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of the year ♪ finish. will: see? pete: there it is. will: andy williams, first round draft pick in the christmas music if extravaganza. pete: we were playing his music in the break. yes, he's ubiquitous. will: per ifly como -- rachel: classic. will: exactly, ray e hell. pete: but does he have any other hits other than christmas? will: that, i can't say. rachel: he's too young to know that. [laughter] laugh. will: that is like walking through a department store in new york city in a christmas movie, right in that's what's playing. rachel: there's lots of great christmas albums out there. everybody who's a star wants their christmas album to become the next american classic. let's admit, mariah carey does have that classic album. i know it's more modern. will: i'm not above that. rachel: the one that i grew up

with that i a really love and i think is underappreciated, should get a rerival, is -- i love his christmas album, harry ebell fonte's christmas album -- will: nice, good. rachel: every single song is amazing. and, of course, there's elvis. elvis had great christmas albums. will: i have a question for you guys. in the last hour we were talking about airplanes, air marshals, and it reminded me of this debate i had yesterday. pete, sometimes we stand in line together -- rachel: they eat breakfast at the airport together. pete: yeah, so is. rachel: the bromance -- [laughter] will: do you think the tsa precheck lines, okay, and all that, are actually fast per, or are you paying for the idea that you have a smaller line? hike, fewer people have done it, so it's just a shorter line? what i'm getting at is as more people get tsa precheck, the line is getting longer. and you sit there sometimes you go regular, tsa, the lines are very similar, and i'm not

convinced they're going any faster. do you think they are? pete: i agree with you. and in some airports, the clear is getting super longer than the precheck. we fly into airports that we're familiar with, and each one you play the little nuances. now in nashville, by the way, the clear's always jammed, but if you sneak into the precheck and then you find the far line, you can skip by -- will: my point is you're shopping for the shortest line. pete: that's it. don't care if i have the take my if shoes off, doesn't bother me. will: but the whole idea that i went through the process to the show the government i wasn't a threat doesn't work. it's just a shorter line. and if the hine are gets longer and equals the regular, what's the point? didn't you clear me? i'm not a terrorist. so can't i go a little quicker through the process? rachel: i know how you can get -- the way you can go through quicker is if you came through the southern border or and got one of those manila folders. [laughter] pete: then you don't have to

show any id. will: yeah. rachel: no id, no problem. pete: and you're right down there in dallas -- rachel: meanwhile, the rest of us paid clear, and now we gave our biometrics over to the government and everything else. will: can and they still need to check your water. [laughter] pete: and the random id check happens every second or third time. rachel: yeah. will: we have brand new polls out this morning from the "wall street journal." they are, they reflect an interesting reality when it comes to the race for president. they reflect something we've to know and that is in a head to head matchup between donald trump and joe biden, donald trump is the clear leader. 47-43 in the "wall street journal" poll outside the margin of error. pete: brand new poll from this morning, the lead is 4%. and this trends with and tracks with the real clear politics average, the other polls out there. there's just no doubt that right now donald trump is ahead of joe biden 11 months out in the presidential preference poll. even if you throw other

candidates in, guys, according to "the wall street journal" poll. rachel: yeah, this is interesting. pete: if you include third party candidates that might get in, to include joe man-in, there's -- manchin, there's the breakdown. kennedy at 8, the others at 3, 2 or 1 and that undecided number's a big one. rachel: it is. of. pete: that's going to thin down as election day gets closer. will but we've had this conversation several times on the show, who does rf if k or joe manchin pull from? it looks like it at least cuts more against joe biden. rachel: you know, i think -- i agree with that. and that the undecided, 14 %, i've talked to a lot of young people who are very intrigued with robert kennedy jr.. pete: they love him. rachel: listen, item like his -- i love his positions on covid and pharma -- pete: that's about it. rachel: but when it comes to abortion, i'm not happy with with him, and i'm a little

concerned with some of his environmental stuff. it's pretty extreme. but i like having people in the race who actually improve the conversation and the debate because we should be debating what happened with covid, we should be debating what happened with pharma and their very, i think, corrupt relationship with our government that caused so much is trouble during, caused unconstitutional things to happen during covid. i think that was a test run for things to come, so we have the debate that. but, yeah, these poll numbers are very interesting. here's some approval if numbers for us to look at for how joe biden is doing. i mean, or they are hitting some new lows. i mean, this is incredible. now gone from the 40s into the 30. will: 37% as of december. pete: 37% approval rating 11 months out from election is going to continue to throw out flares of panic on the democrat side. rachel: and compare that to how people feel trump would do on the economy. on the issues people care about most, look how donald trump is

polling. 52%, of course, care -- think that he can handle the economy better. on inflation, 51%. those two categories alone -- will: look at the margining too. rachel: i know. will: versus 35 and 30 for joe biden on how they'd handle those issues. rachel: yeah. so i think the attempts to make donald trump look like he's a bad businessman and take him to court other, you know, his -- over, you know, his business deals, i think e the american people saw what happened of four years under donald trump. it wasn't long ago. they know their lives were better. that old adage, you know, was your life better, you know, under this president or not? under donald trump we had record-breaking economic numbers. and for the working class. pete: in doubt. but to will with's point earlier, they're sail -- they'll point at 2022 and the demagoguery of donald trump, and then they'll point to that last line on the graph which is

abortion, and that's the tune they're going to sing for 11 is months. will: because they have to. pete: they have to. you can't run on anything else at all, and they're going to continue the fast forward attempts the try to put a convicted felon title in front of donald trump so they can run ads to suburban women in key states and tell them don't vote for a convicted felon. that's their whole -- rachel: and dictator now. they're trying to say he's a dick today for now even though when he was in office, no one gave more rights back to the people and to the states. so the only one consolidating power is joe biden in so many ways. but these numbers have, to i think, serving some fear shocks through joe biden's campaign but also barack obama who is really the man behind the curtain. pete: see if they move. by the way, as we've been talking, i've been trying to focus, but your daughter's conducting an orchestra over there. literally. i mean, just beautiful strokes of -- i don't know how to do that, but when you watch it --

will: i think you're doing it now. [laughter] turning now to the crisis at our southern border, border patrol ap apprehending more than 18,000 illegal immigrants in just one week. ray ea ray and as border towns like eagle pass, texas, get hit with a wave of migrants, republicans are calling on the biden administration to protect our national security. pete: our man, griff jenkins, is live in eagle pass with the latest. griff, good morning. >> reporter: pete, will and rachel, good morning to you. there's a reason in that poll president biden is at a paltry 24% on the issue i of the border. i am back in eagle pass, pete, will and rachel. i have spent more time stand thing right where i am than in any other location on the planet this year on assignment because it is simply out of control. you know they say if you see something, say manager? we have been standing here, myself, bill melugin and others seeing a national security risk. and on tuesday we hit a high water mark that should terrify the nation. look at this, 12,000 migrant

encounters in one single day across the entire southwest borderer on tuesday. remember, dhs secretary jeh johnson in 2019 said 1,000 was a crisis? well, we got 12 times that, and it is terrifying. let me show you the situation here though. in eagle pass on that same tuesday they had over 3,000. the day after that, another 3,000. the day after that, another 3,000. groups just like this. that's actually el paso, but here in eagle pass we have had the numbers that are just shattering records. now, i want to show you some video we shot yesterday when we got here, a migrant handcuffed, being separated from the group as they process them right after they cross. this is a migrant that hit the database for being a sexual assault of a child, a sex offender. it is just unbelievable, what is happening here. that is why the officials are on edge. now, let me take you out live to lukeville, arizona, where melugin has been doing such a great job.

already as the sun comes up we've got migrants from all over the world, african countries and other places building fires, coming through there. it is a sign of a situation that you've got in arizona, ground zero. here in texas, ground zero. and you've got the chief out in tucson, arizona, that sector putting the numbers out. in one week, look at this, stunning, a record 18,900 apprehensions in one week. 145 federal criminal cases, 15 rescues, 10 smuggling events. you can see all the information there. it comes after they broke a record in that sector last week with 17,500. and it's why you've got the democrat governor, katie hobbs, out in arizona now sounding the alarm, asking for help, pleading with the biden administration, sending a bill, if you will, for $512 million reimbursement for the crisis. you see she put that out there, and she's asking for the biden

administration to act immediately to solve what she calls an unmitigated crisis at the border. of course, the administration won't use that language. now, let's bring it back to washington. no one's really been able to do much to get this administration or to change policy, but house reflips have been try -- republicans have been trying. congressman jim jordan, chairman of the judiciary committee, saying he will subpoena mayorkas for case files op migrants wanted for things like assault, murder and terrorism-related charges. guys, i'll send it back to you. will: all right, griff, thank you very much. rachel: thank you, griff. pete: so he mentioned, griff mentioned katie hobbs who's sudden arely waking up in arizona a, this idea that the border's an important thing the on a border state as they break records. she's not calling for actual enforcement, but she is asking for more none. give me the national forward to help facilitate, singing the same tune as the a mayor of this town, eric adams, who's met with the biden administration i believe now ten times begging for money.

well, now he's admitting that those talks were fruitless. that help is not on the way. here's eric adams on friday. >> we did not walk out from d.c. can with any level of optimism that anything is going to drastically change. it is clear that for the time being, this crisis is going to be carried by cities. here in new york city, it is because our federal government actions have taken a toll on the people of this city. we're going to continue to do our job with in the administration, but these are extremely challenging times. and as i left washington, d.c., i did not leave with optimism. i left with the cold reality that help is not on the way. rachel: i'm glad no money is going to him. but make no mistake, there is a lot of money going to solve this

problem. and when you hear democrats act a like they care about what's happening at the border, the only thing they say is just as you said, pete, money. more money. and more money means what? because you don't need money to do what donald trump did. you need to build the wall, that's it, but you have to go back to the policies of remain in mexico. he had the most secure border in american history. zero in 2019, zero terrorist encounters. we are now at record, history-breaking, record numbers of terrorists coming across our border. they want your money, and with that money what do they do with the money? they process more of them. we now know from reports that what they're doing is they're laundering our tax dollars. so they take your tax dollars, they, they give it out to ngos. the ngos are paying for flights, they're giving phone cards, and now they're giving $5,000 visa a credit cards. think about this holiday, how so many families are suffering, how

they could use a few thousand dollars in their pockets. but they are going -- our tax dollars are going to ngos who then give those visa cards to people who have broke withen -- pete: illegals are also getting access to the v.a. health care system -- rachel: please tell people about a this. pete: we did a segment about this last weekend, and we're going to do more. it's not that they're going to hospitals, it's that the v.a. is helping facilitate the money transfers between, from illegals through the v.a. system to be seen by community provide earth, health care. dental, health care, the same system the vets have to navigate, and the administration's blocking them in that particular case. i've also got a buddy who was flying out of san antonio late at night this week, he said thousands of illegals with folders and cards -- can here's the thing, the most effective policy though is the cheapest one. he said they were going to california, they were going to new york, they were going to philly. he said there was a flight bound for florida, nobody if on it. will: oh, really? pete: you know why?

ron desantis said, we don't want you. when you send a clear signal, people don't go. it doesn't cost anything to do that. you just have to show leadership and, of course, they haven't done any of that. rachel: wow. will: an investigation into the leak of the nashville shooter's manifesto has come back inconclusive. investors determining the two tennessee officers who discovered the manifesto did take photos of the shooter's notebook but were unable to directly pin down the person that leaked the document. the nashville police department says it, quote, exhausted all investigative avenues searching for the people responsible for the leak. now to a fox weather alert, forecasters are predicting a weekend full of severe storms that will bring 60 mile-per-hour winds, torrential rain and know to the east coast. pete just slumped in his chair. [laughter] travelers can expect delays both on the road and in the air. for more on this story -- pete: look at that severe storm threat area right there. will: it's a bummer. i'll see you at the french. toast line all day long on

sunday. [laughter] and the queen of christmas is breaking a new record. mariah carey, all i want for christmas is now -- holds the title for the most digital singles sold bytists who predate the digital era at 69 million. if. ♪ ♪ what more can i do. ♪ baby, all i want for christmas is you ♪ will: beat out michael jackson's previous record of 68.5 million. the christmas tune also ties lorde's record for highest certified females led of all time. so these are digital single buys that predate the digital era, right? so a song that came out before everything was on -- i'm trying to figure out what i just read. and then it's not limited to christmas songs because michael jackson -- by the way, where is

michael jack jackson's christmas record? he didn't have one. you don't think so? rachel: i had raymond arroyo, we were talking about christmas albums, he has a christmas album that just came out that he did a single with jose e feliciano, and he told me that on billboard, e jose feliciano, the single beat mariah carey this past week. maybe not in this particular sales tracking, but that's interesting. pete: i bet there's a michael jackson -- will: let's look up michael jackson christmas -- pete: if there is one -- will: by the way, lorde, that i like that song royals? if. pete: oh, i like that. that's the only song i know by -- will: me too. [laughter] he's a one-man band, brian brenberg, he is at today's army-navy if game, gillette stadium in fox borrow, massachusetts. hey, brian. >> hey, guys, what's up?

you've got the navy band behind me, it is just awesome here. i've been talking to guys jumping out of airplanes, they're going to jump on the field today. the commander of the uss constitution. tammy and i got out on the field, we were running routes. tom brady-esque throws into the end zone. it's just an amazing atmosphere the here, and you can just tell it's getting closer and closer to the big game. so we're so excited about it. we're going to be talking more about the uniforms in this game, army and navy both busting out some awesome uniforms. army's in particular we'll be getting into. but such a cool environment. gillette stadium, new england, it just doesn't get any better than this. for a guy like me, total dream come true. will no doubt. pete: you've got your son there, which is awesome. football player yourself -- >> yeah. pete: out there in new england for the historic game. brian where, great job all a morning long. appreciate you. rachel: thanks, brian. pete: did michael jackson have a christmas album? rachel: i would say he would.

no, wait, he's a yes hove jehovah witness, they didn't have it. pete: correct. jackson five had a one, you forgot about the jackson five. michael jackson did not. will: there you go. pete: i know he did technically, so you're technically correct, but you're also long. -- wrong. [laughter] women will coming up, the white house using the latest jobs to bash trump and hype bidenomics claiming the president is cleaning up the economy, but there's one problem. the majority of the jobs are government jobs. stephen moore on that next. rachel: of course.

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what do you make of it? >> good morning, pete, great to be with you. first of all, look, the jobs situation is still pretty good in this country, no doubt about it. there are more jobs than people looking for work. that's the good news of the story. but then you look, pete, i did an exemption of -- expectation of where the -- examination of where the jobs are being created, and the number one producer of jobs, do you know what sector of the economy it's been? government. [laughter] government has been thest employer. pete, we're running a $2 trillion deficit. we want the government to be getting smaller so we can with start paying our bills. by the way, the other two sectors where we see big job growth are health care and education which are both kind o- pete: tangentially government. >> government finances those finish. pete: is that because of the so-called inflation reduction act and all these government acts have led to these jobs? >> is of course. yes, absolutely. if you look at what's happened

since joe biden came into office, we've spent and borrowed $6 trillion over what we normally spend. so all the money is flowing through government. and my point is, pete, we want the private sector. look what's happened with manufacturing. look at what's happening with mining. look what's happening with construction. you know, the kinds of jobs we want to be creating, those have been frat -- flat, pete. it's government that's dictating more of our economy. i'm a free market guy. i want to see our industries growing, not washington d.c. and this is the an example, by the way, you know, when you ask people in washington how's the economy, oh, it's great. when you go to main street america, they're not feeling the love. pete: so if you add up the rebound from can vid which, of course, biden wants to take credit for, and add that to the government jobs, it shows you how devastating the reality of actual private economic growth is in this country. and that's why the numbers at the national level are so divorced from the spin the white house has given us. let me get to one more topic

with you, stephen, and that's student loan forgiveness. how is the biden loan forgiving another almost $5 billion in student debt? can they justaway a wand? [laughter] -- wave a wand? >> you would think so, won't you? the last time i checked, we had three branches of government, pete, and we had a legislative branch which makes the laws. and the haas time i checked the government -- i mean, the president does not have a unilateral authority to spend money. and yet over $100 billion of student loan forgiveness has taken place. and, by the way, it's the most ding bat idea ever, why we have to pay college graduates to repay their loans. but you looked at a this situation and, pete, not one penny of that money was authorized by congress, right? and on top of that as you know, pete, the supreme court ruled against the president's authority to do this. pete: yes. >> so he's ignoring congress and the supreme court. i mean, can you imagine if donald trump did this, pete? they'd say he's a dictator, he's

a tyrant. biden does it, and the left doesn't even raise an eyebrow. pete: no doubt. a big percent of the relief -- portion of the releer is coming from the public sector loan forgiveness program. more forgiveness for government employees. stephen moore, thanks for wreaking it down fors us. >> by the way, pete, i know the answer to your question. i know the number one song which was, which was by michael jackson, it was called i saw mama -- pete: kissing santa claus. pete: jackson five. >> yeah. that was his classic. remember that one? [laughter] pete: that is a classic. rachel: [inaudible] pete: steve moore delivers. man of many talents. thank you, sir. >> see you, guys. pete: coming up, senator ron johnson joins us on the latest on the hunter biden scandal. that can deliver remission and visibly improve damage of the intestinal lining.

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our division. the hell e mets have our bulldog which is our, you know, our mascot. really what's unique about the uniforms is really it's highlighting the thunder run which is a huge event that happened in our division during the invasion. we did two runs into baghdad, the final run basically toppled s saddam statue, that's what it's famous for. so we're highlighting that, and the group form is really special to the division. >> colonel, there are a lot of guys, people at this game today, many around the world serving who can't be here, but they care a lot about what happens here. talk about the significance of this game to those who can't be here but are serving right now? >> as you know, army-navy is one of the longest traditional rivalries in college football. and so now that we're done with all the conference maker we can focus on the only game, and that's army-navy. [laughter] >> i talked to a navy guy this morning, and we asked him, hey, would you rather lose all the games in the season but beat army? he said, all a i want to do is

beat army. it sounds like all you want to do is beat navy. what do you think, sergeant major, how's this going to play out? >> obviously, we're going to win. one because it's 3rd id. the defense is going to hold the line just like we held the line in germany -- in france, excuse me, and we're going to roll into the end zone just like thunderer run did into baghdad. we're not fancy but we're tough. go, army. beat navy. >> that's exactly the answer i expected. colonel, after the game -- so it's a tough fight on the field, but after the game both of these teams come together. talk a little bit about that. >> yeah. like i said before, it's a longstanding rivalry, but there's a mutual respect. but at the end of the day, there's only one victor, and that's army. >> okay. so you know where these guys stands and, obviously, the goal here, i've hard it said, you want to sing second. the idea is if you win the game, your alma mater gets sung second, and that a means you were the victors today. these guys are betting on army.

you heard some other opinions earlier in the day. the only way you figure it out is play the game on the field, guys, and that's exactly what we're going to do. will: we were just looking it up, army -2.5. they're both 5-6 records coming into this game. army's favored by 2.5 points. pete: there we go. >> you've got to play it though. you've got to play it to find out. pete: it's true. and, brian, we ran an option offense in high school. we were on the same high school football team together. he went on to bigger and better things, but these families run the option, right in. [laughter] >> no, this is 3 yards, 4 yards, a cloud of whatever's in this turf, and you do it again. [laughter] will: thank -- thanks, brian. pete: we appreciate you. will: come coming up this sunday or, we have congressman cory mills and ray beyond -- raymond arroyo live with a potential edition of breakfast with friends. pete: but first, the first son saying his gop creatics are trying to kill him to destroy

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claiming republican lawmakers are trying to kill him. >> they're trying to destroy a presidency. and so it's not about me. and their most base way what they're trying to do is they're trying to kill me knowing that it will be a pawn if greater than my if father could be able to handle. rachel: senator ron johnson joins us now to react. senator, welcome. so we have hunter biden hear saying they're trying to kill me, they're going after me. but the truth is the intel agent a says went after you for trying to ec expose this very early on prior to the last election. >> good morning, rachel, and merry christmas. the phrase that hunter's dad likes to use all the time, it's a bunch of malarkey. senate grassley and i were trying to warn the american public that if they elected someone as corrupt as joe biden

who had these entanglements because of his son's ill lis e sit and criminal activity, joe biden as the president would be compromised. so we were just trying to warn the american public. i stated often, i took no joy in revealing really what a troubled individual hunter biden is. this is how troubled he is. over a 44-year time period -- 4-year time period where he decided not to pay his taxes, he spent $4.9 million. rachel, that's -- [inaudible] and he spent $872,000 on women and adult entertainment. that's $4,000 a week, about $600 a day. and these women were trafficked through an international sex trafficking ring. so, no, i don't feel sorry for hunter biden. he's a criminal, he has done vile, vile things, and now he's out there, you know, claiming persecution. don't buy it. nobody should feel sorry for hunter biden. rachel: yeah. but, you know, the biden family

business is really about joe biden. he's the product. do you believe that these, you know, indictments or even more importantly the investigations that hopefully will continue in the house and in the nat -- in the senate, will those start to lead down the path of joe biden where in the past they used, you know, the doj, the fbi to basically block the investigations that would lead to joe biden? >> well, senator grassley and i proved that joe biden was lying. the evidence continues to mount. now we know that joe biden had transferred into his account $40,000. they were supposedly loan repayments, but show us the loan documents, show us the interest rates -- payments. so, no, i really appreciate the work that chairmen comer, smith and jordan are doing, they're e filling in the pieces of the puzzle. but the evidence has been mounting. it's very incriminating, and there's no way that the joe biden can really evade his

responsibility here. his family is corrupt, and he's compromised as president. he never should have been elected president, but because of the corrupt and complicit main stream media that covered up for him, and they continue to cover up for him, now we're in this awful position here in america. rachel: yeah, absolutely. by the way, you should feel so vindicated on so many levels. including when it comes to health care and big pharma. right now we know that the u.s. is facing some shortages, shortages hitting a record high. lawmakers are warning that they could mean life or death for millions of patients. talk to me about these shortages. why are they happening? we did see so much of the weaknesses exposed during covid. why weren't those things corrected? what can we do now? >> first of all, we're primarily experiencing shortage as of generic drugs was the drugs are is cheap, nobody wants to

manufacture them. so i'd ask your listen arers, i mean, how many general consumer products are in persistent shortages? very few, if any. so what with we have here is we have a broken market place. generally when you have very low prices and shortages, it means that there are too few buyers. there are a lot of consumers, but there's just too much buying power concentrated in, for example, the government's hands and in insurance companies' hands. that's what needs to be broken up. we need to bring consumerism, or the benefits of free market competition back into the drug market. now, generic drugs might increase in price a little bit, but that'll stabilize and alleviate those shortages. don't look for a solution out of washington d.c. the federal government has already screwed up the market. we need to let the market actually work. rachel: yeah, that's good. really quick, you know, i was just thinking about you when i was preparing for this interview, senator many. everything you have seen since you've been elected, the lies, the intel agencies going after you where, you know, all of the

corruption, just wondering, like, how do you feel about a america right now? you've within through so much. you tried so hard to tell the truth. are we going to ever go back to being that, you know, shining city on a hill? do you feel hopeful about america in. >> well, americans are good people. i mean, we're concerned about each other, we want the best for our fellow citizens. we want the best for people all around the world, so american are good people, but we're being very ill-served by government. one of my missions is to try and wean as many americans off the federal government as possible. understand the federal government doesn't so problems, it exacerbates problems. defend your individual liberty and freedom and recognize we're not a naturally divided people. these are individuals, people like joe biden, people like the left that are purposefully dividing us and right now i say our division's probably the greatest threat to this country, so resist it. embrace the things that we all agree on, and that's freedom, that's raising our family, that's safety and security. concentrate on those things.

rachel: yeah. and the truth, something you've been a champion of. we really appreciate that, senator johnson. thank you for joining us and merry christmas. >> merry christmas. rachel: you got it. coming up, it's not christmas without the of course debts, and they're here -- without the rock kepts, and they're here live to teach and will how to do their iconic kick. you don't want to miss that. ♪ the bells ring out for christmas ♪ treatment leaving you with uncontrolled symptoms? like the cover-it-ups and brush-it-offs? enough with good enoughs. don't stay hiding or hurting. ♪ when your lotions and creams don't do enough to help treat the inflammation beneath the skin, causing plaques and pain, it's time to get real about psoriasis, so, your dermatologist can help you get clear. make the appointment and ask about real clear skin.

♪ [laughter] will: all right, let's check in with chief meteorologist rick reichmuth, he's live today at maddie's toy shop in new york for the fourth annual shop with a cop event. hey, rick. rick: guys, this has been an amazing event. all these kids getting gifts, shopping with police officers, state troopers, port authority -- >> army. [laughter] rick: these two folks you might recognize 'em. hey, just real quick, how can people support your cause? >> you can go. [laughter] >> okay. you can check out our new web site at www.ptacop.org. and there's links on there to donate. rick: awesome. thank you for doing this. these are your parents. are you proud of them? >> yes, of course. rick: okay, there you go. all right, kids, have a good time. enjoy your shopping.

these cops are your friends. [cheers and applause] back to you. >> merry christmas. pete: merry christmas. rachel: all right. well, radio city rockettes have been kicking their way into america's hearts, mine included, for nearly a century. pete: president get your feet right, will. will: they are right are. just like hers. pete: here to teach us their iconic moves is the radio city rockettes. rachel: hey, ladies. >> hi. we're so happy to be here. rachel: we are so excited. i went to the show, it was amazing. you can't come to new york and not go see it. it's so heart warming and awesome. but it's truly an apt lettic thing. i mean, i was exhausted just watching you. [laughter] >> well, it's definitely very physically commanding, but we love what we do. and leading up to the christmas specking tack lahr, we are rehearse for six hours a day for six weeks and six days a week. so it's a lot of work that we put into it, but once we open the show, it's so rewarding to

see everyone in the audience really loving our christmas magic. pete: she came back raving. rachel: i was. pete: how many shows do you do? >> yes. we do up to four shows in one day, and throughout the season we actually have about 96 shows, and we just extended, so we're now oning through januaryth -- 4th due to popular demand. you can get your tickets at the box office across the street. will well, we talked about you guys last weekend, that's why you're here today -- [laughter] we did the 12 days of christmas, 9 dancing ladies, and you guys came up. [laughter] where do you guys come from? meaning what line of work leads you into the rockettes? who do you guys pull from as a group for talent in. >> with el, we all grew up dancing at our home studios back where we're from, and so dance has always been a big part of our life. for me personally, i always saw the christmas spectacular every year. it was my family's tradition. i always knew i wanted to be a rockette growing up, and to have

my dream come true -- will: tryouts every year? rachel: to see you up here, my gosh. so you train, and you guys are so synchronized. like, that's -- there's something too it -- to it. >> oh, yeah, it takes a lot of work. like i said, the rehearsal process is a lot, but we fine tune all of those details, and the precision is what makes us what we are. rachel: i think you're going to too teach us how to kick. >> so we're going to learn strut kicks today. we're going to start with our arms linked up. and when we enter a kick line, we actually don't touch. our arms are linked up, but we're strong on our own. so we're going to step on our right leg, we're going to come into a -- and then we're going to extend back and step down. we'll alternate on the other side, up into a passe, extend, passe and down. we're going to do four of those. but when you do your strut kicks, you want to hit it like you're hitting a drum right in front of you, so nice and strum.

d nice and strong. 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. pete: don't pull a hammy, will. [laughter] rachel: will, we have to be careful because his pants are always -- will: no, this doesn't sound good. >> i thought your strike kicks -- >> i have a son over there who's mortified. rachel: marjorie that, come here. this is my daughter. she went to the rockettes' performance, and she woke up at three in the morning -- [laughter] there we go. [inaudible conversations] will: here we go. >> 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] will by the way, e-mail us, friends@foxnews.com, tell us how we did.

rachel: you guys are amazing. if you're in new york, you have to see the rockettes. it's the most wholesome thing left in united states with a live nativity at the end. it's incredible. pete: thank you all. rachel: a piece of new york right here with us. pete: more "fox & friends" inn pete: more "fox & friends" inn just a moment. ♪ the ♪ because there are places you'd rather be. farxiga can cause serious side effects, including ketoacidosis that may be fatal, dehydration, urinary tract, or genital yeast infections, and low blood sugar. a rare, life-threatening bacterial infection in the skin of the perineum could occur. stop taking farxiga and call your doctor right away if you have symptoms of this infection, an allergic reaction, or ketoacidosis. ♪ far-xi-ga ♪

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♪ ♪ will: with just 16 days to christmas, we're counting down with our "fox & friends" advent calendar. let's open up day number nine. pete: would the rockettes open up number nine for us? >> sure. pete: why not? we get the pros. will: what is it? pete: what have we got? an original neck reading light, will. will: okay. pete: for you on our delayed flight. see ya. ♪ neil:-upper biden accusing republicans of trying to kill him to destroy his