impeachment, baseball, nationals and all of that. this is the time in the program where i tell you we look forward to seeing you next sunday, 11 ian is the time, with the >> good morning to you, it is monday november 4th, happening right now at 4:00 a.m. on the east coast, escalating impeachment calls to identify the whistleblower growing by the day and now that the person is offering written testimony to gop questions we have the latest with why republicans say that's still not enough and clean sweep, the governor of texas ordering a crack-down on homeless camps. were we have people camping, walking around bothering people asking for money. >> i've literally seen people urinating on this sidewalk, right there.

>> live in austin with firsthand look at the crisis in the city, banning supports for brothers in blue, maryland official forcing police department to remove flag, the backlash he's now facing. "fox & friends first" begins right now. ♪ ♪ heather: time to take on a brand-new week, good morning, you're watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning, i'm heather childers, thanks as always for starting, ending the day with us, several white house

officials expect today skip this week impeachment testimony as democrats prepare next step as we learn that the whistleblower who sparked all of it is apparently willing to answer republicans's, griff jenkins live from washington, big catch to that, right? >> there's, indeed, buckle up. i know we've had a lot of impeachment news, this is going to be a busy week starting with nearly dozen new witnesses being summoned to the hill, but the whistleblower who sparked inquiry is not among them yet, mark has offered to answer questions from democrats and republicans, quote, in writing under oath in penalty of perjury, but that may not be enough for gop leaders, congressman jim jordan appears to be rejecting the offer in twitter, meanwhile the president is leading the calls for

whistleblower to come forward. >> the whistleblower should be revealed because the whistleblower gave false stories, some people would call it a fraud, i won't go that far but when i read it closely i probably would, but the whistleblower should be revealed. >> the public about to see what transpired behind closed doors, democrats leader is their intention to release transcripts possibly as early as this week. >> now we past the resolution that says we will move to public hearing where all the transcripts, all the depositions are going to be made, known to the president and to the members of congress. >> when do public hearings begin? >> i think relatively soon. >> now this week 11 more closed door depositions scheduled for today, most not will come

willingly and rick perry. heather: certainly talk more about this coming up in the show a little bit later, thank you so much, griff. as griff mentioned the democrats impeachment inquiry enters second phase, jim jordan says americans aren't still getting the full story. >> we are less than 12 months before the next election and pelosi and schiff, they are trying to impeach the president of the united states, a year from the election based on anonymous whistleblower with firsthand knowledge who has a bias against the president who has been reported worked with joe biden, 435 members of congress, only one know who is the whistleblower is, adam schiff, how is that fair, none of us get the know, more importantly, you in the press don't get to know, the american people don't get to know, we would like toe valuate this

guy's credibility find out who he or she he may have talked to, so this is just as unfair and partisan as it gets, they're making the rules up as they go along and those rules that they make up they don't even follow them. heather: well, despite the whistleblower's offer to take republican questions, several gop members insist that that person should have to testify in public. now to fox news alert, happening right now urgent manhunt underway for two escaped inmate, fonseca behind bars on murder charges, trying to figure out how they broke out of high-security facility, there's a 5,000-dollar rewarded for information leading to their arrest. well, president trump takes aim at california governor newsom as wild fires rage across the

street, the president slamming the democrat of doing a terrible job of forest management while threatening to cut fund and state water practices calling him to open up the ridiculously closed water lanes firing from the back. you don't believe in climate change, you're excused from the conversation. wild fires are mostly under control, experts warn that hot and dry weather could elevate the fire risk this week. starting today, texas is cleaning up homeless camps in the capital city of austin, state agencies are moving after governor gave them more than a month to come up with solution, aisha live from austin with firsthand look, good morning.

>> good morning to you, heather, such a tragic situation all around here in the city of austin, texas, there are people living in tents under overpasses like the one you see behind me for miles in the city, the shelters are full and people here on the ground tell me they're fed up. >> we drove in to austin in the under pass. >> i have seen people urinating right here. >> it's not a good look for austin? >> it's not, it's not. >> just look at the numbers, homeless innocence austin is growing up 5% from last year, so governor greg abbott warned city leaders to straightened things up but now he's stepping in, so this morning, texas department of transportation crews will clear away the homeless en-- encampments across town and the governor says he won't allow austin to turn into san francisco or la and i actually

got to talk to some man who has been living in the same overpass for 3 years, you know what, he will move to another spot because austin to too good to give up. >> people come from all over the country to come to austin because it's famous, this is a famous place to live on the streets, everybody knows, you want to live on the streets go, to austin. >> why? >> you don't have to buy food, everybody feeds you and give you money and you can party, it's a blast, man. >> and we went around the city last night to look at these encampments and some folks were packing up in anticipation of what's about to happen this morning, meantime the mayor here, mayor adler says he's focused on housing these people instead of just removing them from camping situation which could happen at any hour this morning, probably as soon as the sun comes up, heather. heather: cities across the country and other states eyeing

how they handle the situation, thank you so much, we will have more on this. president trump heading to kentucky for last-minute campaign stop and he's stomping for matt bevin which faces tight race with andy beshear. >> taking on issues that everybody knows have to be addressed whether it's taxation system, tort reform, education, choice for parents and kids in urban communities, the pension system, every one of them is a political loser, kentucky has to make hard decisions and i am going to continue to make hard decisions in the next 4 years. well -- heather: tulsi gabbard denies claims she's reviewed to be part of the trump administration, the hawaii congresswoman making it clear

that she only has one goal in mind, listen. >> i was not there to -- to interview for a job, i was asked to come and share my foreign policy views, perpetuation the rumor has come from political opponents who are trying to create suspicion that i'm running as president to defeat donald trump. heather: tulsi calling out hillary clinton again, smearing her character without naming gabbard clinton suggested republicans brooming to run as third-party candidate. >> now let's switch to football, nfl week 9, ravens pull up a huge upset to end the patriots undefeated season.

>> touchdown. heather: lamar jackson 3 touchdowns, 37-20 win. and how about miami, the miami dolphins ending their winless season, you know, they were happy about that beating the jets 26-18 and then my carolina panthers, christian, 3 touchdowns in 30 to 20 win over the titans. great game. beautiful day, well, the time now 11 minutes after the top of the hour and police department banned from displaying a thin-blue line flag, but why, because it's too divisive, the outgrowing -- outrage is growing and the war of words is up next. ♪

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>> jackie ibañez with war of words. >> here is the story, gift and honor of national first responders day and causing uproar in montgomery county, the police department posting this photo of the american flag, gifted by local wood work, mark

eldridge, he's putting the brakes on that, the flag provides symbol of support to some but as symbol of dismissiveness to others. republican governor larry hogan firing back in series of tweets saying he's offended and discudded with eldridge's decision. i strongly call on mr. eldridge to reverse terrible decision and apologize to police and citizens of montgomery county, governor hogan also showing his support for thin blue line flags tweeting images of two flags hanging in his official home there, the police union speaking about the flag controversy writing in a letter, quote, we condemn the arbitrary political action and refuse to go display the flag is, quote, active outright disrespect, the wood worker who gifted the flag to police also gave red line flag

to firefighters, that flag is allowed to stay, heather, because it has not been coopted by white nationalist groups or blue lives matter movement, so spokeswoman for eldridge have not responded to fox news' request for comment. heather: let us know what you think about that for sure on twitter or any type of social media. 17 minutes until the top of the hour, the president greeted with cheers at usc match this weekend. heather: sounds like cheers to me, why did the headline say he was booed, talk more about that.

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you hear? carley shimkus, fox news 24/7 is here with argument on both sides, really interesting on social media, dueling audio clips of what had happened? >> interesting because he went to ufc match and sparked twitter fight because of audio clips like the ones you heard, cbs reported the entrance this way saying trump booed, ufc event at new york city, trump met with loud boos, some cheer at ufc fight in new york and the hill writes, trump gets boos entering ufc44. the president punched back by sharing some footage on instagram that showed people clapping, waving, taking cell phone video of entrance, for all those pretending it was only cheers and boos elsewhere, here is another one from higher up,

you're only driving home the point that you guys are bias beyond repair, many on social media coming upswinging as well, actually more cheers than boos, actually looks more like rallies, matthew says, seriously, without judgment or prejudice, just say cheer and boos and then another person chiming in saying just another mma arena populated by the swamp trump must be doing something right, dana white called it the most electrifying entrance. heather: that's saying something, i like what the president had to sake, fakeers are going to fake. new t-shirt. talk about the veteran canini who tracked down the isis terrorist and supposedly getting a real purpose heart, perhaps, what happened?

>> multiple veterans have come out that they believe that the to go should receive purple heart but that award is not given to canine and reserved for people. >> former army ranger who is a purple heart recipient himself says, do i believe he should receive purple heart, absolutely, they are out there with every step of the way. another army ranger says one explosive can take out 6 to 8 guys, he's definitely saving lives, and many on social media also chiming in saying the same thing, absolutely, service dogs deserve to be honored. he will be headed to the white house, but so far the award just reserved for people. heather: this is a great story to end things with, an 11-year-old boy, no one showed up to his birthday party but the team took over. carley: exactly, a father posted this sad picture of his son with

a toronto maple leaves purpose cake, my son had 11th birthday came and none of invited friends came, ask and you shall receive, because maple leaves star mitchell mariner and john tavaris responding teasing that they'll be a little surprise for young cade, other stars as well like ben stiller also posted birthday message to him, huge outpouring of sports world and hollywood. heather: from us as well, happy birthday. carley: that's right, seems like a great kid, congratulations to the family. >> thank you, carley, the time now is about 25 minutes after the top of -- after the top of the hour, let's talk about the whistleblower, the whistleblower

will answer republican questions as the president ramps up calls like this. >> the whistleblower should be revealed because the whistle bluer gave false stories. heather: so what does that all of this mean for the investigation? attorney david bruno says that there's still secrets and he will explain up next. and a new fox news poll shows joe biden topping president trump in head to head matchup, can he really beat president trump if he's the nominee, democrat and a republican debate it coming up.

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behind bars on murder charges, the sheriff's office is trying to figure out how they broke out of the high-facility facility, there's a 5,000-dollar rewarded for information leading to their arrest. agencies are moving in after the governor gave local leaders more than month to come up with a solution, more than 2,000 people are currently homeless in that city. and president trump will head to washington nationals at the white house today, the president will honor the world series champs with a ceremony on the south lawn, pitcher sean saying he's the only one not attending citing divisive rhetoric from the president, prompting the anonymous source to offer written testimony, two questions from republicans, can this make or break the case for

impeachment, former prosecutor dave bruno joins us. >> good morning, heather. heather: let's bring up one of the statements amongst the others of the whistleblower's attorney, we offer both majority and minority to have the whistleblower answer questions under oath, obviously for house rules, we, however, are not and then let's listen to a response from top republicans on that. >> you're going change the course, the fabric of democracy today based upon someone wrote a written question of somebody who wasn't on the phone call? >> this is a person who claims to be a whistleblower, the person has a political bias. >> the american people have a right to know who the individual who started the whole thing. >> so what is your response, is this enough, answering some written questions from the gop? >> well, good development, it's better than nothing so it's a start and i don't really think that the whistleblower is really

that important because based -- heather: really? >> there's a lot of hearsay, it's not like he has personal knowledge, he got it from other sources, the most important thing about whistleblower is to identify where his sources were, where did he get his information and then take that road down to try to get to actual witnesses with personal knowledge to testify. heather: interesting to add that they said they will not answer any questions that lead to his identity, so that's the only thing that apparently is off the table, whether or not we will see the full questions and answer that is remains to be seen. >> sure. heather: let's talk about impeachments, americans are split on impeaching and removing president trump, 47% do not want impeach and remove, any of this going to make any difference, does that surprise you? >> i don't think this is going to make a difference at all because we see what's coming from the senate, i mean, they will need 67 senators to impeach in the senate and if they can't

get that this is campaigning at its best for the dems, but what's going to happen this week, there are 4 people to testify. heather: we can bring that up actually as you get into this, what's happening this week and what we can expect, bring up the full screen. >> four individuals, now, today everybody that has testified has done so against white house directives, white house said that there's immunity for all of the current employees and who has testified to date has been against what the directive has been and that will end now, i don't see any individuals coming and i think the courts will have to determine whether or not there's a blanket immunity that the white house can rely on and last week there were 2 cases, it's don mcgann and also charles in court, federal court last week and timetable for determining that specific issue, whether or not the white house can prevent people from testifying got pushed back, the

case got pushed back to december 10th and what that does, really creates a problem for the democrats timeline because they want to push to a vote by the end of the year, if they don't get the answer and we don't get people coming from the white house in front of this committee, well, then it could be possible that it's pushed become and pushed back and we are one year from the presidential election. heather: some of them may try to spin that and saying it works to their benefit. >> it's going to create problem. heather: that's true. >> they will have to be in dc, they can't be campaigning. heather: in the meantime as a result john bolton does not have to testify. >> bolton has the same lawyer. heather: got it. >> same exact legal issue, it's a little bit different, they are both former white house employees but certainly the issue on whether or not the white house can tell witnesses

not to testify needs to be resolved in the district courts, really move forward with the impeachment. >> not going to be resolved any time soon apparently. >> not until december 10th, at least. heather: appreciate you joining us, very busy day. ♪ ♪ heather: how about some election news for you, 2020 candidate pete buttigieg has blasted family separation on the border before, but now the indiana mayor is take it one step further. >> the united states owes something, we need to make sure that they have compensation. heather: pete buttigieg speaking to iowa voters, did not specify what the compensation would be after implementing zero tolerance policy, the trump administration introduced some steps over the summer to allow families to stay together, the aclu estimates 5500 children

were separated from their parents. >> that is why we must build a mass movement of the working class that transcends age, general and background. [cheers and applause] >> i am beyond honored and excited, we will fight against western imperialism. heather: she joins her fellow squad members representative alexandria ocasio-cortez and tlaib in endorsing the self-proclaimed democratic socialist. well, the field of 2020 democrats keeps getting smaller and new fox news poll show joe biden leading the pack and topping president trump in a head to head matchup, so does he have a shot at beating the president, here to debate republican strategist and

democratic strategist, thank you both for joining us, we appreciate it. let's begin with the breakdown amongst the 2020 democratic nominees and the preference there first, joe biden coming in at 31%, then you have elizabeth warren at 21%, bernie sanders 19 and then it goes down from there. taking a look at this, the one democrat who is rising significantly although she's not in the lead is elizabeth warren. so joe or robert, i will begin with you, what does this mean for joe biden? >> well, i think what this means is he's been in the lead since the beginning of the race, he continues to be in the led at this point, elizabeth warren had a disastrous rollout to medicare for all plan this weekend with staggering price tag that many americans are not going to be amenable to, i think joe biden has held the steady course, presented himself as the reasonable alternative to donald

trump, i think he's the candidate who has the best chance of winning the upper midwest rust belt states as opposed to fringe candidate, let's understand even with bah b's rise, her and bernie sanders combined at 40%, so 50% of the party that's against the form of government i think joe biden is still strong. heather: interesting. holy, what do you think? >> those are the numbers but what we need to be looking at are primary states and biden is not doing well, iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, he's doing okay there, but, you know, his funding is drying up, he'll got to really improve his numbers if he's going to come in first or second in the early states, if you aren't winning the first few states, then your popularly plummets quickly and an opportunity for sanders and elizabeth warren to take the nomination at that point. heather: well, this is the presidential vote preference and in this particular vote you have

joe biden coming in at 41%, president trump getting 39%, bernie sanders 49%, president trump getting 41% and you can see it go from there. holy, i will get you to respond to this? >> yeah, i mean, these are interesting polls, it's fun to talk about, but it doesn't really reflect what might happen in november of next year. if we want to really see what's going to happen next year with the election we need to be looking at florida or pennsylvania, these national polls oversample the east and the west coast, they are not a true reflection of the electorate college. they really can't tell us -- and when was the last time president trump either as candidate or president won national poll, this is no different than anything we've seen in the past 3 to 4 years. heather: joe biden 51% compared to president trump 39%, what do you think about the polls this far out?

>> well, i think it's kind of like looking a forecast 30 to 60 days out, you can't read into it, it's a snapshot of what the american people see right now, comforting figure, a throwback where time didn't run our foreign policy, so i think what president trump needs to be doing at this point in time is exactly what he's doing by moving from new york to florida, concentrate on the swing states, don't try to win the popular vote because more than likely you will not be able to, win florida, ohio, pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, win those states and that's his best chance to victory and that's why joe biden scares the president the most of any democratic candidate. heather: interesting, thank you both for joining us, holly, robert, we appreciate i. >> thanks, heather. heather: we will be right back. is that ireland...1953?

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heather: welcome back to "fox & friends first", today hundreds of inmates will walk free, oklahoma releasing more than 450 low-risk offenders from prison in what will be the largest commutation in the state's history, this comes after the state reclassified some low-level drug and property crimes to misdemeanors, officials say that they're saving $12 million by releasing these inmates early. well, new york city could soon allow voters to cast votes for more than one candidate as proposal for ranked choice voting, we will be on the ballot

tomorrow, would allow voters to mark down their first choice in a race as well as who they would want to win if their top pick wasn't win 50% of the vote, supporters say the system forces candidates to broaden appeal to voters, critics call it unconstitutional and confusing. if approved the system will be used in primary and special elections in 2021. ♪ >> well, senator elizabeth warren 52 trillion-dollar healthcare plan is a hot topic for competitors on the campaign trail. >> the math is certainly controversial, we don't have to go there in order to deliver health care to everybody. >> she's making it up. heather: tracee carrasco from sister network fox business joins us now to answer that question, good morning.

>> good morning, heather, yeah, bernie sanders also weighing in telling abc news, quote, we do disagree on how you funded meaning the medicare for all, i think the approach that i have in fact, will be much more progressive in terms of protecting the financial well-being of middle-class -- middle-income families, now sanders telling abc news that his plan would raise taxes on the middle tax, something that elizabeth warren says hers would not, she said it would raise taxes on the wealthy and on corporations, this while trying to keep the cost of her medicare for all plan under $52 trillion over the next decade. >> all right, we will continue to follow this, of course, as the campaign moves on. thank you so much, tracee. tracee: thanks, heather. heather: time now 15 minutes until the top of the hour, austin, texas, homeless capital? >> this is a famous place to live on the streets, everybody knows, you want to live on the

streets go, to austin. >> why? >> you don't have to buy feed, everybody feeds you, give you money, you can party. heather: well, common sense crack-down now under way to clear out the homeless camps, but the texas gop chair says austin followed the nation's worst examples with all too predictable results and he joins us live.

heather: welcome back, you're watching "fox & friends first", texas governor greg abbott vowing to clean up austin's growing homeless problem by clearing out some of the city's homeless camps. here with some insight on how bad it is on the ground and what impact these camps are having on communities as texas state gop chairman james dickey, thank you

so much for joining thus morning, we appreciate it. >> it's my pleasure, thanks for having me. heather: let's begin with statement by governor greg abbott on san francisco homelessness, san francisco chose to tolerate homelessness andrology use, did so in the name of compassion for the homeless, made the problems worse, the results street squaller and no sf in texas, meaning, of course, no san francisco, so what is your take on all of this? >> try to better work with the homeless and handle the homeless situation and that's like going to venezuela to look for good policy, i mean, it is absolutely crazy that leftist continually

believe that if someone with a bigger heart tries the same failed policy over and over again things will get better, they don't get better, they get worse, we are seeing that right now in austin, sadly. heather: let's take a look at the number of homeless in austin, texas, over a thousand, a thousand 37 and that's just the people that they know about, you're standing outside for us this morning, one of the underpasses and when it comes to the underpasses you were explaining that the governor has responsibility for those areas? >> absolutely and not only that but we live in a post 9/11 world and it's purely a safety issue, i mean, you can see behind me a fairly significant size tent, that's an area right next to a major structural foundation that the police can't see what's going on, no one can see what's

going on, that's a serious potential safety issue and that is not something that can be allowed to happen, so the governor has announced at least weekly they'll be cleanups to make sure that the -- you do not have major -- major sections of our infrastructure at risk of something going wrong. >> what does the police chief say about that? >> well, he's weighed in as well and agrees, you know, it was -- it was obvious that even the leftist who were pushing this through knew it was not a good idea because when it pushed in the repeal, they said now homeless can camp anywhere they want, oh, except in front of city hall, if they actually believed that this was not a problem they would not have excluded their own place of work. >> james, i do want to ask you, though, when you talk about or they said they would clean the areas out periodically, what exactly does that mean?

where would they go? >> well, there are numerous places around that both public and private that are available and i think this may actually be part of the ploy, governor -- the mayor, mayor adler has really wanted to increase taxes, increase expenses, get more money in for the city of austin and constantly pushing to set up and that's what he's trying to do, set it up so he can demand more money but there are private organizations in the austin area that do serve homeless as well as all of the other needy, we have contributed to charities like that, like mobile and other significant charities in the

area, there's, though, the fact is homelessness in this area in spite of how wonderful the areas and how the weather is -- heather: it's the problem. >> never been the kind of problem that there was in san francisco and seattle and major adler is trying to make it that. heather: james, thank you so much for joining us, unfortunately you are right, especially in this they and age a lot boils down to politics and following the money, thank you. and we will be right back, stay with us.

heather: time now for the good, the bad and the ugly, up first the good, putting up christmas decorations early to make you happier. ♪ ♪ heather: psychotherapist in florida say holiday decorate can go bring up positive childhood memories which can boost your mood, the bad, krispy kreme ask to stop selling doughnuts, bring them back to the twin cities, charged $20 a box since there's no krispy kreme and company says business is a liability. claims he bought it himself.

>> what is somebody is looking -- would it be the same as that one? >> no. heather: the bike was returned to the school in scotland. well, thank you so much for joining us, bought it on amazon, that wraps up this hour of "fox & friends first", "fox & friends first" continues right now, bye, bye. >> were in jail for murder, we have to consider them dangerous people. >> it's scary that you never know who is out there. >> makes you wonder how is it possible. jillian: monday november 4th, fox news alert, two murder suspects on the loose at this hour after a daring escape during routine inmate count. rob: manhunt that has upscale california community on alert. jillian: live in washington with the bombshell development that could make or break the left's case. controversy for the cleveland