it is available in history. i hope is available in the smithsonian because there will be a woman president and that woman president is going to be standing on the shoulders of hillary clinton. >> standing on the shoulders? the woman president is going to be a conservative. tune in tomorrow night for exclusive interview with donald trump. that is it for us which america now and forever. gutfeld next. >> the verdict is in and jussie smollett is found guilty of staging a crime in a city where real crime is out-of-control but the smollett saga isn't over yet. todd: the white house is going ahead with the lawlessness plaguing american cities the president biden did do something, he appointed a far left us attorney track record of

nonprosecution policies. >> we were not going to let anyone steal our shine. the american christmas tree is back and brighter than ever on fox square. >> 3, 2, one, lights! >> what a great moment that was there's the tree on fox square shining very bright, the first tree burned to the ground by a repeat offender still on the streets of new york but let's focus on the positive country is point. todd: beautiful, brighter than ever, such a great crowd, we will get into that in a moment. it was a fun night. you are watching "fox and friends first" friday morning. carley: former empire actor jussie smollett is found guilty on charges he staged a hate crime against himself applied to chicago police about it. todd: this high-profile trial finally comes to a close.

>> reporter: the jury has spoken, the disgraced actor is found guilty on 5 counts of disorderly conduct for lying to police about an anti-gay racist attack he staged against himself. he was acquitted on 6 counts of lying to executives in the weeks after he said he was attacked, his attorney says they won't stop fighting. >> we feel 100% confident this case will be won on appeal. we remain confident we will come back and he will be vindicated. >> reporter: special prosecutor dan webb says small higher two brothers to fake the attacked and lied about it under oath and on top of it wasted valuable city resources. >> 26 chicago police officers spent 3000 hours of time costing the city well over 100,$000 for a fake crime and the work they did was extraordinary.

what happened here was so wrong for the chicago police department. >> reporter: constitutional law professor jonathan turley said it was a false narrative. >> he used our long and painful division over race for his own advancement, vice president harris came out and called this and attempted lynching and speaker pelosi and others rushed to fulfill this narrative despite the facts. >> on bond and now faces sentencing but a date is not been set. he could face up to 3 years in prison on each count. he was convicted, back to you guys. carley: one of the notable things is the attention it received when it first happened when everybody thought he was the victim of a hate crime and how little attention it started to receive when people were putting the pieces together. in january of 2019 donald trump -- president biden posted what happened must ever be tolerated

in this country, we must stand up and demand we no longer give this hate safe harbor that homophobia and racism have no place in our streets or in our hearts. we are with you. kamala harris also posted jussie smollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings i know. i am praying for his quick recovery. this was an attempted modern-day lynching, no one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. we must confront this hate. with a sweep's available, twitter didn't take them down or label them as fake news and maybe the vp and president could follow up today, condemn lying, but they are glad he was lying because there is no place for a real hate crime in this country. todd: what gets me fired up is the unequivocal nature of them from two lawyers, both of them graduated law school. they should know better. they should have couched their statement, if true this is a bad

thing. that is fine and then come back from it but there was unequivocal language, this was a hate crime, this was, as lawyers you have an application as an officer of the court to not do that especially kamala harris who actually was the day g from the state of california so from the lawyer perspective you can't do stuff like that because all it does is takes away the integrity of the justice system in the eyes of the people, death by 1000 cuts what we are seeing in society it has to stop the media, don't care how much it burns to your core that you think white supremacy is an issue or any of that stuff you can't do stuff like that. >> the other thing that happened after this occurred as people did start to think this isn't adding up if you questioned it you would also get scolded by members of the media. listen to this. >> i don't like that it is being put out in the media that this is a possible hate crime.

>> the media has so much down on his story which i find so personally offensive. >> this is america in 2019. >> the thing i take issue with more than people believing jussie smollett, he's an example of growing victimhood, the victimhood culture in america. if he was a victim of something it would advance his career and you see that on college campuses all the time, people feel like they are victims, it used to be the other way where no one would share their feelings and now we have the exact opposite direction, it is going too far. >> we need a happy medium in the little and move on but i don't see it happening. >> got to turn to vice president carol harris cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm rachel wallin's as president biden's attorney from massachusetts, the partisan line vote comes as video resurfaces of the father for merciful county district attorney threatening a reporter, listen to this.

>> get out of here and you know what i will do? i will call the police on you and make an allegation, i am dead serious. and have you arrested, i swear to god. >> rollins accused the reporter risking the lives of her children. senator john cotton said rollins is unfit for the new role. >> he doesn't have the temperament to be us attorney little owner terrible record as da. entire categories of crimes off-limits. >> reporter: on her own website rollins would not prosecute, including breaking and entering and shoplifting. todd: the white house is disputing reports that president biden is asking ukraine to make a major concessions russia. >> some wonder if he should be lecturing the world amid rising crime in the us. alice hogan is live with the story. >> reporter: good morning, the

white house says the second annual summit will serve as a global progress report to assess democracy around the world. more than 100 nations will purchase the global event, president biden doubling down on global efforts to support neighboring democracies. >> not to assert that any one of our democracies is perfect or have answers but a lot of times and reaffirm our shared commitment to make our democracy fair we are doubling down our engagement with and support of democracies around the world. >> reporter: backlashes critics argue the invite only event exacerbates current heightened ideological divisions, two key players not invited to the table, russia and china. both of those countries issuing a joint statement accusing biden is exhibiting a cold war mentality that will instigate confrontation and global divide.

eight latin american countries and caribbean nations failed to make the list. highlighting a backsliding of their potential democratic values and at the same time hinting at the way those changes could have on us national security. critics also questioning the inclusion of certain countries that were previously accused of for human rights, in humane acts or corruption like pakistan, the philippines, nigeria. press secretary jen psaki's as an invitation does not equate a full stamp of approval of the country's democratic policies, president biden spoke with the president of ukraine reiterating they support the territorial integrity of ukraine. biden also promised to slap russia with strong economic sanctions if russia does decide to invade. >> yuma arizona mayor declaring

local emergency as overwhelmed and understaffed border agents are struggling to apprehend hundreds of illegal immigrants. >> that extreme level of proclamation opens doors, created a large backup and caused a spill out into the community. the difference between now and when we had releases in the community before is these individuals have not been through the process of border patrol. todd: joining us with the subcommittee workforce protections, congressman keller, great to see you. is president biden simply ignoring the crisis almost willfully at this point? >> reporter: the crisis at the border it appears that way and the vice president supposedly was -- get to the root cause and myself and 100 of my colleagues on the republican side, something they didn't do was visit the southern border, ports

of entry and talk to border agents and the american families on the side of the border dealing with the crisis they created. carley: let's talk about yuma, arizona. in october of 2020 there were 787 encounters with illegal immigrants. look at 2021, october, over 21,000. do you know why there has been such a spike in encounters with the yuma county, arizona area? usually think of border crossings at high-capacity we think texas but now arizona has become ground 0 for this behavior. >> i think they can get across the border and texas is doing some things, not necessarily the administration and one thing, the cartels have more control over the border than the

president is allowing our border patrol agents to exercise. the trump policies are working, remain in mexico, look at building the wall, those things work and the biden administration has reversed all that, catch and release and we have the danger of people on the terror watch list that have been caught crossing the border. the people who are not being caught coming into the united states. >> you said the biden administration did have to reimplement the remain in mexico policy but the thing i found interesting about that is only ruling out in 73 points which means if i'm understanding this correctly, and a little medical immigrant going to the eighth checkpoint on the remain in mexico lists is catch and release. the

policies that were proven, the remain in mexico and apply equally across the entire border. they need to look at finishing the wall and enforcing our nation's laws that they took an oath to uphold. todd: the house republican congress uniting behind resolution to illuminate president biden's vaccine mandate for businesses. the numbers and policy, you say the message of your resolution can overcome all that. why? >> we are seeing democrat governors in some state support this. i had conversations with my democrat colleagues on the other side gaining more support and they are hearing the same things i'm hearing from people across the 12 congressional districts, things my republican colleagues are hearing, this mandate will create more of a problem for people who create the greatest economy in the world and got through this pandemic, these

people go to work, 80 million americans impacted by this, whether they can provide for their families versus get a shot or testing. to stand with the american people, we stand for the mandate put in by this president. carley: thank you for joining us. a new tree was lit, the original 3 was destroyed by an arsonist. >> 3, 2, one. >> last night. i barely took any pictures. >> you can barely see --

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>> los angeles county da george gascon under fire for comparing sheriff alex villanueva to a pig. >> my dad used to say when you wrestle with a pig you both get mighty and the pig likes it. todd: district attorney, jonathan, he wasn't trying to do the cops are pigs thing, are you buying it? >> know. that slur is unbecoming of the office of the district attorney, it is discriminatory. calling the mother of the murdered child uneducated, the same called myself and any other prosecutor who disagreed with him an internal terrorist. and to burn the city down, but police officers are barbarians.

this is what you get with the district attorney who has never tried one case. he reverts to name-calling and reverts to calling people names. there is a large group of george soros elected das standing behind george gascon and they laughed and chuckled, referred to the sheriff as a pig, on the part of those elected das. they were guns down in a 24-hour period. and and that is not a laughing matter.

and surviving family members. that is and a laughing matter. >> it is so bad, one detective says don't come here. >> there is rampant crime anywhere in los angeles is like the movie purge, they have 365 days and that's how it is in los angeles and san francisco. >> i lived there for eight years. gascon says it is not his policies that are doing it. how can he actually say that? >> it is his policies. if you don't prosecute crime as the head prosecutor and you release violent criminals it is your fault, it is your fault and you don't charge murders to the fullest extent of the law that is your fault. if you abandon victims and don't

allow district attorney to go to parole hearings that is your fault. he has and acted so many policies this program land anti-victim and been in office for a year and each month he has been in office crime has skyrocketed and just like that, police officer just said we have 100 robberies happening daily, smash and grab burglary is happening daily. many of these individuals aren't apprehended or they are, they arrested and released on 0 bail and not prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. >> you have a super bowl coming up in a few months. i do not see how that is going to go down without a problem into the situation you have in la. >> thank you so much. todd: the time is 24 after the hour. the gift of custom golf balls,

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southern border according to the peak, encounters skyrocketed 128% from the year. the red arrow pointing up. todd: blocking customers from printing, let's go brandon on their golf balls, many on twitter say they attempted to put the entire biden phrase on the company's website and got an error message telling them the orders could not be completed. the right to reject orders that are, quote, inconsistent with our company values it listen to this, vulgar messages like kill, still allowed. carley: they would not allow critical messages. helping families devastated by the hurricanes, resettling afghan citizens, on the front lines in the face of disaster with the help of military veterans.

todd: the president and ceo of team rubicon, a very busy year. walk us through what you have. >> incredible your as we executed the mission to respond and recover, natural disasters and humanitarian crises. since january 1st, vaccine distribution to afghan resettlement in the pacific northwest. mitigation and fires, mobilizing military veterans to help people on their worst day. and >> the milwaukee bucks, tell us about it. >> this weekend from 10:00 to 1:00 central in coordination

with the milwaukee bucks, collecting winter clothes for the families that are resettling. these afghan allies who joined us, the wisconsin whether is brutal, making sure you have the things they need but more importantly, using an opportunity to bring communities together, to contribute to ensure these families, men, women, and children, are able to resettle and have the proper clothing at a place where they can come together and be united with the agency to help them as well as other afghans. todd: covering this crisis for months now. how big is the demand? >> initially when the afghan allies were involved the demand came with nothing but the clothing on their backs when they evacuated from afghanistan. citizens have been amazing, we collected $30 million of donated

goods, 7 million items and we have been able to get these onto these bases to the people who need them most and those will continue to go but that initial crisis was answered through coordination but agencies like team rubicon and people coming to help in this time of need. todd: how can people not in the milwaukee area help out? >> across the country communities are being impacted by natural disasters would go to teamrubicon on how you can contribute in the fields. >> such incredible work and it is inspiring what you do for veterans as well, team rubicon helps those searching for a purpose. is a full circle, wonderful organization and glad to have you want to highlight your great causes. thank you for joining us.

todd: if you are hosting this holiday season doctor fauci suggests -- >> it requires people show evidence they are vaccinated. >> any scary joins us with that and more.

todd: super bowl champion thomas is founded in his suburban atlanta home. it appears to be related to a medical issue. thomas earned multiple trips to the pro bowl and super bowl ring with the denver broncos. he last played in the nfl in 2019 with the jets announcing his retirement in june. thomas just 33 years old. a new lead in the unsolved murder of two indiana teens, what is linked to the delphi murders of abby williams, the account is used to meet up with minors and at some point contacted the girls. the individual pictured on the

account is a person interest. keegan klein connected to the account on a separate child exploitation case next hour the mother will join us to discuss this new development. >> the white house is doubling down, the biden administration insisting it is already doing its part to fight crime despite the national sheriffs association saying otherwise. don't lose a is live as major retailers join the call for action. >> a going concern for voters, the white house has become sensitive to reports the rampant retail theft is going unchecked. the national sheriffs association, funding new enforcement measures. what the white house's response, president biden agrees we need to crack down on the surge in crime we've seen in the last two years which is why he's fighting for more federal support for

community policing and why department of justice is working with state and local partners to address the disturbing spate of retail theft we've seen in recent weeks. a group of 20 retail leaders including the ceos of target, cvs, best buy and others wrote a letter for congress asking for help cracking down on online marketplaces for stolen goods and republicans have been hammering democrats on the crime issue. >> what we need to do is support law enforcement and supported judicial system that gets to the crux of the matter of whether we're guilty or innocent regardless of the color of your skin or how much money you make. >> reporter: other crimes picking up as well, a dozen major us cities are breaking homicide records this year. the department of justice announced $17.5 million in grants to support its project safe neighborhoods program.

todd: thank you. carley: comments are backfiring after jussie smollett is found guilty of staging the hate crime on himself. with more on that is any scary. there was a lot of reaction after news broke on this attack, nancy pelosi wrote the attack on jussie smollett is an affront to our humanity. cory booker, the vicious attack on jussie smollett was an attempted modern-day lynching. i'm glad he is safe. this message, we all have a responsibility to rise up against the ignorance and hate out there. if you know who did this to jussie smollett report them to police. turns out jussie smollett data to jussie smollett. some people say this was a rush to judgment. what do you think of that? >> i don't think it was a rush to judgment. i think it was deliberate weather was true or not. for leading democrats and liberals in the media this had

nothing to do with jussie smollett making sure he was okay, showing concern for someone who might have been attacked in a brutal way, this was about reinforcing the narrative a bunch of white male trump supporters running around the country attacking people. that president had unleashed the ugly underbelly of the country of bigotry, hatred, homophobia, racism and perpetuating the myth over and over because they knew there was another election coming up and having many voters, independent voters believe that was the case would benefit them politically. carley: black lives matter came out in support of jussie smollett regardless of the verdict saying it is not about a trial verdict by white supremacist charade, they say black people can never believe the police. sound like he was proven to be lying. he is still hero to some people.

>> reporter: the narrative is more important than any particular case. that even when it turns out to be on its face a jury decided this was safe, this whole thing was a hoax. he did it to himself or his own advancement but again there are too many people invested in this as they were with the kyle rittenhouse trial, you needed to see an outcome contradictory to the facts of the case. a certain outcome that reinforced the idea that the narrative we had set up that there's racism allowed in this country and we can trace it back to donald trump. carley: doctor anthony fauci out with new comments about holidays, listen to his suggestion. >> people should if they invite people over to their home use essentially ask and maybe require that people show evidence that they are vaccinated.

carley: in october he said it is too soon to decide if families can even get together safely for the holidays, not much of a surprise here. >> i don't know who is still listening to doctor fauci when it comes to things like this. is record the entire time of the pandemic has been middling at best. if you're still listening to them and taking guidance when it comes to holiday travel who you are going to see for the holidays understand you are watching your life pass by, you might is also in your room and watch tv all day and not see anybody because that is what is coming down to, having to cut people out of your lives, your loved ones out of your lives all over the vaccine and a virus that as we know at this point is 99% survivability, listening to doctor fauci and watch lif you by. >> reporter: he came out against handshakes too. that was a moment.

todd: we told you about fed up college professor taking on woke curriculums. carley: starting to see a shift from the liberal campus culture. we are asking carol swain about it coming up next. ♪♪

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>> republican james comeare talks about the oversight committee adam schiff joining him for fixating on donald trump. comeare says democrats should look at the current president instead. >> would you like me to go on? would you like me to go on? would you yield to a question? i'm asking, would you ask me to present you? >> are you aware -- >> hard dealings. >> reporter: the congressman engaging in a fiery back and forth for several minutes during debate on a bill meant to limit certain presidential powers. the bill passed later mostly on party lines. president biden's covid vaccine mandate impacts of favorite mode of transportation, amtrak revealed workers refusing to get the shot will be forced to cut

services next year. this despite president biden's promise to improve rail travel. >> i was talking to members about improving cross state interest a passenger rail, something i know a little about. you are looking at mister amtrak here. carley: amtrak's president and congress, quote, we anticipate we will not initially have enough employees to operate all the trains we are currently operating when the federal mandate takes effect. todd: hundreds of college educators banding together against woke math curriculum they claim will put american kid that huge disadvantage. joining me doctor carol swing, former professor at princeton and vanderbilt, good to see you as always. here's a quote from the letter, framework seem to reduce achievement gaps by limiting the availability of advanced mathematical courses middle schoolers and beginning high schoolers, such reform

superficially seen, quote, successful, reducing disparities at the high school level they are merely kicking the can to college. how vital is it these professors are speaking out about this? >> it is a sign of progress, science, technology, engineering and medicine, saying we have a problem here and as of yesterday, 1100 professors from across the country had signed that letter and they are pointing out that this woke mathematics that doesn't require accurate answers is not helping our students. they are graduating from high school not prepared for college math. they have to take remedial math and it dooms them to fail year or makes it much more difficult for them to be successful. todd: insane to limit the learning of children to sort of bring everybody to this equal plane. makes no sense.

to not understand the damage to our ability to compete with china. >> they don't care. it is based on the belief minority students cannot do math and it creates to disparities if you require them to have right answers. it is not only the kids that are trying to go to college. it will affect every school child. when you tell them there are no right or wrong answers to mass i would like to point out the bill and melinda gates foundation funded some of this equitable math research that found its way into curriculum but also other woke space and it is up to us to stand up just like those university:professors, 90% of them are liberals, they are pushing back. when they are pushing back, they

are united on partisan lines. this is not a republican issue. this is an american issue, children from other countries, behind other nations. that should concern all of us. carley: let's face it. computers are pretty binary. there are right and wrong answers. that is how you build code. the school district fires 500 employees over vaccine mandates as 34,000 students miss the district's deadline. doesn't this mean kids will fall further behind? >> of course it does and i could tell you that school district has over 1000 vacancies at the time they are laying off 500 workers, they have a shortage of qualified teachers, makes as much sense as pouring buckets of

water in a sinking boat and hoping that will fix the problem. doesn't make sense. todd: why do these so-called educators forget their task is to educate kids? that is why you are there. >> with the teachers union and so much progressivism that has taken over education it is about pushing a political agenda rooted in critical race theory that is rooted in marxism and at the end of the day, educating our children, it's not about giving opportunities for ethnic minorities. at the end of the day it is about bringing down america. what better way than concentrating on children? todd: appreciate you shedding light on it.

carley: the funeral for former kansas senator bob dole will take place at the national cathedral. president biden will pay tribute to the former presidential candidate at the invite only event. after the funeral a public ceremony will be held for the army veteran at the world war ii memorial. his body lied and stayed at the capitol rotunda tuesday. he died in his sleep after battling stage iv lung cancer. he was 98 years old. todd: coming up in the next hour of "fox and friends first" cheryl casone, will cain, lawrence jones, joe concha, you don't want to miss any of it. a final friday our coming up. ♪♪

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todd: the verdict is in. jussie smollett found guilty of staging a hate crime in a city where real crime is out of control but his saga is not over yet. todd: the white house going head to head with america's sheriff's over laws in american cities but president biden appointed a new far left us attorney with a track record of nonprosecution policies. todd: carley shimkus, we will not let anyone steal our sign. the all-american christmas tree is back, brighter than ever on fox square. >> 3, 2,