Bun, trying to figure it out. Man bun. The ugly. Two people under arrest after a fight over crab legs turns violent. Police say the 21yearold man was punched in the face at a connecticut buff a. Unclear what sparked the disagreement. Underlying issues there. Election coverage continues at the top of the hour. Good to be with you. Have a good day, everyone. Fox friends starts now. Bye. Good monday morning. Im ainsley earhardt. The state of wisconsin on the eve of the contest. And a protester stomping the American Flag. Oh, boy. Not acceptable. With donald trump and ted cruz in a tight battle, cruz hits on john kasich. Well, hits back against john kasich. Thats okay, go to the convention, and announce you want to be president. You shouldnt be littering up the process because thats what hes doing. Cruz and trump hitting back
against john kasich. Well talk about it. Were live in wisconsin. And ahead of the primary, donald trump gets personal. I want to win, and ill be so president ial you wont believe it. I will be the most boring what does that mean to be president ial to you . His answer on president ialness might surprise you. And Country Musics biggest stars under the same roof, in the same room at the acm awards. Watch. Yes, the big night for jason aldean, and the touching tributes everyone is talking about this morning because we watched so you didnt have to. Well bring you the highlights because mornings, at least according to ainsley and steve, better with friends. Always, of course. We have been working out of this studio complex here in midtown manhattan for coming up
on 20 years. Today is a very special day because just one block away from us, where were sitting now, a chickfila will open at 6 30 this morning. And brian, im buying you breakfast. You, too. Chicken for breakfast again. Fantastic. You obviously havent had it. I love being from the south. Its the first stop i make off the plane when i go home. They did not have a chickfila in new york for all the ten years that ive lived here until recently. Now we have two, and theyre both within like seven or ten blocks of fox news. Fantastic. We appreciate that. Anyway, well send maria over this morning. Its a big day in new york city and a big day, as well, out in the world of politics. Lets get right to the race for the white house and take a look at this. Protester, yep, thats an American Flag on the ground. Protesters stomping on it outside a trump rally wisconsin. The blatant show of disrespect as the candidates battle for votes ahead of tomorrows primary. Fox News Senior National correspondent john roberts back in action in the badger state
with the latest. John . Reporter good morning to you. Yeah, that group outside not only the trump rally in west of wisconsin but also outside the Greta Van Susteren town hall last night. A group called f your flag, protesting racism in america. Clearly thats a legitimate thing to protest. Its their tactics that have drawn fire because they put a big American Flag down and walk all over it. Last night, a lot of tension, people upset about the fact that theyre doing that. One man said my brother is serving in the military overseas, pick up the flag. They wouldnt. Another said, my father died for this country, im demanding you pick up the flag, but they wouldnt. There was pushing and shoving. Police called. Eventually the whole thing went away. Tactics like that definitely do get people upset in this country. People of all partnership stripes, not just republicans. All political stripes could not just republicans. On the campaign trail, donald trump hoping to pull out a win tomorrow. Its increasingly looking like a long shot. The polls going the wrong way for trump. 42 delegates up for grabs. Hed like to have a lot of those. He may only come away with a few. One of the people hes blaming for perhaps not doing as well as he would like in wisconsin is john kasich with his continued presence in the race. Heres what trump had to say about that last night at the rally in west alice. If he wants he wants to get to the convention. Thats okay. Go to the convention, and announce you want to be president. You shouldnt be littering up the process because thats what hes doing. Reporter on that front, hes getting support from ted cruz who would like to see kasich drop out. Heres what cruz told me yesterday. Well, listen, its not surprising that kasich is throwing rocks at us. The facts are sierchl john kasich cannot be the nominee. Hes mathematically challenged. He needs more than the 100 remaining delegates. That cant happen. Reporter john kasich happy to keep trolling along in the bus hoping to make it to the convention where he believes in a floor fight he will become the nominee. Heres what kasich told me about
that. The other guys, one needs 90 . The other needs 60 of the neither are retaining that. So were going to go to a convention, and when you talk about a real long shot, weve had ten contested conventions with republicans and only three times did the leader prevail. Reporter history may be on kasichs side. At least he believes it will. Donald trump trying to pull out all the snops wisconsin at the 11th hour to pull off a win. Got three events today. Hes bringing Melania Trump out to tell americans here in wisconsin, hey, if i can love my husband, maybe you can love him a little bit, too. Thats so good. John, the one thing is, there was a tenpoint distance before the whole blowup and Governor Scott walkers endorsement. There was a tenpoint lead for walker. Then we see a cbs tracking poll, its down to six for cruz. Does it show maybe that the walker impact isnt as great, or do you look at it as an outlier . Reporter you know, he see
seems popular in green bay, milwaukee, in lacrosse, a little bit less. Trump tends to do well in the northern central, western part of the state. Walker by virtue of that, cruz in the south and eastern part of the state. Well see, though, you know, theres things happening here on the campaign trail that suggest that donald trump may already be in his mind at least moving on to new york. Well keep watching that. Where hes way ahead. John roberts live in wisconsin. Thank you very much. Interesting that you bring up scott walker. Last night you probably watched the town hall. Greta hosted the town hall in wisconsin and asked him about scott walker. Scott walker was friends with donald trump before this went down, before they were running against each other. Trump gave walker money and said, go ahead, win reelection. She asked, how do you feel about him endorsing cruz . This is what he had to say in wisconsin, you take a look, your manufacturing jobs in wisconsin are way, way down. You know, i used to think wonderful things about wisconsin. I was given a plaque by Governor Walker because i supported him. I gave him a lot of money. I supported him. The truth is hes not supporting you hes not. You know why, because i knocked him out of the president y in two minutes. [ applause ] also, donald trump was queried by greta and the town hall folks. You know, sometimes on twitter and elsewhere, you get personal. You know what, he made it clear last night, donald trump did, you do get he does get personal when you cross a line and talk about his hair. I wanted to win, and ill be so president ial you wont believe it. I will be the most boring what does that mean to you . It means maybe not be so aggressive, maybe not get so personal. When people get personal with me, i mean, they say, oh, they dont like my hair, okay. Now, if i ever said didnt like their hair, it would be a headline, hes so bad. Theyre allowed to say what they want about me. Headline i did think it was interesting over the weekend, he said, listen, if i had to do it again, i wouldnt have retwiced the picture of heidi cruz. Then the hypothetical question about the abortion. He wished he had answered
differently. Right. I mean, shows maybe a little bit of change in tactics. And there was a report that corey luwendowsky has had his role diminished and is responding to the delegate fight should it come to the convention. John kasich will be on with greta tonight on her program, on the Oreilly Factor. Then cruz is going to be on the kelly file and trump on hannity. As you see, a busy night of politics. They talk about Mainstream Media talking about how donald trump has had the worst two weeks of his campaign. He has certainly hit potholes. At the same time, on the other side, Hillary Clinton has lost the last five contests. Youre right. Why doesnt anybody talking about that . In most polls, shes losing wisconsin. Why isnt anybody talking about that . Tomorrows wisconsin, big night. If you havent decided who to vote for, all three of the president ial candidates for the gop will be here on fox news. Stay tuned for that. The other big story, heather is back. Thats right. Welcome back. How was vacation . It was fantastic. I missed you guys. Steve and i were on the plane together. Thats right. I was seatsed a couple of rows behind her. At one point, the Flight Attendant came over and presented me with a bloody mary and said, its from that blonde lady up front. Did heather get you anything . I knew needed it. It was from that other lady. Yeah. Good morning. Lets see if i remember how to do my job. Good morning, everyone. Hope are you off to a great day. Amtrak trains back up and running this morning following a deadly crash that sent dozens to the hospital and shut down service on its busiest route. The train hit a backhoe on the tracks yesterday. This happened just south of philadelphia. And it killed two amtrak construction workers and derailed the front engine. The 911 calls now have just been released. Medic 407, medic 457, accident involving a train i have a small fire on the tracks. Might need the Fire Department knock it out. 300 hostagers and seven crew
board 300 passengers and seven crew on board. There was an explosion, then a fire. Then the windows burst out. Some people were cut up. All you could see was dirt and debris flying past the train. Then there was a couple of sort of like fire flashes. Investigators are now using the trains event data recorder to try to figure out whether or not the train or the backhoe were on the wrong track. Some extreme weather now. And perhaps you felt part of this. A windy weekend leaving two people dead and hundreds of thousands of people without power from wisconsin all the way to maine. In massachusetts, two were killed when a tree snapped and slammed down on to a car. Then in new jersey, 60 mileperhour winds scattering debris and downing power lines making for a messy monday morning commute. Cold snap already bringing pockets of snow to the northern states. More is on the way. Bundle up, and dont put the coats away yet. It was Country Music mania last night in las vegas. Did you check this out for the acm awards . Watch. Jason aldean nabbing entertainer of the year. Congratulations. Chris stapleton took home four awards including male vocalist of the year. Then fan favorite, Miranda Lambert, she looked fantastic last night. Winning female vocalist of the year for the seventh year in a row. People weve lost including david bowie and glenn fry. And a standing ovation for joey feek. She passed away from cancer just last month. Watch this. Jolene Jolene Jolene oh im begging of you please dont take my man and that is the moment when
dolly met katy perry. Teaming one dolly parton to sing some of her classic songs like jolene. And those are your headlines. What a great show they put on last night. Big it was. Country musics changed. Katy perry, who would have thought . It is great. Thank you. Good to see you. Coming up next, our next guest was the cias eyes and ears in syria and originally in afghanistan. Why he says the administration blew its chance to stop isis. And what happens had an officer on patrol challenges some kids to a bike race . Oh, no. The story thats going to make you smile this morning. First, more from the acm awards. Heres luke bryan and Blake Shelton with hunting and fishing. Thank god he made me this way what are you doing right now . Making a cake ayla reminds me of like a master chef and emiana reminds me of like a monster chef. Uh oh. I dont see cake, i just see mess. Its like awful. It feels like i am not actually cleaning it up whats that make mommy do . doorbell whats that . Swiffer wetjet. So much stuff coming up. This is amazing woah. Wow. Now i feel more like making a mess is part of growing up. Stop cleaning. Start swiffering. Every Auto Insurance policy has a number. But not every Insurance Company understands the life behind it. Those who have served our nation have earned the very best service in return. Usaa. We know what it means to serve. Get an Auto Insurance quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. In 2012 as the Syrian Crisis unfolded, one cia operative was tasked with being the eyes and ears in the wartorn country. He describes the weight his position held at a decisive time when the u. S. Stalled on taking action. He writes this i was
sticking my neck out further than i should have. Whatever action was taken in syria, i was prepared to do anything in my power to mitigate the risk to my country. Escalation or deescalation in syria didnt matter as long as i knew the end goal, i was good to go. Thats part of the excerpts included in the new book, left of boom, detailing frustrations of being met with red tape as the crisisesque lated in syria crisis jeescalated in syria. Welcome back. You wrote the book, heavily redacted. One area that were in the midst of, syria still in afghanistan. Sure. One of the few people that learned pasch not too were able to inter pashnot too were able to interact with them. You went in to analyze who the rebels were and what america could do. What did you find . I mean, you said it up front. Obviously it was heavily
censored. Im careful with what i do say. But you know, i found that the red tape was obviously a big problem in so much as i was saying, hey, here are some suggestions, here are things maybe we should be doing. And for most part, for a lot of it, it came back, well, lets just wait and see. Lets keep getting more intel, getting more intel. I understand that that was my job. But im also i talk about it a lot, im a guy who likes to take it to 11. I wanted to take action in a lot of these courses. You dressed native, you dress local. When you looked at the rebels i know john mccain, leon panetta, Hillary Clinton, david petraeus, cia director said weve got to help these rebels. The president said no. Was that a mistake . Well, actually, i did disagree with them and went public saying that. I know the other three are saying that. A lot of whats been talked about is a memo that i had written. To address that, that memo that i wrote was not official cia
policy. That was actually something that i wrote personally. It instead. Obviously it doesnt talk about it was suggestions that i was making personally on what we could do with the rebels and do inside syria. What you got is not a no but inaction . What i got was, i gave it to people hard copy, as in heres what im thinking. Now were finding Senior Intelligence officials have come out saying my memo was circulated amongst washington. That would be news to me. Shortly after i wrote the memo, i ended up leaving the agency. So its been talked about a lot. It was a personal memo and never official cia policy. I want to make that clear. One thing thats clear. The one thing we know, over 200,000 to 300,000 civilian are dead, people are dead in the area. The rise of isis is still the problem. Is that a problem to america in the long run that isis exists . It depends how you want to
look at. I think domestic terrorism as you see it now is not something that can be easily stopped. Its a complex problem. I mean, were doing a lot. What we are doing is good and respect to everybody involved with it. The thing about it is, though, counterterrorism is extremely hard because terrorism is so easy. Its very difficult to stop. Is it easier if you have a place to nest and plot and plan like isis has today . No, not necessarily. And im not so sure that the two are always connected. You know, its an ideology first. So i think anybody here in the united states, if they want to do something bad and they want to attribute it to isis, isis is all too ready to take it and say, yeah, absolutely, that guy was with us. You look at brussels in paris. It is directly linked to syria. Right. Correct. What im saying is this is a group for the first time that is all too ready, any type of carnage, to attribute it to themselves. He worked with the cia, got behind the enemy lines. He knows the taliban and maybe the Syrian Rebels better than
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