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♪ o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ pete: good morning and welcome to "fox & friends" on this saturday morning as we begin with our nation's anthem, as we always do. we thank you for your photos, for sending them in, friends@foxnews.com. it's january 27th, year of our lord, 2024. here with will and, look who's here -- >> good morning, i've been looking forward to this weekend to hang out. pete: how you doing? >> great. chipper, bright. feeling good. will: wow. [laughter] pete: 6 a.m. >> trying to wake you guys up. let's do this day! will: we don't have our pads. pete: oh, yeah. will: carley's back. carley: i think you need it, gentlemen. posture.

pete: i'm sitting up straight. if. carley: sit up straight. will: i am. carr. carley: no, your not -- oh, you are sitting up straight. [laughter] i thought you were hunched over. will: i've got to work on positive hur. i get a lot of instagram videos, now you're here -- carley: see? if that's all i can do for you guys this morning, my day will be a success. will: cbp confirming a record number of encounters in december as agents struggle the cope with the surge of illegal crossings. pete: meanwhile, on capitol hill, the senate reaching a deal that joe biden says would give him the power to shut down the border. carley: lucas how many tinson -- tomlinson has all the details. >> reporter: president biden waking up to an 18 percent approval rating over his handling of the southern border, and these are numbers we've reported for weeks now here at

fox, but finally they're official. dhs finally releasing the official numbers late yesterday which say, quote, there have been 785,000 encounters since on the on the southern border, over 300,000 since december. that 300,000 number, that's the population of cincinnati pouring across the border last month alone, the highest in american history, guys. the border bill remains stalled in congress, bill melugin provides the following state of play and where that the stands now. he says in reports, it's a mandatory shutdown of the border once average daily encounters hits 5,000. this would allow cbp to immediately remove immigrants without processing, shut down, in quotes, also takes effect if there are 8500 encounters in a single day. shutdown would not lift until if daily encounters are are educed for at least -- are reduced for at least two weeks.

all migrants who do not have valid asylum claims can be immediately removed, and any migrants caught twice would be banned from entering the u.s. for one year. and the migrants allowedded into u.s. under this proposed deal, 150,000 crossings per month, 1.8 million per year. and the white house responding last night in a statement from president biden who admits, quote, for too long we all know the border's been broken. it's long past time to fix it. what's been negotiated would, if passed into law, be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we've had in our country, it would give me, as president, emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. here's the response from house speaker mike johnson who says, quote: if rumors about the contents of the draft proposal are true, it would have been dead on arrival in the house anyway. sounds like a are lot of election year politics, guys. president biden later today

heads to south carolina where he will be on the ballot this time for the primary next week. guys? will: thank you, lucas. house speaker mike if johnson has been push h.w.r -- h.r. 2 for almost a year as a priority. what's the point in more laws? it's not -- there's no necessity for more laws, and that's the way democrats paint this thing. oh, republicans are sitting on this bill or that bill. justin force the existing laws. i -- just if enforce the existing laws. not too simplistic to say it's absurd for president biden to have these authorities -- you have the authority today to secure the border. pete: no doubt. and and you know what this is all about? you know funding. they want the ukraine money in exchange for this vote. if we could put that wall back up of all the details of what this bill might -- any if border deal where they say i'm going the hut down the border that

includes that much fine print means you're not going to shut down the border. carley: yeah. pete: if we get 5,000, we shut down. how about you just close it? if i'm glad -- will: border's open, get there early. [laughter] pete: get there early. carley: if you get to 4,999 people every day, then it doesn't trigger the shutdown? and then that's why you get to 150,000 crossings per year, 1.8 -- for month, 1.8 million per year in so to put that into content, 1.8 million per year if this keel becomes a law, the highest trump year was 2019 with 850,000 illegal crossings. this would be 1.8 -- pete: they basically want to codify the terrible status quo. carley: president biden has already said that he would sign this into law, so he's going to say -- he's going to play tough, tough guy now on this issue because as lucas just said, his approval numbers on the border,

18%. so he's going to say, well, i brought republicans this deal, i wanted to do something about it. they don't want to because they want to make it a political issue when in real estate reality there are so many republican lawmakers that would never sign this because this is 5,000 people catch and release every single day before a trigger goes into effect. their constituents would never allow that to take place. pete: yeah, right. that's what they'll say. we had mike johnson on this couch. he said this is a hill i will die on,-r. 2 is what measured be. and, by the way, donald trump has come out against this deal also. carley: yeah, that's right. and you mentioned when lucas was talking, and it's such a great point, what did jeh johnson say, former dhs secretary under president obama? pete: yeah. carley: 1,000 is a bad day -- pete: 1,000 a day. carley: 4,000 is a crisis. this would be 5,000 just catch and release into the united states every single day before the shutdown trigger goes into

effect. will: just practically, logistically it would be, like, get there early -- pete: yeah. you're exactly right. will: how does that work? does the line start at midnight? when does the clock restart the every day? pete: it's a great question. carley: the remain in mexico policy that president biden could do right now, but he would never do that, of course. will: the united states department is pausing funding to the relief and work agency as 12 staff orers have been fired for allegedly taking part in the october 7th hamas attacks. s this is one of the worst kept scents in the international community, the connections between unrwa rah, as i think it's said, and anti-israel and, in fact, support for hamas. carley: yeah yeah. florida florida all of these, so many of these -- probably true although i'll couch it by saying so many of these international organizations we give unvetted, unchecked amounts of money to, is and they almost never serve our interests.

here's the funding for the u.s. gave unrwa -- again, united nations relief and work agency -- last year $300 million. now we're learning that at least 12 of them, as will said, were a part of the on the 7th attacks. carley: can you believe that? if. pete: but john kirby said, no, no, no, don't worry, this was back on january 4th, our national security council coordinator. his response p watch. >> unrwa, the relief, u.n. relief agency, does important work. in fact, they're doing a lot of heavy lifting right now in terms of trying to get food p water, medicine to people of gaza all up and down the strip. they're doing a lot of work, and they're doing it in harm's way, very much so in harm's way. and you can't hold them accountable for the depredations of hamas and the way they use civilian structure if including

civilian hospitals including command and control for storage and holding of hostages? >> shouldn't this at the very least raise the alarm -- >> i'll let the u.n. speak to their agency and what alarms they want to raise or not. carley: wow. yeah, 12 people who worked for a u.n. organization were fired because there are allegations that they took part in one of the most horrific terror attacks in recent modern day history. and the u.n., i mean, we are one of the biggest backers, so you can connect the dots and say that we were in part paying their salaries. one of the most important points to all of this is that when with president obama if or president trump for came into office he cut off funding. one of the first things biden did when he entered office was he turned the spigot back on, and that's why nearly $1 billion has been paid to this relief organization since president biden took office. by the way, unrwa, what they do

is it's a palestinian refugee organization. so it's a lot of money spent in gaza and the west bank. pete: you're exactly rightful what was it, trump in 2018 cut off all funding. you know who these guys are, why would you fund them in and johner by says they're in harm's way -- john kirby. turns out they're the ones creating the harm. peter doocy pressed john kirby on this, and it kind of tie it is our two stories together at the top on do we vet anybody at our board or over there? watch. >> reporter: -- who does this white house vet? because we know that people coming across the southern border are not vetted. now we know that people who are getting hundreds of millions of dollars of u.s. money are not being vetted. so who do you guys check out? >> this idea that just there's no vetting and there's no proper immigration enforcement going on at the border just does not comport with ready. a lot of work needs to be done to get better at that. but put that aside, because that

has nothing to do and you know that has nothing to do with unrwa and gaza -- >> reporter: but up until today u.s. policy has been we don't negotiate with terrorists, but we will give them hundreds of millions of dollars. >> come on now, that's like saying the whole unrwa is a terrorist organization. you know who is a terrorist organization? hamas, not unrwa. we've suspended any additional allocations to unrwa rah. we'll certainly consider additional, you know, depending on the investigation whether that requires any additional changes in the way we support unrwa going forward. will: yeah, but so the trick there is whether or not you should have been surprised by the connections between unrwa and hamas. and from my understanding, there's no excuse to be surprised. carley: no. will there's been this open connection for quite some time. at least one of the unrwa workers held a hostage from the october 7th -- pete: at their apartment. will: at their house or apartment, and others were teachers who have been teaching it. i can't remember the exact way -- pete: they were celebrating october 7th.

will: that's what it was. carrie: i wonder if they were celebrating after the fact? the only way you would know about the october 7th attack and take part in it is if you are a card-carrying member of hamas -- pete: which clearly many members of unrwa rah are. carley: teaching from textbooks that glorify terrorism, encourage martyrdom, demonize israel which is why the trump administration if caught funding, but then the biden administration reversed that. unbelievable. pete: there you go. so we're funding terrorist-adjacent organizations overseas, and here at home we're erasing our history. the biden administration passed a new tribal consent law that has prompted museums across the country to close native american exhibits. so basically you have to get the content of the -- consent to have tribe in order to have an exhibit at your museum. if you go to the natural list museum in new york city --

will: you went recently. pete: couple times with young kids because they want to go. carley: dinosaurs are great. will this is one of my favorite exhibits. pete: absolutely. and i've seen it a couple op concern of times. there's a native american portion or of it where with they have trigger warnings on the grass. this is how it's inaccurately depicted, colonialism or whatever. all of those had to come down, and they did it very quickly at the natural history museum. apparently now thousands of square feet of exhibit basically empty because they didn't meet the tribal consent law. here's what the museum of natural history director, sean decatur, said. the halls we are closing are artifacts of an era when museums did not respect the values, per peck bis and, indeed, shared humanity of ending indigenous people. actions that may feel sudden to some may seem long overdue to others. i mean, this director's already

woke, so this gives him a reason to get rid of exhibits probably -- will: you know, you said it well, and it's become a little bit cliche to say that term right there, erasing our history. this is literally racing our history. you're taking the pregnancy of native americans and their -- presence of native americans and their part of the story out. no, no, as long as they consent. no. because what you've empowered is the heckler's veto. who gives consent? the tribal council? i have a big fascination with american indians. i love reading about it, understanding the history. particularly, i love great plains indians. that's one of the exhibits they took down. who needs to aa prove of the, ticket? the sioux? if the chai 9/11? the comanche? who among that tribe? what you have done is empowered a heckler's veto to anything that results in an erase sure. you go there, what it does is

inspire curiousty. and then you go home and you learn more. carley: totally. will: ask you buy a book or start getting into a story. the buffalo nickel, the washington red kins -- redskins, whatever, you are erasing this part of history. carley: yeah. people go to learn and honor the history and get excited about a, you know, honoring the culture. if i just saw that headline about the museum of natural history taking down this display, i would say there's got to be a racist somewhere working for the museum of natural history because hiding these things, it doesn't honor the culture. it does the exact opposite. and it's not just here in new york city. this is happening across the country. so maybe one in your community as well, these native american kiss plays are being taken down -- displays are being taken down in chicago, the peabody museum, the cleveland museum of art or all to comply with the native american graves protection and reparation act so

all of these the relics are going back to the native american tribes as opposed to being on display for the more than public to see. pete: it's why you can't have nice things. carley: i guess not. will: by the way, i just bought two indian paintings, greg overton. big fan. famous comanche chief. do i have to get consent? pete: you might have to. might have to return 'em. will: he died a while back. carley: i think you're back. pete: a while back. will: saw 0 years, maybe -- 150 years. carley: the u.s. navy destroying a houthi anti-ship missile in yemen earlier this morning that was tamed into the red sea and ready to launch. this action comes after the houthis successfully hit a marshall islands-flagged oil tanker in the gulf of aden last night. the ship reporting damage after catching on fire. nobody onboard with was hurt thankfully. the strike on the tanker marks the 38th attack on international shipping by the iranian-backed houthi rebels in the last 10

weeks. wwe founder vince mcmahon stepping down from his role as executive chairman of tko group after being accused of sex trafficking. finish a former wwe employee alleges that he forced her into a sexual relationship and shared inappropriate photos of her with other men. mcmahon issuing a statement saying, quote, i spend to vigorously defend myself against these baseless accusations and look forward to clearing my name, but he did step down from the wwe. there is controversy in stanford, connecticut, after the city's school board voted to remove two holidays from the calendar. after a 5-3 vote, the district will hold classes on veterans' day and columbus day. those holidays will be observed in the if classroom instead of having the days off of. neighboring school districts in the state already remain open on veterans ' day and columbus day. that sounds like a segment that should be coming up on "fox & friends". and the michigan wolverines

naming offensive coordinator shah roan moore as their new head coach days after previous coach jim harbaugh bolted to the nfl following a title-winning season. harbaugh praising the new hire saying, quote, not a better man to coach the team. he has my vote, my support wholeheartedly. i feel like it's in great hands, can and those are your headlines. the moves that michigan university with or football -- pete: did they have a good offense? will: he filled in when harbaugh was suspended, and they obviously did well. the question is what has harbaugh left him in his wake -- pete: transfers and everything too? will: that and also the investigations, the potential -- carley: aren't they over? pete: i didn't think of that as part of the reason why he also left. got it. now we know the rest of the story. still ahead, biden caves to

halting natural gas projects. and davos heats are coming for your coffee? >> every time we drink coffee, we are basically putting co2 into the atmosphere. pete: -- drink the coffee. will: oh, my -- every time we breathe, literally -- pete: it actually makes me feel great. marc morano reacts next. will: plus, one couple takes to social media after discovering they're the only ones staying at an all inclusive resort. that story ahead. from pep in their step to shine in their coats, when people switch their dog's food to the farmer's dog, the effects can seem like magic. but there's no magic involved. (dog bark)

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♪ >> today's pause recognizes the crisis for what it is, the existential threat of our time. it's a threat, a serious threat. pete: it's a threat, a serious threat. joe biden caving to environmentalists as the white house halts big natural gas projects over potential impacts on so-called climate change. the move comes as activists have taken aim at lng, liquid natural gas, export projects in recent weeks arguing they will lead to a large uptick in emissions and worsen global warming. here with reaction are, climate depot.com executive director

marc morano. marc, why are we doing this? >> this is joe biden caving to environmental activists in his base heading into an election year, and it's the administration trying to say that storms are bad, so we're going to ban these exports of liquified natural gas which is basically cool today a form you can transport it in. and what they're doing is they're claiming this is because of too much emissions. all they're going to do is outsource these missions to other countries, particularly the middle east. the united states is one of the top three exports of natural gas, and all they're doing now is put it to countries with lower environmental standards. and they're further hurting our european allies. one of the things that joe biden made a commitment of is after the ukraine invasion and the russian sanctions and the cutoff of russian energy is we were going to fill that void. so now we're hurting our allies by taking away that energy. but this is just, it's bonkers to do this. more restrictions on our energy,

on exports, more restrictions on our natural domestic production. it makes no sense. and for them to actually cite the climate crisis as the reason, this means any future decision has a climate test according to the department of energy which i don't think anything can pass, even human beings at this point. we're all violating -- pete: for sure. that's our second topic in just a moment. but real quick, i mean, ultimately, we're going to lose a lot of domestic jobs for this, and your point is demand remains the same. so other countries are going to produce this dirtier which actually hurts the so-called climate crisis while american workers ruse their jobs -- lose their jobs. >> that's exactly what -- that's the entire green agenda. it goes back to donald trump's 2013 tweet, this is the all designed toen able china to become the global dominant, because all we're doing is shutting down the highest environmental standards, the highest human rights standards here in the united states, and we're saying we can't do it because we have these carbon-accounting budgets, we have to meet our net zero goals.

so we'll just let the developing world and other countries do it who don't care about these same climate test goals. and it's utter nonsense from beginning to end, harms american, harms european allies, affects national security. and, again, this is affecting other domestic production as well. you have these bureaucratic bean counters in the biden administration now giving a climate it's to every aspect of our country and of our economy. pete: yep. and we outsource our jobs. you mentioned every aspect of human life is under threat -- [laughter] with the logic of these climate zealots. here's another example. watch this. >> the coffee that this we all drink emits between 15-20 ton of co2 per ton of coffee. this is every time we drink coffee, we are basically putting co2 into the atmosphere. pete: coffee, marc? >> you know, i'm not sure what to say -- [laughter] this is so in line with everything that davos has been

doing. for them to come after coffee, they've already come after rice production. this is one of the bug things. they're -- big things. they're talking about rice production causing a problem. "the washington post," not making this up three weeks ago, house plants contribute to global warming. and not only that, the u.k. telegraph had a study showing that home gardens have five times the climate impact. you grow carrots in your backyard, five times the carbon footprint of buying them at the grocery store. this is the insanity upon which we -- there's a study in december showing human breath was a warming agent. and they even injected identity politics. africans have more warming agents in their breath than asians, women have more than men. so women have more hot air than men apparently. but this is the entire goal. davos also said there's an ecoci de they want to start the imposing on the world. my any of this stuff, you could face percent cushion by the

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gabby petit toe's parents are accusing brian laundrie's parents of knowing their daughter had been murdered and where, where might her remains be. the question is, what did brian laundrie say in those 20 calls, and what does it mean, gabby is gone? >> yeah. i -- the question's coming down to intentional infliction of emotional distress and how much did the parents know. it's not so much how much did they know, were they not sharing that information, but were they helping their son to conceal his involvement, and were they making signals to the press at that same time that led the parents of petiteo to believe she might still be alive. if they were causing them first disstreet by leading them -- distress by leading them to believe their daughter could be found knowing all along she's likely dead, that's the heart of the whole case. will: do you find that

compelling? look, you talked 20 times in 2 days. he said to you she was gone. you should have known or you did know that he had killed gabby petito. do you find that compelling? >> absolutely. i mean, he went from calling his parents once every few days, now he's calling them 20 times in 2 days, he's having lengthy conversations with them and he's referring to her being gone and saying he needs an attorney. i know in depositions his parents have come out and said they thought gone meant that she had wandered off. to me, that rings completely hollow. they knew the seriousness and the gravity of what he was talking about. i imagine if they asked him what exactly he meant by gone. they know getting attorneys involved, something really horrible has taken place. bill: all right. taylor swift has a stalker. he's been arrested three times in five days outside of her new york city home. many people are pointing to the fact that new york has moved now to a cashless bail system.

is that in your estimation, i mean, what is it, three times in five days, cheeps being let out. is -- he copes being let out. is this a problem with the bail? >> absolutely. anytime if you're taking discretion away from prosecutors and judges, this could lead to these types of consequences. i understand if you want to address what you feel are inequities in bail. you want to do something about allowing people who with don't have the means to be able to still defend themselves. but when you take that discretion away, you're going to have these kinds of cases that are outliers where prosecutors can't do anything to keep this person in custody, and it can lead to the disastrous consequence. now, luckily, they were able to get involved here, law enforcement, before anything awful happened. but in my career. i myself have experienced cases where stalkers, police feel that their hands are tide, they can't do anything about it, and it leads to incredibly disastrous consequences. will: it's interesting, you're talking about a blunt policy that talks away, essentially,

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♪ pete: welcome back. well, illegal border crossings break a new record with. >> cbp reporting over 300,000 encounters in december, the highest month ever recorded. carley: yeah. and our next guest outlines how it could be impacting your wallet. will: todd benzman is the is senior fellow at the center for immigration studies, and he joins us now. todd, tell us how this crisis -- which is a crisis that has been acknowledged almost by everyone except for the president of the united states -- affects everyone's wallet. >> well,ing for one thing, they're not just coming here on their own dime. the united nations, it turns out, is spending hundreds of millions of dollars in cash handouts, food, shelter, something called humanitarian transportation, really every human need that is required to

make the long journey through latin america, central america and mexico. and who pays the u.n., who's the u.n.'s major funder? it's the u.s. taxpayer. how do we know this? because there's a brand new budget document that the u.n. puts out for 2024. they're going to spend $1.6 billion to help 3 million illegal immigrants move through 17 different countries of latin america and the caribbean and mexico. and that includes $370 million in cash cards, debit cards, $25 million in transportation assistance to help them move through. expect budget document also clearly shows that they are winning, that they know that these are illegal immigrants and

that they are moving illegally through their own member states. and they're using 248 ngos to help hand out the cash. carley: i was going to say, first of all, the u.n. is 0-2 with us this morning. but this money is supposed to go to legitimate asylum seekers. what's the vetting process like? >> that's a big mystery, but, you know, i've been down at the border, i've been to these way stations. i've interviewed the illegal immigrants who are receiving this. i've had them take, show me their debit cards, the whole thing. they say that it's for the most vulnerable, but, you know, they're planning to hand out debit cards and cash equivalents to 624,000 illegal immigrants in 2024. none of them looked marley --

particularly vulnerable to me. a lot of them are grown men, they're adults. they don't seem weak or sick or anything like that. they, they say it's for the most vulnerable, but i don't see it. i'm sure there are some vulnerable people that are receiving this cash aid, but i also think that hay just want to help as a many illegal immigrants as possible move to the united states, if and they know it and they say it in the budget document which is linked in my new york post and the center for immigration studies piece that i, that i published on this. pete: i think you're exactly right. there's an agenda there. so just to be clear for our audience, we're funding the u.n., the u.n. is funding people in central america who they deem to be vulnerable even if they're not vulnerable to make the trek to the united states with our taxpayer dollars. >> there's a little bit of irony there. yes. and some republicans have been angry about this ever since it

was revealed that we're just handing out all this cash along the way, that our united nations is doing this. look, a lot of the money is earmarked by the white house, by the state department and goes straight to the united nations' high commission on refugees, unhcr. and then iom, the international organization for migration, that's who's -- that's the pass-through. but there's 15 other u.n. agencies that are involved as well. pete: wow. well, todd, thanks for doing the spade work on this. carley: illuminate being. will: thank you, todd. carley: thank you, todd. will: let's turn to rick reichmuth for our fox weather forecast. rick: hey, guys, was it cold enough for you this week? pete: yes. carley: it wasn't that cold. pete: the beginning of the week was really bad. carley: that was a trick question, rick.

rick: it was. i was trying to see if you understood your days of the week. 60 degrees in atlanta as you're walking up, much warmer air has moved across the entire country, and instead of having hundreds of millions of countries having below average temperatures, we've got around 200 million people in above arrange temperatures. so a big relief, and it's only january 27th. this right here is one storm that's brought a lot of rain the last few days across parts of louisiana. still with us today. we have some severe weather threat, could see a tornado or go especially where you see this area of red. anywhere in the yellow, be on the lookout for really strong winds. also more run that's going to fall across to parts of the southern ap appalachians, that brings us a flood threat, and overnight tonight a lot of that moisture moves up towards the northeast. rain alone the coast and maybe 1-2, 3 up. s of snow across interior sections of the northeast. back to you. carley: thanks, rick are. pete: let's turn now to a few additional headlines starting with this: today is international holocaust

remembrance day. it marks the 7 9th anniversary of the lib e ration of rouse wits. it's a day of collective grief for the more than 6 million jews killed by the nazis. this year's observance is especially emotional in the wake of the october 7th hamas attacks. at least 1200 israelis were murdered and at least 130 hostages are still being held in gaza. and alaska airlines has resumed flying the boeing with 737 max if 9. the first jet taking off yesterday from seattle. the entire fleet was grounded for 3 weeks after that fright the opinioning door plug -- frightening door plug blowout earlier this month. one top alaska airlines' executive was onboard sitting next to the door plug in a symbolic gesture to reassure travelers. if this door fails, i'm the first one out. it's not a bad -- will: with a pair chute. [laughter] pete: not a bad signal there. and here's one that'll make you

smile. a little girl offers her dad some precious advice after he takes a spill on their icy driveway in wisconsin. [background sounds] >> [inaudible] carley: take little steps. pete: it's true. [laughter] carley: that video is worthy of showing even if the little girl didn't even say anything. oh, wow. pete: he just kept going. didn't take the little steps. don't worry, thed dad assured the daughter he was not hurt. in a social media post he wrote that clear driveways are great until if it rains on a bitter cold day. carley: that is sound advices and a funny video. will: that's up there with hail, black ice. bad news. worst weather. rain in new york city, hail and black ice. carley: that's your top three? will: off the top of by head. [laughter]

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carley: this is a funny story, talk about a dream vacation. this couple was is celebrating their babymoon when their trip took an unexpected turn after discovering they had the entire five-star the resort all to themselves. look at these images. cameron and carly were there, and they were the only guests, they join us now. guys, good morning to you. what was this experience like? >> hi. >> hello. it was pretty amazing. at first we thought there was other people going to be there, and so we just explored the area. but then later we realized we were the only ones. [laughter] carley: carly, why was no one there? >> so when booking it, it said that it was a newer resort, and and we didn't know how new, but we showed up, and it was the first week it was open. so we just felt lucky. carley: so is, cameron, how eerie was it to go to the pool,

no one there. go to dinner, you're the only one there. was there a lot of staff around? did they -- >> yes. carley: -- fully e staffed all the lights on? how expensive must that have been, it's a huge resort, to only cater to you guys? >> yeah. it was very well staffed, and it was pretty crazy. it wasn't scary or anything. i put a funny song to it to make it seem a little unique, but the staff made us feel really comfortable, and it ended up being amazing. carley: and we're playing the video of all the employees, they're lined up on either side, i guess, as you're walking in the hobby. what's happening there? [laughter] >> so they caught wind of this video, which we didn't even realize they caught wind of it. so as we were leaving, we turned that corner completely unexpected to that crowd. and at the very end, they're holding signs saying you are not alone. [laughter] carley: oh, my gosh. you said it wasn't scary. i would be terrified.

although did you have a good time, carly? first of all, this was your babymoon, so congratulations on that. was it ultimately a good experience? >> thank you. yes, it was awe amazing. probably the nicest resort we've ever stayed at with the best service, and it was so fun because they celebrated our babymoon with us. i mean, it felt super special, so it was awesome. carley: i know you had a little bit of trouble getting pregnant and now you are. so i guess that could also be the the big headline, congratulations for bringing a beautiful life into this world, and you'll have a very funny story to tell your son or daughter when they're older and understand how hilarious this is. gotta leave it there. thank you so much for joining us, guys. >> thank you. carley: more "fox & friends" after this. clearchoice dentals makes every day... a "let's dig in" day... mm. ...a "chow down" day... a "take a big bite" day...

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