gotham, blah, blah, blah, apple. i don't feel like thanking them at all for what they did, how dare they do that actually. >> laura: thanks, raymond. >> raymond: he was presenting an award for his own film, does anybody want political commentary? i think not. >> laura: so old. didn't he threaten to punch somebody like trump? god bless everyone this christmas season, but come on, so lame. >> raymond: embrace it, celebrate your movie, stop talking politics. good night. >> laura: he's got the nuclear codes, it will blowup the world. takes the cake. that's it for us tonight. jesse is next. >> carley: fox news alert, former secretary of state henry

kissinger passed away at his home in connecticut yesterday. he was 100 years old. you are watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning, i'm carley shimkus. >> todd: i'm todd piro. kissinger was a leading voice in major decisions impacting the united states and the entire world. >> i came to this country as a refugee from germany. so i have known in a way that native-born americans cannot experience what this country means to the downtrodden and to those who need a ray of hope. >> todd: griff jenkins has more on his life and legacy. >> griff: his strategic decision advised five presidents from nixon to trump, his firm

kissinger associates made the announcement saying a respected american scholar and statesman died today in connecticut in his home. reaction from around the globe. secretary blinken praising his contributions from israel. >> set the standard for everyone who followed and in this job. few people were better students of history, even fewer people did more to shape history than henry kissinger. >> former secretary of state mike pompeo writing, henry kissinger was a model of service and a great american. from the day he came to the united states as a teen dr. kissinger served this great country and ep cooing america safe. the often controversial -- fled germany, came to america in 1938, became an american citizen

in nee 43 and joined the army and received bronze star in world war ii. after the war, he earned bachelors, masters aphd from harvard and nixon appointed him in 1969 and he served as secretary of state serving nixon and ford. he's noted for using tension with the soviet union and establishing u.s. diplomatic relations with china. former president george w bush saying this, america has lost one of the most dependable and distinctive voices with the passing of henry kissinger. he counseled many. dr. kissinger is survived by his wife, two children and grandchildren, henry kissinger dead at 100. >> todd: thank you. bring in robert charles, assistant secretary of state for

former president george w bush. your reflections on the life and legacy of henry kissinger? >> you know, todd and carley, kissinger is almost hard to put into a sound bite, he was a titanic figure in the 19th century as your reports have indicated, guiding and help shape major issues for decades. he had four or five stand-out qualities and more than that, four or five issues he really defined. the end of the vietnam war, some blamed him not ending it faster and the paris accords, his work, why he got the noble peace prize. he did open china and really modern china wouldn't be there today without kissinger, for better and worse. he invented diplomacy and october of '73, you had the yom

kippur war and egyptian troops were tangled with israeli troops and he went back and forth between egypt and israel to tidy up and get that ended and his capstone in many ways was datante, idea he could apply ideas he studied at harvard, the balance of super power or big power or great power and apply to soviet union and the united states. although henry kissinger is rightly revered as a tactician and extraordinary thinker, he also frankly was not ronald reagan and ronald reagan blew the corners off that box and said we have to call the soviet union an evil entity and take action accordingly. he was controversial, but he was

also titanic. >> carley: he was born in germany as an orthodox jew and his family fled nazi germany for the united states and he became a naturalized citizen. the start of his life was marked by antisemitism and shortly before his death, i'm sure he saw this new wave of antisemitism in the united states because of everything going on in israel. how do you think -- how do you think he would view the two main global conflicts taking place in israel and also in ukraine? >>-- >> todd: i think we may have lost robert charles, hope we can get him back. that is a fascinating question you asked. here is somebody who devoted his life to the cause of antisemitism, in many respects, to peace, to -- i don't want to say anti-soviet union, ronald

reagan really drove that home. at the end of the day, last month of what he accomplished had somewhat unravelled. >> carley: in a sad way, his life saw this full-circle moment, where it started before world war ii, he was forced to flee with his family nazi germany and people are making comparison to that time and rise of antisemitism right now >> ainsley: the world. he served during world war ii, in the army. he worked as a translator and intelligence operation in germany, helped round up members and awarded a bronze star. world war ii impacted his world view. he lived a long and storied life and made it to 100 years old, a mile marker not many of us see.

>> todd: quite a influence on many leaders. breaking overnight, three dead and several hurt in what the idf is calling the terror attack in jerusalem. live on the ground with everything we know about the palestinian gunmen and ties to hamas. >> carley: mobs of protesters take over the streets, clashing with nypd during the rockefeller christmas tree lighting. we will have response next. hillsdale was founded in 1844

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greg. >> greg: we'll get to the jerusalem terror in a moment, first word the ceasefire with hamas has been extended and more hostages are set to be released later today. overnight saw exchange of 16 hostages, 12 israeli. crossed from gaza strip to israel, 30 palestinian prisoners were released. they were brought to hospitals and treated as well as wonderful reunions with family members, some having been freed from the hands of hamas. one of those is a high school teacher, mother of three, kidnapped from the kibbutz near gaza, her husband remains a prisoner. this follows rush hour terror attack at a bus stop in jerusalem this morning. three killed, a dozen injured when two men armed with m-16s

opened fire. they were killed by off-duty israeli soldiers nearby. the two were palestinians and members of hamas affiliate group. aid continues to make its way to the gaza strip. antony blinken is in israel meeting with officials, he wants to prolong the ceasefire to get more captives out and more aid in. we were at the make-shift, but formal remembrance center in tel aviv. we heard from people feeling what is going on. they are uniteod wanting to see the hostages freed and united in seeing the terror threat is diminished. complicated times. >> carley: greg palkot, thank you. police arresting multiple after fights broke out at a

pro-palestinian rally in midtown manhattan last night. thousands gathered to celebrate the christmas tree lighting at rockefeller. a week ago 34 protesters were arrested at the macy's thanksgiving day parade, including some who glued their hands. councilman, good morning. signs the protesters were holding compared israeli military in israel to nazis, what do you think about that? >> to me, son of holocaust survivors, it is offensive. they don't know what they are talking about when they talk about genocide. i do not recall ceasefire, any negotiations in world war ii. they have no idea what they are talking about, not just disrupt and offend, they do it on

purpose. just compromise and discredit the whole idea of peaceful protest. >> carley: you hit the nail on the head, you mentioned disruption, the christmas tree lighting and they shut down the manhattan bridge this past sunday, so commuters couldn't get home and macy's thanksgiving day parade, glueing themselves to sixth avenue. who are they trying to persuade with this behavior? "new york post" op ed pointed out this is exact opposite approach taken by martin luther king. he aimed for orderly protest to convince people and speak to humanity of all this. that is not happening here at all. >> 300,000 people came and it was peaceful and strong and powerful message. they sent police and america and

israel's message was sent not like we see in new york. i believe most of them -- my opinion. >> carley: that comparison is spot on, when you think about how many people peacefully protested together in washington, d.c. and what we're seeing in new york city and cities across the country with pro-palestinian protesters. how do you feel about mayor eric adams and how he is handling it? >> he clearly expressed sympathy to israel and his pro-israel stance. i would like nypd to be more forceful in terms of arresting, everybody should be equal under the law. i participated in many celebrate israel parades and everything was very peaceful -- in the world. >> carley: yeah. let's talk about the war itself, there is reporting president

biden got on the phone with prime minister netanyahu a few days ago and said, you can't operate in the south of gaza the same way you are in the north because that is where palestinian people are. how do you feel about that cautious approach the president warned the prime minister to take? >> i believe idf, one of the most, if not the most humane army in the world. nobody would do anything like this, bomb here, bomb here, move to this location, talk about who is and who is not. i would say america should send strong message to its ally israel and the whole world we stand for humanity against terror. hamas hates israel and america and all decent people of the world and i'm grateful to this network for standing for israel in this difficult time. what just happened -- terror attack, i would like

demonstrators to hold a sign, we condemn hamas. they are saying we condemn hamas, i don't remember it. >> carley: humanity against terror. thank you. over to you. >> todd: the five year old chiefs fan addresses controversy in a fox news exclusive. >> a lot of kids at school are getting excited, it is starting to get me nervous. >> it's been a whirlwind of comments, it is not okay. this nine year old boy supporting his team. >> todd: we'll bring more from this interview and tell you how kansas city chiefs fans are planning show him support at sunday's game. and giving up final season to serve the country, you will love this story, don't go anywhere.

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>> carley: a nine year old kansas city chiefs fan is speaking out after being accused of wearing black face to an n.f.l. game on sunday. >> brooke: it started with a deadspin article, he dressed up as his favorite team and hit with this article, kansas city chiefs fan found way to hate black people and native americans at the same time. the family is shutting down claims of racism. the boy and his family speaking to jesse watters last night, watch. >> he's devastated. he's seen the video, it was his dream to get on the jumbotron. >> it is okay, a lot of kids at

school are getting excited. it is getting me nervous, if they go overboard, it is scary. >> the damage is done, it's worldwide. >> carley: they did not intend to disrespect anyone, including native americans and turns out they are members of a tribe and used to live on a reservation in california. others are rushing to their defense for attacks this little boy. >> these companies, whether deadspin, espn or other places are hiring reporters focusing on race and sport. if they don't create narratives and go after nine year old kids, they don't have a job, there is no money in it. we should be celebrating this kid, he is cheering for his team. >> brooke: the boy says this

incident will not stop him from wearing face paint in the future and now other fans plan to wear the paint in a show of support. >> carley: i can't goat over a lot of elements of this story, but a kansas city chiefs found a way to hate black people and native americans at the same time. no mention that he is nine years old. >> todd: he is a child, remember that point. unreal. thank you very much. more positive story out of world of sports. quarterback levi williams trading in cleats for combat boots. he will skip his final season to have navy seal training. that win securing his team for the third year in a row. the athletes i want to be in a

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>> todd: new survey finds shocking 73% of jewish students say they have seen or been victims of on-campus antisemitism since the start of the school year, now presidents of harvard, upenn will testify about how they are protecting students on campus. we have students joining us now. gidion, can you put into words, how threatening it is to be jewish on campus in november of 2023 and have your administration turned their backs on you? >> sure. so thanks for having us on this early in the morning, appreciate

it. the issue at my campus, hunter college, have been profound. i have a good friend from high school, no longer attends one of his classes because the environment is so unsafe. we have teachers who teach english and other subjects that you will see them handing out material for no other reason than to bring it up and they target students in class. basically bringing that up in a hostile environment puts all eyes on anybody visibly jewish and they get stared at and called mean things and harassed online is a regular occurrence. students have gone after me because i've been vocal on this network and in general, which i don't mind, i'm going out and speaking publicly. it has caused others to not feel

comfortable about what they are experiencing. we have students who basically can't function properly in class environment because they feel threatened and that is affecting their work and ability to function whether extracurricular or other activities. it has been damaging on the homefront. >> todd: these administrators have an obligation when they receive your tu i guess dollar to educate you and keep you safe in an environment where you can feel like you can safely study what you want to study to then get a job afterward. it is amazing they have lost thought of this. why are university leaders so sensitive to students who support terrorist and so scared to stand up to antisemitism? >> yeah, thank you so much for having me on. over a month ago i asked university administrators whether or not penn allows for

"pro-terrorist rallies" on campus and i was met, i don't know, we'll get back to you. it's been over a month and 10 follow-up e-mails and i don't know what the answer is. until on monday, when a student was recorded three blocks from campus called the october 7 massacre glorious, said, i want all of you to hold that feeling in your hearts, never let go of it, channel it through every action you take, bring to the streets simple this someone on penn's campus others can feel safe? the student was in clas on monday. what are students and parents supposed to think when this is what we are seeing. we saw it at the macy's day parade and across the country

and world where idea of pro-palestinian rally incorporates intimidation of fellow americans and it is scary and college is no different, we are bending the rules to appease certain members of the com community. since then it deteriorated more and more to the point where students are staying indoors and not going to clas and changing the rule. as much as i love waking up this early, i want to go to class with my fellow peers, jewish or not and study without the fear of being harassed by students and professors. >> todd: what i can't get over is upenn is ivy league, i went to dartmouth, these are supposed to be the smartest of the smart. i don't know if any jewish

parent let alone any parent should let their kid go to an ivy league school under these conditions when this type of ignorance among very smart people is allowed to take over temperature is sickening and wrong and i thank the two of you for standing up. best of luck and thank you for your fight. >> carley: it is showdown we have all been waiting for. florida governor ron desantis and california governor gavin newsom will go head-to-head in the great red versus blue debate on "hannity." we will talk to moms who know how the policies are playing out. ♪ ♪

>> just weakness masquerading as strength, he is flailing. >> you know what, stop pussyfooting around. >> todd: stage is set, gavin newsom and ron desantis will square off in the red versus

blue state debate on "hannity." we have boxing gloves to prove it. >> carley: cheryl casone is here with more. hi, cheryl. >> cheryl: i got to follow you two on that. ahead of tonight's debate between florida governor ron desantis and california governor gavin newsom, ashley moody will hold a press conference with people who left california for florida. it is important to look at differences in the states under the leaders. jobs, california has 85,000 less jobs compared to florida, which added million jobs. california unemployment 4.8% and florida 2.8%. over a million people left california while over 70,000

moved to florida and another issue is homelessness. very different story, 172,000 plus in california and 26,000 in florida last year. according to "wall street journal," a difference in math proficiency, 30% versus 41% in california. california outspends florida for cost of educating kids. the chairman of reform california was on fox last night and he says governor newsom needs to accept responsibility. watch this. >> we need to hold gavin newsom accountable for his epic failurt

couple of years in fighting homelessness and our streets are covered with human, people sleeping on the streets, shooting up. i mean, it's abysmal i can't even go to san francisco anymore. it's just so dangerous. aaron, why do you think he agreed to join this debate? do you think that it's potential presidential aspirations down the road that's driving him to this? absolutely. but he's he's foolish because the democrats like me, we're against him. we've had

this man put men into women's prisons. this man has said he wants schools to lie to parents, whether when their children are suffering from gender dysphoria. we've had enough of gave, it's time for him to go. >> carley: i am sure governor newsom line about how black people benefited from slavery. how do you think he should respond to that? is there a response? >> governor has done a good job educating students and i can fully attest to you that we are teaching the truth and expanding

our african american study curriculum and civics, we are teaching our children to love country and realize they can have the american dream and i think you can -- he can try to spin it any way he wants to, we are succeeding when it comes to educating children. >> carley: should be interesting. thank you for joining us, we know what you will be doing at 9:00 eastern time tonight. lawrence jones having breakfast with friends in georgia, where the debate will be held tonight. what is going on in georgia? >> lawrence: good morning, the big debate is tonight. ron desantis against gavin newsom and it is really, we call it the red state versus blue state because both candidates will have the opportunity to present their agenda and defend

their record. florida is a swing state, more trump country, really all of georgia is trump country. republicans lost two senate seats. it is interesting to see if some of them are buying what newsom is selling or do they want more of the desantis approach that is in florida? >> todd: you heard carley's interview with two people that will vote, they live in california and florida. do you think that ultimately, end of the day, the views they express are what candidates talk about or are they going to try to dodge and weave, and bob and weave. a lot of stuff if i'm gavin newsom, i want to avoid. >> lawrence: it is clear the mama bears of america really started to take the reigns back

from the state back in 2020 because they were upset, they discovered things their kids were being taught and they have not given it back to government ever since. be careful with gavin newsom, he has this way of presenting ideas and defending bad policy while still saying that he understands you. he is a crafty politician, very obama-esque, and there is a danger there. the record is the record and he'll be pressed on that, let's see what he does. >> carley: unemployment rate in california is 4.8 and in florida 2.8. million people left california and 70,000 moved to florida. something i find surprising real clear politics approval rating for ron desantis has him at 35%. >> lawrence: yeah, and i think honestly, a lot of that approval

rating came from when he decided to declare he was going to run for president. as candidates have gone back and forth, his record in florida has not been highlighted, as well. once he starts going back to the record of florida and why people decided to move to florida, that is his best thing. when you go against a goliathlike donald trump, expect hits to happen. that is why his approval rating has went down. >> todd: there is an elephant in the room, by elephant, i meet donkey, symbol of democrats. why is gavin newsom doing this debate? we think it is because he thinks he could be in a run for the white house if joe biden is no longer on the ticket. i can hear by the sound, it is pretty loud there, good sign. >> lawrence: can you believe all these people this morning?

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♪ >> todd: former secretary of state henry kissinger passing away at his home in connecticut yesterday. he was 100 years old. here is how rolling stone is reporting the news, quote: the notorious war criminal was 100, measuring purely by pure kills. the worse mass murderer executed by the white house was the white supremacy terrorist mcvey. he thought he was saving america. never remotely killed on the scale of kissinger. >> carley: unbelievable. tudor dixon joins us now. good morning to you. what's your reaction to this sort of alexandria ocasio-cortez

if you didn't have activist journalists who have you journalists at all today. this is the state of market research journalism. it is so sad. they will blame republicans for all of the discourse in america but it really comes down to the fact that on this day, after october 7th, rolling stone is willing to come out with an article that is purely anti-semitic for a jewish man who served this country incredibly well for his entire life. >> todd: they also went on to say kissinger might not have been motivated by hatred of communism. i think that's incorrect. but he was a reactionary who empowered and enabled the sort of reactionaries for whom anti-communism was a respectable channel for america's racist and exploittative socioeconomic traditions. every far left tudor has to car america racist, right? your thoughts on that quote? >> of course, this is a man who went back and fought for america

against his home country that was performing atrocities the world had never seen before. and, yet, this is what we get from rolling stone. they should be ashamed of themselves. i would love them to come out and say we made a mistake in printing this. of i highly doubt that would ever happen. >> carley: also news on the hunter biden front that we want to get to. and there is an email that was released by the oversight committee. and it talks money laundering investigator. who looked into hunter biden's finances and this conclusion is what he came to. we find it unusual, that approximately 58% of the funds were transferred to the law firm in a few months and the frequency of payments appear erratic. here is congressman james comer and jim jordan on china's influence over the biden family. >> this is the way that china bought influence. this is the way that china compromised politicians. they would send money to compromised family members of big politicians to try to gain influence.

>> the most important line in this internal bank document is a line that says china children of politicians. he may have saw an easy target or a big target and taken this action that they did. >> what do you think about that and where all of this is going? >> i agree with jim jordan when i saw that i thought how do we not know, how is this not a bigger story that china is targeting the children of politicians to come and infiltrate this country. i think when you look at the hunter biden situation. what a sad situation. this is a man who, if any of us have family members or know someone who has been addicted to drugs was vulnerable and, yet, the government of the united states allowed this to continue knowing this was going on, knowing that this was someone who probably couldn't handle the pressures as it was. but also knowing that this is happening to other family members of politicians, what is going on with the national security in this country. and can joe biden handle this? obviously not. >> todd: tudor, my second most important line of this to follow

up on jim jordan say his first one is the line that says the following: these payments did not appear to correspond to any services rendered. that, to me, is really the crux of all of this. all these foreign entities, speespecially china paid hunter biden a lot of money and to do, what? >> right, exactly. again, we have to talk about the fact that his history was very storied. he had quite a history with drugs, with alcohol, with prostitutes. this was not a man who at that point in his life was capable of providing anything from a business standpoint. sad as that is, he really wasn't in that position. and to have somebody who, let me tell you this is not from the oversight committee. this is something the oversight committee found. so these are people outside of the republicans that came and said look, there is a really serious situation. at the time i believe he was -- he had been vice president. this was 2018. i think that this came out. this is before this all

started -- this investigation started. they said this is a situation where one of the most powerful men in the country, his son has been compromised. we need to be aware of this. and, yet, democrats are still sweeping this under the rug. if i were the democrats or the republicans right now. i would be saying who are the other family members? what other politicians have had this experience? because, clearly we know that other politicians' children have been targets. who are they and where are they now? and what happened? we need to get down to the bottom of this. and the fact that we're just sweeping this under the rug and everybody is oh, whatever, it's just the republicans investigating. we should all be very concerned about the national security of our country right now. >> carley: there is still that big controversy over whether is he going to testify publicly or privately. it looks like he will be talking pretty soon. there is also this that we want to get. to say confidence in the u.s. presidency hit its lowest point according to the reagan national defense survey 47% say they don't have confidence in the presidency compared to 36% of

americans saying they do have a great deal or some confidence. this could also correspond with confidence in the country and approval rating overall and the state of things in the united states. what do you think about this and how do we make it better? >> we get a new president. the fact of the matter is, laura ingraham had a whole segment last night just on biden's gaffes from the day. this is a constant situation now where we have the president saying things like oh, my marines can blow -- they have the nuclear codes they can blow up another country. wait a minute, what is happening? of course people are concerned. look, when you have a situation where the white house tree falls and everybody goes meh, why wouldn't it fall? that's the situation we are in this country right now. nobody has confidence in even the ability to put up the white house christmas tree. >> todd: that is terrifying. tudor dixon we thank you for your insight on these topics. "fox & friends" begins now. ♪ ♪ >> former secretary of state henry kissinger,