small business saturday so please go support local small businesses. that's all for tonight. thanks for joining us. see you next sunday when "the next revolution" will be next revolution" will be now we are deeply worried about what could happen post thanksgiving. we know people may have made mistakes. you need to assume that you're infected. todd: it's monday, november 30th. the nation's top health experts predicting a surge upon a surge of covid-19 cases. their dire warning, post thanksgiving, already sounding the alarm on christmas. jillian: a security showdown, in his first ebbs clues i've interview -- exclusive interview on fox, president trump blasts the election as rigged as a top official accuses the president's allies of undermining democracy. where the trump team is taking

the fight next. griff: and the pandemic rules forces the broncos deep into the bench as the league shuts down facilities today. jillian: "fox & friends first" starts right now. ♪ can't hurt me now. ♪ can't feel the pain. jillian: a live look at capitol hill there. if you're just waking up, it's time to wake up the food coma. it's monday morning. how was your weekend? griff: it was great. i love that shot of d.c. i've been here since 1993. i never stop being inspired. how was your weekend, carley? carley: very good. i'm carley shimkus, in for jillian mele. griff: i'm griff jenkins, in for todd piro. president trump says the fbi and doj are missing in action in responding to alleged voter fraud.

he promises his legal team will continue to fight in an exclusion itch intervieexclusivh maria bartiromo. >> i'm going to use 125% of my energy. i've got the best supreme court advocates, lawyers, that want to argue the case if it gets there. but they said it's very hard to get a case up there. we have tremendous -- we have hundreds and hundreds of affidavits. carley: the former director of the cyber security sounding off on how it was a fair election. >> the proof is in the l ballots. the recounts are consistent with the initial count and to me, that's further evidence. >>, that'sconfirmation that thes used in the 2020 election performed as expected and the american people should have 100% confidence in their vote.

griff: but president trump weighing in on twitter saying that 60 minutes, quote, never asked us for a comment about their ridiculous one-sided story on election security which is an international joke. adding the 2020 election was, quote, probably our least secure ever. as the battle over election fraud heats up, republican congressman matt gates seas the president faces a tough legal fight because the legal ballots are mixed in with the rest of them. >> the main legal problem for the trump people is that illegal ballots are co-mingled with larger universes of ballots. you can prove there is fraud as to some ballots but if the fraudulent ballots are mixed into a larger pool it's difficult to obtain remedies from the courts to exclude the entire pool of polluted ballots. griff: the president says he hopes there is a path to victory. maria joins us on the exclusive

interview with president trump next hour. carley: tonight, president-elect joe biden is set to receive his first intelligence briefing. picks include kate bettingfield as communications director, jen socky as press secretary, senior advisor simone sanders as chief spokeswoman for kamala harris and campaign ad -- all of this comes as joe biden fractured his foot while playing with his dog. he was seen leaving his x-ray appointment sunday evening. doctors say he will likely require a walking boot for several weeks. president trump tweeting, quote, get well soon. assume you are infected, that warning coming from top health experts as millions of americans traveled home for thanksgiving.

griff: this as coronavirus hospitalizations hit a new high in the u.s. ashley strohmier joins us live as doctors say the worst is yet to come. good morning, ashley. >> reporter: good morning. that warning coming from dr. anthony fauci following a weekend of travel for millions of americans for the thanksgiving holiday. >> we may see a surge upon a surge. we don't want to frighten people but that's just the reality. we said that these things would happen as we got into the cold weather and as we began traveling and they've happened. it's going to happen again. >> reporter: top health officials warning americans seemingly saying we're on the cusp of what could be one of the deadliest winters. listen. >> if your family traveled, you have to assume that you are exposed and you became infected and you really need to get tested in the next week. >> reporter: birx recommending for those families who traveled to wear a mask indoors to lower the chance of spreading the virus to the most vulnerable.

with christmas and new years right around the corner, they say to expect more restrictions. >> we're going to have to make decisions as a nation, state, city and family, we're going to have to do the kinds of restrictions of things we would like to have done, particularly in this holiday season, because we're entering into what's really a precarious situation. >> reporter: and in the meantime, pfizer and moderna are days away from a possible vaccine approval. the first batch of vaccines landed in chicago over the weekend, despite positive results, dr. fauci says it will be months before school age kids can get the green light for vaccinations. the nation's largest school district is reopening, new york city's mayor, bill de blasio, changing course weeks after shutting schools down. >> a lot of parents we've heard your voice, loud and clear, you want schools back open. we're going to ask everyone to be a part of that, everyone to participate, to make it work.

>> reporter: preschool and elementary schools will be the first to reopen, followed by district 75 schools. students and parents must sign testing consent forms and 20% of students and staff will be randomly tested each week. still ahead, dr. jeanette nesheiwat will join us to weigh in on the latest coronavirus numbers and vaccine development. on tuesday, the cdc will meet to determine who gets the vaccination first. back to you. carley: very important stuff coming down the pipeline, thank you. griff: new jersey governor, phil murphy, refusing to rule out a second state-wide shutdown to stop covid-19. >> i'm not i'd say possible, but it has to stay on the table. i don't anticipate it. i sure as heck don't want to go that route, god willing we don't have to. griff: he admits there's a lot of fatigue with the virus. his comments came hours after demonstrators gathered outside his home to protest his restrictions.

new jersey has reported 329,000 cases and nearly 17,000 deaths. carley: meantime, arkansas governor, republican asa hutchinson says he is doing all he can to avoid a shutdown in his state while still implementing some measures to stop the spread. listen. >> that's the last thing that we want to do and particularly shutting down a business that has worked hard for the last eight months to comply with every public health directive, that to me is just fundamentally wrong to say you're out of business now and your workers are unemployed, particularly whenever there's not any cares act relief package anymore. we want to be smart about it and so we did put 11:00 p.m. curfew on bars and restaurants, trying to break up the late night crowds. but at the same time, we don't want to overly restrict our businesses that are doing a good job out there, because that just makes the problem worse. carley: in california, a new stay at home order takes effect today in la county where san

francisco moved its most restrictive purple tier, forces gyms and churches to move outside and limiting capacity in retail stores. griff: a violent weekend in chicago leaves nine dead amid 37 people shot, a 14-year-old boy is among the victims. he is said to be in fair condition. police data shows 53% increase in shootings and killings compared to this time last year. and a suspect is arrested after a nearly nine hour long standoff with police and s.w.a.t. teams an officer and two others were shot in minnesota, just south of minneapolis. police say the suspect sustained injuries while randomly firing a high powered rifle from inside an apartment complex. 130 residents had to be evacuated while others were told to shelter in place. the injured officer was released from the hospital.

carley: georgia's runoff races are ramping up. republican senator kelly loeffler explains what's at stake if democrats win. >> they would fundamentally and radically change america for the worse. we are not going to let that happen. we are the firewall to socialism, to stopping socialism in america, right here in georgia and we're going to do that. carley: democrat john ossoff claims a republican led senate will block efforts for the biden administration. >> we all know what's going to happen if mcconnell holds the senate. he will try to do to biden and harris, just like he tried to do to president obama. it will be paralysis, partisan trench warfare. carley: ossoff will take on purdue while loeffler faces off against raphael warnock. meantime, the march for trump bus tour kicks off in florida, starting two weeks of rallies you across battleground states

held by the president's supporters who say they're demanding election integrity. ♪ carley: the tour will visit a total of 18 states with two rallies in georgia and south carolina today. it is set to end december 12th in washington, d.c. how about that. griff: we'll be following that. still ahead, president trump ripping the russia probe, suggesting a new tactic to get to the bottom of it. >> it's an embarrassment to our country. all over the world they're talking about it. and yeah, i would consider a special prosecutor. carley: so what could a special prosecutor do and what consequences could people like comey and mccabe face? we'll ask constitutional law expert, mark smith, next.

>> we're not allowed to put in our proof. they say you don't have

standing. i would like to file one nice, big, beautiful lawsuit, with tremendous proof. we have hundreds and hundreds of affidavits. as president of the united states, i don't have standing. what kind of a court system is this? carley: president trump slamming the courts as his legal team vows to appeal their failed legal challenges, all the way to the supreme court. griff: joining us to react, constitutional law expert, mark smith. mark, thanks for getting up early on a monday with us. let's dive right in to the president's criticisms about the courts. it appears that while there are no shortage of allegations and affidavits that the trump legal team has at their disposal, they have yet to turn it into actual admissible evidence, hence the court cases are not going in their direction. >> you know, it's actually interesting that -- i think the courts have been a little unfair to the president's legal team in

the following sense. if you think about it for the moment, the legal attacks by the president are on these county and state officials and on these processes at the local level. who has the evidence if something went wrong or something wasn't counted properly or of accounted for? the people or the systems that have this evidence that the president needs are the same people that he is suing. so it's a little unfair really for these courts to say to president trump, you need to have all this evidence when the reality is that the people with the evidence is not donald trump, it's the people he is suing. so it seems to be the proper approach for the courts is to really order the defendants, the county election officials, the state h election officials, thid party vendors that may have been involved with the elections, they should be required to turn over relevant evidence to president trump. right now, the courts are saying to donald trump, look, you have to prove all this, you have to put on all this evidence and prove all this stuff rapidly,

and yet at the same time a lot of the evidence you need is not in your control, it's in the control of the people you're suing so it's been a little bit unfair to the president i think in this regard. carley: you know, president trump is alleging individual cases of voter fraud like dead people voting, he's also saying that republican poll watchers weren't able to properly watch the vote count. he's also saying that some election workers cured or fixed democrat votes but didn't do the same thing for republicans and then he's got the allegations on dominion as well. these are all individual cases. but now he's saying that he wants to form one big, giant lawsuit. is that something that he can do and would that be a benefit to him? >> well, it probably would not be helpful because the reality is that every state sends electors to the electoral college on december 14th. you really have to go state by state to prove your case if you think something was wrong

because remember, the state laws and rules that govern how an election is run, let's say in georgia, are different rules than those that would run the same election in, like, wisconsin. so it's really not possible of to sue over all these different states, all at once, because again, the rules of the road are different from state to state. so that's why the president really has to go state to state to state and prove his case in each of these relevant states and, again, he should be allowed to do so and, again, he has to go fast. griff: before we run out of time i want to quickly ask you, the president also in the interview with maria floating the idea of a special prosecutor in addition to durham to probe the origins of the russia investigation. what do you make of that? >> i'm guessing if joe biden is ultimately declared the president, on december 14th, it will be very difficult for the attorney general to appoint

a special prosecutor to investigate the incoming administration. i think that would be legally difficult. doesn't mean it can't be tried. at the end of the day it's about a conflict of interest and if joe biden maybe you could look to a special counsel but at that point president trump would be out of office. carley: the clock aappears to be ticking on a variety of fronts and you made that point very clear and very well said. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. griff: thank you, mark. >> thank you. carley: still ahead, a new york city pub declares itself an autonomous zone to stay open of. they join us live with their message to city leaders next. >> to anyone thinks we're doing it because we want to make money, there is right and wrong, and what is happening is wrong. it's down to the wire,

the team's been working around the clock.

we've had to rethink our whole approach. we're going to give togetherness. logistically, it's been a nightmare. i'm not sure it's going to work. it'll work. i didn't know you were listening.

carley: good morning. welcome back. a staten island pub in a coronavirus hot spot declares its own autonomous zone as a final resort to save their business. the state slapped max public house with fines and suspended their liquor license but co-owners keith and dan say they are not backing down and they join me live now. good morning, guys. >> good morning. >> good morning. carley: so you have declared your own autonomous zone, taking a page out of seattle's playbook. you say you are not shutting your doors. why are you doing this? >> we've had a really tough time throughout all of this. in the beginning, with the first shutdowns in march, we did everything to make it work. we couldn't afford to have anybody in here. we adapted to just take-out and delivery. we pumped as much food as we could in and out of the kitchen with just us.

and did every single regulation that they asked us to do, you adapted as much as we could, and this point our backs are completely against the wall. there was nothing left. carley: okay. so your bar is in what is considered an orange zone which means no indoor dining, take-out, delivery and limited outdoor dining. you've been hit with a lot of fines. your liquor license was also taken away. how are you dealing with that? >> our kind of motto right now is business as usual. because we feel as though -- we understand the virus is happening and it's a real thing, but we do know how to operate our business in a safe manner and we just can't close again. there's no other option. and we feel as if there's other businesses that are allowed to stay open and they have a ton of

people walking around these places and why should we not be allowed to operate in a safe manner? and at this point we can't close down. carley: yeah, you know, keith, i know a lot of people think you guys are doing the right thing, that everybody has a right to be able to make a living and do it in a safe way. but then there are critics who would say that everybody also those play by the rules and we're all in this together and we all have to keep each other safe and look out for each other, from a health standpoint. so what would you say to those critics? >> well, you say to those critics then why is everybody allowed to cram themselves into a target or a best buy or into the mall or any other large company, big corporation companies, and they're there running shoulder to shoulder with each other and everything like that, but my establishment all of a sudden is somehow seems to be the only place that somebody is able to contact corona? as if like we don't know how it

is to put safety measures in there so everybody can end up being safe? and basically the rules that they have put in place are unconstitutional. for months, the whole entire food and beverage industry wanted to work with the government to end up helping them, we're the professionals when it comes to this that we could have worked with them, hand in hand, to end up finding a better solution than just being lazy and saying this side of the block you can't hope open and that side of the block you can open. carley: also of, keith, i want to ask you how you business has been. do you think you guys will be able to weather this storm? >> right now, i really don't know. it's very scary still. with them taking -- suspending the liquor license and the health department, i don't even know exactly what they were saying, having to operate in that, we are giving the food and stuff away for free and it's

entirely remaining on having people -- carley: it is definitely a scary time for so many people and we thank you so much for coming on and telling your story. we wish you the best of luck. thank you so much. >> thank you. carley: griff. griff: all right. carley, still ahead, as the u.s. gets ready to roll out a covid-19 vaccine, the cdc needs to decide who gets it first. dr. jeanette nesheiwat lays out where she thinks it should go, coming up. wow! a new buick? for me? to james, from james. that's just what i wanted. is this a new buick? i secret santa-ed myself. i shouldn't have. but i have been very good this year. wow! wow! wow! this year, turn black friday into buick friday all month long. now during buick friday, pay no interest for 84 months on most 20-20 buick suv models.

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griff: welcome back. overnight, iran holds a funeral for its top nuclear scientist as the regime promises a calculated and decisive response to the killing. carley: trey yingst joins us live oversea as calls for retaliation escalate. trey, good morning. >> reporter: carley, griff, good morning. iran is vowing to respond to the

killing of the top nuclear scientist. the question now is when and where this will happen. yesterday, iranian lawmakers met, chanting death to america, and death to israel, as the head of iran's strategic council on foreign relations released a statement saying, quote, undoubtedly iran will give a calculated and decisive answer to the criminals who took us from the iranian nation. this sentiment echoed through the top tiers of iranian leadership with the country's supreme leader and iran's president demanding definitive punishment. numerous iranian officials blamed is israe israel and one e newspapers called on leadership to bomb an israeli port city, the piece saying, quote, the attack should be carried out in such a way that in addition to destroying the facilities it should also cause heavy human casualties. the funeral will finish today as the investigation into his death continues, we do know earlier this month there was a meeting

between saudi's crown prince, mike pompeo and israel's prime minister, benjamin net consider, taking place in saudi arabia. analysts are looking at the meeting for you clues into the death of the top nuclear scientist. carley, griff. griff: trey yingst in jerusalem, thanks, trey. carley: a cdc panel will meet tomorrow to recommend who should be vaccinated first upon emergency approval. griff: with pfizer's fda review days away, dr. jeanette nesheiwat joint us now -- joins us now with more on the process. thanks for getting up early on a monday. a big development, we want to show you the priority of groups for the vaccine as you sort of have laid them out, healthcare workers, those at high risk, nursing homes. explain who the groups are and why they get the priority. >> well, you know how you go on an airplane and they say in an

emergency, put your mask on first before you put it on to your child or your loved one? you have to have the doctors, the nurses, the x-ray techs, the respiratory techs there, you have to have the staff in the hospital to take care of you if you get sick. what's going to happen if you have no staff. that's why healthcare workers will likely be at the top of the list. we need to look at who is high risk, who is at risk of developing severe complications if they acquire coronavirus and the data we have so far tells us it's those with heart disease, with kidney disease, with cancer, with diabetes, also we see that african-americans, hispanics, blacks, they have been hit the hardest and we also need to look at those who are in the nursing homes and of course everyone will be able to get this vaccine, it's just a matter of when. we have about 40 million doses that will be available to americans by the end of the year and then by march, april, everyone else should be able to have access to the vaccine. carley: so in the meantime,

though, the fda is going to meet on december 10th to talk about pfizer's emergency use authorization and then modernas' meeting will take place december 18th. is there any reason why those meetings aren't taking place immediately? and when they do meet, is approval 100% guaranteed at this point? >> that's a good question. it's my understanding that what's going on between now and then is they're reviewing the data. they are analyzing the data. they're making sure that it is truly safe and effective, which so far the data shows that it's over 95% effective. so we want that. we don't want to rush this vaccine. so once they meet on december 10 ofth, the earliest that this vaccine will be shipped out would be the very next day. so that's what we're hoping for. so far, in the trials and studies that we've had, which include thousands of volunteers who have already received the vaccine, there has been no severe life-threatening allergic reactions or adverse reactions so that is very reassuring and i do believe by the last two weeks

of december, we're going to be getting these vaccines in. it's ultimately going to save lives. i'm super excited about that. griff: dr. nesheiwat, the scientists, we see biden's covid advisors predict many who spent thanksgiving with loved ones will be in the icu by christmas, very strong language. i should point out it was a little bit echoed by the current team, because dr. jerome adams, the surgeon general, was on fox news sunday yesterday saying it's going to get worse. >> it is. it's going to get worse. let's remember that most patients that acquire coronavirus will recover but if you're in a high risk category, if you're over the age of 65 with underlying medical disease, yes, you are at high risk of serious complications. you could end up in the icu. it's not too late. we could take action to curb the transmission of the virus, if we follow the simple cdc guidelines, wearing your mask, practice social distancing, stay

away from others, keep a good six to 10 feet. the virus will spread only if we allow it to. it jumps from person to person in crowded areas, congested areas, confined spaces. we are no longer inept to fighting the disease. all we have to do is take necessary precautions. this past year, we've been doing a decent job. now we're having this influx, this surge upon a surge. if only we can chang in there a few -- hang in there a few months longer until the vaccine is available. now is not the time to let our of guard down. we've got to be diligent and comply with the cdc guidelines because we have now christmas coming up, we have the new year's, we don't want to see further surge, we don't want to see further deaths, further lives taken. at this point, there should be no additional deaths since we know what to do. any deaths from moving forward should be preventable. carley: such wise words, dr. nesheiwat. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, have a good one. carley: senate minority leader

chuck schumer says it will cost at least $30 billion to get a covid-19 vaccine into americans' hands. schumer making the claim as he pushed for the senate to pass the $3 trillion heroes act. but president obama's chief economist says democrats should take whatever relief they can get. >> this isn't stimulus. this is literally just relief money until we can get the furnace back on. it's just keeping people from being evicted, keeping businesses from shutting down permanently. if they have to accept half a loaf, they should accept half a loaf. carley: president-elect joe biden has also asked congress to pass a smaller relief bill. griff: all right. to week 12 of the nfl. the san francisco 49ers pulling off a major upset. >> robbie golden, it's up there, it's out there.

>> it's good. griff: the niners edging the rams with a last secretary field goal and the packers crushing the bears, 41-25 thanks to aaron rodgers' four touchdowns. and this game keeps giving, patrick mahomes throws three tds as kansas city is over the buccaneers, 27-24. that was tom brady, the older guy against the younger guy. the broncos struggled after all their qbs were disqualified due to potential virus exposure that, were demolished by the saints. teams have canceled in-person events today and tomorrow. tim tebow will break down the situation later this morning on "fox & friends" and he will no doubt, carley, talk about kendall hinton that played quarterback for the broncos, he wasn't likely to suit up in the practice squad as wide receiver

and then he got called up to play his first nfl game. >> carley: not even a quarterback. god bless him. i'm sure he was so nervous. griff: he was in sales in october. carley: what a wild year. he suited up, he did the thing. good for him, even though they didn't get the intended outcome that they wanted. the time is now 39 minutes after the hour. kamala harris touting main street on small business saturday but what about her support for rioters who destroyed businesses over the summer. the major online backlash, next.

carley: good morning, welcome back. vice president-elect kamala harris is getting slammed for a tweet urging people to help small businesses. harris posting, quote, small businesses especially black and minority owned businesses urgently need relief to survive the effects of coronavirus this winter. joe biden and i are committed to helping these businesses during

this pandemic and get them the support they need to thrive in years to come. now, critics pointed out harris helped bail out rioters in minneapolis, despite them looting hundreds of businesses over the summer and we have reached out to harris' office for comment but have not yet heard back. keep you posted on that one. griff. griff: president trump calling out media bias on air and online in his first interview since election day. >> it's massively powerful. it's massively corrupt. the media and big tech. section 230 should be taken out because that's their protection, that was given artificially to them. but it's a massive form of corruption and silence and suppression. griff: as he and other -- have he and other conservatives been unfairly targeted. hergood morning to you both. robert, let me start with you.

does the president have a point that he is being say tacked? about every time he tweets, it's flagged. >> absolutely not. president trump came to prominence on the internet, on conspiracy, he got nearly $3.2 billion of free advertising and free media coverage in 2016 which helped him become president in the first place and now that we have some guardrails in flies stop you from being able to spread false information, the slightest amount of fact checking, he's claiming conspiracy. we live in a free market economy. the president has the right and ability to found his own company and compete in the public sphere, in the public market and see what wins out. you can't get on someone else's platform and complain about them being unfair to you. griff: amanda, i'll let you respond to that. it's not just the president. we saw in this election cycle conservatives to include

kayleigh mcenany, the white house spokesperson. >> absolutely. president trump is 100% right on this. at 75% of americans, according to pugh research, agree with him. there is absolute censorship in social media sites of viewpoints that they disaagree with. for example, the ayatollah of iran can say that the -- can dismiss the holocaust ever happened and that passes twitter muster but the president of the united states during an election, after an election, is censored. the new york post, the holdest newspaper in america -- the oldest newspaper in america, is censored for wanting to cover hunter biden and his overseas dealings. there is inherent biases and partisanship in the media, in the social media in particular, in big tech like twitter, instagram and facebook and section 230 as the president mentioned is something that must be repealed and josh holly,

republican senator from missouri, has legislation to that very thing. griff: now, robert, let me just -- because amanda's talking about obviously twitter and this whole section 230 debate but let's talk about the network newscasts. because we saw from the media research center, they say that 92.4% of the network newscasts were negative coverage of president trump, only 34% negative coverage of biden. do you agree with that? >> well, the numbers are going to say what the numbers say but the fact is, president trump did more things we reported on negatively than biden did. when you're in the arena, you can expect that level of criticism, that level of disagreement with what you say. i think that what president trump is doing right now is pointing at any possible direction and complaining about it. he's blaming big tech, the cia, voting machines, he's blaming

hugo chavez. it's another attempt to dissuade the american people that he lost, he was eradicated by the electoral college. he's trying to blame everyone but himself and his ideology. griff: the trump versus biden twitter flags, it's 100 for trump, zero for biden. do you think president trump will continue to be scrutinized and it makes his case for a fair election and the allegations he brings more difficult? >> i think it does, because they're going to flag everything that he does as you mentioned. even governor cuomo, someone who is no fan of president trump, has called the media unprofessional and very biased. and so this is what unfortunately president trump has been on the receiving end of since the day he came down those escalators in 2015. so i don't think it's ever going to get easier for him. i think he will continue to plow

through and maybe people move to other things like radio and other ways to basically get information. they're not going to get from social media platforms because it's going to be obstructed by liberals. griff: amanda, robert, to be continued. there's going to be more to this story. thanks for joining us. have a good monday. >> thanks, griff. >> thank you. griff: carley? carley: thanks, griff. still ahead, the biden administration filling up with left wing media analysts as black lives matter protests have stopped the mayor of los angeles from joining the cabinet. patrice onwuka from the independent women's forum on the transition in flux, next. [ whispering ]

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♪ ocean spray works with nature every day to keep you healthy ♪ ocean spray works with nature every day to keep you healthy carley: good morning. is the biden administration shaping up to be the mainstream

media administration? that question now being raised after three more cnn and msnbc analysts are tapped to join the biden, harris communications team. >> we don't need a fabricated crisis in the senate. i don't think the american people are going to tolerate that if there's a refusal to move forward. they are going to continue to push forward the flailing and baseless legal strategies. >> and then you have a contract of donald trump who is holding super spreader events and giving russian disinformation. carley: there they are, some of the new hires. joining me with her take, senior policy analyst, patrice onwuka. good morning. >> good morning. how are you? carley: very good. biden announced his new communications team on sunday, three of them have worked for either cnn or msnbc, what's your take on that? do you see anything wrong with that? or do these hires make sense for his administration? >> well, certainly we see a lot

of those surrogates who were regulars on the media circuit, getting back into the biden administration. i think what's concerning is some of the things they've said about the trump administration and they've been very vocal opponents of president trump's administration and so it's not surprising that maybe they have the name recognition, they've got the media cache and celebrity status to be able to come back to the biden potential administration. i think it's interesting, simone sanders, you see her being the spokesperson for vice president kamala harris when she took such a leading role in vice president biden's administration -- campaign. so i think the seats are interesting but it's just a really big obama reunion. carley: yeah. a lot of people have made that point before, that we're seeing a lot of familiar faces. do you also see this as sort of an explanation or an example of

how some of the mainstream media is very much biased towards republicans in terms of the fact that there are so many folks from cnn and msnbc heading into the biden administration? >> well, sure. i mean, it was interesting, when you have folks coming out of the trump administration and joining let's say fox news as an analyst, a lot of mainstream news outlets were condemning that, saying there's too cozy a relationship. now there's a direct pipeline from some of those other outlets into the potential biden white house. i mean, i think it just underscores, when you have talent, when you have folks who are good at their jobs, they're going to get placed in different seats and i think instead of calling one side to the matter or the other of, let's just embrace that and say okay, now what about the policies. from a policy standpoint, i'm much more concerned about biden and the people that he's

staffing his cabinet with. carley: so well said. meantime, black lives matter protesters continue to gather outside los angeles mayor eric garcetti's house as there are reports that he might be considered for a cabinet position. they don't want that to happen. they're angry for many reasons, one of the reasons that garcetti didn't cut the budget for lapd by 90%. they said they're asking joe biden not to appoint the la mayor to the cabinet, we won't allow his failed policies to become part of the national agenda, join the movement to hashtag block garcetti. how much influence do you think these protesters have over joe biden's decision making? >> i think on their face they seem to have a lot. they are taking credit for the fact that black people turned of out to vote for joe biden and that underscores by the way, carley, that the black lives matter organization and a lot of the protests were not about bipartisan reform for equality,

they're actually really about political power and turning blm into a new power source which they have become. they're wielding their power, they're trying to say we want certain people in certain seats and we want to ensure that eric garcetti for example doesn't get there. i think it does a disservice when you consider he's saying i'm willing to make cuts to the lapd, i'm just not willing to cut it by 90% because you know what, when you poll americans, black, brown, people, they tell you they actually want police presence. the kind of interactions they're concerned about. black lives matter glosses over that. when i see them standing in front of his house and protesting, i mean, honestly i'm not too surprised because he kind of brought it on himself when he was willing to let them protest in july but ended fireworks, closed the beaches for the 4th of july. carley: we're running out of time here. you make such a good point. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. carley: griff.

griff: carley, thanks. coming up in the next hour of "fox & friends first," the one and only maria bartiromo joins us live on her exclusive interview with president trump. plus, republicans banding together to fight the squad. congressman-elect byron donald is part of the resistance, he joins us in the next hour. we're just getting your monday started. let's go. robinhood believes now is the time to do money.

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