bought this chandelier for a public park display. almost $5 million. interesting. jillian: news out of nato. office will have that right now. have a good day. steve: it is 6:00 in new york. it is 11:00 in the morning in london. we start with a fox news alert. moments ago president trump taking the annual class photo at the nato summit in the united kingdom. brian: posture perfect all around. right now the president inside with world leaders preparing for his one-on-one with german chancellor angela merkel. fox news chief correspondent roberts more from england on more on president trump's packed day. >> the president is in the main plenary session. later on today a lunch with a select group of nato countries. these are the so-called 2%ers as the president likes

to call them. other 8 nations besides the united states that are contributing 2% of their g.d.p. to military expenditures which puts them in line which what nato wants awful its members to spend by 2024. contrast that with other countries that the president will be having one on one meetings germany, denmark and italy. their contributions well bloat 2% mark and raises the contributions to nato will probably drive those discussions today particularly when the president meets with angela merkel the chancellor of germany. there are still some tensions in the nato ranks despite the fact that the 70th s anniversary is all supposed to be about unity. one of the highlights was yesterday when the president met with emmanuel macron come in. macron had said that nato is brain dead in large part because of things that president trump has been doing. that caused president trump to say that macron's

comments were very disrespectful. they were insulting. and then in a bilateral meeting yesterday afternoon with the two leaders, president trump brought out one of his pet peeves the fact that france and other european nations are refusing to repatriate isis fighters who are being detained in syria. watch this exchange. >> would you like some nice isis fighters? i could give them to you. you can take every one you want. >> foreign fighters coming from europe. we have in the region. i think number one priority is to get rid of isis. this is our number one priority. >> this is why he is a great politician. that was one of the greatest nonanswers i have ever heard. manchester krohn seemed to take that in good spirits. you can tell that there is a little bit of tension there in the bromance. the president also sent

stocks into the united states a nose dive yesterday when he announced that he is in no hurry to sign a trade deal with china and that the trade war could go on through 2020 and beyond the november election. asked yesterday afternoon if the president was concerned what his comments did to the stock market. he basically said nope. watch here. >> the stock market goes up and down. i don't watch the stock market. i watch jobs. jobs are what i watch. i watch making the proper deal. >> the president did say, how much, thahowever that the te continuing. in contact with the chinese jeyesterday and the day before. we should probably hear from president when he meets with angela merkel and then this afternoon he has got a press conference, which should probably be about 9:30 or so -- sorry, 10:30 or so u.s. time right after those

hearings begin in the judiciary committee. so, may have to have some split screen tv this morning. brian, ainsley, steve? brian: what macron brought up yesterday was interesting. he said what's the meigs is it just russia. are we going to fight against terror? what are we going to do with iran and iraq. what is the mission 70 years later? >> you know, that was one of the other points of big division between president trump and president macron. macron thinks they have to sort of reclarify what nato's mission is the in the says, president trump says that the nato mission is expanding and even now includes china. so, i imagine that that will be a big topic of discussion as well, too. we heard some opening statements in the plenary meeting. they are now in the closed session. so likely after that we'll hear some of what was talked about. steve: john roberts live in watt ford, england with the very latest where somebody is speaking behind him looks

like the bromance was dead between macron and the president. >> i was shocked. i thought that was yesterday when the president was talking about the secretary general about macron whether they sat next to each other the president didn't back down. steve: they were all caught on a hot mic gossipping about well it was 40 minutes late because he had a press conference, blah blah blah blah blah. brian: justin trudeau especially. open relationship actually if it is a clash could bring you closer. the fact they are being candid in front of us is new. the fact that they're usually candid behind closed doors is the old way. then you hear according to reports they clashed. and you wonder are those reports true? no, we watched. they clashed. it didn't seem acrimonious just seems there is disagreement. ainsley: they do have to agree on one thing. they are aligned with nato

and proud to be a part of that group. when you look at that class picture you realize the power. the power stopping on that stage on those steps. world leaders. that's what our president is doing right now. meanwhile in washington the democrats are so focused on impeachment. steve: that's right. macron one of the faces in the crowd right there as we saw yesterday. all those people here by the way nato brain dead and the president of the united states pushed back on that. maybe some problems with the bromance and what john roberts was talking about. ainsley: maybe all but one agree on the nato alliance. steve: jeer nadler of new york going to gavel things to order. essentially what happened yesterday on a party line vote of 13-9 the intel committee sent to the judiciary committee their router. now, it does say, okay, these rut articles of impeachment you need to draft. it's just here's the report. you figure it out. so, the first order of business is they are going to have four academics show

up. they have got three who are going to say yep, the president broke the law. he should be impeached. and then the guy far left jonathan turley is going to say hey, wait a minute. i would look for the republicans on the committee push back at noah and pamela and michael and ask them about things they have said in the past. ainsley: they have attacked the president in the past which seems bias. brian: noah feldman harvard. pamela car alan at stanford and michael gerhart. overstating and making it seem as fact what he believes is his opinion. it's overwomenning. it's obvious. it's beyond dispute. all those things are not true because we watched a lot of things were disputed over the course of hours and hours of testimony with everybody he marched out

there. there is not one person that he brought out that was not disputed and was not contradicted in front of our eyes. we don't need a broad sweeping summary of what adam schiff thinks. ainsley: what's interesting is the breakdown. look at the breakdown house numbers which ones are republican and which democrat. in the house 431 members. 233 democrats. 216 of those 233 have said yes, we want to vote for impeachment. we want to impeach. there are 15 of 31 democrats in trump districts who would have to vote to impeach and would they get reelected? steve: here's the thing. ultimately it comes down to the senate and the president feels that he has got the senate on his side. ainsley: one third is not on his side. steve: 67 senators to say yeah, he needs to beat it. meanwhile, here is adam schiff, audaciously he has said he has not made his mind up yet on impeachment despite spending months with

impeachment. >> i'm going to reserve any kind of a public judgment on that until i have a chance to consult with my colleagues, with our leadership. and i think this really needs to be a decision that we all makes a a body. so i'm going to continue to reserve judgment. brian: he is at a place that he probably on some level promised nancy pelosi he wouldn't be. not only is he at a place not convincing republicans. he is at a place now whereas you mentioned ainsley he can't even lock in all the democrats. this is going to be unprecedented in the history of impeachment in the history of our country for the president of the united states, when you brow brought up the name adam schiff he knew exactly how to label him. >> what do you want to learn from adam schiff. >> i learned nothing from adam schiff. i think he is a maniac. i think adam schiff is a deranged human being. i think he grew up with a complex for lots of reasons that are obvious.

i think he is a very sick man and he lies. adam schiff made up my conversation with the president of ukraine. >> he is not the only one that says that adam schiff lies. kevin mccarthy said that too he has a long history of not telling the truth. you heard that soundbite of him saying i haven't made up my mind yet. really? steve: reserving judgment. brian: here is kevin mccarthy. >> the president is overseas defending our country and they're back home dividing our country. that's what's wrong with this. that's why this put is being presidential. and they are doing exactly what they always said they would do. for adam schiff to sit there and lie once again this that press conference not knowing how is he going to vote. a couple weeks ago he was in california speaking to all the of the democrats we are going to send him back to the golden throne. this is all he has wanted to do. he will do anything to get it. steve: one of the things the republicans have said repeatedly is that clearly what the democrats are trying to do in the house is they are trying to overturn the will of the people

63 million americans voted for donald trump. and they are trying to overturn the popular will of the voters. that's what republicans are saying today. that, if you change the political party, is exactly what the chairman of the judiciary committee, jerry nadler, who has the gavel today, said back in 1989 about lil' clinton. brian: '98. ainsley: '98. steve: thank you. >> overturn the will of the voters. we must not overturn an president and re. except constitutional government and liberties against the dire threats. we must thought do so without overwhelming consensus of the american people there must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment supported by one of our major political parties and opposed by the other. brian: turns out that's exactly where we are at right now. jerry nadler came out. he is curing now. he says he is not going to take any bleep come gavel

time. ainsley: we just played you that soundbite. there has to be a dire threat. overwhelming consensus of the american people. brian: not yet. ainsley: must thought ever be a narrowly voted impeachment. steve: one of the things if you were watching bret baier show last night. kevin mccarthy had a big piece of poster board one of the things nancy pelosi said it had to be bipartisan. only thing bipartisan about it right now is the fact that it looks like there is going to be some democrats who vote with the republicans against it. brian: that will be embarrassing. ainsley: yesterday kamala harris pulls out of the race. brian: never seen somebody drop out of race and blame everybody but herself. great roll out and went off the cliff. you change with the winds. all about her. ainsley: top of the list. now they are starting to think about pulling out. steve: bloomberg is gaining he is at 6%. she is at 3% as she exits.

meantime we will exit the couch. jillian: good morning to you, following a number of stories. we begin with a fox news alert right now. a manhunt intensifies for two suspects accused of dragging two dayton, ohio police officers more than 50 yards with a stolen car. it happened just minutes after the same suspects tried to run over two other officers. >> the officers were clearly targeted. they had -- >> that you will violence and acts that's happening is just ridiculous. >> one officer is injured but should be okay. now, this two children are hurt after a wild car chase in philadelphia overnight. look at this. one car on top of another. officers tried to pull over that driver when he sped off and lost control. witnesses say the crash sounded like an explosion. after the one point someone threw a gun out of the car window. the driver of that car is in custody. scary scene there a middle school basketball player in

tennessee steps up to the mic when the national anthem wouldn't play. >> hos hosholy spirit ramparts we watched ♪ were so gallantly streaming ♪ ainsley: great voice. emily cozart played for the visiting team. she volunteered right away when the home team's coach asked if someone could sing. and that she can do. steve: she stepped up. terrific. thank you very much. brian: thanks, jillian, we owe you a favor. president trump valuable intel was found during the raid to get all baghdadi.

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war veteran michael waltz. lieutenant colonel, good morning to you. >> hey, good morning. steve: what sort of intel did the president reveal publicly? >> well, he revealed that we were able to pull off list of donors. isis donors objective on the all baghdadi raid. that's why it's important that we put troops actually on this objective versus say bombing it so we can pull off the intelligence and then we can follow on and attack the rest of their leadership and in this case follow the money and choke off the financing. steve: right. what do you make of the president, john roberts ran a little snippet of the exchange between our president and the president of france where president trump's asked mr. macron if he would like to take back some nice isis fighters. mr. macron explained the situation with isis but did not commit and then the president said well that's why he is such a good politician. that's a nonanswer. >> i'm glad he is holding macron accountable. we also need to hold the

british and the germans accountable. a number of these key isis fighters are european citizens that went to syria. they are key commanders and facilitators and fundraisers. and now it's basically on the united states and the kurds to detain these guys and the europeans need to step up, excuse me, and do their support. and the fact that they are essentially kind of slothing this off for america to deal with and our kurdish allies to deal with is unacceptable. steve: as the president indicated we have this intel now so we can do what we can do. in some cases, that is follow the money. they can figure out where the money is coming from. who the donors who isis are. >> that's right. yep, let me tell you, steve, these groups preach like pure jihadis, isis, taliban, they run themselves like the math i can't. i havmafia. black market oil.

counter cigarettes. stolen car rings. we know how to deal with that kind of mafia style financing. steve: while it seems as if the congress, house is paralyzed by impeachment. important pieces of else got to get done. that's funding the military. >> first time in 58 years we do not have a defense authorization. you will hear the term, steve, from the democrats called a continuing resolution that keeps the lights on but it doesn't allow the pentagon to buy anything new. no new investments in artificial intelligence no, new ships no, new planes. it's really devastating to our military and the men and women overseas right now deserve better. meanwhile the chinese aren't funding their military this way. they are tripling their funding. steve: chinese don't have impeachment going on. >> no they do not. president xi is not worried about it. steve: colonel, thanks so

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of his office, the power to convene a meeting in the oval office, the power to provide or withhold hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to an ally at war to get his political dirty work done. brian: that's his conclusion. what can we expect during the house judiciary committee first meeting and hearing today and what do you think about what his conclusions were in his report yesterday? joining us now is fox news legal analyst and author of the best selling book witch-hunt the story of the greatest mass delusion in american political history and now we will have to put a ukrainian chapter in there you saw adam schiff go out there and try to sway the jury, the american people and say it's uncontested his conclusion. is that true. >> no. it's not true. he said it was uncontested and overwhelming. if it were overwhelming, then all of america would agree that the president should be impeached. only half do. some polls show less than half. uncontested that's ludicrou

ludicrous. republicans wrote 110 pages in their report contesting it, not to mention the endless hours of cross-examination, contesting the knowledge and credibility of the various witnesses in schiff's hearing. >> the only thing new that i picked out of yesterday's was this communication between devin nunes and rudy giuliani and the white house. in what way, if any, is that problematic? >> we just don't know. we don't know the details. in fact, it's a call log. does that mean that devin nunes was actually on the call or somebody else? and we don't know the import of it. you know, frankly, i don't trust adam schiff. he has a long and distinguished track record of deception and lies. i lay it out in my book. he lied about the dossier. he lied about bruce ohr. he lied about evidence of collusion. and, of course, we saw him lie at the beginning, the first hearing in to impeachment in which he made up a narrative that didn't exist.

brian: this whistleblower. >> and he lied about the whistleblower, yes. ainsley: i want to talk about this about lisa page. as soon as she said i'm tired of being the victim. she came out and said i did nothing wrong. we are about to get the horowitz report next week. did she do anything wrong? >> she is trying to re-write history and portray herself as the victim when, in fact, she is the villain. nobody can read the enumerousable text messages. meaning it wasn't fair, it wasn't impartial and the inspector general said their bias was so severe it demonstrated a willingness to use their positions of power to influence an election. brian: if you are investigating me, should it bother me that you have called me awful, loathe some disaster fen idiot that you call me a menace?

>> yeah. brian: could you honestly say that and could i feel as though you don't have a bias against me. >> that tells the story. they should have been nowhere neither trump investigation. in fact they not only were the lead on that investigation. they led the investigation into hillary clinton clearing her months before they interviewed. they are talking about what a wonderful president she is going to make. that couldn't happen unless they had already decided to clear her before 17 witnesses and hillary clinton had even been interviewed. the fix was. in. brian: we're going to have you next week with the horowitz report if that's okay. talk to your people directly. >> i will give you my pocket square. brian: didn't do you that before. >> know gave you my ty and spilled coffee over it and never got it back. brian: i hope this is a new trend where gifts give me gifts. if i interview you later i expect something. >> i have new shoes you want

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jerry nadler. he will have the base of these hearings the 300 page report from adam schiff the intelligence committee chairman who found in his report that the president engaged in serious misconduct for putting his personal and political interests ahead of the nations and engaged in unprecedented obstruction. the report also including new phone records from the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani and a lot of the members on this committee will die obviously right into that. however, republicans are feeling confident as these hearings begin including from doug collins the ranking member on this committee. listen. >> adam has a hard time with the truth. and he still does not have anything overwhelming, compelling or bipartisan. >> where they don't have any facts they have yet to bring an impeachable offense. >> this will be the first impeachment ever in which the facts of the very impeachment are actually not just disputed but down right contradicted. they don't have the facts on their side. >> here's how it's going to go. they will gavel in at 10:00

a.m. and then they have a similar format. have the opening statements. the swearing in and then we will hear from four constitutional lawyers. three are democrat witnesses. one is a republican. and then we will hear from the members in all of their rounds. this is a larger committee. 41 members on this committee. 24 democrats. 17 republicans. many of them familiar faces you have seen on both sides. heavy critics of the president and staunch defenders of the president. the president overseas amidst nato meetings is paying attention. here's what he had to say. >> these are very unfair hearings. they get three constitutional lawyers. it's all nonsense. they are just wasting their time and we get one. griff: here is the importance of these hearings, this committee, judiciary will be the ones who will write articles of impeachment. and then it will go to the full hours. fox learned last night from sources in speaker pelosi's office that vote is not likely to happen before christmas. brian, ainsley and steve.

steve: great gift. let's go to sean spicer senior advisor america first action. ainsley: and a great dancer. steve: and a great dancer. ainsley: hey, sean, good to see you. >> thank you. good to see you guys. america got to watch the schiff show. and you look at the polls went south for the democrats in some measure. it did not look that fair. now that it proceeds to the judiciary that's filled with a bunch of brawlers. do we think it's going to be fairer? know, not at all it will continue to go down hill. the president said it yesterday a sham show. four experts pontificating. frankly i don't know what they have to offer. either impeachable offense or there isn't. what we saw in the intelligence committee there isn't. there is a lot of conjecture and speculation. heartache over what the president said and how he said it, at the end of the

day, there is still no impeachable offense. and so this is a political exercise that the democrats are going through. terms of the upcoming election. brian: sean, yesterday they had a six hour prep sex where they had people come in and play the role of jim jordan and doug collins. how do you prepare for two people to ask questions of somebody that's not there? what do they plan on -- are they trying to anticipate possible tactics of two people who want to ask contradictory questions? >> yeah. i mean, this goes back to this whole idea of it being a show. they recognize people like doug collins and jim jordan are going to come in swinging and cut holes through witnesses and challenge witnesses and make sure they think through all of that the last couple episodes at the plate of this show through the intelligence committee did not go well.

clearly, i think that nadler and company and probably directed by speaker pelosi are trying to recognize how do we if this is all a show, which it is, to get the american people to side with us. how do we try to blunt some of these arguments and criticisms that jordan and collins in particular are going to come with? ainsley: we hear a lot of criticism about -- i hear at least from conservatives that say we would love to see melania trump on the covers of magazines like vogue. instead the media is going the opposite direction. they are ruthless. melania trump's christmas decorations are lovely but that coat looks ridiculous. daily beast writes melania trump's joyless christmas decorations are back to haunt your nightmares. what do you make of this? >> i will tell you i tweeted this when i saw that a the white house looks spectacular as it always does. melania trump looks gorgeous as always.

ainsley: it's christmas. >> sad you have to defender this. it shows you the pettiness of "the washington post." but also the incorrectness of it. i look at that picture and i think she is absolutely stunning as she is every time you see her. and i think that's a pretty objection being bipartisan view. you can dislike the president or his policies but there is no question that the first lady is a stunning, stunning woman and fashionista to say the least. to say go after a coat seems so petty for "the washington post." brian: or the white house. what's wrong with the white lights? >> the article they say hey, we like the decorations. time and time again the last few years the christmas decorations have looked outstanding. she has taken the christmas decorations and chris party congressional picnic or easest egg roll or the halloween event they put on are spectacular and beautiful. and to show you are going to

pick on someone's coat wore showing off the decorations is beautiful and stunning shows you how petty and small "the washington post" has got. steve: it's sad. because you are right. the decorations are beautiful. sean spicer, thank you very much for joining us from your bunker there in the d.c. area. ainsley: thank you, sean. >> thanks, guys, appreciate it. steve: 19 minutes now before the top of the next hour. ainsley: jillian has headlines for us. >> good morning. we begin with this. devin nunes sues cnn for defamation. 435-million-dollar suit was filed after the network reported nunes met with a former ukraine be prosecutor in vienna to dig up dirt on the bidens. nunes telling fox news this. >> it's clear to me cnn has had an axe to grind always with smears. always with lies. always with fake news. it just happens that this time they went way overboard and i'm not going to take it anymore. jillian: cnn has not

commented. take a look at insane crash on a highway in california. of the top half of the car sheared off after a collision with a big rig in foggy weather. went another 200 feet after the crash before coming to a stop. amazesly and thankfully that driver walked away and wasn't seriously hurt. new york city is getting sued over its homeless relocation program. the city of newark, new jersey wants mayor de blasio to end the policy of moving homeless people to other cities and paying their rent for a full year. newark is concerned that those people are living in buildings with dangerous living conditions. including mold, lead paint and lack of heat. de blasio defended the program human need is -- grandpa gets iphone and immediately calls all of his friends with an adorable request. look at. this called me but i have in my contacts when they call me, i can just look at it and i see who it is. that's why i want you to

send me a selfie. jillian: he wants selfies from everyone. the man's grandson teaching him about the iphone after years of using a flip phone. he spent the whole day calling everyone he knows asking for selfies so he can add pictures to his con contact list. jillian: when the phone ring you can see who it is. steve: steve there is joe again. ainsley: my mom got rid of her flip phone recently too. brian: i know a lot of people going back to the flip felony. janice dean i flip out every time i have a chance to toss to her. janice: that's awesome. you are the best brian kilmeade. what's your name. >> nancy more ran. janice: have you been out here. >> since 4:30. janice: what are you doing here. >> we came to see you. janice: take a look at the maps. coastal storm out of here temperatures a little cold. potential for lake-effect snow great lakes and big old storm moving into the west coast. unfortunately heavy rainfall

and heavy snow for the california area into the four corners. and we have also got you guys from the philippines. say hi. >> hi. janice: and georgia. >> georgia. janice: already at 6:30 in the morning the love is here on "fox & friends." ♪ back inside steve, ainsley and brian. steve: good crowd. ainsley: they built an online empire and now the men who co-founded google are suddenly stepping down. steve: why? and who is taking whoever? charles payne on what the shakeup means for the tech world as you can see. king of pain coming up next ♪ ♪ want to brain better?

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adult of 21 and time to leave the roost. we have never been ones to hold on to management roles when we think there is a better way to run the company. alphabet and google no longer need two ceos and a president. that ceo they are referring to is google ceo sundar who will stay in his role and be promoted to ceo of alphabet. >> what does this all mean? i want to ask charles payne that what does it mean for the future of tech. he shows a show called making money on fox business. surprised by. this not totally sundar pay chai called other bets, the fun stuff. internet balloons, autonomous cards. tough stuff search cloud, hardware, all that stuff

sundar pichai has been in charge of. new challenges for this company no fun if you are a founder and tech geek. fighting governments over new regulations. fighting your employees who are trying to unionize or accusing you of discrimination. those kind of things they will don't want to deal with on a day-to-day basis. ainsley: i know you sat down with the vice president and talked about jobs and the economy. let's play a little clip of this. >> the president has also been willing to use the power of this economy and access to this economy and tariffs to referring changes in our trading relationship since okay withing for the american economy and as we go forward with negotiations the american people can be confident that this president is going to continue to be willing to access to this economy and use tariffs to put american jobs and american workers first. steve: the facts that our economy is boom something a chip to be played. >> it is a chip to be played. here is the interesting thing the way vice president pence put it, we should

consider it an honor for countries to be able to do business with us. a lot of financial experts have always considered it an honor to be able to use cheap labor from other countries. they are say no it's not a right. want to have relationships they must be fair. could terrorists become a permanent part of the trump economic agenda? not necessarily the amount that we have out now. keep in mind two, years ago when they said we are going to have experts. every economic expert you had on brought on smooth hawley. great depression. 16% to 25. g.d.p. 90 billion down to 57 billion. that's not happening in our country. it's not happening. so, i thought it was a good question to ask him. essentially what he is saying is that it's a tool but a tool they are not afraid to use. steve: charles, thank you very much. >> thank you very much appreciate it. brian: watch your show this afternoon. ainsley: senator kamala harris dropping out of the

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angle and over the last few days i have come to one of the hardest decisions of my life. so here's the deal, guys. my campaign for president simply does not have the financial resources to continue. and the financial resources we need to continue. i'm not a billionaire. i can't fund my own campaign. and as the campaign has gone on, it has become harder and harder to raise the money we need to compete. brian: instead of -- there she goes. another democratic super star predicted for great things bike beto o'rourke who doesn't even get to the iowa caucus. steve: super star. brian: cover of magazine. took texas. steve: he lost texas. brian: barely lost texas and oprah had the interview. ainsley: did well there. brian: he had $40 million to start. and he was out in the summer. kamala harris is out. but it's amazing. she is like indicating it's not her fault. steve: well, listen, she took off at her launch in oakland, she had 20,000

people in attendance. brian: great speech. steve: which was something. in one of the early debates she took a shot at joe biden for some 6 his criminal justice things in the senate. elizabeth warren who is still running put out a tweet. ainsley: she hates the billionaires. thank you kamala for commitment to fighting for people justice and holding donald trump accountable. kamala is right. our system is deeply broken when billionaires can buy their way. in i will fight with to you make sure our government works for all of us. brian: president of the united states says too bad we will miss you kamala. don't worry, mr. president, i will see you at your trial. retort. billionaires vs. everybody else on the democratic side. a lot of intramural fighting. steve: at the trial she is still a senator. she is not running but she would be there if there is a trial in the senate. brian: she has plenty of free time now. steve: president trump meeting with world leaders

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2% of their g.d.p. to military to fulfill their nato commitment. all nato nations are supposed to contribute 2% by the year 2024. germany, fen he will be meeting with angela merkel about 12:30. they commit less than 2% as done denmark and italy. yesterday in a meeting with the new canadian prime minister justin trudeau. president trump gently chided canada for spending less on military and commitment to nato. suggesting that he counts canada among the nato, quote, delinquent nations. listen here. >> delinquent i would say canada, they will be okay. i have confidence. just slightly delinquent. some are major delinquent. some are way below 1%. and that's unacceptable. and then if something

happens, we are supposed to protect them. >> the summit does mark the 70th anniversary of nato meant to highlight unity. much of the summit so far has been marked by division, in particular, between the united states and france. prior to the summit, emmanuel macron, the president of france, declared nato to be brain dead in part because of actions that president trump has taken. that prompted the president to fire back that macron was insulting to nato, very disrespectful. in their bilateral meeting yesterday afternoon though, the language was not so critical. but it is clear that significant differences remain over nato funding and what the nato mission should be. watch this back and forth. >> i do believe we need >> i appreciate your saying the united states for decades have been paying way, way disproportionately too much for nato.

we really have a different objective, i think right now. we are looking at a much bigger picture. really includes iran, too. >> and there is another dispute brewing between the united states and france and that is over france's new digital services tax. this past week just before actually that meeting the u.s. trade representative's office $2.5 billion in french goods that could be subject to tariffs. that includes french wine which is really hitting france where it counts. steve, ainsley, and brian, i don't know if the bromance is over between these two leaders but it does seem to be on rocky ground. steve: it's on life support. ainsley: what happened? is it syria? >> it's a lot of things a lot of it is macron's unpopularity in france. is he a little more popular than it was. france does not have a rich history of reelecting presidents.

he has been flexing his muscles showing the voting public that france is his own man. brian: tell me if this is correct. angela merkel is going to be leaving the scene. she was the basic leader of europe. and he wants to be the guy now. he wants to be the one in charge, correct? >> oh, yeah. definitely. that's one of the reasons why he talks about the fact that europe needs to take on more of its own responsibility in terms of defense and its future and protection. that's why he is floated the idea in addition to natos have a european joint military force. i think macron is really trying to position himself here as sort of the moral center of nato, at least the european part of it. and i think merkel is to some degree getting pushed to the sidelines. brian: i would love to see him show the same courage with the iranian protesters being shot in cold blood simply because they are without a job and don't want to pay double the price for gas. they are being shot in the street. but, instead, he is still

trying to kiss up to them for some strange reason and circumvent our sanctions. steve: the president is going to be meeting with merkel very shortly. >> i was going to say, you notice that the president yesterday had to issue a clarification. he was asked if the united states supports the iranian protesters. he said no. and then the next bilateral meeting came back and said we don't support them financially even though we would. but we certainly give them all the moral support that the united states can. steve: all right. john roberts, live in watford, england, where the president is in attendance. meanwhile, to john's point about the bromance could be on life support, there was a moment yesterday when the president of the united states and mr. macron were at each other, you know, regarding isis. the united states and france. not on the same page. and it was very clear by this exchange. >> would you like some nice isis fighters? i can give -- you can take

everyone you want. >> let's be serious. a very large number of fighters -- isis fighters coming from syria, iraq. your number one problem are not the foreign fighters. it's the isis fighters. and you have more and more of these fighters. >> this is why he is a great politician. that was one of the greatest nonanswers i have ever heard. and that's okay. brian: he went on to say was interesting. he says listen, turkey is the problem. i actually don't think they are breaking up with it. i think real friction among friends is okay. he said listen, my problem is with turkey turkey says okay. we have to agree where the terrorist is. why are you buying the f 400 system from russia. the reason there is a nato because of russia. number two you want us to declare isis a terror organization. it's fine. other organizations affiliated with isis you support. and number two is -- number three is you want us to declare the ypg a terrorist

organization. excuse me, they are part of the group that helped us destroy isis. we have to get together on this. he is exasperated we keep dancing around it. ainsley: if it comes to isis fighters and tariffs, the president seems if he goes and meets with worlds leaders he wants fairness. he doesn't want everything to be on america's back. that we pay the most money. we continuously hear that theme. why should we house their isis fighters? steve: the president doesn't want macron undercutting him which he has done in the past. michael waltz thinks that it's great that the president is calling out the french leader. watch this. >> i'm glad he is holding macron accountable. we also need to hold the british and the germans accountable. a number of these key isis fighters are european citizens that went to syria. their key commanders. their key facilitators and fundraisers. and now it's basically on the united states and the kurds to detain these guys. and the europeans need to step up and do their part. and the fact that they are essentially kind of slothing

this off for america to deal with and our kurdish allies to deal with is unacceptable. steve: we will see if the president makes himself available in the next hour as he moves onto the bilateral meeting with angela merkel. in the meantime let's talk domestic politics and impeachment. ainsley: what's the latest today? well, it's moving now from the house intel committee to the house judiciary committee. because yesterday's the house intel voted to adopt the impeachment report. it was -- steve: party line vote. ainsley: exactly democrat vs. republican. brian: his integrity being questioned on the left and right. that's why he didn't get these hearings to begin with sit there and get to the bottom of these things. if articles of impeachment are going to emerge it will be from this committee. first front and center three attorneys that believe the president has done things that rise to the impeachment level. noah feldman professor of law harvard. pamela karlan.

stan. michael gear hearted and co-director. ainsley: michael unc. brian: different ways. jonathan turley from washington university who is a democrat. he says there is some about the phone call and process i don't like. it's not impeachment level. and let's see how both sides question this. steve: see how the republicans question democrat witnesses on whether or not they have a bias to start with against the president of the united states. ainsley: 15 of the 31 democrats in trump territory to vote for impeachment. steve: so anyway. you know, one of the things that the republicans came out with after the 300 page blistering report by the democrats was the republicans had their own report. and essentially what they said was they did not make a case that this president should be impeached. watch. >> adam schiff has a long

history with a problem of telling the truth. adam schiff also has a long history to do anything above and beyond and even lie if it takes to impeach the president. >> even with every unfair advantage and unprecedented advantage they gave themselves, they now have come out of this and fundamentally failed to prove their case. >> the president will have a chance to actually be a part of this process and look at witnesses and question and this is where we are at now. the judicial committee only place to do it. steve: why didn't it start there? because adam schiff was tasked with trying to come up with some goods but the republicans say what goods? ainsley: 300 pages of their accusations, their definings and some of the key ones that they are accusing the president of. interfering with foreign government. pressuring ukraine. requested an investigation of the bidens, withholding aid. trying to conceal his conduct and the list goes on and on. brian: they say the president of the united states is trying to get another government to mettle in our elections like they

did before. if you listen to what the president said. if you understand what people are looking into, even if the worse scenario, is he looking at what ukraine did in 2016. he is talking to the new president to get to the bottom of it. it's not about mettling in the 2020 election. you can't have it both ways. you can't sit there and ridicule senator kennedy i want to find out what ukraine did in the election at the same time trying to find out what the president did 2020 election. adam schiff i wouldn't say is leg. he is overstating what he thinks are truths, which are very much disputed. and he is exaggerating. his first statement about the president's phone call was it lying? it was exaggerating to the point people are saying are you pretending as if that was verbatim? ainsley: it was jonna said think about this. when the hearings start this morning. when they're trying to impeach the president, the democrats, when the hearings start at 10:00. the president is going to to have a press conference. see the screen of what the democrats are doing trying to stop the president.

mean whul while our president is representing our country at the nato summit. steve: which will we take? stay tuned. >> maybe both. steve: hard to hear both. 7:11 here in new york city. jillian has headlines. jillian: two of the four teens who escaped from the juvenile detention center are captured overnight. wright and house found at an apartment complex outside of nash victim. surveillance video shows the teens and two others escaping through the front door of a detention facility on saturday. murder suspect morris marsh and armed robbery suspect brandon crowthers are still are on the run. crowthers is on tennessee's most wanted list. eddie johnson speaking out for the first time since being fired. johnson was ousted before his planned retirement. she says he lied about an incident in october. when he was found asleep in his car. in a statement, johnson says, quote: i did not intentionally mislead or deceive the mayor or the people of chicago.

i acknowledge that i made a poor decision and had a lapse of judgment. the "chicago sun times" reports johnson was caught on camera drinking for hours and kissing a subordinate who was recently promoted to his security detail. the ringleader of the college admission scam is now accused of trying to recruit coaches to help. stanford university says william rick singer approached seven of his coaches in an effort to participate in the scheme. only one agreed that coach has already pleaded guilty. singer pleaded guilty of taking bribes from parents to get their kids falsely admitted to schools as athletes. that's a look at your headlines. send it back to you. brian: this guy started the whole thing and blows the whole thing up. it was his idea. unbelievable. thanks, jillian. steve: the army is ordering a bible verses on dog

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for the past 20 years military members have been able to wear dog tags with bible verses on them. that could all be coming to an send after receiving a

complaint from the religions foundation told shields of strength they can no longer put bible verses on army products. now shields of strength is fighting back calling on the army to reinstate their trademark license. joining us now to talk about this is kenny vaughn the founder of shields of strength along with mike berry the chief of staff and director of military affairs for first liberty institute and a marine corps veteran also representing kenny. thank you, guys, for being with us. >> thank you for having us. >> thank you. ainsley: kenny, tell us what happened. >> well, we have been making 20 years. really embraced by the military. they reached out to us initially. and i'm speechless. i don't even know what to say happened. except that a complaint was made and we were told that we can no longer do it. ainsley: mike, this is voluntary. people in the military can choose to put this bible verse on. no one is being forced to do it. >> that's right.

you know, absolutely outrageous that all because of an activist group complaint the army has told shields of strength they can't put inspirational, motivational and encouraging scripture verses or even just bible references on these dog tags and you are exactly right, ainsley. nobody -- if they want to have one, they should be able to have one. nobody who puts their life on the line defending our freedoms should not be able to enjoy those freedoms themselves and yet that's what we see happening here. i should add, all because of a complaint and in the emails the army sent to kenny, they said it was because of the negative press that they received that they were doing this to him. ainsley: kenny, isn't it ironic, the military, you learn to fight for our country. why isn't the military fighting back on this and saying it's coal tear. people can put bible verses and put whatever they want on their dog tags, right? >> yeah. i think they will. you know. the military has fought for

me and family entire lives. love does what's best for others without regard for itself. that's what they have done. the love of jesus changed my life forever. it's the most valuable thing i have to offer anyone is god's word. no one needs it more than a young man or woman fighting for our freedom. so we are going to fight for them. i don't know what's going to happen. but, we're not going to stop. ainsley: mike, i want you to respond to this. this is what the military religious foundation this was their statement they put out. such craven utilization of military logos and related symbology bisek tarren christian group sos not only viciously violates well established dod regularly. constitutionally mandated separation of church and state as directed by the first amendment and the bill of rights and its legion of supporting federal case law. what do you think will happen. >> first of all, they are wrong. they don't know the law.

they clearly haven't looked at the constitution for a while. perhaps they ought to take it out and dust it off and read it. they are cowardly. these are men and women who we have method. kenny and i have met veterans and gold star family members who have lost loved ones and for many of them, the shield of strength is one of the last personal effects or personal items that was recovered from the body of somebody who was killed in action. and it's returned to their loved ones. and that's all they have to remember them by. at least in terms of their military service. and to deny family members and loved ones, the ability to have that, you know, in the future, that's outrageous. it's cowardly, and it's just flat out wrong. that's not what america is built on or stands for. so, first liberty institute. we are saying we will not stop fighting for kenny and shield of strength until the army and the other branches of the military, you know, stop capitulating to bullies. ainsley: we thank god for organizations like yours. we wish you all the best.

please keep us posted. thank you our religious freedoms are at risk and very important. >> thank you. ainsley: first they went after her christmas deck core rargses and now the media slamming first lady melania trump for her clothing. rachel campos-duffy says the media would never do that (contemplative synth music)

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steve: as you can see time for news by the numbers on this wednesday. first 750,000. that's how many people who could lose food stamps under a new plan expected to be announced by the trump administration later on today. new regs would make it harder for states to get waivers that provide benefits to able-boyd deed peopl-bodiedpeople who don't wo. >> background checks been conducted this year. the fbi running over 200,000 checks on black friday alone. they are now on pace to break a record of the 27.5 million made in the year 2016. finally 1. the first christmas card ever is now on display, that is it apparently. the card was printed in 1843. that's the same year the classic book a christmas carol was published. it is on display at the charles dickens museum in london until this spring

that is some of your news by the numbers. >> after bashing melania trump's white house decorations last year. "the washington post" is now attacking the first lady's outfit this year. steve: after briefly approving of this year's decorations, the paper's fashion critic called melania's coat ridiculous saying it was a distraction and discomforting afox news decdiscomfortingaffectation. taken into a ludicrous extreme. joining us is rachel campos-duffy. >> good morning. ainsley: you have these beautiful children and when you go through -- when you are buying your groceries at the grocery store, you are at a drugstore you see all these magazines. remember years ago michelle obama was on all of them all the time. >> she still is. ainsley: still is. they are not putting melania on basically any of the magazines. headlines making fun of her wardrobe? >> yeah. it's ridiculous.

look at the picture. she looks stunning. she is wearing this winter white coat. she is sachetting through the white house. she has her own style that's different than michelle obama's. but it's elegant. she is an international fashion model. as you say they never put her on the cover. the things that they said in this article. this is a fashion critic robin givens from "the washington post. they call the ridiculous. they called her aloof and the jacket over the shoulder was cliche. if these things were ever uttered about michelle obama, that fashion critic would be called racist. it is an unfair treatment. and it is sad because we all know that we see. she is a fashion icon on par with jackie o. with grace kelly. and what this tells me is that robin givens from "the washington post, the fashion critic is a terrible fashion critic. she is putting politics before fashion. a good fashion critic lives, breathes fashion. and there is no question that melania is one of the most fashionable first ladies we have ever had.

and i want to make one other point because i think it's interesting. melania is part of the most exclusive club in the world. there is only five members. it's the first lady's club. and i think that she has been subjected to such cruel treatment, really unfair treatment. the other first ladies have been i have silent on that. and i think it's about time that michelle obama, hillary, mrs. carter. steve: laura bush. >> step forward and show some solidarity with their fellow sister first lady. because, that would go far, i think, in quieting some of the unfair treatment. they are clearly going after melania because they hate donald trump. it's silly. steve: i don't remember particularly great coverage of laura bush when she was in the white house. but, it's just one of those things. you know, the mainstream media for the most part, you know, they don't really like president trump and it's a package deal. you don't like him, you don't like her. >> right.

but, laura bush, you know, wonderful lady. she wasn't a fashion icon. melania trump is like we can see her -- we see that coat. we see every outfit she -- her style is impeccable. she has made very few missteps. probably less than any other first lady going back all the way to jacque o. how can fashion critics not celebrate melania's fashion? how can the fashion world not put this woman on the cover when she was an international model and she clearly has this really iconic style that every woman. i don't know anyone who saw the picture of her walking through the white house and thought wow, that looks ridiculous. every woman saw that and saw she looks amazing, wish i could afford that coat. that's what women think. that fashion critic is out of step with fashion. ainsley: you are exactly right. that's what we all think. she wore this beautiful coat last year when the tree arrived at the white house. and everyone i was with we

all -- all the women were like gorgeous beautiful, a cape. i looked it up. it was outrageously expensive. i shut down the site. i was not buying that that is what we think. gosh, i wish i could afford that she looks stunning. not to mention rachel she speaks five languages. it's the american dream. not from this country and now she is our first lady. steve: thank you for pointing out the double standard. >> absolutely. steve: 7:31 here in new york city. it's 12:31 in england. we are awaiting president trump's meeting with angela merkel. going to happen in a couple minutes. we will take you there live on the other side of a break. where we all want more energy. but with less carbon footprint. can we have both? at bp, we're working every day to make energy that's cleaner and better. and we see possibilities everywhere.

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now he is out in the hall. griff, 10:00 this morning, jerry nadler brings the hammer down. griff: that's right. steve, ainsley good morning, it's the jerry nadler show for sure they just received the house committee 300 page report found the president engaged in serious misconduct. unprecedented obstruction. included new phone records from the president wants personal foreign rudy giuliani. after there was a vote in the committee last night on it. chairman schiff had this to say. >> the president of the united states solicited foreign issues feerns in our election and used the power of his office to get his political dirty work done. griff: here's what we are going to get. today at 10:00 a.m. they will gavel in. ranking member doug collins. they will first get the opening statements from four legal scholars. constitutional experts weighing the merits of whether or not what this report contains rises to the level of high scrim crimes and

misdemeanors. 44 members. 24 democrats. 17 republicans. one of those republicans congressman matt gaetz we caught up to a few minutes ago. and he believes they're not getting a fair shake on this committee. listen. >> we have not been given a fair opportunity to call our own witnesses. we would actually like to bring in fact witnesses. hunter biden, the whistleblower, we haven't been given that chance because democrats want to deny us the opportunity to demonstrate to the american people how legitimate president trump's concerns were. >> now, this second phase matters because the judiciary committee would write the articles of impeachment. that's what many of members, particularly the democrats will be givenning to today. whether or not that goes to the house for a full vote. speaker pelosi's office tells fox news guys that vote is probably not going to happen on articles of impeachment. have to wait and find out. brian, ainsley and steve? brian: griff, we don't know what's fedex, right, after today? >> we don't know what comes next. we presume, brian, that the

committee would then begin listening to, from what they heard, draft articles of impeachment, which may be abuse of power, obstruction, or something otherwise. and we don't know whether or not any more witnesses could be called as congressman gaetz pointed out he would like to hear from fact witnesses. steve: no kidding. griff, thank you very much. let's bring in brett tollman former federal prosecutor and u.s. attorney for utah. he has been weighing in on the impeachment so far. bret, good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: you know, as it left the intel committee down the hall for the judiciary committee. got very personal. because as we learned yesterday, adam schiff actually investigated the ranking member nunes and his staff, so ah-ha no wonder these guys are on the president's side. >> you can't believe what's going on. except for the fact that it's congress, right? and they are reiterating what we have always felt. this is a bit of a circus. and i would be mortified, having worked in the senate

to hear one side or the other having investigated the ranking minority. steve: unbelievable. >> of a committee. it is unconscionable. representative nunes has every reason to be furious about it. brian: i look at every one of these as a nonlawyer. there is a challenge to every one of these major points. boil down the 300 pages. every one of them they act as if they are absolutes. we watched them be challenged over the course of two weeks. they are not absolutes. so why are they -- why are they doing it like a press release and not like a legal document? >> well, you know, my father used to say if you put whipped cream on horse manure it's still horse manure. i think that's what you have got here. you have to spin the underlying facts. and that should concern us. ainsley: nancy pelosi in march said we are not going to do impeachment unless we had bipartisan support. they don't have imirp support and she is still

pushing it. jerry nadler in 1998 we have a video clip of him speaking out against impeachment. listen to. this the affect of impeachment is to overturn the popular will of the voters. we must not overturn an election and remove a president from office except to defend our system of government or our constitutional liberties against the dire threat. and we must not do so without overwhelming consensus of the american people. there must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment supported by one of our major political parties and opposed by the other. ainsley: did you hear that bret? he says there needs to be overwhelming consensus. there must never be a narrowly voted impeachment. your reaction? >> think about this ironically given what he said. ranking minority leader doug collins, i have a tremendous amount of respect for him. he is not a partisan hack. he has worked across the aisle. on november 12th, 14th, 18th, 21st, and 30th, he

sent letters to the chairman, chairman nadler and said can we have a process where we get the evidence that the intel committee gathered, the text messages, the emails, the transcripts, the complete transcripts before we go forward? does the american people think that's an unreasonable request? steve: no. >> and, yet, here we are. and coming from someone who just, you know, previously has lectured the american people about the danger of using impeachment to attack an election. brian: here is the embarrassing thing. they are supposed to be getting republican support. up stead they are trying to maintain democratic support. that shows the case that was present to the american people. and the polls are going in the wrong direction. >> that's right. you have one witness for the republicans. that should say everything you need to know. steve: okay. brett tollman, who ruined whipped cream for me. brian: i can't get that image out. [laughter]

steve: thank you for joining us live. 20 minutes now before the top of the hour. ainsley: hey, jillian. she has headlines for us. jillian: that's right. good morning. a man under arrest after sneaking into the cargo hold of a jetblue plane. he bypassed security of boston's logan airport and got through the tarmac through an emergency door and hopped inside the plane. ground crews quickly pulled him out before he was taken into custody by state troopers. he was singing, yelling and threatening them. the man will undergo a psychiatric evaluation. a new tool to crack down on ms-13 violence. the fbi launching a tip line for people to report gang activity anonymously and securely. it's a national service. it was announced in maryland where there has been a recent spike in ms-13 violence. the tip line number is 1866 stp-ms 13. available in english and spanish. ms-13 targets teens:

justice of the peace diane henslee believes she is entitled to a religious exemption for her christian faith. the state's watchdog for judge says she is violating judicial conduct and casting doubt on her impartiality. judges are not required to perform weddings. she has 30 days to appeal the sanction. a look at your headlines. send it back to you. steve: thank you very much, jillian. we are still waiting. the president and angela merkel very short lay bilateral. in the meantime, time for some weather. ainsley: janice dean on fox square hey, j.d. janice: we are looking at cookies. going to talk about that in a second. do you guys love cookies? [cheers] janice: look at the weather and then cookies. cold enough for snow across the great lakes. things are calmer than they were the last 48 hours here in the northeast. that nor'easter is gone. next storm system moves into california bringing the potential for heavy rain along the coast and some mountain snow for the southwest. and my friends, it is national cookie day today.

my favorite holiday. so, we brought in insomnia cookies and schmakary's. what's your favorite. >> chocolate chip. janice: you? >> chocolate chip. >> gum drop cookies. janice: give out all of these cookies to you who came to "fox & friends" today. i will save some of you as well. this one has my name on it. ainsley: what's your favorite, janice? janice: everything. steve: thank you, j.d. brian: look forward to talking to janice again soon. elizabeth warren and bernie sanders have a problem with mike bloomberg. >> we do not believe that billionaires have the right to buy elections. >> he doesn't need people. he only needs bags and bags of money. ♪ steve: would bloomberg buy the election? bill mcgurn has thought about it. his answer next. ♪ i wannabe rich

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united comes into this. >> right. right. what i'm saying citizens united basically ruled that political spending is political speech. so if you suppress the former, you are going to get less of the latter, right? it's a great ruling. a big victory for the first amendment. democrats have treated this as though we put american democracy up on the chopping block. so i think if if fike bloomberg and tom steyer puts up lots of spending money you can't buy an election. he is the ninth richest person. steve: if they lose. brian: if they spend and win. >> i think mayor bloomberg would have a -- ainsley: can you buy all the commercials you want. if you are not up there on the debate stage especially as the race gets closer and closer to the election. people need to know what he stands for. >> going to let people know. brian: steyer got on the stage. >> let people know what he stands for. larger point you are making money is an advantage.

only one advantage. your charisma, your positions. there is a lot of other advantage. brian: beto o'rourke had $40 million. >> got 80 million, i think. set a senate record. it was twice as much as ted cruz. and he didn't win. steve: you write that bloomberg could be a spoiler for joe biden. >> right. steve: but, at the same time, he might be able to spend enough money and still lose but people would find out about elizabeth warren's policies and go oh, come on. we can't elect her. >> he is likely to be the chris christie of the democrats. not win himself but use his resources to take out someone else. it depends on where he focuses his fire. some people think he will take votes from joe biden. people say joe can't win. maybe the moderate votes switch to bloomberg. some people think elizabeth warren too far out on the spending and the taxing. and could take her out. so we don't know. but either way -- he can stay in. he does have the money. he could stay in and make

his point. again, a back handed tribute to citizens united that political spend something speech. brian: other thing to keep in mind too. find out if you really need to win iowa and new hampshire. because is he not even competing there. he was in mississippi yesterday. >> it's a risk. maybe he can do it but no one else has. right? brian: right. steve: all right, bill mcgurn, thank you so much. brian: you look so comfortable on the couch, doesn't he? brian: he does. >> my 61st birthday today. brian: happy birthday. brian: janice what did you get him? steve: he needs a birthday cookie. ainsley: we are so glad you were born. >> thank you. brian: with that happy birthday, bill and now. this senator kamala harris throwing in the towel on her campaign not before a last parting shot at president trump and 2020 democratic field. ainsley: carley shimkus is on deck with that. brian: say happy.

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senator kamala harris of california ended yesterday her 2020 race. trading jabs with the president who first tweeted too bad. we will miss you, kamala. ainsley: then she fired back: don't worry, mr. president. i will see you at your trial. brian: here with reaction lighting up social media. fox news headlines reporter 24/7 carley shimkus. that was a huge crowd. she says hi to everyone. oh my goodness, she is going to be formidable. and then what? >> she announced her campaign on martin luther king day with 20,000 people. comparing comparisons with barack obama. her campaign did not trans late as we saw with the poll numbers. it was all down hill from there. steve: she got a lot of traction when she hit joe biden over busing. >> that's right. but then tulsi gabbard hit her on marijuana and her being a prosecutor and she never really was able to recover. or really get her message across. what was her campaign really about? it was a huge surprise. despite all of the nato news, all the impeachment news. she was the top trending

topic on twitter. ainsley: what are people saying. >> all throughout yesterday. some conservative conservativesl media thank you, next. >> she is known she has had nothing on president trump or she wouldn't have dropped out of the race. brian: probably a nickname. >> bye-bye kamala. justice kavanaugh has consequences. edward on facebook says i take my hat off to her. she had the strength to look at the numbers and step aside. that's exactly what happened. she said she had to raise $5 million in two weeks and she said that was just impossible. brian: someone blew her up who used to work on her campaign, most negative campaign ever that was last week. steve: talked to 50 of her staff members and they all said we are in disarray. >> when there is no staff support where do you go from there. steve: so she is out. thank you. >> thank you. steve: fox news alert. we are awaiting president trump's meeting with germany's angela merkel. should happen in a couple of minutes. take you live to england

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>> straight to a fox news alert president trump will meet one-on-one with german chancellor angela merkel any minute now. in england right now the president is inside a meeting with world leaders at a may toe summit and dare i say running a little late. >> that's right supposed to meet at 7:30 eastern time it 8:00 hee on east coast now so running -- fox news chief white house correspondent john roberts live there in england with more on the packed day. john what are we expecting him to meet with her? every time you get leaders together they run behind schedule and no question he'll be meeting with german chancellor it should be happening shortly one of the big topics of discussion between two leaders is going to be when germany plans to bump up its defense spending to 2% of its gross domesticking product it is now sitting at about 1.3%. not fast enough for the

president. desire and wish, and after that meeting, the president will be holding a lunch with the special members of nato what e he calls the 2% club and those dark countries that have met 2% defense spending commitment to be members of nato including the united states, that it also includes bulgaria britain, romania, lithuania and poland now yesterday there were tensions at the conference between the president and french president macron after he declared nato was brain dead in part because of things that president trump was doing and fired back that they were insulting and disrespectful another point of contention between two leaders france reluctance to repatriate isis fighters from france who were being detained in syria. listen to this exchange. >> would you like some nice isis fighters? >> i can give them -- you can take every one you want.

coming from europe -- all of them that we have in the region and i think number one priority because it is not just finish but to get rid of isis and group. this is our number one priority. this is why he's a great politician because that was one of the greatst nonanswers i've ever heard. >> and there is a video that is going viral today that is from buckingham palace last night a reception that includes boris johnson u.k. prime minister and justin trudeau talking about the press availabilities that the president had yesterday between three bilateral meetings include macron and trudeau the the president fielded question for more than two hours and now play a snip it that starts with boris johnson asking macron is if is why he was had late. let's watch here.

that was last night at buckingham palace we're told this morning that when he entered into the nato meeting hall the president came up to justin trudeau shoot hands had a quick word with him. we have checked with white house officials, they do not know if the video is discussed or not but we hope to find out soon. brian, steve. >> i don't think that two of them had a good day yesterday between the gossipping about why he was late and nato is brain dead and no isis fighters. not good for the bromance, john. you know? these guys were really close couple of years ago but i think you know macron has domestic issue he needs to tend to not only in france but more broadly europe, and i think he's trying to show his independence from president trump. but you know -- nice when they were getting

along. >> you brought up a good point i think it was an hour or two ago when you were on the show and viewers are seeing double bot and you said in one box the president with a press kfns after he meeting with the danish prime minister and in other box it is going to be the democrats try to impeach him. >> true. that will be going on all day today. you know, that kfns what time over there. may toe conference wraps up in two hours or so and president is heading straight back to united states said he's not going to watch the the hearings but it doesn't start until 10:00 this evening and expected for a number of hour and you know how president likeses to watch television on i was a one. not much for the morning show with fox news in the afternoon. hey just a quick -- fox news and we'll be carrying that hearing. >> other good points beside an hour ago i want to say he said you made one good -- >> the rare occurrence. but i have stat for you. they say our brain room say this

is been 1910 and over 4,000 foreign nationals in prison. so a lot of them from europe. so the president should say yeah the problem is you won't let empty the the prison and we're paying for the prisons. in syria -- so saying you want it to stay there forever and take your people back. >> oh, i think, i think he made that point to him yesterday that back and forth during that lengthy pool spray was quite extraordinary and got into it when cameras were turned off as well but you mention number of isis fighters from france detained in syria and macron sayses small percentage. >> but good job john. 2,000 the number it wasn't a french accept or trying to do a french accent. all right john thank you very much. meanwhile to ainsley point you'll see split screen because

the house impeach m effort enters phase two yesterday the intel committee sent their report on to judiciary. we know the four witnesses. we know three of them think the president should be impeached jonathon turley who is -- screen write will be appear per the republicans and some of his comments, his opening statements released to press via house judiciary republican. >> weal tell you about other witness there's no -- he was a professor at harvard. pamela and stanford law and michael unc law, nose are the three on the right. and they have made comment either that they thought it was quid pro quo or they were writing letters and letters before the president was even in office in 2017. >> going to be interesting because packing them . i don't know much about other three but we know jonathon turley as well a good

communicate and ready for cross-examination because he's had train on television for three career and i don't know about other three but going against republicans are lawyer and they know exactly the problemses with the case. and they're going to be -- these going to make their open sames after that it is unscripted so this might not be as boring as everyone think. >> i bet it is going to be a little bit on boring side not professional communicator as mr. turley is. part of his statement which has been released as i mentioned a molt ago by the house republican in the judiciary committee he talks a little bit about clinton impeachment back in the day. and he's going to say you'll see him live right here on the channel he's going to say 21 year ago here before you to testify on the history and meaning of the constitutional impeachment standard as part of the impeachment of william jefferson clinton i never thought i would have to per a second time to address the same question with regard to another sitting president yet here we are. some elements are strikingly

similar, the intense ranker and rage of the public debate is the same. the stifling intolerance for opposing views is the same as well. he will say -- >> so if you want to watch today it starts at in the house weigh and means committee room jerry knadler will give a opening statement ranking member for democrats and then -- doug collins republican from georgia ranking member of the republican party in that committee will give his opening sames then they swear these guys in. those four witnesses and then they start their question. >> they'll make their statements. make their statements and then questioning begins. >> and they'll meanwhile jonathon turley had more to read to you from his open statement he said one can oppose trump policy or actions but still conclude that the current legal case for impeachment is not just woefully inadequate but in some respect dangerous as basis for impeachment l of an american president. now if the house proceeds solely on ukrainian ails this impeachment would stand out among moderate impeachment as shortest proceeding to finish

evidentiary record and now risk every use to impeach a presidents on top of that what are main differences in 8 bill clinton admit what had he did said he was wrong, the the debate was was it impeachable? president of the united states is my call was perfect republican say i have no problem -- the president of ukraine says no quid pro quo, foreign minister says that so there's huge problem in the case let alone does rise to impeach m. they don't agree even on the merits of the case. >> but we saw witnesses and not one witness who appeared before the intel committee said they clearly saw quid pro quo with their own two eye. maybe that's why adam schiff who was running this whole operate schiff show hasn't made up his had mind yet do you believe this? watch. >> i'm going to reserve any kind of a public judgment on that will until i have a chance to consult with any colleagues with our leadership, and i think this

really needs to be a decision that we all make as a body. so i'm going to helicopter to reserve judgment. >> believe that? supposed to judiciary commitment but interesting and only new that came out is what was rereleased yesterday to subpoena verizon and a tennessee to see who was had talking to each other but don't know what they were say. >> action proved something different from what he's saying he hasn't made up his mind. president firing back. watch this. >> do do you want to learn? >>ing nothing -- i think he's a maniac. i think adam schiff is e deranged human being grew up with a reason that are obvious -- and i think he's a very sick man and he lies. adam schiff made up my conversation with the president of ukraine. but adam schiff was last week, and now we've got jerry knadler versus doug collins who says

democrats have not made their case. watch. found out very definition of malarkey he's throwing everything out there now because they have nothing on this president. they just continue to go on. he's basically admitting now well we have our best case. we have it behind closed doors and then public hearings we put our report out that only deals one side does not give any evidence at all and when you look at that now they're saying well this doesn't work we'll go at it again they're better than a engine that could and problem this started on a cold brooklyn night back on november 2016 and they cannot e let it go until frankly reelect president trump next november that's all they're doing here. the people today should see right through adam schiff. >> ands no only republicans not run for impeach m but spent money in battle ground states bringing up impeachment selling t-shirts that says where's hunter and the ship show, so they like are selling things make money off this that's how

they believe it is. >> there are 15 of the 31 democrats in trump district have to vote to impeach hill and they risk losing their election if they do that. >> it all starts special coverage in let's see 48 minutes in the mean team 12 minutes after the top julianne has news. >> good morning we begin with a fox news alert a man hunt intensifies for two suspects accused of dragging two dayton ohio police officers more than 50 yards with a stolen car. it happened just minutes after a the same suspect fried to up run over two other officers. >> targeted just -- they have nothing in the vehicle. and this abouting just happening just ridiculous. one officer injured but should be okay. also breaking right now the most notorious drug king pen in dominican republic under arrest. man known as caesar abuser is accuse of running a drug operation through columbia venezuela dominican republic and

u.s. and extradited to florida and he was rumored to be involved with shooting of former boston red sox star david ortiz he was mistakingly shot in a botched hit shot. as you know at this point kamala harris dropped out of the 20 20 race but how about this? one of now opponents quick to blame the media. the way that media treated and in this campaign has been something else and i think held her to a different standard grossly unfair, and unfortunate -- harris ending her campaign a amid fund raising woe and low poll numbers and brian trending on that. [laughter] >> it was all her doing it was her campaign strategy and lack therefore couldn't raise money what double standard? >> i know. all right -- i don't get it. thank you very much. we're being told there's action going oned a nato summit. we're wait on president to spook with angela america pl they're

supposed to meet this morning then he has a working lunch to meet with the the prime minister of denmark and then prime minister of italy and then a press conference and he land here at the white house at 8:40 p.m. tonight. >> right. all right. we understand they have just sat down if we could pick the live image we'll know what we're talking as soon as they turn on microphones we would like to be able to hear what the president can finally do. to discuss the alert you can see this president there's angela merkel turn up the microphone see if there's talking. >> kind of kind of interesting just like emmanuel macron she speaks english so hopefully she knows that we're doing this on our morning show. and she is will choose to speak english. yesterday was channel with the transhaitian. >> there will be a translator and we're waiting on audio. >> yep. sorry -- that we do not hear the president. they have the goen along better

and they understand each other a little bit better. then when they oacial came off one thing with problem with yerm is don't pay 2% of the gdp and doesn't -- go around the iranian. thank you very much. we have good talks already -- i can agree we have a successful meeting indeed on this occasion the 70 anniversary of nato and discuss number of strategy that are important to secure the future of this alliance and it was a debate that we have and this is why i also intensifies -- >> now that we shall talk about financial issues.

>> that's right. okay thank you very much, everybody. thank you. >> mr. president -- mr. president -- >> meeting we have a meeting with -- >>did you discuss i discuss with him everything. we discussed a lot. we had a meeting unscheduled. but we already put out a notice it was a very good meeting i think -- you discuss -- we discussed numerous things and getting along very well the border and state zone is working out very well. and i give a lot of credit to turkey for that. he -- the cease-fire is holding very much so and i think people are surprised and maybe someday they'll give me credit but probably not. but that worked out well and trying to do this for 100 years. that border is a mess for long time we pulled it out and took over the oil. we have soldiers where the oil is -- that's the way i like it and

they can police their own border. and that's what they're doing they can use other countries if they want if they want to spend time and energy they can do it but this is a border under siege for many, many decades, time for us to leave and we left, and it's been holding very nicely so we're very happy we talked about that. >> committed to protecting nato commitment pertaining to poland. >>yeah they've been very good. i think frankly a lot of people pay great respect to tucky for work that they've done. and we had a number mentions where they were mentioned specific isly no they've been doing their good job and doing a good job on border and safe zone and they have held, i mean, obviously, there was some squirmishes around for a long time but cease-fire is now very, very well. >> mr. president did you explain why to talk about that office? >> i really don't know you have to ask him sound like something

that is not so complicated. right they have to ask him no big deal. >> mr. president germany has lost -- making it 9 country now that are circumventing have you talked about that with the chancellor? >> no we haven't but we will. i'm not going say but we'll be talking about a number of things we'll have a good meeting. say it again -- >> sanction on north korea too? >> we haven't really determined that yet. i do think it is a problem. but it is a problem that yerm is going to have to work out for themselves maybe for germany won't be a problem. i hope it's not actually. but we'll be talking about that. >> particularly to president putin on moratorium from medium range midnight --

we're talking to russia about many things including a nuclear and nuclear creation. it's in my opinion the biggest about problem in the world has today. i think it is bigger than any other problem the the has tad and we're working hard and he wants to see thing happen and so does china and so do i. >> do you talk about -- we're talking about everything. yeah. trod is very important where yerm is great trading partner, but it has been really the european union and we've been discussing it for quite a while and we've had a very bad imbalance for many, many year for decades actually, and we're discussing that right now. so i think we'll come -- going to come -- i think we'll come to --

>> i think that's there's a new commissioner and also believe a new president of european commission now basis to resume. >> meeting have been set up and we'll talk and i believe that it will work out very well for everybody. and i think it should. we have some very tough barriers to get over. they have created barriers as angela knows very well and makes it very hard for the united states really to -- to openly trade. and that can't be done so we're going to be talking about that and other thing. i think we will solve it. we do a lot of business but they do much more business than us, and we're going make and change it -- i've been saying this for last

six months for the last year, and we've made progress. but we will make a lot of progress, and we just want fairness. we have to have fairness in trade. not only l with the e.u. but with with many other countries. they're talking to china as you know those discussions are going very well. and we'll see what happens. but we're talking to china we're talking to others we made deal with south korea and with japan. that japan deal is a partial deal rest will come next career. but we've made already many deals we're looking to big deal is the u.s. mca with canada, mexico. and nancy pelosi has to get that proofed it out for a vote and talk to anybody she doesn't have to talk to any of her democrats because they'll prove it and they wanted to prove very badly so that's where we are. we've made a lot of deals. and this is a deal i think that's going to be about -- the e.u. is actually one the of the more difficult deal we have and for a long time unchecked.

but it will get there. i'm sure. >> if you have a deal prime minister -- >> well he's too fast. >> do you think that germany is -- >> honestly he's a nice guy i finessed him to be a nice guy but truth i called him out that he's not paying 2% and i guess he's not ep happy it be and not paying 2% but they should be paying 2% so i called him out on that and i'm sure he wasn't happy about about it. but that's the way it is. i'm representing the u.s., and he should be paying more than he's paying and he understands that. so i can imagine he's not that happy but that's the way it is. mr. president where are you in term of leading other allies in terms of allowing china -- [inaudible conversations]

i'm not working hard on that but i spoke to italy and they're not going forward with that. we spoke to other countries that are not going forward. everybody i've spoken to is not going forward. but how many countries could i speak to and call up and speak to the whole world? this is a security risk in my opinion and ouren. we're building it and we've started but we're not using huawei. >> will you germany -- [inaudible conversations] in term of spending? >> yerm is a little bit urd the limit i will say that but we'll talk about that now. okay thank you very much everybody. for purposes of this we'll be having a meeting with the two -- and we'ring having another meeting with denmark and go probably directly back to washington. i can't imagine, i can't imagine what we'll discuss greenland

what do you think is? tell me -- she must be -- [laughter] that's a very good question. so we'll go directly back i think we've done plenty of press conferences unless you're demanding press conference we'll do one but i think we've had plenty of question. and again, let me just finish by say we have had a tremendous two day i think nato is stronger than it has ever been a lot more money ising being produced by a lot of countries and enthuses yaysic about it and within three years you talk about four committed to 400 billion dollars more and not by the united states. by other country. so it has been very successful today and there's great spirit. okay. thank you very much everybody. >> thank you. thank you. struck by fact that the the question for angela merkel she sat there and as with a biggest economy in europe. you would think there would be some questions become and forth because other bilaterals did.

>> a lot of people wanted to talk to president about about various thing and one of the headline that he called justin trudeau two faced caught on face after president called him out clearly president was setting table he's about to go behind closed doors talk to angela merkel and because yerm is not part of the 2% nato club that is probably going to be a good topic. also the president said we're going to talk about trade and angela merkel said it is a good time in europe right now to talk to the united states about just that. surprised he didn't comment on macron because they had words yesterday. >> question was about mr. trudeau. >> bring in former tone general so president is other there, and how would you characterize how it has been going so far? this is what the the president does the best from world leaders

and in relationships with countries especially in europe and so many of these countries have taken advantage of the united states by not paying their 2% of their defense spending they have been able to support, you know, socialize medicine in other experiments within their own countries in the united states has born that burden by, about by support the defense of the european union and ting that president understands uniquely as to why that's no longer the case and why everybody has to pitch in to do this and again it's the threat are different. i mean russia still sits there as a big channel but there are many other challenges. >> 29 north american or european countries involved in nato and they have formed this alliance how dangerous would it be if we said fine we're only going to pay what everyone else is pay. near as much. >> we are the world's superpower and only superpower. obviously we'ring being challenged by countries like china and russia that would like to compete with us at that level. and so i think we're going to

have to spend more than our fair share to make sure that democrat and freedom is defended worldwide but at the same time, that doesn't mean that the people that we have highed with should ride on coat tail that's what president i think saw when he ran in 2016. he understand it before then, and i think he's implementing that vision. >> fairness who knew that you were going to talk about nato when you came in but that was the breaking news coming up in 90 minutes, jerry knadler is going to gavel in the judiciary committee to start the next phase of impeach m inquiry. does it look like a fair fight to you? >> i've been in front of this committee if you remember i was their first high profile witness. yeah. back in february -- of this year, and no they didn't. but at the same time i -- what i i want american people to understand is impeachment is not a theoretical so putting law professors front of the committee talking about this,

and they're going to color it. they're not gong to give an honest assess m of this really means historically or what the precedent has been because this committee and this congress led by nancy adam schiff jerry knadr have changed the rules of what impeachment is. you know, bill clinton had so much more due process rights than they're giving president trump, and i just is the whole thing look rigged unfair to me. >> president said i had an opportunity to put lawyers out there and jay or others he said no to stay. >> i don't think so. because they didn't know who those witnesses were. but two days ago, and we still don't know what evidence they're going to present there's a report that we've all read, and we don't know what the evidence is going to report we don't know witnesses going to call. i've never gone to a trial or any kind of legal proceedings where i didn't know who i was going to cross examine that seems to me to be strangest. >> from witness withs is it just their argument of why they do or do not think that this is impeachable offense? >> going to hear a lot about

andrew johnson richard nixon, bill clinton. but also a sort of what the founding fathers thought when they created this high crime and misdemeanors and try to convince us with, you know, with their impressive cv try to convince us that what this high crimes misdemeanors standard is somehow lower than it actually was intended by the founding fathers. >>matt don't they have bias because we've already heard that a number of people appear on behalf of the democrats said trump should be impeached? >> of course they have. this is this whole -- partisan exercise that we're going through. everyone in this has passes democrats want to impeach they have since the president was elected. republican have been fight but in the minority with very few rights and very little power and these professors again are going to have a stage for about an hour to convince us what founding fathers believe. but i would encourage folks to read the recent letter from

white house counsel. that lays out really the five precedent that lays out precedent and also encourage to read the federalist papers because alexander hamilton predicted this says once this becomes a partisan exercise expect that this will occupy the congress. >> reeled to go see the play? >> i'm a big fan of the play, and you know i really -- e whef i'm in new york i go to broadway. but hamilton. but hamilton is one of my favorite. i thought it was great too but he was right what's going to happen nec is this a routine for both sides? >> fully expect it will be. once the house is held by different hand in the president we should expect the interview. >> a lot of these guy aren't used to cross examine they get hit from both sides see if they came to play thanks for coming to play. all right did hrt you just now? coming up straight ahead our impeachment coverage continues this guy named newt gingrich promise us about to be here and bring him on --

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all90 minute from right now thex news alert, the impeachment define move from intel committee into same meeting room now chaired by the swriew dish area committee chairman jerry knadler it come one day after the intel committee released its report. what i would like to know thousand is bring in former speaker of the house and write a free these letter at gingrich 360 you're one of the few down this road beef only more of the conductor than the viewer. now what can we expect today it sounds on the surface it could be boring, unless there's a good counterargument to engage professors, correct? >> sure look i think the easy thing is -- i'm sure that congressman collins and those prepared for this -- to simply bring up the issue of the federalist papers and what

founding father said, they saw this power of impeachment as a correction for a fundamental profound threat to the republic they didn't see it as political tool or as a motion of no confidence. they thought that was the job of the american poem at the election. and so i think the scholar had who are going to come in who are proimpeach respect going to tell us a lot a about their personal ideological bias but i don't think their history is accurate. this is clearly so far below what any of the founding father would have considered impeachable that it is almost the joke. i mean i think founding fathers would have thought this is exactly what they did not want to see happen because it reduces the presidency to a daily political fight rather than to the commander in chief of the nation. >> especially because they've been throwing this out since day one trying to find a different reason each time is collusion, it was obstruction then it was

racism now it's this conversation with the president of ukraine nancy pelosi, you were speaker she's speaker. she said impeachment might have to wait until after cm because too complex to be done quickly. time line, do you think it will happen before, before christmas? >> well look if she doesn't think it is going to happen before krems it won't because she's speaker. but i also think what's happened is they're drifting into a world where after the first of the year, we're in an election year and average american is going to to say wait a second 63 million people elected donald trump. you shouldn't have 200 people unelectinging. we have an election coming up, if the american people think what he's done is wrong they can fire him and i think every day after the first of the year it gets closer to election with the democrats case from impeachment get weaker about and i think you'll start seeing democrats come back from christmas particularly the 31 democrats in the seats that donald trump

carried last time. saying you know maybe we shouldn't do this. i'll hear talk about senture or some way to, you know, dance around the problem they've now got. new to scott, a -- op-ed at fox news.com the headline is the plot against president trump is real, and bigger than many think. what are you talking about? >> well, at least throw out amazing book. he worked very closely with thom and muñiz and republicans on the house intelligence spent two years it is most complete explanation of the alliance between the professional bureaucracy, the news media, and left wing democrats particularly adam schiff comes off as a totally dishonest and disreputable person when you read that book you sort of see how it all work and how the if fbi qowld leak to "the new york times" the left wing and new york time would put it in a format and then democrats in congress would say it. then the next ivy league at

least in the very important book that i think every american wants to understand this ought to look at the plot to the president because it is very convincing and newt you know when you look at his book he's talking about the biggest political scandal in american history. and yet it is not really covered like that is it? >> well, i mean, what it really proves is that elite media, "new york times" washington post they are the scandal. so how do they cover themselves? right -- these are the people who are, in fact, at the very heart of this along with the the people who have now been fired at the fbi. people who have been fired at the intelligence committee, and i think what people realize when they read the book is that the -- the system of the left wing establishment is deeper and sicker than we thought and is fighting ferociously to stay alive. >> but mr. speaker here's what to watch, american people and their own jury and if they were

falling victim to this type of propaganda they would not be turning away from impeachment like they are. they would not continue to not continue the president ratings have not budged despite media onslot and i think there's a sense that not one of everyone is buy "new york times" washington post, and what is coming out. >> look, i thinking what really misleads the democrats is if you go to new york city or you go to california you're in places where the anti-trump feeling is so intense that you look around and think that's the whole country but when you leave these two very, very blue states, and you go out to whole rest of the country start with florida, you all of a sudden realize that one millions of american who is don't believe it. two, there are even more americans that don't care that they're saying this is all junk and political noise, it is not true and ting that democrats in that sense are beginning to find that they're risking losing 30 or 40 or 50 see by going forward request this because when you

get outside the really blue areas, there's a clear majority now against doing this. inch hear you thanks mr. speaker we appreciate it. good to be with you. 20 minutes until to have the hour jeffrey epstein case unfold months after his death and james patterson was neighbor down in palm beach and wrote aing bock about the scandal three year and he's going to join us, next. ( ♪ ) at chevy, we're all about bringing families together. this time of year, that's really important. so we're making it easier than ever to become part of our family. man: that's why our chevy employee discount is now available to everyone. the chevy price you pay is what we pay. not a cent more. family is important to us.

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and to army bands a safe base business from engraving bible verses on dog tags strength forced to halt production of military themed products after complaint was filed with the defense department. earlier the shields of strength founder explain idea he think hads faith is so important. >> the love of jesus change any life forever. it is the most valuable thing i have to offer anyone god's word no one needs it more than a young man or come fight for our freedom and so we're going fight for them. >> shield of strength has been making the products for 20 year. that's a look at your headlineses. to you. >> it is story we brought you for months that continues to unfold four months since convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein allegedly he was found dead in jail cell they say by suicide. >> it's a right. but three years ago one of his neighbors down in west palm beach best selling author james patterson wrote about epstein scandal in a book titled

"filthty rich" james patterson joins us now. man going fiction to nonfiction focus if we can breaking news. jeffrey epstein is still dead. only and you believe it was suicide right? >> yes. i do. >> you to. okay we had you know doctor saying differently but you say he was the the secret that stayed in palm beach how did this jeffrey epstein story shrewded in that in palm beach? >> i don't think it is just initial palm beach when i put the book out in 2016 i went to news outlets and place that covered was wall street journal and yes in 2008 it stayed in palm beach in 2016 when book came out including interview with all of the girl the -- the media didn't pick it up at all. >> how did he the get his money tell us his background. >> he got this money by making money for other people and taking a big piece of it. was he investor?

>> no. he didn't invest his own money and too smart for that and invested other people money like leslie out there guy that limited and victoria's secret people like that. >> so when you start investigating some of the bigger names who did you find for example when it came to frump he did kick him out of his club, correct? >> yeah. it bothers me when you see like -- and in the newspaper linked with president trump linked with president clinton if you're going to put that on front page you better have ammunition. what happened with president trump in florida was i tuck to woman who ran the spa she said yeah epstein was inappropriate with young girl and she said i went to see at that point mr. trump, and he banned epstein from the club. so there's, you know, i mean, trump had i don't think anything to do with epstein and i don't think did either. >> i know that in the book you have police interview with some

of the girls that were aling alleging what were they saying? >> it is not going to get -- get on the news feed either they blip it all out it is horrifying exactly what happened. it is all it be this sexual nature what have he did and how -- it is in thing book. yeah. >> real quick about with blngt you don't think there wassing anything with blipt? absolutely not the impeachment thing coming up big time, to me the great irony here is you have somebody being accused of using their office to influence a 2020 election yet you have all of these people who are using their office right now at the impeachment hear physician to influence the 2020 election unbelievable. james patterson to be more successful in the history of the country than you thank you for joining us and talking about about one force of what you research. the great see you. >> thank you james. criss-cross and alley cross available now. well next impeachment inquiry

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good morning everyone the next phase of impeachment begins nec hour four withins we will have the best analysis anywhere, so what gets done today this while the president wraps this trip in

london for nato summit it is a heavy day of news. come join sandra and me in eight minutes come see you then top of the hour. a live look at capitol hill where in about an hour first impeach m hearing set to begin and weigh in on legal panel we have fox news analyst down at the left side. gregg jarret former republican house and senate leadership advisor ashley strong, and democrat strategist kevin walling. let's start with you. from your point of view whereby you say that you can count at least five potential articles of impeachment that the democrats could right based on mr. schiff's show and their report that came out yesterday. >> l compelling 300 phage report that details a month long campaign by president to undermine his office. his -- had his oath, and i think one of the more startling thing to come out of this is phone records subpoenaed by at&t and verizon. they're just number, and tombs

of those calls but with rudy giuliani speaking to omb and speaking to our budget office for ten minutes a time? really compelling investigative work. >> is that compelling because is it -- a reason kuk a guy out of office? >> look we have seening nothing yet to prove high crime and misdemeanors. i think as republican strategist i am remiss to say i agree with nancy pelosi initial hesitation a with moving forward on this. i think that she eventually had had to cave to left lean of her party, and here we are and they're in a box and can't get out i don't think anything in today hearing will change that. only today will be a tepid bore and most enthusiastic and even the most for tv ratings come on dynamic. fall asleep -- you know, for 2 hushing years law professor it is scholar as have debated without resolution the meaning of the impeach m

clause in the constitution and all they've ever agreed on is that an opposing party should not exploit the impeachment clause and remove a president for political reasons. that in my judgment is exactly what adam schiff and nancy pelosi and jerry knadler are doing and the framers fear that they would do it which is why in their wisdom they instituted this procedural protection against it. two-thirds supermajority in the senate to remove a president. >> kevin, you know the math. there aren't that many senators who want to kick this guy out. so you have to wonder why is nancy pelosi doing it to your point earlier it is not bipartisan. across congress, just looks like a way to give bloody nose heading into 2020. >> speaker as chairman has said the president gave him no choice right, and hopefully if a democrat president had done this, and democrats were in control of the house they would also move forward on these lines

because what they're seeking to is a generational issue between the article of government and second article of the constitution between the the executives and the legislative and that's also apartment of this report too is the stone walling by the president and the administration and if this goes unchecked and a democrat gets into office and does this same thing, what will be the consequences then? only i think we're going hear a lot of people say i'm like you today on the democratic side but with nancy pelosi if this is all about pluck and she's choired that she's going lose the gavel next election. >> i think that's right ultimately as i said she had to cave to left lean part of the party if you look at states across the country and races this is not a popular issue for candidate to be talking about about and i'm from montana i liver in montana we have and open seat coming up for house of representative and leading in the candidate has refused to answer question on impeachment if it were winning issue they would be campaigning on it. what you'll see today is jerry

knadler stacked against trump three hand picked fairly law professes who have expressed to trump or prejudged him already. i think in the end people will pay attendance to turley who has tried to fairly dissect the evidence and make a decision on whether it constitutes an impeachable offense so we'll wait and see. we will indeed kevin ashley, greg thank you very much. great analysis. let's hope it is not boring, though. tepid bore too easy for me to nap during the day just saying. we're going step aside more fox and friends two minutes. - [spokeswoman] meet the ninja foodi pressure cooker,

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>> gregg jarrett disagrees. thanks for watching the show. see you back here on the couch tomorrow. >> stay within yourself. >> bill: 9:00 on capitol hill. good morning, everybody. breaking news from overseas where president trump now in the last leg of a nato summit in london. here at home the impeachment inquiry enters a new phase. the house judiciary committee holds its first public hearing one hour from now. a big day of news as we say good morning. we'll go through it together. i'm bill hemmer live in new york. sandra, good morning to you. >> sandra: good morning, everyone. ifm owe sandra smith. the president about to wrap his time at the nato summit in london. back on capitol hill four witnesses all college law professors are getting ready to testify on the impeachment process. >> bill: they clue noah feldman from harvard. michael gerhardt from north carolina and the only witness called by republicans on the