By a thread at 30,000 feet. The terrifying moment that sent passengers into a panic. [chanting] shannon allegiance to the pledge, the patriotic push for one community to back the red, white and blue. Fox and friends starts right now. Everybodys gone surfing surfing usa we will all be planning out a room we will take real soon heather live shot from new york city, summer is in full swing, a little beach boys, surfing usa to get you in this morning, you are watching fox and friends first on wednesday morning. Thank you for starting your day with us. Lets begin in dc, donald trump calling out a federal judge who blocked the Justice Department from swapping audits legal team from the 2020 census. The ruling comes as House Democrats push william barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross in contempt. Garrett tenney joins us as the legal fight heats up. Reporter this the latest hurdle in the trump administrations fight to get a Citizenship Question added to the us a federal judge in new york blocked the Justice Department from switching out its lawyers handling of this effort to add the question to the census. William barr told the Associated Press his department wanted to make the switch but multiple people on the team indicated they preferred not to continue as it would likely require them to contradict the very arguments they have been making the case for the past year. The administration will be taking a new strategy and argument for it but on tuesday an obama appointee said no writing, quote, no reason let alone satisfactory reasons for the substitution of counsel adding expectation that withdrew current counsel will not cause any disruption. It is not good enough. Trump responded to the ruling tweeting the obama appointed judge on the census case are you a citizen of the United States wont let the Justice Department use the lawyers wants to use. Could this be a first . Republican lawmakers continuing to back the president to get the question added as well. If you want to get a true census what is going on in the country, significant issue on 10 million, 15 million, how serious is the issue . It is not as bad as we think it is but i am saying do what we can. Reporter House Democrats are preparing to schedule a vote to hold attorney general and commerce secretary and contempt for not cooperating with subpoenas with congressional investigations looking at the origin of the Citizenship Question. Sources tell us that vote likely wont happen until next week at the soonest. Great to have you with us this morning. A little more on this. The chairman of the American Conservative Union said the battle over the census you is another example of how radical the Democratic Party has become. What we have with democrats running for president is pure unadulterated socialism, some grab the title, some demure a bit from it. They all have the same policies. On this question of the census most of the history of america had a question like this. Our founders said a question like this made sense. It is part of the socialist democrats attack to weaken the concept of citizenry, to weaken the concept of being a citizen and the rights that come with that privilege and change the whole definition of what it means to be an american. Heather democrats calling for labor secretary alex costa to resign or be fired over his role in a secret 2008 plea deal with wealthy businessman Jeffrey Epstein who is facing new sex trafficking charges. Epstein should have been behind bars years ago but secretary of labor alex acosta cut epstein a sweetheart deal. Reporter the pleabargain allow the registered sex offender to avoid federal charges and serve just 13 months in prison. The Labor Department said he is not residing in the costa tweeting this. The crimes committed by epstein are horrific and im pleased new york prosecutors are moving forward with the case based on new evidence. Jerry nadler is threatening to investigate the plea deal with fox news has learned donald trump band epstein from mara lago over Sexual Assault allegations ten years ago. The toddler killed on a cruise ship fell through an open window. A family attorney revealing new details on the tragic death on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship. Carly falling 11 grandfathers arms in a child play area. He apparently set her on the edge of the window not realizing it was the only one without a glass pane. The Family Lawyers suspending the grandfather. Literally thought there was glass there. At a hockey game like her brother and the next thing you know she is gone. Reporter the freedom of the seas ship was docked in puerto rico. The indiana family is staying there during the investigation. The mother of a teenager charged in a car crash that killed a Police Officer is apologizing to his family. The mother sending a handwritten letter reading and part i know nothing i say or do will ease your pain on in your heart, please accept an apology to your family. Her 17yearold daughter was driving without a license when allegedly crashing into the car of john anderson. She was speeding away for traffic stop on 4 july. Officer anderson leaves behind an 18 month back son. Prayers for them as well. Live look at capitol hill where House Democrats will hold a hearing they are calling kids in cages. The House OversightCommittee Says taking a closer look at the, quote, Inhumane Treatment of Migrant Children and Border Detention Centers as dhs reveals 28 drop in illegal crossings after mexico deployed the National Guard to slow the flow of migrants before reaching the us border and we will talk more about this. First today, auto executive lee i of poker will be laid to rest, the legendary businessman is known for bankruptcy in the 1980s and introducing the world to the mustang and the minivan. He died at his California Home after a long battle with heart disease, he was 94 years old. Switching gears, sports, the American League wins allstar bragging rights for a seventh straight year. A to run game again. There it goes, joey gallo. Heather beating the National Three in cleveland and shane beaver was named mvp. Before the game a moment of silence honoring los angeles picture tyler skaggs who was found dead in his hotel room last week. More sports for you, thousands of fans honor the Us Womens Soccer Team in new york today. The world, champ takes a victory lap but not without a hint of controversy, depending what side you are on, nice to see you. A big day in new york city, team usa is home and ready to party. The American Star celebrating a 20 victory over the netherlands. That when given the United States second world cup title, fourth overall. The tickertape parade will travel through the canyon of heroes in Lower Manhattan before city hall. Mayor bill diblasio will present the team with keys to the city. It will be very smooth, a big crowd but it will be well in hand. Reporter the team is planning a 5day victory tour across the country from august to october but you were hinting at this. The victory lap will not extend to 1600 pennsylvania ave. Megan has made her intention to avoid the white house very clear. Going to the white house . Not going to the white house, now. We are not going to be invited, i doubt it. Reporter rubino telling cnn she didnt mince words in explaining her decision. I meant all of it, every word of it. It is an opportunity for this administration to put us on display as their guests for the day and i dont think that makes sense for us at all. Reporter he has accepted an invite from democrats, Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi, to visit capitol hill. It is unclear if donald trump will still invite the team to the white house after suggesting he would. Heather he said he would invite them win or lose. She did a victory lap yesterday at a lot of different shows. Reporter she expressed her patriotism in other ways in the past, God Bless America or something at games in the past but this certainly is a divisive topic and depending which side you sit it certainly is stealing headlines. Heather not supposed to be a mine team. At elementary school. Great to have you. Time is 11 minutes after the top of the hour and a dramatic drop in Border Crossing since the us and mexico started working together. What progress could we make if democrats finally got on board. Texas congressman just visited the border last month and joins us with what needs to happen. The tourist event and what is now going viral. And lower their payments by 600 every month. Cajry we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. I remember setting up shipstation. One or two clicks and everything was up and running. I was printing out labels and saving money. Shipstation saves us so much time. It makes it really easy and seamless. Pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and its ready to go. Our costs for shipping were cut in half. Just like that. Shipstation. The 1 choice of online sellers. Go to shipstation. Com tv and get 2 months free. Heather apprehensions at the southern border plunging 28 in june thanks to mexico deploying the National Guard. If mexico can get on board why cant democrats . Task texas congressman michael cloud who just visited the border and you were with us in april talking about this very issue. Thank you for joining us. Good to be here. Heather things have changed with numbers going down. This is great news. I was with the president in the oval office, he remains laser focused on this issue. We have been calling this a crisis. We understood it is a crisis for many months. We are not calling this a manufactured crisis, it is a real one but it is definitely congresss job to act on this issue on this disposal to address the issue and congress. A portion of the usmexico partnership. And to expand migrant protection protocols. And at legitimate asylumseekers, and persecution and deter migrants with false making the journey. That is what you talked about. The problem with the asylumseekers. 80 , 90 are not true asylum cases. The whole point of asylum is fleeing political persecution, we have compassion for those people looking for a better life. That is not what asylum laws are 4. We have a process for that. It is important we realize true compassion would have been addressing the situation we see at the border many months ago. Compassion is proactive, not reactive. A lot of the rhetoric in the last couple weeks in dealing with the situation. After calling it a manufactured crisis for several months it is unconscionable, should have been doing something about this. Heather the Republican Party and donald trump specifically was asking, democrats refused to provide the money to supply the need down there at the border. Here are the things the trump administration, they deployed us troops to the border to remain in mexico policy, stationing of mexican National Guard as we discussed. What else can the department of Homeland Security do without congressional approval . There are a few things we can do, send a letter to the administration. Realizing the Impact Congress had, dug down into what can be done and sent a letter to the administration highlighting the things, work visas being handed out to agency, migrants who arent here for a legitimate purpose. Another one is training Customs Border patrol agents to make the asylum cases to be Immigration Judges to hear those cases so that processes into 2 or 3 year process but more 30 minute heather a backlog of a few cases. 90 of the migrants dont show up so the president will address that issue as well. There is a lot that can be done in the meantime so weve got to keep pushing to make sure this gets done but alternately congress has got to deal with the issues. Heather dhs wanting to send 1000 more National Guard members to fight the border crisis in texas. What will they be doing and are they still needed . Im excited to see that request is in and a tough this idea out. If this was left up to texas we would have had this resolved a long time ago. What is going to happen is 40 50 of agents across the border instead of being at their post doing their job, the job they signed up to do, the job we asked them to do they are doing processing claims, the National Guard would support them in those efforts so they can do the job they are supposed to be doing, protecting our border. Heather thank you for joining us, we appreciate having you with us. Imagine looking out an airplane window and you see this. That is part of a planes engine hanging by a thread at 30,000 feet. What happened moments later when the cabin filled with smoke . We will show you. Home depot shoppers, hounding someone for supporting donald trump but one key fact is getting lost in the costa boycott. Carly shimkus here to explain what that is next. Were the slowskys. We like drip coffee, layovers and waiting on hold. What we dont like is relying on fancy technology for help. Snail mail we were invited to a y2k party. Uh, didnt that happen, like, 20 years ago . Oh, look, karolyn, weve got a mathematician on our hands check it out now you can schedule a callback or reschedule an appointment, even on nights and weekends. Todays xfinity service. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Id rather not. Heather a delta flight forced to make an Emergency Landing after one of the planes engines malfunction thousands of feet in the air. A piece of the left engine was spotted dangling as the metal cylinder inside turned red. Passengers say they heard a loud boom and smokefilled the cabin. The flight from atlanta to baltimore forced to land in north carolina. The engine was replaced and the plane will be back in the air today. None of the passengers were hurt. I wonder if they decided to take a car. The left calling for boycotts against home depot after the cofounder pledge of support for donald trump but theres just one problem, he left the company 15 years ago. Carly shimkus here with the reaction. He is 90 years old and just revealed he plans to give a majority of is estimated 6 billion fortune away before he died. A majority of that money will go to charitable causes. He also plans to donate to Donald Trumps reelection, and that is why home depot tweets came from. One person says home depot shoppers, if youre antitrump, boycott the store and cut up your cards. The founder pledged to donate to Donald Trumps 2020 reelection bid. Not a carpet or washer or mouse trap from home depot, not a dime of my money will go to reelect the worst president ever. Like you said in the intro, left to home depot he has nothing to do with the company. Bernie retired from the home depot and isnt speaking on behalf of the company. As a standard practice, a president ial candidate, donald trump weighed in on this debacle yesterday saying a truly great, patriotic, charitable man who at the age of 90 coming under a fact, with one of the often used weapons. And deplorables in this country. And interesting to see if they get more. That could happen here. And 2 billion over the course of his lifetime. Lets talk about Serena Williams in this untouched photo that is getting a lot of buzz. She is getting real in more ways than one, she will appear on Harpers Bazaar and the photos are touched. She is opening up about the controversy surrounding the 2018 us open. And did confrontation with the chair umpire and sportsmanship and much younger than her. This debacle ruined something that should have been amazingly historical anomaly was the game taken for me but a defining triumphant moment taken from a player. Something she should remember and one of the happiest memories in her long and successful career. My heart broke. And a lot of reaction, praising williams on this, and many dont understand the danger about passionate women, keep pushing on. Interesting to hear Serena Williams open up after the fact about this. They love her. Strong women in general. There were 23 again. We told you this yesterday. Tom stier entered the race for president but that is not the only shakeup with new polls on the road to 2020. It is long past time we have a 15 federal minimum wage. We need to raise it to 15 an hour. A big part of the democratic platform but a 15 wage would cost us 1 million jobs, peter morici says that number could be higher. [narrator] the following is an urgent appeal from the International Fellowship of christians and jews. Right now in the former soviet union, there are thousands of jewish Holocaust Survivors trapped in relentless poverty. Theres no heat, no electricity, no running water, theyre cold hungry and sick and theyre suffering and dying needlessly. Christians and jews together stand obedient to god to listen to his word. God gives us a special calling to help the orphan, the widow, the weakest, the survivors and he makes a promise that if we stand with them, so too will god stand with us. 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