>> brian: can you believe it? it is 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. tuesday, december 10th. this is "fox & friends." >> ainsley: it's lawrenceens birthday. >> lawrence: thank you. >> ainsley: a suspect caught and charged at the mcdonald's in pennsylvania police are investigating the manifesto. talking about this. wildfires spreading overnight in malibu. look at that fire line. evacuations underway officials called the highest possible danger. we have got more coming up. >> lawrence: plus our friend pete hegseth shoring up support with g.o.p. senators as he outlines his defense goals. >> pete: clean out all the politically correct justice. three that the, war fighting,

accountability, meritocracy and readiness. >> brian: the second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. >> brian: fox news alert. the suspect, the suspect in the killing of united healthcare ceo brian thompson now being charged after being arrested monday at a mcdonald's in altoona, pennsylvania, 260 plus miles from where the incident happened. >> steve: alexis mcadams has been covering the case all weaning and joins us now live from the couch. good morning. >> good morning, yeah, this has been a crazy story. we have been trying to dig in and get as much information as we can when we are find some of those new details out. we were trying to work this case in new york city. we saw they had dive teams yesterday. they were looking for the weapon. then i got a call from nypd source that said you should head to altoona. they found out there was a man there possibly a mcdonald's employee who recognized the suspect. and called it in. so, although they did all this investigation on the ground in new york city. tends up having this case break

out in, you know, altoona, pennsylvania. >> steve: it sounds like it does make sense. if he was at a mcdonald's and apparently he was on his laptop. he probably ordered something to eat. and if you are going to eat, you have to pull down the mask. >> yeah. >> steve: you couldn't really tell who it was exactly with the blue surgical mask on. but if he pulled down, you know, the mask to have a quarter pounder it's like somebody certainly saw him. >> the main thing with this case was we kept looking at all these different photos coming in from different surveillance cameras. and they kept saying people in the public like this guys eyebrows. what are you could see basically was the eyebrows and eyes. this person at mcdonald's was able to look at him he looks like him whether he had the mask on or not. the police asked him take your mask off want to talk to you e got so nervous according to court documents he started shaking and upset in the mcdonald's they said have you been in new york city lately and that's when a this all unraveled inside of his pocket inside the mcdonald's the fake i.d. used to check in to new york city to

a new york city hostel where he stayed for 10 days before the shooting. >> ainsley: almost like he wanted to get caught. evidence had all this time. he could have gone to mexico. he could have gone to another country. but he was found not too far away from new york city where this happened. >> that's right. investigators at this point they take a look at the manifesto, try to see what is going on with that the question was, too. was he going to come back to new york city? only like a four hour drive from altoona, pennsylvania to get back. he had been here a few days, 10 days casing it being,laying out his plan according to investigators. it's possible he could have been trying to come back again. i think the motive here is the thing that a lot of people across the country are interested in, too. did this have to deal with the united healthcare ceo specifically or about the entire healthcare system. he had a bunch of posts on his social media talking about back pain and how his claims weren't covered. so we're going to have to see. >> lawrence: i'm curious you have been covering crime for a

while have you seen such support for a killer before? >> no i have never seen anything like that. in new york city they this a lookalike contest. having people come and dress under lining the gunman. people going wearing defy, defend and depose on t-shirts. whatever somebody's job is or whatever happened you don't have the right to kill somebody and take vigilante justice? your hands. it's disturbing to people across the country antsz they fine in and hear people excited there is joy from. this really concerning. and people also posting different ceos information then on x. i have never seen anything like that covering crime. >> brian: mayor adams very grateful. he picked up the phone. and he talked to the cop who turns out he is a rookie his name is tyler frye. listen. >> unfathomable, knowing the kind person i saw and knew. i remember he said he had a back issue and hoping to get stronger in hawaii. it also weighed on him that he knew there was impending

surgery. >> brian: yeah, that was the wrong one. that's his roommate. >> that's interesting. the mayor did pick up the phone and they posted it to social media. mayor eric adams in new york city and thank that rookie cop. altoona pd they had stuff going on even though it's a rural area. went to mcdonald's and followed up on the tip. if they would have waited that cop, this kid could have been gone. >> brian: we don't know if he had other plans. did he have other plans to kill somebody else? this one seems to have been thought out. scope the place number two they knew he left new york city. did they have a sense of where they went? >> getting tips from people in new york city saying what bus line he might have hopped on, but supposedly a bus line that originally came from a bus line that originated in atlanta. comes here and the same one would have gone back to atlanta

but makes a bunch of stops. they say that bus stopped in altoona, pennsylvania. he got off. i don't know if he had any connections there. what he was doing. he had all that cash with him in his backpack. >> ainsley: did his parents ever call the police and say we recognized him. he has kind of gone off the grid. if you look at his social media brian said someone is writing man, you are supposed toed to be in my wedding you have commitments i vnsd heard from you. >> the nypd sources i was talking to find it very concerning that random guy at mcdonald's guy with the mask on no one from the family. >> as of right now, according to nypd sources they say they did not have any contact with the family. also this suspect has not been talking, so he came, you know, he went into custody with the police without a problem. as soon as he has been in custody he is not saying anything. i know they have brought it down but google owns youtube has a working relationship with police in most cases give them all the search history. are they going to release that

video to the police until they see what is in final video i think yesterday. >> the video specifically of? >> he had one video that he had scheduled to go. >> brian: video manifesto. >> yeah. we will have to see. they have some cybersecurity guys with the nypd that maybe can work and try to get that stuff from google. sometimes they try to get this information and you can't get it. but he wrote it all down in his own handwriting and had did t. with him in business backpack. >> got to do something about the mask law and the mayor talked about that yesterday. go do a crime. you have the mask on worried about my health. do you think they are going to move on that? >> i don't know there is pushback at least in new york city you see people wearing masks inside on or about outside and wearing masks. why is that person's face covered in the first place? we will have to see what the mayor does. it seems like he changed his position recently to try to go back to the middle where people want to think more evenly about crimes. >> in the coming days, we will

maybe today we will learn more about, you know, was it related to a denied claim? was it the fact that he is 26 years old? he was kicked off his parents' insurance, we don't know. but, alexis, this guy left some puzzling clues that people are scratching their heads about. we know that there is a book that was written about how big insurance companies were called denied delayed depose. but then what's the deal with the monopoly money that he left in one of the backpacks? i mean, it seems like he was trying to say something about something. >> yeah. and that's the interesting part when you go back, originally when i got over there to cover the case that day. they thought some of the nypd guys thought this was a paid assassin who didn't make any mistakes. he made a lot of mistakes according to police. >> lawrence: a lot. >> left behind weird clues. stuffing monopoly jacket a backpack. dropping a phone. grabbing a drink at starbucks leave saliva on it. going back to the monopoly

money. i don't know if he is going to tell them what it means or not. >> steve: biggest clue of all he had in his backpack. reportedly he had the gun, the ghost gun that he probably printed. >> and that's what i was asking some nypd sources about that yesterday. they said yes, so on his person he had the fake ids in that backpack once they searched him he had the gun and silencer. he had a background in engineering. went to one of the b universitis in the country u. penn. it's possible he could have printed that ghost gun himself and the police wouldn't have been able to track that gun down. >> brian: didn't he have the gun with him. >> in pennsylvania, yeah. in the backpack and silencer. >> brian: backpack in central park. >> lawrence: two backpacks. >> some with monopoly known. >> lawrence: toying with the. >> ainsley: maybe he lost it. maybe the pain was excruciating and mad at life. >> yeah. yeah. i think his family. maybe they will speak in the coming days and sister posted on

social media she was praying for him. maybe they are shocked. >> ainsley: so cute in the valedictorian video. >> something must have changed in high school to college to now. a sad situation. >> steve: alexis, thank you very much. >> steve: let's talk a little bit about this. daniel penny has been on trial in new york city for a couple of weeks. you no he that last week the more serious charge of manslaughter was dismissed by prosecutors after it was deadlocked. and so what happened yesterday? he was acquitted, cleared of all remaining charges, which was kind of a -- it was a big surprise. because the d.a. had put all of his eggs, essentially that basket. okay. you are not going to find him guilty of this big, more serious charge. what about this essentially and i think you depicted it as a consolation charge which it was. but as it turns out. apparently all the jurors in the jury room had reasonable doubt. as we know, his defense said he

acted in self-defense. and alvin bragg said nope, he used too much. >> lawrence: bry? >> brian: here is his attorneys. afterwards when they got the surprise. here's the thing. the theme over the weekend how dare they come with a lesser charge. they are desperate for a conviction. and the jury come back and said screw you, essentially. it's called not guilty. they want to have a drink. he is a free man. he has a civil trial to deal with. >> lawrence: he deserves a drink. >> brian: trying to get a soundbite. is he going to talk to judge jeanine later here is what the attorney says at the bar. >> dabble can you tell me how you are feeling right now. >> go this way. >> can you tell me how are feeling. >> is he feeling great. it's a great day. it's a great day. >> yeah. we are very happy. >> ainsley: the verdict is an indictment on alvin bragg. this just is -- looking at alvin bragg and saying enough is enough. you're not going to get away with this anymore. have you been so soft on crime. you know, we watcher illegal immigrants. >> lawrence: that's right.

>> beat up a cop. then when they are arrested, they are flipping off the cameras and back on the streets again. >> he allows them to go out. >> yet this guy who was saving the lives. he said remember the flashback soundbite of him saying the mom -- i saw this crazy guy going toward the mom and her baby and i just had to intervene. i couldn't sit back. >> lawrence: i love it the way that "wall street journal" futures merry christmas daniel penny. attracted the national attention for the george floyd activists the whole incident confirms their view that american justice system is structurally racist. but ordinary americans without racial actions ax axes to grinde trial as prosecutor madness. the inability to distinguish the good guy from the bad. fathers hope there will be a daniel penny on the train every time their daughters ride the subway. >> ainsley: that's true. >> lawrence: i'm out there. listening to these crazy protesters and leaders in this

movement though said what happens when in when a black person responds this way. excuse me, i have been talking about this the whole time there was a black man that held him down as well as jordan neely put him into the choke. and so i know they want to racialize. this make this some social justice moment, but black, hispanics whites were all afraid on that train can i see myself being in this situation. >> brian: lawrence, listen to this. remember, the cops didn't charge him after the interrogation without an attorney there. blocked the subway gave. in when the prosecutors decided to come up with an offense, it was race. it is all about race. a white man of privilege took down a black man just doing his michael jackson impersonation. this jury was smarter than that. >> ultimately, the definition

made the determination not to put him on the stand because they felt that the prosecution's case had a lot of holes in it. >> lawrence: 100 percent it did. >> it was not yard. but we did hear from daniel penny just a little more than a -- about a year and a half ago where he sat down with his attorneys and he talked a little bit about what happened and he said this. listen. >> there is a common misconception that marines don't get scared. we are actually taught one of our core values is courage. courage is not the absence of fear but how you handle fear. and you know, i was scared for myself but i looked around. i saw women and children. he was yelling in their faces saying these threats. i couldn't just sit still. >> and he goes on to say i couldn't just sit still because he saw it. and we surmised in the first hour it's like if daniel penny was back on a subway we do it

again? first instinct would be look at all the trouble i went through by doing it last time? >> i'm just but is he danny penny and he saw something and he did something. >> lawrence: i'm just curious, ainsley what is the correct response -- what do you do when someone walks into a train and threatens to kill everyone? harasses everyone? and people feel in fear for their life? what is the appropriate action? do you wait until they attack? do you just take it? do you just die? do you just get injured? like what is the correct way? >> ainsley: we will remember daniel penny's lawyers said who would you rather have on the train? >> of course. >> i don't care if i go to jail or everybody dies or would you rather have daniel penny who served our country and also is protecting the women and the babies on that train? i know ohio would want. i would want him on there i would be so grateful and be appalled if someone were attacking me and nobody would defend me. that's what we are going to get in new york. people are going to be could scared to stand up for someone.

>> that family suing to try to get some money out of this lower threshold should ask themselves and look in the mirror why did you let your son even though he is an adult schizophrenic history of violence with something like 4 or 50 arrest you let him out and wonder why he ends up with this type of fate? you let him out on us to go wild in new york city? like so many other lunatics who need mental health care? >> ainsley: why wasn't he locked up if he had a rap sheet. i know parents can't. >> brian: turning point. this is good news. >> this is a turning point. america is done with it. daniel penny will be the signal of we are not going to allow injustice to reign. >> lawrence: i'm sympathetic for any family that losing anyone. so i feel for them on that front. i also feel for the passengers that were there that were fearful of their life. and to give an interview afterwards and say all he wanted is food. excuse me? like you give him food.

this whole notion that we as -- and i said this years ago. there is gonna come a point where the public has to step. in you can't demonize law enforcement and tell them to step back. have liberal d.a.s that allow these people just to run across the street and examine average day citizens to have this textbook way of dealing with these situations. it's just not fair. >> steve: mr. neely was apparently ranked -- who knew the city of new york had rankings for people who are most desperate. he was in the top 50 most desperate homeless people in the city. >> brian: most dangerous. >> steve: the city failed him up and down. and yesterday when the verdict was read in the courtroom. mr. neely's father screamed and brian, to your point, he is suing danny penny in civil court. given that it is a lower standard, who knows what is going to happen. >> lawrence: i wish he would have had the same energy when he was alive and maybe he would

have still been alive had he had that same type of passion. >> steve: judge jeanine will be sitting down with him today on "the five" and whole works tomorrow on fox nation. >> brian: mayor de blasio got ahold of that unit. >> lawrence: and keim crime. >> brian: we are getting #reud of it discriminatory. stop picking up people and making them go into shelter. now all of a sudden you lose total track of these people. >> ainsley: giuliani had a team if he they were trained if they saw someone sleeping on the street. pick them up and take them to a shelter. >> steve: quality of life that's what it was. >> brian: to a fox wildfire alerted. wildfire that broke out overnight. more than doubles in size. >> ainsley: the fire growing to 1800 acres in just hours. the city of malibu say the flames have jumped the pacific coast highway and threatening structures near the iconic malibu pier.

>> steve: students and staff are sheltering in place. the university posting that the worst of the fire has apparently pushed past the campus. but there are still pockets burning nearby and smoke everywhere. >> let's which can in with our senior meteorologist janice dean for our fox weather forecast. j.d., what are you seeing? >> the weather is going to just go down hill unfortunately for all those behave firefighters with he wind in excess of 70, 8. take a look. a particularly dangerous situation for southern california. over 1800 acres burned. the cause is unknown. containment zero percent. happened this morning. and it continues to burn out of control and all of these residential areas in the beautiful malibu beach area and the pacific coast highway is now closed in the malibu region. we have elevated, critical, extreme fire danger for southern california. this is the worst it gets in december. and, you know, we typical see santa ana winds in december. this is not out of the ordinary. we are dealing with a situation that is unfolding with relative humidity. we below 10%.

winds 40 miles per hour around the objection in order area. we are expecting them to go up. overnight last night duration situation today and into tomorrow. something we will follow certainly throughout "fox & friends" throughout the day fox weather.com for all your details. >> brian: i know personally how fast those fires go in malibu. a lot of those homes are not really zoned. a lot of the firefighters don't know the homes are there. rich people build them in the side of the mountain and maybe they don't get homeowner's insurance but it makes it. >> ainsley: really? brian lost his apartment. >> brian: i was in the bottom of the house. burned. they didn't have it on the manifest. they go we didn't know there was a house there. >> steve: terrible out there. meanwhile 20 minutes after the top of the hour. carley joins us with news from philadelphia. >> carley: an arrest warrant issued for a suspect identified in a home invasion outside philadelphia that left a mother

hurt and her son dead on sunday. he is wanted for multiple charges including murder and robbery. police say a group of thieves stole the family's car, which was later found abandoned. officials are offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. the "wall street journal" reporting that president-elect trump spoke to florida governor ron desantis about choosing lara trump to fill in the florida senate seat being vacated by marco rubio. trump selected rubio to be his secretary of state. of course, lara trump stepped down as co-chair of the republican national committee last week. and mentioned she would quote seriously consider replacing rubio in the senate. and finally old saint nick catching waves out in hawaii ahead of big night two weeks from now. >> merry christmas! happy new year. [cheers] >> wohoo, merry christmas. >> carley: santa making his

grand entrance there in waikiki beach on oahu and those are your headlines, guys. a whole lot to celebrate today. >> steve: that's right. aloha and happy birthday. >> brian: look at that made from scratch. >> ainsley: some of your favorite. >> steve: chicken and waffles. >> brian: made from a bakener staten island. >> carley: there you go. >> happy birthday, dear lawrence. >> carley: you get fried eggs for your birthday. >> i do like to eat. >> janice: i don't think i have ever seen this on "fox & friends." >> brian: two choices this is what you choose? >> lawrence: oh, it's hot, too. >> lawrence: eat. >> steve: want a bite of cake? >> lawrence: during a commercial. >> what's in the box? >> janice: brian just took that box from underneath the tree. >> steve: it could be a decoy. lawrence, we apparently have a

message from somebody else on this special day. >> ainsley: jolly dawn. elf on the shelf. >> ainsley: brian picked that name that's the one we are going with. >> janice: jolly don. >> lawrence: is that nala? >> janice: donald trump elf. >> janice: jolly don worked on that song all night long >> brian: music is looney bugs bunny. >> lawrence: i'm starting to feel old. >> ainsley: happy birthday. so glad you were born. >> steve: we are going to carve the cake during the commercial.t be wrapped under a tree price on the thing- want. - need. ♪plus

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because what is happening in the garden state. today's hearing focus on the potential threat of drones. witnesses appear before the two house committees, subcommittees on terrorism and transportation. dhs and fbi officials. >> the nfl security chief is also expected to testify and they want congress to expand the government's authority to detect and destroy drones if they threaten critical infrastructure like military bases, airports and even stadiums. hoping to get more answers about the incidents in new jersey folks are understandablably worried. chris smith saying the tepid response from our site and federal agencies so far is totally unacceptable. he goes on to say the people of new jersey deserve crist and bold action on the part of our state and federal agencies to investigate, assess and address the situation immediately. here is new jersey governor phil murphy. >> these are apparently very -- as i understand it, very sophisticated, the minute you get eyes on them. they go dark. and, you know, we are obviously

most concerned about sensitive targets and sensitive critical infrastructure. so, we have got military asset, we have got utility assets, we have got the president-elect one of his homes here. this is something we are taking deadly seriously. >> murphy says these drones don't pose public safety threats but some folks say these drones are bigger than the ones that are typically used for hobby. there is a concern one of these drones could lose power and fall on someone, god forbid, brian? is so many questions still. are refusing to hand over to the. prime minister under assad. he stayed back even as the regime fell. kay after forced from power as the ousted dictator flees to russia for asylum. >> humiliating news for our adversaries, russia and iran which have been propping up assad for over a decade, russia

has two major gays cease there in syria they have used to help support the houthi rebels in yemen that have been attacking our sailors in the red sea. but we also have to be guarded about the future as well. i don't think we should expect democracy is naturally going to flower in syria. >> brian: here we go. growing unrest forcing israel to ramp airstrikes in syrians weapon. they had hundreds to try to keep them out of enemy hands. in fact, we had a bunch over the weekend. former trump deputy national security adviser tk mcfarland joins us now. this is gentlemanning for even the most astute person like you of the middle east, hard to know who root for. we know germany and france have now decided to deal with this syrian i guess rebel group that seems to have taken over a great portion of the country, at least the capital. is that a wise move? >> you want to make sure have you got lines of communication open with whoever is in charge. it's not clear who is in charge.

when i worked for henry kissinger in early 1970s, the shadow diplomacy where peace in the middle east between israel and then all the will arab countries around it, jordan, egypt, saudi arabia, you could cut peace deals with them. syrianys also the most difficult. why they have so many tribes, they have christians, various sects of islam, they have some people who are very well educated but they also have some fighters. the they just yesterday named a man prime minister. but that's a chief operating officer. is he not a fighter. is he a technocrat. is he an engineer what happens to the presidency? are they going to have elections strong man elections? biggest fighting force. that's by somebody else. you really don't know. i think that president trump has the right idea wait. see what happens and make some moves. >> brian: looks like this administration is communicating through turkey jolani is the one

giving interviews. in his interview yesterday or it was aired yesterday. he said look, yeah, was i a terrorist? technically extremist? yes. that was me younger. now the guy is wearing a tie. he is saying amnesty for everyone except the officers associated with assad. he is saying that he is open to conversations and dots not want chemical weapons. i'm not naive enough to think that he just had -- you know, he had a conversion, i'm hopeful, and i don't think maybe that country will ever be whole again. they are never really meant to be together it, looks like. you goal alawites and sunni extremists. turks. how do we mash jimmizeed russia's infelines in that area and iran can't use as it a proxy. if that's the objective, how do you do it? >> the way you do it when president trump comes into office he says drill, baby, drill. that has several knock down

effects. the united states will produce oil and natural gas and we can do it cheaper, safer, cleaner, better than anybody else. we will become the world's super power for energy. that means you don't need middle east energy as much. now, what's the knock down effect of that? iran, which stays alive by exporting oil at high prices there, will be sanctions against iran. and prices of even what they can sell will be down. iran won't have the money to support terrorist groups. similarly for russia and ukraine. russia is not going to have the money to support its continued fighting in ukraine. that's the brilliant move is the energy move. because, then you bankrupt the bad guys. >> brian: let's talk about pete hegseth secretary of defense. momentum. wind at his back. one controversy that he has some people aren't comfortable with is his view of women in combat roles in the military. an issue worthy of debate. here's what he said. >> some of our greatest warriors, best warriors out there are woman who serving, raise their right hand to defend this country and love our

nation. want to defend that flag. and they do iter single day around the globe. so, i'm not presuming anything. but after president trump asked me to be his secretary of state, should i get the opportunity to do that, i look forward to being a secretary for all our warriors, men and women for the amazing contributions they make in our military. ultimately president trump's decision about women in combat roles. we know they are in combat rolls with the idf taking the lead off and your thousand. >> i have a daughter didn't commander in the navy reserve. i believe in women in the military; on the other hand, the israelis and the idf they have dealt with women on the front lines and sometimes it's not the best thing maybe it's good and maybe it's not. men will take unnecessary risks and dangerous risks to save a woman in combat that they wouldn't necessarily take to save a man in combat. it's a complicated thing. and i think that president trump will be extremely well equipped to deal with it. he is a man who is very comfortable around strong women. i'm not scared of his

conclusion. steve. >> brian: k.t. issue worthy of debate. things we should be discussing with incoming secretary of defense. not the other stuff. i think it's great we seem to be moving past that k.t. mcfarland, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> brian: next inside the manhunt that led to the arrest of the united healthcare ceo's suspected killer. now an mcdonald's employee helped crack the case. ♪ and all i can think about is all the green i'm spending on 3 kids in college. not to mention the kitchen remodel, and we'd just remodel the bathrooms last month. with empower, i get all of my financial questions answered. so i don't have to worry. so you're like a guru now? oh here it comes— join 18 million americans and take control of your financial future with a real time dashboard and real live conversations. empower. what's next. how are folks 60 and older having fun these days? family cookouts!

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including the boston marathon bombing and says there are striking similarities. former fbi special agent jason pack joins us now. hey, jason. >> good morning, ma'am. happy birthday to lawrence as well. >> ainsley: i will tell him. he is not over there on the curvy couch but i will tell him. >> a lot of cake. >> ainsley: what are the similarities here? the fact that someone in the public really was judge lent and did the right thing? >> that's right, ainsley. i think public information officers across the country, particularly the ones in public safety will tell that you public tips are one of the most under utilized tools in law enforcement toolbox. so there is always a balance of officer safety and protecting the investigation. same thing here. you want to put the photo out but you don't want to jeopardize the officer safety or any aspect of the investigation. so, in boston, the tireless work of all the agents and all the police officers there going through terabytes of information and getting the best possible photo we could and putting that out really just broke the case wide open.

similarly here, you have the person stopping at mcdonald's in altoona to get a big mac and scroll through his phone there for a while and looks up all these things you are seeing on the news. this can't be. is this really? what? he alerts the mcdonald's employee there. what is really important here not only did they recognize the person but they took action and called the police. people i have talked to after these things have wound up and you are saying why did you call? they are like well, i didn't really think that could happen here in altoona. the courage to call really turns the public into some extra eyes and ears for law enforcement, which is really one of the most important things. >> ainsley: don't you agree the cops got a lot of calls. lots of people recognize those bushy eyebrows or recognized his face when he took the mask off. people from penn that he went to school with or went to high school with even family members. >> yes, ma'am. i think. so and that's going to be a hard call if you are looking at the news or information on your phone and you are looking is that really him?

could that really be it? a lot of times people talk themselves out there. no way that can be the person i know. but what he v. learned in law enforcement is expect the uninspected. so, kudos to the employees there at mcdonald's that had the courage to call even if they didn't think it was real. >> ainsley: i agree. jason, what do you think happened? he just snapped because his back pain is chronic. >> that's going to be the hard part because investigators and nypd detectives have the dubious task of putting this together. we have been focused on the manhunt. behind the scenes the folks at the nypd, the detectives there are putting this case together along with prosecutors, and so now they have to be able to prove all these things that we think. clearly, there was some issues there. he was on a continuim it looked like and something usually we'll find out in these things that something happened. there was an incident that caused this overt act to happen and maybe had been building for a while. that will all come out as the facts are uncovered or released at trial. >> ainsley: okay, jason, thanks so much. thank you for serving our

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why do you think can you do that same thing in the garden state? >> well, you know, at early voting action.com, we believe that victory bee gets victory. we just had a slam dunk for the republican party. we have a trifecta. we delivered the white house. senate, house, and, look, for all intents and purposes, one onefourth of pennsylvania's borr joins with new jersey there are a lot of shared values. one thing that we are going to be doing, steve, from the spring and summer, all in 2025 is going to wildwood. that's where philly goes to the beach. let's register voters and get both new jersey and pennsylvania. >> steve: you know, the current governor, phil murphy, who is a democrat, when he ran for re-election in 2021, jack chit raleigh, the republican just, he only lost by 3.2%.

in this deep blue state, the democrat almost lost and it was the same year that governor youngkin down in virginia was able to make some hay. new jersey has really high taxes. and a lot of people -- i live in new jersey. nobody really likes that. so, if you can make some headway there, that's probably going to be one of the topics. >> look at the similarities 2020 in pennsylvania was decided by 80,000 votes. 2021 in new jersey was decided by 84,000 votes. and pa we went after truckers and hunters and amish and veterans. in new jersey we are going to do the same thing. we are going to the farmer's markets and veteran of foreign awars halls. and see us at the beach and courting the trucker vote. i want new jersey folks to know that if every single trump voter that came out in 2024, if you commit to voting on tuesday, november 4th, 2025, you have the power to flip that new jersey governorship from blue to red. and i encourage everyone commit

to vote and go to early vote action.com, sign up with us. and we would love to work with you to make sure that we're turning the tide in the great state of new jersey. >> steve: as you look ahead the next four years donald trump may help you out a lot. he has made a lot of suggestions, things he would like to get done. sounds like is he going to try to do a lot of them in the first 100 days. if people in new jersey and across the country see him making hay, they are going to go, you know what? maybe that side, maybe the red side is the side i should look at. >> well, look at what president trump wants to do on day one. he want to bring back the keystone pipeline. and he wants to make sure that we're cutting the corporate tax so jobs are coming back to america. not going overseas. he wants to make the economy better for working class families. people are really struggling and so, if we are able to put forth this america first agenda, make life easier and more affordable

for american families and if people commit to voting, it is so important, guys, you vote in 2025. you vote in 2026, we could very well win the midterms and you will not only have two years of growth for our country, but president trump will be able to use all four. and so really the most important, the biggest obstacle that republicans have, steve, is complacency and apathy and not voting. commit to vote on tuesday november 4th, 2025, and we will win new jersey. >> steve: all right, scott presler the founder of early vote action. scott, thank you very much for joining us today. good luck. >> oh, what an honor. thank you, steve. >> steve: great to have you. >> thank you, sir. >> steve: we are stepping away on this tuesday, more "fox & friends" after a brief time-out ♪ do you hear what i hear ♪ a song, a song ♪ high above the trees ♪ with a voice as big as the sea

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