they are so lost in terms of leadership class. harris, i hope she will run for president because maybe sheba won't come bacckk and be my governor. everybody knows a terrible campaign and she will run raa terrible one again. she has so far out in front of the democrat party that pulling no one's close and that will be a disaster because she does not improve, she is not that sharp. thsadly, i think they will talk her into coming back here and wa will be stuck with her. >> laura: please come back, we missed the word salads. l alex, thank you as always. if you like what you sawik my tp to gitmo with pete hegseth, there is more inside look at gitmo, guantanamo bay is available now on fox nation n so check it out. follow me on social media, instagram blowing up and it's all >> todd: historic day at the white house with the trump

administrations hosting first ever crypto summit to push the american economy into the digital age. >> carley: today would-be trump aassassin who stocked the president at his golf club is in court while trufrm trump demands answers. >> todd: and the nation's highest honor, now other veterans are stepping in to help him, that hero and one man trying to make this happen will join us. you do not want to miss that story. you are watching "fox and friends" on friday morning, i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus. a lot going on today, start with madeleine rivera with the history-making summit at thes white house. >> madeleine: president trump promised to make the united states crypto currency of the world. today's crypto summit is aimed at taxation policy and expected to be debate around the

president's executive order establishing a strategic bitcoin reserve. under the eo, the u.s. will hold 200,000 bitcount seized in proceedings and authorization rises full accounting of federal accounting digital asset holding. crypto czar says the u.s. will not sell any bitcount deposited, it will be kept as store of value like digital fortknox, for what is called digital gold. president creates crypto reserve, there are reports the president will move forward to dismantle the education department. here is the president talking about this possibility. >> president trump: we're starting the process to get schools back into the states. let states run the schools. it will blow your mind, it will be run so well. the school system. i believe in school choice, that will take care of itself.

>> madeleine: the president held a meeting with cabinet secretaries, elon musk was in the room. the president told cabinet members they are in charge of staff reduction, not musk. >> president trump: cabinet members keep good people, i don't see where good people are cut. that is precious and important. >> madeleine: that remark comes as musk faces skrucrutiny over position at doge. >> todd: and maybe cutting entire department, education secretary linda mcmahon will join "fox and friends" later this morning. >> carley: with that, breng in former white house chief information officer, teresa payton. on this meeting the president had yesterday, maccauleyed in cabinet members and elon musk, headlines say donald trump is

reigning in and taking power away, limiting elon musk's authority. some people might read the headlines and think trouble in paradise. do you view it that way or view donald trump verifying chain of command? >> it is definitely donald trump defining the chain of command. also, this is not uncommon to see when you have major trans formation underway, major changes, jobs impacted, looking at budgets. you see this in corporate america all the time. sometimes there is perception you don't have executive order team getting along. i don't see any sunlight between what they are trying to accomplish. this may be around decision and something the white house will do and federal departments called delegated authority and responsibilities. some might have been purely clarification. >> todd: is this really even

that big of a change, or is it simply adding a layer of efficiency to a doge? >> i think you are spot on right there. it is one of those things, when you go through major trans formation to who leadership is, changing people's titles, there are questions, what decisions can i make, what decisions should i not make, how does authority and approval process work. this sounds like clarification to me. >> carley: concerning story involving national security. active duty u.s. army sergeant charged with repeatedly selling sensitive secrets to co-conspirators working on behalf of china. federal prosecutors say he was attempting to sell encrypted

computer and hard drives and two other arrests were made accusing of trying to sell sensitive information. pam bondi released this statement saying the defendants are accused of betraying our country, working toeck waen america's defense capabilities and empower ing china. they will face swift and severe justice. china's embassy just posted on x, if war is what the u.s. wants, tariff war, trade war or any type of war, we are ready to fight until the end. >> yeah, this is very concerning and i'm saddened to hear this about our u.s. soldiers. so many are patriotic, they put themselves in harm's way. this is unfortunate, we'll have to see as the investigation continues. i do know selling of trade

secrets and conspiring with other actors that should not have this information, this happened prior to the trump administration, this happens in every administration. people get turned. what i do know, all federal employees and u.s. military who have access to clearance and access to classified information, they go through regular training. they know what being targeted by someone looks like and know process and protocol for reporting they have been targeted. i remind everyone in u.s. military and federal government, if you are targeted, understand they are scamming you and targeting you on linkedin and other social media platforms and remember your training and your protocol and i believe that most of americans in these tough situations will do the right

thing and turn it in. it is unfortunate to hear about these soldiers. >> todd: it happens in every administration. foreign adversaries learn about layoffs, they are trying to target these individuals because people need to put food on the table. honor to your country or paying your bills and you mentioned procedure and policy in place for this moment. we'll be watching. thank you. >> carley: thank you. president trump suspending 25% tariff on mexico and canada. president trump discussed decision to pause tariffs with mexico's president. >> president trump: i spoke to the president of mexico, wonderful woman today. we helped them out with a problem having to do with

short-term tariffs and had a good conversation. we discussed drugs and they have been working much harder lately on people coming in and drugs. we made tremendous progress on both. >> carley: the pause is not permanent. it will last until april 2, when the president will begin resip roc rock reciprocal taxes. >> todd: not all winners, exploding into a plume of smoke after takeoff, marking second failure for the rocket this year. starship is being developed for nasa artemis program. the ship's upper stage made it to space and started spinning uncontrollably sending debris plummeting down over the atlantic. faa saying some flights in florida had to be grounded, no

diversions necessary. we worry about the skies, if you have space debris, planes can't hit them. >> carley: the booster was -- debris was not a win. did i get it right? >> todd: i believe so, this is process of figuring out space exploration and if humans are on there, that doesn't happen. disturbing text messages revealed from the night four idaho college students were murdered. >> carley: we'll break down the evidence with a former prosecutor coming up next.

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court this morning. >> todd: chanley painter has more. >> chanley: routh will be in court today for a status hearing. we expect prosecution and defense to argue over scheduling and discovery matters. prosecutors claim defense has not provided single item it expects to use in the case at trial, which prosecutors need to move forward and prepare motion before trial. routh's defense team responded. defense is not required to produce any defense. the 59-year-old convicted felon is accused of lying in wake for 12 hours on perimeter of trump international golf club in west palm beach with the hope of assassinating trump in september. trump had just survived a

previous assassination attempt two months earlier in butler, pennsylvania. yesterday the president told reporters he would be willing to release reports on both assassination attempts. >> president trump: i want to find answers. when you have three absent, two are foreign, and you had an fbi that be wouldn't report on it, they did not want to say why. i would say that could be s suspicious. second one had six cell phones. i want to find out and i'd be willing to release it. maybe there is reason we shouldn't, i don't want to get too far ahead of my skis. i would be willing to release that. >> chanley: ryan routh's trial is set for september, it could change after today's hearing. >> carley: thank you. trump administration restarted policy of detaining families that have deportation orders.

families with children whose cases have gone through immigration court and have been ordered removed. chris chris olivarez joins me now. how significant is this news regarding deportation of families? >> it will be big news, it will be a deterrent and dissolve that factor where you have families and unaccompanied children make their way to the border. in texas, a problem we were facing we come across large groups of families and unaccompanied children, we never knew for certain these were families that belonged together. if the families belong with who they were coming across the border. that was one of the biggest problems we were seeing. previous administration ended the dna testing, no way to prove the child belonged to who was in

possession of them. this will send a message to anyone thinking about coming across the border as family or with children, they have to have proof and go to a port of entry, it will be beneficial. >> carley: you know critics are going to say president trump is deporting families with children, he's heartless, what would you say? >> i think there is no winning for anyone criticizing. they are criticizing deporting anybody and children themselves. look at family separation that took place and i witnessed it myself. i come across unaccompanied chi children, as young as two years old. no help by anybody. open-border activists were not on the front line taking care of the children, we were. it will be a challenge.

we have to get children back to their families. if they do not have legitimate asylum claim, they have to go back there your honor ko. >> carley: department of homeland security posted thanks to strong leadership of president trump and secretary kristi noem border crossings plummeted 94%. the border is closed to lawbreakers. lawbreakers are trying and smugglers are painting their trucks to look like border patrol vehicles. how big of an issue is this? >> a big issue. let me go back to historic decrease in illegal border crossings, we know for a fact now and known over the years we do not need new legislation or new laws to stop the border crisis we were facing. all we needed was leadership that would follow the rule of law and that is what we have now. you see historic decline in

border crossings, averaging between 200 to 300 per day and years prior to that, dealing with thousands. going back to your question, cloned vehicles that are used as smuggling methods, we've seen this over the years, cartels adapt to changes in policy or presence of law enforcement, we're seeing that now. numbers are low, you have those that want to sneak into the country and we're seeing concealments with cloned law enforcement vehicles, one thing to keep an eye on and monitor. we have people still trying to sneak into this country undetected. >> carley: the president said democrats said we need legislation to crack down on the border, turns out all you need is a new president. thatt that explains that 94% drop. thank you for explaining the

situation. we appreciate it. check the weather, senior meteorologist janice dean is here with fox weather forecast. >> janice: my husband just texted me and said the wind woke me up. >> carley: all the weather report we need. >> janice: it might be waking people up. wind gusts 38 mile per hour. 50 mile per hour winds in bos, that will continue throughout the morning into the afternoon and by the weekend, better conditions. 50 to 60 mile per hour winds will wake people up and could cause power outages and d disruption in air travel. things will calm down a little bit. we have potential for wintry weather for southwest mountains over midwest, great lakes and

ohio valley. next storm system poised to move west. otherwise no major storms until next week and we could see another severe weather outbreak. it is daylight saving time on sunday, i know, this is the one we lose the hour, it is fall back spring ahead, that is how you remember it. a lot of leaders want to get rid of this. what are your thoughts? arizona and hawaii do not observe daylight saving. >> carley: president trump said it is a 50/50 issue. i don't care, just keep it one way consistently. >> todd: i may go full on joy behar attacking the president on this, make it happen, trump, this is a plea. >> janice: good luck with that. >> todd: i'll go to the oval

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murdered. surviving roommate telling another roommate victims were not responding. i'm not kidding, i'm freaked out. my phone is going to die. come to my room. run down here. constitutional law attorney and former prosecutor joins me now. how will a depend prosecutor use this text message evidence? >> this case, even though it is a circumstantial case is strong circumstantial case for prosecution from what we've seen so far. these text messages are going to be used to further kcorroborate timeline and idea that somebody was in the house and that there were witnesses that either saw or suspected someone in the home c con

consistent with this defendant. >> todd: what we know about the timeline now based upon evidence from court so far. suspect arrives house 4 a.m. between 4 and 4:17. survivors begin texting and calling the victims. 11:39 the roommate calls her father. a lot has been made of the fact two surviving roommates were able to go to sleep or did not do anything in that huge block of time. what possible argument could the defense make in light of the text messages to keep them ex excluded from evidence? >> these are hearsay statements, prosecution will have to establish they meet an exception to the hear-say rule, which say out of court statements can't be brought into trial. they are excited utrans, happen

in the heat of a moment or someone talking about something they are experiencing at that time. the defense could use text messages to sow doubt about what did happen in that house, why did the roommates go back to sleep? any defense attorney will look for any place to circumstance ow reasonable doubt and make them question the prosecution theory it was certainly happening on particular timeline or there may not be questions about who was there and why roommates did not act sooner. >> todd: another case captivating attention two suspects in death of three kansas stee chiefs fans pled not guilty to involun ttary manslaughter. isn't this textbook involun tar manslaughter, causing death of another by supplying them tainted illegal drugs?

>> interesting case, and the defendants have pled not guilty. there is some suggestion maybe they did not necessarily establish the drugs were sold by the defendant or knew they may have contained fentanyl, which i believe was primary cause of death and defendants did not realize the friends were still on the property. it is not necessarily a shoe-in for prosecution, it is seemingly reckless conduct, that will have to be established beyond a reasonable doubt. >> todd: chain of custody in this case. thank you. democrats missing the mark yet again with another cringy, that is the face we all made, cringy online video, this time paying homage to fighting video games telling americans to choose your fighter. ♪

♪ >> carley: white houses voters already chose. ♪ ♪ >> carley: fox news contributor joe concha joins us now. that is definition of election, right? choose your fighting team. share with the class your thoughts on this? >> joe: november 5, yeah, popular vote, every swing state donald trump wins, 89% of counties went more red than blue. that is a mandate right there. i think social media is killing the democratic party. dana perino had a great line yesterday, she said democrats are listening more to c consultants than constituents. they are going ahead with these videos and same reaction, this

can't be real. they agreed to do this. they are listening to woke staffers. this is worst week democrats had, on monday voted on a bill to keep men -- and then their behavior at the joint session of congress, it was so pet lent, pet lens so pure, you could crush it up and smort it. state of the unions are usually forgotten the next day, in this case, this has a lasting effect. >> carley: we are not condoning drugs. >> todd: you mentioned disaster and you mentioned what happened. take a look back and watch all of them. >> chair directs sergeant at

arms to restore order. remove this gentleman from the chamber. ♪ [ra [rapping] >> todd: impressive, i guess. they were singing we shall overcome when al green was censorshiped for the thing he did. is this a sign of desperation that democrats feel they have to do these videos or are they truly that oblivious? your point about dana perino, what is going on and where are their heads at? >> joe: what are they trying to overcome? acting ridiculous and unhinged. we have you can taed many times, 19-year-old girl payton mcnair, hit in the head so hard by man playing volleyball against her that she has brain trauma and democrats can't even stand. 13-year-old dj dabniel, 13 brai

surgeries and they couldn't stand. what they think, they believe they have a messaging problem. approximate we just change the mess an, we are okay. they have a policy and issue pb. they are on the 20 side of every major issue when it comes to men playing against women in sports, on the abortion, on crime, on ukraine, all these things not a matter of right message, it is you have to rethink your position. 1994, bill clinton gets blown away in midterm. two choices go left or center. goes to center and works with nutrient, you get welfare reform and clinton wins easily. democrats say, go more left, go more away from common sense and put out videos like that and this party is polling at 21%,

lowest in history. >> carley: california governor gavin newsom has changed his tune when it comes to trans gender women in women's spors. hakeem jeffries made a bizarre statement that needs delicate explanation. listen to this. >> gavin newsom's comments saying that democrats were in the wrong for allowing trans gender athletes to compete in female sports, what is your response? >> what democrats oppose was unlea unleashing sexual predators on girls throughout the united states of america. >> carley: he's made this claim before when voting against this before. he is saying this would empower sexual predators to give genital examinations to young girls. >> joe: quite the dot to connect. all hakeem jeffries has to be asked again and i hope it is asked again.

you believe men should be in locker rooms with women, does that put them in danger some you said you are party of women. hakeem jeffries will never be confused with nancy pelosi, i don't think he makes it through the year. that is a rudderless ship and he's at the top in a congress filled with people that are not serious people, more like sophomores at 5:00 in the morning who don't know how to get back to their dorm room. >> todd: nowhere does it say anything about genital inspection. house leadership privately confronting members who interrupted trump's speech. a source familiar with the matter stressed the lawmakers are not getting yelled at, they were brought to the principal's office. >> joe: the ruler should be out

like catholic school, do not do that again. i guarantee there will be more videos over the weekend. they do not have serious policy solutions, it is all about look at me confusing retweets and likes on social media for votes they will get in the futures. >> carley: thank you for joining us on a friday. trifecta of topics, love to see it. president trump wants to push the american economy into the digital age by hosting first ever crypto summit. >> todd: carley will explain what crypto is. one executive attending will join us live with what he believes future of crypto will be. >> carley: he'll do the explaining. >> todd: glad it is miss willis segment. most influential audience. need creative? we can help. fox news media impact starts here. advertise with us today.

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crypto. >> carley: co-founder of chain link joins us now. thank you for hopping on with us. before we get into everything happening today. for somebody watching at home who does not know about crypto currency, can you explain it to them and why they should or shouldn't get involved in this? >> sure, so crypto is the next version of the internet. you many years ago, 30 years ago, everything was on paper and everything went from being on paper to online. being online created efficiency, banking online, you communicate online. going on chain is the new online. when you are on chain, your efficiency for owning things, communicating are similarly

increased, most general way to explain it. crypto currency and bitcoin and tokens are like e-mail use case of the internet, early use case. a point in the internet's life in like 1985, you asked what are in internet and most people knew from point of view of e-mail. internet was about more than e-mail. i was communicating with you now over internet. same thing with crypto world. people describe crypto world by using crypto, e-mail of blockchains. ownership, communication, all digital relationships will be powered by this technology because it is better and more efficient. new version of the internet, entire internet powered by this technology and you will be able to own things through it. when you own things there, you

control them. >> carley: digital currency. yeah. that brings us to what is happening today, historic, first ever crypto currency summit president trump is having at the white house. you will be there. why is this so important? >> i think this administration's focus on on america being a leader in every market that it is in. i expect this summit to cover this topic as primary topic. there is a few bills out in d.c., where i am and other initiatives like crypto reserve coming from executive branch from the president's office. i expect both topics to be discussed. point of summit is to figure out how does u.s. acquire leadership position globally in this new trend. u.s. had a leadership position

at beginning of the internet, many years ahead of other economies and parts of the world and that gave the u.s. a big advantage. application, technology, companies that grew out of the in internet started to define the u.s. economy because the internet was a better way of doing things than on paper. blockchain industry and crypto currencies are similar size evolution and so the u.s. wants to be leader in that evolution. >> carley: thank you so much for breaking down a complicated topic. have a great day and enjoy your time at the white house. lawrence jones will look at what is coming up on "fox and friends." i turn to this camera, as i should. there you are appearing. >> lawrence: you know what day it is? friday. that means, this is it.

but it is a big friday. thank you, family. president trump looking to make good on biggest campaign promise, shutting down department of education. inner had first interview since being confirmed ededucation secretary, linda mcmahon will join us live and tell ainsley what she's been working with doge, elon musk and how they are investigating anti-semitism on college campuses. plus, you know him, chris pratt opening up about his family evacuating california wildfires and how he keeps his faith foremost as a hollywood a-lister. the full interview coming up. and country singer craig morgan has a special performance and reveals why he decided to reenlist in the army. we'll be moving fast today, stay with us, top of the hour, "fox and friends."

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>> todd: veterans and lawmakers alike asking president trump to award medal of honor to marine corps war ledge in vietnam through the jungle where they were ambushed and severely injured. due do strong leadership and wrafry. all nine members survived. major james capers and united

major patriots ceo david join me now. honor to have you on our program. both of you your abdomen was ripped open and leg broken. yet, you demanded those marines long enough to get them to to a medevac helicopter and you tried to sacrifice yourself by jumping out of that helicopter because it was too overloaded because you wanted to save your men. you were pulled back and that's why you are with us today sir, how do you not hit the medal of honor by now? >> that was 1967. and the world was a lot different in those days. we had very few marines in the marine corps at that time. the marine corps had been

integrated in 1948, as a matter of fact, so we still had officers that commanded us. that didn't quite understand the things that we needed as african-americans. we could fight. we could lead. we could get it all done but the leaders didn't see us as equals. >> todd: that is tragic. that is truly tragic. bull -- david i should refer to you we call you bull. i can't think of anybody more deserving. why did previous administrations can including the biden administration refuse to upgrade this man's medal to the medal of honor? >> thank you for asking and it's great to be on. major carps is without a doubt a legend. he's a hero. he represents all-americans. and taken 58 years third general

marine division back in 1967. he, unfortunately, died in a helicopter crash and with it the medal of honor. as such it was picked up by his command and his company commander not at full put him in with the bronze star. anybody who knows bronze stars knows that's a slap in the face. it took many years for it to come to light and major general williams, who was the commanding general of the second marine division at the time he looked into this award he said this marine is deserving. and he picked up the fight back in early 2000s and we have been fighting for it ever since. >> todd: why? why didn't the biden administration upgrade this? >> that's a good question. i know the congressman norman originally put it in as a amendment to the 2024 national defense authorization act. he actually authorized president biden to award this, the house

was voted on it and it got approved. >> it got pulled out by the senate. we don't know why. we are introducing this and we have a bipartisan letter that went to president trump. we had 47 congressman sign on, including six senators, encouraging president trump to award this medal to this deserving warrior and now it's just a matter of congress passing legislation, which will waive the five year statute of limitations and we hope the president will acknowledge major capers. >> todd: i could talk to the major for hours but we only have a minute left. 47 members of congress like bull just mentioned want you to get this medal, at least they have written that down. i'm sure more people do. president 47 donald j. trump ultimately will make that decision. how do you think you will react if and when you get that call from the president? major? >> i'm sorry, i didn't hear you. >> todd: if and when you get that call from the president that you are receiving the medal of honor, what will your

reaction be? >> i will go to arlington and visit the warriors that didn't come home. i will visit my wife and my son. i was married for 50 years. i had a son. they are all gone now. so i will go and tell them the story and thank the men who died for our flag. i will go and do that. >> todd: that is what an american hero would do. that is what a father and a husband would do. there is no more deserving person that i have ever met and i know bull shares the same feeling. let's make this happen, america. major james capers and david your fine, thank you for your service and thank you for joining us here this morning thank you. >> appreciate it. something tells me is he going to get it "fox & friends" starts right now.