Shoppers making a run. Dont go away. Craig morgan is getting ready to perform right behind us in the all american summer Concert Series. Fox friends starts right now. Have a good weekend. Bye bye. Good morning to you and your family. Its friday. You made it. It is june 17th. Im Ainsley Earhardt are. Did you see this . Meat loaf collapsing on stage overnight in the middle of a performance . Fans capturing that frightening moment on video. The breaking news on his condition coming in. Stung new developments in the orlando terror attack investigation. A Gun Store Owner who tried to warn the feds something wasnt right. Did it twice. This is odd having that conversation and asking for body armor. New questions this morning about whether an attack could
have been prevented. Now, with whatever he just got out of his pocket, heres brian. It was just a pen. A lot of people want to make sure i Pay Attention when your reading. President obama says winning the fight against isis. Really . We see this continues to be a difficult fight but we are making significant progress. Okay. The problem is the cia director had a different story and he said it outloud. Who is right . Who is wrong . Who is losing and who is in danger . Probably us. Mornings are better with friends. Im country is the song that craig morgan has recorded and that were listening to. Hes going to be live on this stage just two hours from right now. As a featured performer in our allamerican summer Concert Series brought to you by expedia. Look at those ribs. Cant get better than that ribs and friday, right . If you are watching us cook those ribs and you are having captain crunch, and you are saying to yourself, honey, i would rather have the ribs. A little protein. And bring some floss. And baby wipes. Absolutely. Thank you very much for joining us on this friday and this summerrt with a fox news alert. Everything you are hearing about me is a lie. That is the wife of the orlando terrorist who now claims shes
not being shes not the same person shes described in the media. Shes innocent. Okay. I have a question why was her husband texting her during this bloody rampage . Thats a good question. Peter doocy has more. Midway through his massacre here at the pulse nightclub in orlando, omar mateen got a text from his wife. She asked him where are you . He said do you see whats happening . She wrote back no. And he replied i love you babe and now a friend of the wife noor salman has spoken to on her behalf on the institute for public accuracy. The wifes friend claims that she didnt know what her husband was up to, never drove him to scout out the club and offered to take a polygraph test and said the government didnt want her to. She writes in the Huffington Post that everything weve heard about her is a lie and
speculates what we apparently have is severe log rolling between media and government, where government sources hide behind anonymous quotes and media hide behind anonymous sources. Meanwhile the focus on orlando yesterday was not on the terrorist but on the victims, their families, and first responders. President obama and Vice President each laid 49 white roses as a memorial. The notion is the answer to this tragedy would be to make sure that more people in a nightclub are similarly armed to the killer defies common sense. New records from omar mateens time as a Security Guard shows he was a skilled marksman, also scoring perfect scores in accuracy tests using the same gun he used here
sunday. Peter, thank you. Were learning so much about him. He had signs of aggression in elementary school, middle school. He had tried to join the Police Academy in florida, wasnt able to because of his past, because he had been suspended so many times from school. Two trips from saudi arabia need to be investigated, one sponsored by nyu. Lets look at his background and could he have been stopped. Five weeks before he actually made the purchase and ultimately would pull off this killing, he went to a gun store allegedly, and he went in there and asked for soft and hard body armor and when he couldnt get it right away, he walk outside, was talking on the phone in arabic. The gun owner says to himself theres something about this i dont like. Im not selling it to him and im calling the authorities. The gun shop is the lotus gun shop. The guy was suspicious. He did everything right. He listened to him. He call the feds a couple of times. Here he is talking to griff
jenkins a couple last night. He was asking a couple of questions on how great of a bulletproof vest, at the time was concerning the time he was asking it. We let him know we dont carry it nor have we ever carried it here and when he pulled away and got on his cell phone and he was having a conversation with someone in a foreign language. At that time it kind of keyed him in that this is odd for him having that conversation and asking for the body armor. His next question after he got off the phone was bulk ammo. He implied that we didnt have bulk ammo. At that time he left the store. It was concerning. They had a little meeting and they contacted the authorities on it, that he was suspicious. Had a conversation in a foreign language. What does that tell you . He might not have acted alone . We dont know who he was
talking to. He could have been talking to his wife. You look at that guy. That guy called the fbi twice and you look at one of the other dots that was missed. One of his former colleagues at the Security Firm down in jupiter, florida, he said this guy is always talking about killing people. They alerted people. And brian mentioned yesterday that disney contacted the feds and said hey back in april we got this guy on video casing the joint. Wow. So why did they miss so many opportunities to say this guy is a problem . James kalstrum thinks he knows whats going on inside the fbi. The rules of engagement, what the bureau is being told about what they can do and cant do. They cant go sniffing around anything to do with mus lins. They didnt go to mosques. Im not talking about things off
the charts. But things that normally would be done. The same people that took all the language out of the training documents. This is from the whies. Its ominous for all of us in america if the fbi has handcuffs on and were told you cant do that. Im hoping james comey will have a way to speak up about those men and women in the field a lot of people questioning what they are doing out there, allowing the inten thing San Bernardino thing to happen and this to happen. And countless others. If they are getting pressure from above, ainsley, hes got to speak up and listen theres a politically culture in this country, unless you take the handcuffs off, were going to have another attack. You are saying disney notified the fbi. Fbi was notified after connecting him to that guy in
vero beach. The gun shop owner says he qactd the fbi twice. James kallstrum makes it sound like if somebody is muslim, back off. A good friend of the administration, put there by barack obama, john brennan in prepared remarks said amongst the things about our war against isis, yeah, we took some territory away with you they are more dangerous today than ever before and if we want to be successful, we got to start taking them out over there. Wait a second. I thought we were winning the war against isis. Look at the difference in the remarks from president obama and his appointed cia director. Since i last updated the American People on our campaign two months ago, weve seen that this continues to be a difficult fight but we are making significant progress. This campaign at this stage is firing on all cylinders. Unfortunately, despite all
our progress against isil on the battlefield and in the financial realm, our efforts have not reduced the groups terrorism capability and global reach. The resources needed for terrorism are very modest and the group would have to suffer even heavier losses on territory, manpower and money for its terrorist capacity to decline significantly. There, you got the president of the United States saying weve got it and youve got the cia director saying essentially our war on isis, were getting an f. Totally different pages. The president painting this rosy picture and you have the cia director telling you whats really accurate and whats really happening and weve seen this based on terrorist attacks in our own country. If you are josh earnest today. Or not. What do you say to the press who says who is right . The president or the cia . Why would he come out and say that . By the way for those who say every time he tells the president , hey, why are we letting isis exist they are the
jv team for four years . He says america doesnt need to put 100,000 troops out there. They have 20,000 guys there and by them holding on this land, it gives them safe hach and the tun to use these lands and train and fight and also gain revenue and control of large cities like mosul and that transfers to danger here in america. And what they said as we drive them out of iraq and syria, they are going to go elsewhere. One person said isis now is becoming a virtual caliphate. Its everywhere. As long as we allow them to continue to win, more people are going to want to join. We know where the bulk are and were not doing anything. Lets hand it over to heather who has more headlines for us. Good morning to all of you. Lets switch gears and talk about another breaking story, the rock legend meat loaf rushed to the hospital after collapsing on the stage in a packed concert hall in canada. Watch. That frightening moment captured by fans as meat loaf collapsed on to the ground. He fell to the floor during an encore of his hit, i would do anything for love. No word yet on his condition but the 68yearold singer canceled two shows earlier in the week because he wasnt feeling well. And Brexit Campaign is on hold after a member of British Parliament was killed. Jo cox. The vote is to decide whether the u. K. Will leave the European Union. Cox wanted to remain in the European Union. Attacker was heard shouting britain first. She leaves behind a husband and two young children. A shocking new claim, disney
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gun regulations. Is donald trump considering sporting supporting them, the democrats . The terror watch list and the nofly list, im going to be talking to the nra about that and starting a real dialogue. I think a lot of people agree with me, but i want to really hear what they have to say. A number of people have brought this to my attention and i understand why we should be discussing it. So trump is saying the terrorists cannot buy guns and thats not sitting well with some establishment republicans. Ed joins us right now from d. C. He just joined the Trump Campaign. How far off of the primary gun how far from the republican standpoint on guns is donald trump right now . I think hes very much in line with the republicans on this. Hes a strong supporter of the second amendment. Always has and thats the reason the nra endorsed him earlier than they have any other president ial candidate. Ive heard some strategyists on television saying in the wake of what happened in orlando, he should be concentrating on terror, but hes talking about guns instead. You are one of his strategyists. Is this a winning combination for him . I think he is. When hes talking about guns, hes talking about in the context of terrorists. He wants to make shur doe they dont have access to guns and he wants to talk to the nra to find out the best way to do this. You got the speaker of the house paul ryan saying things like this. Listen to this, ed. We want to make sure Something Like this doesnt happen again. Everybody wants that, but as we look at how to proceed, we also want to make sure that were not infringing peoples legitimate constitutional rights. Hes talking about somebody who is winds up on a nofly list by accident, they should have their due process. Sure. I think mr. Trump agrees with that. Hes a strong supporter of the Fourth Amendment as well. He wants to sit down and have a discussion about how to make
sure were targeting the right people to make sure that terrorists dont have guns. Ed, what are you doing for the campaign . I help the campaign with delegate management and the delegate selection process, but just recently i was named the trump liaison to the Republican National committee. What does that mean . Making sure sure they dont change any rules on you . Thats part of the Commission Part but as importantly as we move forward we want to make sure that the rnc and the Trump Campaign are fully coordinated as we go about defeating mrs. Clinton in november. All right. We got a busy week ahead. Ed brookeover joining us from d. C. Thank you very much. Straight ahead, it could have happened to any child, a mother who took pictures of her son in exactly the same place that a gator snatched a little boy a couple of nights ago. Hear her side of the story. She said do not blame the boys parents. When you hear what this top va official did, you will think he should have been fired. Well, think again. What backache . What sore wrist . What headache . Advil makes pain a distant memory. Nothing works faster stronger or longer what pain . Advil. To buy a new gym bag. Before earning 1 cash back everywhere, every time. 2 back at Grocery Stores and now at wholesale clubs. And 3 back on gas. Kenny used his bankamericard cash rewards credit card
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who get tax breaks. And is pot the solution to atlantic citys cash problem . A democratic assemblyman is proposing a bill to legalize recommereational use. And a woman is sharing a photo of her threeyearold weigheding on the beach where lane was killed one hour later. In a facebook post, she defended the parents toddler saying she shouldnt be the parents shouldnt be blamed for the parents death. Thank you for joining us. You wanted to make sure the message gets across not to blame the parents, right . Thats absolutely correct. Can you expand on that . Yes. When i wrote that post, i was actually in the airport, traveling home. I got on the internet at the airport just to see if they had updated the progress of the search for the boy. I was certainly hoping that they had found him for the parents before i got on my flight. When i was checking on line, i saw the numerous posts criticizing the parents. They should have been closer, they should have been watching, negligent, they werent paying attention. As if my parent could break anymore, it certainly did when i started reading though posts, thinking about that poor mom having to get on the plane without her child, i was able to get back on my plane with my child and i didnt think anyone read my post besided my mom and my sister and a few friends. When i read that, i really didnt put much thought in it at all. I quickly stated that my son was there, and i was giving him my
undivided attention. He was my only child with me on vacation. I allowed him to do the very same thing and even stopped and took pictures of minimum standing in there. There