>> bret: finally tonight really quickly every year i host a charity event to raise money for children's nationanananana change every year i host a charity event in naples to raise money for the children's national health system. hospital, doctors and this is that saved our son paul. this you have to do it brutal because of covid-19 but we are going to do it, selling tickets at all-star panel event.com. todd: it is thursday december 2, '04, christmas eve but no day off for congress, lawmakers expected to review the president's request for $2,000 stimulus checks. the relief deal in government funding remaining open. >> heading home for the holidays? you one alone. 80 million people are expected to travel as health experts urge americans to have a cautious little christmas. >> i wasn't expecting to be

alive today. my point of all of this is gratitude from the bottom of a sizable and growing and still beating heart. >> rush limbaugh's emotional message to listeners in his final broadcast for 2020. "fox and friends first" on pre-santa day starts right now. ♪ it's beginning to look a lot like christmas ♪ everywhere you go ♪ take a look ♪ >> it is here, my friends. >> if it's not looking like christmas you are late. what you think of christmas when you think of christmas songs, johnny mathis, the quintessential voice. jillian: merry christmas to you. you are watching "fox and friends first" on christmas eve morning. todd: democrats expect to try to increase the stimulus check to $2,000 but republicans are not likely to play ball unless some pork is stripped from the bill. >> douglas later joins us with the latest. >> reporter: merry christmas eve, good morning.

as odd as this may sound nancy pelosi is going to try to push through donald trump's proposal. he wants larger covid-19 relief checks to most americans, not just the $600 ones that were approved by congress and policy says she's happy to oblige if she can. a letter to her fellow house democrats she wrote if the president truly wants us to join us in $2,000 payments he should call upon leader mccarthy to agree to our unanimous consent request. that follows the president's video on twitter where he suggested appending this massive covid-19 relief and spending package the just passed congress calling $600 checks for most americans in adequate. >> it really is a disgrace which is called the covid-19 relief bill but it has almost nothing to do with covid-19. i asked congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000

or $4,000 for a couple. >> reporter: republicans are a most certain to reject the $2,000 checks, but with concern about the skyrocketing national debt they are targeting billions in foreign aid. kevin mccarthy, tried to use the american people as leverage to make coronavirus leave contingent on government funding which includes billions in foreign aid when there are urgent needs at home. donald trump just arrived in florida yesterday where he is spending christmas but not before vetoing another measure, the national defense authorization effect, pentagon fund, didn't tighten restrictions on social media companies. congress is expected to attempt to override that veto next week. in the meantime the covid-19 deal hangs in limbo which means we are looking at a possible partial government shutdown next week.

todd: charlie hurt says the president is in his right to be to the defense bill. >> reporter: nancy pelosi and a lot of these people who have been doing this for years, joe biden has been at this for nearly 50 years. they have been at this game forever. donald trump is new to this. he comes from the private sector, the free-market world and is trying to do things differently and donald trump is at his finest when listening to his own instincts, making these threats and the solutions are never tidy, never simple. when he vetoes a bill like this it sends a message and puts -- him putting his foot down and donald trump is at his very best when he is the skunk at the garden party. >> reporter: the president also

issuing 26 pardons and commutations with the second round of pardons include charles kushner, father of the president's son in law jared kushner, paul manafort and former advisor roger stone. >> very happy. i have an analyst at of gratitude to god almighty, giving the president the strength and the courage to recognize that my prosecution was a completely politically motivated witchhunt and my trial was a soviet style show trial in which the judge denied us any powerful line of defense in which the judge we now know who did exculpatory evidence from us. >> reporter: the president commuted his sentence in july, he was convicted of witness tampering and making false statements. >> reporter: ongoing discussions whether to appoint a special counsel to take over the federal investigation into hunter biden's tax affairs, sources telling fox news there is a, quote, conflict of interest, william barr's last day as ag

was yesterday, he saw no reason for a special counsel. >> to the extent there is an investigation it is being handled responsibly and professionally to this point i've not seen a reason to appoint a special counsel and i have no plan to do so before i leave. todd: president-elect joe biden said he would not discuss the probe with his attorney general pics. jillian: the trump administration's christmas miracle coming through, the us marked 1 million covid-19 vaccinations. todd: top officials are confident our vaccines will protect americans against the new strain of the virus. >> reporter: 1 million people getting their first kim jong un for vaccine shot is low, a lot of the doses administered so far added to 12 figures from the cdc, 9 and a half million doses

of pfizer and modern's vaccine have been distributed. the government intended 20 million in total to be distributed in the next few weeks. in new york city worker suffered a significant allergic reaction to the first dose, the first case the city has seen in the 300,000 doses administered, as health officials are confident they can control the spread of the new strain as the uk confirms the mutated strain. >> we have every reason to believe lots of scientific reasons to believe it will work because the vaccine goes against many parts of the protein, not just one but it will be within a matter of days that we -- scientific experiments will definitively prove that. probably not in the next 24 hours but within the next days. we absolutely expect there will be great vaccine coverage against this strain and many of the other hundreds of mutations out there. >> reporter: a lot of european

countries closing, britain put in place tricked measures to slow the spread of the new strain which is said to be 70% more contagious. >> since march the president has put significant travel restrictions already in place from the uk in what we call in europe, you could all be come from the uk to the united states if you are a citizen or permanent resident, if you're a family member of a citizen or permanent resident or have very special conditions to let you come here. >> even with warnings and health experts millions of people are still traveling for christmas and holidays. an estimated 84.5 million people are expected to travel now through january 3rd, '30% less than last year and although there is confirmation of the new mutated strain in the uk there is no need to talk about travel bands until they know more about it.

shannon: a pakistan court orders the release of a man convicted of murdering a wall street journal reporter. omar sheikh had his sentence overturned in april for the killing of daniel pearl downgrading his crime to kidnapping. the supreme court removed the temporary detention order that kept him in jail, pearl was abducted and killed by militant group in 2002. three of the men sentenced to life in prison had their convictions overturned in april. todd: the state attorney general says the suspect was shot and killed. no details up and released, that trooper is in stable condition. in a statement, i have made all state resources available to assist in this critical investigation. ohio mayor speaking out after body can video shows the shooting of an unarmed black man, the club is officer failed to give medical aid to andre hill after shooting a man who walked toward the officers while holding assault on. is an 18 year veteran of the force, has been fired.

>> i have never seen camera footage like that were literally no attempts to revive and aid this man who had committed no crime. was dying. that is a stunning disregard for life. >> reporter: the mayor says body cameras were not activated until after the shooting, another violation of protocol. jillian: terrifying moments as a building explosion leaves workers datalink over scaffolding on the side of the baltimore building. the explosion injuring 23 people at the baltimore gas and electric company's office, the company says work on the building as heating system likely caused the incident causing a fire and partial roof collapse. firefighters got the workers to safety through a window. todd: covid-19 relief in limbo, donald trump demanding support in the deal, $2,000 checks for americans but can congress get

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>> it really is a disgrace. it is called the covid-19 relief bill but it has almost nothing to do with covid-19. i'm asking congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000, or $4,000 per couple. >> donald trump putting pressure

on congress with his eleventh hour stimulus demand after lawmakers passed the latest covid-19 relief bill. >> americans deserve more money, she joins us now. this is a pretty serious, your notes on this that you sent in, the crackup this morning, you agree with the president this time, why? >> it is obvious $600 is a joke, that's not enough to cover the average rent in america. i do want to say there was a memo that went out, a fact checker to the wasteful spending attached the covid-19 bill not included in the covid-19 bill but the bottom line is wasteful spending is wasteful spending so whether it is attached or included it is a disgrace. i do agree. we talk about money being spent,

when the average american is suffering and has been suffering for several several months i want people to start naming names, let's go down the list, democrats and republicans on who opposed this wasteful spending. there's been a lot of blaming it on democrats, republicans, who want to the 2000 and who didn't want the 600 i want to know who was pushing money being spent on the smithsonian. i don't think americans have an issue with money being spent on the smithsonian or counting fish if they were actually taken care of. both things can be done at the same time and that is what the issue is. jillian: let's look at what is in the right now. you mentioned the $600 per person stimulus check, 300 we can unemployment benefits, extension of the eviction moratorium, more funding for ppp, vaccine distribution funding. who is in the toughest position, democrats, republicans, republicans running in georgia right now, david purdue and kelly leffler, to see what they are going to do and does the president deserve any blame for not being clear with what he wanted in this sooner? >> they all do. i'm independent so i don't pick either side.

every part of congress, democrat or republican, nobody wants to step up and have the guts to start naming names. all of them need to be fired as far as i'm concerned, things are strange because of where we are at this point, you look at $600 to take care of americans who are suffering and giving money to foreign countries is completely and except double so donald trump did ask for $1,200 early on. i don't support donald trump but he did ask for more money, he asked for one deal of direct payment to american citizens so in fairness to him he did ask for more but democrats asked for more, somebody is playing a game so this is a back-and-forth ping-pong game and american people are suffering because of it. todd: how did it get in there in the first place? you have to look at special interests. that is the only way that could have gotten there, congress doing the bidding of those individuals. jillian mentioned georgia, the georgia top election official, to restrict absentee voting citing potential problems.

listen to bread roethlisberger right now. >> it makes no sense when we have three weeks of in person early voting available. it opens the door for potential illegal voting. todd: democrats will say there is no problem, republicans will say he is late to the party on all this. do you think going forward we will see more calls for this from the gop even from democrats in light of what happened in november, so many people in our country don't trust the voting process anymore, because of mail in voting? >> people don't trust the government period not just in voting but just the government period. i know i don't but that same guy also said there was no fraud found. i believe him. republicans found fraud we would be hearing about 24 hours 7 days a week on the media, no fraud was found but people don't have issue with voter id.

the problem is the aclu so the poor folks in this country cannot afford 75 to $175 to get your id, to request your birth certificate, social security card, they want to eliminate the required fees to get the document so people can get voter id, maybe that's a conversation we can have been on the simplest and get a id and it is what it is and if you can't you cannot afford to vote in this country. it is a larger broad conversation i am sure democrats are willing to have if we eliminate the issues with getting id. >> getting $900 billion over the next couple days we can give out 75 to $100 for voter id so we don't have this problem but we will see how this shakes out. this issue is not going away before 2020, no way. have a great christmas. we love seeing her. still ahead after months of chaos and anti-police rhetoric

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time to get in the holiday spirit with our next guest who is using his talent to spread holiday cheer. >> joining us in real time is a kid i grew up with, great guy, artist charlie slogan, charlie and i, class of 1996 in new jersey but growing up we all knew you could draw. how did you get this good?

>> don't know. when it goes back to 96 it goes back farther than that and when you are a little kid you love don mattingly, you start by making 1000 drawings of don mattingly and then cartoons as you get older and at a certain point you redirect everything towards commerce and i have been drawing storyboards for 20 years now, it is a wonderful place to go, you draw everywhere you go and everything you see, everything. jillian: people at home looking at video, it is interesting because most people can barely do this with one hand and you are doing it with both. >> a certain part of the world is deadline deadline deadline, so many things in a row i

injured my right hand and developed tendinitis so i laid low for a little while and got to get back to work so i started dry left-handed and practiced with calligraphy first and then started making drawings left-handed and one day on vacation was just sort of shapes on their own and realized wait a minute this can happen. todd: we are taking a live shot, you beginning the drawing. what will happen, you will start the drawing for us, and be dexterous drawing, we will check back in with you and see your progress through the course of the morning and this is cool. this is neat, buddy. >> reporter: the most fun thing to draw, congratulations.

>> it is quite a rush but one more point before i go to break. every class has that one kid everybody loves, that kid was not me. it was definitely charlie and i look forward to seeing you do your thing. i put this on facebook. would like to see you do this. so cool. to this. the message of gratitude, thanking his listeners for his support in his battle against cancer during his final radio broadcast of the year. >> my point in all of this is gratitude. my point in everything today i have shared with you about this is to say thanks and to tell everybody involved how much i love you from a sizable and growing and still beating heart i wasn't expecting to be alive today.

you have an expiration date. a lot of people never get told that and so they don't face life this way. i have learned what love really is during this. >> praising the conservative radio talkshow host pouring it on social media, donald on facebook writes prayers are with you, don't give up, we know you are a fighter. >> christie posting on twitter he has a special place in kansas city and we feel like this is his town too. cans the lights shine for me tonight. >> dean says love you, i have listened to your wisdom and with for 30 years, praying for a miracle for you and your family, merry christmas blessings. time is 27 after the hour. telling fox news doj officials and talks to possibly appoint a special counsel for hunter biden so where are those conversations standing next. jillian: wrapping up the major moments, dealing out small businesses to nancy pelosi's

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shannon: former attorney general william barr said he saw no reason to appoint a special counsel to take over the hunter biden probe but the doors and closed completely. >> reporter: william barr leaving his post as attorney general yesterday and while he sees no reason to appoint a special counsel to investigate hunter biden's tax affairs not everyone in the justice department degrees. a source telling fox news high-level officials within the doj are in open discussion on the special counsel front and no decision has been made either way. one source saying a special counsel makes sense because they were designed to deal with conflict of interest adding a president-elect coming in where

his appointed attorneys will be investigating his son is textbook conflicts, the president-elect says he has not discussed the investigation with any of his attorney general candidates. he also dismissed the controversy is nothing more than a dog and pony show. >> you still think the story about your son hunter -- >> yes, yes, you are oh one morris pony. my justice department will be totally on its own making its judgments how they should do something. >> fox news has learned hunter biden owns a 10% stake in a chinese private equity firm. this is important because joe biden pledge none of his family members would engage in foreign business dealings if he was elected president. hunter is reportedly in the process of offloading his stake in that company. >> biden mentions ponies a lot.

a busy year in washington and we recap the biggest moments with our political not he and nice list and our next guest made her own and checked it twice, president of district media joins me live, beverly, great to see you as always, let's that with the nice and topping that, david for toy raising money for small business. >> reporter: we are waiting for congress to act can try to help out small businesses across the country of these two gentlemen took it upon themselves to raise money. raising $22 million and he came out with a barstool fund and closing in on $3 million to help small businesses and americans sticking together, these two on my nice list. >> bipartisan parry. >> known for being a democrat,

decided to reach out to trump supporters when she found out joe biden was president-elect, reach out to your family, love them and said she would be there for them. we would have more people of different political ideologies coming together. katy perry on the nice list. todd: it would be amazing if we came together. a nice concert happened a few days ago. >> reporter: senator lamar alexander who is retiring decided to hold an impromptu concert on capitol hill and he had his democratic and republican colleague listen to him and tim kane came out with a harmonica, merry christmas on capitol hill. i love to see that. todd: you say cuomo is getting cold. >> reporter: andrew cuomo, what

a bad year he had and janice dean would say he was at the top of the naughty list, someone with kim jong un for policies that led to the tragic death of thousands of seniors in nursing homes yet he decided to use this opportunity to write a book. he is profiting off of a global pandemic so he tops the list this year. todd: rules for thee but not for me. >> that was the theme of this year between mayors across the country, speaker of the house nancy pelosi and topping the list is the governor of california gavin newsom who decided to go eat out at the french laundry. politicians, what we can or cannot do but not following their own guidelines, definitely in our stockings this year. >> french laundry, the most expensive restaurant literally in the country and finally cold to all the members of the mainstream media and their biased coverage of hunter biden. >> you have been covering it here. twitter blocked the new york

post story about the laptop and hunter biden emails many in the mainstream media did nothing to cover this controversy prior to november 3rd election day and also decided to claim it was russian disinformation by anyone who did. a lump of coal for them because people just want the news, the fact, underscores what we've known all along which is many in the media have a political agenda so the not a list for many in the media. >> making it worse if you are watching only fox news channel you know about hunter biden but now cnn and others are starting to talk about it because like you said after november 3rd, there you have it. we wish you a very merry christmas.

shannon: we knew they would have to talk about it eventually. donald trump issues a warning to iran following our rocket attack on the us embassy in baghdad, the president tweeting and part, quote, friendly help advice to iran. of one american is killed i will hold iran responsible. think it over. the largest attack on the iraqi capital green zone in a decade included 21 missiles, when iraqi was killed, the us is considering closing the baghdad embassy, possible prelude to retaliatory strike against iran. on his last day as attorney general william barr announcing operation legends accounted for 6000 arrests in six months. the operation which began in july has been a crackdown in violent crime in nine us cities by the department of justice. of those arrested about 1500 have been charged with federal offenses. 167 arrested for homicide. portland police officers leaving the government at unprecedented levels, the portland tribune reports 14 officers will retire next month while 9 every sign

since last month, 7 more in coming weeks with 24 going more money towards their pension and taking lower paying jobs in smaller towns. officers say poor working conditions and unrest in the cities are behind the move. police in ohio spread holiday cheer with a christmas carol, take a look. richmond high school trying to lift people spirits by blasting holiday classics as they drive around. they even had the grinch locked up and back. >> you and my wife got together on this next topic to gang up on me in participation of tomorrow, christmas etiquette, dos and don'ts for the small or virtual holiday gatherings. >> sending pictures to celebrate the season, this was taken moments before, daniel standing in the back close to laurie. next to him, still wearing one piece. congratulations by the way. they got it in. i love you, merry christmas and

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jillian: the holidays are probably going to look a little different this year but that's no excuse to forget your manners. etiquette expert joins us with the dos and don'ts of christmas etiquette, thank you for being here.

nice to see you, merry christmas eve. let's talk about how the us plans to celebrate christmas in 2020, 33.4% celebrating a smaller circle, 30% celebrating the same way, 20% canceling holiday plans, no surprise. for those who are celebrating, let's talk about the dos starting with spreading joy, not germs. >> christmas isn't canceled, it is just different, like every other holiday this year. let's just continue with the great feeling of the holiday without spreading the virus. for small households, for larger ones it won't be so easy because pictures online of people at airports is disheartening but hopefully people will just continue to stay safe even though they are traveling. >> keep calm, the vaccine is here. a number of people work in healthcare already received the vaccine and going on entertaining. we heard people excited about not having to entertain. it has been a tough year but there's a lot to be grateful

for. >> without question. if you have a job and you are alive your double lucky, so much to be grateful for. this afternoon i was think of my father in law who turned 101 a few months ago and think about what he lived through in the 20s, the depression, in the 40s and world war ii, 50s the korean war, the 60s the vietnam war. i don't think our culture has had to suffer at all and people say we have to wear a mask and wash our hands and social distance, big deal, only three things and we should be doing this until the vaccine arrives for many people as possible. it's not that much of a hardship. >> this goes without saying, don't talk about politics. >> i always have or dos then don'ts. we have a president-elect and the paradigm has shifted from

politics in general to the paradigm of the pandemic of politics. widened the mask on? why aren't you social distancing. a safer bet is who is cutting the roast, who will make the christmas putting and will you be first in line to get the vaccine. keep things light and mary. jillian: lasting you have is don't be afraid to say no. what do you mean by that? >> there are people who will be celebrating, 2 to 6 to 8 in their household. if you're a host with four guests and a virus be careful. if someone you feel is not comfortable or is breaking the news, speak up and let them know this because other people are at risk. when you're indoors there is a big risk, you are outside ventilating but your house, your rules. shannon: honesty is the best policy, if they had been careful, make both parties

comfortable in that situation. >> there's a lot of burden on the host because you have to balance what everyone tells you, small is best at this point, time is on our side. jillian: we appreciate it. have a good holiday. todd: breaking news, santa claus comes to town. according to norad conditions at the north will indicate good weather for filing. this is file footage, santa is preparing for tonight, we confirmed this with the green room, delivering presents to children around the world. coming up the commander of norad will join "fox and friends" live in the 7 am hour to see if santa is on track. still ahead. this christmas eve, checking back in with artist charlie as he works, that is how much you have done so far. i can barely write my name. we have more live coming up. >> california man transforms his

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>> winter wonderland unfolding on the west coast, one man says his socially distant light display gives some escape from pandemic stress and isolation. >> joining us live, creative deck the halls, that looks amazing, thanks for being here. merry christmas eve.

so tell us what we are seeing behind us and how this started. >> this is my side field. when i was a kid we would roll go carts through here and my mom grew up here where she had her parties. my mom is the artist, other than the star wars stuff that was easy, my dad did that, the characters, my mom can do anything, just the 3 of us, we come out here and stand by the fire as people walk through, it has been an incredible year. >> joe biden will be upset but let's not get into politics. how long did it take to do that? >> i started 7 weeks before i opened. i like -- if you do this video you better have that and we keep them through christmas all the way through january 3rd. >> doesn't cost you a pretty penny. how much does this cost in total? i was reading the letters for santa jar putting donations in? >> i never wanted this to be

about that. i knew this was my crazy abstention i was going to go over the top with. i never wanted people to do that. if i didn't have that people were trying to hand me money and i guess we have to get a job because everybody watson wanted to donate. i had no idea. kind of a dream come true. i have been doing christmas lights at above average level, it covered my entire garage door. >> why do you do this? >> i don't know. when my mom said when i was 5 or 6 i have the craziest christmas lights display the guy inspired me, scott weaver at a winter wonderland and he did the same style. he was a nurse like my mom and he could paint anything and we went to his house one year and i had no idea, that is how high i

could go and i asked my mom to start painting stuff and she started with a 12 foot tall bundle from rudolph the red nosed reindeer and she went on and added 300 characters. >> a year when people need a reason to get out, a reason to smile, to give their kids a reason to enjoy the holiday season. i'm sure you've seen a lot of smiles since it opened. >> it is amazing, me and my mom at the end of every night, this is so amazing, how thankful everybody is, so amazing we get to be a part of this. i know this year sucks for a lot of people but 15, 20 minutes people spend here, everybody is so thankful and glad people are coming out. this is the first year we have had people coming and it has been amazing, people come and see people haven't seen in months. they walk through and they have masks on, they don't hug, it is incredible everybody has handled this so well and don't have to

remind people to wear masks. they come in wearing masks. it has been amazing. todd: what part of the setup is your favorite? >> it started with star wars. that is where i have the camera. we have who filled, grinch a huge favorite for my family and we made this huge 80 foot long train out of wine barrels. todd: you got the wine barrels, that is for sure. >> definitely. jillian: thank you for sharing it with us. >> all i want for christmas is, my grandpa. all i wear out here is 49ers gear was i want the atl to get fixed. waiting for next year. >> looks like one of those old-school starter jackets. >> it is a starter jackets. yes. >> thank you very much, really

appreciate it. have a great christmas. i had a mighty ducks starter jackets but did not grow up anywhere near there. >> the greatest thing ever. coming up, giano caldwell, the docket and edward graham join us live. >> checking back in with charlie snowden as he works on his christmas masterpiece live as "fox and friends first" on christmas eve morning rolls on. ♪ this year ♪ to save me from tears ♪ i give it to someone special ♪ last christmas i gave you my heart ♪ but the very next day ♪ you gave it away ♪ the holidays are a time for giving.

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and government funding remains in limbo. todd: the white house calls it a christmas miracle, 1 million vaccinations, what to expect in the fight against covid-19 in the near. >> heading home for the holidays? you are not alone, 81 million people excited to travel, health experts urge americans to have a cautious little christmas. todd: "fox and friends first" continues right now. ♪ in case you didn't hear ♪ by golly ♪ have a holly jolly christmas this year ♪ >> when you think of christmas music you think of a lot of the greats, the older generation, michael filling in on the hour generation list. it is good. up there on the list. >> we hope "fox and friends first" is a on your christmas eve to do list.