to me. it's very sad. >> we owe the american people to be there for then, for their financial security, there is collateral damage or others that don't share our view well, so be it. >> this year you want to spice things up again, right? i get it you wanted an indian woman but elizabeth warren failed her d.n.a. test. [laughter] ♪ magic in the air ♪ ainsley: it is friday. i heard clip from nikki haley in new york. ed: she can say whatever she wants to now she is leaving. steve: she had fun at the expense the elizabeth warren and mayor de blasio as well. ed: we are going to have fun at your expense today because i heard it's your birthday. steve: it is my birthday. ains happy birthday so glad you were born. steve: that means it's official live my birthday when ainsley says that. ainsley: when you walk in his house today, cathy is going to have your momma's pot roast? steve: she made it for me last night because we are during the book tour today we are going down to canton, georgia to be at the river church and then tomorrow we will be out in beaver creek ohio at books and company. ed: your book was number one in the world. it's awesome. steve: printing them as fast as they can. ed: ainsley and i were going to bake with friends. we haven't been able to do it yet. steve: brian talks about easy bake oven growing up. ainsley: maybe that's why brian is not here today is he making your birthday cake: lots to talk about today, two minutes after the stop want to hour. get to this fox news alert. planes filled with police and riot gear landing at the border of mexico and guatemala. ed: president trump praising that move as migrant caravan inches closer to the u.s. steve: right now griff jenkins is live way down in mcclanahan, texas with the plan to stop thousands from crossing into mexico and then crossing into the united states. hey, griff. >> good morning, guys. i am at ground zero the heaviest trafficked sector of the entire u.s.-mexico border. allergies the president keeps eyes on the caravan. secretary of state mike pompeo will meet today with mexican officials to try and implement a plan to stop that caravan along the mexican border. we saw more than 500 federal officers deployed in that effort. we will see what happens. last night the president in a rally in montana thanking the mexican government for their efforts. listen. >> i just want to thank the mexican government because they're stopping it, hopefully, before it ever gets to mexico. [cheers] >> i'm willing to send a military to defend our southern border, if necessary. all caused because of the illegal immigration onslaught brought by the democrats because they refuse to acknowledge or to change the laws. they like it. >> but here's the thing, guys, and here is why i'm standing where i am now. that is for hundreds of miles before that caravan gets here, the problem on this border is already exploding. a record number of illegal families crossing, more than 16,000 last month, that is an 80% increase since july when the administration reversed their policy on the zero tolerance. get this number. 107,000. more than 107,000 family members taken into custody in fiscal year 2018. that's shatters the record set in 2016 just over 78,000. and where i am in the rio grande valley sector rvg they are seeing 300 percent increase in family units coming since this time last year. more than 5400 in just this one station in the last two weeks and countsless loads of dope. we're about to go on a ride along here shortly as the sun comes up. we will try to bring it to you live so you can just see the pressure already mounting on this border. and that's why the president is talking about this being a major issue in the midterms less than a month away, guys. ainsley: griff, after the u.s. mca that replaced nafta, is that the reason mexico is helping us and coordinating with us? we have a better relationship with them? >> well, we don't know fully. we will learn more perhaps after secretary of state pompeo meets with him. but, one thing is for sure. as one administration goes out and a new one comes, in mexico has found a new motivation to try and help us with this problem. one thing that they will do is help with the deportation policy. we're going to hear more about that later. steve: all right. griff jenkins down in mac allen, texas. thank you. the president of the united states referred to the caravan at wide ranging events out in montana in mizzou la. he said he suspects democrats could be behind the caravan. while he didn't cite any evidence it is thought he was referring to a video that matt gates congressman from florida apparently showed migrants being handed down in honduras, they don't know where it was, being handed cash. mr. gates called for an investigation whether u.s. backed ngos or george soros were behind the caravan. so, you know, obviously, it's a political thing to the white house. ainsley: he definitely doubled down yesterday at the rally. remember yesterday he was tweeting he saying he was going to send our military and close the border possibly. he doubled down on that when he was speaking in montana out there stumping for matt rosendale who he wants to become the republican senator in that area. he said immigration is his top priority or one of them at least. listen to this. >> come election day, americans will remember kavanaugh the caravan, law and order. and common sense. but a lot of money has been passing through. for people to come up and try to get to the border by election day. as you know, i am willing to send the military to defend our southern border, if necessary. [applause] the crazy democrats refuse to support any form of border security legislation. they also figure everybody coming in is going to vote democrat, you know. hey, they are not so stupid when you think about it, right? democrats have become the party of crime. the choice could not be more clear. democrats produce mobs. republicans produce jobs. [cheers] steve: there he is rhyming. just to be clear about the matt gates video that he tweeted out and the president tweeted out. it was suggested earlier that it was shot in honduras. now they don't know where it's from. mr. gates said i got it from a honduras official that's why i thought it was from there. they don't know what the nature of it is. nonetheless, mr. gates is call for an investigation u. ed: this plan with the u.s. and mexico should mean that the caravan is handled better than it has biff. the u.n. is supposed to be setting up shelters along the central mexico border process make sure people are refugees and not being handed cash or being directed to cross the border into mexico and into the u.s. and do bad things. under this new plan as well, if any of these migrants do cross into the u.s. and we find out they are not legitimately refugees they have made it through somehow. the new plan says we can send them back to mexico legitimately and they will accept them. that's where the trump administration certainly hopes rush limbaugh was on with sean hannity last night talking about cracking down on illegal immigration is a key part of a push back against the so-called blue wave. watch. >> i think there are things that have yet to happen that are going to determine outcomes in some races that we still don't know. very hard to predict. kavanaugh feedback reaction was 100 percent positive for republicans. the democrats really blew that. i don't have survey data. i don't trust it. it hasn't been right consistently enough for me. the people doing these surveys desperately want trump gone. i don't know how they can take that out of their work. i don't believe in pure objectsivity. sean: if i put you on the spot, prediction? >> we hold the house and increase the senate. i think that's justice. i think that's just. i think the democrat party deserves to lose in the single biggest electoral land slide defeat in my lifetime because of the actions they have taken just in the last month. ainsley: he says he doesn't trust the polls, republicans are going to keep both chambers of congress. steve: look back to 2016. polls got it wrong. only one or two polling outfits i think rasmus sen was rasmussen and usc polls got it close. steve: sitting in a big hotel big banquet room every year they host the al-smith dinner u nikki haley taking up residence on the east side of new york as the u.n. ambassador had a little fun. she was one of the keynote speakers. and she brought up some people in the news. listen to this. >> the president called me this morning and gave me some really good advice. he said if i get stuck for laughs, just brag about his accomplishments. [laughter] it really killed at the u.n. i do understanding why you invited me. two years ago president trump was here and he made some waves. last year he went with paul ryan, who he is a boy scout that's fine but a little boring. [laughter] so this year he wanted to spice things up again, right? i get it. he wanted an indian woman. but elizabeth warren failed her d.n.a. test. [laughter] when the president found out i was indian-american he asked me if i was from the same tribe at elizabeth warren. ed: oh boy, poke a little funnel at the president. ainsley: the president said we played that in the sound bite i was talking to you in the beginning of that. she said if the president said if you run out of jokes just brag about me it really went over really well at the u.n. steve: as it turns out it was not at the waldorf, astoria it was at the walton. ainsley: it looks like a choir in a church. you can see all these celebrities behind the speaker. steve: they try to figure out who to put next to whom. ainsley: al-smith was governor of new york i think four times. politician in new york and his family has continued the al-smith additional. every time there is an election every four years both of the candidates go and it's tradition u. steve: it's a big roast. ainsley: a lot of money is raised for catholic charity. ed: blue wave or rid wave what do you think friends@foxnews.com in the meantime we will go over to carley shimkus. ainsley: we made it. carley: a fox news alert. several sailors hurt after a helicopter crashes in the fill penal sea. fox news confirms two pilots and two crew members were in the m-860 seahawk when it went down shortly after takeoff. everyone is expected to survive. the cause under investigation. now, this comes more than a year after two warships from the same fleet were involved in a separate cash. 17 sailors died. turning now to extreme weather. rain pouring central texas for nearly a week showing no signs of stopping today. lakes are overflowing, flooding nearby homes and businesses, at least two people are dead. as waters rise, officials opening four flood gates at a dam near austin. they could open all 8 for the first time ever. firefighters braving the floods to save an american flag in texas and the video is now going viral. look at that and did you buy your lotto ticket yet? tonight's jackpot leaping to insane $970 million. your chances of winning it ail is just one in 302 million. tonight's drawing shut second largest u.s. jackpot in history. and those, guys, are your headlines. ainsley: you have a better chance of getting struck by lightning just so you know. carley: and probably bitten by a shark. ed: if i win we will throw a big birthday party for steve. steve: i already have my ticket. thank you, carley. want to vote and not a citizen? no problem. democrats will check the box for you. what aim talking about? we have details coming up. ed: just when you thought rosie o'donnell could not get any more unhinged she does. >> i want to send the military to the white house to get him. 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>> well, i think, if you look at all the polls in 2016, they weren't that far off, i mean, the fact is they predicted a hillary clinton win. she did win the national vote. what she didn't win was the electoral college. what they did a bad job of doing is predicting each individual state and each individual race. ed: that's not good, right? >> right. if you look at the national polls, yes. but the problem is those oversampled from california and big cities in northeast, yes, democrats do very well there. if you look at the individual states where there are competitive seats. tension where ted cruz is now running way ahead of beto a o'rourke or nevada where republicans are looking to hold sights. look at missouri and north dakota where will moving ahead of moderate democrats. montana republicans are competing with incumbent democrats. if you go into each of those individual states and those individual races. ed: sure. >> in that case republicans are doing much better. ed: let's break it down and start with the senate. you just mentioned north dakota heidi heitkamp down double digits. mccaskill in missouri a democrat who appears to be in trouble. some people predicting right now that the republicans may pick up 2, 3 seats or so in the senate. is that realistic or is that an exaggeration. >> it is. you mentioned two right there north dakota and missouri. throw florida in that where wick scott is running ahead of bill nelson and montana with matt rosendale and jon tester back and forth two. others could surprise people is west virginia where patrick morrisey is running a very strong race against joe manchin and indiana brawn against joe donnelly. both of those also competitive. what's going to make a big difference in these states is the president's travel schedule. look where he is going and spending time. like i mentioned last night in montana, i promise you matt rosendale is going to get a big bump out of that. does he go to indiana and west virginia? if he does that's another case he can help bring the candidates across the fin finish line in the end. ed: let's end quickly on the so-called kavanaugh effect. is that real or exaggeration? >> it is real. i'm doing polling in a lot of these races, what i saw immediately following the kavanaugh vote was particularly in states like north dakota, montana missouri, where you had democrats who voted against kavanaugh, even in a state like texas where had you ted cruz who fought and argued for kavanaugh, you saw republican intensity meet or exceed democrat intensity. first time in the 2018 cycle that's occurred. ed: chris wilson, you can certainly see a surge in republican intensity. see how it plays out. we appreciate you coming. >> in you bet. appreciate you having me. ed: president believes that saudi columnist is dead as secretary of state mike pompeo pushes to give the saudis more time. seems like the right move to avoid a full-on diplomatic crisis, right? well, some in the media though, they are melting down. why is that? 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saudi arabia right now. >> we have weathered crises before. this is clearly a crisis for u.s. and saudi relations one i'm confident our nation and the king will get through. the president is showing a degree of wisdom and asking for patience in time and consideration. we would like to see independently the information verified ourselves. we remember our relationship with the kingdom is almost a century old. we, an american president, president roosevelt recognized that the kingdom would be strategically important even before we knew any oil was present in the kingdom. not about to abandon the kingdom now. steve: sure. we heard that from mike pompeo yesterday where he said we are going to give him more time so they get as much information and they have been a very important ally of ours as well. but, it looks like from what we have seen, it looks like the crown prince may have ordered a hit on this guy or been somehow involved. and there is a story out this morning that apparently they may blame a top intel officer who is close to him to have him take the fall. >> i understand that the circumstances look very, very negative. i hesitate to make any allegations without knowing proof. we also understand saudi arabia is not crown prince mohammed bin salman. they are two separate entities. they are pragmatic. we know this crown prince may rule for more than 50 years. the truth is america -- wants to exert tremendous influence in the gulf region. we can't do it without the kingdom. the goals of our president and the crown prince are extremely unified in terms of fighting the menace of an islamist iran. we know that the crown prince also recognizes the muslim brotherhood as literally evil. and which is how we also see it as well. the mothership of all modern terrorism. so i would say we have to stand with them. and we have weathered in this city and country 9/11 with the saudis and come through that. steve: we have noticed that a number of members of the media are calling into question the president's relationship with the saudis. i think joe biden a day ago said that president trump has a love affair with autocrats, i believe he was talking about the relationship with the saudis as well. >> the former vice president biden can account for his own remarks. the truth is we live in a world full of monarchs, dictators, autocrats, we deal with whoever we can one of the very strong things about the crown prince he is actually looking to economic reform of the kingdom. there has been a mass exodus of american presence from the dave votes in the dessert meeting. often the reform. the united states should be supporting the economic effort of economic reform for a post chemical future. steve: look, there is all this evidence that we have gotten from turkey it looks like the royal family is somehow involved. saudi arabia looks very bad. the president's demeanor and his approach has been okay, it looks bad. but let's wait until we find out exactly where the chips fall. >> it not only looks bad, but it is bad. however, we recognize this crown prince has centralized power more than many previous monarchs. we are not going to move ahead without him and the united states is thought in the business of selecting heirs to the saudi throne. that's not what we do. this is a time for the united states to push for its goals in the region. now maybe we can say to saudi arabia we wants to you stand with us even more firmly against th houthis, against hezbollah, may we want to seek peace in israel and palestine. many things we can gain. those gaining from the humiliation of the kingdom, tuckery, qatar and iran whose goals have r. sometimes counter to that of the united states. let's not forget that. steve: let's see what the saudi kingdom does come out with an answer. it's going to be forthcoming. dr. ahmed, thank you very much for joining us live. it is 6:29 right now in new york city. the president back to his strong message on border security, trashing catch and release. what he says is making the problem even worse coming up. and cory booker, the senator from new jersey says canada is more american than america. listen. >> i can't stopped out they are out americaning us in canada. trudy is great. steve: diamond and silk with reaction. good morning ladies, you are next. a boom. book now at choicehotels.com not allowed to say hey, go back. every other couple tri in countd they say go back. we have hardened criminals coming. in catch and release have you heard about this one you? catch them, you find out about them. even if you find out bad things, you catch them and you release them. i will say, i have caused the problem because i have created such an incredible economy. i have created so many jobs, i have made this country with you so great everybody wants to come in so they are all pouring in or trying to. [cheers and applause] steve: a big night in missoula, montana. ainsley: let's bring in diamond and silk social media stars to get their reaction from the rally last night. he was talking about catch and release. just saying everyone wants to come in. the economy is great. he has made the economy great. people want to come in. they get to our country and they put one foot on our soil and we have to release them in our country. your thoughts? >> first of all, the rally was amazing last night. >> yes, it was. he is right. catch and release, it's a stupid policy. listen, catch and release are for fish, all right? >> that's right. >> sanctuary cities are for birds. >> that's right. >> when you come in this country come in legally. >> legally. >> do it the right way. if you are seeking asigh 4ru78 go to the ports of entry. don't come into our ports of entry and release you. >> you casts do that in their country. >> you cannot do that when you come over here, you have to do it the right way. >> that's right. steve: diamond and silk, here is the thing, catch and release is the law of the land. if the president wants to change it and if congress wants to change it, congress has got to change it apparently there has not been a majority in congress who have wanted to change it. >> well, we are going to have to put -- listen, we're going to have to get up in congress' face and hold them accountability. >> that's right. >> they have to change that law. that law is dangerous. to allow illegal aliens to come over here and release them in the population. anything can happen. that's how people form gangs and people get killed. we have to know who walking among us. you wouldn't just open up your door and let anybody in to release them your house to do whatever to cook up your food and use your laundry detergent. you have to know who is coming in your house. congress needs to get to work and do their job. work for the american people. change the law. ed: sounds like common sense the president used that phrase last night in montana. election will be about common sense. republicans leading on capitol hill and they haven't dealt with some of these big illegal immigrants issues. the president talked yesterday about maybe sending the military to the border. rosie o'donnellrosie o'donnell a response to that listen to this. >> when he got the nomination, i thought well, we just got to wait until election day. that's all i have to do is hold on until then. and then that he won, you know, it took me a good year to compose myself to be in public again. i took a year out of the spotlight. when he was elected what i wrote on twitter we should impose martial law until we make sure the russians weren't involved in the final tallies of the vote. martial law? what's wrong with you you? are a lunatic. >> he wants to send the military to the border. >> i want to send the military to the white house to get him. [laughter] ed: i don't know what's more remarkable her saying i want to send the military to get the president or an entire msnbc panel thinking it's funny. >> i find that not funny. you know, rosie o'donnell, she says she took a year off. she should have took a year to pack up her bakings and rags and move to another country like venezuela. because she said that if he becomes president she was going to move. >> to move. >> why didn't she do that. that's what she should have done. >> that's right. >> talking about sending the military to our president. maybe we should send the fbi to her she did violate some finance laws when it comes to campaign contributions did, she not. >> yes, she did. >> and she did other dammable things u maybe we should send the fbi to her house. >> individual like her that continue to keep this country stuck in a rut. you know, i don't have a problem purchasing a ticket, a one-way ticket for her to go to another country. because we don't need individuals like that in this country stagnating it. ed: i'm not sure the president is going to send the fbi after her. when you talk about oneway tickets, it sounds like cory booker last we left him he was playing spartacus in the kavanaugh hearings. now he seems to be saying it's time to, you know, he is talking about how canada is out americaing america. listen to. this i can't stand how they are outamericaing us in canada. trudeau, give me a break. ed: why do these senators like to go out and seem to talk america down? >> you know what? because he has such disdain. >> yes. >> for this president. is he clueless. he doesn't even see how president trump is making america greater than we have ever seen it before. >> that's right. >> how the economic opportunity is available for minorities in this country. how many people can pick and choose their jobs because is he clueless. >> clueless. >> if he doesn't like the way america is operating. why don't he pack his rags and bags and move to canada? >> that's right. ainsley: rosy down in venezuela and corey up in canada. >> get them on out of here. >> get them out of here. because it's dumb individuals like cory booker that sits in these different positions and did absolutely nothing to benefit the american people. it's individuals like that. ed: a lot of celebrities promised to move to canada if he got elected. ainsley: did he do it? ed: zero. steve: diamond and silk joining us from diamond and silk world headquarters. ladies, thank you very much. have a good weekend. ainsley: thanks, ladies. hand it over to carley who has headlines for us. carley: good morning, friends. how are you? take a listen to this. remember when the obama administration labeled the fort hood shooting a workplace violence? well newly released jail house letters from shooter nadal hasan thought it was a good idea to kill soldiers because they did not follow sharia law. he also said he carried out the attack to guarantee a place in heaven for his mom. he killed 1 people on the texas base in 2009. he is now appealing his death sentence. texas democrats accused of mailing voting applications to non-citizens u the public interest legal foundation showing the form that are prefilled out with boxes checked off saying the applicant is a u.s. citizen over the age of 18. a complaint now under investigation. texas governor greg abbott says if it's true, there will be serious consequences. no boys allow you had. a mother is demanding girls only time at public playgrounds u an anonymous woman writing "the washington post" saying she asked another mother who live a public playground with her son but she said no. the woman adding, quote: we live in a world where boys get everything and girls are left with the crumbs? the post reporter answering back saying what she did was terrible. and a small town store is making big bucks selling all things president trump. the president trump store is the only one of its kind and has things like make your birthday great again cards and adorable deplorable shirts. >> i am a very conservative republican. and i like people to know that that's who i am. and i feel proud to wear it. carley: the arizona store original lay trump campaign headquarters opened after the president was elected in 2016. adorable deplorables shirt. how execute that. ainsley: we should have shopped there and gotten a card for steve and said make your birthday great again. carley: we can say it again. make your birthday great again u. steve: faster than going to arizona. ed: i know what will make your birthday better. going out with your friend janice she is dancing. janice: i'm dancing for steve's birthday. steve: you are dancing because it's freezing outside? janice: that and it's friday. friday dance party. happy birthday steve doocy. we are so glad you were born u here across the northeast cooler than average. in the 30's across portions of the interior northeast, great lakes. freeze advisories in place yes, it helps if you are dancing. past 24 hours some showers moving across portions of the midwest. unfortunately texas you are dealing with more rain in your forecast. heading into the weekend west texas and south texas. bulk of the rainfall. flood advisories where things are really dangerous with those rivers that continue to rise. if you live in texas,able aware know what to do if there is a watch or warning in your area. it's friday and it's steve doocy's birthday. woo hooh. steve: there is one guy behind you watching. janice: say happy birthday to steve doocy. >> happy birthday, steve. steve: thank you. janice: it's complete. ed: dance like nobody was watching. but there is somebody out there. steve: theres watt one guy who is also on tv. ed: yeah. ainsley: 2020 hopefuls are hitting key states like south carolina and iowa. cory booker was actually in south carolina. but, can anyone actually take on president trump? sean spicer knows the president extremely well, as you know. he is going to join us live to weigh in. ed: todd prior roy is having breakfast with friends in missoula, montana. todd: happy birthday to steve doocy from the ox in missoula as it's known. president ford's son worked at the ox when he was in college. will entrepreneurship's visit here work to put rosendale over the top? we have that next when "fox & friends" returns. ♪ as a pro athlete, the sleep number 360 smart bed is my competitive edge. it senses our movements and automatically adjusts to keep us both effortlessly comfortable. so i'm at my best for this team... and the home team. sleep number proven quality sleep, from $999. takes more than just investment advice. from insurance to savings to retirement, it takes someone with experience and knowledge who can help me build a complete plan. brian, my certified financial planner™ professional, is committed to working in my best interest. i call it my "comfortable future plan," and it's all possible with a cfp® professional. find your certified financial planner™ professional at letsmakeaplan.org. find your certified financial planner™ professional a moment of joy. a source of inspiration. an act of kindness. an old friend. a new beginning. some welcome relief... or a cause for celebration. ♪ what's inside? 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[cheers] he is a super liberal. i know you people. i won by a for country of votes, many. , many votes. i know you. you know me, i know you. how the hell did you ever elect that guy? ed: forget about the pundits, how do voters actually react to all of this? we sent our own correspondent todd piro to the oxen cafe in montana where he is having breakfast with friends. todd: what's so interesting about this race it wasn't on a lot of watch lists until a couple months ago. jon tester seemed to be running away with it. the republicans couldn't galvanize behind a candidate. all of that has really changed here over the course of the last couple months jon tester vs. matt rosendale. that's the reason president trump came here last night. we have two people who attended that rally. todd, a really good name if i don't say so myself and his lovely wife teresa. a new fox poll lists the economy as a huge issue going into these midterms. you are a general manager at lumber distribution company. you are bottom line guy, you say president trump and matt rosendale are bottom line guys. why? >> it's our country. we need that now. we need to get to a point to where we have this understanding of, you know, our dollar only goes so far. and we need to be wise with what we have and what we're doing. and, you know, just to make our country better. todd: understood. i want to switch gears to the border. you had an interesting take. you said when it comes to the border, our laws get biptioned for what you call, quote: theater. what do you mean by that? >> it seems like nowadays, since our country is so facebook, whatever, you know, all these different kinds of avenues of bringing out things, it just is making it look like oh, this is such a drank time of an avenue that our country is going down when really when we look at what we have and the productivity and how great our country is, we can find ways to make all of this work if people would really put an effort towards it. todd: understood. todd, thank you, theresa one question for you. you were talking to me earlier. you said you blame the democrats for the divisive rhetoric in our country. you say for years republicans just seem to take it now president trump doesn't take it why? >> >> he just calls people out on it he is not afraid to say what he thinks and he just speaks it. if something is not right or if someone has said something, he calls him out on it and he says something about it which i like. i think a lot of people are tired of just kind of just taking the high road and not saying anything. he speaks your mind. todd: great stuff, guys. todd and theresa thank you very much. coming up next hour, we will take you inside our visit to the rally. we walk the line and, boy, there were a lot of people there. we will bring that to you coming up in a little while. for now, steve, ainsley, and ed. ainsley: didn't you say you thought you were going to get in quickly because you went five hours early and wasn't the case? todd: yeah. we landed and figure five hours here ahead of time no problem. we got in the line to get. in it was an hour in the car line. ed: unbelievable. we will be back with you, todd. steve: kamala harris the latest democrat plan to throw free money around is this how she kicks off her democratic campaign? we will tell you next. ainsley: author of the best selling book mitch albom is going to join us next. steve: ehey, mitch. everything. hey, how'd you get in here? cross-checking. nice. what's in your wallet... oh, c'mon! your digestive system has billions of bacteria but life can throw them off balance. re-align yourself with align probiotic. and try new align gummies with prebiotics and probiotics to help support digestive health. ainsley: we know and love mitch albom best selling book five people you meet in heaven has touched people's lives for 15 years now. it's been that long? crazy. it tells the story of eddy who died after saving a little girl named annie and five people that eddy meets in heaven. and now mitch albom is back with a new book it's called the next person you meet in heaven which continues the story of evan and annie. this time following annie's journey in to heaven. best selling author mitch albom joins us now. tell me about the book. >> the first book you say eddy dies and goes to heaven and meets five people who explain his life to him. he dies from saving a little girl at accident at amusement park. he pushes the girl out of the way and saves her life. he doesn't remember anything. this follows the little girl. she blacked out the trauma from the event. all life she feels like she has been making mistakes and mistakes. when she dies and goes to heaven she meets five of e. people of her own. eddy. this life of mistakes that she thought she made actually all fit together and made a lot of sense. ainsley: how did writing these books contribute to what you have done in your personal life? i know you take care of an or fan chilanororphan child. 47 kids. i run a charity. down there every month. my passport has been overstamped already. one of those children developed a brain tumor when she was five years old. she came to live with us. for two years she was our daughter. she succumbed to the brain tumor but we traveled around the world with her trying to save her life. because of that loss -- ainsley: is this her picture? what's her name? >> chamika. she was the light of our lives. that loss. one of the reasons i decided to look. ainsley: look at that picture? >> that's her belle dress. selfie i'm not very good at those. ainsley: so cute. >> there is a moment in the book where annie is shown by a character in heaven pipe cleaners play an important part in the thing. takes pipe cleaners she is all upset about the losses she had in her life, just as i had that loss. he makes a small little heart out of one pipe cleaner. see small little heart it's perfect and small. this is the heart we are born with then he takes the other four pipe cleaners larger one lines all across it he see one we are. >broken. it what ruins it no it makes it whole. i have learned to experience all those experiences and losses make our rife whole. that's what makes it precious. i hope people suffered losses in their own life provides comfort as it did for me. ainsley: congratulations, you such an inspiration for everyone who reads your material. >> thank you. ainsley: mitch albom, the next person you meet in heaven. pick it up today. >> thank you, a pleasure, ainsley. ainsley: a fox news alert. moments ago people crossing our southern border arrested by border patrol. griff is live on the ground. plus, charles payne, sean spicer and lawrence jones all coming up. our dad was in the hospital. because of smoking. but we still had to have a cigarette. had to. but then, we were like. what are we doing? 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[laughter] >> you buy your lotto ticket yet? tonight's mega million jackpot leaping to insane $970 million. the second largest u.s. jackpot in history. ♪ ♪ ♪ steve: all right. welcome to "fox & friends." brian is out. ed is in. ed: happy birthday, steve. ainsley: happy birthday, steve. steve: thank you very much. we are starting this hour with a fox news alert. because, in the last hour, border patrol agents made several arrests on our southern border and griff jenkins was live in mcallen, texas and watched it all go down. griff? ed: good morning. griff: good morning, guys. the situation is very fluid. this is what it means to protect our border. right now you see an arrest. just about 10 minutes ago a group of a dozen or more were running -- we're about a mile north of the border above the rio grande river and you see now they are processing some -- they got arrested. here's the thing, guys. there are three active groups our cameras are seeing on the border. this was one of them. let me show you. this watch this, over here, you see this railroad track right here. this is where our group was. but you see an agent here in the dark. they are still working two other groups about a quarter mile to my west. we have a group that is known to be about 22. they are actively pursuing that and then off to our other -- to the east we have another group which is on a raft on the river right now. agents tell me right here that they are actively trying to persuade the raft of illegal aliens attempting to cross, a third separate group right now to go back to the river because the numbers of the people that are overwhelmingly coming is too much for them to handle. because already an hour ago we had an entire group of family units come and surrender. those are the people seeking asylum. they are those in the caravan and out border patrol has to do that humanitarian effort as well it pulls from their resources. right now we have half of the force in this small mcallen, rvg sector dealing with the humanitarian family. people surrendered in the last hour. we have this group that we just took moments ago and they are chasing about six of the dozen that are still in these bushes. we have a group of 22 that are about quarter mile away from me and a raft trying to cross right now. that's why this situation is so fluid. right now on this border and you can see actually what they are dealing with right here. i want to show you this one more time is. the humanitarian side on that railroad track when this gentleman fled, he hurt hirst ankle it could be broken. we're not sure. we have an emt trying to assist them because that's what we do. we're the americans u we are the good guys. we look after them but this is a gentleman that has illegally attempted to cross. we don't know what contra band or dope may be in any of these groups but this situation is very active and very fluid right now on the southern border with the caravan hundreds of miles away with 4,000, guys? steve: that's right. griff. we talk so much about this and to see this live is amazing. now, griff, if you are caught coming into the country illegally, can you then say okay, i thought i would get through without you catching me, but then can they apply for refugee status or ask for asylum? >> no. when you come here and chase and try to enter and infiltrate the country you are arrested and prosecuted. if you show up and peacefully claim aasylum and say i'm here for asylum. then we have to listen to your claim. and that is what is happening elsewhere. we will take you over there and show you the family units that have already surrendered. they will not be dealt with in the same manner as those that come here and try and illegally enter like this gentleman who will be ultimately prosecuted and possibly deported once they determine who he is and why he is here. steve? ainsley: griff, we went down to the border a while ago. i guess about six months ago i was down there. they were telling us folks come from all over the world. they go into mexico and then they go and seek asylum through the ports of entry. to steve's question, you can only seek asylum if you go through the ports of entry. you can't just go and cross the border and swim or go through the woods, right? you have to go through the port of entry. >> that's correct. if you come across the port of entry, there is a process. in fact, the last time we were here, back in july, we actually went to the mcallen, mexico bridge where that process happenings and there is an officer that listens to you. in this case the overwhelming numbers are come like this gentleman behind me and the others in this group and it's really, really putting a strain on these courageous border patrol agents that are dealing with the multiple problems. as we are standing here, i'm listening in the back of my ear i can hear on their radios the group of 22 that they are in hot pursuit down hire. it comes down to manpower and the number of you know, pursuits they have got to go on any given time. the asylums are the easy part. that's the humanitarian part. it pulls the resources to do this work, which is actual enforcement on this border and let's not forget sometimes fortunately didn't happen this time. sometimes the border patrol agents are even assaulted with rocks and other violence here when they are trying to protect this border. it's going to be a very busy morning, guys. ed: griff, there are a lot of reports at the white house there was this verbal clash between the chief of staff john kelly the national security advisor john bolton about how exactly aggressive we are or are not being at the border. what are you seeing down there? there are some statistics that suggest that apprehensions are on the rise u. griff: that's right, ed. you know, the number of family, illegal families crossing is 16,000 last month. that's an 80% increase from july when the administration reversed their zero tolerance policy. steve: right. >> down here on the border, ed, people tell you these groups, the cartels look for drivers, right? things that driver the heavy numbers. what's driving the heaviest numbers right now is the perceived catch and release policy that they're going to get when they come and they know the politics that's in all of this and that's why have you got a caravan coming from hundreds of miles away and have you got heavy heavy numbers like this guy behind me coming in the dead of night. the president has staked out his ground. that ask he wants a secure border and he thinks that that's what his voters want, too. steve: griff jenkins live in mcallen, texas, amazing images you are bringing us. griff, thank you very much. he is talk about the about. last night the president did talk a lot about immigration. he said this election is going to come down to kavanaugh, the care van, law and order and common sense. watch. >> come election day, americans will remember kavanaugh, the caravan, law and order, and common sense. but a lot of money has been passing through. people, to come up and try and get to the border by election day. as you know, i'm willing to send the military to defend our southern border if necessary. [cheers] >> the crazy democrats refuse to support any form of border security legislation. they also figure everybody coming in is going to vote democrat. you know. hey, they are not so stupid when you think about it, right? democrats have become the party of crime. the choice could not be more clear. democrats produce mobs. republicans produce jobs. [cheers and applause] ed: part of the reason the president is trying to put this front and center is that he has got a strong economy right now, right? he wants to do more in terms of cracking down on illegal immigration. he has had house and senate republicans supposed to be running things for the last year and a half or. so there is a fear he has and that's why he is talking about what democrats will do if they take over the house that they are not going to give them funding for the wall. steve: so far. ed: bring that the voters look if you put democrats in charge we will never get that wall. they are going to obstruct all kinds of other things. ainsley: if you missed sean hannity's interview with rush limbaugh. rush said something that really indicate our attention. he said if the democrats, if they win, this is going to happen. this is his prediction for 2020 if the democrats take the house and the senate. watch this. >> what happens if we lose, go back and look if we lose in 2016, if they get the house, folks, i'm just going to tell you, whatever trump wants to do is going to stop. it's going to be paralyzed. it's going to be nothing but in every house committee that's relevant inspections, investigations, subpoenas, they are going to go back and try to get kavanaugh thrown out. it's going to be nothing but two years of get even with trump for having the audacity to win and the business of the nation is going to be brought to a screeching halt. ainsley: if you want more of the russia, more of the kavanaugh thing that we saw, he is saying vote for democrats. that's what you are going to see if they win. steve: the president did last night suggest that perhaps democrats were behind the caravan and he didn't site any evidence. according to politico he seemed to be preference ago video that congressman matt gaetz from florida posted on twitter on wednesday that supposedly showed migrants in honduras giving cash to central american countries. going further gates called for an investigation to find out whether u.s. backed ngos or george soros a frequent critic and subject of conspiracy theories was behind the alleged payments. trump himself tweeted out the video on thursday. it was -- then they realized well maybe that video is not from honduras, maybe it's from guatemala. don't know exactly what was going on in it nonetheless, the congressman cited it and looks like the president retweeted it. >> now they are going to investigate. steve: maybe h they called for it last night. ed: we have carley shimkus here. ainsley: hey, carley, happy friday. carley: search for missing wisconsin teen expands nationwide. the fbi adding jayme closs to top missing person's list. 100 volunteers scouring the neighborhood for clues. police believe the 13-year-old is in danger after hearing the 911 call from that horrific night. no one spoke on the phone but there was background noise. president trump threatening very severe consequences after admitting he doesn't think "the washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi is alive. >> do you believe jamal khashoggi is dead? >> is turnerly looks that way. >> held accountable if they are found response sick for murdering khashoggi. allegations they strongly deny. 15 passengers are hurt after violent turbulence wreaked havoc on a plane carrying nearly 200 people. just look at those photos, showing the plane littered with oxygen masks, food and debris. the airline says it hit rough air when the plane reached cruising altitude after taking off in miami headed to argentina. eight people were rushed to the hospital. president trump is known for going off script and last night's rally in montana no exception. listen to what he said to a woman in the crowd who shouted i love you. >> i love you, too. [cheers] >> who said that? it's finally a woman. i get it from the men all the time. [laughter] and so far every guy that said i love you, they are just north my type. >> the president thanked her for her kind words and those are your headlines. steve: that's something. by the way i said they called for an investigation last night mr. gates. he called for the investigation on wednesday. all right. meanwhile, president trump taking on jon tester the senator in montana as he rallies for republican support ahead of the midterms. >> if you wanting to drain the swamp, you must defeat the democrats and you must defeat senator jon tester. steve: former white house press secretary sean spicer here to react live next. ed: todd piro is having breakfast with friends in missoula, montana. what's happening, guys? todd: the oxford cafe here open for 125 consecutive years. they don't even have the key to this place. will president trump's visit here about the key to defeating jon tester? >> we will see when "fox & friends" returns. ♪ ahhhhh! shhhhh! new nyquil severe with vicks vapocool. the vaporizing, nightime coughing, aching, stuffy head, best sleep with a cold, medicine. state of the art technology, makes it brilliant. the visionary lexus nx. lease the 2019 nx 300 for $339 a month for 36 months. experience amazing, at your lexus dealer. ♪ cal: we saved our money and now, we get to spend it - our way. valerie: but we worry if we have enough to last. ♪ cal: ellen, our certified financial planner™ professional, helps us manage our cash flow and plan for the unexpected. valerie: her experience and training gave us the courage to go for it. it's our "confident forever plan"... cal: ...and it's all possible with a cfp® professional. find your certified financial planner™ professional at letsmakeaplan.org. ♪ >> the democrats and you must defeat senator jon tester. [cheers] >> he is a super liberal how do you -- i know you people. i won by a fortune of votes. like many, many, many votes. i know you. you know me. i know you. how the hell did you ever elect that guy? [laughter] ainsley: that's president trump last night taking on democrat jon tester at last night's montana rally ahead of the midterm push. ed: is this enough to help republicans get over the top in november? steve: let's talk to former white house press secretary and senior advisor and spokesperson for america first action sean spicer. good morning to you. >> good morning. how are you doing? steve: doing okay. how big an impact does it have on a senate campaign if the president of the united states comes to your state and says vote for this guy and vote the other guy out? >> normally it's probably a pretty good thing but we are not living in normal times. when president trump comes it's quite a different effect. you saw the size of that event that he had. [broken audio] look, let me paint a picture for you. six years ago jon tester won an election barely by beating former congressman denny weaver with less than 50% of the vote. donald trump two years ago won montana by over 20 points, well over 50% well over hillary clinton. there is a huge amount of support for president trump in this state, and senator tester barely won re-election six years ago. so, having that kind of enthusiasm and intensity come in and the trump effect do a huge thing to push up matt rosendale in final few days. i think america first has put in $1.5 million. continuing to put people and send money that way. i think this is a good sign for matt. ed: sean, talking when the president says look the middle of the country doesn't want far left policies. bring it beyond 2018 to 2020 and when you survey the democratic field, potential field, what do you see? >> i was at the rnc last cycle as you know and i oversaw 17 amazing qualified and experienced candidates that they -- that we had on our side seeking our nomination. when i look now, it's sort of the political equivalent of the "star wars" bar scene. you have got everybody who has ever thought about politics running, running down to south carolina. not focused so much on winning back the house and the senate on their side but promoting themselves and trying to continue to go to the far extreme left. ed: all right. well we will be looking for their spartacus moment, i guess. ainsley: there is cory booker people say he want to run for president. he was in south carolina. we will see. ed: canada o cannabis legalizing recreational marijuana. is it coming here too? 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joining us right now are former police officer joe peters who served nut white house drug czar's office screen left. and michael, the chairman of the tree of knowledge. guys, good morning to you. >> good morning to you, steve. >> good morning. steve: big question, is it a good idea? joe, i will start with you, to legalize pot nationwide here in the united states? canada just did it? >> quick answer is no. i think we will be sorry. fortunately we have a crystal ball in this case because we can look five years later at what happened in colorado, for instance, which legalized marijuana. steve: what happened in colorado? >> by every metric it was a failure in my view. teen drug use is the highest in the country: teen drug use. drug driving is off the charts. doubled with marijuana impaired driving. homelessness is up. emergency room admissions. and the black market is flourishing. black market arrest remember the whole notion is we legalize it we can control it black market arrests are up almost 400 percent. steve: michael, you are proponent of it, tirkly medical marijuana and things that help you feel good. >> yes. steve: you heard what he just said. >> you know, i believe that it has to be regulated and having medical marijuana being very helpful nationally and internationally. we sell our products in south america for epilepsy and parkison's and we show a lot of benefits. steve: most people are for medical marijuana. it's when it's recreational there is a poll out should marijuana recreational be legal? this was a pew poll. 62% say yes. make it legal. 34% say no. it should be illegal. >> i think ultimately it will be legal. but, again, if it's regulated properly so people get the right product. you don't want marijuana laced with fentanyl and some of these other issues. steve: absolutely. >> that's one way. >> that's the problem. we are in the throw he is of an opioid crisis. president trump just boldly moved forward with an entire new agenda focusing on treatment and prescription of legal opioids because it leads to addiction. why on earth would we introduce recreationally a brand new drug and open the flood gates, particularly to young people, and big tobacco will take over, big marijuana will be what big tobacco is today. steve: i can't tell you how many times we have done segments on pot and people right in and say drinking is legal. it's no different than drinking, is it? >> well, definitely it different. again, regulating recreational marijuana, you know, joe mentioned, you know, issues as it relates to opioids. right? our big push in our company is cbd as opposed to putting people on opioids. if you can move people against recreational more towards the cbd side where you are not getting high that would be a plus. steve: thank you very much for a chat about in this morning. what do you think about it? let us know friends@foxnews.com. meanwhile you saw it here live on "fox & friends" illegals, apparently, under arrest at the border. there are thousands more coming in a caravan. is there anything we can do to stop it? a border patrol agent is going to join us live. what did voters think of president trump's rally last night in montana? todd piro is out there having breakfast with friends to find out. he's behind -- he is at the grill. ♪ want to sleep and have fun ♪ time for a good time ♪ clean my truck ♪ ♪ when the moon hits your eye ♪ ♪ like a big pizza pie, ♪ that's amore. ♪ when the world seems... ♪ applebee's new neighborhood pastas. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. applebee's new neighborhood pastas. i think it will fit. ♪ want a performance car that actually fits your life? 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[phone ringing] ed: ringing them up. my sources tell me actually it's one source. peter doocy tells me you are a pretty good golfer. steve: not really. ed: maybe he is wrong. ages ains you try. ed: our next guest was number one in the world for 331 weeks. can you please identify yourself, sir? >> hey, happy birthday mr. doocy. my favorite down in south florida. how are you, my friend? steve: good. there he is right there greg norman, it's the shark. how are you? >> i'm very well. you must be exhausted because have you done 62 revolutions around the sun. that's impressive. i have got to be honest with you you don't look a day older than 67. you have done a really good job. steve: thank you very much. ed: friends can kid each other. ainsley: greg, how do you know steve? >> actually through a friend of ours. steve was actually looking for a place for a little summer mommy down here in jupiter island, and we got in touch that way and stayed great friends ever since. it's been an honor to know him. everybody says steve has a great cookbook out there the happy cookbook. at the end of the day, i think it's number one reason why it's so good is the recipe from down under, right, steve? steve: that's right. greg norman's mother gave us the recipe for crispy crackling poirk lionel which you bake in a really hot oven. but, greg, explain why the outside gets so crispy. >> well, it's the preparation for it. in america it's very, very hot. pork skin on the outside, but the way my mother prepped it, she keeps it very, very moist. puts a lot of salt on it as you say in high temperature. and at the end of the day, when you get it, it's just like, you know, by thing into something really crunchy, crackly. it's a great meal down under. i can't wait to get the cookbook from you, steve. steve: i would love that that is the same favorite recipe of stuart varney. ainsley: thank you, greg. >> happy birthday, steve. steve: thank you very much. greg. best to kiki. ainsley: how are you feeling this morning. steve: great. ed: think you revealed your age? steve: that's okay. i feel a little older than that. ed: maybe they are making that crackling dish out in missoula. steve: i don't know. tolled is out at the cafe at the site of that big trump rally last night. todd? [no audio] >> only matched by the number of people who came out to that rally last night. win thing was clear. in the battle between the republican matt rosendale and the democrat incumbent jon tester, the folks we spoke to not big fans of the incumbent. take a listen. >> he is the worse thing that could happen to montana. >> he barely goes to work. when he does he doesn't vote for montana. >> he is a liar and i don't like him. >> he is not truthful and not good for montana. todd: what do you think of the job the president has done. >> i think it's amazing. >> he is so good. >> he has helped our economy. >> panel on cnn say people who attend trump rallies are cruel people. >> if that's true there is a lot of cruel people in missoula. todd: are you guys cruel. >> no. we are a group embrace godly values. todd: flag so important to this family not only does the young lady have the ribbon in her hair. check out this guy's hair. the flag literally in his head. as a legal immigrant from roman i can't, what do you row romania, what do you think of the caravan coming up from honduras. >> it's pretty sad. i think once the borders will be up, they will have more security. >> immigrant from canada to the united states. i served in the military here. we can not allow these vast amounts of people to move irresponsibly across one, two, three, four countries. i think a lot of them are minutes yomanipulated. if you see him what are you going to say to him? >> good --e -- todd: the way the democrats handled the brett kavanaugh nomination is going to have on this ways. really offense from the people we spoke to they think this is going to help push matt rosendale over the top to defeat jon tester. obviously in a couple weeks we will know the real answer. again, ainsley, ed, and our favorite birthday boy steve decembery back to you. ed: jon tester and the rest of the democrats except for manchin voted no on kavanaugh. that will be front and center for the midterms. ainsley: thanks, todd. steve: greg norman just mentioned the happy cookbook. listen up "fox & friends" viewers. the happy cookbook tour is becoming a special contest on "fox & friends." it's going to be called dining with doocy. you could win a trip for two to new york city or i might even show up at your house. ainsley: really like you did the villages. steve: exactly. all you have to do is send us your special recipe and tell us why that recipe makes you happy. and that's the whole idea behind the cook peculiar. to enter go to foxnews.com/dining with doocy. fill out the submission form read the official rules and second us your story and recipe that makes you happy u. ed: that was message. steve: three weeks ago today. the grand prize winner will have me knocking on their door with a tv crew. we are going to go inside live into somebody's house and make them a recipe out of the cookbook. did it at the villages and do it again because it was amazing television. everywhere i go people say hey steve when are you going to dom to my house and make me breakfast. in addition to the grand prize two runners up will win transcription for two here to new york city where they will appear on "fox & friends" and we will make their happy recipes live on the tv show. ainsley: that is so cool. ainsley: yesterday we had a baby shower for two girls here pregnant and we were talking about this. everybody is talking but going to the house in the villages. steve: it was crazy. this is the happiest contest we have ever had at "fox & friends." if you would like to take part go to foxnews.com dining with doocy to submit an entry. ainsley: i love that. steve: it's a great idea. ainsley: people win come on our sets and cook with them. steve: unbelievable. by the way, tonight i'm going to be in the atlanta area at the river church in canton, ohio -- canton, georgia. and tomorrow in dayton ohio area books and company at beaver creek, ohio at 2:00. ed: now have you greg norman saying is he going to cook for you. travel the country having people cook for you. you will never have to pay for a meal again. ainsley: if you would like to meet his wife cathy is going to be with him too. steve: she will indeed. take support. a happy contest. ed: you saw it here live on "fox & friends" last hour. illegals under arrest at the border. and there are thousands more coming in that caravan. is there anything we can do to stop it? a border patrol agent joins us live coming up. ainsley: what's behind this disturbing new trend? republicans harassed in public as democrats are losing their way to the high road. >> you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for. >> they go low. we kick them. this flu season, protect yourself and your sister-in-law's tennis partner's chatty coworker's youngest daughter's entire judo class. one shot can make a world of difference. walgreens' specially trained pharmacists, know exactly which flu shot is right for you. protecting the world... over 60 million flu shots and counting, starts with protecting yours, today. walgreens, trusted since 1901. ainsley: you saw it live at the top of the hour, illegals, right there, under arrest at our border and there are thousands coming in that caravan. joining me now with the latest on the caravan is deputy chief border patrol agent scott luck. agent luck thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. ainsley: we saw at the top of the show top of the hour griff jenkins is reporting on this issue on the caravan. all of a sudden border patrol agents rush in and catch these illegal immigrants trying to cross over. how do you catch them in the middle of the night. >> we are seeing that as a result of increase in family unit apprehensions. it's been uptick since july. they are at unprecedented numbers for last fy. so at night we have ways and infrared equipment that we can watch them at night and other things that help us capture them. but, it has been unprecedented number of folks coming across the border in family units which gives us the indication steady rise since july, gives us indication that we need help from congress right now. the status quo is not going to work anymore. ainsley: the president touched on that. because it's up to congress to change the law us, catch and release in particular. last night he weighs at montana at that rally and this is what he said about catch and release. >> we have the dumbest laws anywhere in the world. somebody comes in and we say excuse me, a foot hits the ground. you know, the foot hits the ground we are not allowed it say hey, go back. and by law we have to take them in and then we have to release. called catch and release. ever hear of this one? you catch them, you find out about them, even if you find out bad things. ainsley: do you agree with him? is catch and release hurting our country? >> well, the common ploy of a smuggler is distract us by sending family units and you think accompanied children to one area of the border and try to pass their product through another area of the border. that's the dynamic that we are working with. also, we have agents that are spending exorbitant amount of time in the roles of processing and doing child care and food preparation where they should be focusing on the border security mission and keeping america safe and the citizens of their county and the country safe. ainsley: how do you stay safe? yesterday we saw reports that there were several agents that were injured because rocks were being thrown at them. when i was down there on the border, some of the agents were telling me that when you take the boats into the rio grand that people on the mexican side are throwing bricks at them. they are also tossing out fishing lines and trying to hook the agents u. >> yes. i mean, border patrol agents get extensive amount of training at our border patrol academy. it's very difficult. it's 117 day program. it's very scenario based and built to deal with those types of scenarios in real life. ainsley: wow. so, what's your message to congress if they are listening right now? >> we need to change the asylum laws. the asylum laws helps not only the traffic that comes between the ports of entry but also at the ports of entry. we have to change the standard for the asylum laws. we have to make sure that we can detain families together as they go through their immigration and proceedings. and get their due process. that, in and of itself, we need more wall. we need more technology and we certainly need more border patrol agents out there to help us do that. ainsley: thank you for all that you are doing to keep our country safe. we appreciate it. you stay safe. >> thank you for having me. ainsley: thank you, you too. we heard from the border patrol about illegals crossing the border an hour ago. a thousand of migrants coming in caravan. geraldo is going to weigh in on it at the top of the hour. we are seeing it more and more. republicans harassed in pluck as republicans their way to the high road. watch. >> you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for. >> when they go low, we kick them. ainsley: what's behind this disturbing new trend? lawrence jones is going to join us live ♪ we're going to rock ♪ i wanna rock ♪ rock ♪ i wanna rock ♪ rock ♪ stop fearing your alarm clock... with new*! zzzquil pure zzzs. a drug-free blend of botanicals with melatonin ...that supports your natural sleep cycle... ...so you can seize the morning. new! zzzquil pure zzzs. >> when they go low, we kick them. >> you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for. ed: well, you can see it right there on tape, leaders of the left keep on calling for violence. now there have been 8 attacks on republicans just this year alone. what will it take to stop the ongoing violence and get back to the issues that everybody say they care about and want to focus on the midterms. the editor of campus reform lawrence jones is here. >> good morning. ed: what do you think about uptick in violence happening as you see leaders on the left say they go low, let's kick them. >> what you see from the left they are losing the war when it comes to the issues. this is the only thing they can do is result to physical violence. this is why republicans were targeted on the baseball field. this is why rand paul's neighbor attacked him because of his views on healthcare. this is why susan collins is under protection because they didn't agree with her vote on the senate confirmation -- ed: on kavanaugh. >> of kavanaugh. these people can't battle with ideas. they are cowards. a lot of these people are leaders of the democratic party asking them to do the dirty work for them. ed: kavanaugh issue seemed to kick this up. various professors going on twitter calling for violence flat out. some of them had to apologize. others hiding about it you said there is another professor you nutsed too. >> we just reported on it campus reform ole miss professor this is what they have to say. >> don't just interrupt a senator's meal. you all have to put your whole damn finger their salads. this is on the college campuses. people have been wondering where did this mob come from? it came from the college campuses. it was when the uva and duke lacrosse case. when people didn't get the outcome they want there was alaska evidence. when people lost the issues, then they decided to take things to violence. conservative speakers on the college campuses. when they don't like what you have to say, instead of battling out with ideas, they result to physical violence. ed: you mentioned a moment ago the baseball field as well and the man who almost lost his life there and thankfully did not is sceef scalise he sent out a tweet saying as a survivor of a politically motivated attack it is tragic to think this is a acceptable state of political discourse in our country. i refuse to stand for it democratic leaders need to condemn rather than promote these dangerous calls to action. it reminds me when you are talking about some of these professors and starting on college campuses you had maxine waters saying don't let these guys sleep. don't let the cabinet secretaries rest. don't let them shop. >> we are so far out now to be calling for civility because they have lost control of their own party. this is a full blown socialist party that endorses antifa, a domestic terrorist group and, again, bringing on the college campuses we lost control of the campuses and now it's gone to capitol hill going to restaurants. i will tell measures make sure you are protecting yourself and protecting your back. again, the mob is out there and democratic leaders who called the mob, they cannot control this mob. ed: to be fair, last night we were talking about ms. july la rally in montana the president referred to republican congressman who basically beat up a reporter when they got in a scrape back in the last campaign and said something like the president said he is my kind of guy and the crowd really loved it when you are talking about calling out leaders on the left the president has to do a better job on that as the well. >> we all have to do a better job. i don't see a lot of republicans beating up people because of the ideas. yes, you may be able to name isolated events, but pretty much when you see people attacking people, it's the left. we go to work. we don't have time to be protesting. we don't have time to be going in crowds with antifa with masks on our face. we have jobs to do. it seems like there is a lot of paid professional protesters that we have been seeing. ed: we appreciate when he comes in and brings us information. lawrence jones, thank you. >> thank you. ed: if you can't get on board with what the democrats want oh well, just ask nancy. what does she have to say? 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tonight's megamillions leaping to an insane $970 million. the second largest u.s. jackpot in history. steve: good morning. this is a fox news alert. 8:00 here in new york city. moments ago our cameras rolling as border patrol agents bust illegals apparently crossing into the state of texas from mexico. melissa: pretty dramatic as you see it on camera. the migrant caravan is inching towards the united states. ed: griff jenkins is there. reporter: we've gone deep into the brush. another group of individuals. now you're looking at three guys that we came deep into this brush they had located and found. these three individuals, one they're all in their 20s. one man is from honduras. two are from, i'm sorry, one's from guatemala. two are from el salavador i believe. as you can see the agent we're with, robert rodriguez, we're not going to bother him. unbelievable work they have to do because of conditions. a dog assisted, these guys unlike the last group, running at us over tracks, they were bedded down in this thick brush as we'll go with them. i believe as they take them out of this brush to start processing them and, you know, as ainsley was asking in the last hour, these illegal crossers will be prosecuted. i let you get up here, john. we don't want our cameraman to trip. very difficult terrain and very difficult stuff. they will be prosecuted unlike the family units that seek asylum peacefully because they broke the law by entering. we're a mile north of the border, coming across that rio grande river. these guys are going to be turned over to i.c.e. they will not be deported to mexico because they're not mexican. the gentleman in the car with us earlier was from mexico, just across the border. that indicates to our border patrol agents they believe he may be the guide. we asked this group if he was with them. they had nothing to say. they didn't want to talk about that this is part of the absolute overwhelmingly numbers. we're out here in just literally 90 minutes we chased what is now four groups. you can safely say, according to agents here, as many as 75 to 100 illegal aliens are actively trying to cross into the united states at this very moment in this, brave handful of border patrol agents are doing everything they can to stop them and try, and prosecute them as we go now. watch the railroad tracks, john. i don't want my cameraman to trip. this sort of thing they're dealing with every single day. this is business as usual. as we found out the numbers of family unit that are turning themselves over safely for asylum is 16,000 last month. up 80% from july. that takes these guys, resources away. that means fewers agents can be out here doing very difficult task of apprehending these guys. steve: hey, griff, i have a question for you. this is amazing we're watching g this happen live as these folks are being detained. i would imagine the agents when they, when they stop them, before they happened cuff them, they must speak to them. do you have any idea what they're saying about why they came to the united states? reporter: well, they talked, first they pat them down, steve. because remember, assault on a agent is a major concern right now. yesterday these same very agents in this same very location, had a group with 230-pounds of marijuana with them as well. they dot security part. they try to debrief them. find out who they are, find out why they're coming to. in this case the second group and first one we were on is a group where agents pay anywhere 4 to $8,000 per person to the coyotes to get them across. you see how it turned out for them now, as we take this group back to be processed. this is the shift, the shift comes on like 6:00 a.m. this is a brand new shift. these guys, our agents will be busy all day long. this is really test at thatment to the overall job they have got -- testament. we still have three other groups actively trying to infiltrate. they're still trying to pursue them right now. this is the same group we're with. so you know, the number of. the amount of briefings they can do is really rudimentary, find out where they are. they have to find out whether they are particularly mexican or other countries in mexico. if they're mexican, we have an agreement to the country to possibly deport them. it is different if you're from honduras, el salvador or guatemala. then it is another process. ainsley: incredible to see this happening. i know there are drugs involved. other times there are people fleeing bad and dangerous situation. you have a heart for those individuals even though they need to do it in right way. how did he the border patrol agents catch them in the night? do they use infrared equipment? >> they do. we have cameras, detectors, we don't give away too much information. they watch the border and know the typical routes and patterns. you talk about hot people are. agent told me, few weeks ago a gentleman very nice, in his mid 50s, said he was trying to visit family for the holidays. turns out he had a rap sheet with all sorts of aggravated crimes including attempted murder. ainsley: that happens a lot. what happened with kate steinle's killer. we interviewed some angel moms. they get sent back to their country, come right back in. the rap sheet is very long. steve: griff standby. we have geraldo rivera, fox news correspondent at large. all eyes on central america. seems like there is another caravan of people heading our way for variety of receipts. you saw what happened with griff there in mcallen, texas, what are your observations. couple of them. first of all, steve, happy birthday to you. you're one of the nicest guys in the news business. we love you, and happy birth did i. second, congratulations to griff on his vivid reporting on border. i submit you could film the story every single day. desperately poor people, live adjacent to the richest country on earth. they want the american dream. risk everything to cross the border that is the reality. vast majority of them are law-abiding. they pick apricots, they babysit, they mow the lawns, pack the poultry, they process the meat backing and so forth. they're good people. the united states economy is booming. they see opportunity on one side of the fence and they see destitute life, no hope for their children. that is what the incentive. but you have to be very careful. what griff is seeing where mexico meets the united states. that is our southern border. the caravan that everyone is talking about is on mexico's southern border with gaut haul ma. and -- guatemala. congratulations to president trump. he has gotten through the new negotiations, the new nafta so to speak. he gotten the mexican government engaged. pena nieto, outgoing president sent two aircraft yesterday with mexican special forces to stop the caravan at guatemala-mexico border well over a thousand miles from here. very briefly to show you how contentious this issue is, yesterday just outside of the oval office you had the white house chief of staff, general john kelly and the national security advisor john bolton having a obscenity-laced shouting match that almost came to blows over how hard, or harsh the administration response to the flood of migrants could be. it's a damnable, difficult problem. ed: geraldo, you're right some are seeking a better life but they want the piece of american dream, absolutely but our hearts go out to them, but what the folks griff is mentioning, border patrol agent don't know what is happening in middle. night, some of those folks have long rap sheets and bad intentions, shouldn't a wall or tougher border so people with rap sheets are not running through in the middle of the night? >> first i'm in favor of the wall. the president should get his wall. elections have consequences. the majority of people, in the majority of electoral states voted for president trump and border wall. he should get his wall. at the same time i would like to see him be compassionate and inclusive and give "the dream act" kid, those brought here as children, very young age there now fault of their own give them a path to citizenship, once the midterms, damnable midterms are over, i think a compromise is possible but this issue, the porous southern border has been with me, my whole half century of reporting and i'm afraid it will be with us forever, guys. steve: griff, dial you in on this conversation. react to what geraldo just said and how big of a difference, as we're watching a couple more people being processed right there in mcallen, texas, how big of a difference would the wall make if there were one right where you are? >> well, the wall, when i talk to the agents here, i've been in this rgv sector, the heaviest trafficked sector in the nation for the u.s.-mexico border the wall makes a huge difference as a deterrent because people trying to come here illegally, my heart goes out to geraldo he is right by the compassion, but there is asylum process. if you come across the bridge, seek asylum peacefully, you're not breaking law. if you come here illegally, wall in front of you, you will go around it and find a different route. the section chief told me on camera couple months ago it is critical to have a wall, it is deterrent in any given area that will limit funnels and routes, these smugglers, cartels can take. ainsley: geraldo, let me ask you about this, newt gingrich, president said voters will go to the polls because of kavanaugh and caravans. how big of a deal is this immigration issue as we approach the midterms? >> well, ainsley as you know because you're a pro at this you know how deeply americans feel about it. we see, regardless of your ethnic background you see a porous border. my you daughter, 13, daddy, don't countries have borders? yes they have borders. i'm for the wall among other reasons. it's a compromise. the president won it fair and square in the election but as griff suggests it funnels law-abiding migrants, otherwise law-abiding. juan and maria, the apricot pickers, it funnels them in a way they won't be walking across the desert, risking life and limb and rape and all of these other horrible things that happens to them, exploitation, as they make it across the mexican desert. if there is a wall they come to the entry point, griff says, those who deserve asylum, at least a hearing on asylum, conditions, gang war far in the home state, nicaragua, el salavador, central american states, if that is why they ran because of gang violence, maybe they have a beef of in terms of asylum. we're an immigrant country. that is the balance. we want compassion, a kind of, we, new guy. we want to have a free, a free, we came, our forbearers were all immigrants. i'm 10% native-american, so i feel a little bit differently. but you know, we wanted to balance compassion and pragmatism. we have to have controls at southern border. steve: griff, what is happening right there now in mccall len, texas. steve: this is part of what agents face this is another gentleman, we've been doing a live shot. dogs working this line, a guy coming out trying to run for it, apprehended another one. it is a non-stop, constant cat-and-mouse game exhausting our border patrol. they have doing the best job. they have another guy that will be prosecuted. ainsley: griff, what happens now to these guys? is it catch-and-release here? do they take them, fpl out paperwork and release them into the united states? what happens now? reporter: well, it is catch-and-release that they believe south of the border is why they come but in this case they are prosecute, not from mexico, from another country, turned over to i.c.e. the question, ain'tly, we got places to keep them because the numbers are so strong. when you don't have anymore space in the family units, you don't have place to put in the i.c.e. facilities they have to release them give them such months to come back. guess what? that is run notice. they are never seen again. they blend into the fabric of the country and that is what this is all about. steve: another question, griff, you're down there, we're talking about the caravan over 1000 miles away coring to all estimates in central american, would the caravan come to your location or go to a regular border port to be processed? reporter: we don't have any idea. the last time this caravan came they came to different points between california, arizona and texas border. this group could very welcome to this one. this is a very trafficked one. hidalgo, mccall len, ray knows sew bridge is a very popular place to go. wherever they come, steve, it will be an overwhelming task that will strain these guys. what happened this morning understand this point, group of family people we haven't seen shown you surrendered themselves, that let the cartels run what was ultimately three or four different groups. there may be some that have contraband and dope trying to infiltrate in. they know the game. so if agents are dealing with a family of people, seeking asylum already happened hour 1/2 ago, these groups trying to run in. when you have a caravan of 4,000, it absolutely paralyzes the ability of the border patrol to process a group that large. that why it makes it a very, very difficult task. ed: let's bring in geraldo. you mentioned the shouting match, profanity-laced between the chief of staff, national security advisor, how exactly to deal with the border crisis. they will be dealing with an even more difficult calculation if suddenly democrats take back the house in the midterms, they're very much against the president's policies on the border? >> yeah. they control, they may, if things go their way, i suspect they may not, they will control one house and they will promote liberal border policies but it won't pass the senate. i think it's a nonstarter. what we need here. this is classic case where we need by partisannism, we need reason, we need compassion. we need the president in both houses of congress on the same page. we're a very wealthy country. we're next to desperately poor countries. this will happen forever unless we take action. i suspect that the openly way to stop this flow from poor to rich is to help these countries create conditions where nair natives stay. i say again, even though griff alludes to the perpetrators who carry contraband and so forth, the vast majority of these people want nothing more than a chance to work. they are good people. they are the kind of people who america has historically made our foundation stone in this nation of immigrants. we just need order. we need safety, we need regularity, and i think the president wins on this issue if he can -- on one hand and compassionate on the other. ed: you mentioned possibility if republicans hold on to the house, it would be similar majority than they have today, likely lose seat, which makes it harder for the president to get funding for the wall which he hasn't gotten with numbers. but big funding when he had majorities in the house and senate. stronger majorities. what is your advice for senate moving forward dealing with democratic house or tougher majority of, simmer majority of republicans to get that funding? >> i've been on the show 17 years. i've been preaching the same song. compromise is difficult because neither side gets everything they want. the democrats must compromise. they have historically been in favor of a wall. the democrats must give president trump his wall. on the other hand the president and he has shown flashes of compassion, driven by the first lady, driven by ivanka, his daughter, he has shown flashes of compassion, give dream act students, the best of the best, give them a pass. they earned their citizenship. give them the right to citizenship. neither side gets everything they want. both side get some of what they want and we can start regularizing the situation at the southern border, there has never been, never been, not one time a verified pep operation by a terrorist that. that is the not issue. the issue is regularity in the labor force, being fair to american workers. filling the gaps where the united states doesn't have enough people to work like in the fields, in the meatpacking, poultry processing, these horrible jobs citizens don't do. let's compromise. let's fix it. ainsley: thank you, geraldo. griff, i want to go back out to you, when you see the individuals, they're all men. you said there was a family. take us through the whole time what you've seen this morning. they're all men. they look young. they look fit. they look like they're nicely-dressed, any idea i know there is language barrier, any idea what they want to do in america? are they looking for work? did they find drugs on these guys? what's their story? do they know each other? do all the guys being put into the van know each other? reporter: that is a great question, ainsley. i also want to address i was listening to geraldo talk. here is the deal, the border patrol agent would be the first to tell you large majority of these folks are trying to get a better life in america, paid 4 to $8,000 to someone they never met to march them through difficult terrain. here is the task. this is the difficulty of the border patrol's of course, they have to find the murders. they have to find the people want to do ill to our country becauser this the first line of defense in securing our nation. this is national security. that is why you hear people say that. that is a difficulty in weeding out these large numbers, it is who are the folks that pose the greatest risk, that is a tough task. with respect to the people i've seen. they men mostly all men. there were two women i've seen in the groups we've been apprehending all morning. there is one that was actually a mexican national. he was believed to be the guide. the rest were from other countries, mostly central americans, honduras, guatemala, el salavador. i have listening to reports we haven't seen. they immediately showed up as they have every morning. 50 to 150 every morning seeking asylum. they're not trying to chase and evade like this group was. steve: okay. reporter: circling back, the point is important, there is a lot of people trying to get a better life but there is criminal element in there. this border patrol is doing their darnedest to weed it out. ed: thank you for your reporting. thank you, geraldo. sticking with our top story the crackdown on more illegal immigration. more "fox & friends." with prebiotics and probiotics to help support digestive health. starts with great sleep. and the sleep number 360 smart bed is my competitive edge. it intelligently senses our movements and automatically adjusts our firmness and support on each side to keep us both incredibly comfortable. it can even warm our feet to help us fall asleep faster. it's great sleep i can feel and see. better sleep keeps me at the top of my game. for this team... and the home team. the new sleep number 360 smart bed, from $999. it's proven quality sleep. unstopand it's strengthenedting place, the by xfi pods,gateway. which plug in to extend the wifi even farther, past anything that stands in its way. ...well almost anything. leave no room behind with xfi pods. simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. ed: fox news alert. moments ago, our cameras rolling as border patrol agents arrested a group of illegal immigrants crossing into the u.s., at least trying to get in from mexico. ainsley: this as the massive migrant caravan, now four thousand strong inches closes to the united states. what is being done to stop that. steve: we have a griff jenkins, as the sun sun comes up with van filled with people about to be processed in mcallen, texas. what do you think of what we're watching with griff's live camera at the southern border with men and women being arrested? >> people are fighting for their lives. that's why. what would you do? and i'm not saying condoning their behavior, but we have to understand that this is a recurring problem. i believe president trump, who is the ultimate deal-maker, should be doing the same thing he did with kim jong-un and call for an emergency summit meeting in the capital of honduras, advise the president of honduras, el salvador and guatemala, in which way this country can help them. this happened before with ronald reagan. i was there. i was univision central american bureau chief and i saw how the united states showed leadership, and helped our backyard to have prosperity and be able to keep their boys home. you have to understand honduras is one of the most violent country in the hemisphere. you would do it too, if your daughter is facing to be raped or your son to be part of a, i'm not condoning, i understand that we need to protect our border. i am a republican and i believe that we need to have a very strict border security but you also have to understand that our neighbors are desperate. so what do we do? we help them stay home. ainsley: well, maria, we are giving them a lot of money. we've been running numbers all this week, millions of dollars to each of these central american countries. how are they using that money? why isn't the country, why do we continuously seeing people fleeing and leaving, talk be about rape in these countries? what is our money being used for. >> the money is 2 or $300 million earmarked for each country. reality we could earmark the funds for specific programs. i go back to my idea. president trump needs to show up there, just like he did in north korea, say, here we are, we want to help you. once again we want to help you keep your people home. let's do security with police. do education programs. whatever it takes. we done it before. it is time for the united states to wake up and then we'll stop what is happening at the border right now as it happened years ago with reagan i just said. ed: maria, we want to bring in our correspondent greff jenkins who has been on the story all morning, long before this program as well, because he has been on the border before, when you hear the talk, maybe there should a summit, maybe a emergency needs to be dealt with, democrats and republicans go back and forth, what about the border patrol agents behind you, they're just trying to do their job as this political fight plays out? >> absolutely. reporter: that is a great point, ed. border patrol would be first to tell you they don't make the laws. they enforce the laws and do a darn good job of doing it. if you also talk to leaders here with the border patrol they will tell you it is loopholes in these laws that drive people across the border. let me give you just a little context for just this tiny little area that you've been seeing this activity, right? it is 300% increase for this exact time last year, in terms of numbers of family units that are coming here. more than 5000 people in the last two weeks. upwards of 600-pounds marijuana coming. that is not including the people that are these middle-aged to young men that we've seen running all over the border today. so it is the driver of loopholes in the laws that is causing this to happen. if they do have a summit and the border patrol would be glad to enforce whatever laws our politicians make, they can't to see consistency so there isn't incentive on the part of the cartels who are ruthless and very much watching what we're doing in this country. steve: go ahead, maria. the border patrols are the heroes. i.c.e. is the heroes. they're just following rules from washington. that is why washington needs to step up to the plate and show leadership. the people that are coming, i'm sure that "el chapo" is sending a lot of drugs. i'm sure coyotes are smuggling a lot of people but overwhelming majority of the people are facing death. they're under the threat of death. what would you do? hey, because we are the best country in the hemisphere. they know it. they know americans will treat them a lot better than honduran officials. ed: you're running in open seat. i will yawn ros-lehtinen, retiring. donna shalala from clinton cabinet. a lot of democrats assumed wrongly she would be a shoo-in this seat. it is now basically a toss-up down there in south florida. how big of issue is illegal immigration in this race? >> it is, but we understand it very well. we're the ultimate melting pot. i can advise not only the president but whole leadership in congress. we get it. i live among them. i have lived with them. we know it is easy. hondurans and central americans love the united states. we are the beacon of hope. that is why everybody wants to come here. but we also get, not everybody can come into the united states. so let's help them. so the seat, you just mentioned donna shalala. she just made a very big mistake a couple days ago by inviting one of, a congresswoman from california, her name is barbara ali. barbara ali is one of most important apologists and defenders of fidel castro. how can you be inviting somebody that has shown such preference for fidel to the heart of the cuban exile? it shows my opponent is completely clueless and disconnected from our community, a community that she will want to represent in the house of representatives, and in the u.s. congress. so i, i think that right there it is, it is very, it is very clear who is really the ideal representative. ed: griff has a little bit more news. griff, we have 30 seconds. what is happening behind you? reporter: just very quickly, i will take a moment to ask these gentleman, can you ask them why they came here? [talking spanish] >> for necessity. reporter: if any of them come to do harp to the united states? >> [speaking spanish ] >> just coming for work. reporter: coming here for work, four men in their 20s. they will do debriefing, processing them. we'll find out about them perhaps later. they all say they're coming for work. ed: thanks for your reporting. >> that is not right translation. this is not what you said. ed: what did he say? >> he translated, he said are you coming here for what reason? he didn't ask are you coming here to harm the united states. then they repeated once again, out of need. need for work. need for security. ed: we've got to go. thanks, maria, thanks, griff. more "fox & friends" on the other side. >> thank you very much. vo: right now, criminals are using the web to capture your personal information. phone numbers, home addresses, social security numbers, your kids names. everything they need to steal from you. as a retired us colonel i know the threat is real and i know how to deal with it. active privacy protection by reputationdefender acts to scrub over 70 sites that publish and sell your personal data, protecting you, your business, and your family. go on the offensive. call 1-888-570-6784. and your sister-in-law's tennis partner's chatty coworker's youngest daughter's entire judo class. one shot can make a world of difference. walgreens' specially trained pharmacists, know exactly which flu shot is right for you. protecting the world... over 60 million flu shots and counting, starts with protecting yours, today. walgreens, trusted since 1901. >> what happens if we lose? if we lose in 2016, if they get the house, folks i'm just going to tell you, whatever trump wants to do is going to stop. it will be paralyzed. it will be nothing but in every house committee that is relevant, inspections, investigations, subpoenas. they're going to go back and try to get kavanaugh thrown out. it will be nothing but two years of get even with trauma for having aweds todaycy to win the business of the nation will be brought to a screeching halt. steve: rush limbaugh was on with sean hannity. sean did the show from palm beach. 17 days and counting until the midterms, everything is trying to figure out what will go on with the senate. right now according to most pollsters, looks like the republicans could pick up a couple seats across the country, which, half a yearing a would be the other way around. house is still too close to call. ed: you given talk of all blue wave, democrats would have gotten the house, easy pickings. instead now there is real analysts, both parties saying wait a second, not just rush limbaugh. this is a little closer to call. maybe the democrats will take it by a small margin or maybe republicans will just barely hang on. ainsley: rush really brings up good point, several points he brought up i thought were interesting. reminded us all of what we're seeing. we're seeing so much about the russia collusion. so much what happened with brett kavanaugh. i think america is so sick of that i think they want policy. they want to focus on the economy and jobs. steve: southern border. ainsley: the southern border, exactly. rush went on to say, that he doesn't look at polls anymore because we saw what happened in 2016 or maybe he doesn't look -- looks at them -- ed: doesn't take them as gospel the way a lot of people in the mainstream media do. democrats are up. hang on. i thought hillary clinton was up in 2016. the whole deal was flipped. steve: right. remember in the spring there was such a large margin of people who would prefer a democratic congress. now less than 10 points. it was 17 at one point. p rush had this other observation about the democrats and what might happen. >> i think there are things that have yet to happen that are going to determine outcomes in some races that we don't know. so it is still very hard to predict. kavanaugh feedback, reaction was 100% positive for republicans. democrats really blew that. i don't have survey data. i don't trust it. it hasn't been consistently right for me. the people doing surveys desperately want trump gone. i don't think they can take that out of their work. i don't believe in pure objectivity. >> your prediction. >> hold on the house, increase the senate. i think that is justice. the debt democratic party deserves to biggest electoral defeat in my lifetime because of actions they have taken to last month. steve: rush says the democrats deserve to lose. ed: we'll see whether he is right or wrong. carley shimkus is here. carley: facebook taking down nation of islam's louis farrakhan taking down his anti-semitic video. >> you know what they do. call me anti-semite. stop it. i'm anti-term might. carley: facebook says it violates facebook's hate speech policy despite twitter not suspending his account for the very video. accused of mailing applications to non-citizens. forms are prefilled out with boxes checked off, saying the applicant is a u.s. citizen over the age of 18. a complaint now underinvestigation. texas governor greg abbott says if it is true there will be serious consequences. indiana senator joe donnelly's political ad is reminding people of a popular hbo show. take a look. >> i split with my own party. to support funding for trump's border wall. mike braun? 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you have a better chance of being attacked by a shark, that is 1 in 80 million chance right. there you also, 8 million. sorry. if you want to achief sainthood, you have one in 20 million chance of doing that. if you ever get a royal flush in poker, you have a 1 in 650 chance. much higher odds with those actually unfortunately winning this megamillions right now. you can see it is quiet. i will throw it back to you guys. it's a big day for all of these shops. ainsley: it is fun to follow. just something -- steve: two bucks. ainsley: doesn't cost a lot, that guy if he gives tickets to his friend, kristina. what happens if they win? do they share it? ed: they have legal custody, right? reporter: that is very good point, the last major, largest lottery in history for megamillions, 2016, 11 people won it. they split it evenly. that is when things get murky. steve: all right, kristina. reporter: talking about lawyers, talking about splitting it. ainsley: the chances are pretty slim. steve: kristina, thank you. ed: good to see you. democratic operative for a george soros-funded group arrested for grabbing a nevada republican staffer. that gop staffer joins us live next to share her story. steve: right now bill hemmer joins to us share his story. >> i am going for sainthood. you guys can have the money. mobs versus jobs. president back on the trail today. 18 days to the midterm. marsha blackburn in a very tight race in tennessee. dean heller, in a very tight race in nevada. they're both here live to tell us what will determine a winner in their state. also mike pompeo with pointed comments about what he didn't learn overseas. in 12 minutes, guys, see, top of thegt hour. by 2030, half of america may take after stonington, self-employed and without employer benefits. we haven't had any sort of benefit plans and we're trying to figure that out now. if i had had a little advice back then, i'd be in a different boat today, for sure. plan your financial life with prudential. bring your challenges. too. steve: what started as a slew of negative rhetoric from the left turning to violence leaving some republicans fearing for their lives. ed: democratic operative for a george soros funded group arrested for allegedly grabbing a nevada gop staffer in rally in las vegas. not his first attack apparently. ainsley: campaign manager for adam laxult running for governor in that state, kristin davis. we were showing pictures of looked like bruises on your arms. tell us what happened. >> sure. good morning, guys. thanks for having me. we were at a campaign practically. it had ended. the attorney general and i were talking in a private room and very large gentleman, aggressively pushed his way into the conversation. generally we deal with trackers, usually very respectful. they keep the personal space. this gentleman did not. he was very aggressive, shoving his phone in our faces, yelling, screaming. you know, chased us down the hallway. really bumping into, shoving staffers on the way. we enter ad private room. shut the door. this gentleman pushed his way through the door. i got trapped between the door and the wall. and, had gentleman put my arm behind my back and held on to it just kept pushing, screaming at our candidate. and at that point as i tried to get away, this individual just grabbed tighter and you know, kind of contorted with my arm behind my back. that is when i felt terrified i couldn't get away. when i tried to get away my arm was stuck behind my back. help me, stop. he wouldn't stop. then we got to a point where he yelled, you know, adam, the candidate, you can make this stop. that kind of freaked me out a little bit. he was going to keep hurting me until our candidate answered his questions. very scary, very disturbing stuff. steve: absolutely. so this guy was arrested. he was fired from his job. he is a tracker. that means he has got a camera. he was yelling. what was he trying, what was he trying to provoke? an answer from mr. laxult be that would be embarrassing or what? >> he was doing a number of things and chasing us down the hallway. bumping into members of my staff, yelling a number of different questions. i don't really know. i don't really, a lot of it didn't make a lot of sense. usually that is what trackers do. they try to get, shout "gotcha" questions to get a candidate on record saying something he wouldn't otherwise want to say. ed: kristin, now you have had a chance to dig into some of this as well, i assume some of your colleagues found out he was involved in another attack? what do you know about that? most importantly, how are you feel, how are you doing? >> sure. i never knew who this individual was until after the event. and found out he had done this previously before and found out he was employed by american bridge, the liberal opposition research firm. and it was really disappointing that someone would have, someone like this on their payroll had been arrested a few months earlier for shoving someone to the ground. you know kept shouting, this is what i get paid to do. and it is very, very disappointing that we would be encouraged and paid to do something like this. ed: yeah. >> myself i was lucky. i, starting to feel better. obviously very shaken up. it is something disturbing because it is dangerous and really discouraging for the rest of us out there. steve: kristin davison, campaign manager for adam laxult. thanks for being with us. >> thank you for having me. ed: more "fox & friends." entire judo class. one shot can make a world of difference. walgreens' specially trained pharmacists, know exactly which flu shot is right for you. protecting the world... over 60 million flu shots and counting, starts with protecting yours, today. walgreens, trusted since 1901. 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