skiing show aired virtually without a live audience. todd: balancing act on the water carrying presents in his red sack. this volunteer-run show has been around for 35 years. carley: how great is that? "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ pete: we begin this monday morning with a fox news alert. it's a deal a recall expected today on $900 billion relief package. ing. emily: includes $600 stimulus checks and supplemental jobless benefit. also extends the paycheck protection program as well as housing assistance. brian: wait until the last minute. both parties are blaming each other for the delay. >> there is no reason why this urgent package could not have been signed into law multiple months ago. the democratic side decided that presidential politickings were more important than getting urgent and controversial relief. >> this bill is certainly not

everything we wanted. our republican friends stood in the way of so much. brian: there you go. the president is expected to quickly sign it into the law. the president, guys, is really response sick for the direct checks to americans. he said, listen, you have got to get these people righ money rigt away. let's wring in by the way hi, emily. emily: good morning it's an honor always to be in for ainsley. pete: good morning, emily. brian: i said it first, pete. let the record show. let's bring in colonel michael waltz member of the house armed services committee. congressman, who gets credit? who gets blamed? >> you know, this has just been swamp politics, d.c. politics at its worst. you know, speaker pelosi and schumer are right to some degree. we have rejected a lot of what they wanted in their multitrillion dollars will hero's act they passed back in

june that was full of the progressive wish lists. everything from undocumentedding aliens to this whole progressive piece on corporate boards. how we vote. all kinds of things they tried to throw in there. but, meanwhile, brian, as you i and i have talked about there was $138 billion. left over and unspent from the paycheck protection program. we tried 19 times to say fine, we can argue about all of those other things but please let businesses have access to these moneys. and pelosi refused because she took, you know, her way or the highway, or or nothing approach. now we have gone over 3 trillion down to 2. now down to 900 billion. it looks like we're going to get an agreement on. we have an agreement on. and here's what i want people to understand, 500 billion of that 9 is left over moneys we were able to re-purpose. so, you know, there is some fiscal responsibility in this package. but and it is now targeted on

programs that are going to help people get through this pandemic. and i will think at the end of the day, this is a win for people who have been suffering. but it is way, way, way too late. pete: colonel, it is amazing, almost feels like we are right back where we started on a lot of these items. you mentioned the speaker though. nancy pelosi, here's a couple of clips. one from yesterday and another from early december of her take on this covid-19 relief bill. listen. >> so long because we could not get our republican colleagues to crush the virus. why would they not want to invest in the science that has told us so importantly that it required testing, tracing, treatment, separation, sanitation. joe biden committed to ending and crushing the virus.

what was then before was not more of this. this is -- this has simplicity. it's what we have had in our bills. it's for a shorter period of time. but that's okay now because we have a new president. pete: so much serious talk and so many words but ultimately she revealed right there at the end the motivation behind delaying all of this. >> yeah, the bottom line is she did not want to give president trump a win. and meanwhile the american people were losing. you know, you are right. we did reject some things. main thing we rejected was a bailout to a lot of the blue states who have mismanaged their funds and i can't responsibly vote for florida's taxpayers in a state that is managing it budget to bail out new york and bail out california and a lot of other northeastern states. so, we did reject that. but, meanwhile, we were asking her to at least let businesses have another bite at the apple at moneys that were already

appropriated it. just fires me up every time i get a phone call from one of our businesses that are going out forever and she wanted to play politics until she could see if she had a new president. again, politics at it worst. people have really been hurt. emily: congressman, switching topics here, we want to get your thoughts on the incoming white house press secretary who is talking this weekend on "fox news sunday" about the hunter biden probes. take a listen. >> he has been el emphatic that that person will oversee an independent department. he is looking for somebody at the highest level of integrity. that person, whomever it is, will be overseeing whatever investigations are happening at the department of justice. hinhewill not be discussing an investigation with his son with any attorney general candidates. he will not be discussing with anyone he is considering for the role and will not be discussing it with a future attorney general.

emily: can americans count on the neutrality that the speaker is discussing there? >> this is a classic trust us, you know, in the situation involving billions of foreign money, our greatest adversary we have ever faced, china, that clearly has a massive influence operation underway throughout our politics, trust us. don't worry about it. they are clearly relying on their friends in the liberal media to continue to not cover it and brush it under the rug. if there is anything that i have ever seen that qualifies for an independent investigator, an independent prosecutor, it's this. that clearly affects the son of someone who is on the verge of possibly becoming president, and possibly that individual himself, joe biden, and the rest of his family, but, yet, no problem. nothing to see here. we will take care of it. don't worry about it. i don't think so. we need and i hope the president moves forward with a special

prosecutor to see this through. keep in mind, that u.s. attorney that is overseeing this investigation can also be replaced by a biden administration. so we need someone independent. it fits every definition in the book. ing. brian: maybe joe biden won't bring it up with a attorney general candidate but ron kayleigh mcenany was. let's talk a propublica story to define something in detail that we already knew. china lied about the virus. we still don't know how it started. we still don't know what the strain looks like, where it emanated. we still don't know why the w.h.o. wasn't clone and didn't come clean on it and why they sold out to china. we thoroughly understand that they lied to us. cnn discovered that two weeks ago. and now we have details. here's a quote. china curbs on information about the outbreak started in early january. early january. that's before the novel coronavirus had even been identified definitively. the documents show this. when infections started spreading rapidly a few weeks

later the authorities clamped down on anything that cast china's response in too negative of a light. think about how the cdc had the wrong test. think about how we were told the wrong information. the things that we could have done to prepare us for the poisoning of the world, thanks to china. if this does not warrant a fiscal retribution, i don't know what does. >> well, yeah. i couldn't agree with you more, brian. and, look, remember, they kicked out our journalists. they have arrested their journalists. they have disappeared. we still don't know where they are. in addition to their doctors who were trying to inform the world. and then immediately, you know, influence its friends within the w.h.o. whose job was to make sure that the world is prepared. meanwhile, they are overseeing this army of bots and online cyber warriors that are spreading misinformation all over of the global internet. and one of the biggest pieces. one of the key parts of their campaign is making sure it was

not called the china virus or the wuhan virus. that we all kind of fell in to this bland covid-19, which we have. so they have been successful in that right. those of you was that were trying to remind the world and remind americans who started this and where this came from, were pillaried in the press why? because they wanted to make sure that the focus stayed on president trump in a campaign year all of this coming out after an election shouldn't be surprised whether it's it "new york times," cnn or others. china will pay. we had a task force in the house that was supposed to be republicans and democrats. speaker pelosi pulled her democrats at the last minute from participating looking across the board from the economy to the healthcare to the military because she said it distracted from the president trying to divert attention to china. the democrats have a real

problem with china and it's all getting wrapped into this. pete: colonel, you are so right. we have a massive china problem, yet, the examples, especially on the democrat side of the aisle, don't give any -- inspire any confidence for anybody. so you have got the potential president's son embroiled with the communist chinese, office mates with an energy company over there. take nancy pelosi's husband who does business in china. take dianne feinstein. all of these establishment elite members of the democrat party have personal, fiscal connections to cheap goods and business in china. what expectation can regular folks, workers in america, have that washington will actually step up and confront the communist chinese in a way that's beneficial to us, in a way that's meaningful? that is not a smoke screen? >> well, it's just one more reason we can't lose the senate and the republican party certainly has had a wake-up call. i have talked to a number of democrats who understand what's going on. democratic leadership has not

and some of these politicians that they are spotting and assessing early in their career, you know, they are not trying to put, you know, on the shoe shine committee. they are putting them on armed services. they are putting them on the intelligence committee. and others that they are influencing. look, at the end of the day, we -- the chinese communist party is in a cold war with the united states. we need a wake-up call across the country. and it need to be coming from their elected leaders. and i really fear it's not just those leaders that you pointed out, biden's son, look at some of his picks and some of these nominees for cabinet positions. and though all have bought into this notion that the rise of china is a peaceful thing. no problem. no big deal. nothing to see here. and that's exactly what president xi wants us to believe until it's too late. emily: we are just two years into this doj's china initiative, congressman, in which there were countless prosecutions and convictions of

chinese operatives espionage and sabotage here. so my question is do the american people, can they expect that this will be extinguished that under the incoming administration all of our formal counter terg efforts will be wind away? >> yeah, well, i'm certainly going to do everything in my power to not let that happen. remember, we have had the head of harvard arrested. professors at emory university, at texas a&m. the moffit cancer research center in florida. the department of justice has said they have dozens and dozens of individuals under investigation that have taken money from the department of defense, taken taxpayer grant funded research from health and human services, nih, and then they are shipping it wholesale over to beijing. and what beijing calls that is their civil mill program where they take these civilian technologies, materials, robotics, jet engines and flip

it right over to their military. guess what? now they are rolling out the most advanced stealth fighters, rockets missiles and others that look exactly like ours. i have very little confidence that a potential biden administration sees this for what it is and is going to aggressively go after it like the trump administration has and like the president has. whether it's closing down consulates that are serving as spy centers like he did in houston. putting people under investigation. the 400,000 chinese students that are here siphoning out, vacuuming up technology. this is across the board. brian: right. >> it's from wall street to nba to disney. you know, reportedly the head of disney is under consideration to go to beijing as the ambassador. we have really have to understand the depth and breadth of this. and i don't think the democrats are calling it out for what it is. they are not even close.

brian: they want wall street executives to help them out with the will trump administration. they changed hollywood. apple never has a critica critig to write in news service about them. taken our fighter jess. only thing you can see is the decal. can see is see the it will glue marks. probe looks like ours. are are push in the biden administration to use cooperation as we try to get to mars. he yeah, let's work with china. why make them hack when we can just share and bring them over to the office space. let's go make some keys. >> china has had more launches than the rest of the world, including the united states. brian: unbelievable. >> combined into space. that's why we need a space force to defend our assets up there. i'm not confident a biden administration will continue to support that either. brian: can i real quick on florida? you are in florida and been in d.c. and new york. the difference is florida's governor and their leadership is saying we know the dangers. live with it the best you can.

let the free market decide if your restaurant is going to be full and your beaches are going to be owmg. as opposed to new york, you are out of business. i've got your back, but i will destroy you along the way. how do you handle the criticism that's constantl constant consty coming florida's direction? >> the results speak for themselves. our schools have been open since back in august. thanks to the leadership of governor desantis. what he did was he took a fundamentally different approach. he said families, you make the decision. you've got an inschool option. you have a hybrid option. if have you someone that's vulnerable back at home, a grand parent, what have you. then you can have the virtual. he made families the decision maker for their lives. not government. not washington, d.c. or a state capital like cuomo is doing. that's the fundamental difference. business owners don't want to get people sick. they don't want to, you know, have to go out of business if that happens. so they are going to take appropriate measures.

we are taking an approach where we trust individual citizens with their liberties, with their health to make the right decisions. do you know what in the statistics are showing we are relatively flat despite being open when it comes to hospitals and comes to unfortunate deaths. not case numbers that the mainstream media likes to focus on. so that's just a very different approach, looking at individual liberty versus government mandate and government shutdown. and it comparatively, as we all fight through this, it's working. pete: it's called common sense and you have got a lot of it. congressman and concerning michael waltz thanks so much for being with us at the top of the hour. we appreciate it. >> i'm pushing for "fox & friends" florida. come on down. pete: i many a, too. brian: i know. wife have a bureau when you can have the whole company we are all in. pick a spot. appreciate it, sir. push it over to carley shimkus who has a few additional headlines. what do you think, florida?

carley: this tan doesn't come naturally. this was out of a battle. we need some natural sunshine in my life. brian: do it for carley's tan. it start your headlines with this an urgent manhunt underway for a suspect accused of shooting a pennsylvania police officer. checkpoints are set up across the area to find 22-year-old it will covey francis. he is accused of shooting the officer three times with a hidden gun he had outside the mckees port police station while in custody. the 32-year-old officer is thankfully in stable condition. on to extreme weather. the east coast is bracing for a storm christmas eve. now, that storm has potential to cause numerous hazards as it follows last week's nor'easter that killed seven and dropped 4. nearly 60 million people from charlotte to new york could be slammed by strong winds and freezing temperatures. vice president elect kamala harris is expected to campaign in georgia today for the

democratic senate candidates in the runoff elections. it comes after nikki haley made a stop in the peach state, campaigning with republican candidate kelly loeffler. >> the democratic party is not your grandparents' democratic party. they believe you defund the police and stop taking care of those that serve us. they believe that socialism is the new way of life. >> president trump heads to georgia next month for a last-minute rally for loeffler and david perdue. we will hear more from nikki haley when she joins us in our 8:00 a.m. hour. coming up. on to week 15 in the envelope. baker mayfield and the browns dominating the giants 20-6. as the jets get their first win of the season hupp setting the rams 23-20, unbleivelg. patrick mahomes and the chiefs spoiling drew breeze's return for the saints getting 32-29 win. in the nfc west the seattle seahawks clirging a playoff spot

with their win over washington 20-15. as their divisional faux, the cardinals beat the eagles to stay in the playoff picture themselves. and despite trailing 17 points by halftime, tom brady putting together another clutch comeback against the falcons. >> four man rush. brady airing it out. going deep. he's got it to antonio brown. >> while the stakes weren't as high as brady's come back against atlanta in super bowl 51. the 31-27 win puts tampa bay one step closer to their first playoff birth since 2007. those are your headlines guys. brian: bruce is not happy though. he said they played a terrible first half. pete: would you want to be in the path of the buccaneers in the playoffs. brian: certain bely have experience and hungry and not going to be intimidated. all right, carley, i didn't officially say goodbye to you. i will do it in the break.

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brian: as congress most forward with coronavirus relief package one upstate business owner isn't waiting for washington to come to the rescue. after put in place last month 10:00 bedi foia jr. headed south for the winter. now he has a new restaurant opening up in florida and he brought his new york team with him. he joins us now with the

restaurant big announcement the chat do you anna maria. congratulations buddy on the move. what was your breaking point? >> brian the making point was 10:00 p.m. closing. is you are losing food in your cooler. only so much you can do when you finally have to make a decision to spift and don't complain and move forward. you fortunately we had the resources and community in florida that my brother happens to live close by we reached out and made it happen. closing at 10 chock. have customers staffed by 8:00. two hour dining experience. we weren't going to do it. i wasn't going to waste any more food and refrigerators. brian: for people watching around the country you would be shocked how suffocating how 10:00 is. because if you work late at night and ge get out at 6 of:00 next thing you know people are handing you styrofoam boxes and sorry you have got to go around

9:45. guess who hurts? not only the owner, the bartender, the hostess, the waiters, the waitresses everyone down the line what am i working for the shift changes are enormous. do you think they realize this? >> i don't. i'm not saying they are making decisions to hurt us. i think the officials are -- they really don't know what to do about covid. when you don't know what to do in the situation you are making decisions that aren't rational. at the end of the day, unrealitying factor of the working folk is definitely hurting the decisions of those folk are definitely hurting the businesses. listen, my chefs goat their hours cut by two hours. bribe, we have got to be out of the restaurant and the door locked at 10:00. that includes cleaning. we are in the food business. we have hygiene. we have got to clean our surfaces and our kitchen and the floors, et cetera. that takes an hour and a half. so technically you are done cooking for your customers at 8:30, 9:00. so that just doesn't cut it. you can't even pay the electric bill on those hours. brian: how many of your

employees are going down south. >> we have about 15 of us. opened this past friday. about 5. i have half my kitchen crew counsel here. i did leave half of my kitchen crew to focus on our chat toe anna maria at home.com. they have friends while they can't spend a lot of time with them. we didn't want to move a lot of the families out of the area. buff we did mo our young staff and my main executive chef and my sue chef in about 5 to 10 are house servers. brian: people are preventing you from making a living under the guise of protecting you like you are a child. isn't that -- doesn't that get to the core of american capitalism? really, you are preventing me from working? >> for turn natalie my staff feels the same way. they don't want a stimulus check. they want to work and earn. i'm very blessed in that regard and have that same staff be motivating to me and my wife as

a partner to say, you know what? let's keep them employed. willing to move down there and push for 60 day opening. you know, it's offensive to not be able to be a business person an entrepreneur. that's our spirit. you know, and we feel as though we provide jobs. you provide a service by serving our country. do it in a business employing people and feeding families. take that passion away. i cannot live without it. and we decided to move to floridan that maria island at the water line that reap that in order to keep that passion or value system together. brian: buddy, how many cases have been traced back to your restaurant. >> 45,000 consumer touch points. june? through october. zero cases traced back to our restaurant. zero employees. college kids going back to college got tested, negative for covid. 45,000 customers. my family owns three restaurants in that town. we had over 100,000 customers lunch point. not a single covid case traced back to a single one of our

restaurants nor did our employees come down with this. brian: new york city the positive case point is under%. 1.04. the fifth largest causer of a spreader. people don't go to buddy's restaurant. they go to their house where 70% of all cases spread. it makes no sense. and they are also raising minimum wage. we all want people to make a lot of money. if you take buddy -- businessmen like buddy and make everyone get paid more, he hires less people. the shifts are adjusted at a time in which you have destroyed their businesses, you are demanding they pay everyone more. it is nuts. i'm so glad you are hopefully teaching new york a lesson by getting out. buddy, thanks so much. >> we'll be back there in the summertime though. thank you. brian: all right. good. still ahead, multiple coast vaccines hitting the market. which ones should americans opt for and will you get a choice? dr. marc siegel has the details. plus a black lives matter activist testimony turning

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you hear that?! the kids get twice the presents! [ cheering ] about time 2020 gave us some good news. whatever your business is facing... let's workflow it. servicenow. bribe brian first doses of moderna's covid-19 vaccine are expected at facilities nationwide today. it's pretty amazing. ashley strohmier is live outside a new york city hospital as america rolls out its second vaccine, ashley. >> yeah, it is. and almost six million doses of the no determine that vaccine shipped out from the center last night and expected at hospitals all across the u.s. today. new york actually is expected to get a little more than 350,000 doses just this week. moderna was authorized by the

fda three days ago. unlike pfizer vaccine this moderna vaccine can be shipped at the regular refrigerator temperatures for shipping. it comes as the deputy secretary of hhs says a third vaccine from johnson and johnson and jansen could be submitted for authorization as soon as next month even with a third vaccine joe biden's pick for surgeon general says it could be time before most of us could get the shot. listen. >> if everything goes well, we may see a circumstance late spring, you know, people who are in lower risk categories can get this vaccine, but that would really maybe closer to mid summer, early fall when this vaccine makes its way to the general population. >> now, of course, healthcare workers will be the first to get this vaccination, this vaccine and then first responders like the new york fire department nypd and emts also keep in mind. president-elect joe biden and

his wife jill are set to publicly get the pfizer vaccine today. back to you guys. brian: thanks so much, ashley. meanwhile, let's bring in fox news contributor dr. mark seale. dr. siegel, i'm stunned. we got this vaccine, even anthony fauci says by the spring we should really be will seeing things begin to go back to normal. and this new incoming surgeon general says no, maybe by the summer? really? quo. >> it's brian, i think that's speculation. i think that we have to put our eyes on what's actually been happening, which is we got almost 3 million doses of the pfizer vaccine out last week and now this week 6 million. just heard 6 million of the moderna and another 2 million of the pfizer. by christmas see over 10 million doses out there. that's in just a couple of weeks. so i don't think you could sit there and say well, it's going to take until the summer. at this rate we should have 45 million people vaccinated by even before the spring. by january, probably.

based on what the centers for disease control is saying on friday. get the healthcare workers vaccinated. get those in nursing homes vaccinated. get everybody over the age of 75 vaccinated and all frontline workers. including police, firemen, postal workers, teachers, all of these people are going to be vaccinated probably by january. and then we can start moving to the general population. i think he is being incredibly conservative there on this. emily: doctor, the great news is that we have a ton of vaccines coming out. but foufor americanswatching doe which vaccine we take and if so which should we choose? >> emily, great question. but you know what? i'm pretty convinced these vaccines are almost identical the moderna and pfizer. dr. fauci told me pretty much the same. all the experts are saying all the vaccine experts. i will tell you why the technology is the same. here's what's different. the moderna as you just heard

can be sent around refrigerator temperatures and kept in your refrigerator for 30 days and in prefilled vials. and then have it out for 12 hours. guess what that fits? it fits a doctor's office. it fits a clinic. it fit a pharmacy. it fits a smaller facility. you will see the moderna vaccine given out in places where you wouldn't want the pfizer vaccine to go. pfizer vaccine will be in the big hospitals and the big centers. the other issue that we are looking at is the issue of allergy. now, you have seen a lot of publicity over a couple of severe allergy cases. for the vast majority of people, and i mean millions, there is no concern whatsoever. but we asked a question on the pfizer vaccine have you had a severe allergic reaction? could you be allergic to one of the ingredients? we haven't seen he that at all on the moderna vaccine at this point. are. >> much have been made which ones should get the vaccine on camera, should or shouldn't

they. asked whether the president should get the vaccine. here is what he said? >> do you have plans to have president trump get a shot in the arm on camera? >> from a scientific point of view, i will remind people that the president has had covid within the last 90 days. he received the monoclonal antibodies that is actually one scenario where we tell people maybe you should hold off on getting the vaccine. talk to your health provider to right time. >> that doesn't make you immune. >> there is a medical reason. >> that doesn't make you immune. are. pete: listen to the tone on that. let's do the flip side on how the media now attacks the vice president for getting the vaccine. watch this. >> mike pence is expected to get. [laughter] first of two pfizer shots tomorrow. maybe save that dose for somebody else. the only cure mike pence should get right now is a bottle of clorox and a heat lamp. >> let's start with mike pence who started his day at the gun show getting his vaccine against the virus that he assured us was

under control six months ago, bearing his arms before a nation that hadn't asked to see them. >> all sure all americans are excited to see me, the by who let covid spread everywhere get one of the first vaccines. [laughter] >> doctor, what do you even say? >> well, first of all, pete, i like the vice president's sense of humor. secondly, he is sending a message to the public on compliance. i'm more wondering about all the democrats that are taking it in the halls of congress that don't qualify. i mean, vice president is 61 years old. he is sending a message to older americans. as far as the president is concerned. he told me on camera at the end of july he will take it when they tell him to take it. and he has said the same thing recently. you know why he is not taking it, the surgeon general said he should wait. cdc says wait 90 days, especially if you have had the monoclonal antibodies he has had. pete, the vaccine is going to react with those monday toe chrome mall antibodies you don't

want to take it for 90 days after you have had covid and antibodies the regeneron and lily product. also, he does have some immunity. we haven't figured out how much. but to continue to say that you don't get any immunity at all after you have had the virus is really disingenuous. so, for all those reasons, he is right to weigh -- i think you will see him get it in january. brian: i hope so too. if you have this ask for will will e. lily's version of regeneron they spread it around the country and these doctors, not you, are not recommending it to people and it keeping you out of the hospital. i can't believe the patient has to walk in and say can i try some of this? have you checked your refrigerator? it might be there. >> no, it's useful. brian. it's very useful. we have criteria for using it. i have given it to patients. i have seen it work. i think it decreases the amount of virus you have. and it decreases your risk of symptoms in a lot of cases. it's very valuable and should be used more. brian: dr. siegel, we are going to use you more. thanks so much for joining us

this morning. >> thank you, guys have a good morning. brian: let's change gears. black lives matter activist turned u.s. congressman elect corey bush has been chosen to serve on the powerful house judiciary committee. pete: referred to as the latest member of the squad saying, quoted, are every time i step into that committee room i will bring with me the power of my lived experience of having been unhoused, stomped by the police. and forced to live paycheck to paycheck. will. emily: joining us now fox news analyst lawrence jones. good morning, lawrence. thanks for joining us today. >> merry christmas. emily: tell us your thoughts on the new congresswoman elect she says life earns examine for legal or work experience for the judiciary committee? >> i first met the congresswoman elect when i was covering the mike brown story in fergz. that was one of my stories to report on. she has community support.

she unseated someone in congress for 20-plus years. before that his father had that seat. so this is just showing you that politics is local. she was a regular activist marching the street and the people sent her there to fight for them i think where it's going to be problem that the particular is the ideas she is proposing take local support and really the country is going to givagainst knows ideas like defd the police. nancy pelosi wanted her on that powerful judicial committee hot not so much so so i lens her but get her out of her hairs. pete: where do ideas come from? oftentimes they come from the classroom. >> correct. pete: there is a fancy school? new york city called the dalton school pay $50,000 to send your first grader faculty there now a dozen of them have signed what they are called anti-racist manifesto to the school. part of the demands are you must pay the student be debt of black faculty. there will be 12 full-time

diversity officers in the school want to teach black will theology in the classroom. some parents are reviolating on this. but isn't this just indicative of where education is going? >> you know. it's been going that way, pete, for a long time. when i ran campus reform. i used to come on here and rant about how terrible it wasn't just the college campuses but it's actually happening at home. one of the ideas was to get rid of high level courses if black folks don't do so well in those courses by the year 2023. that is the most condescending statement that they could sign on to. instead of trying to improve the course, training the style that they teach the course, they just want to get rid of it. it is will essentially implies that black folks are dumb and can't do the work. and so i think the community should be outraged by.

this this is a private school. they will be able to get away with this. but it just shows you that this is now mainstream. they also talk about hiring 12 diversity staff. i used to report on that for campus reform. these people do absolutely nothing. but they end up making six figures. so, again, we ask the question why people are now starting to get these diversity degrees or when you look at harvard university, where because of affirmative action they started targeting asian-american students when it was meant to bring everybody and now they are targeting different segments of the american population. this is why. and it's no longer as i said before, it's not just colleges anymore. this is happening at home with your tax dollars. brian: here is what the dalton school said what is erroneously being referred to as faculty demand is in fact a set of thought starters created this summer by a subset of a faculty and staff responding to dalton's commitment to become an anti

racist institution. while dalton prides itself as a leader and offer honest debate how to meaningfully bring these it principles to life the school does not support all the language or action it contains. feel better? >> they will do so much damage to these kids. the household i grew with up in, a black household. taught us we were kings and go out there and do anything. that if you had competition, to destroy them, to double down and work harder. this is not what they are teaching. this is coddling. this is destroying a generation of people. this is not what most black american families teach their kids at home and i just think it's so condescending, it is going to be harmful to the culture. and with respect to the changing of history, it is one thing to say that we have missed the mark as a country in certain in the past. teach all of history. don't go in there and start creating this revisionist history.

i think that is also going to be problematic. pete: we are already seeing it absolutely in classrooms across the country. we have seen it layered bear before us especially this year. real quick, how do we get rid of this emphasis of race making everything about race? how do you start to unwind that? because that's what this is all about? >> pete, i don't know if we can get rid of it. i mean, right now this has become a money-making business. i'm not going to lie and say that race hasn't impacted certain americans in the past. witbut, at the end of the day, u are looking at a 28-year-old black man on the highest rated morning program and i have been here for five years at fox news. the youngest of an other networ. only in america that could happen. my momma had me at 16. my dad was in my life. fought for the american freedom. fought for the american dream. and that is what america can be. not saying that there is not struggles and hurdles, but as my dad constantly tells me, you hop over those hurdles, you don't

use them as a crutch. you destroy the competition. and it makes for a cool story. brian: and you are doing it. you are working through the hurdles. >> thanks, brother. i appreciate it. brian: all right. thanks, lawrence. appreciate you. pete: thank you, sir. brian: have a great holiday but i'm sure i will talk to you in between. straight ahead, he has ordered some of the strictest lock downs in the can country and caught breaking his own rules. gavin newsom has a recall effort on his hands. we speak to one of the organizers leading that charge next ♪ ♪ that change will do you good ♪ that change will do you good ♪ enjoy flexible payment options and savings when it matters most. we're here to make your smile shine bright

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fight for his political life. and dense moore is the campaign manager and finance manager of rescue california republican group. thank you for joining us today. >> good morning. thank you for having me. >> tell us a little bit about those recall efforts and how it's going there in california. >> well, it's going great. they have got about 850,000 signatures. we just went in the mail with about a 1.5 million petitions directly to republican voters and we think we are going to be able to bring it home sooner rather than later. emily: tell us the difference between the messaging and the method you are hearing really what's going on on boots on ground there. >> it's amazing. i think, with all due respect to willie brown, who i have had the pleasure of working with, he is a great guy. but i believe in that release he said if he could just open the schools that everything would be okay and help survive.

i don't know how you divide the eed scam which i'm sure sure you heard the estimates went from 400 million lost to brings and inmates to 4 billion to 8 billion. i don't know how you survive that i don't know how you survive all the things he has done roll blackouts. now heading into one of the strictest shutdowns in the country. last week it was going to end -- willie brown is kicking your tires like he is gavin newsom. you are in trouble in the party leadership knows it. >> ann, i'm a long-time californian. i lived in san francisco under mayor then gavin newsom. the relate is there is a machine behind him. he has been groomed for frankly decades now. he is the geties behind him. a lot of prominent democrats that provide a lot of power behind him. it's not just about his

performance right now. so my question to you is, is this movement enough to surmount this backing that he has, that a lot of voters might not be aware of? >> i think he need to start making amends and i will take the citizens of california and what they have been through and put them up against any kind of machine he has behind him. any day of the week. and if he's going to rest and sit back thinking that that is going to save him, he is going to lose. anybody who thinks that and ignores what's going on on the ground. you know what it's like. you want to close the beaches in southern california, you will have a fight on your hands and he has a fight on his hands. he ignores the grassroots. the more the better for us what is your action item for viewers much watching from california right now. >> pull down the petition. go to rescue ca 2021.com. pull it down. read the directions, and sign

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i think we both know the answer to that. always look for the grown in idaho seal. side dish? brian: all right. here we go. we gyp with a fox news alert. lawmakers reach a bipartisan break through, finally, a vote expected today on the $900 billion coronavirus package. it's aid that we needed and i think it's a long time in coming. and they seem to have worked out their differences. but i'm not going to believe it until i'm able to toss to kristin fisher live in washington with the new deal. those are my colleagues but now to kristin. >> good morning. this deal it really could not come soon enough. just days before so many of the existing coronavirus relief measures were set to expire on january 1st. so, let's take a look. a bit more of a deep dive into what exactly is in this coronavirus relief package. you've got $600 stimulus checks. those direct deposit that you have heard so much about.

$300 per week in enhanced unemployment insurance for 11 weeks. 319 billion for small businesses. including 284 billion for loans given through the paycheck protection program. and then you have got 25 billion in rental assistance and an extension of the eviction moratorium. one big thing you will notice that is not in that package, funding for state and local governments which democrats wanted. >> sadly our third purpose to honor our heroes was not fully appreciated by our republican colleagues. and so our support for state and local government, while significant in this legislation, requires more to be done. >> even though the republicans were relentless against it, we found other ways to aid the states. so the states will get at least some of the aid they need. >> when we get this done, congress will not deserve any special praise, not with this relief having waited until late

december. and not with some of our democratic colleagues openly saying the reason they finally changed their tune was they finally got a president-elect of their own party. >> over on the other side of pennsylvania avenue, the white house is saying we look forward to congress sending a bill to his desk. the president's desk immediately for signature. now, congress is planning to attach the final relief bill to an omnibus deal that must pass before the holidays. that's a plan both chambers passed one more day before this combined package of a government shutdown. brian, i'm with you. hard to believe until the president actually signs on the dotted line, but some great news for so many americans. it definitely appears they are one more big step closer who. brian: this is how my ei was both sides would say one thing nice with each other maybe during the week it would come apart. right away they started talking smack to each other.

last night after they cut a deal. pete: 10 minutes. >> just because it's the week of christmas doesn't mean the two sides on capitol hill are going to start saying nice things about each other. did not want to do anything which would help recalling donald trump. she thought it was to her political advantage not to pass this before the presidential election. second, the democrats were desperate to get additional money for their government employee union allies and the big states: they couldn't get it and in the end they gave up. i suspect they will try to come

back under biden. that's why they are so desperate, for example, in georgia. because if the republicans win those two seats, it's very unlikely that tax money is going to go from georgia to prop up new york or california or illinois. on the other hand, if the democrats win in georgia. then i think it's very likely. and mayor de blasio indicated this when he said he wouldn't introduce his city budget for new york until after the georgia election because he wanted to wait and see whether or not he could get more money out of washington. it was that straightforward. i think that's part of what is going on. the other thing people need to recognize, even at $900 billion, they couldn't say anything nice about each other? because the gap is that wide. the disagreements are that deep this is not going to go away. this wasner a personality thing about donald trump. this is a fundamental division in america about what kind of country we are. >> i just keep thinking how there is not enough coal a count

for all of the hill. speaker, to your first point, we want to show you a sound clip of speaker pelosi yesterday and then something that she said on december 4th. and i think what is so hard to stomach for the average american watching and for the average american watching their small business close, that it is so hard to symptom the audacity, the transparency of these politicians who are politicizing exactly those reasons that you just stated which is their strategy above americans needs. take a listen and we will get your feedback. is because we could not get our republican colleagues to crush the virus. why would they not want to invest in the science that has told us so importantly that it required testing, tracing, treatment, separation, sanitation. joe biden committed to ending and crushing the virus.

what was then before was not more of this. this is -- has simplicity. it's what we have had in our bills. it's for a shorter period of time. but that's okay now because we have a new president. emily: your thoughts? >> look, i think she was frankly being pretty candid. she is counting on coming back in january or february or march with a president biden applying pressure. the problem she has got is kevin mccarthy's strategy of recruiting broadly and running on a positive commitment to america has cut her margin in the house dramatically, and if the republicans do keep the two seats in georgia, they are not going to get anything like she wants through the congress, let alone signed by a president biden. but there is a deeper part of this. the democrats are so indebt to the government employee unions that they have to crush small business in order to take care

of their government employee allies. that's what they are going to do. that's what you have seen in california. that's what you see in new york. that's what you see in illinois. this is a clear pattern where the democrats are desperate to get money for their government union allies and are willing to punish any business that gets in their way. brian be brian that's what that whole climate push is about. he talks about bringing good union jobs to climate research and transitioning off fossil fuels. i also wonder when it comes to this package what about landlords. they are not terrible people. they took out big loans in order to buy building and rent to other people. recall rent people out of money because of these politicians. are the banks going to let the landlords off the hook? do people understand how this works? i would like to see that this did not happen from leadership, mr. speaker. this happened because manchin got together with chris coons and marchkowski

and collins and then romney this started from the middle up. does that matter? it matters some. problem man shin is going to find he is in a very left wing caucus and that caucus wants to do things that frankly west virginians don't want. and so it will be interesting to watch and see how that plays out deeper point is once the presidential election was over, that was always going to get easy to get done. they could have done this six weeks ago. they could have saved an immense amount of pain for small businesses and for workers. but pelosi and the democrats were determined to not allow donald trump to have any victories and, you know, she talks about investing in science. we just had the most extraordinary achievements in vaccines in history. they were all done by president trump. they were all laughed at when he said it could be done.

and i think that it just -- in the long run, history will record that president trump, in fact, aggressively usinged science combined with where entrepreneurial businesses to get breakthroughs that people thought was impossible. pete: mr. speaker you know a lot about committee assignments and how people land on certain committees. there has been a lot of questions about representative eric swalwell after he is known to have a relationship with a chinese spy that was revealed the spy fled and has been on the committee and has been for almost 8 years. we know about this all now. and kevin mccarthy and others on the intel committee were able to receive a briefing from the fbi about swalwell and those connections. here is a portion of what representative mccarthy said after being in on that fbi briefing. >> it was a very thorough briefing. no one that was in that room could walk out and say eric swalwell should be on the intel

committee. the challenge is leaders of both parties are the people who select to go on the intel committee. that is why, today, maria. every single member on the house intelligence committee gets the exact same briefing from the fbi that i did. if this individual sitting on this committee, eric swalwell, they have got to know the background of what has gone on. pete: mr. speaker, is this something that reaches outside of the conservative sphere, which is really the only place talking about it in some ways right now, the "new york times" hasn't spent one drop of ink even talking about the story. does nancy pelosi have a tough choice in front of her or will she skate on this keeping him on the committee? >> no, look. i think this is going to get bigger and bigger and bigger. you have to start with the fact that the chinese communist dictatorship is our most dangerous competitor. has a massive program underway to penetrate the united states from ar universities to spies to economic advantage.

it's an amazingly powerful effort on their part. and swalwell is part of that i mean, frankly, having been be speaker, having chosen people to be on the intelligence committee, i wonder what swalwell's holding over nancy pelosi. because, remember, she appoints him to this committee after the fbi has briefed her. it's not like he was on the committee and she this to take him off. she never had to put him on. you have to ask yourself, why would the speaker of the house pick somebody who the fbi said had had a long relationship with a chinese spy? i mean, this is just sort of crazy. and i think it's part of, as the country gets more and more aware of you who dangerous china is, things like this are going to become utterly unacceptable just as hunter biden's business dealings in china are going to to become totally unacceptable. by the way senator feinstein driver head of the intelligence

committee in the senate. and the democrats just seem to be oblivious to protecting the united states from the chinese communist dictatorship and swalwell is just one example out of many. emily: mr. speaker, we wanted to get your thoughts as well on another committee that is the energy and commerce of which alexandria ocasio-cortez will not be a member. there was a 46-13 voted against her. and the question was this revenge of the democrat moderates. i think what it reflects is will she went around thinking that she had somehow been elected as a legislative goddess and she attacked her fellow democrats. she ran people in primaries. she was constant noisy gab fly. that all looks terrific on television. looks terrific in social media. but legislative bodies are very,

very tough. and will inside a legislative body they have ways of getting even. and i think frankly it was partly that she is too radical. but mostly she is just too nasty. and i think this was a personal repudiation of her. and i will be curious to see how she deals with it. 46-13 is not a good sign for her future career. and i suspect has weakened her extraaticly. extra dramatically. she wanted to run against schumer in the democratic primary for the senate in 2022. i think this repudiation will make it very hard for her to put together a senate primary against the minority leader in the senate. brian: more than 1.3 million georgians have already voted in the senate run off elections. according to nate silver of 538 will. he says according to him that he has been very accurate in georgia. basically two flat footed ties. what's going to be the

difference here as the president says he will go down again to help out? will. >> i think the difference is, first of all, turnout. and, second, the degree to which the message about raphael warnock's extraordinary radicalism reaches the average georgian. the polls i have seen that i trust which have been more accurate frankly than silver would indicate that we are ahead by two or three points in both races. ossoff is very radical, warnock is the most radical candidate nominated by a major party in my lifetime. but also i get a sense talking to people who are on the ground that the will turnout is actually better for us than it was in november. and we just have to keep pushing and make sure, you know, my message to conservatives is simple. email, call, tweet, whatever, every person you know in georgia and make sure they vote. if every conservative vote, we will win these two seats and as we were just talking about, this

is decisive. this is the most important runoff in american history. it will decide who runs the senate. and the difference between schumer and pelosi trying to pay off the government unions everywhere in the country. and having a mitch mcconnell in the senate and a kevin mccarthy in the house of house difference in the country will be dramatic depending on the outcome of the georgia run off. brian: it's impossible to year state it. chad pergram just sent us this. these are our capitol hill reporter best in the business. he says here we go again. we still don't have the bill text to this coronavirus bill. the rules committee may not meet until 10:00 eastern. this delays the timing and passage of the bill in the house and the senate. so they still don't have their act together. even though they had -- they said they had the framework of a deal on friday. just real quick on this? >> if we were serious, which we are not. ing you would have to -- a bill of this size with this much

money would have to take a week or more. members are going to vote blindly. they will have no idea what they're voting for. iif you're leadership that's terrific you get to put in whatever you want to. if you are an average member you just got run over by the system. you will have no knowledge of what's in this bill. and for some lobbyist, it is, you know, the great payday. i mean, they will slip some paragraph in there that will justify them getting paid by their clients for the next 20 years. it's a terrible, terrible way to legislate. and it's something which i deeply disprove of and i think is a real -- again, the the will will will power line the leaders are the more they can do. it's a really bad way to run a legislative body. brian: newt gingrich, thank you. >> thank you. pete: thank you, mr. speaker. emily: thank you so much. insight as always so invaluable. all right. guys, time for headlines with carley shimkus. good morning, carley.

carley: that's right. urgent manhunt underway for a suspect accused of shooting a pennsylvania police officer. checkpoints are set up across the areas to find 22-year-old covey francis. francis is accused of shooting the officer three times with a hidden gun he had outside the mckee'sport police station while in custody. the 32-year-old officer is in stable condition. on to extreme weather. the east coast is bracing for a storm on christmas eve. the storm has potential to cause numerous hazards as it follows last week's that killed seven and dropped 44 inches of snow. nearly 6 of 0 million people from charlotte to new york could be slammed by strong winds and freezing temperatures. it tiger woods' son is proving to be a chip off the old block. watch this. >> putt. good putt. well done.

>> well, we have seen a few of those. haven't we? >> we sure have. charlie intimidating his dad's signature fist pump after sinking a birdie putt. the pair dressed in sunday reds, of course, finishing the pnc championship in seventhth place. clearly he looks up to dad. it doesn't get much better than that. brian: that is fantastic. pete: i love it. brian: i remember earl woods said when he used to get punished they used to prevent him from playing golf. that would be the way to punish him. that's how much he loved to practice. i wonder if the son is the same way. thank you, carley. pete: second amendment advocates sounding the alarm on joe biden cabinet picks many of whom voice support for gun control. some of it very radical in the past. how far could they go in an incoming administration? we will ask attorney and gun rights activist coal lion noir coming up next.

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emily: welcome back. exactly what impact will a biden administration have on the gun industry? we know that he wants to largely ban assault weapons and has proposed yfl background checks. and looking at his cabinet, at least five of his picks have supported gun control in the past. here to discuss is attorney and gun rights activist coal lion noir. good morning. thank you for joining us today. >> thanks for having me. emily: you say that this president-elect is probably the most anti-second amendment president-elect in history.

tell us why. >> well, if you look at what he has done throughout the campaign, he is literally run on the idea of restricting your second amendment rights. i can't think of any possible potential presidential hopeful who has said over and over again i beat the nra and do it again. he has run on the idea of mandatory gun buy backs. run on the idea of removing immunity that the gun industry has from frivolous lawsuits that literally would sink the industry if that wasn't in place. i can't think of anybody else from presidential potential presidential standpoint who has done or said these things. so, in my mind, he is absolutely one of the most anti-second amendment people. potentially going to be our president here in this country. emily: speaking of comments, his cabinet picks as well have spoken vociferously about it xavier becerra are not in common use for lawful purposes like self-defense. dr. i have ventricle murphy says guns are a healthcare issue. susan rice says the nra has brought too many -- has bought

it too many members of congress and pete buttigieg we must hold the gun industry accountable-eye honestly it doesn't surprise me and the rest of the gun community. because we have been battling this for decades however for a lot of the new gun owners they need to understand that they have been doing this for a while now. they fight holistically. they don't just come in the front door they attack at all angles make it a healthcare issue or non-other relative issue as long as it's going towards their goal towards restricting your second amendment rights they are going to do it. not just a political war. not just a legal war. it's also a culture war. and they understand that. it was eric holder former a.g. for obama. he even said it for himself. we need to brainwash people about guns in this country. this is a cultural battle.

i implore all of the new gun owners out there who may have even voted for biden to understand that this isn't just you can go out and buy a gun and then all of the sudden your rights are protected. that's not how this works. have you got to be vigilant about protecting your rights because the people that you may have voted for or not have voted for, there are tons of those people out there who are literally trying to restrict your rights because, as far as they see it, the only person who should have any power to protect anyone is the government. and you should not have that ability yourself. emily: speaking of a culture war in this holiday season is when children are asking for gifts. here in hempstead, new york, this it will town is holding a toy gun exchange they are suggesting that kids surrender toy guns, water pistols toys that could per at the time united states violence the village has come out in favor of this toy gun exchange the school board president will join the new york toy gun exchange. they have said that they will announce this exchange of toy

guns. they promote it. what are your thoughts on, this stir? >> i think it's utterly ridiculous but speaks to the very way that they have been approaching gun violence be in this country for the longest time now. close to 80%, if not more of the gun violence in this country comes from a very particularized area of this country. i assure you it was not because they were growing up with toy guns when they were kids. its is a socioeconomic issue that they don't want to deal with what they deal is project out. get rid of the toy guns to eliminate the idea of violence from our child's mind. again, culture war. it's not about saving lives. it's about shifting the culture about second amendment and the ability to protect yourself in this country so that it forces to you rely on the government. because, by and large, these are people who see that the government should have the absolute power in these positions and that's what they will continue to do over and over and over again. so we have got to be vigilant about fighting back against this. let your voicing be heard. go out.

send letters to representatives and people in congress. at the end of the day, we do have the power to stop these things? we do. emily: colion noir, such a strong advocate. thank you, sir, for joining us today. >> absolutely. thanks for having me. >> still ahead, team biden dodging a growing list of questions over hunter's business dealings overseas. is it possible joe biden knew more than he is letting on. peter schweizer breaks down what we know and when we knew it next. plus, president trump putting patriotism back in our nation's schools. and our next guest says this is important now more than ever. charlie kirk, member of the 1776 commission is on deck. ♪ ♪

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♪ pete: an exclusive private school in new york city is facing major backlash over a so-called anti-racist manifesto signed by dozens of faculty members. the dalton school is pushing 8 pages of proposals to overhaul the staff and curriculum. this as president trump appoints new members to the 1776 commission promoting patriotic education. charlie kirk is a member of the 1776 commission and executive director of turning point u.s.a. he is a busy man right now but taking time to join us. get to your conference in florida in a moment for sure. i want to get your take on the dalton school and this letter that these teachers have advanced. here is a quick set of boilt points of some of the demands they are making. they want racial equity task force. reshape the curriculum to critical race theory. antiblack racism studies.

family training programs. it goes on and on and on, charlie. is this type of stuff as commonplace -- is it more commonplace than people realize. >> it's commonplace and incredibly trust. i'm so honored that the president appointed me to the 1776 commission where where the focus of the commission will be to restore patriotic education in our schools and our school system. critical race theory, the 161 project, nicole hanna jones, all of this very anti-american thinking, writing, literature and curriculum is now widespread in schools across the country. when i walk parents through exactly what critical race theory is, many of them don't believe it. they say there is no way my kids are learning that go read what your third, fourth, and fifth grader is being taught. go into the textbooks. you will be stunned to realize that your fifth grader might be being taught right now that there are racists just by their existence. they are being taught that our entire system is in need of

revolution to be able to get rid of systemic racism and the idea of the 1776 commission is to focus on the founding of our country that a year after the founding of our country in 1777er vermont abolished slavery on their own. our country was founded on freedom and liberty and pursuit of being a better nation. not this hyper fixation as the left tries to have it on the worst aspects of our history. we are not going to ignore them by the way, pete. we understand america has fallen short many times. however, to label america as anything left than the greatest ever will. disservice to everyone that has sacrificed for this nation and quite honestly how incredible the history of our country has been. pete: absolutely. the question is how. how do you undo it, charlie when you have the curriculum and unions and such powerful interest behind driving this critical race narrative? you are on the commission. you are charged with putting out some of these solutions. what do they look like? >> well, first, i think that the president establishing this commission will go down as one

of the most important long-term initiatives of his presidency. when it comes to domestic policy. the president is going to have many long-term things that he is going to be able to say that he really changed the landscape on, especially when it comes to china and the middle east. when it comes to domestic policy, nothing is more important, pete, than making sure the next generation has shared history, understanding of our culture, and also an appreciation of why we are the greatest country are to exist. to your question of you who we are going to do it, still formulating a lot of those plans. i believe firmly that there are many teachers out there that not even from a political perspective are looking are to the curriculum and the backing to be able to talk about how thomas jefferson, george washington, some respects in some regards also heroes in heroes in others. to talk about abraham lincoln is a hero to this country. pete, just last week a san francisco high school decided to get rid of the name of abraham lincoln because, according to the article that i read, it was so stunning i couldn't believe

that it wasn't irony it's because black lives did not sufficiently matter to him. you can't have a country if this continues, pete. this is exactly why this commission is so important because our history is one worthy of study and appreciation and i can't wait to get started on this, would and the president deserves all the credit. pete: it's very, very important work. you are a busy man charlie kirk. it's day three of your conference down there. real quick, we don't have much time. you had a show down with the county there because they didn't want to let everyone in to the event. how has that worked out? >> well, we are still proceeding accordingly with our event. i wish they would let every one of our students. in we are thankful they are letting us host the event at all. look, we have thousands and thousands of young people from all across the country here that are responsibly celebrating our country thrill and they're ready for action and i think you are coming here soon, pete, so we are looking forward to that. pete: see you soon, charlie. always an amazing event. we appreciate it. thank you. all right. >> brian. teleprompter says it's your

turn. pete: you got it. joe biden avert attention away from the scrutiny around his son hunter around a federal investigation into his taxes which he confirmed by the way. growing evidence of his overseas dealings. pete: biden's incoming press secretary vowing he will not discuss the probe with potential ag candidates as text messages raise new questions about the bidens' ties to china. emily: when exactly did all of this begin? here to break it down fort timeline is peter swirs, president of the government accountability institute. welcome, peter, good morning to you. >> good morning. emily: so tell us about this timeline, break it down for viewers exactly what happened. >> yeah. i mean, here's the key thing. the bidens really had no commercial ties to china or the chinese government until joe biden became vice president. in 2010, hunter biden, who had just recently set up a small boutique investment firm chastles to china. and he gets meetings with the

equivalent of the head of the federal reserve, the treasury secretary, the head of jp morgan, the head of goldman sachs, all the big hitters in china. he meets with all of those chinese officials. even though he has no experience and no background in private equity or in china. then, a couple years later he talks to a guy named jonathan li who is involved with a government investment fund. and they event actually form something called bohi harvest. that deal is sealed in deals of 2013. ironically, less than 10 days after hunter biden accompanies his father on air force 2 to beijing, china. it shows the intermingling between politics and the commercial deals that the bidens were cultivating in beijing, china. brian: so all of a sudden as this story moves on in 2015 in comes tony bobulinski because they need somebody with that international experience. he obviously was wealthy before.

he was recruited. in and you hear about that recruiting process through the bobulinski interview. there was a bit of a two year gap and seemed to pick up pace in august of 2017 because money starts being exchanged that's the fec $20 million to the biden trrm entity called hudson west. >> that's right. this is very porpoise. because it shows another example. ing chinese government pohi harvest. another deal with cefc chinese company. linked to people's liberation army. this is well known. also known that cefc is a corrupt company. and, yet, this is the company that the bidens decide to do a deal with. the $5 million is sent. ' and to just show you how close this relationship is, there are emails, messages from hunter

biden talking about setting up an office where his mother, his father, he and executives from cefc are going to be sharing of the same exact office space. shows how cozy this relationship is. pete: peter, they think there is nothing wrong with it because that's just the way washington, d.c. works. you do business overseas. seriously, peter, you have written books about this. books about corruption. have you ever seen be a more clear cut case? you said it right out of the gate no commercial ties overseas until biden becomes vice president and then you open the flood gates and the money starts flowing. have you ever seen anything more corrupt and clear cut? >> no, i haven't. and i have never seen something so brazen. let's keep in mind here, china really for under president xi over the last 8 to 10 years has announced that it is our chief rival. they want to surpass us in military capability. they want to surpass our economy by 2049. they are ambitious and spoken

about it. these are the entities that the vice president's family, joe biden's family decided to do business with. i mean, it's really stunning. they are not doing deals in the u.k. or in japan or in brazil. they are doing deals in china with chinese government entities. astounding and something i have never seen on this scale before. are pete. emily: peter, you talked about the severity. you are head of the government accountability institute. what do you predict for accountability, if any, with this particular thing? >> well, here's the problem. i think there is a lot of people that want the hunter biden thing to go away. because it shines a spotlight in an area that's a problem for a number of people. i think that what we need is we need an independent council because, look, right now, there is u.s. attorney in delaware looking into the hunter biden tax issues and related issues involving corruption. that u.s. attorney can and probably will be fired by an incoming biden administration.

he has the right to do so. presidents do it all the time. you need and independent council to make sure that this gets fully investigated because, otherwise, people are going to further lack confidence in the institution of government in washington, d.c. you cannot expect the department of justice to investigate the most powerful man in the world. that would be joe biden, and his family. that's why we need an independent council. brian: and probably one of the most noteworthy moments of this whole investigation is when hunter biden walks in to a local computer repair shop, mac repair shop with a water logged computer and says hey, can you fix it? forgot he left it there. he takes ownership of it and on it is everything that you discussed backing up a book that you did two years ago. so, that is empirical evidence that if you decided to forward that before the election, your count was frozen. people who are clear-thinking and not so blindly partisan, should understand exactly what

happened here. hunter provided the proof that made everyone who cover for him look foolish. >> that's exactly right, brian. and key. we have the evidence, we have the communications. among the communications will is the hunter biden laptop indicate that he was paying his mother's and father's bills. and that's hugely important because what that shows is he was taking in this foreign money, which nobody now can really dispute. and according to hunter biden's own testimony, he was using some of that money to pay expenses for his parents. what that shows is that joe biden, vice president of the united states, was a direct beneficiary of his son's commercial activities with the chinese. so, he can't plausible deny and say i didn't know about this. i didn't benefit. hunter biden himself proves that it was the case. brian: pete, i'm going to add this. if you have a substance abuse problem, the worst thing can you do is put yourself under undue

stress. his family knows he has these problems and put all this stress on his shoulders to set up high wire business deals with many so of the most evil emperors and corrupt regimes in the world. it's unbelievable. don't tell me that's good parenting. thanks, peter, appreciate it. pete: thank you, peter. he is now an artist now. brian: that's right. he has found he has appear art show coming up. you are right, pete. i did not know that. pete: i'm here to remind you. straight ahead, lawmakers set to green light a 900 billion-dollar covid relief package today. can struggling businesses finally expect a lifeline? it's something that congressman dan crenshaw for. will congressman is coming up. ♪ ♪

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brain brian looking live at capitol hill where lawmakers are expected to vote on be $900 billion covid-19 relief package. there is still no text of the bill yet. this is fed up business owners say they have waited far too long. >> i think the officials really don't know what to do about covid. and when you don't know what to do about decisions are will

irrational. will hurting. losing food in walk-in cooler. there is only so much to do when you finally have to make a decision to pivot and just don't complain. move forward. brian: and he's talking about the 10:00 curfew and the shutdowns without any notice. our next guest has insisted any bill include relief for restaurants like those restaurants. texas g.o.p. congressman house budget committee member dan crenshaw joins us. congressman, how pleased, 1 to 10, are you with what you know about the $900 billion deal? >> oh, it's about a 7 or 8. i mean, i'm going to vote for it. it doesn't have everything i wanted. as you noted the i wanted the restaurants act in there it does have an extension of ppp funding which restaurants can take enormous advantage of and deductibility for those expenses, too. or the money you get from ppp is something we have really been fighting for as well. there is a lot of really good things many. i think money could be better spent in some ways. i'm not a fan of direct cash

payments that isn't targeted to people who haven't lost their jobs or had their hours cut. you know, i don't think people on my staff need a check, necessarily from the government. right? they have been federal workers on getting their paychecks their entire time. all in all, this is what was needed. and here's what really drives me crazy about this bill. is that this could have been done months ago. as that business owner was just talking about, after they have had the deal with these arbitrary unscientific lockdowns and 10:00 p.m. curfews apparently coronavirus is more dangerous after 10:00 p.m. this is more nonsense, of course. enough to they have to wait on relief. why did they have to wait on relief because nancy pelosi and all the democrats that enable her thought that well, they didn't want to give trump a win before the election. and she said that she actually said that we have all been saying that she would do that. but she actually said it not that long ago. i still can't believe this. and i can't believe that the american people would reward her for this. i hope not. i hope she is held accountable. brian: she has been held accountable because look at the

margin of her majority in the house. one of the biggest surprises that not many people are talking about is i think we have had a 9 or 11 point difference -- seat difference when the final votes are tallied which is the smallest margin maybe since world war i. that has a lot to say what people are not happy with her. just to run through some of the stats, $600 for any family member making under $75,000. 284 presidential for business and the ppp program. 82 billion for colleges and schools. 7 billion for broadband. 25 billion for rental assistance. and 13 oil-1.3 billion for increased nutritional aid. so there is a lot more in there we will get some details when they finally finish writing it up. something else, the least surprising thing that i'm going to be reporting on is china lied about how the virus started. it's lethality, how dangerous it actually was and how it actually started. even though they could have helped us before it hit our

shores. here is a quick excerpt of the story from the "new york times" china curb outbreak started in early january before the novel coronavirus had been identified. the documents show this when infections started spreading rapidly a few weeks later the authorities clamped down on anything that cast china in too negative of light, like poisoning the world. what does this say to you in terms of taking action from this? >> well, you know, we have been saying this for a long time. one of my favorite lies from the chinese is that a bunch of u.s. army soldiers were spreading the virus in wuhan wet market as if it's our guys that like to go eat that soup in wuhan. that one was comical. on a more serious note, this absolutely happened. let's also not forget that they stopped domestic travel within china to curb the spread of the virus but they wouldn't stop international travel. they are all about lying to the world. and we had to make guesses as a result. luckily president trump did. you know, january 31st he did

severely limit all travel from china. joe biden called that xenophobic has said in the past china is not going to eat our lunch, man. they don't take this seriously. that's actually my biggest worry. those of us who are actually paying attention know very well what the chinese' intentions are the foreign policy consensus from a couple decades ago where china will rise as a partner with the united states is totally over. it's not over. the belton road initiative the made in china 2025 direct asalse from economic perspective on american priorities. and we have to go into this with eyes wide open. what can we do about it? for instance i have a bill that allows us to change the foreign sovereignties immunity act and allow private actors here in the united states to sue china for damagings from coronavirus. frankly, i also support another one that does the same thing for cyber security attack will pursue actors like russia or china. these are the kind of tools that

we have to put in our tool kit here and hold china accountable. brian: do you know what? the whole thing is, congressman, it's not going to be a hard sale. europe is wising up and australia wising up. neighbors are wising up. this is not either/or. they poisoned the world. it's the china virus. and they are not being held accountable. real quick, full-time thought? >> yeah, i would also say to bring this back to the coronavirus or this covid relief package, we are also putting a bunch of money in there for rural broadband buildout. that includes laying down fiberoptic cable. that means 5g. that's how we compete with the chinese. we do everything better than they do. brian: which we do because we have a market economy where we are more driven. that's why they have to got to steal our stuff. they can't out innovate us. congressman dan crenshaw, thank you. >> good to be with you. brian: all right. karl rove is going to injo us at the top of the hour. plus ambassador nikki haley is going to be here. she has been in georgia competing and trying to get those two senate seats as is tom

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outside a new york city hospital ashley, good morning. reporter: hey, good morning, as 6 million doses of the moderna vaccine were shipped out from a distribution center last night, and almost 350,000 of those doses will be administered this week, just in new york. the moderna vaccine was authorized a couple of days ago, actually three days ago by the fda and unlike pfizer's moderna vaccine can be kept in normal refrigerator temperatures during shipment. it comes as the deputy secretary of hhs says a third vaccine from johnson & johnson could be submitted for authorization as soon as next month, even with a third vaccine though joe biden says it still could be some time before most of us get that shot. take a listen. >> if everything goes well, we may see a circumstance whereby late spring, you know, people who are in lower-risk categories can get this vaccine but that would really require everything to go exactly on- schedule. i think it's more realistic to assume that it may be closer to

mid-summer or early fall when this vaccine makes its way to the general population. reporter: and of course, healthcare workers will be the first to get this vaccination and then that follows by first responders like nypd, the new york fire department, and also keep in mind, joe biden and jill biden, his wife, are expected to get their pfizer vaccinations today publicly. back to you guys. >> emily: thank you, ashley now in contrast to the incoming surgeon general's comments on the timeline, our own dr. mark siegel said the vaccine's timeline is totally on schedule. we should have 45 million americans vaccinated by january. earlier this morning with us take a listen. >> we have to put our eyes on what's actually been happening, which is we got almost 3 million doses of the pfizer vaccine out last week, and now this week , 6 million just heard 6 million of the moderna and another 2 million of the pfizer so by christmas you'll see over 10 million doses out there.

that's in just a couple of weeks , and so i don't think you could sit there and say well, it's going to take until the summer. at this rate, we should have 45 million people vaccinated by even before the spring, by january probably, based on what the centers for disease control was saying on friday. brian: we know, i mean, this is an extraordinary accomplishment. two american companies have got this vaccine that's 95% effective, a third one is about to rollout and americans are lining up for it. what i think be great to do also is start pushing it. start having these celebrities, high profile people, men and women, of all races and backgrounds and ages, over 16 if you're pfizer, over 18 if you're moderna, come out and take the vaccine. we can't take it if the majority of the country doesn't take it, it's not going to be effective. let's bring in karl rove, fox news contributor national finance chair person for the georgia battleground fund. first off, just weigh in on this

, karl. this is another great american moment, isn't it? >> it really is. incidentally i will say it's a great american moment except for your attempt to cut the line i heard the celebrity reference there, that was you, obviously. >> [laughter] brian: karl, you're right. i was rolling up my sleeve. >> but look this is extraordinary. this is unheard of. this has not been done before, and it is a result of american ingenuity applied a lot this year but in the years leading up to this to literally change the way in which we manufacture vaccines to make them more safe, more effective, faster to replicate and more easily to distribute, and it's really a remarkable testament to american innovation and scientific ability. pete: you're very right and i can attest to the fact in the commercial break he's been trying to cut that line. >> it's really sad. brian: don't turn on me. >> so sad. pete: so sad. karl i've got to get your take because you heard this

$900 billion covid-19 relief bill likely to pass in the next day or two. there seems to have been a bit of a delay we've learned this morning but it's supposed to. this headline though from politi co ties that outcome to georgia. we want to get your take. the headline is how georgia is driving congress toward a stimulus deal, republicans and democrats need covid relief as a winning issue in the battle over the senate. so, karl, if both sides see it as a winning issue who does it actually cut for or cut at all in that race? >> it cuts for the incumbents because they are the people voting for it and look i thought the politico article was over blown. the thing driving resolution is that for five or six months the democrats have been stopping forward movement on this but now the moneys running out and they realize that if they don't do something about it, they're going to be blamed for it because the republicans have been offering packages that have been reasonable and the democrat s have been, every democrat in the senate voted against even proceeding to discuss the issue, so that's what's driving it but it will

help i think loeffler and perdue , and particularly help perdue, because in a interview, his opponent, john ossoff was asked, well, don't you think we need more aid and should we make certain that it goes t people who really deserve it and need it, and that there isn't any fraud in it because we've had reports of people in prisons, et cetera, and ossoff's response was to say let's not get down into the details. now, there's lots of ways to say absolutely, we need to make certain it goes to the people who really need it and we've got to do everything possible to stop fraud. it's another thing to say well let's not get into the details about that kind of stuff. let's just get it done. i mean, he mishandled that. >> emily: you can't make this stuff up. speaking of democrats, karl, we want to get your thoughts on the socialist democrat himself, bernie sanders, who says that democrats have been playing defense for the last four years on justice on our minds, virtual town hall on thursday he said

now it's time should the democrats win in this senate runoff they can start playing so your thoughts on that. >> well i think he's absolutely right. if the democrats have the white house, the house and the senate, they're going to be able to go out there and do virtually anything they want to do. they don't even need to change the rules. they can do, they could pass a major health bill under reconciliation, 50 votes plus kamala harris sitting in the chair, and they can do it. huge tax bill, pass it with 50 votes. undue all of the regulatory relief provided by donald trump. 50 votes, kamala harris in the chair. add additional judgeships, create new judgeships, both district and appellate judge ships in order to take back liberal control of a bunch of the appellate courts that have conservative majority, they can do with 50 votes and kamala harris in the chair. so, there's lots of things they can do without even changing the rules an if they change the rules they can add the district of columbia and

puerto rico as states, 50 votes kamala harris in the chair, guarantee them four additional democratic senators, and but if they change the rules they can pack the court, they can do anything they want to do if they change the rules. brian: she will be there today by the way campaigning, ivanka trump will be down helping both candidates for the republicans and the president says he's going to be down there to do another rally. so, we understand that 1.3 million i trust your numbers better, but the number we're getting is 1.3 million georgians have already voted in the senate runoff an extraordinary number including 36,000 georgians who did not vote in november because they chose not to or they weren't old enough. what do you do with those number s? how does that affect your strategy? >> well, first of all the republicans are mounting the biggest ground game ever mounted by either party in the history of georgia, huge numbers of volunteers. thousand staff people running it , it's really amazing. let's get behind the numbers. that number is roughly right, 1.3 million. there are two ways people are now voting. they're voting absentee in mail

and early in person. early in person voting started monday, absentee mail-in ballot has been going on for some period of time and then in the november election the democrats walloped the repub licans in the mail-in absentee vote and the republicans narrow ly won the early voting in person and republicans won on election day thereby getting 88,000 more votes in the perdue/ ossoff race and 44,000 more republican votes in the jungle primary where there were 21 candidates. so far the absentee vote, the mail-in ballots compared to this same point than before the november election is down 25 %. this is where the democrats walloped the repub licans and not only that but it's about two points less democrat than it was so a lot less turnout via mail-in ballots and 2% less democrat. the early vote, which began on monday, is 9% bigger than it was compared to the same period before the november election, and guess what? slightly more republican. so this is where the democrats

ran up their numbers. this is where the republicans fought them to a draw. democrats are down in this and fewer people turning out. republicans are slightly better off than they were in november and there's more of these and we have election day yet to come but it's going to be close, close, close, late, late night on january 5. pete: close, close means, you know, it means obviously, it could be close. what an amazing statement for me. >> [laughter] pete: isn't that amazing? >> i'm mystified. explain that. pete: it qualifies as analysis on national television but the votes matter but who counts the votes, the ballot box and the protection there. if it's going to be that close which is why i was hung up on that word, what more is being done to ensure that when it is that close that vote is protected because a lot of people still look at the race in georgia, still look at what happened with the presidential race and wonder whether the lessons could are been learned quickly enough. >> the georgia battleground fund is raising money for the legal effort. there are three big major law

firms involved in this. they have reengineered, they went back with the help of the republican attorney general 's association, the republican association of secretary of state, they looked at every part of the get out of the voting apparatus in georgia and reengineered and it said where are the weaknesses and what do we need to do in order to sure that up? for example, last week, in time for the early voting, the republicans filed 4,000 poll watchers. that is more than any party, either party has ever offered up for early voting poll watching, and not by a little, but by a factor of several multitudes, and those people are trained in being deployed and will have an even bigger operation for election day, but they are now looking at the absentee ballots as they come in, they are manning the polls to make certain that everything is done according to what we've identified every weakness. for example, in fulton county there were precincts where people voted twice.

real clear politics did an investigation and they say 1,700 the actual number is less than that. we know exactly where those precincts are. there should be zero double voting, because everybody who requests a mail-in ballot is listed on the poll books, and when you show up if you show up and you've requested a mail-in ballot you either need to surrender your mail-in ballot so you can vote at the machine at election or you have to cast a provisional ballot which is set aside and kept separate until they can validate your mail-in ballot didn't arrive. that was not done and we know exactly where those precincts are and there will be lawyers in every one of those and where we might think it happens in order to make certain it doesn't happen again, we can spend the next half an hour going through what is being done step by step by step for ballot security and election security and election integrity. >> emily: so karl when you mentioned that lawyers will be there, obviously the next step is in the courts, so for the birdseye view of this where do you see the courts

weighing in and will they on any substantive issue so that moving forward, then voters can have faith and confidence in the system that there can be some type of proven authority that can make these rules that they have faith in rather than just repeating the same thing every election and hoping for a different outcome. >> well, look. the state attorney general and the secretary of state are conducting investigations in what they believe are inappropriate activity, and there will be some examples made for example, people who come into the state for the purpose of voting in january, and violate the state law by not having the intention to become permanent residents, that's a felony. double voting is a felony offense, so what we're going to have is like let's say go back to my example of the double voting. if the poll watcher is not satisfied that the presiding officer in that precinct is abiding by the rules there will be a lawyer standing outside that they can immediately talk to who will be able to file electronically immediately with a judge saying this precinct's

presiding officer is not abiding by the rules and will be able to get the courts involved on the day of the election to restore proper behavior and to keep the suspect ballots segregated. we'll be doing that over not just that issue, but any issue that arises that we've discussed and identified as through this reevaluation of how they operate and what needs to be done to make certain it's done fairly. brian: right to karl, you're on the ground, you know what's going on in georgia and we have christmas coming up and things go on pause in terms of people paying attention you would think i look at two polls now, 538 and rasmussen, they basically both have a flat-footed tie with ossoff somehow up a point or two, statistically insignificant. how could these two left wing candidates, this isn't joe manchin and doug jones, left wing candidates possibly represent a state that's been

reliable blue since 1992? red, excuse me, red. >> well look, georgia is changing, and i frankly think look, the polling i've been looking at suggests that perdue is slightly ahead of ossoff and warnock, who is ahead of kelly loeffler at the end of the november election, because nobody, when you got 21 candidates everybody is trying to say me, me, me, me, me, but you don't have a lot of conversation and sure look at that guy over there but there's been a lot of look at that guy over there since november, and since the november election, and warnock has been sinking like a stone so where i see the race today is perdue has got a slight lead on ossoff and the loeffler/ warnock race is moving in the right direction, loeffler is moving ahead of warnock, he is sinking but this is very close because the democrats got momentum, they got to get out the vote machine with stacey abrams and they have one, the presidential race for the first time since 1992 as you said, and that's given them a burst of energy but

there's a changing demographic the states becoming more latino, more asian american, more black migration into the state from elsewhere in the south and all of that tended to make the state a more competitive state but i'm confident at the end of the day our candidates will win because they recognize that diversity, they recognize the challenge and they are running one heck of a pair of campaigns. pete: karl rove, you know your stuff thank you very much for being with us this morning. >> good morning and merry christmas and happy new year, happy hanukkah, happy kwanzaa, and for me, happy birthday, because brian said he's coming to my party on friday afternoon at 3:00. so i'm looking forward to you coming. brian: i'd love to be invited one year. what karl is trying to say to producers stop calling him he wants off until after christmas. >> true. brian: karl, thank you. appreciate it. >> you bet. pete: let's toss it over to carlie shimkis. >> that's right we'll start with an urgent manhunt underway for a suspect accused of shooting a pennsylvania more.

checkpoints are setup across the area to find 22-year-old kob ey francis. francis is accused of shooting the officer three times with a hidden gun he had, outside the mckeesport police station while in custody. the 32-year-old officer is in stable condition. >> devin nunes is calling for a new criminal referral over recently-released peter strzok text messages. the top republican on the house intelligence committee is questioning why the ex-fbi agent 's messaging referencing the russia probe were not released before the investigation. >> these are kind of the text messages that we've all been waiting for , that we knew probably existed, that give the hard evidence that our investigation really needed several years ago. we know the fbi was lying to congress. >> peter strzok was fired after sending anti-trump text messages >> china reportedly used an army of internet trolls to control

the narrative around the coronavirus. propublica and the new york times revealed leaked documents from the early days of the outbreak. texas congressman dan crenshaw joined us earlier to weigh in. >> stop domestic travel within china to curve the spread of the virus but they wouldn't stop international travel. i mean, they are all about lying to the world, and we had to make guesses as a result. >> coming up nikki haley joins us later this hour to discuss china as well. >> did you see this? tiger wood's son is proving to be a chip off the old block. watch. >> [applause] >> charlie imitating his dad's signature fist pump after sink ing a birdie put. the pair addressed finishing their championship in seventh place a great father-son moment

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>> do you support a special counsel to handle the hunter biden investigation? pete: once again joe biden ignoring reporter's question including our own peter doocy's on the hunter biden investigation but why aren't more reporters or any pressing him on it? here to react publisher of the federalist, ben domenech. ben thanks so much for being with us this morning. we had peter schwezier on the program earlier, he laid out what he does so well, the timeline of hunter biden, how it all started when his father became the vice president and accelerated from there. then we get this laptop. the story is actively suppressed but even now as it's acknowledged they still don't ask about it, ben. >> well, i think what you're seeing, pete, is a situation where the biden campaign really felt like they could get away with anything during this past year. they could avoid questions, they could treat the press lick they

were just sort of just not anybody to be taken seriously and now, you have the first comments from joe biden in the many days since this story took on a new character with the revelations regarding the federal investigation into hunter biden being made not to a serious journalist but being made to steven colbert of all people and i think that's an indication of how the biden administration would treat the press, as being people who, the press is frankly having to beg to get more than five questions in their weekly zoom meetings. this is not exactly a situation where they are getting the ability to have any kind of access to joe biden and i think that in this indication, this is going to be the way that they approach things. they think they can just avoid all of these questions and sit down with, you know, comedians and the like as opposed to taking serious interviews and serious questions from journalists who could really pin them down. pete: why answer questions when steven colbert will ask you how does it make you feel.

we ask that question a lot on fox & friends when you're interviewing a family who found their puppy. this is a, you know, presidential-level candidate who ultimately has a huge scandal in front of him and you mentioned the zoom chat and we're doing a lot of these briefings over zoom right now with reporters and but only a certain set of reporters are allowed to ask audible questions but there's a chat in there. here is some of the comments made by reporters who are not able to ask questions. sam stein puts in the zoom chat, guys there's tons of folks looking to ask questions since this is being done once a week, could we please go longer or at least hold more frequent briefings? from the associated press, any chance you can take a few more questions there are a lot of folks with questions, and raw fe inberg, is there a point in saying why do you talk to the same group every week? it sounds a little whiney to me, frankly, especially after maybe they are used to the access they had under the trump adminitration where questions were plentiful and now they are limited. >> you know, i think that

that's absolutely something that's gone on here, for all of the complaints that journalists have had about the trump adminitration, you can't say that they've done things like cutoff access to the president or to his advisors, and obviously, they haven't done things like the obama administration did, when it came to spying on journalists. this is a situation that i think is only going to become more of a problem as the biden administration maybe comes into authority, because we can't anticipate that they're going to have any kind of different attitude towards it. the journalists in the past treated the obama administration with kids gloves he was able to go around them to talk to various youtube figures and the like as opposed to taking hard questions and the biden administration would want to rollback the clock on that and do the same thing all over again we're only taking questions from the people where we know they won't be askings any of the hard ones. pete: do you know what kills me though, ben they aren't raising their hand in the zoom chat because they want answers they are doing it because they want access. that's how the game is played i need to be called on so i can include it in my story. they aren't actually asking a

tough question about hunter biden. >> [laughter] no, no they aren't and it's clear that that's the way they've approached the story from the beginning trying to pretend like it didn't matter and obviously not standing up for the new york post when they were treated so terribly by big tech and everything else. it is a shameful incident but i've got to tell you, pete, i'm just over the moon today. i had a christmas miracle last night. our little baby liberty slept through the night for the first time. so, choirs of angels are singing around my head and i'm very happy today. i can't be that mad in that kind of context. pete: you shouldn't be. there's almost a halo behind you it is a wonderful moment as a father, i can see it. >> exactly. pete: congratulations sincerely. ben, thank you very much. thank you, thank you. pete: that is a big moment. still ahead, she championed america first on the world stage and now she's rallying in georgia for the critical runoff election. former u.n. ambassador nikki haley joins us with her warning on the state of the radical

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formulation and hopefully, passage of this bill. so, with will this be enough senator, do you feel good about what's about to be done? >> yeah, brian. i think this is a very important bill. it's going to provide needed relief to struggling businesses and families and workers who are still out of work not getting the hours they need and in no small part because the democratic governors and mayors keep locking down these businesses. we could have had this four months ago, brian. although the bill is still being finalized we basically know what's in the because it's what senate republicans proposed in september that nancy pelosi refused to even consider. she said she'd rather have nothing than have the bill we proposed in september. so this bill is very similar, it's very disappointing to me that nancy pelosi blocked this aid for struggling businesses and families for four months but i'm glad we're going to get it across the finish line before christmas. brian: so senator pat toomey, whose a brilliant math-mind, a big budget guy, said we're going to stop this from continuing writing a deficit spending even

though this is no fault of the american people. what did senator pat toomey hope to get and what did he end up with? >> yeah, he was a real champion for not only senate republicans but the american taxpayer this weekend so the democrats wanted to use federal reserve lending programs as a back door bailout for cities and states that have mismanaged their finances for a decade. in march, with the cares act, we gave the federal reserve limited and temporary authority to help provide liquidity into the lending markets. that succeeded. the economy did not collapse in march and april, as many people feared. we wanted to revoke that authority so joe biden and the democrats can't use it as a back door bailout for cities like new york city or chicago or states like illinois by providing ultra-low interest loans to this cities and states. we stopped them from bailing out the cities and the states from the through door and this weekend thanks to senator t oomey and mcconnell we stopped them from doing the back

door of the federal reserve lending programs. brian: they should do what everybody else is doing, allow the residents of the citizens of their state work their way out of this , rather than keep them locked down and give them checks so i want to talk about something else that matters a lot to you and that's critical race theory and whether it's going on in our nation's schools dalton faculty which is an elite school in new york city has signed an anti-racist manifesto which among the things that's asked, they want to ask students to student debt, to pay the student debt out of black faculty. it goes on and on again, apologizing for things they had nothing to do with as it relates to race and people at home are seeing everything that's in this proposal. you saw this coming. >> yeah, brian, i saw the manifesto of the faculty there published. i've got to say i'd assume some parents are going to be asking for a refund for their tuition

dollars which is enough to buy a large car, but this anti-racist manifesto shows that this whole ideology is very orwelian when in fact it's actually treating students and their families based on their skin color. it's distinguishing between them and trying to treat them differently when in fact the promise of america is that we treat everyone based on their individual character and their decisions, not as a member of a group. not based on their skin color. it's very disappointing to see such a prestigious school like the dalton school have the faculty proposing this manifesto and would raise real questions about what they're being taught when they're not focusing on these or talking about history or literature or what have you. brian: senator but this is not just elite upper west side high schools in new york city. what do you think is happening across the country in the curriculum that people are seeing and is a lot of this based off the 1619 project? >> yeah, unfortunately, that's

the case, brian. saw something similar out in seattle public schools in the last week as well, and you're right that some schools are using the new york times now debunked 1619 project and odeus and obnoxious doctrine that this country has not founded on the basis of human equality but rather, on the basis of human bondage, when in fact, everything about this country throughout our history has been struggling to achieve our founding promise of 1776, the true founding of this country not 1619. brian: so what about people watching right now saying what's the big deal? the kids learn all of this different stuff. it's not going to affect the direction of the country. >> well unfortunately that's just not the case, brian. children aren't born to be patriots and born to love the country into which they're born. they have to be taught why america is a special plus and why they ought to love their country and if we aren't doing that in our schools where is it

going to happen? look at public opinion polls. there's troubling trends among people in their teens and 20s about their views of america. we need to teach our students that america is a country that is imperfect of course or a country of human beings but is a country worth loving, worth defending and worth fighting for brian: and here is what the dalton school said in response to the outrage. what is being referred to as faculty demand is in fact a thought-starter, a set of thought-starters created this summer by the subset of faculty and staff responding to dalton's commitment to becoming an anti-racial institution and why dalton prides itself and welcome honest debate around how to bring these principles to light the school does not support all the language or actions it contains. does that make you feel better? >> [laughter] if i was an administrator at dalton school or more likely a parent paying that tuition it might make me concerned they have so many faculty who have

those thoughts to start with. brian: absolutely and by the way a lot of the parents are afraid to speak up because that schools means so much and has such a great reputation, could mean a lot for their student that graduates there and could affect the type of college they go to so they keep their mouth shut and talk anonymously. >> oh, sure that's very common, brian. the so-called cancel culture, where people are worried about losing their jobs or losing customers and facing a boycott, getting kicked out of their school or college or what have you, and it's very harmful to civic debate. most americans don't subscribe to these radical views. we saw that in the ballot box last month, but there is a very strong suppressive streak in the academy, in schools, in the media, in hollywood that doesn't want to have anyone questioning these radical ideas is exactly what we should do. brian: good work this weekend senator i know you worked through the night a couple days appreciate you being with us

this morning. >> thanks all, merry christmas. brian: back at you, pete? pete: all right with just weeks until the crucial runoff election, major faces of the republican party including our next guest, are now heading down to georgia with an important message. >> emily: former u.s. ambassador nikki haley joins us now. good morning, thank you so much for joining us. tell us your thoughts about the shape of the democrat party and the direction in which it's moving. >> good morning and merry christmas and all eyes are on georgia and we were there in full display yesterday going across georgia and i'll tell you it's definitely the battleground of what the republicans and democrats are going against. you've got, you know, their democratic opponents, where you have warnock actually saying you can't love, you can't serve god and the military. well, as the wife of a combat veteran, i mean, it's entirely offensive not just to me but to all military families for

someone that says that. i mean, these liberal policies, they're going further and further to defunding the police, canceling anyone that doesn't agree with them. they want socialism to be the way of the future, and they want to turn over your healthcare and your lives to government. it's everything that we worked hard in this country not to do. it goes against our freedoms, and you know, republicans need to fight back and that's the thing we were trying to tell georgians yesterday is it's not just all eyes are on georgia. the american public is really counting on every person in georgia to get out and vote. brian: ambassador i also think this is an important time for republicans if they did in fact make legitimate end roads with the hispanic community, if they did in fact make legitimate end roads with the black community, why instead of maximizing the base, why not try to expand it and go into the areas where many people believe democrats thrive? why not test what donald trump started? >> i think absolutely, i think that's what republicans have to

do and i think if you look at our last event in forsythe county, you saw it was multi- culture all, multi- generational. those are the people that president trump helped build. we have to build on top of that. we have to add to that and this is about making sure that everyone knows what we're for. not what we're against, what we're for , because when we talk about what we're for , we win people, and right now, that's what we have to be doing in georgia is we have to just realize this is a game of addition. pete: speaking of elections they looked a lot different in november. they'll look different on january 5 in georgia because of the china virus because of covid-19, and what it did, has done to our country over the last year, but you wouldn't know it based on what china has tried to do to suppress that information. a new report from the new york times and pro publica says china's curves on the information about the outbreak started in early january before the novel coronavirus had been identified and when infections started

spreading rapidly a few weeks later the authorities clamped down on anything that cast china 's response in too negative a light. ambassador, you've been on the world stage, understand what china's all about. this kind of suppression is common place from them, but what should we do about it? how do we hold them accountable? >> well first of all i saw this during my two years at the united nations. this is exactly what china does. perception is everything to them and they don't want anyone to paint them in a negative light. that's why they don't like taiwan ever mentioned and the w egers mentioned and it's what they do. if you go and talk to the younger generations in china they don't even know what happened because its been totally suppressed to them, and you know, if you look at that document, we're talking about china, but if you look at that document and you read it, that's not that far from what our big tech is doing to us, where they go and they look at search engines and make sure certain

words don't get taken. they make sure that when did you ever think that you were going to have president trump scrutinized and where social media was basically kind of keeping what he had to say. a lot of what we're seeing in china that's why people should be upset about what's happening in america. it's because if you look at china now, they're teaching them what to think, what to feel, what to say, by controlling what they hear. we can't have that happen in america either but that's very common place in china to be doing something like that. >> emily: ambassador as we talk about the messaging and how that's been influenced in this country, how has the democrat party as well enabled some of china's in cid eus newly-released sures to take root here? >> i think all you have to do is look back several months ago when biden said china was no competition to us, and that we didn't need to be worried about them. i think you look at nancy pelosi in chinatown saying we were being racist and over reacting.

the problem is wake up, america. this is nothing small. china has wanted to dominate the world for a long time. they want to bring down america and they almost did that with the coronavirus. what we have to do is understand we've got to quit talking about china and we've got to do something about china. they are trying to go and spy on our satellites and trying to build up their military. they are the biggest human rights abuser. they're trying to control communication. they're getting involved in elections. we have to stop talking about china and we have to start doing something about it and that's just not happening. brian: ambassador, last question. can you rule out that they did this on purpose? >> that china did this on purpose? no. i don't rule out that they, i don't know if the virus got out by accident. what i do believe strongly is that they knew the virus was out there and they knew they were going to suffer and they didn't want to be the only country that suffered, so they let it get out to the rest of the world.

i don't doubt that for one second. that's how china is. they want to be dominant across the world and they don't want to be weak in any way. if they are weak they want everybody else to suffer with them. brian: they directly lied to the president. president xi directly lied to our president and said it's not going to be a problem. >> i strongly believe that, yes it would not surprise me at all. they did it for two years. pete: and then they use international institutions they bought and paid for to try to cover up for them as well ambassador nikki haley thank you so much for your time this morning we appreciate it. merry christmas. >> thank you so much, merry christmas. pete: all right, one marine corps, the marine corps on a mission to spread christmas cheer to kids in need. an update on how you can help toys for tots, coming up. >> ♪ better not cry, better not pout, i'm telling you why, santa claus is coming to town ♪ o get it done right, right away.

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>> sandra: attorney general bill barr set to hold a news conference on the terrorist bombing of flight 103 this morning, we will be watching for that, plus what joe biden's press secretary is saying in a brand new interview about the investigation into his son, hunter biden. senator john kennedy here to react and kevin mccarthy has been briefed now on eric swalwell's ties to a chinese spy

, what he is now saying about that, maria bartiromo will join us. happy holiday week here, live from america's newsroom, we are here for you join us live, top of the hour. pete? pete: thank you, sandra. well, chicago is using another gas tax hike to help fillet budget gap. grady trimble from our sister network, fox business, joins us live as drivers prepare to pay more at the pump. nobody will like that, grady. reporter: hey, pete yeah. illinois drivers already pay one of the highest gas taxes in the country. that's about to go up in the city of chicago, about $0.03 a gallon look at the cost of gas at this chicago gas station, 3.19 and compare that to the national average right now, which is 2.22. almost a buck more here. for chicago drivers, this is the third time the gas tax has gone up in 18 months. the mayor's office says the latest tax increase will generate $10 million in revenue. property taxes, by the way, also

set to go up to help fillet $1.2 billion hole in the city's budget. the folks at the illinois policy institute, which is generally against raising taxes, says doing this won't solve the city 's financial woes. they say the real problem is the public pensions in the city. folks there also did some number crunching and here is what they found. for a gallon of gas at $2.53 a gallon, $0.91 of that in chicago will be taxes and fees when you add up the federal, state, county, and city taxes. indiana just south of here, wisconsin just north of here, gas prices are a lot cheaper and i don't know, pete it's probably tempting for some drivers here to make that trip to save a little bit of money at this point. pete: i bet some might do that. grady thank you very much, appreciate it. emily over to you. >> emily: thanks, pete. the marine corps is on a mission to spread cheer to kids in need this christmas season, but they need our help, and gathering

donations for toys for tots amid the pandemic. here to share how we can help toys for tots president and ceo, lt. general jim lasseter. good morning, general thank you so much for joining us today. >> well good morning to you, and thank you so much for having me on your show. in fact if i could say the exposure that fox has given us over the past month has just been tremendous and its helped significantly with donation as well as toy collection so we are very grateful. thank you. >> emily: thank you so much. tell us how the pandemic has shaped donations and especially the shift to online shopping, how that has affected people in need and people giving. >> well, we of course were very concerned about it, and we came up with different models to share with our coordinators nationwide. the one that seems to be working the best is the drive-thru distribution model. in fact i was in prince george's county, maryland, on saturday

watching a drive-thru distribution model that supported 15,000 children in one day, so that may be even a concept that we look at even when the pandemic is over. you know, to use a marine term, we have adapted and overcome the situation. we are maneuvering and we will accomplish the mission. >> emily: and it's my understanding that because people have shifted to online shopping during the pandemic, they're not seeing physical brick-and-mortar and the stands that you used to have in the past so where can viewers go you talked about the drive-up distribution centers. where can they go online to help and support your mission also. >> just go to first of all, go to the local website wherever they are, but the fallback be to our national website, which is toysfortots.org. >> emily: and, sir, tell us about the changes that you've seen in the last 10 months since

the pandemic started. what are your greatest challenge s? what changes have you seen for those kids in need and for those donating? >> well, going back a few months ago, i think everyone knows toys for tots is a christmastime charity but as the ceo, i have been looking for ways to expand that support to less fortunate children and during the pandemic, we, in fact , donated or actually distributed 2 million toys, books, and games to children just to bring some normalcy back into their lives, and to lessen their anxiety. we also have a literacy program that we're partnered with ups store on and we've been providing books to less fortunate children, especially to title i schools, and after this christmas campaign, my intent is to continue support to less fortunate children, both by our literacy program as well

as at times of natural disasters. i think that we have a role in emotional support of children. >> emily: general, thank you for your service and bless you for the work that toys for tots does. the website viewers is toysfor t ots.org. merry christmas to you, sir. >> merry christmas to you and thank you very much. >> emily: more fox & friends moments away. stay with us. >> ♪ ♪ hello i'm an idaho potato farmer. you know a lot of folks think of a potato, even an idaho potato as a side dish. but does this look like a side dish to you? ...or this? ...or these? does a side dish have a dog like this? ...or a truck like this? or a good-looking, charismatic, spokesfarmer like me? i think we both know the answer to that. always look for the grown in idaho seal.

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