♪ ♪ ♪ rachel: welcome back. look at that, good times roll. the good times are rolling. 7:00 here, and and it's new year's eve. you guys have plans? joey? pete? joey: yeah, i've got great plans. this evening i'm going to host the big weekend show. i'm very excited about that. pete: i hope you're at a hotel slows and not going anywhere else. joey: i can hear the chaos but not be a part of it. pete: the minnesota vikings are playing the pack ors tonight, so jen is not losed about that. she does not want to the spend -- it's a controversial game, yes, it could have playoff implications -- rachel: you'll be in nashville? pete: we'll be home.

rachel: i'll probably be watching the peakers too. [laughter] pete: sean duffy if will be watching on the other side of the equation. rachel: that's the only time he really insists on watching, if the packers are plague. pete: and they're playing the vikings. it's at lambeau field, he'll be into it. joey: we started the first hour with our new career's resolutions are from our audience, but now we've got one from joe biden. he says his new year's resolution is -- can well, let's see. >> reporter: whats' your new year's resolution, sir? >> [inaudible] >> reporter: anything else? >> that's the biggest one right now. rachel: he said to come back next year? joey: we don't know if he means back to st. croix -- rachel: back to life? [laughter] pete: back to consciousness. joey: it's an odd thing. pete: yeah.

could be back to that restaurant, that fancy restaurant he was at. that could be anything. rachel: back to his nap. knob knows, and and that's the point. and a lot of people are really critical of the fact that he's on vacation in st. croix at this luxury home of a billionaire anyway because, as you know, we have hot spots all over the country, all over the world that we wish he was, you know, at the helm taking charge of and especially at our border. i want to show cow this map -- show you this map here -- pete: look at his face. rachel: it is, it's true. pete: it's like the oldest guy you know in your neighborhood yelling at you with. anyway, sorry. rachel: no, no, no, no. i think that that 'em imagine has a lot to do with this image, just this feeling that nobody's in charge, that they've unleashed this policy on us. and maybe it's not going the way they want, maybe it's too much, but they don't seem to care.

look at this, 286,000 migrant encounters since december 1st, 770,000 migrant encounters since october 1st. that's 85,000 -- 833,5000 -- 83,500 known gotaways. look at those states there. joey: those are some records there. rachel: yeah, no question. no question about it. the total number of reported counters are greater -- encounters are greater than the population of those 15 states. so this is going to -- pete: that's staggering. rachel: it's staggering, and i think it's really hard to think about just how this is going to have an impact with into the future. i mean, social services are already strained, but tease people are going -- these people are going no if where. they will be here permanently. i don't think anyone's going to deport them. pete: no. rachel: what does that mean for your school, your hospital, your taxes?

pete: unless donald trump wins and puts in the administration he says he will which says, hey, we will deport these people. rachel: a lot of people to deport. pete: a massive backlash, but you would have the legal standing to do so, and you need to have the chutzpah to do so. but to your point, rachel, you just can't sustain the that many people. joey, you mentioned it, those are record numbers. those numbers we showed were basically based on a month the first one, 3286,000 a -- 286,000 a month, and then 800,000 in a quarter. and these are the known gotaways, let alone the ones we don't know about -- joey: that's such a if misleading nomenclature. does it mean these are the amount of people we saw on a camera but didn't bear sent, or is it a prediction of what they think the total people that than gotaways, i want to know about unknown gotaways. how many people are coming

across the border that we have no interaction with, that are coming here freely? and that number is speculative at best. it's probably huge, and it really tells the rest of the story. i mean, the biden administration has taken this crazy notice to appear piece of patient, and if you -- patient, and if you hand that to somebody, we've documented you came here illegally, you're asking for asylum, we can't make that determination, come back in two or three years, and we'll figure it out, that makes through the biden administration their presence in this country legal-ish. that gives them documentation, actually, of why the biden administration's allowing them on the here, although they came here completely illegally and have no proven if claim to be here. rachel: you know, joey, first of all, by the end of joe biden's term, i believe we're going to have about 10 is million people who will have come into this country illegally. that's a massive number of people especially if you think about that these are people with

low ask skill es, not a lot of education, and we don't know who they are and what's going if on. yesterday i had a guest on that i interviewed on this show, and he was -- i want to -- maybe our producers can remember his name, but in any case, he said, listen, this is no longer, in my opinion, i can't figure out what the end game is. i used to think it was about votes, that these were importing, you know, potential democrat -- pete: future voters. rachel: -- future voters, but he said this is so much bigger than that, i would say so much more coordinated than that with organizations like the world economic forum, the u.n., the sor soros-funded ngos and many of these other countries. the end game, to me, is a borderless world. it is about collapsing our system. in fact, that guest said i have to believe this is about destroying our country, because there's no other explanation for

it. the future voters thing doesn't work anymore. it doesn't make sense anymore. pete: which would mean looking at the pictures of joe biden on vacation giving a nonif sense new year 's eve revolution, it's not that he's incompetent, it's that he's party to it. joey: yeah. pete: he's willing to see that destruction under his watch and do nothing about it. and that's what a representative randy weber, republican if from texas, gave a quote to fox news digital about this contrast and said president biden's dereliction of duties on full display while he sits on the beach and ignores the thousands of illegal immigrants invading our country daily. america as we know it will be unrecognizable unless this administration if starts enforcing the law and stops the flow of illegal immigrants which, of course, they won't. which is why the election will be such a referendum on, you know, the economy, on this issue and then, of course, everything the left wants to make it about too. rachel: yeah. it's unbelievable. joey: yeah. and if we're not upset about the

border, then we need to look at what we have going on as a americans in this country and what we're going to do for our kids. we've got a survey that finds nearly half of the companies in the country plan to remove a bachelor's degree as a job requirement in 2024. what does that mean? that means that this, i don't know, two generations of telling your kids go to harvard and get a liberal studies or gender studies degree is the way to success. maybe that's not true anymore. maybe companies don't value degrees from places where indoctrination if is put above education. rachel: that's right. 45% of companies now plan to eliminate bachelor's degrees as a requirement. it's entering, we had the guy on earlier from ramsey solutions, and and he talked about coming out as a young man out of college and trying to start life with $40,000 in debt. i came out with about $30,000 in debt, and i had scholarships op on top of it, you know? so imagine that. my husband calm out of law school -- came out of law school and upside graduate with almost

$100,000 in debt, and i think it's really interesting that the woke keyness and the indoctrination and the silly degrees that you talk about, that i think people are catching on that this is a scam and that those graduates that apply for jobs aren't really all that much more qualified than somebody without a degree. and so i think this is actually a positive thing. pete: it's a sad development and a great bottom. rachel: yeah. pete: it's sad because these once hallowed institutions, just the idea of better your life by being the first in your family to go to college or do this, it's been part of the american story and the american dream. i mean, i remember my parents were so proud of the fact that they were the first of their family to go to a college. joey: yeah. pete: because that was something. now it's like i -- so it's sad in that sense, but it's fantastic because the scales have fall opinion off our eyes, that that is what you need. i think this is the necessary next step.

it's not just a recognition that these are woke nonsense universities, it's businesses saying we don't want these the employees which is why this survey of 70,000 small business owners is so is senate. 9 -- significant 91% say colleges are not graduating students with the relevant stills -- 9 is %? if -- 91%? rachel: 2 out of 3 strongly disagree with the notion that colleges are teaching relevant skills. here's mike rowe on the decline of the american work ethic. listen. >> worth thick used to be a virtue. and by that i mean telephones a thing that was -- by that i mean it was a thing that was completely apolitical. we with all aspired to it because we all all knew it could help us. today that turn of phrase has become like so many other turns of phrase a kind of triggering dog whistle of sorts. it means that if you come out in favor of work ethic, then you

are de facto on the side of the greedy, rah rapacious capitalists who are merely trying to exploit the worker. the truth is a positive work ethic can help anyone, employer, employee, doesn't matter. rachel: you don't need to go to college to have a good work ethic, that's absolutely true. but i'm not going to undermine what i think could happen if you go to a great university that is steeping you in information and also in great books and opening your mind. i mean, that's the kind of education that our founding fathers had, and that produced the kind of things that we love like our constitution. there's something about their education that,s you know, created these documents that have, you know, transformed the world. but that said, i was surprised to hear how many students today even now are doing their classes via zoom. joey: yeah. rachel: you know what i'm saying? joey: -- the social aspect. you can't learn to take a punch

verbally or any other way unless you're around people. you can't learn to have your feelings hurt and is have enough of confidence in yourself and your abilities for that not to be something that define cans you or gets to your core can. i had a young lady walk in class, i went to georgetown i got some education in the marine corps before that, thank god, and i took what was the path of least resistance. i still had my bandages on. she said something disparaging to me because i was a veteran and had help with my tuition. didn't matter that my my school cost me a leg and a leg. if i were as fragile as some of these folks seemed to be, that might have destroyed me, i guess. she didn't know everything about me and my situation and how my school was paid for or anything like that. the reason are why i bring that up is education's vital ally important. education through experience, mentorship, apprenticeship and in the classroom, very important. that's not exactly what you're purchasing with a 4-year degree anymore. and i think really what it does

is puts the spotlight right back on public schools. how many kids are graduating the 12th grade and not getting the robust education they got 20, 30 years ago with a semester of shop class are, a semester of automotive mechanics or simply, like, you know, i don't know, being taught not to be one of these gen-zers that ends up in credit card debt. education is notes inly indoctrination, and if there's schools that are still focused on education, technical colleges maybe? i want my son to learn a skill set. pete: you said exactly what i was thinking, the extent to which k-12 has devolved -- joey: yeah. pete: -- meaningless knowledge. colleges are supposed to pick up the slack, except if they've become ine dockery nation factories. so find a k-12 school that fortifies your kids in a way that they could be prepared for the world way better. you can do it in 12 years. a lot of our founders didn't go to college because they were

steeped in big ideas and great books. a lot of them did and that's wonderful, but with we used to educate young or kids on bigger ideas than we do today. we dumb it down, we simplify everything. it's possible. but with, hey, yeah, i'm grappling with this right now. what do i want to do with my if can kids going to college? right now it's a no except for a few places, and i think it has to fit the kid. rachel: i was going to say, i have nine kids, i have right now three that are college age. one graduated, one in college and is one went for a semester and said this isn't for me. i'm not getting the value i want out of it, and that's the choice he made. i think 10 years ago i would have freaked out, but seeing what's being taught in so many schools today, i think he's going to be fine. and this polling tells me he's going to get a job. [laughter] pete: yeah, exactly. 9911% of small -- 91 of small businesses are looking for him. let's turn to a few additional headlines starting with this. catholic leaders -- pay attention, rachel -- are

demanding action after more than 140 christian nigerians were killed over christmas weekend. rachel: story that's not getting enough attention. pete: local news sources report the attacks on 26 christian communities began december 23rd and continued through christmas day. van list -- evangelist reverend saying, quote with, there was yet another massacre of christians in nigeria. the world is silent. just unbelievable. no groups is have claimed finish. rachel: we know what's happening here. these are muslims who are -- pete: islamists who are finding christians and killing them. absolutely right. rachel: and it's been going on for a long time. it's only getting attention because it happened on christmas day, and it was -- look at this. just terrible. pete: all right. let's cover it more. that's one of our resolutions in 2024 on "fox & friends" weekend. robert f. kennedy jr. meeting the signature requirement to

qualify for utah's 2024 general election presidential ballot. ty's presidential effort met the 11,000-signature -- 1,000-signature threshold, pretty low, which would make utah the first state's ballot he officially qualified for. he's confident he'll make it on the ballot in every state. 1 down, 49 to go. a new year's eve staple could soon disappear. >> wendy, bring me the comically large bottle of champagne. ing. [laughter] >> really in are you sure? it's never been refrigerated, and i think there was a fish in it. >> honey, once you've made the sale, stop selling. pete: champagne lovers should drink up now, because your favorite type of bubbly could be gone by the year 2050 thanks to the weather. climate change. [laughter] that's according to an artificial if intelligence company, climate a.i.

rachel: they just make stuff up now. pete: which suggests hundreds of grape varieties which include the ones that give us u.s. campaign -- rachel: champagne. pete: i choose to say it that way. maybe on the brink of ex2006. extinction. talk about champagne problems. so the a.i. bots are telling us certain grapes are gone and, therefore, we won't have champagne by 202 ooh 50? so buy it now, save it, sell it then. joey: there you go. rachel: better than bitcoin. [laughter] pete: it is better than bitcoin. you're exactly right. oh, rick, i'm clinging to my coin. link -- rick live in times square ahead of the drop drop, how you doing? rick: did i tell you about my bitcoin, that i lost my sphwhalt. [laughter] pete: no, you lost bitcoin in your wallet? rick: yeah. it's a story for another time. i found it, thankfully. yeah, that actually made my

year. i thought it was gone for three months, and then i found it. so that helped a lot. man, that was a scary time. bitcoin scares me. how cool is this, guys? i've been thinking a lot about how grumpy i am and should i make this a resolution for next year, like, have i become a grumpy old man? if when you're young, i'll never do that and then it's happened. i've got to figure this out. this has been a rough 20 minutes trying to figure this out. the lights are coming up, i've got times square right here, i can see central park, i can probably see in towards connecticut here, and i'm going to try to hoe you -- show you this view and start walking around the top of this building which is a little bit hard because we're 355 feet up, so it also requires a little bit of stomach fortitude because the railing isn't that high up here either. it's a whole new thing up here. they've changed a lot of the environment up here. this building, which was the

original new york times building which is why this is called times square, the south end of times square, has been or under construction for a long time. it's going to become a big with tourist site here in new york. but this ball has remained pure, just the lights, and it is going to be dropping 66 feet in 60 seconds. i've been trying to talk to the guy here why can't it be 60 feet in 60 seconds. it's 66 feet for some reason i'm trying to understand. [laughter] pete: well, the cameraman was up convinced, which i can understand. it sounds very cold. rick, you're not totally grumpy, but i think it's a good resolution. it's good for all of us. keep thinking about it. rau. rick: that was a nice way of saying you're really gum pix make it your resolution. [laughter] rachel: just do it. president no way. we love you. we'll come back to you later. rick rick love you too, bye. rachel: thanks, rick are. well, another airplane mix-up. a 16-year-old ends up on a flight to puerto rico instead of ohio. [laughter] how'd it happen?

ahead. pete: you dissing ohio? if. rachel: no, i'm just saying puerto rico sounds great. joey: but first, a brand new survey ranking the most overrated political figures in u.s. history. we're going to break down the results straight ahead.

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♪ pete: a brand new survey of america's top conservative and and free market leaders making waves this morning, ranking the most overrated and underrated political figures in u.s. history. and some of the answers might surprise you a bit. committee to unleash prosperity to conducted that survey9. its coformed, steve moore, joins us now to break it down. when i first saw the survey, i thought, this is a good if idea, interesting. because we have views of certain figures in our mind. but let's ask a bunch of prominent conservatives and historians what they think. what did you find, steve? >> thanks for having me and happy new year. pete: of course. happy new year. >> the reason we did this is because if you look at the standard surveys of historians, and let's face it, historians tend to be very liberal, we know that from the universities that you were talking about earlier on the show, they have a very distorted view. and they always rank, pete, the

presidents and the political figures who expand government the most. pete: good gloifnlt increase its cost and increase its powers. and we as conservatives feel like, wait a minute, the great political leaders are the ones who give us more freedom. and so we asked about 125 leading conservative voices from around the country who they would pick. and, by the way, just to be clear, this was who's overrated and underrah rated, not necessarily the best -- underrated. are you ready for some of the results? pete: yes, please. drum roll. >> do you want to start with over or under? if. pete: the most overrated political figures in history. >> well, this is one of my favorites, and this was -- it was close, but the one who came out on top was coop cool with cal. calvin coolidge from the 19 tos -- 1920s -- pete: the most underrated. >> underrated, yes. and he was an amazing president. we had a booming economy, he cut

taxes and was highly effective as a leader. and, by the way, if he had been, run for reelection in 1928, we probably would have never had the great depression. and so he was on top. but here are the other two that were very close behind him, are you ready for this? ronald reagan and and donald j. trump. pete: very interesting. so most underrated -- you're right, there's been a resurgence of an understand ugh -- understanding of what a good president calvin coolidge was. i'm surprised a little bit to see bill clinton there as underrate rahed. >> yeah. he came in, i think, fourth or fifth on the list, and i think it's because if you look at bill clinton, look, this is not about his personal behavior, right? this is about what he did when he was president. his first two years as president were a disaster, but then when republicans took congress, he moved to the middle. and think about this, pete, we got three or four balanced budgets, the only president in the last 60 years who's balanced

the budget. we had welfare reform. he was actually a pretty effective president and a booming stock market. and i think that's the reason that he was rated -- upside rated. -- underrated. pete: all right. the most overrated political figures now. >> now, pete, this wasn't even close. [laughter] i was shocked. by far the most overrated was barack obama. and i think it's because so many people are disappointed with his presidency, you know? we were all proud of the fact as americans that we had elected the first black president in history, but his policies were very catastrophic for the presidency. i mean, for the country. we did not have finish we had a really weak economy throughout the his eight years as prime minister he didn't do a lot -- can as president. he didn't do a lot to help black americans. he didn't promote things like school choice and other policies that would have really helped black americans, and i think that's one of the reasons he was rated by far the most overrated.

right now if you look at his story, they're saying he's one with of the six greatest presidents we ever had. [laughter] ..i believe that. by the way, it's great to see the other two, fdr and woodrow wilson. wilson is effectively destroyed the country in starting so much of the progressive area, and fdr just expanded government massively. he's often at the top of your list, but your folks put him properly where he should. steve, thanks -- go ahead. >> let me say one thing about fdr and woodrow wilson. roosevelt, in my opinion, is the most overrated because he extended the great depression which could have been a one-year or two-year financial crisis, and pit lasted another ten years. how does that make him a good president? i never understood that. pete: it's a great point. and you're an economist -- >> by the way, pete, you never told me who would have been your choice. pete: i think i match pretty close. you didn't ask me to be a participant of the survey --

>> yes, we did! [laughter] pete: okay. you got it, steve. i think it would match what your experts found. spot on. good stuff. happy new year. all right, still ahead, christian music star lauren daigle closes out our con effort is series with a can't-miss performance. but first, tapped out. a sobering new report shows americans drank less beer in 2023 than any other year this century in the wake of bud light's woke controversy. a former anheuser-busch executive weighs in strege ahead. ♪

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leading the decline in sales was anheuser-busch, no surprise there, as it faced boycotts over its bud light partnership with transgender about just dylan mulvaney. joey: our next guest called this deal a bug mistake, former executive anson fred ricks joins us now. tell us why it's a big mistake. if. >> well, good morning. and if you recall, beer sales might be down, that that's really just a bud light issue. beer sales of miller lite, modelo, they're way up for the year. and is one of the problems you had with bud light was the dylan mulvaney if partnership, but the bigger issue's been the response. bud light trimmed their marketing spend over the summer, they did partnerships with peyton manning this fall, signed a $100 billion contract with dana white and the uf if c. the one hinge they haven't done is go back to their customers and apologize that they called those consumers bratty and out of touch, and they haven't said,

bud light, get back to football, get back do doing sports. those are things people want. they can spend all the money they want, but until they do that -- pete: yeah, why haven't they done that? i look at peyton manning with a bud light in his hand, and i think more about why is he doing that than i do about a bud light. why haven't they taken those steps? >> i don't think they've taken those steps right now, you know, unfortunately the company if's been captured by its largest shareholder, people like blackrock. blackrock's the largest asset manager in the country. one of the leading companies that pushes this environmental, social is, governance agenda, that tells companies that they have to get involved in these divisive social-political issues, and they're doing that because a lot of the management money comes from california, from new york. unfortunately, i think anheuser-busch is scared of blackrock and its largest shareholders and, unfortunately, they need to think who their real hair holders are, all the folks that watch the show, everyday americans and their

401(k)s and their retirement savings that are invested, that are counting on bud light to get it right, to get their marketing right, get beer sales back because that's what's going to pay for their retirement and not necessarily worry about these large asset managers like blackrock. rachel: i'm really glad you brought up blackrock, because i think that's a big part of the whole everything e sg push and why bud light did. this i knew bud light was part of this stat, but i imagined people were just not buying bud light, now they're going to buy miller or some other beer brand. i think there's a lot of people just trying to have lower carbs, less carbs in their diet. how much of it is part of that? >> it's definitely part of that. if you take a look at folks right now, yes, they're drinking less, or but also they're choosing other brands, spirits like whine which has done a -- wine, which has done a better job of -- also those interesting nonalcoholic options. there's a great brand, i'm not sure if you're familiar with it,

a water company that is put into a metal can, it has a lot of humorous ads that a bud light used to have in their old marketing, and they're stealing from beer companies as well. a lot of things that are going on are not just bud light and the vicious but more thed broader beer category. they've got to get back to elevating the image of beer, to humor, to fun. that's what's doing a really good job of driving this buzz for years, and unfortunately they've lot a lot of -- lost a lot of that. pete: anson, some of these san francisco have recognized this woke thing is not going well for them. the tech sector has seen a big drop in job-related postings for dei, down 34% from 2023 and 2022. do you think companies will eventually realize not only is it not helping our bottom line to do this whole woke thing, but it's actually hurting us? >> and really i think there's two reasons for this, but i think the pendulum swings back. the first one is illegals.

if you remember earlier this year, the supreme court had a case against harvard university. harvard university, they were using affirmative action policies to effectively discriminate against asian applicants, putting quota systems and limiting the number of asian applicants and asian students that would be admitted to harvard. this was ruled unconstitution constitutional by the supreme court and overunder the. so by default, a lot of these corporations used similar measures to limit the number of asian people at these companies, and by default, these are now illegal as well. more importantly, these programs, they just weren't popular at companies. at the end of the day, most people, most employees want to be judged on merit. joey: yeah, and that's exactly right. you know, what -- how crazy is it to want to live and exist in a meritocracy where you can earn it yourself? ap soften, thanks for joining us. my family left beer, but they went towards these truly, seltzer water things, i don't know. pete: thank you, apson.

rachel: thanks, anson. happy new year. joey: still ahead, we're counting down to 2024 with rick reichmuth, the chief meteorologist. he has a live report from times square coming up. rachel: and safety, of course, top of mind for tonight's festivities. retired nypd inspector paul murrow breaks down what you need to know before you ring in the new year.

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this is 355 feet up. you can see all the way down times square, all the way down seventh avenue. that's on the right side. that's central park at the end, on the left side is broadway. broadway cuts right across here. i just realized today it forms the shape of a bow tie as you look at it from up above, which i think is fitting for new year's eve, the bow try. but there you go. there's seventh avenue. you don't see people lined up -- actually, i think i'm lying. right at the end, i think i see a few people, maybe, like, 10 people right around the car there that look like they're maybe lining up. but there's your first 10 people that i see trying to get into times square. the first of a million people who are going to have to wear adult diapers, is what they say, because once you're in, you can't go out to find a bathroom or find anything warm to eat or anything. you're just sitting there staring at this 2024 sign and this ball for a bunch of hours. guys in. [laughter] pete: sounds appealing, rick. and sounds very cold.

rick: it does. pete: warm those lips up. i know when you're cold, i can hear it. rick: i'm really cold. [laughter] pete: thanks for doing this for us. rick: you bet. pete: it is the most famous and crowded new year's celebration in the world, and new york city if taking every security precaution in case those anti-israel, pro-hamas if protesters try to disrupt. rachel: retired nypd expecter -- inspector paul mauro joins us now p. happy new year to you. >> happy new year to you guys. rachel: i'm not going to lie. knowing what's been happening in the city with the protests as we just mentioned but also the number of known terrorists who have come across our southern border, i don't want to be where rick's at in a few hours. >> yeah. i mean, that's not unreasonable. i think this is kind of a good news/bad news scenario. the good news is the nypd does this better than anybody. they handle more large scale events than any other police department. every possible uniform member is

going to be out there. if you're on this job, you're pretty much working, okay? i didn't have off new year's eve something like 252 years. then there's a -- 25 years. you're going to have things like aviation's going to be out, the boats will be in the harbor, all specialized units will be out there. you're going to have the three ds, dogs, drones, detectors. those are the kinds of things you don't see in terms of intelligence assets. i know what they're doing, it's important and they're good at it. that's all the good news. unfortunately, there is some bad news. joey: you talk about drones, i know that's kind of a newer technology, semi-newer technology. you talk about eyes on, what's the reaction though? someone has has an emergency or someone does does something wrong, are there evacuation routes planned? how to you get people away from that crowd quickly? >> right. i hay plan for every contingency, and we had it last year. a lot of people don't realize, but we had somebody with terrorist intent. it's kind of an old school terrorist attack, somebody came

from maine, a lone wolf inspired by isis. we haven't seen this kind of thing, came down into times square because this is a big, very big terror target, really the big nest a lot of ways, and attacked a couple of comes, tried to grab -- a couple of cops. unfortunately, nothing really grave happened. but it can happen, they do plan for that sort of stuff. there's the all kind of medical assets as well. you've got to remember, half of them are on overtime, we're short cops, going to be going to transportation hubs, it's a lot more diffuse this year, so it's a challenge. rachel: wow. pete: paul, thanks for breaking it down for us. >> thank you for having me. pete: don't move, christian music star lauren daigle closes out our christian concert series with a can't-miss performance. m. and with innovations in natural gas and oil, america can deliver. but washington keeps pushing extreme policies that limit america's energy.

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