From President Trump to House Republicans either pass tax cuts or lose next year. Fox friends first continues right now. Time to get up and get your week started, its monday morning and good morning to you, youre watching fox friends first, im jillian mele. Rob all right, im rob schmitt 5 01 in the east coast. The fate of disgraced Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl hearing begins today. Jillian kelly wright is here with the latest and what we can expect this morning, kelly. Kelly jillian and rob, good morning to you as well, speaking out for the first time after pleading guilty for they have been more honest than him. At least the taliban were honest enough to say, im the guy who is going cut your throat. Here it could be the guy i pass in the corridor who is going to sign the paper that sends me away for life. Bergdahl was captured in 2009, you recall after leaving base in afghanistan, the taliban eventually freed him in may of 2014 as part of a controversial Prisoner Exchange with five tal
Reporters tried to get clarification from him but to no avail. What did you mean by calm before the storm. You will find out. Joining scalise to catch his pitch is special agent david bailey it dont matter where we go we always find a way back home na na na na na na na na na it dont matter where we go we always find a way back home. Abby i love this song. We are never prepared for it come on in to our living room and guess who is with us this morning . The man himself dean king. I love the curvey couch. I love the new studio. Abby first time hosting though. First time hosting. All the pressure is on you. I cant do anything to mess this up. Up. Pete i know you have never been before cameras before. Abby we are thrilled to have you here. Dean dean i am honored to be here. This is great. Pete its going to be fun. Abby i asked him if he has ever done a four hour show. How do these guys do it for four hours . Abby drink coffee. You cant drink much coffee. Abby i still have battle bit. You g
The Government Shutdown is over for now. President trump signing a shortterm spending bill reopening the u. S. Government today. Democrats relenting in return for assurances that the senate will vote on immigration in the coming weeks. The party now facing intense backlash from some for not fighting harder to protect d. R. E. A. M. Ers. This morning President Trump not focusing on the next round of immigration talks. Instead hes tweeting about missing fbi text messages. Comes amid the bombshell report that the fbi threatened to resign amid pressure from the president and firing the deputy director. Joining me is the white house budget director Mick Mulvaney, good to have you, sir, as always. Sounds like theres a lot of caffeine in the coffee. If you think ill spend any of my time talking about that, you are sadly mistaken, my friend. Well take that conversation off line a different time. Youre no stranger to shutdowns. Do you think the democrats did the right thing and why . I think th
You need to release it. Absolutely. 100 . You heard that. Covering National Security for the Washington Post, devon, thank you for joining me. Adding to it this real concern privately, now a Public Statement from the fbi, what do you make of it . What do your sources tell you . This disagreement that was private as of semi private, i should say, as of two days ago, is now fully out in the open and you have the amazing situation of the fbi publicly at odds with the white house, with the Trump Administration over an issue of National Security. Thats pretty unusual. And thats why this is a fairly intense time for the Justice Department and the fbi. If your reporting, when youre talking about this lastditch effort on behalf of wray and rosenstein, you have written that rosenstein did most of the talking. What are his deepest concerns if this memo went public . First order of concern is that it would reveal some classified information and thald that could make future collection of classifie
Country is, state the facts. Its about being safe, strong, and proud. The president is going to focus on five major areas, National Security company infrastructure, the immigration plan. We have a trade deficit with china, 17 billion with canada, thats got to change and this president knows that. Hes going to talk about the economy, how great the economy is doing and how much it affects people across the spectrum. We have 55 Million People in this country with 401ks, 35 million that have pensions and 25 million that have iras, it has affected everybody and a rising tide lifts all of us and we are going to tout a lot of those message points because he has set so many records, so many accomplishments in the first year but it is about looking forward as well and thats what the president wants to do and he will strike all bipartisan tone. Harris what is the place of unity as we look forward in all of this . We are hearing from the white house, i want to get you on the record saying this, w