Dancing on top of it. Three people injured. The ugly, police in a normally quiet Washington State community were able to get 45 pounds of unlicensed pot off the streets thanks to a guy screaming at an Easter Egg Hunt. That wraps up fox friends first. Have a great day. Fox friends starts right now. Bye. Good monday morning. It is march 28th. Im ainsley earhardt. A fox news alert. Dozens of christians murdered on Easter Sunday. All of them targeted for their faith. The latest on the terrorists taking credit and the white houses response. Plus, donald trump says enoughs enough, and its time to put America First. The administrations response every leader i meet, they ask about what is happening in america. They cannot believe it. Its clear to me that whats happening is an embarrassment to our country. Our r are republicans really the embarrassment . Okay, great arm . Bad idea. [ bleep ] oh, my god. Oh [ cheers ] good luck throwing with your arm in handcuffs. Thats a cop car that he hits. Not a good idea. Little things you miss over the weekend because mornings are better with friends. Good morning. If youre just waking up, unc won last night. I went to bed when the game was just beginning. The game here look at. That carolina blue today. That was the latest game. I know, got to support my carolina fans. You could say notre dame lost. You could say syracuse came back i didnt know who to pull for because i like both teams. It sounds like you do know how to pull for. How youre dressed i didnt mean to do this, i promise. Brian was and ivanka had her baby, a
little baby yesterday. Yeah. A lot of information. All that you need to know. Not all of it good. Well start with this a fox news alert. As we mentioned moments ago, christians targeted in a bloody easter weekend attack in pakistan. At least 70 confirmed dead, and more than 300 hurt. The taliban claiming responsibility. Abby huntsman has the latest. Youve been covering this all morning. Reporter yeah, a horrible day for a lot of people. It came without warning. Terrorists detonating bombs just feet away from kids playing on swings, and christians celebrating the easter weekend. A steady stream of wounded worshippers rushed to the hospital, all targeted because they were christians. Doctors and nurses frantically working to help the more than 300 people that were hurt. The death total now at least 70 people. The joy of the day marred by violence, leaving so many in sorrow. A Taliban Group in pakistan claiming responsibility. The chief minister declaring three days of mourning. And he vows to find the bombers and bring them to justice. The u. S. State department condemning the attacks of innocent victims. Meanwhile, millions of people confused by facebooks new safety check tool. We talked about this last week. The company sent out a worldwide notification asking users if they were okay following the bombing. They apologized after the urgent notification was mistakenly sent to countries thousands of miles away, sparking fear and confusion on line. Guys, its obviously a good tool to find people that are in harms way. You definitely dont want to scare people all over the world unnecessarily. Kind of odd to see the remarks from the u. S. , not to mention the fact that christians were attacked on Easter Sunday. Especially as we just designated that theres being genocide committed against them in middle east. What a clear example that theyre being targeted. Lets talk about brussels. The investigation is encompassing many nations now. Yesterday, i was stunned to see at a vigil for those who lost their lives and were struggling to keep them escorted by
police. The group of what theyre calling right wing nationalist into the vigil to harass those there to mourn the death of those people who were innocently killed a few days ago. They were throwing Water Bottles. Theyre mad about the politics put into place in the country. Theyre just saying the countrys allowing theyre too lax and lenient about who crosses the border. Theyre upset with the immigration policy. Thats right. It was a unity event going often these folks said, you know, brussels and it hasnt been united for a long time. There have been two separate countries based on broken migration policies and separate rules for migrants and immigrants than those who have been here and a government utterly unprepared to deal with. Theyve descended into racism, unfortunately, as it should never be. There are problems with the discussion they were chanting break up belgium. Theyre looking to break up the country. Their Intelligence Forces have not been communicating. The same people who blew up these people in paris were behind the belgium blasts. Theyre saying the country cannot keep us safe. Theyre letting way too many people in, letting enclaves flourish. And they grow up to kill people. Thats what were witness, and theyve had it. Theyre taking it out at the wrong place. If youre at a vigil, you should not be victimized. The open border policies of the elites theyre protesting against. One of our open borders elites has h something to say. President obama in response to the attacks. He also touched on refugees. As we move forward in this fight, we have to wield another weapon alongside our air strikes, our military, and our counterterrorism work and diplomacy. Thats the power of our example. Our openness to refugees fleeing
u isils violence, our determination to win against isils hateful and violent propaganda, a distorted view of islam that aims to radicalize young muslims to their cause. That was the president s address over the weekend. This last week when people were dying and struggling for their lives and americans lost theirs, the president chose to stay, as you know, in a controversial way in my mind, to stay and watch the baseball game and then go to argentina and do the tango. The word is, life must go on despite the terror attacks. People in america upset that the president seems to be taking it so casually. Yes. For donald trump, it was an opening. An opening to sit down with the New York Times and talk about what he would do different, where our focus should be on Foreign Policy. Let me read a little of what was written in the new york time this morning. Weve been disrespected, mocked, and ripped off for many, many years by people that were smarter, shrewder, tougher. We are going to be friendly with everybody, but we are not going to be taken advantage of by anybody. Yeah. I mean, its ignited a back and
forth it how we should be responding to the policies. Obviously both ted cruz and donald trump is talked about naming the enemy, radical islam, which his administration wont do. Ted cruz has been critical of donald trump on the response, calling it weakness and isolationism which, of course, trump doesnt accept, very active back and forth. He spoke for 90 minutes. Theres a lot in it. Some of which is lets disband nato or its antiquated. Nato plays an extremely valuable role along with coordination to act when they need to be acting. If nato didnt exist, Eastern Europe would be steamrolled, might as well reconstitute the soviet union. He said he might stop buying oil from saudi arabia and other arab allies unless they commit to fighting isis on the ground or substantially reimburse the United States for all the money weve put in to fighting isis. I love that idea. I love that idea of calling him out publicly. I dont love the idea of divorcing ourselves from the alliance which, if you read the president s Foreign Policy view in the atlantic which goes on
for about 25 pages, he essentially says saudi arabia and iran puts them on the same plain. Their rivalry cannot overwhelm us in the u. S. He seems to want to detach us entirely from the middle east. But i cant believe how many people went out of their way to mock Donald TrumpsForeign Policy. As if it was too simplistic. What do you want to do . Drill down in it . He was asked 90 minutes worth of questions. These are the highlights. Including ted cruz did, but including john kerry who went over the top in his characterization of all republicans in their response to what was a terrorist attack that lays out the response. Heres what he said about the terrorist attack. Every leader asks about what is happening in america. They cannot believe it. I think it is fair to say that theyre shocked. They dont know where its taking the United States of america. It upsets peoples sense of
equilibrium about our steadiness, about our reliability. And to some degree, some of the questions, the way theyre posed, its clear that whats happening is an embarrassment to our country. Reliability . We dont show up after the paris attacks. The president goes and watch football. Reliability as we watch the red line get blurred and 200,000 to 300,000 people get plowed under. Reliability as we allow russia to get a new foothold in the middle east and syria. We cut a deal with iran, throwing out in the street iran and israel and saudi arabia . What about reliability, john kerry . We did we reached out to all of the candidates that are running for president this year because we want to talk about some issues. Donald trump accepted our invitation. Hell be on with us this morning. Well ask him the questions. A grandfather again. Thats right. Meantime, Heather Childers who anchored the 5 00 a. M. Is here to help with the headlines. Good morning. Hope you had a great weekend. We watched you over the
weekend. I was here. Hopefully everyone at home, you had a good weekend. We begin with stories and a tragedy at playtime. A 7yearold girl killed. Two people under arrest after a freak bounce house accident. Weve heard it these before. In their happened at a british traveling fair. The inflated building blew away with the girl inside, it slammed to the ground and rolled down a hill nearly 500 feet away. It was a freak gust of wind that caught everyone unawares. Actually pulled the safety stakes out of the ground. Its so appalling that this little girl came to have a lovely devil ray her family and lost her life. A man and woman from the firm that runs the attraction are under arrest on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence. An Easter Egg Hunt descends into madness in connecticut when a massive crowd of parents pushes right past the kids trying to scoop up their treasures. The parents were. A 4yearold boy reportedly left trampled, bloodied, and shoved
in the mud as the pushy parents went to grab the 9,000 eggs hidden across the street from the pez headquarters. Witnesses described the chaos. The parents bumrushed the area. Parents took everything. When my son left, he had a broken basket and was hysterically crying. What are you thinking . More than 1,000 showed up for the event. Pez says a majority of the parents didnt wait for organize force officially start that hunt. And the final four teams are set. It was a fight to the finish after the second half with a doubledigit lead. Virginia collapsed. Syracuse coming back with a 298 run in the final ten minutes of the game to take the victory over the topseeded cavaliers 6862. The orange is the first number10 seed to make the final four in tournament history. And North Carolinas final four drought, it is over. It was a competitive first half, but the tar heels were able to storm back in the end of the second half, beating notre dame
8874. This is the first time that North Carolina is heading to the National Semifinals since 2009. Heres your matchup villanova plays oklahoma. It is North Carolina against syracuse. Both games will be played on april 2nd. , heels. And finally, donald trump is a grandpa again. The gop president ial frontrunner welcomed the birth of Theodore James on twitter saying the family feels incredibly blessed. A nice easter present for them. Thats a look at the headlines. Aw. Theodore. I love that name. Its so cute. I have a friend, and her childs name is theodore. They call him teddy. Pretty good. Well get Donald Trumps reaction to that. We just told you, Donald Trumps new America First plan to fight terror. Tell work . The general who commanded the u. S. Forces in afghanistan here to talk to pete next. Then, Bernie Sanders says that George Clooney is ruining the country. Hes ruining our country. Yes. Absolutely. Well find out why he thinks that. Absolutely. About time. Are you ready . Are you ready . Youve got to be ready. I mean, really ready. Are you ready to open . Ready to compete . Ready to welcome . The floors, mats, spotless. The uniforms clean and crisp. Do your people have the right safety gear . Are they protected . Im ready you think your customers cant tell the difference between whos ready and whos not . Of course they do. Everybody wants a piece of ready. Theres people who care where im going and good friends to welcome me home so get a full tank of freedom, drive the american road and with a full tank of freedom, find your own highway well take you wherever you go. Take you wherever you go. At our Retirement Plan today. Not now im cleaning the oven yeah, im cleaning the gutters washing the dog washing the cat well im learning snapchamp chat. Chat changing the oil. vo its surprising what people would rather do than deal with retirement. Pressurewashing the. Roses. Aerating the lawn vo but with nationwide its no big deal. Okay, your Retirement Plan is all set. Nationwide . Awesome. Nice neighborhood. Nationwide is on your side America First. Thats Donald TrumpsForeign Policy in a nutshell. Telling the New York Times, im not an isolationist, but i am America First. Weve been disrespected, mocked, and ripped off for years by people smarter, shrewder, tougher. He says other World Leaders are taking advantage of the u. S. Adding as president he would consider withdrawing troops from certain nations unless others World Leaders pulled their weight. So is this a sound policy . Lets ask the former Deputy Commanding general of u. S. Forces in afghanistan, Brigadier General anthony tata, who is also the author of the upcoming book three minutes to midnight. Thanks for joining us this morning. Great to be here. Thank you. Absolutely. Youve been on the front lines of our Foreign Policy. America first, the way hes articulated it, do you think thats the right approach for americas Foreign Policy . Yeah. I do, pete. I think you have to look at it with a background that obama created in mind. We have a president that is sort sort of employs what i call the nfl draft method of foreign
policy where the strongest teams or countries should be diluted in power by having the last pick, and the weakest times or countries should be should have enhanced power by having the first pick. And so thats why you see obama do things such as elevate iran in status, where theyre not a Nuclear Power. He treats them as a Nuclear Power. And he compares them to russia that has thousands of nuclear weapons. And he cuts this bogus, bad deal giving 100 billion to iran, to then have support terrorism around the world. Then you see him do things like not make a statement yesterday about the attack on the christians by the taliban. I mean, thats unconscionable to me. And the leader of the free world and you see things like with belgium, he goes to a baseball game. And with paris, he never goes there. And he has not invoked article 5 of the north atlantic treaty
that says a attack against one is a attack against all nato nations. Trump is pivoting off of that. He is saying, were not going to dilute american power. And the geopolitical world, he is doing whats called the rational actor theyry where the rational actor goes after supporting and having the nations selfinterest first and foremost. Thats what trump is talking about. General, donald trump short of declaring article 5 has questioned the need for nato altogether. Critics have been ferocious about this America First approach. First of all, its historical connotation is to an antiwar group that tried to keep america out of world war ii. Even not just democrats, but his republican opponents have come after him on this. Listen top what ted cruz had to say. I want your reaction. Sure, sure. Particularly on Foreign Policy. Donald is out of his depth. He doesnt know, doesnt understand these issues. Abandoning europe, withdrawing from the most successful military alliance of modern
times makes no sense at all. If donald were president and he did what he said he would do, withdraw from nato, it would hand a massive victory to putin, massive stroik isis. Isis would be victory to isis. Isis would be dancing in the street. He says putin would win a victory and isis would be dancing in the streets. Strong words. What do you say . Its a non sequitur to me. Trump is talking about playing hardball to security requirements weve had in place longstanding. Worked with nato. It cleerps the u. K. And take on the brunt of the fighting. And the rest of the nato nations are sort of there but not in full partnership. So trumps got a good argument there that nato needs to cowboy up. In my mind, trump is a rational actor where hes acting in our
selfinterest, the u. S. Selfinterest, as opposed to obama who is trying to dilute american power. Thank you for your opinion, certainly informed. We will continue the discussion. Donald trump joining us at 7 30 eastern time this