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fireplace. they mix it together with our nation's anthem, and it's magic. rachel: you've been asking for this -- pete: i've been asking for a coffee table book for years. i mean, you're welcome for the idea right here. a ray you're welcome, i agree. president.good to see you with, rachel. rachel: good to be back. i had a really nice time with my if family yesterday celebrating -- pete: what? rachel: the feast of the e epiphany, january 6th. not insurrection day -- will: the 12th day of christmas? rachel: it is. pete: did you give a gift every single day -- rachel: no, our kids get gifts from santa claus on december 25th, and then they wait, and on the night of the 5th, they put their little shoes out by our family altar, and they put sugar in their shoes for the camels, and then the three wise men com-

pete: the camels have never been a part of -- will: this is all new to me. i've never heard of it. [laughter] pete: we neither. sugar in the shoes for the camels? rachel: let me explain. pete: it sounds great, but i'm with whether. rachel: i'm sorry you never knew the three wise men came on camels. they put their shoes out, a little bit of sugar in the shoes for the camel, and the three wise men come, and and they leave three the little gifts for them just as they left for the baby jesus. will: you and your diehard biblical knowledge, i would have bent the wise men if came riding in on camels, but sugar in the shoes -- rachel: raymond arroyo with had a book where he said they were on horses. pete: there's nothing in the bible about camels. we know the three wise men arrived, the rest of it is lore

and speculation. can we be fair about that? rachel: i suppose. pete: they probably did arriven on camels. because they were traverse ising on the desert -- rachel: the grinch. [laughter] pete: possibly horses. either way, they would like the sugar. that's cool. i love the continuing honoring of christmas. rachel: i do too. i'm just getting really sad thinking about taking the decorations down. i know you can't wait -- pete: can't wait for them to come down. rachel: but i get so upset. anyway, we had a wonderful time. my daughter had three of her friends from college, so it was extra special. pete: excellent. will: well, dump that sugar out of -- pete: are your decorations down? will: i don't know. they could be coming down this weekend. rachel: not his d.. pete: hoping i come home to -- rachel: he doesn't take down the

decorations or gas up the car for his wife. pete: i think he's mostly man. will: i'm like an old west cowboy. i disa appear for weeks at a time and then come back. pete: and everything's the way it should be. speaking of somebody who has not disappeared one bit is the front-runner on the republican side, donald trump. and you heard what biden had to say yesterday in his speech at, near valley forge about how dangerous that man is. well, donald trump hit back. here's what he had to say. >> vote for donald trump in these caucuses a vote to secure your board e a vote to stop the invasion of our country. it's a vote to rescue our economy, and it's a vote to reclaim our democracy because, you know, that's his new thing. did you watch him stumble through that speech last night? donald trump is a threat to democracy. now, that's the only thing he can say because he didn't do anything.

in fact, a lot of people are saying he got a little tired. i think he mentioned my name 29 times. he said donald trump is a threat to democracy. that's going to be their case because he can't say anything good. will: meanwhile, something like two dozen states' attorney general have written a letter to the supreme court, a friends of the court brief, in support of donald trump when it comes to removing his name from the ballot. they wrote in that brief, many americans will become convinced that a few parse partisan actors have contrived to take the decision out of voters' hands. it casts confusion into an election cycle just weeks away. beyond that, it upset the respective roles of the congress and the states and the courts. the court should act now to stop all these strange, far-reaching and injurious results from spinning out of control. pete: is that what is known as an amicus brief? will: i believe so. pete: make an argument in front of the court on behalf of a

particular perspective. i think they're right. and republican a.g.s are so good at writing amicus briefs. if only they were good at throwing down the away the left does. will: you've got roughly half of our states saying the other states are subverting democracy. pete: yeah. rachel: interfering with an election. pete: we're always going -- also going to say this, we're not a democracy. as much as it rolls off of our tongue, we are a constitutional republic. and our founders were wary of democracies, and guys like woodrow wilson introduced the idea of democracy, a progressive, because they can ram whatever they want -- will: it's a fair point and a noble fight and one that i try to remind as well from time to time, we're a constitutional republic. but, or you know, we've become -- we've become used to use toking the word democracy as a stand-in for the idea of the voice of the people. and so, you know, like every

other thing on the left the past several years, the suns of which they commit -- the sins of which they commit they accuse others of committing. they're doing it again right now on particular issue. for example, kamala harris saying republicans are are trying to silence the voice of the people while removing donald trump from a ballot. [laughter] >> so i would offer this. in order to see visually what is at stake in this moment, let's pull up a split screen. on the one side, they want to ban books. on the other side, we want to ban with assault weapons. [applause] they think government should tell a woman what to do with her body, we trust women to know what is in their own best

interest. [applause] and women trust us to protect their fundamental freedoms. we fight to protect the sacred freedom to vote while they try to silence the voice of the people. rachel: yeah, it's so interesting how she leaves out a lot of words in there. so republicans don't want to ban books, they just want to ban porn graphic books in your -- pornographic books in your child's school. and, of course, she thinks she's so clever. i don't know, probably one of her staffers put that together, but all of us get nervous when she appears to go off script the same a way we do when joe biden does. pete: i love it when you see her visually get excited because she thinks she's on to something. this is the going to be amazing. okay, they want to ban -- i mean, you could deconstruct that entire sentence and how it's

completely opposite and wrong. rachel: well, we found out just this past week -- pete: just yesterday. rachel: just yesterday, you're absolutely right, that secretary lloyd austin was basically put in the hospital on january 1st, and nobody knew about where he was or what had happened at the white house. not that you didn't know, but joe biden and the white house didn't know until thursday. to be fair, president obama probably knew. [laughter] that's my guess. but nobody understands what happened. here's what secretary lloyd austin has said since that has been revealed. he said i also understand the media concerns about transparency, and i recognize i could have done a better job insuring the public was appropriately informed. i commit to doing better, but this is important to say, this is my medical procedure, and i take full responsibility for my decision about disclosure. what's weird about this is he's saying i'm sorry i'm not transparent, but he remains not

transparent because we have no idea why he was in the hospital, what happened to him. we know he's overweight. that's, you know, one issue that he's had. but with we know that about two months ago marine marine corps commandant eric smith had a heart attack. a lot of people wondering online was it a heart attack. the reason that would be interesting is secretary hydroaustin, as you know, is the one who required the entire military to take a vaccine which there have been many heart issues for people who have taken the vaccine. the question is why, why would he not tell the public or even the president -- pete: the whole story's bizarre. so not only did he not tell us, but the president of the united states? the commander in chief had no idea his top defense official was in the hospital for 3-4 days? the one thing that might throw a monoi key wrench -- monkey wrench, i think i heard the word

elective. i think, i think. i have to go back and look at that, but i feel like it was an elective surgery. which, what does that mean? did something go sideways? if was it meant to be quick and then it wasn't? let me be clear with you, we don't know. rachel: very true. pete: and the point is because he hasn't been transparent, even though now he's saying he's going to do a better job, i commit to doing better, but i won't tell you why i've been gone for a week, and i won't tell my boss. will: but but the important thing not so much why he's in the hospital, but the fact that he didn't inform anyone including the president of the united states that he needed to go to the hop. and the reason that that is important is on one instinctual level weir like, well, your own private medical decisions, you're in a public office where you're fourth in the chain of command with very serious, very, very serious responsibilities charged to your office. you can't just disappear for

four days. that represents not a threat to your health, but a threat to the nation. here's what senator roger wicker, republican from mississippi, had to say. this episode further erodes the trust in the biden administration which has repeatedly failed to inform the public in a timely fashion about critical events such as the chinese spy balloon and withdrawal from afghanistan. members must be briefed on a full accounting of the facts immediately. rachel: can i just say another point about this one? i remembered the media absolutely freaking out when melania, the first lady, had a kidney procedure and they didn't get -- it was like a 3-day cycle of, you know, what's the first lady, where is she? and as you said, peace has not broken out under the biden administration. will: not. rachel: this is a very hot mess, globally speaking, and so for him to be -- pete: what the producers just mentioned is we're hearing it's complications from an elective surgery. so maybe he went in on monday

thinking it would be routine or a day, and then there were complications. and then he kept the lid on it, kept the lid on it, kept the lid on it. complications are the time when you inform people, hey, it was supposed to be 24 hours, now it's going to be a week, and they didn't. which just leads to more speculation. now if we deserve to know precisely what it was. all right. well, or here's another story that is a sign of our times because whether it was covid or the revelations of what's happening inside schools, factors are choosing something -- parents are choosing something other than government schools and are flocking to charter schools, home schools, other alternatives. here's a report. it's from the sea data obtained by the national alliance for public charter schools. over the a last four years, charter schoolen rollment's gone up to 300,000 while attendance can at public schools has dropped by a million and a half. which i think is great news. rachel: it's fantastic nudes. on friday, e went -- fantastic

news. on friday i went to a christmas concert, on the 5th of january, and it was just -- there wasn't enough room in the auditorium. in fact, there was a dress rehearsal that morning, and so they said, hey, if you have kids, and, you know, prioritize parent ands if grandparents, because the kids saw the thing already. if they have sin lings. siblings. it was just so packed. i think a lot of classical schools are experiencing what many of these charter schools are experiencing, and that is just overwhelming demand now that parent ifs are aware of what's happened in their public schools. will: well, i will say my children went to a charter school for many, many years, and, you know, i'm going to say charter schools, and each one of them is tailored uniquely, that's the whole point, weren't except from a hospital -- exempt from a lot of the things that pushed people away from what we call the greater body of public schools meaning vaccine requirements or even the

implementation of critical race theory. charter schools were not immune from a lot of that stuff. pete: they're still publicly funded. will: i would say this is a better indication of the general academic failure of public schools. it's parents going, yeah, there's a whole host of things i don't like about the school, but the primary thing is they're not educating my children well. rachel: right. will: and just like economics, in the end, that is a very motivating factor for parents regardless of rouse or socioeconomic conditions. that's a failing school. i'm not sending my kids -- rachel: those things are interconnected because if you're spending a lot of time on crt and genderrer theory, you're not spending time on math. will: charter schools are the only piece of public education that is steadily grow requesting. this trend should serve as a rallying cry to anyone who believes we can keep telling parents to accept whatever's given to them. families is are discovered choice, and they like it. pete: yeah. 2023 was the year of school choice. multiple state legislatures passed it in a more robust way,

a lot of states planned to do so in 2024, tennessee being one of them, which will give parents even more options. not just chart schools, private schools, religious schools with their collars. rachel: corey deangelis chris rufo, there's a lot of heroes on the right who have been pushing for school coys, and we're seeing some of the fruits of that. will: a few additional headlines, hezbollah militants launching about 40 rockets into israel yesterday, one of the largest attacks to come since the war began three years ago. the idf responding with an extens i attack -- extensive attack later in the day. the secretary of state, antony blinken, wrapped up deescalation talks in jordan earlier this morning and is set to arrive in qatar later this hour. president biden accepting speaker of the house mike johnson's invitation to deliver the state of the union address. he posted on, and, quote, look forward to it, mr. speaker.

this'll be john to soften's first state of the union address as the speaker of the house. biden is set to speak on march 7th. now to football, the steelers using this 7- yard -- 71-yard touchdown to top the ravens 17-10 keeping pittsburgh's playoff hopes alive. i think they need a buffalo loss? pete: buffalo loss and another team needs to lose. or another team -- will: yeah. the colts taking on the texans for a playoff spot but houston taking the lead midway through the fourth quarter reeving the -- leaving the fate in the hands of their defend. >> it's in m if inchu's hand and a drop by goodson! texans make the stop. will: season on the line, a playoff hopes on the line, they take off their number one stud running back jonathan taylor and throw it to the fourth stringer e. it doesn't work out for the colts, and they're out of the the playoffs. texans are in though.

they hold on to win that game, and they will be in the wildcard round. tune in to fox this afternoon for a full slate of football. my dallas cowboys take on their rivals in the washington commanders at 4 p.m. eastern time. a win and they are the 2 seed in the playoffs. pete: rachel, who always a plays in america's game of the week? rachel: cowboys. pete: there you go. she's been listening. rachel: i got some help in my ear. [laughter] i can't lie, i can't lie. all right. we have a fox weather alert. a tornado rolling through the fort lauderdale downing power lines, and we have a live report with the destruction and aftermath. pete: but first, grim numbers show police officers shot on the job hitting a new high in 2023. we talk to a retired dallas police officer if who says it's caused by the lack of prosecution of violent offenders. ♪ today, my friend yo, you did it, you did it... ♪ centrum silver is now clinically shown to support cognitive health in older adults.

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downtown fort lauderdale just before 6 p.m. last night. let's turn now to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth for our fox weather forecast. reduction, my kids are going to be sledding today. it's beautiful weather and snow in new jersey -- rick: how much was there when you left this morning? did you get out and measure? rachel: i didn't get out, no, but i looked, and and i know it's enough to go sledding. rick: okay. a few up. s probably at least. once you go a little bit out of the city, up across much of upstate new york, we did see some pretty significant, a lot of areas around a foot or so. but the city's still looking at the street, pete, 692 days, if you're listening, that we've not had an inch of snow in new york city. we're going to go at least another week without breaking that a record, close to 700 days without an inch of snow which broke the last record which was, like, 380-some days. this is a bug story. we still have the snow to be had although it is beginning to wind

down at least for the southern part of new england. boston, a long time ahead, parts of coastal maine, maybe another 12 hours before it's fully out of here. this is the additional snow that's going to fall. new york city, long island, much of jersey, for the most part it is the over. i want to turn your attention to the next storm because we add that in florida, a lot more severe weather coming this weekend. another really powerful storm starts tomorrow across the plains, brings the threat for severe weather, and by tuesday this spreads a little bit farther again in throughout parts of florida, coastal areas of georgia and in towards the carolinass, and there will be a lot of rain coming with this new storm tuesday into wednesday. and all that snow that fell here, temps into the 50s and maybe 3-4 inches of rain that's going to fall. we're potentially looking at a significant flooding outlook by the time we get towards mid midweek. pete: so this is right, 692 days without more than an inch of snow on the ground. rick: in gotham.

pete: %. wow. thank you for the tip -- can perfect. all right, a record-breaking 378 officers were shot in the lewin of duty in 2023. -- line of duty. that is a 60% increase since 2018. 115 of those were ambush-style attacks on officers. 46 of them fatal. joining us now with his reaction is u.s. congressional candidate and president of the national fallen officer foundation trey penny. trey, thanks for being here. what a terrible stat. what a threat our police officers are facing. highest number ever ambushes, and when you look at that leap from 2018, what does that tell you? >> it tells us that our policing profession if as a whole is vulnerable, our country is vulnerable if. we were police officers out here trying to work and do their job, and they can't because we've essentially had a government -- if you think about the last four years, we've had a local, state and really at the federal level as well calling to defund our

police officers, right? pete: yeah. >> they duh fend them -- defund them, they devalue what police officers are doing on the streets with these no bail laws putting criminals back onto the streets. and not only that, police officers are being prosecuted for doing their job is. we're talking about qualified immunity that ising being taken away from if them. and a lot of cities even paid out settlements to individuals that were attacking police officers. you've got to ask yourself, what did that do to law enforcement? it emboldened these criminals to attack police and, in fact, it made law enforcement less safe. so, look, i'm trying to do everything i can as a national add slow is candidate for law enforcement, fighting for their interests across the country. for the last three years, i've consulted for the house and senate trying to get them to pass pro-police legislation and, unfortunately, we can't get anything done because these guys are tied up in nonsense, stuff that does not impact public safety. i just want every law enforcement officer in this country to know that i hear you. i hear you. for those of us that have lost friends in the line of duty,

that have lost family members, officers that are not going home to their families anymore, i hear you. and i'm doing everything that i can. guys, this now, right now is the time. this is the time for law enforcement to talk hold of their own destiny. we have to put pro-law enforcement candidates in office, and that's why i'm running for the u.s. congress in texas' congressional district 3 to make sure we have advocates in this country to keep our officers safe and our communities safe. pete: trey, so much of policing is a state and local function, and that's probably what you're running into a little bit at the national level, but if there was a piece of legislation that should be passed from our congress to support our men and women in blue, what would it be? >> so lilledfy qualified immunity -- solidify p. number one, across the board. we cannot have officers being prosecuted for doing their job. if i do my job the way you trained me to do it, there's no way i should be facing civil or criminal liability for doing that. and, unfortunately, we've had politicians that are, you know, they're walking through these gray areas, they get influenced

by these social agendas and, unfortunately, they do not back law enforcement, and law enforcement end up being the targets at the end of the day. we have to make sure that our dojs are not being police sited -- politicized, and that heir not putting consent degrees on our agencies. we have to be smart about our policies. we have to be smart about everything that we do, and i'm going to be the person to take it head on and address these issues at the federal level. pete: i agree with you all the way. the same thing in the military. you know, the folks in the air-conditioned office as, monday morning quarterbacking is what creates so many problems for the guys on the ground. trey pennie, good luck in your race. coming up, big problem for the dhs secretary mayorkas as house republicans take steps to impeach him over the crisis. but first, did you make a resolution to get more sleep this year? we've got the tips to fall asleep faster and stay dreaming all night long without reaching

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♪ ♪ >> secretary mayorkas has basically forced his immigration policy on the country against the laws passed by congress, and the result has been thousands of dead americans, human trafficking, cartels -- we're going to look at the facts and make a decision can on whether or not he should be impeached. will: house republicans putting immigration front and center with a planned hearing this week doubling down on tear push to the impeach dhs secretary mayorkas over his handling of the crisis. it comes as mayorkas visits eagle pass, texas, tomorrow are where more than 12,000 migrants illegally entered the small town of 30,000 in the last week of 2023 alone. cochise county sheriff mark

tavern yells joins us now -- daniels. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. will: i've been out to your county in the past, and i was looking at the numbers, sheriff. it's almost -- we remind the public, we talk about this story, and yet it doesn't cease to be staggering. a few short years ago, something like half a million. we're up to over 3 million in a fiscal year. it's -- i know you see it on the ground. what do you make of what's happened in a a short amount of time? >> well, let me just say this about secretary mayorkas. there's two things i look at. anytime somebody's put in a position of leadership. number one, is his leadership working, are people following him. and i'll just say this, i have yet to find a customs or border patrol agent and say, sheriff, this is working. secretary mayorkas, in fact, if you took a poll within cbp, it'd be damning to the reputation of seek tear mallorca -- mayorkas.

sheriffs across the country have a vote of no confidence based on his lack of action, based on his policy, and that's why you see the border what it is. second of all, this is something we forget, he took an oath of office similar to what i did to protect our community, to protect our country. you've bot to ask the question, has it been successful? is we all can agree, no, it has not. and last but not least i will say this to you and the viewers today. yes, he owns his decisions, but we own, the american people own his reputation, and that's not a good one to have right now. will: you said two separate things i want to follow up on. first of all, the violation of his oath. and is that seems to be a topic we can talk about the effects of an impeachment. but the first thing you had to say is whether or not it's, working. and i guess i would only challenge you in this respect, it depends on what you're trying to accomplish. and that's more of a political decision or a political question than it is a competency question, because this is at

such a high level of incompetency, presumed incompetency, that it's the almost hard to hajj. -- imagine. so you'll say, well, or this is actually the purpose. it is working to fulfill a political goal that is above mayorkas. so what would impeachment actually accomplish? this is a decision from an administration level, and he might be doing a bang-up job of accomplishing their goal. >> you're 100% correct on that. the intended consequences is what we're addressing today. and this starts with president biden. if let's not even forget that. but either way he took an oath to protect the homeland. that is his job description, that is his oath. he set that aside. he set america aside for political values and ideology over the people. that's why i say he failed. will: and so then, therefore, the question is back to your oath and you brought it up again which i think is ap proto, that's a question not just for mayorkas, but for biden in defending, as you mentioned, your community and our constitution.

and lastly, before i go very quickly, just give me an update on, on your community. what has changed over the last couple years since i've been to your with "cavuto"? >> well -- to your county? >> since you've been here, we'll take back the visit you had about a year and a half ago compared to today. last two year we booked 2,884 people in my jail for border-related crimes at a cost of $9.3 million to the tax biers just -- taxpayers just on border-related crimes for people committing crimes next to the border. it is a tragedy that happens every day. public safety, national security, humanitarian. we see it every day. will: yeah, i know that you do, and i know that it's only metastasizing despite the best efforts of sheriffs across this country. it'd be nice -- i think it would be nice to have somebody who was interested in actually correcting the problem. not just failing to, but interested in trying to correct the problem. sheriff daniels, always great to see you. thank you. >> bye-bye.

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rachel: welcome back to "fox & friends." over 140 christians were killed in nigerian jeer -- nigeria over the christmas holiday marking another deadly weekend in west africa as christians are practically being hunted for sport. nigeria was marked the worst country in the world for christian persecution last year according to the international christian concern. here to react, president of the congress of christian leaders, reverend john moore. reverend, thank you for joining us on this very important and very underreported story. so from my understanding of the stats, a christian is killed every 2 hours in nigeria. it's astounding. why don't you just tell us what is going with on. why are christians being hunted down and killed and kidnap kidnapped and their churches burned in nigeria specificically? >> well, first of all, it depends on who you ask. if you ask the christian

community in nigerian -- and this is the largest country in africa, the biggest economy in africa, a democracy. nonetheless, it's basically 50% christian, 50% muslim. and every single christian in the country will tell you they're being targeted because they're christians. rachel: right. >> and the unmentionable things are happening to women, children are being killed in grotesque ways. every church they can find is being burned down, whole villages being burned down. it is basically a hundred times worse than anything you've seen. in fact, the 140 people that were killed over christmas, since that happened over the last week another four villages have been annihilated entirely. so if you ask the christians, they say we're being targeted because we're christians. they want to ethnically can and religiously cleanse us. the department of state says this has nothing to do with religion. in fact, just this last week the department of state reversed yet again a trump administration decision to designate nigeria as

one of the world's foremost persecutors of religious people, of christians because they believe the reason why this is happening is, wait for it, climate change. rachel: yes, i say that -- saw that. i saw that in the ap. one of my colleagues, pete hegseth, showed me the article where the p if ap said this is happening because of climate change. it's absolutely astounding, first of all, that the trump administration first designated nigeria, rightfully so, they called it the worst violater -- nigeria the worst violater of religious freedom in the world. and just as 140 christians were massacred over christmas and we know 52,000 in africa since 2009 have been killed, now the biden administration just this month decides to reverse that, and now the media and the state department are saying climate change? why are they -- is it that they're pushing climate change and they're trying to, you know, take these tragedies and push their agenda, or is there

something else that they don't want to in any way implicate miss if limbs or somehow -- muslims on i somehow downplay the conditions? why would they want to downpray the conditions and the brutalgy against christians? -- brutality? if. >> it's a combination of things. plenty of muslims around the world are blinking red lights and saying that there's a piecemeal, isis of like caliphate being formed in western africa. and, by the way, the whole of the african continent is in trouble. a civil war in sudan, basically a line of coups across the continent, and on the western side you have these jihadist organizations that are forming. and, by the way, my jeer ya with is a country we, the united states government, our taxpayer dollars -- rachel: right. >> -- a billion dollars a year to. but also it's, unfortunately, this d. of state doesn't have -- department of state doesn't have much to show for anything. we have the worst hostage crisis

in more than history, more americans killed by terrorists since 9/11. we have the afghan withdrawal, we have, you know, war in israel, war in ukraine, civil war in sudan. i mean, the list just goes on and on and on. and when you look at these things, you say, like, is someone on vacation? rachel: right. >> you know, the beginning of the show today is, actually, the president was on say caig, deputy secretary of defense was on vacation, the secretary of defense was in the icu. it's insane. it's insane, what's happening. rachel: yeah. our government is being blind to this, the media is too. but there aren't enough catholic and christian leaders like yourself out there bringing attention to it. we really thank you for doing that, and we hope others will continue to speak for the plight of those christians in africa. thank you for joining us, reverend. really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me, ray rachel. rachel: god bless you. coming up, the u.s. grounding some boeing max plans -- planes

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