Heather showdown in the sunshine state. I democrats trying to steal the election . The major legal step rick scott just took to try to keep his future senate seat. You can board early if your servicemember traveling with a family. What about particular allergies . One more perk to passengers. Fox and friends first starts right now. Oh my god its the weekend hands up for the weekend oh my god its the weekend hands up for the weekend shannon todd 1 watching fox and friends first on friday morning. Thank you for starting your day, ending what has been a very busy week, very traumatic day yesterday. Authorities revealing brandnew disturbing clues as they tried to piece together what sparked an exmarine to walk into a California Bar and opened fire is terrifying new video paints a dark picture of the final moment for 12 innocent people who were murdered in cold blood. Jackie ibanez joins us with new chilling details. You were here throughout the night. Listening to family members come forward was heart wrenching. Reporter we are learning new information this morning. Look at this video from inside the borderline bar and grill showing terrifying moments. [gunshots] reporter people taking cover, hiding under pool tables, using bar stools to smash out windows to escape as we get a look at the 12 victims, among them a survivor of last years massacre in las vegas, other survivors of last years mass shooting managed to escape, also killed an aspiring soldier, freshman and a security guard. The fbi and police scouring the 28yearold suspects home where he lived with his mother, the home 5 miles from the borderline bar. Police say long used a handgun with an extended magazine in the attack. The sheriff says long is known to his agency. Deputies were called to his house for a subject disturbing, they went to the house, talked to him, he was somewhat irate, acting irrationally. They called out our crisis intervention team, Mental Health specialists who met with them, talked to him and cleared it. Reporter long served from 200822013, the organization, the marine corps extends its deepest condolences to the families of the victims in this senseless tragedy, honoring 29yearold veteran of the force, Sergeant Ron Helus killed in the attack. He was first on the scene, 150 people were inside the bar at the time of the shooting many college students. Heather adam housley who previously worked at fox news, his niece among those. Acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker has no intention of bowing out of the russia probe. This according to the washington post. After a dozen democrat state attorneys general demand his recusal, there letter suggesting he has been hostile towards the mueller investigation. They want Rod Rosenstein to supervise the probe. More on that coming up. Nancy pelosi is 100 confident she will be the next House Speaker after democrats retook control of the chamber. It is an urgency i cant resist. Hillary clinton had won, our Affordable Care act would be protected and i could go home. We always wanted to go home. That didnt happen for our country. Heather the former speaker is receiving tremendous support after announcing her run. 23 new and incumbent House Democrats said they are against pelosi grabbing the gavel. The other big story this week, the midterm elections are far from over. Democratic Election Officials in florida sued by governor rick scott, accused of trying to steal his election to the senate. Griff jenkins joins us with the latest on what scott is calling rampant fraud. Reporter here we go again. Two of the closest watched races in the country headed for recount in the nations recount capital, florida. In the race for the Senate Governor rick scotts leaders narrowing. Scott leads by less than 18,000 votes or 0. 22 as nelson prepares for recount, Governor Scott is suing the democrat election supervisors in broward and Palm Beach County accusing them of rampant fraud and calling on the department of Law Enforcement to investigate. We won, im going to be the us senator, i will fight this all the way. We will do everything we can looking at every legal remedy we can exercise. We will fight this and when this. Reporter under florida law, any race with a margin of half of 1 or less goes to a recount. In the race for governor, a razor thin recount territory, democratic tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillam who conceded the race on tuesday night is gearing up for a fight according to his lawyer. He is just waiting for the system to play itself out. This is part of the electoral process, part of the vote county and he will accept the results. Reporter dissenterss lead is 38,000 votes or 0. 44 . It is not all about florida. Orders race for governor, stacy abrams counting on uncounted absentee ballots to force a runoff with brian kemp, the current secretary of state says there are not enough votes left to force it. We will see what happens but it is not over yet. Jillian hashtag hanging chads again. Thank you so much. Democrats pinning their hopes on recounts to keep florida and arizona races in play and talked about georgia. National security analyst Morgan Ortagus says these are only happening in races where republicans have leads. Two things we excel at input, hurricanes and recounts. This is the season for both of those things. What is going on is almost a second election within an election. We have moved past the general election. This is coming down to legal, lawyers, in pr strategy. The one thing the florida recount has in common with the arizona recount or georgia recount is republicans on the senate and governors races are ahead in all of these. There is a big lesson to be learned on the democrat side as relates to florida. You saw the republican machine rick scott has built in the past eight years being governor really come out here. Heather Kristin Sinema has a lead over martha mcsorley. Welcome Justice Brett kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, joined by his wife and several former colleagues from the Dc Circuit Court of appeals, he did not take the traditional walk down the courthouse steps over security concerns. Missing at the ceremony was Ruth Bader Ginsburg who is recovering after breaking three ribs. That raises new questions, how much longer she will serve after falling in her office on wednesday. The 85yearold is the oldest Supreme Court justice. If she steps down donald trump would appoint a third justice. The Pittsburgh Steelers could not be stopped by the carolina panthers. This one down the sideline for brown. He has got it. He has got another, touchdown steelers. Heather been rough was burger throwing a 53 throwdown, the defense shutting down cam newton, returning an interception for a touchdown. Final four, 5221, steelers have won five straight games. Havent seen that since the super bowl. 10 minutes after the top of the hour, across the border illegally, lose your chance at asylum, the new immigration policy just unveiled by the Trump Administration and Jeff Sessions out of the doj. Was on the shortlist to replace him as attorney general . Breaking down the top three front runners next. Welcome back, watching fox and friends first, the rumored shortlist to replace Jeff Sessions narrowed down to three. New jersey governor Chris Christie, outgoing Florida Attorney general pam bondi and senator Lindsey Graham but our next guest has his own list as well. Lets talk about this, senior legal fellow for the Heritage Foundation john malcolm, thank you for joining us. The speculation begins immediately. It began a while ago because it wasnt a huge surprise to a lot of folks. Lets go through the folks who are rumored to be top of the list but with this president you never know what he is going to do. Lets talk about pam bondi. What do you think of her . He is terrific, outgoing attorney general from the state of florida. She is very bright, dynamic personality, frequent speaker at republican events. Heather Chris Christie is a familiar name to a lot of folks. Very public profile for Chris Christie, former us attorney from new jersey, went on to be governor. He has a lot of executive appearance and those is affirmative justice very well, whether the president will put up with somebody that larger than life figure or not remains to be seen but he knows Chris Christie well and they have a relationship that goes back quite some time. Heather Lindsey Graham, speaking of high profile, the real spartacus was the nickname he took over after the Brett Kavanaugh situation. What about him . Lindsey graham would do it next one job. He knows the department of justice extremely well. He is a lawyer, he was an air force lawyer, air force prosecutor for a number of years, he certainly did a tremendous job during the Brett Cavanagh hearings and been supportive of the president after starting out with a not so great relationship with the president when he first took office. I think his fellow south carolinian, trey gowdy, federal and state prosecutor, will get a serious look and other people will be looked at seriously as well. Heather Lindsey Graham released Donald Trumps telephone number on twitter but now they are buddies. What about the acting attorney general, Matt Whitaker, taking over . He has a lot of experience as well. The Senate ConfirmedUnited States attorney from iowa and served with distinction in that position for the last year. He has been the chief of staff to Jeff Sessions, certainly familiar with Jeff Sessionss thinking and all the political appointees at the department and have a relationship of sorts with the president. He accompanied Jeff Sessions to the white house on a number of occasions. Shannon a lot of people have a problem already saying he should not take over the russia investigation. What does it mean moving forward . Should whitaker stay in place a one of these other folks take over for the russia investigation . Any talk of interference by Matt Whitaker is premature and farfetched. He was a commentator before coming sessionss chief of staff and made comments, if mueller starts investigating personal finances that would be going too far but he hasnt done anything to cross the line and question his impartiality. Bob mueller is wrapping up his investigation and prepared a report. Any other incoming attorney general to do anything like that. What about the role of Rod Rosenstein in the investigation . Rod rosenstein has been having daytoday oversight of the investigation. He has done well at night since he had to do that and, to denigrate Rod Rosenstein and interfere with Rod Rosenstein with respect to any review of that. Heather that pushes the Mueller Report to come out sooner or later. The time is 18 after the top of the hour, republicans keeping hold of the senate as democrats take control of the house was why we could soon see a flood of conservative judges filling vacancies on the federal judiciary. Remember this . Unreal. Snoop dogg pretending to assassinate donald trump. The wrapper is back with a brandnew video taking aim at the president. I am a family man. I am a techie dad. I believe the best technology should feel effortless. Like magic. At comcast, its my job to develop, apps and tools that simplify your experience. My name is mike, im in Product Development at comcast. Were working to make things simple, easy and awesome. The Trump Administration rolling out a new immigration policy is the Migrant Caravan grows closer to the border. After the policy any migrant who attempts to cross into the country illegally will not be eligible to claim asylum in the us unless they do so at an official border crossing. This comes as several appeals courts block the administrations moved to end the daca program a judge ruling it is not in accordance with the law. The Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to intervene on daca. The ruling comes on the heels of Donald Trumps trip to paris, set to meet with World Leaders as they mark 100 years since the end of world war i. He will be joined by the first lady on a 3day trip. The president says he will not meet with Vladimir Putin there. The two are expected to sit down at the g 20 summit at the end of the month. After holding the Senate Republicans are full steam ahead of Donald Trumps judiciary nominees. The president has done an excellent job picking young men and women who believe the job of the judge is to follow the law and we intend to keep confirming as many as we can as long as we are in position to do it. Heather can they flood the courts with conservative judges . Here is gail trotter, spokesman for the judicial crisis network. Thank you for joining us so early this morning. Lets take a look at the numbers so far. Since donald trump has taken office 84 judges have been confirmed through the Senate Appointed by donald trump to Supreme Court justices and 29 judges to us appeals court. Do you expect the trend to continue at this point . He is. Election results tuesday night were clear mandates for the Trump Administration and the senate to move will speed ahead on filling up these vacancies in the federal courts. There are many vacancies, many nominees. People are in the pipeline to go for their hearings and there will be more nominees from the Trump Administration and this is a vitally important part of the president s job and the senate is there to evaluate and confirm these nominees the administration is putting porn and the public has shown it appreciate the excellent nominees donald trump is putting forward and appreciate the hard work of the senate to confirm these nominees even in the face of democratic opposition. Heather lets talk about public appreciation as we look at the vacancies you are talking about heather lets talk about public appreciation as we look at the vacancies you are talking about. 111 District Court of appeals open right now. We have pending nominations, 48 in the District Court and the court of appeals, something the public did not appreciate was treatment of Brett Kavanaugh. We could call that another clear message from the election results. There is the Brett Kavanaugh effect. If you look at senators from states that went for donald trump two years ago they lost their election or once votes were counted they are going to lose their election. Look at heidi heitkamp, claire mccaskill, joe donnelly from indiana and probably bill nelson and yet the one Senate Democrat who decided to put that aside and judge Brett Cavanagh and confirm Brett Kavanaugh to become Justice Cavanagh won his election. You can see the kavanaugh effect with election results. Heather with these appointments pending we have a lot going on. These lawsuits involving recounts and three different states, the asylum, Migrant Caravan going forward. The nominees being put forward are fair and independent. These are nominees who if confirmed will follow the law, they will not put their personal policy preferences into their decisions. They will be the kind of judges americans want who can rise above politics, leave the legislating to the people and representatives of the people and we see that the quality of the nominees supported by the Trump Administration and the same quality of nominees going forward. Heather Ruth Bader Ginsburg falling and breaking 3 ribs, we will see how long she is on the court. Gail trotter joining us live. The time is half past the top of the hour. Tense moments as two state troopers race to save a man trapped in a burning car. The heroic rescue caught on camera and the left is taking back the house but theres a new movement urging democrats to walk away if they can no longer relate to the party.