jillian: it is tuesday, august 11th. this is a fox news alert, mayhem across american cities, breaking overnight in seattle, the police chief reportedly announcing her resignation as the city council defunds her department. todd: in chicago protests surround a police precinct overnight, demanding looters be released. one organizer defended it as, quote, reparations. jillian: there was a dramatic scene in the white house briefing room. ♪

todd: good morning, you are watching "fox & friends first" on this tuesday morning. i am todd piro. carley: i'm carley shimkus in for jillian mele. thank you for starting your day with us. chaos in american cities, president trump rushed out of a briefing as shots are fired feet from the white. toddhouse.todd: in seattle, thp reportedly set to resign as the city votes to defund her department. griff jenkins has the new information coming in overnight. >> reporter: it was a chaotic scene at the white house yesterday. first, the news that you're talking about breaking on the west coast, seattle's police chief who battled against civil unrest for more than two months says she is stepping down after the city council votes to change her department.

a radio host tweeted the chief's resignation letter. it reads in part, quote, this was a difficult decision for me but when it's time, it's time. she continue, you truly are the best police department in the country and please trust me when i say the vast majority of the people in seattle support and appreciate you. the letter noted her retirement will be effective september 2nd. in washington, it was just before 6:00 p.m. eastern, the president abruptly escorted from the white house briefing room by his protective detail, just minutes after starting a press conference. after law enforcement officers fired a shot or shots at a man they believed was armed on the consistent teacorner of 17th and pennsylvania avenue, outside of the white house complex. the president returned to the podium, explaining what happened. >> there was an actual shooting and somebody's been taken to the hospital, i think the person was shot by secret service. i'd like to thank the secret

service for doing their always quick and very effective work. >> reporter: the secret service says the investigation into the shooting was ongoing noting at no time was the president's safety in question. >> the white house complex was never breached during the incident, nor were the secret service ever in danger. >> reporter: the man shot is expected to recover. we'll bring you more as we get it. we'll see what the president has to say when you wakes up to learn seattle's police chief has retained. yesterday he was tweeting at portland leaders, the mayor, the governor, that it's time for them to bring in the national guard. carley: i'm sure he'll make his feelings very clear on that one. todd: black lives matter activists declare they don't need police outside a chicago precinct. carley: the protests coming as

the city reels from a night of widespread looting. marianne rafferty has more. >> reporter: protesters rallied outside a police precinct, chanting loudly. listen. [crowd chanting] >> reporter: those chants are referring to efforts to defund the police and on sunday hundreds of rioters brazenly ransacked the city, looting several high end stores, during a protest believed to have been organized on social media in the wake of a police-involved shooting. more than 100 rioters were arrested during the chaos and 13 officers were hurt. mayor lauri lori lightfoot condd

the shooting. >> we do not need federal troops in chicago, period, full stop. this is not an incident that required the national guard. >> reporter: the unrest led authorities to raise bridges in the city in the hopes of preventing more mayhem during sunday's rioting. the police superintendent, david brown, says the looters have no fear. >> the looters act as if there's no consequences of to their behavior and they base that on what happened previously, that we made a lot of arrests during may and june and not many of those cases were prosecuted to the fullest extent. >> reporter: brown says the blame falls on cook county's state attorney, kim fox, who dismissed over 25,000 felony cases including murders, shootings and sexual you assaults. fox denied this. >> i don't have an answer for what happened. the request for a simple answer or this must have caused it is not i legitimate.

>> reporter: chicago businesses have lost $66 million in stolen or damaged property since the riots began in may. the black lives matter say they have insurance so it's okay to ransack them. they even called the looting reparations. todd: marianne rafferty, thank you. carley: the president of chicago's fraternal order of police says the city is in shambles and it comes down to a lack of leadership. >> the mayor's incompetence has shown more and more with every crisis going forward. the whole narrative that triggered the looting was a person that was shot by the police. the narrative got out of that the offender didn't have a gun which was a 100% lie. this was a notorious criminal at 20 years old. it's an excuse for bad behavior because they know the politicians and the people that run the city and county will not

do a damn thing about it every single time. todd: on top of the looting, there were 40 shoo shootings in chicago over the weekend. carley: today, the full d.c. court of appeals will re-hear arguments over the doj's decision to drop charges against michael flynn. the judge is asking for the hearing after being ordered to dismiss the case. they claim the fbi set up flynn before he pleaded guilty to lying to contacts in russia. they say christopher wray has a lot of questions to answer. >> how could it be in february and march of 2018, over a year after the fbi interviewed the russian subsource, saying the dossier was garbage, that the fbi briefed the senate intel committee in 2018 saying basically it's a reliable

document. christopher wray needs to tell me how that briefing was set up for the senate intel committee. i want to know who gave the briefing, i want to know who prepared the briefing memo. the briefing memo is a complete fabrication of what the subsource said. carley: got a lot of questions there. wray ordered an internal review of the flynn case back in may. todd: todd: giv todd todd: todd: ghislaine maxwell is asking to be moved out of her cell. she is accused of helping recruit underage girls for jeffrey epstein. her lawyers will not say what new information is but are asking the court to delay the release of several documents. there's stalling on capitol hill as lawmakers remain in a deadlock, days after president

trump took coronavirus relief in his own hand, signing four executive orders. treasury secretary steven mnuchin says new unemployment benefits of up to $400 will be available soon. >> i think within the next week or two, most of the states will be able to execute. todd: the democrat led house will not return for votes in washington until september 14th unless a stimulus deal is made. carley: today voters will head to the holes. the fifth district is said to be the most expensive congressional race this year with each candidate raising over $4 million. connecticut is set to hold the last presidential primary in the nation, the state seeing 300,000 absentee ballot requests, 10 times more than any other election ever before. todd: always late to the party,

connecticut. exit light, enter night, metallica gearing up to take the stage for the first time in nearly a year. it will not be a normal stadium show. >> we've been here rehearsing from a distance, of course, because we're playing a show very, very soon. todd: awesome. the band's going to record the concert later this week. it will be shown at drive-in theaters on august 29th. i love metallica. carley: i'm glad that you sort of sang enter night, because it would have fallen flat if it didn't. the time is 10 minutes after the hour. the rnc asking the supreme court to stop one state from relaxing mail-in ballot rules, the deadline just set by the high court. todd: and a 103-year-old gets released from isolation at her nursing home.

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demanded those arrested be police. anthony napolitano joins us to react. so some rioters want fellow rioters to be released. how does mayor lightfoot play this? >> i think the mayor played it pretty well yesterday when she called the state's attorney to step up finally. you guys covered it in your intro. our state's attorney here in the last three years has let over 29% of felony of fenders go. that's over 25,000 felony offenders put back out on the street, free to offend another day. i think chicagoan's woke up on monday and said you're either on the side of good or evil. todd: black lives matter doesn't agree with your assessment on mayor lightfoot. they said the mayor has clearly not learned anything since may and she would be wise to understand that the people will keep rising up until the cpd is

abolished and our black communities are fully invested in. they don't say he defund in that, they say abolish. now that appeasement has not work and the mayor seems to be realizing that, what does she do now? >> you know, it's time for the mayor, time for our state's attorney to start holding the people accountable. i mean, these are all coordinated attacks. listen, criminals are going to prey on the weak. they're right now preying on the weakness of our state's attorney's office. that's exactly what's going on here. if we don't get ahead of this, abolishing the police is so ridiculous because you're seeing what's happening with the crime rate. 25,000 people have been shot in the city of chicago in the last eight years. if you abolish the police, it will be ten-fold. i mean, it's a ridiculous concept and everyone knows this is being done until november 4th. when this is done, it will probably all go away. until then, we need to get rid

of the state's attorney's office and get somebody in there that will hold the people accountable. carley: mayor lightfoot her rhetoric was pretty intense, she said we are coming for you. she is definitely taking this seriously. and the chicago police department superintendent said something interesting, criminals took to the streets with the confidence there would be no consequence for their actions, talking about what you're saying with the state's attorney general. we found a poll interesting, that the majority of americans believe there needs to be some changes in police departments, 58% say major changes need to take place. only 15% of people polled believe that they support fully abolishing police. a lot of numbers there. but can you react to those numbers that we just showed on the screen? >> i would agree with those exactly, those numbers. you know what, nobody's pushing for the abolishment of police.

correcting things, more training, fixering the way things were done in the past, making it better for the future, police departments across the country are all about doing that. everyone knows that. no neighborhood in the city of chicago is on-board for abolishing the police. that's a lie. that's a joke. the socialists that are standing up for that, their numbers will be polled when they come up for election time. chicagoans don't want that in the city of chicago. we want more police, better trained police. todd: the nation's eyes are on your great city. let's see what happens. anthony napolitano, we appreciate your time this morning. >> thanks for having me. appreciate it. carley: the time is now 18 minutes after the hour. the trump team is hitting the road for a battleground bus tour as the biden camp launches a historic ad blitz. todd: who has the winning strategy. pollster justin wallen is breaking down the ground game, he's coming up next.

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>> florida's incredibly important. i think my father is very loved here. we're going to win in a couple months. carley: throwdown in the battleground, team trump kicking off a nationwide bus tour from swing state florida while joe biden rolls out his record-setting ad buy across all the battleground states. todd: so who is in a better position to swing the swing states? pollster justin wall enjoins us to weigh in, justin, what's better, bus or buy? >> that's a great question. the polls have closed. so whereby den had some strength at the height of really the large protests that were going on in contrast to what we're seeing now, which is looting and

these sorts of things, that advantage is starting to slide away. and i think trump is wise to recognize that he needs a human touch, needs a personal touch, needs to get out there. the campaign has started, the presidential election is not far away. biden has placed an ad buy, he did a brilliant job of communicating to the press the ad buy, when you start diging into the numbers what he purchased are not meaningful ad buys. it's very funny. if you look at what the russians did in the last election and the small amount of money that they spent and the meaningless impact it had, it's not dissimilar to what biden's ad buy in texas looks like. it's a lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing. i think the campaign that trump is rolling out will be very meaningful. i think what will be interesting is more and more biden will have to start coming out and talking, going off script and that presents opportunity for the

campaign on the trump side. carley: wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, north carolina, florida and arizona, biden is currently beating the president by around 4 points according to real clear politics. aside from the bus tour and the personal touch you talked about, what does the president need to do to close that gap? >> well, first and foremost in terms of polling what that gap means is that is within or just about the margin of error. so back when we were in the clinton race, we saw numbers like that and a lot of talk was about trump being far behind or being significantly behind. that's not what those numbers are telling us, especially in the says where numbers start to get more wobbly than on the nationwide polls. right now, it's closer than we expect. it's too close to call at 4.1%. but to close the gap, really what needs to be done is biden needs to present himself more as a centrist, that he has a record of being, right now he's

starting to present himself and his personal words, when he's on camera, he's talking about things that are traditionally leftist, out of sync with the american middle, out of sync with the independents who started the slip away from the president about a month to a month and-a-half ago. president trump needs to keep very, very focused on how to rebuild the economy. that includes some of the key policy issues like kids, what do you do with kids as we start to get back towards work or the attempts to get to work. but action is critical. there's been some criticism about his executive action, i'll stay out of that, a policy is somebody else's bailiwick. in terms of public opinion, taking action to help those in need is critical. carley: 4 points is a smaller margin in terms of swing state polling than i think a lot of people realize and the trump campaign did out-raise joe biden's campaign by $25 million in july. so who knows if the tide is

turning. there's still many days until november. justin, thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. todd: a florida teacher's union suing over plans to reopen schools. could this case set a precedent nationwide? former prosecutor robert b biani explains which side has the upper hand. carley: she may be the coolest grandma around, the 103-year-old who checked riding a motorcycle and getting a tattoo off her bucket list. todd: get it done, grandma. ♪

carley: back with a fox news alert, chaos in america's cities, seattle's police chief reportedly set to resign as the city council votes to defund her department. in he her resignation letter, se

reminded the officers the vast majority support them. in chicago, reports of more looting as black lives matter protesters chanted you're about to lose your job outside a police station. one activist calling the looting reparation. meantime, today, the full d.c. court of appeals will rehear arguments over the doj's decision to drop charges against michael flynn, claiming he was set up by the fbi during the russia probe. griff jenkins joins us live in washington as senators are calling out the bureau. >> reporter: a lot of developments, carley. good morning. the full panel of judges will hear oral arguments over the decision to drop the case against flynn. judge emmett sullivan who presided over the trial for two years is expected to answer questions over his impartiality.

flynn pleaded guilty of lying to the fbi. he withdrew the guilty plea in january of this year. in april, unsealed documents revealed misconduct by fbi agents who were interviewing flynn, saying their goal was to catch him in a lie, leading the justice department to drop all charges against flynn, judge sullivan refusing to grant the motion, as allegations of misconduct continue to surface. lindsey graham called out the current fbi director over the russia probe. >> i want christopher wray to account for how that happened. this happened on wray's watch. on wray's watch, the senate intel committee was briefed about the dossier and the russian subsource in the same fashion that the fisa court was briefed, very misleading. >> reporter: senator ron johnson has subpoenaed director wray in his senate investigation into the mueller investigation, saying, quote, i decided to

begin issuing subpoenas primarily because of my strong belief that transparency in government is essential and that the american people have waited too long for the truth. for his part, director wray haas hasn't responded to the subpoena but he ordered an internal investigation. back to the day's hearing, that kicks off at 9:30 this morning. the panel is not expected to deliver an immediate decision. we'll have to wait and see what that brings, carley. carley: griff, thank you so much. appreciate it. as senator lindsey graham and ron johnson dig deeper in the senate, the house is also investigating the investigators. congressman devin nunes said they'll need more than documents to get the answers they're looking for. >> the house republicans on the intelligence committee haven't been investigating not just the ukrainians and russians, also potentially whether or not the democrats are involved in this. we're aware of a lot of the documents. if i was ron johnson i'd say not just the documents, i'd subpoena

christopher wray. he needs to answer why he put up such a fight, him and rosenstein, put up such a fight back in '17 and '18. carley: the probe heating up with testimony from former debt ag sally yates last week. senator graham says he also wants former fbi director james comey to testify. todd: it is back to virtual school for florida students. but with face-to-face instruction set to start as early as next week, the orange county teacher's union is putting up a fight in court. >> it just seems like such a risky and unwise and really wreckless decision to go back to face-to-face. you can make up lost academic time. you can't make up a life. todd: could the outcome of this case set a precedent nationwide. bob bianchi joins us.

does the lawsuit have any chance? >> the lawsuit is based on two things it's important to understand. the first part is they're saying they have not been given information that is vital for them to be able to protect themselves and that the school district has been nontransparent with regard to where there have been covid-19 outbreaks and that they are forced to file the lawsuit so they can understand where the outbreaks are and what the plans for the school district are to reopen. that's part one. part two is, as the lady just indicated, that we should not open until it's completely safe. we should not risk ourselves or the children or the teachers or where the kids eventually go home with their parents and until it's understood to be completely safe, there's a constitutional responsibility for the schools to only open when it's safe and secure. that is in their constitution. so it's a bifurcated, two-fold approach. the first, get information and moreover, until we get that information, the schools should not open. todd: take us to law school

here. what precedent could the outcome of a state lawsuit in florida have for states nationwide? >> it's a great question, todd. it doesn't really have any specific significance. one state's laws and regulations and case law doesn't necessarily transform over to another state. however, you can be assured that lawyers in other states will point to that as a precedent in that state and should be a precedent in x, y or z state. each side will try to use that. we try to do that as lawyers envelope a real world of a courtroom, they say they could be florida law but that's not new jersey or new york law. it will have a profound national impact because lawyers will still point to it. todd: can you envision a scenario where the lawsuit backfires on the teacher's union, in that the court issues a declare atory release to the states requiring the teachers to

go in the classroom. >> you could have lawsuits filed on the other side of this, saying listen, we want to make sure the teachers are mandated to go to school, it's safe to go to school and if you get a court to say, yes, the state does have an obligation to have their students taught inside brick and mortar buildings, it could backfire to the point you raised a moment ago where other states on the other side of the equation will point to it and say you see, that's what they said in florida, you should do it in our state too. each side has a vested interest throughout the country in watching what happens with this lawsuit and while not a precedential, it still will be something that will be viewed. it could backfire. i don't think so in this case. they're looking more for information, they're saying they're being denied, that the parents and teachers are being denied, that are essential in their ability to be able to inform whether they should or

shouldn't go to school. from that standpoint, it's informational. todd: a lot of new laws will be created in the covid space, definitely in the school covid space. carley: police body cam video of george floyd's arrest officially released to the public, the video capturing the moments before floyd's death. >> please. >> step out and face away. >> don't shoot me man. >> step out and face away. >> stand up. stay on your feet. >> mama, i love you. i love you. carley: the videos were recorded by former officers jay alexander king and thomas lane, both men are charged with aiding and abetting murder. derek chauvin is charged with

murder. search and rescue operations are underway in baltimore neighborhood of a massive gas explosion. one american was killed and seven injured. large equipment being used to sift through the rubble for others possibly trapped, the blast causing three homes to collapse. >> it's really setting in, like someone was in that rubble that we couldn't save. it hurts. carley: no word yet on the cause. baltimore gas company says there was no reported gas odor before the incident. the rns asking the supreme court to stop rhode island from easing rules on mail-in voting. the state will no longer require two witnesses or a public notary to sign off before they count. the ballots are set to be mailed out tomorrow. the rnc says it will lead to voter fraud. president trump also warning about the risks. >> when you have this mail-in voting, it's very susceptible to

something that can be easily attacked by foreign countries and by, frankly, democrats and by republicans, our system's not equipped for it. the post office is not equipped for it. carley: justice steven briar set a 5:00 p.m. deadline for a response. president trump is getting ready to set the location of his rnc acceptance speech, he tweeted in part we have narrowed the presidential nomination acceptance speech to be delivered on the final night of the convention to two locations, the battlefield of get iiesburg, pennsylvania and the white house. todd: it's the story we've been talking about during each commercial break. she's not your average granny, a 103-year-old michigan woman crosses getting a tattoo off her bucket list after being released from isolation. carley: dorothy spent months in the nursing home during the

pandemic. she decided to mark her birthday by getting some ink. she chose a green frog. todd: after getting tatted she went for a joy ride on a motorcycle. she doesn't have like a mom or dad to say no, you can't get a tattoo. she's 103. granny's going to do what granny wants to do. carley: it proves it's never too late to live out your dream. todd: anger boiling over in beirut following last week's deadly blast. now all eyes on the country's president after the rest of the government resigned. carley: the dnc lineup revealed, els elizabeth warren d hillary clinton confirmed headliners. next, a look at the other power players vying for joe biden. ♪

todd: the president will lead the search for a new government after the prime minister and cabinet resign over the handling of last week's deadly explosion in beirut. >> today, we follow the will of the people and their demand to hold accountable those responsible for the disaster. >> i cannot live with myself if we do not get something after what happened. it's not acceptable. they think can get away with this. todd: resignations come after days of violent protests. hundreds of people injured during the clashes. one police officer was killed. carley: u.s. treasury secretary steven mnuchin putting chinese companies on notice, threatening to delist firms from the new york stock exchange by the end of the year. he says chinese companies should be held to the same standards as u.s. companies, this comes as the trump administration and china face tensions amid the handling of the covid-19

pandemic. todd: democratic national convention unveiled the headline speakers, all focusing on unity against president trump. formerrer ohio governor john kasich, senator bernie sanders and michelle obama are slated to speak on the first night of the convention. carley: hillary clinton and elizabeth warren will speak on the third time. former president clinton and obama are also slated to speak. todd: this as joe biden has yet to pick his running mate. peter doocy has the latest on the vp race. >> reporter: joe biden's running mate has a calendar that's quickly filling up. the campaign e-mailed supporters an invitation to a grass roots fundraiser, said please join vice president joe biden and our running mate for a grass roots fundraiser, date and time to be announced. whoever it is has been subjected to what some democrats see as an unprecedented amount of opposition research dump. >> it's always been a tough game. it's gotten much worse over the last several years.

>> reporter: one contender is taking an offensive position on the trump response to covid-19, susan rice. >> we have the worst performance of any developed industrial country in the world. hands-down. and it is all because president trump has mishandled this virus. >> reporter: a group of 100 prominent black male leaders are demanding biden announce a black woman as running mate with this letter, quote, failing to select a black woman in 2020 means you will lose the election. we don't want to choose between the lesser of two evils and we don't want to vote the devil we know versus the devil we don't because we are tired of voting for devils period. he hasn't announced where in delaware he will accept the party's nomination. we spotted democratic operatives scoping out the chase center in will medicine ton minton, the s- wilmington, the same venue where we found him making an

unannounced trip. carley: many voters are looking to the debates to help them make their choice. trump campaign advisor mercedes schlapp says the debates are necessary for people to get to know the real joe biden. >> president trump is ready to debate joe biden. joe biden's strategy is stay as long as possible in the basement, that is not a sustainable strategy and the american people deserve to know who joe biden really is. and that's the most unfortunate part about this whole situation right now is that for joe biden, all we know right now is that he has moved farther and farther to the left. todd: check this out, a great white shark soaring through the air, breaking a record as the highest water breach and of course it was all caught on camera. take a look. ♪ >> whoa! >> that was crazy. todd: that was beautiful, look

at that. the shark reaching 15 feet in the air off the coast of seal island in south africa, part of discovery channel's shark week series and carley shimkus is our "fox & friends first" expert. have you the last word. carley: one time i told todd that the ocean is the shark's house, i got it off a youtube video, and he will never let me live down the fact that i said that. it's like his favored quote. todd: it's accurate. carley: so that is my final word. the time is 48 minutes after the hour. the cancel culture mob got the pitch forks out for goya, hamilton and who is next. todd: elizabeth pitko things the outrage machine has gone too far. she joins us next. ♪ when we started our business

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carley: do we even need the republican party? washington post self-proclaimed conservative columnist getting slammed for asking that in her latest op-ed. in it jennifer rubin criticizes, the trump cultists she says are driving the party into the ground. elizabeth pipko joins me. column says maybe the real question is not what the republican party will believe or whether we need it at all. perhaps there is no decent party of the right to be had. what is your response to that? >> number one, wow. in general, it seems like

everything has been so politicized lately,in there's nothing to take from that, except for an attempt to divide the country further. it's an you attemp attempt to mn the republican party must be divided in the country. carley: we have tv shows getting canceled, tv getting canceled, the latest was the goya ceo speaking at the white house and supporting the president. celebrities are speaking out against cancel culture. ricrickrickey gervais says thisf it's choosing not to watch a completan because you don't like them, that's everyone's right. when people are trying to get someone fired because they don't like their opinion about something that's nothing to do with their job, that's what i call cancel culture and that's not cool. singer kelly roland said i'm so

grateful god never canceled me and i'm sure he could have many times. let us try to remember not to judge others. we honestly don't have the space, nor authority to do so, which i think is a beautiful statement. it seems like people are really reveling in the downfall of others. how did we get here and what can we do to fix this? >> it's absolutely awful. it's weird because people obviously see the cancel culture mob coming for anyone in their tracks. it's bigger than that. we have a new generation of people growing up that are going to be kept from anything that might make them slightly uncomfortable and we don't realize that's probably going to keep them from growing up to be well-rounded individuals. carley: i know you had experience with cancel culture yourself. you are a model, you know that's one of the top agencies out there and then you came out as a trump supporter. what was that experience like for you?

>> it was really hard. it was strange because to me i was just excited to be a 21-year-old getting the opportunity of a lifetime to work on the campaign. i didn't know it would go to the white house, but it was a campaign that was going to make history. the fact that i was judged by something as tiny as a vote, without anyone knowing who i am apart from that it was hard. it's scary to know people were dealing with that all across the country. carley: you have a book coming out on august 25th, called finding my place, making my parents' american dream come true and you detail your story in that book and we want to congratulate you for it coming out. it also comes out on the 40th 4h anniversary of your father's escape from the soviet union, which i'm sure is something that yoyour family is very proud that you chose to do. thank you for coming on this morning. >> thanks for having me. todd: coming up, breaking overnight, seattle's top cop

calling it quits after the city defunds her department, plus the president urging leaders to call in the national guard. tom homan weighs in on the far left hands-off approach as the city spirals out of control. and will they play? key college football conferences that could decide to cancel their seasons as soon as today as "fox & friends first" rolls along. ♪

todd: it is tuesday, august 11th. this is a fox news alert. mayhem across american cities, breaking overnight in seattle, the police chief reportedly announcing her resignation as the city council defunds her department. carley: in chicago, protesters surround a police precinct overnight, demanding looters be released. one organizer defending the theft as reparation, saying it's okay because stores have insurance. todd: breaking details about the shooting steps from the white house that forced agents to rush president trump out of the white house briefing room. ♪ carley: good morning, you're watching "fox & friends first" on this tuesday morning, i'm carley shimkus. todd: i'm todd piro. thank you for starting your day