twitter @howard curt. we talk a lot. we cram as much as we could into the show. we're back at 11:00 a.m. eastern wi heather: good morning to you, monday january 7th, happening right now at 4:00 a.m. on the east coast, fox news alert for you, vowing revenge iranian general who replaced qassemsoleimani with chilling threat, promise to go revenge successor's death, live coverage where tensions are boiling over and in washington where the blame is spiraling. devastation half under half a billion animals feared death, half a billion after wild fires

scorch australia, live in sidney with look of destruction. >> if you do win an award, don't use it as a platform to do political speech, you're in no position to lecture the public about anything. heather: golden felonies hopes sending strong message to hollywood elites, "fox & friends first" start right now. ♪ ♪ heather: and good morning to you, you're watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning i'm heather childers thank you so much for starting your day or ending your day, issuing chilling warning as the general's daughter threatens attacks on u.s. troops as revenge for daughter's death,

rick levanthal with new threat from iran, good morning, rick. >> good morning, heather, a lot of leaders in the region, u.s. allies and others who are calling for calm but one member of the iranian parliament is threatening an attack on the white house in response to the assassination of general soleimani early friday morning, general killed in drone strike, he's beloved to have orchestrated countless deadly attacks and president trump said soleimani was planning more carnage, tens of thousands of iranians packed for funeral procession on sunday who told the crowd there will be payback warning to prepare for funerals a board air force one the president promised swift and massive response on dozens of targets in iran if iran carries

through with threats telling reporters they're allowed to kill our people, torture people, roadside bombs and blow up our people and we are not allowed to touch the cultural site, doesn't work that way. on sunday parliament vote today expel u.s. troops from the country. the bill needs prime minister's signature and secretary of state mike pompeo said it's likely that our troops will, in fact, stay there. >> we are confident that the iraqi people want the united states to continue to be there to fight the counterterror campaign and will continue to do all the things we need to do to keep america safe. >> here in israel the strongest u.s. alloy in the region, there is sense of alert, heather, people are bracing for the possibility of retaliatory attacks from iran or proxies. heather: rick, live, thank you, we appreciate you joining us.

major response to any attacks on u.s. targets this as iran abandons the conditions of its nuclear deal, griff jenkins live from washington where democrats preparing limiting power. griff: democrats urging restraint and criticizing the president for taking action in the first place. >> all they have done under maximum pressure is escalate the chance of war with iran, something president trump said he wanted to avoid but a lot of people around him like secretary pompeo have been urging in a confrontation with iran for a very long time. griff: as you mentioned speaker pelosi she's introducing war power resolution to limit the president writing in a letter to colleagues, quote, reasserts oversight responsibilities by mandating that if no further

congressional action is taken the administration's military hostilities with regard to iran sees 30 days but meanwhile the president is doubling down on threats to retaliate against further iranian aggression and addressing congress in this tweet saying these media posts will serve as notification to the united states congress should iran strike any u.s. person or target the united states will quickly and fully strike back and perhaps in a disproportionate manner such legal notice is not required but given nevertheless this after tehran's announcement yesterday that it's abandoning limitations on enriching uranium, increasing fears of nuclear weapons for iran marking a clear step toward ending nuclear deal with 6 major powers, german chancellor angela merkel and boris johnson issuing strong statement to show restraint and iran to avoid further escalation of this which could lead to a nuclear

proliferation crisis, heather. heather: much more on this to come, thank you so much, griff, griff jenkins live for us. americans are dead after extremist attack military base in kenya, members of al-shibaab killing military contractors and several u.s. internal revenue craft destroyed at manda bay airfield for u.s. counterterrorism and fought off by u.s. and kenyan forces, al-shibaab tell the associated press that it's not connect today air strike in iraq. and another story that we have been following for you, disturbing violence near u.s.-méxico border as 13-year-old is gunned down just south of texas, officials say the girl and her family all u.s. citizens were returning home from a holiday trip when an armed group forced them to stop, when they didn't, the attackers opened fire and sped off in another car, the mexican

attorney general says the highway where it happens runs through general turf war, falls under do not travel warning issued last month. fbi covering new clues in idaho home linked to a pair of missing children haven't been seen for months, aisha joins us with what they found and new court documents revealing suspected parents cult. >> good morning to you, the story is getting more and more troubling by the day, on friday the fbi searched the home, the children's stepfather, local authorities say they found forensic evidence, they believe her death is linked to the missing children, 17-year-old ryan and joshua have not been seen since september, their mother married after both spouses unexpectedly died, they

are on the run now, they took off from idaho in november after refusing to tell authorities where their kids are and now court documents reveal disturbing details about mind set, take a look at the details here, mother, has recently become infatuated at times obsessive of near-death experiences and spiritual visions and also this, mother informed father that she was a god assigned to carry out the work of the 144,000 at christ second coming in july 2020 and if the father got in her way of her mission she would murder him, that father was killed, charles was shot dead by lori's brother who says it was all in self-defense, a maybe remembers seeing and her brother packing up a truck before thanksgiving, he thought the family was heading out for the holidays, listen.

>> the question is where they go, i have no idea. next morning, they're gone. >> 3 weeks after that, brother also died, police are not saying how, so 3 deaths now, two missing children and a couple on the run as investigators race to piece together what happened and find these children, heather. heather: aisha, thank you. lack of prosecution against president trump, house speaker nancy pelosi has not sent the articles to the senate yet as you know, democrats are defending that delay, though, while republicans give her an ultimatum. >> if we don't get this articles this week, then we need to take matters in our own hands and change the rules deem them to be delivered to the senate to start

trial. >> mcconnell could have voted for dismissal the day before christmas, lots of new evidence that bolsters our case for witnesses, witnesses and documents come out. heather: award season is officially in full swing, best and tv movies honored at 77th golden floes, warning celebrities not to get political but the election took center stage. >> we have to beg and plea for everyone to vote. >> it's time to vote please do so in your own self-interest. it's what men have been doing for years. >> honored with award for

excellence. >> all i ever want to do is make people feel good and laugh and there's no greater feeling than when someone tells me that i've made their day better with my show and sickness and hard time in their life. >> and tom hanks holding back tears during moving speech while accepting award. >> i'm a little jittery, a man is -- a man is blessed with family in front like that. heather: once upon in time in hollywood was biggest winner, musical, comedy. fox news alert for you, iraq's parliament vote to go expel american troops from the country after the killing of general soleimani, what does this mean for mission in the middle east,

national security analyst rebecca grant symbolic move and joining us up next, terrifying moments on the tarmac, the startling moment a plane's wheel catches fire and rolls away.

heather: we are back with fox news alert for you, president trump threatening to sanction baghdad as the iraqi parliament votes to expel american troops from the war-torn country, here to break down what that means international relations expert dr. rebecca green, thank you, dr. rebecca grant, thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate it once again. >> good morning. heather: your initial thoughts on when this happened? >> well, for resolution of iraqi government is nonbinding, don't

don't expect the u.s. to pack up and lead security vacuum there, much bigger issue getting situation calm and getting iran influence out of iran. >> let pull out excerpt from iraq's parliament nonbinding resolution, the iraqi government to end presence of foreign troops and how abouting from using for any reason? >> the impact is zero because, heather we have u.s. forces there, we have nato mission in the antiisis fight that does training in iraq and you can tell in the wording of the resolution some of the sunnis and curds in parliament didn't vote for it, the shiites weren't happy, she wanted iraq to kick right away, none of that will happen, executive branch has to sign off on any moves, short-term impact is zero. heather: here is what secretary

of state mike pompeo had to say on fox news sunday, listen to this. >> prime minister is under enormous threat from the leadership we are pushing back against, we are confident that the iraqi people want the united states to continue to be there to fight the counterterror campaign and will continue to do all the things we need to do to keep america safe. heather: what does that mean to you, continued to do all the things that we need to do? >> well, the first task is to keep our military forces in iraq and around the middle east safe, we've seen extra troop deployments and the core of that is to improve force protection, we know that iraq's proxy militia supported by iran have the ability to do rocket attacks and we want to see our force there is safe. heather: in the meantime iraq's top military adviser says retaliation will be against military sites, what can we

realistically expect there? >> well, that is their specialty and that's what soleimani did before the strike that took him out, we have seen iran back or conduct directly attacks on u.s. military sites whether they range from syria or into iraq, remember, heather, 11 attacks in iraq on u.s. forces basis from november till now, those were backed by iran, he's threatening all of the bases in the middle east region. heather: here is what iranian official said tehran response and the only way to end it. >> the response for sure will be military and military site, the only thing that can end this period of war is for the americans to receive a blow that is equal to the blow they've inflicted. heather: blow for blow, president trump tweeted this, if iran attacks american base or any american, we will be sending some of that brand-new beautiful equipment their way and without

hesitation, so what about this blow for blow? >> trump's statement is to deter further iranian action and, heather, iran always reaches for violence but they have think about this, a military strike is not going to get them what they really want and that is financial sanction's relief, it's the max financial pressure that's hitting them so hard and if they take military action that's glorious for them in the short term but doesn't get them where they want to two long term. president trump talking about additional sanctions as well. >> we always appreciate your expertise. >> thank you. heather: politics taking center stage at the golden globes despite warning from host ricky. >> if you do win on award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech. >> the country on the brink of war, the united states of

america, a president tweeting out a threat of 52 bombs. heather: on top of that, aqua man ditches suit for a tank top and social media fell in love, carley shimkus with the top-trending moments, more on that.

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well, us customs border protection setting record straight about detentions tat border, the agency tweeting social media posts that cbp is detaining iranian americans and refusing their entry in the u.s. because origin are false, activist groups claim iranian americans were being detained, questioned and turned away at washington state border cross crossing. more about the golden globes for you, golden globes host giving hollywood elite strong warning before the award began, listen. >> if you do win award tonight don't use as platform to make a political speech, right, you're in no position to lecture the public about anything. >> the country on the brink of war, the united states of america, a president tweeting out a threat of 52 bombs. >> it's time to vote please do

so in your own self-interest. heather: but did they listen, carley shimkus with fox news headlines 24/7, siriusxm 115 with take on the show, giving it away already, they did not listen. carley: well, some of it didn't. conflicts with iran, passion pro-choice plea from michelle william. heather: currently pregnant, by the way. >> he himself, he came out swinging, mocked all the celebrities in the room, told them not to get political and hit them for a variety of different things as well so a lot of people felt like it was music to their ears including this twitter user, golden felonies was really needed, what a great start into 2020, whitney tweets, hypocrisy in hollywood is real, thank you, ricky.

then there was this, this twitter user said, some of them sure didn't like it, lol, i'm talking about tom hanks. one of the top viral moments of the entire show because nbc cut to his reaction about 3 times during it and each time it looked like he was startled to say the least, who knew if he thought it was funny or not, wee have a picture of it that we should show, maybe we will -- there we go. we started off 2020 with new mean face, thank you tom hanks, it's about hollywood hears the truth, lastly, check please, talking about tom hanks' reaction. heather: you can tell he's an actor. he's trained to do that. >> nerve the audience says that the camera will be on him, how are they going to react to uncomfortable things. heather: speaking to

uncomfortable or not, aquaman putting on a show in tank top. carley: he was catching the eye on what he didn't wear to the show, he was caught wearing a tank top, he gave it to his wife, lisa benet. heather: she was a little chilly. carley: jason mamoa, she's a gentleman and gave his wife his coat. will says you have to let the guns breathe. [laughter] carley: like that. i will try to work that in. i will give you credit for it. heather: fox news alert for you now. the media joining democrats slamming president trump with air strike that killed iran's top general, but shouldn't our military do everything it can to protect our homeland and american lives, our panel of

military veterans here up next to discuss, stay with us.

heather: welcome back, half past top of the hour, the new leader claiming actions will be taken as the general's daughter calls for attack on u.s. troops, this comes as iran puts 80 million-dollar bounty on president trump's head, one member of parliament urging an attack on the white house. the general was killed in drone strike outside of baghdad's airport, he's believed to have orchestrateed countless attacks on u.s. troops and allies and in iraq the parliament voted to expel u.s. troops, president trump has threatened sanctions against iraq if it happens, meeting is set for today between iraq's prime minister and the u.s. ambassador in baghdad.

washington from hollywood, the left has flatout condemned president trump for taking down one of the world's most ruthless terrorists qassem soleimani, listen. >> we are not safer today than we were before donald trump acted. >> it was a stunningly can i say stupid and counterproductive move on the part of the united states. >> taking out a bad guy is not a good idea unless you are ready for what comes next. >> this is and was enormous escalation, his actions now put us on the path to another war. >> but it doesn't stop there with hollywood a-listers accusing for inciting war and apologizing to iran, so despite all of the left's criticism what does it mean if it can't defend,

veteran and talk show host, kathy barnett and senior military expert retired lieutenant colonel daniel davis. 21-year veteran, you served in combat in your career, what do you make of the criticism that president trump is receiving right now. >> you know, the permission and the ability to defend ourself is beyond question, obligation of any president to defend our people against any threat to our country, the question that has to be asked, the honest question is are we in a better position strategically after the strike than we were before, we have to be honest that near term the threat is higher to our troops because they will now face the threat of internal attacks from within iraq and external from iran based on all of the response and retaliation that's been threatening so far.

withdraw our troops and if they're not unnecessary strategic targets to be hit because they're not there to defend our interest anymore and we need to get them out. heather: chris, do you grow with that as we discuss it let's take a look at headlines criticizing president trump and "the new york times" saying as tensions with iran escalated trump opted for most extreme measure, bloomberg saying u.s. killing of soleimani leaves trump unpredictable and headline there from the atlantic, the strike defied the u.s. constitution, do you agree with colonel davis that we should withdraw all of our troops? >> partially, i mean, first and foremost i laugh at hollywood elite that is play tough guys in movies and i realize they are winey liberals. i do in terms of long term, these countries won't fight for themselves, i disagree with the colonel slightly, we have to be able to do something, we do have supreme court precedent to be able to strike but i mean, what

are we going to do, we've got to make a bold action, president trump has been able to land knockout punches and frankly this strike, we are doing the things that we need to do under obama, we are releasing gitmo terrorists and kissing their rear end and it's been a change where we are taking out their leadership it's disappointing. heather: kathy, you served the country for 10 years and the armed forces reserves were sending additional troops over there including a friend of mine, her son was called up rather suddenly, part of the group head there had from fort bragg, what about sending additional troops in? >> again, we have every right to defend ourselves and if we look at particular democrats in hollywood elites, they look like self-licking ice cream cones, they are utterly ridiculous and they have no idea how the american people are perceiving them right now, what we do know

that the career politicians have no right to come and lecture anyone on military strategies, we have been in afghanistan for 18 plus years and counting and after a trillion dollars we still don't know why we are there, we don't know who our enemies are and he don't know how to get out of the defunct situation, we had obama traveling around the world on an apology tour sending $1.7 million of cash out of the cover of darkness on pallets and no one said a word, this is what -- this is the situation in which we find ourselves in, president trump is the only one that seems to know how to deal with the middle east because every career politician today have no idea how it is that we are supposed to contend with these people, they only understand force, hence the reason why isis is decimated, hence the reason why this particular lieutenant general is now dead and all of -- and the attack that was imminent upon

american interest has been somewhat forwarded. he's doing what he needs to do. heather: democrats are saying they will vote on a resolution to limit the president's military actions, do you believe that to be dangerous in. >> politics aside it requires the united states congress the only body that can commit the united states to conflict so i've been advocating that congress whether republican or democrat exercise their congressional authorization but to underscore, does this improve the situation and here is the thing, if we think that soleimani was responsible for planning, they replaced him quickly and that's why i think it's so important that we lose and leave troops out, if we do

more troops, then what happens, you see this can spiral out of control. heather: let me ask you, though, is the world safer without soleimani here, another individual killed in the attack who was responsible for 1983 kuwait bombing i think it is. the question who is going to follow and that's always the danger of what comes next. chris. >> that's always going to be the situation. absolutely nothing we can do, part of their nature to do, we are the big satan and according to them we need to be decimated, threats imminent around us, we need to take a tough stand, now, do i want another 18-year afghanistan war, of course not, but what is sickening is to see

the democrats all of a sudden kowtow down when it comes to iran but when trump removed the american troops from the syrian and turkish border they issued a resolution condemning him because they wanted a solution. heather: continues to say that he wants to get troops out of wars all over the world, chris, you do get the final word. >> kathy is right on things will escalate, colonel, it's been escalated, we are getting hit, we are getting killed literally, now we have lesser known commanders who are confused. we can't have it both ways. heather: very interesting to get the different takes, all of you are veterans and served our country, colonel davis and chris, you both were over there in iraq, colonel davis in iraq, thank you. >> thank you, heather.

heather: time now 20 minutes until the top of the hour, desperately needed relief on the -- in australia, rescue crews exhausted, stretched extremely thin and joins us life from sidney with the change providing a glimmer of hope.

heather: we are back with fox news alert, american firefighters arriving hours ago to assist with the deadly raging wild fires in australia, at least 24 people and over half a billion animals are dead, the fire scorching over 12 million acres with skyrocketing temperatures, live in sidney where conditions stand right now, she'll let us know, good morning, ana. >> hi, there, heather, good morning to you, good evening,

8:45 monday evening here, weather we lease today fire officials are saying that they need to be continue watching for evacuation orders, fires are expected to burn for months to come, months. right now at this hour in south whales, 135 fires burning and 70 not contain. to give you an idea the smoke, the nation's capital, the worst in the world today, heavy smoke was hindering efforts by the navy to help evacuate residents from victoria, 300 still needed to be evacuated. counting their lucky stars. >> hundreds of embers fast flowing through the air.

we probably made a good decision. >> well, australia's prime minister scott morrison who has been criticized to being slow to act, the government will commit 1 billion australian dollars toward the release effort. >> the fires are not over, the crisis is not over, months to go sadly there will be still be more costs that will be incurred as a result of the devastating impacts. >> right, so after this record-breaking heat that we had over the weekend fueling the fires, make them rage even more, the little bit of rain that we have been getting and cooler temperatures are welcome release but that hampers the fire crews effort to strategically do the back burning, what we got today was 120th of what we need, we need 8-inches over a long -- over short period of time and we

got a small dribble here and there, we need a lot of rain and nothing is forecasted in the future that we see that's substantial, heather. heather: thank you very much, ana, live from australia, we appreciate the update. well, back at home we will switch gears completely, we will talk about the hard transition, some nfl, the nfl wild card weekend, russell wilson leaving seahawks to 17-9 win over the eagles and vikings shocking the saints in chilling overnight win. >> throws, pass is caught for the win, kyle and the vikings are moving on. heather: saturday's divisional matchup with 49ers and titans face the ravens.

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>> late-comer michael bloomberg shaking up 2020 race a month from iowa caucus, billionaire skyrocketing and ahead of favorites, who stand the best chance in the hawkeye state, john thomas live for us to weigh in, thank you very much for

joining us, great to have you with us. >> good to see you, heather. heather: bloomberg seems to be surging a bit. >> appears to be that massive ad-buy seems to be raising name id and sticking, more than this good news for bloomberg it's terrible news for elizabeth warren, the runway is shortening and elizabeth warren's lane is narrowing because sanders seems to be popping pretty well and biden and bloomberg seem to be occupying in that kind of center left-lane leaving elizabeth warren with no place to go, at this point if you're elizabeth warren you need nothing but good news, not bad news. heather: what does she do to solicit some good news? >> well, there's not a lot, if i was giving her free advice, you got outraised the last quarter, you don't have the most money but you -- what you do have is a

great organization on the ground, try to come in as close to a first place in iowa as you can, regroup in new hampshire and see what happens, sanders or whoever is the front runner above her might just get the front-runner treatment, i have to tell us it's looking tough. >> it is, hugely important and not because of delicates, because of perception of momentum. remember, ted cruz won iowa in 2016, he didn't go on the win the primary but what you can find is that if one candidate wins iowa, wins new hampshire and comes in the top 2 in south carolina, the momentum could whip saw them right into super

tuesday, bloomberg is betting that it's fractured. heather: momentum can add up to additional money so that leads to next question, how much does money talk in terms of the race for president? >> it's a huge deal because to fight a multistate or national war is massively expensive. voters in general are starved for new information, running voters don't know who they are and what they stand for, you have to have enough, i would caution people that money isn't everything, just ask jeb bush with 150 million-dollar super pac in 2016, you have to have a message that you can deliver with credibility, something that voters actually care about, the problem a lot of the liberals have that are running, they are talking about existential threats of climate change and that's not resinating resinatine

general electorate, i don't care how much money they spend they will not beat donald trump unless they come up with a message that voters care about. heather: other than just beat donald trump which is the person's second in ad sending so far, 124 million for bloomberg, 84 million some steyer, that's who i'm referencing, 20 million pete buttigieg and sanders at 18 million and elizabeth warren at 12 million, the amount of money that they are spending on ads, let's take a look at this and i will get response, $34.5 million bernie sanders, that's a huge number and then jumped down to elizabeth warren who actually lowered her expectations from 24 million to 21 million to be raised in the fourth quarter. >> yeah, look, elizabeth warren still raised a lot of money, it's never good to -- to

underwhelm expectations, she needed to outperform the money gain because she has to reverse polling numbers, one of the way to do that is running more advertisements. if she's underperforming, she doesn't have the resources to flip the scrip and change the polling numbers. heather: so unfortunate that you have to spend that amount of must be and the more money you have the better you can do, john, thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks. >> we will be right back. what happened to the real men of america?

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heather: welcome back, now time for the good, the bad and the ugly, up first the god, beach goers getting delightful surprise when dolphin joins them on the swim, animal on the shoreline in australia, local officials say that it's not the first time that dolphins have mingled with the swimmers. well, now the bad, the hot rod is a little too hoot racing buggy bursting into flames during desert race in saudi arabia, luckily they were able to escape unharmed. no word on what caused that, terrifying moment caught on camera moments after plane takes off, watch. yeah, can you imagine seeing that, the wheels falling off, shortly after the air canada

flight took off in montreal, no one was injured, the plane did land safely, crews are inspecting the aircraft. well thank you so much for joining us this hour of "fox & friends first", have a great day, everybody, "fox & friends first" continues right now. bye bye. ♪ ♪ rob: monday january 6th, fox news alert, dark day is coming, quote there the daughter of qassem soleimani vowing revenge. >> president trump has no remorse promising the rogue regime would be sorry if it retaliates, we are live in the middle east and in washington, plus take a look scene now a nightmare for so many in australia. rob: live from the center of the devastation where terrified people and animals as well are desperate for relief. >> if you do win an award tonight don't use it as plaor