. ♪ ♪ >> brian: you are looking at maverick city music performing. just singing. >> i thank god, it is a popular christian song, how cool to hear in person. >> steve: kayleigh, great to have you, ainsley is on assignment. i thank god to lead into this. kaitlan >> kayleigh: well said. evan gershkovich and former marine paul whelan and jou journalist alsu kurmasheva are back on american soil. here is evan, a touching image, hugging his mother for the first time after spend ing 500 days i a prison cell in russia. [cheering] [applause] >> steve: that last guy, paul whelan. after landing in maryland, they took another flight overnight to texas. san antonio, texas for evaluation at brook army medical center. >> brian: sam tobin is in sam houston, texas. good morning, sam. >> three of the returnees from this historic swap are in the facility behind me, inside of fort sam houston, the outskirts of san antonio. paul whelan, evan gershkovich and alsu kurmasheva are all here and were greeted by the president and vice president and flown to kelly air force base

we have maverick city music for our all-american summer concert series.nd, also today, the one and only gronk is going to join us live right here on "fox & friends." and, kayleigh, good to have you. >> kayleigh: thank you, good to be here. >> steve: hour two of "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ >> brian: fox news alert. "wall street journal" reporter evan gershkovich former marine paul whelan and journalist touched down in san antonio overnight evaluation at brooke army medical center after very emotional reunion with their families. here is evan hugging his mom for the first time after spending 500 days in a russian prison. [cheers and applause] [cheers] [applause] [cheers and applause] >> kayleigh: beautiful images, ella hugging her son evan for the first time in more than apostle whelan hugging family after touching down on soil nearly first time in 6 years. he spoke this morning after landing in texas. >> sfb grabbed me said i'm a spy. i'm apparently a general in the army. a secret agent for dia. this is the nonsense narrative they came up with. and

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and maverick city music will rock the series, they are playi playing already.u laid out your clothes the night before. you're now on your own, make me proud. k . they've 20,. ♪ >> todd: americans are celebrating the return of political prisoners from russia but some in the media are taking the opportunity to celebrate biden's so-called accomp accomplishments. >> the president is going to leave in the next six months with a huge win. the economy is growing. he is releasing hostages that the american people have been so concerned about. and he has now passed the torch. so he has got a very big win in this moment where we are waiting for great news. >> joe concha is a fox news contributor. author of the new book progressively worse. why today's democrats ain't your daddy's donkeys and he joins us now. april ryan is having a week. first off trump should not be allowed to speak to black journalist journalists and nowing to the the biden economy, inflation be damned within the context of a prisoner release. huh? >> yes. that is the dnc spokesperson there posing as a

will: gospel group maverick city music rock to the element in several concert series yesterday and justfor a couple right on fox square. will: the newly engaged couple are here today. tracy, let's see that ring. i was wondering what was blinding me. that was georgeous. you guys met at church; correct? did you have any idea as you came out and friends with the mclemores and out there helping with them. we love the mclemores and all the sudden you he gets on one knee and no idea? zero? >> we talked about it but i didn't know when he was going to do it. will: certainly didn't think it was going to be there. that moment on national television. how long were you planning it, griff? >> about two minutes. thinking we're here and i should do this. rachel: you had the ring on you. >> make it big. >> yes. joey: how long f the ring on you over the past few weeks or months and had the ring and now you were going to do it but looking for the right moment. >> just within the last week. will: okay, long in the making and was it long planned? so what came over you? why then? >> just such a special time

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