Cheating during opening arguments but the White House Defense team says his for our speech only helps their case. We are live on capitol hill. Growing petition telling the duke and duchess to keep their hands off taxpayer dollars. Fox and friends first starts right now. Good morning to you. You are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. Thank you very much for starting the day with us. We begin with a fox news alert come a three americans are dead after a firefighting plane crashes in australia overnight. Water tanker went down on its way to battle a new fire. Witnesses say there was a large fireball on impact, no word on what caused the crash. The firefighting fraternity is a fairly small family and the crew on board were wellknown. Our hearts out to those who were suffering. The loss of 3 remarkable, wellrespected crew. Canberras are borders shutdown the smoke from the new flames blankets the runway. Not clear when flights will resume and we are continuing to get more in