Monumental event is planned. What kind of crowd are we seeing now . Reporter good morning. The crowds are starting to build here, slowly but surely. You might be able to see over my shoulder some of the invited guests are gathering just below the steps of the linken elinco memorial. The numbers are relatively small. If you compare it to the event that was here on saturday. At this point. But we are seeing more people come. Theyre having to go through security as they enter the grounds here. A lot of folks have umbrellas up. The numbers are growing as we go through the late part of the morning here. Well expect this program will start in just the next few minutes. Well begin with an invocation, as you might imagine. First to speak today will be ambassador andrew young. And of course a very close friend to dr. Martin luther king jr. Hell be the opening speaker here a little bit later on this morning. Then president obama will be the speakered feature in between lots of other people, key
D with the oscars . He should be more concerned with real issues like terror attacks. Lets keep talking. Log on to the fox friends Facebook Page to weigh in today. Yes. Have a great weekend. Happy friday. Fox friends starts now. Bye. Good morning. It is friday january 16. Im elisabeth hasselbeck. A fox news alert for you. Airstrikes arent working so how will the United States defeat isis . The new plan Just Announced, to send our troops into syria. The white house says they had to release detainees from gitmo because gitmo is whats causing a lot of violence. It would also be unwise to neglect the fact that our the prison at Guantanamo Bay continues to inspire violent acts around the globe. So is letting terrorists back on the battle field. The solution . Well talk about that. We first brought you this story and you fought back. This morning a huge update on Duke Universitys plan to play the muslim call to prayer from the christian chapel. Many of you will like how that ends. I can tell
Congress, eight and half months writing this book, i hope we check it out and get it. That is all the time we have tonight. Im Jason Chaffetz and for laura ingraham. Ill be back tomorrow night. Again, my favorite person at fox news, Shannon Bream is up next. Shannon, take it away. Shannon not just because i cant wait to get my hands on your part. Is going to be great. Thank you, jason. We begin with a Fox News Alert with the president trailing a crowd of West Virginia asking, wears a collusion, as he says investigators continue to search for something thats never happens. But there was was a Major Development survey in a Special Counsels investigation. It appears President Trumps former attorney going from the white house to the big house. Michael cohen reaching a deal with the prosecutors that does include paul. My jail time. Paul manafort convicted on eight counts of tax and bank fraud. None of the 18 connected to President Trump or his campaign. Stick around as our panel of legal ex
Christiane amanpour, republican strategist alex castillanos and writer and humorist p. J. Orourke. His newest book for preorder the baby boom how it got that way and it wasnt my fault and ill never do it again. Also contributing editor with the weekly standard. Thanks for joining us. What do you make of Chris Christie . I think hes great. Im a republican. And his is a return to republican common sense. And art of the possible as we always say about politics. And he understands that. I mean hes maybe a little more liberal than i am, or maybe hes just governor of new jersey. But i think hes great. How hardened are you, alex, by sort of the breakdown of the vote that went out for Chris Christie . Well, its good to see that republican governors hes not the open one by the way whos very popular in his own state when you get out of washington the Republican Party is not in bad shape. Chris christie has done a good job per the people of new jersey, sticking mostly to republican principles. Ho
President trump, this meeting with the british Prime Minister theresa may. Stay right here as we gear up for the new president s First White House press conference. That scheduled for just one hour from now. It is a giant test. The new president s first steps on the world stage have been sufficed to say, a bit rocky. A war of words and threats of a trade war with mexico. Whose president abruptly canceled a planned trip to washington when President Trump signed an order for fast action on the wall. Unless mexico will treat the United States fairly with respect, such a meeting would be fruitless and i want to go a different route. We have no choice. Both the president and Prime Minister owe their jobs to blue collar frustration with globalism and immigration, but these are two very different leaders. President trump calls the Nato Alliance obsolete. Prime minister may calls it essential. He talks with making friends with Vladimir Putin. She says be very careful. President trumps America