platform parler reappearing online with a promise to fight but big tech is not done censoring conservatives, the latest republican kicked off twitter. jillian: the battle of the ages, tom brady and the buccaneers crushing the new orleans saints. "fox & friends first" continues right now. ♪ all i do is win, win, no matter what. ♪ got money on my mind, i can never get enough. ♪ every time i step into the building, everybody's hands go up. jillian: tom brady doesn't always win. i recall a super bowl where he did not win. todd: you know what, mele? i will see your one super bowl where he didn't win and i'll raise you two. that took way a too long. this is a giant's mask. that's the most fun we're going to have all week. you just got all of our fun for the past five days. jillian: you're watching "fox & friends first" on this monday morning.

i'm jillian me le. todd: i'm todd piro. security concerns prompting the fbi to vet 25,000 national guard troops. jillian: david spunt joins us live in washington as armed protests begin nationwide. good morning, david. >> reporter: good morning to you both. security is the tightest it's ever been if our nation's capitol, no question about that. the capitol and the surrounding city is a fortress right now. 25,000 national guard troops in washington, d.c. right now, protecting our nation's capitol. more expected to you arrive soon. you mentioned the fbi going to be doing some extra screening of those national guard troops, along with the secret service. many will be screened multiple times over concerns of a possible insider attack. army secretary ryan mccarthy confirmed this in an interview with the associated press over this weekend and said that troops will be heavily screened over those fears. >> it's about guns, gates and guards at times. as a visible deterrent.

that's what you see in washington right now is those guns, gates and guards. what you don't see is the intelligence gathering effort on the part of the fbi and other partner agencies. >> reporter: federal prisons on lockdowns, capitol cities and capitol buildings under the microphone with governors calling in state national guards. several armed protests expected over the next few days over anger president trump lost the election. speaking of president trump, two more days in office here, monday and tuesday. wednesday morning, before president-elect joe biden is inaugurated, president trump will head down to palm beach, florida. it will be it last trip on air force one. even when he's former president trump, the house will transmit one article of impeachment to the senate. there is a chance there could be a separate vote to keep the president from running for public office again. trump ally, south carolina

senator lindsey graham is begging chuck schumer to forget the impeachment trial in the senate. >> if we embrace an unconstitutional impeachment of donald trump after he's out of office, it will destroy the party. the republican party wants to move forward. president trump's going to be the most important voice in the republican party for a long time to come. >> reporter: and speaking of the senate, vice president-elect kamala harris will no longer be the senator from california. she resigns later today. back to you. jillian: thanks very much, david spunt live for us. appreciate it. todd: the fbi investigating whether this pennsylvania woman we're about to show right now stole a laptop or hard drive from nancy pelosi's office during the capitol riot. officials believe riley june williams intended to send the detries a friend in russia to sell to the kremlin. she is on the run with authorities looking to arrest her. pelosi's office has not confirmed if anything was actually stolen. jillian: and parler has showed up online overnight.

the social media platform returning but users still not able to log in. amazon shutting down the site following the capitol hill riot. todd: jackie ibanez joins us live. >> reporter: it appears a new internet company is hosting parler after being shut down by amazon. the company's ceo, john matze, writing, quote, hello, world, is this thing on. adding we will resolve any challenge before us and plan to welcome all of you back soon. we will not level civil discourse perish. parler was taken down following the riot on capitol hill. tech giants blaming the platform's free speech philosophy for helping incite violence. apple's ceo, tim cook, reveals he is open to letting parler back on the app store if it makes changes. listen. >> we looked at the incitement to violence that was on there. we don't consider that free speech, incitement to violence has an intersection. if they get their moderation

together, they would be back on there. >> reporter: in court filings, amazon claims it repeatedly notified parler that its content violated terms of the agreement. but that a parler was unwilling and unable to moderate it. matze says amazon is holding the company's digital infrastructure hostage. >> if they believe that the social media itself was a problem, why did they shut off everything else too? so that development environment, they shut off our ability to work and our ability to even access our own code. >> reporter: big tech censorship extending to newly elected congresswoman marjorie taylor green, twitter suspending her account for violating policy. twitter took down the account of a left wing activist charged with participating in the riot. however, his youtube is still active this morning. jillian, todd. todd: jackie, thanks.

jillian: the ceo of parler you just heard from in jackie's report went on to layout the 250eu78 line of the communication with amazon and said the tech giant was trying to expand parler a week earlier. >> right now we still have our e-mail up but i don't know how much longer that's going to last. amazon and these companies all made very public and very harsh statements, claiming that we were quote, unquote, breaching their terms of service for months and they've been trying to notify us, which i don't think is true at all. amazon cites they had 100 violation reports they sent to us, which was true. but they sent them all to us on the eighth. and all at once. even though only a week before they were trying to extend their partnership with us even more by offering us proprietary services, year-long development plans. they were offering us development resources. this is -- there was no

indication that there were any material problems with our service. this was all just happening at the same time. jillian: coming up, a biotech entrepreneur breaks down big tech's intervention and the potential long-term effects. todd: a missing arizona woman found alive in critical condition. jessica goodwin vanished after calling out of work last monday. her vehicle was found at a car wash three days later. a rescue crew was able to track her down by tracing her phone records to an indian community in the phoenix area. she was air lifted to the hospital for treatment. the case under investigation. jillian: los angeles police calling attention to the deadly crime surge there, calling the stats shocking, tweeting, quote, 16 days into 2021 and homicides in south la are up 150% compared to last year. the city's top copies pleading for elected officials and the community to help stop the senseless violence. victims shot in the area are up 742%.

todd: staggering number. the u.s. calling on russia to release opposition leader alexei navalny. secretary of state pompeo writing in twitter in part, confident political leaders do not fear competing voices. president-elect joe biden's national security advisor, jake sullivan, tweeting in part, the kremlin's attacks on mr. navalny are not just a violation of human rights but an after front to the russian -- afront to the russian people. he was arrested after returning from germany. jillian: the chiefs hold off the browns to advance to their third straight afc championship game. patrick mahomes left the game with a concussion but the head coach said he was doing good. the bucs defeated the saints, tom brady getting the better of drew brees to help to his first nfc championship game. brees did not give any hints on whether or not he would be back with the saints next season. >> i'm going to give myself an

opportunity to think about the season, think about a lot of things, just like i did last year. and make a decision. jillian: and tune in next week when bray di and the bucs -- brady and the bucs face aaron rodgers and the packers on fox. todd: right now, aaron rodgers looks amazing and not in the way that my wife thinks. i'm talking the football way. jillian: i have no comment. todd: unbelievable right now, unstoppable. jillian: we will see. it is nine minutes after the hour. the covid crisis hit the economy hard so how much of a shift should we expect in president-elect biden's pick to lead the treasury department? >> the pandemic and economic fallout, that together have caused so much damage for so many, it's an american tragedy. jillian: brian brenberg says janet yellen has a reputation as a moderate but is taking a more of progressive tone. he joins us live, next. todd: today we pause to

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>> the pandemic and economic fallout that together have caused so much damage for so many, it's an american tragedy. and it's essential that we move with urgency. jillian: all eyes turning to the future of the economy under a biden administration as janet yellen is expected to be confirmed as treasury secretary tomorrow. todd: here to take a closer look at the new administration's policies and how they could affect your wallet, professor of economics at the kings college, brian brenberg. great to see you. let's focus on what's in it for me, what does this janet yellen pick mean for the viewer

watching at home. >> her reputation is as a moderate. when she was announced as the treasury secretary nominee, many breathed a saying of relief. elizabeth warren was talked about a potential treasury secretary and that looked like a higher tax agenda. with yellen, a lot of investors breathed a sigh of relief, this is somebody who is not going to blow out the budget, not fully on board with the progressive agenda. when you look at what janet yellen has been saying lately, she's been talking more about progressive causes over the past several months. she's talked much more about climate change policy, the need to do something about that. she's talked about the need for higher spending. so i think as the average american, you would say well, janet yellen, she's been around for a while and what i've seen is what i'll get. it seems she might be open to

the moves that bernie sanders might look to push. if that's the case she'll be the implementer of a lot of that policy. jillian: you just said at this point investors are breathing a sigh of relief. does that change if what you're saying does come to fruition and if it changes how does it affect americans at home? >> yeah, i think investors are actually -- they're going to figure out who they want to watch, who is the bellwether for what's going to happen. i think it's going to be in congress. they're going to be watching bernie sanders. they're going to be watching the senate. that's sort of the -- that's the point where this progressive agenda is either going to work or it's going to fail. if that legislation gets past the senate, if bernie sanders can use the budget reconciliation process as they say to get things passed with just a bare democratic majority, that's where the rubber hits the road. janet yellen will do what she's asked to do. watch the senate.

janet yellen will be the quiet operator in the background, making things happen. todd: you mentioned budget reconciliation, the two biggest words you'll hear in the next 24 months. nikki haley warning of the harsh reality that bernie sanders is going to be the budget committee chair. she says in a tweet, time to face the harsh reality, socialist bernie sanders will become the chairman of the senate budget committee, he vows to enact his progressive agenda on healthcare, climate, infrastructure spending and cutting defense spending. seems like you share nikki haley's concerns, is that correct? >> i do. it's not because i'm projecting anything. this is exactly what bernie sanders has said, if you look at what he's been tweeting and saying over the past few weeks, he's been saying exactly that. the word he's used is aggressive. he wants people to think about his move as as aggressive and those two words, budget reconciliation, are going to be the words of the winter and the spring. that's the process that the senate can use to pass a bill

without 60 votes, with just 51 votes, and that's what bernie sanders wants to do to get past higher taxes, much higher spending, the green energy infrastructure plan that joe biden has been talking about. he is bent on getting the progressive agenda view. he thinks he can do it with just the bare majority of democrats in the senate and i don't think there's anything including the president of the united states, frankly, who can hold him back on that. we'll see if republicans can stall, if they can whip up public opinion on this but right now bernie sanders has one objective and that's to do what he's been talking about for several years now. jillian: i wrote can democrats advance a bernie sanders agenda without republicans and you anticipated my question because you're that good. brian brenberg, thank you for joining us. >> you bet. todd: i mean, that's a good point. jillian: he did. todd: still ahead, the pandemic started in china, somehow it is the only major country to report economic growth in 2020.

curious? asia expert gordon chang explains how beijing somehow beat the odds. plus -- >> i need this. >> i'll send it to you. good luck to you. jillian: promise made, promise kept. a special request tom brady fulfilled for a trash talking rival. we're coming right back.

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could be canceled on day one of a biden presidency. the project approved by president trump would move up to 830,000 barrels of oil a day from canada to nebraska. it's been held up by legal delays, the partially completed pipeline's parent company, tc energy, planned to announce they would use more renewable energy to operate the pipeline and would hire union workers in a bid to get the biden administration on dashboard -- on board. canadian officials are warning this is going to kill jobs on both sides of the border. todd: some news coming out of china that's not going to make a lot of the rest of the world happy. cheryl: it's interesting. china is reporting that it showed economic growth in 2020. making it the only major economy in the world that would basically do this, 2.3%. this is gdp. and this would further certify china as the dominant economy in

asia. shops and factories reopened fairly early after massive chutedowns due to the coronavirus. demand for masks and other medical supplies did boost export numbers for china. it's the weakest economic growth they've shown in decades. the question, how is the biden administration going to deal with china's long history of intellectual theft, cyber security attacks on other countries and companies and obviously human rights violations. and to put a finer point on this, guys, the data comes from the chai you niece government, the -- chinese government. investors have always questioned china's economic data when it's released like this. jillian: absolutely. much reason to. todd: joining us for his reaction to china's growing economy, what they say is their growing economy, analyst gordon chang. obviously, nobody, eve when you're lying, can say you had a good first quarter. we don't know if china's lying. look at q2, q3 and q4, looks

like it's going up pretty nicely. first, is this accurate? >> no, it's not. as cheryl suggested. first of all, china's national bureau of statistics just engages in outright fabrication. more important, they also engage in technical manipulation of statistics. so for instance, last month they shifted gross domestic product out of 2019 and that means the 2020 numbers will look better because of a base effect. so when we look at all of those numbers and the underlying data, i'm sure we're going to find even more technical manipulation. yes, china grew last year but not by 2.3%. todd: why would china put out that information especially when the world blames china for ultimately destroying all their economies. is that a moment for china to be like ha ha ha, look at us and start bragging. >> they're bragging for a purpose. their overall narrative is that

the united states is in terminal decline, about to fail and that china is the world's dominant nation and its form of governance is superior. so this feeds into that. and that's also true because they say, look, we control the virus better, we did x, y and z. but these gdp numbers actually support that narrative. todd: interesting. all right. you have a new op-ed out of. it says china might still have leverage over representative eric swalwell amid the spy scandal. why do you say that? >> well, because he's not been forth coming about his relationships with christine fang, the suspected ministry of state security agent. you know, there's no sin in being targeted by china's intelligence services, because that's true of everybody in congress. but when swalwell was informed in 2015 by the fbi that she could be a chinese agent, he -- and he sits on the intel committee. he hasn't talked about china's penetration of the u.s. all he talks about is russia.

and we know also that swalwell won't talk about his personal relationship with christine fang which means he's- he essence testify about it. we've got to be concerned that he sits on the house intel committee. he has access to information that beijing wants. we've got to be concerned. he shouldn't be sitting on that committee until he comes clean with the american public. todd: it begs the question, wouldn't this have been discovered by the intel services by now? who he knows. but gordon chang, we always appreciate having you on, breaking these things down that people need to know and you give people that information every morning. thanks so much, sir. >> thanks, todd. todd: jillian. jillian: it is 26 minutes after the hour. crime in liberal led cities spiked as calls to defund the police grew louder. our next guest says it's no coincidence. new york congresswoman nicole malliotakis joins us live. the biden team tells migrants

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this is happening right now. he allegedly killed a 25-year-old man who was walking his newly adopted dog. december 29th he posted 10% of $20,000 bail on charges of motor vehicle theft and kidnapping and posted 12% of bail on charges involving aggravated asalt on a prison guard. we're talking two weeks later. the bail was reduced from $300,000, down to what i just mentioned. what is going on in these liberal led cities and how do we fix this problem that we're seeing day in and day out across the country? >> this is a case of the inmates running the asylum and i can speak specifically about new york because i was a state legislator before coming to congress. what happened under one party democratic rule is they reversed so many policies that were good for public safety. in new york's case, they actually changed the bail laws to release individuals who had even committed homicide and manslaughter and felony drug charges and strangulation.

we had to go in as republicans and push back after it was such a disaster. we told them at the time the bill took place this was going to be bad, crime was going to increase and that's what happened. thousands of individuals were released back onto the streets, many were career criminals who committed other crimes. and so thank god we were able to get that rolled back. it wasn't enough. we're still seeing how the democrats demonize the police officers who are doing the best they can on the street. they want to he defund them. they raised money to release those rioters and looters who were arrested over summer who had broken into stores and had ransacked our communities and they had released them and put them back on the streets again. so it's an issue of democrats taking the side of the criminals instead of law abiding taxpayers that elected them to represent them. jillian: people are afraid to open up businesses because they dealt with rioting, looting, things like that all year long. you have people agrade to go and walk their dogs because of

what's going to happen on the street. it's incredibly devastating. there's a former new york state democratic party head, joe sullivan, who slams andrew cuomo's and link of the vaccine rollout. let's pull up here this quote from him. this reads, this is john sullivan, i got the vaccine down here. i probably wouldn't have gotten it by now in new york. i think florida is a leader in the nation in vaccinating seniors. cuomo's call to vaccinate seniors came a week later. do you know how many people could have been inoculated in a week. for reference, he's living down there since october, the last few months. what do you make of the quote and the fact that he could have gotten it in new york, he got it in florida instead because he could. >> thousands of vaccine in new york were thrown away because the governor had such tight restrictions on who can get them and we had pushed very strongly to get the nypd as part of our front line and senior citizens moved up on the list and now we're seeing as a result of

that, we're actually backlogged, long lines. we've been pushing mayor de blasio to add senior residences to the places where the vaccine could be administered. yesterday, i received a call from a 95-year-old world war ii vet who waited in line for two to three hours to get his vaccination. we can't have situations like that and a local councilman and i wrote a letter today to try to address this issue. so it's one issue after another. the rollout has been rocky. as we see these issues, we identify them but it comes down to leadership of the mayor and governor. when we suggest things and they accept it and put it into the plan, makes things better. we're the local guys on the ground. really, at the end of the day, you can't compare what happened in new york to florida. certainly florida has had a much better rollout and again it comes to the democrat versus republican leadership. i think that what you see governor de santis do is much better. we try to improve the process as we go along.

jillian: makes me wonder why other states aren't looking at florida, saying why don't we try this. it appears to be working better. we will certainly continue to follow it as we know you will. congresswoman nicole malliotakis, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. todd: time to get a check of the forecast with the great janice dean. hey, jd, happy monday. jillian: good morning. >> happy monday to both of you. quiet forecast for much of the country, that's good news. and temperatures aren't too cold. we're going to start to see or feel temperatures get a little colder this week and then more of an arctic plunge as we get into next week. there are your temps across new york. we're pushing 40 degrees. that's not too bad for this time of year. we have snow showers you across the great lakes and the northeast but otherwise pretty quiet with exception to southern california. they are getting much needed rain today. quite a bit of rain in a short period of time so flash flooding is going to be a concern. we're going to see a little bit of snow across the mountains of the southwest.

there's your forecast today. so fairly quiet. with the exception of southern california where we get the much needed moisture and let's take a look at the big pink blob, shall we. this week, most of it stays up in canada. as we get into next week, next monday, that's when we see a little bit more of that colder air making its way southward. so we'll keep an eye on that and we'll keep you posted. just a quick look at what happens in the next week. certainly more chances of snow as we get into the latter part of this week and next week as well. all right, todd, jillian, happy monday. back to you. jillian: big pink blob. okay. thank you. >> big pink blob. todd: today the nation honors dr. martin luther king, junior, a little differently than normal. his niece, dr. alveda king, joined us earlier with this message. >> i believe that if he were here today, he would encourage us as americans to learn to get along, to communicate. because he says that we would

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the finger, he has repeatedly cast doubt on results of a fair election and dangerously fanned flames of right wing quackery. quite the comment there. graham went on to say, excuse me, that those who participated in the riots should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. president trump should not pardon them. he said he is going to attend joe biden's inauguration. jillian: so some mixed messaging it appears on the southern border? carley: that's right. joe biden promised to reverse a lot of president trump's immigration policies, that's going to be put to the test quickly because there's a migrant caravan coming from hon honduras, headed to the united states as we speak. the migrants want to be welcomed into the country under a president biden but a transition team official says not so fast. saying migrants need to understand they're not going to be able to come into the united states immediately. they will not find when they get to the u.s. border that from

tuesday to wednesday, things have changed overnight. so that statement basically saying come back later, guys, when the time's right. todd: and people helping people, tom brady edition. carley: that's right. if you think tom brady only delivered on the big win yesterday, think again. he also delivered in a different way. so take a listen to this exchange between washington football team's chase young and tom brady, this request went viral. take a listen. >> great job, keep it up. what you need? >> i need this. >> i'll send it to you. carley: chase young requesting tom brady's jersey. brady actually sent his jersey in the mail. the best part of it, you can see, he wrote go blue on the jersey because young went to rival ohio state. so still that rivalry continues. but a nice gesture from tom brady there to his fan, chase young. todd: people will be asking for

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jillian: welcome back. parler's ceo john matze pushing back against big tech censorship, saying the app will welcome back users soon after amazon removed the platform from its servers last week. todd: here to discuss, sir, thank you for being here. you say the only way to get big tech under control is through the courts many when you say courts, are you talking section 230? are you talking anti-trust? rico?

what are you talking. >> i'm talking the first amendment. this was in my wall street journal op-ed last week. i argued that congress co-opted silicon valley through the back door to do what it couldn't do directly under the constitution and it was because of a combination of a carrot and a stick. the legislative carrot was section 230 which gave these companies broad immunity from any state action suit for removing users from their websites with impunity. so that was legislative carrot specifically for silicon valley. they also combined that with a stick which were congressional threats. all of last year, they said if you don't remove hate speech, if you don't remove the kind of content we don't like to see from the standpoint of the mostly democratic congressmen, then we're going to come after you and we're going to come after you hard. the legal argument is the combination of the carrot plus the stickies a first amendment violation. here, it was really state action in the closing of private enterprises. that's why we argue the courts

are the solution here. jillian: let's take a look at this response from parler's ceo, this is a statement. it says, quote, now seems like the right time to remind you all both lovers and haters why we started the platform. we believe privacy is paramount and free speech essential especially on social media. we will resolve any challenge before us and plan to welcome all of of you back soon. we will not let civil discourse perish. there's something about that statement that got me thinking when you said we will resolve all of these challenges. i know that parler says they were warned. i don't know the exact time line between when they were warned and when they were just completely removed and stripped of everything. do we need to look at perhaps better warning systems for a lot of these tech companies? because look, there are a number of apps out there, these aren't the only ones and a lot of people will be creating them. will we run into this problem in the future if we don't get ahold of this now? >> i'll tell you, i was a user on parler, just speaking personally. i've been on twitter. when i made a statement about

woke capitalism, being critical of woke capitalism on parler the first response i got on parler wasn't a friendly one. i think someone said shut the f up, you f dashing immigrant. when i made the same comment on twitter, you get the same response, go to hell, you republican. to me it's not that different what you see on social media and the internet today. i'm sure they didn't do everything perfectly that they could have. i think silicon valley titans are making up the rule as they go. in the last week there is a political agenda at work here. this is a soviet style political purchasing. it isn't about a technical detail. it's about footfall used as an excuse to implement a political agenda. look at the removal of ron paul from facebook, a libertarian candidate for president of the

united states. that will tell you everything you need to know. todd: chris wallace confronted tim cook on removing the parler app. take a listen. >> how did you decide to balance free speech with objectionable content? >> we looked at the incitement to violence that was on there. we don't consider that free speech, incitement to violence has an intersection. todd: with all due respect to tim cook, tim cookies not a supreme court justice. why should i have to listen to his definition of free speech when quite frankly it doesn't really matter. only what the nine justices say is free speech matters. >> exactly. and by the way, the argument had that i make isn't that the first amendment doesn't have limits. it doesn't apply to obscenity, actual violence. the first amendment ought to be the standard that applies, determined by the courts, not by a self appointed corporate monarch. jillian: and let's be honest, there's violent speech as you made reference to on all

platforms nowadays. we've all seen it and been victim to it. thank you very much for joining us. you can check out his new book, woke. appreciate your time. todd: thank you, sir. still ahead, carol markowitz live, next. want to make a name for yourself in gaming? then make a name for yourself. even if your office, and bank balance are... far from glamorous. that means expensing nothing but pizza. your expenses look good, and your books are set for the month! pony. .

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solar winds act. we have seen and now understand significant vulnerabilities that are exacerbated by covid the $15 minimum wage is a concrete and direct way to help support those workers who are out there on the front lines. todd: the president-elect economic adviser defending the liberal agenda items packed into joe biden's proposed $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. >> this as the new article argues that biden is turning to california for administration policy ideas. is biden's plan to make america california again? here is "new york post" columnest karol markowicz. >> good morning. jillian: what would that look like if america as a whole adopted a lot of the policy he california has. >> it has always been a concern that biden was going to be pulled left by his leftist flank in his party. that is happening so quickly. you should be reaping worrying.

obviously no one thinks california's policies are worth up late. it's a giant concern that he would are taking all the worst policies from one of the most failed states in the country and implementing them on a national level. todd: take a look at what joe biden wants at least for the rescue plan. highlighted the $1,500 stimulus checks up employment there. look there is an argument to made that public transit does need a little bit more money. karol if we are going to make america california again, i look at that train that we are supposed to have between san francisco and los angeles. i lived out there 12 years. they were talking about it before. they were talking about it touring. they're talking about it after. a lot of money wept in. no train. there is no train on the horizon any time soon. do the other 49 states want that california idea brought to them? >> right, absolutely. you know, absolutely not. the truth is elections do have consequences as barack obama

famously said. and the consequence of this one might be these kind of big spending plans and boondoggles. you know, so i think people need to look at this and say is this what we want? do we want big spending. do we want these transit boondoggles that never happen the joe biden administration need to look at that or listen to their lessons. jillian: listen to what has to say optimistic view of g.o.p. >> president-elect biden has a very optimistic view of the republican party. i applaud his optimism, but i disagree with his assessment. jillian: what's your reaction? >> that's her way of throwing shade, right? anybody who has watched the revolution in the streets throughout the summer knows the left wants a fight. aoc is representative of that. so, for the biden administration, they need to try

to rein here in or she is going to be the face of their opposition. and nancy pelosi has so far been unsuccessful in reining her in. so i don't really see the biden administration do a much job. she will be the thorn in heir side. she'll be much more public on that. todd: shut down classrooms and canceled exams new york city department of education somehow claims it graduated more students than ever who were ready for college. karol, did everyone get a trophy last year in the new york city public school system? >> it's very easy to graduate when there is no failing grades that's exactly what the system did. they took away failing grades and state tests and a lot of other it. they passed everybody yea we all went to college. absolutely not. those kids still failed just nobody found out. todd: you are hurting those kids for their future and also hurting their employers because they're not going to come out trained as they need to be.

jillian: right. good point. >> that's absolutely right. jillian: karol markowicz thank you very much for your time appreciate it as always. >> thank you so much. jillian: have a good day. now to this a weimann multimillionaire donating 883. fe to 400 friends to give to a charity of their choice. todd: isn't that the coolest thing ever he told the daily caller quote if you could read just a few of responses we get from recipients and our friends who have been excited about scrinting the gifts you would truly understand the term why it is so more blessed to give than to receive is a truism. >> friess gave another 43 million to his own christian foundation. todd: we heard situations where wealthy people are giving away money. it's not our position to tell them to do that but when they do it's our it responsibility to thank them. scwan the qr code you see on

your screen. it's right there. jillian: set your dvr for 4:00 a.m. eastern so you never miss a moment of "fox & friends first." busy week with the inauguration. "fox & friends" continues and starts right now. todd: bye-bye. ♪ >> security concerns of an insider attack on inauguration day. >> this is the tightest security washington, d.c. has seen in its history. no question about it. >> president-elect biden lays out his agenda. >> i think we are going to have in the first 100 days by the biden administration. new caravan on the move and headed straight for the southern border. >> new administration immigration strategies we knew it was going to come and it's already happened. >> parler returning online. amazon shutting down the site following the capitol hill riot. >> the founders, 250 years ago, could have never imagined that there would be corporations that