and he won't move at all until you give him more attention. although he blinks. also happy birthday eve to lauren fritz, a friend of ♪ pete: we go straight to a fox news alert on this saturday morning. twitter permanently bans president trump's account. follows months of the company flagging his tweets and just a day after he was suspended from facebook. jedediah: mark meredith is live in washington with more on that. mark? >> jed, good morning to you. twitter removed president trump's account over tweets that say violated the platform's arules. accusing the company trying to silence him all over politics. if you try to go to the president's twitter page you are met with account suspended. twitter limpings to a message explaining why. say the president's tweets could create further incitement of violence. the president's account you may

remember was temporarily blocked earlier this week hours after the violence of pro-touch supporters in the capitol. final straw tied to a tweet the president wrote yesterday morning in which he said his supporters will have a quote giant voice long into the future and won't be disrespected. several other internet services are also limiting or blocking the president all together. they include facebook, snapchat and paypal. some of the president's allies call it nothing short of censorship. >> these big tech companies are too big. they are monopolistic. they don't allow for competition. if they can do it to the president what makes them stop from doing it to anybody else. >> the president is vowing to return to social media other platforms potentially even developing his own. after the one point he did tweet from the at potus account those tweets were later removed. we will keep watching. pete, jed and will, garage. will: it's will cain along with pete hegseth and jedediah beal i

can't. good morning to you both. pete: are you doing. jedediah: good morning. will: doing well. this story focuses in tight on president trump. no doubt president trump deserves a ton of attention of the he drives our news cycle and the direction of our country. in the wake of the events that followed on wednesday we focus in on the president and what happened in the capitol. i think it's always more important to look at what this means underneath. what this means for america. not just one are celebrity presidential figure but what this means for you and me and everyone watching and how this affects our lives. and what i would say to you this morning is this. if this can be done as you heard there from corey lewandowski to the president of the united states it can be done to anyone, anyone. no matter your political positions, voice is now under threat. you heard mark talk about this. it's not just twitter. take a look at the social media platforms right now that have kicked off the presidents of the united states, facebook,ing twitter, google, spotify, snapchat, instagram, shop phi,

for whatever that is worth. reddit, twitch. youtube, tiktok and pinterest. i'm sure the president was busy i too think the most important point easy to say today someone who agree disagrees with me shut out of the conversation. that's not true. what is coming is, it's coming for you. it's coming for anyone that does not 100 percent toe the acceptable line, jedediah. jedediah: yeah, i think it's deeply concerns because of the way that policy, particularly at twitter, not just at twitter, particularly at twitter has been applied and people are saying if this is your policy as articulated it's not being applied across the board. there are people still allowed to tweet. we are going to go through a lot of that list coming up and more. you know, i think that -- i saw this coming when it came to the president when he actually put that tweet out about mike pence

in the midst of the rioting going on at the capitol because that did incite people to want to inflict some type of violence, to look for mike pence, to be searching for mike pence at the time. so i think there is a challenge here i think you can acknowledge that many so of the president's twots have been problematic and simultaneously say i don't know that censorship is an option. i don't know if it's doable. you would have to censor so many people across the board that i don't know if the platform would continue to exist. i don't know if it's the smart move. i don't know that it stops up citing people. it may incite them more. i think i'm less feeling i don't know what the answer is, i do think that some of his tweets and tweets by many others, by the way including antifa organizations and have been problematic and do incite people, too incite bad actors, no question. what do you do about it? that's where i'm at. i'm not so sure. pete: it's a scary moment, guys. the best thing you can do to

confront bad speech or any speech you don't like not to try to shut it down but to have more speech and let the platform of ideas determine the best speech the righteous speech. as far as whether there was incrime. no one in the president's tweets told people to commit acts of violence or riot or loot. people may interpreted into them what they should not have. look at who is still on twitter. iran supreme leader. venezuelan president. the kremlin account. richard spencer, louis farrakhan. i'm not calling for those people to be canceled or kicked off because once you start to go down the dangerous course we are on right now, that's exactly what it is, guys, i know you felt the same way. i was watching last night watching the fact first it was twitter banning the president. then it -- and we are going to talk about it here in a moment. other higher level companies banning other companies that are alternatives, and yesterday on the show we talked about the ohr wellian nature of this and the

authoritarian, the big tech authoritarianism the whole idea george orwell wrote about uncanceling not because you are canceled because you are unpopular. you are erased and marginalized. look at the companies that went at donald trump. shopify you can't shop? ben tryst? it's obscene brings to mind a name will most banned woman in the world laura loomer put out unpopular stuff years ago banned from uber eats. paypal, venmo, go fund me. what stops companies to say you can't stay at my hotel. you can't fly on my airline. you can't take uber. you can't use my cable provider. you can't get a mortgage from me. you can't use credit cards. where does it stop when people are deemed unacceptable when

woke corporate companies decide they have to virtue signal this is the 1984 scenario and as you said, will, when they are willing and able to do it to the president, they will do it to anyone it's. will: it's a new framing of reality. listen to this. , this is a battle of our time. war on reality. information war. we now have a super structure that exists above government. small group of sort of unknown people have decided that they can let you know who can talk and when they can talk and now they have taken out the president of the united states. it does not matter what you think of donald trump. it does not matter what you think of the last few days. who feels more powerful right now? is it donald trump who can't get any messaging out or is it a bunch big tech people like mark zuckerberg and jack dorsey at twitter? will: i want to follow up on a conversation you two had because it's tied directly into this

story. you started talking about wednesday and the president's role in what happened on wednesday. i do think the president was reckless at the very least in creating an environment that resulted in the tragic events we saw on wednesday. buff if we always focus in on the president, and he is an easy figure to focus in on whether you are in support or opposition to the president. we neglect to look at what is underneath. what's causing trump supporters and 74 million of them to feel the way they do about the country right now and i really truly contend to you that what is going on in this country is that there is a great swath of people that completely feel boxed out. whether or not their jobs are outsourced or communities filled with opioids or boxed out of social media or academia, whatever it may be, as we talked about yesterday, we are increasingly becoming a one point of view country. that's going to create a ton of anger in this country. that's not to excuse anything that happened on wednesday. and for many of the crazies that stormed the capitol it doesn't explain it either. i'm not talking about them. i'm talking about the

73. 9 million people out there who have very responsible and important grievances. and if you shut them out further, if you box them out you are only going to exacerbates that can and upset and restrict the places in which they can go. let me give you an example of why this is not just about the president and this is not just about twitter. let's say you want to go somewhere else, maybe some place else to voice your opinion, where do you go right now? well for many the answer has been parler a competitor to twitter embrace free speech. parler has been banned now from google play. there is also consideration that it might not be featured on apple's app. distribution platform. here is what google had to say about parler. we are aware of the continued posting in the parler app. that seeks to incite ongoing violence in the @. in light of this ongoing and urgent public safety threat we are suspending the app.'s listing from the play store until it addresses these issues. i'm just going to come back to this, jedediah, for one moment.

i don't think anyone out there, let's say for example you are on the left. let's say you do not support the president. i think you should be very careful celebrating any moment of someone you disagree with being boxed out because it will come for you, too. the movement of censorship requires 100 percent lock step agreement. jedediah: so i think there is two aspects to that. one, there is the desired shut down of people you disagree with. and just disagreeing on its own should note be a reason to shut anyone down. i think where it gets complicated is that you are going to have a lot of these private companies, for example, google, whoever it may be that are going to look at these apps and they are going to see behavior on there that they feel is problematic and that is -- that behavior in particular, i think, is going to be when you see bad actors utilizing these spaces which they are. we know it's happening to organize, to get together, whether it's domestic terrorists, whatever it may be. they are seeing there is a space

here where we can organize, we can cause trouble, we can get together and we can achieve whatever it is we set out to do, which is usually to harm people, places, things. so i think you're going to have a problem where these companies don't want that association and potentially a lot of these sites and social media structures may in fact fall apart people are going to abandon them because they have been silenced. sites loose control how to manage this whole thing in the world we are living in and partly because people throw their hands up in the air and say i don't know what this site is anymore. is it a place where can i express myself? is it a place for bad behavior to out itself on a constant basis and they just leave. but i think on the issue of certain companies feeling signaled out, amy from parler, chief policy officer, weighed in on that. she feels that her site has been unfairly singled out and here is why. take a listen. >> i have think we do have the reputation as being the conservative platform although

we are nonpartisan, that is what everybody sees us as. we do see this as being politically singled out. we would like to provide a place where people can come and speak freely that they are not going to be fact-checked and told what to think what they can read, et cetera. of course, like everybody else, we were horrified by a lot of the incrime that wa inassignmeng on this week and doing everything we can in our principles to deal appropriately with that content. and we work with law enforcement as well that content has been everybody this week. very unusual week to be singled out is quite unfair. pete: that's the key part. that cop tent has been everywhere this week? why parler is it pause it's become a safe haven for people who want free speech amongst big tech oligarchs. who makes the decision in who decides? is it a panel of elites in

silicon valley in washington, d.c. who decides what's acceptable? who decides who the will bad actors are is it trump supporters, is it antifa? is it black lives matter? is it republicans? who decides what insights, what inspires, what motivates. those decisions are impossible to make in a free society where people can think for themselves. are you telling me facebook, instagram, twitter haven't had content similar to what is on parler and as a result should they also be censored? at what point how high up the chain can you go? you can't go much higher than google and facebook. that's the problem. it's all cascading down right now to places like parler, places where folks like me and others feel like they can go to actually have a voice. but let's bring in miranda devine, fox news tributer and new york columnist to give us insight on this. thanks for being here. >> the "new york post" has been

central in feel the bankrupt of censorship as well. here is the "new york post" editorial board on president trump's twitter feed being banned why the ban of president trump proves twitter not just a platform. you have seen the actions of twitter and big tech toward donald trump and "the new york post." what's your take right now? >> authoritarian view into the future a handful of companies, global companies decide how we speak and who gets to speak. of these are communication channels that are the main way now increasingly that people do communicate. and twitter in this case has told the world that it's more powerful than the president of the united states. and it's flexing it muscles proudly and, you know, twitter's own jack dorsey isn't even in charge. he is off sunning himself on a

polynesian island and meanwhile his faceless staff back at headquarters have kicked up a stink and said oh, you know we want to permanently ban donald trump. they got their way finally something we should be afraid of. proving in the "new york post" today that twitter is acting as a publisher. it's not now just known in an unbiased fashion over seeing these communication channels. and as a publisher, it is abusing its privileges, which have exempted it up until now from the usual responsibilities that other publishers like the "new york post" have to face, legal responsibilities such as being liable to, you know, defamation offerings. so section 230 was supposed to be donald trump spoke about it

often about repealing that, having congress repeal that now, that hasn't happened. i don't know why it hasn't happened. there are, you know, some republicans who have spoken out in favor of it. and others who have said no. now, the democrats are in charge of everything in washington. you can only think that what twitter is doing is doing a favor to the democrats in their irrational decision to purge all things trump. and twitter is now being their faithful servant. will: the key word you focus in there, miranda is scary. not just president trump. if it begins here, where does it end? whose violences will be silenced? let's move forward you mentioned the democrats now have power well they will in a few days already pursuing some of their agenda items which now includes apparently impeaching president trump. this is what nancy pelosi said in a virtual democratic caucus. it is the hope of the members

that the president will immediately resign. if he does not, i have instructed the rules committee to be prepared to move forward with congressman jamie raskin's 25th amendment legislation and a motion for impeachment. accordingly the house will reserve every 25th amendment impeach motion for impeach or a privileged resolution for impeachment. with great respect and our deliberations will continue. what do you make of the attempt to impeach president trump. >> it's disastrous. they had the moral high ground on wednesday on capitol hill now they squandered it. this kind of overreach, vindictiveness, attacking, you know, impeaching the president again, it's pointless, he is leaving in 11 days anyway. by the time they manage to get into the senate to do it, it's going to be january 19, january 20. so what we are going to have is the new president biden is going to have his inauguration

overshadowed by just a rerun of the vin particularriveness and division of the last four years that's been basically presided over by nancy pelosi, joe biden is tied to that then. and, you know, any message of laughly tries to propagate is going to be seen as a sham because to impeach a president who has already left office is pure vindictiveness not just about president trump but the 75 million americans who voted for him. jedediah: the grounds for that impeachment that are being cited are essentially that the president incited a mob to go to the capitol and essentially pressure individuals who were in there at the time emphasizing their constitutional duty to overturn an election. and i guess the justification for the impeachment could be that you want to let future

presidents, potentially president trump who may decide to run again know that that behavior is unacceptable in the united states of america for a person in a position of leadership. and if that is not pushed through, what is the message that remains that someone else can practice this from that position and it's okay? i guess that's my concern. what's your reaction to that? are. >> there is nobody who has sanctioned what happened on wednesday, you know, i don't think anyone is in any gap that was a terrible thing and that president trump deserves some blame for that he, in fact, acknowledged as much by turning around and saying well, you know, will i concede the election now. he is chagrined as he ought to be. and i think that that should be the end of it. everyone knows it was a terrible episode. i don't think impeaching the president is going to make any difference other than it's kind

of a virtue signal and kicking him on the way out. and, again, just the democrat thing divisive as they have been for four years. pete: thank you very much for clarifying voice this morning, appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. pete: all right, coming up, today, also, national law enforcement appreciation day. as we honor our men and women in uniform, we will hear from a business owner by why it's more important than ever for communities to show their support ♪ ♪ some companies still have hr stuck between employees and their data.

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pete: we are pack with quick headlines this morning. at least 13 people facing federal charges following what happened on capitol hill. richard barnett is one of them. he was arrested in arkansas. he was seen sitting behind speaker nancy pelosi's desk during the riot. the fbi still looking for dozen's of suspects. this as we learn more about the capitol police officer who died after being hurt in what happened on capitol hill. brian sicknick a national guard veteran who served two tours overseas. there is a push for his body to lie in state at the capitol rotunda. aaron rogers donated $500,000 to the barstool fund to help struggling small businesses. >> you guys have a message of hope and love and empathy that no one else can get in any other place right now. the government is not offering any type of hope. this is real money. this is real change. and i'm just -- i just applaud

you. pete: to be a fan of aaron rogers, too. never saw that come. rogers is calling on teammates and coaches to contribute to the fund. will, over to you. will: all right, thanks, pete. after a devastating week for police in the capital, americans across the country are coming together for national law enforcement appreciation day. one of the proud supporters showing his thanks is the vice president of half shell oyster house a restaurant chain in mississippi. his name is kevin fish and he joins us now. good morning, kevin, i don't know if the word is wonderful but appropriate timing to have national law enforcement appreciation day just a few days after, of course, we lost brian sicknick at the capitol on wednesday. tell me why it's important to your restaurant chain to honor officers and tell us exactly how you are doing so. >> good morning, pete. well, i will tell you this whole thing started nine months ago, really, when i was sitting and

having lunch one day a little place down the road at the half shell with my fiance recalling watching on tv and there was one of the mayors of the one of the big cities i can't tell you if it was seattle or washington, d.c. and they were going through the demonizing the police thing. and we were just appalled at it to be honest with you and we started of thinking what can we do? my fiancee her name is carrie colt. she had just recently finished a fundraiser to raise money to put bullet proof vests on all of the police dogs in the sheriff's canine unit and that's the kind of people we are and the way we think. we bantered some things around and never came to anything. and then about two weeks ago my trusty assistant who is holding the phone that's recording this kelsey griffin she came to me and said hey two weeks from now it's national law enforcement appreciation day. okay. this is great. this is our opportunity. so we talked to my partners and

i talked to my director of operations his name is deanna member ran dough, his father is a 30 year police officer in new york and unanimously we decided to go ahead and make this happen. >> what a positive message. kevin, i don't like to disappoint people so early on a saturday 6:30. you are talking to will not pete. >> sorry. will: that's all right. >> i can only see the back side of the camera. will: i know you can't see me right now. before we go we only have a little bit of time left. awesome what you are doing at the oyster house there. officers are invited to come in and have a free meal. what do you think is so important about law enforcement and why they should be honored really quickly, please. >> these are good people. they are just like you and me. there are bad people in every profession there is. what happened in minnesota was definitely wrong. but these are good people. and when there is somebody outside your front door and they have a gun, well, i go get my gun. but most people you are going to

call the police. that's what you do. and they come and put their life on the line for you. so, i think that we should do a lot better job of appreciate them than we have been doing in this country lately. will: to tie in the story we came in before talking to you the thing that barstool sports is doing to help small businesses out and then in turn to small business help out law enforcement this is what america is about. on a rough week, what a positive message. what an important highlight of who we are, kevin. thank you for doing that highlighting who we are this week. we appreciate your time and what you are doing. >> we are proud and happy to do it. will: all right. take care. all right. still ahead, the new administration is planning a big change to the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine when biden takes office. dr. nicole saphier explains their shifting strategy next.

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as many doses as possible to get into the arms of americans right now or do we split that into two groups because you have to remember you need two injections for the vaccine to reach that max efficacy. so the operation warp speed decided that they were going to keep 50% of the dose to make sure that the people who got the first dose would still have enough to have the second dose because they are saying that they are going to follow the science. that's exactly what the science says. the science says they need two doses. biden has come out and said what they are going to do actually just release all of the doses. they are not going to keep any in reserve to make sure that that second allotment is there. they are doing that because they don't believe that there is going to be any manufacturing snafus but, jedediah, there have already been manufacturing hiccups over the last few month. i'm not sure it's smart to release all of the supply especially because at this point out of the millions of doses already been sent out, we have only been able to get about 30% of them into the arms of americans. what is sending out more supply

going to do at this point. what we really need to be doing is expanding access to the vaccine that we already have. if at that point we get to 100 percent distribution of the available vaccine then sure we can talk about increasing the supply that is sent out. but right now that is premature. jedediah: yeah, you know you talked about expanding access and on that note if you look at a state like connecticut it's vaccinating at to wait the rate as new york there are a lot of issues going on in new york right now in terms of vaccines not getting to the people who really need them because the rollout is completely inflexible. cuff speak to that a little bit and the dangers of that inflexible rollout? >> of course, absolutely, jedediah. so, first, we do have to acknowledge that new york has four times the population of connecticut. but connecticut has been able to distribute over 50% of the dose that they have been sent. so while they may have fewer population. they also have fewer people to distribute the dose. they are doing a good job at doing that the big difference between connecticut and new york is the restrictions placed on who can deliver the vaccine and who is eligible to get the

vaccine. what there have been a lot of claims in new york is that people -- they are actually having to throw away violation of vaccine because at the end of the day, they still have partially unused vials but they don't have anybody else vaccine. they can't go out and give it to anybody because they are under such strict measures who they can give it to. hospitals can only give certain people designated by the state. they have not been able to give it to their high risk patients. and so it's really crucial that they need to cut back on that red tape. that's something that we deal with in healthcare all of the time. government oversight really puts healthcare workers and their patients at a disadvantage when there is so much oversight all of a sudden they take away decision-making from healthcare professionals and when we are doing with somethindealing withs important as a public pandemic that's dangerous. jedediah: it's a problem and unfortunate to see. another state though if we look over that's doing something that i think is pretty fantastic is florida. 22 publi22 publix stores are prg

vaccines to seniors. cue talk about that private public partnership and the impact of that? >> well, you know, we do not have socialized medicine in the @and there are a lot of added a van damages we need to utilize that private sector so much more than other countries. unfortunately live most states have been very slow to do that mainly pause the state has not allowed them so. florida, again, they have now partnered with publix which is a large chain. they are allowing mass vaccination sites. that's what every state should be doing. they should not be so restrictive. governor cuomo yesterday has expanded to allow urgent care centers to give the vaccine. what happened to the javits center, what happened to all these mass sites where they have enabled the ability for social distancing in a safe way to congregate to get the vac seems. new york is focusing on a very microcosm and not seeing the big picture and unfortunately live i think that that is really

causing the bottle neck when it comes to the vaccine distribution. jedediah: yeah, it seems to me here that flexibility in that rollout is absolutely going to be key. some state will choose to do it. others will not. hopefully more will choose to do it as the weeks pass on. we need to get these vulnerable communities vaccinated. dr. nicole saphier bringing great insight as always. thanks for joining us this morning. >> thank you. jedediah: we will head over to will cain for headlines. will: senator lindsey graham is confronted by trump supporters at an airport after he criticized president trump over the violence on capitol hill and acknowledged president-elect by den's win. >> mr. graham, you are a traitor to the country. you know it was rigged. you know it was rigged. will: security tells courted him away.

space force is part of the. john ratcliffe announcing the saying it will break down barriers to information-sharing and help analyze threats in space. president trump launched space force in 2019 making it the newest military branch in more than 70 years. and a man has some explaining to do after pulling this stunt in his kitchen. watch. >> oh. >> are you okay? it's okay. >> there is the map crashing his daughter's brand new hover board. the little girl watched in horror. he smashed into the oven door searching glass all over the kitchen floor. it was like two or three years ago that hover boards were super popular and everybody had videos of dads fall on them. i skipped the hover board craze, pete. i wasn't into it. i wouldn't get it for my boys a

skateboard something that requires some skill i'm not in to the hover board thing maybe that's part of the reason why. pete: maybe it was under whelmed by the video i have seen so many other epic fails than that i won't step on one of those whether it takes skill or not. let's toss it over to rick reichmuth who maybe he has hover boarded. i don't know, rick, you let us know whatever you want. rick: guys, we used to have a hover board in the "fox & friends" pod in our office. i had a couple where i did the entire show on the hover board and nobody had the clue i was on a hover board. they are amazing. despite the fact they started on fire spontaneously which is why we got it out of the "fox & friends" pod. it was a blast. i loved that thing. cold air across a lot of the lower 48. even still yet we haven't had any real kind of surge of really really cold air yet. and i think that's good news. we don't have anything that's coming at least within the next

six to seven days that we are going to be talking about as well. one little system is moving off the east coast of of the carolinas and virginia right now. that's out of here. texas, all of our eyes are going to be on texas right now. a little bit of disturbance you see across the rockies. that's what throughout the next number of hours is going to begin to develop a new system that's going to east he texas and eastern new mexico start of that i have will show you that in a second. pacific northwest pummeled by storms. will eastern new mexico i think we will see that turn into winter storm warnings where you see this blue from watches right now across parts of texas. even northern louisiana. this is going to be the bulls eye for any snow that we are going to see really over the next four to five days. texas, you are going to be the winner. hard to imagine. tonight, 10:00 p.m. we will start to see that snow begin around the panhandle of texas overnight tonight it gets -- start to become pretty heavy by tomorrow morning on the morning

talking about snow across part of central texas. throughout 9 day tomorrow it's a slow mover, we will see that snow make a stripe across part of central texas and across part of northern louisiana. by the time this is done we will see some spots 'six inches of snow. pretty amazing. dallas, definitely. houston probably not snow, probably rain to the north of it. again some snow. pretty amazing, texas the snow winner. guys? will: you know that's me it that's right where i'm at. jedediah: you have to shuffle shovel it. will: six inches here that may grind everything to a halt. i may be on the show tomorrow. i wouldn't put money on it. jedediah: get your shovel out will kaine. get that shovel going. thanks so much, rick. pete: i have done more shoveling in my life as a minnesotan than you can imagine. will: it's different. jedediah: that's true. will: testimony one inch down here and we shut it down. no school, no roads, it's over.

jedediah: i love it. thank you. okay. still ahead, twitter stock tanks just hours after president trump is permanently banned from the social media platform so could we see more big tech censorship backlash? we will discuss that with brian brenberg. that's coming up next. why walgreens? with copays as low as $0.... walgreens makes affording your medicare prescriptions... ...no sweat. so you can get back to the thing you'd rather be doing. ♪

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things like this their business viability? >> pete, they are thinking about their favorite customers. this is a really interesting moment for this business. if you look at disruptive innovations in the past and innovations that are changed markets fundamentally it happens in moments where existing players decide to ignore or reject the whole group of customers. that's exactly what's happening right here potentially with twitter. it's not just about president trump but it's about potentially millions of people who care an awful lot about free speech and the free expression of ideas and they feel like twitter and they feel like facebook aren't serving those needs anymore. so they may start to look elsewhere. one of the reasons twitter's stock price is down, i think, because investors are looking at this moment and wondering is twitter helping to create its next big competitor by shunning this customer segment right now? pete, this is why you have companies like uber and arab b. and b. southwest airlines and

charter schools. existing players in those spaces said we're not interested in a certain customer segment or we are ignoring them and people started to look elsewhere and that's what created the impetus for something new. pete: that's the great point the obvious competitor now is parler apple and google are now saying -- one has already deplat formed the other likely will the app. if you can't get the app. on your phone, you can't use it. so how far will they go and other companies to monopolize this space to protect themselves? that's an economic question, too. >> yeah, it is. it depends how willing they are to risk being able to serve a larger market. some of these companies, i think, right now are sort of taking a stand because they think they are rejecting the extremists. of course, they could be very well wrong and actually they are just rejecting millions of average people who happen to care a lot about speech. they think they're rejecting the extremists. what will happen we will find out what it does to their bottom line. these companies like twirts are

driven by things daily active users. what happens if millions of people just decide to shut it down and go somewhere else? what does that do to their daily active users? what does that do to their advertising? what does that do to their bottom line? they could feel this in big ways. if they do what it means is that somebody else has already captured. already moved into and is already competing in this space. i think that's what this space needs, pete, more competition. a freer exchange of ideas. let's get better product. let's break the hold that these companies have on the market right now. pete: at least twitter executives can put their head on the pillow knowing how woke they are even if they are crashed in the process. >> if that's what they want do to their business that's their call but it has consequences. pete: simon shuster harpoon books because of their ideology you decided who you are. innovations speaking of one is bit coin, crypto currency hit $40,000 a coin. and actually surpassed facebook in total market value.

which is interesting because mark zuckerberg facebook and the biggest investors in bit coin winkle boss twins had their dispute with will facebook their value rising rapidly. what do you make of this rise of crypto currency? >> crypto is another one of those things, pete, an innovation has risen people look at the market and say i don't like what's going on with currency. i don't like the fact that it's awfully easy for politicians to manipulate the money supply in inflationary ways. inflaghts away people's savings in order to print money to pay for the spending they want to do. that's where things like crypto currency and bit coin comes from. talk about strunting moments bit coin is a another one of those examples. you and i talked about bit coin in 2017 where it was near $20,000. after that time, it tanked. as you well know. fell below $4,000 again. now it's back up over 40,000. this space isn't settled. there is a lot of change that's

going to happen. people are vesting in the long-term. if you are interested in the long-term and wig to take some hit. will to take a roller coaster ride. this might be a fun thing for you to get in on. pete: i love roller coasters. my only regret in life is that i didn't try to buy more when it was at 4. who new, brian brenberg thank you your your insanity minnesota. coming up. it was considered one of the largest gatherings before the country went on lockdown. now the consumer electronics show is going virtual. kurt the cyberguy shows us the hottest tech coming up next. ♪ it will ♪ get ready ♪ get ready ♪ ♪ ♪ we made usaa insurance for veterans like martin. when a hailstorm hit, he needed his insurance to get it done right, right away. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for.

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patty pete it was considered one of the largest before the country locked us down so it's going virtual this year. will: the consumer electronics show brings people all over the world to las vegas for a glimpse at the future of tech. this year you will be able to see the latest in innovation without leaving your egg living room. jedediah: the kurt the cyberguy is here with more of what to expect. kurt? >> jed, good morning to you and will and pete usually i would be with the 170,000 people that show up in las vegas this time every year for the biggest consumer electronics show but they are not there. i'm not there. it's the first year i really wish my feet would get really sore and i hope this is the last time we will do a virtual event. 1800 exhibitors expected this week coming up. it was 4400. and this is a show that really

launched years and years and years ago because right before super bowl people have tvs on their mind. tvs are something we have our focus on. look this year in 2021 when you go to buy the next tv what we are going to see coming out ces this year are microledtvs. this the kind of technology 110-inch gorgeous samsung tv that i will be able to show new a week that is just off the chain. it's 8 k. what you want is a tv that will take the say 4 k or even lower resolution and make it look 8 k that's the technology you are going to look for this year. also 5g is big, big, big this year at ces. 5 f faster cell phone connection and phones now that will be sub$400. we will see a lot of manufacturers coming out wireless hand set makers coming up with a lot cheaper phones this year. and then robo vac apparently this whole code thing has an effect on ces where the home

technology is really beasted. robo vacs are going to be better than ever apparently. more competition in the space. the prices will come down for us. i have think they will be able to vacuum better than well, not necessarily how i could vacuum because it's an art, let's face it. but, they are going to be up there. think of these kind of technologies that because we are at home we are more focused on home, imagine saying alexa, turn on the shower. that's here. and that's coming. pete: nope. >> you will start to see bathroom. alexa is responding now. i hope the shower is not starting. will: no. >> start to see this kind of technology coming out and keep an eye on it for you and bring more to you later on. will: by the way, no. no, no. you are not turning on my shower robot. you are not taking control of my life and my house, kurt. you stop pushing that on us. we have got to go, kurt. i do want the 8 ktv though.

still ahead this time last year president trump was gearing up for his impeachment trial now democrats are talking about another impeachment and we will break it down whether a can and cannot be done by inauguration day. plus, joe concha at the top of the hour. get started for free at ancestry.com

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jedediah: yeah, i was noticing people on twitter ironically i don't know if i signed up for this. can we maybe go back to 2020 gorsuch how 2021 has start wanted. it's quite an exhausting time and a bit of an exhausting news cycle. we will try to break that all down for you, have some good conversation and debate and guests. stick with us as we try to unravel some of the impact of these wild stories. will: yeah. i don't mean to be a scrooge or an i told you so. i remember at the end of 2020 20 over a week ago do you think it will magically change when the clock clicks over december '1st to january 1st? it doesn't work that way. only accelerated. pete: that's exactly right, pete. to tie into two things here on the show we want to point out it's national law enforcement appreciation day. pete: wait, wait. they were talking in my ear. it's what? will: national law enforcement appreciation day.

pete: correct. ♪ recall. will: your job to point out what today is that what makes today special. extra special and poignant national law enforcement day today ♪ will: we lost officer brian sicknick at the capitol it all ties together. it's an important moment. it's appropriate moment. pete: there is no doubt. it's, we appreciate them every single day in every single capacity. they deserve our alegion japanese, love, and respect and we thank everyone in this country who wears the blue and we will do that all morning long today. good morning to all of our viewers who are joining us this morning. in addition to this, we are going to go straight to a fox news alert this morning. ♪ twitter permanently suspend president trump's account. they have done it. the company says it's to avoid further incitement of violence following the unrest on capitol hill. the ban comes after twitter flagged the president's tweets for months. jedediah: it pointed to this tweet in which the president said his supporters will have a

giant voice long into the future and will not be disrespected. twitter also suspended the trump campaign's account and took down posts the president made from his potus account criticizing the ban. will: the president was blocked from facebook earlier this week. the president is vowing to return to social media on other platforms saying he might even create his own. talked about this a little bit earlier. i think the most important part of this story, i truly believe this, is that this is what i think we should all understand is this is not just a silencing of the president of the @. and it is not just tied to the event of this past week. it is impossible to extricate this from the growing trend to push away to box out to silence voices that you disagree with. we can have the conversation. we have this morning about whether or not the president helped night what happened on wednesday. how much blame he should shoulder and how much his social media presence had or did not have to do with that i'm telling you this is a growing trend in

this country. it's not just about social media where we are seeing voices of dissent boxed out. will. pete: of course that's the rationale that twitter is using right now incitement. last time i checked madonna still has a twitter feed. she said, she has thought a lot about blowing up the white house. maxine water has thought about trillion harassing trump supporters and kamala harris the incoming vice president encouraged supporters to donate to a riot bailout fund. to use that as the particular rationale or reason to why they have now banned president trump, the president, the potus account as well as his campaign account as well as him on facebook, is to sort of reengineer a reason now when we all know this is what the left has wanted to do. they spied on him in goodness sakes in 2016 and 2017 because they didn't want him to be president. what made you think they wouldn't use big tech to try to silence him. of course they have always wanted to. here is kamala harris during a

debate at cnn in october of 201 calling for what, call for twitter to suspend the president. >> senator warren i just want to say that i was surprised to hear that you did not agree with me that on this subject of what should be the rules around corporate responsibility for these big tech companies when i called on twitter to suspend donald trump's account that you did not agree and i would urge you to join me because here we have donald trump who has 65 million twitter followers and is using that platform as the president of the united states to openly intimidate witnesses, to threaten witnesses, to obstruct justice, and he and his account should be taken down. jedediah: you know, so i think there are a few thoughts that can happen simultaneously here. i think you can look at the president's twitter feed and feel that his tweets have been problematic in many respects particularly very recently. you can also recognize that many on the left have wanted to

silence him via twitter and other areas for quite some time. i think you can also say that twitter has not applied it policy consistently. and as a result, people have felt enraged, rightfully so. they are confused. they don't understand why some people are banned and others are not. i think that's an issue that twitter is going to have to contend with in terms of you who they do this. i think the bigger argument here removed from donald trump and politicians and whatnot, what happens to these spaces? how are they properly managed? what does that even look like in terms of moderating? can it be moderated properly? is it being utilized by bad actors, toe mess stick terrorists to gather, to organize? how do you act against that and prohibit that and stop that while at the same time enabling free speech? there are a lot of questions here at a very difficult time in a very difficult space to manage which is what these social media spaces have become. miranda dewine, "new york post" columnist weighed particularly in on twitter and she feels that twitter is abusing its power in this case and perhaps others.

listen to what she had to say. >> twitter in this case has told the world that it's more powerful than the president of the united states. it's flexing its muscles something that i think we all should be afraid of. it's proving in the "new york post" editorial today that twitter is acting as a publisher it's not now in an unbiased fashion overseeing these communication channels as a publisher it is abusing its privileges. will: i can't help but jedediah think this story is bigger than president trump. it is bigger than are bigger than any political party. i would ask you this and point to this. when you see videos of college professors on campuses being harangued by students not toeing the line they believe a professor should toe? do you believe that's about

politics? are those professors all republicans? do those professors all believe the same things that everyone being banned from these social media platforms? no, we are growing into a trend of absolutely silencing those we do not like what they are saying. pete: that's exactly right, will. politics is downstream from culture and downstream from educational institutions and what has infected those places has affected the political sphere i cannot call you jed a woman and will a man that would be gender discrimination. will: it's way bigger. bring in joe concha help contextualize a fox news contributor and opinion columnist for the hill. joe, start with this. we have a montage of media democrat cheering this ban of president trump. let's watch it and get your reaction. >> the president has just lost his biggest mega phone. >> donald trump has been stripped of the precious. >> the man has access to nuclear codes. but he can't have a twitter account. >> he has been kneecapped by twitter. he can no longer use this account to d to do all of the vs and asundry things he does.

>> donald trump is dealing with something that he has never ever experienced before. and do you know what that is? consequences for his actions. >> this is essential. it is late but it is essential. >> if you are one of millions of americans who have spent the last four years astudiously trying to ignore the often insane seeming misspelled rambling and screaming of the president on twitter, then congratulations. will: joe, your reaction? >> wow, the last host there from msnbc she pushed russian disinformation for the better part of three years. i believe she is i still on twitter, however. and all those other people that you showed on there from cnn and msnbc are celebrating this because they are no longer news organizations. they serve at the pleasure of the democratic party while offering up opposition research instead of reporting if we are going to call it that on conservatives and everything that encompasses that whether you are talking about this

network or talking about the president or anybody in the republican party. the timing on the ban in terms of what we are seeing with the president and other conservatives is very interesting happens in the same week the democrats took back control of the senate. that is a straight flush of government in terms of congress democratic controlled. senate democratic controlled and the oval office democratic controlled. it seems now that these tech companies, these social media giants feel elm polleddenned that they could go ahead and do these sort of things. pete: great point. >> all the donations that came from silicon valley. this when the check comes due. the iou. wolfe we helped push you over the finish line and suppress stories during the campaign that may have been negative towards you. we have taken the united states off of the twitter what are you going to do for me section 230 keep that right there. obviously you owe us now.

jedediah: it seems very lazy in terms of commentary oyez the president was banned and sit back what does that mean for every one of us and other groups organizing online? what does that mean for social media in general? a lot of questions that need to be asked instead of separating that because you don't like the president? let's really talk about these issues which media often fails to do. ask you about another topic we are covering obviously extremely controversial potential impeachment hearings that could be going on. some feel the president's impeachment could be justified. others feel quite differently. one of the issues that has arisen though is folks on the left have been talking about impeachment for quite some time as a result their credibility may be are diminished. let's take a look back what happened prior to this week. >> go to convicted that could be seen as impeachable offense. >> if he is not a legitimately elected president in your mind, there are tools that congress has. >> that tweet fits the

republican definition of an impeachable offense. will. >> i will fight every day until is he impeached. impeach 45. >> it's an impeachable offense. >> perhaps impeachable offense. >> that's an impeachable offense. >> is that an impeachable office? >> is that an impeachable offense to you? >> he much more vulnerable to impeachment. >> potentially criminal or even impeachable. >> grounds for impeachment or does that not go far enough in your view? >> grounds for impeachment. >> let's talk about impeachment. >> impeachment is on the table. >> which impeachable offense. >> bullies don't win and i said baby, they don't because we're going to go in there and we are going to impeach [bleep]

>> it's an impeachable offense. ifs that not impeachable, i don't know what is. >> very substantial evidence that the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. >> grounds for impeachment. >> tipping point, talk of impeachment reaches a fevered pitch on capitol hill. jedediah: your thoughts, joe? >> that's a perfect example of what we have talked about here before. which we have gone from journalism, all right, of the days of cronkite and mud and brink whether i journalism was actually restricted. gotten straight past biased because we know that happens and that's what activism looks like on your tv screens. there is no appetite for impeachment when the president is going to leave now in, what, 1 days? it's obviously, again, another political stunt and joe biden the president-elect, he could step in here. he can't do in an official capacity in terms of stepping in because that's he is congress'

jurisdiction, impeachment. but he could say let's not pursue this. i want you unity. i talked about unity. this will only be bad for the country because you are inalienating the 75 million people that voted for president trump. if we go ahead ahead with this it shows we don't want unity. it will be a pr disaster for joe biden if they did that the last thing this administration wants clearly is unity so that's not going to happen. got to go it is nfl playoff sunday your picks of the day i have them here somewhere. bills, rams, and bucks. to start off the day you have to go to breakfast to one place and that is white castle because white castle is good for you, pete. pete: it is good for you. little known fact, yesterday, i had two white castle cheeseburgers in the microwave. they are fantastic. >> are they though? pete: they are amazing and unbelievable. we didn't ask you for your picks but you gave them to us anyway. joe concha thank you very much. have a great saturday. >> it will make you rich. pete: jed over to you.

jedediah: thanks, joe. the "new york post" warning a divided nation against extremism calling on america's center to stand strong. if not, the post warns more violence from both the right and the left could be inevitable. here now to discuss is the op-edo editor of the "new york post" sohrab ahmari. thank you for joining us this morning and for your op-ed. first off, i actually want to read a quote from the op-ed that struck me. it says this. the path forward requires both sides to utterly disown their own extremist rather than pandering to them. otherwise the cycle will continue, riot begetting riot, excess it feeding grievance and excess. your thoughts? >> yeah. i think it is an editorial. we spoke as an editorial board stand by that statement. i would just say that in the piece we also note very strongly that it was a huge mistake on the part of will blue democratic governors, mayors, even some national leaders all over the last summer to, you know, wink

at, apologize for, or deny the rioting that took place and what message that sent, there is no suggestion that that excuses what happened at the capitol hill but the message that that sent is if you have a political goal you resort to violence you may get your way. it showed they did. many mayors said they would defund their police departments and so forth. that was the demand of that form of political violence. and so once you telegraph that kind of signal you never know how events might spiral, how others might interpret it. that, again, is no justification for truly the disgraceful scenes of what we saw at the capitol hill. that's the logic of authorizing political violence or winking at your own extremists. jedediah: one of the challenges that i find is that the center tends tore very quiet. what you hear are the loudest voices on the right, on the left, the extremist voices, that's what you see map fested

in news oftentimes. so you are left feeling is there really a center anymore? how many people really consist of a center and is there any chance that that center will become louder and make their voices heard to counter balance some of these more extreme messages on the left and right? >> i absolutely believe that a responsible american center still believes people want a sane country. i happen to live in manhattan, new york. the center is my wife. it's the catholic school that my kids attend. the teachers who have been braving everything to trial to provide in person education. the bodega owners. all of us want a unified country. what won't build up the center. what won't strengthen the center is the kind of censorship that's been happening over the past 24 hours where one side of the country, 75 million people is told that their vote is illegitimate that they made -- committed a sin by supporting, you know, one actor and that private corporations, no one elected, can tell them that, you

know, the leader that they still elected who is still in office can be erased from the internet. and even their alternative platforms like parler can be squeezed out of existence. that will only allow the bad feelings and resentments to fester, to strengthen, and going to darker channels instead of being aired out so people can see what the grievances are and we can come together in a responsible way. jedediah: let me ask you about that censorship. because this whole conversation really started and grew and balloon when the "new york post" story on hunter biden the expose was censored. that became a hot topic that exbody a lot of the censorship going on in the corner here and there and not getting the recognition it deserved. my question to you is does this get better? because all i see really is it getting worse day to day. more censorship. less speech. does it get any better? >> well, i mean, unfortunately the administration that came to power in part thanks to big tech

censorship of our reporting, which you know, we know now that some voters would have voted differently had they seen our hunter biden reporting that's been itself been reported out. but at the same time we were silenced and the administration that came to power with the help of big tech and staffed with by lots of big tech actors is like staffed by big tech actors alumni of facebook, twitter and so forth is going to be gelling with big tech and you're going to have this corporate government alliance to silence dissent. we are already seeing it on a chilling scale of what's happening with twitter. i don't see how that's going to change unless lawmakers including democratic lawmakers realize as much as they hate donald trump and trumpians and so forth of you who dangerous this is when corporate actors, unaccount blib ofably get to do. this what happens next? what happens when one of them democratics afoul of what a few people, a few wealthy people in silicon valley think? will they regret now cheering

president trump being panned and his supporters being banned? jedediah: yeah, that's the thing. that's the key here. no one seems to be exempt. that's the reality that a lot of people don't just want to acknowledge. quickly, people often say and i have been inclined to say the free market is the solution. if you don't like twitter and facebook go off and create another outlet. some have done that with parler. you see attempted shut down it seems google play coming out and saying we don't want this app. are we getting into a world now where even if you have the free market initiative to safe i'm going to go and create my own freedom of speech base that that, too, could be shut down in some capacity and people wind up feel like they have no recourse? >> i have made this point on this program before, so i hate to repeat myself. but conservatives have to awaken to the reality that private tyranny is also a firm of tyranny. and all of our classical

tradition christian tradition teaches us private tyranny oligarchy can be just as much to the liberty you cherish as the government itself. jedediah: sohrab, unfortunately we have to wrap but i appreciate your insight on these important topics. thanks so much. >> thank you. jedediah: we have more "fox & friends" for you coming up on the other side. stick with us. really take you back. it's customized home insurance from liberty mutual! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ to syour body needs routine. system, centrum helps your immune defenses every day, with vitamin c, d and zinc. season, after season. ace your immune support, with centrum. these days you need more than an education. so that's what we give you.

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much marijuana sales soared in oregon last year. officials say the spike began in march after stay-at-home orders took effect. if you are home and have you got weed, -- finally $125, that's how much united airlines will charge travelers for each pet or emotional support animal they bring on board. the airline joins american, delta canceling the preride last year after the government reversed its rules. will, over to you. will: brian sicknick, a 12-year veteran of the force is one of five people killed at the capital on wednesday. more than 50 officers hurt during the rioting. instead of honoring their bravery lawmakers are scrutinizing how law enforcement handled the breach. randy sutton a retired las vegas police lieutenant who tras thrand 10,000 officers in 30 year career. also the founder of the wounded blue and he joins me now. thank you so much for being with me this morning, randy. let's talk about what you saw on

wednesday. the response from capitol police. there has been a lot of analysis of you who the capitol police handled that situation. what did you see and how do you analyze what happened there? >> well, first, i would like to send my organization's condolences, thoughts and prayers to the family of brian sicknick who gave his life in the line of duty. he is among five officers this year alone who have made that ultimate sacrifice. i'm angered quite honestly at what i saw. as a 34-year law enforcement professional, what i saw was a failure of law enforcement leadership of an epic proportion, you know, mass events are the stock and trade of large law enforcement departments. and the capitol police is a large department. 2300 officers approximately. it is up to the leadership to

create a safe environment for both the people who are in attendance at a rally or at a protest but it's also their responsibility to create a safe environment for their police officers the fact that more than 50 officers were injured and one was killed shows that failure of leadership. now, there should have been, there should have been some contingency plans that were in effect. for instance, there should have been a mutual aid agreement and i'm sure it exists but it wasn't put into force with outside agencies, with the d.c. police. and with the national guard and with other agencies. there should have been preparations for mass arrests. but what's been happening across the country is that law enforcement has been put in the middle of such an incredibly

negative way that everything is scrutinized about what they do. so if there is too much force, which is what happened according to the political left of recent protests, there is too much force, then, if law enforcement acts in such a way as to pull back, as i believe is what happened here, then they get criticized for that. it is truly a no win situation. will: lieutenant sutton you talk about you see in your estimation from the videos you have seen an effort or a tactic to pull back. you know, there are videos floating around and i have to defer to you on the veracity of all of these and the techniques used. is that what we saw it looked at times that law enforcement was allowing some. reuters rioters to come into the capitol is that what was happening? >> that appeared to be what was happening in some of the video that i saw. and that shows a lack of

leadership and direction. listen, you know, the orders of engagement are critical here. this is -- the officers that are standing the line only have a view of what is happening in front of them. and law enforcement combat is what we saw yesterday in a lot of those instances. law enforcement combat is something that is so misunderstood by the public and by the media who wants to portray law enforcement combat as something that is excessive no matter what that use of force is. that's up -- the leadership has to be very clear about what the rules of engagement are. will: before i run out of time i want to follow up on that. because you said it several times i think everybody has talked about it. it's a question of leadership. and you use the word preparation. i have to ask why. why do you think the capitol police prepared to be so unprepared for wednesday? >> the only thing that i can think about is that, you know,

what we have seen across america is what i call consequences for no consequences. this is what we have seen at protests across america that we are basically everything has been accepted and been nodded at and winked at. i mean, kamala harris is the queen of consequences for no queens. consequences. she was raised millions of dollars to get people out of jail for doing exactly what we saw in the capitol. the reality is this. this is law enforcement appreciation day. this is a time when the people of america can come together with their law enforcement officers and if they want to support law enforcement, it's not that hard. a wink, a smile, a kind word. and also keep this in mind. that last year more than 58,000 police officers were assaulted in the line of duty. that will be -- that's continuing on today. if they want to help an

organization that helps those injured officers, go to the wounded blue.org/tone nate and you can actually take part in helping one of the 9,000 police officers that we have helped over the last year and a half. in a really positive way. will: i'm happy you prout it back to where we started and that's honoring, in this case, brian sicknick but also all the officers that are wounded or loss of life in the line of duty and there's a rot of questions to answer about what happened on wednesday in honor of national law enforcement appreciation day we should keep our focus on that at the beginning and the end as you did. thanks so much lieutenant sutton. >> thanks so much for having me and acknowledging this issue. will: you bet. coming up, while states like new york struggle to distribute the covid-19 vaccine, florida is moving full speed ahead thanks to a key partnership between the public and private sectors. congressman byron donalds is on for the example being set by the sunshine state next.

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jedediah: we are back with a fox news alert. the deadly riot on capitol hill receiving condemnation from both sides of the aisle. some on the left are pushing for the tragic situation to object to the electoral situation to be removed from office. will: some are fighting back in response to a cnn commentator calling on him to resign for objecting as a black person.

freshman congressman byron dodged writes don't vote based on my skin i do so in allegiance to our constitution and always follow the rule of the law. blue checkmark lived to delegitimize my right to act think and vote based on my convictions rather than my skin color. also, it's congressman to you. pete: very well said. congressman dodged joins us now. congratulations on your win. no surprise to me that you would stand up and fight for the things you believe. in what does any of this have to do with the color of your skin and explain kind of where we are in your reaction to all of this? >> well, first of all, i want to tell you it shouldn't have anything to do with the color of my skin. i think as americans we have the ability and freedom to speak what we want to speak, think how we want to think. believe what we choose to belief. that's the basis of this country. unfortunately, you have crazy people on the left who think that just because i'm black i'm only supposed to be a democrat. i'm only supposed to be a progressive. it's flat out wrong.

i think, taking a step back, if you look at what has gone on the last 24 hours the tech giants using their domination of the marketplace to censor speech, it is outrageous, all americans should be concerned with that. i'm here to tell you i'm not going to be dissuaded. i'm not going to be afraid. i'm going to put both feet down in the sand what i believe in no matter what the left thinks. pete: amen. jedediah: congressman, you are a representative from the great state of florida. >> something pretty fantastic is emerging in florida right now with respect to the vaccine rollout not happening in other states. florida has partnered with public stores. they are administering the covid-19 evangelicacovid-19 vac. in this private-public partnership new york completely botched. vaccines being thrown away. people eligible for the vaccine and should get the vaccine meaning they are of a certain age bracket they have conditions that are problematic aren't able to get it because andrew cuomo

will not be flexible on those rollout measures. what could you say about what florida is doing and maybe some advice to leadership in places like new york and what they should be doing. >> first of all i would tell the governor of new york if you don't know what to do with vaccine vials send them down to florida i have constituents who could definitely use them. our governor ron desantis doesn't believe in top down governmental control. it's very evident in his governing style. vaccines in a widespread manner needs to be done in a short amount of time. you have to use the private sector. companies like publix are are dispensing medicines to so many floridians only makes sense to use them in con jennings with the state of florida's government to make sure that the people who need corona vaccine vials to get it as quickly as they can. will: congressman, you know, i don't think the public full understands nor appreciates the

success story florida has been not just the vaccine distribution but the entire pandemic. if you ask the emmy nomination committee they believe new york has been the model how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. why is it people are so confused? why are they incapable or unwilling to see what has happened down in florida. >> frankly because of media. media would rather sing the praises of andrew cuomo. listen, he is the one still responsible for nursing home patient dying because of covid-19 because he thought it was a good idea to stick covid-19 positive patients in a nursing home. completely outrageous. completely idiotic. but the left thinks it's a great idea. he is the one frankly led to the shutdown of so many businesses, so many small entrepreneurs and not only in the city of new york but throughout the state of new york while in florida we have allowed our people to work. we have allowed them to use their brains in how to imagine their pandemic and also continue to operate in their lives to be free, to be americans, to live their live live hoods. that's why our numbers in florida are really no different than those in new york.

meanwhile, we are free. more people are flocking from new york to florida right now. our real estate market is burden of proving through the roof because people are just buying homes sight unseen because they want to live in freedom. they want to have a place are where yeah they want to protect themselves and take care of their health. they don't want to be talked down to by a governor though frankly doesn't know what they're doing. pete: byron donalds congressman byron dodged, congratulations once again thank you for your courage we know that will not change. we appreciate it. >> thank you, guys. pete: all right, jed, over to you. jedediah: we are going to turn now to your headlines this hour. the final episode of jeopardy with alex trebek as host aired last night. >> this is jeopardy and now here is the host of jeopardy alex trebek. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for spending the time with us. we will see you again next week. >> the show played a touching

tribute to trebek showing him throughout the years. minnesota vehicle kings adam honoring the iconic host. is he auctioning off custom cleats paying the money to cancer research. trebek died in november after a battle with pancreatic cancer he was 80 years old. and nasa is one step closer to law firming the most powerful rocket ever built the space launch system will power missions to the moon and mars. it can reach more than 17,000 miles per hour. the final test run is set for later this month. it will then be shipped to the kennedy space center in florida. nasa says it could launch later this year. the world's messiest car the silver honda overflowing with food boxes, paper and plastic bags barely leaving any room for a driver to sit piles of trash. even blocking the windows. the car gaining tons of attention after an indiana man posted pictures of it online.

it's unclear who owns the car. and where it was found. those are your headlines. and guys, i will have you know as a clean freak and someone who cannot handle clutter, i have some palpitations right now. i'm not going to lie. will: that's to so nasty. that's a rolling trash can. that's not a mobile hoarder. that's a rolling trash can. rick, do you know what's so fascinating about this to me? let's bring in rick. i will tell you what's so fascinating. i don't know who you could tell walk around their lives seeming quite normal maybe put together in attire all of a sudden can i catch a ride with you and it's a nasty car out of nowhere? you are like oh, you are a nasty car person. rick: i'm not going to lie. i have a friend who i'm positive is not watching this show who is like meticulous about every area of his life and his car is like that. all of the mess goes into one spot which probably is a pretty good way to do it if you are going to have like mess put it

all into one spot and then have the rest of it clean. i don't know. are pretty crazy. all right, guys. today not bad across parts of texas. tonight is when the snow moves in. temps really cool down as well for your sunday obviously with that snow we warm back up a little bit on monday. really tuesday and wednesday is where we will start to warm up and snow melt that snow down. will, places not used to getting a lot of snow when you get it causes a lot of problems. winters storm warnings and watches across the central area of texas, parts of eastern new mexico as well. even across areas of northern louisiana. we will watch that snow start tonight, move throughout all the day tomorrow, and by the time we are done we are going to see some spots here up to 6 inches of snow. winter in texas. guys? will: here we go. pete: thank you, rick. appreciate it. president trump, you missed it overnight. shut out of social media. buff the big tech targeting nothing new for this administration. acting cbp head mark morgan faced twitter suspension last fall like so many others for

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this is about individuals in position of power that have a different political i'd logic viewpoint and opinion than others. when that happens, they try to shut us down. pete, real quick if i can. portland another iconic symbol this country, a courthouse, the seat of american justice was being seized upon every night trying to be burned to the frowned, we had the speaker of the house refer to the agents that were being attacked every night as storm troopers. now, my opinion is that is hateful. that is irresponsible and that's insightful. i still support her right to say this because that is what america is about. that's what we stand for, pete. that's what makes us different from any other nation in this world. pete: yeah, mark, you are exactly right. when you were talking it got me thinking honest question, can you think of one leftist or democrat that's been censored or blocked on social media. >> pete, i cannot. pete, that's the question. we should all be asking, hey, get on twitter, google and

research yourself. you won't find that what you will find is this administration and conservatives that are constantly being censored. pete: absolutely, amazing. the work continues and there is no doubt that the progress that you and others have made on the border has been extremely important. the president of the united states deserves an incredible amount of credit for that and there is new data from the department of homeland security and u.s. customs and border protection revealing; however, nonetheless, a worsening situation, 80% more migrants are at our border. why would that be? >> look, we know that illegal immigration is always driven by worsening economic condition. that's a being if a. right now covid has devastated economies in the western hemisphere. so that has started that. but the difference, the reason why even though the numbers are going up and it doesn't feel like a crisis, because this president has given us the authority to deal with it effectively. but now what we are seeing are those numbers exponentially rising. and why? because they know with the biden administration the borders are going to be open. they are talking about it. and it's driving the numbers even greater and right now with

his open border strategies we will see a crisis if he continues. pete: you are absolutely right that we will. mark morgan, thank you for your work, for your clarity. and we wish you a happy new year. it's been one heck of one even though we are only nine days in. >> thanks, pete. pete: thank you. still ahead, the par stool small business fund surpassing $1 million raised to save main street when no one else seems interested including one connecticut restaurant disseminated by covid-19. the manager joins us live next. >> it's a no-brainer that we want to help. >> thank you so much. [objecting] >> you'r.>> you're welcome. is awarding up to one million dollars in scholarships through this month. see what scholarship you qualify for at phoenix.edu.

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want to help. >> thank you so much. you. >> you are welcome. you are welcome. >> i can't wait to tell my mother with. i didn't tell her about this fund at all. i didn't want to get her hopes up that anybody was going to help us. jedediah: more than $21 million raised for small businesses of the barstool fund is saving america's struggling store front as covid-19 lockdowns push on. will: a mediterranean restaurant in connecticut is one of them. maria joins us now. thank you so much for being with us. so happy to see you joyful and your business receiving some aid. can i ask you a question out of perm curiosity. i keep up with dave's videos and the businesses that he has helped. did you know at all that that call is come in. when you get the face time that you are getting help from dave portnoy how does that show show up do you know to receive the call. >> you get a text just saying be available if you are chosen you will get a call. so you pretty much just stand by your phone and stare at it to

see if a random phone number comes through. jedediah: maria, obviously, that's amazing. we want to get your reaction to what it was like to get that call. first, i want to ask you to share just a little bit of your struggle so that business owners around the country who have been in a similar position can share that sense of solidarity and others can gain insigh insight w challenging this has been. >> we have been a successful restaurant for 21 years. my parent started it and we were very busy all the time. my dad passed away and we got a little bit slow. we had some difficulties. we started to ramp everything back up right before covid. and once it hit, you lose all hope. you know, you are working every day. you're researching every day on how to be creative to try to stay open to pay your employees. and it just get harder and harder every single day. but, we love our community and our customers. and our employees and we just said, you know, we just have to

keep fighting until something finally breaks and helps us. and the call from dave was just that breath that we needed after 10 months. will: we saw that the in i had vo. you said in the video you hand toll your mom yet the hope was coming. what will you be able to do with the help from war stool fund? >> well, we could, you know, pay our employees without wondering if there was enough money in the bank. and there was a lot of high tech items on our menu that we weren't able to buy. once we rewere open through covid. and now we were able to revamp our menu and buy the items our customers wanted but weren't able to purchase upfront. will: that's great. jedediah: ma we want to offer you congratulations we want nothing but the best for your business. everyone needs to hear a little bit of optimism right now and you brought that to us today. thank you so much. >> thank you. everybody go gotten nate to

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supporters final straw appears to be tied to a tweet the president wrote friday when he said his supporter also have a giant voice long into the future and won't be disrespected. by friday night he was blocked. the white house releasing a statement from the president not too much later i predicted this would happen. we have been negotiating with various other sites and will have a big announcement soon while we also look at the possibilities of building out our own platform in the future. we will not be silenced. several other internet services are also limiting or just blocking the president. they include facebook, snapchat and paypal. some of president trump's allies are calling it nothing short of censorship. some lawmakers though are applauding the ban calling it overdue. the president's son though outraged claiming this move is nothing but political interference. pete, jedened and will back to you guys. jedediah: thanks so much, mark, we have within talking about this all morning. i have upheld it is possible to believe that the president's twitter feed has been problematic but also question

whether a permanent ban on his account not only on twitter but elsewhere as we are going to unfold in just a second is the right move and hold twitter accountable for lack of consistency in terms of you who they deliver their policy with respect to different groups. take a look first at the platforms that are wanting or restricting president trump right now. there are a lot of them, facebook, google, spotify, snapchat, instagram, shopify, tiktok red dietl, twitch. youtube. what can be done by him on those spaces. one of those things i always think of when stories like this hit is my urge to say this is where the free market steps in and president trump has indicated that perhaps he will begin a new venture. the problem with that is that now also those new ventures and we have seen this happen with parler recently. you have outside companies like google, for example, stepping in and saying google play we don't want to have parler featured on our app. so you're having -- this is kind of becoming a widespread problem

where people are starting to feel like they have no recourse. each if they so the incentive and motivation to utilize the free market and create their new venture they might be shut down there as well. and that's problematic. will: you know, jedediah, i think i'm always inclined to, i want to think about the deeper or the bigger or the broader story here. i'm less concerned with president donald trump and more concerned with the americans. look, president trump was at a minimum reckless on wednesday in what happened in the events that unfolded at the capitol. he soldier some of the blame for what happened. but make no mistake, the underlying issues that led to a lot of anger in this country remain. they were there before president trump and they will be there after president trump. and this censorship it's a bridge to censor the leader of the free world. this censorship does not end with president trump. it will not end with president trump. and this gets me back to americans, not just the president of the @of america.

but americans. not just republicans and not just conservatives. americans need to be aware that you are next in line. i can promise you this does not have a reverse. this type of censorship does not go backwards. it only goes forwards. and the hypocrisy is beyond the pale. take a look at people still tweeting today that twitter gives license to. this is the ayatollah khomeini, iran's supreme leader. hasan rouhani, president of the will republic of iran. nicholas maduro. chinese foreign ministry capable of tweeting today. the leader of the nation of islam louis farrakhan, richard spencer all have access to free speech through yes, jedediah a private platform but the leader of the free world does not. pete: we say it but today it means even more if they can too it to president trump, they can too it to anybody. and they will. you just have to get their

attention. if your views fit the criteria of what's not acceptable, you're done. this is the unpersoning of george orwell's 1984 animal farm. you are not just canceled you are erased and march jail jai m. when you look at the places where president trump is blocked or banned shopify, online shopping, pinterest posting pictures. why are those include? those have nothing to do with pushing out political viewpoints. it has to do with the pepper and the viewpoints of the pepper. then it goes to the platform. if you look at knows social media companies right there, their corporate cultures are no different than the corporate cultures of our airlines, of our news medias of our hotels and credit card companies and banks of our restaurants. the major fortune 500 companies in this country that controls so much have globalists leftist hr driven cultures which effectively say if we have identified you, listen, it's

already happened. take laura loomer for example, she can't even bank at jp morgan chase. they go to your bank accounts and where you can eat and sleep overnight and go to what airlines you can fly on. it goes much further than just acceptable political speech. when leftist control it all, that's when you see the frustration of trump supporters to say if they are doing it to him they will do it to me. will: i think you are right to broaden this beyond the tech industry. it will encompass corporate american interest all together. before anyone thinks this is neat and clean and left and right. right now pete it starts with censoring those that disagree with you on the right. i hope those on the left don't find warm comfort in that it keeps moving and restrictionist until you have to walk 100 percent in lock step with whoever is in charge. jedediah: on that note we want to bring in byron york fox news contributor washington examiner chief political correspondent to talk about this and more with us. so byron, welcome, thank you for joining us, obviously this is a deep topic today. a lot of people are really

concerned about censorship. they are watching what's happening to president trump. they are concerned that it may happen to them as well or someone they know. and they are feeling as if they have no recourse. my question to you is how do you balance this all? you want to preserve free speech, but if there are extremists seeking to do harm that are popping up on these sites, domestic terrorists, for example, that are using these sites to enable them to organize, is this becoming a bigger problem in terms of can these social media sites exist at all and strike that balance? >> well, this has been a problem for social media companies from the very beginning because there are people who use various platforms to discuss all sorts of criminal activity child prostitution, violence, all sort of other stuff. and you clearly have to have a way to police that. the reason we are talking today is this idea of moving policings into the political realm. and as far as president trump specifically is concerned, you

know, obviously twitter acted in part because of what he said on wednesday prior to the capitol hill riot. the reason they gave, the specific reason they gave for suspends his account permanently were some very harmless statements. they said that his announcement that he would not attend the inauguration was somehow incitement to violence which stunt make a lot of sense to me. this twitter action against the president has been building for a long time. there have been a lot of people who had urged twitter to throw trump off the platform for months and years. what they did now is acted. if i could add one more thing. they acted in part because trump is weak. he is a president with just a few days left in office he is a very lame duck and his power is

leaking out by the minute. pete: one of those calling for removal for quite some time is kamala harris as well. going to pursue yet again impeachment probably on monday as fast as they possibly can with only a few days left. brand new clip hitting the wires from nancy pelosi in upcoming "60 minutes" interview. hasn't aired yet we have a clip of it. here is a portion of what she says about upcoming impeachment, listen. >> is anybody running the executive branch of the government? who is running the equitiesive branch. >> sadly the person running the executive branch is a deranged up hinged dangerous president of the united states. and only a number of days billion we can be protected from him but he has done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him. >> well, i gather that the 25th amendment is off the table.

>> no, it isn't. nothing is off the table. pete: speaking of dangerous, byron as well. nancy pelosi has said that she has called the chairman of the joint chiefs to inquire about the nuclear codes and who controls them. think about the signals that sends to our enemies about whether or not we are even in charge of that particular process. listen to nancy pelosi ospeak t. >> she did that released a press release saying she had done that. stepped out of the chain of command the speaker of the house does not have a role in that decision and there are enormous amounts of safeguards surrounding the nuclear codes that should be said the president doesn't just pick up the phone and say bom bombing bs now. on the issue of impeachment, i think democrats are very, very serious about this. it seems to a rot of people self-evidently nuts to impeach a president who has 1 days left in office.

but i think they are very, very serious about it. remember, nancy pelosi cut all sorts of corners impeaching the president in the last months of 2019. you can cut a lot more corners and just pass an articles of impeachment almost immediately. i would not be surprised to see monday, tuesday, wednesday the house pass articles of impeachment. will. will: i'm going to commit a cardinal sin and ask you two questions in one. they are tied together over president trump's future. first, why, why impeach him with so little time left? many are suspecting that is to keep him from being able to run again in 2024. the second question goes back to twitter and i think it is still tied to president trump's future. how big a blow do you think it is to president trump if he remains permanently suspended from twitter? that's been a big source of influence from him in the past. >> it's an enormous blow. president trump has referred to twitter many, many times when he was candidate trump as his way of communicating with people.

he once said it was like owns the "new york times" without having the debt. iit was-incredibly valuable to reach over the heads of the traditional news media and talk to people directly. you know, as far as impeachment is concerned. i think democrats, look, they are obviously -- they are appalled by the president's actions in the last few days. you have to understand they have been opposed to him for a long time. and they are very, very opposed to what he has been doing over the past few days. on the other hand, they have been obsessed with removing the president since before he even became the president. in my book, obsession, i talked about early efforts to impeach the president in 2017, there were people who wanted to impeach him over his comments about colin kaepernick and the nfl. obviously they wanted to impeach him over russia and then they did impeach him over ukraine. so this is a group that has been

heavy -- quick on the impeachment trigger in the past. so it's not a real surprise that they might try it again. even with just a few days left. jedediah: yeah, byron, i think face fair. that's been set for a long time democrats seeking to impeach the president. in this case some feel a little bit of concern that if something isn't done, that the behavior will be deemed sen acceptable that he has displayed in the last few weeks. i don't know if impeachment is the answer that's not my judgment call to make. lots going to unfold. we thank you for being here with us on this important morning. will: thanks, byron. jedediah: we are going to turn to important headlines beginning with this fox news alert. right now a boeing plane carrying 6 people is missing in i understand co-nearby shah. it vanished from radar minutes just takeoff. shows the jet plunging more than 10,000 feet in altitude. the 250 feet before it dropped off the radar.

search crews found debris believed to be from the flight in jakarta. we will continue following updates in this story. president-elect biden plans to release all the remaining vaccine doses after taking office it. is a shift from the trump administration's strategy of holding half of the supply in reserve for second doses. fox news medical contributor dr. nicole saphier joined us earlier to explain why the biden plan could be an issue. >> biden has come out and said what they're going to do actually just going to release all of the doses. they are not going to keep any in reserve to make sure that that second allotment is there. they are doing that because they don't believe that there is going to be any manufacturing snafus, jedediah, there have already been manufacturing hiccups over the last few months. jedediah: biden is set to receive his second vaccine dose publicly on monday. and starting next week, seniors will be eligible to receive the vaccine in new york. governor cuomo expanding eligibility after new york city mayor bill de blasio pleaded for

him to loosen regulations. doses of the vaccine had to be thrown out in the state after they went bad from going unused. and this guy must have missed his exit. a washington state trooper posting pictures of a sea lion who got a little lost on the highway. it was 100 miles from its home in the graze river when the authorities arrived. the marine animal was holding up several cars while trying to find its way home. officers had some trouble returning the stubborn seal to the river with one saying it's a little interesting walking a sea lion. eventually he did get home safe and sound. that would be like my dream, guys, in capturing a sea lion like adopt a pet right there for me. pete: something like that. all right, thank you, jed, from massive lockdowns across the country to shutting down conservatives on social media. the left took cancel -- their cancel culture motto to new extremes in 020 now they are going one step further in 202.

twitter permanently suspendings the president of the united states from posting on their plot form. where does the fight for free speech stabbed and ho stand. now that democrats have the gavel. freshman congressman madison cawthorn was sworn in a week ago and he joins you now. thank you for being here. you gave a famous speech standing for liberty as you did metaphorically and physically. how in this age where democrats control so much not just political power but also social media and in our culture, what's to come for freedom-loving people? >> you know what, pete, i believe the answer is some form of trust busting. we have got to reform section 230. we have to allow the free market to do its work. you see, when you rip the tongue out of somebody who would speak against you, you don't prove them to be a liar. rather you just prove that you are paralyzed with fear on the altar of oppression that you are terrified of what they are going to say against you. so these 60,000 conservative accounts on twitter that have now been permanently banned.

i will tell you this sets a very dangerous precedent and something we have to fight against. pete: congressman, how do we do anything about it. the president was right to focus on 230. mdna at risk. democrats control all the levers and social media has made effectively inkind contribution to them before and after the election by censoring and blocking people. why would they then turn around and neuter the very industry that has benefited them? >> . you are absolutely correct. this is where it is going to have to be a grassroots movement during the 20 2 election so we can take back the house and senate. without the house and senate there is very little we can do to actually have any reform on section 230. we are living in very dangerous times, pete. pete: we really are. you mentioned ballot box in 022 another area bipartisan consensus to fix something concerned about the ballot box the use of mass mailout mail-in ballot no signature requirements, no voter i.d. there is very few democrats you

are going to find i would suspect on capitol hill prepared to come to the table in good faith to really say voter i.d. is important. signature match is important, let's not have election months, maybe we should have election day again? how do you protect the ballot box in '22 so you restore faith in voters if democrats again don't want to come to the table? >> well, the one thing we can take heart in is that the majority of the state legislatures in the united states. pete: that's a good point. >> are held by republicans. i believe this battle has to be fought at the state level. being able to fight it, you know, i fought as hard as i could objecting to the states that i believe broke their constitutional mandate in the way that they ran their elections. i did that on january 6th. but unfortunately it was not enough to prevail. i think this battle has to be fought on the state level. pete: that's a great point. the government that touches people the closest off has the most power over their lives and the actions they can take. the state legislatures certainly should be on notice. i have to ask you exit question here, what's the future of the republican party as we sit here

in january of 2021? >> well, you know what i think the future of the republican party is bright, pete. it's not one that's going to be so reactionary. i'm not sure if you have been paying attention for the last two or three decades certainly my entire life we have been the party of no said no to the democrats in reaction to what they do. i believe we need to be the thought leaders. we have the greatest ideas. weave have the best form of government. and i think we can enable americans to live their life the best. and so i think it's time for republicans to go on the offensive when it comes to ideas. pete: you are right. do something about the classrooms, the curriculum, school choice, that's where they get the kids first. you know that as well. congressman madison cawthorn, congratulations again. thanks for being a fighters on capitol hill. we appreciate it. >> thanks, pete have a good day. pete: you got it, you too. up next florida's governor using the power of the private sector to distribute vaccines across the state and the rest of the country cannot keep up. florida lt. governor jeannette

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$90,000. so you can only do this with a franchise ha has won a bunch of super bowls like the dallas cowboys on the steelers. jedediah, over to you. jedediah: thanks so much, will. as nationwide vaccine distribution lags, florida governor doug ron desantis acroe state. should more states across the nation model this partnership. joining me now is lieutenant governor jeanette nunez. thank you for joining us this morning. eyes are on florida watching that partnership with publix and the impact of it. can you talk about how this plays out with this public-private partnership in florida. >> sure, that's something that i think is very unique about florida the way that the governor has really reached out and developed these public-private partnerships and the one you are highlighting with publix supermarkets. if we started as a pilot program in three counties in central area of florida and so right now

we have got 22 publix pharmacies that are providing vaccinations for code. tough make an appointment. we hope to expand that partnership as of yesterday they had done over 2500 in those 22 sites. and so really it's not an issue of why tonight we expand it more quickly or why don't we expand it throughout the state. it is an issue of supply and demand. that's been our biggest challenge throughout the vaccine rollout is quite frankly supply. jedediah: so now this is a big contrast, lieutenant governor, to what's happening in a state of new york where you have in some cases vaccine on hand that could be distributed and yet is not being distributed to people because of this strict adherence to certain guidelines that were preestablished. so what are your message to governors around the country in terms of flexibility with this rollout and the importance of rollout in flexibility in getting proper brackets of people vaccinated? >> throughout the beginning of the pandemic, governor desantis has focused and places priority where it should be, on the

elderly. and that's something he was very clear of -- about on the distribution of the vaccine when you saw the cdc guidelines come out with regards to essential workers. the governor made a statement and it was very telling. for us it is unconscionable to have a 22-year-old receive a vaccine ahead of their 74-year-old grandparent. that's why we are just one of a few states that has placed the priority rightly where it should be those 65 and up. that's why we are continuing to make sure each and every day we expand those partnerships as you mentioned and others. weigh want to make sure as those doses come in we are not wasting vaccine. we have been really adamant about that. we want to make sure we are getting shots in arms as quickly as possible. to place the emphasis on those who truly need it our elderly. jedediah: um-huh. and in terms of just desire to be vaccinated we have seen some reports that initially scared a lot of people that healthcare workers in some cases saying i don't want to be vaccinated lots of reasons that that might be occurring that we can't get into right now. in terms it of the elderly

population in florida and elderly communities in florida. are you seeing them readily want to get vaccinated and make those aappointments and being open and ready, willing and able to get that vaccine? >> yeah. i think quite frankly the demand has been something that most states are dealing with. there is an explosive demand, especially in our senior population. to your point, initially, a lot of hospital workers and presurveys in my conversation with hospital ceos there they were a little hesitant as more and more hospital workers receiving the vaccine with little to no adverse effect you are seeing more and more workers want to get vaccinated i think that translates into the general population especially with the elderly. they have been cooped up in their home since march. i have think it's something that they're eager to get and hopeful to get more allocation of the vaccine. jedediah: um-huh, yeah, lieutenant governor, i think there is a desire to return to normalcy among many of us. thank you for joining us this morning. >> absolutely. thank you. jedediah: coming up, former president obama joins the

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thugs that stormed the capitol. we all know that's true. and it is unacceptable totally unacceptable. will: that's president-elect joe biden suggestings there is a double standard between the police response riot at our nation's capitol than those by black lives matter over the summer. will: barack obama echoing that claim sharing on twitter an article suggesting racism, racism is to blame for why the events at the capitol got out of hand. jedediah: host of rob smith is problematic podcast rob smith joins us now to react. thanks for joining us. obviously the allegation here is that racism was at play. i have to say i did watch some of the footage. i was concerned about what was going on when it came to security why the capitol wasn't more secure. and i did watch some of the videos unfolding on social media that almost looked odd to me to be perfectly frank that there was almost given access to individual who had clearly been

there to stir up trouble. the question is why? is this about race? is this about something else? what is the reason and what is not the reason? >> even outside of all of this, the question that i have for former president obama and current vice president elect joe biden is the country is hurting right now. the country is reeling what happened in d.c. earlier this week was very disturbing and we are all trying to figure out a way forward from this. so why throw kerosene onto the fire by making the entire situation about race based on a fallacy, based on a comparison that isn't even accurate? this is not unity. this is not healing, this is division. this is meant to break up america into two different tribes so that we are always fighting with one another all the time. what is with the division former president obama and vice president elect biden? this is not bringings the country together. and i hate this entire

conversation and i hate the fact that they have made this all about race. it ignores the black lives matter protests that happened last summer that cost billions of dollars of property damage and by the way killed african-americans like david dorm in st. louis and is a core i can't turner in atlanta. it ignores the that some of the people at the capitol were protesting for whatever they were protesting for were also african-american. if we don't talk about the real issues that led to some of these people into the capitol. if we don't talk about that stuff and if we don't find a way forward as americans, we are going to be in big trouble making this about race does not help. will: rob, i want to bring you into a conversation that i think pete and i started to have a back and forth on at the top of the hour. that's this censorship from twitter of the president. i said something i don't know, pete, if you disagreed with me but i said that the left should take no warm comfort or cold

comfort from seeing voices they disagree with silenced because it begins and it -- i mean, the current diagnosis is no doubt beginning with those of conservative voices. but i don't see a line, rob. i think it keeps contracting and contracting and contracting until it narrows itself down into the most powerful and outraged voices. it will encompass at some point everybody. not just the right. do you disagree? do you see a line here of where this stops? >> there is no line because it does not stop. and the aclu of all people has come out with a statement that said that they disagree with president trump being banned from twitter. they say that, you know, he has the access to doing a press conference and position things like that but a lot of people activists on the left and the right are going to be silenced because of this. this is not somebody that anybody should be happy about. this is not something that anybody should be cheering on and by the way, no. i'm not going to parler because i shouldn't have to be on a separate social media platform just because i'm a conservative.

for no other reason than i should have to be on a separate social media platform because i'm black or a separate social media platform because i'm gay. this is all getting ridiculous. this is getting out of hand. and for the authoritarians on the left cheers this right now the people, the journalists that said democracy dies in darkness that are cheering at the fact that mark zuckerberg and jack dorsey are now more powerful than the president of the united states, they have got something coming for them because this type of censorship is going to come for them, too. pete: rob, i irish you were right that you will be able to stay on twitter. give it time. say one wrong thing to will's point. the line is always shifting. if you move left you will be okay. the question is how quickly can you move far enough left to the new standard of the left that makes you acceptable. >> exactly. pete: always moving line to the left. i wish you luck in the frontier of twitter with all the fellow leftists there and it works. it might, we will see. you are a smart guy.

they don't like smart conservatives. that's the problem. i have to ask you as a shoulder thisoldierthis is an important t getting missed toted. nancy pelosi admitted in a statement that she called the chairman of the joint chiefs to discuss the nuclear code. here's a portion of the letter she wrote to her colleagues. she said the situation of this unhinged president could not be more dangerous and we must do everything that we can to protect the american people from this unbalanced assault on our country and democracy. she says she talked about the handling of the nuclear code. she is not in the chain of command, rob. what does it say to our enemies? >> this says to our enemies that we are that we are expressing disarray. that we are not united. and by the way, this is really weak decision for nancy pelosi to publicize. this if she wanted to have this conversation in private, whatever. it's fine. because we all know that she has no morals and no standards and certainly doesn't really care about national security. but, the fact that she decided

to publicize this is sending a message to the enemies of america that we are divided, that we are broken, and that we are in a state of weakness going into a transition to a new president which is exactly the opposite of the message that we want to be sending. but nancy pelosi doesn't care about this. because all nancy pelosi want to do is play politics. that's all she has done longer than i have been alive and that's all she will continue to do. will: you know, rob, you brought up journalists. i think the most lacking and self-awareness and absurd is comedians to cheer on censorship. talk about. pete: the most. will: it's amazing. rob smith, thank you so much. pete: thank you, rob. will: for your time this morning. >> thanks, guys. will: turning now to your headlines. this just in a man who allegedly made off with nancy pelosi's lecturn capitol hill riot is arrested adam johnson was booked into a florida jail. the man photographed sitting behind the speaker's text is

also behind bars. his name richard barnett and he was arrested in arkansas. >> he faces federal charges as well. this as we learn more about the capitol police officer who died after being arrested. brian sicknick a national guard veteran who served two tours overseas. his family is urging the public not to make his death a political issue. there's a push for officer sicknick's body to lie in state at the capitol rotunda. and a virginia school board member slams in person learning. she suggests that some parents who have advocating for opening schools are choosing death over education for their kids. >> the fact of the matter is we have to live with this incredible uncertainty. you know, do you want your child to be alive or to be educated? will: nearly 700 people in alexandria are calling for the school board member to resign they say her remarks are, quote, baseless and harmful. and the town's mayoral race is

decided by pulling a name out of a hat. a top hat, in fact. dickson, texas found itself in a jam african democrat sean skip worth ended up tied with his rival. state law says ties must be resolved by casting lots. so the town put the candidate's name on ping-pong balls and drew them from a hat. skip worth was the lucky winner. he will be sworn in on tuesday. afternoon those are your headlines. pete: casting lots is a very biblical phrase. i don't actually know what the casting of lots looks like. picking a name the of a ping-pong ball i will have to look that up casting lots. it doesn't sound like they. will: i don't know what that means either. pete: i should know. jedediah: that's homework for you are in the break, pete. several people and groups are being thrown off of social media including our next guest. walk away founder brandon strakka tells us how he is

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president trump's accounts permanently. but big tech censorship didn't stop there. facebook has also removed the walk away campaign group along with its founder and all of its members. pete: all of its members walk away campaign founder brandon strakka joins us now. brandon, thanks for being here. i'm sorry about this although i bet you in some sense felt like something like this could eventually happen once big tech decided you're too effective. you are a former liberal who has now walked away. you are opening other people's eyes. they are joining you, he they're posting videos. it's having an impact. it's got to stop. what rationale did you get for you, your videos, your followers being blocked and canceled? >> we didn't get an explanation of any kind. we -- what happened essentially was that yesterday i got a phone call from one of my employees saying the walk away group has been taken down and she said i have been banned. i sort of said what? and so i went on to see what was

going on and i opened facebook to see that i had been banned. right at that moment i started getting phone calls and text messages from all of my employees and all of my volunteers saying that they had been banned. what's going on? and what we were eventually able to figure out was that they had first -- the ground zero was the walk away campaign group with 508,000 members. and they took the group down and then they banned myself and any paid employees of mine. any volunteers. anyone connected with the campaign was banned entirely with no explanation whatsoever. jedediah: brandon, i want to point to facebook's statement on why they banned the walk away campaign and get your reaction. there is what they said your page walk away foundation has been removed for violating our terms of use, pages that are hateful, threatening or obscene are not allowed. we also take down pages that attack an individual or a group. is there anything on the page that you can think of that would inspire for it to be taken down.

is there rhetoric or anything that would justify this in your mind. >> no. that's what makes this so fascinating. the group, i mean i think it's probably one of the most well organized groups that exists on social media. because i have an amazing moderation team that bets every single pos --vets every single s on there the only content that goes on the walk away campaign group are testimonials. stories, people telling real stories about why they are leaving the left. it's just a testimonial of a person's personal account of their experience of why they can no longer be a democrat. so there would be no opportunity for calls of violence or glorifying a break-in at the capitol or anything like that. these are literally just testimonials and stories of people, i mean really truly makes no sense whatsoever. if i could say, too. what i think is so -- the entire thing is egregious but what makes it even more egregious is that in banning anybody who is connected to me or any of my staff, i mean, i have

contractors on my staff, people who are merch managers people who are videographers positions like this. they have lost their accounts. so they can no longer even do their business with their own clients on facebook. people that had nothing to do with me. they have lost their businesses entirely just for being connected to me and the walk away campaign. will: wow. brandon, let's stop back just a moment from your personal story though. it's tied to this. go a little bit broader. apple has reportedly threatened to ban parler from its app. store unless the service enacts i guess censorship in the way facebook has employed against you. we have talked about this morning where the line is i want to ask you this. what's the reaction? when all these people are banned from social media, when they're banned from a voice out there. what will be the reaction? >> well, that's a great question. and what i would like to actually do, i want to do this thoughtfully and i want to have there well-executed and well-planned. i think we need to get together with a lot of these kind of conservatives social media

influencers, maybe some politicians, we really need to come up with a plan here where my ideas that we set a hard date maybe two month from now, maybe march 15th, in the next two months all of us make clear day after day after day which platforms we will be moving. to say hard date where we exit these platforms. we have got to get off twitter and facebook and do it in an organized fashion. because i think -- the truth is anybody who is kidding themselves who thinks that we're all unified here. we are all living in the same country. this is two different americas. the left is absolutely killing us. they have outpowered us with these platforms. so we on the right have to take our power and control back. we have to stop playing by their rules. we have to figure out where we are going to go and go somewhere that's safe and we have to take our power back and i think we need to do this in an organized fashion. pete: brandon, count me in, as long as you call it big textit. and something like that otherwise they may not get the signal. >> may i say one thing before i

go. will: of course. pete: definitely this isn't twitter. >> i would like to encourage everyone to go to walk away.com and sign up for email list so get next steps walk away campaign.com please sign up email address. pete: scary part is mail champ or whatever you use could be next. that's what happens to groups like yours they keep squeezing. i hope they don't. thank you so much. will: thank you, brandon. >> thank you. will: one game out from crowning football's next college champion alabama or ohio state. they go head to head in the final fight. and not even the coronavirus can sideline this matchup. we are going to break down the picks and predictions next ♪ we will, we will rock you ♪ we will, we will, rock you ♪ everybody, we will, we will rock you ♪ we will, we will rock you ♪

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will: well, college football's national championship on monday alabama crimson tide taking on the ohio state university. it's a relatively smooth finish to a season according to many media was to be slind by the coronavirus. let's bring in daily caller sports editor david. one of the things you have been paying attention to very, very closely this wasn't supposed to happen, was it. according to many in sports media we should have called off the season before it ever started and yet, with here we are on the verge of a national championship game. >> that's right. they tried t so hard to cancel e season the university leaders and big ten pac-12 they did for a little bit successfully cancel the season. i have to give all the credit in

the world big 12. big ten eventually came back and pac-12 event came back back on the verge of village council crowning a national champ. players would die. if we play football players will die, mass hospitalizations. none of that happened. none of it came true. and here we are. we got one day left. and sunday we are going to play the game monday night. will: david, it's not hyperbole sports writers said somebody would die. here is what the editorial board said don't let the games begin. teach the right lesson by insisting public health is more important than sports. but here's what i really want to know, david, i would love to ask you, why do you think so much sports writers, i mean, people that cover college football seem to be thirsting, hoping, asking, that we wouldn't get to where we are a successful college football season in the books.

>> incredibly confusing. more than anything virtue signaling. these are highly educated what i mean sports writers go to major schools, northwestern, ivy league and it doesn't make sense to me for a main reason of this. they need football to happen in order to have a job. yet, they sat there on their little ivory towers, they looked down on middle america and the sec the big 10 country, don't ask questions. sit back, you are too dumb to understand how dangerous this virus is. and august i ever said was show us the science? you can't economically disseminate cities like madison, wisconsin or tuscaloosa, alabama. there were projections tuscaloosa was going to lose $2 billion, that's b with a b if the football season doesn't happy. what do you tell the bar owners. will: i have got to go because i'm tight on time. what screen is covering it up wisconsin? >> yeah. will: i see that i'm taking alabama over ohio state. that's my pick. >> i'm taking alabama, too.

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♪ ♪ jedediah: welcome, everyone, to the 9 a.m. hour of "fox & friends" weekend. hope you have your breakfast in hand and you're ready for a packed hour. we have been having fun all weekend, and we welcome you. thanks for joining the power. will: you bet. this is the fourth hour of "fox & friends", we've got to get them up today, get back to that tradition. good morning to you both. pete in. pete: good morning, will. a party might be one way to describe it, jed, i don't know, something like that.

it's been an interesting start to 2021. we've all been watching and internalizing it, assessing it, analyzing it. we've done it for three hours, we'll do it for another hour. we're glad you're with us as we work through this as patriots who love our country and want to try to get it right. jedediah: yeah. thank you so much for being part of our conversation. we're going to start with a fox news alert because twitter permanently suspends president trump's account. the company says it's to avoid, quote, further incitement of violence. the ban comes after twitter flagged the president's tweets for months. will: it pointed to this tweet in which the president said his supporters will have a giant voice long into the future and, quote, will not be disrespected. twitter also suspended the trump campaign's account and took down posts from the president made from his potus account criticizing the ban. pete: can't have a giant voice, certainly not for a long time. the president was blocked from facebook earlier this week.

the president vowing to return to social media on other platforms saying he might even create his own. last night if you were watching the channel, guys, there was a lot of uncertainty happening in realtime. so the news breaks that the president had been banned from twitter. he takes to his potus account which is the official president of the united states account, posts about it. those get taken down. his campaign attempts to tweet about it, that gets taken down. multiple other people removed as well. it felt like a bit of a friday night purge, you might say, on big tech. and as some guests have pointed occupant, may not be coincidental the that it happened after the results in georgia, after the certification of the electoral college. once all of that was done, it was time to silence the voice that was most effective in calling out the establishmenting in washington for four years, because you can make it all you want about what happened on wednesday or tuesday or thursday, but ultimately we've played those clips a all morning long. the left has been calling for

the silencing and the censoring of donald trump, of his supporters, of their viewpoints, of america first from the very beginning, resisting, impeaching, investigating, spying on. it's been happening. so this is no surprise. but and, will, you've made the point and, jed, i'll pass the ball to you, if they can do it to donald trump, they can do it to anybody, and that's what makes this so significant. there is no portal when all these platforms are controlled by the left. jedediah: you know, and, pete, i agree with some components what you just said there. i believe there has been a mission from some on the left before day one to create a problem for the president, to stand in his way, to talk about impeachment before he was even in office. some of this was borderline absurd. i do think there were problems with the president's twitter field, and it really started around the time of the election where a lot of information, false information. you saw it was getting flagged, in many cases, because it was

untrue. now, that did fuel the fire here. they did incite a lot of people to feel their votes weren't being acknowledged, and that's a terrible feeling to feel that your votes don't count. that tweet about mike pence was terrible, suggesting he was not being courageous when he was doing his job. so i think that there were problems with the president's twitter account. now, whether that calls for a permanent ban on his twitter account, i would say, no. i think that measure is not only drastic, but problematic because then you have to enforce that ban across the spectrum on twitter, and that has not been done. you see an inconsistency developing. a lot of questions arising in terms of when you see a problem via social media, you have to think long and hard about are you going to address it unilaterally across the board that way, and what questions in the future if you don't do that. pete: jed, real quick, who decides -- this is an earnest question because the world knows you and i disagree on a lot of things. that's fine.

we're allowed to, it's america, that's the point of the conversation. but who decides what's problematic? who checks the fact checkers? if they're all from left-wing newsrooms, at what point do we start being skeptical of their immediate fact check when they're taking government sources as if those government sources are the truth when the point of the media is to check those. whether they're right or wrong. so in good faith, the problematic part of that is the skepticism i have and so many trump supporters have is no one's checking the fact checkers. who's determining what's problematic, and when it turns into censorship, nobody wins. jedediah: yeah. i'm just talking, and i'll hand it over to you, will, i'm just talking about basic election facts that have been disproven. i'm not talking about policy initiatives, just facts that had been, you know, you had election officials, supreme court, things that had been ruled on where the president had raised something, and you just had people coming out saying that's simply not

true and here's why with. the tweet about mike pence in particular, we saw that, right? we saw that people that were seeking to do harm at the capitol seized on that moment. that's unfortunate. that should not have happened. i don't know that that calls for a permanent ban on his account though unless you're going to unilaterally apply that to many other people which seems to not be the direction that twitter is headed in. will: look, i think the president deserves criticism for the vents that unfolded in washington d.c. i think he shoulders some blame. i think he, at a minimum, was reckless in allowing what happened in washington this past week. but i think if you want to understand this country -- expect story with twitter ties into this -- you have to look deeper. you have to look broader. you have to understand what it was about president trump that so many people, 74 million of them, supported. because this is what's underlying all of the issues. this is what's underlying all of the problems in our country. i think jason whitlock last night on tucker carlson did a good job of laying out exactly

what's going on on a deeper, broader level in our country. let's take a listen. >> we have amplified the voices that they agree with, and they have diminished the voices they disagree with. they have crucified trump supporters. and i just want people to think about this and, listen, i don't agree with the way president trump has handled himself in all situations. but he has picked on other elites. the media expect elites -- and the elites have gone after working class people. trump supporters are not elites. they don't have major platforms. they are the people. will: i think that is exactly right, guys. i think this is as much about trump's supporters as it is about president trump. i do belief this, i believe the political lines are being totally shaken up. i think there's a great swath of this country that's been boxed

out. i think they've had their jobs shipped overseas, they've been lied about, they've been called racist, homophobic and stupid, and they have been treated like the outcasts of society. and now comes along twitter, and the one man that did fight back -- and, jedediah, a man that i agree is not blameless in what happened this past week. but the one man that they perceived as a fighter that fought back is now boxed out as well. and that leaves many in this country to go what about me? what's next? there's a deep issue that goes well beyond president trump in this country, and if we really want to understand what's happening in america, that's what much of this is about. pete: will, you're right. that is the simple ingredient of president trump. he listens to people, respected them when other people forgot them and dismissed them ask said they were better than that. there's a depth and reservoir of appreciation that comes with that that puppets you in that massive -- puts you in that massive crowd of people on the washington monument peacefully

protesting -- will: yeah, not storming the capitol. that's a whole different -- pete: yeah. anyone can make that distinction. it's clear. admiration of someone who actually fought for them. but if you've been banned from twitter, the idea is maybe there's somewhere else in the free market where you can go. parler has become that mace for a lot of people -- place for a lot of people. huge waves in down loads on the google app and the iphone app. it's an alternative to twitter. last night as the period of time's ban became clear, the ban of parler became even more clear. google has now suspended downloading of the parler app. here's what they said. they said we're aware of continued posting to the parler app to incite violence in the u.s. in light of this ongoing public safety threat, we're suspending downloads from the app store. so google's saying until you put the same censorship requirements in effectively that twitter has,

we're not going to let people download your app. apple has made the same threat. so on my iphone if i have the parler app, i now can't download it. some people have pointed out you can go online, but as you know, jelled, you wrote a book about this, the easiest way to interact with other people is through the app. what are people to do when twitter is blocked for them and then parler may not be around or available? if it all feels like it's starting to pile on. jedediah: yeah. google is essentially saying they saw posts on parler that were problematic, inciting violence. i don't know if those are on parler, i certainly haven't seen those posts, so i can't speak to that. and we're at -- there's just so many issues here, right? you have these private companies that are going to make these decisions for themselves that they don't want these associations. that's going to happen. no one can prevent that from happening. you also have a whole bunch of people that are going to start

feeling they have no recourse and nowhere to go. some of them will get angry peacefully, some may do other thing things that we hope they don't do. people are feeling like they don't have a voice in many respects, and that's problematic for the country at large. so i think we all need to sit back. and the people who have these companies need to sit back and think about the decisions that they're making when they don't apply these policies across the board and how that makes people feel. i think every single one of us, by the way, who operates in these spaces also needs to look at our behavior because these spaces seem to bring out the worst in all of us. and that falls on us, will. there is an element of personal responsibility here that needs to come into play, and we need to see that manifest now more than ever. will: no doubt. what we see tech companies doing -- and it's beyond tech -- doubling down on the exact thing that's causing so much anger. it's going to exacerbate many of our problems to divide us and to shut us out and to silence

people. it will not help the people. it will fan those flames. here's something i think will also further divide, here's nancy pelosi saying now is the time for the democratic caucus to pursue -- what are we, 11 days left, 12 days left of president trump's tenure here? -- impeachment. it is the hope of the members that the president will immediately resign, but if he does not, i have instructed the rules committee to be prepared to move forward with congressman jamie raskin's 25th amendment legislation and a motion for impeachment. the house will preserve every option, including the 25th amendment, a motion to impeach or a privileged resolution for impeachment. with great respect our deliberations will continue can. this is another thing, pete, i think that fans the flames. pete: all with great respect, will with. all with great respect for the institutions. it's been resist, impeach, the 25th amendment, racist coups, insurrectionings. the more you use terms that

should be powerful flippantly, you dilute their value and meaning. the they choose to do this, it will be their own unbecoming. all right, let's bring in west virginia governor jim justice right now to comment on this and more. governor, thank you so much for being here. we just talked about the fact that the democrats in the house may attempt to impeachment there's talk of the 25th amendment, now gop senator lisa murkowski is calling on the president to resign and is threatening to change parties which could further change the balance of power in the senate. governor, you've switched parties before. you were a republican and democrat, democrat to republican. is this a threat that should be taken seriously, and what do you think of these calls for impeachment? >> i think it's terrible, to tell you the honest truth. you know, we should step back and think, first and foremost, we should respect our president in every way. the president of the united states of america, just think about it.

now, whether we agree or disagree, president trump did a lot of good stuff, and he surely, the situation that just happened right now, i surely don't agree with in any way. but absolutely, this country is divided way too much. we need to, first and foremost, be americans. and for god sake, to live. we're 11 days from having a new president, and president trump going on his way. i mean, what in the world do we continue to just expose ourselves as americans over and over for? i adamantly disagree with everything that happened with the people going in our capitol and everything else. i thought it was terrible. but with all that being said, i think we should be americans first and foremost and forget this crazy stuff that's going on, you know, impeach or have him resign or whatever. we ought to get through the 11 days and go on about our lives. jedediah: governor, what do you honestly say to people who worry

about if there's no consequence for the behavior of the last couple of weeks? i, for one, really feel that the behavior has been terrible on the part of the president in the last couple of weeks. i don't want to see that from him again if he runs again, i don't want to see that from joe biden, i don't want to see that from anyone holding that office. and the concern is if there is no consequence, is that sending a message that either it's okay or that the next person in charge is free to behave as such as well? are you concerned about that at all? >> well, i mean, naturally we're all concerned about a lot of things. but at the end of the day, i can tell you just this, i can't -- i can tell you positively that from the standpoint of the trump family, there's no way that they really condoned what was, what happened, you know, with the invasion of our capitol. and with all that being said, just think about just this: why in the world do we continue to go on and on and on with this? and you don't think if you just step back and think from the

standpoint of consequences, our friends that lost the election, and we have a new president, i mean, absolutely there's a lot of people out there that are frustrated and everything else. but there's 74 million or whatever people that supported president trump, and with all of that, that frustration leads z to things that might be the very, very best. but we need to go on. i mean, that's just all there is to it. will: governor, we don't have much time left, but we definitely want to talk about the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine in your state. there's been a lot of talk about what's going on in new york, the success seems to be happening in florida. in your state nearly 24,000 staff and residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities have received the vaccine. how is it going in your state? looks like you've had 109,000 doses received, and you've distributed about 77,000. >> well, i would say this first and foremost, and you've got to just think about this, west

virginia has been the model all the way tough. and i don't see this braggadociously, but if you'll just think first in the notion to test all of our nursing homes, first in the nation to give all of our nursing homes the vaccine, we're way ahead of the curve as far as not leaving vaccines sitting on the shelf and everything when it really boils right down to it, west virginia has led the way. say what you want, but west virginia's been a beautiful mold, and and my dad would always say this when it really boils to it, you know, my dad would say it's something you have to move very quick, be quick, don't hourly, john wooden, but he would also say just this, when you got to move really quick, we don't have time to sit down and develop a playbook. what we best do is find somebody that's going it really good and right and try to duplicate it. west virginia could have been a big help to our whole nation. pete: that's a great point.

slow is smooth, smooth is fast, and it takes leadership to do what you've done. congratlakes. thanks for -- congratulations. thanks for delivering for the people of west virginia. governor jim justice, thanks for your time. >> thank you guys so much. jedediah: as democrats in washington focus their attention on removing president trump from office, the push to remove california governor gavin newsom hit a new milestone reaching 1 million signatures on the recall petition. john cox challenged newsomfor governor in 208, and he joins us now -- 208. welcome to the show. what do you make of this? are you surprised? it's great to have you. are you surprised at all, and where do you expect this to go? >> no, i'm not surprised at all, jed. as a matter of fact, the million signatures are not just coming from republicans, they're coming from independents and democrats. and why? because this state is truly in a crisis situation. and, you know, i've run a successful business for 40 years by solving problems and delivering results.

9 and the people of this state have not seen that. we have got businesses hut down around the state. -- shut down. we haven't gotten control of the virus. it's not been proven that it's spread by restaurants, yet they're all shut down in this state. disney world in florida's been open for, since july. disneyland is still shut down. now we have the vaccine, but it's not being distributed. it's chaos. our employment division is paying out $8 billion in fraud claims. it's just a case of mismanagement. you know, jed, i think people want honest, effective and accountable government. and as you can see with mr. newsom's french laundry dinner, he's responding to the lobbyists. and i think people see that. and it spans the partisan spectrum. independents, democrats and republicans all see that mr. newsom is just running

government for the lobbyists and not really addressing the real problems, really getting in and solving the housing and homelessness crisis and all the things we have that are making life difficult here. jedediah: yeah. you know, john, you point out that hypocrisy, see the images on the screen in terms of the juxtaposition of his own behavior and what he was telling everyone else to do. we have a statement to abc7 that reds as follows: the campaign by trump supporters or is a waste of money. the governor would rather focus on getting through the home stretch of the pandemic. your response. >> well, first of all, the governor has always deflected by blaming, you know, president trump which is a common thing because he doesn't want to address the real problems. you know, he took office in 2018, jed, expect housing crisis -- and the housing crisis was in film bloom. we've now built fewer homes in 20199 and, obviously, 2020 than we did in 208.

homelessness is worse. the cost of living, you know, we had rolling blackouts in august because we didn't have enough electrical supply. we had fires that are threatening people's lives all across the statement, and his response -- the state, and his response was to ban the car in 15 years. that's just not addressing the problems, jelled. i think -- jed. i think people want solutions. you know, in the business world we say that the -- when you're in a hole, the first rule is to stop digging, and that's what we're doing with this recall. it's not a matter of trying to cost money or to, you know, stop the wheels of government. it's actually to change the leadership so we do get these problems solved, we do need solutions. and mr. newsom has common straited that he's all about politics and ambition. he's not about solving problems. jedediah: yeah. john, unfortunately, we're running out of time, but we thank you for joining us and for your thoughts on this. >> thank you. thank you, appreciate it.

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needed that. >> a lot of families, they are struggling right now and need help. god bless this relief program. pete: owner and chef andrew raoul has already raised nearly $250,000 to help struggling families. chef, thank you so much for being here and for everything you're doing. barstool's fund has gotten a lot of publicity, they're doing it for businesses across the spectrum. you're focusing on the restaurant industry, something very passionate to you. tell our viewers about what you're doing. >> yeah. look, as these draconian lockdowns have been cast, there's been no safety net. restaurants, we've been unilaterally shut down with no notice, and these employees are completely left out in the cold. there was 1 is.5 million plus employees -- 1.5 million plus employees, and now we're down to about 500,000, so over a million employees had their jobs just ripped out from underneath them. and most of them, if not all of them, are left completely out as

well as a result of the quagmire that is the unemployment system in california. and many other states, we're seeing a pattern across the system. we've said, look, we're going the help out as many people as we can and, if anything, try to give them a lifeline until we figure this out. pete: government comes with a lot of red tape, a lot of inefficiency. folks try to apply, they can't get that. how do you identify who needs the most help? >> well, we've got an application right now that's on our 86 struggle.com web site which tells about the fund, and then we call every single previous employer, we do background checks, and right now this is just my wife and myself. she's been up until three, four in the morning talking to people. and once we choose the candidate, we're able to distribute the funds. the interesting thing is within one restaurant usually when the word spreads, there's three or four employees that contact each other, so we're doing it somewhat in blocks. pete: it's not just the restaurants themselves, it's people who work in the

restaurant industry getting a little assistance hopefully to bridge past these draconian lockdowns and get back to work. that's all you and every other restaurant wants. >> exactly. it's the restaurant employees we're helping. i think it's interesting to say that your previous guest, john cox, was one of the first people to donate to our fund. pete: very cool. did not know that, now we do. if people want to donate or apply for help, you can visit the website, help struggling restaurants with dashes in between. i think a few bucks will go a long ways, and knowing you're vetting these people and making sure they're deserving is super important. when the history is written, heroes like you will be remembered, and we appreciate you. thank you. >> thank you so much. pete: you got it. all right. still ahead the left chipping away -- i don't know if it's chipping away anymore, i think they're taking a sledgehammer -- to our civil liberties. from twitter banning the president to google suspending

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will: well, twitter permanently suspending president trump. big tech censorship doesn't end there, google blocking the parler app from their play store as apple threatens to ban parler

from that platform. says it encourages free speech but doesn't fully implement a moderation plan. jedediah: hoover institution senior fellow victor davis hanson joins us now to discuss. victor, what is your reaction to the stories that you've seen unfolding with respect to twitter, now parler? it seems to be ballooning. >> well, you know, half the free expression of the nation now rests in the hands of 20 and 30-somethings sitting at home on zoom or at their headquarters in san francisco and palo alto. that's what we've come to. they've created a climate of fear that i don't think anybody's seen or heard or read about since the mccarthy period. so what you say today and what i say today, we're afraid that one word can destroy your career, or you can have your whole social platform canceled, your social media. and why is this happening right now? i think part of it, it wasn't just the regrettable incident at the capitol, it was the election. and they're making the necessary adjustments because they think a very hard-left government is

coming into power, and they want to appease it and get exemption. michelle obama, 24 hours ago michelle obama said donald trump should be permanently banned from social media, and he was banned. that's just one example. why are they worried? they're worried because they have a 19th century cartel monopoly trust, concession, whatever you want to use with, they're no different than standard oil and john d. rockefeller or the railroads of the 9th century. google controls about 90% of searches, and if you go on and say threatening donald trump on twitter or threats to donald trump on twitter, you'll see the opposite. that donald trump is threatening something. because they rig what these algorithms, the social media under mark zuckerberg's company is 86% of the market. twitter's little niche, about 90%. we've never seen anything like that in the 19th century. what's scary is they combine the electronic power of the new age

in a way that george orwell warned us. so what we really do have is a 19th century railroad or octopus with tentacles over control of the market supercharged by instantaneous technology. and $4 trillion of capitalization in silicon valley's hands. what they're doing with that power is they are adjudicating who can express themselves over what? a public domain. it's the air. the u.s. government and the people own the air. just as we say to telegraph companies or the telephone companies or the railroads or the oil companies, you can't have cartel and lock the market and pick and choose winners. that's what their doing. and -- they're doing. and if how do they get away with it? they said, you know what? you should admire us. we're laissez-faire entrepreneurial capitalists, don't regulate it. then they turn right around to the left and said we tell those suckers we're capitalists, but

we're going to give our money, our support and censorship to you. and they did. so people on twitter, you can see that until, what, yesterday or two days ago the ayatollah that -- khamenei was on twitter calling for the destruction of israel freely. and what did kathy griffith do as soon as the election was over, she retweeted holding the decapitated head of donald trump. why were they doing that? because they knew that type of speech was protected on twitter and other speech wouldn't be. so i think it's scary, it's one of the scariest environments we've had, and it's a force multiplying effect of what's going on in the universities and what's going to on in corporate boardrooms, and it's a reaction -- i understand that it's supposed to be a reaction to this deplorable incident at the capitol that's been long in coming, and it's sort of -- yeah, i think social media and silicon valley and a lot of the corporations said it's time to settle up. the election's over, we've got a

new administration, let's go after the people that we want, always wanted to go after, and let's settle account. that's what we're doing. we're right back to the 19th century, but we don't have a frank norris riding anything like the octopus. and if we did like josh hawley, then we're going to cancel that book, and they did. and so -- pete: victor, you painted a scary picture. what's to be done about it? what can someone watching right now, what can conservatives, trump supporters, patriots do about it? >> well, i think they're going to have to find in the short terminaller the nate platforms if that's possible, but they have such a strangulation on the market. it's going to be very hard because they control the dissemination of apps. because that's what all cartels do. we knew that a hundred years a ago, and we forgot the sherman antitrust act. 1890, it was passed. and here we are with these people that have their tentacles around our neck. so we've got to have

legislation, but are we going to have legislation with a hard-left controlled senate, the house and the presidency? no, because they're controlled by big tech. and i mean that literally. mark zuckerberg infused $350 million into pre-selected precincts and gave that over to public officials, registrars to enhance a particular expected vote. they have power that's just absolutely undreamed of, that we never even imagine ifed. it makes george orwell's 1984 look tame in comparison. we let it happen, and we shouldn't be surprise, and it's going to get a lot worse. will: i heard you reference cartels, standard oil, antitrust laws, we broke up those monopolies in the early 19th century. we'll have to see what our response will be to big tech. victor, before we go, this is nancy pelosi talking about what's on the table when it comes total remaining days -- to the remaining days of president trump's presidency. >> sadly, the person running the

executive branch is a deranged, up hinged, dangerous president of the united states. and there's only a number of days until we can be protected from him. but he has done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him. >> well, i gather that the 25th amendment is off the table. >> no, it isn't. nothing is off the table. will: victor, you heard it there, nothing is off the table. your? >> it's a punitive effort to humiliate an outgoing president. here's what she didn't say, that we're $28 trillion in debt, that operation warp speed has given us the vaccines, and they're sitting there literally not being used in the states, and people are dying because of that. and we've got a very dangerous situation in the transition to another presidency that other countries may take advantage of. all of that is no concern to her right now. all she wants to do is i humiliate and further punish the

president. so his -- he came into office with madonna saying before she knew anything about his tenure that we've got to blow up the white house. and then we had an article in foreign policy by rosa brooks saying, you know what? we can consider a coup, it might be necessary. then we have an impeachment, 58 house representatives in the first week were ready to impeach him, and that's how he's going out. it's been four years of that. i'm not trying to excuse what happened at all, it was deplorable, at the capitol. and it was regretting. but this is something that we've never even seen before. this is the either out of the third world or i don't know where. other governments that we make fun of don't do this kind of stuff. and they're going to regret it because it really is going to set a tradition that we're going to really regret. and i think that joe biden, i -- if joe biden has cognitive issues, i don't want to invoke the 25th amendment against that. i don't want him to have to take assessment tests. i don't want to have a special prosecutor go in to look at

hunter biden. i don't want to have -- if republicans take the house in two years, i don't want them to dig up the big guy's 10% and have an impeachment. that would be a terrible thing, but that's where we are now. tit for tat, and it's going to lead to give onand armageddon. it's terrible. everybody's got to take a step back, and nancy pelosi's got a responsibility. this is for the house speaker that tore up the state of the union address on television, and she's talking about extremism? it's crazy. i can't even find words, it's surreal. jedediah: well, i -- vic torque i'm sure i spoke for the other two when i say we could talk to you all day. unfortunately, we're out of time, but we thank you so much. really appreciate hearing from you this morning. pete: thank you, victor. >> thank you. jedediah: still ahead, a judge blocks president trump's overhaul of immigration asylum rules less than two weeks before he leaves office. tom homan breaks down down the

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♪ pete: less than two weeks before president trump leaves office, a federal judge blocks his administration from a sweeping set of asylum restrictions ahead of them taking effect on monday. jedediah: what happens to the efforts to secure the border once president-elect biden and his team are in charge? will: here to discuss is retired i.c.e. director, fox news contributor tom homan. tom, what do you think is to come when it comes to immigration in the coming weeks? >> well, look, i've always said for six months you're going to see a surge at the border under a biden presidency because of the promises he made on open border. but this ruling just throws more gas on that fire. it's ridiculous to begin with. they didn't rule on the memories of what the administration's trying to do. look, the facts are this, if you look at the data, data's clear on this, 89% of central

americans who claim asylum at the border never get relief from the u.s. federal courts because they simply don't qualify. so it's another loophole that congress has refused to fix. now this judge is not ruling on the memories of it. and this is why i got so angry the last time i testified with members of congress, because they have refused to close this loophole that is caused hundreds and hundreds of thousands of families to come across that border. they don't go home. they wait in the united states for the next amnesty, the next daca, and until we fix this stuff, we're never going to fix the immigration system. never. pete: tom, i don't want to be pessimistic, but paint a picture of the worst or most likely is scenario of what our immigration policy looks like a month from now, six months from now. >> you're going to see a surge at the border because joe biden said he's going to put a moratorium on detentions, he's

going to stop enforcement operations which means you can get a job here illegally and i.c.e. won't find out. and on top of all this, he's going to end the remain in mexico program, so all these asylum seekers are going to come to the united states, they'll say a simple, key phrase, and they'll be released. congress has cut i.c.e. beds by 40%. i.c.e. had 52,000 detainees in beds last year, they've cut them down to 31,000 beds. last month they had over 75,000 people enter the country illegally. what do you do for the tens of thousands coming across and there's no beds? catch and release. what do you do, serious public safety threats, they get released because the beds are full. this is the worst case scenario i've seen in my career that's coming to us real soon. jedediah: you know, tom, we're coming to the end of the trump

administration. when you look back at policies with respect to immigration in terms of promises that were made by the president before he took office, what was actually done, what was accomplished, what you think was good, how did he do? >> president trump has done more to secure our border than any president i've worked for, and i've worked for six of them. i respected them all, but the facts are clear. president trump has done more to secure the border and defend the men and women of border patrol, i.c.e. than any other president i've seen. he's been successful. illegal immigration was down almost 80% depending on what month you looked at, and that's -- especially considering that congress fought him every step of the way. he had an agreement with mexico no other president could get. he has agreements with central american countries no other president was able to get. he built a border wall, he kept his promise on that, 450 miles and 300 miles still contracted. he has been remarkable on immigration, and the american people need to understand that.

he's done more for the safety and security of this country than any president i've worked for, and that's a stone cold fact. i don't care what side of the issue you're on, you can't deny the data and the numbers. will: you worked for six of them, as you said. that's quite a bit of perspective. tom homan, thanks so much for your time this morning. >> thanks for having me. will: coming up, wildcard weekend is here, and today's games will be the first step in determining a super bowl champion. we're previewing the action of games today, on saturday, next. ♪ ♪ the chevy silverado trail boss. when you have a two-inch lift. when you have goodyear duratrac tires. when you have rancho shocks and an integrated dual exhaust.

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deep throws, 35 yards even. but is it enough to start? does he have enough mobility? they're actually thinking about starting john wolford who got the win last week, but that was his first nfl start. do you want to trust him in a playoff situation? that's going to be crucial. and then the rams' defend, number one in the league. this is an amazing unit, will. they haven't been this good in decades. can they shut down russell wilson and t.j. metcalf? -- t.. >> metcalf -- d.j. metcalf. russell wilson is going the wreak havoc, he's going to have figured out the rams in a way he hadn't in the previous two matchups. that's the quarter bank i would want. i think that's going to be the x factor in this game today. will: all right. so you're taking the seahawks, it sounds like. >> i am, i am. will: you often make picks. do you have picks on colts-bills or bucs-washington football team

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can bundle up. >> or tweet until you can. we thank everyone in blue who defends us. hope everyone has a great saturday and join us tomorrow. ♪ neil: good morning, everybody. if you're looking at the capitol and trying to digest events, also keeping a close eye on the president of the united states. he's at the white house. second to last saturday at the white house. this, of course, when we have social media shutdown. we will explore. welcome, everybody, i am neil