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pods. told not to call them ear pods because they're air pods. put them. in almost regret getting in the subway cut off and come out. this whole story line was the probe, ukraine, and everything going in the u.n. and impeachment has me rivetted. steve: that's the great thing about the fox news channel all day long and all night long. start friday with this. ainsley: a fox news alert. top democrats demanding to know who made the complaints -- top republicans, i should say demanding to know who made that complaint about president trump's phone call with ukraine. steve: it comes after a tense hearing on capitol hill yesterday with the acting director of national intelligence. that man flight with his arm up. brian: do you think it was tension; really? griff jenkins joins us from washington with the -- some reason griff is never tense which i never understand. go ahead, griff. griff: listen, brian prepare

to be further rivetted the whole town is abuse with who the whistleblower is. cia employee assigned to the white house. source tell fox news this individual served on the nsc staff that grew harsh criticism from the president who said in a new video obtained by bloomberg he wants to identify not only the whistleblower but also who leaked the info to him you know what we used to do in the old days griff: acting dni joe mcgwire calling the situation unprecedented and unique, affirming his belief as a whistleblower, acted in good faith law. he defended his handling of the complaint. >> you went to the subject of the complaint for advice first about whether you should provide the complaint to congress. >> it did appear that it has executive privilege. it was not stonewalling. i didn't receive direction

from anybody. i was just trying to work through the process and the law the way it is written. griff: maguire also acknowledged the complaint was based on second hand information but speaker pelosi was not satisfied cautiously pressing ahead in the march to impeachment. >> this is a cover-up. this is a cover-up. i think what the dni did was broke the law. the law is very clear. this is nothing that we take lightly. griff: maguire testified behind closed doors to the senate intelligence committee right now where things stand guys it's unclear whether we can see the whistleblower, attorney general barr or rudy giuliani testify before congress. there is talks but nothing set in concrete yet. they have a few weeks off. we will find out in october. steve: will indeed. griff, thank you very much. i have a feeling the whistleblower dolls not want his identity revealed. fred fleitz who was in the cia he actually transcribed

a number of these presidential telephone calls. he looked at the transcripts and he writes in the "new york post" this morning that it looks like the leaker had outside help because it looks like it was written by a law professor. he said possibly he had help from congressional members or staff and house republicans, when they get the whistleblower under oath need to ask him whether or not he spoke to the press or congress about the complaint. ainsley: there are so many issues here to discuss. number one, this is a whistleblower with second hand information. he or she. brian: it's a he, right? steve: that's a he. ainsley: that's what "new york times" is reporting "new york times" reporting a staffer. a man. he wasn't in the room. wasn't on the conversation. and the laws don't protect second hand information. and then yesterday, when joseph maguire was second grilled, adam schiff, he was so cool under pressure and

then at the end you could tell he was getting really, really upset and he said, listen, the horse has left the barn. you have the whistleblower complaint. every the letter from the icig. office of legal council's opinion. you have the transcript from the president. you have all the information. adam schiff kept pushing him to try to agree that this needs further investigation. brian: there's a lot of different ementsz to this. but, fundamentally, the president said you got a problem with this take the transcript. you have a problem with this. go get the complaint. put them both forward. former cia guy, soon to be retired congressman. republican. has mentioned that, too. congressman hurd joseph maguire as 30 plus year. >> if every whistleblower

complaint that was brought to the intelligence community inspector general was always sharing with this committee. >> i think we have a good law. i think it is well written. however, as i said congressman, this is unprecedented. and this is a meek situation. >> what is your assaysment of you who operations in general are going to be impacted by this latest episode. media circus, the political circus. >> i think the greatest challenge that we do have is to make sure that we maintain the integrity of our election system. ainsley: he is going to run for president in 2024. considering it. steve: threw go, against the next person whoever is running that year. steve: he is right. this is impacting a lot of what is going on in the country. regarding adam schiff, we're going to talk, in a moment, about the whole parody

thing. because he essentially wanted to freelance off of what was written. but, peter van buren. a former whistleblower himself, looked at the intent of what the whistleblower was trying to do and he spoke to tucker carlson about it last night. >> first of all, the key difference between a whistleblower and a leaker and a traitor is at the end of the day intent. we may disagree but in the case of edward snowden what he wanted to do was expose nsa spying across individual american -- daniel hemsberg wanted to reveal that the lied us into a vietnam war. set of circumstances and made all sorts of accusations about computer systems and servers and essentially claimed that trump has shoe horned his way into the ukraine. in fact, if that is an extortion, they should never watch the sopranos. brian: believe it or not "the washington post" has an editorial today.

check to make sure this wasn't a parody. goes out and says basically, the democrats are sprinting in front of evidence. and he points out what everybody promised with this story and what the reality is. for example, it turns out trump makes no promise. steve: that was the original headline. brian: that was the original headline. he makes no threat to the leader of the ukraine. he will -- he doesn't say do me a favor. he says can you do us a favor. he doesn't demand the server. he demands information on crowd strike. he says and this guy was not a direct witness. this was an indirect account. steve: right. brian: when you talk about a cover-up, this was put into a place which was cyber security secured. steve: special computers. brian: special computer which was password secured and you could thoroughly understand the administration wanting to guard against interactions that are important for national security because the mexican first the

exchange the private phone call was leaked. the australian private phone call was leaked. there was an editorial written in the "new york times." we still don't know the author of it anonymous talked about how bad and chaotic things are behind the scenes. they still don't know who they can trust and can't trust. ainsley: some leakers in the beginning of the administration. the president was probably saying look. brian: file it away. ainsley: file in this n. a classified repository. steve: they started to tighten the security. according to the document that was released yesterday. this is not where they normally put things since then. this was extraordinary. and that's why the cover of the "new york times" says complaint asserts a white house cover-up. i mean, this is serious. that's it. it's serious stuff. and, yet, we were talking about it a moment ago. adam schiff, not just looking at the facts, decided to make it even more sensational by what he now calls because he took so much heat over it, a parody. >> this is the essence of

what the president communicates. we have been very good to your country, very good. no other country has done as much as we have. but, you know what? i don't see much reciprocity here. i hear what you want. i have a favor i want from you though. and i'm going to say this only seven times so you better listen good. i want to you make up dirt on my political opponent understand? lots of it. on this and on that. ainsley: people are saying why make a parody out of it when you have the transcript in front of you. steve: steven haste tweeted out adam schiff not satisfied with the facts as they are offer as summary that is a distortion designed to make it look worse. brian: he does. he acted like he was reading dialogue and i'm doing the radio show and i kept handing to my control room alison where is he reading this? what documents? i need to see these documents. it turns out two hours later we find out he is making

something entirely up. and if you are the chairman of a committee, and you are trying to get credibility for your latest impeachment push. why would you start in the fiction section of the library? and on the terms that the president being leaked and how unique it was as the "new york times" headline says cover-up. i didn't know. this there have been leaked conversations not only with australia. not only with mexico, but also with the philippines and britain as well as information with vladimir putin. so, if you are the president of the united states. if you are trying to watch his back, you say let's password protect it. to me there is a total logic behind it. ainsley: i'm wondering if the whistleblower just heard from someone who was privy to. steve: a dozen people. ainsley: if they talked to someone the president was mentioning crowd strike. he was mentioning the dnc servers. that's what he maybe heard and then he complains and then this blows up into something bigger. some people say it might be political because of the

staff that he hired, the legal team that he hired. maybe he isn't expected to get so political just investigate it. so many people hate this president they are making it. brian: to your point, steve, this is a title, unforced error. he has all these gains economically and internationally. and why you would send your lawyer out to find out about a would-be opponent and information that might have interest for national security. but is tangential and should be way down on your list is beyond me. the president was on a roll. if you look at what he accomplished at the united nations, rallying everyone around our iranian plan, as well as what we are seeing with economic numbers, it's -- he created -- this is a challenge he created himself. steve: hogan gidley is going to join us from the white house shortly. in the meantime we have news with jillian on this friday morning. jillian: a soldier is killed and three others injured in army helicopter crash. the blackhawk stationed in louisiana was being used for medical transport.

the crew was on its way to pick up a sick soldier. the cause of the crash is under investigation. the name of the soldier who died has not been released. pilot forced to make an emergency landing when a man throws a tantrum about bathrooms. watch this. >> seven people here could use a bathroom while the whole bathroom up there [inaudible] >> another pass jerry posting this video from the alaska airlines flight. now he was upset that he couldn't use the first class bathroom. the man was arrested when the flight landed in kansas city. it left for los angeles without him. a look at your headlines. send it back to you. steve: you just can't do that all right. thank you very much. meanwhile, fireworks erupting on capitol hill yesterday as the top spy chief defended his handling of the whistleblower complaint. ainsley: former florida attorney general pam bondi says democrats should be ashamed of themselves and she is live. hi, pam. ♪

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what's your first headline regarding what you saw in the complaint? >> nothing was wrong. the president did nothing wrong. it was totally misrepresented by adam schiff. the president had a conversation with the president of ukraine. steve: right. >> and they released the transcript. and you know, when you hear it from the democrats, you think something was wrong but they are not representing the facts. there was no quid pro quo. there nothing. steve: but the president did say, essentially, can you look into doing me a favor. can you look into this crazy stuff regarding the bide bidens. >> came 600 words hey can you do us a favor and started talking. that's what the democrats left out the entire context of a conversation between two world leaders. steve: we were just talking about it a moment ago on the

tv show. what did you make of adam schiff, the guy who runs that committee where rather than just looking at the facts made up the script and said it was a joke. it's a parody. >> what's a parody? an exaggeration. how dare he do that? when you are a prosecutor, you are arguing to 12 people on a jury. adam schiff is a lawyer. he was arguing to not only the entire country but the entire world. yet he couldn't be factual in what he said and then called it a parody accusing our president of a crime? really unreal what he did. as a lawyer he should be ashamed of himself. steve: there he is addressing the acting dni joe maguire. he said yesterday that the inspector general did find some political bias but maguire said he did not question the whistleblower's motivation. >> nor should he because you don't want to put a chilling effect on any whistleblower in any situation. steve: otherwise, you are going to stop having them.

>> exactly as a prosecutor you want to have whistleblowers. you do. now, whether he is going to be credible, he or she when it comes out who this person is, whether they had an ax to grind. they know his or her attorney is a democrat donor. and he had no first hand knowledge of the facts of the phone call. steve: what do you think going forward after what we heard yesterday did his testimony help the democrats or hurt the democrats' cause? >> i think it hurt them tremendously. because now why are knowing he was not representing the facts of the case, schiff. i think joe maguire did a great job testifying. this guy is a military hero. and every single democrat tried to tear him down, call him a liar, say he was biased. this man -- he is a military hero. and he is doing his job for our country and shame on them for going after him for doing his job. steve: do you think democrats just wanted him to say yep, you are right, there was a cover-up and the

president broke the law. >> of course they did. schiff asked him 25 different ways trying to get him to say the president did something wrong. and joe maguire stuck to his guns and said no, i did my job. then they tried to say oh, you ran to the president. no, he did what he had to do because executive privilege had to be waved. steve: he was simply following the laws written by congress. >> exactly. steve: pam bondi former attorney general of the great state of florida. thank you. >> thank you. steve: have a great weekend. college students want president trump impeached. one problem. they are not exactly sure why. >> what do you think is an impeachable offense he has committed? >> well, i'm not in to politics. >> i'm sure there is reasons that i don't know of.

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ainsley: okay. moving on. it's 25 minutes after the top of the hour. house speaker nancy pelosi announcing a former impeachment inquiry into our president and college students are all for it. watch. >> do you agree president trump should be impeached. >> i think he thud be impeached. >> he dividendly has done enough things to be geechesd. >> that's a great thing. i thought she would wait a little bit they want to get it done right now so good. >> do you think president trump should be dispeeched. >> absolutely. ainsley: the only problem is. we haven't seen this side of the video. those same students couldn't answer why our president should be impeached. here with more of the interviews is cabot phillips. were you surprised first of all? >> yeah. i was not surprised at all. i think whenever students are presented with a question, they are always going to default to the liberal position because that's the echo chamber they live in on college campuses. the problem with living in echo chamber often you are not able to explain why you believe what you do. watch what they did when i

challenged them and simply said what has he done to be impeached? >> i'm sure there is reasons that i don't know of. >> um, i don't know if i can say any specific type of event or specific action. >> what do you think is an impeachable offense he has committed? >> well, i'm not into politics. i don't pay that much attention to it. >> honestly, um, i think it's a lot of, um, just how popular he is. >> isn't it interesting how quickly it is they go from he needs to be impeached well, i'm not totally sure i feel this way though. i have been on 100 college campuses with leadership institute's campus reform. i have seen this play out time and time again where people come in with strong opinions because they are never challenged they not used to actually having to explain why they think what they do. reasonable people can agree on impeachment and what should happen here. you should at least be able to defend yourself and this is why it's important to be educated and have viewpoint diversity.

when you are never challenged you don't know how to express why you think what you do. you actually don't have facts. you have those feelings he you are relying on. can you see it play out there time and time again on campus. ainsley: that was at marry month university in virginia. did you talk to anyone who said no, i don't want him to be impeached. >> there was no one that said that afraid of expressing that opinion. how hostile it is for anyone to. more students support him but afraid to speak out. this plays into the fact of it's easy to laugh this off and say oh, these are just silly college students. you need to remember their very vote counts just as large as yours and mine. millennials is the largest voting block. we should hope to have an educated electorate. when you see videos like this it is a reminder of what happens when you have echo chamber. we need to have think for themselves and not feel pressured over one side over

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>> when you have a system of electronic storage for information that is specifically for national security purposes, and you have something that it s. self-serving to the president politically and decide it might not be -- you might not want people to know and you hide it some place else, that's a cover-up. the president has been engaged in a cover-up all along. brian: oh, really? 28 minutes now before the top of the hour that was nancy pelosi's weekly press conference. that was part of the drama

that took place yesterday along with what happened with the director of national intelligence being grilled in front of adam schiff's committee who actually made up some dialogue along the way. hogan gidley is with us now white house deputy press secretary. it's now time for your side of the story, hogan. i'm sure you watched a lot of what took place yesterday. must have been jaw-dropping in many respects. first off on what nancy pelosi first brought up. when you store a transcript of a phone call in such a secure server, it's a cover-up. how often did you secure transcripts or phone calls with world leaders in the past that you know of? >> how in the world can it be a cover-up? if the world has the document. we literally released the document. it makes no sense whatsoever. let's not forget here nancy pelosi went on television saying the president had committed a crime that she had the evidence before we had actually released the transcript. it is very clear democrats

do not care about the facts. she has absolutely lost control of her caucus. we know the squad runs the show over there. in thin stance it's even worse. unnamed, unmasked person who wasn't even part of the call who used news clippings to make the claim that there was a problem to change nancy pelosi's mind in a few hours. that morning you will remember, she wasn't for moving toward dispeech. now she says she is. and that is absolutely grateful. >> the president weighed in on this. listener to he what he said and we will get your reaction. >> you know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, right with spies and treasons, we used to handle it a little differently than we do now. ainsley: talking about the whistleblower being a spy. >> he is talking about the person who gave the information to a whistleblower. it's not unprecedented. it's sad but it's true. this president has faced an

unparalleled amount of scrutiny from a liberal, nasty media. also from the inside think about the leaks that came out. his calls from private leaders from australia, for example, have come out already. this ukraine call we put out. his conversation with the mexican president have all come out. these leaks are dangerous. people in this government are entrusted with secure sensitive information that deal with national security of this country and they are putting it out in the public sphere? i'm not sure why. do they just want to bolster their own careers or get invited to the cocktail party here in d.c.? it's disgusting but it's dangerous for national security. and that's what the president was talking about. >> you know, mr. gidley, the whole -- when you look at when your rear view mirror what happened, we knew ultimately this whistleblower complaint would be made public because the whole idea was to get it to congress and somebody in congress would have leaked

it to all the papers and we would have known all that stuff. the political calculation of the democrats was the president never in a million years would release the transcript of his private conversation with the president of ukraine. and he did. and then a lot of people on your side of said hey, what are they talking about? there is no there there. >> absolutely. there isn't. we wanted this to get out to the american people because the media and the democrats have pushed a russian lie on this country for three years without evidence and now they are doing it all over again. they want this to be true so badly. they will forego facts. they will don't care where they get the information from. where weather it's sourced weld or not and put it out in the public sphere simply to attack this president. it's so dangerous to watch how the media have completely disregarded their ethics here. journalism, its integrity is absolutely gone. it's a thing of the past, it is dead. and this happens time and time again. this is another example

where the media is pushing the cart way before the horse here. brian: you don't blame nibble for following this story. when someone now it looks like the whible is from the cia, goes forward with a formal complaint, which everyone says is extremely well-written and well-produced in a way in which people wonder how much help he had. and then that comes forward and gets stopped and put forward. it is certainly a news story. there a story today in the "new york times" by peter baker. one of the excerpts says the white house, when they heard about this, people in the white house are deeply -- many people around the president deeply disturbed by what transpired on that phone call. and that is why they quickly took the transcript and put it into a more secure server. number one, are you one of the people that is deeply disturbed? have you talked to others that were disturbed about the tone and content of that conversation in the white house? >> i have no idea where peter baker gets his sources. i have no idea where he gets his information. because i have not talked to a single person in the white house. and i'm there every day.

no one i have talked to is concerned at all about this because there is nothing there. of course the president talked about looking into corruption in the 2016 election. i'm old enough to remember when democrats what happened in the 2016 election. pushed the entire country through a russian witch-hunt hoax. the democrats didn't like what they heard from the mueller report. now they are moving into ukraine. no one in the white house is concerned about this because the president has done nothing wrong. so many entities have now ruled this was just commonplace. this was a conversation between two leaders and by the way, it was president zelensky of ukraine who brought up corruption and draining the swamp. >> and brought up rudy giuliani. >> the son of a vice president getting a job for which he has no discernible information or knowledge of you who to do and gets the job for $50,000 a month? there is no quid pro quo in here. that's what democrats push. and now they are changing and moving the goal post. it's ridiculous.

brian: hogan is there a more comprehensive transcript than the we we saw that yuan was five pages and the phone call was 32 minutes. is there anything out there more comprehensive? >> not to my knowledge. the phone call is out there for everyone to see you. there was a translator on the call. that obviously takes time. i have to mention adam schiff here. i watched that display yesterday. it was some type of crazy convention. he was dressing up like a congressman reading fantasy. if the call is so incriminating why doesn't adam schiff just read the call? it's not. he has to make it up. and that's where we sit today. that's why it is so problematic. democrats are guided by hatred as nancy pelosi said republicans were during impeachment in 1998. ainsley: hogan gidley, thanks for being with us. >> thanks for the time. jillian: we are following a story out of alabama where a mother and son are accused of killing a man over a lost dog. shah keep butler and shana

charged with murder. butler hit the man in the face multiple times during a fight over the family's dog in alabama. the victim was believed to be the mother's boyfriend. both suspects are behind bars. catch him asleep at the wheel on train tracks. the insane incident is caught on camera in georgia. >> get him out of the car. get him out of the car there is a train coming up the tracks, get out of the car. get out of the car. come on, get out. >> you can see police smashing a window. can you hear fear in their voice to get the man out of a locked car seconds before slammed into it. the driver is charged with dui. an elementary school reverses its no dating policy after parents complain. fifth grade teachers in indiana set a two-week deadline for students to end their relationships. they sent a letter saying quote: at this teenage children are dating and breaking up within days of each other. this leads to many broken

hearts which carry over into the classroom. the school says the policy will not be enforced. it sounds like brian would enforce that though. brian: i would. have you got to prevent the broken heard by stopping the dating. ainsley: date them longer than a few days? jillian: the school is saying that kids date and break up so quickly. they are broken-hearted and carries over into the classroom. so they installed a no dating policy. brian: what about a no breakup policy. ainsley: it's not they are dating anywhere. remember when you dated in elementary school. you say you are dating them and you don't talk to them. steve: there would be notes. ainsley: no, maybe, get back to you. brian: taken out by a butler for days because you couldn't drive. steve: you and i led much different lives. janice you already have a crowd this morning. janice: beautiful day in new york city. how are you guys? [cheers] janice: what's your name? >> margo from lexington

alabama. janice: are you having fun so far. >> i'm having a great time here. janice: are you getting into trouble. >> yes. janice: i love that ena take a look at the maps and i will show you what is happening here. new york is going to be a beautiful day. i will tell you the big story though is across the west where we are going to see historic snow fall over two feet of snow across portions of the rockies. can you believe it? then would could see the potential for severe storms over the central u.s. still hanging on to summertime across the south. say hi to steve, ainsley and brian this friday. ainsley: hi, everyone. [cheers] janice: happy friday. steve: janice, did the fox football people pick everything up outside because they were there last night? janice: no. they are still here. wave, fox sports people. steve: oh. janice: yea. they are setting up for all in connection with week. oh, no, this is the spartan race people. my apologies. i apologize. are we doing a race later on today? steve: there is a lot going

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ainsley: acting dni joseph maguire testifying before the house intel committee yesterday. and the next guest has a message to democrats. >> and i will say to my colleagues sitting here i think you are nuts if you think you are going to

convince the american people that your cause is just by attacking this man. and anyone watching this hearing is surely going to walk away with the clear impression that you are a man of integrity that you did what you felt was right regardless of the questions and the innuendo that is tasked by some of my colleagues. brian: joining us now is utah congressman chris stewart who was first to see it, one of the first to see this nine page document the night before and then we all saw it yesterday at 9:00 in the morning. congressman, what -- i appreciate you standing up for the director of national intelligence whether you are republican or democrat. he seems to be the perfect american and should not be talked to like that. but having said that to the substance of what took place what did you learn yesterday in the nine pages that you didn't get out of the phone call that was five pages? >> well, nothing there is nothing in the nine pages that isn't substanley inside the transcript that we have. now, there is some other things like reporting from

the "new york times." reporting from political my gosh, we have had that for months. there is nothing new there at all. the entire essence of this complaint focuses on one phone call and one phone call only. there simply isn't anything new and other than that. >> congressman, the democrats were criticizing joseph maguire because they felt like he waited too long to release this information to them. that's why they are critical of him. you disagree with that why do you think he did the right thing and followed protocol? >> not only do i disagree with that, i think it's insane. it's nuts. it's insane for them to attack that person. anyone who watched this hearing could clearly see he is saw the right thing to do. opening statement by adam schiff that i have to mention just quickly it was absolute nonsense. nothing but exaggeration and lies and innuendo so much so he had to justify it it's a bit of a parody. that wasn't a parody that was just an attack on someonens character.

someone who has served this country for 36 years. i don't know how they justify that is i truly don't know how they justify that went too far. >> what do you make of the accusations that the whistleblower makes and that is that the -- and we saw through the transcript the president said hey, can you look into these joe biden and hunter biden dealings there involving ukraine and also the fact that apparently this particular transcript was kept on a super secret computer that they don't keep a lot of stuff on. >> well, for one thing, we know that's factually not true. many of the transcripts of the president's conversations with foreign leaders and more secure server. second thing if they are claiming a cover-up. this is the world's worst cover-up ever. for heavennens sake they released the transcript they did so very quickly. they released the whistleblower complaint. they did so very quickly. at one point they might have been afraid that some of this would leak and maybe

that compelled them to move the transcript on to another computer. but we don't know if that's true anyway. we don't know if anything in this complaint is true because the whistleblower had no first hand information of any of this other ancillary accusation. brian: the whistleblower identifies at least a half dozen other officials including several who work for the white house who believe the claims that he makes. your reaction quick? >> well, once again, i think it comes to two things. when we leak classified or highly sensitive information, it hurts our national security. steve: against the law. >> it's against the law because it hurts our national security. and it makes it impossible for the executive. regardless of who it is. it makes it impossible or very difficult for him to do his job. brian: gotcha. >> the second thing is, once again. well, i mean, we have just seen it far too many times and the president is frustrated by it and i don't blame him. brian: very frustrating. congressman stuart, thank you very much. appreciate it? >> thank you. brian: buyer beware the

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♪ brian: all right. the updated samsung galaxy fold hitting store shelves today. ainsley: the company calling it a foldable cross between a large smart phone and a small tablet. but already numerous headlines are calling out issues that the phone -- with the phone saying, quote: handle it with care. steve: i'm examining it right now. and kurt the cyberguy gave it to me. and, kurt, this is it. it folds. there is the "fox & friends" there. it's cool but it's heavy. >> it's a little heavy,

9.84 ounces. this is really the first foldable guys in the u.s. ainsley: no flip phone. >> galaxy fold 7.3-inch screen when you open it up. it has six cameras on this. in april they had debacle and gotten into reviewer's hands and screen was able to be pealed back and other issues with it. people are trying to rip it apart. it's actually a lot more durable. they addressed the issues that made it have those concerns before. and they all new edges on it. ainsley: do you know what i like about it. you close it. you don't accidental ily call someone. i call people every day accidentally. you can't do that with this. almost looks like a new makeup. eye shadows. >> right? we could put the publish on the other side as well. brian: what's the bad part about it? >> concerns are really this is aspirational devise. the big play here for samsung is this let's us know that the future

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♪ brian: all right. we begin with a fox news alert. here we go. top republicans demanding to know who made the complaint about president trump's phone call with the ukraine. ainsley: it comes after a very tense hearing on capitol hill with the acting director of national intelligence. steve: griff jenkins joins us from washington as we learn the whistleblower could be, according to the "new york times," a cia male officer. griff: that's right. steve, ainsley, brian, good morning. the only thing washington likes more than who done it is who is it. the "new york times" points out whistleblower is a cia employee who spends time at the white house. this individual sinksd on the nsc staff. now in a new video obtained by bloomberg the president has harsh words for the

person who gave the whistleblower that information. >> you know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, right? with spies and treasons. we use to handle it a little differently than we do now. >> this as acting director maguire testified three hours defending his handling of the complaints and we have never seen anything like this. >> this is unprecedented and this is a unique situation. i will stress that i believe that the whistleblower and the inspector general have acted in good faith throughout. >> i have every reason to believe that they have done everything by the book and followed the law. >> maguire also acknowledged the complaint was based on second hand information but speaker pelosi was not satisfied, cautiously pressing ahead in the march to impeachment. >> this is a cover-up. this is a cover-up. i think what the dni did was broke the law. the law is very clear. this is nothing that we take

lightly. >> maguire had a long day. he also testified before the senate intelligence committee behind closed doors. guys, it's now unclear what steps come next. lawmakers have suggested possibly having the whistleblower come before congress or even calling attorney general barr rudy giuliani to hear what they have to say, device. steve: griff. just to be clear, at the beginning of that we said that top republicans are interested in the whistleblower sources. they don't want the identity of the whistleblower revealed. right? >> that's right. everyone is more or less praising the whistleblower and whistleblowers in general trying to protect their identity, but it appears thi the fact that this second hand information is certainly something that republicans, steve, have seized upon in really trying to drive home a points. in fact, one republican, john ratcliffe saying this is just like the steele dossier all over again. steve: i have read that all right. griff, thank you very much. brian: meanwhile, hogan

gidley joined us earlier. is he white house communications. and he is trying to let everybody know there is not a lot there there. he says democrats quickly accuse trump of cover-up. he doesn't understand -- what most people don't understand is they are concerned about communications with world leaders about what's happened in the past with the philippines, about what's happened in the past with theresa may of the u.k. the australian leader as well as the leader of mexico. listen. >> nancy pelosi went on television saying the president had committed a crime, that she had the evidence before we had actually released the transcript. it is very clear democrats do not care about the facts. these leaks are dangerous. people in this government are entrusted with secure, sensitive information that deal with the national security of this country and they are putting it out in the public sphere. i'm not sure why. do they just want to bolster their own careers or get invited to the cocktail parties here in d.c.?

it's disgusting but it's dangerous for national security. >> congressman chris stewart was on with us earlier from utah. he was actually at that hearing and he said this was a cover-up. worst cover-up ever because the transcript of the phone call that this whistleblower complained about was released immediately. and if you read the transcript, you can make your own assumptions. you can make your own, you know, your own opinions. but if it were a cover-up, the president wouldn't have released it. steve: what was interesting. we had heard what was in the transcript leaked out, you know, the president made promises, quid pro quo, and stuff like that. and then we actually got to read the transcript and it's like where are all those things? and then after that we read the complaint from the whistleblower. it's like where are all of those really interesting. that's one of the things that the republicans were pushing back on yesterday. we have got a montage. we put together a montage of some of the back and forth involving the acting director of national intelligence joe maguire

versus, among other people, the chairman of that committee, adam schiff. >> the horse has left the barn. you have all of the information. >> yes. >> i'm not chit sizing the whistleblower. i'm in no position to tell the chair or the committee to do an investigation or not do an investigation. >> whistleblower further says in the days following the phone call i learned from multiple u.s. officials that senior white house officials had intervened to lock down all the records of the phone call. >> i have no idea whether it is correct or incorrect, sir. >> someone should find out though, right? >> excuse me? >> someone should find out if it's correct though, shouldn't they? >> again, that is the work -- that is the business of the executive branch of the white house and the office of the white house. >> well, corruption is not the business or shouldn't be of the white house or anyone in it? >> what the white house decides to do with their privileged communications and information, i believe, is the business of the white house. >> disirgss you made? brian: is he upset that they didn't go right to the executive branch.

he said if you get this information, why did you go to the executive branch? because this has been unprecedented, normally if it's somebody in the intelligence community, i know exactly what to do. because this involves the president, i went to the white house counsel who went to the department of justice and they went back and forth in this tedious fashion. this thing could have been a 20-minute hearing. steve: it could have been. brian: it went three hours. >> whistleblower procedures don't protect whistleblower complaints. this guy didn't hear it firsthand. steve: larger than that, what adam schiff is angry about. that is that his committee should have gotten that particular whistleblower complaint a couple of months ago. but because the inspector general looked at it and said executive privilege thing here, he kicked it to the department of justice. they looked at it and said know it doesn't go to congress. that is why there was such contention yesterday. now, there is a fellow by the name of fred fleitz. he has been on this show before. he is former chief of staff the nsc he worked the cia, the dia department of state.

all sorts of places. he has written an op-ed in the pages of the "new york post" today, the headline is former cia official on whistleblower. how could this be an intelligence matter and one of the quotes is regarding the complaint by the whistleblower. it appears to be written by a law professor and includes legal references and detailed footnotes. it also unusual realistic how this complaints should be classified. from my experience such an extremely polished whistleblower complaint unheard of. this document looks as if this leaker had outside help, possibly from congressional members or -- ainsley: if you read the complaint, the whistleblower is complaining because he says the president talked to the ukraine president and said turn over the servers used by the dnc and examined by crowd strike u.s. cyber security firm. if you ride the transcript of that conversation between the two presidents, our president did mention crowd strike but did he not demand

the server. brian: right. so much different. and that was in the "the washington post" editorial. and fred fleitz went ton say it appears as though i'm very familiar with these transcripts. he goes it appears likely that this so-called whistleblower was pursuing a political agenda. now, remember how adam schiff sat there and basically met with michael cohen a number of times before he went front and center? i'm just wondering was there any type of coordination behind the scenes to get certain things out in a more scripted fashion and we know that adam schiff while not funny is certainly a crassic writer. a couple other things. it looks like the vice president of the united states told the president i don't think you should release the transcript. i don't think it's a good idea. and eventually he fell in line, according to the "wall street journal," obviously, because the transcript came out. but you already want to see the problem in the ukrainian leaders came out and said i told you -- i told mike pompeo it was okay to release the president wants side of the conversation. not mine. and the el salvador leader last night told martha mccallum i would absolutely think twice before i got on the phone with the president about

what i'm going to say because now i know it's going to get out there. steve: ultimately a smart political move on the part of the white house because everybody knows exactly what was in it. keep in mind. brian: probably had no choice. steve: well, you know, i'm sure the president feels he was exonerated by it. because if you were to read the complaint by the whistleblower. it's pretty damning. but then you look at the actual conversation through the transcript, wait a minute, where is that other stuff? where is that promise? ainsley: if you read the complaint he says demanding the server. if you read the conversation. no he didn't do that read the complaint it's quid pro quoment objection. when you read the conversation that didn't happen. then when you look back at what president obama said i will have more flexibility after the election. when you look back at what joe biden did which was quid pro quo, i'm not going to give you the money if you don't fire the prosecutor. listen, this is maybe what the presidents do. maybe they have these conversations. businesses are run this way where there are certain things that you try to

negotiate behind the scenes. is it an impeachable offense? i don't know. you make up your own mind. and let us know. we would love to hear from you. steve: you know, impeachment is based on high crimes and misdemeanors. ainsley: correct which was not evident when you read that. steve: no. but it's a political matter. and it's whatever congress says it is. ainsley: you are right. steve: so it's political. one of the other things fred fleitz said it's very concerning to him that given what he has read it indicates intelligence officers and other federal employees are violating the rules governing presidential phone calls with foreign leaders. there are a lot of laws involved in that. that's why at the beginning of the program we were talking about how some top republicans would like to figure out who these leakers are who are talking to the whistleblowers. brian: i would just like to add this. something that the white house has to answer succinctly and that is why did you hold back aid? in july and the week before to the points where in august senator johnson and senator murphy republican and democrat went over to visit

and we will get to the bottom of it and find out why you held up aid if the president is concerned about corruption. go ahead. tell us exactly why because even republican notice senate like lindsey graham did not know what was holding up the aid. finally on september 11th the president said give them the money. that's part of the story line was the president holding back money in order to get something on joe biden in the president doesn't feel that has anything to do with it but the -- it's up to the white house now to clear that up. ainsley: and investigate that right. steve: the white house has said that the president was concerned about corruption and also other countries not kicking in enough money. it goes around and around. 7:11 now in new york city. jillian joins us with a fox news alert. jillian: following a number of stories. begin with this alert the nation's capital bracing for thousands of earth strike protesters today. comes days after climate activist shut down roads in the city. today the group is planning to target trump national hotel e.p.a.

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steve: fox news alert. acting dni director facing complaints. brian: the legal team argues he did nothing wrong because there was no quid pro quo. here to explain is a member of president trump's legal team and chief counsel for the american center for law jay sekulow.

jay, when the mueller probe are wrapped i thought you could get a vacation but now you are back in with the president. when it comes to this call in particular what did we get out of the acting dni on capitol hill yesterday. >> you got to the president had a call with a foreign leader. in that call with a foreign leader there was no quid pro quo at all. it was a 30 minute phone call. there was a 14 or 20 second reference to biden. the ukraine president brings up the issue of my colleague rudy giuliani and his conversation about corruption issues. and then the call, of course, is released. and then adam schiff does that "saturday night live" routine that he pulled off yesterday which not only should have been embarrassing for him. i'm not sure he was cognizant of the fact that it was embarrassing for him. why didn't he just real the actual transcript? brian: i know. >> then let's read -- then we release the actual whistleblower complaint. now, i have been practicing law for 40 years. it was hearsay.

the whistleblower acknowledged i have no firsthand knowledge of these events but it was told to me by people. you could not get that admitted to court in the u.s. district court in the middle district of georgia but the congress doesn't even bother reading that. what do they do? they do we have the adam schiff parody. do you know what this is? political theater. there is no there there. there was no violation of law, rule, or regulation. and what you had yesterday was another faux investigation. what are they trying to do? russia did not work out like they thought. the great bob mueller interview was going to be the big deal. steve: jay, you know what they are trying to do they are trying to impeach the president. nancy pelosi said people in the administration took the transcript of the call with the ukraine president and put it in a secret -- super secret top secret. >> whoa, whoa, wait a minute. steve, think about that for a moment. the white house secured a call with the president of ukraine?

steve: yeah, but the whistleblower. >> so secretive and such cover-up here is the documents. this is nuts. this is nonsense. steve: the whistleblower said they put it in the super code word protected computers that they hardly ever put things in. >> well, the whistleblower or what -- i don't even like calling this individual a whistleblower, this individual that decided to spy on the president's conversation based on here say information that's a better way of saying it. but, whatever you want to do on that front, this individual had no first hand knowledge of anything. nothing. had no idea. said it. so when you witness saying steve and brian i have no knowledge of the events i'm depicting here and i'm basing this on conversations i had with colleagues of mine and i think they are trustworthy, do you know if they heard it correctly? i don't know because i don't have firsthand knowledge. and do you think the whistleblower drafted that complaint? i mean realistically? brian: you think did they have help? >> look at at the phraseology, the end notes and footnotes. this wasn't drafted by this

individual. this was written by a law firm. and do you know what? the american people see it for what it is. no one has the -- nobody has the appetite for this anymore. they want to keep doing it? call for a vote. call jerry nadler and adam schiff. call for a vote. brian: did the president cancel the v.p.'s trip for inauguration secretary perry to send a message? >> i am not going to opine on what the decision was between the president, the vice president, the secretary of state, about the attending the ukraine -- the president of ukraine's inauguration. i will say this. this is a well-known issue. the issue of corruption in the ukraine while they were getting aid to the united states is well documented it was a serious problem. but, at the end of the day, the aid was given it was given in september of this year. so it happened this month. brian: gotcha. >> the important part here is, look, don't feel good, american people.

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ainsley: time now for news by the numbers. first, $20 million. that is how much ucla is pouring into its new kindness institute. the school says the grant will help empower citizens suggesting it is needed in the, quote: current world of politics. violence and strife. next, nearly 5 million. that is how people are affected -- how many people are affected in a massive door dash breach. a third party accessed personal information of

customers, member chants and workers. the food delivery app. will contact those who are affected. and finally, one year that is how long it took for a pilot to get his phone back after it fell out of a plane. steve: wow. ainsley: that video right there shows it dropping down to the ground it shows it happening in iceland. a former found it and guess what? the phone still works. steve: i need that phone case. indestructible. look at that. that is so cool. retired ice director tom homan fighting back the hill talking to members on the other side of the aisle. >> children are dying. cartels are getting rich. why am i angry? because you haven't done anything to fix it. nothing. there is no downside in securing our border. there is no downside in illegal immigration being decreased. there is no downside less drugs come to this country. >> the time of the gentleman has expired. >> i have asked you on my time. you let other people go beyond their time. >> mr. homan. >> you work for me. i'm a taxpayer.

[gavel] >> i'm a taxpayer. you work for me. >> joining us now retired ice director tom homan. tom, you work fouse. just for the record. you are a fox news contributor. just make that clear. [laughter] in particular, they had to know what they were getting when you showed up. do you think that you heard -- you got your point across that ice are not the bad guys and women. they are the ones trying to enforce the laws and they downside of sanctuary cities. do you think a point was made? >> oh, absolutely. i think i got to say everything i had to say. i had to force it. i had to keep interrupting them. look, i'm under oath and i'm not going to let them sit there and tell lies about my president. tell lies about the men and women of the border patrol and ice. it was lie after lie. then -- it's my responsibility to set the record straight because they are out and out lying. they are not going to shut me down and not let me respond at certain point. no, i'm not going to shut up.

you lied. you know, i'm under oath. you should be under oath. and at the point just because you have a gavel doesn't make you know the queen of the day. it doesn't allow to you lie to the american people. you need to be held accountable. they are not under oath. i will find that incredible when congressman aren't under oath when they are in that room and i am. i'm not going to tolerate them lying to the american people: ainsley: when i watched it i realize how political it's all gotten. you said the same issues that you are complaining about now were the same issues when president obama was in office. and you said when we came to y'all and we asked you for money under obama y'all were quick to give us the money. we never saying where is the money we need the money. but nowadays you are saying that why is that? >> they don't forget they want to forget. they made a comment. president trump is violating law when he moves money within, taking from other agencies for more beds. violating the sanctity of the congressional responsibility. wait a minute, six out of the 8 years president obama is in office, we did that

same exact thing. i didn't see any hearings on that. and i told her, i said this is wrong. its dishonest and pathetic call the president out for violating the law he didn't for the same thing president obama did six out of eight years. that's mistruth to the american people. that's misleading the american people. that's a false narrative they continue to push. i'm not going to let them sit there and get away with it. steve: tom, they didn't like your message because you essentially said look, there are problems down south and y'all can fix it because the administration for the last two years you said have asked congress to close three loopholes and they have just sat on their hands. >> that was my point. one of the congressman said you are blustered and angry. yeah i'm angry because children are dying. 31% of women being raped. cartels getting rich. you complain about the tent conditions. claim 65,000 people in detention. it's your fault. look in the mirror. if you were work wearing this president to secure the border and close those loopholes. none of this would have

happen. family separation wouldn't have happened. this son you and your failure. not the men and women on the border patrol and ice. certainly not our president. not our president. brian: you cannot diminish the help that el salvador, mexico, honduras. they are rallying and listening and helping us out because congress is not. >> and that's the sad day in america when foreign countries doing more to secure our border than lip in congress. pathetic. brian: resourcefulness of this administration. thank you, tom. >> you got it. brian: still upset about losing the election. listen. >> applying for a job and getting 66 million letters of recommendation and losing to a corrupt human tornadoes. brian: pete hegseth not corrupt and a tornado has something to say about that next. steve: he is

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since yesterday. ainsley: he is the top spy. steve: he has had a lot of jobs in public service. is he a career public servant of various stripes and sea no nonsense guy. the democrats tried to rattle him. tried to get him to say there was a cover-up and the president broke the laws and stuff like that. he never did. said, look, i'm just following the law. pete: you can tell he is not a partisan guy worked under multiple administrations republican and democrat. when i look back at this entire process it happened so fast and so packaged from the document to the transcript to the actual complaint and it all feels like someone had this planned and they knew exactly what they wanted to do. we have been using this phrase whistleblower which i know was a legal term designated to the person. steve: to protect them. pete: doesn't feel like a whistleblower. it feels like he or she used a legal process in order to be a leaker. so, it's one thing to leak these conversations that the president might have or what he is saying.

it's another thing to use the whistleblower process through which your leak becomes validated as a whistleblower complaint. ainsley: do you think the democratic leaders were on board with this long before? pete: listen to the whistleblower someone got. brian: everyone said it was great. so well put together. pete: the most professional whistleblower document have you ever seen based on second hand knowledge and hearsay? this is clearly someone who understands the process. and, again, the call didn't match the complaint as we point out. there is a lot of discrepancies because if something is hearsay, that's what happens. i want to know who the hearsayer is i know the president. steve: you mean the leakers? pete: the person who told the person who became the second hand whistleblower. steve: apparently ad according to the report on this and whistleblower complaint. half a dozen people inside the white house presumably. brian: i'm i'm the president of united states. steve: who talked to this guy. >> i'm maddened by that the

reality. and he should be, and his intelligence. steve: called a traitor yesterday, a spy. >> i know he has gotten criticism for how we treat and i have had my own criticism of how far we handle detainees at guantanamo bay. we have gone very soft in the way we react to things that shouldn't be done to the president of the united states or any elected official. ainsley: could the president say hey, you know what? i don't want 12 people listening to my calls anymore. pete: how can you be the top diplomat alongside mike pompeo and have these contentious conversations or friendly conversations with world leaders and not trust that executive privilege will be adhered to? brian: if you look at the president of the united states if he is trying to do acting like a mob boss and hold this over the ukrainian leader. no one tells the ukrainian leader that if you watched him side by side with the president on wednesday, number one, number two. the president is going to be a mob boss, how many mob bosses don't tell everyone on going on a secure line everyone out of the room. evident i he was having a casual congratulations on your win conversation.

and that's why it was so general people were not prepared for what was actually in that conversation. the worse mob boss ever? >> is he ever a master manipulator or worse mop boss ever. if you have ever had a conversation with the president it can go from issue a to b and c very quickly and rapidly based on the things he is prioritizing at the moment in this case it was the call with the ukraine president. what we saw on the russia stuff has he is exhausted and ukraine thing again same characters and same accusations. here he is a traitor to his country and the political process when none of the evidence, once it all comes out. points to that it's all the rush in the media wall-to-wall. brian: guess who agrees to with you, "the washington post" lead editorial. the democrats sprint in front of evidence. and they go point by point how the promise from the whistleblower did not add up to what was in the call. pete: american people insufferable coverage last week something we didn't

know anything about all because they hate the president. brian: calling our coverage insufferable. pete: not talking but guys. other channels a half mile away from here. steve: on the couch you will be here this weekend doing what. pete: mark levin will be on this weekend for us. ainsley: really good i love him. pete: rudy giuliani the president's lawyer. hunting and fishing day with bass pro. i went fishing in montana and decent at it. ainsley: how many did you get. pete: i think i got five. there were vets out there and helping the vets with good ride motorcycle. and i think you have a race going on today that i am going to participate. is it the spartan race? partnering. i'm going to try that i have not recovered from the seal swim. steve: that was awesome. ainsley: you still did better than any of us. brian: warm up for the weekend by tossing to jillian. pete: where are you at? you

have headlines? jillian: get to the first one. i have delta headlines baggage handler under arrest after $300,000 suddenly goes missing. quincy thorpe is accused of swiping a bagful of cash airport in new york city. surveillance video of thorpe taking the cash instead of loading it on a plane in miami -- to miami i should say. he became a suspect when he called out sick for two days after the heist. the lawyer says they will fight the charges. take a look at this photo shopped image that helped a wealthy family get their kid into college. a father paid for the phony image so his son could go to usc as a water polo player. he will spend four months in prison as part of a plea agreement. and so will another father in the college admission scandal. steven paid $400,000 to get his son into georgetown as a fake tennis recruit. actress felicity huffman was sentenced to two weeks in prison. lori loughlin has pleaded not guilty to her charges. we have all been there, right? i will ask you the question anyway. have you ever had to sit

next to a crying baby on a plane? >> oh, great. i always end up sitting next to a damn baby. what? what did you just say? wah, wah, my ears are pulsing and there is no way to console me. >> think about this japan airlines has a solution to that the airlines new website actually allows passengers to see where infants are sitting when booking a ticket that way they can avoid sitting by the babies that are potentially going to cry. brian: you might choose to sit next to the infant. steve: what parallel ains eyewitness or if you have an infant sit to another infant and play and commiserate as a parent. steve: i think it's great idea. jillian, thank you. brian: your move, jetblue. steve: out to the streets of new york city. ainsley: doesn't want to sit with me. i'm going to be in the back by myself, janice. janice: look at these wonderful folks who came

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>> it's a great honor and i have tremendous respect for the people standing alongside of me. >> thank you. [applause] brian: the president gets a plaque and he gets some gratitude. our next guest presented that plaque to the president in appreciation. he is massachusetts sheriff tom -- sheriff, why was it important for you to be there yesterday and for the others to join you? >> well, brian, we were there because, first of all, we were at the capitol the day before with the angel moms and dads and we wanted to be at the white house to be able to let this president know, president trump, he is the one person that's kept his promise focused on helping us do our mission and our promise to people to keep them safe by dealing with think legal immigration issue. nobody has been more resolute than the president of the united states, excuse me, and his resolve and his laser focus on this issue, in spite of all of this nonsense and distraction that has been going on for

20 years with congress they have been ignoring the problem while we are watching more drugs pouring into our neighborhoods, gang violence. people are being killed, 4500 a year by criminal illegal aliens. congress turns a blind eye and deaf ear and this president refuses to do it and he has given our footing back. we want him to know how much the sheriffs across this nation are going to be supporting him all the way through this and we had his back. brian: do you know what's interesting, sheriff. you are not asking for more money. you are not asking for nicer cars. you are just asking for respect. you haven't been getting that. >> no. we hadn't. you know, this president when he before he took office he said i'm going to reinstate the rule of law. he has kept that promise. for law enforcement that means the world to us. when we are out there on the streets, we are doing the same thing that the president want to do give the citizens of this nation the fundamental responsibility of government which is to keep them and their family safe. to keep the drugs out.

brian: sheriff, you know what? people like to simplify this argument and say if you crack down on illegal immigration, you are cracking down on the hispanic community. what's the truth? >> the truth is this isn't about any one community. this is about whether or not people are upholding the laws of the united states and are respecting the law. there is politicians out there that want to create this special class of people who don't have to be accountable to the law. brian: i just think when it comes to the voting booth, if you are in law enforcement or law enforcement family, the president has got to feel pretty good about his track record. i think that's what you underlined yesterday. sheriff tom hodgeson of massachusetts thank you so much. >> you got it. have a great day. brian: i will. you have a great weekend. senator elizabeth warren beating out joe biden for the first time in a major national poll. now, wall street democrat donors are warning, quote: we will sit out or back trump if you nominate

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steve: 2020 democratic presidential hopeful elizabeth warren screen left beating out joe biden for the first time in a major national poll. she is at 27. he is at 25. still within the margin of error. now wall street democratic donors are warning the party, quote: will sit out or back trump if you nominate elizabeth warren. here to weigh in is chairman and ceo of peebles corporation and two-time member of president obama's

finance committee don peebles. don, good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: what do you make of that? it sounds like wall street does not like the idea of the wealth tax and how elizabeth warren historically has gone after the big corporation. so they would rather vote for trump than the democrats. >> yeah, well, look, she vilified capitalism by and large. she fill phis wall street. she vilifies businesses and corporations. we would be fools to support someone who vilifies us and who wants to disrupt the free system that we have, the free market system. but it's not just wall street. i mean, the business community as a whole, especially minorities are not going to support her. i would be shocked if she gets out of the primary as a nominee. steve: why is she surging right now? >> only people paying attention to this right now. so far out and so many of them is this, you know, this far left group it's impeach trump. burn down the house, burn

down the democracy, turn everything upside down. everyone else is on with their lives trying to get ahead. steve: if it's trump vs. warren wall street a lot of democrats are going to vote for trump. >> quietly vote for trump and maybe give him a little bit of money or sit it out. i would say that would be the circumstances. steve: because you are so well tied to the democratic party. what do you make of the push toward impeachment in the house right now? >> i mean, i think it's a nonproductive exercise. one, i think it will hurt democrats later on. because there are so many issues confronting the country. and if congress could use their energy to focus on addressing some of those issues. i mean, our country would move forward. we had an election. trump won it. now it's time to position, to win the next time around. but that is four years in between. three of them should be used for governing. i think it's going to hurt the party. steve: nancy pelosi sounded like impeachment the last thing on her radar.

okay we are having official impeachment inquiry. we are getting closer and closer to perhaps a vote in the house. if that happens, what happens to the democrats in congress? >> i think people will start saying why are you focusing on this and makes them look like sore losers. i think they will ask -- the country is going to ask at least some of the key constituencies the ones that are going to shape an election are going to ask, why? this is an election not about getting the true believers to vote for you. it's the persuadabling. that's why elizabeth warren is not a good candidate. she can't persuade those in the center and those over to the right to vote for her. steve: nancy pelosi lose the speakership if she goes on with the impeachment thing? >> i'm not sure about that. i think that the reality is. steve: meaning the democrats lose? >> i think the democrats can hold the house of representatives based on how the district is set up right now and where the mood of the country is. that would be surprising to see them hold on to a slim margin and trump reelected. which will be, i mean, disappointing to all democrats. steve: all right. cautionary words, don

peebles, founder and chairman and ceo of peebles corporation. sir, thank you very much. >> thank you. steve: all right. coming up the president and top republicans wanted answers who leaked information to the whistleblower? geraldo, coming up next. . . .

steve: this is a fox news alert. 8:00 in new york city. tom sop republicans are demanding to know who leaked information to that now famous whistleblower who made the complaint about president trump's phone call and dealings with ukraine. brian: comes after a tense hearing with the deek are to have national intelligence. one in front and behind closed doors with the senate. ainsley: the whistleblower could be a cia officer. griff? reporter: good morning. "new york times" reports that the whistle-blower is a cia employee who spent time assigned to the white house. sources tell fox news that the

individual served on the nsc staff. in video obtained by bloomberg, that the president has harsh words for the person who behave the whistleblower the information. >> that is close to a spy. you know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart with spies and treason. we used to handle it a little differently now. reporter: acting dny joseph maguire testified for three hours defending his handling of the complaint. we have never seen anything like this. >> this is unprecedented and this is a unique situation. i want to stress that i believe the whistleblower and the inspector general acted in good faith throughout. i have every reason to believe they have done everything by the book and followed the law. reporter: maguire acknowledged that the complaint was based on secondhand information. speaker pelosi is cautious

pushing ahead to impeachment. >> this is coverup. this is a coverup. i think what the dni did was broke the law. the law is very clear. this is nothing we take lightly. reporter: maguire testified before the senate intelligence committee behind closed doors. we don't know whether or not the whistleblower will be called to congress by lawmakers. in recess the next two weeks democrats will travel to ukraine to further investigate this. steve: booed to know. geraldo joins us. it is friday. >> hello, everybody. steve: what is your headline for the week? we had the whistleblower complaint. we had a transcript of the phone call. coverup from nancy pelosi. >> i was brutally reminded that the democrats have sought the impeachment of donald trump from the first minute he was elected. even before that. they have tried the nuclear approach, the whole russia collusion, illusion, delusion, was the big banana we all thought, once you resolved that

they would move on. but i have to admit when you look at the four corners of the tape regarding zelensky, the ukrainian, i think you can make the construction, i personally don't but i see how people might make the connection between listen, go check out joe biden and hunter biden and we'll see about -- steve: you're a lawyer is there a quid pro quo there? >> i think it is much too imprecise to be a quid but this is not about precision. this is now about politics. does that give them a logical lever to now talk donald trump on the way out? they know as they accumulate house members, and you know, nancy pelosi is counting up to her, i mean 218 majority. brian: she has got them. >> she will know. she will impeach which is indictment. they will indict the president. only fourth time in history a president will be indicted.

actually only third time president in history. so president trump will be indicted. the senate will take that case and in short order say there is no way that 2/3 vote in the united states which would require 20 republicans to go on the other side. it will be an exercise that upsets us. i think that it will detract us. i think it will affect the stock market in a negative way. i think every committee, just as we feared in 2018 when the house fell to the democrats. it is going to be investigate, investigate, charge, investigate and nothing will happen. brian: the whole thing, "washington post" goes to actually the president's defense says the democrats are sprinting in front of evidence. keep in mind john durham is interviewing, finding out the genesis of ukraine's role in the election. they say, they say that the witness was not a direct witness. it is ridiculous to think that the president is saying can you help us with an investigation is something that is impeachable. >> well, just seems to me,

brian, when you hear the conversations the democrats are having, they are -- brian: they can all the conversations. >> that they're going ahead with impeachment process. ainsley: they are definitely going to do that. the senate, they will not get 2/3 in the senate. can the president still run again in 2020 and how will this affect his election? >> of course. it will be interesting to see hot american people perceive the process. will the president be treated fairly. you remember when kavanaugh was grilled. will there be no bilateral on anything. brian: they have -- he has raised $13 million since the impeachment articles. >> we talk about impeachment. when we have the time. ainsley: a lot of people say he is not perfect but he is better than the all tern tougher which would be bernie sanders or

elizabeth warren. >> i have known him forever. network says 11,000 lies and 15,000 lies. he is a real estate guy. he has braggadocio. that phone call to the ukrainian president reminded me of him selling real estate deal. hey, we do this. by the way you do that. i can see the stream of consciousness. steve: geraldo, yesterday the acting dni being grilled. >> maguire i thought he did a good guy. >> grilled by the democrats. lauded by a lot of republicans. what is interesting he is giving the facts. they had all the facts the committee did, the complaint the whistleblower filed. they had seen the classified version the night before. adam schiff rather than looking at the facts decided to actually make up what he call as parody to make it sound worse. >> after "saturday night live." steve: you never know.

this is friday morning. watch. >> this is the essence of what the president communicates. we've been very good to your country, very good. no other country has done as much as we have but you know what? i don't see much reciprocity here. i hear what you want. i have a favor i want from you though. and i'm going to say this only seven times so you better listen good. i want to you make up dirt on my political opponent, understand, lots of it. on this and on that. steve: none of that -- >> a laugh riot. steve: the president in the last couple men's has been tweeting and tweeting this out about the congressman from california. representative adam schiff fraudulently read to congress with millions of people watching a version of my conversation with the president of ukraine. that does not exist. he was supposedly reading the exact transcribed version of the call but he completely changed the words to make it sound

horrible and me sound guilty. he was desperate and got caught. adam schiff lied to congress and attempted to defraud the american public. he has been doing this for two years. i'm calling for him to resign immediately from congress based on this fraud. geraldo? brian: i don't think he would. >> this was awkward on the president's behalf. i wish he did not make the phone call to the ukrainian president. i think that even though you can parse it and i think that he will be strong going forward, certainly on the senate side of it. steve: you said it wasn't illegal? >> it is not illegal except if you construe it in the most evil way possible. if you construe it to mean that he said go after joe biden and hunter biden and we will if i have you the aid as the democrats are trying to define and couch it i think that's a problem. i think at the very least he has got to explain in very lucid and

comprehensive way what exact he meant. steve: intent? >> i would like to know what happened to the aid? was $400 million of aid delivered? what did they use the money for. brian: september 11th it was delivered. >> did it all go to weapons? the. brian: the breakdown, no one has said what the breakdown was exactly the senate okayed. it has heat tall weapons in there -- lethal weapons something barack obama wasn't willing to do. the ukraine leader said i appreciate everything you have done for us over the last 2 1/2 years. on july 19th the aid was held up. why? why would the vice president who is supposed to go the inauguration, represent the administration why did he not go. why did secretary perrigo instead? what happened when murphy and johnson went over to the talk to the ukrainian leader. rob portman came out in august. i talked to the president about it, had nothing to do with any type of conversation on joe biden. the conversation was about

corruption. and then rob portman said we need to get emthat that money, a week later they got the money. that is what the president has going for him. >> it gets back to my main question, the 69-dollar question. where did the money go? was the money used to buy weapons or was the money used to line pockets of the corrupt people that the president is complaining about. ainsley: you would have to have proof of quid pro quo. >> you would have to have proof. ainsley: a month later after that conversation or two months later, if we don't have proof that the president was holding back because he wasn't getting information about joe biden's son, he is not guilty. >> that is what a reasonable person would assess the situation. i see it differently. after listening to the democrats, they believe that they have it now. that everything else, russia collusion, stormy daniels, taxes, making money on hotels they're going to put everything away, laser focus on this.

this is be what the impeachment will be about, maybe one or other two other little things. president of the united states in a conversation intercepted by a rotten snitch. i would love to what him. that is another story. imagine this president his whole tenure in office has been marked by snitches and rats, backstabbers. amazing how he functions at all. he will have to defend that statement. it will be the essence of impeachment. i think they will lose democrats on the way to indicting him. steve: thank you very much for your point of view. have a great weekend. >> you too. steve: meantime news time. jillian: let's begin with a fox news alert. a fa highway patrol car involved in a horrific crash overnight in orlando. all lanes of traffic have been closed for hours. the patrol car appears to be stuck under the utility vehicle. there was a massive police presence on the scene this morning. no word on conditions of everyone else involved.

evacuations for a major gas leak. thousands in boston waking up without power. they are removing manhole covers to prevent an explosion. one year ago this same area was hit by a deadly gas line explosions. the line was overpressurized for maintenance. one person was killed. 100 buildings were damaged or destroyed. breaking right now, you're taking a live look at the nation's capitol where earth strike protesters block the streets. the group is planning to target trump international hotel. the epa as well as fossil fuel backers. protests are taking place worldwide today, including in rome and india. send it back to you. steve: just another busy day. thank you very much. it is our top story. the whistleblower, may according to "the new york times" a cia officer. our next guest is a cia officer

and a democrat, he says the intel community is out of control. ♪

brian: the whistleblower who made the complaint about president trump's phone call according to "new york times" would be a cia officer of the as democrat use this, use this as a basis for impeachment? does this reveal a bigger political agenda? here with reaction former cia officer and democrat, brian dean wright. brian, you say this is an indication, the cia, the intelligence community is out of control. in what way? >> we have seen this for the past three years t started with comey and clapper and brennan releasing that steele dossier in january of 2017, pushing that into the public. kneecapping the president. starts there. we now have somebody who the i.g. himself has said has a political animus to the president. this is cia analyst, senior official who we now believe to be the whistleblower has this political animus. we've seen this book end, i hate to use conspiracy, certainly a

degree of political bias in the intelligence community, usually at the highest levels. in my estimation that not working level. we're not talking about the gs-12s or 13s or 14s. but at senior levels we see this over and over again and it has got to stop. brian: gina haspel is the current director has to put her senior officers through renewed series of investigations and scrutiny, really? >> i think so. how can you say or believe that that is not the case? look at a couple different things what we've seen in the past few years. a guy named ned price was on the nsc down with obama. eventually transitioned over to the trump administration. came out with this scathing op-ed in the "washington post" said all these terrible things about the president. fine. he can have an opinion. but he didn't disclose the fact he is a democrat and since gone on and become a contributor with msnbc or nbc the point is if

people in the intelligence community bash the president, done about all the terrible things they have to acknowledge their bias. that is the problem i have with this whistleblower. we know from the ig they have a bias they didn't disclose that the i.g. had to find out about. but now the american people are being told look, we're going to impeach the president on the allegations of anonymous whistleblower who didn't have first-hand access to the information, has a political bias, who has sources that also might have biases, guess what, america, you can't ask any questions about any of those people because they have certain protections. now that's bizarre. that is a sham. that doesn't make any sense. that is an effort, ultimately to kneecap, to hit the president of the united states. this president or any president. it's a horrific precedent of what we are doing. by the way, the american people back me up on this. the poll came out last night, 75% of america wants this whistleblower and his sources to testify in front of congress.

so if you're in going to take out the president particularly as a former intelligence officer you better stand up, do it publicly. brian: bryan, do you think there is better readout of the call than the five-pages we got? or is that basically what you have, notes from calls with world leaders? >> look, that is going to be the essence of it. there may be some additional clarification that you might get from somebody who was in the room but the vast majority of what we need to know is in that transcript. i tip my hat to the president for releasing it. it was the right thing to do. we can look and all have the conversation. but again, if you look at that transcript, if you look at the fallout from that so far, it has been impeachment. we'll move forward with impeachment. brian: yeah. >> there is no real desire to collect additional facts. what does that tell you this is about? this tells you that this isn't about trying to get facts. we decided as part of the democratic party i'm sorry to say we decided to get rid of the

president, move forward with it irrespective of facts. that is clear. brian: my hope the american people will let their lawmakers know over the next two weeks this is not where we want to go, i think congressman green gave away the gameplan, if we don't impeach the president he might win re-election. that is the gameplan. bryan dean wright. thanks so much. appreciate your passion. >> pleasure. brian: straight ahead senator richard blumenthal blasting president's call with the leader of ukraine. >> donald trump is going to choke on this supposed nothing burger. brian: okay. dr. bill bennett says just another example of democratic derangement. he joins us next. ♪

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♪ >> to use the bathroom while the whole bathroom up there is empty is wrong. brian: tantrum over bathroom access, forcing emergency landing. another passenger posting the video from the alaska airlines flight. the passenger upset because he couldn't use the first class facilities. he was arrested when the flight landed in kansas city and left for los angeles without him. and this passenger wanted access to the great outdoors. the woman opening an emergency exit door for a breath of fresh air. nice job. this happening as the flight was boarding in china. the woman was arrested. everyone got arrested except steve and ainsley. steve: meanwhile the whistleblower complain against president donald trump is under the microscope by house democrats as he move towards impeachment. on the senate side some of the colleagues are issuing a warning to the president.

>> donald trump is going to choke on this supposed nothing burger. he will go down with this supposed nothing burger in his throat. because what it shows is repeated, concerted, premediated criminal conduct. ainsley: but is their own political agenda fueling this investigation push? steve: let's talk to former drug czar and george h.w. bush administration and host of the wiseguys over on "fox nation," dr. bill bennett. doctor, good morning. >> hi, guys. how are you? steve: lindsey graham referred to what is going on big nothing burger. there is no there there when you read the transcript. blumenthal says well this supposed nothing burger was something that he would choke on. what do you make of what the senator from connecticut has been saying? >> there is a ton of comments. you heard them. you played them. that struck me, he is going

down, he is going to choke, stick in his throat this nothing burger. what this shows i think the kind of anger and even hatred of this president by, by his political opponent. and it is blinded them, it is blinded them to the degree that they think they can make something out of nothing. and there is nothing here in this transcript that is impeachable. what is going around is something, a lot of people said, will you, you can impeachment is anything that congress wants. yeah, they can impeach the president for liking burnt steak and ketchup if they want, but it has to be plausible, they have to make the sale to the american people. and this won't. he was having a perfectly sensible conversation with the president of the ukraine. as "the washington post" points out this morning, good reason to talk to the ukrainians about the 2016 election and problems that might have been there so he was perfectly within his rights. but this thing has the flavors,

steve, ainsley, of an obsession. remember "les mis" with them pursuing, or if that is two highbrow, wiley coyote and roadrunner. wiley coyote steps off the cliff and looks down and drops. i think that will happen here. what is feeding them is not the facts, because the facts are not on their side but their hatred of donald trump. that is a very ugly thing. ainsley: how does this all play out? we all do love our country, and we care so much about it. watching this there is so much theatrics. someone told me it is like a broadway play, and you mentioned "les mis." this is disheartening especially with our grandparents fighting in world war ii, the greatest generation, there is so much venom, choking on the burger? >> couple things, in small letters i think it plays out

well for donald trump. i think that he comes out of this very well. apparently according to fund-raising numbers he is doing very well since this all started. this will destroy biden, this plus elizabeth warren. he is already going down. the more attention that is paid to, the worse i think biden will look. in terms of your larger question, which is a great question, ainsley, the republic does need some unification. we need to talk about some of those things that unite us that we share instead of these horrible divisions. our politics which ought to be a instrument of change and improvement is now become largely weaponized and that is a shame. so we need to remember those stories that bring us together as americans. i noticed the praise that you all notice, that for the director of national intelligence, while they were under their breath calling him deceitful and dereliction of duty, they were all very careful but we appreciate your service. let's remember those moments.

>> at least we still have that. >> we can agree on that but i'm afraid that transcending that now are hateful partisan politics. democrats will regret this i'm afraid deeply. steve: wise words from the host of the wiseguys on "fox nation," thank you, for making a house call. remember the iconic scene from the movie, national lampoon vacation. ♪ >> do something. ainsley: well christie brinkley just recreated it 36 years later. she probably looks the same. you got to go see it. steve: plus judge jeanine is here. you're watching "fox & friends" live from new york city. ♪

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>> i want to congratulate the democrats of roll out of latest information warfare operation against the president. and their extraordinary ability to once again enlist the mainstream media in their campaign. the democrats simply move the goalposts claimed there doesn't need to be a quid pro quo for this conversation to serve as a basis for impeaching the president. they don't want answers. they want a public spectacle. brian: they might have articles of impeachment by october. joining us right now is judge jeanine. the same woman who hosts justice with jeanine. >> "justice with judge jeanine." ainsley: she is a judge. brian: tell about her book. >> she wrote a book, called, "radicals, resistence and revenge, the left's plot to

remake america." judge, what did you think about that hearing yesterday? >> you know what? this is the ultimate revenge because these radicals have been resisting the president, resisting us for putting him in the white house and this is the ultimate revenge. everything they have done they did long ago. look, what is about to come out what is about to be declassified? i have a chapter in my book, every time the president does something worth noting they're closing in on russia, closing in on russia. the only reason i talk about yesterday because it's a prelude what we're going to see. what we have now is this whole impeachment effort that has been in the works for four, since he walked into the oval office. my concern is this, you've got a phone call by a sitting president. he is a chief executive of this country and for these people to say that that man does not have the right to call another president of another country and say we're looking into what

happened with the 2016 election. the genesis of the meddling in our american election and can you help us with that? for the democrats to say there is something wrong with that, they are so left field. we spent two years looking into that, $35 million you're saying the president can't call up and say if you can help us with that, we have a little information about that? by the way, let's get joe biden out of the way right now. joe biden is the one who six months before the president is on this phone call is saying, you know i held up this money, american taxpayer dollars, so they got rid of the prosecutor, who by the way was looking to investigate, was investigating his son, looking to interrogate him because he was on a board of a company for which he had absolutely no background and no training. come on! steve: judge, what do you make of when you look at the whistleblower complaint, all six

pages, nine pages, whatever? >> right. steve: were you stuck by how legal it looked? we had mr. sekulow with us about an hour ago and he said it looked like it had been prepared by a law firm. >> there is no question about it. this whistleblower whoever he is if he is a cia guy, it doesn't matter. this was a setup. this is hearsay. it is absolutely inadmissible in court. he put together a legal argument, this guy overheard other people talking? i want to know who the other people? who were the other people in the white house looking to sink our president? as far as i'm concerned on the concept, people around him, looking to get information out, so the democrats can get him out of office because they're never going to beat him. ainsley: one person, one person who listened to that conversation told someone else secondhandedly, now it turned into all of this. >> it turned into all of this, nancy pelosi comes out before we

have even seen the transcript. it's a coverup. he broke the law. brian: she wants attorney general barr, an hour ago, looking at barr, get rid of him, get rid of the president. >> they were resisting barr the day he came in. now they want him to recuse himself. this is a game. america doesn't want the gamesmanship anymore. america wants a strong economy. we have a soaring economy right now. they want a strong military which is what we have. they want the stock market to keep kicking. they want the president to be able to focus. i have to tell you something. i looked at the president the day they came out of the u.n. spoke to 98 countries in three days, that is exaggeration obviously, if schiff can do a parody on something as serious as this, that in itself was terribles but you know, he has to say to himself, i'm killing myself. i'm killing myself to make this country safe. an every time i turn around i

get incoming. you know what? shame on the democrats. brian: coming from the inside. the cia, somebody at the white house leaked it out. >> they predicted it. chuck schumer said you don't play around with the intelligence community. they get you six ways to sunday. brian: watch you over the weekend. >> you will? brian: we'll read your book. steve: radicals, resistance and revenge. judge jeanine. ainsley: brian, judge. brian: judge. steve: time for news with jillian. jillian: good morning. a police officer attacked by a man with a metal pole. the body camera video may be hard to watch. we want to warn you. >> [bleep] >> put the thing down. >> [inaudible] shoot me. jillian: that is hard to watch. officers coming out under attack, with a man threatening people in los angeles. it took tasers, foam bullets and bean bags to get him to surrender. he is phasing multiple charges.

the officer he hit is okay. a reporter off the job belonging to racist tweets from carson king. this is the iowa state football fan, whose beer money signed raise a million dollars over the for a children's hospital. king has apologized for his post. iowa governor kim reynolds named tomorrow carson king day. christie brinkley giving film buffs a blast from the past recreating a iconic movie scene. >> hey, go around. >> she is flirting with you, murray. >> just like in the movie. but when you see it in real life it comes off wildly reckless. jillian: brinkley from the the

national lampoon vacations, making an appearance on the gold bergs. >> "the gold bergs" is hilarious. ainsley: he is in curbing with enthusiasm. i don't know his name. brian: christie brinkley is not looking straight ahead. ainsley: she has her leg up. steve: janice dean is with fox fans behind her. janice: hi, everybody. take a look. they're here for the race going to be happening. pete hegseth is out here. we have more "fox & friends" folks that will take part. this is amazing. look at the maps while we see the beautiful people here. 69 here in new york city. mostly sunny skies. i will tell you we have a big ol' snowstorm across the northern rockies and the northern plains. two to three feet of snow. it is coming early skiers. be aware. could see blizzard conditions.

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♪ jillian: good friday morning, some quick headlines. republican presidential candidate mark sanford tries to attack president trump with a pop culture reference but gets it wrong. >> where's the beef on that promise because more wall has not been built over the course of the administration's last couple years. jillian: here is what happened, the former south carolina governor mixed up fast-food slogans. where's the beef was a phrase wendy's used in the '80s. arby's responding, sir, this isn't arby's. mcdonald's teaming up with plant-based meat producer. they created the plt. it stands. steve: i have had the burgers. it is delicious. jillian: i was a trend setter. >> yes you were. steve: on capitol hill former i.c.e. director tom homan was

testifying and the chairwoman, democrat from washington, congresswoman jayapal. mr. homan exceeded his time and she cut him off. he didn't like it. watch. >> children are dying. cartels are getting rich. why am i angry? because you haven't done anything to fix it. nothing. there is no downside on securing our border. there is no downside on illegal immigration being decreased. no downside of less drugs coming in the country. >> time of the gentleman has expired. >> i asked you politely go beyond my time. you let the other people. >> mr. homan. excuse me. >> i'm a taxpayer. i'm a taxpayer. you work for me. steve: okay. ainsley: it is true though. i didn't think about that. she has the gavel but -- steve: she was running the show. everybody has five minutes. but he was on with us about 90 minutes ago, he said look,

congress needs to hold a mirror up to themselves because they actually caused the problems because they won't close the loopholes. >> i'm not going to let them sit there and tell lies about my president, tell lies about the men and women of border patrol and i.c.e. t was lie after lie. then, it is my responsibility to set the record straight. they are out and outlying. they are not shutting me down, not letting me respond, no, i will not shut up. i'm under oath. you should be under oath. just because you have a gavel doesn't make you the queen of the day. doesn't allow you to lie to the american people. brian: tom homan yesterday, joined us today, acting i.c.e. director in his old job matthew albans, i.c.e. arrested 100 people with convictions for sexual assault with other violent crimes also involving, crimes involving drugs. that is what they're doing but

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♪ ainsley: this is on a mission to empower former servicemembers and first-responders through comradery. brian: participating in the tunnel to towers run. a facsimile behind us. they're warming up on fox square steve: coordinator for sheepdog impact assistance, scott is in the red shirt. president and founder of sheepdog, retired marine

sergeant major lance nutt. vice president of sheepdog, casey wilkes. ainsley: good morning. steve: casey tell us what sheepdog impact assistance is? >> we're a non-profit that benefits military and first-responders by outdoor adventures, disaster response mission. we try to get them off the couch. steve: where does the sheepdog come from? >> the sergeant major probably better answer the question. >> as a community of society's protectors, our veterans and first-responders, without a doubt the finest among us, as citizens and especially those men and women willing to serve and protect others, the name sheepdog defines that type of individual who is ready to give their life in defense of others. brian: when you talk about putting this together, why does the spartan race work, what are you trying to get involved? >> giving individuals off the couch, reengaged life, to get them something to do. ainsley: what is your

involvement. >> i'm a outdoor adventure coordinator. we go to yellowstone, yosemite. it is all about the comradery, the team, finishing as a team. steve: looks much more professional but we have pete hegseth and todd piro -- ainsley: well-done. >> we already ran. steve: how was it? >> see what it is. >> focus on what's important. i'm in the fan club. todd piro fan club. >> if you want to help, how do we help sheepdog? too steve, brian, ainsley. ainsley: i like the back of it. get off the couch. brian: more "fox & friends" in a moment.

sheepdog race, join these guys. >> sandra: the whistle-blower fallout hitting a fever pitch this morning. republicans now demanding to know the person's identity as democrats ramp up calls for impeachment. president trump calling it all a democratic scam. good morning everyone, i'm sandra smith. >> and i'm jon scott in for bill hemmer. the news and reaction coming in fast. statement of moments ago the president calling on chairman adam schiff to resign immediately. next, speaker pelosi claiming there's a cover-up at the white house and there are a growing number of reports saying the whistle-blower did not have direct knowledge of the phone call at the center of it