To help the communist side in the korean fight and general Douglas Macarthur went to president truman when that happened and he told president truman that he wanted the United States to wage war on china in response. He wanted to start bombing china and quite famously president truman fired him for that. Fired him. Removed him. That was a big hairy political deal at the time because General Macarthur was really, really popular. He was so popular they threw parades in his honor when he came home from being fired youve seen this footage. Some of the most iconic footage of ticker tape parades is from the enormous parade that new york threw for Douglas Macarthur after he got fired by the president. Literally millions of people turned out in tribute to him after he got fired. Macarthur was really, really, really popular even though he maybe wanted to start world war iii. All the legends about Douglas Macarthur were larger than life. In world war ii when he was ordered to leave the philippin
President. On the campaign trail, trump criticized saudi arabia often for policies on gays and women and possible involvement in 9 11. As we await the speech, we start today by asking can President Trump reset his image with the muslim world . Can he shift from his past rhetoric about islam . Joining me now j retired colonel jack jacobs, steve clemmons, and Jonathan Allen. Thank you all for being with me. Good morning. Let me go to you, colonel jaco jacobs. Its a trip that is set to try and call for unity and against terrorism. And then the first thing he does is a big arms deal with saudi arabia. I mean, we see the pomp and ceremony, a warm reception that they did not give president obama, and then an arms deal. How do you read this . Well, the its no change from the way its been for many administrations. Weve been close to saudi arabia for a long, long time. And far away from its principle adversary, iran, certainly since 1979. Weve been selling arms to them for a long time. I rememb
Leland a lot of news out there. Good to be with you at home. I am leland vittert. Liz the fbi releasing 400 pages of documents of former Charm Campaign adviser carter page on saturday. After several news organizations and advocacy groups sued for its disclosure. Gillian turner joins us with a look into one of the earliest phases of the investigation. Reporter hi, liz. Good afternoon. The fbi has released the Intelligence Committee authority october 2016 to monitor former Charm Campaign official carter page. Here is the motivation for the five or an application from the fbi. It reads in part, quote, this fbi believes page has been collaborating and inspiring with russian government. Theres probable cause involved are about to involve violations of the criminal statute of the United States. The once been released in response to a Judicial Watch freedom of information act request and to set up a firestorm in washington from the white house to the capitol hill. President trump declared on
Tragedies in el paso and dayton Americas Team is bringing the country together, how the Dallas Cowboys just changed their game plan. Every morning is a coffee morning. This is a jumbo coffee morning. Most people get their caffeine fix first thing in the morning. I know i do but why not drink coffee before bed . The study that could jolt your routine. Fox and friends first starts right now. Wake me up. I drink coffee in the morning. I dont know if that would work at night but we will have that study coming up for you. Good morning, you are watching fox and friends first on this thursday morning. Almost made it through the week. Thank you as always for joining us. Lets begin with this, donald trump raising the cities of dayton and el paso overnight after meeting the men and women impacted by the horrific shootings. Douglas 80 joins us from washington dc with mixed reaction from those visits. It was a long day for the president and the two grieving cities that he visited. He spent time wi
Owners . And will he lay out how seriously he really is about pushing new tax cuts as fears grow about an economic slowdown . This just as a new cnn poll shows for the first time in trumps presidency americans perception of the economy is on the decline. Lets get to it. Cnns Sarah Westwood is in louisville, kentucky, where President Trump is headed today. Sarah, first on greenland. Are you hearing anything more from the white house on the president s decision to postpone this meeting with the Prime Minister . Reporter well, kate, President Trumps stated reason for not heading to copenhagen is the fact that the danish Prime Minister had signaled that the government was not interested in talking about the sale of greenland to the United States. In fact, the danish Prime Minister had described that as an absurd idea. The announcement of trumps postponement to denmark has not been received well by danish politicians. The danish Prime Minister said she received the news that trump was no lo