life. so joseph, really quickly because we only have a minute until we have to toss it over to "fox & friends." but j.d. vance did stay in touch with the embassies and the uae and the united states. do you think that's one of the reasons why you were released? quickly here. >> i think that j.d. vance's office the support of the world and, you know, my communities on social media, my family, they weren't letting this go. like the uae knew for a fact that, you know, what they were getting out of me just wasn't worth the trouble. and, you know, there is a lot of people in there that are -- they are serving sentences some of them life sentences. like my bunk mate he was -- he was in there because he accrued debt from his mom dying of cancer. and that's why he is in prison. >> carley: so glad you are back home. god bless you. thank you so much for your service. welcome home. "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪

>> ainsley: it is 6:00 a.m. here on the east coast. it is thursday, cents 26th. and this is "fox & friends." we start with our exclusive interview with melania. trump she opened up to us in our first interview in more than two years talking about everything from politics to family. and recounting that terrifying moment she found out about the first assassination attempt on her husband. >> i tv and i rewind it. i watched it. i was only a few minutes behind seen him on the floor. and you don't know -- you don't know what really happened. >> steve: wow. great. can't wait for that and kamala harris breaking down her economic policy proposals kind of. but, once again, there was a word that stuck out. >> and looking holistically. and looking holistically at the incentive to actually engage in

planning in holistic manner. >> brian: i don't know. plus, new york city mayor eric adams indicted in historic federal probe. what he actually -- what he says is actually behind the investigation is worth investigating. >> steve: it's holistic. >> lawrence: "fox & friends" starts right now and, remember, mornings are better with friends. >> ainsley: it's a "fox & friends" exclusive. after two years, former first lady melania trump sat down with us for a wide-ranging interview. she talked about the assassination attempts on her husband and her thoughts on kamala harris with just weeks to go until this election. she also shared why she chose this moment to speak out. >> ainsley: why did you want to tell your story in this book? >> i believe that it was a time that i tell my story and the truth. it is a lot of misinformation and falsehoods written about me.

and i want to put the record straight and people can learn some things that they were not discussed. and i hope they enjoy the book. >> steve: i want to know more. >> ainsley: okay. so the beginning of the book. >> steve: this is the book, flight. >> ainsley: this is the book. not out yet comes out october 8th. beautiful pictures of them in the white house, growing up, childhood pictures of barron. the beginning of the book how they method. model ling career growing up in slow vein i can't and becoming a u.s. citizen. how special that was and how proud she was on that day. talks about becoming the first lady. runs, how they decided to do that as a couple. then, after the pictures, which brian, you were asking yesterday if mr. there were pictures. i will show you. look a some of these pictures. then it talks about her life in the white house.

be best campaign. traveling to so many different countries. learning about. >> she said there is a binder that they give you before you go to each country so can you learn their traditions and cultures so you don't embarrass yourself. you are not supposed to shake hands with a leader, you don't do that that kind of thing was that intimidating. she writes in the book how she loved it. it was fascinating to learn about different countries. she talks about the assassination attempt. that's the last chapter. it's the first assassination attempt she deals with we asked her in our interview yesterday about the second assassination attempt but the book just came out. so, it was just in print. >> steve: as timely as today's headline. >> ainsley: exactly. they did add that last chapter and how she felt. we talked about having to tell barron what had happened to his dad. we talked about barron going off to college. and i said how does it feel to be an empty nester? she said i'm not an empty nester. i think she is very involved in barron's life. she put no pressure on him telling him where to go college. she let him to decide. >> steve: they are in the same town, new york?

>> yes. that didn't influence his decision, she said. and she wanted him to make up his own mind and be autonomous and stand on his own two feet. i asked her if she and donald talked about having more children and she said he talked about it. he wanted to at one point. but i was fine with one. >> lawrence: wow. this is melania on the second and the first assassination attempts, watch. >> i run to the tv and i rewind it. and i watched it. i was only a few minutes behind. and something, i guess, look over me, so i didn't really see live, live but maybe three minutes, a few minutes later. but when i saw it, i, you know, it was only -- nobody really knew yet because when you see him on the floor and you don't know. you don't know what really

happened. >> ainsley: then a few weeks later there is another attempt on your husband's life at your golf course. where were you and what was your reaction to this attempt? >> i was in new york city, actually. and i saw it on the television. and i saw it on television. i called again. and he was okay because he secret service were grade. the guys on the team they were fantastic. and i think both of the events, they were really a miracles. if you really think about it. july 13th was a miracle. like that much and he could, you know, he could not be with us. >> ainsley: he normally doesn't call for that one screen. he waits until the end of the speech. >> correct. >> ainsley: just looking at that screen allowed him to turn his

head. >> i think something was watching over him. it's almost like country really needs you. >> brian: i remember she penned that lighter out, right? >> ainsley: powerful letter. providential he turned his head. >> lawrence: you were standing in front and watching it. when she put an emphasis when she said i called hill again. it showed a little bit of frustration with the whole process. she was cleme sliment tri of set service at the same time did you get the sense of trauma in that moment. >> ainsley: we dive into it and she questions what's going on. why we were not getting answers and why they allowed him to go up on stage and give a speech when they knew that shooter or suspicious person was out there. she talked about why if they knew about this iranian plotted to assassinate the president, why they didn't sweep golf course in the second attempt. we have so much coming up. we have a longer piece we're

going to air coming up in this hour and each hour we have longer pieces. that was a little taste. we thought that was important to show at the top of the show because it deals with the assassination attempt. the book comes out october 8th. go melania.com to preview that and she will have it in the mail. >> steve: all right. looking forward to that meanwhile talk about the tv business and great get over on msnbc. not surprising, though. the current vice president, kamala harris, sat down for a very friendly interview with stephanie ruhle, 25 minutes hoping for details about economic plan because she had gave somewhat definitive speech earlier in the day talking about what she would do if she was elected. for the most part softball questions, very vague answers, and no follow-ups. i don't quite get what the campaign thought in setting it up other than now they can say we did a one-on-one cable tv

interview. >> brian: she is still considering doing "60 minutes," maybe she might want to reconsider that or just pass. watch. >> you know, gone is the day of everyone thinking they could actually live the american dream, so part of my vision for the economy is let's deal with some of the every day challenges that people face and address them with common sense solutions such as affordable housing. what we do in terms of giving benefits and assistance to state and local governments around transit dollars and look holistically at the connection between that and housing. and looking holistically at the incentives we in the federal government can create for local and state governments to actually engage in planning in holistic manner that includes prioritizing affordable housing for working people. >> brian: by the way, you have the job. the the american dream is dead, thanks for killing it. number two, the "new york times" says on kamala harris harris revealed little new about her economic plans in her 39 minute speech but she reiterated many

of the populist themes and kamala harris on the economic agenda speech that she gave prior to this interview. same thing. there's just no details. just how bad donald trump is on manufacturing. so i asked the brain room what he did before the pandemic he had 414,000 jobs -- manufacturing jobs. the lost 178 during the pandemic. they gained 700,000 plus, to their credit. a lot had to do with manufacturing coming back because of the stimulus that was put in there but she totally mischaracterized the trump agenda. her best plan is how bad donald trump is. >> lawrence: she didn't even seem to know what tariffs were as she explained her position there. i say it all the time i leave more dizzy every time she gives some sort of word salad it goes around and around in circles. to your point, steve, they were softball questions. they were softballs but it solicited word salads each time, and even though it was a softball question,.

>> brian: wow you with an answer. >> lawrence: you would think that she had some sort of answer that they have had time to prepare for this interview. it's a friendly interview. she didn't seem to have much meat though. >> ainsley: she s economy. stephanie asked her about raising corporate tax from 21 to 28. you want to do this. how can you ensure that u.s. companies are not going to leave our country and she said that ceos are supportive of raising the corporate tax to 21 to 28%. i don't know which ceo. one more thing, sorry. when asked about to those who don't support your policies, this was her answer. if you have the dreams and the ambitions and the aspirations of what i believe you do you're in my plan. you know i have to tell you i really love and i'm so energized by what i know to be the spirit and character of the american people but we value big. we is have aspirations we have dreams. >> brian: she loves small

business even though she never had one. >> steve: stephanie ruhle had a good question. she said what happens if the democrats lose the senate? how are you going to pay for all this stuff? because this -- all her stuff and just like donald trump's stuff all has to get passed by congress because the trump tax cuts of 2017 are going to sun set at the end of next year. and she kind of paused for a moment and then she talked a little bit how she was -- what are you talking about? we're going to have to raise the corporate tax, you know, and soak the rich and stuff like that. >> brian: how is she going to do that? >> steve: that's exactly right. if congress is lost by the democrats, if they don't control the senate, they are not going to be able to do any of that stuff. we played that little snippet of the soundbite from yesterday, and where she started saying holistic or holistically over and over. do you know what it reminded me of. >> ainsley: what? >> steve: like two weeks before my kids, when they were in high school, when they would take the sat test, they would try to work some sat words into dinner table

conversation. and. >> ainsley: use it over and over. >> steve: one of my kids would say mom, what genre pasta is this and stuff like that. it reminded me she got a new word. yesterday the word was holistic. >> lawrence: brian, isn't it sad that the chief executive of the senate doesn't understand how the legislative process works? she was -- the question was direct. what are you going -- certainly is how are you going to work with the other side if you lose? how are you going to reach some common ground? she just completely just skips it. starts going on a tangent that left us with no meaning. >> brian: because she has no idea. she said the way i'm going to pay for my $25,000, i'm going to give anyone who wants to get their first home $25,000 tax credit. how are you going to do it? raise the corporate tax rate. her if you don't have the senate? well they have to raise the rate. she hadding into say a long pause in between. it spainful to watch the soundbites.

i'm looking at it am i going to use that on radio. i can't tolerate it. it's too much. she has no answer and we all know she is filibustering. >> ainsley: what does she give to the middle class dad who has already bought his first house, okay? so he doesn't get that $25,000. >> steve: doesn't have a new baby. not starting a new business. >> ainsley: not getting $6,000 only get for first year of your baby. his taxes are going to go up if he owns a business they are going to go up 7% under her plan. then he will have to pay for all these other young people to pay for their $25,000 tax break on their houses for their babies and the 6,000. it's wonderful to give a tax credit for children, moms need that, i understand that. but she has to appeal to every voter. and that's just appealing to the mom who just got pregnant innocent innocent and next shear she is going to get the 6,000. and someone who has never owned a home before. >> lawrence: she is skipping a step. people can barely get groceries right now. they can't even think about the house right now. >> ainsley: you are exactly right.

>> lawrence: they are trying to afford the rent. they can't afford a mortgage right now. there has been no plan to address the current circumstance. buying a house is a dream. dreams are big. >> ainsley: do you know what the average cost of a house is? we did this two days ago. an article about it's half a million dollars for the average american house. >> steve: right. we were looking. >> brian: we are in a housing shortage. we stopped building during the pandemic. and now if you are upper class can you get a house. but there is no profit in lower classes and the builders have gone and done other things. there has to be an intelligent, knot nonpolitical approach to this. >> ainsley: they are not available people don't want to move because of the interest rate. >> steve: we were looking for answers last night. we didn't get them. in the meantime we woke up and this is the cover of the "new york post." it says i am a target. fox news alert. new york city mayor eric adams is facing calls from his own party to resign after being indicted for something by a federal grand jury. >> lawrence: so we're expecting that indictment to be unsealed some time this morning.

>> brian: chanley painter is here with more? >> good morning. details about the indictment are not yet public but they could be unsealed as soon as this morning. now, mayor eric adams reportedly is being charged with, quote: acting as an unregistered foreign agent for taking actions in his final capacity after receiving donations from foreign sources. the new york city mayor is not backing down, maintaining his innocence, saying he will fight the charges against him and continue serving the city. this news comes nearly a year into a federal corruption probe focusing largely on whether adams conspired with the turkish government to receive illegal campaign donations. where over the month the fbi raided several homes of his top aids, including one who was a former turkish airlines executive. they seized adams' electronics and key figures in adams' administration resigned including the police commissioner and the city hall chief council. so yesterday new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez called for adams

to resign hours before the indictment was reported posting, this quote: i do not see how mayor adams can continue governing the new york city. the flood of, threatening the government function, nonstop investigation also make it gobble recruit and retain a qualified administration. this indictment comes just months before adams faces a competitive primary challenge in his bid for re-election, guys? >> steve: and some of the people who will be his presumed primary challengers are already calling him for to drop out. chanley, thank you very much. >> brian: it's amazing, too. aoc before the indictment was handed down. she is like yeah, you should leave. is he like you are a do nothing congresswoman you fight it out because you are both right. let's see what happens. the indictment is handed down. he says i'm not going anywhere. and is he taking taken the stance is he trump. is he saying you are going after me because i criticized the government. because i said you have cost me $5.5 billion of illegal immigrant care and you have done

nothing. it's baffling that the federal government doesn't want to help. he meets with biden he walks out and says i have new news for you help is not on the way. that's the beginning of the investigation. are they linked? i was just talking to said rosenburg who has dinner all the time. he has no patience for it he is involved with other countries five other countries involved along with turkey that he has done business with that's going to come out this morning. all i'm going to say give him the benefit of the doubt until we hear started with fbi investigation in 2021, the question whether adams pressured fire department officials to stein off on opening a new consulate building for the turkish government despite safety concerns and did he take pricy flights and upgrades on turkish airlines? he says is he going to fight because he is innocent. and he is being targeted by the feds. listen. >> i have been fighting injustice my entire life.

that fight has continued as your mayor. despite our police, when the federal government did nothing as its broken immigration policies overloaded our shelter system with no relief, i put the people of new york before party and politics. now, if i am charged, many may say i should resign because i cannot manage the city while fighting the case. i can also understand every day new yorkers would be concerned that iy to the do my job while i face accusations. but i have been facing these lies for months since i began to speak out for all of you and their investigation started. >> lawrence: you know, ainsley, i'm not sure. we haven't read the indictment. we don't know where to stand ton it based on that. but i do find it interesting that the moment he starts criticizing the biden administration, they kicked him off the campaign. he was a campaign co-chair for

the biden-harris ticket. and they got rid of him. they didn't want to hear had from him. they stopped taking meetings with him. it was because he was critical of the illegal migrants entering his city. i also find it very rich for the department of justice where the chief executive joe biden him and his son had been influence peddling for years now. there is a whole investigation into that for them to go after him for a similar charge, potentially, i just don't -- i don't think it carries much weight with me. >> ainsley: well, first of all, grand jury, 99% of the time, they are going to indict. because they only hear the side against mayor adams. his attorneys aren't able to talk. they hear one side. of course they find most people. they indict most people. that's why they say you can indict a ham sandwich. when i heard mayor adams question the democratic party and their policies on immigration and heard aoc disagree with him, we all knew he was in trouble. because if you don't fall in line with the democrats, the big dog democrats, then they -- it

appears, will find a research to ruin your life. look what they did to donald trump. they were running on that. they were elected saying i'm going to get this guy. so this is very dangerous. if we want to have -- if we want to trust the legal system and we want to trust our judges. things like this can't happen. i don't know what the charges are i don't know if he is guilty or innocent. we will find that out. but can you even trust the verdict? what will they present? >> brian: i would say that either that -- one thing i have to say he has a bad eye for talent. a lot of people have had their phones taken away. the nypd commissioner is gone. chief council resigned over the weekend. his health commissioner was let go. the new york city chancellor left. other people around him, the brothers, the aunts, the uncles, at the very least he has got to get google and find out what they are actually about. the other thing is he keeps taking their phones how do they communicate carrier pay gones? they all don't have phones left. how do they communicate. how do you raise new commissioner acting commissioner

for one week you raided his house. >> steve: everybody's lives are on their phone. if they want to know what does this guy know? what happened? who said what to whom? it's all on his phone. >> brian: they also want to know what's for dinner? >> steve: it's the city's phone. the city owns it. you know, unlock that. >> brian: i don't know if s. it the city phone? they seem to be taking every phone. >> steve: we will know more once the indictments are unsealed later on today. >> brian: apple care number one. don't return it or comes back broken it's going to work out. >> ainsley: we have been thinking about our friends in florida affected by this weather. that brings us to this fox weather alert. hurricane helene is expected to crash into florida's big bend coast as it turns into a hurricane this evening. >> steve: here is the scary part the storm surge warnings are in place for most of the east coast. officials warn this could be a life-threatening event. >> ainsley: look how big that is. >> steve: it could be unsurvivable storm surge they say.

>> brian: check in with fox weather forecast. >> janice: they say is correct. 20-foot storm surge unsurvivable for parts of the big bend of florida. forecast to strengthen to a major hurricane in the next 12 to 18 hours. making landfall later on this evening. and we think, again, somewhere along the big bend, panhandle of florida. winds in excess of, perhaps, 12. as it moves inland. and we also have hurricane warnings for georgia. also want to point out we have a hurricane warning for tampa. so, this is going to be a storm that is 500 miles wide. so even though that cone is quite narrow. the effects being felt all along the west coast of florida. and the east coast as well. as it continues to impact land. winds over 110 miles per hour for duration of hours. you know, tallahassee is known for its beautiful tree canopy. those trees, a lot of them could come down. power outages not only for days, for weeks. again the storm surge, 8 to 20 feet.

that's above two stories. you cannot survive that. that's why people are urged to protect your lives and your property now. widespread power outages. the other party of this storm, once it moves inland, is it's going to impact many big cities. from georgia to the carolinas. we could potentially see upwards of a foot of rain, catastrophic flooding. well i object land for this storm. so the flash flood risk is going to be extensive not only for florida. parts of georgia and then the southern appalachians where we could have landslides, mud slides and incredible rainfall. this is going to be a very big deal. i know we have a lot of other news to cover, guys. but lives are at risk today. >> ainsley: it's important. >> janice: yeah. >> steve: j.d., thank you very much for the latest. >> brian: have ron desantis on a little bit later to talk about it. >> ainsley: more from the exclusive interview with melania. what she really thinks about the current state of the race and her husband's opponent.

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hear oral arguments in former president trump civil fraud case. donald trump is attempting to overturn the judgment, which could cost him $489 million. earlier this year, judge arthur end ron found older president, two older sons trump organization and liable for illegal inflating the network for professional gain. trump insists has he done nothing wrong. in about three hours, the task force on the attempted assasssamtionof former president to hold the first hearing, there are five witnesses testify this morning including a patrolman from the butler township police department. this comes as former president trump announces he will be returning to butler for a rally next saturday, october 5th. police have identified the three remaining suspects in this viral video taken at an apartment

complex in aurora, colorado. their names and the charges they face have not yet been released but officials say potential links to the venezuelan gang tren de aragua remain unclear. police identified the three other men in the video late last week one suspect is already in custody and arrest warrants are out for the others. those are your headlines. steve over to you. >> steve: thank you very much, carley. >> carley: you are welcome. steve mean in other interview border saw illegal crossings under her administration needs continue fixed. that is one day ahead of a visit to arizona tomorrow. >> first of all, we do have a broken immigration system and it needs to be fixed. we need a comprehensive plan that includes not only what we need to do to fortify the border but we also need to create pathway force people to earn citizenship.

>> steve: okay. fox news contributor katie pavlich joins us now. katy, i got a little bored last night watching it because i was expecting to hear some actual new stuff, we had heard she is going to give more details. more stuff. polls show that the number -- one of the number one things people want from her, more details noilt getting them. >> katie: do interviews really count if you are not going to answer any of the questions? did i watch the interview as did you and tried to find some things maybe there were more details about and actually some of her answers were just an indictment of her own policy and the record of the administration after the last three and a half years in office. and not just that but more broadly democrats in office. she said specifically that the american dream is out of reach. well, democrats have been in charge of the white house 12 out of the last 16 years also she continues to offer these programs. she talked a lot about housing,

for example, saying she wants in her administration to build 3 million new houses. well, if you look at the biden-harris administration. they also promised to connect broadband to every single american for $42 billion. not a single person has been connected through that program. they also promised to build 500,000 new electric vehicle charging stations to the tune of $8 billion. well, that's been costing americans a billion dollars per charging station because they have only built eight of them. so they continue to offer all these big, you know, projects without any substance or solid record behind getting these things done for the american people. and finally, i would say, you know, the vice president was asked why is it that more people trust donald trump on the economy than they do for you which, of course, is the number one issue in polling. i would say it's because donald trump is a businessman and they have an easy comparison of the last four years with the trump administration and they can see that their cost of living was lower and things are more

affordable for their families. >> steve: when she was asked about that she just attacked donald trump. do you know what. >> katie: heard a lot about donald trump not about her. >> steve: there were no hard questions in the msnbc interview and that's presumably why they booked her on there; however, her boss, joe biden, the current president, turns out he showed up on "the view" yesterday. and they actually asked him a good question about nancy pelosi stabbing him in the front. and how did that go? watch this. >> what have these past two months felt like and are you at peace with your decision? >> i am at peace. >> what is your relationship with speaker with nancy pelosi now. >> my relationship is fine. i never fully believed the assertions that somehow there was this overwhelming reluctance of my running again. i didn't sense that there were some folks who would like to see me step aside so they have a chance to move on. i get that. >> steve: okay, so it was a good

question. your relationship with nancy pelosi, but he lied. he said the relationship is fine. he is not happy about the fact that she squeezed him out. >> they haven't spoken since he left the race. and, by the way, we still don't know all the details surrounding that decision. we continually are told joe biden is a hero. thank you, joe, for your service. >> steve: legendary. >> katie: stepped aside and gave up power when forced out. better that "the view" ask about nancy pelosi than joe biden's former boss, barack obama, who really started handing out the knives in june after that first debate with donald trump. george clooney went and wrote that big op-ed saying it was time for joe to go. and then people really started putting the pressure on. very clear leading up to his resignation letter which he put out on twitter that it wasn't working because they continued to up the ante publicly people coming out and saying that he had to resign. >> steve: yeah. indeed. >> katie: from the race, of course, not the presidency. >> steve: they were both on tv

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in more than two years. take a look. >> ainsley: why did you want to tell your story in this book? >> i believe it was a time that i tell my story and the truth. it is a lot of misinformation and falsehoods written about me. and i want to put the record straight and people can learn some things that they were never discussed and i hope they enjoy the book. >> ainsley: how did you feel about donald trump running again? >> i support him. i know how passionate he is to make america great again. we are. >> ainsley: i saw you back stage at the rnc. do you want to talk about why you decided not to come back on stage and give a speech like you did in 2016. >> it was my decision. i think it was just the time i think was the right time in days before i wrote a beautiful

letter to america. and i think in one way that letter was my speech. >> ainsley: the raid on mar-a-lago, the house manager text you and says the fbi is outside the house. they had access to my bedroom, closets and rummaged through my personal items. even certained barron's room, you say. so how invasive was that? did it make you angry? how did you feel? >> yeah. it made me angry, yes. invasion of privacy and the way it was done was -- i was really surprised. >> ainsley: you told your house manager just leave it, don't touch anything, don't put it back, you wanted to see it for your own eyes, with your own eyes. what did it look like when you walked back in your house that had been raided?

i saw unpleasant stuff nobody wants to see it. nobody should be putting up with that kind of stuff, some person -- i don't know even know who or how many people they went through my stuff. >> ainsley: so the assassination attempts the first one is in butler, pennsylvania. and you write about watching the assassination attempt on tv. and you started working. and you were distracted so you pushed pause. i think your chief of staff maybe called you and said he's okay. but there has been a shooting. what happened next? >> i ran to the tv. and i rewind it. and i watched it. i was only a few minutes behind. and something -- i guess look over me so i didn't really see live, live but maybe three minutes, a few minutes later. but when i saw it, you know.

it was only -- nobody really knew yet because, when you see him on the floor and you don't know. you don't know what really happened. so. >> ainsley: so you called him and he didn't answer your phone. and you called secret service. and what did they say? >> first, the secret service was not available, too. because they were with him, right? and after that, i got the secret service on the phone and they said that he is okay. we are on the way to the hospital. he will be okay. >> ainsley: were you able to talk to him on the phone? >> yes, i did. i did. >> ainsley: and then your son rushes into the room? >> yes. >> ainsley: he had been told. your son is in college, i understand, but he still is your child. this is his father. how difficult was that to have that conversation with him? >> very difficult. very difficult. he was outside playing sports. and he rushed in and was very,

very difficult. >> ainsley: and then a few weeks later there is another attempt on your husband's life at your golf course. where were you and what was your reaction to this attempt? >> i was in new york city, actually. and i saw it on the television. and i saw it on television. i called again. and he was okay because the secret service were great. the guys that they were with him they were fantastic. i think both of the events they were really miracles. if you really think about it july 13th was a miracle and that much and he could -- you know, he could not be with us. >> ainsley: he normally doesn't call for that one screen. >> correct.

>> ainsley: just looking at that screen allowed him to turn his head. >> yeah. he said it was providential. did you -- does this make you believe in it more in a higher power? how has that been for you? >> i think something was watching over him. i think he -- it's almost like the country really needs you. >> ainsley: maybe god is sparing his life? >> yes. >> ainsley: and then we were told this week and we were told that authorities have already known this for a while that there was an iranian plot to kill your husband. so, i watched this video that you released on social media questioning the first assassination attempt. the second one, if they knew there was this plot, why didn't they sweep the golf course? >> you know, it's interesting how quiet and everything became

all of the mainstream media. there were a few days of reporting about july 1st event and everything then became quiet. so i had a lot of questions. what's going on? this is not normal. and is it really shocking that all this outrageous violence goes against my husband? especially that we hear the leaders from the opposition party and mainstream media branding him as threat to democracy, calling him vile names. they only fueling a toxic atmosphere and all of these people that they wanted to harm. this needs to stop this needs to stop. the country needs to unite and i

encourage everybody to read my letter that i wrote on july 14th, again. because that cannot continue. >> ainsley: the letter was very powerful. what made you get to the pointed of writing that letter? >> that's how i felt. that's how i felt. >> ainsley: when people say they don't like him, what do you wish they knew about him? >> that he is really a family man. he loves his family. he loves his country. and all he wants to build better. and prosperous. >> ainsley: he is just strong. he is not afraid. >> no. he is not -- he is the way he was when he was shot in the ear that the way he stood up and he said fight, fight, fight because he cannot allow that to happen. >> ainsley: okay. becoming first lady, you wrote

in the book when you found out you were watching "fox & friends" right here in trump tower. and you write i vividly recall bret baier's announcement the president-elect is donald j. trump. and he looked at you and he said can you believe it? and you said yes, i can your life immediately changed. when did it hit you? i am the first lady of the united states? i don't know that it hits you but you know you have extra, extra responsibility. >> ainsley: you talked about having special bond with the first lady and prime ministers. when you there were with them and had to sit at the dinner table and talk. i'm sure some were incredibly fun and you bonded with few of them. anyone come to mind? >> it's interesting because when you meet many times you establish relationship. so we would -- ms. macron.

>> ainsley: she is fun? >> she is fun. we always had great laughs 'akim abe i'm sorry what happened with him. special relationships with each of them. >> ainsley: you also traveled to visit our soldiers. did you that at christmastime. you left your family it was in the dead of night you fly over to bless the troops. what was that like and what was the reaction from the troops. >> it was a very secretive meeting. and when we arrived that night, the energy of the soldiers we walked in and everybody start cheering like they see us like what a big surprise. >> ainsley: they were not expecting that. >> not at all.

>> ainsley: what makes you, what makes donald trump do this again. >> all he wants to as he says make america great again. he wants to make this country prosperous. safe for everybody. he wants to make the american dream possible again. >> ainsley: what was your reaction to kamala harris replacing joe biden as the democratic nominee? >> well, how i see it is the record speaks for itself. the country is suffering. people are not able to buy usual necessities for their families. we have wars going on around the world social are dying under this administration because of weak leadership. the border is open and dangerous, a lot of fentanyl is

coming over, killing our youth. it's very hard to see an economy not great. inflation is high. and if we compare these four years under this administration compared to four years under my husband as commander-in-chief, he was leading the country through peace through strength the border was safer than ever before. we didn't have any wars people were prospering. they had jobs. they could support their families. i think american people need to decide what they really want.

maybe some strong tweets, but everything else great for this country. it's all in american people's hands on november 5th. >> steve: she is right. >> lawrence: she just wrapped up essentially what the election is about. she went from the economy, to world peace, to the border, and she said there may have been some rough tweets, but what do you want? do you want -- is that enough for you versus a strong economy and all of that? that's a campaign ad right there. >> brian: for people to think she is detached doing her own thing. she looks like she is watching the speeches. and when you said during the assassination she had to leave the room so she paused the speech. think about that. just a saturday afternoon speech, important enough for her i don't want to miss it. i'm going to go pause it. and then came back and her husband was shot. so, all those people out there who think she is detached and the relationship is fractured, i don't think you are paying

attention. right? >> steve: we haven't seen her talk. she hasn't done an interview for two years. a lot of dots we would like to connected. you asked all those questions about things that people are interested in and finally we hear her talking. and she has feelings about everything and opinions on everything. and it tells you a lot about that family. >> she is definitely not detached. she is in the know and she watches the news constantly. >> steve: can you tell the that. >> ainsley: here is the book melania. buy the memoir starting on october 8th on melania trump.com. in the next hour, we are going to show you more personal, another personal side of melania trump, plus, one word that she uses to describe her husband. >> steve: can we get what the word is? >> ainsley: can you guess. i'm not telling you you have to watch. >> steve: i'm going to stick around. >> brian: stick around we will take a wide shot ♪ ♪ ♪

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