abby: president trump celebrating his first fourth of july at the white house. clayton: griff jenkins in washington, d.c. with the latest on this. good morning, clayton, abby and peta. the white house is optimistic they can get the bill across the finish line. say going they can t they should consider an option to immediately repeal it first and then work on replacement. this idea of splitting the bills is gaining attraction with conservatives like ransd paul. i think if you want conservative support, you split the bills. i think you can get almost every member of our cocks to votcaucusto vote for a clean re. include. so things that moderates want. mitch mcconnell has dismissed the option so far and the remain: three more expressing concern. the goal now is to pass something by the august recess but as you can see, guys, a lot of mileage that they are going to have to go to get there.
normalize and encourage these radical groups on campuses and universities. the groups that equate freedom of speech with hate speech. when you say something i don t like, that means it s hate speech and you need to be how the shouted down or bullied into being quiet. i think the mainstream media gives those people power. clayton: dr. james mitchell author of the book enhanced interrogation we appreciate you joining us on this fourth of july holiday. thank you so much. thank you for having me on. clayton: he may be out of the white house former president obama isn t out of politics. his moves behind the scenes. we ll tell you what they re. coming up next. who calls former president bush bushy for short? we re not making this up. we will tell you whose nickname that is. anna kooiman is in north carolina for proud american series. hey, anna. good morning clayton and everyone at home. we are in the port city here on board the uss if you were carolina. finding out why folks are
president trump speaking for them. here is what i would say, clayton, this is the brand he has had from day one. before even announcing he was running for president. he has not changed his brand. the fact that the media comes out in total shock and surprise this is happening, nothing has changed. he has showed before he can do this. not that i agree with every tweet that he puts out there. he can do also do a number of other things at the same time. pete: only take 40 seconds to send out: abby: we are charged up. jillian: now wondering what that tweet was going to send out. good morning. start with this news right now. the united states, japan and china vowing a united front against north korea s belligerent north korea threat. president trump having back-to-back phone calls with two world leaders. this all happened overnight. he can have phone calls, i know, it s crazy. key topic of conversation stepping up pressure against erratic dictator kim jong un.
niles to see you this morning. thanks for having me on. clayton: when you hear carl talk about the press is under siege right now from the president. what does that make you think? it makes me think he should look in the-mile-an-hour where. it is the case that our freedoms are under siege and being attacked, but i don t think the president is doing that i think the president is exercising his right to free speech. he is the president but he is also a citizen. in my view it s the mainstream media that s collaborating with those people who are attacking our press. they have created this false narrative that a duly elected, constitutionally elected president is either mentally deranged or collaborating with the russians in some activity or bullying everybody to get his way and somehow unstable and unfit to be the president. they re the ones that is trying to undermine things. clayton: we have headlines here that we pulled out that you mentioned that i think
big road it s usa mowed into the side of a hill. it s super cool. this is what middle america. i love my country and i will landscape around it. abby: i love that our own anna kooiman is live for us in wilmington, north carolina. anna, good morning. good morning to you, abby, pete, and clayton. good morning to everybody at home it is so nice to be back on fox & friends. such an honor. thank you so much for having me. it can be tough to work on a holiday, it s always the best when it s a patriotic holiday, isn t it? fox & friends just does it the best. so we are down here in north carolina. we are in wilmington at the moment down the road south port where our festivities are getting in gear tomorrow. make sure you tune in all day long for that i want to interview our friends from the coast guard what makes them proud to be an american. what makes you a #proud american? ability to help others. i know here in north carolina we are part of a larger response for hurricane matthew an