pete: yorestingyou worked? pete: yes, i did. as steve said all eyes on capitol hill as nancy pelosi and chuck schumer calling on president trump to testify in front of house impeachment investigators? ainsley: that s right it. comes as week two of public impeachment hearings is getting underway. steve: griff jenkins joins us live from washington. griff, when is the president going to sit down with nancy and chuck? that sounds great, right? griff: don t hold your breath. here comes another week of hearings as the president is fighting back on twitter brassing the inquiry. the crazed do nothing democrats are turning impeachment into partisan weapon. it s very bad for our country and not what the founders had in mind. one witness not scheduled is the president, though speaker pelosi is extending that invitation. the president could come right before the committee and talk, speak all the truth that he wants if he wants to. you don t expect him to do that. if he wants to tak
trips life, too. steve: talking about our country in first story. 6:00 here in new york city. we are starting with this. a sohio of strength. look at these images. wow, u.s. military launched over 50 fighter jets, the f-35 as in utah as tension escalates with iran. ainsley: country s revolutionary guard now says it will set ablaze places that are supported by the u.s. pete: it was 52 fighter jets specifically. what could that number represent? steve: hold on, didn t president trump mention 52 targets? pete: maybe. might be, you know. steve: 52 airplanes. ainsley: been planned for a while. pete: rick leventhal joins us from jerusalem about a deadly stampede at qassem soleimani funeral. rick? exactly. pete, ainsley and steve good morning. general killed. a massive turnout for the funeral and some sort of stampede happened and iranian state tv is reporting at least 32 people are dead. trampled in that stampede at the funeral. the numbers of dead have been fluxiating throughout
him. brian: first time realized the wall worked was san diego. duncan hunter s dad. we got to build a wall. like a sieve. started doing and it it started working. steve: there is ed. ed is going to join us live here in half an hour. the president after the fundraisers went to mesa, california where he was talking about his signature issue. literally its with a his signature issue. he got out a sharpy and signed the border wall. standing in frontsd of it. we saw the president making these comments on the bret baier show. they went through different designs hired like 20 mountain climbers. this was the highest one 1 foot bollard fence gets hot. then talking about the rolls royce of fences because of the construction. they could try to blow torch through one of the steel tubes. there is concrete inside so there is no getting through that. ainsley: here is a little bit of that interview he had with ed. it really is virtually impenetrable. any walls that were put up, we could k
our society. cultural change is hard but each of us can choose to build a culture that celebrates the inherent worth and dig any of every human life. we must reform our mental health laws to better identify mentally disturbed individuals who may comment acts of violence. mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun. now is the time to set destructive partisanship aside. our future is in our control. america will rise to the challenge. we will always have and we always will win. the choice is ours and ours alone. it is not up to mentally ill monsters. it is up to us. brian: so in the president s time there has been 17 mass shootings with president obama s 8 years it was 32. but you get the idea sometimes that they started with president trump by listening to some of the rhetoric out there. the president yesterday so far over the last two days which have been horrific has stayed above the fray and he has not engaged with the myriad of attacks coming his direction. i