work station makes workers then from that point on, it was, more productive because they are not distracted by the i was diagnosed, they rapidly discomfort of a normal desk, went through all of the steps and then i went into like a they are distract by sleep. speed course of reading of what path i was going to take, and jillian: bye, we have got to go. todd: bye. decided to dok eto for cancer,c bd oil and then ground myself in ♪ working for a living ♪ working minerals and so we got into a ♪ working for a living really rigid regimen. ♪ living and working steve: you are in remission? steve: ladies and gentlemen, >> i looked like a christmas huey lewis and the news starts this 6:00 a.m. hour tree from my first pet scan. here on the news channel's >> it was bad. bad bad bad and the most recent number one morning show. good to have you here on pet scan showsna da. "fox & friends." ainsley: good to have you steve: you mentioned c bd. here for brian. pete: if this is working for you two are involved in ac bd a living i will take it. ainsley: i know. company. >> we are. no more alarm clocks. >> correct. we love our jobs but we love this is actually what i took, it to sleep in a little bit on was during the process and we friday and saturday night. believe so much in what i was but it is a friday. going through, what we were pete: speak for yourself. going through. ainsley: can you wake up ainsley: how often do you take tomorrow without an alarm clock and can you turn on it? >> it depends. your tv and you can see pete i do it at least once a day,

for four hours tomorrow sometimes twice. morning. steve: because he is working ainsley: and how many drops? for a living. >> half a dropper in the pete: working for the living morning and then in the evening, and for the weekend. a full one and then what it's steve: remember in seventh really great for besides just grade when your teacher said okay, everybody has to sit aches and pains are if you have at their desk no, talking. inflammation, it helps with you cannot read anything than what i am talking about anxiety, and stuff, so with the and have you got to be here diagnosis with the cancer that's everyday. a lot of mental anxiety. you need perfect attendance. >> a lot of people use this now remember seventh grade. we were in the process of pete: i don't remember finding more out about it before seventh grade but i do remember that. steve: those are exactly the we needed to, which was great same rules the senators have and what i honestly believe and now that impeachment 3.0 has honestly i'm no doctor but what kicked off in d.c. i believe is that this is such a ainsley: i'm so glad you mentioned that the natural element that when you impeachment trial for president trump is take it your body -- officially underway on capitol hill. steve: and this comes as a government watchdog group steve: absolutely you're right a lot of people are interested and claims the white house broke you're watching for more the law by withholding aid information about it visit john to ukraine for a moment. pete: our own griff jenkins schneiderc bo d.com. thank you for joining us live. joins us live from you're so very very welcome. washington and, griff, this isn't the first everybody needs a littley ee-haw administration to be called out for said violation. now and again. ainsley: more fox & friends straight ahead. y mutual. griff: it's not steve, only pay for what you need with liberty mutual. ainsley and pete. con liberty mutual solo pagas lo que necesitas.

watchdog releasing an only pay for what you need... opinion. the goa wrote this: only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ the house was quick to respond calling it, quote. a pretty clear overreach as they attempt to insert themselves into the media's crefer of the day. ands you mentioned it's not the first time the gao found the administration in violation. doing so multiple times under olbermann. most notably finding in 2016 they broke their own signature healthcare law, obamacare, in a 5 billion-dollar dispute over compensating insurers for high costs two years earlier citing them for failing to give congress adequate notice about the bowe bergdahlal prisoner swap with the taliban for five detainees. leader mcconnell call witnesses in the trial. republicans pushing back. >> on the coming days, each of us, every one of us, democrat and republican, will face a choice about whether to begin this trial

in the search of truth or in service of the president's desire to cover it up. >> chuck schumer is not looking for the truth. he's trying to become the majority leader. >> and the president weighing in and tweeting this yesterday. i just got impeached for making a perfect phone call. a lot of drama, guys. get ready. opening statements again on tuesday at 1:00 p.m. steve: that's right. apparently they are too busy doing something else to this round's on me.eat. actually appear today on friday when we are working. all right, griff, thank you very much. his start there about how hey, can you spot me? the gao said that this administration broke the law come on in. regarding the aid to find your place today, with silversneakers. ukraine. do you think it's just a coincidence that that news included in most medicare advantage plans. would drop exactly the same enroll today by calling the number on your screen day, the same trial started? or visit getsilversneakers.com ainsley: a senior administration official said they are doing this so they can insert themselves into the impeachment when there is so much media attention. if you look at all the networks. go through it in a moment.

their coverage of the impeachment trial, they love to hear this. they love to hear that this watchdog agency. steve: this is a part of the federal government. ainsley: they love to hear that they have determined that the president violated the law when it withheld that aid to ukraine. however the office of management and budget disagree with it. they say the president has a right to do this. pete: because it's the impeachment that never ends and never will end. car vending machines and buying a car 100% online.vented i would argue even all the way through november should the president win now we've created a brand new way for you to sell your car. re-election may never end, either, unless the house -- whether it's a year old or a few years old, the majority of the house we want to buy your car. changes hands, we are going so go to carvana and enter your license plate, to play this later on in the program, too. answer a few questions, folks like senator richard and our techno-wizardry calculates your car's value blumenthal, to watch the and gives you a real offer in seconds. facade, charade. ainsley: how solemn they when you're ready, we'll come to you, are. pay you on the spot, and pick up your car. pete: so solemn. that's it. steve: pete, it's a tv show. so ditch the old way of selling your car, and say hello to the new way-- pete: extraordinary drama. at carvana. knot in my stomach watching. everyone sees through that. and to think that democrats it'scan it helphe january sale keep me asleep?mber 360 smart bed. absolutely, it senses your movements and are convincing anyone. automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable.

ainsley: arguing whether or not new evidence like what save $1,000 on the sleep number 360 special edition smart bed. this government accountability office has put forth and also that lev plus, free premium delivery when you add a base. ends monday. parnas interview, the democrats want that information, that new evidence to be heard by the senate. they also want to call new witnesses there are some deflectors and people that might cave that are republican notice senate. there are about five of them that have said they might want to hear witnesses. the rest of the republicans say we don't want to hear witnesses. pete: because that was the house's job. ainsley: correct. pete: to conduct the trial. steve: now the democrats have a talking point. they say oh, we have all these witnesses we want to call. they should have called them during the house. that is the way our government works. nonetheless, mark levin sees the republicans for the most part united and sees this about the whole thing that kicked off yesterday in the senate. >> something funny about these two articles of impeachment. there's no constitutional violation. there's no statutory violation. there's no violation of a federal court order.

this is why they keep throwing up smoke. and i want to tell these five republicans in the senate, the weak links in the chain, romney, collins, murkowski, gardner and the other one skips my mind, luckily oh oh oh, alexander. let me tell you something, you have a duty to uphold the constitution. what the house of representatives has done here is destroyed the constitution. it's your job to fix it. steve: senator james link fourth degree of oklahoma said as a juror i'm not phishing looking for more information. i'm trying to respond to what the house is sending over and what they are doing. and he is just following historic precedent. ainsley: if they do call witnesses republicans want to call joe biden, hunter biden, adam schiff, the whistleblower. pete: let's get lack to the charade, the oath is to be impartial. the least impartial body in our country today is the united states senate. think about it if you are a

republican of trump and can't defend him in this moment, why are you still a republican? steve: good point. pete: myth romney. steve: republicans, it was one of those good news, bad news days yesterday on capitol hill. it was bad news regarding the impeachment for republicans and supporters of this president. at the same time, happy days are here again. finally, the senate was bipartisan in passing the usmca which nancy pelosi held on to, would not pass it through the house until after everybody voted for impeachment. the final vote was 89 to 10. it's wonderful when washington works together. this is such good news because the usmca is going to create a lot of jobs and make us a lot of money. and it is such a big win for people on, you know, the president started it. he said he ran on trade. ainsley: it's a massive trade deal it replaces nafta which when he was running many people were against.

they went to the poll to vote for that. this affects farmers and a lot of the foods we eat from canada and mexico and vice versa. the president said guess what? this is probably going to be the second biggest news story if you watch the networks. pete: if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it does it happen. steve: there was a tree? pete: trade tree. if you watched the network coverage last night, you didn't hear about it. steve: what? pete: abc, nbc, cbs, you have this massive bipartisan trade deal, totally remaking our relationship with our neighbors to the north and the south returning jobs to this country, and not one single second. ainsley: completely ignored. steve: radio silence. but you know why. because it's a win for this president. and, in fact, politico was very honest in that. they posted this yesterday morning and they have a lovely -- they had a lovely picture of the capitol. senate passes usmca a major win for trump. so, they said that playered

that across politico. major win for trump. until somebody at politico said what are you doing? you have got to fix that so about less than an hour later they said you are right. let's change it. then it passes usmca but much work remains.

their time really freaking out about donald trump. >> there is a lot of that freaking out business. approached by cnn reporter by the name of manu are a jew. what do you think about conferences in the impeachment trial. what happened next. we need to play you because of the fallout. listen to this. >> should the senate consider new evidence as part of the impeachment trial? >> you are a liberal hack. i'm not talking to you. steve: you are a liberal hack. i'm not talking to you she said to the guy from cnn. ainsley: she is tough. she is a fighter pilot.

she is reminding us of this because she talked about it last night. listen. >> these cnn reporters, but many of them around the capitol, they are so biased. they . would three or four years ago made that same comment to a reporter. same way in the era of trump. we have got people stepping up willing to call a spade a spade. martha mcsally has been a strong conservative senator but if you watch the projectorry of her career, she hasn't ban bomb thrower

or name caller or anything like that. you start to realize. you are right. the knives are out as they say: ainsley: if you talk to their reporters then you don't know what they going to report. she doesn't trust reporting. she doesn't want to talk to them because she is scared they might not tell the truth. steve: anyway, that's what martha mcsally said to the cnn reporter. wolf blitzer and others over at cnn have clown. this as we learn 11 service

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demi lovato landing a super big gig. ♪ what's wrong with being ♪ what's wrong with being ♪ what's wrong with being confident ♪ >> the confident singer set to perform the national anthem at this year's super bowl. the singer posting on instagram, quote: see you in miami jennifer lopez and shakira are headlining the halftime show. ainsley: all these women. steve: we will be there. ainsley: i love all of them. pete: pretty good lineup. steve: a big show a couple weeks away. thank you, jillian. ainsley: thanks, jillian. steve: remember disgraced director andy mccabe who got fired and had a front row seat for all the fisa court failures. now he is giving a lecture to law schools all about that. brett tollman says mccabe was one of the worst leaders in power. he will explain coming up next. ainsley: prince harry raising eyebrows again with a new social media post.

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download the xfi app today. steve: disgraced former fbi deputy director got fired taking part in a fisa reform event at new york university law school last night. mccabe admitted the bureau suffers from a, quote, inherent weakness in the process of obtaining fisa warrants. you will remember the horowitz report found a dozen significant errors and

omissions in the fbi's application to surveil carter page and mccabe was number two at the time. is it really time to hear more of his story. here to weigh in is former u.s. attorney for utah brett tolman former counsel of the judiciary committee and -- joins us from salt lake city. hello breath tolman. >> hello. steve: what do you make of mccabe surfacing at the nyu law school lecturing about how the department of justice works? >> well, you know, if you or i were fired for dishonesty from the fbi, i'm not sure we would be given such a sweet gig. here he is and he is lecturing us about the fisa rules and great irony in that because the issue is that there wasn't proper decision-making at the very top of the fbi and guess who was in charge of that? that's andrew mccabe. steve: right. and we heard this past week

from david chris who some have suggested is a partisan links to the left.nonetheless ht in charge of trying to clean things up the fbithings they ha, come on, are you kidding? this isn't going to help. >> right. these are individuals that we put great trust in as a country we wanted to believe that they would utilize some of the most powerful tools we grant to law enforcement and they we would it ethically. here mccabe is an individual that is saying let's have a permanent oversight committee. the oversight committee was already there. the deputy director who was mccabe and the director who was jim comey and it failed. so is it going to change because we are going to select more people to be on that? what needs to change is a culture that believes that they are above the law and that their decisions are more important than the ethics they are charged with

maintaining. steve: i think -- you just mentioned james comey. i think the most disturbing stormy of the day was in the "new york times" late yesterday regarding james comey. apparently the department of justice is investigating whether he illegally leaked classified information. apparently, reportedly, a russian document to the media. "the washington post" and the "new york times" and according to the story, it says that dutch intel picked up some information from the campaign, the hillary clinton campaign, on one of the russian servers, gave it to the fbi. and apparently debbie wasserman schultz told somebody working for the open society foundation that then attorney general loretta lynch would ensure that hillary clinton was not prosecuted in the email probe. this is a bombshell. >> it is a bombshell. it connects some dots. they have been frustrating to me. when jim comey went in front of the nation on that press of j

policy. it was unusual, odd. me and my colleagues looked at that and said something bigger is going on. now we know. it's this pattern. and mccabe was following the same jim comey playbook now we see. that is leak when it is necessary to try to justify what may ultimately be discovered as actions that you wouldn't want people to know about. steve: all right. that all based on "new york times" reporting. let's see what comes out. breadth tolman thank you very much. you will be the first one in the office in salt lake city this morning. good luck to you. >> i'm up early enough. steve: you are indeed. thank you, sir. meanwhile, some democrats seem to be ignoring one of the president's biggest accomplishments, slashing. will this win over voters on election day? diamond and silk have a thing or two to say about that. as you can see they are live from diamond and silk headquarters here next ♪ ♪

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migrants heading to the united states. they stopped them. honduran migrants sent back home to get proper documentation. more than 2,000 migrants entered guatemala as part of a caravan on wednesday. even those with documents won't have it easy. mexico still says they will block them as well. but that is some progress. and, the city of denver refusing to provide information on four illegal migrants wanted for deportation. ice has four subpoenas local cops went unanswered. the men faced charges ranging from vehicular homicide to child abuse. three have been released and one is in custody. also -- pete: president trump's economy keeps on winning. >> the greatest economic revival of any country in the world is the united states as big as it is. we are doing better than any other country by far. ainsley: the economy is doing especially well for minorities. the black unemployment rate near record lows in

december. prompting wall street, the "wall street journal" to ask what if in november enough black americans voted for donald trump to reelect him into the presidency? steve: to weigh in on that? fox nation personalities diamond and silk join us from dns world headquarters. diamond and silk, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> good morning. steve: what do you make of what ainsley just read from the "wall street journal"? >> well, first of all, back in 2016, black america had nothing to lose, but if they don't vote for donald j. trump in 2020, they have everything to lose. >> that's right. >> the reason why the democrats are ignoring this is because they are expecting black people to fall in line. but black people are paying attention. >> yes. >> when they see that our president is being railroaded, the same tactics are being done to him what was done to our ancestors back during the jim crow day. >> um-huh. >> they become appalled by that few it to him can you do it to average americans

like us. >> that's right. >> when they see democrats sympathizing with parents. advocating for illegal aliens and ms-13 gang members, they don't like that. you are not going to leave us holding the bag. we don't want your stuff for free because free does not mean freedom. >> that's right. >> free means you are going to control us. and black people are going to be voting for donald trump. they want to keep their tax cuts. they want to keep their employment. >> yep. >> they don't want to go backwards but they won't want to move forward. >> that's right. ainsley: how can you get that message to the black communities though? because if you watch the other networks they're talking impeach, impeach, impeach. they are not even reporting on usmca yesterday. >> i understand that. you get that message by talking to each and every person that you see. >> exactly. >> let me tell you what happens. the word spreads. >> that's right. >> people start to pay attention. whenever they see how the president of the united states is being railroaded, we have experienced that, minorities have experienced that in this country. >>

>> um-huh. >> they don't like it. >> that's right. >> they may not say nothing, but president trump have supporters that you see and those that you don't see. >> that's right. pete: ladies, if you watch the democratic debate, there was almost no conversation at all about the economy or what -- what president trump has done on the economy. so, if you are a black voter who has traditionally voted democrat, you are not hearing anything about that what are you hearing from your friends and others, from democrats that maybe didn't vote for the president. are they reconsidering their party affiliation at all? >> they are swishing their party to republican. >> to republican. >> to vote for trump. >> that's right. >> president trump. >> that's right. >> president trump have this economy booming. he is doing a lot of amazing things when it comes to minorities, especially the black community. >> that's right. >> and they are noticing that all we can go -- all we can tell you is this: there is an uprising going on in the underground. >> that's right. >> people are not paying attention to this left wing

media they're looking at it as if it was fake news. people are looking at what is going on and they are making their own decisions based off of that. steve: what do you mean underground? >> well, listen, we talked to people when we go to airports. >> yes. >> when we do our chitchat tour. >> that's right. >> we talk to average american people. they are looking for the opportunity. they are grateful for the opportunity to be able to get out and work every day and make money instead of waiting once a month on food stamps from obama, what he used to do back in the day. people are excited to be able to get out and work to support their family, especially the black community. >> that's right. we are here for black people. we are here -- they are coming up to us and letting us know. >> letting us know. >> that they are tired of all this foolishness. >> yes. >> the president has been in the news from the day he went down the case escalator. >> um. >>um bash him, disparage him, demean him. people are tired of it? >> that's right.

steve: check them out on fox nation. ladies, thank you very much. pete: the president stepping up to protect religious freedom. >> a sacred principle of our republic government must never stand between the people and god. pete: more on the president's move to safeguard prayer in school with jonathan morris and pastor robert jeffress. that's next ♪ i've got to have faith ♪ i got to have faith ♪ and you may lose weight. adults who took ozempic® lost on average up to 12 pounds. i lost almost 12 pounds! oh! (announcer) ozempic® does not increase the risk of major cardiovascular events like heart attack, stroke, or death. there's no increased risk. oh!

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morning. that 91-year-old indianapolis woman ditched her walker for her dancing shoes. ainsley: julia lewis couldn't wait to bust a move after graduating from physical therapy telling staffers at her senior living community she is loving her life. pete: moving great. pete that's hard work. ainsley: i can't believe she is 91. pete: life goal for all of us. steve: and we got to hear a little elvis. just saying. time now for news and jillian joins us. jillian: 91 and dances better than me. steve: and me. jillian: she is awesome. good for her. good morning to you guys. let's start with this. couple chasing down a kidnapping suspect and saving a little girl. pair driving in massachusetts when they recognized a car from an amber alert. that's when they called 911 and live streamed the chase. >> they are trying to ditch me. it's him. it's him.

this is -- they are doing 100 miles per hour right now. slowing at the red light. he blew the red light. >> massachusetts police eventually caught up with the car and rescued 11-year-old charlotte. she was held captive for more than six hours after being abducted walking home from school. the suspect miguel rodriguez is behind bars. a bank employee claims for giving her own money on christmas eve. oregon said she got a call from a man claiming he was stranded at gas station and needed paycheck cashed. got permission and gave him $20. the u.s. bank fired her for having an unauthorized interaction with a customer. her manager was also fired. u.s. bank refused to comment. then there is this story. speculation that prince harry is sending a secret message in an instagram video. listen to the song that's playing at his first public appearance since the megxit

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interior sections, north and west of new york city will get, you know, some plowable snow or some measurable snow. and then along the coast, again, it's going to be whether we get that cold air wrapped in and potential of a couple of inches. going to be messy. good news it will come on the weekend so hopefully a lot of people will be indoors. all right, ainsley, my friend, going inside. back to you. ainsley: j.d. it's friday. [cheers] ainsley: 42 minutes after the hour. president trump vowing to protect religious liberty to expanding guidelines to extend constitutional prayer inside schools. >> the principle of our republic can government must never stand between people and god. yet in public schools around the country authorities are stopping students and teachers from praying, sharing their faith, or following their religious beliefs. you have the right to pray. and that's a very important and powerful right. there is nothing more important than that, i would say. ainsley: here with what this

means for christians and others of other faith across our country are fox news contributors jonathan morris and robert jeffer res. hello, my friends. good morning. >> good morning. ainsley: what does this mean for our country? >> the president's action was not about correcting new rights but about protecting existing rights, especially the constitutional right to pray. and it's a right that's been under assault by liberal groups like the freedom from religion foundation and liberal courts as well. and, you know, ainsley, when the president told me a few weeks ago he was going to do this, i told him nothing would excite not only conservative christians but people of all faiths like this. and here's why. in 1962, when the supreme court accomplished prayer from schools, that was really the first shot in a 60-year war against faith by government. and many people are believing that the president's courageous action yesterday was the beginning of the end of that war on faith.

and ainsley, i don't think it's any exaggeration at all to say no president in history has been a greater champion for religious liberty both in america and around the world than president donald trump. ainsley: what does this mean for you. >> you couldn't agree more with pastor jeffress. there has been a war on religious right and civil right to pray wherever we want including in public institutions like public schools there has also been this very strong push to make us think that somehow the separation of church and state means we have to hide our faith. let me just read a very small thing. this is from franklin roosevelt to show how far we have come. this is from the president of the united states in 1941 as our soldiers were off in world war ii. he says this: to the members of the army as commander-in-chief, remember, this is 1941, i take pleasure in commending the reading of the bible -- and this is a little bible

that was sent. the reading of the bible to all who serve in the armed forces of the united states. throughout the centuries, men of many faith and diverse origins have found in the sacred book words of wisdom, counselor and preparation. imagine sending this to our troops and being considered not only normal but very helpful. that's how far we have come. i'm glad that the president of the united states today is allowing us to see that that separation of hiding our faith is something that is not american and not constitutional. ainsley: what does this mean for the coaches that have gotten in trouble or had to apologize? you had joseph kennedy who is that coach at washington state in a high school and he was fired back in 2015 for praying on the field after the games for violating the school's policy there was rick rice the tennessee high school coach who had to apologize for post game prayer last year. pastor jeffress, you live in texas. prayer is so important to many southerners or people all across the world, but down there people pray

before games. >> that's right. ainsley: what does it mean for those situations? does it protect those coaches? >> well, i will tell you what, first of all, the president singled out coach kennedy and about being fired and the president does not think it's right for coaches to be fired for praying. but what this means in the future is this: the only way these rights are going to be protected and upheld is by conservative justices and judges on federal courts. and you know, they say president trump is on trial right now for ukraine. that's not what this trial is about. he has committed two unpardonable sins in the eyes of the democrats. that is beating hillary clinton in 2016 pack the court with conservative judges who will support the right to pray. the right of religious liberty and the right to life and to the democrats, that's the unpardonable sin. but thank god the president is winning on packing the courts with these conservative judges. ainsley: jonathan, real quickly, i want to give you

the last word. >> sure. it sounds like what the president wants and we all want is not for a government to establish one religion over the other. our foundational documents tell us we want the government to stay out of inhibiting our free exercise of religion and not to establish one religion over the other but to allow everybody to do and to believe and to say what's on their heart. >> that's right. ainsley: thank you both for being with us. >> thanks, ainsley. >> thank you, ainsley. ainsley: you are welcome. catch pastor jeffress in patway to victory on fox fox nation. joe concha is blasting the bias coming up next. ♪

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jillian: good friday morning welcome back. business headlines now. jetblue is hiding baggage fee for the second time in two years. passengers pay $35 for a first checked bag and 45 for a second. the company claims the $5

price hike helps ensure lower fares. travelers can get a $5 discount if they pay for their checked bags 24 hours in advance. jetblue may have you paying more but can you soon pay less for shoes. payless shoe stores making a come back after filing for bankruptcy protection last year. the company closed more than 2,000 stores but under new leadership payless plans to relaunch its website and open new brick and mortar locations. there you have it, steve. steve: we love to pay less. the u.s., mexico canada agreement. usmca overwhelmingly passing in the senate by 80 something to 10. pete: 89. steve: politico headlining wane for president trump but changed headline to. pete: can't have a win let alone a major win. why can't the media give the president credit for this

victory? ainsley: here to react is radio talk show host joe concha. what's your reaction to that they changed the headline. >> amazing. politico purports to be objective news source like cnn. obviously it is not. we remember 2016 in the wikileaks dump showed two senior white house reporters colluding for lack of a better term with the hillary clinton campaign. that tells you everything you need to know about politico. in thes this case, headline twek something very common. it happens. if you change the entire premise of the headline from major win for trump to, hey, this has got a long way to go and it's really not that big of a deal. steve: right. >> this is why trust in media has now become four letter word that starts with s and ends in t. steve: sleet, maybe. you worked in a number of numerous, how doenewsrooms how e go from major win for trump

and then changing to yeah we have got to get out the wrenches and fix that thing. >> i know in the case of the hill i provide the content and editor usually does the headline. for the headline to be changed that means somebody senior had to go in wait a minute, this is something very positive for the president during impeachment and we can't have that look, the bottom line is during impeachment we have seen the study showing that 93% of coverage has been negative. i get you have to cover impeachment, huge story it, doesn't happen very often, right? steve: right. >> doesn't mean you can't cover things as well like the usmca deal. like the phase one u.s.-china trade deal a very big deal that a lot of people didn't think would get done and phase 2 obviously. that's a big accomplishment. the killing of soleimani and obviously the job numbers and wage growth we are seeing. while impeachment is going on and all the rhetoric around that around the story that we know how it is going to end, he is not going to be removed, the president is

showing results going into an election year and that's why his approval ratings continue to rise despite being impeached. >> joe you mentioned media research center 93% negative. you mentioned jobs and the economy. break it down here. if you are looking at 93% negative. 149 of the minutes coverage have been on the impeachment. a story everyone knows the ending. to say you go all the way to the bottom. 9 minutes on trade and the economy. when you consider usmca, when you consider phase one of the china deal and all the records being broken on wall street, including the job numbers. nine minutes? how could you justify that. steve: pete, how much time did the networks spend on covering usmca. ainsley: zero. pete: networks zero minutes on covering all three of them. >> zero mention. that's something that affects americans, impacts them directly, many would say in a positive way. senator rob portman said this is like the world series and the super bowl in

the same week in terms of the u.s.-china trade deal and the usmca. but, again, doesn't get any coverage. or just nine minutes total because how could you cover something as important as that when you have whether elizabeth warren, you know, said that bernie sanders said that a woman can never be president or not because that's the big story, right? something that can't be proven. it's amazing, by the way. that cnn was able to obtain audio of that hot mic moment during that debate considering it was their audio. they had it in house the entire time ♪ ainsley: thank you, joe. we have dhs secretary chad wolf, judge jeanine pirro, jordan sekulow and geraldo rivera all live. we made usaa insurance for members like martin.

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a candy store. ainsley: i love my job i wake up always on 3:00 a.m. even on a saturday morning do you do that? i wake up and there is a great feeling of i can go back to sleep. steve: i stay up. i do stuff. ainsley: the house is quiet, so you are all alone. you can watch a movie. can you go make a beverage. pete: you watch a movie. ainsley: sometimes i do. the house is quiet. it's my only time kind of by myself. i have a fireplace. i get in front of the fire sometimes. steve: my dunkin' donuts opens early i go over. you would prefer your job starts at like 9:00 a.m. ainsley: well, no. because then i couldn't pick up hayden from school. steve: it's a good deal. this is friday, second hour. of course you saw this all day long on the channel yesterday. the impeachment trial for donald trump is officially underway in the senate. pete: it comes as the white house fires back following a so-called watchdog group claiming that white house violated a budget law.

ainsley: mark meredith joins us live from the white house. mark, this i, this is the first violatiothis isn't the firsttimg called out. >> accusing the gao trying to insert itself into the scandal. the gao pointing their fingers at the trump administration accusing them of wrongdoing. report came out said many things quote the office of management and budget violated law when it was held approximately $214 million appropriated to dod, the defense department, for security assistance to the ukraine. now, the gao has accused past administrations of overstepping their authority as well. in 2014, for example, the gao accused the obama administration of violating the law for exchanging five taliban commanders for army sergeant bowe bergdahl without giving congress 30 days notice. of course, the decision to delay sending foreign aid to ukraine that's at the heart of the scandal facing president trump. >> while that trial officially get underway on

tuesday. lawmakers are already speaking out, trying to say other side is trying to manipulate the proceedings. >> in the coming days, each of us, every one of us, democrat and republican will face a choice about whether to begin this trial in the search of truth or in service of the president's desire to cover it up. >> the president was asked on thursday how long he thinks the impeachment trial should go. he says it should go very quickly. steve, ainsley and pete, back to you in new york. steve: mark, i have a question for you. first of all, so the gao said the administration broke the law. they also said that during the obama administration they broke the law seven times. george w. bush three times. william jefferson clinton once. but, while they say that, even though they are a government watchdog, we paid for their funding, there is no fall-out from it, right? there is no liability. it's not like anybody is going to go to jail. >> well, this report was ordered by congress and basically congress will then

take the findings and run with the ball from there. that's what we heard from a number of lawmakers yesterday saying that this is the kind of information that they want to hear more about when this trial unfolds early next week. ainsley: thank you, mark. pete: specifically ordered up by chris van hollen a democrat, no wonder. you raised this earlier. the timing of it, why now? steve: the same day the trial starts in the senate and suddenly the gao comes in and says ah-ha they broke the law. stop the presses. ainsley: so the media is giddy. chuck schumer is out there speaking, thanking that senator who requested this information. thanking nancy pelosi. nancy pelosi is excited about this because now the democrats in the senate want to use that information and that lev parnas interview to enter new information. new -- they want new witnesses. steve: they want to call new witnesses. >> new information to be used in the senate trial to beach is the president. pete: government media complex kicking into high gear. this is when they feed each

other if the media isn't working for them. all the while, he can't dismiss this week china phase one deal, usmca two huge victory brought only, only by the candidate trump emphasizing them as big issues. and then actually delivering on them and they ignore it. they choose though ignore it. ainsley: democrats saying levy parnas interview -- don't trust a word from lev parnas. listen to. this all ukrainian media as well today and yesterday and strangely enough, my name was not mentioned although i'm minister of foreign affairs. frankly, i never spoke with this individual and, again, frankly, i don't trust any work he is now saying. pete: again, lev parnas admits he never spoke with the president about any of this as well. steve stove right. keep in mind, there he is right there. he is an accused felon. is he facing serious

criminal charges. if the democrats were to call him as a witness, then republicans would be able to say look, they are relying -- after they did the investigation in the house, they are now relying on this man accused of these felony criminal charges of being their star witness. senator lindsey graham looks at lev parnas and he has a very -- a very like a "new york post" kind of headline describing him. he calls him a rat. watch. >> now they want the senate to call the national security advisor, the secretary of state, the omb director and the chief of staff of the president of the united states any president would claim executive privilege. not about getting to the truth trying to get republicans take hard votes. let me tell you about the evidence. new evidence different than the old evidence.

the parnas guy is facing indictment. dripping out to the house intel committee batches of information crescendoing to the week we start the trial. i smell a rat here. the guy is crooked as a snake. and we're not going to slow down this trial. pete: people can see it. very pro-trump. now under investigation, potentially facing felony charges and then you are on rachel maddow? i wonder how that progression happened grounded in principle or personal -- steve: smoking gun he says that donald trump knew he was looking for opposition research on joe biden and others which i think it's legal to look for opposition research but there are other allegations as well. ainsley: andrew mccabe was speaking closed door, closed to all of the television reporters but print reporters could go in. he was speaking at nyu about the fisa court. and he denies any political bias in the warrant process.

steve: right. ainsley: he says, steve, do you want to read it? steve: no, i don't. ainsley: i will read it. mccabe admitted thursday that the bureau suffers from inherent weakness in the process of obtaining fisa warrants. emphasized that any issues with the fisa process happened at the agent level saying that all of the responsibility is left on the shoulders on the case agent. he closed by categorically denying allegations that the fbi had engaged in political bias in its pursuit of fisa warrants during the investigation of trump. pete: so 17 mistakes by the case agent who either was totally ignorant of the law or wanted to break the law as opposed to maybe there was some guidance that you should steer it in this direction? andy mccabe says nothing to see here. steve: keep in mind, it was that fisa application and the approval by the judge, even though they were given inaccurate information that led to the spying on -- of the trump campaign which got us to where we are.

also, jaw droppingly, this is a story in the "new york times" yesterday. the department of justice, investigating years old leaks and appears focused on comey and what it says is the department of justice is investigating whether comey illegally leaked secret information about a russian document to the "new york times" and "the washington post." and apparently, what -- the way this information came about, dutch intel ache sellsed the document by russian computers and gave it to the fbi. hey, look what we found on there. and in the story it says that debbie wasserman schultz, former dnc high ranking authority, told somebody working for the open society foundation that then attorney general loinch would ensure that hillary rodham clinton was not prosecuted in the email probe. this was he, mr. comey is accused of illegally leaking it sounds like that russian

document. ainsley: classified. steve: to the "new york times" and "the washington post." ainsley: he could be the target of a criminal probe. pete: i was trying to keep up with you, steve. dutch, russian, fbi, debbie wasserman schultz, open society, loretta lynch. steve: george soros. pete: george soros, hillary clinton. but my question is where is this investigation coming from? is this part of durham's investigation which is ongoing, which it could be. could it be huber? ainsley: the guy in utah? pete: yeah, the guy in utah. ultimately good news for somebody who believes comey should not be above the law if he was leaking the information he shouldn't have to solidify a case. steve: we know he has leaked information before to the "new york times" to get the special prosecutor. ainsley: we love the fbi and we love our field offices. but what happened under comey's watch at his level raises some eyebrows. we all want to know what happened. we want to know how this all happened. why the president was surveyed, if there were 17

mistakes. breath tolman was talking about the culture at the fbi, listen to. this these are individuals that we put great trust in as a country we want to believe that they would utilize some of the most powerful tools we grant to law enforcement and they would we would it ethically. the oversight committee was already there. that's the deputy director who was mccabe and the director who was jim comey. and it failed. so is it gonna change because we are going to select more people to be on that? what needs to change is a culture that believes that they are above the law. and that their decisions are more important than the ethics they are charged with maintaining. steve: well, let's see what happens. because the investigation is ongoing at the department of justice into the department of justice. pete: hard to believe a word andy mccabe is saying when you know what his boss was doing and you know what his others were saying about the president in the entire process. steve: would you like more

information? i can contact dutch intel. [laughter] it is 7:11 in new york city and jillian joins us. jillian: i'm part dutch, you know. ainsley: maybe you have people over there that has information. jillian: i don't know anyone over there i just know that i am. get started with this headline. gun rights file appeal on temporary ban on guns from the virginia state capitol. governor ralph northam announced this ahead of a planned rally. three suspected neo nazis hot fbi says were planning to attend the rally are facing federal firearms charges. one is a former canadian armed forces reservist in the country illegally. the fbi believes the men have ties to violent extremist group. actress lori loughlin and her husband could face paying half a million dollars in bribes to get their daughter in usc. the two joked about the scam with the ringleader.

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what's, of course, being taught in the classrooms if your teacher of the year is also a kneeler taking advantage of the opportunity on a national stage. what's happening in her classroom when she is teaching the next generation? ainsley: it's a cute baby next to her. steve: all right. pete: leave it to ainsley to find the nugget. steve: thank you, jillian. meanwhile, something we are talking about. did jeffrey epstein really commit suicide or was he murdered? dr. michael baden said it could have been murder. the proof is in epstein's eyes. an explanation coming up next. as a struggling actor, i need all the breaks that i can get. at liberty butchumal- cut. liberty biberty- cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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still many questions left unanswered. famed pathologist dr. michael baden revealing new details in the investigatioinvestigationand exs us live. dr. baden, good morning to you. you say that the answer to whether or not he killed himself could be in his eyes. explain that. >> that with hanging, in the loop comes up under the wind pipe, under the mandible, there usually is not any kind of hemorrhages in the eye. with homicidal strangulation, because of the increased pressure, there are hemorrhages in the eyes. steve: when you examined the body there were burst capillaries. >> burst capillaries in the eye called pay tiki eye. that's not conclusive but greater evidence of homicide than suicide. steve: when you hang yourself what about lower extreatments. >> when you hang yourself

the blood settles down to the lower legs and you get a maroon discoloration front and back of the legs. steve: turns purple. >> turns maroonish purple. this was not present here. steve: what color were they? >> normal color. normal pale color of the skin. steve: you know people listening to this see i told you someone went in there and killed him. >> that's possible. all you need is one -- he don't need a whole lot of people. one bad guy say that's why they have to deal with the guards, one guard gives them the key and opens up the cell and nobody knows it because nobody is rounds. steve: how convenient none of that video exists. >> that's a problem. steve: that is kind of a problem. you are troubled by the fact that the medical examiner said oh, look, it's suicide over and done. and now the investigation really isn't going anywhere. >> that's right. the investigation is going for security purposes.

barr has made but not for cause of death. steve: why does that trouble you? >> because it's five months now and we don't even know the position of the body when it was found by the guard. was he hanging up? was he on the ground? was there a noose on the neck? steve: they are not even looking into whether he was murder kentuckmurdered. looking into what rules the guard broke. >> security why the cameras weren't working and how they have to improve their security measures. >> what about the fact that the eminents were called and what do they do rather than do the chalk outline around him, they carted him off to the hospital which never happens and they didn't take any pictures. >> the eminents are not supposed to move a dead body. he was clearly dead when they got there. and we still don't have the results of the emts. how did they find the body

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steve: all right. the megxit crisis is dominating world news. so what drove harry and meghan out of the country and out of the royal family? some critics blaming racism. ainsley: others argue it's simply because the couple was more concerned about politics and celebrity than the monarchy. steve: alex hogan is live in our newsroom with more on the story. >> good morning. the duke and duchess of sussex separately for the first time since leaving the royal family.

harry gardens of buckingham palace. in canada meghan supporting various women's charities. since getting married, the couple have been harshly criticized the in tabloids with some royal commenters blaming blatant racism for the negative coverage. others say it has to do with their involvement in politics. something that the royals historically stay away from. >> the press always needs a villain in the story or nowadays click bait. but, you cannot argue with headlines like straight out of compton and comes from the gang -- >> want to become some kind of version of like the clooneys or the obamas. that kind of international celebrity but still kind of political set. that is something that i think was a little bit of a bridge too far for the house of windsor. >> harry defended his wife when they were dating calling out the press on those on social media for what he called outright sexism and racism. public opinion on that is mixed. >> no one is avertly said

anything about his race but the media has been relent lent. >> there are racist in the country but i don't think that's what's driven them away. >> [inaudible] as we have just found out. twice. in our period of time. >> harry is expected to join his wife and their son archie in canada some time soon as royal aides figure out what their role will be looking like in moving forward. ainsley, steve? steve: what a mess. all right. alec, thank you very much. ainsley: down to. pete: pete congressman brian mast challenges his colleagues to explain why critics say the killing of iranian terrorist general soleimani was unjustified. >> if you walk out this hallway, you are going to come to several beautiful walls that have the names of our fallen service members from the war on terror.

and i would ask can any of you provide me one name on that wall that doesn't justify killing soleimani? i will be more than happy to sit here and wait. pete: and he waited. no one answered the retired army ranger who lost both legs serving in afghanistan. he joins me now to discuss along with retired marine sergeant and virginia congressional candidate rob jones and retired army captain and wisconsin congressional candidate jason church. gentlemen, thank you all for being here. congressman, sometimes the most simple argument is the most powerful. you could go in there, debate policy. foreign affairs committee everyone likes to use big fancy words. you step back and say give me one name and you sat in silence. where did you come up with that approach? >> look, i just wanted them to have to answer an honest question. they are trying to debate

all of these semantics about whether we should have killed this terrorist that killed americans, that did things like what you see before you, you know, each of these six legs, hundreds of americans across the country that way because of soleimani. force them to answer the question. not give them a pass on it. and what did they do? they tried to steal a moment of reflection about our fallen service members, friends of mine, friends of jason, friends of rob because it didn't fit their political agenda. they tried to see you lens and we can't let them do it. pete: chairman eliot engel tried to move on as you waited for an answer. watch. this i would like to wait for somebody to provide me with a name. >> i think have you made your point. you are out of order, mr. mast. >> the killing of soldiers. >> you are out of order. >> i will not yield back my time. >> you are out of order, mr. mast. >> have you made your point. >> mr. chair. pete: what's out of order? last time i check have you an allotted amount of time. can you use it as you would

like. you are waiting simply for one of your colleagues to answer. >> this is venue designed for debate to speak about they wanted to talk about was the killing of soleimani justified. i explained to them listen, think of him like a terrorist machine gun that's sprayed us for decades. just because that machine gunnist might be reloading it doesn't mean it wasn't eminent threat totally justified by what he had done to our brothers and sisters in arms. they didn't want to hear it. and they didn't want to have to reflect upon it and that's why he couldn't stand the silence. he tried to bring it to an end. pete: target. know he is a bad guy. have the time to do something about it and the president did. let me get to the other two gentlemen here who want to run to have a job just like yours. sergeant jones, when you look at there are 96 vets currently serving in congress. you are hoping there is a lot more. look at the impact of brian mast and others who can ask that question because they have been there and gave it. what does that mean towel and why are you running? >> i think veterans are kind

of necessary representatives in congress because we are experts at selflessness and we are experts at sacrificing of ourselves for the greater good. and those are two requirements in my opinion for somebody that's going to be a representative. pete: selflessness you might say in a bit of short supply in washington, d.c. captain church when you look at that hearing, again, a lot of us are motivated by the fact that we would take that moment to say 600 names, 700 names, give me one that you are willing to say worth -- would prove that we shouldn't strike soleimani, no one else could do that but a veteran. >> watching brian do that was something that, for me, showed the power of an individual that's inspired by something that he has seen and experienced in the harshest of circumstances. and we all have seen that. and we have seen the destruction that qassem soleimani has done. we have seen that firsthand.

me, i live across the river from an individual like ilhan omar who went out and said this man was a foreign government official that the president of the united states assassinated. this man was a terrorist. he needed to be gone a long time ago. i applaud brian for what you were talking about there and i applaud the president for his actions. because at the end of the day, this has saved countless lives and, in my opinion, is preventing another war. pete: yeah, as a minnesotan we apologize for that representative across the river. brian, what would it mean for you to have reinforcements like this on capitol hill? >> look, i need these battle buddies out there. dan crenshaw. he needs more seal buddies up there. it matters. i have seen real sacrifice. the one thing i can tell you if you want to serve in washington, do it the way that people did in combat without regard for personal gain and without regard for personal sacrifice. any other way you don't belong here. pete: sergeant jones we live in interesting political times. >> yes, sir. pete: were you to have an

opportunity to join the representative on capitol hill. what are the one or two issues you would want to tackle the most. >> the issues that are important to virginia, i am sure you saw recently we are going to be experiencing a lot more traffic coming up here. we are -- i'm also sure you see in virginia we are fighting for our second amendment rights. and, you know, healthcare is an important aspect of life in virginia. pete: i didn't hear impeachment or the green new deal or medicare for all. [laughter] pete: that's a good thing. captain, how about you, issues that matter to you? >> well, in this district where i'm at in northern wisconsin, it's rural. we have a lot of hard working people farmers and manufacturers. trade and immigration is important to them people have experience in the world that is like their own can be harsh, sometimes. and for me as a veteran, it's something that is relatable up there. that also feels at the end of the day that the last thing we need more of in

washington is people who are just simply trying to climb the ladder and move up and kind of see where they can go in the political world. they want people to come in there and sacrifice their time country time need it. all three of us have proven we are willing to do it and i would love to do it in congress. >> these guys are fighters. you send them into washington and you say what is somebody else going to do to them that is worse than already has been. if he are fighters and that's the way they will do it in d.c. pete: amen. gentlemen, thank you very much. and i love what you did in that committee hearing. >> thanks, brother. >> thanks for having us. pete: the trump administration stepping up to deter illegal immigration. a new caravan stopped in guatemala as migrants in the u.s. are flown deep into mexico. up next acting dhs secretary chad wolf joins us with an update live ♪ i said it ♪ and i still mean it ♪ when you heard what i told you ♪ when you get worried

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ainsley: overnight. ice teaming up with guatemalan police to stop a group of 300 migrants heading to the united states. the honduran migrants being sent back home. steve: this as dhs has started to send mexican migrants in the united states back home to mexico. flying them deep into the country rather than simply taking them to the border and saying go how many. that way. pete: joining us with more acting secretary of the department of homeland security chad wolf. mr. secretary, thank you very much for joining us this morning. so we heard a lot about caravans in the past. forming and moving. is mexico doing anything about it? what will we do when they approach the border? how have things changed when it comes to this most recent one? >> yeah. i think you are seeing two different changes between now and 2018. not only in the shear

number, in the size, which is much lower and they are dispersed but also in the environment. we see a much more aggressive enforcement posture by partners in central america and mexico. run into a whole host of issues as they try to transverse guatemala and mexico. mexico will not let them through. it will limit their access to the southern part of the country. they are not going to provide transit visas. the environment is completely different as it was two years ago. should they get through, should they get all the way to our southwest border, we have a number of policies and plans in effect that will not allow them in. steve: sure. ainsley: chad, it's working if you look at the numbers. last may, remember thousands, we would show videos of thousands coming across our border. 144,116 last may. this past december, 40,620. what do you credit? because they didn't talk about immigration at all at the democratic debate the

beginning of the week. why do you think these numbers are dropping? >> well, i think what it signifies is the president's strategy is work. we have had 75% decrease in those numbers. and it's a variety of different things. obviously the partnerships that we have again with our central american and mexico partners but also the policies and the procedures that we have put in place at the border. so whether it's some of the flights that you talked about, mpp. it's a variety of different programs that have put in place individuals now trying to cross the border illegally they all go into a immigration pathway and ended catch and release. we have dis incentivized making this dangerous journey and trying to seek asylum. the vast majority of these folks are looking for jobs or to reunify with their family. that's not asylum. but they have used our laws against us in the past and we have changed that. steve: and, of course, the president of the united states threatened them, threatened mexico unless you start cracking down, we're going to have tariffs, great news guatemalans also

realized there is money involved in there now as you have called it one of our partners. but, chad, let's talk a little bit about what's going on here in new york state. obviously, sanctuary state and this 21-year-old khan was arrested in november on assault and weapons charges and ice had a detainer on him, and, yet, he was released and then as it turns out he has now been charged with the murder of a 92-year-old woman. that, on the heels of the fact that they have done criminal justice reform and no bail here in new york state, it's almost impossible at certain levels of crime to get arrested, chad. >> i agree. it's absolutely disgusting. the politicians and jurisdictions there certainly playing politics with public safety. you mentioned not only the sanctuary policies but also the green light law that new york has passed which limits the amount of information that cbp and ice can obtain from state -- the dmv

database which they use every day to build cases against criminals and terrorists alike. so, again, it's very, very dangerous once jurisdictions and politicians put politics above public safety and we're trying to do everything that we can to battle that. but it is an uphill battle. ainsley: mr. khan was charged with stabbing his father. let him out because of the policies in new york and goes and does this and assaults her before he kills her. the mayor's office releases this statement. we mourn with the family of ms. fuentes. if mr. khan is convicted the city will cooperate with federal officials in accordance with local law. it's shameful that the trump administration is politicizing this tragedy. pete: in accordance with local law? >> if convicted. pete: seems like a lot of -- >> what i would say completely preventable tragedy. had they honored the ice

detainer, this would never have happened. so if they would have cooperated with ice officials, the individual never would have been let out, wouldn't have committed this crime and we wouldn't even be talking about this. so if they would just cooperate in the first place wouldn't even be an issue. steve: ultimately, the issue is safety. are the people of new york safer? >> i don't believe so. not with sanctuary policies and the like. what this does, the only sanctuary it provides is to criminals. it makes those communities less safer. also makes ice and law enforcement officials less safe. instead of picking up an individual in a confined jail setting. they have to go into communities. knock on doors and the like. again, putting those communities at danger and the like. so it's just, again, i think it's very hypocritical for them to say that. if they just would have honored that ice detainer to begin with we wouldn't even be talking about this. pete: acting dhs secretary chad wolf, thank you for joining us this morning we appreciate it? >> thank you. ainsley: jillian has more headlines for us. jillian: good friday morning to you.

a couple is praised for chasing down a kidnapping suspect and saving a little girl. it's really an incredible story. the pair was driving in massachusetts when they recognized a car from an amber alert. that's when they called 911 and live streamed the chase. watch this. >> they are trying to ditch me. it's him. it's him. this is a blue honda civic. they are doing 100 miles per hour. >> they just ran the red light. >> he has blown a red light. jillian: you can hear the panic in their voice. police eventually caught up with the car and rescued 11-year-old charlotte. she was held captive for more than six hours after being abducted walking home from school. the suspect miguel rodriguez is behind bars. a car gets stuck on the tracks right as a train approaches. stop what you are doing and look at this.

everyone in the studio went whoa, a speeding train smashing into the mini cooper in miami beach. unclear how the car got stuck, incredibly though no one was hurt. the new york mets parts way with beltran in the scandal. beltran was named in the report on the houston astros. he was not disciplined by mlb. in a statement he writes, quote: i'm a man of faith and integrity and what took place did not demonstrate those characteristics. beltran was hired three years ago. he didn't manage a single game. the mets will not pay his $3 million salary. you know, there is so much going on right now. there is more allegations some of the players, with being wired potentially. pete: buzzers on the shoulder. ainsley: don't rim off meijer'sy there might be something wired. steve: what a mess. ainsley: yankees fans and dodgers fans poet pete how do we know the yankees

didn't do it too? [whoa] steve: joining us from a street that hosts both the yankees and the mets. there is janice and she is hopping cold. janice: what are your names. >> lori freeman. >> lisa rose. >> mississippi. janice: going to snow tomorrow, ladies. big winter storm affect much of the country and cold air in place. a lot of places are going to get snow. we could get some ice. we have blizzard condition across portions of the dakotas in towards minnesota. so, it's going to be really treacherous, if not dangerous traveling in some of these areas. we could get a foot or more of snow across the midwest and come northeast toward no. you want to say hi to anybody at home. >> i made it with janice dean mostly sunny. [cheers] janice: big hug. >> i made it. i'm with janice dean. pete: noted yankees don't have to cheat because they buy their championship. >> come on! steve: an out of towner.

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♪ ainsley: drivers in california could soon catch a break when it comes to traffic fines. the governor, gavin newsom, outlining plans to slash fines but only if you're low income. kurt, the cyberguy, hit the streets of california to see what the residents there think of this. hey, kurt. >> hey, ainsley, yeah. controversy brewing up here in california. fact of the matter is you could be on the road out here if this goes through according to gavin newsom newsom and someone blows right past you driving like a maniac. why? because they will not have to pay the same fine or have the same consequences. just listen to what people think about this. >> the price of all the tickets is too high, whether you are rich or poor. it's a money-making scheme for the government. >> i'm all for it. if the poor can get a break, i go for it. >> i think it would be good. >> i think it's absolutely wrong. i don't agree with it. >> we all should be the same. >> i understand less money for the city, but not

everybody in the city is in the same financial position. >> it makes a lot of sense to me. all you have is poor people and really rich people. and so we need to adjust our policies accordingly. >> we should help out the less fortunate. i think that's a good thing. >> i don't think it's fair they're committing a crime why should they get a deduction. pay the fine. [laughter] >> ainsley, there are $3.6 billion in traffic fines given out in california statewide each year. $1.4 billion of those are paid. but 1.8 billion go delinquent. and so the governor thinks this is the idea to catch up on some of that debt for people who don't pay. most people, you ask, say hey, this is not fair, this could also result in our insurance going up for your car because if you have got more people not obeying the law, which is inevitably the consequence of this then you will end up with higher

insurance rates for everybody. ainsley: right. right. >> the other thing is you know what, the tickets out here when you, let's say, for example go through a crosswalk where you go through a crosswalk where a podesta is, it's $25 base ticket. but with all of the taxes california adds in to it, it ends up being issued at $198. ainsley: all right. kurt, thanks for weighing in on this. it's just being thrown out there. it's not being implemented yet. thanks, kurt. great to see you. impeachment testimony hasn't even started in the senate and democrats are already crying cover-up. geraldo is going to join us live to react. ♪ we've got the beat ♪ we got the beet ♪ yeah, they got the beat ♪

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>> ♪ ♪ steve: well it's early in the year, but today is the coldest day of the year so far in new york and the real feel temperature is 6. ainsley: and we are expecting snow this weekend which will be nice. brian: also ice which is never good. ainsley: i'm sorry if you were flying out. brian: i was flying to minnesota, see the boys and do some different stuff, and no bue no, ain't happening. pete: i'm working tomorrow. ainsley: how are you going to fly? pete: you know, they hang out and it didn't end up happening.

steve: he's a traveling man. hey thank you, pete, for sitting in for brian today he is busy in the meantime we've got one more hour and it starts with the trial. pete: you know the word we try to not say but we have to say because it's ongoing the impeachment trial for president trump is officially underway on capitol hill. ainsley: yes it is it comes as a watchdog group claims that the white house violated a budget law by withholding that aid to ukraine. steve: you know, whenever big stories like this break down in washington we turn to one man. his name, griff. griff jenkins. griff: steve, ainsley and pete, look theg oa, or government accountability office is a non- partisan federal watchdog that works for congress and they can only request information from them and yesterday they released an opinion in a report striking at the heart of impeachment saying that office of management and budget violated the law when it withheld approximately $214 million appropriated to dod for security assistance to ukraine but the white house shot back calling it "a pretty clear

overreach, as they attempt to insert themselves into the media 's controversy of the day" now this is not the first time theg oa has found adam schiffs and violation. it did seven times under obama in 2016 saying the administration violated their own signature health care law, by giving more than allowed and in 2015 accusing thee pa of engaging in a "covert propaganda " in violation of federal law by conducting a social media campaign on water quality and in 2014 citing the pentagon for failing to give 30 days notice about bowe bergdahl for five taliban commanders and they found george w. bush's administration in violation of the law five times and bill clinton just once. timing of yesterday's release is unclear but expect this to come up in the trial, house manager jerry nadler issuing a statement saying today's decision confirms what we already knew, the president broke the law, by withholding critical military aid from a vulnerable allie,

continuing the senate must act to remove the president from office, for his abuse of power, get ready, guys, the statements begin on tuesday at 1:00 p.m. steve: that's right and so the impeachment trial is on griff thank you very much. pete: thanks, griff. steve: it's friday, 8:00 time to go to geraldo rivera, fox news correspondent at large and host of "i am geraldo" hey, geraldo. geraldo: george, everybody. steve: what you go make of the fact that on the same day, the impeachment trial started, the g oa decides do you know what? now is a good file to announce that the trump adminitration broke the law. we think that it's just a coincidence, don't you? geraldo: well i don't believe in coincidence at all, but this is the biggest story in the last couple of decades, which an agency non-partisan thee o receipt icily but it does work for the congress, and we know who runs the congress so the report is suspect in its timing

but even in its declaration it's not binding on everybody. it's not an indictment. it's not a suggestion which crime, for instance is laid out. it's not a high crime or a misdemeanor, it's not bribery or treason. what the hell is it that they are talking about? but you know, i see it as a lawyer, and an amateur, constitutional scholar, a little differently. i look at this whole ukraine gate. i say everything the democrats have charged is true. i can see each and every allegation about trying to muscle the ukrainian government into investigating the bidens. i can see that. i can see that the call with president trump was not appropriate. it was tacky and inappropriate. i can see all of that and i come to "so what." this is not state, a case, as demanded by articles who section 4 of the constitution of the united states, this is not er not treason, this is not a high crime or

misdemeanor. this entire impeachment fails because it does not state what the constitution requires, and we keep our eyes on the constitution, not the g oa. that works for congress, not particularly for the american people. i mean, it does. i don't want to put them down, i just want everyone to know that this ruling does not demand any action by the senate that now is presiding over this tremendously important trial. pete: of course, geraldo you know the president can see none of those things and is fighting back but has said recently he wants a speedy senate trial, but as that all goes on, more information comes on. if you turn the channel to another network, they've become the cv network as he comes out a former confidante of rudy giuliani and makes accusations against the president. here is how democrats and the media have been framing him.

>> it's hard to conceive of a more relevant, a more material witness than lev parne ss. the spotlight needs to be on 100 senators. >> if somebody came forward, he would be an incredible witness. >> why else would they meet with me and that's very credible >> in that regard he looks like a very credible witness. >> lev parne ss certainly increases the strength offer our argument. pete: of course he never had a conversation with the president about it which he readily at admits and i want to go to the foreign minister of ukraine who back said they didn't feel pressured so here is what the foreign minister says, watch. >> it's all ukrainian media as well today and yesterday and strangely enough my name was not mentioned, and frankly, i never spoke with rudy giuliani and again, frankly, i don't trust any word he's now saying. pete: so the ukrainian minister

didn't speak with him neither did the president yet he's the star new witness. geraldo: if i may put it in a little more colorful terms. he is a creepy, self-serving super-snit ch, whose indicted facing a huge federal wrap on campaign finance violations and he will do and say anything he can and as i watched him puff himself up in the rachelm addow and the anderson cooper interview, i could see someone whose just squirming trying now to do the best he did, to cramp the best deal he can possibly get, but i go back to the senate of the united states. if we start with thelev parne ss 's of the world where does this stop? is the senate trial now going to be an ongoing never-ending, grand jury or trial rather court of the president where everybody is going to be brett kavanaugh

all over again, at the last minute and then another one who got drunk with justice kavanaugh when he was eight years old, and is that what this trial is now going to be of the president of the united states? i think that the republicans have to stand strong. is there some reasonable documentation that is necessary and can be the democrats when they have their chance in the trial that's going on now in the senate of the united states that will soon begin? they can offer something or read a document into evidence, i believe, but i think that the end result and everyone has to be clear on it, is that this is not a constitutional deal-maker. this does not amount to impeachment. i mean, when you think about the allegations, here he's implicating the president of the united states. here he's implicating the vice president of the united states. here he's implicating the attorney general of the united states all of whom deny even knowing this guy in at least any

substantive terms, but in the fevered night dream of the democrats, they get rid of the president, they get rid of the vice president, and nancy pelosi , speaker of the house is now president of the united states. ainsley: real quickly our viewer s need to know too, the g ao, that government accountability office found seven violations for president obama, three for george w. bush and one for bill clinton. one of the articles i read said if that's the case obama should have been impeached seven times but let's move to martha mcsally , and a reporter from cnn tried to ask her a question. this is what she said to him, listen. >> senator mcsally should the senate consider new evidence as part of an impeachment trial. >> man you're a liberal hack, i'm not talking to you. steve: you are a liberal hack, as she said, the correspondent on capitol hill for cnn. she was asked about it last night, whether or not, because there are a number of people at cnn, others calling for an

apology and she doubled down. listen to this, geraldo. >> these cnn reporters, many of them, around the capitol, they are so bias, they are so much in with the democrats and they can't stand the president and they run around trying to chase republicans and ask trapping questions. i'm a fighter pilot, you know? i called it like it is and that's what we see out of the mainstream media and especially cnn. every single day, so obviously, i'm going to tell the truth and i did it today and it's laugh able how they responded. steve: geraldo it sounds like she is making a case of what we observed over the last couple of decades and that is once upon a time, there were straight reporters in the halls of congress, and, you know, everywhere. if you're on the news, no opinion. here we are 2020, a lot of opinions. ainsley: sounds like there might be history there too. geraldo well there may be,

allison. steve: ainsley. ainsley: [laughter] geraldo: second time in my career i've done that but do you know what happened ainsley? i gave up alcohol in a vow last week that i wouldn't drink until the president was acquitted and its really thrown off my game. my deepest apology. ainsley: you can call me most anything. geraldo: [laughter] in terms of the statement made by senator mcsally truth is not an absolute defense to rudeness. here is a guy trying to do his job and everything she's saying about cnn has become true, sadly , in my view, 90% of it anyway as being anti-trump and pro-democrat i think that the senator in the majesty of that office is only 100 of them and the most exclusive club in the world, and i think she can blow him off in a more genetic ill way but i certainly, i honor her service, she's a fighter pilot, she's a scrapper.

pete: you know that, you're harassed every day. ainsley: but what if he's written stuff about her that she didn't agree with? we don't know but it sounds like they have some sort of a history steve: because she referred to him as a hack rather than a straight journalist. pete: what if he is a liberal hack, geraldo? geraldo: i don't see him as a hack. i think that their mandate from their boss is to do everything you can to destroy donald trump. pete: okay, your mandate is hatche ry, and as a result you're out there as a hatchet man, maybe you are a hack whether you're willful or not. he's got his marching orders, right? geraldo: listen i certainly understand that pete that sentiment. i just believe that when you get to be a senator, there's something about that job that should carry with it, i mean, then our problem as a nation is this awful division. i want the president who has

done an amazing job with the economy and he's included everybody in this huge economic up-surge in this renewal, black unemployment at record lows, hispanic unemployment at record lows and this is a time i'd love to see the president not exactly turn the other cheek. he will never do that, i've known him forever, he will never do it but exhibit to the american people that he's the president of all of the people and he wants to bring us together like reagan did, the shining city on the hill and all that stuff and i think that when a senator says, you know, you're nothing but a piece of crap, you know, true or untrue, i'd rather that that was an editorial comment by someone in the left wing or right wing media rather than a senator of the united states. that's just my pink. steve: well it was ainsley an interchange we haven't heard before up on capitol hill. check out geraldo on fox nation with "i am geraldo" exclusively. pete: 50 years.

voiced over by steve dooce y. steve: good luck with the no drinking part. all right, time now for some news, gillian. reporter: good morning. so let's begin with this fox news alert and get you caught up the iran supreme leader praising the attack on u.s. troops at an iraqi base overnight, calling it a "blow to america's image" and slamming president trump as a clown. this as we learn 11 service members were injured in the attack. the u.s. previously said no americans were hurt. they with being treated for concussion symptoms which we're told showed up days after the base was hit. >> the hunt is on for two escaped prisoners who locked a deputy inside a jail cell. jerry williams and brian web overpowered the colorado deputy and then took her keys and radio before making a run for it. williams is facing attempted murder charges and web was locked up for drug violations. deputies are searching the area near the jail and contacting the inmates relatives and friends. >> the city of denver is

refusing to provide information on four illegal immigrants wanted for deportation. i.c.e. has four subpoenas sent to local law enforcement agencies went unanswered. the men face charges ranging from vehicular homicide to child abuse and three have been released and one is in custody. >> police academy is a comedy classic especially for the cops. >> what are you in for? >> [shots fired] >> okay so this officer loves the movie so much, he kept the blockbuster tape for decades. the nypd's 19th precinct tweet ing, "so blockbuster, we still owe late fees or are we good? by the way, we rewound it" and he gave it a 10/10 and the officer tweeted a picture of his blockbuster card to our own carlie sh im kis.

he will have to hop on a plane to use it because the only one is in oregon. ainsley: i still have a blockbuster card in one of my bags. steve: i do too. pete: but is there a late fee? i want to know. steve: it would be substantial. ainsley: i think they are good. steve: thank you, gillian. pete: well the impeachment trial for president trump is official ly underway, on capitol hill. so jordan se cul ow, a member of the president's legal team joins us on that. ainsley: the search for the mystery soldier, caught on camera folding up a damaged american flag. >> ♪ ♪ as a struggling actor, i need all the breaks that i can get. at liberty butchumal- cut. liberty biberty- cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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steve: all right, senate impeachment trial got started yesterday on capitol hill, so what exactly does his defense look like? here to discuss is a member of the president's legal team and executive director of the american center for law and justice, jordans ec ulo w. jordan good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. steve: so we've seen what we saw , where the house managers brought over the articles, and they were transmitted, and they were accepted and everybody signed the big book. what happens president's legal team, we'll be filing our answer, that's a shorter document but still very significant, tomorrow, saturday, and then either on sunday or monday, steve, we'll be filing our brief. that's a very much broader, longer document, so when you combine both the significance of each the answer and the brief, what you'll see in those combined documents together, the

answer being filed tomorrow, the brief sunday or monday, is a very substantive defense of president trump, and of the office of the president and his articleii powers for future presidents in the future. steve: and this will be different than the house proceedings because we heard from republicans, we heard from democrats, we didn't hear from the president's side. >> no, i mean, i will say house republicans did about as good of a job, a great job, as they could, under the rules which were completely partisanly controlled by the democrats. this time around, both sides are going to get the same amount of time. the house managers and us, to make their case. i think they have a very uphill battle to get 67 senators to try and come on board, with these two weak articles of impeachment that are so partisan that don't even include a criminal charge and they will say wait, they don't have to, but in the past, they always

have. you know? it makes it that much weaker and tougher and i do believe if they go in there, and play their partisan politics to the u.s. senate, sitting as a jury, that is going to back fire and if you're susan collin, senator collins, senator gardner, or senator lisa murkowski and you think wait, they're coming here to attack me too, that i'm somehow on trial? they're not going to put up with this. steve: real quickly, speaking of politics, jerry nadler said in the last 24 hours i believe, look the senate is on trial, and the republicans better not be part of the coverup. so that's what the republicans are dealing with. real quick? >> yeah, you don't, as the prosecutors which is what they are, go in and tell the jury hey , we're putting you on trial. that's not whose on trial. the judge is not on trial, and it's pure partisan politics. remember nadler ran for judiciary chair amongst democrat

s saying he'd be the best to impeach the president. schiff has lied about his contact with the whistleblower, he's the lead manager and also made up and fabricated the transcript of his own accord, i guess because he was a screen writer he liked to do that and he got caught doing that and two of these house manager, steve, interesting enough, say via garcia, both voted with al green in july 2019 to impeach the president because i think they feel that same partisan political motivation that we can't beat them at the ballot box, so we've got to try and impeach him. this is purely politics, but we're ready to mount a full defense of the president, the constitution, and we're ready for our actual due process to present and we've been ready for this, the whole time. we shouldn't be there, we shouldn't have to be there, this president should never have been impeached but we're ready to go and we have been ready to go. steve: and things get going tuesday on the floor of the senate jordan thank you very

much for joining us today. >> thank you, steve. steve: meanwhile, the squad has a new republican challengeer. >> we might seem alike, both muslims, both women, both refugees, but we couldn't be further apart. steve: meet the iraqi refugee running for congress, coming up, next. her challenger and answering the call of duty how the u.s. army is using video games to find the next generation of soldiers. >> ♪ i'm back in black 1917 has been nominated for 10 academy awards,

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steve: the u.s. army is turning to video games to attract new recruits. gradytrim bl e from fox business is live at a san antonio gaming conference to explain the new focus on e-sports, grady?

reporter: hey, steve so check this out. this is actually a massive tractor trailer that the u.s. army has and it's decked out with all of these gaming chairs with these tv's that come down right in front of gamers when they come into this and this is basically a recruitment tool for the army. the e-sports and gaming world has been growing at a rapid rate recently so the idea is young people are playing games let's meet them where they are, and this whole idea was sargent first class chris jones, so tell me, what translates from video gaming to being in the army? >> the easiest way to do it is hand-eye coordination and critical thinking skills, teamwork, and playing multi- player games and being able to take those games, they are very complex and take them to the height of their efficacy is some of things we look at. reporter: i just want to show you real quickly if we could run outside here to give you an idea of just how big this thing is,

so people will line up to come into this, and check it out. they've got the monitors so as you're waiting you can watch and then come in and play and they tell you about the army. steve? steve: well that's one way to recruit. grady thank you very much, for the report from texas. ainsley, pete? ainsley: thank you, steve. democratic fire brand has been no stranger to controversy during her first term in congress, so much so that our next guest hopes to stand in the way of a second. >> in our own congress, agents of anger are carrying us in america from within, like we might seem nearly alike, both muslims, both women, both refugees, but we couldn't be further apart. she spends her time in congress sewing seeds of division and we aren't as far apart as she wants us to be. i'm running to bring us closer

together. pete: the bid is announced to un seat om ar in a fiery political edge. ainsley: the new gop candidate joins us now, good morning to you, dali a. >> good morning, from minneapolis. ainsley: tell us about yourself and why you want to run. >> i'm running because illham omar is doing harm not only to her district, not only to her state, to the whole country. as an american citizen, my duty is to defend my country and my duty is to stand up to her hatred and racism that she's spreading within her community, within the country, and even worldwide. i have a question for illham omar that needs to be answered. illham omar is harming every

american with her hatred, her standing against what we believe in, against our own constitution pete: you're not the only one with questions its recently been reported that the fbi and i.c.e. are looking into instances of perjury, immigration fraud, marriage fraud, she's got plenty of problems. you go back to the division, she seems to always look at our country as the bad guy, and when you run in a district that's democrat as a republican how do you frame your message to reach voters who feel like she just isn't representing you? >> i believe in building bridges. we are not enemies. we are all americans and we can fight together, and we can discuss issues together. her achievement as she claims that she passed this and that in the congress which is the majority democrat so it's not achievement, she needs to work for her constituents. she needs to represent them.

she doesn't care about her district. she's done nothing for her district. all she's done is to harm her district, harm her followers, so many now, they are looking for someone else and i'm here to say do you know what? we americans were not divided. we all love our country and let's not take your hate to trump against america. we are all americans and we can stand together, defend our country. pete: amen. just briefly what does america mean to you? >> america is my dream. i came to the u.s. more than 25 years ago, so basically, i'm not a refugee any more. i'm not an iraqi any more. i am an american, period. the reason why i said that i'm like her because i'm an american and a refugee and i'm a muslim because that's what she uses,

but she has her accusations. if you even criticize her for her not doing her job, she's ready to say oh, you're anti- immigrant, oh, you're anti- refugee, anti, anti, anti, so do you know what? i'm going to beat you in your own game and let's talk face to face. america, for me, is my country. america opened the doors for me. i came as a young adult and i became an international journalist, i've covered wars and been through war zones all over the world. i know what i'm talking about. i've lived under tie ran it and i know what division does to a country and i will never let it happen in this country. ainsley: dali a, thank you so much. pete: thank you for your courage , good luck too. ainsley: we reached out to congresswomanom ar's office for a comment but we did not hear

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>> we see this more and more and more in all of this, this tangled web, to deceive, that the administration is engaged in it's not a question of saying or proof that it says what allegations have been made, and

that has to be subjected on to scrutiny as to how we go forward , but it should not be ignored, in the context of other events that have happened, that would substantiate some of that. steve: and the impeachment will not be ignored this weekend, on judge piro's show and there she is also the author of radicals resistance and revenge, the left 's plot to remake america. judge, is the impeachment part of the radicals? >> do you know what i have to tell you that was a perfect segway and that is exactly what they've done. it's about the radicals and the resistance and it's about revenge but do you know what i find so fascinating about that sound that you just played? i mean, these people are up ending everything that makes america great including the constitution, so it's really not about proof. it's about allegations. to hell with proof. you know whether it's brett

kavanaugh or anyone else, or true or not doesn't matter it's about whether or not we can substantiate it is irrelevant and the best part about all of this is they try to make it so solemn. history is watching us, it is a solemn event, as they march through in this procession, through congress and the ceremony. they're about as serious as a bunch of second graders passing gas in school. pete: [laughter] >> i mean, think about it. they're high-fiving each other, handing out pens, they're like they've got it on a silver platter give me a break, and then they say, you know, senate and they have to look up to the senate because the senate is the upper chamber that most of them will never be a member of certainly not nancy pelosi, we're going to tell you how to run this. you've got to call witnesses. no kidding. you didn't call witnesses in the house. now you're going to tell us how to run a trial? steve: do you think second graders are going to like being compared to congress? pete: [laughter]

>> i couldn't help myself on that one. pete: did they think that people are going to believe that this has been a prayerful process? >> yes. pete: they really do? >> they believe all the nonsense. ainsley: you know behind closed doors they're jumping for joy. and nancy is telling them, do not smile. >> oh, i could see her like this. no! no! pete: she told herself that though because even at the signing ceremony she's looking up smiling. >> well apparently she had the whole transferring the articles of impeachment until she got those pens in they're gold on a silver platter. ainsley: douse know what the house wants now because the gao came out with the report saying donald trump violated the law, when had withheld aid to ukraine now they are saying they should impeach him for that so there is the evidence but if you look back at the violations against president obama by the gao seven violations so should he have been impeached seven times? >> well no he's a democrat.

don't you get it? the rules are different. there's no constitutional right, no right to the presumption of innocence and no right to call witnesses, cross-examine those, who come in and testify against you, and everything that is up ended and that they can do this with a serious face and do it against the president who continues to fight for us and succeed for us is stunning but i think america sees through it but there are a lot of people that buy this nonsense. steve: as a former judge as you look at what john roberts will be doing as the supreme court chief justice, what's his role? because if he hears something that is inappropriate it's not like he's going to say hey republicans or democrats you can't do that. he's just kind of sitting there. >> he is. it's not the traditional role of a judge where they say objection sustained, overruled, you know that's not it. i think if there are issues of law that they want to take up they might be able to do that,

but this is not a normal courtroom. the prosecutors are those seven that nancy has assigned and it is the senate that will decide what the rules are, who the witnesses are, who will come not the supreme court and he's more of a figurehead in the senate. pete: a lot of speculation about how this will all unfold. how do you see it happen? >> well, i see the four or five republicans that we can expect are about anti-trump, certainly mitt romney and you've got those on the fence, susan collins, lisa murkowski and that group and now lamar alexander apparently and they will talk about bringing in witnesses and here is the bottom line. if they buckle and i don't believe the other senators will allow any of that stuff then everything that has happened up to this point has been wrong. it's almost like saying that we're going to add counts to the indictment even though there's no grand jury and we'll add

witnesses even though we are limited in scope. you can't keep adding counts once you've indicted someone. that is like fundamental, that is basic, and this is nonsense, but it's about this stuff that they make it up as they go along and you know, they believe in their own nonsense, but the real come to jesus is going to happen in 2020 at the election when people say that this is, first of all you work for us. you should be doing our work. you should be taking care of us stop worrying about yourself and whether or not you'll be a speaker and you'll be the majority leader. that's what this is about. power. steve: man i wish you had something to talk about this weekend. >> [laughter] steve: actually she's got great guests, kellyanne conway,. >> and it'll be open. pete: we love it. thank you. >> goodbye, guys. steve: meanwhile, beau duke is back in the driver's seat and this time the dukes of hazard star is taking fans on a wild

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ainsley: good morning we're back with a fox news alert and take a look at emergency vehicles surrounding a delta plane that slid off an icy taxiway he kansas city airport. the plane's nose skidded off the pavement as it prepared to take off. there are no reports of any injuries and the airport is now closed due to dangerous weather conditions. >> and then there is this story an active patriotism by a mystery hero caught on camera. an army soldier, folding an american flag outside a north carolina home that was ripped off during a storm, after properly folding it, the man put it on top of a package and walked away. the homeowner wants to find out who that soldier, is, so he can thank him. pete? pete: thanks, gillian. well, it's the classic we all know and love.

>> ain't you guys into enough trouble for one day? >> luke i promise you, just one more jump. >> [car revving up] >> you dang near took the hat off that one with the brief case >> only horseshoes and hand grenades. ainsley: beau duke is back in the driver's seat but this time the dukes of hazard star, john schneider is taking fans along his wild ride to fame in a new memoire, called my life my way. steve: john along with his wife and movie producer joins us live now, did i not say that right? >> that was great. that was very louisiana. steve: thank you very much. they join us live. we'll talk about your story and everything but first let's start with the book. so many through the year, one of the things we learned though is that one of your roommates along the way, johnny cash? >> yes, i lived with johnny and

june for about a year and a half , loved that. we did a movie called stage coach and became immediate friends and at that time, i'd had four number one singles, so we were both kind of in the same business, and it was fantastic. it was a wonderful wonderful guy , honest and very silly, a very funny man. steve: johnny cash, funny? >> like you. ainsley: tell us about your life how did you get on the show, where did you grow up? >> well i grew up in new york which is not far from here, in mountkisko. that's what's in the book, there's been a lot of speculation about how old i was when i started the show and in a nutshel they were looking for people 24-30 years old from the rural south i was 18 from westchester county, new york. i got the part, so all that stuff, smoky and the bandit is in there, all that great, great fun stuff is in there and this. pete: absolutely, so you guys are partnering and working together on some things as well. could you share? >> john and i met about five

years ago, and did about seven or eight movies together and then got back into the music industry and did about 110 songs , and then -- pete: just 110. >> and then this past memorial day i was diagnosed with stage i v h er 2 negative cancer and within five months and they gave me very -- >> she five-year shelf life. steve: unbelievable. ainsley: what w dermatologist, d