Fox friends first starts right now. Good morning to you. You are watching Fox Friends First on this friday. I am heather childers. I am ainsley earhardt. Lets get right to it. Troops to syria to help train syrian fighters against brutal isis militants. The president s plan to arm local forces as the u. S. Led Coalition Carries out air strikes. The announcement coming one day after it is revealed the air strikes in sire yaw failed to help isis gain ground. The troops will head there this spring. While you were sleeping a dozen people raised near paris in antiterror raids linked to last weeks attacks. The nine men and women being conflicted to their connection of coulibaly. They supplied cowl ball lee wep coulibaly weapons for the attack. A separate antiterror raid stopped an attack in its tracks. A week long investigation ending in this explosive deadly raid. Police saying they have broken up what could have been another paris style slaughter. Three men with ties to isis open fire after
Speaking of the truth lets welcome our guest. She knows wall street like the back of our hand. Seriously. She can quote the entire movie. Fox business anchor lori rothman. When it rains on his parade it rains cats and talent show champions. Comedian tom kodder. You ma i recognize him from the movie kingkong. From the Gavin Mcguinness show , gavin mckinness. And the award for excellence in hastily written apologies goes to the academy fo oscars. Sorry we are so racist. Well be less racist after the much to do about the nominations they issued a statement saying i am both heart broken and frustrated about the lack of inclusion. It is a difficult, but important conversation and it is time for big changes. The academy is taking dramatic steps to alter the make up of our membership to bring up much needed diversity. It may be too little too late as some hollywood elite including spike lee and Jada Pinkette smith is planning to skip in protest. One person is not pleased. Aunt viv. The fresh
Detained. Alis son says he was held by u. S. Customs for hours because of the sound of his name. He will join us live. A twist ending only to be found in hollywood. How do the Academy Awards give the oscar for best picture for the wrong movie. Theres a mistake. Moonlight you won best picture. Incredible. We are going to begin this morning with President Trump kicking off a huge week in washington just 30 minutes from now. Hell be dropping into the meeting of the nations governors, then 30 minutes later, he sits down with the head of the Largest Health insurance companies. They are talking obamacare, of course. We have the best team to cover it. I want to start with this budget outline. We are expecting it from the trump administration. Kristen welker is following it from the white house. Lets break down what we know. It sounds like big money for military and cuts for everyone else. Reporter thats right. Its emblemmatic of what we heard on the campaign trail. This is what will be includ
Will be consequences if democrats continue to press the issue. The Mueller Report will be out soon. If there is no evidence of collusion between the Trump Campaign and the russian intelligence community, then that should be the end of all of this. Ive seen no evidence of collusion. And if the democrats keep pushing this, its going to blow up in their face in 2020. While the white house continues to sweat the mueller probe, im not even going to bother to show you the president s tweets this morning about witch hunt this and that. His former lawyer, michael cohen, stares down a threeday stretch of congressional testimony. Twice before the senate and house intelligence committees. Those are closed to the public. But on wednesday, cohen publicly testifies before the House Oversight committee about his former boss business dealings, including the costs of those illegal payoffs to women the president allegedly had affairs with. I hope you save some of your oscar night popcorn, folks, because
The acting white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney punts on his congressional testimony asking to join a lawsuit aimed at forcing federal courts to decide if white house staffers can be questioned. And President Trump heads to the deep south arriving in alabama this hour for his third sporting event in three weeks. A sportsman in chief. And trump could have new competition in the billionaire president ial boys club. Billionaire Michael Bloomberg preparing his own president ial bid. Who will it help and who could it hurt . And where were you 30 years ago tonight . The fall of the berlin wall remembered right now. How the city of berlin is remembering that historic day. But we begin right here on the homefront and days before the start of open impeachment hearings the battle lines drawn now. House republicans hours ago, just ahead of a deadline, released their list of witnesses, and that they would like to see. Headlining their list is joe bidens son hunter. Also the whistleblower who w