The first kickoff. Fox friends first starts right now. Note heather good morning to you, youre watching Fox Friends First on this monday morning, thank you for starting the day was. We begin with this, police waiting home in australia, the International Investigation intensifying as the death toll rises to 50 and some people try to point the finger at President Trump. Good morning. Good morning, thats right, heather, the white house is fighting back asking chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, quote, absurd to subject the president influenced the attack, we heard from the voice commissioner of new zealand are certain only one suspect carried out the Mass Shootings at those two mosques in church, but he threats that there werent other people supporting him in some way, Australian Police are conducting raids on homes now, one of them reportedly belonging to the suspect sisters back here at home, the white house taking heat as critics slam President Trumps down playing of a White Nationalist threat, Authorities Say manifesto. Everything that i think is undermining sort of the institutions that we have in the country today. Meanwhile new zealands Prime Minister announcing gun law reforms will be announced in just 10 days. I will make clear that a number of new zealanders question, i will giving more once we work through decision the cabinet has made. At the same time, gun shop owner came forward that he sold the suspect four of the guns and ammo legally but didnt notice any red flags about that suspect, heather . Aisha, thank you so much, great to have you with us. Early evidence shows similarity between two deadly plane crashes involving boeing 737 max 8 jet, black box data from the wreck that killed 157 people last week is reminiscent of the lion air october crash that killed 189 people. Pilots struggled to control the plane and tried to return to airport but crash. North carolina man accused of murdering his wife arrested in arizona, 35 miles away from mexican border, large amount of cash on him when he was stopped near tucson, wifes diannes body found near home, this case prompted to look back into the death of first wife originally ruled an accident. Camello accused of gunning frankie cali outside of Staten Island home, likely not mob related but said from a fight. Now has x on the back as mafia targets, no criminal history prior to this incident. Rescuing people in nebraska, record flooding already reported in 17 areas and just suspected to get worse. Missouri river at 48 feet tomorrow. Flood waters have come onethird damaging 60 buildings. President trump praising the republicans who supported National Emergency order while lawmakers plan to overwrite first veto of presidency. Major speech on the state of Homeland Security today, Griff Jenkins live for us in washington with the latest, good morning, griff. Good morning, heather. Expanding on her testimony a few weeks ago about southern border, a crisis in congress, National Emergency declaration, the president reminder that he hasnt seemed forgotten, republicans in favor who voted in strong of border security, they know theres a National Emergency at the southern border and they had to courage to act, great job, meanwhile where the money for a wall will come from, many on the hill from military budget and reported list of projects said to be defunded. Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney dismissing the suggestion. Theres no identifying list of projects that will not be funded. What projects are on the pentagons books 2020 and beyond. This is the white house wanting the hold tax because they worry if senators and house members saw the potential projects to pay for the president s wall, they would lose votes. Mulvaney also said he expects the president s veto will be upheld in congress at the end of the month and votes to try and overwrite it, jared max vote coming around march 26th, heather. Heather all right, Griff Jenkins. Potential 2020 announcement from joe biden after he makes this flipup, listen. Im i have the most progressive record of anybody running for the anybody who would run. [cheers and applause] heather senator says its only matter of time before biden throws his hat into the ring. Im very optimistic that joe biden will announce campaign for presidency, i think first joe biden will run a forwardlooking and Optimistic Campaign where he tries to heal the divisions in our country. Heather biden stands out from the democratic field because he has real record delivering on progressive proms. Declared 2020 candidate beto orourke say that is he will stop swearing on campaign trail, this comes after highprofile slips like this one during con decision speech to senator ted cruz. [cheers and applause] heather democratic hopeful telling supporters in wisconsin that hell keep it clean denying that hes ever taken acid. [inaudible] no. Heather beto orourke says theres nothing that he has revealed about his past and could come back to hunted. Beto orourke with massive media, of course, since declaring run last week, thats not always a good week. I think beto orourke is all flash and no substance and i dont really necessarily think the Democratic Base is behind him which is why he hasnt released fundraising numbers, you looked at Bernie Sanders 24 hours, beto has not released that because the base is actually not with him. One of the Biggest Challenges he will face in 2018 completely protected by the media and the left, they are uncritical of him because he was running against ted cruz who the majority of the media on the left despise him, probably second to President Trump on the republicans they despise, now that hes running in a crowded democratic field he is going to face criticism. Beto orourke plans to trool michigan, pennsylvania this week. Lets talk about melania trump, taking her be best initiative to new heights today, the first lady hosting meeting tat white house, 20 government agencies, theyll be there discussing ways to improve youth programs, the Interagency Group was formed by president bush back in 2008. The time now almost 10 minutes after the top of the hour and the media trying to connect President Trump to terror attack in new zealand. This movement and global Terror Threat as the president s rhetoric exacerbating the problem. The opportunity has the opportunity to denounce nationalism and he didnt do that. Heather the basketball player dive intoed the sand to save the ball but ends up grabbing a fans drink, the sideline swig thats going viral. Shoot the three shoot the three yessssssss are you. Ok . No, no im not. I think i pulled a hammy. Could we get some ice . Just one cube of ice . Geico®. Proud partner of ncaa march madness®. The president s rhetoric exacerbating the problem. Many people have cited donald trump along the way, so to me that means at the very least hes dividing the people. Heather the media continuing to connecterror attack to new zealand after the president condemn it is shooter, so what is the media missing . Here to weigh in, media group and visiting fellow at the independents women group, beverly, thank you very much, we appreciate it. Thank you so much, good morning. What do you think about this, this gets repeated after since attack happened on friday that people are trying to make the connection with President Trump . Well, i think its important to fist start to comparison where you have the shooting against Steve Scalise that was bias of Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders was not criticized and in the same way we are seeing President Trump being criticized. A lot of hypocrisy on how people want to attack someone over something that they have no responsibility for. So President Trump has no responsibility in this and i think its dangerous that we do blame actions of someone else. Heather another example trying to blame President Trump on anything that happens . I think so. I also think we are in a divided time right now. I think thats why you see some of the rhetoric increase even more, one thing i will say, though, i think the president has had a missed opportunity to do one thing this is although he has spoken out against White Nationalism in the past, i would encourage him to give a same strong answer defending White Nationalism every time hes asked so any kind of question comes up its very clear where he stands because sometimes the way he responds gives wiggle rooms for reporters to run with it even more, lets be honest, how bias they are towards him, we know they will get heather if he does Something Like that, he does protect too much, just seems like theres nothing he can do is good enough, lets take a look at some of the tweets that he did send out because you did mention that, he expressed sympathy, my warmest sympathy and best wishes goes out to the people of new zealand after horrible massacre in mosque, 49, now 50 innocent people have died with so many seriously injured. The the u. S. Stands by new zealand for anything we can do, god bless all. By a Statement Like that as well, he doesnt give credence to this individuals manifesto which also is what part of what the person was trying to accomplish, he wanted us to be reporting on everything that he was talking about in the manifesto and a lot of the media is doing exactly what he hoped would happen . Well, i appreciate that fox news has been one of those networks that will not use his name, the individual that committed this, he shouldnt give them anymore air time to help what they were trying to do and i think its unfair attack on President Trump for them to say that he didnt show sympathy towards the Muslim Community as he read the tweet, he did talk about the mosques that took place in mosques and he said they were innocent people, when it comes to narrative that the media loves to bring up in relation to White Nationalism, denunciation every time hes asked in my opinion is the best thing he could do. Heather liberal activist ambushing chelsea at vigil for new zealand. Lets take a look at what happened with chelsea clinton. [inaudible] the result of a massacre. Ii want you to know that, 49 people died. Heather unreal, what do you think about that . First of all, i give her a lot of credit how she responded in such a hostile situation, shes pregnant with her third child. She showed up at vigil in new york to pay respects for innocent lives that are lost. For her to be attacked in this way, i think the most shocking thing about it is that this is now rhetoric thats not just being thrown at republicans but, indeed, thrown at democrats which show how far weve come in this country that if you try to defend the jewish nation or jewish people and try to speak out or do speak out against antisemitic remarks you are met with comments like, this do i think we have a divide in this country that goes beyond partisan politics and frankly im concerned about it. Heather absolutely. Thats a great way toned the conversation because that is true. Beverly, thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate it. Thank you. Heather have a good day. The time now is about 18 minutes after the top of the hour, top House Republican blasting democrats who are on Mueller Probe and sending new threat about clinton email scandal, todd piro, new sign that the bob Mueller Report is far from over. The latest innovation from xfinity isnt just a store. Its a save more with a new kind of Wireless Network store. Its a look what your wifi can do now store. A get your questions answered by awesome experts store. Its a now theres one store that connects your life like never before store. The xfinity store is here. And its simple, easy, awesome. Heather welcome back, Top Republicans blasting the Mueller Probe transparency vote as failed attempt by democrats to divide their party, this comes as officials warn the end of special counsels investigation they not be near, todd piro with the latest, we keep hearing its over, doesnt surprise me that now we are hearing perhaps its not. One guy says not so fast, my friend. They agree on something unanimously but at the end to have day they dont agree with whats unanimously. Attorney general to publicly release Mueller Report but congressman doug collins not only is there no collusion but the vote was simply stunt by democrats to divide republicans and make them look like they are hiding something. They have no agenda, they have nothing that they can actually put on the floor so they wasted an entire week of american taxpayers dollar to put a report on the floor that said nothing, why are we wasting american peoples time. Democrats say thats not so. I dont think thats a political stunt at all, what we saw leading up to that vote was the president making, suggesting that it didnt need to be release and concerns with the attorney general to be spot on and say it would be released and congress did what its supposed to do. So what does the president think, he tweeted, quote, nonbinding vote in congress about releasing the Mueller Report, i told leadership to let all republicans vote for transparency, makes us all look good and doesnt matter, play along with the game, despite speculation that mule ser wrapping mueller is wrapping up but says not so fast. The work of special counsel is ending fi time soon. All this comes after collins on the email scandal with more potentially on the way. Heather all right, so bottom line, wait and see. Bottom line, same place we were before all the interviews and everybody can talk, its going to fill a lot of time, but after the report, we wont have the report. Heather absolutely, thank you so much, todd, exactly, thank you. No problem. Heather u. S. Supreme court in the meantime arguing today gerrymandering case out of virginia, Republican Leaders in the state want the justices to overturn a Lower Court Ruling that found 11 districts were racially gerrymandering, the gop has tight 5149 majority in the Virginia House of delegates the outcome of the todays case will impact 70,000 voters. And virginia county approved 23 million in incentives for amazon, officials backing the deal despite protestors killing Board Meeting to discuss the plan. Amazons new headquarters in suburban washington, d. C. , the state committed 750 million in incentives, amazon pulled out of the deal to build another facility in new york after widespread criticism. Only one national title. 68, its time to fill out your march madness bracket if you havent yet, the number one seed , the first round of games tip off tomorrow, fill it out. The time now is about 26 minutes after the top of the hour, congresswoman omar called israel evil but now she has a solution for peace in the middle east. Stand up, god love you, what am i talking about. A man who will be the next president of the United States, barack im the most progressive person of the United States of anybody who would run. Heather joe biden might have just outdone himself, how can he change the race if he runs, panel on deck up next to debate. Guys, its that time. And nothins happenin. Well now theres score , from force factor, to rev your libido and maximize physical response. Its no wonder walmart offers score in more locations than any other performance enhancer. Unleash your potential in the bedroom, with score . Heather welcome back, a look at top stories half past the top of the hour. Massive International Investigation now intensifying as authorities raid two homes in australia overnight. And early evidence shows clear similarities between two deadly plane crashes involve boeing 737 max jets, black box data from the wreckage that killed 157 people is reminiscent of the lion air october crash that killed 189 people, pilots struggled to control the plane. Secretary Kristin Wilson giving major speech, expected to stand Current Situation along the border. The nations top generals denying report that is the United States has drastically reversed course for withdrawal from syria, general joseph dunford, chairman of joint chief of staff saying statement, theres no plan in february, we continue to implement the president s direction to draw down u. S. Forces. The wall street journal had reported the u. S. Plan to leave up to one thousand troops inside syria. Well, President TrumpTop National Security adviser has a warning for north korea. They issued unhelpful statement saying they were taking gun back Ballistic Missile testing which would not be a good idea on the