♪ >> ainsley: good morning to you and your family. 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. it's monday, january 13th, this is "fox & friends." we start with a fox news alert. right now fire crews in los angeles race to contain three out-of-control wildfires as we learn 24 people have died: the incoming administration vowing their commitment to california. >> president trump is committed to doing a better job when it comes to disaster relief. that's true for the hurricane victims and flood victims in north carolina. it's true for the fire victims in california. >> lawrence: plus outgoing fbi director christopher wray shares this stark world view -- i'm sorry stark world stage warning. >> the peoples republic of china, the chinese government, which i consider to be the defining threat of our generation. >> brian: okay. and the internet goes wild over

one nfl player reading on the sidelines during the playoffs. they won by the way the eagles did. second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. put your books down. we will take it from here. >> all right. it is 7:01 and we begin with this fox news alert. at least 24 people are dead, and more than a dozen others are reported missing as those historic wildfires wreak havoc across los angeles county. over 12,000 homes and businesses have been destroyed. >> brian: officials fear it could get worse as stronger winds are expected to return today. more than 40,000 acres already burned. including more than 23 hours from the largest fire, the palisades fire, which is still only 13% contained. and 75% of all structures are gone. >> lawrence: so today the los angeles unified school district is set to reopen most of its schools as governor gavin newsom signs an executive order centered on rebuilding.

>> you passing the blame on to other people? >> how could it be when we are doing an independent investigation. >> does the buck stop with you. >> i mean, you're governor of california, it might as well be the mayor of california. we are all in this together. we are better off when we are all better off. and we are all better off when we are working together to take care of people. >> lawrence: griff jenkins joins us live from malibu. hey, griff. >> good morning, brian, lawrence and ainsley. they are bracing here in southern california that death toll at 24. tragically they expect it could indeed rise again. we are that n. malibu. let me just show you around at the destruction. we are looking at you can see a luxury g wagon burned out. structures in the background just for miles and miles of the iconic pacific coast highway. it is charred destruction. homes, businesses, wiped out. road crews working around the clock to try and clear some of the debris that will take certainly weeks, it not months,

maybe even years to get back to it this is because this palisades fire came over the hills and burned everything in its path until it met the pacific ocean. let's talk about the threat right now. they are bracing because of the high wind warning coming. and you mentioned the containment, the two major fires, palisades 1% contained. the eaton fire 27% contained. but the national weather service issuing a pds, a particularly dangerous situation. what's that? it is red flag warnings in that pds alert is the highest level alert that the agency is capable of issuing intended to invoke the highest level of urgency to people. because, as the fire firefighters are working around the clock in the ground and the air in places like mannedville canyon where the brush fires have spread and threatening densely populated areas like brent wood where they could see more fires popping up because of these embers that are burning all across some of the

destructive areas and the new fires. this is a little bit of what the l.a. fire department captain eric scott had to say about the dangers ahead. >> it's still active. and it's so dry because of these winds, that the brush or fuel, if an ember lands on it has a 65% of ignition. so we are chasing fires. so, we're getting punched and hit and punched and hit and it's challenging for firefighters. that's why we are so thankful that we have a huge amount coming from all over the place. >> griff: while the winds won't be the 100 mile-per-hour winds. it could be gusts up to 70. and it's meeting low humidity levels from 8 to 15% which is a recipe for disaster. now, back out here. where we are. let me just tell you one thing that we just did in the last few minutes where we about a mile up the road. in the destruction. ryan o'neil, the famous actor's daughter confirming on social

media that the home that he and fare faucet who many people our age, brian, will remember, ryan o'neil, farrah fawcett's home you can see what is left. nothing but rubble. a $3 million gorgeous home looked out over the ocean. now gone. just one of thousands that were lost in all of this. finally, let me just add that when we interviewed captain scott, he talked about the dangers ahead. i asked him how the firefighters were doing. he said they're exhausted but they will continue to work around the clock to try and save lives, homes, businesses and whatever they have to do. we expect a press conference by the way at 8:00 a.m. today from l.a.'s mayor ka karen bass to se what she has to say what updates we can get, guys? >> brian: what i'm reading a lot of anger towards karen bass. you heard a lot of that, too? a lot of backlash on her, going to guana, not having a plan. cutting the budget. her fire chief comes out not to

cut the budget left us vulnerable. i mean have you heard a lot of support for her? >> >> there is certainly a lookout of finger pointing and we heard, brian, mayor bass say at a press conference a day ago this isn't the time for finger pointing but you point to obvious things like the $17 million budget cut, i asked captain scott listen is there going to be monday morning quarterbacking about additional resources needed after this and how you will address it? he said absolutely we will be doing that he said by the way, look, we are fighting with what we had. but from would have been a thousand more fire engines, they still probably couldn't have stopped what happened. but the political storm is separate from the actual weather storm and that is going to be playing out here in southern california for sure for a long time to come thank you so much. eaton fire 16 people died.

pal said 8 people died. john and jay does because they don't know who they are yet. 39 accused looting and a man accused of arson. the man caught with the blow torch and ice is saying he was illegal immigrant from mexico. and then i read a report that one person saw someone sitting on the ground, a fighter, and they thought maybe the fighter needed help and went up closer and realized the fighter was being arrested. not a real fighter. it was someone trying to loot a neighborhood dressed as a firefighter. >> lawrence: created an environment in california allows people to steal. we know what is happening in the stores. why a lot of them have been shut down when you go to gavin newsom and karen bass some of the perspective they provided the coverage of them have been political. but when you look at california look at los angeles one party rule. the people upset are the liberals in the town that said

that their leaders have not been there to support them and then plan ahead witnessing the destruction not saying they caused it but measures weren't put in place for preechings for this hang. >> brian: 100 percent of the fire fighting costs picked up for the next 180 days. joe biden promised that the question is you notice that president trump and gavin newsom have been sparring on social media and on camera ever since. i think president trump is being invited to come out i don't know what the next step is, his vice president says is he committed to helping. >> president visit california. our hearts gone out to everybody affected by the storm. i have seen videos of people where folks have lived in those homes for 25, 30, 35 years and everything is gone and whatever your political affiliation it's hard to see those images and not be heart broken for americans going through a tough time.

i do think frankly the federal government has to do a better job. president trump committed to doing a better job when it comes to disaster leaf. true to hurricane and flood victims in north carolina. and true for the fire victims in california governor has distanced himself queen of england bad what governor sununu told me saturday night when it comes to the actual fire, it's up to people to perform locally. what you do as governor is have you table top exercises to say what about this scenario and what about this scenario. if you say there is an earthquake in california that caught you by surprise or a wildfire in california caught you by surprise you are not paying attention to what is indigenous to california. >> i talked to a lady yesterday down in florida. she said there was some sort of meeting for the red cross down in palm beach i was asking her about the red cross when i covered red cross was always there and providing blankets and

food and shelter for the families that were displaced and she said we are agnostic organization. we are there to help, it's not political at all. we just want to help individuals when they are in their time of need. so fox corporation has donated $1 million to red cross' california relief effort. shelter, hot meals, emotional support and other aid resources. >> brian: donate to the red cross at go./red cross or scanning qr code right now if you hold it up to the tv. all right. today president biden set to deliver his final foreign policy address as president. he is doing it at the state department. >> ainsley: it comes as we learn he has been speaking with families of americans currently held hostage by the taliban. >> >> lawrence: senior white house correspondent peter doocy joins us with the latest. good morning, peter. >> peter: good morning. president biden has two farewell addresses this week. one today is going to be focused on foreign policy and we have an ear out to to see how exactly is

he going to explain what he did why did he things three years ago with the withdrawal. americans didn't have a problem with the pulling out they have a problem with the way he did it. >> do you feel personally responsible for the failures in the withdrawal. >> i think the entire team the entire national security team has a responsibility for everything in our national security and that includes me as the national security adviser. i also believe that the strategic call president biden made, looking back for years, history has judged well and continue to judge well from the point of view that if we were still in afghanistan today americans would be fighting and dying. russia would have more leverage over us. we would be less able to respond to the major strategic challenges we face 13 american service members were killed in kabul during the hurried withdrawal. added to the list of foreign policy cv that also includes

waiving sanctions on a putin pipeline in europe. letting a chinese spy craft crisscross the whole country before shooting it down and missing hamas' build up on the israeli border ahead of the october 7th terrorist attack. the administration's final days, the president's team is trying to free a handful of americans still held by the taliban in afghanistan. we are going to hear from the wife of one hostage, ryan corbett later on in "fox & friends." she went right on down to palm beach after i asked the president-elect on thursday whether or not the biden administration should trade her husband and a few other americans for an al-qaeda terrorist held right now in guantanamo bay. the president-elect told me then he was thinking about it. back to you. >> brian: all right. thanks, peter. just amazing because that's the worst of the worst. this guy was -- the guy they are talking about swapping him for was ubl's main security guy as late as 2016 spouting out

al-qaeda doctrine. was that the last time he was seen publicly. we are, just so you know, to get americans out. we are putting a terrorist who is a terrorist back in terrorism university. back in afghanistan. where jake sullivan says we did a great thing leaving. >> lawrence: he used the abbreviation, talking about the connection to usama bin laden. we know back in usama bin laden days, when they releasing folks they went back to the battlefield. >> brian: taliban five. lawrence do we want to do the same thing all over again? that's going to be something the president-elect is going to have to weigh in. >> ainsley: j.d. vance interviewed talking about the hostages in gaza. he says there will be a deal struck for some release of some of the hostages. they are trying to work out some sort of a deal over the next few days that could happen this week? >> brian: over in doha meeting right now steve witkoff back and forth with bill mcguirk trying to get there make sure hamas is wind out. netanyahu talked to president

biden yesterday and at which time he says i need a cease-fire stay out of rafah. enough done, don't go in and now you see when you ignore joe biden how much better you do so my sense is joe biden has very little sway also previewed biden wants speech we will hear today. listen to this is he going to ask the question is america stronger than we were four years ago and is he going to answer that question with a definitive yes our alliances are stronger. enemies are weaker. we kept the nation out of war. every element of american power is stronger today. if you look around the world at every other significant country they are looking at the united states in 2025 and saying damn, i wish we were in their position. >> lawrence: go talk to your director of national intelligence go talk to the fbi. enemies are not weaker. they're on the surge. just had a terrorist attack about someone, who was an

american citizen. he was inspired by isis i don't understand how can you make that statement what we are witnessen the world stage iran is in power number one state sponsor of terror. we see what is happening in ukraine and russia we see what hamas did in israel we would you want to take a we know so they are here no axis of evil. new relationship with returning. put their troops in to fight. >> china and russia they say every single day how great their relationship is and iran as well. 15 minutes after the hour. christopher wray sat down in interview with "60 minutes." at which time he wanted to make abundantly clear our number one enemy is china through cyberattacks they have embedded in all our infrastructure from water and power to our dams this

is incredible that he says it and didn't stop it greatest long term threat peoples republic of china, chinese government, which i consider to be the defining threat of our generation china's cyber program is by far and away the world's largest. bigger than that of every major nation combined and stolen more of america's personal and corporate data than every nation big or small combined but even beyond the cyber theft there is another part of the cyber threat that has not gotten the attention, publicly that i think it desperately deserves. that is chinese government's prepositioning on american civilian critical infrastructure to lie in wait in a position to

wreak havoc and infacilitating real world harm at a time and place of their choosing. >> i'm thought shocked that he outlined the threat. we have been talking about the threat of china for a while what surprises me is there hasn't been a real push push from the department to go after china. us as a nation hasn't talked about that at least in the last four years that threat they are stealing personal information and corporate information he talked about the investigation largest ever conducted and he was obviously over the fbi at the time. and j.d. vance's interview this weekend saying what are you going to do about the january 6th, the rioters? and 1500 of them and donald trump has vowed to pardon all of them he said if you peacefully protested you will be pardoned. i think they should be pardoned. >> one who committed violence and beat up cops, that's a

different story. they have infiltrated into our infrastructure and colleges. tiktok infiltrated our news. so at one point we got to get them worried about us. so we have to show them what we are capable of, embed in their infrastructure and let them know this is not okay so far zero pushback except from speeches former vice president now president talked about how well he has known known president xi. >> lawrence: pushback when he called it a china virus. you can't say anything do that. they say it didn't come from a lab as well. that according to the reports out there and more investigation it seems likely now. so, glad we are going to shift back on the real focus with them. >> brian: carley shimkus you have the other breaking news. >> carley: start with a fox news alert. three police officers are hurt and a man is dead after a

shooting in the northeast section of washington, d.c. this morning. all three officers were taken to nearby hospitals and are, quote conscious and breathing. the investigation into what happened here is ongoing. vice president ele ej.d. vance telling fox news shannon bream yesterday he thinks the u.s. can make a deal with greenland. >> greenland is really important for america strategically and has a lot of great natural resources. my friend donald trump jr. was there a couple days ago. do you know what he told them? they want to be empowered to develop. i think actually there is a real opportunity here for us to take leadership, to protect america's security, to ensure that those incredible natural resources are developed and that's what donald trump is good at. is he good at making deals. i think there is a deal to be made in greenland. >> carley: denmark is sending president-elect trump's team private messages about meeting to discuss increasing u.s. military presence on the island.

and with one week until donald trump's presidential inauguration, incoming first lady melania trump sat down with ainsley to explain how she will continue her be best campaign over the next four years. >> >> ainsley: and will you continue with your platform be best? >> i will continue with be best and also i will expand be best. i started the first -- in the first administration i didn't have much support from anyone i invited all of the streaming streaming platforms to the white house. hit round table. and i didn't have much support from them and imagine what we could do in those years if they will rally behind me and teach the children and do -- protect them about the social media and their mental health. >> carley: such as therein

discussion wild card weekend in the nfl. commanders taking down the buccaneers last night thanks to this lucky bounce the washington commanders and it is in! to the way to the divisional round. unbelievable! >> carley: commanders win 23-20 to advance to the next week. dominating the denver broncos. host the baltimore ravens in next week's divisional round. and the philadelphia eagles moving onto the divisional round after beating the green bay packers 22-10 yesterday but the moment everyone is talking about a.j. brown caught reading a motivational book sidelines during the game. only finished the game with one catch. afterwards told reporters he brings the book inner excellence by jim murphy with him to every

game. guys, he was trying to motivate himself. what is so bad about that? >> brian: i would get the book on tape during the game that book is going to sell through the roof. >> carley: i googled it do i need this book? am i excellent on the inside? >> brian: finished it before the game. honors lawrence it's different not not used to it. some people listen to music on the sideline to keep calm. why not read? >> ainsley: i thought maybe it was a playbook but no it's a motivational book. >> brian: good job jim murphy. i would go anthony robbins but i didn't go pro. >> ainsley: did you in your own way. ♪

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california, yet again today. no rain, that is the setup. no rain in the forecast and we haven't seen rain for months. the dryest on record. and then we have that setup of those incredible winds going through the valleys and canyons, drying those winds out and the fuel of all of that dry brush is just going to cause more problems. so, 13% containment for the palisades. 27% containment for eaton. but still burning out of control and this is the worst news for firefighters, really trying to get a handle on this. fire weather warning for southern california. the particularly dangerous situation for the areas that are currently burning on fire. not going to make much to spread or ignite more wildfires, unfortunately, wind alerts again, wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour through wednesday. so the worst of it really coming this afternoon, overnight today needn't tuesday and wednesday with wind gusts anywhere from 30, 40, 50, 60 miles per hour is just going to be unbelievably bad news for all of the firefighters, responders, we

have extreme fire danger again today and tomorrow through wednesday. i wish i had better news but, brian, you know, hopefully the word is spreading. word is getting out, if you are asked to evacuate, you must do so. back to you. >> brian: all right, thanks so much. already the fires have consumed more than 62 square miles destroying over 12,000 buildings, that includes the home of our next guest jake steinfeld body by jake mayor of pacific palisades honorary mayor. working with governor schwarz energy in the fitness in california you knew your chances were stlam your house would survive. what happened? great to be here. a friend of "fox & friends" since the year 2,000. have you always been great to me. the audience is awesome. i'm sitting here today not for a pity party that i lost my home. it's incredible. so surreal. i can't tell you -- i'm so thankful for my wife tracy my

daughter flew in from london for my wife's birthday on friday, a surprise. it's been unbelievably surreal. that's just the word, but to say and to hear what i'm hearing unconscionable. this is not about red or blue. as you know me, this is about the red, white, and blue. this is why i'm very excited about this new administration coming in. where guys like president trump are going to take action. boots on the ground. we can't have this again. we don't live in a third world country. to say understand that whereby whether water was depleted, there was no power to get the water outside out of the hoses the first responders, the fire department men and women in service i take my caps off to them. supreme have responded.

there has been hurricanes and all kinds of catastrophes that we have all lived through i'm one of them now living through it. it's not about the celebrities. there are so many folks who have lost their homes in the palisades next dreafer we are prepared as a state as a nation. great state gorgeous state. we need great leadership. i just want to say brian, i have known you, you know, doocy and the gang for so long. and the audience for so long. it really is -- for me, this is a grand new shirt that i bought yesterday, i have no clothes. when is the last time you really had nothing? and i'm talking to everybody for

a second vergize sitting in your nice house right now and we all have something. we deal with something every single day but that something is taken away. it's unbelievable but i will tell you this. two ways can you go. you can curl up in a corner and die or you can say to yourself don't quit. the sun will come up tomorrow because it's coming up right now on the west coast and you need to understand. people come up to me and say jake, can you give us some inspiration. some sense of hope. and he is get back to a routine get back to your routine. i was up this morning. get into the gym. get your body moving. mental health is so important right now. it's the most important thing. but we want to see transparency. with insurance companies. tell us about this. >> you expressed to me agonizing to see governor and mayor not on the same page.

you have a message for the president. >> i know the president watches your show and i know want to say look, president trump, two guys from the neighborhood, i'm going to invite you to the palisades and let's walk the neighborhood. let's talk a walk in the neighborhood. meet the people, shake the hands. i think people will be very excited. and very optimistic and know that something is going to get done. this is not the red or the blue. this is about the red, white, and blue. and i'm confident that when we take that nice walk we have a lot to talk about with two business guys and we can make change because we're going to rebuild. the palisades is going to rebuild. i want to make sure that this next catastrophe, wherever it may be, is not going to be what we have gone through here. this is not about, you know, like i said, i'm not -- i lost my home. it's the strangest thing to even

talk about. but, we are going to rebuild. and with the faith that i have and the understanding, friends like my friend tim robertson the son of the late great pat robertsson leaves messages of bible ve verses to us me and my wife tracy. it's been amazing outpouring of friends. amazing to see the kind of people that do come out and really want to help. and that's been great. the challenges though, you have real estate people, people looking for homes. it's been insane. prices are being jacked up. mr. president, let's do this. come on out. we take a walk in the neighborhood. and i guarantee you things are going to get done. >> brian: future secretary of the interior doug burgum feign i should do it.

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♪ >> brian: all right. we are one week away from president-elect trump's inauguration and senate hearings for his cabinet nominees start tomorrow. madeleine rivera is in washington. hey, maddy. >> good morning, brian. there is a chance some of these hearings can contentious. senate democrats say this is the first time to hold the nominees accountable for trump's agenda. former congressman doug collins choice to head veterans affairs up first tomorrow morning. then comes defense secretary nominee pete hegseth appearing before the armed services

committee. democrats will likely question hegseth about the financial mismanagement and sexual assault allegations against him. hegseth has denied any wrongdoing and he has not been charged with a crime. on wednesday, homeland security secretary nominee kristi noem, attorney general nominee pam bondi, secretary of state nominee marco rubio and cia director john ratcliffe are all set to appear for hearings. dates have yet to be set for trump's other choices like director of national intelligence nominee tulsi gabbard, health and human services secretary nominee robert f. kennedy jr. and fbi director nominee kash patel. trump's team wants the senate to move quickly on his nominees, the confirmation process test how well republicans can stick together. lawrence? >> lawrence: thanks, maddie. >> a suspect has been arrested for stabbing and killing a 14-year-old boy in the bronx while he was standing on the sidewalk. the nypd says that the suspect is a career criminal accused of slashing another bystander just days ago. here to react is founder of blue lives matter new york city

joseph imat the trees. imimperatrice. it only escalates with the crimes that they do. >> lawrence every day talking about someone stabbed, shot, thrown in front of a train, lit on fire. i want to know where the local politicians. where is the governor going out there and changing. the 14-year-old called his father stabbed after he was stabbed. what father or parent should ever are have to deal with this. every single day something else is happening when the world is saying there is something wrong here. let's fix the problem and finally get it done the right way. >> lawrence: we know what to do. mayor adams was asked about the safety of new yorkers. specifically on the subway. this is what he had to say. >> in the last few weeks, we have seen random acts of violence that have shaken many new yorkers. we're starting by adding hundreds of new police officers into our subway system later this month. and get in our offices out on patrol to tackle crime wherever

it occurs. but it also means continue to make the smart, upstream investment that prevent crime in the first place. that includes mediators who resolve conflicts on the street before they escalate into violence and programs that give young people a place to play sports and build trust with law enforcement. >> lawrence: the problem is in law enforcement when you guys arrest them though, the das are not doing their job, especially here in management. >> let's get something straight. law enforcement officers everywhere are doing their job to the best of their ability my opinion we need to hold doctors and hospitals. see who signed off on it. hold them accountable. next time someone gets lit on fire thrown in front of a train. hold that doctor accountable. guarantee a lot less people with enmental illness on the streets. >> lawrence: election real soon in this city. what do you think the city needs right now from leadership? >> plain honesty. they want to see genuineness.

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>> today, president biden is set to deliver his final foreign policy address, one week before president-elect donald trump is sworn in. while biden tries to define his legacy one family, there's their picture. is fighting to bring home an american hostage being held by the taliban. ryan corbett has been trapped in afghanistan since 2022. but his family hasn't heard anything from joe biden until just yesterday. ryan's wife anna corbett joins us now exclusively after that conversation with president biden. thanks so much for joining us, anna. >> thank you for having me. >> you're welcome. i can't imagine what you are going through. i know that you have made 16 trips to washington, d.c. speaker johnson invited you and

your three children to the state of the union address and you were there. you helped pass two resolutions, hopefully to bring ryan home. but you just heard from president biden yesterday. despite your efforts. have you been trying to get in touch with him for a long time. right? >> that's correct. been asking for a meeting. told promised i would meet with him directly and just on friday i was given the news that i would have a short call with him and that happened yesterday. >> ainsley: what was that conversation like? >> he was very kind and empathetic. but what i heard him say is that he is not bringing ryan home. and that was absolutely devastating because, as you just said, i have been advocating fiercely on ryan's behalf, on my family's behalf. ryan just keeps missing milestones. and teaching how to hunt. shot his first buck last year without ryan.

and voted prom queen without ryan. s at the is i graduated from high school without ryan. and it is getting too long and to hear after all this effort that there is a deal on the table. there is a way to bring ryan home, and it's not being taken. is incredibly crushing tour ofamily. >> ainsley: anna, there were reports that if y surfaced lastk to trade three hostages one of the get inmates at gitmo. you camped out in front of mauller and donald trump got word that you were there. what happened next? >> >> i have been down here for a couple days and i had heard from several that president trump is concerned about our family. he knows that we are down here. he knows about our situation and is very concerned. and amazingly.

yesterday, he sent his incoming national security adviser to meet with me? where i was. and incoming national security adviser mike waltz listening to our story and hearing about the situation. it was just mind blowing because it took 16 months to actually get a meeting where i traveled to meet with the current national security adviser jake sullivan. and this shows that president trump is very concerned. wanting to prioritize our family. i know he is tough. he want to make deals i am extremely encouraged and the contrast of my experience is just mind-blowing right now. >> i want to hear ryan's story. are you getting the feeling that he this bring him home during this administration? >> i absolutely believe they will bring ryan home.

the details, of course, are unclear. this is complicated and i'm not an expert in any of this. it's very clear that the incoming administration caress about bringing u.s. citizens back to their country and caring about ryan and george also held with him who have done nothing wrong designated wrongfully detained and accused of nothing. they deserve to be in their own country. ryan is a patriot. >> ainsley: tell me ryan's story. i know he was there on 12 month visa. returning there to help train the staff of a business that he started there in afghanistan in 2017 he and a co-worker from germany both captured? what happened to him and how is he doing? have you gotten word? >> that's correct. so he has been held now for 886 days. we lived in afghanistan as a family. loved the people. and had to evacuate when the taliban took over. but ryan kept his business open and that's why he afghanistan.

we have had contact about every two weeks, short calls. and it's very difficult because his conditions are not livable. he is physically declining. he told me on a call that i would not recognize him. and i spoke with him yesterday. he called us at 5:30. i never know exactly when he will call and to be woken up by this type of call i never know what is he going to say and he was extremely frustrated. that he is still being held and he wants to come home and be with his family. he is an amazing dad. he said i feel bad for all that. of course everything i can i am a mom. this is what moms do. and i want my children to have their dad back to be part of their lives. >> ainsley: everyone watching say a prayer we can bring ryan

home safely father and husband. clearly amazing wife. keep fighting. thank you so much, anna. >> thank you. >> ainsley: more "fox & friends" straight ahead. ♪ is

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