Thanks for joining us. Fox friends starts now. Bye. Spoim good morning. It is thursday good morning. Thursday, july 24, 2014. A woman spared the death sentence in sudan over her christian beliefs now officially a free woman. What happened while you were sleeping . A big update on that. Tens of thousands of illegals pouring into our country. The reason why . The president apparently ordering the Border Agents to slack off. Thats coming from a former border agent. Details coming up. I slack off on my own without orders. Author steven king slams christians and tea partyers over the border crisis. What happened next will surprise you. Its a twitter firestorm. Okay, mornings are better with friends. Stand by for the news. Welcome aboard, folks. It is t. B. T. Throwbackthursday. What happens is on wednesday the producers sit down in the show room, how can we embarrass the host. The assignment today, sports pictures of us back in the days when we were athletic. That is me in really short shorts. The interesting thing about it, that is down in washington, d. C. , it was during the reagan years. The guy in front of me, that is john block, former secretary of the agriculture. That was taken seconds before i sprinted ahead of him. You told me you won the race. Was that the 25th or 26th mile . It was like 50. Brian, there you are back in the 1950s. The ball bouncing away. I think thats ninth grade. Thats awesome. Look at your action shot there. Not many action shots for me because i was an official bench warmer but
this is our team photo for the Academy Basketball team, where the love of the hoop began. How old are you there . Now i specialize in getting dunked on right on our plaza. You were playing defense on that. In the picture to the left i was convinced i was going to the wnba. Really . Yes. Because my dad told me i could. I think its hilarious, you go from bench warmer to couch warmer. Im much happier here. Your dad also told you youre playing softball at b. C. . He was encouraging no matter how many times i struck out. We would love to see your pictures, email them to us at friends at foks news. Com. Heather nauert with news out of africa. Breaking news. Moments ago algeria news
agency reporting an african passenger plane has now vanished from radar. This flight was heading from Burkina Fasso to algiers. They lost track of the plane about 50 minutes after takeoff. Stay with Fox News Channel for the latest developments. While you were sleeping, this next story is going to bring hope to christians who are being persecuted around the world. Remember the story of the sudanese woman who was spared the death sentence for refusing to renounce christianity . She is in italy this morning. The italian Prime Minister gave her and her family a warm welcome in rome today, and look at those babies in her arms. This all comes after an intense negotiation from the Italian Government and also the vatican to spare her and get her out of that sudanese prison. That imprisonment sparked International Outrage and forced sudans Supreme Court to change that ruling. Great news for her. Yet another fox news
alert. New information coming in overnight, the f. A. A. Now lifting its ban on flights to and from israel. The agency is saying they assessed security and reviewed israels Safety Measures and they decided to end the restrictions. It was a 36hour ban and it was put in place after a rocket landed in a neighborhood about a mile away from tel avivs airport. Take a look at this stunning image taken by a german astronaut aboard the International Space station. He says this is the saddest picture he has ever taken. It shows explosions and rockets as that violence rages on in that region. In the meantime secretary of state john kerry is now there. Hes trying to push for a ceasefire between israel and hamas. Well keep watching that story for you throughout the day. Back here at home there is a new lead this morning on that white flag mystery at the Brooklyn Bridge we told you about yesterday. Police say they now want to talk with a teenage skateboarder and four friends. Security video shows thatGroup Walking across the bridge about 20 minutes before the lights went out on that tower. There is still no explanation on how they managed to bypass police, make the quarter mile climb up and how the american flags were bleached. The cops on duty at the time apparently will not be punished. Police say their principal job is to watch for suspicious vehicles and not watch those towers. What do you think of that . Those are your headlines. Were they on skateboards when they did it or were they skateboarders that did it . I think they were skateboarders that did it. If they were on skateboards they would be asked to get off the bridge. Meanwhile, heather is right, a lot of breaking news. President obama under fire today for fundraising while being confronted with one International Crisis after another plus trouble at home. Now americans are voicing their opinion in brandnew fox news polls saying their leader, our leader, is
incompetent. Doug luzader live in washington with biggest concerns of voters in our poll. A majority of registered voters now question the president s competence. There is no question there is a lot going on on the world stage. Lets start with the conflict between israel and hamsz hamas. In a fox news poll we asked how is the president handling the conflict. 29 approve. 56 , a clear majority, disapprove of the president s handling. Then we moved on to the crisis in the ukraine. That has intensified in the wake of the downing of malaysia air flight 17. Threequarters of registered voters, 75 , think putin has the upper hand over obama. Just 14 think that obama is playing this game better than putin. This comes as the president is spngd a lot of
spending a lot of time on the west coast and a lot of fundraising. Republicans say he should be back here in washington tending to business. This selfpity that he continues to exhibit is really kind of sad really. I cannot explain it except to say that he does not have this desire to have social interface with people and sit down and try to work things out. The fact of the matter is the president , like most professionals, has the capability to deal with more than one priority at a time. And particularly somebody who has the trappings of the presidency alongside him. Hes got his own airplane, hes got dedicated phone lines. One last question when it comes to foreign policy. Overall, how is the president handling it . General . 36 of registered voters approve his handling of foreign policy. Not a very good number. But the good news for the white house is that it has improved a bit. It hit an alltime low last
month of just 32 . Steve, brian, elisabeth, back to you guys . Doug luzader live in the bureau with full results. Thank you. You look at the border patrol. They are known as the catchers in the business. You come across our border, theyre going to catch you. Then you look at the enforcement and removal operations, they are the removers. Border patrol are supposed to get them, hand them to i. C. E. There is a little bit of a problem. Border patrol is understaffed and underfunded. They cant work overtime. When it comes to i. C. E. , it is hard to believe this story. Some i. C. E. Fecials Officials Say they believe the Obama Administration is intentionally reassigning them elsewhere making this matter intentionally worse. Weve never had as many agents on our southern border as we do now, the border is secure according to some in congress. That could be true but according to an official, the white house is reassigning them away from the border. Mean bhiel somebody who is not in a meanwhile somebody who is not in a border state, the state of utah, gary hubbard was on with greta last night, look, this is a problem, invasion from the south. It is impacting all in the country because these kids are going to different states where they have to go to school, got to eat, got to be cared for. This is not a problem the states should be dealing with. It is something uncle sam should be dealing with. Here is gary herbert. Weve tried to do things in our own states but weve been told directly by the courts this is a federal issue. Okay, well back off. But we expect the federal government to do something. Again, the president has got the lead. Hes got a 3. 7 billion
program out there. Senator reid and the Senate Democrats have a 2. 7 billion proposal. They are only 1 billion apart. I know in washington, d. C. Thats a rounding error but that is real money in the state of utah and to the taxpayers. They have to show leadership and bring people together. David stod dard, executive Vice President of law enforcement, when it comes to the states, we know texas is doing stuff. Maybe arizona is next. When it comes to the i. C. E. Agents, some are working four hours a day, theyre sitting where the phone never rings in new offices using cars handed to them that dont go anywhere and theyre afraid to come forward and explain because their jobs are threatened. They want to work. This account here from a former agent says this message comes from the top down and the bottle neck is on purpose. If youre an i. C. E. Agent, tweet us, write us. We want to get your
perspective. If youre steven king, we know youre quite a tweeter. He did a couple of tweets and slammed christians in the tea party for whats going on down south. He tweeted revise tea party gospel. Suffer the little children come unto me unless theyre undocumented kids from central america. Another tweet he sent out, much easier to be a christian when the little kids arent in your backyard, isnt it . Heres the news for steven king after he posted that. He got schooled from people. They said wait a minute, what are you talking about . Youre taking a shot at the tea party and christians. On the southern border Catholic Charities are doing everything they can. Youve got churches and nuns. When it comes to tea parties and conservatives, glenn beck this weekend pledged 1,000 to kids. Mike lee of utah, Louis Gohmert took tractortrailers full of food and Water Bottles and
teddy bears to the kids. King busy writing fiction but in this case he created friction, he was wrong. Let us know what you think about that. A dozen minutes after the top of the hour on this very busy thursday. How do americans really feel about our leadership . The dials are in and they are brandnew, and we have them for you next right here on fox friends. Remember that computer that competed on jeopardy and won . Fourletter word for the iron sitting on the hoop of a horse or a card dealing box in a casino. Watson . You are right. Watson is right and helping our vets ment great story, youll love it. Tell you all about it. Are you ready for this . When laquinta. Com sends him a ready for you alert the second his room is ready, ya know what salesman alan ames becomes . I think the numbers speak for themselves. Im sold a selling machine ready for you alert, only at lq. Com. New Olay Regenerist instant fix collection fills wrinkles,e to reduces the look of pores and smoothes texture for a skin makeover in minutes. Instant fix perfecting collection. Olay. Your best beautiful. Your studied day and night for her drivers test. Secretly inside, you hoped she wouldnt pass. The thought of your baby girl driving around all by herself was. You just werent ready. But she did pass. cause shes your baby girl. And now youre proud. A bundle of nerves proud. But proud. Get a discount when you add a newlylicensed teen to your Liberty Mutual insurance policy. Call to learn about our whole range of life event discounts. Newlywed discount. New College Graduate and retiree discounts. You could even get a discount when you add a car. Call Liberty Mutual for a free quote today at
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paying attention. You sat with them on tuesday. Were going to go through some of the quotes and how they read to americans out there. This is president obama delivering a warning to russia on ukraine. If russia continues to violate ukraines sovereignty and to back these separatists and these separatists become more dangerous and are a risk not only to people inside the ukraine but the broader International Community, russia will only further isolate itself from the International Community and the costs for russias behavior will only continue to increase. Can you explain what those dials mean as they go up and down and how different . The blue and the red dials are. You see on one side youve got the liberal line and youve got the conservative line. Its not necessarily news that theres such a divide but that is a huge divide. Were looking at a 30point divide just because hes communicating. He opens his mouth and people are polarized and it makes it really difficult to have a conversation. But theres one thing that
the people that we spoke with all agree on, and that is that president obama should be doing more. He should be getting more of the whole europe involved. They dont blame obama for putin but they do think this is politics as usual, that he could be doing more and we should be working to get oil over to europe and everybody thinks that the solution is right in his face and hes just not doing anything about it. They started worlds apart on the dial there. Lets go to netanyahu and whether he spoke on whether, and if israel will exit gaza. We didnt seek this escalation but hamas forced it on us. They started rocketing our cities, steadily increasing the fire. I called for deescalation, they refused. I accepted an egyptian ceasefire proposal backed up by the arab league and the u. N. They refused. I accepted humanitarian law proposed by the united nations. They refused. And well stop our operations when we can bring back quiet to our
people. Initially together and then a stark dip that were seeing there for the Prime Minister speaking. Thats right. The blue line with the liberals, red line conservatives. This is a huge divide. When we talk with the conservatives about it, people think he is compassionate, they think hes likable, doing all they can. When you talk to liberals, they think hes a war monger and people cant have a dialogue. You cant get a word in edgewise because people are so divided on what we should be doing in israel and specifically on what hes saying. We want to talk about john kerry speaking, whether obama will put more sanctions on russia. This is the reaction on the dial. We think this is a wakeup call for countries in europe. President obama, however, took the lead and put additional sanctions in place on energy, on arms Manufacturing Companies and on banking. And those are the toughest sanctions that have been
put in place to date. He did that the day before this incident took place. Almost off the chart did that dip go. What it means is that no one, either side liked him. He never got above 59 on the liberals, and on the republicans he went down to zero. What everybody says that they think hes selfinterest, not out for the good of the country and symbolizes everything wrong with this country on both sides but especially with conservatives. You bring us the pulse and the dial of the American People. Leigh carter, thank you for being with fox friends. An insane scene. A car driver drives through a garage and hits the highway leaving a rifle. How this came to an end. Do you buy brand name or generic at the drug store . Does it make a difference . Dr. Marc siegel says yes. Dr. Marc siegel says yes. Ifcorner of smart choicee and multiple choice, come to walgreens for help finding the one thats right for you. Like centrum. Select products are now just 9. 99 with card. At the corner of happy and healthy. Your eyes. Even 10 miles away. They can see the light of a single candle. Look after them. With centrum silver. Multivitamins for your eyes, heart and brain. Now with a new easytoswallow coating. Quick headlines. Glad youre up. Weather being blamed for a plane crash that killed everyone on board in taiwan. Transasia airways say the plane caught the tail end of a typhoon while trying to land. It appears a recent medal of honor recipient does not know his own strength. [applause] thats a first. Former Army Staff Sergeant ryan pitts helped ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange but as he hit the gavel the handle broke in half. Sergeant pitts received the medal of honor this week and will join us next hour with his story. Hopefully he wont break anything. Steve . Thats funny. Thank you, brian. Last year americans spent 44 billion on name brand drugs. Generic drugs cost 80 to 85 less than those name brands but are they just as goo