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pratt opening up to "fox and friends." >> if you save my son, i will give you everything, give you my life and my platform. he did say my son and i've been trying to make good on that promise ever since. >> ainsley: with god and patriotism, country music star craig morgan released a new album and he's here to tell us how he's giving back. final hour of "fox and friends" starts right now. remember mornings are better with friends. >> brian: get dressed. linda mcmahon confirming president trump's intention to dismantle her department and send power back to the states. >> ainsley: jacqui heinrich his more. >> jacqui: pres secretary denied report that executive order signing was imminent and it did not materialize yesterday. you spoke with education secretary this morning and she

said she is not sure when it will be official, it is something he's been planning for since his first days in office. >> i think he intends to sign the order and made it crystal clear this is his intent to provide quality education through school choice to all students and he wants to make sure education is back at the state level where it belongs, that our local school boards, governors, teachers and parents are involved in their children's education. >> jacqui: linda mcmahon said parents are primary decision-makers in their children's education, should refocus meaningful learning on math, reading, writing and history, not gender ideology and path to well paying career

aligned with workforce needs. most programs are codified by law. former education secretary betsy devos was not able to get it done and raised the budget each year. >> president trump: trying to get the schools back into the states. let states run. we are ranked number one for cost per student, ranked bottom of the list in education. >> jacqui: linda mcmahon said changes could include scholarship programs and vouchers to give flexibility to kids stuck in failing schools and hope to have employees find other jobs and we are expecting some action from the administration that will target illegal campus protests that

have been pro-hamas and a lot of anti-semitism on campus. >> brian: you need 60 votes in senate to do this. any indication that any democrat has thought, good idea to dissolve department of education? >> jacqui: i have not seen that from any democrats let. saw an aslert that house education chair is onboard with this idea. we'll see where it goes. >> ainsley: thank you so much. linda mcmahon was here and we said to her, is he going to sign this executive order today. she said, i don't want to get ahead of the president, it is something he ran on and wanted to abolish it. i said, what do they do, most americans don't know. it is money that goes to adults for research and data and they provide grants and scholarship information or scholarships, as

well. curriculum, what your children are being taught in the clas room is up to the states and the governor could stop that. contact your legislators or governor if you are not happy with something being taught in the classroom. that is not up to the federal government. >> lawrence: i do like the scholarship idea. schools get funding per pupil, if you don't have enough at scale, a failing school could lose funding. say i'm in a left rejects school choice and they don't get that legislation passed. someone locally can get a scholarship to go to a private school or charter school and you say get 50 kids to leave that school, that failing school would get shut down and bring more options for the state to be compliant. i like the innovative nature of this. i think there will be a lot of resistance.

>> ainsley: especially from com uniknowios. >> lawrence: number one on union in this country is the teachers union. >> brian: -- need to see school choice wanted to see it in the speech on tuesday. a lot of money that goes in department of education go to adults to hire other counselors and other supervisors instead of giving to the kids to begin with. money passing from unions on down. can we get mirit grade with teachers. i don't know how you grade teachers, if you have a student struggling and you get that 60 student to 75, you can't do what is your grade average, no teacher would want a kid that is struggling. >> ainsley: linda mcmahon is big advocate for teachers. she got her education in teaching and was on board of

education for state of connecticut. here is what she said in the interview. >> ainsley: if you give money back to the states, how will you determine what they are teaching kr curriculum? >> department of education does not set curriculum, they do research, we oversee programs, make sure funds get into states by statutes. >> ainsley: do we need this department? >> no. we don't. when i talk to teachers who tell me out of every dollar that comes into the clas room, they spend 47 cents complying with regulations, i want and the president wants to release teachers to be innovative in the clas room and teach. there is no one size fits all for education and those teachers feeling that energy everyday, knowing what this group of kids can do better, let them do what

they do. >> lawrence: i don't say this as a knock on etch tooers, there are a lot of teachers that do a great job and use their own money. one thing we hear is that if a kid is comes from a broken or disadvantaged home or background they can't learn, there is trouble there. we have seen those same kids from disadvantaged homes, broken families go to charter schools and are getting full-ride scholarships to four-year colleges. grade levels have gone up, they can do math now. something has to change in the system and maybe the teachers aren't given tools to be successful, we can't continue to have national report cards where kids can't read. >> brian: one excerpt says this, note what federal funs

have in common, money for children all goes to adults to hire more counselors and special ed teachers, legion of staff to input data. most adults belong to uniknowiobecause keeper of the treat is, was and will be jimmy carter, thank you for teacher u.n. knowios. kids with individual needs get a tutor without paying the federal dollar. trump assassination attempt, talk about it. ryan routh is due in court this morning. >> ainsley: griff jenkins has details for us. >> griff: good morning, the boss wants an update on both assassination attempts on his life. florida suspect ryan routh, 59-year-old convicted felon arrested near trump's palm beach golf course while armed is due

in court this morning 11 a.m. president trump is open to making some information public. >> president trump: i want to find answers. when you have three absent, two foreign, you had an fbi that wouldn't report on it or say why. i would say that could be suspicious. second one, he had six cell phones, that's a lot of cell phones. i would be willing to release it. maybe there is a reason we shouldn't, i don't want to get too far ahead of my skis, i would be willing to release that. >> it is unclear whether information will cover one or both plots, recall thomas crooks and dead. motive still has yet to be determined and unlike two months ago, president trump has his own team at doj and fbi in place. flow of information is expected to be more forthcoming.

today's hearing is in force pierce, with federal judge c canon, who oversaw the klas motorsports classified documents case. there will be a tug of war between prosecutors and defense over scheduling and materials we'll see what happens. >> brian: new sheriff in town running the fbi. thanks. i have questions and they were not shooting at me. why was the first shooter in butler, his apartment cleaned out immediately? why have we heard nothing except parents caught. who were on the encrypted apps? have they tried to break it down with multiple cell phones? >> lawrence: it was way too easy for the first suspect. in both cases. someone has to explain to me how they -- he got how many rounds

off at the president of the united states? does not seem like much interest in getting that done. >> brian: did he act alone? >> ainsley: he has more protection now, because he was president of the united states, then he was running for office. it is crazy people think they want to do this. >> brian: how could you not be doing the investigation? how can fbi think anything more important than finding out who is trying to kill the president. were iran involved? why did ryan routh have so many contacts, who is paying his bills? >> ainsley: we'll hear more and get more information. you had a great interview talks about turks and caicos. we talked to people driving, we had a taxicab driver that drove us around and she said they are

getting migrants coming to their island, they see them in the water and grab them and arrest them, they have people that have had cars stolen from migrants. she said tourism is important to their country or island, they nab them as soon as they see them. >> lawrence: at the core no matter where you are traveling to, turks and caicos or mexico, take proper precaution, know where your embassy is. don't open the door for folks you don't know who they are. getting liquor, make sure anything you are drinking issel zooed properly before you consume it. >> ainsley: travel warning, spring break destination, level two. they said check luggage and make sure you don't have firearm or bullets in your luggage. accidentally slid into the

inside of his bag. feel the bag and make sure if it is a hunting bau you use, that guy's life, he was stuck there for months and months. >> brian: don't risk it, just w work. >> ainsley: we'll remind you of that this summer. >> brian: you want people to be safe? it is dangerous. >> lawrence: you trying to make our ratings go down. >> ainsley: travel domestically. >> brian: or don't take a vacation. >> carley: have you taken a day off in your life? this is for you. >> brian: it is too dangerous to go away. >> carley: let's all live in bubbles and never go anywhere. >> brian: stay here. >> carley: more news starting with this newly unsealed court documents show text messages sent night an intruder stabbed four idaho college students to death in 2022. one message between two surviving roommateses they

contacted one victim writing no one is answering. later texting, i'm not kidding, i'm freaked out. so am i. my phone is going to die. come to my room, run down here. the court releasing transcript of 911 call where people reported one victim unresponsive. the trial for bryan kohberger is set to start this august. president trump sitting down with maria discussing his maximum pressure campaign on iran and his hopes for nuclear deal with tehran. >> you wrote a letter, when did you send the letter in >> president trump: yesterday. >> you said you better negotiate -- >> president trump: i didn't say better, i said i hope you are going to negotiate, it will be better for iran. full interview on sunday morning futers. new study revealing 50 most popular dog names last year.

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>> lawrence: so president trump is telling his cabinet to take the lead on the agency cuts. secretaries learn about people working for the various departments, they can be precise who will remain and who will go. we say the scalpel rather than the hatchet. "fox and friends" weekend cohost charly charlie hurts joins us now. you need someone from outside to make the commitment, you have to have that personal connection with the people running the agencies. >> charlie: no question what the directive is from the chief, from the top, they want to wrench out waste, fraud and abuse from agencies.

we starts to see growing pains. we have elon musk in there, getting a lot of positive credit and using the hatchet. you get agency heads, we just fired three guys that were helping me, can we finesse this and use a scalpel, i think that is probably a healthy way to go. >> lawrence: i've been amazed by the judges, telling trump administration to resume paying this foreign aid. this is an overstep of the court. we may be in minority on this. >> charlie: there are real constitutional problems. i want congress to have appropriate -- exactly. by design and very important. some point, do you think that congress intentionally wanted uss usaid to spend on trans gender mice in some country they

never heard of? clearly not. that is partly a congressional problem. you have federal district judges who step in and usurp the president's authority to be chief executive of the executive branch. it is bizarre and i think we'll probably wind up in some place in the middle there. the importance thing, make it a political fight. that is what we saw at joint address earlier this week. we saw the president was making political argument and the political house saying we don't need to spend on this stuff. >> lawrence: political argument and democrats are arguing process. people make it about process always lose. >> charlie: hiding in the courts. >> lawrence: you will launch faith and friends concert series with megan woods. tell us about it. >> charlie: whole weekend should be great and this is our faith

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d outlaw. guys, forget this. >> ainsley: from films to faith, never shies away from talking about his christian life and beliefs. hallow partner chris pratt joins us. hi, chris. what an honor to have you on, we've watched you for so many years. when you started talking about your faith, i was so impressed with that. what made you want to be so bold? >> man, i don't know, faith just is kind of the best part of my life. i've been given this platform and i feel called to share it. >> ainsley: did you grow up going to church? when did you develop a relationship with christ sfwh? >> i was baptized catholic. i felt called to god and gave my heart to jesus, most fro found

around 19 or 20 years old. when my son was born, he was born early and had health scares and that moment made some deals with god. and as you do when you are praying. i felt like if you save my son, i will give you everything. i will give you my life and my platform. i won't be ashamed to talk about you and he did save my son. and i've been trying to make good on that promise. >> ainsley: how do you incorporate faith raising four children or in your marriage or everyday life? >> unashamed, openness with prayer and with counting our blessings, living lives of gratitude, joy, going to church, praying before each meal and really leading by example when things are tough, i turn to god.

>> ainsley: we're always pulling for you, you are bold and people are praying for you all over it is world. we were praying for you during the wildfires. i understand you had to evacuate. how did that go? i'm sure you had friends that lost everything? >> a lot of folks lost everything. there were some lives lost, considering incredible devastation, fact there weren't more is miracle in itself. we are rebuilding. what you lose in the fire, you find in the ashes. >> ainsley: you are a new partner with hallow and there is promo ad , it is mark wahlberg, calling you to ask you to take part. >> chris, you want to join hallow this year? >> join hallow? >> i was hoping you would ask, yes. >> stay prayed up. >> i will stay prayed up. can i say that? >> check it out, download hallow today. >> ainsley: i love those

commercials. y'all are making it cool to pray. y'all are grown men, we need strong christian men to raise up our boys. >> i agree. thank you. i appreciate that. it is fun to shoot this thing. it has been a joyful experience so far and i agree, i think relationship in faith and present father in the household is wildly important. we have generation of anxiety kids, it is a tough time to be a kid. advent of smartsphone has created anxiety. what i love about hallow app, this tool, phones aren't going anywhere. these tools are increasing anxiety in people and further ing division and all that, can actually be great tools for connecting to god and jesus. through the hallow app, you can

download the app and dedicate your time everyday and get into the routine of prayer and getting in scripture and putings on the armor of god everyday. >> ainsley: my dad texted me to see what i'm going to give up for lent. i said, i'm going to read my bible in a year. i was reading you did the bible in a year. how did that help you grow? >> it was incredible. first of all, i am a book on tape guy, like i just go through, i discovered that i can process things by hearing them betters than by reading them, i turned to book on tape. i wondered if there was way to do that with the bible. i wanted a comprehensive learning of the bible. i found bible in a year.

i was on the set and hair and makeup in the morning, i put in earpods and listen to the bible. it takes you through the full bible in one year, 365 podcasts with father mike schmittissuing . depending which translation, it can be hard to understand and they do a really great job of breaking it into bite-size pieces, reading to you and explaining what you just read, giving context what was going on in the time, how many thousands of years ago this was, how you might apply that lesson to your life. >> ainsley: have you decided to give anything up for lent? i know you are nondenominational. >> we do. katherine, my wife, was raised catholic, we are raising girls

catholic. one, i'm going to give up sugar, which is going to be kind of hard. i like sugar. i'll give that up. secondly, i'm -- it is going to be kind of tough, i'm going to give up social media through the course of 40 days. you may see me active in accounts, i have a movie coming out, i have preloaded everything to have that stuff preposted. >> ainsley: thank you for coming on with us, keep it up, keep the faith. thank you for being a role model to all of us. >> thank you, i'll come back any time. thank you, nice talking to you you. >> ainsley: download hallow and join lent prayer challenge with chris pratt today. >> brian: he'll come back any time, how about monday. >> ainsley: how about daily. >> lawrence: cool guy. >> ainsley: very cool. >> brian: i mean, put it this way, did his stuff burn?

>> ainsley: their house was fine, they did have to evacuate and he said we're rebuilding, i don't know his family or thatten moos california. we have a friend that works at fox and her house is staibing, they have to gut it because of the lead. >> brian: water and things of that nature. looking at him there, he will a talk show host. the acting thing is hard to raise a family, need something everyday, he would be a great host. >> lawrence: you offering your spot? >> brian: you would miss me, wouldn't be fair to you. chris chulwell, o needs someone. cool guy, has balance. >> ainsley: could come pray for all of us. has four children, three with katherine, first with anna farris, that child was born

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back to you. >> brian: that is latest from the white house. what about around the world, carley. >> carley: second measles death reported in new mexico, one week after a child died in texas. virus has spread to 11 states, highest case count in texas, where 159 people have contracted measles. new mexico authorities will provide update on mysterious deaths of actor gene hackman and his wife. deputies do not suspect foul play and test for carbon monoxide poisoning came back negative. latest twist in the it ends with us court battle. lively is urging a judge to protect their text messages. b baldoni's attorney says that would show unfair treatment to

celebrities. back to you. >> brian: next craig morgan performs a song off his brand new album and reveals why he decided to reenlist in the army. first check in with dana perino. you are doing most work formatting the show, do you have guests or anything? >> dana: we are still working on it, we have a few minutes. the man accused of attempted assassination on president trump is due in court today. we'll bring that to you live. we have a whirl wind of week in washington, d.c., check in with kevin mike mccarthy, he knows trump and elon musk. immigration forcement continues, border czar tom homan is with us and democrat who voted to censure al green. also we have lara trump. we will see you at 9:00.

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♪ ♪ >> national pride is on the rise in america under president trump, i'm sure you've noticed, with patriotism and strong leadership driving military recruitment scheme i get pushed our next guest, a country music star craig morgan to reenlist in the army. >> he joins us now.

welcome to the program. >> thank is. >> will quebec's be. ♪ ♪ thank arriving me. >> we were there when he got reenlisted on the stage at the granville opry at the pager towards peer quiet as you decide to do it? >> why did i decide to reenlist? to fold as you guys have alluded to. recruiting worse than it had ever been in the history of our nation. it was terrible. i felt like i could bring something to help with that. secondly, and 17.5 years and i never got a letter that said thank you for your service. i wanted that retirement letter so bad. this was an opportunity for me to do that. >> no is there a surprise to with the 15 years and then january 20 or high. does that surprise you? >> doesn't surprise me all. i got to be honest. has spent a lot of time talking with young americans trying to encourage them. as you guys just said, there's a sense sense of renewed pride in our nation. that trickles down to those young men and women. and their families. >> you love our troops. you've traveled overseas almost

20 times to sing to our troops and to encourage them and support them. have you ever been more proud to serve our country now under donald trump? >> never. i'm as proud -- i used to tell people and i still do, i never joined the army for a president. you join the army to serve your country. eddie service member will tell you that. it is nice to know that you have a president of the united states that truly cares about them men and women serving. our secretary of defense truly cares about those men and women. these are people, our interest is first and foremost. >> straightaway, your music from the original country, you kind of double down. that is risky. why? >> it is who i am. i'm the same people that i sing for, to and about. i tell somebody i still take my trash out. my wife waits until i get home. my truck bed is full when i get home. i have to do the same things everybody else does, and i still do. that will never change. whether i'm singing or soldiering or whatever it is of doing. >> he played last night, touring with blake shelton.

you are carrying him. >> the best we can do. in all seriousness, best to have been on scheme i can see the coolest guy? >> he is so much fun. he's an absolute idiot. and absolute idiot. buddies fun. in a good way. >> a lot of your show's sold out. he played last night in newark, new jersey. if people are able to get more tickets and they want tickets, all your website? >> s. craik morgan.com, glacial.com. you won't get any responses. >> divide planks of the? >> take away. >> ready song called american soundtrack. >> we got a seat. >> take away. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

music song. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ american soundtrack. ♪ a dj plays at the providence. ♪ make you laugh or make you shed a tear. ♪ it can call for a hellyer or a man. ♪ it's homegrown music to my ears. ♪ like that whiskey river from the redheaded stranger.

♪ cat scratch fever, motor city madman. ♪ no when to hold them like that houston, texas gambler. ♪ midnight rider, allman brothers band. ♪ have me some of that american soundtrack. ♪ of me some of that american soundtrack. ♪ take me back. ♪ take me back. ♪ talking about that sweet home from the boys in alabama. ♪ a folsom prison and the man in black. ♪ keep the lights on, hotel

california. ♪ a free fall and in a pink cadillac sing me that whiskey river from the redheaded stranger. ♪ a cat scratch fever, motor city madman. ♪ no when to hold them like that houston, texas gambler. ♪ a midnight rider, allman brothers band. ♪ give me some of that american soundtrack. ♪ american soundtrack. ♪ american soundtrack. [cheering and applause] >> bill: here we go, good boarding. we have new marching orders on