let's continue the conversation on twitter with so much to talk about in this crazy news environment, we are back here, you know the time, we will see you then with the latest heather: good morning to you, monday october 14, happening at 4:00 a.m. on the east coast. nearly a thousand detainees roaming free as the fight in syria reaches a boiling point, what this means for u.s. security and how the president is teaming up with congress to tackle the crisis. joe biden backing his son hunter after he resigns from the board of a chinese company. >> no one in my family associated with me will be involved in any foreign operation whatsoever, period, end of story.

heather: but is it little too late, we are live in washington with the major impeachment hearing on the hill and divine intervention, new orleans saints blast with a win after accidentally getting some holy support from pope francis, "fox & friends first" begins right now. ♪ ♪ >> good morning to you, live -- living on a prayer, thank you so much for starting your day with us. we do begin with fox news alert, though, the chaos on turkish border is escalating, the kurds

now turning to russian-backed syria army for help in stopping the turkish military. todd piro on how american lawmakers are prepare to go respond. >> right now the syrian army prepared to position troops along the border with turkey as defense secretary mark says u.s. troops will begin pulling out of the region as quickly as possible leading many to conclude a full military withdrawal appears likely. >> we are doing everything we can to get the turks to stop this egregious behavior, get them to go back across the line and stop. >> if not troops that everything that they refer to likely means sanctions, the president tweeting, dealing with lindsey graham and many members of congress including democrats about imposing powerful sanctions on turkey. treasury is ready to go, additional legislation may be sought, great consensus, turkey

has asked that it not be done, stay tune, bipartisan deal with sanctions on the table, graham for his part appearing to led up on criticism of the white house for last week's decision to pull out, others say the damage has been done especially with respect to escaped of isis prisoners held by the kurds, chuck schumer releasing a saying, president is making americans much less safe, he's undoing years of work, america more susceptible to terrorism by his actions, reports on the number of people with ties to isis that have escaped kurdish control range from 750 to 950, president trump once again tweeting that europe should take prisoners although it's unclear how that would happen now that they are on the run, heather. heather: much more in-depth about this coming up. thank you so much, todd, as the

chaos that todd shows up in syria, kellyanne conway says the first priority is the safety of our american soldiers. >> our first priority is safety of our soldiers and we felt that the situation was worsening, and we try today remove them out of harm's way, turkey is a in theo ally that we put on notice, it could lead to humanitarian crisis, release of isis prisoners which no one wants and for turkey, destruction of the economy, the president demands treasury secretary, he can do maximum sanctions which, of course, would do great damage to turkish economy, this president has made a commitment to not be an endless wars, the last year's administration kept us in middle east, great expense of money but more importantly of lives.

♪ ♪ heather: hundreds gathered to protest after a woman is shot and killed by a police officer in her own home, officials now say that the texas officer responded to a wellness check did not announce himself as an officer before firing. body cam footage capturing the moment leading up to tatiana jefferson's death. >> put your hands up, show me your hands. >> police claims the officer felt threatened, gun was recovered in jefferson's home, jefferson's family wants him charged with murder. a retired master sergeant mark allen is dead 10 years after being shot while looking for an army deserter, allen was shot back then by a sniper in afghanistan searching for

burgdohl was charged with endangering and that attack left allen paralyzed and cause of death still unclear, hero leaves behind a wife and daughter. in just hours president trump's former national security aide will testify and the democrats impeachment inquiry push, griff jenkins live from washington as we learn the whistleblower at the center of all this controversy may not even take the hot seat, is that right, griff? >> house democrats with former top aide today, russia expert hill, we will see what she has to say, she will face scrutiny on whether there was shadow policy on ukraine. the whistleblower may not testify now. >> we want to make sure that we uncover the whole details of conditionality of either the military aid or the meeting with the ukrainian president that may

not be necessary to take steps that might reveal the whistleblower's identity to do that and we will make sure we do everything to protect whistleblower. >> blasting push for impeachment. >> there should be a process but instead what adam schiff wants is to get the united states of america drunk on its favorite cocktail, 3 ingredients, one is cherry picking and second withholding facts and 3 is just outright lying. >> this as another person in center of controversy, hunter biden will step down from board of chinese investment firm, lawyers putting out statement add if his father were to win the presidency, quote, hunter will agree not to serve on the boards of or work on behalf of foreign-owned companies, meanwhile on the campaign trail the former vp had this to say. >> look, let's get something straight, first of all no one, no one has indicated of any

consequence that anything was done wrong or illegally by me or by my son. >> now, another big win to watch, heather, u.s. ambassador to eu gordon is expected to testify on wednesday, we will see what he has to say, heather. heather: we certainly will, griff, thank you so much, we will talk more about this coming up as well. well, how about this in heavy rain threatening to set off danger mud slides in japan today, right now rescue crews are digging through debris, look at this, searching flooded rivers for missing people in the wake of this weekend's powerful typhoon, at least 36 people are confirmed dead, some with 40-inches of rain forcing people to evacuate their homes obviously, more wet weather expected throughout the day and we will continue to follow it for you. back here at home, a change in weather brings some relief to the california wild fires we have been reporting on, firefighters lifting evacuation

orders for 100,000 people in los angeles, at least 3 people, though, are confirmed dead, the cause of one of those fires is under investigation, the other was sparked by burning garbage. back to football right now, to the nfl sunday, the steelers beating the chargers 24-17, desean watson, the texans win 31-24 over the chiefs and the 49ers undefeated in 20-7 win over the rams and then the winless jets pull off a huge upset over the cowboys. >> goes deep and this is going to go the distance. heather: 92 yards, the touchdown

24-22 win. and the carolina panthers 5 interceptions to beat the bucks, 37-26 in london. in my opinion best game of the weekend. [laughter] heather: from football to baseball for you, the astros win a thriller to tie the alcs at one game apiece. >> to the right, back, this game is over. heather: wow, 11th inning walkoff home run, win over the yankees, the game also making headlines for this very scary moment in the dugout, paramedic hit by a foul ball and rushed to the hospital but is in stable condition, game 3 tomorrow at 4:08 p.m. eastern on fox sports 1 and tonight at 7:38 game 3 of the nlcs between cardinals and

the nationals. well, the time now about 10 minutes after the top of the hour, a joe biden says no one in his family will be involved in foreign operations if he becomes president, so why didn't the hunter step down from chinese firm when his dad was vice president? former vice president robert says that the bidens have a lot to answer for in the court of public opinion and he joins us next. >> mom and dad have been calling you. >> what? oh, jeez. heather: no need to set the alarm anymore apparently, early school start just got banned.

these are the moments that brings us to our feet.

the 15 seconds of fame. the foul ball. but the most important moment, happens when we all stand together. stand up with us. >> no one in my family or associated with me will be involved in any foreign

operation whatsoever, period, end of story, now let's focus on the problem. the problem is we have a president who violated his oath. heather: joe biden defending his son hunter who resigned from a chinese firm and vow to go remove all foreign business ties if biden wins the white house, now raising a new series of questions as to why hunter was involved in foreign business in the first place, criminal defense attorney robert is here to help break it all down, the question is why did he not step away from the boards in ukraine and china while his father was vice president. >> having been a prosecutor a lot of ethics rules apply to me but they didn't apply to me or my family or friends, the responsibility with complying with the ethics rules is with elected or government official so that there were times when i was involved in a situation with family and friends, i would have to back up and say to the attorney general of the state i

can't handle this because we are conflicted. the idea that we are telling our family and friends that they can't hold positions, there's nothing as long as nothing is being manipulated in the process. the president is the ultimate policy maker for this country, the vice president with ukraine prosecutor scenario was acting on the wishes of obama and imf and un with regard to getting rid of corrupt prosecutor, with the president it's a little closer but again i say if his children are taking advantage of the brand, trump's whole thing is the brand and they've benefiting from that financially, there's nothing wrong with it so long as they're not using their father or the government in order to improve their position. it's a distinction that people find fine, nevertheless we live in america, you are allowed to make money on your brand.

heather: his involvement with that company which was the ukrainian company, hunter focused his work on the principles of corporate transparency, governance and responsibility which was based on his prior experience as lawyer and director on other boards, at no time has any law enforcement agencies or domestic or foreign allege that hunter engaged in wrongdoing at any point during 5-year term. so as an attorney and prosecutor , the wording there for me. >> he can be on a board, there's no problem with that and the fact of the matter is when biden went over there to get rid of that, quote, unquote corrupt ukrainian prosecutor, he did that as the behest or marriage of -- messenger of obama, they said who are you to tell us, this is obama's phone number, you want to call him, i'm doing this on behalf of the president, he was doing as part of u.s.

policy. why -- it was clear that the prosecutor, the one that they were trying to get rid of was not investigating corruption of companies, that would have been the perfect cover for biden, joe biden said, my son is protected if he were doing something nefarious, why would put a real crime fighter, that would put his son in jeopardy. heather: should hunter eventually testify before congress? >> that's a -- heather: if they haven't done anything wrong, why not? >> there's a great question and here is why not in my mind, difference between court of law and what is legal and ethical versus the court of public opinion and going into that congress, if i felt that congress was going to ask questions for the purposes of getting to the truth and formulating perhaps policies that could curve foreign influence with regard to family and friends which i think is going to be very difficult then i'd say go for it but you know as well as i do it is going to be an issue of political theater and all it's going to happen is that the republicans are going to attack him in order to try to

score political points and democrats will try to do the opposite, i have no confidence in congress that this will be search for the truth. heather: similar on how don, jr. was attacked for hours and hours when he testified? >> yeah, i mean, you can say testify but my feeling has always been when you do things like that or my position, when somebody said something completely inaccurate in the media, two choices respond to it and throw more oxygen on to the fire or just let it go and it'll be a one-base story, so if i were him i wouldn't do it, but if i were a republicans -- heather: i don't know if it's a one-day story, it's already lasted for so long. thank you so much. >> you got it, heather. heather: 19 minutes after the top of the hour, tulsi gabbard clashing with new york times why she's calling and the pope can declare someone a saint but is pope francis a fan of the new orleans saints, carley shimkus with the unexpected blessing he

gave on twitter. i saw this, this is funny.

heather: welcome back to "fox & friends first" a child is dead after being thrown from a carnival ride, 10-year-old falling off the attraction at harvest festival in new jersey, the incident happening on a ride similar to this which spins people around in circles, it's unclear what went wrong, the company that own it is ride even though we have been given permission to operate the other rides by the state, we don't have it in our heart.

two construction workers 2 days after the hard rock hotel suddenly collapses in new orleans, did you see this? >> oh, my god. heather: two workers died in that collapse, only one body has been recovered so far, one person still missing in the rubble and at least 18 people were injured, the cause of the collapse is unknown, officials fear the hotel could crumble even more. well, new york city going after tuberculosisy gabbard, accusing 2020 candidate of having right-wing sympathies for questioning the dnc's rules ahead of tomorrow's debate, carley shimkus with fox news 241/7, siriusxm 115 is here with the reaction that's pouring in from both sides. carley: that's right. "the new york times" published unflattering piece of tulsi

gabbard. arguing that the corporate news media and democratic national committee are working together to rig the event, "the new york times" is a cosponsor of the debate with cnn and also argument that reminds some democrats narrative push by russian actors during 2016 presidential contest when an operation by internet trolls work today manipulate american public opinion that the electoral system is broken and cannot be trust, gabbard responded, new york times published smear piece, all the hits in one article, these are the folks that will be asking as neutral questioners, moderators of tuesday's debate, lol, some people say, tulsi, tulsi, it's the bias liberal media, what do

you expect, the truth, they are almost treating you like the media treats republicans, gabbard is expected to announce whether or not she's going to attend tomorrow's debate later tonight. heather: interesting, it has gotten very ugly considering how much longer we have to go in all of this. carley: i know. [laughter] heather: do you remember aoc, she did a lot of things on social media, she is back. watch this. >> today is my 30th birthday, that's almost 3 decades, they say 30 is a new test, well, got to go, bill clinton is doing birthday in chucky cheese, happy birthday aoc. >> alexandria ocasio-cortez turns 30 yesterday and this little girl is favorite among conservatives on social media, cheryl says i can't even imagine where life is going the take

you, mini aoc, you're a smart cookie, adorable, you the best part of the real aoc nonsense, the media bombards us with, so there you have it. i remember in july she announced that she wasn't going to be making any videos anymore. heather: let's talk about pope francis who apparently is a football fan. sort of. [laughter] carley: the saints received a surprised endorsement of the pope when he accidentally tagged them in a tweet, this is the tweet, it says today we give thanks to the lord for our new #saints, they walked by faith and now we invoke their intersession, well, that tweet was actually about 5 new saints who were just canonized but when the saints beat the jags, the saints responded couldn't lose after this and a bunch of other twitter users, saints fans took officiating complaints all the way to the vatican.

that is hilarious. hail mary doesn't work at football, i don't know why advice from the pope would. >> #blessed, maybe he become a football fan now. >> 5 new saints canonized now. heather: hundreds of isis sporters escaping prison during turkish invasion of syria, what does this mean with fight against terror, he says our military will need to solve the problem again. he joins us up next, plus one high school football player tackles teammate for going the wrong way, the team's saving play or the game-saving play we should say now going viral.

heather: welcome back, look at top headlines for you this morning, president trump former national security aide will testify today in the democrats impeachment push, expect today appear before house intelligence foreign affairs and oversight and reform committees for a transcribed interview, hill used to oversee russia and ukraine policy for the trump administration, hunter biden is set to step down from the board of chinese firm, former vice president's son, his lawyer says that hunter was not, quote, has not received any compensation or return on his investment despite allegations that he did, president trump is demanding an investigation into joe biden assisting hunter with his business interest in china and ukraine. and a fox news alert, chaos along the turkish border is escalating, the russian-backed syrian army to deploy to the conflict zone to help the kurds

stop the turkish military. the u.s. is now preparing to withdraw a thousand troops from northern syria. >> nearly 1,000 isis supporters have escaped from syrian detention camp following turkey's invasion so how worried should the u.s. be about the caliphate resurging in the region. well, joining me now former special operation's intel bret, thank you very much for joining us, we appreciate it. let's pull up president trump's tweet about the isis prisoners and then i want your response to this. he says the u.s. has the worse of the isis prisoners, turkey and the kurds must not let them escape, europe should have taken them back after numerous requests, they should do it now. they will never come to or be allowed into the united states, so how big of an issue is this? >> well, it's a mess that red carpet that we layed out for the turks to basically walk right into syria and, you know,

overtake that country has stopped decades of our foreign policy efforts, efforts out of which have been built on mutual trust and credibility with our allies. our efforts in syria have been as much about our ability to stop the future isis attacks as it is about our ability to wheel power and influence in a region when we need it and we absolutely are going to need it again, we do not have the forces in the region with the ability to maintain pressure on isis, we have to do it through surrogate force and overnight we have taken the number one surrogates and we've shifted their efforts from our number one enemy and that's a major problem and i see two major long-term repercussions from all of this and just within the last week of this turkish invasion, the first one is isis prisoner problem and we see hundreds of them being broken out and on top of that we are learning that u.s. special operations are getting out of the area so fast that they were unable to fulfill plans and

remove 60-high value isis prisoners out of syrian captivity and move them into their own own captivity and we need access to those prisoners, they provide us with valuable intelligence that allows counterterrorism units to do their job, the second major issue is that the iranians and russians have been pushing this narrative that we have a credibility problem at the u.s. government is unworthy, untrust worthy, unreliable ally and we saw the kurdish commander basically have to make a deal with the assad regime to move syrian troops in the northeastern border and we are breaking alliances. heather: as you discuss that we can take a look at some of the elements that's going on there in terms of turkey and the kurds, you mentioned this just happened last night, the kurds striking the deal with assad but then that brings up the question, you know, are we there to prevent isis from escalating or are we there to protect the

kurds and what is the long-term impact on the war on terror? >> well, the long-term impact is that we now have basically two armies advancing on each other, the assad regime backed by russian forces moving troops in northeast area to repel turkish advance and then you have isis caught in between, right now isis is get back at what they do best, terrorism, cities liberated and there was isis problem before turkish invasion, the prisons were overcapacity, they were strained on resources and we are going to have a problem anyway but this is exacerbated that and cause more chaos from it. heather: bret, it's our responsibility going to continue to be the border between, you know, turkey and syria and the

democrats are up in arms over us leaving when we can't even protect our border here at home? >> well, you make a good point but i also think in this case it's not just democrats, many republicans that are -- heather: right. >> huge fans of the president that are voicing concerns, i personally worked with kurdish fighters previously and i can tell you that we stopped a lot lot of attacks on americans because of information that we received from kurdish fighters, special operation guys that are up in arms in this because we have been work with these guys for years, to me it's more about the long-term effect of not wanting to go back and i'm telling you what i'm seeing, we are going to have to send another military force at some point back into that area to stop isis because of what's going on. heather: just a vicious, vicious cycle, bret, thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate your expertise this morning on this. >> thanks, heather.

heather: some other health lines quickly for you, the man who claims he gave drugs to angels pitcher tyler skaggs says it's time for everyone to stand up and take responsibility. a team employee eric cay says cooperating with federal investigators is the right thing to do. according to espn, cay gave skaggs opioids before he overdosed and died. country music star cane brown mourning the death, writing in part, quote, i know that you will be watching us, you will never be replaced, his fiancee posting photos, we have a forever guardian angel watching, the two to get married, dixon

was 27 year's old. part of a caravan of nearly 2,000 migrants from africa and the caribbean and central america, méxico's national guard blocking the roads forcing them to turn back just hours after they started their journey, president trump promised to stop tariffs on mexican import earlier this year if the country helped curved migration. and do you remember this woman, the woman known as the serial, she's staying behind bars at least for now, appear to go -- appearing to hold back a smile, she told tsa that she didn't need an id to travel, hartman was on probation for trespassing in chicago last year, she's been arrested at least 6 other times, hartman is due back in court later this week. well, the time now is about 20 minutes until the top of the

hour and big schools are trading columbus days for indigenous people's day, aisha joins me up next with how students just erased history and they're not the only ones. greater details. richer stories. get your dna kit today at ancestry.com.

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columbus day is genocide. efforts to replace columbus day have been ongoing for years on college campuses but it looks like that trend is growing now.e columbus day in favor of indigenous people's day actually celebrating first indigenous people's day today, some of the states are alaska, michigan, north carolina, among the states again that have completely replaced the traditional name and cities like los angeles, dallas, detroit have also jumped on board, some people, of course, just care about the parades, the sales on columbus day, they don't really have an opinion, others pretty fired up that the message it is sending many people divided over whether the holiday should change.

history we were taught is a lie, why would you want to celebrate that, susie posting on facebook, no reason to remove and replace columbus day, they could petition for another holiday, columbus deserves his honor and one user says if we stop celebrating columbus day why not stop celebrating mlk day, memorial day. heather: thank you so much, we appreciate it. everybody keeps giving us your opinions as well. other headlines for you, listen to this, samuel adams releasing 210-dollar beer, 210 bucks but not everyone will actually will get to try it, the beer is illegal in 15 states, that's because of its 28% alcohol volume, regular sam adams boston by the way has just 5% alcohol, sam adams only brewed a small batch of the potent beer which

is sold during odd number years. the pop whatever video game fortnite explodes into a black hole, players shocked after massive explosion in the game's tenth season leaves screen dark for hours, the game servers are still live and players are supposed to start a new season today but some believe that fortnite may never come back, players of all ages are outraged, throwing things at his blank tv. well, the time is now about 15 minutes until the top of the hour and 20 hopeful beto o'rourke wants to use the government as a political weapon. >> you think religious institutions, should that he is lose their tax-exempt status if they oppose same-sex stage in. >> yes. heather: separating church and state, we will debate up next. ♪

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>> do you think religious institutions should they lose tax-exempt status if they oppose same-sex marriage? >> yes. heather: beto o'rourke leave nothing doubt plans to target religious institutions if he's elected president, but how would that work in regards to separation of church and state, here to debate former obama-biden campaign regional field director robin byro and chris, thank you both for joining us, we certainly appreciate it this morning. >> good morning to you, heather. heather: let's listen to what president trump had to say on beto, thereon this and then we will get your response. >> he's a whacko.

[laughter] >> i will never allow the federal government to be used to target, harass or punish communities of faith and i will never allow the irs to be used as a political weapon. heather: so how would this work, robin, in terms of separation between church and state? >> heather, i simply put it would not, separation of church and state goes both way, i'm an openly gay myself, i appreciate beto's willingness to look out for lgbtq rights and protect us from discrimination and this misses the mark, he has to dial it back. it's just wrong, it's going to hurt us politically, heather. heather: chris, your take. >> i think it's absolutely crazy and i certainly appreciate the fact that president trump defending us and defending our afro-american and unacceptable, first amendment allows people to

choose and to have someone hint at the fact to have the government interfere and impose it's absolutely crazy, being who we are. being ourselves. interesting to what we hear in tomorrow's debate in reference to this? [laughter] >> yes, heather, it definitely will be interesting to hear. it could hurt us. this message like i said, i appreciate where he's going with this, but i can't see it as anything other pan pandering to my community to be honest. heather: chris, what do you think that this will do to not only beto's campaign but also democrats as a whole?

>> i think it's going to affect beto's campaign as a whole make individuals look at democrats and, of course, democratic voters themselves question where the party is going. obviously to the extreme left and things like that when you start playing with people's values or religious belief that's a big problem. me as a christian it's unacceptable that you would try to force me to -- to want to act and think a certain way especially in a church. it's absolutely unacceptable and it will not work or stood for. heather: this is an interesting poll that we can show everyone at home where it says that unifying is the most important trait for a democratic nominee in the latest poll, you see unifying, inspiring, experienced and then goes down from there. based on that, robin, what do you think we will hear tomorrow night? >> there's got to be a message of unity, we need to deliver our message in a clear and consize manner of what we stand for not

just attack the president, but give clear ideas about what we offer as an alternative, so that's what i'm looking for tomorrow night, heather. heather: chris, what do you think the chances are that robin will get to hear that? [laughter] >> i don't think at all, and again this is why president trump is growing and obviously, people who don't support him are on the hinge is he's defending freedom and defending values and people want freedoms defended, people don't want to feel like they can't go to church and worship god or pray and then have to feel like the government will impose on, unacceptable. i don't think anybody will be on stage by the way, this is what beto said, let's not do that, i don't think it's going to happen but the party definitely, they have to come together obviously but for our benefit they won't. heather: we will see if they are asked about it. robin and chris, thank you so much. appreciate it.

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heather: welcome back, students can sleep late without being tardy, california first state to pass law pushing back start times in public schools, classes cannot begin before 8:00 a.m., american academy of pediatrics says the law will help students get more sleep and perform better in class. time now the good, the bad and the ugly, up first the good, country star tray atkins officially a married, blake shelton officiating new orleans wedding to actress victoria. the teammate was about to make a mistake. 60-yard the wrong direction. the team lost 14-7, finally the ugly, teenager is taking action against her stepfather's snoring forcing him to hand out chocolates and ear plugs to

fellow passengers on a 32-hour flight. comes with handwritten note, we thought that you may be of assistance if alan falls asleep. this wraps up this hour of "fox & friends first" on this monday, thank you very much for joining us, "fox & friends first" continues now, bye, bye. jillian: monday october 14th, syrian troops deployed to turkish border as president trump signals new sanctions in response to turkey's bloody offensive. rob: fears becoming a reality after nearly a thousand linked prisoners escaped from their encampments, live with the latest. >> i thought it was an airplane.