makes the catch. and what a -- look at the way he gets up. >> todd: i bet can you do that. 260-pound tight end showing up athleticism after being tackled. detroit is very good. they win 34 to 31. we mentioned the awards last night and how ininspirational they were. we also got to talk to so many of you out there. the fans were amazing, taking a picturer giving compliments. sylvia said carley and i in this show the amazing team that puts it together are better than coffee. >> carley: i love you. >> todd: plea said i like your face. well, plea rig marie i like you, too. >> carley: with that, "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪

>> ainsley: good morning to you. it is a friday. we had the patriot awards last night. >> brian: sheen is bouncing. >> lawrence: incredible. >> steve: it was good. >> ainsley: such a fun night. >> steve: producers said have a lot of energy. act like you are not tired that you didn't get two hours of sleep. so we won't. >> ainsley: tomorrow is friday. we are going to do a three hour show and i'm going right back to bed. flannel pajamas are coming up in three hours. >> lawrence: i don't have those but i'm with you. >> ainsley: december 6th. happy friday to you. merry christmas, this is "fox & friends." well, the manhunt for the united healthcare's ceo's killer enters day three as the bus trip and burner phone could be key to cracking that case. >> brian: plus, president-elect trump at that points a former paypal executive to make the u.s. the global leader in crypts toe and ai. bring it on. >> lawrence: and honoring america's every day heroes and trump at the sixth annual patriot awards.

>> this is a fantastic turnout. this is very impressive. [cheers] >> and you're my friends. >> steve: indeed. and another patriot is going to join us this morning. first lady, melania trump joins "fox & friends" for her first interview since mr. trump re-election. all right. "fox & friends," the post game show for the patriot awards, starts right now. >> ainsley: it was unforgettable night in brookville, new york, as we celebrated america's heroes at the sixth annual fox nation patriot awards. >> brian: the fox nation event showcasing the best this country has to offer capped off by a visit by donald trump. here are a few of the highlights from last night. [cheers and applause] >> sean: hello ooooo fox nation. are any of you sick of winning?

[audience responds no] >> sean: i'm not sick of winning one bit. our special guest, donald trump the 45 and 47th president of the united states is in the house tonight. [cheers and applause] but, first, we have a lot of patriot awards to hand out to very deserving recipients this year. this is about the unsung heros in our communities and our country. people that risk their lives to make our lives better. >> one thing that i hope is that jonathan's story resonates with people and that they realize that police officers are people. they go out there and they risk their lives for our communities. >> i was just one of probably a hundred helicopter pilots that showed up and answered the call of duty one more time for the devastation in north carolina. so i accept this award very humbly on behalf of all of them. >> steve: there are nearly 200,000 u.s. service members fighting for your freedoms overseas. >> ainsley: and they leave their families behind to protect

yours. never expecting to find a piece of home during their deployment. >> lawrence: they develop unbreakable bonds with their stray dogs and cats that provide a glimmer of hope in their darkest times. >> janice: when it's time to return home it's bittersweet as they face a different kind of gut-wrenching goodbyes. >> brian: and that's where an organization based right here on long island, where you guys are right now comes to the rescue. >> cameron reached out to us months ago and he told us about a dog that he rescued while overseas. and tonight, cameron, she is with us. she is here. [cheers and applause] >> it's just so great. thank you, everyone. everyone involved. >> sean: he defines patriotism. personifies courage under fire. his fight is our fight. please welcome the honoree, our

patriot of the year, our recipient, the soon to be 47th president of the united states of america donald j. trump. >> we are going to bring our country back. it's going to be bigger and better and stronger than before. [cheers] >> we have to do it again. we're going to make america great again. [cheers and applause] >> steve: and then they played the ymca and he did the trump dance that everybody was waiting to see. >> lawrence: he even did the golf swing, too. ha! >> ainsley: be doing the fist pumps. then he does a little shimmy. it was funny. >> steve: it was a fun night up and down. and the great thing, you have got thousands of people great to be out in kilmeade country but the people who showed up -- you

know, we all were in different parts of our meet and greet just adjacent to the hall, and we wouldn't up talking to so many people who said, you know, i was here last year -- of course last year we were in nashville. or i was down in hollywood, florida. so many people have planned their vacations around the patriot awards. it was just fantastic. because, last night, as is every year, it was a celebration of america. >> brian: steve, that's a great point. it's their thing to do in the fall. i know in my town, they are going wherever it is. they were almost disappointed they didn't have to travel because they went to nashville last year. they are beginning to call my town mass pica maga. >> >> steve: i heard kilmeade piqua lawrence is it that small? >> brian: we decided not to make any new friends from high school

friends. still friends with my high school friends they are very patriotic. if you are a patriotic person, doesn't matter if you are republican or democrat. i feel like we haven't had that a lot. but, i think a couple of things, number one, i sign books, i have a book out. i met people from maryland, in arizona, from michigan, california, they come from everywhere, do you live there? no, no, no. i live there now. minnesota, too, a lot of people want to make sure pete gets through. a lot of pete hegseth talk and good news on that front. but i also had a chance to talk to the president a little bit behind the scenes. >> ainsley: what did he say? >> brian: i have never seen him quite looking like this. on the apprentice he was upbeat. he seems serene, focused, measured, appreciative, and his teen is upbeat. i asked him how does he feel? he goes i have never seen anything like it. all he talks about is bringing people together. getting calls from everybody. all he talks about you can come.

no bitterness. move forward. how do we work together? >> lawrence: i'm sorry, ainsley. >> ainsley: you go ahead. >> lawrence: there is this temperature of him with gratefulness for the people i told the crowd i love you. i appreciate you. and to brian's point, he does want to work with democrats. he has made it very clear. let the past be in the past. move forward for the unity of the country. >> ainsley: i have heard a lot of people say that last night was one of my favorite patriot awards. because the family finally come together, that entire room, most of the room i would say voted for him. 99% of that room voted for him. they were so excited to see him. the energy was there. they were so happy not only for their vote counting but also because this country is heading in the right direction again. that's how they felt. you could feel that in the room. i thought sean did a great job. sean for pete because he is.

>> steve: is he busy. >> ainsley: busy for the white house. >> steve: brian, you are talking a little bit about the tone of the behind the scenes. we all remember in 2016 into 2017, you know, he won and then it was just kind of a mad dash to try figure out okay, now what do we do? he has done it before. and so he knows exactly what is required and he has -- he has got a plan. and it's very clear. and, do you know what? from what i have heard he is checking the boxes right down the list. at one point last night, he talked a little bit about how he would like to get a lot of stuff done that he promised during the campaign but also stuff that was unfinished business from over the last 8 years. and does it involve working with democrats? it's got to. watch. >> we have the best energy people in the world. all lined up to go. but, i just want to say we are going to bring prices down. we are going to make our country

safe. we are going to stop people from robbing our stores and hurting our people. [cheers] >> we will get involved with governors, including democrat governors because that's, unfortunately, whether you like it or not, that's where the crime is. in virtually every case it's with democrat-run cities and states. we're going to stop it. we're going to work with the governors and the mayors. even if the democrats -- we're going to get it done. and we are going to bring our country back and it's going to be bigger and better and stronger than ever before. [cheers and applause] and we are going to be proud of our country again. right now so we are not so proud of our country. we are going to be proud of our country again. it's going to be better than ever before. it's going to be more successful than ever before. we're going to be more respected throughout the world than ever before. countries are going to respect

us again. they already do, actually. i think you have seen more happen in the last two weeks than you have seen in the last four years. [cheers] >> and we're not even there yet. [cheers and applause] >> brian: i think what he was referring to he is not using hyperbole if i can steal joe biden's word. because, behind the scene general kellogg's emissaries talking to ukraine, russia, going to the middle east. you have one of -- who is the one who is flying president trump over? steve whitlock. he is already meeting possibly gaza and representative from qatar and egypt to dry to get something going there. and he is already attacking, threatening the br brics countr. i think president biden is like

i would rather angola, light a tree and go back to delaware. the president is ready to go. >> lawrence: brian, become almost part of the negotiation as well. help joe biden reinforce, give the weapons, everything, so he can use it as a negotiation tool for his next administration. >> steve: here's the utter thing you elect somebody to be president for four years. the republicans know they have only got a majority for two years for sure. and the way washington works is essentially you have got from january 20th until late spring to get anything done. so, you know, historically, we have heard about okay. in the first thousand days or first hundred days he realizes the meter is running. he is going to try to get a lot of the stuff done in 30 days that requires having everything lined up. i think that's why, you know, it's funny that they talk about

department of government efficiency and we're going to talk about it in a little bit. but, this transition has been super efficient. >> ainsley: we're a month and a half out from donald trump becoming the president again. and he is already making deals with mexico, making deals with canada, they don't want to be slapped with tariffs. so they're listening to him. he touched on that a little bit last night talking to the president of mexico. also, we're going to be interviewing melania coming up. we can talk to her about the transition. in her book she talked about how difficult it was to work with the obama team. they wouldn't really let them in the white house earlier before they in. >> lawrence: first interview since trump. >> brian: talk to a high ranking trump official last night. >> ainsley: which one? >> brian: i tried -- if i can get permission i will say it. >> ainsley: no, i'm kidding. >> brian: pete is looking good. he made huge progress yesterday as secretary of defense. do you know why? because he is saying what he represents. get a chance to see him. not the anonymous reporting.

and as will cain brought up yesterday. if you want to do a balanced story, call us. you got the negativity. at least make the phone call and say is this the one person you know? and then focus on his book and what he stands for and debate that. >> ainsley: after pete's mom came on and said is he a different man now. is he my son and i know that. >> steve: changed man. >> ainsley: so many people at fox know him the last seven years and more have vouched for him. we know him. we know he loves his lord and xavier jesus christ. he and jen have a beautiful relationship and that is the center. >> ainsley: he changed his life. we all have sinned and fallen short. >> steve: it comes down to math. he needs. >> ainsley: he needs the votes. >> steve: he cannot lose four republican senators.

and it's close. >> brian: right. i have been watching the same series. none of the saints were perfect. they eventually became perfect. went into the human being hall of fame, right? >> lawrence: it's true. let's go to mar-a-lago. while trump was accepting that award, his transition team announced more key picks for his administration. bill melugin is live in west palm beach, florida with the latest on that. hey, bill. >> bill: lawrence, good morning to you. these public comments from trump last night at the patriot awards were some of the first public comments we have seen from him since elections night. as you mentioned, he has been busy putting together his cabinet entire time. he made several more picks yesterday. last night at the patriot awards, as usual, his focus was on border security. take a listen. >> they have allowed 21 million people in our country coming through open borders from many, many countries. they came from jails. they came from mental institutions, insane asylums even. and we're going to have to get

them out. >> bill: and to that point trump announced is he picking rodney scott as customs and border protection commissioner. scott served as border patrol chief in trump's first administration. and then for the first part of the biden administration until he was pushed out and he has been an extremely vocal critic of biden's open border policies ever since then trump also announcing is he selecting david sacks to be his artificial intelligence and crypto czar a move seen very friendly to the crypto world. in charge of guiding white house policy on crypto and ai which trump says the u.s. should lead the entire world on in both areas. some say ai will completely change the way wars are fought. >> on the battlefield now peer-to-peer adversaries if you are defending against their missiles, you are going to not have time to go back to the human there are ways in which can you use software to code

ethics into the program. we are entering a completely different world. partly of the reason we are entering a completely different world we have pretty lethal and very competent adversaries. >> bill: as for what is next for the president-elect. tomorrow he is going to be in paris where is he going to be attending the reopening of the iconic notre dame cathedral. it has been restored since that fire five years ago which destroyed large portions of it. while he is there, very likely is he going to be meeting with the french president emmanuel macron. send it back to you. >> steve: can you counted on that. bill, thank you very much. let's talk a little bit about david sacks. david sacks is one of the guys known from the 90's part of the paypal math i can't. prominent tech figures including elon musk and peter thiel who both worked wrizzed a lot of money for

donald trump. he has in the past been critical of donald trump. then again he worked at the dnc in july. he hosted that fundraiser out in silicone valley where we talked about $50,000 a head bus they have chairs for $2,300,000 if you wanted a picture with donald trump. >> brian: v.p. vance is best friends with him. says this is his best friend in silicone valley. >> ainsley: saks? >> brian: elon musk lived in that arena and lived in that area came up with him e has done his research in peter thiel saying this is the right guy. i was surprised to see one person handling both. i hope they can do it like the bibitcoin as well as ai. elon musk breaks up, he went out of his way musk listen, let's make amends. i will move on you can have paypal. he moved on i'm sure he got paid. when spacex was going down and

tesla the paypal mafia steps up what do you need to keep it going? both companies in 2008 were about to go out. one comment musk made was karma. i ended good and they were there for me even though we had friction. and i say to elon musk, again, karma. because david sacks, elon musk tight with the president, turns around and i'm sure said thumbs up if you want to put him in that spot. if there was bitterness it wouldn't have happened. >> lawrence: isn't there something beautiful about people that do this for a living that, are part of the business community for a living, i think you can say this about most of the cabinet posts. people that have either talked about reforming different departments. people that have on a day-to-day basis been involved with it. now being appointed to run that post. >> brian: they do understand it. very few people do. >> lawrence: 100 percent. it just seems different. normally you have political insiders. people probably run for elected office or were big mega donors,

get these cabinet posts. now we have actual real people that know these industries. >> steve: they are start up guys. critical. >> ainsley: incredible imagine being at that dinner table when you are around elon musk and zuckerberg and bezos and donald trump. brian. >> steve: don't have to pay that's good. >> ainsley: this is true. if you needed to you could use ppaypal. i'm proud of him what a great model. find the smartest people in our country. the billionaires in our country. let's put them together and make this country better. we saw elon musk and saw vivek at capitol hill yesterday. they are in charge of doge, which stands for department of government efficiency. they are trying to cut expenditures and slash excessive regulation. >> steve: there you can see right there. it's really interesting. there is elon's 4-year-old son wearing a suited just like him. >> ainsley: is that is x? >> brian: i'm sure is he going to take the sat soon.

>> steve: sat on his shoulders the whole time. it's the department of government efficiency. it was very efficient. musk and vivek each spoke for about one minute in a room full of officials who are known for long windedness and then they gave the mics to the republicans and they lined one suggestions on how to slash government agencies and programs that simply don't make any sense anymore. >> so you can't cut your way out of this. i looked at kimberley strassel, the brilliant columnist for the "wall street journal." look, eliminating waste and duplication of fraud is welcome. those will be the easiest but congress and the presidency shouldn't get away with suggesting that doge can do the work that only they can. real changes requires cutting programs, simplifying rules. handing power back to states and i will add one other thing, senator blackburn must have heard her because she is offering legislation to go along with it to work together and i see some democrats, you mentioned yesterday, row

co-hannah. you mentioned yesterday jared moskowitz. >> steve: bernie sanders. >> brian: bernie sanders for a different reason. >> steve: pentagon. >> brian: he doesn't want any defense because vermont they feel can hold their own. the other thing is other thing i would like to see democrats, i wish he would factor some democratic meetings. if you just use the power of their megaphone to say this is what has to be done. this is what congress doesn't want to do. i think that that would do a lot of work. people are attuned. be all over your lawmaker sit there. >> steve: we do have one graphic. we should show you one graphic. this shows you how easy it will be to save some money and, look at that top number. 90% of federal employees work from home. so why do we have all those buildings? >> lawrence: who is not -- i

mean, did this happen -- i would be curious to know did this happen after covid or has this always been the case? >> ainsley: buildings you are paying for as a taxpayer. >> lawrence: unbelievable. >> steve: forget about the lease. bottom line it costs $7 billion spent for energy to keep them running in buildings where they are 90% empty. does that make sense? >> brian: whose hand that is and make her come to work. >> steve: do you know whose hand that is? it's the hand of carley shimkus who joins us now. >> carley: i have always wanted to be a hand model. >> brian: you and george castanza. >> carley: that's a seinfeld bit. get to more news. >> ainsley: you have to keep talking. >> carley: doing my best. daniel penny hit with a civil lawsuit by the father of jordan neely the homeless man who died after being placed in a chokehold by penny on a new york city subway. comes as the young marine veteran awaits a verdict in his criminal trial as the jury

enters its fourth day of deliberations this morning. penny is charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide and faces up convicted.s in prison if today vice president elect j.d. vance is heading to north carolina to survey hurricane helene relief efforts. >> he will meet with first responders and storm survivors. vance is also expected to visit the family of fallen fire chief ray garrison who died while rescuing victims of hurricane helene related mudslide. right now the western part of the state faces blizzard-like conditions. that's where about 200,000 people are still displaced. president biden having a bad hair day last night as he helped light the national christmas tree on a windy night in washington. >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. [cheers] >> carley: and the tree was lit. that 35-foot red spruce from

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>> steve: a fox news alert. the manhunt for the gunman who murdered the united healthcare ceo enters its third day right now. chanley painter is here in "studio m" with the latest evidence that could solve the case. chanley? >> that's right. hey, steve. police appear to be closing in on the identity of the man suspected of gunning down brian thompson wednesday morning outside of a new york city hotel. police sources revealing to fox they have a cell phone they believe was dropped by the suspect near the scene with fingerprints and a water bottle purchased by the suspect at a nearby starbucks that is being used to build a d.n.a. profile.

we are also learning the suspect arrived in the city more than a week ago on a greyhound bus from atlanta before checking in to a hostel in the upper west side using a fake i.d. and paying in cash. these photos were taken at that hostel the first images to show the alleged masked assassin's face smiling. reportedly in a moment he pulled his face covering down to flirt with the hostel clerk. police sources saying he shared a room there with at least two other men. >> what i heard is that he stood to right next to mine. i'm used to violence. because i'm from rio de janeiro but not the kind of like cold and articulated killing. >> police are also honing in on the type of gun used in the murder, a firearms expert telling fox this, quote: it is a very unique pistol and they don't make that many of them.

if it is the gun, they will be able to narrow him down to a very small number of purchases or purchasers. and while a motive is still not clear as we reported yesterday, the suspect left behind possible clues in the words deny, depose, defend written on shell casings and lye rounds left at the scene. possibly a message to the murdered ceo largest healthcare companies in the world. steve? >> steve: lots of more details. chanley, thank you very much. bring in frank lump bridge a former special agent in charge of all sorts of stuff. he worked with george w. bush, barack obama. >> thank you for having me. >> steve: we got a much better picture of this guy. when he checked, in apparently wearing a black face mask and starts flirting with the hostel clerk and she said i have got to see your face probably to check you in. he pulled it down. is he smiling. we got a better idea. where does it go from here. >> i think they are closing in on him now. it's a 40 day right now. we are looking at -- we have a

facial recognition on him now. we got some d.n.a. possibly off of one of the items he had, water bottle, then we got a phone we need to look into. >> steve: right. >> we know we have tracked him coming from atlanta from the south on a bus arriving at port authority. we got great photos from that hey, look, nypd did an amazing job of putting this together. running those camera feeds together and basically pinning him down and getting these great shots. >> steve: right. >> it's going to be a moment of time before we have him in custody. >> steve: does seem like he made some sort of mistakes and the cops here are good and they now got a pretty good picture of who they suspect. all right. frank, we also have some pretty good pictures something nobody can explain. i got a note from dr. ken yesterday and said what's the deal with the drones. these mysterious drones have been flying over portions of new jersey. and as you can see right there. that was bern nardzville wednesday not too far from bedminster where the president

has got his golf course pretty obvious. multiple reports come in. we have a military resource in that area. a pharmaceutical company in this area. we also have the trump's golf course is in that area as well. we need to be concerned about that. but, we need to identify who is flying these drones and if they are not friends of the government, we need to go ahead and make sure we interview these people and find out what their intentions are. >> acting secret service director said that autonomous canines are guarding mar-a-lago. and i know when we were at the rnc in milwaukee over the summer they did have drones, fixed drones that they had just hovering above it. >> right. >> steve: these are running lights. and they are moving. it's not like they are just taking a look at everything going on. >> we don't want them mapping the golf course looking for

vulnerabilities. mar-a-lago photographs taking taken of the president while he was golfing. vulnerability areas. could it be somebody out there mapping this area to find out advantage of places they could set up for an attack. something we have got to look into. bottom line is, we should know who these people are flying these drones. >> steve: do you have a guess? >> i think it's us. >> steve: you think it's us? our intel people? >> it could be research development, part of a project they are working on. i know amazon is in that area as well. who knows what is going on out there. three weeks has gone by and we haven't seen a lot of reports on who these individuals are. >> steve: could be amazon? jeff bezos, call us. call frank. >> just taking a shot at it. >> steve: indeed. >> thank you, steve. >> steve: thank you very much. meanwhile donald trump tapping a key player in the abraham accords as envoy for hostage affairs who says it's time to go back to the policies that worked in the middle east. that's coming up.

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>> janice: we had a major earthquake off the coast of california yesterday afternoon prompted a tsunami warning. thankfully no major tsunami but we have aftershocks happening and that will continue for the next couple of days. maybe next couple of weeks. major damage had it been on land. so we will have to monitor that, certainly. good news that these tsunami did not present itself along the coast. cold temperatures for much of the country. we are going to get a warm-up next week especially for the western half. and the potential for showers and thunderstorms for texas along the gulf coast. next storm system moves into the west coast and we could also see some lake-effect snow this weekend. all right, brian kilmeade, over to you. >> brian: great job, janice. now. this 20 minutes before the top of the hour. donald trump tapped abraham accords adam boehler to serve as his special envoy for hostage affairs. this comes as 101 hostage remain in hamas captivity, including

three americans as trump warns the middle east there will be hell to pay. put this on truth social if they are not released by january 20th when he takes over. in his first interview, since accepting this key role, adam boehler joins us now. adam, congratulations, so deserved. you are so qualified, tough job. did that truth social post help or hurt your chances of getting them out alive? >> thanks for having me on, brian. first of all, the president posting that now makes my job a thousand times easier. he has indicated that we are a presidency of action. we're going to do things. and now it empowers me to get our people out. >> brian: what has happened since that came out? have you heard from israel? have you heard from qatar, have you heard from representatives in gaza?

i got a calm yesterday morning telling me as long as america supports them. has strong words where we need to get people out. he asked me to remind everybody about elon alexander, american audiences recent video of elon alexander a 20-year-old kid from new jersey, he has been there the whole time we know he is still alive because in the video he specifically asked for help from donald trump. so there's hope here. the qataris called me. frustrated but now still excited based on the new administration coming in. and i think it's plausible we will have something done very soon. in fact, it has to be very soon. because the president has said by the time he is inaugurated, january 20th, they have to be out of there or they there will be hell to pay. i think people are going to listen to this president. >> steve: steven wyckoff over there. bringing some type of cease-fire to a degree in gaza. and he is dead sinwar is dead.

do you know how are dealing with when you are dealing with hamas? >> you are dealing with different leaders. the hardest part on finding these hostages is that they are all over the place. some are in tunnels. a lot of them in private people's homes there was israeli raid, and rating different apartments people sitting there blindfolded in homes. you ever dealing with ction if as sometimes. versus kind of one individual. >> brian: right. what did you learn dealing with the taliban and working for the abraham accords that will help you in this role? >> the most important thing -- and this is across the middle east, and a lot of people say it. they say peace through strength. let me tell you what peace through strength is. and you're going to see it right now. so i'm going to use a carter-reagan transition shift. because it's going to look exactly like this. which is you have an

administration, in the biden administration, that loves to say nice things and tell everybody not to take action. we have switched to an administration that is going to hold people accountable. if you are the taliban, and you have american hostages, which they do, by the way. it's not going to be a discussion anymore. you are going to give them up or we're going to take action. or there is going to be hell to pay. that is negotiating leverage. and you only need to follow through a few times to where people stop. so i think the most important thing is to remember peace, our peace when we did it for the abraham accords was enabled because we killed the number two person in iran and they knew we were serious. >> now we are back. >> brian: you are. and you are back too, adam boehler, thank you so much. appreciate it. service you have a thriving business that all goes on hold so can you focus on this. congratulations on the job and we all wish you great success. thank you.

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>> back with friday morning headlines, first up acting secret service director ronald rowe capitol hill yesterday went a little off the rails. pat fallon of texas accused rowe accused putting secret service agents out of position septembey attended by president biden and president-elect donald trump. >> i'm not asking you that. i'm asking you. >> i don't care. >> were you the man in charge? you were not. >> respect for secret service member that died on 9/11. >> you were trying to be. >> do not invoke 9/11 for political purposes. >> oh, i'm not. i'm. >> you are, sir. you are out of line. >> gentlemen, gentlemen. >> i would like to ask him a question. >> please, order. >> the hearing was held by the bipartisan task force

investigating the assassination attempts against president donald trump. we told you about that yesterday. didn't know it was going to get so fiery. now to wild video showing a small asteroids lighting up the sky over syria hours after being detected by asteroid imminent asteroid detected so far this year as ter rode alert and tsunami award. crazy day. >> ainsley: and patriot award very busy. thank you so much. two presented with the award for courage at last night patriot awards after defending the american flag from anti-israel protesters who tried to tear it down. >> we didn't hesitate when we saw our flag being torn back down because this flag represents the beacon of hope that called my parents so the

great country 20 years ago. >> my grandfather comes from eastern north carolina, is he a small farm town boy. and being up here and, you know, this stage is something that he never would have dreamed in his entire life for his grandson and to me that's really whatnot only this flag but this entire nation represents. >> lawrence: joining us now the sponsor of that award patriot mobile ceo glen store. we have known each other for a long time. you are a texan. what i like about your company is not just that you get cell service but you support conservative causes like this. really why you come toll patriot mobile it's the mission. the rest of the guys are the same as we are. however if you get coverage today can you get coverage from patriot mobile. the difference is when you call patriot mobile, you will speak with somebody in the u.s. and not only that, the real hook is we put god first.

he is at the helm of our business. we are his stewards. and beyond that, we carve out a portion of every dollar and donate back to one of four causes. the first amendment, the second amendment, right to life and military and first responders. >> ainsley: that's great. because we pay so much in our cell phone bills we would rather it go to a conservative company putting it back into these organizations that we all support. last night you were on stage with those cute, patriotic fraternity boys at unc. you carried this flag with you which was draped over your father's casket, right? >> that's correct. >> ainsley: why did you want to sponsor that award for these gentlemen and why is the flag so important and what made you want to sponsor that? >> you look at a handful of the things we do. we work with concerned women for america and other organizations as well as susan b. anthony pro-life america. we just love it. the flag though isn't just a piece of fabric. right? 13 stripes. 50 stars. but what does it represent?

this represents the freedom that all of these men and women fought for and risked their lives and their lives were taken. what is important about that? well, that's a massive symbol. we just love that and in particular, a gentleman named jim rodriguez, he has the flag program. the flag program teaches children and schools, kindergarten and up, to properly raise the flag, lower it. and gather it. and to honor it. and, you know, it started in one school in texas. i know you know about texas. >> lawrence: that's right. >> multiplied out into 20 states. 130 schools. we honor that we love organizations that make a difference. >> lawrence: it was a tradition that we used to do when i grew up in texas. they just went away with it. i'm so happy that you guys are bringing it back. something that all of our kids should learn. >> ainsley: he has the only conservative christian network. wireless network in the united states. he says it's time to stop supporting corporations that use

your money for causes you don't agree with thank you so much for your patriotism, for loving god and giving back. >> thank you for having me. >> ainsley: you're welcome. all right, melania trump gives "fox & friends" her first post election interview. coming up ♪ at patriot mobile, we take the word service to new heights. serving customers with top tier mobile service is our business, but our mission is to honor and serve patriots, like harry mcbrien. post 911. my life oscillated between multiple tours with the marine corps and my police job, profoundly disrupting my health and changing who i was. harry reached out to the boot campaign, which offers individualized care to veterans and their families. the boot campaign's intervention was a lifeline. now, after 28 years on the police force, i'm retiring. my mission now is

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