>> it is thursday november 19th, this is a fox news alert. after wayne county, michigan, certified election results two republican holdouts are rescinding their phone saying they were bullied into siding with democrats. we are live in washington with that major twist. >> so confused. >> that you are confused. >> parents are confused as well. >> i don't care what you think. >> governor andrew cuomo lashing out at reporters over the

decision to close new york city polls. thousands of students in the largest districts will stay home. fireworks in the big apple is covid-19 cases bike nationwide. a christmas tree looking a little charlie brown. "fox and friends first" starts right now. >> what do you call it? they have to settle but i heard they add branches to the tree. i heard there was a little owl transported in the tree. there's a lot happening with that tree. you are watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning. we begin with a fox news alert.

gop members in wayne county michigan rescinding their decision to certify the result of the 2020 election claiming they were bullied into approval, griff jenkins as the breaking development. >> reporter: things are very interesting in michigan. 146,000 votes, in wayne county the largest county the two gop canvas board members deadlocked the certification vote. they are unhappy about the canvassing and procedures. under extreme pressure they capitulated, reversed their votes for. now they are recanting that voting affidavits, monica palmer said comments made accusations of racism and threatened me and members of my family. the other member william harmon says i voted not to certify and still believe the vote should not be certified until these questions are addressed as i remain opposed to certification of the wayne county results.

what does this mean? it is a little unclear. wayne county's results and those of michigan's other 82 counties go to the secretary of state, to present them to the state canvas board scheduled to meet monday november 20 third. that board has two members, two republicans in two democrats. in georgia we will soon know the result of a historic hand recount, deadline was midday, we expect the announcement at noon today but we have learned uncounted votes were uncovered. floyd county, 2600 ballots, 800 votes for donald trump. in fayette county 2700 ballots, 449 votes for trump number 293 uncounted votes, getting the president as of 148 votes, all of that shy of the overall margin deficit the georgia's director of election operations said if the shoe were on the

other foot biden campaign would be pursuing this. >> if it were 14,000 votes the other way, biden supporters would be screaming this was inappropriate and not done correctly. >> reporter: david shafer claims biden's vote counted 9600 votes but sterling dismisses the claim saying the error was discovered and corrected before entering the official ballot count and then there is wisconsin, the president's campaign paying $3 million out-of-pocket for recount in two counties, we will see where that goes, the president is waging multiple battleground states and it is far from over. >> hard to keep track. thanks. top house republicans are demanding an investigation into

the alleged errors and misconduct in the 2020 presidential election. congressman jim jordan selling off after calling for hearings immediately. >> why don't democrats want to get to the bottom of all the irregularities, all the problems we saw in the 2020 election. we call for an investigation, since our letter to mister never and chairwoman maloney. why don't you investigate, that's the fundamental question. >> in the letter jordan and comeer say they owe it to americans after, quote, four years of calling to question the legitimacy of the 2016 election with debunked allegations of russia collusion. the legal action plays out, donald trump may be a one term president for now but return is possible in 2024. >> donald trump is the first president in 132 years has a realistic chance of coming back and reclaiming the white house

after losing a four years earlier. the last president to do it was grover cleveland in 1888. george h w bush left office, when jimmy carter left office their political careers were finished, donald trump is still a very strong political force. if he wants the republican nomination in 2024 is his to have and i think he could win. >> he went on to say how donald trump leaves office matters and his chances for possible reelection. a new report, new records from the senate investigation into hunter biden linking the biden family to china and russia. senator chuck grassley and ron johnson's report reveals two isa $3 million into a business associate of hunter's. the report finds the company was working its business deals with the kremlin. joe biden repeatedly denied he had knowledge about his son's business deals. wealth normally will weigh in on the new report next hour.

>> at the milestone is the us surpasses 250,000 coronavirus debts. >> city and state leaders beefing up restrictions as americans prepare to spend the holidays without loved ones. we have new guidelines. >> reporter: number coronavirus cases has increased by 100,000 every single day since november election, experts say the worst may be yet to come. according to johns hopkins more than 250,000 people have died from covid-19 in the us. as of this morning new york city schools, the largest school system in the country are shutdown and moving remotely. they got hostile in a news conference. >> what are you talking about. >> going to override -- >> we did it already. that is the law, orange zone and red zone. follow the facts. >> so confused. >> that you are confused.

>> parents are confused as well. >> you are confused. >> more states are adopting shutdowns, bars, restaurants, entertainment venues shutdown for more weeks, a mask mandating kansas goes into effect for thanksgiving but it states titan of democrats and republicans agree a second lockdown is out of the question. >> we are not going that route. we've learned a lot over the 9 months of this pandemic and we took some drastic action at the beginning because we didn't know anything else to do but now we don't know. >> he will push back against that, there are republican and democrats across the country that agree that is not the right approach. >> a warning of the holidays, sending -- it is a high risk activity. he delivered some good news on the vaccine front. >> by the end of december we

expect to have 40 million doses of these two vaccines available for distribution pending fda authorization, enough to vaccinate 20 million of our most vulnerable americans and to continue to ramp up. >> later this hour doctor mark siegel will join us to answer your questions about the coronavirus vaccine. >> the decision to shut down new york city schools is facing tough criticism. former secretary of education bill bennett says it is unfair and hurt students. >> what a travesty, ridiculous and cool, cool to the students, cruel to their parents, cooled to the citizenry, school is a safe place for kids and they will now be denied it. parents scramble to berkeley area pre-thanksgiving, what are they going to do. >> new york city republican councilman joe borelli says this flies in the face of science

which he joins us live later this hour. a final salute to fall in houston police sergeant sean rios, the department veteran surrounded by the ones as he is laid to rest which family, friends and fellow officers remembering him as a community leader who dedicated his life to service, he was killed in a shootout on his way to work last week, the houston police chief is rejecting calls from the suspect's attorney for an outside investigation, the attorney requested it be handed over to texas rangers to avoid conflict of interest. nancy pelosi. >> after democrats nominate her to serve as speaker again. >> you anticipate this coming congress would be your last as speaker. >> let me just say there was a move on the leadership. what i said is whether it passes or not i will abide by those

limits. >> pelosi place in 2018 to only serve two additional terms. the california democrat is expected to relinquish control after the next election. matthew mcconaughey says the future in politics could be all right but i feel they wanted me to say all right all right. the texas native opening up about a potential run for governor. >> are you ever going to run for anything? >> i don't know. it would be up to the people. politics is a broken business to me. when politics redefines its purpose it could be more interesting. >> the actor clarifying his remarks overnight on the late show saying he has no political plans right now. >> i could see it happening. >> he would make a very handsome governor. new research suggests

vaccinating young people first would have the biggest impact once covid-19 vaccine is approved. doctor mark siegel will explain the signs next. >> senator lindsey graham versus the squatters they call on him to resign. that fiery exchange coming up. - [announcer] is your hair flat, thin, and lifeless?

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shannon: as the government gears up for distribution pfizer says it will apply for fda emergencies approval of its vaccine candidate, reportedly 95% effective at preventing covid-19. is there finally light at the end of the tunnel? author of covid-19 the politics of fear and the power of science and fox news medical contributor doctor mark siegel joins us to break it down. good morning. >> good morning. >> in a year where there has

been consistent bad news this vaccine news is getting better and better. are you as happy about all these developments as the majority of the medical community? >> i'm very excited about this news, especially the news out of pfizer yesterday, a german vaccine company plus pfizer. they give the vaccine to 22,000 people and gave it to 22,000 got a placebo, 44,000 people. we didn't know how many of those people, how many of them would actually get covid-19. that is the goal. if enough people get covid-19, we can then see if the majority of them are in the placebo group or the vaccine group. out of 170 people who got covid-19, 170, 162 were in the placebo group. that's where the number 95%

comes from and that is the measles vaccine which is one of the most powerful vaccines in the history of vaccine so we are really excited about this. jillian: how long would it take to get the fda emergency use authorization and when might that happen? >> great question. they are compiling safety data collected 8000 people, 19,000 people together with the safety data. my sources inside health and human services tell me with a couple of weeks the pfizer vaccine will have an emergency use authorization, not before thanksgiving but right afterwords you will see the approval. >> after you get the shot i can't imagine you would be automatically immune. how long does it take to kick in? >> it takes about two weeks for most vaccines to develop immunity. in this case you got the first shot and the second shot three weeks later. the first shot showed a lot of

effect on the pfizer trial but i would say a very conservative estimate would be after a month, after you get the second shot you are immune. another study came out that showed those who were getting over covid-19 might be immune for well over a year and the vaccine gives you even more immunity than that so this vaccine may last a couple years. we don't know for sure yet but it is looking like a longer-term immunity than we thought. jillian: we just can't know the details right now. we need more time. a minute ago we had the distribution information from pfizer, 50 million doses by the end with you, 1.3 billion in 2021. my question is how important is it that the younger population get vaccinated, once everyone, the general population is able to get vaccinated? there are a symptomatic cases out there, younger people might

not have as many symptoms or the severity as older people so is it crucial that they get it? >> the younger people are our silent spreaders and it is crucial to stop this pandemic that we get vaccinated but the purpose of a vaccination is twofold. one, protect somebody most at risk, 2, protect the heard. first thing we will do, give it to those most at risk healthcare workers that are getting it on the front lines and then elderly people starting with nursing homes and people in high risk situations for spreading it internally. once those groups have it, the obese and the elderly we have to make it a priority to give it to young people to stop the spread. they may not get sick are spreading it without knowing it. jillian: we are not done with you, you will stick around for the next hour because you will be back answering some of your questions at home on the covid-19 vaccine but if you have any send them to us on social

media, thank you. >> looking forward to it, thank you. still ahead, governor gavin newsom under fire after breaking his own covid-19 guidelines to attend a dinner. this is not the first time democrats have been accused of a double standard. kristin tate joins us with the list of lockdown breakers, that is next. robinhood believes now is the time to do money. without the commission fees. so, you can start investing today wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood.

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>> back with a fox news alert, republican officials in wayne county demanding their vote to certify election results be reversed, this is they claimed they were misled after suggesting further investigation

into the election process. joining me to react kristin tate, good morning. >> thank you for having me. >> a lot going on in wayne county, the detroit area so you have yesterday's board of canvases consisting of two republican sentence two democrats who voted to certify these election results, now the republicans on this border say we are going to take that back, we were. into this and misled so what is going on. >> they were bullied and bullying and smears that were leveled at these board members is despicable. all of the country it seems democrats are furious at efforts to make sure this is a fair election, we want to make sure all legal votes count that illegal votes should not be counted and i don't think there's anything controversial about that statement and these two board members had initially agreed to certify on the understanding that there would be a not over inconsistencies and absentee ballots but when

they started to believe that audit would not happen they reversed her decision. >> these two republican canvassers said they were bullied into this, they were called racist for saying they didn't want to confirm these election results. take a listen to what that sounded like. >> you are a disgrace. >> it's as though the fifteenth amendment was never passed. >> what you are doing right now is adding to systemic racism. >> the reason these republican canvassers wanted to audit these election results, said they would certify the results only there was a not at that took place is because the number didn't match, the number of people who voted didn't match the number of ballots received. how does that happen? >> they are saying the number of absentee ballots counted doesn't match up with the absentee

ballots that were stated in the sworn affidavits. this is just something that needs to be investigated. it might not change the result and democrats should be in favor of this too if they believe their candidate fairly won i don't see why they wouldn't want these allegations of misconduct looked into. this shouldn't be partisan and the fact that it is is worrisome. >> there is a trend where lawmakers can't even follow their own covid-19 regulations, gavin do some apologizing for going to a party, nancy pelosi getting her hair done, laurie lightfoot out of a crowd of biden supporters after the elections so they say we should follow those rules but they can't seem to follow them themselves.

>> incredible the hypocrisy that these politicians are so flagrant in their hypocrisy they seem to be unmasking for the american people, democrats believe the political aristocracy is more important than average americans, there is no end to it, democrats calling police squads to shut down churches while they cheer on huge gatherings by left-wing groups like black lives matter, gather by the thousands to remember left-wing leaders who died like ruth gaines berger, john lewis, towing average americans they can't have simple funerals to remember their loved ones and now after months of depression and other illnesses related to these various lockdowns they are telling americans they should not see their extended family or friends for the holidays, meanwhile you have people like gavin newsom making these orders going out to big dinner parties with all his friends flouting his very own rules. it is so insulting to the voters who are putting these people in power especially because people in the private sector, the voters have been suffering

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shannon: of our left group aligned with alexandria ocasio cortez pushing their economic agenda on president-elect joe biden saying he should ignore congress to get it done. >> financial expert, joe biden facing pressure from this left-wing group tied to aoc to

use executive orders to enact things like the green new deal, to hack with congress. what are your thoughts on that? >> the new consensus is this is aoc's former chief of staff, i read their modest -- manifesto and it seems not only did they miss economics class but civics because i don't think you can do these things by executive order but they want to mobilize the private sector which is a great strategy but when you later regulations on top of the private sector whether they are environmental or social justice all you do is this incentivized the private-sector because they will not make money doing things you want them to do. >> joe biden planning out his cabinet members come making some hires, let's talk about steve rochette he who has been tapped as counsel to the president, chief of staff to joe biden, served as bill clinton's deputy chief of staff. let's pull up the permanent

normal trade relations bill passed in may 20 fourth 2000 which gave china permanent trade benefits, and did congressional voting on continuing trade with china, limited the us ability to jump trade sanctions and this number which is wild to see between 2,000,002.4 million us jobs lost to chinese trade competition between 99, and 2011 so with all of that rounded out the question is what do you know about what he has done with china specifically and how important is it that he among others going forward continue to hold china's feet to the fire? >> you nailed it, holding their feet to the fire is the most important things some people may not have liked the trump administration's tariffs or other mechanisms forgetting china's the table but the fact is we got them to the table whether it is dumping, theft of ip or military actions around the world china needs to be held accountable and what happens when you don't hold them

accountable, we see a major shift in jobs and going back to the previous question, you put more restrictions on american business businesses will find places where they can do things less expensively and china is a place. you need a multi-pronged strategy and this needs to be part of it. >> back to the squad, they want joe biden to cancel student loan debt which is great for folks with student loan debt but who pays the price? >> it is all of us, roughly 92% of student loans, 1.6 trillion student loans held by the federal government, if we let that all go we pay the price in the last thing we want to do is start establishing federal debt and adding more to the amount of money that at the end future generations need to pay. one little nugget, 59 members of

congress have student loans in one way, shape or form and that is a big voting block and 3 members of the squad have it. school, college or grad school debt so interesting they are advocating making the debt go away. >> part of the problem is you have so many people over the course of time, successfully paid off and spent a lot of time and works hard to pay off their student loan debt and are pretty frustrated that they said i did it so what happens to me, do i get my money back? thank you. appreciate it. >> on cable, we've got to get to this. hundreds of people are arrested as they protested against new coronavirus restrictions in germany. >> europe struggles to take control of the second wave. >> good morning.

yesterday in germany there were hundreds of people in the streets protesting covid-19 restrictions and clashing with police. we did see water cannons used by police during this chaos that erupted. video shows bottles and fireworks being thrown by the demonstrators at numerous people arrested. this comes as german lawmakers met wednesday to debate legal bad thing for implement a new coronavirus restrictions, all across europe officials are trying to curb massive second waves of the virus with thousands of new cases each day in many eu countries. america the cdc released a new report, calling on covid-19 screenings at airports to be increased saying they were ineffective. the report says symptom-based screening programs are ineffective because of nonspecific clinical presentation of covid-19 and asymptomatic cases. with thanksgiving next week us health officials are extremely concerned about spread among families at gatherings.

we know the virus is spreading among many populations across the united states including the us military that on tuesday reported 1300 new cases. >> michigan republicans want to peace governor gretchen witmer for what they call corrupt conduct over covid-19 restrictions. the four articles of impeachment accuse her of exceeding her constitutional authority and issuing orders not in the best interest of residents was recently she issued a 3-week order closing and or dining and limiting indoor social gatherings. >> another tragedy hitting a family of bobby brown. is 20 maxon as i, bobby brown junior was found in his los angeles home in a word on how he died but foul play is not suspected. he was the stepson of the late whitney houston news daughter bobby christina also died 5 years ago. of virginia police chief was fired after charges dropped against a state lawmaker. for reports was chief angela

green says she was terminated for doing her job. >> i believe i am highly qualified, educated competent black woman in a profession that is race control and i am being wrongfully terminated because i upheld the law and i believe that no one is above the law. >> green was fired in retaliation after charges were dropped against senator lewis lucas, she was charging evangelism case for allegedly dismantling a confederate statue in june. 2020 strikes again, the rockefeller christmas tree in new york city is giving people an underwhelming impression, but sad sapling lost a number of lower branches what was placed outside the landmark -- despite a scrappy brings the tree was

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>> good morning, welcome back. bill diblasio shutting down school starting this morning as their positivity rate reaches of benchmark 3%. >> you to react is joe barela, good to see you. let's take a listen to what cuomo had to say as he lashes out reporters over these closures yesterday. >> >> i'm so confused >> parents are still confused as well. >> the schools are open by state law. i don't care what you think. jillian: what is your reaction? i don't think that is what parents need to hear. >> the reporter in that piece is a well respected reporter.

the crazy person is governor cuomo who has the wheels coming off the train when he realized the mayor of the city of new york is overruling him on this and closing schools 4 million parents in new york city. the reaction should be extremely angry because the party that constantly lectures us on following the science has decided at least with this issue to abandon the science and close schools and let children get the irreparable harm they have been continuing to get by not having themselves in front of a school in front of a live teacher compared should be angry, i am angry and people around the country should be angry, this is the direction their school districts might go in. jillian: we shut down schools and businesses to make sure hospital systems weren't overwhelmed so in new york city are the hospital systems at risk of being overwhelmed?

>> not at all. they are very well prepared. i don't want to see people going into the hospital. i don't want to see covid-19 patients taking up icu beds, we can hope and pray it doesn't happen. the good news is we have clear consistent science that schools are not becoming superspreaders for the children or adults that work there. it is unclear why this has become the focus of the diblasio administration. i think people are getting sick of bill diblasio and cuomo, two guys who live at taxpayer expense in mansions with servants and cooks in their families and it is too easy for them who never had a patient, never had to max out their credit cards. it's becoming too easy for them to dictate and bark orders on the rest of us who have to feel the harmful effects of a lockdown. in this case parents who have nowhere to send their kids whether they have to work or do something of themselves were the

kids themselves will miss out in a year of in-person school. >> my question is going to be how old are your kids and what are you most concerned about for them? >> my oldest is in kindergarten, a place in your life you're supposed to be developing your most important social and early reading and mathematics skills, you will never get these you -- these years back, the good news is we have 1000 parents who signed up in a class-action suit, we filed a lawsuit to open a more robust in-person school, now with disclosure it is taking on new urgency so we will be fighting on friday morning, force a hearing in 10 days and hopefully a judge sides with us that there is no scientific -- for health reason to close schools the way bill diblasio has. >> keep us up on that lawsuit to get schools back open. i'm sure parents would appreciate that, thank you so

much. republicans outraged over resurfaced comments made in a sermon by now georgia democratic senate hopeful reverend wornoff. you can't serve god and money, you cannot serve god at the same time. his opponent kelly (tweeted out in 2011 calling the comments despicable, disgusting and wrong, the campaign responded saying, quote, reverend wornknock was talking about the need to commit to moral life before pursuing other priorities, this is another effort to take reverend warknock's words out of context. the two candidates are heading to a highly anticipated runoff election january 5th the. senator lindsey graham hires back after members of the squad call for his resignation

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>> i'm not going to be the mask police. i'm not going to be the curfew police with the bar police at the restaurant police. it is all i can do just to be the police. to be on top of the mountain and make these rules and look down. it is harder when you're down looking up. >> interesting perspective, sheriff richard jones of butler county, ohio sounding the alarm on the new statement of the curfew saying it's not law enforcement to enforce covid-19 restrictions and that sheriff sheriff jones joins me now. thank you for being here. what made you make that video and put your message out to the public. >> the public is worn out, they are disgusted with everything, the federal level, the state level, they are fatigued, now

you go to grocery store there are shortages again because these leaders in government are putting out these edicts, the curfew is no different than here in ohio governor patella curfew, it starts today, it's not going to stop anything. a lockdown, they call it a purpose, they are saying not to have a certain amount of people at thanksgiving at your house, talking about you need to wear a mask in your house. the american people have had it. i'm not going to enforce these edicts. the governor doesn't reach down and talk to us that are down here in the trenches. people are fatigued. i will guarantee you this. someone, some police department will show up, people are not going to leave, someone will be injured or arrested or shot. i don't mean to sound an alarm

but is easy to sit on top of the mountain and extend these rules down to the public. eventually the public will get the pitchforks out. it is to that point. i am telling you. >> people are frustrated, tired, exhausted and trying to figure out how to have their kids learning from home again. you mentioned those restrictions, the curfew of 10:00 pm to 5 am, mass gatherings of 10 people, no dancing or socializing at weddings and funerals, masks are required at different stores and restaurants and things like that. the violation sign, second-degree misdemeanor, 90 days in jail and a $750 fine which seems to me and by all accounts for people on the grounds seems outrageous. you talk about the fact this comes from the top of the mountain but the trickle-down effect they don't know what that is like, putting these restrictions in place. of elected officials were to

come to you and say we want your input, what should be done what would you suggest? >> get out and talk to the people, don't do it from the tv. if you're afraid of covid-19 get a distance, talk to small groups, find out, talk to them how they can work it, don't sit on your mountaintop and come up with these rules and surround yourself with people, talk to the people, we are all fatigued. i had a covid-19 test, i wear a mask and wash my hands. i talk to other police departments, we are doing the best we can. it is like an invisible man. we might slow it down. the rules change every day but make no mistake i am not going to put people in jail for violating the curfew, i call it a lockdown. i am not going to do it. it will make criminals out of

people who are not criminals and abide by the and the law. it is ridiculous. not going to do it, nor are other law enforcement. >> you have your job on top of what other people are asking, thank you for your time, appreciate it. have a good day. coming up in the next hour of "fox and friends first," the report claims new findings in the hunter biden probe revealed families linked to china and russia. congressman ralph norman on what happened to the investigation once the president-elect takes office and the first rapid at home covid-19 test approved by the fda. we will show you how the test works next hour.

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