above mcdonald's and get that for free. you could have the food right downstairs and shamrock shake to top it all off. jillian: we did have shamrock shakes earlier. rob: there you go. that's it. that's a friday. jillian: have a good day everyone, "fox & friends" starts right now. bye. ♪ ♪ steve: perfect music to start this friday rocky mountain way with joe walsh. the president of the united states was out in the rockies broad moore in colorado springs. 10,000 people on the inside. local reporters said there were at least 2,000 on the outside. the president of the united states, said i'm going to win colorado in a landslide. lisa: he had a lot to say. i was reading through a list of the things. he went off on every single democratic candidate.

brian: including brad pitt. lisa: and oscars brad pitt. brian: i don't know brad pitt was in the prompter. brian: i'm not sure. steve: i think our names came up. that's one of the things. brian: greg gutfeld's name came up too. he used to hate us and now he likes us. steve: greg gutfeld all he talks about now is his hair. great hair now. the president had a lot of material to talk about. remember it was just the democratic debate a couple nights ago. that you will other stuff. here is the president last night in the rocky mountains. >> mini mike didn't do well last night. will i was going to send him a note saying it's not easy doing what i do, is it? look, you are going to vote for one of these people. probably crazy bernie, he seems to be leading. mini mike i thought he might come up he can't because he can't debate.

he wasn't meant for the camera. do we agree. how about klobuchar, did you see her? she choked. alfred e. newman looked at her and said something slightly derogatory and she said are you accusing me of being dumb? who would make a statement like that? how about sleep dr. joe? how about his performance? [boos] >> what? what? it's great to be with the great people of ohio, joe, joe, you are in iowa. you are in iowa. oh, he is sleepy joe. he was sleepy a long time ago but now he is really sleepy. brian: now we have the nevada caucuses. tomorrow the president is going to be speaking in nevada today. and the caucuses came out with something kind of interesting. they said we might not have results in one day. it might take a little bit more time. whatever. you know, i know it is 2020. no reason to rush. i can't believe we are still doing caucuses if they can't

produce results in a day. you. lisa: can't afford another iowa though that was so bad. steve: they had a problem yesterday in las vegas. they disqualified 1,000 ballot because, for some reason, they weren't signed. brian: steve, you have to list more than one candidate qualify you need to list two or three. if you miss one it is nullified. they did have a lot of early voting and of course it's off to south carolina where every day joe biden loses more and more of his lead. next thing you know super tuesday and have a chance to see what mike bloomberg does. all within about 10 days. so, buckle up. and while we saw the president with the folks in colorado springs. next stop, he has got people already lined up at the las vegas convention center ahead of the third rally and that is happening a little later on today. brian: this, as democrats make their final wagers with voters, get it, before tomorrow's nevada caulks.

hisly i picked up on that. griff jenkins is live outside of the las vegas convention center where the president will rally his base tonight. griff? griff: good morning, guys. yeah, you can see over my shoulder the convention center. there is about 100 or so supporters over there. we can't go take you over there because the secret service has it locked down for a few hours for their sweep. but it is the president's third rally in three days. meanwhile the democratic candidates making their closing arguments. brian, here is another pun, elizabeth warren luck will be a lady after dominating debate performance, she is really trying to hit her stride here with the voters. particularly the minority community there is a large one here in nevada and then this iowa and new hampshire. we went to a soul food restaurant where she was greeting people. here is what her supporters told us. watch. >> i think it's time for a female president. and i think if we're going to have one, i think she is the perfect candidate. >> we like a fighter. you know, we say that we join her in that effort to

become president of the united states. and we waiting now to see to get the nomination and see her go against trump. >> fiery attitude she exempt find in yesterday's debate she'llable the very thing to get in. >> interesting development in comeback strategy. warren also changing, reversing her decision on accepting super pac money. she is saying if not all candidates will disavow it neither will she. she has to compete with pete buttigieg. mayor pete buttigieg has accepted super pac money all along. he was out in california yesterday saying if it comes down to democratic voters democratic socialist and new york billionaire that's not a good option. listen. in a couple weeks we could wake up the day after super tuesday and the options in our party have been narrowed down to bernie sanders and mike bloomberg. and i think if that's the only two options we have heading into this contest against donald trump, we're in trouble.

>> so president trump taking the stage here at the rally at high noon. bernie sanders, who still maintains that double digital lead nationally has a rally later tonight here in vegas as well. guys? brian: all right, griff. thanks. a lot of people still talking about mike bloomberg's terrible debate including mike bloomberg he admits it was terrible. it wasn't good. howard wolfson i was responsible for getting mike bloomberg ready i take full responsibility. i guess it's not easy coming out of the debate after not taking any tough questions. in the meantime you realize, too, that how good donald trump was. you remember donald trump the very first time he was on the stage? he knew everyone's weaknesses. he knew the opposition research on everybody on the stage where mike bloomberg in retrospect, when they were coming after him on ndas and everything like that, he could have went after bernie sanders and the problems he had and elizabeth warren and the problems she had with her campaign and klobuchar and the problem she had with her

staff but he didn't seem to be clicking on all gears. steve: he wasn't clicking on any gears. lisa: mike bloomberg's poor performance didn't have to do with lack of presentation. he is not a good an do. you cannot manufacture a candidate. clearly he cannot connect with the average person. president trump going to nevada today is such smart strategy because is he bigger than life. this is a challenge in trying to take on someone like president trump also you look at a lot of these states, nevada, iowa, new hampshire where i has held rallies before the contest. all states play out in the general election as well. not only does he mess with our heads and soak up the oxygen and media attention in those states playing for 2020 in the general election. steve: keep in mind, it's a tv show. if you are going to be on tv, you have got to be entertaining. michael bloomberg pictured there was not. elizabeth warren was. she took out $3 million a person loan to keep her campaign alive. mayor buttigieg yesterday in a memo that was apparently

leaked to somebody said, you know what? michael bloomberg needs to drop out because if it's between bloomberg and bernie, bernie is going to wind up winning and of course a socialist can't win the race. brian: so i guess bloomberg will drop out. talk about russia, it's been nine seconds. back in the news. turns out the president got a briefing from his former director of national intelligence that said we have news and information and intelligence that russia is looking to get involved in the 2020 this election. and they would like trump to win. one of the people in attendance, adam schiff. the president, as you could see, a little ticked off on this whole thing. steve: well, it was the house intel committee that wound up getting this particular classified briefing, a person by the name of shelby pierson is one who conducted it. and the president was, when he learned of it later, he was really angry and felt that the democrats who just have wrapped up trying to impeach him will weaponize this going forward. which, of course. brian: and they will.

steve: is absolutely true. lisa: check out this "new york times" headline. it says house is warned that russia is medaling to reelect trump. the article also talks about russia is looking to mess with the democrat primary. very coincidental considering the fact that the worried about the rise of bernie sanders. steve: where is that headline? lisa: little questions about that. also, democrats don't care about russia. president obama did nothing when he found out about russian meddling until president trump won. then democrats weaponized russian meddling to use against president trump politically. and then president obama put sanctions on russia. then we are hearing democrats raise the alarms about russia. it wasn't until president trump won. steve: it's still unclear what exactly russia is doing to try to influence people to vote for donald trump. even though they are also trying to impact the democratic caucuses and primaries as well. so,. brian: one of their

tactics,. steve: steve while it's democrat and republican just the -- hey, the president has the russians on his side. that's the headline. brian: one of the tactics they are doing is impersonating americans as he did in 2016. russian operatives working to get americans to repeat disinformation. the strategy gets around social media companies. the rule to prohibit inauthentic speech. they are trying to put stuff out there, have us repeat it and next thing you know it gets into the social media cycle. meanwhile when people see russia. they saw an opportunity to go back to their greatest hits. lisa: shocking. >> the russians are coming again. the russians are in to interfering in this election we are in right now. >> russia is interfering again and trying to elect donald trump. that's a bombshell. that's an earthquake. >> russia interfere not guilty elections to help the president of the united states to get reelected? >> do i think the russian also be back in 2020 i said what do you mean be back? they never left. >> new intelligence report that says russia is right now reportedly trying to help the president get reelected. >> this is one of those

shocking news days if you retain the capacity to be shocked in the trump era by the trump regime which might be better labeled the trump-putin regime. >> russia. >> russia. >> russia. brian: just started berating joe maguire the acting director of national intelligence now he is going to be replaced. maybe by doug collins right afterwards. steve: pretty messy right now down in georgia with the senate race. that would help the republican party if doug collins got that job. brian: he has a military background, too. lisa: if the alleged concern is undermining americans' faith in electoral system. maybe don't call for the abolishment of the electoral college. maybe if you are nancy pelosi's daughter don't lead the charge in -- those undermine america's faith in the system. brian: ticked off about this whole thing. trey gowdy understands it. he was on with ed henry who filled in for martha last

night. >> i don't know anyone who really thinks that russia prefers donald trump to win over comrade sanders. i don't know a soul that really thinks russia wants donald trump to be the president instead of the guy that hon honey honey a monday in russia. is this the intelligence community that libya. and promise you had weapons of mass destruction and same intelligence community that relied on the dossier? they gather information and they make assessmentsment and then they give those assessments, unfortunately give them to people to adam schiff who leak like sifs. this never should have been made public. that's why the president is upset. not what the intelligence community found but that adam schiff has a bee line to the "new york times" when it's negative information about donald trump. steve: right. so on the cover of the "new york times" today you have got all this great news for the president. have you trump advisor sentenced to 40 months and house is warned of russia effort to bolster president

trump. brian: do you think they could have squeezed in the gallup poll that says the president for the first time has more people in the country approving than disapproving job performance despite the plethora investigations? steve: i don't think so. they have a big ad for diamonds on the front page. brian: are they still available? steve: thank you very much for joining us on this very busy friday and jillian joins us now. and you have some breaking news. jillian: that's right. yes. let's begin with the fox news alert. the doomsday cult value lo vall. her children haven't been seen since september. j.j.'s family has a message for his mother. >> hey, honey, you better start talking now and maybe you can save a little year or two after your sentence you are about to have when you go to court. >> mine is the same thing, lori, tell me where the kids are. >> vallow and her husband have been on the run since

november. passengers leave a quarantined cruise ship overnight. final group of passengers to leave after two week coronavirus quarantined 11 people from the diamond princess cruz hav cruise have td positive for the deadly virus. 204. more than 2,000 people have died in mainland, china. nearly 76,000 people have gotten sick. president trump blasts the hand links of the roger stone case. he says his former advisor could be exonerated. >> i want to see it play out to its fullest because roger ihas a very good chance of exoneration in my opinion. personally i think he was treated very unfairly. jillian: the president making comments at an event in las vegas where he highlighted the importance of criminal justice reform. flynn was sentenced three years behind bars for lying to congress. >> nfl on the verge of a

game changer. new collective bargaining agreement. proposed deal includes option to expand the regular season to 17 games. increase the number of playoff teams from 12 to 14. and give more revenue to the players. 32 team player representatives will vote on the deal before every player votes. count j.j. watt out he tweeted hard no on that proposed cba. it's extra playing time on them. already hard on their bodies. brian: i agree. do we really need two more playoff teams. both 8 and 8. you get the rams you don't deserve if you are 8 and 8. jillian: sad when it's over. selfish reasons another week. brian: three letters xfl. steve: three letters major league baseball. brian: football. steve: you have other sports cycle through. brian: get your own trash can and get your signals ready for another season.

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>> if they have a process which i believe they do so that everybody else -- everybody can -- >> you want the convention to work its will. >> yes. >> convention working the will meaning the person has the delegates pledged to them. >> should the to them or not. >> no let the process work its way out. >> i think the will of the people should prevail. brian: he thinks if he has the most delegates he should get the nomination even if he doesn't hit the threshold. prospect of a brokered convention seeming more and more likely as strategists say none of the democratic candidates will secure majority of the delegates before the convention even though we are still in february. here to weigh in fox news contributor marc thiessen. mark, more people are saying we are going to have a brokered convention first one since 1952, why? >> it's possible.

the 538 projection right now has the most likely candidate to win is no one. followed by bernie sanders second. so what that means is that bernie sanders is probably going to come in to the convention if everything goats way it's expected with a plurality but not a majority. more delegates than anybody else but thought enough to hit the threshold to win a majority and secure the nomination. then you have the first brokered convention in since 1952. if that happens that is an absolute disaster for the democrats. because bernie's supporters are going to make the argument which is what he said in that clip you just showed is that the will of the people should prevail. how can you pick somebody who got fewer votes than bernie and make them the nominee over bernie? and that is just -- so that's a recipe for having a divided democratic party going into the november election. brian: for those that don't have a reel to reel projector and can't look back at the 1952 convention.

1991 threshold out of 4,000 delegates. they go in and say bernie has 1500. not at the threshold yet. you have a vote and not there yet. then what happens in rowngsd 2? >> so they have got 770 super delegates, which is people like our friend donna brazile are super delegates. they are party insiders. party big wigs. and they are freed on the second ballot to vote for whoever they want. so, what happens is let's say bernie loses the first ballot but comes in with the most ballots and then the super delegates come in and pick somebody else, that's the establishment going in and taking the nomination away from the insurgent candidate, bernie sanders, whos ha the will of the people behind him. and you see, and this is a disaster for democrats. what are bernie sanders supporters going to do if that happens? they will do what they did in 2016 when they felt it was stolen from them. one, a number of them stay home and not vote for the no, ma'am to me. two, a number of them are going to vote for donald trump. in 2016, 12% of bernie sanders supporters voted for donald trump and they gave

him the margin in three key swing states that put him into the white house. and trump is playing this right now, if you notice. at his rallies. he is probably saying they are going to steal the nomination from bernie. he knows this is coming. brian: bloomberg, big story today in politico saying he is already moving to try to win on the second round talking with biden and buttigieg supporters texas, florida oklahoma and carolina. he is thinking ahead. that's what happens whether you have a lot of money and a lot of people looking to stay busy. after more debates like this he won't have anything to worry about like we said the other night. marmarkmarc thiessen,great to s. publishing a op-ed by the member of the taliban. why the paper give the terror group a platform to make demands? we'll discuss it. plus another attempt to see you lens conservatives on college campuses. charlie kirk all over it. he is on the fright for free speech amongst or teens and

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attorney general keith ellison posed the idea in a tweet reading can someone send me an example of a bernie bro being bad? scalise responded i can think of an example. well, remember that? the house minority whip nearly died after being shot by a sanders supporter back in 2017. that's what steve scalise is talking about. and the trump campaign makes a big bet on the internet to help win over voters. the campaign reportedly has purchased the front page of youtube, the home page, in the days before and on election day. reports estimate it could cost up to a million dollars a day for the ad space but on the internet that is very valuable real estate. and the trump campaign has youtube on election day. brian: all right. meanwhile, 31 minutes before the top of the hour, a crack down for conservatives on college campuses. lisa: right. the student senate atco

college in iowa turning point u.s.a. to become recognized student group. the chapter's president claims the rejection comes without a chance for them to address anonymous concerns over the organization. steve: anonymous concerns. that's always troubling. charlie kirk is the founder and president of turning point u.s.a. and author of the upcoming book it's called "the maga doctrine" and he joins us right now from l.a. with reaction. charlie, it's always troubling when people go behind closed doors and there are anonymous sources and they decide, you know what? we decided not to let your club in. >> no doubt. and it's the same sort of leftist tactics that the president is finding every single day in washington, d.c. that college campus conservatives are up against. you know, this is a growing trend that we have seen on college campuses of young people that might have con train views, that might have conservative views standing

up for the market and constitution. what we are finding though on campuses across the country is that students are fighting back. this is an isolated example. do i want to give credit to the president of the united states for signing that executive order last year. and we have seen a change in how students have been able to stand with conviction for conservative values and for coe college i hope they will reconsider. this because now there are actual ramifications if you suppress the freedom of speech of students on college campuses. steve: what are they? >> they might have their federal funding withheld and that's the executive order that the president united states signed last year. that is if they intentionally suppress the speech of students based on political viewpoints and violate political neutrality. and if you read the reasons why they denied our turning point u.s.a. group was. it's outrageous. it's procedural. sound familiar? they set up a facebook page too early or that we're not sure their relationship between the coe college group and national turning

point u.s.a. lisa: is there any recourse they could take to try to challenge this and fight back? >> yeah. they are are going to appeal it. it's really interesting. talk to the student at coe college he was warned by one of the few conservative professors at coe college cedar rapids, iowa. i don't know if you pursue this we tried to get a single conservative group on campus four years ago. it didn't go too well. left wing democrat group but no real conservative group on campus. here is where it ties all together. where the students are experiencing the same opposition of anonymous sources, not an ability to cross-examine critics and, of course, you have the administration or the ruling class, if you will, trying to supplant the will of the students or the people to actually have their voice be heard. steve: all right. well, we did reach out to coe college for a statement and we're waiting for a response as i'm sure you are as well. >> thank you. steve: thank you for joining us from lauer. >> thank you. steve: president trump touting the economic boom

for blue collar workers. >> remember they said you can't do manufacturing jobs anymore. really? tell me about it. steve: so is that the president's secret re-election weapon? stuart varney, as you can see, is he reporting for duty, he is going to discuss that next on "fox & friends" live from the big room. ♪ ♪ just a matter of time ♪ on the ceiling ♪ it's all right ♪ ♪ when life changes, so do your taxes. that's a reason to switch to jackson hewitt. our tax returns come with a free lifetime accuracy guarantee. life may change. your lifetime accuracy guarantee won't. tax prep guaranteed at jackson hewitt.

>> together we are building the world's most prosperous economy and what we have done in the last three years, they said was absolutely impossible to do. remember they said you can't do manufacturing jobs anymore. real have any tell me about it. steve: unless you find a magic wand.

apparently he did. stuart varney thinks that's funny. hhe hosts varney and company on fox business. >> what's funny is president obama saying you can't just wave a magic wand and get manufacturing jobs. donald trump did exactly that. he didn't wave the magic wand. he changed strategy and policy and we have got an edges motion in manufacturing jobs. high paid manufacturing jobs. lisa: what were those changes? >> okay. he cut taxes for a start across the board then he deregulated big deal for manufacturing enterprises. january of 2017 -- from january of '17 to january of this year our economy has gained 490,000 jobs. and for the first time in 70 years, there are now 12.8 million manufacturing jobs in these here united states. that's quite an achievement. brian: i saw mike bloomberg and bernie sanders have a debate on the democratic stage about fundamentally where this country is

heading and it's socialism vs. capitalism. >> that's exactly right. that's the way i see the election shaping up. bernie is the frontrunner, even if he is not the nominee, another democrat who is on the left of the old democrat party will be. so have you got a neo socialist or a real socialist going against president trump the capitalist in november. and president trump wins that one hands down. steve: let's take a look. brand new "wall street journal" poll says two thirds of the nation of the voters say they are uncomfortable with a socialist candidate. you know, we have been talking about slosm for about five years now. this finally is going to put it to the test ultimately if he rises that high. >> you can't tell me that massive tax increases, coupled with the green new deal will not reduce this economy to recession if not depression. because it will. you take trillions and trillions of dollars out of the private sector and you give it to the government for redistribution, if you end fossil fuels and you try

to replace those jobs, fracking jobs, you have a recession on your hands at the very least. brian: healthcare when they get rid of private insurance and everybody that have worked in that industry. >> yeah. trillions and trillions. lisa: are we underestimating the lure you have socialism even alexandria ocasio-cortez' plan to increase the top percentage tax rate to 70%. a majority of americans support that so are we under estimating the allure of some of these policies? >> socialism appeals to jealousy in all of us. have you got it. i don't have as much. i want some of yours. i want some of yours. i was -- i have said this so many times on this show. i was born and raised in that environment, working class guy you look up at the aristocracy and say i want what you got. i'm a socialist. brian: brad parscale was here sat in your seat only taller. he runs the trump campaign. he says will use the term free markets against social

markets where society controls. because you use the word capitalist. it's a sense it's not mine money it's the rich person's money. >> the word wicked usually goes right in front of capitalist. it has a bad image. by the way i want a box next time. brian: absolutely. the president is going to talk about that. >> refer to my height i want a box. steve: when we went to new hampshire we went to a couple of bernie sanders rallies maybe two thirds of the country doesn't feel comfortable with the idea of a socialist. 1/3 of the country does. we talked to a lot of those people and they got no problem with a socialist running for president or being president. >> look, i don't deny that there is a certain element of attraction to this jealousy. steve: especially when you don't have anything. >> young not yet paying those high tax rates. if you are young, you don't yet have children and a family and a household, yeah, you are all in favor of i want it free, give it to me. give it to me now.

brian: i'm going to forgive student debt and have free college. steve: you are leaving out pot, brian. brian: everyone knows he is not going to be able to do that but some people buy that the market dropped over fear of coronavirus? >> that is correct. the virus is spreading. new outbreaks outside of china and the worry is how long does it take before this thing is under control? china's economy has sloan dramatically. that effects our manufacturers. it effects our companies doing business there result, have you got the stock market moving lower. and people are moving out of stock. let's get it straight here. this is not a plunge for the market. this is a minor set back at this point. we're still at 29,000 for the dow industrials. but there is some movement out of stocks and into what we call safe havens like gold, for example. modest movement at this point. lisa: stuart varney, you are the best. everyone at home catch 9 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. eastern.

thanks. brian: did you change your logo again? steve: they had the refreshment. brian: that looks really good. >> same old picture. from 25 years ago. >> lisa: his if it's not broke don't fix it. steve: now we are going to zoom in to jillian who joins us right now. jillian: good morning, stuart, how are you? >> good morning. jillian: police offering $8,000 reward for a missing baby in florida. andrew vanished last month after his mother, grandmother and great grandmother were found murdered in miami. a day later the child's father was found dead from apparent suicide. investigators believe he killed the women before kidnapping andrew who would be about a month old now. if you have any information on andrew, police ask that you call them. the u.s. will sign a peace agreement to end the 18 year war in afghanistan if the

taliban adheres to a seven day truce that kicks off today. this comes as congresswoman liz cheney slams the "new york times" for publishing the op-ed. cheney tweeting in thwart quote remember 9/11 number the two author is a designated global terrorist? did you pay him for this piece in the "times" says since the taliban leader is involved in peace negotiations that makes his perspective relevant at this particular moment. new york city mayor bill de blasio defends using taxpayer dollars to pay for security while stumping for bernie sanders in nevada. >> that's a fair question but the rules are the rules and they have been for decades and decades for new york city mayors. the fact is when the nypd says you need security, i have to go by that. they do the same thing for every mayor they have for decades and decades. jillian: de blasio says the

nypd makes decisions about his security not the mayor's office. the mayor has also come under fire for using taxpayer funds for his failed presidential bid. former red sox slugger david ortiz is calling out the whistleblower in the mlb sign-stealing scandal. listen to this. >> what you didn't say i don't want to be no part of. you look like a snitch, do you know what i mean? why you got to talk about -- that's my problem, you know, why nobody say anything while it was going on? >> or tease talkin ortiz talkine astros myers said he would accept any punishment from the league from the 2017 incident. i mean, it's amazing we're going to be talking about this for a long time. brian: i think we have got to find out what the red sox are going to get. they are looking at how they won their championship and they have already dismissed their manager. jillian: jen. steve: a lot going on. thank you. lisa: cheating is no good.

steve: never is cheaters never prosper as my mother used to say. brian: in 2017 they got a trophy. steve: there you go. lisa: in that casey maybe it is good. steve: flooding fears grow in the south as more rain is on the way. a massive storm is moving through parts of the mississippi where they don't need anymore rain, neither does alabama nor georgia. brian: right now jackson mississippi is on high alert after severe flooding already devastated the state's capital. lisa: adam fox joins us from fox square as he tracks the storm. what do we need to know? >> that storm system all that rain you are seeing across the northeast a big cold front sweeping across the country. we are feeling that here in new york city. a lot of folks even if you are not seeing rain, you are feeling that storm system. take a look at some of these temperatures across the country. this is your wind chill. this is what it feels like when you step outside. 9 degrees on fox square. 5 degrees in chicago. 5 degrees in kansas city. can you run down as far as portions of texas getting down into the 20's. 30's across the gulf coast.

this is that storm system we have been talking about over the last 24 hours. that's a whole lot of very heavy rain. at this point the back side of that system moving through the carolinas. that's snow. it was snowing overnight in north carolina and portions of virginia. as a result, there are winter storm watches and warnings across that region as snow will be wrapping up a little bit later today in that area. guys, it stays cold for now in to saturday before eventually we get a little bit of a warm-up. this cold streak i showed you across the country, that's here for us on this friday and early saturday. back in to you. steve: do you know what else is in for us our shipment of ipa i see is coming in. brian: never heard of it lagunitas? >> i have it had. i will track them down to see if i can get it ains. lisa: 5:00 somewhere. steve: it's 5:00 a.m. brian: that's one thing i would love to do make my own beer. steve: it's so easy. brian: on the stove?

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grail of sandwiches. kfc cooking up a frida fried chicken and doughnut sandwich. they will sell chicken and doughnut baskets. steve: now i'm hungry. thank you very much, jillian. 100-year-old navy veteran world war ii getting a hero's welcome at president trump's rally in phoenix. >> i don't know if he knows it, but he is right now the hottest celebrity in the world. he's a legitimate great hero of world war ii. irvin julian. irvin, thank you. [cheers] steve: the crowd erupted in cheers of as can you hear right there. [chanting u.s.a.] steve: two men helped that world war ii hero downstairs and toward the president. that video has gone viral with over 5 million views online. joining us right now are the people in those images. joining us right now as you

can see screen right, you've got world war ii navy veteran irvin julian and his son steven julian and screen left one of the guys who helped carry him larry thorpe. good morning. >> good morning. steve: steve, start with you. why did you and your dad want to go to the trump rally? >> we're both trump supporters. my dad -- i have been to the rallies before. and i have worked on his campaign a little bit. when it first ran. and just i wanted to do something special for my dad being 100. so i was going to go after i got the credentials to get v.i.p. seating. and that's what -- where it all started. steve: is your father surprised at all the attention? i mean, the president called him the hottest celebrity in the world. >> that was unbelievable. that's a big compliment coming from the president of the united states to my father.

steve: no kidding. i understand the president presented you with hats and your father with a coin. larry, why were you there and why did you jump up to help that guy? >> so, we were there to support the president and everything that he is doing for this country. president trump has just done an amazing job at working towards helping to build this economy and move the country forward. and we went to try and show our support. jason and i, we were on our way actually to the snack shack. we were going to grab something to eat and a couple bottles of water. when we got to the top of the stairs. irvin was come in. and he kind of tripped into me a little bit. he had a crowd all around him. and jason and i just wanted to help him to his seat. we had no idea where we were heading or what the whole that was going to turn into everything it did. steve: and it's gone viral. millions of people have seen that steven, are you and your father appreciative of the way the president reacts with the military and treats the military and funds the

military? >> absolutely. he loves the military. he loves the country. steve: all right. well, it's great when we saw those images, we saw we have got to get ahold of those guys and bring them on the program. it's great to talk to you steven. and your father. it's good to have irvin, a true hero with us and larry thorpe, thanks for jumping up and helping those guys you were in the right place at the right time. thank you. >> thank you, steve. steve: you bet. have a good weekend. meanwhile, still ahead on this friday we have with us an all-star lineup. larry kudlow, judge jeanine, jack brewer and because it's friday geraldo. never boring. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ can my side be firm?

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something on the weekend. she is on assignment. in the meantime, the president of the united states got some good news from gallup yesterday. the gallup poll with approval rating of 49% it's the first time since he was sworn in his approval actually exceeded his disapproval. so he is at 49-48. 8 years ago president obama's was 45-48. so this president is actually ahead of president obama also look at the fact that a majority of americans feel they are better off before president trump took office. look at 63% of americans approve of his economy which is huge. a lot of this positive movement going in the direction of president trump as democrats are really scrambling trying to figure out who their nominee is going to be. brian: gallup has some sobering news for the president. trailing to every democratic nominee in pennsylvania and

michigan. steve: q poll. brian: sorry q poll. winning substantially in wisconsin. >> talk about the democrats bad news for michael bloomberg. 20 million people watched the debate and saw the really bad job he did. that was the highest rating for a democratic primary ever. the highest primary ever was actually on fox news channel back in august of 2015 when all the republicans were on the stage and that's where we first saw donald trump who eventually would become president of the united states. so, good job for the democrats. they had a big crowd. bad news for mike bloomberg people are going to remember, man, he did a bad job. lisa: and i kind of anticipated he would be bad. really all you have to do is go watch five minutes of him talking and you quickly realize he is not going to be able to connect with any american. brian: i was surprised. in the fray for 12 years.

in new york everything is unscripted and unfiltered. i thought he would be quick enough on his feet to respond. he has had a chance to study seven boring debates up until he got involved in it. he could actually disseminate what his strategy would be. steve: he needs charisma. lisa: made it more boring somehow. brian: i thought that was a great debate. i found that thoroughly entertaining. i did for two hours. >> bad for michael bloomberg who has spent close to $400 million which is a fraction of what bernie sanders has spent. bernie sanders is on the verge of winning the caucuses this weekend out in nevada. president of the united states was at the broad more last night in colorado springs. he had a big keep america great rally. and he had this observation about the man with his hands up. >> look, you are going to vote for one of these people, probably crazy bernie. he seems to be leading.

[boos] >> mini mike i thought he might come up but he can't because he can't debate. he wasn't meant for the camera. do we agree? he wasn't exactly great last night i think he lost two last night. looks like crazy bernie. brian: couple of things bernie, i guess, survived. he was attacked by elizabeth warren and attacked everyone but him. biden seems to be marginalized but still up by 5 points in south carolina. steve: he was 20 up. he has fallen like a rock. brian: true. if he says that he if he comes in second in nevada and he wins south carolina, he believes that he is back as a frontrunner. lisa: bloomberg attack looks like bernie sanders look like a hypocrite. socialism for all of you and capitalism for me. i have three houses and getting ahead in life. steve: did you see the pictures of the three houses. a house in vermont. a house where he lives in washington and a little

house somewhere out. lisa: people shouldn't under estimate bernie sanders. he heads to south carolina with serious momentum at his back. one poll from the public policy institute of california that has him the only one over the threshold of 15% which means he would get all those 500 delegates in california. so people should not be discounting bernie sanders and also shunting ruling out the fact that we might have a candidate before that july convention. steve: the problem for bernie sanders is if he is, and we are about to show you some headlines if he is the nominee for the democrats what would barack obama do? that t. was not that long ago "the washington post," january 21st of this year, hillary clinton and barack obama want to stop bernie sanders, can they actually do it? the daily beast, january 6th. obama world hates bernie and has no idea how to stop him. the huffington post said he

would step up to stop bernie sanders nomination according to a report. will bernie sanders goes president obama will love me. >> i'm not going to tell you that he and i are best friends open friends. i have talked to him on and off for the last many years was sitting down alone with him in the oval office on more than one occasion. i have talked to him on the telephone every now and then. he is an icon, clearly in the democratic party. and i have absolute confidence that he will play a vigorous vigorous role. he has said this in the campaign. and we need him, no question about it. we need him. and if i win, i'm sure he will be there at my side. if somebody else wins, he will be there at their side. steve: if he wins. tomorrow the caucuses in nevada. a brand new emerson poll came out today, bernie is up by 14. he is at 30. biden 16. mayor pete is 17. keep in mind. mayor bloomberg is not on the ballot for the caucuses

tomorrow. brian: sanders leading in north carolina and texas. steve: meanwhile bernie sanders is hoping for a knockout in nevada. looks like he could according to these polls. final round for democrats ahead of the caucuses. brian: candidates going all in today before voters place their vets tomorrow. lisa: griff general since is live outside the las vegas convention center where entrepreneurship will rally tonight. griff? >> hey, lisa, brian, steve, good morning. of the president seemed to be showing voters that he can campaign just as hard as the democrats because behind me at that convention center the president will hold his third rally in three days at noon today. meanwhile, the candidates making their final push to nevada voters. and it is the rising elizabeth warren coming off that dominating debate performance that she is trying to woo the voters here for a come back. here is what supporters told us at a soul food restaurant she stopped by yesterday. watch. >> i think senator warren really represents views that are important to nevadaens

in particular. she talks about issues in my life. things like child care. student loan debt. >> i had watched her when she was campaigning with hillary. i thought she would make a good candidate. i thought hillary made a mistake by not inviting her to run as her vice president. >> now, bloomberg may be hoping that what happened in vegas stays in vegas as you mentioned, steve, a disappointing debate debut for bloomberg. he has fled the state to utah to bash frontrunner sanders. listen. >> i worry that we may very well be on the way to nominating somebody who cannot win in november. and if we choose a candidate who appeals to a small base like senator sanders, it will be a fatal error. real quick let me just show you if you can see the lights have come on the jumbotron outside. 200 to 300 supporters that have lined up. we are not allowed on the property because of the secret service.

big parking lot structure here at the convention center. it's fascinating because we found out yesterday that president trump announced a rally in south carolina on the eve before south carolina's primary. so if you look at iowa, new hampshire, now nevada, and south carolina. it is clear president trump is making this a game plan which is to show up the night before their election caucus wherever the democrats go to try and make a case for his reelections. guys? brian: you following the president or is the president following you? have you figured it out? griff: ha ha. good question. i think we are following him but, you never know. brian: just seems you are in the same place all the time. griff, we are going to look into that mayor bloomberg is factors into this race what if i don't win on the first ballot? he has a plan. steve: so many candidates still in, it does not look like any single candidate will have enough to clinch the nomination on the first ballot. if you look at politico right now. they have a headline,

bloomberg quietly plotting brokered convention strategy and what he is doing is apparently talking to joe biden and pete buttigieg delegates if your guy doesn't make it first round of plurality as my guy do. come over to my side. talking to uncommitted dnc members and this is key in virginia and texas and florida and oklahoma and north carolina as well. i have the best chance bernie can't win, come to my side. >> i find this hilarious considering the fact when everyone got a real glimpse of mike bloomberg not the manufactured version. steve: hiring people with 30 second ads. lisa: when you see the candidate himself he failed. is he a terrible candidate. everyone saw that on display on debate stage. he wasn't won a single development. his people are pushing out these articles that somehow is he going to come in to a brokered convention and steal it.

brian: yeah, if you ally v. your own delegates. no one gets 1900 plus. hold in coming the super delegates to blow everything up. elizabeth warren says i have an idea let's disqualify mike. >> if he is not willing to remove those bags and let's those women and maybe men talk then is he gawferld from being president of the united states. >> so you have said and this is important, when you say disqualifying. because you have said you will support the democratic nominee for president. >> i will support the democratic nominee for president. >> what if it's michael bloomberg. >> look i will support the democratic nominee. brian: even if he keeps his nondisclosure agreement contracts. lisa: mayor bloomberg is taking a swipe at bloomberg as well. this is a memo he put out and this is what it says. if bloomberg remains in the race despite showing he cannot offer a viable alternative to bernie sanders, he will propel sanders to seemingly insurmountable delegate lead

siphoning off votes to pete. current leader in delegates. what do you think of that? >> here's the thing is mayor bloomberg two nights ago called for pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar to drop out along with joe biden. pete buttigieg is saying i think michael bloomberg should drop out. marc thiessen has been thinking about this contested convention business and because nobody has a lead going in. this could spell disaster for the democrats. >> bernie sanders is probably going to come into the convention plurality than majority. more delegates than everybody else but not enough to hit the threshold to win the majority and secure the nomination. what happens if bernie loses the first ballot but has the most ballots and super delegates come in and pick somebody else, that's the establishment going in and taking the nomination away from the insurgent. if that happens, that is an absolute disaster for the democrats. brian: first time a brokered convention since 1952. i think if everyone is

calling on their opponents to drop out, i'm calling on "the today show" to disband. and good morning america. just drop out. it's better for us if they just disband. and go to a test pattern. lisa: steve ♪ sure where to go with that. steve: i like the competition. lisa: maybe jillian mele knows where to take us next with the headline. brian: al roker can get a job anywhere. jillian: i don't disagree. sure. let's start off with a fox news alert now and get you caught up on a story that we have been following for a while. doomsday cult mother lori vallow hours away from facing a judge in hawaii after being arrested in the disappearance of her children. 7-year-old and 17-year-old have been the seen since september. j.j.'s family has a message for his mother. >> hi, michael cohen, you better start talking now and maybe you can save a little year or two off your sentence that you are about to have when you go to court. >> mine is the same thing,

lori, tell me where the kids are. >> vallow and her husband have been on the run since november. president trump is considering congressman doug collins to become the director of national intelligence. if selected. the georgia lawmaker would permanently fill the position. this week the president named u.s. ambassador to germany richard grenell as acting director. he is replacing joseph maguire who has been acting director since august when dan coats stepped down. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez's green new deal could cost up to $93 trillion. but elizabeth warren says we need to think bigger. >> i want to see us move entirely to green. and let me say on this. i not only support a green new deal i don't think it goes far enough. i have a blue new deal. because we have got to be thinking about our oceans. >> warren's campaign says her climate change plan would cost just under $11 trillion. actor john is pushing back on claims that his military

movie role promotes conservative politics. >> everybody, this is jack silva. who trains steals at coronado so he knows the drill. >> welcome to the club, man. >> krasinski started in 13 hours secret soldiers of benghazi. used in a 201 2015 he want to play red state heroes without getting political. the former office star tells esquire that he didn't intend to promote that narrative that quote i have 11 aunts and uncles and cousins that have been on in the military. it was a big thing on my list to gets to do a military movie. send it back to you. steve: it's a great movie. lisa: i like him in jack ryan. steve: jillian, thank you. brian: i liked him in the office. lisa: is he well-liked on the couch. steve: very funny. brian: 15 minutes after the hour still ahead. the "new york times" slammed for publishing a piece written by a taliban terrorist a leader. how the "new york times" is

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steve: there have you got san francisco's newly sworn in sheriff saying his department in san francisco will not cooperate with ice over public safety concerns. will this actually make the sanctuary city any safer or less safe? here for a discussion we have got acting ice director matthew albence. matt, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve, thanks for having me. steve: that's got to be frustrating where he says look we want people to be able to come to us so we are not going to cooperate with the federal government regarding that. >> that's one of the biggest misconceptions about whole issue asking state and local law enforcement to enforce immigration law. we are not. all we are asking for is information. share that information with us so we can go out and enforce the federal laws that we are sworn to uphold. steve: take a look at the graphic big wall. 86% of illegals arrested had criminal records or pending charges. and all you are asking for is if a local jurisdiction is holding somebody who has broken the law, just give us a heads up because we might have a warrant for them or

something like that. we are talking about people who are criminals. this is ♪ just somebody who is working across the street. >> correct. if you look what the sheriff just south sheriff said in orange county that the recidivism rate is more than 20% for the criminal illegal aliens he has had to release as a result of california's sb 54. public safety threat to turn out people back to the street to reoffend. most of the time they go back to the very same immigrant communities and commit those crimes. steve: let's talk a little bit about a problem here in new york and that is a problem for some the so-called green light laws. which have changed the requirements for global entry and things like that. i know the president of the united states sat down last week with the governor to try to figure out a way around it. they couldn't figure it out. what's going to happen here? >> i don't know what's going to happen. hopefully, the legislature's of this state will come to their sentences this is incredible public safety and officer safety risk. you are talking about law enforcement officers out

there trying to do their job and not having even the most basic of information with which to do it. you are talking about individuals making a vehicle stop or going into a house and not being able to identify those residents are they felons? do they have weapons? it's incredible that we are putting our officers in such harm's way. steve: because new york will not cooperate and hand over dmv information, happens around the country. >> they are the only state in this entire country that has such a restrictive law that prevent us from doing our jobs. sometimes investigation human trafficking child exploitation investigation the only piece of information we have with which to start a lead is part of a license plate. steve: sure. >> that's how we build a case up from that. we can't even run those license plates now. steve: do you understand their rationale thinking this is a good law. >> no. i can't understand. 25 yearly law enforcement professional ca i can't understand not only make the will will communities less safe. we are going to be less effective.

there will be more crimes committed that we can't prevent as a result of our inability to get even the most basic of information. you saw we did the press conference up in albany yesterday more than 30 law enforcement organizations and agencies up there standing up with us side by side. we appreciate their support. they realize this is a huge problem. steve: no kidding. all right. thank you very much. he is the acting ice director matt albence. thank you very much. >> thank you, steve. appreciate you being here. steve: good to have you. straight ahead, john bolton has broken his silence about president trump's impeachment trial. does he wish he testified? well, not exactly. we're going to talk about that. plus, k.t. mcfarland is here to dish on her new book all about president trump's political rise and why she says the fight against the establishment is far from over. that's the book. there she is. she is with brian next. ♪ ♪ h vicks vapocool.

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lisa: time now for news by the numbers. $66 million is how much the women's soccer team wants from the u.s. soccer federation. suing over alleged gender discrimination. trial starts in may. $1 billion is how much revenue washington, d.c. generated in traffic and parking tickets over the last three years. 3 million drivers received a

traffic or parking ticket just last year alone. and finally 72 ounces. that's how much steak this nfl player ate in less than an hour. offensive lineman bradley boseman crushed the food challenge texas food house. ate a shrimp cocktail, baked potato, salad and butter roll which obviously sounds delicious to me. brian? brian: thanks some. mean while, one of the first to have a seat at president trump's table. serving ace his deputy national security advisor then it went south. now k.t. mcfarland is speaking out about the rise of trump and those working to cripple his administration in her brand new book out on tuesday "revolution, trump, washington and we the people. she joins us. >> now the president named you. you are back in government for awhile. you are thinking to yourself this is going to be fantastic and then what happened? >> well, first of all, it was pretty chaotic and meant to be chaotic. because trump did not want the same old people doing the same old mistaken

policies. it was part of the revolution. he wanted to change american economic policy, foreign policy, and the rest. so that part of it was great. but it was chaotic. and there were a lot of mistakes made. brian: what was the vision for you? >> the vision for me was finally, i as a traditional conservative republican foreign policy expert who had for years believed in the sort of globalism and elitism trump was the vision that says no, that hasn't worked and it hasn't worked for a lot of reasons. we were wrong on china. we were wrong on the middle east. we were wrong on economic policy we were wrong on the libya policy. trump presented something different which i loved because i thought here is somebody, finally, who admits that we ought to get out of middle east. we need to be energy-independent. we need to stand up to china. we need to fix the american economy. and trump was the guy to do it. so i was all in. and that was a terrific place to be. and trump has done all of those things. brian: he has. but for k.t. mcfarland you get caught up in the mueller investigation. and they talked to you for over 20 hours. because they are convinced

or they are searching to find out the russian connection that put trump in office. >> it started even before the inauguration. so i was appointed by president trump two weeks into his transition. and one of the only people who had ever worked in the white house. and i finally figured out i was the only one that had actually been in the white house. no one else had actually been on the white house floor. they weren't sure what they were walking into. i had to draw yellow legal pad for reince priebus. this is how the west wing works. brian: future chief of staff. >> none of them new. that was okay. because trump has always been a very strong leader himself. he is the only guy that really matters. but, for me what happened was general flynn who was my boss about a week before the inauguration i was in a cab ride coming back from a dinner with a washington reporter who i had known for decades. he was thought to be very close to the intelligence community. he turned to me and said michael flynn can't be national security advisor.

he doesn't have the background or the experience. that was not anything unusual. other people were saying that but two days later the russia probe started. it kicked off. and that was a transcript of a phone call between general flynn and the russian ambassador. brian: they are convinced that you were the link. you were the one that steaxd this connection between russia and trump. and a connection that never was there. but for two years your life went on hold. had you to pay lawyers. >> it went to hell. they showed up -- the fbi showed up at my house unannounced. i was all by myself. they come in. and i said do i need a lawyer for anything? i have never met with any russians. i have never dealt with any russians. >> we can't tell you not to get a lawyer. but we just want a little bit of information. we want you to help us with this probe. so i was naive, went along with it. the whole time they were setting me up for a perjury trap. brian, they seized all of my files, my documents. text messages. cell phones from the period that i was in government. they had control of them. they wouldn't let me have control of them.

brian: what did they find in k.t. mcfarland's background. >> they foundin found nothing. they thought they could pressure me to say i lied in one of my early talks with you guys when i didn't have access to my information. there was one point where they said we are looking at your transcripts and your cell phones and your phone logs and we see that there is a 90-minute period in mar-a-lago when you don't text or email or any other communications. is that when you were melting with trump to get the marching orders? i looked at them and i said no, that's actually when i was having lunch with my husband and i put my cell phone away. look, they had absolutely targeted me for perjury crime or to link trump and until i got the best lawyer in the country to come along with me. they really thought they had me. brian: not only giving up private sector money to go into the public sector to serve. >> yeah. brian: then you get bankrupt by an investigation that yields nothing, especially on you. that's why you say it's not

a deep state. it's an administrative state. and they want no part of trump bucking the system. >> and so at the end of it migrate lawyer robert jeffer finally got the mueller people to admit that they weren't going to charge me with anything and then they went on to investigate porn star queens and trump's taxes. i was so traumatized i left the country. i went to the remotest part of scotland where there were no phones, no wifi. no tv, no nothing. to just make sense of it all. and with my husband. because there was a point where i had been so beaten down by the mueller people. i spoke with my lawyer and i said what do they want me to say? we have gone on for 30 hours. there is nothing more we can give them. just tell them say what they want me to say and i will say it. your husband said you can't lie. you can't admit guilt to a crime you didn't commit. you can't imply others. brian: tried to bankrupt you. that's what they did to michael flynn.

>> that's exactly what they did to flynn. brian: that's why his life has been in hyper space. >> it costs you hundreds of millions of dollars to defend yourself. the government guys know that and they keep going. brian: you couldn't talk to him. you wanted serve the government and use some of your experience to help the president. it's all in your brand new book that comes out on tuesday. here it is. it's called "revolution, trump, washington, and we the people. k.t., thanks so much. >> thank you, brian. brian: look forward to having you back and talk to you on radio. >> thank you. it's a date. brian: shocking body cam footage just released of that shootout between police and anti-semitic attackers what else police are revealing about the ambush on the jewish community. and if you thought you heard the last of the russian collusion story. here we go again. >> russians are coming again. the russians are in to interfering in this election we are in right now. >> russia. >> russia. >> russia. >> russia. pete: right, so we woke up pete hegseth to make sense of it all.

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>> russians are coming again interfering in this election right now. >> the russians are interfering again and trying to elect donald trump. that's a bombshell. that's earthquake. >> russia interfere not guilty election to get president trump reelected. >> i do think the russians will be back in 2020? i said what do you mean be back they never left. >> new intelligence report that says russia right now is reportedly trying to help the president get reelected. >> this is one of those shocking news days if you retain the capacity to be shocked in the touch era by the trump regime which might be better labeled the trump-putin regime. >> russia.

>> russia. >> russia. brian: the trump-putin regime? what about pence? >> do you think they are talking about russia? steve: pete hegseth joins us. they are talking about this story broken in the "new york times" where apparently intel officials went up to capitol hill and briefed in a classified setting some members of the house, including adam schiff. and said the russians are trying to meddle in the 2020 election. not only to get president trump elected but also to be involved in the democratic primaries as well. and so now it looks like we are right back to where we started. pete: let's be clear about what this really all is. this is a an attempt to discredit president trump that's it. delegitimize him. that's why he wins again every single media member in that clip. pair route what is they are saying working together they're the agents of russia, this is what russia wants they want to sow

disorder. destabilize it. they are not our friends, they know when we are strong they are in a worse position. steve: which they have done for years. >> which they have done years before president trump. this is what they do, the democrats the media fell for it. they keep falling for it. they hate trump so much. they are willing to parrot what the kremlin is saying. they're the agents of russia. not donald trump, not this white house. it is the people that are spinning this and continuing to drive this narrative. not a single vote was changed in 2016 by the russians. lisa: did they fall for it or is it intentional? >> it's both. russians are trying to sow disorder and democrats and media are falling for it by perpetuating every time there is a itty-bitty nugget handled by intelligence agencies. dealt with by leaders through our government instead they amplify it. brian: will president rotate out d&i.

dni. >> conspiracy for the president to hide this information because it's harmful to him this is president who's to know what is going on but doesn't want to play into the hands of vladimir putin. look at the policies he has pursued from the ukraine to strengthening nato. they said he was going to deacon structure nato to help vladimir putin. the opposite has happened. how about iran who are also puppets and friends of russia. he has taken them on. there is no evidence at all. he is more friendly to the russians than the democrats. steve: well the "new york times" broke that story. "the washington post" has since added to it. there is something else in the "new york times" that's getting a lot of traction. and that is on the op-ed page they had an opinion piece by one of the leaders of the taliban. his name apparently sisirrad hue canny, what the taliban want. chief correspondent in afghanistan to be upset at

his own company was the fact that the "new york times" never mentioned this guy is a terrorist. brian: wanted $5 million on his head. pete: designated terrorist. what our country designates as a terrorist organization in the haqqani network. they invented the suicide bomber in afghanistan. the worst of the worst, as much american blood on heir hands as anyone in that country. if you think they are going to go peacefully into the night. you read that op-ed i dare you such revisionist garbage from our enemy. lisa: why did they publish it. >> because the "new york times" has been rooting oftentimes for the u.s. to fail. i mean that look at abu ghraib 2004. prison scandal they ran front page articles for 32 straight days pointing out how evil and terrible the americans are in a misinformation campaign against the iraq war to make all of us who were there look like we are the bad guys when everyone knows point 001% of the conduct that was done in the war was the type we saw at abu

ghraib. they want to smear us. brian: talk about have women's rights and equal rights if the america would leave and world would leave them alone forget about them. >> if it comports with islamic laws then they have female rights. again, we know exactly hot taliban is i know we are trying to cut a peace deal with them. the "new york times" gives a platform to people who kill americans without any caveat. brian: here is what they said. we know firsthand how dangerous and destructive the taliban is our mission is the "times" opinion is to tackle big ideas from a range of news worthy viewpoints. we have actively solicited voices from all sides of the afghanistan conflict. the government, the taliban and citizens. high canny second in commands taliban at a time when negotiators are hammering out an agreement with officials in dough harr. this makes relevant at this particular moment. relevant but don't know if it's accurate. seven day try not to kill each other moment according to the state department. steve: just left out that he was a terrorist.

pete: where is the op-ed next to it from an american soldier who lost people on the battlefield to the high canny network and is skeptical that some sort of peace is going to break out in the next seven days with this group subject gates. the taliban will bring afghanistan all the way backwards if it can. lisa: i will be joining you on "fox & friends weekend." what else should people at home expect from the show? pete: tell me. we have a great -- you guys get tons of news on the week all the time. we got a big event happening this week the nevada caucuses, of course. steve bernie is going to win. pete: i think will win. who comes in second and third matters a lot who can stay in the race. nevada caucuses. representative steve scalise, trey god i don't understand program ben watson star of the show pawn stars rick harrison will be on. if you have anything you want to pawn. lisa: i will try to put some

stuff together. brian: maybe we will know in tom brady is come back to new england patriots. pete: you think he is? brian: 50/50. i don't know how you build a team around a 42-year-old quarterback. pete: brett favre strategy. brian: never seen a an effective quarterback. pete: drew brees is coming back, too. steve: patriots without tom brady. lisa: trying to get to jillian what do you think? brian: very sexy attractive man. pete: brian, you are a close second. jillian: brand new body camera video shows intense shootout at kosher market in jersey city. watch this. [gunfire] i think he is out. i have got a gun on the ground. no, he is still moving. jillian: in this video you can see the officer firing at the suspect from across the street. the attackers killed a police officer before

murdering three people at the market. police say they had a hatred for jewish people and law enforcement. they were both shot dead. passengers leave a quarantined cruise ship in japan overnight. final group of passengers to leave after two week coronavirus quarantined 11 people from the diamond princess cruise have now tested positive for the deadly virus. and in south korea, there are 100 new cases of the infection. that brings the total number to 204 there. more than 2,000 people have died in mainland, china. nearly 76,000 have gotten sick. former national security advisor john bolton breaks his silence on president trump's impeachment. at an appearance at varnld built university he called it grossly partisan. he also said his testimony would have made no difference in the president's acquittal. >> for all those who say that i should have spilled my guts here or anywhere else. in the back of the position

that there's classified information in the manuscript is implied a threat of criminal prosecution. jillian: his book comes out next month about his time in the white house. steve: i wonder if it's been cleared yet. brian: it's not. it's been delayed. steve: can't do it then. lisa: thank you, jillian. joe biden lambasting bloomberg over stop and frisk. was it just a distraction from his own controversial record on criminal justice? brian: wow. and former nfl player jack brewer calling the attack complete hypocrisy. he explains-coming up. these are our sales... by product, by region. you can actually see taste- trends. since when can we do that? since we started working with bdo. (announcer) people who know, know bdo.

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♪ ♪ >> the reason stop and frisk changed is because barack obama sent moderators to see what was going on. the mayor thought it was a terrible idea. we sent him there. it's not whether he apologized or not. it's the policy. the policy was abhorrent and it was, in fact, a violation of every right people have. lisa: there is former vice president joe biden going after mike bloomberg for his controversial stop and frisk policy. but, some are saying that the attack on bloomberg was hypocritical considering biden spearheaded the

controversial 1994 crime bill. brian: joining us right now to weigh in is the brewer group jack brewer, you have a problem with biden condemning bloomberg? >> it's sad. i mean, it's hypocrisy at its greatest. i mean, the democrats have been able to do this over and over. joe biden wrote, actually wrote the '94 crime bill. and not just that when he saw that the crime bill was mass insofar as rating black men, taking them out of their homes, disproportionately, he continued to back that 15, 20 years later he still stuck up for this crime bill. it's a total disgrace. not to mention joe biden was also against integrating schools. he was for keeping poor black kids from going in to, you know, better served white schools. and this is just, i mean, it's hypocrisy like i have never seen before. lisa: jack, why do you think joe biden is doing so well with african-americans? >> because they have

hypnotized people. unfortunately, he uses the fact that he was barack obama's vice president and i don't understand why so many black people continue to support this guy just because he was the president of the first by racial president we ever had. it makes no sense to me. brian: frederick douglass a republican. abraham lincoln a republican. black history month is here. what is the message from jack brewer this month that we should all think about america's past and present? >> america's black history month is about remembering all those black lives. all those slaves that were lost. families that were disseminated. i know i'm from texas and i have retraced my history back to kentucky. so i know what it did to my family. i know how, you know, i had to watch my father and my mother who both went to segregated high schools struggle and so, we got to remember that as america. that's a part of our history, but, at the same time, we can't just talk about the bad portions of our history without talking about the good. and the good portion for

black america is progressing right now. we are doing so many amazing things from jobs. martin luther king marched for jobs and freedom. let's remember that and trump more jobs from blacks in america. we have historical, historical numbers being put out for women. so it's been amazing. lisa: powerful message, jack brewer, we appreciates you joining us. >> thank you. lisa: thank you. brian: and i know tim scott says he expects the president to double his votes in the african-american community. but still way too low. still ahead on our show in the next hour, geraldo rivera will be here. larry kudlow submitted a picture as well. we asked judge jeanine and she smiles what about this one? i said fine. ♪ i don't know what it is about that little gal's loven. means no next-day grogginess. zzzquil pure zzzs. naturally superior sleep.

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>> good morning. >> all of these things align. >> i was focusing on the morning. >> lisa: yes it's a good morning. steve: why would we run that music for the good morning or the frost name? >> lisa: it took me a while to pick up on why, but i got there. brian: tell us why we chose that. steve: good morning. that's why. 8:00, third hour and it's going to be a wild west showdown. president trump landing in las vegas overnight for his third rally in three days. >> lisa: the president's

supporters have been lining up outside the convention center since yesterday afternoon. brian: i'll take it from here, all this as democrats into the final round before tomorrow 's talk as. griff jenkins is live in vegas and griff we're probably not going to get a winner or a loser or the rankings or the votes count in one day is that correct? griff: well, we'll see. the officials here in nevada are confident, clark county is the biggest part of it in this biggest area who knows only time will tell. meanwhile you asked me brian whether or not i was following president trump or president trump was following me. it turns out president trump is following democrats. it is a rally in three days, but he did this in iowa, new hampshire, and nevada and now same thing next week in south carolina. we can't go in because of secret service has to complete their sweep but several hundred supporters now have come in, and started lining up outside vegas. you've seen them come all night they got a jumbotron the president will take the

stage at high noon but some of the supporters were crossing the street a was able to grab a few and say do you think any of these candidates can take on president trump and defeat them especially that billionaire, mike bloomberg. here is what they had to say. >> i think they spent a lot of money for nothing. griff: you don't think he can go head-to-head with donald trump? >> he can try but i think no one can out debate donald trump. >> he's a man you know? he's our president. there's no way. no competition. >> you have to put up a super star to go against him and what i'm seeing it's not happening. griff: meanwhile democrats making their final push, there are closing arguments to the voters here and one to keep or eye on is senator elizabeth warren after that dominating debate performance, trying to mount a comeback here particularly amongst minority voters. she was at a soul food restaurant yesterday. we caught up with her where she was talking to supporters and found out what they had to say. watch this. >> i think it's time for a

female president and i think that we're going to have one, i think she's the perfect candidate. >> we said we would join her in that effort to become president of the united states, and we waited now to see her get the nomination and go against trump. >> with the attitude that she exemplified i think she will be the very one to get in. griff: so we'll see how they do. now, one final point, brian, about the officials and caucus, they obviously learned the lesson from iowa but they did have 75,000 early voters already happened earlier this week so maybe that will take a little bit of the stress over the total number of voters that come out. tomorrow, one thing for sure, we'll be here and we'll be watching. steve: live in las vegas. the caucus people now have special ipads. geraldo joins us right now. tomorrow it's good news that michael bloomberg is not on the nevada caucus slate, because

a couple of nights ago, at the big debate he was terrible. geraldo: remember four years ago , lisa? >> lisa: yeah, we were in new york together. geraldo: how soon they forget. it was a debate, we drove there at 3:00 in the morning. i think that bloomberg laid a big fat egg. it was political malpractice. he was so we fully unprepared, it was -- steve: what is that? an ego? geraldo: it was shameful. i don't think that anyone could take responsibility for a person not briefing themselves on the three questions you know they are going to ask you about stop andfrisk, about minority relations with the cops, they are going to ask you about sending your money to basically buy the democratic nomination. you have to have answers ready for these things. brian: how about minorities don't know how to act in the workplace. these aren't opinions.

these are sound bites. geraldo: when you think of the fact that he has thousands of people working for him, why is it one to two guys to give him six lines that you know you can use in the debate, and then to seem like the deer in the headlights and get beat up by elizabeth warren and the others it was a performance that bordered on malpractice. >> lisa: there was such a prop ping up of bloomberg before the debate. the media was covering him with a lot of endorsements yet he wasn't on the debate stage or gotten a single delegate so why the propping up bloomberg? geraldo: you have to separate the substance of the man from the politics. he clearly did not understand that this was a political environment. bloomberg, i like bloomberg. a lot of people who were here in new york during his 12 years and following the eight years of rudy giuliani really appreciated that they brought to order. over 2,000 murdered a year, from

over 2,000 murdered a year to around 300. i mean it's a dramatic improvement. new york became the safest big city on earth. people were making money, prospering, jobs were happening, he was an excellent mayor who became an absolute flop when he came to a presidential candidate it's arrogance. brian: is it over? geraldo: you know, because of the process, and because of the way the democrats allocate delegates, it's possible that it's super tuesday because the other candidates can't campaign in the way he can, with his hundreds of millions of dollars. it's possible that he'll get enough of the middle of the road democrats that it will be a contested convention, and maybe they can stop sanders, but i'm saying that right now, bernie sanders is the odds are in favor which shapes up to be the most sharply ideological decision the american voters have made since roosevelt versus

herbert hoover and the great depression. it's right and left and socialism versus capitalism, it's going to be a stark choice but i also think if you underestimate bernie sanders, and that energy, you do have at your peril. steve: absolutely a binary choice, nonetheless given bloomberg's terrible performance it did give the president of the united states something to talk about. he was -- geraldo: colorado springs last night. steve: the first thing we're going to play is where he's talking about mayor bloomberg, but of course, he refers to him as , here is the president. geraldo: [laughter] president trump: mike didn't do well last night. i was going to send him a note saying it's not easy doing what i do, is it? look, you're going to vote for one of these people, probably crazy bernie. he seems to be leading. mini mike, i thought he might come up but he can't because he can't debate. he wasn't meant for the camera do we agree? how about co did you see her?

she choked. they said something slightly derogatory and she said are you accusing me of being dumb? who would make a statement like that? how about sleepy joe? how about this performance? >> [booo] knew president trump: it's great to be with the great people of how. joe, joe, you're in iowa. oh, he's sleepy joe. he was sleepy a long time ago but now he's really sleepy. >> lisa: that is quite the summation. steve: whoever the candidate is on the democratic side the president already carved out a nickname. geraldo: when you look at that montage, you think here comes god still la. versus all of the pleaing bureaucrats. he is a very powerful campaigner , he knows where the weakness is, he laser focuses on the things to easily mocked and repeated. this , you know, this guy with the counter-programming he's brilliantly going out west even

as the democrats have their caucus in nevada, he's stealing the wind from their thunder whatever metaphor you want to use. i think he's shaping up to be a fabulous campaigner, but demographically the country is split. demographically if he appeals to traditional or the democratic nominee appeals to the traditional democratic base, i think that this is going to be a hotly-contested race. brian: he's trailing in michigan and pennsylvania to every candidate, every democratic candidate but he's killing it in wisconsin. geraldo: wisconsin is very important, but so is pennsylvania. i think that pennsylvania is shaping up, lisa knows better than i, but shaping up to be the most important state in the union. aspen pen goes i would submit because how, my state, my new adopted state is clearly in trump's camp right now. but pennsylvania i think is very divided and you had that congressman in the western part of the state, the democrat who ran as a centrist, who unwith, i

think that phenomenon is very dangerous politically. >> lisa: and numbers change once you actually have a clear idea of what the contest is going to look like. also, we are years away in political terms away from the november election, but also want to get your thoughts on this because the new york times as we all know, they ran this op-ed and it says what we, the taliban want and this op-ed is an opinion piece but a deputy leader of the taliban. what do you make of this op-ed? should they have run it? geraldo: well i'm for more rather than less. this is the 101st airborne, one of my man it stops between 2010 and 2012, they fought the 101st airborne thought the network all along the pakistan it border, many many gi's were killed and the i ed's they were using were wicked, their violence is everywhere, but you make peace with your enemies not with your friends, and when i spoke to the

president last week, president trump told me that a peace deal was close. he was pursuing it, he wasn't going to be overly optimistic but he was going ahead and it seemed to me that he was indicating that would by the end of this month that something will happen. steve: it sounds like it but geraldo what the new york times didn't do was row seal that rather than a peace maker he is a wanted terrorist, $5 million leading to information and his capture, and they never put that in. how do you leave that out that he's been responsible for the death of a lot of people geraldo: what about the washington post with an aesthetic cleric? steve: as toot. geraldo: i don't know why they minimized that but hearing from these folks i remember our ambassador in kabul afghanistan, when they attacked the embassy we were inside and the mortars were coming down and afterwards i got on the phone, our fixer

put me on the phone with the taliban spokesman and i said it was basically you didn't get any of us, you know, your attack coordinated attack around the country failed so you want to talk to your enemies. i think that it's very important , and maybe he can transition into a leader of sorts. lisa: the most interesting life and the new york times we want this statement from the new york times from a spokesperson. they said we've actively solicited voices from all sides of the afghanistan conflict. the government, the taliban, and from citizens. it's the second in command of the taliban at a time when its negotiators are hammering out an agreement with american officials that the could result in american troops leaving afghanistan. that makes his perspective relevant at this particular moment so that's what they had to say about it. geraldo: i ran into neil cavuto at the coffee machine and we were talking about how long erica and i have been together, a long long time the next year 2001 we went to war in

afghanistan. we're still at war in afghanistan, 2001, that's almost 19 years. it's time to close this thing down. you're not going to win in a classic sense, no one is going to surrender but if you can hammer out a peace deal, that comes with reasonable security for the afghan people, reasonable freedoms for the oppressed groups, particularly women in afghanistan. brian: that's the most important part. it can't be terror activity. geraldo: i think that is the ironically the reason we went there was to stop al qaeda from using afghanistan as a base to launch attacks like 9/11. i think that taliban is good because they hate al qaeda. i think they will, i believe that the taliban will stop international terrorist groups from using afghanistan. brian: they have to change their philosophy. geraldo: their religion says they have to keep the bigger danger is oppression in afghanistan and dope. they are the biggest dope dealer s on earth. they sell more opium than the maffia. the malibu is a big big dope

dealer, and i think that should be part of the deal. >> lisa: thank you for joining us. a lot to cover today. gillian, you've got headlines for us. reporter: good morning, good to see you geraldo as always. let's begin with this. president trump is considering congressman doug collins to become the permanent director of national intelligence, but he's not interested. listen to what he said on mornings with maria on fix business. >> it is humbling and amazing to have the president think that much of you to mention my name. i know the problems in our intelligence community but this is not a job that interests me at this time it's not one that i would accept because i'm running a senate race down in georgia. reporter: u.s. ambassador to germany, will serve as acting director. there's a new antibiotic that promises to fight the toughest of superbugs. researchers found the newcomb pound using artificial intelligence. scientists say it can kill dozen s of types of back ear yeah and some of the most dangerous

drug-resistance infections in the world. nearly 3 million americans reportedly developed antibiotic resistant infections every year. a man takes off with an entire case of lottery scratch off tickets. take a look at this video showing a thief taking off in southern california. eight hours later that suspect believed to be the same man walks into a doughnut shop and rips the lottery case off the counter. detectives say that suspect is still on the run this morning. wow that is brazen. brian: not just scratch off but rip off. reporter: yeah. brian: a former inmate is getting a second chance to re enter society with personal encouragement from the president of the united states. our next guest started the hope for prisoner's program after turning his own life around. president trump: would you

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president trump: john has been doing this for 11 years and he's been incredible and so many people have such respect for him would you consider john ponder for a full pardon? we are giving him absolute consideration and i have a feeling he's going to get that full pardon. steve: there you got president trump attending the special commencement for the hope for prisoners program, which is a non-profit that helps convicts reenter society after serving time behind bars.

you heard the president referring to the hope for prisoners ceo and founder john ponder and john ponder joins us live right now from las vegas john good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: so the president had been talking there at your festivity ies and then out of nowhere he says he's considering a pardon for you. did you have any idea you were being considered? >> no, absolutely not. i had no idea whatsoever, but what an incredible incredible surprise it was. steve: well what would a pardon from the president of the united states do for you? i know you were a convicted felo n. you served your time what would it do for you today? >> you know, it means the absolute world to me. it means the world to my family just to be considered for that for the works that i've donald the things that have taken place

since the 11 years after coming home from prison, it means the world. steve: tell us a little bit about your organization and the graduation ceremony was yesterday in las vegas at a police station. tell us about hope for prisoners which i have read essentially as a vision you had, you were sitting in prison, and you were talking to god and you said, if i get out i want to do this , right? >> absolutely 100% and our goal is to work with the men and women and young adults that are exiting different arenas of our judicial system to provide those supportive services and opportunities for them that once they get released back home that we be able to help them to find sustainable employment, re integrate back with their families and ultimately to help them to be stand-up leaders in the community, with an overall goal they will never reoffend again. steve: that be terrific. you were also involved with the white house discussions regarding criminal justice reform right?

>> oh, absolutely that is correct and one of the things that really stands out from those early conversations, we were talking about criminal justice reform and creating opportunities for folks, returning back to the community, sitting in the white house with some of the key members of this administration, i heard president trump's commitment to the folks who have been returning home. i heard the promises that he made and him being there, and that graduation was evident that the promises that he made was promises that he kept. steve: and is that different from what you've heard from other presidents in the past? >> you know, i think that historically, you've heard conversations about this. what people wanted to do, but i have to tell you that everything that we talked about that day was everything that is being done. i don't think that there's ever been another president in the history of this country who has taken this level of initiatives and carrying out the things that was discussed in

keeping those promises. steve: well there you go. he showed up at your graduation, and then he dropped that bomb that he might actually, he's considering a pardon. john ponder the ceo and founder of hope for prisoners, sir thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you so much. thanks for having me. steve: you bet. meanwhile, speaking of the white house, the white house has released its annual report on the state of the economy, and here is a hint. it could have a very big impact on the election. we're going to talk to national economic council director larry kudlow, that's the guy. he's coming up next. >> ♪ ♪ a lot of healthy foods are very acidic and they're actually pulling out the minerals from the enamel. i like to recommend pronamel to my patients. pronamel will help push the minerals back into the enamel, to keep the enamel strong. i know it works. and i hear nothing but great things from my patients that have switched to it.

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of roger stone? you know, the career prosecutor suggested that he get seven to nine years and now it looks like it's closer to three. >> well seven to nine years is absurd. i think anyone who understands the criminal justice system or even the federal guidelines understands that that was a political vendetta in a sentence that was intended to reflect that. the three years, the three to four years is more consistent with the guidelines is a guy whose never committed a crime before, and you know, the crimes that he committed three to four years is consistent with punishment compared to other defendants. >> lisa: so why do they get so much criticism though? as you mentioned this is more in line with the amended sentencing recommendation, yet everyone lost their mind at the amending, the sentencing, so why? >> well look, what happened was that you have four prosecutors who are very much inclined to seek whatever they could, based upon their hatred of donald

trump and anyone connected to him, and when the head of the department of justice comes out and says, well this isn't consistent with the guidelines, they then want to withdraw from the case. i mean, you work for the attorney general and he doesn't work for you, so you know, it became a political show down. at the end of the day, it was the judge who pretty much confirmed what the attorney general and the president said herself, when she says look, it's three year sentence. that's the end of it, and so now , what i don't understand why the judge went forward with the sentencing. the truth is that once there is an issue of juror bias that goes to the validity of the conviction itself, you have to decide whether or not this conviction should stand, and if you have a person of the jury who has a bias against the defendant and everything that this defendant stands for , and has made that known publicly

, and then outs herself, what's curious is she comes out and says that i stand by the prosecutors and what they were doing. who are you to stand by the prosecutors? brian: listen to what judge amy burman jackson said. stone took it upon himself to lie to obstruct before the investigation was complete and to influence the result the truth still exists, the truth still matters so she didn't really care about what the jury said. she had an opinion about this guy right away. >> well, right and her sentence is consistent with the facts and what she says. brian: does it make it harder for the president to pardon? >> the jury doesn't decide what the sentence should be. as a judge, i would say, your can concern is not the sentence. you tell m ewhether he did it and i'll decide what the sentence should be, so when that for eperson comes out and objects to the fact these prosecutors were taken off the case who are you to do that and the other issue is and i'll

answer that in a second is the judge has already pre-judged this by saying look, this jury acted with the ut most integrity. judge amy burman jackson, how do you know that? why would you say that? you haven't had a hearing yet. i don't know if she's bias but she should recuse herself having said that. she pre-judged the very issue she must decide and that is was this juror, how did this juror get on the case? how did this juror, did this juror lie? steve: does it come up during -- >> voire dire. can you be fair and impartial. is there anyone in your background that lends you to believe that you couldn't be? there's a questionnaire handed out to all potential jurors and any of that stuff would have come out. the juror was not completely open, and so for the judge to come out and say that the jury reacted with integrity under difficult circumstances, hogwash

this wasn't difficult! brian: the attorney general said i recommend three and a half years, and he gets three and a half years. does it make it harder for the president to pardon roger stone if his attorney general recommendations were adhered to by the judge? >> no because that is the sentence for this crime. that is pretty much the recognized sentence within this standard of the federal guidelines. that is consistent. if and when the president and he says, i'll let it all play out, if he decides he wants to pardon or commute the sentence it's a totally different issue. one has nothing to do with the other. >> lisa: staying on russia, so the new york times recently came out with this article, here is the headline that says house warned that russia is meddling to re-elect trump once again -- steve: write a new book. >> lisa: judge are we going to see this once again if president trump wins in 2020 as somehow russia was behind this and it actually is a legitimate

election? >> yes. and don't you think it's interesting that they went right to house intel? whose on house intel? adam schiff. brian: but it's the president's d &i. >> oh, so what's wrong with weapons of mass destruction? what are all of the other issues that they were wrong on? the intelligence community that even chuck schumer said they will get you six ways to sunday if they want, and isn't it interesting now that the mueller investigation is over, russia is over, this president has imposed sanctions on russia unlike any other president in the history of this country. why? because mueller is over, everything is over. we got to get , we need to get the president for something. russia are you kidding? if bernie sanders is the candidate, russia's coming in, the ussr for bernie. who goes to russia for a

honeymoon? >> lisa: i would not. brian: i've been to siberia. steve: judge, who is -- >> it might be. let me think about that. steve: back to you whose on your show this weekend? >> okay on my show we've got darryl darrel issa, sarah sanders, charlie kirk, i'm going out to do street justice to find out what people think about mini mike and my open will be on that brian: you'll have caucus results too. >> well now they may be late, they may not have them. steve: it's going to be a problem. >> i am on late saturday night at 9:00. would you like to be on my show tomorrow? brian: i would love to but i have a previous commitment. >> what, your book? brian: i'm not able to say. you can ask me on the show. >> let me tell you, you were on the show last weekend. >> lisa: i was. >> i loved having you on, so smart, so bright. really. you want to be on, steve? you're in new jersey. steve: but when i was on, i

catered. >> oh, that's right. but didn't you cater my recipe? steve: i did indeed. wait until the next cookbook. judge thank you very much. we'll be watching. >> lisa: always a pleasure. brian: the president gave you a shoutout last night. meanwhile the white house releasing its annual report of the state of the economy. here is a hint it could have a big impact on the election. we'll talk to national economic counselor, his name is larry kudlow and he's coming our direction. >> ♪ that's the way, i like it ♪ - [spokeswoman] meet the ninja foodi pressure cooker, the best of pressure cooking and air frying now in one pot, and with tendercrisp technology, you can cook foods that are crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. the ninja foodi pressure cooker, the pressure cooker that crisps.

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the drop-off on increased fears over the impact of the corona virus on the global economy. brian: here to discuss that and so much more national economic director larry kudlow. larry great to see you. what happened with the market yesterday? >> yeah, the market is great. the market is absolutely great, brian. i keep telling you that. i want you to own the s&p 500 index or something like it and just hold it forever, until you're 95 years old, just don't take a look at it, because you're buying america, greatest country in the world, free market capitalism, is the best path to prosperity and by the way even with yesterday's sort of small correction, s&p 500 is up over 4% this year-to-date, despite the virus, and last year it was up 29%, so i really think the market signal here is more business and consumer confidence in this extraordinary blue collar boom, in which we find

ourselves. >> lisa: larry about that there's no doubt that the economy is so strong right now. the democrats are trying to hijack that narrative from president trump. here is this tweet from president obama that he recently tweeted saying this. he said 11 years ago i think we've got the tweet there, 11 years ago today we're near the bottom of the worst recession in a generation he talks about how i signed the recovery act paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth, and the longest streak of job creation in american history, so my question to you is does president obama deserve credit for the economy? >> well look, i'm not here to knock down president obama. i always like the positive more than the negative. what i will say is this. coming off a very deep recession like that, we shouldn't have 2% or less growth which is what that administration produced we should have had 8 or 10% growth i was a reagan guy here many years ago off the deep recession and the economy was growing at 7

, 8, 9% and in just three years and this is really important. you've got a whole set of statistics here. we've created 500,000 manufacturing jobs, net that fell under obama. the blue collar workers are in a boom. the bottom half is outperforming the top half, i mean here is the stat. actually, the bottom quarter of the workforce, their wages are increasing about 4.5%. those are the so-called production workers. the top quarter is only drawing about 3%, so here is a thing that we've established. in the three years of the trump recovery, that trump adminitration, actually, we've had lower unemployment across-the-board, every minority group, every blue collar, white collar, women, millennials, even the snowflakes have added

2 million jobs, that's terrific, probably they are going to vote capitalist trump coming up, and inequality because of this boom in blue collar wages, inequality is narrowed, so look, what do you got? more growth, lower unemployment, less inequality, and i also want to add one thing, besides the blue collar boom and the millennial boom, black and hispanic unemployment, there's a woman's boom going on here. i've got stats for you, brian kilmeade on how well are doing in this recovery. president obama with all respect i'm not here to trash him, i'm just saying, their spending and regulating and taxing policy produce a very weak recovery. president trump has changed that , low taxes, rollback regulation, energy independence, great trade deals that are going to promote an export. just in three weeks.

brian: and people point out he got $1 trillion, $800 billion to fuel the economy and most of those programs were not shovel- ready jobs they went to the states to pay their state workers and also had 0% credit rating, 0% interest rates at that time almost. >> don't forget this. the anecdote to poverty is growth. the anecdote to income inequality is opportunity, okay? so again, let me say this. president trump is rewarding success, not punishing it, taxes , low taxes, deregulation, oil and trade and look what's happening here. roughly 10 million people, all right? 10 million people they've come off food stamps, they've come off welfare et cetera, so this is win, win, win and it is across the board and with all

respect to mr. obama, we are eclipsing him in almost every area. brian: real quick overnight we hear that china is willing to expedite their tariff reduction getting rid of an extra tariff on an extra 65 u.s. goods including medical supplies. what could you tell us about this and why is china doing this >> by the way, this i believe is the third tariff reduction in the last six weeks or so, so let me say a couple things brian first of all i think they need u.s. consumer goods, that's point number one, all of our exports. point number two, there's a certain goodwill here. point number three, it's consistent with the historical phase i china deal. it's absolutely consistent and here is something that most economists won't tell you about in all honesty, because of the trade deal with china, because of the trade deal with u.s. mca, mexico and canada, the u.s. is poised on an export

boom, because president trump has rewritten the old deals and is now opening markets as well as making structural changes on things like ip theft and enforcement. here is a hidden point. by the middle of this year towards the back end, especially when boeing comes back online, producing airplanes again as i know they will, you could be back at the 3% growth zone. part of this will be an export boom for agriculture, for manufacturing, for technology, and so forth. put that into your forecast, because i want you to stay invested in those s&p spiders. >> lisa: we'll be watching larry kudlow thanks so much for joining us this morning. >> optimism and leadership. brian: he's using that cnbc jargon. >> lisa: i heard that. >> brian: meanwhile, thanks so much, larry kudlow let's go up to gillian. reporter: let's start with a fox

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to say? reporter: the new book, revolution trump, washington and we the people, hits shelves next week. those are your headlines back to you. >> lisa: thank you, gillian. brian: here we go, lego mania it is real and it pays. the new competition series separates amateures from lego masters and the winner takes all we'll bring it to you. >> lisa: so do we have what it takes to bring home the trophy? brian: we'll find out but first with your permission, lisa, i'd like to check in with ed henry and find out what's going on on his show. ed: no we're not going to do that today we were thinking about it and decided not to. i know you're having a lot of fun. >> lisa: bad move but just my thought. ed: have a great weekend guys, good morning friends. bernie sanders lead keeps on widening even as new polls show most voters in the general election would not be on board with socialism. dr. bill bennett joins us on that, plus we have breaking news overnight on the doomsday cult mom mother of two missing kids from idaho now arrested in

hawaii. details ahead, plus president trump's labor secretary, is our headliner, fresh examples of what the administration is touting as a blue collar boom. join us at the top of the hour. at today's best western, stay two nights and get a free night for your next stay. one night, two nights, free night. book now at bestwestern.com.

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competition series spotlight s teams of adult lego enthusiasts who go head-to-head for a chance to win big cash prizes and the coveted title of lego master, we'll get you into all of the hotels and restaurants so do we have what it takes here lego masters and judge, and designer amy corbit is here to tell us. thanks so much for coming. how has lego lasted so long? >> i think because we keep bringing out new things and we look at the trends and what kids are playing and we bring in new things all the time. it's all about the system, expanding the system and bringing new opportunities. so we're moving lego from 3d into 2d and it's all about creating patterns, decorating and exploring your creativity. >> lisa: tell us about your show. >> so the show, we have 10 teams and two contestants and every week they have a different challenge and they need to create amazing legos and wow us with their creativity.

brian: what do you have here? you have a trophy they walk away with a lego trophy? >> at the end of the competition our winning team will walk home with this beautiful lego trophy and $100,000. and the title of lego master. >> i like both of those. >> i had some help in building the trophy. >> lisa: how long would it take to build something like that? >> a lot of hours, more time than we have today. brian: give us a little competition for the last minute that we have, 30 seconds on the clock. we're all going to build bracelets. >> so this is one of the really new things we have is this new bracelet, and i just want to see your creativity let loose. brian: we have 30 seconds on the clock. go! >> okay. >> ♪ ♪ brian: so what do we do? >> lisa: pick some colors and make a pattern. you can use flowers. >> if you were me what would you be doing right now? >> i think you're picking nice colors.

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>> you're looking live at lego bracelets. >> ed: president trump bringing the heat to colorado firing up a crowd of thousands as he makes the case for four more years. democratic challengers piling on michael bloomberg. i'm ed henry. >> julie: i'm julie banderas. a trump rally reminders of accomplishments and attacks on the 2020 democrats fighting for their party's nomination. >> president trump: i don't know if anybody watched last night's debate. mini mike didn't do well last night. i was going to send him a note saying it's not easy doing what i do, is it? how about klobuchar? did