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 negotiations are far from over.

good morning, lucas. >> reporter: good morning, carley and todd. cries sigh avoided but another one looms. president trump signing the massive $2.3 trillion spending bill including $900 billion in emergency relief, facing mounting pressure from lawmakers to sign it. the president said, i will sign the package with a strong message that makes clear to congress that wasteful items need to be removed. i will send back to congress a red lined version accompanied by the formal rescission request to congress insisting those funds be removed from the bill. lawmakers are likely to ignore the president's request to cut any spending. here's what's in the bill, $600 per person direct payment, extra $300 in unemployment benefits, $284 billion in funding for paycheck protection program and extending the eviction moratorium. democrats want $2,000 cash payments, a position the president supports, but many senate republicans are not on board. >> 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 millions of federal employees, never missed a check. i think the aid should be much, much more targeted, should be targeted to people who have actually lost their job. small businesses that 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 of leader mitch mcconnell did not address the president's request to cut spending, saying i applaud president trump's decision to get 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 that bill has no chance of getting the 60 votes needed.

carley, todd. todd: and so we wait. lucas tomlinson live for us in d.c. this morning. lieu says, thanks. carley: to another big story this morning, federal officials are trying to determine what provoked a man to set off the bomb in downtown nashville christmas morning. todd: ray bogen joins us live from music city as the hero police officers describe the terrifying moments just before the explosion. >> reporter: good morning to you. this area remains under a curfew as the fbi and the atf continue to process the scene in what's being described as an ongoing investigation but some of those restrictions are expected to be lifted throughout the day. now, late last night the metro nashville police department released new video of the explosion. it shows a police officer standing on the street corner moments before the rv exploded christmas morning. police identified the bomber as 63-year-old anthony warner and say he likely acted alone. >> there is no indication

presently that anyone else was involved. nashville is considered safe. there are no known threats against the city. >> reporter: the blast caused extensive damage to surrounding buildings including the at&t tower. that caused service disruptions and outages to internet in tennessee, kentucky and alabama. the impacts included airports and first responders but most of that service has now been restored. the mayor says location is key for local 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. you know, and that's just -- that's a bit of just local insight into it's got to having to do with the infrastructure. >> reporter: now, as you mentioned, police officers are being lauded as heroes for going

door-to-door and urging people to evacuate as a message played, warning people of an explosion. that includes officer anthony wells who suffered some hearing loss because of the blast. >> i am a spiritual person and so i truly believe that when i do this job i'm led by that voice, how i treat people, how i go about doing this job every day. i'm not going to shy away from that because that's what saved my life, that's what got me to see my kids and wife on christmas. >> reporter: now, yesterday to the east of here in rutherford and wilson counties there was another truck that was blaring a similar message that the rv was playing moments before it exploded. police investigated and said there was no explosives found. however, 33-year-old james turgin is charged with two counts of felony filing a false report and tampering with evidence. carley and todd, back to you. todd: ray, we appreciate it.

thank you, sir. carley: officials were able to identify the bombing suspect, 48 hours after the explosion. former homicide detective ted williams joined us earlier, praising their efforts. >> let me say we saw after this explosion and this bombing on christmas day nothing short of excellent police work. carley: neighbors say 63-year-old ability an63-year-o, quote, a little odd and a shutin. he worked as a computer consultant until earlier this month. according to reports, he built a fence around his house to keep others out of. federal agents raided the home over the weekend. he grew up in the town, about 20 minutes outside of nashville. todd: president trump plans to be back at the white house when congress formally counts the electoral college votes. the first family spending the holidays at their home in mar-a-lago. lawmakers returning to the nation's capital on january

6th. mo brooks vowing to challenge the outcome. the new york poste post editol board telling the president to stop the insanity, offering advice on how he can save his legacy. the president turning his attention to georgia, backing the senate candidates ahead of the runoff election. the president tweeting, quote, on behalf of two great sense torsion, i will be -- 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. carley: michigan governor gretchen whitmer is blasting governors she feels haven't done enough to combat the pandemic. >> studies have shown we have saved thousands of lives. we know covid-19 is still a very real threat. we're posting the highest numbers that we have in 10 months. other governors are getting the backlash because they haven't done enough and people have been dying on their watch. carley: the democrat also

defending strict lockdown measures in her state. but fox news contributor sarah carter calling out the democrat governors who hurt small businesses with lockdowns and break their own rules. >> we've seen the hypocrisy. it's unbelievable. it's unbelievable. here are people who are really literally taking jobs away from hard working americans and it's not just the restaurants, steve. it's the farmers. it's the waiters. it's their families. it's their children. and they walk around, they go to a restaurant, and they don't have their masks on and they're sitting right next to each other and then they come out and tell us what to do. i think it's a shame. i think it's wrong. and i think the american people are waking up. carley: the state of california still seeing a massive spike in cases, despite having the strictest covid-19 restrictions. dr. marc siegel weighs in at 5:30. todd: let's play a little football. carley: i still like that guy.

todd: he's cute, that little robot guy. let's get one for next christmas. the packers crushing the titans in the snow. 40-14. a-rod throwing four touchdowns, aaron rodgers. he's so good. seahawks clinched the title with a win over the rams. >> they convert in the end zone, touchdown! todd: that touchdown helped salseal seattle's victory. the rams are struggling right now. a team that's not struggling anymore, ben roethlisberger of the pittsburgh steelers threw three touchdowns, to help beat the colts. steelers win the afc north title. jacksonville, they're happy for losing. they're applauding the bears and the bears 41-17 win, win over the jags. the jags loss means they clinch the first overall pick in the

2021 draft, likely picking trevor lawrence. the cowboys eliminated the first team in the nfc east. the cowboys beat the eagles, 37-17. setting up next week mele's eagles if they win and my giants win, my giants win the nfc east before the get destroyed in a playoff game the next week. speaking of getting destroyed, the texans got destroyed by the bengals, bringing them to a painful 4-11 record. one person is not taking that sitting down. jj watt, the houston star defensive end, he gets a little frustrated here. take a listen. >> there are people every week that still treat you, that still come up to you and say hey, we're still rootin rooting for , still behind you. they have no reason to, we stink. they care. they still want you to be great.

that's why -- those people aren't getting paid. we're getting paid handsomely. carley: watt ranting against his team's lack of professionalism, calling this season the most difficult in his career. todd: if you're not happy there, i can think of a team that plays about eight miles over there. carley: everything goes down to the giants. todd: it does. i have a one track mind. carley: you're trying to get jj watts to come -- todd: i would love it. carley: the time is 11 minutes after the hour. intense footage released of the christmas day explosion in nashville as police id the suspect killed in the blast. so what's the motive for this senseless attack? todd: tennessee congressman tim burches joins us live, next. when it comes to autism, finding the right words can be tough. finding understanding doesn't have to be.

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nashville is considered safe. there are no known threats against this city. carley: nashville police giving the all clear after a terrifying christmas day explosion. todd: congressman tim burchett joins us live from the volunteer state. your reaction to what happened in your state and of course the amazing heroism of those officers who saved so many lives. >> i, like many of you, was shocked it would happen on christmas day, the most holiest day in all of christian -- christianity. i think i'd reiterate the fact that we need to make sure that law enforcement is fully funde. it's interesting to me that nashville is the center of wokeness in this state when it comes to defunding our police and many of the protests against our police are there but you had police knowing that an explosion was going to happen and then they went and literally knocked on the doors.

i think around 57 families who could have lost their lives and because of their heroism, no lives were lost. i think that reiterates what every law enforcement man or woman does every single day when they put on that badge, they know their lives, they could be called in to risk their lives and that's exactly what these four excellent examples did and of course our tennessee bureau of investigation, the fbi further investigation, to find out who it was and i suspect we'll hear a motive soon but right now that seems to be in question. carley: the motive is definitely the big question mark. but take a listen to one of those hero police officers and what he went through during that explosion. >> probably about five minutes after we were there, i'd say that the timer then started countdown, the explosion went off. i got knocked to the ground. i immediately got up, luckily no injury, nothing like that.

carley: yeah, i mean, you just think about what police officers have to go through every single day and i think a lot of folks who could have heard that announcement, that countdown may have poo pooed it, considered it a joke. they took it seriously and now they're credited with saving a lot of lives. >> absolutely. how do you not take something like that seriously? tennessee, we've been, due to most folks around here's upbringing, we don't see this kind of thing happening. in fact, this was a home grown terrorist. we'll have to address it. the closeness to the at&t building and the disruption of power and him being a computer person by training and being a loner at that, you can't help but think that had something to do with his decision to do that. my father served in the second world war in the marine corps in the pass particular. he told me -- pacific.

he told me, if somebody wants to take you out, doesn't mind losing 24- their own life, not h you can do about it. the law enforcement officers knew that and they're the hire rows. todd: the -- heroes. todd: the other big story that everybody is falling, congress voting on $2,000 stimulus checks today after president trump signed coronavirus relief and spending bill for the $600 version. what do you think? are congressional republicans going to get behind a $2,000 version? >> i think they probably would have in the beginning, but speaker pelosi trying to cram down our throats an over $5,000 page bilke bill, giving us a fes to read it. there were failed programs here, trying to export them overseas, not allowing us to read them, the old let them eat cake kind of thing, expecting everybody to

fall in line and basically everybody did, except for two democrats and 50 republicans in the house. the american public is still outraged over that and that overshadowed the good things we were trying to do. we have to decide if people who never lost their job, who are financially doing all right, should they be entitled to $2,000. there should be some degree of separation between that and also the people who have lost their jobs, that's where the money needs to go. there could be more money going toward them and there should be a fund set up where they can a ply for it instead of a blanket approach that just doesn't work. it just shows you our priorities are way out of whack. carley: congressman, thank you. we've got to leave it there. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you for having me. todd: israel's former ambassador to the united nations sending a message to the president-elect. >> it's good not only for israel and not only for the mod of rest arab countries, it's good for the u.s. todd: will joe biden keep up

the momentum or put president trump's historic peace deals in jeopardy. carley: and lori loughlin could be a free woman in a matter of hours. details on the full house star's imminent release, next. ♪

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>> i hope that the president-elect will continue with the momentum because it's good not only for israel and not only for the moderate arab country, it's good for the u.s., the u.s. gained a lot of respect in the region when the -- with the initiative. todd: new calls for president-elect joe biden to continue striving for peace in the middle east. israel's former ambassador to the united nations, danny danin, praising president trump for brokering the abraham accords. he fears joe biden will live

sanctions on iran in an effort to appease its leaders. carley: a violent christmas weekend in sh chicago, at least7 people were shot. this includes a man attempting to rob a cell phone store saturday night. an employee with a concealed weapon permit shot and killed the suspect. todd: the ravens will be fined for the covid-19 outbreak. they had four unique strains of coronavirus in their facility with two dozen players getting sick. the team suspended the strength coach for not reporting symptoms and not always wearing a mask. the patriots and titans have been fined for covid-19 issues. carley: the missouri tigers forced to foregro forego a bowl. recent rounds of testing

revealed a, quote, significant increase in positive tests among the students, athletes, coaches and staff. on such short notice, a replacement team was not considered. activities are paused until january 2nd. todd: a lot of teams are saying, yeah, i'm not going to a bowl game even if you invite me. it's going to be a weird bowl season. carley: i feel bad for the student athletes. a dire warning, the covid-19 fight is far from over. >> do you agree that the worst is still yet to come? >> i do. we very well might see a post seasonal in the sense of christmas, new years surge. carley: dr. fauci's crime winter predictions -- grim winter predictions. todd: and returning a covid vaccine stockpile, dr. marc siegel believes the network is running a scam. he's next.

carley: a grim warning from health officials predicting a post holiday coronavirus surge stretching into next month. todd: jackie ey joins us live. >> good morning. dr. anthony fauci warning of a major spike in the weeks following the holidays. >> do you agree that the worst is still 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, a it's a surge upon a surge. >> 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 they screened more than

1.1 million people the day after christmas with holiday travel being the highest since mid-march a. new worries come as a fast moving strain of coronavirus first discovered in the united kingdom has reached canada and japan. the surgeon general, jerome adams, says restrictions are in place to keep it from coming here. >> back in march, through the presidential 212-f authority, we restricted the ability of people to come to the united states from the u.k. and travel is down 90%, even preknowledge about the new variant. >> white house testing czar brett giroir says 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. >> astrazeneca's chief says their vaccine will fight the new strain in the u.k. as the government is expected to

approve the vaccine this week to be distributed beginning january 4th. british officials hope to have 2 million people vaccinated in the following two weeks to come after that. todd, carley. carley: jackie, thank you. todd: a string of community clinics in new york facing a criminal investigation following allegations they illegally distributed covid-19 vaccines. carley: the clinic is returning the remainder of their stash after administering more than 860 doses. joining us now, fox news medical contributor, dr. marc siegel. doctor, this sounds fishy. what's going on here? >> this is very disturbing. the new york post has been following this an reporting on this story, carley. i think for the viewers out there, if you see somebody saying hey, come get your vaccine now, you've got to wonder is this on the level or not because right now not only the cdc but even new york state is saying we're giving it to healthcare workers first, frontline workers first,

emergency workers first and now starting to roll it out to nursing homes. this clinic was saying if you're over the age of 60, if you have pre-existing conditions, come on in and they also on their website were saying we take any insurance but actually the vaccine is no charge whatsoever. they had the vaccine apparently but they were giving it out to various locations inappropriately. no they're under federal investigation as they should be. todd: here's a statement from that clinic. it says, quote, in an effort to fully cooperate with new york state's department of health, we have proactively returned its vaccines pending the department's review. we are confident the end result of that review will show we at all times exerted best efforts to comply with all requirements. obviously we're going to let this play out before coming to a conclusion. my he question really is how widespread is this, doc? this is just one example in new york state but i'd imagine other people are trying to do something similar nationwide. >> well, first of all, todd,

new york state health economicker zucker has been coming down on this group torques not just the post. nationwide, there's a different issue. there's a lot of internet scams going on. over 500 are under investigation of websites say we got the vaccine, come to us. you know, and a lot of them are not for real. they're trying to charge money for a vaccine they may not have. this group apparently had the vaccine. so that's another thing to watch out for out there. watch out for somebody advertising online that they got the vaccine for you. everybody wants this vaccine now. we've done our job, right. now everybody can't wait to get it. but unfortunately there's a protocol for distribution. carley: meantime, people are taking a closer look at what's going on in california because they have the most covid-19 cases despite having really strict lockdown orders. i mean, they have a lot going on there. hair salons, museums, movie theaters, indoor recreation facilities all closed, stores

capped at 20%, restaurants take takeout and delivery only. this is going down but the cases are going up. why is that happening? >> carley, i think this is a great lesson to us that across the board lockdowns which i've been saying don't work from the beginning are more of a political tool than a medical tool. i believe in a laser approach, like if you look at la county, a lot of people are resisting, not wearing masks as they should, not physical distancing. shopping malls are open of, airports, people are probably spreading this at airports. why is outdoor dining closed? that's not shown to be a source of spread. a lot of restaurants put a lot of money into their outdoor footprint with distancing and masking. across the board lockdowns and stay at home orders, we know that's a tremendous financial cost, mental health cost, physical cost, and it's notice clear that it -- it's not clear that it actually works. once the virus is in the community, even if you do a lot

of rapid testing, which they need to do, you can't contact trace appropriately because it's so widespread. you can't isolate people. by the time you diagnose it, it may have spread to other people. most of the spread goes on within households. if you can't go out, you're spreading it within the household. carley: that is so true, if you're shutting down restaurants, you could easily regulate where people are sitting and have them sit farther apart, people will still hang out together, just inside small apartments and homes. i think that has a lot to do with what we're seeing in california. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. todd.todd: speaking as somebodo has been hanging out in his home for a few months now, adam klotz. i don't know what's going on with the weather. that was my toss. >> that was my toss. i'm completely safe, completely isolated. still working from home, still tracking the winter weather that we're seeing sweeping across the country. early morning temperatures, near 20s and 30s. we have a big winter storm

coming in the next couple days, going to impact a lot of folks. winter storm watches and warnings from the west coast, into the heartland, all the way to the great lakes. it's going to be a low pressure system that's sweeping off from -- beginning in the southern california area, so you're getting into the desert southwest, beginning to see snow at higher elevations, that will lift up to the plains over the next 12 hours. you see what becomes snow at some of the higher elevations, northern latitudes, rain down along some of the southern tiers. those are the areas that we're watching the snow, icy rain, eventually maybe just freezing rain. so this is going to be a storm we're paying attention to. temperatures on the day eventually warming up a little bit. if you're in the spots where temperatures are in the 30s in the middle of the country, a snowstorm will be on the way in the next 24 hours. back to you guys. carley: adam, thank you so much. we appreciate it. dwayne the rock johnson sharing an adorable photo of how he

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it exploded. it exploded right now. todd: a house explosion caught on camera in houston. officials saying a gas leak caused the blast, leveling that home. nobody was hurt someyou how. somehow. gas company was on its way to fix the leak but obviously did not get there in time. carley: my goodness. did you hear about this, lori loughlin is serving her final hours at a california prison. the actress is expected to be released sometime today after two months behind bars. she was sentenced for her role in the college admissions cheating scandal. her husband is also serving time in prison. he is expected to be released in april. wow. he got a lot more time than she did. jennifer aniston facing backlash over a christmas ornament some

accused of making light of the coronavirus pandemic. todd: the friends star posted a picture, reading our first pandemic, 2020. she posted that on instagram. then this happened. it became the center of an internet controversy with many saying the pandemic shouldn't be celebrated and aniston should do better. others say she did nothing wrong. carley: anna on twitter saying in part let's not forget about how she tried to help small businesses and urged people to wear masks in pretty much every post she makes. todd: another tweeted the fact many are canceling her over a christmas ornament is mind bog he'lling. i don't think -- boggling. i don't think she meant any harm by it. still ahead, for the good and the bad, 2020 was certainly unpredictable from riots this summer to the first covid-19 vaccinations, a look back at a year that will go down in the history books, next. ♪

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carley: 2020 has been a wild ride, from a worldwide pandemic to an unprecedented presidential election, "fox & friends first" has covered it all. todd:.todd: you know it's a hea year when you both begin it by saying oh, boy. let's take a look back at some of the year's biggest stories. >> i'm tod todd piro. >> i'm jillian mele. >> you're watching "fox & friends first" first on this monday morning. i'm todd piro. >> we start with a fox news alert. busy american cities deserted as the nation implements dramatic new restrictions to contain

covid-19. >> we're using the full pow yesterdapowerof the federal govo defeat the coronavirus and we will do whatever it takes. >> new york of, america's covid-19 epicenter could run out of hospital beds and resources today. >> we need real liedership, not a -- leadership, not a governor that congratulates himself. >> protesters took to the streets in defiance of the curfew. >> it's been a hard eight, nine months already. the new set of restrictions, it's another punch in the gut for the industry. >> the u.s. getting a shot of hope of, frontline healthcare workers getting some of the first doses of the vaccine. >> members of the fdny cheering. >> violent clash as nationwide protests over the death of george floyd rage into another night. >> if we don't get no justice. >> then you don't get no sleep. >> officers ambushed in brooklyn new york, two shot, one stabbed in the neck.

new york city votes to slash nearly $1 billion from the police budget. president trump declaring a new era of peace at the signing of treaties between israel, bahrain and the united arab emirates. >> the senate officially confirming judge amy coney barrett as the 115th justice on the supreme court. e-mails reveal a link between ukraine's burisma holdings and then vice president joe biden. >> it was chaotic, it was personal. there was cross talk. >> people know this senator -- i'm not going to answer the question. >> why won't you answer the question. >> will you shut up, man. >> joe biden waited 32 years to give that speech. no one would have thought he would do it. the trump campaign filing five appeals of philadelphia county's board of election's decision to count different categories of mail-in absentee ballots. >> we want the law to be used in a proper manner. >> now, there is a big number from yesterday. we closed above 30,000 for the first time in history. >> never been broken that number, that's a sacred number. >> we couldn't see the volatile weather we saw over the last

couple days. we certainly could see flash flooding. >> real dangerous flash flooding. >> this is one way that we can hopefully fulfill our mission and be able to put a smile on somebody's face. >> you guys donated 25,000 gallons of hand sanitizer to date in your community. >> we'll do it as long as needed. >> one group of volunteers from new jersey is making it their mission to deliver 100 meals a day. >> we don't want to fend for our of selfs, this network came about. >> churches across the country are sending aid through boxes of hope during the pandemic. >> we wanted to do something tangible to show god's love. >> kanye west reportedly bows out of the 2020 race or said differently, ye, we hard knew ye. >> we so appreciate you covering our reopening. >> during breaks, all we're doing is talking about preps for the storm. >> i do have wine being delivered. >> that's an excellent idea.

oh, so smart, jillian. >> president trump, you can do whatever you feel. >> yeah, that's right, todd. i guess we'll just take it away with this video as he was feeling very energized. >> before your next take, could you pay the light bill. there's no lights on behind you. jillian did the tease to this story twice, just did the toss. i would say you and the story are becoming a habit. >> oh, that's one of your better ones. >> i have to apologize for snowdles. i combined it with sneakers. mele elevated the wall street journal to the highest stock market in history. it's a friday. >> it sounds like a delicious snack. i don't know if it's because i'm hungry. >> we love it. >> happy friday. enjoy your weekend. zotodd: you todd: remember i said it's a habit. it was a story about nuns.

>> i remember that. todd: you know it's a tough joke when you need three months to explain it away. carley: speaking of tough, it's been a rough year. it's been a rough year. started off normal and then we had a lot of -- you know, the pandemic, the riots, the protests and now we're getting a vaccine and the things that the packages bring up that are good you sort of see some of the glimmers that were a positive throughout the year that you've for goaten about. i -- forgotten about. i forgot about clapping for healthcare workers every day at 7:00. i thought thats was fantastic. there were good moments throughout the year, of course. but we're so happy about that vaccine and hopefully 2021 can get back to normal. todd: time now is 51 minutes after the hour. rumors circling, the squad's going to fall apart in 2021. carley: david webb said every mean girls group breaks up eventually. the fox nation host will explain that, next.

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need joining us this morning is david webb. good morning. >> good morning. how are you? carley: very good. okay. the president signed a bill the house is going to vote on the $2,000 stimulus checks today. the president wants that. some folks getting these checks that haven't even lost their jobs. what do you think about this? >> i think it's a travesty. the fact is that what america doesn't really need is a pittance from our tax dollars that we sent to the federal government to come back to us minus real money. what we need is to reopen america. reopen america safely. we have learned a lot about the virus. businesses are able to make the adjustments, locally and to the point of people who don't need the money or who shouldn't get the money. there are a lot of people out there who will have to pay back the money. do you know who they are? all of the taxpayers, their children, our grand children. we are literally spending our way into more poverty and more debt as a country. that's not fair. todd: it's going to be interesting to see how this all

shakes out obviously with inflation and keep on borrowing. meantime, the squad could become a thing of the past insiders say according to a "new york post" report with the pending departure of their most vocal critic president trump and newly elected reps with their own agendas there will be less to tie the group together. do you agree with that, david? >> you know what? it's not that i don't care but i don't really want when it comes to the squad. they are a means girls club. they had a target in donald trump and they went after him because it made them popular and they were popular on social media. what's not popular, their policies. aoc worked at the coffee shop. her policies, similar policies killed a business that i used to frequent in new york. will they are dangerous. with you they are a means girls club. every one of them eventually breaks up as they have been fighting with each other. they are looking for spotlight and now come the new members of coming who may steal some of that woke spotlight based on

some self-identification or otherwise. the fact is that's all they are is a mean girls club. and they have a brand new leader, kamala harris. she is the new leader of the mean girls club. todd: interesting. we have got to talk about football and nfl ratings which were down this season according to nielsen by 7%. so, according to this new poll the number one reason that people gave as to why they didn't watch football, politics. the social justice demonstrations. the nfl is a business. they want to make money, so do you think they will take this into consideration or will, you know, wokeness win out here? >> first thing they ought to take into consideration, jillian, is get rid of roger googd, is he a terrible leader. the woke nfl has taken a football fan like me, a die hard giants fan and i have not watched a game all season. i'm enjoying college football. you look at the effects of covid, but before there was

covid, there was collin cap per nortcoal colinkaepernick many ts of americans who serve, police officers, service members, their families, the extended veterans community. and to anyone who had a sense of pride in the flag and what it stands for. when the nfl through that away. they true away their roots and they will have to fight really hard to get it back. todd: you can watch david webb, reality check with david webb only on fox nation. terrified, let me summarize the giants yesterday. they played defense on the first quarter. you and i could have completed passes against that so you didn't miss much. carley: thank you, david, appreciate it. all right. we have got to go, dave. u.s. delivery drivers give a 9-year-old boy a christmas to remember. watch this. >> we got you a u.p.s. will van if you want one. here, i will let you take that.

had. todd: very familiar with will jace who is nonverbal. waits for him to deliver packages to his ohio home. will. carley: how cool is that? do you know what else is cool? "fox & friends" that starts right now. will: good morning and welcome to "fox & friends." we begin with a fox news alert. president trump signing the massive 2 pulp be $3 trillion spending bill which includes $900 billion in coronavirus relief. will. >> lawrence: the president's signature averting a shutdown as well as getting much needed need to struggling americans. rachel: today the house is expected to vote on a bill that could bring $2,000 in direct stimulus payments. will: welcome to "fox & friends" this is will cain along with rachel campos-duffy and our good friend lawrence is over here hanging out with us today. good morning to all three of you -- poet of you. happy to have you today on the show.