this is what i read was entirely disturbing. you will see other disturbing practices, those are on the horizon. >> thursday november 12th, donald trump's team teasing new evidence of voter irregularities today, new legal challenges launched across critical states. joe biden busy building his cabinet before results are certified. >>, biden administration mean another lockdown? the idea being floated by one of his top coronavirus advisors. >> it is really great to be here. >> in 2020 does great to be anywhere. a wonderful evening to sing together, stand together and to be together.

>> star-studded and socially distant cma awards, the big one is one of the biggest latent country music, "fox and friends first" continues right now. >> and throw it down. got a 40 hour week with trouble around. >> then derek church, your cma entertainer of the year. >> i was going to say a lot of people have had a drink in their hand lately. how many people ordered alcohol on election night and even beyond. you are watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning. >> donald trump slamming alleged voter irregularities following first public appearance since the election. his campaign filing a new lawsuit in michigan and 5 appeals in pennsylvania. >> griff jenkins live in washington is joseph biden's campaign groups what on building his cabinet. >> he's trying to but donald trump is launching more legal

battles across the country. first in michigan the trump campaign filed a lawsuit against secretary of state alleging credential election challengers were blocked from having sufficient view of the vote counting process and in eligible ballots were tallied. the attorney representing ballot workers in michigan had this to say. >> mister larson in his affidavit says he saw the majority of the votes, the ballots he was observing were not being processed properly and being assigned to different names so these are very serious allegations that not just one or 2 ballots, thousands of ballots. >> in pennsylvania the trump campaign filed five appeals, the decision to count different categories of mail in absentee

ballots as pennsylvania's state senators announced a formal review of the election results, donald trump tweeting about cases, nobody wants to report pennsylvania and michigan didn't allow our poll watchers and or vote observers to watch or observe. this is responsible for hundreds of thousands of votes that should not the allowed to count, therefore i easily win both states, report the news, we will see where those cases go. at west near arizona a judge today will hear oral arguments regarding the trump campaign lawsuit alleging maricopa county poll workers around the projected votes. down in georgia they are going to be busy, the secretary of state has announced a hand recount of every vote. the counting deadline, november 20th. president-elect biden announcing his new chief of staff who served as chief of staff to biden when he was vice president and was obama's ebola czar in 2014, praising him on twitter saying he has deep and varied experience and capacity to work with people across the political spectrum is precisely what i needed a white house chief of

staff as we confront this moment of crisis and bring our country to together again. a week later another state is called. alaska and its 3 electoral votes for donald trump. >> many questions remain. one of them is alaska, why can't it count ballots quickly? jonathan turley says there is enough evidence to know there was fraud. >> why can't we have a uniform standard? we are giving billions of dollars to the states, why can't we require a uniform standard. even after 2004, they created a commission, the commission through a couple billion dollars to the state and we still don't have uniform standards. it is clear at this point that voting fraud occurred. it is obviously a record of dead people voting. there is obviously problems of keeping observers in positions where they couldn't observe very

effectively but we still don't know but we wouldn't know unless we had greater access to the system itself. >> is legal challenges play out joe biden moving forward. we dug into his chief of staff who had a hand in the obama administration's response to the h1n1 outbreak, he admitted it did not go well. >> i worked with vice president biden. i was fault in the responses i will say a bunch of talented people working on it ended every possible thing wrong. >> we can get everything right before. we made some wrong choices. >> reporter: he headed out core's efforts to force a recount in florida during the 2000 presidential election which took 40 days and went to the supreme court.

one of biden's top coronavirus advisors is the us lockdown could be a good idea and covid-19 cases surge. >> reporter: the idea of a lockdown in an effort to spread and rejuvenate the economy is new cases climb. listen. >> we could pay for package to cover all the lost wages for individual workers, losses to small companies to medium-sized companies and we could lockdown for four to six weeks and if we did that we could drive the numbers down like they've done in asia, like they did in new zealand and australia. >> new cases hits shy of 146,000 with almost 10.5 million total cases in the us. the increase on restrictions coast-to-coast, new york governor cuomo slept a curfew on the already struggling restaurant and bar industries. >> only two fundamental truths

in this situation. it is individual discipline and it is government enforcement. >> reporter: cuomo says starting friday at 10:00 pm bars, restaurants and gyms have to close at 10:00 at night and home gatherings have to be limited to ten people. in new jersey tightening starting today from 10:00 at night to 5:00 in the morning knowing toward dining, bar side seating is rabbit and, tables have to be 6 feet apart unless -- indian's governor is working on something there. >> too many of us have let our guard down. >> reporter: the governor of ohio threatening those who don't wear a mask. >> of the current trend continues and cases keep increasing we will be forced, we

will be forced to close restaurants, bars and fitness centers. >> reporter: president-elect joe biden is likely to pass the national mask mandate next year but these 16 states will not commit to enforcing the rule of past. the cdc just updated guidance on masks related to coronavirus to include protection for the person wearing it. >> listen to this. overnight ukraine's president is hospitalized days after testing positive for covid-19 according to local media. not much is known right now on his condition. several top officials in his administration have reportedly tested positive for the virus. he was taken to the hospital one day after imposing a nationwide lockdown. tropical storm eta making a second landfall in northwest florida this morning near cedar key. overnight the storm bringing

heavy rain and powerful winds up to 50 miles per hour with threatening storm surge. one man died after being electrocuted in standing water. dennis steen is tracking the storm and joins us live. >> janice: the threat isn't over in terms of heavy rainfall and gusty winds but the storm is going to start to we can and move quickly northeast over the next few hours. we had a landfall an hour ago just south of cedar key, florida. the fourth landfall. it may couple and falls across central america. there is the satellite radar imagery, potential for heavy rain, tropical storm force winds, no tornado warnings right now, flood advisories in effect, flooding video all over the tampa bay area. that will be concerning as it moves northeast. it will be out of here fairly quickly after weeks of watching this storm.

at one point it was almost a category 5 before it moved into nicaragua. there is the forecast radar. into friday things clear out the cold front will move this thing offshore which will be great news because we would like to be done with this system, we would like to be done with hurricane season which has been historic, the most named storms of all time. >> we will get a look at that storm, live report from florida. we appreciate it. the biggest names in country music come together for the cma music awards. the show opening with a star-studded tribute for charlie daniels, honoring the late kenny rogers. >> a year of uncertainty.

>> in 2020 it is great to be anywhere. when too much in this world has been pulling us apart sometimes more than six feet. >> mary lawrence taking home 3 awards with lukewarm is winning male vocalist of the year. charles pride accepting the willie nelson lifetime achievement award. eric church bringing home the biggest award of the night, entertainer of the year. ♪ >> church delivered a powerful message to country music fans. >> it will be music that brings us out of this. that is the one thing that will save the entire world. >> the socially distant show at the music city center. congratulations to all the winners. 11 minutes after the hour, the gop one win from maintaining the

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need that one seat to keep hold of the senate so general question do you think they can do that? >> yes i do. it is easy to look at this and think this is a real challenge for republicans, things are sliding away in the senate but before election day there was supposed to be a blue wave in the senate and now we have at best a situation where democrats can capture, divide the senate and divide control. for at least one of these races, the other is difficult to tell, both are difficult, almost throwing the dice but one of these races gravity tends to float republican. >> the runoff candidates, these are the candidates. rafael moreknock, these are the results. did end up on top with this one

but the latest polling, people are not trusting polls but this one is out there, from november 8th through ninth, this is pretty index at this point. >> a couple ways to look at the race. the interesting thing about polls in the general election they were pretty much accurate, they weren't off. we shouldn't look at them with such a jaundiced eye. the natural thing is look at how the general election turned out for the two candidates, what appears to be -- that election had 20 different candidates including two republicans who are at each other's throats the entire time. now one republican endorsed the other. the most recent polling shows the race is too close to call. as the republican leffler starts to focus on the democratic candidate warknock, will he

sustained negative hits which emerged largely unscathed in a general? >> the other is david purdue and john oss oh's after, will this be close? >> there is no way it can't be. specials favor republicans, they are more reliable voters, that is not something we can rely on because there's so much attention in georgia, so much many spent with messaging and turn out but perdue has a slight two point advantage walking out of the general, that was a 3-way race with a libertarian, get more votes for republicans than democratic voters, the latest polling, one pole we have to stick with, a four point lead on behalf of perdue, that is outside the margin a are. it is too close to call. i am rolling the dice the

gravity flows republican, we will at least see a 51 at the end of january. >> you mention the four point difference. we will follow these and it will be interesting to see enthusiasm from both sides and the factors playing in all this. we will have a conversation again before january 5th. thanks for joining us. >> if this doesn't give you all the feels nothing will, watch. >> who am i? ♪ let me go home ♪ >> a military dad surprising his son after spending months overseas. they join us next to relive that now viral reunion.

jillian: the traffic stop turned into a military surprise when a military dad returned home from a 4 month deployment in afghanistan. watch. >> you have a good day? who am i to >> staff sergeant in morgan county cleaned thomas surprising his 7-year-old son who was so taken offguard he didn't even recognize his dad at first, they are joining us to talk about their amazing reunion, good morning, guys. thank you so much for your

service. walk us through what happened. you were in afghanistan for four months, came home and you works with the sheriff's department and pull over your wife, was that tough to pull off? >> it was tough to pull off given arrival dates and times change so much when you are traveling. the hardest part was i had just gotten off the plane, barely enough time to drive straight home, spend a few minutes planning and she had to pick him up. it was kind of a rush. >> your wife was in on it? >> she was in on it, she talked to my captain, they are the ones who figured out. >> he didn't think she was getting a ticket or anything. what was running through your head when you saw your dad?

>> reporter: by saw him. >> you are a very athletic kid because you just climbed right out of that window, didn't even bother with the door. i wouldn't be able to do that. the gets everybody watches this video. i'm sure you will never forget that giant hug with your son. >> i never will. absolutely. >> you make a lot of sacrifices, this is not your first time going overseas. will be your last or do you plan on staying home for period of time? >> it is up to the military when i leave being a reservist. my plan is to be home. slowly getting used to that. >> we just elevating veterans day. why did you want to serve our country? >> my dad did. i have been afforded incredible opportunities to this country, the least i could do was give a little bit of time back.

>> your dad has an important job protecting your town as a sheriff overseas in the air force. what do you want to be when you grow up >> i want to be the exact same thing as my dad. >> that's a good answer, he's a great role model to look up to. thank you so much for bringing us that awesome moment that put a smile on all of our faces. >> the chiefs having a great season. welcome home, win/win. 26 after, president-elect joe biden taking calls from more leaders before taking office. it is okay unless they undermine the current administration. national security by expert joins us next and before go to break here's mary morris providing the single of the year

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>> we are back with extreme weather. tropical storm eta making a second landfall in northwest florida near cedar key. kelly cowan from tampa joins us as the storm brings life-threatening storm surge. was the latest? >> reporter: the waters rose very quickly in this neighborhood just behind me, things have improved significantly in the last few hours but the issue is not only a fool day of tropical storm rains dumping on this area but right around midnight you had high tide come in and that sent a surge of floodwater rushing through this neighborhood

causing many to be evacuated overnight and flooded people's homes virginia by apartment building just ended up with a lot of water inside. those residents still bailing out their homes after water rushed up over barriers they set up at their doors to keep the water at bay. once high tide came in it completely flooded them out and it has been a sleepless might for dozens of people in this area. many tell us they came home from dinner or work and found the roads were too dangerous to navigate so they spend the night just outside their neighborhood on higher ground camping out in their cars waiting for the water to go down because as you can see behind me the water doesn't look that deep but this is the highest point of the neighborhood. as you go further back the water rises because the elevation is dropping. a lot of people don't want to risk their vehicles, killing

their engines or popping attire back in that high water so they are continuing to wait it out. >> stay safe, appreciate it. now to this, president-elect joe biden and his transition team called out by the press for slow rolling details of calls to foreign leaders. some republicans also want to know why the biden tenet and facing the same low the neck accusations the trump team did four years ago. >> the height of hypocrisy when you have been roads tweeting joe biden is talking to foreign heads of state before the election has even been certified. democrats pointing fingers at republicans but not living by the same unfair rules. >> senior advisor for the senate foreign relations committee, thanks for being here. break down the rules so people at home if they are following along know what we are talking about. my question is can the current administration object to any of

this? >> the logan act prohibits private parties from engaging in diplomatic or foreign relations with other nations in an effort to undermine or undercut the us government's position. what's going on here is people who believe they won the election and talking to foreign leaders, congratulatory phone calls and discussing foreign affairs of the united states, this happened in the trump administration in 2016 after the president had been elected, before he took office, that led to issues but there is a long history of this happening. the question is why is the logan act be in of today and why was it "back then also? shannon: great question we are wondering and we have some media headlines because coverage of this has been a little different, back of the neck accusations were swirling around michael, washington post, did michael flynn admit to violating

the logan act, the presumption of guilt and to juxtapose that to recent headlines about joe biden and they are a lot more congratulatory, taking place without involvement of state department, biden speaks to world leaders following election win, new york times, biden speaks with more world leaders and agreed to meet with south korea's president. the point is of course joe biden or anybody on his team isn't violating the logan act but neither was michael flynn and he is paying a heavy price for those allegations. >> michael flynn did plead to lying to federal investigators on a different issue but it came out of the logan act violation, not the first time democrats accuse republicans of violating

the logan act. they accused tom cotten of that after he wrote to the supreme leader of iran. no one is complaining about john kerry's activities as a private citizen in the last couple years trying to keep the iran deal alive as this administration opposed it. there seems to be some hypocrisy going on. joe biden and his team have every reason to talk to foreign leaders. that is an appropriate thing. tom cotten should have been criticized, john kerry is absolutely a private citizen not in any elected office, that is a bigger concern. >> we should scrap the logan act it seems a pretty irrelevant thing at this point. thanks for coming on, we appreciate it. black lives matter has a message for president-elect joe biden sending a letter requesting a meeting to discuss expectations for the new administration claiming biden would not have won without their support saying they deserve a, quote, well

thought out community driven fully resourced agenda that addresses the particular challenges faced by black people. alexandria ocasio cortez heating back after house democratic caucus chair hakeem jeffries claims a socialist agenda could be to blame for house seat losses, jeffries asked top democrats in a private call, quote, do we want to govern or do we want to be internet celebrities? ocasio cortez responded on twitter pretty astounding some dems don't believe it is possible to govern, be politically popular and commando bully pulpit at the same time but it explains a lot about how we got here. been while progressive democrats slamming nancy pelosi for being out of touch with voters

following several democratic losses in the house, three progressive groups calling out the speaker for showing off her expensive freezers full of premium ice cream when the pandemic first started writing, quote, when democratic leaders make unforced errors like showing off two subzero freezers full of ice cream on national television, it is not surprising we lose. >> 36 after the hour. texas, saint-louis goehmert joins us live. >> in a curfew in effect across new york. cheryl casone a from foxbusiness on the pushback from businesses already hit hard by the pandemic.

>> welcome back, new york's new covid-19 restriction this case is surge nationwide. cheryl casone from foxbusiness joins us live with the governor's new action. what's going on? >> a lot of nervous new yorkers waking up to new restrictions from andrew cuomo as cases of coronavirus continue to rise in his sedate.

bars and restaurants have to close at 10:00 pm, jim's have to close by 10:00 pm and home gatherings limited to 10 people or less. private residences, these restrict and start friday, struggling new york city restaurants can only be open at 25% capacity, jim's operating at reduced capacity. such trouble. >> the exact kind of capital. hopefully -- when it is good it is when i have that. >> outdoor dining in the winter. the positivity rate is 2.93%, 400 new cases, 21 fatalities in new york yesterday. >> today is the deadline for the tick-tock sale. if this deadline helped.

>> reporter: a crazy saga going on. the popular apps fighting back asking a federal appeals court to give more time. they've been in discussions with the committee on foreign investment but the us government stopped communicating with them. the president issued in august the tick-tock had to be banned in this country or be part of the us company. tick-tock wants the court to review that order and now a lot of things going on with the administration so we will see where this piece of the puzzle falls. >> ladies have a reason to be proud today. we knew this lady. companies with more women in management positions have outperformed companies with mail leadership. a new study from goldman sachs found stocks in comedies with female board members and managers more so than males, on an average of 2.5% per year. do i need to say anything else? the numbers speak for

themselves, women are very good at multitasking. thanks so much. still ahead. a member of the biden covid-19 advisory board floating the idea of a lockdown to slow the spread. doctor marty mc gary said of the suggestion was serious it is concerning. let's check in with steve doocy. >> are we to friday yet? >> monday it felt we should have been at friday. >> it is 2020. thank you. on "fox and friends," 17 minutes, kayleigh mcenany will be joining us on the latest election battle and update as well at the 8:00 hour and we will hear from lindsey graham and tom cotten and state of georgia heading to a food manual recount, count every vote by

hand. what does that mean picture wise? brad roethlisberger will join us live. are you considering getting a covid-19 vaccine once it is available? here from a volunteer who tested the pfizer vaccine and why he is excited about their progress and how did the shot make him feel? we will tell you. who is that? hero canine dax, the german shepherd or spend today saving lives and protecting officers in his community. a hero dog right here on "fox and friends" which kicks off 15 minutes and 42 seconds from right now, back in just a couple. you empty as little as once a month. and unlike standard robots that bounce around it cleans row by row. if it's not a shark, it's just a robot.

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at&t, we called this house meeting because you advertise gig-speed internet, but we can't sign up for that here. yeah, but i'm just like warming up to those speeds. you've lived here two years. the personal attacks aren't helping, karly. don't you have like a hot pilates class to get to or something? [ muffled scream ] stop living with at&t. xfinity can deliver gig to the most homes.

>> we could lockdown for four to six weeks. if we did that we could drive the numbers down and then we could really watch ourselves cruising into the vaccine availability in the first and second quarter of this year, bring back the economy long before that. >> is the us surpasses 2.4 million cases of biden coronavirus advisor suggest sitting on the country for at least a month. is that the best way to control the virus? medical contributor johns hopkins school of public health doctor marty makarry. is another lockdown the answer? will that control the spread of covid-19? >> i've been concerned about these comments. the task forces filled with a lot of politicos, not infectious

disease experts and i challenge the biden administration to put doctor debbie birx on the committee. it is important for continuity but why have comments from people on that committee as far back as june 30th calling for a stay-at-home order nationwide? easy to talk hypothetical, i hope doctor osterholm is talking hypothetically and not actual policy. we've seen the public health consequences of shutdowns be worse than the virus itself. jillian: not just the us but the uk locked down. you are saying the nationwide lockdown would do more harm than good. >> if you look at cost to child abuse hotline and those not coming in for routine medical care, look at the substance

abuse rates, new diagnoses of cancer plummeting, we will see this data play out in the coming year or two and realize lockdowns are not a good national strategy. limited, targeted stay-at-home orders can be in areas with active outbreaks, wisconsin needs to do more than florida but the idea of a national lockdown does not make sense from a public health standpoint. >> volunteers who did the vaccine felt they were suffering a severe hangover. what do you know about this? >> it seems like a rare complication. we have seen this with the seasonal flu shot. we will get all the data on the incident rate, the person felt better the next day. >> when will we get the vaccine? >> the announcement was good news though suspiciously staggered right after the election given pfizer went to

the fda and they wanted to slow it down, get more data to bring to us. the trial will close the next two weeks, the fda will take two weeks to approve in the distribution, requires deep freezing and once you get the second those in two week in unity, we are looking at a february effect, i still believe april will be the month of mass vaccination. we will be on an accelerated downslope of the pandemic by that time. the next 3 or 4 months will be difficult. >> we are happy to have you on to talk about this. still ahead facebook pulling pages promoting a march for trump. congressman louis goehmert joins us on that next.

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jillian: welcome back a pro-trump planned protest in support of the president. carley: women for trump co-founder showing this image of event removed from event bright. texas congressman louie gohmert. you have a trump supporter planning this pro-trump march but her plans hit a bit of a snag your event listing has been

removed and any paid orders have been refunded. what's your reaction to this? >> well, that's coming from the hot check fascists and this is what we have seen throughout? is censorship orwellian nature that has got to be stopped. liability that high tech industry has had. they have become monopolies and they have become fascists in their censorship. so it's got to stop. they have got to be -- these companies have got to be broken up and they have got to be made to account for their -- it's going to stand, then those have got to be considered convictions to the biden campaign. it's outrageous. this thing is still a huge question because of the amount of fraud and people like even

bright are contributing to the fraud by doing what they're doing it is a question we continue to follow that even brite said it had violated its terms of service. just to be clear few search this march you will find a lot of people promoting it as a stop the steal event to be fair while it's still playing out it's not factual to say the election is stolen. do you think that maybe might have had any sort of reason why event brite did this? >> it is freedom of speech. i believe the election was stolen. and anybody that says the allegations of fraud are unfounded is just either ignorant or so biased that they're trying to affect the outcome. you have more than 10,000 dead people confirmed in michigan to have voted that is outrageous.

we are talking about confirmed more than 10,000 people. carley: we are going to follow all those allegations. >> i'm talking about evidence. it's sworn. this is sworn evidence. you don't have to believe it, but it is sworn evidence, and not just simply allegations. you have got in pennsylvania you have got postal workers that swears, required to back date ballots and also pennsylvania you have got thousands and thousands of ballots that were dated as being votes before they were ever sent out. that's impossible. this is an outrage. jillian: we will certainly see how this all plays thought court and take it from there. >> i will be there this weekend too. carley: great. the trump campaign continues to fight the fight. over in georgia, the headline is the senate.

they need to win both of these senate races to maintain control. take a listen to -- i think we have a soundbite from senator john kennedy on what's at stake in georgia. take a listen. >> this election in georgia will be the most important in the history of ever. you have nothing to worry about. unless you have a taxpayer, a business owner, a parent, a gun owner, a cop, a person of faith or an unborn baby. jillian: so we have about 15 seconds left. what's your sense on these two races? who do you think is going to win? >> well, if we can stop the fraud, there is no question who is going to win. two republicans. people need to understand it is a crime tone courage voter fraud and if you move to georgia to vote temporarily, then that is voter fraud. you have to be a resident who permanently intends to reside

there in order to vote. stop the voter fraud. but, thank you. carley: all right. congressman. we appreciate you coming on thank you so much. jillian: thank you, have a great day. thanks for watching us. "fox & friends" starts right now. have a good day, everyone. ♪ >> president trump filing a new lawsuit in michigan and five appeals in pennsylvania. >> in the end they don't find very many notes everybody will know it was a fair election. >> georgia's secretary of state is announcing a full hand recount. >> it will be an audit. a recount and recanvas all at once. >> the balance of power in the senate will be decided by two run-off elections in georgia. >> this election will be the most important in the hills industry of ever. >> the road to socialism does not run through georgia. [cheers and applause] >> president-elect joe biden tapping ron klain to be his chief of staff. in the meantime, progressives are getting louder about what they want. >> if they ask to you join the cabinet as labor