changes our perspective, connects us, and pushes us further. the most inspiring minds, the most compelling stories: audible. >> medicare for all is the gold standard. health care coverage for every single american. >> i don't think the american people are wrong when they say what they want is a choice. let's be clear. it is appropriate to acknowledge that taxes will go up. >> at least bernie is being honest and saying how he will pay for this and taxes will go up.

>> trump is the most corrupt president in the history of this country. >> i don't think this impeachment process will take long. as a prosecutor i know a confession when i see it. >> majority of americans not only support impeachment but removal. he should be removed. >> my son did nothing wrong, i did nothing wrong. i carried out the policy of the united states government. corruption in ukraine. he is going after me because he knows if i get the nomination i will beat him like a drum. >> i am feeling great. i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. >> the slaughter of the kurds by turkey is another negative consequence. >> you can put a end to endless war without embracing donald trump. >> what we are doing --

>> another regime change war. >> take away the honor of our soldiers, go after their body armor. >> republicans, democrats, gun owners following up. >> you don't know how this -- if you develop a plan further we can have debate. >> you have one shot to make donald trump a one term president. how we talk about each other in this debate matters. >> we can solve the climate crisis in the united states by ourselves. it is an international crisis. >> a dangerous path with foreign-policy. >> get up and remember this is the united states of america. there is nothing we cannot do when we decide we are going to do it. ♪

♪ bill: everybody talking last night from a live shot, democratic debate, a 3 hour tour. you are watching "fox and friends first" on wednesday morning, thank you for joining us. a dozen democrats descending on the stage in ohio. battling it out over health care, gun control, foreign-policy. who should be the next to drop out? live team coverage, pete hegseth breaks it all down and expert

analysis from former campaign staffer and former member of the israeli special forces counterterrorism unit aaron cohen and griff jenkins, it is a long night. >> reporter: good morning, move over, joe. elizabeth warren taking all the attacks from all corners of the debate stage. she has written in the polls but it was confirmation the way she was attacked at her signature issue, medicare for all and whether it could be paid for. the middle-class raising taxes was a big issue. >> your signature, tos a plan for everything except this was no plan has been laid out to explain how a multibillion-dollar whole in this medicare for all plan

senator warren is putting forward is supposed to get filled in. >> costs are going to go up for the wealthy, they are going to go up for big corporations, they will not go up for middle-class families. we know it to the american people to tell them where we are going to spend. >> reporter: amy klobuchar calling a pipe dream. many wondered whether joe biden would be asked about his son hunter and the issue in ukraine. here you was his answer. >> my son did nothing wrong, i did nothing wrong. i carried out the policy of the united states government. >> the second issue we cover on the stages elevating ally and attacking a statement. he should not be offensive. we should not have to defend ourselves. >> reporter: this was the first debate since the impeachment inquiry began and we knew that was coming up and it was front and center last night. >> trump is the most corrupt president in history of this country.

this president, i agree with bernie, senator sanders, the most corrupt president in modern history and all our history. >> i don't think the impeachment process will take long. of former prosecutor i know a confession when i see it. >> we have to impeach this president. >> the trump campaign responded with a familiar tune issuing this statement saying once again donald trump was hands-down winner of this debate. i believe you with two other take aways. one was it was a huge night for mayor pete buttigieg, firing on all cylinders, he could engage with warren as you saw and made o'rourke when it came to the issue of guns and if you wondered if that heart attack was sitting him back it didn't at all. he was very energetic last night. heather: rosario dawson was there showing her support. we appreciate it.

let's bring in the former director of social justice for the bernie sanders campaign. his first debate after his heart attack, he looked healthy and sounded good. what did you think? >> everyone agrees it takes a lot for someone to come back from a heart attack and show up at a debate with the same energy he always had. i saw him a little more reserved which i think is good. in order to look at his health, he is taking care of himself and his family but he made a comeback tonight. heather: let's get to your top three winners from last night, buttigieg, warren and sanders. >> mayor pete did a good job. i don't know if it will make a difference in the polls. he gets on the microphone, for some reason he can't break in the polls, can't seem to get the numbers he needs to compete but

certainly he was a superstar tonight and bernie sanders showing up alive and well and gets points for that and senator warren took hits from every which way left and right all over the stage for the first time so she -- a lot of people disagree but she held her own. heather: not answering questions when she can saying let me be clear but would not answer multiple times how she plans to pay for her medicare for all plan. >> i will agree with that but no one have a chance to be clear because there are too many candidates. we need to get this down to five candidates. they are running out of things to say. cory booker talking about being a vegan over and over. time to get this down. let's end the charade and deep into the details. heather: let's talk about one of the reasons a lot of people are saying mayor pete did so well as he jumped in and had a lot of

opportunities to go 1-on-1 with different candidates on issues like medicare and gun rights and he went back and forth with tulsi gabbard when it came to foreign policy and our troops in syria. >> is a veteran that was a highlight of my night even though there were opposite opinions. it was good to see two veterans put on the uniform to talk about what it means to them. that was a shining star to anyone even if they disagree on policies. heather: your top 3 loses, o'rourke, stier, and booker. >> o'rourke because he started out again -- just bounced back, strong on gun violence, still missing a lot of substance when it comes to the other candidates.

tom stier, i feel sorry for tom, he spent a lot of money going against donald trump and did not shine tonight. he had one opportunity to make his name known. i don't know if it will be in his favor. cory booker disappointed me. i have been rooting for him not because i think he had a chance but because i like his, justice policy but today it was like leading girl scout troops. heather: completely different cory booker, he is calling for peace and don't talk negatively about each other, one of them being biden. you think warren is the front runner, the one to beat, the number one person everybody went back and forth on last night. biden nowhere on your list. >> the establishment pushed him all the way. that is known. not saying that to be negative, that is just the reality. joe biden, an opportunity to get the nomination in south carolina because of the african-american

vote but i don't know if he will compete all the way through. warren is the front runner, the polls show it. bernie sanders's health is fair game. no one is picking on him, just the reality of it. it puts are in good position but mayor pete will come back but one thing for sure about cory booker going from spartacus to spongebob squarepants, really disappointing. heather: china, immigration, climate change, do they focus too much on donald trump? >> they need to focus on their opponent but there are other issues that matter. small business, democrats support small business like the plague and community policing as well. there's a lot of stuff they didn't focus on because it was more about tell us about this mean friend, that was a wasted question and i blame the moderators for that.

heather: and they would pin it back to donald trump, talking immigration for the first -- impeachment for the first 20 minutes of the debate when the question itself was is impeachment distracting from the issues that need to be taking place for the democrats, proving their point. heather: >> i've seen girl scouts at kroger. cory booker, tighten up. heather: thank you, appreciate it, great to have you with us. 12 minutes after the top of the hour and democrat slamming donald trump over his strategy for turkey and syria. >> what donald trump is done because of that phone call with erdogan is giving 10,000 isis fighters a get out of jail free card. heather: aaron:hundred terrorists were living and said there is a resolutions from democrats, he joined us next. three members of the squad made

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>> this president is turning the moral leadership of this country into a dumpster fire. >> new york times and cnn have smeared veterans like myself are calling to a end to is regime change war. >> isis is going to come here. they are going to damage the united states of america. jillian: 2020 candidates jumping a chance to slam the removal of us troops to syria but at the same time offering few alternatives to the crisis. a former israel special operations council chairman has more reaction.

in terms of foreign policy, syria specifically did you hear anything that will make a difference? >> i didn't hear anything, just slamming trump. the whole thing was hard to watch, not just from a personal perspective but security perspective because no one had any solutions. no one seemed to recall the reason isis had escalated to the level it did the last several years before trump squashed them in syria. the reason was obama and biden prematurely pulled out of iraq, created a monster vacuum that allowed isis to spill over into syria. don't get me started on iran, the worst deal in history of counterterrorism. you can't fit with a group of islamic fundamental clerics who run the country and expect to make a deal with them and not get into it with a terror group at some point.

the whole thing was hard to watch, no solutions, i don't think anyone has any idea what they are talking about. heather: according to joe biden he has been in the situation room for hours so he knows what he's talking about but do you think he twisted some of the facts with what happened in the past specifically from 2010-11 leading up to now? you mentioned the obama administration. >> he twisting the facts but not doing a good job of it, forgetting mistakes that were made by his administration. they made a deal with iran, extreme islamic lee fundamentally motivated country that is run by mullahs who are so far off the reservation but their revolutionary guard is essentially a terror organization, made it deal with them to make peace with the terror group and number to the situation at the time barack

obama decided to get as many forces prematurely out of the region created this monster vacuum for isis to swell into syria and start executing christians in iraq and syria. no one is going to forget what that administration and what it led to. talking about iraq or isis fighters, joe biden with your situation room experience, stop on the podium with the nonsense. shannon: listen to what he had to say last night. >> i spent thousands of dollars in the situation, many on the ground in syria and iraq. >> the only person who spent extensive time alone with vladimir putin and erdogan. heather: pence is headed to turkey to meet with president erdogan. you were saying he talked about

his foreign-policy experience but did not talk about things that did not go right but i kept thinking of the thin red line and chemical weapons in syria, and bashar al-assad. >> not sure what he was doing in the situation room, sleeping in the situation room, i don't think sitting in the situation room makes him an expert in thwarting potential terror attacks. what he was saying was have a look at me. i have experience because i have access to privileged information by being in these briefings but that doesn't mean he has any real clue as to how to put together a multilayered plan, how to prevent the next terror attack. he said isis was coming here, how do we stop isis from coming here? what measures for law enforcement does he plan to put in place?

heather: we could go on and on about this issue. thank you for joining us. we will be right back.

government watchdog investigated a career diplomat for keeping close tabs on people with ties to the president. todd pyro joins us with allegations. >> marie yavanovitch who testified this past friday at the center of the judicial lunch investigation whether she used her position for journalists and

people with ties to donald trump. the watchdog group stating judicial watch indicated yavanovitch may have violated laws and regulations by ordering targeting of certain us persons using state department resources. donald trump junior and fox news's laura ingram, sean hannity and lou dobbs. including rudy giuliani, sebastian gorka and sarah carter, unbelievable, the system appears to have been abused and weapon i asked, and people close to donald trump. the president of judicial watch, getting to why it is such a big deal. >> the concern is it is illegal to monitor social media postings of american citizens.

the spygate scandal may be continuing. >> reporter: he will appear on "fox and friends" at 6:15. yavanovitch ordered monitored as well her own name, soros referring to george soros, giuliani and biden. yavanovitch remains a state department employee. kim jong un heather: paul manafort did not say he would work for the trump campaign. >> reporter: there is no there there. the time is 26 minutes after the top of the hour and democrats crying for impeachment during last night's debate. >> the impeachment must go forward. >> we have to impeach this president and move forward with impeachment. heather: why discuss that instead of the issues americans care about. jason nichols and brad blakeman

discuss that next.

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>> medicare for all is the gold standard. >> somebody who wrote the damn bill, that what said. let's be clear. >> at least bernie is being honesty and how he is going to pay for this the taxes are going to go up. you have not said that. i don't think this impeachment process will take long. as a former prosecutor i know concession when i see it. >> majority of americans support impeachment and removal. >> my son did nothing wrong. i did nothing wrong. i carried out the policy of the united states government in rooting out corruption in ukraine. >> donald trump has the blood of the kurds on his hands.

>> you can end endless war without embracing donald trump's policy. >> gun owners and non-gun owners alike. >> you made clear you don't know how this will take place. >> we've got one shot to make donald trump a one term president and how we talk about each other in this debate matters. >> we can't fall the climate crisis in the united states by ourselves. it is an international crisis. >> he has led us down a dangerous path with erratic and unreliable foreign-policy. >> this is the united states of america. there is nothing we are can do when we decide we are going to do it. heather: 12 white house hopefuls going head to 5 in ohio for the largest primary debate in history. the crowded stage clashing on gun control, tax and healthcare but uniting behind impeachment. team coverage, george w. bush

staffer brad blakeman and jason nichols will join us process for analysis from trump 2020 campaign pollster jim mclaughlin but we begin with pete hegseth in ohio. good to see you. what was your biggest take away from last night's debate? >> my biggest take away was sometimes it becomes crystal clear who the real front runner is and in this case all the guns were metaphorically trained on elizabeth warren. there were moments joe biden was almost invisible on stage and the debate over her medicare for all plan, elizabeth warren's unwillingness to acknowledge she would have to raise taxes was an awkward moment, she stuck to her talking point over and over again, joe biden, the hunter biden thing loomed large, this is the sixth debate. it changed a little bit.

in contours like impeachment which is never-ending, hunter biden, his health so the big issues, driving who people like as a candidate as opposed to what they say or don't say on tv. shannon: my one thought with you given your experience as a veteran and what you saw about the responses to syria and foreign-policy in general. >> they were all over the map on the solution, what should be done and who we should stand by which is indicative of the bad options but what is tough is to stand by the track record of foreign-policy, whether it pertains to isis, iraq, the iran deal, things the obama administration was party to that did not make us more secure. this was indicative of a region in the world with no good solutions and no easy answers. they want to protect the kurds but don't want to keep troops there. they want to stand with israel

but not do what is necessary for iran. tulsi gabbard and pete buttigieg went back and forth with two perspectives. no clear winner on foreign-policy. heather: the debate between the two with different viewpoints but factually based and substance finally. thank you, appreciate it. let's bring in brad blakeman and jason nichols, democratic strategists to talk about this specifically, impeachment and how the debate began on impeachment. they talked about it for 18, 20 minutes but the question itself was whether impeachment is distracting the democrats. i want your responses. >> impeachment is the way we establish this man will not be permitted to break the law over and over. >> the house will find him guilty, worthy of impeachment. >> he will not cooperate in any

way at all, they have no choice but to move. heather: all this at the same time nancy pelosi announced she is not going to officially move in that direction. >> inmates are running the asylum with the democrats, lost all hope of being a leader on this, all over the map. he has been conciliatory to adam schiff and others, 6 committees have jurisdiction, not one single committee breaking the rules of past impeachment process by making it up as they go along, crying about transparency and hiding witnesses and not releasing testimony, this isn't the way to proceed at the american people will see through this. heather: nancy pelosi says no impeachment vote but spend the whole first part of the debate talking about it. >> it is an important topic that is still on the table and if you want to talk about what is

illegal, refusing to comply with a subpoena is illegal. that is not optional as long as i have been alive and that is happening with this president and his cronies. impeachment is something we need to have a conversation on but we have to understand there were another 21/2 hours talking guns and taxes and automation and child poverty and healthcare. heather: it seemed to me and i will let you respond to this as well, an awful lot of time was spent talking about donald trump and why we hate donald trump and what he has done wrong. >> democrats forgot they have to be selected by their party before they are elected by the people and they need to make a difference between the other candidates on stage. they didn't attack each other. i agree with pete hegseth was warren is the anointed front

runner, joe biden is completely dismissed and the others were windowdressing. democrats in order to win have to be nominated by the party and -- heather: speaking of not going against each other, very clearly not going after former vp joe biden, listen to what anderson cooper asked him in reference to wrongdoing by his son hunter. >> donald trump has falsely accused your son of doing something wrong when serving on the company board and ukraine. there is no evidence of wrongdoing by either one of you. >> my son did nothing wrong. i did nothing wrong. heather: the question was in terms of if he becomes president biden said he will not allow any family members to have ties, economically or in any way to foreign governments. if that is the case, why was it okay when you were vice president? never answering that question

and no one else pushed back. >> many people are in agreement this is not an issue in terms of a rule, he did not break any rules or laws, that is not an allegation against joe biden or hunter biden. they didn't want to get distracted or in the weeds about what happened in the past, just setting a precedent for what will happen in the future and when we look at illegal activity, even things that are against everyone's rules and ideas of what should happen in the white house we have to look at ivanka trump with dirty trademarks in china. she does many things people are throwing rocks at hunter biden for. people didn't want to get into that. i am not sure what he saw. they were going after each other last night. heather: in terms of ivanka

trump, in terms of jobs, she had that before donald trump took office, didn't happen -- final word. >> they let biden off the hook in such a way that the conclusion was in the question, nothing to see here, let's move on. the bottom line is the vice president said i stand by my son's statement. hunter biden's statement was the only reason i got these jobs was my father was vice president. heather: it was a long night, we appreciate it. the time is 20 minutes until the top of the are, democrats insisting on this far left platform like gun buybacks and medicare for all but are those the ideas that will reach swing voters in middle america? jim mclaughlin says it is these out of touch ideas that background state voters, he is live to weigh in.

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>> 5 million assault weapons are on the streets of america today. >> got to attack corruption and repeal the filibuster or the gun industry will always have a detail. >> 71% of democrats support medicare for all. heather: 2020 democrats going head to head in the fourth democratic debate clashing on major policy issues like gun buybacks and medicare for all. here to weigh in on whether this will sway voters in battlegrounds states, jim

mclaughlin, we appreciate it. we were discussing a lot of time spent on impeachment and hating donald trump, not a lot of time on the issues. >> no question about it. it puts the democrats in a tough place right now. a survey recently, two thirds of americans don't want congress to focus on impeachment, they want them to focus on the real issues affecting people like national security, the economy and healthcare and that is not where democrats are. i was shocked that is where they spent the debate was so much on an issue that quite frankly the american public doesn't agree with them on. heather: not one question about immigration. that is the number one issue in the latest poll we have in terms of important issues facing the country at 13%. donald trump, they spent a lot of time talking about him at 8% and the economy coming in at 7% but immigration, gun violence and healthcare. >> in the battleground states, it goes up among independent voters and congress has been ineffective and most americans agree with donald trump when it

comes to immigration especially keeping borders secure. >> maybe they didn't talk about it because some of what he is doing is successful and the number of people crossing the border illegally has dropped. >> what democrats were afraid of basically all the democrats came out for open borders and taxpayer funding for illegals and also came out for other extreme things like more welfare for illegals and you are seeing the powers that be work with debate moderators to keep them away from these subjects they know are not popular with middle america. heather: they went back and forth about healthcare, targeting elizabeth warren who never answered how she's going to pay for her plan.

>> at one point joe biden said it would cost the average middle-class family $5000-$10,000 a year in new taxes to pay for the plan. i didn't see a lot of talk about that and you saw a fight. the best messages we are seeing against medicare for all are coming from the other democrats, not going to see your doctor and take away your private health insurance. heather: they were crystal-clear explaining to people at home, who is the next to dropout? >> a lot of them should. heather: three our debate. >> several of them should but they are going to hang on as long as they can because a lot of them, they know they are not running for president but running for vice president at this point. it is tough with 12 people up there. there are legitimate candidates that were not on stage at all.

jillian: marianne williamson. she was on twitter last night. >> i'm sure she was. another one who had a good night besides donald trump, has a good night anytime, michael bloomberg. i don't think anybody is pulling away and you don't have a good field for the democrats. heather: he could step your hillary clinton. i believe that there, thank you, appreciate it. 10 minutes until the top of the hour. she was gunned down by a cop inside her own home while playing video games with her nephew. how that aid-year-old boys flipping the investigation upside down with his side of the story. the squad has spoken. the controversial congresswomen through their weight behind in 2020. did you hear about that? ♪ when you move homes, you move more than just yourself.

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heather: hundreds of outraged residents demanding justice for tina jefferson overnight. [shouting] heather: emotions running high, since the police shooting. texas authorities reveal new details, her 8-year-old nephew telling police she grabbed a gun from her purse after hearing noises, she was shot, the former officer has been charged with her murder. a massive fire fuel the fire explosion at a fuel refinery.

that fireball at an oil facility north of san francisco took hours to get under control. it turned into a fire tornado. no injuries reported. the president taking his reelection pushed to the sky. flying a plane over the fourth democratic debate venue in ohio with a banner tweeting socialism destroys ohio jobs, vote trump, the president's fundraising numbers flying high, his campaign raising $126 million in the third quarter. tom stier made the mainstage for the first time but didn't make the best first impression.

>> every candidate here is more decent, more coherent and more patriotic than the criminal in the white house. heather: carly shimkus here with the twitter roast that followed. ♪

>> my first time on stage i want to start by reminding everybody that every candidate here is

more decent, more coherent, and more patriotic than the criminal in the white house. [applause] >> did you see that? tom stier's first debate off to an awkward start and carly shimkus is here with reaction online. that paz waiting for people to clap. carley: there is one thing social media is good at, shining a light on awkward moments, folks on twitter kept comparing tom stier to this infamous blunder from 2016. >> i for one believe we should have a balanced budget amendment to force the conversation of the government living within its means. please clap. [applause] carley: a please clap moment is back, see what social media had to say. someone needs to introduce him

to jeb's campaign advisor how to waste $100 million efficiently. a lot of comments about his tie as well. heather: he was interviewed by shannon bream after the show. carley: something from joe biden when he talked about people clipping coupons in the stock market. >> why in god's name should someone who is clipping coupons in the stock market make in fact pay a lower tax rate than someone who in fact is a schoolteacher and a firefighter, it is ridiculous. >> about school teachers he said they make $100,000 a year. >> where can i get that job? he made that comment when responding to a question about the well facts, one twitter user said stock market coupons are

amazing and waiting for him to say live on saturday night, he has become known for debate stage blunders and there you have it. >> the squad throwing their support -- carley: a major endorsement for bernie sanders. alexandria ocasio cortez will endorse them at a rally on saturday in new york. congresswoman ilhan omar endorsing him saying bernie is leading a working-class movement to defeat donald trump that transcends generations, why bernie sanders is the best candidate to take on donald trump in 2020. rashida tlaib expected to endorse him. one tweet on this sums it up. birds of a feather. the real -- the real question was is he going to endorse bernie sanders? as the leader of the democratic socialist movement. heather: social media is making these debates and interaction a

lot more entertaining. carley: social media can be so weird at times but for political moments like this hilarious. heather: thank you, appreciate it. that wraps up this hour of "fox and friends first," thanks for joining us, more right now, "fox and friends first" continues, could by. goodbye. >> medicare for all is the gold standard. the way we get health care coverage for every american. >> i don't think the american people are wrong when they say what they want is a choice. >> let's be clear. i don't think it is appropriate to acknowledge that taxes will go up. >> bernie is being honest and saying how he is going to pay