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red sea watch they struck multiple commercial vessels earlier today. this comes as yemen's iran-backed houthis had a series of attacks in the weeks. welcome to fox news live. before being shot down. lucas tomlin son is live from the white house with the latest. hello, lucas. >> mike, pentagon officials say this was a complex attack that lasted over eight hours today in the red sea north of the bobble mendeb straight and links the red sea to the gulf of aid and it's in the middle of yemen and somali and we learn that had multiple commercial vessels were struck and we don't know the fag or if anyone was hurt or crew members killed on board. if you'll rale, uss kearney was

active in the red sea in the past month and shot down multiple cruise missiles and drones in israel and houthi rebels, iranian-backed group in yemen claimed credit for the attack. last night at reagan national defense form in simi valley, california, our own bill hemmer asked president obama's former ci director and defense secretary if u.s. defense forces were attacked over the past couple months if the response from the biden administration was enough. here was his answer. >> i would be more aggress about going after those that attack our u.s. forces, do you think to date or response was too soft? >> i this is thety been a little too selective. we've hit ammo dumps and other targets. i want to go after those who are firing missiles at our troops. and make sure they understand that when they fire a missile, they're going to die.

>> there's been at least 75 attacks on u.s. forces in the middle east since the middle of last month. it's moteable, mike, the pentagon does not account the u.s. attacks on warships at sea in this number. it's where they're firing the missiles and where from and ir satellites in space that detect missile launches and last night before the attacks at reagan national defense form with defense secretary lloyd austin made the following pledge. >> we will not tolerate attacks on american personnel. so these attacks must stop. until they do, we will do what we need to do to protect our troops. and to impose costs on those that attack them. >> it's notable, mike, after that $32 million reaper drone was shot down off the coast of yemen the iranen-backed houthi rebels with no u.s. response to date and no air strikes against

the iranian-backed air fighters in yes, ma'am and we received a tweet from congressman mike wall saying if these were confirmed they were the houthi rebels, he's holding the iranian regime responsible if any service members were hurt in the attacks. mike: it's the houthis that are the irritants and what can the commander in chief do in response? >> u.s. s dwight eisenhower in the persian gulf and super horns and get launched from there and f15s and f16s at the air base in united arab emirates and they're carrying out limited number of air strikes in iraq and syria over the past month and just four planned strikes to date and you have that ac130 gun ship that carried out an air strike on november 21st after american forces in iraq came under attack. so far there's been at least 75 attacks against those forces in iraq and syria but as i mentioned earlier, the pentagon

doesn't count any attacks on u.s. warships in that number. certainly an escalating situation today and commercial ships hit in the straight -- north of the straight that connects the red sea to the gulf of aiden and u.s. warship and uss kearney forced to respond and pentagon officials say some of the drones, mike, were heading towards that warship and uss kearney shot down those drones in defense. mike. thanks. bring in nathan sails and former ambassador at large and counter terrorism. >> thanks, mike. mike: these drones shot down by the uss kearney, self-defense? your thought s? >> iran is behind everyone we're seeing in terms of attacks directed on u.s. forces and iranian proxies attack american forces in syria and iraq and now in yemen and they'll continue doing it till woe make them stop and heard from the u.s. secretary of defense tough talk

and time to see action match the words. there's a couple of things the administration needs to do. one, instead of blowing up empty munitions depots in the desert in the middle of the night, you have to take action and take strikes against the people responsible for these attacks. that doesn't just mean the proxies, butt iranian puppet masters and the ones pulling the strings. the second thing with respect to the houthis in particular, what else do they need to do for us to designate them as a terrorist organization? that's actually something we did during the trump administration but within weeks of taking office, the biden administration took them off the terror list and maybe they need to re-correspondent and put them back on. mike: liz is reporting no injuries on the ship or damage and sound like the kearney did a great job responding to the drones. >> absolutely right. we've been lucky, 75 attacks, plus the ones targeting american warship ntsb past six weeks. but luck is not a strategy. it's only a matter of time

before one of these iranian proxies gets lucky and actually causes fatalities, at least 50 american soldiers have been injured during this iranen-backed terror campaign and some with traumatic brain injuries and imagine what happen ifs one of the drones or cruise missiles or rockets gets lucky and hits the target. we could be dealing with dozens of american casualties and that'll force the president's hand to escalate so the time to prevent it kind of attack and de-terns is now when we can gain the upper hand and maintain dominance in terms of escalation ladder. mike: how do you send a strong message to the iranian regime? >> we need to signal that we're going to hold them responsible and the way to do that is not just by tough talk but tough action. forget about the pro pro proxiee mopes in the deserts driving around in toyota high luxes and they're the tip of the iceberg.

the people providing the weapons and strategic direction and instruction to hit american to kill them, that's happening in teheran and happening with iranian islamic revolutionary guard core commanders in the field and those are the people that are targeting and only if you put pressure on them you'll see iran backed down. they'll have strength and when they see american weak themselves, and i think they see that now, they see a opportunity to escalate. mike: the president ordered some responses to the attacks, but doesn't appear the iranian regime has gotten the message. >> the message they've gotten is it's open season on americans in the middle east and the white house is not going to take action to protect them. i think since mid october, we've seen maybe four responses by the united states. four versus 75, that's a lopsided balance and no, sir got that instill any fear in the hearts of the iranian commanders

that are organizing and implementing this terror campaign. mike: back to the breaking news and seeing these drones attacking commercial ships and having response in the u.s. ship, your thoughts on this. is this a big escalation at this point? >> i think it is, mike. we're not just seeing attacks on american vessels and service members. houthis and other iranian proxies are taking strikes on neutral parties and commercial tankers and commercial vessels trying to bring goods to harbor. that signals that the iranians think they can get away with it. nothing that happens in yemen, nothing that the houthis do is spontaneous. it only happen withs training and money and weapons and instructions from teheran. what that says to me is the iranians think they can get away with targeting americans and commercial shims as well.

ships as well. mike: thank you for your analysis today, nathan sales. >> great to be here, thanks. mike: idf forces resuming strikes in gaza after the day's long ceasefire ended and trey yingst is live in israel with the latest on the conflict. hello, trey. reporter: hey, mike, good afternoon. ziti railly forces are operatine operating across the strip in gaza city and the second largest city of hon eunice and southern and central israel. what it was like earlier today in one of the communities. the sight of one district impact in the southern town of sderot and pieces of the rocket are hot and fired from the northern part of the gaza strip 58 days from the conflict and shrapnel marks on the car shows the damage done by the rockets fired by ha has and islamic jihad. israeli forces struck new targets overnight hitting tunnel

shafts and weapons storage facilities and they do continue to go after hamas leadership yesterday and killing the commander of hamas' battalion. he was responsible for attack onuses really zollners -- on israeli forces in 2017 and behind the -- october and the death toll is gaza is rising since the renewed fighting started after more than 100 hostages were released during that one week ceasefire and this weekend no prisoner exchange will take place for more hostages with israel till the war in gaza is over and we understand according to the israelis with over 250 rockets fired towards the jewish state friday morning and there were efforts this morning to try and renew the talks and get the ceasefire back on track and we understand those conversations collect and as of now it's all taking place as region watches as the possibility of this expanding to a much broader conflict increases. mike. >> during the past two dais, we

operate in areas where we did not operate in the last month and this will increase and this ordinary persons will reach everywhere it needs reached and going for a total elimination of hamas organization and not par and shall not anything less. reporter: you heard from israel defense minister discussing the defense administration? the south and israelis concerned about the situation in the north as well with antitank guided missiles firing into israel today. mike. mike: trey, thanks very much. more on the conflict in israel, we have the deputy head of mission at israeli embassy in washington dc. welcome, sir. >> hi, mike. thank you very having me. mike: what's your concerns when you hear calls of strength from the american president and idf forces prepare going into southern gaza. >> the coordination on the war

efforts and the pretty suruation from our end to the -- appreciation from the on going support from day one and the war and hamas started on israel. we are very careful with what we're doing when it comes to trying not to affect those that are noncombat icks and at the end of the day, we need to remember we are after hamas and the terrorists and after taking them out and their ability to ever govern or orchestrate any terrorist attacks on the future. mike: what more can the white house and policymakers here in washington do for israel at this critical time? >> i think continue giving them the backs and continuing to treasure hamas in the best way possible, and they're continuing to give the support on a daily basis. mike: for many israelis, understandably the focus is on getting home for hostages. let's play this clip. >> please, release not only ten

each time, please, please include also the males. also the young children. also the other women that were inside, we want them back home. mike: how do you get more hostages home, sir? >> mike, we're seeing the release of 110 hostages and there's still 137 or so who are still in aptivity in gaza held by hamas and other terrorist entity there is and we're continuing to do everything we possibly can to get them released immediately and calling for the bier national community of hamas and we're continuing to press hamas through military means to do so. let us member that the man agrees to the frame work of hostages so far is due to israel's ground operation and air strikes and us crushing hamas that brought them down to

their knees and showing violence for some time and regroup while releasing hostages and we're calling for more pressure on them and doing our pressure as well and as best as needed to bring back the release of the hostages. mikes. after seeing the health of the hostages being returned, what's your concern about the hostages being held as this drags on longer? >> yes, we're hearing testimony coming out of those that have been freed and some of them have been harmed physically, all of them have been harmed emotionally. these are scars that will continue for life. we're hearing about children that have been held in captivity forced to watch the atrocities that hamas conducted on october 7, and if they turn their head away, they are held at gunpoint to continue watching this. i mean, who could ever ever accept such behavior and we're

calling on the red cross and all the international community to lean on hamas to allow first and foremost short term orientation know about the well being of the hostages and at the same time bring about the immediate release of all of them. mike: eliav benjamin from the israeli embassy here in new york. thank you for your time >> thank you, mike. mike: one person dead and two injured after a knife and hammer attack near the eiffel tower with french president emmanuel macron calling it a terrorist attack. antiterrorism prosecutors opened an investigation. according to police, the suspect was released from prison in 2020 after serving four years for planning a separate attack. rowdy pro palestinian activists stormed an upscale mall yesterday demanding a ceasefire.

we're live with the latest. reporter: hi, mike, these happening so frequently here in the city and some small businesses and corporate headquarters trying to close up earlier or giving guidance to employees how to prepare for the marchers but sometimes these rallies can be very spontaneous leading to a scene like this when a security guard was absolutely outnumbered at this upscale shopping here in manhattan, watch. pro palestinian groups guide crowds to retail stores in recent weeks in an effort to disrupt the holiday shopping and organizers feel that as long as the conflict continues in gaza, there should really be no sense of normalcy here in the state. before this the crowd of demonstrators stood outside the american museum of natural history and organizers taking to social media to speak against

the museum beforehand accusing it of being complicit of ongoing genocide in gaza and going past the police and barricades to take the proudly protests insidd they were blocked and hundreds leaving and take their chance to the street demanding a permanent ceasefire and calling for a palestinian uprising. reporter: protesters making their way to time area trying to go inside a mcdonalds and appearing to show security at mcdonalds kept the crowd out by using pepper spray and they're happening on a weekly basis, sometimes every single day. especially here in new york city. back to you. mike: cb thanks very much.

the reagan national defense form wrapping up last night in simi valley, california, and private and defense forces addressing the domestic and national threats and lloyd austin delivering the keynote address. alexandria hoff is here with more. >> hello, he started off by emphasizing that congress needs to pass a defense budget theying they don't have to operate under a resolution and the reagan defense survey was released and found that most americans favor the u.s. providing security assistance to taiwan, 734 pes and ukraine and those that took the survey were divided when it came to supporting israel or the pal tin januaries. here's secretary austin. >> you'll hear some people try to brand an american retreat responsibility as bold new leadership. so when you hear that, make no

mistake. it's not bold, it's not new, and it's not leadership. >> there was no conversation in the forum this year that did not include speeding up the use of new technologies like artificial intelligence, not just to compete with china to deter an invasion of taiwan. >> we want to take a lock at technology we can use and we want to watch out adversaries may use that technology. >> if we lose that competition, the chinese communist party will use artificial intelligence for evil. >> the reagan institute survey found more than half of americans view china as the country that poses the greatest threat to the u.s. that is from 43% last year. the poll listed russia as the second country of greatest concern. mike. mike: alexandria hoff reporting live. thanks a lot. james comer clashing with hunter

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it becomes a very public press opportunity. >> hunter biden replied and said i'll take whatever format you want and i'll come here and testify in public before the eyes of the world and i won't do it behind closed doors and leak out little snippets and claim i did it. mike: house chair james comer and jim jordan claiming that hunter biden sit for a deposition behind closed doors as the president's son prepares to testify publicly as part of the inquiry into his father. public policy mark smith. mark, great to have you. welcome. >> thanks, mike. mike. mike: let's start with the response from chairman comer and jordan to hunter biden's attorney, abby lo lo lowell,ways a demand he receive special treatment from the committees. how do you address that

argument, mark? >> looks the rule of law in the country is sed by wee the people and give a deposition whined closed doors and they conduct that deposition for several reasons and you want ultimately to become public about the efficient and you do the mechanical asks about documents and the committee has a lot of information, some might be relevant and some irrelevant and the way to start sifting through that is by asking witnesses what the documents mean and think about the integrity of the process. one of the other reasons to have close door confidential interrogations and it'll be involving lots of other witness asks you don't want if you're a prosecutor or investigating this case is a situation where someone testifies publicly and

let's all the other witnesses that maybe testifying tremendousing thereafter know what the narrative is going to be or story and it's very typical you want these things to be kept confidential and doesn't influence the testimony of other witnesses and see this all all the time and you sequester witnesses and there's that component but the reality is, mike, it's absolutely the case if you allow for hunter biden to testify in front of an open committee right now, it's 23409 going to be very -- not going to be very efficient the way the committees are structures. mike: abby lowell is a big time name and handles all kind of high profile clients and what do you think of his strategy to go on offense? >> abby lowell's point of view and hunter biden it's a pretty good strategy. lawyers in washington dc have to wear multiple hats. on the one hand, they have to try and keep their clients out of legal trouble. keep them from going to jail so that's one critical job of a

lawyer and other critical job of a lawyer when you're dealing with high profile client like hunter biden, son of the president, is you have to understand there's a political -- public relations component to this and anything that makes hunter biden look bad could school over and make his father, the president of the united states look bad and we're in the middle of impeachment inquiry and investigation and with that in mind, there's a major pr political component to this kind of legal process and it's not just like representing somebody that nobody knows about and you're only worried about keeping them out of legal hot water and here you have political and pr components that has to be kind of walking on the fine line and abby lowell is an excellent lawyer for doing this and how will this play out? only time will tell. mike: chairman comer spoke about following the money trail in this case. let's play it. >> at the end of the day, they weren't paying any taxes but the bank examiner realizes this was a bad deal and money laundering

and tax evasion and this is china coming in and buying politicians off. they give huge sums of money to vulnerable family members of high ranking politicians. mike: what do you make of that synopsis, mark? >> well, again, that's why we're having this investigation and coming from a common sense point of view and much to ask what exactly, what value did a guy like hunter biden bring to the table really for anyone to justify these kinds of quantums of money coming and going and what was the value he was bringing? is he one of the greatest lawlawyers in america and one of the greatest wall street bankers in america and what makes him so special other than the family connections and he'll be able to touch fingers with these amounts of money and that's a legitimate question and that may be the case one could surmise or speculate that really the only thing hunter biden brought to the table was the connections to political power and again, that's the purpose of this investigation. why were these large sums of

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trump is ahead in the polls and ron desantis tells me he's peaking at the right time and has what it takes to hit all 99 counties here in the hawkeye state and the question is do voters think that matters? we asked them, watch. >> i personally, i'm a republican and i think that's a landslide and that's where i think. >> he has a chance and it'll come down to the next six weeks or so. there's a chance and he's younger and he's not as complicated as donald trump right now. reporter: ron desantis is on the ground quite often hire, even though there's a shakeup in the super pact team again, mike, he's confident he's going to win the iowa caucuses this as trump was back in town again in iowa talking to energized crowd that wants see him back in the white house and this speak was a little different and promised to beat biden and kept continuing to bash the current president

and desantis said he's the only one that can beat biden, watch. >> well, i think i'd be a better candidate, a better president. i can serve two terms, he can't. i think the democrats want tram top be the nominee. >> we're going to win the iowa caucuses and then we're going to crush crooked joe widen next november and sr. simply make america great again. again. reporter: those two events, mike, from trump and desantis from the past 24 hours and former ambassador to the un nikki haley gaining steam and working hard to gain over voters here in se and vivek ramaswamy is planning to hold dozens overton holoevents in the next few weeks -- town hall events leading up to the iowa caucuses. mike: getting to be crunch time in des moines, iowa. thank you very much. >> we have neil with us and

capitol council l.l.c., and former senator joe mansion long time aid john cotton. gentlemen, welcome. start with former president trump on the trail in iowa. >> that means he's running and we've got to hit this guy and my geniuses backstage getting paid all this money saying sir, don't bore talking about it because people don't care about loyalty. i think they do care about loyalty. i think they care a lot about loyalty. mike: what's the state of the next gop raise ahead of the next debate? >> he's got a lead in the national polls and in the state polls his lead is sizable. that said in iowa and new hampshire, he is polling a little under 50% so in theory, there's a opportunity for another candidate trojans and breakthrough and credible challenge him. till we see that, he's the front runner by far.

>> mike: how do you assess the race? >> he's out ahead and zero chance any of them will come back and cute that ron desantis visited all 99 counties and only news he was making was his super pack fired yet another ceo so i don't think there's any candidate even making an attempt to contrast themselves with him. ron desantis is attacking nicky haley and nikki haley is attacks vivek ramaswamy and chris christie is going after everybody. they're not going after the one guy they have to and tells me they're not going after the guy they have to and playing for second place and probably 2028. mike: are they playing for second place? >> look, you never know. i remember rocky iv and ivan drago gets cut and you see he's a man and not a machine and the possibility he could get beat. if somebody were to pull an upset in iowa or new hampshire,

that could recalibrate and doesn't look likely right now and voters aren't paying attention tweet yet. give it a few more weeks and give it through the holidays and voters will dial in and you happen set the card and i'm not counting on that but it's possible. >> the shakeup of the desantis team and what more can he do getting that back on the track? >> nothing issue the worst thing is people getting to know him much the best day for his campaign was the day before he announced and then possibility the worst announcement i've seen in my lifetime on twitter. then people have gotten to know him and turns out being a bully in florida to kids and teachers doesn't really play well when you have to sit down and convince voters that you should be president. >> i agree, donald trump is ivan drago. unfortunately ron desantis is not rocky. mike: you're both former hill guys and expecting a vote on impeachment inquiry and speaker mike johnson talked about it.

let's play him. >> now we're being walled by the white house and preventing dojs and and the white house well held thousands of pages of evidence and impeachment inquiry on the floor will allow to take to the necessary step and something we have to do at this juncture. >> is this a wise move? >> i understand pressure the leadership is facing and acting in a manner for themselves and that said look at poll after poll after poll on energy and immigration and on economy and crime. voters indicating a preference for republicans and i rather the house foe us on those issues and

highlighting the issues and look at what democrats did to donald trump when they tried to impreach him. he got strong after they tried to impeach him. it could be a opportunity to give joe biden an outand that would be a mistake. >> his majority is about this big. mike: possible to put that on the floor and show you don't have the vote s? >> i don't think it's ever a good idea and i learned this from nancy pelosi to go to the floor if you don't know if you have the votes f. he takes to the noor, he'll basically put the nail in the coffin to 18 republicans who won in biden districts and he's not going to win the vote and he's new at the job but they've been investigating this for a year and they've found nothing. the white house gave them unprecedented access. thousands of documents and they've gotten all the financial records from hunter biden and the brother, they found nothing. even their own documents and witnesses refute all their claims so he's got to appeal and

he doesn't want to face the same fate kevin mccarthy faced and he'll do this. but altheas doing is moving the goal post every five yards and every time they come up with something, it's not true. there's no there their and they can keep investigating it. we should be discussing energy policy and inflation and debate that on the floor. not this nonsense. mike: neil and jonathan, thanks very much. >> thanks for having us. ermike: new details emerging afr american warships were attackedt byo houthi rebels in the red s that's next. woo hoo! ensure, with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. (♪) the winter play was really coming together. until... disaster struck. luckily, replacement costumes were shipped with fedex. which means mr. harvey... could picture the perfect night. we're delivering more happy for the holidays.

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mike: american warship in the red sea shot down at least two houthi drones after the iran-backed drop struck multiple commercial vessels earlier today. for more on the developing story, there's lucas tomlin son live at the white house. lucas, good afternoon. >> mike, pentagon officials say the uss kearney a guided missile destroyer shot down at least two drones fired by yes, ma'am fran

iranen -- yemen from iranen-back #-d houthis and they sent dis-stress siegles and a half a multi--- distress signals after multiple drones were launched from the straight that connects the red sea to the gulf of aid and we're told at least one commercial vessel was struck, kearney rolled in and responded to the distress signals and seeing the map and at least two drones were shot down. now officials here at the white house are trying to say that almost appearing to down play the attack and a u.s. warship did not come under attack. it was the commercial vessels that came under attack. there's been some reporting on that that the uss kearney was the one coming under attack and telling the sailors and more under kearney on radar and banding a drone coming under constant bearing decreasing range and seems that the commanding officer will deem those drones taking that warship taking action. sm2 missile costing about

$2 million a piece and close in weapons systems firing around the rounds and the drones and certainly escalated situation here in the red sea and next to a critical waterway, mike. of course it comes on top of a number of attacks against u.s. forces in the middle east and 75 atabs against u.s. forces for iraq and syria over the past month and pentagon doesn't count attacks against u.s. warships in that number and certainly an escalating situation here and attack that last we're told over eight houser today, mike. mike: for folks at home, lucas is a very proud naval academy graduate. sounds like the professional sailers on the ship do their job today. >> there's no question, mike. the commanding officer aboard that vessel not firing at drones unless he or she deem the drones are a threat and not only to the u.s. s kearney and certainly the commercial vessels in the region and the fact that one was struck and talks about level of missile

sophistication from the iranen-backed drones in the commercial vessel and we're told good news no sailors aboard the vessels were hurt and no sailors on uss kearney were hurt and more proof that things continue to escalate since this war against hamas started over a month ago. mike: lucas, grateful to have your expertise on duty today. thank you very much. four people killed and others critical condition after stabbing early this morning in queens, new york. two nypd police officers were slashed by the suspect while responding to the scene. the suspect was then fatally shot by one of the officers. two of the victims were just 11 and 12 years old. an arrest made in the three fatal shootings of homeless people in the los angeles area. la county sheriff's identified the suspect as 33-year-old la resident jerrid powell. investigators believe he shot and killed three homeless men and also murdered a fourth

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mike: here in washington, one local restaurant tour is working to end food insecurity this holiday season and impact on hearing joined by the owner of medium rare restaurant. >> good morning, good afternoon. thanks for having me. mike: you did your third annual free thanksgiving turkey fry. there was some 16 turkeys. how did they shape your views on food insecurity, mark? >> we've learned a lot over the years and during this time of year, everyone is raising money to help people get food and solve and end food insecurity. the dirty little honest answer is it's not getting any better, not getting worse or better. it stays here. what we've realized and i realized early on is all the free turkeys in the news and given out and all the frozen meals given out, people can't cook them. those who are truly food insecurity can't cook them. they don't have the materials or tools to cook them. we open up our restaurants to get the free turkeys for the

thanksgiving dinner and they. don't burn themselves or their house down and solve a light and the natural rights approach and people need to have ready to eat food not ready to make food. they're going to fix the problem we have. mike: you run a charity called feed the fridge and what's the mission? >> we load up refrigerators we place around the washington dc metropolitan area and meals we purchase from restaurants and they're dignified ready to eat meals that anybody who's hungry can get a meal and no signups or permission foreigns or asking. if you're hungry, grab a meal. as you can see there, even during the baby formula shortage, we filled our fridges with baby formula to make sure that mothers that were panicked had a place to go without having to sign up or say there was a problem. this is the answer and how restaurant tours and chef cans solve this. i encourage the

government and the usda and agriculture to reach out to us. we can make 5 million meal as day, no problem or questions and get them to people that are hungry. mike: folks watching that want to help, what can they do to help the mission atrophied the fridge, mark? >> donate. fefeedthefridge.org and 100% for every dollar and this is the season if you feel like giving, consider us. mike: mark, your restaurant medium rare is a big hit here in washington and expanding to new orleans, baltimore. very briefly, how is that going? >> you know, it's going great. we're having the greatest time and we're being received well. as we move medium rare across the country, feed the fridge is coming with us. launching in new orleanss and baltimore and we'll be opened up in houston and outside boss ton and philadelphia, san francisco next year. where we go, we'll be a big part of the communities to help and support them as well. mike: mark, thank you for your time and great generosity.

>> thank you, sir. happy holidays. mike: happy holidays. fox news sunday from the reagan national defend form and shannon bream spoke with them and 9 communications spoke and that's all for this hour of fox news live. sorry about the frog in my throat. i'm mike emmanuel, thanks for watching and have an awesome day.

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