ainsley: president trump launching his presidential race last night from the mar-a-lago.

>> he's gloating it's really nice. >> it's not snowing there. >> reporter: it's gone up to 73 degrees, nothing but sunshine, guys not a cloud in the sky and history was made last night here at mar-a-lago when former president trump announced he is indeed running the first out of the gate and he was joined by eric and lara trump, lara was on the show earlier and his younger son baron and his son-in-law jared. here is some of his announcement. >> in order to make america great and glor glorious again, m announcing my candidacy for president of the united states. america's comeback starts right now. i am running because i believe the world has not yet seen the true glory of what this nation can be. this campaign will be for you. >> reporter: he spoke for just

under 64 minutes and detailed a list of things he wants to accomplish in a national greatness agenda like tackling crime, education and overhauling the fbi and doj and no surprise here, he went after president biden. listen. >> i will ensure that joe biden does not receive four more years in 2020. our country could not take that. i say that not in laughter, i say that in tears, our country could not take four more years. it can only take so much. >> reporter: biden reacted in this very short terse tweet saying donald trump failed america. meanwhile up in orlando, florida's governor ron decan tis was addressing the -- desantis was addressing the governor's winter meeting fresh off the victory landslide last week and addressing criticism that trump sent his way. here's what desantis had to say. >> when you're leading, when you're getting things done,

yeah, you take incoming fire. that's just the name of it. all that's just noise really what matters is are you leading? are you getting in front of issues? are you delivering results for people and are you standing up for folks? if you do that, none of that stuff matters. >> reporter: everyone wonders will governor desantis challenge president trump and only time will tell the answer to that. one final interesting note, i mentioned jared kushner was in mar-a-lago last night but ivanka was not. she told brooke, ivanka that is, that she loves her dad because she's going to sit this one out and not be involved in politics this time. brian, ainsley, and steve, back to you. >> she had enough. brian: somebody that's the perfect person tafanely talk about his candidacy. someone that knows him well and ran with him last time and the

former vice president of the united states, mike pence. he has a brand new book out just this week called so help me god. mr. vice president, good morning to you. >> we had snow in indiana last night. >> the bible says we're not supposed to be jealous people but can i be jealous of your snow. >> that would be a good question for him. steve, i couldn't be more excited about the fact that house republicans are going to secure a majority. kevin mccarthy will be the next speaker of the house, and i'm anxious to see herschel walker. it won't be a majority in the senate, i'm anxious to see if herschel walker will be electedd

in the special election in georgia. i think the american people are really focused there. but it's a free country. the president's entitled to announce his intentions whenever he desires. i honestly believe that we'll have better choices come 2024. >> better choices than donald trump? >> i do. i don't think anybody could have beaten hillary clinton other than donald trump. i write that on the campaign trail and the record we created and he reflected on last night where we rebuild our military, revived our economy, preserved our border and secured the ports is something i'll always be proud of. as i've traveled around the country over the last two years, people repeatedly come up to me and said we want to get back to the policies of the trump pence

administration, but there's a genuine desire for leadership that could unit the country around our highest ideals. and leadership that would reflect, i think, more of the civility and respect than americans show each other every day. i'm out of politics now and once you get out of politics and we move back to indiana, you realize the american people actually get along pretty well most days and it's our politics that's deeply divided. i just think i have a sense the american people want a new style of leadership that will reflect the way they deal with one another every day. >> did you feel during the four years the president was being unnecessarily devicive? >> no, look, the -- i joined that ticket in 2016 without hesitation because i thought the country was in a lot of trouble,

and it was. can you have imagine if we had four years of hillary clinton in the white house? the supreme court alone would have been lost to the left for generations, and donald trump was elected not just because of his agenda but because of that style. people very much wanted that style to confront an establishment in washington dc not listening to the american people anymore. now i believe we're in a different season in the life of the nation, and i don't know what role my family and i will play in that debate over the next two years. we'll sort that out in the days ahead, but i hear people say we want to get back to the policies that i write about in so help me god. i'm incredibly proud of what we accomplished in the season and i do sense that we'll have better choices and leadership that will unit the people around those timeless american values. >>ainsley: you're on the short list of people that have mentioned or people in the political round. >> it's getting longer. >>ainsley: i know.

they'd like you and possibly desantis to run for president. i know you told sean hannity that you and karen would decide over christmas and the whole family will be together for the first time in three years. will you make the announcement in january or the summer? when do most make the announcement? >> ainsley, a friend of mine said a long time ailing. ago, there's two kinds-over people in politics, those driven and those calls. if you read so help me god. you'll see i was both. i try to be candid about early in my political career, i let my ambition get ahead of what i believe my faith as a christian requires as me in the way i carry myself in the public square. but when it came back around ten years later with three little kids, karen and i just took the matter to prayer and we felt called to step forward in 2000. i had the privilege as i write to be a conservative leader in the congress of the united states, to be governor of the state of indiana and ultimately vice president of the united

states but all along the way for us it was always where do we feel like the lord is calling us? when our family gathers and you're right, with two in the military and deployments, our family hasn't been together for three years. we're all going to be together this christmas. we'll talk, pray, reflect and then karen and i will make a decision based upon that sense of calling in our lives. >> bring us to the last conversation you had with the president in the oval office saying i'll pray for you and he said don't bother. >> sure, brian. i was always loyal to president donald trump. he was my president and he was my friend. >> no one doubts that by the way. >> whenever we had disagreements over the four years, i kept them in private. i felt that was my duty as vice president to express myself to the president when we differed but then to stand next to him in

thick and thin and make it clear that i was with him every step of the way. the only higher loyalty i had was to god and to the constitution. i made it clear to the president in the leadup to that tragic day in january that i believed my oath to the constitution that ended with a prayer so help me god would require me to certify the election, an election that we had lost. >> you had lawyers look at it, his lawyers, your lawyers talk to his lawyers. you didn't feel you had any option? >> no, there was no option. no vice president in american history had every claim that had authority and as i said more than a year ago, there's maybe no idea more un-american than the notion that any one person could choose the american president. the american president belongs to the american people and the american people alone. we had a clash and it had to be public because of the nature of the moment. i'll always believe i did my duty under the constitution.

>> can i stop you for a second. jared kushner said to you for a second, the president's inside, would you want to go speak to him? a lot of people thought you were going to say no and you said, no, i'll go talk to him. first syme sibs it happened. >>-- since it happened. >> jared and ivanka came to my office five days after the i thinks don't and asked to speak to the president and i had not heard from him and made no effort to reach out to him. i said if the president has something to say to me, i'll hear him out. i went into his office and after he made inquiries about karen and charlotte who were we many the entire time at the capitol from 4:00 p.m. till 5 in the morning. he asked what i felt that day and i said i was angry. we had our differences and seeing those people ransacking the capitol infuriated me. my only thought was not this, not here, not in america.

but we -- i was very candid with him and very straightforward with each other and i sensed as i write genuine remorse about what happened and the days that follow that, we spoke again and again in the two weeks remaining of the administration but on that day, i sensed the president was still saddened by what had occurred. i just reminded him as i had at the beginning of our first conversation that i was praying for him. i prayed for that president almost every day during our administration. he was dismiss ive about it at first. >> don't bother. >> a few minutes later as i got up to leave the room, i looked at him as he sat at the end of the table in the dining room just off the oval office. i said there's probably two things we're always going to disagree on. he looked up at me and faintly

said what? i said referring to my role on january 6 and i said i'm never going to stop praying for you. and he looked at me and said that's right. don't ever change. >> yep. >> we parted amicably and that's hard for many people to believe but when you're in a political fox hole with someone for four and a half years and when you're apart of something that i think was consequential in the life of a nation that made our nation stronger and more and impeach impeachment for a phone call and came under the title of the individuals. i looked with a sense of that.

we parted amicably and in the days that followed and we spoke from time to time by phone but i have to be honest when i saw the president return to the rhetoric he was using before january 6, being critical not only of me and others that had taken on me. >> how the election was stolen for next year and talking to karen that was behind camera 2 right now but you'll need money and in particular anybody who runs for presidency. and steve schwartzman and he's

defecting, he said it's time for new generation and new generational primaries. they all say we want somebody who is electable. do you feel, mr. vice president, you'd feel you're electable. do you think the former president is electable? >> what do you think for republican primary voters? i would leave to them and take issue with at least one premise of your question. candidates don't need money, they need people. they need support. if we proved anything in 2016 when every single poll, every single pun doesn't said we couldn't win, we won the

election. tire offed being told as ronald reagan said that little intellectual lead in a far distant capitol could plan our lives better for us than we could plan ourselves. tapping into that and giving voice to that is why we prevailed in 2016. i think it's also why we got 74 million votes, 10 million more votes in 2020. i think that movement is alive and well and i'm very confident that they're gonna sort out and find the right man or women to carry the banner. >>ainsley: it was at that time middle america and southerners wants a relatable president. they were tired of the establishment and being called smelly wal-mart shoppers and deplorables and that was

offensive to so many people saying these guys are relatable. you grew up, your parents owned a gas station. you have a -- such a strong faith and write about that in your book, so help me god. and even though donald trump, he was a millionaire, he grew up -- >> billionaire. >>ainsley: billionaire. he grew up at construction sites and was able to talk to the guys or talk to anyone. i felt like that was really a lot of it too. we wanted change. tell me why you wrote the book. >>ainsley: ainsley, you couldn't be -- >> ainsley, you couldn't be more right about that. it was a great privilege for me to right my story and to tell the story of what it is to be the grandson of irish immigrant and my grandfather stepped off on ellis island in 1923 and his name was richard michael columbialy. colley and that's how michael richard pence got to become vice president of the unit. he's 90 years young this month. my incredible mother, my father

was a combat veteran. grew up in a small town, had a gas station business. i dreamed of public service and what i try and recount is the decision to put my faith in jesus christ. find the girl of my dreams to building a family, learning hard lessons early in politics and then trying to carry our conservative values and live out our faith in the public square that would carry us to the congress of the united states during those tumultuous years and beading nancy pelosi and leading indiana through an unprecedented process parity and i must tell you, my book has been described as the most fullsome defense of the trump/pence administration records written. i'm incredibly proud of that. the administration didn't end well, but i hope when people

read so help me god, they'll sense that and sense -- i believe it's a book about god's faithfulness and incredible family on record that can lead america back to even greater heights. >> i don't want to have to cut you off but we're against a hard break. it's a definitive look at last four years, you guys did a lot and worked well together and couldn't be more opposite. it was amazing. >>ainsley: the perfect title, so help me god. jesus in the garden, take this away. so help me god, i'm going to serve the country but it won't be easy. >> thank you very joining us and bringing your family as well. >> it is a great book. thanks so much. >>ainsley: there's lots of pick which yous. you'll love it. is is 8:21 now. >>ainsley: nancy grace is coming up next.

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officials now sayings attack at their off campus house was targeted with a "edged weapon" such as a knife. there's no more details released but there's a concern of public safety despite having no suspects in custody. nancy grace joining us now. >> good morning. i appreciate the authorities saying no one is at risk, no risk to the community but students are leaving in droves after a quadruple murder at an off campus home, six bedroom, three bath and no one has been arrested yet. not even a person of interest named. local police there in moscow, idaho, have brought in the state

police, which is a good thing. not to suggest they're in any way inept but the state police had many more resources to help. a ser serrated edge was the wean leagued us to believe it was a knife. very interesting how four students can be overcome by one person with a knife. not a gun. there's speculation there's more than one defendant. sounds unlikely to me. the male victim ethan was found on the second floor. no suggestion to where the women were found. was he dilled first and others killed after? very curious acetowhether they were asleep at -- as to whether they were asleep at the time. >> ainsley: any chance it could be suicide, stabbed three and then themselves? >> i find that hard to believe. a few hours from the quadruple murder, it's a pain staking process to process the scene.

it's fingerprints, fikeer, blood of the perpetrator. i don't see a murder suicide. they were pictured a few hours before happy and healthy and i found out a late night twitch video reveals two of them out getting snacks at a food truck just a couple of hours before all four were murdered. all four from rural areas, two of them grew up together. life-long friends. no animosities. fill, fear is happening over the country because of no arrest. >> ainsley: i bet you're right. i bet it was while they were sleeping, yeah, because it would be hard to do that to four people. >> yeah. >> ainsley: casey anthony, the special is revealing that she's blaming her dad. your thoughts? >> tell me something new. they tried that at the trial with casey anthony taking her stand and her attorney as a bias actually suggested that the baby, kaley, accidently drowned

in the pool. now we're hearing a completely different story because the mom saying she didn't accidently drowned. i can't tell you what was happening there. i was there but i don't know. she also goes on and you never should do when you're lying to have a long exaggerated story. she says that george anthony called her for the next 30 days telling her how to behave and what to do. i find it hard to believe he told her to put on a push up bra and dance on a stripper pole while her daughter was missing. >> ainsley: nancy, thank you for coming on. you are great. we'll see you soon, nancy. coming up, fox news alert. big development in the deadly missile strike in poland yesterday and where it might have come from. congressman dan crenshaw breaks down the latest in russia's war on ukraine.

>> brian: the fatal missile strike that killed two in poland. it was a ukrainian defense missile fighting back against a russian attack. the gettest missile attack dins -- greatest missile attack since the war began. dan crenshaw, great to see you. what are your thoughts and what

could you tell us is the latest news about the strike that took down the missile that killed two polish farmers? >> we all breathed a sigh of relief when we found out it was not an intentional offensive attack by russia that would have a huge amount of ramifications and a deliberate attack on a nato country would trigger article 5. that wasn't that. it was an air defense system that went astray. i think it does make clear that their defense systems are important and good air defense systems. i would call on the israelys to stop being neutral and supply the ukrainians with the iron dome systems that are superior. that may be one less son from this and say, look, the russians get desperate when they start to lose. they had to leave areas and when

they have a loss on the battlefield, they'll do things like it. our yourselfments have paid off well and seeing the ukrainians make the accomplishments they've made and sending them a message about not invading taiwan. it has massive strategic importance for us. >> brian: other nato notions are not writing the checks or providing what they propsed and they need to be called out publicly. no. 2, when you look at the map and we'll put it upright now of what russia has taken and the ukrainians have taken back. at what point do you think, if you were the ukrainian zelensky and know the price you paid already, do you stop before you get all the red and back from turning it blue and the blue is the recaptured land? do you think we should tell them when to stop and when do you think they should stop? >> i think we probably tried to tell them a number of things and

they're not going to stop. i visited ukraine back in may. i was overwhelmed by how unified they were. they'll fight for every inch of territory. we can tell them whatever we want and not changing the facts on the battlefield and there's countries like germany that have not stepped up. there's plenty that have. we aren't the only ones. there's plenty of countries that exceed their expenditures as percentage of gdp. when we look at what we spend next, i would argue we should spend purely on munitions. we've put a lot of the money we spent f humanetarian aid. if they're so afraid of giving ukrainian weapons, then take the entire bill for humanitarian aid. if republicans are writing the bill, that's the thing we would say. >> brian: right now, would you say that the russian threat has been diminished because of this operation? had they been successful,

every -- all the politic nations or the others in the orbit would have been feasted on already? >> that's absolutely right, brian. we agree on it. putin has many other ends beside ukraine. he has the baltic states and no reason to believe he wouldn't look at romania. if he rolled through ukraine unopposed there's no reason to believe romania wouldn't be next. he's made it very clear he's not trying to preserve anything. he's trying to expand it. he doesn't see himself as the old soviet union but as an old czar, which is an imperialist russia. this is very clear. this is within his psyche, and you have to stop him in his tracks. ukrainians understand this and we're lucky they're the ones making the sacrifices and we just have to give them bull bet. >> brian: absolutely. his marathon speak was canceled and didn't show up to the g20. there's chaos within moscow. we'll have you back.

we didn't get to the border because we wanted to handle the breaking news but thank you. >> thanks, brian. >> brian: still ahead, chicago mayor lori lightfoot delivers a new ad. >> did you order thousands of new jobs and a p pepperoni? >> told you she delivers. deliv. >> brian: clay travis reacts to that. ♪

>> hey. did you order thousands of new jobs and a pepperoni? >> told you lightfoot delivers. >> steve: well, far left

chicago mayor lori lightfoot taking heat over that brand new campaign ad that some voters say is enough to turn them away and vote for the other person. clay travis is joining us right now. clay, you know, what person at her campaign said, hey, mayor, this is really great. you look cool during covid, which last time i checked, a million americans died during covid. >> well, she also wasn't cool during covid. she was constantly shutting down schools, making everybody wear masks. she's the worst mayor in america and that's saying something because there's a lot of bad mayors right now in america. i watch this video and i think no one with a functional brain could possibly vote for lori lightfoot's reelection but then i remember they just put in a guy in john fetterman in pennsylvania and it really doesn't seem to matter what qualifications you have, including whether you can even

speak or are even healthy enough to do the job. so as obscenely ridiculous and absurd as this commercial is and tone deaf as it is, it's perfectly reflective of how awful lori lightfoot is and this is the person that went to texas and post add picture of herself reading to kill a mocking bird with a mask on saying no one in illinois will be banning books. she's artificial and awful on every single issue that matters and we saw citadel leave, that's one of the biggest businesses based in chicago and relocate to florida. people are pleaing the city of chicago like crazy partly because of her massively failed leadership. >> steve: here's the thing, clay, she's in chicago. she's the mayor, she's a democrat. she's got that famous chicago machine behind her and she'll get reelected in a landslide.

>> that's my concern. there are no consequences for being wrong on everything; right. like people talk about how our democracy is in danger. look, steve, what i'm most concerned about is we have to hold people who are failures accountable. just look next door basically in michigan, gretchen whitmer won reelection by 11 points and she was an abject failure during covid and wouldn't let people get on their boats, buy seeds. the people of michigan, the sheep that they are, went out and say baa and reelected her and my concern is the same thing will happen in chicago and that's effectively the capitol of the midwest and if you're effective in michigan, you move to chicago and sucks in people all over the midwest and they'll reward her for the failed leadership where there's no real consequences for her complete ab dig nation with everything in

that city. >> steve: clay travis is the founder of outkick.com. it's a great site, i check it out every day. clay, thank you very much. >> see you tomorrow at the patriot awards. >> steve: yes, sir, it's a date. carly shimkiss will be there too. >> i will. kevin spacey facing seven additional charges from the uk now. british prosecutors say this involves one victim and between 2004-2008. it comes almost a month after a new york jury decided with the actor in a $40 million civil lawsuit. listen to this crazy scary story here. a small plane packed with shelter dogs crash lands on a snowy golf course in wisconsin yesterday. the aircraft skidded onto the western lake golf course and debris was scattered throughout

the course. three people and more than 50 shelter dogs were on board and pilot passengers and all the pups made it out without any serious injuries. thank god. and a journey man gets a small yet sweet reward after returning this massive money check he found at a train station in frankfurt. turns out a $4.7 million check made out to the candy company hari bou and in exchange for his honesty, the company sent his six bags of sweets including gummy bears. he said i thought it was a bit cheap. yeah. candy is great but money is better. >> ainsley: he should get a lifetime supply of the gummy bears. just saying. take a look at maps because i have to show you where it is cold. every single state in the lower 48 is going to be below average on friday, including you in

florida. 10 to 20 to 30 degree blow average and great state of texas arctic air sunk as far south as sunshine state and gulf coast and area of low pressure that brought quite a bit of snow to parts of the interior northeast and new england and we'll be dealing with a significant lake effect snow event. feet and feet of snow by sunday for parts of new york towards new england so watertown and buffalo, bullseye for over a foot, maybe three, maybe four feet of snow, steve doocy. they're used to it but that much snow in a short period of time is really incredible. >> steve: it's november. if it were april, that would be something. >> it's snovember. >> steve: no kidding. we've been talking about the fox nation patriot awards dais away and pete hegseth is trying to figure out which button to push to turn on the fancy camera down there at the hard rock and look at the stage. they're ready for the patriot

awards. but first, let's check in with bill hemmer who is taking over in about 11.5 minutes. >> nice to see you, steve. good show. we have serious stuff out of poland and see what we know and follow that, what we think we might be learning about that. all that's coming up here. donald trump is back on the hunt. how does this play out? a lot to discuss on that today. why don't we have a winner in the house? we'll take you to board and show you what we know in this crypto collapse leaving many questions, a lot of them coming out of washington. a lot of them resting with democratic lawmakers. why is that? we'll get to it in a minute. come join us top of the hour, see you then.

>> ainsley: we are gearing up for the fourth annual fox nation patriot awards tomorrow night in hollywood, florida. >> steve: yeah, the other hollywood. we'll all be there live paying tribute to every day american patriot heros. >> brian: pete hegseth will once again be the host for all the festivities. pete, are you ready to go? >> good morning, guys. brian, the question is are you ready to go? if you look where i'm seated here, this is the brian kilmeade book signing location. i'm warming it up for you here. as we're outside the halls of the hard rock and these are some of the sets, they're not set up

yet and they will be soon and the doors will pop for me walking through and this beautiful theater will be packed tomorrow night, by the way, guys, you'll be on stage here on "fox & friends" tomorrow morning so, brian k kilmeade, you consir yourself the master of the walk and i'm trying to demonstrate the efficacy of walking backwards and speaking up a ramp into a theater. >> the dean of admissions. >> brian: love it, pete. >> ainsley: he did it longer. >> you see that stage, it's a beautiful one. but what's a lot of fun about going up on that stage is when you're up there, and by the way, we got a lot of technical directors up there getting your shots looking all pre-ty. ainsley, especially yours. you can't mess up your shot. they're making sure it's all arranged the way -- >> ainsley: pete, i had forgotten the reason we had chosen hollywood, florida, it's the other hollywood. we are -- instead of celebrities that make millions of dollars getting their honors, these are

people that fought for our country and real heros and we went to the other hollywood. >> it's the real hollywood with real heros and patriots that don't fake it on tv. they did it for real and never sought the spotlight but they're going to get it at the patriot awards tomorrow night. by the way -- [ audio issues ]. >> ainsley: stand in another mace, we're losing your mic. >> brian: we're having an audio problem. we're going to work out the bugs today. that's what they're doing. >> there's so many cameras. we have so many cameras and microphones in here, i think we have a bit of interference. there's a few tickets available and get them on stub hub. come down and make a few good decisions by coming mere and bad decisions on the casino floor. try your luck as best you can. >> brian: the place is beautiful. >> table 13 i just passed and on stage they've been putting this

together -- the amount of carpentry work that it takes to put together a set like this is phenomenal. here we are. >> ainsley: is that where we'll be tomorrow morning? >> steve: yep, right there. >> this is where you'll be tomorrow morning, ainsley. it's an orlikowski generallation to your location -- orientation to your spot. >> steve: the center square. pete, great report from the other hollywood down in florida. thank you very much, sir. watch the patriot awards streaming live on fox nation tomorrow at 7:00 p.m., check it out at foxnation.com. >> brian: pete will be in a tux. >> steve: we're stepping aside. ♪

>> all right. we'll see you tomorrow live from the patriot awards in florida. >> mike pence is already in the radio studio. some of our great guests today on radio. >> bill: thank you, guys, watching two major stories this morning ton home front and abroad. serious implications for the country. the race for the white house has begun for 2024. more on that in a moment. first a strike on a nato ally rattling nerves and raising uneasy questions today as we start today. i'm bill hemmer. dana is on assignment today and a big welcome back to our colleague and friend. i'm well, martha, nice to have you back. feels like the world got more serious in 24 hours. >> a lot more serious an