>> monday october october 21st, 3 soldiers dead and 3 wounded after armored vehicle flips over in water during training. carley: secretary of defense making unexpected visit to afghanistan at the same time as nancy pelosi and secret delegation of lawmakers, what it means for peace talks with the taliban? tulsi gabbard taking aim at hillary clinton for calling her a russian agent. >> do you stand up against hillary and the party power brokers, they will destroy you and discredit your message.

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starting your day with us. army investigating how a fighting vehicle like the one you see on your screen roland over into the water and the georgia base, 3 other soldiers recovering right now from their injuries. >> in a statement the army calling it a heartbreaking date for the third infantry division and army airfield community adding our hearts and players go global market action overnight out to all families affected by this tragedy. today crews will searching through the rubble of a collapsed hotel for the last 2 victims after two cranes dangerously looming over it are demolished. look at that there, officials calling fire fire explosion a success, the crane still standing and stable and will be

taken down in pieces. the cause that killed 3 people is under investigation. >> extreme weather powerful tornado touching down in texas leaving 150,000 people without power. >> wow, look at that. the tornado ripping through dallas causing several buildings to collapse, strong winds tearing downwind and even flipping trailers on the highway and no reports of deaths or serious injuries. >> yeah. >> as we await off date on the situation in the middle east from defense secretary mike this morning there's a new battle between nancy pelosi and president trump. >> speaker of the house leading a so-called bipartisan delegation. mark with the very latest. >> good to see you, the good morning, speaker's office says

the congressional delegation made multiple stops in the middle east. delegation was made up of house speaker nancy pelosi and one republican house maker, pelosi's office put out a statement following the visiting, meeting and hearing from troops and diplomats on the ground for congress to conduct oversight in our mission in afghanistan, the president weighed in on the trip as lawmakers continue today criticize his decision to pull troops out of syria, the president put out on twitter, quote, she should find out why obama drew the red line in the sand losing syria and all respect. this comes as kurdish military leaders are deeply disappointed in president trump's decision and cooperative relationship with the united states going

forward. south carolina lindsey graham, he says he now supports the president's efforts in syria, that's a major reversal from what we heard last week, graham one was of the president's toughest critics to remove u.s. forces from northern syria. >> i blame erdogan for the invasion, not trump. >> last week the house voted overwhelming to approve resolution condemning the president's syria strategy, several gop lawmakers supported the measure, the president is expected to hold cabinet meeting later on today. >> mark, thank you. secretary of state mike pompeo defending the president's decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria. carley: he says the administration has accomplished a significant part of the u.s. mission in the middle east.

>> need to go back where all this began, it began with situation syria where the previous president had drawn a red line. the administration came in when there was isis, peoples heads were being caught off. now the president believes we have accomplished significant part of our mission and he wants our folks to come home and we are begin to go work on it this week, vice president and i traveled after the president made a decision and we put out joint statement which we will will save lives, it's worked so far, a lot of work but we are optimistic. >> defense secretary mark esper aknowing 1,000 u.s. troops will now head to northern iraq.

carley: chaos in hong kong as angry mobs go on rampage with arson attacks, police responded with pepper spray, water cannons, at one point spreading blue dye with pepper solution. protesters on 20th weekend, hong kong's government is condemning the protests. acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney walking back what some called an admission of quid pro quo. >> certainly was part of the thick that he was worried about in corruption with that nation and that's -- yeah, which ultimately then flowed. >> mulvaney further clarifying those comments on fox news sunday. >> ukraine depended on investigating the democrats.

>> that's what people said that i said, here is what i said, there were two reason that is we held up the aid, the corruption in ukraine. the president was also concerned about whether or not other nations specifically european nations were helping with foreign aid to the ukraine. carley: discussions related to looking into dnc server were not not tied to foreign aid. >> opioid trial begins today, counties taking 6 powerful companies accusing them of fueling the deadly crisis. >> first trial is in cleveland. two ohio counties are suing multiple drug makers including big 3 drug distributors and those are right there in the middle of that list. trial will focus on distribution, were

companies obligated to halt suspicious orders and if so did they comply, this is just a small piece of massive trial involving lawsuits, cities and counties across the u.s. suing pharmacies and big pharma blaming them for opioid epidemic that that killed as many as 4,000 americans, families and communities want these families to pay up what they've had to spend on drug treatment and fighting drug-related crime, one mom who lost her son to opioid overdoes describes how she felt when johnson & johnson was ordered to pay $572 million back in august. >> nothing is going bring my son back, but this victory allows his -- his death to stand for something and i know he's cheering right now. >> so many families struggling to heal, now there was a last-minute 48 billion-dollar offer to settle over the weekend

but the city's -- cities and counties refused. the reason isn't the amount of money, they want control of how the cash will be distributed. carley: big story, there, thank you so much. week 7 in the nfl despite a tornado ripping through dallas area, the cowboys crushed the eagles 37-10, the packers also blowing out the raiders thanks to touchdowns. >> down the sideline. carley: there you go, green bay wins 42-24. >> to the pacific northwest, leading the ravens to road win over the seahawks.

frustration boiling over. ejected after throwing punch at star. that punch ain't going to do more. rams win 37-10. >> you went to the game. yikes, not good weather in new york, time now is 11 minutes after the house, house speaker nancy pelosi holding secret meet negotiation afghanistan and after president trump's decision to pull from syria, so are democrats trying to behind the president's back? >> war veteran chris says that the democrats will do anything to avoid giving president trump credit.

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♪ >> good morning, welcome back house speaker nancy pelosi defied president trump on surprise visit in afghanistan and jordan, does that kind of behind the back foreign policy help or hurt america on the world stage in. >> here to weigh in is iraq war veteran and gop strategist, chris, chris, thanks so much for being here, regardless of what you think of the president's decision albeit controversial decision to withdraw troops from northern syria, is it right for nancy pelosi to engage in this behind the back diplomacy on the world stage? >> well, for her it is, her goal to try to undermine the president, to try to figure out some way and criticize him, she's over there with members of congress that are trying to undermine presidency, if you're her it is, they are trying to undermine the president, that's their goal, i think democrats at this point would rather have china invade us than give the president credit for anything that's he's doing over there,

it's a political mission and that's all it is. >> all right, so you say she's trying to undermine the president but the house speaker released statement saying this, meeting and hearing directly from our troops and diplomats on the ground is essential for congress to conduct effective oversight of our mission in afghanistan, we will return to washington strengthened with the facts and the firsthand knowledge we have gathered at this critical time for our nation's afghan policy and inspired by the courage of service members and diplomats on the front line, she says this is a fact-finding mission. >> she can find facts in washington, d.c., congress' job is to oversee the defense department, the defense department oversees the mission overseas, i have served the middle east, many people have had legs blown off and blinded that i've worked with personally and many folks over there support the endless war style foreign policy that has been influenced by a lot of special interest that when president trump was elected he was very free from. so if anything it's very ironic that these -- that speaker pelosi who is largely supported

a lot of status quo things is hyperactive, she tried to do this before. it's not in the best interest of foreign policy and best interest of democrats who are trying to take the heat off, disaster that's happening in primaries right now. >> chris, now that nancy pelosi and company have the facts that they so desperately desired and needed trip over there to do it, do you see congress doing something substantive or was this all just a show? >> all just a show and a boring one, they will create talking pointing to after the president, that's what's going on, having served in the middle east, it's ridiculous to think that they are going over there to figure out some way for us to stay longer and put our troops in harm's way, going over there, congressional trip as they call it in washingtonlingo is not

important, short vacation for democrats. carley: they are calling bipartisan congressional delegation even though there was outgoing republican going but there has been bipartisan outage regarding the president's withdrawal of the troops in syria, given your background serving our country in the middle east, do you think that was the right move by the president? >> yeah, carley, the president's foreign policy is what he ran on and what the voters want. one republican over there interviewing for next job in defense agency making 300 grand. they're not the ones who have had their life in jeopardy. these are tough questions, there's no doubt about it. endless war is what we've had. >> thank you for your insight. >> medicare for all but how is elizabeth warren going the pay for it?

>> so let me be clear on this, costs will go up for the wealthy, they will go up for big corporations and for middle-class families they will go down. >> all right, 2020 hopeful just revealed how she plans to fund her proposal, oh, boy and wait until you hear what a liberal mayor rahm emmanuel thinks of it, surprising thoughts on medicare for all next. oh, boy. >> oh, boy. note ♪ ♪ when you move homes, you move more than just yourself.

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kristin fisher takes a look at the ongoing debate. >> you learn about charlie parker who drove stagecoaches in 1850's but, quote, he never told anybody that he was born female. a book for second graders who became first female and first lesbian astronaut. k through 6 classrooms after the state passed the fair education act in 2011 requiring all public schools to teach lgbtq history. since then, 3 other states have passed similar laws. >> and here in maryland they are developing curriculum standards for history classes to include the fight for civil rights for the lgbtq community. >> it's a priority and in the context of u.s. history to know the history of civil rights. critics worry forcing students to learn about sexual assaulty

and gender identity before they may be ready. >> the introduction of sexuality is something parents should initiate when appropriate. >> one example of what students are learn asking changing, ashley burner at john hopkins institute she noticed a trend towards more cultural issues in the classroom. >> some parents love it and those who don't there's little they can do. in maryland kristin fisher, fox news. >> senator elizabeth warren says she will reveal her plan to pay for medicare for all soon, 2020 democrat criticized for weeks

for not revealing. >> the cost estimates on medicare for all vary by trillions and trillions of dollars. this is something i've been working on for months and months and has more work until it's finished. >> we are close, carley, we are close to finding out. >> i wonder how she will get the money. >> warren will decrease healthcare costs but didn't say if she will raise taxes on the middle class. bernie sanders' proposals and he admits his plan will raise taxes. carley: while 2020 democrats are promising to implement some version of medicare for all, president obama's former chief of staff rahm emmanuel says it's a bad idea. >> when president obama did aca it was to be built upon, not to

be pulled out and start all over again, this was a 100-year effort, that's what's insane about the process. >> emmanuel has called medicare for all position in general election. >> 2020 hopeful kamala harris posted almost identical tweet as hillary clinton during presidential run. >> campaign tweeting a childhood photo of the democrats with a caption our next president, # happy birthday kamala. i remember between hillary clinton did that. >> writing happy birthday to this future president. just an update, hillary clinton did not win in 2016, just want to -- she predicted it but didn't happen. there you have the facts. carley: time now 26 minutes after the hour, president trump's plans to host g7 summit as doral resort after massive backlash from the media, so was that the right call?

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carley: welcome back, a look at top headlines this morning, today identity of 3 soldiers killed in training exercise expected to be released. fighting vehicle like the one you see right here roland over into the water on georgia base. 3 soldiers recovering from injuries. >> tornado hit down in texas, tornado ripping through dallas causing several build to go collapse, fortunately no reports right now of any deaths or serious injuries.

>> and house speaker nancy pelosi leading delegation for the middle east amid the chaos in syria. the visit drawing sharp criticism from the president in the meantime defense secretary mark esper in the region and expect today provide an update within the next hour. >> all right, meantime at least 9 people are hurt including a young child after a chaotic drunk driving crash overnight in los angeles. two cars colliding at an intersection sending one of them into a fire hydrant and power lines, the gushing power causing nearby roof to collapse and four injuries are potentially life-threatening, police arresting one of the drivers after testing blood alcohol content was twice the legal limit. today florida lawmakers will start the process of deciding whether or not embattled sheriff will get his job back, independent investigator recommended this state senate

reinstate the sheriff who was heavily criticized for his department's response to the parkland school shooting that left 17 people dead. israel was removed from office by governor ron desantis. all right, utah senator mitt romney admits to having a secret twitter account, it's a locked account using the name pierre delecto, writer for the atlantic describes recent meeting with romney, he explained he uses twitter account to keep tabs on political conversation. says the account matches the details described in romney profile piece which romney suggests he's a, quote, lurker, wow. >> that's just weird. 32 minutes after the hour and

president trump announcing next year's g7 will not be at his doral florida resort after a wave of criticism from the media >> major promotion for the president's brand. >> unprecedented use of the presidency to put renew into a president's pocket. >> corruption crime you can imagine. >> as the president violating the constitution and profiting by holding international summit. >> so did the president make the right decision? here to debate democratic political analyst robert and american principals project executive director terry, terry, begin with you, was this a smart call by the president to undo the doral decision? >> look, i think overall it's a huge overreaction to hysteria from the mainstream media and the democratic party, they're blowing this up but, you know, if you look at the pest 3 years, this is probably the biggest nothing burger out of 3 years of nothing burgers we have seen

yet, i'm quite frankly surprised that the democrats haven't added this to their impeachment inquiry, that's how hysterical they are right now. look, president trump is a perfectionist, he wants everything done in a specific way and doesn't want the united states to become jokes and doral elite resort with almost perfection and i'm not surprised that he wanted to hole it there and i'm surprised that he pulled it from them. >> robert, you say the president shouldn't have picked doral in the first place and on the surface, almost everybody would agree the decision raises eyebrows when you do delve into the facts the president was going to do at cost, where is the personal gain to the president? >> well, understand, this is the reason that every other president has disclosed their tax returns, this is the reason why they have divested from their businesses to get rid of

impropriety. trickles money into the president's bank account and into the bank of his family. i think the lack of transparency by the president since the time he was running for office is why the questions have risen, we have something in the constitution -- we don't know what he has lost because we don't have his tax returns, why not -- >> this president has lost a billion dollars since he started running in 2016, we know that, it's been reported by media outlet, they've been attacking. no one is running especially the elites or countries in his favor, they don't want him, the elites are rejecting president trump and to act like he's going to hold this conference at, you

know, his resort just to get that personal gain from the ceo's and elitists it's not the truth, he's very proud of the resorts, if you've ever been to one, you know how much perfection in detail and time and effort is put into perfecting these places. they're beautiful, they are wonderful and they are amazing and. >> you're doing a commercial for president trump on television. >> let me break down this indirect branding argument that you brought up and many in the media are bringing up. you saw in montage sound bites of media rachel maddow say this is going to put revenue into the president's pockets, that's kind of a tough stretch there, but you saw abc say major promotion for the president's brand, they didn't go as far to say this is going to be a cash grab for the president because he will do it at cost, they focused on the branding argument. is there enough there because we saw the number that we posted on the screen that you guys all mentioned, decrease in the

president's wealth since starting this run for president, there it is again, it doesn't seem the branding the working out too well for them, how can you make that argument, rob ♪ >> because we don't know the president's financials, none of us have seen the president's actual tax returns. we are going off of third-party calculations on these issues and let's -- [inaudible conversations] >> talking about doral, we are doing a commercial for the president on television so by saying that he's not going to have any kind of financial benefit, we are doing a nationally televised commercial for his resort right now. >> quick last word, 10 seconds. >> look, these resorts are phenomenal, everyone knows they are phenomenal and top of the line. you don't need to do this big charade to do it. what happened here is the democrats overreacted, they overreached and they ended up giving the president, you know, more exposure than ever needed.

he did this -- he knew they were going to take the bait and be hysterical about it. congratulations, president trump again. >> let's see where this ultimately ends up, we hear camp david is on the list, we see if that ends up happening, guys, thanks for being here on a monday morning. >> thanks. >> the time is now 37 minutes after the hour, your baby could be eating lead and toxic metals, lawmakers demanding answers from the fda after an alarming new study, what every participants need to know when a medical expert joins us live next. >> you stand up against hillary and the party power brokers, they will destroy you and discredit your message. >> in the teleprompter says ding, ding, but i imagine you want maryland e to say that ding, ding. 2020 hopeful versus 2020 failure, how tulsi gabbard is firing back at hillary clinton. just ding ding.

>> today julian assange will fight extradition to the u.s. in british court. expected to appear in person before a judge, assange serving a 50-week sentence for skipping bail, remember these pictures, happened back in april after living there for 7 years, daily mail reporting his court battle could last 6 years and cost british taxpayers nearly $800,000. >> 3 more parents to plead guilty in college admission scandal. combined 3 parents spent more than $800,000 to alter their children's test scores, 18 parents including felicity hoffman, 19 others including lori loughlin awaiting trial.

carley. >> lawmakers demanding answers after new study finds 95% of tested baby foods contains toxic metals. >> 95% of 168 baby bids has arsenic, lead, mercury or cadni cadnium. >> family and emergency medicine expert janet joins me now, lawmakers on the case there, what the heck is going on and what do parents need to know? >> so what they found in this study, carley, almost all of the baby foods, all sorts of brands, they were found to have high levels of mercury, arsenic and lead and the problem is that this had been found to lower iq, interferes with behavior and their intelligence and can

interfere with brain development, nerve development and even maybe down the road who knows if it can lead to seizures or cancers, bladder cancers, that's why we are so concerning and on alert now. >> baby food, 95% tested they have these kinds of metals, although chuck schumer just said them, it's arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury. do you think this has happened all along, i don't think that the stuff should be in human like adult food let alone baby food? >> it's not new and a couple of years ago fda assigned a team of scientists to find ways to reduce the exposure of the neurotoxins to newborn baby so they don't have potential long-term consequences and impacts on their health and they did find that the levels of exposures and levels of

chemicals and toxins have decreased but still a lot more that can be done and still a lot more that we should be doing. >> i don't think a lot of parents have enough time to make their own baby food, do you have any recommendations on what parents should do? >> simple changes can actually reduce exposure of the toxins and metals by almost 80%, for example, they found that the culprit is rice-based foods, so instead of rice puff snacks, try to avoid the rice cereal using instead multigrain, avoid juices, they were found to be in juices, try to use water instead, not for newborn babies, older kids. be sure to watch them and monitor for choking and this sort of thing, fda and companies have to take measures to using alternative irritation practices

and areas where there's cleaner sources of farming and areas where they areless absorbent in the soil. >> health standards were heavy metals in baby food, i can't believe that that hadn't already happening. >> we need -- fda needs to be more proactive, you know, and taking initiative and having continuing prioritization of monitoring, monitoring equipment, monitoring tests, doing tests an finding levels of these chemicals early so it doesn't have long-term impact on our children. >> so glad that the study came out so something can be done about it. appreciate it. >> thank you, carley. carley: time now 46 minutes after the hour, disarm the police, that idea from a democrat running for congress, but how can officers protect and serve their communities if they are able to protect themselves?

former police officer breaks down the problem with this progressive proposal live next.

>> democrat running for congress now calling to disarm the police, candidate jamal making the proposal on twitter, but how can police protect their communities with nothing to defend themselves? carley: that's the question right there, author of prepared, not scared, former nypd police officer, bill joins us now, i would love to get your take on this one, what do you feel about disarming police officers? >> well, i have no problem with that only until the bad guys voluntarily hand in their knives, weapons, promise not to hurt or injury anyone or taken nick's stuff, that's the only

time police officers should hand in their weapons. >> well, that's going to happen -- gotten, everybody. [laughter] >> this was born out of comparison to london saying, well, they do it in london, the cops there don't have guns, let's take a look at the numbers. bronx versus new york city, which is still new york city, bronx is new york city, but you can take a look, london 1.6 for a hundred thousand, new york city for manhattan, 3.5, look at the bronx, 6.4. let's face it, we don't like it but new york and our surrounding boroughs will be more dangerous than london, the response to me of not having guns is not good idea of where we live right now. >> the congressional candidate was looking for clip bait because we are talking about it right now. i'm from the bronx and i was a cop in the south bronx and right now there's 36,000 police officers, so if you figure

one-third is always on duty, two-thirds maybe off, you have somewhere 20,000 police officers, off duty protecting and serving our community, you take away their weapons, let's say i'm in off duty and in a bogea or armed robbery or somebody at knife point, i don't have any weapon, what am i supposed to do, take your weapon, you stop the crime, you save potentially someone's life. >> another candidate that's run if for same seat, sammy revelo says disarming the police will negatively impact poor communities and communities of color where violence is higher due to socioeconomic reasons. >> look, that's a point, that's absolutely right. when i was a kid growing up everybody knew the cop on the block, the cop in the building, when there was trouble they ran up to the apartment. i know i did it as a kid.

it's good to have presence of police officers. they can't protect themselves, how are they going to protect you? >> what you are alluding to cops to get into communities and really form those bonds, obviously this notion, this tweet is born out of sort of disaffected notion of these communities versus cops, what can officers do to really rebuild these bonds with communities so we don't see tweets like is this? >> police officers in my opinion are psychiatrist, they're a babysitter, they're a doctor, confessor, people comes to cops, the folks that i know embrace their community because they are from the community, nypd is more diverse now than it's ever been and to take that away you are taking take -- taking that away. >> so much respect because they put their lives on the line

every day. >> every day. >> the time is now 53 minutes after the hour, hillary clinton accusing tulsi gabbard of being a russian agent in 2020 candidate is firing back calling out the party, how the brewing battle is heating up. >> and the criminal who gave police the fake id, only one problem with that, it has to do with a tattoo on his neck, it's always the neck tattoo. >> or the one right before the eye.

>> 2020 presidential candidate tulsi gabbard slamming her party's 2016 nominee, hawaii dem going after hillary clinton for suggesting she's a, quote, russian asset. >> if you stand up against hillary and the party power brokers, if you stand up to the rich and powerful elite and the war machine, they will destroy you and discredit your message, but here is the truth, they will not intimidate us, they will not silence us. >> gabbard calls clinton's claim a smear for endorsing senator bernie sanders in 2016. >> the best country duo of all time, not rob and jillian, we are talking about these guys.

♪ >> great song, medallion plaque in nashville. >> we love that. you could call this guy up, police say he gave a fake news despite having real name tattooed on his neck, illinois officers said they had warrant out for his arrest for a forgery case. >> tattoo in his neck. finally the ugly, more than 9 months after winning game in playoffs, returns to nfl, not so good. >> i know.

>> off the post. >> carley feels bad, i'm suggesting he transition to career in real estate, missing extra point in game with the titans. >> it doesn't matter. "fox & friends first" continues right now. ♪ >> all right, monday october 21st and secret and supposedly bipartisan delegation of lawmakers are now back in washington after visit to middle east for syrian peace talks. >> and serious top british commander says he's willing to work with the white house, we are live with the exclusive interview. >> look at that, tornadoes breaking havoc in america's heart land. rob: path of destruction as there are thousands of people waking up today in the dark, also starting today students in