lady liberty beautifully standing watch and the intrepid, we ll be live there coming up as we celebrate the men and women who make the sacrifice for our great nation. you re watching fox and friends first on monday morning. i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier. we ve heard from so many great peep whole have served. today is about honoring them, but especially today. as everyone is enjoying their day off and barbecues and family time, remember why we re able to do that today. todd: if you missed your interview last hour, it was beautiful, very touching on a day like today. rolling to remember returning to washington yesterday honoring heroes who paid the ultimate price. veterans and bikers bearing flags and the names of fallen friends and family. we need to remember where we came from and who we are as a people. without these people that fought for our country, we wouldn t be here today. todd: the ride becoming a memorial day tradition in washington starting i
It was a juicy story that could have been cooked up in Roger Ailes's rage-fear lab: Red-blooded American veterans put out on the street to make way for foreign invaders!
sprayed with poison. pinned and crushed. eye almost gouged out. he didn t break. after it was over, he was asked what he had been fighting for. he s a local guy. an ordinary american. he gave a simple straightforward answer. what you were fighting for? his spontaneous area was democracy. that s what he knew he was fighting for. he wasn t a scholar. he wasn t an historian. he was a red-blooded american, who was fighting for democracy. former metropolitan police officer michael fanone, we ve become friends, i have come to know him more, 20 years on the job. veterans narcotics investigator. at a moment of crisis, he was
have a name for that when the top religious leaders. theeocracy. yes. sorry, it doesn t compute. i knew that night when i went to bed on supreme court night, june 24th, i just boy, i just relaxed. i thought, well, oh my god, there goes the red wave. you ve told the majority end jer not a small clique or not a small section of society you ve told the majority gender that we re going to have an apartheid situation here where the majority is going to be told by the minority how you re going to live your life. and that doesn t fly if you re a red blooded american. i knew then that that s i hesitate to make sweeping al ignore cal comparisons on live tv, michael. you know that can go either way.