wet. thank you very much. thank you for being with us all through this incredible year. we will see you again next sunday, next year when the next revolution will be televised. ♪ ♪ ♪ jillian: it is monday, december 28th. we're following two major stories this morning. a fox news alert, relief is on the way. president trump signing coronavirus stimulus and a spending bill overnight, preventing a national shutdown. todd: the battle is far from over. we're live in washington with the president's push to put more money in your pockets. jillian: plus, authorities say the man responsible for the christmas day bomb that rocked downtown nashville is dead. >> there's no indication presently that anyone else was involved. nashville is considered safe. there are no known threats against the city. todd: we're live in nashville as the heroic officers who

responded to the scene recalled the harrowing moments before the blast. "fox & friends first" starts right now. a good morning to you and yours you're watching "fox & friends first." i'm todd piro. carley: i'm carley shimkus. todd: president trump unlocked coronavirus relief aid and averts a government shutdown. carley: lucas tomlinson joins us live in washington as negotiations are far from over. >> reporter: president trump signing the massive $2.3 trillion spending bill including $900 billion in emergency relief funds, facing mounting pressure from lawmakers to sign it. in a statement the president said, quote, i will sign the omnibus and covid package with a strong message that makes clear to congress that waste physicals need to be removed. i will send back to congress a

redlined version. lawmakers are likely to ignore the president's request to cut any spending. here's what in the bill, $600 per person, extra $300 per week unemployment benefits, $284 billion in funding for paycheck protection program and extending the eviction moratorium. >> it's terribly untargetted. why would we send $2,000 to people with a six figure income who have had no suspension, no reduction of income at all. consider the l millions of federal employees, never missed a check. i think that the aid should be much, much more targeted, should be targeted to people who have actually lost their job, small business that's are actually in danger of going under. >> my view is that given the terrible economic crisis facing this country, yes, we do need to get $2,000 out to every working

class individual in this country. >> reporter: in a statement senate majority leader mitch mcconnell did not address the president's request to cut any spending, quote, i applaud president trump's decision to get hundreds of billions of dollars of crucial covid-19 relief out the door and into the hands of american families as quickly as possible. house lawmakers return to washington today to vote on the $2,000 checks, senate republicans say the bill is dead on arrival. todd: just in case you thought the week would be slow, lucas tomlinson in d.c. for us. carley: federal officials are trying to determine what provoked a man to set off a bomb in downtown nashville on christmas morning. todd: ray bogen joins us live as the heroic police officers describe the moments before the explosion. >> reporter: good morning. this area remains under a curfew as the fbi and atf continue to process the scene and as they do

throughout the day t restrictions and the area that is under a curfew will continue to be further and further brought in closer to the blast site. we're a couple of blocks out right now. late last night, the metro national police department released new video showing the moment the explosion went off and shows an officer standing on the street corner and seconds later the rv exploded and this all happened on christmas morning. police identified the bomber as 63-year-old anthony warner and say he likely acted alone. >> there's no indication presently that anyone else was involved. nashville is considered safe. there are no known threats against the city. >> reporter: now, the blast caused extensive damage to the surrounding buildings and one of them was the at&t tower and that knocked out cellar and internet

services. the impacts included airports and first responders. most of the service has been restored. the mayor says the location is key for locals here, as they try to figure out why warner did this. >> all of us locally feels like there has to be some connection with the at&t facility and the site of the bombing. and that's a bit of just local insight into it's got to having to do with the infrastructure. >> reporter: now, police officers are being lauded as heroes for going door-to-door and urging people to evacuate. one officer said when she evacuated a mother and her young children, she couldn't help but think of her nieces and no fews. another officer was -- n nephew. another officer had hearing loss because of the blast.

>> probably about five minutes after we were there, i'd say that the timer then started countdowns. explosions went off. i got knocked to the ground. i immediately got up. luckily, no injury, nothing like that. >> reporter: now, before this explosion, anthony warner was not on law enforcement's radar so the fbi is asking anyone who may have known him to call so they can help establish a motive. carley and todd, back to you. todd: we're going to have a lot more on the story throughout the course of the next two hours. thank you, sir. carley: we are learning more about the man officials identified as the bomber. neighbors say 63-year-old anthony warner was, quote, a little odd and a shut-in. according to reports, he built a fence around his house to keep others out. federal agents raided the home over the weekend. he grew up in the town, about 20 minutes outside nashville.

congressman tim burchit says he is praying for everyone impacted. todd: the president turning his attention to georgia, backing the republican senate candidates ahead of next week's runoff elections that will decide the balance of power in the senate. the president tweeting, quote, on behalf of two great senators, i will be going to georgia on monday night, january 4th to have a big and wonderful rally, so important for our country that they win. marsha blackburn says protecting the republican senate majority is vital to protect president trump's progress from the last four years. >> big business, big government, big tech, big media, they all go hand in hand and they're all a part of the d.c. swamp and thank goodness for donald trump and his efforts to drain the swamp around i think the -- and i think the american people are finding out just how

murky the swamp is. we have to hold the senate, because chuck schumer has said if he is going to take georgia, which is his words, then he's going to change the country. todd: more than 2 million georgians have voted in the runoffs already. carley: two progressives newly elected to congress refuse to say if nancy pelosi has their vote for speaker of the house. >> what i'm going to do is make sure that the voices of the people of st. louis are heard and we have what we need and so you'll find out then. >> you will find out when my vote is tallied and, again, organizing with our of community to figure out what's best. carley: we will find out, they say. the incoming democrats, cory bush of missouri, jamal bowman of new york, are expected to join the so-called squad which have called for new leadership. fox news contributor jason chaffetz says a divided democrat

party could put pelosi's speakership in jeopardy. >> i don't think she could run the gauntlet. i don't think she can get from here to there. there's only a few days until they actually have this vote. each member, the one thing they have to do is call out who they're going to vote for, for speaker of the house. there was not a single republican, not one, running for re-election in the house of representatives that lost a race, not one. and i think the next generation of democrats is fed up. i think they they see a group of people that are basically about 80 years old in their leadership, they've been there for a long time. they're hungry, they're aggressive and i think -- i don't think she can get the 218 votes needed. carley: pelosi is seeking her fourth two-year term as speaker. todd: i do love the robot man. carley: so do i. todd: the packers crushing the titans in the snow. boy, doesn't that look like football right there.

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>> there's no indication presently that anyone else was involved. nashville is considered safe. there are no known threats against this city. carley: nashville police chief reassuring the public after evidence reveals the christmas bombing suspect died in the

explosion. todd: but as we learn of a possible copy cat attack, is there more than meets the eye. joining us to react, former homicide detective, ted williams. great to see you as always. what's your assessment of what we know so far. >> happy hole of days to both of-holidays to both of you all. let peme say, we saw after the explosion and the bombing on christmas day, nothing short of excellent police work. the first thing they had was a great deal of evidence at the scene. had they had human remains they were trying to identify. the public was engaged and helped out. the videotapers in the area, they were able to pull the videos and they were able to show like 1:22 a.m. the morning before the bombing that that rv was in the neighborhood of -- on second street there. so that really helped law

enforcement to gel and to come up with a suspect and that suspect was anthony quinn warner. and as we know, the authorities now have said that it was anthony quinn warner that conducted this bombing and died as a result of the bombing. carley: you know, in these situations there's always concern of a copy cat and yesterday we learned that somebody was arrested outside of nashville for driving around in a car with a similar pa system. so what are officials doing to make sure that something like this doesn't happen again? >> well, they're out, they're vigilant, had they are on guard, hoping that these copy cats will not act as they're acting of out there. it was very sad as you said along those highways there was a

song downtown that was supposed to have been played on second street just before the explosion and here it was the day after this, you had someone on the highway in an rv playing "downtown" and the authorities came along, they stopped that vehicle and they took him in a right and proper manner. todd: meantime, the nypd is warning in an internal memo of cops being targeted with ieds and other vehicle attacks. here's what the memo says. violent extremists and malicious criminal actors may go after cops to incite further acts. is this home of grown terrorists or -- home grown terrorists or international terrorists. >> i think you have to worry about both, international and home grown terrorists. let's be honest about it. there are sleeper cells from

international terrorists, al-qaida, isis, that are here in the united states and they want to harm, they want to kill americans. so what happened here on december 14th, the intelligence unit of the police department there in new york got some information and they decided to warn both on-duty officers, off-duty officers, retired officers, that their lives very well could be in jeopardy. carley: all of these situations, such a reminder of how extremely brave police are in this situation out in nashville, you have officers running to evacuate people as that awful countdown was going on before the explosion. so can't thank our law enforcement enough and that includes you, ted. thank you for joining us today. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. todd: an incredible reunion just in time for christmas.

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party and be safe at the same time? and actually make it fun rather than hokey. here's my plan. your party list should go out pretty soon with invites to people. get everybody committed to a theme. doesn't have to be black tie. it could be some theme that you pick and you're going to host a dinner party, you're going to drink together or eat together, maybe there's a signature cocktail that everybody makes and send around the fun stuff, the party supplies. these are five bucks, 15 bucks, target, walmart, online at amazon. it's cheap to throw something fun together, say everybody has matching stuff and they give awards to the best zoom backgrounds. todd: we're giving you the award for the best zoom background. you win. carley: i said to the producers, where is he, because he looks like he's in studio. you've got a great home backdrop.

todd: we wish you a great new year. thanks for coming on with us. >> lots of joy to you. todd: appreciate it, sir. 26 minutes after the hour. capitol hill clash today as the house votes on $2,000 relief checks. is that the best move for he americans? carley: jennifer aniston may lose friends over this onment. why the pc -- ornament, why the pc police is outraged. ♪ hey, hey, hey, just walk away.

carley: back with a fox news alert. president trump averting a government shutdown, signing the massive $2.3 trillion spending bill which includes $900 billion in coronavirus relief. todd: the emergency funds in the relief deal include $600 payments for every adult and child, extra $300 a week in unemployment benefits for 11 weeks, $284 billion in funding for paycheck protection program and extending the eviction

moratorium. carley: on capitol hill, congress will vote on the president's demand for $2,000 checks to every american. todd: those checks a major sticking point between republicans and democrats. >> it's terribly untargetted, right. why would we be sending $2,000 to people with a six figure income who have had no suspension, no reduction of their income at all. >> given the terrible economic crisis facing this country, yes, we do need to get $2,000 out to every working class individual in this country. todd: so did president trump's strategy help or hurt democratic strategist robert patillo and analyst ron meyer join us now. did the president help the situation or hurt it. >> he hurt the situation. president trump had the ability to come out over the summer or in the spring and say he was going to demand $2,000 direct payments to individuals. why would you wait until the

entire bill has already been negligence other of yatesed and -- negotiated and passed in order to throw a monkey wrench in the middle of it. the checks could have been going on this week according to treasury secretary mnuchin but it was halted. of course he hurt the process. todd: is robert right or is this nancy pelosi's fault for back in the summer demanding a gazillion dollars, not the official number but it felt like it, in her relief deal. >> we can play the blame game all day. trump supported $2,000 plus payments for as long as i can remember, going back to june. the democrats did pass something, with every rider and spending package that was their dream including bailing out states that haven't been smart with their money of. i think we can go back and forth and blame, say it could have been earlier. the democrats were never going to pass a bill before the

election that the president would actually be able to sign so they filled it with stuff that would make it totally unsignable because they wanted to make sure that nothing passed before joe biden was able to secure victory. and so that's been their strategy from day one and so i think the president -- i think the president supported big checks for a long time he still supports them. he would support a stand-alone rider that increases it to two grand. at this point no one is caring about federal spending and the president understands that. i think he feels that direct payments are giving people their money back. we're sending money across the world to various foreign countries. todd: the president firming up his georgia rally planned for the day before the critical runoffs in the peach state. what do you think, robert? do you think the stimulus signing is going to sway voters in any way, shape or form or of are the results in this one already baked in. >> you had kelly loeffler spending a half billion dollars

on commercials, criticizing raphael warnock for wanting to make correct payments to individuals and a week before the election president trump coming out talking about th thi. these people have consistently demonstrated they feel that direct payments to the american people are unnecessary but to help billionaires and millionaires is what they care out of. i don't think donald trump is going to change that with a trip georgia next week. todd: ron, your response. >> i think the current incumbent senators voted for the relief. they supported additional relief from time to time. what it comes down to really is momentum and people wanting a true check on government. you know, when the president-elect gets sworn in january 20th, people are going to want to know there's a check and balance. if the democrats hold the house and the senate and the presidency, i don't think that's what the american people want. i think they want divided

government, they want to make sure that d.c. is forced to compromise and that one party doesn't run over another. if you look at the georgia senate races, i think that's what it comes down to. especially with candidates on the democratic side that aren't in line with moderate, compromising values, they're hard core, progressive democrats. do we want the senate to be taken over in that way when we could have one party control, i don't think so. i think that's why you're going to see president trump go down there to try to get the momentum for the republicans to close this thing off and i think that republicans do have the slight momentum here. it's going to be close. todd: you have to won of deer if the president really -- wonder if the president really held his nose and swallowed his medicine, even though he hates the pork in the bill, he doesn't want to do anything about distancing the senators. we appreciate your insight. carley: president-elect joe

biden has three cabinet positions left to fill. jacqui heinrich has more on who lawmakers think those nominees should be. >> reporter: the transition's at work. senator bernie sanders asked about one of the short listers for attorney general, merck garland, says there are stronger progressive options and says biden has fallen short. republicans are working to keep biden's picks the middle of the lane. >> the progressive movement itself is probably 35 or 40% of the democratic coalition and i believe take the progressive movement deserves seats in the cabinet, that has not yet happened. >> i know your previous guest probably would like him to move more to the left but i've been pushing to try to keep him in a more moderate place where he's willing to reach across the aisle and work together with republicans. >> reporter: president-elect biden is more than two weeks late on his self imposed

deadline to nominate his pick for attorney general. last week he said there's no obvious choice in his mind. jacqui heinrich, fox news. carley: that pick for attorney general under a lot of skepticism as the president-elect's son, hunter biden, remains under federal investigation. todd: a grim warning from health officials predicting a post holiday coronavirus surge stretching into next month. carley: jackie ibanez joins us live at as the u.s. passes 19 million cases nationwide. >> reporter: dr. ant fauci anthi warning of a major spike. >> do you agree that the worst is yet to come? >> i do. and the reason i'm concerned and my colleagues in public health are concerned also is that we very well might see a post seasonal in the sense of christmas, new years surge and as i've described it, it's a

surge upon a surge. >> reporter: fauci saying the general public will most likely begin to get immunized by early april with frontline workers and elderly given priority, as the tsa says it screened more than 1.1 million people the day after christmas with holiday travel being the highest since mid-march. meantime, new worries come as a fast-moving strain of coronavirus first discovered in the united kingdom has reached canada and japan as well as several other countries. a couple in ontario with the strain had no known travel history or high risk contacts but west house testing czar admiral brett giroir said the coronavirus vaccine will work against the new strain. >> we have no evidence to suggest nor do we believe that the vaccine would not be effective. in other words, we do believe the vaccine will be effective against this variant. so that's why we're so excited and still very enthusiastic

about the vac teen program. >> reporter: -- vaccine program. >> reporter: astrazeneca's chief said the vaccine will fight it in the u.k. british officials hope to have 2 million people vaccinated there in the two weeks after that. todd: thanks for that update. carley: a young pilot goes through a painstaking process to honor europe's coronavirus vaccination campaign. a 20-year-old went on a 125-mile journey to create this giant syringe on radar. the pilot hopes it will inspire people who are on the fence about getting the vaccine. germany and the eu kicked off their vaccination drive over the weekend. how about that? and take a look at this. an emotional christmas surprise for a police sergeant in st. petersburg, florida. you're going to love it.

[ crying ] carley: oh, boy. private second class d avion oliver showed up at police headquarters, giving his sergeant mom a big hug in time for the holidays. todd: mom didn't expect him home until next year. oliver and his mom will join fox at friends in the 7:00 a.m. hour. stick around for that. we love telling stories about that. carley: a big smile on your face. time is now 40 minutes after the hour. lori loughlin could be a free woman in a matter of hours, after serving out her sentence. todd: details on the fuller house star's imminent release, next. ♪ wild thing. ♪ you make my heart sing. ♪

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charges in connection with saturday's bowling alley shooting in illinois. sergeant first class duke web is accused of gunning down three people and wounding three others. the army cooperating with the murder investigation. a special forces commander says in part, quote, the alleged actions are abhour rent and absolutely not representative of the special forces regiment and are completely out of character with webb's 12 years of honorable service. todd: the manhunt continues for a suspect accused of shooting an officer. these two women along with two others are behind bars for hindering the apprehension. the manhunt is expanded into neighboring states with a $15,000 reward for information leading to his capture. carley: lynn kia died after suspected poisoning on christmas day. the chairman of a chinese gaming

company was hospitalized earlier this month. an executive at the company is the main suspect. the two reportedly had a dispute over salary. she was working with game of throne creators to develop a trilogy for netflix. todd: lori loughlin serving her final hours in a california prison, expected to be released some time today after two months behind bars. she was sentenced for her role in a college cheating scandal. her husband is also serving time in prison. carley: some fans on social media defending jennifer aniston amid back lash, over a christmas ornament some accused of making light of the coronavirus pandemic. todd: the ornament read our first pandemic. many said it should not be celebrated and aniston should do better. others said she did nothing wrong. carley: many coming to her defense with anna on twitter

saying if you're upset about jennifer aniston's ornament instagram story, let's not forget about how she tried to help small businesses and urged people to wear masks. todd: another said it's mind boggling. carley: you can't cancel jennifer aniston. todd: we have commercials and memes and everything about 2020. i put that in that category. the president-elect made a lit litany of day one promises to undo the trump agenda. can he do any of them. carley: we have details on whether it's overly ambitious, coming up next. now is the time to do money. without the commission fees. so, you can start

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carley: president-elect biden pledging to undo a laundry list of president trump's policies on his first day in office. but could that work against american interests? here to discuss, senior policy analyst for the independent women's forum, inez stepman. good morning. >> good morning to you. carley: biden has made a whole lot of promises, especially on immigration, he wants a pathway to citizenship for dreamers and citizenship for 11 million people in this country illegally. is that something he could possibly accomplish? >> well, he could certainly go back to the days of the obama administration and do this via executive order, although at the time and continuing there are questions about his constitutionality, it is potentially moving legislation via pen and phone.

it seems we're long past such constitutional concerns. this is an agenda i think very much dedicated to those voters that put biden over the top which is to say wealthy suburb suburbanites. it it is not a working class or middle class agenda. there's a focus on climate change which is a number one or number two issue in the primaries for democrats but ranks number 15 or 16 when you look at the electorate as a whole. this is very much tailored to his base. carley: joe biden says he wants to reverse the travel ban. he describes it as an anti-muslim travel ban. it also affects countries like north korea and venezuela. that is probably going to be pretty easy for him to reverse, but should he? >> i don't believe so. this is a misnomer. it's not a muslim ban. it includes all kinds of countries that the united states does not have intelligence sharing relationships with, the idea being that we cannot

properly vet people coming from these countries to make sure they don't for example have terrorist ties. that is what this is about. this is about national security. it would be unwise for biden to undo it. it was done again by executive order so the new president will be within his powers to undo it. so much of the trump agenda with regard to immigration enforcement has been done because congress has not moved legislation to protect the american people on this issue, so much of what president trump had to do was with the pen and the phone and unfortunately that can be undone by the pen and the phone. carley: you brought up climate change earlier which brings us to biden wanting to rejoin the paris climate agreement. he's also appointed a climate czar in john kerry. what does that mean for the business industry and our country as well as our oil independence? >> i think for big business, this is not the disaster that one might think it is, largely corporations are now players in the democratic party which is why i kind of expect from the biden administration and of

course all predictions are off, who knows, i'm not a good prognosticator. what i expect is a woke liberal agenda, where on economic issues they kind of slow pedal it. not to say he's not to the left of the obama administration, at least on the platform he's run on, on economic issues. but i think a really hard pedal, really move forward on some of the cultural issues, rather than on economic issues, especially since corporations are now firmly -- many large corporations are firmly in the democratic column, i think that will affect their policy and affect the biden administration's policy. i will expect the biden add medicine industries to reinches -- administration to reinstitute critical race theory training, some of the executive orders the obama administration had regarding education for example, accommodation of students and their gender identity on sports teams or in locker rooms. this is something that the obama administration did but didn't really get a lot of press at the time. and expect a return of some of

that and really, again, going hard on the cultural issues and trying to cover up the fact that corporations actually will have a larger hand in democratic policy party and biden administration than some sort of -- some would like. carley: lote's talk about biden's plan to raise taxes on the wealthy. >> that's on his agenda. this is something he will need congress for and even if republicans lose these races in georgia, that's still going to be something that's going to be hammered out through congress and through the senate. it's not going to be easy and it's not going to be quick. i wouldn't expect motion on that right away, as opposed to some of the other topics we're talking about which were, again, done by executive order of. , so are part of the potential first 100 days agenda. carley: 2021 will be a different year than 2020 in more ways than one, we'll see if the pendulum shifts back in 2024. thank you so much. we appreciate you joining us and breaking it all down.

thank you so much. >> thank you. carley: todd? todd: we appreciate the cowboy over her left shoulder. times square ball getting dressed up for the big drop, installing 200 crystal panels over the giant orb over the weekend. all eyes will be virtually on the 12-foot sphere on new year's eve. only about 100 guests will be on hand in midtown to ring in 2020. all frontline workers. that's good that they're inviting frontline workers. coming up in the next hour of "fox & friends first," can the socialist squad stay on the same page in 2021 or will the original far left four fall apart? david webb on rumors the unit could become a thing of the past. carley: the unit. todd: the unit, yeah. carley: my goodness. todd: this sunday, jj watt went off on his own team.

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todd: it is monday, december 28th. we're following two major stories for you this morning. first, a fox news alert, relief on the way. president trump signing coronavirus stimulus and a spending bill overnight,

preventing a national shutdown. carley: the battle is far from over. we are live in washington with the president's push to put more money in your pocket. todd: plus, authorities say the man responsible for the blast that rocked downtown nashville is dead. >> there is no indication presently that anyone else was involved. nashville is considered safe. there are no known threats against the city. carley: we are live in washington, i'm sorry, nashville, as the hir the heroic officers who responded to the scene recall the harrowing moments before the blast. "fox & friends first" continues right now. good morning, you're watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning. i'm carley shimkus. todd: i'm todd piro. a live look at capitol hill as president trump unlocks coronavirus relief aid and averts a government shutdown. carley: lucas tomlinson joins us live in washington as