[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] pete: good morning and welcome to fox & friends. man alive, i say it every saturday, sunday, but your photos are phenomenal. they really are original, they really are for you. they land in our inbox, friends@foxnews.com, and we, we don t, although that last one had a picture of us and a fireplace. they mix it together with our nation s anthem, and it s magic. rachel: you ve been asking for this pete: i ve been asking for a coffee table book for years. i mean, you re welcome for the idea right here. a ray you re welcome, i agree. president.good to see you with, rachel. rachel: good to be back. i had a really nice time with my if family yesterday celebrating pete: what? rachel: the feast of the e epiphany, january 6th. not insurrection day will: the 12th day of christmas? rachel: it is. pete: did you give a gift every single day rachel: no, our kids get gifts from santa cla
something else that they don t want to in any way implicate miss if limbs or somehow muslims on i somehow downplay the conditions? why would they want to downpray the conditions and the brutalgy against christians? brutality? if. it s a combination of things. plenty of muslims around the world are blinking red lights and saying that there s a piecemeal, isis of like caliphate being formed in western africa. and, by the way, the whole of the african continent is in trouble. a civil war in sudan, basically a line of coups across the continent, and on the western side you have these jihadist organizations that are forming. and, by the way, my jeer ya with is a country we, the united states government, our taxpayer dollars rachel: right. a billion dollars a year to. but also it s, unfortunately, this d. of state doesn t have department of state doesn t have much to show for anything. we have the worst hostage crisis
been vetted and approved. lawrence: jason, i m sorry to cut you off, sir, i m curious, we had a promise of these people. what is their view of the american government? i know they know you guys are trying to do whatever they can to rescue them and you guys appreciate them and love them, but what is their view of the united states government? that is where the blame really goes, right? it does and right now it is a challenge. every day that goes by we are telling them we are trying to help get them out and obviously we are waiting. right now we are waiting. we know, you know, the guidance at least that we ve heard, the department of state doesn t want them to be moving out of afghanistan without a solid plan. i will agree with that but at that same time we re talking about peoples lives, that is a very difficult for things for to
republicans to dial back their outrage. thank you. the panel is back with me. mark preston, your response to what jeff is reporting, that they want to quote unquote get ahead of it. that s an absurd thing to say considering the situation we re in. get ahead of it coming out with two statements that say absolutely nothing. the department of state doesn t know the statement is put out and then say nothing the rest of the night? that s getting ahead of it? we have often seen this in this white house where you have top aides who are scrambling to try to make sense of what president trump has decided to do. erin, this was supposed to be a big week for the trump administration. this is their first foreign trip. he s going over to saudi arabia, going to israel. he s going to stop at the vatican. he s going to the g-7 summit. he s going to nato. this is a week they re supposed to be preparing for this trip for him to go over, meet with the world leaders and explain what america s role is g