chopsticks wasabi and soy! comin' in a little hot. it only gets better when you switch and save with geico. heather: it is wednesday, october 9th. on the east coast a fox news alert. on the brink of invasion turkish forces lining the northern syrian border and could wage war at any moment. the surging threat after the us shocked our allies by withdrawing troops from the region. tensions between china and the nba at a breaking point, the league scrambling to rebound after the general manager praised anti-communist protests. the major event in shanghai canceled overnight as several teams are expected to speak in

just moment. trump versus clinton in 2020? >> it truly is remarkable how upset he remains with me. maybe there does need to be a rematch. obviously i can beat him again. heather: jabs thrown by both 2016 rival fueling talk of a rematch. "fox and friends first" starts right now. ♪ >> "fox and friends first," thank you for beginning or ending your day with us.

let's begin with fox news alert. turkey's military could invade syria at any moment. looking at the border right now the military is lined up and ready to go. the offense comes after a surprise withdrawal of us troops in the region. jackie ibanez joins us as concerns grow about humanitarian crisis. >> the offensive overnight, carrying military personnel, lining up at the border of turkey and syria, the military will invaded any moment. the turkish government communications director announcing the envoy while thing the kurdish people can defect or they have to stop them from disrupting our counter isis efforts. kurdish leadership called troops to move toward the border and resist the imminent invasion

putting pressure on -- us troops would be removed from the region. kurdish fighters, and on casualties, a humanitarian disaster. >> nato needs to step up and do our part in congress. we look at deterring turkey for continuing down this path, destabilizing in the region. >> this threatened sanctions on turkey. the us will, quote, up at a rate it's economy. the white house back here in this country refusing to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry.

the announcement comes after the state department blocked the eu ambassador from testifying on capitol hill. someone else could soon take the stand. the ambassadors the latest official, the white house laying down a defiant marker using all cooperation with the impeachment inquiry. donald trump and his administration reject the basis unconstitutional efforts to overturn the democratic process. your actions left the president with no choice to fulfill his duties to the american people, the constitution, the executive branch and all future occupants of the office of the presidency, donald trump and his administration cannot participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry over the circumstances. the letter laying out several reasons they believe the inquiry violates due process.

nancy pelosi was outraged by the letter. and the abuse of power from the american people will be regarded as further evidence of obstruction. you are not above the law. you will be held accountable. lindsey graham wants rudy giuliani to testify in open session and when asked if he would appear he had this to say. >> doesn't look like i would be shy to point out 40 years worth of corruption? a little more than they do. >> maria, the former us ambassador to ukraine, is expected to testify on friday but unclear whether the administration will try to block her as well.

>> the search ramping up for a third suspect accused of killing joshua brown, key witness in the murder trial of amber guyger. police arrested two men in connection with the crime but fattiest green is on the run. the men are accused of shooting brown following a drug deal gone wrong. joshua brown was killed two days after testifying and guyger's case. police say his murder was not related. a convicted terrorist found guilty in the attempted murder of five police officers. one is ari serving a life sentence for planting bombs in new york city in 2016 and injuring 30 people. this new verdict stems from a shootout following those attacks when police moved in to arrest him. he will be sentenced next month, he faces more charges for planting bombs in new jersey. nearly 1 million people will be

in the dark in california, the state's largest utility shutting off power in the bay area starting today. with high winds predicted the outages aimed at preventing trees from hitting live power lines. pge has been blamed for sparking wildfires in the past including last year's devastating campfire. san francisco is not included in the outage that could last a week. some stores are running out of supplies as people rushed to stock up on batteries and flashlights. more than 100 protesters arrested in washington as the supreme court takes up gbtq rights cases. >> hundreds protesting as the high court, and employers right to legally fire someone over their sexual orientation. the justices must decide whether lgbt and transgender people are protected under federal law that

bans workplace discrimination. donald trump will take the stage in minneapolis tomorrow night. the rally is confirmed over security, the target center has backed off canceling the contract which means donald trump's keep america great rally will go on as scheduled. the campaign will not be forced to pay a $500,000 bill as put forth by the city's mayor. andrew yang makes the cut for the next democratic debate, yang is one of eight to qualify so far. the deadline is one week before the event. it will be held on november 20th in georgia. qualifying candidates need to be pulling up 3% in at least four polls or 5% in two early state polls on top of 165,000 union donors.

and switching used to sports the tampa bay braves force a game 5 to get their championship hopes alive. >> up the middle. with game number 4. >> the raise scoring a 4-1 victory with one of houston's best pictures on the mound. the st. louis cardinals take on the atlanta braves in game 5 today and the los angeles dodgers battling for a spot in the next round. the time is 9 minutes after the top of the hour and house democrats issue a subpoena after the state department blocked him from testifying. dan hoffman says this partisan battle could put national security at risk and he joins us

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heather: house democrats ramping up the fight with the white house subpoenaing this ambassador to the eu, this is hours after he was blocked from testifying in what the president calls in a legitimate probe. dan hoffman is a member of the advisory board and joins us with reaction. appreciate it. so what is your reaction to the latest in all the moves that is happening? >> before the impeachment inquiry began we were in the midst of a hyper-partisan

atmosphere, and the concern i would have is collateral damage to the relationship between the executive branch and legislative branch and ramifications on the national security. >> let's look at the subpoena. in light of mike pompeo's direct intervention to block your appearance before the committee's we are left with no choice but to compel your appearance and deposition pursuant to the enclosed subpoena. and a lot of other things in this people should read for sure. in order to fulfill his duties to the american people and executive branch and all future occupants, donald trump and his administration cannot participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry under these circumstances. you obviously agree with that.

>> co. equal branches of the government kind of grade each other's homework. that is the way the founding fathers arranged things. we are seeing all this play out. it is to the detriment of what has been a challenge for us in domestic policies and foreign policy, hard to do either of those when you having credible partisan divide. bill: some of the text message this been leaked and among other things, there was no quid pro quo, you can look at it there. >> representative jim jordan said he would like the ambassador to appear and testify for that very reason, he felt someone at the white house would like to hear from.

the american people, roughly every one would like the transparency about what transpired in ukraine but i would highlight ukraine is one of the most corrupt places on the planet as if that corruption is risking, infecting our own political process are making it more partisan than it already was. heather: another person they are expected to hear from is the former ambassador to ukraine. what do we know about her. why is she a key witness? >> she is a long time serving foreign service officer who entered the foreign service, ambassador in armenia, she served once before in kiev. she the real subject matter expert and has an outstanding reputation but i think she found it challenging to navigate her official duties and private

diplomacy or efforts by rudy giuliani. there are so many unknowns here, they've drawn conclusions that have fact about what transpired. heather: the former station chief in moscow, i wanted to ask you this. what do you think about these alleged leaks? a lot of them coming from the intel community, cia officers among them? >> i'm always against leaks. i would establish between that and whistleblowing. the president campaigned on the art of the deal. he has a bunch of deals, nuclear deals with iran and north korea, trade deal with china, middle east peace. these are extremely difficult but even more so now when our enemies are seeing the president take a lot of body blows in this domestic partisan sites, and there is no reason to pursue any deal and will make the conditions of the deal that much

harder for us. >> that is a great point and a lot of people don't take that into account. there are a lot of eyes on what is going on in the back and forth in this country. we appreciate your insight. the time is 17 after the top of the hour. ellen degeners, sitting with george w. bush had a cowboys game. >> i'm friends with george bush and a lot of people who don't share the same beliefs i have. we are all different and we have forgotten that is okay that we are all different. heather: carly shimkus has high praise for ellen's comments. ♪ - right now in the former soviet union, there are thousands of jewish holocaust survivors trapped in relentless poverty.

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>> welcome back. illegal border crossings skyrocket to a 12 your are displayed four months of decline. 977,000 people have been arrested trying to cross the southern border in the fiscal year. that is the most since 2007. mark morgan says no immigration system in the world is designed to handle that many migrants. a push to give noncitizens the right to vote. the city council approving a resolution allowing noncitizens to vote in city elections. the city councilman who wrote the measure says it creates a more engaged community but critics say the council is just pandering of the measure needs approval from the state legislature. a former president, george w.

bush, is backing ellen degeneres after she was slammed for thing next to him during an nfl football game. >> people were upset, why is a gay hollywood liberal sitting next to a conservative republican president? i am friends with george bush, i'm friends with a lot of people who don't share the same beliefs i have. we are all different and we have forgotten that is okay that we are all different. heather: carly shimkus with fox headlines is here with how the bush family responded. there was a lot of responding. >> can you believe ellen had the nerve to sit next to a former president at a football game? rather than apologize for the moment which is a lot of people do when the social media bob goes after that she turned this into a teachable moment about kindness and unity and a spokesperson for the former president responded saying this was president and mrs. bush enjoyed being with alan and appreciated her comments about respecting one another, they respect her.

this moment went so viral and it was because so many agreed with her. one twitter user said she feels she needs to defend herself are hanging out with george w. bush, slowly starting to hate pc culture more and more. not being friends with people who share the same beliefs is making america even more divided and another twitter user says it is good that people have different views, talk to each other, we can learn from each other. when i saw that picture i thought it was a nice moment to see these two people together you wouldn't think would be friends in the majority of people felt that way but social media has the most critical point. >> i found it disingenuous because not once but twice on interviews with megan kelly and matt lauer she has said she refuses to have donald trump on her show because they don't have

the same viewpoint. >> he is friends with president bush. heather: she talking about kindness and respecting other people's views maybe she should have donald trump on. we will see. let's talk about this next point, speaking of elections. >> contest all over again. there was a twitter back and forth between donald trump and hillary clinton and it started with this from donald trump saying crooked hillary clinton should enter the race and move away from elizabeth warren. only one condition. the crooked one must explain her high crimes and misdemeanors including how and why she deleted 33,000 emails after getting a state subpoena. clinton responded don't tempt me. do your job. later she reflected on that twitter exchange on pbs news hour. >> it truly is remarkable how

excess he remains with me. he's either lying or delusional or both. maybe there does need to be a rematch. obviously i can beat him again. >> a reference to the fact she won the popular vote in 2016. bradley says nice one, trump is doing a good job in spite of the fact you couldn't win a rigged election, democrats would rather resist than do their job and the mainstream media is in the tank but at least you have plenty of time to be witty. another twitter user says hopefully she runs, it would be another easy win. heather: fox news alert. nba players speaking out as tensions grew between the league and china. how the commissioner plans to make peace today. >> wish me luck and hire someone else. >> i don't think this is going to work out for me.

>> reporter: elizabeth foreign changing her story about getting fired for being pregnant but she's not the only democrat flip-flopping. will the other contenders change their tune? up next. ♪ - [narrator] do you have less energy than you used to?

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heather: a look at your headlines. new reports turkey's military has just invaded syria. this is a live look at the border were the military just began crossing moments ago. they are ready to resist the invasion. that move after the trump administration announced it is pulling troops from the region spiking backlash on both sides of the aisle.

a letter to top democrats, nancy pelosi as the white house's latest attempt to cover up his betrayal of our democracy and insist the president is above the law. the first lady milania trump meeting with teenagers to learn about vaping and curbing vaping use, she is calling on them to start marketing to children, 23 people have died from vaping related illnesses. the latest victim as a teenager from new york city. nba commissioner adam silver will meet with officials in shanghai, dale mori tweeted support for hong kong protesters. china took this as an insult and decided they will not cooperate with the league. chinese dtv will not broadcast

two nba games of the country this week. and they were overnight and that was just canceled. espn want to avoid part of the nba china controversy. employees got an internal memo to avoid political commentary about the ongoing protests in hong kong and this report says network executives are keeping a close eye on their coverage of hong kong. several shows it address the controversy, primarily on the backlash against darrell moy. jason whitlock, host of speak for yourself on fox sports one, the nba controversy is an eye-opener for fans about how much influence china has on the game.

>> the shoe company, nike, adidas, they won american basketball from the high school level all the way to the pro-plaps and the shoe companies are dependent on the china market and that is where all this is coming from. you see nba players during the off-season running to china to do the bidding of their shoe companies and to sell their shoes in a china market so they are being exposed as not nearly as much of american business as it is global business with china having more influence over it than america. >> multiple chinese companies have suspended business ties to the league. elizabeth warren claiming she was fired from her teaching job in 1971 for being visibly pregnant but new video surfacing from decades ago contradicting her claims but warren isn't the

only 2020 contender who has flip-flopped on that. political analyst ron meyer takes a closer look. thanks for joining us this morning, we appreciate it. let's show it to people right now. >> i was disappointed -- i was visibly pregnant and the principal did what principle did in those days, wished me luck and hired someone else. i don't think this is going to work out for me. i was pregnant with my first baby. i had a baby and stayed home for a couple years. >> what is your take on that? little different. >> definitely different. here is the thing. elizabeth warren saying she's changing her story because she feels more comfortable talking about it now but here's the problem. a lot of voters are finding that

explanation disingenuous because her 2007 story where she said she left the position to get another degree so she can keep teaching lines up with the riverdale county records that the washington free beacon was able to uncover that showed she resigned from her position and the school board accepted it regrettably meaning they wanted to keep her. they offered her a second year position to stay with the school system but she left and went to go back to school to get a higher degree to do a teaching job she claimed she wanted to do in the past. people see this mostly as she's trying to create a bio to appeal to the left-leaning base but this story doesn't track with the history. heather: she's not the only one flip-flopping on an issue. listen to biden at stanford

iraq. >> the moment shock and are started. in that moment i was opposed to the effort and i was outspoken. that first hearing i said president bush has stated his determination to remove saddam from power. in the view of many in congress they share that view and i am among them. >> it was the right move then and would be a correct vote today. heather: a lot of folks calling him out on this. >> including david axelrod who is very senior in the obama administration. politicized called this claim falls, he was fooled by president bush and to go into the iraq war. he chaired a committee that went into why regime change would happen, he didn't support regime change or invasion of iraq, totally rewriting history and vice president biden showing why he has such weak front runner status and his flip-flops show there is cause for michelle obama to get into the race because the two front runners are not holding up and bernie sanders not doing better either.

heather: let's listen to bernie sanders caving on union healthcare options. >> what they will be able to do is take healthcare off the table because their members will have comprehensive healthcare is a human right and then they can sitdown and negotiate decent wages. >> you say it is freedom of choice but doing away with private insurance. >> your take on that. >> it would be one thing if he was just altering his plan a little bit but he has criticized all his other democratic rivals for changing their plan away from medicare for all but then because he is being attacked by unions and losing union votes he creates a weird carveout to accommodate his political base and a lot of us who enjoy our private insurance are saying can't you carve us out an exception? we are not important politically enough to keep private insurance if we so choose and don't want a public option? that is what a lot of his rivals

are saying and why you have seen bernie sanders also quickly in the polls so you have three front runners who are fledglings, not be able to keep their facts straight and they are looking for another outside option to come into this race even at this late time. heather: hillary clinton is volunteering. thank you so much, appreciate it. 20 minutes until the top of the hour. more college kids ditching columbus day and they are not the only ones. our next guest says the left's version of the historic figure is to blame. a history lesson up next.

heather: ditching columbus day for indigenous people day.

a new poll shows 69% of college students want to rename the holiday in solidarity with native americans, washington dc and wisconsin made that change what is this an attempt to erase history? young american spokesperson is here to weigh in, thank you for joining us. what do you think is behind this? >> i don't think this poll is surprising when you consider what young people are being taught today in their classrooms was they are not receiving a complete education or the fool history on people like christopher columbus and i think what we see is this ongoing push to sort of demonize western civilization and its founders. we see this with the founding fathers. christopher columbus is one of the early examples of someone the left has decided needs to be canceled and he raced from history. heather: we can bring up states that have replaced columbus day with indigenous people day, ten state along with the district of

columbia. >> dc voted last night and an emergency declaration, didn't even have a hearing about the measure and interesting the dc city council is choosing to focus on this is an issue when there are many other issues that affect washingtonians in a very real way that they have not yet addressed. >> do you think this is an indication of more to come or will people start standing up and this will not be a movement accuse >> it continues to get more intolerant and fewer and fewer figures in history are safe. we see in dc at george washington university they wish to remove a colonial from campus. this will not stop anytime soon unless people stand up and say no, it is important to know our history and the history of how the united states and west came to be formed but working with young people every day we see this originating on college

campuses and moving into the larger mainstream culture. heather: young people you talk with, are they empowered enough to speak up for their beliefs? >> it depends on the campus. young people are realizing because of movements like this one that simply going on to get along is not an option anymore. they have to bully advocate conservative ideas and the real history, when they do stand up they have an impact on their respective campuses, just a matter of taking the blowback from the left when they decide to stand up and say we can learn about christopher columbus, there's nothing wrong with learning about him, we simply shouldn't he race him because what good does that do? heather: go along to get along, i like that phrase, thank you for joining us. the time is 15 until the top of the our. did robert mueller lie under oath? fox news exclusive showing the job he really wanted from donald

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heather: robert mueller was pursuing a job with the fbi. that contradicts this sworn testimony under oath on the hill. >> my understanding, not applying for the job, i was asked to give my input on what it would take to do the job.

>> officials say he was seeking the fbi director post when he first met with donald trump in 2017. emails obtained by judicial watch show mother knew he could be named special counsel if he wasn't chosen. mueller ran the agency under president bush and obama. he has not returned a request for comment. former un ambassador susan rice says she did his disservice to herself when she appeared on tv in the wake of the benghazi attack in 2012. internet memoir rice recalls how her mother was skeptical when she was asked to appear on political sunday shows instead of secretary of state hillary clinton. she says the interviews made her a target. watch this. >> it began spontaneously in and ghazi. what happened in benghazi was

initially a spontaneous reaction. >> what sparked the recent violence was airing on the internet of a very hateful and offensive video. >> he recalls coming under gop fire for giving wrong information about the attack. he says those talking points were provided by the cia and later corrected. rice right in part the first person to tell the public about a highly political tragedy was likely to pay a price. how about something fun? "fox and friends first" got a look at the world of flips and doughnuts and 10,000 pounds of truck that monster jam university and todd pyro took us along for the ride of a lifetime at the drivers training facility. you are here to tell us about it. >> reporter: how many times to get an opportunity to act like a kid and drive something like that? i did, it was awesome. take a look.

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julie: were you nauseous? >> it was a weird feeling but really cool feeling. the thunderbirds story where i did get nauseous but this was a little different. heather: they might be calling you up after seeing that. is there information for people? >> monsterjam.com. >> 6 minutes until the top of the hour. is the bird, is it a plane, or is it aliens? what do you think? mysterious lights over the atlantic ocean. ♪ might as well be walking on the sun ♪

>> back with a foxbusiness alert, southwest airlines grounding two boeing 737 in g planes over a crack in the quitman, they noticed a problem in the part that attaches the aircraft body to its wings. the southwest pilot union sued boeing over the grounding of the fleet earlier this year. the union to the cost pilots 115 $115 million in pay. north carolina business gets the green light to fly a massive american flag after your controversy. city guilt to reaching agreement to rezone the facility settling over an ordinance issue. >> i respect them for standing their ground.

a lot of people would have taken it down. >> they must still pay $14,000 in fines and $2000 in legal fees. now it is time for the good, the bad and the ugly. i school football player pulled off a catch that would make the pros jealous. some are now calling him the best high school football player in the country after that catch in florida. the young boy tangled four stories off the ground with his head stuck between security guards. police in china say the boy got stuck after he climbed out the window and firefighters had to use machines to get him out safely. the ugly.

is it aliens or the military? that is what people online are wondering about, you see several orbs in north carolina. military testing is common in that area but some people say it was aliens. what do you think? "fox and friends first" continues right now. goodbye. kim jong un fox news alert, turkish troops are ready to invade northern syria at any movement moving firepower to the border. jillian: us back forces on the other side, pressure on the white house to make sure this doesn't turn into an all-out war. we are live with the latest. rob: blacked out by china over backlash that you keep teams off the court today. jillian: will be nba put principle over profit or cave to communist pressure? >> i'm friends with george bush. i'm friends with a lot of people who don't share the same beliefs