>> greatest christmas song of all times. don't flip off your tv listen to wham. you are watching "fox & friends first." i am clayton morris. >> i am heather childers. there are lights in new york city along with christmas lights. thank you for letting us start your week. as capitals around the country begging electors break tradition by refusing to vote for president el deteect donald tru. >> they will make the nominations official despite criticism the election was hacked. >> we have the latest. >> normally this electoral

college stuff is pretty mundane. there is added drama and a reminder donald trump had a huge advantage heading into this. 306 electoral college votes to hillary clinton's 232. some electors are coming into enormous pressure to break their own state's laws, defy the will of the schroedevoed voters. some say there needs to be investigation into allegations of russian hacking. >> the fact that donald trump will be formal lelected as president. this is about protecting democracy. >> donald trump's transition team says there is sour grapes. one more tame president by hillary clinton supporters to delegitimize trump's president. >> this is one last ditch effort to turn around the election results and make them what everybody said they were going to be because they missed the

data and who america and what they want for their president seechlt>> donna brazil meantime was asked whether trump would have won without any outside medd meddling. >> he cracked the blue wall. this country deserves the head of cyber security experts involved to make sure our home land is protected. >> what does the president elect say to all of this. he tweeted this my many supporters acted and threatened people like those who lost the election are doing they would be scorned and called terrible names. >> the blame game underway as they battle reports of hacking in elections. the big western somewhere do we go from here. we are live in washington, d.c. with where they stand. >> that's a perfect question.

where do we go from here. for some in washington are saying investigate, investigate. the alleged russian hack is serious enough four u.s. senators are calling for an tirnnal investigation. they want to know what russia did to int fare with the campaign. law americas on both sides of the i'll are looking at the typical blame game. trump and clinton continue to point fishings at each other. some saying the fbi are failing to respond properly to the e-mail scandal a term loretta lynch denies. >> it fires the se-- requires t serious reviews we can gather. before we come to conclusions our goal is to provide the information that is thoroughly investiga investigate that we can provide. >> reince priebus says president

elect trump with the report on russia is being spun to delegitimize the election. >> i think the real question is why the democrats and why these electors and why moveon.org are doing everything they can to delegitimize the outcome of the election. now they are going forward tomorrow with an tame president to intimidate and harass electors. >> there's clinton's former campaign chairman who says russia clearly intervened. >> i think the russians clearly intervened in the election. we know the cia, director of national intelligence all agree on the russians helped trump. >> senator john mccain is calling for an investigation. he's one of the four u.s. senators. he says russia's hacking threatens to destroy democracy.

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recommended no charges. lynch says it was painful to see how everything played out. >> i wish i had seen around that corner and not had that discussion with the former president. it gave people concern and gave people wonder is it going to effect the investigation going on. that's not something that was an unreasonable question fory one to ask. >> lynch still insists she did not talk about the investigation with clinton. >> a republican lawmaker now pushing to make stealing the american flag a felony. state senator john cavanaugh filing a bill this week to make stealing old glory a class 6 felony. those convicted would face up to two years in prison. it would only apply to flags hanging on private property. not those stolen from stores. >> bah hum bug. an elementary school production of a christmas carol canceled

because parents say there were over 2 complaints about this famous lynn in the play. >> god bless us every one. >> the principal of the pennsylvania school now denying those claims saying it canceled from taking away from learning time. producing and performing a play is not part of the written curriculum for 5th grade. >> as that school cancels the preys mass play the university of virginia want to cancel christmas completely. >> would you guys like to sign? oo ever since the trump election people have been en boldened for christmas carols every where you go. >> they want to see how many students they can dupe into fake

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>> welcome back. fox & friends first the electoral college votes today take donald trump's victory. in a last ditch effort thousands of democrats are urging electors to change their minds. 36 republican electors would need to flip their votes for someone else in order to derail mr. trump. they can -- can they actually pull it off or is this really about something else entirely. joining us now for a fair add balanced place what is this

about? >> about the reality hillary clinton wants the popular vote. i think people feel they have to use the traditional recount of the electoral college vote to feel better wiabout the fact th i have a feeling nothing is going to change because there's only evidence of one person who has given votes to donald trump that is willing to actually take that vote back. you have stateded he has to have so many votes. this is more about making the point that they feel the popular vote has not been heard and donald trump won by a land slide. >> is it protecting democracy? >> i think using democracy the way it was designed to be used. i think the electoral colleges can be presented. whether or not it would work in your favor you are willing to use this and you should use it. i don't believe it is going to make a difference at the end of the day. >> what do you think?

>> i think she is saying the right key words it's about feelings. when it comes to the electoral college it's about the law. donald trump won the election fair and square. he didn't win the popular vote. he wasn't playing checkers. he was playing chess. the game was to win enough lobing tore rale college votes to win the president of the united states. we will see the electoral college vote for donald trump. this is going to be another series of things that the democrats are doing to delegitimize the president of the united states of america. we saw this when bush stole the election. >> we see this in the 2020 scene starting now. >> let's take a look at that. donna brazil is saying the united states e-mails were weaponized to spread misinformation. listen to this. >> this was a very intrusive process. the e-mails were weaponized. the relief of stolen hacked e-mails caused a lot of

confusion and of course it disrupted our daily campaign lives. >> the question i have is if this is about looking into the possible russian hacking protecting our elections moving forward, protecting our process works this be happening if in fact hillary clinton had won? >> heather, this is not and should not be a partisan issue. this is not republican or democratic issue. we have to have the core essential problem here. this is about russia getting involved in our democracy. we cannot allow that to happen. i think that four u.s. senators have made that very clear. this is not about politics. this is about national security and keeping our country safe and the least thing we need to worry about is what happened in the dnc and what is going to happen moving forward we don't take this seriously. for example those four senators

requested a special selection committee be established we have to worry about the president and the future. we want his communications to be safe. this is not an issue we could be throwing darts this is republican or democrat. no. this is a national security issue. it should be concerned and demand the select committee be formed to study this. >> joe, my question is works this be happening if in fact hillary clinton had won? if it truly is about protecting the process? >> let's go back two months ago when barack obama himself thought hillary clinton was going to win the election. he had a different course of action with respect to russian hacking in this race. this should be investigated. any time a foreign country tries to hack our political institution it is worthy of investigation. we can't forget the fact that someone like donna brazil is trying to distract us from the fact that the content of the

e-mail. you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. even though they spent months trying to tell us the contents were altered we found out that can be false, too. if they don't want people thinking the system was rigged for hillary if the foundation donors would give us preference they shouldn't have done these things in the first place. >> thank you so much, joe and january niece. appreciate you being with us this morning. have a great day. >> clayton. >> rocky balboa once said i can't sing or dance. he also did say he knocked him down try knocking me down. that's why he is not interested in the arts roll in the trump foundation. i could be more effective by bringing national attention to returning military personnel. he's asking himself an artist. >> the biggest political scandal of the 90's could be coming to the big screen. >> i did not have sexual

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>> today it becomes off fish shalling. donald trump expected to be voted the 45th president by the electoral college. not everyone is on board. (chanting) >> the last ditch effort to de legitimize the president elect. urging them to fight back this morning. >> how a foreign adversary interferes and to use stolen e-mails and weaponize them against the democrats. >> democrats playing the blame game over why they lost the election. they could be getting help across the i'll. >> fun to hang out at the ski slopes but hanging upside down on the chair lift is another matter.

how they got this snowboarder back on the ground, we will tell you that as fox & friends first continues. >> good morning to you. you are watching "fox & friends first." thank you for joining us. i am heather childers. >> i am clayton morris. in capitols around the country begging electors to refuse to vote for president elect donald trump. the electoral college will make his nomination official despite critics saying the election was hacked. >> this is a last ditch effort on the part of hillary clinton supportsers to deny the white house president el lekt donald trump. he has a 74 vote margin in the

electoral college. it is almost unimaginable 35 elector tors would defy this. there is a call to delay the vote to learn more about the russian e-mail hacking. >> he is only president elect. it was just the will of the american people hillary clinton would be president elect. >> i think it was distorted by the russians. >> foreign adversaries directly intervene into our democratic constitution and try to tilt the election to donald trump. >> it is clear at this point all indications this vote will go forward as noon as they gather in the respected state capital. any to stop it are disingenuous according to trump's campaign manager. >> they are disrespecting it among any oral gages. it wasn't a sweek squeaker folks. get over it. he needed 370 we got 306 not a

squeaker. >> hard to imagine the electoral college vote is going to change anything today. we will see. what does the president elect think about this? he took to twitter yesterday saying if my many forthsupporte threatened people like they are doing they would be called terrible names. >> president obama doesn't think there's a battle he's in hawaii. >> republicans and democrats battle over reports of russian hacking in the election. the big concern where do we go from here? kelly wright joins us live where both sides stand on the issue. >> before leaving for christmas vacation president obama addressed the alleged russian hack during a press conference at the white house. they attributed the hacks during the dnc to russia's kremlin

adding president putin had known about it. >> the fact that the russians used cyber security to hack our infrastructure our economics our countries is well-known. the fact that they are hacking our political system as it seems to be that is serious, serious stuff. >> members of president elect donald trump's transition team disputes the claims. they would like to see them coming from kelly ann conway claims president obama is responding under political pressure. >> very clear that president obama could have quote retaliated months ago if they were actually concerned about this and concerned about the election. us under political pressure

definitely. >> brazil is looking into the alleged act. >> the president is calling for a civil investigation. they should put everything on the table and the party will put everything on the table. very key deals hourly. this were times when we thought there were penetrate tors and we would have another breech. >> this bipartisan bike if you will or the blame game will continue for some time. former secretary of defense robert gates believes russia did carry out the hacks to discredit the american election. heather? >> isis reported lid running a example tore child terrorists. the homicide bomber said he was one of 60 other children being trained at a camp in iraq. they were outside of a soccer stadium in august when he had

second thoughts about detonating his explosive vest. isis instructors trained them to use weapons and explosives and forced them to watch videos of beheadings. >> the terror suspect accused of setting off bombs in two states expected in federal court today. he was detonating explosives in new york and new jersey in september. they were able to capture him after a shoot out that left two officers injured. he is charged with using weapons of mass destruction and faces life behind bars. a winter storm wreaking havoc from the planes all of the way into the midwest. a new disaster actually. this happened at one of the nation's busiest airports overnight. when united airlines plane slid off the runway while landing at o'hare in chicago. temperatures in some areas plunging as low as negative 20 degrees. janice dean is tracking the forecast for us in the weather center.

negative 20, that is no laughing matter. >> no, that is a piece of the polar vortex that has come to visit us here in the u.s. current temperatures you can see that cold air in canada that is still southward across the midwest, across the central plains all of the way down to the south. 19 dallas, 0 in kansas city. we have windchills well below minus 20 degrees in chicago. minus 29 with the windchill. we are going to moderate these temperatures. they are going to retreat up into canada and we will be dealing with a round average as we get into the latter heart of this week. future radar of the storm system exiting. we will see possibility of for showers and thunderstorms across the southeast. the northwest will remain active for the next couple of days. we will see snow moving into the northern plains and upper midwest. clayton asked me are we going to have a white christmas. here is the historic white christmas probability my friend. the pinks and purples is where

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>> 15 minutes to the top of the hour. they are under fire for the new fact checking initiative. the social media site enlisting the fasite fact checker snoops.com. the daily caller finding all of the people that work there are liberal with not a single one of the fact checkers coming from a conservative background. conservative publications finding morse chosen to filter fake news from facebook have a track record of liberal biased. >> filmmaker michael moore has a message for lectors today vote against president elect trump and i will pay your foon for

you. more on his facebook page. i obviously won't give you money to vote for but if you vote your conscience and you are fined for it i will pay your fine which is my right to do that. they will be fined $1,000 if they ignore the popular vote. >> the push for the playoffs is on. some teams already clinched others are fighting for the spot. sirius xm115 here with the week's highlights. good morning. >> for some teams the playoffs are the norm for the title. for the 8th consecutive season. post season is a rarity. sometimes the lack of winners relocations to las vegas. the raiders are going back to the play offoffs. last player left from the rared's last post season appearance. the field goal under three

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that was pretty good. i was kwaching last night and at the end of the end zone you get fined for doing those touchdown dancing around stuff. i was surprised about this. i wonder if he will get fined for this. what happens? >> if you are going to do it, do it right. rookie ezekiel watch how he celebrates the touchdown. he dives right into the salvation army kettle bell. he is a big supporter of the salvation army. what a cool highlight. sometimes they appreciate this. >> it is awesome. that's why. >> they are doing it over and over again. they are probably going to make a lot of money off of this. free publicity. >> what a great cause, too. >> this isn't about how much money is going to be made. how much money they could raise for this will help people out. cowboys won the game 26-20.

two games up in the nfc. >> they are expected to go all of the way. >> let's check in with steve doocy to see what's coming up on "fox & friends. it could be official. >> it is the day as the cover of the new york post says today is the day the electorates pick the united states president. he has gotten pleased pleas to chang their votes. they are getting tens of thousands of e-mails and levers and in some wayscases death thr. vote for anybody but donald trump. michael moore will pay their fine. i wonder if they will go for it. >> he said i did but in a week when somebody says i need a thousand bucks, you think he is going to return their phone call? the last ditch effort and how they tricked the media into

believing the challenge is successful. one republican might flip. are there going to be 30? no. >> one is not going to make a difference. >> thank you, steve. hollywood stars coming out i think there's a promo or something saying change your votes. a oo we will be right back.

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trump into office. won 306 electoral votes above the 270 needed to take the white house. democrats are urging electors to break with tradition by refusing to vote for mr. trump. keep talking about this. do you think it was fair or tainting because of the alleged hackings? weigh in right now on #keep talking. fedex is delivering. joining forces with the christmas spirit foundation. delivering christmas trees to service members. more than 175,000 trees have already been donated. next the bad. new york senator chuck schumer wants the feds to recall e-cigarettes, calls them ticking time bombs. wants them to figure out why the batteries catch fire and explode in people's faces. finally the ugly. new york governor andrew cuomo was so eager to celebrate her inauguration, he booked 200 rooms at the madison hotel in d.c. and early enough to get a

great rate. that's a lot of wasted rooms. donate them. have a great week everyone. >> thank you for beginning it with us. "fox and friends" starts right now. have a great day. bye bye. good morning to you. it is monday, december 19th. i'm heather nauert in for ansry earhart today. president-elect on the way to making america great again. more than 500 electors voting to certify his victory. >> despite the fact that he won the election fair and square, the mainstream media urging the elector to do anything but vote for donald trump. please, they say. >> people are still holding out hope that the electoral college when they vote tomorrow will somehow miraculously decide that hillary clinton is the winner. >> there's a glimmer of hope on the constitution. >> yeah. but somebody has to braeng the news to joy about what