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human rights are not being taken care of. we deserve equal protection under the law. >> fort worth faith leaders look to the trump administration for justice after a woman is gunned down in her home by a police officer. how this broken cities moving forward as loved ones prepared to say goodbye. heartbreak and healing among the country music family lifting up one of their own after a tragic loss. >> pray really fast if it is okay with her 3 buddy, bringing peace only you know how to bring somebody. >> the emotional tribute during the artist of the year honors that led to a moment of prayer. "fox and friends first" starts right now. >> everybody talking about they just can't wait to go. saying how it is going to be so good, so beautiful. lying next to you, not convinced

♪ i don't know how ♪ i don't know how ♪ >> much more from that emotional tribute coming up. stay tuned for that. you are watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning, almost made it to the weekend. thank you for starting or ending your day with us wherever you are. democrats storm out of the white house during a meeting over syria policy, nancy pelosi accusing the president of having a meltdown. griff jenkins joins us as donald trump issues a new warning to turkey hours ahead of trigger -- critical cease-fire talks. this was something else yesterday. >> reporter: these high profile meetings fall apart fast. it did last december, it did this made during the gathering to discuss the deteriorating

situation in syria. the president went on a tweet storm after democrats departed saying nervous nancy's unhinged meltdown included this picture, pointing a finger at the president across a table. at microphones outside the white house democrats told a different account of what happened in the meeting. >> what we witnessed was a meltdown, said to say. >> it was insulting particularly to the speaker. she kept her cool completely. but he called her a third rate politician. it was not a dialogue, it was a diatribe, a nasty diatribe not focused on the fact. >> reporter: it came hours after the house voted to rebuke the president's withdraw from syria 354-60. the same day we got a look at the letter the president since to turkey's president urging action to stop the bloodshed writing and part a good deal, you don't want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people and i don't want to be responsible for destroying the turkish economy and i will.

this morning it is all eyes. mike pence, mike pompeo, national security adviser are expected to touch down in turkey to begin the meeting with erdogan and his staff to broker a cease-fire as turkish troops continue to advance their bloodiest old in northern syria. >> a lot to follow today. griff jenkins live, thank you. also this, grilling the eu ambassador on capitol hill, expected to testify behind closed doors regarding a discussion he had with top ukrainian officials about the gas company linked to hunter biden. and her testimony earlier this week fiona hill claims this was a push to pressure ukraine into targeting a trump rival. he insists he did nothing wrong. a push to censor intelligence

committee chairman adam schiff get support from the white house, donald trump tweeting and part hope all house republicans and honest house democrats will vote to censure representative adam schiff. republicans accuse adam schiff of a false fabricated reading of donald trump's call with the ukrainian president during a hearing last month. lawmakers have two legislative days to decide when to debate and vote. washington remains historically polarized over the impeachment inquiry. we've all heard that the democratic leaders are not taking the next step of the full floor vote, something -- giving the president what he wants. steve scalise says there is more to it than that. >> they have to vote on this. it is why she refused to bring up a vote, why she and adam schiff are trying to unilaterally hide from the public what is really going on, trying to remove a duly elected

president of the united states behind closed doors in secret. this is not just a witchhunt, it is a sham, people know it, no due process, nancy pelosi might think she can reminisce through. she will not take away the will of the voters. there's an election next year. donald trump has done a great job getting this economy back on track and fighting for those hard-working families that have been left behind. >> the latest gallup poll shows 62% of americans support the impeachment and removal of donald trump from office, that is up 7 points from the june survey. funeral services set for the texas woman shot and killed by police in her own home. faith leaders calling for a federal investigation in the wake of atatiana jefferson's death. aishah hasnie is in studio as they hope to turn this tragedy into change. >> a tragic story. atatiana jefferson's funeral a

set for saturday in dallas, community and faith leaders are looking to the white house for justice, they held a news conference yesterday calling on the trump administration to open a civil rights investigation into the fort worth police department. they want a federal judge to step in and enforce a police reform plan because as they put it everything they tried on the local level isn't working. >> civil rights have been grossly violated. human rights are not being taken care of. we are americans like everyone else and we deserve equal protection under the law. >> reporter: atatiana jefferson died over the weekend when former fort worth police officer aaron dean shot her in her own home during a welfare check. she quit before soon after. betsy price admitted wednesday the shooting -- my focus remains on healing the city and pushing forward to see that we make progress.

that includes more oversight. national experts review police procedures and establishing an independent third-party panel within the next month. the city's task force says they are making progress and leaders hope the community will give them a little more time to do the right thing. now response from the white house on that request for the civil rights investigation. we will see what happens. heather: the son of an iconic actor shot and killed by sheriff's deputies after stabbing his own mother. listen as the gun shots ring out. [gunshots] >> officials say the adult son of ron and valerie stabbed his mom to death before he was shot by responding deputies.

he starred as tarzan in the 1960s. it is not clear if he was home when his wife was attacked. the supreme court divided over the releasing of lee malveaux. he was 17 when he and john allen mohammed shot and killed 10 people in 2002. years later changes were made to federal sentencing guidelines for juveniles. justice kagan argued that age should be considered in sentencing but brett kavanaugh suggested it could set a dangerous precedent. a ruling is not expected anytime soon. malveaux is serving life without parole, mohammed was executed in 2009. two of the four men involved in the probe of rudy giuliani's associates are set to be arraigned today. they allegedly funnel illegal foreign campaign donations to american politicians. korea was taken into custody after flying to new york to turn

himself in, two other men are set to be arraigned on the same charges. giuliani says he had no knowledge of the illegal donations. the months long general motors strike could finally come to a end today maybe. the united auto workers union leaders meeting in detroit to vote on a deal for better pay and benefits for 50,000 employees. the proposed 4-year deal includes raises up to 4%. country music stars crying and praying together during an emotional night at the artist of the year award. kane brown struggled through tears as he dedicated his award to his longtime drummer kenny dixon who died in a car accident we told you about last week. >> people didn't think we would make it. he was with me the whole time. he was so supportive of me and i love him and i miss you.

>> reporter: thomas was so moved by the speech he let audience in a prayer. >> this is not conventional but can i pray really fast? is that okay? right now i pray that he is with his family. >> reporter: the night filled with powerful performances as well. >> not the only one who had a secret to hide. ♪ >> carrie underwood also honored and country icon and actress reba mcintyre took home the artist of a lifetime award. she's been around a while and going strong. 11 minutes after the top of the hour, donald trump doubling down on his decision to pull troops from syria. >> russia wants to get involved with syria, that is up to them. they have a problem with turkey we shouldn't be losing lives over it.

heather: what does russia have to gain and what impact will it have on the us? next guest is a retired army lieutenant colonel who says the president's strategy is the right one and former president obama made his first endorsement of the election cycle but it is not who you think. ♪ when we started our business

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conversation inviting at a want to russia in the next couple days reportedly should the us be concerned? joining me live with his take a senior fellow and military experts, retired lieutenant colonel daniel davis. thank you for joining us on such an important topic, we appreciate it. what does letter putin have to gain in this? >> people need to understand it is not as though we are handing over anything to russia or they will fill any void. russia has been there for decades. they have been an ally of syria for a long time, they've been there throughout the civil war and they will be there long after we have redeployed. with vladimir putin's intend is is to try to keep this from blowing up into an interstate war instead of just the civil war. they have every incentive to make the stamp down so their holdings don't get put at risk so that is the main thing, not to take something we are going to abandon because they already have but i will tell you, go ahead. >> is the vice president and mike pompeo head there to try to come to some sort of agreement,

donald trump also reaching out, we have part of the letter he sent, he said this to erdogan, let's work out a good deal, you don't want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people and i don't want to be responsible for destroying the turkish economy and i will. >> this is a really tough situation here because erdogan is feeling pretty confident in his primary objective, to clear out a path not for security but because he wants to take the 3 million people in his country from syria, the refugees, dump them back into syria and that is has been driving for so it is going to be hard to convince him to do anything else because he doesn't want to hang onto those but the one thing that is important to understand in terms of whether donald trump is right in doing this or not we do not need to stay in syria because we absorb a lot of strategic risk but gain nothing and i heard

secretary mattis said donald trump is causing disarray or whatever but i got to tell you, had a chance to make this right in december, not december but march 2018 when donald trump -- at that time he had the opportunity to make this work smoothly, to coordinate with our allies and prevents all this stuff but he chose to push back on the president and not follow through. that is when he had a chance to make this work. shannon: does this boil down to how people feel about foreign-policy? do they believe we should stay in these countries specifically in the middle east and participate in nationbuilding as we heard tulsi gabbard talk about in a democratic debate or do they believe as donald trump believes and campaigned on, bringing our troops home and not staying forever in these, also called forever wars. >> you hit it square on the head. there is this reflexive movement

in washington among both parties as we are seeing now that we have to stay everywhere and there's this fear that if we don't bad things are going to happen but they are not going to. there are better ways to defend ourselves. to stay forever is not why donald trump was hired by the american people in the first place and i will say the way this is been handled has been bad and could have been done a lot better but leaving is absolutely the right thing for american interests. >> thank you for joining us, we absolutely appreciate your insight into this. the time is 19 after the top of the hour and do you think they like me? donald trump tweeting that after a tense meeting with house democrats, these pictures said it all, carly shimkus has nancy pelosi's response on twitter and the growing social media response. ♪

>> welcome back to "fox and friends first," 3 us diplomats detained near the site of a nuclear explosion in russia. the state department says they were taken off the train on official travel. russia media reports the diplomats were released, 5 scientists were killed in an explosion in russia. us officials believe they were testing a nuclear powered missile. rescue effort underway, a newly surfaced video could provide clues to what went wrong. a thin beam bending between concrete floors two days before the collapse.

it has not been verified. two construction workers died in the collapse in new orleans, what is missing, engineers working to stabilize the building and fear it could crumble even more. donald trump takes 2 twitter slamming house democrats in a series of pictures from their failed bipartisan meeting that ended with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi storming out. pictures could say 1000 words. >> the white house meeting on syria, democrats accusing the president of having a meltdown. captions like to you think they like me?

stephanie grisham defriended the president saying he was measured and decisive. speaker pelosi walking out was baffling but not surprising but no intention of participating in a meeting on national security, democratic leadership stormed out, everyone else stayed to work on behalf of our country. social media divided over the situation. they are too week. tracy says what i witnessed is disgusting. she had a meltdown and democrats love creating drama but nancy pelosi's team trying to get the last laugh on twitter by changing her twitter background to what the president tweeted out. >> the finger-pointing, storming out. it is not good for people across the country. they are having some trouble, not getting work done. let's talk about president obama. he is back, endorsing someone.

>> the canadian prime minister justin trudeau saying i was proud to work with justin trudeau as president, he is a hard-working effective leader who takes on big issues like climate change, the world needs his progressive leadership and hope neighbors to the north support him. trudeau responded thanks for working hard to keep our progress going but the former president's endorsement sparking some controversy. i always liked obama but trudeau has to go. a little upset with barack obama as he is and up on what is happening and doesn't have to live under a trudeau government. one more tweet on the issue from mel saying he endorses trudeau for another term, but bringing it back to the united states. last time we heard about justin trudeau in the united states was

during the blackface -- heather: everybody waiting to see who will president obama and doris in terms of the democratic nominee. the time is 26 after the top of the hour. a landmark opioid trial about to get underway. a federal case with billions of dollars on the line. squad support and ilhan omar endorsing bernie sanders but will it help? or hurt his campaign? our panel will debate next.

heather: look at our headlines this morning. vice president mike pence and mike pompeo flying to turkey. the us delegation expected to push for a cease-fire in northeast syria, donald trump sending a letter to turkish

president erdogan saying don't let the world down. you can make a great deal. community and faith leaders calling on the trump administration to open a civil rights investigation into the fort worth police department. they want a police reform plan following atatiana jefferson's death. she was shot and killed in her own home via police officer investing a welfare check that officer has stepped down. today donald trump heading to dallas, texas for a keep america great rally. the american airlines ctr. preparing for 20,000 supporters, some already lined up. in texas, expected all the fundraising lunch. a new manufacturing plant. powerful nor'easter moving into the eastern us with heavy rain and wind impacting millions of people. forcing game 4 of the a lcs to

be postponed in new york. we are tracking the latest. thanks for being here. >> a big nasty cold system that continues to work its way up the east coast. in washington, philadelphia and new york, moving into new england. if you are past were heavy rain is coming down the winds are intense, wind watches and warnings up and down the east coast, pretty widespread, getting to 40 or 50 miles an hour gusting much stronger than that. that will be lingering throughout the day. these are current gusts, closer to portland, maine, 50 miles an hour and these winds have been more intense than this. talk about all the rain we have seen, a lot of that. gusting forecasted winds will linger through the day into early friday. pretty consistent 30 to 40 mile

an hour winds, even though the rain will move off. on the backside, you live in this region it is pumping in colder air. heather: something else. i could hear the wind before i went outside, sounds like winter. 25,000 hit the picket lines, 30,000 students will not be going to school today in chicago. city teachers union voting a strike overnight. teachers want better pay, benefits and an official class size limit. lori lightfoot says the latest offer met those demands. the teachers union said it wasn't good enough. a former professor claims that sandy hook shooting never happened must pay $450,000 to

the father of a boy killed in the attack. leonard pozner sued james spencer for his book nobody died at sandy hook. is 6-year-old son noah did, he was killed in that attack, he claims after the conspiracy theorist harassed and threatened him, the book's publisher has apologized. stressed-out students could take a mental health day for public schools was a bill would allow children to take off one day per semester, to deal with mental health issues, it is necessary, increasing number of forces, and it could take effect next year. half of the squad are feeling the burn. >> i'm proud to endorse bernie sanders for president to take on trump. we need a unifier, someone who understands what the fight looks like and someone who is ready to

defeat him. >> reporter: ilhan omar endorsing bernie sanders for president and expected to announce her backing at a rally this weekend. will high-profile endorsement help or hurt the sanders campaign? the chairman for the committee to defend the president, ted harvey and democratic strategists, thank you for joining us. i will start with you. will this hurt or help bernie's campaign. >> it will help in the primary. you have joe biden's campaign imploding because of the ukraine scandal. you have warren jumping up because biden had a heart attack a couple weeks ago. he has to do something to give him some momentum going into the next couple months and this will help him. in the general election these

guys are so far to the left, bernie is so far to the left that is not where mainstream america is whether it is moderate democrats, these radical leftists supporting bernie and -- >> bernie suffering that heart attack. the democratic debate this week. i want your response to this but i want to bring up ilhan omar's tweet, proud to endorse senator sanders, rashida tlaib on board too. rashida tlaib not quite endorsing bernie, not made any endorsement at this time. to fight for my residents, i appreciate the opportunity for them to have a dialogue with senator sanders. what is your take on the squad not doing everything? >> it is important for bernie sanders to go ahead and get

these endorsements. at any time a republican or democrat gets endorsement it is important but to your point the so-called squad, is not on this endorsement so it is interesting to see what iona presley does, congresswoman from massachusetts, interesting to see what rashida tlaib does as well. heather: we have a statement from iona presley, she has tremendous respect for her sisters in service, political decisions are made at individuals. someone that the squad would endorse. >> the socialist movement in the united states for decades, the squad is rewarding him for his efforts.

what warren has been giving to the american people over her career that she is unelectable. looking at the situation and the landscape they will support the guy who is leading the socialist movement and they will support it. heather: 90% of their endorsement will hurt bernie sanders in the campaign. >> poles are good for you and bad for you. it will help for the moment. i don't know about the timing whether it would be good to endorse so early but i would advise them to say let's wait and get closer in the next three

months and see what the endorsements will do to move the needle at that point. heather: timing is everything when it comes to these campaigns. have a great day. heather: the dea leaving no stone unturned. the la angels could face penalties and who agents are questioning in the overdose death -- lebron james feeling the heat, ted cruz accused the basketball start kissing up to chinese communists and that is not all. the harsh message escalating off the hardwood.

heather: jury selection expected to wrap up for a landmark opioid trial in ohio. cuyahoga and summit county accused of the drug companies of damaging communities with deadly

and costly painkillers. the counties already settled with johnson & johnson. state and local governments have filed 2000 lawsuits against drug companies accusing them of fueling the opioid crisis. megan kelly calling for an independent investigation into nbc news over shocking allegations of sexual misconduct cover-up. watch. >> the question is open whether they put dollars and of decency, whether they were more interested in protecting their star anchor than women of the company. there needs to be an outside investigation. they investigated themselves. that doesn't work. heather: she is on tucker carlson in her first tv interview since leaving nbc earlier this year. the network has been accused of covering up allegations against former today anchor matt lauer and ordering to stand down on the bombshell harvey weinstein report.

the los angeles angels have a new team manager, joe maddon, joining the team as the angels face a massive investigation into the death of star player tyler skaggs. todd pyro joins us as the program faces potential fines and sanctions. good morning. >> joe maddon won a world series with the cubs in 2016 walking into a needles clubhouse filled with sadness and scandal after a public relations employee for the team told defense he applied oxycodone to tyler skaggs and abused it with him for years according to espn. skaggs died in july. and autopsy showing fentanyl, oxycodone and fentanyl in his system. according to eric k the angels director of communications, they worked out an arrangement to obtain drugs for skaggs himself and skaggs would pay for them. two team officials were aware of

his drug use before his death. the attorney says, quote, i felt and continue to feel it is time for everyone to take responsibility for their respective roles in this. the dea questioning a number of angels players including matt harvey about opioid use on the team. major league baseball stated any team employee who isn't a player is obligated to inform the commissioner's office of any evidence or reason to believe a player has used, possessed or distributed any substance prohibited by mlb. league punishments are pretty harsh, signs for the team up to $2 million and employee can be suspended or banned for life by the commissioner. a lot more to follow on this story. heather: thank you so much, time

is 15 minutes until the top of the hour, twitter changing the rules limiting interaction with offending tweets from world leaders on a platform accused of conservative censorship, who decides what is right and what is wrong? our next guest says this sets a dangerous precedent.

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heather: twitter rolling out new rules for world leader, notifying users they won't be able to like, reply or retweet posts from government officials

who violate their, quote, terms of use. is this a new method of political censorship? visiting fellow with independent for him beverly holberg says it sets a dangerous precedent and joined us to talk about it. as we begin let's look at some of the topics that will be involved that would lead to this enforcement, promotion of terrorism, direct violence against a person, posting private information, intimate photos, encouraging harm and so on. here is the thing. the company said specifically when it comes to world leaders they will not be above their policies and twitter's global enforcement chain will be responsible for determining if something is assisted or not. who will do this? who will be on this team? >> reporter: this is a big tech company based in california which is not friendly to conservatives. determining whether or not they find tweets unsafe for donald trump, whether they are offensive and even though they are saying with world leaders including the president they are allowed to tweet things out,

public interest that may be on the gray area what their policies are. all the president's followers will not be able to share it. it is limiting free speech that individuals are able to share. here is what i will say. twitter, this is their platform. they can make the rules they once but there has been a history of them being biased towards conservative voices on twitter. that is where there is concern of censorship and what this could mean for conservative ideology. heather: and rightly so because precedent was set in the past by people on social media sites by censoring conservatives. how do we know they won't do it this time? >> they probably will and they are allowed to do it. i find it interesting that twitter is not making anybody happy with this. conservatives are concerned about the censorship aspect, that is a valid concern but

senator kamala harris has been asking twitter to band donald trump from their platform for quite a few weeks. they are saying now. the reason is they know that donald trump makes them a lot of money. he has a huge following and many news outlets including fox news like to follow his twitter account and make news that way. no one is happy with this decision but talking about how conservatives are censored even issues like pro-life, there is a pro-life organization called live-action censored by twitter saying they are not allowed to buy any ads if they continue to show ultrasounds on their twitter account. these are the decisions twitter is making. they are allowed to make those decisions but as conservatives we have to ask do we want to use a platform that may censor us. jillian: going back to what kamala harris is asking, donald trump banned from the platform do you think this is a go around for twitter to ride both sides of the fence? if you ban people or determine

lot of tweets donald trump have sent out those are offensive and you can't retweet or like or respond in any way that is a form of banning. >> reporter: absolutely. this is limiting the free speech world leaders have and those who follow those world leaders, twitter has the right to do so but i would ask why do we not then see some progress of leaders out there who violate the policy, why is the president being called out by senator harris and not other people like julian castro, in reference to docsing individuals information and putting private information out there? this is where the hypocrisy comes in. twitter, they have this global entity that will be determining what is allowed and what is not. i don't trust twitter to have a right judgment. heather: we appreciate it, have a good day.

the time is 8 minutes until the top of the hour. ted cruz accused lebron james of kissing up to chinese communists and he didn't stop there. the harsh message escalating off the hardwood. the moment a trooper pools a driver from his car seconds before a train slams into it. ♪

>> fox news alert breaking right now, maryland congressman elijah cummings is dead. the democrat representative passed away at johns hopkins hospital from complications from long-standing health challenges. elijah cummings has served in congress since 1996. he was 68 years old. the seventh congressional district in maryland includes half of baltimore city. a lot of back-and-forth with him with donald trump, much more to come on this throughout the day. we don't know a lot but elijah cummings has passed away and he died at the age of 68. senator ted cruz, stories we

continue to follow, the final moments, slamming lebron james for his comments on the nba controversy with china. earlier this week james said the houston rockets general manager was misinformed when he tweeted support for hong kong protesters. he says it seems his comments were more interested in money and making bucks and i get it but kissing up to chinese communists and tyrants and apologizing for murderers is not a good look for the nba. we don't need censorship and propaganda and that is what the chinese government wants the nba to do, ted cruz suggested james educate himself in china's pass human rights abuses before jumping to its defense. police tracked down a man accused of punching a football star in the face. miles garrett claims a fan hit him after asking him to take a picture, the 270 pounder was not hurt, garrett tweeting in part put your legs into it, might have made me flinch, no charges have been filed. that wraps up this hour, much more to come on breaking news on the death of elijah cummings and

we continue with that right now. "fox and friends first" continues, goodbye. rob: it is october 17th, mike pence and mike pompeo heading to turkey to broker a cease-fire after the turks moving to northern syria attacking the kurds. >> reporter: democrats storm out of a briefing. we are live in washington were congress is preparing to send a message to turkey. barack obama has broken his silence with a major political endorsement. rob: it is not for the candidate you might think. ♪ the bombs bursting in air ♪ rob: patriotic play on the football field. jillian: "fox and friends first" continues right now. ♪