he did not fool us because we were both in new jersey and we love it. >> we love everybody. carley: "fox & friends first" continues right now. jillian: it is monday january 27th, this is a fox news alert, unthinkable tragedy turning the sports world completely upside down as millions mourn the loss of basketball legend kobe bryant. rob: new details on the horrific helicopter crash and what may have gone wrong in final moments of flight. jillian: glits and glamor pausing as city of angels honors newest one. ♪ >> we love you, kobe. rob: very nice tribute there, highlights from music's biggest night, also the president's defense team taking center stage in impeachment trial. jillian: while democrats support

♪ ♪ rob: good morning to you, you're watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning, i'm rob schmitt. >> i'm jillian mele, thank you so much for starting your day with us. we do begin with fox news alert, the world is mourning the tragic death of nba super star kobe bryant. rob: basketball legend and 13-year-old among 9 people killed in helicopter crash in southern california and thousands of fans honoring kobe with tributes overnight. jillian: william live in los angeles with what went wrong moments before the chopper crashed, william, he's gone way too young. >> yeah, jillian, kobe joined the lakers at 17, right out of high school, youngest player at the time to play the game, he embraced la and the city

returned the affection, yesterday you saw that evident and his fans turned out at the staples center, also at the crash sites and mamba sports academy where bryant was heading to coach a tournament for seventh and eighth graders which included his daughter giannaing took off at 9:00 a.m. near and crashed 40 minutes later in santa monica preserve. was operated by reputable local company and flown by experienced pilot according to sources and witness heard helicopter flying low and heard the crash and saw a fire ball, faa and ntsb have teams on the team, weather could be a factor, heavy marine layer yesterday, though the helicopter is rate today fly in zero visibility, other speculation, mechanical, a bird or drone

strike since it was flying so low, la fire reported no survivors. >> logistical nightmare in a sense because the crash site itself is not easy and off limits to everybody except the first responders and investigators. it is in very rough terrain, very dangerous even in daylight, much less in the middle of the night, we just want people to stay away. >> after leaving basketball bryant wrote a poem called dear basketball, which was made into animated short film that won an oscar in 2018, the only championship player to have also won an academy award to achieve credit for daughter gigi. >> my 11-year-old daughter gianna, dad you always tell us to go after our dreams so, man up. [laughter] >> she's 11. man up. so i had to man up and go for it. >> also confirmed on board orange county community baseball

coach john antebelli, wife, and alyssa. rob and jillian, back to you. rob: it's a sad story, william, thank you so much. jillian: tributes continue to pour in remembering kobe this morning, bill russell tweeting shocked to hear the loss of one of my favorite people, one of the best basketball minds in history of the game, michael jordan releasing a statement saying in part, quote, words cannot describe the pain i'm feeling, he was like a little brother to me. fellow lakers legend karim abdul-jabbar remembering long history with kobe. >> i met him when he was 11 or 12 year's old, it's just hard to comprehend, go with god. >> kobe bryant was the 5-time

nba champion, 18-time all-star and won oscar for documentary dear basketball. rob: fire spreads rapidly across the globe, this morning 5 cases of this disease confirmed in the united states, overnight violent protests broke out in hong kong, mass activists igniting a fire bomb inside a building that the government was planning to use as a quarantine zone, this comes as new questions arise about the extent of the outbreak, one nurse in wuhan claiming that more than 90,000 people are sick in china, 90,000, however, health officials have only confirmed 2700 cases worldwide, we will see how that develops. also a rocket attack targeting the u.s. embassy in baghdad ended with one striking a dining hall facility, no injuries were reported; former iraqi prime

minister building attack on unruly militia that is backed by iran, state department says since september there have been more than 1400 attacks by iran and iranian supported militias on american personnel in iraq, this comes amid deadly clash against antigovernment protestors and iraqi security forces. jillian: the parents of two missing idaho children have 5 days to show their kids or be held in contempt of court, overnight prosecutors filing a child protection order against lori and chad after they were found in how, the -- hawaii, the two showed little emotion when asked about their children. >> there's people around the country praying for your children, praying for you guys, why don't you give us answers? that's great. jillian: police searched the couple's hard. they have not been seen since

september. >> the president's legal team will resume its defense on impeachment today and this comes with a renewed push from democrats to call john bolton to testify. >> mark meredith live on capitol hill as both pushes, mark. >> good morning to you, jillian, as you can imagine, a lot of developments that we are watching closely, former national security adviser john bolton and "the new york times" first reported on sunday that bolton will claim in an upcoming book that president trump told him that the reason he was delaying sending foreign aid was for political investigations into democrats include 2020 rival joe biden, now, the president has denied the delay in aid with anything to do about politics but instead about rooting out, the president had a tweet about this and came in the middle of the night, around midnight, quote, i never told john bolt open that the aid to ukraine was tied to investigations of democrats including the binds, in fact, he never complained about this at the time of thinks very public termination, if john bolton said

this, it was only to sell a book, now, the controversy over ukraine took to center of impeachment trial, senate democrats have been calling for bolton and others close to the president to testify, bolton has said recently that he was willing to testify if the senate subpoenaed him, democrats have been arguing for -- arguing for the president's removal, they had a statement about the bolton news, quote, americans know that a fair trial must incued -- include witnesses, that must start with mr. bolton. one has said he's ready to dismiss the bolton bombshell. >> i don't think it's going to make any difference in the long run even if bolton has evidence and then you have to put it with everything else, consideration, is bolton a witness, what are the motivations behind it. >> we will be hearing a lot more lawmakers react a little bit later on today, the trial is expected to get underway at 1:00 o'clock, lawmakers had the

day off yesterday, as i mentioned back at work later this afternoon, jillian, back to you. rob: the new york times story we will talk more about that in the coming minutes, big story, mark, appreciate it. jillian: mixed emotions at 60 grammy award, just hours after kobe bryant was killed. >> i'm standing here heartbroken in the house that kobe bryant built. ♪ >> host alicia keys joined by boys 2 men for emotional performance and used the stage to make a political message. >> commander in chief impeached, y'all get out -- jillian: singer demi lovato returning to music after drug overdoes in 2018.

♪ ♪ jillian: that's camilla cabello with performance first man dedicate today her father. rob: that's nice, the biggest winner was billy ilish. jillian: billy islish. [laughter] ♪ ♪ jillian: rob doesn't know the song. rob: i don't know who that is. jillian: made history with 4 major awards. rob: billy ilish, i will never forget it. i know billy idle. ramping up efforts to expose the true motives of adam schiff and the democrats, congressman steve watkins live to break down crucial facts, he says the dems hid from the senate in an effort to undo the 2016 election. >> and while most of eyes on the field super bowl, cbp will keep

a close watch for potential threats. >> wow, todd piro along border and custom patrol, what it takes to keep millions of people safe, we are coming back on monday morning.

>> all right, the president's legal team will return to the senate floor today after accusing democrats of using impeachment to keep off in 2020 ballot. jillian: all of this joining us texas congressman steve watson, thanks for joining us this morning. >> thanks, jillian. jillian: before we get into what to expect today let's just talk about the new news today, that's

the alleged leak about john bolton's book, do you think this will have any implications as far as calling witnesses and the argument for that? >> i'm not concerned about what bolton has to say, what the american people realize it's all about partisan politics, democrats didn't like the results of 2016 election, i've got news for them, they are not going to like the results of the 2020 elections. the president has outstanding team, in fact, we have heard that even from the liberal fake news media, the ones with a shred of journalistic integrity, they did fantastic job to dismantle democrats' case and patrick what he will do for 49ers on sunday, i couldn't be more pleased as guy who is long

long-time, how president trump never delayed those at all, that those went through, it's much better than president obama's blankets and mrie, we saw some new information. rob: okay, fair enough. you say you are not worried about john bolton testifying, you have to admit it there's probably better chance that he will testify, mitt romney will probably vote for witnesses. after this seems like there's a lot bigger push to get witnesses to testify in this thing. >> well, it's not what the american people want, we need to solve problems that are haunting folks on main street, we got prescription drug prices that need overhaul, porous border and that's my focus, you knowings we rarely feel phone calls about impeachment trial, people are tired of it and ready to switch the channel. jillian: let's hear the president's defense team on saturday. >> they are asking you to remove

president trump from the ballot, they are here to perpetrate the most massive interference in an election in american history. jillian: what we heard on saturday, what do you expect to hear today? >> well, you know, honestly, the strategy the team is to be very succinct, i love it, they are reintroducing some of the -- some of the basic, read the transcript, no quid pro quo, zelenzky, never felt pressure, never had issue with the conversation, also what we are hearing a lot is that funding start and stops all of the time and the funding was for pakistan, south korea, we are well positioned and i feel confident about today. >> okay, fair enough. >> if we do get witnesses and there's a decent chance that we will at this point, republican josh holy wants to subpoena a number of pretty interesting people that republicans would

love to hear from including the whistleblower, also adam schiff and the bidens right there, what do you make of that? >> well, i -- i hear you, josh; if we call more witnesses those are the ones that we would like to hear from obviously; it's time for the american people to move on, i see where senator holy is coming from, i go back, i share border with josh, he's on missouri, kansas city, want to celebrate at the white house. rob: you seem pretty occupied with the super bowl, you are ready for the game. [laughter] jillian: have a god -- good day, you don't need to be a sports fan to feel the monumental loss kobe bryant. rob: a family man who instilled the love for the game and his own children. jillian: up next we sit down with brian kilmeade for a look

at bryant's iconic career.

>> kobe, kobe! rob: welcome back, fox news alert, sports fan mourning kobe bryant, killed in helicopter crash along side his daughter. jillian: joining us now with his reaction "fox & friends first" cohost brian kilmeade, brian, stunned not only the sports world but the world in general.

>> no doubt about it. so many times they used nba stores to sell other countries on the game itself and he had bigger than life personality, student of the game, jillian, as we spoke last night, you knew him, he was star in philadelphia. >> right near where i grew up, lower morien high school, he was a star then, continued to be a star and actually i believe this to be true, correct me if i'm wrong, i believe he was 17 year's old, i believe his parents had to sign contract with him because at the time he couldn't because he was 18. >> mom cook for him and jerry west's son, general manager had to pick him up and bring him back and forth for practice, now you can't leave high school for the nba, you have to go to college one year, the thing outstanding about him, he gets drafted by the charlotte hornets and west sees in him, i will

trade one of the top centers in the prime of his career to charlotte for a chance at a 17-year-old who is dominate just against high school kids. rob: so few athletes in the world that just have the absolute killer instinct that kobe that, that's so special. brian: rob, that's a great point, can you imagine being great, imagine being really great and i say i can be better and get up at 5:00 in the morning in your 30's, work out, home with your kids for breakfast. >> four daughters, a wife. >> and be home for lunch and work out in between, those were the two things to be obsessive about being great and i was stunned by this, lebron james who is now playing with the lakers engineered trade to go there, signed there and he passed kobe bryant on the all-time scoring list. jillian: on saturday in philadelphia against the 76ers which is where kobe bryant's, i

mean, career and basketball really started, kobe bryant's dad played basketball for the 76ers. >> he talked about when he came across as a young man, kobe bryant an established pro, here is what he said saturday. >> in high school, you know, i was going through when kobe came to the league, i got drafted, i still admired him, seeing what he was able to accomplish, i'm happy to be in any conversation with kobe bryant. jillian: sent out a tweet congratulating him, continuing to move the game forward king james, much respect, my brother, you see the 33,643 points, that's what was able to surpass him on third all-time scoring list. brian: one of the most respected writers in the nba said she called michael jordan, michael jordan said i'm too emotional the comment, charles barkley said i left my phone, went to a

movie, felt sadness and when i got the news -- >> we can't let the segment going how mentor he's been to athletes, daughter, -- >> i'm playing for you con, you don't have a son to leave your legacy, it's going to be my daughters, tell my daughter that. jillian: she was next to him and said, i go this. >> he was coaching one of those games. jillian: 41 year's old. brian: makes no sense. rob: brian, thanks for coming on early. brian: no problem, see you in a little while. rob: we will be right back.

rob: welcome back, the fbi assisting the faa in the deadly helicopter crash that killed

basketball legend kobe bryant, the chopper was flying through thick marine and at the time lapd had grounded its aircraft because of the weather. jillian: democrats are reviewing push for john bolton to testify as the president trump's team renew impeachment trial today, the trial start at 1:00 p.m. rob: jury selection begins today for michael aven áfrica tti extortion case in new york, prosecutors claimed that nike secretly made payments to college basketball recruits that they didn't pay up, nike has denied any wrongdoing, avenatti has pleaded not guilty. jillian: super bowl 54 is just days, custom and border protections have eyes on

everything else in order to keep millions of people safe. >> todd piro went to look at operations behind the scenes of the big game. >> this is a great opportunity to see how they will keep us all safe and, of course, the players and the fans safe as well, take a look. >> miami is a destination by water? >> we will go north they are having the super bowl festivity, you get an idea of what operations really does. >> when people think of cbp i don't think they think of this? >> no, they don't. we are protecting the marine front and the air front with same dedication as the men and women in the southern border. the criminal might take advantage of bringing narcotics across, we try to show robust

present utilizing radar. we will close in on them, achieve and find out what they are up to. >> there's no way to go, you will get caught. >> we are doing a lot of training, demonstration was faster, 30 seconds out, first down down the rope, hands, knee, feet, and he's in the rope in 50 second. the fastest way to putting boots on the ground to adder whatever

threat will be there. >> todd, what we will be showing you the area most concerned, located here and into hard rock stadium where super bowl will be played? are you ready to go? >> i'm ready. >> let's do it. >> what do you need to do to secure super bowl? >> we have agents around the globe that are monitoring the situation, we will be staged at different locations around the country to respond if there's any significant event whatsoever, everyone at super bowl 54 can rest assure that they'll be safe and transparent that we are even there. >> many americans will be watching the game, you will not be. >> safest super bowl we've ever

had. >> we are secured specifically in the super bowl area, just flying over the stadium the week before the super bowl is awesome. >> eyes that we are not even going to see. >> 100%, great point. rob: live coverage from the big game in miami start this friday, those are the lucky people that get to go in the game, everyone not pictured will not go to the game. [laughter] >> rob: a couple of pictures there i don't see. >> we can hang out. rob: me and todd are going to go down to caribbean. >> let's do it. rob: even warmer. make them jealous. jillian: i did see janice and she got really excited. rob: good photo too. janice: thank you. [laughter] >> i wish you were coming too. you are in miami all of the time.

38 in new york, 28 in chicago, let's move on; we have radar to talk about across portions of the southeast, mid atlantic, lake-effect snow for the great lakes and, you know, we are not talking about a big storm system, nuisance rain and snow, some of the energy will travel across the rest of the u.s. over the next couple of days and you can see we are getting the rain and the snow across midwest. forecast precipitation, not a big blockbuster, we will be talking about some coastal rain for the west coast, there's your forecast today and as i mentioned a little warmer than average for a lot of folks along the east coast, 47, and real quick here is our weekend forecast as we get into the super bowl, friday, sunday looks good, yeah, for the super bowl itself, very nice conditions.

janice: i think they have a roof anyway in case it rains. rob: you'll be fine. this time of year you'll be great. janice, thank you so much. i'm going to miss you too. [laughter] rob: let's talk politics now, democratic hopeful elizabeth warren is calling out the election process in this country with a promise to do away with the electoral college. >> my goal is to get elected and to be the last american president elect bid the electoral college, i want the second temple to be that i got directly by direct vote, call me old fashion but the person that gets the most votes would win. rob: wouldn't that silence middle america and is that the plan? liberal analyst kathy aru and chris, thanks for coming today, what do you think of elizabeth warren's idea? >> i think it's absolutely

crazy. it's in a sense of dictatorship, the fact that we would want to have something like this is crazy, we can't have a country that elects people with large populations, the country is built on various beliefs and principles and leaves should be represented all of the time, what's frustrating to me that you have great phenomenal places like iowa which we are familiar with, they produce some of the-they switch between number one and number 2 producing the beef, corn, green, now we don't want to have their voices represented but we can eat their food every day, doesn't make any sense. rob: only people that would get

attention would be people living in big states? >> it isn't true, every person in the united states would have their voice heard, no matter where you live, your voice is heard, you don't have to live in a safe state or a swing state which is what they call them, politicians to states that have most electors, they have to up and down or to every state because every voice will count. rob: hillary clinton won by 3 million votes, it's not fair they say that she's not the president of the united states, what do you say? >> of course look at places like in california, the balance in certain scale is off. you have to have everybody represented, there's a reason why we have smaller states which

obviously have least electoral votes, it all adds up. we can't have places like los angeles, california, vast amounts of population saying, okay, this is who your president is going to be. absolutely not, it's about our country coming together and working together and having voices represented and you live in large population, determine who run it is country, that's now how it's supposed to be. >> kathy, a lot of republicans say you have a party here that's pushing essentially for open borders in this country and bringing anybody over that wants to come in and also giving away a lot of free things, it's easy to win elections when you want to play by those rules and allowing the popular vote would make it even easier? >> well, donald trump himself in 2012 said that he believed that, i think electoral college, he was completely against the electoral and thought it was

horrible but in 2016 when it helped him he's 100% for the electoral college, the electoral college does say that the runner-up would be the vice president, so you would have a runner-up as hillary clinton. rob: all right, we will leave it there, kathy and chris. interesting debate this morning, we appreciate appreciate your time. have a good one. >> thanks. >> you too. >> thank you. jillian: 20 minutes until the top of the hour, the deadly virus that originated in china attempts to gain a foothold here in the u.s., what we know about the cases confirmed ahome and how people can still spread the disease even if they don't feel sick, we will be right back.

jillian: good morning and welcome back, travelers on high alert as deadly coronavirus spreads rapidly across the probe, 5 confirmed cases now in the u.s. rob: pretty scare. aisha joins us how infected people can spread even without symptoms. >> you could actually have the virus for 2 weeks before you can see symptoms that have spread, the situation has gone from bad to worse, 5 cases across the u.s., latest in arizona. airport screenings that continue this morning across the country, in fact, medics remove a sick passenger from southwest flight from las vegas to baltimore out of abundance ofcation, we still don't know at this hour if the patient did have the virus, worldwide more than 2700 cases are confirmed, 80 people have

died, the nurse blowing the whistle on twitter warning the world it is far worse than china is letting on. >> so what she's saying in the video, he's in the heart of the outbreak wuhan and 90,000 people are infected. that would be 33 times what chinese officials are reporting, authorities rush to build a one thousand hospital and now they are working on building a second much bigger hospital and then take a look at this, mass protestors in hong kong igniting a fire bomb inside a building, the government was planning to use as quarantine zone for the sick, all because they felt it was way too close to some homes and school there, back here at home the u.s. is sending a charter flight to china tomorrow to rescue some americans there, senate minority leader chuck schumer in the meantime calling

on the cdc to declare emergency here at home. jillian: scary. rob: certainly, thank you so much. check in with steve doocy and see what's coming up on "fox & friends" here in 15 minutes, hey, steve. steve: hey, rob and jillian, the cover of the new york post says it all, i know you've been talking about it, kobe on one side and tears for kobe on the other, the world remembering the life and legacy of baseball legend kobe bryant. we will share memories and he has plenty of them and also jim grace will be joining us live, president trump's legal team wrapping wrapping up defense. stephanie grishan and senator holley. speech got shut down by violent protest at the college, well,

now speaker charles murray heading back, why? what's he going to say? he will join us on the fight for free speech coming up about 13 minutes right now right here on the channel you trust for morning news and that's why people are watching youtube. rob: i've read charles murray's book. i can't remember the name of it. steve: bell curve, he has a new one coming out. rob: yeah, that's another one. i will have to come and meet him and get autograph. jillian: we will be right back.

rob: welcome back, 2020 hopeful andrew yang returning to debate stage after being out this week, qualified for february 7th debate in new hampshire after

landing 5% support in four polls, she's -- he's joining 6 other candidates. the new york post reporting to agents received documents from tipster in mid october saying the marriage happened in 2009, unfounded allegations they did so for him to get a green card for him to study in the u.s., the fbi will share its finding with ice and administration. jillian: they're on track for use across the boarder in a matter of weeks, homeland security inspector taking a second look about what border court are overwhelmed, isn't a quicker process what we need, here to weigh in former ice director tom homan, thanks for being here. >> good morning; jillian. tell us about the two programs and why we need them? >> both of the programs are

designed to go through the process quicker, they are being held in detention for less time, however, it is resulting quick removals because as we said for the past year, 89% to have central americans who claim asylum at the border don't get relief from immigration courts, one they don't show up or two, they don't qualify for asylum. escaping poverty doesn't qualify. the programs are working, demanding ig, there has somebody something wrong, ig will look at the programs and let me end with this statement, because ig says there's something wrong, doesn't mean it's wrong, when i was director i had discussions with the ig chief inspector, we disagreed on findings because they're not experts in immigration process, so you can see -- ig has job to review

programs but also jobs to find problems are no reason for existence, right? jillian: tom, i want to get a look at numbers, you can see shy of 900,000, deportations under president obama and versus president trump, you can see a distinct difference in numbers there, what do you think would happen if the programs went away >> the entire system is going back up. look the immigration courts were almost main case backlog, we have to go through cases quick quicker. people are getting due process and will make cases quicker which means either they will get relief quicker or they're going to be removed quicker, it makes sense because we got to control the border and if you release them in the united states we've shown half don't show up in

court and 90% lose their cases, this is the right thing to do for our country and the right thing to do for them. >> let's talk about this now, alexandria ocasio-cortez was out stumping for bernie sanders in iowa, let's take a listen to what he said on saturday. >> you start to see that ice and cbp in communities to keep safe, i'm here because senator sanders has actually committed to breaking up ice and cbp. >> tom, your thoughts on that statement? >> it's ridiculous, it's extremely stupid statement made by somebody i never considered real smart anyways, but here is elected lawmaker, telling people how to obstruct ice, tipping people to ice, she needs to realize 9 out of 10 of everybody ice arrested last year was convicted criminal or pending charges. 2,000 were murderers, 12 sex

offenders, 45,000 assaults, 62,000 offenses, 10,000 weapon offenses and she wants to tip the people off that ice is in the neighborhood operating, ice's job is extremely dangerous, now she's making more dangerous, one of the democrats who says no one is above the law, the president is above the law, we need to impeach the president because he's above the law, but apparently illegal aliens are above the law because ice isn't allowed to arrest them. dangerous statement. jillian: yeah, tom, thanks for joining us, we appreciate it. rob: all right 55 minutes after the hour, it's one sweet way to start out the workweek if you're willing to forget about counting the calories. jillian: for this cake, celebration of chocolate cake not only chocolate, but the best chocolate cake on earth coming up next

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try it. tell me what you think. rob: place on long island. anybody who's to know. long island, port washington fantastic chocolate cake. homemade. >> oh my gosh. it's amazing. rob: we got to go. steve: it is 6:00 in new york city and 3:00 in los angeles. we get right to this fox news alert. the world is mourning the tragic death of nba super star kobe bryant. brian: the basketball legend and 13-year-old daughter among nine people killed in a helicopter crash in california. thousands of fans, honoring kobe with triew tribune beauty overnight. ainsley: william la jeunesse with what went wrong moments before the chopper crash. william? >> that's under investigation. let's start with l.a. it's a big diverse city. sports divides the glue. especially the lakers no player more pivotal than kobe bryant.