peru a home so it would be unjust to actually send him back? is that something you are worried about? >> so, what the latest ruling in court and down in peru was even against the law they will rule in her favor for nicholas to stay in peru acknowledging that

nicholas' mother had broken the law but saying it was okay for him to stay in peru due to the amount of time frame it took for peruvian courts. the time frame it took in peruvian courts because of their noncompliance with the hague treaty. the hague treaty states six weeks. griff: eric, before we run out of time i want to ask you as a father are you able to visit and go and see niko in person? >> we try to visit him whenever we can. but it's been very tough. we have received threats from nicholas' mother stating that if we come down to peru, we will be arrested. so we are just trying to. we hope he can see this and know we are fighting for him. jedediah: eric, thank you for joining us today. for more information people should visit bring nico home.com. obviously an horrific experience for any parent to have we appreciate it. griff. griff: our heart goes out to

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griff: we are going to need a video o jeremy singing love songs. i'm sorry, jeremy. jedediah: got to do what you got to do. griff: summertime summer is not over yet. august 17th. we have a few more days of summer left. we are not letting go. tomorrow we will take you possibly surfing with todd. that's a tease. jedediah: absolutely. we have been following in the news this whole issue of president trump suggesting that there was a potential setup after congresswoman tlaib rejects israel's invite as he praises the country for acting appropriately. obviously president trump praising netanyahu. the story here is that originally rasheda tlaib and ilhan omar were denied entrance to israel. there was a congressional delegation of democrats and republicans that went to israel very recently. they chose not to be part of that delegation. instead, to go by themselves. they wanted to go by themselves. they are members of the bdf

movement. have made openly critical statement of israel that have been fairly controversial. so, israel denied their entrance, then rasheda tlaib made a plea and said listen, my grandmother is there and i need to get to her. she is 90 years old. israel came back and said you are permitted on humanitarian grounds strictly to go. rasheda tlaib came back and said oh never mind. it was a set-up. president trump weighing in saying representative tlaib wrote a letter to israeli officials definitely wanting to visit her grandmother. permission was granted where tlaib turned it down. a complete set up. the only real winner here is tlaib's grandmother. she doesn't have to see her now. why did they do this? was it in an effort to get israel to decline the offer to make a political talking point? my feeling is if you really wanted to see your grandmother, you would have taken israel up on that offer and also important to note that the group that was sponsoring this trip by rasheda tlaib and ilhan omar was a group. it's called mifta it has a

long history of making anti-semitic comments if you are afilliating yourself with anti-semitic group that would not really bode well for your welcome into israel. they are wondering what is your motivation for coming here. griff: rasheda tlaib and ilhan omar raised. israel is justified under a law to deny their entry. the interior minister from israel did tweet this saying i have approved her request on a gesture of goodwill on humanitarian basis as you mentioned, jed, it was just a provocative request aimed at bashing the state of israel. apparently her hate for israel overcomes her love for her grandmother. here we have a case where she was denied. she requested this visa. granted it quickly and then rejected it. it looks like all accounts on the fails of it to be politically motivated. politically driven and does he have little to calm down the issue. she and omar have been accused of inflaming these

passions. and the president striking out in that tweet saying let's call this for what it is. todd: obviously we can analyze this from a geopolitical perspective. get all haifa lieutenant. there is just being this is grandma. charlie hurt when we had him on earlier really drove that point on. >> who uses their aging grandmother as a pawn to make a political point. meanwhile, she has also turned down an opportunity to go with a congressional delegation to the country. as an american, i want members of my congress, of my country to be allowed to come visit, you know, to go anywhere in the world. especially to a place like israel, which is a tremendous ally. but, the policies that she embraces are directly set to undermine and destroy israel. and i understand why that's a problem for israelis. jedediah: i think what they are counting on is the media

to tell the narrative that they think it's going to tell is that netanyahu bans two congresswomen with potentially dissenting views from israel and what they're not doing is looking into the associations, looking into the fact that they ignored this other delegation. why not go that route. and looking into the motivation for, listen, if you are going to go into a country and you are going to have a humanitarian purpose or unifying purpose and you are not trying to cause controversy. why do you ally yourself with anti-semitic group it's really as simple as that they should be called into question on that above all else and the issue of the grandma as well. when you say i'm going to visit my grandma and somebody says okay come visit your grandma. oh never mind i'm not going to come. was that really the issue? twas that important? griff: we shall see where that all goes. there is another story we have been talking about today. todd: from grandma to grandpa. griff: that's not fair. you are call joe biden grand part of joe biden is leading the 2020 democratic field. continues to in the latest fox news poll. still 21% still in the front it.

is the endorsement from his boss, from his buddy as joe biden calls him president barack obama who has been sitting on the sidelines appears, according to the "new york times," to be weighing in now saying there were allegedly some meetings between the two. biden and obama, about whether or not joe really should do that here's a quote on what obama told biden earlier this year, according to the "new york times." it's very simple. he said you don't have to do, this joe. you really don't. the article goes on to say that essentially he felt that, among other things, biden's campaign team is not up to date with the current times. not lurching to the left as we have seen warren and sanders and kamala harris and also there is an inference that obama himself and advisors to president obama's administration are worried that biden's run could ultimately disgrace the legacy of the obama presidency. todd: joking about the grandpa moment there with regard to biden but there was an underpinning of what

obama did say. you need to get younger campaign staff that's definitely a dig. we are all wondering why hasn't there been this endorsement that we have been expecting? it could be that there is more there to this situation than we know i think this "new york times" article really sort of takes the legs out of the we're bro's argument. they may not be bros. jedediah: as we have seen in these debates time and again joe biden has to had to defend legacy deportations to obamacare. i'm wondering if president obama feels his legacy is being upheld well on this stage and doesn't want to put that burden on joe biden to have to defend it in this field that is far left, that has ticked very far left and interestingly enough we talked to jason nichols democratic strategist last hour and he talked about those legacies. take a listen what he has to say? >> both of their legacies are on the line. particularly president obama and part of this, honestly, is his responsibility because he ran from his own accomplishments.

i think the party has shifted to the left. and i think that that's something that obama realized and recognized and thought that maybe joe biden could sit this out and being there is no shame in being vice president. jedediah: yeah, there is also just a little possibility that maybe he knows biden is not that good at this. i hate to say it. biden is not a great campaigner. he is not. hey, dude, listen, this isn't your moment. maybe you don't need to go out and do this right now. maybe he is trying to help him out. griff: the article points out that biden has been a faithful wing man and a very good one at that he has yet to stand as a single core power in drive sort of necessary attention and fairness to biden, biden is apparently also in that conversation reported to have said well, look, i thought i could beat trump in 2016 and i didn't. i let hillary win. this time i will never forgive myself if i don't try to take trump down.

todd: we sort of were tipped off to this at least the second democratic debate a couple weeks ago, running away from obama. you heard the attacks on president obama throughout the course of that debate. our jaw where was dropping. kimberly klacik we had on also arepublican strategist we had her on a couple hours ago. take a listen. >> i don't think president obama had any accomplishments. as we saw in the last democratic debate, everyone was throwing him under the bus. each candidate walls. so, yes, he is jumping in to defend his legacy, but is he also defending the dnc playbook. their strategy, just like in 2016, was to run on the fact that they love obama and everywhere else should love obama. i have to wonder if obama was keeping under wraps that he didn't think biden was fit, i wonder what other secrets obama might have. griff: third debate is coming up in september. jedediah: question also is obama, if he were running on his old platform right now, as charismatic as he was and as good of a campaigner

would he have a shot? we're going to turn to some headlines for you now. jeff epstein's official cause of death is ruled suicide by hanging. his lawyers disagree with new york's chief medical examiner and are vowing to conduct their own investigation. in a statement, they wrote, quote: we are not satisfied with the conclusions of the medical examiner. this as fox news learns that members of the prison staff are not cooperating with investigators. epstein was facing nearly 40 years in prison on sex trafficking charges. and two law enforcement officers shot during an hours' long standoff in missouri. james cummings shooting sheriff's deputy serving him eviction notice. the deputy was shot three times and airlifted to a hospital. he is in stable condition and will be okay. the trooper was treated and released actor fonda has died. best known for movie easy

rider. >> dude means nice guy. dude means regular sort of person. >> you boys don't look like you are from this part of the country. you are lucky i'm here to see that you don't get in anything. >> anything? >> fonda was nominated for an oscar for co-writing the 1960's counter culture film. he died at his home in los angeles after battling lung cancer. he was the only son of henry fonda. his sister jane fonda said in a statement that he went out laughing. peter fonda was 79. those are your headlines. griff: all right. he will be missed. turning now to a fox news alert. protesters streets of hong kong for the 11th straight weekend. todd: a week full of launching tear gas and scuffling with demonstrators. jedediah: susan li is live on the streets as all unfolds. susan, what's the latest? >> that's right. so, on the saturday, what largely started off as a pro-democracy march that was peaceful quickly devolved into a seen that unfortunately we are familiar with here in hong

kong. what happened was we actually saw riot police the press was chasing them down these busy streets. just a few minutes ago in their heavy artillery what happened were these protesters showed up at a police station for anybody that's ever been to hong kong know it's a densely populated location in the city very popular with tourists. protesters showed up at the police station. the police station bolted up told them to disperse. they didn't go anywhere. they just stayed put. the riot police were called. in and then the chase ensued down the streets. unfortunately for those citizens that live in hong kong, this is a scene that they're familiar with. something that they haven't seen for almost a generation. now, there are concerns about facing military intervention. this after the video that was basically circulated around social media showing a heavy build up of chinese troops and also tanks and artillery just 20 miles from the border with hong kong --

china and hong kong. now fake media in china says military exercises preparing to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the communist people's founding. but, you can't hope but feel that maybe showing -- we have a lot of guards, a lot of troops and heavy artillery. we can come in to focus if necessary. most experts say they think the possibility is very remote at this point for beijing to actually step in now tomorrow we are expecting a massive protest to take place. the last time this type of rally was called it's a 1 million to 2 million out of hong kong's 7 million residents take to the streets. this is something we are closely watching. the whole city is preparing for. and also calling for peace. i want to bring this up. this made headlines, the french spiderman climbed one of the sk skyscrapers here calling for peace between china and hong kong. guys? >> susan li live for us in hong kong. thank you. todd: what a volatile

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griff: welcome back it was a win for the trump administration as the ninth circuit of appeals for now will allow the president wants asylum policy that limits requests to move forward. the ruling, however, making it so border officials in california and arizona will not be able to apply the new rule against asylum seekers while agents in texas and new mexico can. acting cbp commissioner mark morgan joins you now to react. good morning, mark. i want to ask you how will this impact things? what does this mean to you iin the overall goal of

trying to secure our border? >> well, i think what the american people need to understand is just now complicated these legal proceedings are. so, sometimes we get enjoined nationally and then in this case we were initially and then we have a partial victory where we can institute this partially. but, in those states, texas and new mexico where we can institute this now, this will be a game changer. it will allow us to absolutely institute an initiative now we truly believe will help stem the flow of illegal immigration. griff: commissioner, if you could choose what to add to further hope you control these numbers, what would you request? what would you like to see happen? >> well, the first thing we have been saying, griff, you and i have talked about a long time is we are doing great stuff with the government of mexico and the government of guatemala. they stepped up in unprecedented ways to look at this as a regional crisis. in some ways it's a game changer right now. at the end of the day, it's not a durable, sustainable solution. we still need congress to get together to pass

meaningful legislation to address the loopholes in our system. that is the only way we're going to truly address this crisis. griff: well, speaking of addressing things, commissioner i have got to ask you. i travel a lot. i do not like travel delays there were incidents across the country from jfk here all the way out to the west coast, your system crashed causing huge lines, frustrated passengers for chaos, for immigration officials who were unable to process people. can you see here in new york. you can see the upset passengers. what happened? >> so, it's frustrating. and we are just as frustrated that happened. what we can say is we have no indication there was any intentional hacking or any criminal activity involved in this. this is straightforward computer glitch. on the good side we had our technical response team that got on it immediately. they restored the programs. got them back online across the board. we are still investigating exactly what the root cause is. we are frustrated too but we are going to try to get better to make sure that doesn't happen in the

future. griff: one more topic, commissioner, i want to get. google weighing into politics pressuring the company to no longer work with ice and border patrol, your reaction, sir? >> that kind of rhetoric is frustrating. it's absolutely irresponsible. it's misinformed. it's not factual and a lot of that is straight out lies. let me tell the american people what the truth is i just returned from el paso where i toured 175,000 square foot facility to help with overcrowding. it's one of several across the southwest border. what the truth is and when they walk in there, they are going to see that these families and children are receiving the hot meal. they are going to see children setting in front of flat screen tvs watching cartoons. they are getting medical attention. that's the truth. this kind of rhetoric is irresponsible, reckless and it's a lie. griff: thank you acting commissioner. i have seen it myself. thank you for being here. we have reached out to google and have not received a statement back. if we get one, we will give it to you. weight watchers now rolling

out a weight loss app. for kids. does this cross the line or is it just what the doctor ordered? a nutritionist weighs in coming up ♪ give them something to talk about ♪ let's get down to business.

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todd: some quick headlines on your saturday morning. an airport security worker fired after sending offensive note to a passenger. listen to this. surveillance video shows her slipping into a random traveler, it reads, quote: you ugly. the worker seen laughing as the man reads the message. he says he wasn't offended but did report her to rochester, new york authorities. she is now fired. powerful photos show st. louis firefighters pulling four young kids from a burning home. fortunately, they are all okay. the children including two

18-month-old twins were home alone. one found hiding in a closet three in cardiac arrest. emergency responders performing cpr in the streets before rushing to the hospital. jed? jedediah: thanks, todd. weight watchers is sparking outrage this week releasing a weight loss app. for teens and kids as young as 8 years old. the company says the app. called curbo is designed to help kids unhealthy eating habits. critics say this could lead to unhealthy body image. how young is too young to start talking about dieting doctor, welcome to the show. >> my pleasure, thank you. jedediah: my concern with this targeting kids very young. 8 years old is very, very young. using things like streaks that look like snapchat. this is a conversation happening between parents and kids. what if they never have the conversation and kids use the app. on their own. >> that is what is scary about it. it does ask people sign off.

people can lie. check off whatever on the box. you know, i think -- i really recognize that weight watchers is in the weight loss business and they are trying to use something that kids can relate to to help them because, let's face it, childhood obesity is a problem. at the end of the day, it really starts with families and it starts with what types of behaviors our parents you know, modeling for their children. what types of foods are in their homes. i mean, if you think about it an 8-year-old isn't going grocery shopping for their family. jedediah: right. i want to point to they use kind of like a traffic light system to help generate excitement around it. and take a look at this. green foods are foods that can be eaten any time like vegetables they label yellow watch your portions like protein and pasta, odd that protein and pasta are griewpsd there and red are foods that should be limited like candy and soda but some of the groupings that they -- i look at this the site. i care deeply about nutrition it's one you have

my passions. i disagreed with a lot of their perspective on nutrition. >> right. jedediah: my concern is when you are dealing with an 8-year-old. very young child. their needs may be different from that of an adult. they are growing. those parents may not see eye to eye with this app. those parents may not see the app. their kids are following a diet they may not know what is going on here. >> other thing, too. they are offering a coaching program which, again, for children, clearly an 8-year-old doesn't have their own credit card. they are going to have to ask a parent in order to engage that component of the program. i would rather see people going to dietitians if there is an issue with a child's weight or health and let's face it, weight is not the only way to measure health. let's start with that and recognize a kid as young as 8 are not going through pursuant yet. things are going to be changing as their body changes. their muscle structure. everything about what makes us who we are as adults is formed in childhood too

mowed kiran is really the emotional component and mental health component of that and what it's going to do. jedediah: great point you made skinniness is not always healthy. we do have a statement from the weight watchers kurbo focuses on behavior more activity not dieting or calorie counting. studies show behavior based weight management programs do not cause eating disorders. manage their weight in a healthy way. obviously they are seeking to address what we have in this country which is an obesity epidemic. what do you think of his statement? >> you know, i appreciate it. the challenge i have because i have worked with many adults that have eating disorders. even if you look at stuff online when i was preparing for this i looked at a lot of the comments. a lot of people with eating disorders talk about how they start at a young age as young as 12, you know, even younger. i have had a client for many years who, you know, had a eating disorder that started when she was 6 or 7 years

old. some people predisposed to it, something like that is going to be a trigger for that but, you know, look, at the end of the day, it's not just about food. it's food, it's physical activity. do communities have safe places for kids to play. can they get out and do that? and think about physical education. p.e. has gone away from school. i mean, it's called physical education. we have to educate kids about moving and movement. jedediah: a comprehensive approach. >> nutrition education in schools as well. you know, that can be integrated into a lot of different topics. jedediah: we appreciate you being here. most important for me is parents make sure you are having conversations with your kids on one one. know what they are doing there. i appreciate your input as always. >> thank you. jedediah: jay-z is stirring some controversy as he reportedly weighs becoming an nfl team owner. one player is now calling out the rapper, accusing him of selling out. a new backlash is coming up next. ♪ there's a company that's talked to even more real people

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>> come on, lucas, here we go. your uncle is here. figured out a way. >> yes, we are on the way. could you tell that pitcher to bring it right in here and we will go man to man right now and see who has got power. see who has got heat. jedediah: it your shot of the morning basketball hall of famer bill walton jumping on the mic to call a baseball game.

todd: the results absolutely hilarious. joining the broadcast as the sock sox took on the los angeles angels. griff: this ain't walton's only radio. he calls basketball the white sox won 7-2 i love the ty ditiei do. jedediah: anything that takes back in time they should bring that back. griff: one who listened to the grateful dead in high school and college. walton is a well known dead head. you often see him wearing ty dies. >> walton biography. time in ucl unreal. fascinating man. griff: while we are on sports stay here. story now amidst rumors that music mogul jay-z is rumored to get ownership stake in undisclosed nfl team. but the carolina panthers safety eric reed, a friend of colin kaepernick is blasting jay-z saying that this is a money move.

is he only in it for the money, saying that essentially jay-z is stomping on colin kaepernick's original effort to try and bring social justice to the nfl and essentially also saying that colin kaepernick is not reinstated and get his job back then jay-z can't have an ownership stake. jedediah: we have a tweet we never advocated fofer collin to lose his job while we fought against systemic injustice. now the nfl is championing social justice to cover their own system nic oppression in back balling colin. so we'll fight. jay-z knowingly made a money move with the very people love committed an injustice. quote that we move past kneeling. it looks like jay-z wants to move let's get away from this and let's talk about social justice maybe in a a

different way and get past this debate and eric reid doesn't like that very much. todd: jay-z was not for getting beyond kneeling before he joined in with the social justice initiative which essentially like griff said earlier is going to bring some artists that weren't necessarily going to be part of certain nfl events like the super bowl into the fold. that prevents the super bowl from losing a huge segment of audience. makes kum ba yah once again. hold on here i'm still fighting for kaepernick going forward. interesting to see with the nfl season right around the corner. preseason week number two. interesting to see what happens starting week won in the nfl. do people listen to eric reid. do people listen to eric jay-z? jedediah: is everything just a money move? are you cynical like my grandpa used to be all about

money. maybe that's true. griff: if you are jay-z how do you approach it? maybe i will rethink trying to become the first african-american nfl owner. i don't want the politics associated with it or do you double down and say i am trying to move forward beyond colin kaepernick. jedediah: tell us what you think friends@foxnews.com. in the meantime get you headlines. dueling protests sparking fears of violence in portland. fearing protests between antifa and far right rivals. the leader is asking demonstrators to refrain from violence after he was released on bail. joey gibson is facing felony rioting charges. he accuses police targeting conservatives by charging him and not arresting antifa members. and a man with a knife in what appeared to be a bullet-proof vest arrested outside of the israeli embassy in washington embassy security call the secret service after spotting the man acting strangely. police say he made nonsensical statements when

confronted and had rifle ammunition in his car which was nearby. world war ii veteran dog tag returned to his family 75 years after it went missing. american hero son joined us earlier telling us he thought it was too good to be true. >> we had a conversation. i said no, come on, this can't be true. after all this time to find one small little dog tag in italy. jedediah: amazing. >> is just first, you know, i thought well it's a scam. jedediah: a man returning the tag after returning it after walking through a field in italy with a metal detector. amazing. do you know what else is amazing? adam klotz. todd: bravo. adam: good morning, guys. i'm out here making a whole lot of friends this morning. a little bit on the sticky, steamy side. everybody is doing okay. are you guys enjoying yourselves? [cheers] adam: i told them to give me a lot of energy. they followed through. 75 in new york city right now it. is a steamy one. take a look at the maps

across the country. plenty of spots in the eastern half of the country where it's nice and warm. big low pressure system in the gulf. that's what we are paying attention to. getting deeper and deeper into hurricane season. this is a tropical system not going to become a hurricane. still flooding around the florida big bend that's something we need to pay attention to. now into monday, maybe as much as 8 to 120, inches of rain that could cause flooding all away across the florida panhandle. the tropics are completely clear. there is still plenty of time for that to change. as i'm getting ready to toss it back in to you guys, i will ask a question off the top of my head. i just thought of this. we didn't prep it, as we throw it back. in who is your guy's favorite personality on the morning show? >> you are. adam: what? do you believe that? incredible. todd: nice guy. showing us up on national tv. jedediah: quite a set up there. todd: this is the creepiest story of the day.

i don't know if you knew about this. a message recording, of course, we have all heard. >> this call may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance or training purposes. griff: what are those recordings actually being used for? a new report exposes it all and we will explain it. ♪ call me ♪ it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest. kraft for the win win.

>> some quick headlines for you now. a 9-year-old girl is the fourth person to be bitten by a shark at the same florida beach in less than a month. she was wading in knee deep water as new smyrna beach when she felt a bite on her leg. her mom took her to the hospital. she will be okay. none of the other injuries were life-threatening either. and the cereal based on the viral kid's tune baby shark

is hitting store shelves today ♪ baby shark do d doo doo doo ♪ baby shark ♪ mommy shark doo doo doo doo. jedediah: oh boy. the berry flavored cereal marshmallows sold at sam's club and walmart stores next month. down to you, todd. todd: cutest niece in the world when she sees me coming she does this. so cute. have you ever made a phone call and made a message like this? >> this call may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance or training purposes. >> so what are those recordings actually being used for. todd: here to explain associate for technology and national security program at the center for a new american security kara frederick. kara, thank you so much for being here. i have got to be honest. when i heard about, this my jaw dropped because i thought those were just words that i was hearing on the other ending of the phone. didn't pay any mind to it.

you are saying our voice, when we call one of these call centers can be used for something. please explain. >> all right. so, in explaining this thoroughly, i think you need to back it up a little bit. you basically need to say that the implications of this data recording consumer promise right now, they vastly changed and that reflects two different fundamental changes in the data landscape that is number one the amount of data generated globally is increasing and two, most importantly the ability to exploit that data, given emerging technology like artificial intelligence is increasing as well. so these companies, they know they have been sitting on gold mines of data like audio recordings like your fingerprints, like your face now. but artificial intelligence allows it to unlock the power of that gold mine. it helps you extract value and it helps them make sense of that data. >> kara, according to the "wall street journal" what your voice reveals about

you, the "wall street journal" writes, quote: law enforcement agencies are turning to those clues from the human voice to help sketch the faces of suspects. banks are using them to catch scammers and doctors are using such data to defect the onset of dementia or detention. created new possibilities for healthcare finance and criminal justice while also raising fresh privacy concerns. your reaction? >> yeah. of course. well, you have to look at what ai does best. and that is the crux of this article they are saying yeah, we have always had these big data lakes. these data repositories. companies adding to them on a daily basis like wells fargo when do you voice athen occasion so you have these data links. but we have the new technology that enables you to exploit that data to extract value from that data. ai helps detect anomalies and identify patterns. if you look at the real world, what does that mean? it means can you match voice data to other biometric data

points like, again, your fingerprint, your face from facial recognition technology. so, i mean that's good. that's bad. but, there are other ways too where it can help detect potential health defects. like if you use words that you used to use when you were younger, and now you are reverting back to those words, scientists and doctors can say maybe we are looking at the onset of early dementia here. it's detecting patterns in those voices that is key and new. todd: that seems like a positive use. i'm worried about the potential negative implication. so the next time i call and i hair that my call could be used for quote, unquote, quality purposes. what do i do? do i hang up the phone? do i wait to find out until i get somebody on the phone to find out what is a quality purpose? what do i do? >> it depends on really how paranoid you are. you need to have a cognition of what's going on. you need to be vigilant. you basically just need to know that the implications are you might be consenting

to the voice recording. you need to recognize that you are also consenting to the back end analytics that occur once you give up your voice. so if you are okay with that stay on the line. if you are not, retreat. >> kara, should you concern confess many of us have called in. we have been told that they are going to record and it then we get frustrated whether customer service we are trying to achieve and we get angry that could certainly be a marker, a data point that could be used possibly against us? >> exactly. exactly. and if you look at places like china, not saying the united states is china, we have a democratic system that acts as a bulwark of abuses of these technologies. if you extrapolate out and see how this can be abused, in china as of 2017, they have voice biometric databases where they take the voice at a data point and match it up with other biometric indicators like iris scans, whether or not, you know, you are healthy contributing member of society and they use it to

paint a picture, a full profile, digital profile of you. if you want your voice to go into that digital profile, i think you would think twice. griff: a bit concerning and definitely thank you for coming on and explaining to us really what's out there. and now i will think twice when i hear that message. todd: bye-bye privacy, bye-bye clara. >> thanks for having me. griff: he closed his bookstore abortion law he doesn't want sales tax funding abortions. enough to he is heading out and heading south. todd: that business owner shares his story with us next ♪ never compromise what's right ♪ and and uphold your family name ♪ you got to stand for something ♪ or y'all fall for anything ♪ this is jamie. you're going to be seeing a lot more of him now. -i'm not calling him "dad." -oh, n-no. -look, [sighs] i get it. some new guy comes in helping your mom bundle and save with progressive,

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griff: new york governor andrew cuomo signed a sweeping law declaring abortion as a fundamental right. todd: move sparked an outcry one businessman closed his bookstore in quote a day of mourning. >> i just sort of was grieving over it. we had done everything we could as a church beforehand contacting legislators. we had people at the capital building that day trying to lobby but i just couldn't sleep. that night just keep thinking about babies dying. jedediah: now is he closing up shop for good and moving to texas here with more behind the decision owner of the book scout and pastor of christ is king baptist church. welcome to the show first off. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. jedediah: what motivated your decision to say i'm not just going to close for a day i'm going to close up shop and head to texas. >> we were on our way down

to texas visiting some friends and also speaking on behalf of a bill in austin that would have ended abortion in texas. we lived here before, took the freedom that we had here for granted and now we have been back in new york for 8 years. we are starting to see that we don't have that freedom. one thing led to another and going back to texas. griff: pastor, showing shots of your store. when will you actually make this move? what is the plan to close? >> well, we are starting a sale now. we are trying to get rid of stuff cheap in september, the first of september. and then maybe by november we hope to have everything wrapped up. todd: mr. speed, why is this issue of abortion so important to you that you are willing to take a step like this? >> >> we have been involved in filming a documentary called

babies are murdered here and doing a sequel now called babies are still murdered here that will wrap up october 31st. we will actually have the debut of it regulate it and pro-life movement has been guilty of trying to regulate it out of existence. we want to see it end. that's what i hope to do in texas is work on the concept of sanctuary cities for the unborn. and just continue to do work at abortion clinics and that sort of thing, reaching out to aborted women. jedediah: customers to this move and then secondly to people around the country who have heard your story and seeing how passionate you are, passionate enough to make a move like this. what has their reaction been? >> our customers have been -- we have been there in business five years in the store. and so they are sad, you know, that we are leaving and we are sad to be going. but if you look at the thread on our facebook page. it's just crazy. there is a lot of trolls out

there just doing their thing. jedediah: yep. >> it's just part and parcel of what happens when you go viral. griff: john, do you hope to set an example? do you hope other business leaders will take a commitment to faith and take same actions? >> absolutely. especially in the sense that, you know, if we really care about these things, we should do something about it. it's not enough just to say okay i'm going to throw the lever and vote pro-life. i want to actually do something to try to end this thing. if it's going to happen, it's got to be through the gospel of jesus christ being proclaimed. griff: standing by your conviction. pastor jon speed, thank you for coming on with us. good luck with the move. >> thank you very much. griff: journalist andy noe being attacked in portland. today antifa protesters expected to take to the streets again. a former member of antifa weighs in next. jedediah: plus congressman sean duffy and his wife fox news contributor rachel campos-duffy both join us live ♪ i just can't get enough

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barbara bush being to raising his nine kids. even if he's never done it before, we shall find out this, by the way, began 27 years ago. the lawn mower racing association 27 years old. todd: the guy was board, he's like i've got to do something. jedediah: i don't know, man i didn't even know lawn mower racing was a thing. i like it, i think it's cool but there's so much cool stuff going on around the country that you don't even know about and then you bring in the fox & friends and we learn something new every week. griff: we'll get to that in 50 minutes or so. todd: first we have a lot of news to get to and we begin with this. tensions running high ahead of protestings between antifa and far right groups in portland, oregon. griff: city leaders say they will use the full force of the law. jedediah: gillian turner is live in washington. reporter: good morning guys so there are multiple groups now set to converge in portland over

the course of this weekend it's a city that's been racked by ongoing violent political protests over the past couple of years. the cities mayor issuing a stern warning to would be protesters and counter protesters ahead of the weekend. >> to those of you who plan on using portland on august 17 as a platform to spread your hate, you are not welcome here. reporter: this event was planned by joe bigs a former employee of fringe far right media outlet infoward. he posted on facebook he wants this weekend's protest to put an end to domestic terrorism, in particular antifa. he's calling for his followers to begin gathering in downtown portland today. now this sea change in portland has prompted the police chief to remark that over the past two years, that she served she's witnessed a city once renouned for peaceful protests take a

dramatic turn towards violence, but she insists the city is ready. >> the members of the portland police bureau have already put hundreds of hours of planning into our response to demonstrations scheduled for august 17. reporter: this weekend's events have city planners briefing for right wing extremists as well as antifa counter protesters. the poverty of law center says they anticipate a crowd that may be similar to the one that gathered two years ago in charlottesville, virginia when protests there tragically turned deadly. back to you guys. griff: thank you. jedediah: such a scary reality now that you have this protest going on and protest is a corner stone of our republic and you think people just are expecting and people here it's just the last protest in portland you see angie noe, journalist being harassed simply for going there to cover the antifa rally and this is the new reality that unfortunately law enforcement in these communities and leadership

, the people in positions of political leadership in these communities have to deal with which is that its gone to this new unfortunately acceptable form of violence that's just assumed is going to transpire and it's really unfortunate to watch because it's a shame when journalists can't even do their jobs. griff: i covered during president trump's inauguration, we saw antifa trying to come out and take an early stand against president trump and they broke windows that started being against corporations, but gabrielle nadala, a former member of antifa writing an op-ed for fox news basically says here is what we've done. he says antifa has become far more violent, since i was involved nearly a decade ago, i've followed the growth in numbers, incidents, and it is the record of those who have the power and influence of a soap box, as a society we need to take antifa seriously and that means it's time for our leaders to be honest and diligent about exposing a real danger to public safety, in american principles,

what gabrielle is talking about too is antifa got their start in what's known as the battle for seattle the first time they came together and used these tactics, dressing in black, leading police, breaking windows that was when he was involved what has become now has become much more dangerous and violent and based on what he's saying unfortunately, possibly, expect ing people like angie noe to have another episode of being attacked. todd: griff it's really a call for our elected leaders to step up and do something this is a seer just situation and what's interesting to me is not all of the 2020 democratic candidates have come out and said antifa is a bad organization, they need to be stopped. it seems like that should be a non-partisan issue. they haven't yet come out and said that. that's concerning and somewhat interesting. jedediah: kudos to gabrielle he's been on this show and very outspoken it's not easy to be a former member of antifa to come

out and speak and i'm sure he faces a lot of backlash from within that community still expressing himself so good for him for coming out and being honest on that issue. griff: indeed another story we're looking at is the white house, president trump getting an unlikely victory from the ninth circuit court of appeals out in san francisco, siding with the administration on asylum rules and limiting the number of people who can cross the border and claim asylum, and reacting, commissioner mark morgan, and here is what he had to say. >> the american people need to understand it's just how complicated these legal proceedings are, so sometimes we get to enjoy nationally and then in this case, we were initially and then we have a partial victory where we can institute this partially. texas and new mexico where we can institute this now, this will be a game changer. it will allow us to absolutely institute an initiative now, what we truly believe will help

stem the flow of illegal immigration. we still need congress to get together to pass meaningful legislation to address the loopholes in our system. jedediah: and coming right out you see a map we have here of the states who are the asylum rule applies. can you see texas and new mexico , can apply the rule, california and arizona will not apply the rule and griff i'm curious your perspective, how much of the game changer this will be. you've been on the frontlines covering these border issues what do you think of this? griff: well it's a huge game changer certainly in texas and new mexico because you're talking about in a few months ago we were in these unprecedented numbers from the families from the northern triangles so it's all about controlling numbers so that's why these facilities are over run in this limits the number of people that can come across and claim asylum and so anything and that's what i think commissioner morgan was saying. anything that helps get the numbers under control is certainly as he put it a game changer. todd: you're looking at it through the immigration lens and that's proper in this context. i'm looking at it through the

straight up legal lens. this is a very interesting decision because we've seen so often during the trump adminitration circuits especially the ninth circuit taking their decision and applying it to the entire country. yes this is on immigration, but don't be surprised if you see lawyers licking their chops right now because they know they can use this precedent going forward to say even in the over liberal ninth circuit they were very limited in their application. it doesn't apply to the whole country. let's see this come up in different areas besides immigration in the next year and a half or so. jedediah: and obviously, you know, immigration has become a very polarizing issue as we're now in the midst of the 2020 election season, and one of the other issues that's become really polarizing is the economy because president trump has achieved great success on the economy and liberals are trying to figure out how do we run against that. what do we say we're going to advocate for policies completely the opposite of what has actually been successful anyway if they don't say that outloud believe me they know it. well, late night host bill maher is weighing in calling for recession saying it would be worth it to get rid of trump. this is nothing new to let's

take a look back at bill maher and what he said about this in the past. >> this economy is going pretty well. i feel like the bottom has to fall out at some point and by the way i'm hoping for it because i think one way you get rid of trump is a crashing economy, so please, bring on the recession. >> a recession is a survivable event. what trump is doing to this country is not. >> democracy is about to go the way of the dinosaurs because we've been taken over by a dodo bird. >> i've been hoping for a recession. people hate me for it but it would get rid of trump so you shouldn't hate me for it. >> recessions are really bad. people lose their jobs. >> well you shouldn't wish for a recession because that will definitely get him unelected. we have survive many recessions. you can't survive another donald trump. jedediah: and guess what he is not backing down. take a listen to what he had to say on it last night. >> i've been saying for about

two years that i hope we have a recession. >> a recession would be very worth getting rid of donald trump and these kind of policies jedediah: oh, boy. it's trump derangement. it's crazy. griff: he was asked do you really mean what you're saying because he certainly is one of them for those that can remember 2008-2009 people lost their entire lives, many of them haven't even been able to build back what they had saved for, what they had worked for, and so really honestly, it's a given whether or not we don't know whether it would have an impact the re-election of donald trump but what is certain if it is, if he does get his wish is that lives would be destroyed. many of them that are unable to recover when it comes to what they try and invest in and so it's an interesting tactic he's taking. jedediah: well you know, the nerve. he's sitting on a pile of money this high and he's talking about well we'll get over a recession. well that's really great of you to say bill maher you're sitting on a pile of money not everybody has that advantage.

some people they get by a recession and don't recover for a long long time. todd: cynthia e-mailed us and wrote a recession won't impact bill maher's life but it will impact the life of hard working middle and lower class middle americans. his comments are shameful. jedediah: we also have an e-mail from john. i'm sure he has enough money to ride out a recession. it just shows he cares nothing about the average person. griff: mike says i'd like to see bill maher live from paycheck to paycheck live, working two jobs, just to make ends meet. that's exactly the guy we're talking about here. jedediah: and do you know what like maybe there was a time and a place, i don't know his past work history maybe there was a time in his life that he did have to do that but are you so disconnected from that reality that now you're just driven by politics and you can't even remember comments like this and a recession would impact those people so badly that it's really just not worth your political battle right now? like it's craziness. todd: it was explicit in one of those sound bites but implicit in the other ones, something you

opt hear from democrats, the economy doing really well. jedediah: that's right we'll turn to headlines now. jeffrey epstein's official cause of death is hanging. his lawyers disagree with new york's chief medical examiner and are vowing to conduct their own investigation. they wrote in a statement we are not satisfied with the conclusions of the medical examiner. this as fox news learns that members of the prison staff are not cooperating with investigators. epstein was facing nearly 40 years in prison on sex traffic king charges. and a bipartisan group of lawmakers now demanding answers after thousands of american hero s are left out to dry by the va, and an inspector general report finding more than $53 million in claims went unpaid over a six-month period in 2017. the group of 35 lawmakers asking va secretary robert wilkey to reconsider those claims. the va says fixes are now in place to prevent this from happening again. >> president trump donating his second quarter salary to help

fight the opioid epidemic. the $100,000 will be going to the surgeon general's office for upcoming health advisory and highlighting the dangers of teen vaping. president trump donated each of his quarterly salaries since taking office. those are your headlines. griff: a fox news alert, protesters on the streets of hong kong for the 11th straight weekend we're going there live on the next, we'll be on the ground. this is the couple who wanted to get away who used expedia to book the vacation rental which led to the discovery that sometimes a little down time can lift you right up. expedia. everything you need to go. expedia. ohone day you'll tell yourse grandkids about it. and they'll say, "grandpa just tell us about humpty dumpty". and you'll say, "he broke his pelvis or whatever, now back to my creamy heinz mayonnaise".

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down these very busy streets of the district which a lot of tourists visit as well. now thankfully, that altercation ended peacefully but speaking to the local shop owners they say they've never seen anything like this but it's a new reality in hong kong and it really caps off a chaotic disruptive week. we followed the altercations in the hong kong airport earlier on and that shuts down the airport for a few days and it's also heightened concern that maybe beijing will step in with their military. we have video confirming that thousands of chinese troops are stationed just 20 miles away from here near the hong kong border along with tanks and china says these are just exercises, military exercises, and to be honest most exercises, we speak to say the chances are remote, that they will rollin the tanks, in fact the hong kong police yesterday held a very rare press briefing to tell everybody look, we've got this. >> we all face tremendous

pressure but i can tell you, we are confident that we have the capability to maintain law and order in hong kong. reporter: now one interesting symbol of these protests that you might find interesting is the american flag being flown, and also the national anthem, the u.s. national anthem being s ung. in fact when they see that i work at fox news we have protesters coming up to me saying we love fox news because you represent america. we want what you have which is the right to vote, the right to free speech, free assembly and due process. we also had peaceful symbol on friday by the french spiderman climbing one of the most famous skyscrapers here in hong kong owned by the superman, the richest man in the city, so its been let's just say a very hectic week in the city back to you guys. todd: susan fascinating report. we are seeing some of these protests spread to other countries in fact hearing reports of these protests continuing in australia.

you're on the ground in hong kong. any sense that this is going to go away any time soon? >> no. we're in an 11th straight week at this point and a mass rally is being called for tomorrow and this type of rally, the last time they called it, one to 2 million out of the 7 million hong kong residents took to the streets and you can imagine that we're looking at a few hundred thousand expected as tomorrow, so i don't feel that these protests are going away any time soon. griff: susan thank you very much all right, it's a skyrocketing trend among teens, and now, the practice of vaping is sending over a dozen young people to the hospital for severe lung damage. todd: coming up the health dangers all teens and parents need to know, next. let's get down to business.

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griff: time for quick headlines border patrol agents rescued 28 from honduras after they were left stranded in the rio grande and the group became trapped while trying to cross the river into texas and of the 28 people rescued, 14 were children. and travelers returning from a broad force to wait after custom s and border protection computers went down nationwide. agents had to use alternative procedures to process those entering the u.s. , while passengers shared videos of lines, acting cbp commissioner mark morgan told us there's no sign the two hour outage was malicious. >> no indication there was any intentional hacking or any criminal activity involved in this. we're frustrated too, but we're going to try to get better to make sure that doesn't happen in the future. griff: the outage was the first since january 2018. todd? todd: griff, thank you, turning to fallout in wisconsin where at least a dozen teenagers have

been hospitalized for severe lung damage linked to vaping. our next guest is calling this mind boggling and has important advice for parents and teens. joining us now, president of the national center for health research. we mentioned wisconsin and this is not just a wisconsin problem. this is a national problem. how widespread is it, doctor? >> we now have reports of almost 100 children and adults with serious lung damage that seems to be related to vaping, and that's only in five states. they are just starting to look at this and realize that somethings happening. there's a pattern here. todd: if you were to explain to a patient what vaping does to the lungs how would you describe it? >> well the truth is we don't know yet. i mean, this is the problem. we know that this is happening. we don't know if it's all kinds of e-cigarettes or only some types. we don't know if it's a

contamination in some cases, or a virus, or actually damage caused by the many many chemical s that are in the e- cigarettes. todd: what we do know like you said it's not just this harmless flavored smoke. it's not like the only thing in there is a little cherry flavor ing. there is hard metals in there. there's a lot of stuff that quite frankly if you were told that you were putting into your body you'd probably stop, right? >> absolutely true. certainly people don't know that they're vaping formaldehyde for example. todd: we have this staggering number, 3.6 million teens reportedly use e-cigarettes in our country. that's not to mention the number of non-teens. if you're 20 years old, you probably in that teenage category even though technically you're not a teen, this is scary stuff. what do you want parents and teens and quite frankly anybody who uses e-cigarettes to know? >> well the first thing is that parents need to know if their

children are vaping, whether they're teenagers or younger, or in the young adults. we don't know what the risks are , and first of all a lot of parents don't know their kids are vaping, and secondly, even if parents know it, they don't realize how often kids are vaping. this could be related to over use. there's a lot of nicotine in e- cigarettes. todd: i keep coming back to a point that you made earlier, we have decades upon decades of research on cigarettes, and the adverse impacts they have. e-cigarettes and the whole scope of the last century or two, relatively recent, and relatively little research on that topic. thank you so very much for your time and exposing this very serious issue. >> thank you. todd: as the race for 2020 heats up joe biden continues t lean on his buddy president obama. >> barack obama is an extraordinary man. >> my buddy, shouldn't be so casual. todd: turns out obama, president

obama reportedly tried to talk joe biden out of a white house run. congressman sean duffy and rachel campos-duffy weigh in, next.

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griff: the highlight of the morning you're looking at the u.s. capitol and one man who works there on a daily basis is congressman sean duffy and his wonderful wife rachel campos-duffy, a fox news contributor, fox nation host, good morning to you. >> thank you. good morning. >> that's very kind of you. it's a nice cot though in the office. isn't the picture of the capitol beautiful? it's awesome. >> and everybody else this is my real life super hero. pregnancy number one for me and she's on number nine and she is just, i can not tell you i'm paranoid about everything and she's calm, collected. she's my "wonder woman" right here. >> you're doing great. you look fabulous by the way. jedediah: i haven't called you yet panicking. so i want to get into some 2020 with you guys because i've been talking a lot about joe

biden and whether or not he is a front runner but whether or not he's going to last through this whole thing, and president obama is finally seeming to be weigh ing in. there's a new report from the new york times that's saying he tried to potentially talk joe biden out of a white house run, saying you know, listen joe you don't necessarily need to do this and even reportedly advised him to shake up his old and out of touch campaign team. look at that. you don't have to do this, joe. you really don't. what do you think? >> well obama clearly never wanted biden to be running anyway. i think he is very afraid that biden might damage his legacy, and he's right to tell him to hire some younger staff, because the democratic party has indeed changed a lot and he has sort of these older aids that are very close to him that are part of the old guard, and clearly, everyone getting all of the attention and energy are the new democrat socialists, who are a lot more radical.

todd: but also barack obama spent eight years with joe biden he knows joe biden really well and says you shouldn't run for the presidency. >> [laughter] >> because he sees it as a qualification so i think that's part of it number one but the second part is that i think obama understood that if joe biden is the lead in the poll, everyone is going to attack him and to attack joe biden is to attack barack obama and barack obama wants to have the halo around his head as the great democrat saviour and he didn't want any part of it. reporter: and can i say one more thing? donald trump has so much energy. one of the things they've been talking about is joe biden not just being a gas machine but not having the stamina to keep up. i mean,.can outwork anyone and i think the only president who actually starts to look younger in office, like most of them get aged, it's kind of weird isn't it? griff: they're saying joe you need to only do things in the

morning. rachel: yeah, i know! todd: and you are running for president. rachel: they are saying this is not going to work. >> but if you ran for office you get better the more you get out there and if they are protecting joe biden that is the early signs this guy is done. griff: you talk about energy i was covering the rally for fox & friends sitting there looking at the clock going how long will president trump talk, but i want to ask you, sean because you're a politician. you have to get up early but in this article, biden is also reportedly saying back to obama that listen, i didn't choose to run when i thought i could beat trump in 2016. now i'll never forgive myself if i don't try to defeat trump now, standing sort of by his conviction, you're a politician you understand there's moments when you just have to stand alone and do what you think is right. >> i might disagree with joe biden's politics but as someone

whose run for office and someone who sees a higher office, joe biden's run twice and lost. he was so close to the presidency being eight years as the vice president. no doubt he wants to go for it and again, this is the last chance he has, and so i understand that he wants to take his shot and this is the best shot he'll ever have, but the point that the rest of us sees that joe doesn't is he's not right for the presidency. >> the time picks you, you don't pick the time and maybe it's not his time. todd: lost in a wildly wildly busy news week is the following there's a standup going on planned parenthood it's going to leave the program within days unless the court puts a hold on trump adminitration rules that bar clinics from referring patients for abortions. what's your reaction? rachel: i once met a democrat who was on the board of planned parent hood and that person told me that he advised the board long ago they should separate their family planning part from their abortion services, and

planned parenthood said no. they purposely, for ideological and i think for profit reasons off of our tax dollars, i think it's a little more for them in that way because there's the amendment prohibiting our dollars from going to abortion so this is a way they sort of muddy the waters and by the way, if this goes through, they will no longer be able to access $60 million of taxpayer money, which sounds like a lot of money it's like one fundraiser in hollywood, so if the left really cares about this, let them fund it but don't make taxpayers have to pay for planned parenthood , for services that are supposed to be for family planning, and then have them refer women to their own abortion clinic which, you know, is the number one provider. >> i think when we look at planned parenthood, they would say they are about abortion and

this case in point says if you care about women's health take the money and provide women's health forget the abortion or, you know, abide by the rules but they say if i can't do abortion i'm not going to do women's health which means they are about apportion, not about women's health. jedediah: rachel you have an amazing show on fox nation called moms that i absolutely love and there's a new episode available and we have a clip on the impact of transgender athletes in sports. take a listen. >> there is legislation out that's going to make it the law that no longer is to determine what category you are and women sports or mens sports is this fair for girls? >> no. >> no. rachel: no? >> no matter what we believe socially, there are still basic biological structural difference s in bone density, and muscle mass. jedediah: i love this show that you do because you have a real conversation with people about issues that are really important

on a day-to-day basis this is a hot top in issue. was there anything surprising we'll learn that you want to ease out for us? rachel: well i would say this was a special episode where we had melissa rivers, bristol pale en, but we have a lot of real moms that we go around the country to texas and arizona and south carolina and wisconsin, i even did one inside of my home with some moms in my hometown, so we are using real women and talking about things that real women are talked about and a lot of moms are really concerned about the transgender sports issue with their girls. jedediah: you also have another clip to share? it's fun and exciting. rachel: i'm going to do that because i've been having babies for 20 years so -- todd: best line of the day. casually. rachel: so when i first started having babies there was no such thing as a gender reveal. nobody did a gender reveal. well now when i got pregnant with this one my girls were like we want a gender reveal party so when i found out the baby i kept it a secret with sean and we

ordered cake, we went to our cabin up north and, you know, this is a clip to show you that gender reveal parties don't always go the way, you know, so take a look at what happened when my three-year-old son found out that we were having, well i'll let you see. [laughter] >> the baby is going to be a boy! >> you don't want a sister? >> i want a boy! >> [laughter] >> how many boys and girls? >> this is a girl and it'll be six girls and three boys so he was really trying to even things up. i think sean was hoping for one last one frankly. >> we're good with anything. we have this green bay packer shirt on there just to be clear. >> yeah there was minnesota people that commented on my

instagram and said he's just crying because you forced him to wear a packer shirt. >> [laughter] >> i think it was pete. griff: well congratulations, and sean you are going to go easy on the lawn mower race this year with todd right? >> i spent a lot of time on a lawn mower. todd: i heard. >> it's going to be fair. jedediah: i'm counting on you to beat him because i've been predicting that and i have some bets at stake. rachel: i thought we were going to do the lawn mower. >> pregnant lawn mower racing. >> [laughter] todd: do you want to step in for me i'll do the weather if you do the lawn mower thing. >> adam: i've only got about a minute if you want to sprint out here. but you know it's really good weather to mow the lawn today. as i know you guys will be doing here in a little bit. i was actually complaining 75 degrees a little humid and i was like so hot and so steamy a lot of people from the south is it hot and steamy out here? >> no!

>> adam: i was given a hard time there for a little while and because of that it feels pretty good out here. let's take a look at the temperatures across the country, 75 degrees around that in new york city. there have been plenty of spots there's a big area of low pressure down along the coast of florida. that's going to cause flood advisories, watches and warnings through there we can see as much as eight to 10 inches of rain over the next three days or so. also last time i tossed it back inside you guys gave me a hard time because todd especially thought maybe i'd set this up that everybody really liked me, so i wanted to find somebody and really like okay, if todd is your favorite anchor, why don't you go ahead and say so? >> is todd your favorite anchor >> say yes. >> adam: nobody is agreeing with you todd i tried. nobody agrees it must be me. todd: i'm huge with the 2 and under crowd. jedediah: thanks, adam. we'll turn to headlines for you now. more than 700 people coming together to comfort a man who lost his life of 22 years in the el paso shooting.

antonio basko getting hugs and condolences for his wife. he invited the public to services after revealing he had no other family. the response was so overwhelming the service had to be moved to a larger venue. she will be laid to rest today. >> and landing gear being blamed for a fiery plane crash involving dale earnhardt jr. and his family. the ntsb says the right landing gear collapsed causing the jet to bounce off the runway and burst into flames at a small tennessee airport. the nascar legend was on his way to bristol with his wife and one -year-old daughter to announced to's race for nbc sports. there were no serious injuries. >> and a little league world series pitcher showing incredible sportsmanship after giving up a home run. >> brady yates, this one is driven deep to right center field, forget about it. brady yates breaks through it's 2-0 virginia. >> [applause]

>> and sportsmanship is one of my favorite things in this game. >> rhode island's alexander son high fiving brady yates he rounded the bases. virginia won 3-0 and those are your headlines. see that's what happens when you raise your kids right. griff: president trump mistakes a supporter for a protester and now that man is speaking out about his new new found fame in the call he got from the president, that's next. president trump: guys got a serious weight problem. go home, start exercising. you know that look? that life of the party look. walk it off look. one more mile look. reply all look. own your look with fewer lines. there's only one botox® cosmetic. it's the only one fda approved to temporarily make frown lines, crow's feet and forehead lines look better. the effects of botox® cosmetic may spread hours to weeks after injection,

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claims of native american heritage. >> and andrew yang is promising a pardon for all prisoners convicted of non-violent marijuana charges. the long-shot candidate calls for legalizing pot in all 50 states. griff: this is a story that i really enjoyed now you just set this up i go to president trump 's rally in new hampshire and one of the moments, perhaps the moment everyone was talking about was when some protesters, as we've seen from these rallies , they stand up and do their thing and sort of comment on them. well, in this case, it happens and the president made something that many people perceived to be as rude. here is how it went down. >> [applause] president trump: that guys got a serious weight problem, go home, start exercising. >> [applause] president trump: get him out of here, please. got a bigger problem than i do.

griff: so everybody in the media , on the blogs was accusing the president of fat-shaming this protester so turns out while we're out there for fox & friends interviewing people leaving the rally, to get reaction as we often do, frank dawson who is a retired u.s. navy set ran, years and years decades in being a federal marshall, comes up to me wearing a trump 2020 shirt and said griff, watch the show, love you, wanted to tell you i'm not a protester. i'm the guy the president was talking to about exercising. he came on our show, frank dawson. here is why he says he supports president trump. listen. >> and so the rally, they just stand up and protest and i dropped the signs that they had taken into the arena and i said it's not going to happen on my watch. they were trying to bully their way to be recognized and it was donald trump's night. he is my president. i love the guy, and i don't care what he said, and he's just a great guy. right after the event the

president called me, he thanked me several times, and he was appreciative of the fact that i dealt with those protesters. jedediah: good for the president for calling him by the way because that was a mistake he made, and meantime you have a big supporter so good on him for calling and owning up to that. i think it was a good move on his part. griff: the president admitted he has a horrible diet. jedediah: there you go. todd: unlike these two, they are captain healthy. jedediah: all right, well buckle up your seat belts because we have got an epic race on the fox square coming up. griff, todd and congressman duffy will be facing off for the fox & friends weekend trophy to see who will reign supreme in our lawn mower showdown. griff: duffy is already practicing. jedediah: oh, look at that. look at him go, i told you! >> ♪ ♪

jedediah: it is a showdown on the fox square earlier, we learned how to race and now todd , griff and congressman sean duffy are set to faceoff. here to lay out the rules, founder of the u.s. lawn mower racing association and the group 's president, carrie evans so this is going to be amazing i already took bets on whose going to bin but what are the rules so everybody stays in their lane? how does it go down? >> first of all you need fresh gas in the tank, we got sponsors with money in the bank, so we are ready to kick some grass. we're going to go 10 laps today. we're going to take it easy. we've got this machines,

therefore i am, the international mower weeds class for the nationals which is a preview of our annual championship coming up so the goal is to have fun. >> before you start is there a handicap? >> i live in the city george town washington d.c. and the congressman like rides on a lawn mower every day. >> he threw down the gauntlet. >> handicap. my tractor's pink. >> you've got to go with the flow. go with the mow. >> [laughter] >> my inspiration -- >> no, we are green, we are mean and green. here we go! >> [motors starting]

>> buzzer sounds >> ♪ the heat is on, the heat is on ♪ >> ♪ ♪

♪ tell me can you feel it, tell me can you feel it, the heat is on, the heat is on, the heat is on ♪ >> killed it. rachel: he almost wore shorts. [laughter] >> congressman rohrabacher you okay? >> i was going for gold and my mower flipped over. i was not cutting grass, i was cutting air. but the guys were ahead of him. rachel: aren't you glad you didn't wear shorts today? >> yeah!

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griff: we are back and we've decided that the award goes to congressman sean duffy.

are you okay? >> it's not whether you win or lose it's how you play the game. i crashed and i love you guys even more. you all get a trophy right? >> everybody gets a trophy. goodbye! david: fox on top of investors on edge from the wild swings on wall street, the mixed signs from main street, and what it all means for the president and his 2020 democratic rivals hitting the street. welcome, everyone i'm david asman in for neil cavuto and with recession fears ramping up we are breaking it all down with fox team coverage, we begin with jackie deangeles. reporter: good morning to you, david, it was a wild week on wall street but ended with optimism yesterday but losses for the week overall. now investors had global data, u.s. data, earnings and trade headlines all as they processed signals of a